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DONKEY: Brett Favre's Parkinson's Reveal Overshadows Welfare Fraud Hearing · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for Donkey of the Day.
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  Speaker 2: It's a read.
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  Speaker 1: But you're so good at trying to charlamage.
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  Speaker 3: He wants charlamage.
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  Speaker 1: Che damn salomame?
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  Speaker 4: Who you giving dusky other day?
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  Speaker 3: Soon?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Donk here today for Thursday September twenty six, goes to
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  Speaker 5: Brett fav Hey, y'all, my name is Leonard mc kelvey
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  Speaker 5: aka Charlamagne to God. I am your friendly neighborhood bad guy,
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  Speaker 5: and I am always willing to be the a hole
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  Speaker 5: you need, unless, of course, that a hole is needed
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  Speaker 5: at one of Diddy's free costs. Now, if you haven't heard,
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  Speaker 5: and you honestly may not have heard because the media
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  Speaker 5: has done a great job of changing the narrative. Brett
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  Speaker 5: fav testified at a congressional hearing this past Tuesday. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: he testified in front of the House Ways and Means Committee,
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  Speaker 5: which is investigating how states are spending money intended for
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  Speaker 5: needy citizens. Brett Favre is one of the people being
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  Speaker 5: sued by the state of Mississippi, and they are demanding
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  Speaker 5: repayment of the money.
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  Speaker 1: They are trying to recover ninety million dollars.
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  Speaker 5: But he is one of more than forty people who
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  Speaker 5: have been sued by the State of Mississippi. Mississippi is
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  Speaker 5: demanding repayment of money. They are trying to recover more
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  Speaker 5: than ninety million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Brett Farv is denying that he knowingly misused federal welfare money.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: According to auditors, though in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 5: mister Farr received one point one million in speaking fees
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  Speaker 5: for speeches he never gave. He knew he didn't give
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  Speaker 5: those speeches, but he took the money anyway. They suggested.
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  Speaker 5: He also helped funnel millions of dollars to pet projects,
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  Speaker 5: five million dollars to build volleyball facilities at his alma model.
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  Speaker 5: He even paid back the one point one million and
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  Speaker 5: misspit speaking fees, but the state demanded that he paid
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  Speaker 5: back interest, and Brett Favre refused, so the State of
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  Speaker 5: Mississippi is now suing him to recoup the funds he
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  Speaker 5: wrongfully acquired. The lawsuit also made public texts from mister
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  Speaker 5: Farvre that suggested.
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  Speaker 1: He had a larger role than he claimed. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, Brett Favb says he was unjustly speared in
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  Speaker 5: the news media, but text messages written by mister Farr
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  Speaker 5: and made publican court filings suggested that he was trying
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  Speaker 5: to hide his involvement.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to kt LA five for the report.
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  Speaker 6: Police revealed text messages filed in an ongoing civil lawsuit. Soho.
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  Speaker 6: Farv was part of a scheme that funneled at least
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  Speaker 6: five million dollars of welfare funds to build a new
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  Speaker 6: volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi, where Farv
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  Speaker 6: graduated and his daughter played the text show. Former Mississippi
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  Speaker 6: Governor Phil Bryant pushed for the facility despite denying close involvement.
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  Speaker 6: A friend of the former governor's wife, Nancy Knew, would
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  Speaker 6: submit a five million dollar up front lease to use
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  Speaker 6: the university's athletic facilities for her nonprofits programming, ostensibly for
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  Speaker 6: needy families, in exchange for offices inside the new volleyball complex.
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  Speaker 6: Former Welfare Agency director John Davis approved four million immediately. Farv,
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  Speaker 6: texting in Gray, tells NEU that the governor has seen
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  Speaker 6: the proposal, but hint, hint, you need to reword it
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  Speaker 6: to get it accepted. I really feel like he's trying
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  Speaker 6: to figure out a way to get it done without
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  Speaker 6: actually saying it, says Farv of the former governor. Farv
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  Speaker 6: also received one point one million dollars in welfare funding
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  Speaker 6: through the Mississippi Community Education Center for speaking at events
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  Speaker 6: he never showed up to. Farv asks new if you
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  Speaker 6: were to pay me, is there any way the media
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  Speaker 6: can find out where it came from and how much?
