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God Save The Queen


This week has been a very interesting week for pop-culture. I had the chance, finally, to sit down and watch the Oprah interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Honestly, at first, I was a little sympathetic to the situation they find themselves in. But, that didn’t last long at all. I then remembered that she is an actress by trade, not the best, but good enough to pull off playing the role of the poor girl treated like an outcast by a racist royal family. She played the part well.

The more I watched the interview and the more time I have had to reflect on it, I realize that all they are doing is lowering the bar and driving a huge wedge between her husband and his family. Listening to her talk about her time in Brittain, you would swear that she was kidnapped by A-Qaeda and tortured for 2 years and then finally managed to escape her mean, rude and racist captures. This of course is not the case.

I’m sure that giving up your individualism and privacy is not easy to deal with, but doing so in the lap of luxury in a literal palace with every want and need met wouldn’t be that difficult. Maybe it proved to be too difficult for her?

Regardless of how you feel, throwing shade on the Queen of England and accusing her of racism, isn’t a good look. It will be interesting to see where this story goes and if the walls that they both placed between them and the Royal family will ever able to be torn down. At this point, they are some pretty high and thick walls.

Listen to more of my thoughts in this episode of The Steve Freeman Podcast!

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Billie Eilish and The Right Recipe


Billie Eilish is only 19 years old and is considered one of the most popular and successful artists and songwriters in the business today. How did she achieve this level of stardom in such a short period of time?

On today’s podcast, I discuss her, her success, the recipe and the AppleTV+ documentary that documents the journey to this point.

There is so much to take away from Billie, her brother and the process they followed to achieve the level of success they are currently seeing and there is only more to come.

Who is Billie Eilish: Billie is an American singer-songwriter. She first gained attention in 2015 when she uploaded the song “Ocean Eyes” to SoundCloud, which was subsequently released by the Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom. The song was written and produced by her brother Finneas O’Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. Her debut EP, Don’t Smile at Me (2017), became a sleeper hit, reaching the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Eilish’s debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200, reached number-one in the UK, and became one of the best-selling albums of 2019. The album’s fifth single “Bad Guy” became her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2020, she performed the theme song “No Time to Die” for the James Bond film of the same name, which became her first number-one single in the UK. Her later singles “Everything I Wanted”, “My Future”, and “Therefore I Am” peaked within the top 10 in the US and UK.

Her accolades include five Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, and one Brit Award. She is the youngest person and the second in history to win the four main Grammy categories—Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year—in the same year. In 2019, Time magazine placed her on their inaugural Time 100 Next list. Eilish is the 26th-highest-certified artist of the digital singles era, according to the RIAA.

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Banning Dr. Seuss & Dealing with Criticism


So, we are banning Dr. Seuss now. The cancel culture vultures have been given too much power and authority. The few are imposing their will on the many and it’s got to stop. Also in today’s episode, I tackle how to deal with criticism when we don’t get the positive affirmation we were really looking for. All of that and more in today’s episode of The Steve Freeman Podcast.

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A Trip Down Memory Lane


I’ve had an interesting and journey-filled life. Even though I, like most, look back and see unfulfilled purpose, there are times when things happen that cause me to look back with far more appreciation. Today is one of those times.

Yesterday, I learned of the passing of a person that played a huge role in a very significant chapter in my life. When I heard the news, rather than being sad, I actually smiled. Before the sadness set in, I remembered this difficult and exciting time in my life with a different reverence that I previously had. Upon my reflection, I realized that had none of that happened, I wouldn’t be where I am today, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to accomplish the amazing things that life has blessed me with. I would’ve stayed on that trajectory and ended up no telling where. For once, I looked back on those times and was thankful.

We never know if the road we are on is the road that will lead us to where we want to go, it may just be a temporary stretch that leads to the road that will. In today’s episode, I share the story of what led me here in hopes that my past may help your future.

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Politics, Religion & Her OnlyFans


We have become such a judgemental society. In today’s episode, we are talking about 3 stories from the past week that show just how involved and critical we are of our fellow man. American Idol producers and judges are under fire for sending home a moderately talented 16-year-old transgendered boy, a mom and wife in California sees her 3 high school kids kicked out of their Catholic school for having an OnlyFans account and Good Mythical Mornings’ Rhett and Link are in the crosshairs for speaking the truth about “Christianity”. This truth could cost them millions of subscribers on YouTube.

