WEBVTT - A COMMON-sation! with Common 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 JN love lounds. Baby. You better catch it when 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.000 you can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to politics, shouting 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.400 now comics, just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah? You know? 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.480 She ray shot towns on seeking to the grown. A second. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.200 We're gonna last cut of the kicking and at the 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.280 end we leave it, which is a lift disperence. You 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.240 think you want to revisit, So your first take a 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.480 list of your folks, say it slip old folks that 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.440 we take it. Hey, no kiss, do what you do, 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.759 nokish do what you do, can't no fish do what 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:43.880 I do? No. Good afternoon, Lord Hogan, good morning, good afternoon, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.440 good evening. Wherever you at, come on, come on, come on, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.920 come on and come on. We're ready for y'all right 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.680 here on the show. Welcome to laugh and learning. Yes, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.840 and today, thank you. I only get pretty for you. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.240 It's a pandemic. So you know, no makeup has been 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.720 a thing. Oh well, makeup, no draws, no brawlies, all 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.000 that exactly exactly. We were welcome you guys to laugh 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.160 and learn today. We have a very special guest coming 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.639 in later, but I want to talk to you. How 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.560 was your week? My week was good, actually, and I 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.680 ended it with you, or I began my week rather 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.280 with you, because we were together for what fourteen hours yesterday? 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.760 My god, we had a beautiful video shoot yesterday for 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.120 the h h F, which is a Health Care Foundation 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:31.160 parody video for condoms. It was raining condoms on my head. Literally, 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.440 I was in I was in high heels. It was 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.520 a twelve hour day. I was in high heels for 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.760 ten hours with six hour legs. Let me just tell 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.639 y'all that the bitches in pain right now. I told 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.080 you not to wear them shoes the whole day. It 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.079 wasn't gonna work out. You won't listen to me. I've 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.480 never been on stage in flat so I'm a real girl. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.400 Well I know you said that, but still I knew. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.359 I knew it was gonna be a problem. Well that's 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.320 not why I failed. I failed because I was so 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.440 into my committed trying to remember the words, and I 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.000 didn't count the steps. And once they I say, yeah, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.360 but I'm still here. You're playing bad Trady down old 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.640 trading down down and you said, where's my life alert 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.040 when I needed that was a highlight for sure. It 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.800 was a great time we had. I had a great time. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.760 We gotta finish it today. So immediately following this show, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.160 we're going to another set to but look who's look 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.240 who's joining us right now? We got to bring this 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.200 player in. Yes, indeed he is a part of this 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.120 laugh and learned trio. He she we all three, y'all 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:30.359 full fail y'all twelve, y'all you look fabulous. Yes, you 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.520 have the right. It's a one. It is fabulous. I 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:40.200 can see your short though, we see your draws both. Yes, God, 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.880 we got it quick, We got it quick. Yes, now 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.400 now we're good. Your son is on here with no 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.440 no pants on. I'm just telling you. I know You're 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.560 raised him better than that too. I know, Hugh, I 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:59.600 know him. I'm trying to wasn't because I was afraid. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.640 Flame was like, get up off me, you know, So 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:02.880 I was trying to make sure I had that right. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.760 This is a perfect This person is a shout out 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.920 to our photographer Kendall, who was on the camera for 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.120 those people at home here and I worked through this 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.680 last week He's like, uh, Nick, you know you're right 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.480 up on me right. I'm like, I'm trying to figure 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.480 this out. So we've been working on it. So yeah, hello, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.880 Mr Smith. That ladies young welcome Nick Smith, who was 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.960 a part of this Laugh and Learned production. He's the 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.960 heat and the he she weed and here's the she 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.159 and you know, of course I'm the weed. But we 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.240 are so glad that you joined us this morning. Nick. 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:34.920 How was your week? My week was good until events. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.880 You know, honestly, Uh, last week they kind of had 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.680 me a little bit shook, like everybody else. Hold on, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.039 so let me put on Matt, because we've seen very 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.880 Let me tell something. As much as happened in this 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.080 country last week, I saw things. I saw the glass 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.159 half full because we won in Georgia. Let me put 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.480 my blue glasses on. I don't know what was happening 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.920 nowhere else. But while they was losing, we were winning, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.920 and we won both seats. Enjoy as up and wore 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.880 hats out, weig off all that, panties off the tape, 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.800 all that. But we want so what what was happening 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.880 on your side of the world? You know what? I 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.480 just feel like, I feel like Georgia and the work 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.440 of Stacy Abrams and all the other groups on the 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.240 ground and Georgia Less. Let's not forget about Fair Fight 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.640 and how they really just mobilized voters, because one of 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.120 the studies I read Flame talking specifically about the Georgia 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.240 runoff election Senate runoff election is that as many as 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.840 ninety thousand new voters came out who did not participate 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.119 in November. So Flame, Lauren, when I look at that, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.120 that lets us know that there is still a need 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.719 to get people engaged in the civic process. For some reason, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.919 people chose to not vote in November, but said, you 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.600 know what, Wow, it really matters now for me to 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.080 vote in this runoff election. Yeah. And I want to 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.400 say shout out to Hannah Invesper specifically, because they really 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.720 also helped us understand what was going on in the 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.200 ground on the ground. I'm sorry, excuse me, and Hannah 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.960 specifically said there's a lot of people, you know, black 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.640 folks that didn't want to come out and vote. So 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.479 thanks Hannah, thanks Vesper for helping us understand that more 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.000 and bring you know, some more ears to the conversation. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.760 We greatly appreciate that and you remember, they also let 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.200 us know about different ways to get people to the 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.200 polls who might need a ride, and things like that. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.760 All these things help to get people who might be 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.080 in rural communities or have mobility issues to the polls. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.240 Whatever it took, it seemed to work because Georgia elected 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.400 both Democrats to to the Senate. More importantly, it's first 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:34.240 black senator. Its first black senator, okay, in the history 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.599 of this country. And and he's single, and he's a preacher, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.200 and you know those preachers be a little kinky. I'm 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.440 just saying, ladies, if you're up for the challenge. He 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.280 got some big old hands too, and a great, big 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:49.960 old nose, I'm just saying, and single, you know, playing 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.880 he did the work too, and he kept it elevated. Um. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.919 And again we can refer to Vesper and Hannah on this, 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.960 who were just two of the people in Georgia. I 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.320 actually see it in real time. But you understand, I'm 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.799 since reading so many things after the fact where Leffler 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.520 uh purposely ran ads where he was a little bit 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.360 darker than he actually is. Uh Uh, not saying it overtly, 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.000 but you know what that's supposed to suggest. Uh that 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.840 he was a little bit darker. She ran ads where 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.200 they purposely took pieces of his sermon out of context, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.360 piecing it together to purposely try to divide that it 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:27.640 was a super negative campaign ran by miss Leffler in 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.120 this race against Mr Warnock. And I want to add 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.920 to that too. She even took it a step further 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.559 to attack her team that she is a co owner 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.520 for for the NBA. I'm sorry the w n B 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.840 A and I watched that last night and they the 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.360 players were so offended that they said, you know it, Okay, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.360 we're going to specifically endorse Warnock. So they've wore those 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.600 T shirts that said vote Warnock on them and um 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.160 one of I don't remember the exact team, but they're 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.680 in Seattle, and uh so shout out to the w 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.960 n b A two for being at the forefront of 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.960 this entire movement. Really, when it came to the Black 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.440 Lives Matters protest, they were always at the forefront before 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.480 the NBA even came on board. And then I watched 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.440 with team war knocked right, Oh that was gangster. I 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.160 didn't because I was not listening, but the TV was on, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.040 so I saw them was and that. When you said that, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.400 I'm like, oh, that was I need that team. I know, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.640 I got me one stood on their haboo. But you 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.280 know what, this goes back to what you and I 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.400 have talked about so many times. What do we do 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.640 to get more people engaged in the process, you know, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.199 because clearly that's the secret. Well, I guess today is 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.559 definitely gonna answer some answers with us on that question, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.040 because also he was on the ground down there. Common 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.319 was down there doing concerts, They were doing door to 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.280 door knocks. They were having not telethons, but they were 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.240 really getting the message out because when you're familiar with 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.240 something and it looks like you, it makes it easier 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.400 for you to intake. So Common looked like a lot 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.360 of them young brothers down there. He could speak to 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.320 them on their level as the way if it was 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.200 me down there, you know, they might not look at 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.400 me the same because I don't look like them, even 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.520 though the message is