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Speaker 4: She we Hey, hey, hey, this is comedian Flame Monroe
Speaker 4: and welcome to this week's episode of Laugh and Learn. Y'all,
Speaker 4: we are on a major countdown. We are about six
Speaker 4: episodes away from season four who and the words of
Speaker 4: my co host Bobby Clifford, Hi.
Speaker 3: You tuts hia chutz. How's it going?
Speaker 4: It's going pretty well, U ladies, gentlem. I want you
Speaker 4: guys to know that I had a splendid weekend. I
Speaker 4: hosted a Newcomer pageant here in California and West Hollywood
Speaker 4: Sunday night, and it was okay. But Saturday night, I
Speaker 4: was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Andrew Carnegie. Because it's
Speaker 4: not pronounced Carnegie, it's pronounced Carnegie's pronounced Carnegie. The Andrew
Speaker 4: Carnegie Theater and Library for three hundreds Trumplicans, Republican people
Speaker 4: that loved Donald Trump. And let me tell you something, Bobby,
Speaker 4: they absolutely adorn me.
Speaker 3: What's not to love?
Speaker 4: I won those people over. They went crazy for me.
Speaker 4: I told jokes about Trump. I didn't talk about his politics.
Speaker 4: I talked about him. I just talked and just was
Speaker 4: my normal self. And that audience was fantastic. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. You guys made my first experience
Speaker 4: ever coming to Pittsburgh a wonderful experience. And I will
Speaker 4: be back. I promise you guys, I will be back.
Speaker 4: They were wonderful. And then I did Tina Turner performers form.
Speaker 4: I think they thought they was really looking at Tina.
Speaker 4: I think they thought that they were really looking at
Speaker 4: Tein about it because they tipped me about seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: Good god, they were.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm loving it. Yeah, that's a really
Speaker 3: right area. That was really hard fought one for Joe
Speaker 3: Biden back in twenty twenty, like that was by the
Speaker 3: skin of his teeth. So, and I'm sure you won
Speaker 3: them over. And you look just like Tina when you
Speaker 3: move like her. So I'm sure that they loved you.
Speaker 3: You did that, You did that quick clip that was
Speaker 3: on and they were screaming and shouting and carrying on.
Speaker 3: So I think they you proved absolutely love Joe.
Speaker 4: Thank you to Derek Castro and his husband Mansell for
Speaker 4: putting on the show. Thank you to all the ladies
Speaker 4: who danced with us. They were so wonderful. They had
Speaker 4: a dance company there. Those young girls were so sweet
Speaker 4: and so kind. They made us goodie bags with sweetish fish.
Speaker 4: You could always get me with sweetish fish. I'm a
Speaker 4: hope for sweetish fish. Let me just say that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's my favorite that in Solid Patch Kis.
Speaker 3: I really like the watermelon. The watermelon with the sweetish fish.
Speaker 3: There's a combination that goes on.
Speaker 4: You want saying that one welcome.
Speaker 3: You don't get to look like this without having a
Speaker 3: certain a certain something.
Speaker 4: Well, there's sugar free. There's sugar free, Bobby, there's sugar free.
Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah.
Speaker 4: It was such a wonderful experience. And I love when
Speaker 4: I go someplace for the first time and the people
Speaker 4: are just welcoming. And when as we were leaving, I
Speaker 4: want to get my fans because I was selling fans.
Speaker 4: I had girls selling fans for me. And there was
Speaker 4: a couple, a white couple. He was German, he was
Speaker 4: from Germany, he was very handsome, his wife and their
Speaker 4: nineteen year old daughter. And the wife so stopped me.
Speaker 4: She said, I just want to tell you that you
Speaker 4: were fantastic and fabricus. I said, oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: And so the husband was like, we are suntr Republicans
Speaker 4: and you have not changed our man on who we're
Speaker 4: going to vote for, but you have changed our man
Speaker 4: on how we see people like you. And I was like, wow,
Speaker 4: and thank you for that. And that is what my
Speaker 4: job is, Mike. I told him my gift is to
Speaker 4: make people laugh, but my superpower is to make people comfortable.
Speaker 4: So maybe they'll meet another trans person that they will
Speaker 4: be meet and be like, you know, hey, hello, just hello,
Speaker 4: you don't have to read conversation, just hello. So if
Speaker 4: that is my job to do, I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 4: But the wife said to me, she says, you are
Speaker 4: a greater entertainer. But as an MC and the host,
Speaker 4: nobody does it better. I went straight into Carlie Simon
Speaker 4: makes you feel sad for the rest, Nobody does it
Speaker 4: half as good as you. Oh my god, that was
Speaker 4: a great compliment for me. That was a great They
Speaker 4: were wonderful, wonderful people. Thank you again, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Now
Speaker 4: let's get into to get into this weekend. They also
Speaker 4: had the NAACP Awards and I watched the awards. Congratulations
Speaker 4: to the winners. It was hosted by Queen Latifa, Dion
Speaker 4: Cole My Boy, the comedian Dione Cole had a moment
Speaker 4: that went viral. But I'm gonna say this as an
Speaker 4: observer of the awards and as a black person, as
Speaker 4: a as an artist. When some of these same people
Speaker 4: won Emmy or Oscars or Golden Globe Awards, they held
Speaker 4: those awards with both hands in high regard, like they
Speaker 4: were holding their children. But when they won these NAACP Awards,
Speaker 4: they tucked them up under their arms or they put
Speaker 4: them behind their back. There was a different pride with
Speaker 4: us accepting us and my that is my issue. Y'all
Speaker 4: got us afraid to be us, And that's what we're
Speaker 4: gonna call this episode, y'all got us afraid to be us?
