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Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: I will share with you two HBCUs that I hold

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Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart. One's around, one's a rattler,

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Speaker 1: and five hundred miles separates the two. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't. No, I didn't know. No, I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. Okay, buck of your seat belts and let's

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Speaker 1: take a road trip through black excellence. First stop, Winston Salem,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. Winston Salem State University founded in eighteen ninety

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Speaker 1: two by Simon g Atkins. You know how bold you

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Speaker 1: got to be the founder university In eighteen ninety two,

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Speaker 1: that man said segregation. Jim Crow ain't nobody got time

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Speaker 1: for that, so he started Slater Industrial Academy, which is

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Speaker 1: now Winston Salem State University. Back then you were learning

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Speaker 1: brick land and cooking. Today you might be in a

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Speaker 1: no lab, putting I v's in mannequins, or recording your

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Speaker 1: podcasts in one of the only Adobe labs on an

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Speaker 1: HBCU campus. Samon Gak is probably looking down at WSSU

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Speaker 1: like that single mom be looking at them kids open

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Speaker 1: them Christmas presents on Christmas morning, and no, let me

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Speaker 1: talk about the legend who walk through those doors of

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Speaker 1: Winston Salem State University. You ever heard of Lewis Farrakhan

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Speaker 1: a WSSU grab. You ever been watching Wilding Out and

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Speaker 1: seeing Chico Bean? Yeah? Being a ram two. The name

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Speaker 1: of our band is the Red Sea of Sound. Our

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Speaker 1: cheerleaders or you may have seen them on the ground

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Speaker 1: stomp and shake excellence. We talking about Powerhouse of Red

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Speaker 1: and White, and around two thousand and seven, Shavon Oestrada

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Speaker 1: pretty much revolutionized the version of stomping shake that we

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Speaker 1: see today. But that's a whole nother episode. One of

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Speaker 1: the most notable chants at Winston Salem State University is

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Speaker 1: chewed up, backup, chewed up backup, chewed up backup, spit.

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Speaker 1: If you ain't a dam, then you ain't. We try

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Speaker 1: to keep a PG for the children and the elderly.

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Speaker 1: They want to sing along. That's good, old ESU. Now

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Speaker 1: let's head down I ninety five to Tallahassee, Florida and

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Speaker 1: visit Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University better known as FAM.

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Speaker 1: You they got a chant too. It's usually led by

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Speaker 1: loose kid. He'll say I represent and all the ratleers

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Speaker 1: say Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, October third, eighteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: What exactly Fam You was found at? October third, eighteen

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Speaker 1: eighty seven. Now Tallahassee, Florida has seven huge heels, and

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Speaker 1: the part of Florida they gave fam was the highest heel.

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Speaker 1: But it was filled with rattlesnakes. So the state of

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Speaker 1: Florida was like, y'all can have fifteen acres and two mules,

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Speaker 1: good luck. So what did fam You do? Turned it

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Speaker 1: into one of the top HBCUs in the country. They

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Speaker 1: embraced those rattlesnakes, became the fam You Ratless And if

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Speaker 1: you meet any rattler, they'll let you know that they're

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Speaker 1: from the highest of seven hills. That's right, Fam You

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Speaker 1: sits at the highest points in Tallahassee, Florida. Even Florida

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Speaker 1: State got to look up at the ratlers and they

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Speaker 1: hate that Fam You is so iconic it makes you

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Speaker 1: want to enroll just for homecoming. No cap I experienced

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Speaker 1: it last year. And don't let the march in one

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Speaker 1: hundred touch the field. Have you ever seen them before?

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Speaker 1: The band might do as much work as the football

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Speaker 1: team on Saturdays, and Fam You has some of the

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Speaker 1: dopest alumni in the game. Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former

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Speaker 1: mayor of Atlanta. Fam You grad What about the movie

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Speaker 1: director Will Packer here Ratler and he even got a

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Speaker 1: perform in Arts Amphitheater right on campus. So, whether it's

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Speaker 1: Winston Salem State University with the motto enter to Learn,

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Speaker 1: depart to serve in the heart of North Carolina or

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Speaker 1: fam You with the motto excellence, it's carrying down there

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Speaker 1: in the Sunshine State. These schools are more than just campuses.

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Speaker 1: They're launching pads for greatness. And they're two of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: Okay bye,