Speaker 1: Flame Flame. If you watch your coffee time the baby
Speaker 1: you know the name Flame, my bro also known as
Speaker 1: my Roe Flame.
Speaker 2: Come in with last and come in with Jim Love loundes. Baby,
Speaker 2: you better catch it when you can drop a knowledge
Speaker 2: from fatherhood to politics, shouting now, comics, just paying homage.
Speaker 2: What's up? Tips? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: She raised shot towns on speaking to the grown a second,
Speaker 2: We're gonna laugh, cut him and kicking, and at the
Speaker 2: end we leave it with just a lift. You spirits
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Speaker 2: young folks say it's slipt. Oh folks say we dig
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Speaker 1: Hey, no this do what you do? No this, do
Speaker 1: what you do? Can't no do what I do? No this?
Speaker 3: Hey hey, hey, welcome to laugh and learn.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Bro, and we are so happy
Speaker 1: to have you here this week. It has been a
Speaker 1: whirlwind week for me. I've been traveling, I've done five
Speaker 1: stakes in seven days and it has been a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1: I'm join with my fabulous producer, mister Aaron Howard and
Speaker 1: of course my gorgeous to co host Bobby Cliff HOI you.
Speaker 2: Bobby, Hi? Are you a flame? How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good, Bobby C. I'm pretty good. I've been working,
Speaker 1: I've been on the road. I was out with so
Speaker 1: Last Sunday I went to Atlantic City, New Jersey to
Speaker 1: work with Tiffany at the Harrouck Casino, Tiffany Haddish, And
Speaker 1: then Monday I went to Chicago, and Wednesday I opened
Speaker 1: for Dave Chappelle at the United sent the twenty thousand people,
Speaker 1: and then Friday I was also supposed to do it,
Speaker 1: but it was a hiccup with the lineup, so I
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to do that one. Then Saturday
Speaker 1: I flew out to go to Atlanta and I did
Speaker 1: my friend Donald Harrison's Black and White Met Gallibal, which
Speaker 1: was great. And then Sunday I flew to Memphis to
Speaker 1: work at Chucko's Company House and had a great time.
Speaker 1: It was a great show. Thank you, Memphis. You guys
Speaker 1: were wonderful. I'm going back there. Monday I went back
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, and Tuesday I came home. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to discard that I went while I was in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: because I want you guys to know this, that I
Speaker 1: went to church. I hadn't been to church in years.
Speaker 1: And I went to a church, Vision Cathedral Church seven
Speaker 1: O four Army Wood Avenue Southeast, and the bishop, Bishop O. C. Allen,
Speaker 1: preached the Word of God. It was so wonderful. The
Speaker 1: people in there shouted and happy, danced and screamed Hallelujah
Speaker 1: and glory to God. And I just felt good to
Speaker 1: be in the spirit. And I know the scriptures say
Speaker 1: that the Lord won't show up to a man made temple,
Speaker 1: but he damn showed send some of his warriors there
Speaker 1: because they was up in there and shouting and dance
Speaker 1: and Bobby, good God.
Speaker 2: I kind of imagine that he doesn't go to a
Speaker 2: man made temple because he comes through us, right you
Speaker 2: you showed a little bit of that that clip. I
Speaker 2: was toe tapping. People brought their tambourines. Who warn't a
Speaker 2: personal tambourine. I was impressed.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's Verrio, that's Veria Church of God
Speaker 1: in Christ Church by the Black Church. Church of God
Speaker 1: in Christ. They had a camarine. They had a washboard,
Speaker 1: an old school washboard. Would yeah, he had a spoon.
Speaker 2: He was rubbing up together. I'm telling you us white Catholics,
Speaker 2: we would drop dead. We literally done the Josephy hanging there.
Speaker 2: It's very you know, we're we're like the McDonald's of
Speaker 2: churches were in and out in forty forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Oh hear me when I tell you this was a
Speaker 1: black church service. It started at ten forty five. It's
Speaker 1: still going on right now.
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 2: A blank and a snack.
Speaker 3: Baby, Good God.
Speaker 2: Did you see that your boyfriend was in the It
Speaker 2: is in the news this week, George Santos.
Speaker 3: Oh, why you got to be my boyfriend? Though? Bobby?
Speaker 3: Why he is gonna?
Speaker 2: I gotta say, I don't know what he's been doing,
Speaker 2: but his skin looks fabulous. He's he's starting to be
Speaker 2: a little more feminine looking than than he ever was.
Speaker 1: Well, I think I think he's wait, I think he's
Speaker 1: about to reveal the baby agenda reveal.
Speaker 3: Did you see that stomach?
Speaker 2: I did it, but I was thinking that maybe he
Speaker 2: was going for another job, because it seems like his
Speaker 2: ass is going to get kicked out of Congress.
Speaker 3: Well he should have been kicked out, and that's just
Speaker 3: the truth.
