Speaker 1: If you watch Coffee Time the baby you know the
Speaker 1: name Flame my role also known as my row Flame.
Speaker 1: Come in with last and come in with you love lounds. Baby,
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Speaker 1: it with just a lift dispiritcepect you want to revisit
Speaker 1: so your first like a listen, young folks, you slip
Speaker 1: oh funk that we take it to hain't no this
Speaker 1: do you do? No do what you do? Can't no kiss?
Speaker 1: Do what I do? Welcome, Hello, Flame, It's come on in, y'all,
Speaker 1: Come on in, Come on in. I know we're a
Speaker 1: little late, but we are here. I couldn't get my
Speaker 1: composure together, ladies. Jim. I came on a little while ago,
Speaker 1: and I was in tears because of I was having
Speaker 1: a moment. And then I got this right here that
Speaker 1: my son made the Dean's list for the honor students
Speaker 1: at TSU even though he don't go there no more,
Speaker 1: and for science. So I was so proud when I
Speaker 1: was cramped. I didn't want you to see me crash.
Speaker 1: I had to wipe my makeup off and I always
Speaker 1: gonna redo it, but I might start crying and ship.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Laughing Learn, ladyes Jim. I'm your host Flaming
Speaker 1: Roll along with my beautiful partner Lauren Hogan. Hi, Lauren
Speaker 1: high Flame. How are we your week? Oh? Um? Week
Speaker 1: has been very very busy, um, including today. But um,
Speaker 1: I went to a really nice event this weekend. I
Speaker 1: went to the Ladylike Foundation event um at the Beverly Hilton,
Speaker 1: and it was really great to just celebrate young women
Speaker 1: and um, you know, overall was just very moving, very touching.
Speaker 1: Um the foundations that by Leah Pump. Did you dress?
Speaker 1: I did? I ain't seen no pictures. Oh, I really
Speaker 1: didn't take many this lady. Do not take pictures, y'all. Pictures.
Speaker 1: I don't want take a pictures. Speaking of pictures, we
Speaker 1: need to schedule a new photo shoot. Oh, you gotta
Speaker 1: give me some notice so I can go lose some
Speaker 1: weight first. Oh, here we go with this. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you that this is why I know I'm not
Speaker 1: a real woman. That's with her weight. Even when she
Speaker 1: gets skinny, she's still obsessed with her weight. Absolutely, I'll
Speaker 1: take this part of me being a woman. I don't
Speaker 1: even damn about no weight. So yeah, you gotta give
Speaker 1: me some noticeing it. Okay, we're gonna We're gonna set
Speaker 1: up one to do like August or September. Okay, that's perfect,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. We have some fall colors because you know
Speaker 1: Lauren can get loose. Now fall colors, Lord fall, you
Speaker 1: know you like it dark? Anyway? I do. I love black.
Speaker 1: It's my It's my signature and favorite color me too.
Speaker 1: Look at look at it. Look how beautiful my black
Speaker 1: kid is. And while we're talking about beautiful black, what
Speaker 1: we're going today? Long we're gonna start. I don't want
Speaker 1: to start a head because we all know we're about
Speaker 1: to get heavy. I want to start, like, First of all,
Speaker 1: I want to say congratulations to the most famous woman
Speaker 1: on the planet, who happens to be Queen Elizabeth. She's
Speaker 1: the most known woman on the planet. They just celebrated
Speaker 1: her seventy years in um on the throne for the
Speaker 1: Queen's Do you believe it was such a grand affair?
Speaker 1: And I watched all four days of this event. It
Speaker 1: was so many magnificent, y'all know. I watched it for
Speaker 1: one reason and one reason only. Yes, I wanted to
Speaker 1: play play how much to the Queen. But the other
Speaker 1: queen came out Saturday night, the lady herself, Diana Ross,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was so fantastic, you know what.
Speaker 1: I was most impressed by the Lord. Four days in
Speaker 1: the UK, thousands and thousands and thousands of people out there,
Speaker 1: no altercations that we know of, no mass shootings, nobody did.
Speaker 1: They enjoyed themselves. What is the UK doing that United
Speaker 1: States is not doing? They got some sense you heard
Speaker 1: it from HBC, you educated work. The UK has some
Speaker 1: sense that point blank period. I mean there they know
Speaker 1: how to disarm suspects without using guns or deadly force,
Speaker 1: and suspects that have weapons, mind you. And they were
Speaker 1: out there, Lord for four days, loving on each other,
Speaker 1: and all the pomp and stuffle stands for the Queen,
Speaker 1: and all the horses and carriages and the flags and life,
Speaker 1: and nobody was fighting, nobody was shooting. Nobody was even
Speaker 1: looking around. He didn't see they were going to be
Speaker 1: shot and killing. Why we can't get there because they
Speaker 1: got some sense. That was what I was most impressed by, Lejim,
Speaker 1: because on the main time and in between time in
Speaker 1: this country, we had ten ten before. Before you move on, though,
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about Prince Louis Kate and Williams.
Speaker 1: The four year old before he was killed. That little boy,
Speaker 1: Nieces asked to be yes, did you see what he
Speaker 1: was doing to his mother? Putting his hand over her
Speaker 1: mouth and going like this, that little boy, Nieces. But
Speaker 1: everybody raised their children diffriendly and at four years old.
Speaker 1: Let me chase there on the defense of a four
Speaker 1: year old, remember going to church or something like that?
Speaker 1: When he was told you had to sit and be
Speaker 1: a dignitary. I know absolutely, I know he was bored,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying he was being a little reckless
Speaker 1: with his mama, telling her basically to shut up. So well,
Speaker 1: he's a prince in the making. You know they got
Speaker 1: all the power. Yeah, well he's a king in the making.
Speaker 1: Won't he be a king one day? Yeah? Charles? And
Speaker 1: you know I don't think and in line right, it's
Speaker 1: just Charles and then it's um William. I personally think
Speaker 1: that Queen Elizabeth say I ain't going nowere. Im gonna
Speaker 1: make sure Child's don't get this seat. I think she's
Speaker 1: just gonna pass it straight over him, straight to William
Speaker 1: because I think childs they messed up when he married
Speaker 1: the old bro when he married Rue mcclanahand from the
Speaker 1: Golden Girls, roach blanch because this woman is old? How
Speaker 1: old is Camilla Parker? Bows like two? But the whole
Speaker 1: event was so beautiful and it was just so amazing
Speaker 1: to see all these people and just people just and
Speaker 1: people flew from the United States to go there. People.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was definitely it's a royal affair. And
Speaker 1: no altercations, no murders, no man shooting stuff. People just
Speaker 1: loving on it. I'm telling you, lo, i' I might
Speaker 1: have to break camp because what do you mean, I
Speaker 1: may have to move to the UK. You're gonna become up,
Speaker 1: may be away. I made Boris Johnson boys John Yeah,
Speaker 1: way out there about the house, Tim, y'all. I've seen
Speaker 1: it this morning. They're about to get rid of him,
Speaker 1: against him, you know they're doing it that and it
Speaker 1: looks like what they said. It was like fifty one
Speaker 1: to thirty four against him against him the UK Trump
Speaker 1: You wanted to be Trump. You're gonna be Trump for
Speaker 1: real because he lost too. It's a day. It's a day.
