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Speaker 1: do what you do? Can't no kids do what I do? Flame? Flame? Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: welcome to laugh and Learn this week's episode. I am
Speaker 1: your host, were one of your hosts, Flame and Bro
Speaker 1: I'm here with my beautiful, lovely partner. I have to
Speaker 1: say that she paid me to say it. What is
Speaker 1: your mind? Hi? Flame? Hi Lorrie? How are you? Honey? Uh? Good, Lauren,
Speaker 1: I am tired. I'm in Chicago, but I'm glad to
Speaker 1: see your beautiful face. Oh, thank you, thank you. I'm
Speaker 1: glad to see YouTube. This is different for us. You know,
Speaker 1: we're just doing audio today well in flame Mats, and
Speaker 1: we want you guys to really uh stay with us.
Speaker 1: We know we we we both of both of us
Speaker 1: are traveling so it's gonna be a little difficult because
Speaker 1: the road is picking up because the world has opened
Speaker 1: back up. So this may be the new norm for
Speaker 1: laugh and learn. We will be in hotel rooms or
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Speaker 1: want to do. We want you to download the audio
Speaker 1: because that is what I heart wants. They want the
Speaker 1: audio component more than the video. Now. We will still
Speaker 1: still do the video when we are in town at
Speaker 1: the same time, but today you work with what we
Speaker 1: have because this is what we give you. How well,
Speaker 1: how the week because you had a week here you
Speaker 1: have Yeah, it's like, I don't know, life is just
Speaker 1: um it's interesting. Like you know, when you're young, you
Speaker 1: ever think of like what you have like expectations. I
Speaker 1: guess you could kind of say for life, and then
Speaker 1: it's like once you become an adult, life was like whoop,
Speaker 1: you thought you know. So it's been a rough week. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, one of my friends that I grew up
Speaker 1: with and went to uh dot, I with who I
Speaker 1: danced with, I should say, um, tragically filled in a
Speaker 1: car accident. So, um, it's just been a lot going on.
Speaker 1: Work has been, you know, kicking my butt. It's just
Speaker 1: been like a whirlwind, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's just like pandemic. It just feels like
Speaker 1: people have just been dying for so long and we're
Speaker 1: just constantly I don't know, like in this place. I
Speaker 1: don't even know how to describe it. So it's um.
Speaker 1: It was a bit of a rough week for me,
Speaker 1: but you were built for a tough Thank you today,
Speaker 1: good DNA. Oh yeah, thanks, But but I mean, on
Speaker 1: a brighter note, I know you had a great week,
Speaker 1: so let's keep this, you know, happier. So how is
Speaker 1: the South by Southwest? Friends? Yeah, get inside. I was
Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas, but my heart for the South, my
Speaker 1: south Western conference, which happened to be one of the
Speaker 1: you know what, I didn't know what to expect, honestly,
Speaker 1: but from what you had told me, because you know,
Speaker 1: I'll be out of the loop, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: the expectation was I didn't know what to expect, but god,
Speaker 1: it was incredible and my heart wrote out through a
Speaker 1: card before me. I think I heart was a little apprehensive.
Speaker 1: Let me just say it. Because I worked for y'all.
Speaker 1: I can't say it was a little apprehensive by me
Speaker 1: speaking because they didn't know where I was gonna go.
Speaker 1: But good God that I knocked their socks off. They
Speaker 1: were so impressed that I'm going to Australia and New
Speaker 1: York speaking on behalf of my heart and the consumers
Speaker 1: and the marketing people. And I love that they let me,
Speaker 1: allowed me to just say how I felt as being
Speaker 1: one of the powerful influential voices of our time, or
Speaker 1: a diverse voices what they called and something like my
Speaker 1: voice ain't the verse just I don't like everybody else.
Speaker 1: But but found me just to be a free bird.
Speaker 1: And my vernacular it's not six thousand words, but when
Speaker 1: I say it, and I say it in Layman's terms,
Speaker 1: you get it. So they asked us a question, Laur
Speaker 1: that made me think about you. They asked me, how
Speaker 1: would I reach out to my demographic to sell products?
