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Ari Lennox Doubles Down on hating Martins Jokes to Pam & Brown skin women's treatment in the industry. + Dana White Scores $7billion UFC Deal · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Jewets.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: and everybody, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, if you don't lie about that, right, la.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: It's Laura de Rosa and this is the Latest with
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  Speaker 2: Lauren de Rosa. This is your daily dig on all
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  Speaker 2: things pop culture, entertainment, news and all of the conversations
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  Speaker 2: that shake the room. Now let's get right on into
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  Speaker 2: the latest. Now, up first, this deal.
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  Speaker 1: Is a huge, huge.
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  Speaker 2: Deal, especially after President Trump CBS Sky Dance, that whole
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  Speaker 2: merger that we talked about. So, Dana White, who was
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  Speaker 2: the owner of the USC, a huge name in television,
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  Speaker 2: huge name in the wrestling fighting world, has just announced
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  Speaker 2: that he has struck a deal for seven point seven
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: With Kerry Mount.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this deal makes it where a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: MMA content that you guys watch will be on Paramount Plus. Well,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, let me break down a deal. So
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  Speaker 2: it's seven point seven billion dollars. It's one point one
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars per year over a seven year situation. Dana
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  Speaker 2: White also released a statement on this deal. Will read
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  Speaker 2: the statement. But this is a crazy time for this deal,
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  Speaker 2: especially after Trump and the Sky dance merger, and you
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  Speaker 2: know all the things, the Late Show, you know, being
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  Speaker 2: taken off of TV, and you know there's been rumors,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, Donald Trump has commented on gil King
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  Speaker 2: potentially losing her job allegedly because she's in murky waters
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  Speaker 2: because of ratings and money that is being allegedly lost
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  Speaker 2: and all the things. Right, it's crazy to see Dana White,
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  Speaker 2: who is very much friends out loud with Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: get this crazy deal. I mean, it makes sense. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: anybody that is in television, anybody that understands fighting and content,
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  Speaker 2: knows what Dana White has done for the sport, literally
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  Speaker 2: taking UFC from something that people really didn't care to
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  Speaker 2: watch to making it something as interesting as you know,
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  Speaker 2: the way that people watch Floyd Mayweather on TV because
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  Speaker 2: he's grabbing up people who are entertaining, who are stars,
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  Speaker 2: who know how to play to a crowd, who come
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  Speaker 2: with an audience, all of that, all of those things,
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  Speaker 2: but you can't listen. You can'tnot call a spade a spade.
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  Speaker 2: The timing gets pretty insane. It seems like, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking from the outside looking in, Donald Trump is building
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  Speaker 2: what he wants to see in his own TV network,
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  Speaker 2: which a lot of people have been saying, is what
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  Speaker 2: we will begin to see from the new stations and
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  Speaker 2: you know, the different media outlets that we'll see over
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  Speaker 2: there where you know where CBS and Paramount and sky
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  Speaker 2: Dance and all these things used to be untapped. But
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  Speaker 2: in this new Trump administration, predictions are exactly what we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing happen. Certain things being taken away that are very radical,
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  Speaker 2: that are expressive, the opposite of Donald Trump, and people
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  Speaker 2: who are in favor, who are friends, who are you know,
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  Speaker 2: rubbing elbows with Donald Trump being put in position, And
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  Speaker 2: I'm not look, I'm not mad at a do what
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  Speaker 2: you gotta do. To be honest with you, I think
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  Speaker 2: that if both sides are the coin, I think that
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  Speaker 2: if Democrats did the same thing, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times I think that, you know, people are just prone
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  Speaker 2: to look out for people who they believe have their
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  Speaker 2: best interests at heart.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think that if Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Were straightforward and loud enough and honest enough about doing
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  Speaker 2: the same thing, I think more people would have faith
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  Speaker 2: in what the Democratic Party is supposed to be. And
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  Speaker 2: the fact that you know a lot of people would
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  Speaker 2: feel like this isn't such a takeover because that's honestly
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  Speaker 2: what we're watching in real time.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I told you guys that Daniel White release a statement.
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  Speaker 2: I want to read the statement to you guys. He says,
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  Speaker 2: the historic deal with Paramount and CBS is incredible for
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  Speaker 2: UFC fans and our athletes. For the first time ever,
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  Speaker 2: fans in the US will have access to all UFC
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  Speaker 2: content without a pay per view model, making it more
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  Speaker 2: affordable and accessible to view the greatest fights on a
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  Speaker 2: massive platform. Now this is also just smart business wise
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  Speaker 2: because these UFC fights, these these huge fighters and everything.
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  Speaker 2: You know how UFC is trend for thanks to Dana
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  Speaker 2: Wide and you know his team and everything that they've
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  Speaker 2: done over there.
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  Speaker 1: They build up such a.
