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Speaker 1: I'm so glad to be here. I know a little
Speaker 1: behind this week, but it was Memorial Day this week
Speaker 1: and so we pushed back and we're here. Now. How
Speaker 1: was your week, darling? With your busy busy busy. Work
Speaker 1: has been a little crazy, and I have prepared to
Speaker 1: be on the road for the next eight days starting
Speaker 1: next Wednesday. So it's a lot going on, but you know, working,
Speaker 1: so all good things. How was your week? A week
Speaker 1: was good, slow, interesting though very interesting. We got we
Speaker 1: got from a new project. I've been working on him
Speaker 1: on page like twenty seven and uh I got a few.
Speaker 1: I'm leaving for three weeks, so I got some time.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, well great, so I'm excited. And but this
Speaker 1: week has been a very interesting week. Happy Memorial well
Speaker 1: not happy Memorial Day. Happy remembrance to all the veterans
Speaker 1: that served this country, including my dad. My dad was
Speaker 1: better he was in the Navy. I didn't really know
Speaker 1: him because I love to ask them. Did you join
Speaker 1: the Navy because you wanted to fight for the country
Speaker 1: or you just needed a job? I think back then
Speaker 1: he just needed a job. Well, still, we appreciate his service.
Speaker 1: He still, you know, took the took the time. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what do you risk your life in
Speaker 1: the Navy. That's a dangerous job, right because you're all
Speaker 1: the time, in any branch of the military, you risk
Speaker 1: your life, and girl, I'm glad you mentioned that, because
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about risking your life for your job
Speaker 1: a little bit later, though it's not right now, uh huh,
Speaker 1: because some people take on jobs that you supposed to
Speaker 1: rich your life for or y'all forget to do it.
Speaker 1: But we get to that. That's our last subject in
Speaker 1: the news this week, Lauren Hogan, What has happening the
Speaker 1: news this week? Let's go to the drama before we
Speaker 1: go to the tragedy. So the drama this week. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna comedian. I'm a stand up comedian by profession, and
Speaker 1: I know a lot of stand up comedians, including the
Speaker 1: two that have had a public spat this week, Deal
Speaker 1: Hugely and Monique about contracts dispute or the lineup of
Speaker 1: a show. It was so disheartened to see the back
Speaker 1: and forth. And I don't want to put my two
Speaker 1: cents in on how, I in on what because I
Speaker 1: feel like me and the other friends and I'm cool
Speaker 1: with Monique, so I don't have a I'm not picking
Speaker 1: a side because there's no side to pick. As a comedian,
Speaker 1: and as a black comedian that works in comedy clubs,
Speaker 1: I hate that displayed out like that, because I don't
Speaker 1: want an audience to think that that is what we
Speaker 1: do at the comedy clubs. We when you come to
Speaker 1: the comedy cluse, we're hoping to make you laugh, make
Speaker 1: you think, and take you out of whatever misery you've
Speaker 1: been going through your day or your week or what
Speaker 1: have you. I hate that that were so ugly and
Speaker 1: it got so disgrunt toed, But so many people have
Speaker 1: waged in, including Steve Harvey today who had a lot
Speaker 1: to say, and I thought his message was great. On
Speaker 1: what he said, it was pretty much don't get don't
Speaker 1: lose yourself because you think that you're more than what
Speaker 1: you are. It was a great message and I understood
Speaker 1: exactly what he's saying, because sometimes as an entertainer, or
Speaker 1: as a performer, or as a boss, whatever you do,
Speaker 1: you get too big headed and you get in your
Speaker 1: own way because you think that you run everything. You
Speaker 1: don't want to listen. You get on me about this
Speaker 1: sometimes too long. That gets so stuffing and starting in
Speaker 1: my way that I don't want to change up. And
Speaker 1: I'm and I hear you when you tell me that.
Speaker 1: So I've been down. But the way this exploded and unpacked.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I Monique like she went on a rampage.
Speaker 1: It was just like she was over the lineup. It
Speaker 1: was it was did you see it? I did. I
Speaker 1: saw it, and I saw the whole back and forth.
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I'm gonna just express my opinion.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Monique India or friends or what
Speaker 1: their relationship is. I don't know either one of them personally.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that it was appropriate for Monique
Speaker 1: to do what she did and just publicly bash him
Speaker 1: in the middle of a show where he still had
Speaker 1: to come out and perform. I didn't think that was okay.
