Speaker 1: Lame. He laughing with la. If you watch coffee Time too, 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
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Speaker 1: you can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to politics, shouting
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Speaker 1: know she raped shot towns on speaking to the ground.
Speaker 1: And second we're gonna last cut of the kicking in
Speaker 1: at the end. We leave it with just a lift dispirit.
Speaker 1: You think you want to revisit, so your first take
Speaker 1: a list of your folks like it? Slip oh folks
Speaker 1: that we take it. Can't no kiss do what you don't?
Speaker 1: No kiss do what you do? Can't no kiss do
Speaker 1: what I do? No? Good morning, Welcome, Hello, good morning.
Speaker 1: I know what's happy? I just got out for plane.
Speaker 1: We're gonna blame somebody, let's blame me. Come on you,
Speaker 1: it's something like eight minutes. It's okay, only eight minutes.
Speaker 1: We're black. You can't be late when you're black. Am
Speaker 1: I lying? I didn't say anything. Hello. Welcome, ladies and
Speaker 1: gentle want to laugh and learn with Flame Monroe, Nick
Speaker 1: Smith and Lauren Hogan. I'm sorry, we're a little bit late.
Speaker 1: My plane was delayed about eight minutes, but I got
Speaker 1: ready and about four for real. So this is it
Speaker 1: was pretty impressive too. I gotta give it to you.
Speaker 1: It was. It wasn't good, Lauren, it was pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: My head the right way. What wig is this? What
Speaker 1: are we calling this? This is my sharing stone? Uh
Speaker 1: not sharing stone, sharing Osborne. So I'm giving out my
Speaker 1: sharing Osboro shore underwood wig just in case to talk
Speaker 1: me to replacement. Get sharing with a tan and a penis. Yes,
Speaker 1: Hello flay mats, Welcome to laugh and learn. Hello Lauren Hogan. Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1: I know Nick is coming in, but I just came
Speaker 1: in from Chicago. You all went home to some stuff made,
Speaker 1: and Chill came home to hell. So I had to
Speaker 1: come home and cuss my kids out because they did
Speaker 1: not keep my house clean while I was going. So
Speaker 1: I came in acting very black. Then I had to
Speaker 1: leave for about thirty minutes, and then I came back
Speaker 1: and when Lauren came up, Say asked who was playing
Speaker 1: on the radio, y'landa adam. That's when I knew something
Speaker 1: was wrong. Y'all. She was going to church, and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: Lord was in the midst of it all, and the
Speaker 1: battle was not about to be the Lord's. It was
Speaker 1: about to be man because I was about to funk
Speaker 1: all three of my kids up. Let me just be
Speaker 1: real honest with y'all this morning, since I just got
Speaker 1: that Southwest playing Good Morning, Flames, Well, how triple hello kids?
Speaker 1: Though I cameraman, this kiddo was here, I produced a
Speaker 1: triple was here? Where is Nick? Nick is not here? Yes,
Speaker 1: let's bring Nick in everyone. Well, anyway, Nick, how was
Speaker 1: your weekend? My weekend was good, you know, Lauren. I
Speaker 1: spent the day running around today, don't laugh. Flame and
Speaker 1: I had this talk. It looks like I'm going to
Speaker 1: be here and Arkansas a little bit longer than I
Speaker 1: had thought. Uh so I've been spending time kind of
Speaker 1: running around looking for a car. So that that's what
Speaker 1: my morning was today. What do you mean You're gonna
Speaker 1: mean in Arkansas longer than you thought? I thought you
Speaker 1: lived there permanently, because you want to tell us something, No,
Speaker 1: I've only been here. I've only been here a year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so so it looks like I thought it
Speaker 1: would only be a year. But COVID had other plans,
Speaker 1: and uh, I happened to be addicted to gainful employment,
Speaker 1: so flame flame flame. His favorite adages when you don't
Speaker 1: know what to do, Nicholas, just sit still, Just sit still.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of like that. And then I went
Speaker 1: to d C this weekend, Lauren, and I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you I thought about you because you and I were
Speaker 1: talking about King and I paid a visit to the
Speaker 1: King Memorial and all that, but you and I have
Speaker 1: just talked about how uh you know, his legacy still
Speaker 1: rings to Atlanta, and I know how much time you
Speaker 1: spent there. So it's just one of those things you
Speaker 1: just feel connected whenever you get a chance to visit,
Speaker 1: you know, the monument and all that. So definitely, yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely would just make this recommendation if anybody's trying
Speaker 1: to see all the monuments at one time, just get
Speaker 1: on a little scooter. Trust me, It'll save your life
Speaker 1: because I'm I know better. I took a scooter and
Speaker 1: only cost me about twenty three dollars and I was
Speaker 1: all going all around the monuments for about four hours.
Speaker 1: So absolutely it's the most effective way to do it,
Speaker 1: for sure. So and I believe flame you have some
Speaker 1: big news to announce. Correct. We couldn't do it last week,
Speaker 1: we can do it this week. What's the big Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I came home and cuss my kids out. That big no.
Speaker 1: But it does pertain to one of your kids though,
Speaker 1: the same one three I was proud of last week
Speaker 1: when I came home today when I got there plane
Speaker 1: and walked to my house and my house wasn't clean. Oh,
Speaker 1: I showed up like Betty Wright that I was the
Speaker 1: clean up woman. I cussed my kids out. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you all the game, I'm not parents. I'm the regular parent.
Speaker 1: But on the side of that, let's go here that
Speaker 1: last week we were doing Laugh and Learned, and when
Speaker 1: we get off the live, the mailman had runs. I
Speaker 1: wanted got the mail. It was a letter from Tennessee
Speaker 1: State University for my sons. I was like, well, what
Speaker 1: is this. I wanted to open it, but it was
Speaker 1: not addressed to me, and you know it's illegal to
Speaker 1: open somebody else mail as if I give a damn.
Speaker 1: But then I was being courteous. I said, dude, you
Speaker 1: gotta letter. He said, well, I know what that is.
Speaker 1: That's my acceptance letter. I'm like acceptance letter where you
Speaker 1: got accepted. Oh, they emailed me Friday, but he didn't
Speaker 1: tell me. Yeah, Okay, this is the house I live in, y'all,
Speaker 1: not the house that Jack built, the house that the
Speaker 1: training build. So saying all that to say Barbara, well
Speaker 1: I should say JaMarcus aka Barbara got into Tennessee State
Speaker 1: University on a full ride on a full ride turn
Speaker 1: on his college because he is graduating from high school
Speaker 1: with his associates degree. I'm bragging and I'm petting myself
Speaker 1: on the back, and that that that player too, even
Speaker 1: though I'm furious with all three of the asses right now.
Speaker 1: So very exciting news for sure. I'd like to just
Speaker 1: kind of jump on that because I think it's it's
Speaker 1: beyond that. I think it's absolutely fantastic. And this is
Speaker 1: once again flame. I've said it before. Yes, I grew
Speaker 1: up envious of friends of mine who had both parents
Speaker 1: in the home. I didn't have that. There's something to
Speaker 1: be said for the strength of a single parent who
Speaker 1: gives unconditional support. I love my mother so much because
Speaker 1: my mother never allowed me to question what was possible,
Speaker 1: and I love that you continue to push all three
Speaker 1: of them the exact same way. Flame. You can be
Speaker 1: a lot, but you have never had anyone question your
Speaker 1: love and your support to your children, and that is
Speaker 1: evidenced in jamacus. I got to thank you, but I
Speaker 1: got two discrepancies with your statement. First of all, Lord,
Speaker 1: can I be a lot? Huh? And secondly, why did
Speaker 1: you say you said um a single parent in the home.
Speaker 1: Technically it's two of us here. She came through the door,
Speaker 1: and because they asked it out, but he was ready
Speaker 1: to get the belt and be some bass. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying he she, we lives. He she we walked through
Speaker 1: the door this morning. Ready these kids up. Let me
Speaker 1: just be honest with y'all. I'vein't gone for four days.
Speaker 1: I hustle. I don't even expect much for my children,
Speaker 1: but they will keep my house. Claim when I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I will take all apparatus and cell phones, computers, credit
Speaker 1: cards and everything else. And y'all asked to go black.
Speaker 1: Y'all live in the seventies for real, like you, you
Speaker 1: better go play some stickball. I thought, I thought doctor
Speaker 1: Spock and Oprah said that the correct thing to do
Speaker 1: his time out. You talk to your children because you're
Speaker 1: you're angry with yourself, You're not angry with them. It's
Speaker 1: only dirt. That's a joke, right, It did not laying that, Joe,
Speaker 1: get lay flat panpan. I need you to stick the
Speaker 1: news hunting. Speaking of telling jokes, I got on stage
Speaker 1: for the very first time in more than a year
Speaker 1: this past Friday at Club Riddles in Chicago, and it
Speaker 1: was just all right. It wasn't great. I'm sorry faster
Speaker 1: I could not bring y'all on the lab. But the
Speaker 1: club was tripping real hard. It was only like twenty
Speaker 1: four people in the damn club too, but they would
Speaker 1: not let us go laugh. So that's the reason I
Speaker 1: didn't go, I know, y'all. And then then then I
Speaker 1: went dark because I was on something else. I wasn't
Speaker 1: telling jokes, but I was definitely making somebody laugh. Business
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was some other beauties. It
Speaker 1: was some very personal business. But wasn't not like that.
Speaker 1: Get back on stage. It felt weird. It felt like
Speaker 1: I had to step outside myself and pushed myself to
Speaker 1: get on stage because I hadn't done it, and I'm
Speaker 1: so used to coming to y'all now on here, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't find my footing for like the first three
Speaker 1: and a half minutes because the audience was a little
Speaker 1: through off of me. But then they came around and
Speaker 1: it got better, so it was good. And I started
Speaker 1: with the person who I started doing comedy with, who's
Speaker 1: Damian Williams from Chicago. So I went to his club
Speaker 1: and just showed up and worked with Coco from The
Speaker 1: Choice and she was great. Okay, let's get to topics.
Speaker 1: Enough about me when I'm talking about my look huge,
Speaker 1: So wait a minute. One of the things as we
Speaker 1: moved into transitioning I'm interested in here in flame, Matt
Speaker 1: sound off about this as we continue to talk about
Speaker 1: other things, because we have five really good topics to
Speaker 1: jump into today. But one of the things I noticed
Speaker 1: swallows in d C over the last four or five
Speaker 1: days is that there are a great number of people
Speaker 1: eating outdoors, and I think that what it reminded me of.
Speaker 1: And the weather wasn't the best the entire time. It's
Speaker 1: not California, and I stopped there and I posted this
Speaker 1: question on Instagram last week and opinions were all over
Speaker 1: the place. But I've never been a fan of eating
Speaker 1: outdoors like I'm I'm aware of that I've never enjoyed
Speaker 1: the al fresco, fighting with the elements, sound, streets, bugs, whatever,
Speaker 1: But it seems to be friends mind there, said Nick.
Speaker 1: I think this is the new normal. I think you
Speaker 1: need to expect that everything will be outside now, that
Speaker 1: people won't be comfortable going inside restaurants. And I'm just
Speaker 1: interested to know how you all fail. Do you prefer
Speaker 1: to eat inside or outside or do you care? I
Speaker 1: love a good rooftop situation. And I don't know maybe
Speaker 1: because honestly, like that's really a thing in New York,
Speaker 1: like for instance, like if you talk to like people
Speaker 1: that are from New York, even like my mom, like rooftops,
Speaker 1: outside parties, eating all of that. That's been like a
Speaker 1: thing in New York. I mean in California too, So
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's just something that's popular among
Speaker 1: my generation. But I love eating outside. You know, it's fun.
Speaker 1: You know, you get some ventilation sometimes when you're inside
Speaker 1: and in closed spaces you may get hot, different things
Speaker 1: like that. I like eating outdoors and hanging out outside.
Speaker 1: It's it's fun for me. I'm not I'm not afraid
Speaker 1: of it because I don't like flies. No, seriously, I
Speaker 1: really have a pet peeve about Flask, Like if a
Speaker 1: flag on me, I'm disgusted because it is a horrible
Speaker 1: beast and if they could kill us, they would. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to fix this head yet my face. But I
Speaker 1: don't like to eat outside because I want to share
Speaker 1: my lunch with Flaws and if they didn't help pay
Speaker 1: for it, they can't eat with me. So that's but
Speaker 1: I do, I mean, I do think that. But you
Speaker 1: know what, it must be something with Beverly Hills, because
Speaker 1: like last year when I had a birthday party at
Speaker 1: Commons House and we said, I'm said, no Flaws and
Speaker 1: he didn't have any of the But so the flawers
Speaker 1: must be trained not to come to Beverly Hills. They
Speaker 1: will not come to nine o two one. Oh, So
Speaker 1: maybe we should get rich. I don't know. Just about
Speaker 1: nine two one, I'm wondering, where are you going to
Speaker 1: eat where you got flies galore? What is the restaurant's
Speaker 1: healthy department rating? Were not indoors outside? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the rest of the restaurant's department of health?
