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Speaker 1: what you don't? Nois do what I do. Hey, welcome
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Speaker 1: along with my beautiful co host, Ms. Lauren Hogan, who's
Speaker 1: been on vacation. She's on the world tour. She thinks
Speaker 1: she'd Beyonce. Y'all not at all. Life has been rough
Speaker 1: and I'm right now I wish um no. But I
Speaker 1: went to homecoming this past weekend, which was so much
Speaker 1: fun because it was the first year let me hear
Speaker 1: you say it where it was homecoming. It was in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: It was spell House, so it was spell many More
Speaker 1: House of Homecoming. It was the first one that happened.
Speaker 1: It's happened in three years. So, um, it was really fun.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. It was so exciting to see everybody and
Speaker 1: just kind of have that black excellence and camaraderie and everything. Um.
Speaker 1: We actually had a lot of celebrities show up to
Speaker 1: which was interesting, from Tibo Champ to you know, Carrie Washington,
Speaker 1: Rick Ross. It was. It was an interesting homecoming. But
Speaker 1: I had a great time keeping my fingers crossed. I
Speaker 1: don't get COVID because it was a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it was just it was nice to be
Speaker 1: back in my second home. Anders is the coach in
Speaker 1: one of the schools. Deon Sanders is the head coach
Speaker 1: at UM Jackson Jackson State, Mississippi. So yeah, the valley
Speaker 1: went out for that. I was gonna say at the
Speaker 1: that was there. Oh oh, I talked to you while
Speaker 1: you were sound like you had a really good time.
Speaker 1: Did you have a cocktail or two or six or
Speaker 1: to fifteen? You know, I was really good on Friday,
Speaker 1: pretty good on Saturday. Sunday it was a little rough
Speaker 1: and I had a had a red eye afterwards, so
Speaker 1: I was a little intoxicated on my flight, almost threw up.
Speaker 1: But you know, we made it. That's all that matters.
Speaker 1: We made it. I'm glad you do. They had a
Speaker 1: good time. You suppose to you when you're young, you
Speaker 1: supposed to have a good time. When you get old,
Speaker 1: you get mad at everybody. I'm mad at anybody right now,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad to be. It was a good week.
Speaker 1: My wife was very it was very interesting. Wednesday we
Speaker 1: did the Three Voices at the Hollywood Laugh Factory. Of
Speaker 1: course we'll be there to my tomorrow's Gang Gang Night,
Speaker 1: by the way. Thursday, I spoke at the Karen Bass
Speaker 1: political fundraiser at the Hollywood Laugh Factory and it was
Speaker 1: quite I wasn't on the show, but Jamie macided only
Speaker 1: invited me to come, so I'm there and I knew
Speaker 1: it was a political rally, so I covered up. I
Speaker 1: didn't showed no cleavage. I was oh, I was what
Speaker 1: I was, everything right right? And so when I was there,
Speaker 1: sent you. The entertainer had to leave while will I
Speaker 1: amazon the stage speaking and Jimmy Massara asked me to
Speaker 1: close out the show. So I went up no, no introduction,
Speaker 1: just cold turkey. Turned the show out. Come to find
Speaker 1: out that they asked me, your partner, your client, to
Speaker 1: speak at the Democratic National Convention because they love the
Speaker 1: message that I conveyed about voting and who I am
Speaker 1: as a person. And I thought it was great and
Speaker 1: the only message I pushed the Lauren. Yep, I'm black first, YEP,
Speaker 1: I am transgender, Yep, I'm an entertainer. But I pushed
Speaker 1: to those people that I am a registered voting American
Speaker 1: citizen of the East United States. And as soon as
Speaker 1: we want to know what American, an American citizen looks like,
Speaker 1: go to your mirror with your registration, called your voters
Speaker 1: registration car and you, my dear on America. We told
Speaker 1: the v and they loved the message. They loved how
Speaker 1: I did it, so they asked me to speak. Now,
Speaker 1: mind you, the hardest probably gonna be what I'm aware
Speaker 1: at the d n C, because you know, I can't
Speaker 1: show no skin. Child. I'm gonna easier just to put
Speaker 1: on a nice blazer, you know, maybe a little skirt.
Speaker 1: You know, you can show a little leg, but the
Speaker 1: you gonna have to cover the girls up. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cover I'm gonna look like I'm have on a hit
Speaker 1: job and everything very covered. But it will be type
Speaker 1: as as oh, your panties. I wanted to fit me
Speaker 1: like a bodyguard. They just say it couldn't show the shape.
Speaker 1: They just said I couldn't show no skin. I think
Speaker 1: it was implied. I think it was implied. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna throw that out there just then, heels. I didn't
Speaker 1: hear that. All I heard was wake it up and
Speaker 1: shake it up. And I'm like, oh, I can do that.
Speaker 1: But I think it's gonna be great, and I think
Speaker 1: that it's going to be wonderful. A for my career,
Speaker 1: be for our for a podcast, laugh and learn and see.
Speaker 1: Just to push the importance of voting, because I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people miss that. And like I said
Speaker 1: it on the microphone, I don't know what party you represent.
Speaker 1: That ain't even that important to me all the I
Speaker 1: know it really is as a Democrat, But I just
Speaker 1: want you to utilize the power that you have, which
Speaker 1: is your vote. Get your butt up and go to
Speaker 1: the pos and vote. That is very important. So it's
Speaker 1: so funny that you say that, because I kind of
Speaker 1: want a segue and I'm kind of getting off topic.
