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Episode 206 | Life is Fragile · Corie Sheppard Podcast

0:21
Speaker 2: Welcome to episode 206 of the Corey Shepard Podcast.
0:24
Speaker 2: Welcome back to everybody who's been listening.
0:25
Speaker 2: Welcome to all the new listeners.
0:26
Speaker 2: Sometimes you had to come here and talk about all kinds of heavy issues and all kinds of things going on and deal with serious matters, right.
0:33
Speaker 2: But sometimes you had to come here just to lighten the load ha oh is is, is, is is, manoel.
2:37
Speaker 2: Señor y escuche el Señor que le digo yo y esta para ni se acuerda la de Dios.
2:49
Speaker 1: Y escuche el Señor que le digo yo y esta para.
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Speaker 3: Ni se acuerda la de Dios En el medio cielo.
2:57
Speaker 3: Muchachos, me voy a con los angelitos cantando aleluya.
3:02
Speaker 3: En el medio cielo muchachos me voy a con los angelitos cantando aleluya.
3:25
Speaker 2: Oh, every now and again, every now and again, he's got to remind her how short life is and how important it is To savor every moment and to stay in that moment and to hold on To the people who close to me.
3:41
Speaker 2: So sometimes we had to deal With serious business.
3:43
Speaker 2: Sometimes we just had a lightning load.
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Speaker 1: I love you.
4:01
Speaker 1: La paloma lleva y es un lindo pico y un ramos bonito para el paraíso.
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Speaker 3: Ah, lo que da rango es que me dio la falta de alfilo, la vuelta de sanguíno para un evento, La paloma Blanca, the I'm going to sing a song called Palomita.
6:01
Speaker 3: Blanca Let me hear the popo.
6:12
Speaker 2: Paring music is sweet.
6:13
Speaker 2: Paring music has a sweetness.
6:14
Speaker 2: Sometimes you can't explain it.
6:16
Speaker 2: And boy, what better time to take in some Paring music than now.
6:19
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes, when you feel, the mood or the whole place change you have to adjust to suit it.
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Speaker 3: Ay, cuando Jesús Cristo quiera creer en la alegría del hombre le va a dar.
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Speaker 3: Ay se va para que el viejo se va a quitar los señores para San Juan Patricio.
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Speaker 3: San Juan Patricio, I love you.
7:30
Speaker 3: I will not be able to continue.
7:32
Speaker 3: You are humbling me and I cry.
7:33
Speaker 3: What is wrong with me?
7:34
Speaker 3: What is wrong with me?
7:35
Speaker 3: I am a complete child.
7:36
Speaker 3: Yesterday I suffered, I went away and I went away from the roof.
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Speaker 3: I cried forty days and forty nights, 40 days and 40 nights.
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Speaker 3: And the man cries and cries.
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Speaker 3: I did not eat and I did not drink.
7:49
Speaker 3: And look, I did not give him.
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Speaker 3: I did not give him anything to suffer.
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Speaker 3: He did not give him anything to suffer.
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Speaker 3: If you are the child of God, why do not you eat so much bread and cry?
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Speaker 2: for me Good time to remind people that you love them.
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Speaker 2: We don't know.
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Speaker 2: All kinds of different news happen over this weekend and I do have some things to cover, but, as I say, some of them is only the music, a teeny little pain, you know ¶¶ and all the water goes to the sea.
9:02
Speaker 3: Where, where, where is Alberto?
9:03
Speaker 3: Alberto is not here.
9:04
Speaker 3: Where, where?
9:05
Speaker 3: Where is Alberto?
9:06
Speaker 3: Alberto is not here.
9:08
Speaker 3: Alberto is in the Monchala.
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Speaker 3: He's going to Medecina.
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Speaker 3: Alberto is in the Monchala.
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Speaker 1: He's going to Medecina With Alberto and his friend the man is a medic, With Alberto and his friend.
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Speaker 3: the man is a medic, bullets are hitting the ground and the is se va para Merecina El mono quiere Merecina y el poro quiere también.
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Speaker 3: Y el mono quiere Merecina y el poro quiere también Un hombre por la rodilla por aquí en Merecina, un hombre por la rodilla por aquí en Merecina, donde donde todo el verso, todo el verso no va aquí, donde donde todo el verso, todo el verso no va.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, foreign.
10:13
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm sweating here.
11:05
Speaker 2: Sweat, sweat, like first time Talk show or no talk show, sometimes the talk show and all can't find the words.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 2: That's not the kind of song you could stop in, in all honesty.
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Speaker 2: That's not the kind of song you could stop in, in all honesty.
13:28
Speaker 2: That's not the kind of song.
13:28
Speaker 2: I want to apologize for having to stop that song.
13:31
Speaker 2: Right, it's sweet, sweet, sweet.
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Speaker 2: But when you can't find the words, what are you going to do again?
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
15:09
Speaker 2: If you ain't take a dance though you ain't true, true, like Parang if you ain't take a dance, you must shake a foot.
15:16
Speaker 2: When you hear a waltz like that, you must shake something right.
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Speaker 2: And it would be remiss of me I forget about calling an artist's name and thing when I'm playing a song, but it would be remiss of me.
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Speaker 2: I forget about calling an artist's name and things when I'm playing a song, but it would be remiss of me if I'm playing a little parang session to open up the thing here and to lighten the load, as I say, if I have a parang thing to lighten the load.
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Speaker 1: How am I going to not play the queen?
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Speaker 1: Thank you ¶¶ ¶¶.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to be a little bit more.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, and I'm so tired of this sad melody, and the echo of the pain is in you.
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Speaker 5: Welcome to episode 206 of the Courage Chapel Podcast.
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Speaker 5: It's tune, tune, tune.
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Speaker 5: You hear music like that, I start to sweat.
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Speaker 5: You know to get up and turn on a fan inside this place.
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Speaker 2: I start to sweat.
19:47
Speaker 2: You know what I?
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Speaker 2: Mean.
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Speaker 2: But every now and again we hear 52 Weeks a Year, you know, and we hear year after year, after year, and every now and again you just have a year like a week like this, a week like this, don't care where you look at, any news, the heaviness taking over, right.
20:02
Speaker 2: So I want to, before I get to the sadness of the week or the weekend, I just want to open with a happy story.
20:11
Speaker 2: I'm the kind of guy who, right I don't know if you want to call it nepotism or shepherdism or whatever it is it has but I cannot avoid picking up a good story when I see a shepherd involved.
20:23
Speaker 2: I mean, what else are we building a platform for if we can't nepotize the thing?
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Speaker 2: If LeBron James could get his son to come and play basketball who can't play basketball at all and he could get his son and you know what I mean, why he mustn't pick up a shepherd Hopefully we relate it and I could get a slice.
20:39
Speaker 2: You know, maybe if he hear this on sales boost, I could get a little percentage.
20:49
Speaker 2: But Peter Shepard celebrates 30 years of art.
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Speaker 2: You might know Peter Shepard right Acclaimed artist Peter Shepard marks a significant milestone in his career with a small exhibition of captivating landscape paintings, celebrating 30 years of his first show at the 101 Art Gallery.
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Speaker 2: The exhibition begins with a reception on December 17th at the oh, I was just checking the date to make sure that I ain't reading no old news.
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Speaker 2: The exhibition begins with a reception on December 17th at the Gallery, 84 Woodford Street, newtown, from 5pm.
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Speaker 2: This anniversary exhibition I don't know how much time I do that and just cut it out of the episode.
21:20
Speaker 2: I don't understand what kind of editors be going on to make this a fluid, flowing episode.
21:23
Speaker 2: Right it out of the episode.
21:24
Speaker 2: I don't understand what kind of editors be going on to make this a fluid, flowing episode, right this anniversary.
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Speaker 2: This anniversary exhibition revisits shepherd's enduring collection to the gallery where he debuted three decades ago under the guidance of gallery founder mark perrero.
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Speaker 2: Known for his evocative small format works, shepherd's new collection continues his exploration of landscapes, capturing the vibrancy and beauty of his surroundings with a sense of place and nostalgia.
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Speaker 2: The media release said Shepard said I'm humble and grateful to have had the support of the 101 Gallery over the years.
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Speaker 2: The exhibition is both a reflection of my journey as an artist and a tribute to the community that has encouraged and inspired me, the highlight of the exhibition will be a bold departure for Shepard, a large-scale painting created specially for this occasion.