Speaker 1: But I think, because I think part of my issue too,
Speaker 1: is like l A is just fealthy, right, and I
Speaker 1: way hold on back on l A San Francisco, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying there. So you you're competing with
Speaker 1: the cars and the Jersey barriers and the smells, and
Speaker 1: are housing insecure possibly, you know, And and it's just
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things happening to distract from
Speaker 1: the meal. I think when you're outside, or that's been
Speaker 1: my experience, particularly when you're offer like mail rolls in
Speaker 1: those areas, you know. But I'm not one of those
Speaker 1: people like you know, like people you're eating and you
Speaker 1: see something disgusting and turn your appetite off. Baby, I'm
Speaker 1: not putting it in my mouth, So it ain't gonna
Speaker 1: turn my appetite. And if I paid for my meal,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna continue eating. I don't give a damn. Don't
Speaker 1: come over here with that, Lauren. Where are we going
Speaker 1: this morning? Um? Honestly, we got a lot of things
Speaker 1: to talk about. We have, we have a topic to
Speaker 1: start with. I think we can still start there, but
Speaker 1: as you I'm sure, no, Nick, We're going to add
Speaker 1: something else that has to be discussed. Yeah, So, um,
Speaker 1: we can honestly, let's start the Black Army officer that
Speaker 1: was pep pepper sprayed in the traffic stop. And there's
Speaker 1: been some new developments around that two hours of this morning,
Speaker 1: which is great for me because we remember last week
Speaker 1: when I told you all that they called me about
Speaker 1: my son joining the military, and I said, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: And this black man has shown he was a lieutenant
Speaker 1: right and they have disrespected him. And he was so cordial,
Speaker 1: very professional. He was articulated in his speech. He kept
Speaker 1: a calm, cool temperature. He really tried to de escalate
Speaker 1: that situation. I watched that on the plane, and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you I've watched it three times to watch this
Speaker 1: man really tried to control the narrative of the situation.
Speaker 1: He never was hostile, he never changed his tone and
Speaker 1: his voice. And this officer was just determined to do something.
Speaker 1: Have something happened. He sprayed. The man man lost his job.
Speaker 1: He's gonna sue his ass. I wish he would have
Speaker 1: put that. I keep telling y'all, they keep giving these
Speaker 1: police officer, these cowboys keep getting guns and pepper spray
Speaker 1: and tastes and pass this stawed taking their pensions. Him
Speaker 1: getting fired is not enough for because all he gonna
Speaker 1: do is go up the street and get another damn
Speaker 1: job as a police officers somewhere else snatched that nigga's pension.
Speaker 1: When you put your hand in somebody's pocket, you make
Speaker 1: them pay attention to what you're saying. Is talking about
Speaker 1: Second Lieutenant Caron Nazario. He was in uniform being pepper
Speaker 1: sprayed and forcibly removed from his vehicle and put to
Speaker 1: the ground. And that video one viral last week. The
Speaker 1: incident actually happened in December, after traffic stop. He was
Speaker 1: in uniform and the officer which again uh, the officer
Speaker 1: has since been released from his job. But I also
Speaker 1: think flame just because you touched on that, I think
Speaker 1: this is also a testament to his training, and I
Speaker 1: think that that is just another additional value I think
Speaker 1: of the military is how he was able to stay
Speaker 1: calm in that situation. You you laud at his professionalism
Speaker 1: in that moment, and I do think that that helped
Speaker 1: even a horrible situation, at least he served you know
Speaker 1: that he was able to survive. I think the the
Speaker 1: weight of that situation falls on the officers that I
Speaker 1: believe acted inappropriately. But I think that the officer is
Speaker 1: to be commended for the way he handled the situation.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna just give the military a pass on
Speaker 1: saying that he was he got that tolerance from the military.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that he was trained by his parents.
Speaker 1: Whoever raised him taught him that. The military, who teaches
Speaker 1: you discipline, it also teaches you how to be ready
Speaker 1: and on time and respectful. But I'm gonna say that
Speaker 1: that timperment, that coolman that he had, not only did
Speaker 1: he have the black talk from whatever house he was
Speaker 1: raised up in, which we have all had the black talk.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what the black talking is on
Speaker 1: this page, I ain't gonna explain it to you. Google it.
Speaker 1: If you ain't had the black talk. Somebody gave him
Speaker 1: the black He knew how to handle that situation. I
Speaker 1: do believe that he learned some tactics in the military,
Speaker 1: But I ain't given the military ship. The military have
Speaker 1: not respected the veterans. I did ain't even about the
Speaker 1: black men, veterans period, veterans in this country who have
Speaker 1: stood up and fought on the front line, lost Lamb's
Speaker 1: arms and some of them that damn mind. Some of
Speaker 1: these people are still alive, but they don't even know
Speaker 1: who they are, and the military does not not Just
Speaker 1: just to let you know, that's not a reflection on
Speaker 1: the military flight. That's a reflection on society at large
Speaker 1: that does not value military service. That's a reflection on
Speaker 1: military nicklace. Because don't they have the v A. The
Speaker 1: v A is a part of the military, and the
Speaker 1: Veterans Administration is a Vetterans Administration as a government agency,
Speaker 1: as a federal agency, is not part of the military.
Speaker 1: What is the military is the military government. The military
Speaker 1: is a branch as another Armed services is definitely part
Speaker 1: of the federal government. Right whatever. But what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is I thought you were yes, got you don't get
Speaker 1: off topic, come out. No, I'm just saying that I
Speaker 1: think that we have to commend because I think they
Speaker 1: love the military and military I just don't I just
Speaker 1: don't think that they deserve blame in this situation. I
Speaker 1: was saying, I think that, like all of us, where
Speaker 1: some of all of our parts right, And I think
Speaker 1: that I wanted to just applaud the way he handled that.
Speaker 1: I thought that he was to be commended. I did
Speaker 1: not think he was a lieutenant. Yes, I definitely not
Speaker 1: definitely not a fault. He was all I wanted to say.
Speaker 1: He was. He wanted to get home. Now, that was
Speaker 1: a point you definitely made. He wanted to get home
Speaker 1: to his family. But but while we got to kiss ass,
Speaker 1: why we gotta make why I gotta be apologetic when
Speaker 1: I haven't even done anything wrong. The officer never even
Speaker 1: said why he pulled him over, and he kept saying,
Speaker 1: I asked you three times, why did you pull me up?
Speaker 1: He DEVI gave him. This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: They didn't. He didn't give a funk. He had a
Speaker 1: gun and a badge, and it was gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: If if this guy would have given him any aggression.
Speaker 1: And you know that we speak aggressively, I speak aggressively.
Speaker 1: He at least he was schooled enough to know that
Speaker 1: because he got home to his family. Now the guy
Speaker 1: lost his job, but he gonna get another job. And
Speaker 1: I hope they sue his ass. I hope they's what
Speaker 1: city was that, Norfolk, Virginia. I hope they cleaned his
Speaker 1: and I hope he cleaned the police station out. Well
Speaker 1: to both of you guys points, I think that he
Speaker 1: definitely knew what to do because he drove I think,
Speaker 1: like another half a mile into a very well at
Speaker 1: gas station, which I think he was a smart to
Speaker 1: do because had this been outside on the you know,
Speaker 1: the side of the road, it was dark. Virginia doesn't
Speaker 1: really have a lot of lights. If you've been to Virginia,
Speaker 1: it's not a well lit area where he was. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad that he was able to go to this
Speaker 1: gas station. I'm glad that they have the footage so
Speaker 1: they can see what this officer was doing. And at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's just, you know, this
Speaker 1: is why I totally agree with Flame in terms of
Speaker 1: you want these young black men to go and serve
Speaker 1: your country, but when you come back to this country,
Speaker 1: you're not given the slightest bit of respect at all.
Speaker 1: So I just, um, it's sad to see another case
Speaker 1: of this, another incident. And I also saw another report
Speaker 1: that's saying since the beginning of there's been at least
Speaker 1: two hundred traffic involved stops among black people of or
Speaker 1: people of color rather where it's been an officer involved shooting.
Speaker 1: And it's only April it's been two hundred of these.
Speaker 1: So and Nicholas, you have that temperament you do you
Speaker 1: you because Rogette, I know your mama talked to you,
Speaker 1: and since she gave you to talk about you know
Speaker 1: how to because I saw you when we had that
Speaker 1: all occation with that guy, remember when we did the show.
Speaker 1: But that wouldn't have been me. See and see, I'm
Speaker 1: not that person. And if the officer would have got
Speaker 1: disrespectful and loud, guess what I was gonna do. I
Speaker 1: was gonna get disrespectful and loud. And I'm not not
Speaker 1: thinking even though my grown manness or grown person, this
Speaker 1: need to jump in and say you need to get
Speaker 1: home to your kids. Just calming down. But the officer
Speaker 1: was aggressive. He didn't want he wanted to be challenged.
Speaker 1: He was pushing it to be challenged. I thought the
Speaker 1: officer was unnecessarily aggressive. When when we saw Lieutenant Azario
Speaker 1: put his hands out the window, He's talking to him calmly.
Speaker 1: He drove slowly, Lauren. We you know we talked about that.
Speaker 1: He drove slowly to the fire, to the gas station,
Speaker 1: like I'm not trying to get away, I'm just getting
Speaker 1: to a wellded area. I just want hey, I want
Speaker 1: to know what's going on. Hands are out the window,
Speaker 1: can you tell me what's going on, and he's just
Speaker 1: yelling at him, and and and I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just felt like that was completely unnecessary. Well, this is
Speaker 1: a setup too, because the officer was saying, keep your
Speaker 1: hands out the window where I I can see you,
Speaker 1: but take your seat built off and step out the car.
Speaker 1: So if he puts his hand back in the car,
Speaker 1: does that give you license to, now what, shoot him?
Speaker 1: Because you felt like my life was in danger, You're
Speaker 1: you're giving him miss mixed signals in terms of what
Speaker 1: he can do. And that's what honestly allows these you know,
Speaker 1: opportunities for qualified immunity that we talked about two in
Speaker 1: terms of police feeling threatened because oh, well I told
Speaker 1: him to do this and he reached inside the car.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see what was in the car. So I felt,
Speaker 1: you know, that my life was threatened. It's just it's
Speaker 1: ain't got caught of this lad because of body camp.
Speaker 1: And honestly, though, um I remember, honestly us not having
Speaker 1: tags on the cars I've I'm starting to notice that
Speaker 1: I've had an experience like this with even L A.
Speaker 1: P D. I had just bought my car when I
Speaker 1: came back to Los Angeles and I had a temporary
Speaker 1: license up in the window. Got pulled over and he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, you don't have any tags on your car.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I have, you know, my
Speaker 1: temporary license display. I don't have my I don't have
Speaker 1: everything yet. And the officer was very rude. He was
Speaker 1: an Asian officer, reached in my car, snatched it out.
Speaker 1: It was it was a whole thing, to the point
Speaker 1: that my father had to get involved. So I just
Speaker 1: I have a lot of feelings about this, and they're
Speaker 1: good to have a daddy and Niggers. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: we we appreciate my my father was in the Navy.
Speaker 1: You know, my biological father was in. So I appreciate
Speaker 1: what the what the veterans do. What I don't like
Speaker 1: is the disrespect that they get from our own count
Speaker 1: from their own country. And I'm mostly talking about me
Speaker 1: and of color, black and brown people. I'm not even
Speaker 1: talking about I'm not I don't know what. And I've
Speaker 1: seen some white veterans here what they said. You know
Speaker 1: how many homeless people here said they are fad nobody
Speaker 1: did anything for them, that they're homeless and woo. So
Speaker 1: it is it's just across the board to me. But
Speaker 1: at this point in time, I'm definitely not gonna let
Speaker 1: my son go join the military. Not in this country.
Speaker 1: We already at war. He I told the man, we
Speaker 1: was at a ward. Don't you watch the news? He said,
Speaker 1: what were we in right now? I say, don't you
Speaker 1: watching the trailer of Derek Chauvin. I should have said,
Speaker 1: I know, I didn't say Derek Schoulvin, I said of
Speaker 1: George Floyd, because Derek Chauvin ain't on trail, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that's a really good point to make, and
Speaker 1: I think we can also segue now into that that
Speaker 1: I it's it's annoying to me that the narrative is
Speaker 1: saying that, you know, we're watching the murder trial of
Speaker 1: Derek Chauvin. Derek Chaudan didn't get murdered, Okay, George Floyd
Speaker 1: did so. I think also too, on the media front,
Speaker 1: we need to accurately display what's happening, because that's only
Speaker 1: adding to the narrative of what the defense is trying
Speaker 1: to say. Derek Chauvin wasn't murdered, George Floyd was. So
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about a murder trial, it's
Speaker 1: the murder trial of George Floyd. He's the one. I
Speaker 1: think the reason they say the murder trial of Derek
Speaker 1: Chauvin is because it was because of his actions that
Speaker 1: were at this point, So he needs to be held accountable,
Speaker 1: not George Floyd. No reason for George Floyd to be
Speaker 1: part of this narrative because George Floyd is not by
Speaker 1: his own hand that he is in this situation. He
Speaker 1: is in this situation because he chose to he being
Speaker 1: Derek Chauvin, chose to buy accounts from his own members
Speaker 1: of his own police force, not use his training when
Speaker 1: outside of his training applied force that was lethal, and
Speaker 1: is because of those actions that he has been tried
Speaker 1: for the murder of George Floyd. That nigga killed them,
Speaker 1: that means because I still don't think that that's what said,
Speaker 1: So that showing is a shyster. And I'm telling y'all,
Speaker 1: they need to put that nigg on the witness stand
Speaker 1: and they need to let that lady prosecutor corner that
Speaker 1: nigger because she's gonna be the one because to me
Speaker 1: and b act an all timid and ship, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: telling you all the balls now belong to women. Let
Speaker 1: me just say that all the balls save to belong
Speaker 1: to women. Women got more balls than a lot of
Speaker 1: these men right now. And I see what I said,
Speaker 1: and I mean exactly what I said, because their backbone
Speaker 1: is sticking up, and so many men are tucking their
Speaker 1: head because they're worried about their careers or their livelihoods
Speaker 1: and how much money they make it and pushing integrity
Speaker 1: and just stuff that really matters to the back burner
Speaker 1: just for a check, or they say I'm popular. Women
Speaker 1: are really black and mostly brown, and black women are
Speaker 1: carrying the burden for everybody, and black men, mostly in
Speaker 1: the black community. I know some black men're gonna be
Speaker 1: mad at me, but y'all know I don't give an
Speaker 1: y'all do know that, right? Okay? What happened Lauren? No?
