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EARTH DAY: Manhattan Goes Green in Times Square 4/22/24 a Major 5.5 Hour LIVE Worldwide Success... · Go News To Go: More Good News

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Say hello to Mother Earth. We're standing on Mother Earth, We're sitting on
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Mother Earth. Underneath that whatever we have here is Mother Earth. Okay,
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in today's day to celebrate her, and it's so exciting. Thank you everybody
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for being here. Thank you worldwide audience. This is broadcasted on many different
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channels, and we're gonna later on go to Australia, to Egypt, to
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Vancouver, to Miami, but our portion here is gonna go from right now
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to around four o'clock, and we welcome you to stay all day or come
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and see what's happening. You could go to YouTube dot com Slash Good News
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Broadcast. So Tom Harris is the president of the Time Square Alliance, who
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without we would not be here. Tom all right, thank you very much
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everyone, and welcome to Times Square. So great that you could be anywhere
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today to celebrate Earth Day and you chose Times Square and we really are thrilled
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and want to welcome everyone here for that event. And I'm going to first
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start with own om who've been good friends with us and then been helping us
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make these shows occur. They're presenting today. So let me just share some
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of our partners and sponsors. Manhattan Boro President Mark Levine, who you'll meet
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later at one o'clock. He'll be speaking. He's a real environmentalist, so
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that's a good thing. Let's disrupt Digital has been partnering with our Good News
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corporation, Times Square Alliance. You just met him. New York City Parks
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and Recreation everybody. I want you to know this land right here, Father
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Duffy Square. There's Father Duffy up there, and George M. Cohen is
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behind us here statues. This is a city park. And so let's do
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a shout out for Kathy Hokeel and'll go and everybody on doing their sustainability.
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So the big word today is sustainability. The big words today is SDG,
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the sustainable development goals. So I'd like to give one shout out right now
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once again to the Borough President Mark Levine. Mark has been kind enough.
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He's a sustainable president of the Borough of Manhattan, and you're going to hear
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some of the projects from bike lanes to you know, this is an island,
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so there's a water concern and indoor and outdoor add and congestion and so
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on. We're going to learn more about that today. So thank you.
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Borrow President Mark Levine. I've been asked, and I'm part of the faith
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based community here under Mayor Adams and Pastor Monrose, who's the executive director.
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And I'm reading a prayer, okay, and this is a prayer for all
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from the Iroquois Indian prayer. We return thanks to our mother, the Earth,
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which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams which supply
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us with water. We return thanks to all herbs we furnish medicines for the
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cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the corn and to our sisters
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the bean squash, which it gave us life. We return thanks to the
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burst bushes and trees which provide us with fruit. We return thanks to the
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wind, which moves the air has banished diseases. We return thanks to the
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Moon and the stars, which have given us the light when the sun was
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gone. We return thanks to our grandfather, he know, who has given
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to us his rain. We return thanks to the Sun that he or she
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has looked upon the earth with a benevolent eye. Lastly, we return thanks
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to the Great Spirit, in whom is emboyied all goodness, and who directs
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all things for the good of his children. It's a prayer in powerful prayers
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every day living by Mark Linden. O'Meara, let's let's let's I hope you
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had a chance to think about what I was saying, all right, Doctor
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Jane Goodall, Leonardo DiCaprio, Stevie Wonder. I think nature is my symbolism
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for peace, and now this tree stands as a as a symbol of what
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nature and us can do together the heal the world. But we've got to
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work much harder, and we must respect each other, no matter what country,
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religion, or culture. But we must respect the natural world. And
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unless we can interact better with the natural world in more harmony, world peace
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will be impossible. Because if you lose water, if the climate changes,
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if the whole world is polluted, how can there be peace between men?
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The word piece has many possible meanings, and the Messenger of Peace program has
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been vital to addressing some of the most pressing challenges of our time, head
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on poverty, disease, human suffering, issues which defy the very concept of
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peace. So today I want everyone here to commit to join the quest for
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peace. Go forward in the struggle for peace with passion and compassion. The
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future of this world is in your hands. Such sister Jenna, Yay,
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okay, oh shanky everyone, Good afternoon. I'd like to invite everyone to
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take a moment in the hustle and the busyness of this specific area. I'm
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going to invite you to take a moment to turn your attention inside of yourself,
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and if you don't mind, I'd like to invite you to close your
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eyes, just for a moment, close your eyes. Hello, thank you,
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Happy Earth Day to everybody in New York City. Give you sends hands,
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a round of applause to all of you guys, Thank you so much.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and a warm welcome to each and
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everyone of you. The gather here in a kind of Times Square, New
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York. Today is our day. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you.
