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Speaker 2: Everybody is d J n V.

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Speaker 1: Just hilarious.

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Speaker 3: Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. You got

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Speaker 3: some special guest joining us. We got the brother doctor

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Speaker 3: West Bellamy, and we got beat out here.

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Speaker 4: Welcome, what's what's happening? Thanks for having man, Thanks for

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Speaker 4: having us. We really appreciate it. Y'all are bringing a

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Speaker 4: basketball tournament back to Charlotte.

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Speaker 2: To Charlotte, HEAs no disrespect to see I double a. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but it was better than Charlotte. No respect the ball.

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Speaker 5: What part like, the party scene was better, but the

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Speaker 5: games were not being attended. That was the biggest problem

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Speaker 5: with it being in Charlotte. Nobody comes to the games. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: like everybody out at the day parties turning up, but

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Speaker 5: ain't nobody in there seeing Johnson C.

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Speaker 6: Smith gets smacked by Winston Sandem state. I think about

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Speaker 6: the fact, I.

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Speaker 3: Think times have change for HBCU sports, and I think

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Speaker 3: that was the time when people didn't necessarily really go

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Speaker 3: to the sports there, they're broadcasting games more so I

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Speaker 3: think if they bring it back to Charlotte, I think

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Speaker 3: it'll be a lot different. I just think the Charlotte,

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Speaker 3: that whole vibe and that whole scene was a lot better.

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Speaker 3: It was fun and you got to see so many

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Speaker 3: different people. I just don't get that from DMV and

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Speaker 3: I went last year. I just didn't feel that the same.

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Speaker 4: Well on, we won't shout out show love to Mayor

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Speaker 1: I know they're doing their best in Baltimore. I was

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Speaker 1: there this year.

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Speaker 6: I had a good time.

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Speaker 1: I thought they did really well.

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Speaker 4: But that's also to your points why we're bringing this

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Speaker 4: new tournament, the Black College Invitational Championship, to Charlotte, our

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Speaker 4: own tournament started by you, specifically for us, the Black

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Speaker 4: College Invitational Championship. We don't have to beg or ask

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Speaker 4: anybody else to do anything for our HBCUs. We started

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Speaker 4: this endeavor to do this specifically for us. We'll take

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Speaker 4: care of all the fees, we pay for travel, lodging.

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Speaker 4: Every team that comes to participate in the tournament, we

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Speaker 4: give them an entry fee, and then the winning schools

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Speaker 4: get twenty five thousand dollars and this is all led

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Speaker 4: by us put together by us, So we need everybody

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Speaker 4: to come out of support. Yeah, Trump Gon sign inn

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Speaker 5: And that's different from the n C Double A too,

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Speaker 7: What you just said was actually that's true because all

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Speaker 2: Went for the party you number went to one day.

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Speaker 1: So what's up? You're coming to Charlotte this shiit is

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Speaker 8: I'm coming.

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Speaker 2: To get together to do this. How did y'all so

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Speaker 4: This is an idea that that I have along with

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Speaker 4: my my real good brother Russell Stewart. We've been talking

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Speaker 4: We need to have our own tournament. So I hit

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Speaker 4: my friend Josh runs this thing called HBCU nightly shout

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Speaker 4: things kind of fizzled out, and Yo, this sounds wild.

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Speaker 1: When I woke up, it was like God telling me, yo,

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: I used to I live in Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, and

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Speaker 4: I was telling him I will always hear his voice

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Speaker 1: Be named yeah, that's how we rocked.

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Speaker 4: So I said, Yo, when we were talking for us

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, nah, we gotta get this dude.

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Speaker 4: So when I hit him up and was like, bro,

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm everything HBCU. He attended was to Salem

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Speaker 1: So we're all.

