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DLHS Hour 1 | New Converse Ad Draws Criticism from Black Community · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: A big shout out to Charlestown Casino in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything you're talking about. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to sound like I do.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: That would have changed the entire NBA. The whole NBA.
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  Speaker 1: will tell us what's trending. We've got a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: tell us what's trending.
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  Speaker 2: The Converse ad is what's trending.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's talking about Converse, Converse, Converse, and this ad that
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  Speaker 3: they have with a star that looks like a point,
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  Speaker 3: that looks like a KKK, that also has, I guess...
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  Speaker 3: A model is standing there holding a pair of Converse,
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  Speaker 3: but all you see because of the shadow is a
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  Speaker 3: dark arm and feet, well, shoes dangling.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not a good.
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  Speaker 4: Look of Converse. It looks like a Klansman hanging someone black.
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  Speaker 2: And then the shoes all around in a circle look
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  Speaker 2: like they are watching.
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  Speaker 1: And that was, it was supposed to be a new
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  Speaker 1: edition of the Converse ad for a K-pop star.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Apparently this Asian chick is the one who created it.
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  Speaker 3: And but my question is, you know, I'm sure it
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  Speaker 3: had to go through everything from legal to the all
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  Speaker 3: the marketing executives. A lot of people had to have
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  Speaker 3: seen this ad and greenlit it and said it looked great.
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  Speaker 4: They did it on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Here's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: They did apologize, too.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, they did fast.
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  Speaker 1: But after and they tried to take it down, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to take it down after they got what they
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  Speaker 1: wanted was to trend. Yeah. Nobody spends money on advertising anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Like even if you watch the Super Bowl, PETA spends
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  Speaker 1: all this money.
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  Speaker 4: They make an ad.
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  Speaker 1: They don't ever air the ad. It just becomes controversial.
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  Speaker 1: And then people look at it online. They get what
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  Speaker 1: they want. You can't tell me that Target did this
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago. It is some young guy who was
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  Speaker 1: in their marketing program, who knows they ain't got no money,
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  Speaker 1: who wants to trend. And what they do is use, again,
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  Speaker 1: the cash. Converse to L.A. is what Tim's are to
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: It's street culture. It's gang culture. It's hip-hop culture. It's skaters.
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  Speaker 4: It's everything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know anybody that was raised in L.A. that
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  Speaker 1: don't have a pair of chucks. We don't even know
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  Speaker 1: who Chuck Taylor is. But they use the cachet of
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  Speaker 1: the streets and they cash in on it. And then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a K-pop star. Everybody, the thing about it,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see them trying to look like us. They'll get
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  Speaker 1: their hair done like us.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they will. But they'll chump us off.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't tell me that they're not aware of
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  Speaker 1: the controversy of all these young black people being hung.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people think it's racially motivated.
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  Speaker 4: You can't tell me that that's on accident. You can't
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  Speaker 4: tell me that.
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  Speaker 3: You're right. Well, I mean, that's a new way of
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  Speaker 3: doing things is now you trend as opposed to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: actually doing real marketing.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody has the market. And nobody, black people sell shoes.
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  Speaker 1: What white dude got a shoe deal? Don Brady is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest, one of the greatest quarterbacks ever.
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  Speaker 4: And he got Uggs. Oh, God. He does.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Montana, and also a great NFL quarterback, what he
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  Speaker 1: got is Skechers.
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  Speaker 4: So both them dudes can sell shoes at Costco.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody got, nobody has shoes for white dudes. The
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  Speaker 1: last white dude who had a shoe deal was Larry Bird,
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  Speaker 1: and he had Converse, and that was because of Magic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're right.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody has the Air Middle Manager.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-mm.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all. The air tax accountant.
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  Speaker 2: What about the air shack? Because he's also trending.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to this guy, Matthew Chappelle.
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  Speaker 4: Big Matt.
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  Speaker 3: O.G.
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  Speaker 4: Big Matt 510.
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  Speaker 2: From the town in Oakland. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: I saw this video and then I wanted to go
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  Speaker 3: see his page. And I saw where he straightened out
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  Speaker 3: this guy who claimed, y'all said come to Oakland.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here I am.
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  Speaker 3: And he aired him out something fierce. He was like,
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  Speaker 3: you ain't even in Oakland. But anyway, back to Shaq.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that he accepted this, I guess, from the
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  Speaker 3: FBI director.
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  Speaker 2: Cash Patel.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder, is he going to help bail? Because Cash
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  Speaker 1: Patel is going to get indicted as soon as Trump
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  Speaker 1: is done.
