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Speaker 2: It was a new game day scratches from the California

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Speaker 3: Those games sent the team's energy through the roof.

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Speaker 1: Are you saying it was the off field play that

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Speaker 3: Hey, little play makes your day, and today it made

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Speaker 4: That's all of now, Coach, one.

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Speaker 1: More question play than you Los Angeles Chargers, San Francisco

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Speaker 1: California Lottery. A little play can make your day. Peace

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Speaker 1: made responsibily. It must be eighteen years or older to

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Speaker 4: Removing the queen is of the head as the head

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Speaker 4: republic just means that you know you're no longer you

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Speaker 4: have no affiliation with the United Kingdom and your former

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Speaker 5: So country is already an independent country, but they were

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Speaker 4: The flag of real mafia criminal organization type mentality that Okay,

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Speaker 4: I'll let you have the block, but you know you

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Speaker 5: So if you watch Earn your Leisure, you know that

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Speaker 5: one thing we stay away from is politics. We've never

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Speaker 5: Our lane is financing business. But there's exceptions to every rule.

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Speaker 5: So if we was going to have a conversation with

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Speaker 5: that's a no brainer. That's legendary. You know what I'm

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Speaker 5: saying for us being fans of the culture, being fans

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Speaker 3: Clap it up for that.

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Speaker 5: So this is a conversation that I'm extremely excited about.

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Speaker 5: We're going to talk about finance, We're going to talk

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Speaker 3: So huh oh, all my beliefs.

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Speaker 2: We got some believes in the If you believes, it

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Speaker 7: Now, we got some brothers over here, shout out to you.

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Speaker 7: We believe.

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Speaker 5: There's three one a head, two here and Shine. So

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Speaker 5: I need you to get on your feet. I need

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Speaker 3: Please.

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Speaker 5: This is something that's extremely and poorant for us, poort

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Speaker 5: for us. And welcome my brother Shine Narrow, the honorable

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Speaker 4: Not so many people want to fuck with us. And

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Speaker 4: look your son snitches.

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Speaker 3: All right, take your seat.

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Speaker 4: Like what I'm saying, I'm telling them when my father

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Speaker 3: Think you just that's the vibe that.

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Speaker 5: I like how she blended that out in the Trump

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Speaker 5: We got a lot of good information for you guys today.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna do this legendary interview. After that we're gonna

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Speaker 3: So it's only one thing that we ask of you, guys.

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Speaker 5: There's good hospitalities, good vibes. You can network whatever you want.

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Speaker 8: What was your vision? What did you right?

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Speaker 4: But I knew that I could make it in music,

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Speaker 2: I told you, yeah, clap it up with that. I

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: That's a fact, right, Like I remember twenty years ago

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Speaker 8: Thank you, dressing up like you.

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Speaker 7: And so you said mom wasn't around. I know your

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Speaker 4: You know? My grandmother, God bless her soul. I was

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm a very bold and aggressive leader, so

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Speaker 2: So when you when you got released, right and you

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Speaker 4: You'd be the perfect type of leader. Like what are

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Speaker 4: his back and take them to get water. Right. So

434
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Speaker 4: I'm a leader. I'm not a politician. So I'm here

435
00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 4: to lead my people. I'm here to transform their lives time.

436
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 4: I'm here to empower them. You know, when I hear

437
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 4: about financial literacy, I couldn't believe that there's a platform,

438
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 4: you know, trying to instill these virtues in our people.

439
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 4: So that's what got me into pursuing being a legislator,

440
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 4: you know, not to be a politician, but to fulfill

441
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 4: my purpose to be a leader and a world leader,

442
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 4: you know, because I have friends in Africa, I have

443
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 4: friends in the United States that are legislators, and what

444
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 4: I do in Belize people are watching, so I could

445
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 4: lead the world from Belize.

446
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 5: So recently Barbados, I've seen that you you had a

447
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 5: sport for Barbados, which they recently transitioned away from the

448
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 5: UK monarchy system right into their own constitutional republic. What

449
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 5: does that actually mean, because I'm not can show what

450
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 5: it actually means. And is that something that you know

451
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 5: other countries in the region can duplicate.

452
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Speaker 4: Well, let me just acknowledge all my Haitians here today, Haiti, Haiti, Haiti.

453
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Speaker 4: You know, I love Haiti. I love Haiti so much

454
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Speaker 4: because Haiti's the first black republic in the Caribbean. Haiti's

455
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Speaker 4: the first independent nation, the real true independent nation in

456
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Speaker 4: the Caribbean. Here Toussaint was the leader that led that

457
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Speaker 4: revolution and he defeated the French drove him out of Haiti,

458
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Speaker 4: and they became the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

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Speaker 4: And they've paid a hefty price for it. So God

460
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Speaker 4: bless Haiti, and you know, forever love and salute Haiti.

