Merisier, Stronger Than the Elephants

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ahoi, and welcome aboard the Afro-Tails party.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am Egrilla, a mind-mazinger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here to guide you through captivating tales, rooted in the histories of indigenous and African-distant peoples across the Americas and the Caribbean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the journey that is not in there, I, Chef, will share a delicious recipe and spy it by the stories you have just had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, with no further ado, let us set sail on this new age of exploration.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi and the queen of the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Once in a shanty, there was a man named Kofi who wanted to marry the daughter of a great chief.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Coffee already had one wife but he wanted to take the cheese daughter as a second.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There were many young men who wanted the cheese daughter and her father couldn't make up his mind which of them should have her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then one day the cheese wife died.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He called all the young men to his house.

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[SPEAKER_00]: his stool was brought out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he sat under the tree where he gave judgments.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He announced that his wife was dead and he acts the men.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What kind of a burial is fitting for the mother of the girl you wish to marry?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Many of the men were signs for they could think of nothing to say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But one spoke up saying,

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[SPEAKER_00]: She should be buried in a coffin of aromatic wood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Another said, her body should be wrapped in cloth, woven with gold.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Others spoke to each and his turn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When the chief turned his eyes to coffee, coffee said,

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[SPEAKER_00]: should be buried in a coffin made of the tail of the queen of all elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The chief replied to Cole.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have heard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bring me the tail of the queen of all elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you shall have my daughter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi went to his house and took his weapons from the raptors.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He took his spear.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He took his knife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His wife said, well, are you going?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And coffee replied, I am going for the teller of the queen of all elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I bring it back, I will get the chief's daughter for my second wife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His first wife was angry when she heard this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi went away into the bush.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he didn't know where the queen of all elephants lived.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He went this way and that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But no one could tell him what he wanted to know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then one day he met a sorcerer on the trail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He asked him, wherever would I find the queen of all elephants?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The sorcerer sat on the ground and made marks in the dust with his fingers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He threw courage chefs on the ground and watched how they fed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He threw them seven times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And last he said, go this way to the north.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that way, to the west, go past the town of the dead, and beyond, and you will find the page of the queen of all elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi thanked him, and paid him with a gold ring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The source would say, here is a Jew Jew to help you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He tied the medicine bundle on Kofi's arm, above the elbow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He opened his basket and took out four A's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He gave them to Kofi saying, these eggs are powerful magic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Use them when you are in great danger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi went the way he had been directly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He went this way to the north and that way to the west.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he passed the town of the dead without him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And at last he came to the elephant village.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Around the village was a fence of pointed stakes and the gates was a watch me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi asked to enter the village

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[SPEAKER_00]: but the watchman refused saying, why should you end up?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I made the tell of the queen of the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Coffeeants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you end up, the great elephants will destroy you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The watchman said, I have to end it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Coffee replied.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They talked this way and at last the watchman said,

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[SPEAKER_00]: wait them until they are asleep.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you may enter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They sleep in a great circle with the queen of the elephants in the center.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You will have to walk on the elephants who surround her to get to the queen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Walk normally.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you walk lightly, they will awaken.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When it was dark, the elephants were asleep, coffee entered.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He walked on the elephant's family, and they didn't wait.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He came to the center and saw the great queen sleeping.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He took his knife and cut off her tail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then he went out of the village in haste, so they shouldn't catch him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When morning came, the elephants awoke.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They discovered the Queen's tail had been taken, and they made a great outcry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They rushed out in pursuit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They found the tracks of Kofi's feet in the grass, and they followed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They caught sight of him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and they ran swiftly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They came closer and closer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi ran, carrying the great elephant tail, but the angry elephants were swifted in heat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when they were close and about to seize him, Kofi called to the juju, which the sorcerer had given him, saying, what shall I do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the juju replied, through an egg behind you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi took out one of his magic aides and threw it on the ground.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It turned into a wide and mighty river.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When the elephants came to his banks, they couldn't cross.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the queen of all elephants also had magic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She turned them all into crocodiles, and they swam to the other side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, they pursued Kofi.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And once more,

