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Speaker 1: Lauren Holgan, Hello Flame mans, Hello Aaron I wonderful produced
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Speaker 1: wherever you just see your podcast. Because we're a week
Speaker 1: behind because somebody's been working a little Lauren and busy
Speaker 1: with new shows and things have been moving. So what
Speaker 1: what you know? Long before we even depth get into
Speaker 1: the week to this week's show, I must tell you
Speaker 1: that it's been a very trained day and I'm a
Speaker 1: little I'm on my way to be with the Lord.
Speaker 1: So if I get stumbled on the word or two
Speaker 1: fixing judgment, no judgment, that's why we got Aaron to
Speaker 1: fix some stuff. Um, it has been a week in
Speaker 1: a week. And when I say a week, I'm telling
Speaker 1: I watched The View the other day because the new
Speaker 1: season is up, and they had Stacy Abrahams on their
Speaker 1: last week Lord, and they were talking about when she
Speaker 1: debated uh Kemp that one time because he wouldn't debate
Speaker 1: her anymore because she multiplied the bag and subtracted that
Speaker 1: ass and I love appetition. But I listened to her
Speaker 1: speak and they was you know how they do your
Speaker 1: on the View, They come at you on from all
Speaker 1: sides like the breakfast club, so you don't get a
Speaker 1: chance to finish one question or answer before you're hitting
Speaker 1: you with the next one. But she was. Her temperament
Speaker 1: was so even killed and even though I thought Joy
Speaker 1: pushed stepped on her toes and so did Sonny try
Speaker 1: to say something. What I like about Stacy Abrams is
Speaker 1: that she's informed, she's sharp. She is so equipped with
Speaker 1: her knowledge, but she won't even let you take her
Speaker 1: offer square because it's some things that you know they
Speaker 1: might ask and that might trigger he because they said
Speaker 1: something about her makeup or something, and she was like
Speaker 1: the look on her face was like, okay, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is what kind of making? What was her beauty product?
Speaker 1: She's like, I just watched my face with soap and water.
Speaker 1: But and I know where they'd be, what they'd be
Speaker 1: trying to do. What I love how she controls that
Speaker 1: narrative that is so sharp and so concise to me.
Speaker 1: You know, I want hi here, I'd be like, bitch,
Speaker 1: what you wash your asks with? Well? Um, you know
Speaker 1: what that is? Right? You know what? Here we go?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, here I forget. I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: she's a spelling woman. We're doing. We're just built different.
Speaker 1: That is my good spelling sis, and we expect nothing
Speaker 1: less all. I'm gonna say it is fantastic the way
Speaker 1: she controls the dynamic of the room. And I know
Speaker 1: they try to shake all the coconuts out of her tree,
Speaker 1: but that tree is unbreakable and I love that about
Speaker 1: her because everybody else get upset. Speaking of getting upset,
Speaker 1: Grandma's Ree Taylor Green was somebody asked up, of course,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a reporter or somebody
Speaker 1: who was in Congress or senator something, and she kicked them.
Speaker 1: That was the most childish thing that I've ever heard,
Speaker 1: that somebody asked you a question that you got mad
Speaker 1: about so you decided to kick them. Because the grown
Speaker 1: up thing would have been a lady to turn around
Speaker 1: and whoop her asked, because that would have been don't
Speaker 1: put your feet on me. That's disrespectful. But we are
Speaker 1: talking about Madre Taylor Green wanted the one of the
Speaker 1: Trump trump Kin's favorites. But we're not gonna harbor on
Speaker 1: that because we're gonna be celebrating black women this episode,
Speaker 1: because we're talking about the power of the black woman.