pretty much the same. So he's 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.240 gonna come on and tell us that because I was 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.200 telling Lauren Lawan is HBCU law and graduating from Spellman, 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.120 we need more black and brown people not running to 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.240 the post to vote, but we need us to be 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.960 in the in the positions to be voted for. We 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.480 need more statesmen, more government, and they have to get 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.679 these kids young. They gotta get these kids in college 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.920 before they get their records blemish, because I little Jack 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.400 Jack can make a mistake at the age of nineteen, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.000 but his family is so politically connected or connected to 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.560 the laws and the government that they can expunge his 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.079 record and it disappears. As to where a little tron 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.480 gets into the exact same situation, but his record haunts 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.480 him for the rest of his life where he can't 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.480 run for government. We need to make those changes. That's 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.400 where we gotta start at. But they got to get 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.480 these kids in college. They gotta get these kids young. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.800 And I think that goes to us talking about reform 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.719 in general. You know, it just can't be. It has 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.640 to start at the local level, because we can't start 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.840 from the top and then expect things to trickle down. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.680 We see in so many instances where that ideology just 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.160 doesn't work. So two flames point and to even some 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.120 things that you have said as well. Nick. You know, 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.280 we need to get you know, police reform. You know, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.440 we need to elect the appropriate officials so that way 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.559 they can in essence pave the way for the younger 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.720 generation to have opportunities to be in these spaces to 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.160 create the much needed change that we need in America. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.920 You know, we've talked about that, even in the areas 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.760 of defund you know, and I know that defunds for 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.960 so many people can have this negative connotation, but you know, 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.160 we've talked about this, and we have no problem when 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.400 we talk about defunding education. We have no problem when 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.360 we talked about defunding health care UM, and we know 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.840 what those things mean, but we never get the pushback 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.520 on that, and we saw what lack of defunding can do. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.840 An example, on Wednesday, I called you flame because I 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.679 was just visibly upset. I was I was bothered by 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.400 what I was saying as a veteran UM, as a 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.360 black man, as someone who really does know no other 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.280 place but this country as my home. I was offended 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.199 because that's not part of the deals that I hold true. UM, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.079 that is not how I want to see things resolved 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.840 when you disagree with the outcome of an election. I 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.679 don't know anyone who was not disappointed in my circle 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:15.520 in when Hillary Clinton was not elected President, I don't 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.000 remember anyone in my circle taking to the nation's capital 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.040 to demonstrate that way. I don't remember anyone in my 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.440 circle after Charlottesville doing that, after we watched our President 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.480 of the United States stand back and say they were 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.640 good people on both sides, when we watched them carry 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.760 pitchforks screaming Jews will not replace us walking with nooses, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.720 which only have one connotation, as far as I know 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.520 in my limited view of things, and I'll admit that. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.040 So when they show up the nation's capital this past 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.560 Wednesday with a news hang Mike Pence, you may have 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.920 been screaming Mike Pence, but if you don't know what 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.440 that imagery relates and says to people who look like 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.480 me and who know the history of my community, I 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.880 can't help but be offended and feel neglected and dejected. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.000 I political officials and those who are elected who will 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.720 not step in and say this is unacceptable. Well, I 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.120 think that's the main thing. They knew what it meant. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.600 It wasn't a matter of ignorance. That was intentional. You know. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.960 That's what when people say, oh my god, this is 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.040 not America in flame, you know you've said this too. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.559 And I completely agree with you when people say things 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.160 like this is not America, This is exactly what America is. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.640 This is how this country was built in essence, you know, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.960 we had these Europeans come over here that we had 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.679 indigenous folks already here. Not only did they, you know, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.360 indigenous folks, they taught these Europeans how to cultivate, how 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.800 to survive, how to be in this space. And what 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:42.960 did you do? You raped, your murdered and you killed them. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.680 And you know, you guys were escaping you know, religious 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.520 you know, persecution, but you did the same thing when 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.240 you got here. And then when you realize it on 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:54.080 your own accord, you could maintain what you stole. You 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.400 went back and got black folks from Africa to be slaves. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.520 That's how you built this country. You know, this country 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.760 was built on you know, revolutions, insurrections, That's how this 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.960 was built. So that's all that these people know to do. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.920 And now we're seeing it in a broader space nets 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.439 on social media, and we have, you know, these platforms 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.320 where we can actually visually see what's going on. They 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.880 can't hide anymore, and people are like, oh my gosh, 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.720 I'm outraged, this is what's been happening. This is nothing 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.000 new at all. And Lauren just to piggyback on that. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.120 And I guess the thing that bothered me probably more 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.160 than anything, out of just an array of images that 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.200 were disturbing. I'm watching the men and women in blue 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.120 whom we're told, you know, listen, all lives matter, Blue 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.840 lives matter, Black lives matter. Okay. I watched many of 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:47.120 these men in blue stand back and literally pull barricades back, 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:53.760 open doors, let these marauders, these rioters, these insurrectionists into 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.120 the building, like, uh, well, look Pelosi's office down that way, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.120 like you know what I'm saying that they're like, uh, this, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.440 this was antithetical to everything that we were supposed to believe. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.079 That if the ideas that we're all one, I did 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.880 not see that demonstrated. Lesson changed the name. Boo changed 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.199 the name. Why are they marauders and insurgeons? And you 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.480 know they were thugs and gangsters and ghetto just like 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.160 they would have called us. We're gonna flip the coin, 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.240 flip the gap, damn coin flame. The difference in this situation, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.360 the reason why they need to be called marauders and insurrectionists, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.240 is because this particular act moved against. There is a 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.960 term for those who do this against the state and 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.760 the nation and laws, and that's insurrections, and that is 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.240 a federal offense. Let me say, well, use that for 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.480 use that for the crime. But let me tell y'all something. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.600 Why everybody else is watching that? Like you said, you 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.640 were offended, and I was. I was not offended. I 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.000 didn't give a fuck. Let me tell you the truth. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.720 I didn't give a fuck. Not that that somebody got hurt, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.360 but if that would have been Black Lives Matter moving 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.920 in like that to not even get to the stairs, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.680 they would have murdered and slow everybody out there. It 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.040 would have been dead bodies everywhere. It looked like when 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.200 you take this vaccine, because after they take it back 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.520 and give it about a year, all y'all gonna be 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.480 laid out. I see what the funk I said. I said, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.240 if you don't like it, I don't give hell dr 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:12.880 fault you called me nick, I'm bigger, you come on, 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:17.640 bring it any who. I it was so and I'm 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.480 telling you I didn't celebrate it because the loss of 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.600 life is a loss of life. That was somebody's mother 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.000 brother's son, uncle, what have you? But the police for 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.480 them in real time to take photographs with these people, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.560 for them too. They always said that they feel threatened 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.400 by a black man walking to the car shooting him 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.200 in the back seven times with no weapon. And y'all 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.680 had on riot gear, bulletproof vest, you had guns. But 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.520 I watched the police physically run up the stairs from 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.640 the mob. You had a gun, you could have shot 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.000 everything down, but they didn't because if that hadn't been uncing, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.080 they had to pulled me over at a stoplight to 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.000 say that I didn't make an illegal signal. They would 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.680 they would have shot me down and it would have 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.440 been on videotape and they would have gat away with it. Oh. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.680 I'm not speaking personal about Jake Obama. Oh, I'm just saying, uh, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.920 I didn't care. And I don't mean that in a 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.880 negative way, because I love when people always holler that's 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.040 not what America is, that's not we that we've been 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.640 screaming that, and they say black people we overly sensitive. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.600 We crab, baby, it's always about black people. You all 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.920 feel entitled because you were slaves. We've been telling y'all 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.280 for four hundred plus years that that who that's who 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.000 America was. God damage and the whole world has seen 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.080 who America was, and we had shipped to do with that. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.160 Not we wasn't even we was in Georgia voting celebrating 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:41.720 what I blew on looking book. Yes, even in that 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.520 there were those who had their lives threatened on Wednesday 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.320 and still voted to question the legitimacy of the election. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.960 And this is where you just have to say, Ted Crews, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.800 what are you thinking? You know who, hollywool you know? 