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What is It With Love Islanders and the N-Word?! · I Do, Part 2

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  Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Sunday, May thirty first, and
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  Speaker 1: the season hasn't even kicked off yet, but already an
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  Speaker 1: islander has been kicked out of the villa and for
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  Speaker 1: a reason that should sound pretty familiar. And with that,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Roabes. The
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  Speaker 1: show kicks off on Tuesdays, supposed to half twelve islanders
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  Speaker 1: in there one of them. How are you gonna get
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  Speaker 1: kicked out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the villa before the show even starts, right, And
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  Speaker 2: here we go again. At least this time we didn't
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  Speaker 2: get to know her and see her and then have
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  Speaker 2: her poof just disappear, because that's what's happened in previous seasons.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, another island has been kicked. Islander has been
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  Speaker 2: kicked off the show before we even get to the premiere,
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  Speaker 2: which is Tuesday, which, by the way, we're very excited
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  Speaker 2: about in this house because of old social media posts
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  Speaker 2: that have just recently resurfaced.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the second year in a row, folks,
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  Speaker 1: that this has happened. An islander on the hit Peacock
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  Speaker 1: show Love Island has been kicked out because old posts
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  Speaker 1: have shown up in which she was using the n
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  Speaker 1: word again, back to back years. This has happened. The
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  Speaker 1: show kicks off on Tuesday again, Robes, this is this
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  Speaker 1: is a record setting streaming juggernaut for Peacock. This is
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  Speaker 1: the eighth season. It's a hit. People look forward to
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  Speaker 1: it like crazy. We literally have watch parties set up
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  Speaker 1: here for it already. But the young lady's name we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about is Basana Montgomery and Robes, she along with
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  Speaker 1: eleven others, were just announced three days ago as the
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  Speaker 1: new cast.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is a big deal. And the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they're able to roll this out. It premieres June second,
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  Speaker 2: three days that's all it took. And man, you've got
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's Internet sleuth's friends who you've
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  Speaker 2: disgruntled friends, because apparently these videos were shared on a
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  Speaker 2: private social media where you just kind of have a
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  Speaker 2: my daughters call it Finsta. We have friends and Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not necessarily a widely public release of a video.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there it was in a smaller, tighter circle. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: somehow these two videos got out and she clearly says
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  Speaker 2: the end word.
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  Speaker 1: So if we on that point at least, Roe, So,
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  Speaker 1: how is the vetting a problem. Well, you know, Robes,
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  Speaker 1: this has happened too many times on too many shows
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  Speaker 1: in to where they's just have egg on their face,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, their vetting is pretty extensive, and I
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine they knew about this and said let's go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and roll the dilute. So we're pretty sure that
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  Speaker 1: these videos are just coming to light, and the reason
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  Speaker 1: being Robes, no one knew to put it out there.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cared maybe until the cast was announced, and then
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  Speaker 1: maybe some people in her circle said, oh wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I have this, and then that's why it became relevant. Robes,
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  Speaker 1: I give them credit. What else can you do? The
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  Speaker 1: hell with it? Kick them out, be transparent. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: this before the show starts.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I think they're probably saying, thank god we
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  Speaker 2: found out before it show starts, because the worst case
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  Speaker 2: scenario is she becomes an integral cast member where people
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  Speaker 2: are rooting for her or feeling something about her, and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden she just disappears, which is exactly
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  Speaker 2: what they had to do last year, and that's a
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  Speaker 2: lot more messy. At least, get this done before the
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  Speaker 2: show even begins. We can focus on actually just the
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  Speaker 2: entertainment value and enjoying the show and rooting for the
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  Speaker 2: people we like and all of that without any of
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  Speaker 2: this ugliness. Hopefully they can put this to bed, but
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  Speaker 2: still we have to talk about what they found, and
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  Speaker 2: it is concerning. And look, she's twenty five, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how old these videos are. Did they even
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  Speaker 2: make a point to say if this was a year ago,
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  Speaker 2: this was two years ago?
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  Speaker 3: Unclear how how old?