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[SPEAKER_00]: When they were close upon him, he threw an egg behind him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With the egg fell, their rose up a great mountain.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The queen of our elephants still had magic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She turned herself and her friends into herons, which flew over the mountain.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When they approached Kofi again for the third time, he threw another egg.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And where it fell, they sprang up an impenetrable forest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this time he left them behind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He came to the village and brought the great elephant tail to the chief.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The chief took it saying, this is indeed fitting for the burial of my wife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You will be my son-in-law.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Kofi went home to his own house.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He hung his weapons on the wall.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He hung his juju on the wall.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Afterwards, he went out into the fields to see his crops and to burn the dead grass.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When he heard a great commotion

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[SPEAKER_00]: He saw a crowd of dust.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he saw the elephant's coming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He shouted to his wife to bring his juju.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She went to the house and brought it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the elephants came faster than she.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And just as they were about to seize him, Kofi shouted to his wife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Through, through me, my juju.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But she was angry with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For preparing to marry a second wife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She threw his juju into the fight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi felt the breath of the elephants upon him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He cried out to his juju.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What shall I do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: His juju replied.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kofi threw his fourth aid on the ground and turned into a hug.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He saw it high into the air and the elephants couldn't reach him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In time, the great elephants went away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Kofi was still a heart.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He called on his judge again and again for help, but it couldn't help him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because it had been consumed in the fire.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it is that, the Chroma, the Hulk, circles, and hovers over a fire in the fields.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He can never resist it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it is really coffee.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Still waiting for his juju to tell him what to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Mosa.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When the white man had been ahead of the colored man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In slavery times, John had done got to a place where the monster whipped him all the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Someone told him, get to a mojo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll get you out of that whipping.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Won't nobody to whip your damn John went down to the corner of the boss man's form where the mojo man stayed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and ask him what he had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The mojo man said, I got a pretty good one, and a very good one, and a damn good one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The colored fellow asked him what can the pretty good one do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tear ya.

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[SPEAKER_00]: what it can do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It can turn you to a rabbit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it can turn you to a quail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And after that, it can turn you to a snake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So John said, you take it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Next morning, John sleeps late.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then about nine o'clock, the white man comes after him, calls him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: John, come on now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Get up there and go to work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right on the title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Milk the cow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you can go back home, it's Sunday morning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: John says to get on out of here from my door.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't say nothing to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ain't going to be doing nothing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Boss man says.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't you know who this is?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's your boss.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not working for you anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, John.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just wait till I go home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm coming back and whip y'all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: White man went back and got his pistol and told his wife, John is sad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He won't do nothing I tell him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to whip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He goes back to John and calls, John.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Get up there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: John yells out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Go on now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Going away from the door and quit worrying me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I told ya.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I ain't going to work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, then the white man, he falls against the door and broke it open.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And John said to his mojo, skip, skip, skip, skip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He turns to a rabbit and ran, slept out the door by old master.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's a running son of a gun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That rabbit was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bossman says to his wife, now turning to a great hand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know that Graham got running so fast as Paul's were just reaching the grass under the rabbit's feet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then John thinks, I gotta get away from here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He turns to a quail, and he begins sailing fast through the air.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he thought he was going, but boss man says, I'll turn into a chicken hulk that chicken hulk sells through the sky like a bully and catches right up to the quail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then John says, well, I'm going to turn it to a snake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He hit the ground and begins to crawl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That old snake was naturally getting on his way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And boss man says, I're turning to a stick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll beat your ass.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The end.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My DJ stronger than the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was an old man with three sons.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One day he felt ill and he sent a message to his sons, asking them to come to his house.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When they arrived, he said to them, hey, I'm an old man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I should die, how will you bury me?

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[SPEAKER_00]: One son, Pierre, answered,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Father, may you grow stronger again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you should die, I would have you buried in a mahogany coffin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Another son, Jean, answer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, that may you live long.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you should die, I would make a coffin of brass.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And a third sign, we say, reply.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Father, I would bury you in the great drum of the King of the Elephants.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The great drum of the King of the Elephants?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who before now has ever been buried so magnificently?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The old man said, as that is the way it should be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He asked the son who has suggested it to bring him the drum of the King of the Elements.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Rijay went home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He told his wife, I said I would do this thing for my father, but it isn't possible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why didn't I say I would make him a coffin of silver?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even that would have been more possible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How shall I ever be able to do what I have promised?