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  Speaker 2: Huge fan base and huge ratings and people downloading and
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  Speaker 2: paying to watch via the pay per view wall. But
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  Speaker 2: now there is no pay per view wall, so you're
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  Speaker 2: able to bring over that audience. You're able to offer
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  Speaker 2: them this this premium content that they've obviously obviously they're
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  Speaker 2: interested in, right because they've been paying for it. But
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  Speaker 2: now it's going to be a part of various subscriptions
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  Speaker 2: and other things that they have. So you got your
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  Speaker 2: numbers that means you'll be able to place advertisers. The
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  Speaker 2: formula is actually gold like, it makes so much sense.
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  Speaker 2: You can run ads, you know, throughout that content that
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  Speaker 2: market whatever you want to market. If you're a Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration planning what this merger, and you know how media
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  Speaker 2: will be placed around this merger as well, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be honest with y'all, like you know, the quote goals
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  Speaker 2: Malcolm X said, if you control the minds of the media,
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  Speaker 2: you can control the people. I don't know if y'all
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  Speaker 2: realize what's happening here, but we've talked about it before
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  Speaker 2: here on the podcast, We've talked about this on the Latest,
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  Speaker 2: and again, I just wish that we were far enough
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  Speaker 2: to do it ourselves. I wish that we had the
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  Speaker 2: balls to do what we are watching Donald Trump do.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Again, y'all are probably like, Lauren, this is just UFC. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hear you.
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  Speaker 2: But if you have been paying attention to the close
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  Speaker 2: relationship that Dana White has with a Donald Trump, how
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  Speaker 2: he's been vocal in supporting him and supporting a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the things that he's backing and he's standing on,
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  Speaker 2: you won't miss what I'm saying here. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: leave y'all to do. Y'all googles and figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you on the other end when we're all
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  Speaker 2: watching UFC via Paramount of CBS, and then hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 2: all catch up at the same time and it won't
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  Speaker 2: go over your head too much. Now, speaking of television,
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  Speaker 2: our girl Ari Lennox, you guys know, we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: her a bit because Ari Lennox has decided that Martin
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  Speaker 2: and the jokes that were told on Martin are just
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  Speaker 2: not for her. Sadly enough, Ri Lennox is not a
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  Speaker 2: stand of Martin whatsoever because she feels like the jokes
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  Speaker 2: that Martin used to throw at Pam basically, if Pam
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  Speaker 2: was not a dark skinned woman, the jokes would be
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  Speaker 2: a bit differently. Let's take a listen to Ri Linux
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  Speaker 2: standing on Business about some comments she made about Martin.
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  Speaker 3: Even that pissed me off about Martin was how how
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  Speaker 3: much you would go on Pam. I'm not like too
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  Speaker 3: woke or something, is what I'm trying to say. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm honestly problematic. I'm pretty problematic wokey, But my point
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  Speaker 3: is is that there are some things where I draw
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  Speaker 3: the line and it just bothered me, or like Pam
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  Speaker 3: was so beautiful and so fine, and I just feel
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  Speaker 3: like growing up as a chocolate girl, I don't even
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  Speaker 3: know if I was able to understand the greatness of
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  Speaker 3: Pam because of the light that I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: was being fed it just like always going on Pam,
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  Speaker 3: always like that's all I remember. It just would have
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  Speaker 3: pissed me off, Like the joking on Pam. I just
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  Speaker 3: didn't like that.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the thing. Right to each his own, do
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  Speaker 2: what you want to do, say what you want to say.
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  Speaker 2: A Ri Lennox has you know, been very vocal forever
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  Speaker 2: about how she feels about certain things, why she feels
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  Speaker 2: that way.
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  Speaker 1: To each his own. She has her own opinion on
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  Speaker 1: her own place to do so.
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  Speaker 2: She also said in this Live as well too at
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  Speaker 2: the end of it that she was gonna come back
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  Speaker 2: and have a conversation with us about everything that went
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  Speaker 2: down between her and Dreamville. Now, the last time we
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  Speaker 2: heard from Ari Lennox on Dreamville, she was again online
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  Speaker 2: being very vocal and complaining about, you know, not being
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  Speaker 2: supported by her label and wanting out of her deal.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know, here we are. I don't necessarily agree
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  Speaker 2: with Ari lends like, I understand the sentiment. I get
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  Speaker 2: what she's leaning into because I think there's always been
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  Speaker 2: a conversation about dark skinned women being either the number two.
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  Speaker 2: So you're not the lead in a show, in a movie,
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  Speaker 2: you are the lead's friend.
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  Speaker 1: You play opposite the lead.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe you're a counterpart that doesn't get along with
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  Speaker 2: the lead. Your dialogue, your conversation, your narrative is not
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  Speaker 2: that much. We all know what she's leaning into here,
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  Speaker 2: and we all know you know that that has been
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  Speaker 2: a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: They also had the same conversation with.