Speaker 1: That's why I was talking about her. Stacy was just
Speaker 1: magnificent with the way she spoke and who she was
Speaker 1: and so powerful and I love that. And whoop Be
Speaker 1: set there and I watched Whoop because I don't always
Speaker 1: be in agreement with WHOOPI, but whoop Be set there
Speaker 1: with this smell of pride on her face. As Stacy
Speaker 1: was dissect and everything they brought to her and handled
Speaker 1: it well, I felt very Olivia Pope like she handled
Speaker 1: That's what Olivia Pope sales. It's handled baby. Stacey Arams
Speaker 1: had handled it, but it was I was so proud
Speaker 1: to just watch her as a black person and just
Speaker 1: as the black American and uh, speaking of proud, proud
Speaker 1: black women, I made a video the other day that
Speaker 1: I was so because I was so excited about Now.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not a big movie goal. I go
Speaker 1: to the movies when it's something I really wanted to
Speaker 1: see one of them. And the last movie I got
Speaker 1: super excited about not the last time I went to
Speaker 1: the movies. Was it actually the cartoon movie scene. I
Speaker 1: was at see excited about that movie because it had
Speaker 1: me feeling so good in my spirit. It was so much,
Speaker 1: so many lessons. I love lessons, and so I was
Speaker 1: furious with my daughters on Sarady. So I took myself
Speaker 1: to the movie. I did say I took myself. I
Speaker 1: went on a he she we date. It was just
Speaker 1: all three of us see the Woman King. And mind you,
Speaker 1: I have been seeing the trailers, I have been seeing
Speaker 1: the commercial. None of that really made me really want
Speaker 1: to go see the movie. But I watched Viola Davis
Speaker 1: on three or four interviews this week, one being the View,
Speaker 1: another one she was on Gail And to hear the
Speaker 1: story of how she said what they had to go
Speaker 1: through just to get this movie done, and the story
Speaker 1: of the EOG people is am I saying it right?
Speaker 1: Og and just and so I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna support the movie while it's at the movie.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, when I tell you it's one of
Speaker 1: the best decisions I have made in two was to
Speaker 1: take the time, the two hours and six minutes to
Speaker 1: go and spend them twelve hours and go see that movie.
Speaker 1: Because that was the best movie I've seen in a
Speaker 1: very very long time. And it's good for beginning to end.
Speaker 1: The casting is brilliant, the lighting is read the story
Speaker 1: is believable and real, and there's so many emotions in
Speaker 1: the story. I felt joy and hurt and angry and
Speaker 1: rage and revenge and determination and strength and courage. But
Speaker 1: there's a love story in there. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to give out too much of the information. Y'all got
Speaker 1: to go to the movies to support this movie and
Speaker 1: see this movie. Don't wait for Netflix, don't wait for HBO,
Speaker 1: don't wait for it to come on cable, because it
Speaker 1: won't have the same impact. And in order to get
Speaker 1: these movies told and further on, we got to show
Speaker 1: that we're gonna spend our dollars to go see these
Speaker 1: movies at the movie theaters because white people under white
Speaker 1: folks understand dollars, not sense. Uh yeah. So I actually
Speaker 1: saw a woman king too, And so the funny thing
Speaker 1: is I saw some of the trailers. So I'm like
Speaker 1: a big Greek mythology and fanatics, so I thought that
Speaker 1: it was really gonna be just about the story of
Speaker 1: the Amazonian warriors that you learned about in Greek mythology
Speaker 1: if you ever took that class. And they were known
Speaker 1: for being beautiful, were fierce, and they were extremely tall,
Speaker 1: so you know, I always identified with them because I
Speaker 1: was just you know, very tall growing up too. So
Speaker 1: I just loved the story. So when I actually went
Speaker 1: to the movies and then in the beginning they give
Speaker 1: you a backstory of what was happening during this time
Speaker 1: in Africa, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this
Speaker 1: was really based on true events and this actually happened. Um.
Speaker 1: So to learn about the Agogi people and just, um,
Speaker 1: how phenomenal and fears these women were. Um, it just
Speaker 1: it was so inspiring. It was such an inspiring story, um,
Speaker 1: because I really thought it was going to be like
Speaker 1: them taking current events and mixing them with some you know,
Speaker 1: mythological ones. But it's a true story. So it was
Speaker 1: just beautifully done. And to my surprise, I didn't know
Speaker 1: that Adrian Warren was in the movie too. Um. Adrian
Speaker 1: Warren was the original Tina on Broadway, like before the
Speaker 1: pandemic happened. So I saw her play Tina um with
Speaker 1: the spraint damn near broken ankle on stage with like
Speaker 1: a brace and everything, and she killed it. And then
Speaker 1: she also played Maimie Till in Women of the Movement
Speaker 1: for ABC. So this thing has been working. I was
Speaker 1: wondering why she wasn't back playing teen on Broadway. It's
Speaker 1: because she's booked and busy. To say that was a
Speaker 1: great that you just made. That She was on stage
Speaker 1: with a broken ankle and she still mustered through, and
Speaker 1: that was one of the points in the movie. You
Speaker 1: keep fighting no matter you fight until you die. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, And I'm I'm a big fan of Ola Davis,
Speaker 1: always has been. I've seen probably all of her work,
Speaker 1: but I don't think she has ever touched me the
Speaker 1: way she touched me in this movie, because it was
Speaker 1: so many emotions and she was so comfortable and who
Speaker 1: she was as a darker, huge black woman, you know,
Speaker 1: no makeup, and I think you know she got ready
Speaker 1: for that on How to Get Away with Murder because
Speaker 1: men with Sisty Tyson was coming to kitchen and she
Speaker 1: took all the she said, I can do this, I
Speaker 1: can do this. But I love all the rollercoaster riding
Speaker 1: emotions and for me and who that's listening, this is
Speaker 1: not a woman's movie. It's not a woman's movie. It
Speaker 1: is about women, but it's not a woman's movie. It
Speaker 1: is a movie about strength and pride and courage and
Speaker 1: determination and baby fearless. Those women were and they supported that.