Speaker 1: It is so decided to think that we had tim
Speaker 1: mass shootings over the weekend. But before we even get
Speaker 1: to that, because that's gonna be the basis and the
Speaker 1: premise of the show, Flasks, we want your guys to
Speaker 1: come in and way on went in on that. Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the shortage on baby formula, baby milk
Speaker 1: you wanna talk about again. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: that because I found out today that Greg Abbott owns
Speaker 1: like he has the monopoly on baby for Me to
Speaker 1: being produced in America and monopolized. And we would have
Speaker 1: never known that had the shortage never came out. They
Speaker 1: had it so covered up that we would have never
Speaker 1: known that. They talked about today that today on the
Speaker 1: view that it was so secret and they had it.
Speaker 1: So he has great Abbott, who is the governor of Texas, Texas, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Texas completely has monopolized the Baby for Me and so
Speaker 1: he owns it. This is why he own the abortion thing.
Speaker 1: And because we would have never known it had we
Speaker 1: not had a baby formula shortage in America. That's interesting
Speaker 1: but they don't want to get it in Mexico has surplus,
Speaker 1: they have stopped. They don't want to get it from Mexico.
Speaker 1: Canada won't get it to US. Canada is not given.
Speaker 1: It is it is if you havn't children. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now not to rethink it, but
Speaker 1: to stock up because things are crazy, and these governors
Speaker 1: in these Texas and these um Republican states, these Geopa states,
Speaker 1: is really out of control, starting with Abbot and Kent,
Speaker 1: who we hope to get, who we hope to lose,
Speaker 1: camp who we just won the Republican nomination for Georgia,
Speaker 1: for Georgia for governor. And so I think it's even
Speaker 1: sweeter when Stacy Abrams beats him because they cheated last time. Yep,
Speaker 1: sure did. And um, what's his name? The Secretary of State, Ravensburg.
Speaker 1: He just testified for about eight hours in front of
Speaker 1: Congress about what happened with Trump and the attempted election fraud,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be over the governor's election again.
Speaker 1: So I actually have some faith this time that it
Speaker 1: will be handled properly. Yes, that will be handled properly.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happened with that January six, I
Speaker 1: see they putting this community together and all these people.
Speaker 1: They have a second public hearing happening in the next
Speaker 1: couple of executive privilege. And that was just any old
Speaker 1: regular smoke Joe like myself or yourself. We'd being locked
Speaker 1: up in jail times and we ain't gonna show up
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure, that's very true. We're on the lage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I told him we were gonna be on
Speaker 1: the your page. That's what I asked you before we
Speaker 1: started the show. Girl, You see how flame don't listen.
Speaker 1: You know, I had a lot going on. It's been
Speaker 1: a day. Um. The tim mass shooting stations, Jim, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't even know to say Philly. They showed the
Speaker 1: one in Philly. Two guys getting to an altercation and
Speaker 1: they just put out guns inside shooting. Then the police
Speaker 1: see the guys shooting, so they started shooting. So people
Speaker 1: just running crazy, because you know how we as black people,
Speaker 1: you see one person run, every everybody break out and run.
Speaker 1: That's just in your best interest. On So some people
Speaker 1: were keyed, probably back gunfight, and some people were hurt
Speaker 1: by trampling. Some people just get ran over. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been in plenty of situations where people start shooting,
Speaker 1: and you just have to have situational awareness, is all
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say, Lauren, you would get ran
Speaker 1: over the law. Now, why wouldn't let me tell you why?
Speaker 1: She would? Because she would drop her finny bag or
Speaker 1: one of her labels, and she going back to get
Speaker 1: her lady. First of all, First of all, I would
Speaker 1: not be in a crowd that big without a cross
Speaker 1: body or a Fannie pack on, I would not have
Speaker 1: on the real back. But I remember in eighteen, I
Speaker 1: was actually in Atlanta at the eight three C Festival.
Speaker 1: I was with one of my line sisters at the time,
Speaker 1: and it just chaos broke out. People started jumping over
Speaker 1: barricades and my line sister was next to me. She's
Speaker 1: about half my size, but I always say this, I'm
Speaker 1: too big to fall down. I'm too big to fall down.
Speaker 1: I can't do that. So she was on the way
Speaker 1: of going out. I picked her up just like this
Speaker 1: and we ran into a corner. And she still said
Speaker 1: to this day that I saved her life and from
Speaker 1: getting trampled because she's tiny. I'm too big to fall down.
Speaker 1: The beautiful part of you being tall. You're tall and graceful,
Speaker 1: because there's you know a lot of people that's really
Speaker 1: tall and kind of a little awkward. A little thank you.
Speaker 1: You think the dancing sure, because if you had asked
Speaker 1: my mom the reason why she put me in dance
Speaker 1: class because I was walking like a dude when I
Speaker 1: was younger. I was walking like my dad and my uncle's.
Speaker 1: She didn't like that, so she put me in dance.
Speaker 1: But look at my faith. It's okay. I was giving
Speaker 1: you a door. You could walk through the door. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead, my baby, my baby, just best with Lord
Speaker 1: like that, y'all. Yeah, but I do know a lot
Speaker 1: of tall people that are a little awkward. Unbalanced. This
Speaker 1: is the word we want to say. We don't want
Speaker 1: to balance unbalanced. We want to be nice. We want
Speaker 1: to be nice and unbalanced. Yeah, but anyway, too big
Speaker 1: to fall would never get trampled. Absolutely not that that
Speaker 1: is very scared. I don't understand what is the hostility
Speaker 1: of the the country that you can't go anywhere, You
Speaker 1: can't go to the grocery store. They had a shooting
Speaker 1: in a cemetery in Chicago. It is Okay, I'm older,
Speaker 1: so I see things. Let me ask someone younger than me,
Speaker 1: what what what? What are we not doing? Well, let's
Speaker 1: just call a spade to spade. The n r A,
Speaker 1: you know, bank rolls a lot of these Republican politicians,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's been a historic thing. You know,
Speaker 1: they've tied gun violence and what's going on with gun
Speaker 1: safety to you know, actual mental it's been tied to
Speaker 1: mental health. I will give you that. But the n
Speaker 1: r A has strategically lobbied against, for instance, the CDC
Speaker 1: getting fundamental gun research to be conducted about why you know,
Speaker 1: there needs to be more gun safety and gun control laws.
