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From Workhouse connect in aj Benza fame, he'd like to be walked on a

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leash and play really dirty, kinky
sex games. He's the guy put the

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cock in the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody Aji Benzi

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here with fame is a bitch.
This is your daily Unfiltered podcast from May

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one, twenty twenty three. Five
one two O two three. Nice to

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see may come up on our calendars. I'm glad April has done that one

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by real quick. Oh god,
I just watched my New York Knicks fall

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apart in the second half and lose
to the Miami Heat in Game one of

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the second round of the NBA Playoffs, and it just hurts men having been

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to the second round in a long
time. And by the way, when

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the Knicks lose the first game of
a playoff series, they're o and seven

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in those series, so they gotta
turn it around. I know the Knicks

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so well that even though they were
winning by nine or ten in the first

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half, I texted my son Gonna. I told him we're gonna lose.

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I'm not being negative. I just
know this team. I've seen them full

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apart too many times. They were
two up and at him in the first

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half, and I could tell there's
gonna be a letdown or Miami's gonna figure

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out what the hell to do and
combat it. And they did. We

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didn't have her a high score.
Julius Randall out with a sprained ankle,

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but I don't think we can win
without him. I missed my whole sophomore

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year in high school because of a
rolled ankle. And sometimes those rolled ankles

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are worse than a break, because
what happens is you stretched the ligament so

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badly it's hard to build strength back
anyhow. Not a good start to Sunday.

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And by the way, there are
sounds in the walls again at that

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time of day. It's after twelve
noon on Sunday. Every day from twelve

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to one thirty or so, sounds
happen in the walls. I don't know

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what it is. It's it's like
haunt it. It sounds like someone's moving

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furniture, but they're not. There's
no one in the room next to me,

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there's no one above me. It's
just insane when I'm hearing here,

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did you hear it? Just bear
with me here, I just saw a

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well I've been seeing commercials of Jason
Momoa constantly, and I don't like the

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way he looks. I think he's
becoming a slab. I really do.

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I know the guy when he first
came out was handsome as all hell,

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and I know he's still the kind
of guy that a lot of chicks like.

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But he looks like a slob.
He really does. And now he's

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once again leaving little to the imagination
while getting fans an inside look into his

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life, also inside his robe.
He did a video from Men's Health the

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other day in which he appeared wearing
All he wore was a pink, fluffy

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robe, a sharp toothed necklace,
and a vodka bottle graphic which was strategically

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placed over his privates. It's a
clip on YouTube. Ladies, go check

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it out. It's called Jason Momoa
shows off his gym and fridge. The

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guy's forty three years old and he's
holding a can again US in one hand,

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and he gives a tour of his
place and at one point he shows

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everybody how many mountain and riding bikes
he has. Then he hops on one

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completely in the nude, just takes
off his robe, gets on a bike.

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Yeah, I liked the mountain bike. Like to go downhill fast,

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he says. And of course the
bike is bumping up and down, and

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there's that bottle of vodka used as
a graphic to cover his junk. Then

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he continues riding in circles around his
gym, and then he flashes the camera

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with his ass partially on the back
seat. He's got a few parts of

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his workout routine that helped him maintain
his body that so many women love,

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including lifting weight. He use his
kettlebells, he boxes, He rock climbs.

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In fact, he's like a tremendous
rock climber. I think him and

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his buddies do this all the time. They've been doing it forever. But

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he loved to do this. Back
in March, he drove fans crazy shared

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a video of himself walking around with
his pants on without his pants on.

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You know what do you do when
you're forty three years old? You're already

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an established stought. One time,
he's stripped down in the middle of Jimmy

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Kim a live interview last year during
a minimal clothing fishing trip while he cut

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off his signature long hair. And
I saw the ad for the new Fast

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and Furious movie. I know that's
why he's getting new because the movie looks

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like my ass. Someone said they
didn't understand why fans go crazy for him.

