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D.L. Hughely On Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, Ahmaud Arbery Case & Grades Pres. Joe Biden’s Performance
Nov 29, 2021
In preparation for hitting the Caroline’s stage on Thanksgiving Week, comedian D.L. Hughely calls into Sway In The Morning and briefly spoke about some too issues in our country and political landscape right now.
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[Applause]
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ladies and gentlemen he's back man keep
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the round of applause going actor
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political commentator
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radio host stand up comedian and good
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friend of the show man this is one of
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the most intelligent funniest people
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that i know he can make things that
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happen in this country that are scary to
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me
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humorous that requires a gift give it up
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for the one and only dl hugley d.l what
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up
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what's happening baby how are you doing
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sway what's up t hey y'all oh good man
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faves always it's me and tracy g db is
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hanging out with us 2dl man how you been
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bro we haven't spoken a while
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i know man i've been very good man you
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know i i it's the first time i'm excited
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because it's the first time i performed
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in new york in two years so uh it's
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because of coco and i'm very excited i'm
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doing good what about y'all
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tracy go for it
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i'm feeling great man i'm excited about
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thanksgiving this is the first time i've
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seen everything that was given with my
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man's family
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my health is here we celebrated a
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beautiful birthday i got my man dl on
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the line i ain't got no worries man i
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feel really well i expect it yes and it
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doesn't mean everything is going my way
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you know what i'm saying but it doesn't
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have to go my way for this life to be
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beautiful so that's where i'm at
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hey hey dl man
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i've been walking on eggshells man i'm
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to the point every time i got a sniff or
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a cough i wonder if i caught it man
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man
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it's that bad you can't cough these days
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you mess around
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like i'm i'm in new york now i get
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tonight but then i go
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to uh to atlanta to be with my whole
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family's being at my daughter's house
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because you know i got in the ground
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this is my first thanksgiving with my
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new grandbaby and this is i'm it's
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exciting for me because it's the first
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pretty child we ever had in our family
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i'm dying
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[Music]
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hey man when your kids hear these jokes
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bro what do they say they don't say
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nothing when you come home like screw
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you dad but what
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what are you gonna say they didn't go
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home and cry in a pile of money what
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they gonna do
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i hate when you talk like that you like
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your car see there they go that's it
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it's a fair exchange it's a fair
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exchange
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i don't think they like uh you know
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nobody likes to hear
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um their intimate details played out
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from the world but it's it's price of
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being in the family
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yeah man uh d.l hughley is with us i'm
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opening up the phone lines 888-742-3345
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anything you want to know axdl you
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performing at caroline's tonight
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tomorrow at 7 00 p.m 9 45 and saturday
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at 7 pm 9 45 man i recall we're not
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gonna work on we're not gonna work on
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thanksgiving so it's tonight and then
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friday saturday oh friday okay okay yeah
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friday yeah okay okay cool man i
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remember um
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man one of those times he was talking
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you you you passed out on stage man uh
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you know you don't have to yeah
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that's right it was crazy
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never pass out on stage around black
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people y'all the man
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a drop squad they fall out boys
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[Laughter]
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no i'm good man i'm good i think
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you know that it took a little while to
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get over there but i'm i'm i'm doing
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great man i'm uh i'm excited to get back
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on stage i think uh now you know when
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you first go out you're a little anxious
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and and i think audiences were a little
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excited but i think now everybody's
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trying to learn how to navigate this
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place with
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yeah man that's a crazy place i always
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like to go on yo yo your page to see
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like what's on your mind man and and one
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of the things you posted was why do why
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did malcolm x documentary know more
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details about his death than the fbi
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isn't that something bro
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yeah because they wanted to know
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they i mean you gotta want to know
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something like
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i think that they're called
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investigative journalists and detectives
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are called investigators but you have to
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want an answer and i think
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um i think a lot of times in our society
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they don't it's just somebody somebody
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the um
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the the less valuable the life the
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shorter the investigation
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so i mean just like when a white woman
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come up missing they're gonna look
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everywhere black women get a picture on
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the telephone pole rather the mission
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cat and the 2005 honda accord for sale
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so
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who's say yeah
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and i think a lot of people when it
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comes to
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people they don't deem worthy of like
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like you never hear black people
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um use self-defense
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because you have to have a self that
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people think is worthy of defending and
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i don't think a lot of people
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really put that much stock in our lives
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i mean just like i was watching in my
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library trial
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and she was talking about one of the
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defense attorneys to talk about his long
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dirty toenails
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um which is weird because my daddy had
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long dirty toenails because he worked
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devil's shifts and worked so so he
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didn't care about his feet but they were
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trying to make him
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into an animal and the truth of the
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matter if ahmad armory
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aubry were the animals she was trying to
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describe he'd have been treated more
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humanely you couldn't imagine two people
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picking up
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three people with guns and trucks
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running down a stray dog would have
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caused more ire than it originally uh
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when they murdered that black man it
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took three different investigators to be
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put off the case and the nation seen the
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video before this trial ever happened so
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you couldn't you couldn't do to animals
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would you do that if you couldn't just
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hunt a bear because it scared you you
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couldn't we would uh we if if ahmad
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ivory or the animal they made them out
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to be if they're gonna make us animals
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they need to treat us as humanely as
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they do that
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and i just i think it's