Speaker 1: They supported their key. They love their key. Y'all got
Speaker 1: to go see this movie and at the movies, because
Speaker 1: if you go see the movie, you're gonna understand they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to have a part too. Oh, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have a sequel. I hope so because I
Speaker 1: was wondering too, Um, I don't I actually, I can't
Speaker 1: say this because I'm gonna give it away. Let me.
Speaker 1: I'll just shut up and talk to you about there.
Speaker 1: I just say one word, Malik, That's all I wanna say. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can see that kind of being another avenue to
Speaker 1: tell for the storyline for sure. Um. But yeah, overall,
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I saw it in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: and I was in a black theater, so you know,
Speaker 1: all the black folks who was yelling at the movie screen,
Speaker 1: you know, during the fight scenes and everything. It just
Speaker 1: made my movie experience that much better. Um, Because remember
Speaker 1: I told you you I've been so scared to go
Speaker 1: to the movies because of the anxiety with all the
Speaker 1: shootings and stuff. So I was so I felt so
Speaker 1: comfortable when I saw all of us in the movie
Speaker 1: theater I said, Okay, nobody gonna do nothing crazy but
Speaker 1: you and the oil as you knew somebody was had
Speaker 1: some heat. Let's just be very exactly. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was listening to other shooters and get behind them.
Speaker 1: Bring up because even when I went to the theater,
Speaker 1: and I have not been to the theaters in a
Speaker 1: couple of years because of, like you said, the shooting,
Speaker 1: I wasn't alone. I did have my purse, but I
Speaker 1: may shoot because now you could pick your seats. So
Speaker 1: I picked a seat on the end just so I
Speaker 1: could scan the room in the words of T. T J.
Speaker 1: And keep your head on the swovel. Because I was
Speaker 1: also thinking that if some ship go down, I need
Speaker 1: to be able to get low and see what's happening.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I hate that I'm carrying that
Speaker 1: that fear with me, but I carry that fear and
Speaker 1: that may pay attention, pay attention to what's going on.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was like that too. But I I
Speaker 1: had my shorty with I went with my coworker intern friend.
Speaker 1: But literally every time somebody watchs on the movie theater,
Speaker 1: I was looking at pockets. Somebody had on a long coat.
Speaker 1: I was looking at everything but it was overall, it
Speaker 1: was a great experience. Like I said, it was a
Speaker 1: bunch of black people. So he was yelling at the screen. Um,
Speaker 1: it was just an amazing movie and it was beautifully
Speaker 1: shot and well done. And then I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw too, Um, I saw that shot. By all
Speaker 1: of days, Davi was just talking about the training and
Speaker 1: how they had to go through weapons training and you know,
Speaker 1: cardio workout, and then the director joined in to really
Speaker 1: provide this like comrade being that bad. The wood was
Speaker 1: always something special though since girlfriends, because I love the girlfriends,
Speaker 1: especially the first couple of season. It wasn't a little
Speaker 1: weird to me waiting later down the land, but the
Speaker 1: first couple of season was great. So they were on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club today, her and uh Yo who shoot
Speaker 1: and I know to show to to shoot the young
Speaker 1: lady who played the one they gave the father gave him,
Speaker 1: gave her away. They were on there today with Gina
Speaker 1: Um because I watched the interview and it was just
Speaker 1: so great to hear them talk. And I love that
Speaker 1: because this girl was like she was working with Viola Davis.
Speaker 1: But she said Viola love to joke on on on
Speaker 1: on set and love to be fun because Viola always
Speaker 1: seems so intense, so serious, so to be working with her.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, when you work with great people,
Speaker 1: I think it makes you a greater person because you strapped,
Speaker 1: you rise up as opposed to rising if you're rising down.
