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Speaker 1: com Backslash black Market. Welcome back to the eight five

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Speaker 1: seuth Show, Glass Excellence spot Lights. Look, man, I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna be all way honest with you all today. Y'all

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Speaker 1: been giving me way too much credit. Everybody keep hitting

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Speaker 1: me saying, Lows, this candle is so great, this candle

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Speaker 1: is amazing. Oh my god, Lows, you really was in

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Speaker 1: your It's not me, okay, I'm just I'm just as

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Speaker 1: a comedian. Okay. I don't make candles, but my partner

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Speaker 1: right here do. And man, let me tell you about

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Speaker 1: good days. Since the candle smells so good, you gotta

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Speaker 1: let it sit around the house for about two days

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Speaker 1: before you even light it. That your man right here,

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Speaker 1: my man, Jeremy right. No. I want to introduce you

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Speaker 1: to him like you kind of already know him because

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Speaker 1: you probably got one of two of his candles at

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Speaker 1: the crib bro, welcome back to the eighty five South

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Speaker 1: show Man. I ain't for having me, thanks for having me,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Because you cold, Bro. I want you to

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Speaker 1: know that, don't don't like keep working hard and then

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Speaker 1: like people eventually tell you cold. You cold? Right now, man,

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Speaker 1: give me some backstory. Tell him how all of this

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Speaker 1: got started. Tell him what made you come up with

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Speaker 1: the with the you know, the fragrances, and how we

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Speaker 1: collabed on all this, and just run it down to him. Bro,

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Speaker 1: got you, got you again? Thanks for having me. Um,

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Speaker 1: so good days since Candle Company got started in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen, in the two thousand eighteen so I

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Speaker 1: would say two thousand nineteens, well in January. UM, but

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Speaker 1: it really was or about because I had a legal

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Speaker 1: situation I was going through between years and two thousand

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Speaker 1: and fourteen and throughout two thousand and seventeen, and it

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Speaker 1: just caused me to be down mentally, stress and depressed,

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Speaker 1: and I just needed an outlet. I was looking for

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Speaker 1: an outlet of something that could I can look forward

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Speaker 1: to and be positive. So um, a friend of mine

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Speaker 1: has had me in the gym. I was doing that, UM,

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Speaker 1: and then I started doing research and found candles and

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Speaker 1: started finding out how about their therapeutic and people using

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Speaker 1: for many different types of reasons. So um, YouTube, Google

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Speaker 1: brought me a candle started kid, um made something was

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Speaker 1: in the kitchen like a scientist, a chemists over the stove,

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Speaker 1: just mixing fragrances, trying to figure out what the temper,

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Speaker 1: what it was to get it right. Yeah like that,

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Speaker 1: um legally, legally, legally yeah yeah. So I was doing

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Speaker 1: my research figuring out how to make them. Um, figured

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Speaker 1: out how to make them. Started with three or four cents,

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Speaker 1: did a pop up shop two months later, so like

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Speaker 1: a hundred candles in four hours. Um, and there a

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Speaker 1: light bulb went off and out here like damn, the

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Speaker 1: dope is good. I could turn this into a business.

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Speaker 1: So I started doing that. Um. It was doing candles

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Speaker 1: for about a year. You had posted something on Twitter

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Speaker 1: about candles. I just took the this tiff hits you

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Speaker 1: of like, hey, Los, what's up? I got a black

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Speaker 1: owned candle company. Can I send you something? He was

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Speaker 1: like hell yeah. And one thing I want to shout

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Speaker 1: you out for is a lot of times influence yourself, celebrities,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them. Um, people think they

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Speaker 1: just want stuff for free, but those said, send me

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Speaker 1: every candle and let me know how much they'll So

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you for doing that. Yeah, and since then,

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Speaker 1: on this road to riches and diamond rings, real niggas

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Speaker 1: do real things. And since then, I just knew you

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Speaker 1: was a stand up, solid guy. So we talked about

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Speaker 1: doing the candle cause I'm like, you want to be

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Speaker 1: dope if we do a collap. But the thing about

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Speaker 1: that is you ain't just do it because you wanted

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Speaker 1: to do a collap. You actually love candles, so I

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Speaker 1: think you're telling them about how much you really really

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Speaker 1: fun with candles. It's a strange obsession, you know, It's

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Speaker 1: just you come to my crib. It looked like I'm

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Speaker 1: about to channel some spirit. I got ten or eleven

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Speaker 1: of it at the time. It's just it's just set

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Speaker 1: my mood and my tone and my mom Beyonce, you

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Speaker 1: and and you know, just feeling good when you walk

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Speaker 1: into a place. So when you walk into my spot

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Speaker 1: light and gonna be right since, gonna be right there,

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Speaker 1: you know, everything fits some purpose, Like we got something

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Speaker 1: lit right now, you know, because you're coming. And we

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Speaker 1: We're just fun with what you got going. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: So and we did our collapse and um, every time

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Speaker 1: So I started making candles. We did to collap um.

