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DLHS Hour 3 | Actor Omar Epps Reflects on His Iconic Roles · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Davis.
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  Speaker 2: Look out, America.
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  Speaker 1: So Ed Sheeran, so Robert Kraft says something to Ed Sheeran, right,
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  Speaker 1: about Macklemore. Yes. Now, and then Ed Sheeran, who was
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  Speaker 1: Macklemore's friend, goes, hey, man, I don't want to lose
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  Speaker 1: this tour, so you got to get off. Yes. Then
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  Speaker 1: all of Ed Sheeran's band members and opening acts. So
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  Speaker 1: now I think the only people going to over-perform is
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  Speaker 1: Ted Nugent and Nicki Minaj, Kid Rock.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's a hot ticket.
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  Speaker 1: What I don't understand is Macklemore had that one hit.
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  Speaker 2: What was it?
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  Speaker 3: Thrift Shop.
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  Speaker 1: Thrift Shop, right? Now, actually, Ed Sheeran is going to
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  Speaker 1: have to get a ban from one. Secondhand ban. What
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  Speaker 1: I do not understand is he got so upset. What
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  Speaker 1: was it that Macklemore said that drew his ire? Free Palestine.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. He didn't say anything about the Israeli people.
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  Speaker 3: That's all he said.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Kanye West plays the same stadiums that Ed Sheeran does, right? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Kanye West has a song called Heil Hitler, right? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Kanye West was on Academics Podcast with a full KKK clan,
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  Speaker 1: with a clan in front of him, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Kraft never said anything about that.
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm. So how can Free Palestine be more insulting than
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  Speaker 1: Heil Hitler?
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  Speaker 2: And it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was so insulting that people in Europe, they canceled
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  Speaker 1: his tour in Europe. Remember Kanye? They canceled his tour
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  Speaker 1: in Europe. I remember. So I'm not even, it's not
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  Speaker 1: even about what Kanye did or didn't do. It's about
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  Speaker 1: your reaction to it. Why did you, why would you
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  Speaker 1: react to a man saying free powder? Why did that
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  Speaker 1: draw your ire? First off, I want to like crab
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  Speaker 1: because I love cheese, but I'm not going to take
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  Speaker 1: my moral cues from a dude who was busting in
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  Speaker 1: a sex trafficking ring.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. And he wasn't. Let's
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  Speaker 1: be clear. When he went to that to that place,
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  Speaker 1: that spa, those women were trafficked in. The police were
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  Speaker 1: looking at that place for a sting operation for sex trafficking.
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  Speaker 1: So therefore, anybody who participated was was was was trucking
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  Speaker 1: in sex trafficking. They're the reason that you have sex traffickers.
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  Speaker 1: So men like that come.
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  Speaker 2: Literally. But go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. So let's let's be clear. Then you cheat
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  Speaker 1: to win. You deflate footballs. You steal signals. Yep. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: he have to sit out some games or give them
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  Speaker 1: some draft picks up or something like that, Skip? He
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  Speaker 1: got some kind of penalty. I can't remember what exactly
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  Speaker 1: it was. I'm not taking my moral cues from you.
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  Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. And Macklemore, you know, and I like Ed Sheeran,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that was a punk move. All you
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  Speaker 1: have to do is say nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Money talks. Say nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran's worth a half a billion dollars. What money
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  Speaker 1: does he need? Apparently the rest of that tour money couldn't. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he ain't going to get it now. He's gone the
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  Speaker 1: way of TLC. Perhaps he's gone the way of TLC.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about in terms of that tour. TLC's
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  Speaker 1: tour stopped because somebody said something they shouldn't have said.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: People, people are on that page no more. And shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Ryan Clark.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's the ultimate kiss.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: His set looks just like ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: Don't it?
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  Speaker 3: It looks so good. It looks so good.
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  Speaker 1: Kiss my a * *. I'm so proud of that
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  Speaker 1: young black man.
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  Speaker 2: Doing his thing.
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  Speaker 3: And welcome back to the D.L.
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  Speaker 1: Hughley Show.
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  Speaker 3: You know what time it is.
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  Speaker 6: Time to play For the Hard Way with Omar Epps.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jasmine, I haven't seen any black men.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, first of all, don't laugh at that.
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  Speaker 1: And she doesn't like chicken.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. Fried chicken or just chicken?
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  Speaker 3: That is all true.
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  Speaker 1: She don't like chicken. She don't like sandwiches.