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, what? What is my demographic? You know
Speaker 1: they would like I think I think they would think
Speaker 1: in LGBT community, trans people, I'm like, dude, we you
Speaker 1: sold the older in toilet paper mouth washing. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm human, I'm American. Plus I got one up. I
Speaker 1: can do a shaving commercial and a makeup commercial at
Speaker 1: the same time. We have the sponsors, Lauren. But no,
Speaker 1: I think that's important though, because you know, I think
Speaker 1: people have this like preconceived notion that because you are trans, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: you're a part of the l g B t Q
Speaker 1: plus community, but that's not your only community. Like even
Speaker 1: if you look at like your Instagram analytics, most of
Speaker 1: your following is women, you know what I mean. I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't know their sexual orientation maybe, but it's just
Speaker 1: women in general. They went on Instagram and you know,
Speaker 1: registered their profile as being a woman. So I think
Speaker 1: that's like a pre you know, a misconception I guess
Speaker 1: we could say about you. So I'm happy that you
Speaker 1: were able to, you know, show your versatility and who
Speaker 1: you are as an individual, and it's like you're not
Speaker 1: just your sexual identity. There's more to you. So I'm
Speaker 1: happy to hear that, Yeah, that was great, and you
Speaker 1: know what it was so because I was like a
Speaker 1: fish out of water, but because I'm in a room
Speaker 1: full of millionaires. I was in a room full of
Speaker 1: millionaires longers. I was not the centerpiece, but I was
Speaker 1: the conversation that everybody wanted to have with me. They
Speaker 1: wanted to not about LGBT. They wanted to talk to
Speaker 1: me about business and the podcast and marketing and how
Speaker 1: can we get more people. It was. It was so
Speaker 1: dope that I was like, Wow, I almost had an
Speaker 1: out of body experience, like, bitch, do you belong here?
Speaker 1: But clearly you did, because you held the conversations. You know, shoot,
Speaker 1: you grab the attention, so clue you did belong. I
Speaker 1: wish I could have been there with you, but you know,
Speaker 1: you crazy, You know you were there with me. You
Speaker 1: know you was looking over my shoulders and say that
Speaker 1: I was the back of your head telling you all
Speaker 1: the things I tell you. And Connor who who's the
Speaker 1: president of My Heart, and Will Pearson were just enamored.
Speaker 1: And to all the people that I met there, Gail
Speaker 1: who put the program together, the other young lady Brittany
Speaker 1: who has another podcast called There Are No Girls on
Speaker 1: the End There Oh, she has such a great tick
Speaker 1: of the speaking voice. Um to feel who works for marketing,
Speaker 1: to who took the pictures. Everybody you see. I remember
Speaker 1: the names because but how they made me remember the names,
Speaker 1: because everybody was overtly friendly towards me. They were accommodating
Speaker 1: and respectful and in a way that I'm not necessarily
Speaker 1: used to because I'm used to you being respect for,
Speaker 1: but because you have to because I'm LGBT, not because
Speaker 1: I am influencer and I'm an employee, you know, And
Speaker 1: that that was remarkable for me. It was great. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just glad that you had an amazing experience and
Speaker 1: that was a good thing to kick off the rest
Speaker 1: of the crazy week that you have. So what's what's
Speaker 1: coming up towards the end of the week? Week at
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club on Thursday Charlemagne the God. Then on
Speaker 1: Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday night we got Carolines
Speaker 1: on Broadway. Monday we have Wendy Williams. Girl, Can life
Speaker 1: get any sweeter? I'm happy for you for sure, to
Speaker 1: say the least, So uh fix that, I'm sorry. I'm
Speaker 1: happy for us, right, I'm happy for us. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: too bad, too bad week. We're not in the same space.
Speaker 1: Ha ha, No, I'm kidding. Um no, so uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. I'm really glad to hear that it all
Speaker 1: went well. And um, I'm expecting to see some type
Speaker 1: of footage of something at some point. Since I can't
Speaker 1: be there, I'm staying away from I g live just
Speaker 1: so I don't get reported, so I can you don't
Speaker 1: go to jail. I don't go to a jail again.
