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DLHS Hour 2 | Is Anthony Edwards a Deadbeat Dad · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the DLU.
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  Speaker 2: We show you a 2026 edition. If you're going to
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  Speaker 2: going to be happening. So I don't want I will
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  Speaker 2: be remiss because I think that there's so many things
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  Speaker 2: going on. But let us keep in mind that there
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  Speaker 2: are still black people that are coming up hung with
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  Speaker 2: nobody being about to answer.
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  Speaker 1: And there is a little boy who was killed.
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  Speaker 2: By a police officer, allegedly racist police officer in Mississippi,
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  Speaker 2: who we have no answers to other than, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Nolan Wells. So what I think they counted on is
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  Speaker 2: us getting tired and moving on. And I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we can exhibit that. I don't think we can do that.
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  Speaker 2: So I just want to always make sure that we
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  Speaker 2: got that top of mind. We can walk and chew
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  Speaker 2: gum at the same time. So do you think that
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  Speaker 2: this is Anthony Edwards?
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  Speaker 3: What this is giving, if I'm just going to flat
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  Speaker 3: out say it, it's giving deadbeat dad respect.
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  Speaker 2: I think that there is obviously a financial component, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a very important component. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's the most important one, but it's a very important
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  Speaker 2: component to being a parent, financially being able to take
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  Speaker 2: care of them. But the other thing is wanting to
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  Speaker 2: parent them, wanting to parent them. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that it makes him a deadbeat dad, but I think
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  Speaker 2: it makes him a.
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  Speaker 1: Virgin of one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think I have to agree with you. I get it.
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  Speaker 5: And I understand the facts of it is that he
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  Speaker 5: never wanted a baby, didn't want to.
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  Speaker 6: Be a father or whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 5: But I think coming with a little sometimes you're going
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  Speaker 5: to get a little baby. It just it happens. And
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  Speaker 5: so I think I haven't had quite a bit to
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  Speaker 5: make that decision. Like you have to say, OK, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you got to take protective, literally and figuratively measures to
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  Speaker 5: make sure that it doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 6: But once the baby comes here, it is your responsibility. Now,
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  Speaker 6: you can be a.
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  Speaker 5: Deadbeat dad if you want to. You don't have to
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  Speaker 5: show up. You don't have to be in the kid's life.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have to do any of that. Just pay
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  Speaker 5: your money if you want to. But I guarantee you
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  Speaker 5: that karma is going to come back and bite you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that, you know, karma works quite as well.
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  Speaker 4: It does.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what, there's so many deadbeat dads walking
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  Speaker 2: around doing good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if that's true.
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  Speaker 8: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I don't know if karma.
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  Speaker 2: Is as specific as that, but.
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  Speaker 1: I do think it's unfair.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, when you're a man of means and
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  Speaker 2: people know you have it, there's no way.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be out of the financial part of it.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Right. There's no way to absolve yourself from.
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  Speaker 1: That part of it.
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  Speaker 2: But what he doesn't want to do is keep going
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  Speaker 2: back and forth about it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Paid in full.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 6: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes he's doing that, maybe doing that because he
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  Speaker 2: don't want to go back.
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  Speaker 1: And forth to court. He don't want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do all that. He is not in his mouth.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 6: That's really what it is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I bet it is that. He don't want to,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: So, Junius, you you're alluding to the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: paid in full and that should be it.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I mean, for right now, at least that the
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  Speaker 10: financial part is already in the books. They don't she
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  Speaker 10: won't have to hunt him down. There's going to be
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  Speaker 10: everything that their kids going to need until he's he's
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  Speaker 10: of age. Well, here's the problem in this perspective.
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  Speaker 11: Particular situation i think he paid a million up front
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  Speaker 11: like one time million dollars you know which averages out
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  Speaker 11: to fifty thousand dollars a year for 20 years right
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  Speaker 11: but i think she uh birkin bagged it and uh
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  Speaker 11: and uh jimmy chewing it all up and now she's
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  Speaker 11: trying to come back for some more and he's like
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  Speaker 11: hey get on get i done paid you know so
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  Speaker 11: she didn't like put it in a trust fund or
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  Speaker 11: nothing like that she went in she's a.
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  Speaker 2: Bad she's one of them bad babies she had to She's.
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  Speaker 11: One of them bad bees and went on to spin
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  Speaker 11: up all that change.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what I suggest you is get to the NBA
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  Speaker 2: All-Star Game again.