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Speaker 4: HBCU everything, And I mean it's it's really been a

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Speaker 2: You know that, you know, you know you do the podcast.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 5: I want to say thank y'all for playing that in

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Speaker 5: February every day, Like seriously, thank y'all, Charlamagne, and just

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Speaker 7: A lot of things that people don't know that you

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Speaker 2: But you know what I like about that podcast is you.

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Speaker 4: Tell people about things that they may or may not

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Speaker 4: know about black history. So tell us the history of

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Speaker 4: And tell y'all did this yeah tournament and you won't

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like again, West told you, like

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Speaker 5: We don't have anywhere else. So an opportunity to have

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Speaker 6: This is the history of it.

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Speaker 5: Right now, we're all participating in the history of the

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Speaker 5: bci C. Last year, again the thoughts were coming to

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Speaker 6: It's a lot of legwork that had to go into this.

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Speaker 5: You got to get signed off from the NC double A,

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Speaker 6: So you didn't go to DSU, I'm sorry, did you

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Speaker 5: Now? I went to Winster Salem State where you saw DSU.

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Speaker 3: But how difficult is it to get the schools involved, right?

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Speaker 1: Like you again, you've never seen that.

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Speaker 4: And this is our first postseason basketball tournament, and we know,

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Speaker 4: to buy some really cool folks, including the Durant Family Foundation.

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Speaker 4: Shout out to doctor Yanda Durant and Mama Durant. Then

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Speaker 4: Thursday through Sunday we have the games. We also have

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Speaker 4: an educational Day, so we'll be having High School Education

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Speaker 1: So again like it's not just about the games. But

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Speaker 4: If I got one shot at this, if people don't

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Speaker 4: come and support this year, there will be no year two.

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Speaker 5: So like I hope, I definitely hope that it's attended

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Speaker 6: I'm huge.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't really hard. As I've been talking to presidents.

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Speaker 5: No, I'm not I'm going to give you your prose because well,

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Speaker 2: Y'all got a step show two right? Greek Fraternity?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's the first ever b c C Step show.

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Speaker 4: Like so for example, when you you go to let's

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Speaker 9: Nobody that they do, Amni Jackson.

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, but again, it's all about really bringing these

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Speaker 2: Why were we even doing that? The last five years

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you, so a lot of these conferences

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Speaker 4: The biggest sponsor's been Black Voters Matter, which really yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: About only sold the companies that sponsored everything else and

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Speaker 4: And they have been very slow quiet to come and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, not for real, like we haven't.

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Speaker 4: But we haven't had we haven't had a lot of

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Speaker 1: We're not the acc we're not the SEC.

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Speaker 4: Tournament budget absolutely correct, which is even more so while

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Speaker 1: But this is this is a this is.

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Speaker 4: A very heavy endeavor in which we've had to put

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was about to do you have a really

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, man, Because how you got to do it

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Speaker 7: But you gotta like package that it's real nice, like

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Speaker 8: That sounds like I could do that budget the work then.

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Speaker 7: But now I see this being really really big and

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Speaker 7: Because they're doing the rebranded damn. So they need just

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Speaker 4: We got to give. Credible credit is due. We have

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Speaker 4: But I would I wouldn't be lying if I didn't

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Speaker 4: I mean we've literally had conversations with all of these entities.

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Speaker 1: Well we have sometimes people.

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Speaker 6: But what about TV time? Is this gonna be on TV?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So we are proud to announce that we have

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Speaker 6: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: You go.

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Speaker 2: I heard what you just.

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Speaker 1: Brothers like she went to.

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Speaker 5: What she meant to be that what you mean was

446
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Speaker 5: a lot.

447
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Speaker 6: It's a lot going on, y'all. Wow, just had to

448
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Speaker 6: have a whole baby to put to the creators.

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Speaker 8: Exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, rough out here, it's a tough It's interesting with

451
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Speaker 4: the sponsors what I would want sponsors to do, And

452
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Speaker 4: it's the question I'm gonna ask, how does this tournament

453
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Speaker 4: help address the challenges at HBCUs faith in regards to funding, media, coverage, recruitment,

454
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Speaker 4: because sponsors need to know if they are connected with y'all,

455
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Speaker 4: they are helping with that.