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[SPEAKER_00]: His wife, paired food for him, and gave him his napsack.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Prejay began his journey, but he didn't know where to find the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He asked here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He asked there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But no one knew where the elephants were to be found.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As evening came on, he met a blind beggar who was being led by a small boy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The beggar said, man, give me a little of whatever you have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A piece of bread or a taste of rice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brigade took a piece of cornbread from his pocket and gave it to the beggar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you were not blind, he said,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would ask you, if you had ever seen the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even men with eyes have not seen the elephants, the beggar and cancer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Vijay went on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When it was dark, he slept in the grass by the edge of the road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When they came, he walked again, asking everywhere for information about the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When the sun became hot, Vijay went to sit in the shade of a large tree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There, sitting on a stone was a crippled man, with only one foot and a crutch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Give me a little of what you have there, and run that shack.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The man's in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have great hunger in my stomach.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brigade gave him a piece of cornbring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They talked.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brigade said, I have two feet and you only have one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You go slowly and I travel far, but what good is it that when I don't know where to find the great drum of the king of the elephants, he continued on his way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as night came on, he saw an old man sitting before a little fire at the edge of the road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The old man said, come and rush to here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: BJ sat down and opened his nafsat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There were only two pieces of cornbread left.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He gave one to the old man and ate the other one himself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After a while, the old man said,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thank you for the third piece of cornbread, which I have just finished.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thank you for the second piece.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thank you for the first piece.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brigade said, Pablo, you are mistaken.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I gave you only one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The old man said, now it is you that are mistaken.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At noon, I was the man with one foot at a crutch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yesterday, I was a blind beggar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Merijay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The industry understood that the old man was a hungry, a voodooam priest with magical powers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The old man

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[SPEAKER_00]: took out his bead-covered rattle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He shook it and went into a trance and talked with the guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At last he put the rattle away and said, go that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: To the north, across the crash lane.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is a great mopul tree called mopul plus gran passade to

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wait there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The elephants come there with the drum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They dance until they are tired.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they fall asleep.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When they are asleep, take the drum, travel fast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here are four warrants for protection.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you are pursued, throw a warrant behind and say, Maria is stronger than the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When the day came, Vijay went north across the grasslands.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He came to the tree called Mopu plus Grand Passive Tout.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He climbed into the tree and waited.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As the sun was going down, he saw a herd of elephants coming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Led by their king, they gathered around the Mopu tree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The King's drummer began to play on the great drum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The other fans began to dance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The ground shook with their stomping.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The dancing went on all night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: they danced until the first cocks began to grow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they stopped, laid down on the ground and slept.

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[SPEAKER_00]: J. came down for the tree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was in the middle of a large circle of elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He took the great drum and placed it on his head.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He climbed first over one sleeping elephant, then another.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Until he was outside the circle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He traveled as fast as he could with his heavy load.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When he was halfway across the grassland, he heard the enraged elephant heard coming after him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When they were very close, he took one of the warrenas the old man had given him a throughed behind him saying, MAJAY!

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's stronger than the elephants!

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[SPEAKER_00]: And where the nut fell, it tremendous pine for the grew up instantly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The elephants stopped running and began to work their way slowly through the trees.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bejade went on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He walked a great distance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, he heard the sound of elephants coming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He took out another worrying that it threw it behind him saying, May Jage drove within the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And whether that fell, there was suddenly a large freshwater lake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The elephant stopped at the shore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The king of the elephant's commanding, rang up the water, so that weakened birds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The elephants began drinking and slowly, very slowly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The level of the lake went down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Prejade traveled far.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was almost across the grassland.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He heard the elephants coming again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He threw the third worrying that on the ground behind him saying, very Jay, it's stronger than the other things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This time, there appeared a large salt lake.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The king of the elephants commanded, bring it up so we can pass.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The elephants began drinking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The salt made them sick, but their king commanded.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Drink!

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[SPEAKER_00]: Drink!

