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"PLAY THE VIDEO!!!" · Yo Gavel Gavel! - Court TV Commentary

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sith. I love it best money we ever spent. I say it all
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the time. Hi everybody, Welcome to Yo Gavel Gavi. And we were
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even in our studio yet. We were still in a basement and a co
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working space and we just kept listening to different tracks for Yo Gavel gavel to
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really because we want to get get it right. Uh. September of nineteen
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that's right. And we heard this and immediately we looked at each other and
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that was this. That was still that was it, just like that,
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it was it on right. And then we did a trial in October,
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did a little trial, and then it finally came uh and the world's ever
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been twenty twenty certain time, the world's ever been the same. No,
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it hasn't, Thank you ago. That's crazy. Yeah, wild from birth,
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from conception. It's not getting any better birth. Yeah, to uh,
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teenagers and then to a teenager, you lock away. That's what this
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show has become. Currently wearing the lock away. Lock away. But good
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for you guys. You have the keys. That's congratulations. No AD's not
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here, no no um. I have a people's court. You have a
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k Ross baby k raw Boss Ross. Who wants to go first? This
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is peak Ross. We are Peak Ross, Peak Ross. Um. So
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I mean, do you want to save Peak Ross for the bat clean up?
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You decide? Oh no, I'll go ahead, yea, I'll say,
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Dan goes. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, thanks,
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rag wash your nose out. It's goodding. I can see the hairs.
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My glass box has been moved a lot lower and it the hairs are
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coming straight through that can you really don't see any hairs. I just want
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to be clear. I don't know what weird thing what I've been talking about.
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We're televised here, rig you just what about you? Anyway? Uh?
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Let me introduce you to the case of five hundred and forty dollars worth
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of parking tickets that you will not see coming you. Five hundred and forty
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dollars worth of park Does it sound boring? AF? Yes it does.
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Uh. Will it continue to unravel until you will not see it coming?
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Yes? It will. Um. Will you be able to guess what the
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judge does? If you do, You're you're guess what Ross does and says
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and how he does it? Then I am gonna be My mind's gonna be
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blown. Okay, I'll buy you lunch sometime. Uh. Let me introduce
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you to Shawanda Arthur. Shawanda Showanda Arthur is suing her uncle, Jerome Arthur.
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OK for five hundred forty dollars in parking tickets. Here we go.
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Do we know if uncle on mother's side, father's dad's side, and it's
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that's important. Uh, Jerome's my uncle, He's my dad's brother. And
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he is the youngest of five siblings, and so he's only a little bit
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older than me, and he's been kind of like a big brother to me
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my whole life. And if you look, she looks like she's mid twenties,
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twenty five, he looks like he's thirty five six seven. And I
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have an uncle twelve years older than me, and we had that kind of
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relationship, So I get that it's been like a big brother, really close
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relationship growing up. Always been there for me, always had my back,
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and when he was younger, he got involved in the wrong crowd. Now,
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during this she says, you know the phrase you know no less than
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a dozen times. Ross stops her right there and goes, you're saying you
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know a lot. And I think it's because you're nervous. And you're nervous
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because one year in court and that's difficult, and two you're seeing what it's
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clearly a close family member. So take a deep breath. I'm gonna just
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go over to your uncle. She stops. So he goes over to Drum.
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Drum tell me about what's going on here. Drum says, Look,
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I've known I've been there for her since day one. I think my brother
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would be very disappointed in her for taking me to court. And it means
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he's dead. Ross says, where's your brother right now? He's passed away?
