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Young, Black and MAGA · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: And we've seen more young people turning toward the Mega movement,
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  Speaker 1: believing it will give them the future they want in America.
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  Speaker 1: A growing part of this turn toward President Trump's agenda
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  Speaker 1: black voters. This change may be going under the radar,
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  Speaker 1: but the movement, it is definitely not underground. And in
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  Speaker 1: Tonight's Prime Focus, ABC's Avery Harper takes us inside the
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  Speaker 1: world of people who identify as young, Black and Mega.
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  Speaker 2: I am a Karen.
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  Speaker 3: It's nighttime in the DC party scene. But this isn't
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  Speaker 3: just any costume party. It's packed with a political message.
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  Speaker 2: I don't talk to the media.
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  Speaker 3: What is your Halloween past?
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  Speaker 4: HAWKEM Jeffries.
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  Speaker 3: This crowd is partying the magaway to make America great again,
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  Speaker 3: movement despised by some across the country, loved by those
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  Speaker 3: in this room.
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  Speaker 2: This is just a great time for young conservatives to
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  Speaker 2: come together, meet each other and make America party. C J.
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  Speaker 3: Pearson at the center of it all. It's a night
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  Speaker 3: part time party hosts and full time mega influencer.
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  Speaker 2: You bossy lesule College, and you lost the popular vote
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  Speaker 2: because Democrats are insufferable. Don Trump isn't just making DC
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  Speaker 2: safe again.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna get healthy again.
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  Speaker 2: Because I can finally go on my hopwood walks again. Y'all,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to pop all for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: The travelism in the black community needs to end.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of the rising stars of MAGA.
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  Speaker 4: Here are you sureing love?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe his presence so undeniable even rap Royalty brick Ross
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  Speaker 3: comes through to perform.
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  Speaker 2: I think these parties have given a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: confidence boosts to a love young Conservatis who for a
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  Speaker 2: long time thought there weren't many people out there like them.
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  Speaker 3: But Pearson is also using his presence to carve a
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  Speaker 3: lane for more young black conservatives in the Grand Old Party.
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  Speaker 3: What about the Mega Movement attracts you and makes you
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  Speaker 3: want to bring other black people into the fold.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a movie that's putting America first, and that
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  Speaker 2: means every American of every shade, of every color.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not just Pearson. In recent years, a number
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  Speaker 3: of black celebrities growing more vocal too in their support
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  Speaker 3: of President Trump, from rapper Kodak Black to Amber Rose.
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  Speaker 5: Elect Donald Trump President of the United States.
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  Speaker 3: These voices helped Trump make significant gains among Black voters
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  Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty four presidential election, nearly doubling his
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  Speaker 3: support among them and energizing young black men in particular.
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  Speaker 3: Black Americans, though still overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: I caution the party to don't just assume that that
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  Speaker 4: support that has been there for Donald Trump will translate
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  Speaker 4: for the party.
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  Speaker 3: Almost a year into office and exactly one year from
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  Speaker 3: midterm elections, where does that support stand? A recent ABC
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  Speaker 3: News Washington Post IPSOS poll showing eighty four percent of
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  Speaker 3: Black Americans disapprove of Trump when.
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  Speaker 4: It comes to black voters. I haven't heard enough from
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  Speaker 4: the part already on the midterm message. We have the
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  Speaker 4: White House, we have this Senate, and we have the House.
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  Speaker 4: What are our deliverables at this point?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't have to wear magahaw because I'm a
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  Speaker 2: walking magahack.
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  Speaker 3: The twenty three year old Pearson first went viral at
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  Speaker 3: just thirteen with this YouTube video Here's the truth of
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  Speaker 3: the matter, attacking then President Obama.
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  Speaker 2: President Obama, you don't love America.
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  Speaker 3: How did you turn that viral fame as a kid
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  Speaker 3: into a cultural capital and political influence in this current
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party.
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  Speaker 2: For me, I've always believed that politics is downstream from culture.
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  Speaker 2: If we win the culture war, that's how we change
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  Speaker 2: the hearts and minds of America's young people. We've been
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  Speaker 2: able to kind of make conservatism cool against his.
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  Speaker 3: Conservative content, netting him over one million followers across social
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  Speaker 3: media and capturing the attention of the President himself. Pierson
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  Speaker 3: unapologetic in his pro trunk rhetoric.
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  Speaker 2: So did all the liberals commenting on my videos.
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  Speaker 4: You're black, how can.
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  Speaker 6: You defend what they're doing to illegal aliens in America?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe because I'm.
