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Speaker 1: Hi Flame? How are you happy New Year? Lauren? It's
Speaker 1: the girl you were Oh my god, I know I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to you since last year. It's crazy that's
Speaker 1: we talked to him anybody? How about I wanted the
Speaker 1: producer Aaron High. Aaron, We're glad you guys are here.
Speaker 1: With us. We made it to three. Let's see what
Speaker 1: the world has to bring and what the world has
Speaker 1: to offer. Tragically, we started off sadly, but we'll get
Speaker 1: to that right now. How was your New Year's Eve, Louren?
Speaker 1: Did you go out? Did you get tipsy? Did you celebrate? Um?
Speaker 1: I spent my New Year's very safe, My New Years
Speaker 1: very safe. Rather um, I went to my good friend's house. See,
Speaker 1: there was a group of like forty of us. We
Speaker 1: hung out closed to the New Year, at karaoke, some
Speaker 1: good food, but we were inside the house, you know,
Speaker 1: played it safe. And then I went to sleep at
Speaker 1: about four am. Yeah, got home at about four am,
Speaker 1: and that was my New Year's How was yours? Very quiet?
Speaker 1: I was home. Did you shoot a gun? I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I gotta go pick up my gun on Saturday, though,
Speaker 1: thank you for reminding me. That's not me, late lady Jim.
Speaker 1: The views of the young lady that just spoke are
Speaker 1: not that I didn't shot. I'm not at home in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I'm in Long Beach and we were all quiet. My
Speaker 1: block was very quiet. If they was shooting, you know.
Speaker 1: At twelve o'clock I was knocked out, No, you missed
Speaker 1: the Happy New Year, You missed the countdown? No, I
Speaker 1: did not watch it in New York, and I didn't
Speaker 1: miss it and missed its countdowns. Maybe they should have
Speaker 1: let and uh and Andy drink, Andy Cohen drink because
Speaker 1: he was on time. He might have said something religion,
Speaker 1: but at least he was on time drunk. Well, the
Speaker 1: funny thing is John Lemon missed the countdown in New
Speaker 1: Orleans too. Down Lemon always drunk though, so he wasn't drunk.
Speaker 1: He was sober as could be. Let them have a
Speaker 1: couple of cocktails. Yeah, I think they need to meet
Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle next year because there was no alcohol.
Speaker 1: It was a little dry on all sides, and the
Speaker 1: countdown was missed. But John Lemon was playing, you know, juvenile.
Speaker 1: So I guess it's a fair trade off, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I take it. I take looks promising. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know what, long with the way the times that we
Speaker 1: live in now, which I'm just glad to be alive
Speaker 1: and healthy and well and sometimes working, I said, sometimes,
Speaker 1: uh Anti who always when the year ends, it seems
Speaker 1: like or and when the year begins and we just beginning.
Speaker 1: This is the day three of the New year, that
Speaker 1: we lose uh, just big name people, you know. It
Speaker 1: was tragic that we lost the pope. The pope died.
Speaker 1: We also lost a media mogul. Uh. Just a trail blazer, yes,
Speaker 1: just a woman who had nobody else up to look
Speaker 1: up to, so she had to make her own path.
Speaker 1: Rest in peace at ninety three years young to the
Speaker 1: one and only Miss Barbara Walters, who everyone has come
Speaker 1: out with the outpourne and tributes and had such wonderful
Speaker 1: words to say about her. And I spoke to Sherry
Speaker 1: Shepherd personally and she told me, she said, flame Barbara
Speaker 1: was tough. But Barbara made you who you were. But
Speaker 1: she was tough, and I love that she said that
Speaker 1: because it ain't gonna always be easy. I need to
Speaker 1: learn that. But everyone has come and she has interviewed
Speaker 1: world leaders, sitting presidents, uh, enemies, everybody. I think Barbara
Speaker 1: lived a grand life. The Bible promises seventy years if
Speaker 1: you live right, and anything after that it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: So she had twenty three years blessings over that, and
Speaker 1: she met and knew everybody. I think she had an
Speaker 1: affair of Richard Pryor I read her book years ago.
Speaker 1: I think he and Richard Pryor had a flame. So
Speaker 1: she liked a little black girl magic up in, like
Speaker 1: a little seasoning. She liked the black Man magic up in. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually saw a clip where she was actually retiring
Speaker 1: from the view and the top like twenty five female
Speaker 1: journalists in the game at the time just showed up
Speaker 1: to give her her flowers and pay homage to hers.
Speaker 1: So watching that clip back after she's um, you know, past,
Speaker 1: was also just very inspiring, but just you know, touching
Speaker 1: at the same time, because, like you said, she created
Speaker 1: elane for women to really you know, do that. You know,
Speaker 1: Oprah attributes all of her success to Barbara Walters, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's amazing to see all that she
Speaker 1: accomplished in her lifetime and really just how she blazed
Speaker 1: the path for people to follow. So she'll definitely be missed.
