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Speaker 1: First, to open the show, we have our segment of

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Speaker 1: K pop news and updates and what's happening in the

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Speaker 1: world of k pop. First, we're going to open with

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Speaker 1: the top five songs on the charts right now at

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Speaker 1: number five with countdown by TWS. Number four, we have

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Speaker 1: Drowning with woods pop Pop by NCT wish, number two,

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Speaker 1: Oh Really, by next is oh my gosh. Wait hold on, next,

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Speaker 1: there is there anything pronounced?

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Speaker 2: Next?

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Speaker 1: Well, they're number two right now, so they're killing it.

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Speaker 1: And I haven't heard this song yet, so I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go listen to it and I'm gonna learn how to

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Speaker 1: say your name.

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Speaker 3: Next.

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Speaker 1: Uh, that was number two with oh Really? And number

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Speaker 1: one we have chains with highlight and this is this

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Speaker 1: week's top five in k pop and also in the

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Speaker 1: latest K Pop News, Something shopping has happened so twice

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Speaker 1: is Santa or Sorry? Something shocking has happened twice? Asana

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Speaker 1: has gone on a SBS broadcast a variety show to

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Speaker 1: reveal that she has wanted to run away as a

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Speaker 1: training multiple times, to the point where she's packed her

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Speaker 1: bags and the way that she described it was. At seventeen,

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Speaker 1: she moved to Korea a load to pursue her dream.

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Speaker 1: Back then, I used to think about sneaking out in

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Speaker 1: the early hours. I even wondered how to quietly wheel

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Speaker 1: That that, to me, is absolutely insane. Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: the amount of stress that you have to be in

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Speaker 1: to get that far. This is like a little mini

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Speaker 1: Then next we have a former Signature member who reveals

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Speaker 1: that she was kicked out of the group's signature for

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Speaker 1: not losing enough weight. She revealed that the company's weight

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Speaker 1: and diet requirements for idols were extremely strict, which led

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Speaker 1: to her developing eating disorder, and she was eventually kicked

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Speaker 1: out after not meeting the evaluations. And it's very tough

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Speaker 1: and it's a very real thing that these idols have

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Speaker 1: later as well. Then we have kiss Up Life. We

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Speaker 1: covered this a couple of episodes ago, but recently they

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Speaker 1: held a live stream to celebrate member Julie's birthday where

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Speaker 1: they dressed in old school hip hop outfits. They wore chains,

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Speaker 1: and one of the members belt was named a little taco.

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Speaker 1: I am no expert in live streams, but that looks bad.

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Speaker 1: That looks really bad. I'm sure they were going coming

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Speaker 1: from a place in their hearts of cultural appreciation. However,

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Speaker 1: it came off as cultural appropriation and they were very

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Speaker 1: insensitive in the live stream. And unfortunately, the reason why

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Speaker 1: we bring it audit up again was because they were

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Speaker 1: very recently taken off of the lineup in kekon LA

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Speaker 1: Of musical influences from these eras and all these things,

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Speaker 1: and they take these things very seriously, and the crowd

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Speaker 1: was not enjoying their participation after this controversy, and therefore

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Speaker 1: they were moving the lineup after the YG leaker scandal.

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Speaker 1: It's just not the time. From my experience, I learned

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Speaker 1: that just because something seems funny in the moment doesn't

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Speaker 3: To think twice.

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Speaker 1: Growth comes from these kind of things happening. So I

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Speaker 1: I guess that's it, I said for K Pop News,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go straight into our episode. Thank you guys, Hello.

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Speaker 4: Ever buddy, and welcome back to The K Factor, everything

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Speaker 4: K Pop, voiced by Bomhan and today we're alive in

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Speaker 4: Industry City with a very special guest, Jackie Jingo.

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Speaker 3: Yes you actually MCD event I did. Yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: and you were like this huge, colorful, bright.

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Speaker 4: Light and they were introducing you and it was this

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Speaker 4: long laundry list of things, Alba, I want to be

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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, okay, Loki, that is a huge problem.

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Speaker 5: And I'm not gonna lie about Randy's intro for me,

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Speaker 5: I was just like it was.

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Speaker 3: Like two pages.

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Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, like we could have said three

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Speaker 3: That's amazing. Like I think, like I wish my intro

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Speaker 6: It will be.