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: She don't like a lot of, like if you get
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  Speaker 1: a sandwich, you got to take a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: tuna off or the chicken. She doesn't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: Watermelon?
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  Speaker 1: I love Wonder Woman.
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  Speaker 3: All my points right there.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Black Jack?
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  Speaker 2: They ain't got seeds in them yet, though.
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  Speaker 7: First of.
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  Speaker 3: All, it's not for the hard way on me.
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  Speaker 2: It's on him.
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  Speaker 1: So she doesn't see black movies. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think that if you were picking 15 iconic
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  Speaker 1: modern black movies, you would be in four.
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  Speaker 3: And out of that four, I've probably seen none.
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  Speaker 2: Two.
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  Speaker 1: If she hasn't seen any iconic black movies, which of
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  Speaker 1: your movies should she start with? It's like a black
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  Speaker 1: movie with training wheels. She'll get it right away.
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  Speaker 3: I bet he's going to say something I've seen. I'm
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  Speaker 3: certain of it.
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  Speaker 2: I would say The Wood.
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  Speaker 3: I saw The Wood.
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  Speaker 1: Dang it.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you.
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  Speaker 3: I saw Love and Basketball.
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  Speaker 1: So she's two.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I did not see Juice.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't seen Juice?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's seen Juice.
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  Speaker 2: Don't say it. I'm calm down. Calm down, bro. Called
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  Speaker 2: my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how successful The Wood is. We made The Brother
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  Speaker 1: because of The Wood.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: It was a fantastic movie.
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  Speaker 6: It was.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: That was a different kind of departure for you, too.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was a while where, like, it was you,
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  Speaker 1: Morris Chestnut. Tay. And Tay Diggs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Where light-skinned actors are going....
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  Speaker 2: They're in all of them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how Terrence Howard survived. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: hang in there, man.
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  Speaker 6: So speaking of cult classics and you've done a lot
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  Speaker 6: of them, which role do you get recognized by the most?
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  Speaker 2: It depends. I mean, you know, love and basketball, people
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  Speaker 2: love that. Women primarily, right?
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  Speaker 6: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: But people love house. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I used to watch house.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I only want to be like that house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Because I don't want no dude. This is my problem.
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  Speaker 1: That dude was crippled.
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  Speaker 3: But I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: But he could fix everything but his feet.
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  Speaker 5: His arm.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, no.
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  Speaker 1: He had issues, though.
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  Speaker 3: He was a little off.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it.
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  Speaker 3: I liked his demeanor. I liked everything about him.
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  Speaker 1: I can fix all that, but you can't do this
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  Speaker 1: right here. You can make research, but you can't make
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  Speaker 1: a fist. I don't trust you. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: What is a dream acting role for you? Like, what
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  Speaker 1: would be a dream acting role?
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  Speaker 2: Frederick Douglass. To play Frederick Douglass.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because he just.
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  Speaker 7: Beyond being an iconic figure, the man lived like five
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  Speaker 7: different lives in one life.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, he has his time with John Brown. He
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  Speaker 7: has his time with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. He has his
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  Speaker 7: time with Blink.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, white woman, too. Back when you couldn't have him.
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  Speaker 1: You died for him.
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  Speaker 2: You did that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You said, don't.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for my people. Listen.
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  Speaker 3: That was his Othello time, right?
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  Speaker 1: You know what was interesting? I saw you in traffic, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things I dug in traffic, and
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  Speaker 1: this is It's not even being salacious. There was a
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  Speaker 1: scene where you and your dude had had the same woman.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was an argument. And you were like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this was before you. And it was the coolest way to... Like,
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  Speaker 1: it was a very adult conversation. It was a cool way.
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  Speaker 1: That was me then. And she was young then. And
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  Speaker 1: I bought it. And I was like... That's when you
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  Speaker 1: when I know I did an actor is when I
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  Speaker 1: put myself in those circumstances and I find myself saying
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  Speaker 1: those words. Of course, I got shot, but that's not
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  Speaker 1: the point. But that's when I knew I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this dude is playing a role like that. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: get to have a circumstance that a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: might have some level of familiarity with. And it still
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  Speaker 1: has authenticity.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's and that's what it's about. It's about
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  Speaker 7: grounding that moment in me and last. we spoke about
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  Speaker 7: that a lot and it had to feel grounded. It
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  Speaker 7: couldn't feel like cinematic. It's like, yo, this, how would
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  Speaker 7: this conversation go?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 7: And you justified us like, yo, it was before you,
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  Speaker 7: I didn't know you was.
