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International Day of Peace: Peace Starts Within...Part 2 2026 · Good News To Go: Peace, Love & HOPE

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Speaker 1: Reverend Paul. Okay. Okay, oh my God. All right, we're
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switching this around just a little bit here. Uh-oh. We're
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gonna put Heidi Little on now, number 26, okay? Heidi Little.
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And the Heidi Little team, which are a lot of
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our people who have been with us for years and years.
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I would say this woman sitting over here is a
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Peace Parrots woman. She's part of our community. Her parrots
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are home. They're having a party. And it's been 20
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plus years. And I'm so happy that Gloria is here
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with us. A hugger planet. Rob, are you around somewhere?
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All these are hugger planets. They've been in the moon.
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And he has a thousand in the Met... What do
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they call that? The Metropolitan Museum. And in the United Nations.
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Robert Forensa.
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Speaker 2: Robert. Robert.
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Speaker 1: Robert, why don't you come up here? Peter, why don't
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you come up here now too, okay? And Donna, why
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don't you come up here now too, okay? Okay? All right,
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so we're going to try to bring back some of
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our people that have been with us for a long,
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long time and show our due respect. In fact, we're
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going to start. Andrew Cain, why don't you come over
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and let... Okay.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: The big-time producer, the one that really knows what he's doing,
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Rick Olfek, who we made, the last shows we made
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was with Dr. Jane Goodall. Oh, you talk.
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Speaker 4: All right, but don't leave.
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Speaker 1: You're part of it.
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Speaker 4: We're in the middle of 11 Days of Global Unity.
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It goes from September 11th through September 21st, the International
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Day of Peace. So we started it and as a
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journey from fear to hope with September 11th and then
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going to the September 21st, the International Day of Peace.
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And that 11 days we launched with Jane Goodall and
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the MC was our good friend, Paul Slatkes. So we've
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been doing this for 22 years.
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Speaker 1: Marianne Williamson.
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Speaker 4: Marianne Williamson and Jane Goodall and Amnesty International, the Million
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Voice Choir, a long list.
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Speaker 1: And In the Limelight, a former church.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we took over the church. This is 22 years ago,
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but we've been doing it every year, and you're part
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of it, so thank you for coming and being part
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of 11 Days.
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Speaker 1: Of Global Unity.
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Speaker 4: You can find out more by going to we.net because
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it's all about we, right? We.net and 11 Days.
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Speaker 1: Of Global Unity.
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Speaker 4: And part of the team up here is Andrew Cain
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and Heidi Little, who's been part of the We the
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World team all this time for many years. And she's
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going to be performing as well. But I wanted to
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mention Andrew Cain because he was part of the launch
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team with Paul Slatkes and all of the folks like
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Jane Goodall and Marianne Williamson. So let's go to Andrew
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Cain who has an award that you're going to be
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talking about.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I am Andrew Cain, founder of PlanetHeart's annual World
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Peace Earth Day celebration, and it is my honor to
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present this award to Reverend Susana Bacirica, celebrating the 25th
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anniversary of the Vigil for Peace and Ecology. The Vigil
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began as an annual gathering in Central Park in celebration
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of the International Day of Peace, bringing people together for peace, unity,
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and our beloved planet. Reverend Susanna couldn't be with us today,
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so I'm honored to accept this award on her behalf. Congratulations,
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Reverend Susanna, and thank you for her extraordinary dedication of peace.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's a beautiful, it says honoring Susie, actually it's
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Reverend Susie Basterica, 25 years of leadership vigil for peace
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and ecology, September 21st, 2026. Andrew Cain, who happens to
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like my salmon burgers, and Planet Heart. I will also say, though,
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that I would not be here if it wasn't for
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Reverend Susanna Basterica and James Cannings. So Susanna contacted me
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20-plus years ago, 24, 25, 16,000 years ago, and said
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to me, would you host? This event, which we used
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to do in the band show in Central Park, okay?
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And they would be shows that would start at 9
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in the morning. We'd have like... I don't know. I
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don't even know if we had microphones. And then we
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would have... We would just... Maybe... of Gloria with the
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peace parrots, and then we'd have booths, and it just
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was a free-for-all for peace. It was called the Vigil
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for Peace, because she worked at the UN, and she
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taught me about the International Day of Peace, and then
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we continued on, and this is where we are, and
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without her and James Cannings and all these lovely people,
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this day would not occur, and without the audience and
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the community. It's a community, local, yokel show. All right.
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Thank you. Thank you. Would you like to say, everybody
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just say a little quickie, quickie, quickie.
