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Speaker 1: spirit to think you want to revisit. Tell your first
Speaker 1: take a listen, jill. Folks say you slip, oh, folks
Speaker 1: that we dick it. No kids, do what you do,
Speaker 1: No fish, do what you don't, No kiss do what
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Speaker 1: you good evening? Good day? Good something? It's sometimes you
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Speaker 1: in jail, we got one day and a wake up.
Speaker 1: Guess what's happening in one day? And wake up? We
Speaker 1: got poor connection, ding dong, the witches dead. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: This is dedicated to the current administration. He's leaving the
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Speaker 1: Y'all see that it says mother had you, mother, love you,
Speaker 1: motherfuck you out of here. We are free. But y'all
Speaker 1: know that nigger parton a hundred people to mind about
Speaker 1: that money? Look like? Well, you know they said that
Speaker 1: their allies have been getting lons of donations and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I guess we're going to see who paid the
Speaker 1: money to get the pardons? Would those be the same
Speaker 1: people who gave him two hundred and seventy million dollars
Speaker 1: for you know, because he's going to be the president again?
Speaker 1: Win right? Y'all so smart? That special people in the world,
Speaker 1: so you can't begrudge them. It's special sauce. Special. Welcome
Speaker 1: ladies and gentle to laughing line with Flame Monroe Loreen Laurie,
Speaker 1: as we affectionately call her over here, How doing good afternoon, Smith?
Speaker 1: How are you doing all right? How how is my producer?
Speaker 1: And how is our videographer? Triple and Kindle are fine
Speaker 1: and here and they've been what whether they get this morning?
Speaker 1: Oh lightsol, Interesting that you would raise that today. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm raising it. I'm raising it today, but I use
Speaker 1: it every day on everybody. I wonder if the police
Speaker 1: are listening right now. I know why you brought up.
Speaker 1: But police, if you listen, because I sprayed somebody with
Speaker 1: lights out, arrest me playing I've been to jailing phone.
Speaker 1: They let me out on a titty count, I mean
Speaker 1: a technicality. I get back out, nig I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: I got buying money. Oh yes you do. How are you? Nick?
Speaker 1: I know? And I know what you're gonna go to.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go to Florida where they arrested that teaching
Speaker 1: from spraying that three year a boy with lights all.
Speaker 1: But before you, before we talk about that, please explain
Speaker 1: to us how you felt about lights out now, because
Speaker 1: you were explaining something to Lord and yesterday on the
Speaker 1: phone about what lights all has done to contact surfaces
Speaker 1: and your body. Your skin is a surface, your cling
Speaker 1: is so you explain it better than I can. Well, no,
Speaker 1: you you just you laid it out right there. And
Speaker 1: that's a clue what it is that the idea behind
Speaker 1: lysol is to disinfect. And it's that's what has promises
Speaker 1: to disinfect upon surfaces and things and kill germs that
Speaker 1: it lands on. Uh. The idea behind the aerosol is
Speaker 1: to also create this misted and to kill bacteria. Well,
Speaker 1: covid is among those different viruses in bacteria that lysol
Speaker 1: is believed to kill. We were talking about yesterday how
Speaker 1: I've just been doing a little more reading and a
Speaker 1: little more research, and I had a situation this week
Speaker 1: where you have one of those aha moments and you're like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I need a few more answers to
Speaker 1: a couple of questions that you have now created in
Speaker 1: my mind, not you, but the world in general. Specifically,
Speaker 1: we're talking about how covid was introduced to us last year.
Speaker 1: In fact, we just hit the anniversary a year ago today.
Speaker 1: We had our first case, not our first death, but
Speaker 1: our first case. Hey, we know covid is here in
Speaker 1: the United States. We went into a lockdown in March.
Speaker 1: They immediately enacted Operation Warp Speed not after too long
Speaker 1: after that, where they created and got different companies and
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical companies to get engaged in creating a vaccine. Totally
Speaker 1: understand that, proud loved the science. But now last month
Speaker 1: we were told that there's this superstring that has now
Speaker 1: been introduced into the public at large. Oh but don't
Speaker 1: worry about it, Lauren Flame, because the vaccine that we
Speaker 1: created for COVID with the original strain. Oh, this works
Speaker 1: on that one too, And I said to you, might so,
Speaker 1: And so I said to you, so, then a virus,
Speaker 1: a vaccine that you created for the original virus just
Speaker 1: magically may work for this one too, but we don't know,
Speaker 1: but go ahead anyway. And I was just saying that
Speaker 1: those are the kind of things I feel like give
Speaker 1: people pause and make you say wait a minute. I
Speaker 1: was riding with you all when you when you were
Speaker 1: very clear about what your original directive was. Now it
Speaker 1: seems like, oh, well they work for that, it's gonna
Speaker 1: work for this strain too. But I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: you said this new strain was more infectious, and it's
Speaker 1: super contagious and it's even crazier than the last strain.
Speaker 1: I just feel as though there's more information needed and
Speaker 1: I don't believe that we're getting everything we need to know.
Speaker 1: And that just gave me pause, and I had to
Speaker 1: share that with you. Well, you now answer the question,
Speaker 1: but come on long, because you now answer the question
Speaker 1: that I asked you, I'm just saying, what about the
Speaker 1: lights all? Yeah, I think it works. I think the
Speaker 1: lights all works clearly because you've been doing the Lightsol.
Speaker 1: So all that to say, you've been doing lights al
Speaker 1: and I just think the Lightsol must be doing something.
Speaker 1: Always said this, We said this too, though, that Lightsol
Speaker 1: now has these commercials that specifically say that their most
Speaker 1: effective in killing COVID nineteen. It's a part of their
Speaker 1: tagline at the at the bottom scroll. So it works.
Speaker 1: So we can give Flame that credit that she was
Speaker 1: the first to spray people and it's been working a
Speaker 1: year later. And let's go back and let's go back
Speaker 1: to the three to teach you who who lost her
Speaker 1: job for spraying the three year kid. At least she
Speaker 1: didn't tell the kid to take it internally to ingested
Speaker 1: or put it in a needle and shooting in her arm,
Speaker 1: and put up who did that? Your president? For one
Speaker 1: more day, your president, for the record, we're telling everybody
Speaker 1: about the story that we uh came across last week
Speaker 1: of Florida teacher accused of spring students with with lysol.
Speaker 1: She was arrested because she really wanted to just make
Speaker 1: sure that the kids were, you know, disinfected when they
Speaker 1: came in a mist And I want to be clear,
Speaker 1: it's not like you are, Hey, Nick, stand here, spraying
Speaker 1: me in my face. That's not what you're doing that
Speaker 1: over and over the shield of protection. While according to
Speaker 1: police and Largo and Penella's County near Tampa, Christina, resident
Speaker 1: Star fifty one years old, was arrested last week, she
Speaker 1: allegedly sprayed the air assault disinfectant in and around the children,
Speaker 1: uh in her classroom. You know, she's fifty one. She
Speaker 1: was worried about her own safety and everyone else, and
Speaker 1: they arrested her for that. So fifty one not fifty one.
Speaker 1: Fifty And I can almost guarantee you that she's a
Speaker 1: flame Matt. I bet you she's a flame mat and
Speaker 1: she watches what we have done over here, because we
Speaker 1: spray everybody and it works. You know, A flame man
Speaker 1: just said, you should uh probably be getting a check
Speaker 1: from Life saw. That might be something we need to
Speaker 1: look in the way you advocate for them. I need
Speaker 1: your people to talk to my people so that I
Speaker 1: can get a check. That might be a good idea.
Speaker 1: The commercial case, you definitely have a full piece and
Speaker 1: everything there might need, but commercial. And we're not saying
Speaker 1: that's to shame her, because we were also talking about
Speaker 1: shaming all the way around. Fat shaming and everything is
Speaker 1: really becoming a thing lately. Flame Lauren has a story
Speaker 1: about fast shamming. Before I go into my spield, Yeah
Speaker 1: I told I mean, I told Dick this yesterday. But
Speaker 1: funny enough, a couple of weeks ago, Flame was in
Speaker 1: the grocery store. Someone came up to her and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, love the show, Love Nick, Love Lauren,
Speaker 1: but decided to say, has Lauren been snacking? So you know,
Speaker 1: we're talking about fat shaming. I feel like we all
Speaker 1: have a story, but it's it's no shade because you know,
Speaker 1: you always need those people to keep you in check. Like,
Speaker 1: for instance, I have a great grandmother. She turned a
Speaker 1: hundred and one on January second. I love her dearly,
Speaker 1: but she's, you know, relatively blind. She can't see, so
Speaker 1: every time I see her, she always, you know, Ray
Speaker 1: Charles is me to see if I've gained weight. So
Speaker 1: we you know, we appreciate everyone keeping us in check. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, you need somebody to just nudge a little
Speaker 1: bit and say, hey, you know you're doing okay, but
Speaker 1: that's my fat. Okay, let's go to the source of
Speaker 1: fat shaming, because yeah, understand that there is a process
Speaker 1: to fat shaming. Gaining weight and losing weight is the
Speaker 1: exact same process. It takes time to get it off
Speaker 1: and it takes time to put it on. You do
Speaker 1: understand that you contribute to putting it on, becau. It's
Speaker 1: called hand to mouth, you know, chicken, potato, chips, ice cream.
Speaker 1: Don't start telling somebody, oh, you fat shamy. You didn't
Speaker 1: get fat in the day. That was the process. You
Speaker 1: was fat last week, yesterday, tomorrow, next month, last month,
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, yeah, next year, last year, all that.
Speaker 1: So y'all stop with all that. Oh I'm fetching. It's
Speaker 1: not a such thing as fat shaming. It took time
Speaker 1: to get fat. It takes time to lose the fat.
Speaker 1: Even though you can have the quick surgery now, the
Speaker 1: fat still don't fall off. So stop saying that people
Speaker 1: are fast shaming you when you contribute it to that,
Speaker 1: to that fat. So what you're trying to say, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say that. Don't be running around here. Are
Speaker 1: did I agree with the guy saying you have a
Speaker 1: snacking no comment? Oh my god, I'm that we're talking
Speaker 1: about people who love to shame people. Can we talk
Speaker 1: about your president and how he has continued to take
Speaker 1: donations um for a failed of for making false claims
Speaker 1: about the election being rigged, and he has wrecked in
Speaker 1: quite a bit donations. Trump has raised four hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety five million since mid October, including a massive hall
Speaker 1: fueled by misleading appeals about election fraud. So guess what
Speaker 1: he owes four hundred and twenty million, apparently either to
Speaker 1: China or to Russia. I mean you, I know you
Speaker 1: don't pay taxes, nigger, but go ahead and pay them
Speaker 1: because you know them people ain't gonna play with you.
Speaker 1: So you need to gonna pay Putin or Yan Yang
Speaker 1: or whoever you owe money too, and get your debt
Speaker 1: clear because your your followers, your people have gave you
Speaker 1: that money to pay off that debt. Now he said
Speaker 1: nothing about the taxes in America that you ain't pay.
Speaker 1: We're talked about that other debt because you will disappear
Speaker 1: because those especially with the Asians, them yangs, don't play baby.