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Look because several years back he was
dropped dead, hunky, and he

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looked sane. Now that he's older, he simply looks crazy. He's showing

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his b on display. Listen,
when you get older, there are things

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that a person should never do anymore, like striped naked. That's not a

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good look, and he should know
better. I know you girls are telling

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me a j who cares we love
the way he looks doesn't look the same,

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looks bloated. Now. I know
the guy's got twenty times, twenty

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times fifty times are better about it
than I do. But he doesn't look

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cool right now. He just doesn't. Great news looks like I'm not the

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only one who is very happy that
Jada Pekin Smith Red Table Talk is no

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longer running on Facebook. The other
day on Patreon, I went off on

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Jada and her tone death insufferable daughter
and mother and their often phony show that

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was always thought upon is very deep
and honest and real. Oh bullshit,

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it was just exploitive and uninteresting and
now it turns out Nick Cannon is glad

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Jada Pinkett Smith's show, Red Table
Talk has been canceled by Facebook. He

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celebrated the news on his Daily Cannon
Show. Does anybody listen to the show?

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The Daily Nick Cannon Show. Well, the stupid bonnets he wears on

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his head, whatever you called the
turbans, he said, if there was

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no Red Table Talk, then we
wouldn't he wouldn't have slapped the ship out

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of Chris Rock. He's kind of
right, He's right. He went on

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to explain that he thinks Will Smith's
heated reaction began because Jada is always bringing

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their relationship issues to the table,
and she brought them to the table in

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twenty twenty to discuss her entanglement with
that young singer August I'll see that.

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Who is her son's friend? Nick
Cannon smartly said, I don't want to

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know about all this shit, okay. He said the couple were considered royalty

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before they divulged their open marriage.
Listen, I always knew it was open.

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I told you guys, or at
least I told my Patreon listeners that

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back in the mid nineties, I
was invited to hang out with them well,

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in the in the in the hope. So what have you of being

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like a swinger's night. I was
with Albi Sure, the the R and

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B singer, my buddy Rocco,
and Albi was like, let's go hang

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out with Will and Jada. And
it was widely known in my circles that

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they liked people to come over and
they like the fucking around with other people.

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So it's nothing new. They've been
doing this forever, doing it forever.

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But Nick said, I just want
to mind my black owned business.

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I don't want to be up in
everybody else's kitchen. Keep that ship to

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y'all selves. Now, his co
host, ma, I'm not called his

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baby mama Abbie Della Rosa, who
shares three kids with him. She didn't

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agree. She said, stop bashing, stop calling it a toxic table.

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It was an honest table. She
said, there's still royalty. It feels

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human, like they're human, it
feels relatable. They're trashed too, like

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the rest of us. And when
she decided she might want a table talk

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of her own, Nick Cannon clapped
right back at her and said, then

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you're getting that table all by yourself. F that table. But for Nick

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the funniest thing he said in a
long time. I agree with the bringing

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Will Smith on to shout about her
damn entanglement for ratings for her Facebook show

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is what ended up leading to the
Chris Rock slap that led to will Smith's

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downfall. We didn't need to see
Will Smith humiliated like that, and we

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didn't need to know that Jada was
a cheater. I mean, this is

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a great example this kind of stuff
right here is a great example of two

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things being true at the same time
and right message, wrong messenger. And

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I think Nick Cannon makes a very
valid point about how the Red Table show

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could have led to the overreaction slat
and number two. With all the weird

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shit going on in Nick's personal life, he's not in a position to judge

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or verbalize this point. Honestly,
what he needed to say is that the

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Red Table talk was a vanity project
with a massive dose of talentless nepotism.

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That's what these two have done with
their children for a long time. It's

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all nepo baby nonsense. But what
Jada did in banging her son's good friend

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is beyond the pale, and she'll
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whatever the hell that was, and
maybe not even Will Smith. So a

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very bad, very sad story Sunday
Morning. CBS Sunday Morning had Michael J.