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with you, honestly. The burden Honestly,
Speaker 1: it falls on us a lot of the time, and
Speaker 1: we're the ones that are, you know, pushing forward. But um,
Speaker 1: I'll just say this, I think at this point between
Speaker 1: all of the expert testimony, and I saw that today too,
Speaker 1: they were saying that and a lot of trials that
Speaker 1: they dream of these types of experts that are coming
Speaker 1: forward on behalf of the prosecution to really showcase, you know,
Speaker 1: just how in the wrong Derek Chauvin is. So I
Speaker 1: think that I'm gonna just say this, He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to take one for the white team at this point.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, They're just gonna have to do that. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to convict him. That's the only way that
Speaker 1: this is going to end well, because I saw a
Speaker 1: report I think in Business Insider yesterday. If I'm not
Speaker 1: mistaken that let this verdict come back that he's not guilty,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be some problems. So they're gonna Jerik Chauvin
Speaker 1: needs to take one for the white team just to
Speaker 1: keep the piece of America. And Laura, I know you
Speaker 1: have I know you have law enforcement in your family,
Speaker 1: and I think that we can both say this is
Speaker 1: like the first time we've seen a cry in that
Speaker 1: blue wall, because usually the blue wall stands together, and
Speaker 1: we have seen members of the police force say this
Speaker 1: is not what we do at all, this completely and
Speaker 1: they came out against him. Nicholas. It's so many officers,
Speaker 1: including the captain or what wasn't the chief the chief
Speaker 1: let me tell you something, everybody. If everybody is saying
Speaker 1: some horrible shit about you, it's not it's not a lie.
Speaker 1: It's terrible. Let me chase something. This man here. And
Speaker 1: then they had the doctor come on in and said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: he had taken drugs and he was he could have
Speaker 1: had what what's she a doctor? The little young white
Speaker 1: girl did she came on she gave experts testimony last
Speaker 1: week because I was watching and said that something about
Speaker 1: he was um, he was under the influence, so he
Speaker 1: was not none of which was which killed him. This
Speaker 1: nigga put his knee on this man's neck. But that
Speaker 1: man it's between that seconds looking at the camera and
Speaker 1: they got the and and I'm telling you, Lauren just
Speaker 1: made a very valid point. I do think that something
Speaker 1: will happen. But I think something will happen no matter
Speaker 1: what the verd he is because they raised a million
Speaker 1: dollars to for for the defense too, because they believe
Speaker 1: they want him to get off. We we who have
Speaker 1: regular asks, who can see how everybody but Stevie wanted to,
Speaker 1: can see that this nigga clearly killed this man. We
Speaker 1: watched it, and we watch it every time they show
Speaker 1: it because they show it three fo times a damn day,
Speaker 1: so you cannot get away from it. He is guilty.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you be ready, y'all because that judge,
Speaker 1: that judge, well, I think too. Um. One thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring up and this is I feel like
Speaker 1: this is gonna be an in tandem thing because we
Speaker 1: are going to talk about Dante, right, and what happened
Speaker 1: yesterday in Minnesota, just ten miles away from here. But
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting to your point about the judge
Speaker 1: is because they were talking about today with sequestering the jury.
Speaker 1: The defense tried to say, oh, you know, there's this
Speaker 1: this new shooting, this new officer involved shooting happen yesterday,
Speaker 1: we should really sequester the jury. So I'm glad that
Speaker 1: the judge denied the request, but he said, but what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do is a week before for the jury
Speaker 1: goes to deliberate, they are going to sequester the jury.
Speaker 1: And I really want to know why. So Nick, what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Uh? I think a couple of things.
Speaker 1: There are reasons. We know that there are benefits to
Speaker 1: sequestering the jury, but usually which what are the benefits? Well,
Speaker 1: this is part of why they do it. The idea
Speaker 1: behind sequestering the jury is so that they can be
Speaker 1: cut off from any type of outside influence not associated
Speaker 1: with the trial. It is possible that if I'm married,
Speaker 1: or if I have friends with whom I speak regularly,
Speaker 1: it is possible one of them is upset about what
Speaker 1: they may have seen and may share that with me.
Speaker 1: Or you didn't hear about the kid who just got
Speaker 1: shot ten miles away flame? What no, what happened? I
Speaker 1: was in trial today. I didn't know if they Oh,
Speaker 1: Nick has gotten no better? Wow, that's weighing on my mind.
Speaker 1: I don't know that a juror, being privy to that information,
Speaker 1: the defense might argue, can still be measured and removed
Speaker 1: from influence if they're still seeing and hearing things that
Speaker 1: are happening in the community that may have the community
Speaker 1: once again marching in protests and demonstration. Do I then
Speaker 1: feel like, as a juror, this is my opportunity to
Speaker 1: set the record straight? Or am I still being impartial
Speaker 1: and listening to the information presented before me. Those are
Speaker 1: one of many one of the many reasons they try
Speaker 1: to sequest your jury in high profile cases if they can.
Speaker 1: You also don't want media knocking on their door. I've
Speaker 1: been part of that. You know when we have you
Speaker 1: know you're assigned. You need to find that redhead. You're
Speaker 1: right there with the glasses, that the one who keep looking,
Speaker 1: she keeps getting emotional. Nick, that's going to be the
Speaker 1: one to give you the sound bite that you're looking for.
Speaker 1: So we're all trying to find her where she is,
Speaker 1: talked to her family member, all of these things, and
Speaker 1: a lot of times, you really do want to protect
Speaker 1: these people who are only doing their civic duty by
Speaker 1: being on jury duty. You know, um, and learn to
Speaker 1: be clear, there are people who get this because I
Speaker 1: know something who dodge jury duty. So you've got people
Speaker 1: who won't even stand up and do their duty to
Speaker 1: do jury duty. Yet they don't want those who are
Speaker 1: who have stood up to do the right thing to
Speaker 1: even have the protection of being protected from outside influences.
Speaker 1: So you know why, let me say, I'm starting to
Speaker 1: examining to break your point, but you know why a
Speaker 1: lot of people Black people avoid jury duty because we
Speaker 1: don't get the time off from work. A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't get that time or they don't get the
Speaker 1: money for that, and then they're put in situations and
Speaker 1: they have children. They don't give you an opportunity to say,
Speaker 1: I gotta go to daycare to pick up my kids.
Speaker 1: They care not gonna care about that. You in court,
Speaker 1: you know for that so so flame, let's just say
Speaker 1: that's true. Got it? So now here, I am as
Speaker 1: a black man, hoping to get somebody like a you
Speaker 1: or a Lauren who may understand my background. But you
Speaker 1: won't even show up because oh, I don't get time out.
Speaker 1: I gotta take care of my kids. Is is I
Speaker 1: gotta do all these things, and I'm looking for somebody
Speaker 1: who looks like me to be there. But then, then,
Speaker 1: as a black man, don't get your ass in trouble
Speaker 1: and expect no other black person to get you out
Speaker 1: of it. Because I got my own life. Then don't
Speaker 1: get in trouble. And I'm only talking to the ones
Speaker 1: that's guilty. I ain't talking to the ones that's innocent.
Speaker 1: So that that's don't don't don't put don't put me
Speaker 1: in that box with it because you on trial. I
Speaker 1: didn't put your ass in jail. I didn't do I'm
Speaker 1: not talking to you niggas. I'm talking about the person there.
Speaker 1: Don't don't look at me. I need somebody black. You
Speaker 1: didn't come to jewelry duty. I would have had to
Speaker 1: come to jewelry do it. And then if you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have got your ass in no trouble. And that's the
Speaker 1: only other ones that were guilty. I m the ones
Speaker 1: that was inn because a lot of us are innocent
Speaker 1: that go to jail. So M you cannot everybody can't
Speaker 1: be your crutch. Your ass on your chest is to
Speaker 1: save you. Then don't get your ass in trouble if
Speaker 1: you can avoid it. But you can't look for nobody
Speaker 1: else to save you in that situation. And I don't
Speaker 1: like the way they do black. And they put them
Speaker 1: in they put them in the room, and then they
Speaker 1: ordered lunch, and some people get I'm telling I did
Speaker 1: jury duty one time. Couldn't you believe I did a duty.
Speaker 1: I was a good juror too, And they get certain
Speaker 1: people certain lunches and a certain amount of time to
Speaker 1: go and then different people. And I had young kids.
Speaker 1: I had to get home of my Jews. This is
Speaker 1: how I know from personal experience. You can't tell me
Speaker 1: I can't get home to my kids because this they're
Speaker 1: gonna try bring him back to court tomorrow. I gotta
Speaker 1: go pick up my baby. We live in California. We
Speaker 1: had just moved here. I knew no one, so I
Speaker 1: didn't have anyone to say, Hey, Lauren, can you go
Speaker 1: pick my daughter up from Dacon. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Your your life mistakes is your excuses can't follow me.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. And I would like to see
Speaker 1: more of us and jury duty, But then then they
Speaker 1: need to be a little more accommodating for black and
Speaker 1: brown people so that we will go to do jewelry duty.
Speaker 1: Because if I'm treated fairly and I'm talked to like
Speaker 1: I got, like you got some goddamn sense, because I'm
Speaker 1: already grown. If you talk to me crazy, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk to you crazy back. But if you talk to
Speaker 1: me like you got and since I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: the same respect that you give Nickolas, they don't do that.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the court system. Here's stuff here is
Speaker 1: just twisted to me. But as far as that that
Speaker 1: young boy that what was his name, Dante, right, they're
Speaker 1: already looting and righting and and I'm sorry, and this
Speaker 1: is to my black people. Looting is not rioting. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were. They they definitely have been
Speaker 1: trying to say but okay, so that considered looting. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying I do still. But before we move on,
Speaker 1: let's go back to Derek Shavin. Sha has been charged
Speaker 1: with second and third degree murder and manslaughter. So I
Speaker 1: do feel like Lauren. They've tried to cover the bases there,
Speaker 1: and defense attorney Eric Nelson has argued that the now
Speaker 1: fired white officer did what he was trying to do,
Speaker 1: and then Floyd's death was caused by illegal drugs and
Speaker 1: underlying medical problems. The prosecution make clothes and wrap up
Speaker 1: their case as late as as early as this week.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I want to be home though,
Speaker 1: no matter what happens. I would encourage everybody to be home.
Speaker 1: Everybody to go get a case of water, stock up
Speaker 1: on some food, because it's whatever, whatever decision is. I
Speaker 1: want me and my children to be at home, safe
Speaker 1: together because I hope you are not on the road
Speaker 1: and traveling. Lauren. You can do triple. I hope everybody
Speaker 1: is all my flamemates. I want you to be home
Speaker 1: because you don't know. And I remember when O J
Speaker 1: was was let off on Nicole's Murphy's murder, I would
Speaker 1: people were enraged. The black people were celebrating, but the
Speaker 1: white people were furious. I thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: and I was at Hartfield and Georgia. I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a damn right at the airport. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be home with my HJ, with my h J.
Speaker 1: And again, this would only be the prosecution, I'm sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the prosecution wrapping up there their case, and many are
Speaker 1: wondering whether or not. And I just saw your guy
Speaker 1: Dan Abrams just talking about how it would be foolish
Speaker 1: for the defense to put Derek Chauvin on on the stand,
Speaker 1: that he would he would do himself a great deal
Speaker 1: of harm if he were to open himself up to
Speaker 1: cross examination, because, let me tell you, his defense the
Speaker 1: defense attorney is failing miserably. He sucks. I'm sorry, there's
Speaker 1: just no other way to say it. He's a terrible well.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't say that he's a terrible attorney
Speaker 1: in general, because I don't know what his track record is.