All that and more on today’s episode of The Steve Freeman Podcast!

Links To Stories:

American Idol: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/american-idol-judges-face-criticism-after-sending-home-transgender-singer-ace-stiles-what-a-huge-mistake/ar-BB1dUyXh?fbclid=IwAR2-sQkr8GDb7v7jbJ14TNtxpRlTiP42LE61cUGBFAbIbarej4HaHmhM2IM

OnlyFans Mom: https://www.outkick.com/crystal-jackson-only-fans/

Rhett & Link: https://youtu.be/CnYG6x-aOTk

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Radio Is Finally Irrelevant and Morgan Wallen Provides the Proof


The final nail in terrestrial radio’s coffin has been hammered in. Mainstream radio is now completely irrelevant thanks to Morgan Wallen.

Since his racial slur incident, radio completely removed him from their playlists. Despite this fact, Wallen generated over 2 Million dollars in sales and streaming revenue in the immediate 9 days after radio blackballed his music and completely wiped his name from their lips.

There has never been a better time to be an independent artist. The final brick of the final wall that stood as an obstacle for indie artists to reach potential fans has been removed.

More on this in today’s episode of The Steve Freeman Podcast!

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US actress Gina Carano arrives for Disney+ World Premiere of "The Mandalorian" at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood on November 13, 2019. (Photo by Nick Agro / AFP) (Photo by NICK AGRO/AFP via Getty Images)
US actress Gina Carano arrives for Disney+ World Premiere of "The Mandalorian" at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood on November 13, 2019. (Photo by Nick Agro / AFP) (Photo by NICK AGRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Free Speech, My Ass!!


The star of Disney+’s The Mandalorian, Gina Carano, has been fired from the show for her tweets. Her employers, Disney+ and LucasFilm called her comments on social media “abhorrent and unacceptable”.

“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.” – Hollywood Reporter

In today’s episode, I go over the tweets and I’ll let you be the judge.

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I’m Sick of The Apologies

 I for one have just about had it with all of the politically correct bullshit that our country has turned into. We say we want to come together, but every move we make is designed to separate us even further.

Morgan Wallen is still on his apology tour, Jeep pulls their ad featuring Bruce Springsteen over DWI and reckless driving charges and a few ugly truths about social media and the music business. All that and more in today’s episode of The Steve Freeman Podcast.

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The Missing Piece

There is a lot to learn from Tampa Bay’s monumental super bowl victory last night. Tom Brady was obviously the missing piece in the formula for success for the Bucc’s. What piece are you missing that is keeping you from your big victory?

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Morgan Wallen Cancelled Over N-Word Use

A quick thought on the #morganwallen situation and then I’ll leave it to Friday’s podcast…
If equality is what we are striving for, then we should cancel anyone and everyone of every race and ethnicity for using the word. I don’t want to hear about privilege or passes due to the color of the person saying its’ skin.
To Cumulus and any other corporately owned radio company in bankruptcy, I think that covers you all, if you remove Morgan Wallen from your country playlists, then you have to remove the music from any urban, R&B, Hip-Hop and rap artists that use the same word on stations you own and control. Anything less is hypocrisy, racial insensitivity and outright discrimination.
Again, if equality is the goal, then stop drawing lines of distinction and division between people. If its ok for one person or group to say it, but not ok for the other, that my friends is text book discrimination, segregation and by definition, racism.
The only reason this is being seen as an issue is because of the color of his skin, again, by definition, is racism.
Injustice at hits core is punishing one person for a crime and someone else that commits the same crime is allowed to go unpunished either by privilege, social standing or pass, economic standing or color of skin.
I am not condoning the use of the word, before you pussy ass millennials, irrelevant country artists or social media “look at me I’m woke, white and have BLM in my bio” types chime in, I’m saying nobody should be using it and if you cancel Morgan Wallen and are as woke as you claim, you should also be deleting every rap song and artist from your playlists. Also, if you were actually relevant enough for people to give a shit about you, you’d have people following you with telephoto lenses and long-range shotgun microphones capturing every word you say and every mistake you make and I’m sure if that were the case, you all do and say shit daily that would get canceled by someone. So, rest comfortably in your glass house tossing stones at people. One day, somebody may actually give a damn about you and toss some back.
So, do we really want equality, or you wanna keep drawing more lines of distinction in social justice and acceptability?
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