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Welcome and thank you for coming here today on this Earth Day. The
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United Nations Symphony the Orchestra. This is actually our reduced version of the orchestra.
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We have about ninety members altogether, but we couldn't squeeze them possibly all
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on this stage. We're going to perform experts from a our one of our
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major projects that we did recently with M twenty seven and Marco Matute and with
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these tamed Peruvian composer Dan Tevaldez. He could as it is the cover,
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it's the pent break in the contrast, expl gloss for this she is,
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it's all star rays sweet, She's title, and that is the President of
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the Borough of Manhattan, mister Mark Levine. Okay, Hello Times Square,
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Hello New York City, Happy Earth Day. Can you give it up again
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for the United Nations Orchestra. That was an inspiring, beautiful, brilliant performance.
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We had a lot of Broadway productions out here in the heart of Times
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Square. We had Beyonce perform up on that balcony. But I have never
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heard classical music, opera, original compositions so beautiful as the United Nations Orchestra.
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Give it up one more time for them, and to our host today,
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the godfather of this event, Reverend Paul Slatcus, Give it up for
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Paul again, not just a New Yorker, but a resident of the great
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Borough Manhattan, of the Upper West Side. You have come to the right
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place to celebrate Earth Day. Everybody. You are at the crossroads of the
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world. You are on the island of Manhattan and the greatest city in the
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world, and we are a city on the front lines of the fight to
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protect our planet on Earth Day and every day. So Paul asked that between
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the wonderful entertainment, that I say a word or two about our challenges to
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protect our planet here in New York City as we celebrate Earth Day. And
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you know the number one source of greenhouse gases here. It's not our cars,
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or our trucks or our buses, it's all these tall buildings. Seventy
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percent of the greenhouse gases in New York City are generated by our large buildings.
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So five years ago we passed the law known as the Climate Mobilization Act
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that gave New York City the most aggressive plan in the world to win the
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race to carbon neutrality by requiring all these big buildings to retro fit so that
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by twenty thirty they've reduced their greenhouse gas usage by forty percent and by twenty
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fifty that they get to net zero carbon neutrality. We're going to do that
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in New York City. This is big. You can applaud for that goal.
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No other city on Earth can match it, but they should, and
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we know that to achieve our climate goals. We got to get people out
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of cars onto the subway into mass transit. That's tough to do. We
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passed the law that's taking effect in June called congestion pricing. That's going to
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get people out of their cars and onto the subway. A little more controversial,
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but will you applaud for that too. There you go, and we
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know that the way we collect and manage our way has a significant climate impact.
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New York City is behind on composting. If you believe in composting,
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when you make some noise, yes you do. So We're gonna get composting
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in every building in Manhattan by next year. This is the goal. Because
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when organics go to landfill, they decompose in amidst methane that contributes to climate
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change. We don't want that. We want our organics, our food waste
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sent to compost. That is a win for the environment. And we are
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pushing an inspiring initiative to plant one million more trees than New York City.
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What do you say to that. Trees absorb CO two, They clean our
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air, They make a neighborhood cooler on a hot day in the midst of
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a big storm event. They can absorb water so it doesn't flood our sewers
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and our subways. If you love trees, make some noise, well,
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We've come together to push to plant one million more trees in New York City
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for our physical health, for our mental health, for our climate. We
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want to plant them on streets, We want to plant them in parks.
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We want to plant them in school yards, on public housing, campuses,
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on rooftops, everywhere in the city to green our New York to make it
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more resilient. And finally, while we fight to win the race to Carmen
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neutrality, we want to protect New York City from the climate change that's already
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here. We know seas are rising, and just ten years ago in Superstorm
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Sandy, we lost New Yorkers to this storm. So we are making our
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coastline in this city of islands more resilient. All around the southern tip of
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Manhattan, We're building up our coastline so the next time there's a major flood
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of will be safe. We're gonna do all this in Manhattan and New York
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City, and we're committing to this on Earth Day. Hi everyone, my
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name is Jason. I'm the founder of Rove honor to be here on Earth
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Day. So in twenty seventeen, I started working with the United Nations at
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the intersection of how we could use web three and blockchain technology to help solve
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the sustainable development goals. Hear me is Elan's birthday, So happy birthday to
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Elan that was born on Earth Day four years ago. My name is Maria
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Alphons and I am happy to be here. I'm one of the founders of
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Home. Those three ms that you see there, one of them is me,
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and we're super happy to be presenting Earthday in Manhattan. Such an honor
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to be among so many special people, so enjoy it. Hi everyone,
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good afternoon. Name is Michelle Murciso. I am one of the m's in
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Ome and thank you so much everyone for bringing your beautiful energy here today and
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for supporting this wonderful cause Mother Earth. You know, so we have this
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is our home, so hopefully that everyone will be inspired by all the beauty
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that you're seeing today. I'm really fortunate to introduce one of our ambassadors,
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the Venerable Lammatashi, along with his whole team. And I'm so sorry that
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I don't remember everyone's names, but they're very amazing we are here. I
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represent Tibetan Museum of Contemporary Art in the Netherlands, which is the only museum
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in the whole world registered the Tibetan with the help of Dutch people. And
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now we are here in America. We are going to open uh somewhere in
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the in the USA. Oh my name manl oh myneymel, Oh my name,
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oh my nay o. Money payment money, money, so our pleasure.