Speaker 1: So let me clarify in this instance of this case,
Speaker 1: he's terrible. Well, he's he's representing a terrible person. So
Speaker 1: good good because that nigga killed that man. And I
Speaker 1: watched it, and I watched the upside down. I watched
Speaker 1: it with my glasses off and on. I watched the
Speaker 1: high and sober, and guess what, all the same outcome.
Speaker 1: He murdered this man in cold blood. I do want
Speaker 1: them to put George Floyd on this. I mean not George.
Speaker 1: I want them to put Derek Chalbin on the stand.
Speaker 1: And I want that lady to prosecutor to a corner
Speaker 1: that food and play that video and tell him you
Speaker 1: cannot look down, you can't look away, you can't start writing,
Speaker 1: you can't do anything. Your focus has to stay on
Speaker 1: you kill and stop it right there at that moment,
Speaker 1: because he said he was being distracted by talking to
Speaker 1: those young people who was telling him, hey, he's not moving,
Speaker 1: he can't breathe, he's dying. And he said he was distracted.
Speaker 1: He might have spoke, Derek Shelvin two or three words
Speaker 1: out of that whole time you wanted to track, you
Speaker 1: had johand in your pocket, you'll neel his neck. And
Speaker 1: he was looking directly into the camera as if to say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill this nigga and the ship y'all can
Speaker 1: do about it. And I would like them to stop
Speaker 1: that video in court in front of the whole the world,
Speaker 1: the all the world watch and say what were you
Speaker 1: thinking right there at that moment, right there, at that moment,
Speaker 1: what was you thinking? And make him answer, Hey, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I plead the fifth got nigga take
Speaker 1: a privilege and like I do remember some ship. As
Speaker 1: we said, I do want to mention we talked about
Speaker 1: as we closed last week, Uh, we were talking about
Speaker 1: how the shootings have not slowed down and and since
Speaker 1: we since we got off the air last week, two
Speaker 1: Navy sailors injured into Frederick shooting. Gunman shot and killed
Speaker 1: at Maryland Military base, we also talked about how. And
Speaker 1: then also on Thursday NFL player, uh, Philip Adams, and
Speaker 1: then Thursday the workplace shooting in Texas. So and then
Speaker 1: just uh the one we were going to segue two
Speaker 1: next night. No, we're gonna specify this because all of
Speaker 1: those we're not officer involved shootings. So this segue for
Speaker 1: Dante right was another officer involved shooting. It was just
Speaker 1: ten miles away in Minnesota. So in it's called Brooklyn Center, correct,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, Brooklyn Center. Um So, background Again,
Speaker 1: the there's conflicting stories. There's one story that says that
Speaker 1: the officers pulled Dante right over because of his tags,
Speaker 1: similar to the officer in Norfolk, Virginia. But there's another
Speaker 1: story saying that the officers pulled him over because he
Speaker 1: had an air freshener blocking his rear view mirror. But
Speaker 1: the mother is saying that that doesn't make sense because
Speaker 1: the windows were tempted. They had just bought him this car.
Speaker 1: Um So, the police pulled up, you know, pulled him over.
Speaker 1: They're saying that the reason why they had him get
Speaker 1: off the cars because he had a warrant out for
Speaker 1: his arrest. I saw a part of the footage or
Speaker 1: the body camp footage that was released today the Dante
Speaker 1: moved to get back into the car. When he did
Speaker 1: the female actually she's a female police officer. They don't
Speaker 1: want to confirm that yet, but I've heard that on
Speaker 1: the news. She's a female police officer claiming that she
Speaker 1: was reaching for her taser and accidentally reached for her
Speaker 1: gun and shot him, and she did apologize, So she
Speaker 1: is gonna bring his life back. No, but what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is, unlike we're talking about that, we're talking about
Speaker 1: how the Derek Schauvin Like, so, what we have in
Speaker 1: this situation. Yes, in Minnesota, it is illegal to have
Speaker 1: air fresheners hanging from the mirror. That's that's the first thing.
Speaker 1: And I guess they saw that when they actually stopped him, right. Um.
Speaker 1: And then so when he moved to get back into
Speaker 1: the car, she screams, Taser, Taser apologized, pulled the wrong
Speaker 1: pulled the wrong weapon. Um. So that that is definitely
Speaker 1: your right, Lauren. That came out today that she's She's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not what So unlike say, the Derek Schauvin situation,
Speaker 1: where we agree he had intent or looked like he
Speaker 1: had intent to kill, this was a mistake on her part.
Speaker 1: Is what are you? Are you serious, Nicholas, I'm really
Speaker 1: serious right now too. Are you serious? You've given it?
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying, but I don't even want
Speaker 1: you to put those in the same comparison. I don't
Speaker 1: give a funk that she made a mistake. That was
Speaker 1: somebody's son, and that was somebody's boyfriend, and that was
Speaker 1: somebody's nephew uncle. I don't know the funk about an apology.
Speaker 1: I can't get my baby back. No, I understand that
Speaker 1: that's not what I'm saying at all. I thought we
Speaker 1: were talking about what happened in this situation, that's all.
Speaker 1: I was just simply saying that that's what's come out today.
Speaker 1: The latest information is that she made a mistake. She
Speaker 1: has been she has since been put on leave. Um
Speaker 1: and as they can, and everybody had body cameras going uh.
Speaker 1: It is not like they were trying to hide anything.
Speaker 1: They've been transparent about this from the beginning. So unlike
Speaker 1: the Chauving situation, I feel like we have more to
Speaker 1: work with here than we can actually see what actually
Speaker 1: played out. Since her birthday was today her Fursday. No,
Speaker 1: And this is and I'm gonna just say this, this
Speaker 1: is where my problem is. Right for those of you
Speaker 1: that have had a gun versus a taser, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just say this, the weight is very different. It's not
Speaker 1: the same weight. It's just not And if you're a
Speaker 1: properly trained police officer, it's very hard for me to
Speaker 1: believe that you accidentally reached for your gun, didn't realize
Speaker 1: that you had your gun and then proceeded to fire
Speaker 1: said gun. That's I just the weight of a gun
Speaker 1: in the taser is not the same thing. It's just
Speaker 1: not it's not the way. That's completely more. It's going
Speaker 1: to be more to this story because she probably had
Speaker 1: a bad day or a bad night. You remember that's
Speaker 1: what they said about the guy who she had a
Speaker 1: bad day because just like Amber Geiger, remember she had
Speaker 1: a bad night because the boyfriend who was somebody's husband
Speaker 1: and she was trying to cheat with that. She said
Speaker 1: he wouldn't come late with a white ass or whatever
Speaker 1: the funk she was. I said what I said. She
Speaker 1: got mad and walked in the wrong house and shot
Speaker 1: that man and killed him. And she apologized. I don't
Speaker 1: want your apology. I want you in jail. I want
Speaker 1: you the same thing you did to my kids is
Speaker 1: what I want to you. I want if my baby
Speaker 1: baby the Bible said, by all these Bible thumpers an
Speaker 1: app or an eye baby, a life or life. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying and kill folks. I'm not encouraging that.
Speaker 1: I'm not even pushing that. But do you not gonna
Speaker 1: give me no fucking Apolly oh, I'm so sorry. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that's as bad as you're coming to me saying my
Speaker 1: band and I don't give my bad or what you're
Speaker 1: bad or what. That's ridiculous to me that they should
Speaker 1: have put that bit in jail, mama. Let me stop. Well,
Speaker 1: if it is indeed true that she grabbed the wrong weapon,
Speaker 1: I agree with Lauren one, and that is definitely poor.
Speaker 1: What do you mean if it is true, if she
Speaker 1: grabbed the wrong weapon, I thought you all wait, y'all
Speaker 1: saying she did it on purpose? Yes, dear, let me
Speaker 1: say it again. Let me stay it for you. The
Speaker 1: bitch did it on purpose. What I'm saying, and I'm
Speaker 1: assuming then what I'm saying is if she did it
Speaker 1: on purpose, and she's saying she meant to grab the taser,
Speaker 1: then clearly she needed more training, right. I just I
Speaker 1: can't fathom the fact that you didn't understand that you
Speaker 1: had a gun in your hand and out a taser.
Speaker 1: It's just it's not the same weapon. It's it's unfathomable
Speaker 1: for me for for that kind of mistake to happen.
Speaker 1: And you want to say, oh, I'm sorry, this is
Speaker 1: according again, this front police chief, This was an accidental
Speaker 1: discharge that resulted in the tragic death of Mr Dante Right.
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tom Gannon said during today's press
Speaker 1: conference where body camera's footage from all of the officers
Speaker 1: has been released, and he noted that the very senior
Speaker 1: officer involved shouted taser taser during the arrest, apologized immediately
Speaker 1: that she pulled out her handgun when she fired the
Speaker 1: single shot that killed. So it was not repeated. It
Speaker 1: was one shot taser, taser oakes wrong, wrong wrong weapon.
Speaker 1: That So this is today and this is um. This
Speaker 1: was from the today's press conference. Okay, let's brings something
Speaker 1: missing because I need to get some of the opinions.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Mark, because Mark is all up in the comments.
Speaker 1: Marc bat Marcus heated ready to fight. You want when
Speaker 1: you need to take that aggression out on You wanna
Speaker 1: take that aggression out on me? You wanna beat me?
Speaker 1: Play listen. First of all, First of all, there is
Speaker 1: no way it is humanly impossible unless you are impaired
Speaker 1: that you do not. First of all, the trigger pull
Speaker 1: is different on a taser versus a gun. The overall
Speaker 1: feeling of it. I can grab, I can be blindfolded
Speaker 1: and go pull four my guns out and know which
Speaker 1: gun I'm grabbing. There's no way, it's it's impossible. And
Speaker 1: for the taser, don't you have to take a cover
Speaker 1: off before you discharge it? Ye? So that that is
Speaker 1: just the audacity that I think this is so close
Speaker 1: to what's going on right now in Minneapolis, and the
Speaker 1: audacity that they have come up with this cover up
Speaker 1: so quickly. I just I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: And there's no there's no rash. I agree with first lady.
Speaker 1: First ladies said, when have they started shelling taste or tasted?
Speaker 1: They don't do it. They just do it. They might
Speaker 1: say one time, I'm gonna tase you, but they already
Speaker 1: have the taser out. She raised them for that her gun.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm with you market And then they say
Speaker 1: she has senior office, So then she had been trained.
Speaker 1: She had been trained numerous times. Supposedly, this goes back
Speaker 1: to the whole police reform. Stop putting people in neighborhoods
Speaker 1: that they don't belong in. If you don't know me,
Speaker 1: you don't understand how I speak, you don't understand that
Speaker 1: I used my hands and aggression when I'm speaking, even
Speaker 1: when I'm not being aggressive, then your ass don't belong
Speaker 1: over here in my neighborhood would have gun and a badge,
Speaker 1: because when I see you, we were taught as children
Speaker 1: to respect authority, police, black robes, judges, all. But the
Speaker 1: you just coming me and disrespectful child. These young kids
Speaker 1: don't think like that the more, and they stand up
Speaker 1: and speak for themselves. But I don't even think that
Speaker 1: boy did that. He called again. He did just what
Speaker 1: George Floyd did. George Floyd called out for his mama.
Speaker 1: That boy called his mom on his cell phone first,
Speaker 1: called back a minute later and the girlfriend answered the
Speaker 1: phone and the mama said that that he had been shot.
Speaker 1: I think the girlfriend said told the mom here. I
Speaker 1: just want to say that I think that that's the
Speaker 1: sad part about this because, as I'm gonna just say,
Speaker 1: people of color, black people in America, when you get
Speaker 1: pulled over, you have the instinct to call a loved one,
Speaker 1: So that way there's some proof to say this is
Speaker 1: what happens to it's a matter of you feeling safe.
Speaker 1: And honestly, when Dante was pulled out of the car,
Speaker 1: I know that he went to go back into the car.
Speaker 1: It could have been a flight or flight situation. There's
Speaker 1: several instances of people getting arrested and not even making
Speaker 1: it to the police station alive. So in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, we have that flight or flight instant because
Speaker 1: we don't know what's going to happen, because we don't
Speaker 1: feel safe, we don't know what's gonna happen to us.
Speaker 1: So for the simple fact that she's trying to say, like, oh, taser,
Speaker 1: taser taste, there's just there's just too many holes her
Speaker 1: story at this point. There are three there are three
Speaker 1: body camp there are three body camera footed from three
Speaker 1: played out today. What the officers can be seen approach
Speaker 1: he rights white car. One officer pulls the twenty year
Speaker 1: old out of the vehicle, turns him around, attempts to
Speaker 1: handcuff him against the car, right struggles, gets back in.