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Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Elle Pellegrino of Age New Beginnings. And when
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I met Susan Basarica, it was a magical experience, full
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of love. We have all gone to the UN. We've
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all done many different things of supporting peace. And when
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you have ever experienced one of her events in Central Park,
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the most exquisite people in the world, just like this
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incredible gentleman right here.
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Speaker 7: I'm so happy to support Paul.
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Speaker 1: He is a man of peace.
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Speaker 4: And Rick and all of my friends, we are here
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for peace.
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Speaker 1: May peace prevail on Earth. Beautiful. Robert Perenza, who unbelievably
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Got a new car. And thank God he got his
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new car, because his new car was able to bring
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the piano here today, and the microphones here today, and
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the stools back here. Remember, Ohm is going to go
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on at 5.30, God willing, and we're just moving along.
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And Robert has created... What did you do? What did
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I do?
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Speaker 8: I brought him down here 50 times for Earth Day
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and Peace Day. I've been making these for over 45 years.
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Almost every ambassador at the UN has gotten one or
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bought one at the bookstore. Every president since Jimmy Carter.
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The one we're dealing with now did not get one.
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And it's been up on the space station since 2005,
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I think. And it probably came over us once or
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twice while we've been here.
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Speaker 1: And that's about a little over 100,000 orbits, my Earth,
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and there's a moon and a Mars.
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Speaker 8: New York City school system uses this.
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Speaker 1: In their resolving conflict program.
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Speaker 8: If my New York friends out there want to contribute
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to the Morningside Center at St. John's Divine, they are
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a big reason I'm still here and the.
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Speaker 1: Hug of Planets are still here. And before some.
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Speaker 8: Of our other mayors in here, they already had 10
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years and crime has dropped in New York since the
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New York students have them. So that program has gone around.
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And I could go on for hours, but here you go, Paul.
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Speaker 1: Come on, you couldn't do that. What are you kidding?
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You could never do that. Okay, Robert has so much
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in him, he has so much to share, just like
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everybody on this stage, okay? These are all do-gooders, and
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that's a beautiful thing. Quickly, there's a television. Anybody ever
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hear of television? All right, what is that over there? Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 9: My name is Peter Rogina, and what you see here
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is Peace Lights. Peace Lights was co-created with Eileen Felix
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in 2015. These flowing lights have played all around the
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world and symbolized peace. They've been adopted by peace organizations
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from 19 countries as their international symbol of peace. The
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colors represent the different cultures in the world. Not the countries,
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not the religions, not the races, but the cultures. The
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motion represents how those cultures interact and work together to
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achieve harmony and peace and good energy. It says the
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word peace lights in 55 different languages. We always chose
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the holiest form of the word light. That was like
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seven or eight languages. And finally, it's kind of known
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for its good energy. Wherever peace lights plays around the world,
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people are encouraged to project their own thoughts and intents
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for peace into the lights and add to the collective energy. Now,
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Peace Lights has literally played on seven continents. It was
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brought to Antarctica last year by a retired Marine and
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his retired Air Force wife. And it's played over 100
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times at United Nations-related events, 12th time here today, and
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has led to other NGOs that are now in 30
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countries in Africa. And it's always great to be here.
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Thank you very much to Paul and all of the organizers,
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all the people behind me, and Susana Bastarica's involvement in
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the Vigils for Peace. We're very, very early involved and
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made a big difference to the trajectory of Beastlights.
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Speaker 1: So thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: Great.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Peter. Thank you, Peter.
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Speaker 10: All right.
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Speaker 1: A new friend. This guy's an interesting friend. All right.
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He's doing something called blockchain and Bitcoin.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: How many people have a Bitcoin and they bought it
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for $ 1, 000 or $ 50 or they bought it for $ 2, 000?
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Do I hear three? Do I hear four? Do I
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hear five? Who has a Bitcoin? Oh, do I hear 10?
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Do I hear 50?
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Speaker 10: 100?
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Speaker 1: No, it was 100. These people are hurting. It now
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went down to 80. Okay, so let's... No. Okay, so
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he has this whole conference. He has this conference called...
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Tell us about it. He did it right here at
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the Hard Rock. We had the lovely bling ladies come
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over and perform. I spoke. It was nice. I tried
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to get a Bitcoin out of everybody in the room.
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I did not succeed. So this is your chance to
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tell your community that International Day of Peace needs to
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give me a Bitcoin and Maria, who's now here, Maria,
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who's talking to Michelle, a Bitcoin, and Michelle, a Bitcoin,
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and Sonny, a Bitcoin, and my wife, wherever she is,
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and everybody else in this room. All right, go ahead.