461
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Speaker 4: But all the other Caribbean nations never had that type

462
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Speaker 4: of courage that the Haitians had, and they saw how

463
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Speaker 4: the French, you know, the French made the Haitians pay

464
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 4: like two hundred billion or four hundred billion dollars for

465
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Speaker 4: their freedom. And right now we're in the midst of

466
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 4: taking the United Kingdom to court for reparations because as

467
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 4: we know in Belize, as we know, you know, the

468
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 4: trans Atlantic slave atrocity holocaust is one of the worst

469
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Speaker 4: things that have ever happened in humanity. And so you know,

470
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Speaker 4: the United Kingdom, you know, committed you know, the worst

471
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Speaker 4: crimes against humanity. So there's nothing glorious about the queen

472
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 4: as our head of state in any nation in the Caribbean,

473
00:29:53,720 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 4: that's our land. They extracted our wealth, they killed us,

474
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 4: they raped us, They you know, just castigated and castrated

475
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 4: our people, so that there's nothing glorious about it. And

476
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 4: you know, I want to acknowledge Prince Charles who said

477
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Speaker 4: everything that I'm saying right now. They invited him to

478
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 4: the ceremony for Barbados becoming a republic and he said,

479
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Speaker 4: you know, yeah, slavery is one of the stains of

480
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Speaker 4: our history and it was atrocious and he didn't need

481
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Speaker 4: to tell me that. And I hope that Belize will

482
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Speaker 4: follow in the footsteps of Barbados. I know Jamaica's taken

483
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Speaker 4: steps to do that, but removing the Queen is of

484
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Speaker 4: the head as the head of state is something that's

485
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 4: long overdue, and becoming a republic just means that, you know,

486
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 4: you're no longer you have no affiliation with the United

487
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 4: Kingdom and your former colonial masters.

488
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Speaker 5: So country is already an independent country, but they were

489
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Speaker 5: still kind of under.

490
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Speaker 4: The flag of real mafia, criminal organization type mentality that Okay,

491
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Speaker 4: I'll let you have the block, but you know, you

492
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 4: still got to check in with me. It's not democracy,

493
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 4: that's not freedom, that's not humanity. That shouldn't have happened

494
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 4: in the first place. You shouldn't have took us from

495
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 4: Africa in the first place. You owe us, We don't

496
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 4: owe you. We don't owe you any type of acknowledgment

497
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 4: of recognition right.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, speaking of democracy, I know that's something that

499
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Speaker 2: you obviously you fight for for your country.

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Speaker 4: So your role, yeah, say hello to all the Cubans too,

501
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Speaker 4: because I'm big on democracy in Cuba. It's very important. So, yeah,

502
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 4: you got to get rid of the dictatorships.

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Speaker 2: Your role was the leader of You were the thirteenth

504
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Speaker 2: leader of the opposition before.

505
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Speaker 4: I was fortunate to be elected the thirteenth opposition leader

506
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Speaker 4: of the House of Representatives.

507
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Speaker 2: And believe so for most people that are looking like

508
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 2: the thirteenth opposition leader, can you to tell, you.

509
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Speaker 4: Know, like the Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer for the

510
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 4: United States obviously for the Congress.

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Speaker 2: So in that role, what are you doing specifically, right,

512
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Speaker 2: because obviously you're the minority leader. What's getting past through

513
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 2: you are the things that you obviously can put implement.

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Speaker 8: What's the role that you played?

515
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Speaker 4: On my lap and you know I carry carry my

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Speaker 4: the vision that will uplift and empower our people and

570
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Speaker 4: fight for our people. You know, accountability is important. That

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Speaker 4: that's what democracy is. People have to have an alternative,

572
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Speaker 4: be able to say, you know what, I don't like

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Speaker 4: what the blue is doing, so I'm going to vote

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Speaker 4: the red. Or I don't like what the red is doing,

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Speaker 4: so I'm going to vote the blue. So you know,

576
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 4: while you're in opposition, you know, you fight to advance

577
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 4: the platforms that the people to make sure that what

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00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 4: the government that has been elected make sure that they're

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Speaker 4: doing what they promise the people.

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Speaker 5: Let me let me ask you this as far as reparations,

581
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 5: something that we really haven't talked too much about on

582
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 5: the platform. So you say your country, you're planning on

583
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 5: taking UK to court.

