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Speaker 1: I me ain't trying to beat donkey today, no more.

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Speaker 2: They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm

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Speaker 2: not making the usday called donkey of the day, and

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Speaker 2: it really caught me off guard. Damned Charlamagne who got

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Speaker 2: the donkey out of the day today, Wild jets Hilarians

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Speaker 2: Donkey today for Wednesday, October eleventh goes to the Huntsville

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Speaker 2: Madison County Public Library in Huntsville, Alabama. Salute to everybody

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Speaker 2: who listens to us in Alabama.

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Speaker 1: We're on one O four to one to beat in.

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Speaker 2: Birmingham, hot one O seven five in Montgomery, and one

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Speaker 2: O seven three to beaten Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile dropping

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Speaker 2: the clues bombs for Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Now y'all know I love reading.

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Speaker 2: Thank you to my mother, who was an English teacher

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Speaker 2: in South Carolina and for the Bookkeet program for fueling

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Speaker 2: my hunger to read. My mother would always tell me

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Speaker 2: Bookeet program was a game changer for a teenage mutant

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Speaker 2: ninja turtle like myself. I'm fully aware that I look

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Speaker 2: The Ninja Turtles myself Jeezy Jadakiss Neo teenage mutant Nigga Turtles.

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Speaker 1: See when you.

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Speaker 2: Love pizza, hot pizza, and you love to read, and

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Speaker 2: your mom tells you to read things that don't pertain

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Speaker 2: to you, and you have.

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Speaker 1: To read four books to get a free pizza. Reading

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Speaker 1: things that don't pertain to you makes that easy. Okay.

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Speaker 1: That's why I love.

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Speaker 2: Judy Bloom and all her works. Okay, that's why I

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Speaker 2: love Judy Bloom and all her works the way that

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Speaker 2: I do. Okay, I'm saying all that to say I

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Speaker 2: love reading. I love books. I'm a New York Times

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Speaker 2: bestselling offer. I have two books out, Black Privilege and

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Speaker 1: Can you see them? Can you see them on the camera?

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Speaker 1: Nick should grabbing you got here Black Privilege? You come

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Speaker 1: back to the microphone.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Black Privilege is right here, Shook One is right here. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I have a bookend print, Black Privilege Publishing with Shaman.

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Speaker 2: The shues to feel free to purchase to meet a

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Speaker 2: Mallory state of emergency, and they need to copac shallow waters.

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Speaker 1: Oh we got throws in I got a book too.

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Speaker 1: I got a book to hold on, hold on, hold on,

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Speaker 2: See to meek A Mallory, Steve Emergency, Ineda, Kopex, Shallow Waters.

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Speaker 1: Those are the first. If you got a book, real life,

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Speaker 1: Real Love.

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Speaker 2: Okay, suit to Doug Melville, in Visible General's out November seven,

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Speaker 2: if you can reorder that.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying all that to let you know how much

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Speaker 2: I love books. Okay, this one, I'm let me share

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Speaker 2: what I'm reading right now. Hold on, you see this

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Speaker 2: Don Miguel Ruise's new book. Okay, just finished this, Rich

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Speaker 2: Paul Lucky Me.

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Speaker 1: I'm never not reading. I love reading.

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Speaker 2: My wife loves reading and it's infectious. My kids love reading.

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Speaker 2: I have three bookshelves in my house. I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: pains me to see all these books and authors being

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Speaker 2: banned all around the country. I'm from South Carolina, Okay,

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Speaker 2: where the first anti literacy laws were passed.

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Speaker 1: It was prohibited to teach slaves to read and write.

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Speaker 2: So when you see me having the love for books

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Speaker 2: that I do, when you see me so deep in

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Speaker 1: Understand it's personal.

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Speaker 2: So stories like what's happening at the Huntsfield Madison County

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Speaker 2: They have a list of potentially inappropriate type. Now, I've

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Speaker 2: never agreed with this kind of censorship, because everything is subjective.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that Judy Bloom is one of the

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Speaker 1: Judy Bloom? Are you there? Goddess me Margaret blubba Iggy's

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Speaker 2: Because some culturally clueless fool labeled her potentially dangerous. I

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Speaker 2: understand what the Huntsville Madison County Public Library is doing.

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Speaker 2: See they added a children's picture book titled read Me

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Speaker 2: a Story Stella to a list of potentially inappropriate titles. Now,

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Speaker 2: what could be in this picture book that's potentially dangerous?

