 We used to go to the bars and what happened to the traffic, where are the cars? Oh my God, it's been crazy. A lot of chicks then had babies since the world got shut down, now it's back open and now a lot of dudes are just hoping it didn't really happen but it did. Now you got the next 18 years to raise this kid. I was chilling at the crib coming up with ideas and then I started thinking about some stuff that I ain't thought about. Pancake from the Waffle House. No. That wouldn't work. Maybe I can put the sleeve on the sleeveless shirt. Wait. No. That's stupid. Don't do it. Maybe I can turn some ice into some fluid. Then it's water. See, I'm getting smarter. The rhymes that I'm doing are just getting harder. Like, what's the ice-osceles triangle? I just wanted to rap about that so I can dangle and hang it in your face to know that I'm better. Hey, you ever sweated in a sweater? Hey, then why they really call it that? Hey, since you're listening, everyone welcome back. Welcome back. I didn't have an idea. Yes. You did? I was just in my head. I was singing like... You can sing if you want. I am the one that had a quarantine baby. What? He knocked me up. I was like, I'm not a lady. What? So I just decided that I'd spend my time looking fine, pregnant as fuck. But I don't care because he's gone now. He's out and he's fat. Okay. What do you know about that? Nothing. I've got nothing. Stop right now because I did not know she was going to take that. Six bars. I've got six bars in me. Six full bars. I did not know that you were going... Okay, Elle Duncan. Hey, welcome back to the black excellence spotlight. Now check this out. We got a very special guest in the house with us today in the trap house. We're going to put out some of our fancy art and everything for you, Elle Duncan. It's very fancy. Welcome to the 85 South Show. And you gave me your best Capri sun. Come on, man. We got to make you feel at home. It's ice cold. Come on. Well done. This refrigerator works. They think it's just a prop. I see. How you been? First of all. I've been good. I've been good. And the new partner is denen Tac gente. Do you got that audio? We're doing it. Sorry, we can bring it back up. No problem. I saw him walk in the drawer. But we just walked in the drawer. We got you down. I saw him. He and scooters, Popeus. I saw him swingjoin, baby. I was like, oh, I know. But you can't get that fault out for his own unbearable scenery. Don't wander around your Raspberry P could be a great 없ment and so much good. Oh, and you're like, we're doing a show today. It's crazy that it lasted this long that you could have a whole ass baby. An entire child, like conceive, have, and now he's still five months old and we are still in this pandemic, yeah. Shout out to your husband, man. He over there smiling like hell right now. He did this on purpose. He did that. It was pre-meditated. Look, he's like swish, swish, swish. He's one time. He's one time. One and done. You know what I mean? We definitely have a lot of people on our show, you know, a lot of fans that, you know, love sports and that just happens to be your avenue right now. Yeah, it is. Yeah, I'm a sports center anchor. I work at ESPN. First of all, you know, just for a lady, just going over there, putting it down in a male-dominated field. Yeah, it's cool. I like it because friends would tell you that I'm confrontational in one way and that is when it comes to sports. So I get paid to kind of do the same thing I'd be doing at a bar, which is clowning dudes and putting them in their place, you know, about sports. When did you fall in love with sports? Little kid. My whole family is very sports oriented. So we were actually huge Braz fans growing up. I played baseball. My mom knows more about sports than maybe any man I've ever met. And so they just fostered the love of sports in me. And I wanted to combine those two things when I got older. Yeah. You look like a very familiar voice here around Atlanta. I used to do radio here. Yeah, with Ryan Cameron. Shout out to Ryan Cameron. You wanna have RC? The OG. The OG, yes. V103 in Atlanta. Yeah. What was that like? Yeah, I mean, it was dope. I met Ryan. I was doing the two live stews. So anybody knows. Shout out to them, too. The stews, yeah. Yeah. You're dropping them already. You see that? Yeah, I know, I know. You see that? You see these names on the whole thing? Yeah. I was an intern on their show and I met Ryan. I needed a job, obviously. I was broke and I was working at a hair salon and I would take my lunch break and go do radio with the stews. And so I met Ryan Cameron through them and begged him to give me a chance on his show. And he was like, listen, I'm coming back. He had left to go to D.C. for a little while. He's like, I'm coming back. I need to track a reporter. Pays like $20,000 a year. I was like that much. It was a lot when you were like, you know, washing hair for a living. I was just gonna ask you, what was your career like at the hair salon? Well, yeah, reception is in washing hair. Okay. I washed Kenny Rogers hair once. And that's dope. Yeah. That's dope. I was like, what are these in the hair? Like, got it. Got it, the hairline. That's where you can tell the work gets done. And it was a butt-head salon. So we saw a lot of that. But yeah, in the rest of his history, he gave me a chance to do traffic and we had a nice rapport for 10, 11 years on the radio here. That's a nice run. Really nice run. Yeah. That's dope. Yeah. So what was it like just, you know, being a part of the hip hop scene in Atlanta, just seeing it change so many different times. And you like, right there at the number one radio station as it's happening every