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Speaker 1: Welcome back to More to It to show that takes

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Speaker 1: a deep dive into the biggest stories in sports, entertainment,

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Speaker 1: and culture. Start with headline news and then journey to

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Speaker 1: deeper conversations, always finding those life lessons that are presented

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Speaker 1: in every single story. I'm your host ourselves whiley that dude,

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Speaker 1: what's up with that? Dude? Oh man, busy day, I

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Speaker 1: got to talk about it all man. Woke up, wanted

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Speaker 1: to check out another football league for my son, and

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Speaker 1: we've been looking for it felt like weeks. Everyone was

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Speaker 1: telling us to go to this one place that I

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Speaker 1: knew was shutting down. So I was like, that's not happening.

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Speaker 1: Every parent kept coming to me, No, we want to

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Speaker 1: play there. It's going to happen. I got an email,

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Speaker 1: I talked to people and I was like, dude, I

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Speaker 1: worked with them last year on an event and at

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Speaker 1: that time they were telling us privately that looked like

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Speaker 1: they were going to have to close their doors. Well,

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Speaker 1: it looks like that's happening. That's come to fruition. So

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Speaker 1: we were on the look, on the hunt for another

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Speaker 1: league and finally found one, but they already started. And

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Speaker 1: then in that moment, soon as I saw the schedule,

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Speaker 1: was like, damn it. They started Memorial Day weekend. Y'all

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Speaker 1: know we won our championship a week after Memorial Day.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, man, don't do it, Wildy, please

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Speaker 1: don't do it. I'm like, show up, talk to the commissioner.

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Speaker 1: My ego was like, flex yo, use yo, use what

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Speaker 1: you got to get what you want and jump in

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Speaker 1: that league late. Because every team makes the playoffs anyway,

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Speaker 1: so who cares if you're six and oh or you

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Speaker 1: only three and o or zero and three. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Like we only play three games, It's fine, we'll be good.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, nah, just go check it out,

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Speaker 1: make sure it's a well ran league and make sure

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Speaker 1: that you know they're doing the things the right way,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll join that league in the summer next year.

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Speaker 1: But looking at their schedule, it looks like we may

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Speaker 1: do the fall as well. They play on Saturdays. We

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Speaker 1: typically play on Sundays. We start in September, go through October.

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Speaker 1: They start in October, go through December. I was like,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, might be having two leagues. MJ may

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Speaker 1: be going Saturday Sunday doubling up and at that age

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Speaker 1: playing flag especially, It's fine, like it's not too much

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Speaker 1: work because we don't do a ton at home anyway.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people think we do. They always say,

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Speaker 1: what drills y'all do? I was like, talk, what do

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Speaker 1: you guys work on? I was like, loving the game.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's too young. He's seven, damn it, he's seven.

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Speaker 1: Stop taxing these kids, Stop giving them W two's and

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Speaker 1: W nines and ten ninety nines and whatever the hell. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they try to make these kids into the lotto tickets.

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Speaker 1: Stop it. Just let the kids enjoy it. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I do with my son. Look, he got DNA,

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Speaker 1: damn it, and he got more from his mama because

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Speaker 1: I'm a good athlete, but she's a great athlete. I

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Speaker 1: was just big and could run straight pretty fast. That

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Speaker 1: was give me on the basketball court? Huh huh? What'd

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Speaker 1: you say? Was this? Put a bat in my hand? Huh?

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Speaker 1: What was this? Volleyball? Tennis? I'm pretty suspecting most things,

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Speaker 1: So it's okay, Nah, seriously, just love your kids and

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Speaker 1: support their passions. That's gonna take them the farthest. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, I went to my boy d Holmes,

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Speaker 1: Dereck Holmes my og from the Buffalo Bills back in

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Speaker 1: the days played for the Coats as well. But I

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Speaker 1: remember meeting them when I was a rookie. And he's

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Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I get to kick it with

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Speaker 1: d Homie and what's up, baby? What's up? Baby? What's up?

