Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

Bruce, this is not going to be our typical episode of The Audible.

I feel like I've been saying that a lot over the last several months.

And at first, that was due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This week, the overwhelming topic that's on everybody's minds in our country right now,

the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer,

and all of the anger and protests that have erupted since then.

I know this is a college football podcast.

We're going to talk college football later on in the podcast, but we thought it was important

to hear from some guests who could talk about their own experiences and have a real

discussion about the issues related to race that have just come to the forefront in our country this week.

Yeah, I mean, it's been a heartbreaking week that is everything that has unfolded.

And, you know, I think a lot of people are looking for some, some, some,

some, some, some introspection and everything like that. And we've, look, we've seen a lot of

people speaking out about racial, uh, injustice and a lot of the issues African Americans face,

uh, probably more than we've ever seen, at least in the sports world.

A lot of people have taken to social media, but it's, you know, everything is, especially coming

out of the pandemic where you've had 10 weeks of people being essentially, you know, cooped up.

And there's economic concerns and certainly health concerns.

So I think that has made everything even more complicated. And, you know, so we wanted to,

we wanted to kind of dig into this a little more and use the Audible this week to kind of

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