Speaker 1: Love with he he he, laughing with if you watch
Speaker 1: Coffee Time the baby, you know the name flame, my
Speaker 1: role also known as my role Flame. Come in with
Speaker 1: last and come in with jawn love lounds. Baby, you
Speaker 1: better catch it when you can't drop a knowledge from
Speaker 1: fatherhood to politics, shouting now comics just paying homics. What's up? Tips? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know she raped shot towns on speaking to the
Speaker 1: ground a second. We're gonna last kind of the kicking
Speaker 1: and at the end we leave it with just a
Speaker 1: lift di spirit. Think you want to revisit tell your
Speaker 1: first take a listen, Jill. Folks say it slip all
Speaker 1: folks that we dig it. Don't do what you do.
Speaker 1: Nois do what you don't, nois do what I do. No.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Lauren, Good afternoon? Claim how are you? I'm good?
Speaker 1: I'm good, y'all? Say I got myt with Lorna Woods
Speaker 1: had from good times because that day with lorda war
Speaker 1: more week? But what kind of week? You gotta look
Speaker 1: at Lauren's weeds. I'm sparkling today, yes, Holiday Christmas, Christmas
Speaker 1: sparkling today like sparkling cider. Yes, Laura's taller a bottle,
Speaker 1: a bottle of siding to Lauren. Lauren is like five
Speaker 1: teen five teen and her flat feet baby, and you
Speaker 1: know she used to dance with Debbie Allen the lays
Speaker 1: kick My six o'clock. It's not even like four thirty.
Speaker 1: It's like two oh five. Ship never needed to do
Speaker 1: that in rehearsally, you'd be like six o'clock. I never
Speaker 1: I never did another. I never did ane of that.
Speaker 1: My six o'clock was for love, like, yeah, my six
Speaker 1: clock was very different. Okay, we can we can talk
Speaker 1: about that later. How was your Christmas? Lauren? It was good?
Speaker 1: Actually I cooked. I know you said that you cooked too,
Speaker 1: but I did too. Um. I cooked some barbecue chicken
Speaker 1: wings and some regular chicken wings, and some mac and
Speaker 1: cheese and some greens, and I cooked. That was almost
Speaker 1: a traditional meal. Yeah, I didn't make it. I don't
Speaker 1: like turkey though. I don't like turkey or turkeys exactly.
Speaker 1: We got a turkey? Is that? That ain't him? You know,
Speaker 1: ain't get my glasses on. So we're gonna have nick
Speaker 1: whenever you Lauren had to see it, because can see
Speaker 1: it us, know when you hear Christmas was very quiet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody came over, just me and the kids and my
Speaker 1: friend LB of course. But that's somebody I haven't seen regularly,
Speaker 1: and she gets prayed like everybody else. Everybody gets prayed
Speaker 1: with light song. This morning, everybody in this studio got
Speaker 1: sprayed with light Song. I don't know if it works
Speaker 1: or not, but it's been working for me. Plus, Christmas
Speaker 1: was very different than Ship because I don't know that
Speaker 1: were you on the naughty or nice list? Long? I'm
Speaker 1: always on the nice list. What do you mean everything?
Speaker 1: She is an educated sister, but she cuts up, y'all.
Speaker 1: You know she can't hang out with me and don't
Speaker 1: cut up. That just doesn't even work. I told saying
Speaker 1: that they could come to my house. I love you saying,
Speaker 1: but nigger, the corona is real. He was going too
Speaker 1: many different people houses. Want to stop, Honey. I sprayed
Speaker 1: that nigga, Donna blitzon. I sprayed the shot out of
Speaker 1: Rutolf because he kept sharing the light in my face
Speaker 1: like the police and Ship. I sprayed the hell out
Speaker 1: of Rutolf, the Routolf cause you know house and his
Speaker 1: nose was shine. The nigga was lights all. Sanda couldn't
Speaker 1: come to my house because if the rona is real,
Speaker 1: and I ain't working with saying lead him, give yourself
Speaker 1: that they're still sitting out there. You give him, said me,
Speaker 1: two hours and just let the mirror, and they did
Speaker 1: bring I didn't know that coming up to my house
Speaker 1: because you got that you're going on. I don't even
Speaker 1: like the bitch across the street, Honey, I don't know
Speaker 1: what kind of hell she got you bringing ronans to
Speaker 1: my house and give you a knock it off. Hello Nick,
Speaker 1: welcome to laugh and learn everyone. Here's my partner head there,
Speaker 1: very handsome Mr Nick Smith. Hello me. I love the
Speaker 1: Charlie Brown tree in the background. Oh good, And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to sit back so you're not like, Okay, Nick,
Speaker 1: get out of my face while you're rolling up on
Speaker 1: me like the police. How was your How was your Christmas?
Speaker 1: Well I'm still celebrating naturally. You know me too. Look see,
Speaker 1: we came prepared, We came prepared, We came with props.
Speaker 1: I must be Scrooge, humble at all that you are
Speaker 1: the gift that keeps giving. Oh that's what she said.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hell, hello lord, how you doing identifies
Speaker 1: as he let me be respectful. That's what he said. There,
Speaker 1: you go. I just had to clear that up with
Speaker 1: some of my Flame mitts because they'd be confused and ship.
Speaker 1: But you know this is the heat, the sheet and
Speaker 1: the wist, so you get it all right here. And
Speaker 1: then you know, Flame people have an issue with you
Speaker 1: and uh pronouns and things like that anyway, so you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna get it either way. You know that.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what they're gonna get back today,
Speaker 1: because I'm feeling groovy. Baby, you don't get it back today.
Speaker 1: It's a good an interesting show. It is. It's like
Speaker 1: Flame teased in the little video I saw before we
Speaker 1: was showing that dress. That was I don't think we
Speaker 1: can wear that to church on Sunday. You can't even
Speaker 1: go to church on the Corona. Got anybody outside anybody
Speaker 1: going to church? Anybody want to church? You worshing God
Speaker 1: from right here, right from from you know, I g
Speaker 1: live with Flame and yeah, I love that. But no,
Speaker 1: my my holiday was great, Lauren. How was your because
Speaker 1: I know your parents and everybody are still here locally,
Speaker 1: so at least you got a chance to see mom
Speaker 1: and dad. Right. Yeah, No, my holiday was great. You know,
Speaker 1: we hung out, my brother did a quick drive by
Speaker 1: to drop off some gifts and I gave him his
Speaker 1: I cooked, so it was very low key. We watched
Speaker 1: some movies and you know, I was catching up on
Speaker 1: my black content on Netflix and it was good. How
Speaker 1: was yours? Absolutely same thing? You know I watched? Uh,
Speaker 1: I have to, you know, say, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit later. But Flame is always finding something
Speaker 1: and saying, what do you mean you haven't seen this?
Speaker 1: You better watch this, and once again sit there. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you buy yourself crying and laughing and all that.
Speaker 1: So I got a chance to catch up on a
Speaker 1: couple of things. One of them was something that Flame
Speaker 1: and recommended that. Well, talk about a little bit later,
Speaker 1: but yes, and because Lauren watched the same thing, you're
Speaker 1: not already started. We're gonna change the format. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to start with that because you're not ready
Speaker 1: open up the door. First of all, you didn't ask
Speaker 1: me what how was my Christmas? Even though I did
Speaker 1: get my Christmas present from you, thank you very much. Secondly,
Speaker 1: my Christmas was fire. I ain't do a damn thing,
Speaker 1: which I wish I was doing right now. And what
Speaker 1: they watched, they co on their black content on Netflix.
Speaker 1: What what did you watch, Lauren? I watched I Am
Speaker 1: not your Negro. I am not your Negro. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: did you think? Nick? I'm curious? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: I was floored? Uh? Is you know? How? Wow? You know?
Speaker 1: Without getting it just seems like the more things change,
Speaker 1: the more they stay the same. You know what, I'll
Speaker 1: sounded like a cliche, but I think that, um what
Speaker 1: I would have to say, and I'm not We're just
Speaker 1: gonna say it. I think that James Baldwin easily was
Speaker 1: one of the best writers and prolific thinkers, and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I just feel as though, um, we were a community
Speaker 1: not ready to receive him in his fullness that he was. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was too much that we still need our communicators
Speaker 1: and people who speak for or reflect the community to look, walk,
Speaker 1: talk a certain way, and he was not having any
Speaker 1: of that. He was going to be as authentic self.
Speaker 1: And I think that that, unfortunately didn't afford him the
Speaker 1: opportunity to us have to have the audience that I
Speaker 1: felt like he deserved. Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: I think for me, the overarching theme that kept coming
Speaker 1: up with his representation, um and just the lack thereof
Speaker 1: that we have as you know, black folks in America.
Speaker 1: It was just very interesting that they were using different
Speaker 1: movies to help draw these correlations in parallels together to say,
Speaker 1: while you may have been enjoying them in the moment,
Speaker 1: this is how racist it really was, you know, and
Speaker 1: so this is not something that should have been laughed
Speaker 1: about or people should have profited off of. This is
Speaker 1: something that should have been addressed to something serious. So
Speaker 1: that was my overall takeaway from it. I also just
Speaker 1: loved how James Baldwin checked people when they really tried
Speaker 1: to say, oh, we're you know, we're trying to make
Speaker 1: strides and we keep apologizing. It's like, stop apologizing and
Speaker 1: actually do something about it. So overall it was really great. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I always loved just watching films like that, and you know,
Speaker 1: thirteen than just you know, films that really tell you
Speaker 1: about your history, the truth behind it. And we kind
Speaker 1: of talked about that last week of just when you
Speaker 1: write history, write it correctly, So it was it's always
Speaker 1: refreshing to you know, get films that actually tell you
Speaker 1: the truth and you get some more insight to your history.
Speaker 1: I love James Bowen I thought that he was brilliant.
Speaker 1: I thought that he was smarter. And I'm saying this
Speaker 1: publicly on record that I thought to collectively he was
Speaker 1: where he was smarter than Martin Luther, King, Malcolm X
Speaker 1: and and Muhammad Ali Hua outdoor, all three of these men. Understand,
Speaker 1: I'm not bashing any of them put together. But again,
Speaker 1: he was ahead of his hand, and he was openly
Speaker 1: gay and unapologetic about it. The same thing would be arrested.
Speaker 1: He was openly gay and unapologetic about it. But he
Speaker 1: had such a place in the movement as far as
Speaker 1: us with civil rights and everything. But this is this
Speaker 1: goes back to detriment. It's not them, sometimes it's us,
Speaker 1: And it's not them. It's sometimes it's us. I said,
Speaker 1: hold on, niggas, hold at the one second before I
Speaker 1: said I wanted to be people always say for them,
Speaker 1: you should be advocate, you should be a speak I'm
Speaker 1: not because I'm not gonna be judged on the content
Speaker 1: of what I say. I'm gonna be judged on what
Speaker 1: you see. And I'm gonna show these titties because they're pretty,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna show these titties. I'm telling you and
Speaker 1: black people. I said this black people who have more
Speaker 1: of an issue with it than anyone else, because that's
Speaker 1: who we are. I said what I said, James Baldwin
Speaker 1: could have and his his what he said, And when
Speaker 1: you are watching, y'all need to watch. Everything that he
Speaker 1: said back in nine is relevant right now, probably more
Speaker 1: so now than then. That shows you what a visionary
Speaker 1: he was. But I wouldn't put myself in that position
Speaker 1: because people are not gonna hear me. They're gonna see
Speaker 1: these titties. Oh, I'm gonna show the play start there
Speaker 1: because since you open that door and I know this
Speaker 1: is going in the direction, this is what I love about,
Speaker 1: laugh and learn. Why do you why did you call
Speaker 1: off the black community? Why do you feel like black
Speaker 1: people have a harder time with who you are and
Speaker 1: how you represent than any other group because you grew
Speaker 1: up in a black household too. As much as you
Speaker 1: would like, there have to been something else, sometimes something
Speaker 1: with somebody else's house, it wasn't. Do you understand that
Speaker 1: being gay in the black community, And y'all can hand
Speaker 1: me my ask for this one, because I know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Being gay in the black community is worse
Speaker 1: than being the rapist or the child molester or the
Speaker 1: serial killer in the family. In the black community, being
Speaker 1: gay has carries way more sinful weight in black ass
Speaker 1: and black households than being a killer or the one
Speaker 1: the uncle to come over and touch on all the
Speaker 1: kids and ship. Yeah, and that's the truth. And if
Speaker 1: you fight, if you think that I'm you disagree with me,
Speaker 1: weigh in to give us your opinion. I say it
Speaker 1: what I said because guess what, I don't care what
Speaker 1: you think. And if you do want to weigh in
Speaker 1: and give your opinion, this is where I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: the little plug. As we move into the show, I
Speaker 1: want everybody remember to type in capital letters because Flame
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Speaker 1: Flame and Lauren have the iPad there. We want you
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Speaker 1: and join us, want you to use those Flames typing
Speaker 1: capital letters, find good lighting, have your headphones, and used
Speaker 1: the Flame so that we know that you're ready to
Speaker 1: join the converse before we move forward. I'm want Lawn
Speaker 1: to weigh in on that lawrence. So you grew up,
Speaker 1: you you do you have any gay people in your family?
