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Speaker 1: I'm recovering, Lawrence said they After Christmas, I reason green, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. How was your Christmas? What you do? I
Speaker 1: cooked Christmas Eve after running away for two days from
Speaker 1: home and came home and cooked for my kids. Huh,
Speaker 1: what you cook? Potato salad, of beef, pot roast and
Speaker 1: some greens. Went to feed the Homers with Tiffany Hattie
Speaker 1: and James Massida at the world famous Laugh Factory. Came
Speaker 1: home and Zeddie had took a fork, put the greens
Speaker 1: in front of her face and set at the table.
Speaker 1: And I think we had greenland because you know my
Speaker 1: daughter is successful greens. Know she loves your greens. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, was the pot gone already? The pot
Speaker 1: was damn near gone. It was hollow. It was as
Speaker 1: empty as Donald Trump's Texas, which we will get too late.
Speaker 1: That's good. I'm glad you had a good holiday. My
Speaker 1: Christmas was good. Um, my dad and my brother came over.
Speaker 1: I cooked, We hung out and watched basketball. It was
Speaker 1: a day full of basketball. And then um they went
Speaker 1: home them. I cleaned up my house and that was
Speaker 1: pretty much it. It was low key and chill, but
Speaker 1: it was a nice little Christmas. What you get for
Speaker 1: Christmas go for the ship. Now what you give for Christmas? Um?
Speaker 1: I got some money and that was about it. Like that.
Speaker 1: She likes that. Yeah, we decided a long time ago.
Speaker 1: It's just easier to give each other money so we
Speaker 1: can go get our own gifts less of a hassle.
Speaker 1: So well we're go ahead. The Christmas has come and going.
Speaker 1: Now let's see what's gonna happen with this new year.
Speaker 1: Happy Kwanza mm hmm happy. Yes, it's officially krans and
Speaker 1: all of the discount sales are happening, so this is
Speaker 1: the perfect time to use our money and now go
Speaker 1: shop boom somebody like a professional shopper. M h. My
Speaker 1: mama taught me, well, I told you we didn't have
Speaker 1: gifts under the Christmas tree for Christmas. We went after
Speaker 1: Christmas shopping cost effective. So all right, that's good tool.
Speaker 1: Before we get to start on the heavy topics, let
Speaker 1: me start with as they as their parents and as
Speaker 1: the dad. When I watched tory Land's dad japping out
Speaker 1: after the court proceedings after the final Birdie came down
Speaker 1: and going to after jay z n Rock Nation, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, he's angry. The daddy short to him
Speaker 1: like damn, I wouldn't do a run in the family.
Speaker 1: It's short angry. Um. They have some eclectic names, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh so Tori's Layne's real name is Day Star and
Speaker 1: his father's name is sun Star. It's very eclectic. Mm hmm, yeah,
Speaker 1: very unique. Maybe they had a daughter she becalled Shining Star.
Speaker 1: So no, I saw the video though of him being
Speaker 1: upset and um calling out those different people. He gets
Speaker 1: officially sentenced on January and he's facing up to years,
Speaker 1: so we shall see how that develops. But yes, he's
Speaker 1: currently in um l A County jail, so we'll see
Speaker 1: what he gets, what his sentences. Oh and man Central,
Speaker 1: good god, yuck. I'm saying yuck from experience. Okay, where
Speaker 1: are we going? Um, Well, it's Monday, so we all
Speaker 1: know who's back in the news again, and that's um,
Speaker 1: former President Donald Trump. And it worries that Sunny Houston,
Speaker 1: former president, former one term president twice in peace, twice
Speaker 1: in peace, disgraced President Donald and he just continues to
Speaker 1: make history for being a criminal um during his presidency.
Speaker 1: So but I know that today we want to talk
Speaker 1: about officially the news is his taxes because he officially
Speaker 1: had to turn them all over um the January six
Speaker 1: committee review them. So I'm just gonna do a quick
Speaker 1: highlight of what the report entails regarding taxes and actually
Speaker 1: Milannia is a part of this because it's their joint
Speaker 1: taxes that they yeah, exactly. So just a quick highlight
Speaker 1: is that. So on the on the federal tax return,
Speaker 1: Trump and his wife declared negative income at thirty one
Speaker 1: point seven million dollars with taxable income of zero dollars.
