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DONKEY: Father Leaves Kids In McDonald's To Attend Job Interview · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Don't be out here acting like a donkey. Hee ho, bitch,
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  Speaker 1: it's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm a big boy.
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  Speaker 1: I could take it if you feel out deserve It
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  Speaker 1: ain't no big deal, I know. Charlomagne, God go funny,
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  Speaker 1: sick say his mouth. You gotta say something you may
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  Speaker 1: not agree with. It doesn't mean I'm meaning.
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  Speaker 2: Who's getting that donky, that donkey that don't don't don't
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  Speaker 2: don't dun't donk.
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  Speaker 1: The other day right here the breakfast club. Bitch, you
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  Speaker 1: you could call me the donkey of the day, but
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  Speaker 1: like I mean, no harm. Yes, don't you Today? For Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: April first April, Foolday goes to an Augustine man named
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  Speaker 1: Chris Lewis. Okay, Chris is twenty four years old, and
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  Speaker 1: he was arrested for leaving his kids at the McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: while he attended a job interview. I repeat, he was
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  Speaker 1: arrested for leaving his kids at the McDonald's while he
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  Speaker 1: attended a job interview. Hey, we listen, we don't judge.
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  Speaker 1: I'm lying, we judge it. Let's go to Fox twenty
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  Speaker 1: six Houston for the report police.
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  Speaker 3: A job interview ends badly for a man named Georgia
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  Speaker 3: Chris Lewis was arrested March twenty second. Police say he
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  Speaker 3: left his kids in a McDonald's by themselves while he
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  Speaker 3: went to an interview for a job. He reportedly told
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  Speaker 3: police he did not have a car and lived nearby.
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  Speaker 3: Lewis said instead of making his three kids, who are one, six,
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  Speaker 3: and ten years old, walk home alone, he decided to
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  Speaker 3: make them stay.
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  Speaker 1: In the restaurant.
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  Speaker 3: What we know is he was there from fourth the
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  Speaker 3: kids were there from four point thirty. He returned at
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  Speaker 3: six eighteen, and then the mother was on the way
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  Speaker 3: as well. But we don't know if she was called
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  Speaker 3: by police or him after the fact, or if she
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  Speaker 3: was on the way anyway.
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  Speaker 1: He was twenty foty as a ten year old, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that child at fourteen? Yes, hey, do you know how
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  Speaker 1: young ten six in one are? Okay, I have a
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  Speaker 1: nine year old, a six year old and a three
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  Speaker 1: year old. I don't like leaving them alone in the
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  Speaker 1: family room while I'm upstairs. Nonetheless dropping them off at
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  Speaker 1: a McDonald's restaurant while I attend a job interview. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know some of y'all are out here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: out there thinking well, at least he was going to
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  Speaker 1: do something productive like going on a job interview. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if that's what you think, you are missing the entire point. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The issue here is the fact that Chris left his
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  Speaker 1: ten to six and one year old unattended at a McDonald's. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: A witness reported seeing him with his children around four
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm. The witness also observed him leave the restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: return later before leaving again, and then when he came
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  Speaker 1: back at the restaurant around six eighteen pm, that's when
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  Speaker 1: he was detained by offices. That's almost two hours that
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  Speaker 1: he left his kids unattended at a McDonald's. Anything could
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  Speaker 1: have happened in that two hours. Kidnapping, let's start there, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: medical emergency would have one of the kids hurt themselves
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  Speaker 1: and needed immediate attention. People at McDonald's not paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a damn daycare andy, and then making fishing
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  Speaker 1: flats and making sure the quarter pounds is a poundering
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  Speaker 1: Why would they be paying attention to your kids now?
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  Speaker 1: The news report said the child's mother arrived shortly after
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  Speaker 1: and took the children from the restaurant. Why couldn't they
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  Speaker 1: have been with the mother to begin with, don't nobody
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  Speaker 1: got no grandparents, no aunts? Where your parents at?