Speaker 1: And I watched that open open was the actual person
Speaker 1: who brought everybody, And I saw Amy Robock on there
Speaker 1: minus T J. Holmes, but Amy Robot was on there.
Speaker 1: It was and it was crazy to see it was
Speaker 1: like Amy Roebock, um, Elizabeth Hasselback, um, Jenne Hooda, so
Speaker 1: many different people. Diane Sawyer came out, you know, all
Speaker 1: of these different people came to say, you know, we
Speaker 1: love you, we appreciate you, You've done so much for us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was quite an incredible um video to
Speaker 1: watch back if I had, if I had to say
Speaker 1: any words over Barbara after her past, she lived, she
Speaker 1: left like she said, she left the legacy. She lived
Speaker 1: the grand life on what we saw she and she
Speaker 1: was faced with an adversity. And I thought I was
Speaker 1: put up against an adversity. But Hugh Downs, not now
Speaker 1: you Downs? Who was that she was on the news
Speaker 1: way back? It wasn't Hugh Downs. She Downs was her friend,
Speaker 1: but whoever was? He was very mean to her, even
Speaker 1: on air because he didn't want a co host, and
Speaker 1: he definitely did not want a female co host. And
Speaker 1: he made it abundantly clear on CBS way back when
Speaker 1: Barbara first got a start, when she got her first break, HM, well,
Speaker 1: and you see how that worked out. So she was
Speaker 1: still thriving at the end of the day, at sixty
Speaker 1: eight years old. She started to view at sixty eight,
Speaker 1: most people are retiring. Barbara said, let me kick off
Speaker 1: something that's gonna last and keep on lasting and the
Speaker 1: view is still on years. So kudos to you, Barbara.
Speaker 1: Barbara Wallings, may you rest in an eternal peace. And girl,
Speaker 1: you have left the legacy. I wish you'd have left
Speaker 1: me a couple of dollars to go with him. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I ain't know him. The step door to
Speaker 1: get it all she had. She had a one daughter
Speaker 1: and I'm sure she left everything to the daughter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta take care of your people's But also speaking
Speaker 1: in terms of tragic news, UM, we definitely want to
Speaker 1: say say our prayers UM out to Damar Hamlin's family
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Uh. It was just tragic, honestly
Speaker 1: what happened to him. UM. And it's interesting too that
Speaker 1: it seems like a conversation is being sparked within the
Speaker 1: NFL again just about safety for players. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times people forget, you know, just actually how
Speaker 1: violent of a sport football really is and how dangerous
Speaker 1: it is. So UM, I saw the video. It was
Speaker 1: very traumatizing. UM. And I know that you know, he's
Speaker 1: still in a critical condition, UM in the hospital, but
Speaker 1: I really hope that he's able to recover. And UM,
Speaker 1: just kind of get back to some sense of normalcy,
Speaker 1: because I don't know how you do that after kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, having an almost near death experience. So prayers
Speaker 1: go out to him and twenty four years old, you
Speaker 1: know what I was most that's very saying, it's very tragic, Lawrence,
Speaker 1: And I'm with you on that. Our prayers from laugh
Speaker 1: and I Hard Black Effect Network all go out to
Speaker 1: him and his family. But he had a UM. I
Speaker 1: think it was a nonprofit organization. He was raising money
Speaker 1: for the kids in his in his city. I think
Speaker 1: it is the Cincinnati or Cleveland. He plays for the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati don't excoose me. He paid plays for the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills and he promised uh Cincinnati, So he was raising money.