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Fox calling to terms with how difficult
his thirty year battle with Parkins disease

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has become. He said to Jane
Polly, I'm not going to be eighty

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years old, okay. And Jane
Polly told Michael J. Fox in the

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clip that he has not squandered,
but that his illness will one day make

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the call as to win. Is
his time to go? And he said,

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yeah, it's it's banging on the
door. Very sad. He said,

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I'm not gonna lie. It's getting
hard, it's getting harder, it's

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getting tougher. Every day is tougher. Then he explained that he had surgery

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to remove a benign tumor on his
spine, but the procedure messed up his

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walking and then he started to break
other parts of his body. See we're

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not told this stuff. This poor
guy has broken his arm, his elbow,

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his face, his hands. And
he was telling Jane that the biggest

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killer of Parkinson's disease is falling and
you can also dive from aspirating food and

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which is a horrible way to go
to choke on food, and getting pneumonia.

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These are all the subtle ways that
the Parkinson's gets you. You don't

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die from Parkinson's, Michael said,
you die with Parkinson's. So I've been

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I've been thinking about the mortality of
it all. You gotta remember, this

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guy was diagnosed with this disorder at
the young age of twenty nine years old.

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And of course we know he's become
a leading advocate for research for this

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condition. He launched a Michael J. Fox Foundation twenty some month years ago

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to help educate the public on the
disease, and had of fun studies.

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And now he's saying he doesn't fear
death. He said, I'm really blunt

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with people about cures. When they
asked me if I will be relieved of

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Parkinson's in my lifetime, I say, I'm sixty years old and science's heart

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so no. But I'm genuinely a
happy guy. I don't have a morbid

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thought in my head. I don't
fear death at all. I'm not shocked.

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I'm not shocked. Michael has put
up a valiant fight, but Parkinson's

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is such an insidious disease that rob's
mobility and in the later stages it robs

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her mind. And I got to
applaud this guy, and I got to

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applaud his wife, Tracy Paulin and
their kids because you know, I don't

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want to say the wrong thing,
but in other families it would have been

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easier to abandon him because the stress
of taking care of somebody with that disease

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is incredible. My wife is going
through this right now with her mother.

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It's horribly stressful. And I don't
even know. A while ago he said

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he stopped taking his medications because he
didn't like the side effects. I'm not

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sure if he's taken them again or
what, but he just God, he

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got a bad hand dealt to him. But you know what, he's never

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acted like he feels sorry for himself
about it. He's made the best of

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it, and I hate to hear
that things are getting worse for him.

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I've loved seeing him on Larry Sanders
and other shows where they basically made fun

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of his situation, and Michael J. Fox was up for it. That

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episode on The Curb You Enthusiasm when
there was a lot of noise upstairs and

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and Larry David was pissed because Michael
J. Fox was living above him something

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like that. It was hysterical and
Fox was up for it. I loved

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that. But you know, at
some point people get tired, you know.

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I remember when my father, who
had suffered from an insidious form of

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incurable cancer for over ten years,
in the last six months of his life,

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he was in the hospital bid and
I remember one day I watched his

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teeth clenching a lot, and I
said, how you doing, Dad?

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You know, where was your pain? And he said, It's all over.

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It's all over me. I'm just
tired. I'm just tired. He

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didn't mean go to sleep tired.
He meant I think it's time to let

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go tired. And I remember telling
him that he didn't let go, man

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go, you did everything. If
you're tired, go daddy, It's fine,

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We'll be okay a few days,
letting me let go. But from

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talking about Michael Jake Fox, from
from Family Guys to the Secret of My

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Success, he epitomized the eighties.
I mean the eighties were Michael J.

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Fox, leg warmers, MTV,
Michael Jackson, Nintendo, parachute pants,

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Ronald Reagan, and aids. That's
a pretty good round up of what the

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eighties were. Oh my god,
parachute You hear this crazy this in the

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walls. Do you believe this?
I swear this poltergeist at this hotel.

