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Speaker 1: Am I the a hole for perpetuating ethnic stereotypes about

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Speaker 1: Jord's okayop.

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Speaker 2: This is okayop. I'm Samuel don I'm John Frat and

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Speaker 2: we tell the funniest stories on the Internet. And John,

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Speaker 2: I was talking to someone about Japan recently.

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Speaker 3: Japan.

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Speaker 2: I really want to go to Japan because my my

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Speaker 2: tickets got canceled in twenty twenty was twenty twenty Olympics

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Speaker 2: and then the VID happened and it got canceled. But

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Speaker 2: like now I have this like reignited vigor to visit Japan.

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Speaker 3: I love that. What's the game plan?

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Speaker 2: I want to go and visit Soy Sauce Farms, Soy

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Speaker 2: Sauce Farms. Yeah, I was gonna do it. I was

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Speaker 2: gonna do a series about it for finding pounders interesting

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Speaker 2: multi generational entrepreneurship, and I was pretty pretty hyped. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know where this is going, but.

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Speaker 1: Well, I honestly that sounds great. I actually do remember

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Speaker 1: now you talking about going to going to Japan, like

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Speaker 1: this was. It wasn't like March of twenty twenty, right,

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Speaker 1: but it was like it was right for yeah, like

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Speaker 1: early twenty twenty, early twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: Well, honestly, Sam, I think I think you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: there one day. I think it's gonna happen. I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: Send me to Japan.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that's going to happen is, uh, We're

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Speaker 1: about to read a entertaining ass story. Let's do it

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Speaker 1: for our wonderful audience members. Here, am I the a

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Speaker 1: hole for perpetuating ethnic stereotypes about jorts?

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Speaker 2: What ethnic stereotypes are there about jorts?

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Speaker 1: I can promise you this story is absolutely not at

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Speaker 1: all what you are.

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Speaker 3: Going to expect.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it is, I'm not what you would expect. Buckling in, buckle,

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go there. Let's get on with the show.

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Speaker 3: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: We have two workplace cats on the area of our

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Speaker 1: work site.

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Speaker 3: They add value on the worksite.

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Speaker 1: We all love cats and the work site cat presence

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Speaker 1: is not the issue.

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Speaker 3: In this story.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm I'm glad to know that the cats are

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 1: One of the cats, Gene is a tortoiseshell cat, so

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Speaker 1: you know, like the nice like tortoiseshell coating that we've

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Speaker 1: had for the past few years. The other cat is

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Speaker 1: a new addition. He's a large orange cat and his

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Speaker 1: name is Georts.

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Speaker 3: Georgs.

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Speaker 2: Wait, so the cat is Georts, the cat is Jorts.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking about Geene shortz, ladies and gentlemen. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about a big fat orange cat.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Garfield in the house.

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Speaker 1: Georts is just kind of a let's say, simple guy.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: For example, Georts can't open a door even when it's

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Speaker 1: a jar. He shoves it whether he's going in or out,

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Speaker 1: so often that he closes it trying to open it.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, this this means he often gets trapped inside

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Speaker 1: the place he was trying to exit and mews and

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Speaker 1: mews until he is rescued.

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Speaker 2: Georgs, come on, get keep fire. Some more brain cells.

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Speaker 3: Fire some more brain cells. Now.

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Speaker 1: My colleague Pam not her real name, has been spending

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Speaker 1: a lot of time trying to teach Georts different things.

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Speaker 1: The door thing is the main example. It's a real

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Speaker 1: issue because the cats are fed in the closet and

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Speaker 1: Georts keeps pushing the door closed on himself. Jeane can

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Speaker 1: actually open all interior doors since they have a lever

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Speaker 1: type knob, so the other cats freaking using the.

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Speaker 2: Knock Einstein of cats and Georts is not not so much.

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Speaker 1: But Jean can't open this particular door if she is

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Speaker 1: also trapped inside the closet. Gene is very nice to

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Speaker 1: pour poor dumb orange Jorts, and she is kept busy

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Speaker 1: by letting him out of rooms that he has trapped

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Speaker 1: himself in. So this it's teamwork, right, it's nice cat teamwork.

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Speaker 1: So the issue seemed pretty easy to resolve. I put

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Speaker 2: Who wow, engineering Marvel.

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Speaker 3: Marvel over here.

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Speaker 1: Pam then said I was depriving Jorts of his chance

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Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, Pam is like, let Jeorts suffer.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, she wants Jeorts to learn the hard

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Speaker 1: way George suffer by getting stuck. Yeah, let him suffer

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Speaker 1: and eventually learned by necessity. So Pam kept removing the doorstop.