Speaker 1: And my community, who I adore sometimes and sometimes I don't,
Speaker 1: they should have been raisedale about him being there because
Speaker 1: they knew that he was he's a throwing in the
Speaker 1: country set, but McCarthy held him there to hold on
Speaker 1: to the seat, and you see what happened to that,
Speaker 1: don't you?
Speaker 2: Okay, I know, but that's I mean, that's the type
Speaker 2: of thing right now, and I'm going to put it
Speaker 2: on both sides because we're holding onto every seat that
Speaker 2: we can with our fingernails as well. We have that
Speaker 2: jackass from New Jersey that he's got to go. But
Speaker 2: it's like Congress right now is so busy fighting against
Speaker 2: each other instead of working for the American people, which
Speaker 2: is what we what they were hired to do. It
Speaker 2: is so disappointing. You know, we have to start paying
Speaker 2: attention because we're so fragile. Our democracy is so fragile.
Speaker 2: It's strong at the same time, but but we better
Speaker 2: start doing some work. Are votants. So I hope that
Speaker 2: people are paying attention and then we get that get
Speaker 2: him out. But he's got ten new counts. What I
Speaker 2: don't understand is why he's not being civilly sued. I mean,
Speaker 2: some of his counts. He's got twenty three counts in all,
Speaker 2: but they've got him on stealing donor identities, running up
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars in debt and fraudulent charges on their
Speaker 2: credit cards. He has accusations he's inflated his campaign finance report.
Speaker 2: Who does not sound like inflating finances, stealing voters identities,
Speaker 2: embezzling company cash, conspiring with his ex campaign treasure to
Speaker 2: falsified documentation. And this is just like the latest in them.
Speaker 2: I don't he should be written around his right. He
Speaker 2: should be ashamed of himself.
Speaker 3: No, we should.
Speaker 1: The American people should be ashamed that we allowed him
Speaker 1: to sit there in that seat and we knew that
Speaker 1: he was fig Tissius. So at this point, as mad
Speaker 1: as frustrated as I am with George Santos, I can't
Speaker 1: even be mad at him because he should have been
Speaker 1: kicked out, and there was the people in power.
Speaker 3: Over him who should have kicked him out.
Speaker 2: So we should and us and and so, and let's
Speaker 2: not take us out out of any culpability. We should
Speaker 2: be calling our local congressman and screaming to get him out.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous because they can have like they did for Feinstein.
Speaker 2: Why can't they have whoever the governor is of the
Speaker 2: state that he's from, assigned somebody else they don't have
Speaker 2: to change the pop I think they're afraid of the
Speaker 2: devil they know, versus the devil they could get well.
Speaker 1: My issues even may May she rest in peace, Miss
Speaker 1: Dane Feinstein, and thank you for your service and thank
Speaker 1: you for your work.
Speaker 3: But she should have been removed as well. She was
Speaker 3: too old.
Speaker 1: Absolutely she should have been So some of these policies
Speaker 1: need to change. Ms McConnell needs to be said down.
Speaker 1: He has shown us, under knowing certain terms, that he
Speaker 1: is no longer physically and mentally equipped to have the
Speaker 1: disposition which I'll keep allowing them to sit there.
Speaker 3: The rules have to be changed. And if we don't
Speaker 3: change and we're going to keep.
Speaker 2: Losing, well, what's even funnier about that? Sore? Since we're
Speaker 2: we're kind of in the house right, so might as
Speaker 2: well keep talking about it. So the Speaker update is
Speaker 2: that we saw that that STEVENS. Scalise is the GOP
Speaker 2: nominee for for the Speaker of the House, and he's
Speaker 2: a representative from Louisiana. He was over the summer just
Speaker 2: made the House majority whip. But he has he's got
Speaker 2: all sorts of attributes that I'm not too happy with
Speaker 2: he's the most anti LGBT reputation of any lawmaker. He
Speaker 2: opposes legalization of marijuana, he feels as a gateway drug.
Speaker 2: He rejects scientific consensus on climate change. And in two
Speaker 2: thousand and two he spoke at a white nationalist convention
Speaker 2: that was run by David Duke. He didn't realize that
Speaker 2: was racist.
Speaker 3: He came out in apologies and that and that is
Speaker 3: who they have in place.
Speaker 2: And take over, and so that's what they have in place.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I will say some of the other things that are
Speaker 2: sort of I feel badly for him, but this is
Speaker 2: this is what we're just getting the right people to
Speaker 2: put in place. He was Now this doesn't have anything
Speaker 2: to do with his brain or being able to do
Speaker 2: the job, but he was. He was one of the
Speaker 2: people that was shot in that congressional baseball practice back
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen. He had like a Bernie Sanders anti
Speaker 2: trumper that came out and shot shot a bunch of people,
Speaker 2: which was kind of disgraceful because he wasn't somebody that
Speaker 2: was not known to the police. He had beat his
Speaker 2: foster daughter, she just didn't press charges. He also used
Speaker 2: to like to shoot guns at his trees in his backyard.