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Speaker 2: Is it humans riding on a penis shaped horse? De

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Speaker 3: Read Me a Story Stella, a children's book by author

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Speaker 3: Marie Louise Gay, appear to the Public Library keyword search

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Speaker 3: list of potentially inappropriate material. It's because of the author's

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Speaker 4: Read Me a Story Seller, which seems to be what

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Speaker 4: a keyword search list. It has never been banned, moved,

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Speaker 5: So. We were examining our collection to see if our

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Speaker 5: at the managerial level, was passed down through staff, and

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Speaker 5: in that conversation from managers to staff is where communication

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Speaker 4: Was misrepresented.

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Speaker 1: That was Fox fifty four, by the way.

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Speaker 2: So the answer to watching the book that is potentially

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Speaker 2: dangerous is nothing. The book is about a pant siblings

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Speaker 2: reading together and building a dog out the reason the

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Speaker 2: last name, Marie Ease Gay. Yes, it was added to

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Speaker 2: name was Gay. Okay, that's it, nothing more, nothing less.

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Speaker 2: Can we unpack this if the author's last name being

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Speaker 2: gay is considered potentially dangerous and I know this library

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Speaker 2: don't carry the memoir.

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Speaker 1: Of Dick Buckets.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this former New England patriot Dick Felt have a

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Speaker 2: memoir I know that would be considered potentially dangerous. What

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Speaker 2: about a man the Love? A man the Love will

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Banning books is never acceptable. We need more conversations now.

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Speaker 2: We need folks reading about different ideologies that individuals have.

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Speaker 2: Stephen Schuboski says banning books gives us silence when we

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Speaker 2: It makes us blind when we need sight. And I

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Speaker 2: agree not to mention. If a public school were to

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Speaker 2: remove every book that contains one word deemed objectional objectionable

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Speaker 1: Be no books at all in our public libraries.

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Speaker 2: If you ask me, they didn't ban this book because

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Speaker 2: the word gay is considered sexually inappropriate. They banned this

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Speaker 2: book because this woman is an author. Her last name

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Speaker 2: is Gay. And I believe every single public library in

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Speaker 2: a red state probably has all of the great Roxanne

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Speaker 2: Gay's work band dropping the cloth bombs for Roxanne Gay.

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Speaker 2: All right, this isn't about sexuality as much as it's

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Speaker 2: about banning one of the greatest authors, professors social comment.

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Speaker 2: As we got on this third Rock from the Sun,

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Speaker 2: don't say gay takes on a whole other meaning in

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Speaker 2: public libraries, all right. They don't want you reading a

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Speaker 2: bad feminists in Roxanne Gay's other works. Okay, look, man,

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Speaker 2: read all the banned books you can. All right, let

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Speaker 2: your children read all the band books you can. My

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Speaker 2: daddy used to say, if you want to hide something

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Speaker 2: from a black person, put it in a book. We've

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Speaker 2: bend deified that stereotype that black people don't read, and

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Speaker 2: now that they know we actually read, they just want

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Speaker 2: to hide the books. So go read all the band

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Speaker 2: books you can. And remember this quote from Oscar Wilde.

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Speaker 2: The books that the world calls emorl are the books

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Speaker 2: that show the world.

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Speaker 1: Its own shame.

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Speaker 2: The books that tell the truth of America, that hold

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Speaker 2: Emerita America and shows America what it needs to be

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Speaker 2: inbarrassed about. Please give this Huntsville Madison County Public Library

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Speaker 2: in Huntsville, Alabama, the biggest he huh m.

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Speaker 1: M m mmmm.

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Speaker 6: All right, well thank you for that donkey today, sir.

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Speaker 1: Yes, indeed.

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Speaker 6: Now when we come back, well peace, B E, T

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Speaker 6: B T.

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Speaker 1: We see you later. Everybody else.

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Speaker 6: Sonya will be joining us. She has a new book

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Speaker 6: called Fashion Killer. Do you know Sonya's last name?

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Speaker 2: I don't want to mess with Christa Murphy, Sonya, Christanna Murphy,

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Speaker 2: Christna Murphy.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and Sonya used.

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Speaker 2: To host the TV show together back in the day

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Speaker 2: on MTV called Hip Hop POV. It was me Sonya,

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Speaker 2: Boo Acon's brother Boo, Amanda Seals, Debbie Brown.

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Speaker 1: I think that's it. That's it, oh me, Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was five of us. I know, I think like it

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Speaker 1: was five of us. Who was the fifth person? Me Doug?

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Speaker 6: Yes, Well, she has a new book out today called

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Speaker 6: Fashion Killer, and we're going to talk to her when

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Speaker 6: we come back, so don't move. It's to Breakfast Club,

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Speaker 6: Good morning, the Breakfast Clove