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  Speaker 1: What about their eschatology? Where's it all going? What are
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  Speaker 1: we looking forward to? Well, number one, the imminent destruction
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  Speaker 1: of the white devils. The central theme of the Nation
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  Speaker 1: of Islam's eschatology is the destruction of the white race.
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  Speaker 1: In the seminal teaching on this matter, Elijah Muhammad states, quote,
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  Speaker 1: they were created to rule us for 6,000 years. And
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  Speaker 1: then Allah will destroy them from the earth and give
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  Speaker 1: the earth back to its original owners, the black nation.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, this, according to NOI teaching, was the primary
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  Speaker 1: reason for the coming of Allah. What about the mother
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  Speaker 1: planet and the destruction of the world? This is where
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  Speaker 1: it gets a little fantastic, as though it hasn't already.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most astounding beliefs in the Nation of
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  Speaker 1: Islam theology is is the idea.
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  Speaker 2: Of the mother plane.
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  Speaker 1: This man-made UFO, which spans one half mile, exists for
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of destroying the white race in the Battle
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  Speaker 1: of Armageddon. Elijah Muhammad described the plane. Listen, the great wheel,
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  Speaker 1: which many of us see in the sky today, is
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  Speaker 1: not so much a wheel as one may think in
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  Speaker 1: such terms, but rather a plane made like a wheel.
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  Speaker 1: The like of this will, like plane, was never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot build one like it and get the same results.
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  Speaker 1: Your brains are limited. If you would make one to
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  Speaker 1: look like it, you could not get it off the
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  Speaker 1: earth into outer space. This mother plane is out there waiting.
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  Speaker 1: It's waiting to rapture up the black race right before
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  Speaker 1: it sends smaller planes out to destroy the earth and
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  Speaker 1: white people. And by the way, that ought to sound
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  Speaker 1: familiar to you. Maybe like a movie? Maybe like the
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  Speaker 1: movie Independence Day? In fact, the Nation of Islam sued
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  Speaker 1: the movie Independence Day for $ 40 million, saying that they
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  Speaker 1: stole the plot from the movie from the Nation of
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  Speaker 1: Islam's beliefs about the end of the age. Prior to
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  Speaker 1: this worldwide destruction, black people will be given one final
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to escape, If they do, they'll spend a thousand
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  Speaker 1: years on the mother plane until earth is remade and
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  Speaker 1: the world begins again with the original man, the black man.
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  Speaker 2: Then comes the hereafter. What's the hereafter?
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  Speaker 1: Describe the hereafter as an Islamic world of righteousness and
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  Speaker 1: happiness forever in the presence of Allah. The NOI hereafter
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  Speaker 1: is also said to be a place of complete peace.
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  Speaker 2: Harmony, and well-being. Critique.
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  Speaker 1: This is fantastic. Purely fantastic. You can see that it's
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  Speaker 1: a hodgepodge of things that they've taken from prophetic books
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament, from Revelation. Talk about Ezekiel's wheel
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a wheel. A thousand years that
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  Speaker 1: you're on the mother plane, so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: All of these things are absolutely fantastic. The average of
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  Speaker 1: this movement at its inception, had only a fourth-grade education.
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  Speaker 1: That would seem to explain the acceptance of such fantastic doctrines.
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  Speaker 1: Yet these doctrines remain at the core of the movement today.
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  Speaker 1: There are at least two possible explanations. First, the theology
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  Speaker 1: of the movement could simply be hidden from observers and
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  Speaker 1: participants alike. A second possibility is that the socio-political or
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  Speaker 1: nationalistic aspects of the movement relegate the theology to a
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  Speaker 1: superficial role.
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  Speaker 2: The latter is the strongest argument.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, any attempt to evangelize members of the Nation of
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  Speaker 1: Islam must not only understand that the movement's theology is
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  Speaker 1: distinct from that of Orthodox Islam, it must also account
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  Speaker 1: for the sociopolitical issues that form its foundation. Again, six
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  Speaker 1: black pastors, right here in Houston. Two of them in
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  Speaker 1: seminary with me. One, the most prominent pastor in Houston's
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  Speaker 1: Southern Baptist life. They stand shoulder to shoulder with the
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  Speaker 1: head of this group promoting the Million Man March, which
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  Speaker 1: was a day of atonement.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody said anything.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have mass exodus of members from their churches.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't scolded or reprimanded by their counterparts and their denominations.
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  Speaker 1: Their white brethren decided not to say a word about
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  Speaker 1: it to them. Choosing instead to assume It's a black thing.
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  Speaker 1: We just must not be able to understand. Folks, this
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  Speaker 1: is not hard to understand. These people are lost. Not
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  Speaker 1: only are these people lost, these people are deceptive. They
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  Speaker 1: are intentionally deceptive. And their deception has a goal behind it.