Speaker 1: And it was if the whole cast, which one was
Speaker 1: my crush though? Lor which one was my I was
Speaker 1: in love with what he's Oh girl had me up
Speaker 1: in the theater, went and hard. Let me just say,
Speaker 1: a good guy. So I knew it. I knew it
Speaker 1: the movie, I said, y'all, I know flame was having
Speaker 1: some fantasies in the movie Daddy Hunt, and I love
Speaker 1: and I hate that. It's the movie is so fresh
Speaker 1: right now, so we can't really give out none of
Speaker 1: the edgible secrets because we started how we're gonna tell it,
Speaker 1: But beautiful cast and everybody played their role so well.
Speaker 1: It was so believable. And what was the guy the
Speaker 1: king's name? Because he's been quite a few things. He's
Speaker 1: a big actor to what's his name? He is? Um, child,
Speaker 1: you're gonna make me up to go on IMBD real quick. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at named Jordan's um you see cast,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find it. Okay, Let's see. His name is
Speaker 1: John um Boyega. John Boyega. John Boyega is a big actor.
Speaker 1: And I saw somewhere where they said that they needed
Speaker 1: him to come in and he came in with no no,
Speaker 1: uh no, no nothing. He didn't he need a script.
Speaker 1: He came in and uh he just watched because and
Speaker 1: he was busy working at the time, but he took
Speaker 1: time off to make this movie. I love that so
Speaker 1: many different players have come in because this is done
Speaker 1: through Viola Davis and her husband Julius production company as well.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling as black people or as African Americans
Speaker 1: or whatever we identify brown people, whatever you identifiast because babe,
Speaker 1: they got two men. I can't keep up with all
Speaker 1: the everything. Any who. We need to show support for
Speaker 1: this so we can get more movies like this made,
Speaker 1: because it's not that it's black people's stories, but now
Speaker 1: it's black people's stories being told by actual black people,
Speaker 1: and they letting us tell a lot of truths. They're
Speaker 1: letting them tell a lot of truth you know, what's
Speaker 1: what's they trying to keep out? The books louring what
Speaker 1: they calling that when they don't want it up in
Speaker 1: the books now they want to get rid of all
Speaker 1: the books that history from way back. Oh um, child,
Speaker 1: you talking about Florida and Ron DeSantis. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: the theory and trying to yeah that we have to
Speaker 1: show support for that. I hate that it's not getting
Speaker 1: the advertisement that Black Panther God or some of these
Speaker 1: amazing movies. But I'm telling you, the story is great.
Speaker 1: This could be the new This could be my new
Speaker 1: Black Wizard of Us, because that's how good it was. Well,
Speaker 1: I think to your point though, that they didn't have
Speaker 1: Marvel money for promotion, promotions expensive. Um. But what I
Speaker 1: appreciated really about this movie so much is that, you know,
Speaker 1: we see a lot of movies that have been made
Speaker 1: are just about the black struggle, and it's not that
Speaker 1: this film didn't touch on that, because it did, but
Speaker 1: it talked about us as a resilience as people, and
Speaker 1: more important, about black women. I think that's what made
Speaker 1: this so special for me to sit in the theater
Speaker 1: and to actually watch it, because we're not telling those stories.
Speaker 1: It was like, for a period of time, we were
Speaker 1: just telling stories about how black people struggled and how
Speaker 1: we were constantly you know, degraded and put down. But
Speaker 1: this is kind of shining a light on the surviving
Speaker 1: that we did from an inspirational and an innovative point
Speaker 1: of view, you know. So that's why I really love
Speaker 1: this movie so much. Honestly, I want to go back
Speaker 1: to the theaters and watch it again because I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep supporting Viola. This is probably top three from me.
Speaker 1: I think my favorite series that she's ever done was
Speaker 1: definitely How to Get Away with Murder, my favorite movie
Speaker 1: that she did where I really just felt like she
Speaker 1: just acted her ass off with Fences that she did
Speaker 1: with Denzel Washington. Um. But this one is up there
Speaker 1: now for me. Woman King. She did a hell of
Speaker 1: a job with this role. So hats off to Viola
Speaker 1: because man, I hope she gets nominated for an Oscar
Speaker 1: and Emmy and double a CP Image Award. I hope
Speaker 1: she gets everything for it. Ain't that like a woman
Speaker 1: can look at you though, when black let me tell
Speaker 1: you something like, oh we can do like ciss in Houston.
Speaker 1: You know, some black women can look at you and
Speaker 1: you that three times. This baby, she ain't get a
Speaker 1: girl that look when they was in their water. I
Speaker 1: was like, Babe, sometimes a black woman can look at
Speaker 1: you and you and she ain't got to say one
Speaker 1: word to look just baby, and you get that three
Speaker 1: times good God. Yeah, nobody do it like Cissy Houston.
