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Speaker 3: We are joined now by Derek Johnson, the president of NAACP,
Speaker 3: and Angela and Derek have a unique history. Angela, you
Speaker 3: want to tell us about your bond.
Speaker 2: Thank you all have yues We actually and that's a
Speaker 2: good teaser for our next guest. Derek and I become
Speaker 2: like siblings because of the tutelage and the mentorship of
Speaker 2: Benny Gordon Thompson, who of course was mentored by Fanny Louhammer.
Speaker 2: And that's the sixth year anniversary that Bacari just referenced. Derek,
Speaker 2: you are running the most innovative campaign in restoring the
Speaker 2: brand and the legacy of NAACP. He talks to us
Speaker 2: about why this week is so important for the civil
Speaker 2: rights community and what you had to say in your
Speaker 2: speech in bringing people into the folk, Well.
Speaker 4: It's significance because we didn't get here because we woke
Speaker 4: up this morning.
Speaker 3: One second, Derek, we are well, yeah, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 5: You're on test one, is it?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: Sure? That was angela fault for those at home.
Speaker 5: I think we didn't get here because we woke up
Speaker 5: this morning.
Speaker 4: We got here because there was a lot of sacrifice, blood,
Speaker 4: strategy and work to bring us to this moment. And
Speaker 4: so part of what I talked about in the speech
Speaker 4: was given the history of the nineteen sixty four Missippi
Speaker 4: Democratic Freedom Democratic Party and all the work they did
Speaker 4: leading up to nineteen seventy three in large city mayors
Speaker 4: getting elected, whether it's Manager Jackson, Coleman, Young, Tom Bradley
Speaker 4: turning the corner to nineteen eighty four to eighty eight
Speaker 4: with Jesse Jackson, who really established what was possible would
Speaker 4: keep alive, and you turn the corner, you look at
Speaker 4: this moment, we would not have a convention the way
Speaker 4: we're having. And now if individuals didn't put together strategy,
Speaker 4: they understood the rules, they implemented the rules, and they
Speaker 4: didn't run to the microphone, they ran to the work,
Speaker 4: and that's what's really important.
Speaker 3: Derek, let me ask you because there are a lot
Speaker 3: of people you and I met in Jackson where you
Speaker 3: did a lot of work, and in Jackson, the NAACP
Speaker 3: is like a governing body practically has a lot of relevance.
Speaker 3: There are cities where you know, when it's time for strategy,
Speaker 3: don't hear people say, oh, I just came from the
Speaker 3: NAACP meeting. So for people who don't necessarily have a
Speaker 3: personal connection to the organization, what today is the significance
Speaker 3: of the NAACP and why should people pen their care
Speaker 3: excellent question.
Speaker 4: So you know one of thing I'm gonna start here
Speaker 4: fam two rays Socli car mic who's to coming to
Speaker 4: two Glue College where I'm a graduate every year? And
Speaker 4: he'd say organized, organized, organized, And he said, whether it
Speaker 4: was your Sunday school or this organization. I don't believe
Speaker 4: in organizational supremacy. I believe in getting the work done.
Speaker 4: And if the NACP is your view vehicle for voice,
Speaker 4: then use it. If you go to another community, is
Speaker 4: that's not your vehicle, but you have a vehicle to
Speaker 4: impart of Black community, then I celebrate that.
Speaker 6: So for us.
Speaker 5: We got to make sure that community by community we
Speaker 5: build out an.
Speaker 4: Infrastructure of black power and use the vehicles that are available.
Speaker 5: In ACP.
Speaker 4: We are most predominant in the Southeast region where the
Speaker 4: former Confederate states, where majority of black people live, not
Speaker 4: large metropolitan areas. In fact, I met Andrew through the
Speaker 4: NACP when he when he was a high school student
Speaker 4: and then went on to the family because in local communities,
Speaker 4: whether you Florida, where th h Pool when you started,
Speaker 4: Aaron Herrey, when I started, that's the infrastructure, the backbone
Speaker 4: of the black community. We oftentimes look to major city
Speaker 4: politics and we forget about majority of black folks.
Speaker 5: Don't live in Detroit, Chicago, New York. They live in
Speaker 5: the Southeast region.