Speaker 1: The couple paid federal income taxes of six hundred and
Speaker 1: forty one tho dollars. A little over that returned declared
Speaker 1: negative income of thirty one point two million with zero
Speaker 1: dollars a taxible income. And then that's when Trump paid
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty dollars in taxes. That was in
Speaker 1: UM come seventeen. Once again declared negative income of twelve
Speaker 1: point eight million with zero dollars in taxable income. The
Speaker 1: couple paid once again seven hundred and fifty dollars in
Speaker 1: taxes twenty four million dollars total income UM. The Trump's
Speaker 1: paid about a million dollars in federal tax income um
Speaker 1: exeason federal income taxes. Then in twenty nineteen it was
Speaker 1: four point four four million dollars. They paid about a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three thousand dollars and then lastly return
Speaker 1: shows negative income at four point six nine million dollars
Speaker 1: and um, the tax paid by the Trumps was zero
Speaker 1: dollars and they claimed to refund. This is the highlight
Speaker 1: of five point four seven million dollars. So they got
Speaker 1: over five million dollars back from the I R S
Speaker 1: and paid no taxes. That's a quick highlight of that.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I wonder when they got all that money back.
Speaker 1: Is that when she purchased that jacket. You remember she
Speaker 1: had the jacket No one cares or something like that.
Speaker 1: I wondered the very Marie Antoinet when Marie internet they
Speaker 1: was getting all the money and the people were starving,
Speaker 1: and she said, that'll beat cake. She did let him
Speaker 1: watch this jacket. Yeah, so he's been officially exposed regarding
Speaker 1: his taxes. What does this mean. We'll see because there
Speaker 1: have been other, you know, criminal activity that's been happening
Speaker 1: with Trump and nothing has happened as of yet. So
Speaker 1: maybe this is going to be a part of whatever
Speaker 1: Merritt Garland does regarded the d O J. But to
Speaker 1: get five million dollars back from the I R S
Speaker 1: and pay no federal income taxes, um, that's different. M hmm.
Speaker 1: I wanted people in charge of the I R S,
Speaker 1: who's over his tax to be investigated opening to him,
Speaker 1: because why well, this is no different from you know,
Speaker 1: Alan Weisselberg being found guilty and Trump's actual corporation, but
Speaker 1: him saying he knew nothing about it. So let's see
Speaker 1: if he has the same strategy with this that you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't know anything about the taxes. He had people
Speaker 1: to file for him, and then they're the ones that
Speaker 1: are responsible if from dragged their name meant, if the
Speaker 1: I R S and the government has to drag their
Speaker 1: name in it, I feel another gunning experience on the
Speaker 1: white side. Well, I mean, if we're gonna be honest,
Speaker 1: this is very much his whole family and what they've done,
Speaker 1: it's very much so rico case. If we're gonna be
Speaker 1: over honest, he's running a criminal empire. I'm feeling a
Speaker 1: gun and experience. Somebody going to tell you, well, I
Speaker 1: mean it's happened in his right hand man, Alan I
Speaker 1: school were already flipped. Man was found guilty. So he's
Speaker 1: just using you know, what's it called plausible deniability? This one, well,
Speaker 1: his thing, weren't we have talked about this. Excuse my
Speaker 1: smack and y'all We have spoken about this on numerous occasions,
Speaker 1: about this man not being able to hold public office.
Speaker 1: If he goes to jail, great if he doesn't, or whatever.
Speaker 1: But to me, in fact, that he could never hold
Speaker 1: a public office, to hold so much influence over the public,
Speaker 1: to make them go the way he wanted them to
Speaker 1: go for a very short period of time, which was
Speaker 1: what three or four years, which did a lot of damage.
Speaker 1: Trump held all the cards. Trump held all the cards. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we know that. I think it's more so
Speaker 1: he had I mean, if you think about it, Trump
Speaker 1: used to be friends with the Clintons. You know, Trump
Speaker 1: was like that guy that people wanted to have on
Speaker 1: TV shows. He was on the First Prince of bel Air,
Speaker 1: Like Trump used to be that guy. So because of
Speaker 1: his influence and all the people he was around, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if he had dirt on all these
Speaker 1: politicians and celebrities. And I wouldn't be surprised because look
Speaker 1: at who he was around. He conveniently changed parties when
Speaker 1: he wanted to run for president because that was when
Speaker 1: it worked best for him. But he was an infamous Democrat.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna be honest, so very scary, very scary
Speaker 1: pay taxes. That is one people we don't mess with
Speaker 1: is the I R S because they will come knocking
Speaker 1: on your though, like Bobby Ball, Matt exactly. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: well we got the tax form without the way. Listen
Speaker 1: to the objectively. For Donald Trump to be found guilty
Speaker 1: to what, he cannot run a whole public office because
Speaker 1: then we want to put that country. This is a
Speaker 1: man who may Benedict Honor looked like a saint talking
Speaker 1: about trading and treason. It's good God, and to kill
Speaker 1: our home. Listen, those people died on January six on people.
