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Dr. Uju Anya Blaming The Biafran War Queen Elizabeth II · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to my channel.
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  My name is Lauren said with different and this is burnt with
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  lorenza, how are you all doing? How you enjoy your weekend if
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  you live in Great Britain, you know that we are going through
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  it. We have a new prime minister
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  lays Terrace. She also met with Queen
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  Elizabeth the second before her passing.
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  And it was a beautiful picture. She was the queen was smiling
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  and it was really beautiful to see her at the age of 96, still
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  active and happy. So people thought everything was
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  okay until we received. I think it was on Wednesday that
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  the queen was not feeling fine, it made headlines.
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  And I think everybody was panicky because of our age and
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  because they made that announcement, they made it
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  public. So people thought This unit is
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  going to be serious and it turned out to be serial, the
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  queen died at the age of 96, after reading for over 70 years
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  and we have a new king now King, Charles the Third.
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  So we are going through a whole bunch of transitioning from, you
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  know, Boris Johnson to Lee's from Queen Elizabeth's to child
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  to King Charles, so it's been a lot and with the passing of the
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  The queen or whole lot has been going on on Twitter and in
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  Nigerian living in the u.s.a., professor, my name is Wu Zhu and
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  yeah, she sets the whole internet and Twitter on fire
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  with her tweets. When she said, let me get that
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  tweet for you. I hope the chief monarch of
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  eight even raping genocidal. Empire is finally dying.
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  Me have pain is excruciating. So this was when it was
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  announced that the queen was sick and would you you know,
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  made the street obviously that was before her dad's and
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  somebody said, what's a hateful thing to say and she replied by
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  saying, I only wish my hatred had the effect on her that her
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  monarchy had. On my people.
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  So would you went? I had you was tweeting.
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  You do was have fingers were happy.
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  She was happily tweeting. And people started criticizing
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  do because they said this is a dying woman.
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  This is a grandmother, this is a great grandmother.
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  This is the people's grandmother.
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  Basically, why would you say such a thing about her?
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  Would you went ahead to say that?
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  If anyone Me to express anything, boats disdain for the
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  Monarch who supervised the government's that sponsored the
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  genocide, that massacred and displaced, half of my family and
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  the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to
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  overcome. You can keep Wishing Upon a
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  Star. So would you obviously is paint,
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  this is a tweet that was done in bad taste like she is Freedom of
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  speech. Everybody has a right to say
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  what they want to say, but the way you deliver certain message
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  matters, a lot if she had come out and mentioned the queen and
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  not being that verbally, abusive and wishing that on somebody who
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  is already died, who is 96 years old and who, you know, could
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  pass on as any minutes, it's kind of done in a poor taste.
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  Although she had a point about what she was talking about the
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  barrel. And all that.
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  But at the same time the way it was delivered was you know poor
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  taste yes, Morgan attacked her Jeff Bezos attacked her.
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  The whole of Twitter was on fire daily meal, carry the story, and
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  even her University came out to disassociate themselves from
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  heart. Sweet.
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  Because she's a professor and they said this is not in our
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  view. This does not represent us and
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  all That I started thinking about this whole thing.
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  I said, I thinking about gear for a war, exactly.
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  He thinking about, who to blame, because a lot of people said, we
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  got Nigeria, got her independence in 1960 and the
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  Biafra will happen from 1967 to 1970 s.
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  So some people said, how are we still blaming British for what
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  happened after the independence? There's a documentary on Netflix
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  that kind of documented the British.
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  Pia invading Africa invaded Nigeria and that's you know, it
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  kind of gave me an Insight of what life was before the
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  colonization of Nigeria, people would think.
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  Oh, this is done in a poor taste.
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  This is not supposed to be like this.
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  Why is she attacking somebody who is about to die?
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  But I think in Nigeria, or in Africa, we settle scores.
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  When Body is dying or when somebody's about to die.
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  Or when somebody is about to be buried, that is when you hear,
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  they've not paid their dues, they've not done this, they were
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  all in this amount of money even before you bury that person so
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  culturally, because this is how this is, why cultures are
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  different. This is why you have to
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  understand people's cultural. I am not saying what she said
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  was in anyway, right? But in the context of cultural,
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  I think she she fell. That this is something that she
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  needs to say before this wasn't die, or before this resin is
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  buried because that is the culture.