Speaker 1: During that chaotic struggle, officer pulls out a gun and
Speaker 1: shoots as he's sitting in the driver's seat. The officer
Speaker 1: can be heard on multiple cameras and microphone screaming taser, taser,
Speaker 1: doing the footage before saying, holy s I shot him
Speaker 1: and apologized immediately. That's that's what's officers. If that if
Speaker 1: that bitch had a gun in her face, she's gonna
Speaker 1: know what's gun to pull out. They don't never make
Speaker 1: that mistake. They don't Amber Geiger didn't mistakenly pull out
Speaker 1: her taser when she was going into her house. It's
Speaker 1: never the opposite. But now that's the cover up. That
Speaker 1: is complete bullshit. There's no way around it. I'm complete
Speaker 1: And I don't care what the news report. I don't
Speaker 1: care what the body cam say. That bitch was on
Speaker 1: the mission to kill somebody black. Can I tell the
Speaker 1: bash to call me because if she want to go
Speaker 1: toe to toe, gun to gun, Because I think I
Speaker 1: think I will say this because of the the climate
Speaker 1: of Minnesota, what's happening around this Derek Chauvin trial. I
Speaker 1: think that in a lot of ways, police are on
Speaker 1: a more of a heightened alert. In a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: she might try to say, like, oh, I felt like
Speaker 1: I was in danger because here we go, here's another
Speaker 1: black man. We have this, you know, Derek Chauvin trial
Speaker 1: is going on. She that might be the temperament of
Speaker 1: what the police department is right now. That's not in
Speaker 1: no way saying that that justifies her doing that. But
Speaker 1: that also goes to us saying, you need to actually
Speaker 1: have well trained officers in these situations to de escalate it.
Speaker 1: And as a senior officer, you still chose to pull
Speaker 1: the wrong weapon bullshit. Like you said, Mark, you're a
Speaker 1: senior officer. You were supposed to be trained to de
Speaker 1: escalate these situations, not heighten them. Because if you're insecurity
Speaker 1: as an officer on the job, that's not our problem,
Speaker 1: your officer. You've pulled your gun out more times and
Speaker 1: I have shot any of my guns. And like I said,
Speaker 1: put me in a dark room with ten guns, I
Speaker 1: can point out the fourth of our mind. Would you
Speaker 1: pick out mind gun? Out them? Four? Though? Could you
Speaker 1: pick you pick out my gun? Is the question? But
Speaker 1: this is laughing learn so we're laughing, you know, Mark,
Speaker 1: It's such a heavy conversation. I just want to bring
Speaker 1: it back a little bit because I'm I'm emotional. You emotional.
Speaker 1: Lord angry Nicholas has giving us all these things that
Speaker 1: these people say. I'm telling you something. I don't care
Speaker 1: what that lady said. If when you all become parents
Speaker 1: and all you all that millions of dollars in the
Speaker 1: thirty nine million dollars, none of that will suffice bring
Speaker 1: it back your loved one. And whether that's whether you're
Speaker 1: a parent or you know, it could be your brother,
Speaker 1: your mom, your dad, whomever. It is. Nothing, none of
Speaker 1: that money will suffice having that person back. And look
Speaker 1: in your argument that you made last week about you know,
Speaker 1: the service calling your son. When I saw that story
Speaker 1: over the weekend, the first thing that came in my
Speaker 1: head is that we just had this conversation last week
Speaker 1: and it's just I mean, an army medic, like you
Speaker 1: see that this man is in uniform, and you were
Speaker 1: acting like a complete you know what, you know what uniform?
Speaker 1: He saw that man mark black, his black skin. That's
Speaker 1: what exactly what he saw him means. And here's the thing,
Speaker 1: he's a Hispanic officer. People forget where they come from
Speaker 1: in the old oppression that they face in their mark.
Speaker 1: You didn't open up an that's what That's what. It
Speaker 1: didn't matter that he was Latino or that he all
Speaker 1: they saw. And you know, Latinos come in different hues.
Speaker 1: They come just like we come from all Like was
Speaker 1: like Baskin Robbins, he saw black. He didn't ask the man.
Speaker 1: He just fucking saw black. He didn't see the uniform
Speaker 1: he saw black. But this if Mark opened up the
Speaker 1: candle worms, if we're gonna go here. Part of the
Speaker 1: issue I will say for the Latino community specifically, like
Speaker 1: when they when you are immigrating to this country and
Speaker 1: Mark police feel free to step in at any point
Speaker 1: or if you want to correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: But this is what I have. I have friends that
Speaker 1: I work with that are actually still trying to obtain
Speaker 1: status here coming here. Part of the process when you
Speaker 1: have to check off with your ethnicity is for instance,
Speaker 1: when you come to this country, if you're you know,
Speaker 1: immigrating from another there's no box for you to check
Speaker 1: off Hispanic or Latino. The only kind of box option
Speaker 1: is for them to check white. So in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, you have this underlying systemic racism within the
Speaker 1: Latino community where they're basically being dehumanized and stripped of
Speaker 1: their identity because they have to assimilate with this white culture.
Speaker 1: And then it only perpetuates when you have some of
Speaker 1: these Latino officers that come onto police department or on
Speaker 1: the fire department or there are there you have you
Speaker 1: that they're trying to assimilate with their counterparts, not realizing
Speaker 1: that you are still a person of color. And then
Speaker 1: you get an officer like a Joe Gutierrez who feels
Speaker 1: in his spirit that he has this white privilege autonomy
Speaker 1: to treat another officer, um, you know, in the military
Speaker 1: this way. So it's a perpetual side cool. Honestly, that's
Speaker 1: probably I don't ever see being broken. But that's part
Speaker 1: of the issue here. It is also I think it's
Speaker 1: people again. They don't people don't take uh, they don't
Speaker 1: view life outside of their own experiences. And when I
Speaker 1: say that, you would think that this Hispanic officer could
Speaker 1: relate with somebody else who's of color in this country.
Speaker 1: But he didn't. He wasn't even thinking that big he
Speaker 1: was it was this is a black man, not think
Speaker 1: he's another person of color. It's just again, he didn't
Speaker 1: care that this person shared a similar experience probably being
Speaker 1: in America as a person of color. He just saw
Speaker 1: that this person was, like you said, black, and people
Speaker 1: just they they forget about Um. I don't know, they're
Speaker 1: not human. To my opinion, I don't see these people
Speaker 1: as human. That's just well, you know, Mike, what Lawrence
Speaker 1: said about the Latino people that with them having to
Speaker 1: pick and choose a say. Some of that is very
Speaker 1: true because look at when brand, you know, and all
Speaker 1: the Cubans Marco Rubio, Yeah, all the Cubans voted Trump.
Speaker 1: They all went conservative. But they now, you know, they're
Speaker 1: jumping man way and they jumping ship. But now they
Speaker 1: want to switch, not switch over to the Democrat. But
Speaker 1: now they're not holding Trump accountable. And they all got
Speaker 1: step of the checks. And I see it because I
Speaker 1: probably sent a couple of amounts. They got stimuli these
Speaker 1: checks and they catch their check. I know, to that
Speaker 1: sound off topic, y'all on me to sound off topic,
Speaker 1: just sounding real crazy right now. But I know some
Speaker 1: of that Tino people. I know some of Latino people
Speaker 1: personally that do not identify as well. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it like that, but they identify
Speaker 1: as white. And I'm like, you know what someone said,
Speaker 1: they trained the human ebing. She said they trained the
Speaker 1: human out of all police. And I think that is
Speaker 1: an interesting time. It goes back to this culture of
Speaker 1: policing because it is it's not a war necessarily between
Speaker 1: people of color and police. It's literally this problem with
Speaker 1: police and African Americans in this country. Um, and you've
Speaker 1: seen it with the mix officer in the George Floyd incident.
Speaker 1: You know he was there, he witnessed it. It's it's
Speaker 1: literally a mentality and it's I don't know how we
Speaker 1: rooted out because politics comes is as part of this,
Speaker 1: but it's so deep and it's such a complicated history.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's ever going to change. How
Speaker 1: do you change it? You can, it's impossible to go
Speaker 1: into every police department. Sure you can start with unions
Speaker 1: and stuff of that sort, but it's impossible to go
Speaker 1: into every police department and reform them. I mean the
Speaker 1: Minneapolis Police Department. Their chief is a black man and
Speaker 1: he still has this stuff going on in his own department.
Speaker 1: So what is what is there? What can be done?
Speaker 1: And how he is in Minnesota and he is a
Speaker 1: chief of police and he's a black man with very
Speaker 1: limited power. Understand what that is? That is limited? That's
Speaker 1: called limited power. I don't even funk what his title
Speaker 1: is or how he identifies, but his title is his.
Speaker 1: His his responsibilities are limited from people above him. And
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he is dancing the dance to keep
Speaker 1: his job, which I just said, baby, he is dancing
Speaker 1: the dance to keep his job. And I'm not beating
Speaker 1: him up because he's not the one on trial here.
Speaker 1: He's not the one who pulled the gun out and
Speaker 1: did all the boys ship. That was the opposite down there.
Speaker 1: I just think that it's so sad the young man was.
Speaker 1: I don't know the whole scenario. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was in trouble. I don't know he what what
Speaker 1: was going on. But let me just wait a minute. Yes,
Speaker 1: this part I do matter, and I know this. You
Speaker 1: know this laughing learned the nigga was faying. Can I
Speaker 1: just say that he was? That boy was so handsome?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? That done hurt more? Is that? Or
Speaker 1: is it? Me? Doesn't hurt more when they're good looking? No,
Speaker 1: I mean not for me. It hurts in general. Look
Speaker 1: at her trying to play a girl. Now she want
Speaker 1: to be a girl. It's interesting. Why do we go this, Uh,
Speaker 1: this conversation will always happened. It's like, well, okay, it
Speaker 1: kind of makes it less of an impact. If this
Speaker 1: person had a warrant or if they were fighting, it's
Speaker 1: like they didn't deserve that treat. Well, that's what they do. Mark.
Speaker 1: If this is what we were talking about with George Floyd.
Speaker 1: Derek Shelman is not on trial George floydal this is
Speaker 1: how they do us. This is the system that is
Speaker 1: set up for us to fail and lose. And I'm
Speaker 1: the last thing I'm gonna say speaking of the George
Speaker 1: Floyd trial. Again, we've talked about the judge. Everyone pay
Speaker 1: attention to the prosecution looks. In my opinion, they look
Speaker 1: scared of this judge. Every time they ask a question,
Speaker 1: they glance at the judge as if like is that okay?
Speaker 1: Like am I about to get in trouble. I've never
Speaker 1: seen Eric, who's the defense attorney. I've never seen him
Speaker 1: look to the judge unless there's an objection by the
Speaker 1: prosecution that the judge overrules. That's the only time he
Speaker 1: looks at the judge other than that he's comfortable with
Speaker 1: his cross examination. But the prosecut ushion, especially the black prosecutor,
Speaker 1: looks intimidated as hell by this judge. And to me,
Speaker 1: that is a problem. We just power Mark. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: we we still have to, as they say, we still
Speaker 1: need to know our place. We still have to. It
Speaker 1: is sounds, it sounds ridiculous to say in one, but
Speaker 1: baby looked like it's more prevalent now than it was
Speaker 1: in seventy four. Oh. I think that's the sad part
Speaker 1: is that we're still living in the same reality. That's
Speaker 1: the sad part, that we have to acknowledge what's really changed,
Speaker 1: what's changed? Uh, Nicolas, you're very quiet on this conversation.
Speaker 1: You know you all haven't handled you know, I stay
Speaker 1: in my lane. What lane is that? What lane is that? Mark?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You know we appreciate you as
Speaker 1: always by Mark. Yeah it, Nicolas, it's just this hiding
Speaker 1: to me that twenty years old, he has such a
Speaker 1: bright future. It's scary. Should I gotta baby? That makes
Speaker 1: me think about my son going to Tennessee. Now, I
Speaker 1: gonna tell him, you can't leave off campus. You stay
Speaker 1: on campus. I told you. Being in that climate, it's
Speaker 1: no different. My mom had to have a conversation for
Speaker 1: me when I went to Georgia. I went to spellming,
Speaker 1: but that's still Georgia was different then I was in
Speaker 1: school when Donald Trump got elected. Okay, so hey, vesper,
Speaker 1: But I do think Lauren, just to touch on that,
Speaker 1: I do think that there's a familiar comfort that comes
Speaker 1: with being at an HBCU that it is a family
Speaker 1: that you tend to look out for one another. That's
Speaker 1: where I feel like Jamacus will thrive in that environment,
Speaker 1: you know, away from home, but you still on campus,
Speaker 1: on campus absolutely, because that's I'm sorry, Vesper, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to you in just a second. Being out of HBCU,
Speaker 1: you're definitely in a bubble like I was in the
Speaker 1: Atlanta University Center. You got Clark, you got more house,
Speaker 1: you have you know, Morris Brown, Spellman. We're a tight
Speaker 1: knit family. It's like being in a bubble. It's when
Speaker 1: you step outside of that and you go, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: still in a Southern state. That's when you have that realization. So,
Speaker 1: I mean in Floe and I have kind of talked
Speaker 1: about that offline to JaMarcus is going to Tennessee. He's
Speaker 1: got to be careful, he has to be hi that Sper,
Speaker 1: how are you no? But I understand what you're talking
Speaker 1: about because you know, I'm from Atlanta, and I'm in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and you know downtown Atlanta. I mean, it's inside too,
Speaker 1: is so aggressive. It's more progressive than California, you know.
