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

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Speaker 1: Start with headline news and they journey into deeper conversations,

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Speaker 1: always finding those life lessons that are presented in every

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Speaker 1: single story. I'm your host, Marcellus Wally, that Dude, and

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Speaker 1: today I want to start off once again thanking y'all

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Speaker 1: y'all for supporting or listening and just being there for

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Speaker 1: as well, and you could become one of that Dude's

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Speaker 1: Dudes of debt Dude's divas. Now let's chop up some woods,

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Speaker 1: starting with what's up with that dude? Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you what's up with me man? Yesterday I had my

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Speaker 1: first practice for my Baltimore Ravens. Yes, this year we're

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Speaker 1: going with the Ravens. I always tell y'all root for

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Speaker 1: four teams that I played for and then one extra. Right,

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Speaker 1: so there are five teams out there that I got

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Speaker 1: loved for, and the only one I didn't play for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Now. I just asked my son which team

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Speaker 1: did he want to play this year, and he said

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. I was like, shoot, you sound like your daddy.

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Speaker 1: It's all ve really. They just want to change team uniforms,

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Speaker 1: get different jerseys, different colors, different gloves. You know. I

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Speaker 1: go at that age, so I don't mind at all.

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Speaker 1: At first. I came into it kind of like I

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Speaker 1: am in basketball. We've been to Clippers every since I

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Speaker 1: started coaching the basketball. I ain't switching that up, and

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Speaker 1: and I'm not switching it up because of my love

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Speaker 1: for the Clippers. I'm not switching it up because we

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Speaker 1: don't have Clippers uniforms. We got the Park uniforms. So

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Speaker 1: no matter what team name we go with, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: look the exact same, either white jersey or the blue jerseys.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, shoot, let me rep one way I can,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna rep with this Clippers name. That's all

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Speaker 1: I could do. Some people wearing my Clippers had my

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Speaker 1: little Clippers colors, and my team just looks the same it.

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Speaker 1: No matter what you can think it's the Timberwolves. It

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Speaker 1: could be the Lakers, it could be the Clippers. We

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Speaker 1: all look the same out there. So when it comes

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Speaker 1: to football, nah, man, we're gonna switch it up cause

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Speaker 1: we look at fresh. My team is not looking as

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Speaker 1: fresh as you guys know. We won a championship last year,

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Speaker 1: last season, I should say, and this season because I

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Speaker 1: don't recruit. If your son signs up for me, were

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Speaker 1: going to war, were going to battle. I got some

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Speaker 1: move some kids I gotta teach this season. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun, but I'm gonna do it because that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm in it for. That's what I love it for,

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Speaker 1: is the fact that it's the development. It's that process.

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Speaker 1: It's to get these kids right. It's such a long

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Speaker 1: road and marathon in front of them. I am not

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Speaker 1: tripping on how great they are now. As long as

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Speaker 1: I build a great work ethic and get them a

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Speaker 1: that they can express their passions for sports and for life.

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Speaker 1: That's my goal. So Reggie Bush is my assistant coach.

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Speaker 1: I know y'all like, damn, what y'all trying to do

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Speaker 1: to these kids? All star lineup of coaches, and Reggie

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Speaker 1: is this was his first coaching in football as far

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Speaker 1: just say Reggie coaching like he in the pros. He

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Speaker 1: got these seven year olds lining up tomorrow. I want

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Speaker 1: you inside foot forward, and I'm like, you're talking to

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Speaker 1: it's funny because I was watching him, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's Reggie Bush, who doesn't have a sliver of admiration

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Speaker 1: Top five all time collegiate, right. So I'm listening to him.