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  Speaker 3: Chris?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not judging. I'm just asking questions. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: understand your thought. I says, Hey, okay, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: understand why you thought this was okay. You didn't even
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  Speaker 1: try to slip one of the McDonald's employees a couple
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  Speaker 1: of dollars to say, hey, bro, I gotta run to
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  Speaker 1: the job interview real quick. Can you just watch my
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  Speaker 1: kids for a second. That wouldn't have been the right
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  Speaker 1: thing to do either, but it would have been better
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  Speaker 1: than just leaving them there unattended. Now, Chris, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to think I have a zero empathy for you.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I understand. You know, it's a hustle. Times
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  Speaker 1: are hard. Everything costs. Daycare is no joke, you know,
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  Speaker 1: babiesit the prices are no joke. You probably didn't even
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  Speaker 1: have the money to offer anyone you know, to watch
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  Speaker 1: your kids, Okay, trying to secure employment to provide your family,
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  Speaker 1: provide for your family. That's commendable. Round of applause for that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: But what's our job is meant? Our job is meant
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  Speaker 1: is to protect and provide. I put protect in front
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  Speaker 1: of provision for a reason, because the safety of our kids,
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  Speaker 1: the safety of our families, comes before anything else. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can figure anything else side. I've been broke before.
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  Speaker 1: I can get to the money in some way. I
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  Speaker 1: can deal with that. But your baby's being hurt because
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  Speaker 1: of your negligence. I can't live with that. Okay. There
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  Speaker 1: is no job you could possibly acquire on this planet
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  Speaker 1: that is worth more than the safety and well being
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  Speaker 1: of your kids. Let's just say, Chris, you got the job.
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  Speaker 1: You all excited, you rushing back to McDonald's, happy as hell. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you get their kids gone, somebody gonna snatched them up.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me if that job is worth it? Then? Oh
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  Speaker 1: what if you would have got back and you pull
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  Speaker 1: up and it's ambulances everywhere? Okay, because the one year
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  Speaker 1: old then suffocated in the pittoplastic balls. You tell me
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  Speaker 1: if that job interview you went on was worth that. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: There are resources and community programs designed to help parents
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  Speaker 1: in these situations. I did some research, and by research
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  Speaker 1: all I mean is Google. Okay, you could have called
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  Speaker 1: Family Promise of Augusta. They got a cost free childcare center. Now,
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  Speaker 1: from what I read, they help homeless families, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they could have helped you too. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: there had to be other options. Okay. McDonald's menu has
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five items. That's one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty five different things to choose from. Why am I
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  Speaker 1: saying that? I'm saying that because if McDonald's has one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty five items, if they have that many options,
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  Speaker 1: then us as humans have to give ourselves more options too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you could have found at least one more
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  Speaker 1: option other than dropping your kids off at McDonald's. That
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  Speaker 1: can't be the plan A and the only plan period. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's hope this serves as a lesson to all parents
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  Speaker 1: before you make poor choices like this, seek out support
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  Speaker 1: systems and plan accordingly when you're faced with these kinds
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  Speaker 1: of challenges, because nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, is
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  Speaker 1: worth jeopardizing the safety of your children. Please give Chris
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  Speaker 1: Lewis the biggest he hulled. Am I tripping? Nah? Okay? No,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you when you are, but now you're not.
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  Speaker 1: He deserves donkey, but he doesn't deserve to be arrested.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you why, right, because you said a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff that we don't necessarily know about. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: he had a babysitter in play and last minute be
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  Speaker 2: sitting canceled and he's trying to do right, he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to get a job, and maybe he thought, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: not to say that this was a smart decision. But
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  Speaker 2: let me try. It's not like he was going to
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  Speaker 2: the club. It's not like he was at the mall shopping.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like he was at a chick house or
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  Speaker 2: you're smoking some weed or selling some dope. He was
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  Speaker 2: trying to better his life. Now the decision he made
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  Speaker 2: was stupid. But now he gets this, he's now he's
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  Speaker 2: arrested for this. Now is this on his record? Now
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  Speaker 2: he can't get a good job because that's on his record.