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  Speaker 1: She looks pretty young in one of else, was like,
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  Speaker 1: you look a kid in one of them, she does,
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  Speaker 1: you look like a teenager and one of them, but
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  Speaker 1: that's no excuse. But who knows how old they are?
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't seem like it was something that was
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  Speaker 1: in recent months or even years.
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  Speaker 2: Possible, Yes, and this just goes to show kids think
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  Speaker 2: that they're being funny or cool or whatever reason she
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  Speaker 2: had for doing what she did and saying what she said.
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  Speaker 3: But just kids are so stupid.
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  Speaker 2: And these videos exist, they don't go away, they don't disappear,
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  Speaker 2: and to put something out there like that, yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: have to face the consequences for it.
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  Speaker 1: And seeing her pictures robes. I don't know what her background, ethnicity,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that part of it, but I look
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  Speaker 1: at her, and she does not look like a woman
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  Speaker 1: who has earned the right through births to say the
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  Speaker 1: in word at any point what I'm saying. And she
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  Speaker 1: looks like a white woman exactly. So don't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what her background is, but this is the point of
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  Speaker 1: where we are and what we're doing. She's twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years old. They say she's a or she's labeled as
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  Speaker 1: a business owner of some kind from Beaverton, Oregon. But
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  Speaker 1: the videos we're talking about, they're two and they're pretty short.
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  Speaker 1: One of them she's in a car wrapping. The other
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  Speaker 1: one she's playing video games with her friends. It looked
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  Speaker 1: in that one, did it look like they were out
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  Speaker 1: like a public place, like a big yeah, like even
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  Speaker 1: a Dave in Busters. I don't want to throw their
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  Speaker 1: name in there, like they're associated with this.
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  Speaker 3: It was like an arcade.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. That's what I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 3: It was in the arcade.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, there's a video game and she shouts out
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  Speaker 2: the N word.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know why and what she's doing. But
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  Speaker 1: there are people around, friends around, they're laughing and having
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  Speaker 1: a good old time.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's perhaps the most disturbing part of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like in the second video she's singing along
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  Speaker 2: with rap lyrics, which is still I get it, not okay,
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  Speaker 2: then posting that online or posting that to her social media.
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  Speaker 3: But the first one, she she shouts out the word oh.
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  Speaker 1: You hear clearly in both of them, and while she
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  Speaker 1: says it knock knock inWORD, why does she say that
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  Speaker 1: while playing video game with friends? Knock knock in word?
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  Speaker 1: She shouts that out. The other one, she's rapping along
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  Speaker 1: to a song and the lyric is Weddy's inwards at
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  Speaker 1: where these in words at? And she shouts it happily
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  Speaker 1: rapping in the video in the car she's in the
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  Speaker 1: passenger seats on that one robes what's the reaction supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be? And looking at that, it always makes me uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: unnerved when I see somebody outside of black folks using
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  Speaker 1: that word. It just it just is I look at
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  Speaker 1: it this and I go, you idiot, I'm sorry, I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: please please please, I'm not. I don't know, Miss Montgomery.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is I look a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: at young kids outside of our community, and hip hop
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  Speaker 1: culture has an outside influence on pop culture and all
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  Speaker 1: this music, and all hip hop is cool no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: Black culture is the coolest culture. Everybody wants a part
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  Speaker 1: of it, period, including a bunch of white kids in
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  Speaker 1: the suburbs who are now consuming all of this hip
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  Speaker 1: hop where every fifteenth word is the N word. So
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  Speaker 1: they having a good old time singing along, rapping along
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  Speaker 1: and think it's fine and really robes in some bit
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  Speaker 1: of their defense. They got no idea of history. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the hell they're saying and why, and
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  Speaker 1: what it means and how offensive and everything else. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what I saw, at least in that video of
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  Speaker 1: her wrapping in the car.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and thank you for that perspective, one that only
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  Speaker 2: someone who is black, who understands what that word means
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  Speaker 2: and is can actually say that. And I think you
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  Speaker 2: hit it though, Like it didn't appear as though she
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  Speaker 2: was saying it in a negative, hurling, an insult kind
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  Speaker 2: of a way. She was trying to be cool, let's
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  Speaker 2: be honest. That's what it looked.
