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Speaker 1: let's get to our yaps of the week. I know

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Speaker 1: not everybody have one ready at the start. I will

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Speaker 1: go first, which is that Tyler sent us a picture

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Speaker 1: of his beautiful car. Could you describe your car for

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Speaker 1: people who.

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Speaker 2: Don't who have not seen it, Tyler, Yes, two thousand

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Speaker 2: and two Cadillac Eldorado. Last year they rolled him out

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Speaker 2: Collector's edition. It's a beauty all red with the black

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Speaker 2: and red guts interio. It's my baby, Old Red Rond

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Speaker 2: is what I.

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Speaker 1: Call him, legitimately fucking beautiful car. And you sent us

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Speaker 1: a picture of how bad the pollen is in fucking

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Speaker 1: Richmond right now. Your car was cover in fucking pollen.

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Speaker 1: And I know you keep that ship clean as fuck,

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Speaker 1: so I know that was not a month's worth of

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Speaker 1: pollen sitting on it. And I'm just saying, like we've

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Speaker 1: had this conversation on the pod before, but that's come, bro,

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Speaker 1: that's tree fucking come. It's everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Two years ago, Nigga Jammy. Right, I was potted in

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Speaker 2: the dark.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 2: I was at this like the hunchback. But then I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's that's Virginia, bro. Like, our seasons are extreme, and

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Speaker 2: that's how I know that climate change is real because

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Speaker 2: we used to have extreme winners where we would always

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Speaker 2: get a blizzard and have like a foot and a

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Speaker 2: half of snow every year or so. We don't get

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Speaker 2: that ship no more, bro, Like we get a dusting

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Speaker 2: twice or so a winter, No more blizzards like these motherfuckers,

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Speaker 2: these kids don't even have snow days and ship no more.

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Speaker 2: That ship's wild for weeks, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: But but yeah, it's that's that's Virginia. Like I said,

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Speaker 2: extreme seasons and when spring springs around this motherfucker it's

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Speaker 2: springs and there's tree nuts every motherfucker.

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Speaker 1: Tyler was your yap of the week, bro.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I came across this really interesting theory. It

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Speaker 2: was brought to my attention by Wesley Larry. You'll might

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Speaker 2: be familiar with him. Reporter Pulic Surprised when it doesn't

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Speaker 2: credible work. Yeah, first hopped on my radar when he

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Speaker 2: was covering the uprisings and Ferguson. You know. So he

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Speaker 2: does incredible work. But he brought to mind a theory

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Speaker 2: that has been floated through academia coming up on the

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Speaker 2: hundred year anniversary of The Great Gatsby, that that movie.

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Speaker 2: In the in the titular character Gatsby, he he is

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Speaker 2: a black man passing his white And I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you'll never heard that theory.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like obsessed with The Great I read The

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Speaker 1: Great Gaspy every year. Yeah, I'm very familiar with that theory. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm not.

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Speaker 2: Familiar with this, Yeah, it's extremely familiar, especially when you

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Speaker 2: look at the premise of it. It is a dude

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Speaker 2: who comes from a mysterious past and is trying to

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Speaker 2: infiltrate his way to into the higher ups of society

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Speaker 2: and and and everyone's like, Okay, what's really your deal? Right, Like,

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Speaker 2: he's met with reluctance there where where where where he.

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Speaker 1: Knew money versus old money Exactly. It's very Phil Jackson

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Speaker 1: talking about Lebron James's entourage, like the dynamic between Gatsby

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Speaker 1: and the old money in Long.

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Speaker 2: Island, right right. And So I'm gonna highlight some things

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Speaker 2: Wesley Lowry like I said, he wrote a piece on it.

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Speaker 2: You can you can find it on his Twitter. I

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Speaker 2: think it's Twitter's like w Lowry, but he cited an

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Speaker 2: actual quote from Fitzgerald in nineteen twenty five the year

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Speaker 2: came out, Like I said, coming up on this hundred

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Speaker 2: year in the anniversary, where Fitzgerald himself said, of all

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Speaker 2: the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the

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Speaker 2: slightest idea what the book was about. Wow, yeah, and

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Speaker 2: so and so I'm gonna read. I'm gonna read some

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Speaker 2: some epsots from from Wesley's piece where he kind of

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Speaker 2: you know, lays out his case. Here narrator Nick Carroll,

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Speaker 2: if you remember the movie, Nick Carray, was Toby Maguire right,

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Speaker 2: like the one to be down?

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Speaker 1: Asked the new movie? Right who better? Yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: Narrating Nick Carroway famously opens the novel by recalling guidance

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Speaker 2: provided by his father, quote, all the people in this

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Speaker 2: world have not had the advantages that you've had. Next,

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Speaker 2: he introduces Jay Gasby, a self made man of unclear

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Speaker 2: origin who hosts extravagant parties on his forty acre estate

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Speaker 2: like if you know the about that? Hoping to catch

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Speaker 2: the attention of a former lover. Days of Buchanan Gasby

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Speaker 2: takes place in the time such as hours inside in America,

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Speaker 2: full of disruptive change in white racial anxiety. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: nineteen twenties were like the worst decade for fucking racial That's.

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Speaker 1: That's when the Klan was marching in Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: Is shit like, yeah right, a time when the clan

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Speaker 2: became the most powerful force in American politics by stoking

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Speaker 2: fear of immigrants, Jews and Black Americans who spent the

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Speaker 2: decades since the war migrating north and at times, in

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Speaker 2: cases when their skin was light enough, passing within white society. Quote.

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Speaker 2: If we don't look out, the white race will be

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Speaker 2: utterly submerged. Daisy's husband, Tom, an aristocrat Purebread, declares in

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Speaker 2: the book's first scene of significance, It's up to us,

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Speaker 2: who are the dominant race, to watch out, or these

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Speaker 2: other races will have control of thanks. Then he talks

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Speaker 2: about how Gasby's physical description is laid out in the

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Speaker 2: book right where he says his tan skin was drawn

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Speaker 2: attractively tight on his face. Caro always says in describing Gasby,

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, they got that loose as face here and

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Speaker 2: this one. It feels like even more of a ghetto giveaway.

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Speaker 2: And his short hair looked as though it was trimmed

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Speaker 2: every day.

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Speaker 1: No, how did we not notice this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's read this the first first book of

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Speaker 2: the book Club. Yeah, that's that's what I was thinking too,

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Speaker 2: that like.

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Speaker 1: Y'all are going to be so annoyed by me if

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Speaker 1: we do great Gasby as the first book.

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Speaker 2: But I love when you're annoying.

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Speaker 1: Two