Speaker 4: Because I didn't like that Bobby Clipper and body language
Speaker 4: speaks sells everything until we understand that we are good
Speaker 4: enough for us. And that is whatever nationality you are
Speaker 4: and you represent, just like you are Irish, Catholic, Caucasian woman,
Speaker 4: if we gave you a NAACP Awards from Bobby, I
Speaker 4: would expect you to hold that award in high regard,
Speaker 4: just thinking you get an award from the Catholic from
Speaker 4: from the Irish Catholics the same way. And I did
Speaker 4: not like that. I thought there was kind of disrespectful
Speaker 4: and very disregarding. But maybe I was over maybe I
Speaker 4: was reading too much into it, but I definitely saw that.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it has to do with when they
Speaker 3: have the Academy Awards and they or any of the
Speaker 3: other awards, it's everybody, so that means they've been accepted
Speaker 3: by everybody, do you know, like so maybe that makes
Speaker 3: a difference to me if I won any award, you know,
Speaker 3: give me a piece of cheese and that's the award.
Speaker 3: I'd be so happy, I'd have it next to my heart,
Speaker 3: you know. So I don't get that. But I only
Speaker 3: watched watched pieces of it, so I can't concur or disagree.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't see it. I did see Queen Latifa,
Speaker 3: and I thought, I think she's copying Flame because Flame
Speaker 3: said every time she every time there's a commercial, she's
Speaker 3: gonna change. And every time there was a commercial, Queen
Speaker 3: Latifa came out in a different gown, which I thought
Speaker 3: she looked terrific. Some looks were better than others, but
Speaker 3: she looked very polished overall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was a hats off to the awards.
Speaker 4: It was a good award show. Now let's get into
Speaker 4: this week's laugh and learn where we where we're going
Speaker 4: probably where we're going.
Speaker 3: So well, we we'll do a few informs, and one
Speaker 3: of them is Richard Simmons is not dead or dying.
Speaker 3: I guess he had some sort of cryptic social media post.
Speaker 3: All he did was have some sort of mole or
Speaker 3: something removed off of his face. And I don't know however,
Speaker 3: he worded it. People thought he was dying. So we
Speaker 3: just want to let you know folks, not dead, not dying,
Speaker 3: still shaking it to the oldies.
Speaker 4: Ooh, if he's still shaking that it's real. Old Let
Speaker 4: me just say, ooh, if he's shaking that it's dangling.
Speaker 4: It is it is.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something I saw her not too
Speaker 3: long ago. He could still move, so he has the thing.
Speaker 3: I think he's seventy four. He still moves just like
Speaker 3: like always so because he's kept every pound off after
Speaker 3: he's like three or four hundred pounds and then lost
Speaker 3: the weight doing it with you know, fun exercise and
Speaker 3: has kept it off. But I will say, you see
Speaker 3: the age because now you know how the dancers wear
Speaker 3: that like sheer like hose all over their body to
Speaker 3: hold in it. He's got He had a little pair.
Speaker 3: He had a pair of those pantyhose or leggings on,
Speaker 3: so he was keeping everything in. Bless his little heart.
Speaker 3: But he's still moving. So he's an inspiration better than
Speaker 3: me that's sitting on there, big fat up.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm the old cases like wait, them old cases
Speaker 4: like flags waving a half staff. Good.
Speaker 3: I can't, I can't, but those those are the hose
Speaker 3: keeping it in so bless his little heart. Did you
Speaker 3: see that Don Lemon interviewed. I actually watched them of
Speaker 3: the interview with Elon Musk. I don't understand. I think
Speaker 3: Elon Musk is very sensitive because he was just asking him.
Speaker 3: He wasn't even mean, he was just asking them plant
Speaker 3: blink questions. And I think it was almost like an
Speaker 3: opportunity for us to kind of clear the air and
Speaker 3: give his side. But he didn't have to. He didn't
Speaker 3: feel badly about anything. He doesn't have to. He doesn't
Speaker 3: have to, you know, answer to anybody. And then I
Speaker 3: guess at the end of it, he immediately emailed his
Speaker 3: folks and said that the contract that he had given
Speaker 3: Don Lemon to post the Don Lemon Show on Acts
Speaker 3: was canceled.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, that's when you have the power. That's another thing.
Speaker 4: We don't own much as people as people, so we
Speaker 4: have to start owning things so that we can get
Speaker 4: things put out. Because Don Lemon still did you drop
Speaker 4: the interview? And I only watched bits and pieces of
Speaker 4: it because I didn't think that donal Lemon went after him,
Speaker 4: But I thought that it could have been a little
Speaker 4: more tactful if you understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Maybe, but that's not I don't know if that's Don
Speaker 3: Lemon's gig, like I think he's. He's sort of direct,
Speaker 3: and sometimes I can be direct, so I can appreciate
Speaker 3: it as far as you're not meaning to, but you
Speaker 3: want to get to the answer. And I think he
Speaker 3: didn't want to put too many layers on so that
Speaker 3: Elon Musk could get caught in the layers, you know,
Speaker 3: like well, you know, and com up with excuses.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but well, that's when you have to
Speaker 4: That's when you really have to play the Koy game,
Speaker 4: because if you want to get all the answers you can,
Speaker 4: you can't anger them so that they will walk out
Speaker 4: or want to cancel. You got to play the slick
Speaker 4: game to get all the answers that you want. But
Speaker 4: I thought it was pity of Elon Musk to pull
Speaker 4: that day. That's his page, that's his that's his brand,
Speaker 4: so that he has that power.
Speaker 3: And you just said, you just said a mouthful. As
Speaker 3: my grandfather used to say, he should have been coy.
Speaker 3: Because here's the other problem that's that's going to be
Speaker 3: going to be problematic for Don is that they don't
Speaker 3: have a signed contract yet. They were still in negotiations.