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  Speaker 3: Like to me. She was thinking she was cool.
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  Speaker 2: She was trying to be cool, and so she says
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  Speaker 2: the word to feel cool and that's still not okay.
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  Speaker 2: But it didn't appear to be hurled at a in
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  Speaker 2: a mean spirited way.
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  Speaker 1: This is the other part of it that disturbs me most.
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  Speaker 1: This was not the first or second or third time
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  Speaker 1: she'd used that word rogues. This is in her vocabulary.
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  Speaker 1: It is a regular part of her vocabulary. The knock
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  Speaker 1: knock inward just hanging out. She's throwing it around as
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  Speaker 1: if she's talking to her people like just it's now
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  Speaker 1: that one those two and that that is my biggest
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  Speaker 1: part road. This is a part of her yes vocabulary.
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  Speaker 3: I would argue it almost felt like cultural appropriation.
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  Speaker 2: I know that that's a phrase a lot of people use,
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  Speaker 2: but it's almost like this wanting to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of the cool factor of black people, but never ever
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  Speaker 2: having to experience all of the unbelievable negative part that
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  Speaker 2: comes with being black.
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  Speaker 3: That's the whole point.
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  Speaker 1: She's and folks like this, and I don't know, if
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  Speaker 1: you've got kids out there in the stage and listen
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  Speaker 1: to this music, they don't realize write what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They don't mean harm, but the fact that they don't
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  Speaker 1: realize they're doing harm is the most harmful part. As
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  Speaker 1: crazy as that is, you don't even realize what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing and do not at all try to sanitize this
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  Speaker 1: word in some ways. Ahes just in music. Anybody can
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  Speaker 1: see it now they say it, so we can say
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  Speaker 1: it or you I'm should the damn builder, and I
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  Speaker 1: can say the in word. Freedom of speech, don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is one we are not going to
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  Speaker 1: compromise on. And ever say yeah, anybody can say the
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  Speaker 1: in word. She feels whatever reason, she's in that camp
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  Speaker 1: and belonged in that camp, and rose it's hard. You
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  Speaker 1: know me, I don't know this woman. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: giving any judgment on her character at all, but just
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  Speaker 1: looking at this, she seems to be robes in a
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  Speaker 1: camp that a lot been a lot of suburban white
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  Speaker 1: kids are in right now, yep.
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  Speaker 2: And so look, if anything, get having her kicked off
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  Speaker 2: for this and people seeing the videos, maybe that will
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  Speaker 2: raise awareness, Hey, this is not okay. This is not
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  Speaker 2: acceptable behavior, and here's why. And maybe if that come
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  Speaker 2: more of that conversation, it can land on some folks
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  Speaker 2: to say, oh, yeah, right, I was born in a
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  Speaker 2: much different situation. I'm treated differently period because of how
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  Speaker 2: I look, and therefore I don't get to just hang
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  Speaker 2: with and act as if I'm one of them and
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  Speaker 2: I get to say what they say because they're cooler
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  Speaker 2: than me, they got better music than me, So let
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  Speaker 2: me just jump on that train.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you don't get to do that, perupt.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't understand why you shouldn't say the in word,
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  Speaker 1: and you shouldn't be a part of this discussion. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have to go into anything history, we don't have yay,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to go into anything. This is off limits.
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  Speaker 1: This word is off limits. There are some words I
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  Speaker 1: will never ever utter because I am not in that community.
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  Speaker 1: I am not show recently and a drag ring yelled
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  Speaker 1: the F word in my face wanted me to repeat it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you remember that and you were like, come on, bro,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely I think that.
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  Speaker 1: Was my response, Come on, like that was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be fun and Joe, it's not. Okay, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not fighting for the right to use the F word.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you so desperately want to say the N word?
