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Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning. Breakfast club Morning.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angelu Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We

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Speaker 1: are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in

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Speaker 1: the building that she's moving it around here. That's right, yeah, Charlomagne.

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Speaker 1: Charlomagne always has his book behind everybody. That's right. Learn

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Speaker 1: that ship, Jennifer, Welcome back. George's Fine Street look like

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Speaker 1: a white house for better ordering. If I don't run

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Speaker 1: to New York Times best sell, everybody goes down and

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Speaker 1: aunt is over, I'll be satan. Fuck y'all were welcome.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? How you feeling? How are you feeling? Guys,

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Speaker 1: come on scressful time, Mary, not at all? Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: happy as a lord. I got a view of Central Park.

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Speaker 1: I could just take off and fly. I am. I

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Speaker 1: feel on top of the world. Now. I didn't work.

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Speaker 1: I didn't work. I wrote this book during COVID, and

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Speaker 1: I put everything in there. I had to get it

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Speaker 1: out of me. There's not a person in the world

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Speaker 1: that did not contemplate their death. You're right, and I

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Speaker 1: told my family, I said, if anything happens to me,

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Speaker 1: because I'm sixty five. Now you get that fucking book out,

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Speaker 1: you know, no sixty five. Yes, I am fine, And

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Speaker 1: then I find bitch I hate see straight. I get

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Speaker 1: up every more that the kids love that I brushed

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Speaker 1: my teeth, spit it out, look in the mirror. I pause,

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Speaker 1: I say it, then I start my dad, that's right.

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Speaker 1: You can't be touched when you start off good. That's right.

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Speaker 1: I can't get on you. That's right. Hard. I'm in

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Speaker 1: this world because I feel like the world is just

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Speaker 1: going to shoot on so many levels. No it is.

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Speaker 1: Don't listen. That's okay to be scared right now, but

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Speaker 1: you must be unafraid. Stand the fuck up now. Are

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Speaker 1: we in trouble? Yes? Are they trying to take democracy itself? Yes?

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Speaker 1: But evil will not win out. Love is the glue

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Speaker 1: that holds us together. So start loving. Why don't you?

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Speaker 1: I said it here last time. Nothing's changed. Lead with love.

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Speaker 1: Come on, before you go in any room. You see

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Speaker 1: how I came in here in a bastard I think

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Speaker 1: was how you motherfucker? Do you get that? So? So,

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Speaker 1: I want to know why you decide to write the

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Speaker 1: book during COVID so much going on? What made you say?

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Speaker 1: I want to put it all out there. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: what I do while I'm writing a book or not.

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Speaker 1: I put it all out there. I talked to the kids.

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Speaker 1: They said, Kevin Hart got these chips kenya short ass.

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Speaker 1: He made them short on purpose, like they don't adjust,

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Speaker 1: so everybody's the same size as him. Dumb ass. Nancy,

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Speaker 1: that's a name. That's a name of one of the

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Speaker 1: chapters in the book. Yeah, let me tell you a

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Speaker 1: little bit. This is the only story you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: from the book because you got a bait. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you one teaser. I fainted at the White House and

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Speaker 1: broke up the medical marines the White House. Doctor. I

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Speaker 1: woke up, I went go take care Obama. Motherfucker. All

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Speaker 1: I did was fake but or something that's happening to Obama. Baby.

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Speaker 1: They gave me three Christmas cookies and some water, you know,

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Speaker 1: to revive me. I was sitting down. Ain't this the

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Speaker 1: White House? I know? Goddamn Well, Michelle got some chicken

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Speaker 1: in that. I said, y'all gonna get me some checket baby,

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Speaker 1: They said, I heard saw somebody whisper. They were saying,

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Speaker 1: out of it. Yeah, to get that bit out here. Oh,

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Speaker 1: me up there. Everybody was so concerned. I forgot to eat.

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Speaker 1: I was so excited to me to meet the President

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Speaker 1: and the first lady come. I and met them before,

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Speaker 1: maybe two or three times. But I met Barack when

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Speaker 1: he was a senator. Oprah had a fundraiser for him.

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Speaker 1: Stevie one to sang, it was beautiful. That bitch had

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Speaker 1: so much land. I was like, gone, Oprah, gone of all,

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Speaker 1: but she had art. It was a beautiful time that.

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Speaker 1: But did Obama's check on you afterwards? Hell no, He'd

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Speaker 1: gone on upstairs with Michelle an email later or nothing,

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Speaker 1: bitch was in the White House. Oh my god. But

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Speaker 1: you know what I learned from Obama that day when

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Speaker 1: he spoke, I said in the book, I never heard

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Speaker 1: a word he said. I only saw his compassion for

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Speaker 1: the church Manuel Ammy. Yes, he was so compassionate. And

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Speaker 1: I have been a real big activists since Trump was elected.

