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#31 - The Show Must Go On: A Post-Election Reflection · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  All right, what's up, everyone? We have had a day to recoup since the election.
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  I would say the dust has settled.
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  Donald Trump is going to be the next president. I don't know if y'all heard
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  that yet, but he is. I think a lot of people have mixed emotions.
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  To me, it does not seem as catastrophic as I expected. I thought we were stepping into Armageddon.
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  10, 9, 8, 7. Welcome to the Brandon Fogel Show.
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  This is not just a podcast. It's a revolution of thought. Unfiltered, real and raw.
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  The Brandon Fogel Show. Where excellence meets evolution.
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  Two. One. This is the Brandon Fogel Show.
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  I mean, if we got anything from the media outlets and from both campaigns,
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  Donald Trump's campaign, as well as Kamala Harris's campaign,
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  as well as the White House, the White House itself.
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  Because if you saw Karine Jean-Pierre, known as Binder, the White House press
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  secretary for the current Biden administration,
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  when she took the podium today and she answered some questions,
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  what was brought to her was, based on what we had coming up to this point and
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  what you had been saying.
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  That if Donald Trump is elected, it is the end of civilization.
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  We're not going to be able to go on as the United States.
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  And, but now you're saying that you are going to work with him and you're going
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  to welcome him into the white house.
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  How does that, how does that line up? How does that go together?
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  And I think as just regular observers and normal Americans,
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  normal us citizens, I think we can gather from this that in politics,
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  it is almost Hollywood itself. It is entertainment.
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  It is WWE. It is a show. It is a drama.
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  It is a soap opera. It has so many different elements, but when we actually
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  get down into it, they're just regular people.
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  They're real people and they just are just clawing for jobs.
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  They want to win on their side. And when things don't go the way as planned,
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  it's still, we got to keep going.
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  It's not that everything, we're setting off the revolution and we're going to start civil war.
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  We're going to just go fighting each other, abandon all societal values to killing each other.
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  No, they are regular people. it's a show. It's all a show. And I think that we can gather from that.
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  Both sides, they, they amp up rhetoric. It's all about rhetoric. And we've.
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  The first time I really even noticed in hearing about rhetoric and kind of dialing
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  it down and bringing it down, don't make it such a big deal, was Barack Obama.
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  He said, let's bring down the rhetoric as in you're evil. We're good.
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  We got to eliminate the evil.
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  It's like when we're thinking like that, where we're just saying that other
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  side is evil and wrong as just a regular conversation, it mischaracterizes what is actually happening.
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  And I think we just need to realize that if they did dial down the rhetoric,
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  it would not be as exciting. It would not be as like, it would not tug at people's
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  heartstrings as much as they want it to.
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  And as we honestly want it to, it's just like, as in a news, if it bleeds, it leads.
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  You turn on the nightly news and you have to have something exciting to watch.
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  Otherwise people are going to zone out.
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  People have to say the craziest things so that they get eyeballs.
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  You see, that's why people want to watch NASCAR for the most part,
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  or indie racing. They want to see the crashes.
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  They want to go to hockey games and see people fighting. And I think if we've
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  learned anything, and this is going to, it's not going to change.
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  It's not going to change the next election cycle. It's not going to change future campaigns.
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  People are still going to do the most crazy outlandish things possible and put
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  that out there so that people watch and tune in and that they buy in to your
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  cause. So it's not going to change that.
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  And it was clearly communicated by Kareem Jean-Pierre Binder,
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  you know, but we do have some footage, some breaking footage of Donald Trump
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  accepting the presidency.
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  He has been held back for the last four years, just chomping at the bits,
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  wanting to get back into politics, back into the limelight.
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  Or you could say he's never left the limelight for some time now, you could say.
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  So I needed to bring this up. I needed to bring up a couple things.
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  I don't know if you've been paying attention, but there have been a lot of meltdowns
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  happening across the nation.
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  You know, and people, when people, people have access to phones,
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  they have access to YouTube and TikTok and everything that are they able to
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  put themselves out there?
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  And something I've just wondered, because I did not want to be a person that
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  relished in other people's misfortunes and other people's just heartbrokenness, you know?
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  But why do they do it? Why do they do it?
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  Why are people, and maybe you'll see me tomorrow putting out a video like that. I don't know.
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  But like why people take a recording themselves and just screaming and just
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  crying. Are they wanting just sympathy?
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  Are they wanting an Oscar?
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  Are they wanting to just have popularity? Do they want to become a meme?
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  I'm honestly asking this.
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  Why do people create those videos of themselves doing that?
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  Because Trump, he did not just win the electoral college this time.
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  He did something that has not been done since 2004 with George Bush,
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  a Republican winning the popular vote.
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  The most people voted for him. That's something.