Speaker 1: Innocent people died because they believed in this narrative that
Speaker 1: he pushed, told him he would be out there with
Speaker 1: them when he wasn't, told him he's gonna storm the
Speaker 1: capital with them when she didn't, and to kill his
Speaker 1: own vice president. I don't even know why we're having
Speaker 1: a discussion about this, to be honest, storm, I hope.
Speaker 1: But innocent people died. Do you mean people that showed
Speaker 1: up to right, No, I mean some of the workers
Speaker 1: that were there. Okay, yeah, I just you know, you know,
Speaker 1: someone didn't die on the scene, but they were so traumatized,
Speaker 1: because this is what trauma traumatizing looks like. Not will
Speaker 1: smap slapping Chris. This is what traumatized me looks like.
Speaker 1: The people losing their lives. Um, some of them committed
Speaker 1: so many of them committed suicide after the fact. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the police officers and the folks that were there that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is what I'm saying. They they they sometimes
Speaker 1: the government lets to drag on and lag on for
Speaker 1: so long that you forget the severity of what it
Speaker 1: was because he didn't they do anything when they first happened.
Speaker 1: So you know, it gets old to us and we'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, I remember that, and we all
Speaker 1: say that we're all guilty of that because it does
Speaker 1: not happen in the moment, just like it happens in
Speaker 1: the moment. We need to stop making it happen at last, Sona,
Speaker 1: and then baby, things will change. Because fear worked for
Speaker 1: us to become slaves, Fear worked for the Jews to
Speaker 1: become enslaved. Fear has worked forever. Fear still works. But
Speaker 1: some of these white men don't feel like they have
Speaker 1: nothing to fear. They don't like to go to jail,
Speaker 1: and they don't like for you to take away their trinkets,
Speaker 1: y'all take it too long to do it, sid they
Speaker 1: as the jail within thirty days and take away their
Speaker 1: house boats cause cash goodies. They're coming down. Well speaking
Speaker 1: a fear too. Um. There was yet again another shooting
Speaker 1: um in all of America. Um actually right before Christmas.
Speaker 1: It was on Christmas Eve, and somebody was actually in
Speaker 1: the store with shopping and they actually just happened to
Speaker 1: like be making a real about their shopping experience. And um,
Speaker 1: they actually the video was recording in real time what
Speaker 1: happened when the shots rang out in the mall. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting what you're talking about trauma and these sort
Speaker 1: of things. And we're still yet again dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: shootings happening in public places. And this is part of
Speaker 1: the reason why what I've said on this show before,
Speaker 1: I don't like going to malls anymore. I don't like
Speaker 1: doing that because they're just it's not safe. Yeah, speaking
Speaker 1: of shopping, Lord, and this is completely off topic, but
Speaker 1: I should have put it on that this morning. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a real brief. There's a huge upris and
Speaker 1: smashing gramps and they're doing it in groups of organizations.
Speaker 1: So you probably right now they go to malls long
Speaker 1: because you just be out with your girlfriends and y'all
Speaker 1: shopping and and and ki ki and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden full fact gas running something. It's not only guys.
Speaker 1: It's scary, and they've running the stores and they break
Speaker 1: the winds as they snatched up out And if you're
Speaker 1: in the way, girl, you could be hurt, you could
Speaker 1: be ran over, you could be possibly be put as
Speaker 1: one of the suspects. Have you seen that, Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: definitely seen it. I've seen a couple of things regarding
Speaker 1: that the smashing grabs are happening and also too, um,
Speaker 1: how women are being um like trafficed these days too. Um.
Speaker 1: Have you seen with like a little piece of like
Speaker 1: it looks almost like tissue paper putting car doors that
Speaker 1: it's like laced with Apparently you have some kind of
Speaker 1: substance on it, right yep, And it can basically incapacitate
Speaker 1: you enough so that way you know, these kidnapper as
Speaker 1: an opportunity to grab you. So it's just crazy times
Speaker 1: that we're living in at this point, and I just
Speaker 1: it's scary. Oh if somebody take one of my daughters.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do because I ain't
Speaker 1: got to Liam Neeson. Lia Neeson had all the skills.
Speaker 1: Remember the movie Taken. He went over there and he fought,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, h I gotta I got about three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars I send them back. Well, I've always said
Speaker 1: I would be the worst, uh kidnap be ever. I'd
Speaker 1: be screaming and everything else. I would be terrible. I'm
Speaker 1: a wrong person to kidnapped. So, oh, no, are you
Speaker 1: gonna get kidnapped? If they don't they have unless they
Speaker 1: had Chanelle blankets and Gucci pillow cases and stuff, because
Speaker 1: you know you you would never high. So that's why
Speaker 1: I wouldn't get kidnapped. I really I stay at my house.
