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Speaker 1: Lauren Hogan Hogan. Hi, Hi name, how are you? I
Speaker 1: am wonderful? Hello Flame Man's welcome to laugh and learn
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Speaker 1: myself Flaming brow. And I want you to know we
Speaker 1: have had an event full last event for eleven days.
Speaker 1: Ch'a'll talk about it. Okay, you go first, or actually
Speaker 1: let me go first, because yours is more detailed than mine.
Speaker 1: So um, my last what, yeah, eight days has been crazy.
Speaker 1: I just got back from Florida at two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning Tuesday. In Florida, we had a major Florida
Speaker 1: AIDS walk event. Um, we had a walk and concert actually,
Speaker 1: and it was so great, you know, everybody was pleased.
Speaker 1: They said it was the best one yet. We had
Speaker 1: like over two thousand people show up, which is great
Speaker 1: for us, and we raised almost two million dollars for
Speaker 1: local benefiting organizations in the um Brower County area. Jesse
Speaker 1: j and Deborah Cox actually got on stage and performed together.
Speaker 1: Those two singing heifers. Was phenomenal and they're both sweethearts,
Speaker 1: and overall it was just really good. It was a
Speaker 1: really really good um show. What. I'm really proud, you know.
Speaker 1: CEO was happy, which always is a good thing for me.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I'm taking my butt to Vegas tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And you were in Florida, And let me ask you
Speaker 1: a personal question, stopping help, did you do any real therapy?
Speaker 1: Dear listen, don't be putting my business on the street.
Speaker 1: I did. I did do some retail therapy for those
Speaker 1: of you guys that live in Florida. If you ever
Speaker 1: go to Florida and you want to go to an
Speaker 1: outlet to get some discounted prices. Um. I went to
Speaker 1: saw Grass, which is like right between Hollywood, Florida and
Speaker 1: for Lauderdale, which where our event was in Fort Lauderdal.
Speaker 1: And yes, I did some retail therapy because I had
Speaker 1: a stressful week. Okay, yes I did. I got some
Speaker 1: cute stuff and I was happy. Yes, it ain't No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even stressed. You just need a reason it
Speaker 1: was stressful. It made me. I felt better after I
Speaker 1: got the stuff, So yes, it was stressed for leaving
Speaker 1: for sure. Well this was listened. So we started off
Speaker 1: by doing south By Southwest and in Texas or was
Speaker 1: it eighteen? What day was that there? What day was
Speaker 1: that there? Was it even that late? No? We were
Speaker 1: there like the yeah, which was absolutely phenomenal. We required
Speaker 1: some new corporate sponsors for My Heart. I spoke with
Speaker 1: Connor the president, Will Pearson, gayl uh feel um Noel.
Speaker 1: Everyone at My Heart was so loving and so welcoming
Speaker 1: to me, and they made me feel so special. They
Speaker 1: loved what I had to say to promote laugh and
Speaker 1: learning podcasts, as well as so many other influences on
Speaker 1: the on I Heart under the Black and Peckt network,
Speaker 1: and I'm speaking tomorrow for I Heart here in l A.
Speaker 1: But after leaving there, I went to Chicago to get
Speaker 1: a couple of dresses made, and then we had such
Speaker 1: a whirlwind in New York. We did Caroline posted by
Speaker 1: Sherry Shephard along with Damon Williams as a special guest.
Speaker 1: It was wildly successful. So many of the flame Man
Speaker 1: showed up, showed out, showed love, came from near and far.
Speaker 1: I appreciated some of y'all. I love. Some of y'all
Speaker 1: is a little stranger than I like for you to be.
Speaker 1: But never guys came and showed the loyalty as support,
Speaker 1: which was great. Then I did The Breakfast Club again
Speaker 1: for the fifth time, fourth time in studio, which was
Speaker 1: wildly successful, and they offered me a job, Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: And we did the Wendy Williams Show with guest host
Speaker 1: Sherry Shepherd, and we sold them four minutes of fame.
Speaker 1: And now we got something big coming, so I will
Speaker 1: be working with you talk about it. We could do
Speaker 1: a reveal later. We'll be joining Sherry Shepherd as part
Speaker 1: of her team for the New Sherry Show in September,
Speaker 1: doing hot topics that that I can talk about. But
Speaker 1: overall it was the most successful uh run that I've had.