Speaker 1: Don't owe them no money. They're follow you around the
Speaker 1: beauty blast ask me how No, Okay, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: These are all people who will clearly be looking to
Speaker 1: President Trump need to pay them back or ask for favors,
Speaker 1: because among those are the Capitol Hill rioters who have
Speaker 1: been arrested, many of whom have made public appeals, public
Speaker 1: appeals for uh leniency saying that, hey, I expect the
Speaker 1: president to pardon me because I was carrying out his orders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's correct. Uh one. I would just like to
Speaker 1: say it's so unfortunate that people are really naive because
Speaker 1: you've been giving money to Trump as if he was
Speaker 1: going to run again one and now he's facing facing
Speaker 1: impeachment for the second time. Um, but also too, it's
Speaker 1: just it's baffling that, you know, I mean, un let's
Speaker 1: just say this. Reports are coming out that Trump is
Speaker 1: definitely going to either trade you know, our intelligence so
Speaker 1: that way he can you know, knock off some of
Speaker 1: his debt. So it's gonna be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: all of this plays out. And to your last point, Nick,
Speaker 1: is Trump is expected to pardon about a hundred people tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So um, overall, it's uh yeah, it's it's interesting because
Speaker 1: Mr Trump has indeed been in peace the second time.
Speaker 1: How remix that right? Wait a minute, remix there are
Speaker 1: you about the who was your job? Your job? About
Speaker 1: who's your job? And has the distinction of having more
Speaker 1: votes for impeachment than any other You know, so not
Speaker 1: only has he won in a number of times of
Speaker 1: being impeached he leads that twice now or no one
Speaker 1: else has been impeached twice, but also by bipartisans support.
Speaker 1: The fact that ten Republicans joined on board also reset
Speaker 1: the stage as well that it wasn't completely partisan. It
Speaker 1: was indeed a bad partisan decision, but among those Jacob
Speaker 1: Anthony Chancelly a k A. Jake and Jelly Um was
Speaker 1: allowed to request and have his request received and approved
Speaker 1: to have only organic food while he is incarcerated waiting
Speaker 1: for You know, is that the white boy with all
Speaker 1: the pain and ship on his faith. Yeah, the one
Speaker 1: who the one who his mommy came out and said
Speaker 1: that he's not popped by but he has to have
Speaker 1: his spinach. Then he's staying jail long enough, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get all the fat free men baby, no calorie and
Speaker 1: ale magam gain no waight uh, it's organic. It comes
Speaker 1: from the body directly. Did you you can get organic
Speaker 1: food in jail? Though this was news to me. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know. I'm gonna say this just just just
Speaker 1: to be clear. Because there are those who may be
Speaker 1: aware that when you are incarcerated UM, there is indeed UH,
Speaker 1: they're indeed ramifications and modifications made for those who have
Speaker 1: different areas of worship. So it is not outrageous to
Speaker 1: me that organic food would be among those things, because
Speaker 1: there are those who who often convert UH to the
Speaker 1: nation of Islam, and then they're allowed to worship differently,
Speaker 1: and they do eat differently. I was not qualified for
Speaker 1: organic food, though I understand, like maybe if you you
Speaker 1: know your seventh day advantage, you don't need pork or
Speaker 1: something like that. But organic food it's expensive out of
Speaker 1: jail to purchase, so right, but there are those who
Speaker 1: choose not to put those toxins in their body, and
Speaker 1: and and and you know, and he's you know, So
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that's not outrageous to be but
Speaker 1: all of that goes off the table when you are
Speaker 1: incarcerated for what here you go, right here, he's incarcerated
Speaker 1: for a crime against America, treason. That's a crime. He
Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to have any If it was a brother,
Speaker 1: let me just say the fucking words. If it was
Speaker 1: a brother, that will eat the same maloney sandwich. Is
Speaker 1: that the rest of us. Because I've been in jail,
Speaker 1: I had them maloney sounds. They're hard to get down,
Speaker 1: but they they're good trading stuff. You know. You can
Speaker 1: use them, play cards with anything. They think. It's they
Speaker 1: really think, but you can play cards with them. And yeah,
Speaker 1: all of that. I don't like the fact that he
Speaker 1: gets Yeah, I don't like the fact that he gets
Speaker 1: special privilege because I'm selling. I'm sorry. They've given too
Speaker 1: many of them special privileges, and I'm just not for
Speaker 1: I'm not for it, and I want to talk about
Speaker 1: them the more. Today is a very special day because
Speaker 1: today we celebrate whose birthday was on Friday, the memory
Speaker 1: the legacy of the one and only Dr Martin Luther King,
Speaker 1: Reverend Dr King, one of the don't think fathers of
Speaker 1: the civil rights movement. He wasn't the only one that
Speaker 1: was a bunch of them, but he was the one
Speaker 1: that we saw. He was the one that was out
Speaker 1: there publicly and we spoke because there was a couple
Speaker 1: of other ones that was right there with him, But
Speaker 1: the times we were different, and they could not be
Speaker 1: as open to speak about civil rights because they had
Speaker 1: skeletons in their closet, one of them being part of
Speaker 1: the LGBT community. They are Rustin, who was actually supposed
Speaker 1: to be selected to be Martin Luther King. He was
Speaker 1: actually supposed to be the king of that era. But
Speaker 1: he got cotton car. He got cotton the car with
Speaker 1: two white boys. I guess it's different if you get
Speaker 1: cotton card with two white boys as opposed to being
Speaker 1: king going around from state to stay, smashing and grabbing.
Speaker 1: Because we love you, Dr King. But the notorious rumors out,
Speaker 1: so all you side bitches that think y'all just started,
Speaker 1: baby Martin was putting pushing panties back to the side
Speaker 1: like jay Z way back in the day. Baby, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, and we still love you, Dr King. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody's ever heard that before. And they watched Selma.
Speaker 1: If you watched Selma, they know it's okay. I'm a knowledge.
Speaker 1: Now I will say this. I'll tell you what may
Speaker 1: not become a knowledge. Did you know that Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King was not his original name? Yes? Yes, we didn't, okay,
Speaker 1: And when did you? When did you learn that? Sarah yesterday?
Speaker 1: Who taught you? Who taught you that his name? But
Speaker 1: his name was yeah, absolutely, I just thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: The story abow Martin Michael King Junior became Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King Jr. And it all stems from his father having
Speaker 1: taken a trip to Germany being so influenced by what
Speaker 1: he saw was the rise of Nazism in Berlin at
Speaker 1: the time, Adolf Hitler just was just moving into power,
Speaker 1: and he loved the teachings of Martin Luther of Germany,
Speaker 1: and he said, you know what, he was so influenced
Speaker 1: by that, and how he felt that that could enact change,
Speaker 1: that those teachings were all about empowering people, uh civil discourse,
Speaker 1: but uh a peaceful protest, all of these different things,
Speaker 1: to fight for equality. And he came back and that
Speaker 1: became his life's mission. Um. And then later in life
Speaker 1: Martin changed his name, uh to Michael, changed his name
Speaker 1: to Martin Luther, and so it became Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaker 1: Just like his dad. And part of that too, though,
Speaker 1: was that he wanted to distinguish himself from others. You know,
Speaker 1: I had I had studied part of this in school too,
Speaker 1: is uh. You know, like you said, Martin Luther did
Speaker 1: the thesis. He came back but he also realized that
Speaker 1: that was more of a distinguished name that would help
Speaker 1: him stand out in society. So that was also partly
Speaker 1: two of why he changed his name and then decided
Speaker 1: to change his son's name as well. So, um, but
Speaker 1: like flame changing your name, changing your name to stand out,
Speaker 1: is that how one becomes flame? Unroe? Also, you know
Speaker 1: maybe who knew? Uh, let's talk about some of my Martina,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Martin is fantastically my personal favorite quote
Speaker 1: of Martin Luther King because I was I was two
Speaker 1: when Martin was assassinated after the Rainmon Jail and on
Speaker 1: April the fourth, I was only two. I was gonna
Speaker 1: turn in three that year. But it Uh, I remember
Speaker 1: and I don't remember, like, but I remember my grandmother
Speaker 1: being in such a funk even at that age. And
Speaker 1: I'm telling I only remember that recently because you you'd
Speaker 1: be surprised at what you remember as a kid. And
Speaker 1: she was so broken because she had pictures of Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King, like we have pictures of Barack Obama over
Speaker 1: the house. I and my grandmother and them had pictures
Speaker 1: of Martin Luther King and Malcolm Max and people like that.
Speaker 1: Jesse Jackson at the time she took those pictures down
Speaker 1: to Jesse Jackson, let me just say before she left
Speaker 1: here anyway, Jesse get getting caught with us in this ship.
Speaker 1: Any who. She was so hurt and so broken because
Speaker 1: they're assassinated King. But she had said that after they
Speaker 1: assassinated Bobby Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy was for civil rights
Speaker 1: and was standing with King, that she knew would only
Speaker 1: be a matter of time before they And she didn't
Speaker 1: say that that day, but she told me that as
Speaker 1: I got older, that she knew that they were going
Speaker 1: to assassinate Martin Luther King. I think that he knew too.
Speaker 1: In one of his memoirs. I think it's his sixty
Speaker 1: three memoir, which is my favorite quote of here's so
Speaker 1: many is once you accept death, you're free. It allowed
Speaker 1: me to the stand that we're all are going to die.
Speaker 1: I can't be walking around worried about when it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: on how it's gonna happen. I just gotta keep living
Speaker 1: because it's inevitable for not only myself but everybody. We're
Speaker 1: all going to die. But he has so many quotes,
Speaker 1: and we want to know what's your favorite and why
Speaker 1: you got a favorite qute from the I Do I Do? Um,
Speaker 1: you're gonna to quote it exactly what your favorite We'll
Speaker 1: never get this ship all the way right. Well, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite quotes is actually, in the end, we
Speaker 1: will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
Speaker 1: silence of our friends. Um. That's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: Doctor King quotes. Nick, what about you? I was talking
Speaker 1: about the one that uh we talked about yesterday. Our
Speaker 1: lives began to end the day we become silent about
Speaker 1: things that matter. And you said thing like whoa, because
Speaker 1: sometimes you I think people move into space where they
Speaker 1: feel like, well, I'm just gonna ain't got nothing to
Speaker 1: do it mean, let me just go ahead and let
Speaker 1: it go. Um. And we've often talked about the importance
Speaker 1: of allies and and people who are engaged in the process,
Speaker 1: because truly, none of us are free until everybody is free.
Speaker 1: So yeah, definitely what he did do though, even with
Speaker 1: the with the what with the bus what was it
Speaker 1: called bus boycott? He gave us a sense of purpose
Speaker 1: because we only felt like we could be a maid's
Speaker 1: or bus boys or in that era, you know, he
Speaker 1: gave us a sense of purpose that we can be
Speaker 1: so much more. We can be this, we could be that.
Speaker 1: In his his speech, I have a dream, he dreamed,
Speaker 1: and he dreamed big for us, and he did say
Speaker 1: in his speech prolifically that I may not be there
Speaker 1: with you when you get there. We still ain't got there.
Speaker 1: Dr King, we still have not gotten there. It feels
Speaker 1: like we're getting close. And every time I feel like
Speaker 1: we're getting closer and closer, it's snatched away from us.
Speaker 1: Because we do have some prolific leaders. But right now
Speaker 1: we need to stand by these female prolific leaders that
Speaker 1: we have because the women are the ones that standing
Speaker 1: on the front line right now, being the generals, and
Speaker 1: the men need to get out I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: other black men need to get out the way, or
Speaker 1: get to the out of them, or stand right behind
Speaker 1: them to hold them up. Because you know how they
Speaker 1: always say behind every great man, that every good man,
Speaker 1: that's a great woman, behind every great woman. Let it
Speaker 1: be a good man, and it was a black woman,
Speaker 1: Let it be a strong black man. You know what
Speaker 1: made me think about that was last night we were
Speaker 1: I was watching the interview with Abbie Philip, who I
Speaker 1: absolutely adore sing Abbie Phillips. She was interviewing Vice President
Speaker 1: that Kamala Harris, you're so roared. I can do that.