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  Speaker 5: If you were to pay me, is there any way
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  Speaker 5: the media can find out where it came from and
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  Speaker 5: how much? I don't see how you can send a
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  Speaker 5: text like that, but then claiming a hearing on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: I had no way of knowing that there was anything
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  Speaker 5: wrong with how the state funded the project. If you
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  Speaker 5: didn't think it was anything wrong with how the state
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  Speaker 5: was funding the project, then why would you care if
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  Speaker 5: the media found out where the money.
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  Speaker 1: Came from or how much?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I telling y'all this story.
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  Speaker 5: Because a lot of folks probably didn't know Brett Favre
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  Speaker 5: was testifying in the congressionally hearing Tuesday because he's being
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  Speaker 5: accused of helping to divert funds meant for low income residents.
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  Speaker 5: Because Brett Farv decided to use the hearing to announce
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  Speaker 5: that he has Parkinson's disease.
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  Speaker 1: Can we go to CBS news to listen to what
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  Speaker 1: he had to say?
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  Speaker 3: Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Farv dropped a bombshell
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  Speaker 3: today while testifying before Congress. The fifty four year old
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  Speaker 3: reveal he is battling Parkinson's disease. Here's CBS's own Marvia Frankin.
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  Speaker 4: I very much appreciate the opportunity to testify here today.
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  Speaker 2: A stunning announcement today from Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Farv.
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  Speaker 2: I've recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's. This is also a
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  Speaker 2: cause dear to my heart. Farv was testifying on Capitol
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  Speaker 2: Hill about a Mississippi welfare scandal, where he is accused
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  Speaker 2: of in properly using his connections to secure millions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars for his alma mater and himself for speaking engagements
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  Speaker 2: he never performed. Farv has repaid more than a million
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  Speaker 2: dollars to the state and has denied all wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 4: Even though I knew and I know I had done
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  Speaker 4: nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I returned the funds no questions asked.
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  Speaker 5: Brett fav used some of the federal money intended for
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  Speaker 5: welfare recipients he used some of the money to invest
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  Speaker 5: in the company that was developing a breakthrough concussion drug.
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  Speaker 1: He said he thought it would help others. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you understand.
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  Speaker 5: While it's too late for me because I've recently been
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  Speaker 5: diagnosed to Parkinson's. This is also a cause dear to
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  Speaker 5: my heart, so dear to his heart, that he he
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  Speaker 5: used money he obtained illegally, money that was supposed to
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  Speaker 5: go to low income residents. He took that money to
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  Speaker 5: invest in this pharmaceutical company called Prevacus Prevocus.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what the.
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  Speaker 5: Media ate it up every single headline you see as
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  Speaker 5: Brett FAVV reveals he asked Parkinson's disease.
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  Speaker 1: Well, guess guess what?
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  Speaker 5: He was diagnosed with Parkers's disease, disease back in January. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: how convenient to run that play when you are testifying
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  Speaker 5: at a congressional hearing because you did something shady. So
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  Speaker 5: you see, this is my problem with the media. Everybody
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  Speaker 5: picks and chooses who they choose to demonize. Granted, Brett
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  Speaker 5: fav hasn't been charged with anything criminal, but what he
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  Speaker 5: did is unethical. It could still be criminal. He knew
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  Speaker 5: he had Parkins's disease since January. In fact, I was
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  Speaker 5: reading an ESPN article that said Brett fav asked TMZ
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  Speaker 5: not to report his diagnosis at the time because he
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  Speaker 5: knew back.
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  Speaker 1: Then that wasn't the time to run that play.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to run that play when I have to
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  Speaker 5: testify at a I don't know, a congressional hearing, because
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  Speaker 5: then it will distract from what I'm actually here for.
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  Speaker 5: And that is because I was using federal money from
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  Speaker 5: welfare recipients to fund.
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  Speaker 1: My pet projects. But it worked.
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  Speaker 5: Google Brett fob These are the headlines you see the
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  Speaker 5: New York Times. Brett fav reveals he has Parkiston's disease.
