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Speaker 1: he's he's really there's there's not really you can't. He

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Speaker 1: YouTube channels for rap battles. I'm quoting myself in that

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is the same what televised debates

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Speaker 1: I don't wanna. What they mean is they're not partisan.

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Speaker 1: That's what they mean by that. You know they don't

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Speaker 1: want to get into partisan politics, right, but you already know, well,

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Speaker 1: I know I'm never gonna vote Democrat. Or you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: I already know I'm never gonna vote Republican. There's no

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Speaker 1: way in the world I could support this party. Well,

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Speaker 1: then that's partisan. But this news might shock you that

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Speaker 1: half the voters in America if the polls had stand

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Speaker 1: up that like post stand up are undecided And monthly

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Speaker 1: reports from UH you could look at um. This is

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Speaker 1: called the World Population Review and in the Party Affiliation

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Speaker 1: on the Gallant Pole history, they're all saying this like

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Speaker 1: at least it's how many voters who identify as Democrat,

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Speaker 1: a Republican or independent is actually very surprising. In monthly

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Speaker 1: reports says on an average of more than of voters

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Speaker 1: identify themselves as independent. Now when you say independent, a

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Speaker 1: lot of times what they mean is undecided. Another investigation

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Speaker 1: I'm reading right here, this this section from World Population

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Speaker 1: Review dot com. It says, in many cases these numbers

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Speaker 1: can be viewed as undecided voters who may often choose

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Speaker 1: independent when in limbo. By contrast, the number of people

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Speaker 1: who claire as Republicans or Democrat typically hovers around yes.

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Speaker 1: That means voters who identify as independent voters outpaced both

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Speaker 1: those who declare themselves as Democrat and Republican. This is

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Speaker 1: what I'm telling you, They just loud. When I tell

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Speaker 1: you you in that room you're battling, you just got

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Speaker 1: loud cheerleaders. And that's what the Democrat and Republican parties

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Speaker 1: has convinced us is that they more of him. They are,

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Speaker 1: of course the most powerful, but they're not the most numerous.

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Speaker 1: It's really not that many of y'all in this room.

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Speaker 1: You just loud. These numbers aren't an abarition. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is all the statistics, go back all the way

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Speaker 1: to two thousand four. The thing is, we've let the

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Speaker 1: cap fool us, and they know it. This ship is

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Speaker 1: not set in stone. These people are out here trying

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Speaker 1: to recruit as many of the undecided as they can.

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Speaker 1: You know why because if you want their team, they

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Speaker 1: already got you. Because most of us have said what

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Speaker 1: we said, which is, I mean, I don't like this nigga,

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Speaker 1: But ain't nowhere in the world I'm voting for no Republicans.

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Speaker 1: You have already said that I don't like this nigga.

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Speaker 1: Ain't why in the world the important Democrat Because we're like, well,

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Speaker 1: if these are choices, and how many times have you

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Speaker 1: been in a conversation where you tried to critique one

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Speaker 1: side and then they'll go, well, well, well what about

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Speaker 1: these fools? And you're like, I'm not even talking about

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Speaker 1: them fools. I'm not saying they are any better. I'm

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Speaker 1: just critiquing this one thing. Well, it's either this or that.

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Speaker 1: It's like, dude, you know what they know is that

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Speaker 1: it's not we're in a two party system. But what

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Speaker 1: the numbers say? That blew my mind. So when I

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Speaker 1: look at these debates and I'm like, while y'all acting

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Speaker 1: like this eight man, you ain't gonna win, nobody turns

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Speaker 1: out I was wrong. There's somebody in the back that's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Danny kind of got a point there. So the question

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Speaker 1: really is that every politician is asking, and why you

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Speaker 1: put on these debates is how do you get your

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Speaker 1: hands on them independent voters? How do you get your

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Speaker 1: hands on him? Undecided? What do I need to tell you?

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Speaker 1: What do you need to see bad about the other side,

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Speaker 1: about the other person? How can I convince you there's

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Speaker 1: no third choice? How can I convince you that my

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Speaker 1: bars are greater than yours? So what I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: is I'm just gonna throw as many bars as I

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Speaker 1: can at you in these small bites and small clips,

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Speaker 1: and at least when you see us head to head,

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Speaker 1: you could be like, dangle, Yeah, he got a point there.

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Speaker 1: Dang he got a point there. That's why you air

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Speaker 1: these things. You air him for the news tomorrow, right,

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Speaker 1: So what does that mean to us? Here's what it

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Speaker 1: means to us. And this is what like I cannot

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Speaker 1: stress enough. It's that these people running for office are

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Speaker 1: more aware of the power you have than you are.

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Speaker 1: Let that sink in day, more aware of the power

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Speaker 1: that you have than you are. I used to battle rap.