Speaker 1: I did not go outside. So but it's just scary
Speaker 1: times that we're living in, and people really just have
Speaker 1: to be safe because the scariest part about not just
Speaker 1: not being hurt is that as an American citizen and
Speaker 1: a consumer, the prices are going up for us everywhere
Speaker 1: because all of this ration of stealing, you know, it
Speaker 1: makes the prices go up everywhere, and prices are very
Speaker 1: high on everything. Well, really it's inflation to I think
Speaker 1: inflation is a probably nine percent now so and this
Speaker 1: is how things like you know, we talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: recessions and those sort of things, you know, which Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is you know, the shortest that is not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But um, it's just we just avoided a government shutdown.
Speaker 1: So like all of these little indicators of what's really
Speaker 1: happening in the world right now. Um two, I think
Speaker 1: so before we get off, before we get off the
Speaker 1: subject of Joe Biden and get on over to President
Speaker 1: Vice pressident coming him, I just want to take a
Speaker 1: segment sake. I think that Joe Biden has done a
Speaker 1: pretty good job in his term. It looked bleak and
Speaker 1: look up and down and look wishy washy. She didn't
Speaker 1: think he was doing enough for us as a black people.
Speaker 1: But overall, I think Joe Biden is doing all that
Speaker 1: he can and more, in fact, more than what they
Speaker 1: want him to do. And so maybe this might be
Speaker 1: his only term. So he saved I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it all the way. I appreciate him
Speaker 1: for that. Yeah, I mean I'm not totally I would say, uh,
Speaker 1: satisfied with everything. But I think that overall he's doing
Speaker 1: what he can. Like even with no student loan debt,
Speaker 1: He's tried and tried to get that you know, bill passed,
Speaker 1: and it just keeps getting rejected and rejected. There's things
Speaker 1: that he's tried to implement that he's definitely been you know,
Speaker 1: obstacles have been put in his path, but overall he
Speaker 1: has done when he's when he was able to do,
Speaker 1: I would think in terms of some of his promises.
Speaker 1: So my main concern is just the fact that if
Speaker 1: Trump isn't running as his a Republican opponent, I'm concerned
Speaker 1: if he's gonna get reelected. That's my main issue. So
Speaker 1: let's go here. The weather and the Midwest and the
Speaker 1: East coast and the South has been unbearable. I mean
Speaker 1: the weather everywhere except for California. I'm trying to be
Speaker 1: nice for you. He's a shady play man. I didn't
Speaker 1: say that, y'all. Lawrence said that I was trying to
Speaker 1: be nice. But she's right everywhere from southern California because baby,
Speaker 1: y'all have been taught a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: that things that thirty seven people has obvious their lines.
Speaker 1: But Air was telling it's York. Was in New York area, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: New York. And then also to um, I saw some
Speaker 1: really uh crazy video just about how many pipes burst
Speaker 1: throughout Atlanta, including the airport. Um. So it was just
Speaker 1: really sad, like lntic small pipes bursts in different you know,
Speaker 1: like apartment buildings that you know, I'm very familiar with,
Speaker 1: being that I lived in Atlanta for four years. And
Speaker 1: then also to see part of you know, Hartsfield just underwater,
Speaker 1: it was just a real scary sight to see. So
Speaker 1: I'm just sending prayers. And it happened all on Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve too, right before Christmas happened. So and as a
Speaker 1: person who just experienced water damage too in their own
Speaker 1: you know unit, um, I just send prayers out to
Speaker 1: everybody because that's just it's a hassle, it's scary, and
Speaker 1: it's truly just an annoyance. So the fact that so
Speaker 1: many people's pipes bursts during Christmas Eve is just really sad.
Speaker 1: So but the disclaiming they did give out was for
Speaker 1: you guys to let the water trickle. But like states
Speaker 1: like Atlanta and places that's not set up in that
Speaker 1: bitter code they used pipes that we use in Illinois
Speaker 1: or in Minnesota. Uh, they probably used a different uh
Speaker 1: material that was not as strong, but they did tell you.
Speaker 1: And even Aaron asked us about leaving the water drip
Speaker 1: and that produced it, and we told him because those
Speaker 1: pipes birth. So I've seen it happen in Chicago because
Speaker 1: you I'm from Chicago, but they haven't had a bit
Speaker 1: of code like this in Chicago and maybe fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Well to just Atlanta is the city is not really
Speaker 1: I feel like equipped for co weather. I remember when
Speaker 1: I was when I lived there. That's when like snow
Speaker 1: Mgeddon happened where it's snowed in Atlanta and it hadn't
Speaker 1: snowed in like twenty years, and the whole city shut
Speaker 1: down because they just didn't know what to do. So
Speaker 1: I feel like this was another version of this in
Speaker 1: terms of the pipes first, and they really just didn't
Speaker 1: know what to do because they've never experienced this in
Speaker 1: so long. So people were leaving their cars on the
Speaker 1: freeway when I lived there, when you know, we had
Speaker 1: had the first snow and however many years later, So
Speaker 1: it was just it was crazy. It was like a week,
Speaker 1: you know, it snowed for three days, but it messed
Speaker 1: up the city for seven. So I just feel like
Speaker 1: with the pipes verst thing was just another situation like
Speaker 1: that and they just really just weren't equipped to handle it.