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But parachute pants. Take me back. I remember going to different stores in

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Manhattan in search of parachute pants,
like the Thompson Twins war Remember the Thompson

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Twins Lives Lives Lies? Yeah,
Dan, Dane lies, I had to

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get parachute pants. I look like
a crazy person. In the nineteen eighties,

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after high school, I was trying
to find my identity. We all

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do that. I see my daughter
doing it now. It's fun to watch

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it, but it's it's a bit
challenging and painful to get through it.

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I used to go every Saturday to
New York City, take the hour drive

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from my house to Manhattan, shop
at antique stores, you know, um

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Antique, Boutique, Flip Ferrucci,
Capizio, any and all sorts of shops

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in the village and soho. It's
funny what you remember. I used to

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know of this parking meter that never
worked, and there was a traffic cop

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named Al and I always thought like
maybe this is my father, you know,

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reincarnated, because this guy Al which
is my father's name, obviously used

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to let me park at this one
broken meter on Seventh Avenue South, and

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I would walk all over from that
area, and I would go to Rocco's

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Pastry shop on Bleaker Street and I
would bring out a cup of cappuccino and

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some Semolina cookies and he'd letting me
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a ticket. And during those years, Al Lewis, you know Grandpa Munster.

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the street with a cigar talking all
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where I'd bring home some beautiful cheese
and you know, muzza al and

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sausage from my mother John's Pizza.
There was a little store that sold pot

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pourri of all different sense I used
to bring home a paper bag for my

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girlfriend at the time, who eventually
became my wife. Number one trip.

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I found an avocado green puffy leather
jacket that I had to have, you

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know, big shoulders and shit,
because I wore a lot of drab green

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back then a lot of military jackets
and pants actual outfits from veterans whose families

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either sold them or gave them away
to good will or you know, antique

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shops is what they were called.
But I had to take three paychecks to

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buy it. Took me a month
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when I finally was able to buy
it, it was the summertime. I

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didn't care. I wore it like
crazy. Actually, speaking of Michael J.

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Fox, one of my might have
been my first one nine those of

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my first. One of my first
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starred in. I answered an ad
in backstage for actors looking, you know,

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for teachers or backstage newspaper was like
where you can find acting coaches,

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or who takes good headshots or where
to get voice lessons, all that kind

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of stuff. And in the back
of the paper he is the list castings

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and auditions. So it was for
anyone who could play the drums, that's

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what this call for. What this
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drummers. I didn't know how to
play the drums, but I bought a

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pair of drumsticks and I played on
buckets and pails for a few days and

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waited for my big audition. It
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Cbgbast, which at the time was
known for having acts like Iggy Pop and

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the Ramones and lou Reid. It
was a very druggy place on the Bowery.

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I mean people used to shoot herold
in the bathroom. It was known

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to have the messiest, ugliest restroom
in New York City. There, and

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there's a drum set with some lights
set up above it, and about sixty

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guys standing online auditioning. Everyone thought
it was gonna be a big deal,

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real rock and roll movie, you
know. I remember hearing guys go in

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front of me who could really play
the drums. I was mortified. It

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was nerve wracking. I almost left
the line and went home, but I

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stayed. I drummed over some track
they played. I forget what it was,

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but obviously I didn't get the part. But the movie became Light of

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Day, starring Michael J. Fox
and Joan Jet. You look at IMDb,

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a brother and a sister dream of
musical startom, working at a succession

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of menial jobs to finance their ambitions. Pickering all the wall over the sisters

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young son and conned by unscrupulous agents. Visits to their dying mother prooved stressful

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as the old woman voices disapproval of
her daughter's unmarried status. Sounds like a

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winner, right, But didn't get
anything at the buve officers. But I'll

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tell you what. Nineteen eighty seven
and Joan Jett has a scene with the

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great Jenna Rawlins, who played their
mom. She's so good. It's worth

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watching for that movie for that scene
alone. And ironically it was written and

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directed by the great Paul Strader,
whom I devoted Friday's Patreon to. I

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spoke about the love that exists between
he and his wife, the actress Mary

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Beth Hurt, who's now suffering from
Alzheimer's, and they both live in the

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New York City healthcare facility, so
he can be with her whenever he wants,

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as she receives the care she needs. I told that story, and

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now I got to wonder how Michael
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has done it all these years.
I know Parkins isn't Alsheimer's, but they're

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both debilitating and in a weird way. Sometimes I have witnessed someone who had

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Parkinson's for a while, watched them
begin to forget people around them, family

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members, caregivers. It's just it's
terrible. It's a terrible way to live.

