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Speaker 1: What Up? I Am Dramas and this is the Street

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Speaker 1: Stoic Podcast, bringing you your daily dose of timeless Stoic

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Speaker 1: philosophy remix for the hip hop generation. We are combining

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Speaker 1: philosophy with lyrics and quotes from hip hop heavyweights. Now,

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Speaker 1: with that in mind, let's get things started with your

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Speaker 1: daily shot of inspiration. So today's theme based upon the

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Speaker 1: ancient Stoic teachings. It is all about the idea of

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Speaker 1: taking action. That is the basis of today's show. And

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Speaker 1: for this one, it is a very personal and man

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Speaker 1: touching lyric that I'm going to share not necessarily just

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Speaker 1: because of the words, but because of the human being

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Speaker 1: that is sharing it. This quote comes to us from

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Speaker 1: the late great Nipsey Hustle, and he is somebody who

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Speaker 1: while I've never had a conversation with him, unfortunately before

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Speaker 1: his passing, he has been an incredible mentor in my life.

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Speaker 1: And one of my favorite quotes from him from one

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Speaker 1: of his songs, and that I think pertains to this idea,

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Speaker 1: this topic of taking action. It's from the song Road

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Speaker 1: to Riches and nip says, keep moving, keep hustling until

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Speaker 1: I see improvement. I know I can't win them all,

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Speaker 1: but I can't keep losing. And Man, I think there

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Speaker 1: are so many powerful things that he's saying in that

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Speaker 1: very small little excerpt that I just said. And I

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Speaker 1: think for starters, he's talking about the idea of momentum, right.

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Speaker 1: And we've all heard that in an object that goes

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Speaker 1: in motion stays in motion, right, And I think we

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Speaker 1: have to look at our our lives that way. It's

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Speaker 1: all about keeping our feet moving. I love a good

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Speaker 1: sports analogy. When you're talking about a a running back

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Speaker 1: and you're on the goal line and they're trying to

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Speaker 1: drive it into the end zone, right, the the idea

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Speaker 1: is to always keep your feet moving. That is how

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Speaker 1: you progress forward. That is what they teach running backs

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Speaker 1: on how to get past those tough scenarios, those grimy

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Speaker 1: lineman pushing back and you're just trying to shove the

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Speaker 1: ball in there. You have to keep moving or you

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Speaker 1: will not get to your goal, You will not achieve

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Speaker 1: the thing that you have set out to do. You

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Speaker 1: will never arrive to your destination if you do not

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Speaker 1: keep moving forward. And I just think this idea of

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Speaker 1: moving until you see improvement, you know, it's it's brick

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Speaker 1: by brick. Right, it's understanding that you know, a wall

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Speaker 1: doesn't just get built in a day. It takes a foundation,

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Speaker 1: It takes you laying one brick at a time, and

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Speaker 1: eventually you have a wall. Right. That's the idea of

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Speaker 1: moving and hustling to you see improvement. And I love

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Speaker 1: also this idea of it being a numbers game. Right

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Speaker 1: when he says, I know I can't win them all,

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Speaker 1: but I can't keep losing. He knows that if he

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Speaker 1: throws his name in the hat enough times, it's bound

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Speaker 1: to get called at some point. Right, life is just

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Speaker 1: a numbers game. The more you participate, the more you

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Speaker 1: put yourself out there, the more you have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to be seen, to be recognized, to achieve what you

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Speaker 1: set out to do. But you first and foremost have

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Speaker 1: to continuously be disciplined to keep moving forward and throwing

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Speaker 1: yourself out there and eventually something will pan out for you.

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Speaker 1: And building off of this, how we kind of related

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Speaker 1: to ancient principles, right, because these ideas, this foundation of

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Speaker 1: keeping moving and building little by little, there's a reason

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Speaker 1: why they've stuck around for so long. Again, thousands of

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Speaker 1: years ago, you have the stoics talking about this, and

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Speaker 1: I love this quote from Marcus Aurelius where he says,

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Speaker 1: you have to assemble your life action by action, and

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Speaker 1: that is so powerful. Again, it relates to the idea

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Speaker 1: of brick by brick, right, moving until you see improvement

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Speaker 1: and then building upon that. You know, I think more

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Speaker 1: so as we dive deeper into that quote from Marcus,

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Speaker 1: he's saying that your life is a reflection of what

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Speaker 1: you do or don't do at the end of the day. Right,

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Speaker 1: that that's really what it comes down to. Your life

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Speaker 1: is made up upon the actions that you do or

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Speaker 1: don't take. And notice he said again, action by action,

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Speaker 1: And what does this mean. This means consistency, right, It

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Speaker 1: means that once you take one action, you know that

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Speaker 1: you're gonna follow it up with another, and another and another. Right.

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Speaker 1: The work never ends, it is never done. That's the

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Speaker 1: idea of growth. You have endless possibilities for growing as

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Speaker 1: a human being, for achieving whatever it is that that

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Speaker 1: you are setting out there to do, as long as

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Speaker 1: you keep taking action one after the other. Taking action.