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Speaker 2: Now, I know from following him I just follow him on Instagram and them things right and the intricacy of his paintings and landscapes, like he has a.
22:18
Speaker 2: You know, every Caribbean person I shouldn't even say Trinities, right, we like to have a painting or a photo or a picture or a print or something in our house.
22:27
Speaker 2: Maybe that reminds us of the traditional houses in the village that we came from.
22:32
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: So if you see a St James house or Woodbrook house, they have a distinct kind of look and every part of the country is the same, but while they're all distinct, they all have a certain similarity.
22:42
Speaker 2: You know're the city your little gable roof, a galvanized roof going down, a board house, big opening door like a chinese shop.
22:48
Speaker 2: You know, there are some things that you need to a little step in front, like there was a guy who I was following and I hope I pronounce the name right uh, fraudulio or something like that mini tears, and he's doing these miniature versions of houses.
23:03
Speaker 2: I remember reaching out to him at the beginning when I was just started recording the podcast and I wanted to have.
23:07
Speaker 2: Well, to tell you the truth, right, I was trying to design a set that could look very west, indian and trinidadian and them kind of thing and, you know, make it into something that, uh, is more representative of what I'm going to talk about.
23:20
Speaker 2: And I said, well, this, this, this fronlandia or whatever you a miniature thing.
23:23
Speaker 2: Maybe I could put them on the desk and make it into something at some point in this podcast journey.
23:28
Speaker 2: I need professional help, right, because it's clear I can't do it by myself and I'd reach out to them to do some pieces, but it would not work out because, uh, them days I know too much about camera and if I had that, you ain't gonna see it anyway in the, in the, in the shot.
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Speaker 2: But he does the same, uh, he would do miniature sculptures of the houses and stuff.
23:47
Speaker 2: And it reminded me a lot of the way peter shepherd does his artwork, because I'm not that his things miniature, but the paintings generally are pretty small.
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Speaker 2: So I suppose they say here that he, moving away from what he typically does and having a large scale painting, especially for the occasion he said, his monumental piece, serves a visual, serves as a visual ode to his 30-year journey, marking his evolution as an artist and his deep connection to the gallery and its patrons.
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Speaker 2: He really said.
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Speaker 2: The exhibition is a limited-time event offering the opportunity for enthusiasts and collectors to witness a special collection that bridges the past and the present in Shepard's artistic journey.
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Speaker 2: Shepard is one of tnt's most prominent landscape artists, uh, celebrated for his richly detailed works that evoke a deep sense of connection to nature and culture.
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Speaker 2: He served as president of the trinidad and tobago art society, and so on and so on, and so on.
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Speaker 2: The exhibition ends on december 21st, so check out that.
24:43
Speaker 2: And.
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Speaker 2: And if you say, though, go like, check out his paintings, he's on Instagram.
24:48
Speaker 2: You know, one day I will be prepared right to talk about it and not shoot from the hip, but his Instagram usually shows a lot of his paintings.
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Speaker 2: Especially when he has stuff coming up like exhibitions or anything like that, he usually shows them, and you could just look for Peter Sh shepard simply enough, right, and you will see what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: Like, I've seen one here of a tuck shop and what we would call a parlor and a fruit stall back in the day, and he really he's a general now.
25:16
Speaker 2: This painting I'm looking at here is five inches by five inches.
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Speaker 2: That's what I mean when I say he typically does these smaller looking paintings.
25:23
Speaker 2: But when you see artwork is, uh, the the idea behind artwork, to capture a piece of time for you as the interpreter, to connect with the artwork in some way, and you have that in your space and becomes a conversation piece.
25:36
Speaker 2: There's another one that is in the news, the article here.
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Speaker 2: I'm not seeing who it's written by, to give credit to the author, the article.
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Speaker 2: But there's another picture or painting that is the feature in here, that looking picture or painting that is the feature in here, that looking like what I remember as a little child, going to places like blanchishes and going matlot and talk, where you know a seaside village, or even charlotteville, where you could see the houses you know, small houses right on the, on the, on the sand line, and some boats line up, like you know, and fishermen tending to the net right there and the shore or the water washing the shore.
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Speaker 2: So salute to Peter Shepard, 30 years of anything I find is commendable and I salute to him on his journey and 10%, if any, sell when you go there.
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Speaker 2: Tell him my name, peter Shepard.
26:24
Speaker 2: Corey Shepard sent me.
26:25
Speaker 2: You ain't going to get no discount or nothing, but you're going to help me negotiate, right, as we try to move the podcast to a new horizon.
26:32
Speaker 2: Talking about podcasts, I just want to say as well, salute, there's a man by the name of KG who is starting to get KG like the letter K and the letter G.
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Speaker 2: Right, the man is KG, you know, but salute, salute to kg.
26:45
Speaker 2: Kg are doing interviews.
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Speaker 2: Very much remind me of a fellow in jamaica by the name of teach them who used to sit with artists uh, pretty much any and everywhere.
26:56
Speaker 2: You kind of meet them where they are and do little one-on-one interviews could be an hour, two hours, you know, I mean, I, I have a bias toward very long format listening things you've only realized yet, right, I meet my partner in the office today.
27:07
Speaker 2: My boy, karen hines, has some things to talk about cricket today to coincidentally be here still, my boy, you say, hey, you know, I really want to hear what you had to say.
27:14
Speaker 2: You know, I like to hear what you had to say about topics.
27:16
Speaker 2: But, boy, is it two hours?
27:17
Speaker 2: Something I can't take.
27:18
Speaker 2: I like, I like, I prefer.
27:20
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something when I listen, listen to a podcast and you think too short, I just get mad and sometimes, if it's good enough, I just listen to it over and over.
27:26
Speaker 2: I have some issues with KG falling right in my zone.
27:31
Speaker 2: So when I go and walk, I walk for an hour.
27:32
Speaker 2: You can listen to an interview of his and the last few.
27:35
Speaker 2: He's been doing this for a long time because he had all the well a lot of the Trini Bad Artists and the young upcoming artists on the platform with him and he's of that right.
27:51
Speaker 2: He has songs with swanee and stuff before.
27:52
Speaker 2: He's an artist himself and I enjoyed seeing him in that space.
27:53
Speaker 2: Now I can't sit down and listen to too much of the younger.
27:55
Speaker 2: I just all the demographic.
27:55
Speaker 2: No knock on them at all.
27:56
Speaker 2: So I never looked at a whole lot of them.
27:58
Speaker 2: But the first one I sit down and take in for a good while was when he interviewed umi makano, because when umi was doing soca star, I was around that time I was doing a sponsorship.
28:08
Speaker 2: We had sponsored soca star.
28:10
Speaker 2: Uh, when I say we, we were working for sony erickson at the time and they were sponsors.
28:14
Speaker 2: So we salute my boy, kelly atanas and um grilled peppers.
28:19
Speaker 2: Congratulations the grilled peppers and opening the first location in laramane.
28:23
Speaker 2: You know I mean salute, salute, saluteute, salute, salute.
28:25
Speaker 2: But them days Kelly working my ass and we used to go to all the SocaStars auditions and everything.
28:29
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, we do SocaStars and we do Rising Stars for years.
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Speaker 2: So we used to sit down from 6, 7 in the morning till 6, 7 in the night watching all the people audition, for both SocaStar and Rising Stars are rising stars, so it's interesting for me to see some of them become big artists and thing today.
28:46
Speaker 2: But when I see umi on it and we were sponsors and plus my boy still my boy colonel we had known umi from bellevue too.
28:52
Speaker 2: A matter of fact, umi we used to talk to umi almost every night after he performed and he filmed for soca.
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Speaker 2: Stand of colonel was one of the people who was closest to him here.
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Speaker 2: The colonel was his stylist at the time, making sure umi looked good for every show and kind of strategizing what to do next and how to look and how to come out and how to do the performances and things.
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Speaker 2: So, having been in the in the background of that back in the day and when, of course, when I see umi sitting with cage you know how to take.
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Speaker 2: In that.
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Speaker 2: I was real interested in watching umi interview and just like watching teach them with the Jamaican artist.
29:24
Speaker 2: I find that even though I was right there, it had so much that I don't know or I can't remember right.
29:29
Speaker 2: Like I hear Umi say, his first girlfriend was Matara and Matara is the one who gave him the chain and everything.
29:35
Speaker 2: He had a story with that.
29:36
Speaker 2: And then they had Wendell Naipaul who was a stage manager or is a stage manager and was around all the biggest events.