Speaker 1: But you just jogged my memory about something and do
Speaker 1: it last weekend, So you know, early voting started in Georgia. Um,
Speaker 1: I think this past last Tuesday, so it's been going
Speaker 1: on for about a week. Um. But I actually read
Speaker 1: an article that was supposted by Shaun King that a
Speaker 1: student that attends the Morehouse School of Medicine, This young girl,
Speaker 1: she went in to basically exercise her right to vote
Speaker 1: and perform early voting. When she got there, they basically
Speaker 1: challenged her voter eligibility and we're trying to force her
Speaker 1: to fill out of provisional ballot. She said that she
Speaker 1: felt very intimidated and she felt like, you know, she
Speaker 1: was really being almost like cornered. So she ended up
Speaker 1: leaving and she didn't vote. So what's happening in Georgia
Speaker 1: now is basically they passed a law where citizens or
Speaker 1: poll workers can actually challenge you on your voter eligibility
Speaker 1: and basically, if you don't pass their test, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna allow you to vote. Sound familiar about you know
Speaker 1: how many marbles that in this jar? Exactly? So it's
Speaker 1: literally like we are back in the nineteen you know,
Speaker 1: fifties and sixties, when you know there was this big
Speaker 1: boom around you know, voting and especially in Georgia, and
Speaker 1: such a key race with Stacy Abrams, Brian Kemp, Raphael Warnock,
Speaker 1: Herschel Walker. So there's these keys um races that are
Speaker 1: happening in the state, and they're practicing voter suppression again
Speaker 1: to make sure that us we don't vote or make
Speaker 1: it difficult for us to exercise our right to vote.
Speaker 1: So that's that is quite scary. And it always goes
Speaker 1: back to what you said shot a year ago. Um,
Speaker 1: if I vote wasn't so important, why would why would
Speaker 1: they do so many things to try to discard it?
Speaker 1: And you made me think of something that happens. So
Speaker 1: I attended the gree Awards on this weekend, and there
Speaker 1: was a young lady, a thirteen year old girl. She's uh,
Speaker 1: the first Fina saw. She's the first person. She was
Speaker 1: the youngest person ever worked fin Saw and she just
Speaker 1: got accepted to medical school. Her name Blue eludes me.
Speaker 1: You google you y'all know any who. She was making
Speaker 1: this great speech because they honored her at the gree Awards.
Speaker 1: By the way, the gree Awards will become out Oscars.
Speaker 1: It was so classy, so wonderful and well put together
Speaker 1: Byron Allen did an amazing job at the whole black
Speaker 1: people dressed up in honoring us and us speaking so well.
Speaker 1: And this girl did not have a prepared speech, low
Speaker 1: and and she was talking about why I was so
Speaker 1: important for her to help people who she was and
Speaker 1: she has done all of these great things in her
Speaker 1: young thirteen years. And she kept giggling and laughing, and
Speaker 1: I was speaking to a ban and Abran was said,
Speaker 1: I don't like that she didn't have a prepared speech.
Speaker 1: I thought that her mom should have prepared her speech.
Speaker 1: And I told April what she did though, was reminded
Speaker 1: us that she was a thirteen year old kid, and
Speaker 1: I thought that that was fantastic because with all her
Speaker 1: great accomplishments, she's still a little girl. And she remembered that. Well.
Speaker 1: I think that what you're saying, though, is so important
Speaker 1: because I think, especially because you know, I think as
Speaker 1: black women, you know, our innocence, or like our our
Speaker 1: childhood innocence is almost taken away from us so quickly.
Speaker 1: So I love that you said that to April, that
Speaker 1: she's still a child and in those moments of her speaking,
Speaker 1: she was able to remind the audience that yes, while
Speaker 1: I am still a child, I'm still doing great things,
Speaker 1: but I'm still a child at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know. And it was so a dope and went
Speaker 1: at the end because I think the three Awards aired
Speaker 1: November five, she cut one of her dreadlocks for the
Speaker 1: young lady that was killed and Iran who had the
Speaker 1: her job on wrong to show solidarity in women and
Speaker 1: the power of the youth and young ladies. And oh
Speaker 1: my god, this little girl had my ass flooded because
Speaker 1: she was so even with the Tyler Perry's and the
Speaker 1: and the Dave Chappelle's and the Queenslan thief Is, all
Speaker 1: these big names, this little girl was a powerhouse Lauren.
Speaker 1: And I love the fact that she remembered that she
Speaker 1: was a little girl. It was so adorable. But the
Speaker 1: Grill Awards was great, hosted by Sherl Underwood and Tay Diggs.
Speaker 1: And the only issue I had that Sherl didn't change
Speaker 1: dresses because I would have changed dress about times. Didn't
Speaker 1: do that. But I do want to also say something too.
