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Speaker 2: All right, guys, Welcome back Episode twenty nine. This is

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Speaker 2: an extremely special episode for us because we are going international, right,

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Speaker 2: We're going international vir content. As we said before, a

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Speaker 2: lot of people you know, always access for stuff outside

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Speaker 2: idea and we're gonna touch Mother Africa, the continent.

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Speaker 3: We got a large fan base out there, yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2: So before I start, I wanted to shout out all

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Speaker 2: of our international listeners. We are trending on the top

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Speaker 2: charts and a lot of different companies countries Canada, South Africa, Mosambique, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Grenada, Barbados, Barswana, Jamaica, UK,

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Speaker 2: DR the Netherlands and Trinidad. They say Tanzania, I think

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Speaker 2: I said Tanania. So yeah, shout out to you guys

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Speaker 2: man that we really appreciate you. You know, coming from America,

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Speaker 2: coming from New York, who knew that somebody in South

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Speaker 2: that just goes to show you the power of the Internet.

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Speaker 2: And in Great Britain too, Oh yeah great. But well

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Speaker 2: we're gonna do something in London.

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Speaker 3: Ye, A lot of people from London always asking us

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Speaker 2: Toronto and London are two biggest international markets, so you

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Speaker 2: know that's special. But we know everybody else and it's

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Speaker 2: our listeners, probably in Toronto and UK, they're immigrants on

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Speaker 2: it's all a melton pot. It all mixes together. So

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Speaker 2: we have a very familiar guest if you listen to

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Speaker 2: It's pushing a double hitter. It's qucially the double header

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Speaker 2: for us first, y'all, so welcome back having me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, we did a wardrobe story. It was too long.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, all right, so we're going to talk about Africa. Right.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about a lot of different things in Africa,

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Speaker 2: but first we're going to talk about something that started

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Basketball is a global sport. If anybody is not familiar,

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Speaker 3: As most young people in our community.

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Speaker 2: Yes, right, so now my son has to live up

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Speaker 2: So so, but the NBA is strategically spreading its wings

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Speaker 2: If you know anything about sports, you know soccer is

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Speaker 4: they do it to China exactly right, right, And then

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Speaker 4: right right, Like that's our export. Whereas sports like baseball

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Speaker 4: right right. Like and same thing with American football. They

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Speaker 2: So you you used to work for NBA League pass right,

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Speaker 3: That has some other teams. But let's say you live.

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Speaker 5: So now you can watch all the games on your app,

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Speaker 3: So I was on the team that was responsible.

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Speaker 5: For growing the Digital plaf Digital League Pass outside the

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Speaker 3: But for the what they saw the future growth.

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Speaker 5: From was was Africa for two reasons, not only from

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember, I'm a huge Bulls fan.

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Speaker 4: So I remember Lou Dang, right, and he's doing some

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Speaker 3: But like you know, he's doing stuff with Nipsey's partner.

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Speaker 2: So like, what was the plan do you know, like

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Speaker 5: So there's I mean there's always been relationships. You mentioned

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Speaker 5: You had new Ball, his son just got drafted exactly.

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Speaker 5: Right, so you know those old players always had philanthropic

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Speaker 2: So a lot of people asked the question. I wasn't

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you know or not, but the teams,

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Speaker 5: Like you said, there are already leagues, they just haven't

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so Iroco is Aroco TV is the is a website.

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Speaker 4: So Netflix itself, right, he said, it's the Netflix of Africa.

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Speaker 4: So that's so they're literally watching the world as it's

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Speaker 3: And uh, it was too early. It was too early.

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Speaker 3: Like that's when like Whisky was doing songs with Drake

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Speaker 5: So and it's it's it's it's it's crazy. I mean

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Speaker 2: Africa of course, you know, as far as the drums

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Speaker 2: of course, and you know all of that stuff. So

442
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Speaker 2: you know, it's not surprised that it's popular because it's

443
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 2: always been popular, just not it wasn't framed in that way,

444
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 2: right right, So like you said, it sounds like reggae,

445
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 2: but really probably the reggae comes from that originally.

446
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Speaker 3: Like you know what I'm saying, So like jazz and.