Speaker 1: But when your pockets are lined with people who are
Speaker 1: for a certain cause, nothing's gonna change. It's just not,
Speaker 1: especially from the Republican side, when in the Senate you
Speaker 1: need to have UM sixty votes on something like this.
Speaker 1: That's why UM HB eight is still sitting at the
Speaker 1: Senate level and has been passed. It's just been sitting
Speaker 1: in limbo. And that's what's going to continue to happen.
Speaker 1: And it's it's a losing game that we're playing, y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. And until the the European Americans who
Speaker 1: are in charge get fed up with all this violence
Speaker 1: that's going on in this country. Nothing will change. We
Speaker 1: have shown many times that we don't have the power
Speaker 1: to change anything, but that's not true though we do.
Speaker 1: We have the power to vote. But we have the
Speaker 1: power to vote. But we've got instances where, you know,
Speaker 1: I've seen so many reports on MSNBC about how, you know,
Speaker 1: people specifically the Republican Party are putting in specific strategies
Speaker 1: and tactics to deter one deter people from voting, but
Speaker 1: to also putting certain conspiracy theorists in these positions where
Speaker 1: they can you know, compromise elections and election count when
Speaker 1: they count the votes and things like that. These are
Speaker 1: specific people that are more of the Trump era that
Speaker 1: are in these positions where they can say, oh, this
Speaker 1: is not a valid election. So that's what's happening, and
Speaker 1: nobody's really talking about that because we have things like
Speaker 1: mass shootings and other things going on. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes things that are taking place right now,
Speaker 1: especially in the middle of election season. I'm sick of
Speaker 1: everybody using mental illness as a crush. If we mentally here,
Speaker 1: we all been discombobulated since the pandemic and the something
Speaker 1: that we never lived through, which was a pandemic. Most
Speaker 1: people who lived through the pandemic a hundred years ago
Speaker 1: are no longer with us, and the ones that I
Speaker 1: probably don't remember the damn story to tail. It's just disheartening.
Speaker 1: And it's saying and I'm tired, and I'm gonna pack
Speaker 1: my bags. I'm gonna move. I am I'm ana move.
Speaker 1: Can we do the podcast? Long distance technology work a
Speaker 1: little bit better? Over there? We're gonna bring you out
Speaker 1: in flat mats because I'm telling you I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: in a mood today. And Lauren came in looking all
Speaker 1: nice and clean, and so bring Alison here two hours ago,
Speaker 1: and girl, you should have same man about twenty minutes
Speaker 1: for you guys here? What hair it was sitting in?
Speaker 1: What hair? I'm being an attack ladies? Gym millennial? HOWI Hi? Alliston?
Speaker 1: How Ms? Lauren? High flying? Hi, Cassie. How's that book
Speaker 1: doing on yours? It's doing, It's doing it slow and steady.
Speaker 1: So I'm thankful for everyone who has bought a copy
Speaker 1: so far, and I just prayed they're blessed by it.
Speaker 1: Real talk that absolutely, So we go ahead of you.
Speaker 1: Guys can absolutely chime in, Um, tell us how you're feeling,
Speaker 1: because I know, personally I feel very drained and just
Speaker 1: I'm very fearful of being in a lot of public spaces.
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to go to a festival. I'm
Speaker 1: damn near scared to go to a grocery store. My
Speaker 1: heads on a you know, high alerted at all times.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go to a movie theater. Hell,
Speaker 1: I have to travel for ten days and I'm going
Speaker 1: to you know, the South and the up to d C.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to go, you know what I mean. So,
Speaker 1: how are you guys feeling? Well, I tell you like
Speaker 1: this this is not a surprise, right, this just doesn't
Speaker 1: come as a surprise to us. But right it still
Speaker 1: works on our mental because we could be in any
Speaker 1: setting in this to us. But one thing we have
Speaker 1: to understand and and and this is for everyone to
Speaker 1: to very much so very clear, is that when you
Speaker 1: are funded, when these political candidates are funded by certain
Speaker 1: organizations to push their policy through, they put people in
Speaker 1: place to push their policy, and their policy is passed.
Speaker 1: One thing we have to do, and that is put
Speaker 1: people and fund people enough to push our said policies.
Speaker 1: If we're not putting people in funding people enough to
Speaker 1: put them in position and to pass our policy, we
Speaker 1: won't have any policies that are being passed in our favor.
Speaker 1: We have to fund the people who are we have
Speaker 1: to formulate these organizations, but we have to fund the candidates.
Speaker 1: And I mean not just our frind up. Everybody has
Speaker 1: to be on board to fund these political campaigns for
Speaker 1: people who is talking like we're talking because us understand this.
Speaker 1: If you don't have people in office that understands your issues,
Speaker 1: you will never have solutions to your problems. And yes,
Speaker 1: the gop is IS is a whole ship rate, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you like this, they are a tried
Speaker 1: They their organizations are funding their candidates. Look at our candidates.
Speaker 1: We're not funding these people. So Alison, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you too, because I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: it today, but in Ohio they actually just passed a
Speaker 1: bill for teachers and classrooms to officially bear arms while
Speaker 1: you know they're at the school. So you are a
Speaker 1: teacher in the city, um in the state of Florida.
Speaker 1: So what's the temperament like right now? And how do
Speaker 1: you feel about possibly having to have a firearm in
Speaker 1: your classroom? This is my thing. We have to protect
Speaker 1: our kids. Correct, But again I fear for my black
Speaker 1: and brown children because with the white teacher carry the gun,
Speaker 1: how less tolerant are you to my black child? Correct?
Speaker 1: And you know again I think I don't think we
Speaker 1: should go to gods immediately. I think we need to
Speaker 1: train teachers, train teachers how to decode, how to how
Speaker 1: to de escalate. But most importantly, the way things are going,
Speaker 1: we may have to sue it like the police officers.