Speaker 1: He's nonprofit. He only had twenty dollars. Overnight, they have
Speaker 1: more than five million dollars. I loved it. I hate
Speaker 1: that it takes a tragedy for people to step up
Speaker 1: to help other people, but I love the fact that
Speaker 1: when people are in a corner, they will step up
Speaker 1: to help. Yeah. But um, I don't know. I always
Speaker 1: talked to my dad because like my dad used to
Speaker 1: coach football when I was younger too, And I don't
Speaker 1: I just feel like the focus kind of just gets
Speaker 1: shifted from the actual issue in hand, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I just don't think that these players are
Speaker 1: being protected well enough for them to do such a
Speaker 1: risky job. I don't think that there's enough parameters in
Speaker 1: place to really protect them. So I hope that this
Speaker 1: isn't just glossed over, and I just hope that this
Speaker 1: marks a new conversation. And I think it's great that
Speaker 1: his nonprofits being helped out, but I'm more so concerned
Speaker 1: about him, you know what I mean, because when he
Speaker 1: comes out of critical condition, because I'm gonna say that,
Speaker 1: you know, words have energy. When he gets out of this,
Speaker 1: you know, critical state, what is how is he going
Speaker 1: to be? You know? I hope he at I hope
Speaker 1: he bounces back. I really do hope that he has
Speaker 1: the mental capacity and fighting him to come back because
Speaker 1: he was the hometown hero too, and so many people
Speaker 1: have rallied together in his hometown to come and be
Speaker 1: there with him. So prayers to him. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: something right now. And as much as I love me
Speaker 1: some football, I always wanted to be a Dallas cowboy
Speaker 1: Chill lead, Oh my god. It was the uniforms. Oh
Speaker 1: I wanted me the shorts with the boots and the
Speaker 1: oh I could have worn out. Lord, I could have
Speaker 1: been the first trendy uh Dallas Cowboys leader. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: trans woman cowboy chileader. And since we're speaking of trans women, girl,
Speaker 1: do you know what happened today? Was it today? Yesterday? Well?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I wanted to say that on
Speaker 1: that on that note, since you brought it up though,
Speaker 1: you know that the Charlotte's football team actually has the
Speaker 1: first transgender cheerleader and I actually know her. We used
Speaker 1: to dance together a long time ago. Okay, yeah, but
Speaker 1: anyway would have been way back. I wanted to do
Speaker 1: it when Roger start Back was on Roger Starback was
Speaker 1: on the Dallas and so that goes, wait, you know
Speaker 1: how old that he is? No? I do know because
Speaker 1: my dad has always been a Dallas Cowboy fan. So yes,
Speaker 1: I know what's talking about. But anyway, go ahead, what's
Speaker 1: with the stars on the ask was just the cutest
Speaker 1: to me. I wanted to start on my booty speaking
Speaker 1: of trans women making making history and breaking barious. Trans
Speaker 1: woman was executed? I think it was yesterday? Was it yesterday?
Speaker 1: Oh really, I didn't know that. Yeah, first trans woman
Speaker 1: in history to ever be execut executed? Uh, what was
Speaker 1: I'm about to tell you exactly where it was, Lawend Hogan.
Speaker 1: Her name was, her name was. I'm I'm putting it
Speaker 1: down on my in my notes, very unprofessional and slay more. Okay,
Speaker 1: there it is right there, Milwalker. She was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Her name was um oh oh McLaughlin. Amber McLaughlin was
Speaker 1: her name. She stalked her ex girlfriend and stabbed her,
Speaker 1: and they executed her in Milwaukee. Wow. I think they
Speaker 1: said she snapped her six times, allegedly that limit warns
Speaker 1: the death penalty. Well, it was. I think it was
Speaker 1: also the stalking. You know, stalking is very serious. I
Speaker 1: think stocking might be as bad as attempt to murder. Wow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they date this and listen, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you do the crame, you do the time, but I'm
Speaker 1: with you long it seems so extreme. I don't know
Speaker 1: all the of the story because they haven't released a
Speaker 1: whole lot of details of the story, but nevertheless, they
Speaker 1: did execute her in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Is who remind me
Speaker 1: not to do nothing? I'm not even still a bag
Speaker 1: with age just and milwalking out mad picking up some
Speaker 1: chips and walking out the gas station. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to be insensitive to the family who you know,
Speaker 1: lost this young woman, but I'm talking about the woman
Speaker 1: that you know, Amber McLoughlin Stalketon killed, not being insensitive
Speaker 1: to them, But I personally feel like, if you do
Speaker 1: an egregious crime, I'd rather you spend your days sitting
Speaker 1: in a jail cell thinking about what you did. Um.
Speaker 1: I always think that execution is an easy way out.
Speaker 1: So we're not trying to offend her family in any way,
Speaker 1: but that just seems to get the death penalty for
Speaker 1: that is uh, I don't know. It's kind of raising
Speaker 1: my eyebrow. So maybe there was more to it that
Speaker 1: we're just not aware of. But saying that, so many
Speaker 1: there's so many components to the story that we don't
Speaker 1: know so exactly on the story. And if we do
Speaker 1: flame mats and and people out there and laugh and
Speaker 1: learn land we will give you more and more details
Speaker 1: details as we go. Where are we going, Lauren Hogan? Well,
Speaker 1: since we've gotten past, you know, sending our condolences to
Speaker 1: the two tragedies that we wanted to talk about we
Speaker 1: have to talk about the top story of the day.
Speaker 1: We just have to, and that is Kevin McCarthy. A
Speaker 1: third time was not the time for Mr McCarthy. About
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy and the fact that he lost three votes
Speaker 1: uh to become House to become Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, lost three votes to Haakim Jeffreys, which I
Speaker 1: just think is so uh not three votes three times?
