WEBVTT - Did Instagram Try to Shut Us Down? 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:43.960 La laughing with if you watch Coffee time to baby, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.400 you know the name Flame, my role also known as 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.000 my role Flame. Come in with last and come in 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.479 with JN love lounds. Baby, you better catch it when 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.000 you can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to polytics shouting 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.279 now comics just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah you 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.960 know she raped shot towns On speak into the ground 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.920 a second. We're gonna last cut of the kicking and 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.759 at the end we leave it, which is a lift 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.000 spirit to think you want to revisit. So your first 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.040 take a list at jim folk say it slip all 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.920 folks that we take it to. No kids, do what 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.920 you doin't no kiss, do what you do, can't no 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:41.119 kiss do what I do, No fame we can Flame Week. Hello, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.880 ladies and gentlemen, welcome to laugh and learn. We're Flame 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:51.120 and Lord and and and camedle and Triple. Today's Triple's birthday, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.720 Happy birthday, Triple. All the Leo's out, the Triples and 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:00.559 Kendall's birthdays on Wednesday, and my birthday is on Thursday. Kelly, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.360 you was born on Barack Obama Day. Yes, yes, that's 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.240 why you gangster. You must be a president up there somewhere. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.520 He might be a president. He just don't know it. Yeah, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.480 you're surrounded by Leo's. That's your team. So I got 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.480 one of you that's got great hair up under this 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:20.679 week that one right there. Welcome, ladies and gentle and 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.480 welcome to Laugh and Learned. Y'all. Come on in and 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.320 come on in and come on in with flame Nick 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.280 and Triple, I mean she flamed, Nick and Lauren. Y'all 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:28.880 come on in so we can join y'all into this 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.160 conversation today because it's going to be quite interesting. To 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.520 be quite interesting. I had an amazing weekend, ladies and gentleman. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.320 Let me tell you guys that this weekend I was 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.120 at the Laugh Factory in San Diego and it was 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.639 actually pretty awesome. I had at least about thirty flame 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.400 mats to show up from out of town and in 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.120 town and came and drove seven eight hours from northern California, 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.679 Vino Diva and Leslie by the Bay and so many 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.640 So thank you guys for coming out and showing love 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.200 and support. I appreciate it. I told you I was 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:05.360 gonna get yall your moneys were kid next man. Hello, Lauren, Hello, flame. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.600 How you guys doing Did you color? It? Did not color? 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.480 You can still see that great I turn. It's only 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.320 a little pass right there, but the rest of it 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.400 looks very dark, and it looks so thick. It looks 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.400 like it it looks like a bush, looks like is 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.800 that the entrance to a burning bush? You know what 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.760 this is. It's a whole lot of filters. Let's keep 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.480 it read. We love a good filter, though it works. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.080 I'm doing alright, doing alright. It's been it's been a 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.839 challenging weekend, but you know it's it's I'm doing well. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.280 No complaints. What was challenging about it? What happened? I 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.240 just think it's just been a lot happening in the media, Lauren, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.840 and I've just tried to stay positive and focus on 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.160 things that I'm grateful for. But it just seems that 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:48.800 there have been so many things in the media that 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:50.920 seemed to be a one to punch every time you 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.080 turn around. You know. So, my mom lives in Chicago, 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.800 as you all know, and this weekend they had Lollapalooza 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:02.000 and it was just massive, four days, four days, a 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.280 hundred thousand people per day. More than that because I 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.240 saw Megan the Stallion sets. She had a hundred and 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.520 eighty thousand people and uh yeah, okay, and there was 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.640 not There were masks, but it wasn't a hundred thousand masks. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.080 And then flame as you know, c t A is 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.440 the major transportation system in Chicago, and there were a 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.160 couple of people who just tweeted pictures of people jammed 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.320 onto c t A no mask. Now this isn't Lollapalooza, 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.839 so everyone is clear is outdoors. However, they were large 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.000 crowds still gathered together, which raised some concerns. And then 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.680 everyone jammed on the trains Lauren going to Lollapalooza, you know, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.200 back and forth throughout the city. So it's gonna be interesting. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.120 And I just worry about older people like my mom, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.080 or people who can't get vaccinated for whatever reason or 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.359 just don't want to um and the spread of this 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.800 virus as it continues to um mutate. So yeah, that's 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.919 what was on my mind. Yeah, well, I saw a 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:59.040 report today it was saying that people that are vaccinated 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.480 are not dying from contracting COVID, whether you're vaccinated or not. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.520 But we're seeing more and more crazy numbers like I was, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.599 of course watching my news outlet and MSNBC this morning, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.840 and they've got the graph back up in the daily 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.240 number of cases and the different you know, color coordinated maps, 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.200 and so we're starting it feels like we're reverting backwards 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.039 in a lot of ways. And I also read that 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.960 the delta variant hasn't a new variant. It's called like 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.440 a delta plus. So is that first class. It's getting 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.560 a little crazy around all of this. And you know, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.599 Lindsay Graham just tested positive. The health physician just told 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.400 him while you know, he was at here's the question, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:42.040 what did ansay Graham test positive? Four? It's said COVID 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.160 you no answer, no answer. That was a h question. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.200 But you know what, I do fear the Lauren. It's 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.640 one of those things where we we can remember the 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.839 days of George Bush, when President Bush had mission accomplished victory, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.000 and I remember President Biden saying that you know, um 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.800 he seggested. We were on the other side of this, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.320 you know, and and when we were all saying we 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.760 could remove our masks. I think we all know now 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:08.800 we should probably wear those masks in any type of 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.080 group setting, simply because we just don't know what's happening, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.800 but it also seems as though we're not through this, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.800 Like maybe he declared victory too soon. I don't know. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.600 I'm not beating up on him, but I just feel 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.240 like that we're right back, like you said, where we started, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.040 if not worse. Well, the problem is is that we 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.440 tried to do this whole honor system like that was 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.839 an intelligent thing to do. I think that was the 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.640 most stupid thing that we could have done. Like I said, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.279 when we when it first came about, and that's what 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.400 the issue is. You can't determine who's vaccinated versus who's 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.920 not vaccinated, who's been exposed, who's like there was no 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.680 way to um contact trace, there was no way to 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.360 do it. And so now we're getting into this space 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.520 where we're also getting other, you know, mutations of this virus. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.680 It's just getting worse. So and I also saw the 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.840 CDC director talk about their contemplating mandating vaccines for everybody, 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.279 and you know, um, somebody in the White House I 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.760 forgot who it was, was on MSNBC again and was 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.479 saying that they're not putting past the idea of locking 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.560 us down again. It's all these things are being discussed 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.920 so and it's so funny. I remember teasing you Flame 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.880 when Flames said, Nick, they gonna help us carrying a car. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.720 That's They're not gonna do that. That's ridiculous. Why would 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.040 they do that? My card is laminated in my wallet 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.240 and mine I got from Pookie right right now for 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.160 Plus tax Baby, it's laminated, and say anything I wanted 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.400 to say. It can also says that I'm female. Go figure, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.320 let me tell you something. I hate that it's happening 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.160 like that. And I'm not going to attack Biden because 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.160 I did both for Biden because I believed in Biden. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.480 But I did say when he said that the Maxi man, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.000 they relaxed the maximn that I remember saying on here 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.400 on life and learn that. I think he moved on 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.320 that one just a little too soon. We already had 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.360 opposition about wearing the mask from Jump. It's gonna be 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.440 hard to tell people stop wearing the mask now start 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.320 wearing the mask again when we didn't want to wear 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.960 them the first time. The plus US, I never stopped 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.640 wearing my mask and I never stopped spraying nobody. And 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.920 if you've been in my same vicinity. Guess what you 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.080 have been sprayed with? Lisol? Yeah, I got sprayed this morning. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.160 And I'll say this too. It's one of those things where, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.520 you know, we're also just talking about how, you know, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.280 what do we do because we now have some governors 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.200 like Governor de Santis who has said, you know what, 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.240 we will not impose a mask mandate period. But there 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.160 are some parents who want their kids to go to 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.600 school wearing a mask, you know, And and so now 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.360 there's this there's just so much confusion, I think, for 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:36.680 I can't imagine what it's like to have a little 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.560 one right now where you may be worried about them 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.880 who have to be in this environment, and then having 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.920 conflicting messages from administrators and and and elected officials. You know, 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.800 at least Lauren, you Flame and our we're adults. We 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.960 can decide whether or not to move into those spaces. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.360 But I feel like so many of our children are 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:57.079 being used as au as, as guinea pigs. And you 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.280 word to segue in when you itty pig, let's roast 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.559 the pig this morning, this afternoon, the roasted pig will 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.520 be the twelve total six fingered inbred clown white trash 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:13.440 that they call governor run the santists because from jump, 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.520 he has put Florida, the citizens of Florida, in harm's 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.840 way with no mask. He didn't believe in it. His 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.680 children ain't gonna win. His words, his words. This is 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.360 the governor of the state of Florida said, my children 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.560 ain't gonna win, no mask. He said, ain't gonna win, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.600 no mask. This is what he said. The person that 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.839 you guys in Florida voted for it to be. Now 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.160 they said he might be the next president because he's 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.200 looking like the best candidate. I like, yeah, Florida may 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.240 want him. Yet we don't trust me. We don't. Florida 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.719 reported twenty one thousand, six hundred eighty three new coronavirus 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.600 cases on Friday Perdeay. That's perfect day total since the 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.600 start of the pandemic. And that's according to data released 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.360 today by the Senate Sturd Disease Control of Prediction. And 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.400 I'm gonna be honest to Florida is number two in 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.360 terms of the most cases the we're getting. California is 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.720 number one. So yes and just and just so we 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.079 make a clarifying statement because you guys, I'm always reading 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.520 the comments as we're doing the show. We are not 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.720 blaming the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated in terms of who 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.400 is catching COVID. We are simply relaying what we are 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.920 watching on the news. That's all we're doing, and not 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.520 taking and hear me, and hear me clearly on this one, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.040 because if you don't like what I have to say 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.400 about the vaccinated and unvaccinated, this door is not locked. Leave. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.320 I have never changed my stand on how I feel 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.439 about this vaccine. Do I trust the science, I absolutely do. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.120 Do I trust the scientists and the politicians in charge, 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.839 I absolutely do not, And I've been very clear about that. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.000 I'm telling you the lies and the different stories. Who 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.000 warp speed? Super speed got to be refrigerated sub zero 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.520 room temperature? Make up your man? But why are you 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.600 making up your man? You will not use my body 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.640 to help you figure your ship out. You better go 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.960 get some lab rats because it won't be me. But 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.280 I think that's a good point. Circling back to Rohn 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.000 de Santis, though, is that we're seeing in a lot 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.120 of ways that people are trying to put him as 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.480 the forefront of he can be the next Republican president, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.679 that we have because he mirrors Trump to a degree, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.960 but in some instances he's trying to seem like he 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:18.440 has his own individuality. Um. Like, initially he was creating 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.120 all of this, you know, dissension around getting vaccinated, and 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.120 he was a part of, you know, the Fox News 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.480 group that was dispelling all this disinformation about why you 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.959 shouldn't get vaccinated, and a lot of those anchors are 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.120 not being sued. But then all of a sudden he 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.520 flipped and said, you guys should be getting vaccinated. It's 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.440 a great thing to do. And then we reinstate mask 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.800 mandates and he's like, we're banning that. We're not, We're not, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.959 We're not doing that because this is a choice. So, um, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.880 I think that, well, I hope. My hope is that 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.240 Floridians are don't fall for the okay doc as we 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.120 would say, and really understand what their governor is doing 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.800 and what the ploy is here. Um But as we 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.800 always know, time will tell so and and before we 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.720 bring you back to say something, let me say this 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.520 before y'all start jumping down Biden stroke if he has 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.720 to shut the country down. Biden did not start this. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.559 Biden was not at the hand of this when it 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.720 originally started. We have to go back to the root 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.800 of this. The people that were in charge when this 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.600 first hit that we heard about it March, because they 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.959 knew about it before then, they didn't protect They didn't 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.360 protect us, They didn't cover us. They didn't tell us 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.679 to do a B, C and D E. They just 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.280 let it play out. So Biden walked into a room 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.400 full of crap that he had to try to fix. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.600 So give him patience and time to fix it. But 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.800 don't blame him for somebody else's mistake. He's only trying 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.600 to fix somebody else's mistake before he can even get 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.000 to do the job that he needs to do. And remember, 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.120 the same people that put us in this situation, the 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.640 same puts people that put us here in this situation 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.760 try to um not even allow him to become the president. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.800 Remember Trump didn't even want to step down. Yeah, there 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.439 was definitely we're still doing with a difficulty with the 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.800 transition of power. So just to let you know, Uh, 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.000 the Santist does have a six percent job approval rating. 