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Speaker 1: The Quest Love Show is a production of iHeart Radio.

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Speaker 2: Hey people, what's up?

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Speaker 1: This is Questlove, and this is the Quest Love Show,

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Speaker 1: of course, and our guest today is the one and

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Speaker 1: only Colin Kaepernick.

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Speaker 2: So here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: We taped this conversation earlier this month at Web Summit

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Speaker 1: in Qatar in front of a live audience. This particular

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Speaker 1: episode is shorter than the ones I'm usually known for.

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Speaker 1: It's not the you know, pat Nick Mammoth length Questlove conversation.

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Speaker 2: We sort of had a time limit on our hands.

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Speaker 1: But even within those boundaries, I'll say that I wanted

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Speaker 1: to approach Colin the way that I approach everyone who

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Speaker 1: comes on the Quest Loft sh We talked a little

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Speaker 1: bit about his childhood, how music played into his childhood

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Speaker 1: and the role that it plays in his life.

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Speaker 2: And it's also about the work that.

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Speaker 1: He's building now with the Know Your Rights camp and

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Speaker 1: a storytelling platform. Loomi and Kylin and I had connected before,

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Speaker 1: kind of during the heat of the action. Unbeknownst to me,

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Speaker 1: he's kind of adjacent in the neighborhood see him and

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Speaker 1: nessa like kind of around the area. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it never seemed like the right moment for us to

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Speaker 1: sit down and break bread and really have a proper conversation.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very happy that he made time to do

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Speaker 1: this for us, since we were both in Qatar during

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Speaker 1: this time period. But you know, it was great to

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Speaker 1: sit with him in that space. You know, the space

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Speaker 1: was like a very large space in front of audience,

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Speaker 1: you know, a couple thousand people, and so it wasn't

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Speaker 1: as sentitimate as normal episodes are, but still, you know,

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Speaker 1: the energy was the same. And this is definitely not

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Speaker 1: our last conversation, Like we just scratched the surface. So

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Speaker 1: what you're going to hear is a snapshot, but you

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Speaker 1: know it's one worth sharing beyond the large room of

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Speaker 1: people watching us and guitar and as we honor Black

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Speaker 1: History Month on the Quest Left Show this month and

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Speaker 1: every month, Collins definitely someone that we.

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Speaker 2: Continue to talk to in the future.

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Speaker 1: He definitely does the work and he represents conviction, sacrifice

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Speaker 1: and a commitment.

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Speaker 2: To activating change. All right, so I hope you enjoy

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Speaker 2: this guys.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so welcome to the Web Summit.

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Speaker 1: My name is Amir Thompson, otherwise known as Quest Love

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Speaker 1: and shout out to my iHeart family out here, and

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Speaker 1: I thank our guests for receiving us that website.

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Speaker 3: I'm here for a very small sampling.

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Speaker 1: Of what I do on the podcast, and we're deeply

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Speaker 1: on it to have the one and only Colin Kaepernick

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Speaker 1: with us today.

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Speaker 2: How you doing.

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: So if you followed my career, you know that I

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Speaker 1: entered this business thirty years ago as a musician as

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Speaker 1: a DJ, and in the last five years, I've been

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Speaker 1: doing everything well not but that, but in addition to that,

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Speaker 1: so I'm about storytelling and books and movies and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: And so basically our guest today has the same trajectory.

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Speaker 1: Basically started out athlete, became a revolutionary activist and is

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Speaker 1: now a storyteller helping others with the New Year Rights

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Speaker 1: Camp and also with Loomi, your app. So we're going

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Speaker 1: to ask you a few questions and our limited time here,

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Speaker 1: I would like to know what is your morning routine?

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Speaker 1: What is the first thing you do in the first

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Speaker 4: First thing waking up always shower. That has to be

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Speaker 4: to wake up, okay, and the part for me because

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Speaker 4: wake up at four point thirty by five o'clock, I'm

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Speaker 4: training so that shower hot shower to be able to

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Speaker 4: get everything moving ready to go. And then that last

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Speaker 4: thirty minutes I'm into my workout routine. So hit the

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Speaker 4: then take everything else from there.

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Speaker 1: So without fail, training as is always the first thing

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Speaker 1: in your morning, no matter what.

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Speaker 3: If you don't do it, are you thrown out a whack?

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Speaker 4: Or oh I feel so off if I don't do it,

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Speaker 4: almost like my body reacts' is like, oh, we don't

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Speaker 5: Then so God starts the day with a workout.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is kind of a frothy question about your childhood.

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Speaker 1: What television show would best describe what your childhood was like?

