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Speaker 1: Native Lampard is a production of iHeart Radio and partnership

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Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media.

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome home, y'all, this is our first episode of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. It's episode sixty one, and this is

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Speaker 1: where you get all things politics, all things culture, all

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Speaker 1: things us, lots of disagreement, but lots of fun. Where

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Speaker 1: we give you all the things you need to do

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Speaker 1: to argue with your family at home. So yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: what are we talking about today, y'all?

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Speaker 3: Hell me college?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Why? And what else?

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Speaker 3: Because you out of uniform?

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm out of uniformer. You guys out

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Speaker 4: of your worm We're out of uniform. Well, well, Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Kind of looked like you were in a Make America

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Speaker 1: Great Again hat with my vision.

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Speaker 3: Wonderful?

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Speaker 4: That not wonderful.

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Speaker 3: This is my college of choice, wonderful.

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Speaker 4: Mind you Andrew?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 4: What'd you guy? Today? What were we talking about?

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Speaker 1: Under this administration? That might be the only HBCU y'all

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Speaker 1: end up with.

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Speaker 3: In fill in College, but the fictional.

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Speaker 1: I digress, Yes, the only one remaining. You know.

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Speaker 4: The thing that I want to talk about today is Mark.

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Speaker 3: Happy New Year.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Happy New Year?

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Speaker 1: You guys? So damn well, I feel like you're rude

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Speaker 1: because I started off by saying, this was our first

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Speaker 1: episode of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: There is a difference between our first episode of twenty

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year? Andrew how many? How many days are

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Speaker 1: we going to say Happy New Year?

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Speaker 3: Uh? We debated this. I thought it was appropriate to say,

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Speaker 3: you know, up untilout the middle of the month. Actually, Tiffany,

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Speaker 3: you and I talked about it, and you said, like

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Speaker 3: the first.

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Speaker 1: Week, Yeah, well, what about if we have happy news?

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Speaker 1: That may take us out of the happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: But it's somewhere, someplace where we need the native Lampard

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Speaker 1: family to weigh in. We were nominated for an NAACP

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Speaker 1: Image Award Outstanding Podcast Series, and I think that it

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Speaker 1: is time for us to honor that. We got to

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Speaker 1: tell the people to go vote at NAACP Image Awards

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Speaker 1: dot net and also someplace where there's more of an

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Speaker 1: electoral college system is with iHeart. We were nominated for

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Speaker 1: Best Political Podcasts. Folks will get to vote there, but

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Speaker 1: we are excited to be nominated for both of those.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, awesome, awesome, awesome, thanks for bringing that energy.

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Speaker 4: But we do still have stuff to talk about.

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Speaker 1: So what I want to talk about was this was mine.

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Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg did a whole State of the Union speech

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Speaker 1: yesterday for about five minutes talking to us about why

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Speaker 1: there were no longer going to be fact checks or

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Speaker 1: fact checkers on the Meta platform. So I want to

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Speaker 1: get into that because many of you know that you

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Speaker 1: have Facebook and Instagram and the Two Hour One. They

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Speaker 1: are owned by Meta, which y'all.

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Speaker 4: Got, okay, So I want to talk about So I've

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Speaker 4: heard from a lot of you guys over the holidays

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Speaker 4: and even in the new year, that you're just exhausted,

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Speaker 4: you're not tuning in, you don't want to hear you know,

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Speaker 4: what this administration is up to. And so it led

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Speaker 4: me to think about isolation and the fact that many

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Speaker 4: of us are isolated, even outside of politics, isolated in

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Speaker 4: our own lives, and so what that means when it

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Speaker 4: comes to our democracy. And I'll get into some of

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Speaker 4: the data when we get into the discussion, but looking for.

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Speaker 3: I love it, and I think I'm ready how many

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Speaker 3: of y'all, how many of y'all knew that Ron DeSantis

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Speaker 3: has single handedly removed at least two democratically elected officials

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Speaker 3: in Florida who were district attorneys in the state of Florida,

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Speaker 3: here in Florida, got removed by Ron de Santis, got

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Speaker 3: re elected in twenty twenty four, and now it's potentially

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Speaker 3: threatened again with removal by this same dictator. Want to

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Speaker 3: be let's get.

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Speaker 1: In it, okay, And well, speaking of let's get in it,

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Speaker 1: I just want to do a quick focus group poll

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Speaker 1: to transition us. How many of you all believe, and

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Speaker 1: this is the focus group here in Native Lampid, Tiff and Andrew,

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Speaker 1: how many of you all believe that if Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: Please raise your hands? Okay, Well, Joe Biden is an

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Speaker 1: audience of one, and that's what he said. And I

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Speaker 4: So what else we getting into.

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Speaker 3: No, but that's a great place to hear from the

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Speaker 3: listeners too. I am curious because it was a fierce fight, y'all.

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Speaker 3: Remember we had just exploded about it two days before

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Speaker 3: new nominee. So I'm curious to know if there are

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Speaker 3: those of you all who are holdouts, are like man,

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Speaker 3: we should have left that man alone and we can

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Speaker 3: still be empowered.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, I feel like that's not our audience.

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Speaker 1: But we shall see right, Well.

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Speaker 3: Black people rode for him to the end that.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, always Well, I guess we could start with Facebook.

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Speaker 4: Why don't we rowe that clip from Mark Zuckerberg.

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Speaker 5: First, we're going to get rid of fact checkers and

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Speaker 5: replace them with community notes similar to X. Starting in

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Speaker 5: the US, after Trump first got elected in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 5: the legacy media wrote NonStop about how misinformation was a

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Speaker 5: threat to democracy. We tried, in good faith to address

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Speaker 5: those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth, but the

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Speaker 5: fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have

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Speaker 5: destroyed more trusts than they've created, especially in the US.

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Speaker 5: So over the next couple of months, we're going to

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Speaker 5: phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second, we're

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Speaker 5: going to simplify our content policies and get rid of

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Speaker 5: a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender

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Speaker 5: that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. What

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Speaker 5: started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly

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Speaker 5: been used to shut down opinions and shut out people

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Speaker 1: So he's going really far, including moving one of the

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Speaker 1: content teamersible for fact checking over from California to Texas.

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Speaker 1: He talks about the you know, the reason why they

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Speaker 1: says BLM. The other thing you all should know. In

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Speaker 1: So now I'm wondering if our Instagram mentions about to

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Speaker 1: want to know what y'all think about this move. And

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Speaker 4: Folks, don't jump at once. I'm jumping well. You know,

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Speaker 4: I'm reminded of what happened in twenty sixteen before any

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Speaker 4: and what we saw were foreign entities using Facebook in

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Speaker 4: particular and Instagram to target people who look like us, specifically,

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Speaker 4: the Internet Russia Agency spent millions of dollars on these

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Speaker 4: that's very scary, and I think it's it's senseless not

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Speaker 4: to imagine that were it more a more progressive administration

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Speaker 4: The question I have for really you Angela, because Andrew,

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Speaker 4: but like I've pretty much I'm off Twitter. It's just

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Speaker 4: such a graveyard there. It's not even you know, anything

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Speaker 4: do wonder what is our role particularly is you know

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Speaker 4: am I being hypocritical by staying on that platform knowing

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Speaker 4: what it is. I'm on you know, Amazon, I order

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Speaker 4: things on Amazon, have Amazon Prime. At what point do

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Speaker 3: I think it's you're not geting you news from Amazon anymore. Huh.