Speaker 2: But so he's got that, he's got a bit of
Speaker 2: a hitch in his gidda up. But he does okay
Speaker 2: with that. But right now we just found out he's
Speaker 2: suffering from multiple myeloma. It is a very treatable form
Speaker 2: of blood cancer, but it's still he needs to be treated.
Speaker 2: Should they be putting him up where he's, you know,
Speaker 2: fighting this disease. It's got to be on the top
Speaker 2: of his game.
Speaker 1: Or absolutely not. He should not be. And I don't
Speaker 1: feel no sympathy for him as far as the whole
Speaker 1: the other sort of things, because after what you then
Speaker 1: broke down and said about him being anti gay, anti
Speaker 1: anti vis and I can't I can't roll with him.
Speaker 1: And then he if you said at a David Duke
Speaker 1: Uya rally and said publicly that you didn't think that
Speaker 1: you didn't know it was a racist comman, baby, I
Speaker 1: don't want you there.
Speaker 3: You're bold face liar. But that's what this country is
Speaker 3: used to they and they reward bad behavior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny. Chris Christie. Out of the two
Speaker 2: people he said he doesn't know Jim Jordan that was
Speaker 2: the other. That was the other contender. He didn't know him.
Speaker 2: He did know Sclee. He thought he was a nice guy.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised that because Chris Christi is pretty a straightforward guy.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised he would he would back say he said,
Speaker 2: it's not backing them, he's just saying he thinks he's
Speaker 2: a nice guy.
Speaker 3: He wasn't.
Speaker 2: He said he wants to see if anybody else came out,
Speaker 2: and that was about it.
Speaker 3: Nice guy, don't mean that you should have that position.
Speaker 2: No, No, there were a lot of nice guys who
Speaker 2: shouldn't have a lot of powerful positions, unfortunately. But but
Speaker 2: that's that's the This speaker updates. On a positive note,
Speaker 2: President Biden is looking to get rid of junk fees
Speaker 2: for the consumers. He's looking to get rid of fees
Speaker 2: with concert tickets, sports tickets, hotel rooms, apartments, car rentals,
Speaker 2: if there's any type of fee, he feels it should
Speaker 2: be completely transparent to the person that is purchasing the ticket.
Speaker 2: He is also taking on the banks because he feels
Speaker 2: that the bank fees are absolutely ridiculous and out of
Speaker 2: control and all of these it's like four hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty million dollars a year in extra fees and that
Speaker 2: could be put back into the consumer pipeline, not necessarily
Speaker 2: go back directly to us, but could could keep the wheels,
Speaker 2: you know, running for other other purchases and other other
Speaker 2: things that we could be doing.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. He don't remove the fees fee. I
Speaker 3: would like remove, Bobby.
Speaker 1: You know what I would love to have removed taxing
Speaker 1: the water bottles because if I go back case, the
Speaker 1: water is to be things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the water tax is just as much.
Speaker 2: Now do you get your your bottle fees back if
Speaker 2: you turn the bottles in?
Speaker 3: No, I don't. I don't recycle. I thought it shouldn't have.
Speaker 2: Gotten No, No, I'm just asking. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know what California is. So we have five cents
Speaker 2: a bottle here, and if we return it, you get
Speaker 2: the bottle back. We don't have it on water bottles.
Speaker 2: We have it on soda cans.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no.
Speaker 2: But we don't, so we put those in the we
Speaker 2: put those. It just a not recycling and we just recycle.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, he could be working on it.
Speaker 2: He's trying to well, he's trying to work on any
Speaker 2: way to get obvious money. Low hanging food at least
Speaker 2: back into the consumer's pocket. So I was pretty happy
Speaker 2: to see that. Speaking about presidents, it's worth a mention
Speaker 2: our Robert Kennedy Junior is running as an independent, which
Speaker 2: I think is nothing but problematic because if you remember,
Speaker 2: h ran and took Go siphoned some important quotes away
Speaker 2: from Al Gore in the Gore Bushkin election.
Speaker 1: It's all the distraction, Bobby, It's all the gas prices,
Speaker 1: the food prices.
Speaker 3: Before we came on, you said that the economy was
Speaker 3: up one percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything, and this week and people have jobs, but
Speaker 1: they don't want to work. I have traveled and I've
Speaker 1: been to four or five different cities in the week.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: People have the jobs, but they do not want to
Speaker 1: do the work. You can't even ask people questions about
Speaker 1: their job. You know, if you're lost or you're confused
Speaker 1: about something, you see somebody who has an employee uniform moment,
Speaker 1: you go to them and say, excuse me, can I
Speaker 1: ask you a question?
Speaker 3: I'm busy right now.
Speaker 1: Or they're on their cell phone or they're on TikTok,
Speaker 1: or they just do not They're very dismissive.
Speaker 3: It is it's offensive.
Speaker 1: It is a situation of laziness that is spreading trickling
Speaker 1: down to these youth. They don't know what it is
Speaker 1: to do and that in the fact, and I know
Speaker 1: they're making great money on social media platforms or whatever
Speaker 1: they doing X and sex work or what have you.