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Michael J. Fox, brave guy
have suffered this blow at such a

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young age and now has to live
with it. He's actually live with it

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longer than he's lived without it.
He was just twenty nine when he got

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the diagnosis. He's now sixty two. Jesus Christ, that ain't fair.

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Hey, I want to take you
back to a particular time in this world

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when Britney Spears was suffering from her
mental illnesses. Remember the days of sharing

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off her hair and swinging umbrellas a
vehicles and putting her baby on her lap

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driving her car. Close your eyes
and try to take yourself back there.

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Well, there's one very special Britney
Spears super fan who if you remember,

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shot to fame back in twenty seven
with their comment which became a meme.

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It was a young boy, gay
gay guy crying saying leave Brittany alone.

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Ray Present That big rant became one
of the Internet's first viral videos. Well

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guess what. He's now re emerged
as a transgender only fans model. Are

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you shot? Is anybody shot?
Are you shocked at all by this.

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We all knew the kid was off
his rocker back then, and now he's

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apparently making some good money. He
goes by Kara cutting him. He used

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to be called Chris Crocker transition to
twenty twenty one and age thirty three.

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Got some breaston plants hormone therapy late
last year. This kid is completely unrecognizable

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compared to his days as Chris.
Now Tara is sporting long blonde hair,

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se cup cleavage, and very voluptuous
man made curbs. When you read the

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articles that people write about this kid, the way they describe it, they

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go allverboard on saying how gorgeous he
is, busty, beauty, long,

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beautiful blonde locks, voluptuous man.
Just calm the fuck down, everybody.

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It's a boy who took hormones and
got some kits. Put in calmed down.

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But look, he took his act
to only fans, where he puts

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up some uncensored photos and images,
and of course he does that's what only

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fans models do. He said,
I'm finally feeling comfortable to show my surgery

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results on only fans. Of course, there are a lot of trolls after

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him. Since he's gone public with
his transition on social media, but he's

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got millions of followers. He said, I get that in certain circles it's

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cool to shoot on only fans,
creators and modernism, but I like,

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I never said I was contributing anything
valuable to the world. I never said

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I was even smart. What I
was going for was me and is a

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set of things that can copy and
paste my Only Fans links. She's still

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dumb as a stump. Thought he'd
often post muck bang eating videos on Facebook.

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Oh god, well, they just
stuffed their faces with food. He's

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got three million people there watching him
do this, and he says he shouldn't

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be attacked for simply trying to earn
a living on the adult subscription site.

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I agree, I got no problem
with people using that site. You want

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to sell your body, go right
ahead. One fan demanded that he stopped

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promoting his Only Fans site online.
That he shot back and posting an advertisement

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because I don't know. Sometimes it's
fun to survive and pay bills in ways

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other than posting stupid eating videos.
So he earns money through his music career

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and a recently released single titled Messy
This kid was assigned mailed at birth obviously,

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then began to open up about his
transition and a very what they call

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heartfelt Instagram post back in twenty twenty
one, saying he just had hormone replacement

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therapy after years of suffering from gender
dysphoria. He said, it's been thirty

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three years coming, and I'm happy
to be in a place where I can

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embrace who I am. I've put
my identity and personal happiness aside for so

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long out of fear of rejection on
or me not wanting to embarrass my family,

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and he realized that anyone who actually
loves him would have cared about how

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long he's been feeling this way in
the first place. All these stories are

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blending into one. All these quotes
dound the same. I'm transitioning and I

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have no more apologies to make for
who I am. This will be a

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lonely process in terms of emotional support
from others, but I will happy.

