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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendo Mechanicus,

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Speaker 1: a reference to the name of Elon Musk's secret third

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Speaker 1: baby with Brihmes, named Tao Techno Mechanicus. Okay, sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I am so tired of you, and I'm talking to

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Speaker 1: the baby. By the way, shout out Johnny with that title. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Johnny Davis, shout out to you, good friend.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jack. That's Miles.

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Speaker 1: There's like major Elon Musk story news age. So there's

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Speaker 1: there's a new book out from Walter Isaacson, the Steve

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Speaker 1: Jobs biographer.

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Speaker 2: Who I didn't realize.

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Speaker 1: Did you know he was the head of Time magazine

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Speaker 1: in the nineties. I don't know why I would have

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Speaker 1: realized that.

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Speaker 3: Who gives a check you didn't keep up with who

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Speaker 3: the head of Time magazine was in the nineties.

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Speaker 1: He just entered my rankings of the top five heads

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Speaker 1: of Time Magazine.

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Speaker 2: Over the last fifty years.

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Speaker 1: But he was the head of CNN when nine eleven happened. Okay,

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Speaker 1: shut out, I mean that's that's not nothing. Yeah, Rhodes scholar.

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Speaker 1: I just read a New York Magazine profile of Walter

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Speaker 1: Isaacson around his writing of this Elon musk biography managed

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Speaker 1: to get through the paragraph where he was like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, it's pretty cool that, like, you know, I

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Speaker 1: wrote about one genius, Steve Jobs, and now writing about another.

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Speaker 1: And like you can just like see the the box

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Speaker 1: of the Walter Isaacson genius box like Steve Jobs, Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk other people. I think he's written about jack O. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that is why I soon managed not to throw my

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Speaker 1: damn magazine across the room. I wasn't included, I hear you,

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Speaker 1: but he uh it sounds like it's I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to I well, one of us will just

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Speaker 1: have to read this shit. But it sounds pretty sympathetic

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Speaker 1: to Elon Musk. It says his upbringing was brutal because

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Speaker 1: his dad was mean to him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like that's pretty that could be

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Speaker 2: pretty objective. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.

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Speaker 3: We've seen how his dad talks about him.

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Speaker 1: Sounds pretty sympathetic overall. Like there, so there's this one.

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Speaker 1: The big thing that is uh breaking in the past

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Speaker 1: couple of days is that, uh there is this like

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Speaker 1: big bomb drop detail where he basically said that Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk turned off the Internet to prevent a Ukraine attack

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Speaker 1: with submarine drones off the Crimean coast. Like basically the

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Speaker 1: way it happens to the book is like they are

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Speaker 1: about to take out a huge chunk of the Russian

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Speaker 1: military and Elon Musk gets cold feet and like turns

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Speaker 1: off the starlink Internet to that part of the world,

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Speaker 1: and then the submarine drones just like wash harmlessly to

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Speaker 1: shore because the Internet got turned off on him, and

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Speaker 1: people are like, whoa, that's it's like major military decision

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Speaker 1: being made by him. Isaacson is already like, so Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk was like, actually, we never gave internet to the

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Speaker 1: Crimean coast. They knew that. They basically put the drones

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Speaker 1: in place, and then we're like, could you turn on

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Speaker 1: the internet, And I reiterated my decision to not turn

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Speaker 1: on the internet there.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It still seems like a big idea or a big deal.

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Speaker 1: It still seems like a lot of power concentrated in

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Speaker 1: the hands of somebody who seems like a fucked up,

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Speaker 1: shitty human being.

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Speaker 2: Use Isaacson's words to describe him.

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Speaker 1: He is where is it a mercurial man child with

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Speaker 1: grandiose ambitions and an ego.

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Speaker 2: To match that feels like a New York Times backhander.

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Speaker 1: That is actually that's a New York Times summary of

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Speaker 1: the book what says about him got it, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Like the thing that makes me still want

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Speaker 1: to read it is that this like New York Magazine

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Speaker 1: profile of Walter Isaacson, like they're just kind of following

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Speaker 1: him around New Orleans, where he's from, and they're like,

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Speaker 1: he said that there were various times during the two

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Speaker 1: years he was writing the book where like Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: would just like call him, just pour his like robot

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Speaker 1: heart out to him, and Walter Isaacson I had to

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Speaker 1: literally fight the urge to say, why are you telling

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Speaker 3: Holy shit? So I hope that's in the book. Is

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Speaker 3: it out? It dropped today? Dropped Tuesday, September twelfth, Okay,