Speaker 1: I do? Do you have any people that go back
Speaker 1: and forth to jail for other crimes? Oh? My god.
Speaker 1: Well it was a comparison. I'm not saying, well, I
Speaker 1: won't totally put my family's business on blast, but um,
Speaker 1: there was a situation in my family where there was
Speaker 1: an uncle, um, who was a little inappropriate with my
Speaker 1: aunt who's my mom's sister. So and so how did
Speaker 1: the family measure the gay one and the other one?
Speaker 1: I would say, my family, We'll just talk about my
Speaker 1: mom's side. You know, born and raised in New York
Speaker 1: and Brooklyn, very progressive. You know, We've got musicians and
Speaker 1: every artist that you can think of on my mom's
Speaker 1: side of the family, So very inclusive. You know. It
Speaker 1: was never anything about, you know, if you were gay whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, your sexuality was I think the only um
Speaker 1: issue once that my grandmother took with her sister, who
Speaker 1: you know was a lesbian, you know, and she passed
Speaker 1: away from colon cancer a couple of years ago. But
Speaker 1: one time she said to my mother, you know, everybody's
Speaker 1: got a little lesbian into them. My grandmother didn't appreciate.
Speaker 1: She didn't like that. But other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: very inclusive. It was, it was never an issue. But
Speaker 1: to your point, Flame, I I hear what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and I can, I can, I can understand that. But
Speaker 1: I think part of two of kind of what we
Speaker 1: need to unpack here is, you know, some of these
Speaker 1: norms that we have in the black community of why
Speaker 1: we don't accept things come from what was ingrained in
Speaker 1: us when we were slaves. That's my opinion. You know,
Speaker 1: you guys can differ in in that space, but I
Speaker 1: just feel like those societal norms that were set on
Speaker 1: us are the reasons why we have these issues in
Speaker 1: our communities today. And I completely agree, Lauren, And just
Speaker 1: to piggyback off of that, because I I do want
Speaker 1: us to wow. Wasn't I expecting this conversation at all?
Speaker 1: But I think it's one of those things to where um,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, families are more comfortable saying to the
Speaker 1: girls in the family, we've heard this. I won't speak
Speaker 1: for anybody else, but go put some clothes on because
Speaker 1: so and so is coming over here. And you would
Speaker 1: think that, well, why why is it all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Now this girl is put in a space of shame.
Speaker 1: Something's wrong with her body that she can't be She
Speaker 1: was just running around here with Aunt Lauren and and
Speaker 1: and an antique Karen h in her shorts and her
Speaker 1: little tooth. Topic there was not a problem. But now
Speaker 1: because somebody in the family is coming over there, everybody
Speaker 1: kind of knows and they kind of whisper about, but
Speaker 1: they don't want to say anything. Go put some go
Speaker 1: put on some pants because uncle so and so is
Speaker 1: coming over here. That that that's a problem. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: let's but let's talk about that though, because where is
Speaker 1: that origin come from. If we're going to take you
Speaker 1: back to what I just said, let's think about how
Speaker 1: we were on plantations as black folks, and we had
Speaker 1: these white women who were married to our masters, and
Speaker 1: they were very insecure about black women because these white
Speaker 1: women were coming in and sleeping with black women. They
Speaker 1: were cheating on them, right, white man, so exactly white men.
Speaker 1: So the issue became that, oh, she's dressed inappropriately, so
Speaker 1: she needs to cover up. And then that's just how that,
Speaker 1: you know, narrative transcends through time. That's how I feel.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that one. We're both of y'all
Speaker 1: because y'all not parents. Because in my house, when is
Speaker 1: he and my daughter got boobs? One day she came
Speaker 1: out to the room head boobs. I'm a girl. When
Speaker 1: you get those? She got from you? I said, man
Speaker 1: was put on your grew though. Any who, but she
Speaker 1: has My son is there and he's a eighteen. He's seventeen,
Speaker 1: she's seventeen. Put some clothes on. I think it's inappropriate
Speaker 1: to walk around me. Is disrespectful to me as your father,
Speaker 1: and it's disrespectful to your brother because even though you
Speaker 1: all are related, he's a teenager. I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: it's some perversion thinking in the house, but you don't
Speaker 1: know how another person is thinking, or you're looking at somebody.
Speaker 1: I used to have a problem with my mother walking
Speaker 1: around scandidly dressed in the home. So would you put
Speaker 1: some clothes on? She slapped the hell out of me.
Speaker 1: One day I asked her again, would you put some
Speaker 1: clothes on? I didn't want to see all of that,
Speaker 1: But does that make a difference? I see nickers want
Speaker 1: to go, I'll do it tonight. A love louds I
Speaker 1: get your asser back tonight, nigga, right now we're on
Speaker 1: the show. I just think that as a father of daughters,
Speaker 1: that it starts with respect to me. So if if
Speaker 1: I asked you to respect me as your dad, you
Speaker 1: respect yourself with other me. And that's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to see my daughter walking around
Speaker 1: brawl this with a boo. I mean, I don't do it,
Speaker 1: you know, and I got boom. So I'm a very
Speaker 1: different looking dad. But I make sure I have on
Speaker 1: my clothes. I keep on my jogging pants and a
Speaker 1: T shirt around my children. You know, I'm not never scared.
Speaker 1: I don't even know my children have every well, one
Speaker 1: I'm walked in on me, so had ever seen me
Speaker 1: naked before? But yeah, I mean that's happened. I've done that,
Speaker 1: to have walked in on my dad naked. But as
Speaker 1: a father of a daughter, I want her to respect
Speaker 1: me because as a man, so I figured like she'll
Speaker 1: respect other mean, because it's kind of respecting yourself your daughter.
Speaker 1: You don't know, would you feel appropriate walking around your dad?
Speaker 1: You know it was a young team. You know, I
Speaker 1: never would, And I mean I agree with that part
Speaker 1: of what you're saying, but so, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's both of those things. I think, you know, black
Speaker 1: women were hyper sexualized at a very young age and
Speaker 1: it's carried on. And to your point, you know, you
Speaker 1: do have to have that dividing line of Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: still your father. You need to respect me because that's
Speaker 1: how I am. And you know with my father as well,
Speaker 1: we definitely have those lines drawn in the sand. Well,
Speaker 1: since you have three teenagers at home, I have to ask,
Speaker 1: did Santa visit the Parker's Santa didn't come in my house.
Speaker 1: I think you had the corona we sprayed anything outside
Speaker 1: on the chimney. But we already talked about that. You
Speaker 1: can't Santa couldn't come to my house because that nink
Speaker 1: went to too many different people house with that ship.
Speaker 1: Uh So, let's move on because I want to talk
Speaker 1: about something I want to I know we I know
Speaker 1: this is often cause what's the first subject, Lauren? We
Speaker 1: need to talk about these automated cars. Yeah, we want
Speaker 1: to talk about the car. I do want to just
Speaker 1: say shout out to the family in Ohio. I think
Speaker 1: his name was Andre. The police they they just killed
Speaker 1: the guy in Ohio and shot him and the police
Speaker 1: officer if a police officer was fired. But here's my thing,
Speaker 1: is it getting any better? Honestly? Since George Floyd you
Speaker 1: shoot me and then you keep telling me put my
Speaker 1: hand behind your back, nigga, you can't. I can't move
Speaker 1: my arm because you didn't shot me in it. The police,
Speaker 1: we talked about this last week. It's not they don't
Speaker 1: need to redo the police. They need to reform it.
Speaker 1: It needs to be some changes. You cannot keep putting
Speaker 1: around pig in a square hole does not work. I
Speaker 1: do think, though, this particular situation is different. Um. And
Speaker 1: I say that simply because one I want to applaud,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that I never want people to
Speaker 1: think that somehow, uh you know, we we have something
Speaker 1: against law enforcement, because I if I will speak for me,
Speaker 1: I don't. But I think that their reform is necessary
Speaker 1: in this situation. I applaud leadership because they active swiftly.
Speaker 1: Not only did that officer not have his body camera
Speaker 1: on like he will suppose too, he violated. They acted quickly.
Speaker 1: There was no oh, we're going to suspend with pay
Speaker 1: while we figure out and we investigate. No, he's fired.
Speaker 1: We will continue to investigate. We made a mistake because
Speaker 1: this guy was on our on our payroll, and he
Speaker 1: did not act the way he had been trained to
Speaker 1: do and what the policy was. So I like that
Speaker 1: swift action. I also like the swift action of the
Speaker 1: officers who responded this weekend on Christmas morning to that
Speaker 1: bombing in Nashville, who immediately started knocking on doors and
Speaker 1: and they looked out for each other and they got
Speaker 1: people out of harm's way. Um. I just think that
Speaker 1: there are times when uh, there are many officers who
Speaker 1: there are more I believe, who do the right thing
Speaker 1: more often than not. And unfortunately it's those bad apples
Speaker 1: that keep popping up, making the entire force look bad.
Speaker 1: And Nikolas cleaning up of that meeting, nigger, you better
Speaker 1: clean up for that wash your meat statement. You better
Speaker 1: make a deal that the dealer is I will never
Speaker 1: wash my That's it's still ridiculous. It's as ridiculous then
Speaker 1: as it is now. Her friend she said that your
Speaker 1: meats stayed quite clean. I'm just telling you I knew her. Hey, Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: any who, let's go back because we were going somewhere
Speaker 1: else and we didn't get all sides because you brought
Speaker 1: up that bombing baby. I knew that was not no bomber.
Speaker 1: I knew that was a terrorist. And I knew he
Speaker 1: wasn't black because they didn't show his picture because they
Speaker 1: didn't have to say the name if he was black,
Speaker 1: they didn't show the picture. Ain't you got damn name. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that later on in the show,
Speaker 1: because that's gonna be Lord, He's all I told you
Speaker 1: I was feeling. I told you all before the show
Speaker 1: started that I was feeling groovy. If you don't know
Speaker 1: what that means, join us, aid love. Now, just six
Speaker 1: starts tonight, so we're gonna rewind here and we are
Speaker 1: officially going to start to show what the first topic,
Speaker 1: which is with self driving automated cars, um Nick, I
Speaker 1: know you and Flame had a discussion about it, and
Speaker 1: then Flame and I kind of had an offline discussion
Speaker 1: about it too. How do you feel about this? What
Speaker 1: the deal is? I was saying the Flame. The reason
Speaker 1: I brought this up and one day introduced this as
Speaker 1: a topic is because more and more of us are
Speaker 1: starting to see the electric stations pop up, simply because
Speaker 1: this is also part of Biden's whole commitment to going
Speaker 1: green and making sure that those who buy electric vehicles
Speaker 1: and self driving cars, most of the self driving cars
Speaker 1: and self automated vehicles happen to be electric, and the
Speaker 1: ideas that that smarter technology will make the roadways safer.