Speaker 1: If she wanted to, you know, address it afterwards, maybe,
Speaker 1: but I just think that it goes to what people
Speaker 1: have been saying about her, just the lack of professionalism
Speaker 1: and you know her, you know, doing too much and
Speaker 1: being difficult to work with, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And she may feel as though she's the season it
Speaker 1: and she can do whatever she wants to at this
Speaker 1: point in her career. Sure, valid, you're entitled to your feelings,
Speaker 1: but I just don't think that it was cool to
Speaker 1: publicly bash deal and he still had to come on
Speaker 1: and perform at the end of the day, that just
Speaker 1: it wasn't cool in my opinion. Um, and I saw
Speaker 1: all the back and forth. You know, Deal ended up
Speaker 1: showing his deal memo from his agent, which is a
Speaker 1: very valid contract. I deal with artists and talent all
Speaker 1: the time. That is concrete because it's coming from your
Speaker 1: agency and if anything goes left, the agency is liable.
Speaker 1: It's not just the artist and her performance agreement was
Speaker 1: just from her media company, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And not to say that it wasn't a valid agreement.
Speaker 1: If you know, both parties signed a contract, that's still valid.
Speaker 1: But to try and say that a deal memo is
Speaker 1: not valid, it's it's not true. So um, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just it was a sad situation to see them
Speaker 1: are you in back and forth? But I I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just say Deal has a point. And yeah, I personally
Speaker 1: thought that Del's video from his radio show when he
Speaker 1: talked when he finally just let it loose, and I
Speaker 1: love the way he deciphered the entire situation. I love
Speaker 1: the way he even took responsibility and accountability for his
Speaker 1: part because what he said was I knew better and
Speaker 1: a lot of times we know better in our own
Speaker 1: psyches that all money ain't good money. And sometimes I
Speaker 1: just don't want to be and I don't want to
Speaker 1: do it because I know it might turn out and
Speaker 1: I hate to just turn out the deal. I hate
Speaker 1: the names that they called, that she called him and
Speaker 1: all of that. It was just not cool. I'm with
Speaker 1: you long, it was just not cool. And Monique just
Speaker 1: got like she they the world, they just opened up
Speaker 1: an opportunity for her with with BMF, and then she
Speaker 1: was on another show and they the world is looking
Speaker 1: like they're trying to that she made up with Lee Daniel,
Speaker 1: so the world looked like it's trying to bring her
Speaker 1: back into the phone to work and and and being
Speaker 1: back on TV and all of that. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe maybe maybe something
Speaker 1: else is going on. That's all I'm gonna say. I
Speaker 1: don't know, And now we don't go I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'll just say this, and Monique is incredibly talented,
Speaker 1: Like we're not about to sit up here and dispute
Speaker 1: her resume or just the way that she can deliver.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite movies that she's done was almost Christmas.
Speaker 1: That movie is hilarious and she's an integral character that
Speaker 1: makes everything so funny. Like I could watch that movie
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. And that was recent.
Speaker 1: That was just like I think, less than five years ago.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was five years ago. But she's a phenomenal talent.
Speaker 1: So I just hate that, you know, people keep coming
Speaker 1: at her and saying she's unprofessional based on you know,
Speaker 1: her reactions to things, and we're not gonna sit up
Speaker 1: here and act like there's not an equality excuse me
Speaker 1: in the worksplace, especially for black women, we always have
Speaker 1: to be ten times better, execute ten times better overall,
Speaker 1: we always have to do more to be recognized because
Speaker 1: that's the world that we live in. So not disputing
Speaker 1: that part that has she put in the work in
Speaker 1: absolutely and sometimes you know, the industry not fair, true,
Speaker 1: but you don't have to go after another black comic
Speaker 1: because your situation was not you know, what it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be, or if the promoter lied to you
Speaker 1: or whatever the situation was. I just don't think that
Speaker 1: it was cool for her to go after d L
Speaker 1: like that. Um And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it takes away from her talent because like I said,
Speaker 1: she she's phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. So the professionalism to me
Speaker 1: fell on DL spot because if you go on stage
Speaker 1: before me and destroyed me like she did with him,
Speaker 1: and I got to come behind you, and he didn't
Speaker 1: even address it. Baby, I'm telling you something that is
Speaker 1: a whole mess of a man to me because I
Speaker 1: probably have toy ass up hey and d n B.
Speaker 1: My thing is you as a comedian. You know your
Speaker 1: strengths and you know your weaknesses. There are some comics
Speaker 1: that you just know and you could be a season
Speaker 1: thirty year comedian, but you just know that you cannot follow.
Speaker 1: And do I think that d l's content is funnier. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I just think that Monique is more electrifying on stage
Speaker 1: because she's more physic cool and she's you know, she
Speaker 1: bounces around and she screams and yeah, so she's more electric.
Speaker 1: But Deal's content is funny. D L has more season comedy,
Speaker 1: and I wish they would have worked it out behind
Speaker 1: the scenes that say, hey, why don't you go first
Speaker 1: and let me follow you? Because but there was ego there,
Speaker 1: I believe. I don't know who's in, but there was
Speaker 1: definitely ego in the way. I mean, when are the
Speaker 1: headliners and who's closing the show? I mean that that's
Speaker 1: just the nature of the business. You always want to
Speaker 1: close the show because that just means that you're better,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that tends to be people remember
Speaker 1: the first thing in the last thing that they see.
