This is the FCB Podcast network breaking this. When they trunk jump boot, Jean says, don dunk. We don't listen to y'all this d hotel. We don't listen to y'all this d hotel. Make them scream out now, let us sound dun because the rougets in the crowns like U. Tune in the charge for the outdoor, Tune in the charge for the outlok. Welcome to the Outlaws. This is Darth Vale to Kington tomorrow alongside Robin o' maley, Dante Bride's not in today. Don't forget two. Like us on Facebook at facebook dot com, slash the Outlaws Radio, follow us on x and Instagram at the Outlaws Radio. This is the last new episode of the show of twenty twenty five. So we got a lot of. Things to discuss. Switch things up a little bit. We're gonna try to talk about. Some good stuff, some positive. Stuff in a little bit, uh, and then of course we'll get to the t issues. I don't know how good or positive the TA is gonna be, but we'll figure that out when we get there. But first, miss, how are you? Uh, you know what? I'm good? Yeah, I'm great. I am looking forward to getting past the holidays. It is. I've and jumping into Capricorn season very soon. Yes, yeah, I know y'all feel that. I know y'all feel is coming because we're right there. We're coming, that is true. Goat season is on its way. I am team Capricorn also, so well, yeah, so our moment is coming up soon. But yeah, I am. I'm looking forward to the break. I am exhausted and worn out and drained and burnt out and absolutely in need of a break. Do you have any plans for any fun stuff you're going to be doing on the break? Me? Oh, during the break? No? No, uh, you're not going anywhere. Huh, You're not going anywhere? I mean no, no, I mean I'll be here still, you know, here home, the store, that's it. The work to work, you know, just working. And you know, I'm pretty excited for during the break. You know, I am looking forward to the break a little bit. With Chris Dismiss, my kids are getting some pretty cool things and I'm kind of excited to build a lot of these things and just changed to change the environment within our home a little bit, make make their rooms older for them. So I'm excited to do that. And other than any of those, any of those things you want to spill the beans on. Uh there, your kids don't listen to this show anyway. But so hey, world, here tell me what what what'd you get? What'd you get? So my son he's getting a big, bigger bed. So he wanted a really big bed, so I got it. You know, I got him a big bed. And he's he's got he's setting up his room like workout gear, all kinds of workout equipment, and he's getting a different type of gaming system. I won't say too much. Oh that's awesome. And yeah, my daughter, she she got this really cool. It's like a nightstand but it is a dresser night stand and the top of it is a mirror, and it you can charge your phones by setting it on top of the dresser. Oh okay. And it's got like all the cool little neon lights. And she's got a bunch of like a canopy type of thing for a bed. So yeah, I guess some pretty cool things other things, but that's just little odds and ends. So are you one of those parents that like, if if they had the food. I'm taking it back. That threat today? Yeah, I mean, I'll cancel my able, cancel Christmas. Try me. I made that threat today. I will be the grinch. Try me. Because I like my money, I will return it. I'm fine with that because listen here, child, I am not obligated to get all this, I'm not. All you need is a mattress and some you know, some food and water okay, and clothes, and I don't. I don't owe you nothing, okay. None of the stuff. You say it sounds like it's cheap. It is not. It is not. You will too, it is going back. But you know what I'll tell you this, as as a single mom, it is it's a great feeling to be able to afford to get things like this. Now I have a fifteen almost sixteen year old and yesterday, guys, my daughter turned twelve. This is our last year as a child. In the next year we're a teenager. But it is all these years I have not been able to afford a lot of nice things or a lot of things period. When we first moved into our home, we started out with we didn't even have an air mattress. We were laying on the floor and setting a computer laptop on a crate. We started with nothing, so you know, five years later, I am able to buy a really cool bed that has neon lights on it and cool tables and stuff like that. So it is, it's pretty amazing. It's an amazing feeling. Does it stress me out? Does it make me struggle to breathe? You know, yes, it does, because it's like you want to buy it, but it's like when you spend the money, it's like I can't breathe. Like and you like you're you're like me, like even when you have it, you still like shake with the hand in the car. Like I know I got it, but I don't want to spend it. And you know, when you're accustomed to the struggle, when you've lived that, yes, and now it's just like it's there and it's not ever going to go away. Yeah. Yeah, Now like when you. When you've lived and not being able to put gas in your car, when you've struggled and having shut off notices for your your utilties and how am I going to pay my rent? How am I going to supply groceries? Like it? You you get it? Yeah, we talked. We talked about that a lot because both of us come from the trenches, you know what