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I have to see what you do now.
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Speaker 7: Well, thank you so much, Paul. It's a real honor
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to be here with everybody. And, you know, we've been
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interviewing people and singing. And, you know, guys, it's a
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really amazing moment that's being put together here by Paul Slackus,
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led by Paul Slackus, the United Nations International Day for Peace,
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the Pause the World for Peace concert. So hats off
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to you, Paul Slackus, for making this all happen. We
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just did Blockchain Week. Blockchain Week UNGA edition, and we
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did it right here in Times Square and some other
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different locations as well.
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Speaker 2: And the reason we put.
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Speaker 7: It together was because we saw that or we felt
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that people didn't have a voice. And we wanted people,
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normal people, to have a voice. And that's kind of
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what blockchain is all about. Distributed ledger, being able to
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hold your own keys, hold your own money. So it's blockchainweek.ai.
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And peace in the community is really important in the
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blockchain community.
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Speaker 1: I always say, as we.
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Speaker 7: grow and work together and learn that across borders, across
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race and religion and creed, we all believe in the
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same things. We believe in freedom, privacy, and we believe
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in ownership. And those three things we can agree on.
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Speaker 9: And we don't have to agree on.
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Speaker 7: Anything else, but we can agree on those three things
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and work together to make the world a better place.
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Speaker 1: And I'm really honored and I'm humbled. You gave me
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the mic, sir. Paul Slackus.
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Speaker 7: Check us out. We'll be back again next year, blockchainweek.ai.
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Blockchain Week, UNGA edition. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Bruce, thank you. Listen, I want to add one
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thing about blockchain and this new AI and new technologies
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and so on and so forth. Because I've spoke a
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couple times about it. I don't know that much about it.
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My wife knows more than I do. But one of
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the things that I spoke about since we do Earth Day,
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we're concerned about Mother Earth. we're concerned about the environment,
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and we're gonna soon have a whole environmental outreach here,
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is that one of the things that is of interest
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is the fact that we potentially won't need money if
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more blockchain and use of Bitcoin and use of electronic
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media money occurs. Think of all the money. I don't
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know the statistic, but how much paper made of cotton
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or linen is used for money? Then nickel, that's a
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natural resource. You gotta dig it up to make a nickel, okay?
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And so on and so forth. So there is some advantages.
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We also know there's some concerns. Data centers are being
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talked about, worrying about the pollution, water, and so on,
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electrical usage. But let's all pray, let's pray, because it's here,
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and I don't think it's going anywhere, AI. Let's pray
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that it gets resolved. Let's pray the data centers end
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up in technically an advanced way that they don't need
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so much electricity. Let's pray that either they put it
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up in the sky and it doesn't fall down on
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our heads. Whatever these things are, let's pray that some
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of our new technology comes along with consciousness. This is
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a show about consciousness. Om's whole show will be about
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calming of the brain, calming of your mind, calming of
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your being. Let's all take a breath. We're going to
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do something for our ancestors now. Donna. I'm not going
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to forget Heidi. I love Heidi. Use this mic. We're
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going to do something. Please explain what it's all about.
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They saved my life twice. What do they call that place?
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Mount Sinai.
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Speaker 11: Hello, my name is Donna Tsufuda-Dariaco, and I honor these
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peace efforts by all the people here, and especially Paul,
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for bringing us together as a family for peace. So
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I work with many, many NGOs, and I know the
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power of culture to bring us all together. So we
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are here. I'm here to celebrate... that our ancestors, with
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all of us, and we're going to do this with
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a little dance. It's from a Japanese ceremony, Obon, from
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the Obon Festival, that honors ancestors. We welcome the spirit
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of our ancestors, and they have many dances and powerful drumming,
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and one of the dances is Tankobushi, the coal miners dance, okay?
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And so we're going to do just a little excerpt
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from it. And I would love for everyone to join in.
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You in the audience can either stand up or in
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the chair and follow with the movements. And it's a
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way to think of somebody you love who have contributed
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to your life and to the world.
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Speaker 2: And we're honoring them with this dance. Okay?
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: And we have Layla here.
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Speaker 1: Layla Lula.
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Speaker 11: And she will be just providing an excerpt of the song.
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Speaker 10: Okay?
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 7: And, oh, wait.
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Speaker 12: Here, I'll just.
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Speaker 3: Here, wait.