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  Speaker 1: Going to been in a lot of fights. Nobody would
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  Speaker 1: have said cut unless somebody really was cut.
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  Speaker 3: And speaking of that, let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 6: Black people tend to get cast in movies about thugs
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  Speaker 6: and hugs or hugs.
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  Speaker 3: Which one is your favorite?
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  Speaker 2: Thugs or hugs.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, like a crime kind of movie or
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  Speaker 6: more like a romantic comedy or.
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  Speaker 3: Which one is your favorite?
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  Speaker 2: Favorite? I like romantic comedies that are good. Do you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: See, that's why I saw Love and Basketball or something
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  Speaker 3: that's more romantic.
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  Speaker 2: Like when Harry met Sally's classmate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like he just.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell.
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  Speaker 2: Me that, man.
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  Speaker 3: It's true. See, I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 1: Omar, I just hurt my heart. They say, have you
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  Speaker 1: seen when Harry met Sally? It's now time to give
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  Speaker 1: a deserving someone the Shoe Booty of the Week award.
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  Speaker 1: And now, it's time for the Shoe Booty of the
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  Speaker 1: Week award. Brandon Tatum, also known as the Officer Tatum,
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  Speaker 1: is an American YouTuber, conservative, political commentator, author, radio personality,
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  Speaker 1: former policeman, and former college football player.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: So, why is Officer Ruckus this week's recipient of the
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  Speaker 5: Shoe Booty.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Week Award?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 5: He gets the shoe booty because he's the shoe booty licker.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's nasty.
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  Speaker 5: Let's start with him agreeing with Charlie Kirk that black
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  Speaker 5: people were better off during slavery.
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  Speaker 2: Incomplete.
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  Speaker 5: This man doesn't know black history. He knows alternative black history,
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  Speaker 5: the director's cut, the one where they swap out the
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  Speaker 5: facts for a fan fiction version written by a guy
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  Speaker 5: who still thinks separate but equal was just.
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  Speaker 2: Good urban planning.
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  Speaker 5: He went on a forum and straight up lied about
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  Speaker 5: the Tulsa Massacre. Not spun it. Not reframed it.
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  Speaker 2: Lied. Liar!
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  Speaker 5: Black Wall Street got burned to the ground by a
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  Speaker 5: white mob. Hundreds of black people killed. An entire thriving
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  Speaker 5: community turned into ash. And Brandon's out here like, actually,
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  Speaker 5: it was a big misunderstanding. And maybe the black folks
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  Speaker 5: started it. The only thing you started is your own
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  Speaker 5: career as the human version of a participant trophy for racists.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, white man, let me say that I
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  Speaker 5: love you, honor you, envy you, enjoy your smell, and
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  Speaker 5: I celebrate you in the name.
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  Speaker 2: Of white Jesus. He's the biggest sellout.
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  Speaker 5: Even white racists think he's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Look at my African American over here. That's not a compliment.
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  Speaker 2: That's a diagnosis.
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel so good.
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  Speaker 5: He put the dis and disgrace to his race.
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  Speaker 1: You are not to be disgraced.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why the shoe New Booty of the Week
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  Speaker 5: award goes to Officer Tatum.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's a swift kick in the ass.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's time for what you need to know with
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  Speaker 1: one on Sybil Wilkes.
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  Speaker 4: It's Sybil Wilkes with what we need to know. Attorney
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  Speaker 4: General Todd Blanche is defending President Trump's right to criticize
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  Speaker 4: Supreme Court justices after the high court rejected an emergency
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  Speaker 4: appeal on mail-in voting restrictions while confirming the Department of
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  Speaker 4: Justice will abide by their decisions. In Congress, the House
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  Speaker 4: voted 232 to 147 to table an impeachment resolution introduced
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  Speaker 4: by Texas Congressman Al Green regarding federal immigration enforcement practices.
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  Speaker 4: And in Mississippi, 51-year-old Jarkis Ratliff was denied bond after
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  Speaker 4: pleading not guilty to murder in the death of 29-year-old
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  Speaker 4: Tasia Fortune. Her August death in Jackson was ruled a homicide.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is claiming the July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting
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  Speaker 4: was a Democratic plot. Though FBI Director Kash Patel testified
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  Speaker 4: before a Senate committee that investigators found no evidence the
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  Speaker 4: gunman worked with co-conspirators.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Sybil Wilkes.
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  Speaker 4: Be informed.
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  Speaker 2: Be empowered.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Sybil. More of the D.L. Hughley
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