Cure For Paranoia, 2026 Tiny Desk Contest Winner: Tiny Desk Concert — Transcript
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- 0:08[music]
- 0:12[singing]
- 0:17[music]
- 0:19[singing]
- 0:22[music]
- 0:28[music]
- 0:33>> Walk into the gallery like [ __ ] I am
- 0:35the art show. Walk into the gallery like
- 0:38[ __ ] I am the art show. I walk into the
- 0:40gallery like [ __ ] I am the art show.
- 0:42Like [ __ ] I am the art show. Like [ __ ]
- 0:44I am the [music]
- 0:46walk into the gallery like I deserve a
- 0:48fee. I pay way too much attention to
- 0:50what people thought of me. I walk I walk
- 0:52into the gallery like I deserve it all.
- 0:55>> [music]
- 0:55>> I need tens and tens and tens from
- 0:56judges all across the I need a seat at
- 0:58the table [singing] for me and my
- 0:59homies. I don't need already labels to
- 1:01know me. Boy I'm fine as [ __ ] and I kill
- 1:02[ __ ] Luigi Marziano Black boy he's like
- 1:05wine beast got never decline yours over
- 1:07drafted. Black boy he's like wine buddy
- 1:09getting better over time I'm
- 1:10>> [music]
- 1:10>> I manifested everything I ever wanted.
- 1:13My whole damn career been going crazy
- 1:15cuz of my paranoia [music] cuz of my
- 1:16brothers I'm buzzing like
- 1:17I'm on a pier buzzing like Cass on a
- 1:19neon Nazi. I might buzzing like Cynthia
- 1:21Erivo. If you're homophobic better sings
- 1:23to watch me I'm black and I'm buying and
- 1:24I'm better as well. [music] My boyfriend
- 1:25is white but he pretty as hell. Imagine
- 1:27you hating me and I'm just over here
- 1:28loving myself. Tiny desk. I know this
- 1:30seems a bit conceited but I really used
- 1:33to hate myself. So the song's for people
- 1:34who need it. Okay?
- 1:36>> [music]
- 1:36[singing]
- 1:37>> Well that's why I walk I walk I
- 1:40Well
- 1:40>> [music]
- 1:41>> that's why I walk
- 1:43>> [singing]
- 1:43>> Well that's why I walk I walk I
- 1:46Well that's why I walk into the gallery
- 1:49like [ __ ] I am the art show. I walk
- 1:51into the gallery like [ __ ] I am the art
- 1:53show. I walk into the gallery like [ __ ]
- 1:55I am the art show. Like [ __ ] I am the
- 1:57art show. Like [music] [ __ ] I am the
- 1:59[ __ ] walking to the gallery like I'm the
- 2:02captain now. They want to track them
- 2:03down. I earn my stripes. I got my
- 2:05[music] caffeine down. Used to think
- 2:06about what people thought about me all
- 2:08the time. Now I walk up in the NPR like
- 2:11all of this is mine. I'm
- 2:12unapologetically myself. I won't
- 2:14apologize. Jay said saying sorry is for
- 2:16a sorry [ __ ] It ain't change my life.
- 2:18I had a million things I change about
- 2:19myself. [music] Now I can't even find
- 2:21one. Too many people on three subs ahead
- 2:23I get [ __ ] on my chest like I'm post
- 2:24stopping. I'm not in bed but I'm so
- 2:25locked in. No intermission but I'm show
- 2:27stopping. I used to be atheist back in
- 2:28the day I was getting a praise without
- 2:30no profit. Huh. Look at me now. I got a
- 2:32hit on my hand like Chris Brown. Walking
- 2:34the gallery like I'm on salary. This is
- 2:35the year that you about to find out
- 2:37[ __ ]
- 2:38>> [music]
- 2:39>> Woah. That's why I walk I walk I
- 2:42Woah. That's why I walk
- 2:45>> [music]
- 2:45>> Woah. That's why I walk I walk I
- 2:48That's why I walk [music] into the
- 2:50gallery like [ __ ] I am the art show. I
- 2:52walk into the gallery like [ __ ] [music]
- 2:54I am the art show. I walk into the
- 2:56gallery like [ __ ] I am the art show.
- 2:58Like [music] [ __ ] I am the art show.
- 3:00Like [ __ ] I am the [ __ ] I am the
- 3:03Can y'all make some noise for this band
- 3:04[music] one time?
