Speaker 1: La, laugh with La. If you watch Coffee Time to Baby,
Speaker 1: you know the name Flame, my role also known as
Speaker 1: my role Flame. Come in with last and come in
Speaker 1: with jam love lounds. Baby, you better catch it when
Speaker 1: you can't drop a knowledge from Fatherhood of Politics shouting
Speaker 1: now comics just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah you
Speaker 1: know she raped shot towns On speak into the ground.
Speaker 1: And second we're gonna last cut of the kicking and
Speaker 1: at the end we leave it, which is a lift dispirit.
Speaker 1: Think you want to revisit? So your first take a
Speaker 1: list of your folks like it, slip all folks that
Speaker 1: we take it. No, do what you do, No do
Speaker 1: what you don't, No kiss, do what I do? No fish. Hello.
Speaker 1: So it's been an interesting week for them. So let
Speaker 1: me get the dirt. We're talking about me later. First
Speaker 1: of all, we want to welcome Nick back to work.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming to work. I'm happy to be
Speaker 1: here about three months. That's not what you do. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things who people at home who may
Speaker 1: be watching right now, they will be a to see
Speaker 1: all of us in action when they actually watched the
Speaker 1: video component later this way exactly. Um So one of
Speaker 1: the things that you need to know. We're not ignoring
Speaker 1: you on Instagram and log We're purposely making sure that
Speaker 1: we have clean video to produce and move forward. When
Speaker 1: you all share this video and like it, so thank you.
Speaker 1: But it's been a busy week and I'm excited to
Speaker 1: be here and we're glad they have you here with
Speaker 1: that Nicholas, because you ain't been here at a man,
Speaker 1: the presidents you're well, you're not been reading some of
Speaker 1: the comments and they're like, you know, one Nicholas is
Speaker 1: too professional to Nicholas must be a Republican, and three
Speaker 1: from why don't you fire Nicholas? So guess what one
Speaker 1: Nicholas is not a Republican to yes, he will say
Speaker 1: some about landing ship, but so will I. And three
Speaker 1: then they ain't going awhere He right here. I'm right
Speaker 1: here even when he in Arkansas. That nigga right here
Speaker 1: and now when this contract is up, not only where
Speaker 1: he might not be here. Welcome. You've been a busy
Speaker 1: beaving this week. You've been what you've been doing. Um
Speaker 1: So I went to Atlanta for two of my best
Speaker 1: friends graduations. One graduated from Georgia State Law School and
Speaker 1: b a at the same time, So she got a
Speaker 1: j D and n B A very proud of her.
Speaker 1: And then my other best friend finally graduated from Spellman.
Speaker 1: Actually she had to defer for two years, and then
Speaker 1: she got into the workforce. You know, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get back into school, and she've been working and making money.
Speaker 1: So she finally did it, and I'm very very proud
Speaker 1: of her. So I went to Atlanta to celebrate her
Speaker 1: and both of them, actually, and I had a little fun,
Speaker 1: you know. I saw some old friends and hung out
Speaker 1: and I got back at eleven pm last night, and
Speaker 1: you and I were talking about before flame came in
Speaker 1: that it's we don't recover the same way we used to. Lauren,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. I feel old as hell. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I had a red eye going out. And I can
Speaker 1: tellue what well, I can tell you what it is
Speaker 1: about the traveling now, it's the mask. The mask make
Speaker 1: the trips seem longer. I don't take mane off. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you I've been traveling to the mask to me
Speaker 1: things like it makes the trip longer because I want
Speaker 1: to take my mask off and breathe. Do you sleep
Speaker 1: on the flight? Though? I used to luring, but I
Speaker 1: ain't got real nervous about sleeping on flights. Now, I'd
Speaker 1: be scared somebody gonna be touching me in my sleep stuff.
Speaker 1: That's why I seemed longer to you me. I go
Speaker 1: to sleep on any flight, Lauren, to sit down, I'm out.
Speaker 1: And it used to get upset because I always missed
Speaker 1: that meal. Serf right because I'm not going to sleep.
Speaker 1: I need to see what's happening in and out. But
Speaker 1: I never have a deep sleep because I'm not comfortable.
Speaker 1: I need to stretch out well. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: status on Delta two, so i'd be upgrading for free.
Speaker 1: I feel like first class. See all that. She didn't
Speaker 1: even had to do it. You see what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: just saying what I'm up against. No, see when you
Speaker 1: went for these major corporations, not not laughing, other job
Speaker 1: and you get all these perks first class and something
Speaker 1: not like I don't like it because they flew my
Speaker 1: black gass first class. I put you up on some
Speaker 1: travel game when we traveled together a new favorite hotel
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Now it's the only place my heads weren't
Speaker 1: stretched down because I was I'm just saying, you travel
Speaker 1: a little differently now some hanging out with me. So
Speaker 1: I'm saying, okay, So speaking of mask, first topic, because
Speaker 1: today is a day that first lady sent me a
Speaker 1: scripture this morning from um. It was from Proverbs verse
Speaker 1: eighteen sixteen, and the quote is what Nicholas, let me
Speaker 1: pull that up because I just saw, because it's very
Speaker 1: appropriate for what's happening with me today. I'm doing something
Speaker 1: really major today. I'm taking some pictures with some legends
Speaker 1: and I'm really excited about That's why you gotta make
Speaker 1: up on that, because my makeup art is will be
Speaker 1: here at two o'clock. Yeah. The quote is Proverb sixteen
Speaker 1: man's gift maketh room for him and bring it him
Speaker 1: before great men today. This great man's gift, don't introduce
Speaker 1: him to some great men and women. So let's do it, okay,
Speaker 1: Speaking of our first time, that is Proverbs eighteen sixteen
Speaker 1: for those who if you want to read that, baby,
Speaker 1: because I'm the great man and the woman, it should
Speaker 1: have said, great he weeks, let me call God. You
Speaker 1: gonna need him to change. He's not being politically correct.
Speaker 1: Why don't we jump right on end though, on the mask,
Speaker 1: because you're our president, my president, the one we all
Speaker 1: voted for, has mandated a mass mandate that you don't
Speaker 1: have to wear your mask. He's repeating information from the
Speaker 1: CDC saying that now CDC guidelines are saying that if
Speaker 1: you're outdoors, you don't need to wear a mask. If
Speaker 1: you've been fully vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask. However,
Speaker 1: individual stores and restaurants can decide what they want their
Speaker 1: business to do for those who may be patrons of
Speaker 1: their particular space. Are you guys ready to not wear
Speaker 1: a mask? And both of you guys have been fully vaccinated,
Speaker 1: I'm the one who has not been. Well, you know
Speaker 1: my vaccine right here. Let me no, I sprayed myself already.
Speaker 1: I'm not just in case commercially watching. You know this
Speaker 1: is my vac safe for two a whole year. Uh.
Speaker 1: You started in what you think? Well, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: What I do wish though, UM, I believe that people
Speaker 1: were ready to do some type of unmasking, but I
Speaker 1: also believe that there's confusion around what people should do. UM.
Speaker 1: Not just older, but mostly older are still in the
Speaker 1: space where they want to continue wearing their masks because
Speaker 1: they don't feel particularly safe not wearing a mask. I
Speaker 1: think that there are those who are frustrated and tired
Speaker 1: of wearing a mask. What I don't like is that
Speaker 1: I feel like the ownership or the responsibility of policing
Speaker 1: those who do and do not wear mask is falling
Speaker 1: on employees who should not have to bear the responsibility.
Speaker 1: I just saw the interaction that one Costco employee had
Speaker 1: with Rick Schrolder. How does this guy argue with Rick Schroeder,
Speaker 1: who you know is a celebrity? You know? How do
Speaker 1: I how he should not be in the position where
Speaker 1: he has to demand that Mr Schroeder wear masks before
Speaker 1: he enters into Costco. Yes he should, I remember, damned
Speaker 1: about him and being celebrity. He is a human and
Speaker 1: he could give me coronavirus. He could give me I
Speaker 1: guess I don't want that employee in the in the
Speaker 1: spot where he has to us. And I hear you
Speaker 1: said what you say. Celebrities have to take responsibility just
Speaker 1: like everybody. If there are rudes and we all have
Speaker 1: to follow rules. If if this store says that in
Speaker 1: order to enter our store plan and they do have
Speaker 1: the signs out upon entering, you must wear man, you
Speaker 1: either follow rules or shop somewhere else. No that I hear.
Speaker 1: I just don't like Rick Schroeder making that guy the
Speaker 1: bad guy, putting him on social media. So Josh, you're
Speaker 1: telling me to the store I can't walk in and
Speaker 1: putting that guy didn't have to be on his exam.
Speaker 1: But let's go back to the source, cause Rick shoulders,
Speaker 1: she slid off the crack of many years ago. Go
Speaker 1: back and do your research. Ricky should have been a
Speaker 1: cuckoo patty for a long time. He was a cute,
Speaker 1: little blond boy where he grew up to be a maniac.
Speaker 1: He did eccentric, over the top. Go back and do
Speaker 1: your research. Years ago he came out with some kind
Speaker 1: of political thing he was and some kind of religious
Speaker 1: thing he was. He's a he's a special special souls.
Speaker 1: I see it it um. I mean, I personally think
Speaker 1: that this is the CDC is trying to incentivize people
Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. I really think that's what this comes
Speaker 1: down to, because we're seeing this huge decline and people
Speaker 1: getting vaccinated, and honestly, coming from a marketing background, you
Speaker 1: always have to incentivize people to get them to do something.
Speaker 1: So I think by saying like oh, if you're fully vaccinated,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be You can be outside you
Speaker 1: don't have to wear a mask, and out indoors you
Speaker 1: don't have to wear a mask either. I think they're
Speaker 1: trying to get more people vaccinated. I do think that
Speaker 1: it's grossly your response on the CDC's part, and on
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. I mean, he is the president. I get
Speaker 1: he's leaning towards the scientists and the experts, so he's
Speaker 1: trying to put some trust back into that. But to
Speaker 1: put the onus on these corporations to decide when and
Speaker 1: where you can wear masks, and this whole honor system
Speaker 1: I think is stupid. Considering before thank you, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean considering before you had Karen's and everybody else
Speaker 1: that didn't want to wear masks, and we're saying that
Speaker 1: you're violating my rights. And now you expect these people
Speaker 1: to be honest and say, oh, I've been fully vaccinated,
Speaker 1: but where's the proof, And so you're you're putting everybody
Speaker 1: at risk to have the rates of infections of COVID
Speaker 1: go up. Bottom line, it's just not It's not so
Speaker 1: I can just come in and rome and say I've
Speaker 1: been vaccinated, and everybody who followed me knows that I
Speaker 1: am completely exactly taking the vaccine. I am not telling
Speaker 1: nobody else what to do, and y'all gonna believe me.
