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Transcription: Speaker 1 [Jeff]:
[00:43:21]
Tell 'em, tell 'em about a step, and how it-- you know-- what it came to be from. It goes like this: stepping started in Africa, and they called it dance--

Speaker 2:
--[[inaudible]]

Speaker 1 [Jeff]:

This step will do-- will make you move.

[00:43:30]

Speaker 2:
Alright-- Jeff is talking about a particular step, which we do, it's called the--a "Mambo Groove," and, and what he's doing now-- Joe, come on over Joe, Joe, Joe's a, Joe's one of our graduate brothers from Pennsylvania, and he's down for [[Sir sinister??]], thats--that's Joe's name, I don't, I don't know why but I guess you can, you have some idea. Joe's gonna demonstrate the Mambo, and Jeff's gonna do the chant.

[00:43:54]

[[Laughter]]

Speaker 2:
And then you're, then you're gonna understand you know exactly what we mean by having a chant and someone stepping and doing it at the same time.

[00:44:05]

Speaker 1 [Jeff]:
Gee, [figh[?]], Gee, hit it.

[[Drumming, clapping]]

[00:44:15]

[Jeff and Speaker 2, chanting]
Now stepping started in Africa, and they called it dance, the step we do will make you move, put you in a trance. Step to the side, and you will see just who we be, we're those bad [bold[??]] brothers of Gee [Figh??] Gee. Now i say dance, you've got to dance now, Mambo Groove, I say dance, you gotta dance [now/y'all] Mambo Groove, I say dance, you gotta dance [now/y'all], Mambo Groove, I say dance, (everybody) dance [now/y'all], Mambo Groove-- Freak time.

[00:44:47]

[[Drumming, clapping]]

[00:44:53]

[Jeff]
Joe's demonstrating one of them freaks to the Mambo Groove.

[[Drumming, clapping]]

[[Cross talk]]

[Jeff]
Then he'll probably break into another one after this.

[Speaker 2]
Do the last one for 'em Joe.

[00:45:01]

[[Drumming, clapping]]

[[man chuckles]]
[[applause]]

[Speaker 3]
Alright let's give them a hand.

[00:45:18]

[Speaker 2]
Joe--Joe likes to, [[laughs]] Joe like to make up different freaks, so uh what you see is the Joe Jackson original, I assure you I have never seen that before in my life.

[00:45:32]

[[laughter]]

[Speaker 2]
So, you--you were there, you can say that you were there when we made up the new freak to the Mambo Groove.

[00:45:39]

[[laugher]]
[Speaker 3]
Alright-- I think-- do we have any questions from the audience?