The Great Kapok Tree

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[SPEAKER_03]: Ahoi, my friends.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome aboard the Afro-Tails Barkers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your storyteller, Monna Zinger.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Join me as we explore the tales that grew from the people of indigenous and African descent in the Americas and the Caribbean.

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[SPEAKER_03]: After, called and see me, chef, who will impart upon it?

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[SPEAKER_03]: It hasn't been for the story you have just made.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So with no further ado, let us set set on this,

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[SPEAKER_03]: The great K-pop tree, two men walked into the rain forest, moments before the forest had been alive, with the sounds of squawking birds and howling monkeys.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now all was quiet, as the creatures watched the two men, and wonder, why they had come?

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[SPEAKER_03]: The larger man stopped and pointed to the great K-pop tree, then he left.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The smaller man took the axe he carried and struck the trunk of the tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wack!

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wack!

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wack!

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[SPEAKER_03]: The sounds of the blows rang through the forest.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The wood of the tree was very hard.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The man wiped off the sweat that ran down his face and neck.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Whack!

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[SPEAKER_03]: Chop!

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[SPEAKER_03]: Whack!

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[SPEAKER_03]: Chop!

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[SPEAKER_03]: soon, the man grew tired.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He sat down to rest at the foot of the great K-pop tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Before he knew it, the heat and hum other force had lured him to sleep.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The ball constrictor led in the K-pop tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's slithered down its trunk to where the man was sleeping.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He looked at the gas the axe had made in the tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Then the huge snake slid very close to the man and hissed in his ear.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Signure.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This tree is a tree of miracles.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It is my home where generations of my ancestors have lived.

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[SPEAKER_03]: a B buzzed in the sleeping man's ear.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Zingor, my hide is in the cake pack dreamy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I fly from tree to tree and flower to flower, collecting pollen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: In this way, I polymerize the trees and flowers to out the rainforest.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You see, all of the things depend on one another.

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[SPEAKER_03]: a troop of monkeys, scampered down from the canopy of the K-pop tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They chatted in this sleeping man's ear.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Senior, we have always seen the ways of man.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You trap them one tree and then come back for another and another.

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[SPEAKER_04]: The roots of the great trees will, with their end eye.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And there will be nothing left to hold the earth in place.

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[SPEAKER_03]: When the heavy rains come on the soil will be washed away and the forest will become a desert.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A two-can, a macaroon, and a cock of the rock flew down from the canopy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Zinger, squawk of the two-can.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You must not cut down this tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We have flown over the rainforest and seen what happens once you begin to chop down the trees.

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[SPEAKER_03]: many people settled on the land.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They set fires to clear the underbrush, and soon the forest disappears.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Where once there was life in beauty, only black and smoldering ruins remain.

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[SPEAKER_03]: a bright and small tree from cold along the edge of a leaf.

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[SPEAKER_03]: In a squeaky voice, he piked in the man's ear.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Senior, everyone ranked for us means ruined lives.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Many ruined lives.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You will leave many of us homeless if you chop down the great K-pop tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A Jaguar had been sleeping along a branch in the middle of the tree, because his spotted coat blended into the dappled light and shadows of the industry.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No one had noticed him.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now he left down and padded silently over to the sleeping man.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He growled in his ear.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Mmm, senior.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The K-pop tree is home to many birds and animals.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If you cut it down, where will I find my dinner?

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[SPEAKER_03]: 4 tree porcupine swung down from branch to branch and whisper to the man.

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[SPEAKER_03]: In your, do you know what we animals and humans need in order to live oxygen?

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[SPEAKER_03]: And in your, do you know what trees produce oxygen?

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[SPEAKER_03]: If you cut down the forest, you will destroy that which gives us all life.

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[SPEAKER_03]: and eaters climbed down the K-pop tree with their youngs clinging to their backs.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The unstriped and eater said to the sleeping man,

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[SPEAKER_03]: You are tapping down this tree with no thought of the future.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And surely you know what happens to more depends on what you don't dare.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The big man tells you to chop down a beautiful train.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He does not think of his own children, who, tomorrow, must land in a world without dreams.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A three-toed sloth had begun climbing down the canopy when the men first appeared.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Only now did she reach the ground.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Planting ever so slowly, over to the student man, she spoke her deep and lazy voice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Where can you land with thou?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Eh?

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[SPEAKER_00]: the beam key of the ring for rest

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[SPEAKER_03]: You, face, tip, you, eyes, a child from the Yana Momo tribe who lived in the rainforest now to over the sleeping man, he murmured in his ear,

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[SPEAKER_05]: When you awake, please look upon all of us with new eyes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The man who woke with a start, before him stood the rain for his child, and all around him staring, where the creatures who depended upon the great K-pop tree, what a wonder is in rare animals they were.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The man looked about and saw the sun streaming through the canopy, spots of,

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[SPEAKER_03]: bright light glowed like jewels amidst the dark green forest.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Strange and beautiful plants seemed to dangle in the air suspended from the Great Cape Hot Tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The man smelled the fragrant perfume of their flowers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He felt the steamy mist rising from the forest floor.

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[SPEAKER_03]: but he heard it no sound.

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[SPEAKER_03]: For the creatures restrained me, silent.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The man stood and picked up his axe.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He swung back his arm as though to strike the tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Suddenly, he stopped.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He turned and looked at the animals and the child.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He hesitated, then he dropped the axe

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[SPEAKER_03]: then.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, this was a, was a great story.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I, I really.