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Yeah, okay, Well, would he be disappointing to some of the
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life decisions that you've made, oh boy? And Drum says, well,
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since I got out of prison, I've been I've been on the straight narrow
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like he would be very happy. Well, what were you in prison for,
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your honor? That's not relevant to this case. And he says,
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it's entirely relevant to this case. Why were you in prison? And he
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said, your honor, I got in with the wrong crowd. And Raw
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says, you can't get turn in jail for that. You can't get thrown
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in jail for hanging out with the wrong crowd. What were you in jail
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for? And I know that I need to know you as you said it
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friend and uh And Jerome says, well, I got caught driving a stolen
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vehicle. Uh, And there was a weapon in the car and there were
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some drugs things like that, things like that, but it wasn't my car,
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wasn't my weapon, wasn't my drugs. Um, I accept full responsibility
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and I've changed. So he away, he stole a car that he no,
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no, he was because of a driver. Is the idea that we're
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getting to, like, we don't get a lot of info. This case
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happens in rapid fire. I can you imagine the poor luck you steal a
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car and a good can come on, get out, it's just keep on
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coming. And he says, there's a weapon in the cars, some drugs,
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things like that. What are things like that? What is worse than
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those two? What I mean? I don't want to know at that point,
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Uma, And he says, Okay, we gotta get down to responsibility.
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You say you accept responsibility. This case about parking tickets. Your your
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niece is bringing a court for parking tickets that you have received, even if
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they're in her car. You've received them, you admit you've received them,
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and you don't rescept Responi. You accept responsibility for driving a car with a
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weapon in it, but you don't accept responsibility for that. And he says,
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I accept some. I feel like she should take some responsibility. And
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he says, Ross goes, okay, I'm hearing you. You you're saying
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you bear some of the responsibility. How much responsibility do you think you bear
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for these parkings? Put a number on it, and he says, I
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would say half. Okay, I bear half the responsibility for these parking tickets.
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Gavel down, let's do this. Yeah, And so then he he
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goes, okay, uh, miss Arthur, I'm gonna go back to you,
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Hiwanda, to be clear. I just want to make sure you know
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I have you down for half right now, right now, and we'll get
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in half. We'll see, we'll see what happens from me here. Buckle
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up? Why was he driving your car to being in with well, your
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honor. After he got out of prison, it was difficult for him to
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get a job, and he couldn't register a car because he had outstanding tickets
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he could not pay, so he had a car. He couldn't register that
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car. I always wonder how people how people get so many parking tickets.
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That was until I feel like library fees, and so you did it,
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I said, that was that. I felt that way until I worked in
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a building where I was required to park in a parking garage like a mile
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away. It wasn't a mile, but it felt like a mile, and
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uh, I kept parking in front of the building, and I got lucky
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most days, but some days I did it. I did the old bit
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where I got one ticket and then I would put it was in an envelope
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and I would put it on the wind show every day. So they would
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at South Carolina where I went to school, on campus, police would write
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you a ticket and they put it in a manilla envelope right because the sun
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would dried out it was so hot. And I would just put that envelope
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on the on the windshields every day. Um. And then somebody finally got
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wise and caught on to me and started stuffing more tickets in there, but
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it were I see, so when you're leaving, he just put it back.
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Come at me, Kyle, that's right what you got? Uh?
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Okay anyway, Um, she says, okay. So he had a car.
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He couldn't register that car because of the parking ticket. They wouldn't let
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him register the car, so I register. He sold me the car for
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one dollar and then I had the title in my name and I registered that
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car so that he could then drive the car even though it was mine,
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but it was technically still his, if that makes sense. So she was
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just doing a masslid, doing a mas solid, which Ras says, it's
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out of solid. You're circumventing the law at that point, because he can't
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register a car for you to do that. You circumvented the law. And
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then he says, and then you would do it too. So then Ross
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says, why don't you wait a minute, why don't you have your own
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car, like you couldn't just let him borrow your own car. And she
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says, h, well, my car was taken from me and my license
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was suspended for a year. This is Chiwanda, the niece. He says,
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why I was expended suspended for a year? Well, I have uh,
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I have one reckless driving and then I have one DUI and I can't
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uh I can't. Um, I'm really sorry about the one dui. So
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Ross at this point goes so she despite the fact that her car was taken
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and she has no license, she was still able to register a car under
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her name. She doesn't have any outstanding tickets, she can register the car.