Speaker 1: And I don't share this with my flame man is
Speaker 1: because they want to know. So get your tickets. If
Speaker 1: you haven't gotten your tickets at the website or the
Speaker 1: Caroline's on Broadways website, what the box office? I think
Speaker 1: they're lives streaming it, right, Loreen. Yeah, we're using mint
Speaker 1: dot com to live streaming, so if you can't be
Speaker 1: there in person, you can definitely, you know, purchase a
Speaker 1: ticket and watch it virtually. So you got options on
Speaker 1: the website. Because somebody told me that they didn't see
Speaker 1: the details on the website for Mint dot com. Oh child,
Speaker 1: I means I got to reach out to the people. Okay,
Speaker 1: well we're gonna figure it out, but at least just
Speaker 1: go get your tickets at Probably dot com. I'm Sherry
Speaker 1: Shepherd is hosting and featuring for me on Thursday. Robert
Speaker 1: Montague is hosting and featuring for me. Some of you
Speaker 1: guys who came to see me in DC are familiar
Speaker 1: with her. So we're gonna have a good time. If
Speaker 1: you're coming to have a good time, if you're coming
Speaker 1: out to have a good time, go to the club now, though,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna be in the wrong spot, because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be loose, ignorant, free. Ain't nobody watching me and
Speaker 1: ain't nobody record me? O? Yes? So in other news
Speaker 1: this week, what's going on in what do you want
Speaker 1: to get into? First? Because I'm in Chicago, which is
Speaker 1: my hometown, We'll start with Jesse who got I don't
Speaker 1: want to say railroad it, but the same thing that
Speaker 1: happened to Jesse in two thousand and twenty two happened
Speaker 1: to me in my first defense in Illinois. They sent
Speaker 1: me to prison. The difference and I had a great
Speaker 1: Lloyd there. The difference was he got I got three
Speaker 1: and a half years, but I only did forty eight days.
Speaker 1: And to get arrested though, that's the question, what was
Speaker 1: the crime? Don't you asked my personally? You brought it
Speaker 1: up the bank. I was a bank robb not she
Speaker 1: rapped a bank and you only did three years. You
Speaker 1: did have a good lord, brand new booze and ninety one.
Speaker 1: There was no place for me that That was the
Speaker 1: difference that saved me from doing all that time. But
Speaker 1: I did not expect him to I must say, with
Speaker 1: all the hpla haaba hand this and all that was
Speaker 1: going on because of his celebrity and all the lawyer's everything,
Speaker 1: I really did not expect him to give him actually time.
Speaker 1: I thought that they were going to convict him and
Speaker 1: he was gonna have to pay all those fans. But
Speaker 1: I was yeah, they actually gave him jail time. So
Speaker 1: that's volumes to this country. And again, like we always say,
Speaker 1: there is one course system for them and there is
Speaker 1: one for us. Because with all his money, fame and celebrity,
Speaker 1: it did not stop him and they didn't. And you thought,
Speaker 1: what was behoo be loring? Because had he been if
Speaker 1: y'all saying I'm playing a race card, was so be it?
Speaker 1: God damn it. Had he been a Caucasian persuasion, they
Speaker 1: would have given him thirty days to have his affairs
Speaker 1: and get everything in order to say a batchel of
Speaker 1: family would have you. They took him straight to the
Speaker 1: back right there in the court room. I found that
Speaker 1: quite offensive. Well, not even that if he was worried,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be doing jail time. Well come on, let's
Speaker 1: be honest. So, and I don't know like what the
Speaker 1: circumstances are of how it got to people thinking that
Speaker 1: he was suicidal. And you know, he made that big
Speaker 1: announcement in court saying that he's not suicidal, and they
Speaker 1: put him like in the psych ward. That was a
Speaker 1: reason to that, because so many of us have been
Speaker 1: pars rated and then we end up dying. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it was just that it happens to me. I didn't
Speaker 1: do it to myself, right that he was saying like,
Speaker 1: I'm not suicidal. So, but I don't know how he
Speaker 1: ended up in the psych ward though. Ye, well, well
Speaker 1: I think he was. First of all, he looked a
Speaker 1: little extreme the way he did. Let me just say
Speaker 1: that in the cork carrion on Holland hooping Holland screaming car.
Speaker 1: You know, but sometimes they put you in the medical
Speaker 1: war in the psych board to protect you. They didn't
Speaker 1: put him in there because he was great. He is
Speaker 1: a celebrity, He is a star. He is a notable face.
Speaker 1: So they put him in there to protect him from
Speaker 1: putting him not only in protective custody, but for gym
Speaker 1: pop because it's really hard to get to you in
Speaker 1: the psych ward and protect custody. So if I'm a
Speaker 1: protective custody and you're a straight guy and you want me,
Speaker 1: you just say, I'm afraid I need to walk myself
Speaker 1: to protective custody just so you can get to me.
