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This is the Universal Joint, a podcast devoted to all things Universal,

with your host Jim Hill and Dustin Foods.

Welcome to the Universal Joint Podcast.

I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill and my co-host, Dustin Fews,

and I are recording this podcast on Wednesday, October 2nd.

I hate to start a show on a depressing note, but you forwarded to me this story out of USA Today about, well do you want to explain about this universal team member?

Yeah, so it's everywhere. It's on every sort of local and national, it's everywhere. You can't avoid it. So what's happened

is there was a universal team member who was fired because during a meet-and-great at the

the Lowe's Royal Pacific Resort they were dressed as grew so they were friends

with grew portraying grew during, and that's despicable

me while working at a character breakfast. So this was back March 23rd. We don't know, we're going to classify him as an idiot at this point?

That works.

Okay.

He basically went ahead and deliberately formed the okay symbol with his fingers on his right hand well on the left

shoulder of a seven-year-old autistic biracial girl. Now for those of you who

don't know the the okay symbol, especially in situations like this, takes on a weird racial connotation.

Evidently, if you hold the index finger in the thumb in a certain way it forms a P and if you extend the other three fingers out it forms a W which somehow in today's world that's now perceived as a symbol for white power and you know

it was it was definitely an awkward thing and I think one of the the comments that we've seen

online was the fact of oh it was a mistake it was something like that and actually you

you brought up a really good parallel with this you know idea of oh this was a mistake

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