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[SPEAKER_03]: love the story.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I love the Amazon.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This book, the Great Capac Tree, a tale of the Amazon rainforest by Lynn Cherry.

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[SPEAKER_03]: She has a couple authors notes in here that I want to give you real quick.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The first is at the beginning of the reign of the beginning of the book.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It says, in the Amazon rain force, it is always hot, and in the heat, everything grows and grows and grows.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The tiles of the trees in the rain force are called the canopy, the sunny place that touches the sky.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The animals that live there, like lots of sun, colorful, parents fly from tree to tree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Monkey's leap from branch to branch.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The bottom of the ring for us is called the understory, the animals that live in the understory, like darklets, there, silent snakes, curl around hanging vines, graceful jaguars, watch and wait.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And this is the steamy environment that the great tapot tree shoots up through the rainforest and emerges above the canopy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is the story of a community of animals that live in one such tree in the rainforest.

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[SPEAKER_03]: the others is a dear readers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: She says, I wrote the great K-pop treat to let the world know what happens to the rainforest creatures and the entire planet when rainforest are destroyed.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope that after reading this book, you will help save the rainforest.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The great K-pop tree is about the Amazon rainforest, a tropical rainforest, but we have a temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest of the United States that we must protect too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: please care from other earth together, we can make a difference, plain cherry.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So this, but, you know, a lot of people don't like edgy tape, and obviously this is what this story kind of is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But in the back of the boat, I'm the front.

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[SPEAKER_03]: She has a picture.

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[SPEAKER_03]: of all the animals and all of the rainforests that are still dark green being the rainforest that are present light green being their original extent of the rainforest and if you look around it shows how in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and everything like that, how much of the rainforest has been chopped down like

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[SPEAKER_03]: Much of the rain force in the Amazon and Central America and Africa have been chopped down also.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Australia completely lost any of their tropical rain force that they had.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And it makes me a little sad.

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[SPEAKER_03]: because as we chop down these rainforests, these suppliers of oxygen, and I know people will say, well, the ocean and the algae and things like that produce even more oxygen than rainforests.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's because it covers a larger space.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We don't chop down algae, you know, are we utilizing too much water?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, but as we chop down these rainforests, these animals lose a home.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It'd be like something somebody coming in to your town and oh, you want a bit of road here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's chop down these homes, see what I'm saying, you see the connection, just as governments officials decide on building new roads and they tear up your communities and build new parks and destroy whole villages on talking about you, Senator.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're doing the same thing to the rainforest around the world.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Tannables, animals that we love and enjoy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Only destroy ecosystems, animals, we destroy ecosystems for ourselves.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Also, we are symbiotic, meaning we live off each other, whether we know we're not.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Just like if you are a child and your mom stops cooking or your dad stops cooking, how will you survive?

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[SPEAKER_03]: the more sustenance and try to find it out the place is but will you find the nutrients that you need that your family prepares for you on regular day basis that is the right force that is mother earth for us I know this sounds like preaching to you as today I don't mean to do that but I just wanted to make that known.

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[SPEAKER_03]: save the rain forest around the world, save mother earth in general.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We shouldn't have the look for another earth to live on when we have a perfectly good one here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have much for this tour, just remember to save the rain for us.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And until next time my friends, thank you for coming and listening and being on this journey with me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Go see Chef, he has a wonderful rest before you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And as always, have a blessed day.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to my friends in the gathering.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I am your chef, chef, and today we have a very wonderful recipe inspired by the story of dessert.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Today we will be creating Bolo de Fuba, or Brazilian corncake.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, what do we need for this delicious recipe?

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[SPEAKER_03]: One cup all purpose flour plus a little bit extra for dusting the pan.

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[SPEAKER_03]: two cups of cornmeal fine, one tablespoon of baking powder, one teaspoon of salt, half a cup of granulated sugar, three large eggs separated, one cup of vegetable oil,

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[SPEAKER_03]: habcinan, powdered, confectioners sugar for dusting.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, how do we put this together?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Easy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: First, preheat your oven to 350°F at an height.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oil or spray with cooking spray, a burnt can, and then dust with flour.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, mix dry ingredients.

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[SPEAKER_03]: In a medium mixing bowl, mix the flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt, and set aside.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Then separate the eggs.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If you have not done so.

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[SPEAKER_03]: separate the egg whites from the yolk.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The whites go into a medium mixing bowl for whipping up and the yolks go into a large mixing bowl set aside the egg whites.

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[SPEAKER_03]: to the large mixing bowl with the yolks, whisk in the sugar until smooth, next, whisk in the milk and oil.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Finally, whisk in the flour mixture.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, using a hand mixer, whip the egg whites until soft peaks have form.

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[SPEAKER_03]: then gently fold into the batter.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Pour the batter into the oiled bolt pan.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Cool the cake in the pan for 15 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: then gently roll a knife around the outside of the cake inside the arm and flip the cake out into your heart and gently place a right or side of onto a serving platter to continue cooling.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You can do it with powdered sugar if you want and that is it, man.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, what?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Make this recipe yours.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And until I have another wonderful recipe for you, remember, we need the Amazon and until next time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: As always, enjoy!

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