Speaker 1: But what they're taking out is basic human decency of
Speaker 1: a working American people. Because we work for hours. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying at times are harder for them now or
Speaker 1: easier for us now, but we work for hours. We
Speaker 1: had a routine, We had a systematic way of doing it.
Speaker 1: They don't have that, Bobby, and they are disgruntled. They
Speaker 1: are mean, and they resent having to go to work.
Speaker 1: That's what I feel like, they resent having to go
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 2: No, I would agree with that. In speaking, so we
Speaker 2: are the economy has improved the one percent, but Biden
Speaker 2: also has three hundred and thirty six even with the strikes,
Speaker 2: which we'll talk about. Just give an update a minute,
Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty six thousand new jobs the jobs
Speaker 2: report came out. Now, if we can only get, as
Speaker 2: you said, people to actually get in the job and
Speaker 2: then oh, you know, call me crazy, but actually do
Speaker 2: the job well or try to do the job to
Speaker 2: the best of their ability. Customer service, that's what we're lacking.
Speaker 2: We have no customer service any longer. Flame. It's so disappointing.
Speaker 2: I saw somebody the other day fall. This isn't even
Speaker 2: customer service. This is decency. I'm sorry to it that
Speaker 2: I interrupted you and nobody went over to help the person.
Speaker 2: They're just like the person that had kind of crawled
Speaker 2: the way. I'm like, where was lending in hand? Just
Speaker 2: can I help you up? Can I? Nope?
Speaker 3: That is where we are.
Speaker 1: And Bobby, I'm telling you something right now, it's not
Speaker 1: a customer service. This is why when you do get
Speaker 1: someone that's pleasant over the phone or what you do right,
Speaker 1: it's almost it's almost like a ray of sunshine coming
Speaker 1: through because you're so used to everybody either being broken
Speaker 1: English with a foreign language that you really can't understand
Speaker 1: that you have to say, can you repeat that, I'm
Speaker 1: not understanding what you're saying, or you get somebody who's
Speaker 1: so rude and so dismissive and so nasty over the phone.
Speaker 1: So when you do get a Hi, I'm Becky, Sue,
Speaker 1: and how can I help you today?
Speaker 3: How is your day? Oh?
Speaker 1: You are like, oh, my god, Oh could you play
Speaker 1: my customer service for everything?
Speaker 3: Not just I just want you to do everything for me.
Speaker 3: Because it's so they're so pleasant.
Speaker 2: I asked them for their number. I'm like, do you
Speaker 2: guys have direct lines? So if anything happens again, And
Speaker 2: it's funny when you do get somebody that's good like that,
Speaker 2: the next time you call, they're gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the pipeline you can call.
Speaker 1: You can call about forty times. You won't get them back.
Speaker 1: I get you. I'm like, oh, I can't understand you
Speaker 1: get off my line.
Speaker 2: That's because we're farming everything out and and President Biden
Speaker 2: that God is trying to bring, like with the chipsack
Speaker 2: and stuff, he's trying to bring work back in. So
Speaker 2: let's hope that, you know, if he ever gets a
Speaker 2: second term, that some of those customer service files because
Speaker 2: they're great jobs for We'll say a mom or dad.
Speaker 2: You know it is a parent who has to work
Speaker 2: at home. You know, you have kids and whatever. You
Speaker 2: can still do it at home and you can still
Speaker 2: get great service. So you still get me, You'll still
Speaker 2: making a few dollars. So yeah, it's so disappointing, but
Speaker 2: the economy is improving. Just a snail's pace. I'm just
Speaker 2: hoping that it takes a bump up and everything that's
Speaker 2: going on in the world is when I was.
Speaker 1: When I was in Chicago, I was very proud of
Speaker 1: my my city team because you know, I'm from Chicago.
Speaker 1: The Bulls actually won a game, and I mean the Bears,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Chicago Bears. The football team actually.
Speaker 3: Won a game. They had not won a game since
Speaker 3: last season. And the.
Speaker 1: The the irony of them winning on that day was
Speaker 1: that was the exact same day that the great Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer uh Chicago Bears coach Dick Buckets also died, So.
Speaker 3: They won on the day that he passed.
Speaker 1: And I know that seems that it was kind of
Speaker 1: like they kind of like pay homage and now they
Speaker 1: ain't won one since butt.
Speaker 2: But a mess, So I think that's terrific. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: died at eighty, but it is what a way to go.
Speaker 2: I know it's probably hard for the family, but as
Speaker 2: far as somebody passing going into sleep, as you know,
Speaker 2: he must have done something right to somebody at some time.
Speaker 1: I'm almost afraid to go in my sleep. I'm afraid
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wake up and be like, well, who turned
Speaker 1: the fan out? Why is it so warming?