- 3:07We got J Analog and Tomahawk [music]
- 3:09Jones on MPC.
- 3:13We got King Key [music] and Dana Harper
- 3:15on vocals.
- 3:18On the horn we got Jordan Carr ladies
- 3:19and gentlemen. [music]
- 3:21>> [singing]
- 3:22>> We got Nick Rothouse on percussion
- 3:24ladies and gentlemen.
- 3:27Make some noise for Emery one time on
- 3:28[music] the drums.
- 3:32The one and only Count [music] Macula on
- 3:34guitar ladies and gentlemen.
- 3:38On bass we got KJ Gray ladies and
- 3:40gentlemen.
- 3:42And I'm need y'all to make so [music] so
- 3:44much noise. This is the man that has
- 3:46musically directed every one of these
- 3:47submissions. On keys we got Kynton Gray
- 3:50ladies and gentlemen.
- 3:51>> [music]
- 3:59>> Oh, [ __ ] I'm I'm Cameron McCloud. Hey,
- 4:00y'all.
- 4:03>> [cheering and applause]
- 4:05>> Um
- 4:07So,
- 4:08there's a few rules to a Cure for
- 4:10Paranoia show. We don't have time to go
- 4:12through all of them, but I am just going
- 4:13to go through like the golden one real
- 4:15cool real quick, if that's cool.
- 4:16Everybody do me a favor, look to your
- 4:18left
- 4:19and look to your right.
- 4:21And then we're going to run it back cuz
- 4:22I know some of y'all ain't look the
- 4:23right way.
- 4:24I saw I saw it. It's okay.
- 4:25Everybody look to your left.
- 4:27Look to your right again.
- 4:29Look to your left. And your right one
- 4:30more time. And realize that wasn't
- 4:32either one of the [ __ ] looking
- 4:33at you, right?
- 4:34So,
- 4:36the whole point of a Cure for Paranoia
- 4:37show is to understand that ain't nobody
- 4:39thinking about you like you thinking
- 4:40about you. Amen?
- 4:42>> [cheering]
- 4:44>> That's that's rule number one. So, if
- 4:46you want to jump around, if you want to
- 4:47dance, if you want to hoop, holler, do
- 4:49it. If you want to speak in tongues,
- 4:52>> [laughter]
- 4:52>> then let's just form a circle around
- 4:54that person. We don't
- 4:56We don't want to disrupt the flow of the
- 4:57spirit in this room. Amen?
- 4:59Amen. With that being said,
- 5:01everybody say left brain.
- 5:02>> Left brain.
- 5:03>> Everybody say right brain.
- 5:04>> Right brain.
- 5:05>> Everybody go left brain, right brain.
- 5:07>> Left brain, right brain.
- 5:08>> Everybody go left brain, right brain, no
- 5:09brain.
- 5:10>> Left brain, right brain, no brain.
- 5:11>> Everybody go left brain, right brain, no
- 5:12brain.
- 5:13>> Left brain, right brain, no brain.
- 5:14>> Everybody go left brain, right brain, no
- 5:15brain.
- 5:16>> Left brain, right brain, no brain.
- 5:18>> Left brain, right brain, no brain. I I
- 5:19lost my mind, I'm not complaining. Go.
- 5:26Wow. Everybody go left brain, [music]
- 5:27right brain, no brain.
- 5:28>> Left brain, right brain, no brain.
- 5:30>> Left brain, right brain, no brain. I I
- 5:31lost my mind, I'm not not I got my beats
- 5:34on in the gym. I got my beats off
- 5:35YouTube. That's what you taught when you
- 5:37came to the ham. Look at all the wall
- 5:38got a screw loose. About to drop a whole
- 5:40tape made of tight [music] beats. I
- 5:41don't like your song cuz I like me.
- 5:42That's what a t-shirt contest times
- 5:43ripped out his shirt. Y'all put on a
- 5:44white tee. I don't write no songs, I'm a
- 5:46lefty. Got a ghost writer with me like
- 5:48Nick Cage. [music] I'm right my wrongs
- 5:49with my left brain. I'm not gay no more,
- 5:50I'm insane. Two of us a white man with a
- 5:52no brain. [music] I'm a monster alive in
- 5:54my own name. I'm falling in love with a
- 5:55monster brain. Tryna buy a double 07 not
- 5:57J Leopard. [ __ ] sorry. Left brain,
- 5:59right brain, no brain. [music]
- 6:02Left brain, right brain, no brainer. I
- 6:03lost my mind I complain and go Left
- 6:05[music] brain, right brain, no brain.
