Black History of Juneteenth - Homeisode 31

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Yo, it's your boy Quincy Murdoch.

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And you're now tuned in to another episode

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and not just music podcast where we keep it real and honest always.

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All right, what's going on, everybody?

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Not just music podcast.

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Another home so welcoming and pushing a Juneteenth edition.

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Today is a little different.

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Oh, hopefully everybody understands that.

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Juneteenth is officially a holiday for US

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citizens and considerably.

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Has a lot of meaning.

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For those that didn't know considerably that Juneteenth is marks,

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what we consider second Independence Day.

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Oh, it's been celebrated off of years and years and years and years and years

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and years and years and years, but nobody ever actually paid it any.

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Attention and make it an official government day until two years ago.

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Quincy Murdoch in the building.

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What's going on, bro?

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Was I in the man?

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What you feeling about that?

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What is your?

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What was your take on Juneteenth before the actual marking of the date?

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What was your understanding of what Juneteenth stood for?

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I'm going to be 100 with you.

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Me being an artist, I used to just get offers to perform at these Juneteenth events.

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And, you know, it was just a lot of, you know, concession stands and,

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you know, people selling stuff, black folks.

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But I never knew what it meant.

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But all I knew was there was a lot of black folks getting together.

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Sometimes even other races, you know, come into events and it was music.

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I was always, you know, given the opportunity to perform at some of these

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things like Salisbury, for example.

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But I never knew the the the meaning behind it, you know, to keep it 100.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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It's it's a.

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It's a slept on.

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Yeah, it's it's it's slept on.

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It's slept on. Yeah. There you go.

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That that's I mean, it's again, people didn't know it's the second independence day

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in independence, an independent day that's marked for African Americans.

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Just because.

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It's historical.

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Let me give my best example of what I mean by especially affects

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if it affects the culture in a lot of different ways.

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Some look at Independence Day, July 4th is the day that we gained our independence.

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But it really wasn't for us.

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Really wasn't for African Americans.

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On a lot of people knew it to be as, you know, we just going to celebrate

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this one day, July 4th, Independence Day, you know, go out, cookouts,

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you know, fireworks, all that whole nine.

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That was fun.

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Yeah, celebrating.

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Yeah.

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When nobody know we celebrate.

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Yeah. And if it's realistically, if it's realistic to say, and it's nothing wrong

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with those that do go along with the hype of just, you know, any of those

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any of those holidays that they really don't know about or looking into the

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details, understanding those holidays, they probably would never know.

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No, Juneteenth has a very big, very big, very, very, very, very, very big

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meeting. And just as July 4th, Juneteenth, say Wednesday, you know, is,

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is, is well, it'll be Wednesday.

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We're shooting this today on a Monday.

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But again, it's a blessing to say that we finally have a holiday that marks

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an official date to us having our independence.

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One reason being, of course,

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got a roll over to understanding the history of it.

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You know, history of it got erased.

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Just like all the rest of Black history moments that we

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don't know about.

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You got erased.

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Nobody wanted to talk about it.

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Nobody wanted to be specific about it.

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But you hear people saying, you know, we don't have a Juneteenth.

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That's like you say, you know, people will invite you to come to these events

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and they don't even give any detail to what's going on and why you're at.

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Yeah. Now that you say that, they never made it.

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They never explained what Juneteenth was.

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No introduction into Juneteenth.

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I'm like, man, what?

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Yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't go into detail on what Juneteenth

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really could mean.

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And especially the ones that was in Charlotte, Charlotte never really

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ever gave official meaning to what Juneteenth could really be and what it

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could really mean. Now, I know for a fact.

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You know, as you something, yeah, you think you think some people know what it

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is, but they're like.

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Kind of scared to put it out there because Black, Black people, you know,

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and even Black people are kind of scared to celebrate Blackness because of the

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reception of another race or other people outside.

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So they might not get as many people to console it so they don't want to make

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it Black, Black, but it's really about us.

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You think?

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Is that?

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Or is it just lack of education?

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You do you what you said one and two.

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You just said it's a lot of politics.

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It's a lot. I mean, it's a lot.

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Yeah, it's a lot to understand on it.

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But it's really simplified in a sense.

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But for the most part, the reason why I feel it's not like known about it's

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because it's really it's a simple.

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It's something that can be simplified and taught just like how, you know,

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how we talk about independence day July 4th.