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Speaker 1: D Homie is just the coolest dude alive. It's almost

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Speaker 1: like hanging with E forty, but that's your running back.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, man, he had a camp, him

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Speaker 1: and his son, Darnay Holmes, who plays for the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Y'all know who he is, a little beast god. It

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Speaker 1: was crazy. I remember seeing him my first time seeing

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Speaker 1: them play. Must have been before high school, so maybe

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Speaker 1: look turned it into turn it into making it to

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Speaker 1: the league and balling and it's gonna eat in the league.

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Speaker 1: So proud of that, Proud to go out and support them.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, it's just a bunch of travel for

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Speaker 1: got friends, now take two three month vacations. I was like,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you moving, dog. The don't sound like

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Speaker 1: hit me today. Come up, Let's go to Greece for

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Speaker 1: like seven to ten days without the kids. I was like,

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Speaker 1: ain't going nowhere without my kids for no week what.

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Speaker 1: It ain't even gonna be fun. Even though I say that,

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Speaker 1: I don't really believe that, I think I would have fun.

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Speaker 1: I think the most important relationship. As much as I

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Speaker 1: love my kids, and everyone focuses in on their kids.

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Speaker 1: If you're in a relationship, that relationship your wife, your

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Speaker 1: husband is the most important relationship because that's where the

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Speaker 1: happiness comes from. And a lot of times you get

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Speaker 1: we love the kids, and yeah, you better love each

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Speaker 1: other first, because the kids won't be as happy as

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Speaker 1: they should be, won't be guided properly unless that relationship

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Speaker 1: at the top is intact. So I might have to

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Speaker 1: think a trip y'all to Grease for a week ten

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Speaker 1: days without the idy biddies. It ain't like I ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna have fun, and we ain't gonna have fun. And

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Speaker 1: I'm finally go get my appointments. If y'all know what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, she gonna have to check in with

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Speaker 1: your boy. It's just damn. I can't even imagine a

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Speaker 1: week ten days. Ain't no sleep away camps in this house. Nope,

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Speaker 1: ain't going nowhere, no sir, not me. Ah help me,

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Speaker 1: y'all help me. Y'all Pray for me, and also pray

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Speaker 1: for the PGA Tour Commissioner j Mo ahnd Man. This

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Speaker 1: dude shamelessly side steps questions about the relationship that Live

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Speaker 1: Golf is gonna have now with the PGA Tour and

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Speaker 1: how the Sawties could control pro golf around the world.

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Speaker 1: So we know that was one of the biggest news

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Speaker 1: stories of the year. The PGA Tour and DP World

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Speaker 1: Tour agreed to merge will Live Golf Now. I've never

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Speaker 1: heard of DP World tow before this, but must be

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Speaker 1: doing big things out there because they're a part of

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Speaker 1: this deal as well. Now. According to the press release,

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Speaker 1: the merger will form a new collectively owned for profit entity.

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Speaker 1: Remember a lot of these are nonprofits typically, Even the

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Speaker 1: NFL had that status forever, right, and the development stunning

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Speaker 1: came after a year of them out there gang banging

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Speaker 1: against each other, and the tensions were flaring, and the

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Speaker 1: character assassinations were left and right, and the Mountain lawsuits.

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Speaker 1: They had it all going between the PGA and the

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Speaker 1: lived I'll excuse me, the crips and the bloods, and

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Speaker 1: a startup tour controversially was backed by Saudi Arabia's Public

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Speaker 1: Investment Fund, the PIF. Now that thing is six hundred

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Speaker 1: billion billion dollars strong, so don't play around with that

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Speaker 1: money right there, and big bank don't take little bank

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Speaker 1: as it did in this situation. So they did an

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Speaker 1: attack this because we talked about the story before kind

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Speaker 1: the story if we can. One of the angles is

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Speaker 1: we saw a segment where Monahan was being interviewed and

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Speaker 1: they asked him, did he have a response to the

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Speaker 1: people who will now claim the Saudies control golf around

