WEBVTT - It’s My Money and I Need It Now! 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:43.960 La laughing with if you watch coffee time to baby, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.400 you know the name flame, my role also known as 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.000 my role Flame. Come in with last and come in 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.479 with jawn love lounds. Baby, you better catch it when 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.000 you can't drop a knowledge from fatherhoods to politic shouting 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.279 now comics just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah you 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.520 know she raped shot towns on seeking to the grounded. Second, 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.480 we're gonna last come of the kicking in at the end. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.520 We leave it with just a lift dispirit. You think 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.520 you want to revisit, so your first take a list 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.640 of your folks. Say it slip all folks that we 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.959 dig it. No kiss, do what you do, No kiss, 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.080 do what you don't, No kiss do what I do? 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:43.960 No flame. Flame. Welcome afternoon, Flame, Lauren Hogan. How are you? 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.080 I'm good, and let's welcome everyone to laugh and learn 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.760 flame mats where you at chimming and coming in? Come 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:56.480 on through, Come on in room Hello everyone, Hello, triple Hello, Kendo, 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:01.200 welcome everyone to laugh a land with flame, Nick and 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:07.320 Loreen Hogan. That's what Loreen Hogan. We are off to 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.280 a wonderful the first the first day of February also 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.560 Black History Month, Hello, Nick, I'm trying to make sure 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:19.000 I'm not too close. Are you looking around? Wonderful? Sounds good? Hey? 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.440 Happy Black History Month, ladies. Your beard looks fantastic. Did 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.359 you just freshly get it done? I did? Uh? Brother 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.760 Lamont Kimball Black owned business here in Little Rock. He's 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.480 doing his own thing and flame. He was a victim 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.040 of COVID. Uh so he was able to bounce back. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.240 And he has a young son with asthma. Hope. I'm 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:37.960 not sharing too much of his business, but he shared this. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.640 You know the barbershop, everybody talk uh okay. So yeah, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.160 but he's doing well. He's back and I'm happy to support. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.040 So yep, Well, thank you for joining us today. Mr 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.600 Smith gonna have to tell you that he couldn't. He's like, Nick, 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:56.960 how is it working with that funny motherfucker? It wasn't. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.120 It wasn't Laurence. So I'm just go let's say I 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:07.160 know what the language I know, So that's it. But 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.360 that's it. I just have to let you know people 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.520 think you are a funny MF. So there you go. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.960 I take I'm an m and I'm an FF. I'm 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.600 just saying you ask you said I'll just repeat what 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.600 Lauren looks exactly pretty today, don't she. I didn't look 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.280 at Lauren, and then I just looked, you look so 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.320 pretty today. Look today. I only get dressed for you guys. Well, 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.320 at least in the face. I got on sweats. There 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.440 is a saying that it's a universal truth. It's impossible 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.080 to not be a beautiful woman if you graduate from Spellman. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.119 So that's like people people know that that's just a 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.320 period period. I love that. That was an ass kissing lane. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:52.280 If I've ever heard O. That's just one of those 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.320 things they say, good morning Black History Month. So let 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:56.680 me let me give you all a tad bit of 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.680 black history from my perspective. I at atually I'm part 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.280 of history because I was the first transgender stand up 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.040 comedian to ever do comic view. Now, I wasn't the 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.840 first drag comedian to do comic view because because Amazing 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.839 Grace made she Rest in Peace also did she did 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.560 def Jam and she passed on. But yeah, I'm the first, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:21.200 the very first, And I remember how it literally upset 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.559 the room, as in the comedy was good people, uh flame. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:30.080 People are always surprised by the first of anything, and 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.880 then when it meets and exceeds their expectations, they're like, well, 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.480 I didn't know that was gonna be that funny. Well 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.880 what did you expect? You know? So yeah, this kind 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.720 of touches onto what Joe was talking about, how there 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.120 used to be theme nice for different things like that. Well, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.560 in two thousand and four, I was on the circuit 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.080 here in the l A and uh Chris Spencer, I 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.000 know if you guys remember him, he hosted a show 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.040 called after Dark and something years ago. He's a comedian 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.679 and actor. He made a phone call to a producer 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.640 Joyce Coleman and BT and say, hey, I want you 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.680 to put this person on the show. Just like that, 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.640 I have to audition on anything. When I got there, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.239 they were terrified of me. They actually tried to push 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.120 me as a woman. In two thous I'm like, now, 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.960 I've been a lot of things, but I ain't gonna 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.320 pass as nobody's a woman. Y'all know if the body 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.480 was banging and I was young and slam, but I ain't. Look, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.120 I was never one of the possible girls. And I 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.000 accept that part about me. I was cool with that 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.040 because you know, if you came to play you had 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.560 to play with everything. But anyway, they were so terrified 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.320 of what I was gonna say and how people were 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.280 going to receive me that they would not push me 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.600 as because BT back then in two thousand and four 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.160 as a trans comedian, because they was like, oh my god, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.640 we're terrified, what are you going to talk about? Woo woo. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.680 So I'm like, just sit back. But that was the 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.880 show that Ricky Smiley hosted. And he came in my 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.200 dressing room and held my hand and say, you're the 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.960 first one. Go out there, do your thing, have a 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.640 good time to represent. And that made it all better 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.559 because I went out there and I killed it, and 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.279 you know, the rest is his and here we are, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.160 here and in flame. For those who don't know who 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.680 Ricky Smiley is, give us a little bit of background 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.480 because everybody should come ago knows rookie. But I'm not 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.680 sure that everybody who may be listening and chiming into 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.840 laugh and learn. Ricky is a comedian from Alabama, has 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.760 a radio show. What is the radio show called Morning 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.560 and they have the other one the dish, right, Yeah, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.920 So and Ricky was just he was just a cool dude. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.400 I'm telling it. Makes it easier when your constituency that 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.440 work with you except you for who you are and 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.040 not what they want you to be. And that that's 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.280 all that was. That year was great. The next year 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.120 didn't go so well because it was a different hose 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.360 with a different energy. Energy is very transferred. Butle y'all 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.160 need to know that energy is transferred. He transferred good 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.560 energy to me. I transferred to the TV. After that, 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.280 they was in love with me. Talk to us, talk 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.200 to us about this week as we're going here, because 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.960 you've had a busy week and what we all have Lauren, 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.200 Lauren has been working, You've been working. I taped um 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.840 we did the second year of my second year. This 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.320 was their third year of the hf's International Condom Day campaign. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.800 That's just how that's how I met Lauren. She was 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.800 over that last year and this year they we couldn't travel, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.480 so we did a video, which was much harder than traveling. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.480 Taping is harder than life theater and let me just 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.120 saying that and tell them why though, because you have 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.640 to redo and redo and retake an over and know 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.720 and they had to get a certain visual shots. But 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.440 that wasn't even the most challenging part. The most challenging 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.440 part was I had to do stand up no audio. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.800 I couldn't even see me talking to me. So they 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.800 were in the room, but they couldn't make a sound 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.239 because the audio picked up everything. So I was trying 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.400 to tell stories and jokes to entertain myself, but I 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.480 couldn't even see the look on my face. So it 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.720 was very challenging. But you know, I'm a professional bitch. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.600 I brought it off, baby because it was a check 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.560 right side checks, and so much about live performance too, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.680 was about that feedback immediately, and you couldn't get that. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.880 You couldn't well, I didn't have a bait. I love 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.360 the fact that you're learning to hear, because y'all bait me. See, 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.320 I had to. It was just go go, I'm not 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.360 I'm a warman bach. You gotta I gotta seaze into it. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.120 It's like getting sex without the warm up. I ain't 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.360 no gold go what is the hell's go? Jump? No one? 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.640 You don't you count the three or don't you look 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.360 back at something? Go? I'm like, okay, But we made 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.920 it work, and when it comes out on February, it's 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.000 going to be visually beautiful. Those were some of the 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.080 most talented children from this year and let you those 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.240 kids good dance amazing. So you guys, it's going to 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.880 be free. It's going to be live stream on HFS website. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.400 I'll have all the link and all the information EP 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.280 as soon as I get it. And you you should 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.360 watch your free I mean you should watch it that 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.280 night because once they put it on YouTube, they might 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.240 monitor the music and you won't be able to here, 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.320 and so it won't have the same effect we do week. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.920 And we do want to remind everybody because I can 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.480 see some of the flame Thatt's sounding off that if 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.719 you want to join the conversation, jump on in there. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.640 Make sure you're sitting in good light, you've got those headphones, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.760 and that you use a flame at the bottom so 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.480 that we know that you're ready to join the conversation. Uh, 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.880 My week was simple. Lauren and I had a chance 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.960 to catch up also because we were talking yesterday Lauren, 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.880 you and I talked about how we're just trying to 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.800 find different times too in a busy day, still work 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.439 out and um and so you know, mornings are my 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.520 are my time. Like I really enjoyed the mornings I've 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.360 always been a morning person, though, even when I was 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.120 a morning reporter, I enjoyed being up four in the morning, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.280 five in the morning because it's just quiet, and it's 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.880 just that nobody cares. If you're listening to old Vanessa 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.600 beil Armstrong song. You know, it's just it's just you 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.440 and and and God. You know, you're just in your 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.880 in your zin space, you know. And whatever happens to 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.680 be stressing me on my mind, maybe the night before 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.720 that day. When you get up that morning, you start 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.560 moving and exercise and for some reason all just comes together. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.280 It really does, yeah, for sure, And I think for 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.200 me too. On a selfish note, I like working out 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:35.679 at six i am because I wake up at four 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.600 thirty and then I drive to where my trainer is. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.319 There's just no traffic. I hate traffic. So that's really 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.080 my motivation and honesty. But on Sundays I started doing 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.160 a beach workout one because you know, that person said 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.280 I was snacking. So I'm trying to make sure y'all 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:52.319 can't talk about me anymore. Um So I took the 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.120 snacking comment. I have been working out, But to your point, though, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.520 it is it helps me get back into the groove 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.600 of things. I have a new energy, and you know 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.560 it gets through the day. I hate breaking up at 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.400 four thirty, but I am I am not a part 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.160 of this conversation working out what that means. I got 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.679 hand the mouth. But you're a morning person. You are. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.200 I am a morning person. But I'm not going to 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.280 the gym. I'm not going. I'm working out for the 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.920 both of us. What's happening. I lost a couple of 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.920 pounds because they had me dancing, and here we had 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.040 four twelve hour days. I had twelve hour days with 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.400 ten our heels, with six hour legs and four our feet. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.640 So yeah, it's like that, which kind of leads into 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.800 my next point, flame twelve hour days. But you kind 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.720 of had a little bit of vacation, if I'm not wrong, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.160 because the two of the teenagers are gone, the Lord, 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.360 my daughters are gone. Drama one and cross Dresser to 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.680 is not in my house right now, and my house 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.439 is where we free and my son has been very responsible, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.000 So thank you Jesus for the break. They'll be home Monday, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.040 but I'm enjoying my time. Where they gone? Any who, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.800 where are we going? Where we're going? I want to 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.480 make sure we recognize Cecily Tyson. That's what we're gonna 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.760 do before we jumped into anything else there um with 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.760 it being uh yesty month, but also we knew that 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.319 we want to recognize her. Yeah, and I just want 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.760 to do make a quick quote from what Viola Davis posted. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.920 It just really spoke to me. Um. She made an 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.439 Instagram caption just to honor the relationship that she and 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.800 Cecily Tyson had and just the phenomenal life that she 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.040 led in this movie industry. So Um, she basically just said, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.520 you gave me permission to dream because it was only 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.040 in my dreams that I could see the possibilities in myself. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.280 I'm not ready for you to be my angel yet, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.640 but I also understand that it's only when the last 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.520 person who has a memory of you dies that you'll 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.199 truly be dead. So she said that to basically say, 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.480 she's going to live on forever because she touched so 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.080 many lives, She influenced so many people, and just broke 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.240 so many barriers. So she will be in our history 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.679 books to say the least. And um, we honor and 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.360 cherish her memory and all that she did for us. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.360 So thank you Cecily Tyson, absolutely, you know flame you 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.760 and I've had a chance to talk about before, um 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.800 because we're a little bit older. You and I remember 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.480 Autobiography of Ms. Jane Pittman when it first came out. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.480 How seminal that movie was. And I think it's one 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.000 of those things where we've also heard people say, give 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.839 people their flowers while they're here, and I'm glad that. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.319 I do believe from what I can see, because I 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.880 didn't know Miss Tyson, of course, but from the outside, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.080 it seems as though she was allowed to get her 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.520 flowers while she was here. Seems like she was celebrated 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.400 by so many African Americans whom's whose lives she touched, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.800 who were able to bless her, um and in different ways, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.319 you know, as a professional and as the accomplished actress 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.120 that she was. She made a lot of movies too. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.040 We only know her mostly from some of the new 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.640 The newer generation knows her for the Tyler period stuff. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.880 But Sounder, you know, she was in Sounder with what 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.960 was the guy's name from Sounder. He was a great actor. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.480 Oh my god, I cannot think of his name, but 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.559 he was a great at Paul Winfield. He had the 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.600 best speaking voice. Oh my god, he had the most 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.600 amazing voice. And uh, that was a great movie back 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.800 in the day. And she was just she lived to 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.000 be nineties six. So when you would get to Holland 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.640 who it's so said, and it is said, the passing 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.959 is happening. But you know we're all gonna die. We 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.760 all have to die. It is not about dying, and 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.120 this is definitely about living. She lived a good life. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.800 The Bible promises seventy years if you live according to 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.319 the Bible, anything after that is a blessing. She got 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.320 twenty six years after that as a blessing, So hats 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.040 off to you. And she always looked good. Let me 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.360 tell you something, Millie Jackson said, when you look good, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.960 you know you're looking good. Don't nobody have to tell 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.240 you you're looking good. When you're looking good, you've got 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.640 a different walk. She was ninety six years old and 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.400 she could still get around and walk. You know how 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.600 many people ninety six can do nothing? Ms? Ms, what's 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.760 her name? Since cinccely Tyson because my man just won't blank. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.400 Sincely was making her corn perst baby, but sister was 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.520 making her change and looking good. And she always was 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.040 a grand lady. She was always a grand lady. You 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.120 know that. That's that's especially as an older black woman, 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.800 because you get older, you get complacent. But I love 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.480 the fact that whatever era she was from, she always 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:00.480 dressed up. I always dressed up for work. And if 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.360 you'll remember, it wasn't a couple of years ago and 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.080 one of the flame maths will remember, but she wore 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.120 a hat to somebody's funeral and that became a meme 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.600 because she wore one of the uh it became Cecily 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.360 Tyson's church hat became like a meme. And I can't 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.280 remember if it was Michael's funeral or maybe it had 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.800 to be more recent than Aretha, But I just remember 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.240 her hat and her the way she the hat that 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.600 she wore still in the show, and everybody talking about 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.640 Cecily Tyson's hat. So yeah, I'm glad. I hope I 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.880 pray that she I don't know what you did different today, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.440 but not only do you look better, you sound good today. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.960 You you very clear you took a bath or something. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.440 Working with my producer Triuble, and I've been working on 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.640 the audio to make sure it's right. So shout out 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.400 to trouble. Kendall told me where to sit, and I'm 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.040 using the window instead of using an artificial light. Sore. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.520 So that's what it was. Very professional. I don't care 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.520 what they say about. Well, hey, maybe my mama watching 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.000 mom a is you there? Mom? Rot peking in baby 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.320 this week too, y'all got me. I found they gotta 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:01.960 be And I'm no longer sleeping on the floor. Weapon 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.040 on the floor for how long? Not on the floor. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.800 You were sleeping on the mattress. People, was on the 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.960 damn floor. When you owe and you got to get 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.720 up out the bed and it's too low. It's like 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.680 a task. It's like when you get in a car. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:16.960 That's why I drove to drive trucks so I can 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.560 step out. Getting in the car is one thing. Getting 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.160 peeling yourself out, you know, you have to roll out 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.720 sometimes just harder. So I have a bed and I 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.000 broke it in yesterday, Thank you very much. I want 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.680 to kind of start today with one of the things 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.200 we were talking about, you guys, uh that we saw 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.400 hit the headlines, and that was just the effect that 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:40.240 COVID continues to have on the economy and on the community. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.240 One of the things that I read this week that 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.600 I found, uh kind of interesting because it just never 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.920 even dawned on me, is the cost of COVID and 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.440 how it's affecting nursing homes. Most nursing homes say that 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.480 they won't be able to stay open another year due 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.640 to the cost of the pandemic because they weren't expecting 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:02.120 to have to pay the overtime, the ppe, the clean up, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.880 and the way they've had staff members get sick and 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.440 they can't have, uh, two staff members now service the 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.960 entire ward. You have to limit the interaction different people have, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.920 and they were not anticipating these costs. And the reason 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.560 I mentioned that is that so many of us rely 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.440 on nursing homes to take care of our older relatives. Uh, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.600 there are a lot of people who depend on nursing 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.320 homes to be that caregiver to their loved ones. And 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.080 I think this may have a detrimental effect, you know, 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.760 on a lot of people down the road that they're 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.080 just not expecting. Yeah, and I think it's something unfortunate. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.520 Like up, speaking from personal experience, my great grandmother, like 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.640 I've said before, she turned a hundred and one in January. Um, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.800 she actually had a live in a because we didn't 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.480 want to put her in a nursing home specifically. Um. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.640 But even with that, you know, when COVID hit, she 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.880 couldn't be there anymore. So my grandmother went and got 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.800 her because she's only like five blocks away from her 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.000 and she's been living with her. So it's really unfortunate that, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.920 you know, COVID has caused so many economic issues, and 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.359 we're at the point now where you know, to your point, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.840 we can't have you know, nursing homes may not be 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.639 an option, and everybody can't have the capacity to have 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.680 the relative living with them. So it's just it's just 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.760 an unfortunate situation to be in at this point. You know, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.960 it's about to be a lot of golden girls situations. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.280 Understand that a bunch of old folks about to be 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.240 living together. Y'all need to know that it's about to 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.280 be a bunch of golden girls situations. That's it, Um. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:28.639 I don't even know if I want to be put 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:33.239 in the nursing home. You wouldn't if I'm on one 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.159 of those machines and just pull the plug, honey. I 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:37.240 don't want to live like that. I don't want to 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.120 body wiping my button and changing my drawers. I don't 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.399 want you to do. I'm very independent. I don't want that, 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.120 so I would rather you just get rid of me, honey, 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:46.960 just throw a bit in a can or something. I'm good. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.000 I think it's uh, you know, it's it's it's part 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.080 of that whole uncomfortable conversation you sometimes have to have 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.080 because you and I both know you also have relatives 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:57.639 who get a little bit older and they still want 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.800 to be so independent that they try to drive on 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:01.800 their own, or they do different things, and you don't 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.399 want them to be vulnerable or susceptible to crime or 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.359 somebody coming into the house who does not have their 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.919 best interests at heart. So all these things are just uh, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.280 I think the best way around it. And you know, again, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.440 flames can chime in, but I think the best way 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.840 to do it is to have that conversation with your 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.560 loved one, to say, hey, what do we do um 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.600 in different situations? What do you want when they what 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.440 if they're not and they write from a man, they're 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.280 not gonna know what to do? Let me tell you something. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.400 What's the man? Y'all? Keep it in Harrison for old 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.520 as flat planes. Take the damn keys. Just taken against Harrison. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.159 I love Harrison food, but keep he's not gonna keep 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.679 crashing planes. How many times he crashed twice? Yeah, at 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.520 least twice. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and no, hell no. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.720 Take to have the keys. And they're already thinking they 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.160 out of their man just work with maybe wait, maybe 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.280 you saying my keys. I ain't seeing them, Grandma writing 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.440 your pocket. I ain't saying them, Grandma. That's simple. But 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.600 you know what's interesting too, though, Nick, I don't know 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.840 if you've seen this as well, but Andrew Cuomo, Governor 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.160 Cuomo is actually being investigated by the Attorney General Lettis 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.920 as well for under reporting COVID deaths in nursing homes. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.680 So I'm curious to see how that shakes out. It 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.280 will be interested to see how that shakes out. I 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.720 think a little bit of backstory to that. I think 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.399 that there were different ways of reporting, right, and I 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:19.320 think that the the the problem is um Governor Cuomo 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.520 hasn't necessarily been as transparent MS. James argues, as he 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.199 should have been with the number of people who are 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.119 dying in different facilities. He says, yes, some of the 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.560 people died in the facility, but they were already sick 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:34.760 before they got there, and it may or may not 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.280 have been COVID related. That there are people who die 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.280 in nursing homes who do die and it's not related 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.000 to COVID, and that's where I think the investigation is 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.959 going from. But he and Governor Newsom out of California 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.720 right now are both under a lot of um, a 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.120 lot of scrutiny because of just different ways they both 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.199 governors have handled the pandemic. They with Newsome here too, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.720