Speaker 1: That just was so great and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: all the big things that's gonna jump off from this.
Speaker 1: But it was great and we laugh, they laughed, Rady show.
Speaker 1: So some of you guys get to actually see it
Speaker 1: from home that Thursday. So it was pretty dope. And
Speaker 1: now we're going on to move forward. And Lauren, you
Speaker 1: you set all that up. Lauren did all the contracts,
Speaker 1: made sure I would take care of I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, if you wanted me to love you, take
Speaker 1: care of me, and I'm talk about financially, if you
Speaker 1: want me to love you as a person. I love
Speaker 1: people that take care of me because I'm so independent
Speaker 1: and I don't allow everybody in. But Lord takes care
Speaker 1: of me. Because if she did not cuss her ass
Speaker 1: out any who I want to. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get heavy in it right now. We'll but I want
Speaker 1: to get it out the way because I want to
Speaker 1: get I want to spend most of my time on
Speaker 1: the pride that I have for black women in this country.
Speaker 1: And what Kataji Brown Jackson is doing right now, we'll
Speaker 1: get that will be there, that will be the basis
Speaker 1: of the show. But I shot with the hypocrisy of
Speaker 1: the trans community, LGBT community, with the disrespect of Leah Thompson,
Speaker 1: who was a male athlete a year ago, a male
Speaker 1: swimmer and competition who ranked in the low four hundreds
Speaker 1: or possibly even the low five where they keep coming
Speaker 1: up with different numbers or ain't too and there was
Speaker 1: five something, so it was it was very low anyho,
Speaker 1: and she I'm going because I wanted to dress her
Speaker 1: as a propo now that she wants to be the
Speaker 1: dressed as wants to compete against the women and have
Speaker 1: competed against the female swimmers and has become number one.
Speaker 1: So my the disrespect to me, First of all, you're
Speaker 1: disrespecting biological women, because I don't say sis, I say biological.
Speaker 1: You're disrespecting biological women. Secondly, I feel like you're disrespecting
Speaker 1: women of trans experience who have put in the time
Speaker 1: and the effort and the years of blood, wet and
Speaker 1: tears to productively live as women uh live in society
Speaker 1: and blend work as women and respectfully carry themselves as women.
Speaker 1: You let this micro wave trendy come through after a
Speaker 1: year to become wherever you want them to be. And
Speaker 1: now the hypocrisy is they saying that it's fair. It
Speaker 1: is not fair. First of all, they said this y'all
Speaker 1: walk in the round, in the in the dressing room
Speaker 1: with her junk out. Here's the thing. I've done drag
Speaker 1: shows for thirty years, and as a trans performer, even
Speaker 1: getting dressed with all my girlfriends and in the room,
Speaker 1: we don't walk around with our stuff out, not because
Speaker 1: we're ashamed of what we have. It's just respect for
Speaker 1: the other girl. You know, you don't want to show
Speaker 1: your personal area to another girl. And this child is
Speaker 1: walking around with her penis and testicals because she has
Speaker 1: a penis in testicos. She don't tuck going some women,
Speaker 1: so you can really tell she got one in front
Speaker 1: of all these young girls and women. Disrespectful it is.
Speaker 1: I've never learned to walk backwards. No one ever taught
Speaker 1: me to walk backwards. But if the trans community and
Speaker 1: the gay community don't see that this is walking us backwards,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's going to take. It is preponderous.
Speaker 1: It is ridiculous. It is disrespectful not only to trans
Speaker 1: women but to biological women because a lot of those
Speaker 1: women have trained for years and years and years, and
Speaker 1: you are putting them up against a physically strong man
Speaker 1: that has transition to a woman. This child looked like
Speaker 1: Michael Phelps with a bun. What she really looks like?
Speaker 1: It is the character very Demilo from and Living Single,
Speaker 1: the character Jim Carrey used to play. And I I
Speaker 1: am in a place of rage and fury about it
Speaker 1: because I'm not hearing about how I identify identified. If
Speaker 1: you want to be fair in this country, create a
Speaker 1: lane for trans for trans athletes, just like they created
Speaker 1: the special Olympics, they have the pair of political Olympics.