Speaker 1: You know, we just had founders down and and I
Speaker 1: found out yesterday A k A is the oldest um.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know the word. I was gonna say fraternity
Speaker 1: because you know, mixed up over here. This he she
Speaker 1: week because I couldn't did both of the ship. But
Speaker 1: any who, what I said that to say that when
Speaker 1: uh Abby was interviewing Kamala and the husband Tim, when
Speaker 1: he spoke about his wife, this is how you know
Speaker 1: when a man loves a woman. To me, this is
Speaker 1: my opinion. He turned and looked her in her eyes
Speaker 1: and said, I love you, I love my wife. Do
Speaker 1: you know it was some racist wife folks all over
Speaker 1: this country kicking the ship out. They can I know
Speaker 1: they was mad at say, oh baby, I know the
Speaker 1: hill Billies was shooting up every day. I'm playing because
Speaker 1: that is something that you don't see. It's okay to
Speaker 1: sneak with a black woman sometimes, it's okay to even
Speaker 1: have a black woman as a girlfriend, but to marry
Speaker 1: her and publicly say on such a major platform that
Speaker 1: you love this woman and he said, I let this
Speaker 1: black woman he says, I love my wife. Baby. That
Speaker 1: that was powerful to me because I can remember when
Speaker 1: that was taboo. That's how old I am. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you the best things I heard today. UM. I
Speaker 1: was listening to NPR earlier and they had an interview
Speaker 1: with Jim CLYBURNEUM, who I also believed to be absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 1: I think he is, like UM, one of the most
Speaker 1: underrated stars of the Democratic Party. And he just talked
Speaker 1: about King because again this is all part of his
Speaker 1: sister as well. And he was just talking about where
Speaker 1: we are now as a country and why he still
Speaker 1: has hope and why he still believes and why he's
Speaker 1: still engaged in this process and and you know, the
Speaker 1: interview at one point says, but you know, the progressive
Speaker 1: wing of the party just feels like, you know, older
Speaker 1: Democrats are just too stuck in the ways that you
Speaker 1: all don't get it. And he never condescended. He simply said,
Speaker 1: you know, and this is what my good brother Martin
Speaker 1: talked about, is that we're supposed to have creative conflict.
Speaker 1: And I just loved how he's like, you know, we
Speaker 1: will never agree on how we're all supposed to get there,
Speaker 1: But I believe that we will all get there, and
Speaker 1: we all have to keep fighting to get there. So
Speaker 1: his message definitely lives on he um mine and King
Speaker 1: just it was at such a time that it was
Speaker 1: so needed, even though I was a kid, that it's
Speaker 1: set a precipice for people, so we know that we
Speaker 1: could fight back and we know that we could stand
Speaker 1: up against the opposition, so that it was a great help.
Speaker 1: And I know I make jokes about everything, y'all know
Speaker 1: who I am, But my Luther King is a great
Speaker 1: leader and we will always be respected as a great
Speaker 1: leader in the black community and for so many white
Speaker 1: people because he did have good white people helping him.
Speaker 1: We always have good white folks. We got some messed
Speaker 1: up ones, but we got to mess up black people.
Speaker 1: Let me just go down to that. We got messed
Speaker 1: up every damn thing. Come on reading on the quote.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, this is another quote that Flame really loves.
Speaker 1: The quality, not the longevity of one's life is what
Speaker 1: is important. Um So, I think there's a myriad of
Speaker 1: quotes that we probably just really hold dear near and
Speaker 1: dear to our hearts regarding Martin Luther King. He was
Speaker 1: very inspirational. And I think one thing that even me
Speaker 1: and my friends talk about nowadays is that it's kind
Speaker 1: of unfortunate that we don't really have like that public
Speaker 1: figure anymore. And today, like I don't, I don't feel
Speaker 1: as though is we can say, Okay, yes, this is
Speaker 1: like the Martin Luther King of this generation. This is
Speaker 1: the one who's going to lead the movement. But they
Speaker 1: just happen to be female. We got to mcmalory, we
Speaker 1: have um Stacy Abrams. We even commaa let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, And y'all know, I had my discripinities with
Speaker 1: common when she's running for president. But Kamla is sharp,
Speaker 1: she's smart, she's quick, she's incipfle, she's educated. So she's
Speaker 1: gonna bring and she's not afraid to say how she feels.
Speaker 1: I know. But I don't know if I agree with that,
Speaker 1: because I was kind of like, you know, when Barack
Speaker 1: Obama was president. Everybody after he got out office, everybody
Speaker 1: was like, oh, he's gonna lead, you know, lead us
Speaker 1: to the Promised Land kind of thing, and I just
Speaker 1: didn't see that being his role, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I in my opinion. You know, we always will
Speaker 1: differ with opinions. I just don't think we have that
Speaker 1: person yet. Tamiko Mallory. You know, she was just started
Speaker 1: getting some notoriety about a year or two ago, so
Speaker 1: I would always be curious to see what she has
Speaker 1: to you know, what she's gonna end up doing. But
Speaker 1: as of now, I don't think we have that one
Speaker 1: person or even two people leading this charge for us.
Speaker 1: I don't feel that No, no, he's intelligent, but no,
Speaker 1: our flamemts are sounded off and one and just said
Speaker 1: that one of the favorite quotes is how we must
Speaker 1: learn to live as brothers or perish as fools. Um,
Speaker 1: and I just think that we have been flooded in
Speaker 1: the timeline with a couple of them. Even as we've
Speaker 1: been speaking that people have been sharing some of their
Speaker 1: own And I know you and Flame, they are typing
Speaker 1: in capital letters for you, so so people they know
Speaker 1: definitely sound up. I think it means a lot to
Speaker 1: a lot of people. We're gonna bring some people in.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna be able to bring you back? Oh?
Speaker 1: You can bring me back if you want to have
Speaker 1: people sound Can I bring you back when you come back?
Speaker 1: With your prejudice, Mr Mr Smith to be in the
Speaker 1: room with two beautiful women. Absolutely, then I paid him
Speaker 1: to say that, Hey, James, how's it going good? How
Speaker 1: are you um alive? That's right because you're in d C.
Speaker 1: You're right there where all the foodig is you okay?
Speaker 1: You say yeah, yeah yeah. The way they've got it
Speaker 1: set up right now is that you've got the red zone,
Speaker 1: which is military personnel inauguration personnel only, and then the
Speaker 1: Green zone, which is actually where I live, where it's
Speaker 1: restricted to no vehicle traffic at starting since o'clock tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: so I won't be able to drive anywhere. So if
Speaker 1: I have to get anywhere my buds are walking, well,
Speaker 1: well maybe it could you speak to how things are
Speaker 1: different today, Like I know here in l A we
Speaker 1: normally have, you know, the King Day parade. Everybody's out,
Speaker 1: it's really festive. It's just it's a cultural and amazing
Speaker 1: space to be in. So and of course COVID is
Speaker 1: happening this year, so it's you know, not taking place.
Speaker 1: But what's the different feeling not only for King Day
Speaker 1: but also with all of the craziness that's happening in
Speaker 1: d C. I mean typically d C, because I mean
Speaker 1: MLK beyond a lot of things. Was it is a
Speaker 1: cultural icon, you would have a lot of things celebrating
Speaker 1: him today, where you don't have that right now, there
Speaker 1: really are no permitted activities in terms of like gatherings
Speaker 1: or anything like that. You have no indoor dyeting, and
Speaker 1: you have nothing indoors that can occur, which would typically
Speaker 1: be the things like all the museums in the area
Speaker 1: are closed, all the restaurant's interiors are closed, all the
Speaker 1: libraries are closed. So right now there's unless you're trying
Speaker 1: to do something in thirty degree weather, that's you're really
Speaker 1: limited to what you can do. And even then you're
Speaker 1: limited to less than a hundred people in your gathering.
Speaker 1: And it's you can't be any when the National Mall
Speaker 1: is completely under lockdown. So any of the places that
Speaker 1: which traditionally have these things, even the mart Luis King
Speaker 1: Memorial are all shut down because of paranoia of violence
Speaker 1: occurring over the next few days. What's your favorite quote,
Speaker 1: James actually Nicks. That was my quote that Nick read
Speaker 1: was the Yeah, that was the one I proposed that
Speaker 1: we must learn to live as brothers or parishes, schools,
Speaker 1: I think for me it's really important because I, as
Speaker 1: you know, I embrace diversity and everyone, and I think
Speaker 1: it's important that we do that as a culture and
Speaker 1: that's the only way we would be able to move forward.
Speaker 1: So James explained to you in the very beginning that
Speaker 1: he is, you know, he's down with the brothers and everything.
Speaker 1: He's also down with the sisters because James likes him.
Speaker 1: A black James is with the black James is with
Speaker 1: the world. Know that is true. Yes, for sharing all
Speaker 1: my business, Yes, And he left the head of down
Speaker 1: for you. He did that for the black girl because
Speaker 1: I know you're black women like all that, and you'll
Speaker 1: be thinking that's Juana from uh you know what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know Jason Luana with all the Hey, James, I
Speaker 1: want you to stay safe. And it's too calm, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like that calm before. It seems like it's just
Speaker 1: a little too quiet before Wednesday. Yeah, I get like,
Speaker 1: I really think that if if anything is going to happen,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on Wednesday where some stupidity is gonna
Speaker 1: break out. My hope is is that between the National
Speaker 1: guardsmen they expect now the Coast Guard just arrived in
Speaker 1: the on the waterfront, and you're we're expecting police officers
Speaker 1: for other states in between ten and fifteen thousand Secret
Speaker 1: Service thank you, So they're expecting tender fifteen thousand members
Speaker 1: of the Secret Service to be in town also. So
Speaker 1: the discrepancy that the disagreement that we had this morning,
Speaker 1: Nick and I was and I talked to it about
Speaker 1: to Kendall and Triple, who the producer and of the
Speaker 1: photographer here the videographer, was that because they Nick was like,
Speaker 1: they're quiet because they're afraid because of the National Guard
Speaker 1: and the army. And when I was like, uh No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what the case is at all,
Speaker 1: because they've shown that they have restraint of the military.
Speaker 1: And I'm only throwing out a number. Let me don't
Speaker 1: say a number for real, but there's a lot of
Speaker 1: them that's in uniform that should be on the other side.
Speaker 1: And if they weren't in the uniform, they would be
Speaker 1: on the other side. They're not going to hurt themselves.
Speaker 1: They're not going to kill those people. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: hurt those people. I don't believe that at all. I
Speaker 1: think they see themselves because they are those people they
Speaker 1: just happen to have on their whatever uniform they're wearing
Speaker 1: that day. I don't believe they're gonna hurt because it
Speaker 1: had that been a bunch of us, it would have
Speaker 1: been a massacre. And I agree with you totally. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, James. I appreciate you. Yes, please, thank you.
Speaker 1: And the next time I see I'll see you. What
Speaker 1: a black girl? The name enough? But I think this
Speaker 1: maybe is a good talking point because I'm seeing some
Speaker 1: people sound off in the comments about what you just
Speaker 1: talked about in terms of the military. So why don't
Speaker 1: we bring Nick back in. We can kind of start
Speaker 1: this typic a little bit, because you know, Nick is
Speaker 1: super pro military military. I'm with the military too. But
Speaker 1: I tell you what, let's kind of see, let's have this.