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  Speaker 5: Fox News NFL legend John l Way talks Brett Farv's
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  Speaker 5: Parkinson's disease.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad news to hear.
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  Speaker 5: Milwaukee Journal Aaron Rodgers feels bad for Brett fabb after
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  Speaker 5: learning about his Parkinson's diagnosis. New York Posts Brett favv
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  Speaker 5: opens up on frustrating health wurry that led to Parkinson's disease. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: his health diagnosis is sad, but wow, how convenient for
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  Speaker 5: the media to just bury the lead.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't others get that? Grace NBC News says.
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  Speaker 5: Brett Fov's Parkinson's diagnosis renews questions about football and brain disease.
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  Speaker 5: How about Brett Favre's testimony at welfare reform hearing renews
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  Speaker 5: questions about how the rich keep getting richer and the
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  Speaker 5: poor don't get a devil damn thing. How has Brett
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  Speaker 5: fav managed to garner more sympathy than the welfare recipients
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  Speaker 5: they stole from. Brett fab had the nerve to say, sadly,
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  Speaker 5: I lost an investment in a company we don't care
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  Speaker 5: people couldn't eat because of what folks like you did.
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  Speaker 1: I care way more about those.
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  Speaker 5: Poor and disenfranchised people in Mississippi to welfare recipients who
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  Speaker 5: didn't receive ninety million dollars because folks like Brett fav
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  Speaker 5: wanted to build volleyball facilities at their alma mater. All
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying is two things can be true. You can
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  Speaker 5: be sad Brett fav has Parkinson's. But what's really shaky
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  Speaker 5: is how the media just seems to forget why Brett
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  Speaker 5: favv was at this congressional hearing in the first place. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: we live in a society where people get demonized for accusations,
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  Speaker 5: but folks who actually do shady stuff, who actually doing
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  Speaker 5: ethical stuff and have to testify about it, somehow end
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  Speaker 5: up becoming heroes and sympathetic figures. If you don't think
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  Speaker 5: there's a double standing in media and how they cover
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  Speaker 5: people and it's usually based on race, then you're bugging.
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  Speaker 5: But I will always be here to remind you. Please
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  Speaker 5: get Brett Favv the biggest he hull who want to
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  Speaker 5: argue anyone?
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  Speaker 4: Nobody? Okay, that's all horrible yesterday? Why because I think
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  Speaker 4: I was way in to see how some outlets where
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  Speaker 4: I used to work covered the story because I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to see you brought up a good point in the room, y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I'm always here for learning and grow that. It's because
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  Speaker 4: it's mainstream media, does it. It's not me particularly, it's
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  Speaker 4: mainstream media. And I was a part of mainstream media
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  Speaker 4: for a very long time. That's how I learned. And
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  Speaker 4: when I when they posted the article, they did not
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  Speaker 4: one time mentioned anything about any of the reason why
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  Speaker 4: he was there pleading his case at all, not one time,
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, man like like, and I had
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  Speaker 4: to dig for the answer myself. They wouldn't I remember
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  Speaker 4: having arguments about I remember having arguments about Dana White
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  Speaker 4: versus Chris Brown, like, and I just thought back to
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  Speaker 4: and my feelings about it and just different things. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm not just throwing the dart at them
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  Speaker 4: because I went through Google for a while trying to
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  Speaker 4: prepare for that breadth thing, and it took me a
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  Speaker 4: minute to find out why he was even there because
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  Speaker 4: no one was talking about I did mention it, but
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  Speaker 4: I didn't do it the way I should have. And
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying is is in growth and in learning,
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  Speaker 4: and I appreciate y'all for, you know, bringing it to
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  Speaker 4: my table. It's just I think that I know, I
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  Speaker 4: think that we have a way of leaning to what
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  Speaker 4: the media is talking about and not what we should
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  Speaker 4: be talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Who I love.
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  Speaker 5: The media picks and chooses who they want to demonize
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  Speaker 5: because they know how to demonize people. It's not like
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  Speaker 5: they don't know how to they just choose, of course,
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  Speaker 5: who not.
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  Speaker 1: To do it to. And it's a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: based on race. Well, thank you for that. Dog of
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