Speaker 1: So oh and people and most people who live in
Speaker 1: Atlanta migrated there. A lot of them don't even wasn't
Speaker 1: even boring and raging there. A lot of people migrated
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, so they came from states where you know
Speaker 1: how to drive in the snow, then they were pretty prepared.
Speaker 1: But a lot of those people who don't and girl,
Speaker 1: you know, people who cannot drive in a certain kind
Speaker 1: of weapon and do more damage than good. See your
Speaker 1: ass at home, please, Well, I drew, I drove in
Speaker 1: the snow actually in Atlanta, and I think it's a
Speaker 1: mixture to um because yeah, a lot of people did
Speaker 1: migrate to Atlanta, but you'll be surprised who was really
Speaker 1: who still lives there and was from Atlanta. But I
Speaker 1: did that too. I drove in the snow when it
Speaker 1: was the Snowmageddon happened, and it was a very interesting experience.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I don't I'm like driving the snow.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know you were supposed to follow, like
Speaker 1: the not the tire tracks or you call them like
Speaker 1: they're kind of pre outline on the road you're supposed
Speaker 1: to drive. I didn't know all of that. So luckily
Speaker 1: one of my really good friends was from Chicago actually
Speaker 1: and explained to me how you I mean, you're born
Speaker 1: and raised here, but you lived in You didn't live
Speaker 1: in New York, but you spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: in New York. You never drove in New York. No,
Speaker 1: you don't drive while you're in New York. You take
Speaker 1: the subway. Shoot, my mom was born and raised in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: She's a train rat. So when I go to New York,
Speaker 1: I get on drain. No, I don't feel like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, like, so say, if you weren't going
Speaker 1: into the city, you just going maybe to the suburbs,
Speaker 1: and you you all were driving near You never drove
Speaker 1: in the snow there. I never went to the suburbs
Speaker 1: of New York. Yeah, you know, we was in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: We take the train. So anywhere as you need to
Speaker 1: go in the city, you take the train. So the
Speaker 1: only time I take an uber when I get to
Speaker 1: New York is to go from JFK to wherever I'm
Speaker 1: staying hotel wise and then I'm on the train the
Speaker 1: rest of the time i'm there. So yeah, No, my
Speaker 1: mom was a train rite and she raised me to
Speaker 1: be the same. So I don't get in cars and
Speaker 1: driving New York. Nope. I don't like driving New York
Speaker 1: and especially man hand because people walk over you. Old
Speaker 1: people being hurried. That's young people being a hurried, the
Speaker 1: sick people being a hurry. They're just walk in front
Speaker 1: of your car and damned me to hit them. Please
Speaker 1: don't dare me. Oh, I always feel oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's a little scary driving in New York. I have
Speaker 1: to say that I haven't done it before. But no,
Speaker 1: mostly I get my butt on the trains to everybody
Speaker 1: was affected in these states that was possibly homeless. I
Speaker 1: hope that the show just had enough a lot of
Speaker 1: heat and had enough beds and blankets because a lot
Speaker 1: of states lost power, a lot of places lost power.
Speaker 1: I think Texas was one of the states that was
Speaker 1: really affected, like their power grid. Once again, I was affected.
Speaker 1: So it's just global warming is real. Let's just say that.
Speaker 1: And I just hope that everybody was being able to
Speaker 1: stay safe and as warm as possible over this holiday
Speaker 1: weekend because the temperatures are literally like so I saw
Speaker 1: that in New York it was seven degrees Christmas Day
Speaker 1: as a low high with seventeen. That's just that's a
Speaker 1: different kind of cold. So I lived any baby, I
Speaker 1: know it. That's why I live in in the mother
Speaker 1: I pay the higher rate for the warmer weather. Listen,
Speaker 1: I hear that for sure. Speaking but speaking of cold weather, Lawrence,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, speaking of cold weather in Texas,
Speaker 1: UM Governor Greg Abbott, is that again? Is at it again?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? And he recently just dropped off I think
Speaker 1: a little over fifty migrants um in front of Vice
Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris's house. Yeah, and the first two bus
Speaker 1: loads is reported that those people only had on T
Speaker 1: shirt and it was eighteen degrees. I just feel like
Speaker 1: there's just got to be like a special place in
Speaker 1: hell for people who do that. You know, people who
Speaker 1: use their power literally for evil purposes to push their
Speaker 1: own agenda. It's not because you care about you know,
Speaker 1: your constituents, or your community at large, or the folks
Speaker 1: that actually voted for you. You're just using your power
Speaker 1: for personal ego and people in people's lives. The problem.