Speaker 1: That's just you know, that's the saying. So if I'm
Speaker 1: a headliner, I absolutely want to close the show, you know,
Speaker 1: and everybody wants that top spot. So I get why
Speaker 1: there was a back and forth for sure, you know,
Speaker 1: because they're both season comments. But again, it didn't have
Speaker 1: to play off for the public to see. Y'all could
Speaker 1: have done that backstage. Something else could have happened. So
Speaker 1: I agree with you on something else could have happened.
Speaker 1: And we hope that they resolve this because as black
Speaker 1: working comedians, we want to continuously workdo works every weekend.
Speaker 1: He has booked at the Comedy Up every weekend and
Speaker 1: Monique is back doing her things. So I just pushed
Speaker 1: them both, uh love and peace, and I'm hoping they
Speaker 1: to watch this because ship we got shipped to do.
Speaker 1: We gotta go to work. We got to get to work,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to society think that black comics
Speaker 1: cannot get along because they love the holiday. Speaking of
Speaker 1: not getting along, what are we doing about these damn
Speaker 1: gun rights, Lauren? Good god, we have so many shootings
Speaker 1: just in this week alone. To this week has been
Speaker 1: one of those weeks where like I had to stop
Speaker 1: watching the news because it just it was like depressing.
Speaker 1: It was just so depressing to see one you valde,
Speaker 1: those nineteen beautiful kids being murdered and the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, the police and teachers and the two teachers too, yes,
Speaker 1: but it's just like it's the kids. Like these children
Speaker 1: had their whole lives ahead of them, and they were
Speaker 1: taken away because of a raged gunmen who was allowed
Speaker 1: to go out and buy buy an assault rifle who
Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to. And then the police didn't even
Speaker 1: go in and save these kids. They saved their own
Speaker 1: kids because some of the police officers had kids at
Speaker 1: that school. They went in and got their kids and
Speaker 1: allowed nineteen children to be murdered. So, and to be fair,
Speaker 1: apparently the nineteen officers that were in there outside of
Speaker 1: the classroom listening to these children being slaughter none of
Speaker 1: their kids were in there. The children that kids that
Speaker 1: were rescue came out the back of the school where
Speaker 1: the police were outside, and they broke out a window
Speaker 1: and pulled their kids out of winning and got their keys.
Speaker 1: But lowing to your point, your nineteen nineteen skilled police
Speaker 1: officers trained all kind of military weapons, body arm and
Speaker 1: everything were afraid and let's just say that word. They
Speaker 1: were afraid to bombard the room with one eighteen year old,
Speaker 1: no technical training, no military training, no police training, but
Speaker 1: two a R. Fifteens, and they were afraid because the
Speaker 1: one officer that did get shot, hand of condition. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I got shot. I got shot. You signed
Speaker 1: up for a job where that is part of the
Speaker 1: collateral damage for you, your job description. There is a
Speaker 1: possibility that you can get shot and killed on the
Speaker 1: job because your job is to serve and protect. They
Speaker 1: didn't do any of that. Nineteen police officers outside those
Speaker 1: rooms nineteen kids. Did one police officership been accounted before
Speaker 1: every kid that was murdered. Well, the other thing that
Speaker 1: I heard too is at the um the school police
Speaker 1: chief actually told them to stand down. So, UM, I
Speaker 1: don't know which side is true. I'm leaning towards the
Speaker 1: police chief sold them to stand down because he's also
Speaker 1: an under investigation now. And I understand if you get
Speaker 1: an order from your command leader, like my uncle is
Speaker 1: ex l A p D. My dad, you know, is
Speaker 1: second in command for l A f D. When you
Speaker 1: get a command from your superior officer, you do what
Speaker 1: they tell you to do. So my thing is, why
Speaker 1: did this you know, police chief tell his men to
Speaker 1: stand down and let these kids get murdered. There's been
Speaker 1: different stories saying like, oh, they thought that the gunman
Speaker 1: was you know, secured in the room and didn't realize
Speaker 1: he was in the room with the kids. None of
Speaker 1: it makes sense. But if this police chief really told
Speaker 1: all of his officers to stand down and allow those
Speaker 1: kids to be murdered, he needs to go to jail.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say. He needs to go to jail. Well,
Speaker 1: the police chief doesn't even want to talk down the
Speaker 1: story has changed from day one because I remember calling
Speaker 1: you when it first happened, and I told you that.
Speaker 1: And the original story was that they had the gunmen,
Speaker 1: They had the gunmen and custody. Ten minutes later he
Speaker 1: was dead. That's what the story that they sent down.
