Speaker 1: Love while laugh while if you watch coffee time, the
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Speaker 1: the grown a second. We're gonna last kind of the
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Speaker 1: a lifted spirits make you want to revisit, so your
Speaker 1: first take a listen, young folks say it's lit old
Speaker 1: folks that we take it to he' no do don't
Speaker 1: do what you don't? No kiss, do what I do?
Speaker 1: You Flame? Hey, hey, welcome to laugh and learn with
Speaker 1: your host Flame Monroe and my beautiful partner. What's your name?
Speaker 1: You got jukes today already? Okay, Lauren Hogan with my
Speaker 1: baby Laura Hogan. We're here today, you guys. And we
Speaker 1: know we didn't take on Monday because we had some
Speaker 1: things going on. What do we have going on? Lord? Lord?
Speaker 1: Beat me y'all with a whip in a chair. I
Speaker 1: probably she was a lion taer. You gotta stop with
Speaker 1: these abuse allegations. People are really going to think that
Speaker 1: I hit you. It's the truth. Why would you know
Speaker 1: what lies? All lies? Know? Somebody was participating in the
Speaker 1: Netflix as a joke festival, so I had to go
Speaker 1: put my other hat on and play manager on Monday
Speaker 1: and support my client at the Hollywood Improv in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: So yes, she did come out with my baby Christina
Speaker 1: and and we had a good time. I think, what
Speaker 1: do you think we have a good time. You did
Speaker 1: a really good job. I I you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll let you know when you do bad, but you
Speaker 1: know i'll let you know when you do really good.
Speaker 1: You did an excellent job. I definitely got to give
Speaker 1: your props. It was funny, it was engaging, all of
Speaker 1: the above. It was good. And let me tell y'all something.
Speaker 1: What she just said was not not the part about
Speaker 1: me being good, but the part about if I ain't good.
Speaker 1: Oh this healf activity. I want to tell you that
Speaker 1: part of my job. I gotta be honest with you. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: you know the clause in your contract. Shut the funk up. Hey,
Speaker 1: you needed somebody to match your energy, so you met
Speaker 1: your match, right, Oh my god. Heah, it is too funny.
Speaker 1: Still week Um, lots going on in the world this
Speaker 1: week long, We're don't get right to it because it's
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Speaker 1: we have been getting your messages that you all don't
Speaker 1: want it long. Y'all wanted short and tight. I wanted type,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how short I wanted. Oh we're
Speaker 1: talking about this? Okay, wait a minute, Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: So where were going? I was gonna ask the same question.
Speaker 1: Let's how about we start light and end on a
Speaker 1: serious note. Does that sound good? I like it? I
Speaker 1: like it? Well? Can we start lighting funny or lighting heavy? No?
Speaker 1: Lighting funny? Let's talk about your girl with Brooks. Donna Brooks,
Speaker 1: the trans woman who has outed been Zeno two weeks
Speaker 1: ago and then went on three or four different news publications,
Speaker 1: including one of her best girlfriends, Angela Stands and King
Speaker 1: and said nothing ever happened, but sex sexually ever happened
Speaker 1: between them, nothing ever transpired. She still on that, she said,
Speaker 1: and there was because she didn't want anything to happen.
Speaker 1: But then you make a dis track to come out
Speaker 1: and it is me. I don't know, ye confused? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're you with me both? No. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the part that's kind of baffled me because I definitely
Speaker 1: saw an interview of her saying that nothing happened between
Speaker 1: them sexually, but that via text, you know, Benzino was
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, make sexual advances towards her via
Speaker 1: X but nothing happened physically between them. So if you
Speaker 1: won't come out with a distract, I don't know, the
Speaker 1: story keeps changing. Well, here's my thing. And so many
Speaker 1: people are so thirsty for their fifteen minutes. Getting fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes and how you get fifteen minutes are very two,
Speaker 1: two very different reasons, two very different things. Because I
Speaker 1: want my fifteen minutes too, I want longer, I want
Speaker 1: two hours, I want a lifetime, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to get it by hurting somebody else's life or career.
Speaker 1: It is really messed up. And I'm not even speaking
Speaker 1: on behalf of Benzino because I'm so sick of me
Speaker 1: and saying that women, food and whatever. Trans men who
Speaker 1: are attracted to trans women will not stop being attracted
Speaker 1: to trans women. There is an itch that needs to
Speaker 1: be scratched. That scratch won't stop, That itch won't stop
Speaker 1: until you scratch it. What she has done, in my
Speaker 1: my eyes, is because you did this, men will still
Speaker 1: be attracted to trans women. But on the flip side
Speaker 1: of it, they'll feel like, oh, let me make sure
Speaker 1: that you don't tell nobody else. Now. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that completely entails, but in my head it's like,
Speaker 1: you're gonna disappear. I'm gonna silence you forever because I
Speaker 1: can't risk I can't run the risk of you ending
Speaker 1: my career, making my children look at me sideways, my
Speaker 1: wife divorcing me. Uh. The cancel culture is out of control.