Speaker 1: See it's it's that accessible. Because I was there, I
Speaker 1: experience that. But now in the psych ward you can't
Speaker 1: just go. Anybody can't just walk that up to the pye,
Speaker 1: but you have to be deemed cuckoo, patty, a little
Speaker 1: you know, a little fifty. So it's it's actually safer
Speaker 1: for him. But I don't know the situation, but I
Speaker 1: have been in the county jail and that was in
Speaker 1: and it was a filthy place. I can only imagine
Speaker 1: that it's worse. Oh wow, because yeah, is he in
Speaker 1: the county jail? Did he actually did he go someplace else?
Speaker 1: He's only doing the county jail. It would have probably
Speaker 1: been easier had he went to prison. But he's in
Speaker 1: the county. Is he in the same jail as R. Kelly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's probably not in the same step. Oh my god. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're both in Cook County. Wow, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just the way it played out Loreen,
Speaker 1: from beginning to end to now, just I'm in shocked
Speaker 1: that he got some jail time. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to be on either side of this because I never
Speaker 1: believed the story that Jesse see and I said that public.
Speaker 1: I just never believed that story. It just sounded it
Speaker 1: was too many holes in it for me from day one,
Speaker 1: starting with the substance that they threw and you didn't
Speaker 1: know what it was. Baby, My kids were two years old.
Speaker 1: They knew what the hell bleat smell like. So it
Speaker 1: just was so crazy. But wow, it just has went
Speaker 1: on and on and on. Yeah, because the thing that
Speaker 1: it's like, even if because it feels like this is
Speaker 1: all stemming from the fact that he wasted, you know,
Speaker 1: police resources, So even if that was the case, just
Speaker 1: let him pay it and then move on. But to
Speaker 1: like stick him in jail over this, and you got
Speaker 1: white people that have like raped women and they're still
Speaker 1: not in jail, They've been acquitted. Like it's come on, really,
Speaker 1: you got white boys that white other white kill other
Speaker 1: wife boys and won't yeah for real, So well, just
Speaker 1: look at what happened with the officer who killed Brianna
Speaker 1: Taylor and McKay Bryant. They were both acquitted. Yeah, it is,
Speaker 1: it is. It's a troubling time. And but you know
Speaker 1: what it is the wake up call for black people
Speaker 1: in this country that are celebrity rich, famous. Let you
Speaker 1: know that we don't care about your money, or your
Speaker 1: stature or your celebrity. We will come after you hard
Speaker 1: and brutally. Because that was brutal to me to put
Speaker 1: him in jail. That but the best the blessing of
Speaker 1: the county jail. Though, let me just say on the others,
Speaker 1: because you know, there's always another. He gets two for one,
Speaker 1: So for every two days he get one. I don't
Speaker 1: expect him to do six weeks. Oh oh, not to
Speaker 1: do six weeks, okay, I don't expect him to do
Speaker 1: six weeks because he gets two for one. Okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: A prayer for Jesse, Prayers for Jesse, prayers for his
Speaker 1: family because and so many people was affected by this,
Speaker 1: and I love that so many celebrities wrote letters for him,
Speaker 1: so many we profile people are speaking up for him.
Speaker 1: Although it did make a difference that judge had a mission,
Speaker 1: that judge was not trying to hear any of it
Speaker 1: and he I thought the judge was cold. I thought
Speaker 1: he was honest about a lot of things. Let me
Speaker 1: just say he wasn't all the way wrong, but I
Speaker 1: thought he was extreme. Yeah. Well, we're gonna send up
Speaker 1: a prayer for Jesse and hopefully he gets out because
Speaker 1: I saw something today that said there's his attorneys have
Speaker 1: a million of one reasons why he should be released.
Speaker 1: So hopefully something works and he gets out sooner than later.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to go down every over. I ain't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we not, because we're gonna jump right into something else
Speaker 1: where we going? Lord, I was first? Is your turn? Well?
Speaker 1: Speaking of other Chicago natives, Um, a certain Kanye West
Speaker 1: got into it one of your friends this past week,
Speaker 1: d L. Hugley. So how do you feel about that? Wait,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, don't even try it. Don't even try
Speaker 1: Kanye West is I feel like the man is just heartbroken,
Speaker 1: and I've been exactly how he feels. I just hate
Speaker 1: that it's playing out so publicly in front of his children,
Speaker 1: because they're seeing all of this, you know, and kids.