Speaker 1: It was so many stories about the door being unlocked,
Speaker 1: and then an officer approached him as he was going
Speaker 1: through the back door. That story has went away. The
Speaker 1: story changes by the hour you have left off. These
Speaker 1: parents with their children that are gone, Their children were murdered.
Speaker 1: They heard their children being slaughtered. Good God, I could
Speaker 1: not imagine that. And I command the parents that broke
Speaker 1: free and went in and got their children because you
Speaker 1: hear so many parents say, oh I da for man.
Speaker 1: Those people in your valley. Was trying to prove that.
Speaker 1: But the officers gave the parents opposition, gave them a
Speaker 1: hard time about going in, like they were going to
Speaker 1: them and tackle them to the ground and put one
Speaker 1: of them in handcuffs. Yes, like they were going to
Speaker 1: interrupt what was going on. Nothing was going on, But
Speaker 1: I was allowing this eighteen year old idiot coward to
Speaker 1: murder people. That's what was going on. They were going
Speaker 1: in to save their children because you all did not
Speaker 1: have the courage to do it. There should be nineteen
Speaker 1: job positions open for law enforcement in your valley, and
Speaker 1: the only job requirement should be that you need to
Speaker 1: go see the wizard because that nigga passed. Now. Courage
Speaker 1: because none of them had any well, like I said,
Speaker 1: and I won't never I won't never go to your valley,
Speaker 1: Texas because they're gonna hate me. Well, so I don't see.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that should be the case. Because again,
Speaker 1: if like I said, if that police she really gave
Speaker 1: him a command to stand down, I can't blame those
Speaker 1: nineteen officers for not going any of those kids. I
Speaker 1: don't blame them. Your human instinct have kicked in whenever matter,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. So if
Speaker 1: Sky was in the room, and Sky is your baby,
Speaker 1: if Scott was in the room locked up, and it
Speaker 1: was somebody crazy in there, and you know Scott and
Speaker 1: Sky is a dog, y'all for y'all think that somebody
Speaker 1: else guys that she sucking a doors. You know, Scots
Speaker 1: cried yea over anybody when you have win in that
Speaker 1: room to get your dog, because I know how much
Speaker 1: you would do it this animal me as a person,
Speaker 1: as a human. Yes, but I'm saying these the police
Speaker 1: officers specifically, if they're giving a specific command, you can
Speaker 1: get fired for overriding what your superior officer says to you.
Speaker 1: That's a fireball offense. So that's what I'm saying, I
Speaker 1: don't blow the firing over having to live with being
Speaker 1: a coward. I mean, I'm just saying I'm not holding
Speaker 1: them fully accountable. If that's what their commanding officers told them,
Speaker 1: was to stand down, and they were given information that
Speaker 1: this man was in a room and was so dued,
Speaker 1: I can't blame those nineteen officers. I have to blame
Speaker 1: that one of a commander. That's who I'm blaming. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Well, he he wasn't to do. He
Speaker 1: was still shooting and shooting and shooting. That want one
Speaker 1: they called nine one one more than once. I'm very
Speaker 1: well aware of the situation. I saw the timeline. But
Speaker 1: I'm saying from what the reports are saying and what's
Speaker 1: coming out, it was him. The police chief said stand down.
Speaker 1: He's been subdued. That's why they didn't move. If that's
Speaker 1: the truth. Because now yea, now he doesn't even want
Speaker 1: to talk that, he won't answer no reporters questions. He
Speaker 1: it is this. It is the ugliest situation to happen
Speaker 1: because they ate there with children, and I hate when
Speaker 1: they always hell it. We we don't get along with
Speaker 1: people were racist or just talking about people in general.
Speaker 1: I didn't know one person in your body, Texas. I
Speaker 1: didn't know one kid that was killed. But did that
Speaker 1: break my heart? Yes? It did because those were children.
Speaker 1: Even though the two of women that were murdered the teachers,
Speaker 1: because they said they tried to protect those kids. They did,
Speaker 1: some did he had to. Yeah, they did protect those kids.
Speaker 1: And I think what's even worse is Irma Garcia's husband
Speaker 1: died the next day literally of a broken heart because
Speaker 1: she was murdered. So the whole situation is just it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: And then I saw photos yesterday of the baby's caskets
Speaker 1: and that just took me out and I had to
Speaker 1: change the channel company. Shout out to that casket company
Speaker 1: that donated those cats and made those caskets personal. I
Speaker 1: thought that was beautiful. I hate that that just was
Speaker 1: the situation, but I appreciate that they made those caskets
Speaker 1: personal for however, whatever that particular kid was great. I
Speaker 1: saw a dinosaur one, I saw some superhero one one.
Speaker 1: I thought that was so great because that just it
Speaker 1: just helped the family hopefully put them out a little easy.
Speaker 1: I don't know the depth of a kid, and I
Speaker 1: hope I never know, the death of one of my children.