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Speaker 2: Quickly, I'll show you. Can you hold the mic?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, hold the mic. I just want to show you
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the dance really quickly.
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Speaker 4: So it's shovel.
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Speaker 13: Wait.
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Speaker 10: Shovel. Shovel.
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Speaker 14: Shovel.
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Speaker 12: Shovel.
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Speaker 1: Roll the ball.
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Speaker 12: Roll the ball.
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Speaker 2: Wipe your sweat. Wipe your sweat. Push the cart. Push
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the cart.
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Speaker 8: Oh, God.
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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, come on. Show me what you got.
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Come on. Yeah, get up. We need some exercise. Anyway,
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do you know if you climb steps, if you live
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in a place that you climb steps, you have a
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40% better chance of having a healthy heart. So instead
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of taking escalators, walk upstairs and walk up to the
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top of the Statue of Liberty, walk up to the
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top of the Empire State Building.
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Speaker 2: The moon is out, the moon is out.
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Speaker 15: The moon is out, the moon.
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Speaker 10: Is out, the moon is out, the moon is out.
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Speaker 12: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: It was tankou bushi.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 11: And we hope that this will be at the Olympics
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closing ceremony. So put your energy for that. For all
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the world to come and dance the Tonka Pushy. Athletes
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on the field, fans in the stands, whoo! And everyone
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around the world at the same time. So put that
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energy toward that.
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Speaker 1: Thank you! Domo arigato. All right, so this is going
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to be at the Tokyo Olympics, okay? So you're getting
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a little head start here. And if you could do it,
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wipe the sweat. Wipe the sweat. Okay, all right. Now,
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our dear friend, Heidi Little, is going to thank you, everybody.
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Let's give everybody, let's give them all applause. Because they've
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been doing this all with us for 20 years, and
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it could not be, it couldn't happen. And you got
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one of the greatest photographers sitting there with a dog.
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Rose Billings, okay? And next to her is Gerard. And
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this guy is super. Black Tie Magazine. One serious, serious
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magazine with a darn good person. And Kathy is still here.
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She's going to play the piano soon. But in a
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little bit, she fills up Carnegie Hall, okay? So stick around.
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And that's just us. And then the Ohm Group, which
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is still us, keeps going and going and going. So
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Heidi will be doing her thing. Hello, Heidi.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Heidi.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so, Kaia, I think is her name. Let's wait
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a second, we're gonna get a reverb-y mic, okay? I'll
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give our friend Heidi, let me say something about Heidi, okay?
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She's one of those people, she's one of those people
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that will drive up here from Austin, Texas, okay? Does
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anybody know where Austin, Austin? Last time was, she was
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in Nashville doing some shows. She's part of the We
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The World Tour, which is part of Rick Ulfic and
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the WE organization. Who would drive half of the America
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to be here to sing one, two songs, okay? She's
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milking me. No, two songs, okay? Who would do that?
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I mean, come on. And what? She receives credit? Oh,
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she's the greatest? She is the greatest. I love her dearly. Plus,
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she's helping young people, helping those that are in need,
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those that are challenged children. She's no fooling around woman.
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She gets it done. She made one of our logos.
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She's unbelievably fantastic. And she deserves a little more reverb,
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so it sounds like six Heidis. All right, we're doing
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really well here. We're doing really well. We still have,
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Andreas is gonna come up here. He's gonna tell a
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little lamb story soon. And it's an environmental story, which
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is interesting. We're gonna have the American Oriental Arts Foundation.
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That's gonna happen soon with Alice Liu and my wife,
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Ivy Ma. And David Katzmeyer's gonna talk. And we're gonna
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show a Dr. Jane Goodall video. And then we're going
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to have Luma, Valon, she's going to do something. And
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Kathy is going to do something before then. And I
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kind of think, oh, well, I guess they're not going
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to do another show. But we were going to have
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the bling do some more. But I think they have
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to go on a plane and fly away back to Chicago. Okay,
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Heidi Little, but I don't know if you have your mic,
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but you want to talk without a mic. You can
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tell them, you can do the whole thing. You should
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be doing the whole thing. I love you. I love you, too.
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Speaker 16: Isn't this guy fantastic? Thank you, Paul Sladkis and Times
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Square New York and all y'all for being here. God
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bless you.
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Speaker 4: Yay.
