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IDKMYDE: Welcome Season 4 · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: What's happening. We're back, Like the name on a jersey,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast where every episode proved that your high school
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  Speaker 1: history teacher was a liar. I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. Now, if you've been locked into all ninety
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  Speaker 1: five episodes of the podcast, and you know, season one,
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  Speaker 1: we came out swinging hit, y'all with the grimy, gritty stuff,
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  Speaker 1: black babies used as alligator bait, clowns rooted in racism
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  Speaker 1: with black face and nursery rhymes that were never meant
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  Speaker 1: for naptime. And y'all, remember when I told you about
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  Speaker 1: dunkin boots back in the day. They didn't aim at
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  Speaker 1: a target. The target was the face of an enslaved
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  Speaker 1: black man. Yeah, we had all the smoking season one.
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  Speaker 1: Then in season two we had to show you the wins,
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  Speaker 1: like how Winston Salem, North Carolina had a black on
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  Speaker 1: bus system that would have made Rosa Parks proud, or
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  Speaker 1: how black people save PEPSI Well, one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: people in history, Robert Small's My Dudes stole a whole
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  Speaker 1: Confederate ship and said, get me and my family up
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  Speaker 1: out of here. You heard of the Underground Railroad. My
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  Speaker 1: boy Robert Smalls had the Underground Cruise line for season three.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, we had a focus on stem science, technology, engineering,
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  Speaker 1: and math. Black folks out here innovating even when they
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  Speaker 1: don't give us the credit. Talked about how DJ's used
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  Speaker 1: math and neuroscience to keep the parties lit, how drones
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  Speaker 1: could find black towns that's been buried under water, and
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  Speaker 1: of course we shared massacres and atrocities like when Philly
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  Speaker 1: bombed its own citizens in the nineteen seventies. This season,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the queens black women who changed the game.
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  Speaker 1: Each week, we've got a highlight on HBCUs. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about medical injustices and malpractices, and of course we got
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  Speaker 1: more massacres because apparently white supremacy had seasons two. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not all bad. We've got stories of success and
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  Speaker 1: innovation to remind you all that Black history is about resilience, brilliance,
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  Speaker 1: and us never folding. So tell a friend to tell
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  Speaker 1: a friend. Could we dropping new episodes daily this month
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  Speaker 1: on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Hopefully you'll laugh you'll learn,
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  Speaker 1: and you might just be mad at your history teacher
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  Speaker 1: all over again. Season four. I didn't know. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: didn't either. Starts right now.