29:43
Speaker 2: Wendell was there and they say Wendell cussing people.
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Speaker 2: I know I get cussed up from Wendell, me, hinks and Osman all of you taking pictures and fetting back in the days to littletrinnysongscom and I used to be on the stage, I used to take pictures of whoever's the artist on stage and them thing.
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Speaker 2: And boy who tell me, walk up on our cuss like dirt.
30:07
Speaker 2: I never fit.
30:08
Speaker 2: Boy, listen that man, ral cuss me.
30:08
Speaker 2: I want to hit him with the camera, my mind telling me hit him.
30:10
Speaker 2: The camera good and heavy, it's solid in my hand.
30:12
Speaker 2: And the devil.
30:12
Speaker 2: He said damn, let me let what I said.
30:15
Speaker 2: Boy, let me leave that alone, I just walk.
30:16
Speaker 2: Even some people on his side was like, oh god, wendell, so he had to talk to youth men.
30:19
Speaker 2: But that's how he was and he was on his show talking about his involvement in all those big shows as well as, um, him playing a pivotal role, a critical role, in synergy, which I do.
30:31
Speaker 2: I didn't remember, to be fair, even when he was talking about it in the comments I was saying, but when, when they'll become a part of synergy.
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Speaker 2: But I do remember him being a part of jason williams show and, um, all the artists coming on when jason williams had a friday night live kind of style and them things are them as epic days.
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Speaker 2: Epic days.
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Speaker 2: He brought on a kmc as well who had a kind of incident with a muvado thing.
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Speaker 2: On that same friday night live, jw and I'm interviewing real people and it shows it like when you see jw, where he come from on friday night live to be now probably the number one media personality in the country doing morning talk show, you had to salute and take your hat off to them.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Salute to JW, but very, very interesting taking KG, and the last one I see him do was Cassie.
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Speaker 2: Salute to Cassie.
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Speaker 2: You only remember when last you take a wine and a tongue thing, when last you take a and I'm hoping that when KG I ain't seen our interview yet, right, but we're here to take it in and it's clear to me that he's getting more and more artists and people calling him to go on the show and stuff, which is great.
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Speaker 2: I love to see that and I love the interview.
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Speaker 2: Salute to KG.
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Speaker 2: But I do hope that somewhere in the interview the interview Salute to KG.
31:41
Speaker 2: But I do hope that somewhere in the interview KG asked him to please explain what he mean when he say Could a bee kill a bee?
31:53
Speaker 2: Could a bee on the jungle, a bee sting, kits you in the middle of the jungle and start like vum, vum, vum, vum.
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Speaker 2: This one start like I don't know what that means.
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Speaker 2: I don't think Cassie know what that means.
32:03
Speaker 2: So I hope KG get out of here.
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Speaker 2: But salute.
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Speaker 2: Salute to KG.
32:07
Speaker 2: And as we're sending salutes, as we're sending salutes, I want to salute to Kaiso Kern.
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Speaker 2: You know what I I?
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Speaker 2: I get the monday night tent taking that because his brother know a lot of kaizo and he were in the depths of the kaizo.
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Speaker 2: Salute to him and happy birthday to him, right?
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Speaker 2: So let me get into.
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Speaker 2: Let me get into the thing now I've avoided for long.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to break it and I'm trying to break it all how?
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Speaker 2: But very, very, very sad stories in the country this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Sad stories, things that I don't like to talk about and I don't like to report on, but the truth is that sometimes you just can't avoid it.
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Speaker 2: I see some kind of heaviness happening here this week.
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Speaker 2: Let me start with the youngest.
32:47
Speaker 2: Let me start with the youngest right In the most unfortunate of circumstances a little boy in sea, lots, drunk in a pool.
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Speaker 2: This is the.
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Speaker 2: When you talk about.
32:59
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something life short and sometimes it's brutal and the my whole point of this episode is like I just avoid talking about these things all the time and I always spend a little time in christmas.
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Speaker 2: So even though we play song and we hamlam and jam and we happy, all as always, talk about the fact that it's such a difficult thing, christmas could be for people, where you lose people so close to christmas and in around christmas times.
33:24
Speaker 2: Or, you know, you lose people who you had special memories within christmas.
33:29
Speaker 2: Then nothing happened to them during christmas itself, you know, but because all you had special christmas memories and things that all you used to do and traditions for christmas, and the first time an uncle is the man used to cut that ham and this one used to bring this sorry, and then all of a sudden that person no longer there.
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Speaker 2: Even you had a spare thought for the families who going through these things, for for christmas, because we still as as, as as poor or ill-timed as the statement might be you had to live.
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Speaker 2: I always remember when I was young and looking for jobs right, I was now looking for work and things and I'd go into a funeral for my uncle, my Uncle Neville, right, it was Uncle Neville's funeral and so on, and I had a family member trying to help me get a job and a family member who say he would help me get a job, and I remember both of them bouncing up in the funeral and the man said, what if the one who could get a job from or who could pull the string, is his father, who passed away, right?
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Speaker 2: So my next uncle now told them and I I went, both of them, and I hear any conversation and they talk and they say, boy, your father is a good one.
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Speaker 2: And they talk and in the midst of the talk my next uncle now say well, boy, that's about it dead.
34:38
Speaker 2: What about the living boy?
34:39
Speaker 2: And he points at me saying, hey, we still have to help this man get a job and eventually I get a job.
34:44
Speaker 2: The rest is history, right.
34:46
Speaker 2: But that as a young man, that that always stayed with me, because the truth, that the truth is that in tragedy there are people who are to live on and they're living on in pain and in grief.
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Speaker 2: But within the pain and the grief you have to work.
35:04
Speaker 2: It's almost like there's this mystery in the brutality of life where you still have to pick yourself up and do different things and you have a next child you have to see, but this one school go, start back.
35:17
Speaker 2: It's like the world just continue to turn and for some of us it might be easy to, because all of us will face our tragic times and have our moments right.
35:26
Speaker 2: But it's easy, it's so easy to forget them, moments when you, when you grow past it, or the time, help you, heal the wound and sometimes you, as a spare thought for people who are under it and going through it.
35:39
Speaker 2: You know the first Christmas without your mother, that first Christmas without your father, without your children.
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Speaker 2: What it might be like, but when I see this thing with this little boy it's such a tragic thing.
35:48
Speaker 2: Just freak accident, right.
35:50
Speaker 2: Let me read from Nicole Drayton from the Guardian I miss her the eyes.
35:54
Speaker 2: This was how grieving sealant's residents yesterday described the tragic drowning of a two-year-old, of two-year-old aj charles, in the swimming pool area.
36:00
Speaker 2: Charles, who lived with his 33 year old mother and other relatives at production avenue, sealant, was found unresponsive in the private above ground pool at around 2 30 yesterday.
36:10
Speaker 2: The owner of the property where the pool is located expressed sympathy for the grieving family as she speculated that aj may have wandered into the backyard unsupervised and been attracted to the pool.
36:21
Speaker 2: How unfortunate is that.
36:23
Speaker 2: Our condolences to this family, condolences our young mother, 33 years old.
36:27
Speaker 2: Nobody, you know, you want to say things like nobody don't deserve to do, not to have nothing like this happen to them.
36:33
Speaker 2: This little boy, you want to say why.
36:35
Speaker 2: But who is we to ask questions, boy, and tell people who have all the answers that man have all the answers.
36:40
Speaker 2: We must not forget these things.
36:43
Speaker 2: And it's such a such a brutal, brutal situation.
36:46
Speaker 2: Next brutal situation.
36:48
Speaker 2: You have to read and wake up and again, condolences not just to that family but to the entire community, because that is the kind of thing where it hard for our community to recover from that.
36:59
Speaker 2: It hard for everybody the parents, that little boy, his friends, the people in the daycare where he's go, everybody would be touched by this little two-year-old boy.
37:07
Speaker 2: And then imagine your yard.
37:09
Speaker 2: You have a pool and you this is boy.
37:11
Speaker 2: Listen, unexplainable thing, like I say in the beginning of the episode, thing where you can't find the words.
37:17
Speaker 2: You can't find the words for it.
37:19
Speaker 2: Uh, in more, in more sad news again, as, as, as we continue to, we want to call it to wrestle with our crime situation that more and more seem to be out of hand, out of the hands of people.
