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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of A

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Speaker 1: Fox in the Trend House. My name is Jack O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: That's Miles Gray. And this is what's trending on this

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Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. Uh. Sean Reid is trending. Uh. And unfortunately

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Speaker 1: that is just the latest black man who has killed

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Speaker 1: uh shot to death on camera, this time on Facebook

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Speaker 1: Live and the cops apparently didn't know the camera was

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Speaker 1: still streaming. And one of them says, I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a closed casket, homie. After he's dead

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Speaker 1: on the scene and people are protesting in Indianapolis. Um,

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Speaker 1: he was a veteran. Apparently there was a car chase

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Speaker 1: right before it and the police shot him to death.

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Speaker 1: That's very very sad. It's like we've got a run

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Speaker 1: of that going well in Indianapolis, especially the police killed

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Speaker 1: three people in eight hours. That was one of three

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Speaker 1: deaths that occurred. Uh. And I don't you know, I've

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Speaker 1: ran out of things to say about this, at least

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Speaker 1: at this point. I don't know how to feel except

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Speaker 1: helpless and hope that I don't know. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: just yeah that first that, you know, the dangerous thing

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Speaker 1: is if we're sent a message repeatedly that our lives

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Speaker 1: are not worth anything. It can eventually manifest into something

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Speaker 1: really awful. And I don't know, it's it's just for USh,

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Speaker 1: It's just you just feel powerless, you feel helpless, you

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Speaker 1: feel nobody cares about you. And I really I don't

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Speaker 1: know how else to say this, but like, if you

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Speaker 1: look at an African American person and your first instinct

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Speaker 1: or your first feeling is concern or fear or something,

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Speaker 1: and but you could look at someone of another race

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Speaker 1: or ethnic group and not have that feeling. Please try

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Speaker 1: and examine that. Because we are human beings. We are

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Speaker 1: not here to funk and kill anybody. We are trying

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Speaker 1: to live like anybody else. And you don't have to

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Speaker 1: be You don't have to have judgment about how you feel.

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Speaker 1: I don't want you to think, oh my god, am

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Speaker 1: I a terrible person? Because look, white supremacy is a

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Speaker 1: thing that we're all experiencing and manifests itself in many

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Speaker 1: different ways. But allow yourself the moment to deconstruct why

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Speaker 1: that maybe, and at the very least, try and look

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Speaker 1: at another human being and have your first instinct be

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Speaker 1: that this person may also be trying to live just

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Speaker 1: as I am and don't fucking use a gun. Don't

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Speaker 1: own a gun, if that is. And to think that

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Speaker 1: this they they tried to be tazed first. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's just like I can't. I

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Speaker 1: can't really, Yeah, honest, I don't know. I don't have

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Speaker 1: anything else. And the I mean, the really depressing thing

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Speaker 1: is that this it's not like there's just suddenly, uh

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Speaker 1: a spate of these. It's just that now people are

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Speaker 1: paying attention and like this is always going on constantly,

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Speaker 1: and it's just a matter of like when the media

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Speaker 1: starts paying attention. Well, if the problem is if the

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Speaker 1: media keeps reporting on it, people complain, it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's all you taught. It's like this social justice. No,

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Speaker 1: that's I'm sorry. That's the ugliness of this country that

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Speaker 1: we live in. And until we can confront that fully,

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Speaker 1: this is going to continue, and I'll continue to feel

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Speaker 1: like ship when I'm not surprised when I hear again

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Speaker 1: that an unarmed black person has been killed by police. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Nieman Marcus is trending the luxury retailer. I didn't even

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Speaker 1: know that was a luxury retailer. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: just another Macy's. But okay, money bags O'Brien over here,

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Speaker 1: I don't shop it, Yeah, department stores. Oh no, I

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Speaker 1: mean I I only knew this as like the place

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Speaker 1: my mom would go if there was something really good happening,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like like, I'm like, because

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Speaker 1: this is not the Robinson's may we normally frequent, because

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Speaker 1: like Neie and Marcus, at least in l a. Gro

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Speaker 1: it was very much, at least to me, I was

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Speaker 1: I always have seen it as purely like not for

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Speaker 1: this part of town, for Beverly Hills part of town.

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Speaker 1: But I guess anything, you know, a lot of luxury

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Speaker 1: retailers are struggling to survive, and I think Neim and

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Speaker 1: Marcus was already doing terribly before the outbreak, so this

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Speaker 1: was just kind of the death blow. Um. But you

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Speaker 1: know the same thing with j Crew. You know you

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Speaker 1: hate to see it, Yeah, yeah, you hate to see it.

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Speaker 1: Classics going down. Michael Flynn is trending because the Department

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Speaker 1: of Justice has dropped the case against him after he

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Speaker 1: fucking pled guilty. Yeah, I can't do after I don't

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Speaker 1: understand this man. He played guilty twice. Okay, he played

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Speaker 1: guilty twice, and now you're when you hear security experts

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Speaker 1: to talk about what he did, they're like, he should

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Speaker 1: be in jail for the rest of his life. He

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Speaker 1: sold the country out horrible. I mean not even like that.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I you know, the sanctity of this nation

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Speaker 1: man absolutely betrayed any oath he had to, any kind

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Speaker 1: what he did for himself and doesn't care about anything else.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so they're they're trying to say

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Speaker 1: that the the case wasn't like materially relevant, like or

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Speaker 1: it wasn't meeting the standards to be to be prosecuted.