- 6:08Left brain, right brain, no brainer. I
- 6:09lost my mind
- 6:11Left, right brain going back and forth.
- 6:12>> [music]
- 6:12>> Brain split down to the apple core. Such
- 6:14a piece of ego, I'm a savage. Got two
- 6:16wolves in me, I'mma feed the bad [ __ ]
- 6:17I'm a big bad wolf, y'all I'm about to
- 6:19blow. Soon as I saw a hot mess I had to
- 6:20go. Not not joke, I'll be kinda lame
- 6:22sometimes, but I can't change no more my
- 6:23[music] chemical. When I was in the
- 6:24third grade, I thought that I was
- 6:25straight.
- 6:27[ __ ] I'm just playing. Back on my
- 6:28[ __ ] madder than a dog. I'll be
- 6:29with my Labrador. Piss in my territory,
- 6:30I'll be getting tense. It don't matter
- 6:31about [music] the category. I don't need
- 6:32the hands but got this [ __ ] on the
- 6:33calendar. Pain not going crazy, that's
- 6:35an allegory. Crazy even for my
- 6:36looseness, it's auditory. Wait, Left
- 6:37brain, right brain, no brainer. I lost
- 6:39my mind and
- 6:43>> [music]
- 6:57>> Like I get that, but like
- 7:00I know life is too short, but at this
- 7:02point [music]
- 7:03you ain't going to hear me complaining.
- 7:05Look, cuz I mean
- 7:07>> [singing]
- 7:07>> this is America. This is embarrassing.
- 7:09This is only the beginning. We need to
- 7:10take the whole country and put it in
- 7:12rice and then reset the factory
- 7:13settings. We need an apocalypse,
- 7:15probably. Oddly enough, I think even a
- 7:17rapture here wouldn't suffice. If Jesus
- 7:19came back to this planet, they'd see he
- 7:21was black and then say he was the
- 7:22antichrist. They [music] keep on
- 7:23talking, let's get to the bottom line.
- 7:25You're spreading hate and then nation to
- 7:26monetize. Don't be surprised when your
- 7:28head got a dollar sign. Talk out the
- 7:29side of your I apologize. What was the
- 7:31[music] race of the two boys in
- 7:33Columbine? Rhetorical question, but I'm
- 7:34sure you got it white. I won't be silent
- 7:36so I'll put my neck on the line. Fly as
- 7:38a black pilot, and yes, I'm qualified.
- 7:40Leave the room, bombs dropping. Leave
- 7:41the room, okay, dropping.
- 7:43>> [music]
- 7:43>> Leave the room. Okay, bombs dropping.
- 7:44Leave the room. Say left brain, right
- 7:46brain, no brain.
- 7:46>> Left brain, right brain, no brain.
- 7:48>> Left brain, right brain, no brain. I
- 7:49lost my mind. [music] I complain. I go
- 7:51left brain, right brain, no brain.
- 7:52>> Left brain, right brain, no brain.
- 7:54>> Left brain, right [music] brain, no
- 7:55brain. I lost my mind. I complain. I
- 7:57lost my mind. I complain.
- 8:02>> [music]
- 8:07[music]
- 8:12>> Thank y'all. Appreciate it.
- 8:15Um
- 8:16so last year
- 8:19I committed to posting a new rap every
- 8:22single day for the entire year.
- 8:25And ended. Ended.
- 8:29Oh, what book you reading? Is that the
- 8:31book of all the verses?
- 8:32>> 365.
- 8:33>> 3650 on amazon.com.
- 8:35Uh
- 8:37I started off the year with
- 8:41barely 10,000 followers. Ended the year
- 8:44with over 375,000
- 8:46followers.
- 8:47And
- 8:49I don't know if y'all know it, but the
- 8:50halfway mark of the year is 183. And you
- 8:53probably do know that because, you know,
- 8:55you're good at math. I'm not. Uh
- 8:57I know
- 8:58that it's the halfway mark because on
- 9:00day 183 my mom had texted me.
- 9:03And she congratulated me on being
- 9:04halfway through the year.
- 9:06Uh
- 9:07all through the year last year she would
- 9:09always just be like
- 9:10I love your dedication. You You said
- 9:12you're going to do something and you're
- 9:13doing it and it's
- 9:15and you're making it work.