Speaker 3: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Oh, I could be up there for unless somebody's looking
Speaker 2: for dinner. I could be up there for a week
Speaker 2: and a half. Nobody would even notice I was gone
Speaker 2: until they went, oh I'm hungry, then they might shut
Speaker 2: up for me. But he died. And also who died
Speaker 2: was my beloved Tim Wakefield. I love him. He was
Speaker 2: He was a Red Sox player, and he was a
Speaker 2: terrific player. He gave so much to like the Children's
Speaker 2: hospital here in the Boston area. He was always very
Speaker 2: philanthropic as long as well as his wife. In fact,
Speaker 2: right up into the end, because we only just found
Speaker 2: out I think three days before that he had cancer,
Speaker 2: because he was taking care of his life, we had
Speaker 2: pancreatic cancer. Was feeling a little rundown and a little lousy.
Speaker 2: Went to the hospital and found out I guess that
Speaker 2: he had a brain tumor himself. And what's really crummy,
Speaker 2: and I hope that we all pray for them, is
Speaker 2: they have two children that are like Zetti and Izzy's age,
Speaker 2: so maybe a little younger. I think they're like sixteen
Speaker 2: and seventeen or eighteen. They're still in high school, so
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be parentless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully their family will surround them and keep them loved.
Speaker 1: I love that he kept that on the low body.
Speaker 1: That's so scary. And when I win this power box tonight,
Speaker 1: this one point seven five billions, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: very philanthropic as well, because I'm filanthropic when I don't
Speaker 1: get no money like that, because I have done many
Speaker 1: for many people, so I believe in that because I
Speaker 1: do want to win.
Speaker 3: I want to win all of it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I always say that because I want to start.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want all the money because somebody would sleep
Speaker 2: your throat in your sleep. But I love to be
Speaker 2: make everybody that that I loved comfortable. And then I
Speaker 2: would love to think of all of the wonderful charities
Speaker 2: that you could start that things that are important to
Speaker 2: you and you know, and you can directly place that
Speaker 2: money in different places. I would love to start a charity.
Speaker 2: But I will, I will, I'll send you, I'll send
Speaker 2: you a cash app if I will.
Speaker 1: No, honey, I don't want no cash up. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be too busy to go and cash it. But I
Speaker 1: want to one point seventy five billion. That's a nine
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar payout. Bobby, I'm looking for at least
Speaker 1: two hundred million you okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Okay, one hundred Bobby, fIF y'all go.
Speaker 1: If you have not played, it is one that is
Speaker 1: probably going to it's looking to be the biggest jackpot
Speaker 1: in history. So if you haven't plent, tell me put
Speaker 1: two thousan Yes I can't, Oh, yes, I can't.
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you how much how much does
Speaker 2: it cost to to do a Netflix special? If you
Speaker 2: fund it yourself, like Joey, you could call tell me
Speaker 2: and I want you.
Speaker 3: That I could do that for less than a one
Speaker 3: hundred for less than five thousand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say one hundred thousand, and
Speaker 2: I thought he said it was like two seventy five.
Speaker 2: And that was five years ago. Like that was a
Speaker 2: while ago that you had me on, right, So that's
Speaker 2: so you'll let me know and we'll get that money
Speaker 2: to you. We'll write that over to you. The oh
Speaker 2: Frank James, he was a sixty four year old man
Speaker 2: that went into the New York subway and shot it up.
Speaker 2: He shot ten people. Everybody survived, Yeah, everybody survived, he
Speaker 2: got his he played. He pled guilty to terrorism and
Speaker 2: weapons charges in January. He got his sentence over this
Speaker 2: past week. It's ten life sentences each person for each
Speaker 2: person shot, plus an additional ten years on weapons charges,
Speaker 2: and he took full responsibility. I was amazed. I think
Speaker 2: I had mentioned that to you before. I thought he was.
Speaker 2: You know, it's everybody is, Oh, it's this, or it's
Speaker 2: an excuse. He kind of held his head up high.
Speaker 2: And he's going in for a sentencing, so that probably
Speaker 2: she proves that he's got a few screws.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know how many screws he got loose,
Speaker 1: but he's going to live rent free off the consumer's
Speaker 1: taxes for the rest of what however long he lives.
Speaker 3: I know, And he's a horrible shot.
Speaker 1: Nobody died. I'm not saying that I'm glad nobody died,
Speaker 1: but he's a horrible shot.
Speaker 2: Well, thank god, thank god. And I believe if I'm
Speaker 2: looking at my note, I don't have it, but I
Speaker 2: believe I read. But you know, all the guns were legally.
Speaker 2: He didn't do anything that was illegal. So even crazier
Speaker 2: that you can just walk around in New York city,
Speaker 2: and you know, nobody notices you got a gun. There strikes.
Speaker 2: So the auto strike is in its fourth week. They're
Speaker 2: going to be laying off an additional eight hundred workers.
Speaker 2: There are five thousand that have been laid off so far.