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She doesn't have a license to drive. He has a license to drive.
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It doesn't have the ability to register a car. Yeah, OK,
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yeah, it's a real rigmarole. What he was paying for insurance. I
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would assume she is, but I don't know. We don't get into that.
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Yeah, we don't get into that. So she says, I had
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one reckless driving ticket and then I have a DUI. I'm not proud of
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not proud of that. Uh, but Ross isn't having it. Ross sniffs
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it out. Rass says, so one DUI, one reckless driving Huh.
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She says, yes, yes, sir, just one one DUI. She
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said, yes. He says, uh, Deputy Thomas, oh no.
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He goes over to deput Deputy Thomas, um, what happens when you catch
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someone for DUI and suspect that it's DUI? But maybe you don't go through
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all the protocols. You've done this before and he says, yes, I
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have. So sometimes we suspect there's a DUI, but we don't go through
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the field, sobriety tests for a number of reasons that you don't, but
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you still take him in. And what happens is is the prosecution will say
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that since that the authorities didn't go through all this, we have to settle
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for a lesser charge than driving under the influence. And Rass says, what's
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that lesser charge, and Deputy Thomas says, reckless driving, and he said
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he looks at Chiwan. He goes, I want you to be honest with
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me, Miss Arthur, that reckless driving. Is that what happened? And
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she says, yes it is. And he says, you have an alcohol
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problem. Oh shook, And she smiles and smirks at him and says,
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no, I don't have an alcohol problem. And she says if. He
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says, if you have two DUIs, you have an alcohol problem. Denial
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is not just a river in Egypt. He says, do you have any
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children, and she said yes, I have a five year old daughter.
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He says, your daughter is seeing her mommy struggling with alcohol and then getting
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in a car and causing potential danger to herself and others. This case is
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about responsibility. You can't take responsibility that you have a problem and you,
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he points to Jerome, can't take responsibility that you just want to blame everyone
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else for something as dumb as a parking ticket. And Jerome's like, no,
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you're on it. That's not true. I accept some and he just
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stops and he's like, stop blaming other people, stop doing it. Take
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responsibility. For your actions. So then he says, okay, let's walk
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through some of these parking tickets. What was the what was the first parking
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ticket for? It was my uncle was picking me and my daughter up from
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my job because you don't have a car, because you have two d uys.
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Yeah, yes, sir, Um okay, what about the second one?
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He was also picking me up? Um, So how do you get
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a parking ticket if he was in the car picking you up? Jerome goes,
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well, I got there at the time. She told me too.
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She was running late. I fell asleep. Ticket on the car. Who
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when I woke up, happened twice? Man, this guy's fall asleep.
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Yes, all the ticket up his niece? Can I so this? You
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know? This is what I'm picking up here, though she agreed to do
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this in exchange for essentially for Uber. Yeah. And so he said,
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so you're late for your uncle picking you up. And then he asked,
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so you're just running late and you don't have and she said no. I
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told him that I was running late. I was gonna be fifteen minutes.
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You need to find another spot. We don't get into if that's proven or
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not. At this point, he's already, he's already snoozed, snoozing,
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He's snoozing. So it's five hundred forty dollars of tickets. Yeah, Ross
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is ready to rule. Who whoa just with those two? Yep? Man,
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do we know how many tickets there are? We don't. Oh man,
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Oh boy, this is tough. You know, I just hearing,
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hearing that, hearing that it was he was picking her up. It does
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sound like, you know, she made multiple mistakes driving under the influence.
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She can't get a license right now, and this seemed like a work around
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for transportation, and she was running late. She was taking him for granted.
