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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Good Mom's Bad Choices America. And I'm

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Speaker 2: Mila and.

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Speaker 3: It is June tea happy June teen.

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Speaker 2: Happy Juneteenth everybody to all the black people.

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Speaker 4: Only you know you have black babies. Happy Black Happy

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Speaker 4: Juneteenth to them as well.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm great.

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Speaker 4: If you're watching this on YouTube, I've given you guys

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Speaker 4: a show today by accident. The titties are tittying, y'all.

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Speaker 4: You know I paid good money for these, so we're

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Speaker 4: gonna show them.

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Speaker 2: You look good, girl, you mayay good?

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Speaker 3: Thanks? You could do these little tan you're you know.

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Speaker 2: I support I support full titties.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like this for this episode. I could

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Speaker 4: have went and got a little more melanated looking very

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Speaker 4: light skin today.

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Speaker 2: Not for this episode particularly. Well, speaking of this episode,

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Speaker 2: even for a think, we have we have a very

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Speaker 2: very very special guest and I'm very excited. I've been

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Speaker 2: waiting for this moment for a very long time. I

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Speaker 2: feel like I manifested it in my mind. Can you

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Speaker 2: tell us who our guest is today?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Yes, because we have, we've been seeing, we've been getting it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if we're being fed ads or what.

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Speaker 4: But we've been seeing this particular well this person who

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Speaker 4: created this particular thing for a few months now, maybe

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Speaker 4: like six months, and we've been talking about it, and

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Speaker 4: I remember you sent it to me and you were like,

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Speaker 4: we have to do this, and I was like, oh

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Speaker 4: my god, we do have to do this because the

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Speaker 4: thing I did, I don't know, it's not so bullshit.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, we have the co founder of African Ancestral,

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Speaker 4: Doctor Paige co founded African Ancestry and in doing so,

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Speaker 4: pioneered a new way of tracing African lineages using genetics

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Speaker 4: and a new marketplace for people of African descent looking

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Speaker 4: to looking for more accurately and reliable.

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Speaker 3: Trace to trace their roots.

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Speaker 4: Page travels the world demystifying African roots to inform on

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Speaker 4: the importance and empowerment of Black identity through the lens

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Speaker 4: of Africa and our African ancestors. Welcome to the show

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Speaker 4: Doctor Page.

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Speaker 5: Hello, ladies, I'm happy here.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. We're so excited to have

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Speaker 5: Let's do it. I'm ready.

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Speaker 4: This just feels so serendipitous to be be able to

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Speaker 4: trace our African roots on this month on this day.

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Speaker 4: I'm just so happy that it aligned in this way.

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Speaker 4: I know that what you do is so important. There's

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Speaker 4: so many people listening right now that are dying to

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Speaker 4: know where their roots lie. They have no idea, there's

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Speaker 4: no way to trace them. Really, I mean for me personally,

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Speaker 4: I said, I mentioned this before we started recording, that

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Speaker 4: I went the African not the African ancestry. I went

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Speaker 4: the ancestry dot com route. And that was years ago.

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Speaker 4: I think I was like maybe in my early twenty

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Speaker 3: So I was like, well, what what am I like?

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Speaker 4: What did you get the information the first time? Just

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Speaker 4: so we are going to reveal our African lineage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know the information yet. Doctor Page is

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Speaker 4: We've been emailed Nicole like she said, your results are

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Speaker 4: And before we get into it, though, I did want

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Speaker 1: It's interesting. So for me, it was really the community.

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Speaker 1: The community. It is like this case of supply and demand, right.

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Speaker 1: The way they found out is he was working on

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Speaker 1: My co founder, doctor Rick Kittles. He was part of

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Speaker 1: And I partnered so that I could commercialize his research

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Speaker 2: Wow, what an amazing story that it was birth that way.

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Speaker 6: That is hopefully haunting them, hopefully, but also also like

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Speaker 5: Yep, this year we're twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Wow, congratulations people, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, so can you tell us how j tracing works?