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  Speaker 2: Women who are bigger, like with bigger like plus size
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  Speaker 2: models or actors or you know, there's that whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Monique has talked about that as well, like feeling like
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  Speaker 2: because she was, you know, the comedian that was bigger,
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  Speaker 2: her roles were set differently. She did have the Monique Show, though, right,
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like in this situation is different, Like
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  Speaker 2: I feel like even if Pam was as light skin
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  Speaker 2: as Gena anything, biracial, whatever, we wanted to put whatever
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  Speaker 2: we needed to put her as to make what Ari
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  Speaker 2: Lennox is saying not feel so like this could potentially
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  Speaker 2: be true because she's the dark skinned woman on the set.
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  Speaker 2: I still think the jokes were the flu I think
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  Speaker 2: that that was the nature of the show, and to
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  Speaker 2: be honest with you, I don't even think that it
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  Speaker 2: was a color thing. I just think that Pam, to
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  Speaker 2: Shea Arnold's character, was a lot stronger at comedy. She
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  Speaker 2: was sharper, she was wittier, she could come back at
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  Speaker 2: him faster, and they built that. And I think in
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  Speaker 2: in structuring that and finding a person to fit that role,
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  Speaker 2: she just happened to be the best person for that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't agree here with the.
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  Speaker 2: Sentiments, but I I do understand what she's trying to
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  Speaker 2: lean into it. I thought, me, look, I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was ballsy of her to get online to say this,
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  Speaker 2: to express it, to then see the outrage and the backlash,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, all the yo, that girl is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: She ain't got nothing going on. That's why she's sitting
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  Speaker 2: here having these conversations that came from this and then
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  Speaker 2: stand on business again and say this.
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  Speaker 4: If I had ill intent, I would have came on
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  Speaker 4: here with a PowerPoint presentation that backs my claims on
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  Speaker 4: the types of jokes Martin used on Pam being wildly offensive.
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  Speaker 4: That will never be my intent or motive. But I
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  Speaker 4: will stand on business forever knowing them jokes was wild,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't say any of this with any desire
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  Speaker 4: to rewrite history. Those actors and actresses are legends and
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  Speaker 4: I met no harm to them. I don't need any
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  Speaker 4: army of people defending me or agreeing with me. That
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  Speaker 4: has always been a rare occurrence for me. But I
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  Speaker 4: feel amazing and knowing that I will validate myself and
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  Speaker 4: my feelings before I look to you for yours. I
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  Speaker 4: never was a fan of roasting period, as I am
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  Speaker 4: a very sensitive and I will for sure drag somebody
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  Speaker 4: to hell every time.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, y'all know she don't have a listen, she
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  Speaker 2: don't have nothing to lose in this ri Lennox is saying,
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  Speaker 2: I am happy with my life. I'm happy with what
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  Speaker 2: I have going on. This is just how I feel,
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  Speaker 2: and so what if you don't agree?
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  Speaker 1: Log off.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always here for a person that can stand on
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  Speaker 2: whatever business that it is that they choose to stand on. Now,
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  Speaker 2: whether I think it's true or not, no, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's absolutely insane. I think this is one
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  Speaker 2: of those things where like you know how you always
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  Speaker 2: hear the old heads like the unks and everybody be
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  Speaker 2: like back in my day or see that's like y'all
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  Speaker 2: don't know nothing. Y'all need to leave certain things alone,
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  Speaker 2: or we don't want remakes and you know, things of
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  Speaker 2: that nature. When I listen to this conversation in Ari
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  Speaker 2: Lennox's remarks, I'm like, Yo.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the old his be talking about.
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  Speaker 2: This is exactly why they don't want us to touch
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  Speaker 2: nothing because we've been in made Martin so woke if
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  Speaker 2: we redid it. And to be honest with y'all, it's
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  Speaker 2: certain things I'm cool in sleep about. Martin is one
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  Speaker 2: of them, y'all. Let me know how y'all feel.
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  Speaker 1: Take it outside in the streets and the tweet before
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  Speaker 1: there we outside, were outside, We outside, Okay, every.
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  Speaker 2: Ri Lennox said, let me double back real quick and
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  Speaker 2: say something, because y'all ain't scaring me out of going
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  Speaker 2: or saying a damn thing. Let me know what y'all think.
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  Speaker 2: Is Ri Lenox up to something? Ooh, do she need
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  Speaker 2: to go back to sleep?
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  Speaker 1: She too woke?
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  Speaker 2: It's the latest with Laura le Rosa. I tell you, guys,
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  Speaker 2: every single episode that at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: there's always so much to talk about, and y'all could
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  Speaker 2: be anywhere with anybody talking about it, but y'all choose
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  Speaker 2: to be right here with me. I appreciate you guys
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  Speaker 2: for that, and I'll see you guys in my next episode.