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Speaker 2: Effect Podcast Network Network. Welcome to everybody, a straight shot,

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Speaker 2: How are you.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm good? How are you test?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing good. We had such a enlightening conversation last

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Speaker 2: week about serving leadership, the importance of serving leadership. That's

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Speaker 2: But anyway, that's another conversation. But one of the stories

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Speaker 2: These are the things that again that you vote on zoning.

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Speaker 1: No, it was a very very insightful rant.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, So, the Biden administration announced recently an expansion of

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Speaker 1: Well, the Biden Harris administration they recently announced that they're

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Speaker 2: trying to make sure because it can develop into cancer.

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Speaker 2: So again, these are one of the things that we

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Speaker 2: talk about, you know, whether that's not talked about often,

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Speaker 2: you know, our health care and again who's disproportionately affected

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Speaker 2: by not having the information, not having the resources, not

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Speaker 2: having the clinics, not having the money going to seriously,

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Speaker 2: like our black men actually having access to health care,

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Speaker 2: not all of them, because plenty of middle class and

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Speaker 2: upper class black people, you know, go get their help.

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Speaker 2: But just going by the data, just the data, you know,

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Speaker 2: based upon what we see and not going to the

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Speaker 2: doctor of these are things you know that you just

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Speaker 2: you just wouldn't know. So hopefully you know this article

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Speaker 2: can help somebody and you know, try to get a

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Speaker 2: little bit more understanding and really start talking about our health.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's important because men are not routinely sprainged for

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Speaker 1: HPV when they go walk there, right like we get tested.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many things women get tested for

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Speaker 1: when we get our annuals.

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Speaker 2: And HBV don't even show up unless you get tested.

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Speaker 2: I want the things to show up.

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Speaker 1: So that is very very great. And you know, so

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Speaker 1: shout out to the brothers. Get your sperm checked and

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Speaker 1: make sure you request HPV, you know, infection, you know,

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Speaker 1: test or battery just.

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Speaker 2: To see m to see if you've got it and

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Speaker 2: prevent it from being spread around. So again shout out

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Speaker 2: again to the brothers. Make sure you guys follow the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you know that you have us locked in

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Speaker 2: some of these conversations again, fiery passionate conversations, stuff that

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Speaker 2: we go back and forth, a battle and some of

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Speaker 2: them are just information that you just need to know.

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Speaker 2: So I hope that you found this healthcare conversation important.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Jay for curating these stories. Guys. She

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Speaker 2: really does a good job and spend a lot of time,

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Speaker 2: you know, trying to create things and concepts that are

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Speaker 2: important and to talk about things that you know that

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Speaker 2: you think is helpful to our community. And so I

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Speaker 2: want to thank her again for being such a great

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Speaker 2: producer and curating the majority of things, you know, that

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Speaker 2: we talk about, so that so that I'm not just

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Speaker 2: on here rambling, so that we have some actual information.

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Speaker 1: Your air spirit and you have a wealth of life

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Speaker 1: experience and then a hell of a lot of academic

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Speaker 1: and intellectual experience, and you know, it's just whatever comes up.

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Speaker 1: You know. You you you put the jewels out there

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Speaker 1: in the gyms and we picked them up to so

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Speaker 1: it's always really appreciated.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Well. I thank you as well for

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Speaker 2: keeping us organized, ructured, keeping the things together. I can

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Speaker 2: always trust that you you know, you know you you know,

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Speaker 2: you have it together. And I'm excited about the selection season.

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Speaker 2: We've done a lot almost at the home end, you know,

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Speaker 2: almost over you said, a couple of episodes ago. You

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Speaker 2: can't wait for it to be over.

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Speaker 1: So I can't wait. People are they're really acting up,

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Speaker 1: people want to cut each other over this selection.

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Speaker 2: I actually thought it was gonna be roughed, little bit rougher,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, really well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there is such thing as an October surprise,

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Speaker 1: so I.

