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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is Steve j Envy, Charlamagne, the Goud We are

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Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

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Speaker 2: In the front of the room, we have Miss Erica Ford.

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Speaker 3: Welcome Speeds.

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Speaker 4: How are you feeling that paper Planes had is very fresh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, and hopefully you got to get choice the hat.

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Speaker 2: Let's give them the right, she says, she sent it

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Speaker 2: up here, but we just haven't received it yet or

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Speaker 2: we checked the mail.

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Speaker 1: Either the custom Life Camp hats.

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Speaker 3: Paper Planes Life Camp. Great.

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Speaker 5: This is a process coming together with pieces of lifestyle,

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Speaker 5: you know, so that we can help elevate and change lives.

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Speaker 6: I love that now.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know, Erica Ford is doing something very

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Speaker 2: specialist weekend at not met Life stated at.

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Speaker 6: Yank Shastafield.

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Speaker 1: Stum.

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Speaker 2: I was used to call Shastadium a city field. I've

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Speaker 2: seen you practicing. Because you're throwing out the first pitch,

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Speaker 2: you ain't look too good. But I know y'all seen

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Speaker 2: you practice.

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Speaker 1: You just got to do better than Steven. You gotta

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Speaker 1: do better than Steven.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I will I will represent, I will represent. I've

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Speaker 5: been practicing. I'm gonna get it to the plate. And

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Speaker 5: Emery from Paper Planes is a catcher, and so I'm

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Speaker 5: the picture. He's a catcher, and we'll bring it together,

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Speaker 5: this movement so that we can help change more young

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Speaker 5: people's lives.

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Speaker 1: Dope. So what is party? We can't play.

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Speaker 5: It's coming out tomorrow to the Mets game and not

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Speaker 5: only enjoying the fun and helping to build this move

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Speaker 5: because a lot of times people look at joining movements

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Speaker 5: and peace as corny, and I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 5: That's not for me, that's not them people over there

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Speaker 5: to preachy people, right, and so we want to show

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Speaker 5: them you could have fun, you could be fly, you

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Speaker 5: could be part of of doing something positive and having

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Speaker 5: fun and all of that at the same time. And

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Speaker 5: so we're telling people to come out. We're having DJ Booth,

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Speaker 5: Breezy Lynn and a lot of other folks are coming

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Speaker 5: out and participate in the tailgate party in the parking

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Speaker 5: lot of City Field, and then I'm throwing out the

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Speaker 5: first pitch at six o'clock and then we'll be there

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Speaker 5: for the game. But it's launching a whole movement, you know,

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Speaker 5: bringing together those two slogans visions missions of greatness as

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Speaker 5: a process and pieces of lifestyle.

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Speaker 1: How do you connect with rock and em So.

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Speaker 5: We've been working with Shaka. We worked with Shaka years

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Speaker 5: then connected from Shaka this young man named Teddy and

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Speaker 5: the fan fam group that they have, they do our

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Speaker 5: college tours, so they do scholarships for our kids.

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Speaker 3: And we've been working together.

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Speaker 5: Teddy came and threw the hat on my tables, like

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Speaker 5: you like this, and I was like, get them out.

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Speaker 3: Of here, you know, and the rest is history.

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Speaker 5: It just brought it together, and it's it's doing the work,

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Speaker 5: you know, when you're consistently out there doing the work.

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Speaker 5: Then I remember I said to Shaka years ago, right

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Speaker 5: when I was just arrogant, right, like why.

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Speaker 7: Can't jay Z support me? Why can't jay Z's brought

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Speaker 7: me right? And she was like, do your work right,

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Speaker 7: and when you do your work then things align with you.

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Speaker 7: But don't beg for some to support you. And I

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Speaker 7: just kept doing my.

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Speaker 1: Work at Chaco. Go always give it to your screen. Shaka.

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Speaker 1: I love Shaka so much, man, I do too.

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Speaker 2: Now you've been doing this for such a long time, right,

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Speaker 2: somebody posted a picture.

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Speaker 6: Of me and you, I mean back in Queens this

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Speaker 6: was a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you were doing the work for the long

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Speaker 2: time and you decided to slow down a little bit.

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Speaker 2: And what does slow down mean for you? Because there's

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Speaker 2: no slowdown for you. So what does that mean for

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Speaker 2: Erica Ford?

