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Happy day!

Well hello, welcome, welcome, welcome me, welcome you!

So our second special pop-up show here in Sony Hall, thank y'all so much for coming all the way to fucking Times Square to see us, the worst place in the city, right?

No, we literally all hated it, so thank y'all so much for coming to the worst place in Manhattan to see us tonight. We appreciated so much.

We're here. It has been a day, it has been a doozy, so but amen, we're gonna have a good time.

Every day in Trump's America is a doozy. I thought it, I thought really it, my God.

Honestly, at this point it's just about whether or not you are awake in the morning, afternoon, if you're me, maybe evening, whenever it is that you get it,

God gave you light that day, it's just about what you're gonna do with it, because we don't have choices these days, especially those of us with melanin and, you know, saying sexuality that isn't hetero, like honestly we should be going outside in full armor, God every day.

I mean I personally stay preyed up, I don't mean house.

That's how I was raised anyway, but these days, you know, I say a PPS at the end of my programs.

Oh, please look.

I had an extra layer of a blessing because my God, who knows, these days.

But thank you for being here, all of you beautiful black people and those who appreciate us.

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