Speaker 1: But then as soon as you get outside of two
Speaker 1: eighty five, it's like hit or miss. You could run
Speaker 1: into a Trump supporter and a hardcore socialist and the
Speaker 1: same walking up, you know, down the sidewalk. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: You know, the thing that's bothering me the most about
Speaker 1: all of this, you know, with all of these these
Speaker 1: shootings is the lack of empathy. Like, you know, none
Speaker 1: of none of this makes sense. Police officers are not
Speaker 1: to interpret the law, they aren't to enforce the law.
Speaker 1: And you know all this talk about good people with guns, Well,
Speaker 1: when if the police showed us that they actually are
Speaker 1: good people with guns, Like maybe we just need to
Speaker 1: do like the UK. They don't like Honestly, they don't
Speaker 1: need guns. And if they're too afraid to do their
Speaker 1: job without a gun, then they don't need to be
Speaker 1: doing their job. It is right there there, It is
Speaker 1: right there best. And that's why I've been saying for
Speaker 1: all the whole time. They'll keep giving cowards guns, y'all.
Speaker 1: And gave look crazy Johnny, Look crazy Ray Ray, who
Speaker 1: didn't terrorize the whole family and everybody, But now y'all,
Speaker 1: but the uncle is a police officer, so he helped
Speaker 1: him get the job and y'all have released this idiot
Speaker 1: on the world to us and who don't like black
Speaker 1: people or who don't like people with a darker hue
Speaker 1: because you ain't necessarily gonna be black because the lieutenant
Speaker 1: was not black, he just had a dark hue. And
Speaker 1: I'll say this too. This is not to say that
Speaker 1: all police officers are bad, because I don't want to
Speaker 1: paint that narrative on the show either. My uncle is
Speaker 1: recently retired police officer. My grandfather was a police officer
Speaker 1: also on l AP, so there are some good police
Speaker 1: officers that actually do their job correctly. We don't want
Speaker 1: to paint that narrative either. However, there is a huge
Speaker 1: issue because even with those black officers that are on
Speaker 1: the job, there's still racism in hazing and other things
Speaker 1: that they have to fight. We still need to have
Speaker 1: police reform at the end of the day. And this
Speaker 1: is coming from a niece who, like I said, I
Speaker 1: have an uncle that just retired. My father works for
Speaker 1: the fire department. That's a whole another animal. So there
Speaker 1: has to be some type of reform that happens. Because
Speaker 1: Flame has said it, vest for you have said it.
Speaker 1: We have these white officers that are going into these
Speaker 1: rural neighborhoods that are one that are scared seven and
Speaker 1: don't know how to de escalate situations best for you.
Speaker 1: Also said too in the UK they don't even use
Speaker 1: guns and they actually know how to disarm somebody with
Speaker 1: a weapon without having to you know, fire a gun.
Speaker 1: So something has to be done. At this point two
Speaker 1: d shootings is only April, two hundred officers involved shooting.
Speaker 1: Something's got to happen. I have a suggestion. I think
Speaker 1: that they should have the lieutenant who just de escalated
Speaker 1: the whole situation but still got Pepper's played. They should
Speaker 1: let him teach a class to the police on he handled.
Speaker 1: He handed that situation like sher and the Underwood handled
Speaker 1: Sharon Osborne situation. He handled that situation. But the problem
Speaker 1: is we have this class and then what happens Nothing,
Speaker 1: Nothing happens because we end up with the police officers
Speaker 1: have a mentality because of our culture. It's not even
Speaker 1: just a police culture, it's the culture in America that
Speaker 1: when you see someone that is a darker hue, that
Speaker 1: automatically we're biased, all of us, myself included, to assume
Speaker 1: danger and you know it takes personal responsibility to overlook that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, they've done studies on this. Black officers,
Speaker 1: white officers, they all shoot black people the same amount.
Speaker 1: So it's not really a race thing. It's a police
Speaker 1: mentality thing. It's a cultural thing that we all have
Speaker 1: to do. And you know, to your point, Lauren, you
Speaker 1: asked what is different. The biggest thing that's different now
Speaker 1: is we're aware. Before paid attention it was happening, but
Speaker 1: nobody paid attention. The difference now is everybody's paying attention.
Speaker 1: Every time it happens, it goes viral, it becomes a thing.
Speaker 1: So as long as we keep that awareness, it's gonna
Speaker 1: eventually change. But we have to keep pushing. We have
Speaker 1: to keep coming up with ideas and pushing good ideas
Speaker 1: because the stuff that we're doing now is an old
Speaker 1: way of doing things that does no longer service. So
Speaker 1: we have to do better. We have to be more loving,
Speaker 1: We have to promote empathy, and we have to make
Speaker 1: sure that we remove the situation from ever being a
Speaker 1: possibility by removing their guns, by putting those officers that
Speaker 1: discharge their weapons on desk duty for the rest of
Speaker 1: their career, that will that will make them think twice
Speaker 1: before they put that gun out, because none of them
Speaker 1: they should be fined, a pension should be tripped. And
Speaker 1: you did make that first point. You made investment when
Speaker 1: you what did you say? You just said it again, empathy. Uh.
Speaker 1: The reason we don't seem to have empathies vestment because
Speaker 1: there's so many shootings and look like it has become commonplace.
Speaker 1: We have almost become complacent with this. Oh another one, Oh,
Speaker 1: another one. You know you're hearing, you're like wow, even
Speaker 1: when his kids or old people, wow. And then you
Speaker 1: just go about your day and like like nothing. That
Speaker 1: that that that's how we have been. It's ingrained in
Speaker 1: to us because it's been happening so much and not
Speaker 1: just now. They're trying to make it look like it's
Speaker 1: more now because I already know what the you know,
Speaker 1: my conspiracy theory is they're trying to make it more
Speaker 1: prevalent now so inwo they can say that the world
Speaker 1: was safer on the Trump's watch than under Biden's watch.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that at all. They just showing more
Speaker 1: than the shootings. The shootings were still happening under Biden's
Speaker 1: I mean on the Trump's administration that he just did
Speaker 1: so much other ridiculous ship that sometimes the shooting didn't
Speaker 1: make the news because he did ridiculous ship on purpose,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of like when Caitlin killed the white
Speaker 1: woman didn't want to got titties, and the titties superseded
Speaker 1: her becoming. Yeah, let me just say what I said,
Speaker 1: the titties superseded the murder. This is what I'm saying
Speaker 1: we have become. It's just like, Wow, Lauren. If Lauren
Speaker 1: would have walked to the door today said four kids
Speaker 1: get shot right here on the street, I don't want
Speaker 1: to look at it thor say oh my god, are
Speaker 1: they man? And then I would have came in the
Speaker 1: house and then, laughing, learned like it was nothing. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that like I'm disregarded, But this is
Speaker 1: how we are right now. This is where the country is.
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. We're all desensitized to it
Speaker 1: because we've seen it so much that that's it. I mean.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is, I don't think this
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna open up a can of worms. And
Speaker 1: I realized that this laughing larn open it, damn it.
Speaker 1: We're ready over since Obama, the numbers, the FBI numbers
Speaker 1: of officers involved shootings against white people has actually increased
Speaker 1: and surpassed the number of black people. And this is
Speaker 1: something that the Proud Boys and all those racist motherfucker's
Speaker 1: love to use as a talking point that, oh, they're
Speaker 1: shooting white White lives matter because they're shooting white people more. Well,
Speaker 1: here's my thing. If they're shooting white people more, then
Speaker 1: that is a definite reason that they need to be
Speaker 1: on the side of black lives matter, because if they're
Speaker 1: shooting white people, they're shooting black people. They're like, if anyone,
Speaker 1: regardless of their color of skin, is getting shot by
Speaker 1: the police, it can happen to anyone. And now we
Speaker 1: actually have factual, scientific evidence of the numbers that they
Speaker 1: are shooting everyone. So like, none of this makes sense.
Speaker 1: We are desensitized to it. But the fact is there's
Speaker 1: no excuse for anyone to say, oh, this is normal
Speaker 1: and this is okay. And they're out there right now
Speaker 1: protesting some White Lives Matter protests. Well, if y'all cared
Speaker 1: about white life, you're about taking away the police's guns
Speaker 1: so they can't. Well, on another note to that, I
Speaker 1: thought it was funny. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: saw this video. There was a White Lives Matter rally
Speaker 1: at Trump Tower in New York UM this past weekend.
Speaker 1: There was this Nazi there and the New York City
Speaker 1: Police actually escorted him out very peacefully and then hailed
Speaker 1: a cab for him so he got home safely. So
Speaker 1: just showing you the differences, there was a White Lives
Speaker 1: There was a White Lives Matter rally this weekend in
Speaker 1: Huntington Beach, California. You know, so they're popping up all
Speaker 1: that's right up the street. Flay, I was thinking the
Speaker 1: same thing, and Huntington Beach is actually pretty nice. But
Speaker 1: here's the here's the caveat Lauren, to your point, they
Speaker 1: were outnumbered by those who live in Huntington Beach and said,
Speaker 1: oh no, not here, We're not doing this, or they
Speaker 1: shut it down because the those who were there support
Speaker 1: White Lives Matter were outnumbered by those who were like,
Speaker 1: I don't care what permit you have, you're shutting this down.
Speaker 1: We don't do this here, so let's go and and yep,
Speaker 1: sure enough. I will say, though Vesper, I do appreciate
Speaker 1: your optimistic viewpoint. I think that that's still important for
Speaker 1: us to have in times like the US. Yes, we
Speaker 1: have to state the facts and understand the crisis that
Speaker 1: we're in, but I think it's still good when we
Speaker 1: have those optimistic views. So thank you, and I'll just
Speaker 1: want to leave you all with one note, like, we
Speaker 1: can't change other people, and if we keep trying, we're
Speaker 1: just wasting our energy. The only people we can change
Speaker 1: is ourselves. So if we make ourselves better and continue
Speaker 1: to have these conversations, eventually people will catch on. That's
Speaker 1: let me just give your heads up to my flame mats.
Speaker 1: I'm building the arc in my backyard because I know
Speaker 1: he coming back, and I'm then y'all know we I'm
Speaker 1: not taking the two animals. I don't like working with
Speaker 1: flies and none of that. I don't care, but I
Speaker 1: will take two people though, So y'all need to just
Speaker 1: speak out who going on because I'm gonna take a
Speaker 1: couple of people with me, because I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 1: the only way to end racism, God's gonna have to
Speaker 1: start it all over again. I truly believe he's going
Speaker 1: to have to eradicate the entire planet and we start
Speaker 1: all over again. That means I won't be here. But
Speaker 1: if I get my art, depending on how much money
Speaker 1: i'll get, and if you cute, i'll let you ran
Speaker 1: we'll shoot. That's what the Lord did, uh no with Moses.
Speaker 1: Remember he made them stay in the desert for forty
Speaker 1: years to get rid of everybody. Yet, you know, anyway,
Speaker 1: we don't need to geto. It has to be That's
Speaker 1: the only way I can see it going. I'll do over.
Speaker 1: We have to do a duo, and we know that
Speaker 1: that's virtually impossible unless you watch two thousand and eleven
Speaker 1: Bill Gates interview. Uh yeah, okay, thank you besper. Uh
Speaker 1: Miss t t Jan, I am cracking up. She said,
Speaker 1: I ain't doing ship, so my behavior is fine. We
Speaker 1: love you T g Jan so much. That was funny. Um.
Speaker 1: One thing I will say on this last note is
Speaker 1: I really do I know sometimes we criticize the media
Speaker 1: on this show, but I will say that the press
Speaker 1: conference that was held in um Minnesota after Dante right shooting,
Speaker 1: I appreciate all of the reporters that were in that
Speaker 1: room because they asked the questions that needed to be asked,
Speaker 1: and they called the police chief out when he was wrong,
Speaker 1: when he tried to say, well, there was a riot,
Speaker 1: and they said it wasn't a right, it was a
Speaker 1: peaceful protest. Then those are the folks that you attacked,
Speaker 1: and they retaliated again and shoe and that led to
Speaker 1: the diluting and all of these different things that happened.
Speaker 1: They even said that they threw a tear gas bomb
Speaker 1: that almost you know, hit an apartment building that could
Speaker 1: have affected a whole bunch of people. So I do
Speaker 1: want to say that the media did an outstanding job
Speaker 1: in that press conference and asking that police chief and
Speaker 1: correcting him when he was wrong. So, oh, Nick, before
Speaker 1: we're gonna move on, let's give let me give an
Speaker 1: acknowledgement to the mayor t J And what's her name,
Speaker 1: first black female mayor of St. Louis. She just won
Speaker 1: the election, uh last week, so I can't think of
Speaker 1: her name. Jan is on here, she'll say it, but
Speaker 1: she just won. So hats off to her because we
Speaker 1: are still moving forward in spaces. So with all the
Speaker 1: negative and all the bad that we see black folks
Speaker 1: and even look Crusen, what's her name to Shanna Jones?