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Speaker 1: Sure, I'd love to tell you how it works. So

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Speaker 1: we're all familiar in some way with genealogy, right. Genealogy

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Speaker 1: While there is no written document that says exactly where

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Speaker 1: but it's using your own biology, your own genetics. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Our DNA is the same, but in point one percent

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Speaker 1: So we each inherit fifty percent of our DNA from

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Speaker 3: Right like the beginning, from the beginning, from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Wow, wow, So we at African ancestry. We don't look

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Speaker 1: In the case of your father, Erica and you, Mila,

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Speaker 2: they have to go over the entire continent of Africa

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Speaker 1: I love the way you asked that question. So African

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Speaker 1: we don't have to get every single person's DNA. But

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Speaker 1: my co founder, he collaborated with researchers across the continent

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Speaker 2: Wow, this is the most powerful business you could have

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Speaker 5: We can help.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it can be as simple as that. It can

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Speaker 4: It was like, I was like you from this, oh

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so normally children would not have to do it

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Speaker 5: Told me, you're not quiet.

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Speaker 1: So remember I told you we look at in your case,

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Speaker 5: You see what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Ancestry dot Com has they're not looking at your mother's

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Speaker 1: So everybody gets Nigeria right, everybody gets Cameroon slash Congo slash.

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Speaker 3: I said I'm Cameroon, I'm Nigerian, I'm.

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Speaker 5: You got everything, literally.

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Speaker 3: That's everything. They said.

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Speaker 5: Your West African history tells.

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Speaker 5: So then you're like, well, what am I?

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Speaker 1: That it had to be on your father's side, but

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Speaker 5: Was it a.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so are you Hausa?

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Speaker 1: If you want to know where in Africa you're from,

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Speaker 1: you're from West Africa. That's the best they're going to

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Speaker 4: Well, if you want to know where in Africa you're from,

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Speaker 4: for some celebrities and I won't be nosy.

443
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Speaker 3: So where's Oprah fu?

444
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: So we traced Oprah's mother's mother's mother's line to the

445
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: country of present day Liberia, and within Liberia, she shares

446
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 1: ancestry with the Pelee people, who are the largest ethnic

447
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:56,719
Speaker 1: group in Liberia.

448
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Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, interesting, interesting. Yeah.

449
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 4: I was like I was reading your bio and I

450
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 4: was like, oh, Brah, John Legend. I'm like, all these

451
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 4: celebrities know where they're from. I'm like, I wonder if

452
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 4: they're incorporating the practices of their people into their lives,

453
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 4: because you're right after I find out, Bitch, it's a rap.

454
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 3: That's how to start googling everything.

455
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 2: Be like we're hairstyles. You're gonna be like what. I'm like,

456
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 2: it's my people, they're coming out. I have a question,

457
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 2: doctor Page. Since you've found out about your your lineage,

458
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 2: have you have you like visited any place specific to

459
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 2: you or what are some things that you've adopted. Now

460
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 2: that you've known after these all these years.

461
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Speaker 5: Oh that's so interesting.

462
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: So I've known for a really long time in African

463
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Speaker 1: ancestry years, and I have to say, for the longest time,

464
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Speaker 1: I didn't really do anything because I was in startup mode,

465
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: you know. I was just trying to folks. I was

466
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 1: being focused on everyone learning where they're from. And then

467
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: we used to give away and in Car to Africana

468
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: DVD way back in the beginning. And one day an

469
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: elder called and he's like, I don't have a computer.

470
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: My ancestry Hausa and you need to tell me about

471
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: the House of People. And I was like, yes, sir,

472
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: so I put in the DVD and my paternal ancestry,

473
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: one of those lines, my father's father's father's line goes

474
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: back to the Hausa and so one sentence I read

475
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: was that the house of women are very business oriented,

476
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: like they handle the business. That's true of our houses,

477
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: but in this case that's what I read. And I

478
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 1: got goosebumps because everybody on my paternal line is an entrepreneur.

479
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: My grandparents, their parents, my aunts and uncles, my father, me,

480
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: my cousins, all of us. And I had no you know,

481
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: it just felt like, Okay, this is why I do this.

482
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be doing this work. I have not

483
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to visit Nigeria yet. To me, that's

484
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 1: a country that you got to go with, go to

485
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Speaker 1: with somebody who's from there, who knows it intimately. And

486
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 1: so I'm scheduled to go to Nigeria at some point

487
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: this year.

488
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 5: We'll see if that happens.

489
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 1: But the other thing I can say in more recent times,

490
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: the person who does our paid ads, he's Euroba from Nigeria,

491
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: and so now we have sort of a ritual every

492
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: time we meet. He has to say something to me

493
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: in Europa and then has to tell me how to respond,

494
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: and then I just keep practicing and practicing. So you know,

495
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: those are the every some of the everyday things I do.

