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DONKEY: Juelz Santana Says Kids Don't Really Need To Learn To Read · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 4: Well at sharing donkey of today for Monday December. First,
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's spin the block, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Jules was on the No Funny Podcast with a Kenny
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  Speaker 4: KP Supreme and DP Salute to those brothers. And Joelle
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  Speaker 4: said that financial literacy holds more importance than reading.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the No Funny podcast to hear what
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  Speaker 1: you Els had to say.
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  Speaker 5: We gotta start teaching our kids, though, just financial wealth
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  Speaker 5: and literatcy and all that. That's early because by the
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  Speaker 5: time they get the ninth grade, they should be just
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  Speaker 5: learning how to start businesses and reading how to how to,
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  Speaker 5: but they don't really need to learn know how to read.
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  Speaker 1: I say that respectfully.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying that in a way to be literally,
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  Speaker 5: because you're not supposed to be literate, but you can.
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  Speaker 1: Or math.
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  Speaker 5: You can still obtain the information and you don't have
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  Speaker 5: to know how to read. I believe common sense is
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  Speaker 5: better than everything. I'm on common sense. I'd rather have
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  Speaker 5: zero booksmarts and common sense. Be able to read the room,
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  Speaker 5: be able to read life, be able to read people.
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  Speaker 5: I try to understand people understanding. I'm saying, like, Nowaday,
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  Speaker 5: you can listen to a book. Contract you don't have
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  Speaker 5: to listen to them too. They got they got apps
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  Speaker 5: you could put it in and to read it to you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you crazy? Now?
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  Speaker 4: I admit I don't speak like I used to, but
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  Speaker 4: I still speaking very fluently, okay, And I understand a
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  Speaker 4: lot of what Juel Santana's attempting to say, and I
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  Speaker 4: want to tell you why I don't agree. First of all,
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  Speaker 4: there shouldn't be an either or to this discussion.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: You should be able to read, and you should learn
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  Speaker 4: financial literacy. And you know, if you're going to learn
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  Speaker 4: financial literacy, you need to know how to read.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: You need to know how to read to really become
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  Speaker 4: financially literate. If you rely on the apps and audiobooks,
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  Speaker 4: then you're always going to be dependent on someone else's translation.
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  Speaker 4: But if you know how to read, then you have
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  Speaker 4: direct access to the information yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Then you can.
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  Speaker 4: Read it, okay. And what you can't comprehend, what you
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  Speaker 4: don't understand, then you can ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: That is the beauty of reading. Okay. But you can't
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  Speaker 1: do any of that, all right.
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  Speaker 4: You can't comprehend or understand if you don't know how
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  Speaker 4: to read. First, all right, Kids need to learn how
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  Speaker 4: to read full stop, all right. Adults need to know
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  Speaker 4: how to read full stop. Reading matters so much, man.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, reading scrimp is your brain, Okay. When
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  Speaker 4: you're flipping pages, the coding sentences, visualizing ideas. It helps
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  Speaker 4: to build mental discipline and build your vocabulary, and build
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  Speaker 4: your reasoning skills, even empathy. All right, reading trained critical thinking,
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  Speaker 4: which is really a lost art nowadays. Okay, books expose
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  Speaker 4: you the complexity Okay, not just in regards them understanding
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  Speaker 4: the complexity of financial literacy, but emotional intelligence, Okay, moral judgment,
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  Speaker 4: pattern recognition. If you don't understand anything I'm saying right now,
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  Speaker 4: then there's another example of why you should read more.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Financial literacy is vital.
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  Speaker 4: There's no argument there, But there are studies that show
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  Speaker 4: financial education efforts produce better outcomes when coupled with general literacy. Okay, Budgeting, investing,
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  Speaker 4: financial resilience, all improve and people have a broad literacy foundation. Also, guys,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if y'all know this or not, but
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  Speaker 4: math and financial literacy are not the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, they overlap, but they're not the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Math app is like the toolbox, right, You got your
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  Speaker 4: numbers and your equations, and you know your operations and
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  Speaker 4: your logic. You know adding and the subtracting, the multiplying, dividing.
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  Speaker 4: Math is about how numbers work. But financial literacy is
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  Speaker 4: about how money works. Okay, it's about how people use
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  Speaker 4: money in the real world. So yes, you need math
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  Speaker 4: to understand financial literacy, especially in regards the percentages and
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  Speaker 4: interest rates and basic calculation. So I understand what y'all
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  Speaker 4: was trying to say in that conversation, but I need
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  Speaker 4: y'all to understand how stupid y'all look to a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people. Okay, nothing worse than watching a group of
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  Speaker 4: black men be happy about not knowing nothing. Okay, right,
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  Speaker 4: there's nothing worse than watching a group of black men
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  Speaker 4: be happy about not being able to read. All right,
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  Speaker 4: Joel's you from Halem. Okay, you know you know who
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  Speaker 4: else was from Harlem. Malcolm X was from Harlem, and
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  Speaker 4: Malcolm X used reading to realize his full potential. I
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  Speaker 4: would say reading is the superpower that turned Malcolm Little
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  Speaker 4: into Malcolm X.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Malcolm X once told Alix Haley, I knew right there
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  Speaker 4: in prison that read had changed forever the course of
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  Speaker 4: my life as I see it today. The ability to
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  Speaker 4: read or woke inside me something long dormant, craving to
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  Speaker 4: be mentally alive.
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  Speaker 1: That was Malcolm X. You know what my daddy used
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  Speaker 1: to say.
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  Speaker 4: He used to say, if you want to hide something
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  Speaker 4: from a niggas, put it in a book, all right,
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  Speaker 4: all right, That right there should make us intellectually curious
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  Speaker 4: enough to want to know what the hell they hiding
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  Speaker 4: from us. All right, pick up a damn book, kids,
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  Speaker 4: all right. Everything that Juell's was saying you should learn
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  Speaker 4: can be learned.