Speaker 1: That's her name, that's her name to Shanna Jones who
Speaker 1: just won and t Jan was on Comfee time the
Speaker 1: other day to Shara, I want to make sure we
Speaker 1: give her the right shout out to Shara. I believe
Speaker 1: she pronounced it to Shara. Okay, congratulations to to Shara
Speaker 1: Jones in um Uh St. Louis for becoming the first
Speaker 1: black female mayor. We are moving forward to black people,
Speaker 1: and I just said another black women, black women, black
Speaker 1: women right now for the last at least two three
Speaker 1: years that we and well not for the last two
Speaker 1: three years, for such a long time, but now they're
Speaker 1: getting the recognition that they deserve. Let me say that
Speaker 1: correctly because I want to get slapped. Lawrence sit right
Speaker 1: next to me. You know, she takes jiu jitsu with
Speaker 1: ship Uh have really stepped up and they're getting a
Speaker 1: lot more praise, a lot more accoldes, and a lot
Speaker 1: more notoriety because of their work that they have been
Speaker 1: doing consistently for ship how many years since since the
Speaker 1: Vagina Monica? What the Vagina monologue say? Black women built
Speaker 1: this country. Black women built this country. Talk about it.
Speaker 1: I will say though, on that note, because I know
Speaker 1: we maybe maybe pushing the clock a little bit, but
Speaker 1: we say we have about ten minutes left, I think
Speaker 1: we can end this episode on a lighter note for
Speaker 1: the black community. So Nick, I'm saying that because I
Speaker 1: do want to segue into l A County. UH is
Speaker 1: in the process of trying to return the land that
Speaker 1: was stolen from a black family actually in um Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 1: They're looking to return the property back to the original owners,
Speaker 1: who was actually a black family who had Manhattan Beach
Speaker 1: stolen from them. I hope their last name is Parker Um.
Speaker 1: Let me, Nick, do you have the article in front
Speaker 1: of you so we can get the names of the owner.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Bruce's Beach owner could get Manhattan Beach land
Speaker 1: back under a plan, the descendants of the black family
Speaker 1: that once owned a thriving ocean front resort in Manhattan
Speaker 1: Beach could get the property back under state legislation announced
Speaker 1: on Friday. Backers of the proposal, which will be introduced
Speaker 1: by state Senator Stephen Bradford of Gardenia, said the first
Speaker 1: step towards correcting the historican justice that was sees the
Speaker 1: resort of Charles and Will Bruce and Forest Black Beach
Speaker 1: coors out of town years ago. Oh well, this is interesting.
Speaker 1: My mother just said that Manhattan Beach City Council voted No,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Um, well, we'll follow this more.
Speaker 1: But shoot it, I was trying to end on a
Speaker 1: light note, but I guess not anymore. Um but I
Speaker 1: think I think still just this whole process though, of
Speaker 1: even considering forms of reparations. I think this is the
Speaker 1: least that can be done, because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: land across this country that was stolen from specifically black communities.
Speaker 1: We can even take it to a history lesson of
Speaker 1: let's go to Central Park in New York that was
Speaker 1: actually called Seneca Village. That was a very Seneca village
Speaker 1: that was a very popular, affluent black community that had
Speaker 1: literally pushed all these black folks out so that way
Speaker 1: they can build Central Park. So if we're gonna start
Speaker 1: talking about reparations and giving back what is owed, I
Speaker 1: am all for this and it needs to happen more
Speaker 1: across this country. So what do you think would be
Speaker 1: fair reparation is? Now? Seriously, well, shoot, Manhattan Beach is
Speaker 1: worth seventy two million dollars, So um, let's see what
Speaker 1: the value of the land is, and then we can
Speaker 1: determine what the reparation status should be. There's seventy two
Speaker 1: million those Bruces where their last name used to be
Speaker 1: Parker and the change over the Bruce. I'm asking com
Speaker 1: run me a check. I take it. Guess about reparations,
Speaker 1: I've honestly I thought about that. I do think that
Speaker 1: the I think that one of the greatest equalizers is education, right,
Speaker 1: and I believe that one should be able to go
Speaker 1: to a public school and have the same quality education
Speaker 1: as a student that goes to a private school. So
Speaker 1: if there are some way to make that equitable across communities,
Speaker 1: across different demographics, I think that would be an excellent
Speaker 1: place to start when we're talking about reparations. In all honesty,
Speaker 1: that if you can get every kid to be able
Speaker 1: to learn with the same enthusiasm, have the same resources,
Speaker 1: have all the same amenities that they have in the
Speaker 1: better zip codes, I think that that is a great
Speaker 1: place to start. I think that's nice and not I
Speaker 1: don't disagree with you on that, Nick, but I think
Speaker 1: that land is more important. And I'll just say that
Speaker 1: because of the like the generational wealth and things like that,
Speaker 1: that the black folks just weren't afforded in this country
Speaker 1: having a place to be able to call home and
Speaker 1: like this is your place where you can stay. You
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about things like homelessness and poverty,
Speaker 1: and you know where you're gonna eat, health and wellness.
Speaker 1: A lot of that is just encompass you. There's so
Speaker 1: many different disparities that are encompass with land specifically. So
Speaker 1: while education, yes, is important, but being able to have
Speaker 1: a place that's called your own, that you know is
Speaker 1: not going to be taken away from you, that you
Speaker 1: can pass on from generation to generation, I think that's
Speaker 1: more vital honestly at this point in time because of
Speaker 1: the country they were living in, Lauren, I just feel like,
Speaker 1: I just feel like education is the one thing that
Speaker 1: can't be taken away. Like I have friends who owned
Speaker 1: property in Sonoma County on Windsor and they suffered through
Speaker 1: those wildfires last year and they've got they still own
Speaker 1: that burnt out brush of land, but the homes that
Speaker 1: they had that they grew up in, that their grandparents
Speaker 1: built and all of that. And I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: negating that. I understand that they want to hold onto
Speaker 1: that property, but there's something about being educated and knowing
Speaker 1: that you're better than your circumstances, and knowing that anything
Speaker 1: is possible, that that just can't be stripped. You can
Speaker 1: strip away property and you can't take that with you.
Speaker 1: But there's something about that burning fire of knowledge and
Speaker 1: wanting to learn and just that hunger that I think
Speaker 1: is absolutely invaluable, so that every kid believes that you
Speaker 1: know well, I mean, I hear you, um, but that's
Speaker 1: just my opinion. I think land is at the is
Speaker 1: at the forefront of it because to have something that's yours,
Speaker 1: because you have highly we talked about veterans in this situation.
Speaker 1: We have all of these highly educated you know, you went,
Speaker 1: you fought for your country and all these different things.
Speaker 1: You came back to nothing. You had nothing, so you
Speaker 1: end up being homeless, you end up not being able
Speaker 1: to afford to you know, eat, you end up you know,
Speaker 1: your health is in crisis and you can't get you know, assistance.
Speaker 1: So there's I don't know, that's that's just for me.
Speaker 1: I feel like that encompasses the most reparations. I don't
Speaker 1: want to check. I steal with my forty acres at them.
Speaker 1: Then they promised us forty acres at the meal. We
Speaker 1: still wait on it. Spike Lee said, that's what. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, look forty acres. And I'm actually wearing a
Speaker 1: Spike Lee jersey today, so that's funny. Yes, it says
Speaker 1: forty acres. He get his forty acres and his meal. Well,
Speaker 1: Spike Lee just got his first oscar a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, so shoot, how many how long has he
Speaker 1: been making movies? Anyway, that's another conversation. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what would would be fair with reparations that. I
Speaker 1: know this is gonna sound real fucked up, y'all, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it anyway. Y'all know, I don't care.
Speaker 1: They make money. It's not like it's grown. It's not
Speaker 1: like it's it's like bananas that's grown on a tree
Speaker 1: or fruit. They make money. Money is printed. You can
Speaker 1: make enough. This is what drives your economy. And yet
Speaker 1: they have shown us clearly with this whole stimulus ship
Speaker 1: that if they want to prove something, they can click
Speaker 1: one button and checks will go into accounts immediately. Everyone
Speaker 1: in this country should be doing better. Give everybody a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to whatever it takes. Because I hear you, Nicklas,
Speaker 1: with the education, you know how many millionaire and billionaire
Speaker 1: rappers that we have now that have never had an education.
Speaker 1: They were slinging on the streets. They they found their joy,
Speaker 1: they found their talent, they found their voice, and now
Speaker 1: they are billionaires and millionaires and power brokers and money
Speaker 1: makers and woo woo. And they didn't go to college.
Speaker 1: But they hustle, hustle, hustle. So giving people the education,
Speaker 1: I understand exactly what you're saying. But if the driver
Speaker 1: is not in that person and the hustle is not
Speaker 1: in them, they're gonna have the education, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a piece of paper that sits on the wall
Speaker 1: in a planque forever. They ain't gonna do ship with it.
Speaker 1: You got a point. I gotta agree with you. That
Speaker 1: person got to have a fire. The fire got to
Speaker 1: be in your ass before I'm giving you an opportunity
Speaker 1: to put you in the school. You got to want
Speaker 1: I can't want it for you. You have to want
Speaker 1: it yourself. And everybody don't do that, Nicklas, and that,
Speaker 1: you know, black, white, young, old, everybody just don't have that.
Speaker 1: Some people have a drive. You had a drive, you
Speaker 1: knew you wanted to go to school. I remember you
Speaker 1: tell me that when you we were young, you was
Speaker 1: going to school no matter what. And you we had
Speaker 1: we both had adversities and obstacles to crawl over. But
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go to school. You did. You
Speaker 1: went to school, You had the school drive. Everybody doesn't
Speaker 1: have that. So affording them the opportunity, you don't mean
Speaker 1: not give them something where they can make something of
Speaker 1: what they want to do to find their joy. Because
Speaker 1: everybody ain't for school. Everybody. Education is just not for everyone.
Speaker 1: That does not mean that they won't be successful in life.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna open this up to you. Guys are
Speaker 1: bringing in one more flame. Matter, do you guys want
Speaker 1: to wrap up? Hey, jan I wish I could say
Speaker 1: correct and my behavior is the core of the problem,
Speaker 1: or would make the problem less than the problem. But
Speaker 1: I'm good with my behavior and that is not put
Speaker 1: down to anybody. But I am emotionally beaten by the
Speaker 1: subject of being beaten by my color or just because
Speaker 1: of my color. Um and and and and and it's
Speaker 1: all the more troubling that we can't even comfort one another,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I can't say to a
Speaker 1: young black man, um, well, this too shall pass. Just
Speaker 1: be sure you don't argue with the police. You can't
Speaker 1: say any of that. You just can't offer any resolution. Um.
Speaker 1: So you know it's a shame because this is nothing new.
Speaker 1: This behavior is nothing new. Cell Phones are putting it
Speaker 1: out there more, social media is putting it out there more.
Speaker 1: But we all know this is no new behavior of
Speaker 1: the police department has a code amongst themselves or are brethering.
Speaker 1: And that's the reason you see a lot of their
Speaker 1: Fraternal Order presidents be like baby Hitler because they run
Speaker 1: on this code. And for the most part, all you
Speaker 1: had were a bunch of rejects going to the police
Speaker 1: depart and and because the uncle sir, then they brought
Speaker 1: in the useless nephew and gave him an opportunity not
Speaker 1: look crazy, Johnny, look the dogs, the cat tail on
Speaker 1: fight and ship look crazy one right now. Generally speaking,
Speaker 1: because I like you, um, Lauren, we have a family
Speaker 1: of military and police officers. But when we get involved, Nick,
Speaker 1: thank you for your service. When we get involved, we're
Speaker 1: getting involved on the level of being all we can
Speaker 1: be doing a good job. You've just thrown into this
Speaker 1: mess to do damage control or things wigh more heavily
Speaker 1: on you, because you've got some people who are just
Speaker 1: using this as a means to be nasty to thoughts.
Speaker 1: I mean, these people would be useless and would find
Speaker 1: some way to be racist, even if they were sanitation engineers.
Speaker 1: It's just something within them. What happens. I think because
Speaker 1: the cultures are their younger folks are sucking up our community.
Speaker 1: That's what's going to shift it a little bit. Trump
Speaker 1: made it very popular to come out as a racist.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, their children want
Speaker 1: to be with our children. Their children want to listen
Speaker 1: to our music. We get to a certain level where
Speaker 1: even our community starts giving a head nod and we
Speaker 1: start calling what they're doing as they're trying to mimic
Speaker 1: us as having a hustle. You know, you can't fault
Speaker 1: them for having a hustle. They're trying to pick up
Speaker 1: our community. They don't want to struggle. They want how
Speaker 1: we buff all their edges off of us and present
Speaker 1: ourselves so they pick and choose. So it's a shame.
Speaker 1: It's not your behavior, it's not my behavior at all.
Speaker 1: I'm still going to commend uh the police officers in
Speaker 1: the military because I know largely, it's not those people
Speaker 1: who are trying to do the right thing. It's just
Speaker 1: like the guy who was in intelligence and his wife
Speaker 1: went to the Capitol and she got killed. He was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what made her do that,
Speaker 1: you know. So I'm not just like he didn't have
Speaker 1: to relax or step away from his duties. I'm not
Speaker 1: shouldering anybody's anybody's damage whatsoever. This community will take the
Speaker 1: words of of people who have some money, and we
Speaker 1: start letting them talk for us and to study being quieter,
Speaker 1: getting on issues from ass root folks who have been working.