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Speaker 1: the world? Fair question, and he said, you're describing a

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Speaker 1: scenario under which PIF, at some point could have the

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Speaker 1: majority of the economics, correct me if I'm wrong of

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Speaker 1: this entity. That's what the interviewer was asking. Essentially, the

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious as to what you think the response

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Speaker 1: is going to be. Uh huh, here goes Monahan. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people have been reading about the tension, right

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Speaker 1: and I've said previously that we're going down our path,

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Speaker 1: they're going down theirs. And today that tension goes away. Well,

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Speaker 1: this boy bend pr one oh one. The litigation is dropped.

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Speaker 1: We're announcing to the world that on behalf of this game,

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Speaker 1: we're coming together. It's less about how people respond today,

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Speaker 1: and it's all about how people respawn in ten years.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop right here because that was genius. You

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Speaker 1: know why it's genius because he's almost telling you to

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Speaker 1: So now he's making you engage in battle of thought

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Speaker 1: in ten years you're not gonna think the same, not

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Speaker 1: be the same. So you spare the judgment in this

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Speaker 1: moment that was brilliant. Let's get back into it. And

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Speaker 1: when they see the impact that we're having on this

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Speaker 1: inspired than you've ever been before. Sounds good, Except Phil Mikelson, Brooks, Koepka,

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Speaker 1: position of ambassador for the Saudi Royal family, for supporting

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Speaker 1: live golf, for defecting, as they said, assist in the

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Speaker 1: their human rights abuses. Yes, that is deep. That means,

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Speaker 1: like all their sins, they use you as a shield

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Speaker 1: from everyone else. Crazy right, excuse? I Monahan himself similarly

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Speaker 1: that spoke out against Live citing the Saudi ties to

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Speaker 1: the tourist participants were betraying the United States. I said

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Speaker 1: is trying to untangle the Saudi Arabian ties to nine

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Speaker 1: Arabia and nine to eleven? Like all Saudi Arabian entities

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Speaker 1: and interests always have to go back to that, because

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Speaker 1: look at all of their sins, including Americans as well.

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Speaker 1: You imagine if that was the way every single time

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Speaker 1: to give you examples, because we know there are examples.

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Speaker 1: But the point is do unto others as you want

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Speaker 1: them to do unto you, and we don't want this

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Speaker 1: done all right, So in response, Monihan attempted to sell

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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour's ethics and morality by using the nine

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Speaker 1: to eleven families who were upset with the live tour

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Speaker 1: coming to the United States. Have you ever had to

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Speaker 1: apologize for being a member of the PGA Tours One

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Speaker 1: of the questions he kind of rhetorically asked, everyone, Man,

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Speaker 1: this dude really went there and in the year span

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Speaker 1: flip flopped one eighty on them. Right. So, now as

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Speaker 1: dude is for the Blaze media, Blaze media y'all shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be allowing this. Y'all shouldn't have somebody out there doing this.

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Speaker 1: I mean what you get your names in the headlines,

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Speaker 1: You get something that gets a lot of clicks, and

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Speaker 1: you get a lot of views. But look what it

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Speaker 1: does to the fabric of a society. Man, cat's just

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Speaker 1: running up on each other doing crazy stuff like this.

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Speaker 1: So not to go too deep about it. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, Brittany Grinder is going to always be

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Speaker 1: vulnerable like this. She's a seven foot WNBA star. They

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Speaker 1: don't make airplanes from your front porch all the way

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Speaker 1: to your destination. You still got to coexist with the world.

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Speaker 1: All I'm asking of the world is to make sure

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Speaker 1: you show a little respect, as they say, put some

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Speaker 1: respect on her name. All right, y'all, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: a story that is near and dear to my heart

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Speaker 1: just because of the location. Was right where I grew up, man,

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Speaker 1: And there was a fatal shooting of a Crenshall High

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Speaker 1: basketball star outside of already in South LA. And it's interesting,

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Speaker 1: you know, you hear this now. It was this twenty

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Speaker 1: and twenty three, and you know me, I'm growing up.

