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A Week & A Day · Rich Spinster

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  SPEAKER_00: It's just all about love and life and living in freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what it's all about for me now.
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  SPEAKER_00: To the Rich Spenster Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Alexis, and I am back, bitches.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am back from hiatus to start season two of this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, this podcast started a year ago, and it started as a labor of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought maybe I'll do a few episodes, maybe I'll do it for just a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna see how I feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I took that hiatus in April to kind of get my thoughts together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do I really want to continue with the podcast?
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  SPEAKER_00: Am I finding the podcast valuable?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it resonating with people?
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  SPEAKER_00: How important is this podcast to me?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the fact that I am back for a season two answers those questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So hello everyone out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for riding with the Rich Spitzer Podcast, as long as you have been riding with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, shout out to the New York Knickerbockers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The New York Knicks won the NBA championship for the first time in 53 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so what that really tells me is never give up on your dreams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never give up on what is important to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't waste your time with the naysayers and the haters.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were down in game four, 29 points.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many of us thought it was over.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I thought it was so over that I turned off the television because why?
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't want to deal with the stress that I was experiencing because I was like, they're losing.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no way they're coming back from this.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is over.
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  SPEAKER_00: I put a period on it where there should have been a comma.
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  SPEAKER_00: God damn it, I woke up to see that the Knicks came back.
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  SPEAKER_00: The greatest comeback in NBA playoff history, and I missed it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I gave up too soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: I threw in the towel.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did not wait till it was over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought the fat lady had stopped singing, but she just went to get another piece of pound cake.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there I was, unaware that I was missing something historic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I did see it on YouTube, but it's not the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it's just not the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I did not miss a moment of game five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, according to the internet, we like our mayors, Muslim, our bagels, Jewish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nick's one and five, happy pride.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is Pride Month.
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  SPEAKER_00: So shout out to every member of the LGBTQ family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter what letter you are, and that letter could change from day to day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Celebrate yourself, whatever you get down with, I'm down with for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, happy pride.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, so I am also really excited about the World Cup.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love soccer.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I have the World Cup on.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am watching the World Cup.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's exciting, it's exhilarating.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love seeing the fans, it symbolizes unity.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of that is true.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm telling you this: the best looking men play soccer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Soccer players are some of the most attractive men on the planet to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was something about the body, it's something about the lean athleticism of a soccer player that I am quite fond of, actually.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'd be fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: The men, because some of the women would be struggling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since I haven't been recording the podcast, what have I been doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I uh went to my niece's graduation, you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: My niece, uh Mia, graduated from high school, and I was completely overwhelmed with the all the pomp and circumstance that was leading up to her graduating from high school.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so interesting because I talk to my niece um about every day, and I talk to her sometimes, and I'm like, what the fuck happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: How is it that this girl who was this rambunctious three-year-old is now 18 years old, graduating from high school and is on her way to college.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where did that time go?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it just made me think about just how precious time is.
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  SPEAKER_00: The kids are growing up in front of our faces, and I remember being a young kid and thinking that older people were just crazy when they said that time flies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I remember how long summers felt, and I remember how long days felt at school, and time seemed to drag so much when I was a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now that I am looking at people who used to be children, now evolve into adulthood, I'm like, what the hell has happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: She and one of her classmates sang at her graduation ceremony, and they received a standing ovation, they were wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was just looking at her tearfully, wondering what the fuck happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where did the time go?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is it is absolutely astonishing how quickly it has gone by.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for me, also experiencing that with her and seeing that uh uh caused me to think about a lot of things in life, things that I've experienced, things that I needed to let go of, things I needed to embrace more of and pull closer to me, just had me thinking about a lot of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was driving back from actually visiting uh my brother and his family, and I started combing out one of my locks.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had 140 locks on my head, and during that drive, I kept picking at one and kept picking at one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on that drive, I thought I'm going to comb out my locks, not cut them off because I didn't want to just shave my head bald.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been bald a few times in my life, loved it, but I just didn't feel like this was the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I needed to comb them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I got home, I started the process of combing out 140 locks bit by bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I picked them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: One by one.
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  SPEAKER_00: They took hours and hours and hours, and I didn't think about how long it would take me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was almost like a spiritual experience, you guys, because I am not one of those people who had locks and thought, oh, I'm carrying so much energy in my locks.