Speaker 1: I know you like to talk about the gen z
Speaker 1: Ears and that last generation. I'm telling you there's something
Speaker 1: special about them. I know people love to talk about them,
Speaker 1: how they're lazy, they're this, they're that. There's some brilliant
Speaker 1: minds in that generation. That's all I'm gonna say. Raised
Speaker 1: in a single parent household, just by her mom. Her
Speaker 1: mother was there, and the mother was so supported. She
Speaker 1: talked about the support from him. I love that because
Speaker 1: I love when young sisters have a strong mother too
Speaker 1: to guide them and too mo them. I eat you
Speaker 1: because you know, I thought you was about forty five
Speaker 1: on your business savvy, not because the way that I looked,
Speaker 1: just because we got to clarify that, you know me
Speaker 1: and and oh my god, thirty three or thirty four,
Speaker 1: and you said when you said at twenty four, I say, girl,
Speaker 1: you laugh. But it was an amazing and your and
Speaker 1: your your me flamemon bro, your client made the giddy images.
Speaker 1: I saw them. You looked account dress. That was a
Speaker 1: bank account dress. A bank account dress. Is that you
Speaker 1: gotta put some innute in order to get somebody? Did
Speaker 1: you see what I put in fit like that? You
Speaker 1: looked like it was a woman. Oh my goodness, that
Speaker 1: was an amazing event, and we had a good time.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now you might be onto
Speaker 1: something with these jmseys because that little girl was so
Speaker 1: remarkable to me, and um, it just set the president itself.
Speaker 1: This is going to be our Oscars. Degree Awards will
Speaker 1: probably be probably become our Oscars. It was just that
Speaker 1: magnanimous to me. Well, they're starting to create things for us,
Speaker 1: which I mean we always still have, like the Image Awards. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we're creating things for us exactly we have Image Awards,
Speaker 1: um now the Great Awards, and then even you know
Speaker 1: what um Tina Lawson does with the Wordable Art Galla,
Speaker 1: that's turning into our Black met Gala, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I want to invite to that next year.
Speaker 1: I've actually this is the first year I actually haven't
Speaker 1: gone because I was in Atlanta for Homecoming, but i've
Speaker 1: pretty I think, yeah, I've been actually every year that
Speaker 1: she's had it. It's a beautiful event, it's beautiful affair.
Speaker 1: She raises a lot of money. The program is always
Speaker 1: really fantastic. So I'm sad I couldn't go, but I
Speaker 1: had to go to Atlanta and get my Black Excellence on.
Speaker 1: But so yeah, she raised five millions year. So we
Speaker 1: are two weeks away from election, but it's so many
Speaker 1: debates going on now. They did have a debate eight
Speaker 1: um what debates that I watched when I ain't watched
Speaker 1: none of him in in in full because Kentman, did
Speaker 1: you watch that one tonight? That one is going actually
Speaker 1: went on tonight? No, But I was with feed a Man,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling I never trusted Dr Oz. I think
Speaker 1: we talked about this on Episodes of Laughing a while ago.
Speaker 1: I told you I never trusted him because he always
Speaker 1: had looked to me and I never believed in his
Speaker 1: in his medical whatever he was saying, it was always
Speaker 1: for show. But then he jumped into the political game.
Speaker 1: He went far left or which yeah, far left? Was
Speaker 1: it far right? Which one was it? You know? It's
Speaker 1: interesting because I never knew that he was a Republican
Speaker 1: and a Trump supporter. So when he came out, as
Speaker 1: you know, running on the Republican side of things, I
Speaker 1: was very shocked and appalled, and I was like, dang,
Speaker 1: I can't really take advice on anything that you say now,
Speaker 1: especially not medically, because I don't know what's biased and
Speaker 1: what's skewed in your eyes. But um, I hope that
Speaker 1: he looses. That's all I can really say. I really
Speaker 1: Fetterman had a stroke, you know, a while ago, and
Speaker 1: Dr Oz actually used that in his campaign to speak
Speaker 1: Fetterman to say that he had medical issues and and
Speaker 1: not nicely. So now he's trying to clean that up
Speaker 1: because he saw that he was still losing and and
Speaker 1: now reported according to the news, he's trying to get
Speaker 1: as far away from that Trump whatever that is. It's
Speaker 1: possible because it's like a cloud of gloom and doom. Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting too of how some Republicans are shifting. Um.
Speaker 1: For instance, there was an ad that I saw while
Speaker 1: I was in Atlanta. Um it was I forgot the organization,
Speaker 1: but it was like Republicans for credibility. They actually ran
Speaker 1: an ad against herschel Walker. I couldn't believe it. And
Speaker 1: it was a Republican organization that paid for primetime TV
Speaker 1: ad to run against herschel Walker. Yeah, lots of rats
Speaker 1: to jumping ship, and lots of people are starting to
Speaker 1: see things for what they were. Let's tegue into it,
Speaker 1: ye yee. And speaking of jumping ship, I'm not about
Speaker 1: I'm not laughing at the man's pain. But when he
Speaker 1: said anything negative about black people, there was no repercussions,
Speaker 1: There was no backlash, there was no nothing. Baby. He
Speaker 1: said something about the Jewish community, and when I tell you,
Speaker 1: they are snatching things left right, sideways, up under, over between,
Speaker 1: back to behind the door, through the gangway. Oh my grandma,
Speaker 1: it's in the gangway, baby, everybody running ship. They like
Speaker 1: rats on the Titanic. Listen. Mine. My main issue at
Speaker 1: this point in time is I just find it interesting
Speaker 1: that Kanye West has made so many hateful comments about
Speaker 1: black folks, the black community. So whether it was slavery
Speaker 1: was a choice, or wearing a White Lives Matter T shirt,
Speaker 1: these are recent things. But he said so many degrading
Speaker 1: things about black people. These big companies, Adida's Gap, Valenciaga,
Speaker 1: nobody cared about that. But as soon as he offended
Speaker 1: the Jewish community, all bets are off. They got a
Speaker 1: part ways. Oh he's racist, He's making all these comments there.
