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I'm Laurel.

And I'm Johnson.

All right. So, of course, you can bring up anything you want. Laurel tonight, this one of the big

headlines, and we don't always follow the big headlines on Free Talk Live, but this

one has generated a lot of buzz. This Justin, was it? Jesse. Jesse. You can tell how much attention

I've been paying to the case. Jesse Smollett. Jesse with a you, Jesse. Jesse. Yes. Okay.

It took me a while too. Jesse Smollett, who apparently is some kind of actor.

Yes, apparently.

Oh, yeah.

He definitely acts a lot.

Yeah, so this guy got into some controversy because, what, he made up some police reports and false police reports?

Allegedly, he, yeah, he faked a hate crime.

The allegations are that he hired some friends of his to beat him up, and he thought that it would all be on a security camera, but the security camera turned out to be turning the other way.

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