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It could be it could be just as simple as that.

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And just let's let's do a little small detail on it just because I wasn't going

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to read this, but I just want to say because we're just really talking about

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a post emancipation period known as reconstruction in 18 from 1865 to 1877.

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Marked an era of great hope, uncertainty and struggle for the nation as a whole.

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Formerly enslaved people immediately sought to reunify families, establish schools,

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run for political office, push radical legislation and even sue slaveholders

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for compensation, given the 200 plus years of enslavement.

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Such changes were nothing short of amazing.

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Not even a generation out of slavery.

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African Americans were inspired and empowered to transform their lives and their country.

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So Juneteenth marks the country's second day of independence.

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Although that's our real that's our real independence, not July 4th.

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Our real one is.

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Here you go.

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Juneteenth.

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So the historical legacy of Juneteenth shows the value of never giving up hope

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in uncertain times.

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The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a community

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space where the spirit of hope lives on a place where historical events like

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Juneteenth are shared in new stories with equal urgency are told.

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So if you're in that area where the National Museum of African American

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History is, if you're there in that area, take advantage of it.

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That's something great to learn.

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I mean, it's a lot of stuff to really push when it comes to Juneteenth.

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But one of those things is when those communities that are trying to push it,

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y'all should go check that stuff out.

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Go look into it.

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I mean, it's I mean, it's going to be a lot of stuff online across the board.

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Right.

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So don't look in.

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Don't look don't look in the shorthand manner.

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Look in the little hand.

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It's a lot.

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I can say it's a lot to speak on.

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And I'm going to give this one little detail to.

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And it's good.

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And it's good.

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And it's good.

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And it's good.

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Big names are bringing attention to it too.

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Because I see Kendra Lamar is doing like a little festival on Juneteenth.

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You know, so, you know, being a big name.

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Like that, it'll make people want to research and look into it.

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Like, what is Juneteenth?

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So shout out to the ones with these big names is bringing attention to it.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Shout out to Kendra Lamar for doing that.

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Because like you say, our history, you know, some of this stuff is swept under the road.

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Yeah.

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You know, so it's good to have somebody his statue.

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You know, still remember that, you know, even though he don't even have to remember it,

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you know, in his mind, if you don't want to, all that money and fame.

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But he still know where he came from.

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So that's big.

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So knowing, knowing where you come from and knowing how you were raised,

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things of that nature really play a big role in the society we live in today,

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knowing that stuff like that.

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So we can celebrate it the correct way.

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Right.

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I feel a lot of the holidays and stuff that we celebrate can get mixed up.

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And we can kind of fall into a lane where we really don't have to celebrate

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those holidays, but we tend to do it because it's just what goes along with job holidays.

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You off on that day, most people off on those days.

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So they don't have nothing to do.

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So they just end up in a celebration manner.

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Yeah.

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But the one more detail to this was the Juneteenth marks the day in 18 day in 1865.

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And slaves were free, right?

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Yeah.

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They were asleep.

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Well, whatever.

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So that that that kind of changes.

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That's what changes what independence for July 4 stands for versus Juneteenth stands for.

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You know, it's it's different.

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You know, is the OK.

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How they try to and we go.

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Hey, we go harder for July 4th, right?

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We go hard.

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Always.

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And as I and for years, that's because.

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Yeah, just because I had we had that's the.

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And that's the only day we have and we couldn't get it to celebrate it or serve as.

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A holiday.

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It's a holiday until just recently.

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So, you know.

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People pushing for it finally paid off.

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So that's a good thing.

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Now to make it be prominent as all these other holidays is going to be just as key.

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So, you know.

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Me, this is what I feel.

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And this is something that I know that we we have the opportunity to do it because it's it's a hand.

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So, along with this episode and then along with a couple other things that I'm going to do on the website.

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That's going to be basically just an.

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Basically, an honor to Juneteenth.

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Just so it's it's it's looked at.

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And so that's it in a sense of this is a big versus just looking at it as a like this should be looked at as small.

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And remember, we don't have holidays as African Americans.

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This is our holiday.

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And we we go through a whole year of different holidays that really have nothing to do that

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put us in a position to where it's us and in taking history to another level.

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Like always with my black history shirt.

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I ain't got tired of this shirt yet.

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Black history and we talk about black history.

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We're talking about is American history.

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That's the big thing about this shirt.