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I'll be happy knowing I'm doing this
for myself and what I've needed for my

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gender dysphoria. Get this with this
hand to take free Brittany movement number that

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he was able to sell the video
of him saying, leave Brittany alone as

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an NFT for more than forty three
thousand dollars. Okay, I don't think

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many of you know what those things
are. They're impossible to explain. There

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are moments in time that you can
have that maybe worth something one day.

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I don't know. I'm not into
this ship. They're called quote unique digital

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tokens, encrypted with the creative signature
that verifies its ownership and authenticity and has

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permanently attached to the piece. Maybe
when Britney Spears finally unravels and dies,

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this will be worth a lot more
money. But to four cup of forty

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three Grandford, Now, that person
must have an idea that when Brittany finally

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goes like Drudy Garland, like Amy
Winehouse, like so many others before her,

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that price will easily triple. But
I'm not into the whole coin NFD

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ethereum stuff. I don't understand that
blockchain. That to me, it's all

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algebra. But he did use that
money to get the sex change. Is

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anyone shocked that this guy transitioned?
I mean, come on, I'm not

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shocked at all. I think Brittany
Spears fans are just as fucked up as

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she is. But I'll say this, and this is wild as it is

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concerning. He actually looks prettier than
Brittany does now and he seems less crazy.

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He's also put out more music than
Brittany has in the last few years.

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So I don't know. Maybe I've
been too hard on these people transitioning.

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I don't know. I'm starting to
rethink some of the things I've said

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about people with this transsexual stuff,
particularly Dwayne Wade. I come down on

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him hard. I'm going to reassess
that. But first I don't want to

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ruin your day, much less your
awards season. But I got very distressing

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news. One of the key actors, actresses on Yellowjackets, is sitting out

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the Emmy season. I know,
and I know this is very important news.

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The non binary actress Live Houston,
who plays the scared teenage goalkeeper Van

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Palmer on the Showtime series Yellowjackets,
will not be submitting herself for this year's

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Primetime Emmy Awards, even though she's
eligible in the main acting races. It's

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a twenty seven year old girl.
She told a variety that, look,

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they made the decision. They made. She made the decision because of the

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Television Academy separation of acting categories into
male and female. See they want to

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do away with dad. She said, there's not a place for me in

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the acting categories. It would be
an accurate for me to submit myself as

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an actress. It neither makes sense
for me to be lumped in with the

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boys. It's quite straightforward and not
that loaded. I can't submit myself for

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this because there's no space for me. She's a very important part of this

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show, this ensemble that has Melanie
Lynsky Christina Ricci with both Emmy nominees last

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year. Houston had been a highlight
of the sophomore season. She's considered a

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long shot for any kind of Emmy
recognition, but season two shows her towing

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a thin line between her love for
a girlfriend and teammate, Tysa and her

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growing fear of the evil that may
lie within tie. Oh. Yes,

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it's quite a show, no shit. I like the show. It's good.

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So. Variety said that Showtime's plans
for acting submissions where Houston was named

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among the Supporting Drama Actress contenders,
and since Dan in a meeting with Showtime

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and other team members, they shared
the decision not to submit themselves. Wow.

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LGBTQ activists and allies have advocated for
gender neutral acting categories at major awards

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ceremonies like the Oscars and the Golden
Globes. Back in twenty seventeen, Asia

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Kate Dillon from Billions, the first
non binary performer to play a non binary

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character on a major TV show,
asked the TV Academy to clarify its gender

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classifications, and other actors who identify
as non binary also have weighed in.