Speaker 3: They have an understanding, but they don't have a they
Speaker 3: don't have a contract.
Speaker 4: So well, not only just that, now, what if Elon
Speaker 4: puts out bad put publicity on him, then he won't
Speaker 4: be able to get, you know, anybody major to interview.
Speaker 4: So it is something. It really is the times that
Speaker 4: we are living in and you have to play the
Speaker 4: game pretty much their way. I'm learning, I'm learning, I'm learning.
Speaker 3: It's hard you do, but there is a game. There
Speaker 3: is a game. And then when you got powerful enough
Speaker 3: or well known or your brand, everybody wants your brand
Speaker 3: like they're not going to live without it, then I
Speaker 3: think you can, you can throw a little, you know
Speaker 3: something into the fire. But until then, until he had
Speaker 3: that signed contract, I think, as she said, he maybe
Speaker 3: he could have been a little bit more tactful or
Speaker 3: left the questions for another time. But that said, the
Speaker 3: good news is that James Crumbley, he was the father
Speaker 3: of fifteen year old Ethan Crumbley, who had the school
Speaker 3: shooting in Oxford, Michigan. He was found guilty of involuntary
Speaker 3: manslaughter for all counts, so it was a jury trial,
Speaker 3: so the jury deliverated ten hours they came back with
Speaker 3: with a guilty verdict. So I think his wife in
Speaker 3: April gets sentenced. I don't know. I don't remember them
Speaker 3: saying when he does. I'm sure it's a month or
Speaker 3: two after her, since his case was a month after.
Speaker 4: As a parent, I'm going to say, I hate that
Speaker 4: they have to go after the parents with those parents
Speaker 4: seemed and new, but they seem so disregard They knew
Speaker 4: that their kid was slipping off the cheese, that they
Speaker 4: should have they should have intervened, so and I hate
Speaker 4: that they're going to blame the parents, But I also
Speaker 4: I'm kind of glad they're going to blame the parents
Speaker 4: because if you know your kid is a walking time bomb,
Speaker 4: and you've seen it, and that morning they've seen it,
Speaker 4: they were up at the school that same morning, you
Speaker 4: should have handled that a little more responsibly. I just
Speaker 4: believe that absolutely.
Speaker 3: Well I don't. So the first thing I'm going to
Speaker 3: say is, if you know your child at all, if
Speaker 3: you're a decent parent, and I'm not trying to say
Speaker 3: one way or the other with them because I don't
Speaker 3: know them, but if you're a decent parent. You know
Speaker 3: when you're a child, when something's gone on. My son
Speaker 3: has had many struggles over the years, and I know
Speaker 3: exactly when they're happening. You step back just for you know,
Speaker 3: maybe for a week or so, but when you really
Speaker 3: see them struggling, I don't know, you don't buy them
Speaker 3: a party gift of a gun. I mean I used
Speaker 3: to give my son to and maybe a McDonald's meal
Speaker 3: or something like. You know, like, I don't understand why
Speaker 3: you buy a gun. And then you don't walk it up.
Speaker 3: You just let him have you know, you let him
Speaker 3: have access to it, because if he was talking crazy
Speaker 3: mess at school, you don't think he was talking crazy
Speaker 3: mess at home.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Oh yeah maybe. And here's the thing.
Speaker 4: I think some parents are afraid to admit that they're
Speaker 4: afraid of their children. They could have POSI afraid of him. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a lot of these parents are afraid of their children.
Speaker 3: No, I agree with that, and I think there's also
Speaker 3: I don't agree with this, but there's also some sort
Speaker 3: of denial that you you don't want to think you're
Speaker 3: the worst parent in the world or your kids the worst,
Speaker 3: but you can do everything positive. I have friends who
Speaker 3: have done everything positive and they've had a couple of
Speaker 3: dynamite children and then one that's not so much. And
Speaker 3: it's not that. Sometimes there are mental health issues, you know,
Speaker 3: like obviously this kid had it. I wish they got
Speaker 3: him help though, because maybe he wouldn't be in the predicament,
Speaker 3: you know, he was now, and he would have kept
Speaker 3: himself safe because sitting in jail for the rest of
Speaker 3: us life isn't gonna.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not gonna even say that. I'm I feel
Speaker 4: sorry for the key, but I feel more sorry for
Speaker 4: the victims and those parents, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too. It's a crap situation all the
Speaker 3: way around. I'm just saying his parents should have kept
Speaker 3: him a little To me, they should have kept him
Speaker 3: a little more safe.
Speaker 4: But it is.
Speaker 3: That's that's the update on that one. Daniel Perry is
Speaker 3: going to stand trial in October. He was the man
Speaker 3: who was on the train who choked the homeless man.
Speaker 3: I think his name is Jordan Neely.
Speaker 4: And Daniel Daniel Perry was the ex military ex marine
Speaker 4: he was.
Speaker 3: He was an ex marine, but he was just a
Speaker 3: regular art student that day. But but yes, he did
Speaker 3: have the know how the judge says that the trial
Speaker 3: should take four to six weeks, So we'll see how
Speaker 3: that goes. Since we're on trials, we might as well
Speaker 3: just knock those all out. Hunter Biden had that impeachment. Uh,
Speaker 3: it wasn't a trial. It was more of a deposition.
Speaker 3: He had the two business partners that were that were
Speaker 3: coming today to give that. You have a deposition at
Speaker 3: a special counsel. He chose not to come, but they
Speaker 3: just seem hell banned, especially that James Comer of Kentucky
Speaker 3: is just hal bent that the Bidens did something, even
Speaker 3: though even the business partner said he never even for us.