Speaker 1: People always say kids don't remember. Kids remember way more
Speaker 1: than we give them credit for him way more seeing here,
Speaker 1: especially with the Internet and way things are now, They're
Speaker 1: seeing here way more than they should. I feel for
Speaker 1: those kids. I hope that Kanye fans some solace. But
Speaker 1: that is a great adage to go into into money.
Speaker 1: Don't make you happy, because on paper, this man is
Speaker 1: a billionaire and he is just not happy. It's um,
Speaker 1: it's giving fatal attraction a little bit. I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna lie with some of the things that he's put
Speaker 1: out about his soon to be ex wife, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, and I appreciate deal speaking out. It's like,
Speaker 1: we don't we're not we don't know Kanye, we're not
Speaker 1: friends with Kanye. We don't know the circumstances of the situation.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely giving fatal attraction. It really is. But
Speaker 1: I just want to ask a question, hypothetically, Lauren Hogan,
Speaker 1: So with all is that Kanye is doing, because you know,
Speaker 1: he was in the White House a year or two
Speaker 1: ago when the other administration jump sitting on his lap
Speaker 1: and pretty much hugging him and kissing him. That man
Speaker 1: has not spoken because Kanye spoke up but him wore
Speaker 1: the red hat and everything. But I have not heard
Speaker 1: that man speak on behalf of Mr Kanye West at all.
Speaker 1: Child Trump's been speaking, but it ain't about that, and
Speaker 1: nobody's paying attention really to what he's saying. But you,
Speaker 1: I mean, you have a point. You have a point,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. I hope he stays on social media. Well,
Speaker 1: good luck with that. That is what's keeping that's what's
Speaker 1: keeping him going. Maybe maybe while he telling his door,
Speaker 1: giving his daughter advice to say hi, as I'll TikTok, dude,
Speaker 1: look in the mirror and tell that to your damn
Speaker 1: saif one of them personalities because somebody and listen to you,
Speaker 1: and it's about fifteen them up in there. Oh baby,
Speaker 1: he can showed us all of them too. They say
Speaker 1: he's a you know, but you know, Lauren, that is
Speaker 1: that is the the old the old termam that they say.
Speaker 1: But there's the pigs hare. The line between genius and
Speaker 1: lunacy is as fine as a pig's hair. Somebody snatched
Speaker 1: their pigs hair and he didn't cross the fence to
Speaker 1: the other side. Well yeah, and I will say, like,
Speaker 1: bipolar disorder is real. You know, I have you know,
Speaker 1: family members who are bipolar who I actually don't speak
Speaker 1: to because they refused to take their meds. But it
Speaker 1: is a real, you know, disease. Mental health is real,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what it's like to you know,
Speaker 1: whatever that feels like. So I hope he can, you know,
Speaker 1: find some type of peace because that is a serious
Speaker 1: you know, mental illness to be combating seven and there's
Speaker 1: different you know, there's different um points on the spectrum,
Speaker 1: you know, of your type of of the bipolar disorders.
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say, But um, I just hope
Speaker 1: he finds some type of peace because um he's really
Speaker 1: wildent and I really do like read what he's trying
Speaker 1: to say to like understand. Sometimes I just don't compre
Speaker 1: him with some of his posts are about Um, I
Speaker 1: will say, the songs that he's been writing for Donda
Speaker 1: pretty good. I enjoyed them, visuals also great. Didn't like
Speaker 1: that you know, he basically killed Pete Davidson and his
Speaker 1: easy video. But yeah, I just, um, I hope he
Speaker 1: gets it together and find some happiness and some interpiece.
Speaker 1: So yeah, about Pete Davidson. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: he sees what it really really is. But as the
Speaker 1: man in me, because you know, I'm he she week,
Speaker 1: but the man in me that this is a pond.
Speaker 1: This who this is a pawn? You, darling, I think
Speaker 1: it's a pond. I think that you are being played.
Speaker 1: But enjoy the rat? Why do you say that. I
Speaker 1: don't think that Kim Kardashian is gonna ever be in
Speaker 1: love with him. I think that that it's just employed
Speaker 1: just to not even on on a I'm trying to
Speaker 1: pay you back, just that maybe she's trying to find
Speaker 1: solace in the arms of somebody else to move on.
