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Speaker 1: Soler, Maine say the gang don't get other shame Maine.

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Speaker 2: You are a don't you? It's time for don't kiss

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Speaker 2: a day. Donkey of Today does not discriminated. I might

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Speaker 2: not have the song of today, but I got the

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Speaker 2: donkey day time. So if you ever feel I need

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Speaker 2: to be a donkey man TV with.

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Speaker 3: The Hut's the Breakfast Club, bitches, please don't give today today.

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Speaker 2: Donk hey today.

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Speaker 3: For Monday, December fourth goes the Oscar nominated actress Felicity Huffman. Now,

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Speaker 3: unless you've been fasting from social media for the last

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Speaker 3: few years, and you may not know that Felicity Huffins

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Speaker 3: served some time in prison, had completed court ordered community

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Speaker 3: service because she broke the law. Okay, she pleaded guilty

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Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen the conspiracy to commit mail fraud and

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Speaker 3: honest Services mail fraud.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know what that is, and she.

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Speaker 3: Served eleven days of a fourteen day prison sentence and

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Speaker 3: was ordered to do two hundred and fifty hours of

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Speaker 3: community service and pay a fine. All because she tried

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Speaker 3: to take a shortcut. And she quickly learned, like most

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Speaker 3: of us learn in life, that there are are no shortcuts.

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Speaker 3: If you take shortcuts, you can get cut short. Can

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Speaker 3: we flash back to what happened? What caused Felicity to

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Speaker 3: end up in prison? Let's go to ABC News for

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Speaker 3: the report.

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Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 4: Actress Felicity Huffman walking out of court today but not

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Speaker 4: free of prison. The celebrity brushing past cameras with husband

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Speaker 4: and actor William H. Macy moments after she was sentenced

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Speaker 4: to fourteen days behind bars in front of the judge.

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Speaker 4: The prosecutor said most parents have the moral compass and

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Speaker 4: integrity not to step over the line. The defendant does not.

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Speaker 4: After noting Huffman's fame and wealth several times, the prosecutor

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Speaker 4: said emphatically, there's no paparazzi in prison. Prison is the

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Speaker 4: great equalizer. She must go to prison. After pleading guilty

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Speaker 4: to fraud charges in May, Huffman admitted to paying fifteen

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Speaker 4: thousand dollars to have her daughter's SAT scores rigged. The

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Speaker 4: judge noting she apologized and accepted guilt early, then the

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Speaker 4: sentence fourteen days in prison, thirty thousand dollars fine, one

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Speaker 4: year supervised release, and two hundred and fifty hours of

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Speaker 4: community service.

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Speaker 3: She paid fifteen thousand dollars to have someone falsified the

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Speaker 3: results of her daughter's essay T score.

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Speaker 4: You know what?

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Speaker 3: I wonder about this, and I probably could find the

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Speaker 3: answer if I can enough to look. Her daughter didn't know, right,

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Speaker 3: so I'm sure her daughter studied and prepared for the

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Speaker 3: SAT test. What if her daughter would have passed on

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Speaker 3: her own merit was the falsifying of the results just

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Speaker 3: in case she failed. What lack of faith did she

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Speaker 3: have in her daughter that she already knew. Let me

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Speaker 3: go ahead and pay for her to pass because I

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Speaker 3: know she not too bright. Okay, I've been watching her

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Speaker 3: since she got here. I know she's stupid, all right.

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Speaker 3: My daughter going to live in the basement for the

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Speaker 3: rest of her life. If I will do something, she

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Speaker 3: might have to join the circus or run for Congress,

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Speaker 3: same difference. Either way, she ends up being a clown

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Speaker 3: as a child. I would have all these questions for

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Speaker 3: my mother if she did this to me. I appreciate

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Speaker 3: you going above and beyond, Mom, you know, actually committing

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Speaker 3: a crime for me to get ahead, But damn you

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Speaker 3: don't got no faith in my intelligence in my own

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Speaker 2: Is that they te test now?

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Speaker 3: Felicity Huffman recently sat what Eyewitness News to speak for

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Speaker 3: the first time about her participation in this candle and

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Speaker 3: why she did it.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to ABC News for the report. Police.

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Speaker 5: When he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it

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Speaker 5: seemed like, and I know this seems crazy at the time,

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Speaker 5: that that was my only option to give my daughter

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Speaker 5: a future. And I know hindsight is twenty twenty, but

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Speaker 5: it felt like I would be a bad mother if

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Speaker 5: I didn't do it.

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Speaker 2: So I did it. Months later, the FBI was at

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Speaker 5: They came into my home. They woke my daughters up

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Speaker 5: at gunpoint, again nothing new to the black and brown community.

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Speaker 5: Then they put my hands behind my back and hand

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Speaker 5: We got to me and I asked if I could

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Speaker 2: It was a hoax.