morning, somebody there. Yeah, I was like right on the, like the beginning of the A.G. takeover, the Alex Gideon takeover. Okay. Like he had just basically owned like- The building room. Yeah, yeah. He had just like upgraded from owning parking lots. And, you know, he wasn't that removed from being a valet. I mean, I think that's what's so remarkable about A.G.'s story. Despite the fact that like, is he still pulling that bullshit where he sells t-shirts outside or sells shirts outside of the club for $100 and tells you you're not up to the code on the dress code? Everybody gets a clean slate. Do they? So he's wearing t-shirts. Alex, are you still pulling that? He would tell you that you were underdressed and he'd be like, but I've got a shirt here for you for $100. And he would make you change into a collared shirt that was from like Walmart so that he could get you for a hundo because you drove all the way out to the velvet room and your ass was not turning back a wrap. So it was a nice hustle. Especially if you had a parking spot. You remember the parking? Oh my God. That was crazy. It was awful. I was on the street. So yeah, no, it was cool. I don't go out anymore here. I've heard it's changed quite a bit. But it was dope sort of being, I was a little young for like Esso. You're young for Esso. Esso was not your thing, right? Like that's not. Caught the end of it. Yeah, yeah. So I was much more of a velvet room compound. Yeah, I didn't really like going out too tough back in those days. It was a lot going on in the streets too many rich people in the club just throwing away money. That was that was insane to me. I remember having a party with Alex where he had Diddy coming and he sold a table next to Diddy to some dude for like $20,000 because the guy just wanted proximity to Diddy. And yes, that excess of money was wildly uncomfortable for someone like me that was making $22,000 a year. Yeah. But it was cool to sort of see, you know, what Atlanta was like then compared to sort of what it feels like now which is a little too Hollywood for my taste. Right? Like it feels like- I wanted to get a little bit more Hollywood. Do you? Just a tad bit more. In what way? Where you riding down the street and you see a helicopter with a camera and they shooting like a car chasing. Got you. Yeah. You want O.J. Simpson light here in Atlanta all the time. Yeah, but it's over when they say cut. Got you. That makes total sense. Yeah. All right, back to traffic everybody. Now where are you originally from? Atlanta. I grew up, I say Atlanta, adjacent. She's giving my husband's giving me the look. He's from East Point, so he can really say Atlanta. I'm from- East Point. You know where Marietta is? Yeah. Okay, well I'm from the town next to it called Powder Springs, Georgia. Okay. A little suburb. Someone said, ooh, you know where that is? Yeah, you couldn't catch a ride to Powder Springs. Hell no. No, it's at least 45 minutes from here. Yeah. It's the country. But I moved to the city when I was 22 and was there until I moved to pursue my sports career. See, that's what people don't know though. All the cities that's around the city lit too, but Powder Springs got their own drama out there. Marietta. Yeah. Agworth. Bro, you don't know about them late nights in Agworth. Shit get real around there. We used to have this place called the Dirty Bird Cafe. You can guess when the year was. I'm aging myself and it would go down in there. I mean it was just like some little place in a strip mall, but we would go in there. They had Jamal Anderson pictures everywhere and we would just go in there and they would, you know, play his stupid song once a night and like everyone would get a free round of shots, which was bad because we were 17. They would just serve underage kids. It was fantastic. It was fantastic. Yeah, those were the days. Those were the days. Yeah man, what happened? We got old and responsible. Man, now look at you. You are responsible and professional and working at sports center. What's this whole experience like? Yeah, it's cool. I mean I get to talk about sports for a living and not school, but I think that most importantly I'm trying to, on a serious note, represent, you know, have representation because I knew I could do this because I saw Robin Roberts do it. And so I'm trying to pave as many ways as I can so the next generation of young black females that want to, to your point, exist in male dominated spaces feel empowered to do it. Right. What advice would you give them? Yeah, to use all of the things that make you uniquely female to your advantage. I think women are sort of conditioned to believe that everything that they do is antithetical to what they need, right? Act like a man. Be tough. Don't use your compassion or your emotion or you'll be deemed as weak. But I think that women are so good at things we over complicate it. And it's not so complicated. Speak up for yourself. Advocate for yourself. Use your voice. And most importantly, lean on your intuition and all the things that make you uniquely female because it's the one thing we've got over men, you know? And it's been weaponized, but it's, it's a strength. That's dope. You just, you really said a mouthful right there. Yeah. I've been known to do that. I don't know if you just summoned all the women to form Vulture on the wood. But I just felt like that needed an extra moment. Unite. Use your womaness. I was like, what is she saying right now? All of it, you know. Look outside, it's gonna be women flying and shit. If you've got womaness, then you know what I mean. You know. I don't, I have no idea. You recognize that. I have madness. What's madness involved? I can