Inner Circle Podcast

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  The Taxes Episode - The Employee's Burden 24.09.2026 1val 6min

  Look at what you earned. Now look at what hit your bank account. Tonight, the Inner Circle Podcast finally pays its debt — the taxes episode.The full anatomy of a paycheck: federal, state, Social Security, Medicare — why the government eats before you do, and why the W-2 worker carries the load with the fewest ways to put it down. The state-by-state countdown, from California's 13.3% to the states that take nothing at all — and the catch nobody tells you about at the register. How the wealthy legally sidestep the whole game ("debt is not taxable"), the lump-sum lottery mistake, and the question that stopped the show: if AI takes our jobs, who pays the taxes? Plus one host's honest confession — she filed her own taxes, missed $1,000, and is now training with the IRS so it never happens again. Bring your notebook. This one's for everybody who works.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  Is AI Going to Kill Us All - The Doomsday Alarm 23.09.2026 1val 10min

  The people building AI say there's a chance it ends us. The Inner Circle Podcast has a different question: can it even speak Koloqua yet?The panel takes on the doomsday alarm — the researcher who quit claiming a 10% chance of extinction, the poll showing 73% of Americans don't trust AI companies to prevent catastrophe, and the warnings coming from the CEOs themselves. Then it gets personal: one host is teaching AI to speak Liberian English. One uses it to map her whole life — military, degree, credit score. One trusts nothing online he can't prove is real. How to spot a fake voice, what you should never tell a chatbot, why the real doomsday is the entry-level job that no longer exists — and the verdict: it's not going to kill us. But when the people building it tell you to worry, maybe listen.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Fall 2026 Lineup - Entertainment Monday 23.09.2026 1val 7min

  She's paying for five streaming services. He has zero and doesn't miss them. And somebody's cousins in another state are still using her Netflix password.The Inner Circle Podcast kicks off fall with the full lineup: what's actually worth the $100 theater night versus what waits for streaming, The Gentlemen and the shows everybody's bingeing, the horror slate, the box office numbers — and the NFL playing a real game in Paris. Plus the moment that steals the show: one host discovers American football and asks the question the whole world's been thinking — why is it called football when they use their hands the entire game? And one family's $100,000 journey to adopt three girls from Liberia that you'll want to hear about.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Loudest Silence in America 18.09.2026 1val 8min

  Record deportations. A million people losing protection. Legal pathways closing one by one. And the streets of America... quiet.The Inner Circle Podcast takes on the question nobody's asking out loud: why is the biggest enforcement year in modern memory happening in near silence? It starts with an honest confession — one host admits she's stopped paying attention — and turns when Ms. B arrives with fourteen years of front-line immigration work and a different answer entirely: the silence isn't surrender, it's strategy. Seventy-five thousand people once marched in negative-twenty-degree weather. They know when to come outside. From Houston to Minneapolis to every immigrant community in between — who's really silent, who's organizing quietly, and what everyone needs to know about their own status before they learn it the hard way.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  September 2026 Entertainment 18.09.2026 1val 2min

  You can't say fifty-fifty when you're making $300K and your wife is making $75K. That's an eighty-twenty situation."Ms. B and Ms. Johnson take over for a girls-talk night that goes everywhere: why she asks for a credit report before a second date, twenty years of marriage with no joint bank account, the friends you break up with silently, church culture from Monrovia to Minneapolis — and why dating in 2026 means learning to catfish the catfish. One woman built a life on sacrifice that paid off. One is writing her list and refusing to rush. The gap between them is the whole conversation.
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  September 11: 25 Years Later. 18.09.2026 1val 9min

  One host watched it happen live in her college dorm. One was a high school senior. And one wasn't born yet — she learned about 9/11 in the U.S. military.Twenty-five years later, the Inner Circle Podcast sits down to remember: 2,977 lives from 90 nations, the stories of the ones who swapped shifts and caught early flights home, and the America built in the aftermath — TSA, REAL ID, Homeland Security, and the immigration lines our communities still stand in today. The panel doesn't agree on everything — who was targeted after, what changed, why the distrust never faded — and that's exactly why this conversation matters. First we honor. Then we examine.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Money Just Got More Expensive 17.09.2026 59min

  The Fed just raised the price of the one thing everybody rents: money itself.Your card, your car note, your dream house — all more expensive by morning, to fight prices that were already too high. Make it make sense? The Inner Circle does exactly that, kitchen-table style. Then Ms. Johnson takes over with the masterclass every new arrival needs: how she went from a secured card with $300 on it to a 750 credit score in two years, why a credit card is NOT free money, how the wealthy use debt like a tool — and the rule she lives by: "You cannot speak a language you don't know. You've got to learn money to speak money."Making a million means nothing if you spend a million. Class is in session.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Midterms & Our Vote 11.09.2026 1val 6min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Pump Is Eating Your Paycheck: The Cost of Energy 10.09.2026 1val 6min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  Fast & Furious: The E-Bike Takeover 09.09.2026 1val 16min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Camera Never Blinks: Flock Cameras and Who's Watching Us 04.09.2026 1val 5min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Black Tax: One Paycheck, Two Countries 03.09.2026 1val 10min

  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?Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Dormant Organization: When a Community Loses Its Voice 02.09.2026 1val 16min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  Summer 2026 Entertainment Recap 01.09.2026 1val 6min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  Inner Circle Gala + "The Great Minnesota Get-Together: Is It Ours Too? 28.08.2026 1val 3min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The Sekou Effect: One Headline, Higher Walls 28.08.2026 46min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  The $317 Million Question: Why Back-Home Scandals Run Our Group Chats? 26.08.2026 1val 11min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate.
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  Even a Prince Went Back Home 25.08.2026 1val 1min

  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.
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  Back to School: The Costs, the Rules, and the Cheat Codes 21.08.2026 1val 9min

  $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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate. New episodes Mon–Thu — follow the Inner Circle Podcast.
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  Trust & Accountability: The Headline and the Community 21.08.2026 1val 3min

  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.Amplify. Empower. Elevate. New episodes Mon–Thu — follow the Inner Circle Podcast.