One co-host is missing tonight — she's out campaigning. That's the whole message.

The midterms are November 3, early voting starts within days, and the Inner Circle has one ask: if you're a citizen, register and VOTE. Because you're not messing with politics — but politics is messing with you: your rent, your gas, your grocery bill. We know how to organize weddings. Time to organize this.

Even if you decide not to choose — that is also you choosing.

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One host paid $3.39 a gallon this week. Another paid $5.24 — for the same gas, in the same country.

Oil just crossed $100 a barrel, diesel is near record highs, and every truck, shelf, and grocery cart is passing the bill to you. The Inner Circle follows the money: the $300 Target run that started as "one thing for my daughter," the $1,000 first-day-of-school outfits, the sale signs hiding the same price underneath, and the down payment Abe calls flat-out criminal — until Ms. B, who owns the receipts, pushes back. Then the debate that splits the panel: is your car an asset or a liability? Is the American dream formula from 1975 still working in 2026?

And the line that says it all: the people stretching one paycheck across two countries aren't struggling — "they're the best economists ever."

This capitalist society is going to mess around and find out.

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There's a fourteen-year-old doing thirty on your street with no license, no helmet, and no fear — and somebody bought it for him.

The full Inner Circle takes on the machines taking over our roads: kids racing city buses, e-bikes that hit sixty, emergency rooms filling up, and the one question every parent gets wrong — is that a bicycle or a motorcycle? Peterson brings the case for rules before wreckage. Buela explains why an African mother's "no" is a safety feature. And then Ms. B arrives late with a confession: the e-bike that nearly took her out in the middle of Washington, DC. The panel has not recovered.

Plus a warning every family needs to hear: the e-bike "investment" that cost people in our community real money.

Would you buy your child one? Be honest.

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There's a camera on your street reading every license plate that passes. You didn't vote on it — and you probably just found out it exists.

The Inner Circle Podcast closes the week on the surveillance story sweeping the country: 76,000 cameras, thousands of police departments, one private company holding the data — and citizens climbing poles to tear them down. Buela asks the question the company can't answer: a website has to ask you about cookies, so who asked us? Ms. B follows the camera map to who's really being watched — then goes full George Orwell. And Abe defends the machines just hard enough to find out if the case against them survives. It does. Mostly.

Plus: the one man who will never accept what the camera saw. "That camera is broken. It wasn't me."

Safe... or watched? Decide for yourself.

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You work one job. But your paycheck has two addresses.

Tonight the Inner Circle says the quiet part out loud: the bill nobody sends you but everybody expects you to pay. Abe, Ms. B, and Buela open the books on the money that crosses the ocean every month — voluntarily AND involuntarily. Ms. B does the math on a community that "budgets Liberia like a monthly bill" and drops the idea that might change everything: what if the diaspora opened its own bank? Buela confesses what she didn't understand until she earned her own money. And when the new remittance tax hits the table, the whole panel goes to war.

African immigrants grew Western Union. So who's really carrying who?

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The largest Liberian community outside Liberia. An organization since 1974. So when the headlines turned on us — who spoke?

Nobody. And tonight the Inner Circle says it out loud.

Abe, Buela, Peterson, and original panelist Sam put the silence on trial: the scandal that ran 24 hours with no one to answer it, the candidates "doing politics in America as though they are in Liberia," the mayor who asked one question a whole delegation couldn't answer — "how many people are in your community?" — and the reason nobody pays dues anymore: "We're paying fifteen dollars for Amazon Prime every month."

Other communities register their newcomers, elect their own, and speak with one voice. Ours throws a party. As one host puts it: we're making noise — but it's party noise.

A community without a voice doesn't stop being talked about. It just stops being heard from.

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Summer's over. The stories are not.

Abe, Ms. B, and Buela run the whole season back — completely unscripted, and it might be the most fun hour of the year. Messi retires from international play and the panel has questions. A 19-year-old named Yamal steals a World Cup and one co-host's whole heart ("I don't watch soccer — I just wanted to be in the fries"). And David Beckham goes on trial: "That man barely ever scored a goal!" The redemption arc is worth the whole episode.

Plus: the Usher and Chris Brown tour breakdown ("the concert of the century"), a 77-year-old aunt who parties until 5 a.m., the J. Cole tickets sacrificed for an airport run, the gala weekend recap, Atlanta vs. Philly settled once and for all — and the co-host so disciplined the panel decided, live on air, that she deserves her own episode.

How was YOUR summer? Ours was outside, from pillow to pole.

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Two get-togethers. One question: do we show up?

The State Fair opened its gates today — the biggest fair in the country, everything on a stick, two million people calling it the Great Minnesota Get-Together. And this weekend, the Inner Circle 501(c)(3) throws its own: a community gala with a tournament, an all-black dinner night, and a state representative as keynote — all for one scary-big dream. The largest Liberian community outside Liberia has been here since 1974 and still doesn't own a place to call its own. Time to build the community center.

Abe and Buela make the case for both parties: why ownership is the community's next chapter ("if you don't own something, you have no stake in it"), why the fair belongs to immigrants too, the meat pie that could make somebody a millionaire — and the ruling that will start a war in the comments: Liberian jollof is the best jollof in Africa. Period.

Show up to their party. Build our own. That's the whole playbook.

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The ladies take over. And they take on the hardest story in the community.

A Liberian success story — 24 group homes, a government post back home — is now the headline everyone's whispering about. But this episode isn't about one man. It's about what one headline does to everybody else: the honest operators, the new applicants, and every immigrant who built a business in an industry the state is now watching twice as hard.

Ms. B and Buela Johnson hold it down solo — and hold both sides. Why the fraud investigations deserve applause. Why higher walls punish the innocent. Why the group-home boom was never a scheme but a wealth ladder: "I can't pass on a nursing degree to my child. I need to create wealth I can pass on to a generation."

Plus: the scandal spreading beyond one owner, the rules that "were not created for us," and the question nobody can dodge — when your community's name is in the headline, who pays the price?

One headline. Higher walls. We climb anyway.

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A former vice president is sitting in jail. The largest drug seizure in Liberia's history. And your group chat hasn't talked about anything else for a week.

Abe, Buela, and Peterson ask the question nobody in the diaspora wants to answer: why do we know every detail of a scandal 6,000 miles away — but can't name our own city council member?

The panel digs into the arrest at the airport ("it's fishy"), whether $300 million can enter a country without officials knowing, the fake letters and AI-generated claims flooding Facebook, and the hard truth about misplaced loyalty: we live here, we work here, we pay taxes here.

Plus: a co-host reveals she wants to enter politics back home someday, and Peterson returns with a fifteen-year anniversary announcement that settles Monday's "layaway" debate once and for all.

Keep up with home. Just don't get consumed by it.

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