447
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Speaker 5: What's fluid ben because people out there love reggae, people

448
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Speaker 5: out there love even Haitian music. White Clefs is huge

449
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Speaker 5: over there in Africa. Like I go, like, you know,

450
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Speaker 5: I that's why Cleves young. They might be the young. Yeah, exactly.

451
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Speaker 5: My you know, my my in laws are from Nairobian.

452
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Speaker 5: I go over there and like I go and I

453
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Speaker 5: listen to I'll be at a restaurant and then the

454
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Speaker 5: server would have a Jamaican wristband. I'm like, you've been

455
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Speaker 5: in Jamaica, Like you know, I've been you know, from

456
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Speaker 5: I mean Haitians, back from Queen So like, I've always

457
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Speaker 5: been around Jamaican's.

458
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Speaker 3: I've been in Jamaica many times.

459
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Speaker 5: And so I was like, oh, where you from in Jamaica,

460
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Speaker 5: Like what are you doing here in Narobi And They're like, no,

461
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Speaker 5: I've never been in Jamaica.

462
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Speaker 3: I just love reggae culture. Culture. The culture is huge, right,

463
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Speaker 3: and so yeah, it's kind of gone back.

464
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Speaker 5: So definitely, I do believe although reggae has African rules,

465
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Speaker 5: I think the afrobeats learned from reggae too.

466
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

467
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Speaker 2: And even I mean it's all cross because even if

468
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Speaker 2: you go to Jamaica, you see a lot of flags

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Speaker 2: Shout out to the rosters. Yes, yes, yes, so you

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Speaker 2: know it's it's it's all. It's all connected for sure.

522
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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this as far as the

523
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Speaker 2: music scene, because you know the music is blowing up,

524
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Speaker 2: do they have record labels in Africa or are those

525
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Speaker 2: artists being signed to like American labels.

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Speaker 5: So they have record labels, but most of the people

527
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Speaker 5: that you see successful here are they have affiliations with

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Speaker 5: US record labels. And that's that's what's helped quite a

529
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Speaker 5: you know, actually the individual that ran that division at

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Speaker 5: the company I was at here, he left and went

532
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Speaker 5: to Sony Music. So like the that at that time,

533
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Speaker 5: they realized that it was heating up and they started

534
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Speaker 5: putting people on the ground to kind of pull that

535
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Speaker 5: talent in and be that that in between. So yeah,

536
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Speaker 5: so for the most the people that you see now

537
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Speaker 5: and having success. They're backed by US powerhouses.

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Speaker 4: So even then, even at that venture in Iroco, your

539
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Speaker 4: job was to do the analytics, right, yeah, so what.

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Speaker 3: Type of things are you looking for? Like sure, sure,

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Speaker 3: so yeah, So it was a lot of things.

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Speaker 5: So the analytics were mainly analytics that you would see

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Speaker 5: on any digital platform. So I was responsible with looking

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Speaker 5: at the website, seeing where people were coming from and

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Speaker 5: use that information to figure out what the best marketing

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Speaker 5: campaigns were. Like you would see if people came from Google,

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Speaker 5: people came from an email, people came from Facebook. I

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Speaker 5: would look at also what people do on a website

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Speaker 5: to see whether we should do things to the website

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Speaker 5: that would make the navigation a lot easier. And then

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Speaker 5: from a content perspective, the cool thing about digital content

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Speaker 5: you could put numbers behind actually the amount of people

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Speaker 5: that were playing a certain piece of content, and then

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Speaker 5: I could go to the content team and they're like,

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Speaker 5: all right, drama movies are on average played twenty five

556
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Speaker 5: percent more on our web site. Therefore drama movies are

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Speaker 5: more viable. So they would use that information to go

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Speaker 5: to the negotiation table to decide what content to renew,

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Speaker 5: what to buy and et cetera.

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Speaker 3: The numbers guy.

