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HOUR 1 | Justice for Nolan Wells, Trump's War on the Press & The Window Seat Showdown · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: So remember that if you are in Jacksonville, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be there at the Florida Theater along with Don Lemon,
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  Speaker 1: DL and DL. And then the following day, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be in St. Petersburg, Florida, Tampa St. Pete at
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  Speaker 1: the Mahaffrey Theater. So that's the 25th. We're in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: And the 26th, we are in St.
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  Speaker 2: Petersburg. And also my book. Charlie's Boy is on the 6th. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: October 6th.
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  Speaker 3: The guys are so fast, right?
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  Speaker 2: Did it get here fast?
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like just the other day you were saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about writing a book about my dad.
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  Speaker 3: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: It only took four years. That's what it sounded like.
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  Speaker 3: It sounded just like that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of stuff is going on. I just, I think,
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  Speaker 2: I just feel so bad for Nolan Wells' mother.
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 3: I feel horrible.
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like we live in a country where
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  Speaker 1: there are people who were more empathic about a woman
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  Speaker 1: murdering her children than a woman trying to find answers
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  Speaker 1: to what happened to her child.
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  Speaker 2: And Mississippi's never been a hero.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the last time they gave any level
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  Speaker 1: of justice to black people was the movie A Time
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  Speaker 1: to Kill. I just I think that they have no
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  Speaker 1: interest in rehabbing their image. I think they continue that
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  Speaker 1: just what they've done just in general. They have been
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  Speaker 1: poisoning those people with water systematically since the 60s. They
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  Speaker 1: have gone to court and the court has said that
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  Speaker 1: clean water isn't a human right.
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  Speaker 2: That's some stuff you do in a third world country.
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  Speaker 1: They've consolidated power in a way to make sure the
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  Speaker 1: black people, it's the blackest city in America and they treat.
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  Speaker 2: It like that. It's just hard. I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 3: Every day. I just don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: Even watching the Nolan Wells update and watching You know,
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  Speaker 4: his mom and his dad, you know, and I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to wrap my head around the fact that you went
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  Speaker 4: through all of that investigation. Allegedly, you talked to all
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  Speaker 4: of these people and you know, he had bruises on
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  Speaker 4: the back of his head.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't even worry about that. What you said was
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  Speaker 3: he drowned.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And in my head, I'm trying to figure out, well,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't need his throat to figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: What would you do? We got the throat now?
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  Speaker 3: No, we don't have the throat.
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  Speaker 2: We have the lung now?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: And all we have is that word, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's all we have.
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  Speaker 1: Then I don't believe it. I wouldn't believe it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I just am not inclined to believe it. Not out
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  Speaker 1: of Mississippi. I think it says a lot about what
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  Speaker 1: we are as a nation. I think it says a
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  Speaker 1: lot about what we'll tolerate. And it's so, because it
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  Speaker 1: seems so hypocritical to me, because the very people who
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  Speaker 1: are saying that they don't believe that that kid Tyler
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  Speaker 1: murdered Charlie Kirk, despite what the grand jury said, believe
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  Speaker 1: the grand jury in Mississippi. They don't believe it, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't believe it in Utah, but they believe it
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  Speaker 1: in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Because they get to believe what they want to. And
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's crazy. All these things that are
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  Speaker 1: going on. You know, diesel is at an all-time high.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I saw it.
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  Speaker 2: The only diesel you can get for cheap is Shaq diesel.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't want that.
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  Speaker 1: That just costs a plastic badge. What's he going.
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  Speaker 6: To do with that badge?
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  Speaker 3: And he's collecting them.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 6: From all over.
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  Speaker 1: Like, for what? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It looks bad.
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  Speaker 3: Like a Pokemon card.
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  Speaker 6: Pokemon card. I'm like, what the heck?
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday to Mean Joe Green. Happy birthday to Trinidad James.
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  Speaker 2: not Tennessee State.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Eddie. He's Bowling Green in Ohio.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think. Yeah, he's got it easy. Wherever y'all are.
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  Speaker 1: We got a great show lined up for you. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Jasmine will tell us what's trending. I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: all the details. Jasmine Sanders, please tell these people what's trending.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we said it was going to come, and that is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the Department of Justice says that Trump actually
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  Speaker 4: can control reporters' access.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see.
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  Speaker 4: To the presidential era, such as the Oval Office. He
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  Speaker 4: says that access to the White House is a privilege.
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  Speaker 3: It is not a right.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is a right.
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  Speaker 1: And he obviously can't stop access to the press as
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  Speaker 1: long as he stops access to all the press.
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  Speaker 6: All the press.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Cherry.
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  Speaker 4: He can't... Well, whatever it is he says that he
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  Speaker 4: can't do, he's doing it, and they are backing him up.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and his personal lawyer is saying it, too.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. It's really crazy.
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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is about to say something different.
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  Speaker 3: I hope so.