I'm saying. I started from the bottom, you know what I mean, had to had to work our way up. So little by little man, little by little. But yeah, I'm I'm blessed, I'm grateful. I'm not I'm not where I want to be. I'm not, you know, I'm not. But it's I'm in a good I'm in a good place. Always. It's like this, and this is the thing you keep in mind, you're not because I feel this way about myself too, like. You're not where you want to be, but you're not where you used to be. Mmmm. Sometimes I have to remind myself. I'll walk into my place and I'm like, cause, you know, half the time i'd be walking through here and I'd be mad because like why my house, Why y'all got my house looking like this? You know? And but then you know, it's just like sometimes I got to take a step back and I'm like appreciating. I forget, Like I'll forget. Yeah, five years ago, when I first moved in here, I was like, oh my God, so excited me and my kids. We had a ball, and it's just like every day I'm just like, oh my house. I gotta clean, I gotta do this and that, and it's just like you got to take a step back and be like, you know what you wished for this, you prayed for this, yep, and like you just gotta take a step back, like. Is mine yep? Like I have this, this is my place. I'm able to buy beds and you know all that good stuff. I bought my daughter, she's so excited. I bought her a pack of freaking Tutus for her birthday. She wanted totus like so, you know, just know whatever. They just had a birthday. I personally am looking forward to watching Robin O'Malley have to deal with a teenage girl. I am not looking forward to that. I'm already dealing with it, okay, just the brink of it. And it is a battlefield, Okay. I think it's probably And you know what I'm gonna tell you guys this. I always thought it was the boy that I was gonna have to worry about. I thought it was him. I was wrong. It is definitely the girl. Definitely the girl, especially when they hit the hormonal stage. I don't think you have any grays yet. I do, but I can't believe I just admitted that. Well I can't see them, but yeah, I'm going to be able to see them soon because when at thirteen hit, they will be coming. No, she's already there. I promise you, she's already there. We'll see you one day and'll be like, man, where you get on that gray. I'll be telling her like, girl, you need to lose your attitude because who are you talking to? Who are you gonna smart with? And she'll just she'll just stop talking and just she'll just stand there with it like you know that RBF that face. No, well, yeah, she had the booboo face, but she has an RBF. Really yes, and if you guys don't know what that is, it's resting B word face. And like she'd be happy attitude and be like I will like I will flick your nose, little girl, stop playing with me. Yeah, yoh nah, I feel you, man, I am. I am definitely looking forward to the break. I need it like I need air. It's been a long year. There's been some you know, there's been good. There's been bad. You know many of you who if you follow me on social media, you know that I recently lost my grandmother, my last living grandparents, my father's mother. So dealing with that, there's been you know, other things too, you know, dealing with and just kind of having to process all of that outside of this, like you ever, Let's see, how am I gonna say this, because I'm not gonna give a ton of details, but like, isn't it like maddening when people lie on you or lie about you to other people? Yes? Oh my god. And so I'm not gonna go into a ton of detail, but it's when you have, like especially like for people like us who like your name and your word is all you have, right, Like that that means a lot to me. And you know a lot of people say that, but people who know me personally know that, Like, you know, I care quite a bit about you know, my name and how I conduct myself, as like you've built a reputation in this business and things like that. But the interesting thing is, like there are some folks in business, people who have influenced leadership or whatever, who don't have that same type of mentality, who don't actually really care about being a man of integrity, right, And we'll say and do whatever they have to to get themselves out of a situation that they created, right. So. Dealing with kind of like the politics in this business sometimes can be exhausting. And then when you have like real life stuff, like actual like you know, real life and real family stuff that happens that you're dealing with at the same time, it's like like that song don't push me because I'm close to the edge, you know what I'm saying like that, and I'm like, I need a break. So I'm very much looking forward to it. I might go out of town. I'm not sure yet, but just to you know, catch my breath a. Little bit or whatever. And this is actually, ironically. It hasn't been this year, but just in general, this is actually like one of the one of my favorite times of the year. Like I love Christmas. I've always loved Christmas. I've always loved like I liked winter. I don't like all the snow. I don't mind some of the snow. I just don't like when it's like twenty degrees below zero. I don't like that when like you walk outside and your and half of your face freezes up. I don't like that. But the winter, like the little