456
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Literally, this is your one stop shop.

457
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Speaker 4: So when we talk about recruitment for HBCUs, our high

458
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Speaker 4: school education days will be recruitment fairs.

459
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Speaker 1: We have two days of that. Specifically, when you look

460
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Speaker 1: at creating.

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Speaker 4: An environment to show off the best of the best

462
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Speaker 4: of HBCU culture from the sports environment, the games will

463
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Speaker 4: be high quality, first class events. The high excuse me,

464
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Speaker 4: the college bands that will be playing and performing also

465
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Speaker 4: show you a glimpse of the HBCU culture. And then

466
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Speaker 4: when you look at the alumni support and those who

467
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Speaker 4: will be attending the games as well as the accilliary events,

468
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Speaker 4: you're gonna get everything about HBCU culture at this excuse

469
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Speaker 4: this specific tournament. When you look at the presidents who

470
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Speaker 4: will be attending the sustainability summit, the empowerment lunching, when

471
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Speaker 4: you're gonna have literally five hundred players and stakeholders all

472
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Speaker 4: in one room. There's no better place for you to

473
00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,600
Speaker 4: be able to have a captive audience to show off

474
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Speaker 4: whatever it is that you're selling and or supporting than

475
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Speaker 4: this event. But we understand it's the first year. But

476
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Speaker 4: when we look at at some of these other conglomerates

477
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Speaker 4: that have been built, they had support from the beginning.

478
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Speaker 4: And what I'm saying is support us now or support

479
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Speaker 4: us later. You will support us at support at some point.

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Speaker 4: But our people specifically, we know they gonna have our back.

481
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Speaker 4: And if anything else, we got platforms like this one

482
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Speaker 4: that will show us love.

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Speaker 1: We got people like the folks in this room who

484
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Speaker 1: will show us love.

485
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Speaker 4: And we got us you know some of this like

486
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Speaker 4: that the tournament is gonna happen. We already got that

487
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Speaker 4: part scored away. It's transpiring. And I think that's a

488
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Speaker 4: testament of we don't gotta beg everybody else to do

489
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Speaker 4: for us.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: You're having more sponsorship money would be a lot easier

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Speaker 4: for me and my children, because it's because you know,

493
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Speaker 4: we're paying a lot right now. But we can do

494
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Speaker 4: this ourselves, and we're doing this ourselves. Now later, they

495
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Speaker 4: just gonna get taxed. We ask everybody to come on board.

496
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Speaker 4: They didn't, so they're gonna have to pay that fee

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Speaker 4: and pay that tax. But we can do this ourselves,

498
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Speaker 4: and that's what we're doing. I'm sorry, how much hold

499
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Speaker 4: eighty three hundred people? Yeah, so eighty three hundred people

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Speaker 4: in the boat, Jingles. We're anticipating around one hundred and

501
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Speaker 4: fifty thousand people to come to Charlotte over that weekend.

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Speaker 4: You know, a multitude of different events. We're not gonna

503
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Speaker 4: say the thing that Envy's gonna be doing.

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Speaker 6: Uh you you actually told me I.

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Speaker 4: Work, But I mean we got We have a ton

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Speaker 4: of events that will be taking place, from day parties

507
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 4: to night parties to again philanthropic events. There's gonna be

508
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Speaker 4: a lot of people who transcend in the city. We

509
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Speaker 4: just need those folks to come to the game. The

510
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Speaker 4: city of Charlotte has been great supporters and they've been

511
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Speaker 4: great partner. Shout out to Mayor Lyles, a council in

512
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Speaker 4: Smudgie Mitchell or James Smudgie Mitchell, the one hundred Black

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Speaker 4: Men of Greater Charlotte. They've been great partners. A multitude

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Speaker 4: of different people. So this is gonna be a first

515
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Speaker 4: class event. Like I think sometimes when people associate things

516
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Speaker 4: with black and and us doing it ourselves, they think

517
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Speaker 4: second class, and that's due to white supremacy. But we're

518
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Speaker 4: showing folks that we will put together again a first

519
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Speaker 4: class event that is put together by us, that is

520
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Speaker 4: for us, and it's gonna be for the benefit of

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Speaker 4: our people.