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Can we please get a hand Lama Tashi with the rest of his amazing
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group. So is everybody enjoying the event today? Wonderful, much more amazing
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things to come. Thank you all for coming. Our next guest very close
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to my heart, His Royal Highness, Shake up do l disease Al Naomi
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all the way from Dubai to inspire us with his knowledge also known as the
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Green Shake. Well, I want to share with you some thoughts about how
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to make a better future for all of us. To start with my journey,
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I'm aufder as ease and Naimi as known as the Green Share, G
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for global, R for reathing, E for enlightenment, other E for ethics,
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and n is for network which is net worth. The other word is
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shake is for spiritual, H for humility, humble down to earth, than
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E for environment, I for improvement. We need to improve every minute,
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every second. Then K for knowledge. We need to have that knowledge to
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plement it to practices, not to solve the problem, to make our life
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much better. And the last letter of this acronym of green check is K
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is H, which is human being. So green check is actually that's my
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genes. I put them on the front to save people and to save this
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planet. We're gonna have the voice of Monaco now, Alan Lendler, he's
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coming up and and along with Byron Bird. Bird, Byron Bird, what
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a perfect name for today. All right, who knows the peace bird?
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What's the peace bird? What a kind of bird is it? Peace stuff?
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Okay, well we have a bird coming up on stage and someone from
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Monica look out nicely stressed. You guys look beautiful. All right, come
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on up and share. Thank you very much for coming here. Thank you.
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I didn't see his jacket check this out. Thank you rich, Thank
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you. We came here. Prince Aubert could come unfortunately maybe next year for
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sure. And next year we promised where we'll perform. I am an an
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Leandrod of Vords for Monaco Official, and my name is Yron Bird with the
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group the Funk Group Son. We've performed all around the world with many many
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groups and stuff like this Golden Platinum Records. But what we wanted to do
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tonight is we wanted to tell the people here in Manhattan we're about to launch
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a big program all right. And this program is going to bring ecology and
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technology because there has to be a blend there into the world to help peace
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through what we do in sports, music and the arts. We work with
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the un DSMA, which is the United Nations of Apartment for the Sports,
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Music and Arts, and we plan to do many, many events around the
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world. It's my humble privilege to share this message with you on behalf of
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the Earth Elders, a council of thirteen Original Nation Elders that span every continent
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across the globe. As you'll see in the trailer, Original Nations have prophesied
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of our time for millennia. We are standing at the alchemic intersection of profound,
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social, spiritual, and ecological transformation. We're asking you for your urgent
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support and telling these stories. Our brother Mike A. Survivor of the residential
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schooling system. It's conducting vast pilgrimages across Canada, fostering a movement with the
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young people in honoring all life. We didn't live in one place. We
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moved through the forest the understanding that we've ons had to the earth. Hello
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everyone, my name is he from Angry Elephant and the reason why I'm here
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today is to discuss the dwindling population of the African elephant, which is very
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very important for us to take care of. The reason why is four hundred
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thousand elephants are left in the wild, well in the reservations because they have
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to be protected. Our job is to make sure that we do provide people
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that are helping the elephants stay alive with money, food for the elephants as
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such. And A y Young is the Global United Nations SPG, the only
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American ambassador who has an organization called Battery Tour and Battery Tour seventeen Ray why
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brought over a whole bunch of people for International Day of Peace. And He's
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gonna rock this room, this square audience and concert facility. So ay you
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ready? Here we go? Yes? A y Young is right there.
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Way in the back, a local hip hop artist makes an international name for
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himself. He is the first artist to power his concert with one hundred percent
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renewable energy. It is a real honor to recognize mister A. Y.
