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DLHS Hour 2 | Can You Watch a Public Execution · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the D.L. Hughley Show, your 2026 edition.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going to be in Philadelphia, I'll be there
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow at the Miller Auditorium, Miller Theater.
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  Speaker 1: So come check us out. Me, Don Lemon of Don Lemon, D.L.
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  Speaker 3: And D.L.
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  Speaker 1: My book, Charlie Boy, is available right now. So check
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  Speaker 1: it out if you can. Would you watch a televised execution, Jasmine?
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  Speaker 1: Would you watch one?
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  Speaker 4: No, absolutely not. Even though I totally agree with you
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  Speaker 4: that this country is savage without question.
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  Speaker 5: I am not.
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  Speaker 4: And so I believe that you are what you consume.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to see that. I want no parts
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  Speaker 4: of it. I know there are some things that you
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  Speaker 4: see that you can't unsee. And I don't want that
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  Speaker 4: in my spirit or in my mind or on my heart.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to see it. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And especially not separately, spirit, mind or heart. I just don't.
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  Speaker 1: I just I feel like, no, I just.
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  Speaker 4: I should not be subjected to it. You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not the one who did it, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: even though I get it, like you said, we're a
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  Speaker 4: very violent society. I don't consider myself a part of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So, no.
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  Speaker 2: I think that any dude who thought that that was
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  Speaker 2: going to be cool, they're going to really love this.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he knows America better than we do. Nothing like
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  Speaker 1: a brutal white dude to tell you what other white
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  Speaker 1: dudes like. It's nothing like that. So maybe they do.
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  Speaker 1: Would you watch a televised execution? Skip, would you do it?
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  Speaker 6: No, I need to watch that. I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, so you watch the
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  Speaker 1: execution every.
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  Speaker 6: Sunday, man.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I'm an Eagle fan.
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  Speaker 6: I went back to my old team, and they're not
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  Speaker 6: doing that well.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they ain't doing that well either. They ain't doing
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  Speaker 1: that well either. I went back a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, hey, man, I had to go back home.
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  Speaker 1: They killing birds.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: But, yeah, that's, you know, why? That is just cruel
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  Speaker 6: and unusual. I'm not saying that some people don't deserve
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  Speaker 6: to be executed. I'm not saying that. But putting it
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  Speaker 6: up for public display, this is not something for entertainment
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  Speaker 6: and folly and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: This is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think would happen if a game show
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  Speaker 2: host and a podcaster got together?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: They're thinking of the ratings. It's like sweeps weeks to them.
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  Speaker 2: But you can call it crude, but you can't call
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  Speaker 2: it unusual.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: You can't.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing's more quintessentially American than the public flogging and murder
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  Speaker 2: of people.
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  Speaker 6: That is the behavior.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing's more American than that.
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  Speaker 6: Well, when they watch other countries and try to point
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  Speaker 6: out they're savage, that's the stuff they do. You know,
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  Speaker 6: public executions and public and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Now you want to do it.
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  Speaker 8: Stop.
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  Speaker 6: Well, to DL's point, you can call it historical because
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  Speaker 6: that's what we've always done here.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, you can call it cruel. You can't call
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  Speaker 1: it unusual.
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  Speaker 3: Can't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's true at all.
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  Speaker 2: When they couldn't kill the girl in Tennessee, everybody started
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  Speaker 2: giving suggestions of how to kill her publicly. Oh, yeah, dude,
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  Speaker 2: what's the timeline? So, America, you can call it cruel,
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  Speaker 2: but you cannot call it unusual. So, would you watch
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  Speaker 2: a public executioner go right to the phones?
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  Speaker 9: I can't watch the Passion of the Christ, much less
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  Speaker 9: the public execution, unless it's Trump.
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  Speaker 7: I'm all for that.
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  Speaker 10: But I'll tell you one thing.
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  Speaker 9: If the assailant was black, they would make sure that
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  Speaker 9: that was aired on all national platforms.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's very disgusting. However, if it was Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump and his administration, I would watch it with popcorn
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  Speaker 3: and watch it over and over again. That's for certain.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, no, I would not.
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  Speaker 1: It is sick.
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  Speaker 3: It isn't sick to even think of that. But I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't make an exception if the orange orangutan was the
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  Speaker 3: one that was being executed.
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  Speaker 11: I would not want to watch a live execution at all,
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  Speaker 11: execution at all, because we live in America. We are
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  Speaker 11: our brothers and sisters, black brothers and sisters, brown brothers
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  Speaker 11: and sisters getting killed every day in front of our face.
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  Speaker 11: Justice for Nolan Wells again. And I pray, I pray
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  Speaker 11: that we wake up as a people and realize that
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  Speaker 11: we'll watch people getting killed every day, even in our
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  Speaker 11: own communities.
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  Speaker 12: So no, I wouldn't want to.
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  Speaker 11: Watch it on TV when we can't have justice for
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  Speaker 11: simple things in America.
