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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with
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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharman. Today is Wednesday, March fifth,
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two thousand twenty five. I don't usually like to start
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the show with something scary, but I'm faced with no
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other choice today. Florida has become self aware.
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What we've been worried about this for a while, Just.
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Like Skynet, Florida has become self aware. And if they
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figure out time travel, we are all hosed. The Florida
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Games are real.
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And they are awesome.
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Like, if we're being honest, a lot of people, including us,
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we make fun of Florida a lot for how ridiculous
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it is, and Florida knows it. And we know this
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because the second Annual Florida Games happened this past weekend.
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Is it Florida Games or Florida Man Games?
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Are there two of them?
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I don't know, because.
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Oh, this is the annual Florida Man Games. Okay, Like,
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my god, if there's two of them, I don't if
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we can handle that much awesome at one time, Although
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I am curious to see what happens for the Florida
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Women Games, or heaven forbid the special Florida Games, which aren't.
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They all I was about to say it seems redundant,
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They're all special. Yeah.
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The second annual Florida Games happened this past weekend, which
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tells us a couple of things. One Florida is self
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aware and two there's going to be more of the Yeah,
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they're already planning for next year.
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Sure. Yeah.
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The second annual Florida Man Games were a huge success.
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They went down last Saturday near Saint Augustine, Florida. Hey,
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I've been there. I was there a couple of years ago,
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a couple of nights near Christmas. Pretty light. The first
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Florida Man Games were February twenty fourth, twenty twenty four,
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and they had the second annual this past weekend. They
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brought back a few popular events from the first Florida
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mand Games, like the Evading Arrest Obstacle course. That's where
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you escape from handcuffs, throw an alligator through a drive
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through window, and steal a catalytic converter, all while being
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chased by actual police officers. I want it said that
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we didn't write this. This is what they're actually doing
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in Florida at the Florida Man Games. Also back this
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year the weaponized pool noodle mud Duel. It's just like
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joust from American Gladiators, but in a baby pool, and
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the jousting pools are made of pool noodles and duct tape.
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Yes, this sounds about this is this is all tracking?
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Oh yeah, that sounds perfect so far.
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Also back for the second annual Florida mand Games the
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Florida Sumo Cage Match and beer chug. That's where you
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wear an inner tube, fight someone while holding a picture
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of beer and try not to spill it. The loser
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can still get points by chugging the winners remaining beer.
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So those are the returning events for the annual Florida
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mand Games. Just like the regular Olympics, the Florida Man
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Games has added some new events this year. New events
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this year included Hurricane party prep, the Grocery aisle Brawl. Okay,
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it's like medieval jousting, but in shopping carts and if
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no one falls, you just fight it out for hurricane supplies.
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I remember doing that in the parking lot of an
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empty food Lion jousting with grocery carts but obviously Florida
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takes it to a new level.
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Yeah.
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Another new event this year human beer pong. You're in
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a big inflatable bubble and you have to get past someone.
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Then you jump in a pool that looks like a
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big red solo cup. The loser has to chug beer,
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whiskey or bong water.
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Oh who picks that one?
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I don't know who's in charge of that mix.
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Yeah, I'll take the beer.
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Other attractions at this year's Florida Man Games included axe throwing,
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lawnmower races, a mechanical gator instead of a bull, and
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the best mullet contest.
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Is this Florida Man becoming self aware? Or is this
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some just Florida Darwinian survival of the fittest?
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Yes? Are they looking for a new leader?
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Very possible.
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This is how they not the herd.
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I also feel like I know where we should do
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our road show next year. Yes, a treehouse trip. Yeah,
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we all go to attend the Florida Man Games twenty
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twenty six if we're all still here, because let's be honest,
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if the State of Florida does figure out time travel,
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we're all gonna die.
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And I personally want to be the first person of
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color at the Florida Mangates because it's it's just all
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you guys.
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It has to be, especially the Mullet.
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I don't think so. I think it's very possible that
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the Florida Man Games will already have some people of
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color involved, it just may not be in the capacity
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you want.
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Dan Olmley. That's me along with Trey Trenholm and Raj
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Sharma inside the Treehouse today Wednesday, March fifth, twenty twenty five.