Speaker 1: It makes you wonder is there a grand wizard hat
Speaker 1: in hell? It's got to be something, because there's just
Speaker 1: no way. And the crazy part is this man just
Speaker 1: got re elected. He just got reelected after after you'valdi,
Speaker 1: after all this vootage, just they still reelected him. And
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time he's done this either. That's
Speaker 1: the part that's crazy. This isn't the first time he's
Speaker 1: done this, and he was still reelected. Texting doesn't exit
Speaker 1: want to brexit? They can't, chip I didn't want to brexit,
Speaker 1: like no, I think they do. I think, I think
Speaker 1: I remember it was saying that they wanted to break
Speaker 1: off them in Florida and be their own individual safe
Speaker 1: from the Union. Their governors tried to do that. That
Speaker 1: was a great abbot in Rohn de Santis thing, because
Speaker 1: you know, Rhon de Santis, since you know we brought
Speaker 1: up Florida, was responsible for basically helping get control back
Speaker 1: of the House because he did some he read um,
Speaker 1: he reasoned a lot of different districts in uh Florida
Speaker 1: to turn them from being Republicans, to turn the team
Speaker 1: from being a Democrats to Republican illegally, might I add? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was something that the governors were touting. So the shooting,
Speaker 1: they want to separate Texas. They could give it back
Speaker 1: to Mexico, but anyway, that's another conversation, and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna end up giving us back to you know, they
Speaker 1: say California. Well anyway, that's what I was saying. Yeah. Anyways,
Speaker 1: right past that, we're gonna sat all right, at least
Speaker 1: I'll be done. So listen, Lauren, you know what what
Speaker 1: hurts my feelings so bad is that you're right, y'all
Speaker 1: put politics over people. Those people they had babies and
Speaker 1: kids on there freezing, you know, and if they coming
Speaker 1: from me, they're not used to that whether and then
Speaker 1: they got on T shirts, you know, and y'all, and
Speaker 1: with all that's going on in the world, we got flu, coronavirus,
Speaker 1: what's the other ms V? What is it If those
Speaker 1: kids could all be subject to all of that, you know,
Speaker 1: and the adults, which means that if they catch it
Speaker 1: and they're in this country and they're around somebody else,
Speaker 1: it's a snowball effects. It's just gonna spread on around
Speaker 1: until it hits us. Eventually they just don't care. You're right,
Speaker 1: they just do not care. They don't care. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: even you're talking about this whole what's calling the triple
Speaker 1: pandemic between RSV, COVID, and the flu. Um, I think
Speaker 1: the prediction is that over six d and fifty thou
Speaker 1: people are gonna die. Then it would then be almost
Speaker 1: at their quota. Because again I'm gonna say it again.
Speaker 1: In eleven what was his name? Gates said that the
Speaker 1: that the world was overly populated by three million people.
Speaker 1: Did you say three yeah? Three million? Uh Na took one. Well,
Speaker 1: apparently these numbers aren't shocking to folks, which I find
Speaker 1: interesting because supposedly half a million people die from the
Speaker 1: flu every year. Um. I still think those numbers are
Speaker 1: kind of staggering. But with all that's going on between
Speaker 1: these three viruses, uh yeah, it's scary. And again I've
Speaker 1: had the flu and COVID and within a month of
Speaker 1: each other, so I know how bad it is. So
Speaker 1: the only two diseases I had at the same time
Speaker 1: was consurance and rank. Those are new. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Those are diseases keep coming. They come, they come everywhere
Speaker 1: every month, like they keep coming. I wish they had stopped.
Speaker 1: Good god, m no, I hear you. Well, we do
Speaker 1: have to make sure that we're not remiss, and we
Speaker 1: have to say happy New Year to everybody that's listening.
Speaker 1: Is officially here. It came very quickly, but um, I
Speaker 1: hope that you know, brings in new blessings and opportunities
Speaker 1: for everybody, and everybody goes into it with a positive
Speaker 1: outlook on life. So we gotta stay Happy New Year
Speaker 1: to everybody listening. Happy New Year, ladies and gentlemen. And
Speaker 1: before y'all start setting up all of these, um, what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna change and what I'm gonna do it, I
Speaker 1: don't start on that day. You can try and start
Speaker 1: it on that day, but to usually don't work start
Speaker 1: you have to start like a week or early, two
Speaker 1: weeks early. It's a mindset. It's in mind what is
Speaker 1: my resolution for I'm gonna keep my mouth off things
Speaker 1: that really are unemportant to me and keep on bringing
Speaker 1: in dollars, because if I keep bringing and putting my
Speaker 1: mouth on stuff that's unimportant to me, it's gonna keep
Speaker 1: messing with my dollars. Y'all take the have y'all want to,
Speaker 1: but don't ask, don't tell you. It's my policy. If
Speaker 1: you don't ask me, I ain't got to say nothing.