break shit, open shit, lose shit, fall asleep fast. That's just superpower. And at this point, you wouldn't believe how good I am at leaving. Pew. Like all you have, you don't have to tell me twice. I'm ready to go. Always. Uh-uh. We can leave as soon as we get there. So are you one of those people that like, are already sort of thinking of your excuse to leave? Or do you Irish goodbye? Like you're going to come. I'm so used to leaving. I don't even make excuses. Nice. I just leave. You just go. What do I need excuses for? You don't. You're a grown ass man. I'm not making no excuses. I can't. I didn't say I was gonna stay. So you do like a drive-by appearance. Most of the time. And people should understand that. Sure. You're a busy man. Exactly. So what would predicate you staying for a long time at something? How good would that event, party, or scene have to be? It would have to be fun. Like not like people doing stuff fun. Like this is just fun. Gotcha. I think that's one of the most underrated things where people overlook fun. You turn into an adult and then you get all serious about life and you forget to have some fun. Yes. Gotta have some fun, man. That's why it's so dope to have people like you that can come through and do, you know, that are actually in the field that they want to be in doing what they want to do and having fun with it. That's the key to life. Is sheer joy. Like I know it sounds super corny. I was talking to a colleague recently about this. And I would like to believe I'm joking about superpowers being womanist. But I'd like to believe that my superpower is trying to be a joyful person and bring joy to other people. So I appreciate being here because I love your show. And I think what you guys do here is great. I love how much it's grown sort of seeing. Come on. Well, you guys are like what Atlanta is about, right? Creative people coming together, believing in something, speaking to a certain group of people who has largely been ignored. And then those people rally and they give you your flowers and they respond to you. And to see what you guys have done and how much you're growing, I think it's amazing. So I'm really glad that you had me because we've been planning this. I've talked to Chad months ago. We've been planning this for months. The ability for me to come and hang out with you guys. You need to be here because you've got to come and give us some updates. Who do you think going to get Julio Jones? I saw something the other day and I was like this makes so much sense. No, not Dallas. Julio wants to win. Julio wants to win. And he needs to win soon. Because we all know Julio got about 25 games left in. And I don't know how many. That's probably going to take four seasons to get to. But he don't have much time left with that foot. It could be very interesting if the Packers can't work this thing out with Aaron Rodgers. They make a trade for Julio Jones. And they give Jordan love to the Falcons. The Falcons then maybe have their heir apparent to Matt Ryan. They give up Julio. They get something in return. So I could see that happening as a way to pacify Aaron Rodgers. You give them Julio and you get rid of the dude that made him feel some type of way. Stranger things have happened. Stranger things have happened. Do you want Julio to stay? I want you to really think about it, though. I know you love Julio. Yes, that's what I was saying. But do you think that his better days are behind him? No. You still think? Yes. You think that if Julio Jones is on the Falcons this year, they can win a championship. Julio is not the problem. I know that. He is definitely not the problem. Matt Ryan is the problem. He has done everything and some other shit that they have asked him to do. Absolutely. Now, he is definitely not the problem. But as a fan of Julio Jones, I understand. He need to go. He has given his best. Yes. They have wasted his talent. He don't owe Atlanta nothing. And he will forever be one of the greatest. He made one of the best. That catch in the Super Bowl was one of the greatest catches that I've ever seen. It's as if Julio was trying to will that team to a championship. But Matt Ryan was like, not today, Devil. Not today. Right. I am going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And that's exactly what happened. He got in the way of what should have been Julio's moment. He was going to be an MVP in the Super Bowl. Right. And you're right. He don't owe Atlanta anything. He's given us a lot of years. He tried to wait it out as long as he could, because I think he thought that Matt would go first. I think he's realized that they have chosen Matt Ryan. He has to go. Good batter indifferent. And there's nobody else coming, like even if they trade Matt Ryan next year. Who's coming down the pipeline? His 45-year-old backup just retired. They don't even have any other quarterbacks on the roster. Oh, he got me fired up now. That's what happened when you talk about the Falcons. I just don't. Yes, about any Atlanta sports team. Everything they do is nonsensical. I don't know why we keep coming back. It's like we're sadists. It's like we enjoy the pain. Why else do we keep doing this? I keep looking at my phone like, oh my god, I can't wait to watch the Hawks tomorrow night. Why? The Hawks have been winning though. You can't stop. Sure. Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying, brother. The Hawks, they're catching strays because of the Falcons. Just because they're the same birds. No, it's because they're in the bird family. They're not the same birds. I don't want the animal people to be like, they are not the same. They are in the same house of family of birds of prey. It's just the battered sports fan of me that knows that this is all a setup. It's like the rug gets pulled out and the Hawks steal one in New York, just like the brave stole a couple in New York. And then came home and never won another one. That's exactly what I'm mad with this whole Matt Ryan situation. He's like, you know, like you have a part at your house. It's that dude who's drunk, but he's not obnoxious. He's just annoying as hell. Yes. Like, bro, who friend is this? Who you here with, bro? Like, that's what I'm mad with Matt Ryan. It's like something about him gets under your skin. And I think, listen, he's a nice guy, right? We don't know that. That's debatable. Yeah. I mean, I know enough people that know him that know like he's, you know, he's like, like what was Beaver Cleaver? Like, he's like that, you know. But he might not be nice to me, though, after he watched this and be like, yeah, it's how you feel. That's why I get it. Oh, trust me. He's been catching bullets for me for a long time. So if he's mad at anybody on this couch, it's me. I just, I get tired of the idea that he's elite because Matt Ryan has only ever been able to do well when he has had a fantastic running game. And I feel like Michael Turner was completely, he's the reason Matt Ryan was so good at the beginning of his career, right? Like, and then Devonte Freeman, like, he always has to have a thousand yard rusher to do anything. His better days are behind him. That one year was an anomaly. And the fact that Arthur Blank just doesn't think that it's fathomable to move on from him is insane to me. They gotta be related or something. Because nowhere else could you have a job, man. You fuck up that much and they let you keep your job. You just keep coming back. He is like the Homer Simpson of quarterbacks. Oh. He really is. I always wish a lot of small inconveniences happened to him. Just on some Atlanta shit. Like, I hope he always in traffic. I hope his Waffle House ain't never hot. Like, just, you know, I hope his Lemon Pepper Wings ain't never really Lemon Peppery. Just all types of small inconveniences for Matt Ryan. I love that you think he gets Lemon Pepper Wings. He probably does. I hope he hits it. I hope he eats them at. At the stadium. That should be everything he needs to know. He's definitely not in an American deli. He probably passed. It's an American deli within 20 minutes or wherever he lives. What does he live? Who knows? We know. Rich people Atlanta. Buckhead. They have an underground Atlanta that, like, they just drive and then you go under and it's like a whole world. I don't know. I just heard about it. This is just some things that you've heard about. Probably. I wasn't saying, like, like, underground Atlanta? Yeah, no, no, no, like, it's some other shit. I don't know. I believe it. I don't know where anybody lives in Atlanta. Every time somebody invite me over to the house, they got to tell me where it is. It don't matter if I've been there for five years straight. I need you to text me that address. I don't remember where it is. I'm worried about it. You put it, like, you put, like, ways and stuff. Like, you, like, follow GPS to the letter of the law. I follow Google, because Google know exactly where your ass is. Because you know why? Because Facebook told them. That makes so much sense, doesn't it? Google is right. Waze is cute. Police to the left. Yeah, OK. The police already made a whole video talking about how you can turn that shit off if you want to. Waze, how's you going through, like, parking lots? And I just think it's completely unnecessary to save 26 seconds. Tell you what made me get Waze, though. Remember they had that promo where you could use T-Pain voice? Yes. That's how they got me. The best. They have, um, big mom energy here. They have, like, a Cookie Monster one, too. That's actually quite cute. Really? Yeah. Now, see, that's some shit. I could definitely see myself busting a little left. Cookie is to the left. Yeah, yeah, it is. Police to the left. That'd be hard. It's not bad. So who are some of your favorite teams to cover these days? What's keeping it interesting over there at the workplace? Yeah, I mean, well, the pandemic was tough, right? Right. So thank God Tom Brady bailed from Boston, because that gave us. Is that what he did? Yeah, man, he bailed. I think he left. Yeah, he bailed. I think he kind of like, it was emotional. It's like when you walk in and you catch a girl sitting on a dude's lap, like, that's what we doing? All right, bet. Y'all not the only team in football? Tampa Bay really likes me as a person. He left, and he won the Super Bowl, and he was like, yeah, whatever. Yeah, that was, I mean, but that was nuts. You didn't ever think he would really leave Boston. I did. Really? Because that whole team loyal to his shit is old school. It is. Nobody does that. It's a business. Go get the money in the happiness. You've been abused up there in all those cold ass weather. They don't listen to your opinion. You got to go where you appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, the Nets are keeping us talking, the Lakers per usual are keeping us talking. And finally, the Cowboys. Here's a fun fact. It is so much better whenever people say things like, oh, you guys really push this, or you push that, or you all want the Cowboys and stuff like that to be good. Hell yeah, we do. When the Cowboys are good, people watch sports, right? When the Nicks are good, people watch basketball. You want some of those sort of flagship tentpole teams to be really, really good. So right now we're doing well because we are seeing our big teams succeed, you know? Like who's your