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Speaker 2: All right, So in the next seven we're going to

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Speaker 2: talk about a few other things. And the question that

563
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 2: everybody asks anytime that we post anything about Africa is

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Speaker 2: it's China behind it, Chinese influence. So we're gonna talk

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Speaker 2: about Chinese influence in Africa a little bit. We're gonn

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Speaker 2: talk about some other things as well, So be right

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Speaker 2: back with that, all right. So one of the things

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Speaker 2: that everybody always comments, so anytime we post anything about

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Speaker 2: Africa is like the Chinese behind it, was Chinese involved

570
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Speaker 2: with So anybody's not familiar China. And it's not just Africa,

571
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Speaker 2: it's all over the world, right, Jamaica heavy and heavy influence.

572
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Speaker 2: China has a heavy influence in Jamaica and they also

573
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Speaker 2: have a heavy influence in Africa.

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Speaker 3: A lot of countries in Africa, the continent.

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Speaker 5: They really have a China has been involved in Jamaica

576
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Speaker 5: for a long time. Jamaican billionaire. Yeah, Chinese. Yeah, it

577
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Speaker 5: bugged me out the first time. I really I ain't

578
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Speaker 5: really I saw somebody that was Chinese, but they was

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Speaker 5: talking in Jamaican accents.

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Speaker 2: Why, but it's a lot of people in Jamaica. It's

581
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Speaker 2: a very diverse country.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my grandparents Jewish, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: So like when I heard both of your grandparents, my grandfather.

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Speaker 4: So when I when you see them on TV, talk

585
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Speaker 4: like my mom, my mom's last made The name is Twari,

586
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Speaker 4: which is a Jewish diamond company in Jamaica. So like

587
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 4: when I sold on TV, it's like bugs me out.

588
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Speaker 4: I'm like, wait, they don't look like us. They sound

589
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Speaker 4: just like us though it.

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Speaker 3: Is we It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: So all right, can we talk about that Chinese influence

592
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Speaker 2: in Africa?

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Speaker 5: China obviously, you know, since they kind of you know,

594
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Speaker 5: they're still communists kind of, but over the last whatever

595
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Speaker 5: three or four decades, they've embraced capitalism and it's been

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Speaker 5: with the aggression. The level of wealth that's being created

597
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Speaker 5: there is immense, level trade is immense, and with that

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Speaker 5: they want to be a world player, right, and to

599
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Speaker 5: be a world player you have to, you know, put

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Speaker 5: stakes in other places. And they see Africa as a

601
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Speaker 5: place that's been ignored by the Europeans, the US, et cetera.

602
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Speaker 5: And there's a lot of opportunity and the way they're

603
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Speaker 5: doing it is by using.

604
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Speaker 3: Financial capital as well as human capital. Right.

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Speaker 5: So what they there's a lot there's a lack of

606
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Speaker 5: infrastructure across the continent. So what they're doing, they're going

607
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Speaker 5: to countries and they're saying, hey, we'll build a new

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Speaker 5: highway for you, we'll build a new bridge for you,

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Speaker 5: we'll build a new factory for you. But you know,

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Speaker 5: after we build it, you know, maybe we have to

611
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Speaker 5: have exclusive rights to it. Maybe you know, we need

612
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Speaker 5: to do X, y and z, and so in doing that,

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Speaker 5: they're just building everything, you know, they're you know, they're

614
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Speaker 5: having the opportunity to kind of uh state their claim

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Speaker 5: and so they're going into it at least from the

616
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Speaker 5: onset of as if they're helping, which there is a

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Speaker 5: level of it.

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Speaker 3: But the way they're doing it, a lot of people

619
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Speaker 3: don't agree with.

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Speaker 5: It, right, because what they do is they you're not

621
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Speaker 5: hiring local people, right, they bring their own people to

622
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Speaker 5: build everything from China.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, cheaper labor, cheaper labor.

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Speaker 5: There's even people, I mean, I don't know if this

625
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Speaker 5: is true or not, but the people saying that they're

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Speaker 5: taking prisoners from China and using them as like labor

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Speaker 5: in Africa.

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Speaker 3: That's that's that's I don't I don't know the truth there,

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Speaker 3: that's there's a whole there's a whole story on it

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Speaker 3: on HBO UH Sports. They covered it. It was like

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Speaker 3: pretty in detail.