37:36
Speaker 2: I I'm not sure if we in full control or what going on in the country, or you know when, when these things happen and you look in the comments, some people just go to prayer, some people just go to the government, some people just go to evil spirits and whatever, all different kind of things.
37:51
Speaker 2: People just give as reasons.
37:53
Speaker 2: But who knows, who knows what could lead people to do things like this and and who knows who we live in amongst.
38:02
Speaker 2: You know.
38:02
Speaker 2: I mean when you study who you're living among, sometimes it it's scary.
38:06
Speaker 2: So here this is from the guardian.
38:11
Speaker 2: Uh, in a horrifying home invasion, thieves stormed amina muhammad's Kuva home barehanded, smashed the kitchen window and stabbed her to death with her own knife, even after they obtained $10,000 in cash and jewelry.
38:22
Speaker 2: During a Saturday night robbery.
38:24
Speaker 2: Police said Mohamed 68, of Nancy Street, lisa's Gardens.
38:28
Speaker 2: Kuva suffered four stab wounds to the neck, even though she passively cooperated with the attackers.
38:33
Speaker 2: Does the part that make this story?
38:35
Speaker 2: I mean it have nothing good about this story, but if it could have been worse.
38:39
Speaker 2: This is the thing where you start to study, because all of us, and once you live in here, you have that thought or that fear or that concern in your mind about the security of your own home.
38:49
Speaker 2: You know, I mean like, like what.
38:50
Speaker 2: What is your household, like what, what, where we live in and we all, we have that, that sort of fear, whether the fear is in your house or the fear is on the streets.
39:01
Speaker 2: Like today, I go out to order some roti skin and things right.
39:05
Speaker 2: So I call Hussain.
39:06
Speaker 2: I say here, I come in to pick up roti skin Me.
39:09
Speaker 2: I realize that the roti skin, the Hussains I call I thought it was Dong dong for the spain, or what they call, the one in el socorro, the san juan kind of area, by the quiz I thought it's them I call, not knowing.
39:27
Speaker 2: I go and call hosain roti shop on the corner george and queen street.
39:29
Speaker 2: Oh lord, but I done what I told you and I don't want to pick it up now.
39:32
Speaker 2: I say no long, mean goodies kind of place.
39:34
Speaker 2: And to tell you the truth, when I every time I hear George and Queen Street.
39:38
Speaker 2: Now the only time and this is because of the podcast I've been reading about it is when somebody and Grindr going to meet their friend and da, da, da, da, da da, robbery.
39:46
Speaker 2: How much time we talk about that here.
39:47
Speaker 2: So I now studying, boy, and get back in your motor car and drive out of here safe and sound, because the way I just walk and I have a kind of twist on the hook button on them kind of thing anything happened to me on george street is the fastest.
40:03
Speaker 2: You go here.
40:03
Speaker 2: They say I was on grinder and the man I went to look for is a roti skin.
40:07
Speaker 2: I went to look for for people, but you have these.
40:10
Speaker 2: You're living in this world where you, you're going out, you're watching yourself, you have to lock car, the street kind of dim and it ain't too good.
40:18
Speaker 2: You want to make a next move.
40:19
Speaker 2: You're coming home, you're watching wrongful car and no, society should not live this way.
40:24
Speaker 2: And we continue to live this way.
40:25
Speaker 2: And even in those thoughts you kind of think, maybe you have these scenarios in your mind the fight or flight or whatever the thing might be and what you go do in a situation like that.
40:36
Speaker 2: And most of us, like most people I talk to, will say boy, let them take the things.
40:41
Speaker 2: Yes, because at this big age and thing, and let them take the things.
40:43
Speaker 2: Once my wife and my son safe, we go thing and people might.
40:47
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if you're going into attack mode or defense mode, but we have, we have this notion in our mind.
40:52
Speaker 2: You'll tell me if it's me alone.
40:53
Speaker 2: Right, you have this notion in your mind that if they just take the things it's not fair, it ain't right, but at least we have life and we could live on to go again.
41:02
Speaker 2: So when you hear that this, this, this, this woman, amina muhammad is, you know, the articles keep saying passively, cooperated, in other words, you tell them go ahead, take what you want, we don't want no problems, you know.
41:16
Speaker 2: We just want to live, please, and you beg for your life and men who can bear hand to take your own things and do that to you is a heaviness that cannot be described.
41:25
Speaker 2: So again, condolences to the family of amina muhammad, the community that amina muhammad belongs to, the whole of kuva, and it's one of them.
41:34
Speaker 2: Things too, just like, just like, just like this little boy is sending nation into that kind of heaviness because, almost like everybody, was that little boy who went in that pool.
41:46
Speaker 2: Or know that little boy who went in that pool.
41:48
Speaker 2: This is nothing.
41:49
Speaker 2: Nobody had to explain to you how to relate to that.
41:51
Speaker 2: You must feel that everybody know amina muhammad.
41:54
Speaker 2: Everybody in trinidad and tobago know her, we know granny, we know, we know auntie, we know moms, we know we says oh, this is, this is, this is us, this is who we are, this is our society, this we own.
42:08
Speaker 2: So when you see things like this boy, it's heavy and boy.
42:12
Speaker 2: If that was enough, so again condolences to them.
42:13
Speaker 2: If that wasn't enough, so again can't do a lot to them If that wasn't enough.
42:15
Speaker 2: You wake up early Monday morning to see one of the more difficult things I think the country has seen in a long time.
42:26
Speaker 2: You know, I say that everybody know this little boy in sea lots and everybody know amina muhammad.
42:33
Speaker 2: But the truth is that when you see grief and sudden death hit people, especially people who known in public life, is that different.
42:45
Speaker 2: You know, I remember when I wake up this morning and I and I went on facebook you know you're kind of just scrolling I start seeing people putting an emoji with tears and no way I can't believe this and nobody's saying exactly what happened early, early in the morning, right, and then, as I usually do, I throw my radio on and I listen to blaze and and miles, because I will typically get, uh, some kind of news from them, right, for some reason, um zachary, like the newsreader, a lot of forget, he fell a name off hand, but he, he's come and he reads news every morning.
43:19
Speaker 2: Zachary liked to hear him too bad, and I hear the newsreader nothing and say, but he's hearing Blaise and them alluding to what is happening.
43:26
Speaker 2: And of course I mean, if you're in the country you know what's the story I'm talking about, but if you're not here, you might have heard about the tragedy that faced Lisa Morris Julian and her family at her home.
43:41
Speaker 2: Let me read from the Guardian right Attributes continue to pour from various sections of society following the death of member of parliament for WO Merrill, lisa Morris Julian, who served as a minister in ministry education.
43:51
Speaker 2: Minister Morris Julian and her two children, aged 25 and 6 years, died tragically in the early hours of Monday morning in a fire at their family's home in Fafan Street.
44:00
Speaker 2: Arima Pro-Vice-Chancellor and the Principal of UWE St Augustine.
44:04
Speaker 2: This article is about the, the tributes that and the general feeling of people that the tributes continue to pour in, as they say here.
44:14
Speaker 2: Pro-vice-chancellor and Principal of the UWE St Augustine Campus.
44:18
Speaker 2: Professor Rosemary Antwine extended condolences to the minister's family in a statement issued today and pointed to her contribution to the education sector as a former schoolteacher and alumna of the University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus.
44:34
Speaker 2: She also highlighted the late MP's public service record.
44:39
Speaker 2: On a professional level, lisa Morris Julian was valued where she laid the foundation for her illustrious career.
44:47
Speaker 2: Her passion for playwriting earned her numerous awards at the secondary school level and left an indelible mark on the students she taught.
44:53
Speaker 2: Professor Antoine noted level and left an indelible mark on the student she taught.
44:57
Speaker 2: Professor antoine noted a journey from an inspiring teacher to a respected public servant highlights the profound and lasting influence she had on her community.
45:02
Speaker 2: On a personal level, as a fellow arimian, I remember and reflect upon minister maurice julian with deep fondness, and I have lost a cherished colleague whose kindness, wisdom and warmth touch many lives, including mine.
45:17
Speaker 2: Words cannot express the deep sadness we feel at the passing of Lisa Morris-Julian, but we find comfort in knowing that her spirit of dedication and excellence will continue to inspire us.
45:28
Speaker 2: Parliamentary colleague from the opposition benches, rodney Charles, a member of Parliament for Napa Rima, described late WO Merrill MP Lisa Morris Julian as someone who was consumed with service to her country, her fellow citizens, her principles and her family.