Speaker 1: But do you think that that's fair? Though? That's what
Speaker 1: I'm more? Yeah? Is that fair? Though? That you're the
Speaker 1: teachers now? Is a part of your training to become
Speaker 1: a teacher. You actually have to get tactical training about
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do if there's an active shooter that
Speaker 1: barges into your classroom or is on the premises. It's
Speaker 1: not fair because it takes away from education. We're already
Speaker 1: dealing with enough. And what does that do for your
Speaker 1: students too? Like it it makes your students what do
Speaker 1: they feel unsafe? Do they feel like, you know, fearful?
Speaker 1: Coming to school. You know, of course they half of
Speaker 1: them won't come to school. I think as a student,
Speaker 1: if my teacher, I knew my teacher was strapped and
Speaker 1: and had been trained, I would feel safer. I would
Speaker 1: because then I know that I got somebody in the
Speaker 1: room to protect me. Um. I know they keep saying
Speaker 1: that the like you said, the temperament and they have
Speaker 1: some horrible children and key in class. If you got
Speaker 1: thirty kids and you got five crazy kids in class,
Speaker 1: you don't want to get so angry that you put
Speaker 1: out the gun on the kid. But if the training
Speaker 1: is right and the temperament is right, and you know
Speaker 1: how to, like you said, de escalate the situation. As
Speaker 1: a kid or as a student, I would feel a
Speaker 1: lot more safe if I known that this woman is
Speaker 1: my teacher, she has a firearm, she has been trained
Speaker 1: in case something goes happened, because I can't bring a
Speaker 1: gun to school. But if my teacher is training, because
Speaker 1: especially if it's a female teacher, because you feel sometimes
Speaker 1: you feel safer when it's a man. But some of
Speaker 1: these women are gangster, and I wouldn't feel a lot
Speaker 1: safer if I know that my teacher had the license
Speaker 1: went through the training and had a weapon to stop
Speaker 1: somebody if they came in our room to hurt us,
Speaker 1: I would I think it also too depends on what
Speaker 1: school you go to, because I think back, like I
Speaker 1: remember when I was in high school. Um my, technically
Speaker 1: my my, I guess selected high school free or whatever
Speaker 1: the term is. Um. I had to go to Guardina
Speaker 1: High School and it is a magnet school, but it's
Speaker 1: not a good school, Like there's a lot of bullying
Speaker 1: in there's gang activities. So my mom was like, you're
Speaker 1: not going there. I ended up going to you know,
Speaker 1: Bishop Montgomery and Torrance whatever. But I remember at the
Speaker 1: time there was a kid that was being bullied and
Speaker 1: he actually showed up to school with the gun in
Speaker 1: his backpack, but the safety was off, so he slammed
Speaker 1: his backpack on his desk the gun went off. So
Speaker 1: I think of things like that in terms of what
Speaker 1: about those schools that don't have the best environments and
Speaker 1: may not have, you know, the best facilities available, but
Speaker 1: you've got firearms in the classroom. Are they locked up
Speaker 1: properly or other students know where they are? Do they
Speaker 1: have access to them? That's what I always think of
Speaker 1: worst case scenario in situation might cause danger. And then
Speaker 1: and then of what goes to I'm sorry, Cassie, But
Speaker 1: then my my mom also goes to see, you have like,
Speaker 1: for example, Memphis Memphis City schools, and then you have
Speaker 1: like Orange County Public school system. When you think about
Speaker 1: the schools that are still segregated, right, you have your
Speaker 1: predominantly black schools. And when we talk about bringing guns
Speaker 1: in school, you know, because I I'm about the education
Speaker 1: and I'm about our children being educated, my mom instantly
Speaker 1: goes to the budget. If we incorporate guns into schools,
Speaker 1: these kids curriculum and and and their instruction is already
Speaker 1: not up to parts, not up to the best. So
Speaker 1: what happens? Are we gonna take it away from their
Speaker 1: curriculum in their and their ability to have the advanced
Speaker 1: technology that other schools have. When you're following what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: are we gonna are in the teachers put that put
Speaker 1: more money into that. Are we're gonna put more money
Speaker 1: into the engineering program, because then you're you're lessening the
Speaker 1: intellect of our babies. I'm reading the comments of teachers, teachers, teachers, teachers,
Speaker 1: teachers are people. Teachers have families and children. They want
Speaker 1: to go back home to their families and their children.
Speaker 1: I understand the responsibility of a teacher, but my life
Speaker 1: is still in so if I'm a teacher, I'm still
Speaker 1: responsible for me. I'm not getting on you, al I'm
Speaker 1: reading the comments because they're saying teachers like a teacher
Speaker 1: is a robot. The teachers there to do a job,
Speaker 1: but they also have to get to their lives, their families,
Speaker 1: their children. And I do understand that mistakes could happen
Speaker 1: because I'm doing going over the scenario listening to you talk, Alison.
Speaker 1: So if a teacher has to run out to the
Speaker 1: classroom and emergency, if it gets to lock her desk
Speaker 1: or his desk and the gun is in there, and
Speaker 1: another student goes and there and get the gun, I
Speaker 1: hear all those scenarios. But I don't want people to
Speaker 1: disregard that the teachers are human beings. They're not just
Speaker 1: the teacher. They're to teach your children. They're there have
Speaker 1: to do their job, but they also have real lives.
Speaker 1: Because I think we forget that. We forget I don't.
Speaker 1: That's why I was asking Alison the questions in the
Speaker 1: first place. Just about the temperament of being in the
Speaker 1: classroom nowadays, because I if I had a kid right now,
Speaker 1: I don't My kid probably would be homeschooled. Just just
Speaker 1: to be honest, My key would be homeschool and I
Speaker 1: I would have extracurricular activities, like they could go to
Speaker 1: a dance school or something like that where I know
Speaker 1: what the security is like. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'd be okay so to my kid to a school.
Speaker 1: But Cancie, come on into conversation. But but as someone
Speaker 1: who has went to intercity high school, someone who went
Speaker 1: to a lot of high schools, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: right to have the teachers armed. For one, there's not
Speaker 1: enough teachers per students. So if I'm a teacher in
Speaker 1: the class and I'm armed and there's twenty five students,
Speaker 1: what if five of those students decide, oh, we've been
Speaker 1: a buck up on this teacher because we want to
Speaker 1: get this gap from them too. I think that, um,
Speaker 1: we need to change the laws. And of course my state,
Speaker 1: in Washington State, it's really hard to get a weapon.
Speaker 1: And I think you should not be able to be eighteen,
Speaker 1: you should be twenty one to purchase anything. For one,
Speaker 1: you gotta be twenty one to drink, right. They change
Speaker 1: the laws in Washington State where you gotta be twenty one,
Speaker 1: I believe nowadays to smoke cigarettes. But you got you have.