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  Speaker 4: I hope so. He's going to get indicted. I hope so.
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  Speaker 4: He is. He took a badge from criminals. Ain't that something?
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing that's so crazy for someone who, you know,
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  Speaker 3: holds in such a high regard. you know, police departments and, and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that particular justice system, you would think that
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  Speaker 3: he would look at that and say, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: not only am I not going to show up, I
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  Speaker 3: don't need that.
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  Speaker 1: How about not taking a badge for somebody who was
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  Speaker 1: adjudicated rapist and incredibly on the Epstein list. How about
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  Speaker 1: somebody who's not, who's, who's a, who's not taking a
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  Speaker 1: badge for someone who was a felon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How about not taking a bath from someone who's using
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  Speaker 3: that particular department to put their foot on the neck
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  Speaker 3: of the black and brown community?
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  Speaker 4: How about that? I don't get it. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 4: get it. Well, that's what Shaq ain't made a move
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  Speaker 4: this bad since Shazam.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and that's what's trendy.
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  Speaker 1: Fairly consistent pattern has developed over our time with the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration. Whenever there is something that he does not like,
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  Speaker 1: there is something he uses to distract. For instance, if
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  Speaker 1: we find out that his list, his name was missing
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  Speaker 1: on the Epstein list 38,500 times. We'll attack a country.
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  Speaker 1: We'll start a war like Iran. A destructive aspect to it.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, a distractive aspect to it. We will call
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  Speaker 1: reporters fake. We will say that people are un-American or
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  Speaker 1: they're terrorists. Anything to distract people from what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: We will give speeches that meander on and on. We
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  Speaker 1: will talk about giving people.
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  Speaker 4: $ 5, 000 if they retain the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: All of those are to distract from the abysmal situation
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  Speaker 1: we find ourselves in. So even if you're banning all
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  Speaker 1: of the media that you don't like, which is interesting
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  Speaker 1: because all of your people own the media anyway. There
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  Speaker 1: is no such thing as the mainstream media. Your men,
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  Speaker 1: the men who support you, own all of it. They
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  Speaker 1: own social media. They own mainstream media. So you are
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  Speaker 1: banning your friends from asking you questions that you don't like.
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  Speaker 1: All of it is to distract. But one of their favorite,
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  Speaker 1: most insidious tactics is when something is going bad. We
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  Speaker 1: know how destructive this has been to black people and
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  Speaker 1: to people of color. We know that black women have
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  Speaker 1: lost their job at an unprecedented weight. We know that
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  Speaker 1: they have a 7.7 unemployment rate, which is double the
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  Speaker 1: unemployment rate with women. and almost double the national average.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever something is going on he does not like, he
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  Speaker 1: picks a distractor. And oftentimes, it is somebody that we
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  Speaker 1: love in our community, whether it's Snoop or whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Nicki Minaj, and now, case in point, Shaq. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing that I find the most interesting is they always
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  Speaker 1: invariably get nothing for it. They get nothing for it.
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  Speaker 1: It is not they don't get money for it. They
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  Speaker 1: don't get prestige for it. Oftentimes when they do do
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  Speaker 1: something with Trump, it costs them cash. I understand what
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration gets.
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  Speaker 4: They get a viral moment. They get to look like.
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  Speaker 1: They have an influence or they look like somebody who
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  Speaker 1: is from our community supports him. They look like that.
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  Speaker 1: Look at how destructive this administration has been. Not just
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  Speaker 1: to us, but not just to people of color, but
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  Speaker 1: to the country in general.
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  Speaker 4: Look how corrupt they have been.
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  Speaker 1: And whenever things are going bad and people are asking
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  Speaker 1: questions they don't like and the country is in a
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  Speaker 1: sour mood, there's invariably a way to distract. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: like I said earlier, the most favorite way is to
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  Speaker 1: pick somebody that is beloved in the community. And like
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  Speaker 1: I said earlier, case in point, Shaq. Shaq, there's no
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  Speaker 1: disputing the fact that he has done so many great
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  Speaker 1: things for a lot of people, which is why he
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  Speaker 1: is beloved in our community, which is why they value that.
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  Speaker 4: That is what they value. They value his cachet.
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  Speaker 1: And they gave him the FBI, the most corrupt FBI
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  Speaker 1: in history of the corrupt and most corrupt administration in
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  Speaker 1: history decided to give him an honorary FBI badge. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Shaq has tons of badges from all over the country.
