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That Joke Went Too Far” | George Floyd’s Brother Terrence Floyd Responds · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Some of the toys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: and everybody, you know, if.
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  Speaker 1: You don't lie about that, right, Lauren came in, Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: It's Laura l Rosa and this is another episode of
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  Speaker 2: the Latest with Laura l Rosa. Now, this is your
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  Speaker 2: all of the conversations that shake the room.
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  Speaker 1: Baby.
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  Speaker 3: Now, normally we would check in behind the scenes of the.
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  Speaker 2: Grind right here, but we have a conversation that I
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  Speaker 2: know is going to shake the room and I want
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  Speaker 2: to get right to it. So I was able to
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  Speaker 2: sit down and interview Terrence Floyd, who is the brother
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  Speaker 2: of George Floyd. He is also heavily involved with the
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  Speaker 2: George Floyd Foundation and a ton of things that they
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  Speaker 2: do and namesake of George Floyd. Now, Terrence Floyd is
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  Speaker 2: you know someone that I've worked with in the past,
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  Speaker 2: that I've done stories with and just been in communication
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  Speaker 2: with as he, you know, continues to keep his brother's
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  Speaker 2: name alive in all of the right ways and the
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  Speaker 2: positive ways. He had reached out to me because he
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  Speaker 2: saw the segment that we did on the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 2: about the roast, about the Tony Hinchcliff George Floyd joke
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  Speaker 2: which we talked about in the previous episode of The
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  Speaker 2: Ladies with Lona Rosa. Go back and take listen to
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  Speaker 2: that if you have not already, and he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: have a conversation about it. So before we get into
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  Speaker 2: this conversation, I do want to just remind you guys
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  Speaker 2: of why this all came about. So Kevin Hart hosted
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  Speaker 2: his first ever roast. He did the Kevin Heart Roast.
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  Speaker 2: It was done live on Netflix. It went down Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: May tenth, on Mother's Day, and it was a hit.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's talking about it. There are millions of people watching.
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  Speaker 2: It was produced very well, it was executed very well,
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  Speaker 2: and there was a lot of funny that went down,
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  Speaker 2: including Kevin Hart himself taking the mic and closing out
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  Speaker 2: the night. Kat Williams and Kevin Hart made up during
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  Speaker 2: the night on stage and Kat Williams had some jokes.
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  Speaker 2: Shell Underwood also did a set as well Regina Hall.
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  Speaker 2: It was hosted by Shane Gillis, a name lynn of
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  Speaker 2: the Plastic Cup Boys, who are like you know, Kevin
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  Speaker 2: Hart's circle, like those his people also took the mic
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  Speaker 2: did some jokes. Tom Brady popped out as well, Draymond Green, Lizzo,
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  Speaker 2: Tiana Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Like the celebrities were there, they were in the house.
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  Speaker 3: It went down.
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  Speaker 2: Pete Davison also making headlines for a Kanye West joke
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  Speaker 2: that he dropped. Kanye West was actually in the building
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of people didn't know. But there has
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  Speaker 2: now been more downloading conversations since more people webbining, I
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  Speaker 2: think to like sit down.
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  Speaker 3: And watch the roast about what jokes they.
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  Speaker 2: Believe went too far, and a lot of them being
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  Speaker 2: the racial jokes from the white comedians. Now Tony Hinchcliffe
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  Speaker 2: killed Tony. It's the platform. He is known for being raw,
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  Speaker 2: being very edgy and leaning into race a lot. Here
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  Speaker 2: is the joke that he said about George Floyd that
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  Speaker 2: has George for family and a lot of people pissed off.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take a litten.
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  Speaker 4: It's true we lost his gig hosting the Academy Awards
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  Speaker 4: because of some homophobic tweets, but you'd be homophobic two
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  Speaker 4: if you were eye level with everyone's He got no
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  Speaker 4: A fist fight on a private plane proof that no
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  Speaker 4: matter how much money black people have, They're still just
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  Speaker 4: gonna act like Ninjas was fighting, Like Bill Cosby. Hart
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  Speaker 4: is a black comedian from Philadelphia, and like Bill Cosby,
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  Speaker 4: women don't know when Kevin is inside of them. You've
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  Speaker 4: done good, though, Kevin. The black community is so proud
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  Speaker 4: of you. Right now, George Floyd is looking up us,
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  Speaker 4: at us all, laughing so hard that he can't breathe.