Speaker 3: And you know he wants to bring them up on
Speaker 3: perjury charges now. I guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, back to back to Daniel because I ain't got
Speaker 4: past that yet.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 4: I hope that they find him guilty because he murdered.
Speaker 4: He could if he was professionally trained as a marine.
Speaker 4: He knew when to stop, he knew just how much
Speaker 4: to give, and he never stopped. And I know they
Speaker 4: say the guy was an aggressor, that's allegedly, but they
Speaker 4: have him choking that man. There's video of him choking
Speaker 4: at it never stopped. I hope they put him in prison.
Speaker 4: I do. I'm sorry, That's how I feel. I hope
Speaker 4: they put him in jail. And maybe he did save
Speaker 4: some people's lives. But that man was homeless, and he
Speaker 4: was hungry, and he was begging for money. And my
Speaker 4: problem is not that you choked him and you stopped
Speaker 4: him from hurting somebody else. My problem is that you
Speaker 4: didn't stop yourself from hurting him.
Speaker 3: That is, I want to see the case. I think
Speaker 3: it's a tragedy. He was, he was, and I think
Speaker 3: he was having some psychotic break the poor guy. I'm Jordan,
Speaker 3: but I don't because I've heard I've heard some people
Speaker 3: on the train say but again, I want I want
Speaker 3: to see them under oath and say it that he
Speaker 3: wasn't he wasn't applying the pressure that whole time. He
Speaker 3: kept letting off and coming back and letting off and
Speaker 3: coming back. But here's the thing, we don't know if
Speaker 3: Jordan Neely had some underlying health condition that couldn't handle
Speaker 3: any of that. So so I I want to see.
Speaker 3: I want justice to be done. Let me That's how
Speaker 3: I feel on that.
Speaker 4: I want to go to let me say, let me
Speaker 4: stay it my way. I wanted to.
Speaker 3: I heard you.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's go now now to your people. They just
Speaker 4: don't have to hunt you Biden. They just still start
Speaker 4: with President Joe Biden. So they're doing anything they can
Speaker 4: to try to try to collude Joe's mind and get
Speaker 4: Joe off track. But Joe is on fire, and after
Speaker 4: his State of Reunion, he's still on fire. Come on
Speaker 4: with you, Joe, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think so too. And and Rep. Jimmy Raskin, he's
Speaker 3: a Maryland he's a he's a Democrat. He I think
Speaker 3: he's very optimistic. He's saying, with any luck, today marks
Speaker 3: the end. And I'm thinking, really, is that really what
Speaker 3: I mean? I really I wish it too. But these
Speaker 3: people aren't going away. They've got to find something on
Speaker 3: somebody because Trump has all those indictments and you know,
Speaker 3: a few less now, but but anyway, that's the skinny
Speaker 3: on that one.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Bobby, a few less, but his money
Speaker 4: woves has not stopped. He still has He still has
Speaker 4: to produce four hundred and sixty four million dollars by Monday.
Speaker 3: He's got big, big doings on that. They say, if
Speaker 3: they if he can't come up with the money, that
Speaker 3: because that's what I want to say, like what's the punishment,
Speaker 3: because you know how like he had that crazy person
Speaker 3: that was an ally of his advisor that well, that
Speaker 3: was one of them. This one was Peter Navarro. He
Speaker 3: went yesterday, he's hat to serve a form onnth sentence
Speaker 3: because he defied a a subpoena. And remember we were
Speaker 3: talking back, there was never a punishment for the subpoena,
Speaker 3: like they weren't showing up, and then it was like okay,
Speaker 3: and but he the vitriol that came out of his mouth,
Speaker 3: he blamed the Democrats for everything, the only people that
Speaker 3: are going after him, and that's not the case. It's
Speaker 3: that when you defy a subpoena, there is a punishment.
Speaker 3: And he's going to like a club fed with all
Speaker 3: elderly people. So it's not even like I don't know
Speaker 3: what they could make shanks out of because I don't
Speaker 3: think adult diapers and and maybe those those aided spoons
Speaker 3: that they give the elderly. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: can make a shank out of those. But but yeah,
Speaker 3: but he's going to come up with this six four
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty four thousand, and they.
Speaker 4: Said million million, sorry.
Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry, sorry million, And they said that they can
Speaker 3: freeze his assets. So basically one of the things that
Speaker 3: they can do is they can freeze some of the assets.
Speaker 3: You know, I was thinking, didn't didn't. He's having such
Speaker 3: trouble securing this money, right, nobody wants to lend it
Speaker 3: to him because he doesn't pay anybody back.
Speaker 4: And then you know, they're going to freeze you know
Speaker 4: what they're going to freeze. They're going to freeze that
Speaker 4: too paid. Oh, they're going to freeze that hair. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, they're gonna feed I don't even know.
Speaker 1: If it's too pay.
Speaker 3: It's like a it's like a rat's nest, like it's
Speaker 3: super long, and then he flips it over and then
Speaker 3: he flips it back. It's like a it's like a
Speaker 3: deflated pompadour or something.
Speaker 4: Bliss, it's not.
Speaker 3: But he he's going to have to come up with something.
Speaker 3: His son, son in law, Jared, didn't he get that
Speaker 3: two million from the Saudis and then, really, let's face it, millions. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm going wrong with my ms and my bees. And
Speaker 3: I'm thinking he couldn't lend it his father in law
Speaker 3: twenty five percent because I can guarantee the only reason
Speaker 3: that he actually got the money was because of the
Speaker 3: speaking about Hunter, was because he had a relationship with
Speaker 3: his father in law. So help a guy out, loan
Speaker 3: him a little. But I think he's been hawking everybody.
Speaker 4: I think that Ivanka, missing my own personal thoughts, has
Speaker 4: told her husband Jerry, don't loan my father any money
Speaker 4: because he's not going to pay you back. A and B.