Speaker 1: It was Sisce Houston get resting bitch face times three hundred.
Speaker 1: Baby was gonna you have one too. I have a
Speaker 1: chronic disease called wrestling bitch face. But honestly, I think
Speaker 1: it was a gift from the Lord. So I embraced
Speaker 1: it with pride. Oh my god. The movie was and
Speaker 1: it just the joy of and it was so many more.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, I don't even crazy. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm a tank, but I flooded up like twice out
Speaker 1: of one time I would have hurt and another time
Speaker 1: I out of joy. And I love when the movie
Speaker 1: can put on my heart strings like that. It was
Speaker 1: and it was informative. I thought it was I thought
Speaker 1: it was clever. I thought it showed us so much compassion.
Speaker 1: And I thought it showed loyalty because they love of
Speaker 1: hollehuain't loyal with Baby. The people were loyal, honey, good guy.
Speaker 1: We need some of that going on right now because
Speaker 1: and that's the thing too. It's like, I think the
Speaker 1: series of how movies are coming out too. I'm excited
Speaker 1: about because you know you mentioned Black Panther. But Black
Speaker 1: Panther two comes out in November. And I actually have
Speaker 1: a friend that works for Disney and he's watched it
Speaker 1: three times and he said he's literally cried every time
Speaker 1: he watched it. So it's giving. We're given at least,
Speaker 1: like at least like three or four months of just
Speaker 1: black excellence in cinema right now. So that also warms
Speaker 1: my heart because Black Panthers coming out in November and
Speaker 1: they're honoring Chadwick Boseman in the movie. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you seen the trailer flame, but um Angela Bassett
Speaker 1: has a line and the trailer and she's literally shouting.
Speaker 1: She's like, I've lost my entire family. Have I not
Speaker 1: given enough? That alone made me want to cry, and
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I don't cry either, and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: this this movie is gonna be deep too. So we
Speaker 1: got woman King. Black Panther two is coming out. I'm
Speaker 1: just giving a round applause for the black excellence in
Speaker 1: cinema right now. I'm loving it. So uh. Jordan Peele
Speaker 1: just did nopead reviews about that. I haven't seen that yet.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, first of all, as I have
Speaker 1: gotten older, I think I'm turning into a woos because
Speaker 1: I used to love horror movies. But I ain't got old.
Speaker 1: And sometimes those teams become and mess with me and
Speaker 1: my sleep and stuff, and I don't like all that.
Speaker 1: That's my old person thing. That's that happens to me too.
Speaker 1: That's my old person thing. That's off. I need nightmares
Speaker 1: to the conjuring. I've seen the Saw movies. I saw.
Speaker 1: I saw a movie and I thought I was gonna die.
Speaker 1: I had a whole dream about Jigsaw. It felt very real.
Speaker 1: It's not you I'm saying. I think I said I'm
Speaker 1: getting old. I must be getting the conscious. You know,
Speaker 1: I never used to have. I used to be a
Speaker 1: bad fact. There's nothing the facts like things have changed.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you what has not changed. And
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the involvement of these black women. And
Speaker 1: I was just watching the thing. I was watching Bill
Speaker 1: Maher the other day and there was a guy on there.
Speaker 1: I can't remember his name, but he was talking about
Speaker 1: President Joe Biden and he was saying, y'all, he said
Speaker 1: he too old. He too old as opposed to being
Speaker 1: too what too young to know he's the most qualified
Speaker 1: president that we have had ever because of Congress and
Speaker 1: being the vice president well the longest well, he made
Speaker 1: a barrel, he said, watching nobody had this, not even
Speaker 1: nobody had Biden's credentials to become president, not even Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton because he has spent so much time in Congress
Speaker 1: or the Senate, and then he did vice presidency for
Speaker 1: two years and now he's the president. So he was
Speaker 1: saying the qualifat in that aspect. Okay, I I could
Speaker 1: hear that. And honestly, when you said that, it made
Speaker 1: me go back to some of his uh time being
Speaker 1: sent it in some of the screwed up bills. And sorry,
Speaker 1: those are two separate things. Let me not be biased.