Speaker 1: He's losing everything, he really is. His net worth literally
Speaker 1: plummeted by millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. Today, Forbes
Speaker 1: removed him off of the billionaire list based on his
Speaker 1: net worth dropping so much after Um, Adidas dropped him.
Speaker 1: Today officially parted ways. But it's just so interesting to
Speaker 1: me that once you offend the Jewish community, that that's
Speaker 1: the big no no. You can talk crap about black
Speaker 1: folks and these big companies don't care, but the Jewish community,
Speaker 1: all bets are off. They were they reminding him that
Speaker 1: he was a brother. Yeah, they were reminding him for
Speaker 1: sure that he was black, because we all know hundred
Speaker 1: Champs when he did that UM episode, he said he
Speaker 1: could say, you know, anti Jewish comments and he would
Speaker 1: be fine, and Ditas couldn't do anything. They sure did
Speaker 1: dissolve that a partnership and lose almost two d and
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. They surely did. Sometimes you get Fantasia
Speaker 1: Marino said it bit it's best. Sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: lose to win. I still love her. Speaking of her,
Speaker 1: she opened up the Green Awards said and that was
Speaker 1: probably probably the biggest mistake they made in their life,
Speaker 1: because when I tell you, that's just to open up
Speaker 1: that show and took that ball all the way to
Speaker 1: heaven and could nothing come and touch it. Baby. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you what was so funny? Lord at the
Speaker 1: Green Awards so pat they an Patty LaBelle, so pale
Speaker 1: LaBelle came by the same. You could clearly see the monitor.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'm gonna laugh, but I always say,
Speaker 1: make the words real, big babe. The words on the
Speaker 1: teleprompter was biggest my head. Good god. It was funny.
Speaker 1: And miss Patty stopped looking at the teleprompter and forgot
Speaker 1: the words the Superwoman and told told Fantasia Queen Latifa, Uh,
Speaker 1: what else is saying? Yolanda Adams? And that was somebody else?
Speaker 1: She said, y'all just saying so when Petty could remember
Speaker 1: the word, she stopped flying like a bird. We lost
Speaker 1: our mass. I screezed the landlord. I had a great time,
Speaker 1: good guy. That was fun. Get off topic. What was
Speaker 1: we at talking about? Mr? West? I told you on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, I said, told y'all, y'all, he played
Speaker 1: in that card incessiful baby whoo who it's scary And
Speaker 1: and you know he told his wife or ex wife whatever,
Speaker 1: they don't even know if they're divorced, yit um that
Speaker 1: she would never make her career was going to end
Speaker 1: when she divorced him. With her in a fashion world
Speaker 1: and Vogue has party ways with him, and she's still
Speaker 1: in bed with them, so you know, it's interesting to see.
Speaker 1: Well for now, for now, we all we don't know
Speaker 1: what the future is gonna bring. I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: how her fashion career works out, though, considering she does
Speaker 1: have all of these relationships because of Kanye. It was
Speaker 1: gonna call a spade a spade. That is true. He
Speaker 1: really built up a fashion career. So I know she
Speaker 1: came out and said she doesn't support what he said,
Speaker 1: but I'm curious to see what happens for her considering
Speaker 1: she's tied to him. You've already seen it. You've already
Speaker 1: seen it once another black man helped build her career
Speaker 1: and boom, she's ten times more big, bigger than him.
Speaker 1: Well she is. She's who she is now because of family.
Speaker 1: That's very true. So crazy to see how her relationships,
Speaker 1: if they're maintained, or if people are distancing themselves from her.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how it plays out. And back
Speaker 1: to these politics, layd until Ron the Sands is your
Speaker 1: favorite governor in Florida has made some of the most
Speaker 1: bogus Outlandis statements. I thought he wanted to run for
Speaker 1: president and I'm not sure if that's what the case
Speaker 1: definitely does We've been in the audio. I feel like
Speaker 1: we should play the audio because what he said was
Speaker 1: so ludicrous. I feel like we should play the audio
Speaker 1: on this episode. Um, Aaron, let me know if you
Speaker 1: can hear this from the French that they do have
Speaker 1: programs unfortunately, well they will take a student look at
Speaker 1: their race. Okay, you're white, you're an oppressor. If you're black,
Speaker 1: you're oppressed. And think about what that does to a
Speaker 1: six or seven year old kids. That's wrong. You're seeing
Speaker 1: that you have people that are teaching and actually his
Speaker 1: running mate has said this in the past that teaching
Speaker 1: the United States was built on stolen land. That is
Speaker 1: inappropriate for our schools. It's not true. Uh, and I'm
Speaker 1: happy teaching that the United States was built on stolen
Speaker 1: land is not true. Listen. I've said publicly before that
Speaker 1: he was Patrick the Starfish from SpongeBob Square Paints, which
Speaker 1: and I don't change my statement at all. It is
Speaker 1: such a divide, it is such a great divide, and
Speaker 1: it is so tactical and ugly, and we already in
Speaker 1: a horrible crisis for race. Uh. The critical race theory
Speaker 1: that we might erupt in this country, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm telling it's getting scarier. Every day is getting scarier.