Speaker 1: So if you put out that I'm laid up with
Speaker 1: a trans woman, I could lose my position. It is.
Speaker 1: It is such a dangerous and deadly and scary game,
Speaker 1: but they keep playing the same game and they keep saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: she fooled me, She fooled me, Lauren, you're a woman,
Speaker 1: you twenties, five years old. Six. I guarantee you know
Speaker 1: the difference between the penis and a vagina, So I
Speaker 1: can they can say all that she could be. It's
Speaker 1: pretty she wanted to you open them legs up, because
Speaker 1: most men who gonna have sex with a woman want
Speaker 1: to look at it. Touches smelling. Most men do the
Speaker 1: finger and the sniff test. So you ain't gonna sniff that. Look,
Speaker 1: I've produces on the land. Errand he's straight. I don't
Speaker 1: think do the sniff test. Air. You can wait in uh.
Speaker 1: And the women and they keep saying, they keep blaming,
Speaker 1: want to blame me and whether me and had a choice.
Speaker 1: So did the trans woman. She had a choice. If
Speaker 1: you know that this man is not going to walk
Speaker 1: down the street with you and hold your hand, take
Speaker 1: you to the family barbecue, introduce you to his kids
Speaker 1: and his mama, ain't the relation. The relationship is going
Speaker 1: to stay under the road because that's what the society
Speaker 1: has put them. It's a rarity that you found a
Speaker 1: man that will boldly be with a trans worman whether
Speaker 1: she's passible or not, and Nane times out of team
Speaker 1: if he would want, he's sucking on Nane other ones
Speaker 1: and that's just the god on this truth. They're called
Speaker 1: trendy chasers. Mhm. I mean the whole situation is definitely
Speaker 1: giving side trick syndrome to me, because it's pretty much
Speaker 1: the same situation even if it was you know, a
Speaker 1: heterosexual man and like, you know, a girl that he
Speaker 1: had on the side, same situation. You know, he's keeping
Speaker 1: you in the shadows if he's got you know, a
Speaker 1: main situation happening. So but you know it's not this,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if it's as extreme
Speaker 1: is like you know, fatal attraction kind of thing that
Speaker 1: you're describing flame how you know trans women won't be
Speaker 1: safe anymore in some of these situations. I hope that
Speaker 1: doesn't become the case. But I feel like she's just
Speaker 1: doing a lot and the just the math is not mathing.
Speaker 1: So the scary parties because they keep saying trans women
Speaker 1: of color are dying, they're not saying what trans women
Speaker 1: are dying. They keep saying trans women of color, So
Speaker 1: why are they not killing the trans women of color?
Speaker 1: But not killing the white trans women. Guess what, the
Speaker 1: white trans women ain't exposing nobody. That is not your
Speaker 1: story to tell. That is not your story to tell.
Speaker 1: And as soon as the girl's realize your story is
Speaker 1: your story, Yeah, well I hope she gets it right
Speaker 1: because it's conflicting, uh information, So I hope you get
Speaker 1: is that the word we're using is that the way
Speaker 1: we're using conflicting? How about beat your lying and I
Speaker 1: used it is walking? It is walking us back was long.
Speaker 1: It is walking us backwards because every time we think
Speaker 1: that moving the needle, we're moving it backwards for them.
Speaker 1: Just like with the whole trans woman that they put
Speaker 1: in Rikers. They they never showed a picture of the
Speaker 1: trans woman that they put on the female sale of
Speaker 1: Rikers and he raped or she raped a female inmate.
Speaker 1: Enough is enough. That is walking us backwards, that is
Speaker 1: making us So when a beautiful, passible trans woman is
Speaker 1: arrested who still has her biological penis um, you just
Speaker 1: now instead of putting her with the women, because she
Speaker 1: may not be at all trans women will not have
Speaker 1: sex with a woman. She might be one of those
Speaker 1: words that just won't. But if y'all put her with
Speaker 1: the me and the men are gonna destroy her, They
Speaker 1: are going to rip her apart. And it's true, but
Speaker 1: y'all did that with all this identity thing again, like
Speaker 1: I said, but the identity, it's how you feel. Sexuality
Speaker 1: is what you desire. But gender is a fact. And
Speaker 1: I know I get my ass hands in to me
Speaker 1: about that, but I know that they between a stick
Speaker 1: and a stone. Hopefully they do too long. I know
Speaker 1: that sounds brash, but that that that is what the
Speaker 1: problem is. We have made it so difficult. It's so great.