496
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Speaker 2: That's amazing. I just have this vision like I'm going

497
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 2: to find out this information and then I'm gonna fly

498
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: there and they're gonna just be welcome me, welcoming me

499
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 2: with open arms.

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Speaker 3: Wait.

501
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 4: I have a question, So once on the once you

502
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 4: get your results back, is there a way to connect

503
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 4: you with your people kind of like can you connect

504
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 4: with people like in Africa, Like, can I find my cousins?

505
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: That's a great question. So the type of testing we

506
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 1: get that all the time. The type of testing that

507
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: we do does not allow for connections because when we

508
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: compiled our database, everything was anonymous. Again we're talking more

509
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: than thirty years ago, and people weren't making connections like that.

510
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: So what we do have is two things. One we

511
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: have an online community.

512
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 5: Three things.

513
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: We have an online community and so people who've taken

514
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: the test can go there and share information and share resources.

515
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: We are establishing. We have established relationships with several of

516
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: the embassies. Since we're located in DC, that's very easy,

517
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: and so we're starting to see more activities where the

518
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: embassies are opening up to welcome people who share their ancestry.

519
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: And then we have African Ancestry family Reunions, which are

520
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: specially curated birthright journeys home and so we've taken people

521
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: home too.

522
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 5: Sorly Young.

523
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 3: Technique. It's so crazy it said that.

524
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 2: I literally just told Orlando, I was like, I wonder

525
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: if Africa has birthright and he's like, what's that? Because

526
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: I we grow up hearing about birthright from the Jewish

527
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 2: friends that we have in LA they get to go

528
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 2: to Israel. I'm like, it's a program, you get to

529
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: go to your homeland for free. But I only heard

530
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 2: about like for Israel. I didn't know if they had

531
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 2: it offered it for like Africans. That's it. Also, I

532
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 2: want to know because if embassies are accepting it. What

533
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: I really wanted to learn my ancestry for is so

534
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: I can get my dual cuitizenship and I have my

535
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 2: paperwork when I go to the embassy and I said,

536
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 2: give me my passport.

537
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, is that yeah? Could we do?

538
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 2: This is really what I want.

539
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: There's one country, the country of Sierra Leone, that from

540
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three offered citizenship based

541
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: on africanancestry dot Com test results. They have not renewed.

542
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: They have a new Minister of Tourism and they have

543
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: not renewed the program yet this year, but we're hopeful

544
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: that they will restart the program. That's the only country

545
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: right now that has had an official citizenship program based

546
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: on DNA. But there are other countries like the country

547
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: of Benin, for example, that I'm reading is planning to

548
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: start offering citizenship based on DNA and so they're opening

549
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: up to the idea. But many of these countries their

550
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: constitutions don't allow for dual citizenship, like Cameroon, So we're

551
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: working with them to see, Okay, if it's not citizenship,

552
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: is it a long term visa, is it residency? What

553
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: are the kinds of things that you can offer to

554
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: encourage the descendants to come home.

555
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 4: How many people actually like followed through with that and

556
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 4: got citizenship and Syria and within that time period.

557
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 5: At least three hundred Okay.

558
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: I bet because baby, don't let me get my little

559
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 2: green light. Yes, right, and like when you do.

560
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 3: That to your kids, also get citizenship too.

561
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Speaker 4: I probably have to pay a fee, but probably, yeah,

562
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 4: they give it to the kids.

563
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

564
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 2: I had someone had told me this a long time ago,

565
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 2: and that was like it's always stuck in my mind

566
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: that that was like an option like based on the dispora.

567
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean we deserve to go back and

568
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 2: like experience where we came from.

569
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 3: You know.

570
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: Yes, as a child literally I always thought about that.

571
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 2: I'm like, so you're telling me they stole us and

572
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 2: then we stayed here. I never understood it. I was like,

573
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 2: I just don't get it. I understand why we just

574
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 2: didn't leave once we figured out this information, Why don't we.

575
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 3: Just go back home. I think it's hard to get back.

576
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: I know I feel like to get back, But as

577
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 2: a child, I just if you've heard about it, but

578
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 2: as a child, I just could not understand why we

579
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 2: were still here in this craziness. Yeah.

580
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 4: So as the time, I think it's time, I can't

581
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 4: wait any longer.