45:43
Speaker 2: The news of her passing and the manner of her death are hard to take, even for those who have much experience with the trials and tribulations of life.
45:51
Speaker 2: He said Grief, especially in this season, does not discriminate.
45:55
Speaker 2: Hell of a statement.
45:56
Speaker 2: Grief in this season does not discriminate.
45:57
Speaker 2: Hell of a statement.
45:57
Speaker 2: Grief in this season does not discriminate.
45:59
Speaker 2: And the truth is that we all know this.
46:03
Speaker 2: We all know this, we've all been there.
46:05
Speaker 2: It's wrong and talk to people for long enough you're going to hear stories about this is it's?
46:10
Speaker 2: It's it's life.
46:11
Speaker 2: Life, as much as we have plenty joys and plenty things to celebrate, we also had these moments where I mean it's still celebrating life for people who pass it.
46:22
Speaker 2: But sometimes these celebrations could be brutal and they could be painful.
46:25
Speaker 2: Uh, while neither.
46:30
Speaker 2: Uh, we last spoke of the function.
46:32
Speaker 2: Rodney charles just went on to talk more about the relationship they had and her commitment to Arima and the people of Arima and so on.
46:40
Speaker 2: And you know they like to say politicians are strange bedfellows.
46:45
Speaker 2: I hope I say that the right way, but politics is a funny place and I'll say this right Even in tragedy you could find some people who have the meanest things to say about people and let me, let me leave it at that.
47:04
Speaker 2: They have the meanest things to say about people and I did see a few comments like that.
47:09
Speaker 2: But you could see like they stuck this out, like a sort of you could see people who, on the opposition side, on the government side, on the apolitical side, on the side where there's technocrats and education secondary level, tertiary, it's like her impact on people around her was something else.
47:30
Speaker 2: It's a matter of blood.
47:31
Speaker 2: It's easy to be in the position that she in and have so many people pouring out.
47:37
Speaker 2: We're talking about genuine outpouring of love for somebody.
47:41
Speaker 2: It's something else, something that I have not.
47:44
Speaker 2: I don't remember seeing anything like this in a long time and, yes, it's tragic, yes, it's very sudden.
47:50
Speaker 2: I think everybody was in shock, but it seemed like one of those people who live a life where it hard to find anything bad to say about them.
47:57
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about just because I want to read from the from loop tt as well, where it's a barbados prime minister.
48:03
Speaker 2: Saddened over maurice julian's passing barbados, prime minister mia motley has offered her condolences following the tragic passing of w mp lisa maurice julian.
48:13
Speaker 2: In a post on x, formerly known Twitter, she said she was deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Morris, julian and her two children.
48:19
Speaker 2: She said on behalf of our nation, I send my heartfelt prayers and condolences to the family, friends, government and people of Trinidad and Tobago during this tough time.
48:28
Speaker 2: It wasn't just people like that, or Dr Rowley, of course, who was on the scene this morning and, as they say, the principal are Yui.
48:41
Speaker 2: I just want to read what Dr Rowley had to say here.
48:45
Speaker 2: Prime Minister, dr Kate Rowley has expressed profound sorrow over the devastating loss, describing it as an unimaginable tragedy for her family.
48:57
Speaker 2: She said my family and I are devastated by this awful tragedy that has taken the lives of Lisa and her children.
49:02
Speaker 2: We extend our deepest condolences to the Morris Julian family as we, along with the Arima and the wider national community, struggle to come to terms with this shocking reality.
49:12
Speaker 2: Again, I struggled to put into words this morning.
49:17
Speaker 2: I would imagine that these prime ministers and people who have these positions in the region, who are speech writers and all these different things, they they might be in a similar situation where it's hard to find the words to put for this kind of thing.
49:34
Speaker 2: I mean, I I remember coming here one time and talking about some little children in a rookery nook who get caught in a building and on fire is such a tragic way to.
49:45
Speaker 2: There's one of the things that I think you ask the average person about.
49:47
Speaker 2: I mean, we had to go sometime right, all of us but, um, that would be one of the ways.
49:54
Speaker 2: That would be very, very frightening and fearful and something that is almost like for us who here.
50:00
Speaker 2: On top of the pain of losing people like that, you have the pain of the gruesome or the tragic way it happened.
50:08
Speaker 2: Then you put a layer on top of that, the pain that is three people in a family.
50:13
Speaker 2: I want to express condolences to that family.
50:16
Speaker 2: It is unimaginable to have a family lose three people under them.
50:21
Speaker 2: Circumstances like that, when you see the outpouring of love.
50:24
Speaker 2: I ain't talking about just prime ministers or no principal or Yui, I'm talking about the average person on the ground who they're talking to.
50:32
Speaker 2: I remember one of the first things I saw was Kijan Haynes talking about it and, as professional as he is, in the end, when he talked about what happened, he said well on a personal level, this was a friend of mine.
50:42
Speaker 2: When you talk about what happened, you say well on a personal level, this was a friend of mine.
50:43
Speaker 2: This was a friend.
50:44
Speaker 2: Yes, he heard that coming out Several times.
50:47
Speaker 2: Several people on my timeline, arimians and otherwise, talking about us.
50:53
Speaker 2: So one, one post from a colleague.
50:55
Speaker 2: I was in Sydney, rosemont, little Sydney, talking about playing pan for her and sharing some of the texts with her saying, you know, back and forth, and they always support each other, according to cindy, and one of the texts saying girl life short, boy short it is I, of course, you see.
51:15
Speaker 2: You see.
51:15
Speaker 2: You see, balira maraj, a rima, a rima man, I believe.
51:17
Speaker 2: He's mayor, now formerly mayor, and penelope beckles was there, uh, of you see, more and more people coming during the course of the day.
51:25
Speaker 2: I saw tributes, of course, from Randall Mitchell, from Stuart Young, several people.
51:28
Speaker 2: But one of the most difficult things to watch this morning, outside of just coming to terms with our news, one of the most difficult things to see was Camille Robinson-Riggis.
51:42
Speaker 2: Boy, if you ain't see it yet, don't try and see it.
51:48
Speaker 2: But the raw human pain and emotion I see in a woman.
51:52
Speaker 2: I wonder sometimes if reporters should not show that or not publish it, like I caught between things like that, like, should we just avoid showing it at all because it's just too raw, or is it something that we need to see?
52:06
Speaker 2: Because what happened with her day this morning is something that I think all of us can relate to.
52:14
Speaker 2: All of us can relate to it.
52:16
Speaker 2: It is, it is the way it goes.
52:17
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, life, as I say, life, have a kind of brutal way about it and the, the, the, the, the.
52:28
Speaker 2: I want to first keep our thoughts with Camille Robinson-Ridge.
52:31
Speaker 2: Is that everybody in that family and those families that I mentioned here, that feeling exactly like what she feel in this morning, or what she's felt and what she'll continue to feel for probably a long time, because this one it rough.
52:47
Speaker 2: Every, you know everybody have good things to say about it.
52:50
Speaker 2: That is a rough thing and I think it's just one of them.
52:52
Speaker 2: Things on a as a country, where we get the opportunity to take a pause, and every now and again you hold on to that opportunity with two hands, the opportunity to take a pause, a pause to just reassess what we're here for, reassess the purpose that we put here, for what is we doing If we just going through the motions and we get opportunity to pause.
53:18
Speaker 2: This family, these families have a long road ahead of them.
53:21
Speaker 2: These communities have a long road ahead of them and this nation have a long road ahead of them.
53:23
Speaker 2: These communities have a long road ahead of them and this nation have a long road ahead, because it's not an easy thing as a nation to see a weekend like this, where it's unfortunate incident, it's complete tragedy and then it's appalling levels of crime that we can't seem to come to terms with.
53:45
Speaker 2: It's like we get a little dose of everything this weekend.
53:48
Speaker 2: But the truth is again, like my boy tell me, my uncle tell me funeral, he say, yeah, that is it.
53:53
Speaker 2: Then what about the living?
53:54
Speaker 2: We must remember as we continue to live on, because as we document these things and we talk about them and we read about them, all of us feel it.
54:01
Speaker 2: But the truth is, the days will pass, the funerals will come, the wake and them go finish, and the funerals and them will go right, and christmas will come and we will hamlam and jam and we will open gift and we will do all the nice things that we do for christmas.