Speaker 2: And it has cost the economy. They're figuring it's cost
Speaker 2: already five point five billion dollars. Because it's not just
Speaker 2: the cars, it's the parts, it's the you know, it's
Speaker 2: like the it's sort of like the Actress strike, right,
Speaker 2: like you said, the craft service.
Speaker 1: It's a trickle it's a trickle down effect. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the shipping containers because they have to ship the part.
Speaker 2: You're exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's what people don't understand.
Speaker 1: You just see the big picture, but you don't see
Speaker 1: all the behind the things that happened to get the picture.
Speaker 3: This be it is. We are living in here. Let
Speaker 3: me just say, we are living.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping they're not saying. I mean, I was reading
Speaker 2: I read a few articles today and I didn't see
Speaker 2: anywhere within the articles that they said they're making progress.
Speaker 2: You know, they're hoping that it will resolve in X time.
Speaker 2: They haven't said anything they said they're going to the
Speaker 2: negotiating table again today, but I didn't see any update.
Speaker 3: I want to speak on policy change.
Speaker 1: I know that we're in a crucial part for an election,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to tell this quick story that I
Speaker 1: was in the grocery store today and there was a
Speaker 1: white woman. We were comparing prices on chicken wings and
Speaker 1: she was standing there. She said, what food is so high?
Speaker 1: I said, ma'am, mary, things gas, everything that's that right now.
Speaker 1: She says, what are we going to do? I said, girl,
Speaker 1: our country is you know. We have to get out
Speaker 1: and we have to vote for change, you know. And
Speaker 1: she was like, I am a Trump supporter. She says, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know which which way is headed. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not a Trump supporter. I am a Bite supporter.
Speaker 1: I said, but that does not mean that I don't
Speaker 1: like Trumps and all his antics, especially with his reality
Speaker 1: show stuff. I said, but are you? And I asked,
Speaker 1: I say, so, as an American, have you lost faith
Speaker 1: in him? And the woman looked at me in my
Speaker 1: face because I asked her a very serious question. This
Speaker 1: was just a regular white woman. She says, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I believe I have lost faith in mister Trump. She said,
Speaker 1: But that does not mean that I've garnered faith in
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, I said, and that is understandable, but you
Speaker 1: do understand that those are the only two candidates that
Speaker 1: we have, so voting for another one is actually just.
Speaker 3: Separation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's like, yeah, she said, I'm just not
Speaker 1: pleased with either one. I said, ma'am, I think that
Speaker 1: is the story of a lot of the American people. People,
Speaker 1: but we cannot get distracted and sidetracked by the fact
Speaker 1: that if we don't have a leader, we are going
Speaker 1: to be screwed. I say, if the aliens ever come
Speaker 1: and they say, take us to your leader, I'm taking
Speaker 1: them straight to Trump. She says, I think that the
Speaker 1: aliens come. She said, I think that if the aliens
Speaker 1: come and they see how messed up America is, they're
Speaker 1: going to go back.
Speaker 2: I say, girl, probably, honest to God, probably is right.
Speaker 2: But isn't It's nice to have grown up conversations with
Speaker 2: people with.
Speaker 3: Them of opinion.
Speaker 1: And we didn't need necessarily have a distion of opinion.
Speaker 1: We had a different party that we supported, but we
Speaker 1: were able to have a communial is that the right
Speaker 1: word communal? A regular conversation with each other. It didn't
Speaker 1: go left. I didn't get mad with her because she
Speaker 1: support Trump. She didn't get angry with me because I
Speaker 1: support Biden. We talked as Americans, and we were very
Speaker 1: different people from very different size of the spectrum. And
Speaker 1: I think, Bobby, that is really what is needed. She says,
Speaker 1: I'm really worried. And this woman said this to me
Speaker 1: at her home.
Speaker 3: App no life. She's really worried about voting times because
Speaker 3: she thinks that the country is going to erupt.
Speaker 2: And I believe her. That's why we have to get
Speaker 2: out and we have to vote, and we have to
Speaker 2: do what. Wouldn't it be nice if the conversation you
Speaker 2: had it's a grown up conversation, mature, if the people
Speaker 2: in Congress are doing the same thing instead of fighting
Speaker 2: and working against each other. They just said, all right,
Speaker 2: these are my values, Okay, these are your values. How
Speaker 2: do we work together on a compromise to suit the people.
Speaker 2: The people need X, whether it's food, shelter, how do
Speaker 2: we work together to make that happen? And then next
Speaker 2: time maybe they do what you want this time flame
Speaker 2: and the next time maybe you do what the other
Speaker 2: person wants. That's compromise.
Speaker 1: I just Bobby, and it's so sad. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I hate to discuss politics, identity, or religion in mixed
Speaker 1: company because it can go so left. But when I
Speaker 1: saw the story today about what's happening over in Israel,
Speaker 1: forgiving you guys, because it's touching me. When I heard
Speaker 1: some of the things, the horrific acts that were being happen.
Speaker 3: I hate wars. I hate wars because at the.