Speaker 1: I hope my children bury me because I don't think
Speaker 1: I wish if I have that pain neither. I would
Speaker 1: be like the man. I would probably have a heart
Speaker 1: attack of that. Yeah, it's just overall, it's just sad.
Speaker 1: And then today there's a shooting in Tulsa, oaklad Homa.
Speaker 1: There was a shooting, and you know in Laguna Woods
Speaker 1: here in California. It's just the level of gun violence
Speaker 1: is happening across the country is just it's ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: I've seen stats too that says more um, teenagers and
Speaker 1: children die by gun violence in a year than any
Speaker 1: other cause, any other whether it's not a car accident,
Speaker 1: it's not a drug overdose, kids die more often due
Speaker 1: to gun violence, children and teenagers. It is the It
Speaker 1: is the crush that they are using, Lauren, is that
Speaker 1: they're saying that everybody has been locked up for two
Speaker 1: years and we have mental illness. But mental illness was
Speaker 1: here long before the pandemic. It just wasn't addressed. And
Speaker 1: I do understand that people have been cooped up. They
Speaker 1: gave a lot of people a lot of time to
Speaker 1: realize that I am not okay. But this is not
Speaker 1: how you fix it. You go to therapy, you talk
Speaker 1: to somebody professional to help you find your way of
Speaker 1: get I'm out the darkness. I don't understand it. I
Speaker 1: don't want to understand it. But I tell you what, Lauren,
Speaker 1: self preservation is the first line of nature. I ain't
Speaker 1: the baddest on the earth, but a damn sure ain't
Speaker 1: the scariest. I'm hoping that in the situation is in Walmart,
Speaker 1: I'm in Walmart, I'm paranoida's hell, I'm looking at people.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at people if they got on the extra coat,
Speaker 1: or they're looking at me crazy if they look This
Speaker 1: is the fear that we're living in because where church,
Speaker 1: grocery store. They had a shooting at a Xavier University
Speaker 1: the other day they killed the grandmother. They had a
Speaker 1: shooting at the graduation, Lauren. And in Louisiana's You're not
Speaker 1: safe anywhere purchased a cemetery, a graduation. Nothing is safe. Well,
Speaker 1: that's also too why I refused to go to a
Speaker 1: movie theater now, because I just don't feel safe and
Speaker 1: I'm always on edge and I can't enjoy a movie
Speaker 1: anymore because of those things. But yeah, I just, uh,
Speaker 1: it's just it's sad. Like I said, I've been sad
Speaker 1: this whole week. Um, you know, and I'm I'm it's
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to say that mental illness can't
Speaker 1: be a contributing factor, but it just it pisces me off.
Speaker 1: When you know, if, first of all, people of color
Speaker 1: tend to really not commit Matt's murders, it is the
Speaker 1: white people. Um, you Valde Texas was you know, it
Speaker 1: was the same Salvador Ramos, he was the Tino. But
Speaker 1: we all the the narrative is always when it's a
Speaker 1: white person, it's mental health or he was mentally ill,
Speaker 1: he had something wrong with him. We should be praying
Speaker 1: for him, we should be you know, wishing him the like. No,
Speaker 1: but if it's a black person, or they're a terrorists,
Speaker 1: or if it's somebody who's an Arab, they're a terrorists.
Speaker 1: They're committing domestic terrorism in our country. Stop using mental
Speaker 1: health and as an excuse for these crazy white people.
Speaker 1: Stop it. Calling spadeus absolutely not. He was not mentally ill.
Speaker 1: He was just faing. He was smart enough to go
Speaker 1: on that day and about two weapons when he said
Speaker 1: the story that they leaked was that he was he was,
Speaker 1: uh what you call it, were harassed because of his clothing.
Speaker 1: He was. He took two thousand dollars and when it's
Speaker 1: spent on weapons to kill people, you could have went
Speaker 1: to Walmart and brought you some clothes. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: also too, shot his grandmother that morning as well. So
Speaker 1: I will say, though I don't feel no pity for him.
Speaker 1: I hope the devil got a pitchfork of his ass,
Speaker 1: twisted it with coronavirus and monkey poks, and anybody don't
Speaker 1: like it, I don't care. It's very I don't like
Speaker 1: the fact that I don't like the fact that people
Speaker 1: were murdered senselessly because you were angry, and if you
Speaker 1: was bullied in high school, because it still ain't made
Speaker 1: sense to me if you were bullied in high school.
Speaker 1: Not to say that you should shoot up any school,
Speaker 1: but why don't you going to shoot up to them
Speaker 1: babies that the elementary school? Right, I will cowards. I
Speaker 1: will say though, in terms of I don't even know
Speaker 1: to call it justice. I'll just say that I'm happy
Speaker 1: that as of today, the Buffalo, New York shooter, I'm
Speaker 1: at the top groceries. He was given a domestic terrorism
Speaker 1: charge as a part of his ten counts, So I
Speaker 1: was actually very happy to see the they actually indicted
Speaker 1: him on a domestic terrorism charge because that's exactly what
Speaker 1: he committed. So I hope that he's convicted in place
Speaker 1: in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: please take him out, Please take him out of his misery.
