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Time to do the Soniccast. It's
the name of our podcast. It's your

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girl sign. Who's up? Hey, hey, giz here Hello. Today,

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we're gonna talk about may Or Shang
Tao out there in Oakland and fumbling

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the bag boy, right, We're
gonna talk about our Golden State Warriors,

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right, and my new bag that
I'm out there trying to get there.

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You go, I got a new
job and put the money. Let's get

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into it. So let's start off
with may Or Shang Tao. Do we

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have to do? We have to? We have to because we say we're

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gonna talk about it. We express
a lot of disappointment on the show,

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like if you're just listening to us
because you stumbled across us, or maybe

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you listen to whatever we put out
there, although we're not consistent with it.

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We're gonna try to do better.
I express a lot of disappointment in

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the fact that I feel like there's
a large number of people, a huge

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community out there in the East Bay
that just was hoping that she was going

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to be the answer to a lot
of things, and it seems like she's

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the problem to a lot of things. You know. Unfortunately for her,

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when she stepped in, we lost
the a's and it didn't seem like a

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huge importance to her, even though
the warriors already crossed the bridge. Crime

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has been on the uptick. And
it's not her fault because a lot of

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times we, you know, pin
all this stuff on politicians. But what

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are you doing about it? You
let go of the one Oakland true like

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police chief that we had that a
lot of people believed in, and I

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do feel like he commanded a lot
of respect. Let him go, and

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he's just been vindicated proving that he
didn't do anything that he should have lost

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a job over. And you still
won't reinstate him, you know, to

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our businesses out there being broken into. And this money that she says is

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the fault of the chief of administration, Yeah, for not getting this million

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dollar grant millions multi million. San
Francisco got seventeen millions. Oakland probably would

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have got the same, maybe a
little less, But you guys missed the

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deadline on the page. April work
like she is not qualified to be a

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mayor. Well, let's let's go
all the way back to November, when

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folks were looking at the ballots and
when things came through and it was like,

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oh, how did how did this
woman end up winning again? Because

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I'm gonna keep against Her name wasn't
even on the radar for a lot of

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residents in Oakland, So a lot
of people felt like she got pushed into

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that position really without merit, like
she hadn't even really deserved it. And

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to be quite honest, just from
things I've heard folks tripping in that you

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know, political realm, like a
lot of it was due to, you

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know, some people who she had
ties with, and it seems like there

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were a lot of favors that were
done to get her in, a lot

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of favors gonna have to pay back. The first thing she did, like

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you mentioned, let go of the
Ron Armstrong. You know, yes,

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the man is out now. I
mean Oakland was already being you know,

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put on a higher list with more
crime. The nine one one operator operating

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system didn't even freaking work, you
know what I'm saying. We've had more

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car thefts now on Oakland that we
have had there at least in the last

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seven to ten years. You know, thirty nine cars and one day,

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one day and one day, and
it just keeps getting worse, and it's

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like, Okay, I feel like
when you mentioned the money, she was

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so happy. Yeah, we got
two million dollars to try to make the

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nine one one system better. Oh
but we fumbled potentially seventeen plus million dollars

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to take retail sell right, and
we've got business after business needing to close

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down because they can't keep the streets
safe, and a lot of folks are

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just like fed up with it.
And it's like this woman is almost kind

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of just floundering in the water,
just trying to figure it out. Yeah,

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you know what I mean. And
it's just it's it's it's laughable at

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this point because now she just got
a raise and it's all on the back

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of the city. So congrats on
the new money there, shang. Even

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though she rejected like the full amount
they were trying to give her, that

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means she took what she took.
So now she's the what, the third

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highest paid mayor in California underneath London
Breed, which I feel like London is

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earning her money, you know.
And when we were having two women mayors

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on each side of the bridge,
I was like, Okay, I had

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so much hope, and I know, you know, Marylynn and breed faces

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her challenges, you know, and
when you're talking about homelessness or drugs,

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those are just things that one person
cannot solve, right And I know they

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take responsibility because they're the face and
the name of the city. But all

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these small cases, you gotta be
f and kidding me. We did not

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get the application in on time for
funding for retail theft. That's simple as

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paperwork, you know what I mean. That is such a huge important thing

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to all these small business owners who
have closed down, and we missed it.