632
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Speaker 4: It was that was one of the rumors that they

633
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Speaker 4: covered so right, and you know, and you.

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Speaker 5: Know, I think, I don't want to I don't want

635
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Speaker 5: to like feed into like the whole Africa and nepotism

636
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Speaker 5: and and and corruption story.

637
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Speaker 3: But there's a lot of out there.

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Speaker 5: And so what they're doing is they're like sometimes they're

639
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Speaker 5: Greece in the pockets certain politicians and then politicians are

640
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Speaker 5: signing things.

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Speaker 3: Off and and that's it. So then you have a.

642
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Speaker 5: Road, you have a bridge, you have a something like that,

643
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Speaker 5: just a railroad built by Chinese hospital hospital. And then

644
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 5: you know then after that they have ownership or they

645
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 5: could have ownership. What they might do is they may

646
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Speaker 5: do something where they they offered, they built it, they

647
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 5: offered the financing, and they do it at like maybe

648
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Speaker 5: a user's interest rate to the point where the country

649
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Speaker 5: can't pay it and then they're stuck with it. So

650
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Speaker 5: you know, there's a story in Kenya that I could

651
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 5: go into if you want. Yeah, yeah, so Kenya recently,

652
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Speaker 5: you know there's a port that is in their uh

653
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Speaker 5: their Mambasa which is a huge port city. And in

654
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Speaker 5: Kenya where it was a port that was rebuilt shipping

655
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Speaker 5: port that was rebuilt by the Chinese and and and

656
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Speaker 5: part as part of the deal. Somehow they built it,

657
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Speaker 5: but they lent Kenyon's money to pay them for building it,

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Speaker 5: and then Kenyans cannot keep up with the interest rates

659
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Speaker 5: and they took the port over. But the what was

660
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Speaker 5: said is that it's it's temporary, but you know, you

661
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 5: know things are not always not.

662
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Speaker 2: But they did in Jamaica to this, so they built

663
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Speaker 2: the airplane. They bailed the airport out, like the second

664
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Speaker 2: largest airport in Jamaica, and it's like on a twenty

665
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 2: year lead, like they own it for twenty years, but

666
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Speaker 2: then they can buy it back at the twenty year mark.

667
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 2: But probably something tough me toughing them to buy it back.

668
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 2: So they probably just own the airport now, right.

669
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Speaker 5: But in their defense, I mean, Africa has been the

670
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 5: victim of like usurus financial transactions for a long time

671
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 5: because you know, most of Africa got independent in like

672
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 5: the sixties into the seventies. There have been multiple dictatorships

673
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 5: and all types of stuff and when they had when

674
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 5: they got independent, these European powers that were involved just

675
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 5: pulled out, didn't care. They left the countries in bad

676
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 5: shape and the World Bank IMF came in and a

677
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 5: lot of those loans were with caviast that were not

678
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 5: great for the countries. And so China's doing this kind

679
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 5: of just kind of just stepping into that role bit

680
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 5: and to the country, they're like, at least these people

681
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 5: are building us stuff. So like there's positive and negatives

682
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 5: to it.

683
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 3: Like all things in life.

684
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 2: So and then also, like you said, I mean, it's

685
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 2: the politicians are the ones that actually have to sign

686
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 2: off on it. They're not putting a gun at anybody's

687
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 2: head and taking the land over. So ultimately, if they

688
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 2: are taking over Africa, it's the politician's fault, right you can't.

689
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, they're going to do what's best

690
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 2: for their country, right like any country would do. America

691
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 2: has done that for generations. Every country would do that.

692
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 2: But it's up to the country to say no, all

693
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 2: money is not good money.

694
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 5: Right right, right, you got that country has to think

695
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 5: long term and the leaders have think long term, and

696
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 5: that's not always the case. And another reason why they

697
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 5: love Africa is because they've been building so much in

698
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 5: in China. They need materials for that, and there's materials

699
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 5: in Africa, every material so you know, you can't do

700
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 5: They realize you can't do what they did in the

701
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 5: eighteen hundreds nineteen hundred, come with guns and whatever, like let's.

702
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 3: Let's let me do a deal with you.