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Speaker 4: Well, the Washington Post is owned by Amazon and a

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Speaker 4: cartoonists quit just this month because she had, you know,

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Speaker 4: This is unheard of it's a ridiculous thing that we're

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Speaker 4: seeing right now that is increasingly normalized. So I don't

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Speaker 3: How their egos gets so twisted over a uh cartoon

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Speaker 3: basically uh, you know, bringing to animation the truth because

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Speaker 3: you're talking about two of the wealthy, the wealthiest man

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Speaker 3: these clowns still haven't made enough money to stand up

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Speaker 3: two strong men like Donald Trump. They got goog gobs

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Speaker 3: more money than this dude, and they and they are

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Speaker 3: they're not just bending a need. They are weak in

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Speaker 1: I don't think they I don't think I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're bending to Donald Trump. I think that they are

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Speaker 1: finding ways to get Donald Trump to bend to them.

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Speaker 3: there is there, there is some intelligence that is immediately

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Speaker 3: inured to you by virtue of your tile your position.

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Speaker 3: I think when I was a lot younger. I thought that,

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Speaker 3: and you get up and there his maniacs. I mean

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Speaker 3: talking about Guam tilted if you kill a.

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Speaker 4: Members flag on the plate. I don't even know the

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Speaker 4: story though, so ill and.

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Speaker 3: Send it to you in a check.

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Speaker 4: But for the viewers we talked about, so the view

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Speaker 4: the people listening, can you just tell us briefly and am.

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Speaker 3: Member Tigris was in a hearing about the expansion of

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Speaker 3: a military base on the island of Guam Okay and

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Speaker 3: he was concerned and in his questioning of the general

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Speaker 3: or whatever the title military official, was that if we

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Speaker 3: were to build uh a more infrastructure cement on Guam,

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Speaker 3: that wouldn't the island just tip over? You know?

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Speaker 1: And on all social media platforms.

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Speaker 4: But I'm curious, why is that about, Like, if that's

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Speaker 4: what happened, what is your defense of that? Like, why

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Speaker 4: is this one of my members, ma'am?

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Speaker 1: It's one of my members?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think this is where I'm not. I'm

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Speaker 4: not beholden to anybody like I think that is. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was the talent, silly moment, and I think that

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Speaker 1: he deeply regrets it. I think that on the side

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Speaker 1: that they regret deeply regret every damn day.

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Speaker 3: Wait, guys, this is not deeply regrettable.

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Speaker 4: It is about intelligence.

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Speaker 1: He's an attorney Johnson. Hank Johnson said it. I wondered

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Speaker 1: if the island would cap size.

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Speaker 3: And first of all, you fell into her trap. She

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Speaker 3: knows exactly what.

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Speaker 4: If I did, I would have I would have explained

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Speaker 4: it myself.

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Speaker 1: A liar, she when you can tell, and was lying.

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Speaker 1: I really believed her that she didn't know what it was,

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Speaker 1: because she's can you remind me of who that might

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Speaker 1: have been?

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Speaker 3: I haven't say that again. That plays the basketball team.

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Speaker 1: In the league. It's I think anyway, here's the thing.

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Speaker 3: So, getting back to crickspot, can I just say this

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Speaker 3: on a serious note, which is, we do have institutions

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Speaker 3: organizations that were primarily existed for the black intelligentia to communicate,

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Speaker 3: to have fellowship, but also to think, to ponder on

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Speaker 3: higher things, which means not just how am I doing

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Speaker 3: in the society in the world, but how do we

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Speaker 3: create structures that give rise and lift to new economies,

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Speaker 3: new work, new leaders, And how do we hold those

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Speaker 3: black folks who do ascend them to those places? How

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Speaker 3: do we keep them connected, hold them accountable, have them

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Speaker 3: feel responsible to us for having them gotten them there

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Speaker 3: and they're holding them there. I mean on that pie

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Speaker 3: five also known as the Boulet, which you can.

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Speaker 4: He's bogie Bogie. We knew that already. No, no, no, never,

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Speaker 4: and Andrew, don't ever call me elitist again, all your

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Speaker 4: little shade. I wish I had known that.

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Speaker 1: You remember the link proudly. So I'm just saying, stillmer

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Speaker 1: all the organization treated some people.

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Speaker 3: That's but I agree, I agree. But all I'm saying

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Speaker 3: is is that there are places that still exist who

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Speaker 3: primarily like to emphasize their focus on layering where black

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Speaker 3: folks are able to ascend to in our society.

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Speaker 1: I think that is more about ascension and act excess

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Speaker 1: than it is about influencing policy or influencing the collective's ability,

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Speaker 1: upward mobility and the collective success.

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Speaker 3: Here in Florida, when we have the Legislative Black Conference,

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Speaker 3: it's those organizations that are here putting forth a Black agenda,

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Speaker 3: an agenda for the A.

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Speaker 1: I would love to do the Bullets Agenda for Black America. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the I love to see it.

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Speaker 4: I have never heard of such a thing.

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Speaker 3: But all I'm saying is And by the way, I

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Speaker 3: don't have to be affiliated with IT groups. You don't

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Speaker 3: have to be affiliate with any of them. Oh lord, yes, anyway,

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Speaker 3: can I just.

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Speaker 1: Tell you do We've been answering this question for fifty minutes.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say really quick, I don't think that

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Speaker 1: intelligentia's influence should be restricted to black folks. We should

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Speaker 1: be influencing everybody. Whether you find yourself in the intelligencia

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Speaker 1: whatever that means, or you're in a union and your intelligencia,

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Speaker 1: or you work at a minimum wage job which should

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Speaker 1: be a livable wage job in your intelligencia. We should

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Speaker 1: all be using our collective influence to change policy. But Andrew,

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Speaker 1: one of the things you said earlier was you learned

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Speaker 1: long ago that the smarts was not reserved for the elected,

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Speaker 1: and you have case in point with this more money

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Speaker 1: coarrel situation. So hopefully we can get to that on

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Speaker 1: the other side of this break.

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Speaker 3: So Angela, before we transition from this point, I just

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Speaker 3: want to say, first of all the entities that I mentioned,

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Speaker 3: and this idea of a black intelligent class and the

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Speaker 3: theories you know further explored by W. E. B. Du

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Speaker 3: bois du bois, the boy du bois, depending upon who

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Speaker 3: you who're.

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Speaker 1: Staying, if you're talking to someone in the blue or.

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Speaker 3: Not shut up girl. Anyway, they contemplated the uplift of

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Speaker 3: all yeah.

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Speaker 4: But I just have to I just want to see

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Speaker 4: agree with it.

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Speaker 3: I just want to see all I'm saying that we could,

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Speaker 3: we could chase the organizations and have them, you know,

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Speaker 3: do the deliverables and whatnot. But I will say this

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Speaker 3: much the reason why what you said has to exist,

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Speaker 3: we have to have space for it. And even in

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Speaker 3: the labor movement, right when you elevated in the leadership

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Speaker 3: and labor you were no longer necessarily on the line.

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Speaker 3: Now you moved into rooms, into spaces circulated with people

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Speaker 3: who were able to change the lived experiences of your

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Speaker 3: members right where they were. And the reason why I

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Speaker 3: think that's so important for our community is because, as

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Speaker 3: we talk about all the time here, the luxuries that

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Speaker 3: exist for people and then the ones that just don't.

