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This is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm going to finally admit something I think that I
was wrong. We're live on ninety three three FLZ. It
took majority of my life. I'm twenty eight years old.
I started believing in this probably around freshman year of
high school. I had the ten year reunion list.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What is that like?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Fourteen years of me believing in this one thing. I
am coming out to say me, Joe Carbalo, I think
Stevie Wonder might actually be blind?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
He is blind? What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
No, I think he might. I think I think he
might be blind. For the longest time, I believe this
gentleman pulled a fast one on America the world and uh,
well he's a little line faced liar. But after seeing
the video of what happened to him and Mariah Carey,
one must ask the question, is he actually blind? I
(00:55):
think I think he might be blind? He you showed
me that video. I'm still shy. Can we can we
tweet that video? Retweet that at Live with Joe show
if you want to see what I'm talking about. Essentially,
Stephen Wonder is on stage. What was this that they
were at the Grammys and h Stevie Wonder had a microphone.
(01:16):
He went and he grabbed the microphone, which right now
that I'll tell you right now, I know a couple
of blind people. I never seen them grab a microphone,
like I'm not talking about he was in front of
the microphone and then grabbed me.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
He had to walk over to the microphone.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Now, after he grabs the microphone, though, he turns to
his right and he goes to hand Mariah Carey the microphone.
Now what happens Mariah Carey just walks right by him.
So what happens to Stevie Wonder? He is standing there
trying to hand the microphone to know one, and someone
(01:53):
came out. I'm assuming it's like the the Blind Bodyguard
or something like that, not like the Bodyguard's blind. But yeah,
it's wrangling there. You go to corral old man. He's
trying to hand off the microphone to know it. He
ran out on stages like, hey, Stevie, put down my mic.
Put down the mic, which made me think maybe he's not,
(02:15):
but I still think he's probably.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't know, you think he grabbed the microphone like,
oh they saw me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Let me wait a second, all right, the dude is
still lying exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
He knows there's people like me who believe he's not
actually blind. And he pulled a fast on.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If he does, I mean, if he if Stevie Wonder
knows the day he's gonna die and he's like up
to his deaf day and he's like, you, guys, I
got a big secret, and he says he's not blind.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Joe is right.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I am going to be so upset because I know
for a fact Stevie Water is blind.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
How do you know for a fact that you ever know?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But the Macery video man, he looks.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I was.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I felt so bad for him. He's just like trying
to hit her and nobody's there. She walks to a
completely different microphone. Eight hundred and four oh nine ninety
three ninety three. Anyone like me, anyone a big like
conspiracy theorist. But then you you go, oh god, maybe
I was wrong. Anyone would to admit that they were
wrong on something like Jed's a bigger conspiracy theorist. There's
(03:22):
no one who believes in more conspiracies than Jed. There
had to have been something, yeah, that made you go,
maybe I was wrong on oh?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I For years, especially during twenty twenty, thought Avril Levine
was dead and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
She's not dead. I thought that she.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I thought she was dead because it was all zoom
calls and facetimes in all these rooms. Yeah, I and
I totally understand. I totally get that. However, you're behind
like a green screen.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Is Stevie wonderblinde j the video? Of course he is?
You he's blind? Are you sure though?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Do me, favorite Joe, go on your computer and you
and your car going to this computer on your computer,
your cell phone, the computer that you can have your
computer going, so search engine. Stevie Wonder glasses off. That's
enough evidence, right the watch watch watch itself.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We can't walking around like this.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Don't I look blind?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Look?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I mean he does get more sympathy if he's like blind,
doesn't he get like a discount?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Like LEXI you met Stevie Wonder?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Hi? I actually I did not meet him personally, but
my wife did and I had call. First of all,
I love listening to you guys. Secondly, I had the
call to just through the point that STEVIEE. Wonder is blind. Okay,
So my wife actually met him. She's a musician, she
met in years ago, and he came into the recording
studio that my wife was at and she was so
(05:18):
excited to meet him, and she asked him a question
and she goes, yeah, you know this little thing that
goes on the piano, it's about this big and he goes, girl,
I can't see her hand. I don't know what you're
showing me. And she was mortified the point that Steee
Wonder is blind. He cannot be I had.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
A moment kind of like that. The children of the blind.
I forget what school they were school.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Remember when the school.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Blind kids came in, which is really really cool. It
was exciting day for all of us too. I love
having people in I love giving you know, kids with
disabilities and opportunity to have some fun and for them
like audios their thing. I mean, there was like some
kids that knew the exact time a song they It
was crazy, but they walked into the studio. The first
(06:05):
thing I said to them was are you enjoying yourselves?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah? What's the coolest thing you saw today?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The moment I said that I wanted to swan dive
off the top of the building. So you're here to
tell me that. But all right, here's the deal though, LEXI,
what if he was lying?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Do you have glasses on dollars? I don't know. Neither
of us were there, so maybe we'll never know. I
just I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We need to get Joe to meet Stevie Wonder. We
have to figure out all anyone knows Stevie Wonders management
how we can get Joe to meet him, so we
can figure this out, Like, let's make that happen.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Cat, we could just pay him, take him off.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
How do you read the script? Come on, I will
say this though. If you google Stevie Wonder catches, Mike, promise.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You'll agree with me.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I've never seen a blind guy catch a pass, catch anything,
but I've seen Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You heard Stevie Wonder? Where does he sit when he
goes to basketball games? Courtside? Why Stevie wonders? TV No
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