Speaker 1: But do I think that's gonna be long term. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I think she's gonna enjoy the rat for the time
Speaker 1: that she's ratting, and yeah, that's it. But I mean
Speaker 1: I think that's fair though. I mean, you just got
Speaker 1: out of like a seven year marriage. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: it's not anything serious. She might just want to have
Speaker 1: fun right now. You know, she's got four kids, she's
Speaker 1: got responsibility. And Roman has it that they say Pete
Speaker 1: got the meat. He's like armies, we have the meat. Well,
Speaker 1: you have to look at the lineup of females that
Speaker 1: he's dated and something must be there based on a line.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, you say, you know that might
Speaker 1: be part of the issue that because men are very
Speaker 1: men's egos are very shallow, he might be intimidated that
Speaker 1: he thinks that Pete might be packing a little bit
Speaker 1: more than he is. And if I'm telling you it
Speaker 1: is so many I have been in Kanye WIT's position
Speaker 1: about being broken from a love a partner. But you
Speaker 1: know my baby, so I I and then as much
Speaker 1: as I joke about and well, I know that paint,
Speaker 1: I know there is a darkness there that when you
Speaker 1: go to sleep, when you wake up, that misery is
Speaker 1: still sitting there waiting on you when you can't go
Speaker 1: to sleep. The sad part is that it is playing
Speaker 1: out publicly. You know, both a huge celebrities and y'all
Speaker 1: got a gang of children. So and everybody is going
Speaker 1: to joke about it because when he went out the
Speaker 1: d L and say I got enough money to have
Speaker 1: you heard dal say, man, you're a nut, And I'm
Speaker 1: glad Pete is busting them up. In your wife, girl,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something old how to read like
Speaker 1: the last City. So I love it. Stump me. You
Speaker 1: know who else on how to read like that? That
Speaker 1: damn Fathy said, Oh yeah, that man is rude. That
Speaker 1: manages rude. I'm telling you, and you know you you you,
Speaker 1: if you put it out there, you get the expected
Speaker 1: to come back. It was cold, it was funny. It
Speaker 1: was funny. I'm not even gonna lie. He was not
Speaker 1: even nervous. He he had like hits one after another.
Speaker 1: So that's why I said, that's your friends, So you know,
Speaker 1: don't come at the media. Look Kanye again. Lauren to Kanye. Yeah, seriously,
Speaker 1: we talked about can we go to Ukraine? Prayers for Ukraine?
Speaker 1: Good God, Okay, so that was a major shift, but yes, Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I know we've talked about it for like the past
Speaker 1: two weeks, but like at this point I feel like
Speaker 1: we can like never not touch on it for an
Speaker 1: episode because everything is like developing each week. Um made
Speaker 1: your kudos to UM, and I apologized. I don't know
Speaker 1: her name, but for that TV producer stepping up and
Speaker 1: in the middle of a segment new station of Channel
Speaker 1: one News that reports like for the Kremlin and holding
Speaker 1: up a sign basically saying no war kudos to her
Speaker 1: for having the biggest balls out of everybody in Russia. Okay,
Speaker 1: women always do, and what years in prison? Fifteen years
Speaker 1: in prison? She was in court today, but like she's
Speaker 1: not in jail, which I was surprised to see considering
Speaker 1: how crazy Putin is. She's not in jail. They you
Speaker 1: know she was. They showed video footage of her leaving court.
Speaker 1: So she's facing up to fifteen years though for what
Speaker 1: she did. But maybe because it's so public, Putin is
Speaker 1: like she can't just go away so quickly. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just shocked that she's not already behind bars. So
Speaker 1: I'm happy she still has her freedom or some sense
Speaker 1: of it right now. But who knows what they're gonna
Speaker 1: end up doing her. You know, people in Russia just
Speaker 1: mysteriously did so I'm going to say, I know, I
Speaker 1: hope I don't rufle some of my people felas, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it always, and I'm gonna always say
Speaker 1: it because I will admire a woman into the day.
Speaker 1: Guy put the dirt on my face and the daisy
Speaker 1: on my head. Women will stand when men won't. No
Speaker 1: man did this. Women stand and fight and it's not
Speaker 1: black white. This is a Russian woman. Baby. She still
Speaker 1: and she knew the consequences of what could happen to
Speaker 1: her going against Putin. This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: This is the strength of women that you just don't
Speaker 1: want to tolerate it anymore. Me and are too afraid
Speaker 1: to lose their positions, their stature, their power, whatever the
Speaker 1: coward it is. I don't like coward me and I've
Speaker 1: said that many times. I don't care what color you are.