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Come on, man, the state
had over two hundred and sixty million

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dollars available for all these cities to
go ahead and tap into to try to

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help with this retail theft. You
have community after community meeting to tell you

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we're getting robbed on a regular basis. People are coming here and it's brazen.

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We keep seeing people on freaking video
robbing people at gunpoint for a couple

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of dollars in the fucking register,
you know what I mean? How could

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you not take care of that?
And then for your response to be well,

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that wasn't necessarily on me, that
was on somebody else, the city

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administrator. Brou you're the head you're
the leader. You're the leader. Yeah,

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And a part of me is like, okay, because I'm always on

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some conspiracy theory type shit. Do
you not want these small businesses to recover?

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Because maybe big retailers are, but
how are the retailers surviving either.

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People are just running in and stealing
all the ship. So they're doing as

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bad, maybe not as because you
know, obviously they have bigger pockets where

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they can recover from other areas,
where as small business owners like if they

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lose, they lose, Like there's
no recovery. There's no other huge chain

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in another city that can make up
funding for what's happening in the Bay Area.

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So I don't know. Again,
I'm just going to lean on the

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fact that the woman is unqualified.
And I don't know if the other guy

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who you're talking about, Lauren Lauren
Taylor, I don't know if he would

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have done better. I would hope
so. And then we have Pam Price.

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Oh you know again, I you
know, you talk in front of

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people, and we would hope that
the end of the day, your primary

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goal is justice. But when you've
got grieving parents, are grieving family members

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or whatever, like, you just
have to really be careful what you say.

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You are supposed to uphold the law
to the utmost, but also remember

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that these citizens put you in this
position. So the last thing you want

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to do, on top of sayn
unappealing things in the media, you might

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want to not fucking hire your boyfriend
on as one of your first acts of

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duty. Mach like. That was
just not a good look. And if

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you don't replace that fucking wig,
damn, it is pretty bad. It

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looks like Curly Fries. I really
want her to somebody, you know,

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I know, damn Well, somebody
then called him and been like, baby,

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I got a stylists I know for
a fact, but you know,

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bad here aside, A lot of
people just feel like she hasn't necessarily lived

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up to I think justice in the
in the in the county, and also

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keep in mind when she was running, her whole thing was I want to

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make sure it's of precedence if we
are gonna be persecuting these people, meaning

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you know, I'm not just gonna
go ahead and just because somebody is saying

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that this person is guilty, we're
gonna throw them to the fire. I

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want to go through the process and
fully make sure that we're prosecuting these people

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properly. Yes, I understand that, But also when we got babies dying

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on the freeway because motherfucker's want to
be out here just shooting, you're gonna

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you gotta, you gotta tote that
line. And that's the position that you're

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in. You're a government official,
so you gotta, you know, not

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only do you have to appease the
victims, you know what I mean,

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you gotta make sure justice to serve. So it's just it's a lot of

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mess, and it's a whole lot
of chaos that's going on in Alameda County

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right now. I think with our
elected officials, but I definitely feel like

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it's been a disservice to the residents
as of late. And we're almost to

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the tail end of this year.
Yea, this is just year one.

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We don't know what the next two
three gonna look like. Yeah, I

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mean hopefully not like this shit keeps
going crazy. We don't have a police

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chief still, right it's hard to
even find people who want to be police

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officers in Oakland or the East band
general. It's just ugly. It's an

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ugly time to be alive. I
said that to somebody just earlier today,

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I was like, dude, the
stuff that our generation has seen, not

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only heights and technology and then the
way things are changing, but also on

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the high high end of that,
just a dissipating of humanity. Yeah,

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all respect for each other, shit
just getting run. However it's gonna get

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run, Like where where are the
organized, fucking respectable people to help lead

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what's going on in the Bay Area? So I don't know. I always

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put pres up for my people every
single day. I'm not apolo Attian.

