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Speaker 1: Hey listeners, Niminy here, host of Historical Records, get ready

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Speaker 1: to hear about a historical hero through hip hop.

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Speaker 2: Also, parents and teachers.

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Speaker 2: Now onto the show.

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Speaker 1: After a few words for the grownups Historical.

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Speaker 3: Records, you are now listening to Historical.

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Speaker 1: To make history, you got to have struggle to make history.

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Speaker 1: You got to show poise.

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Speaker 4: Cannot be quiet loud as a riot to make history,

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Speaker 4: you gotta make some noise.

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Speaker 5: Hey listeners, leave from the story Pirates and executive producer

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Speaker 5: of Historical Records here. One of my favorite things about

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Speaker 5: hip hop is to re listen to songs so that

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Speaker 5: I can analyze and hear all of the lyrics. The

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Speaker 5: words can sometimes come pretty fast and furious, so re

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Speaker 5: listening and close listening is essential to really appreciating these

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Speaker 5: incredible artists and the songs that we are so proud of. Today,

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Speaker 5: we have for you our two songs from this season

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Speaker 5: about New York City icons from the nineteen eighties, Keith

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Speaker 5: Herring and Willie Smith and guess.

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Speaker 2: What Keith and Willy even knew?

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Speaker 5: Each other in real life, it can be hard to

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Speaker 5: believe that in a city as big as New York

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Speaker 5: Is that two artists could meet and work together. But

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Speaker 5: on the other hand, I guess when you're as talented

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Speaker 5: as both Keith and Willy were, it was inevitable that

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Speaker 5: their paths would cross. Let's listen to our song about

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Speaker 5: Keith first. Some of the grown ups might recognize that

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Speaker 5: this song is kind of in homage to the Beastie Boys,

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Speaker 5: a group of iconic rappers also from New York City

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Speaker 5: in the nineteen eighties. And though maybe not everyone would

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Speaker 5: immediately associate Keith with the Beasties, they ran in the

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Speaker 5: same artistic circles in New York City and at the

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Speaker 5: same time, and they definitely knew and were inspired by

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Speaker 5: each other. And they're both super playful in their art.

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Speaker 5: And remember, Keith loved to listen to music when he

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Speaker 5: painted and drew. Music was super important to him. So

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Speaker 5: while you're listening to this song, I want you to

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Speaker 5: get out some paper and something to draw with. Then

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Speaker 5: draw as you're listening to the song, just like Keith

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Speaker 5: would have done. So if you need to, you can

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Speaker 5: press pause right now to go gather some art supplies

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Speaker 5: and then come.

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Speaker 2: Back and later.

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Speaker 5: If you want to follow along with the lyrics, which

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Speaker 5: I definitely recommend, you can find them at story pirates

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Speaker 5: dot com slash historical Records. After this first track, I'll

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Speaker 5: be back to point out a couple things I love about.

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Speaker 2: Our song, Willie Smith.

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Speaker 5: Here's Keith Herring enjoy.

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Speaker 1: You your sitting nineteen eighty subway station.

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Speaker 2: Filled with babies and not like the real ones. The

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Speaker 1: Figures that I grew out of joy carrying boarding red.

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Speaker 1: I like drawing, and I like sharing art with people.

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Speaker 1: Miss lay and see I say, I like drawing babies.

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Speaker 1: He tried art school did not complete me much.

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Speaker 3: Preferred hit how graffiti.

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Speaker 1: I wanted something real and something speedy, not for the risk,

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Speaker 1: but for the worm and art Larry and artrollary and

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Speaker 1: art just for art's sake, about play, art about being gay,

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Speaker 1: not for pay, art that I would give away one

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Speaker 1: day in the train station took some shock and begins creation,

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Speaker 1: no real plan and no design, just simple lines, frunk

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Speaker 1: from my high carrying board reading. I likedrawing, and I

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Speaker 1: like sharing art with people. Men and and did I say,

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Speaker 1: I like drawing.

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Speaker 2: Babies about his drawings. The folks were for Satin Island.

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Speaker 1: Shoot things to Flatfish Avenue. All the people like the

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Speaker 1: way I made Ah, that was the trigger I got bigger.

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Speaker 4: Now there's some moving for him to consider.

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Speaker 1: Like now I'm big, I'm higher up for more fault

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Speaker 1: now that a pop I'm the art.

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Speaker 3: Off the Warhall.

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Speaker 4: I'm friends with him now and JOm Michelle Bakiat.

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Speaker 1: But wait, stop, there's no need to name job one

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Speaker 1: more though. If I can break my own code, I

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Speaker 1: collapse with Willie Smith's ex episode Callaber's collector. It's all

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Speaker 3: Their breath, they say his arts elementary.

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Speaker 1: Haters, Hayden fake ers, facing What do I do? I

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Speaker 1: keep maz caring morning. I like drawing, and I like

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Speaker 3: B Yeah, maybe, he said, already is and Teller said,

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Speaker 1: It just a few other creature so silly as spaceship shoot,

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Speaker 2: Art has movement.

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Speaker 1: It's all about movements. Group of mutants I dropped my

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Speaker 2: School kids on the statue of Liberty.

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Speaker 1: One day, then the next I'm a libertine.

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Speaker 2: He's making history. I'm making up from.

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Speaker 1: Hate, but in a way to deliver me and the

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Speaker 1: viewer to a childlife fun. I dropped babies because we

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Speaker 3: To be One died when he was thirty one.