Speaker 1: See that honest system. I can honorably get stopped at
Speaker 1: the stop sign and think I'm gonna honorably get home
Speaker 1: office right. But I think where that honor system comes
Speaker 1: in and s the idea is that I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: as a vaccinated person, and my responsibility is to communicate
Speaker 1: that so that if someone who is not vaccinated is
Speaker 1: in in the same space, I should then say, well,
Speaker 1: I've been vaccinated. But to help you feel more comfortable, man,
Speaker 1: I have no problem wearing a mask because if that
Speaker 1: helps you feel more comfortable with me wearing a mask
Speaker 1: so that we can be in the same space, I,
Speaker 1: as a good steward, should want to do that first
Speaker 1: or second show we ever did for laugh and learn?
Speaker 1: What did I say? People do not want to be
Speaker 1: Americans do not want to be told what to do.
Speaker 1: This ain't got nothing to do with race. Americans do
Speaker 1: not want to be don't tell me what to do.
Speaker 1: That's how we feel. Yeah, I just I just don't
Speaker 1: think that this is a good idea at all. It's
Speaker 1: just And the other thing too is I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we can get into this a little bit,
Speaker 1: but some people may also not want to disclose that
Speaker 1: they have been vaccinated either, because that can go into
Speaker 1: hip A violations if we want to talk about that too.
Speaker 1: So there's just too many layers of irresponsibility to this
Speaker 1: that I think that it just wasn't thought through. The
Speaker 1: whole focus is let's get people vaccinated, So how do
Speaker 1: we do that? But Nick made a very valid point,
Speaker 1: yes that we did coffee time yesterday morning. Enick made
Speaker 1: it every you cannot ring the bill. I personally, and
Speaker 1: I love Joe Biden. I voted for Joe Biden. I'm
Speaker 1: believing that Joe Biden. I'm waiting. I'm patiently waiting for
Speaker 1: him to make some major changes that we can see
Speaker 1: and that would instill to make the country moving forward direction.
Speaker 1: But I I personally think that he spoke on it
Speaker 1: too soon. The numbers are declining slowly but not done.
Speaker 1: And I, like Nicolas said, yes that you can't ring
Speaker 1: the bill. You can't come back in a month and
Speaker 1: say if the numbers spike up, that okay. Now, you
Speaker 1: gotta start winning. Man, I'm confused, what do I do?
Speaker 1: But I think that's part of their trying to normalize
Speaker 1: COVID at this point because from what I've read, COVID's
Speaker 1: never going away. COVID is basically going to be like
Speaker 1: the seasonal flu. So we're going to see these spikes
Speaker 1: and well, we're gonna see these increases and decreases in
Speaker 1: terms of infections all the time, and that there's gonna
Speaker 1: be these huge spikes during the flu season because they're
Speaker 1: now normalizing COVID as a flu basically, so that's it's
Speaker 1: never going away. We're never going to reach her immunity.
Speaker 1: This is just something that Lauren and I fear that
Speaker 1: these variants will always play a part. Right, So then
Speaker 1: here I am vaccinated. What does that mean once I'm
Speaker 1: possibly exposed to someone who has a different level of COVID? Right,
Speaker 1: does does that variant change then and become something that
Speaker 1: I'm not protected against? So I think there are so
Speaker 1: many things we have to continue to continue considering. But
Speaker 1: going back to the original point, what I don't like
Speaker 1: about all of this are we masking? Are we unmasking?
Speaker 1: Is that it has left this area of ambiguity, and
Speaker 1: I feel like the policing of that has fallen on
Speaker 1: people who simply want to do their jobs. And it's
Speaker 1: not and it should not be on that employee at
Speaker 1: Costco to say, hey, Mr Smith or Mr Schroulder wear masks,
Speaker 1: because that man can lose his job or at least
Speaker 1: be threatened by others who may say, where was that
Speaker 1: guy he told our Ricky? No, you know, when y'all
Speaker 1: started falling behind these celebrities, do your research, got some
Speaker 1: of these celebrities and then did you guys to see
Speaker 1: the video that was at the gaping of the video
Speaker 1: about people are shaming people for either a taking a
Speaker 1: vaccine or be not taking the vaccine. Oh yeah, because
Speaker 1: I'm not taking the vaccine. These are my partners. Both
Speaker 1: of them have been fully vaccinated. I'm not holding them
Speaker 1: accountable for that that. This is with their decision. This
Speaker 1: is my decision. You can't hold nobody's feet to the
Speaker 1: fire for that. I don't tell nobody not to take
Speaker 1: the vaccine. You do the hell you want to do.
Speaker 1: You just know the vaccine and now I'm spraying you.
Speaker 1: And if you did take the vaccine, I'm spraying you twine.
Speaker 1: Just in case you turn kind of you see how
Speaker 1: shiny you're looking at them, you might want to bite me.
Speaker 1: I love it. There's something I want to mention everybody,
Speaker 1: those who may or may not have seen this flame.
Speaker 1: You and I talked about this one show this to
Speaker 1: everybody at home. I am holding what it's called air tag?
Speaker 1: Air tag? Have you all heard about this? Larrey about that?
Speaker 1: So air tag is a new little thing created by
Speaker 1: Apple and what people have been doing because it tracks
Speaker 1: everywhere it goes, but it doesn't make a sound. So
Speaker 1: both parents have been and couples have been placing them
Speaker 1: like in the liner of a boyfriend's jacket that he
Speaker 1: wears all the time. And wait, Manute, I thought you
Speaker 1: were just doing that one show with Flame. Well you've
Speaker 1: been well you just my teenage. It's also one of
Speaker 1: those things where Apple is saying, hey, we're hoping that
Speaker 1: people are using these in good faith. And that's part
Speaker 1: of the question. Want to open up to the flamemates.
Speaker 1: If you have an opportunity to track your team, what
Speaker 1: you or do you want to trust your team to
Speaker 1: do the right thing or do you want to trust
Speaker 1: your spots called air Tagings on four bucks two point
Speaker 1: two points. Yes, I want to track my team and
Speaker 1: two Apple made it to something? Do you want to
Speaker 1: be trusted? And you know who made it Apple? Bill Gates.
Speaker 1: Job that nigga did, we only got to track him.
Speaker 1: Uh we know, you know, we know exactly where he is. Baby,
Speaker 1: Who is Apple? Which one? Which one is Bill Gates?
Speaker 1: I might have got him confused, but the nigga still
Speaker 1: need Melinda girl. Have you read about this so? No?
Speaker 1: I like it? La? What you think? Um? I think
Speaker 1: we're one step away to being injected with micro trips
Speaker 1: like dogs to track pe. We already got the first.
Speaker 1: Everyone's talking about the vacan head chips and including me.
Speaker 1: Somebody point out a very other point. You got a
Speaker 1: cell phone, you got Internet, you got cable, you already chick.
Speaker 1: They already knew exactly what you are and which watch
Speaker 1: and all of that. I'm sure they're going to get
Speaker 1: lots of sales from that, though, I'm sure of it.
Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see where that go,
Speaker 1: especially in relationships. You just casually hug your boyfriend and
Speaker 1: maybe just put it on the back of something he
Speaker 1: doesn't realize it, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: got a track where he went the mileage. And so
Speaker 1: the idea is that, you know, I'm getting one from
Speaker 1: my mom because in the house misplacing keys with myself,
Speaker 1: you know, have mine on my little key ring so
Speaker 1: that I don't lose my keys or misplace my keys.
Speaker 1: Have that. No, as long as you have any Apple
Speaker 1: device so you can track it also from your laptop.
Speaker 1: Like I know, it's not Android, it's not Universal. Look
Speaker 1: at my Alpha's gonna definitely down and keep it in
Speaker 1: the house. I'm not into apples. I like bananas. I
Speaker 1: mean I like Android, and I just yes, Miss Harriet
Speaker 1: is called air Tang air Tag and uh, they dropped
Speaker 1: him last week, so they bucks you know, I like
Speaker 1: a little gadget. I want to I want to be
Speaker 1: able to be able to find my way back home
Speaker 1: to YouTube. We also kind of if you don't want
Speaker 1: to open up to the flames just said, we talked
Speaker 1: about rent Lauren Fleman. I were just sitting here yesterday.
Speaker 1: Um well, I had also just read an article about
Speaker 1: a landlord and Tacoma and what he's been doing. Um
Speaker 1: this landlord in Tacoma, I'm sorry, in Lancaster, Lancaster p
Speaker 1: A he has free painted the property showing the tenant's
Speaker 1: name and rent because since last year, how much they
Speaker 1: oh so was his property? So he and he's simply saying, hey,
Speaker 1: not even so much to shame the tenant as much
Speaker 1: as government. You keep telling people they don't need to
Speaker 1: pay rent. This is how much I'm old. This is
Speaker 1: why I can't pay my property tax because I'm not
Speaker 1: getting collecting rent. The government needs to make a decision.
Speaker 1: Quit letting this to is tabulate tabulate without letting us
Speaker 1: know what an end date is. So the question is
Speaker 1: kind of twofold, and I want to open this up
Speaker 1: to the flame. Mats Lady Allison, okay to do that?
Speaker 1: As a property owner, do you have the right to
Speaker 1: display what you are old on property that you own
Speaker 1: or do you feel like a line needs to be
Speaker 1: drawn because it's shaming the tenant. I mean, personally, I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem if you want to display that,
Speaker 1: oh you have this amount of money owed. I think
Speaker 1: putting the tenants business out for the world to see
Speaker 1: is not okay at all. I don't think he should
Speaker 1: be doing that, But I'm just confused on what this.
Speaker 1: I think COVID as a whole has really just thrown
Speaker 1: everybody for a lootle because I'm confused on what the
Speaker 1: process is like, I don't understand how you know tenants
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, property owners aren't being subsidized if they're
Speaker 1: not being paid rent. That just it just seems like
Speaker 1: people would really didn't think to see that's why something
Speaker 1: you probably own it should have took Section nate because
Speaker 1: guess what you still was gonna get your rent at
Speaker 1: least most stuff. Allison, Hi, Allison, to lady m. This
Speaker 1: is Alison, Alison Lewis. She's running for city council in Lakeland, Florida.