- 9:17Shout out to mama.
- 9:20>> [applause]
- 9:22>> Um
- 9:23shortly after she had sent me that text,
- 9:26she had suffered a minor heart attack.
- 9:28And
- 9:29when I was up at the hospital with her
- 9:31the entire time I was at the hospital
- 9:33she was like, "Did you do your verse?
- 9:35Make sure you go do your verse. Make
- 9:36sure you do your verse.
- 9:37Um
- 9:39and uh uh
- 9:41yeah, she
- 9:42unfortunately passed four days later in
- 9:44her sleep.
- 9:45But uh
- 9:47I The reason why I mentioned the
- 9:49following first before that, I just want
- 9:52to say that I had every reason to quit
- 9:55and I had every reason not to continue.
- 9:57But I knew that would make my mom so sad
- 9:59if that was the reason why, you know? Um
- 10:02so I say all that to say if a little
- 10:04black boy with mental illness in the
- 10:06middle of a dead mom arc can come can
- 10:08commit to himself for a full year,
- 10:11there's no reason that everybody in this
- 10:12room can't do whatever it is that they
- 10:14set their mind to times 10. You know
- 10:16what I'm saying?
- 10:18>> [cheering]
- 10:19>> Um
- 10:20>> [applause]
- 10:21>> so
- 10:24so uh
- 10:26whether your mom is here or not, whether
- 10:28your mom's with us or not, none of us
- 10:30would literally be here without our
- 10:32moms. So on a count of three, can we all
- 10:33say thank you, mama? 1 2 3
- 10:36>> Thank you, mama.
- 10:38>> Period.
- 10:39Yeah, absolutely.
- 10:40Um
- 10:42>> [applause]
- 10:45>> Well, speaking of persevering,
- 10:48we lost three times
- 10:50>> [laughter]
- 10:52>> and still made it up here. So I think
- 10:54it's only appropriate for us to go back
- 10:57to the very first Tiny Desk audition
- 10:58that got us noticed in the first place.
- 11:00Is that all right?
- 11:01Cool cool cool.
- 11:04Look.
- 11:05Look. And I say
- 11:07I'mma get water first.
- 11:17Um
- 11:21Let me tell you like I'm so unbothered
- 11:23right now. I'm so unbothered right now.
- 11:26I'm so unbothered so if you got
- 11:27problems, then don't bother coming
- 11:28around. I'm so unbothered right now. I'm
- 11:32so unbothered right now. I'm so
- 11:34unbothered so if you got problem then
- 11:35don't bother coming around. Mace to the
- 11:38face how the verse hit. Ego alter how
- 11:40you worshipping a [ __ ] making a wave
- 11:42you can surf it. While the rains in the
- 11:43plane dropping bird [ __ ] on you [ __ ]
- 11:45bird or plane as a [ __ ] in a cape got
- 11:47a lighter and a tank cuz I learned it.
- 11:48If any serving you you better burn
- 11:50bridge. Don't give that energy up unless
- 11:51they deserve it. If it ain't working for
- 11:53you don't you put the work in. You can't
- 11:55win together that defeat the [music]
- 11:55purpose. Sub to the buddy but I ain't no
- 11:58such [ __ ] if my peace disrupted I'm
- 11:59allergic to them. If he acting funny
- 12:01well it's curtains to him. [ __ ] that
- 12:02can tell me really burns [ __ ] putting
- 12:04only motivation money with a surface
- 12:05movement I'm unsatisfied and hungry so
- 12:07[music] my work's improving. Rather
- 12:08independence from it if it's codependent
- 12:09then I put it on a robber from a judge
- 12:11or a court of finish [ __ ] I ain't
- 12:12finna end up with a letter of a finish
- 12:13everything what I see I mean it. Sense
- 12:14[music] specific my rhyme book got
- 12:16spells in it. Not that it's magic I'm
- 12:17actually a alchemist not that it
- 12:19matters. Creating matters don't create
- 12:21to matter my verse is a horcrux avada
- 12:22kedavra and I'm so unbothered right now.
- 12:25I'm so unbothered right now.
- 12:27I'm so unbothered so if you got problem
- 12:29then don't bother coming around.
- 12:31I'm so unbothered right now.
- 12:33He's so unbothered [music] right now.
