WEBVTT - The Delta, The Southwest, or The Spirit! 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:44.120 La laugh. If you watch coffee Time too, Baby, you 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.519 know the name Flame, my role also known as my 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.120 role Flame. Come in with last and come in with 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.600 Jim love lounds. Baby, you better catch it when you 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.160 can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to polytics shouting now 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.400 comics just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah you know 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.040 she raped shot towns on speaking to the ground. And 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.120 second we're gonna last cut of the kicking in at 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.200 the end. We leave it with just a lift you spirit. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.200 You think you want to revisit, tell your first take 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.880 a listen you folks slip oh folks that we dig 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.480 it to cain't no kids, do what you don't? No 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.520 kiss do what you do? I can't no kiss do 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:43.040 what I do? No she Hello, ladies, Hell Hello, Hello, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:49.360 welcome to laugh and learn. Were Flame and Lauren and 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.760 Nick and Trouble and Kindle and damn show where he 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:59.760 she we that belongs to me? Know that ship? Um 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.400 he she we he cash your check? She make the money. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.639 We spend it because the man and me ben pimping 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.960 a woman and me for twenty five plus. That's plus 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:10.960 not l G B t q I A plus just 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:17.840 my plus years. Good morning, good afternoon, gooding. Hello Lauren Hogan, Hello, Hello, 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.960 how are you? I can't see you in the camera. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.760 Move over, I am you want me to be closer 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:29.400 to you, Just to be closed to you, girl. Oh hello, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.680 flame man's welcome to laugh and learned. We thank you 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.560 guys for joining us today. We know that we missed 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.200 you all this week. We was on vacation. Everybody was 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.760 out of town, was on vacation. We was working. That 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.880 was vacation, work working, vacation. I'm sorry. I was working. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.760 I was in New Orleans and then Atlanta, and I 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.360 was working. I was frustrated because my designer was on 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.919 some bs. But we're back today. That's where we are 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.359 back today. So thank you guys for joining us today. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.800 We appreciate you guys. We hope you guys had a 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.120 good what was it the Holliday last week? No? No, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.600 we hope ahead a good week. But we're here today. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.560 I'm giving y'all wash face, no base because oh I'm 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.040 in a I'm in a space. We had talked about 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.720 it later. Yes, indeed, what we're talking about today, lot, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.200 we were bringing Nick. Let's get Nick first a little 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.399 bit and see how he's doing. He's fining. He back 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:25.880 home in Arkansas, Arkansas, Arkansas. That's not Arkansas, that's spelled 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.720 our ken. Are you in Arkansas? I am I in 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.600 back in Arkansas and in the state with no mask mandate. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.320 Chill Lord. Never, I'll never stopped wearing my mask, even 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.760 when they said that they had lax mandates. I never 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.120 stopped wearing my mask. We were just discussing that before 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.760 we came on last Nick. Hello, Nick, welcome, and that's 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.680 probably the Nick Smith and Nick Smith news on all 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.839 social media platforms, and we were talking about the whole 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.000 mass mandate. Nicks, I never dropped how I felt. I've 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.480 never changed the formula of I have not taken the exit. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.400 I'm very very clear about that. I'm very aware of 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.400 telling everybody openly that I am opposed to me taking 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.839 the vaccine. I am not opposed to anyone else doing 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.800 what they want to do that works for them. But 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.920 what has worked for me for fifteen months is praying 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.800 and spraying. Everybody in my vicinity gets sprayed with lights out. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.520 You know that because I've sprayed you, I sprayed Kindle, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.560 I sprayed Trible, in fact, Trible spray herself today. I 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:29.120 got her train. I got a train. She just walking 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.080 into the road spread herself. Well. In fifteen months we've 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.200 been working together in close proximity, we've all testing negative 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.320 over time every time for coronavirus. So whatever my formula is, 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.080 it may sound eccentric, y'all may think I'm a little crazy. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.880 It has worked for me, Lauren Trible and Kindle and 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.520 my children, anybody that come in my house, so go figure. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.480 I would also say that you've also been a navocate 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.560 of wearing a mask every time you travel. You have 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.240 also been a fan of you you wipe down your surfaces. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.960 You've always done that though. That has always been your protocol. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.479 So yes, it is well if people who don't wash 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.040 their hands, this was a fan time to learn how 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.960 to start washing your damn hands, because I'm telling you 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.080 some people just was not good about washing their hands, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.719 and hands are wanted the nastiest parts because you touched 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.400 everything you touch. Baby, I've been in the men's room 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.600 and in the women's room, y'all know I have those options. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.160 And I have seen people roll about the stall after 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.640 being in their tents twelve minutes because either I was 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.720 in their ten twelve minutes or I was watching and 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.760 see who was coming out and go straight out the 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.800 stall and go straight out the bathroom, don't stop and 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.080 wash their hands or nothing. It is Yeah, So I 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.200 don't know, but it's getting out of control. We're definitely 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.839 gonna get to the coronavirus vaccine in fact, and and 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.320 the coronavirus numbers. But how was your week? How was Boston? 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.160 Boston was good, Boston was fantastic. You know, and went 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.440 to school in Boston years ago. In Boston has always 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.000 held a special place in my heart. Um, I think 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.280 that Boston can be a cold city, but I think 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.880 the ones you get to know Bostonians, they're like friends 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:58.680 for life. Okay, I will say when I did visit Boston, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.560 because I had a good in the mind, she went 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.960 to Boston Conservatory. The architecture and the architecture excuse me, 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.240 and Boston is exquisite. It's beautiful. You know, you go 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.599 there and it's kind of like something you've never seen before. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.680 It's very like Victorian and colonial and it kind of 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.960 it's really beautiful. Definitely. So hey, flame Man's, I see 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.039 y'all chiming in. Hello flame Man's. You guys are so wonderful. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.360 We appreciate you all. We wouldn't have a show we 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.839 have you all what we need, we would not you know, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.440 I wanted to start off today. I just want to 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.520 remind everyone to join the conversation. We encourage everyone to 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.240 jump on in if you want to sound off, to 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.560 use the flames to let us know. Make sure you're 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.440 type in all caps and Flame insists that you have 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.560 good WiFi so that you're not cutting out on it 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.680 so that we can use the audio. So find a 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.360 place with good WiFi and go ahead and jump on 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.839 and join the conversation. I can't insist that my wife, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.919 are you doing damn food? That's a little hypocritical because 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.960 we were having problems over here, But okay, that is okay. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.320 But also I wouldn't remind people to to also make 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.400 sure that they rate and comment on the show because 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.800 it helps other to find the show. So you all 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.600 are definitely the formula to our success, and we thank you. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.839 Where we're going, where we're going to take you take 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.279 the lead. Start. I want to start with giving a 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.000 shout out to Robert Moses. We talked about that earlier 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.480 civil rights icon who passed away over the weekend. UH. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.000 He was a crusader from math education and he was 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.360 also part of the group UH. He died on Sunday, 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.680 and he was part of the group that UH went 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.360 through the South in the sixties and a very uncomfortable 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.360 time encouraging others to register to vote and as trying 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.880 to get black people engaged in the political process. He 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.520 passed away on Sunday, UM at the age I believe 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.360 of eighty six, and I just wanted to give a 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.240 shout out to him and the work that he's done, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.240 because we have so many UH civil rights pioneers who 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.760 are UH in the in the latter years of their lives, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.360 but have been part of the struggle from the beginning. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.840 And they deserve our highest accolades. Yeah, that's the rest 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.080 in peace, Robert Moses, and we don't want to disregard 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:54.800 what they have done to help us to get to 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.080 where we are. Even though sometimes it seems like we 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.200 are going backwards, we are definitely going forward. Rest in peace, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.320 and tell him and all the civil rights leaders and 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.640 people who has helped us through the struggle. You know, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.360 I want to go next, Nicklas, because I want to 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.480 talk about this. I wanted to go to the Olympics, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.920 because we've talked about how ye I gotta go straight there. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.240 First of all, I used to love to watch the Olympics. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.000 I have no interest in watching the Olympics this year, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:22.000 absolute zero. Um. I don't like how they did so 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.160 many things. I don't like that the numbers are coming 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.760 out crazy with the coronavirus. And I don't like that 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.280 they are not acknowledging the talent of some of these 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:34.240 athletes because of personal reasons, or they change in the 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.320 laws and the rules day by day by day, they 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.640 changed it to be what they wanted to be, kind 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.600 of like what they're doing with the GOP. Uh. Yeah, 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.040 I see it is. But I don't like this. I 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.920 don't like that. You're you're right though, because I remember 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.200 you and I you know, we grew up in the 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.960 same age where you got excited about the Olympics. We 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:56.200 remember not a Comana and yeah and Mary lou Retton 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.480 and all of those things that seems so exciting there. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.440 And I'm not sure if because we were caught up 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.120 in what patriotism was at the time, and we weren't 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.200 as woke then as we are now about so many 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.679 things that we're supposed to be Americanism and tying us 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.679 all in together, or things have just changed so much 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.160 that uh, like I said, like you said, this year, 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.559 it just does not seem the same. It seems off 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.760 this year for some reason. I mean, I don't feel 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.800 like anything has necessarily changed. I just think because from 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.000 a personal opinion, I think if we look at history, 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.240 the Olympics has always been a bit racist. It has, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:30.920 you know, we can go back to you know, the 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.000 first athlete decided to hold his fist up, you know, 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:34.840 when he sit on the pedestal when he was accepting 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.800 his medal. So I think that there's always been you know, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.200 subliminal or overt racism, you know, depending on who you are. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.079 I think now because of all of the turmoil that's 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:49.800 really happened in specifically around George Floyd, and you know, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.520 all of the police brutality that's coming to light, I 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.360 think that there's more of a light being shown on 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.400 the racist tendencies of the Olympics. Um even taking it 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.480 down to flame. I sent you this article that you know, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:07.200 someone like Shikari Richardson was you know, basically disqualified from participating. 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.720 But then you have this other white athlete named um 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.120 Megan Rappano who's promoting cannabis usage and saying how it's 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:18.040 helping to enhance her athletic abilities around the Olympics. So 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.600 there's a lot of um, you know, double standards happening 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.120 around here. And you know, Flames talked about someone Biles 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.119 and how they're saying it's unfair to score her. Rio. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.840 Let's talk about Rio and Ryan locktey oh we got 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.880 robbed and we see the video like you're kidding me? 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.360 How was that not a poor representation of what sportsmanship 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.240 and what America is supposed to be about. But even 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.040 more than that, even if we don't want to put 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.560 the label on the Olympics, let's just talk about the 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.320 weight that must be on American athletes to go and 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.000 represent a country that has been less than transparent in 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.199 its love for you, particularly if you are a person 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.840 of color. So I think that it's almost, like you said, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.640 Lauren's almost hypocritical, uh to not address the issues or 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.079 concerns and then to possibly be upset if they dare to. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.160 Don't you speak up, don't you go over there and 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.120 embarrass us, You stay in your lane. You do exactly 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.679 what they gave you a pre warning they when they 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.160 when they started changing swim capped laws, and you already 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.319 knew that it was bullshit in the game. That's why 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.680 I said that. I thought personally that all black and 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.720 brown athletes, even that qualified and ones that support black 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.280 and brown athletes, shouldn't have taken a stands and pulled 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.520 out to say, if we're not all gonna be treated fair, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.040 send your second best, because we're the first best, Send 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.599 your second best, Send the B lists because the B 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.080 lists weren't gonna do what we did. And then now 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.440 you get the A listers there and you're still not 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.520 treating them with respect. They don't want to give some 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.800 own bios her credit because she is doing something that 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.120 no one else can do. That is what we do. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.440 We create and spaces and become people that no one 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.960 else can do. Give her acknowledgement. It's bullshit. I wish 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.920 they would all lead to hear with the Olympics. But 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.160 I think the interesting part is because I did watch 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.360 the preliminaries yesterday, Like Simon is still ranked number one, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.199 However she didn't. She wasn't perfect yesterday, is what the 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.120 narrative is now. So that's it's like you're not going 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.680 to score her appropriately for her you know, actual gymnastic 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.320 abilities and how amazing she is. And if she's not perfect, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.760 y'all are still going to talk badly about her as well. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.840 So and this even goes back to you know, Naomi 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.480 Osaka and while she pulled out you know of um, 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.679 I'm forgiving what's the name of it, well, thank you 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.880 the Australian Open. Because it's like there's so much criticism 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.680 around you know, these young black women that they need to, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.679 you know, take a moment to really address their mental health. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.000 Because if I'm not perfect, you've got a problem with it. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.520 But if I am perfect and I have all of 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.920 these amazing abilities, you're not gonna give me my due credit. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.360 So it's like, so what do you do? You know, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.920 you pull a Naomi soccer because I think she's the 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.280 smartest person. Whoever you have asked her. I think they 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.320 have asked her correctly. I do. She might this out 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.559 on a couple of dollars, It ain't gonna stop her talent, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.360 and they might come around and respect her. Sometimes you 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.720 have to ammanded, you have to command I said it 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.679 all the time. I'm not going to demand your respect. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.480 You will treat me the way I treat myself, or 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.480 I will freestyle on your ass. And I think this 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.520 goes back to our question that we kind of posed 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.160 to each other when we said we talked about it 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:17.320 this week. Are the Olympics this year? The numbers did NBC? 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.360 Is this a bust? You know, how many of our 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.880 flame mats are actually watching the Olympics this year? And 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.439 are they as excited about them as they have been 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.640 maybe in Years Pass? You know, went back in years Pass, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.559 and I used to love about the Olympics. Remember, used 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.160 to say the joy of victory and the agony of 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.040 defeat and the gay will flat off the skis and 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.319 flip over about five thousand times he broke legs, arms, backbones, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.559 all that, Oh, my guys, to lift to us that 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.839 absolutely absolutely, you know I remember just you know, Carl 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.760 Lewis said, and then later Michael Johnson, and I just 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.760 remember track and field all of that was just always 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.959 so exciting, and it just seemed as though it was 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.439 just a different time and era. Again, Lauren, I go 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.000 back to I think that there may have been like 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:01.200 a willful or woeful ignorance and un welkeness because again 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.120 I think that we were UM. I think that many 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.560 of us have been conditioned in many ways to love 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.240 and support and appreciate a country that has not always 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.080 shown the same level of love and compassion back that 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.679 has never shown let's clarify, I never shown it never so, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.960 which which should segue into our next topic, which is 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.360 about the whole thing about them wanting to draft women 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.880 for the military right, so that actually falls under the 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.520 National Defense Authorization Act. What's happening is, UH, there's a 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.880 push to once again reinstate the draft period. Uh. There 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.200 are many women who feel as though they are no 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.280 less than men, that they are as smart as capable, UM, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.640 that they deserve equal protections, UM. And that that also 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.720 means that, hey, if there is a draft, we want 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.200 to be included in that too. That you don't get 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.040 to marginalize us when it's convenient. Now that women now 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.680 serve in every branch of the military, and many of 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.560 whom also serve in combat roles and have done two 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.680 and three tours of Iraq, uh, many believe that they 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.040 are as capable as men and should also be included when, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:09.120 when and if a national draft is reinstituted. I have 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.840 said personally to you all, I do believe um in conscription, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.600 that everyone in some capacity should serve the country. Uh 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.600 if not the military, peace corps, hospice, something where you 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.480 give back and realize that life and community is about 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.640 all of us in this a shared experience. That's just 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.840 my personal belief. I am totally in favor of free college, 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.000 but I do believe that everything comes at a price, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.360 and I believe that free college is something we should 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.040 do for young people who choose to go to college 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.320 or a trade or something, if they have also taken 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.440 the time to do the two years like we do 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.640 in Germany and in Israel, where we actually just give 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.760 back to the country. And again, everyone doesn't have to 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.600 do the military. Military is the best thing that ever 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.640 happened to me in my life. I love this country. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.480 I love what the military did for me. I am 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.360 very aware that's not every you sound like Office movie, 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.040 but the back to something Lauren said, I feel so 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.360 you and I've talked about this flame. I feel almost 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.360 I feel so incredibly blessed. At times, I get frustrated 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.000 like everybody else, but I feel as though because I 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.960 grew up in a space where I was allowed to grow, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.440 to learn, to to know that anything was possible. I 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.040 feel honored in that right, and I want others to 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:23.480 have that same experience. And I believe that somehow, sometimes 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.480 being removed from um, a space that is so familiar, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.000 where everyone looks like you, can sometimes help to broaden 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.160 your horizons. Let me say this for the record publicly. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.880 I will never allow any of my children my offspring 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.760 to join this United States military in any capacity. I 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.120 will never have my children fight for a country that 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.840 we are fighting against already. In the words of Malcolm X, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.680 why would I go and fight the viet Cong who 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.800 ain't did nothing to me? When I'm right here in 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.240 my own country, I can't even be free. Rest in peace, 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.360 Muhammad Ali, because you were the greatest dear for real, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.200 because hear me when I tell you. If I ain't 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.240 drive down the street with my windows down and my 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.400 music playing, because you see my black skin and it's 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.600 a problem for you, why the hell am I gonna 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.720 go to Afghanistan or Russia or anywhere else that has 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.480 a war to fight for some people, and then I'm 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.200 gonna come back here and be treated like a second 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.680 class citizens and this is not just for black people. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.440 We have We have veterans here in California that are homeless, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.480 all nationality, all races, that they are doing absolutely nothing 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.920 for it. So it's an absolute note for me, A man. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.320 I hear you, Nicholas, I'm glad it worked out for you. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:29.879 But for the ones that I see out here on 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.040 the streets Salmon Exit where they where their dog tags 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.320 and walking around here homeless looking scragg fuck the military. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.959 Did I say that publicly? Yea um. But my question 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.840 is I think that it's you know, great that they 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.439 want to open up this draft to both men and women. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.320 But what's going on with the pay is my question? 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.800 Are we gonna start paying men and women equally that 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.920 are participating in the military. Is that gonna happen? That's 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.920 my question. Well, you're you're paid by rank, so it's 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.080 definitely not gender based. I think the military is the 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.200 one area where and comfortably say Lauren that it really 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.919 is not about gender. That you come in as an 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.399 enlisted member, if you're enlisted, unless you come in as 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.040 an officer. But the ones, all the ones are paid 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:15.520 the same, regardless of anatomy um, regardless of gender. Identification. Uh, 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.679 and the one is paid in the one salary and 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.199 up the scale. So can I ask the question? Can 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.439 I ask you a question the seriously? So if I 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.000 joined the military and I'm trying, can I get two checks, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:26.879 one for him and one for her? I'm just asking 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:33.040 for free. I didn't combo, didn't they kicked the trains 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.359 out the military? And didn't they? Yeah? Trump put a 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.000 Yeah Trump, Trump put a band, but that was lifted 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.240 immediately with the y'all just keep on rolling with the 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.200 Trump because y'all see they knocking them down. They're trying 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.240 to get to them. They're going through all the bowling Pine. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.240 Who they get yesterday? What's his name? They're getting close, 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.679 and that's not Obama. Don't don't get it twisted. That 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.840 is not Obama. Obama ain't got nothing to do with 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.119 that ship. You know, he loves to blame Obama for everything. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.480 You can't blame Obama for their someone. They're coming. They're 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.880 coming to get you, Barbara, Barbara, They're coming to get 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.800 you that in Hillary. I'm surprised they have not found 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.880 a way to blame Hillary. So the question remains also 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.120 for the flame mets when they chime in later, do 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.280 you believe women should be included? Uh if they reinstitute 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.520 the draft, do you believe that women should be included 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.760 and also be required to uh sign their name and 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.160 register for a potential draft. That's the question for the Flamemets. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.920 We shall see, we shall see. I'm not running. I 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.960 don't want to be in the military. I don't want 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:34.680 to check. I don't want to be I don't want 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.560 a few good men. I don't want to get my country, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.760 none of it, not just the military. What do you 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.080 think about like peace Corps, something where you give back 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.680 community service? Anything? Should people done community service? I owe 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.080 some tickets and I've done community service, so my my 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.119 time has been served. I had some tickets that I 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.920 couldn't pay back before they ready, and I did community 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.879 service for forty hours, so I have done my time. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:08.720 Thank you. Ridiculous. Well, listen, listen. I love the fact 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.480 that they're saying, and you know, opening enough for everybody. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.080 But what kind of war we're gonna have? You know 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:15.880 what I'm saying. I don't want to go and fight 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.720 a war where it's not gonna do anything fair for 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.520 the country that we live in. I need the people 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.399 that we live in the people who were willing to 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.000 go and sign up and fight for this country to 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.600 be treated fairly and until the end. I don't think 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:32.479 and and this is me. I have no, of course idea, 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:35.080 but I don't believe the next combat we have will 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.159 be one that is boots on the ground. I just 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.280 think that the world has got to move past that. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.400 I expected to be cyber or some type of chemical 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.440 warfare or something where we use drones. I don't know 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:51.160