Speaker 1: So please follow her donate to her. She got great politics,
Speaker 1: policies and politics. She's young, she's educated. She's also a
Speaker 1: teacher of our kids. Allison, what you think about this
Speaker 1: whole rent moratory and what y'all doing about that down
Speaker 1: there in Florida. So so you have to understand, you know,
Speaker 1: because different states have different statues. Understand that, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: and and and make the make your states statues your friend, right,
Speaker 1: because here in florida's called the Florida Statutes, right, and
Speaker 1: they have landlord and tenants and so again as I
Speaker 1: was sharing with Nick on yesterday. You know, of course,
Speaker 1: the government did not and we as people, some of us,
Speaker 1: did not go in and read the totality of the
Speaker 1: memorandum that was put out as it relates to the
Speaker 1: order how it was going to go. Yes, they can
Speaker 1: collect uh, your rent of what's being old because you
Speaker 1: owe that. That's in the contract in which you sign. Right,
Speaker 1: and understand, there's a process to viction if you don't
Speaker 1: pay your wrink for two months. Allison just can't go
Speaker 1: down to the courthouse and foul an eviction. I have
Speaker 1: to give you certified notice. I didn't have to give
Speaker 1: you three days. Right, there is a process to the
Speaker 1: city eviction. And then when you get to the eviction
Speaker 1: me now it becomes a plaintive and defended situation. Right,
Speaker 1: we're in a litigation and so I have to foul responses.
Speaker 1: So again, ladies and gentlemen, before you get to eviction,
Speaker 1: before you get in front of a judge, you have
Speaker 1: at least by thirty forty eight days to squash it
Speaker 1: with your tenant. Well, Alison, my question would be though,
Speaker 1: because you said that there's like a thirty to forty
Speaker 1: eight day period where you can kind of squash whatever
Speaker 1: is going on if you have some disputes between the
Speaker 1: tenant and the property owner, but can you give some
Speaker 1: insight to what happens after that time period? If the
Speaker 1: conflict is not resolved, what happens then, well what happens
Speaker 1: then then you proceed to court? Right? So between okay
Speaker 1: for so for the okay? As an owner, right, I
Speaker 1: can't just say even though say, Lauren, I can use
Speaker 1: you for an example, owes me five thousand dollars in red, Right,
Speaker 1: I can't go to the Pope County Park of Court
Speaker 1: and fileing me viction against you, Lauren. I have to
Speaker 1: immediately send you notice with your three day notice in
Speaker 1: the mail certified. Right. Those are steps, right, and then
Speaker 1: once that's not resolved, then I can move to the
Speaker 1: eviction process. Then it becomes what you call litigation. Right,
Speaker 1: and that I you are are granted to file a response,
Speaker 1: and you have most courts give you about about thirty
Speaker 1: days to respond to it. Um, I'm gonna saying lately
Speaker 1: it's seven or fourteen days, but I'm for to be
Speaker 1: on the safe side, thirty I'm gonna say thirty days,
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty days and you have to file a response.
Speaker 1: Now you don't respond those that no response within that time, right,
Speaker 1: then it's just the open case and then you all
Speaker 1: really perceive the court. But if you file a response,
Speaker 1: do understand the judge has to read all this up
Speaker 1: and then you both have to come to court. Did
Speaker 1: judges at a court date? Right? You both have to
Speaker 1: come to court and make an argument, and then the
Speaker 1: judge determines, hey, do you owe him right? Or how
Speaker 1: are we gonna how are we gonna do right before
Speaker 1: they could perceive. But if you don't respond, um, if
Speaker 1: you don't do anything, understand that it could just go
Speaker 1: straight on through. And that's what I think. That's what
Speaker 1: I've been saying. I think it's communication, if you communit.
Speaker 1: I've been re renting for years. I'm renting now. I
Speaker 1: don't even own this house. I would like to bout this.
Speaker 1: I'm going to bout this house. But you have to
Speaker 1: communicate with your landlord. So if you fall on hard times,
Speaker 1: you can say, hey, look, if I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on and I don't know what to do, you
Speaker 1: leaving me out in the colde. So even if you
Speaker 1: don't like your landlord, you know and we we have
Speaker 1: those instances, we don't really get along. It's all business.
Speaker 1: For the place I just moved from, it was all business.
Speaker 1: We had no relationship whatsoever, but I communicated with her.
Speaker 1: I never fell on hard times, but if I would have,
Speaker 1: I would have communicated with her and say, hey, look
Speaker 1: I'm working on it. I'm gonna get you. Blacks's kippy.
Speaker 1: But when the pandemic first hit, when we first started
Speaker 1: doing coffee time, I told people, if you have the money,
Speaker 1: pay on your rent, communicate with you. I remember saying
Speaker 1: that when we first started going live, talking about this,
Speaker 1: when this first started happened, when they first instituted, because
Speaker 1: you always said housing needs to be right, because if
Speaker 1: you don't talk to me, and I'm the landlord, I
Speaker 1: don't know what position you live in. And some of
Speaker 1: these landlords depend on the money, like you said, to
Speaker 1: pay property taxes, insurance, upkeep on the property, landscaping. You
Speaker 1: ain't giving me nothing, and you gonna communicate with me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fail proper paperwork to put you in your
Speaker 1: children now because you ain't told me nothing. You can't
Speaker 1: this problem. Not that not to cut you off, Lane,
Speaker 1: but I'm seeing a lot of comments. Understand, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I'm speaking from um, I'm speaking from a I'm speaking
Speaker 1: from Florida's statutes, right, I'm speaking from Florida statues, right,
Speaker 1: And and yes it varies by different states. But I
Speaker 1: totally agree with you, Flane. It is all about ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. It is all about that communication. It's all
Speaker 1: about you doing your own research. And my professor, my
Speaker 1: professors used to always say there is no better research
Speaker 1: than your own, right, get into the and you you know, listen,
Speaker 1: everybody don't go to Everybody don't go to law school, right.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's a lot of us know how
Speaker 1: to read, right, and so understand, just take some time
Speaker 1: to the the read on your leisure, to read your
Speaker 1: statutes on landlord and tenant laws. Take some time to
Speaker 1: read about you know, the school laws that they have
Speaker 1: in there. It's all broken down and so that that
Speaker 1: is again, that is what I encourage you all to do.
Speaker 1: And also just just pay attention, pay attention, hold your
Speaker 1: local officials accountable to inform you about some things, right.
Speaker 1: And they also have programs in your city, right that
Speaker 1: they have to educate people on these things. Uh, contingent
Speaker 1: upon this city because they get money for this. Right,
Speaker 1: understand about these people, the p p P public private partnerships.
Speaker 1: I can't stress that enough, ladies and gentlemen. These public
Speaker 1: private partnerships drives the growth in your city. The healthcare
Speaker 1: drives that, which is your p P public private partnership.
Speaker 1: And what happens is that drives people. I'm not laughing
Speaker 1: at you when you say p p P. I think
Speaker 1: about how many people got a p p P. Now
Speaker 1: you can get that to pay your back red because
Speaker 1: your new rent is gonna be free. If you ain't
Speaker 1: got no business and you take out a p p
Speaker 1: P loan, they got a thirteen back twelve sail waiting
Speaker 1: on you. If you can't that you have a business,
Speaker 1: So you pay your back rent because you're gonna get
Speaker 1: some free rent for about three years. I'm telling y'all,
Speaker 1: ain't nothing for free. I teach my children there is
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing for free, right and I and I toltally so.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's an operation, ladies and gentlemen, and
Speaker 1: to two d and forty six people understand how it operates.
Speaker 1: And that's where our people, black and brown people really perish, right,
Speaker 1: you know, we we we failed to understand how the
Speaker 1: system operates. And so when you understand how the system
Speaker 1: and the totality of the system operates, don you will
Speaker 1: begin to understand some of the totalities in the situations
Speaker 1: that takes place within just within your backyard. Right And
Speaker 1: so do do do do? Understand that? Right? We have
Speaker 1: to understand the system. We have to change the operators
Speaker 1: of the system. Uh that that we're also tired of, right,
Speaker 1: We're tired of this system, you know. But in order
Speaker 1: for the system to change, ladies and gentlemen, we have
Speaker 1: to change the operators. And who are the operators? The
Speaker 1: operators are the ones who we fail to participate in
Speaker 1: voting in our local election, right, you know, so we
Speaker 1: have to we have to we have to understand that. Well,
Speaker 1: I think more all of the story here is of Alison,
Speaker 1: and we can just basically sum up what you're saying
Speaker 1: is do your research, because, like we said, everything from
Speaker 1: Florida to New York to California, every state is different
Speaker 1: when it comes to these rent moratoriums. Do your research,
Speaker 1: make sure you elect the people that you want to elect,
Speaker 1: and is always Thank you so much, Alison forgiving let
Speaker 1: to say, here's the thing, here's the catch on that,
Speaker 1: because if I had been working two jobs, just because
Speaker 1: a lot of people, especially in California or New York
Speaker 1: where the rin is exceptionally high, you work, a lot
Speaker 1: of people are working two regular jobs just to make
Speaker 1: ends me to pay the rent. They spend more time
Speaker 1: at work than they actually did at home. So when
Speaker 1: the unemployment came in, they was getting an additional six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a week. They were making more money sitting
Speaker 1: on their asses at home than they were both were
Speaker 1: working both those jobs so I can enjoy my house.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go back to work either. People don't people
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't have went back either. But I think
Speaker 1: this also goes back to what we've talked about before,
Speaker 1: that that that responsibility. I feel like, I think it's
Speaker 1: easy to blame those who stayed home because they were
Speaker 1: getting extra money because of pandemic relief. But I would
Speaker 1: argue that companies need to be paying these people more
Speaker 1: to begin with, so that that was so that that
Speaker 1: was not their available option. Right. People don't want to
Speaker 1: not work. I think they are. Most people want to work.
Speaker 1: People enjoy either doing what they do or they find
Speaker 1: something else. I think there are people who enjoy working.