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Speaker 5: So I want to go back to why I had

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Speaker 5: to slow down, right, And a lot of times when

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Speaker 5: we run to the fire, run to the trauma, it

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Speaker 5: depletes us, right, And so I got sick, like I

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Speaker 5: would be in at night choking, trying to breathe, and

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Speaker 5: my whole nervous system was depleted, and so I had

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Speaker 5: to like physically stop And so I physically stopped doing

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Speaker 5: nothing for three months, right. And so now I'm coming

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Speaker 5: back just as the CEO. I will not be running

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Speaker 5: the day to day operation of Life Camp. I won't

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Speaker 5: be out there running and you know, fighting with the

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Speaker 5: none of that stuff, no more, but at an elevated

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Speaker 5: place of showing up at events and organizing raising money

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Speaker 5: for Life Camp and doing teaching, teaching, teaching, because I've

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Speaker 5: learned a lot in these thirty years and I want

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Speaker 5: to teach and get back to young people who are

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Speaker 5: stepping into this field.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's scary about that though. They always say

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Speaker 4: older people for counsel, young people for war. But the

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Speaker 4: problem is a lot of people in this generation they're

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Speaker 4: not ready for war. Right, you still built for it,

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Speaker 4: like you've done, fought wars, You've been in wards, You're

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Speaker 4: still ready to fight.

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Speaker 1: Now, who are you going to pass the torch to.

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Speaker 3: It's just so funny that this young lady who came

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Speaker 3: with me to Sniffany.

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Speaker 5: Lamella is actually the INTRAM executive director and who I'll

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Speaker 5: be passing the torch too if she passes that process.

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Speaker 5: But we have a group of good young people who

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Speaker 5: are ready, and we have a training academy that we

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Speaker 5: launched with the University of Chicago two weeks ago where

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Speaker 5: we're actually training folks from around the United States to

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Speaker 5: do this work. So, as you know, the last time

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Speaker 5: I was here, we talked about Buiden bringing down money,

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Speaker 5: and so some of this money that has been brought

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Speaker 5: do this work effectively and efficiently, and so that's what

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Speaker 5: we've been doing. I'm part of a national group called

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Speaker 5: the Black and Brown Peace Coalition, and from that work.

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Speaker 5: We've opened up this training academy and the first cohort

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Speaker 5: has been launched and it's a six months program and

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Speaker 5: so hopefully from not hopefully from this training, they will

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Speaker 5: learn how to effectively lead and do this work on

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Speaker 4: You was just at the White House, right were you

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Speaker 5: I wasn't there for when Quavo was there, but I

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Speaker 5: Office of Gun Violence Prevention. So last Friday, the White

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Speaker 5: first ever, and this will allow real support to come

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Speaker 5: to the ground continually for the work that we're doing.

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Speaker 5: My good ment son, I call him my son. Greg

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Speaker 5: Jackson got one of the jobs as a deputy director

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Speaker 5: and another young man, Robert.

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Speaker 3: Got the other job.

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Speaker 5: And so they did a deputy directors and a lady

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Speaker 5: named Stephanie is the director. Under the leadership of Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 5: Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 4: The White House been keeping promises because I know they

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Speaker 4: pledged some money.

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Speaker 1: They did, did they did?

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Speaker 3: They did?

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Speaker 5: They have been keeping their promises. The Republicans have been

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Speaker 5: blocking as much as they can, but That's why President

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Speaker 5: Biden has doing executive orders now to just override a

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Speaker 5: lot of that stuff. And so they have been as

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Speaker 5: much as they can putting down funding, changing where money

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Speaker 5: hit the ground of CBR workers across the nation. And

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Speaker 5: so they have been in that lane put the most

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Speaker 2: I was gonna ask with New York, right, you know,

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Speaker 2: Charlamagne and myself talk about New York and how much

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 2: How much we see and hear more and more violence,

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Speaker 2: whether it's you know, in the subway, or it's shooting

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Speaker 2: or its mental illness. Since the new mayor has come in,

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Speaker 2: has it been more, has it been worse? Has he

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Speaker 2: just hearing the stories, it just seems like it's getting worse.

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Speaker 5: So it is in the area, and so it's it's

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Speaker 5: a it's a it's a multi prong question. Right in

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Speaker 5: particular areas it's getting better, right the areas in which

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Speaker 5: we're are, you know, our collective New York City Crisis

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Speaker 5: Management system is doing the work. It's getting better as

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Speaker 5: it relates to gun violence. Gun violence is down, but

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Speaker 3: And so as we continue.

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Speaker 5: To grow the work that we're doing, and it's we

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Speaker 5: have a problem in New York City. There's been an

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Speaker 5: they're not being able to be placed in proper.