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  Was it on in bad taste? Absolutely.
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  There has been a whole bunch of reaction about her tweets and
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  people condemned mean Jeff Bezos about what he has said about
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  her. I am.
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  Copilot said, Doctor would you Anya did not colonized Africa
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  doctor? Would you Anna did not kidnap or
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  by millions of Africans and ship them across?
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  The Atlantic dr. Wu Zhu.
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  And I did not commit genocide in Africa.
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  I'm not sure about that doctor. Would you?
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  And I did not steal trillions of dollars worth of Natural
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  Resources. Would you?
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  Anya is not your problem. So for them to even invade, I
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  mean, you don't invade a place where they had nothing.
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  You have to invade somewhere because you see potential in
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  them. You see something that you want.
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  You kind of just go Invade a days that because, you know,
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  that this, this is a desert, it's dry.
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  There's nothing there. So for you to invade some way,
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  you must have something, they will have that you want.
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  So regardless of whether we want to think that these people
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  brought in Civilization, the brought in hospitals, they
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  brought in the church. There is also an element of pain
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  that is not been addressed. Somebody said something that
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  Yes, we know there is pain, the there is pain especially be a
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  France when you talk about when our parents tell us a story
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  about Jeff reward is always comes from a place of hurt, a
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  place of pain, a place of trauma and we grow up with that.
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  We carry that when you hear about Biafra agitations, this is
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  on a jurist. Trauma on address pain that has
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  not been acknowledged. We talked about slavery.
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  And when you talk about slave trade, you Britain is on the
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  chair table of this whole thing, but one thing I've realized is
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  the importance of telling your story that is the whole thing.
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  Now, I'm not saying Nigeria, we've had our independence for
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  God knows how long and we still have the same problem.
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  We're not going to keep blaming. In Britain for our problem.
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  That shouldn't take away from the conversation.
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  That something happened that needs to be addressed.
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  Don't let people tell your story because people are going to tell
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  you a story the way they want to tell it.
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  People are going to tell your story how the come out looking
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  great in the whole thing. If you look at those whole slave
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  trade and everything, Britain came out at the top, why is not?
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  Because they didn't. You do so people it's not like
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  they didn't colonise people but because they tell their story,
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  The Narrative, the control the narrative their own way and it
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  made them look like Heroes. Instead of what he actually is
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  was so tell your story, you know, your history, tell your
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  story, how many years after Independence?
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  We still blame Britain, we saw blame the queen, we still blame,
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  you know, The West we still blink is just a Blame Game,
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  everybody's just dishing out blame to who they once we have a
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  problem in Africa, it was the colonial Master.
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  We have a problem in Africa, our leaders are you know, still
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  under the colonial regime. So it's just I think we need an
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  overhaul of just teaching our children, the truth teaching
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  them history. So that when they grow Yup.
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  It's not about a family telling their daughter that England
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  supported Nigeria to defeat their friends and that is what
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  they are going to run with. Whether that is true or that is
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  not true. That is what they will run with.
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  But if they go to school, and there is a comprehensive history
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  lessons where, you know where you're coming from, you know,
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  why, the how your people even Participated in the slave trade
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  because listen England. Yeah, they create.
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  They came in and they colonized us but with the help of our
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  people. So it was a partnership whether
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  you like it or not. Some people partnered with them
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  to make all those things happen. So, I think we should all just
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  sit down, think of ways to bring history, back into schools, so
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  that people know where they come from.
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  You know what happened? People were the rules that each
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  and every player played to where you're blaming somebody, you're
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  going to know why you're blaming that person.
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  So that is all I have to say for today.
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  Thank you very much for watching today's episode.
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  So if you have any comments, please leave me a comment in the
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  comment section. I'd like to know, did you learn
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  history in school? I'm a millennial.
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  So, I don't even think it's an, if I ramble annual, and I did
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  not do history in school. What about James?
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  He's like, and these are people that are going to give birth to
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  generations of children. That would not even know where
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  they're coming from. So how do we fix this problem?
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  How do we do that? Leave your comments in the
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  comment section, I don't know. This is just my views on my
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  opinion. I'd like to hear yours and then
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  thank you very much for watching.
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  Today's episode. Bye.