Speaker 1: End of wars a lot of times people don't remember
Speaker 1: what the war was completely about, and there's always a
Speaker 1: lot of unnecessary deaths, and it just bothers me, especially
Speaker 1: when they are women and children involved.
Speaker 2: Well, this is what makes this one hard is that
Speaker 2: it's by terrorists and it's not it's not you know,
Speaker 2: military people against military people. These are these are terrorists
Speaker 2: against civilians who are just living in their own homes,
Speaker 2: living in their own towns, doing what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: And a lot of Americans there we're gonna do. It's
Speaker 2: sort of unfolding, So we don't have all the detail,
Speaker 2: you know, the correct detail or the finite detail yet,
Speaker 2: but probably by next week we'll have a little bit
Speaker 2: more than it is now. But yeah, I pray for
Speaker 2: both sides because not a mass.
Speaker 1: iHeart the Black Effect Network, the producer, myself, you, everybody here,
Speaker 1: we are standing prayers to the people who are in distress,
Speaker 1: you know, the people who are hiding and the people
Speaker 1: who are watching their children being mutilated in front of them.
Speaker 3: We are praying for you, guys, because I could not imagine.
Speaker 3: I could not.
Speaker 1: Fathom still being a lab at the Experience or something
Speaker 1: like that, and the words of Bobby Clifford, I can't
Speaker 1: because you would kill me if I saw you trying
Speaker 1: to maname or hurt one.
Speaker 3: About you, and I would just we would all have
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know this is and for Americans, this is scary, guys,
Speaker 2: because this is where we get all of our all
Speaker 2: of our information and our intel for the Middle East.
Speaker 2: You know, ISRAELI are Israel and America are tight sisters,
Speaker 2: and we rely on them, they rely on us, and
Speaker 2: now this sort have caught them off off guard, and
Speaker 2: that's the information that we need happen.
Speaker 1: And the leader of the Hamas, according to social according
Speaker 1: to some records, was released from prison by President Trump
Speaker 1: when he was in office. So I don't know that
Speaker 1: to be completely true, but that's the legend.
Speaker 2: You'll have to fact check that.
Speaker 1: We gonna definitely fact check that. But that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1: But all of this isn't happening right before this next
Speaker 1: election and on Biden's watch. The distraction is is real
Speaker 1: and it is right in your face. Please pay attention.
Speaker 2: It really is and it's gonna I mean, the other
Speaker 2: thing that makes me nervous is we just talked about
Speaker 2: our lousy one percent that that we've gained over this
Speaker 2: past week. We're going to start losing that because it's
Speaker 2: our money. Everybody thinks it has just to do with
Speaker 2: the United States. It's how the rest of the world
Speaker 2: does that that helps to value our money as well.
Speaker 2: And if we have we're still helping Ukraine, never mind Israel. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we've got two big powerhouses that that are
Speaker 2: fighting right now. It's we're we better tighten up our
Speaker 2: belt straps. People spend on what you need, save.
Speaker 3: Save, save, work, save, save save save. Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: It is a scary place that we are in, but
Speaker 1: we have to stand diligent. We have to stand strong
Speaker 1: and God forbid it. And I know this is the stretch,
Speaker 1: but we have to stand united because I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, if our enemies are watching America, watching what
Speaker 1: is happening in America.
Speaker 3: We are.
Speaker 1: We just like open woman. We just pour some soul
Speaker 1: into some hotels, into the woman and burn us more.
Speaker 1: But I hate that this is happening on Biden's watch
Speaker 1: because they're going to blame Biden for everything, same way
Speaker 1: they blame President Obama for everything.
Speaker 2: You know, It's true, and strangely enough, this is uh
Speaker 2: a World Mental Health Awareness everybody week. So reach out
Speaker 2: to somebody, find somebody, tap into any of the services
Speaker 2: that you need. If you feel like you're desperate, call
Speaker 2: nine one one or phone in front.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about calling nine one one. I'm having a
Speaker 1: mental issue this week. My daughter, my daughters are driving
Speaker 1: me crazy. I'm just I'm sorry, I'm just joking. I
Speaker 1: ain't call nobody. I'm gonna call the law. They gonna
Speaker 1: call the law because the baby. The Battle Acts will
Speaker 1: show up.
Speaker 2: Listen, I'll send you some pros act.
Speaker 1: It has been such a heavy week, and it's but
Speaker 1: it's been a light week with work, but it's been
Speaker 1: a heavy week with what's happening in the world. Prayers
Speaker 1: for all the people who are in war Ukraine, Israel.
Speaker 1: It's scary.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Prayers for America because I honestly, we are at a war.
Speaker 1: We're in some kind of war, Bobby, good God, but
Speaker 1: but here and so I'm gonna I'm gonna end this.
Speaker 1: I'm not on a side with note y'all. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get happy.
Speaker 3: Catch me.