Speaker 7: Yea autaw was from Chicago.
Speaker 8: From Mississippi anyway, is nothing but the capital of Minnisoa, Mississippi.
Speaker 5: I mean this is north north Mississippi.
Speaker 4: And you think about you know your father, your father
Speaker 4: is a part of that group who put forth a
Speaker 4: strategy as students to recognize that this generational fight we
Speaker 4: have us versus them, old versus young, male versus female,
Speaker 4: it's a self defeating reality. Intergenerational organized have always been
Speaker 4: the most effective approach. Community centric leadership is the most
Speaker 4: effective approach. When you start having ecocentric leadership is the
Speaker 4: beginning of the end because individuals will fail you, but
Speaker 4: community interests will always secede. And that's how I try
Speaker 4: to lead to NACP. So if I go to the
Speaker 4: community in ACP, ain't the lead? Great, plug me into
Speaker 4: what is the lead? Because i'most celebrate that too.
Speaker 8: Go ahead ahead, but what are some of the I mean,
Speaker 8: we celebrate you often, but we don't necessarily know the
Speaker 8: challenges you face.
Speaker 7: What are some of the challenges you face.
Speaker 8: And overcome on a daily basis as being the leader
Speaker 8: of the oldest civil rights organization?
Speaker 5: That yeah, remember right? So the internal community external because internal.
Speaker 7: You want to hit a mess.
Speaker 4: If anybody ever went to a tendor of the Black
Speaker 4: Baptis Church, that's the na A CP.
Speaker 5: We are all of you name it, We just fo
Speaker 5: come up.
Speaker 3: We're being joined by Congressman Benny Thompson, who's of course
Speaker 3: ranking member on Homeland Security out of Mississippi, and he
Speaker 3: and Derek and Angela all work together in the House
Speaker 3: were of Congress.
Speaker 2: We look we work for this lovely gentleman he's also
Speaker 2: the superstar that you all recognized from the January sixth
Speaker 2: Special Committee.
Speaker 6: Welcome Boss, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: I'm happy to be We're happy to have you.
Speaker 9: You arrived just in time, Congressman, because Derek was about
Speaker 9: to tell us what is the biggest challenge he faces
Speaker 9: at the NUA A c P and needs all of.
Speaker 5: Our help and try to address.
Speaker 4: His money is people with common sense and courage. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you get the money, common sense and courage. You know
Speaker 4: the confent and I it was been fourteen years ago.
Speaker 4: I was in DC for something and we were trying
Speaker 4: to get someone to activate because we was doing inside
Speaker 4: outside strategy.
Speaker 5: And he looked, he says, you know, I'm getting older.
Speaker 5: You can't do this by yourself.
Speaker 4: We need to build something so we can replenish the
Speaker 4: progressive black community in Mississippi.
Speaker 5: You are fourteen years later.
Speaker 4: We have a whole system where we train people over
Speaker 4: nine months, twenty five folks and we put them that
Speaker 4: we have I mean, you have actually US attorney nominees,
Speaker 4: district attorney, sheriffs, beautentions, barbers. Because the leadership don't come
Speaker 4: with titles or degrees, becomes with courage and common sense.
Speaker 7: And that's how we see this.
Speaker 3: Congressman, I want to bring you in the conversation because
Speaker 3: Derek was just explaining to our list centers or something.
Speaker 3: We all know that a lot of times in the
Speaker 3: mainstream media when we talk about rural politics, the face
Speaker 3: of that politic is the body politic is a white person.
Speaker 3: When we know a lot of our community lives below
Speaker 3: the Bible Belt in rural communities, we too are rural America.
Speaker 3: You have championed legislation the lack of hospitalization in the South.
Speaker 3: That was a piece of legislation that you introduced in
Speaker 3: the House to make health care more accessible. What would
Speaker 3: you say to the people who feel forgotten about in
Speaker 3: those Bible belts, like, how can they too seeing America
Speaker 3: and be acknowledged that they too are a part of
Speaker 3: a country that sometimes so often forgets about.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you so much for having me. The notion is,
Speaker 6: in this democracy, you have to participate.
Speaker 10: What we have to do is to organize those communities
Speaker 10: just like we organize urban areas.