light snow sometimes where you see like the little dust of snow in the trees. That stuff doesn't bother me. The fall and winter like it doesn't bother me because I love my winter outfits, Like I think I got the best. I think my. Winter clothes are dope. I think they're the best part of my wardrobe. So I love being able to rock my scarfs. And my outfits and all of that, you know what I mean. So I don't mind. I don't mind all of that. I'm not a fan of. Like last week. When it was literally like one degree not fat that was way too cold. I was not excited. Actually it was just a couple of days ago. It was I was just like, what is this, Why it is so Why it is so cold out? Like it was to the point where my windshield was like frosting over while I'm driving. They I went to a party right. Friday. It was so last last Friday, it was. So freaking cold because it was the party was downtown and you know, so it's off the lake. It was so freaking cold that I was like my eyes alarreted watering. Because it was so cold and the wind was smacking my face and the wind almost took my scarf and blew it down the street. Like it was. Bad scarf. Yes, it did. It took my scarf. Man, I had to chase my I was in the middle of if y'alling those of you are familiar with Cleveland, I was on West sixth Street, so I'm in the middle of West sixth Street. I was walking back to my car to go home, and I was I'm walking in the car. Next thing I know, my scarf. Goes to one side, and so I'm trying to hold it, you know what I mean, so they don't go and then boom it took off, and so I gotta get this is a this is a designer scar you know what I'm saying. Like, I'm not so now I'm mad because it's snowing out here, the streets is wet, and I got to chase this Doug scarf to get this thing out the street. I was not a happy. I'm not even gonna lie if I seen it. If I seen this, I would probably be dying laughing. I was not happy. I was not happy. I was not happy at all. But it was that wind man. So I couldn't wait to go home, and I was like, man, that weekend. I ain't wanna do nothing. I ain't want to go nowhere, like absolutely nothing. And then of course Cleveland weather is it was one degree and it was like ten degrees, not's like fifty. So I know what is with this weather today? Oh my gosh, it was so nice. It was so nice, and I'm like, okay, like, this is what we're doing. This is sick weather. Don't get tricked. Keep your coats on. Yes, I still have my hats and my scarphone to you know what I'm saying, because you ain't gonna get me. M hm, trick me. So when we come back, I want to talk about a real like since this is the end of the year, it's about to be Christmas, you know, we're gonna leave on a good note. So I want to talk about some positive stories. There was one story that I saw that really, uh, that really touched me. So we're gonna we're gonna talk about it a little bit when we come back. Stay tuned. You're listening to the Outlaws, Yo, what's up? Bring the noise right here, Chuck the Republic enemy number one. You are tuning the Outlaws Radio. Show, Real talk, real conversations. We got the heat. This is the Outlaws Radio Show. Welcome back, Come back and listen to the Outlaws. Make sure that you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get your podcast. And if you listen to the show on Apple or Spotify, please make sure that you leave us a five star review in a comment. It's very important for the algorithm and for those of you who've already done so, thank you also very much so, Robin, did you see this story about the eighty eight year old Army veteran in Detroit? I did not, Okay, so this is a fantastic story. So I'm gonna read a little bit of this from The New York Post add bombus to eighty eight year old Michigan grocery store worker who captured hearts worldwide, nearly lost his footing upon receiving. A staggering one point seven seven million. Dollars from generous Internet donors eager to help him retire. The Army veteran burst into tears when Australian person Finality influencer Sam Widenholfer who share Who shared the heartbreaking story of grief and financial struggles online this week. This was last week presented the life Changing check at a private ceremony at Focus Financial Group in Brighton Friday afternoon. Thank you, oh my god, Bomba said after the big reveal. According to a video shared by w x y z, I wish my wife were here, but it's something that dreams are made out of. Trust me from my beginnings to hear until Friday, this was December sixth. Actually until Friday. The widowed senior had no idea. A GoFundMe launched Monday by the content creator had raised the eye popping fortune. Widenholfer said the massive payout. Was one of the largest individual fundraisers and go fundme to history Bomba's Bomba's story went viral this week after Widenholfer, on a US kindness tour through Christmas, walked into a Meer grocery store in Brighton on November twenty fifth and met the elder employee, who tearfully said he had been forced to work full time as a cashier to make ends meet after losing his monthly pension benefits. The father of two told The Melbourne Influencer that he retired from General Motors in nineteen ninety nine, only for the company to go bankrupt in twenty twelve. According to the touching video posting on Instagram, Bomba stopped