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it's just a statement of where we are
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right now yeah it's just like uh i
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remember reading that book to tell the
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two cities you know in this country it's
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to tell the two countries when you see a
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written house um you know i mean listen
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man that dude got off scotch free you
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know honestly
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nothing here's the thing america has
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always idolized people who either kill
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black people or the supporters of like
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they either kill black people other
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people because if you're either you're a
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[ __ ] or a [ __ ] lover but they they
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idolize those people they're on our
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money they're on statues they're on the
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schools are named after people whose
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soul uh claim to fame is brutalizing
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black people and i think the one thing i
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learned watching that kyle witness's
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house trial is white tears work better
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getting blood out than clorox i'm
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telling you white tears are miracles
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d.o hugely go ahead tracy
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dio so how would you i mean we obviously
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heard so much about
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um your takes on trump's presidency how
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would you rate um biden how do you feel
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like he's doing that
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i think that i think i think that he has
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done a lot of things that i think are
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going to be good for the nation i think
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that millions of people are lifting out
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of poverty poverty i think that this
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whole um infrastructure system is going
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to be a boon for the country but i also
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think that there are things that need to
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happen
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clearly you got to understand
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um one thing trump had it i don't think
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biden does is a base there are people
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that are going to be with trump no
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matter what i think biden's relationship
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is more transactional like it's not and
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i think in order for him to get a rock a
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solid uh support and he needs to do
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things with the people who who got him
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in like i think the voter's rights act
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has to pass i think the policing act has
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to pass because you get you can't do
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things for asian and do things with
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native americans and not think that
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black people are gonna who really had a
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large hand in putting you in office are
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not gonna feel that they're not getting
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his money work and that has to happen so
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i just i feel like a lot of people
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um
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feel uh slightly let down and i think
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that you can't judge a game by first
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quarter because if the first quarter was
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all that would count atlanta falcons
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would beat the new england patriots that
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they didn't so
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um i'm
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i'm
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i'm hoping that he understands uh where
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support comes from and he does something
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to reciprocate that support that they
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showed him all right man we got d.l
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hughley is here with us um he's
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performing tonight friday and saturday
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at caroline's if you're the tri-state
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area one of the funniest people i've
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known for decades d is on the line from
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new orleans what up d
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yo deep hey what's what's good sway
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tracy g happy birthday thank you bo
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no problem hey bl here i just wanted to
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uh to give you a shout out man give you
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your flowers you're one of the greatest
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to ever do it
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uh thank you man you know i i caught you
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since since the the kings of comedy and
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and i just wanted to say you know much
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respect to you
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um
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i know you on the show uh like a month
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ago uh something like that and you uh
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were talking about a book you would
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written
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right and
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i hit sway up on the gram but he didn't
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answer me so i i ain't gonna you know
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i ain't gonna fault you for that bro
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it's all good
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wow
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and
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you got it from dl himself how are you
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going to get mad at him if he got the
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title wrong
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and uh god bless happy thanksgiving to
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y'all same to you you too
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yeah we try to go in man on my own
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platform and how about that
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oh yeah man
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felt kind of guilty greener y'all got to
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scream better yeah
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geez man we just let everybody on
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roderick's on he's from ohio grand
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rapids shot rod
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doing great say hello to dl
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what's going on deal uh i got a question
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all right
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um
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how do you feel about you know the term
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blocking and why we still use it
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when it when it has nothing to do with
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the color of our skin
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you know what i i think it's like i
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don't want the last sentence
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for instance it had black negro
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african-american
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you know i don't i don't care what
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somebody called me as long as it's equal
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like i don't really care like i like i
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think i don't i don't get into the weeds
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on that type of stuff but i think
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that it isn't what we're called it's the
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way we're treated and so i think if
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you know what's in the name if
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you know some people gonna feel
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comfortable calling themselves black
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somebody
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some people gonna fill this up
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african-american or something i'd never
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call myself but but some people will
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feel more close but i think it's not
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what we'll call it the way we treat it
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why wouldn't you say african-american
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right because
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it was a term jesse jackson made up just
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saw some humbug that [ __ ] now everybody
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says i think it doesn't
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you know first first off i don't know
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that a black that in america black
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people are treated like mayor so i it's
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hard to put that on there but
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i i i just it to me i've never gotten to
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the minutia of what we're called i think
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it's the way we're treated that
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resonates the most with me and i think
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that you can clearly see there's a
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different standard of treatment for
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whatever reason now i don't know what
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other reason you could describe that to
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other inmates
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but for whatever reason we're not seen
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as as
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full citizens in this country and so
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while we're working on what we should
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describe ourselves as we should work on
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how we are defined by this country
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absolutely d.o hugley is with us uh i'm
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gonna take one more call mike is in las
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vegas mike mike hey mike mike
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hey what's going on thank you for taking
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my call um happy birthday
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uh tracy g yeah um
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um i wanted to thank uh i met diana back
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in 1995.