582
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 3: Tell me who I am, doctor Page.

583
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Speaker 1: So you're going to go first, Yeah, sure, okay, Okay,

584
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: So Erica, we trace. We had your father take the test,

585
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: and so the information that I'm going to give you

586
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: is about your father's mother's.

587
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 5: Mother's mother's mothers.

588
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: And you know you got half of your DNA from

589
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: your father, So this is as much your ancestry as

590
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: it is your father's. We did find his, your ancestry,

591
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: your grandmother's ancestry in Africa. We found it in a

592
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: country that is known as Africa in miniature, because when

593
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: you go to this country, it has the same landscape

594
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: as every country found. You can find every landscape that

595
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: is found on the continent in this country. There's the

596
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: same diversity of foods, the same diversity of cultures. It

597
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: has both English and French as its official language, so

598
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: when you travel there, you will be able to communicate

599
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: with with some people in the country. And this country

600
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: is called Cameroon.

601
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 5: I know you're familiar.

602
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: With Cameroon because you've seen the laundry list of percentages.

603
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: But we went farther, so we're not saying Cameroon. Maybe

604
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: some part of Cameroon, maybe some part of Congo. Maybe No,

605
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: we found exact matches with your DNA, your father's maternal

606
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: mitochondrial DNA among the.

607
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 5: T Car people. The t Car people are people living

608
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,479
Speaker 5: in Cameroon today.

609
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 1: And what I love about the t Car people is

610
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: that they are the artists and the artisans of the culture.

611
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: So most many of the masks you'll see our t

612
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: Car masks, they had writing and printing before the appearance

613
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: of any white person to set foot on the country,

614
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: in the country or on the land in fact the

615
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: t Car So as a t Car person, you are

616
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: a descendant of the bay Mun kingdom, and the bah

617
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: Mun Kingdom has the oldest written manuscripts in the on the.

618
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 5: Continent of Africa. They have been writing for a very

619
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 5: very long time. There are a lot of other.

620
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it was called the boom on the b

621
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Speaker 3: A m o u n.

622
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 5: The ba Mun Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: And you are a t Car descendant, so the t

624
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: Car people t I k A R. You have so

625
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: many Cameroon cousins. The Cameroon is one of the countries

626
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: that we find results from the most often. So when

627
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: we're talking about t Car, we're talking about people.

628
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 5: Like Quincy Jones.

629
00:34:53,520 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: You're talking about people like Sheryl Lee Ralph. And then

630
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: in terms of Cameroon, like your broader Cameroonian cousins Taraji

631
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: p Henson. We trace to the MafA people living in Cameroon.

632
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: Erica Badu.

633
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 3: This Erica we related. Girl, I knew it. I knew.

634
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 3: I knew that it wasn't just Erica for no reason.

635
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: So this is information that is the same. You can

636
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: share this information with every single person who has descended

637
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: from your paternal grandmother or even her mother. The result

638
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: is the same for all of them.

639
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 5: Wow, the congratulations.

640
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 3: Excited.

641
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 4: I can't wait to do more research on the Tikar

642
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 4: people and the Bouman Kingdom bam Bamun, the Ba Moon Kingdom.

643
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 4: Hear that from a kingdom a slavey ship bitch.

644
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: I mean that's important when you when for American children,

645
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 2: our history begins at slavery, so you say psychological and

646
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 2: subconsciously you don't even think about how that resonates in

647
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 2: our spirits and like says, like you know, paves the

648
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 2: way for how we look at ourselves as literally everyone

649
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 2: in this country starts like history at slavery, and that

650
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 2: is damaging. No, And when.

651
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 4: You said kingdom and association with my lineage, it made

652
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 4: me feel even emotional. Yeah, I'm like, wow, I mean

653
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 4: I know I'm a queen. No, no, for sure, but

654
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 4: I mean I knew, but like from where? So wow,

655
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 4: that's that's so amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

656
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 4: thank you.

657
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: And speaking of Cameron, I have a great story about

658
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: a young he's a young man now.

659
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 5: His name is Julian.