Speaker 1: That's also the direction many of the shipping UH trucks
Speaker 1: and things are headed, because unfortunately, too many of these
Speaker 1: drivers are on the road longer than they should be
Speaker 1: safely in order to pick up and drop off a
Speaker 1: load in time that is really just not realistic for
Speaker 1: them to actually be able to pick up and drop
Speaker 1: off and make money and get back. So the idea
Speaker 1: behind all of the testing of late as the automated
Speaker 1: trucks automated cars so that people can actually uh you
Speaker 1: remove the human error from driving a vehicle. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a great idea. Um I'm not for it.
Speaker 1: I hear all the reasons why, you know the reason
Speaker 1: behind this should happen, but I'm sorry. Technology fails us
Speaker 1: so many times within a day, a glitch is some
Speaker 1: error something, and I think that the flip side to
Speaker 1: that could be we could end up having more accidents.
Speaker 1: I really do, but I would never feel safe to
Speaker 1: just be in a car relaxing and say, oh, you
Speaker 1: can just drive for me, because you never know, you
Speaker 1: have to have quick reflexes and quick you know, fast
Speaker 1: reaction time, and what if you don't and you end
Speaker 1: up getting hit? You know what I mean? And then
Speaker 1: it's like, who's whose fault is it? That could be
Speaker 1: something else? Is it the actual automotive engineering fault of
Speaker 1: the car or whoever manufactures the car, or is it
Speaker 1: the actual driver? It can just it can cause a
Speaker 1: lot of gray areas that I'm just really not okay with.
Speaker 1: Uh is it my turn? Well? Yeah, but wait, wait, Nick,
Speaker 1: I got one scenario for you. Imagine getting in one
Speaker 1: of those self driving cars and it drives like I
Speaker 1: d because Nick is fucking terrified of my driving. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go and tell the people the truth. Nick says
Speaker 1: in the back seat when he raves with me, this
Speaker 1: is real talk, the truth. He ras in it because
Speaker 1: he's terrified of mine. So imagine riding in a in
Speaker 1: a car with with a system that they already programmed
Speaker 1: that drafts like I draft. How many heart attacks have
Speaker 1: you had in the day working with me? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say I don't think that would be a car
Speaker 1: designed by anyone. Let's just let's start there unless the
Speaker 1: speed racer. Are you kidding me? I think you know,
Speaker 1: you know. I just think that the technology is here,
Speaker 1: and I don't think you undering a bell, right. I
Speaker 1: can remember early on when microwaves came out, I had
Speaker 1: older relatives. I'm putting no food on. What's what's all
Speaker 1: that radiation going into my food? Now we don't even
Speaker 1: think about it. I think that I can remember when
Speaker 1: people like, why would I get into a stranger's car? H? Well,
Speaker 1: that's how Uber works with me. You don't know the person,
Speaker 1: You're just gonna get in their car. I think that
Speaker 1: that's just where technology is headed, because the idea of
Speaker 1: moving people, large groups of people safely from one place
Speaker 1: to another or individuals isn't new, and people are looking
Speaker 1: for cheaper ways to get their Younger people aren't buying
Speaker 1: cars at the same rate. I just think that uh
Speaker 1: automated Uber's automated buses. I think that technology is here
Speaker 1: and it's just going to expand. I Nicholas and Nicholas,
Speaker 1: I'm not for it. I'm telling you right now, I'm
Speaker 1: not for it because you know, as a people, we
Speaker 1: get too complace, not just as a black people, just
Speaker 1: as a people in general. And so I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: this comfortable. I'm gonna went through the drift through. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here eating my food, and you know what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen after you eat, especially if you ain't gonna be drabting,
Speaker 1: you go the iist kicking and you're just nodding, and
Speaker 1: this thing have a glitch. You kill yourself, you kill
Speaker 1: somebody else. I couldn't live with that, you know. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm alert when I'm writing with people that I'm not
Speaker 1: comfortable how they drive because I'm never understanding why me
Speaker 1: and you in the car together, Lauren. So I'm driving
Speaker 1: and we have a conversation and I just gotta keep
Speaker 1: turning to look at you, like you can't hear me.
Speaker 1: I'm looking in the in the straight this this whole
Speaker 1: can hear me. I ain't gonna look at hard can
Speaker 1: hit me. And that bothers me when people do that,
Speaker 1: because all it takes is to take your ads off
Speaker 1: the road for a split second and it's over. And
Speaker 1: I will say that just so people know and they
Speaker 1: don't slide up in your comments. You are not reading
Speaker 1: your phone when you're driving. Now, this is true. I
Speaker 1: just to and you're not reading your phone, and you
Speaker 1: are not one of those to turn and look at me.
Speaker 1: You do keep your eyes on the road. And I
Speaker 1: think what gives me some sense of comfort is that
Speaker 1: you're comfortable. And it's the same way you drive even
Speaker 1: when the kids in the car. So when Precious cargoes
Speaker 1: in there, So when Prescious cargoes in the car, I'm like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: she loved that baby. Y'all know who Nicolas said, I
Speaker 1: drive like y'all remember the movie Superstar and the lady
Speaker 1: was the soccer mom driver and she was looking back
Speaker 1: and changing pampas. That's how Niccola says, I drive, y'all
Speaker 1: that those therapian turns at breakneck speed. We're just like
Speaker 1: I said, whoa okay. And then one time Lauren so
Speaker 1: fast and there was such a cut that at one
Speaker 1: point I put she like playing with like, uh what
Speaker 1: you we're break You're using it because he was using
Speaker 1: That's when you got into the student driver cars. They
Speaker 1: got the brakes on the passengers side, but systematic, we
Speaker 1: would we would get so used to that, and I
Speaker 1: just think, I'm I'm going, I'm not with that because
Speaker 1: we would take our attention off of what's important. Machines
Speaker 1: do glitch, people glitch? You know, I guess, I guess
Speaker 1: the bigger question is you all know the technology is here.
Speaker 1: We don't live in a vacuum. So what do you
Speaker 1: plan to do? Then? Are you just oh, I will
Speaker 1: never get in an automated car? Or right now? Do
Speaker 1: you need to learn more what needs to put you
Speaker 1: at ease? Because you don't, you're still washing me. You
Speaker 1: won't do a vaccine, you won't get May we use electricity?
Speaker 1: What would you all prefer? How about this? How about
Speaker 1: you let fifteen million people drive these automated cars. See
Speaker 1: how many accidents happen and people die? Didn't bring me
Speaker 1: back the report and I'll tell you how I feel.
Speaker 1: Let's do that. How about that? Lauren's like, how about that?
Speaker 1: Nick was sugar about that? Not washing his meat? I
Speaker 1: mean washing the meat, Like I say, we have the meats,
Speaker 1: more people, more people slit up, and my letting. You
Speaker 1: would have thought I had called somebody out of their name.
Speaker 1: The way they split up and they're talking about me,
Speaker 1: And then I was like, whoa again, black folks, we
Speaker 1: are systematic people, and when we get used to doing
Speaker 1: some ship a certain way, just like they said in
Speaker 1: the Color Purple. Remember they said in the movie The
Speaker 1: Cup of we hang the sheets up first so that
Speaker 1: we can hang the socks in the crack. When she
Speaker 1: was trying to explain the word of systematic to her sister,
Speaker 1: this is what we do. We systemica do the same
Speaker 1: ship over and over, and we all believe what most
Speaker 1: of us believe. If it ain't broke, don't fix. I
Speaker 1: will change my way of doing some things. But I'm
Speaker 1: not getting in the car driving because baby, what if
Speaker 1: I sneeze and the cod think I gave it another
Speaker 1: demand and hit something else? I said, I too at
Speaker 1: the best that I said, stopped and we hit the
Speaker 1: back of and I walk around with one leg and
Speaker 1: one a and they called me at hop no thank you,
Speaker 1: no ma'am, and no thank you. I'm good. You know.
Speaker 1: I like my two legs, my two boobs, and my
Speaker 1: two Okay, what's the next subject? Well, I think I
Speaker 1: was gonna say. I think that's a good segue since
Speaker 1: we're talking about people possibly dying. Um, we were talking
Speaker 1: about just overall loss and death happening. We're gonna bring
Speaker 1: some people in there, but before because they could get
Speaker 1: along with We're gonna bring you back in. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get some folks in there, change their hair. We're gonna
Speaker 1: bring somebody because we're are going to talk about death
Speaker 1: because everybody proceeds or receives death differently. And this and
Speaker 1: the time of death now is very strange because people
Speaker 1: are having virtual funerals, or you can't go to the field,
Speaker 1: you can't even be with somebody in the time of
Speaker 1: bereave man because of coronavirus, or even saying you're goodbyes
Speaker 1: in the hospital. Right, So we want to bring somebody
Speaker 1: in who's gonna explain it to us about death and
Speaker 1: what death is. Because death is to me, I was
Speaker 1: told as a preacher was kid. Preachers said that you
Speaker 1: we're all here on loan. We all have to go
Speaker 1: back to that big pawn shopping. As simple as that
Speaker 1: sounds that I understood that. Hello, Hello, Texas Star party too. Hey,
Speaker 1: So we're doing great. You look amazing. How is your Christmas?
Speaker 1: My Christmas was good. My daddy barbecue for me, My
Speaker 1: mama fixed some ratios, and I fixed the coast law.
Speaker 1: So I was fitting full all weekend. I just ate
Speaker 1: the last of the barbecue and now I'm headed back
Speaker 1: to New Hampshire and the words are saying a whole
Speaker 1: ho ho. I like the dawn. So we had two
Speaker 1: subjects we can't cover when you heard us talking, because
Speaker 1: you know I've been I've been all over the place
Speaker 1: this morning. Something in my coca colde, in my diet car,
Speaker 1: drinking diet coke make you think crazy? Okay, but we're Lauren,
Speaker 1: Happy holiday? Hi? How are you happy holiday? I see you.
Speaker 1: Let's looks so cute. Listen. I wanted to say two
Speaker 1: things when you were talking about the transgender community to
Speaker 1: gay community. You don't have a little cousin that's transgender,
Speaker 1: and um, my first cousin. He's my first cousin's son actually,
Speaker 1: and he in September when I came home to visit,
Speaker 1: he was down, um depressed because I couldn't find a job.
Speaker 1: Roommate died. To make a long story short, he made
Speaker 1: an outcry on Facebook about how said he wasn't depressed
Speaker 1: while I reached out to him encouraged him. I didn't
Speaker 1: see transgender. I saw my little cousin. You know the
Speaker 1: love I have for him, you know, he text me
Speaker 1: the other day about Anita Baker because I turned him
Speaker 1: on Anita bak An eighty four when he was a
Speaker 1: little kid, you know. And I don't see transgender. I
Speaker 1: don't care. I love him, you know. And I had
Speaker 1: to tell that to my mother. I said, when we
Speaker 1: were talking about somebody that was trans gender, I said,
Speaker 1: Jason is transgender too. Yeah, well I can't never remember
Speaker 1: his name is Chelsea, but I called him Jason. I said,
Speaker 1: you love him, We love him, you know, So it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me. I don't care because guess what,
Speaker 1: I don't have a hell or heaven on hell to
Speaker 1: put him in. So that's that's that's that's just the
Speaker 1: way it is. And we need more people like you doing.
Speaker 1: And when I was saying that, I wasn't throwing my
Speaker 1: black community up under the bus, but I part of
Speaker 1: the black community. And that was it. That people just
Speaker 1: did not accept the game. They would accept so many
Speaker 1: other things. He could have thirteen baby mamas and nney
Speaker 1: nine kids running around, anything was better than that that
Speaker 1: person being game, so exactly, you know, like you say,
Speaker 1: they except the sex offender. They said, somebody Uncle Johnny
Speaker 1: that have been touching the kids since they came into
Speaker 1: this world. For the record, for the record, Uncle Johnny
Speaker 1: brought the best kids. Let me just say yeah, because
Speaker 1: he had to make up for all the ship he
Speaker 1: was doing it. That's THEBA. But anyway, I look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing Uncle Johnny every Christian. Let me just say personally,
Speaker 1: he had one hand on the ham and one hand
Speaker 1: on my ass and I I was sport to and
Speaker 1: I was I was young. That's a joke for ya, okay.