Speaker 6: They're no different.
Speaker 10: They've just been overlooked and once you get there you
Speaker 10: find out, Gee, they're just like people in the big city.
Speaker 10: And so what we have to do is have a
Speaker 10: joint strategy urban rule to make sure that no one
Speaker 10: is overlooked. Our problem in America is that we somehow,
Speaker 10: even in urban areas, overlook the black community.
Speaker 6: In the rural areas, they're forgotten.
Speaker 10: And so, uh, we just resolved a lot of black
Speaker 10: farmer issues in this country US.
Speaker 6: But this is the fourth time that we had to
Speaker 6: do a pavement. You know, we did the pickfoot case
Speaker 6: and two.
Speaker 10: That's right, and so all of a sudden, Uh, people say, oh,
Speaker 10: we isn't that wonderful now, but we're still behind because
Speaker 10: there are a lot of people who still owe debt.
Speaker 10: Uh that got the money, but they owe more money
Speaker 10: in debt than they had.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 10: So what we have to do now is to somehow
Speaker 10: come up with that strategy that encompasses it all. And
Speaker 10: so that's why at a convention like this, we need
Speaker 10: to make sure that a lot of those policies after
Speaker 10: we celebrate are talked about. Yes, and that policy is
Speaker 10: absolutely how.
Speaker 6: We put it together.
Speaker 5: Boston.
Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite things about having worked for you,
Speaker 2: and I think still work for you. I learned from
Speaker 2: him all the time, and you will always say we
Speaker 2: can celebrate this, but we got work to do, so
Speaker 2: we can't celebrate too long.
Speaker 5: What are some of the things that you think it.
Speaker 2: Is imperative in addition to taking care of our rural
Speaker 2: communities that have to be addressed this week. We know
Speaker 2: there are protests happening simultaneous.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but you know, to be honest with you, the
Speaker 10: protests that are going on when you talk to people
Speaker 10: in my district, it's probably number twenty out of fifteen
Speaker 10: in terms of priorities because everybody is in a survival mode, right.
Speaker 10: They want to make sure that kids get education, they
Speaker 10: want healthcare. Now, you can talk foreign policy, but you
Speaker 10: know it's about what I'm getting right here at home.
Speaker 10: And if the policies don't impact me at home, it's
Speaker 10: tough for me to look overseas at a policy. The
Speaker 10: other situation we have to do is to make sure
Speaker 10: that the policy make us don't overlook people. That paternalistic
Speaker 10: approach to politics is crazy. That means that, oh, you
Speaker 10: just elect me and I know what's good for you.
Speaker 10: That's absolutely ludicrous. You know, unless you've walked in my shoes,
Speaker 10: you don't know anything about me other than what you
Speaker 10: might have read and so our challenge in this country
Speaker 10: is to put those concerns on the front.
Speaker 6: Bunner. You know, too many times we've been told, oh,
Speaker 6: we're gonna get to it. Yeah, you know, I got
Speaker 6: to get elected.
Speaker 10: And you know, look, every major entity in this country
Speaker 10: has leveraged, but somehow the black community has always been told, well,
Speaker 10: you know it'll come, you know it'll and it never comes.
Speaker 9: Congressman, can you speak to as our nominee Kamala Harrison
Speaker 9: continues to make her rounds around the country a lot
Speaker 9: of time, and in really important flip states. But I
Speaker 9: wonder to the point that you just made for the
Speaker 9: community that sits at home and says, we're always the
Speaker 9: backbone of this party, but we rarely rarely get to
Speaker 9: toil in the largest of it. What advice might you
Speaker 9: have for her, as she, of course rightly focuses on
Speaker 9: some of these swing states to ensure that a message
Speaker 9: is delivered are at home community that she's going to
Speaker 9: be their president too.
Speaker 10: Well, that's why the speech I'm looking for Thursday night
Speaker 10: has to be encomfliencing of all the Democratic constituents. And
Speaker 10: I think she is that person properly positioned to make
Speaker 10: those arguments on behalf not just.
Speaker 6: Of people of color, but people who have been let out.