Speaker 1: The w NBA was created so that professional women could
Speaker 1: play basketball with each other since they couldn't play with
Speaker 1: the me. So create a lane for trans athletes. First
Speaker 1: of all, I don't think nobody's gonna watch that ship.
Speaker 1: I see it what I see it, but training sniffers
Speaker 1: and training chases. But still create a lane to make
Speaker 1: it fair. You're biological woman, Lord, please give me your
Speaker 1: take on it, because I love when you challenged me,
Speaker 1: and you see something different. Tell me. If I'm seeing
Speaker 1: something wrong, please tell me. So you actually brought this
Speaker 1: story up to me. I wasn't very familiar with it,
Speaker 1: but I don't know the whole you know, circumstances around this,
Speaker 1: but what it sounds like from what I've read and
Speaker 1: what you and I have talked about, it almost seems
Speaker 1: like it was a matter of convenience that this, you know,
Speaker 1: that Leah Thompson basically went from being a male athlete
Speaker 1: to a female athlete. Um, it's just it's a little strange.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to be offensive or you know,
Speaker 1: cause any harm in what I'm saying, but you know, timing,
Speaker 1: it's a little strange, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: I actually do agree with you in terms of I
Speaker 1: think that the best thing to do in these scenarios
Speaker 1: is to actually create an Olympics for you know, the
Speaker 1: transgender community. And there's nothing wrong with that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. People have feedback of saying like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not fair, they're not you're not giving them equal opportunity,
Speaker 1: But I don't see it as that, you know, just
Speaker 1: to your point, we have the special Olympics, we have
Speaker 1: you know, different types of Olympics for different you know,
Speaker 1: communities of people, and it's to level out the playing field.
Speaker 1: And to your point, to have an athlete who was
Speaker 1: competing with men and swimming and ranked between four or
Speaker 1: five whatever the actual number is, and to then switch
Speaker 1: over to being, you know, an athlete competing with women
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're number one and you've
Speaker 1: got testosterone throwing flowing through your body. It is. It's
Speaker 1: an unfair advantage. It's no different from that look like
Speaker 1: they could move a gallon of water with each stroking.
Speaker 1: That looked like or so you know that thing. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you something right now, and you know this
Speaker 1: is last line, so I'm gonna make a joke about it.
Speaker 1: But what I do now is the disrespect. It is
Speaker 1: setting back the trans community like you wouldn't believe. And
Speaker 1: I hate that the trans community don't see that because
Speaker 1: like I said, I ain't never learned to walk backwards.
Speaker 1: And if this is Generation Z sick enough for this,
Speaker 1: you know, is the last last alphabet we'll be going
Speaker 1: after that? Okay, Well, you know gen Z folks, they're
Speaker 1: very fluid, they're very outspoken, which I think is great. Um,
Speaker 1: but I do agree with you one that I think
Speaker 1: that a specific lyne should be created because do you
Speaker 1: think that it was a matter of convenience that Leah
Speaker 1: Thompsone from being a male athlete to a female athlete
Speaker 1: just to get a higher ranking. I think that the
Speaker 1: words that they used to say was man one man up,
Speaker 1: that she needed to one man up, no out of
Speaker 1: no distries, one man up, and then you should have
Speaker 1: made yourself competition level on that. Now you identify as
Speaker 1: a woman. I get that if that's how you feel
Speaker 1: on the ins that, I completely understand that. But the
Speaker 1: fairness of you challenging and swimming against these other women.
Speaker 1: And here's the question, lord, if you had a daughter
Speaker 1: that was on a swimming team sixteen seventeen years old
Speaker 1: and they had a trans woman in here with you
Speaker 1: and she walking around with her penis out, how would
Speaker 1: you feel as a parent. I would have an issue
Speaker 1: with that. I mean, and this is coming from me.
Speaker 1: Mind you like, I grew up dancing all the time,
Speaker 1: so backstage, you know, you gotta strip, change costumes and
Speaker 1: everything sometimes. You know, we never had dressing rooms with
Speaker 1: men per se, But you know, you grew up with,
Speaker 1: you know, the guys that you were dancing with, so
Speaker 1: there was a level of comfort to you know, some
Speaker 1: guys definitely have seen my boobs on my but before.