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Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, elbow up, guys, I want a three

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Speaker 1: we play. We played tomorrow, let you know that score.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, went home, hung out with the Eddy biddies,

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Speaker 1: kicked it with the kids, and then had date night

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Speaker 1: with my dollar. Yes one of those nights were you

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Speaker 1: remind yourself while you're still together and not divorce right,

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Speaker 1: because my wife and I boy, we love each other

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Speaker 1: so much that we are on that thin line between

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Speaker 1: you just like always around somebody, always smothering them, always

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Speaker 1: But she's so forgiving. When I'm mad at her, I'm

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Speaker 1: you got to show me better behavior. You got to

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Speaker 1: show me a better way. I'm like a coach, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you messed up, you fumble. I ain't giving you the

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Speaker 1: you can hold onto the rock Bill Belichick or something right.

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Speaker 1: But nah, we're a perfect blend in that respect. Like

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Speaker 1: the things that I am suspect on, she is a

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Speaker 1: killer on, he's the best, and vice versa. So our

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Speaker 1: day night was fun, great Italian spot, Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: had some white truffle sauce with some lesagnab, Oh my god, lobster.

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Speaker 1: It was killer. But the best part was my wife

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Speaker 1: and I just going real deep in conversation and reminded

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Speaker 1: ourselves we love each other for reasons. All right, y'all,

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Speaker 1: let's get into the show Paul Piers My Dog the Truth,

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Speaker 1: as they say, the truth with an f he explains

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Speaker 1: why he got fired from ESPN two years later. He's

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Speaker 1: laughing about it now with his love because in that moment,

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Speaker 1: I was caught off, like damn man, they got you twisted.

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Speaker 1: You did it to yourself. But Paul Piers laughed at often,

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Speaker 1: but he still wonders what he did wrong to get

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Speaker 1: fired from ESPN. Let's talk about it. Here's the story.

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Speaker 1: Pierce appeared on I Am Athlete, y'all No Big Podcast

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Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall, I see d Jackson there, shady all that

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Speaker 1: love right, and he discussed the situation while he got

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Speaker 1: fired from the World Why Leader and Spots and Entertainment

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Speaker 1: surrounded by exotic dancers, naked ball layers, and smoking on

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Speaker 1: some weed every day, a little marijuana. He said, quote,

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Speaker 1: I got fired for what, Pierce ass. I got fired

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Speaker 1: for having some entertainment. I'm playing cards, it's my boy's birthday,

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Speaker 1: it's girls dancing, We're blowing some tree. What did I

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Speaker 1: do wrong? Oh love? These California laws got these cats

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Speaker 1: out there? Said what I do wrong. Man. They clowned

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Speaker 1: you on your day off, That's what they responded to. Man,

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Speaker 1: they fired you on your day off. Bro, on your

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Speaker 1: day off, you got fired. That was hilarious. Brandon Marshall

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Speaker 1: can't believe I'm doing this story. Man, It's just hilarious now.

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Speaker 1: But Pierce said that they were just playing cards, okay,

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Speaker 1: then they started clowning them too, talking about man, you

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Speaker 1: him posting himself getting in trouble and he's like, don't

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Speaker 1: even go live either. I was just feeling my haircut

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Speaker 1: it was self explanatory. This is the best marijuana's legal

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Speaker 1: in California, duh, where the video took place, But the

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Speaker 1: whole production was too much for ESPN. At the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, Pierce submitted, it's Disney and they have

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Speaker 1: a morals clause and they just said it was im moral,

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Speaker 1: all right, So Pierce said what did I do wrong?

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Speaker 1: And that's asking the wrong question. He should ask what

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Speaker 1: to what he thinks it is nothing. What did you

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Speaker 1: there that you got to represent, especially Disney, right, so

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Speaker 1: there's a way you also got to represent your brand,

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Speaker 1: represent Paul Pierce. And that's the key word. Let's slow

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Speaker 1: down words. You ever do this exercise where you slow

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Speaker 1: the definition. Like the word itself is re present, not

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Speaker 1: rep present, but it is represent right re present. Ah.

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Speaker 1: it's gonna go bad fast. We all know who he is.

