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And if you're gonna get a white woman, get, get a white woman, white dudes want. You can't get it, don't get a common broad. And if you're gonna have, and first off, stop talking about black woman like that. Brandon Tatum said, stop talking about black women, especially when he got their hips. I'll be the dinner for you. I'm gonna take that from a hippie long stuff, can you bet? I know he played football, but he got, he was in and fell at the top, but magic city at the bottom. I'm not worried about getting sued by a dude who actually had an apple bottom gene, stop it. That dude, that dude is shaped like an hour glass. Did you see them tight as pants? Yeah, I don't, that's a, I've never got these effects. Is this real? Is that a real picture? Yes, it is. DL is not a real picture. I know he got a yeast effect, and that's what a guy I do. You can't talk to me like that, and you say like a drinking gourd.
He looked like the new nail cart or set your fat ass up. I can't wait to go to court. It's Brandon butthole fat ass. I'm being nice. What is that dude? I'm so tired of being nice to these people. DL, you know what, you're rubbing off on me, because it's, you heard, did you hear what I said about Lauren Lumer? We'll get to that in a second. Yeah. We'll get to Lauren Lumer, but let's stick with this one. This is what he said to you, and this is why you, well, one of the things that, I don't know if he's you responding, I don't get it, but this is what he said. This is what he said. Let me just say this man, I was going to let it go. Dear, he, you know, talk about my wife, you know, but I, and now I'm going to put your wigs on here. Okay, so I'm wondering, you can just keep playing it, and just turn it down a bit. I'm just wondering like, what's wrong with these ladies? Because they're black and they're not, they don't weigh two pounds that, and then he goes on and he talks about your wife and whatever,
and you actually address that in your thing. You're like, I already apologized and admitted to that, your, your failings, that, your words. Right. But why does he think those women are not beautiful? And then we can talk about the other. Well, where's he? He don't think he's beautiful. After he think he's beautiful. I, it's different to me. I don't care who you fall in love with. First off, this is just my new thing. When you talk bad about us, I'm talking bad about you. No, hold, boy. Yeah. Don't play with me, Chubby. I'll be damned if I'm gonna take that from a dude to wear a bra. So I, I could care less what he says about me, because I have little to no respect for a man like that. I don't respect it. The things he says about me, I gave you the information. I did what I did. I said what I did. You have to go research. I told you what I did. You need to be worried about your old lady, because the stuff that I heard about her, damn, my infidelis, you need to be worried about her. That's the need to do. Wait, what's your here? Just look on some of the pages. Don't be worried about me, at least I'll admit what I do.
If we go out, here's the thing. I've been in this game, so like, I can care less what people say about me. I don't care. And you must be upset. You talked about, you basically intimated that Michelle Obama was a man. And you think that that stick stick looking proud. You guys are out of limits. If she's laying on her side and stick out her tongue, she look like a zipper. I don't give a guy. He said like, our grades. She's like a stick together. They look like the number 18. Yeah, but it does say something to me that he thinks that these women, these black women, they're not exactly dark skinned, but are of a darker hue than his wife. And because again, I don't like to fat shame people. I'm not saying they're fat. They're just not a size two or three that they are somehow not attracted. I don't think so. Yeah, I like a woman built for comfort, not for speed. You know what I say that all the time? I ain't going nowhere fast. I'd rather have a cat like dinner porch. That's the way it is. But to me, I am just tired of them thinking
that they can say and do whatever they want. They speak reckless, like Laura Loomer. And you know, have you ever known as her Laura Sanchez, Laura Loomer? And this Tatum's wife all get they worked on at the same place. I'm Hannah. I've lost 75 pounds in 20 months with GLP ones plus diet and exercise. On Ro, I've gone from struggling to run a mile to running farther every day. You can access FDA approved GLP ones online. Get the support you need to reach your weight loss goals. Go to Ro.co-slash-wait to see if you qualify. I'm a paid Ro partner, 20% average weight loss in one year and non-diabatics with obesity or overweight with a weight-related medical condition versus 3.1% in placebo arm. Our ex only, to stay informed about serious side effects, go to Ro.co-slash-safety. They don't look like us. The Improves cannot go to the mat counter. They gotta go to home depot. What? Spacco? Was that what you said? That's what it is. Do they still call it Spacco? Because I don't even know what that's. I don't know. Everybody that uses is kicked out of the country,
but we'll find out. You saw what happened to those Cubans. Yeah. And they're a crop. Amen. Got kicked out. Hold on. Hold on to that, though. Laura Loomer, though, what the fuck? This ain't that this brand-in Tatum is doing. It's similar to me to what Laura Loomer is doing. Basically, he's calling these black women, right? Getto or whatever, or not attractive, I should say with him. And she's calling them Getto, black bitches. I mean, is he the female version of someone called a Brian Shapiro called him, I think you knew that. The male version of Candace Owens. But is he the male version? I'll say this. I will say that. Laura Loomer. Loomer has said it's maybe a harsh or take on tonally, it may be different. But it's really no different than when Steven A. Smith talked about the way Jasmine's crock is speech, or when, in fact, when Officer Potato Tim, whatever his name is, when he called,