Speaker 1: It's just it's interesting, and I feel like it goes
Speaker 1: back to the previous episode that we talked about troll culture,
Speaker 1: because you're knowingly spreading misinformation. People are getting sued behind
Speaker 1: this at this point for spreading conspiracy theories and actually
Speaker 1: telling lies that you know are not true. So for
Speaker 1: you to say that people are in classrooms telling white
Speaker 1: kids that, oh, your oppressors, nobody's doing that. People telling
Speaker 1: black kids, Oh, you're oppressed, nobody's doing that in school?
Speaker 1: What what teachers are trying to do, like folks like
Speaker 1: Alison who's been on our show, who's an educator in
Speaker 1: the Florida area where she has this terrible governor, Alison
Speaker 1: le Yes, you're trying to teach children the truth behind
Speaker 1: this country and behind what our ancestors, their ancestors did,
Speaker 1: and how it was wrong and how it's honestly built
Speaker 1: an ongoing cycle in this country of what should not happen.
Speaker 1: You stole killed to create this country, and they couldn't
Speaker 1: even build it yourself. You have to go to freaking
Speaker 1: Africa to get us to build it because you couldn't
Speaker 1: do it yourselves. So it's just Rond de Santis is
Speaker 1: also another example of a person of color, specifically Latino,
Speaker 1: trying to assimilate and be white. There's just there's so
Speaker 1: many things that are wrong with what he's saying, and
Speaker 1: I feel like how he has an identity crisis and
Speaker 1: identifies himself. It's just I just can't believe that he
Speaker 1: actually said that in the middle of a debate. But
Speaker 1: you know, the wild thing is people are still gonna
Speaker 1: vote for him. Oh, he's in the right state. He's
Speaker 1: in the many petty states, so yeah, petty. And I'm
Speaker 1: not disrespecting Florida at all, but some of y'all just
Speaker 1: really needed who that cool. Ain't got to be real sweet,
Speaker 1: because good god, y'all keep drinking it, And even Jim
Speaker 1: Jones cool aid at this point it is because people
Speaker 1: are going to keep voting for him. That's yeah. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna just blame Florida because Texas and and tar Cruise.
Speaker 1: First of all, Tar Cruiser was on the view yesterday
Speaker 1: and he could hardly even get through because the audience
Speaker 1: they were booing him, and you know what and s
Speaker 1: ob and Whoopy had to get mad to try to
Speaker 1: sell him down. Whoopy could not settle them down. They
Speaker 1: talked about joy not joy Anna Naviral question him as
Speaker 1: a Latino woman to another Latino man, how could you
Speaker 1: let this man insult your wife because she's part of
Speaker 1: Cuban she said, a Cuban man would never and uh,
Speaker 1: he just well, you know, I knew the assignment, and
Speaker 1: I figured I would have to work with this man.
Speaker 1: He skirted past it and made every excuse in the book.
Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you, he showed that he had no spy,
Speaker 1: no backbone, and he had not been to see the
Speaker 1: Wizard because he didn't have no brain, no courage, or
Speaker 1: no damn hard When Donald Trump called his wife ugly
Speaker 1: to his face, unattractive and his father was a killer,
Speaker 1: and he said, bowed down. And they're here too. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's wrong when people along people are broken
Speaker 1: and lost, and the same party is that the people
Speaker 1: that are broken alongst are in positions of power to
Speaker 1: destroy us. And all right, so out to your first point,
Speaker 1: I will say, I don't I think when Ted Cruz
Speaker 1: has to run again, I think he's seat up is
Speaker 1: up in four. If I'm not mistaken, when he has
Speaker 1: to run again, I think he's gonna lose. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna keep his seat because I think the
Speaker 1: people of Texas are really piste off, piste off at him,
Speaker 1: especially after he left in the middle of a crisis
Speaker 1: and went to Mexico. I don't think he's gonna get reelected.
Speaker 1: But I also am not confident that Beto is gonna
Speaker 1: win against Greg Abbott. I'm not. Yeah, Well, Beto was
Speaker 1: too emotional, and then there's too many, um, it's too
Speaker 1: many Republicans in Texas. Re Texas still has it's fully
Speaker 1: even after all that Vality tragedy, and it has showed
Speaker 1: the they were wrong in every way possible. In law enforcement,
Speaker 1: you're right lawing. Unfortunately, I hate to agree with you
Speaker 1: on this one because you probably you know you you're
Speaker 1: you're right on that. Uh, they do. Old Rourke I like,
Speaker 1: but I think he gets a little too emotional, and
Speaker 1: as a politician you really have to remove the emotion.
Speaker 1: That's why I love Stacy Aram so much, because you
Speaker 1: can't shake that lady. You don't. You You can say
Speaker 1: the worst things about her and her temperament is whatever.
Speaker 1: And speaking of Stacy Abram's my good spelling sis was
Speaker 1: at homecoming and did a tent tailgate. She was with
Speaker 1: the people and she better win. But anyway, that's work on.