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Speaker 4: We just you know, there's a lawyer by the name

585
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 4: of Godfrey Smith. He is on the team of lawyers

586
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 4: for Jamaica that have taken the United Kingdom to court

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00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 4: for reparations. So, you know, when I was the leader

588
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Speaker 4: of the opposition, he approached me, he approached the Prime

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Speaker 4: Minister of Belieze and he said, listen, you know, we'd

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Speaker 4: like your support to pass the reparations motions in the

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Speaker 4: House to demand that you know, the UK pay what

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Speaker 4: they owe. Believe you know, they paid the slave owners

593
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 4: billions of dollars and they gave those who were stolen

594
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 4: and enslaved nothing. So he asked that, you know, we

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Speaker 4: passed the motion together bipartisan, and I agreed, and and

596
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 4: so now they're going to proceed with taking the United

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00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 4: Kingdom to court. So that is in motion. We've already

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Speaker 4: passed the motion in the House of Representatives in Belize

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Speaker 4: and now we're going to proceed with the litigation.

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Speaker 5: Is there a certain dollar amount or to be determined

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Speaker 5: that you're asking.

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Speaker 4: For, you know, I think Bob Johnson has it at

603
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 4: one point three trillion dollars in the United States and

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Speaker 4: the Caribbean, I think totally in Belize. You know, I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure. I think it'd probably be maybe fifty ye

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Speaker 4: maybe one hundred, one hundred million.

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Speaker 5: I think what's your what's your thoughts on reparations in America.

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Speaker 5: You know, if you listen to the Sean albums, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'm going there. That's how That's how it ended. The

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Speaker 5: intro reparations is due due.

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Speaker 4: It's due, grammatically incorrect, and y'all gonna pay. So I

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00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 4: said that as a nineteen year old child, so as

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Speaker 4: a forty three year old world leaders, it's long overdue.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I've spoken to my colleagues and the

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Speaker 4: House of Representatives here in America, Congressman Meeks and Senator

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Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer and Congressman Maxie Waters, and you know, so

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Speaker 4: I believe within the next six or twelve months you're

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Speaker 4: going to see legislation passed in the House and the Senate.

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Speaker 8: Nineteen year old shots.

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Speaker 4: You guys got to get out there and vote. You've

621
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Speaker 4: got midterms coming up. So you don't want you don't

622
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 4: want things to you don't want things to get worse.

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Speaker 4: You want to go back four years. I want to

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Speaker 4: get into your politics, but I'll vote, vote for the

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Speaker 4: people that are going to forward reparations. That's all I

626
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Speaker 4: gotta say.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go back to the debut because then

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Speaker 2: we spoke about that line where you said, look, if

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Speaker 2: y'all build schools instead of prisons, I'm living.

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Speaker 4: He said, it takes me a craft or a trade.

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Speaker 8: Maybe don't. Maybe I'll go off for balls.

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Speaker 7: Don't.

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Speaker 4: Maybe get up here and start that.

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Speaker 8: NAT.

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Speaker 2: But you so you said that at nineteen and obviously

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Speaker 2: you were talking about where your conditions in Brooklyn. But

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Speaker 2: now listening to that line and knowing what you're seeing

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00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 2: in Belize as a forty year old leader, can you

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Speaker 2: talk about the progression or lack thereof for that same

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00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: environment that you were talking about.

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Speaker 4: Then, you know, believee is different from the United States,

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00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 4: whereas we're developing nation and it's sad that even a

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Speaker 4: developed nation had those issues. So imagine what we're going through.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to acknowledge my my little brother, Stephen Victor,

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Speaker 4: who's a vice president of Universal Music Group, who just

646
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Speaker 4: donated one hundred thousand dollars to Belize for education. He

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Speaker 4: has a Steven Victor Education Fund. So that's a big

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Speaker 4: problem in Belize due to financing. You know, the legislators

649
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Speaker 4: would prefer to spend money on fixing roads, which we

650
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Speaker 4: do need. We need infrastructure, we need streets, we need roads.

651
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 4: But before we get to roads and streets that we

652
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 4: can navigate. We need children who are educated, because children

653
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 4: who are educated, we'll be in a position to create

654
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 4: wealth that can pay for those roads and streets. So

655
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 4: it's a matter of priority. If you have a dollar,

656
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 4: you know you spend that on food that can feed

657
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 4: your family and not on getting a drink at the bar.

658
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 4: So you know, the government now has in my view,

659
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 4: not prioritizing government's past. You know, they borrowed money. There's

660
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 4: nothing wrong with borrowing money, but they've spent billions of

661
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 4: dollars on things that can generate wealth for them and

662
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 4: their families, whereas we should have invested in education and healthcare,

663
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 4: making sure that you know, our people are healthy and

664
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 4: educated and our country will develop. So certainly, as a leader,

665
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 4: those are my priorities, education and health.

666
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 5: So how do you feel about government regulation as far

667
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 5: as the business, because I feel like we live in

668
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 5: New York, right, so they have done a tremendous job

669
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 5: to make business hard for entrepreneurs, and this is why

670
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 5: a lot of people are leaving New York. And I

671
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 5: feel like too much from an involvement in a private sector,

672
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 5: it's problematic. What do you this is a business platform.

673
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 5: We champion business. What do you feel about that? As

674
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 5: far as government, what do you think government's involvement should

675
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 5: be in a private sector.