Speaker 4: They have removed themselves from the whole situation. You don't
Speaker 4: even hear Ivanka has moved away because they knew what
Speaker 4: was going on. That's just my take on y'all.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I think that that's everybody's take. And I
Speaker 3: think that they knew all of this nonsense could potentially
Speaker 3: come down the pipe, so they wanted to remove themselves
Speaker 3: prior to And I don't think they had their fingers
Speaker 3: like the boys seem to be wannabes. They like they
Speaker 3: want that Dad's that Dad's approval so badly that they're
Speaker 3: all up in his business. So that's why the two
Speaker 3: of them got in trouble too. But Ivanka not so much.
Speaker 3: She'll take the privilege, but I don't think she's she's
Speaker 3: going to put herself in a bad position. We saw Milania.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine? She made a rare appearance on the
Speaker 3: on the campaign trail and they asked, are you going
Speaker 3: to be coming to more more often? And she said,
Speaker 3: stay tuned, So whatever the hell that means. She's usually
Speaker 3: not cagy and clever like that. Oh did you see
Speaker 3: that him? He's he had a rally over the week
Speaker 3: over the weekend. Trump Sorry, I'm going he I'm not
Speaker 3: finishing his name, and two different things that he said.
Speaker 3: The one that got me the worst was when he
Speaker 3: was referring to the immigrants and he said that, you know,
Speaker 3: they're basically nobody's They're not people. He was in Ohio.
Speaker 3: That's what the campaign speech was.
Speaker 4: And I said, that's not the one they got to me.
Speaker 4: But I heard him say that. The one that got
Speaker 4: to me was if I don't win, there will be
Speaker 4: a blood man. He was.
Speaker 3: I am going to say that I listened to it
Speaker 3: in its entirety. He was referring to I think it
Speaker 3: was a dog whistle. He was referring to the auto
Speaker 3: industry was going to fall under, when it was actually
Speaker 3: Obama that bailed them out during the recession. In two
Speaker 3: thousand and seven to nine like that area, and then
Speaker 3: Biden being the first sitting president to go down and
Speaker 3: be on the on the picket lines with them. So
Speaker 3: I don't think it's you, Donald Jo're not the one
Speaker 3: that helped him. But I do think that expression. I
Speaker 3: think he's we keep saying he's telling us who he
Speaker 3: is and people need to start listening. But I will
Speaker 3: say the media really grabbed that and kind of twisted it.
Speaker 3: They used to his clickbit a little bit.
Speaker 4: I think, well they should have. They should have because
Speaker 4: it's scary Bobby to say something like that. A and
Speaker 4: then b he said that once he gets in he
Speaker 4: was going to free all the January sixth insurrections. He
Speaker 4: didn't want to get rid of all their cases. That
Speaker 4: is ridiculous because that was that was Yeah, that was
Speaker 4: not a parade that somebody lost their life. People died
Speaker 4: behind that suicide because of PTSD. So no, he keeps
Speaker 4: telling them what he is and who he is, and
Speaker 4: they still keep following their laves to follow behind him.
Speaker 4: I don't know what kind of kool lady got, but
Speaker 4: I damn sure I wanna pack, but not to drink.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh he could snort it. Somebody who's who's not
Speaker 3: that I'm actually actually shocked with that was so far
Speaker 3: up as asked for the four years that he was in.
Speaker 3: Was Mike Pence. He is not he will not be
Speaker 3: endorsing him for this this go around. And I said,
Speaker 3: go Mike, I mean go, yeah, go Mike. He would
Speaker 3: not say that he was voting for Biden. But then
Speaker 3: I thought, could you say you were voting for Biden
Speaker 3: because the GOP would drop him, you know, so maybe
Speaker 3: on the down low he'll just vote for Biden.
Speaker 4: But well, you have to be coy with your words now.
Speaker 4: So Mike Prince was smart and said he can't support Trump,
Speaker 4: but he didn't say that he would support Biden. But
Speaker 4: that's also saying that there's only two options, the old
Speaker 4: man or the Orange old Man. So all you do
Speaker 4: is be smart enough to nowhere he's not voting for Biden,
Speaker 4: and he is. I mean, he's not voting for Trump,
Speaker 4: but he is voting there's only one another candidate because
Speaker 4: independent and noncommittee y'all just wasting time, honestly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're waiting for something that's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, Biden is doing everything he did. In fact,
Speaker 3: this week he signed an executive order to improve women's
Speaker 3: health research, which we haven't had now talk about colokbait.
Speaker 3: Of course, the news channels are saying, oh, this is
Speaker 3: because it's an election year. Well, I call bullshit. And
Speaker 3: the reason that I call bullshit is I follow Maria Schrever.
Speaker 3: I love me so Maria Shriver. I love the buck
Speaker 3: of the Kennedy's are just wonderful people who are of service,
Speaker 3: especially her family, and she has been working on Alzheimer's
Speaker 3: in research for probably ten years, really heavy over the
Speaker 3: past well, no, at least ten years because when her
Speaker 3: dad died, she really hopped on the bandwagon. Because two
Speaker 3: thirds of people who get Alzheimer's a women. But there's
Speaker 3: a million other things cancers, you know, there's also the
Speaker 3: diseases that we don't get, we don't get enough recognition for.
Speaker 3: They do all of the all of the research for men.
Speaker 3: So I thought this was super important. Like he said
Speaker 3: during his his State of the Union address to the
Speaker 3: Supreme Court, if you if you don't think women I'm paraphrasing,
Speaker 3: because I'm not going to get it right, have power.