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Speaker 3: And so if unions didn't elect leadership that they've then

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Speaker 3: paid and exposed to these rooms, in these tables, that

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Speaker 3: voice would not show up in the room. It wouldn't

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Speaker 3: show up in the room so you don't have to

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Speaker 3: be an Ivy League degree holder or be a part

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Speaker 3: of any of the organizations that I name checked, to

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Speaker 3: be part of a thinking group of people who are like,

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Speaker 3: you know what, this shit sucks?

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Speaker 1: Where we are intelligencia? Who is in it?

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Speaker 4: I couldn't even begin to If you black and you intelligent,

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Speaker 4: you and the black intelligencia, Andrews, we should.

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Speaker 1: Have a mini podcast Black intelligentsia and we should start

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Speaker 1: developing a list.

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Speaker 4: Okay, have an idea opposite black and what is it? Okay,

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Speaker 4: this is my mini pod idea. We don't have to

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Speaker 4: do it this week, but I want to do a

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Speaker 4: mini pod on slang of the country, different regional slang.

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Speaker 4: I will tell y'all this is Albert's idea, because he

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Speaker 4: was giving me all this West Coast slang. Damn say this?

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Speaker 4: Do you say that right? And he was like, y'all

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Speaker 4: do this as a mini I was like, Angela, be

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Speaker 4: all over this. And he was saying stuff that they

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Speaker 4: say in l A. I'm like, I've never said that, Andrew.

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Speaker 4: You and I have talked about you know. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: My wife retold the story when we went to go

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Speaker 3: buy furniture for our first house together, and the man

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Speaker 3: was showing us the couch and the and my ass goes,

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Speaker 3: you got to chesse a draw to go with it,

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Speaker 3: and and it's like and he's it's just like sort

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Speaker 3: of like this, and she said, do you mean chest

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Speaker 3: of drawers?

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Speaker 4: We call the dresser.

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Speaker 3: And I said, oh my god, that makes sense, that

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Speaker 3: makes so much sense. But everybody I grew up with

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Speaker 3: like chess a draw will drop.

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Speaker 4: Y'all slaying in the comments because when we do the

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Speaker 4: mini pod, I want to be able to reference y'all

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Speaker 4: to sure. Okay, well never mind too late, y'all to drop.

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Speaker 4: Don't care. I don't care either way. I promise I.

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Speaker 1: Can't thirty minutes into this podcast and we still ain't

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Speaker 1: talking about it. Orel or tipt topic listen, listen.

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Speaker 4: Because I know we were going to take a whole

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Speaker 4: segment to responded that question.

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Speaker 3: First of all, minutes we were talking about all kinds

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Speaker 3: of stuff.

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Speaker 1: About is going to give us a black agenda to

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Speaker 1: talk about on this podcast? You go chilling, Andrew. I.

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Speaker 1: I embraced my booge and my eedo. I was bumping kid.

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Speaker 3: Jesse Tyson GRANDSI ar con okay, shout out to.

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Speaker 4: Did they sponsor this segment?

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Speaker 3: Thank you?

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm trying to figure out.

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Speaker 1: Say what the links ever gonna do sponsor this podcast?

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Speaker 1: Because I love.

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Speaker 4: Many of you all, nicolevid a ball event. Okay, please

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Speaker 4: remember we started doing this. I'll land you on not

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Speaker 4: inside of the break. I want to hear about Tlorida.

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Speaker 4: So we'll go to the break and you can bring

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Speaker 4: us back and tell us about and Florida and what

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Speaker 4: he's doing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I absolutely those ones are right or that.

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Speaker 3: So y'all we're back. And the reason why I know

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Speaker 3: y'all think this is just a Florida sort of angle,

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Speaker 3: and that's why I'm harping on it. But as we

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Speaker 3: think about the fact that Donald Trump is going into

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Speaker 3: the White House, we got we got the Sanders who

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Speaker 3: want to be president of the United States. Just know

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Speaker 3: that what we are about to experience in Trump two

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Speaker 3: point zero, this, this this authoritarian, wanna be strong man

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Speaker 3: dictator is going to be much more capable of playing

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Speaker 3: that role of strong man. And I will say in

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Speaker 3: part because he has sat in an armchair looking at

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Speaker 3: Ron decentis in the state of Florida. And I don't

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Speaker 3: say that as a former opponent. I say that as

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Speaker 3: a citizen, as a resident of this state. Where in

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Speaker 3: the case of Monique Warrell, who is the elected, duly elected,

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Speaker 3: reelected state Attorney, and re elected state attorney covering Ostiola

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Speaker 3: in Orange County, which, for those of you all are

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Speaker 3: not familiar, is Central Florida, Disney World, the outskirts of it,

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Speaker 3: Orlando and whatnot. But but but she stands on the

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Speaker 3: shoulders of an already really important figure, harams Ayala, who

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Speaker 3: preceded her as the first black woman ever elected state

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Speaker 3: attorney and the entire state of Florida's history, and she

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Speaker 3: came after her, and because she campaigned again, y'all remember

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty, we had come out of the Year of

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Speaker 3: George Floyd and people were starting to look open to

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Speaker 3: looking at the justice system a different way, while she

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Speaker 3: ran on a principal justice platform that basically said lock

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Speaker 3: them up and throw away the kids, and not to

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Speaker 3: answer to everything. In fact, let's look at the many

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Speaker 3: ways in which justice can be carried out to the

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Speaker 3: benefit of the victim, to the creating the wholeness of

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Speaker 3: the victim, but also doing good and just for the

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Speaker 3: society and the individuals, and this governor in Florida, Ron

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Speaker 3: De Santis, decided that he would sign an executive order

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Speaker 3: to remove her, suspend her as the state's attorney and

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Speaker 3: cited for his reasons and competence, unqualified and soft on crime. Now,

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Speaker 3: as you and I all know, y'all, when I run

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Speaker 3: for an office like that, I run on a platform.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you what it is. I'm trying to accomplish.

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Speaker 3: The voters then hear that and then make a declarative

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Speaker 3: decisional election whether or not they want to advance that model

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Speaker 3: or not. But this governor said, oh, I'm all powerful.

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Speaker 3: I know you were duly elected, but because we have

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Speaker 3: a philosophical difference, you're unfit for the office, and I

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Speaker 3: hear by remove you. That thing went all the way

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Speaker 3: up to the Florida Supreme Court, a supreme court where

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Speaker 3: he appointed eight of the non justices that we're sitting

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Speaker 3: on that bench, and of course they decided to rubber

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Speaker 3: stent the governor's removal of her and would not reinstate

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Speaker 3: her in office. What does she do? Like most hard working,

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Speaker 3: good black women, I know, she stood right back up

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Speaker 3: and said, I'm running again, and I'm going to reclaim

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Speaker 3: my time and my position, my title, and the good

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Speaker 3: work that we were doing. She ran in twenty twenty four, y'all,

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Speaker 3: this past November, and even in a Florida where Donald

666
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Speaker 3: Trump ran away with the electoral College and all that stuff,

667
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Speaker 3: she got re elected sixty forty over her opponent. And

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Speaker 3: do y'all know this past Tuesday when she was sworn

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Speaker 3: in that already reporters, the Capitol Press Corps, everybody swirling

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Speaker 3: with rumor that Ronda Santis is going to work to

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Speaker 3: remove her again, except this time there is a prosecution

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Speaker 3: that is possibly going to come forth from her neighboring

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Speaker 3: state attorney in Polk County. Over some don't wait for

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Speaker 3: the thing to drop, some trumped up mess to remove

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Speaker 3: her from office and become the governor's justification for taking

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Speaker 3: her out yet again. Again, this is not just the

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Speaker 3: Florida story. To our listeners, for those of you all

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Speaker 3: in Florida, please pay attention, please fight. This is why, Tiff,

679
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 3: when you kept saying black women, we're gonna take a

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Speaker 3: break and we're coming back in there. This is why

681
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Speaker 3: it's never opportunity for us to step back from politics.