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  Speaker 2: It is definitely it is fed up and it is foul.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a way they can both the law. But
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  Speaker 2: as a community, you know what I mean, we should
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  Speaker 2: have certain graces when it comes to certain things. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, if he was at a club, yes, lock
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  Speaker 2: him up. If he was at the mall shopping, if
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  Speaker 2: he was smoking weed, he's selling crack. If he was
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  Speaker 2: at a chick house but he was trying to better
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  Speaker 2: his life.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm just that why not take them to the
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  Speaker 4: actual interview?
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  Speaker 1: Then he said he didn't want them to walk. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry he didn't have he would have to walk with
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  Speaker 1: the kids. Some ask you a question, maybe if something would
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  Speaker 1: have happened to the kids, would you still feel that way?
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  Speaker 1: If the kids would have got kidnapped, if one of
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  Speaker 1: the kids would have suffocated in the in the play,
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  Speaker 1: would you still feel that it would have been a
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  Speaker 1: sad situation. But would you still say he shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: been arrested. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he would have been arrested because he's
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  Speaker 2: not doing it on purpose. He's really trying to better
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  Speaker 2: his life, and the circumstances with life hit him.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Like, like, think about it like this. Say he did
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  Speaker 2: have a babysitter. Let's say he did, and the babysity
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  Speaker 2: candl last minute, and he's trying to get a job.
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  Speaker 1: It's not your ten years old, right, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: it's in your one year old.
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  Speaker 2: Saying it's smart. I'm not saying it's a right decision
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  Speaker 2: or a smart decision. But that man is trying to
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  Speaker 2: better his life, and we've all been to a place
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  Speaker 2: where it's just for what that got to do with
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  Speaker 2: the safety of your children, right, I don't care how
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  Speaker 2: much you're trying to jail.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, he broke the law. I don't know nothing about that.
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  Speaker 1: But my point is you can't say this man is
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  Speaker 1: trying to better his like you can't put you know,
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  Speaker 1: you being unemployed over the safety of your children, the
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  Speaker 1: safety of.
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  Speaker 2: Your children, not saying it's a smart decision. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't think you should have went to jail.
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  Speaker 4: They wanna walk with me, I get he ain't want
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  Speaker 4: them to walk, all right, Well, I'm gonna carry you
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  Speaker 4: into I get tired in your little brother, gonna hold
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  Speaker 4: you dumb na pick you back up, something like they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be with me at this job interview, because that
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  Speaker 4: may entice the job the people to give them the
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  Speaker 4: job even more.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's his kids. I don't want to make no Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't think you should yeopardize the safety of
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  Speaker 1: your children. I agree in the pursuit of impact, I
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  Speaker 1: agree one thousand man. I can't say I can't I
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  Speaker 1: can't say I can't say he shouldn't be arrested.
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  Speaker 2: Let's open up the phone lines. Let's discuss eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: and five five one oh five one. This young man,
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  Speaker 2: he's twenty four years old. He had a job interview.
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  Speaker 2: He left his three children in McDonald's while he did
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  Speaker 2: the job interview. The ages of his children are one,
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  Speaker 2: six and ten. He was arrested for it. Do you
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  Speaker 2: think he should have been arrested?
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  Speaker 1: Don't get it?
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  Speaker 4: Did he take any did he tell anybody in McDonald's,
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  Speaker 4: look y'all? Did he put them on point?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Do he know them?
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  Speaker 3: Like? If he you know?
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  Speaker 4: What I'm saying is that McDonald's he go to you
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  Speaker 4: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: When's the last time you've been to McDonald's with a ballpick?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, because I wanted to. They all look
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  Speaker 2: like urgent cares now.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, and you know why they got rid of
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  Speaker 1: the ball pitch because they were dangerous? Yeah, because they
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  Speaker 1: were safety has of the kids. And that's when you
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  Speaker 1: leave your children. You played it when you was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I played was played in the goddamn ballpits when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 1: Did, but I don't remember playing them. But they have
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  Speaker 1: child neglect laws for a reason. This was child negligent y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Let's discuss.
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