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I would never want to be in
that position, So I don't understand how

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hard the job is. Like we're
radio DJs. We talk, but I

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am a witness to it, and
in that's saying, I have an opinion

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about what I'm seeing and what's being
done. And the simple fact the application

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is just fucking dumb. I mean, like, come on, you're grown

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people out there. I don't unders
make it make sense. Yeah, you

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turn it in your homework late,
so you know, I don't understand it.

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And it's not just for great it's
for people's safety, people's fucking life

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savings and life work that you're messing
up because you're not taking care of business,

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you know what I mean, and
I mean at the top of all

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off, it's hard just living hell
inflation kicking us all in the ass so

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much. So I know you over
here, you know, getting the extra

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gig just like man, let me
make sure I got my pocket straight.

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Honestly, I just wanted to educate
myself and something else. So sure we

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can say money, but you know
what I'm saying, but it really is

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just boils down to I had time, so I did something else with my

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time, because I'm not a lazy
bitch. So I go out and I

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try to get it. So I
took these real estate classes. But before

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we go there, let's talk about
the Golden State Warriors, because Dwight Howard

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is a possible to come onto the
squad, and we do need to get

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my boy, Kevan Luney a little
break. You know, the man's a

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tree and a force to be reckoned
with on the court. But we need

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another person in that position. Is
it Dwight Howard? I don't know.

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See the most intepre interesting part to
me, aside from the fact that he's

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been overseas doing this saying in basketball
and he's been doing great in China is

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what is this gay thing? Well, I mean there's there's been speculations and

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rumors for years around Dwight's sexuality.
I never ever felt that. And when

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I brought it up to you,
like are we about to sign Dwight?

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You were like, yeah, so
I wonder what's gonna happen because you know,

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we got some drama. And I
was like, OHO's spelled the tea.

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Well, you know, he's always
kind of, I guess, been

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an issue in locker rooms that he's
been in right from LA to Atlanta.

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There's always kind of something swirling around
Dwight. Okay, but when you talk

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about like folks and people being like, well, I mean is he is

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he doing this in the sheets?
Is the X, Y and Z?

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You gotta go back to when you
know he was playing I believe in Orlando

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and his his his you know,
the mother of his child at the time

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came out and was like, yeah, like you know, the white gotta

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be back both ways. Never heard
that. Who who have they tried to

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put him with? Well, I
mean she didn't come out and specify any

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type of names, but definitely during
that time he had to be out for

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a little while. Because they said
he had some rectal issues and he ended

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up missing some games behind issues.
Well, they never the team definitely never

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specified, never dug into specifics,
but from just blog sites and other stuff

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like that, it became a whole
thing about him having you know, sexual

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intercourse with the man and clearly being
injured behind that interaction. So you know,

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continue on, boom boom. Fast
forward. Then a few years ago

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there was a trans woman who came
out and basically was pretty much blackmailing him

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try to get some money, saying, yeah, Dwight and I have had

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a relationship for X amount of time
and he stopped paying me, so I'm

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airing everything out leaked. I'm talking
about his nudes leaked, also their conversations

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even phone conversations around. Yeah.
So after that came out, it took

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some time, the media storm dropped
off. Now recently, yes he's been

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playing overseas, but also he spent
a lot of time still in his home

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in Atlanta. There's a new man
who's came out and said I was having

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relations with Dwight X, Y and
Z, and something started going on another

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you know, pretty much blackmail situation
where the young man was like man like,

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yeah, Dwight hit me up in
my DMS. We was having conversations.

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You know. I ended up going
over to his house. I was

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like, are you sure that this
is what you want? Dwight was like,

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man, you know, I'm not
gay or nothing. I'm just a

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freak. Said that he had some
sexual interactions with this man and the same

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type of things saying. Dwight was
like, oh, man, I'll take

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care of y'all. Give you some
money by I don't know if it's hush

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money, but you know, when
you're a public figure and you're not out

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in that way, one would speculate
that that's what it is, that's what's

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going on. I guess, you
know, we should be beyond this point.