Speaker 1: Three times? Yes, the vote happened three times, and three
Speaker 1: times he lost to HAAKEM Jeffreys. And I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Watching the news today and seeing all the Democrats, especially
Speaker 1: the ones that looked like me that are brown skin, jumping,
Speaker 1: skipping and laughing. I don't know if you caught some
Speaker 1: of that in the background. I had to laugh. It
Speaker 1: was just so funny, isn't thee Because when the Republicans
Speaker 1: when they attack Nancy Pelopsi's husband Paul, they laughed. When
Speaker 1: things happened to Democrats, they laugh, it's just calmed turnabout,
Speaker 1: it's fair play. Well, what I just think is interesting
Speaker 1: is that you're really starting to see these dividing lines
Speaker 1: within the Republican Party. Um and it's almost like, I
Speaker 1: hate to say this, but the Republicans are starting to
Speaker 1: look a little like the Democrats. Democrats are finally we're
Speaker 1: finally getting our stuff together, which I'm I'm so happy.
Speaker 1: It seems like we're starting to form an agenda that
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same accord with. I love the Hakim Jeffreys.
Speaker 1: You know, is um succeeded Nancy Pelosi. Um. I think
Speaker 1: he's an amazing congressman. Um. But now it just seems
Speaker 1: like the Republicans just they got some problems that they
Speaker 1: got to work through. They've been they've been creating these
Speaker 1: problems for themselves for quite some time, starting with Carrie
Speaker 1: Lake over there in in Arizona. Then y'all went and
Speaker 1: got the mule of all mules, Hurshel Walker, to be
Speaker 1: a bullheaded food for y'all, who made y'all embarrass you'll
Speaker 1: even more. But it started a few years ago with
Speaker 1: the presidents y'all elected. Who has really come out to
Speaker 1: see that ain't paid taxes and years been lying and
Speaker 1: will will you know what's so messed up? Lauren is?
Speaker 1: I wish that the voting for the Speaker of the
Speaker 1: House was like baseball, three strikes you out, because in
Speaker 1: eighteen fifty six, and you help me with this one.
Speaker 1: How many times did they vote before they made the decision?
Speaker 1: They voted A hundred and thirty three times over your
Speaker 1: span of two months. Money, Yeah, a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three times over two months. But I mean, I think
Speaker 1: the thing that's interesting is, you know, the the amount
Speaker 1: of people that voted today, it didn't change. So the
Speaker 1: Congress holds four hundred thirty five seats. Four hundred thirty
Speaker 1: four people voted, so one person wasn't there that didn't vote.
Speaker 1: But each time hawkeeen Jeffreies was only six votes away
Speaker 1: from winning. There's two hundred and twelve Democratic seats currently
Speaker 1: in the House. Um, the Republicans still do have the majority,
Speaker 1: but like I said, there's a split within their party.
Speaker 1: So Kevin McCarthy just can't get over that two hundred
Speaker 1: eighteen hump because even the last of all that they
Speaker 1: had today, Jim Jordan's threw his name in the hat
Speaker 1: and got twenty votes and Kevin McCarthy only had two
Speaker 1: hundred and two. So had those twenty people that voted
Speaker 1: for Jim Jordan and just refused to vote for Kevin McCarthy,
Speaker 1: he would have won. He would have won. He would
Speaker 1: have gotten two hundred votes you need to eighteen. He
Speaker 1: would have won. But there's like nine Republicans that just
Speaker 1: ain't rocking with him, which I think is interesting. He
Speaker 1: jumped on their bandwig with the whole Janie We're six committee.
Speaker 1: It's not even that though. You know, it's interesting when
Speaker 1: you hear you know, commentators today they're saying that this
Speaker 1: really doesn't have anything to do with Trump, it's not
Speaker 1: even Trump related. Well, McCarthy also a push to stop
Speaker 1: to steal some of his policies and some of his
Speaker 1: wishy washy antics. People just don't want to deal with
Speaker 1: it because he too in and out. They can't trust him,
Speaker 1: They cannot trust him. Yeah, they called he was being
Speaker 1: called the main alligator and the swamp today and people
Speaker 1: are saying they didn't want to be a part of
Speaker 1: the swamp. Uh. Some of the shade that was thrown
Speaker 1: his way was actually quite comical today too among his
Speaker 1: own party, So, you know, and some top tactics are
Speaker 1: you know, you just keep voting over and over again,
Speaker 1: and you tire some of those older Congress folks out
Speaker 1: because you know, they want to leave and go home
Speaker 1: and go to bed. But I think collectively today because
Speaker 1: they adjourned it about five thirty, UM, they need to
Speaker 1: go have an internal meeting and figure out who they're
Speaker 1: going to nominate, because the feedback I heard on the
Speaker 1: news today was that Kevin McCarthy ain't gonna get it.
Speaker 1: The next person is Jim Jordan. But people have issues
Speaker 1: with Jim Jordan's for obvious reasons, and the other one
Speaker 1: is a Scalise and people have issues with him as well.
Speaker 1: You know, police was actually shot on the while he
Speaker 1: was playing baseball. Remember that. I remember that. I got yes,
Speaker 1: I say, bring Nancy Pelosi back. I love you know
Speaker 1: I love Nancy Pelosi. I know you love her. And
Speaker 1: she um even got a chamber named after her. She's
Speaker 1: done a lot of great things. But like I said before,
Speaker 1: it's time to pass the baton, and I think she
Speaker 1: passed it to the best person, which is how Kim jeffreyes.