703
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go and build this school for this hospital,

704
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 5: give you buses, do whatever. And by the way, like

705
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 5: that mining over there, like yo, like I see can

706
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 5: we get see I.

707
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 3: See Belgians doing some stuff there.

708
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 5: I see some British Like, why don't you just like

709
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 5: let us hold that ourselves because we are We're really

710
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 5: your friend.

711
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that.

712
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 5: You know, they're they're they're definitely being strategic about it.

713
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 4: It's a gold continent for a reason, you know what

714
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 4: I mean. So in terms of like Americans of African descent,

715
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 4: what do you think long term as far as investments

716
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 4: in the continent.

717
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's very very important for us to

718
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 5: be involved. I think there's a lot of opportunity. Like

719
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 5: we said on the side earlier, I think over fifty

720
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 5: percent of the population in Africa is.

721
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 3: Is under the age of twenty five.

722
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 5: I think that's I believe that's a stat that Africa

723
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 5: is one of the Africa in Asia all the only

724
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 5: two continents where the POB is growing, like the US, Europe, Japan,

725
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 5: Like these are places where people are having less or

726
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 5: less children, so there's less and less people, whereas in

727
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 5: Africa is growing. So therefore obviously you have more talent

728
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 5: and also more consumption. Obviously this is a place where

729
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 5: people of African set, whoever whoever they are, is it's

730
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 5: more of as.

731
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:20,720
Speaker 3: Looked upon an asset.

732
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 5: Like it's it's not as easy for us to just

733
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 5: drop in Belgium or drop in Malaysia and just open

734
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 5: up a business. But like I'm not gonna say, I'm

735
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 5: not saying it's easy in Nigeria or but Tswana, but

736
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 5: it's easier, right, And I think it's just important, Like

737
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 5: you know, we've we we we come from that country,

738
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 5: that continent originally, everybody has a different story about how

739
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 5: they ended up here, right, and it would be I

740
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 5: think it's very important for us to like take take

741
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 5: part in it its resurgence.

742
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 2: Now for sure, I've seen Akon he said that he

743
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 2: encouraged all Americans, Black Americans specifically, to go back to

744
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 2: Africa and taking talent, like whatever talent you have, whether

745
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 2: it be real estate, whether it be manufacturing, construction, music, whatever,

746
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 2: and established business there because he was like, you know,

747
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 2: it's still a learning curve where it's still learning and

748
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 2: we might have the expertise to help out. And like

749
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: you said, even if you've never been, it's still a

750
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 2: connection on a certain level. It's got to be a

751
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 2: connection for sure. So there was there was.

752
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: I was speaking to a gentleman in Atlanta stop and

753
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 4: he does work in Africa, and he was telling me

754
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 4: something this might be true or not if you can

755
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 4: prove like through like your ancestry dot Com or something

756
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 4: like that, if there's any ties to country in Africa.

757
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 3: Like you can get a dual citizenship within like six months.

758
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 3: Is that true or not?

759
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 2: I think I think Ghana was offering African Americans. I

760
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 2: think they still are citizenship. It was like part of

761
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 2: a campaign come home campaign that they were running. I'm

762
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 2: pretty sure Gana was doing that. I'm not familiar with

763
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: any other country, but I know Gana specifically was offering that,

764
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: and I think they still are offering that. So shout

765
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: out to Ghana.

766
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 3: For sure. We gotta go back. We said that we

767
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 3: gotta gom sorry to go.

768
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, we gotta go. We gotta do something out there.

769
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 5: It's a new way I saw on I g New

770
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 5: Year's like a lot of celebrities, a lot of people

771
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 5: are going to a crowd to something New Years.

772
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 3: So, yeah, hear me talking about that all the time.

773
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 5: He spends like the last two weeks of the year

774
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 5: in South Africa, right, Yeah, South Africa is beautiful.

775
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to go out to Africa period. You know,

776
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 2: there's so many different places in Africa. So yeah, we

777
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 2: definitely got touched. Can we talk about the.