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  Speaker 6: Not legal alien an aka I was in Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: What do you say to those who say you're trolling
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  Speaker 3: or race baiting?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that they probably don't interact much with authenticity,
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  Speaker 2: so when they see authenticity and action, it's something that's
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  Speaker 2: unfamiliar to them. And so for me, I'm America first,
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  Speaker 2: and that's my north star and Leo mcigrants have nothing
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  Speaker 2: in common with them. Transgender folks of nothing in common
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  Speaker 2: with them. I think everyone should be treated with decency
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  Speaker 2: because of just how I was raised. But outside of that,
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of where the similiarity is on. They are
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  Speaker 2: literally being led astray.
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  Speaker 3: His newest venture, launching the political podcast Family Matters.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to see you all again. We have a
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  Speaker 2: jam packed show ahead today where.
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  Speaker 3: He and his guests speak their minds. There's a common
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  Speaker 3: misconception that conservatives are roughty and boosy and we don't
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  Speaker 3: know black people.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm a black as day. Come.
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  Speaker 6: What they're doing for young conservatives and just young people
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  Speaker 6: in general is really invaluable. It's about not voting identity
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  Speaker 6: politics and really critically thinking about what matters to you.
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  Speaker 3: Anna Marie Wiley first broke through on reality TV as
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  Speaker 3: a castmate on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
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  Speaker 6: I came up with this idea to have the ladies
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  Speaker 6: over at my house for Mother's Day diamonds and champagne brunch.
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  Speaker 3: But lately she's been an outspoken supporter of President Trump,
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  Speaker 3: from being invited to the White House to appearing on
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  Speaker 3: Fox News.
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  Speaker 6: I voted for Joe Biden in twenty twenty, and it
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  Speaker 6: wasn't until this election cycle that everything changed for me.
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  Speaker 3: Wiley says her beliefs that transgender athletes shouldn't play in
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  Speaker 3: women's sports is a part of why she chose to
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  Speaker 3: vote for President Trump. That choice she believes cost her
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  Speaker 3: friendships and an invite back on the Bravo show.
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  Speaker 6: I was given such a bad edit on that show
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  Speaker 6: and shown in that in such a negative light all
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  Speaker 6: of a sudden, I'm transphobic. I'm a biggot, I'm this mean,
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  Speaker 6: mean person.
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  Speaker 3: In a statement to ABC News, a Bravo spokesperson writes
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  Speaker 3: there was absolutely no truth to those claims, but Wiley
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  Speaker 3: still wouldn't label herself as a full blown conservative and.
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  Speaker 6: Really more moderate because there are many things Republicans believe
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  Speaker 6: that I that I don't share the same values with.
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  Speaker 6: I'm actually pro choice. I look at things on an
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  Speaker 6: individual basis.
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  Speaker 3: And black conservatism isn't a monolith. One of the major
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  Speaker 3: boiling points recent controversies around racist comments within pockets of
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  Speaker 3: the GOP. How do you reconcile your support for the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party with some of the ways that race can
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  Speaker 3: be discussed in corners.
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  Speaker 4: Of the party?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think a few voices so representationality the
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party. The only leader of this party is President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, despite being called a racist, a bigot, a
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  Speaker 2: white supremacist, almost ad nauseum by a liberal media that
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  Speaker 2: despises him, was able to have the best performance among
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  Speaker 2: minority voters of any republic look and nominee in half
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  Speaker 2: a century, and so I think it goes to show
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  Speaker 2: that black people are a lot smarter than the law
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  Speaker 2: of those on the left give them credit for.
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  Speaker 5: I think the inroads that Donald Trump made with minorities,
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  Speaker 5: particularly black men and Hispanic men, frankly, it comes from
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  Speaker 5: a different a different perspective. I think it's more a
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  Speaker 5: failure of the Democratic Party to explain why they are
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  Speaker 5: the champions of people of color.
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  Speaker 3: Political commentator Tara Satmeyer is a lifelong Republican who became
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  Speaker 3: an independent after the twenty twenty election.
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  Speaker 5: People of color who are willing to align themselves with
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  Speaker 5: this incredibly dangerous and self destructive nationalist, populist worldview, I
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  Speaker 5: find it very difficult to digest.
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  Speaker 3: What do you say to black Conservatives who have left
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  Speaker 3: the Republican Party because they view President Trump and his
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  Speaker 3: policies as detrimental to the black community.
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  Speaker 2: Replaced them, We've replaced them with new blood in our
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  Speaker 2: party that have come over and said that President Trump
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  Speaker 2: is exactly what we need for this moment.
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  Speaker 3: For Pearson, the future is young and bright. For black conservatives,
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  Speaker 3: young people are the future.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that the cultural winds that we're putting on
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  Speaker 2: the board are moving the dial. We've got to horness
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  Speaker 2: that because this energy is not always going to be
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  Speaker 2: here