Speaker 1: So he's really only six votes away from becoming, you know,
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House again. Is he gonna get six
Speaker 1: Republicans to vote for him? Probably not. It would be
Speaker 1: interesting Republicans that would jump ship and turn and both
Speaker 1: of him would get the ass handed to them. By
Speaker 1: their own party. They would, they really would, and it
Speaker 1: would make their time in Congress very hard. You know,
Speaker 1: some of these folks are gonna be in Congress for
Speaker 1: at least two years, some four, you know, so it
Speaker 1: would it would be very hard for them, for sure.
Speaker 1: But he was only six votes way, only six votes away.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I feel like we're living in a
Speaker 1: time where stranger things have happened. So I'm never gonna
Speaker 1: say never, but it's definitely wishful thinking. So well, I'm
Speaker 1: praying and hoping that somebody gets up in some Republicans,
Speaker 1: them six Republicans years tonight and say just take the hit,
Speaker 1: take the hit and just vote for him. Let's just
Speaker 1: do Oh my god, the history, Oh my god, the
Speaker 1: history of it all. It would be a very huge
Speaker 1: if he got elected, as if Kim Jeffrey's got elected
Speaker 1: as a Speaker of the House with a Republican majority
Speaker 1: in the Congress, Yeah, he might very well make history. Well,
Speaker 1: I personally think that they should one vote person who
Speaker 1: should not be able to vote is George Santos, the
Speaker 1: guy who was newly elected to Congress in um in
Speaker 1: New York because he lied to get them. He I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: The words they used was he ellished his resume. Yeah, back, folks,
Speaker 1: term this nigga laughed from front to back, make up income,
Speaker 1: he made up a nationality. He went from black and white,
Speaker 1: from preplet to green, from straight to gay, from Jewish
Speaker 1: to uh Hebrew, just lad all the way around. The
Speaker 1: trick of that would have been when he got to
Speaker 1: work today that morning. They should have said, oh, we
Speaker 1: were just kidding. We gave it to somebody else says
Speaker 1: you lad, we did it too. But that ain't what
Speaker 1: they did. I just think some of the stories that
Speaker 1: have come out about him today are funny. Um. One
Speaker 1: of the New York Times headlines is, George Santos came
Speaker 1: to Washington. It was awkward. So some of the headlines, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Washington Post George Santos had an awkward first day
Speaker 1: in Congress. Rolling Stone said, liar, George santos first day
Speaker 1: in Congress is off to a rocky start. Um. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting people magazines quoting it correctly. George Santos lied
Speaker 1: during first day in Congress. It's it's very interesting to see.
Speaker 1: But he was, you know, the people elected him based
Speaker 1: on you know, an incorrect resume. But you know what,
Speaker 1: what's mind boggling to me, Mrs Hogan, is that I
Speaker 1: can't understand this is and he's not even he's not
Speaker 1: even Caucasian. No, he's not. But and I don't mean
Speaker 1: any offense when I say this, but in anybody's experience
Speaker 1: in the world, there are certain people of Latino scent
Speaker 1: that preferred to assimilate with you know, white people. They
Speaker 1: do so, and sometimes you see that in certain cases
Speaker 1: like the one we're discussing. But go ahead, well, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I was saying that. I was saying that,
Speaker 1: not to say that you know that he was trying
Speaker 1: trying to be something that he wasn't. But I would
Speaker 1: expect that to happen to somebody black and brown, even
Speaker 1: though he really is brown, he don't identify as brown. Um,
Speaker 1: but we if it ha been one of us. This
Speaker 1: is the same thing that happened with Jeffrey Epstein. He
Speaker 1: embellished his resume to get the original job teaching at
Speaker 1: the school in New York because they looked at his
Speaker 1: skin color and not that they didn't research his history. Well,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein got the job because his daddy worked there.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna be honest. But he also embellished his resume.
Speaker 1: He had none of the credentials that he he said
Speaker 1: on his resume. They talked about that when after his
Speaker 1: uh apparent suicide or whatever, murder whatever he did. But
Speaker 1: I mean his his daddy worked there. That's really why
Speaker 1: he got in. But yeah, you are correct in terms
Speaker 1: of the embellishment. I'm going to embellish my resume. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get host the Oscars. Let me landside and hosted
Speaker 1: in four times already. Well if we can, well, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't know about that part, but I mean
Speaker 1: most people add the occasional puff and fluff to their
Speaker 1: resume to get a job, but this far exceeded that
Speaker 1: at this point. So yeah, I just don't like that.
