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Speaker 1: Donkey up today. Damn hell, they should be embarrassed by

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Speaker 1: what they already did. I'm not making new people do

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Speaker 1: out of the day today? Well, just hilarious donkey today

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Speaker 1: for Wednesday, February twenty first goes to John Snyder. We

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Speaker 1: was off Monday, so I couldn't get to this sooner.

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Speaker 1: But it's only Wednesday, and in light of some recent developments,

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Speaker 1: it's not too late to give John Snyder the credit

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Speaker 1: he deserves for being stupid. Now, John played vote on

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Speaker 1: the dukesa Hazard. If he was born in the nineteen

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventies like me, then you remember Dukes of Hazard,

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Speaker 1: and it's amazing to me. Sidebar, it's amazing to me

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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is not pulled up to a riley

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Speaker 1: in the General Lee card. It's perfect for him. It's

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Speaker 1: orange like his complexion. It has a Confederate flag on

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Speaker 1: the side, and it was named after the most famous

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Speaker 1: Confederate general. Okay, if you are the leader of the

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Speaker 1: Party of the Confederacy, like Trump, you gotta have the car.

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Speaker 1: The Confederacy. If he pulled up to a rally in

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Speaker 1: the in the general Lee Maga would love it. But

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Speaker 1: that's not why we're here today. We are here to

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Speaker 1: discuss John Snyder and these comments he made about Beyonce

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Speaker 1: and her foray into country music. Now, John Snyder sat

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Speaker 1: it's safe to say he doesn't agree with Beyonce jumping

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Speaker 1: in the country music. Let's listen, the lefties in the

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Speaker 1: entertainment industry just won't leave any area alone, right. They

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Speaker 1: just have to seize control over every aspect, don't they.

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Speaker 1: They've got to. They've got to make their mark, just

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Speaker 1: You know, every dog has to mark every tree. Right.

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Speaker 1: So that's what's going on here. What does what does

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Speaker 1: what party you belong to have to do with this?

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Speaker 1: And John, how you turn the Boss Hog on Beyonce?

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Speaker 1: You know Boss Hog was forever angry with the Dukes

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Speaker 1: going to be forever mad at Beyonce because she's about

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Speaker 1: to dominate country music for a little while? See? John

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Speaker 1: doesn't like entertain His claim country music is their own. No, John,

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Speaker 1: you don't like black entertainers claiming country music is their own,

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Speaker 1: which I haven't heard Beyonce do. But even if she did, John,

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Speaker 1: I think you should know that so much of what

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Speaker 1: The first string bands in this country were you know,

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Speaker 1: enslaved people. That's a fact. Okay. I know we live

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Speaker 1: in a country that doesn't like teaching the truth about

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Speaker 1: his history. But news flash, America and everyone around the

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Speaker 1: world listening to my voice, I'm about to tell y'all

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Speaker 1: something that most people who read just a little bit. No,

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Speaker 1: most popular music genres were started by black people. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Country music in the US began with black people. I know.

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Speaker 1: I know, Charlae Mane, you make everything about race. No,

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Speaker 1: I make everything about history, all right, the history that

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Speaker 1: this country keeps trying to erase, all right. The story

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Speaker 1: of country music began with the banjo. Okay. The modern

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Speaker 1: day banjo is a descendant of a West African instrument

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Speaker 1: made from gorge called the a content, yes, a conting Okay.

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Speaker 1: Think about Akon and think about him drinking a gang

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Speaker 1: and that's how you pronounce it. Just think about akon.

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Speaker 1: Then think about acon drinking a ting and that's how

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Speaker 1: you pronounce it a content. Okay. Now, when enslaved humans

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Speaker 1: right for four hundred years, and slave people created their

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Speaker 1: eighteen fifties, mistrul shows became popular. All right, minstrel shows

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Speaker 1: the mistral shows unintentionally laid the groundwork, the foundation, if

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Speaker 1: you will, for hill billy music, and the hill billy

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Speaker 1: music would later be renamed country, which became the music

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Speaker 1: of this up. Okay, So, John, you can't say Beyonce

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Speaker 1: Her first album was called Tina Turns the Country On.

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Speaker 1: She was covering Dolly Parton's songs. All Right, the great

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Speaker 1: Ray Charles Big country music. Okay, Ray Charles is in

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Speaker 1: Carolina's own Darius Rutgers, Caane Brown. We met Came Brown

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Speaker 1: last year. I already music accessible. It's so many black

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Speaker 1: soon as Beyonce starts whiggling her brown feet. Okay, and

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Speaker 1: what people like John Snyder want to be a segregated pool,

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Speaker 1: something about God. Okay, God will prepare a table for

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Speaker 1: you and the presence of your enemy. See, we all

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Speaker 1: should welcome the criticism. We all should welcome to hate.

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Speaker 1: We should all welcome the nay says, because in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, these algorithms don't know the difference. So when

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Speaker 1: you have someone who has beloved as Beyonce, just sell

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Speaker 1: Noles Carter and they debut music at the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: the most watched tele division, an event in American history.

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Speaker 1: When you are already that kind of superstar and you

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Speaker 1: debut music in front of an audience of over two

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Speaker 1: hundred million, and the people who love you run to listen,

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Speaker 1: and the people who hate you run to listen, and

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Speaker 1: the people who love you or talk about your music,

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Speaker 1: and the people like John Snyder who want to hate

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Speaker 1: you or talking about your music, all of that makes

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Speaker 1: for a perfect storm that causes you to become the

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Speaker 1: first black woman the Top Billboard's Country Songs Chart with

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Speaker 1: Texas Hold Them Yes, Beyonce has become the first black

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Speaker 1: woman the Top Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart after her

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Speaker 1: track Texas hold Them deybuwed that number one drop on

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Speaker 1: the Clues Bombs, Beyonce red, That's why in this era,

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Speaker 1: if you don't like something, it's best not to speak

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Speaker 1: love and hate. I wish today Beyonce would post thank

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Speaker 1: you for making me the first black woman the top

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Speaker 1: Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. And to my critics, doubt

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Speaker 1: fuels me. Your hate drives me, your ignorance challenges me,

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Speaker 1: you inspire me. Okay, thank you, John and everybody in

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Speaker 1: country music who thinks like you. Please let Chelsea Handler

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Speaker 1: give John Snyder the biggest he haw hee haw hee haw.

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Speaker 1: That is way too much, Dan Maynes. Now I want

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Speaker 1: to tell you about another black woman who is a

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Speaker 1: history maker. She is the first black woman to have

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Speaker 1: a number one hit on the country charts. Her name

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Speaker 1: is Alice Randall. She has a professor at Vanderbilt and

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Speaker 1: on April night, she has a book coming out that

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Speaker 1: I am holding in my hand. This is the Advanced

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Speaker 1: Reader's edition. It's called My Black Country, a Journey through

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Speaker 1: Country Music's Black Past, Present and Future. This is the

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Speaker 1: next release off my book in print Black Privilege Publishing

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Speaker 1: with Simon and Schuster. So if you want a quick

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Speaker 1: history lesson on black people in country music, this is

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Speaker 1: the book for you. My Black Country by Alice Randall.

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Speaker 1: All right, yes, let's allude to those black queens. Yes, indeed,

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