660
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: He is the step stool chef on Instagram. He started

661
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Speaker 1: a business helping kids learn how teaching kids how to cook,

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Speaker 1: and so back when he was about nine, he was

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Speaker 1: at one of those international day at schools like you

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Speaker 1: talked about Nila, and they put a big map up

665
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Speaker 1: on the wall and told the kids to put a

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Speaker 1: pin in their country. And he went home to his

667
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Speaker 1: mother and was like, where am I supposed to put

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Speaker 1: my pen? So she got him a test and he

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Speaker 1: took it, and we traced him to the t car

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Speaker 1: people living in Cameroon and also the Booby people on

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Speaker 1: Bioko Island, and when I asked him how he felt,

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Speaker 1: he said, well, now I can put two pins in

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Speaker 1: the map, and he was just, you know, so empowered.

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Speaker 5: And then his little sister when she went to.

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Speaker 1: Participate in that, she had something, she had someplace to

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Speaker 1: put her pens. But taking it a step further, he

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Speaker 1: has incorporated a recipe for Cameroon Joel off Rice in

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Speaker 1: his cooking classes and his cooking instructions. So that's another

679
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Speaker 1: way that you can connect with your children about this

680
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Speaker 1: and about your ancestries, even through the food.

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Speaker 4: Right right, Wow, I mean god, it's so it's I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's not crazy, but it is a little bit like

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Speaker 4: how I guess tone deaf schools can be, right, and

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Speaker 4: just our society can be when it comes to those

685
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Speaker 4: type of activities for children and just in general and

686
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Speaker 4: even in the workplace. Like you said, it's like, are

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Speaker 4: you really you really asking me this? Like are you

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Speaker 4: like what? Yeah, it kind of feels that way. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: So Mila and Jamila, are you ready ready?

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Speaker 1: So, Mila, you took the test. So we've traced your

691
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Speaker 1: mother's mother's mother's mother's line and we found your maternal

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Speaker 1: roots among.

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Speaker 5: Two groups of people.

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Speaker 1: So we found the exact same matches in the country

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Speaker 1: of Nigeria among the Uruba people and the House of People. Wow,

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Speaker 1: so you had the House the House of State in

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Speaker 1: New Jersey in Nigeria.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, we're in a New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Coming in Nigeria is in the northern part of the country.

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Speaker 1: The Yoraba are in the southwestern part of the country.

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Speaker 1: But of course there's movement. You know, these ethnic groups

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00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: are cultural and social. They're not genetic, and so you

703
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: can have people in different groups that have the same genetics,

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Speaker 1: which is what has happened in your case.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So when we talk about the Yoraba, one of the

707
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Speaker 1: things that the Yuruba are well known for is their

708
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Speaker 1: spiritual system. This spiritual system has lived far beyond Nigeria.

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Speaker 1: They took us when they took Europa from Nigeria, they

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Speaker 1: took the spiritual system with them. And so you find

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Speaker 1: Euraba practiced in Brazil and Cuba and here and in

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Speaker 1: other Caribbean countries, and it's centered around the Aorishas, which

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Speaker 1: are different manifestations of God.

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Speaker 5: And so.

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Speaker 1: Yamaya is one of the Aorasias and I picked her

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Speaker 1: because she is the mother of all of the orisias,

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Speaker 1: and she is considered the source of all waters, and

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Speaker 1: of course water is what gives us.

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Speaker 3: Life, right.

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Speaker 1: And then among with the house of people, we're cousins because.

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Speaker 5: To the house.

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Speaker 1: And what I know for sure about the house of

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Speaker 1: which I mentioned is that they're all about business. Like

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Speaker 1: Nigerians tell me that there's nothing that happens in Nigeria

725
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Speaker 1: that's about business. If a house, a person's not involved.

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Speaker 5: The other cool things.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of kingdoms and queendoms, Queen Amina was a house

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Speaker 1: a queen and Queen Amina was so incredibly dope. And

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Speaker 1: one of the things that she sort of brought into

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Speaker 1: battle was the idea of armor. Of this of chain mail.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're familiar, but it looks like

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Speaker 1: an armor made out of chains like people wear it

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Speaker 1: now fashionably. But Queen Amina really ran things during her

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Speaker 1: time period. Of course, so you two have a connection

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Speaker 1: to a very powerful, powerful woman. You come from the

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Speaker 1: legacy of a very powerful woman in terms of your

737
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Speaker 1: cousins besides me. Let's see LeVar Burton. We trace to

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Speaker 1: the house of people. Remy Ma, we traced to the

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Speaker 1: house of people. I'll send you a list of the

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Speaker 1: other people both of you that you share, you know,

741
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Speaker 1: a common ancestry with your cousins, if you will. And

742
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Speaker 1: so the exciting thing about Nigeria is that it is

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Speaker 1: the most populous country in Africa. You see so many

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Speaker 1: people living in Brazil who are carrying on Nigerian traditions

745
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: because Brazil has the most Black people living outside of Africa.