Speaker 1: And then I don't think that he should have been
Speaker 1: allowed to vote. Y'all. Clearly before he even took the
Speaker 1: position today, they clearly knew that he fabricated his his
Speaker 1: his paperwork and did all that. I don't understand. Why
Speaker 1: do you let this go through? Lord? I'm saying, they
Speaker 1: make the rules up as they go. I think the
Speaker 1: the reason why is because he was still elected. The
Speaker 1: people elected him, and we live in a democracy for
Speaker 1: all intents and purpose, elect him to have you to
Speaker 1: tell me all of them last right, But he was
Speaker 1: still elected. So I don't think if there's anything that
Speaker 1: you can do once somebody's been elected to a seat
Speaker 1: to a congressional stye because it was a fair it
Speaker 1: was a fair election. I'm using fair and air quotes.
Speaker 1: So she throwing her fingers out like she throwing a
Speaker 1: game stands. I can see you if we're gonna just
Speaker 1: transition really quickly. We do have some black girl magic
Speaker 1: that took place today in the state of Michigan. UM
Speaker 1: MS Kira Harris Bolden became the first black woman to
Speaker 1: be elected to the Michigan Supreme Court, UM, which was
Speaker 1: a joy to see. I watched her her confirmation and UM,
Speaker 1: just congratulations to her for making history. UM in the
Speaker 1: state of Michigan. Yes, congratulating governor. Was there to rocking
Speaker 1: all over this country year. We're everywhere, but we're starting to,
Speaker 1: you know, be able to get into these spaces, which
Speaker 1: is just it's always nice when you look up or
Speaker 1: if there's a young girl that says, one day, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to be a lawyer. I want to be
Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice or I want to be a judge,
Speaker 1: And they can look at the Kyra Harris Boldens, they
Speaker 1: can look at the Katangi Brown Jackson's like, we're starting
Speaker 1: to get you know, actual representation in certain spaces that
Speaker 1: we never were before. So I think that's the part
Speaker 1: that you know, gives me a little bit of joy
Speaker 1: and all of the midst of the craziness that's happening
Speaker 1: in the world. So, yes, that is great. I love
Speaker 1: to see us winning. I love to see us accomplishing
Speaker 1: things and getting it, getting it, getting it and getting
Speaker 1: it fairly and honestly, which is which is really pressing
Speaker 1: in these United States. Well, you talk about getting getting
Speaker 1: it fairly and honestly, and we just talked about you know, Santos,
Speaker 1: So you know, we as uh black folks always have
Speaker 1: to be twice as good. Um, because I remember even
Speaker 1: an image that came up when Mr Catanji Brown Jackson
Speaker 1: was being you know, placed on the Supreme Court in
Speaker 1: terms of qualifications that compared her to all the other justices,
Speaker 1: and she far, um, her resume was far more qualifying,
Speaker 1: I'll say, than anybody else that was sitting on that bench.
Speaker 1: So it's just It's always interesting just how much better
Speaker 1: we have to be just to be in those same
Speaker 1: spaces that are handed to you know, some of our counterparts.
Speaker 1: How tragic in this country that our resume and we
Speaker 1: win with things, but our skin of me reads a
Speaker 1: whole another thing. And that's something a skin of me,
Speaker 1: and that's the name of last show in our resume
Speaker 1: or our skin of me. I like it. I'm possible though,
Speaker 1: I'm possible. Uh But anyway, back to the House, I'm
Speaker 1: interesting to see how tomorrow shakes out. Um. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure the Republicans had an internal meeting tonight to figure
Speaker 1: out who they're gonna nominated, who they think that everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna get on board with, and child, we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens tomorrow. I was Republicans from the House saying, oh,
Speaker 1: he deserves it. McCarthy has worked for McCarthy has pushed
Speaker 1: us back thirty five years with his One day he
Speaker 1: did and the next day he's there. I'm sorry. One
Speaker 1: morning he's this, and the next the same afternoon he's
Speaker 1: something else. We can't do. Wish you watched, she wish
Speaker 1: you watch. You will never get us to a place
Speaker 1: of solitude in this country and he is wishy wash
Speaker 1: she is here. They should call him a Washington and dryer. Well,
Speaker 1: the issue is, you know, I think the mid terms
Speaker 1: kind of proved that America has a conscious in some
Speaker 1: sort of way. I mean, that's a bold statement to make,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna stick with it because to be this
Speaker 1: red wave and that didn't happen tired, Well, no, I would.
