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Unknown: I mean, there aren't
very many news articles and news

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stories about how 25 Ojibwe
people just laughed and couldn't

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stop laughing in a community
hall, right? Like, people

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aren't, you aren't getting your
news about that you have to you

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have to live it, you have to,
you have to be there with the

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people, you have to make the
effort and not make the efforts

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wrong. You know, I don't expect
people to go travel 25 minutes

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just to go introduce themselves.
But it's just what there are,

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there is so much there is so
much sadness, various through so

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much pain, it's just, we, maybe
this is just our way of

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constantly healing. You know,
recently, when I've been doing

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stand up, a conversation has
started to be began with

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audience members, you know, not
intentional, but we do get maybe

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it's that I'm trying to develop
a more conversational tone when

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I'm on stage. But a conversation
does start with with people, we

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start talking about issues, you
know, and it's, it's because

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that people, not only, like
people knew about it, but now

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they want to, they want to
empathize, they want to hear

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about it. This is, this is
something that people were

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taught, and I'm speaking about,
like residential schools, and

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that's like reconciliation. And
ever since, like, the ball has

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been really moving. And it's
only gonna get bigger. I want to

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voice You know, I want to say
something, I just, I don't want

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to be you know, I don't want to
end up being a punchline. Or

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just like, you know, Carrot Top
types. I'm not gonna get

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involved into the native Carrot
Top. I know that. Yeah, I want

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to really say something and open
up eyes. And yeah, but I want to

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make people laugh at the same
time. That connections, too good

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not to if I did a one man show
about generational trauma, and

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about the residential schools,
and how it affected my

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grandmother and my mother, and
now myself, you know, and that

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was like, I think that was
really that was a form of

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healing for myself, you know,
and it helped me open up.

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Because I've come a long way
from when I was a kid, I used to

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get bullied for being negative
all the time, right. And I was

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kind of ashamed. I used to I
once told somebody that was

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Filipino, so I didn't have to
tell them that I wasn't afraid.

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So, yeah, you just kind of you
just learn to be honest and do

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your truth up there and it's a
form of healing for everyone.

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You don't have to have
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