778
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So am pessa is M stands for mobile

779
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 5: for mobile passa is money in Swahili and basically it's

780
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 5: mobile money. And so you know, obviously people use mobile

781
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 5: money all over the globe. In the US, we used

782
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 5: v we use cash app, but not to an extent

783
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 5: they use it out there. Like the first real successful

784
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 5: implementation of mobile money was in It was in Kenya,

785
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 5: and it's something that everybody uses. It's something that is

786
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 5: it's actually that's from like two thousand and eight, like

787
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 5: way back then, people were using money to sex message

788
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 5: to each other and it's it's still considered the most

789
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 5: successful implementation of mobile money. Like you, these are people.

790
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 5: These are you know, we've always had financial instruction infrastructure

791
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 5: in the US. You had bank accounts, you have credit cards,

792
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 5: et cetera. These are individuals that didn't even have that,

793
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 5: but they were able to transact digitally using their phones.

794
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, cut you up, but yeah, I saw

795
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 2: it in sixteen minutes. It was crazy because they were

796
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 2: saying that like how successful it was, and they were saying, like,

797
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 2: you know, especially in a lot of the rural parts,

798
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 2: they can't get to a bank. Even if there is

799
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: a bank, they can't get to it physically, So like

800
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 2: I forgot how much. But a large population, large part

801
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: of the population is unbanked and have bank acounts, never

802
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 2: had bank accounts, so not a mobile thing. But everybody

803
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 2: has to cell phone, even if it's like a cheap

804
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 2: cell phone, but they still have a cell phone. So

805
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: it made life tremendously easier when they developed that program

806
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 2: because not everybody uses that, so easy you don't have

807
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 2: to use the band. I think the guy is like

808
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 2: a billionaire who developed that.

809
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he was part of that, but also it

810
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 5: came together with a marriage between basically Seth Fari Khan,

811
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 5: which is like their Verizon, like their major cell phone provider,

812
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 5: and Equity Bank, which is a major bank. So it

813
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 5: was as if, you know, if I was to use

814
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 5: a parallel in the US, It's as if Verizon and

815
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 5: JP Morgan Chase came together and got along and they

816
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 5: just they created this huge digital digital thing in a

817
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 5: way because it's a it was emerging market and had

818
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 5: less infrastructure. You have fewer players, you had a few

819
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 5: fewer regulatory hurdles, and it just came together seamlessly and

820
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 5: took over.

821
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: That's powerful, man. So what's your overall outlook.

822
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 3: On the content?

823
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 2: I know you've been there a lot and your family

824
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 2: half your wife is from Kenyon as well, and you

825
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 2: worked in the NBA and stuff like that on on Africa.

826
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 5: What's your You're optimistic. I'm optimistic. I think similar to

827
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 5: like crypto, like you know, tread carefully. Like for instance,

828
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 5: if the people like from when I initially landed worked

829
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 5: in Africa to now, a lot of those currencies are

830
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 5: down like fifty percent, right, so they've they've you know,

831
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 5: there was a time and I would say the you know,

832
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 5: early twenty ten, so like to on ten to twenty fourteen,

833
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 5: where all those currencies were booming, there was so much

834
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 5: investment happening. But there's a there's been a lot of

835
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 5: like political unrest. The economies have not taken off to

836
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,959
Speaker 5: the level that they that people thought, and so there's

837
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 5: been a lot of uh, there's been a bit of

838
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 5: a pullback. That being said, that's good opportunity to put

839
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 5: money in. I just want to put all my money in.

840
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 5: And also I would make sure that I think it's

841
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 5: very important for you to understand the local market, right,

842
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 5: So like, for instance, like you build an app out

843
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 5: here in the US, I'm building iPhone first be gets

844
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 5: over there, Android is king, right, you got to know

845
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 5: what people are going through. You have to know that

846
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 5: you know, one trouble we had, it's like all right,

847
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 5: well people, we want people to streaming movies or watch

848
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 5: schemes on their cell phone. In the US, my team

849
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 5: mobile data plan is unlimited. Over there, people are prepaid

850
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 5: and the infrastructure is not even that strong. So like

851
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 5: streaming those megabytes and to even watch a game like

852
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 5: you could kill somebody's whole monthly allotment of Watch one game,

853
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 5: all right, so.