Speaker 1: But the second thing when Lauren was when y'all were
Speaker 1: talking about the electric cars, the new cars and whatnot. Now,
Speaker 1: I live in Southeast Texas and we as nothing but
Speaker 1: refineries between Bone, mic Port, Arthur and Houston, So we
Speaker 1: make oil and most of the oil goals for cars.
Speaker 1: So are they trying to they trying to push out
Speaker 1: the oil industry. That's a good point. That's a very
Speaker 1: good point. I mean, you know, we have hurricanes, non
Speaker 1: urricanes are coming so often. They're coming like June first
Speaker 1: to November thirty. So when the lights go out and
Speaker 1: the poles are down and we need to charge up
Speaker 1: these cars, are we gonna do when we ain't got electricity? Exactly?
Speaker 1: That's a couple. I'm afraid of him. I don't need
Speaker 1: nothing running about machine running. I'm just saying, and it
Speaker 1: makes us but honestly, it makes us as a society lazy.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like we stopped doing for it for ourselves.
Speaker 1: You know, we come so dependent on technology that we
Speaker 1: can't do for our our own selves anymore. So I'm
Speaker 1: really not a fan of it at all. Well, and
Speaker 1: you know, another thing to Lauren to add to that,
Speaker 1: the the cars we used to have in the eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties. Your daddy could change the oil, but now
Speaker 1: they made it so that you can't even get to
Speaker 1: the oil. You have to take it to the dealership
Speaker 1: or someone that specializes in changing oil to get your
Speaker 1: own change, you know. So, I mean, you know, the
Speaker 1: Tesla's are nice, that good looking cars, but I'm just
Speaker 1: not the head. But because I come from a refinery town,
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying. This is our way of
Speaker 1: living out here, and a lot of people may that
Speaker 1: way of living retired, gotten good benefits, good um income whatever.
Speaker 1: And y'all trying to face out the oil industry because
Speaker 1: a lot of our all come from Southeast Texas. Well,
Speaker 1: we want you to wait in on death because that's
Speaker 1: what we talked about right now, Dawn. So what I
Speaker 1: know you, I know you've lost people or known people
Speaker 1: who've lost people. And I mean not even just talking
Speaker 1: about this year with the coronavirus, because it's been so
Speaker 1: much death this year. What we had three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand in county or something like that. And then
Speaker 1: I saw Biden earlier today said that he's projected by
Speaker 1: the end of January because of the Christmas surge and traveling.
Speaker 1: Wh y'all should have set your asses down that it
Speaker 1: was gonna be another two hundred and fifty thousand dead
Speaker 1: by the end of January. So we can't go to
Speaker 1: the funerals. You can't you can't even grieve together. You
Speaker 1: know what? What what does death mean to you doing?
Speaker 1: You know now that I've gotten older and understand and
Speaker 1: death and you know, I have my parents and you're
Speaker 1: never prepared, but sometimes you prepared, you know. And the
Speaker 1: closest person I've had to die to me was my grandparents.
Speaker 1: You know, I understand it because we're not here forever,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not here. And I hate to sound
Speaker 1: so cliche, is like what the church start us, but
Speaker 1: we're really not, you know, because I look at my parents.
Speaker 1: My parents are seventy eight, seventy nine. I looked at
Speaker 1: my my aunt this weekend. My aunt and uncle. They're
Speaker 1: slowing down on us, you know, they're slowing down. So
Speaker 1: it's coming to it. It's gonna be a time that
Speaker 1: they're gonna leave, even though I'm gonna be okay with it,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean I'm not gonna miss him, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's why I made it a point. I know,
Speaker 1: with all the coronavirus and we're not I made a
Speaker 1: point to come home because I have to see my parents.
Speaker 1: You know. At this time, this is they all I have.
Speaker 1: I'm not married, I don't have any children, so this,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to look out for him and
Speaker 1: I have to take care of them. For New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: You know, something go wrong. I'm on the phone, you know,
Speaker 1: and I have other aunts. Everybody's slowing down on man.
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be a time that, okay, they
Speaker 1: leave him, you know. And you know what. My neighbor,
Speaker 1: her daughter just died Christmas Eve, forty two years old.
Speaker 1: She died from corona. You know, No, she had an infection.
Speaker 1: Now from Corona, thank God, now from Corona. But this
Speaker 1: is the time of the year, y'all know, from November
Speaker 1: than he's given Christmas time in the first of the year.
Speaker 1: Everybody flying out out of here. It's just the people
Speaker 1: that are leaving the surprising, you know. And in springtime
Speaker 1: it's gonna start up again. You know. So even though
Speaker 1: we don't, we think we could live forever. I mother
Speaker 1: tell me all the time, Oh suck, let me tell
Speaker 1: you all all kind of you have everything low. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you right now, everything is low. Every thing
Speaker 1: is falling. Understand. I got a lot of ship that's fallen.
Speaker 1: But look, look slaim. My mother is seven and nine
Speaker 1: years old, and I always sees it. When she buys
Speaker 1: another piece of jeary, I said, well get it, I said,
Speaker 1: I probably have it in the next twenty years when
Speaker 1: we leave, she said, she said, oh no, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be gone before that. Long. That is a that is
Speaker 1: such a wonderful place to be. And I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: you about death long because long comes at it for
Speaker 1: with us from a younger age. But that is a
Speaker 1: wonderful place to be to accept, to know that one
Speaker 1: day you are definitely going to leave Mark. I think
Speaker 1: Mirke Luther King said in his sixty three memoirs, once
Speaker 1: you accept death, you're free. Once you know that this
Speaker 1: this is inevitable for everyone, it's going to happen to you. Baby,
Speaker 1: You're free because I'm like, come on, God, God don't
Speaker 1: want me leave it with this. Let me leave it
Speaker 1: with this. I'm gonna tell you what my mother always
Speaker 1: sell me. They are worse things than dine. You ain't.
Speaker 1: We got him here in the White House right now.
Speaker 1: I have a great year. Baby, I seen you out
Speaker 1: of here. So Lord, so death mean see, I'm older
Speaker 1: death and have you has anyone close to you have
Speaker 1: a pass on and you had to deal with that? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: I have My grandmother I think was like the first.
Speaker 1: My dad's mother was the first real death I had
Speaker 1: to deal with um at a young age. She died
Speaker 1: when I was about eight years old. And then um,
Speaker 1: my next major one was actually my aunt, who's my
Speaker 1: grandmother's sister. She died well, I was in college and
Speaker 1: I couldn't go to the funeral. But um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Death is something hard I think for for me to accept,
Speaker 1: at least when I I don't know. I just I'm
Speaker 1: not an emotional person and I don't deal with emotions
Speaker 1: well um and well okay, I mean seriously me too.
Speaker 1: And it's like when things happen, I realized that I'm
Speaker 1: more so will kind of hold them in rather than
Speaker 1: dealing with them up front. I don't want to cry,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't like to express really how I feel. Um,
Speaker 1: that's I think that's also too why I like being
Speaker 1: alone a lot because I get to, you know, really
Speaker 1: decompress and figure out my own thoughts and feelings for myself.
Speaker 1: And it may not be the most healthy thing, but overall, uh,
Speaker 1: death is not something that I think that I've arrived
Speaker 1: in my life where I can just accept it's something. Yeah, Nick,
Speaker 1: what about you? I think I think you know me
Speaker 1: well enough to know we've we've kind of had the discussion.
Speaker 1: I think, Um, my biggest challenge would probably be, you know,
Speaker 1: losing my mom. Um. I think I've experienced loss in
Speaker 1: the family, but I can't think of anyone who has been, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a tougher critic, bigger cheerleader or or anything,
Speaker 1: or more influential in my life than my mother. And um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, same here same here. I need rose that
Speaker 1: lier to be about a hundred and twils. Let me
Speaker 1: just say, because I know your baby girl, I can
Speaker 1: deal with all this this thing as a big old
Speaker 1: emotional baby baby. I can't hold him up. He thinking
Speaker 1: at me. But but you know you talked about too.
Speaker 1: Just hey, enjoy life, be responsible, but enjoy life while
Speaker 1: you here because uh, and again, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I missed us in the exchange, but it was it
Speaker 1: was your mom who said, uh, how many times have
Speaker 1: you seen a U haul following the hearse? Exactly? And
Speaker 1: we hold on and that goes to the whole pity point.
Speaker 1: We want to hold on to money. We want to
Speaker 1: hold on to the most property. We gotta have the
Speaker 1: most shoes. That is so irrelevant when you leave to
Speaker 1: go here, because I believe, I do believe that there's
Speaker 1: a heaven, and I do believe it as a hell.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell we're living in right now,
Speaker 1: but I do believe there's a heaven in the hell. Baby,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go to hell. They don't have
Speaker 1: any fans, you know where. I burned my fan every night.
Speaker 1: I'm old school. I put a fan on even in wintertime.
Speaker 1: I played my my fan every night. I think it's
Speaker 1: just the white noise. Now I'm so YouTube. Uh, and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to hell because all this silicone is
Speaker 1: ship gonna meil. God just ain't ready for me and
Speaker 1: heaven yet because I talked too much ship and he
Speaker 1: was gonna I got some explaining to do. He gonna like, dude,
Speaker 1: I didn't give you, go back and get try it
Speaker 1: again and didn't come back. People keeps sending back and
Speaker 1: back and back. He's like, I ain't ready to deal
Speaker 1: with this bitch right here. But death is death. It
Speaker 1: is to me. Um, just the involvement of everything is
Speaker 1: gonna happen now that it hurts when it's a baby
Speaker 1: or it's just a sheer accident that you didn't foresee coming.
Speaker 1: But then it makes you want to say, God him
Speaker 1: question you. You did wrong. You know I'm angry with you,
Speaker 1: and I think it's okay to have been angry with God.
Speaker 1: I've challenged God's process in my life several times. I've
Speaker 1: always humbled me. He's always re humbled me to my
Speaker 1: knees to say, Nigga, did not tell you I'm doing this.
Speaker 1: You just in the way, and so I understand that
Speaker 1: at this age, but when I was younger, I did
Speaker 1: not kept challenging him, but it was going and going
Speaker 1: and going. But so death to me is how you
Speaker 1: perceive it and if you let it consume you. And
Speaker 1: I think that the love that you hold on for
Speaker 1: that person. So if it's a maid, a kid, a pardner,
Speaker 1: whatever that loves that with the mother and father, the
Speaker 1: love stage there. The love never leaves your heart. That's
Speaker 1: to me, that's what keeps them alive because you still
Speaker 1: love that person. You ain't always got to tell the
Speaker 1: best stories about it because Y're gonna say some fun
Speaker 1: up about me as I'm dead. But it's okay because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hear you and I'm gonna hunt you. Boo.
Speaker 1: I heard somebody talk about recently, uh that um, you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was extending condolences I believe to someone in
Speaker 1: John Lewis's family. Um, and you know president like Biden
Speaker 1: lost his wife and his daughter. You're talking about losing
Speaker 1: a baby, you know and everything there. Um, and he
Speaker 1: was saying that there will come to a you will
Speaker 1: get to a point it's hard to believe now where
Speaker 1: you will laugh before you cry off something that they
Speaker 1: said or did your the good memories will will take
Speaker 1: over the sadness, and and and and you'll you'll get
Speaker 1: to a better place. But because it just seems like that,
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things where I think we
Speaker 1: all will have to face it at some point. UM.
Speaker 1: But you just hope that you, like me, are surrounded
Speaker 1: by people who love me, um, who will help me
Speaker 1: get through it, because I can see myself engaging in
Speaker 1: a whole lot of eating and just you know, just
Speaker 1: make sure I get all the correct penamens. Please asking
Speaker 1: for a friend. Okay, well we're talking about pennomics. Can
Speaker 1: we go to Nashville right now? Please? Yeah, let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about it. Take me there alone, Please take me there.