Speaker 1: It don't have to be this great. And now there
Speaker 1: are awesome circumstances where things can be different chromosomes and hormones,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, it's not. And y'all making
Speaker 1: it difficult. We are we are going back with girl.
Speaker 1: Okay us Benzino and he knows so many people. He
Speaker 1: has already threatened this woman's life. He's already put out
Speaker 1: a threat on her publicly. Yeah, yeah, it is well well,
Speaker 1: staying in the lane of uh. You know, our trans community.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about isaially Isaiali Uh attacked Dave Chappelle on
Speaker 1: stage the other night in the middle of his comedy
Speaker 1: set a transmar I thought that's what you said, or
Speaker 1: he is a part of the no, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's probably here. But when day when he wos,
Speaker 1: they came back and said it wasn't trans man. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if he said as a joke or
Speaker 1: was it true. But according to Isaiah Lee's profile, it
Speaker 1: doesn't give a gender. There's no pronoun, so we don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh he's non binary. Oh that don't explain that to me.
Speaker 1: Lohen you worked for a major age Nope, we're not
Speaker 1: getting into that. No, because if I stay wrong, I'm
Speaker 1: getting in trouble. So I'm gonna just keep my mouth
Speaker 1: shut on that note. But yes, Dave Chappelle was attacked
Speaker 1: on stage in the middle of his set, and um
Speaker 1: his security They might have been, as you know, quick
Speaker 1: to get to Isaia Lee. But when I tell you
Speaker 1: the way that his arm was twisted on that stretcher, Uh,
Speaker 1: it looked like they took the arm off and put
Speaker 1: it back on back. Was didn't It looked like a
Speaker 1: mannequin's arm, you know, when you don't put it on
Speaker 1: right and it's all twisted and messed up. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: looked very disfigured. So it was wild. It was wild
Speaker 1: and and and I'm hearing some publications on how the
Speaker 1: security wasn't fast enough. And know who would have expected
Speaker 1: somebody to run on stage at the Hollywood Bowl, people
Speaker 1: in the Audies, all these major alist celebrities. My question is,
Speaker 1: how did he get a weapon through? Because don't they
Speaker 1: have metal detectives and all of that foolishness at the thing.
Speaker 1: How did he get that through? But even though getting
Speaker 1: that through, I'm so glad, like you said that the
Speaker 1: security active because he actually tackled Dave, he knocked Day down.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, it was definitely giving linebacker somebody He's not
Speaker 1: down because it was unexpected. You know, he wasn't a
Speaker 1: tall guy. But we're also what wasn't unexpected was them
Speaker 1: hammers that they put on his ass because they say
Speaker 1: Jamie Fox was the first one to grab. I'm like,
Speaker 1: y'all know Jamie Hood, everybody from Texas hood. But what
Speaker 1: do you think about the whole situation, because like we've
Speaker 1: seen things where people are like, oh, you know, comedians
Speaker 1: have to have this heightened sense of security now and
Speaker 1: you know, safety around these things are going to change.
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel, you know, being a
Speaker 1: comedian in the industry. As a comedian in the industry,
Speaker 1: it does give me a wall, not a wall of fear,
Speaker 1: but a wall of urgency too. Now and the words
Speaker 1: of T. T J And which is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite flame mats, to keep my head on the swivel.
Speaker 1: But do you know how hard that's going to be
Speaker 1: when I'm on stage in the dark room, because most
Speaker 1: comedy clubs are dark and step for the license and
Speaker 1: blinding you in your ass and you really can't see
Speaker 1: pass the front two rows. Okay, okay, I can't see
Speaker 1: pass the rovers two rows, and so you won't see
Speaker 1: somebody out of your peripheral or audio blind side run
Speaker 1: up on you. And they can have a weapon, they
Speaker 1: can have anything. And I usually don't go after my audience.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much talking to you. But if you if
Speaker 1: you heck on me, I heck on you back, but
Speaker 1: quick and sharp and over not. My whole set is
Speaker 1: not built on heckling my audience. It is going to
Speaker 1: make the responsibility of the comedians, UH really have to
Speaker 1: step up to read the room, which we should be
Speaker 1: doing anyway, but now we're going to really have to
Speaker 1: see but lord, you don't at the crisis that we
Speaker 1: are in right now, with so many people battling mental
Speaker 1: illness and uh separation, anxiety from the coronavirus and from
Speaker 1: from us being stuck in house. People are like a
Speaker 1: powder cave, and any little thing you will make them expode.