Speaker 1: I said, come on, Stacy with the people and it's
Speaker 1: for the people. I need her to win. But anyway, UM, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't. I don't think the Ted
Speaker 1: Cruiz is gonna actually win his seat again, and he
Speaker 1: probably knows that too. And I think once he loses
Speaker 1: that seat, it's gonna be what are you going to
Speaker 1: actually do? He's gonna have to become a political correspondent,
Speaker 1: probably on Fox or something. And I fantastic uh producer
Speaker 1: here reminds us today that he went to the to
Speaker 1: the game Yankee game. Yeah, abe, not only booed him,
Speaker 1: but disrespecting him, called him all kind of names just
Speaker 1: in everything, and and and well deserved. He has shown
Speaker 1: his ass too many times to be so disrespectful, not
Speaker 1: only to the Texans but to the country. So I
Speaker 1: think it's well deserved. I don't feel no pity for
Speaker 1: him at all. I just don't have any sympathy for
Speaker 1: Ted Cruise at this point. So best of luck. You
Speaker 1: better be glad. I wouldn't sitting next so them because
Speaker 1: I would call him Mary. You probably would be right
Speaker 1: there with everybody else at Yankee Stadium. So but I
Speaker 1: would have been allowed. I'm welcome the tiffany Hatrisan jumped
Speaker 1: on his face and moved my hand with him. But
Speaker 1: back and forth and back and forth. He might have
Speaker 1: punched me. He wouldn't have punched me. He said nothing
Speaker 1: about Donald Trump saying about his wife. He woudn't. He
Speaker 1: wouldn't hit me because I would have took my wig
Speaker 1: off and get with him. Uh. I'm only a girl
Speaker 1: with with the check. So last, but not least, we
Speaker 1: do need to talk about. There was another school shooting
Speaker 1: in St. Louis. Um. I just feel like school shootings
Speaker 1: at this point, people are kind of like become immune
Speaker 1: to it, like it's not as big of a deal
Speaker 1: anymore because they're happening so often, and it's just breaking
Speaker 1: my heart that it's not safe for kids to go
Speaker 1: to school, which is not I can't say that I'm
Speaker 1: immune to it, but when I hear about it, the
Speaker 1: first thing I say is another one. And the only
Speaker 1: reason I'm not immune to it is because I have
Speaker 1: a kid that's still in high school, so it kind
Speaker 1: of like, oh my god. The first thing I do
Speaker 1: is text my door to call girl. You're okay, you say,
Speaker 1: and we have gone over the rules a thousand times
Speaker 1: that if it ever happens at her school, you get
Speaker 1: to the safest place you can and had don't you
Speaker 1: open the door, don't you make a sound, turn that
Speaker 1: phone off, Text me and say Dad, this is it,
Speaker 1: but this is where I'm at and I'm safe to
Speaker 1: let me know because parents worry. You don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on, and you never know when it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And it seems like it got quiet down for two
Speaker 1: or three weeks, and then here we are again. Here
Speaker 1: we are again. My concern is that it's still happening
Speaker 1: and it's not being reported. Well, he left us to it.
Speaker 1: He left the note. He was nineteen years old. He
Speaker 1: graduated at King I don't know his name. You can
Speaker 1: tell him his name, Lauren. He graduated from the school
Speaker 1: last year. He came back because you said he had
Speaker 1: no friends, no family, nobody loved him. He had six
Speaker 1: hundred rounds of ammunition from an A R fifteen that
Speaker 1: he had just purchased, so now they're going after that.
Speaker 1: But this is what blows me. Why sell these weapons
Speaker 1: to these youth and then you're gonna, oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, he's not gonna bring my baby back. But
Speaker 1: who who? What does? What? Does TJ? And say? Keep
Speaker 1: your keep it on? But no, it's getting ready, so
Speaker 1: you can stay ready. I forgot what it was saying
Speaker 1: all that to say, I just got my gun this
Speaker 1: past weekend or right before I left Atlanta last Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I have my weapon now. So because that's I feel
Speaker 1: like that's what we have to do at this point
Speaker 1: to protect ours else because there is so much violence
Speaker 1: happening because my switchblade is not gonna be good enough anymore.
Speaker 1: My switchblade can't stop a bullet. Yeah, you can't take
Speaker 1: a knife to a gun fight. And he killed the
Speaker 1: sixty old young lady, and he killed the sixty one
Speaker 1: year old teacher. And I'm glad that you brought that
Speaker 1: up about your gun, because there was an incident that
Speaker 1: just happened. I think it was in Alabama where a
Speaker 1: off duty firefighter wrestled and man handled a black guy
Speaker 1: for more than ten minutes because he insulted the lady
Speaker 1: in the store. They got into a not to a
Speaker 1: physical education, just to a shouting match, and he stepped
Speaker 1: in the intervened, and this was a black guy and
Speaker 1: he's a big white boy and he just owned this
Speaker 1: white boy on this black guy for ten minutes. And
Speaker 1: the girlfriend kept saying, get off him, get off him.
Speaker 1: She had a gun. She shot him one time and
Speaker 1: killed them and there are no charges. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that was justice in America to me for that
Speaker 1: one time, because there were so many warnings and he
Speaker 1: would not get off of this guy. I don't know
Speaker 1: why these people think that they can take the long
Speaker 1: to their own hands, but that is the that is
Speaker 1: the plethora of problems that Trump opened to make people
Speaker 1: think that can do what they want to do. I
Speaker 1: love that she stood up on herself, and I'm with
Speaker 1: you on that might be what we have to do,
Speaker 1: just to let them know that this is not that.