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Speaker 3: so we'll see. I'm sure we'll start seeing all the

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Speaker 3: snippets soon, enow and we can rub our mits.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so we'll see. In this Frickin' Elon Musk,

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Speaker 1: I can't even catch a break because he's also in

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Speaker 1: the news for violating the FTC privacy orders. According to

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Speaker 1: The Washington Post, Elon Musk repeatedly made decisions after his

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Speaker 1: take over of Twitter that likely ran a foul of

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Speaker 1: the company's data security and privacy practices. So, I don't know, guys,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But also lords too much power over large swaths

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Speaker 1: There are people, there's like huge chunks of the Pentagon

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Speaker 1: who are like, I just don't want to make Elon

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Speaker 2: I need this internet. We need his internet.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, let's talk about prayer coach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the prayer coach controversy.

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Speaker 1: So and Elon Musk of prayer coaching, of bringing prayer

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Speaker 3: This is so, this was one of those Supreme Court

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Speaker 3: cases that just further like erodes the you know, or

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Speaker 3: just disintegrates the separation of church and state in our

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Speaker 3: Football coach basically like you know, Supreme Court Court ruling

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Speaker 3: tremendous pressure because I was refused my right to brief

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Speaker 3: were being really like you're just doing it privately and

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Speaker 3: they were infringing on your rights. But if you actually

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Speaker 3: Here's like full blown like circles that everyone had to

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Speaker 3: just as Neil Gorsich in his opinion, it was like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: saying like, yeah, look at the fucking pictures, Like these

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Speaker 2: These are like, hey, I'm just mumbling stuff. You're like

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Like and your football cut to like people on

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Speaker 2: Let me heal you, let me heal you.

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Speaker 3: But it seems like that coach really didn't give a

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Speaker 3: controversy to further again erode our First Amendment right. So

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Speaker 3: this guy, coach Kennedy and said quote, appear to have

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Speaker 3: But then he acknowledged that he sold his house and

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Speaker 2: With no plans to move back.

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Speaker 3: Finally, on Friday, Kennedy returned to coach one football game,

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Speaker 3: then he quit. Cool yeah, says he has no evident

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Speaker 3: over years of litigation. Those lawyers, however, walk away with

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Speaker 2: Like, I'm prayer coach man and was like, yeah, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: He's a family sized written house. I was gonna say

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what he thinks he is.

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Speaker 3: But like a lot of people are comparing this to

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Speaker 3: this other case three ZHO three creative that was like,

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Speaker 3: and that's just against my religious beliefs. And they're like, well,

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Speaker 3: Like what happened? They're like, yeah, yes, Mike and Stuart Miles. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Mike and Stuart. They showed slight interest in maybe making

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Speaker 3: Mike and Stuart do not fucking exist. Yeah, but this

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Speaker 3: Like these controversies just basically be built from scratch, yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's so wild that they couldn't find one instance of

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Speaker 1: that's amazing, they said the woman. They couldn't find one

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Speaker 3: They's just like, look that the Supreme courts are like, look, man,

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Speaker 2: Baby. Is that easy?

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Speaker 1: But that's like they you know, they make all these

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Speaker 1: things that they complain that like the liberal elite are

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Speaker 1: making them do are not affecting them in any way,

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Speaker 1: no other than the way that they like because of

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Speaker 1: the narratives that they are telling each other and themselves

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Speaker 1: to get themselves like ramped up trans athletes.

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Speaker 2: The same thing.

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Speaker 1: As Brian pointed out that these are not things that

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Speaker 1: mad and to get to feel like they're persecuted, right, And.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of weird.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of part and parcel with their religious beliefs

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Speaker 3: of telling you spooky ghost stories to keep you in line.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and of like they worship a guy who

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Speaker 1: so they're like very they really want, really want that

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Speaker 2: To them, like that this will be had.

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Speaker 3: She got she got nailed to the website making cross.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 3: We also found out that that woman's business was also,

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Speaker 3: as they had said, quote tenuous roots in reality.

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Speaker 1: Ah got nailed to the website making cross.

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Speaker 2: You see, it's all of us. We're all none of it.

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Speaker 2: Like you can't spell upcau they do. It's not like

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Speaker 2: they're not looking.

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Speaker 1: They are constantly looking for stories, reasons to be offended.

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Speaker 1: They can't find any real one they know they have

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Speaker 1: to make. It's so wild to me. Yeah, all America's big.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people in America. They there's god

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Speaker 2: His virginity at some point. Wait what why?

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Speaker 3: Thank you to the Fortune h journalist who spoke with

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Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk

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