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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So

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Speaker 2: There is no denying that the Russians interfered.

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Speaker 3: In the election.

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Speaker 2: Whether or not they had willing or unwitting help from

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Speaker 2: the Trump team, they interfered, and they did so to

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Speaker 4: The implications of this are frankly nothing short of historic.

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Speaker 4: Over one hundred documents that we released on Friday really

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Speaker 4: detail and provide evidence of how this treason is conspiracy

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Speaker 4: was directed by President Obama just weeks before he was

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Speaker 4: due to leave office, after President Trump had already gotten elected.

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Speaker 4: This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is

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Speaker 4: an issue that is so serious it should concern every

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Speaker 5: It away.

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Speaker 4: Creating this piece of manufactured intelligence that that claims that

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Speaker 4: Russia had helped Donald Trump get elected contradicted every other

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Speaker 4: Russia neither had neither the intent nor the capability to

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Speaker 4: try to quote unquote hack the United States election for

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Speaker 6: When you look at that, those bakers, they have a

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Speaker 6: President Obama, it was his concept, his idea, but he.

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Speaker 7: Also got it from Crooked Hillary Clinton. Rooked is three dollars.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 5: On the show today, we will ponder the question that

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Speaker 5: plagues every man almost daily when we wake in the

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Speaker 5: call the lint and collectibles that gather in the cavern

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Speaker 5: housing our belly button? When we pull it out and

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Speaker 5: stare at it? What does it really mean? Is the

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Speaker 5: to our naval or should we preserve it for posterity

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Speaker 5: a sign that we were once alive, vibrant, vital. Why

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Speaker 5: has nobody ever named this to trite us? And what

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Speaker 5: does it tell us about the cosmos? In local news,

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Speaker 5: a new report shows more than one half of Harris

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Speaker 5: County voters believe things are going in the wrong direction.

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Speaker 3: The story from ABC.

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Speaker 8: The new uh Hobby School survey shows more than half

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Speaker 8: of registered voters here in Harris County are not happy

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Speaker 9: This survey was conducted over a nine day period. Out

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Speaker 10: We ask Harris County residents what the top issues are

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Speaker 10: that they believe in the big problems facing Harris County.

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Speaker 10: They point to things like crime, streets and roads and

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Speaker 9: How important are these reports when we talk about overall

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Speaker 10: These surveys help us understand what everyone is thinking about

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Speaker 10: to are thinking, and they provide a real baseline for

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Speaker 10: problems that Harris county residents believe are confronting their county.

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Speaker 9: Issues like crime in their neighborhoods and the lack of sidewalks.

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Speaker 5: Sers SO Houston Public Media posted a headline that said

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Speaker 5: Public Media wants an East Porker to win, because that

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Speaker 5: is survey former mayor a niece porker favored by voters

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Speaker 3: Trump Coke and the Sugar Cartel.

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Speaker 5: The President says things go better with caine sugar, So

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Speaker 5: stop aiding corn syrup.

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Speaker 3: Do you say syper syrup? You say syrup? Hice syrup?

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Speaker 5: President this pressing Coca Cola to make its US soft

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Speaker 5: drinks with cane sugar instead of high fruitose corn syrup,

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Speaker 5: and on Tuesday, the company said it will launch mister

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Speaker 3: Consumers will decide if it succeeds.

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Speaker 5: But if mister Trump wants to help, he could dismantle

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Speaker 5: US sugar protectionism that gives corn syrup a cost advantage.

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Speaker 5: populist nutrition. Scientific authorities generally say there isn't a big

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Speaker 5: health difference between corn syrup and sugar, and the important

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Speaker 5: thing is not to chug too much of either. A

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Speaker 5: soda isn't carrot juice, no matter the sweetener. What's funny

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Speaker 5: I was consuming a lot of carrot juice few years

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Speaker 3: Love carrot juice. And I have this dumb ass.

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Speaker 5: Idea that I haven't had my entire my entire life,

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Speaker 5: that if a little of something is good, then way

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Speaker 5: Figure out, oh, that was a bad idea. I'm a

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Speaker 5: carrot juice in small quantities. It's not so bad for

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Speaker 5: you yet. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior has called

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Speaker 5: corn syrup quote a formula for making you obese and diabetic.

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Speaker 5: He's a man of the left who blames America's health

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Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 5: Soda aficionados also say they can taste the difference, which

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Speaker 3: I have been.

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Speaker 5: Speaking to Coca Cola about using real cane sugar in

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Speaker 5: coke in the United States, and they have agreed to

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Speaker 3: Will be a very good move by them. You'll see.