Speaker 1: But to suggest that people don't want to work and
Speaker 1: that those who are not going back to work, like
Speaker 1: some leaders are suggesting, I think it's unfair. I agree
Speaker 1: with that because I think too, in a lot of
Speaker 1: spaces is that the issue as well was, um, some
Speaker 1: of our actual like parents couldn't afford to actually you know,
Speaker 1: they couldn't afford to actually go to work because they
Speaker 1: had issues with childcare and other things like that. So
Speaker 1: it wasn't just people are being lazy. And I think
Speaker 1: that's part of the issue with some of the narratives
Speaker 1: that some of these red state governors are trying to
Speaker 1: drum up as to why they're pulling out of these
Speaker 1: assistant programs for people in particular exactly like like, y'all
Speaker 1: are being lazy and it's not that, but I saw
Speaker 1: some stats like and I think you and I have
Speaker 1: said this before. Even the language lazy is suggestive in
Speaker 1: and of itself, and I've heard my governor use that
Speaker 1: is completely disrespected. But in terms of paying what you
Speaker 1: have to pay, like I think of people's paychecks, like
Speaker 1: in Arkansas goes to childcare, so it wasn't a matter
Speaker 1: of people being lazy. It's just people couldn't afford to
Speaker 1: send their kids to child care and go to work.
Speaker 1: So getting these extra this money was allowing them to
Speaker 1: actually care for their kids and provide for their kids.
Speaker 1: Is the same gop s or the same people who
Speaker 1: were in who was in position of power who didn't
Speaker 1: want to give the minimum wage raise. Are the same
Speaker 1: ones that saying that people are lazy. Don't call me lazy,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to pay me for coming to work.
Speaker 1: This ain't slavery, No, my baby, it ain't free. You
Speaker 1: can't visit the slave quarters without no money, and that
Speaker 1: that inflame. Situations have changed, right. We no longer live
Speaker 1: and grow up in the same communities like our parents did. Right,
Speaker 1: there was a time when you knew, uh, Mrs Miller
Speaker 1: down the street, Mrs Jackson, watched the kids who came
Speaker 1: home from school. We have all moved, We've lived in
Speaker 1: different areas. Communities are split up there not the same
Speaker 1: way that they used to be. So now your parents
Speaker 1: who are working and have to find a way to
Speaker 1: care for those children, what do you do? You know
Speaker 1: you've got to You've got childcare is childcare is more
Speaker 1: expensive than rent. Childcare is no joke. When you sit
Speaker 1: back and you're just friends who are paying for childcare,
Speaker 1: you're like, how much? Whoa can you? Can you do
Speaker 1: two for one, you know, since they're watching both your kids.
Speaker 1: But that's not the way it works at all at all.
Speaker 1: It is prohibitive for many parents to try to work
Speaker 1: and also for childcare. So yeah, definitely something has to
Speaker 1: be done. So you think people should say home, don't think.
Speaker 1: I think that we need to do more where we
Speaker 1: are working collectively. The minimum wage should be raised, and
Speaker 1: that's that's the foundation of this. As if the minimum
Speaker 1: wage was raised, and even in some states like California
Speaker 1: or New York, we have one of the highest minimum
Speaker 1: wages and it's still too expensive to live. What do
Speaker 1: you do forty hours a week? You can't afford rent?
Speaker 1: Thank you, that's ridiculous. You still got a child to
Speaker 1: take care of. So I think, as a at a minimum,
Speaker 1: the minimum wage needs to be raised and housing needs
Speaker 1: to be more affordable. Those two things go hand in
Speaker 1: hand at this point. I remember my rent. When I
Speaker 1: was renting one of my places in San Francisco, my
Speaker 1: mother came to visit. My rent was one bedroom, uh,
Speaker 1: one bedroom bucks a month. Mom. I said, oh, you
Speaker 1: gotta live all fancy, and I'm like, uh, this is
Speaker 1: not at all. But rents are so different then what
Speaker 1: they paid back. And you know when my mother was like, Mom,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that's how exorbitant rents have become in
Speaker 1: the state of California. It's ridiculous New York, New York.
Speaker 1: You agree, you cannot find You would be hard pressed
Speaker 1: to find a clean one bedroom four thousand bucks in California.
Speaker 1: You can. Okay, Yeah. I think people think I'm being
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, you're just trying to be all and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's not the case. California is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: New York as well. A shoe box is at least
Speaker 1: two were in a month, at least New York. We're
Speaker 1: talking about moms earlier and just people paying rent. There
Speaker 1: was another story that came up that I want to
Speaker 1: kind of segue to that that was interesting. Um and
Speaker 1: Laurence kind of touches into your area simply because you
Speaker 1: did play sports. Who are an athlete growing up? Volleyball team.
Speaker 1: A coach on the volleyball team, UH was told she
Speaker 1: had to leave because she went into the lobby to nurse.
Speaker 1: This is in Colorado. Um, so her mom had a
Speaker 1: new baby and she wanted to nurse her baby. This
Speaker 1: is she just wants simply nurse on the sidelines because
Speaker 1: she's coaching the team. Uh, disqualified her, told her she
Speaker 1: had to leave, and they disqualified the team because nursing
Speaker 1: they found to be pornographic and not acceptable. This is Colorado.
Speaker 1: This is Colorado. And I'm just surprised by that because
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, this is this shouldn't even be an issue now.
Speaker 1: Volleyball coach was asked to sit out the tournament because
Speaker 1: you're not not that, not that Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Coach sat outside convention center after tournament director bars her
Speaker 1: from nursing her infant um. Yeah so they. I think
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous and that people need to get over women
Speaker 1: nursing in public. Like, we bring you life. The only
Speaker 1: reason why you're here is because of us, So just
Speaker 1: respect us, Let us do what we gotta do to
Speaker 1: nurture and bring up life, and just move on. I'm
Speaker 1: really sick of that because we're having so many issues
Speaker 1: around women like I saw this morning. Mississippi is going
Speaker 1: to this abortion case to the Supreme Court. It's just women.
Speaker 1: We really rule the world, and just respect us and
Speaker 1: let us do what we need to do. I'm so
Speaker 1: sick of the hypocrisy of them canceling that woman because
Speaker 1: they thought she was doing some pointographic by taking her
Speaker 1: baby into the lobby, when slave black women had to
Speaker 1: pick out on the field and pull their titty out
Speaker 1: in front of everybody to feed your baby right now,
Speaker 1: and this was a white woman. And you know what
Speaker 1: I'm leaving. I don't know if we want to get
Speaker 1: into the deep topic that we talked about, because we
Speaker 1: are talking about kids right now. This might be a
Speaker 1: good segue to talk about what's happening in the Middle East. Yes,
Speaker 1: because we started this morning invest We're gonna bring best
Speaker 1: for in on this because Vestler was very passionate about
Speaker 1: invest put your hair on baby, were bringing you in,
Speaker 1: was very passionate about the conversation this morning about what's
Speaker 1: happening with the it Israeli and Palestines over in the
Speaker 1: Middle East. And it is not a topic of expertise
Speaker 1: for me because but think I've got my thoughts are
Speaker 1: that I'm so sorry and it's such a tragic thing.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the news, I'm sending them finding babies and
Speaker 1: and then women everything up under the rubble. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to sound hardless or as if I don't care,
Speaker 1: but I kind of don't. I kind of want you
Speaker 1: all to fix the problems in America first with black people,
Speaker 1: before you tell me I need to go over to
Speaker 1: these people back, y'all to help them fix their ship.
Speaker 1: Listen to me if I if they and their homes
Speaker 1: being blown up by bomb because they made it over religion.
Speaker 1: If if me and Nick gets stopped at the stop
Speaker 1: saying right now, they're gonna see two black men in
Speaker 1: the car, they might open fire because and my cause
Speaker 1: are completely legit. I'm tagged, licensed, insured and everything. And
Speaker 1: I drive like a maniac, but I drive legally. But
Speaker 1: I kind of I don't want to sound hardless and say,
Speaker 1: but fix America first, before you're going over there trying
Speaker 1: to fix somebody else ship first, Right before you start,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let us share our points really quickly.
Speaker 1: We'll bring you into Nick go ahead. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: my issues this because I've gotten a lot of d
Speaker 1: M s. Hey, you guys really need to talk about this,
Speaker 1: you really need to talk of this. I've been UM,
Speaker 1: I've been purposely uh restrained in my comments simply because
Speaker 1: it is not an area of expertise for me. It
Speaker 1: is not something because I do believe it's much more
Speaker 1: than we in the media tend to UM. We tend
Speaker 1: to try to find both sides to every story. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that this is proportional. I don't know that, um.
Speaker 1: Israel that operates under a dome, which is literally called
Speaker 1: the dome, because they have the ability to deflect much
Speaker 1: of the armory coming in from Palestine to them, So
Speaker 1: it's not proportional. Uh, the amount of ammunition destruction that
Speaker 1: Israel is able to impose upon the Palestinians is not proportional.
Speaker 1: That having been said, the United States has always had
Speaker 1: a long stands where we just stand with Israel and
Speaker 1: we kind of dismiss everything else. I think that's shifting.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of progressive Democrats have been
Speaker 1: pushing back on that stands that um that America has
Speaker 1: long held, specifically Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Cassio Cortez. So
Speaker 1: when we have not spoken about this is not because
Speaker 1: we don't have compassion and and empathy for those who
Speaker 1: are struggling, because no one should have to live like that.
Speaker 1: But that is not an area where I have spent
Speaker 1: enough time to give a whitewashed answer on what I
Speaker 1: think needs to happen, because I'm not a policy expert.
Speaker 1: But what I do know is that what is happening
Speaker 1: right now is not proportional and something needs to change
Speaker 1: because there are innocent people getting decimated in the crossfire. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna say what I gotta say, and it's
Speaker 1: not that I'm an expert in this field. I'm not
Speaker 1: about to sit up here and say that I am.
Speaker 1: But these are my feelings. Though. What I feel Invester,
Speaker 1: we see you, We're gonna bring you in just a second.
Speaker 1: What I feel is, yes, are do does something needs
Speaker 1: to happen in America for black people? Absolutely agree with
Speaker 1: you on that flame. My issue is, though, I think
Speaker 1: for the United States to stand by and not do
Speaker 1: anything is completely wrong because we've added to this issue
Speaker 1: if we're going to talk about it. Okay, Palestine has
Speaker 1: the one of the oldest religions pretty much in the
Speaker 1: world at this point. They have, and the United States
Speaker 1: was a part of assisting in Israel taking and overtaking them.
Speaker 1: They're they're colonizing them. That's what's happening, similar to what
Speaker 1: happened in this country when you've talked about the Cristopher
Speaker 1: Columbus and everybody else that came over this America was colonized.