Speaker 1: We we we get older, we supposed to get wiser.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I agree that, because we do
Speaker 1: always rag on him about his age. But what else
Speaker 1: could we have? We could be stuck with something way worse,
Speaker 1: way way worse. So I hope you guys are registered,
Speaker 1: and I hope you guys, and I'm hoping Georgia, I'll
Speaker 1: really come on now and and and and keep it
Speaker 1: and flipping for Stacey time. It is her time. I
Speaker 1: think Stacy's gonna win for sure, um because she was
Speaker 1: robbed last time, so I have I have a feeling
Speaker 1: in my spirit that she's gonna win. But another person,
Speaker 1: another black female in cinema that I do want to
Speaker 1: discuss really quickly, as Haley Bailey. I saw the trailer
Speaker 1: for a Little Mermaid. Um, it brought a huge face too.
Speaker 1: She brought a huge smile to my face. Her voice
Speaker 1: sounded so angelic. She gave me all the Little Mermaid vibes.
Speaker 1: But I am just I don't know if I shouldn't
Speaker 1: be baffled because it's like, you know, racism still exists,
Speaker 1: But I'm baffled at the fact that all these white
Speaker 1: people are in an uproar about a Mermaid being black
Speaker 1: and mermaids, first of all, they're not even real. Let's there,
Speaker 1: they're they're so upset and so mad about let's go
Speaker 1: back to that lord, but not that they're not real.
Speaker 1: And y'all are getting so upset that we're getting representation
Speaker 1: in Disney for a character that's not really it's fictional
Speaker 1: talking about because the baby, but the mermaid to have
Speaker 1: a twist. We're talking about, how can a mermaid have
Speaker 1: melanin underneath the water. That's not even realistic. And then
Speaker 1: somebody said something else about how she wouldn't really sound
Speaker 1: like that if she was underwater. The conspiracy theories and
Speaker 1: just the commentary about this fictional character is so baffling
Speaker 1: to me, and they're really upset. It's crazy. I saw that,
Speaker 1: you know, I just thought it was you know, I
Speaker 1: thought people have been was high. I thought they were
Speaker 1: high because it's just what you said. First of all,
Speaker 1: there are other mermaids. Mermaids are not real if they
Speaker 1: we don't know nothing about them. And if they're gonna
Speaker 1: be any color, I would assume they're gonna be orange
Speaker 1: like to get the emotion, or green ship like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So first of all, y'all knock at off chew. That
Speaker 1: was a cartoon. The little member was a car, and
Speaker 1: she wasn't white in the cartoon, and tried and damn
Speaker 1: show wasn't white in the cartoon. That Dyck cartoons. The
Speaker 1: Daddy had a better sun tee than the weather bear
Speaker 1: we got down here the launch one. So it's just
Speaker 1: I'm just so sad for her because this should be
Speaker 1: such an exciting moment, and you just have so many
Speaker 1: troll goals that are trying to ruin this. You know
Speaker 1: they're trying to Yeah, you know, it's the Internet and
Speaker 1: as much information, as easy as it is to get
Speaker 1: to your fingertips, the internet gives you too much information.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we didn't have all that. So it's twenty people
Speaker 1: didn't like you. You didn't know it unless you twenty
Speaker 1: other people told you, girl, you know something. Some don't
Speaker 1: like you aboard so so I don't like. But now
Speaker 1: it's just like it's like and people believe that they
Speaker 1: believe everything they see and here on the internet it
Speaker 1: is and because they won't read a book, that speaking
Speaker 1: and not read books on your west that he has
Speaker 1: never read a book. I was like, you ain't here
Speaker 1: to tell nobody else. Set uh, don't shut up. I
Speaker 1: think so lost in amazes of their mind, and this
Speaker 1: go around like it really is kind of like the
Speaker 1: matrix to because people just don't and and to think
Speaker 1: for yourself and be an individual. God, I think that's
Speaker 1: almost like winning the lottery. Flame. I think the craziest
Speaker 1: thing that I saw around this somebody was like, since
Speaker 1: Haley Bailey can play um, the Little Mermaid, then why
Speaker 1: doesn't joke George Clooney playing Martin Luther King. I read
Speaker 1: that and I said, are you kidding me? Really? Time
Speaker 1: to do it? Makeup? Makeup? Do it? Time to do it? Chow.
Speaker 1: It was just I've seen the craziest things. But on
Speaker 1: the flip side of that, idn't. There is a video
Speaker 1: that like pretty much went viral and it's just a
Speaker 1: compilation of different little black girls seeing the trailer and
Speaker 1: the smile and the excitement that it brought to their faces.