746
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Speaker 1: And we have an African ancestry family reunion coming up

747
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Speaker 1: to Nigeria. So you'll be able to come with us

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Speaker 1: to Nigeria. Erico will be able to come with us

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Speaker 1: to a care maroon. Whenever you guys are ready to

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Speaker 1: make the voyage.

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Speaker 3: I already when the dates.

752
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 2: When the date, Okay, I'm going to get my outfits together.

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Speaker 2: I'll be there, Okay, just tell me one time.

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Speaker 1: And we talked about Fayla you know earlier. Nigeria is

755
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: very Nigerian culture is very prominent these days, with you know,

756
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Speaker 1: from Feli and Afrobeat to the current Robeat's artists, who

757
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: are you know, just burning up the charts, and so

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of African culture to celebrate in the

759
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: mainstream now and from both of your individual present day

760
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,760
Speaker 1: countries to celebrate as well.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I can't wait. I could call my mom.

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Speaker 3: Are you surprised?

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Speaker 2: I am? I mean, yeah, how would I know? But

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Speaker 2: I'm but I'm excited and I want to do my

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Speaker 2: dad's too, because now I'm really really curious. So thank

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Speaker 2: you for that information. I'm excited. Now I'm going home

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Speaker 2: to the motherland.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And thank you ladies, because it's you know, this

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Speaker 1: is you never know what the answer is going to be.

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate that you were willing to share this

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Speaker 1: experience with your listeners and with your family, and that

772
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Speaker 1: you trusted us because, in fact, I hadn't mentioned this before,

773
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: but we're the only company that does not sell or

774
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Speaker 1: share your DNA. In fact, we don't monetize it at all.

775
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: So now that you've taken the test, your your DNA

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Speaker 1: has been destroyed. And we may a strategic decision to

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00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: do that when we started the company, because we didn't

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00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: want fear of what we're going to do with someone's

779
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Speaker 1: DNA to keep them from the power of this information.

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Speaker 2: Do most do most of these type of companies not

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Speaker 2: destroy the DNA.

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Speaker 5: After Oh, absolutely so.

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Speaker 2: So in the fine print is definitely out.

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Speaker 5: But nobody reads the fine print going.

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Speaker 3: With her DNA. Who knows, girl, I mean maybe she does. Well.

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Speaker 1: I'm so Africa. The DNA of black people is extremely valuable.

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Speaker 1: I would argue it's more valuable than anybody else's DNA

788
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Speaker 1: because we because we are African, and there's so much

789
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Speaker 1: variation in the DNA of African people and African descendants.

790
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Speaker 1: And so if you can solve cure, a cure for

791
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: a disease, or solve a problem using a Black person,

792
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: then you've solved it for every everyone.

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00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 5: And so our DNA is.

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Speaker 1: Extremely valuable, and it is being researched, and it is

795
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Speaker 1: being shared, and it is being monetized. And that's why

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00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: other tests can charge ninety nine dollars forty nine dollars

797
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Speaker 1: because they're not making their money off the DNA. You're

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Speaker 1: paying them to tell you that you're from West Africa,

799
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Speaker 1: and then they're using it and monetizing it on a

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Speaker 1: whole other.

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00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 2: Scope, on a whole day market that you're not even

802
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 2: aware of and what specifically they're even testing for what

803
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: they're creating.

804
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Speaker 3: They're making so much more money on that back end.

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00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I would like to say that it

806
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: is important that we participate as black people, that we

807
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: participate in research for that very reason, because you can't

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00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: if you solve it for a white person, for example,

809
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: it won't necessarily work on us. So we need to

810
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: participate and we need to contribute. But you need to

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00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: be aware of what you're doing and feel comfortable that

812
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: you know what's being done with your genetic information. So

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00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: people go out there, participate in clinical trials with you know,

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00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: organizations that are credible, that you believe in. Don't shy

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Speaker 1: away from it, but just be informed. I guess what I'm.