Speaker 1: So the US assisted in Israel colonizing Palestine, and now
Speaker 1: we're seeing a new blow up because of it. So
Speaker 1: for us to sit back and be idle and not
Speaker 1: do anything I think is real see irresponsible. And then
Speaker 1: once we gave you your places, we're like, well, we
Speaker 1: need to move you again, So now we're taking land
Speaker 1: back from me that we had given you. So how
Speaker 1: do you feel as a Palestinian when this continues to
Speaker 1: happen time and time again, and every policy seems to
Speaker 1: favor Israel and keep a certain group continuously oppressed. All
Speaker 1: we're doing is assisting in colonizing them. And so for
Speaker 1: us not to send any assistance and not to do anything,
Speaker 1: I think is absolutely irresponsible and wrong. Palestine, they had
Speaker 1: their place in the world and they keep being pushed.
Speaker 1: You have people being murdered, you have children being murdered,
Speaker 1: and Israel is a percent wrong. Bottom line, that's my feelings.
Speaker 1: What you get see, I'm not an expert on this either.
Speaker 1: I've done my own research. Um, I have dyslexia, so
Speaker 1: it's it's hard for me to read. But I picked
Speaker 1: up the audio book that Jimmy Carter. Okay, he called
Speaker 1: this apartime. It was he called this apartheid when this
Speaker 1: was taboo and he got canceled for it, but he's
Speaker 1: still I've always agreed with Jimmy carter stance on this.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is we are their biggest ally,
Speaker 1: we are the one that is advocating for them in
Speaker 1: the u N. We are letting them have carte blanch
Speaker 1: on everything that they want to do and flaim. You're right, like,
Speaker 1: we have to fix our own stuff. It's it's really
Speaker 1: hard for us as as a country to condemn another
Speaker 1: country for doing something that we're already doing. And my
Speaker 1: biggest point that I really want to make is killing
Speaker 1: of anyone is barbaric and it has to stop period.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I mean and for me, you know what,
Speaker 1: I opened up this kind of worms earlier. All I
Speaker 1: was bringing up was the fact that John ass Off
Speaker 1: and twenty eight other senators actually stood up and said,
Speaker 1: you know, we want to cease fire. And for me,
Speaker 1: that's kind of like, you know, the bare minimum. But
Speaker 1: it it's a big deal. It's a very big deal
Speaker 1: for senators to actually stand up and speak out against
Speaker 1: the Israeli stating what they're doing to the Palestinian people.
Speaker 1: And for me, this isn't about religion at all. Like
Speaker 1: you can look at it from that side, but it's
Speaker 1: really not. It's about politics. I have a lot of
Speaker 1: Jewish friends, I have a lot of Palestinian friends. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Killing is wrong and that's all it needs
Speaker 1: to Like, if we just stick to that point, that's
Speaker 1: all that matters, because all of the other arguments fall apart,
Speaker 1: So we just have Jericho just entered the chat. Welcome Jericho,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming in. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've been listening. I've we've seen you guys, we've seen
Speaker 1: your comments. Rather, so please give us your insight to this.
Speaker 1: What do you think? So I want to thank you
Speaker 1: first for allowing me to join your feed, because oftentimes
Speaker 1: we are talked about, but we're not included in the conversations.
Speaker 1: Um and so I have to push back very hard
Speaker 1: about this religious argument because Palestinians are not a religious identity.
Speaker 1: We are an ethnic identity, right, And so before Israel
Speaker 1: was created in ninety eight, we had Palestinian Christians, we
Speaker 1: had Palestinian Jews, we had Palestinian Drews, we had we
Speaker 1: had Christian Palestinian Muslims, and we we co existed, right.
Speaker 1: It was the epicenter of the Middle East where we
Speaker 1: were all able to get along. We shared the culture,
Speaker 1: we shared similar languages. We had our own internal conflict internally,
Speaker 1: like the Muslims had their own issues and the dudes
Speaker 1: had their own issues. But that was internal right, and
Speaker 1: so the religious the religious idea is completely debond. This
Speaker 1: is not a religious conflict, it's an ethnic conflict. The
Speaker 1: second UH point is about the historical piece. Right to
Speaker 1: say that your ancestors lived here two thousand years ago
Speaker 1: and somehow you have a right to be here. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that connects with UH. With the UH. So,
Speaker 1: first of all, I'll make two points around the historical piece.
Speaker 1: The first piece is around UH. If you look at
Speaker 1: the history of the landscape, you will see that it
Speaker 1: has been dominated by so many different people and different powers.
Speaker 1: So to claim that one group has exclusive authority and
Speaker 1: exclusive rights to this land. You have um Romans, and
Speaker 1: you have Egyptians, and you have um uh Arabs and
Speaker 1: Greek and Persians, Babylonians. I mean, there is a laundry
Speaker 1: list of people who have inhabited this land. So to
Speaker 1: clean that one group from the past has a right
Speaker 1: to come in and to and to claim exclusive authority
Speaker 1: and power is absolutely abhorrent. And so I want to
Speaker 1: move now. If if the religious argument is not going
Speaker 1: to work, and the historical argument doesn't work either, because
Speaker 1: there have been so many people in having the land,
Speaker 1: then the next question is is a moral question. And
Speaker 1: so as an indigenous people, people don't like to consider
Speaker 1: us indigenous people. We are indigenous people. We've been on
Speaker 1: the land for hundreds of years, were descendants of Canaanites
Speaker 1: two thousand BC. So so even the historical argument doesn't
Speaker 1: work for them. But but my point here is that
Speaker 1: it's about erasure. It's not about religion, it's not about
Speaker 1: the history. It's about erasure. Uh. What sparked this, Like
Speaker 1: the reason why the world is on fire right now,
Speaker 1: the reason why the Millie stun fires because of a
Speaker 1: video that went viral and I want to show you
Speaker 1: the video if you give me a chance. I know
Speaker 1: I've been talking a lot, but we don't get hurt. UM.
Speaker 1: I want to show you this video why we are here.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Westen. We hear you come on with the video. Listen.
Speaker 1: I thought you were a troll for a long time, Jericho.
Speaker 1: I never thought you was real. But now I see
Speaker 1: you and you're talking because you've been following me for
Speaker 1: a while and so you never came on last So
Speaker 1: I was exciting when you said you want to come
Speaker 1: home and that you're Palestinian, which is how we have
Speaker 1: this conversation about talking to somebody that can relate way
Speaker 1: more than any of us because you are part of
Speaker 1: that group. Thank you, and I want to. I want to.
Speaker 1: I also want to respond to your your comment about
Speaker 1: UM and I'm not a troll. I love you. I
Speaker 1: don't agree with you always, but I still you know,
Speaker 1: I still like you. So but I want to show
Speaker 1: you this video of how this like. The reason why
Speaker 1: there's a option right now, the reason why there is
Speaker 1: a volcano is because of this video. It went viral.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show it to you and I want you
Speaker 1: to tell me how you feel about it. This is yes,
Speaker 1: but if I call you don't go back. But you
Speaker 1: are no. No. So this guy from New York City
Speaker 1: is Jewish. Uh came to this neighborhood che in Jerusalem
Speaker 1: and basically they're taking over. And the reason why this
Speaker 1: spark sparked a nerve for Palestinians is because in ninety
Speaker 1: eight when Israel was created, five hundred villages were just
Speaker 1: we were decimated, right, and so our people had to flee.
Speaker 1: If you look at the refugee population, we have over
Speaker 1: five million refugees in Lebanon, in Jordas, in Egypt, around
Speaker 1: the world, and so that moment in history was recaptured again.
Speaker 1: It's recaptured every day. The reason why this is not
Speaker 1: about religion and it's not about history is because there
Speaker 1: is so much vacant land on this fucking landscape. Why
Speaker 1: do you have to go to someone's house and kick
Speaker 1: them out. You can build your own house. These people
Speaker 1: have built their own homes. Build your own fucking homes.
Speaker 1: If you if you really care about coexistence and you
Speaker 1: really care about people coming together, then build your own home.
Speaker 1: Why are you dispossessing people? Right? It's about erasure. We
Speaker 1: want to erase us from the landscape and so. And
Speaker 1: the reason why we know this is because they the
Speaker 1: villagers they take over, they renamed them in Hebrew. They're Arabic,
Speaker 1: we rename them in Hebrew. The food, the food is
Speaker 1: also reappropriated into Jewish names um, couscous and homeless and
Speaker 1: all these these are Arab foods. They're the loving team
Speaker 1: sort of. It's not even like a Rocky food or
Speaker 1: Kuwaiti food. It's what the Levan team Lebanon, Palestine, Syria.
Speaker 1: So there is a there is a systematic system of erasure.
Speaker 1: And the reason why this is connected to black people,
Speaker 1: particularly black people and Apartheidean in America, is because we
Speaker 1: find we pay three point eight billion dollars, that's ten
Speaker 1: million dollars a day to make Israel what it is today. Right,
Speaker 1: we have an apartheid system. Into our fed up And
Speaker 1: the last thing I'm gonna say is that when we
Speaker 1: put out a call and said that we want to
Speaker 1: mimic the the anti apartheid South African movement, we want
Speaker 1: to boycott Israel, we created a movement. If you it's
Speaker 1: called b d S. If you google it, you learn
Speaker 1: about it. It's has exploded. I mean far before today
Speaker 1: it was, it was launched in two thousand five. It
Speaker 1: has exploded around the world and in the in the
Speaker 1: US today, they are creating laws to dismantle the movement.
Speaker 1: They're creating laws to criminalize people who boycott. So when
Speaker 1: we create a nonviolent movement that criminals and were ostracized
Speaker 1: and excluded, and so then when we respond to our
Speaker 1: flints with with violence, where where do we learn the
Speaker 1: violence from? I mean it's the same. There are so
Speaker 1: many parallels to to to black Americans and indigenous people
Speaker 1: around the world and in the America's that it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's devastating, right, and and are the heart of
Speaker 1: our I mean we talked about responding with militancy. Not
Speaker 1: all Palestinians, I mean the majority of Palestinians do not
Speaker 1: respond with militancy to to the apartheid system that we
Speaker 1: live in, right, And so there is a militant group
Speaker 1: they do respond because they're living in a cage there
Speaker 1: there they're ready to explode, right, and so are the
Speaker 1: center of our movement is no system peace if you
Speaker 1: can't sleep, but if we can't sleep at night, you
Speaker 1: can't sleep either. I like that one. Jered, I want
Speaker 1: to ask you a question before you go any you
Speaker 1: do you agree with Joe Biden pulling the troops out
Speaker 1: of it? No, I'm done, But do you agree with
Speaker 1: your Biden pulling the troops out of the middle ease?