Speaker 1: I would go with that we have a conscious because
Speaker 1: I know people talk about gen z ears and that
Speaker 1: they're lazy and you know, they don't have the same
Speaker 1: type of drive or whatever. I will say that that
Speaker 1: generation gets out and they vote. This younger generation they
Speaker 1: want to be a million different things, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they want to be themselves and
Speaker 1: they want to exercise their rights to vote, which is
Speaker 1: more than you can say about other generations. Sorry. So
Speaker 1: I think that these these new up and coming they're
Speaker 1: creating this whole conscious vibe for us, so that we're
Speaker 1: re starting to elect people that actually have some sort
Speaker 1: of integrity and we're getting rid of some of those crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, far right folks. But I don't know, we
Speaker 1: still have the you know, some of the we have
Speaker 1: the the Marjorie Taylor Greens. We still have the Lauren
Speaker 1: Robets because she almost lost her seat as well too,
Speaker 1: But um, we still have this crazy Jim Jordan's and
Speaker 1: the Matt Gates and Rhonda Santas and I could go
Speaker 1: down the list, but I don't know. Maybe we're seeing
Speaker 1: a bit of a shift. I think the mid term
Speaker 1: showed us that a little bit, because we still got
Speaker 1: the Senate, which I think is very impressive. I completely
Speaker 1: agree with you, the Lord. I think that this this
Speaker 1: younger generation really is moving the ship, and I think
Speaker 1: people really are tired of the BS. So I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that when Marjorie Taylor Greens and and and uh Tiar
Speaker 1: cruise to sea comp this next this next go around,
Speaker 1: that we have reshifted enough of the foolishness out of
Speaker 1: the way to these younger voters and these newer people
Speaker 1: who really see it for what it is, especially when
Speaker 1: Trump loft so much of his power, so much of
Speaker 1: his credibility has been stripped from him, that people are
Speaker 1: really starting to be like, Damn, I made a mistake.
Speaker 1: I was watching one of the blogs that a man
Speaker 1: was talking about his neighbors having to move out because
Speaker 1: they donated seventy five thousand dollars to stop to steal.
Speaker 1: The wife left the husband because he donated seventy five
Speaker 1: thou dollars to to stop to steal. Uh camp paying
Speaker 1: Trump's campaign, which never happened, And they were only fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand dollars away from paying for their home that they
Speaker 1: had been paying for for thirty years. And they didn't
Speaker 1: have the money anymore because they donated. The husband donated
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars to a bogus campaign, So she
Speaker 1: left her husband, and I think he lost the house
Speaker 1: according to the block, Like, what do you call that?
Speaker 1: Is that just like stupidity? So he lost his house,
Speaker 1: he lost his money, and he lost his wife. That's
Speaker 1: three times the loser McCarthy, three times. I just that's
Speaker 1: just baffling to me, that you're gonna give Trump seventy
Speaker 1: five dollars because you believe I stopped to steal. I
Speaker 1: just I think that's just baffling. I think that people
Speaker 1: it was just that stupid. I'm sorry, and it may
Speaker 1: sound mean, but uh, I don't know what else to
Speaker 1: call that, because ain't a way you've given up your
Speaker 1: house for a man that doesn't care about you. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think people lost people follow lost people. And when
Speaker 1: you're looking for a big hope and you're looking for
Speaker 1: a beacon of light and somebody that's saying what you
Speaker 1: want to say, but you're afraid to say it because
Speaker 1: you think they get balls up to say whether they're
Speaker 1: right or wrong, you will follow the leader. And they
Speaker 1: followed that food straight to seventy five dollars less. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it might just be that Trump is like
Speaker 1: the latest modern day cult. That's what I'm starting to think,
Speaker 1: because it's like Jim Jones been telling you, everybody drink
Speaker 1: kool aid, everybody's gonna die. But Trump might just be
Speaker 1: the latest cult, just a modern day form. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got to be I agree with that. Lori HOGI, how
Speaker 1: what are we living in? What times are we living in?
Speaker 1: All politics next season? All we doing is politics is
Speaker 1: getting exciting, it's getting it's getting it is getting juicy.
Speaker 1: I have to say. That's one thing that I've said
Speaker 1: before is I'll give Trump credit for if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for him become a president, I would not watch the
Speaker 1: news and research and look into politics the way that
Speaker 1: I do. Because when we had Barack Obama as president.
Speaker 1: I felt so safe. I had no idea what was
Speaker 1: going on. All I knew was that my president was black,
Speaker 1: and I felt protected. Trump became president. I'm watching the news,
Speaker 1: I'm researching. I knew about all the cabinet positions because
Speaker 1: everybody kept resigning. I had no idea there was so
Speaker 1: many cabinet positions. So thanks Donald Trump. You made me
Speaker 1: learn to do a little bit more research in the
Speaker 1: political space. So I want to I want a piggyback
Speaker 1: off that. I want to thank Donald Trump as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you Donald for being so bad and making President
Speaker 1: Barack Obama look so good. Step further, Donald Trump made
Speaker 1: people forget what a terrible president George Bush was. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's just take it a step further. That's quite
Speaker 1: a feat to accomplish so and all he did to
Speaker 1: redeem himself was had to make a nice speech about
Speaker 1: the man, the dad about uh good trouble what was
Speaker 1: his name? Who talked about a good Trump with yes,
Speaker 1: And we forgave him who Black folks, y'all know, we
Speaker 1: forgive people quite good guys. You know, we forgave him
Speaker 1: because you know, Michelle loves him. Baby feeding each other,
Speaker 1: candy at events. They love each other, so he wanted
Speaker 1: him some of that black girl magic, but he was
Speaker 1: scared that black man was gonna tap on his days.