Speaker 10: And so it's it's look, the people on the other
Speaker 10: side are gonna demogogue her anyway, So you might as
Speaker 10: well come with those issues that are important, and once
Speaker 10: you come with them, then you go with it. But
Speaker 10: you come with sound policies, those policies around healthcare, those
Speaker 10: policies around education, those about income insecurity, all.
Speaker 6: Those kinds of things.
Speaker 10: One thing she's talking about with the housing issue, well,
Speaker 10: you know, when you put that twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 10: down on a home ownership thing, guess guess who does
Speaker 10: the financing.
Speaker 6: Guess who owns the lumber company?
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 10: I mean, so it's a it's good for the economy.
Speaker 10: Don't look at that family that gets a home for
Speaker 10: the first time. Right, I'm still putting water systems together
Speaker 10: in my district. When the system comes and say, well,
Speaker 10: why are you always helping them? I said, I'm glad
Speaker 10: you asked. Do you know who owned the pipe company
Speaker 10: that sells all these pipes for this rule water system?
Speaker 10: You know who sells a meter, who's supplying the pipes? Yeah,
Speaker 10: so all we get is the water, we get none
Speaker 10: of the economics. Now, if we are really radical, we
Speaker 10: would say to that pipe company, you have to have
Speaker 10: a conversity, equity inclusion program so that when that community
Speaker 10: gets water, they also get some of the economics that
Speaker 10: go with it. Right now, some said that's radical, but
Speaker 10: that's paying community back, putting people in office.
Speaker 8: Let me just ask a question of both of you guys,
Speaker 8: while you're here and before y'all traverse and meet all
Speaker 8: these people, good folks out here, what I've been admiring
Speaker 8: is nineteen eighty four was Jesse, two thousand and eight
Speaker 8: was Barack Obama.
Speaker 7: Twenty sixteen was also Hillary.
Speaker 8: With the little history, they all stand on the shoulders
Speaker 8: of Fanny Lou and they stand on the shoulders of
Speaker 8: Shirley Chisholm. But what are you seeing in this convention
Speaker 8: that makes Kamala Harris a little bit different? And what
Speaker 8: do you hope we learned from all of those heroes
Speaker 8: and heroines that have come before. Well, and that's for
Speaker 8: both of that one, both of you guys.
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, Well I knew Fanny Lou oh very personally.
Speaker 10: She became my role model. The first real campaign I
Speaker 10: worked in was her campaign for Congress, of which I
Speaker 10: now represent that district. So you know, history has a
Speaker 10: way of repeating itself, so that legacy we can't let
Speaker 10: become forgotten. So for sixty years she came and said
Speaker 10: to Democrats, you know you got to do better. You know,
Speaker 10: you can't patronize us and then enjoy all the spoils
Speaker 10: of victory.
Speaker 6: You have to be inclusive.
Speaker 10: And that's that's what we have to do as a people,
Speaker 10: is not let our friends forget us. That's right, not
Speaker 10: let our friends take us for granted. And so for
Speaker 10: Fanny Luke celebration sixty years, we're still in training.
Speaker 6: Yes, because we haven't filled.
Speaker 10: That notion that somehow, as Fan lu said, we're sick
Speaker 10: and tired of being sick and tired. And a lot
Speaker 10: of us are sick and tired of being sick and
Speaker 10: tired of telling our friends what they need to do.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, saying for the people in the back boss.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: The lesson and all of this is none of us
Speaker 4: can do it by ourselves. And if we think we
Speaker 4: are the super person that's gonna do by ourself, we're
Speaker 4: gonna fail every time time, and we're going to.
Speaker 5: Disrupt progress of people. You know, I grew up in Detroit.
Speaker 4: I come to Mississippi, I went to Tugaloo, and instantly
Speaker 4: I was surrounded by you know a large number of
Speaker 4: folks who were ciper rights veterans, whether they's sneak or
Speaker 4: whatever else. And I felt that why because the lessons
Speaker 4: that were there for me not to make old mistakes.