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But I guess it must be a
little harder for athletes. It's different

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because an average person who may work
like in an office or whatever. Okay,

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you're gonna face like some controversy or
some people who are anti whatever.

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You're in a locker room, like
you're in with people all like you know,

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you're same sex whatever, all the
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know, and I maybe it would
make some of the players feel weird.

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I don't know we should be beyond
that though. Just because a person likes

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their same sex, yeah, doesn't
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some people still have that, you
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know, when it comes to sports, especially like male dominated sports, athletes

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used to have that much cheese smoke
kind of like you know, I'm talking

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about just in the industry itself,
right still in music. In the music

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industry, you still you talking about
Like but when you're talking about rapping,

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hip hop and all of this stuff, right, we know they real hard,

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got all the chains, saging their
pants, got guns, but don't

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forget your shoes, buddy. Yeah, you know, but I mean,

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but but these are definitely arenas where
we know for a fact, it's heightened

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awareness. People are like, oh, so and so we've heard such about

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so and so. So For Dwhite, I don't know if he's trying to

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quote unquote safe face around this whole
thing, but you know, when allegations

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come out, I feel like now
his responses are starting to change. He's

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just like, you know, whatever, whatever, I'm not gonna deal with

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it. I'm not gonna address this
blah blah blah. But I mean to

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be quiet honest, I don't care
who you laying next to. Man,

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can you get ten rebounds a game? Can you help my team get another

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fucking championship? Because that's all I
want. Let's have another parade. It's

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also Dwight, your grind are gonna
go crazy here and somebody checking his phone.

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He got grinders, but clearly he
goes both ways because he's got kids,

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you know whatever, So whatever it
is, what it is. Maybe

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he is just a freak, you
know. But I mean, if you

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interact with men, then you have
you have that you're bisexual. Yes,

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by So that leads me to cominga
shout out to Jonathan Man. I want

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this to be the year he spreads
his wings. And I'm not saying Cominga's

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gay because people will listen to this
being like, oh my god, Comingo's

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gay too. I don't know.
Going on and if he is, great,

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I'm talking about my new venture.
Okay. So I was talking to

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my colleague now because if y'all don't
know, I am now a real estate

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agent. Shot out the handle again, going back, I am. So

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during the pandemic, I took the
courses because you know, we were home,

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so I was taking those and then
I finally took my test in May.

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So I'm new, new, but
you can hit me on the I

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G. I'm working on the face, spooking everything else. Sana G find

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a home for me. I love
it. We've been working it out.

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We go get it together. It
was like San find a home for me.

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He was doing something like that.
It's so funny. So anyway,

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yeah, I didn't expect it to
go this far, but here we are,

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and I'm working with some good people
out there in my neighborhood. A

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shout out to Jean. She's my
home girl and I've been shadowing her.

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Right. She just showed this six
million dollar house, beautiful home out here

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in the Bay Area, which was
really dope. But she was saying,

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like, girl, I gotta take
you to the ones we do in Atherton.

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I know that's crazy, Atherton Menlo
Park, Like come on now,

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it was a twenty one million dollar
home. That wasn't her open house,

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it was somebody else's. But when
you get to that level of a home

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buying per situation, she said,
they had poker games going on, there

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was entertainment obviously, free food,
like because you've got millionaires coming in.

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True true, Ryan. Nobody,
not everybody can just drop twenty one million

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on a house, right, So
they want to be entertained, they want

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to be schmoozed whatever. I get
that part, and I can't wait to

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be there when I do them.
Ivite, y'all can come have some you

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know, shrimp cotail and some poker. Right. That was probably that too.

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Kaminga comes walking into the house.
Yeah, one of our Golden State

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Warriors, and I guess was interested
in looking at the home and whatever.

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So you get to that level,
boy, you know, you've got people

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with some serious cash, professional athletes, actors, actresses, musicians, whatever

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that I gotta come out to that. I'm not there yet. I am

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just shadowing her. She's a boss, right, And that wasn't her house.