Speaker 1: It is what it is, but they're still to your point,
Speaker 1: there's still a level of respect. You're just not getting
Speaker 1: undressed and just walking around, you know, in your birthday
Speaker 1: suit just because you can, or maybe just because you
Speaker 1: just want to feel free. That's not That's not appropriate,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, whether in any capacity really,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, unless you want to go
Speaker 1: to a new beach and you know that's what you
Speaker 1: were marketing for, but that's not appropriate. I I absolutely
Speaker 1: agree with you, and we my trans brothers and sisters
Speaker 1: and to my biological brothers and sisters, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see it, and I'm gonna sit in as play of
Speaker 1: Layman's terms as I can. Trans Women are trans women,
Speaker 1: Transmian are Transmien women are women, and me and are men.
Speaker 1: And that is as simple as I can make And
Speaker 1: that is not taking anything or discrediting anything from anyone.
Speaker 1: That is what it is. We keep muddying the waters
Speaker 1: and making it great, and it's confusing the hell out
Speaker 1: of the youth while y'all talking about and setting up
Speaker 1: for for this child who's over there who has clearly
Speaker 1: been disrespectful to women and to me. And honestly, y'all
Speaker 1: should be in Texas and you should be in Florida
Speaker 1: fighting for that. No, don't say gay Bill, because what
Speaker 1: you're doing is killing the youth with nobody to talk to,
Speaker 1: no protection, no outlet to let that free to freely
Speaker 1: speak to someone to make them feel comfortable and non judgmental. Y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all did this. I didn't do it. Y'all died, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say what I said, y'all need it. I
Speaker 1: didn't do it because I'm telling Apple and I know
Speaker 1: a stick from a stone, and I know people are
Speaker 1: definitely gonna take issue with that comment that you just made.
Speaker 1: But like I said all the time, you're an anomaly
Speaker 1: in especially in the trans space, because I've never met
Speaker 1: somebody a part of the trans community or i should say,
Speaker 1: or identifies as trans that has your your ideology. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, Um, you really see the
Speaker 1: world in black and white, and you know you come
Speaker 1: from an area and era excuse me of like Rocky
Speaker 1: Horror Picture Show and like, you know, stone Wall, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put I'm gonna putt your age out there.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying like, that's a little bit before
Speaker 1: your time. I know, I know, but I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that's that's where you know, that's where you come from
Speaker 1: in terms of your background. You know, you still say
Speaker 1: the word tranny, which is a lot of trans people
Speaker 1: find that offensive. You know, they're like, don't call me
Speaker 1: a training But that was a familiar term, you know,
Speaker 1: when you were growing up in this community. So saying
Speaker 1: all that to say, yeah, creating a you know, an
Speaker 1: Olympics for the trans community, I think that's it's fair
Speaker 1: because otherwise, I mean, to have somebody who's transgender competing
Speaker 1: with them in like a Leiah Thompson, you can clearly
Speaker 1: see that there's still testosterone being produced. Women get disqualified
Speaker 1: for things like that if they were to take a
Speaker 1: hormone enhance her or something, you know, to perform better.
Speaker 1: And it's in my eyes, it's the same, Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you stay on the swim so it looked like the
Speaker 1: easter egg down? She didn't even try to add it.
Speaker 1: That is one of the purposes of being a trans woman.