Speaker 3: Just watch them in the election box and and That's
Speaker 3: how I feel. So he is he is appreciating us,
Speaker 3: and he's putting it. So he's still doing stuff, guys,
Speaker 3: maybe not with the right names or the right this
Speaker 3: or the righte that, but he's still working on it.
Speaker 3: Oh God, did you see the Ohio the not Ohio
Speaker 3: and Mississippi the they're calling them the goon Squad. There
Speaker 3: a group of I think five, uh.
Speaker 4: That working, that were that was that was working, and
Speaker 4: we're terrorizedent and making people own up to sub crams
Speaker 4: that they didn't do, but terrorizing them and punishing them.
Speaker 4: And then they were bringing all the new recruits and
Speaker 4: all the newbies they wanted overtime and bring them on
Speaker 4: there and had them doing horrific things to people just
Speaker 4: to get over time. I'm glad they are caught, and
Speaker 4: I hope that they stow a book at them. But
Speaker 4: you have to remember that is Mississippi. That is the
Speaker 4: worst racist state in the Union.
Speaker 3: So get ready he is well, he's got twenty years.
Speaker 3: He pledged guilty. So these people all pled guilty. So
Speaker 3: do you know the info they have to have on them?
Speaker 3: It was probably all caught on their cameras and they
Speaker 3: weren't aware or they whatever, or somebody turned state's evidence.
Speaker 3: But they all pled guilty. And then there was a ringleader.
Speaker 3: He was forty six year old Jeffrey Middleton, and he
Speaker 3: got seventeen years. So but some of the acts, though,
Speaker 3: they really bothered me flame because it wasn't even like
Speaker 3: using the taser, which they did. It was in beating them.
Speaker 3: They sexually assaulted them. What kind of twisted son of
Speaker 3: a bitch can just you know, sexually assault anybody, man
Speaker 3: or woman.
Speaker 4: Eh, I just.
Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever, it's too much. The other thing that I
Speaker 3: was thrilled about is that Ohio mom, Crystal Candelario, she
Speaker 3: left her sixteen month old baby in a pack and
Speaker 3: play for ten days so she would go to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3: The baby died of dehydration, like her stomach was completely empty,
Speaker 3: she was covered in feces and nobody to check on her,
Speaker 3: nobody to change her, nobody to give her a glass
Speaker 3: of water in those ten days. So she's getting life
Speaker 3: in prison. And the judge, his name is Brendan Shechan,
Speaker 3: he said it was the ultimate betrayal. He berated her
Speaker 3: in that courtroom, and I'm like, go, Brendan. I watched
Speaker 3: them because she got caught, not because she lost her baby.
Speaker 4: And as he was berating her, her emotions never changed,
Speaker 4: her facial expression never changed. Nothing. She is a walking monster.
Speaker 4: He gave her life without the possibility of a role,
Speaker 4: which was great, but that she left her baby. First
Speaker 4: of all, I don't know what a packing play is,
Speaker 4: but she left her baby, Bobby.
Speaker 3: Can you do me a favorite? But can you repeat that?
Speaker 3: Because you're you're you all walked out? Okay, so can
Speaker 3: you just drop that again? You saw it?
Speaker 4: First of all, I watched that. I watched that whole
Speaker 4: courtroom play play out. She never had any facial expressions
Speaker 4: as he was berating her. She never she just looked
Speaker 4: stoic in the face. And I don't know what a
Speaker 4: packing play is. Is that like a baby crib or something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you had the fewest you should do you? You
Speaker 3: had them for your kids. It's the portable thing, you know,
Speaker 3: you kind of pull it up in the middle, it
Speaker 3: goes and it comes in a little a little plastic
Speaker 3: bag and then you that's it. It was like a playpen,
Speaker 3: but it's more modern.
Speaker 4: See, I know what a playpon is. Okay, that's what
Speaker 4: it is, a playpan because I was like, what is
Speaker 4: a packet play anyway, listen to the story that she
Speaker 4: was just so uncaring about her own kid that she
Speaker 4: left for ten days. They found that baby in its
Speaker 4: own feces. Could you imagine? No, you cannot, and I
Speaker 4: don't want to imagine. But babies cry only for one,
Speaker 4: two or three reasons. Babies need touch. She was a monster,
Speaker 4: and the monster got what she deserved. And when she
Speaker 4: gets to prison, those women going to show her the
Speaker 4: monsters that they are. Because I thought that was Bobby.
Speaker 4: It was just disturbing to hear. And they keep hollering
Speaker 4: about why we shouldn't women should have abortions. I would
Speaker 4: have rather this woman have aborted that baby, that had
Speaker 4: that baby to put that baby in touch pain. Sometimes
Speaker 4: some people don't deserve children. Everybody's allowed to have sex,
Speaker 4: but some people don't deserve to be parents. Look at
Speaker 4: that was That was horrendous, Bobby, That was horrendous.
Speaker 3: I don't get it playing because all she had to
Speaker 3: do was go to a fighting apartment. I don't care.
Speaker 3: She could have her bag packed in the car right
Speaker 3: go to the fire department with a bag of whatever
Speaker 3: and just say I can't handle it. I need a break,
Speaker 3: and you get so many days like let DSS take
Speaker 3: over when they couldn't see her for ten days, so
Speaker 3: she'd lose her baby. I mean she was losing it anyway.
Speaker 3: At least the baby would have been alive and she
Speaker 3: wouldn't have been convicted.
Speaker 4: We had a person vacations for ten days, knowing that
Speaker 4: you left your kid with no water, no food, nobody
Speaker 4: to look after it. This is a baby baby. When
Speaker 4: I tell you the punishment the pitchfork, that we're going
Speaker 4: high and I'm wishing it on her, I'm not not wishing.
Speaker 4: I'm wishing it on her.