Speaker 1: So the story for um for Oklahoma is this was
Speaker 1: a black man who shot up the who killed four
Speaker 1: people at the medical center. He killed the doctor because
Speaker 1: he said the doctor gave him about surgery and he's
Speaker 1: been in excruciating back pain the entire time. The other
Speaker 1: three people were just one of them was just a
Speaker 1: patient and the other two actually worked at the hospital.
Speaker 1: One was an assistant and one was another doctor, I believe,
Speaker 1: and they were just there. It was they were collateral damage.
Speaker 1: It was just it's so sad, lord, and it's so scary.
Speaker 1: And you don't think that's because you're going to the
Speaker 1: grocery store to the doctor's office, so, you know, just
Speaker 1: our regular routine in life. You don't think that you're
Speaker 1: going in there for that. But now you have to
Speaker 1: really stay focused on who's coming in and what's going
Speaker 1: on around you. The whole world gonna have to have
Speaker 1: better to take this everywhere in the minute. Yeah, honestly
Speaker 1: at this point, and it might just being everybody's best interest.
Speaker 1: But you know, some of my friends make fun of
Speaker 1: me because I'm a bit of a homebody, but shoot,
Speaker 1: my house at this point is the safest place I
Speaker 1: can be. So because I have um as you would
Speaker 1: call it, hand jewelry in my house, So my house
Speaker 1: is then the safest place I can be at this point,
Speaker 1: because it's scary to go outside, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: people are crazy and just I don't know what it's
Speaker 1: come to. And let me have lawmakers who actually don't
Speaker 1: want to put in any type of legislation for gun
Speaker 1: safety because I'm not even calling it gun control because
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just don't feel like that's appropriate enough.
Speaker 1: It's just gun safety. At this point, we have to
Speaker 1: look at the safety of our well being because I
Speaker 1: don't feel like gun control is just it's not good enough.
Speaker 1: It needs to be gun safety. And we've got these
Speaker 1: Republican lawmakers who are getting backed by the n r
Speaker 1: A and getting millions of dollars from them. They don't
Speaker 1: want to say anything about it. Greg Abit, for instance,
Speaker 1: day is introducing legislation for the state of Texas around
Speaker 1: safety and there's nothing about the safety in there. Nothing.
Speaker 1: And he just had the incident about the Texas and
Speaker 1: and the governor of Texas, Greg Evit is just he
Speaker 1: came out wrong. I love that bettle 'roor put him
Speaker 1: in a box right there. They escorted him out, but
Speaker 1: he came out wrong and he said he was told last.
Speaker 1: But there's so many lass with that story lawin It's
Speaker 1: just I wish that Joe Biden, who's the President of
Speaker 1: the United States, were just pushing executive order. I'm tired
Speaker 1: of him about where his hands attack that. Damn Donald
Speaker 1: Trump pushed an executive order every other week. His hands
Speaker 1: were not tad. He did what he wanted to do,
Speaker 1: and I know he had to send it on his side,
Speaker 1: but damn it. Something has to give. Laan while y'all
Speaker 1: keeps selling these weapons of mass destructions to unbalanced, under
Speaker 1: age keats because he you're at eighteen, Your man ain't
Speaker 1: even right. You don't even know what the hell you know.
Speaker 1: You're crazy. Yeah, And then on the other hand. You
Speaker 1: got Canada and Justin Trudeau who's putting a free ease
Speaker 1: on all all weapons, all of them, all firearms. You
Speaker 1: won't be able to get a gun in care And
Speaker 1: you know what what made me feel happy long but
Speaker 1: said at the same time today, so I'm watching the
Speaker 1: Queen's jubileeue because the most famous women on a planet,
Speaker 1: which is Queen Elizabeth, they just celebrate herby in seventy
Speaker 1: years on the monarchy. Thousands of people out there in England, thousands,
Speaker 1: nobody worried about guns being massed student because they have
Speaker 1: control over their guns in England. In the UK, we don't.
Speaker 1: We just reckless. Here in the United States, thousands of
Speaker 1: people out loving each other, hug and camping, not worried
Speaker 1: about something like this. We can't even put twenty people together.
Speaker 1: And and it's a shooting in this country, United States.