676
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 4: I believe in balance. I believe in balance. I certainly

677
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 4: don't believe in over regulation. But I don't believe that

678
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 4: we should deregulate to a point where the biggest corporations

679
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 4: don't help to solve the social issues that we have. Right,

680
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 4: somebody has to pay for education, somebody has to pay

681
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 4: for healthcare. It shouldn't be the hard working people like

682
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 4: my mom that was making a certain amount of money

683
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 4: that we you know, insignificant. So I don't believe in

684
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 4: over regulating the business community. I believe in finding ways

685
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:11,240
Speaker 4: to help the business community, not finding ways to stop

686
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 4: the business community or to you know, have a bureaucratic quagmire.

687
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 4: But to make sure the flow of business is fluent.

688
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 4: Let's get it done. But I do agree with the

689
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 4: current president of the United States that you know, you

690
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 4: got to be good corporate citizens, and you know, those

691
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 4: people that are making the most money need to pay

692
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 4: for that. Young shine that doesn't want to be a

693
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,959
Speaker 4: gang banger, doesn't want to be a dope dealer, wants

694
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 4: to go to school, you know, wants to live a

695
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 4: productive life. Who's going to pay for him or her

696
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 4: to go to school. Somebody has to pay for that,

697
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 4: and it shouldn't be the people that are making, you know,

698
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 4: just enough to get by. So that's my only issue

699
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 4: with the business community. I believe that they should not

700
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 4: be over regulated. Government should have a passion and a

701
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: desire to make business easy to do anywhere.

702
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 2: So obviously you were the thirteenth leader of the opposite

703
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 2: is the goal to eventually be prime minister of the country.

704
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,439
Speaker 2: Is that where we're headed in terms of leadership or

705
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 2: are we gonna you know, we're saying where we're at,

706
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 2: we like where you're at now, or you want to

707
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 2: have the ultimate leadership?

708
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 4: And you know, I had this conversation with my friend

709
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 4: when I was Washington, d C. And you know, she

710
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 4: was telling me about bureaucracy, and I said, you know,

711
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 4: I'm hip hop. I don't do bureaucracy. I could do anything, like,

712
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 4: there's no no in hip hop. We can do anything

713
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 4: like look, you know, happy birthday to my good friend

714
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 4: Sean Carter.

715
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, heavy birthday to you know.

716
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 4: Who went from a Mossie Kid, you know, to creating

717
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 4: not just himself as a billionaire, but two other billionaires

718
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 4: and Kanye and Rihanna. That's hip hop, like we do anything.

719
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 4: So for me, you know, being the Prime Minister is

720
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 4: not if, but when. And it's not about being the

721
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 4: Prime Minister to have a title as to the Prime Minister,

722
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 4: because I was I'm already a Grammy Award winning writer, publisher, producer.

723
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 4: I'm not into titles. It's what comes with being the

724
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 4: Prime Minister of beliefs and the change that I could make,

725
00:45:55,200 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 4: the revolutionary change that I could make two a make

726
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 4: up for the hundreds of years of slavery and the

727
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 4: hundreds of years of my people not being taught to

728
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 4: be entrepreneurs, not being taught to be landowners, not being

729
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 4: taught to have families because the slave owners used to

730
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 4: come and rape o women and you know have all

731
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 4: of our wives as their sweethearts. So that's all we

732
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 4: know how to do. That's where pimp culture comes from, right,

733
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 4: So as Prime Minister, I can you know, reverse all

734
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 4: the damage of you know, our people being enslaved and

735
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 4: set my people to be the next Shines, the next

736
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 4: jay Z's, the next whatever they want to be, because

737
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,919
Speaker 4: I don't want to get rich to be a politician.

738
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 4: I don't want to say, oh, I'm the Prime Minister

739
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 4: of Belieze. I'm good. I want to say that this

740
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 4: is what I did for believes. I created a bunch

741
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 4: of entrepreneurs. I created people who are financially literate. I

742
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 4: created you know, great family men and women. I created

743
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 4: healthy boys and girls. I want to be able to

744
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 4: brag about that the next.

745
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 5: Forty years, sounding very presidential.

746
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 3: He's good, he's good.

747
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 4: So who's the other politician you want to interview?

748
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 5: Well, we can't turn down Obama can't turn down. So

749
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 5: let me ask you this conflict resolution is something that

750
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 5: we struggle with a lot in our community, mending differences.

751
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 3: So you and Diddy on good terms? Wasn't always on

752
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 3: good terms?

753
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 4: Did?

754
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 3: How did you and Diddy mend that relationship?

755
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 5: And what made you actually want to say, Okay, this

756
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 5: is a relationship that's actually worth mending.

757
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 4: You know, I think it is African American men in particular.