when he called, Tesslin Fagara, Getto. So they've given these people permission to talk like this. As a matter of fact, one of the reasons Steven A. Smith said he apologized because they weaponized it. They used what he was saying in a salt on Jasmine Crockett. So they can't be shocked that these people have been emboldened. They've said, they've said pardon, parts of the same thing. Yeah. So, I'm just saying before we get off of Tatum, I mean, does he, does he, you think that's a BBL? Man, I don't know. I'm joking. I'm joking, I'm joking. But he do something like the new nail Carter. That's all I'm saying. Give me a break. I'll show this. That's very, very, very good. And the show was called Give Me a Break Back in the Day. Look, go ahead. He looked like this, this, this chick I used to see, she was a, she'd be a shipper at the Barbury Coast on Rose Cran,
the Venice, and I like, and she was built just like Brandon Tatum, and her name was Sugar Bear. He looked like, he looked like Respuser from the clumps. So, Huck, Elise, Huck, Elise. And if you got a lawyer, if you got a lawyer instead of sue me, you need to have him make you a deal with scams. That is what you need to do. I'm not gonna be scared of a dude that wears stone-watched jeggings. Let me tell you something that I've learned. You don't ever wanna clap back at a comedian. When, look, seriously, when Dave Chappelle said something about me, you know what I said, live on CNN, I said, look, that is, I look at that as, you know, a badge of honor because that he is talking about me, and with my younger nieces and whatever, they're like, oh my God, Dave Chappelle is talking about you. I said, so I'm actually not offended by it.
I'm flattered by it. And I also can take a joke and then just move on. I don't know what I'm saying. Of course. Yeah. So, let's talk, you mentioned, you mentioned Steven A. You mentioned Steven A. So, Brandon Taden fucked up. He should never have responded to you. But you mentioned Steven A. Steven A was on with two black women, both of whom he worked with, Carrie Champion and Jamel Hill. This is what he said to Carrie Champion about her. And he said he's defending her. She doesn't, she didn't think so, but here's part of it. Yet, Bayless did not want to hire you. David, that's not true. I didn't like the idea of you acting like you plucked me out of obscurity and ignoring all of the hard work that I put to get into that point. Carrie Champion, before I open my mouth, I want you on camera to give me permission to tell your business about what happened. Go right ahead. So, I mean, it's a big trend of ours. I didn't like about the argument or what you said about her. When you talking about other folks, you applied nuance, you applied all these things, but where her you didn't. You went straight to her ratings. I don't know her.
All I know is her resume and her clear obvious intellect. You also said you were embarrassed that you go for common affairs. Because of the lies that they admitted once the election was over. I don't, I didn't mean it literally like, oh my God, I would vote for him. How did you think people were going to take the ad? Well, it's her loyalty to Joe Biden. You served everything else. And I'm like, you get it. Do you know, this man has no humility, no sense of introspection to sit there and listen to these women and say, okay, look, there was a whole, I didn't watch the whole thing. I think there's a part two that I did not see. But there is no humility there. It was black women are telling you, hey, man, we have a problem with you. Then why can't you listen to them and say, okay, all right, I understand it. I don't feel that way, but you know what I'm saying. You know, it's fall in Jeep country.
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Now they may have given him a terse reprimand, but MAGA tried the hang of ICE president. So you left, you sought comfort and the people who wanted to murder somebody they didn't like. That critique made it been harsh, but they didn't build gallows, they didn't yell slogan, they didn't have bear spray. So it was ironic to me that you would leave the harsh, the people from the confines of people who were gonna critique you harshly, maybe something you didn't like. The people that counted somebody murdered being murdered for a different opinion or threatened to be murdered from a different opinion. So I just, I think, but ultimately, I think if Steven had had done this interview first, 50% of the story would have went away. Would have put it gone away. I actually don't think it was that harsh. I don't think what NABJ did, I think it was sort of shocking because if you're sitting there at Steve and A, but then when you think about it, it wasn't that harsh, it just said,
watch your tone, basically. And then he lost his mind. I don't know what was where I mean, between the Oscars and now the NABJ, I might never go to a war show now. This is crazy. So either you get bitch slapped or you get slapped. Oh my God. Crazy. Dio, I want to talk to you about this before we, in our conversation, we want to make sure that we talk about this whole Lindsey Clancy thing. Right. She's a white woman, she killed three of her kids. She's not accused of it. She admitted that she did. There's been a mistrial and then they had this emergency motion. I don't know if you saw this where they appealed to a higher court. The judge took that into consideration and then came back anyways and said, this is a mistrial, we can't come to a conclusion. So apparently the jury's hung on one person. I don't care how over the act. I don't care how over the act. When a mother does something, there's going to, like if it was a man, a father had done that, it's over. But I think that the way that motherhood has looked at, they were making an exception for almost everything.