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  Speaker 6: And as a player, I suggest you pick better choices.
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  Speaker 6: How about that? That's bad all the way around.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's absolving him of it.
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  Speaker 1: But he paid his freight. And she blew it all.
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  Speaker 1: She blew it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she did.
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  Speaker 8: She spent the baby money.
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  Speaker 2: She paid the frame. And maybe that's what he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to avoid anyway. Also, he's going to be making more money.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's going to be so, you know, let's
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  Speaker 2: get all this done. A million dollars, a million dollars
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  Speaker 2: in one lump sum tax free is a ton of money.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: A ton of money. And if you, for example, if
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  Speaker 2: you put that in an interest bearing account. You would
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  Speaker 2: make $ 50, 000 to $ 60, 000.
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  Speaker 1: A year or $ 5, 000 a month. $ 4, 500 a month just
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  Speaker 1: off the interest. That's what she should have done. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just off the interest. That's exactly what she should have done.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, the person that I feel the worst
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  Speaker 2: for is the kid.
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  Speaker 11: Yep.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because you can't live in a Birkin bag.
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  Speaker 6: My whole mother couldn't even live in a shoe.
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  Speaker 11: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now.
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  Speaker 2: So everybody, everybody, everybody got the thing they want. He
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  Speaker 2: got some, she got some bread. The babies don't want
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  Speaker 2: to get, didn't get something they want.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That's pretty sad.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty sad. But according to.
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  Speaker 6: His account, I'm sure it was a hell of a deal.
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  Speaker 6: I want to be there.
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  Speaker 11: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I would think, you know, to me, to me, the
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  Speaker 2: one who's suffering the most, like I say, is the child.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I could see buying a little something, but
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  Speaker 2: put some away for the boy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Put some away.
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  Speaker 10: Or as the mama call him, commodity.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Come here, little come up.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 11: I thought the penalty was for early withdrawal.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be great on your podcast. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a great joke on your podcast. The question
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  Speaker 2: we're asking Anthony Edwards, basketball star Anthony Edwards has a baby.
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  Speaker 2: It relinquishes all parental rights and makes a one lump
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  Speaker 2: sum payment. Does that make him a deadbeat dad? We're
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  Speaker 2: going right to the phones.
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  Speaker 4: My response is no. His approach does not make him.
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  Speaker 9: No more of a deadbeat dad than those parents that give.
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  Speaker 4: Their children up for adoption.
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  Speaker 7: In the beginning, Anthony Edwards paid all his child support
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  Speaker 7: up for the 18 years. The fact was he didn't
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  Speaker 7: want to have the baby with the girl. He had
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  Speaker 7: chose to pay for the abortion, but she chose not to.
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  Speaker 7: Then she went and spent up all the money that
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  Speaker 7: he gave her for the 18 years, and now she
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  Speaker 7: wanted more child support. So he wanted to sign up
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  Speaker 7: with parental rights because he didn't want to have anything
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  Speaker 7: to do with her in the beginning. So how does
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  Speaker 7: that make my dad be bad when the mom just
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  Speaker 7: wants the money? She spent up the money on clothing
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  Speaker 7: trying to start a business. She didn't use it for
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  Speaker 7: the child. So how can that make my dad be
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  Speaker 7: bad instead of a gold-digging mom?
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  Speaker 10: I say that if he would have covered up, he
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  Speaker 10: might not have had this issue.
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  Speaker 8: Cover up.
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  Speaker 2: It would have protected him from diseases and unwanted babies.
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  Speaker 8: I'm saying this like the gentleman said before. The lady
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  Speaker 8: has all the power. And if she decides to have
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  Speaker 8: a baby, he doesn't want to. And he pays all
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  Speaker 8: the child support up front. So he has nothing to
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  Speaker 8: do with the child. That doesn't make him a deadbeat dad.
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  Speaker 8: That makes him responsible, you know. He might want to
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  Speaker 8: have a relationship with her later, but right now, you know,
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  Speaker 8: he says he doesn't want a child. She says she's
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  Speaker 8: going to have it anyway. So from what I heard,
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  Speaker 8: he paid all his child support up front, right? He
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  Speaker 8: took care of his financial responsibility. He doesn't want to
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  Speaker 8: be a father. That doesn't make him a deadbeat dad.