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  Speaker 1: Skip it in the song, use the non explicit version
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  Speaker 1: on Spotify. You got to why are you desperate to
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  Speaker 1: say this? And yeah, ropes, here we go again. Now
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  Speaker 1: she's a little different from the lady last year Ulyssa Escoba,
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  Speaker 1: she was on for a one show, one show and
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  Speaker 1: then disappeared, but she was a prolific in word user
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she uttered the N word repeatedly, I believe is
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  Speaker 2: how it's been described. And even though when she left
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  Speaker 2: and it was just like Ulyssa has left the building,
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  Speaker 2: and then she was never mentioned again on the show.
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  Speaker 3: So if you just watched the.
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  Speaker 2: Show, she just literally disappeared without any EXPONENTI they worried
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  Speaker 2: about her, but obviously behind the scenes. Yes, it was
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  Speaker 2: released and she did have a statement. She issued an apology,
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  Speaker 2: but there have been notes I was reading. Deadline just
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  Speaker 2: wrote an article saying she has since now gone on
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  Speaker 2: social media downplaying the severity of what she did, defending
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  Speaker 2: what she did, saying it's not that big of a deal.
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  Speaker 2: So even though she initially uttered an apology, she's backtracked
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  Speaker 2: that a little bit by saying whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Because she talked to all of her black friends who
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  Speaker 1: told her it's not a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: She dates black men's she's not a racist. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I do think that there is a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that thought, like, well, obviously I love black people. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: I like black people, so it's not that big of
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  Speaker 2: a deal. I'm not a racist, So that that's a problem, bro.
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  Speaker 1: If that flies in the face, if people are in
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  Speaker 1: her age range actually trying to find a defense for
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  Speaker 1: saying that. Now, is she going to look at me
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  Speaker 1: in my face and call me the IN word? And
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  Speaker 1: if you're not going to do that, then you know
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  Speaker 1: there's a problem. So don't talk to me about it's
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  Speaker 1: okay to use this word. If you don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: okay to look me in my face as a non
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  Speaker 1: black person, you are and call me the inWORD. If
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  Speaker 1: you're cool with that, let's talk. But defend that. Come on, man,
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  Speaker 1: you can't use it it just colloquially because it's a
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  Speaker 1: part of a song, or call somebody that who is
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  Speaker 1: not in your community. You can't do it. Why do
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  Speaker 1: white folks want this? We got one thing on y'all,
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  Speaker 1: one thing that y'all can't do that we can the
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  Speaker 1: N word. Just let us have this one. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we only took it from y'all anyway, becuse y'all will
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  Speaker 1: call on those this. Let us have it back, and
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  Speaker 1: let's just call it a day. Why do folks desperately
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  Speaker 1: want to say the inward.
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  Speaker 3: They want to be cool, like, why that ain't stop?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, you know what this is? It really just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of that. It is y'all got one thing
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  Speaker 1: we can't have. That's freedom of speech, folks. No, that's
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: what gets thrown at us. They so upset about this
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  Speaker 1: one thing. Hey yea Lissa, Oh you listen? What was
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  Speaker 1: the other one?
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  Speaker 3: Her name is Sierra or Tega?
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  Speaker 1: How many? How deep did she get into the show?
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  Speaker 2: It was a couple episodes in I can look and
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  Speaker 2: find out exactly how many episodes. But she was there
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  Speaker 2: for a while and her issue she was caught at
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: least it was released. These things get leaked because people
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: are desperate to take people down. But she had done
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: like she was doing her makeup to social media, to
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  Speaker 2: TikTok whatever, and she was she used an Asian slur
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  Speaker 2: describing her eyes, like how her eyes looked, And she
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  Speaker 2: says she didn't realize it was a slur. I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's obviously not a defense. So she was still kicked
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  Speaker 2: off the show because of that. And that so they
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: had two incidents last year of women contestants found to
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: have made racial slurs and put them on camera and
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  Speaker 2: posted them for plenty of people to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this is I know, I mean, give the warnings
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  Speaker 1: to you kids now. Something they do at sixteen, seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen, right now could cost them an opportunity six
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  Speaker 1: years from now. And that's just the truth of the matter.