- 12:35I'm so unbothered so if you got problem
- 12:36then don't bother coming around.
- 12:42I'm so unbothered so if you got problem
- 12:44then don't bother coming around.
- 12:47Woah.
- 12:48Woah.
- 12:50I'm so unbothered so if you [music] got
- 12:51problem then don't bother coming around.
- 12:56I guess before we get out of here I
- 12:57should let y'all know what
- 12:59>> [music]
- 12:59>> Cure for paranoia actually means, right?
- 13:02So it's called Cure for paranoia on
- 13:04account of 10 years ago
- 13:06I was placed on medication for bipolar
- 13:08depression and paranoid schizophrenia.
- 13:10>> [music]
- 13:11>> But it's turned out that the music was
- 13:12way more therapeutic than the medication
- 13:14was, right? So I created this band, this
- 13:16brand, this movement called Cure for
- 13:17paranoia.
- 13:19Cuz creating music with these people is
- 13:20my therapy so hopefully the music we
- 13:22create could be therapy for other people
- 13:24as well, you know?
- 13:27Thank y'all.
- 13:28Uh
- 13:30Well, well,
- 13:32y'all please take your meds though. This
- 13:34is [laughter]
- 13:35This is not me saying, "If you're
- 13:37paranoid and everybody quit your
- 13:38medication quick, get off." No. My God
- 13:42today, no. That'd be crazy. That'd be
- 13:43how I end up on the news. Somebody just
- 13:45Somebody run up on me at the end of a
- 13:47show like, "He told me not TO TAKE MY
- 13:48MEDS."
- 13:49>> HE TOLD ME NOT [music] TO take my meds.
- 13:52I broke down records that ain't broke no
- 13:54records.
- 13:55Now let me form y'all let me my own
- 13:57opinion.
- 13:59Mad cuz you sleep but he ain't show no
- 14:01effort.
- 14:03That's pillow talk but ain't got no
- 14:04commitment. [music]
- 14:06He ain't the spokesperson for mental
- 14:08illness.
- 14:10If anything, this [ __ ] out his mind.
- 14:13Boy, ain't you sober out here acting
- 14:15spiritual?
- 14:17That's just for show. I seen him
- 14:18snorting lines.
- 14:21I guess that's the cure for paranoia.
- 14:23Positive affirmations on Facebook while
- 14:25he acting important. I heard this [ __ ]
- 14:28up at D and act like he too good.
- 14:30Talking about how he going lead the city
- 14:32with a [ __ ] [music]
- 14:34Overrated, under influence. Lost my way,
- 14:36I done got back to throwing shade but I
- 14:38throw grenades when I blow up faces you
- 14:40just can't do it. Siri, can you play
- 14:41"Hold Up" let's do it. Walk in black and
- 14:43flame [music] background music I go hard
- 14:44in the [ __ ] paint, [ __ ] I'm a
- 14:46art show. Go ahead, take a picture of
- 14:47your kitty [ __ ] like a piggyback. Where
- 14:49the glizzy at? Cuz I'm just being frank.
- 14:51Even before COVID came, [music] I seen
- 14:52plenty masks. It's too many caps. I see
- 14:54it all in your face. Cut my [ __ ] out
- 14:55the picture like some kitty scissors.
- 14:56I'm a written and releasing all my
- 14:57inhibitions. I can't listen to you if
- 14:59you only listen to me. Friendly
- 15:00neighborhood [ __ ] you ain't even know
- 15:01I'm getting by with sticky [music]
- 15:02fingers. I ain't talking private. Say
- 15:03that I'm a copper. I ain't throwing on
- 15:04my shoulder but I'm going out of pocket.
- 15:05I ain't folding up for no one I can post
- 15:07my property.
- 15:09>> [music]
- 15:10>> Anyway, whose side you guys on? Anyway,
- 15:13let me pray. Meditation yoga can go out
- 15:14the window with your partner. If you
- 15:15[ __ ] with the roster I done came a
- 15:17long way from the olive [music] garden
- 15:18living when I pay with an imposter. And
- 15:19I ain't going back for nada. I ain't
- 15:20going back and forth with you can't
- 15:21afford it. I done paid to pay attention
- 15:23so they can't ignore it. I was treated
- 15:24like they treat a tree falling in the
- 15:25forest till I hit the ground running now
- 15:26they hear the noise. [music] God damn it
- 15:28I'm hopping out the bottom of the water
- 15:29bound wild kind caught a [ __ ] running
- 15:30in the pool. Meaning that it really
- 15:32ain't as deep as a [ __ ] think it is you
- 15:33see you got to reach instead [music] of
- 15:34wishing it was true. [ __ ] I'm the
- 15:35tortoise in the race and [ __ ] nesting
- 15:36in. I was dealing with depression till
- 15:38the pressure hit. Now I'm just a couple
- 15:39seconds from my second wind. Now I'm
- 15:40driven like a boss and I don't even
- 15:41[music] need my water preservatives.