Speaker 1: And when you just keep your when you keep your
Speaker 1: male genitalia, you at least try to put it away
Speaker 1: and had it. This clearly is just laying there like
Speaker 1: dad meet girl. I'm not at all she looks like
Speaker 1: Michael Phelps with a bun if y'all really want the dirt.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I'm not knocking that shelf in
Speaker 1: the fact that's trans, that that is something that is
Speaker 1: ingrained in your DNA. I understand that part. I will
Speaker 1: never understand. And and I'm more upset with the powers
Speaker 1: that be with the people on the board that allowed
Speaker 1: this to happen, because y'all should have put your foot
Speaker 1: down and said, no, this is not happening. But you know,
Speaker 1: everybody up in the armies about what they identified as
Speaker 1: if they are created lane, if you create a lane
Speaker 1: for trans athletes, we wouldn't even have to have this conversation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, but as we all know, everybody
Speaker 1: scared of cancel culture. So imagine if they didn't allow
Speaker 1: Leah Thompson to compete with the women and all of
Speaker 1: the media outrage and the trans community is gonna be
Speaker 1: coming for the swimming Olympics. People like you could you
Speaker 1: know how that goes, so it don't always work. I
Speaker 1: eat Netflix, Dave Chappelle. Okay, let's move forward, well really
Speaker 1: quickly too. Well, I hold on before we get there, though,
Speaker 1: I do want to just say, because you mentioned Disney
Speaker 1: and that don't Say Gay Bill, I do want to
Speaker 1: give cool rose to the Disney stars that are actually
Speaker 1: pushing back against Disney. I saw a report today that
Speaker 1: Raven Simone and the entire cast of Raven's Home actually
Speaker 1: walked out today because of the don't Say Gay Bill,
Speaker 1: and Disney stands on it. You know, Gabrielle Union has
Speaker 1: spoke out publicly because she just did the Cheaper by
Speaker 1: the Dozen movies saying how you know this is not
Speaker 1: right and Disney should have taken a proper stance on it,
Speaker 1: and basically calling out the CEO. Disney also did a
Speaker 1: walk out today, So UM shout out to all those
Speaker 1: people that are, you know, fighting for the rights of
Speaker 1: these young kids. Because even still, the don't Say gaybel
Speaker 1: actually failed in Georgia. They tried to bring it to
Speaker 1: you know, the house and they were like, no, we're
Speaker 1: not doing that. So I think Texas is the next one.
Speaker 1: As young as a young gay person or young whatever
Speaker 1: identified as. I knew I had strange feelings when I
Speaker 1: was young. I knew I felt different people, but I
Speaker 1: couldn't talk to my mother about it. My father wasn't there,
Speaker 1: my uncles were completely against it, and so my aunties
Speaker 1: and a black household is here. It's horrible for me
Speaker 1: to say this, but in a black household, it's probably
Speaker 1: safe for you to be a nax murder or a
Speaker 1: rapist than it is for you to come out and
Speaker 1: say that you're gay or trance. And I know that
Speaker 1: sounds really crazy, but that is that is what it
Speaker 1: is in the Black community a lot. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if this is in other communities because I don't
Speaker 1: know other communities. I know the Black community. But I
Speaker 1: had a counselor and I had a teacher that made
Speaker 1: me feel safe enough to talk to them about how
Speaker 1: I felt. They didn't judge me, they embraced me. So
Speaker 1: I it made me comfortable being who I was because
Speaker 1: I had an outlet. Had I not had that outlet,
Speaker 1: I probably would have cut my wrists or cut my
Speaker 1: throat because I would have felt so ostracized and so
Speaker 1: unique from everybody else. Because of course we want to
Speaker 1: fit in, We want to feel like everybody else feels.
Speaker 1: But I needed somebody to reac me that I was okay.
Speaker 1: Now given taken that away. When people who don't have
Speaker 1: something like that, what what is that is going to
Speaker 1: cause suicide and and and harm, self harm and self
Speaker 1: deplication to people, or self mutilation because a lot of
Speaker 1: people are taught to hate their gender, tell you in
Speaker 1: their trans they tell you to hate that you were
Speaker 1: born in the wrong body. I don't know how people feel.
Speaker 1: I never felt like I was born in the wrong body.
Speaker 1: I enhanced the body that I had. I never took
Speaker 1: off anything but some weight. But I put on you know,
Speaker 1: I just put on what I wanted. It is not
Speaker 1: giving these young people who identify as queer and LGBT
Speaker 1: or trans any place to go but to the grave.
Speaker 1: And that's it's horrible to say it like that, but
Speaker 1: it's absolutely true. No, I think that's very factual. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. If you don't have outlets, especially
Speaker 1: you know, as kids, if you don't have a safe
Speaker 1: space to go to, where do you go? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, If you can't communicate and express your feelings.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, and you know, every kid
Speaker 1: can't afford a therapist and have mommy or daddy sending
Speaker 1: me to go talk to somebody, you know. So I
Speaker 1: I wholeheartedly agree with that. And I like that you're
Speaker 1: saying that too, like you enhanced your body. You didn't
Speaker 1: change your body, you enhance it. That was like that.