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  Speaker 2: We'll wait and see.
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  Speaker 1: The very judge who ruled against him in Jim Acosta
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  Speaker 1: is watching this right now, and he's already signaled preliminarily
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  Speaker 1: that this dude is trying to rewrite everything.
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  Speaker 6: He absolutely is.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's not really concerned about the main concern, the— Midterms,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's never really cared about Republicans. He knew
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  Speaker 1: they were they were vain and transactional. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever he wants. I think that he is now
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  Speaker 1: trying to find a way to stay in power like
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  Speaker 1: everybody said he would. It's just we are now living
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  Speaker 1: in a time where the the authoritarian playbook has been
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  Speaker 1: rolled out for everyone to see everything that they would
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  Speaker 1: do in Russia or North Korea or they did in Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to do everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's out of control.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just, I don't know. I don't know. Every day
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  Speaker 3: I wake up, it's like, oh, my God.
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  Speaker 6: Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, what's trending right now is Obama swagger
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  Speaker 4: all over social media. People are talking about it just
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  Speaker 4: because obviously, you know, now that it's he's gone, people
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  Speaker 4: are remembering what they missed. But they're also comparing John
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  Speaker 4: Ossoff to him, saying that, you know, he's got that
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  Speaker 4: Obama swagger.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see. Yeah, we will.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's trending.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we've got a little note from
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  Speaker 2: It's the D.L. Hughley Show.
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  Speaker 3: She's jazzed. She's smart. It's the Jazzy Report on the D.L.
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  Speaker 1: Hughley Show.
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  Speaker 4: The Trump administration is halting enrollment in Obamacare health plans
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  Speaker 4: for more than 760,000 people that it believes were fraudulently
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  Speaker 4: signed up as part of an anti-fraud effort that they
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  Speaker 4: estimate would save $ 2.
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  Speaker 3: 2 billion in taxpayer money. The U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services canceled about 315,000 plans
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  Speaker 4: last month, citing unverified citizenship or immigration documentation.
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  Speaker 1: They are they are trying to they've been trying to
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  Speaker 1: shuttle Obamacare forever and they're doing it and they helped them.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what you get.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, the vast majority of the people who
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  Speaker 4: are going to lose coverage are in red states.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: They've been in the herd.
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  Speaker 4: Well, speaking of the herd, the doctors in Texas say
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  Speaker 4: they have seen an increasing number of otherwise healthy men
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  Speaker 4: coming in on the brink of organ failure. Researchers are
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  Speaker 4: now concerned it's growing in the U.S., especially among ag
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  Speaker 4: workers and Latino male laborers. It's not exactly clear why
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  Speaker 4: the disease impacts so many ag workers today. But one
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  Speaker 4: hypothesis is the extreme heat, stress and chronic dehydration.
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  Speaker 1: And you also remember when they they in Texas passed
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  Speaker 1: a law a couple of years ago where they don't
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  Speaker 1: they're not they don't have to give workers water breaks.
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  Speaker 6: Not to mention they're working out there with all of
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  Speaker 6: those chemicals.
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  Speaker 1: They really die early. But I will say I would
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  Speaker 1: say this isn't interesting because it's a it's cause and effect.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting that a couple of years ago they
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  Speaker 1: passed a law that says they're not. bound to provide
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  Speaker 1: water breaks.
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  Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden there's a disease. It's called,
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  Speaker 2: it's called being evil. This is what it's called.
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  Speaker 1: So, um, this is a pretty interesting, a guy, um, says, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he refuses to give up his window seat to a
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  Speaker 1: passenger with a broken arm.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Am I in the wrong here? But if I pay
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  Speaker 5: extra for my seat on an airplane, I'm sorry, but
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  Speaker 5: I don't care who you're traveling with. I'm not moving.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it's crazy what just happened to me.
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  Speaker 5: I get on this long five hour flight across the
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  Speaker 5: country and I paid to have a window seat because
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  Speaker 5: the plane was packed. There's already a couple in my row.
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  Speaker 5: The wife is sitting in the aisle. The husband is
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  Speaker 5: sitting in my window seat. So I said, Hey, I
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  Speaker 5: think you're in my seat. The wife goes, Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Would you mind taking the middle? His arm is broken
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  Speaker 5: and he needs a little bit more room. The guy
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  Speaker 5: shows me his cast.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I do feel terrible about your arm,
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  Speaker 5: but how does that impact your ability.
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  Speaker 2: To sit somewhere? Um, no one is bound.
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  Speaker 1: Like when you get a seat and somebody, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would generally give up, give up my seat.
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  Speaker 6: Stop it.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean, I don't mean in another class. Somebody's
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  Speaker 1: in 5C and I'm in 2C.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: You'll switch out on that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. And you know, I don't even know.
