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DREW BREES: …and then Marques says “that’s not a snake, that’s Junior Galette’s belt!”

PRODUCER: Ha ha ha ha ha!

DREW: Ha ha ha ha ha!

DJ 3000: HA HA HA HA HA!

PRODUCER: Great story, Drew.  I have to say, being able to chat like this makes things feel almost normal.  It’s been really great.

DREW: It’s been nice for me too.  Bit of a break from, uh, some other stuff that’s been going on.

PRODUCER: Any chance you’d maybe like to talk about that a bit?

DREW: Sure.  But just a little bit.  I’m trying to do more listening than talking these days, you know what I mean?

PRODUCER: As someone who works for the declining medium of terrestrial radio, I just wish there were more people like you out there.

DREW: Ha ha ha, yeah.

PRODUCER: So the backlash to your comments about kneeling during the anthem…it caught you by surprise.

DREW: It did, most definitely.  Because in the past people tried to explain the context of these things, and how they were part of a bigger picture.  But this time, nobody felt compelled to do that on my behalf.  At all.  And my teammates explained to me that this is one of the big sea changes that has happened in the wake of George Floyd’s murder – people like me no longer receive the presumption of ignorance.

PRODUCER: The presumption of ignorance.

DREW: Exactly.  How many times have people stuck up for you when you did or said something stupid and said “oh, he didn’t know.”? Well, those days are over.  You can’t pretend that you didn’t know Juneteenth is an important date celebrating the end of slavery in the United States, or that Tulsa was home to one of the worst instances of racial violence in our country’s history.  You can’t buy 88 spots for an ad with an upside-down red triangle and pretend that there’s no Nazi symbolism going on with it.  And if you genuinely don’t know these things, if you make an honest mistake…nobody is going to stick up for you anymore.  Nobody is going to give you the benefit of the doubt of having good intentions.  All of that is done.

PRODUCER: Huh.

DREW: It’s a wrecking ball.  And if you step in front of you, it’s going to ruin you.  It came for me.  It came for Greg Glassman – he might not be mourning for George Floyd, but he sure as hell is going to be mourning the fact that he destroyed the Crossfit brand – a brand from which the vast majority of his worth derived.  Same with Mike Gundy over at OSU – for something that he perceives as being as innocuous as wearing a t-shirt, he’s lost the locker room.  Probably for good. And I thought that would make for a good theme for this week’s Request Line.

DJ 3000: SONGS ABOUT WRECKING BALLS?

DREW: That’s right.  I’ll get us started with one from a band called Creeper Lagoon.

Today’s theme is: Wrecking Balls.  Your first task is to pick at least two songs that specifically reference wrecking balls.  And then after you’ve paid your dues, feel free to throw in a few more about demolition specifically.  Post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=theR3cK0n!ng” and they should embed in the comments after you refresh.