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Speaker 4: Saying, Yeah, I guess when you put it in that

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Speaker 4: in that perspective, it does change the narrative of why

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Speaker 4: it is important for us to participate so that we

819
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Speaker 4: can heal not just the world, but ourselves. So like

820
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 4: when you're doing testing on other races, those and then

821
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 4: then they're cured, and then they give us that medicine

822
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Speaker 4: and then it doesn't work on us, and in fact,

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Speaker 4: it does the total opposite I mean that that makes

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Speaker 4: total sense, and I never even realized. I never associated

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Speaker 4: I guess those type of tests with race essentially, and

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Speaker 4: how one could be way more potent than the other.

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Speaker 4: I mean obviously I know that, like I know just

828
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Speaker 4: because I've been told, you know, with people tell us

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Speaker 4: black people we are this, we are that, we are that,

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Speaker 4: and we feel it, we feel that in our bodies

831
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Speaker 4: and our bones. But to hear it also to know

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Speaker 4: the science behind it too, I think is really important

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00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,839
Speaker 4: as well. I'm really excited because you guys have been

834
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Speaker 4: so gracious to us and our tribe. Here, African Ancestry

835
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Speaker 4: is giving away two tests.

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Speaker 3: And these tests they ain't cheap.

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Speaker 2: Girl.

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Speaker 3: You can go on the website and go check it out.

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Speaker 2: This is like a seven hundred dollars value. So you

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Speaker 2: need to put in look at the description, see what

841
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Speaker 2: the guidelines are. Submit your entry so you can understand.

842
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Speaker 3: Tell you the guidelines. The guidelines are.

843
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Speaker 4: You need to follow African Ancestry, you need to be

844
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Speaker 4: following Good Mom's Bad Choices on Instagram, and you need

845
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Speaker 4: to join our newsletter. Okay, so send a screenshot of

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Speaker 4: all those things and then dm us at Good Mom's

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Speaker 4: underscore Bad Choices to enter. We're also going to be

848
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Speaker 4: posting this on Instagram in case you forget, but follow

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Speaker 4: African Ancestry, follow Good Mom's Bad Choices and join our

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Speaker 4: newsletter Good Moms by Choices dot com and show us proofbaby,

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Speaker 4: because you deserve this, you really do.

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Speaker 2: It's important you deserve that gift to gift to your

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Speaker 2: kids as well. Yeah, thank you so much for this

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Speaker 2: information and for sharing and sitting with us and chatting

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Speaker 2: with us and telling the people. I think a lot

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Speaker 2: of us are going to make the move and invest

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Speaker 2: in knowing where we come from.

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Speaker 1: An overused African saying is that it takes a village.

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Speaker 1: But we really do appreciate your platform and being on

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Speaker 1: your platform to help help spread the word. We are

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Speaker 1: not a humongous company like the others, and we rely

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Speaker 1: on our people to help us grow.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for having me, no problem anytime.

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Speaker 3: Thank you and can where can they find you? Is

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Speaker 3: it Africanancestry dot com.

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Speaker 5: That's it African Ancestry dot com.

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Speaker 1: We're on all the socials as at African Ancestry and

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Speaker 1: we're on YouTube as African Ancestry DNA perfect.

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Speaker 4: Thank you doctor Paige for joining us, and I look

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Speaker 4: forward to hearing the results of whoever wins this giveaway.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah yeah, so thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Wow. That was amazing.

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Speaker 3: I am so happy. I'm so happy that African ancestry exists.

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Speaker 3: I'm so happy. Fuck ancestry do I honestly, because I

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Speaker 3: was out here telling people I was Nigerian. Its you Nigerian.

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Speaker 3: I'm not even Nigerian.

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Speaker 2: They lied And you know what, I also heard some

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Speaker 2: of those I've heard some of those, uh those other tests,

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Speaker 2: like are incriminating people in jail?

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Speaker 3: Oh oh, they're putting them into Oh wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we need to like stay away from them.

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Speaker 3: Well I don't. I mean, I'm not worried about.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not worried that, but you never know,

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00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 2: you never know what needs to happen on any given day.

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00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 2: I don't need anyone in my business just in case. Well,

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Speaker 2: I think it's terror time because I think the cards.

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Speaker 4: Need to come through and tell us speak through us,

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00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 4: speak through our ancestral lineage. So what did you pull?