854
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 3: They're more likely to wait until they could get to Wi.

855
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 5: Fi to download something, whereas we here don't care, right,

856
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 5: so you have to make sure if you would have

857
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 5: built a product for them, you have to take those

858
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 5: things to account.

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00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 3: That's dope.

860
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 2: That's yeah, man, thank you for that information.

861
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 3: Man.

862
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: We appreciate it, and we're gonna try This is actually

863
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: something that we want to try to do, uh, for

864
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 2: every every continent, so we all have like this was

865
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 2: an Africa addition, We'll have a Europe edition, We'll have

866
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 2: a South America.

867
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 3: Different countries, Caribbean edition. Yeah, yeah, different countries.

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00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 2: Because I feel like it's important a to acknowledge that

869
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 2: the people all over the world, and it's also important

870
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 2: once again for Americans investment. Majority of our listeners are Americans.

871
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 2: But you got to expand your mind. You got to

872
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 2: see the world for what it is. You got to

873
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 2: see bigger than just your neighborhood and your city. It's

874
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 2: tough a lot of times we get so bogged down

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Speaker 2: in our day to day life that we don't see

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Speaker 2: past our ten mile radius or even two mile radius,

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Speaker 2: Like we just worry about where we're at but the

878
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Speaker 2: world moves quick and you know, business is done all

879
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: over the world and just people. You know, it's good

880
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 2: to experience different cultures and know what's going on outside

881
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 2: of it's just your neighborhood. So we could be that

882
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Speaker 2: window of the world and bring people that are knowledgeable about,

883
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Speaker 2: you know, different areas in the world and actually travel

884
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Speaker 2: to those places as well. That's one thing we're going

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Speaker 2: to do. We're on toll right now hitting different cities

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Speaker 2: in America, but we're gonna eventually we're gonna go overseas

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Speaker 2: as well. We're going to go to these places and

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Speaker 2: actually talk to people in those actual countries as well.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully we can bring some alumni with us. Yeah, now

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Speaker 3: your alumni.

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00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 2: Now show up for sure. So once again, if you

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00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 2: got any opportunities speaking and gagings and feel free to

893
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 2: hit us up. Email us is the best, but email

894
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 2: dm us. We open it to traveling domestically and internationally.

895
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Speaker 2: We're going to be on a college tourist for We're

896
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Speaker 2: gonna hit a couple of colleges. We've been announcing that

897
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Speaker 2: pretty soon. So yeah, we're going to try to spread

898
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Speaker 2: the word of financial literacy and education all over the world,

899
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Speaker 2: every language, every population. As I said, it's not something

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Speaker 2: that's just limited to one communities, but every every community

901
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Speaker 2: world man con that's that's the kind of vision that

902
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Speaker 2: we're looking at all over the world. So once again,

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Speaker 2: thank you. Can you tell the people your information how

904
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Speaker 2: to how to reach you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, thank you for having me. This was fun.

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Speaker 5: I uh, you find me on Twitter as well as

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Speaker 5: I G It's Fritz Chain so f R d z

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Speaker 5: c h A I N. My name Fitz Charles. On

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Speaker 5: LinkedIn you can add me and that's it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I'm always you know, my dam is open. I'm always

912
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 5: willing to chat with people, learn from people.

913
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Speaker 3: And what's your podcast too, It's.

914
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Speaker 5: Called coin Gamma. Yeah, we talked about crypto blockchain forty

915
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Speaker 5: eight episodes then yeah, yeah, exactly, thank you. So, yeah,

916
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 5: we talk about crypto blockchain. We needed some of the

917
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 5: biggest leaders in the space. Just talking about the different trends.

918
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Speaker 5: It's always something new going on. Right now it's about Facebook,

919
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 5: so next week about it will be about something different.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about Libra yeah, Libra.

921
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, check me out and definitely appreciate your

922
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Speaker 5: time for support that.

923
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Speaker 3: Thank you for coming Troy. Yeah, pet you on community. Yeah,

924
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 3: I'll patreon community. It always grows. So thank you to

925
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 3: everybody that's supporting. You know.