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Speaker 7: It will be. I ain't even worried.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, for people who don't know me, Hi, my

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Speaker 5: name's Jackie Bmhan and I were actually just a part

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Speaker 5: of this amazing Asian American Heritage festival which was basically

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Speaker 5: put off by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and you

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Speaker 5: killed it. Honestly, it was so fun. Actually we said

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Speaker 5: your your nephew Ethan.

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Speaker 3: Oh Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Everything was I do an event in New York. My

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Speaker 8: Oh oh, I know, even's great. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 5: I immediately was like, okay, Ethan's a star, and I

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Speaker 8: But yeah, honestly, I'm like where do I start.

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Speaker 5: I'm an actor, content creator, I'm a host, I sing, I.

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Speaker 7: Do a bunch of different stuff. I've had a crazy career.

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Speaker 5: I started off as a broadcast journalist and was nominated

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Speaker 5: for an Emmy, and then I had this like complete

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Speaker 5: want to get into video game and anime hosting. So

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Speaker 5: I just picked up my life and moved to Los

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Speaker 5: Angeles and that has been what I've been doing for

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Speaker 5: several years now. So yeah, I stream on Twitch, I

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Speaker 7: It's like all you're you.

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Speaker 3: Know, you know the game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's been a crazy journey. And then I

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Speaker 5: NY name Go cross Ward, which is here in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 5: and the Brooklyn cham from Commerce was like, hey, when

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Speaker 5: you like to host this? And I was like, why

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Speaker 5: would I not want to come back to Brooklyn. So

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Speaker 5: that's on here and that's kind of my journey.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. I hosted E three. I don't know if you

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Speaker 5: E three was like the biggest video game convention in

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Speaker 8: It ended in twenty twenty one. But yeah, I mean

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Speaker 5: All the biggest video games would show up and like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, I know that.

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Speaker 7: What the heck?

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Speaker 8: Yes, I did in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 7: The last one, So that's incredible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: No, I'm like you, life is.

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Speaker 3: How long has his journey been for you?

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I'm thirty eight and I am just thirty eight. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: oh my god.

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Speaker 7: You know sunscreen super Bowl?

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you.

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Speaker 8: Don't don't sleep on sunscreen vidows.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, seriously, if it gets me where you are.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, thank you. Do not sleep on skincare.

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Speaker 5: That's all I'm gonna say. But I do think sunscreen

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Speaker 7: What was my cool?

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Speaker 3: Oh wait wait, I said, how long has this journey been?

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Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, I off of broadcast journalism for ten

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Speaker 7: I hated it.

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Speaker 5: Like TV news is super negative and just not fun.

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Speaker 5: And I had a pretty big family. Tragedy actually happened.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to let you bum me all out

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Speaker 7: And I was like, what are you talking about, dude.

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Speaker 7: I was like that, just like this is so insane,

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 8: It's I mean, look at you, look at what you're doing.

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Speaker 5: It's like, don't just take risks people like I wish

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Speaker 8: And I'm just like, dude, if anybody meets me, I'm

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Speaker 7: What do you want to do?

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Speaker 4: When I was listening to as story, like I kind

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Speaker 4: you know, like I'm only twenty three, twenty four ish. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and it's like I was like doing live streams and

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Speaker 4: It was just like just comfort like this this like whatever,

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Speaker 3: Like what would you say?

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Speaker 5: So I would say, literally, whatever is supposed to happen

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Speaker 7: Like fallow, let things happen, let things flow.

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Speaker 5: So it's kind of funny like you were like, okay,

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Speaker 5: you're doing a great job. So whatever supposed to play

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Speaker 7: Like just try because you never know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 7: That's my advice.

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Speaker 3: And I got to.

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Speaker 4: Meet you you. Thank thank you for coming on to

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Speaker 4: the show, thank you for for taking on this industry

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're amazing. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, I like we did like a quick interview and

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Speaker 5: I literally like just gave you like all the trauma

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Speaker 3: Like what the hell I am? I am honored that

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well you you have a bubbly open heart. And honestly,

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Speaker 5: like your fans came now and it was like rain

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Speaker 7: It's it's it's beautiful.

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Speaker 8: What art is?

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Speaker 7: Sorry, I'll be quiet now.