Speaker 1: For us to be the supposed richest country on the
Speaker 1: America in the world, we are the poorest when it
Speaker 1: comes to love and with hate and racism and and
Speaker 1: fear fear. We can also take it a step further
Speaker 1: and say that in the UK they actually know how
Speaker 1: to disarm a person with a gun without shooting them
Speaker 1: something that we still have yet to figure out when
Speaker 1: it comes to shooting unarmed black people. Um, in the UK,
Speaker 1: they know how to disarm suspects that actually have guns
Speaker 1: on them without excessive force. So we could always take
Speaker 1: a page out of Yeah, I'm not saying this as
Speaker 1: a joke, but I'm saying it as a joke and
Speaker 1: as real we they know how to disarm the subjects
Speaker 1: here too, in view black. They just shot a black
Speaker 1: woman in St. Louis two days ago, pregnant, shot at
Speaker 1: five times in the back. She lived, she was compliant,
Speaker 1: she had her hands up, no weapons. They shot at
Speaker 1: five times in the back just because her skin was
Speaker 1: mailing it. I did hear though that she was trying
Speaker 1: to steal a car. It was a car jack and
Speaker 1: gone wrong, not justifying her being shot, and she was unarmed,
Speaker 1: she was pregnant, but she was in the middle of
Speaker 1: committing a crime, So that's what I read. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's changed, but um, that still doesn't
Speaker 1: give an excuse. But to your point, but I did
Speaker 1: read about that as well. Um, I just say, like
Speaker 1: the state of the world is just sad. It's just
Speaker 1: really sad. I'm not like it's sad to be just
Speaker 1: in this space right now. However, I will say I
Speaker 1: am proud to be a Californian right now. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw. I am proud to be living
Speaker 1: in the state of California, and I am happy for
Speaker 1: the governor that I have and Gavin Newsom, and I
Speaker 1: will be voting for him on June seven for his election.
Speaker 1: Um now that's the mayor election, but anyway, when Gavin's
Speaker 1: news selections happens for governor, I'll be voting for him again.
Speaker 1: But the task force that he assembled for reparations for
Speaker 1: black folks is actually they created a five hundred page
Speaker 1: document that they're submitting to the legislature about how slavery
Speaker 1: and being enslaved has had grotesque trauma and effects on
Speaker 1: black people. And that was his committee that he is
Speaker 1: sent for his task force that he assembled. So they're
Speaker 1: doing the work. So I'm just that was actually a
Speaker 1: piece of joy that you know, was brought to me
Speaker 1: today when I read that article. So very happy to
Speaker 1: be um of the state of California. California. I ain't
Speaker 1: probably my gas prices, but I'm probably be a California
Speaker 1: right now too. That ain't gotten into the with my governor.
Speaker 1: The gas prices. We need to blame Joe for that too.
Speaker 1: I ain't blaming my governor for that. I say, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm not proud of these haghs gas prices. But
Speaker 1: what I like about news what he has made the
Speaker 1: state of California also a safe haven for if they
Speaker 1: overturn this road versus way uh uh mandate, because California
Speaker 1: is a safe place. You can still come here and
Speaker 1: have an abortion and not be looked at Jewish or
Speaker 1: treated unfairly. So thank God for California what this is
Speaker 1: looking like. But I was listening to Vice President Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris speak earlier today and when she was talking about
Speaker 1: the road, the road is really just she was saying
Speaker 1: that road, not the way. The road is really just
Speaker 1: a form of control. It really is still a form
Speaker 1: of control. After all these years, they still want to
Speaker 1: control a certain demographic of people. All Roll versus Wade is.
Speaker 1: If anybody really needs to understand the intent behind it,
Speaker 1: please just watch Handmaids too. Just watch Handmads too. You'll
Speaker 1: get it. That's all it is. It's just an extreme
Speaker 1: version of what our country would be like, and I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to have a flamet's that we don't have anything
Speaker 1: like up beating positive to just embarked on this week
Speaker 1: because things have been so hectic. So before we leave,
Speaker 1: let us close with something Okay, So, Junie Levin, I
Speaker 1: will be in Auburn, New York at the Other Theater,
Speaker 1: Uh You Last Second with t F at Joe, Tommy Davidson,
Speaker 1: and Tony Robberts, in Chicago at the Rose Mint and
Speaker 1: June the twenty nine, I'll be in Chicago at the
Speaker 1: Battime Show Lounge for my friends Tony's birthday. I'm hosting
Speaker 1: that show. I hope that everyone is safe. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that if you are legal, that you have your legal
Speaker 1: paperwork to get your gun license, because the way that
Speaker 1: the world is is shaping up and it is facing
Speaker 1: and it's and I'm not pouring anything into the world.