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I'm gonna give her no money. You're gonna give her no, I'm
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gonna give her no money because she was taking him for granted. And this
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is ultimately it all comes down to her inability because at least these two he
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only got to take us because he was waiting on her. Ultimately, it
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comes down to her inability to get a license. So I'm gonna give her
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no money. Are you ready for this? Ross says the galve's gonna come
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down in favor of the plaintiff for two hundred and seventy dollars, which is
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half okay, And he says, because your your uncle's hetty bears half of
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the responsibility. But the reality is is you really shouldn't get anything because your
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lack of responsibility and treatment of what you think the law is. And he
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stops and he goes, you know, the more I think about it,
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your claim is dismissed. And he walks out. So he literally says,
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the gal's gonna come down and favor the plaintiff for two hundred seventy dollars,
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and then in the middle of explaining his ruling, he says, no,
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the more I think about it, you're not getting anything. Your case is
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dismissed. Anyone just saying you're not treating the law with any respects. The
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law's not going to treat you with any respect. I'm out of here.
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Hey, So I was right, Well, the goal was how you got
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there, That was what I was saying, Like if you got like hit.
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His whole process of he said, the judge ruled, he said,
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the gavel's gonna come down and favor the plaintiff four two hundred and seventy dollars,
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and then he changed his mind. He ungabbled a gavel, Yeah,
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you don't ungabble again, but he does. Man, it was unreal.
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What do you think about that? I did? I was bewildered. Both
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of these people needed serious help, and I just wanted them to get the
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help that they needed. And neither one of them deserved a dime. They
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both should have had to pay the full amount. I don't know how that's
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possible. They both should have had to pay the full amount. That's where
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I was with it. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, that's fair man,
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Judge Ross, you said, will I will um. It's time for
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people's court yet it is. I want to introduce to Rakia Malone, Rakia
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Um. She is suing um Uh. Eliah is her name. It's not
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Aliyah, it's Eliah. And I wrote it out phonetically. Aliah. Yeah,
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Elijah Jade is her name, and she ja he has suing Aliah for
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two hundred and fifty dollars for money two hundred fifty look out, um.
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So Rakia had a washer and dryer that we're sitting down in her mother's basements.
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That always starts. Yeah, her mother was moving and so they needed
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to get rid of this washer and dryer. So she was talking to a
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co worker of hers, and somehow the washer and dryer came up and and
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our coworker was like, Hey, my sister Elijah needs a washer and dryer.
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I'll ask her if she'd like to buy this washer and dryer from you.
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So they end up communicating talking via text, and they agree upon a
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price of two hundred and fifty dollars for the pair of the washer and the
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both of them, for both of them two fifty total. Um. She
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is upfront and she says I don't have the money right now, and Rikia
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says, okay, Um, I can give him to you now and then
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when the ones tax return season comes, class, you give me the two
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hundred fifty dollars, all square, all done, any right up here.
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This is all on text, mess text mess okay, got it, um.
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So they strike a deal. They agree, and she comes and she
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takes the washer and dryer in um mid January, I believe it will mid
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to late. It was at January twenty first is when she came and got
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the the washer dryer. So tax season comes and goes and it is March,
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and um Rakia text and asks about the money, and um Rikia,
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but judge asked Rikia were you, by any chance? Were you and Eliah's
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sister still friends at this point? And she says no, And Judge says,
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what what happened? And Rikia is like, we you know, we
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had a falling out, and she keeps pushing and prodding and she's just she's
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not giving her much. She's just like, we had a falling out.
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And Aliah says, oh, I'll tell you what happened. I'll give you
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all the information she's got it. Yeah, so Aliah, Eliah sorry,
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Eliah says, my sister Um walks into her house and Rikia is sleeping with
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a dude on her couch. Oh my gosh. We don't know who this
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dude is in relation to Um Eliah's sister Um, but for some reason this
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really upset her. And we also don't know why Rakia was doing this on
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her couch with none of that has explained. But she walks into her house.