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Speaker 1: I dropped babies because we both used to be one.

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Speaker 4: Peeze carrying Vought in Redding.

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Speaker 1: I like drawing, and I like sharing art with peoples.

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Speaker 1: And did I say I like drawing babies? I keep

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Speaker 1: carrying born in Redding, But I liked drawing, and I

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Speaker 1: I mention I like drawing babies.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back after a few words for the

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Speaker 2: grown ups. Hey, Lee, here again, let's listen to Willie Smith. Now.

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Speaker 5: One thing you're gonna hear a lot in this song

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Speaker 5: is the phrase my joy, which seems to me like

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Speaker 5: something else that Keith and Willie had in common. They

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Speaker 5: both sought out joy through their art. So I want

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Speaker 5: you to use your art materials again for this song

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Speaker 5: and do some more drawing while you listen. Maybe, like Willie,

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Speaker 5: you can even design and draw some clothes while you listen.

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Speaker 5: Will the clothes that you design and draw be the

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Speaker 5: kind that all kinds of people can wear, like willie'swear?

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Speaker 5: How do the vibes of the song influence what you draw?

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Speaker 5: And how are the drawings that you do to Willy's song.

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Speaker 2: Different from the drawings you did to Keith's song? Why?

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Speaker 2: Remember you can find the.

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Speaker 5: Lyric sheet by visiting story pirates dot com slash historical records.

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Speaker 2: Enough from me, enjoy the song. Here's Willie Smith.

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Speaker 1: When people even name Willie Smith, I want them to

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Speaker 1: think that this is.

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Speaker 2: A person who.

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Speaker 4: Cares enough about them that he's taking the time to

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Speaker 4: design and create and think for them. Like all wellings

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Speaker 4: of America, I could tell you would say how I

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Speaker 4: was supposed to fail, but then I ended up sailing

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Speaker 4: with all the boats and whales. Before I was selling clothes,

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Speaker 3: It was so for real.

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Speaker 4: Grew up in Hilladel, had a little health, nope, a

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Speaker 4: lot of help. My mother and my father told me

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Speaker 4: to go for self. Got it to yourself, do your best,

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Speaker 3: But true freedom is the wealth.

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Speaker 4: Willie that's my name came in the game.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into all.

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Speaker 4: Of that, but for now, I'm saying I'm conveying my

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Speaker 4: joy struggle. My joy not different from so many other

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Speaker 4: black boys. And I knew there was a world that

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Speaker 4: was almost had a readership. But I had to learn

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Speaker 4: lessons that nobody could teach. Tablets full of design and

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Speaker 4: fabric colors. Your fashion is one thing, The style is another.

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Speaker 2: My joy, freedom to.

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Speaker 3: Love, imagine, brand new, but it's still blessing.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I made clothes. Yes, I love to sew. I

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Speaker 4: possessed the fashion that I ain't even know. I knew

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Speaker 4: I had to grow. And you know I loved Philly,

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Speaker 4: but New York City, Yeah, I knew I had to go.

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Speaker 4: My best decision him lines crafted with so much precision

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Speaker 4: you could see the fishing. A few people mentioned that

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Speaker 4: it wasn't up to snuff, but eventually everybody was loving

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Speaker 4: my stuff. My mind went to another place to create

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Speaker 4: something live, The colors more vibrant, my own little island

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Speaker 4: where I could spend time on the shore, getting close

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Speaker 4: to the source.

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Speaker 2: And I'm smiling now.

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Speaker 4: Got a new clothing line. Yeah, it's finally out. Will it, wear,

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Speaker 4: get it is, get it dead everywhere I swear. I

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Speaker 4: think back to the famous line clothes don't make the

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Speaker 4: man unless you're wearing mind my joy. The scene is overdone.

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Speaker 4: It's supposed to be fun. But how they want to

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Speaker 4: say so, let's.

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Speaker 2: Go on give them so.

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Speaker 4: I walked the line from the harle of Renaissan city

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Speaker 4: de boys a richer now for the culture. No decoys,

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Speaker 4: street bustle and loud crowd, sweet noise. These are the

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Speaker 4: things I mean when I speak joy. In twenty five

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Speaker 4: nail off designs, I chose so you can chill or

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Speaker 4: if you want to profile and pose. And I don't

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Speaker 4: make clothes for the queen. I'm making for the people

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Speaker 4: on the street who way better limousine. I did it

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Speaker 4: for us, those kids on the front, stupid beautiful ladies

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Speaker 4: who need a cute new suits. You don't have to

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Speaker 4: be safe to have taste. Make it oversize, plus neon,

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Speaker 4: green and ad lace whatever. I lived my life with

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Speaker 4: no regrets. Being true to myself meant more than my success.

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Speaker 4: I never claimed to be the greatest or the best.

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Speaker 4: I just wanted you to be well dressed. And it's

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Speaker 4: my pleasure.

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Speaker 6: Joy stretch your arms out as far as you can,

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Speaker 6: God hands right there where you stand.

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Speaker 5: Hey Lee again, thanks for listening. We'll be back again

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Speaker 5: soon with more episodes. In the meantime, grown ups, tell

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Speaker 5: a friend about the show. If you or your kids

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Speaker 5: are enjoying it, it really helps us a lot.

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Speaker 2: Bye.