Speaker 1: I'm still on toy got sixteen days with Tiffany. My
Speaker 1: next tour day is next Friday. And ooh oh Reno
Speaker 1: on the battle. Don't ask me what. I just know
Speaker 1: I've been rido. You can take my social media for
Speaker 1: to find the two days. But appreciate you because here
Speaker 1: are laughing, Larne. We are not trying to get you
Speaker 1: to change your mind. We are really only trying to
Speaker 1: get you to use your man, especially in these crucial times,
Speaker 1: because the mind is what Bobby.
Speaker 2: It is a terrible thing to waste, and we can't
Speaker 2: afford it right now. So we we can't.
Speaker 3: We can't ford to lose our minds right now.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you ever needed to get on
Speaker 1: your knees and go, we all need to go to
Speaker 1: God in Unison, or go to whomever you pray to
Speaker 1: this is the time, because I'm telling you right now
Speaker 1: we are lost. We are lost tribe in America because
Speaker 1: we are so separated and we think that this person
Speaker 1: is better than this one, or this one is defeating
Speaker 1: that one, or this one don't like that one. When
Speaker 1: it's all we move all the titles and we just Americans.
Speaker 3: If you remove.
Speaker 1: All the color, the titles, the one percent, the money,
Speaker 1: we are just American citizens and that's what we want
Speaker 1: to live freely as as American citizens. But it's looking
Speaker 1: very much so like a lot of people are trying
Speaker 1: to change it. Before I leave, though, Bobby, I do
Speaker 1: want to say this that I didn't say doing laugh
Speaker 1: and learn.
Speaker 3: There needs to be some power change with these politicians.
Speaker 3: It is very clear that sometimes some of these people
Speaker 3: are too old or too feeble to sit in that
Speaker 3: position for all those years and do an adequate job
Speaker 3: to save Americans. Being in politics is about being a
Speaker 3: public servant to help the people. That is not helping people.
Speaker 1: When somebody has to help you to get to your
Speaker 1: damn chair because you don't know what the hell is
Speaker 1: going on, I'm not knocking it. We appreciate you for
Speaker 1: the years of service that you gave us, but something
Speaker 1: has to be done because we are the collateral damage
Speaker 1: for somebody. And since it's mental or health Week or
Speaker 1: Mental health Week, we are the collateral damage for somebody
Speaker 1: whose mental health is being impaired or challenged.
Speaker 3: And that's the truth.
Speaker 1: The decisions you make don't affect you, it affects us.
Speaker 2: It's true. We're on the precipice of something. I think
Speaker 2: that if some changes are made, you know, we might
Speaker 2: look back in twenty years, look back to this time
Speaker 2: and say, see that's when it changed. That was when
Speaker 2: things flipped. Or if things go poorly, you know, that's
Speaker 2: a different way. But let's put out their positive energy
Speaker 2: and let everybody do your job. Vote, get out, register,
Speaker 2: look at your candidates, do your work, and make sure
Speaker 2: you're with the people you're voting in. Are actually going
Speaker 2: to work with other people. If they get right up
Speaker 2: on their platform and say they're voting against everything that
Speaker 2: the Democrats do, or they're voting against everything that the
Speaker 2: Republicans do, those aren't the people that you want. You
Speaker 2: want people who are going to actually get out there
Speaker 2: and do.
Speaker 3: The work exactly. Well, we Bobby, thank you, Bobby.
Speaker 1: Let me let me tell you guys something you guys
Speaker 1: give my girl Bobby Clifford around the clause because Bobby
Speaker 1: is coming in. I get such positive feedback in my
Speaker 1: inboxies about Bobby as the co host, not that they'd
Speaker 1: enjoy the other two co hosts I have, but this
Speaker 1: is season three and I think they really enjoy the
Speaker 1: conversation that we have as well. We're teaching. Because we're
Speaker 1: teaching and talking, we actually learn from each other, Bobby,
Speaker 1: because there are things that I don't know, there are things
Speaker 1: that you don't know. And that's what Coffee Times started
Speaker 1: in the kitchen, doing and laugh and learn. Just fold
Speaker 1: it over to be because I wanted people to be.
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be a transfer of information. I
Speaker 1: don't know everything I know. Y'all think I do, and
Speaker 1: I pretty much know like almost everything, but I really don't,
Speaker 1: and so I love to learn, and that is what
Speaker 1: we love. We love to push the effort of learning
Speaker 1: because knowledge is power. And it's not that you have
Speaker 1: to learn these major things, but you need to understand
Speaker 1: how life works, the ins and out, and how to
Speaker 1: treat people in a fair space so that you will
Speaker 1: be a better person. That's all we want to do.
Speaker 1: Did you so?
Speaker 3: We thank you to our producer, mister Aaron Howard.
Speaker 1: I thank you my Bobby cliff You follow Bobby on
Speaker 1: Instagram at Clifford Bobby as well as on Facebook and
Speaker 1: I am Flame Monroe on everything except Instagram My Monroe
Speaker 1: Flame on backwards on there. Thank you guys for joining us.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you. We look forward to hearing from you
Speaker 1: next week. We got some other interviews coming up with
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