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Speaker 1: So because you see what's missing, Like you know, even

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Speaker 1: if you don't agree with everything that Obama did policy wise,

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Speaker 1: that compassion and the other thing he led with love. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's why Trump can't fuck with him. Come on, now,

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Speaker 1: you're leading with Hayt. He's leading with love. You don't win.

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Speaker 1: You cannot destroy love, you can't match it. The only

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Speaker 1: thing that matches love is love, and it'll knock everything

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Speaker 1: else out the way if you're in a loving state.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, But how do you explain white

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Speaker 1: supremacy because that's been leading with hate since the day

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Speaker 1: we got him. Y'all don't want to start me, Yes

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Speaker 1: we do. I'm thinking it's so much to say about

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Speaker 1: what's going on white supremacy. I wrote a song called

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Speaker 1: Our Children Shouldn't have to Run from Bullets. I've written

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Speaker 1: a lot of political songs and they have been effective.

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Speaker 1: That January sixth, shit, they looked like roaches climbing those walls.

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Speaker 1: How dare you you? Motherfuckers? We built this fucking building

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Speaker 1: and then they thought they see they went on tour

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Speaker 1: they thought they were gonna be able to break them

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Speaker 1: uh interviewed her. But what's going on? She said? They

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Speaker 1: they little Karen. They there gasped me and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: they went on and they got her dress. She gave

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Speaker 1: the other thing, our privileged asses, the complacency of America

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Speaker 1: and Americans. All I could vision was a few of

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Speaker 1: them having stopped at an ice cream store and stood

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Speaker 1: But as they licked, they ate ice cream on their

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Speaker 1: way there. Yeah, the privilege. That shit made me sick,

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Speaker 1: Oh dare you? And smeared shit on the wall trying

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Speaker 1: kids having fun that spring break. You know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, but those Republican senators are all sociopaths,

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Speaker 1: you know what. I know, Trump with his mafia ass

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Speaker 1: as soon as it got in, he got all the

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Speaker 1: dish on all those senators. They can't they can't go

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Speaker 1: with him sew you know, look with little boys and

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Speaker 1: hookers and they got pictures, I'm sure, so they can't

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Speaker 1: even be human no more. They're just scared. What do

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Speaker 1: you think about the new president? And Vice president Biden

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Speaker 1: has experience. It's a shamis the age is? Because I

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Speaker 1: know it's hard for him. Kamala a bad bitch, I'm sorry, um,

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Speaker 1: and he he's good And I bet you any mind

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Speaker 1: of money he calls it Obama every morning. Barack please,

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Speaker 1: Barack please? Did you do this for eight fucking years?

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Speaker 1: Jasus Christ? Do I bomb a country? Now? Why should

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell y'all, I don't hate. I don't hate nobody.

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Speaker 1: But that was some nasty shit. But let me tell

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Speaker 1: you another thing. History does repeat itself. I thought we

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Speaker 1: back from Antarctica. Y'all know I travel. The captain of

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Speaker 1: the ship was a French ship. Couldn't understand the thing

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry French people, I like y'all, but what was

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Speaker 1: but my crew tells me you're an activist. I said, yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: I am. He said, I would ask that you go

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Speaker 1: of speed, y'all. We need the fucking Pawlas to orbit.

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Speaker 1: And these bastards don't want to believe in science. Dumb Trump.

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Speaker 1: Your dumb pitch a science? And then then let's just

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Speaker 1: book and everything. First of all, congratulations, do you put

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Speaker 1: getting my stock on the Hollywood Okay, oh god, I

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Speaker 1: why y'all love my voice, Because I studied. I used

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Speaker 1: to say knuckle knocker for a nickel, give me a knuckle.

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Speaker 1: when you got it? When you got it, it it feels surreal.

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Speaker 1: I told the audience that day. It was not the

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Speaker 1: work I did off. I went and got help. Damn

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Speaker 1: near everybody in the show businesses bipoland, but they don't

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Speaker 1: know it because they got in it to hide that

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Speaker 1: normal world. See, they could hide that edge even I was.

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Speaker 1: I hesitated to take medication because I didn't want it

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Speaker 1: take care of me. There was no affection. I was

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Speaker 1: I'll come here in sugar boomboo. I didn't get none

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Speaker 1: of that, But what she did give me was work ethics.

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Speaker 1: She stopped scrubbing white people's floors, and she went and

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Speaker 1: well for check. You remember, they used to come in

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Speaker 1: But what do you want to reader to take away

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Speaker 1: during COVERD That's how I tie Lee would love live

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Speaker 1: on purpose. Jennifer Lewis walking in my joy in these streets,

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Speaker 1: don't go, don't go through, don't don't cut down. Tunk tunk,

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Speaker 1: know that was homework. That's history. Absolutely. You don't stop.

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