It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the BetRivers Network.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the BetRivers Network.

We come to you on this Wednesday.

Remember a big week two in the NFL.

They're all big.

And this one's got some interesting twists and turns.

So get ready for a football Friday and everything

that comes with that um as always we have a couple of things uh to promote but before i do that um

i'm sitting down obviously as i come down to the studio and I just got the news.

I was watching the news upstairs like a lot of people were.

We've all seen what the news has wrought today.

And, you know, I've spent my life in sports.

And I try not to too often get involved in the real world or get involved in politics because, hey, all it does is divide your audience because everyone has

different feelings and different beliefs, especially in these

incredibly intense, uh, heated times. Okay. I thought the 60s were bad. These, uh, make the 60s look

like it was, uh, you know, a lot easier than I thought. Um, but you wonder where we are right now, where the division, and when you look at things

from a vantage point of having the advantage of years, which gives you more common sense and you might step back

and take a look at things a little more rationally and a little more patiently than you might

have at a younger age.

The problem now is that one side doesn't even hear the other side.

And the other part of it is in this world of social media and in this world of AI and everything that is advancing

from a technological standpoint

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