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Black history is always right to hold on, you know, selling my black folks to hold on out there.

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So if it's a thing, oh, yeah, if it's a thing where we're making history,

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here's our chance to make history in a sense where it could be looked at and served as something positive versus a negative.

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You know, we have good stuff going on. Yes.

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But again, you know, let's not make the June team holiday.

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You know, let's not make it into a thing of this could be a thing of a weird holiday.

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You know, black folk can tend to make things weird.

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And we talked about that before, man.

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They changed some change the narrative out of something quick.

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So we got to watch.

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Oh, yeah.

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Know how they look at us.

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So that's another thing.

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Be careful out here rolling around on June team today, basically, because you catching this day.

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Y'all be careful.

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Take take advantage of knowing when to do things and do it the right way.

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If you're celebrating, celebrate and be free.

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Who you're around to you around, you know, you might check the racism and all that

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because they might they might know the details of it, you know, and you you might not.

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So I hope you all tuned in.

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If you didn't know the history that this was an important day for black

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African-American slaves, man.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Black American period.

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Yeah, us Americans do have this this foe, two of one more thing, especially

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coming with African-Americans.

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Remember, the holiday is considerably for what it was.

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Don't celebrate it for what you in your feelings of today.

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Take celebration, take celebratory to a certain extent, you know, be humble

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for what the day is, you know, if you didn't, you know, you're getting your thing,

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you doing your thing, yeah, do your thing.

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But at the same time, be humble, be humble about it, man.

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We have an opportunity as black people now and we finally are free from something.

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And it's not the case that we're completely in this great place.

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It's not saying we're in a great place, but we didn't they didn't.

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We were we far from what we were.

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Yeah, we didn't have they didn't have a celebration back then.

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Yeah, they couldn't celebrate.

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We need no celebration.

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Yeah, no celebration at all.

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Yeah, that was we have the opportunity to do it.

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So let's respect it.

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You know, you standing on your grandparents and your grandparents,

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grandparents and your grandparents, grandparents, grandparents, shoulders.

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And you have the opportunity to make it look good.

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So, um, I'm I'm feeling a little, you know, bad, though,

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about one thing and the one thing I'm bad, I feel because if it was a thing

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to be served, you know, the people that it should serve, they didn't get to taste it.

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You know, that's the only thing that I don't like.

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We're we have that opportunity to celebrate it for them.

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Yes, but they didn't have this opportunity, you know, that they didn't

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want to actually was in the field and was doing it.

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You know, to taste it.

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Yeah, to be able to taste it the way we taste it now.

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You know, so I try to savor stuff differently.

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And some of us only appreciate it.

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You know, I take it in like I supposed to be taking in.

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So yeah, that make it that make you want to appreciate it.

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It changes and it changes.

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Yeah, it changes your outlook.

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And I'm blessed to say that it can be, you know,

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given to people versus we get we're given this opportunity.

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So like unlike anybody else, we are already given in a positive light

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versus giving it a negative light

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because the case of we're speaking on in a positive mentality.

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Last thing I want to ask you

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with even moving forward

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with black topics and black, you know, being a black mentor,

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being a black story and being a black content creator,

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being black in your position that you're in.

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Remember, do you remember when you were at a point

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where you didn't understand how or when or or the direction

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you would be moving like just say you go back five years?

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Did you think that you'll be talking about black topics?

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Were you talking about black topics? No.

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No. And I'm going to say this, like, you know me, bro.

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Like, you know, like I put my heart into everything that I do.

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Like the music, you know, everything I told you, if I don't believe in it,

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I can't I can't do it. I can't speak on it, you know.

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So this is more of a personal.

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This is more like a personal thing that I've been on a personal journey

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that I grew on.

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Me just being interested in just knowing who we are, who I am,

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you know, I'm saying, just a black culture and being able to study, learn

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and also being able to be blessed to do this, not just music podcasts

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sitting in front of people and tell them what we've learned in our history.

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So it's like when you wake yourself up, you know, your goal is to wake

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others up around you that look like you and come from where you come from.

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Because like I stated before, like what's the point of you being good

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but being around a lot of people that don't are not good?

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I don't know this stuff or not educated.

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I mean, it's no it's not going to be growth in that situation.

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So if everybody is on the same level and everybody is, you know,

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willing to learn and know their identity and know who they are,

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you know, you got to think the crime rate will probably go down.