Speaker 1: So as we all know, there was a huge bombing
Speaker 1: in Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas morning. UM. It was a
Speaker 1: recreational vehicle. It exploded in downtown Nashville. Three people were injured,
Speaker 1: damaging dozens of buildings and ultimately killing the actual bomber,
Speaker 1: who officials have identified to be sixty three or sixty
Speaker 1: three year old Anthony Q. Warner. UM. According to officials,
Speaker 1: Warner was present when the bomb went off and he
Speaker 1: died in the bombing. Uh. They used DNA at the
Speaker 1: scene to match a sample that was taken at another
Speaker 1: location by investigators, and so far he's the only suspect
Speaker 1: at this point, you know. Oh, and I know all
Speaker 1: this is new and we're still learning more. But I
Speaker 1: have I have so many problems with this um and
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I'm sensitive. I understand that
Speaker 1: how having suicidal thoughts are a mental health issue, and
Speaker 1: that people get into really dark places and you want
Speaker 1: them to get the health that they need. I think though,
Speaker 1: for me, Lauren Flame, Flame etso who are listening, it
Speaker 1: takes it to another level when, if indeed you are suicidal,
Speaker 1: that you choose to engage in a mission where you
Speaker 1: put others at risk or you want to harm others. Now,
Speaker 1: to me, it moves almost out of and I am
Speaker 1: not a mental health expert professional in the area, it
Speaker 1: moves out of me saying, you know what, I can't
Speaker 1: go on with the world as it is. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to offer myself to something else. When I decide
Speaker 1: to buy materials allegedly make a bomb, allegedly drive an
Speaker 1: RV that people had seen parked in my yard through
Speaker 1: Google View and identify me, and I drive it downtown,
Speaker 1: I park it in front of a building, and then
Speaker 1: I even have the forethought to make a recording. This
Speaker 1: is going to explode in five four. I don't understand
Speaker 1: the I don't understand the mentality behind that. Where on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day I want to do this in this way
Speaker 1: and possibly her mother's and found his body, the remains
Speaker 1: of his body allegedly, because I don't believe that that's
Speaker 1: that man. Let me just say that right now. I've
Speaker 1: said that because yesterday it was they found some remains,
Speaker 1: but they're not sure who it is. It was so charged.
Speaker 1: If it was so charged yesterday, what did it did changed?
Speaker 1: Because that's what when you burn up the evidence, you
Speaker 1: burn up the evidence. But yesterday it was so charged.
Speaker 1: But today, I, first of all, I don't believe that's
Speaker 1: that's that man. I don't And I don't like the
Speaker 1: way they portrayed because it hadn't been a black man,
Speaker 1: he would have been a terrorist and his picture would
Speaker 1: have been up there before his name. But you see
Speaker 1: here always white man. He's not a terrorist. They're calling
Speaker 1: him a bomber. And now you're referring to mental illness. Baby,
Speaker 1: he ain't mental ill If that's what that nigga wanted
Speaker 1: to do, black, white or indifferent, than that's what that
Speaker 1: nigga wanted to do. I'm with you on there. If
Speaker 1: you want to kill yourself, why you gotta kill everybody else?
Speaker 1: You can take some pills in the room, don't call nobody,
Speaker 1: turn your phone off the hook and they never got
Speaker 1: an answer, and float the funk on and go where
Speaker 1: you're going. Because my grandmama raised me on that if
Speaker 1: you kill yourself, you go straight to a sea of
Speaker 1: fire where you burn in eternally in the darkness, where
Speaker 1: you never hear another voice. I was raised on I
Speaker 1: have raised my children on it. So no matter what
Speaker 1: the world thought at you, you're gonna have to deal
Speaker 1: with it because there other alternative is that you were
Speaker 1: burning the sea of fire and all eternity in the
Speaker 1: darkness and never hear another voice that terrorizes me in
Speaker 1: Now that works for me. Teach you to your grandkids
Speaker 1: any who. I don't believe what you said, Nicholas about
Speaker 1: how he felt. I don't understand when people do all
Speaker 1: that man's murder. You gotta go kill everybody and then
Speaker 1: they're going to your next subject. When you were talking
Speaker 1: about do teens get a pass? Yeah, first of all,
Speaker 1: let me go first, because y'all ain't got no kids,
Speaker 1: and absolutely not. Goddamn, it's some ship that you crossed
Speaker 1: the land. We are all born with the installment of
Speaker 1: you know, right from wrong, even when it's fucked up
Speaker 1: wrong and you still do it. I'm guilty of my
Speaker 1: dad himself. You know it's right from wrong. That's what
Speaker 1: everybody knows that. I don't care what kind of household
Speaker 1: you grew up in. You know the difference between right
Speaker 1: and wrong, whether it's stealing or lying or whatever. You
Speaker 1: put that on, you know, So people take that on
Speaker 1: all that ship about. They can get a path if
Speaker 1: you kill. If one of these teams kill their mom
Speaker 1: and daddy because they tell them they can't play video
Speaker 1: games and then they cut, they'd be here them and
Speaker 1: it's happening now. So don't I ain't saying some strange
Speaker 1: ship that didn't happen in the seventies or the eighties.
Speaker 1: We can talk about Lizzie Morden. You go back to
Speaker 1: the forties. See she was there, I wasn't there, any who?
Speaker 1: Any who? If the mom and daddy is dead. They
Speaker 1: didn't get a second chance. Baby. Sometimes when people be
Speaker 1: fucked up, they'd be fucked up mentally and there's nothing
Speaker 1: you can do about it, putting them in all of
Speaker 1: get them away from everybody because they're gonna harm somebody.
Speaker 1: But y'all want to give them jobs and badges and police. Uh. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's the difference. To come on on, I know what
Speaker 1: the funk I'm saying. Well, what I'll say is this, Um,
Speaker 1: I do agree with the fact that if we just
Speaker 1: look at history, UM, black folks are not the ones
Speaker 1: that are bombing the churches and you know, committing the
Speaker 1: mass shootings at schools and all of those different things.
Speaker 1: So I will say that as one thing, and then
Speaker 1: you know, when it comes out that it's this white person,
Speaker 1: it's not. They're not labeled a terrorists. But you have
Speaker 1: somebody like you know, President Trump that's conveniently saying in
Speaker 1: Charlottesville they were find people on both sides. But then
Speaker 1: you know, we have all of these protests around Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter, and then Antifa comes up and they're all terrorists.
Speaker 1: So there's definitely a double standard there for sure. Um.
Speaker 1: In terms of teenagers, getting a second chance. Um, I
Speaker 1: think it depends on what the offenses. You know, recently
Speaker 1: in California, our new attorney general, thank goodness, Jackie Lacey
Speaker 1: has gone um our new attorney general just nobody likes her.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's not it's common knowledge. Um. Our new
Speaker 1: attorney general actually signed into law that UH miners are
Speaker 1: going to be charged as miners and not as adults,
Speaker 1: which I think is great reform. I think it's great change. However,
Speaker 1: depending on what the offenses. So somebody like a Kyle Rittenhouse,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. He does not deserve to get a second chance,
Speaker 1: especially when he knows what he did. It was intentional.
Speaker 1: His mother drove him across state lines to to shoot
Speaker 1: those folks at the protest that was happening. And then
Speaker 1: you have somebody like a Dylan Roof. Just no, those
Speaker 1: those types of egregious offenses do not deserve second chances
Speaker 1: because that type of hatred that I don't even know
Speaker 1: what to call it, just that uh evil, that that's
Speaker 1: something evil that you possess in your soul. There's no
Speaker 1: coming back from that, there's no reform from that. You can't,
Speaker 1: you know, give them therapy and they can come out
Speaker 1: of that. On the other side, I don't believe that,
Speaker 1: you know, those certain types of offenses should receive the
Speaker 1: appropriate sentencing. That's how I feel, Nick. Wow, that's a
Speaker 1: lot to unpack, y'all. Uh, you know, I first of all,
Speaker 1: I want I want to go back, though, Like, in
Speaker 1: no way do I think we should allow what happened
Speaker 1: in Nashville to even come close to being conflated with
Speaker 1: the acts in Charlottesville, right, I think those are two
Speaker 1: different things. I also think Antifa has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with Black Lives Matter. I think those are two separate
Speaker 1: things as well, but more importantly, with the Nashville bombing,
Speaker 1: I think, just so we're clear, I think the reason
Speaker 1: why Flame You did not have a positive idea initially
Speaker 1: is that because they did use DNA. Now, also in
Speaker 1: a bombing. I know this from having done news and
Speaker 1: covered numerous bombings. All of the evidence is never destroyed
Speaker 1: in a bombing. That's a myth that it never burns up.
Speaker 1: There's always something from a plane crash, from a bombing
Speaker 1: that they're always able to retrieve, usually the components that
Speaker 1: were used. So I think it is reasonable that as
Speaker 1: quickly as they were able to identify these remains and
Speaker 1: tie a DNA because they also found family members who said,
Speaker 1: you know, he's been acting strange, signing away property and
Speaker 1: and telling people that Nashville is gonna remember his name.
Speaker 1: They used all of this information, Hey, can we do
Speaker 1: a cheek swab they linked the DNA that when I
Speaker 1: buy uh, the the the whole idea around teens, I
Speaker 1: don't think we really kind of set that up for
Speaker 1: people to know what we're talking about and why. And
Speaker 1: it all kind of stems from an article that was
Speaker 1: written on Sunday in The New York Times about a
Speaker 1: young girl who was fifteen when she used the N
Speaker 1: word in a Snapchat video to a friend. Someone saw
Speaker 1: that video, held onto it for five years, and when
Speaker 1: she got accepted to college, they released a video and
Speaker 1: then said, hey, University of Tennessee, don't let this girl in.
Speaker 1: She used the N word before. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I'm ready to put her in the same group as
Speaker 1: Dylan Roof and how reading how that's me though, and
Speaker 1: and and and I don't know if it requires being
Speaker 1: a parent to have a certain level of empathy. But
Speaker 1: I do think that teenagers are redeemable. I think for
Speaker 1: the most part, teenagers can be redeemed. I think that,
Speaker 1: and I don't know where it came from, but somebody
Speaker 1: said even sent us have souls. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's true, and I don't know if if we're but
Speaker 1: I do believe that everyone has value, and I think
Speaker 1: that if we do more, uh, that we can kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, step in and say, Okay, so I'm about
Speaker 1: to take this. I'm gonna take it here. So I
Speaker 1: think that's a convenient argument when uh, it fits the
Speaker 1: appropriate race. I'm just gonna say that because the idea
Speaker 1: of teenagers being redeemable does is this something that would
Speaker 1: really apply across the boy for everyone? Gave you an example.
Speaker 1: I forgot that the gentleman's name, But there was a
Speaker 1: white boy a couple of years ago he committed he
Speaker 1: actually raped someone. He raped her, uh, and when he
Speaker 1: went to court, the judge gave him six months probation.
Speaker 1: That was Stanford Swimp. Uh, thank you. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about? But then at the same time,
Speaker 1: I recently saw another gentleman. I think he was in
Speaker 1: the state of Alabama. He was at a party with
Speaker 1: a white girl. They were hanging out um, they left together.
Speaker 1: They did not end up, you know, sleeping together. But
Speaker 1: I guess a parent of hers found out and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden she cried rape. He couldn't get the
Speaker 1: proper lawyers to support him, and he's doing ten years
Speaker 1: in prison. So to say that teenagers are redeemable, it's
Speaker 1: it's like, for me, it's a convenient argument. I'll just
Speaker 1: say that because society does not say that for everybody.