whistle? Who gets you going in the sports world? The WNBA? Right? I don't care nothing about what happened. I just like to see those ladies. Ballin'? Ballin'. I want both teams to win. That's how crazy it is. I feel like a father. So a tie? I'm like, they all won. Participation trophy? Now who's got the big mom energy? You gonna bring orange slices out of the game? Every time a lady get her shot black, I'd be like, she didn't have to do her like that. She ain't right. Right, because I saw one chick, she was like got her shot black by a tall ass sentence, like slam down a little bit and just. It felt abusive to you? It felt abusive. You know, shout out to WNBA because they're seeing record numbers right now. They're seeing their best ratings in years. They should let the rim down a little bit so them ladies can dunk. They don't gotta let the rim down, the ladies can dunk. I'm saying it's only like three. I want it to be like nine and a half feet. So they can at least be like hitting the rim or something, bro, you know? Let them do some globe trotter stuff or like one of them gives them a boost. Like you're allowed to run up the backs of people. Maybe just a second half or something. Like what are they trying to prove shooting on that high ass rim? I'm a man and I be like, that's shit high. You gotta be a big mom like this shoot this night. I'm not one of them short guys like I can play ball real good to prove y'all. I can overcome anything. I was like, that shit ain't for me. That's for tall people. It's easier. Look at all these layups, the little guys doing it. Nobody wanna see that shit. You the dad, you like, don't play with the girls. And then they'll call him a student of the game, you know? They'll be like, technically he's fantastic, fundamentally. Great fundamentals. Great fundamentals. Get this bullshit out of here. Team guy. We're not on the high school state championship. This is for entertainment. Nobody wanna see no wide open ass layup. You make millions. You better attempt to dunk. Fucking layup. That's like what people will be like. You know, the Princeton offense is just so compelling. It is not. Watching dudes just pass the ball 30 times and then someone take a spot on jumper is boring. I don't even understand the whole concept of sports. Who told old white men they know everything about sports? Who? How can you coach LeBron James? The Frank Vogue. This is most fucking was literally born to play basketball. Hey LeBron, you know, man, you don't shut up, Gary. Did you play in the 50s? Everybody had on Chuck Taylor's when you played Gary. Those little hot pants too, the short shorts. Exactly. Well that's why, you know, when you're a LeBron, you're not listening. Your coach is not doing any of that stuff, right? Your coach is mostly telling everyone else what they need to be doing. That's what I'm saying. How are you going to listen to Luke Walton? Yeah, well, no, he wasn't going to, which is why he wasn't there. We saw Luke in action. We saw Luke. It was like Luke was on the team and then just started wearing suits to the game. I can do this. He retired himself. I heard the coach say a lot of stuff. I remember most of it. I don't know, it's just the dynamic of that is funny as hell to me. Yeah, I think that, do you think, what do you think about the Lakers' chances? Who's your basketball team? I mean, the Lakers always have a chance. They have that LeBron guy. Yeah. They do. You're not concerned about the injury? What injury? His ankle. Don't believe that, Elle Duncan. First of all, if you're going to be over there, let me give you some inside scoop from the street, Elle. I got my Elle Duncan notes right here, but let me give you some perspective from the street. I just said LeBron James was born to play basketball. You think an ankle injury will stop him? Yes. I don't, I don't know. I think if he's healthy, you know, no. Elle Duncan, if you look at every team, they all got about like two or three super humans. Sure. That are made from a completely different fabric. Yeah. Like LeBron James. He's a dog. Like Kowai Leonard, like Ben Wallace. You give what I'm saying? Like they made from like another substance or something. Like Shaq, like they just built for this. Yeah, all gravitas. Yeah. I felt like if everything was on the line and LeBron needed to go out there and win the game, he could. Maybe that's just me believing in crazy shit, but he has a great team. He's a clutch shooter. You think that- He got the other dude that could score 50 whenever he get ready. Anthony Davis. I just call him the other dude. That's my nickname for him. Oh, the other dude. You give him some. Yeah. Hey. Oh, what you call him? Hey, yeah. Shout out. Eyebrows. You know eyebrow? The brow guy. The brow. You think that they can take down the nets, though? The nets? The nets can take down the nets. All they take is one argument. They don't even like each other. They don't even like each other. Are you, do you find these big giant mega super teams to be compelling or do you find it to be enough? Every team should be a super team. I agree. I hate these purists that keeps, yes. Yeah, when Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippin. Sure. It was the team that you wanted to see. Yeah. You know Paxson was gonna step in and hit the three on somebody. You get what I'm saying? It's like they had the pistons. They had the San Antonio Spurs and the Houston Rockets. They, all these teams had at least two to three superstars. That's what it takes to have a team. I totally agree. I hate these purists that think that somehow they're, you know, soft or weak because they wanna go play with it. I'm like, what do you- These dudes