Speaker 3: We just reserved. Yes, that's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 3: We've done. We've had it in court.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I hope she goes to president and she gets the
Speaker 3: same justice.
Speaker 4: We lost the astronaut this We lost the astronaut this week, Bobby,
Speaker 4: We did.
Speaker 3: Lose an astronaut. We lost Tom Stafford. He was the
Speaker 3: one I don't know if you remember. I remember seeing
Speaker 3: him like in whatever, second grade, first grade. He was
Speaker 3: the one that shook hands with the Russian astronaut. They
Speaker 3: were both up there and then they shook hands. It
Speaker 3: was seventy five, so I was well, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to say how old it was. I was an infant.
Speaker 4: I wasn't born in seventy five. I was born in ninety.
Speaker 3: But by we did, I mean God, bless him. He
Speaker 3: did a great job. I hope he's up in the
Speaker 3: stars now. I'm looking at I just fast food work
Speaker 3: workers in California are going to be making twenty bucks
Speaker 3: an hour. Did you see that? That's good news.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, rest in Pete Stafford, and thank you
Speaker 4: for your service. I always want to say that because
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, do you know what kind of courage
Speaker 4: people are? Something they have to go through training and
Speaker 4: oh my god, it's a lot that entails with that people.
Speaker 4: If you guys don't know, and most of all, it
Speaker 4: takes courage because you don't know if you're going to
Speaker 4: make it back. You don't.
Speaker 3: No, I don't even want to go in space Mountain,
Speaker 3: for the love of God, never mind to go up
Speaker 3: into to go up into space, no, no, thank you.
Speaker 3: And they're trapped in that little capsule. I can't do it,
Speaker 3: MRI either. I feel like I'm oh God, no, I
Speaker 3: can't do it. So I do I appreciate was ninety
Speaker 3: three lived a good long life and did it of service,
Speaker 3: as you said, so God bless him. But you know
Speaker 3: who didn't do any service? Putin and he's back. He's
Speaker 3: back in.
Speaker 4: Ain't gonna Putin? Will perish in that office?
Speaker 3: Yeah, from your from your mouth to Godzias.
Speaker 4: He will. So he will be there until he leaves
Speaker 4: this earth. However, many more terms, because the way he
Speaker 4: has dictated Russia is the same way that the president
Speaker 4: want to be wants to do the president, the ex
Speaker 4: president that wants to be the president again, that's exactly
Speaker 4: what he wants. He wants to be able to say
Speaker 4: he perished in office.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well let's yeah again. We'll see how that happens.
Speaker 3: Fannie Willis was able to stay on the case, the
Speaker 3: Trump case, the election case, but she wasn't. She couldn't
Speaker 3: have her investigator, who resigned anyway, which was fine, But
Speaker 3: now the judge kind of left the door open that
Speaker 3: this can be appealed, It can be brought to a
Speaker 3: pellet court. So that's where it's gonna go.
Speaker 4: You made that sound. You made that sound way too nice.
Speaker 4: Let me give it to y'all in my language. Baby,
Speaker 4: She can't, she can't. They can still work on the
Speaker 4: case together, but privately, if she wants to still get
Speaker 4: some penis from him, it's got to be on the quiet.
Speaker 4: It can't be on they can't. No more vacations, no
Speaker 4: more trips, even whether if she's paying her own way.
Speaker 4: Y'all got to go to the chief hotel for two hours,
Speaker 4: get it in and act like y'all don't know each other.
Speaker 4: After that.
Speaker 3: It's the truth. It's the truth. I just I hope
Speaker 3: that this doesn't it's gonna slow things down. But they
Speaker 3: said the workers continue, but it can go. It can
Speaker 3: be heard now, the appellate can look at it simultaneously
Speaker 3: and then just come back and say no, it's a
Speaker 3: solid it's a solid ruling. So that's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 3: In some ways, I'm aggravated that he keeps appealing everything,
Speaker 3: but and the other part of me says, no, let
Speaker 3: him appeal because he thinks he's going to get everything overturned.
Speaker 3: And when they come back and they say no, you know,
Speaker 3: I think, you know, he doesn't have any more options,
Speaker 3: and that's what he needs to hear it that way,
Speaker 3: because he's just it's not picking up what anybody is
Speaker 3: putting down.
Speaker 4: Well, what it is is that his lawyers are smart.
Speaker 4: They're advising him to get everything prolonged, prolonged. If you
Speaker 4: can get everything prolonged until after election, and god forbid
Speaker 4: that he wins with scrou CLIs and all of those
Speaker 4: cases are done, that's why he will claim full immunity
Speaker 4: as the president, like nothing ever happened. They do.
Speaker 3: I think that the Supreme Court is going to be
Speaker 3: and not even the Supreme Court, that the state Supreme Courts,
Speaker 3: like all these different courts that are hearing and carrying
Speaker 3: his stuff. I don't think he's going to get the
Speaker 3: responses that he wants because if they do, then President Biden,
Speaker 3: who's still sitting in office, can do whatever he wants
Speaker 3: and then give himself immunity, you know, or whatever, like
Speaker 3: all these different tactics that he's trying to use. So
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that everything's going to shake out okay in
Speaker 3: the end.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't want that either, because I don't want
Speaker 4: Biden to be able to get a pass, even though
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's done anything. I don't want
Speaker 4: him to be able to get a pass. I want
Speaker 4: it to be fair for every American.
Speaker 3: No, and I agree that's what I'm saying, if they
Speaker 3: give it to him, then you know they can do whatever.
Speaker 3: You know, Biden could I'm making it up, arrest him
Speaker 3: just because he wants to arrest him, put him in jail,
Speaker 3: just because what are you going to do?
