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Speaker 1: Yes, welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where

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Speaker 1: we discover fascinating facts about the world around us and

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Speaker 1: the fun of play learning. February is Black History Month

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Speaker 1: in the United States. This year, we met some amazing

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Speaker 1: Black Americans doing inspiring work in our Growing Up podcast,

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Speaker 1: and we would like all of you to meet them

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Speaker 1: as well. I think you will find their stories very

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Speaker 1: interesting and you will certainly learn something new.

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Speaker 2: Ooh, I like learning.

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Speaker 1: Things me too. Well, then, Cowie and Elliott, let's get started.

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Speaker 1: Oh hi, Billy, can we borrow your tablet? Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look and see if we can find

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Speaker 1: a good episode to share.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Perfect. Jessica Nabongo is the special guest on this episode.

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Speaker 1: Who is that? Jessica Nabongo the first black woman to

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Speaker 1: travel to every country in the world. Wow, that's right, Billy.

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Speaker 1: Miss Nabongo has been to one one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 2: She must be very brave.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what if she doesn't know the language, what if

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Speaker 1: she's feeling shy, and what if she doesn't know where

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Speaker 1: the bathroom is. There's a lot you have to figure

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Speaker 1: out when you travel to new places. Let's hear what

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Speaker 3: To be an adventurer like Jessica Nobongo, I think you

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Speaker 3: have to be brave, you have to be curious, and

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Speaker 3: you have to be open minded.

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Speaker 4: So when you go into a new place, if you're

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Speaker 4: open you're able to meet new friends no matter where

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Speaker 4: you are. We are more similar than we are different,

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Speaker 4: So no matter what we look like, no matter what

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Speaker 4: our religion is, I found that people around the world

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Speaker 4: are the same. When I say we're more similar than

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Speaker 4: we are different, it means that I can meet a

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Speaker 4: friend anywhere, and so someone who is a stranger at

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Speaker 4: first can become a friend very quickly. Because even though

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Speaker 4: I was born in the US and I'm from Ugunda,

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Speaker 4: I can meet someone in Jamaica or me and mar

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Speaker 4: or Italy and we can become fast friends because we

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Speaker 4: have similar interests.

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Speaker 2: Can we go on and adventure like Miss Nabongo, It

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Speaker 2: sounds really exciting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go. We're just kids. We can't apply to

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Speaker 1: all those places on our own. Well, that's true, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: But Miss Nabongo says there are some things you can

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Speaker 1: do to practice being an adventurer from home.

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Speaker 4: Part of being an adventurer when you're at home is

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Speaker 4: talking to other kids who may not seem that similar

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Speaker 4: to you, but you may have an opportunity to learn

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Speaker 4: something from them, especially if they're from a different country

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Speaker 4: than you are, or if their parents are from a

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Speaker 4: different country. So sometimes you can go on an adventure

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Speaker 4: just through conversation.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I can do that.

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Speaker 1: I can totally do that. Me do it?

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Speaker 2: Do Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The next person I'd like you to meet is Byron Scott.

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Speaker 1: He has a different kind of job.

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Speaker 2: What is it.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's a clue. Listen, what is making that sound?

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Speaker 4: M I'm not sure?

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Speaker 3: Lingo.

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Speaker 1: Kids, listeners, can you guess what is making this sound? No, Billy,

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Speaker 1: it's not a hammer. Keep guessing. Oh, I know, it's

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Speaker 1: a basketball Is he a basketball player? That's right, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: Byron Scott is a professional basketball player, and here he is.

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Speaker 5: My name is Byron Scott. I live in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: I am a professional basketball player and coach. I used

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Speaker 5: to play for the Los Angeles Lakers for a number

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Speaker 5: of years. I won three championships and really had a

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Speaker 5: good time doing it.

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Speaker 1: Hi, I did basketball too. Billy is wondering how Byron

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Speaker 1: Scott got so good at basketball. Let's find out.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know what, how I became a professional basketball player.

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Speaker 5: I knew at twelve years old that's what I wanted

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Speaker 5: to do. And it's a crazy story because my mom

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Speaker 5: and dad were coming upstairs and I had just won

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Speaker 5: my first trophy, and my mom and dad were so

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Speaker 5: proud of me and happy for me, and my mom

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Speaker 5: asked me what was I going to do when I

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Speaker 5: grew up? And I said, I'm gonna be a professional

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Speaker 5: basketball player. So I knew at twelve years old that

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Speaker 5: was my passion, that was my dream.