758
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 4: You know, Latinos super as African American men. We have

759
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 4: been conditioned since the plantation to hate each other and

760
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 4: to destroy each other. And you know, part of my evolution,

761
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 4: part of my healing. I can't carry twenty four years

762
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 4: of pain and hurt with me. I wouldn't be here

763
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 4: right now if I was holding on to that. That's baggage.

764
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 4: I got to shake that, and I gotta keep going.

765
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 4: And you know, Diddy's my brother. He was my brother,

766
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 4: He is my brother. Now you're my brother, all of you.

767
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 4: You're my brothers and sisters. I don't even know y'all.

768
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 4: And Diddy, you know, gave me an opportunity that changed

769
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 4: my life forever. And so I prefer to look at

770
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 4: the positive in my brother because we've been conditioned to

771
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 4: hate our brothers and sisters for so long that I

772
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 4: want to condition myself and us to love. Let's find

773
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 4: the good in our brothers and sisters. Yeah I could.

774
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 4: I could find a million things wrong with Ditty. I

775
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 4: want to find the things that's right with him. And

776
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 4: so I focused on the positivity, and I focused on myself.

777
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 4: You know, I like to acknowledge my other little brother

778
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 4: of Stephen Carlos, that the president you call him Steve,

779
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 4: I called him Stephen Carlos, that he's the president of

780
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 4: you know, President Warner Music. My other protege. You know,

781
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 4: we're working on a documentary, a movie, TV series about

782
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 4: my life, and you know, different studios have approached me

783
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 4: put money on the table, but they want to tell

784
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 4: the Shine Hates Ditty story, and I say, you know,

785
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 4: keep your money. I'm not interested in that. I'm not

786
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 4: interested in that because it can't be wrong when you know,

787
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 4: the Caucasian nails on George Floyd's neck and takes his life.

788
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 4: But when we kill each other, it's okay. You know,

789
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 4: when when somebody that looks like young Dolf kill it

790
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 4: was young Dolf, that's not okay. It's not okay for

791
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 4: us to hate each other, you know. So that that's

792
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 4: really what drove the healing process with Diddy and I.

793
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 4: And again, I'm just focused on myself. I'm not focused

794
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 4: on other people. I don't have time for that. There's

795
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 4: like a nation that's relying on my success in order

796
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 4: for us to all be successful in that country. And

797
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 4: I think, just as a world leader, that's a great

798
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,959
Speaker 4: example to set for other African Americans who are still

799
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 4: caught up in a culture, a plantation culture, you know,

800
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 4: a Reagan Bush era culture where we destroy each other.

801
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 4: And I'm not about that. So you know, I Texteddy

802
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 4: as soon as I got here. I'll see him tomorrow.

803
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 4: We'll celebrate life, will celebrate black excellence, you know. And

804
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 4: that's what we should do. We should celebrate each other,

805
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,320
Speaker 4: we should forgive each other. We should here and focus

806
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 4: on the way forward.

807
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 3: Clap it, clap it up.

808
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 8: For that, I want to thank you and hold on.

809
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 4: We didn't talk about the art. We can't.

810
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 8: I personally thank you.

811
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 4: We got to talk about this. All we gotta on

812
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 4: the table, we got.

813
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 8: To bring I wanted to thank you for that reconciliation.

814
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 2: Okay, because May twentieth, twenty sixteen, Bad Boy was having

815
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 2: his twentieth year anniversary concert for Shot It Out.

816
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 7: Were there and we've both seen it ourselves. Man, this

817
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 7: ain't gonna be right or shine ain't there and low

818
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 7: and behold, screen went dark and there you go in

819
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 7: front of a pyramid on the screen that.

820
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 2: Said that's it, that's hip hop. So I want to

821
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 2: person thank you for that.

822
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 4: And also, you know what I said was generalized, but

823
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:56,919
Speaker 4: you know Diddy has been supporting me morally even financially. Yes,

824
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 4: this is a great picture from an artist called Alex Sanker.

825
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 4: You know, it's art Basel, so I had to bring

826
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 4: the belize in paintings with me. He's one of our

827
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 4: best artists. This is you know, downtown. This is on

828
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 4: south side the Belize called Ebu Town. This is where

829
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 4: all the Africans from Nigeria were and the south side

830
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 4: is where all the Africans really started. That's where Belize

831
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 4: started and that's where they stayed. The Creoles, which are

832
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 4: the Africans that mix with the Europeans, went to the

833
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,240
Speaker 4: north side, but you know, the the one hundred percent

834
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 4: Africans stayed here. And so this is Albert Street. This

835
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 4: is the British the British on mailbox. That's a law firm.

836
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 4: Barron Williams, one of the best in the country. Yeah

837
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 4: so yeah, so back today. He was supporting me for

838
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 4: for many years now, you know, not like yo, you

839
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 4: owe me, but just listen. I have a vision for Belieze.