Speaker 1: This is not like they said, yesterday's money ain't today's money.
Speaker 1: Maybe yesterday's black people ain't today's black people. Talk about
Speaker 1: I am not my ancestors. You've seen them shirts. I
Speaker 1: am my ancestor. But I got there. I get their heart.
Speaker 1: But God Davin, and I got a gun. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have a gun. Well, I I
Speaker 1: legally have a firearm. I took a test, I passed
Speaker 1: background we in California, so you know, you can't get
Speaker 1: around that, especially with the governor that we have. But
Speaker 1: I went through all the legalities. But my dad just
Speaker 1: he because especially because I'm in you know, my place
Speaker 1: by myself, he wanted to make sure that I was protected.
Speaker 1: So he was like, you need to purchase a gun.
Speaker 1: So I'm officially a gun owner. I go to the
Speaker 1: gun range with my uncle who's x l A. He's
Speaker 1: an x l A p D detective, and you gotta
Speaker 1: protect yourself. My switch plate isn't good enough anymore. Sadly, Loring,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just tragic. And you know, and I
Speaker 1: saw the kids and they were they were interviewing the
Speaker 1: students that come out to school in St. Louis. And
Speaker 1: that was a young black girl. She couldn't have been
Speaker 1: no older than fifteen or sixteen. She said, I'm never
Speaker 1: going back to school anymore. They have petrified these children
Speaker 1: in school. Our biggest worries was who got the best
Speaker 1: sneakers or who were in the Adidas jacket or you
Speaker 1: know who got the tom Ford or whatever. You not
Speaker 1: who's going to live not? Who's going to live today.
Speaker 1: I don't think if I was a parent tomorrow and
Speaker 1: have to send my kids to school, I don't think
Speaker 1: I would be comfortable to do it. I wouldn't. I
Speaker 1: would probably homeschool my kid. I don't think I would
Speaker 1: be okay, said of my kids to school, Well, they
Speaker 1: it's so much because then when you home school, if
Speaker 1: you're not traveling and teaching them outside of the world,
Speaker 1: they become so stagnated in the house, almost like a hermit.
Speaker 1: Which put us back to the pandemic situation. And don't
Speaker 1: let us leave without saying rest in peace to the
Speaker 1: great Uh Leslie Joe And oh my god, I met
Speaker 1: that little queen one time. He was so funny and
Speaker 1: so what you doing? He got me through the pandemic.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, Leslie Jordan got me through the fantom.
Speaker 1: What are y'all doing with this little video fact? Uh?
Speaker 1: He's still he still worked sixty seven years old. He
Speaker 1: worked to the day that and he died living his dream.
Speaker 1: The question is are you living yours? Because your happiness
Speaker 1: everybody's going to die, that is a given. Everyone is
Speaker 1: going to leave here. But while you're here, are you
Speaker 1: happy doing what you're doing. It's not about we put
Speaker 1: so much uh weight on money and success and fame,
Speaker 1: but success and famous is what you think of it
Speaker 1: as inside of you. You know, Lauren, you're successful at
Speaker 1: your job. I don't know what your big dreams are
Speaker 1: for what you want to do, but you seem happy
Speaker 1: with with your position. You seem happy in your personal life,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people missed that because they want status.
Speaker 1: I want to be the number one, I want to
Speaker 1: be the most famous. I want to be this. I
Speaker 1: want to be happy, and Leslie Jordan pushed happy this.
Speaker 1: He pushed that he was a happy person, and he
Speaker 1: said that it took him years to find that happiness.
Speaker 1: A lot of people will never find that happiness in
Speaker 1: their life. They just be content. I hate the way
Speaker 1: that he passed though, to have a heart attack in
Speaker 1: the car and then you had a car crash. I
Speaker 1: always said, if I ever had to go, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to go in my sleep, So I hate that
Speaker 1: he did. I want to go pretty, let me just be.
Speaker 1: I want to go real. I want to go done,
Speaker 1: beat child. I'll be okay being bare facing in my
Speaker 1: bed and just you know, my sleep. But I don't know. Um,
Speaker 1: I know we talked about a lot today. It just
Speaker 1: seems like we're back in the space where things are
Speaker 1: getting really really heavy. Yeah, and world, and I want
Speaker 1: to talk about another debate that the young the lady
Speaker 1: who's running for the governor of Arizona. I cannot think
Speaker 1: she is a Trump She Trump would a vaginia. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. She's a nightmare. She um, she a huge
Speaker 1: Trump supporter. She sees things her way. She keeps pushing
Speaker 1: this that the election was stolen and she's winning in
Speaker 1: Arizona and she's winning. Um, I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: her last name. Um, there's Carrie Lake and uh as,
Speaker 1: I can't think of her name. Google carry Lake and
Speaker 1: Katie Hobbs. There we go. She is a nightmare. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. And to me, I look at her and
Speaker 1: I see the face of evil. Yeah. There was some
Speaker 1: hope in a couple of states, um, I know, from Michigan,
Speaker 1: Georgia and um well Georgia really for the Senate race too.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be interesting to see how things end up.
