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N.O.R.E Apologizes For Drink Champs Interview with Kanye West · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy.
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Speaker 1: We are the breakfast club. We got our family member
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Speaker 1: on the line. Friend to the room and ain't nor
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Speaker 1: come on in. Good morning man. You know I'm up
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Speaker 1: every morning listening to y'alls, just so y'all know he
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Speaker 1: keep my skills shoppiate. Nory said he wanted to call in.
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Speaker 1: What's the word? Nor what you talked to us? You
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Speaker 1: know you know, Um, I just want to be honest.
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Speaker 1: I support freedom of speech. I support anybody you know,
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Speaker 1: not being sensive, but I do not support anybody being hurt.
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Speaker 1: I did not realize that the George Floyd's statements on
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Speaker 1: my show was so hurtful, and you gotta realize it
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Speaker 1: was the first five minutes of the show. Like when
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Speaker 1: he walked in, he told my producer, he said that
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Speaker 1: if if he he'll stop um filmen, that he'll walk out.
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Speaker 1: So I didn't want I didn't want a bird Man moment.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want a Birdman moment with y'all, like you
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Speaker 1: know when Birdman walked out. So I wanted the man
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Speaker 1: to speak. But later on, like I actually checked him
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Speaker 1: about George Floyd's comments. I actually checked him about the
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Speaker 1: White Lives matters, but it was so later in the episode,
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Speaker 1: and it was so it was so like, you know,
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Speaker 1: I was already at nebriated at that time that maybe
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Speaker 1: people looked over it. But I apologize to the George
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Speaker 1: Floyd family. I apologize that anybody ever hurt by Kanye
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Speaker 1: West um climents. Although I do supports free speech, I
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Speaker 1: am black, black, and I'm with Jamika Mallory, I'm with
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Speaker 1: I would I would have told freedom, I'm with my song,
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Speaker 1: That's who I am. In fact, I called my song
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Speaker 1: and asked for a shirt because that's what I wanted
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Speaker 1: to have on when um Kanye said he was he
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Speaker 1: was coming through here. We actually we actually posted it
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Speaker 1: and then saw that this was the wrong edit, took
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Speaker 1: it down, and then it got reposted again with those
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Speaker 1: same comments that was there. So it's a it's a
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Speaker 1: mistake on our behalf, on our team behalf, because we
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Speaker 1: don't edit nothing. I think NB done Drink Champs, Sally
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Speaker 1: Charlemagne has done Drink Champs, and we literally don't edit nothing.
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Speaker 1: But but we will start from here on the album
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Speaker 1: because we understand that there's people that's hurt out there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it's not a freedom of speech. It's more
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Speaker 1: like a misinformation. It's not a misinformation. What he said
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Speaker 1: about George Floyd was a lie. What Kanye West said
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Speaker 1: about George Floyd dying of fentonol and not the physical
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Speaker 1: and impact of the officer Derek Chauvin was just a
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Speaker 1: bold faced lie. And by the way, guys, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not. This is not Big Chance. This
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Speaker 1: is drink Champ. You know what I'm saying. This is
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Speaker 1: not political Champs. This is great drink Champ. So we
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Speaker 1: we purposely don't bring up politics, We purposely don't bring
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Speaker 1: up religion the course of this. And I just you know,
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Speaker 1: I disagreed with Kanye. I felt like I should have
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Speaker 1: said something a lot earlier. I didn't because I didn't
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Speaker 1: want him to walk out. I didn't want to have
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Speaker 1: a Birdman moment, you know. So so Nora, you know,
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Speaker 1: people would say that, you know, we're talking to Nori
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Speaker 1: body from from Drink Champs. Of course, he just released
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Speaker 1: an interview with Kanye. P Hee would say, well, why
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Speaker 1: do the interview at all, especially with all the hate
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Speaker 1: speech that he's been spewing the last couple of days.
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Speaker 1: And you know he think you had Fox News, You
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Speaker 1: had Fox, You had Tucker Carlson edit out all his
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Speaker 1: anti Semitic comments. Saw the shops say that they wasn't
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Speaker 1: gonna put out the hate speech. We saw all the
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Speaker 1: things Kanye was texting and I mean tweeting and everything else.