receiving his monthly pension checks, instead opting for a three hundred thousand dollars lump sum payment from the automaker. He told CBS News. While we don't share details about individuals, twenty twelve, salary g and retirees who were receiving monthly pension benefits were given several options, including continuation of monthly lifetime payments or a love song payout if they preferred. The company said in a statement. Around the same time, Bombas's beloved wife of more than fifty years fell gravely ill. The crushing double blow left him drowning in debt, forcing him to sell his home just to make it through. After his wife, Joan died seven years ago, he had no choice but to return to a grueling forty hour work week. Widenhoeferd told The Post Thursday that he first learned of the hard working grandfather when a follower commented his name, age, and workplace on a video, prompting him to visit the supermarket about forty five miles west of Detroit and find the cashier who had worked there for nearly six years. All I knew was that he was a man in his eighties and he was working at the grocery store. The digital personality said during the phone interview, I didn't know he was struggling. I just wanted to highlight how amazing he was working at that age. I never thought this would happen. Lexi Wallace, a twenty six year year old Meyer shopper, was the one who tipped off Widenhoffer about Bombas and joined his family at the heart working at the heartwarming ceremony. He deserves that, she told WXYZ, adding that he earned it. It's all hand for sure. Widenhoffer said the wopping funds were placed in a trust that folk of financial group will now manage to help Bombas plan for his newfound wealth. And while the goalfundme is expected to be paused now that the money has been handed over, the fundraiser kept growing Friday night, surpassing one point eight zero six million dollars. Now this was published December fifth, it was updated December eighth. So let me tell you now. The the go fundme is still up and now it is at one million, nine hundred in twenty seven thousand, nine hundred and ninety two dollars. Dang, wow, that talk about a story turnaround. Yeah, wow, that's fantastic. Manf that retirement money. Okay, listen and what they were talking about this is better, Yeah, this is way better. Like and do you know what though, it's like so often that you know, stuff like that happens. So that's that's good to hear a story like this. And you know, we often see elderly people nowadays. They have to work and in order to retire, you got to be like, I don't even know the age now, was it like, is it in the seventies, sixties? No, it's sixties. It depends on the job. Sometimes you can retire early, but normally it's like between sixty two and sixty five. But the issue is not when you can retire. The issue is the money. Like sometimes people are still working because they can't retire. They don't have enough money. To retire, you know what I mean. And so with him with his situation, he. His retirement when General Motors went bankrupt, he cashed out, most likely because his wife was sick, so. That was it. He didn't get a like he doesn't get a pension because when General Motors went bankrupt. They gave people, they gave their workers different options in terms of like whether you want to cash out, whether you want to continue getting the pension. Sometimes I'm not sure if it was exactly the case in the general motor situation, but sometimes they will cut your pension, cut parts of your pension when you go through that. So it might be in your it might have been in his interest at that point and his best interest to just cash out. Right. I don't know all the details or everything or whatever, but I just know that this man is eighty eight years old and was still having to work, was working full time. Yeah, eighty eight, that's ridiculous that he should be living his life. Yeah. Wow, now he gets to. He gets to do whatever the heck he wanted to do. Do he want a granddaughter because for adoption, like that is so good. I'm so happy to hear that, because I don't like to see these elderly people having to go through that, Like it's it's hard on you, and they shouldn't have to, you know, live out their final years working for you know, somebody. Like that's because you never know, like you don't know how much time he has left, but you know he don't have another eighty eight years, you know. That, like let him enjoy his life, you know. And man, now, I mean for the people who donated that money, Like you're not just helping him, you're helping his family now too, you know, I. Mean for years, like honestly, really like I wonder if he's like sits back in things and he goes, well, who would have ever thought? Who would have ever thought? He would have probably would have never thought, like in his eighty eight years that his blessing would come at at eighty eight years old, he became a millionaire, right like all these years probably, Like, man, I just wish I could hit the lottery. You know that good old joke. Maybe y'all hit the lottery? Boy, did he hit the lottery? Hen? Eighty eight? Man? Listen? So that actually that gives me faith, Okay, Like who knows? Maybe not now to his attitude too, Like he said, I'm reading another article about it, but he said he was quoted