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Speaker 4: Thank thank you, thank thank you for today, for your energy.

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Speaker 3: Can you forgot me? What's in a cankor hold REMI

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Speaker 3: welcome back to the K Factor.

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Speaker 1: Everything K PAP was like, bohah, we're still here live

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Speaker 1: in this year city and we just came back from

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Speaker 1: a huge festival and this is no big man.

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Speaker 9: Randy himself, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sure and

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Speaker 9: Randy pierres On, President CEO here at the Brooklyn Chamber

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Speaker 9: of Commerce in Brooklyn, New York.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we.

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Speaker 6: Actually met an elevator in Lantatoria and it was like this,

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Speaker 6: this crossing of destiny is how I told my afterwards,

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Speaker 6: because in Lands, Georgia is this brandown business convention.

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Speaker 2: I had no business being there, by the way, and

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Speaker 2: I was there doing the podcast.

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Speaker 3: I see this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the group that was performing my my very

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Speaker 4: very clost to your friends go MAXX and then somehow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was you have stuff and then and

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Speaker 3: then it was like, oh you're from Brooklyn. I'm like

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Speaker 3: born and raised race. Okay, so I have so many questions.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what what inspired you to throw like a like

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Speaker 2: a Chinese American Heritage.

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Speaker 9: Asian American, Asian American heritage cheval and celebration. Uh so,

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Speaker 9: we really are celebrating almost all Asian cultures that are

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Speaker 9: And you know the beauty of Brooklyn, and you know

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Speaker 9: we've been exposed to so many different cultures throughout our

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Speaker 9: one family. And today we were really celebrating Asian American

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Speaker 2: We were bringing up all these people like talking about

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Speaker 3: I felt so empowerand how fast right, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 3: I called it the brook A diaspora too.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 9: One Americans can trace some of their family history back

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Speaker 9: we have been the landing place for immigrants, for immigrants

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Speaker 9: from all over the world. Alis Island is where they start.

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Speaker 9: Matter of fact, if you look out the window right

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Speaker 9: that's where Ellis Island is.

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Speaker 3: And people would be processed.

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Speaker 9: On Ellen's Island and then a lot of them would

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Speaker 3: So this is the second year of this event. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: So this is our second annual.

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Speaker 9: You know, we do other events throughout the year.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're the business Association for Brooklyn.

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Speaker 9: So our goal and our mandate is really to support

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Speaker 9: not easily run a small business in Brookland. You know,

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Speaker 9: we do Black History Month celebration and then for example

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Speaker 2: I can see that mission that you walk with and

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Speaker 2: it's like it's so honest, as so pure, and I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 2: as a listener, even as like myself, how can we

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Speaker 2: best support these things and can keep on doing addition

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Speaker 2: that they can see you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's a really great question.

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Speaker 9: So one of the things that I always like to say,

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Speaker 9: intentional about how you shop.

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Speaker 9: To sort of point, click and ship and it's convenient,

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Speaker 9: when you're very intentional and you go out and you

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Speaker 3: So you have to be very very intentional. So that's

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Speaker 2: So is there like a social media handle that they

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Speaker 2: follow you and it's had all these events.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Workland Chamber.

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Speaker 9: Our instagram is Brooklyn Chamber, and we're on Instagram, We're

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Speaker 9: For the book The Maid Stool, thank you, thank you, brother,

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Speaker 9: appreciate you, and I just want to say, like nothing,

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Speaker 9: everything else for a reason.

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Speaker 3: There are no accidents in this world.

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Speaker 9: And you know, our chance meeting literally in Atlanta, you know,

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Speaker 9: which we're very very grateful. I'm very very grateful that

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Speaker 9: It was a tough weather day, but you were here.

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Speaker 9: You're amazing, You're super talented, and I look forward to

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Speaker 3: Thank you, all right, thank you, thank you for inviting.

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Speaker 4: I say such an honor, and that is our little

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Speaker 4: segment here live from Industry City, and I'm very happy

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Speaker 4: just support small local businesses. So I hope that you

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Speaker 4: guys enjoyed these little interviews and can support these wonderful creators.

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Speaker 3: And there's our first live show, so hopefully you guys

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Speaker 3: can tune in next time and it'll be just as awesome.

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Speaker 3: So see you guys next week.