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That was somebody else's. She went
to open house. But that's a

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part of it. You just gotta
mingle, be out there whenever, you

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know, you know, coordinating with
folks. It's a lot that goes into

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it. I'm I'm not gonna lie. I'm pretty overwhelmed by all the information

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that I have to take in.
Yeah, and then there's just the everyday

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process of reporting and being a part
of a team and all that stuff.

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But best believe when I tell you
to, your girl gonna get it,

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you know. And I think you
know since I found my house. That

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is the funnest part of its I
know the process. And the crazy thing

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about it is when I saw my
house from the street, I already knew.

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I was like, that's my house. And when I walked in my

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homegirl Stacy shout out to her Stacy
Moreland, she walks. She was like,

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this is the one and I was
like, I know. So when

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I you just have that feeling,
it's so weird, and for all your

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first time homebuyers, like I want
to share that feeling. I want to

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give you that feeling. That's the
thing that I loved about it because my

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real estate agent at the time he
doubled as a fireman and it takes a

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lot o wow. He was showing
me these huge properties and I'm like,

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I've got my baby Naya in a
in a carrier. Yeah, I can't.

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I don't have time to replace walls, and like, you know,

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so we have a smaller home where
we're happy in our house. It's our

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home. It's cozy, it's beautiful. I love it. I keep it

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up but you know when you guys
are ready to step into that realm.

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Sona gee found a home for me. It's over there on the IG so

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you can always hit me up and
we'll figure it out. I'm still new,

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so give me a little bit of
time, but best believe when I'm

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ready, I'm gonna hit the streets
rolling. Oh yeah, I mean you

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know, like you mentioned the schmoozing, the network and the connection is a

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part of it. Yeah, so
you know, if you need a slick

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talker, let me know. Next
time y'all go into Atherton. You wrote

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me say I want to sell the
house. I mean a great phrase,

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get nothing bad, I'll stay I'll
stay away from the champagne for the first

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hour. Yeah. Yeah, they're
gonna be like, who's that guy with

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I don't know, call security.
But I'll say all that to say,

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don't ever doubt yourself. You know, anything that scares you is worth pursuing

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because guess why, you're unsure of
yourself and you're hopefully gonna take that energy

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and turn it into giving it everything
that you have. And I feel like

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anything that does scare you is gonna
level you up. Because one thing you

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want to avoid through life is being
complacent, being comfortable, especially when we

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all know, like you have dreams
and aspirations and ideas, pursue them.

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What's the worst that could happen if
you're not investing your life savings, if

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it's just your physical effort. The
classes for real estate cost me one hundred

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bucks, and I think I had
a code thing to save half man,

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you know what I mean. And
now look what I've turned it into at

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this point. So whatever it may
be, you know you talk about voiceover

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work or pursued as shit, all
you gotta do is go online and find

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some agencies, like you know,
anybody out there, whatever you might want

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to do, whatever you enjoy,
because that's what's actually going to give it

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the propulsion that it needs. Again, I didn't think it was going to

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be this much worker training, but
I really love looking at homes and I

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love looking at people when they're happy
or they know, like you see the

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lightbulb come on like, oh shit, this isn't my spot, and then

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we make it work. The numbers
can be worked. Is just getting to

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that point where I'm in love with
this space. You know, my agent

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help me down, had my back. I trust her all of those things

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are beautiful blessing and they feel like
you know, you feel not vindicated.

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What's the word I'm looking for?
You feel reassured that you're doing the right

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things. I guess. Yeah,
So go for it right, run it

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up today, man, you know, and shout out to Chris Paul since

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you're now officially a part of the
Warriors. Please going back to Kamina,

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let's help the young boy get it
rolling. Yeah, and Steph, if

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he did buy the house over there
in Menlo Atherton, I know that means

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he's ropped the block from you.
Let's go ahead, get some pickup games

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going. Let's get ready because the
seasons about to kick off in a few

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weeks. Right, and don't mind
White when he gets on grinder if he

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does hit you up on that thing, answer because he'll pay any way.

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