Speaker 1: Women are showing strength like that's unbelievable. That's why I
Speaker 1: was like when they wanted to trans women to staying fight,
Speaker 1: staying fight with these women. These women are grounded, strong,
Speaker 1: they're afraid, but they're not going to be pushed to
Speaker 1: the side. They are standing at it. We need to
Speaker 1: stand and support them. Hats off to that sister, because
Speaker 1: a man didn't do it. Yeah, and she's actually Russian
Speaker 1: and Ukraine. I think she said like her her mother's
Speaker 1: Ukrainian and her father's Russian, or it may have been
Speaker 1: the reverse, but she her whole statement, she was like,
Speaker 1: you know, when all the craziness happened, we didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't take a stand. I didn't stand up to Putin
Speaker 1: and it just didn't sit well with me. So now
Speaker 1: to see that he's literally starting a war out of greed,
Speaker 1: she said, it's I gotta say something. So word's just
Speaker 1: never good. Bargeous economic destruction, Uh, senseless casualties. And when
Speaker 1: you see all the video of the bombings and oh
Speaker 1: my god, well you saw the pregnant woman that was
Speaker 1: being carried out of the hospital that they bombed. She
Speaker 1: ended up dying. Yeah, her and the baby died. So
Speaker 1: it's just senseless. Oh and on top of that, we
Speaker 1: just have to say, you know, a condolences to the U.
Speaker 1: S journalists, Um Brent Renard who passed away too, but
Speaker 1: he was murdered. Oh he was covering, you know, he
Speaker 1: was a U. S journalist in Ukraine covering what was
Speaker 1: happening and Russian soldier shot him and killed him. So
Speaker 1: if I was a journalist, I'm a report just like
Speaker 1: I'm doing now via zoom. But it's just crazy, Like
Speaker 1: I think we sometimes forget that part, like journalists actually
Speaker 1: have a dangerous component to their job, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. You never it's always like, oh, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: in Ukraine reporting, but you don't realize how much they're
Speaker 1: really in harm's way, you know, just to do their job.
Speaker 1: Bad man does not release these nukes because then the
Speaker 1: US is going to have to get involved with NATO
Speaker 1: and all that, and it's just going to be bad
Speaker 1: all the way around. So we're hoping and praying that
Speaker 1: it doesn't get any worse. But nobody knows what the
Speaker 1: unpredictable Putin is going to do, because that thing is well.
Speaker 1: The samements that I've heard today on the news have
Speaker 1: been very strong. People have said, you know, Ukraine will
Speaker 1: always be, you know, its own country. There's there's way
Speaker 1: more people in you crane, and there's only one Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 1: so they're not giving in by any means necessary. And
Speaker 1: their president Zelinski, Um, I gotta give him some kudos
Speaker 1: to you know, he put on the armor and said
Speaker 1: I'm about to go fight for my people. So yeah,
Speaker 1: who he used to be a comedian. Girl, You think
Speaker 1: I could do it? You think? Oh my god. I
Speaker 1: have to tell you I saw a video. One of
Speaker 1: my work colleagues, very random sent me a video. There's
Speaker 1: a video of Zelinski doing the single Ladies Dance in
Speaker 1: heels with his stomach out and like a little two piece.
Speaker 1: I'm send it to you. I'm so serious. I watched it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's photoshopped. I think it's real
Speaker 1: because it's like him and five other men and they're
Speaker 1: dancing to Beyonce single Ladies. I kid you, not hilarious. Well,
Speaker 1: at least he knows how to have a good damn
Speaker 1: tam thank you right. He doesn't have a stick up
Speaker 1: his butt, but so it was. It was definitely funny
Speaker 1: to watch. That's all these American but only the only
Speaker 1: American president head of little swell was President Obama because
Speaker 1: they played Marvin got him a piece, baby. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: The swaggiest moment Barack Obama ever had was when he
Speaker 1: wore that tan suit on Easter. That will always be
Speaker 1: the swaggiest moment. I just gotta say, that tan suit
Speaker 1: on Easter, they hit the roof, Oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: not top two, and not to like, it's not presidential
Speaker 1: and then y'all right, y'all go to him shoot so
Speaker 1: but yeah, prayers to everybody in um Ukraine. I hope
Speaker 1: that this does come to and end at some point
Speaker 1: because it's just wild. Because I even saw the report
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is like, we're not going to go
Speaker 1: to war with Russia. He's already said that publicly, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what the intention behind it was, but
Speaker 1: he said that like two weeks ago. We'll see what
Speaker 1: comes to this. I've been taking practice and riding my
Speaker 1: bike more because it's looking like a gas prices. I
Speaker 1: don't pay me that much. Good God saying gas prices
Speaker 1: are ridiculous. Somewhere in l a gas is nine dollars,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to find out where. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep minding my business, especially when you dress such
Speaker 1: a high end luxury vehicle like you drive. I know
Speaker 1: you're not talking. You got an electric car now, and
Speaker 1: it's still high end luxury. It's still a jeep. We're
Speaker 1: talking about me looking at all these but I didn't
Speaker 1: even drive. I parked it because I was asked to
Speaker 1: park it. That's all I did. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to I'll park it. That's it. So I'm
Speaker 1: bummed that you're not going to be with me in
Speaker 1: New York, because you know, I need you in my
Speaker 1: ear looking on my should, like get it right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shoot you in the heat because the phone called
Speaker 1: for has a finger to my head like this, like
Speaker 1: all the time, that's what the phone calls. Where I
Speaker 1: could do that from Florida. I'm gonna just call you.