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  Speaker 2: So now that brings us to our conversation with mister
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  Speaker 2: Terrence Floyd in reaction to this joke. So I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get right on out of the way and get
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  Speaker 2: to the combo.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it. First of all, thank you for joining me.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we always have to have conversations around
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  Speaker 2: these things, so you know, I apologize for that, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you know so times of conversations are needed
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  Speaker 2: for people to hear from you guys, as George Floyd's
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  Speaker 2: family firsthand. So I know you had saw some of
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  Speaker 2: the comments that we had made at the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 2: in response to Tony Hinchcliffe and the George Floyd joke
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  Speaker 2: that was you know, said at the Kevin Hart roast,
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  Speaker 2: and you wanted to kind of talk a bit about that, So.
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  Speaker 3: Just let me know.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, did you watch the roast just as a
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Hart fan or like, did you hear about it afterwards?
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  Speaker 5: I heard about it afterwards, and I understand a roast
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  Speaker 5: that that let me get Let me just clarify that
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  Speaker 5: I understand the roast, and well, from what I understand
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  Speaker 5: about a roast, it's about what you know, what you
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  Speaker 5: joke about about that person specifically.
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  Speaker 1: So the reason why I felt kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Uneasy is because I was trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 5: did that have to do?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of punchline was that, you know?
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  Speaker 5: And you know, and I'm gonna speak speak from my
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  Speaker 5: point of view, is uh, comedy roasted the roses without
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  Speaker 5: that one person. Comedy is to make people, you know,
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  Speaker 5: laugh and enjoy themselves. Is not supposed to be where
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  Speaker 5: you feel some type of way after you leave the room.
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  Speaker 5: You're supposed to leave with healing and happiness, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and that that that wasn't the case. And I'm not
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  Speaker 5: and I'm speaking from my from my point of view
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  Speaker 5: about my brother and from my family, but I'm I'm
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  Speaker 5: even gonna go as far as the other topics with
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  Speaker 5: Bill Cosby. Those are other people's issues and you don't
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  Speaker 5: know what kind of trauma and tragedy that that that
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  Speaker 5: family was going through, So stick to just who you
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  Speaker 5: supposed to be roasting. That's just my feeling on it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, in us covering this, I started to
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  Speaker 2: kind of like research because when I first saw the statement,
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  Speaker 2: there was a line about the rep who spoke out
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  Speaker 2: for Gianna and the George Floyd organization that says something
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  Speaker 2: about you guys as the family, mentioning his obsession with
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  Speaker 2: your brother, but George Floyd. So it made me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the room, Jess Hilarious asks like was this the
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  Speaker 2: first time that he mentioned something? And I went back
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  Speaker 2: and I realized that he had gotten some pushback back
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four when he joked about George Floyd
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  Speaker 2: or made a reference to George Floyd during the Tom
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  Speaker 2: Brady roast. So, you know, with this being the second time,
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  Speaker 2: do you guys feel like, you know, I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: first time it shouldn't have happened, But would it be
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  Speaker 2: in the second time? Do you feel like it's even
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  Speaker 2: more of a disrespect or like does that kind of
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  Speaker 2: compile onto things for you?
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  Speaker 5: I have a totally different perspective on this. I would
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  Speaker 5: say it's totally disrespectful. It's totally disrespectful. But if it's
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  Speaker 5: going to be allowed and he's not, he get pushed
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  Speaker 5: back from us. But do he get pushed back from
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  Speaker 5: his pockets? Do you get pushed back from anything else?
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  Speaker 5: If you don't get pushed back from what's really going
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  Speaker 5: to affect him, then he's gonna keep doing it, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And that's it's a disrespect from him, And it's a
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  Speaker 5: disrespect from the people that allow him to do those acts,
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  Speaker 5: and so and and and and approve those jokes. Because
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  Speaker 5: I'm quite sure I've been on a I've been on
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  Speaker 5: a few arenas where you know, questions, I have to
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  Speaker 5: approve questions before they ask. I'm quite sure they got
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  Speaker 5: to approve commentary, jokes and everything like that. So for
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  Speaker 5: for them to allow it, you know, Netflix, a major
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  Speaker 5: station like that, to allow that, I just I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I took it.
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  Speaker 5: As that topic wasn't supposed to be touched, just like
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  Speaker 5: they said, don't talk about his children.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just certain topics. Death.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think there's anything funny about death or tragedy,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's nothing, It's nothing funny about that if
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  Speaker 5: you want to make fun of your own experiences with
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  Speaker 5: death and tragedy, that's what you that's what you have
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  Speaker 5: to deal with within yourself, but don't when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to death and tragedy for other people.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that to me, that's off limits.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you feel like the responsibility should have been
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  Speaker 2: on to to say, Okay, no, you can't do this joke.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like that's Kevin Hart that should have
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  Speaker 2: stopped that, or do you feel like it's Netflix or both?
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  Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, first and foremost, I feel
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  Speaker 5: like it was it was it was the producers to Netflix,
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  Speaker 5: because do you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Approve it before they err it? You know?