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.800 Um And I believe and someone can correct me on this, 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.280 but I know the Santists went to Harvard, but I 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.920 think he may even be a Rhodes scholar. Just so 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.800 you know that he's considered to be one of the 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:20.920 most intelligent elected officials UM that has served. So just 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:25.760 just Ryan the santist Nick, Nick, we may have to 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.800 pause Instagram. I think we're talking about COVID nineteen too 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:33.120 much on Instagram is trying to block our blessings right now. Yeah, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.200 we've we've officially been flagged by Instagram. No more, No 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.880 more coronavirus talk. Here's my Let me say my last 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.719 thing about the coronavirus and the vaccine. If your decisions, 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.920 if whether you want to be vaccinated or not, it 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.120 is your decision. I'm not gonna tell you what to 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.360 do or what not to do. Whatever you decided to do, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.280 I'm with you because it's your decision, not man. Okay, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.440 let's go to the next topic. Let's talk about some 0:13:55.559 --> 0:14:00.000 own bowels, my hero right now, my Shiro. Yes, yes, indeed. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:08.120 So it's getting darker. Uh. They they're attacking flames page. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.880 Oh my god, I tell you what. Let flame. Can 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.439 we talk about your weekend, the shows and things you want. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.600 Let's do that. Let's talk about how it is getting 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.720 back out there on the road flame. What's they like now? 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.920 Now the people are going back into the comedy clubs 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.480 and such. It was a wonderful experience. I took my 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.520 cheak note on stage with me, y'all, because I hadn't 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.440 been on stage and during a whole hour in a year, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.400 and I only had to look at it twice. But 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.840 I had an amazing time. I had beautiful people in 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.920 the audience who came to laugh with me and learn 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.720 some things from me. I kick my drink over every show. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.640 Not on purpose either, clumsy. I did keep my drink 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.400 over every show, but I met some beautiful people who 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.480 asked me some wonderful questions about everything. And I made 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.240 the people laugh. I made the people sit back and 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.840 relax and enjoy me. And before I moved in on 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.160 further on the comedy world, let me just say, um uh, 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.160 let's give a let's get praise and prayers out for 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.760 Kathy Griffin who just was diagnosed with cancer and she 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:06.000 never even smoked. So you know, outside of coronavirus, there's 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.200 so many other things that could possibly happen to you 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.640 in this life. And that cancer that's c is ugly. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.840 That cancer eats you up from the inside out. So 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.080 pray us for Kathy Griffin and her family, her trap. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.640 So flame mets, y'all send some love over there. We 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.680 don't know what's happening with us. We were talking about 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.360 the vaccinat and they have really flagged my page 'all. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.520 But don't don't say that. Don't say the V word again. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:34.400 Let's see if we can. So on another note that 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.480 we do want to talk about some own biles. And 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.080 I'm gonna be running tech over here, Nick, so I 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:40.760 may need you to pop in a little bit, but 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.360 to talk about to talk about some own biles, I 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.000 want to give huge, huge kudos a shout out to 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.320 her for all um that she's doing right now in 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.080 the world of gymnastics. Not only did she prioritize her 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.680 mental health, I think the component of her story that's 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.760 kind of being missed is despite her taking a step back, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.880 she's really open the doors for these other gymnasts to 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.720 actually have an opportunity to win some medals. You know, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.880 Sunny Lee has gotten you know, a gold medal for 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.680 um all around and um Jay Kerry I believes her 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.800 last name, she just got a gold medal for the floor. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.880 So I did see reports today that someone is going 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.200 to be back in time to do the beam, which 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.000 I think is great. She's going to be competing with 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.480 her teammates Sunny Lee. Um. But I think that's one 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.280 thing that's being missed here is that because of someone 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.880 taking a step back and prioritizing her mental health, she's 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.520 really opened the doors and allowed for her other teammates 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.640 and even other alternates to be in a space where 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.520 they can actually compete where they really thought they weren't 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.400 going to have the opportunity. So can we talk about that, 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.360 Lauren and the selflessness and the bravery that takes because you, 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.160 first of all, she's talked about how she had to 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.040 uh adjust her training because she was prepared for the Olympics. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.480 Happened when they were supposed to happen, right, So now 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.040 you've continued to put your body through this, You're like, Okay, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:02.880 I'm gonna I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna get this 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.119 done now. To get here and realize, you know what, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.359 I may not be at my best or the most 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.520 important thing for me to do is to make sure 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.800 that my teammates have an opportunity to shine. It's it's 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.399 it's one of those things that she's chosen to step 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.919 out and let somebody else step into the sunshine. And 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.000 I just think that's absolutely fantastic. Just like you said, Lauren, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.760 it's just once again a young woman leading the way. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.159 On Tuesday morning, that will be the last time we 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.879 get to watch our favorite gymnasts compete at the Tokyo Olympics. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.720 The final day of gymnastics events finals promises to be 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.959 a special one cause Simone Biles will make her return 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.480 to the competition floor. The four year old, as you said, Lauren, 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.840 withdrew from competition earlier, but she'll be back on that beam. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.520 My issue, though, Lauren, that beam is the one that 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.080 makes me the most nervous the way they slip on 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.480 that thing that is no wider than an iPhone. I'm like, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.120 come on, you know, it seems like to me, big 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:59.600 black cane jump rope on that being. We know big 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.400 black at do no joe rumping rope jumping on that 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:07.720 being that absolutely not get yourself between the legs. So 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:18.320 that the most adult thing that I think that happened 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.119 with her and whoever surrounding her and her team told 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.080 her to save your mental capacity, because that's that mental 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.560 health right now? Is we all we all need so 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.560 fus they just need to put couches out. We all 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.960 need some therapy right now after this whole madness that 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.560 we've been living through. But I applauded that they did. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.239 She had the right people in her ear and then, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.040 and she listened to them, because a lot of times 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.000 you can have the right people around you. That's me, 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.040 and you don't listen to him, that's Lauren. But but 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.399 Lauren always advises me correctly. And sometimes I listened. Sometimes 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.400 I was that girl knock at all, But she listened. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.520 And it's going to pay off for her because she's 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.600 still young enough and she is still one of the 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.040 greatest athletes of all time. She's still got a whole 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.040 lot of life left in her. So hats off to 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:04.400 some own vile for uh for covering your mental stability 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.480 because I'm changing without your man, don't she work? Yeah? 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:12.120 And I think too, is that I've seen um minimal 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.320 I'll say, negative backlash of people trying to come after 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.960 her considering all she's been through, because at the end 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.880 of the day, let's be real, she doesn't really need 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.240 any more metal. She's got nineteen and being a survivor 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.760 of sexual assault and all of the things that she's 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.960 gone to. I saw a tweet that she put out. 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.800 She said she literally couldn't tail up from down a 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.160 couple of days ago, so she's she's really been going 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.880 through it. So I really want to applaud her and 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.240 just say that we are here to support you. I 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:39.960 saw what she said. The only thing I can think 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:46.159 about I wanted did she get into my gummies? And 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:47.920 I will say this to Lauren. I think it's another 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.720 example of how uh, the bravery it takes for athletes 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.480 who are professional athletes to come out and talk about 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.359 how they too struggle. Because I also think we can't 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.439 ignore the cultural implication as well, right, I think that 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.440 it's not uncommon for African Americans to move into space 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.359 where we don't always say hey we need help or 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.119 hey I'm struggling here because we're culturally we're always just 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.480 to shake it off, keep moving, keep going. And then athletes, 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.680 professional athletes, I think as another layer of you better 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:16.840 tough it out, keep going. You don't you don't get 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.160 to complain. But yeah, she's like, wait a minute, WHOA, 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.879 I'm a human underneath all of this and back to 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.840 something you just touched on, Lauren. Let's not forget we 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.920 literally just got through dealing with Larry Nassa. He's still 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.000 running around you all. The Olympic committee still hasn't really 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.800 dealt with. I feel as though the trauma that so 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.719 many of these athletes have been through with a predator 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.880 on their staff for so long, and and we still 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.200 don't know if they've completely cleaned house enough for those 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.240 who knew and could have possibly done more to protect 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.439 these young women. Yeah. Absolutely, and I mean great thing 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.840 that Larry uh Nasa is in jail now. But to 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.800 your point, though, we don't know who always involved. You know, 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.080 we have situations like r Kelly where it was like 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.280 his whole staff was involved in what he is doing 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.280 with these young girls. So who knows who was covering 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.160 up on the Olympic term side of things and how 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.480 you know, just the proper support wasn't in place where 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.520 the parameters to say, to protect these girls and there 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.800