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Speaker 2: Thought it was gonna be much. You know, I think

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Speaker 2: the Biden slitting, you know, it wasn't really exciting when

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Speaker 2: he was on because you just wasn't people did. People

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Speaker 2: did not want that rematch, and I got tired of

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Speaker 2: hearing that all year, the rematch. We don't want the rematch,

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Speaker 2: We don't want to re Okay, but that's what the

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Speaker 2: candidates are. Okay, that's what it is. So when Harris

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Speaker 2: came in and flipped the script, it's brought some excitement,

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Speaker 2: if nothing else, something new to talk about. I'm not

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Speaker 2: talking about her exciting running, but just it flipped it up.

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Speaker 2: It switched it up. You know, as far as the

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Speaker 2: media cycle was going, because it's been talking about Biden

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Speaker 2: and Trump for a year, how they're.

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Speaker 1: Saying that there could be they're saying that there could

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Speaker 1: be another surprise. I mean, I've been listening. I've been

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Speaker 1: keeping my ear to these media political streets, and people

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Speaker 1: are saying now that RFK Junior has endorsed Donald J. Trump,

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Speaker 1: that these conspiracy theories. I don't know. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: right like, they're saying that perhaps Trump could get rid

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Speaker 1: of JD vance.

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Speaker 2: He ain't had no RFK girl making stop making this

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Speaker 2: v You don't think that would be a good ticket. No, no,

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Speaker 2: not at all. It's just ridiculous. It's thirty days before.

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Speaker 2: We're sixty days before at this point. He made a

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Speaker 2: bad pick and that step and it ain't gonna make

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Speaker 2: no difference, you know, is girl? No what to bring

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Speaker 2: with the twelve voters over?

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Speaker 1: That was Patty's task.

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Speaker 2: It's real like like please, so no, I know y'all want,

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Speaker 2: you know, some big major but no, we're here. This

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Speaker 2: is where we are. What are we now? Sixty days

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Speaker 2: sixty seventy days somewhere? I can't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's not a lot of time at all.

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Speaker 2: That's so that's it. We're down to the wire.

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Speaker 1: This is we're two paychecks away from the next presidential nominee.

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Speaker 1: Think about it like that.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, okay, I don't even know what dates

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Speaker 2: we own, so I don't know, but Bob Blinde is

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Speaker 2: it's about to happen, So everybody get ready. I'm looking

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Speaker 2: forward to it. I've worked my ass off this season.

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Speaker 2: You worked your ass off this season. A lot was done,

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Speaker 2: and I think this is probably the most, at least

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Speaker 2: in the well. No, I can't say that, because being

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Speaker 2: on the road with Bernie Sanders was a hell of

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Speaker 2: a lot of work, so I can't say this was

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Speaker 2: the most. But from a media standpoint, it certainly was

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Speaker 2: all the local stuff I did and the national stuff

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Speaker 2: I did and all of that, so that this was

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Speaker 2: definitely a lot. So anyway, guys, thank you.

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Speaker 1: To the course back and before we end, though, I

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Speaker 1: just want to acknowledge the fact that you're keeping up

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Speaker 1: with all of this and all of your respective roles,

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Speaker 1: with all of the information you have the talk game

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Speaker 1: one point uh, and you still have to look pretty

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Speaker 1: in the midst of it and look good do it

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Speaker 1: like I do.

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Speaker 2: I'll be tired, I'd be. It's just a lot. It's

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Speaker 2: a lot, it's a lot, a lot, a lot, just

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Speaker 2: trying to keep up them. Again, I appreciate saying that, Jay,

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Speaker 2: but again. If I didn't have you, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: girl this, none of this would be happening at all.

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Speaker 2: And there's still some other things I want to do

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Speaker 2: before the season is over. So and and I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna lie like I'm ready to I'm ready to move

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Speaker 2: on so we can know what the new what the

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Speaker 2: new country is gonna look like. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: big change jade Like, whatever it happened, whatever way it goes,

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Speaker 2: whether it's VP Harris as the president, that's going to change, like,

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Speaker 2: that's gonna shift some things. Whether you like it or not.

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Speaker 2: It's it's going to change something. And that's for the

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Speaker 2: good of the bad. I'm not saying, oh, it's gonna good,

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Speaker 2: but the paradigm shifts if Trump is elected again. You

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Speaker 2: better believe that's gonna shift something, you know. So I'm

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Speaker 2: just ready to get to whatever we're gonna get to

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Speaker 2: so we can start working our way out of that.

