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Ernest thanks for joining us today hey man it's good to be here it's a long time

coming I'm excited to finally get a chance to talk it up with you on on air

let's do this yeah man long time coming I'm excited to finally get a chance to talk it up with you on air. Let's do this.

Yeah, man. Long time coming. I'm excited for this. So how would you get it started by telling

us a little bit about yourself and what you do? Yeah, so I work with the Royal Oak Initiative

that ROI is the name of a chess-based mentoring organization that was given to me by spirit about eight years ago.

So we used the game of chess to explore wisdom and to protect heal and build community.

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