Speaker 1: I'm right down. You can feel my energy coming up north.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be right in Florida. I'm gonna send it
Speaker 1: right up to to New York. You're gonna kill it.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna just call you beforehand and give you
Speaker 1: the same energy. I'm very excited about it. I'm really
Speaker 1: ready to represent I hard. I'm doing a breakfast. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the south By Southwest only there because
Speaker 1: that experience alone, and you know alone. I called you
Speaker 1: and told you, because you know, yeah, I don't do great.
Speaker 1: I was like, it was all right, but because I'm
Speaker 1: very honest about who I am and what I do.
Speaker 1: But when it's fantastic, oh, I called said, Oh honey,
Speaker 1: they had no idea what was coming train with no
Speaker 1: breaks for breath. Oh my god, it was wonderful. It
Speaker 1: was good. I'm proud of you all in flame mats.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you we're gonna have such an amazing weekend
Speaker 1: this weekend for the ones that do show up. Great
Speaker 1: for the ones that going downloaded and watch your livestream. Great,
Speaker 1: I got some dresses for your ass, and some jokes
Speaker 1: for your mama and some that's for your dad. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I know this episode was a little different because you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't we weren't able to bring in the flame mats.
Speaker 1: But like Flames said, we gotta make things work at
Speaker 1: this point because she's busy, I'm busy, and we you know,
Speaker 1: we still got to get a job done at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. So girl has to relaxed all
Speaker 1: the rules, all the pandemic rules, so we are able
Speaker 1: to get back and me amongst each other. That does
Speaker 1: not mean that the pandemic has went away. Still take
Speaker 1: your precautions, still play safe, because I will. But I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to being I'm interacting with so many people
Speaker 1: and me alone will probably be on the road this
Speaker 1: summer way more than we want to be. But we
Speaker 1: gotta work. Yeah. So on that note, Flame, where can
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Speaker 1: gonna have tons and tons of pictures with any and
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Speaker 1: with me. It's going to be phenomenal. And Sherry Shepherd,
Speaker 1: he don't let me forget that. Sherry Shephard is not
Speaker 1: only hosting and opening for me, but I'm also doing
Speaker 1: Wendy Williams with her Monday. We will have tons of
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Speaker 1: So here a Life and Learned. We have a saying
Speaker 1: that we're not trying to get anybody to change your mind.
Speaker 1: We're simply trying to get you to use your mind.
Speaker 1: Because wife line, in order to use your mind, you
Speaker 1: have to have one, and the one that you have,
Speaker 1: you have to use for you. You can't be sad
Speaker 1: tracked by somebody else because I don't care what my
Speaker 1: auntie say or my uncle say. I'm listening, but I
Speaker 1: got to come and say because let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, whatever decision you make,
Speaker 1: it's your decision. It's nobody else's decision, and it has
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Speaker 1: be independent, be an independent, critical thinking for yourself. Don't
Speaker 1: be dismayed by what somebody else, even myself. And you
Speaker 1: know I'm always right and a larned. Oh huh huh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you broke up for a second. Sorry trying
Speaker 1: to give me the hook up just late. Good God,
Speaker 1: I'm slow. I'm pretty though, I'm pretty well. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much for tuning in. And we'll see you
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