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Speaker 1: Why even do the interview at all? Why? Yeah, why
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Speaker 1: even you know, do the interview? You know, you know
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Speaker 1: that's a great question. And the thing is, you know, um,
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Speaker 1: that's like, it's like people talking about Charlemagne. People talking
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Speaker 1: about Charlemagne and say Charlemagne is an asshole, Charlemagne is
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Speaker 1: a dick. But then Charlemagne doesn't sow that to me.
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Speaker 1: So I gotta I gotta treat Charlemagne how Charlemagne treats me.
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Speaker 1: If Charlemagne treats me like a gentleman, that I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: think Charlemagne has element. I don't understand charlemagne rhetoric when
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Speaker 1: he's not around me, You understand I'm saying. And that's
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Speaker 1: that's that's that's pretty clearly what it was. I did
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Speaker 1: not think and other than the George Floyd comment, I
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Speaker 1: thought I thought I couldn't up in a very great interview.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I thought that he laughed,
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Speaker 1: he smiled, he drank, he smoked. You know, this is
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Speaker 1: eight o'clock in the morning. And but yeah, no, I
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Speaker 1: don't don't say that though, because he said a lot
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Speaker 1: of he still said a lot of anti Semitic rhetoric
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Speaker 1: in the in the interview as well. You know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. Yes, And if you look by the way,
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Speaker 1: I had four Jewish people there. Steve Rifkin was in
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Speaker 1: the room. Steve Ripken, who who signed who came clan
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Speaker 1: was in the room. My friend Eric, who is Jewish,
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Speaker 1: is in the room. My friend Diego, who was Jewish,
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Speaker 1: was in the room. And I looked at them to
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Speaker 1: tell them, like, YO, tell me whenever he's going across
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Speaker 1: the line. And that's just they're looking in and they're saying, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we understand where he's coming from. But none of it.
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Speaker 1: I don't support none of it. I don't support the
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Speaker 1: George folks comments and don't support the antist That's all
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Speaker 1: I I have as Jewish friends, and all I have
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Speaker 1: is Black friends. That's it. So um nori. I was
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Speaker 1: gonna ask you when it comes to these George Floyd comments,
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Speaker 1: we see their family maybe suing. Is that gonna include
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Speaker 1: you in this law suit? Did you hear about that?
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Speaker 1: I definitely heard about it, And um, this is the
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Speaker 1: reason why I'm stepping up is because it's not even
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Speaker 1: about suing all the money. It's about the Hurst food thing. Man.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I was locked down. I
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Speaker 1: was I was supported the George Floyd movement. I saw
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Speaker 1: that video too, you know what I mean, Like I've
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Speaker 1: seen that cops knee on his neck. I seen him
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Speaker 1: colding out for whoever. So I'm embarrassed with myself, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because I bet my bad. I've
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Speaker 1: done this interviews before where I come back and I
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Speaker 1: redeem myself, and on this one, I waited too long.
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Speaker 1: I waited too long to actually address him. I spoke
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Speaker 1: to Kanye yesterday morning. I told him, I'm gonna do this,
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Speaker 1: but I'm also gonna, you know, with shoot these comments
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Speaker 1: because I was disgusted by it, as if I wasn't
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Speaker 1: even in the room when I heard it. When I
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Speaker 1: heard it, I was like, wait a minute, Damn, I
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Speaker 1: was there. And again, I'm just trying to be a journalist.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, you know what, we just won an award.
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Speaker 1: I want people to know that we won the award
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Speaker 1: because we deserve it. So I'm sitting there thinking about it.
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Speaker 1: I heard Stephen Jackson say something about me, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not even going back at Stephen Jackson.
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. I'm not gonna make up a bottle.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell that brother you write because I should
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Speaker 1: have checked him. I should have. I should have, and
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Speaker 1: I eventually did. But by the time I checked him,
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Speaker 1: I was already inebriated. So you're not you know, you're
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Speaker 1: not hearing the sincerity in my voice. Even if you
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Speaker 1: go look at it, you can see that Nori is
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Speaker 1: very serious. It's just that Norris also he's also drunk
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Speaker 1: at the same time, and just called drink champ. It's
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Speaker 1: not called politics champ. What are you gonna do that?