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Speaker 3: It's just better.

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Speaker 5: Having ended the Ukraine and Gaza wars, mister Trump apparently

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Speaker 5: behind him. Coca Cola will apparently put both products on

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Speaker 5: the market. The old corn syrup Coke that nobody liked,

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Speaker 5: uses pure cane sugar.

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Speaker 3: Ramon.

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Speaker 11: That's you a bit of a buzz around town tonight,

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Speaker 11: as President Trump has officially struck a deal with Coca

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Speaker 11: Cola to remove that gooey, nasty syrup out of the

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Speaker 11: recipe and replace with one hundred percent purecut sugarcane and

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Speaker 11: all exclusive a Channel nine News, We've just gotten word

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Speaker 11: been revealed for this sweet nectar soda, Drake Coke Caine.

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Speaker 11: We go to the streets to corresponded Billy McCracken, who's

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Speaker 3: Billy, what can you sell us well?

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Speaker 12: Jim Thanky, I am so jacked. I am so happy

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Speaker 12: Now I'm so excited about this new pred cocaine. This

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Speaker 12: in the product. You known they got some year Costco

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Speaker 12: they're bringing in by eighteen forty six thirty eight ninety

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Speaker 12: It's the greatest thing I've ever tasted. Abo Jactive an

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Billy.

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Speaker 11: We haven't heard you this exciting since that red bull

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Speaker 3: As we closed the.

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Speaker 11: NYE, take a look at the new Coca Cola commercial

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Speaker 11: for the newest product.

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Speaker 12: Features pure cane sugar Cokecaine.

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Speaker 13: Eighteen eighty six, What a year. ConL ben To introduced

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Speaker 13: successful automatic dishwasher. At a pharmacist that I am up,

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Speaker 13: John Pemberton. This old a medical syrup that quickly gained

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Speaker 7: Called and called.

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Speaker 14: Fast forward to today and there's more varieties.

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Speaker 3: Of Coca Cola and alite.

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Speaker 14: Singers of your favorite washed up eighties rock band, original Coke,

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Speaker 14: Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Coca Cola.

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Speaker 7: Cherry, Coca Cola vanilla.

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Speaker 14: And even what we consider disgusting Coca Cola Live.

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Speaker 11: But now, thanks to President Trump, we introduce our greatest

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Speaker 11: and most.

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Speaker 14: Delicious product derived from your sugarcane coke came Coca Cola's

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Speaker 14: new product, Cokekang, available everywhere, and I mean everywhere.

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Speaker 3: Every place you shut cocaine.

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Speaker 5: Coca Cola statement was that it plans to sell quote

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Speaker 5: an offering made with US cane sugar, but as a

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Speaker 5: In other words, corn syrup is not being phased out

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Speaker 5: but I don't bother, so I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: So I heard this.

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Speaker 5: I guess it was CNN a few days ago, and

444
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Speaker 5: Jim pulled this audio. He sends it to me, He says,

445
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 5: can you believe this? So I listened to it and

446
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 5: I tell it, Ramon, will you go ahead and play it.

447
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 5: I'm not going to promote it. I just want you

448
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 5: to listen, and then we'll talk about it.

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00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 16: The African drum language, which is white boy stole. They

450
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 16: can call it the Morris code. They took the same

451
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 16: pulsation and rhythm, and now they called it the telephone.

452
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 16: And they took the same pulsation and rhythm, and now

453
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Speaker 16: they called it a computer, which is nothing but that

454
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Speaker 16: drop it. But if you don't the cat test people

455
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 16: to the computer, you don't see it.

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Speaker 5: One of my favorite things, and there is so much

457
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 5: of this, is you'll have the black guy and maybe

458
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Speaker 5: he's got a boat tied on, he's got his nails polished,

459
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 5: he's got an expensive suit, and he's gonna lay some

460
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Speaker 5: things down. He's gonna talk about some things that people

461
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 5: ain't ready to hear, but he's gonna tell it, right,

462
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 5: they're gonna tell stuff.

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Speaker 3: Y'all don't even know. See the white boy, what he done.

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00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 5: He stole the telephone from the African, and a reasonable

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00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 5: person would go, telephone from the African. Okay, you have

466
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 5: my attention. Explain, but he doesn't because they've they've placed

467
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 5: two props, they've staged two black women on the stage,

468
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 5: and they're very supportive, very supportive, and they go, so

469
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 5: now you.

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Speaker 3: Got a chorus of two.