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Speaker 2: Why the bo Jangles Collegeum, I mean, y'all couldn't find

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Speaker 2: no place.

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Speaker 5: Charlotte Spectrum is super super huge kind of seats is

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Speaker 5: nice enough, Yes.

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Speaker 1: Welcome and to be real.

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Speaker 4: The BeO Jingles, you know, the city of Charlotte, the

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Speaker 4: Charlotte Regional Visits Authority, they owned the BeO Jingles Coliseum

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Speaker 4: and they've been very gracious hosts. Like Yo tell Us agreed, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: bo Jingles has been dope. I mean, there's there's been

531
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Speaker 4: a lot of events that have been taking place there.

532
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Speaker 4: They have a first class professional team and they've been

533
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Speaker 4: really good partners. And if those of you who went

534
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Speaker 4: to see All double A thought that you had a

535
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Speaker 4: good time, when you come to Charlotte and see what

536
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Speaker 4: we put together, you're going to see something very similar,

537
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 4: if not even better. And I'm telling y'all come now,

538
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 4: because in two three years, when you see this thing

539
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Speaker 4: on the same level of as some of the other

540
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Speaker 4: major sports conferences and entities, you're going to be able

541
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Speaker 4: to say that you were a part of something from

542
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Speaker 4: the very beginning. So the biggest thing is we need

543
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Speaker 4: these games to be sold out. Yea, we need busting

544
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Speaker 4: the seats. Man that the BeO Jingles Coliseum hosts eighty

545
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Speaker 4: three hundred people. All the floor seats have been bought out,

546
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Speaker 4: so you know, of course, you know our folks they

547
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Speaker 4: like yo, we want to sell in the floor. The

548
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 4: tickets are very affordable. Tickets are forty dollars per session.

549
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Speaker 4: We have two games on Thursday at twelve and two,

550
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Speaker 4: then you have evening games at six and eight. That's

551
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Speaker 4: the same model for Thursday and Friday. So we start

552
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Speaker 4: off with the MEACT versus Swack teams and the CIBA

553
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,640
Speaker 4: versus sei C on Friday, then the MEACT versus Swack

554
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Speaker 4: Championship games on Saturday, and then the ciuble AA versus

555
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Speaker 4: si C Championship games on Sunday. And it's men and

556
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Speaker 4: women in sixteen teams. Yeah, so we don't leave our

557
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Speaker 4: sisters out. You know, Jess, we don't leave the sisters out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 6: I'm with you.

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Speaker 4: We don't leave the sisters out because it's support for

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Speaker 4: our ladies to have the opportunity to showcase their talents

562
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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 1: And we're hoping we're gonna have a few more surprises.

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Speaker 4: Where to go to get ticket You can go to

565
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Speaker 4: ticketmaster dot com, or we prefer you go directly to

566
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Speaker 4: our website www dot Black College Championship dot org. You

567
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 4: can put it in any search engine, look us up

568
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 4: on Instagram. You'll see all You'll see the history of

569
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 4: this coming together. You'll be able to follow the journey

570
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Speaker 4: and man, we just need your support.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: Again, there's a lot of folks talking about how what

573
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Speaker 4: we need to do for each other. There's a lot

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Speaker 4: of discussion about, you know, what may be going on

575
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Speaker 4: in other areas or entities in the world, or specifically

576
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Speaker 4: in our country. But if you want the opportunity to

577
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 4: be able to support your own it's with this. Even

578
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 4: if you can't make it, you can buy a ticket.