Speaker 1: I could say something about an autistic he now you've
Speaker 1: got an autistic joke, girl, somebody could be an autist
Speaker 1: or snap at me. And I don't know as and
Speaker 1: I and I was explaining to the air and I
Speaker 1: produced it before we came on live. I'm hope nobody
Speaker 1: don't run up at me because I don't know what
Speaker 1: I would do. I don't I know who I am,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what I would do and in
Speaker 1: what situation? And would I go too far? Would they
Speaker 1: go too far? I don't know. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to be put to the test. I don't want I
Speaker 1: don't want to fail that test because I may fail
Speaker 1: that test. Not to reaction. If you touch me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fight you back. I don't care who you are,
Speaker 1: what color you are, what side you are, what race,
Speaker 1: what sexuality, what gender, non binary, repair, sexual skillless crop
Speaker 1: pots at all of you get buffed to the face
Speaker 1: and do you think that page what do you think
Speaker 1: that this is gonna cause censorship when it comes to comedians,
Speaker 1: because you know, comedy is supposed to be about your
Speaker 1: lived experience, says you know, what's going on in the
Speaker 1: real world. So you know, we just had this whole
Speaker 1: incident with Chris Rock and Will Smith, and Chris Rock
Speaker 1: even made a little joke after they was attacked, you know,
Speaker 1: calling said person Will Smith. Um, do you think the
Speaker 1: censorship is gonna, you know, be a bigger part of
Speaker 1: the comedy scene now, yes, because I think they have
Speaker 1: been working on it. Anyway, it depends, and I think
Speaker 1: it's going to depend on whether areno or what club
Speaker 1: that you're working in, because again it goes back to
Speaker 1: the responsibility of the comics. So I could do three
Speaker 1: shows in the night with three different audiences and tell
Speaker 1: horrible Trump jokes. So if it's a black audience they
Speaker 1: don't like Trump, they're gonna buy it. If it's a
Speaker 1: white audience and the Trump supporters, I have to know
Speaker 1: how to reword that joke to where it can still
Speaker 1: be funny and not so offensive. So because like his
Speaker 1: people are really eat you know, I ain't know about him,
Speaker 1: so it is the responsibility and I'm side of people
Speaker 1: blaming will Smith. Will Smith did not open this can
Speaker 1: of worms. People have been coming on the stage attacking
Speaker 1: comics long before now. It was just on a major
Speaker 1: platform that we actually saw it. He usually was on
Speaker 1: the comedy clubs and we would see it on the
Speaker 1: internet or something. But we watched this in real time.
Speaker 1: But we also watched George Floyd that in real time
Speaker 1: and ain't talking about that now. Mo. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it is gonna be interesting, and I hope to your point, well,
Speaker 1: I'll just say this to your point, Flame, it's important
Speaker 1: to know your audience, hands down, in any well there
Speaker 1: it's a comedy, whatever genre you may be in, if
Speaker 1: you're doing public speaking, you need to know your audience period.
Speaker 1: That's just you know, just basics one on one. But
Speaker 1: I hope that comedians don't feel like they can't you know,
Speaker 1: express themselves and be their authentic selves because of all
Speaker 1: of the craziness that's happening, because you're right, I mean,
Speaker 1: between you know, COVID being cooped up in the house
Speaker 1: and people you know telling us that we can't can't
Speaker 1: do it's so many things, and I think that's what happen.
Speaker 1: We were Will, It's just a human being, and he
Speaker 1: had a temporary lapse of judgment. It just and he
Speaker 1: just snapped. You know, everybody has a breaking point, and
Speaker 1: we Will have been here's with his sexuality with the
Speaker 1: wife and doing this and that and the key and
Speaker 1: tell everybody. Everybody has a breaking point. So I'm not
Speaker 1: blaming with all for that. I do want the comedians,
Speaker 1: all my fellow comedians to be a v leery. But
Speaker 1: if you're set ain't going well, and this goes to
Speaker 1: the communities. If you'll set ain't going that well, and
Speaker 1: you get heckled and you jone on somebody from the
Speaker 1: stage and you get a big laughter in the artience,
Speaker 1: don't stay on that, do that and then go back
Speaker 1: to your set, because you don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: day that person has had. You don't know what kind
Speaker 1: of situation that person is in. And people ready to explode, Lauren,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes sometimes I think it's just for
Speaker 1: fame because so many of them are copycats. There's so
Speaker 1: many copycats out here, you know, I gotta like stick
Speaker 1: on that real quick, because um, even on Monday while
Speaker 1: you're at the Hollywood improv, you know, d lay open
Speaker 1: for you. And to your point, there was a lady
Speaker 1: that coughed in the audience and Delay kept calling her
Speaker 1: coffee brown and she was really getting pissed. You know.
Speaker 1: At one point I thought she was about to, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of turn into a heckler at Delay and didn't
Speaker 1: escalate that far because you know, he kind of just
Speaker 1: moved on from it. But to your point, he kind
Speaker 1: of you know, danced on that nerve maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit too long, and she was getting really agitated. So
Speaker 1: case and point, you know, to what you just talked about.