Speaker 1: You can be eighteen to buy a shotgun. It should
Speaker 1: be twenty one. And there has to be background checks.
Speaker 1: There has to be an exclusive close all the loopholes
Speaker 1: where they can get all these guns at these guns
Speaker 1: shows and stuff. So I just think it's too much
Speaker 1: for the teachers. I'm not a teacher, but I did work.
Speaker 1: I work with at risk you. It's too much to
Speaker 1: me to think about how much help these children and
Speaker 1: also trying to protect them at the same time. And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I got this gun on me, okay, so
Speaker 1: what if something happens. There's too many lives that I'm
Speaker 1: in that I'm in um charge of, and it's a
Speaker 1: lot of stress. The teachers don't get paid enough as
Speaker 1: it is already, and then you're gonna add this extra
Speaker 1: stress on them having to carry an arm. I wasn't
Speaker 1: hired to be law enforcement. I'm hired to be a teacher.
Speaker 1: I'm here to pour into these kids. I'm gonna protect
Speaker 1: them as much as I can, But I also got
Speaker 1: a family, just like you said, Flame, that I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get home to too. So I think it's too
Speaker 1: much we're trying to do with these teachers. And I agree,
Speaker 1: and I think that there's a lot of great comments
Speaker 1: that are being said into your PointCast. You gotta be
Speaker 1: twenty one to drink, you gotta be twenty one to
Speaker 1: buy a cigarette, you gotta be twenty five to run
Speaker 1: a freaking car. You know what I mean, and I
Speaker 1: mean and in all honesty to kind of bring it
Speaker 1: back to you know, Flame is talking about baby farm
Speaker 1: the shortage. If we put as many restrictions around how
Speaker 1: white men want to police women having abortions, why can't
Speaker 1: we have the same criteria for guns. I agree with you,
Speaker 1: and rewrite the damn Constitution because it was written back
Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy six and tims have changed. When people
Speaker 1: were considered three fifths of humans, Well, rewrite it down
Speaker 1: because it's ridiculous. And to Lawrence, point to your point
Speaker 1: what y'are saying. I hear what you're saying about to
Speaker 1: teach us, because the teachers have always been overworked and underpaid.
Speaker 1: That's one thing. But secondly, I don't really happen in
Speaker 1: the in the poorer or well, not to say that
Speaker 1: they don't, but most of them happened in upper echelon
Speaker 1: schools or higher end schools, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we had to do it statistically, it's
Speaker 1: more happening high end schools than it does. And just
Speaker 1: like the underprivileged schools, we can fight, but they have
Speaker 1: massive ones in schools where they have more money, better
Speaker 1: pieces like the column Bones in Yes, like the Sandy
Speaker 1: Hook that was a high end school that wasn't just
Speaker 1: a running the meals, you know that. And so most
Speaker 1: of these major ones happen in schools where we're not well.
Speaker 1: Sandy Hook that was just as white supremacists that strategically
Speaker 1: went in to go shoot up black kids. Let's and
Speaker 1: nothing's changed, Yeah, what's changed since Columbine? Nothing's changed. Like
Speaker 1: some states have made it harder for you to acquire
Speaker 1: a gun, but other states have made it easier. So
Speaker 1: it just depends on what state you live in, what
Speaker 1: city you live in, just you gotta keep paying attention
Speaker 1: to your surrounding. It's like we got the wrong people
Speaker 1: in positions of power. That and like you said, the
Speaker 1: NIRA does have a lot of money and they control
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I don't know to what extent,
Speaker 1: but it's just wild. It's wild. Yeah, And I mean,
Speaker 1: and I think about you know, this conversation has been
Speaker 1: happening for so long because if you think about even
Speaker 1: the movie Higher Learning, that's what this Higher Learning is
Speaker 1: based on this and that was filmed in the nineties,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's we're still having this conversation today
Speaker 1: about white supremacists doing mass you isn't shooting black people.
Speaker 1: It's still the conversation. So so now we gotta get
Speaker 1: to we were we were in a discussion and are
Speaker 1: you in an ambulance? No, I'm moving, okay. I was like,
Speaker 1: are you okay? Are you in an ambulance? Because I'm
Speaker 1: looking at her background like, are you alive in an ambulance? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead, I yeah, I'm moving. Nonetheless, guys,
Speaker 1: so we were coming up with solutions of how what
Speaker 1: what could be done. We were in a we were
Speaker 1: in a committee meeting, and so the first they said,
Speaker 1: you know, increase the police presence on campus or they said, um,
Speaker 1: one of the ideas said we can get the you know,
Speaker 1: the National Reserve to guard the school, just like you
Speaker 1: go on base and they're standing there with the guns,
Speaker 1: and then you have the National Reserve out there, the
Speaker 1: National Guard out there, you know, idea and everybody to
Speaker 1: come in to uh to the school, to to safeguart
Speaker 1: to school. Um. But again we still had some some
Speaker 1: reservations with that as well, because again we're concerned. We
Speaker 1: have the black teachers who are more concerned about the
Speaker 1: black children, and our black children are fearful of the police.
Speaker 1: I don't care if the police is black. We have
Speaker 1: one black officer at our school and one white, and
Speaker 1: they're fearful. And you have to in a sense respect
Speaker 1: that because look at look at what's been shown to them, right,
Speaker 1: and so that that is where we are now. It
Speaker 1: may work for Windomere, you know, it may work for
Speaker 1: Dr Phillips, but it's not gonna work for Evans High
Speaker 1: School in Jones High School. So you have to look
Speaker 1: at the demographics of the schools. Yeah, I agree with
Speaker 1: I have a problem with that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Lauren,
Speaker 1: because because if you put the reserve or you put
Speaker 1: more officers in the school, it's just like we're running
Speaker 1: the school. Like a prison. Just like the prison has
Speaker 1: all these CEOs around and you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's like the prison that the what is it
Speaker 1: called the school to prison pipeline. It's like we're already
Speaker 1: setting it a certain way, so now we're bringing in
Speaker 1: all these arms. Just change the gun laws. Well, I
Speaker 1: disagree with you on that front, Caste, because, for instance,
Speaker 1: if you think about like Spellman College, we had a
Speaker 1: p D on campus seven because if anybody knows history
Speaker 1: of hbc use, you know they're built in not the
Speaker 1: best neighborhoods because that's where they could afford the land.
