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Speaker 1: Natively and pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership

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Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Now.

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Speaker 3: I want to go way back to nineteen ninety two,

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Speaker 3: the year Nirvana's Nevermind went number one on the US

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Speaker 3: Billboard two hundred charts. Tornad O'Connor stirred up controversy by

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Speaker 3: ripping a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live.

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Speaker 3: You remember that, and Bill Clinton defeated George Bush in

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Speaker 3: the presidential election. But before all that happened, this happened

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Speaker 3: on my show. That was then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton

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Speaker 3: belting out a soul for rendition of Heartbreak Hotel on

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Speaker 3: my show, The Arsenio Hall Show. That changed presidential campaign forever.

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Speaker 2: Welcome home, everybody. This is Tiffany Cross, Angela Ray and

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Speaker 2: me and I don't know if they're on my left right,

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Speaker 2: but I did point to my left and am I right.

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Speaker 2: Welcome y'all. There's a quick mini pod we wanted to

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Speaker 2: get into with you all as we talk about, are

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Speaker 2: there spaces that are below the belt a little too

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Speaker 2: gotter for our presidential candidates to go? Where do they

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Speaker 2: go to talk to as many people as they can.

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Speaker 2: We're interested in hearing each other's thoughts on that, and

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Speaker 2: maybe you walking weigh into Angela, what you got? What

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Speaker 2: do you think set this up out? Well?

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Speaker 4: I think, first of all, there should be no place

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Speaker 4: really off limits to reach voters. I do think that

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Speaker 4: that comes with some contingencies. I think that we should

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Speaker 4: never put our candidates in harms away. I think that

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Speaker 4: there are some platforms where they want to go viral

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Speaker 4: or make a name for themselves, and so in those

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Speaker 4: instances it's probably not the best I think. One thing

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Speaker 4: that I've been particularly interested to see is there is

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Speaker 4: a new conservative platform, or a new ish conservative platform

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Speaker 4: called Rumble. This guy DJ Academics has been paid to

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Speaker 4: go on Rumble and earlier this year said that he

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Speaker 4: was going to be streaming on Rumble from Trump's crib.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if Donald Trump is going to go

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Speaker 4: on Rumble with him, but that's interesting to me. To me,

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Speaker 4: you know, when folks don't have any political background whatsoever,

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Speaker 4: what role should they really play? And I think that's

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Speaker 4: a conversation that both sides of the aisle really should

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Speaker 4: be having. We've spent a lot of time focusing on

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Speaker 4: influencers and their role in campaigns. And I'm almost of

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Speaker 4: the school of thought now where I believe the role

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Speaker 4: of an influencer has an outsized place and focus on

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Speaker 4: campaigns to the to this in the same ways in

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Speaker 4: which we talked about on our last podcast, money Right.

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Speaker 4: And so there are some folks who are niche influencers

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Speaker 4: or micro influencers, are targeted and specific and no politics

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Speaker 4: very well. I think those folks who are educated in

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Speaker 4: the space, have political background, and have some political acumen

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Speaker 4: should have more influence over over the electorate than folks

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Speaker 4: who sometimes do like I'm actually really irritated about fifty

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Speaker 4: cent and the role that he's played in this election.

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Speaker 4: I'm irritated, frankly with some of the things that ice

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Speaker 4: Cube did last cycle, and I wish that if they

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Speaker 4: were to engage, that they took the time to sit

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Speaker 4: down with folks who do this work every single day,

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Speaker 4: like we do when we're talking about hip hop, or

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Speaker 4: like we do when we're talking about making movies or

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Speaker 4: making shows. I just think to Pont, I mean, anyone

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Speaker 4: should can have an opinion. You're a voter, you have

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Speaker 4: every right to weigh in exactly how you see fit,

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Speaker 4: but I would like to see them yoke up and

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Speaker 4: link up with folks who actually know the space a

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Speaker 4: little bit more. I do think that to be in

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Speaker 4: pop culture and find people who don't watch cable news,

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Speaker 4: especially with those numbers decreasing every single day, I think

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Speaker 4: it's worth it to go meet people where they are.

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Speaker 4: And this won't be the first time that folks went

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Speaker 4: to go meet people.

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Speaker 5: Where they are.

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Speaker 4: And we know that we played the clipper earlier. Of

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Speaker 4: Bill Clinton going on our senior hall and playing the saxophone,

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Speaker 4: I think that earned him the title the first black president.

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Speaker 4: I would like to correct history and say our first

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Speaker 4: black president was in fact Barack with Saint Obama. But

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Speaker 4: that's what made him. No no, no, no, don't come on,

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump, don't do me.

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Speaker 2: We used to growing up. If we used to debate

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Speaker 5: Not, asked Frederick John So anyway, I.

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Speaker 2: Know my history who was also biracial.

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Speaker 5: But yes, we mean also, I mean, hey, Braham, come on. Anyway.

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Speaker 5: Back to the point.

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Speaker 4: The point is please go reach people like Andrew who

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Speaker 4: spread misinformation on podcast. Go talk to him and can

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Speaker 4: fact check and get the registry anyway.

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Speaker 1: That's because you know the fact that I think it

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Speaker 1: was ninety one when Bill Clinton went on Our Senio Hall,

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Speaker 1: and that was a huge deal. But now for a

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Speaker 1: presidential candidate to go on a late night talk show

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Speaker 1: is not that big a deal. I remember when Bill

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Speaker 1: Clinton was there playing the saxophone and he had on

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Speaker 1: the glasses and it was so big. And look, the

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Speaker 5: It wasn't Johnny Carson.