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Young, the founder of Battery Tours. It's incredible. Can't wait for you
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to see that the United Nations is now throwing its support behind him. Mister
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Young has made a big impact in his young life. Born in nineteen ninety
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one, He's a singer, songwriter, a dancer, producer, entrepreneur,
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and sustainability advocate. He's staged and performed more than eight country concerts. He
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was named by the United Nations since recently as one of seventeen Youth World Leaders
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of the World, the only individual selected for that honor from the United States.
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I'm looking forward to stimulating this local economy further, bringing entrepreneurs together,
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being businesses together, bringing the world together so we can make some change.
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I've been doing this sustainability thing for like twelve years, right bringing people energy,
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helping the world. I feel like I'm in a blue ocean. I
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feel like I've been alone. So I wrote about it. When the Bank
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drives and the masterpiece if wordsness strings a single sense to me. See,
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you can't give up? You be the one? Are you giving up?
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Are you giving up? Don't give up? You be the one. Are
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you giving up? Are you giving up? Now? I'm riding my way
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rock, get to out and space. Don't need to have anything which wain
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go. I was colsing in my blue ocean, in my space. I
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was constant my blue, my dance yours. You do anything, said your
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mind to just ride down way, Just ride down the way. I ride
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my own way. You never deserved. We get in and you can't control,
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but you feel in the hole. See it's that part of you.
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See you can't give up. You be the one. Are you giving up?
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Are you giving up? So you can't give up? Will you be
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the one? Are you giving enough? Don't give up me? And now
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I ride my way. I'm telling you man to missus statability journey. You
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could be crazy. It's like way the blue ocean, but it's good to
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be together. You guys make some noise house for ear there my bush,
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my bush mouths, bace miles based molespace, Hey house cold and now I
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got some bob. How you guys doing mins? Baby kids to faith now
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I rode my way. I'm running my way. I rode my now,
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ride my way, rock get to out of space. No need to navigate
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which way to go. Makes a noise for yourself with that with a boot
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a video that we have some technical difficulty before, but we're able to do
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now. The Canal Sued, founder of We the Planet, Chief Impact Officer,
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Choper Foundation, Special Advisor and global expert for a disruptive and depac Troper
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is our buddy modern human history. It is a pivotal moment for all of
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humanity where peace is no longer a progressive idea, not a collective imperative.
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A storm can be felt inside each and every one of us. It challenges
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the authenticity and oneness of our human consciousness. As we look around, we
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see a cacophony of global crisis, climate change, holllessness, family disease,
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displacement, war, and deep division that is strengthening all of humanity and utilizing
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music and the arts as a good medicine, serves as a beha of hope
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and inspiration for generations to come. All Right, so we're going to have
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a conversation around the planet. First and foremost, I'd really love to have
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each of you share your story in one minute or less so that we can
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get into the deep trenches of why we're here here and now we got to
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put up a two minute thing that we got another hour and a half here.
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Okay, So what I see waste? I see the opportunity to bring
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new life so it doesn't have to end up on the streets. Hile Manning
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Jackson. I'm a sustainable fashioned architect. I actually want to become more minimal
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than I feel like if I have one jacket that does vibe different things and
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it can replace a few different items in my voice robe. So we're gonna
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move into some talent section right now. My name is Dennis Ramdahan, and
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I am the co founder of the Humanitarian Humanitarian Concert fundraising Initiative. I want
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to be Elijah, Welcome, what's your Julia, What's in here? And
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shojas my own. Today I'm going to sing the song called My All hope
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you enjoyed, mm rush him and Chunks and Jacko come do your ma show
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me. It's the ching and need a show an Italia shin fu can booge?
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Should you go? Jo Hey? So, now, someone who has
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been very dear to us for a long time. Georgia Fumante sewing mis be
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Woman. Let's welcome Christy Marie, Hello New York. Happy earth Day.
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I'm singing this song because I think that we missed it the first time around.
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It's called Holiday by Madonna, and I just want to say I'm really
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grateful to be here with Paul Slacis and the rest of the beautiful New York
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soul community. Happy earth Day. Whoo. By the way, this was
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produced by the legendary father mc okay. Hi, Paul Slackishi, we're out
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of Times Square. We're at Times Square for a reason. We have Michael
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Ellie who's lives down there in Nashville. Hi, Michael, how are you
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doing well, sir? Good to see you, Good to see you.
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He is on his way up to the Times Square to grace our stage.
