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D.A. is done with the performance.
After Bill Belichick was snubbed by Pro Football Hall of Fame voters, large swaths of sports media immediately erupted — screaming for the entire process to be “burned down” and “torched.”
D.A. calls it exactly what it is: disingenuous, performative anger.
For years, no one in sports media questioned the Hall of Fame voting process. No outrage. No calls for reform. No torches. But the moment Belichick had to wait? Suddenly the system is broken and must be destroyed.
D.A. groans at the spectacle and explains why there were valid, defensible reasons for Belichick to wait a year — reasons that were completely ignored by media members who saw an easy chance to ride fan outrage for clicks and credibility.
This wasn’t about integrity.
It was about joining the mob.
A brutal takedown of sports media hypocrisy — and a must-watch for anyone exhausted by fake outrage cycles.
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This Bill Bich thing is [clears throat]
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remarkable in its scope of intensity.
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And you might have heard me talk about
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this on Wednesday when I was on Mad Dog
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Sports Radio.
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I was blown away by how angry people got
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that Bellich was snubbed. I was blown
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away.
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And I honestly think people are kind of
0:28
frauds about this. I do. I think a lot
0:31
of people are just frauds. And here's
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why.
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I haven't heard anybody
0:38
of significance get this angry about any
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other
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Hall of Fame vote. Never. We've had
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questionable
0:48
guys uh have to wait. Terrell Owens
0:52
waited till his third time on the
0:54
ballot. Bill Walsh was not a firsttime
0:58
guy.
0:59
Lynn Swan waited nearly a decade to get
1:02
in, maybe longer. Actually,
1:05
you had guys get in that perhaps were
1:07
fringe, like with the 100th anniversary
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team where they doubleclassed it and
1:13
they put in guys that were really good
1:16
but not legendary.
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You've had guys waiting for a long time.
1:21
Steve Tasker's been one of the best
1:23
candidates for a long time. Best cover
1:25
guy in special teams ever. Hasn't gotten
1:28
in. You've had plenty of questionable
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decisions here or there, but
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there's been nothing close to outrage.
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Nothing. Nothing.
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And
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through all of that, nobody ever
1:42
questioned how the football hall of fame
1:45
was decided.
1:47
And I'm largely talking about sports
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media here. I'm really not talking about
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fans because fans are not expected to
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understand the inner workings of Hall of
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Fame votes. Talk about the sports media.
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So for the better part of 80 years,
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however long we've had the the first the
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first class in Canton, 60 70 years,
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been no outrage. And then suddenly Bich
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doesn't get in the first ballot and
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there's massive outrage. and we find out
2:15
today or yesterday that he missed it by
2:18
one vote. So there's massive outrage.
2:22
We have sports media talkers saying burn
2:25
down the Hall of Fame.
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I heard Booger McFarland say, "If you
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didn't put in Bellich year 1, you can't
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put in Brady year 1. If you don't put in
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Brady year one, then people will riot."
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He said this, "People will riot at the
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NFL park a offices."
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I've heard people say, "Fire all of the
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electors, all of the voters,
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[clears throat] and nothing matters."
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And Jimmy Johnson also said,
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"Everybody's legacy that's a Hall of
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Famer is tarnished. Everybody that's a
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Hall of Famer,
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I think it's all fraudulent." I think
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people like to
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log on to something that feels like the
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public is going this way. So, it's an
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easy thing to jump onto. You kind of
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like surf that wave. I think a lot of
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sports media did that this week. Surf
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the wave of online outrage. I'm I'm
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going there. I know I'll have people
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with pitchforks and things of that
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nature behind me, so I won't have to
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worry about um facing any of the the the
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the other the the the current coming the
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other way. And I just thought it was
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fraudulent because people that said blow
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up the way that the the Hall of Fame is
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done
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didn't ever have a peep about how it was
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done until that day. Now, suddenly
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everything's got to be rendered moot.
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Now,
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is Bill Belch a Hall of Famer? Yeah, of
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course he is.