Speaker 1: So Spellman, for instance, we had Atlanta Police Department full
Speaker 1: on officers strapped with guns seven on our campus. Like
Speaker 1: you can't go through the gates of Spelling with college
Speaker 1: but high school. But I'm saying they're still college. There's
Speaker 1: but if we're gonna take the security format of college
Speaker 1: at this point and start implementing them in high schools
Speaker 1: and elementary schools, I don't see that as a bad
Speaker 1: thing because when I stepped onto that campus, I felt
Speaker 1: safe with all those police around me. I didn't. I'm
Speaker 1: into Allison's point. You know, you've got some of these
Speaker 1: kids who are feel fearful, excuse me of law enforcement
Speaker 1: if there needs to be away, if you're gonna have
Speaker 1: police presents that kids, it feel safe because when I'm
Speaker 1: on Spellman's campus, I know if you try to run
Speaker 1: through those gates or you can't get past a p
Speaker 1: D security at that front booth, you cannot get past them,
Speaker 1: and they're strapped to make sure that there's no craziness
Speaker 1: that happens on that campus. I felt safe. Being in
Speaker 1: the West End, not the best neighborhood. There's crackheads everywhere,
Speaker 1: there's crime, there's murder happening all in our midst in
Speaker 1: the Atlanta University Center. But when you stepped on that
Speaker 1: campus with all the Atlantic police officers, I felt safe.
Speaker 1: I did. But kids that as afraid of the police,
Speaker 1: I'm grown. I don't want to. I don't want any
Speaker 1: kind of interactions with the police. Not that I'm a
Speaker 1: fearful that them or them hurting me. I'm more fearful
Speaker 1: of how it would go down between us, and not
Speaker 1: because I'm a gang so I'm no hardcore. I just
Speaker 1: don't know how what kind of day I'm having or
Speaker 1: what would you run for me? Because fear sometimes will
Speaker 1: take over if you come into me at to stop
Speaker 1: saying or to realize you pull me over and I'm
Speaker 1: completely legal, I got licensed, insurance registration, everything of the part.
Speaker 1: But something about me triggers you and you move defense
Speaker 1: or you got your hand and your gun. I have fear.
Speaker 1: You got your hand and your gun. I got my
Speaker 1: hand on man. I don't know what's gonna happen. I
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want any instances with the
Speaker 1: police for me or my children, not because I'm afraid
Speaker 1: of them. I'm afraid of not baking it back home
Speaker 1: to my children. And that's that's me being honest. But
Speaker 1: even like Allison said, some of those kids are extremely
Speaker 1: afraid of the police, So even having a police president
Speaker 1: doesn't make them feel any safer. And who's to say
Speaker 1: if something pops off, the police is gonna be able
Speaker 1: to differentiate between a black teacher that's carrying a weapon
Speaker 1: and the person that's committing the crime, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you're black before you a teacher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but when I was growing up, it was a different
Speaker 1: climate because officers that they used to have a date
Speaker 1: once a month or once a year, officer Friendly would come.
Speaker 1: Remember that officer Friendly would come to the school. It
Speaker 1: made you friends with the police, made you think that
Speaker 1: the police were there to do their jobs, which is
Speaker 1: to serve and to protect. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: they do that in school. When I asked my daughter,
Speaker 1: she said she'll never She's fifteen. She said she's never
Speaker 1: experienced that, and she's compression in high school. So they
Speaker 1: stopped that. So to me, it's part of society to say, hey,
Speaker 1: let's put us in a place where the kids can
Speaker 1: be familiar with the police and ask the police questions.
Speaker 1: But a lot of these police are not qualified to
Speaker 1: have these jobs, and so they don't even want to
Speaker 1: go to the schools to interact with the childs. They
Speaker 1: only want to go to the schools when there's something
Speaker 1: violent and they can be triggered happy and pull they
Speaker 1: goddamn triggers on their guns. All of that has been
Speaker 1: taken off the table. I think it helped. Looking back
Speaker 1: on it now as we're having this conversation, I think
Speaker 1: that made me more familiar with the police. And then
Speaker 1: we never had a black one come. Let me just
Speaker 1: say that we always had a white police officer, and
Speaker 1: I went to a very black elementary school. But there
Speaker 1: was always a while, but he took down this whatever
Speaker 1: shield he had and feared because he was cool. We
Speaker 1: would talk to him and ask him questions. He would
Speaker 1: come around and shake our hand, he let us such
Speaker 1: as badge. It just made it regular, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. You know what I mean, And I didn't
Speaker 1: work well. I mean in my for instance, my grandfather's
Speaker 1: x l A p D. So is my uncle, he's
Speaker 1: x l A p D. And then my dad, you know,
Speaker 1: is deputy chief for chief deputy for l l A
Speaker 1: City Fire Department. So I've kind of had law enforcement
Speaker 1: in my midst all the time. But that's not to
Speaker 1: say that I've never been racially profiled by you know,
Speaker 1: c HP. I had three instances when I first moved
Speaker 1: back to l A to the point where my dad
Speaker 1: was ready to go down and fight c HP. Like
Speaker 1: I've had good and bad interactions. But saying all that
Speaker 1: to say, you know, and I'm just taking it back
Speaker 1: to for Spellman, for instance, having you know, a p
Speaker 1: D on campus, because it does come down the cost
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, but a p D
Speaker 1: takes care of that costs though to have them on campus,
Speaker 1: and this is overtime for them. So that's what I
Speaker 1: think police departments need to do, is you need to
Speaker 1: actually heighten presence on campus. Of one, teachers don't have
Speaker 1: to bear arms and do all of this extra psychological
Speaker 1: evaluations and all this stuff. Have those police presents on
Speaker 1: these elementary school campuses to ensure safety and then make
Speaker 1: the police department pay for it. That's what they need
Speaker 1: to do. So it's not costing schools any money, right,
Speaker 1: and it's built in. And see the part because your
Speaker 1: local city, your city police is funded by your local
Speaker 1: government and so they get a budget out of that
Speaker 1: local government to to have these said resource officers is
Speaker 1: what we call them here in Florida to come into
Speaker 1: the school, and particularly where I'm from lp D, they
Speaker 1: pay the resource officers out of that local budget that
Speaker 1: they received. It also helps to have a fantastic p
Speaker 1: t A because the p t A can move some
Speaker 1: that other people cannot move, will have fundraisers and to
Speaker 1: hire private security or private assistant teachers for the school.