Speaker 1: I'm on that other side, baby that I ain't trusted.
Speaker 1: You said they had, didn't they have a general or
Speaker 1: colonel or something out there? Come on waiting, Nick, Come on, Nick,
Speaker 1: let's share your thoughts. Oh No, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to make it
Speaker 1: sound like I don't believe that things are definitely dangerous,
Speaker 1: because I definitely believe that they are. I just don't
Speaker 1: believe that anything will happen in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: I believe that the message is clear that there has
Speaker 1: been a strong short of force, and I do believe
Speaker 1: um in the strength of our military. And I know
Speaker 1: I'm moving a space of bias with that, but I
Speaker 1: genuinely believe that most of most of us who have
Speaker 1: taken the oath really do uphold the oath, and that
Speaker 1: is to protect the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe that there are um a cadre
Speaker 1: of lone wolves ready to move an attack which constitution.
Speaker 1: They're different in the same one that protects us flames seriously,
Speaker 1: that one has not protected has protected us. I think
Speaker 1: that there are, but we gotta go fight on TV
Speaker 1: on camera. But I because I know you pro military,
Speaker 1: and I love you for that, brother, But I'm telling you, Nick,
Speaker 1: that's not what it is. And I know I just
Speaker 1: told you this in the car. I think Nick lives
Speaker 1: in the world with rose colored glass, he said, I
Speaker 1: do not. I think that you see what you want
Speaker 1: things to be. And I understand that because there are
Speaker 1: things that I see that I wanted to be. But
Speaker 1: what it is is what it is. Well, while ask
Speaker 1: this because Nick, you talk about the Constitution, I mean,
Speaker 1: you do understand when the Constitution was written, it was
Speaker 1: not black people of color. I'll just say that we're
Speaker 1: not included when that was written. We were third. That
Speaker 1: came after the constitutions. That came after that was the ratification. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but absolutely. But I also understand that the Constitution, also, Lauren,
Speaker 1: is a living, breathing document. The idea is it also
Speaker 1: didn't anticipate that there would be fifty states, right, um,
Speaker 1: And like everything else, we grow and we learn. I
Speaker 1: definitely believe also that the Constitution did not mean to
Speaker 1: exclude women. So and I also believe that the Constitution
Speaker 1: did not ever see a world where a woman would
Speaker 1: possibly ascend to the second highest office in the land.
Speaker 1: I don't think that what we can do is move
Speaker 1: into space where um, we don't believe, and move in
Speaker 1: a way and operate in a way that we know
Speaker 1: we belong. And I believe that there are men and
Speaker 1: women who served this country because they too believe in
Speaker 1: this country and its promise. I among them, Um, But
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those who are out there today.
Speaker 1: But I do believe that are good men and women,
Speaker 1: many of whom are seventeen eighteen leaving home for the
Speaker 1: first time, who really do believe in the promise of
Speaker 1: this country and what it has to offer for people
Speaker 1: like like me, like all of us. Yell, not everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody else. But that is a great quality quantity of
Speaker 1: people that are racist in the military. And they just
Speaker 1: take their uniforms off. They still go home to the
Speaker 1: to who they are. You can't leave you back putting
Speaker 1: on the uniform. When I take this dress off, Marcus
Speaker 1: Park is still up under here. And I think that
Speaker 1: there are a great number of people who are racist
Speaker 1: who happened to also possibly be in the military. I
Speaker 1: think that what we can do is say that the
Speaker 1: races the military somehow attracts racists or something. And I
Speaker 1: guess that's where I'm just trying to somewhere else. You're
Speaker 1: taking it somewhere. Okay, come back, you were making you're
Speaker 1: making it sound like people in military racist every I
Speaker 1: didn't say everyone. I said there's a good quality quantity.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? What does good quantity mean? None
Speaker 1: of them that if they're not going to kill white people,
Speaker 1: and the white people that racist, the protesters that came
Speaker 1: last week. I'm not afraid of the military, Harry, because
Speaker 1: they don't have to be. See, that's not us. This
Speaker 1: is what you missing. They don't have to be. They've
Speaker 1: never been in a position and showed last week when
Speaker 1: the police and all the all the law enforcement in
Speaker 1: his country, when they shot Jacob Blake and his gat
Speaker 1: down back seven times and he said he wasn't meaning
Speaker 1: to kill him, Well, what else was you meaning to do?
Speaker 1: He was unarmed walking away. But here is all this
Speaker 1: verrager white people. Nobody had guns out. They had their poles,
Speaker 1: they had their flags, they had their pain on their face.
Speaker 1: Y'all had milled y'all had guns, battalions, you had shields.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever attacked them, Nobody rushed them. In fact, they
Speaker 1: ran from them, or took pictures with them, or opened
Speaker 1: the door like they were giving them the key to
Speaker 1: the city. I don't want you to think that I'm
Speaker 1: attacking the military. I also don't want you to think
Speaker 1: that they are completely innocent of this. That was an
Speaker 1: inside job. Nobody knew what Nancy Pelosi's office was because
Speaker 1: that place is like a fucking cavern. That was inside job.
Speaker 1: And when they get through, they can be mad at me.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't give two funks because guess what
Speaker 1: I got paid already Antie who And I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: say this to uh. You know, the military was not
Speaker 1: established to protect people of color, like we just we
Speaker 1: just got to say it is what it is that
Speaker 1: they just weren't. It just wasn't ingrained in their foundations.
Speaker 1: So it's not it wasn't surprising for me to see
Speaker 1: what took place because that's not what was taught to
Speaker 1: them when that establishment was created, or that body of government,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them, was established. It just wasn't.
Speaker 1: And it's no shade. I know that you're a veteran
Speaker 1: and I appreciate everything that you did for this country,
Speaker 1: but you were one of the anomalies. You really are,
Speaker 1: and everybody is not like that. But but but yeah,
Speaker 1: back to the military. Let's go back to the military
Speaker 1: was only created and allowed black people to come in
Speaker 1: because they were putting us on the front land to
Speaker 1: die first. They were told way back in the day,
Speaker 1: you can't even kill a white person, even if they
Speaker 1: are on the other side. So I understand that we
Speaker 1: have been collateral damage a long time, long, long time.
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing me a cheery up under the bus,
Speaker 1: but there are races on both sides, and that would
Speaker 1: have that would have definitely been a bus. If you're
Speaker 1: saying that it was created and who were collateral? Dadmta,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what else what would call that, But
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't revoking on that. I'm saying, it's
Speaker 1: not all bad military. Now. We were created so we
Speaker 1: could be on the front lines because their soldiers were dying.
Speaker 1: They were dying. But even with us having gone and
Speaker 1: them shooting at us, we were not allowed to kill
Speaker 1: the white person, even if they were on the opposite side.
Speaker 1: So when they had the Civil War in the very beginning,
Speaker 1: the black people that were soldiers and the military were
Speaker 1: not They were allowed to stand there as barricades, but
Speaker 1: they couldn't kill the opposition even because they were white. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm read about it, you know, I read sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's but it's across all things. It's the military,
Speaker 1: you know. I even have conversations with my dad about
Speaker 1: the fire department, in the police department. There's always a
Speaker 1: subliminal um just kind of foundation and it's so sad
Speaker 1: to say of just racism that's built in these institutions
Speaker 1: and like those unions are different animal entirely. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but I mean I say that to say that there's
Speaker 1: you know, there's social media groups of just these they're
Speaker 1: really just these races that are within these you know, bodies.
Speaker 1: And we even saw it with you know, the different
Speaker 1: uprisings that happened on the six even the capitol here
Speaker 1: in Sacramento. You know, there were four retired l A
Speaker 1: f D. You know, firemen that were there, sure supporting Trump.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying there's we I just feel like
Speaker 1: we can't just say like, oh no it's it's military
Speaker 1: is not bad, or oh this group isn't bad. We
Speaker 1: have you guys have a lot of bad apples. You
Speaker 1: really just do, because that's how you guys were founded.
Speaker 1: It just is what it is. I guess what I
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure I was clear on is that
Speaker 1: not only will there not be an incident this week,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we're clear there will
Speaker 1: not be an incident, and I definitely believe it. I
Speaker 1: believe in this string. I don't move into space where
Speaker 1: I don't have faith in our institution. I genuine believe
Speaker 1: democracy prevails, and I genuinely believe the men and women
Speaker 1: of the military and those who are who have been
Speaker 1: enacted to protect President elect Joe Biden and President Vice
Speaker 1: President elet Kamala Harris will keep them safe. I just
Speaker 1: believe that, and I'm I'm not I'm not negating. I'm
Speaker 1: not negating the dark cloud you all bring. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that I do believe in the in the power
Speaker 1: of the institute. You know, if something goes down, come
Speaker 1: here next week and blaze your oh, I'm sure, and
Speaker 1: it will be the same ones who told me that
Speaker 1: I should be washing chicken before I cooking, and this
Speaker 1: week he showed the meat. So it's just I just
Speaker 1: believe that they've got this covered. I don't believe this
Speaker 1: is one where you mess it up. I really don't.
Speaker 1: But we will see, right. I just want to know
Speaker 1: where you live, when you live. I'm just saying, you're
Speaker 1: saying nothing's gonna happen, but there's already instances of things happening,
Speaker 1: Like there's a one that showed up with firearms to
Speaker 1: the gate, saying that she was a part of the
Speaker 1: presidential cabinet with a fake credential trying to get in
Speaker 1: and they haven't sent it. So exactly, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Lauren. This when I tell you that
Speaker 1: UM again, and I know this is much further into
Speaker 1: this topic than we planned on. I just think that
Speaker 1: UM to UM dismiss the protocols and things. I think
Speaker 1: a valuable lesson was learned last Wednesday. I really do.
Speaker 1: But that's what they did. They did dismissed protocols last Wednesday.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what they did. But what I'm saying, a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of protocols and things were missed
Speaker 1: last Wednesday. That will not be the case this week.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, Absolutely not. There's no doubt because you think
Speaker 1: it's too many ads on it. Oh. I also believe
Speaker 1: in the power of the institution. I genuinely believe there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: good people who are involved in bad institutions and bad
Speaker 1: groups to say, you know what, this is not who
Speaker 1: we are. I genuinely believe a number of people were embarrassed, mortified, horrified,
Speaker 1: disgusted by what they saw last Wednesday. And that's what
Speaker 1: those people that were embarrassed were at home because the
Speaker 1: people who was not embarrassed was at the Capitol. There
Speaker 1: were a lot of people there with their families, flam
Speaker 1: who were very upset and frightened and and really thought
Speaker 1: that they their lives what they really fear for their
Speaker 1: lives last Wednesday, um. There have been a lot of
Speaker 1: lawmakers who have spoken up saying, whoa what just happened?