Speaker 1: Shaking out because, like I said, Georgia, for instance, we're
Speaker 1: seeing voter suppression. I think we're gonna see that in
Speaker 1: more and more states as we, you know, really get
Speaker 1: to election day. I already had my absentee ballot or
Speaker 1: not my absentee excuse my mail in voting ballot, because
Speaker 1: I always do mailing. I just feel my ballot it
Speaker 1: out at home and I drop it off afterwards. But
Speaker 1: the voters depression, and there's voted intimidation because in some
Speaker 1: states they have mass people sitting in cars apparently with guns,
Speaker 1: so when you go up to vote, it's an all
Speaker 1: the intimidation factor. They're gonna have to get the right ones,
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you, I went to see the wizard
Speaker 1: and he gave me his job. I anski ship. Well,
Speaker 1: that's all about voter suppression. You know. That's the same
Speaker 1: thing that they did back in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 1: You know, and even when black folks got the right
Speaker 1: to vote, when they exercised their rights to vote, their
Speaker 1: employers would fire them. That's why they ended up creating
Speaker 1: in tense city in the middle of between Montgomery and
Speaker 1: some Alabama, because black folks literally ended up being homeless,
Speaker 1: and I had to live in tents, and the you know,
Speaker 1: racist white folks would drive by and shoot into tents
Speaker 1: that they were living in because they were fired from
Speaker 1: their jobs for exercising their right to vote even after
Speaker 1: it was legal. So there's just so much that has
Speaker 1: gone into allowing us the right to vote and to
Speaker 1: feel like we're in a tie more dealing with the
Speaker 1: same thing, and it's two is just baffling. It's so baffling.
Speaker 1: So I just encourage everybody that even if you're in Georgia,
Speaker 1: if you are, you know, if your voter eligibility is challenged,
Speaker 1: just take the extra time fill out that provisional ballot
Speaker 1: so that way you can ultimately cast your vote, because
Speaker 1: your vote is needed. It's unfortunate that we have to
Speaker 1: take those extra steps with this day and time, but
Speaker 1: it's what we have to do. And to the people
Speaker 1: within my listening here, if you say my little one
Speaker 1: vote don't count, hear me, and hear me very clearly
Speaker 1: and loud, because this was the message that I pushed.
Speaker 1: If twenty people feel like you and we lose the
Speaker 1: Democratic vote by twenty people, understand that that weight falls
Speaker 1: on you. It's as simple as that your vote does count,
Speaker 1: and they're counting on you not to vote, so understand
Speaker 1: that we have to beat them at their own game.
Speaker 1: They are changing the laws, changing the ways that you
Speaker 1: can vote, moving all kind of pull link stations and everything,
Speaker 1: but for the for the ones that told you to
Speaker 1: hold your vote until we figure out what the black
Speaker 1: agenda is. The black agenda is the same thing as
Speaker 1: the white agenda, and the Latino agenda, and the Asian
Speaker 1: and Indigenous agenda, and Italian every other nationality. We all
Speaker 1: want to be treated fairly as Americans. Americans all look
Speaker 1: the same. If you're a registered voter, then damn it
Speaker 1: you in America. So god damn, let's make America wonderful,
Speaker 1: because America have been wonderful. Was America ere wonderful before
Speaker 1: Columbus came with his bullshit? The Indians were good. They
Speaker 1: ain't need no help. They were smoking the pea pipe
Speaker 1: peace piper, eating their maize, which is corn, and having
Speaker 1: a good time on the whack. Columbus came with all
Speaker 1: that bullshit. Look at you about to fall out to
Speaker 1: be it again. Well, here a laugh and learn. We
Speaker 1: have a saying. We're never trying to get anybody to
Speaker 1: change your mind or always just simply trying to get
Speaker 1: you guys to use your mind. Because wife line, Because
Speaker 1: if you don't vote, you don't have a mind. So
Speaker 1: get your ass to the pos and register. Vote and vote.
Speaker 1: Don't vote your future because your future is not promised.
Speaker 1: Vote your president. We are living in hell. Vote your present.
Speaker 1: I understand that the future is coming, but baby, a
Speaker 1: lot of people ain't even gonna have a future because
Speaker 1: the president is so jacked up. They're trying to cancel
Speaker 1: our future. You better vote your present. Don't worry about
Speaker 1: the future. Couldn't have said it better myself. Shoot. Um,
Speaker 1: November eighth is right around the corner. Right around the corner,
Speaker 1: that's Timmy's birthday. Um, so make sure that you're registered
Speaker 1: to vote. Like I said, already got my mail in ballot.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it done. And it's scary times that
Speaker 1: we live in because that's really going to decide the
Speaker 1: next two to four years for a lot of uh,
Speaker 1: for a lot of things in this country. And then
Speaker 1: all I can say is God, caring Bass, both caring bass, Yes,
Speaker 1: caring bass because Karen Bass is a woman who cares
Speaker 1: about the people and not only just a woman. She
Speaker 1: is a Los Angeles uh what they call him and
Speaker 1: Leno that kills about Los Angeles. So and that's all people.
Speaker 1: Her and Gavin Newson of the best team for me.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to her winning and taking over
Speaker 1: because that other one that smiles so far, so fake
Speaker 1: and so forced. The girl looked like it hurt him.
Speaker 1: It hurts him to smile. Well, you know, Rick Crusoe
Speaker 1: is a convenient Republican turn Democrat. But I digressh I
Speaker 1: can you telling you the Republicans know how to play
Speaker 1: the game. The Democrats just learning what they need to
Speaker 1: put me in charge? I would be I'm a master
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