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  Speaker 1: By reading books.
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  Speaker 4: Teach history and culture, and you know, most importantly, something
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  Speaker 4: that's missing from the world.
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  Speaker 1: They teach you context, all right.
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  Speaker 4: The world is out of context because people don't even
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  Speaker 4: understand they don't even understand what context is nowadays. And
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  Speaker 4: you can do audiobooks. Okay, you do audiobooks. I recommend
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  Speaker 4: you do both, all right, But I'm telling you if
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  Speaker 4: you want to work out your brain, if you want to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, do some exercise on your brain.
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  Speaker 1: Read, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And it's more importive now than ever that we read,
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  Speaker 4: because according to the National Literacy Institute, not only a
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  Speaker 4: twenty one percent of American adults are literate, but also
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty million adults are now unable to
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  Speaker 4: read a simple story to their children.
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  Speaker 1: You can't even give your kids cat and that hat. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how to read to your kids.
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  Speaker 4: Man, that's something money can't buy. Okay, reading to your
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  Speaker 4: kids before bedtime. You can't put a dollar amount on that.
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  Speaker 4: But the way this world is going, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: kids in first grade reading the daddy before he goes
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  Speaker 4: to bed, if the father is even in the house. Okay, listen.
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  Speaker 4: I'm off for teaching on people how to handle money. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'm all for teaching on people how to invest and
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  Speaker 4: build businesses. But to think that reading is secondary, it's
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  Speaker 4: like saying the foundation don't matter as long as you
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  Speaker 4: got nice windows. Okay, I promise you one of the
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  Speaker 4: fastest ways the level up is reading.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. That's how you learn.
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  Speaker 4: That'll teach you how to question things, that'll teach you
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  Speaker 4: how to think. That's what literacy teaches you how to do.
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  Speaker 1: Read, learn, question, think.
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  Speaker 4: So kids, Okay, invest in your mind, all right, invest
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  Speaker 4: in your mind just like you want to invest in
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  Speaker 4: your pockets. Not because you're trying to get rich, but
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  Speaker 4: so you can stay sharp and not sound illiterate on
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  Speaker 4: somebody's podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Please give you all say Tanna the biggest he huh Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to put that on record. O. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: what it's sad. It is, it's sad, but you just
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  Speaker 1: it's just decide.
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  Speaker 6: But you know where the frustration comes from, right, It
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  Speaker 6: comes from him being in the industry early, making all
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  Speaker 6: this money and then losing a lot of it and
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  Speaker 6: being damn there broke and saying I wish I knew
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  Speaker 6: generational wealth and financial literacy to figure out what to
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  Speaker 6: do with that money. Because him, he's probably in a
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  Speaker 6: situation was like, I wish I knew what to do
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  Speaker 6: with the money more than anything else. But it's also
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  Speaker 6: with you still reading how to read. It's also with
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  Speaker 6: the and you a rapper.
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  Speaker 4: The more you read, the better you get his m
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  Speaker 4: steed like you in the world economy.
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  Speaker 6: But that comes from I'm sure personal the fact that
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  Speaker 6: he had a whole lot and had all his money
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  Speaker 6: and money coming in and he didn't know what to
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  Speaker 6: do with the finance, what to do with the money,
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  Speaker 6: how to invest.
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  Speaker 2: He lost it all.
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  Speaker 6: So that's what that frustration comes from, him saying, I
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  Speaker 6: wish I went to class and did you know financial
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  Speaker 6: literacy opposed to.
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  Speaker 4: But the morail of the story, But it's not either
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  Speaker 4: or no, it's not. It's all encompassing. It's all part
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  Speaker 4: of education. It's all part of an education that you
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  Speaker 4: should try to.
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  Speaker 1: Acquire on this planet while you're here.
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  Speaker 6: All of it all right, Well, thank you for that
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  Speaker 6: donkey today, charlamae. Now can we bring Lauren back in?
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  Speaker 6: Can we have a real conversation? Eight hundred five eight
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  Speaker 6: five one oh five one?
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  Speaker 1: It's the jus instrumental.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all, y'all? Eight hundred five eight five one five one.
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  Speaker 6: Now, over the weekend she went out of the country
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  Speaker 6: for her birthday, and during this I guess vacation, her
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  Speaker 6: baby put it on the I guess it was like.
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  Speaker 2: A note on the window that said, you go out
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  Speaker 2: with me?
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  Speaker 1: So the question is.
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  Speaker 6: Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Is
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  Speaker 6: it necessary to ask the question will you go out
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  Speaker 6: with me? First of all, do you have to ask
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  Speaker 6: whether I'll go out with you?
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  Speaker 1: As an uncle? I was embarrassed.
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  Speaker 4: And the reason I was embarrassed or because you already
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  Speaker 4: out the country. So you already went out the country
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  Speaker 4: with the guys. So clearly you'all have established something right.
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  Speaker 4: So you post a picture and your close friends and
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  Speaker 4: on the window it says, will you be my girlfriend?
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was a proposal my girl, the roses
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  Speaker 4: and everything.
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  Speaker 3: I said, Oh, I said down there, I thought you
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  Speaker 3: was getting proposed to because then but see I know
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  Speaker 3: how to read, so I when I.
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  Speaker 1: Read it, I was like, will you be my girlfriend?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was really really cute.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you hate it so bad? It was cute?
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  Speaker 2: And then that only sets him up for the proposal.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell we gonna do for that? If you
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  Speaker 2: had you know what sixteen anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Like when the country together?
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  Speaker 6: So at that point asked you do we go out
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  Speaker 6: or do I just was like, see exactly, let's discuss.
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