682
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Speaker 3: Why because we're the first thing on the chopping block,

683
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Speaker 3: the first thing swinging, and look no further than the

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Speaker 3: story of Monique Warel, State Attorney. Congratulations on your reelections.

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Speaker 3: We're with you in solidarity, and I'm asking our listening

686
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Speaker 3: and viewing audience to please stay tuned to what happens

687
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Speaker 3: in this case. This woman is dedicated, committed, elected, re elected, blessed,

688
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Speaker 3: highly favored, but yet she is a target for the

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Speaker 3: right and Angela and tiff we all know enough people

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Speaker 3: in power who are black who have come under same

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Speaker 3: and similar scrutiny for having done nothing at all.

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Speaker 1: And that's just it. We should hear just for a

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Speaker 1: moment from Moniquirel and talk a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: this alleged grand jury investigation on the other side of

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Speaker 1: this clip.

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Speaker 8: Eighteen months ago, I stood on these very steps after

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Speaker 8: being unjusted removed from office that you elected me to.

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Speaker 8: I told you then that I didn't intend to give up,

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Speaker 8: and as a result of you standing with me over

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Speaker 8: these last eighteen months, today I am honored to return

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Speaker 8: to the seat of the people's.

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Speaker 3: State of time, the people people as a resident. Right, y'all,

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Speaker 3: remember Kamala Harris saying I stood up and I said,

704
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Speaker 3: Kamala Harris for the people, for the people. That's who

705
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Speaker 3: elected this woman, the people. And a governor believes that

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Speaker 3: he has the power because I disagree with.

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Speaker 1: Well the Florida law sadly, if she is indicted by

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Speaker 1: a grand jury, Florida law states that the governor has

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Speaker 1: the power to suspend any any state official under those circumstances.

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Speaker 1: Again to the point, Andrew, you have been a part

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Speaker 1: of that. We know Marilyn Martin Mosby, who's pardon we

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Speaker 1: are still seeking, has been subject to these types of issues.

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Speaker 1: Kim Gardner in Saint louis subject to the same types

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Speaker 1: of issues. Just because a prosecutor comes after you, and

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Speaker 1: just because a grand jury indicts you based on the

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Speaker 1: lies in an indictment does not mean that you are guilty.

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Speaker 1: And so what the Florida voters are up against is

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Speaker 1: whether or not their vote can super see the will

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Speaker 1: of the governor, and how many times they have to

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Speaker 1: demonstrate to the Florida governor what their will is. And

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Speaker 1: I just I hate that this is happening, Andrew. Every

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Speaker 1: time I look at Florida, I just think it would

723
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Speaker 1: have been so much better if my brother would have won.

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Speaker 3: Well, Angela, I gotta tell you, I'll go back to

725
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Speaker 3: my premise. Which is the reason why this is so

726
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Speaker 3: key for all of us, is the playbook has been

727
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Speaker 3: played Pat and Donald Trump. We're gonna see this thing

728
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Speaker 3: on scalable fashion when this man, when this man assumes office,

729
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Speaker 3: and we just got to be vigilant, y'all. I've never

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Speaker 3: thought that, just like Pence, couldn't just say I'm throwing

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Speaker 3: out these votes, these Electoral College votes. This man said,

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Speaker 3: I'm throwing out all tens of thousands of votes, and

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Speaker 3: I one man gets to decide who holds that seat.

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Speaker 4: I think that the concern that I'm seeing here is

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Speaker 4: looking at this situation Andrew, which is a microcosm for

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Speaker 4: what we've seen across the country, but then looking at

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Speaker 4: the president elects, who himself is convicted of multiple felonies,

738
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Speaker 4: and if this is a question we were kind of

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Speaker 4: tuoling with in our group chat.

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Speaker 1: Facing sentencings by the way, tip before his inauguration.

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Speaker 3: Yes, is sentenced, he will not be a felon.

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Speaker 4: Right, But I guess the question is in this country

743
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Speaker 4: and I think we are sadly going to be confronted with,

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Speaker 4: is if the president can do it and face no consequence.

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Speaker 4: If the insurrectionists of January sixth can attempt to overthrow

746
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Speaker 4: a government and face no consequence, then what is the law? Yeah,

747
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Speaker 4: because what are the infrastructures of society that now govern us?

748
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Speaker 4: Because they have said on their side, they have said

749
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Speaker 4: we can throw these things out, and when we don't

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Speaker 4: throw them out, we will weaponize them against our opponents.

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Speaker 4: And that is the terrain of society that we are

752
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Speaker 4: maneuvering in now. And I think it's a faffo, Andrew.

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Speaker 4: I think people have throughund and now they're going to

754
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Speaker 4: find out if people are increasingly tuned out, which I'll

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Speaker 4: talk about on the other side of a break, But

756
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Speaker 4: people are increasingly tuned out, which I understand. You know,

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Speaker 4: I completely get it. People are righteously disgusted with it.

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Speaker 4: But I just wonder, like the story that you told

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Speaker 4: Andrew is not going to be above the fold on

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Speaker 4: the New York Times. You know, it's not going to

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Speaker 4: be leading coverage on CNN, it's not going to be

762
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Speaker 4: breaking news on MSNBC. The thousands of ways that they

763
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Speaker 4: bleed us by a thousand cuts before they decapitate us

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Speaker 4: are the things that's going to lead to the downfall

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Speaker 4: of society. And it is baffling yet not surprising to

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Speaker 4: me that black women are often the people on the

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Speaker 4: front lines of this fight.

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Speaker 3: And that's says, you know, the reason why it won't

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Speaker 3: lead any of those sites or sources or entities that

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Speaker 3: you reference, because the target is us. Yeah we are.

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Speaker 3: We are less than our percent of the population and

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Speaker 3: elective office. Right, But how is it that every black

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Speaker 3: elected official we can name right now has some kind

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Speaker 3: of federal state probe going into them? At some point,

775
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 3: said is Angela. At some point, this is no longer

776
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 3: just a coincidence that black mayors, governors, senators, states a

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Speaker 3: turn the prosecutors, you're telling me, the people who bring

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Speaker 3: the cases if you black, are now on the other

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Speaker 3: side of those cases which you're neighboring, prosecutors choosing to

780
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Speaker 3: come after you doing the governor, the presidents and everybody

781
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 3: else's bidding. And this shit has to stop. And what

782
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 3: stops it the mechanisms. I used to believe in a

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Speaker 3: Supreme court who said that democracy mattered, but when they

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Speaker 3: decided to hand the kings over to a dictator, that

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00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 3: stopped being the case. And now state supreme courts, which

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00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 3: used to be able to be relied upon to follow

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Speaker 3: the Constitution in law, are following the fashions of their

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Speaker 3: republican god governor, and that becomes the dictator to how

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Speaker 3: you don't even need to read the case law, y'all.