Speaker 1: But now when I was younger, let me be honest
Speaker 1: and be very open. And I admit that when I
Speaker 1: was maybe nineteen or twenty because actually considered having a
Speaker 1: sexual reassignment surgery, I wanted to get, you know, a
Speaker 1: sex change or whatever. But there was a different mind frame.
Speaker 1: And then at that time you had to say thirty
Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars. I ain't had no job that's gonna
Speaker 1: help me, and let me say thirty or forty dollars.
Speaker 1: Now they have insurances now that will do that. A
Speaker 1: lot of companies even do that, like Starbucks are pretty
Speaker 1: good with that. But if I would have done that,
Speaker 1: looking back on my life now, I realized the great
Speaker 1: mistake that I personally would have made because I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have had children, and I would not have had the
Speaker 1: experience of loving a couple of people that I loved
Speaker 1: you know, because I didn't have a penis, you know.
Speaker 1: But that that's a whole another conversation. But what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that in life changes in phases. You may think
Speaker 1: one thing thirteen and eighteen, you think another thing, you
Speaker 1: think a whole another thing thirty two to forty. So
Speaker 1: give yourself an opportunity to to live your life, discover
Speaker 1: who you are, find the joys of who you are
Speaker 1: before you make drastic decisions, because sometimes you make a
Speaker 1: decision and you can't take it back. That's real, That's
Speaker 1: very real. So now, yes, we got to talk about
Speaker 1: some black girl magic, period girl magic effect this past weekend,
Speaker 1: and carolins because I talked about it and not just
Speaker 1: talk about the black girl magic of the power of
Speaker 1: the strongest women in this goddamn country, which is the
Speaker 1: black women. And let's start with the k d J. Yes, So,
Speaker 1: miss or I should say, actually, let me give her
Speaker 1: proper title, Honorable Cantangi Brown Jackson is um actually in
Speaker 1: the midst of her confirmation hearing to become the next
Speaker 1: Cotus and sit on the Supreme Court. And I must say,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen this chart that's been
Speaker 1: so circulating around social media. Out of all of the
Speaker 1: judges that are currently sitting on the Supreme Court, including
Speaker 1: Judge Bryer, who she's about to replace, she has the
Speaker 1: most qualifications out of everybody. She's more qualified than every
Speaker 1: single person currently sitting on this bench. And the fact
Speaker 1: that her qualifications are actually in question right now is baffling,
Speaker 1: And honestly, it's very disrespectful. It's very dis VERI and
Speaker 1: then sitting to Republicans, those Republican senators starting with tag crews,
Speaker 1: air Crews, who has been openly Donald Trump disrespected you
Speaker 1: in Republic and talked about your ugly wife. You ran
Speaker 1: off when Texas was underwater, You ran to Cancoon to
Speaker 1: have a vacation, and you questioned her about her validity,
Speaker 1: talking about she let sex offenders off, when y'all clearly
Speaker 1: pushed Kevin Owen who was accused of sexual harassment, and
Speaker 1: when I tell you on when I watched it today,
Speaker 1: I was so hurt, but reminded of what country I
Speaker 1: live in and what color I am, But I was
Speaker 1: they kept reminding, but I wanted to go through that
Speaker 1: TV and me and Lindsey Graham was gonna do you
Speaker 1: think he said on that on that sitting floor and
Speaker 1: talking about green eggs and half for twenty three hours.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be the trending that boxed his ears
Speaker 1: in because the disspect and the blade racist and he
Speaker 1: talks about so you believe babies are racist? And I
Speaker 1: know she. I loved her for keeping her cool and
Speaker 1: her composure and patiently, but I want nigga, if you
Speaker 1: don't knock it off, babies ain't well. The funny thing
Speaker 1: is Trevor Noah actually put together a clip of all
Speaker 1: of the different facial expressions she's had to make during UM.
