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Speaker 1: Calls media. All right, a lot of firsts happened, and

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Speaker 1: first that we should absolutely be thankful for first Muslim,

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Speaker 1: first South Asian, like truly truly progressive young It's kind

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Speaker 1: of dope to see, like, oh, man, there's an elected

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Speaker 1: official whose parents are still alive and could come to

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Speaker 1: a thing. It was so cute seeing zoron Mom Dottie's

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Speaker 1: parents show up at his inauguration. That's got it or

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Speaker 1: not his inauguration as acceptance, Like that's dope. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's dope to see the thing. And obviously I have

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Speaker 1: the same fear I had. You know, when we elected

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Speaker 1: our first black president. You just think, oh, somebody gonna

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Speaker 1: kill him. And I mean some of it that just

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Speaker 1: has to do with the reality of racism, like this

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Speaker 1: is just our experience, you know, But there are things

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Speaker 1: to celebrate. Now, Can this man pull off all the

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Speaker 1: things he promised? I probably not, but I think it'd

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Speaker 1: be sticked to one or two of those. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a it's a good day. You know.

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Speaker 1: Have we reached the pros racial society? Uh? Are we

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Speaker 1: on our way to the progressive bastion of society? To

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Speaker 1: where class gender and race are truly defeated, and we

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Speaker 1: can move into just living a beautiful humanity. Ask my

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Speaker 1: black panther father, Ask them kids in Gaza. The marathon continues,

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Speaker 1: tap in with me, So what's up, y'all? And this

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Speaker 1: tap in I'm gonna cover a number of things. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate y'all who supported the beautiful endling. I did not

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Speaker 1: get the Grammy nod. And you know, even in the album,

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Speaker 1: if you was following it, the concept of the three

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Speaker 1: parts of the poem almost where I realized almost was

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Speaker 1: like my bully, you know, and something that I've been

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Speaker 1: very frustrated about that haunts me, and this was another

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Speaker 1: moment of that, you know, and you rage against it.

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Speaker 1: The concept of it was you rage against that almost

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Speaker 1: as an attempt to slow down atrophy, right, but as

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Speaker 1: the if you were listening to the album, as the

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Speaker 1: point of that poem is trying to make, is that

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Speaker 1: slowing down atrophy only accelerates it. Right. For me, it

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Speaker 1: was workaholism, overworking you know, you you you you. You

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Speaker 1: put yourself into this frenetic, never ending pursuit of excellence

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Speaker 1: and I feel like I put out one hell of

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Speaker 1: an album. But it was in a lot of ways

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Speaker 1: me fighting back against this bully. Almost Part three was

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Speaker 1: this understanding that like, oh, that's all I was doing.

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Speaker 1: I was just trying to slow down atrophy, and slowing

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Speaker 1: down atrophy only accelerates it. So I say that about

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Speaker 1: this success that some of us in this progressive world

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Speaker 1: may have seen in this In this November sixth election, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, California was down to fight back and was like, look, dude,

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Speaker 1: like we gone, We're gonna readistrict because I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: keep playing with y'all. We elected somebody in such a

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Speaker 1: sweeping way in New York that feels like the same

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Speaker 1: tiers of joy I remember feeling with Obama. It's probably

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Speaker 1: the same tiers of joy that the completion of the

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Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act might have been. Where you have these wins,

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Speaker 1: these real true wins. But if I could, if I

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Speaker 1: could tap in into my church bag, we see in

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Speaker 1: part and we prophesy in part, it's still an almost.

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Speaker 1: And if you think that this is it that we

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Speaker 1: have we have finally turned this corner, the let down,

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Speaker 1: the disillusionment, the pain of almost is going to haunt you.

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Speaker 1: This is what happened in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Speaker 1: You know, during the Occupy Wall Street thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: that became proud boys, they became Nazis, They became disillusioned

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Speaker 1: because your revolution did not complete itself. So what I'm

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Speaker 1: saying is, let us celebrate our wins, but let's remember

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Speaker 1: the ancestors see. This is the wisdom that I feel

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Speaker 1: like comes from being tapped in to my blackness, being

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Speaker 1: tapped into my ancestry, is to understand that we're running

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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of years of divide and conquer and

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Speaker 1: that power just doesn't let itself go. There are slow moments,

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Speaker 1: it's a fight. There are moments of celebration. I almost

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Speaker 1: We can celebrate a moment. This is a great moment

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Speaker 1: trying to get to y'all. Across the world, one in

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Speaker 1: you mean we've made it? What like now? I say

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Speaker 1: this to not be a Debbie downer. I say this

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Speaker 1: This is an endurance test. Margaret, our beloved Margaret killed Joy,

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Speaker 1: don't be killing Joy. Magpie. Magpie is just a wonderful

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Speaker 1: human being, posted on her social media. The victory of

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Speaker 1: our progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring

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Speaker 1: for one another, building a better world. It's not the

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Speaker 1: goal of our work. Do you do you hear the

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Speaker 1: wisdom coming from from from the veteran here. What the

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Speaker 1: wisdom that is saying is the goal was not a

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Speaker 1: new candidate. The goal was us caring for each other

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Speaker 1: and having that be reflected in our candidates. The goal

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Speaker 1: was always serving each other. The goal has always been terraforming,

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Speaker 1: building a better world. The candidate is a byproduct of

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Speaker 1: us being who we know we need to be You

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Speaker 1: follow me, so listen, listen to listen to the late

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Speaker 1: great Nipsey Hustle. The marathon continues. The work still continues,

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Speaker 1: Soudan Congo, hail ice raids. We still got work to do.

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Speaker 1: Let's be happy, Don't get me wrong, Let's be happy.

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Speaker 1: But the happiness that we celebrate is the fact that

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Speaker 1: our morals are being reflected in the candidate, not the

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Speaker 1: candidate being elected. It's a nuance, but it's in important.

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Speaker 1: Let's continue to lock arms. Let's continue to make sure

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Speaker 1: that once once my bread Bruh gets in office, that

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Speaker 1: he continues to be the person we believe he is.

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Speaker 1: Let's multiply this across the country. And it's not so

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Speaker 1: much about again progressive views. It's about caring for one another.

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Speaker 1: Y'all you feel me? Stay tapped in with your boy now. Lastly,

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Speaker 1: I want to play. Matt drop this in the final

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Speaker 1: poem of the Beautiful Endling album, which did not get

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Speaker 1: a Grammy nomination. His poems called almost Part three against

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Speaker 1: Maybe I do know what happened to David. He ain't

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Speaker 1: go extinct after all, because evolved. It's me. Well, I

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Speaker 1: guess I did fear David, but in the way that

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Speaker 1: we often fear what we know we are becoming. Turns

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Speaker 1: out I understood him quite well. Why is almost so

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Speaker 1: exist in the same body. I guess I feared extinction

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Speaker 1: in my Workaholicism, where all my actions were just an

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Speaker 1: attempt to slow down atrophy, as if God is not

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Speaker 1: one of the funniest people. Slowing down atrophy only accelerated.

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Speaker 1: That's your problem, David, you your problem. So here we are.

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Speaker 1: I am David staring down the reality that I am

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Speaker 1: the last of those who played outside without the hint

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Speaker 1: of a push notification. I am the last of the

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Speaker 1: pre internets, the Dodo birds of AI and quantum computing.

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Speaker 1: But I can be the warm Wi Fi vinyl record

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Speaker 1: that teaches these m P three's that there is more

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Speaker 1: than virality. You know. It turns out you can ask

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Speaker 1: an end link of anything you want. Go look in

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Speaker 1: a mirror,