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  SPEAKER_00: My locks are a spiritual experience for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't have any emotion connected to them whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as I started combing them out one by one, I started thinking about the things in life that I had experienced since I had those locks for over 18 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Combing them out one by one, inch by inch, letting go of some things or letting go of the memories that did not serve me at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was letting them go.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I started my locks, I had parents, both are gone now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a godmother and godsister, certain uncles and aunts, they're gone now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was a very cathartic process of doing it, one by one.
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  SPEAKER_00: The total process took oh a little over a week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was a week and a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was never a time when I was combing them out that I thought this is too much.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to uh just shave my head.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was never a time I thought that it was just, it was something that felt needed, it felt important to do, it was necessary, that it took so much time to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: It felt good, it felt freeing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I combed that last lock out, it felt emotional.
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  SPEAKER_00: I welled up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't believe that not I had combed out a hundred and thirty-nine locks prior.
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  SPEAKER_00: That wasn't what I was feeling, but I was really feeling a sense of peace, healing, triumph, love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I combed that last lock knowing that so many things in life were over.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was grateful for those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was really welcoming in whatever was to come and how it comes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the time it takes for it to come is not something that I should think about or worry about.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's something that I should just experience day by day, moment by moment, breath by breath sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that is what that experience did for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was nothing like getting in the shower after combing out that last lock and shampooing my hair and feeling my fingertips on my scalp and connecting with myself in that way again after so many years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I realized in that moment that it wasn't just hair for me, it was a complete experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was life that I had experienced for 18 years that I somehow reviewed in a week and a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a beautiful experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about the rest of you all, but I'm still thinking and worried and praying for Nancy Guthrie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nancy Guthrie is still missing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you all are aware of this because we were bombarded with stories about Nancy Guthrie every single day, hour by hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was worried.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have been watching YouTube.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody who is who has covered this thing, I've been watching it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been reading reports.
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  SPEAKER_00: Savannah went back to work already.
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  SPEAKER_00: Savannah's got a new show coming out.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of these things are happening in the world, and Nancy Guthrie is still missing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You cannot allow me to care for this woman to invest in finding this woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then suddenly the coverage of her diss a damn peers.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm still over here asking people to put her on the prayer list.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Nancy Guthrie is still missing in Arizona somewhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where the fuck is this lady?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is this lady?
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  SPEAKER_00: And why did y'all take her?
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  SPEAKER_00: And why have you been silent all of this time?
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  SPEAKER_00: My heart breaks for her family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we all experience loss.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of us escapes from that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't escape from loss.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what gets me is how she is just gone, how she's lost.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's no reason for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We haven't been given an explanation.
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  SPEAKER_00: We still don't know how all of this happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm still seeing visuals in my mind of the person at the front door from the ring camera.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm still there, and we have moved on in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about the World Cup, the UFC fights, and the Knicks, and Miss Guthrie is still missing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a sex tape released, a Diddy sex tape.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did follow the Diddy trial.
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  SPEAKER_00: I read a lot from the trial, a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day I was reading it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know Diddy 100% is a monster.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, a hundred percent he is a monster.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I didn't know is all of the reasons why he is a monster.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: After seeing that Diddy sex tape, I will no longer be calling him Diddy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not be referencing him as Diddy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will be forever referenced as clitty because Diddy is working with a clity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And listen, normally I do not believe in penis shaming because that's just what they're born with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think men are born with the penises that they have, and that says nothing about who they are or their manhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's establish that.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, Diddy's or Clides penis tells me everything that I needed to know about him.
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  SPEAKER_00: It tells me why he's so angry.
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  SPEAKER_00: It tells me a partly why he hates women so much, why he tries to belittle men that he has business power over, or men that he feels that he can wield his power over.
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  SPEAKER_00: It makes sense that he was looking for BBCs for his ladies because Diddy is working with a clit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I get, listen, I think I get woo alerts.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: I am somebody over the years, like people have always texted me once a celebrity's woo has been released on the internet.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, Chris Brown's woo is on the internet.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I checked out the Diddy sex tape on Twitter, I understood why he's so angry, why he's so insecure.