grew up together. They spent the night at each other's house. They're real life friends. If they wanna be on a team together, it only makes sense. I totally agree. Like my mom, sit by your mom. Right. Why wouldn't we be team? We play cousins. Like your mama came to my house and cooked for your family. And like you see this on Instagram. So it only makes sense. Yeah. I don't like the whole idea of like pay one dude a lot of money and just put whoever on the team. I hate that shit. Got you. So basically like what, these golden parachute type of contracts. Yeah. What the Lakers did with Kobe for many, many years. They gave him that money, but they couldn't put anybody around him towards the end. Nobody wanted to play with him. Yeah. This is hard dude to deal with. Yeah. A legend. Yep. Michael Jordan Crag, did you see that? I did, yeah. I heard that Kobe had keys made. He'd had to have a special set of keys made from every arena in the NBA because he would beat the crew there. So like his people would have early access so that he could get there at four or five o'clock in the morning to shoot. And he would do this at every arena across the country. Like that's how dedicated he was to his craft. And this is well, well, well into his career. You know? Yeah. Post multiple championships. Still the guy at five o'clock in the morning at the gym shooting. Yeah, that's different. That's what I'm telling you. You think the ankle gonna stop there? That's fair. Look at that full circle Lowe's. Full circle. I see you. You bring my love to the people down there. Shoot. Come on now. You wanna come do a sports center? Y'all need to at least let me be in the HBCU division. Division? They got like 11 games that's gonna be televised next year. Sure do. Come on. Let's go. I'll do it. Okay. Hey, what's up? Welcome back. It's your man Carlos Miller. I am out here at the HBCU. Hold on. Man, hot dog good as hell. Man, who dare to make this hot dog? Boy, y'all gotta get down here. The game is tight. But the food is off the chain. You down here in Tallahassee, Florida. Back to you L. Duncan. Cold Tigers. Perfect. I'll just pitch that. I'll be like, next time we need a food correspondent, then let's call up Carlos. Atmosphere. Atmosphere, I like that. You know like the people show up before the game. Yeah. Be like, it is nuts out here on the infield L. I'm telling you, they got the tailgaters out. The grills are out. And guess what L? Them girls are out too. I'll get back at you in a minute. They walling over here. You're even holding the IFG. Well, not. The reading is off the screen. I put this in my screen. And they are wild too. I love it. Yeah. That's dope, man. I really appreciate you coming through. Yeah, man. I like it. Just know anytime you want to come through and vent and talk sports or yell at our cameras, because you don't get to do all that at your job. You have to be professional. Somewhat. Somewhat. Yeah, I'm most proud that on a very classy show called Around the Horn. I was able to drop, right? That was the most nice arguing. Isn't it? It's very classy. What do you think? Listen, listen, listen, L. I don't know what you've been on this morning, but I'm telling you, LeBron's ankle is not a problem. You can sit there all you want and try to say that he's not built for this. This boy has been playing basketball since he was seven months old. And then my little arrow going to point up. Yeah, you're going to get points. Yeah. I watched the show. I like it. Yeah, but on that classy show with real journalists, I dropped a Trillville reference. And I was very, very proud. I did. I said some cut. And my producer, who is Caucasian, was like, is that something that is going to get us in trouble, what you just said? And I was like, no, it's just a Trillville song. He was like, I repeat, is that something that will get us into trouble? I was like, it was like a top hit. And we're good. And so that's what I'm bringing, Carlos. So if I can do that on Sports Center. Hold up, we got to talk about women shooting that shot, then Elle Durga. So you saw your husband just chilling. And you was like, what's up? Pretty much. I looked like I was on a date. I was not. But I look like I was on a double date. How you look like you on a date? Because I was with a dude. I had met a friend there who was a guy. And then he had invited a couple friend that he knew. So we were, you know, it was guy, girl, guy, girl. It looked like we were on a date. So I saw him. I thought it was cute. I tried to get his attention. How you do that? He over there right now. Literally, this is exactly how it was. Because my table was facing this way and he's right there. And so I'm trying to get his attention. And I'm literally like. And it's so embarrassing that the guy that I was with was like, you're embarrassing yourself. I was like, he won't look at me. And he was just like, so I recognize that we both knew the DJ. What up, DJ Tech Technology? I pretended to not know Tech. I walked up to Omar's table. I said, excuse me. What's the DJ's name? And he was like, oh, that's Tech. I was like, thank you. That was just so that he would finally see me and be like, she's cute. And I think it worked. And then I had the DJ introduce us. I was like, who's your friend that you were talking to? He's like, that's Omar. I was like, does he have a girlfriend? He said, I don't think so. I said, is Alana. Does he have a girlfriend? Fellas, you're always supposed to say no. What the fuck is this? I think so. We're all mad now. Like, what do you think so? Go ahead. I didn't mean to catch you all. I was just trying to catch the fellas up. No. He introduced us. And the rest of his history. We bonded