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Speaker 5: Ladies to whatever he's laying down, and so now he

472
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 5: kind of gets a little, a little cadence. He's got

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Speaker 5: his pace going. So he's like, that's right. They stole

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Speaker 5: like he's ever been to Africa, hasn't. They stole the

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Speaker 5: phone from us, from the bongo drum.

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Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying. They sow. They stole the

477
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Speaker 3: tank from.

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00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 5: The knife we created from the elephant's tusk. They stole

479
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 5: the airplane from the rock we would throw across the

480
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 5: top of the water. So what the white dude done

481
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 5: done is stole everything from us, put one of his

482
00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 5: pat tents on top of it, and left us Poe

483
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 5: and him rich on. This nonsense gets passed around for

484
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 5: some sort of extra for for for the modern modern

485
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 5: curriculum of open mindedness.

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Speaker 3: Now that you've heard it, let's let's listen to it again.

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Speaker 16: The African drum language which just white boys stole.

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Speaker 7: They can call it the Morris code.

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00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 5: Okay, stop, play play that one more time and be

490
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 5: ready to stop.

491
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 3: We're gonna're gonna stop. We gonna break this down.

492
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 16: The African drum language, which just white boys stole.

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00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 7: They can call it the Morris code.

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00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 3: Okay.

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00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 5: See, if there wasn't an African drum language, then Samuel Morris,

496
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Speaker 5: when he created a system by which you would transmit

497
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 5: a sound, he wouldn't know that you could click once

498
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 5: or twice or three times, or dash dash and draw

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00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 5: it out, or he wouldn't have any means. He wouldn't

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00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 5: even understand sound. He would just sit there and look

501
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 5: at it, and he would say, if only I understood sound,

502
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,479
Speaker 5: if only there was some way I could make a

503
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 5: clicking racket with metal on metal attached to the wire

504
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Speaker 5: using transmission.

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00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 7: But he couldn't.

506
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 5: He couldn't, And then, like Livingstone, he had to go

507
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 5: to Africa and he had an epiphany. Oh wait, they're

508
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 5: banging on the bongos.

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Speaker 3: I could wait a second.

510
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 5: I've got the transmission mechanism. I just couldn't figure out

511
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 5: how to transmit anything. I'm sitting in my office going

512
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 5: but there was no way to transmit my ex hell.

513
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 5: And then I'm like, but that wouldn't go through.

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00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 17: But if you were to use a percussive effect and

515
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 17: you were to slap it metal on metal, I could

516
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 17: attach that to the wire and it would go through

517
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 17: and they would hear that as a sound, just like

518
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 17: the bongo in Africa, and it.

519
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 3: Would communicate and we could create a.

520
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 5: Language just as they did on the Oh well they

521
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 5: didn't have a language from bongo, but still their sound.

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00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 5: I owe that to the African.

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00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 3: Okay.

524
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 16: Next they took the same pulsation and rhythm, and now

525
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 16: they called it the telephone.

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00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 7: They look the same pulsation and rhythm.

527
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 16: And now they call it a computer, which is not

528
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 16: an African drum. But if you don't cat test people

529
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 16: to the computer, you don't see it.

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00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't see it.

531
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 5: See see if you're not just sitting around telling black folk,

532
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 5: y'all doneinvented everything, and white people downe stole it. See

533
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 5: w was banging on the bogo, and they over there,

534
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 5: you know, doing whatever they do, stealing from the Indias,

535
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 5: and they corn and stuff, and they don't know, you know,

536
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 5: they don't know what they're doing. And we over here,

537
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 5: you know, trying to show them what the computer could do,

538
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 5: you know, C d ram and you know two fifty

539
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 5: six and then five twelve and things, and they ain't

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00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 5: knowing nothing.

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Speaker 3: In white people, they had nothing.

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00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 5: They done stole gunpowder from the Chinama. And so we

543
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 5: over here we own the bongo, and they're like, oh

544
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 5: that bongo pretty good. You know what I'm about to do.

545
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 5: I'm about to use Linux as my programming language. And

546
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Speaker 5: we stuck over here with no shoes on, looking for

547
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 5: running water, and they got the computer and we're like,

548
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 5: that's my computer, mother, and so I'm going to do it.

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00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 3: That ain't right. So I'm thinking.

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00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 5: Maybe this was the reason that Rodney Ellis was housing

551
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 5: all the African art and charging it to the budgets

552
00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 5: of Harris County governmental departments, because he was using the

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Speaker 5: African art as an inspiration.

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Speaker 3: For how we would

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Speaker 5: Improve the infrastructure and the universal basic income and elevate

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Speaker 5: strategies for Lean Ahead dog GO