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Speaker 1: He went on with a black late night talk show

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Speaker 1: and Arsenio Hall was you know, you know, like the big,

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Speaker 1: the big, the first to do it. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 1: the first to do it at that time. What was interesting, though,

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Speaker 1: is George H. W. Bush had refused to go on

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Speaker 1: Our Senio Hall, and he made some sort of comment

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Speaker 1: his stand up a few days later, uh like clap

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Speaker 1: back at President Bush and was like, ain't nobody invite

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Speaker 5: But the audience went wild.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is it made Bill Clinton more accessible.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to say, the person who donned

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Speaker 1: him the first black president was our luminary Tony Morrison,

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Speaker 1: you know who we love, So you know it did

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Speaker 1: resonate with some people. Obviously, is not our first black president,

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Speaker 1: and his policies were not always in our favor, as

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Speaker 1: history can rewrite itself. But I like the point that

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Speaker 1: Angela was making about where people get their news. You know,

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Speaker 1: as a journalist, I read the trades every morning, and

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Speaker 1: just this week and Pointer highlighted, you know, there's ever

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Speaker 1: every day there's some big news platform that's collapsing or

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Speaker 1: having layoffs, and just this week they highlighted that readers

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Speaker 1: are increasingly getting their news from influencers. That frightens me

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Speaker 1: because I've seen these influencers and because you have a

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Speaker 1: lot of followers. Does not a journalist make. Even though

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Speaker 1: there can be intelligent and intellectual people, that doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: mean like there is training to go and figure out

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Speaker 1: how to present a story with all that pertinent accurate

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Speaker 1: that is not confusing. They're not you know, speaking inside baseball.

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Speaker 1: You're presenting, you know, both sides of a story, not nonsense,

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Speaker 1: I see people, you know, it kind of gives this

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Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, well, I saw this person say

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Speaker 1: it on TikTok, and so now I'm informed about this

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Speaker 1: topic that I got while they were you know, doing

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Speaker 1: And that's not always the case, you guys. I feel like, well, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: you anyway have like I try to strike a balance

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Speaker 1: because I don't want to like be like elitists, like

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Speaker 1: you only have to get your news from the Times,

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Speaker 1: you know, like cause that's a problem too. And I

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Speaker 1: feel like, to Angelo's point, these cable news platforms, you

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Speaker 1: ask for it, You ask for people to tune out,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you summarily ignored our communities forever, then

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Speaker 1: of course people were gonna start getting their news and

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Speaker 1: information someplace else. So there is some legitimacy to going

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Speaker 1: into some of these spaces that some people made THEMB

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Speaker 1: their nose a. But it's like, as we are increasingly

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Speaker 1: ignored by these mainstream platforms that only platform people that

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Speaker 1: make white people comfortable, then yeah, you gotta go out

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Speaker 1: and talk to people in a different way. And I'm

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Speaker 1: torn with the influencer piece because you know, I was

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Speaker 1: super annoyed too, Angela with ice Cube and the plan

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Speaker 1: he came out with and people were like, oh my god.

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Speaker 5: I Ececubs a genius.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, have y'all ever heard of actual think things?

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Speaker 1: And members of are Congressional Black Caucus And this is

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Speaker 1: not the first time these things were asked for. There's

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Speaker 1: also the gaming industry, you know, there are I think

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Speaker 1: say sixteen is the first time that was utilized. And

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Speaker 1: black people are the second largest demographics to participate in

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Speaker 1: I can't remember how much I wrote about it in

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Speaker 1: my book, but I like, like a billion dollars, like

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Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixteen million dollars, and the black folks

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Speaker 5: Angela.

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Speaker 1: I think your perspective though, is like go into some

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Speaker 1: of these more hostile environments and make your case, you know,

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Speaker 1: like show up to the fight, like, noo, give you buck,

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Speaker 1: I'm showing up that one. I think there's some legitimacy

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Speaker 1: to that. But then I wonder, is that the role

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Speaker 1: take away it's like you sending you sent your boy

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Speaker 1: to fight me. You ain't even able to fight me yourself. Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm still I'm still torn on that.

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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, you know.

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Speaker 6: I think I'm probably oddly enough very liberal on this

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Speaker 6: think the rules of the game have changed drastically. I mean,

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Speaker 6: I remember, tiff, as you pointed out, the breaking news

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Speaker 2: Black host and and what that did for him, and

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Speaker 2: relevant in the culture today. Though. My issue with him,

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Speaker 2: First of all, if you're a citizen, you're in America,

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Speaker 2: you're breathing, you can have an opinion, you can have choice,

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Speaker 2: You can have all those things, and you can have

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Speaker 2: your own reasons for why it is you're doing what

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Speaker 2: who go down that road. I've said it before, I'll

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Speaker 2: say it again fifty cent. He and I may share complexion,

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Speaker 2: but that's kind of probably where it's at. We're in

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Speaker 2: a different tax bracket. He's got a whole another world

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Speaker 2: so when I see people like him move, I don't

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Speaker 2: attribute it to be in our collective community best inrists.

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Speaker 2: I think he's got other things that bay hear. I

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Speaker 2: may not know what they are. He may be for

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Speaker 2: Trump because Trump is trying to reduce taxes on people

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Speaker 2: who are in his bracket. He may be trying to

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Speaker 2: or a new business venture. We never know what it

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Speaker 2: particularly in political spaces. I don't I don't assign anymore,

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Speaker 4: But I just think that there are ways that we

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Speaker 2: All I'm saying is people let me. You gotta know

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Speaker 2: You guys.

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Speaker 1: Remember when that state legislator was twerking and people had

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Speaker 2: Remember she was on the Yes, I remember I knew.

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Speaker 5: That legislator, you know, you knew her?

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Speaker 2: Just know this, y'all. You may think it's a good

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Speaker 5: Good Mini pot guys, y'all, We out of here.

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Speaker 5: Add that to it the list of things you should

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