579
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Speaker 4: Buy a ticket. We're gonna have, like we said, we

580
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Speaker 4: have high school education that we can give a ticket

581
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Speaker 4: to a kid like we have people who we can

582
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Speaker 4: who we can put the butts in the seats for,

583
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Speaker 4: but we need your support.

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Speaker 7: They can't, they cannot, they can't doubt your execution.

585
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Speaker 2: So like executed.

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Speaker 7: I'm not a person who like going begging for no sponsorship,

587
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Speaker 7: doing none of that.

588
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Speaker 2: I understand. But y'all can do this ship. Y'all can

589
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Speaker 2: do it.

590
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Speaker 7: And and after it's executed this year, everybody gonna be

591
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Speaker 7: on y'all dicks, you know what I mean, just trying

592
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Speaker 7: to give Oh, this is great, this is great, but

593
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Speaker 7: that like you said, your text is and this ship

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Speaker 7: won't be It's gonna be big.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're still having some difficulty transitioning to radio and

596
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Speaker 5: not cursing a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Work. I don't even come to work.

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Speaker 2: You went to the d su Brandon with the D

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Speaker 2: That's what Lauren was trying.

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Speaker 1: She was she just.

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Speaker 6: Found that out.

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Speaker 9: Laura.

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Speaker 1: Wait, I don't know.

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Speaker 6: It's nothing that I don't know.

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Speaker 1: The su w.

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Speaker 4: W W dot Black College Invitational Championship dot org or again,

607
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Speaker 4: you could just put in b C, I C and

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Speaker 4: any of your search engines.

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Speaker 1: You'll see us come up the write ups all the information.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: Again, make sure y'all come down to Charlotte. The weather

612
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 4: is gonna be nice, it's gonna be a first class event.

613
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 4: B Do is gonna be on the mic, No Livan, Larry.

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Speaker 4: We got a couple of other special guests man that

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Speaker 4: that will be there in attendance too. You know a

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Speaker 4: few friends of mine who will be in the city

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Speaker 4: during that time, So you don't want to miss it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good time if you.

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Speaker 4: If this is not a success, can't blame the white

620
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 4: man on this one. This is on us. That it's

621
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Speaker 4: on us, It's one hundred percent on us. But we

622
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Speaker 4: know it's gonna be a success. Like you always talk

623
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Speaker 4: about the intentionality with our words and the positivity that

624
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Speaker 4: we're putting in the atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna give us. It's gonna yield the results that.

626
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Speaker 4: We're looking for and we don't need any charity Like

627
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 4: this is gonna be a first class event with first

628
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Speaker 4: class basketball. And it's the same weekend as the March Madness.

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Speaker 4: So what we tell people also, you can't make it

630
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Speaker 4: down to Charlotte, Yo. You can download the app, the

631
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 4: Samsung Television app. You can put it on. You'll be

632
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 4: able to put it on your phone. You can watch

633
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 4: it on your television the same way. Y'all can't wait

634
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 4: to watch March Madness. This is HBCU March Madness. That's

635
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 4: for our school, So come out and support or watching

636
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 4: tune in. It's gonna be a success because I'm hearing

637
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Speaker 4: casual people talking about the same thing.

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Speaker 5: I told him, y'all, like, that's more like we I

639
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 5: was asking about ticket sales and whatnot, and I was

640
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Speaker 5: just like, the ticket sales isn't as important as the

641
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Speaker 5: conversation about him. When you got folks just organically talking

642
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 5: about Yo, I heard about this event.

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Speaker 6: Da da da da.

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00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 5: That right there was way higher than just what you

645
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Speaker 5: see y'all ticket sales right now. So I'm enjoying that

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Speaker 5: too for show.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, doctor west Bellamy and beat out, y'all.

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Speaker 3: I'll see y'all down there as the Breakfast Club. Good morning,

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Speaker 3: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 6: The Breakfast Club