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  Speaker 1: So this is something words slurs language. How we treat
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: each other and how the audience gets engaged when it
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: comes to Love Island has been something that the show
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: has spent time trying to combat. So stay here. We'll
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  Speaker 1: give you a reminder as they gave us a reminder
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  Speaker 1: of the behavior they're asking people to please keep in check.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Also a couple of other things we'll hit on here,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: a couple of things that got us talking, including ropes
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: in particular, what do we do now with reality TV
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  Speaker 1: and stars now that they are under non stop scrutiny before, during,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: and then after these shows air. Stay here we continue
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  Speaker 1: here on this Sunday, May thirty first, just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days away from the big Love Island Season eight premiere,
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  Speaker 1: new season on Peacock. They are down one islander, already
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: getting kicked out the villa. Nobody wants that while you're
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: on the show roads that happened to her before she
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: even got to the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, think about it.
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  Speaker 2: She's all excited, her names out there, promotion, promotional videos
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: out there everywhere, her face. I mean, there are think
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: about how many stars are created by these series. I mean,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: this is an opportunity of a lifetime to kickstart whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is you want to do next.
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  Speaker 1: Most of them don't last, right, they get their moment.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, you have the opportunity.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Uh Ohlandria just got on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: So look, there are careers that are made from these shows.
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  Speaker 2: This is a big deal and a huge opportunity to
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: be on a show like this.
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  Speaker 1: And here is you know what, robes. I didn't think
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: about this, but we robes. This is Fiji. They're there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how long they've been there, robes. When
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  Speaker 1: did she find out about this? Because they take their phones,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: these folks have no access to the outside world. It's
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: possible she was snatched out of there having no idea
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, and that all this controversy is
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: surrounding here.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure that's exactly what Those who were pulled
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: last year literally explained that exact scenario.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: They had no idea.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: They don't have their phones, they're not connected to the
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: outside world.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: They have no idea what people are saying.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: The world has been talking about her, and she has
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: no idea. Robes. Does she know that, man, this is
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, this has been going on for months as
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the vetting goes. Does she forget about these videos? So
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: she hopes they would.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Never probably thought the way I saw it described was
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: it was on a small circle of friends years ago,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: and so she probably didn't think this video and maybe
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: didn't even realize maybe it was so long ago. But
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, you'd have to think no one in my
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: tight circle would send this to someone. But you know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: someone always tells someone, and that someone always tells someone,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: and then eventually this stuff gets out.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Somebody couldn't wait to go, I'm gonna get Ooh, I
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: got something good. Somebody couldn't wait. Yeah, all right, Well,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I love Island. They've been doing this the past couple seasons. Robes.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: They've had to put out statements. I think some other
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: shows have done it too. But look, people has a
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: rabbit fan following, and people get passionate about who they
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: want to be on the show kicked off who they
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: want to hook up and who their favorite people are
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and roses.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: It gets ugly line, yeah, because actually you start voting
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: for Islanders, so the public gets to weigh in on
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: who stays and who goes. And this is all happening
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: in real time. I think that's part of the excitement
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: of the show is it's being I believe it's a
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: pretty remarkable set up what they do. They have so
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: many cameras rolling, and they are their editing teams have
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: to be remarkable because they recorded and the next day
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: it airs, so this is in real time. So yes,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: they put out this post. The villa runs on good vibes,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: and so does this community. We love seeing your reactions,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: opinions and debates. But everyone deserves to feel safe and respected.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: This is a space for fun, not negativity. So keep
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: it kind, keep it positive, and remember this is Love Island.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I only started. I only did this when
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: you were reading that. They posted that on Twitter and
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the other places, and obviously the responses to that people
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: immediately well, I'm getting a little nervous because I don't
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: want to read I might get caught. I want to
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: preview because some of them could be a little nasty,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: real human beings, different person I was trapped together for entertainment.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Things are going to get messy.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: I mean people are here for the drama.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I mean that's just the all you've done to see
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: love and I love love, but people are there for
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the drama as well.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: All you do is platform racist ass people. So it
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: as long as you don't make it Maga Island. So
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: we can say this all day long. But the responses
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to them, saying please be nice are not nice, correct.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, the worst thing you can do is
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: tell somebody to behave They're going to probably do the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: exact opposite of what you.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Asked them to do till somebody calmed down.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: That would be the worst thing ever. Never tell someone