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Speaker 1: It's not a comfortable thing, right, You're gonna fall on

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Speaker 1: put yourself in new situations that you are unfamiliar with,

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Speaker 1: you are inevitably gonna be met with failures. But that's

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Speaker 1: what you have to keep in mind. That that part

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Speaker 1: in your head that as long as you never stopped moving,

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Speaker 1: never stopped trying, at some point you will find a win.

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Speaker 1: And that's what happened with me. I was met with

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Speaker 1: failure after failure, people saying no, people not believing in me,

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Speaker 1: you know, one after the other. But I just kept

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Speaker 1: applying myself one after the other, taking action, and eventually

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Speaker 1: a door opened, and then another one opened, and another

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Speaker 1: one opened, and I kept moving And even through the

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Speaker 1: failures that continue to happen in my life right now

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Speaker 1: at this point in my career, and the roadblocks that happened,

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Speaker 1: I just keep moving through them, and I know that

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Speaker 1: inevitably something will pan out for me. But I started

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Speaker 1: as a musician, playing in bands, and then from then

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Speaker 1: moved on to being a DJ, and then got into

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Speaker 1: radio and was behind the scenes in radio, and then

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Speaker 1: ended up with the opportunity at the breakfast club and

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Speaker 1: and was still you know, pretty much behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: and I got the opportunity for on air, and then

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Speaker 1: I moved into podcasting. Right. I never never stopped moving.

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Speaker 1: I never allowed myself to get comfortable. I was always

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Speaker 1: unafraid to try new things. I saw wherever an opportunity was,

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Speaker 1: wherever a door seemed like it was opening, I ran

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Speaker 1: through it. I took action, little steps, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: plan on everything panning out the way that it has. Right,

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Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of life. As long as you

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Speaker 1: keep on moving, you will end up where you are

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Speaker 1: supposed to be. Right, Like I just kept ongoing until

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Speaker 1: I found what felt right for me. Now that I have,

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Speaker 1: I continue building upon that, right, doing a second podcast,

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Speaker 1: doing more my community outside of just being a personality. Right,

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Speaker 1: I found my my place, what I believe to be

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Speaker 1: my calling, and I'm continuing to take action to build

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Speaker 1: upon that. And that's what Marcus really said, what Nipsey

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Speaker 1: Hustle are are talking about, it is movement. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, in action follows another action and

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Speaker 1: so on and so forth. So with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about how you can apply it to your life,

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Speaker 1: how you can make it your mantra for today. But

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Speaker 1: first let's take a quick break and then we'll be

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Speaker 1: right back. All right, so let's discuss how you can

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Speaker 1: make this your mantra for today. Right, the idea of

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Speaker 1: taking action, how do you apply it to your life?

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Speaker 1: How do you apply it to your day today? For starters,

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Speaker 1: let's take inventory of your day, your week thus far,

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Speaker 1: your month, your your life. Let's just look at all

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Speaker 1: of that. Let's zoom out. What is lacking in your

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Speaker 1: life right now? Right? Be honest with yourself. What could

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Speaker 1: be better? What are you consciously or subconsciously asking for?

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Speaker 1: Take inventory of all of those things you know. What

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Speaker 1: are your greatest desires? What are the things that you

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Speaker 1: feel are holding you back? What are the things that

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Speaker 1: you are unhappy with? Right? What are the things that

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Speaker 1: you can build upon? Right? Take inventory of all of that,

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Speaker 1: and once you've done that, create actionable steps towards fixing

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Speaker 1: things or getting closer to your goals. What little steps

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Speaker 1: can you take today? Have a real and honest conversation

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Speaker 1: with yourself. And remember, it's not about one giant leap.

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Speaker 1: It's about the little moves that add up to big things. Right,

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Speaker 1: It's one brick at a time, adding up to this

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Speaker 1: giant masterpiece of a wall. Right, and let let's keep

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Speaker 1: the words of Nipsey Hustle in mine when he said

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Speaker 1: things like keep moving right, that's the idea of life,

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Speaker 1: keep moving, keep progress us and keep working you know.

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Speaker 1: Or or like Marcus Aurelia said, it's about action by action, right,

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Speaker 1: one action follows the other. It doesn't mean take action

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Speaker 1: today and then tomorrow sit back and expect your entire

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Speaker 1: life to change. No, it means, on a consistent basis,

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Speaker 1: you are taking action towards the things that you want.

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Speaker 1: You are taking action towards correcting the things about your

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Speaker 1: life that you are not a fan of. That is

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Speaker 1: what it is all about. That is how you create

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Speaker 1: not only the life that you want, but the life

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Speaker 1: that you deserve. Now, with that said, thank you all

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning into today's episode. I hope that

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Speaker 1: was the inspiration that you needed to get on with

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Speaker 1: your day. Of course, we are mixing that ancient silk

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Speaker 1: philosophy with the brilliant words of some of hip hop's

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Speaker 1: greatest who ever grace a microphone, and we do this

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Speaker 1: every day. I'll catch y'all next time to get you

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Speaker 1: that much needed shot of inspiration. The Street Stove Podcast

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