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Hey gang, what's up? It's the spit and checklets gang here. We're not going to pretend that it's

been a normal week here in the United States. So we're going to do things a little different than

we usually do. We're not going to start off cherry and playful and fun because we can't. It's,

I know you guys come here and gals come here for an escape for release and that's all we love to do.

But there's things that are much bigger right now that need to be talked about that have to be

talked about. And this is in the audience where frankly there's probably some people that need to

hear something. So we're going to acknowledge right off the hop with four white guys. We talked about

this a lot. We wrestled with how to handle this, how to approach it. Ultimately we thought maybe

bringing a black guest on was maybe not the best idea to have a black person yet again,

explaining to white people with the situation is that may be generalizing, but I suspect a lot of

black people are probably sick of that at this stage of the game. So we decided we'll just try to

give our points of view and maybe bring some education, whatever enlightenment, whatever you want to

call it to our audience. We're not coming from any high horse or anything. Speak of myself. I'm a guy

who's changed his views over the his due to my life experience and what I've learned. I mean,

you know, I grew up in basically a racial war in Boston during Boston. It was a, you know,

you came of age and that and you came out with certain attitudes. I did. And I didn't get them from

home. I got them from the neighborhood from the street because we saw other people, the black people

as our rivals. That's what we were raised into. And you know, you get to a point like, well, I

have tried to just get better, try to be better at things over the years, you know, the relationships I've

had, the experiences I had. I mean, my family fought years ago. It was everybody was white Irish and

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