Speaker 1: You know? Um, Joe Biden is he's he was, He's
Speaker 1: just really disappointing. Um when it comes to this matter,
Speaker 1: And it's not just a Joe Biden thing, it's I
Speaker 1: think pulling the troops out. Is this a symbolic move? Um?
Speaker 1: They don't need troops there anyways, I mean, and so
Speaker 1: I think it's just was this a decision? Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a symbolic move to say, look, I'm I'm we're not
Speaker 1: complicit here, but we pay for this. And and diplomatically
Speaker 1: and politically, I mean, the u N recently if you
Speaker 1: if you google it, you'll the you N the Security
Speaker 1: Council proposed a resolution for US sees fire and the
Speaker 1: US locked it. The US does not want peace. Do
Speaker 1: you ask, can't have peace? And and if you ask why,
Speaker 1: countries like Australia and France and the US, all these countries, um,
Speaker 1: white supremacists, settler, colonial countries support Israel because in South Africa,
Speaker 1: Israel supported South Africa the apartheid system in South Africa.
Speaker 1: That was Israel. Israel supported apartheid South Africa. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about white supremacy, right and settler colonialism and let's
Speaker 1: have a real honest conversation. Um uh. And so anyways,
Speaker 1: the point is that like it's not just financial, it's
Speaker 1: also diplomatic. Um, when it comes to the U N
Speaker 1: when it when it comes to our politicians. LGBTQ politicians
Speaker 1: are are hostile against Palestinians. Uh, even black and brown
Speaker 1: politicians are hostile. I mean there have been some really
Speaker 1: uh excellent like Corey Bush Rashida lay aoc um jamal
Speaker 1: uh bowen. Uh, there have been some really excellent politics,
Speaker 1: like there is a movement happening, but um, we have
Speaker 1: a long way to go, Jericho. Can I just tell
Speaker 1: you thank you so much for coming on and sharing
Speaker 1: that information with us. This is stuff that we would
Speaker 1: have never known had you not been who was a
Speaker 1: part of it, that that whole experience telling us that's
Speaker 1: what laugh and learned is about. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: And now I know you're not in trouble and you cue,
Speaker 1: and we do want to thank as well. I just
Speaker 1: want to say one last thing before y'all have me off.
Speaker 1: Let's just call this what it is. It's ethnic cleansing
Speaker 1: that the Israeli government is trying to do the Palestinian people.
Speaker 1: They're trying to erase their history and that's and like
Speaker 1: I said, it just boils down to one simple fact.
Speaker 1: Killing of anyone is barbaric. We are in the twenty
Speaker 1: first century. We shouldn't be allowing anyone to be getting killed. This.
Speaker 1: This is government sanctioned murder and it to stop. And
Speaker 1: it's the same thing going on here with the Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter movement, the same thing applies. Well, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: Y'all just opened it up for our next time ject.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jerichos, Thank you invest because we're talking about
Speaker 1: killing people and the next subject Lauren brought to us
Speaker 1: today from South Carolina. Right, yeah, come on with, Lauren,
Speaker 1: Come on with. I was like, well, that was a
Speaker 1: hard work kid. Well before we move on, though, I
Speaker 1: do this is the last thing I want to say
Speaker 1: on this topic is I think that the main point
Speaker 1: that should be made about one saying that this is
Speaker 1: not something that the U S should be involved. And
Speaker 1: like I said, initially, the US perpetuated what's happening now,
Speaker 1: so I think that there's a responsibility for them to
Speaker 1: do something. But to Jericho's point, though, the US doesn't
Speaker 1: want to get involved too much, because then we have
Speaker 1: to acknowledge the colonization that's also happened here. We have
Speaker 1: to talk about slavery. We also have to talk about
Speaker 1: how blacks are being ered. I don't think we have
Speaker 1: to address that here, no what we do, because unless
Speaker 1: that's addressed, they can't actually take a proper stance of
Speaker 1: what's happening when we ever done that. But to your point,
Speaker 1: what you're saying, but can you that would be that
Speaker 1: would require a level of awareness that I don't think
Speaker 1: this country genuinely wants. And I think that, and I'm
Speaker 1: I would even argue there's some of us who don't
Speaker 1: know whatever, Like, wait a minute, if I really have
Speaker 1: to start taking responsibility, hold, I'm not. I kind of
Speaker 1: like my government assistance. So I think there are a
Speaker 1: number of things that are purposely designed to keep us
Speaker 1: trapped in a system. I genuinely believe that, and I
Speaker 1: know that that's an uncomfortable area for some because I
Speaker 1: do believe that we live in a system, Lauren, that
Speaker 1: has been created to keep certain demographics in a situation
Speaker 1: of perpetual need. And I genuinely believe that they also say, Oh,
Speaker 1: then I can also count on their vote because as
Speaker 1: long as I keep kicking them another stimula or whatever
Speaker 1: that thing is, uh, if I continue to offer assistance
Speaker 1: for this to any other the problem with the United
Speaker 1: States not stepping in. Now, United States has always operated
Speaker 1: as the world's police. Should that change? Absolutely? Should you
Speaker 1: worry about sweeping your own from port before you sweep
Speaker 1: somebody else's. Absolutely, It's just not the way we operate.
Speaker 1: So in a word, in a word, what Nick just
Speaker 1: said is that the US is kind of like fix
Speaker 1: in my life. They start some ship and then they leave.
Speaker 1: That's what they started some ship and then they leave. Yes,
Speaker 1: but it's also too of not addressing our own ships.
Speaker 1: That's the here and then that that's why they over
Speaker 1: there trying to fix somebody else because they don't want
Speaker 1: to fix the ship. Right. We Europeans started the issue
Speaker 1: here with the indigenous folks. If we're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: take it back there. But I'm just saying we have
Speaker 1: to address what's happening. Unless we address this is reel
Speaker 1: and what's happening in Palestine cannot be properly handled. And
Speaker 1: that's why we're not talking about a ceasefire. That's why
Speaker 1: we don't want to do this. We're like, it's all
Speaker 1: of that because we're colonized country too. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I really appreciate best per saying that
Speaker 1: nobody should be killing nobody and speaking of that, Laurend,
Speaker 1: what happened today, girl, Yes, So we talked about this earlier.
Speaker 1: So South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has signed a bill
Speaker 1: into law that forces death row inmates for now to
Speaker 1: choose between how they want to be executed, either by
Speaker 1: electric chair or by a firing squad, so the state
Speaker 1: can restart execution after involuntary tenure pause. So this is
Speaker 1: coming back after being on a hiatus for about ten years.
Speaker 1: So South Carolina had been one of the most prolific
Speaker 1: states of its size and putting inmates to death, but
Speaker 1: a lack of lethal injection drugs has brought executions to
Speaker 1: a halt. So McMasters signed the bill on Friday with
Speaker 1: no ceremony or fanfare. According to the States legislature. Um.
Speaker 1: It's the first bill that the governor decided to address
Speaker 1: after after nearly fifty UM hit his desk this past Thursday. Lauren,
Speaker 1: you know what I feel like I'm embodying you on
Speaker 1: this one. This is so not about the firing squad
Speaker 1: or the electric chair. Let's talk about the fact that
Speaker 1: this eight enjoys putting people to death. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the fact that we have a state and a governor
Speaker 1: where with little fanfare, he didn't need any fanfare. Where
Speaker 1: was he going to get the pushback? Right? How about
Speaker 1: we know for a fact, through the Innocence Project, that
Speaker 1: many who are convicted are not necessarily guilty of those crimes,
Speaker 1: or at the very least deserve the opportunity for reasonable
Speaker 1: doubt to be entered into that conviction. If all things
Speaker 1: once again being legal, being equal, with their representation, with
Speaker 1: their opportunity to examine evidence, we know for a fact
Speaker 1: that there are a number of people who are wrongly executed.
Speaker 1: So now to shift that focus, because we're not saying
Speaker 1: we're going to change possibly the policies that have incarcerated
Speaker 1: many of these people, primarily of color or at the
Speaker 1: very least low economic status, fair. Um, we're not saying
Speaker 1: we're gonna You know what, since we have a backlog
Speaker 1: where we don't have the injection material that we need
Speaker 1: for lethal injection, why don't we use that money to
Speaker 1: look at some of these people who have been convi
Speaker 1: and who may be sitting here on death row. No, Nick,
Speaker 1: we're not going to do that. We want to kick
Speaker 1: back up these executions. So what would you rather, Mr Parker?
Speaker 1: Would you rather get the electric chair or would you
Speaker 1: rather have a bullet to the head. You're gonna shoot me.
Speaker 1: I needed to be over with quick, all the electric
Speaker 1: chairs shaking and ship and then they let me tell
Speaker 1: you what, maybe turn against the electric chair. Let me
Speaker 1: just be honest with y'all. This is laughing learned fucking
Speaker 1: watching The Green Man when a man forgot to with
Speaker 1: the sponge and I like that down with the mouse
Speaker 1: and he didn't with the sponge, and baby all the
Speaker 1: puke and the smith on the blow my brains out.
Speaker 1: Just get it over with you, boom, I'm done. That's
Speaker 1: not the point. The point is if I have to
Speaker 1: have a choice, and I'm on death row, and I
Speaker 1: get a choice, which I would like to have firing
Speaker 1: squad or either the electric chair blow my brains out.
Speaker 1: I think the moral I know exactly what it is. Sure, no,
Speaker 1: I understand that. I mean, I've got to know if
Speaker 1: you have to be executed, how you would like to go.
Speaker 1: So everybody take no, just and get you know, anything happens,
Speaker 1: but it I think to even what Nick was saying
Speaker 1: is that there's just so many examples of specifically black
Speaker 1: men that have been on death row and they've been
Speaker 1: falsely accused and they're being executed. We just got we
Speaker 1: just finished talking to Jericho about you know, ethnic erasure.
