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DONKEY: Cabarrus Commissioner Faces Backlash After Saying Juneteenth Is ‘Based On A Lie’ · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for Donkey of the day. He's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of donkeys out here to day called donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 1: It really caught me off.
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  Speaker 2: Guards we live a life where we might are tongue
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  Speaker 2: based off who we may of finished.
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  Speaker 1: He never was saying any time you are a donkey,
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  Speaker 1: that is by Charlemagne. Some donkey today is just sakfast club. Okay, Charlamage,
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  Speaker 1: we can give a donkey of the day too today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, donkey today for Thursday, June eighteenth, goes the county
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  Speaker 2: commissioner goes to a county commissioner in North Carolina named
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  Speaker 2: Larry Pittman. Okay, Larry Pittman is a Cabarest County commissioner,
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  Speaker 2: and he is receiving Donkey of to day this morning
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  Speaker 2: because of some comments he made during a debate over
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  Speaker 2: a June teenth resolution. Larry Pittman cast the loan vote
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  Speaker 2: against a resolution recognizing June tenth, arguing that the holiday
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  Speaker 2: is based on a lie and it should not be
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  Speaker 2: celebrated on June nineteenth. Okay, let the record show that
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  Speaker 2: just last hour I told the room I believe I
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  Speaker 2: want to work tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: June tenth is a federal holiday here at iHeartRadio. So
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  Speaker 2: we have the day off, but I feel like I.
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  Speaker 1: Want to work.
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  Speaker 2: Ironic, right, Yeah, a black person who wants to work
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  Speaker 2: on a day that commemorates when black people were finally
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  Speaker 2: informed that we free.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, But the reason.
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  Speaker 2: I want to work is because the guys like Larry
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  Speaker 2: Pittman C Larry is arguing that Juneteenth is based on
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  Speaker 2: a lie.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go to WCNC news for the report.
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  Speaker 3: Police I had a disagreement over Juneteenth inside the Caberras
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  Speaker 3: County Government Center is now drawing criticism from local civil
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  Speaker 3: rights leaders.
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  Speaker 4: One county commissioner voted against the resolution recognizing the holiday
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  Speaker 4: and said Juneteenth is based on a lie.
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  Speaker 3: The only SENC Charlotte's Alexander Rio Smelvia, spoke with the
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  Speaker 3: local ANDAACP leaders who say the comments missed the meaning
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  Speaker 3: of the day.
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  Speaker 5: The states before Juneteenth celebrations, a debate over the holiday
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  Speaker 5: is taking center stage in Cabaris County.
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  Speaker 6: I don't support it because it is based on a lie.
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  Speaker 6: People were not sent free by the Masspation Proclamation.
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  Speaker 5: During Mondays County Commissioner's meeting, Commissioner Larry Pittman casts the
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  Speaker 5: loan vote against a resolution recognizing Juneteenth for Bennie black Americans.
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  Speaker 5: Juneteenth March June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, when Union troops
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  Speaker 5: arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed enslaved people they were free,
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  Speaker 5: more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Pittman argues
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  Speaker 5: a holiday should not be celebrated in June, but in
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  Speaker 5: December instead, eight.
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  Speaker 6: Months after the war was over and Lincoln was dead.
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  Speaker 2: See, this is my argument for work in tomorrow. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: did not tell y'all earlier. People don't really understand or
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  Speaker 2: know what June teentha. It's easy to take off fourth
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  Speaker 2: of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, President's Day. Folks understand
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  Speaker 2: the historical context of those days. People do not quite
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  Speaker 2: grasp the historical context or understand the historical context of Juneteenth. Yet,
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  Speaker 2: and if we as one of the premier black radio
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  Speaker 2: shows in the world, may I say, d premiere black
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  Speaker 2: radio show in the world, one of the premier radio
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  Speaker 2: shows in the world period at the Breakfast Club have
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  Speaker 2: the blessing of being on air. We should be here
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow to celebrate June tenth. And let folks know exactly
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  Speaker 2: what juneteenth and see Larry Pittman is misinformed. He says
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  Speaker 2: June tenth was based on a lie because slavery had
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  Speaker 2: not ended nationwide on June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, and
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  Speaker 2: he suggests recognition should focus on the ratification of the
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  Speaker 2: thirteenth Amendment instead.
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  Speaker 1: Let's listen to his comments and full they were interesting.
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  Speaker 6: I want to address this thing about guntenths. I don't
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  Speaker 6: support it because it is based on a lie. True
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  Speaker 6: history is important, not what an elitist point of view
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  Speaker 6: forces to be taught in schools and ignores the real
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  Speaker 6: truth of what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And my son, hey, it is not your turn, sir.
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  Speaker 6: My son graduated from wring At University with a degree
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  Speaker 6: in history, and I've talked to him about some of
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  Speaker 6: these things, and from his studies, he confirms to me
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  Speaker 6: exactly what I've learned by going beyond textbooks and looking
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  Speaker 6: at other sources. A lot of these things I learned
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  Speaker 6: by doing that when I was a kid. And it
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  Speaker 6: makes me sick. What passes for history. That is falsehood.
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  Speaker 6: And I will not just sit by and take it.