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Um, and I don't subscribe to if he's not
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a Hall of Famer on the first ballot, he
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can't ever be a Hall of Famer again. I
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do think it's okay to consider not being
4:05
first ballot a penalty
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like Terrell Owens. Terrell Owens was a
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really good example of a Hall of Fame,
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undeniable Hall of Fame resume with a
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big negative on the football field,
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which was he was a distraction.
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He was volatile. He was a negative
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addition at times to every locker room
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he was in. He has pretty awful
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relationships by and large with his
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quarterbacks and coaches.
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So, I think it's okay to say first
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ballot guys can be Joe Montana and Tom
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Brady or let's even say just Joe
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Montana, John Unitas,
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and then there can be guys that are
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obvious Hall of Famers that don't get on
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the first ballot like Bill Walsh, who I
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would think is a first ballot guy, but
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that happened. Terrell Davis was not a
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first ballot guy.
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I think when you look at Bill's
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scandals,
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when you look at Bill's Spygate,
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deflategate,
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both first round draft picks were
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docked.
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Both were significant fines. The first
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one had $750,000 worth of a fine. The
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second one had a million dollar fine.
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Both of those are on his resume.
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If the voters just simply say, you know
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what, he's not a first ballot guy
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because of those stains.
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I think that's totally rational. I think
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what happened was
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people freaked out on social media.
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Sports talkers freaked out with them
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seeing the current going that way.
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Wanted to be angry about something. Got
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it.
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And then the voters
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did themselves in by by admitting we're
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embarrassed. Nothing to be embarrassed
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about. Stand your ground. Explain it.
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It's fine. It's totally fine.
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So, I was maybe not shocked because
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today's sports media landscape is kind
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of a a mess of things anyway. But I
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thought that there was a lot of takes
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out there that lacked a lot of
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integrity.
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It's okay if you think that Bill's
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Super Bowl accomplishments
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superseded his scandals. It's okay.
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But the scandals exist. The scandals
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exist. And if that's the reason to take
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him out of the first ballot, I think
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that's reasonable.
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But to act as though there was no
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possible explanation and because it was
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so egregious, you have to disassemble
6:47
the electorate and that you have to burn
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the thing down.
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I had I had no use for that part of the
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conversation. None. None. It it was
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people reacting completely emotionally
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and completely illogically who are in
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positions that are supposed to use
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reason and logic.
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Not I'm not talking about the fans. Fans
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are not asked to do that. Fans are asked
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to be emotional and loyal and
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passionate. That's fine. Talking about
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my business. I didn't I didn't come away
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from this week saying we had a good
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week. I didn't thought it was a bad
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week. Honestly, the that part of it
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was a really bad week. And I think when
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he gets in next year,
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it'll be such a blip on the radar that
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we will go, can you believe there was
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that type of animosity and angst and
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hate and vitriol and uh aggressive um
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you know, verbiage about that about
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that.
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Also, by the way, like Bill was the
7:52
biggest jerk to deal with for everybody
7:56
in that room for his entire career.
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Should that make a difference? Maybe
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not.
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But can it make a difference? Sure. And
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when guys are great to the media, do you
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think that makes a difference?
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Probably. Should it? Maybe, maybe not.
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But it does. And so like the idea that a
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guy who was such a small individual for
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so long, so selfish,
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so self-involved,
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covered in scandal,
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and
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turned on by his owner,
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deserve the benefit of the doubt. And if
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he didn't get it, we should burn it all
8:44
down.
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Give me a break.
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just give me a break. You know, I live
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by treat people the way you'd want to be
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treated.
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If that's the case, I hope I get the
8:58
benefit of the doubt. If I treat you
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well, I hope that you give me the
9:02
benefit of the doubt in case I need it.
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If I treat you like garbage every single
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day and that I need a favor or need you
9:09
to go to bat for me and you don't, can't
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blame you. So, Bill, screw off. I don't
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feel bad for you. I really don't. And
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the people that behind microphones and
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keyboards that yelled all week, give me
9:26
a break. You didn't care that much
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either. I don't believe it. I think it
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was all for show.
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