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Speaker 2: You know, what is that gonna look? Like? Trump has

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Speaker 2: said he cutting off the media, like he coming after

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Speaker 2: the media. So the freedom to say this and say

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Speaker 2: that that that that might be different. You know. And

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Speaker 2: I know people say, oh Trump always say that, but

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Speaker 2: he ain't gonna say that. But he always said, but

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Speaker 2: he ain't gonna do it. Well, this was before he

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Speaker 2: got thirty four felonies. So I believe him. I believe him.

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Speaker 2: I believe that he has a vengeance. I believe that

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Speaker 2: just because he said, I don't know why friend of

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Speaker 2: mine put out a peace saying that about he always

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Speaker 2: say that, don't mean he's gonna do it. Well, it's

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Speaker 2: a little different this time. This time he really got

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Speaker 2: he really gotta been debta. So I'm not interested in

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Speaker 2: taking no chances. So, like I said, well we'll see

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Speaker 2: either either way go, we'll see. So I'm ready to

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Speaker 2: get to that jade because I'm already I've just had

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four fatigue. Started out with Cat Williams, and

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Speaker 2: it's just been a roller coaster ever since.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes he did Cat Williams. He popped the year.

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Speaker 2: Off without him. Kendrick Lamar like, it's just been bottom line.

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Speaker 2: I just it has just been bottom line, almost chaos

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00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: or bottom line, one thing after the other after the other.

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Speaker 2: When I think about this year, I don't really think

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Speaker 2: about you know, some personal things in my life, but

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Speaker 2: this was just not I started off the year really like,

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Speaker 2: oh man, this is gonna be this that, this, you know,

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Speaker 2: really having a really positive outlook on some things, and

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Speaker 2: it just hasn't been that this year. Some great things

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Speaker 2: have happened, but I'm just saying overall, it just seems

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Speaker 2: like it's just I'm just ready to start over. Like,

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00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 2: let's let's settle in because if Trump doesn't win, we

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00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 2: don't have to see him again. We're dumb with that conversation.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be some lingering and you know, maybe two

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Speaker 2: or three cycles on, but we can kind of get

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Speaker 2: out of whatever is that we're in, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean, get back to some level of normalcy. But

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Speaker 2: I will also say that Trump, that Trump has gotten

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Speaker 2: more people involved in politics than ever before, at least

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Speaker 2: paying attention. So I don't know, Jay, I'm just ready

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Speaker 2: to move on. I'm ready to start the new year.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm relocating completely. My daughter is going to college,

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Speaker 2: so for me, it's going to be another set of

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Speaker 2: my life. You know that I'm that's changing, and so

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Speaker 2: I'm not rushing, but I'm just ready to ready to

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Speaker 2: get it. I feel like we're kind of stuck right now,

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Speaker 2: so that that's kind well, thank.

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Speaker 1: You for helping us bring clarity to the chaos and

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Speaker 1: you know, politically and organizing wise and otherwise, and we

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. And then also because the politics and

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Speaker 1: the national world climate gets so heavy, you also bring

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Speaker 1: its clarity with relationships, so we'll be talking about that

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Speaker 1: soon too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, so guys, tell Black Effect, make sure we

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Speaker 2: get another season next year so we can continue doing

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Speaker 2: what we're doing. Because either way it go, we either

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Speaker 2: gonna cover the first black woman president, whether y'all say

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Speaker 2: she black or not, we're gonna be covering that, or

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Speaker 2: we're gonna be covered on Trump administration. Either way I go,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be a lot of media upcoming, and so

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Speaker 2: I just want to be settled in place. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go, having having whatever tools we need

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Speaker 2: to cover that and to continue to teach. So hopefully

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Speaker 2: you'll still be around, Jake, because we've got a lot

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Speaker 2: of work. Yep. All right, guys again, make sure you

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Speaker 2: follow Straight Shot No Chaser, Invite a friend, let's grow

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Speaker 2: how let you next time.

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Speaker 1: Peace.

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