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Story #3: Despite no changes to the 'Jim Crow 2.0' election laws that saw Major League Baseball take away the All-Star Game from Atlanta, Will asks why no one is holding people accountable for their faux outrage four years ago? Plus, Two-A-Dayz give his review of one of Will's sports movie favorites, 'Days Of Thunder.'
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