Speaker 4: We'd got to stop making old mistakes. There as new
Speaker 4: ones to make. Secondly, you have people who were committed
Speaker 4: to improve the qualit of life of our communities and
Speaker 4: they had been doing it for generations. Thirdly, I have
Speaker 4: a responsibility to both listen to the wisdom and train
Speaker 4: the youth, because if we don't do that, we would
Speaker 4: lose the progress that's made. We wouldn't sit we be,
Speaker 4: We wouldn't be sitting here. We would have never had
Speaker 4: a Barack Obama. If it wasn't for your father, if
Speaker 4: it wasn't for a feed new hammer, if it wasn't
Speaker 4: for you can name another a lot of people, including
Speaker 4: conference maker Ella Baker, you know, because they sacrificed and
Speaker 4: they would not you know, celebrities. Then we celebrate them
Speaker 4: more now, but now that they're dead than when they
Speaker 4: was alive, and so we need more people who are
Speaker 4: willing to sacrifice to improve the quality of life of
Speaker 4: all black folks and not just for themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can I ask so, Congressman, I want to tell
Speaker 3: you that. And I told us the story one time
Speaker 3: about when she was your staffer and she was exhausted
Speaker 3: with something and she made the mistake of saying she
Speaker 3: was tired, and you said you tired, stressed out, stressed out,
Speaker 3: stressed out, and you stressed out. We heard you gave
Speaker 3: her quite the tongue lashing that day for being stressed out.
Speaker 10: Well, you know, when I was a young child, uh,
Speaker 10: who loved me the most, Yes, gave me the worst
Speaker 10: whooping of my life, and that was my mama.
Speaker 6: Yeah. And look, and after Mama disciplined me, she said,
Speaker 6: I did that because I loved you. Yeah, all worse.
Speaker 10: She said, you know that hurt me more when it
Speaker 10: hurts you. So I take Angela in that perspective because
Speaker 10: I see the talent. The other thing she didn't tell
Speaker 10: you she might have is I told her that her
Speaker 10: job was to help me make some black folks rich
Speaker 10: in the government space. She looked at me and said,
Speaker 10: I said, look, I don't care what you do if
Speaker 10: we need to bring booring Lockheed Martin the CEOs here
Speaker 10: and asked them about diversity, asked them about and so
Speaker 10: twice a month we brought those folks in and we asked,
Speaker 10: you know, do y'all have black people?
Speaker 6: I love that, you know, I mean, you know, I mean,
Speaker 6: it's it's what you do.
Speaker 3: How many people on your board, your corporate board? How
Speaker 3: many in the c suite the executive rings? Absolutely right,
Speaker 3: We appreciate you.
Speaker 10: But now that the problem with that is those companies
Speaker 10: will go around my back to somebody.
Speaker 6: Who looked like me.
Speaker 10: And every time and try to, you know, say oh, well,
Speaker 10: you know, we can't talk to Benny, but we can
Speaker 10: we can talk to Robert.
Speaker 3: The people Harriet was have left behind.
Speaker 4: You let me ask you, oh sorry, when you for
Speaker 4: the cont man about second day, he said, okay, let
Speaker 4: me tell you what you do your jobs have black folks.
Speaker 4: You may you're gonna make a mistake. That's okay. As
Speaker 4: long as you having black folks. If you make them
Speaker 4: say ain't having black folks, and we got a problem.
Speaker 4: But as long as you having black folks, yeah, and
Speaker 4: you fast forward, you talk to our college. Our college
Speaker 4: will say tell you that his consultancy government relationships.
Speaker 5: Firm would not exist but for the contry. That's right,
Speaker 5: because folks came to his office.
Speaker 7: One of me.
Speaker 5: He said, y'all come back when y'all got somebody that
Speaker 5: can talk to Well, you.
Speaker 4: Said you got a recommendation, He said, yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: Fell over here.
Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, Art starts the group and he
Speaker 2: did it all ethically and above board.
Speaker 5: That's most important thing.
Speaker 10: Yes, absolutely, because you know they would tell me say,
Speaker 10: you know, if I could find somebody, the funniest.
Speaker 7: Thing right there, if I could find some if I
Speaker 7: could find some talent right today.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it made us put together a book for hearing witnesses,
Speaker 2: for appointees in the administration, for staffers. He absolutely had
Speaker 2: to do that. So you talked right to his heart.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, we tried to do on mainstream media as well,
Speaker 3: because it's like, there are black people who can talk
Speaker 3: about Middle East politics, there are black people you can
Speaker 3: talk about domestic policy.