in this article. I'm fortunate God gave me a good enough body to be strong enough to stand here for eight eight and a half hours a day. How positive this man is? Yeah, yeah, because it could be it could be one of those situations, you know, right where he got you know, he can't stand up for long because it hurts. Could have been that, it could have been you know, bad hit, bad name, it's been wheelchair. Yeah. Absolutely, but absolutely. He's healthy and not rich. Right, that's so, that's beautiful. I love to hear that. I really love to hear that. I really do. And you know some first of all, old people. Some are not, but like old people are just so cute, cute summer. Some are a little mean, but old people are just so cute. It's like, you know, it's almost like looking at. Children again, except for they're older, like little babies, but they're just older and they're just they're just so cute. So just to catch everybody up real quick on where we're at now, this is this is older too, but this came out after through that last story. So this is also from the New York Post. It says the son of army veteran Ed Bambas said his father will finally be able to retire and enjoy life after his heartbreaking story raised over a million dollars a life changing some that will be presented and that was the ceremony. So this was he didn't know about this, so this article came out beforehand. Actually, Michael bamba said. The eighty eight year old father, unaware of the still rising mass a payout, has been overwhelming, profoundly moved by the outpouring of generosity after he opened up about his financial struggles in a now viral video. I know what this is going to mean to him and that it's going to change his life immensely, Bambas told the Post about his hardworking dad. He's finally gonna enjoy life and not have to worry about you know where the next dollar is gonna have to come from. I'm fast forwarding. Holy crap bombs, the son sixty three exclaimed in disbelief upon learning of the still rising amount. It's just amazing. Both of us are pretty much amazed at how this affected people around the world somehow. I guess this hits a nerve with people. They can connect emotionally that makes them want to reach out and help. It's amazing how things like this brings out the best in people, the senior told Widenhoffer, a positivity influencer. Yeah, that goes over the story. Again, and it says the father of two had enjoyed a comfortable life with his wife of over fifty years, who's married for fifty years, until she fell gravely ill, a crushing double blow that left him selling his home and property just to make it through. So this man, this. Is a from all intents and purposes, from everything that we can see, is a good man. Is a good man here. And one of the things that I saw actually, hold on. Let me read this last part. This is the son saying, since my mom passed, I've been trying to help him where I can financially. So it's going to be a major burden taking away the relief. Son added, He's going to have a lot of relief in all of this. So the one thing that I saw that was very touching to me in this particular article, So the quoting is son. His son is sixty three years old. I think one of the coolest things that can happen, And this happened with my father and my grandmother before my father passed in twenty twenty four and my grandmother passed this year. But when they were still both still here, it was really cool to see, like two for you, you and your parent to be senior citizens at the same time. That's awesome. That's a blessing in itself. Yes it is, Yes, it is that. That is unbelievable, you know what I mean. I remember a few years ago, I was with my parents. They were in my car and my father was sitting up front, and my grandmother called him and was just like. Where you at? What you're doing? Like that, like the typical stuff that a mom would do, right, that a mom of her of her. Child, especially her son, would do. Didn't want nothing, like, didn't want absolutely anything. Was just calling to see where her child was at. You know what. I felt that though, that is going to be me man. That was My father was like seventy, like seventy seventy one. Years old, so I'm like dad right, and his mother was still calling him, talk about where you are. Exactly. Nobody will never understand unless you're a mother. I promise you, your mom is gonna do the same thing. And I looked after he got off the phone with my grandmother, I look. My mother was sitting in the back seat, and I looked in the back and I said, you're gonna do. That for that rain? She said, because she do that to me too. She'll call me be like where you at, what you're doing. I turned back to her. I said, you're gonna do that for the rest of your life? At you and she said, yep. Funny because I could hear her voice. I could hear it too. And she would he would, So, yeah, you gonna be like that too. I will, I will. And I told I tell that to my children all the time. I said, I don't care how old you are. You can be eighty ninety years old. I'm still gonna check up on you and make sure you're okay. But I thought that was just so cool man that he's eighty eight his son is sixty three. Like that is like when you are when you and your. Parent is retirement age at the same time. That's really cool. Because that means you've had so much time you were blessed to. Have so much time with them. I hope to have that with my mother, you know what I mean. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get that with my father, but I hope to have that with my mother because that's a cool That is such a cool and. From for somebody who saw that right with my. Father and my grandmother, that's so cool, Like it's just it's cool to see. It's cool to live through because you get so much more time to just experience more life, you know. What I mean? Yeah, I hope I am the same here with you man, same here. We didn't get it with our dad. We didn't get it with our dads. But you know, our mamas ain't allowed to go nowhere. I don't know. They're gonna have to figure that out, because I. Was just about to say that means we got to keep our mamas in bubble wrap. They have to figure that out, both, both the mamas. They need to know y'all can't go nowhere. I've been telling my mom all the time, you ain't allowed to leave. I don't know. We're putting them in bubble wrap. And if you think you're just gonna stop, you're gonna just stop breathing. I promise you you're coming back, because that's not an option. You No, Let me get old. Let me get old first, and then then you can depart. Right, But not until then, dog, Yeah, let me. Get rich, let me get married, let me get old, then you can leave. All right, Stay tuned. We have the last tea time would row of twenty twenty five coming up here on The Outlaws. Flckome fo true sir, out the law. Pray ye, welcome back, welcome back. You're listening to the Outlaws, and now's the time of the show that we like to call it tea Time. Would Row turn it up and see up the competition the latest celebrity news and gossip. Exclamation, It's Tea Time. With Row on the Outlaws radio show. You what. Say yu? So today on Tea Time? You guys listen. So, I know a lot of people don't like to talk about this. You know, not everybody is a SWIFTYE fan. Well, hold on, hold on, the reason why people don't like to talk about Swifty about Taylor Swift is because the Swifties are crazy. Well, well, but you know what I'll put I'll say this, don't come for us. This is actually positive news. I'm not coming for your girl. Okay, I'm not coming for your girl. I'm actually putting a positive out there. You don't often hear these things that I'm getting ready to tell you, guys, coming from celebrities. This is not a very common thing. So this is why I wanted to talk about this, because she deserves her flowers for this. So Taylor Swift's Heiress tour. If I'm saying that wrong, please don't come for me. Taylor Swift aras tour hits two billion as she rewards her team with one hundred and ninety seven million in bonuses, including seven hundred and fifty dollars for the dancers and one hundred thousand for the truck drivers. And I seen the video. She stands in the circle with her employees, people that have been on tour, and they've just been there the whole entire time. She's standing there with them as just a regular human being, not as a celebrity, not as Taylor Swift, you know what I mean, but as a human being, and she gives them these bonuses. And that's not just a little small bonus. That is a blessing. That is a blessing. And that's not often something you hear with celebrities like some of them. Some of them, you know, they'll have connections with their dancers and you know, friendships, and they'll give them shout outs here and there, But how often do you hear something like this? No, I think that's awesome. Number one, So Swifties, don't come for us. We're actually saying a positive thing. I think that's dope. It does make me. Like, because we were talking about the swifty Thing, I'm gonna ask you this question, who do you think has the more. Rabbit fan base? Who's the more rabbid fan base? The Swifties, the Barbs or the Beehive. Uh, that's a tough one. That's a tough one. I will say, you know what, I'm actually gonna probably say the Barbs. The Barbs. And I say that because my homegirl, Nikki, she was like off her rocker for a little while air and they was still coming at people's necks like they was still loyal even though she was dead wrong, dead wrong and out of pocket, and they was still like, oh Queen Nikki, blah blah blah. And I'm like, listen, I love Nikki too, shutouts to her, but you know she wrong. You. You can't be that person, you can't be that friend like you just because you know your homies wrong, You're still gonna be like you're right. So yeah, definitely, the Barbs, I. Would I think maybe to me, I think it's the beha we have don't play. We see Beyonce is not normally wrong. She don't really do much of anything to be wrong, to do anything other than she don't connect with her fans. She don't connect with them, and so that would that's probably her only downfall I think personally. Other than that, I mean, there really ain't I mean, yeah, there ain't much. I mean what people because people say, oh I don't even like beyond say, I don't know why y'all hype her up blah blah blah blah blah, like. Maybe you say that to a member the Bee have and they're coming after you. It's crazy though, because listen, I got my favorites too, you know what I mean. But it's crazy that people actually they idolize, they idolize a person so much where they will