Speaker 1: I just saw a firsthand on Monday night. So that
Speaker 1: is the responsibility of comedians. You have to and learn.
Speaker 1: You do public speaking, and like you you made a
Speaker 1: great point. Anyone who does public speak, you really need
Speaker 1: to know the temperament of your room. Yeah, because not
Speaker 1: only would it could get you canceled, it could get
Speaker 1: you hurt, It could get you blacklisted. Uh. Trevor Noah
Speaker 1: just did a perfect job hosting the the dinner for
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Michelle what's her name? Did it last year?
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, she offended everybody she offended
Speaker 1: everyone because she did not know how to the responsibility
Speaker 1: of reading the room. Trevor Noah was fun. He was light,
Speaker 1: he was never heavy, and when he was heavy, he
Speaker 1: was heavy on us, helping other people around the world
Speaker 1: as well as our own country. So it was never
Speaker 1: that it. Sometimes you just can't be mean. I don't
Speaker 1: know why somebody some of these comics are so mean.
Speaker 1: I want to be fun. I want to be personally.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna be mean, I'm gonna be mean towards me.
Speaker 1: I will about me. I talked because if you see
Speaker 1: me self deprecated, it's a lot easier for me if
Speaker 1: I have to say anything about you. But if you
Speaker 1: get material. That is why Godfrey always said, you have
Speaker 1: to have hours. You need hours so you so you
Speaker 1: can get an hour. It takes hundreds of hours to
Speaker 1: get one hour. A lot of communities don't have hundreds
Speaker 1: of hours. They just have Oh oh I did good
Speaker 1: this night. Okay, that was this night? What about tomorrow?
Speaker 1: What about the next show? You only as good as
Speaker 1: your last show? Yeah, it is the situation, But I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't like that they blame will for this.
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna blame Will for this. I don't like.
Speaker 1: I don't support the violence that Will did. But Will
Speaker 1: is human and Chris poked the bear. And I'm not
Speaker 1: giving Chris a pass saying Chris was right or wrong either.
Speaker 1: It's just it was a sad situation. And they kept
Speaker 1: saying black black people set us back, they set us back. No,
Speaker 1: they didn't, because we didn't do that. I wasn't there.
Speaker 1: We weren't even invited to their moscars this year, so
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. He sent me back and to a
Speaker 1: list black Hollywood actors and comedians handled two different situations,
Speaker 1: the same situation in two different scenarios. Pass off to
Speaker 1: Chris Rock to keeping it, you know, for for keeping
Speaker 1: his composure, and hats off to Will Smith because he
Speaker 1: was tired of y'all poking him. I don't even get pope,
Speaker 1: really quick. I do want to give some recognition and
Speaker 1: a little bit of black girl magic real quick and
Speaker 1: say congratulations to miss Karen Jean Pierre for officially being
Speaker 1: named White House Press secretary. She's actually the first black
Speaker 1: woman to ever hold this position, and she's openly gay
Speaker 1: as well, so um, and she's basically going to be
Speaker 1: the face of the Biden and Harris administration. That's a
Speaker 1: triple on time. She's the first one, she's black, and
Speaker 1: she's a lesbian babe back who they covered a lot
Speaker 1: of bases with that with, didn't he m? She's replacing
Speaker 1: jen Psaki. Um. I don't know why Jensaki is leaving,
Speaker 1: but piece and blessings to her. But this is exciting.
Speaker 1: You know, this is some great black girl magic. We
Speaker 1: just have an official scotus ms Kanji Um Brown Jackson.
Speaker 1: It was officially nominated and selected and now we have
Speaker 1: our first black female press secretary. So we left to
Speaker 1: see it. Black girl magic is movement. And since you
Speaker 1: opened up the dough, I wish Kataji Brown Jackson was
Speaker 1: already sitting in her seat because maybe we wouldn't be
Speaker 1: on this Tita Tta about Roe Versus Wade and Lauren Hogan.