Speaker 1: A p t A, a great p t A in
Speaker 1: the school really does help. I learned that as a parent. Well,
Speaker 1: I just feel like the amount. In most cities and states,
Speaker 1: the police department get the most amount of money in
Speaker 1: the budget, to Allison's point, so they can they do
Speaker 1: to spend a little extra to insure safety for our kids.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. If and A p t A
Speaker 1: haven't raised money, let the police department pay for it.
Speaker 1: They got enough. Yeah, Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I've learned exactly, And that's the problem we we've I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, we've talked about it on the show, talking
Speaker 1: about hitting them in their pockets. Actually make them spend
Speaker 1: their money that actually helps the community they're supposed to
Speaker 1: protect and serve. That's that's what they're shielding in their
Speaker 1: code of honor, whatever you wanna call it, that's what
Speaker 1: it is. So let's make them do their job, but
Speaker 1: make sure they're protecting everybody equally, too, because there are
Speaker 1: some instances where their husband officers or high level security
Speaker 1: in these elementary schools and they go ham on on
Speaker 1: our black and brown children. So if you're gonna put
Speaker 1: officers in the schools, make sure you're protecting everybody equally
Speaker 1: and do your job. Playing like you always say, well,
Speaker 1: I feel as though too, you also need to put
Speaker 1: officers in that school that actually looked like the reflect
Speaker 1: the kids that actually attend the school, because that's part
Speaker 1: of it. All three of you ladies, do you think
Speaker 1: that that makes it somebody that looks like you wouldn't
Speaker 1: make you a little more comfortable? Cause when I tell you,
Speaker 1: when I see a black officer, whether it's like a
Speaker 1: black police officer, I feel much more comfortable. I do. Now,
Speaker 1: it may come out that you know, skin folk and
Speaker 1: kin folks, but that that could definitely be the situation.
Speaker 1: But I feel much more comfortable seeing a black officer
Speaker 1: than I would see in a white one, even an
Speaker 1: Asian one, because you know, Asians like to assimilate and
Speaker 1: no shade. But some of the Latinos too, they like
Speaker 1: to assimilate with being white. So I feel much more
Speaker 1: comfortable seeing a black officer. That's what That's the beauty
Speaker 1: of Atlanta. You rarely see white police officers in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Rarely ever, they're all black. Again, I'm going to the UK.
Speaker 1: I can't take it no longer. I'm just I'm over again.
Speaker 1: I can't do I'm going to UK. I'm about to
Speaker 1: become a brit I'm changing. I'm gonna be like Madonna
Speaker 1: she went to London for a weekend and coming back
Speaker 1: with a British accent. You know, you know what would
Speaker 1: change the gun lost real quick if all of us
Speaker 1: we'll go get licensed to carry. That. Bet you they
Speaker 1: change them gun loss real quick if everybody who was
Speaker 1: twenty one and over and able to that look like
Speaker 1: us go and god license to carry. I want to
Speaker 1: believe that. I want to believe that, Cassie. But they said,
Speaker 1: we've got three hundred million row guns in this country.
Speaker 1: There is no possible way they're collect all of those guns.
Speaker 1: But let's also just call a spade a spade, because
Speaker 1: in y'all can look this up. There's also we and
Speaker 1: honestly a nup talked about this too. It's convenient how
Speaker 1: there's some of these trains that will pull into the
Speaker 1: inner city like the Chicago's and even in parts of
Speaker 1: l A that will open the doors and they'll just
Speaker 1: be guns readily available. Now, where did they come from? Oh,
Speaker 1: let me tell you where these guns come from. I'm
Speaker 1: from Chicago. My friend who's a drug dealer in Chicago
Speaker 1: who's still after this day, would tell me that they
Speaker 1: will find boxes of guns and the alleys on the
Speaker 1: South side of Chicago, boxes of automatic weapons and assault
Speaker 1: rifles and everything. Because the philosophy was, we don't have
Speaker 1: to kill them, We'll leave the guns to where they
Speaker 1: will kill each other. They'll kick yourself. And where did
Speaker 1: the guns come from? There? So we drop these gus.
Speaker 1: They don't have the bassports, they don't have the passports,
Speaker 1: and these where these guns coming from? Oh hear me
Speaker 1: when I tell you, all of it is being set
Speaker 1: up crazily because and I hate to say that publicly,
Speaker 1: but my friend who is a fucking drug dealer on
Speaker 1: this outside and big time, will tell me if they
Speaker 1: would find boxes of AMMO and weapons just in an alley,
Speaker 1: like somebody delivered them there and say just have at it,
Speaker 1: because they feel like, if you get we're gonna we
Speaker 1: don't have to shoot and kill you. Y'all gonna kill
Speaker 1: each other and either you kill each other for you
Speaker 1: end up getting locked up for not having a licensed weapon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh snowfall. They surely knew that on Snowfall. Yes, you do.
Speaker 1: It is. It is like we're fighting a losing battle
Speaker 1: and I don't even know how we're going to win.
Speaker 1: In the words of t t J. And keep your
Speaker 1: head on the swivel. That's all I can tell you.
Speaker 1: I hate that I'm living like that. I live like
Speaker 1: that now. I'm never a field for person. But when
Speaker 1: I'm in Walmarto in the Costco. I just went to
Speaker 1: Costco yesterday, I'm looking around seeing who got an extra
Speaker 1: jacket on, seeing who got their hand and they who
Speaker 1: are looking at me crazy? And then with the mask on,
Speaker 1: you really can't tell a person's expression. You can see
Speaker 1: their ass, but you can't see their facial expression. A
Speaker 1: lot of people hear their mask on, so you don't
Speaker 1: know where it's gonna come from. But I tell you what.
Speaker 1: I'm ready. Yeah, and I gotta tell you like. That's
Speaker 1: why I said I don't like going to movie theater
Speaker 1: because that's it's really the movie here that they get
Speaker 1: me at this point in time, because the last time
Speaker 1: I was in there, it was dark. I was looking
Speaker 1: to see who had a bolt or maybe a long
Speaker 1: trench coat. It was hot outside. Yeah, I can't enjoy
Speaker 1: the movie. Although T t J didn't say Top Gun
Speaker 1: the new one was good, I want to. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch it when it comes out. In the five He's
Speaker 1: a cancer. He's a cancer. Nothing else needs to be seen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it goes back, It goes back to what boots
Speaker 1: he said. Boots he said the rapper boots he stay dangerous.