790
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Speaker 3: You don't have to read the briefs. You don't have

791
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 3: to read the weight of the argument. All you need

792
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 3: to know is the political party the case on either side.

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Speaker 3: And I can tell you in this state and now

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Speaker 3: in this nation, where that's just going to end.

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Speaker 4: Well, I wonder if we have time before we go

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Speaker 4: to break to get in another viewer question.

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Speaker 3: Please do we have time?

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Speaker 1: Yep, let's do it. Yeah, it with a quick answer,

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Speaker 1: not with a fifteen minute response, but yes.

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Speaker 4: Well, I wanted to talk about this particular one because

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Speaker 4: what you're talking about, Andrew, is just the way that

802
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Speaker 4: this administration is able to subvert the law. And I

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00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 4: thought of you, or had a great question about how

804
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Speaker 4: this administration is not only trying to subvert the law domestically,

805
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Speaker 4: but on a global scale as well.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a listion.

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Speaker 9: Happy holidays, Native Land Pod, It's great to see you again.

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00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 9: To the CEO of Black people. Merry Christmas to my

809
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 9: forever governor. Happy Kwansa to my CAU sister.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year.

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Speaker 9: If a la navidac, This is DONALDA, the drama teacher

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Speaker 9: in Florida, coming at you again. I think you re

813
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Speaker 9: remember that I spent my summer break in Central America

814
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Speaker 9: where there is a thriving Black American expat They're not expats,

815
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Speaker 9: they've moved there where there's a thriving Black American immigrant

816
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Speaker 9: community in Panama, and that made me puts on my

817
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Speaker 9: radar that our president elect has made recent threats to

818
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Speaker 9: break the treaty with the Panama of Panamanians and take

819
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Speaker 9: back and colonize the Panama Canal, to which their president

820
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Speaker 9: has already responded with an FAFO kind of response. But

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Speaker 9: I'm wondering, what do you think the response of our

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Speaker 9: of the international community would be if the United States

823
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Speaker 9: decided to break a treaty and try to commandeer the

824
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Speaker 9: Panama Canal again. What are your thoughts on that? How

825
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Speaker 9: do you think the international community would respond? Thanks? Happy

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Speaker 9: hollow Days.

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Speaker 4: Well, I remember when this came up during his first

828
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Speaker 4: term in twenty nineteen, when he first floated the idea

829
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Speaker 4: of buying greenland, and I remember I was on set

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Speaker 4: with Craig Melvin talking about it, and I remember thinking,

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Speaker 4: this is the most colonial boss I've ever heard, Like

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Speaker 4: you can just go around and buy land common deer

833
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Speaker 4: land by it was independent of the people. And it's

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Speaker 4: kind of the same thing with the Panama Canal. It's

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Speaker 4: a crazy thing. So just so people know, the Panama

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Speaker 4: Canal is actually a man made waterway that it basically

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Speaker 4: shapes how people can do business there.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's like a cut it's what do you call

839
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Speaker 3: it a cut through? Yeah, if we were on a

840
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Speaker 3: road infrastructure, it's a cut through. So you don't have

841
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Speaker 3: exactly exactly, you don't have to go all the way

842
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Speaker 3: south of South America to bring goods and products into

843
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Speaker 3: the Hemisphere. Yeah, hemisphere.

844
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Speaker 4: Yes, it basically connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and

845
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Speaker 4: it's the American businesses considerable times on this shortcut, exactly, Andrew.

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Speaker 4: And it's interesting to me because there is vested interest

847
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Speaker 4: in the Panama Canal, which has held by the way

848
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Speaker 4: since the Carter administration. It even held in nineteen eighty nine,

849
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Speaker 4: when then President George HW. Bush removed Noriega the Panamanian leader.

850
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Speaker 4: So the fact that he is trying to upend decades

851
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Speaker 4: of US policy in addition to his desire to buy Greenland.

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Speaker 4: You all may have seen Donald Trump Junior was visiting

853
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Speaker 4: Greenland this week. I found it interesting there that Russia

854
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 4: has a vested interest in the Northern Sea, which of

855
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 4: course is a part of Greenland. And so I look

856
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 4: at these things and I am hopeful that the international

857
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 4: community will not go for it. But I mean, experts

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Speaker 4: will tell you if he tries to see these things,

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Speaker 4: it will have to be done by force. No one

860
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 4: is going to see their sovereign land. To Donald Trump,

861
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Speaker 4: it doesn't matter about the paycheck. And so I just

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00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 4: think about all of the threats, the multiple threats we

863
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 4: have facing us across the globe. Uh, And I think,

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Speaker 4: why would you ever invite this kind of international unrest

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Speaker 4: to our shores?

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Speaker 3: Because he doesn't he doesn't care. As you, Angela and

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Speaker 3: I all know, the Panama Canals services three fourths of

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Speaker 3: American goods. We pay three fourths of the taxes on

869
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Speaker 3: the levees, if you will, for the product move through

870
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 3: the Panama Canal. The next highest payer is China, and

871
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 3: again they're a fourth of what what will we pay Now?

872
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 3: If China decided that they were going to throw down

873
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,240
Speaker 3: and say we will come to a fisticuff and defense

874
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 3: of the nation sovereign Panama, then that might be something

875
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 3: that could put some skids on it. But the global community,

876
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 3: they'll all issue statements and they will all say what

877
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 3: a horrible and nondemocratic and a break with traditional international

878
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 3: norms this is and treaties. But they ain't gonna do

879
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 3: a goddamn thing because they cannot match the US force,

880
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 3: which is what Donald Trump has always been someone who

881
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 3: basically says the strongest are to always reign over the weakest.

882
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 4: It can, but it can grossly damage our geopolitics in

883
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 4: both of these regions. And I don't and this, but

884
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 4: this is one of those things where people, you know,

885
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 4: it sounds like something silly, and how that Donald Trump

886
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 4: is so crazy talking about buying Greenland and season of

887
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,720
Speaker 4: Panama Canal and while whatever, and these are the things

888
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 4: that can lead to a multiple layers of danger, economic danger,

889
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 4: and warfare, a warfare with our country.

890
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 3: So the community doesn't have to recognize it right going

891
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 3: to Greenland and be like, oh, I'm just going to

892
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 3: buy it in It ain't on sale Amazon, and so

893
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 3: every international government can say we don't recognize it. We

894
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 3: don't recognize it.

895
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 4: From tuned out from it, and I know a lot

896
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 4: of you all are tuned out. So on the other

897
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 4: side of this break, I want to talk about how

898
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 4: we are isolating and not being connected with what's happening

899
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 4: in the world.

900
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 3: I'm excited about that because I experienced it with a

901
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 3: lot of friends and family members as well. I think

902
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 3: some strategies need to be offered here.

903
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 1: I want to also talk about whether or not it

904
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: is greenland or Greenland.

905
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 4: On the other side, what did I say? Did I

906
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 4: say greenland?

907
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: Saying greenland? Because you love nonsense anyway, break.

908
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 4: Now, I was I think I was saying green hat.

909
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 3: You gave it to.

