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Speaker 1: like sort of like European history, because y'all's history got

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Speaker 2: You forget that you were tribal.

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Speaker 1: Also say like y'all was just as tribal as we were,

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Speaker 1: the Romans. Naga Yo said, I think of Native Americans,

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Speaker 2: The end of.

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Speaker 1: A world, like a world is about to die, you know,

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Speaker 1: metaphorically speaking. And if you could get up high enough,

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Speaker 1: Like stay with me at this metaphor, Like if you

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Speaker 1: the lines across the equator, meet at the pole. Don't

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Speaker 1: Where are this land as we know it is now done?

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Speaker 1: I just think that that that sits inside of me

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Speaker 1: because I do have a politics, so I'm maybe because

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Speaker 1: I'm part of cool Zone Media, which, as you know,

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Speaker 1: we're we're always looking into the brinks of destruction. Are

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Speaker 1: all of our shows are about the event horizon before

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Speaker 1: you go into the black hole yokes, but also the

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Speaker 1: possibility of coming out of the black hole, which you

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Speaker 1: that we're all experiencing. For me, I'm gonna get real

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Speaker 1: transparent with you because it's a bonus episode. Obviously, when

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Speaker 1: I was coming to iHeart, my first hope was to

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, come on, Charlotte Mane to God

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Speaker 1: to in some ways be mentored by Charlomagne.

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Speaker 2: You feel me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in a lot of ways, he's doing what

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Speaker 2: Wanted to do, I really, I really do.

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Speaker 1: Hope that this this show softly puts its arm around

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Speaker 1: We understand this world better than we're given credit for. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Black people really ain't moved by climate change, which I

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Speaker 1: We're finna lose Earth. No, no, no, let me say this better,

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Speaker 1: at the Brink of Extinction. On the brink of extinction,

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Speaker 1: your awareness of urgency finally finds a focus. You see

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Speaker 1: On the brink of extinction, your definition of family stretches,

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Speaker 1: On the brink of extinction, the songs are your fore mothers,

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Speaker 1: Not on some sort of scorched earth, because that's what

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Speaker 2: Luggage in paradise.

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Speaker 1: At the brink of extinction, forgiveness feels as involuntary as breathing,

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Speaker 1: an anthropologist. Your conservation season is behind you. Activism is

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Speaker 1: comfort and reflection, regret and reimagining. On the brink of extinction,

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Speaker 2: You finally see clearly.

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Speaker 1: Nuanced and conundrum and mourning and celebration exist in the

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Speaker 1: release and reinvest, Prepare, and perpetuate. Because procreation is clearly

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Speaker 1: go of what was and embrace what will be. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like I told you in the episode the Fuck Around

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Speaker 2: And I don't know what it's gonna take for us

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Speaker 1: Ain't gonna wake up until our heads hit the rock

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Speaker 2: Hood politics, y'all,