54:22
Speaker 2: But I want you to appreciate or just spare a thought or a prayer or a moment or a meditation or whatever it is you're into, because these families and these communities going to reel and these friends, you know, I mean I watch a little and it's just, it's just so happened that I was watching, really, a fisher brung.
54:42
Speaker 2: I was watching and, not to tell you the truth, because I like a fisher brung and she says sweet, sweet, I like her on her side, you know, I mean uh, and she was performing at the.
54:55
Speaker 2: I want to say, if there's that government reception it was a pnm reception, one out of the two things, but dr rowley was there and I feel so good when I see this little get well, this young lady, I see her.
55:08
Speaker 2: I remember seeing when I used to follow her on instagram and tiktok and thing, when she just used to come and play tune anything, and I remember coming here and talk about her being young queen the next days.
55:18
Speaker 2: If was there the next, uh, uh, alicia jagger.
55:28
Speaker 2: So you know she, she definitely heading towards that and she taking the parent music seriously as far as I concerned, because you could see her effort for her to she done form her band, she always well dressed, well made up and so I following her career, just like I like to see youth get through in life.
55:44
Speaker 2: So I'm watching this thing on Instagram over the weekend and I feel so proud, like I feel like her old uncle.
55:50
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, her old uncle watching the Nissan.
55:53
Speaker 2: I said, well, look at this girl.
55:54
Speaker 2: You see young lady.
55:56
Speaker 2: I don't stop calling people girl and things.
55:57
Speaker 2: Look at this young lady playing quatrants, singing, with the prime minister coming to take picture with you and taking out your thing.
56:10
Speaker 2: I can't imagine how that must have felt for her.
56:11
Speaker 2: I feel into crying me and doing a damn thing.
56:12
Speaker 2: When I see the thing, I water in my eye.
56:12
Speaker 2: If I was me singing, I'd break down.
56:13
Speaker 2: She and her band continue to sing and they put on a performance and to think that lisa morris, julian and them was there and everybody see her and they're partying and thing.
56:21
Speaker 2: And then when is, according to eric williams, fed over back to work?
56:25
Speaker 2: Monday morning.
56:26
Speaker 2: This is the kind of tragedy people come to here.
56:29
Speaker 2: So again, condolences to the whole arena.
56:32
Speaker 2: A family, boy, a family that is a hell of a loss for a family, mother and two trainer.
56:38
Speaker 2: 25 years old, you now start to live.
56:40
Speaker 2: Six years old, you now start to live and what we gonna do?
56:43
Speaker 2: What we gonna do?
56:43
Speaker 2: We going to do what we going to do, we going to question it and we going to ask why?
56:45
Speaker 2: Waste of time.
56:46
Speaker 2: The most we could do is continue to hold them in our prayers, continue to hold them in our memory.
56:51
Speaker 2: As I said, the time will pass and people who most affected by it going to have a very rough Christmas and a very rough New Year's, new years, and some of us might have moved on.
57:04
Speaker 2: But but spare thought for them.
57:05
Speaker 2: Spare thought for them, because that can't be easy.
57:06
Speaker 2: And this is why every christmas, every single christmas since I started this podcast, I always come and play this song, because this song for me is a reminder that, while christmas are very joyful time for me, because I like my parang and I like to go by people and I I've seen what parang does when you give somebody a Parang, when you pull up and you sneak up by somebody's house and you jam too hard on your thing and that person wake up in their pajamas and their duster coat and they come out of their house.
57:37
Speaker 2: I tell more people who love Parang I don't want to do this by nobody who don't love it.
57:42
Speaker 2: But when you do it and you bring a kind of joy to people, when you just pass through, and when you, when you pass through and you get somebody a parang, it's five, ten minutes, fifteen minutes.
57:51
Speaker 2: You buy somebody else.
57:51
Speaker 2: You know you don't stay long and you're gone by.
57:53
Speaker 2: You know what your place I parang already is houses.
57:55
Speaker 2: You don't know the people because I always remember being in the back of bagatello, places in Arima, places in Claxton Bay 2, 3 in the morning when things strike up and we play.
58:07
Speaker 2: We go play.
58:10
Speaker 2: Before you go inside they go open the door, you go in and play and then you're coming outside and neighbor peeping by the thing.
58:15
Speaker 2: He say, son, will you come and give me a parang na cup?
58:17
Speaker 2: You know it's such a loving thing and such a joyful thing and I like the, the gift giving and the spirit of christmas and the harm and the pastel and the memories.
58:28
Speaker 2: And he saw, we, I love all of that.
58:30
Speaker 2: Even remembering loved ones who not with us here anymore is a special thing for me around christmas time.
58:35
Speaker 2: But we must never forget that while we have in joy, boy, what Laugh and cry, just live in the same house.
58:43
Speaker 2: You must never forget it.
58:45
Speaker 6: Mommy, will you sing Jingle Bells for me?
58:48
Speaker 6: No, it's not Christmas yet.
58:50
Speaker 6: You're not getting any toys this year.
58:57
Speaker 6: Guitar solo.
59:35
Speaker 7: Ding dong, ding dong.
59:36
Speaker 7: Merry Christmas is here, thank you.
59:39
Speaker 7: The announcer said ten more days to go, but inside my kitchen a dryer's gone.
59:46
Speaker 7: My butt's shining like a saxophone.
59:48
Speaker 7: Fuck where's inside my butterfish?
59:51
Speaker 7: The worms in my belly speak in Spanish, but still on the radio I hear everybody say Merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas.
1:00:22
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
1:00:30
Speaker 3: Penoso cosas Severo cosas.
1:00:33
Speaker 3: Penoso cosas, Penoso cosas Severo cosas, penoso cosas.
1:00:43
Speaker 7: We know some folks that say they don't know us.
1:00:44
Speaker 7: We know some folks that Two people arguing in a corner but the biscuit pan ain't have no flour.
1:00:57
Speaker 7: The ants get mixed and boss up me.
1:01:01
Speaker 7: Sugar pan too.
1:01:02
Speaker 7: I like the planning to stage a coup.
1:01:07
Speaker 7: They get like a big runny on the street.
1:01:11
Speaker 7: Nothing in the house, y'all get wrapped to eat, approaching me kitchen, me complaining.
1:01:16
Speaker 7: Nothing in the cupboard, me migrating.
1:01:19
Speaker 7: I'm still on the radio.
1:01:20
Speaker 7: I hear everybody say Merry Christmas, merry.
1:01:24
Speaker 4: Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas.
1:01:42
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, oyo, oyo, oyo.
1:01:54
Speaker 7: Oyo Menoso cosas, severo cosas, menoso cosas, menoso cosas, semero COSAS.
1:02:25
Speaker 7: It's ten more days and Christmas round the corner.
1:02:28
Speaker 7: No food, no toys.
1:02:31
Speaker 7: Yeah, buy me liquor.
1:02:33
Speaker 7: The only positive thing that I see Is no more house like no brother we.
1:02:43
Speaker 7: There's no more house like the border with Rock by the law suit against my wife.
1:02:47
Speaker 7: Don't tease me, I try to save me life.
1:02:49
Speaker 7: Mosquito hire a lawyer too, he said the blood is sucking from weed.
1:02:54
Speaker 7: But still on the radio I hear everybody say Merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas.
1:03:12
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, merry Christmas.
1:03:15
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, merry Christmas.
1:03:24
Speaker 2: Samosas Chicken samosas Veggie samosas.
1:03:27
Speaker 2: Chicken Samosas, veggie Samosas, chicken Samosas.
1:03:33
Speaker 2: Crazy, good, good song.
1:03:34
Speaker 2: Good, good, good, good song.
1:03:35
Speaker 2: We're still stopping singing good songs.
1:03:38
Speaker 2: We have a few more to play, but in other news I feel you know what I mean Sometimes I give all the other sports news.
1:03:43
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
1:03:45
Speaker 2: I know the ladies and them don't like the sports news, but we loving the sports these days.
1:03:48
Speaker 2: Because I will get to dwight york, of course I will do, I will, but before I get to that, sammy replaces coley as test coach.
1:03:56
Speaker 2: Former west indies captain darren sammy has named has been named the head coach of the west Indies men's team across all formats.
1:04:04
Speaker 2: This was announced yesterday by Cricket West Indies director of cricket, miles Bascom, during a CWI media conference in St Vincent.
1:04:11
Speaker 2: Sammy had been the coach of the West Indies T20 and ODI team since last year and will take charge of the test side from April 2025, replacing current Red Bull coach, jamaican Andre Coley.