Speaker 1: And my new answers, that's my new answer, Laura claim,
Speaker 1: how do you feel like? And keep it moving? I
Speaker 1: like it's me catching myself. What look what? Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 1: And keep walking. You can take to have you want
Speaker 1: to take it that way? Well she didn't say. Oh,
Speaker 1: he didn't say. And all they said was what, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the new mean what? Because I'm tired
Speaker 1: of it. I'm over it. People too petrified to say
Speaker 1: anything or do anything. But I do think, Lord, honestly,
Speaker 1: after being out yesterday and listen to some of the
Speaker 1: comics and just being caught up in this conversation because
Speaker 1: it was such a beautiful thing to see Tiffany passing
Speaker 1: Tiffany and Jamie Masada and so many comedies come through
Speaker 1: and and helper celebrities too, to pass out food to
Speaker 1: the to the unhoused. And everybody wasn't even a house.
Speaker 1: This was if you were lonely on Christmas, if you
Speaker 1: didn't cook, if you don't have family, anybody. They had
Speaker 1: some big wigs there that just wanted to be around
Speaker 1: people on Christmas that didn't have any family or nothing,
Speaker 1: and they said the food was good. I didn't need anything.
Speaker 1: I did taste the piece of the turkey, but I
Speaker 1: didn't need anything. Girl. They had punkin pack right there,
Speaker 1: and the day I knew I was done. Punker. What's
Speaker 1: a punker? What's a punker? Well, you know I don't
Speaker 1: eat sweep, so yeah, pies on the punk pa. I'm like, no, baby, sweeper,
Speaker 1: take the path, not punka pass sweeping hay back. Girl,
Speaker 1: I couldn't eat that. But the and the people who
Speaker 1: were in line to listen, because I was the water person,
Speaker 1: I was going out and standing up past our war.
Speaker 1: You should have seen. I was a waiter and the
Speaker 1: waitress at the same time. I was killing it. And
Speaker 1: they were so friendly, and they was telling me their
Speaker 1: life stories and just talking to me and and it
Speaker 1: made me step outside of what I think I am
Speaker 1: and who I am or what I want to be,
Speaker 1: to realize that it is really some people out here
Speaker 1: having a hard time. You know, we feel like we
Speaker 1: have the hard time, we get hit with death or whatever,
Speaker 1: but like we got someplace to lay out here, we
Speaker 1: get someplace to call that safe haven. Girl. They had
Speaker 1: their houses on their back, or they had their houses
Speaker 1: in their carts. It was it kind of it kind
Speaker 1: of made me a little more grateful. Let me just
Speaker 1: say that, because that can be an ungrateful bitch. Did
Speaker 1: I say that I allowed you did? But I feel like, um, no,
Speaker 1: I agree. Whenever I see somebody that's homeless, or some
Speaker 1: season nations at homeless susan, anybody that's in house or
Speaker 1: you know, just less fortunate, um, it definitely makes me,
Speaker 1: you know, take a second reflect and just be thankful for,
Speaker 1: you know, the life that I've been allowed to live,
Speaker 1: because despite how we may feel, things can always be worse. Always,
Speaker 1: and that's what I always try to remember. Things can.
Speaker 1: And there were couple there. It was a man husband
Speaker 1: and white, white couple. They have four young kids. Nobody
Speaker 1: could have been older than teen, but nobody was younger
Speaker 1: than three. And they had two dogs. And they had
Speaker 1: a station wagon, which is how they carted the kids
Speaker 1: around in adult And I'm sitting there and I'm giving
Speaker 1: them water. And the husband was such a pleasant man,
Speaker 1: you could see the despair in his face. And he
Speaker 1: asked me my name. I said, my name is Slaine.
Speaker 1: And I asked his name. He said his name was Matt.
Speaker 1: I said, how long have you guys been out here?
Speaker 1: He said, they've been out there for a while. He said,
Speaker 1: they've been trying to get a place. But here's the
Speaker 1: here's the hiccup. He needs an I D in order
Speaker 1: to get any kind of services. But in order to
Speaker 1: get an I D, you have to have an address
Speaker 1: against the mail to come to I'm like, well, why
Speaker 1: don't they fix that? That is such a catch twenty two.
