Prince Harry gave up the palace for the American dream. Six years later, he's packing it in — and every immigrant knows exactly why.

Abe, Buela, and Ms. B put the royal exit on trial: Did Meghan know what she was marrying into? Can a man who's never seen anybody work survive in a country where you actually have to? And why does a co-host two years off the plane say America is lonelier than back home?

Plus: a nine-year courtship gets called a "layaway," the panel debates how long is too long before the ring, and one host finds out Meghan Markle is Black — live on air.

Homesickness doesn't care if you're royalty. Even a prince went back home.

$863 per kid before the first bell. Phones getting benched. AI detectors reading your essays. School is back — and it's a whole different game now.

Abe hands the co-host chair to an actual college student, and Buela Johnson delivers the line every teacher and parent needs to hear: "You can score a grade with AI. But can you defend the grade?"

Inside: the community college move that turns a $1,300 course into a $300 one — same credits. Why Minnesota kids eat breakfast and lunch free, and whether taxpayers should foot the bill. The phone-ban debate ("they've got to interact with a human being for once"). And the hot take that'll start arguments at your dinner table: follow the passion, or follow the money?

"Is it going to be hard? Yes. Am I going to die? No."

Students, parents, grandparents — this one's the family meeting.

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MPR dropped an investigation: a Liberian government official running Minnesota group homes from 5,000 miles away — $36 million in taxpayer money, neglect findings, and a community holding its breath.

Let's be clear: he has not been accused of any crime. But the questions won't wait. Can you run a business you can't see? Where does hustle end and greed begin? And should a platform built to CELEBRATE our entrepreneurs be the one calling this out?

Abe, Ms. B, and Buela Johnson say yes — because the honest operators deserve better. Ms. B breaks down exactly how the group home industry works and where the conflict of interest lives. Buela delivers the line of the night: "Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching."

Accountability AND grace. Both. That's how family handles hard news.

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A jury already made Meta pay $6 million. Now the states are in court arguing your child's attention was engineered on purpose. So who's really guilty — the platforms, the parents, or all of us?

Abe, Peterson, and brand-new co-host Buela Johnson go three rounds: infinite scroll vs. personal responsibility, the tobacco comparison, and whether parents should be on trial too. Abe confesses. Peterson brings the receipts. And Buela's own face was stolen by scammers — the platform couldn't even prove she was her.

"You can keep scrolling and keep wasting your life."

"Kids are called kids for a reason. People are aware — they just play ignorant."

Welcome to the circle, Buela.

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3 million Black-owned businesses. Only 194,500 with a single paid employee. That gap is the whole story.

"There's living in the business, and there's building the business. We tend to live in the business."

Abe and Ms. B break down why access to capital — not effort — built the gap, how $211 billion becomes $600 billion, and the local owners proving it's possible: from renting 1,500 square feet to owning 6,000. Plus breaking news on a major Black-owned expansion — and if nuns can open a bank, what's our excuse?

Nobody's coming to save us. We save ourselves.

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The co-hosts got caught up. The show went on anyway.

Peterson's first-ever solo flight landed on ELECTION NIGHT — and he called it live on air: Amy Klobuchar, projected winner for governor. History moving in real time.

Plus the realest take you'll hear on why immigrants sit out politics: many of us fled countries where politics meant danger. But "if you do not mess with politics, politics WILL mess with you."

A record number of minority candidates just ran in Minnesota. Little mouse vs. elephant — and the mouse keeps showing up.

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"How many yachts do you need, Abraham?" — "A LOT, if I can afford it!"

Abe and Ms. B go head to head on the crisis nobody's group chat is talking about: America is aging fast, and somebody has to pay for it. Home care runs $34 AN HOUR — do the math, that's $139K a year. A nursing home? $10K a month. And Medicare? Doesn't cover long-term care at all.

Inside: why Ms. B says retirement planning is "a guessing game at its best." The culture war over "Mom lives with us" vs. "Mom goes to assisted living." Why elders say the nursing home is "where you go to die." What the immigration crackdown means for who takes care of your grandmother. And the question for your family: have y'all had THE conversation?

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The internet played doctor with the biggest pop star alive — and she quit public life. Concern? Or cruelty?

Ms. B: "If I can count your ribs, that's not shaming — that's the truth."
Abe: "Whose place is it to comment on ANYBODY's body?"

Nobody backed down.

Plus: the childhood nickname "Booney Bones" that never healed, why our community says "she's struggling" when you lose weight — and the pregnant men segment. We said what we said.

Drop a comment about the body comment YOU never forgot.

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"You basically decided to take your closet and turn it into a clothing store. I'm sorry to say."

Ms. B and Yahri take over the Inner Circle Podcast Business & Finance Wednesday — and it gets REAL. Why staying in business is harder than starting one. The "boring stuff" behind every million-dollar launch. Working IN your business vs. building it. And why entrepreneurs who ignore politics are quietly killing their own companies.

Plus: Ms. B's origin story — a little girl in a St. Paul basement with a briefcase and heels who never stopped. Yahri's hidden résumé: published journalist, family art business, paintings sold as far as Europe. The 30-year-old Black-owned beauty supply store that can't find a buyer. And one question for you: what's YOUR why?

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The 5th Annual On The One Music Festival (w/ Chadwick Phillips)

He was on a major label, on shows with Kendrick Lamar — and months behind on rent. Nobody knew.

Chadwick Phillips pulls up to the Inner Circle and drops GEMS: winning the Hot 97 talent show, the record deal that looked like stardom and paid like a side hustle, losing it all, moving to Minnesota — and building the On The One Music Festival from no vendors and no banner to a FREE festival headlined by Grammy-nominated R&B legend Carl Thomas.

Inside: "The person with the most rejections becomes the most successful." Why preparation is stress prevention. Mansa Musa and why "we are royalty." And the question that turned into a song live on air: how do you make the money work?

On The One Music Festival: Saturday, Aug 8, 3–9 PM, Bloomington Central Station Park. FREE. All ages. Pull up.

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