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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ookf Daily with me

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Speaker 1: your girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. I'm

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Speaker 1: recording this on Juneteenth, and you know you'll listen to

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Speaker 1: this tomorrow. And I just have some thoughts to get

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Speaker 1: off my chest about Juneteenth being a federal holiday. And

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Speaker 1: I posted a video yesterday saying that, like, I'm not

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Speaker 1: feeling Juneteenth as a federal holiday, and the reason being

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Speaker 1: is because I don't think that white people and non

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Speaker 1: black people, who there is no curriculum that was created,

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Speaker 1: have no understanding whatsoever, just get another day off. It

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Speaker 1: means absolutely nothing. And I'm tired of living inside of

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Speaker 1: a country that, instead of providing equity and justice for

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Speaker 1: black people who have been exploited, abused, murdered, lynched, raped, beaten, subjugated,

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Speaker 1: and oppressed for you know, damn near a millennial, that

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Speaker 1: instead of providing us with the justice that would look

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Speaker 1: like reparations in a number of ways, reparations doesn't look

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Speaker 1: like money, it looks like a whole lot of things. Instead,

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Speaker 1: just throw a fucking holiday our way. And this is

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Speaker 1: the same holiday that, oh yeah, the state of Florida

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Speaker 1: gets to take off while they go ahead and ban

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Speaker 1: quote unquote critical race theory and ban books and banned

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Speaker 1: curriculum and fire teachers. So it's like, what are we

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Speaker 1: really learning here? Right? Like what are we really learning? Nothing?

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Speaker 1: And that's the point, right, The point is to pacify, right,

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Speaker 1: Not to create critical thought, not to make amends for

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Speaker 1: past brutality. It is to pacify. And so I do

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Speaker 1: have deep feelings about this holiday and the way that

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Speaker 1: it was introduced after the murder of George Floyd in

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Speaker 1: thinking that somehow the leaders of this country are doing

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Speaker 1: something so that they can pat themselves on the fucking

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Speaker 1: back about it, doing what exactly? Because I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: that the last surviving witnesses to the Tulsa massacre that

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Speaker 1: happened over one hundred years ago were just denied a

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Speaker 1: hearing in court at the Oklahoma Supreme Court. So they

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Speaker 1: will die having had no reparations for state sensioned and

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Speaker 1: federally senioned mob violence that killed over three hundred people

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Speaker 1: and destroyed an entire fucking town. And those people got nothing,

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Speaker 1: and one hundred years later, we still do nothing for them.

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Speaker 1: So what is a holiday? It means nothing without any context,

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Speaker 1: without any curriculum, without any thoughtfulness whatsoever. So for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm over it. I will not use this

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Speaker 1: day as a day to educate others. I will not

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Speaker 1: use it as a day to provide infographics on this, that,

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Speaker 1: and the fucking other thing. Like I want white people

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Speaker 1: and non black people in this country to be curious,

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Speaker 1: to be intellectually fucking curious, and be rigorous about learning

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Speaker 1: and unlearning so that we can forge a better future

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Speaker 1: because I don't see how we do it, because I

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Speaker 1: sure as fuck am tired of pulling people along. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next, my conversation with our friend, our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan metzil Well. Jonathan and I talk about a

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Speaker 1: range of things today, mostly in the fact that I'm

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Speaker 1: just like you know, it's summer. I am in a

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Speaker 1: place where I'm just like I need a break. I

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Speaker 1: need a mental break, I need a physical break. I

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Speaker 1: need all of the breaks, as I'm certain that all

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Speaker 1: of you do as well. And so how to balance

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Speaker 1: out the need and the desire to slow down when

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Speaker 1: the news cycle and the world around us continues to

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Speaker 1: spin out of control. That conversation is coming up next, folks.

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Speaker 1: You know that whenever we have the opportunity to sit

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Speaker 1: down with our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan mepsl I

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Speaker 1: am always thrilled and Jonathan today what is on my mind?

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Speaker 1: What is on my mind is that it's summer. It's

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Speaker 1: nice outside, and like, I don't want to talk about

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Speaker 1: I want to, you know, just some days. I want

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Speaker 1: to pretend is that healthy? Is that? Is that Okay?

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm happy to pretend there's something I was to

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Speaker 1: No ask me, ask me whatever, ask me whatever you'd like.

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Speaker 2: Well, first, it's lovely out. I love summer. I love

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Speaker 2: all the puppies and the daffodils on all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: So no worries there. We can talk about summer trips

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Speaker 2: or vacations or fun stuff. We could talk about summer reads,

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Speaker 2: or we could talk about Donald Trump campaign targeting Black

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Speaker 1: Well, here are my quick summer plans. I don't often

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Speaker 1: Trump and his push for black voters, you know he

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Speaker 1: they paid people to attend. He was recently at a

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Speaker 1: that church. When he went out to try and get

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Speaker 1: people to come in, they laughed in his face. But nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: I think it was in Michigan. They did a call

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Speaker 1: to the GOP out there and so a bunch of

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Speaker 1: white people showed up in blacks for Trump T shirts.