Speaker 1: I was not expecting this when we're hearing guns las
Speaker 1: because they got the call from the top to to
Speaker 1: march on Washington. Do whatever you needed to do to
Speaker 1: be forcefule, so you take your children out there. Racism
Speaker 1: is a learned behavior. I don't give I don't have
Speaker 1: no sympathy for the people who was out there with
Speaker 1: their children. You taught your children to hate. You taught
Speaker 1: your children to hurt people because they didn't look like you,
Speaker 1: or they didn't move like you. You taught your children
Speaker 1: to hate. Say what you want to because they keep
Speaker 1: trying to say Racism and and mental illness is the
Speaker 1: same ship. Mental illness you could be born with or
Speaker 1: you can take the wrong vaccine. Huh huh. Hate is
Speaker 1: a learned behavior that you learned from whoever raised you
Speaker 1: or whoever you're around, So don't don't give me that
Speaker 1: they had their children out there. What were they trying
Speaker 1: to show? They were that was treason. You were attacking
Speaker 1: your own government and country. They were going to kill
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and Cortez if they could have got a
Speaker 1: hold of them. They they were going to make pens
Speaker 1: like them. I mean lawmakers who were there to certify
Speaker 1: the vote had family members there and they're like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: what is happening there? On both sides of the I
Speaker 1: who were just horrified by what happened. And I do
Speaker 1: think that there may have been those who were there
Speaker 1: to demonstrate who did not know things were going to
Speaker 1: go that far. I do believe that there are flame
Speaker 1: I do believe that there are decent people who, let
Speaker 1: me tell you something, you've been smoking that ship because
Speaker 1: they were told too much on the Capitol by Trump
Speaker 1: and they were told I don't know the exact words
Speaker 1: that he said, but whatever it was, we gotta fight
Speaker 1: or something. It was something to that capacity where they
Speaker 1: were going with anger and with rage to fight. I'm
Speaker 1: not bad what they were selling. So I don't feel
Speaker 1: sorry for none of them. They shouldn't have had their
Speaker 1: dumbasds out there. I'm at them for climbing the walls
Speaker 1: with those what they thought they were or Mario that
Speaker 1: that was a funny. Mean, this is the perfect time
Speaker 1: and segue into Jacob Blake because we did say that
Speaker 1: we wanted to touch on this there, because I do
Speaker 1: feel like that deserves a little more fleshing out there
Speaker 1: is wait before you go there, acknowledge the black officer.
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about we got down the end on
Speaker 1: the high note, but something else. But they keep skipping
Speaker 1: over him. We don't want to skip over now. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like they did Brianna Taylor. They kept skipping
Speaker 1: over her. We don't want to skip over him. What
Speaker 1: was his name, Officer Eugene Goodman. So he was a
Speaker 1: black officer faced down, who faced down a mostly white
Speaker 1: mob at the Capitol. More so, he almost he led
Speaker 1: this mob away from the Senator so that way they
Speaker 1: could all go to safety. Uh So, like you said,
Speaker 1: we don't praise him enough, you know, because we we've
Speaker 1: said this, if he was a white officer, he would
Speaker 1: be getting all these accolades, he to be on the news.
Speaker 1: More So, we want to make sure that we're honoring
Speaker 1: this amazing black officer for risking his life to make
Speaker 1: sure he was protecting those senators that they could get
Speaker 1: to safety. So thank you for the fordrew his weapon,
Speaker 1: you know, never drew his weapon. I just think that
Speaker 1: that's amazing. He he had his side arm, never drew,
Speaker 1: purposely pushed led them away. And again a veteran of
Speaker 1: he served twice in iraq U, two tours in iraq Uh.
Speaker 1: So it's just so, now that's your perfect segue to
Speaker 1: go to Jacob because Eugene never drew his weapon. Now
Speaker 1: they have shot Sandra Bland and so many others because
Speaker 1: they said that their life was in peril, so they
Speaker 1: had with no weapons. Being this was a mob after
Speaker 1: this black man who had a weapon to shoot and
Speaker 1: kill and contained himself so and didn't do anything. So
Speaker 1: that goes back to the whole refund and defund or
Speaker 1: reform and defund the police department. This man was trained
Speaker 1: and had the mindset to say, hey, I can I
Speaker 1: can de escalate this, I can talk this down, I
Speaker 1: can make this work for me, which he did because
Speaker 1: had he went on the shooting rampage he did, he'd
Speaker 1: be in jail. He wouldn't be fired. So again with
Speaker 1: the whole guy who shot Jacob Blake in the back
Speaker 1: seven times because he said he wasn't trying to kill
Speaker 1: Jacob Blake shooting him in the back, there is a
Speaker 1: move to push Eugene Goodman for the Congressional Gold Medal,
Speaker 1: so that is the highest, uh civilian honors. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Jacob Blake. Uh, this one, UM, I don't even know
Speaker 1: the long and short of it is the cop who
Speaker 1: shot him was cleared, and I think that most people
Speaker 1: felt like some charges would be brought in some form
Speaker 1: um and how um you know a jury sat there
Speaker 1: and said because it was convened before grand jury and
Speaker 1: that or Lauren helped me, was that indeed the case
Speaker 1: or did the d A just determined there wasn't enough
Speaker 1: evidence to bring charges? That was on the d A.
Speaker 1: He made that decision. So, I mean, Jacob Blake is
Speaker 1: is one example. You know, we talked about Brianna Taylor.
Speaker 1: It's just now happening that the officers that were involved
Speaker 1: in um, you know, her murder are officially being fired.
Speaker 1: But we have these instances of you know, police coming
Speaker 1: after you know, these people of color and no charges
Speaker 1: being drawn So it is a good parallel to draw though,
Speaker 1: because we say, like you know, we have we have flames,
Speaker 1: said this, we've had you know, police officers go into
Speaker 1: these communities of color. They're not familiar, they don't know
Speaker 1: how to handle the situation. I've said myself to when
Speaker 1: somebody's in distress, I call the fire department before I
Speaker 1: call the police department, because the fire department is trained
Speaker 1: to deal with these situations, whether they're paramedic or even
Speaker 1: just you know, regular fireman, they're more equipped to deal
Speaker 1: with situations of mental distress. So, um, it's an interesting
Speaker 1: parallel to draw because, like we said, with the insurrection
Speaker 1: that happened on January six, guns were drawn, people were out,
Speaker 1: nobody was shot, Nobody was killed because you know, they
Speaker 1: weren't viewed as a threat. Interestingly enough, but a man,
Speaker 1: a man of color, who is actually having a mental
Speaker 1: breakdown and is trying to walk back to his children
Speaker 1: gets shot in the back several times. It's not a
Speaker 1: big deal. So to be clear, five people did die
Speaker 1: last which I think is part of the whole the
Speaker 1: whole shot because was again secret Service said no time
Speaker 1: blowing what's her name away the minute she came through
Speaker 1: that window. She had a gun. She had she was shooting,
Speaker 1: like I mean, at that point, if they didn't shoot her,
Speaker 1: I would I would be baffled her. What was her name, Abby?
Speaker 1: What was her last name? I don't believe she was armed, Lauren.
Speaker 1: I think that she was just denying the She was
Speaker 1: denying the order. They kept saying, do not, do not,
Speaker 1: do not, and she kept proceeding anyway, and she was
Speaker 1: ex military. I have a question she posted before she
Speaker 1: went to the whole thing. And there is nothing that
Speaker 1: will stop us. You think that bullet's name was nothing?
Speaker 1: You know what? I know who I also know not
Speaker 1: to claim through nobody else window because I was raised
Speaker 1: right and she rest in peace. I said what I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. Let me tell you something. You
Speaker 1: can't go and do these things, and don't think that
Speaker 1: there's not going to be some kind of repercussions, because
Speaker 1: even with them being even when as much as I
Speaker 1: thought that the police or whoever had a party that
Speaker 1: some of them anyway, I'm not gonna let you kill
Speaker 1: me because you're trying to prove a point. So whatever
Speaker 1: officers shot her, whether she had got enough, they obviously
Speaker 1: felt like they were in danger, and she x because
Speaker 1: she was an ex marine or something right air Force,
Speaker 1: she was highly trained, so you don't know what she
Speaker 1: was capable of, even with her addiction that sometimes it's
Speaker 1: not about you the way you grabbed people, your aggression,
Speaker 1: it's the way you speaking. And she could she could
Speaker 1: have came out professional, aggressive, scary. Who knows what the
Speaker 1: situation was. But in that instance, if I have to
Speaker 1: make a choice between your life and my life every
Speaker 1: time you lose, I know that the minute she made
Speaker 1: a step through that window into the chamber, that's when
Speaker 1: he fired that one round took her out in the
Speaker 1: neck and and dropped um. And it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things we've learned since then that she
Speaker 1: was already kind of struggling financially and the idea was,
Speaker 1: you know, she felt like Trump was the one to help.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump put it in tump, Trump broke her ass.
Speaker 1: That's what she didn't see. Trump was put it in
Speaker 1: a financial crisis. Let me tell you something. I need
Speaker 1: people to stop using it as a crutch to all people,
Speaker 1: not just white folks, black folks. Never y'all stop saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I ain't hand the money, so I was depressed. You
Speaker 1: can always find a way to make some money. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you will always be able to find if you've got
Speaker 1: some any kind of hustle in you, you can. That's
Speaker 1: nothing excuse for you to go out and hurt people.
Speaker 1: Black folks been broke, broke, We was broken for years. Years, years.
Speaker 1: We weren't going out and hurt people. They love to
Speaker 1: say that black folks the most dangerous people in the world,
Speaker 1: the most dangerous Black folks for the most power. We
Speaker 1: just want to be cool. We just want to be
Speaker 1: on chill. That's your angry. Ask what y'all mad at?
Speaker 1: Because I'm because I'm a pretty nigger. This, that's what
Speaker 1: you're mad at. Get over it. I want to give
Speaker 1: a shout out because we were talking about standing ground.
Speaker 1: This topic was introduced to me by one of our
Speaker 1: flame mess Uh. You can find our instagram at j
Speaker 1: J Rock zero Sake. That's the miss jay Tera Lockhard
Speaker 1: j Tera. I hope I'm pronounce your first name right.
Speaker 1: But she's a student at Falantis Smith College here in
Speaker 1: Little Rock, Arkansas, and she brought the topic to my
Speaker 1: attention to because here in Little Rock, Arkansas. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: about you. There's a bill of moving forward to amend
Speaker 1: stand your ground right now. You have to be under
Speaker 1: a reasonable degree of threat. And what they want to
Speaker 1: do is they're like, I nope, the fact that you
Speaker 1: step on my property. We want to lower the standard
Speaker 1: of what it is, uh, what is required for me
Speaker 1: to pull my gun and actually shoot you. I don't
Speaker 1: need to be threatened by you. I don't, is what
Speaker 1: they want to argue. I don't need to be threatened
Speaker 1: by you. The very fact that you're in my presence,
Speaker 1: um that you may or may not be armed, I
Speaker 1: still get to pull on you first. Right now, as
Speaker 1: it stands, before Flame can just unload on me, I
Speaker 1: have to make a threat or Flame has to feel
Speaker 1: like there's a threat for her life and Flame is
Speaker 1: being attacked, and it has to be credible, and I
Speaker 1: have to have a weapon. But what they want to
Speaker 1: do is they want to remove that that know, the
Speaker 1: person threatening you does not have to have a weapon
Speaker 1: and do not have to have a verbal or physical
Speaker 1: threat that you can just unload. This is stand your
Speaker 1: ground as it stands moving forward here in Arkansas. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean we we kind of talked about this yesterday
Speaker 1: the three of us. But stand your ground is always
Speaker 1: kind of been something very prevalent in the South. So
Speaker 1: I was surprised to hear that you in Arkansas where
Speaker 1: you are, Nick, that that wasn't already you know in law.