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  SPEAKER_00: It all made sense to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He hates himself, he feels inadequate, which is why he treats people the way that he treats the men and women.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have a comment or anything to say about the women involved, but I can tell you this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Diddy got a clitty.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna stop now.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna spend my time talking about Diddy's penis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but speaking of dicks, let's talk about Donald Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump is still alive, he's 80 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, supposedly he's residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um he is still disrespecting women, calling women out of their names.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's still lying, he's still stealing from the American people, he's still cheating, he's still a criminal, he's still a sex offender, he's still a pedoprotector, he's all of those things still.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the fact that I haven't been on the podcast talking about Donald Trump, I assure you, you didn't miss a thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's still trumping.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's really not going to be changes until there are changes, and change needs to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really, every time someone's like, oh my God, they'll text me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my God, don't, oh my god, texting me, unless it's happened.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: If it hasn't happened, don't text me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, don't text me exclamation points, don't do any of that unless that has happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't text me, oh my god.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and apparently at the fight at the White House, there was some fighter who I guess was being interviewed by Joe Rogan or somebody, and he shouted, Michelle Obama is a man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, let me tell you something about you, goddamn racist.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't care.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's something racists don't get.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't care.
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  SPEAKER_00: Racism is an obsession.
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  SPEAKER_00: I truly believe that you are obsessed in order to be racist.
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  SPEAKER_00: How the hell are you spending all your time, your effort, your thoughts, your actions, your words, focused on people who don't give a good goddamn about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Focused on people who aren't even thinking about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Focused on women who don't care if you find them attractive or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Michelle Obama is a Harvard educated lawyer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Michelle Obama is a beautiful and successful woman who's a former First Lady of the United States, forever first lady of the United States for most of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Michelle Obama is not thinking about you.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: Black women are not thinking about people who don't appreciate and love black women.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like to be racist in America in 2026 is to show how you and your people have not evolved.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is to show how the cancer of hatred has metastasized throughout your body and has passed through to your bloodline.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a black woman, I don't care whether anybody finds me attractive in my blackness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that includes other black people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Black women don't care.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: We don't care.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know who we love?
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: We love who the fuck loves us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's who we love.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's who I love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love who loves me.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Did you all see?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you all see in Brazil?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: There was, I think she was a 20, 21-year-old woman who went bungee jumping.
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  SPEAKER_00: They hoisted her ass up in the air and threw her off this cliff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the bungee cord was not connected.
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  SPEAKER_00: You all, I saw that video about four times not being able to understand.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: It was horrible.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was, I was, I just kept looking like I know good and goddamn well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those three men hoisting her up in the air looked to see if the cord was connected to the girl.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cord was not connected.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I kept thinking, where were the women?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because had there been a woman present, a woman would have looked to see if the cord is connected.
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  SPEAKER_00: You put your life in the hands of three men.
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  SPEAKER_00: Had there been a woman present, that woman would have looked and said, that cord is not connected.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: So listen, I'm never bungee jumping, and I know that that gives people a thrill.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but it could also give you a kill.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: And a sure way to know that things may not be going well is if you put your life in the hands of three men, not one of them, looked at the damn cord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rest in peace.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: I am so sorry that happened, but I hope that this will save other lives.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, don't you first of all don't bungee jump.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, unless you're really okay with going that way, do not bungee jump.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you do, have them check that cord three times in front of you.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: One for each man who didn't damn it see it.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: You guys, and the the final post that the girl who who passed away in Brazil left was something like, Who is the crazy person who let me jump off of a bridge today?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's always like my kind of fear is that I'm gonna post something, and that post is gonna be related to my death in some way, and that somebody will be talking about it.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the last thing she posted was this.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yo, that was her last post.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Now she's gone home to glory.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to end this podcast today with something that also happened when I was gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: My best friend lost her dad.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Vic was a golf pro and he loved golf.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: He he dedicated a lot of his time to not only teaching golf to kids, but teaching about the fundamentals of golf and how those fundamentals of golf, those tenets, were the same tenants that they should apply in their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Victor was a good time guy.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: He was a dedicated father, a dedicated grandfather, and a great grandfather now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I wanted to just give him a shout out.
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  SPEAKER_00: You made the world a better place and you did it your way.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: I want to dedicate this first episode of season two of the Rich Spencer Podcast to Victor Spenberg.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to the Rich Spencer Podcast.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: You can listen to the podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: I will be back next Monday, and I look forward to you joining me again.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Have a great week, everyone.