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Ammadarcti, who submitted for Lead Drama
Actress for a House of the Dragon this

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year, and Carl Clement Hopkins,
the first non binary actor recognized for Supporting

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Comedy Actor for Hacks back in twenty
twenty one. So they think look progress

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has been made recently. The Gotham
Awards back in twenty twenty one have to

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stop defining its categories by gender.
The Independent Spirit Awards did the same thing

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a year later. Even the Grammys
have been completely gender neutral for over ten

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years. At the same time,
though, these inclusion advocates are afraid that

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if non gendered categories become the norm, then cis gender white men will be

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the biggest benefit. Jerry's rolling back
all the gains they made since the hashtagg

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Oscars So White ceremonies in twenty sixteen. But Guson says, look, there's

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an implied fatalism there would suggests that
we've all agreed that equality is impossible,

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and that's said, we're not going
to start awarding best female and male director,

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or female or male cinematographer because we
all understand that implicitly that will be

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insulting. You can keep things the
way they are right now. I just

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won't be participant painting. You know, this dilemma puts non binary actors in

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a place where they got to make
what they call a very uncomfortable choice.

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So us it has made hers.
But Jay Harrison Gee, a non binary

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actor on Fox's crime series Accused,
is going to submit himself for Lead Actor

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in a Limited Series in the Emmy
consideration. Meanwhile, they'll be vying for

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a Tony nomination for Lead Actor for
the revival of Some Like It High.

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You know, if you want the
award, they'd go for the fucking award.

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Just put yourself down as what you
are at birth, for God's sake.

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It's so simple. But the guy
said it's not a gendered profession to

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me, and I was grateful to
be asked for consideration on where I wanted

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to be viewed. Making that decision
wasn't hard on my spirit. It was

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just to be confident and intentional about
my work in meeting the moment. As

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for the Painley ass, you said, Showtime and their fellow cast members have

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been incredibly supportive of her decision,
especially after they had Oh god, she

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had top surgery before filming the second
season. So she's in it to win

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it. She is in it to
win it. She's going all the way.

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She wants their stand to be meaningful
and for Hollywood to continue discussing the

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complexities of these questions. It's worth
talking about, and I very gently and

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respectfully ask that people get their gears
turning a little. Well, look,

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I'm not going to call this person
a crazy bitch. I'm not going to

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talk badly about her. If she
can't figure out where she fits in the

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Emmy categories or one or else she
does in life, I suggest she just

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put herself down as what she was
born under. She was born a biological

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female. Put yourself down for best
Actress. I don't care if you feel

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male now you began in the show
as a woman. Second season, you

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got top surgery. I just it's
a long career. No one's gonna care

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what your award says down the road, actress or actor. They're just gonna

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say, hey, you won the
goddamn Emmy. You're fantastic. And I

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want to say something real quick before
I leave. I've put down Dwayne Wade,

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the former NBA star, a lot. I put him down a lot

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because he has a son who became
his daughter, Zaiah, and him and

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Gabrielle Union, his wife, are
very much behind this little boy turned girl.

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Gabby Union is her step mom,
her biological mother is upset about it.

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She thinks that Dwayne Wade and Gabby
Union are pushing this on the kid.

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The more I look at this kid, the more I see that she

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really feels more comfortable as a female. Not easy for me to say this.

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I've been very against this stuff for
a long time, but I see

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what Dwayne Wade is doing. He's
moving his family out of Florida because the

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laws they have are discriminatory, he
says, towards transgenders. And I want

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to soften my hits on him and
just say you know what if that's the

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kind of father he is and wants
to put his son slash new daughter in

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a better situation where life is easier
and not as vicious than any father would

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understand that. So I'm gonna ease
off on the gas pedal a bit but

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Dwayne Wade. But I will not
ease off on the gas against Dylan mulvaney,

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that creep who's obviously a boy who
just slaps on makeup and puts on

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Nike sports bras covering nothing but a
male's chest. He's a hoaxter Dwayne Wade's

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daughter. While initially as a model, she looked horrendous. It's because they

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made her look ridiculous. The pictures
I've seen recently show her or him as

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a pretty girl. So I'll lease
off a little bit, But don't think

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I'm gonna give up my fight for
this down the road. I'm not.

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But I'll lease off on Dwayne Wade. Anzire. That should make some of

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you happy. That's it for today. I'm AJ Benza. That was your

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free show for Monday, May first, twenty twenty three. Talk this Friday.

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Thank you for listening. Fame as
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