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  That's something. Something. We don't want to ridicule and make fun of people
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  that are just heartbroken and in turmoil because it doesn't matter what you've
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  been fed. They really see the world like this.
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  They see, and they've been fed this. The same people that are going to just
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  completely move forward and go to the next election.
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  The next job opportunity that they can have, they have left a wake of people
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  just in tears and heartbroken because they fed them that Donald Trump is Hitler.
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  It's the end of civilization as we know it. There's never going to be decency
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  or it's almost like they've made it seem like they're going to be wiped out,
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  that their values are going to be completely wiped out.
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  And a lot of the things that they are just standing on a hill and dying on are
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  not things that trump even campaigned on They're just things that people just
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  threw at him and said that he's going to do away with these things and do away
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  with their way of life There are some things that he just doesn't care live and let live,
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  you know And that's the mindset of what trump has been about There's people
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  that have got alongside trump and are going to try to like get him to go off
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  track and get their agenda done But Donald Trump,
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  his agenda is solely to make America good and great and firing on all cylinders
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  and just, he's all about business and the economy doing well and making people
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  money, lifting everybody up.
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  That's what he is all about. A lot of the social issues that people are mainly
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  concerned about with him, he's not like completely dialed in on and just saying,
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  this is the way it's going to be and I'm going to change everything.
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  There are certain things, you know, the right of pro-life, right to life, and all of that.
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  That is something that's non-negotiable. You know, that is something that he
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  absolutely cares about and he's going to do for our country and making people...
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  The children in the womb protected, you know, but things about like LGBTQ and
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  all that and transgenderism, you know, that people let people do what they want.
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  The thing that is really that concerns him is
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  the transgenderism when we are imposing it
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  upon children and changing their genders when they're not to an age that they
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  can make the decision for themselves that they're not at an age that their brain
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  has been formed enough to realize that if they mutilate themselves and change
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  their gender when they're, you know, 13 years old,
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  they're going to have to live with that the rest of their life.
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  When you become the legal age that you can make that decisions,
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  you know, live and let live.
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  If you want to do that, you can, you do that, you know, but it did not become Armageddon.
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  I think everybody, the temperature has been brought down. It is not as crazy
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  as we thought it was going to be.
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  We thought like we were stepping into the next civil war.
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  And honestly, it felt like that. It felt like that from both campaigns and from
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  both sides and from all the media.
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  Hey, I'm going to pull the wool out of your eyes and let you realize it's a
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  show. They want entertainment.
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  You know, they understand what's going to get eyes, what's going to get people.
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  Their heartstrings pulled to that side.
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  I said no. So, yesterday, Kamala Harris, she did do her concession speech.
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  You know, people are criticizing her because she didn't immediately concede
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  and didn't immediately call President Trump to congratulate him in just respecting
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  the decision of the American people.
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  She didn't immediately do that. And she didn't do that early morning on November
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  6th, but it came in the afternoon later in the day that she came out.
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  And you would have thought she had won the election,
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  based how she came out there on stage. When I watched it and it was a very good
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  speech, it was a very good speech, a very raw, raw speech,
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  a very uniting speech to her supporters, to everybody on the left side,
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  realizing that most of the people out there are just completely heartbroken.
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  It was a uniting speech and I thought it was great. It was so great that I almost
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  question whether she was too heartbroken over in the first place.
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  It seemed like she was just almost relieved that she's not going to be president.
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  And it's almost like she could take it or leave it. And then President Biden
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  today came out and he gave his message.
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  You could see he had a spring in his step. He almost jogged to the podium.
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  He was also smiles ear to ear. You know, he's going to go down in history as
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  undefeated against Donald Trump.
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  You know, he won that first election. He won that and he got pulled out from
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  this one and was not able to be the person that represented the Democratic Party
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  going into the election this time.
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  So you could see he was almost like, you guys should have kept me.
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  You guys should have kept me, which I don't think it would have made that much
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  of a difference. But I think he would have done better than Kamala.
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  So either way, I'm happy.
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  I'm happy that they threw Kamala in there because we have Donald Trump,
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  the next four years of Donald Trump.
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  And I know a lot of people don't like that now, but I think a lot of people
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  are going to come around and a lot of people are going to see when things start
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  getting better financially, economically.
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  And Donald Trump actually making a difference in the cost of groceries,
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  the cost of living, everything going down and their wages going up.
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  And now that Donald Trump has an amazing team alongside him now,
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  such better than he did the first time go around.
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  So either way, I think it is a brighter day in America today and things are
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  going to get better each day as we go along. We'll leave it at that.
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  Let's just go, everybody. Let's go, baby. Brace yourself.
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  Music.
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  Are you ready for it? Are you ready?
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  Are you ready for it? Coming in high, won't stop. Are you ready or not?
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  Ready or not? Ready or not?
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  Coming in, I won't stop, are you ready now?