Speaker 1: I am not a biological woman. I will never be
Speaker 1: a biological woman. I don't care if I changed everything
Speaker 1: on the exterior, the interior is different. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about somebody telling you what you can and cannot
Speaker 1: do with your body? Um, I think it's the most
Speaker 1: absurd thing that I've ever heard, because there's no law,
Speaker 1: you know, where the government is telling men what they
Speaker 1: can do with their penis or anything with their body
Speaker 1: for that matter. So, um, I think it's absolutely ludicrous. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, you know, imitation, I guess is the best
Speaker 1: form of flattery is sometimes the term that's used. So
Speaker 1: we have shows like Handmaid's Tail where everybody was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so scary, this is so scary. But you know,
Speaker 1: the writers of that show clearly, you know, saw something,
Speaker 1: because that's what it feels like. It's turning into. You know,
Speaker 1: ro versus Wade has been a law for the past
Speaker 1: fifty years. And to think that you know, these white
Speaker 1: men and I'll say one white woman who are deciding
Speaker 1: to overturn it is Um, It's just it's baffling. And
Speaker 1: and this is gonna be the gateway to you know,
Speaker 1: other things like in a racial marriage becoming a problem
Speaker 1: and you know, gay marriage and all of these different things.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I'm happy that I live in California
Speaker 1: because our current governor, Gavin Newsom already said this is
Speaker 1: going to be in an abortion sanctuary state. But what
Speaker 1: about those that live in the Rule South, and especially
Speaker 1: women of color that aren't going to have access, you know,
Speaker 1: to have the ability to have an abortion. What about
Speaker 1: and money? People with money will always have the options
Speaker 1: of getting abortions because money go alonger than any laws.
Speaker 1: And that's mean, And I know that sound ridiculous to say,
Speaker 1: but it is the truth. Money and power goes farther
Speaker 1: than any laws. I think it's terrible lore. And what
Speaker 1: I really hate is that Susan Collins comes out and said, well,
Speaker 1: I interviewed all three of them. You knew that they
Speaker 1: were not for that. You knew who these Republican freaks was.
Speaker 1: That's why Trump rushed to put all them three in
Speaker 1: because he needed them people over there to overturn this.
Speaker 1: This is going to cause civil unrest in this country. Well,
Speaker 1: and I think a couple of things to be done,
Speaker 1: and I think that the Democrats are just too afraid
Speaker 1: to do it. They either need to end the filibuster
Speaker 1: to make sure that this doesn't happen, or Joe Biden
Speaker 1: needs to expand the Supreme Court because even with the
Speaker 1: appointment of Katanji Brown Jackson, I don't think she's officially
Speaker 1: in that seat until June. I believe is when she's
Speaker 1: officially takes over. But even with her being appointed they'll
Speaker 1: still have a majority. It'll still be a five four
Speaker 1: vote because unfortunately, you know, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away,
Speaker 1: so Trump was able to elect to you know, nominees
Speaker 1: to the court, and that officially tipped the balance of scale.
Speaker 1: So even with Katanji Brown Jackson still won't be enough.
Speaker 1: So I know people are trying to say a hope
Speaker 1: in a prayer that Brett Kavanaugh will change his mind
Speaker 1: based on you know, his confirmation hearing and what he
Speaker 1: was saying to Congress when he testified before them. Um,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't keep hope alive, y'all. And they all
Speaker 1: three of them. Yeah, and to your point, Susan Collins
Speaker 1: and Lisa Murkowski saying, oh, I'm so baffled. Thought I
Speaker 1: could believe him. Y'all must be the stupidest people on
Speaker 1: the planet. Yeah, really, Oh my god, Lorden, we just
Speaker 1: I don't know. It seemed like what the world is
Speaker 1: going backwards? Because I completely agree with you. If they
Speaker 1: opened up this floodgate and allowed this to happen so
Speaker 1: many things, what are we going back to? Jim Crow?
Speaker 1: But that's what this is being modeled after, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be if roll versus way to actually gets overturned.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be up to states to decide, you know,
Speaker 1: if abortion is legal versus illegal. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: they did around Jim Crow laws. That's exactly what they
Speaker 1: did in segregation. That's exactly what happened. It was up
Speaker 1: to the states. Oh my god, it is just it
Speaker 1: behools me to think that all these old white dinosaurs
Speaker 1: in positions of power, we'll don't get voted out and
Speaker 1: getting voted out being primaries. Primaries are going on as
Speaker 1: we speak. I think once started yesterday. I think it
Speaker 1: was in Ohio. Well, the Ohio already selected their GOP
Speaker 1: front runner and he is a racist white man who
Speaker 1: was an author. He actually had his a little special
Speaker 1: on Netflix. Um but I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've seen his ad, but he's talking about like, if
Speaker 1: you hate Mexicans, you know, there's nothing wrong with you.
Speaker 1: It's he's being overtly racist in his ad. And he
Speaker 1: was just elected as a front runner. And then Pennsylvania's
Speaker 1: GOP primary started in Dr Oz who was a Trump supporter.
Speaker 1: You know, he got Trump's endorsement. He's in the lead
Speaker 1: right now for the race. So I never thought he
Speaker 1: was a good doctor. Damn show ain't gonna for politics.
Speaker 1: I never watched it. I never trusted his map. He's
Speaker 1: the funniest looking mouth to me. You know, yes, I like.