Speaker 1: I just want everybody to have something and just in
Speaker 1: case anything goes left or goes a ride, that you
Speaker 1: have some form of protection to keep your fakes, to
Speaker 1: keep your family safe. Because I hear so many people
Speaker 1: say I don't like guns, I don't want to touch
Speaker 1: a gun, but I need more people to God, start
Speaker 1: going to gun training and gun um gun range is
Speaker 1: to learn how to properly equip yourself for whatever happens
Speaker 1: in this country because you need to be ready for
Speaker 1: anything that happens, because you can't go to the gun
Speaker 1: range on the day that it happens. You need to
Speaker 1: be prepared already. That's my message, Lauren. Lauren asked, got
Speaker 1: one you know? No, I've got you said, shoot, I'm
Speaker 1: going to the gun range next week, So I encourage you.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's like a double edged sword because
Speaker 1: it's like we have to protect ourselves at this point
Speaker 1: because there's so many crazy people in the world at
Speaker 1: this point in tire not even in the world, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say America, because we're the We're the country that's
Speaker 1: in shambles right now. There's so many crazy people in
Speaker 1: America that it's just important for you to know and
Speaker 1: to have a gun at this point in your life
Speaker 1: because you just have to protect yourself. A knife is
Speaker 1: not going to stop a bullet, a bat is not
Speaker 1: gonna stop a bullet, So you gotta arm yourself to
Speaker 1: make sure that you can stay safe. That's that's where
Speaker 1: we are at this point. And it's sad, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this. That's not gonna stop anything. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: stop a bullet. So it's it's unfortunately they are going
Speaker 1: to get amma. Honestly, it's stop going to get labels
Speaker 1: and go get you some amma. Yeah. So here, laugh
Speaker 1: and learn. We have a saying, and we're never trying
Speaker 1: to get anybody to change your mind. We're simply just
Speaker 1: trying to get you to use your mind because of
Speaker 1: wi flame. In order to use your man, you have
Speaker 1: to have one. And we want you to be comfortable
Speaker 1: with the decisions that you make, not that somebody else
Speaker 1: makes for you. You need to be comfortable with the
Speaker 1: decisions that you make over your life. Speak positivity, speak joy,
Speaker 1: speak safety, insanity, and remember that self preservation is the
Speaker 1: first of all nature. You are responsible for protecting you
Speaker 1: and yours Because on the plane where they tell you
Speaker 1: put your mask on first, then put on your keys man,
Speaker 1: uh huh. And the last thing I'll just say is
Speaker 1: I just want to encourage everybody to please exercise your
Speaker 1: right to vote. Um, there's a lot of elections happening
Speaker 1: right now. You know, Stacy Abrams is officially the Democratic
Speaker 1: nominee for Georgia. I need you all to turn out
Speaker 1: for her like y'all did for Joe and make sure
Speaker 1: that she gets elected and gets her spot that she
Speaker 1: deserved four years ago that was stolen from her. And Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of black candidates that are running that
Speaker 1: I'm you know, just proud to see. Um, there's a
Speaker 1: candidate in Texas, Uh, Georgia. Yeah, there's a candidate in Kentucky.
Speaker 1: He's running for the U. S. Senate nominees name is
Speaker 1: Charles Booker. He's trying to take Rand Paul's seat, and
Speaker 1: he had a really powerful message. Um, it's gotten some
Speaker 1: you know, mixed feelings. He had a noose around his
Speaker 1: neck in the actual video that he did, But honestly,
Speaker 1: it was well received with me and I liked it.
Speaker 1: It was powerful. It wasn't done in bad taste. He
Speaker 1: was sending a message that my ancestors were lynched and
Speaker 1: Rand Paul voted against the Anti Lynching Act that finally
Speaker 1: was passed. So please get out exercise the right to vote.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of great candidates in various states
Speaker 1: across the country on the ballot, and we really need
Speaker 1: to just get the right people in office, So please
Speaker 1: go out and vote. It's important. Yea. That was great
Speaker 1: to the end the online because you know we've been
Speaker 1: pushing that on laughing line and I don't know how
Speaker 1: long if anybody tells you yet your vote does not count.
Speaker 1: And the words of my beautiful co host Lawren, if
Speaker 1: your vote didn't count, they would be trained so hard
Speaker 1: to make your vote disappear. Get your behind up and
Speaker 1: go to the poll please, it's important, is very important.
Speaker 1: And if you're afraid to go to the polls, they
Speaker 1: got mail in ballots everywhere. Man your battlety so and
Speaker 1: thank you for the information. And I know we had
Speaker 1: a slow week, flame Mask. We appreciate you. We know
Speaker 1: we've been a little all over the place in the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. But the world is all over
Speaker 1: the place. We're just playing the hand that we've been there.
Speaker 1: Let's say we all feel like Mr Crabs these days
Speaker 1: show all right? Thank you, and Kendall did come to
Speaker 1: film today, so we appreciated Kendall. Uh, thank you, Aaron,
Speaker 1: our producer Lauren. I will see you on Monday, dear,
Speaker 1: because Lauren is leaving on Monday and I'm leaving on
Speaker 1: you're leaving on Wednesday. I leave on Thursday, right, but yes,
Speaker 1: I will see you on Monday. We'll be doing an
Speaker 1: in person Laugh and Learn and back to our regular
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