Speaker 1: But uh, standard ground is always going to be a
Speaker 1: topic of conversation. You know, it was an issue with
Speaker 1: George Zimmerman and him shooting Trayvon Martin. It was even
Speaker 1: a standard ground was an issue um with Brianna Taylor
Speaker 1: and her boyfriend. You know, thought there was there was
Speaker 1: a no knock warrant, there was intruders coming in. He
Speaker 1: was defending his household, and the announcement made that they
Speaker 1: were police standard. So standard ground is just always gonna be, uh,
Speaker 1: something of issue and something that's always going to be
Speaker 1: biased because at the end of the day, if it's
Speaker 1: a cop or whatever the situation, maybe you know, with
Speaker 1: your with the right skin color, you automatically get this
Speaker 1: qualified immunity. So and Lauren helped. It was in Florida
Speaker 1: or Atlanta where you had that, remember the help me here.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make it the white guy. He
Speaker 1: told a girl she was parked in the handicap you
Speaker 1: need to move, you need to move, and she was
Speaker 1: ignoring him. His boy her boyfriend came out and uh,
Speaker 1: he said he and then he just unloaded on the
Speaker 1: guy and they Hadn't you remember that. I don't remember
Speaker 1: where it is it was either, But it's just one
Speaker 1: of those things where I feel like it's so murky now.
Speaker 1: And what I think has some people concerned is that Arkansas,
Speaker 1: some may not know, has the second highest rate of
Speaker 1: gun ownership in the United States, second only to the
Speaker 1: state of Alaska. UM, A lot of people think it'd
Speaker 1: be Texas, but Texas is not. Its Arkansas. So in
Speaker 1: the last six months, there has been a run on
Speaker 1: guns and ammunition. Believe it or not, it is almost
Speaker 1: impossible to find ammunition for for weaponry now because uh,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who believe the Biden
Speaker 1: Harris administration, will you are make it more difficult to
Speaker 1: own a gun or raise taxes on on gun. So
Speaker 1: there's just been a rush, and the spate of violence
Speaker 1: across the United States has encouraged a lot of people say,
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe I need to be a little
Speaker 1: prepared close folks now are raiding the capital. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they may do to my little, you know,
Speaker 1: condo here in downtown Arkansas. Well, a couple of things. One,
Speaker 1: I see that the city you're referring to was Florida.
Speaker 1: So thank you everyone in the comments for sounding off
Speaker 1: on that it was Florida. Um, but I'm very I'm
Speaker 1: a firm believer in arming yourself. Um. I have a
Speaker 1: shotgun to my house that's loaded at all times, So
Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer in that. I'm just saying, you
Speaker 1: have to protect and defend what's yours. Stand your ground.
Speaker 1: Whether stand your ground mean to you, let me tell
Speaker 1: you what stand your ground mean to me. I just said,
Speaker 1: if there's ever a question, if it comes down to
Speaker 1: if it's me or if it's you, I will always
Speaker 1: choose me. And that is just how it is. And
Speaker 1: because self preservation is the first love of nature. If
Speaker 1: I feel like you're gonna hurt me because what I
Speaker 1: look like or you don't understand, that has absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: to do with me. But if you think that you're
Speaker 1: gonna hurt me, baby, I watch enough line Order SVU
Speaker 1: and Chicago. Bet I'm gonna get away with some ship.
Speaker 1: Did y'all not see Paris is burning with Dory and
Speaker 1: Corey was the training who was putting her makeup on
Speaker 1: the whole time. After she died, they found the dead
Speaker 1: body in a trunk and her that had been in
Speaker 1: her closet for over twenty years. Bitch, I'm a training
Speaker 1: train These are the most ingenious people on the planet.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get away with some ship. Understand me, that
Speaker 1: baby big brother ain't got to know what happened because
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna tell nobody. See during court was smart.
Speaker 1: She ain't tell nobody ship. She died and they was
Speaker 1: still in the closet dead. Must have been some trade
Speaker 1: that went left and he went right. Something around is
Speaker 1: just what it is. And my problem with that that
Speaker 1: they let George and get away with that. You know
Speaker 1: who I partially blame, not blame for the whole incident
Speaker 1: because it was completely his fault one, but the mother.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something to parents of children who
Speaker 1: are murdered by the police, and it's and it's in
Speaker 1: its's completely wrong. And you know it. Stop letting lawyers
Speaker 1: and stop letting people get in your head and tell
Speaker 1: you that you got to get on TV and speak
Speaker 1: a certain way, or you got to whether if you
Speaker 1: hurt one of my children. Any emotion that I feel
Speaker 1: at that moment I have no control over because it's authentic.
Speaker 1: I may take you on a roller coaster of emotions, hate, anger, bitterness, hurt, pain.
Speaker 1: I may yell and scream. You know, I may laugh
Speaker 1: and think about a great moment that I shared with
Speaker 1: that child at that time. I'm not gonna let nobody
Speaker 1: get in my ear and say, were you speaking for
Speaker 1: the community. You're a black person. Everybody's watching you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get you, Tim millions. I don't give a damn
Speaker 1: about your money. I want my baby. I want my baby.
Speaker 1: So I don't like that. And I thought that, uh
Speaker 1: Tray Bond's mother's Martin's mother. That she kept her composure.
Speaker 1: She was very professional, cool, but I'm sure that she
Speaker 1: had raged and hurt and we didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to see that, because I think that would resonate with
Speaker 1: regular people across the board, not just black folks, but everybody.
Speaker 1: Because if you are a parent, then you know the
Speaker 1: level of love that comes with being a parent. If
Speaker 1: you are not a parent, you don't know. You never
Speaker 1: know how much you will sacrifice, on how much you
Speaker 1: will love until you have your own biological child. I
Speaker 1: said that because I'm a real parent. So anybody said,
Speaker 1: well I adopted the child, I have them just the same.
Speaker 1: I ain't never adopt no kids. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Yeah, I had a comment, but I'm
Speaker 1: not a parent, so I'm gonna just shut up to see,
Speaker 1: I sh shipped Laurie. Up, y'all, I shut up, Laurie.
Speaker 1: That's it's ad Joe. We were talking about workplace vaccination
Speaker 1: and already know go ahead, but I just so much,
Speaker 1: you like to talk so much. We're gonna let you
Speaker 1: have these first three minute it's a teachable moment, your
Speaker 1: teachable moments explained to them what you told us yesterday
Speaker 1: on the phone. I think it's a good teachable moment
Speaker 1: for everybody. This is what the shows about the workplace
Speaker 1: vaccination we're talking about. Specifically, a Dollar General is planning
Speaker 1: to pay their employees to get vaccinated. Dollar General. For
Speaker 1: some of our flamemts or listeners who may not know,
Speaker 1: is a chain of stories attend to uh be more
Speaker 1: popular in areas and communities that that that I live
Speaker 1: in right now. I live in downtown Little Rock, so
Speaker 1: it's more urban. Um and it's not as um upscale
Speaker 1: as suburbia would be or Long Beach where Flame and
Speaker 1: Lauren live or you know, um. So it serves a
Speaker 1: certain community, as certain demographic. Within that demographic, there are
Speaker 1: people who are less likely to respond positively when you
Speaker 1: ask them to put on a mask, or if you
Speaker 1: ask them have they been vaccinated? They're less likely to
Speaker 1: be vaccinated. So what dollar generalists decide to do is
Speaker 1: they say, hey, how do we protect our employees. They're
Speaker 1: offering to pay their employees to get the vaccination, since
Speaker 1: you are going to be working in these communities where
Speaker 1: it can be a challenge, and the members of that
Speaker 1: community may or may not be vaccinated themselves, may or
Speaker 1: may not respond positively to you asking them to wear
Speaker 1: a mask. We would like to protect our employees, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay you to do it, to take the vaccine.
Speaker 1: So one of the things we talked about yesterday was
Speaker 1: just whether or not that was a good idea. You know,
Speaker 1: how do you Jesus moment with the vaccine yesterday? Please
Speaker 1: explain to we talked about that earlier. No, we did not.
Speaker 1: You didn't tell your your your take on the vaccine
Speaker 1: because it changed yesterday for some reason. But my my
Speaker 1: take on the vaccine with this new supervirus definitely changed.
Speaker 1: Before my attitude was simple. I believed in the science.
Speaker 1: You made it clear. Okay, operation work speed. You've got
Speaker 1: this together. You're ready to knock out COVID that came
Speaker 1: along and got us in January. Now here we are
Speaker 1: in one. You've talked about this new strain. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that operation warp speed, the virus, the antibody that we created,
Speaker 1: the vaccine we created. Oh think you'll be fine. It
Speaker 1: works for this one too. And that's when I said, wait,
Speaker 1: admitt it that I don't hold up how you didn't
Speaker 1: even know this one was there? It doesn't roll out.
Speaker 1: But here's my biggest issue initially, and this is where
Speaker 1: I have a problem. Because I'm listening to you. I
Speaker 1: want to advocate for you. I want to help my
Speaker 1: community get vaccinated. You told us we needed two shots
Speaker 1: of the moderna vaccine. Now what we already sent him out.
Speaker 1: We don't have that second one. You're gonna be fine
Speaker 1: with one shot. Not only are you gonna be fine
Speaker 1: with one shot. That one shot you have may work
Speaker 1: on this new strain of this new supervirus. That's even
Speaker 1: more contagious. So it's really don't worry about it. We'll
Speaker 1: figure it out as we go. And let me have
Speaker 1: my doctor Fauci moment. Ain't that with that did on TV?
Speaker 1: You've got to understand that people, that causes confusion and
Speaker 1: skepticism and doubt. And I'm like, wait a minute. I
Speaker 1: was cheering for you all and I want to be
Speaker 1: there and I want to say, mom, you should do this,
Speaker 1: and now you've got me questioning, don't do a girl?
Speaker 1: Take that ship? My mother said she would take it
Speaker 1: in and let me go back to this. Let me
Speaker 1: let well, I'm going to be Switzerland here really quickly
Speaker 1: and say, this is why we call this show, Laugh
Speaker 1: and Learn. Because we've had discussions about the vaccine flame
Speaker 1: and I have always been against it, and Nick you
Speaker 1: were for it, but like you said, you've done your research.
Speaker 1: You looked into it more to see if you think
Speaker 1: it would be good for you, and now with all
Speaker 1: this misinformation, you realize it's not something that you want
Speaker 1: to do. And moreover, there's more strains coming out. There's
Speaker 1: a South African strain now, there's a UK strain now,
Speaker 1: and there's like three different strains that are all of
Speaker 1: a sudden out there. And I sent you guys even
Speaker 1: a video last night showing that the there's a batch
Speaker 1: of Maderna vaccines that came to California that are causing
Speaker 1: people to have allergic reactions. It's three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: thousand bad cases of a vaccine. So anyway, point moral
Speaker 1: of the story, Nick had a come to Jesus moment yesterday, y'
Speaker 1: all and is officially on this side and it's not
Speaker 1: taking the vaccine as of today. That would be me
Speaker 1: if you did not see the movie I am legend
Speaker 1: it was about a vaccine based on the year twenty one.
Speaker 1: Y'all think what y'all want to about that nigger West
Speaker 1: Philadelphia born and raised. But that nigga was on to something, y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you now, I ain't taking it. And here's
Speaker 1: my thing, because if this is a if this is
Speaker 1: one virus before the new string came out, if it
Speaker 1: was one virus, while we got fourteen companies coming up
Speaker 1: with different different vaccines, while one company, one government funded company,
Speaker 1: American company with our own tax dollars, didn't just create
Speaker 1: one vaccine for everybody. Now we got Maderna, uh fights
Speaker 1: all these and then more companies coming out, and then
Speaker 1: they just posted that three people died in one day
Speaker 1: and what was that at and some of them they
Speaker 1: said they were older, but it doesn't matter. I want
Speaker 1: to die. You mentioned just because they died. Do we
Speaker 1: know it was exactly right down from heart attacks and
Speaker 1: strokes and walking into buildings and ship Yeah, all anythings
Speaker 1: still happen. Coacs this they just make everything COVID. Well,
Speaker 1: this is my main thing. And I said this to
Speaker 1: you guys yesterday. China, this whole virus supposedly originated in Wuhan.