Speaker 1: That's what I'll say. Back to what you said Originally,
Speaker 1: it depends on the crime, because some ship you just
Speaker 1: can't be redeemedful and not said to me. But you know, Nick,
Speaker 1: you ain't getting kids. I'd be glad when you do
Speaker 1: have a baby, because I can't Hollywaight, oh aunt Flame
Speaker 1: Gonnau your kid up. Mentally, I'm gonna have your kids
Speaker 1: so damaged. I'm then, you know an advance. Can you
Speaker 1: hear me? Yes, yes, yes, I'm gonna have your kids
Speaker 1: good and damaged. I think, come on, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just that you know, we we we kind of we
Speaker 1: We have kids who are thirteen twelve. You know they're
Speaker 1: using these social media they're putting stuff out there. I
Speaker 1: don't think they understand uh, there are kids who know
Speaker 1: the words to whop, their kids who know and there
Speaker 1: I do think the kids sing these songs, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that they censor themselves when they're singing Kindrick Lamar,
Speaker 1: And I don't know that because they sang the lyrics
Speaker 1: to the song, that they are inherently I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know. Again, I I don't know that I'm ready
Speaker 1: to label everyone who knows the lyrics to these songs
Speaker 1: that nothing changed, Nicholas. When when we're kids, they called
Speaker 1: the little girl's fast, Oh she's so fast, she a
Speaker 1: fast the girl. And now they call them holes, same difference,
Speaker 1: And they just don't start with outside of our community,
Speaker 1: this starting their own community in our own house. Your
Speaker 1: mama said, oh you's fast, stop being fast, probably before
Speaker 1: your time. Lord. Now it's home, that's right, lord, mama,
Speaker 1: old school. Now it's you're being a little hole. Stop
Speaker 1: being a Look. They change the word from holding thought
Speaker 1: now so it's you know, it's the same ship, just
Speaker 1: different words. It's can you imagine the parents saying that
Speaker 1: to their child. Stop saying I've seen mothers black women,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if any white women with their
Speaker 1: daughters I've seen black women call it. These bitches is
Speaker 1: getting on my nerves to their daughters faces. You don't
Speaker 1: know the harm that that has done to their daughters,
Speaker 1: because me and their daughters were friends and they were
Speaker 1: coming crack to me in pain that their mother, their
Speaker 1: own mother called them a bit And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: this to tell nobody down, but I'm telling you words
Speaker 1: have power to depend on who it came from. Because
Speaker 1: if you don't mean ship to me, there's absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: you can say to me about me that's gonna cut
Speaker 1: me to the quick. But if I loved and or
Speaker 1: hated you before, because they know me to hate you,
Speaker 1: I had that loved you, baby, you can say some
Speaker 1: ship and it will it cut me to the bone.
Speaker 1: It will so help me to the bone. So help
Speaker 1: me here, Flame, go back to it, because I want
Speaker 1: to make sure we're clear and as Flame that's are listening,
Speaker 1: where are we on this on teens? Our team's redeemable?
Speaker 1: That was that was a question. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: say it's I think it's a case by case basis.
Speaker 1: I will say that I'm just saying I don't think
Speaker 1: that the norm. It's it's not the norm, and it's
Speaker 1: not fair across the board, is really what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say here. But I do think it's on case
Speaker 1: by case basis. You know, some crimes are more egregious
Speaker 1: than others. But I mean, even with the girls saying
Speaker 1: the N word, you know, why why were you doing that?
Speaker 1: Why have so much emphasis on that? You know? When?
Speaker 1: Where did that break somebody's spirit? When did that? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that and hit me when I tell you,
Speaker 1: because I use the word all the time. So before
Speaker 1: my black community come after me, let me say this correctly.
Speaker 1: The word got the power. I know some slaves heard
Speaker 1: that before they died. I heard that. Then, you know,
Speaker 1: over say that what's her name? What was the poet's name?
Speaker 1: My edge was said that that was the last word
Speaker 1: of something. That word has so many levels of different
Speaker 1: meaning in the Black community and the black I'm only
Speaker 1: talking about the Black community, right. That word has so
Speaker 1: many different capacities from love to hate, to anger to joy,
Speaker 1: to biddness, to receive into acceptance to a compliment to everything.
Speaker 1: So why don't we hear that word spoken outside of
Speaker 1: somebody outside of our community who don't understand all the
Speaker 1: different levels for that word or the impact that it
Speaker 1: has that we get so offended back now in my
Speaker 1: face and disrespect to me. I get that, but she
Speaker 1: was going to a rap song. There was a video
Speaker 1: up this weekend where a man was in the store
Speaker 1: and he was buying a bottle or something and the
Speaker 1: man called him a nigger, and he kept nigger and
Speaker 1: he dropped the kingdom and man stay kept as cool
Speaker 1: and when he kicked the can, the man picked the
Speaker 1: can up and slapped five from that ass. I say,
Speaker 1: that's how you do it. I don't know what Montreal
Speaker 1: Jordan was talking about, but this is how we do there.
Speaker 1: That had tickled me, but here it was the disrespect
Speaker 1: was in his face. This little girl may the video
Speaker 1: from five years before, we hold On to Ship. We
Speaker 1: got stuff holding onto insignificant bullshit. That's the cancel calls
Speaker 1: held on. We've just held onto bullshit for four years
Speaker 1: and these last twenty three days is about to be
Speaker 1: real shaky. But we ain't fighting that. We got to
Speaker 1: pick and choose better battles as a people, not just
Speaker 1: black people, but as a people period. And I think
Speaker 1: that can go to the case by case basis that
Speaker 1: we're really talking about here. It just it depends on
Speaker 1: the situation. It does well. Flame mentioned four years of
Speaker 1: dealing with holding onto things. Is this the perfect segue?
Speaker 1: I think. So that's fat Nigga playing golf and y'all
Speaker 1: sitting at home, honey. And today the eviction mora moratorium
Speaker 1: started right, so they can put people out as starting today. Well,
Speaker 1: more importantly, Flame, before before we talk about that, the
Speaker 1: important thing is President Trump believes you all have slighted
Speaker 1: the first lady because he believes she should have been
Speaker 1: on more fashion magazines. So quit talking about things that
Speaker 1: don't matter. Flame, nobody's talking about rent moratoriums. And let
Speaker 1: me give you the laugh and learned version of that.
Speaker 1: She's always very nicely dressed. She looks beautiful all the time.
Speaker 1: Now let me give you the Nigga Flame on road
Speaker 1: version of that. Bitch, I don't give a funk how
Speaker 1: well you dressed. We bought them closed because we pay
Speaker 1: taxes that nigga only pay seven hundred and fifty dollars worth.
Speaker 1: Attacked them boots. That whole head on the other day
Speaker 1: costs more than that. Let me say what the funk
Speaker 1: I said that? Doe she be done? Oh Malanya is done.
Speaker 1: From here to toe every time you see. Uh, the
Speaker 1: problem is we're sitting on the other side, hungry, looking
Speaker 1: at this. If we got a TV, if we got cable,
Speaker 1: if we got someplace to stay. I'm looking at how
Speaker 1: well dressed. Your wife is all my tax money that
Speaker 1: you don't want to pay taxes for, and you didn't
Speaker 1: want to sign a stimulus bill to give me some
Speaker 1: of my money back. So I can watch her at
Speaker 1: least watch her in my stomach. Don't be growling. At
Speaker 1: least I can watch this bea and I'm on the
Speaker 1: full stomach. Nigga, where's the hypocrisy? Where's the outcrat on that? Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of hypocrisy here because I think in
Speaker 1: role it's just it's always entertaining for me. I will say,
Speaker 1: to see all of the things that Trump had to
Speaker 1: say about President Obama and all of the criticism that
Speaker 1: he gave him, and he's doing not only what he did,
Speaker 1: but ten times worse. He criticized Barack Obama for golfing
Speaker 1: too much. He's in Marlago every day and has been
Speaker 1: there throughout his presidency. I think there's also a bit
Speaker 1: of jealousy there too, because Michelle Obama was the fashionista
Speaker 1: of the world while she was First Lady for those
Speaker 1: eight years and had every designer, every up and coming
Speaker 1: designer coming to her dressing her and just really and
Speaker 1: she was glorified for it, rightfully so because she was
Speaker 1: the first to take a photo, you know, with her
Speaker 1: shoulders showing and all of these different things. So now
Speaker 1: when it comes to Trump, you know, some people backed
Speaker 1: out of dressing his wife because of the racist comments
Speaker 1: that he made. And I think people also failed to
Speaker 1: realize to Milanni is a lot like Trump. You saw
Speaker 1: what the Jackie said, did jacket saying I don't really
Speaker 1: care baby, Okay, I'm sorry, No, You're fine, And I
Speaker 1: mean they are a lot alike. They really are. So
Speaker 1: this is also to an ego thing for Trump because
Speaker 1: he's always trying to compare himself to Barack Obama, and
Speaker 1: you can just never measure up. I'm just gonna go there,
Speaker 1: you're fat, your orange, You've got a bad to pay.
Speaker 1: Barack Obama has the most swag that a president has
Speaker 1: ever had. He wore a tan Easter suit, a tan
Speaker 1: suit on Easter that raised all types of hell. You
Speaker 1: will just never compare get over it didn't that they
Speaker 1: look like the uncle from uh Mr Rogers neighborhood in
Speaker 1: that tan so I was like, come on, that was
Speaker 1: the black uncle cross the street. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's come on, Barack so flat in that tan suit.
Speaker 1: I just had a flashback. Mom. I'm sorry, what was
Speaker 1: we at? But I'm with Lauren on that. Lauren, there
Speaker 1: was a time when that was the biggest scandals. He
Speaker 1: wore a tan suit. Oh my god, who does that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And there's no comparison, and that's his issue. You know,
Speaker 1: he's just never going to measure up. It's an it's
Speaker 1: an ego thing. And now he's trying to put it
Speaker 1: on his wife too, because she's not getting the same admiration.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get the same admiration as Michelle Obama.
Speaker 1: She was our first lady. She was a lady. And
Speaker 1: your wife supporn star and when it's authentic, it's authentic, y'all,
Speaker 1: and tried to copy every speech y'all, tried to copy
Speaker 1: other people's dress, the style, address, and way of life.
Speaker 1: But baby, when it's in you, it's in you. You
Speaker 1: came bad. And I think that's that's a message to
Speaker 1: some of these other helms, And I think the one
Speaker 1: one of the things the reason we brought this up
Speaker 1: is because Flame had just talked about how frustrating it
Speaker 1: was and how where has he been? But now that
Speaker 1: he has signed the stimulus package, I am interested in
Speaker 1: Flame to hear what some of the flamemates may have
Speaker 1: to say, uh, just because now it looks as though
Speaker 1: they are moving forward. And is this enough for you know,
Speaker 1: are we just ready for this to be done or whatever?
Speaker 1: I don't know what six gonna do. And that's the true.
Speaker 1: And then you made them wait for it. That is,
Speaker 1: and and Congresses or the House rather is working on,
Speaker 1: you know, making Trump a man of his word and
Speaker 1: actually providing these two thousand dollar checks for folks right now,
Speaker 1: which the Republicans are an uproar about because they don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. I feel bad for people. I
Speaker 1: really I wish I could help everybody, but I can't.
Speaker 1: But I really do with you because I know some
Speaker 1: people that's hurt. Hey. Hello, Hello, I'm sitting here doing
Speaker 1: my nails. Just girl, I said, you getting up in
Speaker 1: full on dre How are you way into racing? We
Speaker 1: want to know what do you think about this Trump?
Speaker 1: Foolishness and this this stimulus package that he finally decided
Speaker 1: to saying on the golf course, I'm trying to use
Speaker 1: my words gently right now. It's OK. I think that
Speaker 1: um it goes back to the old adage that um uh,
Speaker 1: you always want what the Joneses have, thinking that the
Speaker 1: grass is greener somewhere else. That's why he even saw
Speaker 1: out the presidency because he felt that he was gonna
Speaker 1: be a better president than Obama. And we all know
Speaker 1: that that couldn't ever have been possible because of his
Speaker 1: character and who he has been in the past. So
Speaker 1: but um, I'm just um I I'm I'm just floored
Speaker 1: that he would think fashion would be anything of a
Speaker 1: type of topic for the presidency that he has given
Speaker 1: to this United States, and that he would think that
Speaker 1: we needed to honor his wife because of the clothes
Speaker 1: she's wearing, although the clothes she had not worn to
Speaker 1: become popular. He wasn't even addressing that. If you want
Speaker 1: to address her, address her full character, not just something
Speaker 1: out of it. That money that was overspent for someone
Speaker 1: who's used to already dressing Uh foul, Let me just
Speaker 1: say foul, because some of her fashion was not taste.