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  Speaker 7: Just to be honest, man, it's not cool for us
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  Speaker 7: to be showing a public execution. His kids, if he
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  Speaker 7: got any, could see that shit 15 years from now.
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  Speaker 7: It should show the apparent lack of humanity.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely not. That is unnecessary. That's not to say that
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  Speaker 12: he doesn't deserve to be punished. But what kind of
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  Speaker 12: society are we that we want to see someone actually
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  Speaker 12: being gunned down or whatever way they decide to execute
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  Speaker 12: this man that we need to see this publicly? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 9: But they're used to that.
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  Speaker 12: They're used to watching hangings and things like that and
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  Speaker 12: not be bothered by it.
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  Speaker 8: But no.
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  Speaker 12: What purpose would that serve? It's just horrible. Does he
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  Speaker 12: deserve to be punished?
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 12: Did he do something horrible?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: But do we need to see that like that? No.
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  Speaker 12: It's just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: So could you watch a public execution?
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  Speaker 2: That's the question we pose to you.
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  Speaker 1: You said?
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  Speaker 13: They've been lynching and killing black people all the time.
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  Speaker 13: They used to bring their children to watch it. So
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  Speaker 13: it's no more different than what they used to do
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  Speaker 13: back in the day. And you got the devil's disciple
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  Speaker 13: in the White House. So where are we going with this?
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  Speaker 3: I'm from Alabama.
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  Speaker 8: I remember when we were kids, we used to see
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  Speaker 8: the executions and the yellow mama on television after school.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't know if anybody remembers that, but I
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  Speaker 8: think most people would watch the execution if it was televised.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't remember who it was, but it was
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  Speaker 8: somebody we watched execute the yellow mama. That's what they
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  Speaker 8: called it, the electric chair down here. And it used
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  Speaker 8: to be on after school. I mean, it was commonplace.
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  Speaker 8: So I don't see why America wouldn't do it now.
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  Speaker 8: As far as I'm concerned, we still do. It's just
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  Speaker 8: slow executions.
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  Speaker 9: Watching the execution, that will weigh on. I'm not doing that.
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  Speaker 9: And then that will weigh on everybody's mental health in
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  Speaker 9: this country. That's not what this country is. stands for.
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  Speaker 9: We don't do that. They do that in the other countries.
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  Speaker 9: And I don't condone what he did, but if we're
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  Speaker 9: going to do something like that as a nation, then
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  Speaker 9: they need to pull all of these other shooters, these
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  Speaker 9: other shooters that did these mass shootings in these schools,
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  Speaker 9: which were the others. They need to pull them and
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  Speaker 9: do the same thing. But we still don't need to
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  Speaker 9: be watching that. That still don't need to be televised
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  Speaker 9: on national TV.
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  Speaker 10: I was on death row for five years in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 10: and of course I wouldn't want to watch televised executions,
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  Speaker 10: but I don't think they should show them anyway because
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  Speaker 10: it would make people desensitized to taking somebody's life. Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: you got to be a real evil-hearted type of MAGA
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  Speaker 10: person who would want to see something like that and
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  Speaker 10: be giggling and, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, all giddy for watching something like that. I would
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  Speaker 3: never watch execution on TV, nor I would let anybody.
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  Speaker 9: In my household watch it.
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  Speaker 11: What is this world coming to?
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  Speaker 9: I think it's just.
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  Speaker 7: So barbaric, cold and heartless. I mean, it's not entertainment
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  Speaker 7: at all.
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  Speaker 9: No, I would not watch that.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, guess what? We got a new segment.
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  Speaker 2: We're hitting the streets to see what people are saying.
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  Speaker 1: It is time for the Streets of Talker with Trey Five.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, bro, this is Trey Five.
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  Speaker 5: So the question I got to pose for you is
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  Speaker 5: for a billion dollars, would you be OK with never
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  Speaker 5: using your sexual organ again?
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  Speaker 1: Like for a bill, no more sex. Would you be
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  Speaker 1: able to do it? Would you do it?
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  Speaker 3: Damn, that is crazy.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, bro.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 13: Wow, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying, you got to think about it.
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  Speaker 13: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: A bill?
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  Speaker 11: A bill.
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  Speaker 5: Like, you're just going to have to go without it.
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  Speaker 1: For a bill? I'd probably do it for a bill.
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  Speaker 3: For a bill, you do it.
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  Speaker 1: If it was less than a bill, hell no. But
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  Speaker 1: for a bill, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: For a billion dollars, would you give up using your
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  Speaker 5: sexual organs for life?
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  Speaker 1: That's a hard question, Trey. But I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: to take that billion. I'm going to tell you, I'll
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  Speaker 1: figure the rest out. I'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 5: For a billion dollars, would you give up using your
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  Speaker 5: sexual organ for life?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Yo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: For a billion dollars, would you give up using your
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  Speaker 5: sexual organ?
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  Speaker 9: I sure will.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the streets have spoken.
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  Speaker 5: So next time, this has been Trey Five with The
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  Speaker 5: Streets Are Talking.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, he going to get a job, boy.
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  Speaker 4: I know that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Trey.