Speaker 1: China didn't have to give their folks vaccines for them
Speaker 1: to get better. They didn't have to. But in this country,
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna say this farm agreed is real
Speaker 1: and just rampant. That's what this is. And it's so
Speaker 1: unfortunate that money and greed comes before tecting, comes before
Speaker 1: excuse me, protecting your citizens. China did what they were
Speaker 1: supposed to do and protected their citizens even though you know,
Speaker 1: let's say the virus originated there. We don't know that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not saying that emphatically, but that's what's
Speaker 1: in the news here, We're just gonna put citizens at
Speaker 1: risk because it profits us in the end. That's just
Speaker 1: kind of what I can't get with the same reason
Speaker 1: why I say I still don't get a food shot.
Speaker 1: You know why China. You know why Chinese people, because
Speaker 1: Asian people are some of the most disciplined people on
Speaker 1: the planet, and those Chinese people have been trained since birth.
Speaker 1: This is a dictatorship. This of what you're gonna do
Speaker 1: when we tell you not to come out of the
Speaker 1: house at the five o'clock, don't leave your house, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna shoot you. And I heard they were releasing
Speaker 1: tigers and and hungry tigers in China, So take your
Speaker 1: aside of you want to Chinese food. I don't know
Speaker 1: about that, but what I'm saying is that they are
Speaker 1: very disciplined people. And I sit on here before when
Speaker 1: we talked about this, Americans just do not want to
Speaker 1: be told what to do. None of us want nobody
Speaker 1: telling us what to do. We want to do what
Speaker 1: our way always our way is not always the right way.
Speaker 1: But I mean, we saw our democracy at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, and that is part of it. But
Speaker 1: to what's happening, misinformation and everything else. Now we're here,
Speaker 1: So I encourage people and speaking of misinformation, there literally
Speaker 1: came out yesterday that misinformation in the last week dropped
Speaker 1: by because they've been going after people have been spreading misinformation.
Speaker 1: I think people need to read more. I do know
Speaker 1: that the whole idea behind the vaccine was never to
Speaker 1: stop you from getting it, is to reduce your chances
Speaker 1: of dying should you become positive with COVID nineteen. So
Speaker 1: I just encourage all of our listeners to read and
Speaker 1: and speak to their own healthcare provider about what is
Speaker 1: the best choice for them in their body. So well,
Speaker 1: and I'll also say this to it's fact that I
Speaker 1: there are people that have taken the COVID vaccine and
Speaker 1: are still testing positive. So think about that. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's a fact. That's not something I think.
Speaker 1: That's something I know. So y'all running around here taking
Speaker 1: off y'all mask y'all all down there fighting, and y'all
Speaker 1: all up in d C last week pushing and touching
Speaker 1: all on each other, and then y'all took no COVID test.
Speaker 1: Y'all need to knock it off. All that, and then
Speaker 1: they'll put them in jail. Did y'all test them before
Speaker 1: y'all put them in jail? That's my thing. Did you
Speaker 1: test them? Because if you're arrested some of these people
Speaker 1: who were at this event last that's what it was.
Speaker 1: It was an event that was an event for them.
Speaker 1: That that all that it was tragic. It was so
Speaker 1: this beach that wasn't even I had my popcorn and
Speaker 1: get my life. That was an event for them. Let
Speaker 1: me say what I said. But did you attest them
Speaker 1: before you put them in jail? Because you remember a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, well, they arrested that black man
Speaker 1: in Virginia, the two officers and they didn't have a
Speaker 1: mask on, and they arrested him with thought that he
Speaker 1: was in the mall still and he was with his
Speaker 1: wife and kids. They didn't have mask on. He tested
Speaker 1: positive a few days later for government virus that he
Speaker 1: caught from those police officers. So you arrested these people
Speaker 1: who did all this foolishness last weekend, d C. But
Speaker 1: before you put them in jail and exposed all these
Speaker 1: innocent prisoners who weren't there at that event, did you
Speaker 1: test their asses because they should have been isolated somewhere
Speaker 1: else if they tested positive. Real talk, that's true, and
Speaker 1: nobody ain't talking about that, y'all. Oh, don't give me mad.
Speaker 1: And I had to gut me too. Okay, what happened,
Speaker 1: But before we go, you did want to make sure
Speaker 1: that we hit those numbers in l A. Just talking
Speaker 1: about in l A right now. How many This is
Speaker 1: why you're not here. How many we just hit. So
Speaker 1: l A was one of the first states, well, l
Speaker 1: A County, I'm sorry, it was one of the first
Speaker 1: counties to hit one million cases in California. Overall, we
Speaker 1: have over thirty thousand deaths. So we l A County, California,
Speaker 1: we are really at the forefront. Were like the New York.
Speaker 1: We're almost like the epicenter of this virus now. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty crazy. And I gotta fact check. I was
Speaker 1: watching MSNBC earlier today. Now all of a sudden, they
Speaker 1: had a runner across the bottom saying that we have
Speaker 1: three million cases here. So I gotta fact check back
Speaker 1: to see if that's accurate. I know for sure that
Speaker 1: we hit one million over the weekend. Y'all have to understand.
Speaker 1: I know you want to see your loved ones and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I said this before. Nick wants that
Speaker 1: Nick has not eyeballed his mom, and what two years
Speaker 1: has been? Two years? Two years? He has not imagined
Speaker 1: not saying I ain't say man in three But I
Speaker 1: was mad anyway, not seeing your mama, that your mama's boy,
Speaker 1: and Nicola is a mama's boy. So I know something.
Speaker 1: Y'all want to see your parents, but you have not
Speaker 1: whens tell you that you can't come. They're not telling
Speaker 1: you to protect them, They're telling you to protect your
Speaker 1: heart because if you come and your parents get sick
Speaker 1: after you're going to visit them because you needed to
Speaker 1: see them, and then they end up getting sick and dying,
Speaker 1: the guilt that you will live with. That's all she's
Speaker 1: trying to save you from. That's all she's trying to
Speaker 1: save you from. She wanted yass on here watching that. Hey,
Speaker 1: miss Rosette girl, you're watching that, you know, and I
Speaker 1: know what you're doing, Miss Rosette. You older, older woman
Speaker 1: like myself, So I know what you're doing. You saving
Speaker 1: your baby's feelings and you know how overly sensitive your
Speaker 1: baby is. You know that's a big old crap baby.
Speaker 1: But he wants to see you, and I know you
Speaker 1: want to see him, but sometimes you have to step
Speaker 1: outside of that that. I want to see my parents
Speaker 1: because the older people are more likely to get it
Speaker 1: and die. And you don't want to walk around with that.
Speaker 1: You'd be walking around crazy. It's Kanye. They'll be starting
Speaker 1: a couple of your asks like they didn't get out.
Speaker 1: You said what you said? Can you please answer this
Speaker 1: one question for the viewers? They keep asking, are you single?
Speaker 1: Can we just let's get this out here right now?
Speaker 1: You weren't dating? You didn't tell them we were dating.
Speaker 1: See there you go, there you go. No, I have
Speaker 1: just played out there. You know I am. I'm twice divorced,
Speaker 1: but right now I am definitely single. I live in
Speaker 1: Little Rock alone. Okay, plays, there's your answers, so stop asking. Okay,
Speaker 1: y'all know, y'all want you'all some of that. Y'all know
Speaker 1: his his screen name is Big Black. Anybody trying to
Speaker 1: come to Arkansas people me and so we got to
Speaker 1: make something happen. Not to you get a gun? You say,
Speaker 1: y'all got more guns? And anybody else? I think anybody
Speaker 1: got one? But you play? I know Pooky right right
Speaker 1: now in Arkansas King Draft. You know, Martin Luther King
Speaker 1: in every neighborhood is the black neighborhood. Baby, I know
Speaker 1: every every city that they got the King Draft is
Speaker 1: the black neigh Very true, very true. We were talking
Speaker 1: about work culture just so flamemt's know what we're talking about,
Speaker 1: because many of them may know this very well, because
Speaker 1: we know we have those in every age group that
Speaker 1: how the work culture today has changed and it's been
Speaker 1: designed to accommodate a new workforce. Specifically, what we were
Speaker 1: talking about is how managers today who are doing hiring
Speaker 1: friends of mine who work for different Fortune five companies
Speaker 1: like Apple or Amazon, they've had to hire people who
Speaker 1: are Lauren's age and speak to them about work life balance,
Speaker 1: a topic that never came up when I entered the workforce.
Speaker 1: As in now managers have to take into consideration, am
Speaker 1: I giving Lauren enough personal time to balance what she
Speaker 1: needs to do so that she can be her best
Speaker 1: creative self when she comes here to work? And those
Speaker 1: are things that were just beyond the pale when we
Speaker 1: enter the workforce. Playing Yeah, I mean, and I said
Speaker 1: this to you guys too. I know from experience that
Speaker 1: it's very It's true. It is, and especially you know
Speaker 1: when you're in departments like marketing and in all these
Speaker 1: different creative spaces and you have these younger generations now
Speaker 1: it is something that has to be considered. You know,
Speaker 1: nine to five and salaried employees. All of these things
Speaker 1: have to be negotiated and worked through because some people
Speaker 1: really feel like I need to have some type of
Speaker 1: separation from my job when I go home. Me for instance,
Speaker 1: for the company that I work for. You guys all
Speaker 1: know I don't have that. I yes, I'm salaried. So
Speaker 1: my I worked around the clock, flame knows that, you know,
Speaker 1: she can call me anytime. I'm always working. Sometimes I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I need a moment. But that's just how things are,
Speaker 1: you know. And I work in a nonprofit sector. I
Speaker 1: don't work in corporate America. That was a conscious decision
Speaker 1: that I made because I didn't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to work for a for a
Speaker 1: greater purpose. So it is something that is discussed more
Speaker 1: and more um and it also just depends on who
Speaker 1: you are as a person and what you want to do.
Speaker 1: Work life balance is not as much of a priority
Speaker 1: when it came to me. You know, I wanted to
Speaker 1: enjoy what I was doing, so I made that decision.
Speaker 1: But to your point, that is something that's very real
Speaker 1: and something that I've experienced and witnessed in the workplace,
Speaker 1: and it's also changed, Lauren. I think the days of
Speaker 1: working for a company. My mother worked for and retired
Speaker 1: from Illinois Bell after being their thirty years. The idea
Speaker 1: of being with the same employer for thirty years just
Speaker 1: isn't the reality of today's workforce. It's not at all.
Speaker 1: And so she retired with the pension and you know,
Speaker 1: all of that pension. What's that You know, if you
Speaker 1: don't start the four oh one k when you enter
Speaker 1: in now, Uh, it's a rap. I don't think most
Speaker 1: companies even offer if you do, know, but the majority
Speaker 1: expect you to save on your own. So it's definitely changed.
Speaker 1: My biggest issue out of all of this that you're
Speaker 1: talking about with the workforce is, Laurence said, the younger generation.
Speaker 1: This have for twenty five talking about the younger generation
Speaker 1: that works. Eighteen year olds don't even work. They still
Speaker 1: live in my house spending my money. Oh that's my
Speaker 1: personal ship. Okay, So you see I never had to
Speaker 1: work in corporate America. I never had to dance for
Speaker 1: Mr Charlie ast t Janet would say, I never had
Speaker 1: to do that because I was always an entertainer and
Speaker 1: pretty much freelance. So I wouldn't know, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do good in spaces like that because because I've never
Speaker 1: had to work in those spaces. You can't talk to
Speaker 1: me any kind of way because of how I view
Speaker 1: myself and how I treat myself. So and I know
Speaker 1: sometimes in corporate you have to put your head down.