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  Speaker 4: We know his love of law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: But this administration, when it is over, they will scrub
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  Speaker 1: their name off of everything.
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  Speaker 4: That is how insidious it is.
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  Speaker 1: There will not be a thing standing with his name
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  Speaker 1: on it, but they get to use your cachet.
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  Speaker 4: They get to say, well, Shaq, you always take a picture.
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  Speaker 4: You always have a formal thing. It is to distract.
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  Speaker 4: It is to distract.
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  Speaker 1: And they always use someone who the black community loves
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  Speaker 1: to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Loves.
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  Speaker 4: We love the Snoop. We love. Nicki Minaj. We love Shaq.
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  Speaker 1: They do so many other great things that oftentimes they
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  Speaker 1: leverage what they have done. That is great with besmirching
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  Speaker 1: themselves with this administration. This administration made more destructive to
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  Speaker 1: black people than any other measure. Administration says Woodrow Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: And they throw their lot in with them. And they
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  Speaker 1: often get nothing, whether it's Nicki Minaj's fake gold card
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  Speaker 1: or Snoop getting a DJ party. I'm now shocked getting
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  Speaker 1: a fake badge. What do those people get? Except their
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  Speaker 1: reputation smirks, their reputation in tatters. People looking at them sideways.
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  Speaker 1: I understand what the Trump administration get. They get they
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  Speaker 1: get optics. They get to look like something's going on.
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  Speaker 1: They get to use their cachet to their own is
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  Speaker 1: to make it look like they're connected to something. They
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  Speaker 1: would clearly know they're not. I do not understand which
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  Speaker 1: I got. You got badges all over the country. You've
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  Speaker 1: done so many great things. You were held in such
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  Speaker 1: high esteem. And they use that. They mortgage that. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't understand what you got from it. And then
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  Speaker 1: you obviously know how it's playing in the community because
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  Speaker 1: you decided to go after the employer, Lou and Sir
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  Speaker 1: Matt in Oakland.
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  Speaker 4: You understand what they've done. And they do it all
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  Speaker 4: the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same play. We're going to take somebody beloved.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to make them mortgage their reputation.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to use it. They get everything, you get nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Think of it this way.
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  Speaker 1: They got the mantle of someone who's beloved in the community,
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  Speaker 1: who's done many great things. You got a fake-ass badge,
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  Speaker 1: they got a crown. That's a little note from the
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  Speaker 1: GED section.
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  Speaker 4: It's the D.L. Hughley Show.
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  Speaker 2: She's jazzed.
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  Speaker 4: She's smart.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Jazzy Report on the D.L.
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  Speaker 4: Hughley Show.
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  Speaker 3: Trump has provided a reason to justify his proposal to
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  Speaker 3: build a 250-foot triumphant directly across Arlington National Cemetery, saying
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  Speaker 3: the structure would double as a top-grade military complex. The facility,
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  Speaker 3: on what military veterans argue, overlooks hallowed ground and wood
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  Speaker 3: house and store and have the rapid ability to use
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  Speaker 3: large numbers of drones, snipers, and on both the rooftop
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  Speaker 3: plaza and.
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  Speaker 2: Other areas around there.
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  Speaker 4: This dude is trying to keep this job.
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  Speaker 2: He out of control.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to keep this job by any means. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to earn your vote. I'm going to stop
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  Speaker 1: you from doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but why would you spend all that money on
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  Speaker 3: this huge arch that has your likeness on it? And
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  Speaker 3: it's really an homage to you.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's not his money. So crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Like just like why would you let an oligarch buy
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  Speaker 1: your son's wedding? Ah.
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  Speaker 4: And then tell us he paid it back, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and couldn't damn well he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: So true.
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  Speaker 1: And more importantly, why would Shaq take a badge for
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  Speaker 1: somebody like that? That's crazy to me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a new report from the CDC's National Center for
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  Speaker 3: Health Statistics finds nearly Three quarters of U.S. adults say
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  Speaker 3: that they have felt extremely tired or exhausted at least
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  Speaker 3: some days in the past three months. And about one
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  Speaker 3: in six feel that the way most day they feel
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  Speaker 3: that way most days or every day. Women and younger
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  Speaker 3: adults 18 to 34 report the highest levels of frequent fatigue,
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  Speaker 3: with older adults 65 and up claiming the lowest levels.
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  Speaker 2: Working harder and it's just, you know, spinning your wheels,
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  Speaker 2: spinning your wheels.