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Speaker 1: She set up a series of special learning activities for

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Speaker 1: Jeorts and tried to put each of these tasks on

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Speaker 1: a whiteboard of daily team tasks, which I erased.

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Speaker 3: Okay, she thinks we need to teach him.

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Speaker 1: How to clean himself better, how to get out of

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Speaker 1: minor barriers, like when he gets its head, like when

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Speaker 1: he gets his head stuck in a cup, etc.

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Speaker 2: I like this workplace. Beef and drama is about like

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Speaker 2: teaching this cat how to not be stupid.

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Speaker 1: And Sam, I can promise you it's only going to

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Speaker 1: get exponentially worse you would.

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Speaker 3: Not have expected.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's see it.

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Speaker 1: I love Jorts, but he's dumb af and we can't

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Speaker 1: change that now. Don't get me wrong. Watching her try

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Speaker 1: to teach Jorts how to walk through a door is hilarious.

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Speaker 1: But Jean got locked in the closet twice this week.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday I installed a cat cutout thing in the door,

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Speaker 1: and Pam started to get really haffy.

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Speaker 2: Why is Pam trying to make everything so hard? Pam

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Speaker 2: really does this is just a simple idiot. She does

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Speaker 2: the absolute most.

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Speaker 1: I made a gentle joke about you can't expect Jean's

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Speaker 1: tortoiseshell smarts from orange cats like Jorts, which made Pam furious.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, he really did it this time.

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Speaker 1: She burst out crying and ran and left through the hallway,

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Speaker 1: and then sent an email to the group including volunteers

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Speaker 1: and went home early.

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Speaker 2: What all because he's like, orange cats are dumb and

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Speaker 2: here and here we go.

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Speaker 1: Here's the cream on the cake, the the just the

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Speaker 1: piece resistance. In her email, Pam said I was quote

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Speaker 1: perpetching ethnic stereotypes by saying orange cats are dumb?

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Speaker 3: What wait? I was joking.

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Speaker 2: She actually said.

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Speaker 1: That, and in the email she also demanded racial sensitivity

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Speaker 1: training for the cats.

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Speaker 2: It's a wait for for the cats or for the

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Speaker 2: people about the cats.

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Speaker 3: I'm imagining like these.

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Speaker 2: Two cats sitting in front of a TV, like, don't discriminate.

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Speaker 2: I got your orange counterparts.

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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, today we're talking about cat isms. There, cats furs, furism,

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Speaker 1: perhaps because it's not like you know, skin, they don't

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Speaker 1: have skin color, they have fur color. And she's demanding

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Speaker 1: that we complete all of this before she returns to

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Speaker 1: work for the off for the company.

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Speaker 2: Again, this is ridiculous. This is so ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's relevant, but just in case, Pam

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Speaker 1: is a white person in a mostly minority staff.

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Speaker 3: And no, she is not a ginger. Does not have

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Speaker 3: red hair.

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Speaker 2: I love asked to clarify she's not a ginger.

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Speaker 3: So the question is, am I the a hole?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 3: Oh god?

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Speaker 1: I could barely make it through asking that what. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: it's a cat, it's a cat. It's a cat. And

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Speaker 1: it's like.

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Speaker 2: Like also like different breeds of cats are different breeds

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Speaker 2: of cats and dogs are just so ridiculously inbred that

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Speaker 2: they've become very stupid. So saying that there's stupid is

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Speaker 2: as I don't think anything controversial.

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Speaker 1: It's the thing is is like, what's the real harm?

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Speaker 1: The cat is not so smart? The cat the cats

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Speaker 1: cannot understand English. It really just is what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's a dumb cat. It's a dumb cat. And it's like,

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Speaker 1: do we not have more important issues to worry about?

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Speaker 2: PAM, the PC police, they're they're on it, They're on

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Speaker 2: they're on cat rights right now. Ho, man, don't cancel us,

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Speaker 2: don't cancel us, guys.

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Speaker 3: The cat the cat army is gonna come.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, like, I'm kind of worried about getting canceled because

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Speaker 2: now the cat's out of the bag.

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Speaker 3: The cat is out of the bag.

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Speaker 1: You know, guys, if the cat army is gonna come

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Speaker 1: for me, I am going to stand by this one.

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Speaker 3: People.

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Speaker 1: Racism is ten million times more important than cat racism.

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Speaker 1: That is a hill I will die on ten million times.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, John, I'm just throwing down.

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Speaker 3: The gauntlet today wabies a gentleman.

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