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Speaker 1: Like his representation was that's Paul Pierce the truth on

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Speaker 1: it was to represent being a basketball player. When he

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Speaker 1: It's funny because I worked at Disney, worked at ESPN,

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Speaker 1: worked at Fox, and Fox is looser than Disney. Not

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Speaker 1: it is a looser environment than Disney now Disney ESPN

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Speaker 1: LA is he and looser than Disney, ESPN Bristol, which

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Speaker 1: was that La John And that's what pop, Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: Performances are always gonna be subjected to perception, and being

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Speaker 1: a basketball analyst is not the same as being a

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Speaker 1: basketball player. Y'all know that. Why, Because there's an objective measure.

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Speaker 1: When you own that court. You can say whatever you

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Speaker 1: to at least counter it with in terms of some

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Speaker 1: some subjective analysis. So what is there to counter with? Well,

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Speaker 1: police officers who are weapons strapped in their hosters. Papavich

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Speaker 1: this is true with so many Hollywood liberals. There we

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Speaker 1: go again, that have armed bodyguards detecting them, and they say,

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Speaker 1: you little people, you don't have a right to defend

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Speaker 1: your family, You don't have a right to defend your children.

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Speaker 1: But me, I'm going to surround in perfect safety end

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Speaker 1: take away your rights to defend yourself. You see the

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Speaker 1: rub here. Now, Unfortunately, that kind of condescension is all

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Speaker 1: too common. Crew specifically answered Popovich's question about having more

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Speaker 1: police officers and schools. This is it. Let me be clear,

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Speaker 1: Yes I want that. Look, I don't get this recent

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Speaker 1: conceit of le this here we go again, that police

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Speaker 1: officers don't make us more safe, like it is a

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Speaker 1: bizarre view. Listen, it is horrific the rise in violent

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Speaker 1: crime that we've seen across this country. But leftists like

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Speaker 1: Papovich putting none of the blame on George sorols Das

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Speaker 1: that are releasing murderers, That put none of the blame

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Speaker 1: on the leftists that they support who are calling for

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Speaker 1: abolishing the police. Instead, they put the blame on you

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Speaker 1: for exercising your right to keep in bear arms to

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Speaker 1: protect your family and your children. He also went on

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Speaker 1: to say it's just weird as stupid and its counter

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Speaker 1: factual all right, let's talk about this because it's so

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Speaker 1: polarizing in searching for this solution, and it's disturbing to

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Speaker 1: me because you guys know, this is something near and

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Speaker 1: dear to my heart, just because I had to navigate

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Speaker 1: through a violent neighborhood, I had to navigate through violent circumstances.

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Speaker 1: I've been shot at, and I'm just a guy who,

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Speaker 1: I think, in perspective, can talk a little more nuanced

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Speaker 1: about this than just getting behind my side of the

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Speaker 1: political fence and then just taking shots pun intended at

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Speaker 1: the other side and then never getting greater and closer

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Speaker 1: to a solution. Right, So I joined the organization and

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Speaker 1: formed the organization and partnership called ARGO Alliance for a

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Speaker 1: Responsible Gun Ownership. I personally joined it because too many

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Speaker 1: lives are being lost. Too many lives have been lost,

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Speaker 1: and now this is a national discussion where I grew

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Speaker 1: up and it it became a national discussion from us

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Speaker 1: always having to live through it locally. There was a

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Speaker 1: time when we thought this discussion had its borders. Remember

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Speaker 1: those days, inner cities, violent neighborhoods, the hood, And now

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Speaker 1: it's everywhere. School shootings, movie theater shootings, mall shootings, church shootings, etc.

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Speaker 1: So me personally, what I believe in are gun rights,

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Speaker 1: gun responsibility, and gun restrictions. I want to close the

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Speaker 1: violent misdemeanor loophole. I want to pass state level gun

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Speaker 1: permit laws. I want to implement state and federal background checks.