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they continued to drink, and one by one, they failed dying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Only the king of the elephants did not drink, and at last he alone of the herd was alive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Vijay came out of the grassland.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He followed the trails.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He went to his father's house with a drum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When he arrived, his father was not dead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was not sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was working with his whole in the fields.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the drum away, the father said, I don't need it yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel, I am feeling fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Rijay took the drum to his own house.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He ate and slept.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When he awoke, he heard a loud noise in the courtyard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He saw the king of the elephants coming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The elephant ran straight toward the great drum and seized hold of him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Rijay took the last worry nut that the Vodum priest had given him and threw it on the ground saying,

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[SPEAKER_00]: instantly the great drum broke into small pieces and each piece became a small drum the king of elephants broke into many pieces and each piece became a drummer the drummers went everywhere each one taking a drum with him thus it is that there are drums everywhere in the country thus

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is that people have a proverb which says, every drum has a drummer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And thus it is also that no one has ever been buried in a drum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, those were some great stories coming from the book, a tragedy of Afro-American folklore, the oral literature traditions, recollections, legends, tales, songs, religious beliefs, customs, sangs, and humor of peoples of African descent in America.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that title reminds me of things that you heard back in the Victorian era as subtitles for books.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Funny thing about it is,

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[SPEAKER_00]: This description of this book is literally this podcast except that you would add indigenous America's indigenous people and take out the songs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe customs and religious beliefs, but definitely the song's part because they're not singing or songs for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like they have whole songs in this book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: first and insert the last song, Kofi in the elephant and the Queen of the Elephants, was not a title that story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It had no title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It comes from the Ashanti people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is the Shanti version of the first two stores, Medijay, stronger than the elephants and the Mojo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Insert in this is that the theme of the Haitian tale and the US Negro variant is coming from this book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just book, okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The magic flight is familiar to the folklore of many peoples.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Haitian variant and

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[SPEAKER_00]: the following one from Ghana have an additional element in common.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They both feature the queen of the elephants or in the Haitian version king of the elephants and the quest for a coffin in the U.S.

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[SPEAKER_00]: version the demon antagonist pursuer is the white boss man and in place of the more

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[SPEAKER_00]: usual quest, we have the master's slave conflict as the motivating force.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what the book says, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we heard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, for my analysis in these first, the boss master, the slave versus the master, that is what we have found in a lot of African American literature, folk tour, the folklore and folk tales of the John, you know, the high John the Conqueror or the old John tales, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Old Jack, old John, wherever you want to give him to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are those tales, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's basically the module was one of those type of tales.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Haitian story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you noticed at the two brothers, two other brothers got names.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you listen to enough folklore and folk tales of stuff like that, you know, or fairy tales, anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know that many of them will only give the main character a name and all the rest of the characters whether it be a wife husband, siblings, parents don't get names at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt if I would have done that, it would have given a way, cliche, as being the only being the main character in that, so the story would be on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As far as Kofi, I was not about to give a whole bunch of names to a whole bunch of different people in that story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I wanted to give them, I wanted to make a film more like a family in the Haitian story, so I gave the other two brothers a name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And to me, it's, you know, they're all pretty much quests fast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I would call it, prove it stories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: As far as at least the Haitian and the Shanti ones, they're like a prove it story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You say you can do this, I prove it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, think about being when you were a kid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You black, I'm the fastest kid on the block.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I prove it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you got to raise every kid on the block.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, or you're on your bike, maybe you got like a GT dyno or somebody that you know, you know, we all thought we were BMX, uh, um, um, bikers back in the day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We could jump anything, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so I can jump over a car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's build a ramp.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can prove it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And here you go, bust me a neck and stuff on a, you know, on the hood of the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cause we were all there that, you know, you know, trying to prove that we were the biggest and baddest neighborhood, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I feel like those two stories were that and I love the way I'm BJ he goes home to his wife and it's like oh my god what have I done why did I go that far and why didn't I just say something you know like just like my brother to the silver you know a silver coffin

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he probably would have picked one of the other ones.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Still would have been hard to do, but at least it would have been a lot more feasible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then trying to go out and get the drum from the king of the elephants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I thought that was cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I see us doing that a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The coffee one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that one was interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually, that was a blind read for me when I read it for you guys on the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In this episode, I didn't read that through.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was going through the book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I got to the footnotes, it said that that story, the Ashanti version was in the back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I went ahead and read it and recorded it right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a very interesting story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did not expect him to turn into a hawk at the end.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And apparently, there is a whole song for this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The song's called Sansa Koma.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's, I guess, a traditional Ginein folk song in the Iken language.