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Speaker 16: So my name is Heidi Little, and I decided a
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couple of weeks ago I was going to move into
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Aria Lightness, which is a stage name that I made
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for a musical in 2017. So I'm a part of
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something called We The World Tour. And for the last
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30 years, I kind of pioneered social-emotional learning in 1993,
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if you all have heard about that education system, connecting
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people with the heart, the inner guidance system, connecting with
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our purpose, gifts, and mission. And We the World Tour,
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I've also been the volunteer director of International Children's Month
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for 14 years. And I got together with Ludwig Nobel
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from the Nobel Peace Prize family, My co-producer, Lawrence Freiberg,
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who was Michael Jackson's director of management for his studios
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for 25 years. And Rick Ulfick from We The World.
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And Rick Lukens from Live Aid. And we've all joined
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forces to create this We The World tour. And this
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is the URL up here. I would love it if
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you all would get out your cell phones and screenshot
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that QR code. Get yourself over to wetheworldtour.com. So you
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can also be a part of the solutions and tools
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that are happening. Renewable AI data centers. All kinds of
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ways to clean the water. All kinds of ways to
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power the homes. 21K for a 500 square foot tiny home,
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you all. We want to end homelessness and the opioid crisis.
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So this is what we're on about right now. And
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city to city, state to state, country to country, across
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the planet.
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Speaker 13: Amazing.
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Speaker 17: Amazing.
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Speaker 18: Beauty, peace, and love.
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Speaker 3: Beauty, peace, and love.
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Speaker 18: How does that sound to you?
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Speaker 16: Does it sound nice?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 16: Well, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful woman.
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Speaker 15: Do I still have guitar?
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Speaker 12: Amazing.
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Speaker 16: We did not do a full sound check today. I
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just want to also thank the company of heaven, God,
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and all our relations for being here with us right now. So,
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breathing in the love, and breathing out the love. Tap
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dance shoes for your soul.
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Speaker 3: In a world, one where humanity understands.
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Speaker 16: It's connection.
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Speaker 12: To the water.
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Speaker 16: Water beings on a water planet.
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Speaker 19: Once there was a piute land.
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Speaker 18: Best water keep the ant taking a stand.
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Speaker 10: We worked hand in hand.
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Speaker 18: Spreading water, medicine through the lens.
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Speaker 19: Oh, who ought to remember me?
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Speaker 18: Shining my love.
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Speaker 12: In deep, deep heat.
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Speaker 19: Oh, who ought to remember me?
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Speaker 18: The power of love is setting us free.
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Speaker 20: Once there was a scientist.
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Speaker 18: Flash freezing water.
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Speaker 19: Crystals taking a piece.
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Speaker 18: He proved what a conscience is And how our love
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and hate.
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Speaker 19: Changes it Oh, we want to remember me Shining our
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love in the.
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Speaker 12: Deep, deep, deep Oh, we.
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Speaker 19: Want to remember me.
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Speaker 18: The power of love is setting us free.
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Speaker 1: We thank you. We respect you.
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Speaker 12: Oh, oh.
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Speaker 19: Want to remember me.
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Speaker 18: Shining our love in the deep, deep, deep.
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Speaker 19: Oh, want to remember me.
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Speaker 18: The power of love.
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Speaker 17: Is setting us free.
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Speaker 19: Oh, we want to remember we Shining my love in
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the GPP Oh, we want to remember we The power
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of love is setting us free.
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Speaker 4: Can you feel it?
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Speaker 12: Rising through your body, through your heart.
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Speaker 21: Water, remember we, because we are free. Water, remember we,
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because we are free.
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Speaker 3: Freedom, freedom, freedom.
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Speaker 16: Now okay rock and roll everybody so we all feel
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it it is happening i have some sponsors one of
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them is suzy chaffee she's an olympian who created ski
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ski dancing back in the day suzy chaffee was the
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chapstick model of the 80s as well So she's doing something.
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Speaker 3: She changed the name.
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Speaker 22: Okay.
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Speaker 16: So Susie Chaffee has the Native American Climate Action Foundation
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to help protect and restore Mother Earth from climate change
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through education about the holistic healing traditions of Native Americans.
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in collaboration with leaders to share the healing joy of
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snow sports with native youth. So thank you, Susie Chaffee.
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We the World Tour. I have been working on this
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thing 18 hours a day for 11 months, and we're
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finally ready to go concert to concert, community to community.
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Speaker 13: Space to space, heart to heart. And we have the solutions.
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We have the solutions. Every single thing you want and
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need for your family, for your children, and for your
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future generations, it's here. And you can go look at
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it right now, and you can talk to your mayors,
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or you can send me a line, and I'll talk.
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Speaker 16: To your mayor for you. We're going to sort this out.