Speaker 1: Honestly just warmed my heart. One little girl was jumping
Speaker 1: up and down, going Mommy, she's brown, Mommy, she's brown
Speaker 1: like me. Mommy, she's brown like me. And honestly just
Speaker 1: wanted they will ever know how important that he is
Speaker 1: to the young black and brown kids. They I don't
Speaker 1: think they will ever ever know how important that is
Speaker 1: to have representation, because I'm telling you Long normally is
Speaker 1: about to celebrate his one hundred birthday. I saw the list.
Speaker 1: I swear I wanted to be on the list in
Speaker 1: the list on the show because had it not been
Speaker 1: me seeing Beverly Lassale, the character that was on all
Speaker 1: in the family in nineteen seventy eight or seventy nine. Girl,
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't be this person that I am, because
Speaker 1: it made me know that I was okay. I saw
Speaker 1: somebody didn't look like me. You know, this was white,
Speaker 1: drag queen, old man, but I knew how I felt
Speaker 1: on the inside. I'm like, oh my god, this looks
Speaker 1: like me. So I know the joy when those kids
Speaker 1: saw that, because I always remember that moment. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think they don't understand either too. It's like little kids,
Speaker 1: especially little girls, like not especially little girls. I'll just
Speaker 1: save kids in general. They don't see color. You know.
Speaker 1: It's really adults, racist adults that ruin that for kids.
Speaker 1: Kids don't see color. So color, well, I don't agree
Speaker 1: they see color lorn, but they see somebody they side,
Speaker 1: so they feel safe. So if they don't see ice
Speaker 1: skin and your blue ass and your blind hair, and
Speaker 1: they might say that, but then they're gonna they oh,
Speaker 1: you might size, we could be free. And I only
Speaker 1: experienced that because I got my own kids. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I'm saying they don't see color. Like for instance, I
Speaker 1: remember one time I was at a sushi restaurant with
Speaker 1: my dad, and this white family was eating Ain't and
Speaker 1: this little white girl was sitting in a high chair,
Speaker 1: and she looked back and saw my dad, and she
Speaker 1: smiled and laughed and wanted to play with him. That's
Speaker 1: what I mean when I say kids don't see color,
Speaker 1: they don't see the racism, They don't see color, they
Speaker 1: don't They just see somebody for like, for who they are.
Speaker 1: So you know that. That's why I say racism is
Speaker 1: definitely taught. So I hope that, and I'm saying that
Speaker 1: to say I hope that these these racist white parents
Speaker 1: don't ruin this experience for their kids because I don't
Speaker 1: care if you white, black, brown, especially the black girls
Speaker 1: gotta go see it. But whatever other race that you are,
Speaker 1: I hope that that doesn't hinder you from going and
Speaker 1: seeing this movie because I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: beautiful remake. I don't think any of this ever would
Speaker 1: have mattered before the last four years of the last
Speaker 1: the last the last administration. I think before the last station,
Speaker 1: none of this would have mattered. You know, it just
Speaker 1: would have been like it would have mattered. We just
Speaker 1: wouldn't have seen the racist be so open about it.
Speaker 1: That's one thing I always say that Trump did that
Speaker 1: I think was a good thing. He let racist white
Speaker 1: people feel very comfortable being racist in a public fashion.
Speaker 1: They were all closeted racist before, so you would walk
Speaker 1: down the street. Well, I said, I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: love that he let all these white people feel entitled
Speaker 1: enough to blatantly say how racist that they feel. Because
Speaker 1: now I don't have to go down the street concerned
Speaker 1: like we used to. I mean, I still do, but
Speaker 1: it's not the same thing. They feel very comfortable in
Speaker 1: their truths. So thanks Trump for doing that. We need
Speaker 1: powerful black women like we have Stacy Abrams carrying bass
Speaker 1: to come on end and get these physicians so we
Speaker 1: can help y'all keep showing and pushing and growing and
Speaker 1: and and what is that? You know who else seems
Speaker 1: to be keeping her temperament, But she looked like she
Speaker 1: wants to jab today. Oh the White House Press secretary,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, given her the business. But today it
Speaker 1: looked like they almost hit that black girl. But you don't,
Speaker 1: baby duck. I'm telling you right now, she can hold
Speaker 1: her temperament real good. But when they found that Keyshia button,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, and I think too that she's been doing
Speaker 1: an excellent job to as the new as the White
Speaker 1: House Press secretary. And she's the first, she's a she's
Speaker 1: the first black female and openly gay, um press secretary
Speaker 1: that we've had. So and she I think she's handling
Speaker 1: it very well. So it almost got her to slip
Speaker 1: a little taste. I was like, Okay, y'all gonna put
Speaker 1: that Keysha button. She gonna show up and she's gonna
Speaker 1: spas on y'all. So but saying all this to say though, UM,
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to be a black woman right now
Speaker 1: in this day and age um we have we're you know,
Speaker 1: being placed in so many spaces that we should have
Speaker 1: been anyway. UM, So I'm just excited to see the
Speaker 1: more to come. But um, black women are definitely winning
Speaker 1: right now despite all of the uh odds being stacked
Speaker 1: against us. So, UM, feeling a little inspired and very
Speaker 1: proud today, I'll say that. And let me say this,
Speaker 1: I'm very proud to be pretending to be a black woman. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you can see emulating everything black women because you know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I think black women smartiest woman. I said
Speaker 1: that my material all the time. Black women smart. Ya'll
Speaker 1: always figure some ship out, even when we don't want
Speaker 1: y'all too. You'll be a little slow on Somethinghi, but
Speaker 1: you'd be smart on ship. We don't want you to
Speaker 1: be smart on uh. But Lauren, I just I'm with
Speaker 1: you on that because And to go back to Viola
Speaker 1: Davis and the movie The Woman King and the entire cast,
Speaker 1: because I thought whoever did the casting was perfect. Everybody.