910
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 4: Names Greenland, Greenland, greenland. It depends on do you think Caribbean?

911
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 1: I say, I say.

912
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 4: Me too.

913
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: That's one thing we say the same. That's because you're

914
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: down there with the Caribbean, all right.

915
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 2: Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

916
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 10: Connecting through technology having friends online is not the same

917
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,959
Speaker 10: as having friends in person. And what has happened over time,

918
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,760
Speaker 10: especially as social media has become to such a deeply

919
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 10: ingrained part of our lives is that we've moved from

920
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 10: having contents to contacts, from having friends to having followers,

921
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 10: a shift from quality of friends to quantity. And the

922
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 10: truth is that there are certain things you can just

923
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 10: say to people online that you would never say to

924
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 10: them in person, right because you know it might be hurtful,

925
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 10: or you might you know, adjust how you say it.

926
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 10: But when we're in person with other people, it's just

927
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 10: a richer interactions. See, because we evolved over thousands of

928
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 10: years as human beings to actually have in person reactions,

929
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 10: interactions to not only hear what somebody is saying, but

930
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 10: to appreciate the tone of their voice and the expression

931
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 10: on their face.

932
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 3: And the bouch you means.

933
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 8: That's why a lot of things get lost, the context

934
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 8: gets lost.

935
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 4: In the text that was doctor Vivic Murphy, Joe Biden's

936
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,439
Speaker 4: US Surgeon General, and he was talking about what he's

937
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 4: been talking about for a while now, actually, and that

938
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 4: is loneliness and isolation. And so I started reading about it,

939
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 4: and I was really struck by a lot of the data.

940
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 4: And I think all of us, the three of us here,

941
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 4: have certainly experienced it. We noticed it even in our

942
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 4: own personal lives with how we relate to people and

943
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 4: our own social lives and how we go out. But

944
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,280
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three, seventy four percent of all restaurant

945
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 4: traffic came from takeout. So people are still patroning these restaurants,

946
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 4: but they are not sitting there engaging with other people.

947
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 4: They go and pick it up. That's according to the

948
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 4: National Restaurant Association. That takeout number was up sixty one

949
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:06,959
Speaker 4: percent before COVID. Also, the number of adults having dinner

950
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 4: or drinks with friends on any given night has declined

951
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 4: by more than thirty percent over the past twenty years.

952
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 4: Because initially I thought, oh, well, this is just post

953
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 4: COVID and this is how things go. But no, it

954
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 4: was happening already pre COVID. And even when we are

955
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 4: sitting at restaurants, people tend to do so by themselves.

956
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 4: According to data from Open Table, solo dining has increased

957
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,720
Speaker 4: by twenty nine percent in just two years. The typical

958
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 4: American adult buys three movie tickets a year and watches

959
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 4: almost nineteen hours of television. You guys, remember we used

960
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 4: to go to movies. Now, let me tell you for

961
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 4: me to go sit in the theater has got to

962
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 4: be a damn good movie, because I'm like, well, where

963
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 4: is the stream man? Where can I watch it? For

964
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 4: over twenty years, from two thousand and three to twenty

965
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 4: twenty three, socializing plunged by more than twenty percent. That's

966
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,240
Speaker 4: according to the American Time Youth Survey. That's a study

967
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 4: conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unmarried men and

968
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 4: people young twenty five, that decline was more than thirty

969
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,280
Speaker 4: five percent. And we are categorizing this time as alone

970
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 4: as you're the only person in the room, even if

971
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 4: you're on the phone or in front of a computer.

972
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 4: Men who watch television now spend seven hours in front

973
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 4: of TV instead of hanging out with people outside their home.

974
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 4: The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged

975
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,799
Speaker 4: with her pet then she spends in face to face

976
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 4: contact with friends. And this is since the early two

977
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 4: thousands that exact calles dog people. The amount of time

978
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,479
Speaker 4: that Americans say they spend helping or caring for people

979
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 4: outside their nuclear family has declined by more than the third.

980
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 4: So I bring this up to say I've heard from

981
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 4: so many people it's like I love y'all native land.

982
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 4: But I got it to now, like I just I can't.

983
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear what's happening. And I think

984
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 4: we are increasingly building these silo empires to ourselves where

985
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 4: it's brain rot and doom scrolling. We're not engaging with people,

986
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 4: We're not talking. And I get it. This isn't said

987
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 4: with any judgment, because it is. I have found, like

988
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 4: over the holidays, when I was completely checked out and

989
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 4: I wasn't reading the paper, is that I wasn't watching

990
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 4: the news. I did find that my spirit was a

991
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:06,879
Speaker 4: bit lighter, you know. And I find that at this

992
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 4: point in life, I only want to be around the

993
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 4: people I know. I don't necessarily want to be around

994
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 4: new people. Angela knows. If we're all going to dinner,

995
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 4: and Angel's like, oh I'm going to bring someone, We're

996
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 4: all like, we don't know them, you know, we is not.

997
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 3: Them? Well what our questions are to Angela? Like you

998
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:27,919
Speaker 3: mean this with us? Yeah?

999
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 4: I know, Angela and no new friends, no friend just

1000
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 4: using I'm more likely to invice. But even that I

1001
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 4: just know, but I know it's against the rule. It's

1002
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,720
Speaker 4: our machete dinner. If our is our native land dinner.

1003
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 4: If it's the three of us kicking it, it is.

1004
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 4: We are not like new friends kind of people.

1005
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not inside the inside the safe bubble, but

1006
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 1: they can have new friends individually, but not in the

1007
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: side safe mostly because who wants to put up with

1008
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: performative exactly right?

1009
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 4: Genuine authentic matters so much. But I do find myself

1010
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 4: increasingly alone, and it has been so normalized to the

1011
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 4: point where if I'm getting dressed going out to see people,

1012
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 4: that is a big, huge deal. And I'll tell you

1013
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 4: more often than not, I mad at you about that.

1014
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 3: I'm with you tif well.

1015
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 4: When you first of all, when you were in town

1016
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 4: for the sea, I would say I'm.

1017
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: Mad at that. I'm not mad. I know that you

1018
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: were sick. I know that you were sick and your

1019
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: plight was still but I am a little mad. Breaking

1020
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: news for those of you who do not know us

1021
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: inside the save bubble. I think out of the three

1022
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: of us, I'm the most spoiled and probably the most

1023
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: brady about it. So I have an unreasonable expectation that

1024
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: when I call these negroes, they pick up the phone.

1025
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And so.

1026
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 3: I don't call I know you in this hotel.

1027
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: Right, Like I don't call much, but like when I call,

1028
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: it's either an emergency, I got something real funny to

1029
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: tell you, or I got some real good like most

1030
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,439
Speaker 1: of time was real good. It's about money. So I'm

1031
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: just like, please pick up my call because I'm not

1032
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: calling you for well, I can't say I'm never calling

1033
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: you freviously, but nine times I understand I'm not calling

1034
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: you previously. So I would like for your New Year's

1035
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: resolution to be just one in five? Can you just

1036
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:13,959
Speaker 1: answer one in five calls?

1037
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 4: And so much? All about that a little bit the phone.

1038
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 4: So part of the reason why I and I missed.

1039
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 4: I faced the Vice president y'all twice because I was

1040
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 4: not answering my phone.

1041
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: Is keep but I'm talking about you.