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Speaker 5: I literally turned to the one of the FBI people

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Speaker 5: is this a Is this a joke?

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Speaker 3: I felt like this was the only option to give

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Speaker 3: my daughter a future. Felicity Huffman's net worth is forty

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Speaker 3: five million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: I am an.

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Speaker 3: Habitual pocket watcher, Okay, I like to know how much

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Speaker 3: they're making it. As soon as I heard her make

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Speaker 3: these comments about this was the only option to give

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Speaker 3: my daughter a future, I googled her net worth because

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Speaker 3: I needed to know why, on God's green earth, which

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Speaker 3: she feels like her daughter doesn't have a chance at

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Speaker 3: a future, this young woman of privilege will have every

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Speaker 3: single advantage that is provided to a multimillionaire's daughter, especially

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Speaker 3: a multimillionaire who also has the complexion for the protection

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Speaker 2: Now, listen to me.

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Speaker 3: She is taking penitentiary chances for her daughter because she

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Speaker 3: says she wants to give her daughter a.

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Speaker 2: Chance, you know, to have a future.

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Speaker 3: If an actress worth forty five million dollars is thinking

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Speaker 3: people in the hood are going through. Okay, folks from

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Speaker 3: poor and disenfranchised communities aren't even attempting to give their

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Speaker 3: kids a shot at a better future. They just trying

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Speaker 3: to get their kids an opportunity in the present moment,

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Speaker 3: and that opportunity is usually just.

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Speaker 2: The basics, food, clothing, some shelter. Right now.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So when black and brown people are out here

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Speaker 3: doing what they gotta do to survive. This system should

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Speaker 3: have some understanding, okay, but they never do. They throw

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Speaker 3: fourteen days and a fine.

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Speaker 2: For mail fraud. Do you know mail fraud.

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Speaker 3: Carries a sentence of twenty years in prison and you

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Speaker 3: required to make full restitution. Let Felicity Huffman would have

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Speaker 3: been some sister from a black of brown community. She

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Speaker 3: would have gotten years years behind bars for doing what

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Speaker 3: Felicity Huffman did guaranteed.

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about the bigger picture.

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Speaker 3: You know, how you set your kids up with opportunities

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Speaker 3: not letting them skip steps? Now, okay, letting them know

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Speaker 3: that you cannot escape the process. If your daughter takes

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Speaker 2: That is what life is about.

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Speaker 3: We have to stop coddling these kids, especially in the

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Speaker 3: highlight reel. Nobody on social media is showing you the process.

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Speaker 3: They not showing you the times they failed, the times

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Speaker 3: the worst things about so called cancel culture is that

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Speaker 3: nobody wants to tell you about their mistakes anymore. Everybody

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Speaker 3: it right. But guess what nobody has. Nobody is perfect.

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Speaker 3: We all make mistakes. We say wrong things, we do

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Speaker 3: always giving us another chance. If we don't allow our

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Speaker 3: then we are truly hindering their chances of being successful

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Speaker 3: in the future. Felicity, right now you have an opportunity

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Speaker 3: to teach your kid a tremendous lesson about failure because

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Speaker 3: you failed. But you can't let that failure define you.

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Speaker 3: You have to let it shape you. And right now

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Speaker 3: your daughter is watching you. The way you handle it

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Speaker 3: failure in the future. And when it comes to stuff

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Speaker 3: like failing a test, please, it's just a test.

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Speaker 2: You fail, you take it over.

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Speaker 3: Maya Angelou said it best, courage allows a successful woman

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Speaker 3: to fail and learn powerful lessons from the failure, so

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Speaker 3: greatest glory in life, kids, is not in never failing,

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Speaker 3: but in rising every time we fail. Please let Chelsea

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Speaker 3: handle give Felicity Huffman the biggest hee haw hee haw

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Speaker 2: That is way too much. Dan Maynes, all right, not.

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Speaker 3: Any stories we've heard of, you know a sisters putting

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Speaker 3: and then getting actual prison sentences. How can we not

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Speaker 3: understand what they were trying to do for their children

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Speaker 3: With Felicity Hufman get a slap on the wrist for

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Speaker 3: something that has a twenty year sentence, you know why?

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Speaker 2: Too much caught them?

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Speaker 1: Mannaise Okay, all right, well, thank you for that donkey today,

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Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Everybody else when we come back, Nate Burleson and Melanie

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Speaker 1: Few will be joining us. They have the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: Gospel celebration that happens every year Super Bowl time. It's

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Speaker 1: going down January twenty eighth. They had people like, let's

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Speaker 1: name some of them, Gladys Knight. They've had Kirk Franklin.

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Speaker 1: They've had Fantasia, Mary J. Blige, they had Dougie Fresh,

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Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg. And we're gonna talk to them when we

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Speaker 1: come back, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, The Breakfast Club.