Speaker 5: But the example of.
Speaker 9: The congressman, what I love about it and Derek, I'm
Speaker 9: going to sell you something about you and this but
Speaker 9: it is it is transferable any if you are an
Speaker 9: elected official, you're a policymaker, You are a person out
Speaker 9: there who runs owns a business, and you are operating
Speaker 9: right now, and you're not asking the sensible questions about
Speaker 9: why doesn't this reflect the community that we have?
Speaker 1: Why doesn't this room reflect the community that we have?
Speaker 9: When I lost the race for governor and twenty eighteen,
Speaker 9: one of the first calls I got in late twenty
Speaker 9: eighteen was from that brother over there, Derek Johnson, asking me.
Speaker 7: Are you set up? Are you okay?
Speaker 9: He knew that in addition to me having come out
Speaker 9: of that race that way, that I was also no
Speaker 9: longer mayor, and he didn't know what my economic situation was.
Speaker 9: But he came and I had kids, and he's that
Speaker 9: he wanted me to be okay. And I use these
Speaker 9: two examples. One, they're excellent examples of of of of humans.
Speaker 9: But their their clarity around the way in which they
Speaker 9: are to impact the world is clear. But it doesn't
Speaker 9: belong to them. It's transferable. All of us can learn
Speaker 9: from it and we can repeat it. And gentlemen, we
Speaker 9: thank you for that Examtly.
Speaker 8: You know what, I think I messed up because I
Speaker 8: asked him should I start a gofund me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but he didn't take it. He didn't take mine.
Speaker 7: Coming from the heart, we can't help Bari Congress.
Speaker 3: Before you leave the set, I do want to ask
Speaker 3: you have two former staffers here. Which of the two
Speaker 3: former staffers.
Speaker 2: The most.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: He just look.
Speaker 6: Look.
Speaker 10: Uh, my job is to train another hundred people. And
Speaker 10: look when somebody comes and complain to me about how
Speaker 10: hard Angela is on them, I know Angela is doing
Speaker 10: her job. When they say to Derek that, you know,
Speaker 10: I don't understand. I can't talk to Derek.
Speaker 6: He did. Derek's doing his job. So I judge them by.
Speaker 10: The people who come to me complaining about that. If
Speaker 10: nobody is complaining.
Speaker 6: Doing that's that's right. And we have a lot to do.
Speaker 6: But our charge for this audience.
Speaker 10: We now have people in positions who can help us
Speaker 10: make a difference, and somehow they take the coloration and
Speaker 10: character of the enemy, and so we now find ourselves
Speaker 10: button the heads with people who look like us, trying
Speaker 10: to convince them that it's all right to do business
Speaker 10: with people who look like you. Now we would never
Speaker 10: say do business with someone that's not qualified, but the.
Speaker 6: Most of the people you're doing business with you don't
Speaker 6: even know.
Speaker 10: One of the things I'm doing now is mentoring people
Speaker 10: who are new mayors in cities. I was a mayor
Speaker 10: in the seventies, and I said, especially when those mayors
Speaker 10: have either been congress people or something like that.
Speaker 6: I said, Now, when you win that.
Speaker 10: Office and this consultant comes up, who've been representing that
Speaker 10: city that you've been the congress person, and you never
Speaker 10: met them, problem, run them off. Run them off if
Speaker 10: they didn't see the value of you when you were
Speaker 10: in this other position. When you hear now, yeah, if
Speaker 10: you want to watch out, they'll go and bring somebody
Speaker 10: who looks like you that you don't even know. They're
Speaker 10: not going They're not going to even give you the
Speaker 10: respect of saying, look, I'm looking for somebody.
Speaker 6: Send me some people you might know. They'll go pick
Speaker 6: Joe blow off the street. Yes, put put a suit
Speaker 6: on him.
Speaker 7: Uh huh, yes, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Congressman, we know, we know you and Derek are both
Speaker 3: super busy. We want to thank you guys so much
Speaker 3: for joining us. We appreciate you being here. Thanks for
Speaker 3: listening to you.
Speaker 5: Guys.
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