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Speaker 1: Irony is not lost on them at all. So what

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Speaker 1: do I think about Donald Trump's push. I think it's

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Speaker 1: like most things that Donald Trump pushes. I think it's fraudulent.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a lie, just as I think it

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Speaker 1: was Kelly and Conway that was on Fox News that

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Speaker 1: said that there were eight thousand people there at the church,

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Speaker 1: a church, by the way, that only holds several hundred.

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Speaker 1: But you know whatever, like if it's going to be

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Speaker 1: why not say there were eighty thousand people that were there,

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Speaker 1: Because if you're gonna lie, just like make it even bigger.

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Speaker 1: So do I think that it's a concerted effort. No?

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Speaker 1: I think that they will always be a facet of

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Speaker 1: the black community and the LATINX community that think that

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Speaker 1: their proximity to whiteness will save them and that they

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Speaker 1: I do. And so those are my thoughts. What did

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Speaker 2: I actually see this. I mean I agree with everything

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Speaker 2: but I think it's a pretty serious concern actually for

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Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. I mean, one was that we

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Speaker 2: just saw more black and Latino voters vote for Trump

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Speaker 2: every time he ran, and especially in the last election.

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Speaker 2: I think there was a lot of surprise, particularly among

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Speaker 2: But I think that, you know, for me, it's more

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Speaker 2: the fifty thousand foot issue that I think a lot

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Speaker 2: of people are missing. I mean, absolutely, the thing was farcical,

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Speaker 1: Really, I mean, I wouldn't put it past them, So.

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Speaker 2: It was that ridiculous. But the two things that I

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Speaker 2: So I think the very fact that it happened, it

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Speaker 2: voters that they're going to love Trump. It was like

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Speaker 2: an op to show this guy is so brave that

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Speaker 2: I have a feeling I don't know this for sure,

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Speaker 2: like our core audience, the goal wasn't to convince anybody.

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Speaker 2: It was to show that Trump is like taking it

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Speaker 2: So that was concern number one for me about this.

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Speaker 2: But the bigger concern for me was actually the thing

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Speaker 2: was saying, the Biden policies are bringing in all these

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Speaker 2: a way, again, I don't think that massive numbers of

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Speaker 2: I thought that that message of like, immigrants are stealing

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Speaker 2: And it turns out like that is a message that

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Speaker 2: just really scares the Jesus out of people. And it

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Speaker 2: my job by stopping competition. That's a fifty year old playlist,

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Speaker 2: but it's not in an effective one. And so I

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Speaker 2: guess that was my bigger concern again, beyond the farce

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that anything that they do

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Speaker 1: Everything is part of the largest strategy. And when your

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Speaker 1: How did you feel emotionally? How did you feel physically?

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Speaker 1: How did you feel? Because if I'm the Biden administration,

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Speaker 1: asking my voters. How did you feel from twenty seventeen

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Speaker 1: it was fear, it was anxiety. It was lots of

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Speaker 1: turning the police on peaceful protesters. Like so when I

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Speaker 1: see instances like that, it isn't so much about how

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Speaker 1: look tough? Like yeah, I guess if you're a fucking idiot,

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties Rambow, and that is your like Christen yeah

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Speaker 1: or Putin, and that's your personification of like what masculinity

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Speaker 1: should look like. But you don't actually look at what

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump looked like in the courthouse in New York City,

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Speaker 1: then like, yeah, my whole thing is right now. As

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Speaker 1: we were speaking, the Biden administration, the Biden campaign excuse me,

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Speaker 1: the first attack ad that has come out since the

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Speaker 1: thirty four felony convictions that calls Donald Trump a felon,

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Speaker 1: that actually says that here's what Donald Trump has done.

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Speaker 1: He's been convicted of thirty four felons, he's liable for

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Speaker 1: sexual assault, his university was fraudulent, his businesses are fraudulent,

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Speaker 1: and he's running a criminal enterprise. So your choice for

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Speaker 1: president is a criminal, a convicted criminal, a convicted felon,

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Speaker 1: or somebody that is fighting for democracy. Like, those are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope this is our time and then we say, man,

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Speaker 2: Here's us more time to go on vacation.

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Speaker 1: That is right. Thank you as always my friend Jonathan

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Speaker 1: for showing up for wok AFF and diving into conversation

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Speaker 1: with us.

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Speaker 2: Next week, let's talk about like, let's pick a cheerful topic.

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Speaker 2: We always make these proclamations, but.

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Speaker 1: I know we never stick with them because something that

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Speaker 1: always happens.

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Speaker 2: Okay, next week we're doing cheerful topic.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thank you friend, Take care everybody. That is

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Speaker 1: it for me today, Dear friends on wok f as always,

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Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke. As fun