over a tree of lights, like the tree festival that we used to go to as kids in Atlanta. That just going to show you, bro, that doos would do anything for a date. The tree of lights? Tree of lights? Tree of lights. Yeah, I'm having fun. It's a ton of homework, bro. Y'all got to start going at these shit. Man, there's so many women out here, bro. Baby, know it. Yeah, man. Yeah, but shoot your shot, because this idea that you got to sit around. If I would have tried to wait on him, he would never have sought me. And he didn't. He noticed that I looked like I was on a date. He never would have come up to me. And frankly, I would have been sort of mortified if he would have. Really? Well, I think it's gross when men hit on women when they clearly are with someone. Like, I've been here. What if it's not a date, though? You think I'm about to let your boyfriend stop me? From meeting my soul later? Whatever. No, I'm just playing. This isn't letting our brud-dudes will walk up to you in line at a movie theater. You holding hands with your girl. They just walk up on the other hand. You with buddy, you with- y'all together. No disrespect, homie. No disrespect. No disrespect. Dudes will hit on you while they're holding their girl's hands here in Atlanta, at Lenox Mall, with the red hat on. I remember you still all these years later. He was holding her hand as she's pushing a stroller. I'm assuming his son in it. And he was like, what's up, red? Hey, red, red. What's up, red? I was like, she. See, just like you weren't on a date that could have been his older sister. Holding his, holding hands. She emotional. She been going through something with the baby father. So he was like, suh, let him get out. So he was whispering just out of respect for her, like he was trying to. She been with the baby. She don't need to hear no lot of hollering. Got you. Just keep the tone low. I got you. OK. Plus, they might have been talking about family business. You know what I'm saying? Anything. OK. Ain't never what it looked like. I feel like you could write a book of excuses in Atlanta. Not excuses. Well done. You're just saying, I live in Atlanta. And I think that there's a lot of misconceptions going on out here in these streets. And it don't get enough light. OK. That's exactly why we have this platform. Yeah. So you guys aren't actually dogs. We're just misunderstood. No, it's not necessarily that we misunderstood. But I think some women just refuse to just put up with your bullshit. Not put up. But that's the thing about it. There is no universal bullshit. Every man got his own bullshit. Sure. There's some dudes out here who's so faithful that day woman is like, I wish you would find somebody to just get the hell out of my face. There are women like that? There are women like that. A lot of women don't even want relationships. See, the women who don't want relationships, they have the guys who are trying to be good. And they're like, that shit boring. Yeah. And then we all meet in the wrong people. Yeah. I've been saying that. It's self-destructive behavior. Exactly. Yeah. Then plus, you know, you got to factor in. A lot of women not shooting their shot. Fair. Making themselves seen. No, that's totally true. It's ego. Exactly. Take the ego out of the way. Go shoot your shot. You think it's cute? Holler at them. Yeah, especially if you ugly. OK. You never know. You never know. You got to take chances. Hey, excuse me. Hey, I'm just saying. I know it ain't your first choice, but I'm an option. What would, so if a ugly girl came up and shot her shot at you, what would have you like looking past whatever you deemed to be ugly and saying, OK, I'm a bi. It depends on what, see, some people can be like, see, sometimes it's not even just ugly. You just have a new look like a unique look. Sometimes you can be so ugly that you're attractive. That is true. Because you just look different. Like a French bulldog. Exactly. So ugly. It's cute. Like, I don't know if I like this shit, but I'm still trying to figure it out. I'm intrigued. Right. And then you around long, you start like, I like the sound of her voice. She got nice fingers. You start factoring in, and then you don't even know. You be the fuck around and fell in love with somebody unique, maybe fine as hell to you. See, that's the, ain't no universal attractiveness. We all fucked up to somebody. That's what I learned. Totally. Hell, yeah, so. Someone, Wise Man told me that a long time ago, right? You show me the prettiest woman in the world, and I'll show you a man tired of sleeping with her. Exactly. I believe it was after Halle Berry got divorced for the second or third time. Yeah, it was sad. I don't know what she did it for. I've been on her. She been tweeting, all reckless. She's feeling fine in her fifties. I'm loving Halle Berry in her fifties. I'm on her radar. Are you? I got to be. Yeah. I'll get. Are you a DM slider? Nah, I ain't going to do all that. I don't go nowhere. I ain't welcome. Gotcha. Gotcha. But if she slip up in LOL or something, don't follow me back. I'm in that because would you follow me forward? Right. I got privileged now. Yeah, so. So as soon as she follows you, then you're allowed to slide in the DMs. That's a heads up for you. Hell, Duncan. God got me. Got you. I'm covered. Feel that way. If he get me that far, he know what I do. Oh, yeah. He know what I do. He sets you up and you knock him down. That's it. But if it ain't happening like that, he ain't ready for it to happen. He don't know how I'm going to act. So what I'm doing in the meantime is I'm preparing. Got you. You get what I'm saying? What if it's not Halle Berry? What if it's a Halle Berry type? Got