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The Brutal Truth About Getting OLDER · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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  Luke, been your fan since 2016. Well,
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  thank you very much. I recently lost an
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  extremely close friend who passed away
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  at the age of 45 due to aortic aneurysm.
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  Jesus was almost like a big brother to
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  me. He leaves behind his wife and
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  daughter of 14 years. [ __ ] bro. I
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  haven't been able to get through this
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  loss through his loss. Looking forward
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  to your shows has helped me heal with
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  this. Um, yeah, man.
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  First of all, my sincerest condolences.
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  I'm sorry that this has happened. Um,
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  I don't have any grand words of wisdom
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  at a moment like this. I wish I did. I
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  wish I had I wish I had I'm glad they're
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  yelling. That's my favorite is when they
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  just yell. Um,
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  you know, the last year was a tough year
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  for me for a lot of reasons.
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  um
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  I was going through and I think I'm
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  still part of although I'm you know I
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  I'll I'll I'll peel back the curtain. I
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  have started seeing a therapist for the
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  first time in uh in a while. Um so that
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  that that is something I've started
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  doing and it's had an immediate impact.
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  I mean there's a lot more to go but I'll
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  just tell you guys I started seeing one
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  again uh in person not digitally and in
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  fact it was oh my god it was really hard
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  to find one that was doing in-person
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  visits for crying out loud. Um, but uh
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  anyway, so I started doing that and it's
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  had an immediate impact. But the reason
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  part of the reason why I wanted to do it
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  was because last year
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  we had Thomas Jerbassy die, Jordan Breen
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  die. Um,
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  uh, Abby Sububon from, uh, MMA Junkie
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  passing away, uh, totally unexpectedly.
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  Um, you know, leaving behind family.
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  And dude, it [ __ ] rocked me in ways
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  I'd never thought before. If you see my
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  my my I don't know what y'all maybe
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  maybe you're all different. I don't
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  know. Um I
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  [ __ ]
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  uh that's by the way that's how my wife
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  says I she goes I die. Um,
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  when you're when I was 25, I mean, my
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  mom had already died by this point, but
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  like as a general rule, when I was like
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  25, 26, 27, 28, something like that, and
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  you see people die who you may have
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  known but were older, it didn't strike
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  me the same as it does now. And in part
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  because some of these guys were just
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  like, dude, they in certain cases, you
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  know, worked until their [ __ ] dying
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  day. In other cases, you know, they were
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  they were good about work life balance,
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  but some kind of medical ailment hit
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  them. In other cases, you know, um,
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  their inability to manage their life
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  slipped through their fingers. But when
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  you realize you're at a point in your
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  life where you're more medically frail,
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  where your risk factors go up, where
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  stress and what it can do to you is
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  something that, you know, at 25 you can
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  kind of dismiss it, at 45, you cannot.
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  Um, it kind of shook me. Kind of shook
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  me. And, um,
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  that's part of the reason why I, uh, I
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  wanted to go see a therapist. I'll just
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  Yeah, I'll just I'll be I'll be honest
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  with you guys. That's one of
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  my anxiety has gotten so bad. Now, uh I
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  I you guys know I said this to you when
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  when when when Brian left MK. Um and
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  then that was one change. The other
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  change was we weren't going to go back
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  in studio um every Monday like we were
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  before. And I told you guys at the time
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  that was a [ __ ] relief. And in fact,
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  if they had told me I had to do it,
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  honestly, I MK would be over. Like truly
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  I could I could I physically could not
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  do that. It got to the point where even
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  if like the there was nothing we were
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  going to discuss the next day was going
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  to be controversial. Weather was going
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  to be fine. Train wouldn't be delayed.
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  Like there's just nothing wrong. It's
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  just nothing wrong. I couldn't sleep the
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  night before, you know. And there's
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  nothing wrong.
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  I could not What's What's wrong in your
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  life? Nothing. Nothing. But the anxiety
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  of having to get up and go do it and it
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  just was crippling.
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  And um I just realized at that point I'm
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  like I've always been able to control my
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  stress
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  and I couldn't control it anymore. It
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  was controlling me and it still does to
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  an extent although it's a little bit
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  better now. I realize I'm making this
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  all about me and I'm sorry to do that.
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  Suffice to say um again I'm incredibly
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  sorry for your loss. I I know it must be
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  insanely difficult and um it's not an
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  easy process to grieve and to get over.
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  But I do I do want there's the reason
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  why I'm bringing this full circle is for
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  anybody out there, man, if this is a
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  lesson I'm I am trying to make 2026 in
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  my life. And I think for those of you
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  out here who can be receptive to this
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  message, I hope you will hear it. I'm
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  trying to make 2026 a year of change in
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  my life. And I don't mean like oh the
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  biggest change ever. No, may maybe that
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  will come too. I don't know. But um
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  change in
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  how I live my life with my family.
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  Change in making sure I'm reaching out
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  to friends to tell them I care about
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  them. Change to take on difficult
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  projects that will make me better at
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  different things that matter to me. You
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  know what I mean? like just kind of like
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  leaning into the joy of life while you
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  have it because [ __ ] life is
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  short. It is precious. It will be taken
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  from you in a [ __ ] instant. Even if
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  you don't die, you could have some kind
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  of debilitating medical ailment and now
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  your life is absolutely unrecognizable
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  from the moment it was 15 minutes before
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  that event happened. We just don't know.
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  And I don't need to tell you, no matter
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  what your political persuasion might be,
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  surely you can recognize that we live in
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  an uncertain time. I I do think that
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  that is pretty fair to say. We live in
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  an uncertain time. For those of you who
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  can hear this message, you don't have to
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  change your life. But what I would say
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  is if you can lean into the joy that
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  life has to offer as best you possibly
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  can with the short amount of time that
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  you have, you must. And if you can make
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  bonds with other people while you have
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  the opportunity to do so, you must. You
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  should. It's just your ride on this
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  planet is very short, very minimal. And
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  um
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  it's important to tell people that you
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  love that you love them and it's
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  important to
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  make use of the time that you have.
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  Um and the older you get, the more you
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  can just see like, "Holy [ __ ] dude. I
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  don't have a lot of I'm not saying I'm
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  dying tomorrow, but what I am saying is,
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  dude, when you're 25, you just feel like
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  life will go on forever. Let me let me
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  warn you, at 45, you do not. You're
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  like, oh my [ __ ] god, how's the rest
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  of this going to go? You know, um, and
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  to see people who are my peers like,
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  dude, I knew Thomas Jerbassy,
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  you know. Um, Jordan Breen was a I mean,
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  we've he had his own difficulties and I
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  think he cut ties with seemingly almost
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  everyone in his life, but um, dude, for
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  a time that guy was a really [ __ ]
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  great friend.
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  Um,
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  life is hard, bro.
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  Life is hard.
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  Um, spend your time
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  making meaningful bonds
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  and doing meaningful things with people
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  that have meaning in your life.
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  Luke, how are your grandkids doing? If
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  you missed last week, I had a guy last
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  Saturday ask me if I had grandchildren.
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  I choke slammed that [ __ ]
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  through a desk.