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:58.960 Uh flame, I'm going to throw out there. One of 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.360 our favorite quotes Jay is Baldwin Um, When a white 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.800 man in the world says, give me liberty or give 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.520 me death, the white world applause. When a black man 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.719 says the same thing, he's judged a criminal, and everything 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.399 possible is done to make an example of him, and 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:19.200 this bad so there won't be anymore like him, say Lord, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.480 saying because I can't say it, say it Lord, because 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.480 of what if I said, black man as a black 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.280 man Andre but tittis, give me liberty and give me 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.080 death or what color you want your casket? Yeah. I 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.760 just think the level of hypocrisy here overall is just 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.400 something that one is an embarrassment for them, but it's 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.640 also it's laughable because you these the same group, these 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.240 Trump supporters, were the same ones to say, how dare 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.600 you say defund the police? That's disrespectful in Blue Lives Matter, 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.320 But y'all are the same one that we're beating up officers, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.880 stomping them to death on the steps of the Capitol. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.440 It's and to your point, the sayings they're not universal. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.679 They conveniently fit narratives. You know, they give me liberty, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.800 give me death. You know, I had a friend I 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.119 sent you guys a video. She made a statement that 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.560 in the Bible it says, you know, the first shall 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.480 be last and the last I'll be first. These sayings 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:19.040 are conveniently, you know, spoken, but they they're not accurate 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.040 because as soon as these things start to happen, everybody's 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.280 in the uproar. You know, we like you guys have said, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.960 there was four hundred years of you know, us being suppressed, 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.920 and now that we are actually learning the system and 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.480 using the same system that was built to oppress us, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.840 but we're using it to our advantage. Oh, people are 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.080 upset and they're going to continue to be upset because 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.919 guess what, we understand the game now. We're playing it accordingly, 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.000 and you may have built it, but we're playing it 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.560 better than you. And this is exactly why I want 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.840 to continue, because I know we've got common coming up 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.879 today and I'm super excited about that. To talk to 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.879 him about Georgia, because in all of this, Georgia was 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.000 a success for those who are on the ground, and 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.480 I don't want that lost in this process. There's a 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.760 lot to be said for Raphael Warnock and John Assoff 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.920 and all that was accomplished with that. So I want 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.399 to make sure that those who are on the ground 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.760 get their due diligence. All right, let's give this conversation 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.440 a break and listen to a few quick ads. We'll 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:25.240 be right back. Is my boy don't here yet? That is, 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.880 Lady and gentlemen, please welcome to this show. I show 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.639 laugh and learn the Emmy Award winning, Grammy Award winning, 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.280 Oscar Award winning. But then they didn't called me from 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:40.040 the job yet, Producer director all that Hi comment, Hey, Laura, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.320 what's up? Hi? How are you you gott You gotta 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.200 speak to Nick too, even though he's not right here, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.679 He's still Nick. I just heard Nick talking. Man, I mean, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:53.400 you'll have some real strong conversations. Sorry, don't be trying 0:19:53.400 --> 0:20:01.400 to give us no flash. I was dating work, trying 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.359 to get you'all a little quick little flash. Tell her. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:05.920 I don't want me looking at that. I don't want 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.080 my boss to find me typically my boss. Don't be 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:13.080 funking with my change coming. Let me STI the first 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.399 stop by saying thank you, I appreciate you doing this player, 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.040 and then you know me and you go, wait, look, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:18.840 we go way back for at least about a year 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.679 and a half. Uh, let me tell you what happened 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.320 when I met coming through Tiffy of course, and uh, 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.840 we were just playing cards. Now the nigga came playing 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:34.040 on space. He from Chicago anyhood. But but you know 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.879 what I respected about common common accepting me for just 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.920 how I was this mouth. Sometimes I'm in drag, sometimes 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.160 I'm not. I'm still what's up? He she we whatever, 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.560 and never look look past whatever I was to have 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.720 just a regular conversation. Mean, you're a good dude for 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:51.520 that one, but you still ain't put me on the shot. 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.720 But we're talking about that as the show Shameless Plugs 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:59.919 shameless plugs, flame, I got, I got love for your heartest, 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.280 your hardest, white count and we connect like we just 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:08.520 connected automatically. I don't you know, that's Chicago, Chicago. It's Chicago. 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.240 We you know, we're welcoming. Like and even when my 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.840 when my homies met you, I felt it was an 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.840 advancement for them, like because you know, we grew up 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:20.439 on the South Side, you know in certain ways. And 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:22.840