Speaker 1: It's almost like we tell you what to do, but
Speaker 1: we're making sure that you can't do it because you
Speaker 1: don't have the resources to get it done. I thought
Speaker 1: it was well that yeah, that's you have to emphasize
Speaker 1: that point because it's no different from if you know,
Speaker 1: somebody who's in the house is trying to seek a job,
Speaker 1: but they don't have a place to take a shower.
Speaker 1: So when you show up, you're not fresh or not groomed,
Speaker 1: so you automatically get to clients. So there's almost like
Speaker 1: the odds are automatically stacked against you because you were
Speaker 1: on house, because you can't be presentable. There's just there's
Speaker 1: so many layers to it. But you're right, when when
Speaker 1: I get this job working for Mayor Karen Bass to
Speaker 1: house the an housed trans community. Lauren, I'm gonna really
Speaker 1: call on your assistance as not only as my partner,
Speaker 1: but probably part of this team because she having me
Speaker 1: put together a team and you know my motto, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show up, um because that needs to be something
Speaker 1: that that needs a resolve. So whether they get them
Speaker 1: a PO box or something, because like I have a
Speaker 1: PO box and it's a physical address, it doesn't say
Speaker 1: p O box. It really just the address and the
Speaker 1: apartment number. What the apartment was actually the box number.
Speaker 1: But people need to know that because then you'll be
Speaker 1: able to say, you know, I got a place for
Speaker 1: you to send me mail or send me literature. It
Speaker 1: I thought, I was like, well, that sounds kind of
Speaker 1: battling crazy to me. Why are they telling you to
Speaker 1: do this? But then then that preventing you would have
Speaker 1: placed to help you to do it. That that is
Speaker 1: going to be the first one of the first reasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well uh mary uh. Karen Bass has a large battle
Speaker 1: in front of her regarding um men house in general. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, californ really Los Angeles is the homelessness capital
Speaker 1: in the country. So it's uh, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: arms and legs to it. So that's what that's how
Speaker 1: I go over tree. The other goal is that's why
Speaker 1: I wanted less stress off of me and I want
Speaker 1: to be happy. I don't want to worry about what
Speaker 1: somebody else is doing. I'm not big on that anyway.
Speaker 1: But I found myself in these last three months eyeballing
Speaker 1: what somebody else was doing that I think that I
Speaker 1: should be doing, but I'm not doing it for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: I'm going to stop that. I'm gonna because what is
Speaker 1: my motto, can't no bit to do what I do.
Speaker 1: But I'm starting gonna stop monitoring somebody else's thing and
Speaker 1: just do me whatever. Whatever ill wheels are harbors. I
Speaker 1: feel like people are harboring against me. They don't like
Speaker 1: me for this three of every reason that has that
Speaker 1: is not my issue. That hain't got nothing to do
Speaker 1: with me. I will keep doing Flaming Row and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do that bitch better next year. And I did
Speaker 1: an issue. I love that, love it for sure. I
Speaker 1: have to. I have one one goal I would like
Speaker 1: for you, though you're gonna give me a goal, it
Speaker 1: was just one from me to you, and it's with
Speaker 1: all up. I want you to think one word for color. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to leave me and my favorite
Speaker 1: color alone. But now stay out of black, y'all this
Speaker 1: letty will Now, I'm like a little blue look gold
Speaker 1: on like my signature color, and I will always wear it.
Speaker 1: Can if we are. You want me to walk around
Speaker 1: looking like a damn rainbow. I am not doing that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I will continue to wear my faperite y'all see you
Speaker 1: exactly what I was talking about what I said of her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're wanna leave me on. You're want me to walk
Speaker 1: around in purples and blues and yellows and reds. You
Speaker 1: want me to look like a damn skin. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. I think you Aaron. Happy New Years, Lauren?
Speaker 1: What it? What is that saying? Fore, it's just our
Speaker 1: saying is that here, laugh and learn. We're never trying
Speaker 1: to get anybody to change your mind or something trying
Speaker 1: to get you to use your mind because mind is
Speaker 1: a terrible thing to waste. And we are upon the
Speaker 1: precipents of we're on the precipice of a new year.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be a new you. But you can
Speaker 1: be a better you. You can be a better version
Speaker 1: of you. You're not going to be a new year.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be a better version of what you were.
Speaker 1: And if you want to make change, the only person
Speaker 1: responsible doing that is you. That's it. Well, we appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys as always. Yes, so let's go it off
Speaker 1: this show. Thank you guys so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Happy three we had. We made it through two almost
Speaker 1: and uh for those of us who made it unscathed
Speaker 1: and unshaved and unhoused, don't don't live on that, don't
Speaker 1: do all on it. Look for a better time next year,
Speaker 1: because Lauren, next year I need you to bat me
Speaker 1: a Lamborghini. I ain't got it. Don't work with driving.
Speaker 1: You already know what that means, that wag. Don't miss
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