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  Speaker 5: My thing with with with Kevin and I'm a fan,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a fan of Kevin Hard. Dude is really funny.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. I I I feel like
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  Speaker 5: my fam, my family and their friends, they they said,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it should it should have had not the
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  Speaker 5: Will Smith action with the Will Smith energy.
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  Speaker 2: Where you responded differently right.
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  Speaker 5: Right, responded right then and there like well wait, wait,
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  Speaker 5: hold up, because I remember Kevin Hart and a few
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  Speaker 5: other celebrities was at the Minnesota funeral.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, so I.
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  Speaker 5: Feel like in in that in that respect like where
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  Speaker 5: we hold hold up that that one is too far.
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  Speaker 5: But then then again, me watching some clips of certain
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  Speaker 5: other uh kind of jokes, a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 5: of it just felt it was it wasn't tasteful. Like
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  Speaker 5: the whole thing about them saying he's so short they
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  Speaker 5: hang him on the bondside tree.
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  Speaker 1: I got to be doing.
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  Speaker 6: I've got a nice PG short joke that I'd like
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  Speaker 6: you guys to be a part of. Okay, Kevin is
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  Speaker 6: so short, Kevin's so short that they're gonna have to
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  Speaker 6: lynch him from a bond's eye.
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  Speaker 1: Trade that that what kind of look?
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  Speaker 5: That's not tasteful, Like I wouldn't even laugh at that,
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  Speaker 5: because that's like you you bringing up our past, like
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  Speaker 5: what what what our answers had to go through?
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  Speaker 1: And that's funny to y'all know, it's not funny at all.
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  Speaker 3: Got it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's pretty much to the point. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If there's anything that I haven't asked you that you
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  Speaker 2: want to share, I would I would ask you, I
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  Speaker 2: guess today. One of the other things that they mentioned
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  Speaker 2: was like Gianna and George Floyd start your niece being
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  Speaker 2: teased in school and how stuff like this doesn't help.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if she how she's doing,
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  Speaker 2: if she's okay, if she's like does she get direct
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  Speaker 2: response from things like this because they're so viral and
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  Speaker 2: she's getting older now, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, she was. She was.
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  Speaker 5: She was six when it's happened. She's twelve now and
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  Speaker 5: still gotta.
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  Speaker 1: Deal with you know what.
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  Speaker 5: I was talking to Travis yesterday and we were saying,
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  Speaker 5: we we we realize something always is talked about or
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  Speaker 5: happen or somebody say something or bring up controversy or
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  Speaker 5: whatever around my brother's name when it's nearing his anniversary
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  Speaker 5: of his death. It happened with this, It happened with
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  Speaker 5: Charlie Kirk, it happened with you know, Lil YACHTI, it happened.
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  Speaker 5: It just it's always something when it's nearing his anniversary,
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  Speaker 5: and it's like, okay, we say keep it, you know,
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  Speaker 5: keep saying his name, but we don't want this narrative.
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  Speaker 1: This is crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Every year we gotta keep coming on you know, talk
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  Speaker 5: shows and stuff like that and podcasts and tell them
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  Speaker 5: to tell people how we feel about what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get the picture yet.
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  Speaker 2: And you mentioned Charlie Kirk. I know that. You know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the conversation has been like, okay, well
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  Speaker 2: there were Charlie Charlie Kirk jokes made as well too.
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  Speaker 2: Are we wrong for laughing at that? Is it different
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  Speaker 2: because George Floyd is a part of our community and
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk isn't. Like do you feel like anything flies
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  Speaker 2: when it's outside of the black community or just across
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  Speaker 2: the board.
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  Speaker 5: I'm on the side of writers right and wrong is wrong.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care who family it is. Joking about death
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  Speaker 5: or tragedy is a no note for me because just
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  Speaker 5: like a joke about my brother affects me, a joke
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  Speaker 5: about Charlie Kirk, a joke about uh Show Underwood's husband,
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  Speaker 5: the dude's father that that passed away on nine to eleven. Death, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: death and tragedy is off limits because.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it may it may make a.
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  Speaker 5: Person crack a smile at that time because they laughing
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  Speaker 5: and trying not to cry, but then later on when
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  Speaker 5: they get home, you don't know what's going on. I
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  Speaker 5: know it don't feel good, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 5: because you gotta think on that.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta think on.
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  Speaker 5: What what was said, not only what was said, but
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  Speaker 5: now you gotta think on man, my loved one is
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  Speaker 5: not here. Now you're not around that crowd where you
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  Speaker 5: gotta show your pearly ways, you by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You're thinking on.
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  Speaker 5: That, that that that holds a lot of weight, and
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  Speaker 5: that is exactly what Gianna is going through.
