WEBVTT - Keep Your Head on A Swivel 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.479 If you watch Coffee Time the baby you know the 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.280 name Flame my role also known as my row Flame. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.680 Come in with last and come in with you love lounds. Baby, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:53.800 you better catch it when you can't drop a knowledge 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.920 from Fatherhoods of politics, shouting now comics just paying homics. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.880 What's up? Tip? Yeah you know she read shout towns 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.880 on speaking to the grown a second. We're gonna last 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:05.959 kind of been kicking and at the end we leave 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.480 it with just a lift dispiritcepect you want to revisit 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.800 so your first like a listen, young folks, you slip 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.480 oh funk that we take it to hain't no this 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:18.520 do you do? No do what you do? Can't no kiss? 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:43.119 Do what I do? Welcome, Hello, Flame, It's come on in, y'all, 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:44.680 Come on in, Come on in. I know we're a 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.400 little late, but we are here. I couldn't get my 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.120 composure together, ladies. Jim. I came on a little while ago, 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.440 and I was in tears because of I was having 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.720 a moment. And then I got this right here that 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.400 my son made the Dean's list for the honor students 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.720 at TSU even though he don't go there no more, 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.640 and for science. So I was so proud when I 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.440 was cramped. I didn't want you to see me crash. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.880 I had to wipe my makeup off and I always 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.040 gonna redo it, but I might start crying and ship. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.760 Welcome to Laughing Learn, ladyes Jim. I'm your host Flaming 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.320 Roll along with my beautiful partner Lauren Hogan. Hi, Lauren 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.160 high Flame. How are we your week? Oh? Um? Week 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.040 has been very very busy, um, including today. But um, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.800 I went to a really nice event this weekend. I 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.440 went to the Ladylike Foundation event um at the Beverly Hilton, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.760 and it was really great to just celebrate young women 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.320 and um, you know, overall was just very moving, very touching. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.000 Um the foundations that by Leah Pump. Did you dress? 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.919 I did? I ain't seen no pictures. Oh, I really 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.480 didn't take many this lady. Do not take pictures, y'all. Pictures. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.720 I don't want take a pictures. Speaking of pictures, we 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.160 need to schedule a new photo shoot. Oh, you gotta 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:54.600 give me some notice so I can go lose some 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.600 weight first. Oh, here we go with this. Let me 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:58.760 tell you that this is why I know I'm not 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.200 a real woman. That's with her weight. Even when she 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.160 gets skinny, she's still obsessed with her weight. Absolutely, I'll 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.320 take this part of me being a woman. I don't 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.240 even damn about no weight. So yeah, you gotta give 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.320 me some noticeing it. Okay, we're gonna We're gonna set 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.560 up one to do like August or September. Okay, that's perfect, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.959 that's perfect. We have some fall colors because you know 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.840 Lauren can get loose. Now fall colors, Lord fall, you 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.120 know you like it dark? Anyway? I do. I love black. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.360 It's my It's my signature and favorite color me too. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.960 Look at look at it. Look how beautiful my black 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.920 kid is. And while we're talking about beautiful black, what 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:34.920 we're going today? Long we're gonna start. I don't want 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.560 to start a head because we all know we're about 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.960 to get heavy. I want to start, like, First of all, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.120 I want to say congratulations to the most famous woman 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.560 on the planet, who happens to be Queen Elizabeth. She's 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.280 the most known woman on the planet. They just celebrated 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.720 her seventy years in um on the throne for the 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.760 Queen's Do you believe it was such a grand affair? 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.800 And I watched all four days of this event. It 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.200 was so many magnificent, y'all know. I watched it for 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.520 one reason and one reason only. Yes, I wanted to 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.960 play play how much to the Queen. But the other 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.440 queen came out Saturday night, the lady herself, Diana Ross, 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.520 and I thought it was so fantastic, you know what. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.280 I was most impressed by the Lord. Four days in 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.480 the UK, thousands and thousands and thousands of people out there, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.320 no altercations that we know of, no mass shootings, nobody did. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.480 They enjoyed themselves. What is the UK doing that United 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.159 States is not doing? They got some sense you heard 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.279 it from HBC, you educated work. The UK has some 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.960 sense that point blank period. I mean there they know 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.279 how to disarm suspects without using guns or deadly force, 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.520 and suspects that have weapons, mind you. And they were 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.839 out there, Lord for four days, loving on each other, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.600 and all the pomp and stuffle stands for the Queen, 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.160 and all the horses and carriages and the flags and life, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.960 and nobody was fighting, nobody was shooting. Nobody was even 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.400 looking around. He didn't see they were going to be 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.359 shot and killing. Why we can't get there because they 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.480 got some sense. That was what I was most impressed by, Lejim, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.760 because on the main time and in between time in 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:15.440 this country, we had ten ten before. Before you move on, though, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.280 I do want to talk about Prince Louis Kate and Williams. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.160 The four year old before he was killed. That little boy, 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.159 Nieces asked to be yes, did you see what he 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.680 was doing to his mother? Putting his hand over her 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.600 mouth and going like this, that little boy, Nieces. But 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.840 everybody raised their children diffriendly and at four years old. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.640 Let me chase there on the defense of a four 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.800 year old, remember going to church or something like that? 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.279 When he was told you had to sit and be 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:44.640 a dignitary. I know absolutely, I know he was bored, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.680 but I'm just saying he was being a little reckless 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.960 with his mama, telling her basically to shut up. So well, 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:51.760 he's a prince in the making. You know they got 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.680 all the power. Yeah, well he's a king in the making. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.840 Won't he be a king one day? Yeah? Charles? And 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.800 you know I don't think and in line right, it's 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.800 just Charles and then it's um William. I personally think 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.800 that Queen Elizabeth say I ain't going nowere. Im gonna 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.720 make sure Child's don't get this seat. I think she's 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.320 just gonna pass it straight over him, straight to William 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.520 because I think childs they messed up when he married 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.359 the old bro when he married Rue mcclanahand from the 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:23.320 Golden Girls, roach blanch because this woman is old? How 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:28.800 old is Camilla Parker? Bows like two? But the whole 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.799 event was so beautiful and it was just so amazing 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.440 to see all these people and just people just and 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.600 people flew from the United States to go there. People. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.479 Oh yeah, it was definitely it's a royal affair. And 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:45.360 no altercations, no murders, no man shooting stuff. People just 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.240 loving on it. I'm telling you, lo, i' I might 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.080 have to break camp because what do you mean, I 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.480 may have to move to the UK. You're gonna become up, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:07:00.320 may be away. I made Boris Johnson boys John Yeah, 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.719 way out there about the house, Tim, y'all. I've seen 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.240 it this morning. They're about to get rid of him, 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:09.200 against him, you know they're doing it that and it 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.160 looks like what they said. It was like fifty one 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:17.080 to thirty four against him against him the UK Trump 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.560 You wanted to be Trump. You're gonna be Trump for 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:26.680 real because he lost too. It's a day. It's a day. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.840 It is so decided to think that we had tim 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.960 mass shootings over the weekend. But before we even get 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.720 to that, because that's gonna be the basis and the 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.640 premise of the show, Flasks, we want your guys to 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.760 come in and way on went in on that. Well, 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.880 let's talk about the shortage on baby formula, baby milk 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.520 you wanna talk about again. I want to talk about 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:48.000 that because I found out today that Greg Abbott owns 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.960 like he has the monopoly on baby for Me to 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.280 being produced in America and monopolized. And we would have 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.760 never known that had the shortage never came out. They 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.440 had it so covered up that we would have never 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.320 known that. They talked about today that today on the 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.400 view that it was so secret and they had it. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:10.680 So he has great Abbott, who is the governor of Texas, Texas, Yeah, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.360 Texas completely has monopolized the Baby for Me and so 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.080 he owns it. This is why he own the abortion thing. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.880 And because we would have never known it had we 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.440 not had a baby formula shortage in America. That's interesting 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.600 but they don't want to get it in Mexico has surplus, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.600 they have stopped. They don't want to get it from Mexico. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.720 Canada won't get it to US. Canada is not given. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.000 It is it is if you havn't children. Right now, 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.640 I'm telling you right now not to rethink it, but 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.640 to stock up because things are crazy, and these governors 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.319 in these Texas and these um Republican states, these Geopa states, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.520 is really out of control, starting with Abbot and Kent, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.959 who we hope to get, who we hope to lose, 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:57.880 camp who we just won the Republican nomination for Georgia, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.240 for Georgia for governor. And so I think it's even 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.040 sweeter when Stacy Abrams beats him because they cheated last time. Yep, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:09.920 sure did. And um, what's his name? The Secretary of State, Ravensburg. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.880 He just testified for about eight hours in front of 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.200 Congress about what happened with Trump and the attempted election fraud, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.960 and he's going to be over the governor's election again. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.160 So I actually have some faith this time that it 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.559 will be handled properly. Yes, that will be handled properly. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.760 I don't know what's happened with that January six, I 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.720 see they putting this community together and all these people. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.840 They have a second public hearing happening in the next 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.680 couple of executive privilege. And that was just any old 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.920 regular smoke Joe like myself or yourself. We'd being locked 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.640 up in jail times and we ain't gonna show up 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:46.000 for sure, for sure, that's very true. We're on the lage. Yeah, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:47.600 I think I told him we were gonna be on 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.679 the your page. That's what I asked you before we 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.760 started the show. Girl, You see how flame don't listen. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.160 You know, I had a lot going on. It's been 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.360 a day. Um. The tim mass shooting stations, Jim, I don't. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.440 I don't even know to say Philly. They showed the 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.840 one in Philly. Two guys getting to an altercation and 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.120 they just put out guns inside shooting. Then the police 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.440 see the guys shooting, so they started shooting. So people 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.559 just running crazy, because you know how we as black people, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.520 you see one person run, every everybody break out and run. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.679 That's just in your best interest. On So some people 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.040 were keyed, probably back gunfight, and some people were hurt 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.560 by trampling. Some people just get ran over. Yeah. I mean, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.920 I've been in plenty of situations where people start shooting, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.280 and you just have to have situational awareness, is all 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.600 I'm gonna have to say, Lauren, you would get ran 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.520 over the law. Now, why wouldn't let me tell you why? 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.200 She would? Because she would drop her finny bag or 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:37.800 one of her labels, and she going back to get 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.439 her lady. First of all, First of all, I would 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.640 not be in a crowd that big without a cross 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.400 body or a Fannie pack on, I would not have 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.320 on the real back. But I remember in eighteen, I 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.240 was actually in Atlanta at the eight three C Festival. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.040 I was with one of my line sisters at the time, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.640 and it just chaos broke out. People started jumping over 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.240 barricades and my line sister was next to me. She's 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.120 about half my size, but I always say this, I'm 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.920 too big to fall down. I'm too big to fall down. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.760 I can't do that. So she was on the way 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.360 of going out. I picked her up just like this 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.559 and we ran into a corner. And she still said 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:08.960 to this day that I saved her life and from 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.920 getting trampled because she's tiny. I'm too big to fall down. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.240 The beautiful part of you being tall. You're tall and graceful, 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:16.839 because there's you know a lot of people that's really 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.240 tall and kind of a little awkward. A little thank you. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.080 You think the dancing sure, because if you had asked 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.360 my mom the reason why she put me in dance 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.000 class because I was walking like a dude when I 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.079 was younger. I was walking like my dad and my uncle's. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.120 She didn't like that, so she put me in dance. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.760 But look at my faith. It's okay. I was giving 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.760 you a door. You could walk through the door. Go ahead, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.880 go ahead, my baby, my baby, just best with Lord 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.040 like that, y'all. Yeah, but I do know a lot 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.599 of tall people that are a little awkward. Unbalanced. This 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:47.920 is the word we want to say. We don't want 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.880 to balance unbalanced. We want to be nice. We want 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.280 to be nice and unbalanced. Yeah, but anyway, too big 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.120 to fall would never get trampled. Absolutely not that that 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.480 is very scared. I don't understand what is the hostility 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.960 of the the country that you can't go anywhere, You 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.720 can't go to the grocery store. They had a shooting 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:09.800 in a cemetery in Chicago. It is Okay, I'm older, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.600 so I see things. Let me ask someone younger than me, 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:17.720 what what what? What are we not doing? Well, let's 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.199 just call a spade to spade. The n r A, 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.400 you know, bank rolls a lot of these Republican politicians, 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.000 and you know, it's it's been a historic thing. You know, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.760 they've tied gun violence and what's going on with gun 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.240 safety to you know, actual mental it's been tied to 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:34.640 mental health. I will give you that. But the n 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.240 r A has strategically lobbied against, for instance, the CDC 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.240 getting fundamental gun research to be conducted about why you know, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.560 there needs to be more gun safety and gun control laws. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.080 But when your pockets are lined with people who are 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.800 for a certain cause, nothing's gonna change. It's just not, 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.480 especially from the Republican side, when in the Senate you 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.360 need to have UM sixty votes on something like this. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.320 That's why UM HB eight is still sitting at the 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.160 Senate level and has been passed. It's just been sitting 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.400 in limbo. And that's what's going to continue to happen. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.080 And it's it's a losing game that we're playing, y'all, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.000 I'm telling you. And until the the European Americans who 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.440 are in charge get fed up with all this violence 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.760 that's going on in this country. Nothing will change. We 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.720 have shown many times that we don't have the power 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.440 to change anything, but that's not true though we do. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.199 We have the power to vote. But we have the 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.120 power to vote. But we've got instances where, you know, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.360 I've seen so many reports on MSNBC about how, you know, 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.840 people specifically the Republican Party are putting in specific strategies 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.880 and tactics to deter one deter people from voting, but 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:43.280 to also putting certain conspiracy theorists in these positions where 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.520 they can you know, compromise elections and election count when 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.480 they count the votes and things like that. These are 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.240 specific people that are more of the Trump era that 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.080 are in these positions where they can say, oh, this 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.400 is not a valid election. So that's what's happening, and 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.560 nobody's really talking about that because we have things like 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.840 mass shootings and other things going on. There's a lot 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.360 of behind the scenes things that are taking place right now, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.880 especially in the middle of election season. I'm sick of 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.600 everybody using mental illness as a crush. If we mentally here, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:15.160 we all been discombobulated since the pandemic and the something 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.160 that we never lived through, which was a pandemic. Most 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.560 people who lived through the pandemic a hundred years ago 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.040 are no longer with us, and the ones that I 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.040 probably don't remember the damn story to tail. It's just disheartening. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.480 And it's saying and I'm tired, and I'm gonna pack 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.000 my bags. I'm gonna move. I am I'm ana move. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.480 Can we do the podcast? Long distance technology work a 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.800 little bit better? Over there? We're gonna bring you out 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.520 in flat mats because I'm telling you I'm not I'm 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.920 in a mood today. And Lauren came in looking all 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:48.960 nice and clean, and so bring Alison here two hours ago, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.680 and girl, you should have same man about twenty minutes 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.520 for you guys here? What hair it was sitting in? 0:14:53.680 --> 0:15:02.200 What hair? I'm being an attack ladies? Gym millennial? HOWI Hi? Alliston? 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.440 How Ms? Lauren? High flying? Hi, Cassie. How's that book 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:10.000 doing on yours? It's doing, It's doing it slow and steady. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.520 So I'm thankful for everyone who has bought a copy 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.480 so far, and I just prayed they're blessed by it. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.280 Real talk that absolutely, So we go ahead of you. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.320 Guys can absolutely chime in, Um, tell us how you're feeling, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.040 because I know, personally I feel very drained and just 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.480 I'm very fearful of being in a lot of public spaces. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.360 Like I don't want to go to a festival. I'm 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.240 damn near scared to go to a grocery store. My 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.520 heads on a you know, high alerted at all times. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.600 I don't want to go to a movie theater. Hell, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.800 I have to travel for ten days and I'm going 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.600 to you know, the South and the up to d C. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.600 I don't even want to go, you know what I mean. So, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.320 how are you guys feeling? Well, I tell you like 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:51.320 this this is not a surprise, right, this just doesn't 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.240 come as a surprise to us. But right it still 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:59.080 works on our mental because we could be in any 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.960 setting in this to us. But one thing we have 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.080 to understand and and and this is for everyone to 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.720 to very much so very clear, is that when you 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:13.880 are funded, when these political candidates are funded by certain 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.200 organizations to push their policy through, they put people in 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.160 place to push their policy, and their policy is passed. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.000 One thing we have to do, and that is put 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:29.200 people and fund people enough to push our said policies. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.200 If we're not putting people in funding people enough to 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:38.280 put them in position and to pass our policy, we 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.200 won't have any policies that are being passed in our favor. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:46.520 We have to fund the people who are we have 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:50.520 to formulate these organizations, but we have to fund the candidates. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.760 And I mean not just our frind up. Everybody has 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.240 to be on board to fund these political campaigns for 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.920 people who is talking like we're talking because us understand this. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.400 If you don't have people in office that understands your issues, 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.640 you will never have solutions to your problems. And yes, 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.760 the gop is IS is a whole ship rate, but 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.639 I'm gonna tell you like this, they are a tried 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:21.320 They their organizations are funding their candidates. Look at our candidates. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.000 We're not funding these people. So Alison, I want to 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.520 ask you too, because I don't know if you saw 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.080 it today, but in Ohio they actually just passed a 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.520 bill for teachers and classrooms to officially bear arms while 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.560 you know they're at the school. So you are a 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.800 teacher in the city, um in the state of Florida. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.199 So what's the temperament like right now? And how do 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.240 you feel about possibly having to have a firearm in 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:49.600 your classroom? This is my thing. We have to protect 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:54.320 our kids. Correct, But again I fear for my black 0:17:54.359 --> 0:18:00.440 and brown children because with the white teacher carry the gun, 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:07.000 how less tolerant are you to my black child? Correct? 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.679 And you know again I think I don't think we 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.560 should go to gods immediately. I think we need to 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:17.080 train teachers, train teachers how to decode, how to how 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:23.280 to de escalate. But most importantly, the way things are going, 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.520 we may have to sue it like the police officers. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.240 But do you think that that's fair? Though? That's what 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.399 I'm more? Yeah? Is that fair? Though? That you're the 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.960 teachers now? Is a part of your training to become 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.760 a teacher. You actually have to get tactical training about 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.560 what you're gonna do if there's an active shooter that 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.760 barges into your classroom or is on the premises. It's 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.240 not fair because it takes away from education. We're already 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.120 dealing with enough. And what does that do for your 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.560 students too? Like it it makes your students what do 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.479 they feel unsafe? Do they feel like, you know, fearful? 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.159 Coming to school. You know, of course they half of 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.040 them won't come to school. I think as a student, 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.440 if my teacher, I knew my teacher was strapped and 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.760 and had been trained, I would feel safer. I would 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.080 because then I know that I got somebody in the 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.320 room to protect me. Um. I know they keep saying 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.679 that the like you said, the temperament and they have 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.520 some horrible children and key in class. If you got 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.119 thirty kids and you got five crazy kids in class, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:22.920 you don't want to get so angry that you put 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.760 out the gun on the kid. But if the training 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.760 is right and the temperament is right, and you know 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.760 how to, like you said, de escalate the situation. As 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.040 a kid or as a student, I would feel a 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.240 lot more safe if I known that this woman is 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.240 my teacher, she has a firearm, she has been trained 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.159 in case something goes happened, because I can't bring a 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.040 gun to school. But if my teacher is training, because 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.879 especially if it's a female teacher, because you feel sometimes 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:46.960 you feel safer when it's a man. But some of 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.120 these women are gangster, and I wouldn't feel a lot 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.760 safer if I know that my teacher had the license 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.119 went through the training and had a weapon to stop 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:55.960 somebody if they came in our room to hurt us, 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.679 I would I think it also too depends on what 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:00.639 school you go to, because I think back, like I 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.920 remember when I was in high school. Um my, technically 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.200 my my, I guess selected high school free or whatever 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.440 the term is. Um. I had to go to Guardina 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:11.600 High School and it is a magnet school, but it's 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.919 not a good school, Like there's a lot of bullying 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.000 in there's gang activities. So my mom was like, you're 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.600 not going there. I ended up going to you know, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.639 Bishop Montgomery and Torrance whatever. But I remember at the 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.479 time there was a kid that was being bullied and 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.480 he actually showed up to school with the gun in 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.560 his backpack, but the safety was off, so he slammed 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.280 his backpack on his desk the gun went off. So 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.720 I think of things like that in terms of what 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.480 about those schools that don't have the best environments and 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.919 may not have, you know, the best facilities available, but 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.040 you've got firearms in the classroom. Are they locked up 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.199 properly or other students know where they are? Do they 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:48.520 have access to them? That's what I always think of 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.400 worst case scenario in situation might cause danger. And then 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:54.719 and then of what goes to I'm sorry, Cassie, But 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.760 then my my mom also goes to see, you have like, 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:01.439 for example, Memphis Memphis City schools, and then you have 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:05.200 like Orange County Public school system. When you think about 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.040 the schools that are still segregated, right, you have your 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.320 predominantly black schools. And when we talk about bringing guns 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:15.160 in school, you know, because I I'm about the education 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:18.760 and I'm about our children being educated, my mom instantly 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:23.040 goes to the budget. If we incorporate guns into schools, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:28.160