literally pop up at your like they will pop up. Oh yeah, oh absolutely, they will absolutely pop up. So many people are crazy. No doubt they will have they come for you. And all three of those fan bases got people like they will pop up. They will. I think actually it happened, but I think a fan popped up if I'm not mistaken, it was not too long ago. I think it was Nicky's something with Nicki Minaj's thing. I think it was where a fan had like somebody or somebody had stole her stuff or rob her her. It was something like that, like people are freaking crazy. Man. I listen, when I first started getting into radio, Darvo, you knew who, you knew how I was, you know how I was. I wasn't crazy, but you know, you're like, you gotta take it down a little bit, you know, because I was around a lot of celebrities and I'm like, oh my god, you know, like and like, I think that's the most of it. On the inside, I'm still screaming. I'm still but now I'm like, hey, what's up? All nonchalant? You know, we're not going to talk about We're not going to say any names. We're not going to talk about the famous the famous rapper. That you meant that you were getting ready to fight. We're gonna whose attitude you did. Not like, Oh yeah, we ain't doing that because we're not down name, no, no. I still I still rock with his music, though. Do I get mad and upset? You know when I'd be like, I'll hear his voice and I'd be like, f you you know you like y'all just be like, you know, I have something to say. I do, but I still rock with his music. His music is still great. But you know you, I. Still separate the person from you know, the music, the artists from the art. If you may, I still do. I do. But he was wrong. He was wrong. But I ain't gonna fight. I'm gonna fight him because him and his security will take me out right. But that wouldn't stop like you would try. I have something to say, Look like on that movie Friday. I'm gonna shut. Up right when you when you when you leave talking again? Yeah? You got anything else? You know what? I have one more thing, And I think that this is actually perfect for this, this last episode. So the Billboard staff ranks the ten hottest R and B artist of twenty twenty five. Drum roll please, and if any of y'all hate, don't care. Blame blame Blame Billboard, not us. I think I think that this is a very good choice. They actually got something right. For one. Usually it's very bad, it's very wrong. But everybody in the comment section was agreeing minus one. So number one Chris Brown, I think rightfully, so he deserves to be in that number one place. He I just ran across the video. I just want to say, not too long ago, and I did not realize the age that he started. I did not realize the efforts and the hard work and dedication that he really did put into his career. And despite all of the hate, the shade, his ups and downs, his wrong choices, despite all of that, he still kept pushing and today like he he's a legend. He is a legend within his own despite anybody, what anybody would think, or anybody's opinions. He really he did that. He did that. He was he was doing concerts at little venues starting off. Now he's got sold out stadiums right like, that's shout out to him for that. Shout out to him. Number two Leon Thomas his song I'm a Dog, I'm a mutt yep. Everybody was rocking with that one. And also he I just I know him before that song. I knew of him from one of my daughters shows that she always watched Victorious. Yeah that's crazy. Yeah, so he was on Nickelodeon. I believe it was Nickelodeon, but Victorious. Kaylanie number three, yes, yes, she deserves it. This was Kaylanie's year. Kay Lannie has been going and going and going. But her song folded. It trended so much. I mean all of the legends, they all created their own remix to it. They remixed it, and then she created an album of all the remixes and like she was collecting infinity stones of legends. Shout out to her. Giveon. I know his music, but I don't know like of a top. He is good though, he is good. Yes, party next store is number five, mm hmmm, Sizza number six. Yes, period, mariahs the scientist. She has definitely worked her way up. Her choice and a man not so good. But whatever, Summer Walker, she's she's moving her way up. Summer's moving her way up because when she started she was like very shy and she's she's stepping out of her shell. So she's doing much. She's doing a lot better. Yeah, she didn't even she wouldn't even do tour. Now she is. She's been trained to dance by Tiana Taylor. Oh wow, and you know when you taught by Tiana? You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, she she taught her. She actually helped her create the music video of hers and she she did the choreography. H shoot, Tiana truly should have been somewhere in here in for real. But anyway, Raven Lenney, I don't know who that is. Maybe if I heard the music and then number ten Quinn kW N, I don't know who that is either. Now everybody was saying, I will put it out there, because let me just put it out there. Are girl Coco Jones. She should have been on there. She should have been on there. That's our girl. You know, we we went viral this year upon Coco Jones and her Man's so you know, our girls should have definitely been on there. Like she's been doing her thing too. But yeah, that's