Speaker 1: I just say it like it is. It wasn't tasteful.
Speaker 1: Um uh and um and so and and guess I
Speaker 1: agree with Lauren that she is very much like Trump
Speaker 1: and she is the one who pulled him around on
Speaker 1: five nose telling him what to do. She was the
Speaker 1: one encouraging him to behave the way he was. That
Speaker 1: he didn't come up with all of that on his own,
Speaker 1: that it was her that was pulling him around by
Speaker 1: the nose and and and giving him the encouragement to
Speaker 1: be a fool. For the people, I've said that in
Speaker 1: love Lounge because people love to say, well, he was
Speaker 1: such a monster and she was so sweet. Understand that
Speaker 1: the wife always knows her husband, even if she don't
Speaker 1: want to face it. That goes back to the whole
Speaker 1: frankistein very bit. But the wife knows her husband if
Speaker 1: he's a monster, and she stayed with him for thirty
Speaker 1: years and she knew he was a monster. There's a
Speaker 1: monster in her. But she's not a dumb either, though,
Speaker 1: because I feel like people a ume that she's stupid
Speaker 1: if we're just going to talk about it. The reason
Speaker 1: she didn't come to d C initially is because she
Speaker 1: was signing papers to make sure that her son Baron
Speaker 1: was covered when she decided to divorce Trump. You got
Speaker 1: that right. So she's not stupid. She gangster with that baby,
Speaker 1: because I don't know what the hell Cardi b Was
Speaker 1: talking about. Because she went from a basic home to
Speaker 1: the first lady of the United States. That's called the
Speaker 1: whopping the bop on the pop. Yes, but I also
Speaker 1: want to say that when we heard the audio of
Speaker 1: her speaking with her friend at the time, it really
Speaker 1: gave us a clearer insight as to the type of
Speaker 1: person she was and the fact that this season here
Speaker 1: in which he decided to be a total a whole
Speaker 1: and not sign that and try to drop people's hopes
Speaker 1: and say, oh, I'm gonna do two thousand dollars instead
Speaker 1: of six hundred dollars. I know, my off topic, but
Speaker 1: I just have to say that she didn't care nothing
Speaker 1: about Christmas, um either, and so having a bunch of
Speaker 1: sad people over the holiday was not not anything to
Speaker 1: matter for either one of them. So um, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we thank you for bringing it on in there, because
Speaker 1: you have, girl, you have shut it down. Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I understand. I live in the same America
Speaker 1: that you live in, and I see the same bullshit
Speaker 1: that y'all see. I need y'all to open y'all asscause
Speaker 1: some of y'all don't see it. Oh everybody is that,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm with y'all. I'm with you. Lord baby,
Speaker 1: you can't be that far removed from the devil and
Speaker 1: you ain't party devil. Seriously, it's just and I think
Speaker 1: it's so interesting because she's not in the spotlight. You know,
Speaker 1: people aren't really looking at her all the time that
Speaker 1: people think that it's really just Trump and oh she's
Speaker 1: she might be a little nice, but it's not the situation,
Speaker 1: you know. To Teresa's point, the audio came out, she
Speaker 1: was complaining about Christmas. Why do I have to do this?
Speaker 1: I don't care about these people. She had the coat,
Speaker 1: you know, when the whole issue was going on with
Speaker 1: children being locked up in cages and separated from their parents,
Speaker 1: she doesn't care. Do you think she's going to divorce?
Speaker 1: And immediately after this, did you not see the Penske
Speaker 1: truck that pulled up the day he lost the election?
Speaker 1: She was like, packed this up, bro out, Let's come
Speaker 1: on get together, she said, let me get these good
Speaker 1: I did you see the photo? I did see there
Speaker 1: your photoshop photo. No, I think it was very accurate.
Speaker 1: She was like, packed this up, we're leaving. They had
Speaker 1: to pack up all that special furniture because you know,
Speaker 1: for Bear and Bearing got that special furniture exactly so
Speaker 1: special sauce, baby, man, it's to all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce,
Speaker 1: cheese on your you know what, You're gonna leave Bearing alone?
Speaker 1: You know what? Lauren mentioned something earlier. I just want
Speaker 1: to touch a base on It. Turns out, Lauren, you
Speaker 1: would mention how um, we often ignore racing different situations.
Speaker 1: Now we're quick to call it out. It looks like
Speaker 1: the army sergeant that shooting at the bowling alley, it
Speaker 1: looks like the Rockford, Illinois And that's like for anybody
Speaker 1: who doesn't know, it's like northwest of Chicago, and it
Speaker 1: looks like they literally just came across the wires. The
Speaker 1: judge denied his bail, um, And it looks like the
Speaker 1: three people that he killed were shot randomly. He did
Speaker 1: not even know them, um, and all three were African American,
Speaker 1: So like he targeted certain people at this particular bowling alley.
Speaker 1: There were people there who were not African American, and
Speaker 1: it looks like uh Duke Webb, thirty seven years old,
Speaker 1: faces three counts of murder and three counts of first
Speaker 1: degree attempted murder for injuring three people um in the
Speaker 1: shooting at Don Carter Lanes and Rockford, Illinois. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's in jail with no bond. He's in jail with
Speaker 1: no bond. Flame good because you know, they say that
Speaker 1: you are bond and then they throw up a fucking
Speaker 1: go fund me and everybody started donate money to the killers.
Speaker 1: A little disappointed active duty service member, but you know, hey,
Speaker 1: uh this will will definitely figure itself out, you know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, but I will say this, Nick,
Speaker 1: I think it does touch on the mental health part
Speaker 1: that you were speaking about earlier, because I do agree.
Speaker 1: I think mental health is something that's not talked about enough,
Speaker 1: especially in communities of color, and it's something that we
Speaker 1: should be open to. You. I'm sorry, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I think mental health is something that should definitely be discussed. However,
Speaker 1: there's also a part of that too, where don't make
Speaker 1: that the convenient argument to justify white people shooting people
Speaker 1: of color. What you're about to say? It was like
Speaker 1: it was like the recently saying that they tried to
Speaker 1: say that mental illness and racism were linked. It was
Speaker 1: the same thing. So that's what I'm saying. So now
Speaker 1: he's mentally ill and he's racist. How scary is that?
Speaker 1: But y'all keep giving them badges and calling them officers.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, how scary is that that they mentally
Speaker 1: ill and they racist? Because if you're racist, and they
Speaker 1: say that that is the equivalent of being mentally ill,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. But you keep giving racist jobs
Speaker 1: as fully officers, put them in our neighborhoods where they
Speaker 1: don't understand addiction or how we speak to each other
Speaker 1: or how we communicate and how we live. That's fucked up.
Speaker 1: So now don't say that it's mentally ill as racism.
Speaker 1: It has to be two separate things, because that means,
Speaker 1: do you know, it's seventy three million mentally ill people
Speaker 1: they voted for Donald Trump? That's true, though, that's not
Speaker 1: y'all stop ya you gotta say. I just said it's
Speaker 1: seventy three million people voted for him this year, which
Speaker 1: means that if racism and they voted because they were racist,
Speaker 1: because a lot of Republicans jump ship. They didn't even
Speaker 1: want to deal with his ship no more. If they
Speaker 1: all voted for the because there was racist we got
Speaker 1: seventy three mental I mentally ill people walking around around me. Bitch,
Speaker 1: my neighbors. This, they're get here in the office with me, Knda,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be playing on this phone. This crazy, this
Speaker 1: is what you do. Just what I'm saying that that's
Speaker 1: that's that is. Don't do that. They have to be
Speaker 1: separate because that's scary to think that they're not right.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I see a comment too from teach in
Speaker 1: hey t t Gen. She said racism is taught, and
Speaker 1: I would agree with that too, because it's something that's
Speaker 1: ingrained in you as you grow up. You know. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't my opinion, I don't think anybody is just
Speaker 1: born race born a racist. I think that it's something
Speaker 1: that your parents teach you, you know, you get from society,
Speaker 1: and then you ultimately say, Okay, yeah, this is how
Speaker 1: I feel and this isn't fair. Because I think that's
Speaker 1: also too. It goes with it with a lot of
Speaker 1: these mass shootings and different things that we see from
Speaker 1: white folks. Is they ultimately think this isn't fair. Well,
Speaker 1: why does this black person or this Latino person have
Speaker 1: this and I don't have it? But you know what, Lauren,
Speaker 1: I'm going to jump in there and say this. I
Speaker 1: think at some point the sense of the parent can
Speaker 1: no longer be uh an excuse right uh. And I
Speaker 1: say that simply simply because I think it is possible
Speaker 1: parents just don't know any better. At some point, you
Speaker 1: become an adult, You leave home, you move around, you interact.
Speaker 1: At some point you have a responsibility to educate yourself
Speaker 1: and try to learn more about things that maybe you
Speaker 1: did not grow up with, you did not see in
Speaker 1: your everyday life. You don't get to float around when
Speaker 1: my mother didn't teach me about such to say, so
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna walk around with this attitude about such
Speaker 1: and such. You know, you give me saying that that
Speaker 1: you have to Yeah, yeah, definitely. But it looks like
Speaker 1: this guy was an active duty service member and he
Speaker 1: is definitely being held flame without bond right now. So
Speaker 1: there we are. Let's see what actually happens with him,
Speaker 1: because we still have somebody like a Kyle Rittenhouse who
Speaker 1: is out on bail, and you have congressmen in Florida
Speaker 1: saying he should run for Congress. Okay, back to the
Speaker 1: state of Florida. Hey, Florida Manny petty state Baby, let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. Us in Florida, baby, and I
Speaker 1: think about coconuts just losting us, you know which, which
Speaker 1: which is a perfect opportunity for me to remind everyone
Speaker 1: who's listening. If you want to sound off of about
Speaker 1: what's like, just say you live in a great state
Speaker 1: of Florida. Remember to subscribe, comment, and share, because we
Speaker 1: want everybody involved in the conversation. The fond Steve feedback
Speaker 1: and the messages that you all have sending the comments.
Speaker 1: They really do mean a lot because we're reading them
Speaker 1: and and so are our bosses and everybody I don't
Speaker 1: read them. Today is a very scary day in America,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna I'm getting on this not off topic,
Speaker 1: this is actually on top. I have to bring Nicholas
Speaker 1: back because it's important because Nicholas wants to help everybody.
Speaker 1: If Nikolas had all his money right now, Baby, probably
Speaker 1: give it all the way. I won't let him get
Speaker 1: all this money right now. But rent today the moratorium stops.
Speaker 1: People will start being evicted if if you don't have
Speaker 1: a communication, if you don't have the money, that's one thing.
Speaker 1: But please always try to communicate with your landlords or
Speaker 1: whoever the bank is that you pay your mortgage too,
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you, if they don't hear anything from you,
Speaker 1: the next move is to cover their own asks, which
Speaker 1: is started even eviction noticed, or come to you to say, hey,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? But you can finago gas company,
Speaker 1: you can put something down on like you can pay
Speaker 1: something on rent a center, you can pay some on
Speaker 1: your phone bill. You can't pay nothing on rent. If
Speaker 1: you can't pay the for rent, a lot of landlords
Speaker 1: will put you out. But if you have an open
Speaker 1: line of communication, even if you don't like each other,
Speaker 1: let them know what's going on because a lot of
Speaker 1: times they use that money for insurance and upkeep on
Speaker 1: the property, and they not give nothing because you're not
Speaker 1: giving them anything. It's it's about to be real scary.