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She sees Rakia on the couch with a guy, um having fun times
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yes okay, and they she confronts Rakia and Rakia strikes her okay, physically
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strikes her sisters. Yes, Elia's sister is not in court to bear witness
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to this and Rikia says, no, none of this happened. Okay,
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here say, here's say but something clearly happened that caused their friendship to to
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fizzle out. If you will, Whether or not it was panky on the
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couch, we don't know. Um So um Eliah says, so you know,
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I called her up to get the tea and uh, Rickie is like,
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I'll call you back. This is like in February and a month later,
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um she she texts and threatens her that if she doesn't pay the money,
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she's gonna take her to small claims court and Judge Million says, that's
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not a threat. That's an American's rights when they aren't given something that they
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are owed that it is not a threat. It is not like, hey,
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if you don't pay me, I'm gonna come and shoot. Shoot.
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That's a threat saying you're gonna take someone to court. A few speed.
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I'm all right you would take a shot. That's just the way things go.
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And she and Eliah's like, well, we can agree to disagree on
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what a threat is. No, we cannot. Um So uh Eliah basically
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says, you know there was this threat and blah blah, blah. So
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Judge Million asked if the incident with her sister had anything to do with her
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not paying the money, like, were you like looking out for your sister?
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Like you wrong with my sister? So I'm not gonna give you a
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two hundred, and she says no, it all comes down to the fact
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that the washer and dryer did not work. I brought a video. Play
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the video, and the Judge's like, okay, I will, and Only
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is like, okay, then play it. And Judge is like, I'm
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getting ready to play it, and Only is like, okay, play it,
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now, play it. Then play it, And Judge Million's like,
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I'm trying to play it, but I'm too busy talking to you about you
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telling me to play it, so I can't have the time to play it.
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It's the whole rigular role you can imagine. So she finally plays the
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video. It is unreally it's unclear when the video is taken and exactly what's
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happening. But as Eliah explains, when the washer would get to the rent
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cycle, it would shut off and give so you kind of hear it in
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the video, but it's just not very clear on what's happened. Consequential,
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right, because the text message doesn't say if it's broken, you don't have
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to pay me. It doesn't say that. And also Judge Million says,
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did you talk to her after receiving the washer and dryer and say it doesn't
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work? And she says, I called her up. We had this conversation,
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and Judge Million says, well, I see this texting back and forth.
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You pick it up in January and you're texting back and forth for the
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next couple weeks and it's pleasant. And then in March she texts you and
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asked for the money, and you say, and this is in the text
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message. Eliah says, in the text I'm still working on getting the money.
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Why did you not? Judge Million asked, why did you not in
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that moment bring back up the fact that it did not work? And Elia's
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like, I've brought it up many a times. She's not having it.
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I'm just trying to, you know, appease her at this point. And
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Judge Million's like, it seems like to me that if you were willing to
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pay, it leaves me to believe that it did work. Why would you
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have not said that? And Eliah says, who cares what you think.
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Judge Million kicks her out and she's ready to rule. I wonder how this
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is gonna man alive has been a lion. Alia is a liar, you
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Elia jade uh and she's like getting the dime Rukia Uh. It gets the
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money period into the story. She is going to rule in favor of Rakia
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for just basic normalcy two hundred and fifty dollars plus. Oh, here we
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go, let's go. Whatever it costs to file this in small claims court,
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which is about one hundred and fifty dollars plus interest from the day that
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she picked up the washer and dry or we don't know what that amount is.
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So it's two hundred and fifty dollars plus all of that in favor interests
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of Raki. Let's go. And it goes to show, Oh yeah,
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everybody out there, if one day you find yourself in small claims court or
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any court or the people's court, don't be mean. Don't judge back to
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the judge, because here's what could happen. They can they don't have to
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just do the minimum of what they're asking for. They can tack on whatever
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they want to rispect. That's what the judges want you to see. That
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was the People's Court, that was Judge Ross. We did and this was
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Yo gabble gable. Guys, thank you so much for your support. I
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mean back next week with a base side. Following week another gavel. I
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think it's gonna be a good one like it. But until then, all
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right, Yo gabble. Gabble's a Bramble Jam podcast recorded live in Greenville,
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