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Speaker 1: COVID happened, um, which caused a lot of people to

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Speaker 1: be at home, but actually helped my business because when

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Speaker 1: you like candles at in your house. So um was

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Speaker 1: a crazy yeah. And I'm just appreciative and blessed the

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Speaker 1: people all around the world. Like with something I started,

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Speaker 1: UM took a negative and made a positive and have

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Speaker 1: a product that's going all around the world. So I'm

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Speaker 1: just appreciative and thankful to bid bro. I could tell

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Speaker 1: you really enjoying life. You got the little joker mustache

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Speaker 1: hanging off the side. Yeah, I'm just doing whatever. I'm

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Speaker 1: just doing whatever. Then the head grows must that's whatever

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Speaker 1: That's what the black man has really hit his pinnacle.

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Speaker 1: He's about to change his life. Black women say when

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Speaker 1: they cut their head, they're about to change their life.

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Speaker 1: When the niggers started growing, his ship about to change

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Speaker 1: his whole life. Bro, stay in your bad stay in

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Speaker 1: your bag. Don't cut nothing, don't line nothing up. You

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Speaker 1: might grow a whole beer. Bro. Just stay in that pocket. Bro,

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Speaker 1: trust me, I'm older than you. Crazy um. And then

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Speaker 1: Beyonce put them on her website. Who b Beyonce? Oh,

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Speaker 1: because it's one that worked at the radio station too.

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Speaker 1: I was, I didn't know that's that's that's dude. You're

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Speaker 1: suked around and got on. Ain't boy talk about blessed? Thankful?

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Speaker 1: That's why that's the thankful candle? Thank Uh. I didn't

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Speaker 1: get an eddress, but said when I get it out

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Speaker 1: was I don't even know she posted it. Um, somebody

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Speaker 1: you woke up orders going stupid. Yeah, chilling. Uh. One

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Speaker 1: of my friends called me, like, you know, Beyonce put

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Speaker 1: your candles on her website and I'm like, stopped playing.

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Speaker 1: How then did she find out about him? Send me

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Speaker 1: the screenshot screenshot it posted it? Or that started going crazy? Bro,

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Speaker 1: Beyonce in these streets exactly she found out about Good

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Speaker 1: days Since from somewhere, because she'd be in the streets

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Speaker 1: like that. She probably was up your way get some wings.

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Speaker 1: mombo saw. Huh your hip Okay, chick, this wrong looks huh. Bro,

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Speaker 1: I know she didn't seen the podcast at least two times.

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Speaker 1: That's what's up. She didn't see at least two episodes. Bro,

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Speaker 1: if she hasn't, she will okay back, Yeah, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get us something. Somebody out there. If you're watching this

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Speaker 1: and you got her address, damn good day since or

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Speaker 1: those we get the address and send R something. Nobody

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Speaker 1: has her, they can find it. It's the internet. We

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Speaker 1: don't even bro. If we could just get it, if

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Speaker 1: we could just find her thick cousin that they posted

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Speaker 1: about three years ago, that's good enough. We got to

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Speaker 1: get to the people that's around her. That's how we

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Speaker 1: gotta it, gotta be away if somebody that's at least

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Speaker 1: So the Beyonce thing happened, um, and I've just been

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Speaker 1: going ever since. One thing about it is people love

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Speaker 1: the candles, so they love the can do names one.

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Speaker 1: But when they get them, they said, they smell them

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Speaker 1: through the box, and so we got a good product.

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Speaker 1: People keep smell it through the box through the box. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people post and tag me and say, damn,

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Speaker 1: I can smell it through the box. That's that needs

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Speaker 1: right there down smell it through the box through the box.

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Speaker 1: Got you? Got you? So? Um. I've just been doing

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Speaker 1: Candle isn't isn't the only thing good day since it's

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Speaker 1: What's coming on. I just plan on expanding, doing a

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Speaker 1: lot of things right now. We got the the greetings

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Speaker 1: card that we got Thankful for Black Love. It's been

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Speaker 1: Lightest Candy. So the whole good Day since brand On.

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Speaker 1: My motto actually is every day is a good day.

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Speaker 1: And that's how I actually got name good Day since

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Speaker 1: me and my friends put on with tweet like good Friday.

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Speaker 1: So I got a good Friday Candle Um. And so

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Speaker 1: motto is every day is a good day because every

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Speaker 1: day is a good day of some positive affirmation. Tip.

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Speaker 1: But I also was saying have a good day. And

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking they're thinking about my candle. So when I

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Speaker 1: say good day, they're like, damn, I do say you

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Speaker 1: have a good day to people that you meet or

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Speaker 1: however you use the word good day. Um, and it's

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Speaker 1: a good day brand the vibe um. Each candle name

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Speaker 1: represents a different part of a good day. So we

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Speaker 1: have thankful good Friday passion. What you're passionate about? Black

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Speaker 1: love was your self explanatory love cuffing season on wine. Um,

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Speaker 1: so I think we're about nine sense now. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just want to keep doing my things that you

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Speaker 1: gotta have eighty five since bro, Yeah, get all the

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's why I'm mat now a good day

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Speaker 1: since man, that's dope as hell. Man, you think you

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Speaker 1: keep doing your mother sucking thing? Keep doing your things?

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Speaker 1: So what can they check you out there? Where can

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Speaker 1: they find you? What can they place? These orders? And

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Speaker 1: all of that? We can find me on all social

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Speaker 1: is good day since dot com. Feel footy by candle

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Speaker 1: fucking yeah they do. So come over the Good Day

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Speaker 1: Excellence Day since my man Jairman. Make sure you go

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Speaker 1: and support black business. Stay black, be black because you

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Speaker 1: are black. You don't have no choice. We are