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Speaker 1: I know what kind I know. I can spit. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I pound mix. I do a lot of like conscious

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Speaker 1: and uplifting and positive music. But if you need me

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Speaker 1: to just get my bars off. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: see propaganda. Your boy got bars. But I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: You sent me to battle down in New Orleans, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna lose because the crowd matters. You sent me to

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Speaker 1: battle down in Texas. I'm probably gonna lose. You know why,

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00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: because the crowd old matters. Yeah, these politicians know that.

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Speaker 1: So what I want you to know is, listen, I

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Speaker 1: don't believe our liberation is in the hands of any

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Speaker 1: of these political parties. I think a two party system

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Speaker 1: is our demise. It's and and it's because they're really

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Speaker 1: good at convincing us that there is only two parties.

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Speaker 1: You feel me. Oh look, look they talk about take

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Speaker 1: the streets. You talk about crips and bloods. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I grow with atos. There's a third option over here.

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Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. So the point I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to make is they would convince you that we are

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Speaker 1: the keys to your liberation. My answer is neither one

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Speaker 1: of y'all. All the keys to the liberation. The keys

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Speaker 1: to our liberation is realizing the power that we collectively

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Speaker 1: have as a community. They need what we got and

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00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: they know that more than we know that. You better

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00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: make these people sweat for your vote, make them earn it.

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Speaker 1: This let's let's let's make it a mile. Okay, get

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Speaker 1: up there and show me your bars. You're following me. Listen.

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Speaker 1: Our relationship with with the government. Listen, we're not friends.

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Speaker 1: There's something you want me stand up there and act

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Speaker 1: like we're friends. Nig We're not friends. This ship is transactional.

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Speaker 1: Like you understand what I'm saying, Like like it's a

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Speaker 1: T shirt on my website. I don't hate America. I

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00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: just the man she keeps your promises. You haven't made

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Speaker 1: promises to me. I need you to uphold your side.

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Speaker 1: Our relationship is transactional. Nigga, were not friends. So when

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Speaker 1: you get on this camera you want me to choose

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Speaker 1: you for your job, I need you to spit that heat.

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Speaker 1: And if you're gonna spit that heat, I need to

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Speaker 1: be able to see if you false flagging? Nigga, Is

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Speaker 1: you really about that? Is you're about I'm gonna run

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Speaker 1: your license? You really about that these streets? You're really

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Speaker 1: doing this ship you say you're doing. You understand what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Nigg Listen, I came in here at first,

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Speaker 1: change my mind. I may look like I'm on one side,

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Speaker 1: just like you make just like you can stand on

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Speaker 1: that crowd. Listen. There has been those other times in

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Speaker 1: my battle rap career too. You walk into the city,

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Speaker 1: you walk into this room, and then niggas just love

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Speaker 1: hip hop. So they may believe already because they ain't

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Speaker 1: heard me rap yet. You know that they boyfriends served

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Speaker 1: me and I'm listening they boy getting their bars off.

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Speaker 1: But there's a moment, probably any other athletes understand when

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Speaker 1: you realize in the middle of this game, oh You're

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Speaker 1: gonna win this. They can't. It's over. These fools can't

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Speaker 1: guard me? Are we were about to win this game? Like,

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Speaker 1: there is a moment. I remember those moments in battle

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Speaker 1: Rap where I was just like, after this dude did

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Speaker 1: his first round, I was like, oh, I'm a moth,

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00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: this fool. Oh it's going down, and watch me win

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Speaker 1: this crowd over watch. I've won crowds over It's not impossible,

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Speaker 1: it's just rare. You have to be listening. I had

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Speaker 1: to earn it. So my request to all of us

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Speaker 1: listening to this is, Okay, this ain't aight mile, but

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Speaker 1: maybe you can make it a mile. Make these fools

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Speaker 1: earn it. Did you know that on average? And do

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Speaker 1: your googles, maybe on average of registered voters actually vote.

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Speaker 1: You're hearing me? So who gets? Who get their choice?

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Speaker 1: Or the loud ones? They're not the most of us.

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Speaker 1: They just allowed it. Make these fools earn it. Little politics, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is here. Thing was recorded by me Propaganda and

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Speaker 1: East Low Spoil Heights, Los Angeles, California. This smug was mixed, edited, mastered,

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Speaker 1: and scored by Matt Ososki. I can totally say his name, guys,

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Speaker 1: it was it was a stick. He's won by Matt

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Speaker 1: now again because he got to some legal situations with

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Speaker 1: the name headlights. Y'all know, comment used to be called

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Speaker 1: common sense. You know, tip t I was tipped sometimes

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Speaker 1: it happened. Executive produced by the one and only Sophie

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Speaker 1: the one and only Gold Tips, Gold Tips d J

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Speaker 1: Shawn p. So y'all just remember listen every time you

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Speaker 1: check in. If you understand city living, you understand politics,

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