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  Speaker 6: I guess I've said enough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, alrighte. So you said enough boy, wow.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, I mean you act to I maturity. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So Larry Pittman's criticism rest on the argument that June
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  Speaker 2: teenth is not the precise date slavery legally ended everywhere. Larry,
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  Speaker 2: Larry lie, okay, big lie, all right. That criticism misses
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  Speaker 2: the whole point. June tenth commemorates a significant milestone in
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  Speaker 2: the struggle for freedom, not a claim that slavery ended
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  Speaker 2: universally on that exact date. Okay, June nineteenth, eighteen sixty
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  Speaker 2: if I was a milestone, right, It's like ringing a
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  Speaker 2: bell in the cancer center. When you ring a bell
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  Speaker 2: in the cancer center, it traditionally signifies the end of
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  Speaker 2: a phase of active treatment, right, like such as completing
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  Speaker 2: chemotherapy or radiation, rather than a guarantee that the cancer
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  Speaker 2: is completely gone forever. But ringing the bell is a milestone,
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  Speaker 2: and you should let people celebrate their milestones. Okay, hey, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: here's some irinie, Okay, here's some irony that many historians
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  Speaker 2: point out. Americans celebrate the fourth of July as Independence Day,
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  Speaker 2: even though independence was not fully secured on July fourth,
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  Speaker 2: seventeen seventy six, and many people remained enslaved afterward.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Holidays often commemorate symbolic milestones rather than the final completion
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  Speaker 2: of historical processes.
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  Speaker 1: And that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: In this, my friends, this is why reading in history
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  Speaker 2: classes matter, Okay. Larry Pittman voted against the Record of
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  Speaker 2: Resolution recognizing Junie teenth because he says the holiday is
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  Speaker 2: based on a lie, since slavery didn't end everywhere on
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  Speaker 2: June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, but nobody said.
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  Speaker 3: It did, right.
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  Speaker 2: The point of June's Eve isn't that slavery, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everywhere magically vanished on June nineteenth. The point is that
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  Speaker 2: enslaved people in Texas finally learned they were free.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It commemorates the layed justice, all right. It celebrates liberation.
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  Speaker 2: It's symbolism of what was to come. Also, Larry, I
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  Speaker 2: just want you to know, if we canceled every holiday
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  Speaker 2: because it wasn't one hundred percent historically precise, we'd have
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  Speaker 2: to cancel Columbus Day, okay, Thanksgiving, Christmas, that's not Jesus Birthday,
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  Speaker 2: all right, It's not Jesus Birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We just schedule a lot of these holidays around times
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  Speaker 2: we want to be off from work. Okay, Oh, how
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  Speaker 2: convenient Fourth of July is in summer? How convenient Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 2: and Christmas is towards the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: How convenient June Teeth is on a Friday? Like, cut
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  Speaker 1: it out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Larry, let's not get so caught up in proving
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  Speaker 2: you're technically right that you missed the reason of why
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  Speaker 2: people celebrate things in the first place. Sometimes history isn't
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  Speaker 2: you know, just about dates, just what those dates represent,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the reality of the situation. Larry Pittman doesn't
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  Speaker 2: like what these dates represent. How Dad, these niggas be free. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Larry doesn't want the June teenth holiday period. He hates
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  Speaker 2: what it represents. I know, I know he does. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I know he does. I know he does. I know
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  Speaker 2: he does. I know he doesn't want to recognize he's
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  Speaker 2: just using this dumb ass reasoning about dates to justify
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  Speaker 2: his prejudice, to justify his bigotry.
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  Speaker 1: You know how I know he's a biggot. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: this part again.
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  Speaker 2: You said, or us boy, God, that's the kind of
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  Speaker 2: boy that made Michael Evans have to tell y'all that
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  Speaker 2: boy is a white racist word.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I know racism when I hear it.
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  Speaker 2: Please give Larry Pittman the sweet sounds of the Hamiltons.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, you are the doge.
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  Speaker 4: The day, the dog.
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  Speaker 2: All the day.
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  Speaker 1: way too much mayonnaise.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Kathy Griffin just told me she want
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  Speaker 2: to say something too.
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  Speaker 1: Please give this giant jar male look big as he haw.
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  Speaker 1: I think Chris Rock.
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  Speaker 2: Might be done at the Knicks parade, but he just
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  Speaker 2: shot at something from the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. Okay, what about my girl? The drive through?
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  Speaker 1: She working to drive through stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Right man?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: People want something with their chili, man, they just want
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  Speaker 2: That's just what they eat with their chili.
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  Speaker 1: Right, That's all it is. Thank you for that of
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  Speaker 1: the day.
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  Speaker 4: And now when we come back, just fix my mess
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  Speaker 4: us if you're heading to the raid today. Today is
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  Speaker 4: the New York Knicks Parade. They're saying the pens where
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  Speaker 4: they have where you can actually watch the parade, are full,
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  Speaker 4: so no one will be allowed in the viewing area.
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  Speaker 4: And they say, as reminded, if you leave the viewing pins, you.
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  Speaker 1: Will not be allowed re entry.
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  Speaker 4: There are no trains stopping past canal streets so where
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  Speaker 4: the parade is so then not you can't even get
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  Speaker 4: down there right now, So the only way to get
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  Speaker 4: down there is a walk.
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  Speaker 2: So it's somebody out. They got a piece so bad
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  Speaker 2: right now, hand y'all down there drinking that dunkin Donuts
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  Speaker 2: coffee and the coffee, so I know you got a poop,
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  Speaker 2: probably spiking that coffee. Yes, I don't this morning, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be rough. Yeah, I hope they got some pampas on.
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  Speaker 2: I known't.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes they wear pampers when they go to parades. People
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  Speaker 4: when they say out the days before, they wear a
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  Speaker 4: pampa so that.
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  Speaker 1: They can enjoy it. Not I swear, no, no. But
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  Speaker 1: with New Year's New Year's Eve, I don't believe.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure they do it here too. It's the same
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  Speaker 4: thing when people are there since twelve yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you know New Yorkers are a bit extreme,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, I believe it anyway, Just chicks.
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