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Speaker 1: I remember nineteen eighty three, growing up and hearing about

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Speaker 1: guys getting shot drive bys in the eighties, and here

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Speaker 1: we are still in the same situation, even though it's

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Speaker 1: been a roller coaster ride in terms of the murder

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Speaker 1: rate up down, of late down still occurring. Man still

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Speaker 1: losing people to senseless violence. Let's talk through this one, right. So, friends,

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Speaker 1: family members, and classmates were gathered to mourn the sixteen

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Speaker 1: year old. He was a standout athlete named Quincy Reese

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Speaker 1: whose senior year was upcoming. And dude was literally being recruited,

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Speaker 1: as his father said, by fifty eight different colleges and

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Speaker 1: now he's gone, come on, y'all crazy. So there was

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Speaker 1: a there was some gunfire at a party where he

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Speaker 1: was attending with some friends outside a bunch you know,

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Speaker 1: school kids, teenagers. It was a haul on seventy fourth

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Speaker 1: So they say that there was a fight, there was

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Speaker 1: a dispute outside before the shooting, and he was believed

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Speaker 1: to just be a bystander. We don't believe he had

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Speaker 1: anything to do with what happened. That's what the police

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Speaker 1: captain Adrian Gonzalez said. So friends found Quincy soaked in

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Speaker 1: blood behind the car, and the paramedics declared him dead

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Speaker 1: at the scene that night at eleven thirty. So police

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Speaker 1: haven't released the motive, a description of a suspect, or

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Speaker 1: many other details about the shooting. Nobody else was reported injured.

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Speaker 1: Man Now, the detectives say that they have some information

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Speaker 1: that they're not releasing yet because of the ongoing investigation.

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Speaker 1: They said that there's a video social media posts that's

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Speaker 1: circulated related to the shooting and are vetting it, but

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Speaker 1: he cautioned that the posts may not ultimately be connected

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Speaker 1: to the shooter. The video that's on social media check

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Speaker 1: this out was of someone Quincy face down in a

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Speaker 1: pool of blood with a laughing emoji attached to the video.

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Speaker 1: What I say about coexisting, y'all? Come on, man. So

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Speaker 1: the venue seventy seven Lounges was rented out Saturday night

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Speaker 1: by a parent for a party that was promoted on

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Speaker 1: social media. God, man, it takes me back, y'all. Go boy.

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Speaker 1: I grew up without social media, but I remember, like god,

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Speaker 1: it was crazy. Imagine growing up and you want to

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Speaker 1: have a party to celebrate whatever, you know. Turning sixteen,

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Speaker 1: you're doing well in school, you're live and then you're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I want to invite my friends. And then I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I want to invite my friends at the other school. Oh,

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Speaker 1: but that school has this gang and our school has

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Speaker 1: this gang, or they just can't coexist. So still the

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Speaker 1: word's gonna get out. I tell you, you're gonna tell him,

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Speaker 1: he gonna tell her, and bam. Next thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: what you try to avoid or just be sensitive to,

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Speaker 1: actually is a reality. It actually occurs. Like two people

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Speaker 1: living in the same neighborhood, we ain't going to the

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Speaker 1: same party or else it might be a problem. That's

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Speaker 1: how it was for us growing up, and this is

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Speaker 1: making me go back to that place in terms of

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Speaker 1: thinking through it. And now they got social media, so

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Speaker 1: you could be lazy with your promotion, not them, but

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Speaker 1: I get something. I'm like, yo, I follow you, what's

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Speaker 1: going on? Oh, I'm gonna hit the homie, And then

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Speaker 1: a homie like where are we there? And that's how

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Speaker 1: these things can happen. So it was a large crowd

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Speaker 1: that flowed on to Western Avenue, and one of the

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Speaker 1: owners of the location shut down the party about ten

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Speaker 1: o'clock because two many kids were coming in and the

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Speaker 1: parents who were into the space that said they would

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Speaker 1: be present, and later learned that the event was advertised

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Speaker 1: to students from all the local high schools and teams

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Speaker 1: were being charged three dollars to get in. All of that.