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And we were very excited about it for many reasons. But he couldn't pull
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it all together at that moment, as life has it's ups and downs.
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And Michael the reason why I'm so excited because these are the stainable guy.
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He's got a product that's going to be coming out in the market soon,
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food Feed the World, and I mean, it's just like unbelievable and it's
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natural, and so that's wonderful. The other wonderful thing about is, see
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he represents teenagers and so because somehow he said to me, and I don't
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know what this is, so, but there is this senior reality in life.
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Are you like close to an older age? Well, it's an older
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age. I just turned eighty. But since I'm going to live to be
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one hundred and twenty, I've got a few good years left. There you
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go. That's how that one works. That's my number as well. So
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Michael, look, and he can sing, he can entertain. He's done
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great things diplomatically all around the way. Michael, give us a little background
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on yourself, and like, okay, little background this. I'm going to
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sing a couple of songs that I wrote when I was going back and forth
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to the Soviet Union between nineteen six and eighty nine, I was a citizen
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diplomat entertainer and I was doing concerts peace concerts in Moscow, Leningrad, East
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Berlin, dressed in East Germany. I had a partner on that played pleck
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frium banjo and I played guitar, and this gentleman sponsored me. Thank you
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Jesus, so I was able to go back and forth. So this is
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a song that I wrote right after I came back from my first trip,
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and it's called let Me Be. And this song also is going to be
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in a musical that I've written on the mystical Life of the Christ called light
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Waves, which ultimately I want to be doing on Broadways. So this may
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be a preamble to what some of these folks are going to be able to
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see down the road to piece. It's called let me Be. Let me
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be the piece I want to feel, another word, the light that shines
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upon my way. Let me be the hand of brotherhood and friendship, and
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let me be the truth in every word I say. Let me be the
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chain that hold no man in bondage. Let it be the cause the joints
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humanity. Let me be the voice that speaks for truth, and just let
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me be the word that's said it's all people. I love you. Oh
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that is such great music. All right, real up, Well, I
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appreciate this, Paul, thank you for including me. Oh tremendously excited.
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I want to thank one each Christine Marie for making our introduction. This young
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lady phenomenal talent, become a very close friend in the past few months,
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and so I'm I'm a shout out for that young lady because she's a super
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talent and she's been a super friend. And I wouldn't be on this zoom
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call with one each Paul if it wasn't for her efforts. So thank you,
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miss Christine Marie, and thank you Paul for the opportunity and versu advisor
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I would. We're both lucky guys, and and you're really good. All
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right, let's get back to the studio. Thanks so much. Let's go
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Times Square Alive Drama again. Thank you? Who are you win? The
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let's go around? But do you go in those around? What do you
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do? But just so long they care. But their motto is may there
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be peace with Mother Earth and with all people, animals and nature. Thank
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you so much. That's what that mess Burda and bets and trees and flowers,
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talks with presents the less for our with you. That's what I call
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it. Happened, But that's all happened. That's what I call happen,
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But I call happen. Then you go twins. Uh. They've been performing
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for us for years and years. We love them, and they have created
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a Broadway hit show, written books. I mean the guys like they're doing
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at all. We are the Indigo Twins. They call us also twin Lights
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in Christ, because our mission is to share the light of Christ. Is
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to be children forever, because being children forever means being in love, and
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love is the answer to all our problems. Let's rejoice and give thanks to
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Mother Nature and God for making us all one. So the first song we
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both wrote, it's called Rejoice. So let's rejoice together sing along with us.
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Joice, my child, Rejoice, Rejoice. I gave you my life.
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Rejoice. Always give first your choice. Joy my child, Rejoice,
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Rejoice, I gave you my life. Sese from the Bronx, New York
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with Cuban Puerto Rican parents, who has been captivating the attention of audiences worldwide.
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Let's welcome Cesse, and if you're all the way in the back,
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just come. Don't be scared. Make some friends get together. Stuck in
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my country, do it so sad? Hey, Hey yeah, ninos conomos
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devo as darkest arc stamos see too, mad s novamos para Olivia ra hel
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womos if you NCOs the moment and Ringo Star Okay, pizza love everybody,
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Pieza love. Yes, my name is Ringo and I'm here to make you
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aware. On the twenty f first of September, it's the International Day and
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Moments of Peace. So I'm here on behalf of the UN General Secretary to
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let you know that at noon on the twenty first that we can have a
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moment of silence for peace. I'm going to have my moment now. Oh,
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I feel good. Peace love. Everybody coma tomorrow, so you gottah
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Onti to morrow. Common Away Day. It is a Papa