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Speaker 1: The prosecutor at d J who wasn't charged, he completely

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Speaker 1: he just left when he found out that this these

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Speaker 1: case again, yeah, the charges were gonna be dropped. And again, look,

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Speaker 1: that's what William Barr was here to do, is to

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Speaker 1: completely fucking kneecap any sort of connective tissue that would

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Speaker 1: make the president um seemed like he had absolutely zero

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Speaker 1: help from any kind of outside influence or at the

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Speaker 1: very least did nothing untoward in his pursuit of the presidency,

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Speaker 1: because that's purely what all of this stuff is meant

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Speaker 1: to do. So if there's no Michael Flynn conviction, then

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Speaker 1: how can you how can you actually believe anything that's

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Speaker 1: been said about him? I mean, they dropped the charges.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's fucking infuriating all of which Hunt. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's really like I feel like even though we know

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Speaker 1: he did a bunch of ship wrong and the people

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Speaker 1: around him did a bunch of things that are probably illegal,

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Speaker 1: like the way it's going down in like the cultural memories, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was overblown. Nothing ever came of that, um, and

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Speaker 1: that really should not be the case. Hey man, maybe

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Speaker 1: our kids will be on a podcast being like the

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Speaker 1: thing actually about Michael Flynn. A lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: talk about Michael okay, because it's been papered over by history.

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Speaker 1: My old man who used to have a podcast before

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Speaker 1: the FBI rated our house, you know, it's like I

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Speaker 1: think that's it's I'm really curious to see what happens

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Speaker 1: in history, and like if we're going to be the

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Speaker 1: people who are like you know, when you meet like

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Speaker 1: older people who like bring up stuff about like Reagan, yeah,

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Speaker 1: or like just or anything where you're like, what, I

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Speaker 1: don't okay, I didn't know, Like yo, easy, bro, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. That's what I heard at this school,

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Speaker 1: Like how much we are going to allow history to

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Speaker 1: be completely obscured by this kind of nonsense, or if

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Speaker 1: we're gonna also be like the screaming hippie people being like, oh,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you what happened. But I do feel

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Speaker 1: like that's what happened to Reagan. He was really bad,

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Speaker 1: treated poor people very badly, killed unions, ignored the AIDS crisis,

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Speaker 1: and I mean all of that, not all that pales

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Speaker 1: in comparison to what Trump does on a daily basis,

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Speaker 1: but it's still because people. I feel like the Conservatives

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Speaker 1: had ahold of the kind of cultural they just yeah,

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Speaker 1: they just made made him go down in history as

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Speaker 1: a great present. Remind the Law Andrey list, yeah, oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then the irony of like Ali North, like having

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Speaker 1: a take on Iran. It's like, I'm sorry the back

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Speaker 1: Mr Secret arms deals, um, But you know, with Reagan,

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Speaker 1: I understand why, or I can connect the dots to

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Speaker 1: the mythologizing about Reagan because in the eighties a lot

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Speaker 1: of people were able to experience a lot of upward

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Speaker 1: mobility financially. So that's like they can for a large

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Speaker 1: swath of people, they can look back and they be like,

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Speaker 1: because of Reagan, or like I was able to do

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Speaker 1: see so many Ronald Reagan boulevards and things like that.

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Speaker 1: Those are just like tributes from business people who are like,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. I'm curious though, with Trump, like

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Speaker 1: there's not a lot of material growth happening for most

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. That I'm curious that it's just going to

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Speaker 1: all these things named after old Reagan really helped reinforce

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Speaker 1: that myth. And I'm just not sure that Trump will

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Speaker 1: an authoritarian dictatorship. Which not outside the realm of possibility.

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's is trending. I just feel like Jordan is

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Speaker 1: constantly trending these days because the last dance, Uh, this

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Speaker 1: guy's really hot right now. Craig Hodges is saying he

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Speaker 1: thinks Jordan kept him out of the documentary. Craig Hodges

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Speaker 1: was a great three three point shooter for the Bulls

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Speaker 1: and the first uh three p um And also I

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Speaker 1: I just know him as the dude who was who

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Speaker 1: in the day. But he, uh, I don't know why

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Speaker 1: But I am seeing a lot of people using this

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Speaker 1: same like criticism of Jordan's that you used to hear,

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Speaker 1: like back in the day before he won six championships,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of wild, like, okay, so you're

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Speaker 1: even just finding out about him, That's the thing. It's like,

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Speaker 1: if we're not even doing the same set of facts,

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Speaker 1: like have you ever tried to shoot a basketball? Have

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Speaker 1: you played a game of basketball? Do you know what

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Speaker 1: it's like to even take have you even shot, you know,

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Speaker 1: fifty consecutive jump shots? Do you know what? Whatever? And

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Speaker 1: that's where Like then I started sounding like some weird

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Speaker 1: old man from the bygone air of nineties, Like what

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Speaker 1: you don't know is you know the parquet is different

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Speaker 1: like when people say, like they're so unimpressed with soccer football,

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Speaker 1: like You're like, I don't know, dude, like just run

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Speaker 1: around chasing them. I'm like, if you knew what it

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Speaker 1: and like the technique to have touched it's just it's

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Speaker 1: born out of like a lack of experience. So I

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Speaker 1: get less interfere and I'm like, oh, you just don't know.

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Speaker 1: M h. Alright, guys, that's gonna do it for today.

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Speaker 1: We hope you are having a good end to your week.

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Speaker 1: We hope you're staying safe, washing your hands, be good

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