And I don't, I think that there'll be somebody that will see it in a way that they just can't get past seeing a mother doing something like that without absent some circumstance beyond her control. They just couldn't see it. And I think some people do horrible things and you could be, you know, as great as a lot of mothers are, their mothers do horrible things. I think it was hard for to justify you asking where the father was. You, it seemed planned. But I think that, and you, I, it's going to be hard for us to find 12 people to look at a woman doing something so, so dastardly and not wrecking something himself and going, well, she had something had to be wrong. But if that was how he'd have been in jail. I think, look, women, I think women have their bodies, and I don't mean any discrasherment this way,
but they're having more complicated sort of medical what they have to go through medically is a bit more complicated than men. And men don't have children. We don't know what it's like to deal with postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis. That is something, and I believe that it's real. However, I think the treatment should be the same for both white and black women. And he put the thing up that I had the other day. I did this and I said, what if Lindsey Clancy were black? And then I said, you can just roll it without any sound or slide through the slideshow. But I said, what if we didn't have to? Because there's letharcia Sanders, who just happened a couple of years ago. And she has, she got two life sentences for her two kids. They're not exactly the same, but it's similar. They wouldn't even allow her medical issues, which were documented to come in. There is no doubt that, and plus they were, they are now, there's no excuse for people not knowing that this is really a phenomenon that occurs very often. And much more often than it's society
that we were like, women just, this is something that happens to them. And even having a wife and having a daughter and seeing women in my life struggle at greater, let me include my mother's struggle, even though we didn't know what it was then, but struggle to a greater or lesser degree. Ultimately, most of those women don't kill themselves or kill somebody. And I think I can hold it in my hand that this was a level of say, coasters. But there is some level of accountability, too. Like, shouldn't she be in a hospital or should she be away from something? It shouldn't be nothing. It should be nothing. Because ultimately, if we're going to say that these things, you know, that is a reasonable outcome for someone in this condition to do what she did, that's to me, it's a very dangerous thing. And I do think there is a difference between the way society looks at it, a woman physiologically or mostly,
or mentally struggling with something than they do with a black woman, they do. It's just the way it is. Then a white woman in the black woman, this is going to say, talk to Jasmine about, I would love to hear what Jasmine has to say about it, because again, there have been a number of black women who have been accused and found guilty of very similar things and they did not get acquitted or a mistrial or found not guilty. Yeah. No. So, Dio, Andy, put this up. Dio, if you didn't like me, you could just tell me. Right. You don't have to have me, Trapes in all over the country. Look at these days, roll through. I mean, Dio, hey baby boy, I'm your big brother. We don't trace, we go, baby. We don't trace. I got two day jobs. Yeah. And I have a day, and after new job and a night job, and now you try to give me a weekend job. You come from a long line of people that have many jobs, baby boy. At right. What are you most excited about? I'm sure, I'm sure as a black person, and two that have more than one job there.
Shit, everybody I knew had two jobs, right? And two wives and two families. It's not more. That's not talking about that. What are we trying to do? Why don't you just, you know what? I'm going to end up doing interview with Brandon Tatum. Damn this, I'm out. What are we doing? What are we doing here? We're going to have, well, you know, I think the time, well, you know, it was very fun last time. But I think this is, it's not, it's fun and has a level of, I don't want to say important, because we're just two men having a conversation and having fun and having people come out and drinking and laughing. But I think the stakes seem more ramped up, and you know, being this close to the election, giving all this going on. I was thinking about this today. I was talking to, I was doing an interview with somebody where we were talking about this tour. Most people get their news from satire these days.
And I think that says a lot about the kind of society we are. And I think this is in that vein, it's satirical, but it also has, I think what you do, you know, obviously you won awards for a reason, but I think this kind of coupling is, nobody can explain this like before they, you know, before you knew that you were stripes and polka dots, that would have been us. So I'm very excited that people going to laugh, have a good time, and it'll be a chance to press some place and make some people laugh and see a lot of the country. Starting September 11th, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. That's an interesting start. Oh, yeah. Oh, they're black people in Fort Lauderdale. Oh, yeah. I know there are a lot of games. Oh, they're a lot too. Yeah, they're a lot of games. But I know, I know there are a lot of black people. Well, you know, we'll see. Yeah, we'll see. I guess I'll know, I'll know private.
All right, DL, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Man, I see you, sir. Don't go to jail before we get all this money, man. Come on now, stop it. Don't blow it up. Don't blow it up. Don't be, don't, don't stay right. Just get it out. Why do you gotta do that? Why do you have to do that? You always have to insult people. You're about to decide family things. You're playing the dozens. You bought up the side family things. So, you know, to come on now. One man, side families, another man's indictment. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Goodbye. All right, baby boy. I'll see you soon. Thanks for watching, everybody. I appreciate you. Make sure you like, subscribe, and turn on notifications so you don't miss anything. We're live weekdays at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern with new content at 2 p.m. Eastern, sometimes at 8 p.m. So follow the down limits show wherever you are. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, Substacks, Spotify, IHR radio, Apple Podcasts. We are everywhere. And we're there every day. And if you want a little more, join the lemon community. Exclusive posts behind the scenes, live chats.
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