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: to calm down.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: What do you think? Is it working? Some want to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: be critical of Wait, how could this even happen? But
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I took this as a whole. The betting is working
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and they're making.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: So that's me too.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's exactly I have appreciated how Love
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Island has handled this for the last two seasons. I
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: think they've been very transparent. I think that there's no
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: such thing as a perfect vetting process. You can do
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: your best, but look, it does usually take you. You've
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: pissed one person off, or you've got something out there,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: it almost certainly is going to surface. I just feel
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: like in politics and reality shows now and pretty much
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: for everyone or anyone, you usually if there is something
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: incriminating out there, it will be found these days.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've seen several of these and several shows
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: things pop up about backgrounds and all videos, and so
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: this will continue to happen. I think this and roades.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I don't need them to address it on the show.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: If the show starts on Tuesday and they never even
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: mentioned there is a new person, I assume they're adding
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a twelve they have to write.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I would think at this point, like a jury selection,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: they might have alternate jurors, So maybe they can call
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: up an alternate contestant.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: You're probably right on Fiji standing by somewhere. That's a
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: very good These are our alternates, just stuff right in.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: So maybe they'll on.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see, maybe on Monday they'll announce a
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: new contestant, or maybe they'll go on with eleven.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: But I don't know. They bring in, but.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: They got to match them up some kind of way.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Don't they.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, And they do bring in people.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: You recall, the whole part of the show is throughout
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the show they bring in new people to kind of
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: shake things up, because how boring would that be if
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: everybody just coupled up. No, you got to bring in
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: temptresses and tempters and all this stuff.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: So they have people.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: We're going to be playing other roles. Maybe now they're
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: going to take one of those folks and give them
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: a main cast role.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Isn't that great? Somebody is now? It's weird how the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: world works. Somebody now is going to get a wonderful opportunity.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe that young lady ends up winning the show and
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: it becomes something else because someone a few years ago
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: said the inWORD. Yep, right, It's just weird how things
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: work out. I just had this question, what happens if
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: they see a video of a black contestant saying the inWORD.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I feel like you're the only one who can answer that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Is that offensive? Is that wrong?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Is that something that should be punished?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I would like to see them try. I would love
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to see them try that. A room full of overwhelmingly
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: white executives making a determination that a black person is
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: not allowed to say that. Now. I would love to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: hear that argument. But Robes, what should be? What should
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that standard be? I'm just so curious.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not Yeah, I don't think a room full of
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: white people should set that standard, I guess is my point.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: But are you going to get accused of some double
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: standard or why can these say to right? It? Would?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I would love to have that discussion. I would love
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: it for them to try to kick a black person
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: off the show for using that word that they determine
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: as a racial slur, which it is used in what
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: context and by whom?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this, if you were in
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: that room, what would you say to those white executives
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: who were deciding, hell, what should we do?
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: What would you say to them?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: We at absolutely not one hundred percent. My next thing
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: is how do we handle that discussion as a show.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: As a you have a huge platform. Move us forward,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: take the opportunity to do something like that. You move
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: us forward with a discussion about the in word. I
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: would love it. Nobody's gonna touch that. Nobody wants to,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: but Robes, I.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Would love to.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I would love to have that discussion. But I was
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that came up to me just curious. If you see
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: one of the black contestants rapping saying to one of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: his boys called him the in word, one of the
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: black women on the show saying it to a friend
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of hers, or rapping or whatever else, are they going
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to say, Nope, we stand by nobody should be able
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to use that word. Okay, I don't think they would
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: do that, You don't, I don't think they.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: If they've consulted anyone who doesn't look like them, they wouldn't.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: What are they going to say? We get an overwhelming
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: backlash from the white community that's upset that black people
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: use the in word.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Therefore, okay, ok right, when you put it like that,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I was just curious when you put it like that,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: you're correct. All right, Well, hey, we will be watching.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: We hope you will too. Like we said, we have
• 23:54
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• 23:58
  Speaker 2: So if you love the show, please check out our
• 23:59
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• 24:03
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. I'm Amy Roeboch
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: alongside TJ.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.