Speaker 1: I see that I did it. You've seen some of
Speaker 1: the things that Laura Bush said. You know, she goes.
Speaker 1: You know, Michelle Obama is just so fit. You know,
Speaker 1: I gotta watch what I what I eat. I gotta
Speaker 1: watch my figure. And she's made jokes about the fact
Speaker 1: that they're so friendly with each other. It's still it's appropriate.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. We're not saying anything shady in
Speaker 1: that aspect, but it's funny to just see them how
Speaker 1: they interact with each other. But that was a nice
Speaker 1: way of Laura Bush saying that she's a black woman
Speaker 1: from the South side of Chicago. I'm from Chicago. I
Speaker 1: know black women from the South side of Chicago. The
Speaker 1: word is p n G. You know that stands for
Speaker 1: plays no game would have dropped the baby. Well, we
Speaker 1: gotta say on all of that note here at Laugh
Speaker 1: and Learn, we do have saying that we're never trying
Speaker 1: to get anybody to change the mind. We're simply trying
Speaker 1: to get you to use your mind. Because wife Flame
Speaker 1: it's three and if you ain't using your mind back now,
Speaker 1: then apparently you don't have a mind. And to the
Speaker 1: Republicans and the I mean to the to the Republicans
Speaker 1: in the House, I need you guys to use your
Speaker 1: mind and do not vote for Kevin McCarthy. I see it.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna get it. I really think
Speaker 1: they're gonna convince him to resign balls. I'm gonna be spressed.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure some of our fans want to know
Speaker 1: this too, because I don't want to seem like I'm
Speaker 1: making me but I want to know. So, even though
Speaker 1: that the House is controlled by the Senate, can we
Speaker 1: have a democratic speaker? I think we can because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it comes down to vote.
Speaker 1: So if Hakeem Jeffreys gets two eighteen votes, you get elected.
Speaker 1: M So you can't the vote don't lie. It's whoever
Speaker 1: gets the majority the two eighteen that's who becomes the
Speaker 1: elected um Speaker of the House. That would be something,
Speaker 1: Lauren Hogan, we get that. Oh, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 1: He's only six votes away. That's the part that I'm
Speaker 1: like you, I'm keeping hope alive. Do I think it's
Speaker 1: really gonna happen. No, but I'm keeping hope alive because
Speaker 1: he needs six votes to be re elected because he's
Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House now because you know, Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi has left, so he's a Speaker of the House now.
Speaker 1: But he needs six votes. If six Republicans flipped, man,
Speaker 1: I need six. I need those secret Republicans that will
Speaker 1: not both have not voted for him to go home
Speaker 1: and get there some good old front or back or
Speaker 1: both and come tomorrow and be like, yeah, we stick
Speaker 1: We're sticking to our guns. I hope whoever they're married
Speaker 1: to they lay them out tonight. The only thing, the
Speaker 1: only way I think that that could possibly happen is
Speaker 1: when the Republicans meet tonight. If they can't come to
Speaker 1: common ground on who they think they can actually elect,
Speaker 1: that may end up happening. But with the options that
Speaker 1: they're looking at now, it doesn't look at McCarthy, Scalise
Speaker 1: and Jordan's those aren't they're not viable options to actually
Speaker 1: get elected. So it'll be interesting, or unless they just
Speaker 1: do a one A D and say it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Let's let you know Jim Jordan and let's
Speaker 1: or let's um Alex Scalise, but I don't know. Some
Speaker 1: of them might say Jefferies is a lesser too evil.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But thank you guys so much for joining
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Speaker 1: Y'all just sin't heard his boy shit. We was gonna
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Speaker 1: rolling with us for two seasons so far. And thank
Speaker 1: you Lauren Holding for being just a great part of
Speaker 1: just getting on my nerves and I get on yours back.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's what works. We get on each
Speaker 1: other's nerves. But then we yeah, well, I'm boy, I'm boy.
Speaker 1: Ain't than ye. I actually have the DNA, but it's
Speaker 1: okay if I take a couple of these lovely so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be way more yange than you. I'm not
Speaker 1: only tonight, I'm gonna you might be right about that one.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. We appreciate you all. You guys have
Speaker 1: a fantastic And if I have to push any message,
Speaker 1: I'm pushing the message. My message is to be more realistic,
Speaker 1: more positive, and surround yourself with good energy with people
Speaker 1: who generally will give you the truth in a loving way,
Speaker 1: not trying to hurt your feelings and make you feel
Speaker 1: small or make you feel like something that you're not.
Speaker 1: Find you and be you. That's a hard one right there.
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