Malcolm McFadden shares a heartfelt moment of gratitude with the SYT audience and organizers, revealing that a friend’s suicide is among his personal motivations for MCing the event each year. The segment captures a mutual exchange of appreciation between Malcolm and the event founders before transitioning into housekeeping announcements.
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[01:45:15] Hello, hello, hello, everyone.
[01:45:17] All right.
[01:45:18] Just so you know, the raffle is going to be amazing.
[01:45:24] But I want to thank you guys.
[01:45:28] Thank you, everybody.
[01:45:31] Can I say something real quick?
[01:45:33] Go for it.
[01:45:33] Hey, so I really want to thank you all for coming out.
[01:45:36] One of my reasons for doing this event is a friend of mine once committed suicide.
[01:45:41] So doing these events is really dope for me to kind of, like, give back and help out.
[01:45:46] So I really want to thank you all for coming out.
[01:45:48] Hey, give it up for yourselves for being here.
[01:45:50] Yeah.
[01:45:52] And also, like, every year I’d like to thank you two for allowing me
[01:45:57] to be here.
[01:45:58] Thank you.
[01:45:58] Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this because it does something for me, for
[01:46:00] my spirit every year to help people and, you know, be a part of this dope-ass event.
[01:46:05] So y’all, too, thank y’all for allowing me to be here.
[01:46:08] And I hope we can do this for eight more years, eight more after that, you feel me, until
[01:46:12] we get to Speak Your Truth 100.
[01:46:14] We’re not going to be there for that.
[01:46:16] But, yeah.
[01:46:18] Right.
[01:46:19] But, yeah, I just, once again, every event I’d like to thank y’all.
[01:46:22] So in front of everybody, thank y’all for allowing me to be a part of this.
[01:46:25] Thank y’all.
[01:46:26] Thank y’all.
[01:46:26] Malcolm, I don’t think we could do this without you.
[01:46:32] I don’t think we could do this without you.
[01:46:34] You were there from the very beginning, and we’re going to do this for as long as we can.
[01:46:38] So as long as you guys keep coming back, we’re going to have the Speak Your Truths, just
[01:46:41] so you know.
[01:46:43] All right.
[01:46:44] Please give a round of applause for Laura Brino again.
[01:46:47] Yeah.
[01:46:48] Please.
[01:46:49] That was fun.
[01:46:50] Yes.
[01:46:50] Yes.
[01:46:51] Yes.
[01:46:51] Yes.
[01:46:52] Okay.
[01:46:53] All right.
[01:46:53] A few announcements real quick.
[01:46:55] We’re going to be taking.
[01:46:56] We’re going to be taking a short break after the next artist, but please don’t forget, put
[01:47:01] your tickets in for the raffle that’s going to be going down.
[01:47:06] Ooh.
[01:47:06] Twerk.
[01:47:07] Twerk.
[01:47:07] Twerk.
[01:47:08] Twerk.
[01:47:08] Twerk.
[01:47:09] Yeah.
[01:47:09] It’s going down at the end of the night around 10.
[01:47:11] All right?
[01:47:12] So you got to be here.
[01:47:13] You got to be here.
[01:47:14] All right.
[01:47:14] So we got to get our next performer, speaker, artist here coming to the stage.
[01:47:20] Do you remember the name?
[01:47:21] Because I left the paper over there.
[01:47:22] Of course.
[01:47:23] Artie Cox.
[01:47:24] Hold on.
[01:47:25] Don’t say it yet.
[01:47:25] Don’t say it.
[01:47:26] We ain’t even do no slow clap, but nothing.
[01:47:28] We don’t need it.
[01:47:29] We don’t need it.
[01:47:29] We don’t need it.
[01:47:29] Hey, he said we don’t need it.
[01:47:30] We’re good.
[01:47:31] We’re good.
[01:47:31] Give it up for Artie Fox, y’all.
[01:47:33] Hey.