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[SPEAKER_00]: not even about to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe that's where the story comes from.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But apparently, Sonsa's basically like roaming or circling in a groma is a hawk or a bird of prey type thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact that he's sitting there searching for his juju to tell him what to do, we know people like that too, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like

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[SPEAKER_00]: They seem like they can't function without somebody telling them what to do or what out thinking they're getting word from some higher being or whatever in order to do what they need to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably a military and I knew guys in the military that were like, they were basically

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to say guys, I mean man, but members that were literally non-functional.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that they just really couldn't figure out what the next move was without direct orders.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you literally had to list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is when you get to work, you're gonna do ABC and D while you're doing A. You need to be doing one, two, and three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that type of thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if a problem occurs at this situation happens, you need to do this, this, this, this, this and that's how they were.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Aren't you making it through life like this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's people out there like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's people in religions like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in everyday life like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's people like, you know, unless my mom tells me on my dad tells me, I don't know what to do next.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, or, you know, they get relations.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they have to be told from their significant other that, you know, this is what you need to do next.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, there are people like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And where some people may think that that came from a type of manipulation that they had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently some people just are like that, you know, and that's amazing and the fact that

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[SPEAKER_00]: when so when you see a hawk or a bird of prey circling a fire, you can think of coffee and him becoming that bird searching for his juju to tell him what to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And let me say this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am not mad at his wife for what she did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because he didn't even talk right, right, from the story, he didn't even talk to his wife about getting another wife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, bro!

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to do that, bare minimum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let your wife know what's going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Before you, you know, let her know, like, hey, what you think about, you know what I'm saying, us getting somebody else involved in this whole little situation we got going in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She can help out with ABC and D. It'll bring this kind of dynamic to the family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are still number one baby dog that you are never number one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You will always be number one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's number two, you know, it's cousin in a lot of cultures as long as you can take care of Multiple wise you get to go, you know, you know, polygamy is Norm in Many cultures around the world, you know, before anybody gets on oh my god, that is so sinful no polygamy is a normal

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[SPEAKER_00]: thing in most coaches around the world, it is even normal in your holy text, whatever it may be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you read it, pretty sure you're going to find some man in your holy text that had more than one

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just saying it is normal, okay, but yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With all that being said, these were some great stories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This was a very long episode.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you skipped this part, I can understand and got to the industry to the recipe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a long episode.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So with that, go see Chef.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure he has a wonderful Haitian recipe for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably something quick, so that, you know, but we'll see what he does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, until next time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for coming on this voyage with me and listening to these stories and as always my friends out there in the big world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Have a blessed day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome my friends in the getting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am your chef chef and today we have a wonderful recipe inspired by the stories you have just heard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Today we will be creating a long way banana or planting pots.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now what would you need for this wonderful delicious recipe?

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[SPEAKER_00]: One, plant egg.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Three cups of water.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Two cinnamon sticks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Two star anise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A pinch of salt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A quarter cup of evaporated milk.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And four tablespoons of sugar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, how do we put this together?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Easy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First, rinse and peel the plant egg.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, coat it into small sized pieces.

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[SPEAKER_00]: add one and a half to two cups of water to a blender add the plantain pieces into the blender also now you may blend the liquid and make smooth if there is still chunks in the mixture add a little more water and blend for another minute

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[SPEAKER_00]: In a small to medium put, boil one cup of water with cinnamon sticks and star anise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let the water boil for about three to five minutes or until the water changes to a brown colour.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Add the plantain liquid to the pot and stir continuously on medium heat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As you start, the porridge will reduce and thicken.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Once it starts to boil, add your milk and a pinch of salt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Continue to start.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then add your sweetener of choice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brown sugar, granulated sugar, or honey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Reduce the heat to low and let cook for a few more minutes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you may serve it hot with bread.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's it, my friends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do what you do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Make this recipe yours.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And until I have another wonderful recipe for you, please remember the men of these stories and their journeys and their protections against evil.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's my friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As always, enjoy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and that brings an end to another voyage.

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[SPEAKER_00]: May these tales inspire, connect, and nourish your soul just as chefs dish fills your belly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Until next time, keep exploring, learning, and sharing the ancestor's stories, fair winds, and following seas.