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Speaker 1: Move forward? Yeah, to move forward? Are there other interviews
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Speaker 1: that you plan to do to kind of combat this?
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Speaker 1: What are you planning to do? Because I see you
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Speaker 1: reaching out on Twitter to people as you feel like
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Speaker 1: you need to come up. Sean King. You know, John King,
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Speaker 1: I want Sean King to come up. I want doctor Umar,
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Speaker 1: I want I want to Quali, I want David Van.
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Speaker 1: I want to kill the Mike because they all know,
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Speaker 1: they all know where my heart is. They all know
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Speaker 1: that I'm on black Twitter. They all know I'm on
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Speaker 1: them black you know, you know and two Freedom a
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Speaker 1: group chats. They all know that. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: The fact is I didn't I didn't fail. I didn't fail.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to see Drink
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Speaker 1: Champs go down that path. I like Drink Champs being
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Speaker 1: the happy podcast that it is. And what you tried
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Speaker 1: to do, what you tried to do was give hip
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Speaker 1: hop culture voice. But the reality is he don't need
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Speaker 1: that right now. That's not what we should be giving
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Speaker 1: a voice to right now. That we shouldn't be. We
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have had Kanye on the platform to begin with,
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Speaker 1: not at a time like this, with the rhetoric that
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Speaker 1: he's viewing. Nah. Well yeah, I agree, I agree. I agree.
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Speaker 1: I really did try. I really did try, and um,
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Speaker 1: I try to give him one voice. I try to
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Speaker 1: give him a voice. I try to give one platform.
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Speaker 1: I try to do that, but you know, I realized
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Speaker 1: my political stance may not be correct. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, I agree the right place. What about it?
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Speaker 1: Puff reach out to you? Um, you know, I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you this. At first, I was disappointed in brother Love
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Speaker 1: because Brother Love called me and said, well did he
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Speaker 1: diss me? And I was just like, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: you know it's so much bigger than you. And then
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Speaker 1: he called me back and he said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let's let's let's let's support free speaking is what freethinking.
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Speaker 1: Let's support it and it's not freethinking though. That's the
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Speaker 1: other thing. We got to stop saying it's not free
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Speaker 1: thinking when all you're doing is repeating white supremacists talking points,
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Speaker 1: you're repeating black Israelite talking points like Kanye West is
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Speaker 1: not a free thinker. We gotta stop saying that there's
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Speaker 1: nothing free about his thoughts at all. What's crazy about
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Speaker 1: it is. That's crazy about it is I don't even
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Speaker 1: think he believes that, you know what I'm saying, That's
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Speaker 1: my point. He said, he's saying everything he's heard other
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Speaker 1: people already say. That's not freethinking, Like I think. I
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Speaker 1: think he supports the wild factor, like the fact that
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Speaker 1: you he could have a confenacy. People go wow, and
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Speaker 1: then you have a maga hat on people go wow.
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Speaker 1: But then you ask him, do you do you do
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Speaker 1: you do? Do you promote this confederacy? Do you promote
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Speaker 1: the Trump uh campaign? And then you ask him and
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Speaker 1: he won't even give you something about the Trump campaign.
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Speaker 1: He won't even tell you. It's because I think that
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Speaker 1: it's the wow factor. And I think that's the reason
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Speaker 1: why people supporting him for so long. Whether it's been
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Speaker 1: a speakers but it's been whatever. Don't get it wrong.
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Speaker 1: I love Kanye West. I love Kanye. Kanye has done
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Speaker 1: things for me. You know, He's really a great person. Um.
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Speaker 1: The ideology about you know, um um a black people
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Speaker 1: with Jewish people, it's not correct. The sympimis that he
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Speaker 1: said about George Floyd. It's not correct. And I do
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Speaker 1: not stand board him when it comes to that. But
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, um, I just don't want to
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Speaker 1: give up on him. I wouldn't give up on you,
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Speaker 1: vy Vy. You told me you were voted for million
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Speaker 1: dollars worth of game on VC Awards. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to give up on NV. I know right now, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I know that I know
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Speaker 1: that he might be thinking, you know, sirs herb on
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Speaker 1: the low. I'm not sure, but empty that's my brother.