840
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 4: I want to change believe I'm running for the House

841
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 4: of Representatives. You know, I need your support. And it

842
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 4: wasn't even a conversation. It was like, oh man, this

843
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 4: is black excellence, like you know, just let me know

844
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 4: what you want me to do. And so he's been

845
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 4: doing that in however, he could do that for years,

846
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 4: and recently the government tried to I won't say the

847
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 4: government rogue actors in the government attempted to pass legislation

848
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 4: to disqualify me from the House of Representatives because of

849
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 4: what happened when I was nineteen years old, when I

850
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 4: was convicted of defending myself and my friends. And so,

851
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 4: you know, I reached out to Diddy and said, listen,

852
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 4: you know, we got to start a campaign with this,

853
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 4: and we have to create awareness because you know, this

854
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 4: is an attack on the lower class. This is attack on

855
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 4: all those young kids that are impoverished, that can't afford

856
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 4: a lawyer, can't afford to get themselves, you know, through

857
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 4: the justice system. And you know did he was there,

858
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:09,839
Speaker 4: you know, we got revoked, got you know, the publicists

859
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 4: and said listen, let's bring attention to this. And you know,

860
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 4: when it was time for me to travel to the

861
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 4: United States, he made sure that whatever congressman, whatever senators

862
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 4: he had at his disposal, he made available to me

863
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 4: so that I could further the cause of beliefs. So

864
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 4: those are the conversations that we were having. You know,

865
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 4: we weren't having Oh you know what if I didn't,

866
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 4: you know, keep my mouth shut. You done went to jail.

867
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 4: You're worth a billion dollars now, you know I need

868
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 4: ten percent, you know. So we weren't having those conversations.

869
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 4: We were having it because you know that that's about me,

870
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 4: and it's not about me. It's about beliefs, and so

871
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 4: support believes, don't support me. And he's been very willing

872
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 4: to support my efforts to lift up my nation. So

873
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 4: I have to give him what credit for that?

874
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, what was the feeling like being able to come

875
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:07,919
Speaker 8: back to the United States?

876
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 2: Clip it up with that, Yeah, for sure. I mean

877
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 2: being goes is gone so long. What was the feeling

878
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 2: being back in America for the first time?

879
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 4: You know, it's never about being back in America, and

880
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:27,280
Speaker 4: it's always about believes. So I wasn't here on vacation.

881
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 4: I wasn't here to go down memory lane. I was

882
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 4: here to talk to Maxine Waters. I was here to

883
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 4: talk to Congressman Gregory Meeks and Senator Schumer and you know, Congressman,

884
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 4: that's been a lot, and all the different senators and

885
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 4: congressmen that received me so graciously. Mayor Eric Adams, who

886
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 4: says that he's going to make sure the business community

887
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 4: is taken care of in New York City. That's what

888
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 4: he said, all right. He said he's tied all the

889
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 4: money coming to Miami in Florida. Hopefully he's gonna bring

890
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 4: it back.

891
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 3: So hoping.

892
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 4: My guy Brian Benjamin, he's he's a lieutenant governor.

893
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 5: Okay, he's pro business. Hopefully they can lower taxes too. Yeah,

894
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,320
Speaker 5: I gotta say hello.

895
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 4: To my to Mika Mallory, she's he's here too, in

896
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 4: my son. Yeah.

897
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:21,240
Speaker 5: So but Sean, let me ask you this general Momar

898
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 5: Kadaffi had had a vision for the African Union to

899
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 5: have a unified African dollar similar to the Euro. Uh

900
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 5: didn't work out. Everybody knows what happened shortly after that.

901
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 5: I say that to say, Central America, the Caribbean is

902
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:45,879
Speaker 5: any Is there any hope that one day it could

903
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 5: be a more unified front similar to the EU, with

904
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 5: you know, maybe one currency for a block of countries

905
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,919
Speaker 5: or you know, something similar to that.

906
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 4: You know, right now we have characters. We're all the

907
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 4: Caribbean nations all together, Barbados, Jamaica, Bahamas. Forgive me for

908
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 4: any any Saint Vincent, the Grenadines. But certainly. That's that's

909
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,480
Speaker 4: that's that's practical as possible because we have character. As

910
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 4: I said, Belize is a very unique nation and the

911
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 4: fact that we're part of Central America and the Caribbean nations.

912
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 4: But you know, right now, my focus is in uh

913
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 4: directing Believee to a path of first world nation, developed nation,

914
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 4: and I think all my energy is there. I can't

915
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 4: get ahead of myself. I don't know that discussion is

916
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 4: not being it's not being had right now as far

917
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 4: as one currency. And my focus right now is making

918
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 4: sure that Belize is the best version of herself. And

919
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 4: we're far from there because the last forty years we've

920
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 4: had leaders who have used Belize as a vehicle for

921
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 4: self and Richmond. So there's a lot of work that

922
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 4: needs to be done.