- 15:42I've been out the bottom of the water
- 15:43bound wild kind caught a [ __ ] running
- 15:45in the pool. Meaning that it really
- 15:46ain't as deep as a [ __ ] think it is you
- 15:47see you got to reach instead of wishing
- 15:48it was true. [ __ ] I'm hopping out the
- 15:50bottom of the water bound wild kind
- 15:51[music and singing] caught a [ __ ]
- 15:52running in the pool. Meaning that it
- 15:53really ain't as deep as a [ __ ] think it
- 15:54is you see you got to reach instead of
- 15:56wishing it was true. That kid count.
- 15:58>> [music]
- 16:00>> That kid count.
- 16:02See before I was cured for paranoia I
- 16:04used to go up to the mall [music] and
- 16:05sell my CDs to people by the name of
- 16:07That Kid Count.
- 16:10And now and now I'm getting my [music]
- 16:12cake up at a breakthrough and a breakup
- 16:14all at the same damn time. Mascara
- 16:15makeup sex I was sad 6 seconds but it's
- 16:17gone like a god damn vine. [music] When
- 16:18I'm pissed off make more moves than a
- 16:20TikTok dance. Who's crazy but a cha-cha
- 16:21slide. Creatine weights up work it out
- 16:23gains up flexing in the mirror too.
- 16:25[music]
- 16:25And y'all are confused. Y'all thought
- 16:27you had this [ __ ] all figured out.
- 16:28Listen now I got some news for y'all I
- 16:29tell the truth. Y'all [ __ ] working so
- 16:31damn hard it don't deserve all your
- 16:32work. Ain't no news on the new [ __ ]
- 16:33sounding like I already made it as a
- 16:35group mindset. Listen to my [ __ ] I'm
- 16:36Janet Jackson titty at the Super Bowl.
- 16:38When I pop out on you [ __ ] start to
- 16:39lose control. Ain't no way I can't
- 16:41maintain this [music] whole campaign by
- 16:43own damn self. Ain't going to say no
- 16:44damn on names but hey folks change [ __ ]
- 16:46can't be helped. I still got [music]
- 16:48love for my [ __ ] Just a shame I can't
- 16:49really [ __ ] with you.
- 16:51Last night I sip sake and [ __ ] so I just
- 16:53focus on the good days now. Hit
- 16:54different I'm getting my [music] cake up
- 16:55at a breakthrough and a breakup
- 16:58Mascara makeup sex I was sad [music] 6
- 17:00seconds but it's gone like a god damn
- 17:01vine. When I'm pissed off make more
- 17:02moves than a TikTok dance. Who's crazy
- 17:04[music] but a cha-cha slide. Creatine
- 17:06weights up work it out gains up flexing
- 17:07in the mirror too. God damn fine.
- 17:10Woah.
- 17:11So god damn fine. [music] Flexing in the
- 17:13mirror too.
- 17:15So god damn fine. Flexing in the mirror
- 17:17too.
- 17:18So [music] god damn fine.
- 17:23>> If you love yourself, can you make some
- 17:25noise one [music] time?
- 17:29I don't know. It sound like some of
- 17:30y'all was going through something. I
- 17:31said if you love yourself, can you make
- 17:32some noise one time?
- 17:35>> [music]
- 17:41[music]
- 17:49[music]
- 17:54[cheering]
- 17:57[applause]
- 17:59[cheering]
- 18:02[applause]
- 18:05[cheering]
- 18:07[applause]
- 18:11[cheering]
- 18:13[applause]
- 18:15[cheering]
- 18:18[applause]
- 18:24[applause and cheering]
- 18:28>> Okay, I'm crying on the camera. So,
- 18:30let's go on. Let's Let's Let's wrap it
- 18:31up.
- 18:32Thank y'all so much. Thank y'all.
- 18:34>> [cheering]
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