Speaker 1: You have to take it because it's your livelihood. And
Speaker 1: then people speak and you can't get another job here.
Speaker 1: You can't get a job there because somebody has sput
Speaker 1: out a bad word about you. That happens in entertainment
Speaker 1: as well. I want you, but it's very different. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't know that, but I
Speaker 1: would be I would be mortified. If I'm on this
Speaker 1: job twenty years. I've trained everyone up under me. But
Speaker 1: because I don't have a college degree, or because I'm
Speaker 1: not highly educated, or don't speak on the level that
Speaker 1: you think that I should speak of, even though I've
Speaker 1: been doing this job successfully for twenty years, you bringing
Speaker 1: somebody younger because they have more qualifications on paper, on paper,
Speaker 1: not skilled, not experienced, because you can't buy that. You
Speaker 1: can't buy that, but you give them a higher position
Speaker 1: than me, and so now they become my bus. I
Speaker 1: would have a problem with this bitch coming in here
Speaker 1: being my boss because she got an HBCU and I
Speaker 1: ain't got jack and I know niggas playing niggas at HBCU.
Speaker 1: I ain't got a degree from, but I got some
Speaker 1: other things from. But she's gonna get more money than me.
Speaker 1: I would have a problem with that. That's seriously I think.
Speaker 1: Also in the area of entertainment, you and I have
Speaker 1: talked personally about how we have seen different shows and venues,
Speaker 1: the different brunches that we used to go to. They
Speaker 1: will hire girls who have done different shows. Um, and
Speaker 1: then we're sitting there as audience members watching the show
Speaker 1: during our best to stay away until you come on
Speaker 1: the stage. But because you have not done that show, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, people are like, well, you know they've done
Speaker 1: that show. They're amazing, and then they realize whoa then
Speaker 1: in real life isn't the same thing. I just watched
Speaker 1: them edit for that TV show that I may have
Speaker 1: been watching like we have different We've had this, We've
Speaker 1: had I'm gonna say it because Flame and I've had
Speaker 1: this conversation. That's the other thing that just goes back
Speaker 1: to checking somebody's resume because to what you just said,
Speaker 1: For instance, Nick, you should know that live theater and
Speaker 1: television is not the same thing. And if you don't
Speaker 1: know that that that's just ignorance and you haven't done
Speaker 1: your homework. So that's the first thing that I'll say.
Speaker 1: That's really just I mean, my skin crawl anyway. Um. Sorry,
Speaker 1: But but to honestly, all of what we're talking about though,
Speaker 1: it's it's just it is what it is now, you know,
Speaker 1: like Flames said, I am do have an HBCU degree,
Speaker 1: even though it's becoming more critically acclaimed now, Once upon
Speaker 1: a time having a degree from an HBCU was saying that,
Speaker 1: oh you didn't actually get a real education. So it's
Speaker 1: interesting to see how times change and how things you know, evolved.
Speaker 1: But to everything that you guys are saying, it's it's
Speaker 1: that is not the situation anymore in the workplace. It's
Speaker 1: just not things evolved people, it's just changing, you know.
Speaker 1: Lauren I want to piggyback off of that. And the
Speaker 1: only reason I want to stop that because we never
Speaker 1: know who's listening. And I just want to say this
Speaker 1: one thing. I grew up with hbc U S This
Speaker 1: was always the case, um that everyone I knew who
Speaker 1: attended an HBCU always made sure you knew they went
Speaker 1: to an HBCU. That there is a pride that comes
Speaker 1: with attending an HBCU. That I mean, I love, I
Speaker 1: love the school I went to. Everybody's college experience is
Speaker 1: unique to them. But relatives of mine who went to Shaw,
Speaker 1: who went to North Carolina A and T or went
Speaker 1: to more House, the first thing that came out of
Speaker 1: their mouth was reminding you that they went to an HBCU.
Speaker 1: Because I do think that HBCUs are unique in uh
Speaker 1: instilling in their students the value of their education and
Speaker 1: the value of community. So I don't know that it
Speaker 1: ever did not have shine. I think that what has
Speaker 1: happened is different. UH fortune par un companies have recognized
Speaker 1: the value and the work ethic that those who are
Speaker 1: graduates from HBCUs bring. That they that they are extremely
Speaker 1: driven and tend to be extremely competitive, whereas others kind
Speaker 1: of float on. Well, you know, I want to you
Speaker 1: know I did. I did my graduate work at Harvard,
Speaker 1: so you are just in by proxy. And do you realize,
Speaker 1: oh wow, any idiot can get a degree. Well, let
Speaker 1: me just clarify a couple of things. One amongst us,
Speaker 1: it's always been a pride going to an HBCU. I
Speaker 1: always say there's no place like Spellman. There really isn't.
Speaker 1: And everybody's going to say that about their individual HBCU.
Speaker 1: That's just that's their experience. But I would just say
Speaker 1: s Woman is a number one HPCU in the country.
Speaker 1: But anyway, um, but because because of Howard grad and
Speaker 1: he will remind you, oh, Nick, you know you do
Speaker 1: know the center of the universe revolves wrong? How is
Speaker 1: the hot spot right now? Because Vice President elect came
Speaker 1: from spell But anyway, but back to what you were saying, Nick,
Speaker 1: is though, it's that it's the outside world. And I
Speaker 1: hope everybody understands what I mean by outside world is
Speaker 1: understanding now just how competitive to your point, and how
Speaker 1: really difficult it is to matriculate through an HBCU. It's
Speaker 1: not like we're getting a pass or you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's an easier time. More so to the point where
Speaker 1: some of these white folks and their parents are like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I can just send you there because maybe I
Speaker 1: can pay a little less than what I have to
Speaker 1: pay a Harvard or a Stanford, and you get that
Speaker 1: same education and you come out and you're a part
Speaker 1: of something else. So it looks like you're you what
Speaker 1: I support diversity and inclusion. So that's really what's happening
Speaker 1: now too, is you know, some of these white folks
Speaker 1: are getting a little smart and like, oh, maybe I
Speaker 1: can send my kids to an HC. That realized it's
Speaker 1: a more degree. Some of the white folks are just
Speaker 1: buying the tests and getting caught later. Laurie what was
Speaker 1: her name who just got out of jail. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, because I was going to pack my
Speaker 1: key is the college degree. But the wife folks didn't
Speaker 1: got caught, So the jig is up because you know what, actually,
Speaker 1: let me let me let me jump on you with that,
Speaker 1: because your children are smart enough they won't need you
Speaker 1: to buy them. You know, I think I think people
Speaker 1: think your kids um are as ghetto as I am.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I know you Rosetta get your baby,
Speaker 1: get your side. I never went to college because you know,
Speaker 1: I was doing other things. Although I didn't have a
Speaker 1: four year scholarship to Throne Cookman in Florida when I
Speaker 1: graduated high school for music, because a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know I was a talent, very talented musician, probably
Speaker 1: why I love music so much. And if y'all join
Speaker 1: me on Loveland jealousy, why But I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go to college because I didn't have that support system
Speaker 1: at home my mom. You know, my mom was on
Speaker 1: drugs and doing her things, so I didn't have that
Speaker 1: support system at home, so that was not for me.
Speaker 1: But I love to encourage people to go to college
Speaker 1: and get that college life, but there isn't even college
Speaker 1: life right now because of COVID. They're doing it from home,
Speaker 1: from school, from their being rooms. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: spending money on that. Uh, I'm not doing that. If
Speaker 1: the luxury of sitting your kids away to college is
Speaker 1: to get them the hell out your house so you
Speaker 1: can walk through your house, I'm not doing that. I
Speaker 1: would like to walk through my house naked, but if
Speaker 1: I can't see me naked, they will be like Baron Trump,
Speaker 1: special Sauce. I just want to say thank you guys
Speaker 1: for a supporting show. We're doing very well in the
Speaker 1: ratings with Heart and Amazon, and we thank you for that.
Speaker 1: It's only because of you all. We also want to
Speaker 1: acknowledge that this this this last four years have been
Speaker 1: a real shaky time in this country. I do think
Speaker 1: that we can get back not to basic, but with
Speaker 1: Nicholas pushing the whole constitution, I think that they're not
Speaker 1: going to rewrite the constitution, but they will actually include
Speaker 1: us into the constitution because I felt very excluded, like
Speaker 1: as a people, and I'm talking about black people, so
Speaker 1: hopefully they will. Because all we want is fairness. We
Speaker 1: want to be treated equally. We want to be given
Speaker 1: a fair shake. We're not asking for your hand outs.
Speaker 1: We will we work, We do what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: We just was trd of work. Have me picking the
Speaker 1: kind and sh don't even like like that my dress
Speaker 1: any So honestly, we just want, we want to get
Speaker 1: back to some sense of normalcy in the world. Because
Speaker 1: I tell my children, because they hate to zoom school,
Speaker 1: that y'all didn't fail school. The school system, the world
Speaker 1: failed you. All the world this world. This America has
Speaker 1: been failed their children seriously with the school systems and
Speaker 1: what they're missing out and so many people out of working.
Speaker 1: American has failed us, America. You always to make it
Speaker 1: back up to us. And we're hoping that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris can be the two people that can
Speaker 1: help mend this gap between this broken America because these
Speaker 1: racism am not gonna do it. They these racists wanted
Speaker 1: to be just what it was, a nice, racist, divided country.
Speaker 1: Were better than that, y'all. We are more like than
Speaker 1: we are different. It just don't look like that right now.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna fix it. And I mean, and that
Speaker 1: agenda is going to be pretty extensive of the first day.
Speaker 1: And I'm excited to see what these first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks of this new administration looks like. And I'm excited
Speaker 1: to have a I'm excited to have a president who
Speaker 1: won't be mean tweeting and and just I like, it
Speaker 1: was so uncomfortable because you know, yeah, I'm I'm just
Speaker 1: happy for a turning of the corner. So you know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about a lot of things today. Everybody. We
Speaker 1: talked about everything from Jacob Blake to recognizing the officer Mr. Goodman,
Speaker 1: who put itself in harm's way to protect UM leadership.
Speaker 1: We also talked about the lysol and the teacher in Florida.
Speaker 1: And remember whatever we talk about, we want everyone to
Speaker 1: remember that. We want you to laugh, who wants you
Speaker 1: to learn, want you to have a good time, because
Speaker 1: we are not trying to get you to change your mind.
Speaker 1: We are only trying to get you to use your mind.
Speaker 1: And for those of you who don't have a man,
Speaker 1: get you some privilegence so you can remember what your
Speaker 1: man is. Privileging is the ship that make you remember ship.
Speaker 1: It's for all folks. I'm thinking about starting taking in
Speaker 1: my damn self. We appreciate you all. We absolutely adore
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Speaker 1: just circumvented, you know, we learned from you the questions
Speaker 1: and the in boxes that we get, and we get
Speaker 1: plenty of Oh my god, we get plenty of I
Speaker 1: don't read them, but they do. So I'm just letting
Speaker 1: y'all know. So keep on sliding up in my sliding
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Speaker 1: some of the topics come about. So thank you, guys,
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you to our videographer Kendall. Thank you
Speaker 1: to our producer Triple We thank you Flaming for comtuniting
Speaker 1: in watching it with you on Thursday. Peace