Speaker 1: They brought the movie to life so real that you
Speaker 1: felt like you're engulfed in there. I was part of
Speaker 1: the movie I'm running through the jungle when she was
Speaker 1: running through the jung, I'm running with a But tell
Speaker 1: you that part that was inspiring when she said she
Speaker 1: had to go back and get old girl and she
Speaker 1: ran in and all of a sudden she felt the
Speaker 1: presence of her sisters behind her. I said, oh see,
Speaker 1: we support each other. We support each other. And that
Speaker 1: movie talked that movie showed that. But and I see
Speaker 1: that it's getting a little backlash from a few people here,
Speaker 1: and they're talking about the slave trading. Let's be very
Speaker 1: clear that every nationality involved in life was involved in
Speaker 1: slave trade. Every nationality included people. Every people have enslaved
Speaker 1: their own people. And did you ever see the movie
Speaker 1: ap Apocalypto Indians day they would cutting each other's head off,
Speaker 1: because maybe Italians do it. If you light a darker,
Speaker 1: it happens across the board. They some are better than
Speaker 1: others that looked like they're better than others. So don't
Speaker 1: come with all that bullshit. And if y'all really want
Speaker 1: to do your research, let me show you that it
Speaker 1: goes all the way around. Because if you read the
Speaker 1: diary of a Frank when you were in high school
Speaker 1: like you're supposed to as a sophomore, they hit an
Speaker 1: attic for two years. No, maybe the Nazis never did
Speaker 1: fan them. A Jew told where they were. That's how
Speaker 1: they get caught. So y'all do it to our own race.
Speaker 1: So please don't come sideways at me. I'm going to
Speaker 1: straighten you up, thank you very much. I just out okay,
Speaker 1: but that's uh. But see that's also what um. I've
Speaker 1: said this on life and learned before about how it's
Speaker 1: important to accurately tell tell our history because then you
Speaker 1: have people who were ignorant. I didn't know. Yes, we
Speaker 1: were involved in the slaves trade, black people were. We
Speaker 1: turned against our own people for profit, and we ain't
Speaker 1: stopped ship, thank you. So let's just call a spade
Speaker 1: a spade here. But saying all that to say here
Speaker 1: and laugh and learn, we have a saying we're never
Speaker 1: trying to get anybody to change your mind, simply trying
Speaker 1: to get you to use your mind, because wife, Flame,
Speaker 1: because the mind is a terrible thing to waste. And
Speaker 1: y'all need to stop wasting my time, Honey, get your
Speaker 1: ass out of go vote. Make sure you rested Georgia.
Speaker 1: I need y'all to really act the food. And when
Speaker 1: I say that, I'm talking about in a non violent,
Speaker 1: pleasant way. Get to them posed. I know they didn't
Speaker 1: change the laws so many different places, but y'all got
Speaker 1: to put Stacy Abrams as government. Because Stacy Abrams don't
Speaker 1: care just about the black So she has said that
Speaker 1: many times she cares about the state of Georgia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's very true, and it's definitely important to get out
Speaker 1: and vote. Pretty the election is here. Election day is
Speaker 1: is pretty much here. We got like less than a
Speaker 1: little over thirty days, actually a little over thirty days,
Speaker 1: So make sure you got registered to vote. I I
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