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  Speaker 8: Not to me.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think it makes a deadbeat dad because he
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  Speaker 9: told her he did not want the child.
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  Speaker 4: And that's, I mean, it's an option. It's a chance
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  Speaker 4: she took.
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  Speaker 7: She was trying to force it.
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  Speaker 3: And apparently it was all about the money for her.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't think it makes him a deadbeat dad.
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  Speaker 9: Hopefully go on, they both live better lives separately.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it makes him a deadbeat father.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to make him an absentee father.
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  Speaker 4: Deadbeat would mean he's not contributing anything to the kids'
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  Speaker 4: upbringing or anything like that. But I do have a theory.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of these guys out here acting
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  Speaker 4: on what they think other men think is cool and
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  Speaker 4: positive with the over-sexuality and the over, you know, just... Baron,
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  Speaker 4: I got to get as much as I can get.
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  Speaker 4: Because you're putting yourself in danger any time you're doing
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  Speaker 4: this stuff where some of these women are out here
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  Speaker 4: to have babies by your own purpose, but they're out
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  Speaker 4: here trying to do it with other guys too. So
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  Speaker 4: you're risking everything else, disease and all the other infections
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  Speaker 4: that can come from that. But just because they think
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  Speaker 4: it makes them look good to other men, it's like
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee you if they didn't have other men to
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  Speaker 4: brag about this stuff too, they wouldn't even be doing
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  Speaker 4: as much as they're doing sexually.
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  Speaker 2: So Anthony Edwards, a basketball star, has a little situation happen.
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  Speaker 2: He pays for it up front, says, I don't want,
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  Speaker 2: relinquishes all parental rights because that's one of the things
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  Speaker 2: people keep going back.
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  Speaker 1: For is to get rights and, you know, do all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So he just said, no, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to do it. Here's a check. I think
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  Speaker 1: the baby's middle name is Receipt. I'm not sure. But
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  Speaker 1: do you think that makes him a deadbeat that we're
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  Speaker 1: going right to the phones?
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  Speaker 9: Ty, what I got to say about the question today,
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  Speaker 9: sometimes it's not the men. The men want to give
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  Speaker 9: up because the women act crazy out here, so they
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  Speaker 9: don't want nothing to do with the child.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I think he is a deadbeat. You're telling me
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  Speaker 3: that he's giving up his parents' rights to the child
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  Speaker 3: because he didn't want a child? That is crazy beyond
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  Speaker 3: stupid to me. Conscience is stupid. That is beyond ignorant.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to give up your right to a child
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  Speaker 3: because you decided you didn't want to have a baby.
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  Speaker 3: But the baby's here and you don't.
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  Speaker 8: Want the baby.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's beyond deadbeat. That's a sorry person to call
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  Speaker 3: himself a man. That's not how we do things out here,
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  Speaker 3: not men. So, yeah, I think he's sorry, man. That
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  Speaker 3: is a sorry dude. I would be ashamed to call
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  Speaker 3: myself a man to turn your back on your own
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  Speaker 3: blood and your own seed. That's crazy to me.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I feel so bad for that child. Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: I think it makes him a deadbeat dad that he
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  Speaker 9: does not want to pay for a child that he fathered.
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  Speaker 9: I think he should be able to sever his parental rights,
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  Speaker 9: but I think he should be able to sever his
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  Speaker 9: parental rights where he has no say so over the
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  Speaker 9: child's life. But he should still be made to pay
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  Speaker 9: because your child has to eat. She has to sleep.
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  Speaker 9: She has to get clothes. She has to breathe every
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  Speaker 9: single day. So I just think it's really sad for
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  Speaker 9: the child. Now, granted, I have known of situations where
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  Speaker 9: some of these women, they just.
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  Speaker 7: Ask for money. And I and I under I'm not going.
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  Speaker 9: To say I understand that I've seen men have to
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  Speaker 9: deal with that. So I understand a man not wanting
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  Speaker 9: to be involved with a woman that he's, you know,
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  Speaker 9: to have a child and not be involved with that woman.
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  Speaker 9: It makes it it makes it very difficult for his
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  Speaker 9: life because he's going to have to always be tied
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  Speaker 9: to that woman.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think they necessarily make him a deadbeat
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  Speaker 4: because in his own way he's handling responsibilities, but it
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  Speaker 4: do make him lame as he is.
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  Speaker 8: Period.
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  Speaker 7: He's a lame-ass dude today.
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