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Speaker 4: Ooh, I would say Colin in Black and White is

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Speaker 4: the best one that we made created. But beyond that,

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Speaker 4: You know, we're always looking at how we could be superheroes,

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Speaker 1: Okay, so even then you were sort of manifesting or

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Speaker 1: see what your future was going to be. Even in

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Speaker 1: your childhood, what secret talent of yours do you have

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Speaker 4: It's a great question. Most my talent has been primarily

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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball coming out of high school. Okay, so

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Speaker 4: baseball is an area that had a lot of talent

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Speaker 4: in Unfortunately, I did not get any music talent.

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Speaker 5: So I'm gonna leave that up to you. You can

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Speaker 1: This year, twenty twenty six, of course, mark's the ten

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Speaker 1: year anniversary of like your life pivot and to activism.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you famously standing up for justice for those

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Speaker 1: without a voice. I always wanted to know. So for me,

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Speaker 1: music is such an integral part of my life. But

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Speaker 1: during that time period ten years ago, what was the soundtrack?

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Speaker 1: Song that got you through that period, especially when you

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Speaker 4: So interesting enough, during that time period, I actually had

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Speaker 4: a soundtrack all wife Nessa. She obviously works Hot ninety seven,

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Speaker 4: so she's been in the music industry for a long time, right.

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Speaker 4: She knew a lot of my favorite songs, a lot

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Speaker 4: of my favorite speeches, so she put together a playlist

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Speaker 4: for me, that was my favorite songs and favorite speeches.

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Speaker 4: That was like revolutionary music cut up and that was

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Speaker 4: my pregame playlist for that entire season really, So that

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Speaker 4: was everything from POC changes and Holler if You Hear

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Speaker 4: Me to Malcolm speeches and Ali all of those innercut.

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Speaker 1: Is there one song in particular that makes you always

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Speaker 4: So this fall is a little bit out outside of

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay that it's your adrenaline.

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Speaker 5: It's all adrenaline.

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Speaker 4: You can put that off for any workout, any pregame.

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Speaker 3: It works in any age.

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Speaker 5: His voice, his energy, like you could run through a wall.

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Speaker 3: I got you.

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Speaker 1: I always wanted to know when you do an active

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Speaker 3: Are you big on meditation?

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Speaker 1: It's something that you ponder on an hour before, like,

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Speaker 5: I think a few different places.

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Speaker 4: One knowing that you have people around you that love you,

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Speaker 5: The other is doing the right thing. There's a.

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Speaker 4: Morality, an integrity, a sense of obligation to do the

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Speaker 4: then it's an area that kind of forces you to action.

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Speaker 4: And for me, that was a huge piece. And the

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Speaker 4: third piece I think about is something that your first

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Speaker 5: Was not a major one.

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Speaker 4: It's trying out for a team knowing you might get cut,

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Speaker 4: it's trying to lead a team knowing they may not

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Speaker 4: these actions that may seem daunting. Like probably the first

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Speaker 3: Well? I tend not to think about it and I

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Speaker 1: But I think later in my career became there was

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Speaker 1: a period where I started to overthink. And when you

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Speaker 1: start overthinking, I think that's where pure artistry leaves, because

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Speaker 1: you know, you're supposed to do things spontaneous, not you know,

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Speaker 3: You so exactly.

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Speaker 4: So all that's say, like just the practice of doing

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Now, if I'm scared or fear, like even

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Speaker 1: I always wanted to know was there a figure during

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Speaker 4: So a few people that come to mind. The first

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Speaker 4: meet was Malcolm X. Like reading the autobiography of Malcolm

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Speaker 4: that a lot of that history, a lot of his

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Speaker 4: autobiography was life changing. Ali was another huge influence there

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Speaker 4: looking at his ability to stay steadfast in moments where

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Speaker 4: specifically the US attacking him, stripping him of opportunities and

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Speaker 4: that actually got to spend time with was mister B

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Speaker 4: ask him so like, what would you do in this situation?

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Speaker 4: What are your thoughts here? And what was most interesting

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Speaker 4: to me? He would never give me an answer, but

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Speaker 4: he would tell me a story about an experience he

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Speaker 4: had that was related.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And it.

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Speaker 4: Was one of those moments that I will walk out

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Speaker 4: was like, I just want the answer, like I need help.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure this out. I need to take

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Speaker 4: action now. But he's forcing you to see it yourself,

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Speaker 4: and he's forcing me to walk that path myself, as

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Speaker 4: opposed to saying, well, here's the path I walked, walk

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Speaker 4: because it forced me to grow in ways that otherwise

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Speaker 4: wouldn't have got you, what is the best advice you

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Speaker 4: ever received? The best advice I actually think about it

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Speaker 4: comes from a poster I had hanging on my wall

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Speaker 1: Okay, I was just going to ask you if you

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Speaker 1: had a childhood poster in your bedroom, what was it?

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Speaker 5: But ah, what was to I'm getting two pieces here.

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Speaker 1: There it is Colin Kaepernick, Ladies and gentlemen, my name

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Speaker 3: It's the Quest Love Show. Thank you our family at

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm still recovering after the quasi beat down I

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