1042
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 4: But but I'm not looking at my phone as my

1043
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 4: poont like my phone will be in another room and

1044
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 4: it'll be I keep it away from me sometimes.

1045
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 3: But because I.

1046
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 4: Have but I have so many miscalls, not that I'm

1047
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 4: like popping like that, but everybody be blowing me up.

1048
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 4: I have so many miscalls that I don't always look

1049
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 4: through and see because I'll tell you it is overwhelming

1050
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 4: to yeah, you that many times for it to be overwhelming.

1051
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: If you evening and if you give me a spa

1052
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: and it'll still good, you know. But I get you, yes,

1053
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: because if you remove yourself from it and just look

1054
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: at like it's this device that's living and breathing and

1055
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: begging for my ads, I want to right.

1056
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 4: I want to throw it out the winter. I typically

1057
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 4: go through and look at my you know, text or miscalls,

1058
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 4: and so when I'm trying to be present, and I

1059
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 4: definitely don't when I'm with people. I'm not looking at dinner.

1060
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 4: I'm not looking at my phone to say, if you

1061
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 4: live here and you said, hey, let's go to breakfast

1062
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 4: on Tuesday at night, I'm there. Let's have drinks on

1063
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 4: Wednesday breakfast. But I guess I think the point I'm

1064
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 4: making about is being attached to the phone and attached

1065
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 4: to these devices.

1066
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 3: And connect the attachment to those devices. It is much

1067
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 3: more that I think you hit on it. This anxiety,

1068
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 3: the energy that it takes to do a thing is

1069
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 3: a term that you all have helped me grow more

1070
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 3: accustomed to the thing that used to cost me nothing innes.

1071
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 4: It takes so much to even look at my phone.

1072
00:59:59,000 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 4: It takes so I'm.

1073
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 3: Because I feel the anxiety weigh down on me like this.

1074
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 4: In an unhealthy way. It's like an elephant on my

1075
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 4: chest and got I'm going down a roller coaster. That's

1076
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:10,439
Speaker 4: what it feels.

1077
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 3: My phone goes a ringer when we leave kids with sitters. Otherwise,

1078
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 3: let me tell you, Like Christmas, I had the best time.

1079
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 3: This is getting to your point, Tiffany. I didn't know

1080
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 3: it was what I needed. But we had like thirty

1081
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 3: I mean my mother, my father in law, my father,

1082
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 3: my mother in law, my wife of godmother stayed with us,

1083
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 3: and I mean we fourteen sixteen people in the house,

1084
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Speaker 3: air mattresses everywhere. My kids weren't on their tablets, we

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01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 3: were playing outside, we were talking, we were laughing. We

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01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 3: spent the whole day in the house, never leaving and

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01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 3: never getting bored. And I couldn't tell you where my

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01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 3: phones were for about twelve days. I going to my

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01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 3: friends who were like, we texted your America. I'm so

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01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 3: sorry because I know you wish me and Mary Christmas,

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01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 3: and when we see each other, we're gonna love and

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01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 3: we're gonna embracing this that but that time that energy

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01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 3: is spent again. I would not have written it in

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Speaker 3: my wishless things to do, but when it happened, it

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01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 3: was exactly what I needed. And I think it was

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Speaker 3: that way for everybody who was in our space. Angela,

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Speaker 3: do you hosted folks and you were like, I have

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Speaker 3: the vibe days.

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Speaker 4: On days it was good. But Angela, you're very responsive,

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Speaker 4: and I like, one first station I have is when

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Speaker 4: you're sitting with people and I've taken the time and

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Speaker 4: I'm sitting across from you and You're like this the

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Speaker 4: whole time. I don't like it. I never see you

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Speaker 4: doing that, And I'm like, how the hell is Angela

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Speaker 4: so responsive? Because when we're together, well, but if we're

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Speaker 4: like about to do a live.

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Speaker 3: Show solving the global problem, no, right, but.

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Speaker 4: But but but when it's just like we're chilling, I

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01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 4: don't see you like this. The whole time I had

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Speaker 4: people over. Albert and some other folks came over my

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01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 4: house over the holidays, and Albert was being silly, I

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01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 4: have to send you the video because he was like,

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Speaker 4: I don't consent to my video being taken.

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Speaker 11: But if something happens, Collins and the right on the phone,

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Speaker 11: something happens to be here, No, but I shout it

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01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 11: out to be on the phone that much either.

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Speaker 1: But I do take pockets and dedicate time to being responsive.

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Speaker 1: The reason for that is it's funny that we're having

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Speaker 1: this conversation because Leonetta. You guys know, Leonette is my

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Speaker 1: best friend. She literally we were in a debate yesterday

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Speaker 1: about why I should be her emergency contact. She was like,

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Speaker 1: y'all never pick up the phone. So it's funny that

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Speaker 1: with y'all, I'm responsive with most of like the rest

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Speaker 1: of the people in my circle. My dad will tell

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Speaker 1: you nine times out of ten he calls me it's

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Speaker 1: a miscall, But I'm calling back in two or three minutes.

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Speaker 1: I'm lucky if to call me back in two or

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Speaker 1: three days. Okay. So she's like, we catch I have

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Speaker 1: blown out and I'm no longer alive. I'm in the

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Speaker 1: I see you. Can you please call me back? Man?

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Speaker 1: But that's the thing. It's there's just pockets, and I

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Speaker 1: think that some of it is from working on the Hill.

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Speaker 1: I had a rule with my CBC team shout out

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Speaker 1: to Steph and Brandon and Latrese and then later as

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Speaker 1: Son and Fimi, But when we worked on the Hill,

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Speaker 1: my rule was you return a call within twelve hours,

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Speaker 1: and you return an email within three like period. And

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Speaker 1: I think I try to stay that way because even

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Speaker 1: though y'all are not my constituency, I feel like I

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Speaker 1: owe something to the people.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be at my personal wellness and

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01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: the expense of mind my health, But I think that

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01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: it's not going to take much for me to take

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01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 1: some time to get on my plate, because what gives

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01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 1: me more anxiety than not responding is looking up. And

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01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 1: I got five thousand text messages, and seeing that number,

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01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh God, I don't want. I don't I

1149
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 1: just can't handle that build up. Now. I'll handle a

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01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 1: pile of clothes on the floor, I'll handle laundry pole

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01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 1: and I don't care. But the text messages, even my emails,

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01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 1: I think my emails. Let me see my emails.

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01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,960
Speaker 4: I want to declare a text bankruptcy.

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01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 1: It's one hundred and nineteen thousand unread emails in here.

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Speaker 1: I just gave up on that. I only have two

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Speaker 1: unread text messages though, but.

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Speaker 4: See even the text though. So it's a it's a conundrum, right,

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01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 4: because the anxiety you're talking about is what I face

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01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 4: all the time, which I wouldn't face if I were

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Speaker 4: attached to my phone, if I was look looking at

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01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 4: it and scheduled time like okay, from nine to ten,

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01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 4: you're going to clear your inbox and deal with these things.

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01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 4: And I don't do it. I let it build and

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01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 4: build and build and build, and then it's like I'm

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01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 4: too overwhelmed to go through all that. So if it's

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01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 4: something important, I trust that, you know, it will bubble

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01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 4: to the top. And the sad thing is, I know

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01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 4: I'm going to talk to you, Like there are people

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Speaker 4: who I may never respond to their you know, I may,

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Speaker 4: and I'll miss it. And it's like six months later

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01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:37,200
Speaker 4: I see it. I did somebody in your family like that.