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  Speaker 1: And she's only twelve.
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  Speaker 5: So right right now, it's not even a it's not
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  Speaker 5: I'm with my brother, my boy Travis. It's not it's
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  Speaker 5: we we upset, but we we I'm focusing more on
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  Speaker 5: the well.
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  Speaker 1: Being of my niece.
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  Speaker 5: Just got to stop, man, all these all these jokes
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  Speaker 5: and and then then then it was a it was
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  Speaker 5: a part in there where we always say, you know,
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  Speaker 5: my brother looking down on us, because we were talking positive.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that he said that he's looking up.
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  Speaker 4: You've done good, though, Kevin, the black community is so
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  Speaker 4: proud of you. Right now, George Floyd is looking up
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  Speaker 4: had us all laughing so hard that he can't breathe.
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  Speaker 1: We was stuck on that when we heard it.
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  Speaker 5: He was like, he's looking up, looking up, from with
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  Speaker 5: are you trying to say he's in hell? So this
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  Speaker 5: is not This is not what comedy is supposed to do.
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  Speaker 5: It's not supposed to have us thinking about what you
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  Speaker 5: what you meant, what you meant? Oh, we're supposed to
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  Speaker 5: laugh to heal, heal from this. That roast was supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be for strifty Kevin and what people think about
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  Speaker 5: him and make him laugh and enjoy his counterparts and
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  Speaker 5: his his his comrade, just stuff like that. Not for
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  Speaker 5: anybody from that road to be getting backlash about what
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  Speaker 5: somebody said.
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  Speaker 2: So if this could be done differently, what would you
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  Speaker 2: advise Kevin Heart What would you advise Netflix? How would
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  Speaker 2: you advise them to go about this? Like, if you
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  Speaker 2: could speak to them right now, what would you say?
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  Speaker 1: I would? I would say the same thing I say
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  Speaker 1: about when I do.
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  Speaker 5: I do panels with a friend of mine and we
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  Speaker 5: do panels about the fashion industry and how they make
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  Speaker 5: They make major mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: In the fashion industries too.
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  Speaker 5: So when it comes to those those those meetings in
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  Speaker 5: the ballrooms, put people in place, those Netflix put people
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  Speaker 5: on those boards in place that understand the culture, and
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  Speaker 5: they understand, now, don't don't don't do that, don't do
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  Speaker 5: this before it before it even becomes an event, when
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  Speaker 5: you're in the planning stages, plan it right, planet correct
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  Speaker 5: for every culture. Because Netflix is all over everybody watches it,
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  Speaker 5: so for every coach it. Don't just pract jose about
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  Speaker 5: this culture and that coaching and then think this is
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  Speaker 5: gonna fly.
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  Speaker 1: No, make it an even.
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  Speaker 5: Playing field for everybody, so everybody can enjoy the comedy.
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  Speaker 2: Got you well, thank you for joining me. I'm sad
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  Speaker 2: it's it's always on these terms. But listen, you know
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  Speaker 2: you got a home over here.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, yes, yes, and we appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: And thanks for tuning in too.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate it, and will do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I think if you're a comedian, you
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  Speaker 2: choose to tell a joke. It may be funny to
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  Speaker 2: some people, it may not be funny to others. But
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  Speaker 2: I think you know at the hands of what this was,
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  Speaker 2: what the George Floyd joke was the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: roads had nothing to do with George Floyd. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think the white comedians are just attacking the black
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  Speaker 2: community in general, because I don't even don't know if
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  Speaker 2: I'm using the word attacking, but they throwing shots at
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  Speaker 2: the black community in general, because Kevin Hart is a
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  Speaker 2: black comedian, which we all understand. But when hearing from
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  Speaker 2: a family member and you're hearing about you know the
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  Speaker 2: implications that this has on people in real life, it
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  Speaker 2: does beg the question did the jokes.
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  Speaker 3: Go too far?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: I want to hear from you, guys. Get in the streets,
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  Speaker 3: get in tweets, let me hear from you.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that the jokes went too far when
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  Speaker 2: it came to this George Floyd joke and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the other jokes. I know. They were also joking
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  Speaker 2: about Cheryl Underwood and her husband's suicide, which we discussed
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  Speaker 2: on a previous episode of The Latest with Lorna Rosa,
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  Speaker 2: and other racial undertones are mentioned as well. Let me
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  Speaker 2: know what you guys think. I tell you, guys, every
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  Speaker 2: single episode, y'all could be anywhere in the world talking
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  Speaker 2: about all of these things, which y'all choose to be
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  Speaker 2: right here with the means my lowriders.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you, guys, and I'll catch you in my
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  Speaker 3: next episode.