Speaker 1: You always have that. You always have to keep yourself dangerous,
Speaker 1: will be ready to go at all times, at all
Speaker 1: coats because I mean, it's the time of what you
Speaker 1: really mean. But I believe that there is hope still,
Speaker 1: there is hope. Again. We have to strategize as as
Speaker 1: a community, how we're going to protect our children, how
Speaker 1: are we're going to push these policies forward. All hope
Speaker 1: is not lost. We just need to putting people in
Speaker 1: the right possession. I'm want to tell you something, that's
Speaker 1: not always about getting in public office. It's about sitting
Speaker 1: that those board tables too. I just feel like it's
Speaker 1: easier said than done. At Yeah, I I wholeheartedly agree
Speaker 1: with you. I just feel like it's it's easier said yeah,
Speaker 1: because there's so much there's so many things strategically happening
Speaker 1: towards us to deter us from voting, or to just
Speaker 1: not encourage us to go out and vote and be
Speaker 1: in these like public spaces. So it's just it's harder,
Speaker 1: and like I said, and honestly, black people are tired.
Speaker 1: We are tired, we really are so. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to see top gun laugh stream. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see it at home. I want to experience in
Speaker 1: the theater, you know. But I want to experience it
Speaker 1: in the theater when I'm not worried about somebody blowing
Speaker 1: my damn brains out because they're having a bad day,
Speaker 1: or they don't like something about how I look they
Speaker 1: or they're just crazy and racist. Yes, I don't want
Speaker 1: I don't want that. I want to be able to
Speaker 1: spend my fifty dollars for a popcorn episoda, LaVar I
Speaker 1: instacot to it's a great service. I say, it's okay,
Speaker 1: it's okay. It's scary. I'm telling you, I don't even
Speaker 1: know that. I don't know the solution. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anyone has a solution to this problem. But God,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that somebody these legislations they send it
Speaker 1: whoever we're putting in office, Like Lord always says, if
Speaker 1: our voting was if I vote did not count and
Speaker 1: it did not matter, they wouldn't do all that they
Speaker 1: could to fight block out votes. Get together, and speaking
Speaker 1: of voting, I will be filling out my ballot today.
Speaker 1: If you live in Los Angeles, please vote for your
Speaker 1: mayor and your city counselor and you're a new attorney general.
Speaker 1: We got a long We got a lot of people
Speaker 1: on the ballot coming up tomorrow. I want to shat
Speaker 1: something before we get off of here, because don't don't
Speaker 1: I don't get you a friend who's in politics, who
Speaker 1: will see in you who to vote for? Who? They
Speaker 1: My girlfriend sent me the breakdown of who to vote
Speaker 1: for and how to vote for that they send that
Speaker 1: out to especially like for the black people that are
Speaker 1: on the ballot. That's why I do love us. We will.
Speaker 1: They will literally mail things out of this is the
Speaker 1: black people on the vallot and you should vote for.
Speaker 1: So I got my whole blueprint because man been sitting
Speaker 1: in there. I got my sample ballot y'all for my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: When I tell y'all, today will be a day of
Speaker 1: filling in the circles because I know that's not a ballot, right, No, no,
Speaker 1: don't put your friend was the sample ballot of how
Speaker 1: to fill that out because a lot of times we
Speaker 1: don't take the time to research the name. We just figured,
Speaker 1: oh they're black, their name is Jackson, or their name
Speaker 1: is Johnson, or their name is brown. So they want
Speaker 1: to vote. That don't mean a damn thing. Research found
Speaker 1: out that candidate you're voting for to make sure that
Speaker 1: they have your best interests in heart, yours at least
Speaker 1: three fourths of how you feel. Because you may never
Speaker 1: get a hundred percent of what you want, but if
Speaker 1: you can get at least seventy five per cent of it,
Speaker 1: that's great. Yeah, research people and something Google is a liar.
Speaker 1: Google said that way a hundred were a hundred and
Speaker 1: nineteen say that how you see how working? Again, Google
Speaker 1: didn't say that I'm working with a terrorist lady. I'm
Speaker 1: working with Lauren and Cassie. Thank you so much. I
Speaker 1: mean ship Alison, thank you. So Allison is to contender
Speaker 1: where she wasn't contending for public office in Lakeland, Florida, Lasium.
Speaker 1: And we're hoping that when the next election come around,
Speaker 1: the Allison runs for something else because we did get
Speaker 1: behind her. And guess what, you didn't get it this time, Allison,
Speaker 1: with God damn it, We're gonna you're gonna get it
Speaker 1: the next time and is a resident flame Man and
Speaker 1: she's an author. She's an author and published author Identity Crisis.
Speaker 1: So you guys can order the book on Amazon to
Speaker 1: support cast see Cassandra Karch. And you got a book
Speaker 1: club too. I don't know if you saw somebody in
Speaker 1: the comments there was like, you know, they got a
Speaker 1: book club and they're reading your books. Jewels. I want
Speaker 1: to flame jewels, um my queen artists who started the
Speaker 1: book club. So everybody comes on and talk about the
Speaker 1: book with Cassie and the chapters and that's just great.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for supporting each other, supporting us here
Speaker 1: at laughing. I know I gave it to your heart
Speaker 1: this morning, but God showed up and said, you know what, Flame.
Speaker 1: A community maybe against you, but look what you're doing.
Speaker 1: So if I don't do nothing else right in my life,
Speaker 1: look what I did. John baby smart that that nigga
Speaker 1: is brilliant. He must have got it from his dad.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. We appreciate you as always.
Speaker 1: Thank you Allison, Thank you Cassie, Thank you Flames for
Speaker 1: joining us today. This woman is studio. When I tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm sweating up onto this week, up under this week.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. We appreciate you guys for
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Speaker 1: we do what Laura. We have a saying that we're
Speaker 1: never trying to get anybody to change your mind. We're
Speaker 1: simply trying to get you to use your mind. Because
Speaker 1: why you have to use your own mind to be
Speaker 1: comfortable with the decisions that you make in your life.
Speaker 1: Not in her life, not in my life, not in
Speaker 1: Kindle's life. In your life. You need to be comfortable
Speaker 1: decision you may and if you are a resident of
Speaker 1: southern California, you u in l a. Please please go
Speaker 1: and vote tomorrow. Please go and vote tomorrow. If you
Speaker 1: think that being coming to mayor is not a big
Speaker 1: thing and that won't make changes in our city, you
Speaker 1: are selling. All I'm gonna say is look at Eric Garcetti.
Speaker 1: That's all I gotta say. Y'all know, Lauren is all
Speaker 1: up in that in that world too. She all up
Speaker 1: in that world with her other jobs. So I'm telling
Speaker 1: you listen to Lauren. She knows what she's talking about.
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