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01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 4: I didn't see it, and then six months later I

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01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 4: saw that they had text me. I was like, oh

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Speaker 4: my dad, this is so terrible. Oh no, girl, Well

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Speaker 4: you know here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The cold part is now we're so connected.

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Speaker 1: When y'all don't respond, guess who hears about it?

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Speaker 4: Oh, you tell your will. Yeah, your dad never called me,

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01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 4: by the way, he was.

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Speaker 1: He don't you as soon as he wants you on

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Speaker 1: the radio show. But and y'all don't respond to anybody,

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01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: not just pop a rye, anybody. I texted y'all, friend,

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01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: I texted Andrew. I texted I'm like, oh, and then

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01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 1: I got to try to call y'all and neither one

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01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 1: of y'all going to answer.

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01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 4: But you know what I think we should do.

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01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 1: We talked about postponing the slang that I was very

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01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:18,439
Speaker 1: excited about, but.

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Speaker 4: To get we know that don't should get.

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Speaker 1: We do like our audience, so we can get their feedback,

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01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: n LP fans feedback. But what do you guys think

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01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 1: about the part of this is selfish, but I kind

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Speaker 1: of want to talk about health in the new year,

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01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: and I feel like this mental health piece is important

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01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 1: going into Trump's inauguration. Figuring out how we balance all

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Speaker 1: that is important. But I also started some New Year's resolutions.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 1: Andrew, Why did you all of a sudden get blurred out?

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Speaker 4: Are you the way it did? And then you were

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01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,440
Speaker 4: all mute? What is going on? Remember when he started

1202
01:05:56,840 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 4: think about what you've got mail?

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01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't.

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01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, everybody can't afford you all expensive Enterney, what's

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01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 3: the what's the dude?

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01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: What was the commercial in the eighties where the do

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01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: came on? Max? Was it Max? The Pepsi commercial crew?

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01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 1: Right now, that's you, that's you, that's you, Andrew, that's

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01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: how you look.

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01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 4: You look crazy. I can't even read.

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01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 1: They're not gonna see it though. He's gonna look regular

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01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 1: when they see the footage.

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Speaker 4: Is it time for cause to action?

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01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:24,920
Speaker 6: Yeah?

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01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 1: I think we called and acted, but let's see what

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Speaker 1: you doing.

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01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 4: I gotta call it. Okay, well I'm cheating you.

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Speaker 3: One.

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Speaker 4: My first most important one is please vote, you guys.

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Speaker 4: The NAACP voting. When does it in Angela?

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Speaker 1: Do you know? I think n double a c P.

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Speaker 1: I know ends on February seventh.

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Speaker 4: Okay, my birthday is February sixth, and all I want

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01:06:51,040 --> 01:07:01,919
Speaker 4: for my birthday I remember out vote Andrewease. I don't

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01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 4: know where that came from. It came from. That's the

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Speaker 4: first image Awards dot Net.

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Speaker 1: That's her collective call.

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Speaker 4: To please vote, Tell your family and friends to vote,

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01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 4: like overwhelm the website, to shut down vote vote, vote,

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01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 4: vote vote vote Angela. Things were gonna have this new

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Speaker 4: uniform of all black, which I can commit to in person,

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Speaker 4: I don't know. On the podcast, every week.

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Speaker 1: I promise on that person on the podcast News and

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Speaker 1: Information on n doable a c Image Awards dot net

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Speaker 1: under the Television and Streaming category. I'm giving this to

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Speaker 1: get there. Okay, you should thank Andrew exercise your franchise.

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Speaker 4: Yes, my other call to action is okay, so we're

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Speaker 4: gonna postpone the slang mini pid, but so if you

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01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 4: can drop us a video or comment with the slang

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01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 4: that you use in your region, because West Coast folks

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01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 4: got different slang than Down South folks. Down on South

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01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 4: slang is different than Deep South slanes, different than Try

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01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 4: State slang. Yeah sayings, you know, all the colloquialisms that

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01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 4: define us as a people, and then there's gonna be

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01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:15,920
Speaker 4: some commonality in there, Like there are things that we

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01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:19,600
Speaker 4: all say that found its way across the country that

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01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 4: is just exclusive to us. No matter how much they

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01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 4: try to steal from us. We are a bottomless bucket

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01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:29,559
Speaker 4: of dopeness, of swagger, all of it. By the time

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Speaker 4: they start saying it, we already and we keep right exactly.

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Speaker 4: So I want to hear from y'all, what what do

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01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:41,680
Speaker 4: y'all say in your region that we might not be

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01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 4: up on. Give it to us So that's my two

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01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 4: calls to.

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Speaker 1: Action that Andrew, what you got?

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Speaker 4: Do you have a action? Not only are you blurry,

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01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 4: but apparently there's a delay. I mean, okay, that was

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Speaker 4: Andrew action year went out. Andrew's caught action is please

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01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 4: start a go fund me for his dollars Andrew, so

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01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:09,200
Speaker 4: he can call a action.

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Speaker 1: We'll pause for five minutes so you can get it out.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I'll ditto Tiffany's. Both Tiffany's calls and to add

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Speaker 3: my own is and I think we'll do this in

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Speaker 3: the mini pot further. But remember I told y'all last year,

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Speaker 3: that was like two weeks ago, that I didn't do

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Speaker 3: resolutions and themes. I had a little bit of a

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Speaker 3: growth spurt on that and would ask those who are

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Speaker 3: still refusing to do resolutions and those kinds of things,

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01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 3: because frankly, they tend to remind us more of what

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Speaker 3: we're not doing than the things we should be celebrating

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Speaker 3: to join me this twenty twenty five and reconsider whether

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Speaker 3: or not a theme, a set of goals in individualized

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01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 3: momentum might be the thing that is needed to move

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Speaker 3: you out of the way to having the best three

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Speaker 3: sixty five you've ever had.

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Speaker 1: Crazy Hello, we hear to that on the mini pod.

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. I love it well. I am very

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Speaker 1: grateful for you all. We are a rap at this point,

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01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: so yep, okay, Andrew, I don't know where all of

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Speaker 1: these accents and voices come from out of you randomly,

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01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: but it's very scary. As always, we want to remind

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Speaker 1: everyone to leave us a review and subscribe to Native lamppod.

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01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 1: We're available on all platforms and YouTube. New episode drop

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Speaker 1: every Thursday, with a special mini pod every single Monday.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to follow us on social media. We are

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Speaker 1: your hosts, Angela Raie, Tiffany Cross and Andrew Gillum.

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Speaker 4: Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 1: There are six hundred and sixty three days until mid

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Speaker 1: term elections. Don't where it goes by really fast.

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Speaker 3: Welcome home, Welcome home. The last morning.

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Speaker 2: Say thank you for joining the Natives attention of with

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Speaker 2: the info and all of the latest rock Gulum and

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Speaker 2: Cross connected to the statements that you leave on our socials.

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Speaker 2: Thank you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice

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Speaker 2: is cleared. So grateful it took the execute roads. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for serve, defend and protect the truth, even if

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Speaker 2: paint Welcome home to all.

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Speaker 3: Of the Natives, We thank you.

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