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Speaker 1: But you can tell you can tell your brother when
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Speaker 1: he's wrong. Though. Absolutely I definitely told him he was wrong,
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Speaker 1: and I definitely told MVY that when he you use
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Speaker 1: clips of Boosey and you don't shout out drinks that listen,
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Speaker 1: I try to shout you out all the time. Nor
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Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Do you think that Kanye
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Speaker 1: is having some type of breakdown? Because I know people
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Speaker 1: talk about his mental health and people around him, they say,
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Speaker 1: are very concerned about his mental health. What are your thoughts? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I do believe he's having a mentor breakdown. But then
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Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. I could have a
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Speaker 1: straight conversation with him, and he helped talk to me
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Speaker 1: with nothing but sense. Kanye knows exactly what he's doing, y'all.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why we keep
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Speaker 1: trying to shoot him all this bail. Kanye knows exactly
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Speaker 1: what he's doing. And by the way, two things can
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Speaker 1: be true. You can be dealing with mental health issues
10:57
Speaker 1: and you can be a bigot. You could be dealing
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Speaker 1: with dealing with health issues and be a black white supremacist.
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Speaker 1: You could be dealing with mental health issues and still
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Speaker 1: be lying on how George Floyd got killed. Yeah. And
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Speaker 1: also they were saying that Candice Owens has a huge
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Speaker 1: influence and part of everything he's saying. Do you agree
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Speaker 1: with that as well? Um? Well, I don't. I don't
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Speaker 1: agree with any I don't agree with anybody um or
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Speaker 1: with his audiology, I don't. I can't say this candis Owens.
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Speaker 1: I can't say it's Trump. I gotta say this is
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Speaker 1: the word factor, this is the ins factor. It's like
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Speaker 1: he gets like he gets a kicked out of doing
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Speaker 1: something that that you say is raw being a contrarian.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people like being a contrarian. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, did you see that even Donald Trump says
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Speaker 1: Kanye West is acting too crazy and needs help. Yep, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's that's what I said. I gotta step up. Let's
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Speaker 1: let's put the ball on it. Nor you feel like
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Speaker 1: you made a mistake with the Kanye interview. That's number one.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, by the way, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I could come on here and say, guess what, God,
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Speaker 1: that's how Kanye think and that's it, and and guess what,
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Speaker 1: people will forgive me and let me get away with that.
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Speaker 1: But that's not what I'm doing. I felt my people.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I felt my people. This is what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do. Sharle Maintain called me and say
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Speaker 1: called of the members club. I called Shall the man
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Speaker 1: and said, I would like to apologize to my people
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Speaker 1: because after me hearing it, because I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: watch my own interviews. By the way, I'm that great,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm that great that I
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Speaker 1: don't watch my own interviews. But when I watched this one,
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Speaker 1: I cringed, I crene and I and I felt terrible.
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Speaker 1: So I have to I have to say sorry. I
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Speaker 1: have to say sorry to anybody that was hurt by
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Speaker 1: his red to ring, anybody that was hurt by his speech,
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Speaker 1: anybody that ever was hurt. I want to apologize with
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Speaker 1: George Floyd family. I want to apologize to speak of Jackson.
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Speaker 1: I want to apologize to everybody that was hurt for
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Speaker 1: me letting that man say something on my platform, because,
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Speaker 1: by the way, can turn the popular belief. We own
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Speaker 1: drink camps, we own our IPO. So the person to plame,
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Speaker 1: the person to blame is us. I'm not gonna blame
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Speaker 1: Ea Fenn. I'm not gonna blame pump Daddy as you
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Speaker 1: guys actually earlier. I'm actually gonna say, you know what,
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Speaker 1: six years of this, I don't have the excuse something
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Speaker 1: that I'm not a journalist. I have. I have responsibility
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Speaker 1: that I have to come and I have to say
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry because my people will support me. So I
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Speaker 1: do not want my people um feeling like that I
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Speaker 1: didn't step up at the time. But if you watch
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Speaker 1: the whole three hours, thirty eight minutes interview, I represent
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Speaker 1: for George Floyd five six seven times. I represent for
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Speaker 1: black people five six seven times. Like I told hey,
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Speaker 1: Nor like I told you, you should have put all
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Speaker 1: that out first. Then, by the way, no, I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I didn't. You know what it is, Charlot, Maine Waller
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Speaker 1: Alert came and they took they took the cliff and
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Speaker 1: then they ran with it. I can't be mad at
13:38
Speaker 1: border Alert when they're taking the cliff. Now that's working
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Speaker 1: against me, because I'd be happy at Border Alert when
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Speaker 1: they take a cliff that works with me, you understand.