Speaker 1: This is just another form of this. I know you
Speaker 1: were trying to make it funny that we got to
Speaker 1: emphasize the point then we can make that was a
Speaker 1: reason you got this job, get your daughter. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying is that this is just another form of
Speaker 1: ethan ratier what we were just talking about in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, we couldn't put all of these you know,
Speaker 1: black people to death, so how can we you know,
Speaker 1: kick back up, you know, making sure that we're still
Speaker 1: executing people. So oh yeah, we can electrocute you, or
Speaker 1: you can be you don't hit by a firing squad
Speaker 1: and you'll get to choose coming back. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be talking. You know, there was. If you think
Speaker 1: about it, it's kind of up like I'm choosing how
Speaker 1: I want to die. I don't want to die not Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got some ship to do. I mean, if we
Speaker 1: go back in time, the youngest boy to ever be
Speaker 1: executed in Alabama was fourteen years old. It just came
Speaker 1: out two years that he was innocent. He was a
Speaker 1: young black boy. I saw another article two days ago
Speaker 1: about a man who was executed I think actually in
Speaker 1: Arkansas four years ago. He turns out he was innocent
Speaker 1: as well. So this is more of the story. It's
Speaker 1: no different from when we talk about, you know, Mitch
Speaker 1: McConnell lining up the local circuit courts with all of
Speaker 1: these lifetime appointments of judges to keep all these black
Speaker 1: and brown bodies in jail. It's all a part of absolutely,
Speaker 1: regardless of one's politics. If we can agree that not
Speaker 1: everyone has been given a fair trial, which I believe
Speaker 1: everyone is entitled to, if we can agree that everyone
Speaker 1: is not always given a fair trial, and that it
Speaker 1: is possible that someone who has been convicted of a
Speaker 1: capital crime and maybe sitting on death row may not
Speaker 1: have received a fair trial, then I think it's not
Speaker 1: unreasonable to say that we need to do everything that
Speaker 1: we can to re examine that case inside out. If
Speaker 1: we can spend the money and resources to how people
Speaker 1: we can find money for different programs, at the very least,
Speaker 1: the sanctity of human life should be paramount. It should
Speaker 1: absolutely be something that we respect to say we've got
Speaker 1: this right. If we are a society that has decided
Speaker 1: through our own judicial system, through laws, through the passage
Speaker 1: of bills, that you know what, I live in a
Speaker 1: state where I actually support the death conalty. Okay, got it.
Speaker 1: If that's indeed the case, that we need to make
Speaker 1: sure we also exercise the responsibility of having done it right. Well.
Speaker 1: More importantly, the people that should be getting executed, I
Speaker 1: can get executed because was still alive right last out
Speaker 1: on bail, right last time I checked. He should be
Speaker 1: in office. He should be so. More importantly, the people
Speaker 1: that should be getting executed, they're still alive and kicking
Speaker 1: in those This is a very personal question you don't
Speaker 1: have to answer to y'all want to do you'll believe
Speaker 1: in death? I do? I think it applies. Yeah, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I just do. Yeah, he needs to be or he
Speaker 1: she whoever needs to be executed, he or she girl
Speaker 1: not mind you, there are something who do what she
Speaker 1: we just talk you know has Let me tell you
Speaker 1: what what what makes me think that the death penalty
Speaker 1: is appropriate in certain instances? Yeah, in certain instances. Molesting
Speaker 1: a kid, all that, and consistently child molestation, um brutal
Speaker 1: ship just just that you don't even want to think of,
Speaker 1: and I don't even want to mention it by name,
Speaker 1: but things that you know about the the guy who
Speaker 1: killed his wife and the kids, like he could just
Speaker 1: left her, you know what I'm talking about, the one
Speaker 1: and he did that interview on TV talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: somebody just helped me find my wife. You know where
Speaker 1: she was when you dumped in the silo? You can't,
Speaker 1: and the kids I can, and I'm going left. I
Speaker 1: can understand leaving her. I get that people break up
Speaker 1: all the time, but I will never understand her. And
Speaker 1: they're about to give him another try. I don't get
Speaker 1: that he killed his wife with two of them when
Speaker 1: you don't know one wife. But she was, she was pregnant,
Speaker 1: So that's saying people. And now they're giving him another trick.
Speaker 1: This thing ain't on death ro y'all should get this
Speaker 1: nigga the choice of a firing squad or either a
Speaker 1: electric ship. I said, get that niggat of gas. I
Speaker 1: want to see him turning yellow. California, California got the
Speaker 1: California won't put them, won't kill. We don't have Gavin
Speaker 1: newsom player. You know I still support you. Call me
Speaker 1: you steal my gover because I ain't voting for that
Speaker 1: picking of Gavin. I have to say that minute before
Speaker 1: we do that, before we go to Gavin, who I like.
Speaker 1: That's about that other nigga who trying to replace Gavin.
Speaker 1: The other nigga is Bruce k not nowhere even close.
Speaker 1: I just I just have to I just have to say,
Speaker 1: that's not even to go into the Gavin thing now,
Speaker 1: but as we talked about this in California, I have
Speaker 1: to let it every right now. I posted the commercial
Speaker 1: on my Instagram page. There is literally a guy for
Speaker 1: governor California. Those of you who don't live in the state,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there watching this commercial. He's walking with a bear.
Speaker 1: I'm not making this out only in California, where you
Speaker 1: talking about Florida's crazy. His name is Cox and they
Speaker 1: call him the angriest Beast, the angriest nice beast. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But he's walking with a bear, and the bear. Get
Speaker 1: this is sad after the bears actually has equity points
Speaker 1: because when when the rest of us fight for representation
Speaker 1: and to make equity here called this bear walking around
Speaker 1: with with an agent and every California saying publically and
Speaker 1: I'm saying that on this day, don't be surprised if
Speaker 1: you're here within the next year to him and the
Speaker 1: bear is fucking I see it, I see it, I
Speaker 1: see baby. Let me tell you something. They've got some
Speaker 1: weirdos out here. Baby. If we're gonna do California, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Baby. If you hear that him in the
Speaker 1: bed and get married, remember that you heard it here
Speaker 1: first first Mr and Mrs Business. Let's bring in a
Speaker 1: got heavy with that, definitely. I had to come back.
Speaker 1: We're about to circle back and think about if you've
Speaker 1: got some of our favorites coming in right now, are available? Oh,
Speaker 1: I want to hear them something. Nick, you didn't say
Speaker 1: how you felt about the death penalty, though I don't
Speaker 1: know that I'm for it. But wait a minute, let
Speaker 1: me give you so if and I know you know
Speaker 1: everybody don't hear who watch you know how much you
Speaker 1: adore your mom, if somebody did something horrific to your mom,
Speaker 1: would you want that person to That's a great question.
Speaker 1: Would you want to be a vigilante? Yeah? The truth
Speaker 1: is I think I tried to think what she wants.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying there. Like my mother, my
Speaker 1: mother does believe in the power of prayer, like she
Speaker 1: believes God can save everybody, don't. And I know, but
Speaker 1: my mother genuinely believes that, um, prayer changes things. Not
Speaker 1: that I don't, but I think her faith is a
Speaker 1: more fervent than my own. Right, Um, so she can
Speaker 1: understand that you want to pray with those who may
Speaker 1: have harmed you. I would rather, you know, I'd rather
Speaker 1: flip the switch. Shit. I think that's what they should
Speaker 1: personally start doing too. If you hurt my family and you,
Speaker 1: you don't need to hire a guard in them. Just
Speaker 1: call baby. I flip it when I flicked it too soon? Okay,
Speaker 1: but I got him, know right the life you say, right?
Speaker 1: Shock the sh out you? Yeah, Hey, Cassie, you can
Speaker 1: see them. Hi, y'all, Hi, Cassie, were you were in
Speaker 1: We were just were having a moment, right, So what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? I say, if it's a whole card,
Speaker 1: cold heart fact that you murder somebody, you need to
Speaker 1: be murdered. Why do I got to pay my taxes
Speaker 1: to support you forty five years because you because you're
Speaker 1: awn life sentence. Dylan Ruth killed those people, so he
Speaker 1: should be taken out. Wait, now that's a great point.
Speaker 1: After praying in a black church, those people praying for
Speaker 1: this nigga and then he killed them. So exactly what
Speaker 1: you just said about your mom saying the power. I
Speaker 1: do believe that the power of prayer works. It didn't
Speaker 1: work that day, and then here we go. There were
Speaker 1: people in that group whose family members said and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm praying for him because that's what
Speaker 1: they would have wanted those that they lost. That makes sense.
Speaker 1: Like so, and I don't know where the line should be.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it should be about what I'm
Speaker 1: feeling or if you really want to respect the wishes
Speaker 1: of that person and who they walked and how they
Speaker 1: walked in faith? What does that mean? F T f
Speaker 1: TS flip the switch forget this stuff. Stuff. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's right. I understand being on death row,
Speaker 1: being on death row, or being life imprisonment, but we
Speaker 1: pay taxes and it costs a lot of money to
Speaker 1: keep people in jail for life. If it's a hard
Speaker 1: called fact, like dealing route you went and murdered than people,
Speaker 1: then we you should we should take your life Pitt period.
Speaker 1: Hey Mark, Hey guys, sorry, I don't know why it
Speaker 1: wasn't working. Are you here now? It's okay? What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts? I don't think I'm totally against the death penalty. Um,
Speaker 1: if anyone thinks that it's, yes, I get the tax
Speaker 1: dollar point, but people will stay on death row. Some
Speaker 1: people die on death row. So really, if you look
Speaker 1: at the analytics of that, I don't know that we're
Speaker 1: gonna save money from it. Um. I think a true
Speaker 1: punishment is living your life in a cage and getting
Speaker 1: your ass beat every day, honestly, you know. But I
Speaker 1: do think that it's too risky putting we are not
Speaker 1: We shouldn't be allowed to make the decision of someone's
Speaker 1: when someone's life ends, and there are too many times
Speaker 1: where innocent people die. As I said earlier in the comments,
Speaker 1: the Innocence Project is something that we have said once
Speaker 1: we die, like we would love all of our wealth
Speaker 1: to go to them because we don't have kids or anything. Right,
Speaker 1: So I just I can't stand with the death penalty
Speaker 1: and I think it should be a ballus mark. You know,
Speaker 1: you just say that we don't have the choice to
Speaker 1: take somebody's life. Did that did the murderer? Did the murderer?