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We've got to cut them off at the pass, y'all.
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We got to cut them off at the pass. And
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the time to cut them off at the pass is
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right now. Because what do we want? Clean air, clean water,
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healthy food, affordable housing, right? Caring economic system, right there.
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Speaker 16: 51K home, 21K home. 21K for a house, y'all. 500
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square feet. Right there. I want to also thank my
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Speaker 1: Done.
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Speaker 4: Over there.
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Speaker 1: Okay?
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 16: And then I want to thank Lawrence Freiberg, my co-producer.
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He's been working in Budoff. Shai, who are my other
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two sponsors? Black Kings Man Clothing. And Spirit Baptiste. I
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would like to thank Our grandmas, grandmas, grandfathers, grandfathers, and
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ancestors for this moment in time that we're together, bringing
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this freedom to the world. And I love you. I'm
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going to play you one more song. Thanks for listening
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to me. Okay, here we go. This song is called Angel,
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and it's on my new record called Power of Love.
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Here we go.
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Speaker 12: I'm so happy to be here with you I can't believe.
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Speaker 18: Just how hard it has been.
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Speaker 12: Time in our lives. Trying to bring us down. The
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music plays on.
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Speaker 10: As we sing our song.
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Speaker 12: Until the end.
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Speaker 16: My dearest friend.
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Speaker 12: Last night I cried As angels fell from the skies
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And they don't do I care, I care, I care
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The music plays on As we're singing.
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Speaker 3: Our song Until the end My dearest friend.
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Speaker 12: We sleep and we fall. We will rise above it all.
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We'll glide and we'll float to an algorithm. We walk
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upon a line. We will always reach a sky. We'll glide.
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To the rhythm I love you I do Principality.
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Speaker 20: Of the sky is lightning now.
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Speaker 12: I love you, my friend.
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Speaker 22: The things we got to hang on. The music plays
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on as we sing in our song. Until the end,
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my dearest friends, we sing.
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Speaker 12: We fall, we will rise above it all. We'll march,
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we'll float to the rhythm. We walk the path, we
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will always reach the sky. We'll march, we'll float. To
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love without Once in.
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Speaker 20: A while I'm watching you smile Unbeknownst to you I
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can see right.
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Speaker 12: Through Behind each wall.
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Speaker 19: Is the strength of.
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Speaker 12: It all Until the end I will still be afraid
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And I.
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Speaker 3: Will And we sleep, we fall, we.
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Speaker 12: Are rising above yon. And our dying will flow to
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the risen Lord. We will walk upon.
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Speaker 22: High We will always reach the sky We'll glide.
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Speaker 12: And we'll float to the rhythm To the rhythm of.
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Speaker 18: Love, to the rhythm of love To the rhythm of love.
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Speaker 12: To the rhythm of love. To the rhythm of love.
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To the rhythm of love.
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Speaker 18: To the rhythm of love.
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Speaker 2: I love you.
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Speaker 1: All right, Heidi Little, thank you. Thank you, thank you,
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thank you. All right, that's it for Heidi. Okay, we
39:22
still have a lot of show left and a lot
39:25
more show after we have a lot of show left
39:28
of our section in the show. All right, come on. Rebecca.
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Rebecca Irby is gonna introduce our next performer, but I
39:35
will say the next performer's buddy of mine, Michael Jensen,
39:40
is one of the most famous public relations people and
39:43
he has helped us with our show. He does Santana,
39:47
he does big time kinds of people like Amanda and Rebecca.
39:51
And so this is great, and we're very excited to
39:55
have her join us.
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Speaker 2: Please.
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Speaker 23: Thank you so much, Paul. For all of us investing
40:05
in building peace here at home and around the world,
40:08
we are excited to lift up Architects for Peace. The
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Next Generation, a collaboration between the Jimmy and Rosalind Carter
40:17
School for Peace and Conference Resolution at George Mason University,
40:22
United Earth Networks, and peace building organizations from around the world.
40:27
Over the coming year, it will support more than 100
40:30
emerging peace builders, culminating in a summit to develop real
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action plans for reducing violence and injustice in communities around
40:39
the globe. Remember that name. Architects for Peace. And now,
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it is my pleasure to introduce Amanda Abizade, the singer-songwriter
40:50
behind the Emmy Award-winning theme song, A Place in Time,
40:54
an Indie Music Hall of Fame inductee, and a cultural
40:58
ambassador whose music carries a deep, personal call for peace
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from her home country of Lebanon to the world. Times Square,
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please put your hands together and welcome Amanda Abizaid.