923
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:13,439
Speaker 5: When we travel over the world. In Jamaica, we see

924
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 5: heavy Chinese influence. Nigeria, I was shocked to find out

925
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 5: that twenty five percent of all hospitality is Lebanese. You

926
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 5: go to every club, The Lebanese own every club in

927
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 5: Nigeria and legos. I say that to say there's international

928
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 5: investments in all over the world, but especially in black countries,

929
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 5: countries of color what's your thoughts on that for beliefe

930
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 5: And how do you feel about foreign investment? And on

931
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 5: the flip side, a country like Ghana has welcomed African Americans.

932
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 5: It has really helped their economy, has helped their tourism.

933
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 5: Is that something that you want for believes.

934
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 4: Certainly we welcome foreign investment. Uh. We support Taiwan because

935
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 4: you know, Belize has a The Guatemalans claim Belize in

936
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 4: some you know, colonial far fetched entitlement they felt because

937
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 4: you know, Spain, whatever Spain surveyed and said was theirs

938
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 4: was theirs. So Spain said Belize and entire Latin America

939
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 4: was there, so it belonged to them, and so they

940
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 4: believe that they inherited that colonial right. So they're claiming Belize.

941
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 4: So I said, all letters say that Taiwan, you know,

942
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 4: has the same thing with China where they broke away

943
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 4: from China, and you know China, Taiwan believes they're they're

944
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 4: the Republic of China, and then you have China China

945
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 4: that says they're China. So we support Taiwan, and China

946
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 4: doesn't do business with people who have diplomatic relations with

947
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 4: thai Taiwan so I wouldn't be as Prime minister. I

948
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 4: wouldn't be interested in breaking relations with Taiwan to establish

949
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 4: relations with China for economic benefit, you know, because China

950
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 4: has a terrible human rights record and I don't believe

951
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 4: in diplomatic prostitution. You know. You talked about my integrity,

952
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 4: my character, and my honor, and I've had that my

953
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 4: entire life, so I shouldn't. I certainly wouldn't do that

954
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 4: as as Prime minister. I want to be in business

955
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 4: with the right people, and all money is in good money,

956
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 4: so you know, I wouldn't. I don't want to put

957
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:45,919
Speaker 4: any roadblocks to anybody, but I'm not prepared to sell

958
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 4: my soul or sell the soul of Belize to be

959
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 4: in business with anyone.

960
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the major economic engines, especially that one

961
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 2: of the major economic engines in the Caribbean is tourism. Right,

962
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 2: but most people never you never hear people saying we're

963
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 2: going to Belieze. How do we get people more interested,

964
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 2: more involved, wanting to come so that when you get

965
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 2: that economic engine flowing through the country.

966
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 8: Now you have money for interest uts, you have money

967
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 8: for schools.

968
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 7: How do we get more awitness on Belieze outside of

969
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 7: you speaking.

970
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 4: Well, you know you can go. There's an Instagram page

971
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 4: called visit Belize, now Facebook called visit Belize. Uh. Now,

972
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 4: there's a Belize tourism board. Uh. You know, there's so

973
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 4: many direct flights to Belieze. There's a two hour flight

974
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 4: from here to Belieze on American You know, Belieze, it's paradise.

975
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 4: Uh So really I invite all of you to be

976
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 4: my guests, and believe I'm a very down to earth guy,

977
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 4: so youll see me walking around and slippings probably and

978
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 4: just come to Belize, you know, believe it is paradise.

979
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 4: So I told you guys to come do through the

980
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 4: podcast definitely, and.

981
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 7: We're bringing everybody in breaking news alert so everybody, I

982
01:01:58,080 --> 01:01:59,919
Speaker 7: gotta I gotta shot.

983
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 4: Got a group coming down I think for New Years

984
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 4: from d C, like a group of thirty, you know,

985
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 4: professionals in the urban community in d C. So you

986
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,600
Speaker 4: know that's what I'll keep doing, you know, because tourism

987
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 4: drives our economy. So I'll keep going around the United States,

988
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 4: keep inviting my friends. You know, I invite Diddy, I

989
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 4: invite Fat Joe, I invite cal It, I invite everybody.

990
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 4: And you know, over the next twelve months, you're gonna

991
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 4: see a lot of activity happening in Belieze.

992
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 5: So get you take suh, you're a gentleman in a

993
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 5: scolar my brother.

994
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. Oh, thank you for enduring

995
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 4: my long winded.

996
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 5: Respond This is this is like I said, this is

997
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 5: the first conversation that we had with a politician and

998
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 5: I enjoyed it.

999
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 4: So we got a hold on. So we got to

1000
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 4: talk about these pieces. Right. So so this is a

1001
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 4: an artist by the name of Penn Kayatano. He's a

1002
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 4: grif African artist. Is the guy that got my phone?