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The education level will probably go up.

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You know, all the bad statistics, the prison,

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black African Americans in prison will probably, you know, think twice,

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you know, before they do things and know if they knew their history

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and how far we came, even black women is in prison.

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You know, just the population would drop.

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I think I think the, you know, it'll be up for the black community.

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If I think, you know, everybody jumped on board, what we'll be talking about.

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So I just don't talk about this.

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This is personal. I live it now.

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You know what I'm saying? I try to incorporate it with my life.

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You know, I'm saying to live what we actually talk about.

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And it feels good to live this way.

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You know, it's cool to live this way. It's cool to live the right way.

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You know, this is the new coup. This is the new coup.

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What's the me? It is.

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Quisimirdakia.

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Most people don't don't value, you know, value things the same way.

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And it's hard to value things the same way as another person

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when you're it's all about a personality.

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Me, for me, this is one thing I know.

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For one thing it is that

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if nothing else, you know that I'm black.

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Two, you know that I'm going to you might be.

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Hey, let me find out you white under that.

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Hey, I. Hey, you know, if if if if if we have if we have one thing,

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we good thing we do have our skin.

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Right. And that's black and I'm proud of that.

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That's the black. Don't crack, baby.

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Yeah, that's the one thing I feel like a lot of us, you know,

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we we're blessed to say, you know, it's rare.

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It's a rarity in a rare case to be.

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In this skin and when and the winds come.

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Me more and me more and means more.

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You feel me?

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It means more.

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If you're winning, if you're winning, if you're winning as an individual,

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you know, this is what I mean by winning.

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If you're winning as an individual, it's not saying anything to do with financial.

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It's just really one sort of do it your mentality.

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If you have a strong mentality, if you're if your ability is allowing you to be

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able to do something and your ability to do something, you know,

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allowing you to be able to do something in your black individual,

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you know, African American and you're out here daily doing things,

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not even the case of saying that even if it's not even if you're broke,

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even if you're going through a bad time right now,

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you still have that ability in your black and you're doing what you can

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to get, you know, to do better, to be in a better position.

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Can I throw this in there? Yeah, I want to throw this in there.

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I've also learned doing the right thing, man, you get more blessings

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than come your way. Just being a good person, man.

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Blessings come your way.

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I'm learning that, man.

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Like, you know, I used to be tick for tech.

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Now I pray about it.

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I actually literally pray about it and don't go for tick for tech.

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Everything on the response, you know, everything on the reaction.

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So I've learned, you know, beating people with kindness.

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It always comes back in your favor.

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You know what I'm saying?

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So that's another thing I want to a key gem.

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I want to throw out there is, you know, spread love, redden and hate,

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because the love is going to be felt.

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You might not see it, but the love is going to be felt.

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And that's why we got to love these holidays and love on the West,

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you know, representation of us.

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And, you know, saying we got to love on it, you know, because you love

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on it good enough is going to treat you right.

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You know, you're going to benefit from the reach of rewards from it.

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There you go.

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In some way, whether it's waking up and becoming a better person.

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Like, you know, like your mindset, like it's that's a win, you know.

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It's growth.

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So.

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Anything else before we close this out?

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You anything personal, other than the podcasting world would know?

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And, you know, something that you want anybody to know about

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for your own personal brands?

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I just want to say Quincey Murdoch, man.

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Y'all can find me Quincey Murdoch.

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Type me in on Google Quincey Murdoch.com.

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You know, check out all my latest music.

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I know I don't push that enough on here, but check out the music

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that I got out, real dope music.

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Later singles, I put out this is true love, drinks to reality,

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R&B tracks, you know, a movie, Quincey Murdoch movies out, you know,

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more to come, more podcasting too, man.

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This is what we love to do.

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This is what we real effective at.

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And this is what clearly y'all have been showing this y'all want

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us to do and see us do.

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So, you know, this is top of the gender, you know, agenda.

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So yeah, thank y'all, man.

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Keep keep supporting, keep tuning in below.

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Y'all.

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Website, check out the website.

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Subscribe to the website.

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Subscribe to everything that you get to hear.

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So.

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If nothing else, I'm D'Juan Barino, Quincey Murdoch.

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See you out next time.

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What's going on?

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It's your boy D'Juan Barino from Not Just Music Podcast.

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Make sure you stay tuned for next week's episode.

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All right.

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Peace.