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Speaker 3: Homes and have the ability to live. And so what

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Speaker 5: Right, They're going to come into the community and try

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Speaker 4: I feel like the solutions have always been there right

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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

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Speaker 4: That what's the cannabis injunction that's going on?

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Speaker 5: So rich white folks who have these big MSOs, multi

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Speaker 5: state operations basically put a lawsuit in using the veterans.

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Speaker 5: They did many different lawsuits on this last one. They

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Speaker 5: used the veterans, and they blocked the card holders, which

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Speaker 5: and everybody was given license, and they put an injunction

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Speaker 5: we couldn't move forward in our process to you know,

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Speaker 5: get the full license, there's things you gotta do. So

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Speaker 5: we weren't able to finish the process October fourth. It's

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Speaker 5: all not but what they wanted to do when they

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Speaker 5: so now on October fourth, it's open to everybody. Anybody

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Speaker 5: could apply, right, And so it's really unfair because you

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Speaker 5: already had a head start. That's like we in a marathon.

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Speaker 5: You twenty miles ahead, you gonna come back to trick

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Speaker 5: the person behind you because they catching up, Like what like,

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Speaker 5: are you that greedy?

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Speaker 5: Ye know they So that's what's happening in the cannabis

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Speaker 5: But they're in the back room stopping people who really

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Speaker 2: I always had a problem with that because you know,

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Speaker 2: you said, they will find somebody that's wrongfully arrested, right,

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Speaker 2: use them to get the license. Because most of the

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Speaker 2: it not that expensive because it sounds right, yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: But who has that amount of bank to actually be

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Speaker 5: So they gave the individual's two point five million dollars

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Speaker 2: And I think it's after three years or something like that,

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Speaker 3: Interrupted their whole process.

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Speaker 5: You're going to come at them like it's just you know,

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Speaker 5: it's a typical American way.

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Speaker 3: Now we got to continue to change it.

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Speaker 6: We got to talk about the Spirit Award.

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Speaker 4: Now you're doing the Spirit Awards before the game, that's right,

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Speaker 4: The Spirit Awards for people who don't know.

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Speaker 5: So the Spirit Awards is awards that we're giving out

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Speaker 5: for for life. Camp supported us for years and so

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Speaker 6: Thank you very much, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: So and I got to ask, so I'm looking at

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Speaker 2: the weather and says rain tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: Is there a rain date?

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Speaker 3: That's that mess?

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Speaker 4: That's all right everything in New York.

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Speaker 3: You know, hopefully it starts raining after later.

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Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate you for always coming up, and you

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Speaker 2: know you always have an open door policy here. Anytime

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Speaker 2: as us to support you, whatever we can do, we

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Speaker 1: Any other thing we need to be looking out for

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Speaker 3: I'm sure we're doing a pop up next week.

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Speaker 6: Come on help it if help we.

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Speaker 5: Got ye yes, yes, yes, yes, we have our So

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Speaker 5: it was our twentieth anniversary gala, but I got six

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Speaker 5: our twenty third year anniversary gala we have coming up

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Speaker 5: in April. But we have a lot This academy that

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Speaker 5: we're doing and the office with the White House and

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Speaker 5: helping make that a success is really where we're going

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Speaker 5: to put our energy, as well as making sure that

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Speaker 5: the one hundred and thirteen percent that we work in

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Speaker 5: is the safest precinct in the United States of America.

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Speaker 5: And we're going to use our precint to be the

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Speaker 5: example of what we can do because, as you say,

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Speaker 5: you're absolutely right when you invest in what works, When

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Speaker 5: you invest in what works, then it's allowed to grow

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Speaker 5: and enforce. And so the city would already be at

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Speaker 5: a space where we you know, people coming in would

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Speaker 5: And so we're going to build destruction in Southeast Queens.

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Speaker 6: There we go.

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Speaker 3: People want to volunteer. What is that? One hundred and thirteen.

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Speaker 4: P thirteenth and life Caem's always taking donations, by the way, always.

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Speaker 5: Take can donate the website Lifecampinc dot com. Always taking donation.

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Speaker 5: Get your paper planes hat, it's live on the website.

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Speaker 5: It's live on paper planes. Support the work, support the movement.

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Speaker 5: Let's do this all.

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Speaker 6: Right, Well, it's the Breakfast Club. Is Erika Ford?

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Speaker 3: Wake that answer up?

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Speaker 1: In the morning club? Breakfast Club