Speaker 1: But Beyonce put up half a million dollars Lord Hogan
Speaker 1: half a meal five thousand dollars a piece to one
Speaker 1: people was in in Houston. Yeah, And isn't that the
Speaker 1: interesting pieces. We were just talking about her last week
Speaker 1: and how it wasn't her responsibility to take the back
Speaker 1: to be at the forefront of saying you should take
Speaker 1: the vaccine. And I will just add to that part.
Speaker 1: I don't know Nick if you saw, but the Surgeon
Speaker 1: General Adams also called on Lebron James to do the
Speaker 1: same thing, which I didn't appreciate. But to go back
Speaker 1: to what Flame was saying, is that, yes, Beyonce gave
Speaker 1: over half a million dollars to the folks in Houston
Speaker 1: to make sure that they were able to just be
Speaker 1: able to stay in their house for another month or
Speaker 1: however long that five thousand dollar stretches. So we have
Speaker 1: these celebrities that are doing the jobs that our government
Speaker 1: is failing to do for us as citizens and as
Speaker 1: a people of America. So, Lauren, would you say that again,
Speaker 1: because it is not the responsibility of Beyonce Knows, Lebron
Speaker 1: James or anybody else. UH. This is what community and
Speaker 1: you voting and you being part of the UH civic
Speaker 1: process is all about. We are supposed to have representatives
Speaker 1: that look out for the interests of everyone, even those
Speaker 1: who did not vote for them. You know, UM, I
Speaker 1: did not vote for President Trump. Uh, and even if
Speaker 1: I had, I would hope that the one who was
Speaker 1: representing the country had my best interests at heart to UM,
Speaker 1: as did Joe Biden pledge to do who said that, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm the president of those who did not vote for
Speaker 1: me as well, but our local and state representatives. I
Speaker 1: feel like Flame Lauren have UM just failed so many
Speaker 1: of the people who are just trying to make it
Speaker 1: day today, UM literally living paycheck to paycheck. Well, since
Speaker 1: we're talking about voting, let's talk about high important Georgia.
Speaker 1: Y'all really need to come out because he has put
Speaker 1: out that he will be in Georgia next week for
Speaker 1: another super spread, another rally in Georgia, really trying to
Speaker 1: alley up the truth because osof have caught caught up.
Speaker 1: So we are neck and neck down in Georgia. But
Speaker 1: we got to take this in order to make any
Speaker 1: changes in this country. If we're sick of these mass
Speaker 1: shootings and we want this reform, if we want better housing,
Speaker 1: better equality and all that ship Georgia, it's all on
Speaker 1: y'all right now, because you guys hold the key. If
Speaker 1: we can get these two seats osof and warnut if
Speaker 1: we can get those two seats and we can tie
Speaker 1: up the Senate, we tip Mitch McConnell's black ass hands
Speaker 1: because you know theygna thinking white, but the hands is
Speaker 1: turning black, and something wrong with you. Nick. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: but this is what we have to do. We really
Speaker 1: have to get out and get out there and get
Speaker 1: that voting. And so tell all your friends or Grahama,
Speaker 1: get them to the post. This one is probably more
Speaker 1: as important as to Slash. It's just as important because
Speaker 1: he's gonna tie us up. We're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to get any laws or any bill's past. Miss McConnell
Speaker 1: is on the mission, and now Trump is trying to
Speaker 1: make up. See first, Trump was mad at miss mcconnald,
Speaker 1: so he threw him up under the bus. But somebody
Speaker 1: didn't got the Trump's is since he'd been at Mara
Speaker 1: a Lago. Going to Mari Lago is dangerous, y'all for
Speaker 1: us because when he goes to my a Lago, you
Speaker 1: don't have to go through the political protocol and security
Speaker 1: to speak to this nigga. You can just walk up
Speaker 1: to its fat as with a McDonald's sandwich because you
Speaker 1: know the nigga eat McDonald's. You come up to him
Speaker 1: with a big mac of some ship and he's gonna
Speaker 1: just let you come on in and he don't given
Speaker 1: where you got a gun or not, and you could
Speaker 1: just have a conversation. This is where all his detriment
Speaker 1: comes on when he set these crazy tweets. It's always
Speaker 1: when he on vacation on our damn in Mara Alago
Speaker 1: because he ain't pay no taxes and he wants us
Speaker 1: to make up bare stress. I'm not gonna make that
Speaker 1: bitch bet dress. If the bitch wants to be best
Speaker 1: dress for me, she should wear about a sass ten
Speaker 1: or twil so I can fit that ship. I can't
Speaker 1: even fit nothing that ship like that. But I don't
Speaker 1: even like claim you were talking to about the vote
Speaker 1: in Georgia. One of the stories that we did today,
Speaker 1: more than two point one million votes have already been
Speaker 1: cast in Georgia. UM and that's in a runoff election.
Speaker 1: And this is according to the Georgia Secretary of State UH.
Speaker 1: And they include both by mail and in person early voting,
Speaker 1: so people are turning out in record numbers. I think
Speaker 1: it was about forty thousand more people had done early
Speaker 1: voting than even in the presidential election. So it was definitely, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a pleasant sight to see of that happening.
Speaker 1: But I'm honestly okay with Trump going to Georgia. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you guys feel. I'm okay with him
Speaker 1: going to UH to Georgia on the fourth, the day
Speaker 1: before you're supposed to you know, vote in person, because
Speaker 1: supposedly he's going to take all his conspiracy theorists with
Speaker 1: him and more so focused on the fact of this
Speaker 1: last and final January sixth vote with uh the electorate
Speaker 1: to say I won the election. So I'm fine. Let
Speaker 1: him go down there, let him make everything about him,
Speaker 1: let him get people all rolled up about conspiracies and
Speaker 1: vote in his base. Those seventy three million people that
Speaker 1: flame talked about that are mentally ill not go out,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind with that. Well, it's either one. Either
Speaker 1: you're gonna accept that you're mentally ill or you're racist
Speaker 1: because you can't help them. You can't be you gotta
Speaker 1: pick and shoo. Did you just drop the title to
Speaker 1: our next pick? I want to say before we release,
Speaker 1: since we were talking about the fabulist Nose family and Beyonce,
Speaker 1: because I know I'm part of that family, y'all. Y'all
Speaker 1: do know I'm related to the Nose family because let me,
Speaker 1: I got four reasons. Let me. Let me get you
Speaker 1: to four reasons. I do Beyonce music face, I do
Speaker 1: Beyonce music. I'm crazy like the sister Solange cancer, I
Speaker 1: look like the mama Tina, and I got dick like
Speaker 1: the daddy Matthew. Baby, and let me tell them I'm
Speaker 1: a stepbrother from this family. I need you to just
Speaker 1: reach out, Beyonce, and why are you sitting out driving
Speaker 1: sues you ain't sending me? Now a girl, fast girl,
Speaker 1: I'm losing weight. I get a movie wrong. Secondly, I
Speaker 1: just want to encourage everyone to really really take the
Speaker 1: time to follow precautions. I y'all know I don't fool
Speaker 1: without you. I don't trust fout you at all. But
Speaker 1: I have been watching some stuff that they're saying that
Speaker 1: that the the mutated virus is way worse. Please be careful,
Speaker 1: Please wear your mask, Please wash your hands, Please do
Speaker 1: whatever has been working for you for the last nine months.
Speaker 1: Continue to do that, please, because baby, people are dying
Speaker 1: and recond numbus and if you don't have to visit somebody,
Speaker 1: pick up the phone. Car. I love that Don went
Speaker 1: to see her Niggas. That made me think of you.
Speaker 1: I need you to go see Ms Rosetta. I know
Speaker 1: Mr Rosetta ain't working with you in her house, but
Speaker 1: I need you to stand outside and look at your
Speaker 1: mom because Nicholas is very close to his mom and
Speaker 1: he has not seen his mother in a year. Don't
Speaker 1: start it either, because you know he has started crying
Speaker 1: all the game back. I see the miss but it
Speaker 1: just I know that's important to so many people and
Speaker 1: the risk factor. Sometimes, like I explained to Nikolas, sometimes
Speaker 1: the parent is saving you because they feel like I'm old.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be here, whatever's gonna have, it gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I'm helping you because you know, I don't want you
Speaker 1: to come and then something to have but to me,
Speaker 1: and you hold on to that guilt, and that's why
Speaker 1: I was trying to explain to you. Sometimes your mom
Speaker 1: is looking out for your best entries. You just don't
Speaker 1: understand it. So y'all do whatever y'all got to do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna close. I'm gonna let y'all get your closing
Speaker 1: thoughts out. Did I come on ething? I just want
Speaker 1: to remind people. I just want to remind people to subscribe,
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Speaker 1: of topics. We really do want it to be a
Speaker 1: transfer of information and an exchange of ideas because we
Speaker 1: are not here to change your mind. We just want
Speaker 1: you to what use your mind, use your man. Whatever
Speaker 1: you feel. However you feel about something that way, they
Speaker 1: ain't nobody else's. I can't blame you can't blame nobody
Speaker 1: but yourself. And sometimes it turns out to be a
Speaker 1: good thing. You can blame yourself for a good ship,
Speaker 1: Ain't that right? Nick? Absolutely absolutely see Nick glad he
Speaker 1: met me. I'm not like none of his other friends.
Speaker 1: I call him every day. Okay, let Lauren Hogan. I
Speaker 1: just want to say to you, in front of all
Speaker 1: you people that's on here, that you have been such
Speaker 1: a breath of fashare for the show. You have been
Speaker 1: like an unexpected blessing because I didn't foresee this happening.
Speaker 1: But I love the addition that you bring to the show.
Speaker 1: And I've said this on Love Lounge and on my
Speaker 1: other ship. I do on laugh. So I ain't telling
Speaker 1: you know what I told them because you just I'm
Speaker 1: telling you Lauren, you just click and girl from from
Speaker 1: if you go back to week one when Lauren was
Speaker 1: first song, she was a little too and quiet baby
Speaker 1: that found her voice. Baby, you can't shut it down.
Speaker 1: And we love it well, I think to h through
Speaker 1: our friendship and you know we're growing even working as
Speaker 1: you know, partners and everything. Um, we're learning a lot
Speaker 1: more about each other. So I'm grateful for you for
Speaker 1: giving me this opportunity. I love talking and having this
Speaker 1: conversation with you and Nick, So thank you for just
Speaker 1: for allowing me not only to be your manager too,
Speaker 1: but to also interact with you in this space. Um,
Speaker 1: it's been really amazing. And y'all see how nice and
Speaker 1: sweet she is. But on that manager side she monster
Speaker 1: baby that ladies not playing by my money. Oh I
Speaker 1: love it. I thank you guys, but thank you kend
Speaker 1: doing trouble listen. I've been learning was so great today
Speaker 1: because of their conversation. Do whatever works for you. We
Speaker 1: almost into a new year. I will see you guys
Speaker 1: at Love Lounge later on. And when is the Georgia
Speaker 1: Senate Races of Race is January, and I'm telling you guys,
Speaker 1: it is so important that not only are you reach year,
Speaker 1: but take people. This vote is so important for us
Speaker 1: to get some things changed because they're gonna tip Biden
Speaker 1: and harrass his hands in the White House. That on purpose,
Speaker 1: because miss McConnell has said it out loud, on purpose.
Speaker 1: He's going to do to them what he did to
Speaker 1: Barack Obama. So I'm telling you now, Georgia, we got
Speaker 1: a lot rading on you right now. And I'm rolling
Speaker 1: with Georgia because we flipped Georgia blue. I know y'all
Speaker 1: can do it. Get your asses up and go do it.
Speaker 1: Because that other that law f funny looking bit. I
Speaker 1: don't even like her, look that she ain't qualify. I
Speaker 1: just don't like her. Look shit, this is remember that canto, bitch.
Speaker 1: Do what I do cause can beach do what you do?
Speaker 1: And where can they find you? You can find me
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