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um
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i was in the cafe with my my eye i was
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in between
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um being homeless you know it was kind
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of like my art was taking me out to kind
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of like take my mind off of things
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and so i was a very little point in my
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life you know he was like sitting right
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behind me with his wife and um
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i got a chance to talk to him and he
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gave me his autograph i still have his
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autograph to this day it was written on
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a
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napkin
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um that little exchange i was like oh
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you're black owned
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you know because he was married with his
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wife right there
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that was awesome you know so it's just
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kind of like that was a low point back
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in 95
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and it's like from that point kind of
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like you know you go through stuff
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but um it's been like a trajectory you
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know been married 21 years we just got a
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house um earlier this like a couple
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months now you now you black owned that
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yes definitely i mean i just wanted to
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call it i mean i've been watching you
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for years i mean even you know comedy
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view i mean i had the opportunity to go
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to where they were filming it um back it
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was at the normandy
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casino back in the day you know yeah
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yeah years ago i seen your career just
13:32
really you know but i just wanted to i
13:34
wanted to call it a day i mean we all
13:36
know what your accolades are and what
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you've done you know and your commentary
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and everything like that you know but i
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just personally wanted to call and just
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thank you you know because uh you kind
13:45
of made me smile kind of made me laugh
13:47
and i whenever i think of you i think of
13:49
that moment i think of like
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you know
13:52
not the doubt let's just say the
13:53
downside of being hey hey man hey mike
13:55
mike man we only got so much time on the
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air brother i'm sorry
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my god
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you know you know haters are yeah but
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i'm hating damn it so d.o.a never signed
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up for me mike
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all right man
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mike you're a citizen man get out of
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here my man mike i swear to god
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hey dl i'm in town man i think i'm gonna
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try to come out saturday and check you
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out brother
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please do man cause i i think
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i think being able to tell jokes uh is
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an endangered art i think i think now
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you know i i think every time now people
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put way more stakes to jokes than they
14:34
do the [ __ ] that actually matters in
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their life and it's just an amazing
14:38
thing but i think in order to keep this
14:40
art form viable you got to do what you
14:41
do and stand on and see what happens so
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yeah yeah it's it's a pretty funny time
14:46
it's a pretty fun time let me ask you
14:48
something man um i'm going to give you
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two names and i just want to see your
14:51
response the uh
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richard pryor
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dash or dave chappelle i think they
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they're both the same thing as it's like
15:00
how's that kobe and lebron jordan i
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think they're all that they're all men
15:05
who elevated the art and and and and
15:08
who uh
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i don't think i've ever seen anybody hit
15:12
that creative peak and they're it's like
15:14
uh you know you see a running back who
15:17
goes on a a great streak or scoring
15:19
streak they're on those men were able to
15:21
hit levels
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um
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that consistently that i've never seen
15:25
anybody else do it any other
15:27
art form or endeavor so i think and i
15:30
think you can tell man the fact that
15:32
what a comedian said
15:34
sparked more controversy than a man who
15:37
tried to overthrow the government that
15:38
tells you how powerful the job powerful
15:40
comedy and how
15:42
exactly was
15:44
like dave appeals
15:45
um
15:47
dave chappelle's assessment of what
15:49
things look like everything they did
15:51
subsequent to that showed that he was
15:53
telling the truth everything they did
15:54
like they wanted to ban like like when
15:57
the netflix employees wanted uh
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they wanted
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uh money they wanted job set aside and
16:03
they wanted him you know his images
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taken down i'm like [ __ ] that's
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reparations he wanted
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that's what we
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do
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right we have a lot in common
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yeah so white people wanted reparations
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from the black zoo
16:20
who they felt did haunted him he's a
16:22
comedian he's not thomas jefferson he
16:24
didn't sell your mother like it's so i
16:26
think it tells you how and and
16:29
i think the notion that anybody is above
16:31
a joke i think there's something you can
16:32
find about any situation and i think
16:35
that for a group to say you you because
16:37
of the violence perpetrated against us
16:40
that we should be off limits um i don't
16:42
know a br like a brown or yellow person
16:44
that couldn't say the same thing like we
16:47
indians could say man you should be able
16:48
to celebrate thanksgiving but nobody
16:50
does that
16:51
so i don't think anybody's above
16:53
anything and i think that there are
16:54
things that are just funny about
16:55
everything like i i don't know i
16:57
wouldn't be mad to do for jayden the
16:58
transgender he got having advantages
17:00
like he never got worried about a
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pregnancy scare that's for sure i'm late
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for what [ __ ] work are you late for
17:05
work
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d.o hugely man give my brother a round
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of applause once again you can catch
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them tonight at caroline's friday
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caroline 7 p.m 9 45 p.m and saturday at
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caroline's at 7 00 p.m and 9 45. love
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you dl
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i love you brother i'll see you this
17:23
weekend happy thanksgiving and happy
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birthday all right
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[Music]
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you
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