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Speaker 4: That's our proud to pay program again, rest in peace

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Speaker 4: to it. I want to give a big shout out

928
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Speaker 4: to Brenda. She's one of our patrons from California. She's

929
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 4: trying to link the dots so we can come out

930
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 4: to Oakland. So shout out to Brenda and everybody that's joined.

931
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Speaker 4: Like I said, you can join at any tier. There's

932
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 4: about this five of them. But the more you support that,

933
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 4: the more we're gonna be able to do things like

934
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Speaker 4: travel internationally and domestically.

935
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Speaker 3: So continue to support that. We got some new merch.

936
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Speaker 4: If you was on Instagram, you saw the eyl Versity

937
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 4: that's coming soon, so be on the look out for

938
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 4: that and some more some more other things that we got.

939
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Speaker 3: We're gonna put on that on the website as well.

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Speaker 3: The website. We about the redesign.

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Speaker 2: Yeah about the redesign the website Digital brands with a

942
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Speaker 2: Z shout out to them, Yeah, for sure. And the merch, Yes,

943
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 2: don't forget the merch. The merger is another way to

944
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: support the podcast. So we have merch up right now

945
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 2: or your Legia dot com and putting new merch up,

946
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 2: and we make we make statements with our clothes, and

947
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 2: we complain a lot about designers that you know are

948
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 2: openly racist, and you know, we still.

949
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Speaker 3: Wear the clothes.

950
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 2: So it's like you why not wear something that you

951
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 2: know is a it says something like all of our

952
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 2: clothes say something that you know is financially related and

953
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 2: also you know it's from the culture. So that's a

954
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: way to support. And then we're on tour. As I

955
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 2: mentioned previously, we we hit La was the first stop

956
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 2: we're doing like these network meeting greets. La was the

957
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 2: first stop, was crazy, and then we did Brooklyn. Brooklyn

958
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 2: was really crazy, and then Atlanta and Atlanta was even more.

959
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Speaker 2: So we're just going to keep the momentum going. I

960
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Speaker 2: think the next stop that we're going to do is Houston.

961
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 2: Shout out to Ashtown, so Acetown man, we need your

962
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 2: hoy to show your love. We announce that soon.

963
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 3: We try and make it to the ranch y'all, so

964
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 3: like y'all got to help us get there.

965
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Speaker 2: Jane Prince, what's up man? A little keykey, what's up,

966
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Speaker 2: don key? That's my guy. We got a lot of

967
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 2: good people that we connected with in Houston. So I've

968
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Speaker 2: never been to Texas, so I'm looking forward to going

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Speaker 2: to Houston for sure, and then we're probably through DMV

970
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Speaker 2: Philly too. But if you want us to come to

971
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Speaker 2: your city, I know Chicago. We're kind of on the

972
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Speaker 2: cusp with that. A lot of people have been hitting

973
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Speaker 2: us about Chicago, but let us know, let us know

974
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Speaker 2: where we need to go. And the purpose of these

975
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Speaker 2: networking events is just to bring people together and to

976
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Speaker 2: meet new people and meet us, meet some of the

977
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Speaker 2: EYO alumni, but more importantly, meet people in your city,

978
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 2: exchange information, discuss business ideas. You never know who your

979
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 2: next business partner might be, never know who you can

980
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 2: make money with by homework, through different things of that nature.

981
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Speaker 2: So relationships are very important. A lot of times we

982
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 2: don't fully understand that. So that's the whole point of

983
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Speaker 2: these network meeting Greece that we're doing. And my book

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Speaker 2: tip of the Week is Howard French is the author

985
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Speaker 2: and the name of the book is China's Second Continent.

986
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Speaker 2: It's about Africa, China's influence in Africa. Fitting since we've

987
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 2: talked about that, so that's a good book, highly suggested,

988
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 2: recommend it. So yes, thank you guys for rocking with us,

989
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Speaker 2: and we will see you next week.

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Speaker 3: Peace. Peace, Peace.

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Speaker 6: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with

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Speaker 6: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just

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Speaker 6: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President

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Speaker 6: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border

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Speaker 3: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,