Speaker 4: You know, they could do some yummy that sounds kind
Speaker 4: of yummy. Though, that sounds kind of yummy. Real talk, Listen,
Speaker 4: we are as Americans, Bobby Clifford, myself and all of
Speaker 4: you us who are listening to us. It's very important
Speaker 4: that you get to the polls to vote. And I
Speaker 4: understand when I say this every week that it's going
Speaker 4: to come down to not thousands, it is going to
Speaker 4: come down to, if not hundreds, just ten numbers, ten
Speaker 4: to fifteen people. I'm telling you this is how close
Speaker 4: it's going to be. So you cannot sit home and
Speaker 4: sit by the wayside and say, oh wait, they gonna
Speaker 4: get it. We're gonna get it. Does not matter what
Speaker 4: the media says. It doesn't matter what the poles say,
Speaker 4: it doesn't even matter what I say. What matters is
Speaker 4: that you go to the to the to the polls
Speaker 4: and use your responsibility as an American citizen to vote
Speaker 4: your conscience. Because I'm telling you now, it's not gonna
Speaker 4: come down to Trump one by fifty fifty thousand votes
Speaker 4: or Biden one by fifty thousand votes. It's going to
Speaker 4: come down to one of them one, maybe in the
Speaker 4: margin of one hundred people, two hundred people.
Speaker 3: For real, it is Think of Georgia, it was only
Speaker 3: eleven thousand votes. Find me that whatever the number, that
Speaker 3: is very close.
Speaker 4: It sounds like a lot of numbers. Staff here, it
Speaker 4: sounds like a lot of numbers, but it's very close.
Speaker 3: It's nothing, very close.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we have to do our art as Americans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my city home has thirty thousand citizens, so ten
Speaker 3: thousand citizens or ten thousand votes is nothing. You know,
Speaker 3: it's a joke. So no, we have to get out
Speaker 3: and we're not pleased. I don't want anyone to think
Speaker 3: we're like anti republican. That's not what this is not.
Speaker 3: This isn't about republican democrat this time. This really is
Speaker 3: about democracy and not this The person who is running
Speaker 3: for the for the GOP is just he's not presidential
Speaker 3: and he's talking a whole bunch of mess and craziness
Speaker 3: and we've got to listen to him.
Speaker 4: So and I am definitely not anti Republican because I
Speaker 4: know some great Republicans, and I know three hundred great
Speaker 4: Republicans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that absolutely loved him. Some flaight
Speaker 4: b bro So, Hello Pittsburgh ladies and gentlemen. I just
Speaker 4: want you guys to know that we would not be
Speaker 4: able to have this show successfully without you, Bobby. I
Speaker 4: know it's one topic that we're missing. What's the one
Speaker 4: topic that we're missing.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm nothing that was too big. I'm looking, I'm
Speaker 3: scrolling through. We have the economy. It's the inflation's teeny tiny.
Speaker 4: Speaking of economy. Speaking of economy, I'm here in California.
Speaker 4: I live in southern California, and the McDonald's workers, the
Speaker 4: fast food workers are now starting April first, will get
Speaker 4: paid twenty dollars an hour. That is what we should
Speaker 4: have been doing. But that's still not up to the
Speaker 4: economies because in order to live successfully, especially in the
Speaker 4: state of California, you need to make at least twenty
Speaker 4: four to twenty six dollars per hour to live and
Speaker 4: work full time, to live conducively with the economy that
Speaker 4: we have in California. Because California is extremely expensive.
Speaker 3: It is US too, US too, and even then I
Speaker 3: don't want to be but that even that's tight, that's
Speaker 3: living bare bones, not in the best sections.
Speaker 4: Yeah, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: But twenty dollars. It's a movement. Let's hope it's sort
Speaker 3: of a national thing. It's not just California. Other states
Speaker 3: kind of catch up and do some sort of equity
Speaker 3: with the pays pay raises.
Speaker 4: That would I would like to see that. That would
Speaker 4: be us because some states are very low, like Louisiana.
Speaker 4: I think them in milwa like seven or eight bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't know how, like what would
Speaker 3: you can't even afford a tent, for the love of God,
Speaker 3: for that, You've got to get a cardboard box. So
Speaker 3: that's absolutely crazy. But I think we've reached our magic hour,
Speaker 3: my friend.
Speaker 4: And I want you to know, Body Clifford, that I
Speaker 4: thank you so much, Bobby Clifford. We are on accountdown.
Speaker 4: What were we six episodes away from season four?
Speaker 3: I think we are. This is forty six, so we're six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well listen, lets playmans and people out there and
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Speaker 4: Here at laft and Learn, here at Left a Learn,
Speaker 4: we are not trying to get you to change your mind.
Speaker 4: We are on each trying to get you to use
Speaker 4: your mind. Because of why, Bobby.
Speaker 3: Because a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and.
Speaker 4: A vote is even a worser thing to worster. It
Speaker 4: is not a word, but it is today, and a
Speaker 4: vote isn't even a worser thing to waste. Please, ladies
Speaker 4: and gentlemen, if you don't know who you want to vote,
Speaker 4: if you undecided, and hear me, and I understand that
Speaker 4: because I'm neither one of these candidates are my favorite
Speaker 4: as well. But if you are undecided and you're not
Speaker 4: sure who you want to vote for, but you love
Speaker 4: me or you love somebody like me, then vote for me.
Speaker 4: Then vote for me, because if you vote for Trump,
Speaker 4: Trump will get away with get rid of the LGBT
Speaker 4: community period. But if you vote for Biden, because he
Speaker 4: even said in his State of the Union address transgender people,
Speaker 4: I see you. I'm a transgender person. Even though I'm
Speaker 4: not the most like person in my transgender community, I
Speaker 4: still am a transgender person. Vote for me, Vote for me,
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