you. Like Jennifer Lopez. God might not want that for me. OK. Jennifer Lopez slided my DM. Right. Hey, Loves, call the little clip of the show with Elle Duncan. I love the show. Come on. Come on, Jenny. Is that your dream girl? Uh-uh. Who's your dream girl? I don't even, they don't even apply no more. Knocked her all the years ago, Elle Duncan. She's somebody's wife now, Elle Duncan. Knocked my dream girl off three-four times, Elle Duncan. It's kind of the game been good to me. If I don't never do nothing else, Elle Duncan, the game been good to me, Elle Duncan. I'm talking about, hey, that's the book you're going to want to read. Yeah. Hey, the game been good to me. You understand me? With the T. Good. If God say no more ever for you, call the lobby. Like, thank you, Lord, for everything you did up to this point. Let me do this missionary work so I can get back in your good grace. Also, Jesus webs. What? Telling you, Elle Duncan. You think that's the quality that women love most in a man is humor? Uh-uh. What do you think it is? Because you could be hilarious. But if you don't have any money, you can laugh with a woman, but just know she ain't going to never respect you. That's the first thing you've got to have as a man. You've got to be financially stable. Or you'll never be taken seriously by a woman. Empty. Because all the fun she could have, that's cool. But ain't nobody trying to laugh up in no goddamn dog and shit. Giggling on a futon? Yeah, man. But that's what I'm saying. They'll laugh with you. But just know that situation ain't, you're not winning in that one. So humor is very important, though, because it's so much shit that it'll make you cry. So that's why. Well, in the best of both worlds, do you find a humorous man with money like you? Uh-uh. I got one of them, too. You are like the fifth guest in the road to try to come on here and claim I got some money. Excuse you and have a money? L. Duncan. If I had much money, I would not be in a trap. Like some fancy cameras, I would not be in a trap. Now, that's where the money goes. Trying to invest in my career. That's fair. Exactly. Well, L. Duncan, this has been another rendition of the Black Excellence spotlight. We've got to make sure we lace you with some of these dope fabrics and things of that nature to get your husband a hat or something. Shout out to you, baby. Thank you. How old you say? I have a 2 and 1 half-year-old and a five-month-old. 2 and 1 half-year-old, OK, and a five-month-old. All right, but we've got some ones that we work in there. So they definitely watch 85 South Com. They do? They sure do. Oh, man. Ain't no telling what they might say. Right. What is it? Who's going to win the finals? You're doing this to me. He going to do it. I feel like it's going to be really hard to beat the Nets in a best of seven. So. Possibly. I'm going to foolishly say that this is the year that the jazz finally figured this shit out. No, no. It has to be the year. It has to be the year. I don't even like their name. They're the Utah Jazz. Don't know if Black people even live in Utah. Who the fuck playing the jazz? Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell plays on the. L. Duckin, do you have some crocs? I don't have crocs. You a mom. You definitely should get some crocs. My daughter has some. I'm telling you, man. They unlock a different party of personality. OK. What part is that? I'm. Comfort. Comfort. Yeah, these are very, these are wildly uncomfortable. Really? Yeah, I only wore them, I only wore them because I was trying to look cool for the show. You are cool, though. Your name is. I was like, let me put on my Fashion Nova pants. Your name is L. Duckin, though. Thank you. You good. Is that cool? Yeah. Even though people call me Ellie all the time? Ellie. All the time I get it. Ellie Dunkin. I'm a big fan, Ellie. I'm like, thank you. You obviously watch me on mute. Never heard I say my name every show. Do the Spanish people call you Elie? Oh my gosh, all the time. Elie, all the time. Hello, Miss Elie. Well, I get accused of being Black, but I get accused of being everything, right? Racially ambiguous. Really? And so I'll do these talk backs, like one of our Hispanic reporters. And I believe that if you know how to say it, you should say it, right? It's Pedro. That's how you say his name. Pedro. Maybe. Pedro. His name's Pedro, so I say it, and then immediately it's like, I knew you were one of us. Buddy, what's for life? I'm like, no. But actually Black. Really? I'm like, but really. So yeah, that's what I do. The Spanish shit be like, really? Yeah. Really? You don't look Black. You right. You sure you Black? You like this kind? Blackety Black Black. Militant Black. I'm so Black. I'm talking about Vaseline for lotion Black. Like, comment in the crevices of your elbow Black? Comment. What you know about that? Hello. Did I just put you on some game? Comment. My grandmother used to scrub comment on my father's elbows and knees so that they wouldn't turn to Black. That is crazy. And child abuse of El Duncan? Probably. They ain't going to look at her now because she's no longer with us. Damn. And we're good. No, I just meant like, super Black El Duncan. Like, like your parents drinking at your birthday party, Black. I'm talking about having to go to bed, Black. Y'all going to go to bed. Then there's a brown folk party. It's 5 PM. Exactly. They drunk and all that shit. But look, like I said, you know exactly where we are. Right here at the 85th South Show. You more than welcome, bro. More than welcome. Right here. You can come and host all that. Do an El Duncan segment in the trap. 85th South Show. We out of here. Fan, shoot some pictures, man.