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Now that we know about the Florida Games and what
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we're going to be doing this time next year, which
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is going to the third annual Florida Man Games, and
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with any luck, we will be the Grand Marshals.
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I think mean grand Wizards.
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I think.
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All right, well, Trey and I will be there. Raj,
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I'm not so sure about what you'll be doing. So anyway,
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that's what we'll be doing probably around this time next year.
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It's important to dream big, folks. Yeah. Meanwhile, there's some
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things going on in other states that are equally as crazy.
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I'm talking about the state of Connecticut. A high school
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honors graduate is suing the school district because she can't
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read or I'm gonna say that again. A high school
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honors student is suing her school district because she's illiterate. Wow,
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this is from Connecticut. She graduated in June and she's
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now suing her former high school, claiming she cannot read
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or write and is failing college as a result of
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her alma maters or curriculum. Her name is Alicia Ortiz.
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She was born in Puerto Rico moved with her family
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to Hartford, Connecticut when she was five years old. This
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is a good time to remind people that Puerto Rico
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is a United States territory. So if your first thought was, well,
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legals need to need to learn language, Puerto Rico is
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part of the United States. Now that you know that,
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backwards ass hat, someone needed to hear that. We all
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know it. Here's one guy that needed to hear that. Now,
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moving back, moving on. She was born in Puerto Rico,
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moved with her family to Hartford, Connecticut when she was five.
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She graduated through the school program despite reading at a
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kindergarten or maybe first grade level. Wow as a sixth grader. Yeah,
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as a sixth grader she was reading at a kindergarten
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or first grade level. And during her last month at
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Hartford Public High School, after she disclosed she was attending
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the University of Connecticut in the fall, she completed additional
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testing that revealed she had dyslexia and required explicitly taught phonics, fluency,
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and reading comprehension, the first of which is taught in kindergarten.
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By the way, she says, I didn't know English very well.
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I didn't know the rules of the schools. There were
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a lot of things that they would tell me, and
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I let myself go by what the teachers would tell
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me because I didn't understand anything. She said. She used
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at apps to translate text to speech and speech to
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text to complete her assignments.
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Wow, how did she apply for college?
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Ay?
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I probably there's an app for everything, and there's AI
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for all that stuff these days. After testifying about her
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experience as an illiterate high school student during a May
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twenty twenty four city council meeting, she said officials began
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clamoring to ensure she received her diploma. Man, they really
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take that no child left behind, you know, to the
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next level. She and her family are now suing the
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school district for negligence, as well as her special education
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case manager for negligent infliction of emotional distress. Well, there's
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always that, she says. I'm a very passionate person and
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I like to learn. Call me crazy, But if you're
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a passionate person and you like to learn, and you
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graduate high school without knowing how to re or write,
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I think a little bit of personal accountability is in
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store for you, okay, because you are in the one
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place where learning is welcomed. Okay, just saying sometimes you
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have to want to learn. The learning cannot be forced
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upon you.
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She says, people took that opportunity away for me to learn,
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and now I'm in college and I want to take
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advantage of that because this is my education. But she
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can't read or write, so she says she's failing college.
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Oh that'll do it. Yeah, that'll that'll get the job done.
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It really does. At a certain point when you're in class,
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if you don't understand something, there really does need to
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be some personal responsibility. You need to raise your hand
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and say I don't get it. Yes, now, if you
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say that you would teach, you're a bunch of times
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in a row. It's going to be very annoying. But
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you need to press them on the issue.
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Yeah, but I think there might be a little, you know,
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embarrassment behind it.
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Maybe that's why nothing was said.
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Like I remember, years and years and years ago, Dexter Manley,
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who used to play for the Commanders.
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Now I guess Washington.
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He was presented an award and they asked him to
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read the inscription and he couldn't read it right.
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Whoops. So I mean and he was I.
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Mean their football legend. Yeah, there were plenty of especially
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athletes going back eighties, nineties, early two thousands that they
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didn't crack a book in high school or college. And
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uh so yeah, I mean that's it's sad.
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But but it's like Charles Barkley is famous for, I