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Speaker 4: So today I pulled a card I've never pulled before.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know this card existed. I pulled the

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Speaker 4: Hermit I have it right here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna pull up the other one. And I

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Speaker 2: pulled the world I love did that one?

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Speaker 4: So, the hermit says, soul searching, introspection, being alone in

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00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:17,800
Speaker 4: her guidance, this feels right on time. The hermit shows

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Speaker 4: that you are taking a break from everyday life to

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Speaker 4: draw your energy and attention inward and find the answers

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00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 4: you seek deep within your soul. You realize that your

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00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 4: most profound sense of truth and knowledge is within yourself

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Speaker 4: and not in the distraction of the outside world. You

901
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 4: leave behind the mundane to set off on a journey

902
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 4: of self discovery, led only by your inner wisdom and

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00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 4: guiding light. Now is the perfect time to go on

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Speaker 4: a weekend retreat. Hello, I'm actually going on a retreat

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Speaker 4: next week. Wow, on a sacred pilgrimage, anything in which

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00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 4: you can contemplate your motivations, personal values and principles and

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00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 4: get close to your authentic self. The hermit often appears

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00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 4: when you are at a pivotal point in your life

909
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 4: and considering a new direction. Through meditation, contemplation, and self examination,

910
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 4: and you may begin to reevaluate your personal goals and

911
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 4: change your overall course you will look at your life

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00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 4: with a deeper, more spiritual understanding, and a few of

913
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 4: your priorities will change as a result.

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Speaker 2: I think we did pull that before, because I'm amber meditation, contemplation.

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00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 3: No, that was a different car that said that.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 3: The last thing was when I was out there. I

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Speaker 3: think it was two of cups.

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Speaker 2: This next one is the World. It's a beautiful woman

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00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 2: and she's an only a sky with flutes flying in

921
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 2: the air, and it's completion, integration, accomplishment, travel, the World card. Wait,

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Speaker 2: let's see I described it. When the World card appears

923
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 2: in a tarot reading, you're glowing with a sense of wholeness, achievement, fulfillment,

924
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 2: and completion. A long term project, period of study, relationship,

925
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 2: or career has come full circle, and you're now reveling

926
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 2: in the sense of closure and accomplishment. This card could

927
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 2: represent graduation, a marriage, the birth of a child, or

928
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 2: achieving long held dream of ass inspiration. You have finally

929
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 2: accomplished your goal or purpose. Everything has come together and

930
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 2: you're in the right place, doing the right thing, achieving

931
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,879
Speaker 2: what you have envisioned. You feel whole and complete. Now

932
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 2: the World card invites you to reflect on your journey.

933
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 2: Honor your achievements and tune into your spiritual lessons. Celebrate

934
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 2: your successes and bask in the joy of having brought

935
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: your goals to fruition. All the triumphs and tribulations along

936
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 2: your path have made you into the strong, wise, more

937
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 2: experienced person that you are now. Express gratitude for what

938
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 2: you've created and harvested, and finally, make sure you don't

939
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 2: rush into the next big project. Celebrating your journey will

940
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 2: set you up for success when you are ready for

941
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 2: your next challenge.

942
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Speaker 3: Take your time.

943
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 2: I'll received that my birthday is going to be in

944
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Speaker 2: a few days, and just easeon. End thirty six, Just float,

945
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Speaker 2: float accomplishment.

946
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Speaker 4: Yes, stayed alive, You're healthy, You're successful, kept a baby alive.

947
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 2: How about that, Barley Barley ce, Oh my god, what

948
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 2: was she saying?

949
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 3: What was the thing she was yelling at?

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Speaker 2: I'm legally blind?

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00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 3: She said, like six she was She was like shouting

952
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 3: out a gang or some ship. She said something like.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't a streets sometime.

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00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 3: What she was saying, what was it?

955
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 2: Po? Po, P put it down, put it down, pop.

956
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 2: I'm legally blind. I don't even do it I can

957
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: barley see. I need to check on her where she at,

958
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 2: Probably in jail because she could barely see.

959
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 3: Bitch could see? Please pop put it is not legally

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00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 3: blind nothing.

961
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Speaker 2: I hope she got off. I hope YopE got her

962
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 2: ship together.

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00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 3: Oh my lord.

964
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Speaker 4: I love you, love you, and I love you love you.

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Speaker 3: Bye bye.

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Speaker 5: Record the lollas

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Speaker 2: And then they asked