1:04:22
Speaker 2: 25, replacing current Red Bull coach, jamaican Andre Coley, and the Samizan.
1:04:24
Speaker 2: West Indies have won 15 of 28 ODIs since May 2023, winning four of seven bilateral series.
1:04:37
Speaker 2: Well, this means, if he wants to judge, he's better than Pep Guardiola 15 of 28,.
1:04:41
Speaker 2: You're batting over 50%.
1:04:43
Speaker 2: Four of the seven.
1:04:43
Speaker 2: You're batting over 50%.
1:04:44
Speaker 2: For the 7, you're batting over 50% In T20s.
1:04:46
Speaker 2: The team clinched four series at home against India, england and South Africa and lost to Sri Lanka and Australia and England and have made significant movement up the ICC 220 rankings, currently occupying the fourth spot.
1:05:00
Speaker 2: So Sami is a man.
1:05:01
Speaker 2: One thing Sami have is very inspirational leadership.
1:05:07
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, sami.
1:05:07
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was in the West Indies, if he was the best bowler, the best batsman, the best player, but somehow, like he has something that encouraging and inspiring young players to give more for West Indies.
1:05:17
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that Sami is a manaman could help we turn a corner.
1:05:21
Speaker 2: You know how much corner we go to in the West.
1:05:23
Speaker 2: I'm feeling like now we're driving on one of them Formula 1 track.
1:05:26
Speaker 2: It's just corner, the whole thing, the whole thing looking like it's just corner.
1:05:33
Speaker 2: So hoping that we get in there, sami.
1:05:36
Speaker 2: If anybody could get with you there, sami could get with you there.
1:05:38
Speaker 2: If anybody could get Soka Warriors there, dwight Teo could get with you there, tr.
1:05:42
Speaker 2: If anybody could get Soka Warriors there, dwight Teoh could get with it.
1:05:44
Speaker 2: Trinidad and Tobago to face off with Saudi Arabia in International Friendly.
1:05:46
Speaker 2: This International Friendly should be happening on Tuesday this week.
1:05:49
Speaker 2: I think it's the middle of the day too.
1:05:51
Speaker 2: So I am happy to see that, as I predicted, we'll be getting bigger friendlies and so on.
1:05:57
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
1:06:00
Speaker 2: The government put some money in the thing.
1:06:01
Speaker 2: I am assuming that corporate or private sector will sponsor and put some money anything.
1:06:05
Speaker 2: Uh, unfortunately it was just announced scully loves football.
1:06:11
Speaker 2: It was just announced that the game will not be shown.
1:06:15
Speaker 2: Apparently saudi arabia preparing for their middle east cup and they want to have a closed session.
1:06:21
Speaker 2: But I mean, I glad because I can't tell you the last time we had a friendly against any side of any kind of repute, I mean I shouldn't say that maybe outside the caribbean right.
1:06:32
Speaker 2: I don't want to say that the other caribbean countries are waste, but we need bigger opposition and I think not so much just the quality of football equality of football is a factor, right, but a factor is we have a lot of local players, a young team here for them to go travel and play games like this and see where it is to be under that kind of pressure out there.
1:06:52
Speaker 2: You know flying, you're getting a class.
1:06:54
Speaker 2: You're telling them recently hey, we just have an hour and a half to practice.
1:06:58
Speaker 2: We get in one practice in the stadium and they give everything here.
1:07:01
Speaker 2: This is not time for, yeah, you know you're talking to them like, oh, school teachers used to talk to you a long time, but you say I don't want to come here and have a repeat of myself and talk to you over and over and over.
1:07:09
Speaker 2: Just do what we had to do, get it practiced done and that level of exposure and professionalism that we should get out of our friendly like this, and to continue to get more friendlies, I think is important.
1:07:20
Speaker 2: So they say again TNT's senior national football team will face Saudi Arabia and international friendly at the Al-Shabaab Club Stadium in Riyadh.
1:07:30
Speaker 2: The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association says this encounter on December 17, 2024 serves as a crucial preparation for Trinidad and Tobago ahead of the Gold Cup playoff against Cuba in March 2025.
1:07:40
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia will use the match as part of their build-up to the Arabian Gulf Cup later in December.
1:07:45
Speaker 2: The fixture marks the first international outing for newly appointed coach Dwight York as he begins his tenure.
1:07:51
Speaker 2: To build momentum and solidify the squad, york will have the services of overseas-based players, including Captain Aubrey David, who plays his trade in Guatemala.
1:07:59
Speaker 2: I saw Aubrey David say under York, everybody had to play for the position.
1:08:03
Speaker 2: Again he.
1:08:05
Speaker 2: I saw Aubrey David say under York, everybody had to play for the position again.
1:08:06
Speaker 2: He's been our captain for a little while, but he say he's like, yeah, everybody had to play for the position.
1:08:11
Speaker 2: So it's a no freedom under York.
1:08:14
Speaker 2: I like that.
1:08:14
Speaker 2: I like that and I think he has the respect of the players, both older and new, and it might work in our favor that the game is a closed game where there's no media coverage, no live show or anything like that.
1:08:34
Speaker 2: So what we could do is no matter how the game turns out.
1:08:37
Speaker 2: We could just lie.
1:08:38
Speaker 2: As far as I can tell, if I was York.
1:08:43
Speaker 2: We don't win this game.
1:08:44
Speaker 2: I lied like hell.
1:08:45
Speaker 2: I lied all the way through my day.
1:08:46
Speaker 2: I don't care what nobody say.
1:08:47
Speaker 2: No, all now.
1:08:49
Speaker 2: I call them all Sean Fuentes and Lassana Lybert.
1:08:52
Speaker 2: I call them now lies.
1:08:53
Speaker 2: I said, guys, we end up playing the game early.
1:08:56
Speaker 2: We win about 35-0.
1:08:58
Speaker 2: We have the greatest team we ever had in the history of Trinidad and Tobago football.
1:09:02
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
1:09:02
Speaker 2: You had to do something.
1:09:03
Speaker 2: You know you had to make it happen.
1:09:05
Speaker 2: You had to make it happen, so I needed to make sure that we're here.
1:09:09
Speaker 2: We're celebrating the team's.
1:09:10
Speaker 2: West Indies is turning a corner and corner and corner and corner and the Soka Warriors bringing in corners and turning corners and so on.
1:09:17
Speaker 2: I guess you know what I mean.
1:09:19
Speaker 2: But I'm here to leave only with a little music to it, a little music for the Christmas season.
1:09:24
Speaker 2: A little music for the Christmas season.
1:09:26
Speaker 2: I may or may not Only mightn't see me until his old years, you know, maybe old years, because I'll tell you this, right, I was planning to surprise somebody with a parang over the Christmas season.
1:09:38
Speaker 2: Right, because this Christmas is different to a lot of the Christmas that I've spent.
1:09:41
Speaker 2: But people spoil the surprise.
1:09:46
Speaker 2: I know what the hell is going on with people now.
1:09:48
Speaker 2: I went through a lot of lengths, I went through all kinds of different things to tell people alright, seal up thing, don't let nobody see where it is.
1:09:54
Speaker 2: Seal up box, don't let nobody see.
1:09:55
Speaker 2: They're going to put a big, big label, big big label on the box and things like that.
1:10:02
Speaker 2: So since I can't give nobody no parang in person, let me give you a little parang right here.
1:10:08
Speaker 2: I can't give you something, oh yeah.
1:10:29
Speaker 6: Get it.
1:10:29
Speaker 6: This one says me business.
1:10:30
Speaker 6: They say, and me a doctor.
1:10:40
Speaker 6: You see, your land sun green, the spark of the grocery.
1:10:45
Speaker 3: Women always want you cutting and the house want repainting.
1:10:50
Speaker 3: So only them, businessmen, could win.
1:10:52
Speaker 3: They say that Christ ain't born on Christmas Day.
1:10:58
Speaker 3: They say that it's a pagan holiday.
1:11:02
Speaker 7: I say no way, Cos when I see the lovely real life.
1:11:08
Speaker 6: Boy, it's Christmas again.
1:11:09
Speaker 6: Old man Jack stretching the hand.
1:11:13
Speaker 6: Boy, it's Christmas again.
1:11:15
Speaker 6: It's the only time of the year.
1:11:17
Speaker 6: Boy, it's Christmas again.
1:11:19
Speaker 6: The rich.