Speaker 1: I never liked Bird either. Remember she was on the
Speaker 1: CDC with with Trump with the Corona he I never
Speaker 1: like telling you because she had messed the map. I
Speaker 1: don't trust bad teeth. I just don't. You got too
Speaker 1: much money for bad team. We all we all heard
Speaker 1: it back and and I'm seeing all the protests in
Speaker 1: d C and around the country. Women margin But here's
Speaker 1: my thing, Lauring some women afford that, understand. I need
Speaker 1: you to help me, make help make this make sense
Speaker 1: to me, Lauren, as a woman girl, how a women
Speaker 1: for this? I think, honestly, and some people may disagree
Speaker 1: with me, I think this is coming down to preserving
Speaker 1: your race. I'm just gonna be very honest. And it's
Speaker 1: a lot of white women and all of these old
Speaker 1: white men who are trying to preserve their race. That's
Speaker 1: what it's coming down to. Because if you look at statistics,
Speaker 1: most people that have abortions are white women. It ain't us,
Speaker 1: it's white women. There is no pure race period. Okay,
Speaker 1: we know that, but they don't. And I think more
Speaker 1: and more, you know, white people are actually dwindling in
Speaker 1: terms of being the majority race in this country and
Speaker 1: more they're not. So it's coming down to they want
Speaker 1: you to have these babies. But the funny thing is
Speaker 1: you want to protect a baby, but you don't care
Speaker 1: a crap about children, because once the baby's out, then what, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't care about them anymore. Yeah, because one if
Speaker 1: the mother is single and she gotta get on wear fair,
Speaker 1: you complain about that. You don't want how to get
Speaker 1: on now you gotta be on well fare. And well,
Speaker 1: she didn't want to have the baby, so wouldn't even
Speaker 1: have this issue. Um it is. It is blowing my
Speaker 1: mind lawing that women stand for this foolishness, because I'm like,
Speaker 1: and you what if you rape by your uncle, your brother,
Speaker 1: you're daddy, and I don't want I don't want to
Speaker 1: look at my child's my violent and now you violent
Speaker 1: rape not just raped, but violently beaten and raped and
Speaker 1: hurt and he destroyed you. You can't even have no
Speaker 1: more babies after this on or something you don't know
Speaker 1: and you have this key and you got to look
Speaker 1: and this kid looks just like your attacker, so you
Speaker 1: got to look at his face every day. Girl, That
Speaker 1: ain't cool. The yeah, and you're forcing these women not
Speaker 1: only do you have to go through a pregnancy what
Speaker 1: that does to your body mentally and physically, but then
Speaker 1: you're stuck raising this child mm hmm. And what is
Speaker 1: no regard for that? What is the six weeks? Most
Speaker 1: women don't even found out they're pregnant in the damn
Speaker 1: six weeks. They don't find that for like two Very true, exactly,
Speaker 1: it's very true. And in Mississippi specifically, they pretty much
Speaker 1: got rid of all abortion clinics except for one. And
Speaker 1: even now, I mean I saw the news today there
Speaker 1: are literally women outside in Mississippi protesting this abortion clinic
Speaker 1: and they're like, this is the last one. We've gotten
Speaker 1: rid of all of them. And they have official like
Speaker 1: abortion Clinic X escorts outside to help, you know, women
Speaker 1: come in safely to receive their abortions if they so choose,
Speaker 1: because they're being heckled about it as they get in.
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy Texas. You know, Greg Abbott once is
Speaker 1: allowing people to be bounty hunters and you're getting ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollar rewards rewards. If you know, you find out
Speaker 1: somebody's trying to have an abortion, you get to turn
Speaker 1: them in and do citizens arrests. Like it's crazy. I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to go to Texas and flat the
Speaker 1: tires on his wheelchair. I am sick of him. Good God, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna flatting tires. It's just wild to
Speaker 1: think of the times that we live in, because you know,
Speaker 1: you talk to your your grandparents in my situation, or
Speaker 1: your you know, or your great grandparents. Have a great
Speaker 1: grandmother's who's still a hundred and two, and I think
Speaker 1: she's pretty much lived through every major event in US history,
Speaker 1: starting in you know, n And to think of some
Speaker 1: of the stories that I hear from her around race
Speaker 1: and violence that she experienced. We're seeing it now in
Speaker 1: real time, you know. So to your point, it's like
Speaker 1: it's almost like we're stuck in a time warp. And
Speaker 1: it's like all this progress Street thought we made U
Speaker 1: we were boo booda fools, so unmanageable. I just don't
Speaker 1: even know. And this is our generation and Generation Z
Speaker 1: is coming, which is the last letter of alphabet. I
Speaker 1: don't know where we're going after that. But if and
Speaker 1: I gotta say too, I know you got something against
Speaker 1: gen Z Pop. The gen Z people, not against them
Speaker 1: at all. It's just the last letter of alphabet. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, okay, were we going after that we
Speaker 1: start to do alphabet? Well you've been calling them slow
Speaker 1: and stuff, but I will say, but I will say,
Speaker 1: they're a more UM aware generation I think, And I
Speaker 1: think that um they know they're rights, like, they're very outspoken,
Speaker 1: and they want to be involved and they care and
Speaker 1: they don't want to be put in boxes. You know.