Speaker 1: Did the murderer have a choice? And the consequence that
Speaker 1: they will have is m yes or no? Did the
Speaker 1: murderer have a choice on whether they was going to
Speaker 1: kill somebody innocent? They didn't have the choice, but they
Speaker 1: did it. They but did they have a choice? Yes
Speaker 1: or no? Yes? Then then ftsli the switch. And I
Speaker 1: think the other thing too. A part of this is
Speaker 1: that it's not a I mean, I understand Cassie's point too,
Speaker 1: even about the tax dollars though, but I think it's
Speaker 1: also the sentiment of the family. You made this decision
Speaker 1: to take my loved one, even if it's not a
Speaker 1: loved one. All everybody's body matters at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. We're all human beings. But you made if
Speaker 1: from a family standpoint, you chose to take my loved
Speaker 1: one because of whatever your rationale was. UM, I should
Speaker 1: also have the opportunity to say if your life should
Speaker 1: be taken as well. I just think that's a fair
Speaker 1: eye for an eye, and then to pick back off
Speaker 1: of that, just to follow that logic, let's just even
Speaker 1: say if it's someone who may be indigenous and does
Speaker 1: not have UM A family, they still deserve to have
Speaker 1: that same protection. Absolutely absolutely. But I have a let
Speaker 1: me tell you my story though. I have a family
Speaker 1: member whose husband took her life, choked her to death,
Speaker 1: and buried her up in the woods, and he's still
Speaker 1: on he's still serving. So every five or ten years,
Speaker 1: my aunt has to go before the parole board to say, no,
Speaker 1: he doesn't deserve to get out. Why we have to
Speaker 1: keep reliving it over and over the trauma? If they
Speaker 1: would just kill him because he murdered her in playing
Speaker 1: clothes blood, I mean, you know he murdered her in
Speaker 1: Washington state where you live. Yes, Yes, that's why I
Speaker 1: left Washington State. Y'all got way too many cereal killers,
Speaker 1: and there's too many places to be everybody, too many
Speaker 1: places in Washington. It's so much greenery, Baby get loved
Speaker 1: and the Black Bears, between the Black Bears and crazy
Speaker 1: Oh Baby, I had to come up out. I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta agree with you on that one. When I
Speaker 1: when I went to Atlanta to go live for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, my mom was like, we looked out
Speaker 1: the window. She said, Oh, that's a lot of places
Speaker 1: to bury somebody. Yeah, that's that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: With the death with with death penalty or life on
Speaker 1: life in prison. Every ten years or so, she goes
Speaker 1: back and she goes before the board, No, he should
Speaker 1: not be released. I think that's a bad judge though,
Speaker 1: because why would you give someone if it's clear I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: not everyone deserves the right to parole. So the fact
Speaker 1: that that's even an option and within itself is a problem.
Speaker 1: But again, I think with the innocent people who get
Speaker 1: put to death, and then the fact that, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: living out that reality that you killed someone, that you're
Speaker 1: serving your life in prison, oftentimes you're you're getting your
Speaker 1: ass beat depending on your crime. To me, that's a
Speaker 1: worst sentence is one person you're not in You're not
Speaker 1: around a bunch of people. And here's the thing. So
Speaker 1: that story what you just said, Cassie reads personal with
Speaker 1: me because Fantasia, who has shared this story publicly, he
Speaker 1: had her had her throat cut. Fontation almost died. She
Speaker 1: still has the very prevalent cut across her throat. The
Speaker 1: guy in ten years. She had to go and the
Speaker 1: judge let him out of jail, partially, I believe because
Speaker 1: she was transgender, and I'm saying this publicly, partially because
Speaker 1: she was a transgender woman. He cut her throat. Fantasia
Speaker 1: almost died. She talks about this story, and they let
Speaker 1: that Nia. She had to go to court, and she
Speaker 1: went and she threw herself in the mercy of the course.
Speaker 1: She told her story. She cried, They still let that
Speaker 1: nick outa jail. He walking around free right now? What
Speaker 1: if he decided that he wanted to do it again?
Speaker 1: She lived close enough to me. If the nigga watching
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that while I'm this close,
Speaker 1: I promise you you don't because I wasn't at a house. Okay,
Speaker 1: so wait a minutelet's go back to their original. Which
Speaker 1: one would you guys prefer if you had, if you
Speaker 1: guys were on death row, would you prefer firing spot
Speaker 1: or all my brain, give me the give me the
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, that's not what's the firing squad or
Speaker 1: electric chair? Just shoot me with the firing squad. You
Speaker 1: don't know if you have the loaded gun and not,
Speaker 1: because what they do is load un eight or nine
Speaker 1: people and only one person has a bullet, so they
Speaker 1: don't have to carry that. They don't have to carry
Speaker 1: the gifts. So you never know who killed the rest
Speaker 1: of my all blanks, so you never know whether you
Speaker 1: kill somebody. But we're all aiming at Mark's forehead. We
Speaker 1: just don't know which one of us is the one
Speaker 1: with with with Marks Why, well, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: see Mark wanting the electric chair. Electric chair is a
Speaker 1: less glamorous way to go. Plus Mark like showing off
Speaker 1: his booty, so you know he wants to say it
Speaker 1: as opposed to city, The injection is not peaceful. The
Speaker 1: injection is a horrible way to die. I heard that.
Speaker 1: I heard that. You are literally like almost suffocating to that, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not like they're putting you
Speaker 1: extra dose and anesthesia and good night seeing you know,
Speaker 1: sheep in the clouds. That's not how it is. Watch me,
Speaker 1: watch me to be messy. The injection is kind of
Speaker 1: like the second dose of the Fighter or the Bernernas.
Speaker 1: We don't want to get sus stay wrong, but you
Speaker 1: will not rest until you guys. The last thing I
Speaker 1: want to bring up because I thought this was funny
Speaker 1: and we kind of laughed about it earlier. US airlines
Speaker 1: may start waiting passengers at the gate. Yours airlines may
Speaker 1: need to start weighing passengers in order to comply with
Speaker 1: f a A rules for safety reasons. Carriers have been
Speaker 1: carrying too much weight and they've had to adjust either
Speaker 1: fuel or baggage requirements. That's not fair because after the pandemic,
Speaker 1: we already got a waiting and unfortunately, some passengers believe
Speaker 1: it or not need two belts to sit in passenger seats,
Speaker 1: but they're only paying for one ticket. Well, I'll just
Speaker 1: say this, if you know you are a larger person,
Speaker 1: you should absolutely buy two seats. That is just the
Speaker 1: courtious thing to do, especially with COVID going on. I
Speaker 1: have I have been on a plane where there has
Speaker 1: been a bigger person in the middle seat and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at them like, you know, damn well, you should
Speaker 1: not be sitting in the middle seat. You need aisle.
Speaker 1: So I don't agree. You can't wait me. That's my
Speaker 1: personal business. That's just so we're clear. Other other countries
Speaker 1: already way passengers, Uh, Netherlands, you better stand, uh, China,
Speaker 1: And well what's the weight requirement though? The weight requirements
Speaker 1: that you can comfortably sit in the seat, so if
Speaker 1: you are spilling over, Yeah, that's not a weight requirement though,
Speaker 1: because some people are tall and their height their weight
Speaker 1: in the height. Like she's not a big girl, but
Speaker 1: she's a tall person, so there's more weight in her.
Speaker 1: That's not fair. That ain't fair. But I'm until y'all
Speaker 1: start talking about that. The US Airlines is fat shaming.
Speaker 1: There is no such thing. It's fat shaming. Let's go
Speaker 1: back and reads that shame. Fat shaming is a process.
Speaker 1: It takes time to get it off. It takes time
Speaker 1: to put it off. If we make more sense to me,
Speaker 1: if they said we got to measure your waist side
Speaker 1: and if you're over there, if you can't, you can't
Speaker 1: fit the bell, Yeah, yeah, that makes more sense. You
Speaker 1: can't wait. But they've got to stop putting big people
Speaker 1: in the middle. I wi you on because you all
Speaker 1: over my side and ship. I can't even think spilling
Speaker 1: with your arms this way. So you just Laura, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, we can't excuse me. I am not wide,
Speaker 1: I am not wide. I am tall is tall? Don't
Speaker 1: do that to me. Words have energy that's almost slapped
Speaker 1: Early's hostility. Look at me in this seat. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: wadding this seat. Nick's wide across the air. So imagine us,
Speaker 1: no serious, but imagine us especially like let's just say,
Speaker 1: for instance, Southware sailines. I'm not putting nobody on Blad
Speaker 1: very standard. Now, we didn't even talk about Spirit because
Speaker 1: bitch the baby seat. You know, I think Southwest is
Speaker 1: better than Delta dripping. You've been, you've been in a
Speaker 1: cheap seat. I find Delta comfort. You ain't rolled delft
Speaker 1: up in the front. Delta is the worst. Let's be
Speaker 1: very clear. Oh no, absolutely, United is the only one.
Speaker 1: Let me be very united. Is the only one has
Speaker 1: a normal legroom for normal people. You haven't one in
Speaker 1: the nice Delta planes. You haven't because there aren't any.
Speaker 1: That's just it Delta Delta comfort. And that is like
Speaker 1: hold on the Music Express. The Music Express by Nicholas,
Speaker 1: do not reflect those for this episode. No, because have
Speaker 1: you been on the Delta planes where the first class
Speaker 1: turns into beds. You've been the pods that open and
Speaker 1: closed international plant. To be clear, I usually only fly
Speaker 1: Delta internationally. Let me just say that because they just
Speaker 1: upgraded their planes and are very nice, and I will
Speaker 1: say this Delta comfort is. You do not want the
Speaker 1: mistake of possibly being rebooked on the flight and not
Speaker 1: having your Delta comfort. That's when you will pay the
Speaker 1: price being a person who's larger. Well, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: My legs are like Southwest I have found for the
Speaker 1: most part, Southwest is flying bus. They don't try to
Speaker 1: be anything. But I'm not gonna do. Southwas like the
Speaker 1: bus is spirit. First of all, Spirit will break your spirit.
Speaker 1: Understand the spirit is a tramp like. Spirit don't want
Speaker 1: to give you a seat. You're gonna be having an
Speaker 1: accidents though real talk, they don't be having accidents. I
Speaker 1: didn't hear that they've had several accidents. Spirit is one
Speaker 1: to make you share the seatbelt. They're like, we got one.
Speaker 1: Jun told me that they would trying to get people
Speaker 1: to stand in the in the in the in the
Speaker 1: words of the Bible, the Spirits Spirit over I got.
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