Speaker 1: Ted Cruise is questioning of her, but I just the
Speaker 1: fact that you know, to your point that her record
Speaker 1: in terms of convicting, you know, child pornographers, and you
Speaker 1: know the fact that we have Brett Kavanaugh who's sitting
Speaker 1: on the bench. He Clarence Clarence Thomas too, He's another
Speaker 1: one we didn't forget about Annita Hill. But but just
Speaker 1: the hypocrisy of it all is just baffling. And Ted
Speaker 1: Cruise was actually her classmate at Harvard Law, like he
Speaker 1: knows her, and he's still choosing to go down this
Speaker 1: rabbit hole of oh, you're gonna push critical race theory
Speaker 1: and oh, you're gonna do that. Ted Cruz is one
Speaker 1: of those senators who is actually Latino but forgets that
Speaker 1: part and just wants to be white. And honestly that
Speaker 1: those are the worst kinds that they're dimn They're worse
Speaker 1: than racist because they just hate who they are as people.
Speaker 1: And I just, um, it was making my blood boil
Speaker 1: watching all of the different questions that he was asking her,
Speaker 1: and questions that didn't even really go towards her being
Speaker 1: a judge. Talking about critical race theory and you know,
Speaker 1: what's the curriculum in this school and what's your tied
Speaker 1: to it? She's like, this has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: me being a judge. Why aren't you asking me questions
Speaker 1: that actually go towards the qualifications that I already have
Speaker 1: or the mindset that I'm going to have when I
Speaker 1: actually sit on the Supreme Court. That's not what his
Speaker 1: questions are about. It's like it's gas lighting, And like
Speaker 1: I said, it's just very very valid point him opening
Speaker 1: up that cannon worms because there's so many Americans. I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna just pointing out no party to mean are
Speaker 1: so stupid and so easily distracted because that's all they're
Speaker 1: gonna heat. Which is why I when I have people
Speaker 1: always say flame you trans com me transgender comedian. No,
Speaker 1: I am a comedian that happens to be transgendent. And
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you all don't understand when
Speaker 1: I do that, but I'm telling you, sometimes the way
Speaker 1: you deliver the words makes a substantial difference. He opened
Speaker 1: up with cans and worms because he wants everybody to
Speaker 1: look at that record. He don't want them to see
Speaker 1: the good and what she the qualifications that she has.
Speaker 1: He just wants to talk about the sex stuff. It is.
Speaker 1: It is distracting, and it's this dismissive and fucking disrespectful.
Speaker 1: But even him trying to come for her in terms
Speaker 1: of her track record of convicting, you know, pornographers, and
Speaker 1: he had his whole chart and he's writing on it
Speaker 1: like this was the recommended sentence from the prosecutor and
Speaker 1: this was atent decrease of the time that they asked you.
Speaker 1: And I love her response to him. She said, first
Speaker 1: of all, we've been instructed by Congress, which basically she said,
Speaker 1: we've been instructed by you. You sit in Congress, that
Speaker 1: we cannot only look at this one element when it
Speaker 1: comes to convicting sex offenders. There's a myriad of things
Speaker 1: that you all have instructed us to look at. So
Speaker 1: I love that she basically called him stupid for asking
Speaker 1: the question. I loved she she's subliminally throwing jabs. And
Speaker 1: that's honestly what makes black women so powerful. We know
Speaker 1: how to gut you. Real cute, real classy, and very
Speaker 1: educated and a very you know, he ain't my favorite,
Speaker 1: even Corey Booker for the praise and the love and
Speaker 1: the acknowledgement that he gave her. Senator Dick Durbin shipped
Speaker 1: Ted Cruise down, like, dude, let's move on to something else.
Speaker 1: You have said on this for thirteen fourteen minutes. What
Speaker 1: else do you have? You know why he has nothing else?
Speaker 1: Because he is an idiot and all you textas that
Speaker 1: voted for him. Yeah see, And that's that's the thing though.
Speaker 1: It's like, I can't even call Ted Cruise an idiot,
Speaker 1: per se. It's almost he is smart. I gotta give
Speaker 1: him that, But his constituency those are the idiots. If
Speaker 1: we're gonna clarify the people that support him, those are
Speaker 1: the idiots, and that's why he says things like the
Speaker 1: questions that he's asking. And you know he made the
Speaker 1: comments about Paris, Texas and the Paris Accord. He's saying
Speaker 1: those things because his his body or his supporters are
Speaker 1: uneducated white people, and those those those uh that gas lighting,
Speaker 1: that's what registers with them. That's why he's doing this.
