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Let's do it.

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It's a scary, scary times, man.

You know, I didn't come here to preach to you today.

Ready to rock and roller, but I got all kinds of static in my hair, in my headphones.

I can't hear you all at all now

by just getting static like the Ruskies

and fuck my shit up

and a little microphone icon.

It feels like an episode of black mirror a lot of times.

So I put myself across the line.

Yeah, sorry about that.

All of a sudden, I just started getting the static in the AirPods.

Couldn't you hear anything?

It's almost like a tug-in-war, right? Me and you pulling, pulling, pulling. There's two ways for me to win. It's for me to have enough people to pull you in my direction or for me to let it go. Hey. You see what I'm saying? It'll bring up. Select the microphone and then select the speaker. They might have. Jay, do you want me to record locally? I can't. I mean, if it's no problem, it's better. Yeah, let me, I'll just have to switch. Let me just turn this thing on. It creates a better sound quality for me. Yeah. Dismissive. And it constantly revolves around the Reddit. Lost you, Howard. I'm not here people who got? I'm not here to argue over a person or a cultural religion. On to play in me. Let's bring DA into the conversation here. Welcome to who. The comic is. As Jason. On the athletic podcast network. I turned it on and I heard Shaq with the barbs. It's like the bolster and brackadoci. I was transported right back into it.

I was like, oh, this is great. I think I rap better than Sha. David Aldridge. Oh, he's totally playing him. Yes. Yes. And then it had their lungs out in front of everybody on TV. Michael was not your friends. It was popping enough. And Marcus Thompson. I just can't get with this idea of taking one hour of content and finding the morsel that might pop and blowing out of.

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