that's start one through ten. I think it's a good I think that they did good this year. They did good this time. Alright there. I'm curious to see if since it's Billboard, I wonder if they're like picking like the top ten just based on like their preferences, or if it's like the top ten based on like streams and the streams and sales or something. I'm curious to see like how they came up with that list, like what their criteria was. You know, that's that's good. That's a good question. I'm very curious about that too. Yeah, yeah, but I mean the list itself, like, nah, I mean all the I knew it was ten of them. I think I know nine of them and I. Like all their music. So yeah, no, I thought that was dope. I thought it was a good list. Yeah me too. I definitely agree. I think it's a good list. But next time, y'all need to add Coco Jones. Anyway, all right, as we get ready to close things out for the year, Miss O'Malley, leave a message for the people. You know what, I actually do have a message I want to say that. So, first of all, this year was it was an up and down for me. And I say this because I had some health battles that I had to deal with and it was turns out they thought it was a stroke. It was not a stroke. What it was was stress and not telling people no. My nervous system has been out of whack because I am constant, nice understanding. Just there. And so my message is next year, not just for me, but this is for anybody that don't know how to say no and set boundaries. It is okay to say no. It is okay to set boundaries and put yourself first. It is okay to be selfish. That is my message. So I'm glad that you, you know, shared that with the folks. Obviously I knew what you were dealing with, you know, behind the scenes and everything. I would just I would just say, and I have a message too, but just to kind of dove telling what you just said. I don't even view that as being selfish, Like you you can't take care of anybody else if you can't take care of yourself, you know what I. Mean, Like you have to. You have to take care of yourself. And we all kind of know that, but particularly I think it's the mental stuff that we avoid, the mental stuff that we don't make sure that we're okay and all of that. And we all live in a stressful world in general, just in regular life, and then there are those of us who are in the professions that we're in, which adds another level of stress on top of the regular stress of everyday life. And so you know, it is it's important to just you know, keep a look out on that. But I don't even view it, like I. Said, as being selfish. I view it as like you have to. Like when you're on the. Plane, right and they tell you they go through the directions, and they tell you what happens in the in the case of an emergency, and they tell you that the mask shut, that the mask is going to drop or whatever, and what do they tell you to tell you to put yours on first and then help the person next to you, right Like, you gotta be okay first before. You can help anybody else. So that's important. So my last words for the year, Like Robin, I've had it up and down year. This has been. You know, particularly the back end, and like the last part of this year has been, you know, pretty difficult. And like I said, like I told her before the show started, you know, I'm limping into twenty twenty six right now. You know, I'm just glad for the reset. I'm looking forward to the. Reset, you know. I would just say for people who are listening, who dealt with things or you know, had similar issues or what have you, the most important thing, the most important thing isn't even necessarily. What you are going through. It is how you go through it. There are times where you deal with life and life is hard and there's nothing you can do about it, but your attitude while you're in those areas can make going through those things is even more difficult. It is so important to keep your head up, to keep God first. I don't know how. You deal with any of this stuff and not become a complete basket case without God. I think one of the issues that we are having in this world is that many of our lives are dealing We're dealing with a level of stress that our minds and hearts and bodies are not meant to carry. We're not built to carry all of the things that we carry on. A regular basis. And that's one of the reasons why you need God, because that's really People can say whatever they want, you can get whatever self help book you want, you can listen to whatever guru you want to listen to, but. That's really the only thing that works because. God is really the only one that can that can lighten your load, that can lighten that burden, you know what I mean. So life can suck sometimes it makes no sense in making it suck more by trying to carry the load by yourself. So keep your head up, keep God first, and keep a positive attitude. You do those three things, that's gonna get you through. So on that note, as is the custom of this show every year, we are going to close it out with one of my favorite versions of the classic Silent Night And for Dante Brian Robin O'Malley, this is your boy, Darvy Oda King for tomorrow, saying see you, be safe, of a merry Christmas, have your new Year, and we will see you. In twenty twenty six peace. This was produced by f c V MHM.