Speaker 1: They just make these these these big old brushstroke statements
Speaker 1: and their clueles. We're the only community that let the
Speaker 1: p ditties and the cube make statements, you know. So
Speaker 1: it's a lot to fight. But I think as we
Speaker 1: just stand in our truth who we are, and we
Speaker 1: gotta keep our heads on the swivel. But it's taxing.
Speaker 1: I mean, my son called me today, he was like,
Speaker 1: can you tell me the weight of a taser? Make
Speaker 1: it make sense to me? And I had to let
Speaker 1: him make full circle with his reasoning because there's no
Speaker 1: way he was trying to challenge me and my even
Speaker 1: temperament because he wants to have the ship. I had
Speaker 1: to talk him out of what she should have been
Speaker 1: skilled and anybody trained to de escalate and talk him through,
Speaker 1: so that that's all that we are equipped to do.
Speaker 1: Um And I mean, you can see how Asian America,
Speaker 1: their men fight the women are women in their nail shops.
Speaker 1: They if one of our if they feel like one
Speaker 1: of their customer steps out, the man starts immediately fighting
Speaker 1: the woman. So it's almost constantly that we've been put
Speaker 1: in these small characters until they want to dub something
Speaker 1: from us. I want to add on to that TC
Speaker 1: JAM because I think you also touched on a point
Speaker 1: that I I mean, I find it very important. Is
Speaker 1: that the fact that we constantly, as black folks in
Speaker 1: America or people of color, we constantly have to figure
Speaker 1: out like, well, let's try and rationalize is let's like
Speaker 1: like how do we make this make sense? And I
Speaker 1: feel like that also adds to the mental health issue
Speaker 1: that a lot of us experience because we're putting these
Speaker 1: positions of where we have to figure out how to
Speaker 1: make it make sense and it's something that doesn't make sense,
Speaker 1: and that just continues to add on to the perpetual cycle.
Speaker 1: So I think that's also very important for us to
Speaker 1: understand that it's not our responsibility to make it make sense.
Speaker 1: That's that's that burdens shouldn't be honest exactly. I'm hands
Speaker 1: down with you on that. It's not my problem to fix.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna wake up and be a white woman
Speaker 1: with blue eyes. I like being black. It's not me
Speaker 1: too when all the time, but I like being black.
Speaker 1: I love my Melano groom, right. I like being just
Speaker 1: you guy made me. I always say that I'm not
Speaker 1: anti and nothing else, but I am pro exactly who
Speaker 1: I am. I'm pro black, pro black, trans, pro HIC.
Speaker 1: We pro all that. But you said, Janney, that they
Speaker 1: want they want that children want to play without children.
Speaker 1: That's why I always used to say, and I still say,
Speaker 1: racism is a learned behavior. Little kids see other little
Speaker 1: kids the same size as them, and if they're not
Speaker 1: being told at home or hearing the nigger word, or
Speaker 1: you can't play with that person? Was there black? I
Speaker 1: see somebody that looked like me, not not physically look
Speaker 1: like me, but the same size as me, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be friends. It's always a parent or who's ever in
Speaker 1: charged to say you can't play with them because they're
Speaker 1: not like you. What you mean, they're not like me?
Speaker 1: They're the same age as me. They they playing jack's
Speaker 1: like I'm playing jack's. They're playing jumper jacks like me.
Speaker 1: It is always some idiotic long term racists who hate
Speaker 1: himself or herself that and still let into their children's
Speaker 1: I e. What's the little boy name that shot the
Speaker 1: people that are doing the ritten house ridden house? I
Speaker 1: regularly as mammy who drove him over there to shoot
Speaker 1: the people, and then the police let him drive let
Speaker 1: her drive him back. But I will say, though, I
Speaker 1: think that the small window of hope though, and TCHJ
Speaker 1: and you kind of said it too, is that it's
Speaker 1: the younger generations that are kind of breaking the cycle
Speaker 1: of the racism being taught in understanding the broader picture,
Speaker 1: and it's those folks that are going to be instrumental
Speaker 1: and really changing the trajectory of how we move forward
Speaker 1: at this point. So I think that's also going to
Speaker 1: be the key point. You'all love to talk about millennials
Speaker 1: and who we are, but we're also turning out to
Speaker 1: be the ones that got the most sense. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just say that, you know, some of you guys
Speaker 1: go a little too much with hugging the tree. But
Speaker 1: I'm well, I know Laurence mama, so let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. It also came from. Like we've been talking about,
Speaker 1: who brought her up? Who raised straight up? My mom
Speaker 1: and my dad. I gotta give shout out to them.
Speaker 1: But of course, but of course, and so you know,
Speaker 1: I think you guys are doing the shift and that's
Speaker 1: where it's gonna happen because my behavior is fine because
Speaker 1: we owe a fifty T T J and we're gonna
Speaker 1: just this is it, this is it age. For the
Speaker 1: first time, I thought you were thirty. I said I
Speaker 1: was with identified at thirty. But yeah, you know, this
Speaker 1: is identif. But for really, let's be real about this ship.
Speaker 1: I also identified as a female right now, but I
Speaker 1: just pulled my dress up. I hope kid will move
Speaker 1: that out the way because I got no panties on.
Speaker 1: Y'all paid for that T shirt with no panties on.
Speaker 1: Bert jaff Thank you so much. You have brought as
Speaker 1: always as always, you always delivery information, you always and
Speaker 1: you're correct. I'm sorry our mayor elect is a Delta,
Speaker 1: but a black woman. It's all divine nine. It's okay,
Speaker 1: pronounce her name for us, Jane. What's her name? Her
Speaker 1: name is to Sharretta Jones Jones. Okay, thank you, Nick,
Speaker 1: thank you, thanks go talk to you. Thank me so much.
Speaker 1: That's wage Williams. You'll make sure you'll follow Jan because
Speaker 1: Jan is always knowledgeable and always it's like the Hamlet.
Speaker 1: She's like, you know, Lauren Flame. That's one of the
Speaker 1: best things about one that things are opening back up
Speaker 1: and we will actually get a chance to meet many
Speaker 1: of your flame mats in person. Yes, we're going back
Speaker 1: on the road, honey, sixteenth. We finally got Delaware fixed.
Speaker 1: We're going to the house and laughs. We got everything straight.
Speaker 1: And you have your first show in l A. I
Speaker 1: have a show with Tiffany Hattish and Huntington Beach. Who
Speaker 1: you think they could be rioting? You have depending on
Speaker 1: what you wear, you have caused the rioter to now
Speaker 1: come on the body. Ain't the saying that the riots
Speaker 1: now won't be They won't because I'm sexy, right, It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be like damn she think, baby, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you something right now. I had to watch my
Speaker 1: six hundred pound life yesterday just to get inspired, not
Speaker 1: to get beat. I didn't watch it. I didn't want
Speaker 1: you to be like, oh I watched that's one of
Speaker 1: them shows that look at you be like God, damn.
Speaker 1: I promise I gonna get that be here. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: need a little reality check. It's okay, but you have
Speaker 1: My mama is forre for me. She gives me my
Speaker 1: reality check every once in a while. Y'all. Please Donna
Speaker 1: say about Lauren on here because Lauren, baby, she'll be
Speaker 1: at home patent. Oh my god, this was fun. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much. I just got here last minute.
Speaker 1: Good information. All I can tell you guys. My message,
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna nick Lauren close it out, is whatever
Speaker 1: this decision will be with this Derek show. In case,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you guys, please be someplace that you are
Speaker 1: familiar with that you feel very safe at, because I don't.
Speaker 1: I think I personally think no matter what the decision
Speaker 1: will be, the outcome will be not not pleasant. That's
Speaker 1: some of the words I'm gonna say. Not pleasant, because
Speaker 1: we have people who want him to get off even
Speaker 1: though we have watched him murder this man. They still
Speaker 1: but They have a lot of people who want him
Speaker 1: to get off, and we have a lot of people
Speaker 1: like us who don't want him to go. We saw them,
Speaker 1: we saw the brutality, we saw the murder in our face.
Speaker 1: But this course system is not set up for us
Speaker 1: and this jilge. It's definitely not favorable towards the darker heat.
Speaker 1: Maybe he needs a taser. No, I'm definitely in agreement
Speaker 1: with you. I think that this is a time where
Speaker 1: we all need to have a height and awareness and
Speaker 1: make sure that we're being safe. Um. I'm more so
Speaker 1: just want to say that I'm very grateful that one
Speaker 1: that we have this show because I'm just thinking, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, Flame came home today, she was mad at
Speaker 1: her kids. I had some other stuff going on work
Speaker 1: wise and everything. But I'm glad that we have this
Speaker 1: space to share information because I think it's a it's
Speaker 1: an outlet for a lot of people that maybe don't have,
Speaker 1: you know, the opportunity to do that in their everyday lives.
Speaker 1: So I'm coming out of this, although we talked about
Speaker 1: some heavy subjects today, I'm coming out of this with
Speaker 1: a kind of bit of a weight lifted off my
Speaker 1: chest that I was able to, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: release on some things. So I'm grateful definitely that we can,
Speaker 1: when we have this and when we can kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, engage all of our flamemts to frighten some
Speaker 1: people's days. Lauren, I'm so glad you said that, because
Speaker 1: I think when Flame and I started this, we we've
Speaker 1: known each other long enough where we sometimes almost finished
Speaker 1: each other sentences. When you joined, it was like a
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air because it brought a different perspective.
Speaker 1: I'm like, WHOA, I didn't think about it that way,
Speaker 1: and you said it before. You know, we we we
Speaker 1: can disagree and we don't have to be disagreeable, and
Speaker 1: I think that that's what the conversation is all about.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week, like I told you, I was in
Speaker 1: d C. And the White House is still behind a barrier.
Speaker 1: That breaks my heart because I do think it's one
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful buildings. But in the shadow of
Speaker 1: six Pennsylvania is Black Lives Matter Plaza, and I'm just
Speaker 1: reminded that once again the strength of community, the power
Speaker 1: of my people. I am proud to be in this
Speaker 1: black skin. I have it adopted, and I'm owning my
Speaker 1: big blackness. I'm not. I'm not worried about anymore, not
Speaker 1: being light and attractive to people anymore. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to be who I am and move and on that space.
Speaker 1: And because of situations like this, I have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to let things off my chest as well, like you
Speaker 1: just said, And I love love of the fact that
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to this here on, laugh and learn,
Speaker 1: because again, we're not trying to get anybody to change
Speaker 1: their mind. We're just simply trying to get you guys
Speaker 1: to use your and some of y'all dumbmasses ain't got
Speaker 1: no man. So I'm trying to give y'all a man
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you right now, if you want to
Speaker 1: do the science, let me before I close, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: staw some ship right now. Let me stop some ship.
Speaker 1: The science and the politics, the science and the politics.
Speaker 1: The science, then the lifestyle can says kills coronavirus. That's
Speaker 1: the science, that's and the politics. The science of the
Speaker 1: vaccine says testing. You know how many tests I fail,
Speaker 1: including a couple of STDs. Coronavirus kills vaccine light sound
Speaker 1: that kills coronavirus, testing says we're testing you ain't testing
Speaker 1: ship on me. Uh. I want to say before we leave,
Speaker 1: prayers to DMX and his whole family, all his children,
Speaker 1: his baby mamas, and everybody who's involving him. I do
Speaker 1: not believe that he drafted that from a drug overdose.
Speaker 1: He had been looking so good in the last few
Speaker 1: weeks and been speaking so well on about the Lord
Speaker 1: and just preaching and putting out positive messages and woo woo.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the after effect was. I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened with him. We've heard all these situations
Speaker 1: that coming out of all these sorts. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I'm not a doctor. But prayers to
Speaker 1: d m May he rest in peace, because I still
Speaker 1: use party up when I do wrap numbers. That was
Speaker 1: there when I when I did party up. And and
Speaker 1: Lauren may know more about this. To Lauren, I read
Speaker 1: something recently about d m X that Beyonce and jay
Speaker 1: Z are buying the Masters. Did you read that too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I read that they bought the Masters um and they're
Speaker 1: trying to give the money to the kids. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: read that. If that is indeed true, that's amazing because
Speaker 1: you and We've talked about owning the act on your work.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well Beyonce. You know, Beyonce is amazing in anyway,
Speaker 1: great humanitarian and she loves her city. But I think
Speaker 1: they were free and they were all friends. Her Swiss beats,
Speaker 1: jay Z, all of them are friends. I need some
Speaker 1: rich friends like that. Were you when you gonna get rich?
Speaker 1: I'm so right, But as long as we got love,
Speaker 1: we don't need money, right, don't nobody. I don't give
Speaker 1: it them A boy, no love. You gott even got
Speaker 1: the whole suit on. You ain't even got a whole
Speaker 1: suit on. I bet you ain't got the pats on.
Speaker 1: You know what, let us thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us here at laught a line. You can follow
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Speaker 1: home after we do laugh and a love lounge and
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Speaker 1: do love that. I was on Friday, even though I
Speaker 1: didn't do it this Friday, I was like, I wasn't humble.
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Speaker 1: No Instagram? No, no, no Instagram. Yeah, we have this
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Speaker 1: that's why I'm not haven't been pushing it. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna get that together too. So thank you to Kendall.
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Speaker 1: again I'm gonna say we have the smartest listeners on
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