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Speaker 1: Dad's amazing. You know I have a dream too, but

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Speaker 1: not to be a basketball player. Oh what's your dream, Lisa.

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Speaker 1: I want to be an inventor and also an ice

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Speaker 3: Wait.

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Speaker 4: I thought you wanted to be a soccer player.

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Speaker 1: I did, Elliott, but that was yesterday. Oh right. Byron

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Speaker 1: Scott knew very early what he wanted to do when

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Speaker 5: It takes a lot of dedication, a lot of hard work,

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Speaker 5: a lot of effort, but it also takes some luck.

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Speaker 5: But I think without the hard work, you have no

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Speaker 5: chance of being successful. So for me, I just knew

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Speaker 5: at twelve that I was going to work my butt

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Speaker 5: off and I was going to be a professional basketball player.

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Speaker 1: Coach Byron is inspiring me to work hard. Does take

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Speaker 1: a lot of hard work to get really, really good

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Speaker 1: at something. Are you ready to meet one more inspiring Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 1: everyone close your eyes and imagine you are outside lingo kids,

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Speaker 1: listeners you can join in too. Imagine there are lots

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Speaker 1: of trees all around you and a gentle breeze blowing

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Speaker 1: through the leaves, and if you listen very closely, you

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Speaker 1: start to hear birds. I hear birds.

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Speaker 2: They sounds so pretty.

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Speaker 1: They do sound nice. Ah wait did you hear that?

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Speaker 1: What kind of bird makes that sound?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: What is that?

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Speaker 1: That is a strange sound. I bet our next guest

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Speaker 1: will know exactly what it is. Krina Newsom is an ornithologist.

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Speaker 3: An ornie what?

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Speaker 1: An ornithologist? She is a scientist who studies birds. Karina

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Speaker 1: Newsome started Black Birder Week to encourage people of color

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Speaker 1: to study her favorite animals, birds. I am sure she

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Speaker 1: would love to study you, billy, But for now, let's

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Speaker 1: hear mis Newsom talk about another type of bird. She

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Speaker 1: likes to study, vultures.

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Speaker 2: Are usually birds that people look at and are like, oh, gross,

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Speaker 2: Like they have bald heads and they're kind of patchy looking.

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Speaker 2: Vultures are incredible. So vultures eat dead bodies of of animals, right,

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Speaker 2: kind of gross, but their bodies are actually really well

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Speaker 2: there's that summach acid burns our throats, our own stomach acid. Well,

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Speaker 2: vultures have semma acid that is so strong it's anywhere

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Speaker 2: gets dissolved in their stomachs. They can eat diseases or

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Speaker 2: pass little microbes like rabies. They can eat cholera, which

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Speaker 2: causes all kinds of horrible diseases in people, and they

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Speaker 2: never get fit. If we didn't have vultures, we would

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Speaker 2: be in a bad way. We would have disease in

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Speaker 2: our water and our soil. But they're making sure that

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Speaker 2: our ecosystems are healthy. So the next time you see

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Speaker 2: a vulture, they don't even have to think that they're pretty,

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Speaker 2: but just thank the vulture.

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Speaker 1: Thank you vultures, and thank you miss Newsom. Now I

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Speaker 1: know what that strange sound is. It's a vulture sound. Wow,

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Speaker 1: birds are pretty amazing, Billy says, thank you. I hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed meeting Jessica Obongo Byron Scott and Karna Newsome.

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Speaker 1: And I wonder if you learned something you didn't know

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Speaker 1: before I did.

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Speaker 5: Oh, Matt, you can go on ventures by talking new friends.

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Speaker 3: I learned what the vulture sounds like.

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Speaker 1: I learned that you have to work super hard for

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Speaker 1: a long time to become a professional basketball player. Billy

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Speaker 1: says he learned that scientists that study birds are called ornithologists.

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Speaker 1: Great job everyone, Lingo Kids listeners, did you learn something

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Speaker 1: new today? Let us know you can have a grown

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Speaker 1: up help write into podcast at lingo kids dot com.

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Speaker 1: Today we listen to short versions of interviews from Jessica

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Speaker 1: Nabongo Byron Scott and Corina Newsom, but you can hear

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Speaker 1: their full stories on the Lingo Kids Growing Up Podcast.

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Speaker 1: These are just a few of the many inspiring Black

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Speaker 1: Americans that we can learn from during Black History Month

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Speaker 1: and all year long. See you next time.

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Speaker 3: Continuing the tinting