Speaker 1: So he's not fully stupid. People's decision. And let me
Speaker 1: be the first to give you this exclusive exclusive. After
Speaker 1: watching President Zelinsky in the Ukraine, who used to be
Speaker 1: a comedian, actor, dancer, entertainer, run and become president, I
Speaker 1: have decided I'm going to throw my head into and
Speaker 1: here's the plus. Not only will I be the president,
Speaker 1: but I can also be my very own first letter.
Speaker 1: You wait a minute, Wait that's towards roquite a minute.
Speaker 1: You just want the cloth, and let's say, you just
Speaker 1: want the day. This is about I see this world
Speaker 1: that we're living in, and I just so many things.
Speaker 1: Whenever I think it can't get any worse, I am
Speaker 1: sadly mistaken. I am sadly pulled back. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like saying it's it can't get worse.
Speaker 1: It kind of just to me, feels like we're living
Speaker 1: in a time warp, you know, because just certain things
Speaker 1: that were issues in the you know, the forties and
Speaker 1: fifties and the sixties, we're still dealing with today, you know.
Speaker 1: So I kind of just feel like we're in this
Speaker 1: time loop, you know, reliving this curse of what America
Speaker 1: is almost you know what I mean. It's wild to
Speaker 1: think that I am having or seeing the same experiences
Speaker 1: that my great great grandmother, you know, experience is That's
Speaker 1: the part that trips me out to this day. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like we talk about being progressive and moving forward,
Speaker 1: but have we really not? And actually I shouldn't say
Speaker 1: that we have moved forward, but it's not where American
Speaker 1: as a black American. Right now, I'm telling you, right now,
Speaker 1: y'all need to pay attention to what is happening because
Speaker 1: the elections are coming up in the primaries of November,
Speaker 1: and look at the Republicans are playing chess and not checkers.
Speaker 1: They are putting state senators and positions that counter vote
Speaker 1: in states that they lost in. So I'm telling you now,
Speaker 1: registered to vote, utilize your right to vote. I don't
Speaker 1: even know who we have as a candidate right now
Speaker 1: because Joe almost about two hundred as it is so
Speaker 1: good God, we have to, you know, please say attention
Speaker 1: and please don't let anybody tell you that don't vote
Speaker 1: whatever what have you have, you your vote, manage your
Speaker 1: vote counts. And we have to do this because as
Speaker 1: you can see, we are walking backwards. And I was
Speaker 1: never talked about backwards. I was always talked about forward.
Speaker 1: And we are welcome as a nation, not only as
Speaker 1: a people, but as Americans. We are walking backwards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's definitely for sure. And that's the other thing
Speaker 1: I gotta say too, is that why I guess the
Speaker 1: Republican Party knows how to win. I don't know if
Speaker 1: people realize it, but the Republican Party is always pushing
Speaker 1: the Democratic agenda because they'll go and try to take
Speaker 1: something away or cause a freaking problem, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden that becomes a priority for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: So I just really want us to get smarter and
Speaker 1: I don't even know, like just strategic at this point,
Speaker 1: because who's who's guiding this ship at this point, because
Speaker 1: it's not us the people under the Democratic ticket, but
Speaker 1: they have the republic Yeah, that too. Splitting the votes. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's what's happened there in California with Rick Caruso. Yeah
Speaker 1: shoot so. But anyways, saying all that to say here,
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Speaker 1: you know last week Claron Thomas was in the hospital.
Speaker 1: I thought we was gonna get two seats because at
Speaker 1: last time we try to get you use them man.
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Speaker 1: so sweet about what somebody I never got to go
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Speaker 1: We want you to be an independent thing. This ain't
Speaker 1: critical race thinking. This is independent thing. And too many
Speaker 1: of y'all think like somebody else. I never thought like
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Speaker 1: y'all always say flame, why do you admire women? Why
Speaker 1: do you uphold women? Because women, mostly black, but have
Speaker 1: always looked out for me, and that is important to me.
Speaker 1: It's always important to me to give back to the
Speaker 1: people that looked out for me. That's not to say
Speaker 1: that the men have not looked out for me as well,
Speaker 1: but women publicly have put me in spaces that I
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Speaker 1: I I bowed down to women because I am a
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