1:11:20
Speaker 6: Don't show the poor that they care.
1:11:21
Speaker 6: Boy, it's Christmas again.
1:11:22
Speaker 6: You rich, they'll show the board that they care.
1:11:23
Speaker 6: Oi, it's Christmas again.
1:11:24
Speaker 6: Children must be happy.
1:11:26
Speaker 6: These two things they never see.
1:11:28
Speaker 6: Christmas does unite all family.
1:11:32
Speaker 6: Oi, it's Christmas again.
1:11:34
Speaker 6: Oh, oh, sing it to me.
1:11:37
Speaker 3: Oi, it's Christmas again.
1:11:38
Speaker 3: Come on fun.
1:11:40
Speaker 3: Love is free.
1:11:41
Speaker 3: Oi, it's Christmas again.
1:11:41
Speaker 3: Give it, come on fun level.
1:11:42
Speaker 3: Oh, it's Christmas again.
1:11:43
Speaker 3: Give it, give it.
1:11:44
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:44
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:44
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:44
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:44
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:44
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:45
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:45
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:45
Speaker 3: Give it, give it, give it, give it, give it.
1:11:45
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:46
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:46
Speaker 3: Give it, give it.
1:11:46
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:46
Speaker 3: Give it, give it.
1:11:46
Speaker 3: Give it.
1:11:46
Speaker 3: Give it, give it Give it, give it, give it.
1:11:59
Speaker 2: Sparrowing is not an album in the house, sparrowing is a voice and a chorus.
1:12:02
Speaker 2: Neighbor neighbor, open the door neighbor.
1:12:29
Speaker 6: It's Christmas morning.
1:12:31
Speaker 6: You should be waking.
1:12:32
Speaker 6: Put the drinks on the table.
1:12:35
Speaker 6: I hope you buy it.
1:12:38
Speaker 7: Me and the boys come to give you a parang.
1:12:41
Speaker 7: Me and the boys come to give you a parang.
1:12:43
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, ya, ya, ya, come on, fellas.
1:12:46
Speaker 7: Let me take a next one.
1:12:47
Speaker 7: Oh yo, yo, ya, ya ya, we have fun for ten months to clean.
1:12:53
Speaker 4: Oh yo yo ya, ya, ya.
1:12:54
Speaker 4: We pickin' from pain to kerosene.
1:12:57
Speaker 4: Oh yo yo, ya, ya, ya, it's Christmas, merry Christmas.
1:13:41
Speaker 2: It's Merry Christmas this Christmas.
1:13:44
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas.
1:13:44
Speaker 2: A man tell me my ears get sensitive.
1:13:49
Speaker 2: They were listening to Rome and I can't take Rome, but I can listen to these From my son.
1:13:56
Speaker 8: I'm getting older and all she balloons I have to blow.
1:14:01
Speaker 3: Some for the door and some for the window are blowing are blowing, popping like a tree.
1:14:10
Speaker 8: All my chores in pain, never will see, never will see.
1:14:15
Speaker 8: I can't blow your balloons again.
1:14:19
Speaker 3: Living alone.
1:14:20
Speaker 8: She don't condone no certain lengthy preparation, no harm, no lamb, no gifts, no flub, just hanging balloons and decorations.
1:14:33
Speaker 3: Oi oi oi, neva Rosie, oi oi oi, neva Rosie, oi oi oi.
1:14:37
Speaker 3: Come and help me blow.
1:14:38
Speaker 3: Oi oi oi, neva Rosie, come and help me blow.
1:14:47
Speaker 3: Oi oi oi, neva Rosie, come and help me blow.
1:14:50
Speaker 2: I didn't mind to train him.
1:14:53
Speaker 2: Should we say she balloon crazy Blow?
1:14:56
Speaker 2: Neighbor Rosie, I ain't so sure about your room yet I ain't so sure about your room.
1:15:00
Speaker 2: But I mean, in fairness, if you could, if you could listen to these, maybe we should get.
1:15:07
Speaker 2: Give Rome a chance, ease up Rome, because when I listen back to this, my problem with Rome is that the porn Annie.
1:15:21
Speaker 2: It's enough cleverness to be called a double entendre.
1:15:24
Speaker 2: But this, um, this is clever night or not?
1:15:27
Speaker 2: God bless kenny g.
1:15:29
Speaker 2: You say kenny g or did I say kenny g?
1:15:38
Speaker 6: god bless them both what?
1:16:21
Speaker 2: All right, point taken, let me leave rum alone.
1:16:25
Speaker 2: If you can listen to that, you can more than listen to Annie and Chipone, right, but it's only fitting.
1:16:30
Speaker 2: It's only fitting that I finish this episode with a haremian.
1:16:34
Speaker 2: The whole country reeling, but a haremian reeling is only fitting that I land it off with a haremon right.
1:17:10
Speaker 8: Would you like to join your sunny?
1:17:12
Speaker 8: I am over here, happy in the mother country, darling for the christmas.
1:17:19
Speaker 8: Your son would be really jumping.
1:17:20
Speaker 8: Listen to the chorus of what we all will be singing.
1:17:25
Speaker 8: Drink a rum and a bunch of cream.
1:17:27
Speaker 8: Drink a rum.
1:17:28
Speaker 8: It's Christmas morning.
1:17:29
Speaker 8: Drink a rum and a bunch of cream.
1:17:32
Speaker 8: Drink a rum.
1:17:32
Speaker 8: Mama drink if you're drinking.
1:17:34
Speaker 8: Drink a rum and a bunch of cream.
1:17:36
Speaker 8: Drink a rum.
1:17:37
Speaker 8: Let we fat if we fatten.
1:17:38
Speaker 8: Drink a rum and a bunch of cream.
1:17:40
Speaker 8: Drink a rum.
1:17:54
Speaker 8: I have invited Jamaica, lovely Grenada, barbados, also Guyana.
1:18:00
Speaker 8: It's an invitation for a stupendous occasion.
1:18:05
Speaker 8: You can just imagine.
1:18:07
Speaker 8: We drink until New Year's morning.
1:18:09
Speaker 8: Drink around mother punch a creamer drink around.
1:18:12
Speaker 8: It's Christmas morning.
1:18:13
Speaker 8: Drink around mother punch, a creamer, drink around.
1:18:16
Speaker 8: Do do drink.
1:18:17
Speaker 8: If you're drinking.
1:18:18
Speaker 8: Drink around mother punch a creamer.
1:18:20
Speaker 8: Drink around.
1:18:20
Speaker 8: Mama sing.
1:18:21
Speaker 8: If you're singing, drink around mother punch of cream the fat is brand bottles of all description.
1:18:40
Speaker 8: You must understand liquor to supply a nation.
1:18:44
Speaker 8: Why a bottle whiskey?
1:18:46
Speaker 8: Punch your cream and gin and brandy, lime and tonic water, lemon, heart and anger is too rough.
1:18:53
Speaker 8: It's christmas morning, mama drink if you're drinking.
1:19:02
Speaker 8: ¶¶, ¶¶.
1:19:19
Speaker 8: On Christmas Day, when Big Ben alarms 6.30, we are on the way to begin this festivity.
1:19:28
Speaker 8: Later in the evening we're passing through Piccadilly, everybody dancing and singing the same melody Drink around on a bunch of cream, drink around, mama drink if you're drinking.
1:19:41
Speaker 8: Drink around on a bunch of cream, drink around.
1:19:44
Speaker 8: It's Christmas morning.
1:19:45
Speaker 8: Thank you, let's see.
1:19:46
Speaker 8: Enjoy the Christmas.
1:20:10
Speaker 2: Just in case I didn't see you or hear from you before then, enjoy the Christmas, celebrate, enjoy it, enjoy it, love the ones who are here.
1:20:17
Speaker 2: We're here.
1:20:18
Speaker 2: We're here.
1:20:18
Speaker 2: While we're here, may we enjoy this Christmas and have a good time.
1:20:22
Speaker 2: May we stay safe and sound.
1:20:23
Speaker 2: Well, you should hear from me before the new year come.
1:20:27
Speaker 2: Well, let me see how it go now.
1:20:29
Speaker 2: Let me see how it go.
1:20:30
Speaker 2: If you don't, you have a whole catalog to catch up on, right?
1:20:32
Speaker 2: This is a good time to go and listen to some old episode, where you'll then get a chance to see.
1:20:36
Speaker 2: But until I see you all,