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Speaker 1: I want to enact red flag laws with due process protections. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know what I just said. I want you guys

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Speaker 1: to do some homework on that if you don't understand

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Speaker 1: what that is. But high level, I believe in the

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Speaker 1: Second Amendment gun rights. I believe you have to be

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Speaker 1: responsible to have a gun. I also believe we need

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Speaker 1: to have stricter restrictions on those who access guns. But

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Speaker 1: guns are going nowhere, y'all, and that's not a solution. Also,

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Speaker 1: giving access to people who don't deserve it is not

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Speaker 1: a solution. Pointing at each other is not a solution.

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Speaker 1: Let's meet in the middle and have a conversation for

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Speaker 1: a safer America which would include rights, responsibility, and restrictions. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we do this in so many other sectors of our world.

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Speaker 1: Proper education, proper training, proper restrictions. We need to bring

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Speaker 1: that in fullness to the gun conversation. I read what

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Speaker 1: Papovich said, I read what Ted Cruz said, and the

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Speaker 1: only thing that we're gonna get from that is more

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Speaker 1: of the name calling, more of the blame game. Wow,

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Speaker 1: lives are being lost in those moments as everyone points

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Speaker 1: their finger at each other. Let's do better than that,

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Speaker 1: because we are better than that. Let's end this show

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Speaker 1: with a wilyism. Oh yeah baby, Oh yeah baby, this

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Speaker 1: is a good one. Indulge with intelligence. Yes, indulge with intelligence. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I am a big believer of having some fun, but

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Speaker 1: keep your brain on when you're doing it right, train

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Speaker 1: the brain to have fun and not get caught up,

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Speaker 1: not get Paul pierced, not get in trouble, and look,

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Speaker 1: it could happen to anybody. You get you one wrong

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Speaker 1: button from Oh that's what you up too, right, But

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Speaker 1: you got to train the brain to be night. We

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Speaker 1: got to indulge with intelligence. I heard this one and

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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, because I got tired of going

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Speaker 1: to like the Rookie Symposium, being around veterans and cats

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Speaker 1: who are trying to scare you straight by acting like

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Speaker 1: you can't live You ever got that type of advice

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Speaker 1: somebody like yo yo, if I were you. I wouldn't, man,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even trust anybody. If I were you, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't do any of that. And I'm like, that's not realistic.

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Speaker 1: Realism is hey, learn to navigate those choppy waters, right,

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Speaker 1: go out there and have your fun, have a ball,

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Speaker 1: know how to do it proper protocol. I swear the

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Speaker 1: higher off climb than life, the wilder the people are,

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Speaker 1: no lie. I protect the guilty. So I ain't gonna

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Speaker 1: say names. But suckers at the top, man, they some freaks.

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Speaker 1: There's some foods. They are crazy, but you know what,

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Speaker 1: they also are locked in when they need to be

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Speaker 1: locked in, and most of them, not all of them,

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Speaker 1: because everybody get caught slipping. Try to indulge with intelligence,

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Speaker 1: they keep their brain on. So this is just for

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Speaker 1: somebody out there who needs to hear that. Okay, the

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Speaker 1: only way to the top, and when you get to

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Speaker 1: the top is not this linear, strict line. There are

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Speaker 1: waves in that right. It is a roller coaster ride

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Speaker 1: because a lot of times you get somewhere and people

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Speaker 1: always try to tell you all man holier than now.

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Speaker 1: They start grand standing, you know, they start virtus signaling, like,

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Speaker 1: oh yo, the way I got here. Nah, they protecting

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Speaker 1: themselves and it's okay to do that. Protect yourself as well.

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Speaker 1: So I just seen a lot of success. I've seen

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Speaker 1: a lot of people put things in proper places. You know,

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Speaker 1: they got the proper plan, proper preparation. Because whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to achieve, it's gonna come with his issues. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna step in it. If you want something, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: step in it in the pursuit of it. But it's

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Speaker 1: okay you can indulge with an intelligence. Keep that brain

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Speaker 1: on all right, y'all. Who y'all hear that coach's voice

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Speaker 1: creeping up on me? That Doc rivers back in the building.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it. For more to It, check the

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Speaker 1: show notes for all the information on our topics today.

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