1003
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 4: Does he is where? I don't anyway? Make sure the

1004
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 4: mail getting these pictures? Man, No, no, no, but I

1005
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 4: want you to get the pictures. Yeah. So yeah, so

1006
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 4: this is Penkayatano. These are garyful of people African people

1007
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:23,480
Speaker 4: who have faced great persecution. And you know he has

1008
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 4: another piece over here. So that's a garaful of drummer.

1009
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 4: You know, drumming it's our thing.

1010
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 8: Uh.

1011
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 4: They're from dan Griga. So if you ever go to believee,

1012
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 4: visit Dan grigor. This is a Garifuna woman. She's feelings.

1013
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 4: I don't know any of you Caribbean people know about Cassava.

1014
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 4: And this is from Cayatano as well. Yeah, and this

1015
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 4: is a this is a young young artist by the

1016
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 4: name of Janelli. So this is Placentia. This is in

1017
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 4: the south as well. And this is a This is

1018
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 4: right there at the port where the fishermen going catch

1019
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 4: their fish. Where's the other one from the big one

1020
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 4: that they brought out? Can they bring that back out again?

1021
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 4: From Alex Sanka.

1022
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 3: Shout out to Elliott Elliott Wilson.

1023
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's great.

1024
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 4: Elliott Wilson shout We just cover the goat and goat

1025
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 4: yeah yeah, so yeah, so yeah, we couldn't be at

1026
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 4: our bosl and now show the beliefs and artists. So

1027
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 4: we got you know, I collect art. I'm not like

1028
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 4: like Jay and and Swiss and Yay and and all

1029
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 4: those guys, but I collect believes in art. My house

1030
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 4: is filled with art.

1031
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 5: So yeah, now I appreciate your passion for your country

1032
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 5: because that's something that you said this morning, like, no,

1033
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 5: it's not about me, it's about believes. And absolutely want

1034
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 5: to highlight the beliefs and artists and give them an

1035
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 5: opportunity to shine during our bos or if we're going

1036
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 5: to have a stage and a platform to speak, you know,

1037
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 5: I think it would be a good idea to highlight

1038
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 5: some of the local artists. So yeah, yes, he's taking

1039
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 5: all the right steps. I see, I see a bright future.

1040
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 8: I actually see us in beliefs. I see us in beliefs.

1041
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 5: Yes, it has we're bringing that pain back. Yeah, we're

1042
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 5: gonna make it. And you know, in the financial literacy,

1043
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 5: it's so much. You know, I applaud you for that.

1044
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 5: I applaud you for that. It's so important to our culture.

1045
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 4: You know, before you buy a Richard mill, before you

1046
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 4: buy protectively by some real estate, you know, you know,

1047
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 4: buy things that appreciate. Uh, you know, make sure that

1048
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 4: you invest in security and our people need that, you know.

1049
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 4: So what you're what you're providing for our people is

1050
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 4: it's so necessary and invaluable and and it survived, so

1051
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 4: it's not it's not boring, you know, it's not you know,

1052
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 4: broccoli stressed up nice and you know, and.

1053
01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 5: It's important before we leave that we always got to

1054
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 5: have these conversations because when we went to Jamaica, we

1055
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 5: had to tap in with Usain Bolt and all the

1056
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 5: guys in Jamaica and then you know, we just went

1057
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 5: to Nigeria, we went to Egypt. So it's important for

1058
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 5: us to not just focus on America. The world is

1059
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 5: big and there's opportunities all over the world, and we

1060
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:19,920
Speaker 5: need to tap in, especially people that look like us

1061
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 5: from all over the world, because ultimately it's divide and

1062
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 5: conquer and the more way united, uh, the stronger we are.

1063
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 5: And the key to unity is education. People have a

1064
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 5: lack of education, which leaves them ignorant. So having conversations

1065
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:42,919
Speaker 5: with diplomats, politicians, statesmen from different parts of the world

1066
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 5: is not something to be taken lightly because it's actually

1067
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 5: opening doors to the minds of something that can actually

1068
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 5: help potentially change the world. So thank you, brother, I

1069
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 5: appreciate it.

1070
01:06:55,400 --> 01:07:00,080
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, Thank you.

1071
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 6: Graduates from my school being fores bad drop bag drop

1072
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 6: Mike droftdrop Droft.

1073
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 10: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

1074
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 10: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador

1075
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 10: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with

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Speaker 10: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just

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Speaker 10: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President

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Speaker 10: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States

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Speaker 10: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border

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Speaker 10: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over

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Speaker 10: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you

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Speaker 10: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly

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Speaker 10: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will

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Speaker 10: never return. But if you register using our CBP home

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Speaker 10: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.

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Speaker 10: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,

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Speaker 10: border and families will be protected.

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Speaker 8: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.