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Speaker 14: What's up Times Square, New York?
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Speaker 17: Woo!
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Speaker 1: World Peace Day. This is my new single, Peace War.
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Speaker 14: Excited, first time performing it live here today on World
41:35
Peace Day for all of you.
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Speaker 17: Times Square, here we go!
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Speaker 14: Don't you know it's popular to love and understand when
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peace becomes the master plan? Chances are we can.
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Speaker 2: Turn it around and come together for the love of
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the land.
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Speaker 3: Peace, war, peace, war, peace, war.
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Speaker 14: Oh, it's here to stay. Siempre adelante, let it begin today.
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Speaker 17: That's right.
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Speaker 1: We're pausing the.
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Speaker 3: World for peace today.
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Speaker 17: All around the world. That's right.
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Speaker 3: Sing it with me.
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Speaker 4: Peace never comes easy. Peace.
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Speaker 14: It's popular to love and understand when peace becomes the
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master plan.
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Speaker 1: Chances are we can turn it around.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, come together for the.
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Speaker 7: Love of the land.
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Speaker 14: Peace war, peace war, peace war.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's here to stay. Let it begin today.
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Speaker 17: Beat up and defend the one under the gun.
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Speaker 14: It's up to me to live as one.
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Speaker 17: Don't leave it up to gravity to watch.
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Speaker 7: The pendulum sway.
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Speaker 3: Ride the BC wave and help.
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Speaker 1: Build the state.
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Speaker 12: Whoa, whoa, whoa, we need to pave the way.
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Speaker 14: Siempre adelante is what my daddy used to say. I
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can't enlist any longer in these charades, but my experience
43:36
is endless.
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Speaker 10: I pray as I hop in the past.
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Speaker 3: For all to see.
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Speaker 14: Consequence goes hand in hand.
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Speaker 12: It's in our history, yeah.
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Speaker 17: Oh, you know it's in our history, yeah.
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Speaker 14: Don't you know it's popular to love and understand When
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peace becomes the master plan Chances are we can turn
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it around Come together for the love of the land
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Peace war, peace war, peace war Ride the wave that's
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here to stay Siempre adelante Let.
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Speaker 2: It begin today.
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Speaker 12: That's right!
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Speaker 10: I choose peace!
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Speaker 14: Let's pave the way today, all of us here, for.
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Speaker 12: Future generations of children all around the world. Let's have compassion.
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Speaker 14: For those children who need.
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Speaker 7: Us the most.
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Speaker 14: Lift the veil from over your eyes Don't keep defending
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Take it by surprise Set the tone where we reside
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Let's come together side by side Tierra delante, look up to.
44:57
Speaker 3: The sky Oh, look around, look around you, yeah, with
45:02
a smile Don't.
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Speaker 17: You know it's popular.
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Speaker 7: To love and understand.
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Speaker 14: When peace becomes the master plan Chances are we can
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turn it around and come together for the love.
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Speaker 12: Of the land.
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Speaker 17: Peace war, peace war, peace war.
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Speaker 14: Ride the wave, it's here to stay.
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Speaker 7: Siempre adelante.
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Speaker 14: Oh, let it begin today.
45:27
Speaker 13: That's right.
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Speaker 14: Let's keep this peace ride going.
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Speaker 17: Peace war, peace war, peace war.
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Speaker 22: Right the way, right.
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Speaker 12: The way, right.
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Speaker 17: The way. Right the way.
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Speaker 12: Peaceful, peaceful. Oh, peaceful.
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Speaker 14: Thank you.
45:58
Speaker 4: Well, peace.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you're really good. She's really good. Let's give her
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a big hand. Wow. All right. So, I don't know,
46:20
is that we're going to go for some piano music now.
46:25
After piano music, we're going to have Alice and Ivy,
46:30
but that's after the piano playing. Not yet. Not yet,
46:34
but you can wait after the piano. Not yet. All right,
46:39
American Oriental Arts are gonna come on soon. So after that, Tatia,
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we're gonna go to 29. So everybody having a good time?
46:48
All right, thank you for, in the name of International
46:54
Day of Peace, okay? And New York City Climate Week.
