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In this week’s Check-In, Vin celebrates his daughter and his uncle on their birthday with a lunch fit for a king and queen in the borough of Brooklyn. Rick is also celebrating his brother’s birthday, but did his family get his age wrong? Rick is also dealing with the fallout of back order parts for his SUV to be repaired and the additional headache of dealing with insurance companies. L.O. talks about The Fearless Artist event that he attended with Alaric and the afterparty at Brooklyn Bowl where they watched Craig Robinson perform with a live band.

The guys discuss the universal basic income project recently launched in Denver, CO. Is this a feasible program to address poverty in one of America’s major cities? Next, the guys talk about the alleged felonious activity surrounding Brett Favre and his involvement in one of the biggest welfare fraud schemes in Mississippi history. Favre is accused of lobbying the state’s then-governor and other officials to redirect money intended for Mississippians in need to instead go toward new volleyball and football facilities for his alma mater, Southern Mississippi. Finally, the guys weigh in on the other scandal making the news with head coach Ima Udoka having sex with women connected with the Boston Celtics organization.

You’ll hear this and so much more on this episode of Decoding 40.

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