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  Speaker 1: And the goal behind it is that they would reach
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  Speaker 1: into the black church community.
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  Speaker 2: And win converts.
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  Speaker 1: That they would be close enough to sound familiar, but
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  Speaker 1: distinctive enough to offer an alternative. That they would major
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  Speaker 1: on sociopolitical issues. that they would measure on the divide
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  Speaker 1: between black and white, and that they would do so
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that black people who were Christians
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  Speaker 1: would feel a tug in themselves between their Christianity and
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  Speaker 1: their blackness. And that in many instances, they would put
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  Speaker 1: their Christianity aside and respond with their blackness. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what happened.
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  Speaker 3: 18 years ago this week in Washington, DC, as hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of thousands of black men marched on Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Most of those men were not members of the nation
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  Speaker 1: of Islam. So here's the question that we raised. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is obvious.
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  Speaker 2: This is easy. We understand that this is cultic. It's nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the question. What is it.
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  Speaker 1: That has so divided us that black Christians are willing
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  Speaker 1: to ignore this and align at times with the nation
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  Speaker 1: of Islam and white Christians are are willing to ignore
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  Speaker 1: that response for fear of being judged racist. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a problem of theological distinction. This is a problem
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  Speaker 1: of sin and division in the camp. This is a
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  Speaker 1: problem of sin of Christians who happen to be black,
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  Speaker 1: who are willing to put their blackness before their savedness.
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  Speaker 1: This is a sin of Christians who happen to be white,
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  Speaker 1: who put their fear of being called racist above their
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  Speaker 1: desire to call for truth among those who claim to
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  Speaker 1: be fellow Christians. This is also about our ignorance. We've
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  Speaker 1: been played. These people put on garb that often looks
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  Speaker 1: sort of Muslim. They look more like Shriners most of
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  Speaker 1: the time. But again, they call themselves Muslims and the
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  Speaker 1: name of it is the Nation of Islam. And so
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  Speaker 1: we go, okay, they're Islamic. And when they pray, they
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  Speaker 1: look like they're Islamic and they greet each other with As-Salaam-Alaikum.
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  Speaker 1: And that's Arabic sounding and all this sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And then, okay, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: So they're this Islamic group, but I don't understand this
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  Speaker 1: particular Islamic sect. You know now that that's not what
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  Speaker 1: it is. We all know now that that's not what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And here's my prayer. That because we all
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  Speaker 1: know now what it is, that the next time half
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  Speaker 1: a dozen black pastors line up at a press conference,
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  Speaker 1: standing shoulder to shoulder with these people, that the Christians
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  Speaker 1: in their churches would have none of it. and that
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  Speaker 1: their fellow Christians who happen to be of other ethnicities
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  Speaker 1: will call them on it and have absolutely none of it.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a price to pay. Here's the question. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you were there, you're in seminary with these guys. How
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  Speaker 1: come you didn't say anything?
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  Speaker 2: I did. Y'all know me well enough to know. I did.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the response I got. You've been with these white
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  Speaker 1: folks too long. That's the response I got. You've been
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  Speaker 1: with these white folks too long. Because in their minds,
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  Speaker 1: there were some things that transcended their theological convictions. Chief
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  Speaker 1: among them, their ethnic heritage. God help us. For in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: there is no Jew, no Greek, no slave, nor free,
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  Speaker 1: no male, no female, no black, no white.
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  Speaker 2: We're all one in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And if we're all one in Christ, then we all
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  Speaker 1: have a very simple and unified answer to stuff that
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  Speaker 1: sounds like this. And that answer is that dog won't hunt.
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  Speaker 1: It's a simple no. It's a direct no. It's a
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  Speaker 1: no that says people who are united with this need
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  Speaker 1: to be gospelized. It's a no that says people who
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  Speaker 1: have a willingness to compromise and be a part of
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  Speaker 1: this have some severe deficiencies in their understanding of what
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  Speaker 1: it means to be a Christian. Pastors who are willing
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  Speaker 1: to unite with these people on something called a day
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  Speaker 1: of atonement are blasphemers. And there's no other way to
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  Speaker 1: look at it. This is a movement that most people
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  Speaker 1: don't know much about. They go under the radar until
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times a year when they make certain pronouncements.
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  Speaker 2: But make no mistake about it. It's a movement to
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  Speaker 2: be reckoned with.
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  Speaker 1: My prayer for us is that we'd open our eyes
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  Speaker 1: to it, that we'd help others open their eyes to it,
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  Speaker 1: and that just as we've heard about dealing with Orthodox Islam,
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  Speaker 1: that we would press the claims of Christ and the gospel,
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  Speaker 1: because ultimately that's what these and all other people need.