Speaker 1: I like that about them. You know, they were one
Speaker 1: of the largest groups to turn out to vote you
Speaker 1: know in UM. Yeah. So I think that there there
Speaker 1: may be some hope, you know, because we have a
Speaker 1: generation that has a lot of fire in their belly
Speaker 1: that is just not gonna take things, you know, lying down.
Speaker 1: So maybe there's some hope for us yet in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, making sure that the right people get elected.
Speaker 1: But I think at this point some states maybe just
Speaker 1: lost for the cost, like especially Ohio. Steve Lauren, just
Speaker 1: what you see. I think people really need to stop
Speaker 1: sitting back and my vote don't count my vote, Your
Speaker 1: vote counts. Your one counts, and they have instituted what
Speaker 1: secretary of states in different states who count the votes
Speaker 1: with gops. They are setting up right and now getting ready.
Speaker 1: Even if we win, we lose because they put people
Speaker 1: in position of power to control of the counting of
Speaker 1: the votes. Yeah, but they're like I said, some states
Speaker 1: might have hope. You know, Stacy Abrams is running for
Speaker 1: governor UM in that in that state, so and I
Speaker 1: feel like she may really want And I think there's
Speaker 1: some splitting of the vote on the GOP side of
Speaker 1: things too. So I know that there was some issues
Speaker 1: between Brian Kemp and UM former congressman. I can't remember
Speaker 1: that man's name. He was racist anyway, it doesn't matter, Um, So,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see how things shake out. But to
Speaker 1: that point, we need people like the Stacy Abrahams to actually,
Speaker 1: you know, step up and run. We need you know,
Speaker 1: community folks who are actually have moral compasses to be
Speaker 1: in legislation in these in the positions of power. So, UM, well,
Speaker 1: we'll see how this works out. But that's why people
Speaker 1: need to go out and vote. We got to get
Speaker 1: these monsters out of there. And I hate when people
Speaker 1: say my one vote don't count. We listened to so
Speaker 1: many people. You've got to think for yourself. You got
Speaker 1: to vote. They're gonna cheat as much as they can,
Speaker 1: but your vote needs to be putting in a needs account.
Speaker 1: And if you don't, if you don't sure how important
Speaker 1: your vote is, do me a favor and watch the
Speaker 1: movie Salma and see what they went And that is
Speaker 1: just the movie version of it. That ain't what really
Speaker 1: went down. Go do recent research. Go to many cyclopeas.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've got some graphic pitches way worse than
Speaker 1: what they did in Selma. Understand that your ancestors was beaten,
Speaker 1: burned dogs that an't set a fire, spin their face
Speaker 1: just so you can vote. And then you tell me
Speaker 1: that somebody can tell you or your one vote don't count.
Speaker 1: That's bullshit. My vote counts and I vote every time
Speaker 1: though I take my kids with me because I want
Speaker 1: to know how important that is. Well, I would just
Speaker 1: take it a step further and say, if you ever
Speaker 1: pay attention to how you know how much effort goes
Speaker 1: behind you know, especially like you know, the white people
Speaker 1: trying to make sure that people of color don't vote,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, we're gonna close down, you know,
Speaker 1: three out of your five Poland places, and you know
Speaker 1: in the urban communities, and they're only gonna be open
Speaker 1: from a certain amount of time, so people don't have
Speaker 1: time to get off work and go vote. They make
Speaker 1: it so hard for us to vote. There's a reason why.
Speaker 1: It's because our votes actually do matter. People don't go
Speaker 1: out of their way to do all of this if
Speaker 1: your vote really didn't matter. So please just be wise
Speaker 1: and just you know, don't fall for the foolishness and
Speaker 1: just exercise your right to your point that flame that
Speaker 1: you know, our answer just did fight so hard for
Speaker 1: us to have the ability to do this, and they
Speaker 1: changed the laws everywhere. So just make sure that all
Speaker 1: your ads done and your tease across everything matchup address, drivers, license, voters,
Speaker 1: registration card, because they're going to be real petty. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be really petty. They were furious that bite and
Speaker 1: beat the trunk, so they're gonna be real petty. So
Speaker 1: outside of that, all we can say is vote, vote,
Speaker 1: vote your conscience, vote what's important to you and your children.
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