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So actually this is our 24th anniversary for doing the
47:05
International Day of Peace concert. We started in Central Park
47:11
on the band shell, and we continued as a result
47:16
of most of the people that you saw and others
47:19
that really care about peace, including Katia, who's going to
47:24
fill up, she fills up a place right here on
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Seventh Avenue and 57th Street. Anybody know what's on 57th
47:32
Street and Seventh Avenue? Does anybody know what's there? Oh,
47:39
Carnegie Hall, yeah, all right. Yeah, so she's, actually she's
47:44
doing a concert on, what day is it this year? Okay,
47:49
on the 27th, there's a, when? All right, oh, this
48:11
one's working. But this one has the reverb, burp, burp, burp, burp, burp, burp, burp, burp. Okay, Kathy,
48:16
come here, let's talk. Tell me when your concert is.
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Speaker 24: It's December 27th, Sunday, matinee, 2 p.m. And you can
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bring children for free. If anybody wants to bring children
48:31
for free, you can get a ticket for free at
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the box office. Tickets will go on sale next Friday,
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September 25th.
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Speaker 2: Yes. Okay, while we're setting up the piano for Katya,
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we're gonna go to Ivy, Ivy Ma, number 29, okay?
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Speaker 1: Everybody in the booth there? We're gonna go to number 29.
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And bring up Alice and Ivy Ma. Ivy Ma, my
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lovely wife. And we're going to, Ivy's going to talk.
49:22
And then Kathy's going to play. But we've got to
49:25
get the piano set up. So if anybody can help
49:28
us there, we'll make that happen. Okay. Ivy Ma has
49:34
a home office. Oh. And she's wonderful. And Alice Liu.
49:39
It runs the American Oriental Arts Foundation. And if you
49:43
see the Pause the World for Peace sign here, there's
49:48
a very big peace friendship tree. It was 30,000 pieces
49:53
that they put up here, and it was all because
49:56
of Alice. And thank you, Alice, for that. Okay, Ivy.
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Ivy's going to speak now. Come over here a little more.
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Come over here. Come on.
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Speaker 25: Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 15: My name is Alice Liu. I'm a child woman of
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the America Foundation in New York. On behalf of foundation,
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you're welcome to celebrate with us. Let's welcome Alice.
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Speaker 10: Liu. She's the president of American Oriental Art Foundation's president
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and distinguished guest, dear friends. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Today,
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we gather here in New York with one shared purpose,
51:22
to celebrate and promote peace. On behalf of the American
51:28
Oriental Art Foundation, I warmly welcome all of our distinguished guests, artists, friends,
51:38
and supporters. For more than 20 years, the American Oriental
51:43
Art Foundation has used art and charitable programs to promote love, peace,
51:52
and understanding. As an artist, I believe deeply in the
51:57
power of art. Music cross borders, dance connects cultures, and
52:04
art brings people together. Today, Let us share a simple message.
52:11
Let art connect the world. Let love overcome division. Let
52:18
understanding replace conflict. And let cooperation build our future. Peace
52:26
is not only the absence of war. It begins the respect, compassion,
52:34
and the belief that every person deserves dignity and hope.
52:40
Thank you to everyone who has made today's event possible
52:45
and to everyone who stands with us in carrying this
52:49
message of peace to the world. May our friendships cross borders,
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may our children inherit a brighter future, and.
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Speaker 2: May peace begin with.
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Speaker 3: Each one of us together.
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Speaker 10: Let us for peace, work for peace, and for the
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shared future of humanity.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All right, let's hear it for
53:26
Alice Liu in American Oriental Arts and my wife, Ivy Ma. Okay,
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it's all great. Thank you. See you later, alligator. All right. Now,
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that's really good. I don't know. Could you learn Chinese
53:48
in four years?
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Speaker 2: All right.
53:51
Speaker 1: Pretty darn good. She wrote that, too.
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Speaker 2: All right.
53:54
Speaker 1: So, that's nice, that music. And now we're going to
53:59
hear live music. Thank you, Alice, thank you, Ivy. Okay,
54:04
I think, what would you like? You want it up
54:06
a little? Where, closer?
54:29
Speaker 4: All right.
54:30
Speaker 1: Katya Grineva, the 27th, Carnegie Hall, and here in Times Square.
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December 27th, did I say November? That's my daughter's birthday. Okay, no, December, December, December,
54:45
December 27th. Okay, thank you, Katya. Her 24th season, ah,
54:50
it's her 24th season of, and she's at least played
54:54
12 of them. Okay, what are you gonna play?
54:58
Speaker 24: I will play a beautiful piece by Chopin, Fantasy Impromptu,
55:04
and the famous song, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, came from
55:08
this piece, and you'll hear it in the middle. And
55:11
it's very uplifting and connects you to your heart.
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Speaker 1: All right, Katya, let's hear it for her.
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Speaker 15: Thank you.
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Speaker 12: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.