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  Speaker 6: There's no middle seats in first class. Stop it. This
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  Speaker 6: is not what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But although I was on a United airplane, it had
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  Speaker 1: a really weird configuration.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell the story before you guys judge.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: It had a really weird configuration. It had four here,
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  Speaker 1: four in the middle, four across. It was a weird configuration.
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  Speaker 1: It was all first class. And so I was actually
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  Speaker 1: in the middle. But it was all first class. And
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like a hybrid of Southwest old airlines.
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  Speaker 1: So somewhere in the front. I've never rode a plane
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  Speaker 1: like that before. So it was a middle seat. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what this is or not, but I
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  Speaker 1: could see giving my seat up. If somebody wants to
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  Speaker 1: sit by a window, I don't care about that.
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  Speaker 2: Are they with their husband? I don't care about that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: going past that curtain, you're on your own.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, I don't care about whether I sit
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  Speaker 1: next to somebody.
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  Speaker 6: This guy, he paid extra for his window seat, and
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  Speaker 6: they want him to switch to a middle seat.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as you say, pay my money, I'm out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, pay my money.
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  Speaker 2: Just give me what I need. Then it's subject to
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  Speaker 2: my approval, right?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, correct.
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  Speaker 1: So was he right to stay on his own seat?
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  Speaker 1: Like there was one guy, one guy who wouldn't let
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  Speaker 1: a lady with a, she wants to see the landing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know. You better learn how to teach that
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  Speaker 2: little hooker no.
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  Speaker 3: Either that or YouTube it. Watch it there.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that landing on YouTube. She should learn the
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  Speaker 2: word no. Simulation programs. You think he was right?
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  Speaker 1: She didn't switch seats. Was he right to stand his
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  Speaker 1: own seat?
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  Speaker 2: 877-242-2426. Also hit us.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to begin to your calls directly.
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  Speaker 1: It is the DLHugley Show.
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  Speaker 2: It is... The D.L. Hughley Show, your 2026 edition.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I think there is plain etiquette, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that most people will be, you know, cordial,
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  Speaker 1: most people. But you're not duty-bound to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: when you buy a seat, it's your seat. You can
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  Speaker 1: do it, you know, it's yours to do it as
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  Speaker 1: you please. So do you think he was wrong for
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  Speaker 1: not giving up his seat? Hey, we're going to go to—
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: the social media realm. Kyle, what are they saying out there,
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  Speaker 1: baby boy? So we got Byron from Los Angeles and
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Byron said it's his money. So it's all, it's his money.
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  Speaker 1: Years ago, I was flying. I forgot maybe from, from
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  Speaker 1: somewhere to, I don't know where I was going. But anyway,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: that was when Eric Benet and Tally Berry were married
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  Speaker 1: and they got on a plane and.
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  Speaker 2: They clearly looked irritated with each other.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he, she had a seat next to
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  Speaker 1: me and he had a seat somewhere like they were
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  Speaker 1: you know he said man do you uh mind me
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  Speaker 1: i said hell no i'm sitting next to him and
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  Speaker 1: i was and he said if it didn't walk he
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  Speaker 1: didn't care like he obviously he didn't want to that
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  Speaker 1: was very perfunctory yeah i said man i was i
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  Speaker 1: said no no no i'm just kidding but he pretended
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  Speaker 1: like he didn't hear me so i ended up sitting
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  Speaker 1: next to her And she was not in a playful mood.
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  Speaker 3: She was not in a good mood.
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  Speaker 2: She was not going for none of my shit.
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  Speaker 6: Did you tell any jokes? No, I was just like, hey, hey, hey.
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  Speaker 2: She was not.
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  Speaker 1: You know how somebody get on a plane and you
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  Speaker 1: can tell they fresh from an argument?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Eric so mad he put his shoes on.
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  Speaker 6: With socks.
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  Speaker 1: But it was, so, or when I used to fly
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  Speaker 1: with Charlie all the time, it would be people that.
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  Speaker 2: Would like move seats so Derek could sit with us.
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  Speaker 1: So, I try to be very mindful of being kind
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  Speaker 1: to people that way. But if it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of inconvenience, no.
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  Speaker 3: And certainly not that middle seat.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care. That's what this person was talking about,
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  Speaker 6: a middle seat.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not doing it.
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  Speaker 2: What is a middle seat?
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  Speaker 6: And his wife was on the aisle.
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  Speaker 2: I just asked you what a middle seat is.
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  Speaker 6: They have that? That's an aisle in first class.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: That's the aisle between both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I think it's pretty obvious how much I've changed
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  Speaker 1: since I- I can't tell.
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  Speaker 3: Where is it?
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: My conclave.
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  Speaker 1: And then I had to, you know, I think- If
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  Speaker 1: we're being honest, we can see how much my demeanor
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  Speaker 1: and my overall approach has changed.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't put the microscope up, so, yeah, we can
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  Speaker 6: still see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can see. But if you, I mean, would
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  Speaker 1: you give your seat up?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think he was wrong?
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  Speaker 1: 877-242-2426.
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