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Speaker 1: So I couldn't. I couldn't really do it. I had
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Speaker 1: to I had to die by the sword. But and
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Speaker 1: also and Nori, as you you know, as your friend
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Speaker 1: and as your business partner. I told you last week,
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Speaker 1: don't do this. It's not worth the trouble, told you
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Speaker 1: this twice before. We appreciate you for checking in. Brother.
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Speaker 1: Hold On, hold on, hold on. I did not know
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Speaker 1: he's gonna go there, Charlot Magne. You had to know,
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Speaker 1: nor he's been doing it all week. Now. I just did.
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Speaker 1: I just by the way, By the way, if you
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Speaker 1: watch the interview, there is a certain respect that you
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Speaker 1: can see that Kanye has for me. There's a certain
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Speaker 1: respect and you can see I have for Kanye. So
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Speaker 1: I did not think that this rhetoric print over my head.
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Speaker 1: For bottom line, to anybody that was hurt, I apologize.
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Speaker 1: I'm moving forward with dropping take off in Cuble this week.
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Speaker 1: Uh uh. I apologize for I know I'm not until freedom.
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Speaker 1: I know I'm not. I know if people don't look
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Speaker 1: at me like my song. But but my heart is
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Speaker 1: my song. You know what I'm saying. My heart is
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Speaker 1: to Mika. You know what I'm saying. So but for
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Speaker 1: next time, I'm gonna listen to you. Charlot Magne, and
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have this on or if it's gonna
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Speaker 1: have it on, I'm gonna address it at the time
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Speaker 1: be fashioned. It deserves to be addressed. So for anybody
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Speaker 1: that was hurt by Kanye's comment, I'm not apologizing for Kanye.
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Speaker 1: I'm I apologize it for his his his his speech.
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Speaker 1: I'm apologizing before you're apologizing for having him on. You
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Speaker 1: are you're apologizing for having him on? Yeah? Me, me, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't think he I don't know if he's apologize.
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Speaker 1: And I know he's apologizing because I supposed to him
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Speaker 1: yesterday morning and he was like, hell, I think that
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Speaker 1: part was supposed to go out, And I said, yes,
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Speaker 1: it was supposed to go out. So, um, is it
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Speaker 1: out now or is it still in an interview that's posted. Um,
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Speaker 1: I have no idea because, like I said, I I
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Speaker 1: mean take it out. I tried to take it out
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Speaker 1: like again, and I just think y'all. I think y'all
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Speaker 1: should take the whole thing down. Man, Listen. I think
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Speaker 1: that's where we're coming to. We're coming to the conclusion
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Speaker 1: of what we're gonna do. I's gonna move forward again again.
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Speaker 1: I still I still respect freedom of speech. I think
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Speaker 1: freedom of speech and would be free, but I think
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Speaker 1: that this is this is the limit where we kind
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Speaker 1: of went too far, where he kind of went too far,
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Speaker 1: and we all response to let's be let it on
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Speaker 1: our platform. I'm embarrassed. I do not stand by uh
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Speaker 1: any rhetoric like that, but I want to apologize for
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Speaker 1: even being stupid enough to not to not watch this
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Speaker 1: episode prior today coming out. So I'm truly sorry. We
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Speaker 1: love you, thank you, thank you, thank y'all, thank y'all.
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Speaker 1: All right, one love y'all. All right. That was Nori
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Speaker 1: drink Champ