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Speaker 1: So you see the party being promoted on social media.

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Speaker 1: Parents say they're gonna be there. Come on now, like

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Speaker 1: that ain't security. And even with security, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: tell y'all, man, we're all vulnerable, right, It's real talk.

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Speaker 1: So the police couldn't confirm whether the shooting was gang related. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so my man Quincy reached rest in peace. First of all,

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Speaker 1: multi sport athlete three point four GPA said everyone said

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Speaker 1: he was funny, happy, go lucky kid and always pushed

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Speaker 1: everyone to do better and to be better. Basically a

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Speaker 1: regular kid that had a great future in front of

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Speaker 1: him and was putting in the work to do that.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, Now here's some other details that were coming

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Speaker 1: out in part since the story broke. The police reported

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Speaker 1: that a party was going on and then there was

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Speaker 1: a team walking away from when he was shot and killed. Right,

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Speaker 1: But then his cousin says that no, they attacked him

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Speaker 1: and they chased him down like a dog and shot

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Speaker 1: him in the head. Yeah, that part, man, And they

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Speaker 1: say that it seems like nothing really occurred at the

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Speaker 1: party and the inside. Everything happened on the outside. And

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Speaker 1: then they interviewed his father, and his father, man Quincy

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Speaker 1: rees Sor says, God gave me sixteen years of him

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Speaker 1: and I thank him for that. Wasn't expecting to hear that, man.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that something in that moment he's thinking just for

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to have sixteen with him. Yeah, tough story

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Speaker 1: right there, man, because you look at it. When we're

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Speaker 1: gonna learn, brother, when we're gonna learn party people. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's crazy because the shooting comes and violent crime is down,

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Speaker 1: at least with miners. Isn't that crazy. There's a statistic

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Speaker 1: out there that has to focus in on just the

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Speaker 1: miners that are being killed every single year. Right, homicide

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Speaker 1: levels had dropped to their lowest sense twenty twenty right,

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Speaker 1: oh man, and listen to this, not including Quincy's death,

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Speaker 1: there have been eleven homicides involved in juvenile victims in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. And this is just Los Angeles, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Come on, this rate of youth homicide is one point

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Speaker 1: eight killings a month, compared with two point five last year.

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Speaker 1: All I'm gonna say to y'all, is this about this

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Speaker 1: story right here. There's no perfect way, man, There is

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Speaker 1: just no perfect way. I don't know what to do

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Speaker 1: when it comes to thinking about the future for my kids.

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Speaker 1: When my kids like, dad, I want to have a

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Speaker 1: house party, Dad, I want to go rent out a

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Speaker 1: venue and have a party. And they're sixteen. You know,

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Speaker 1: my little son, he's gonna be a good student. Why

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Speaker 1: because that's what that's the culture in his house. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a good athlete. Why because mama is his mama.

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Speaker 1: She gave him some good DNA. But to celebrate whatever

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Speaker 1: the hell he's gonna be. He's the next one up.

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Speaker 1: And then I got two girls following him. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not to be so negative and looking at the situation pessimistically,

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Speaker 1: But what do you do like the fear, the anxiety

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Speaker 1: you have of letting your kids just go party and

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Speaker 1: then your kid doesn't come home. Situation like this, man,

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Speaker 1: so sad, sad state of affairs. You guys, be safe

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Speaker 1: out there, man, And I guess it's the golden rule

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Speaker 1: to be safe make sure that you're treating others in

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Speaker 1: a respectful way and hopefully that will spread the love.

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Speaker 1: All right, y'all, that'll do it. For More to It,

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Speaker 1: check the show notes for all the information on our

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Speaker 1: topics today today. Want to keep the conversation go on,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk. Find me on all socials at Marcel's Wiley.

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