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Speaker 1: conversation today because it's going to be quite interesting. To
Speaker 1: be quite interesting. I had an amazing weekend, ladies and gentleman.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you guys that this weekend I was
Speaker 1: at the Laugh Factory in San Diego and it was
Speaker 1: actually pretty awesome. I had at least about thirty flame
Speaker 1: mats to show up from out of town and in
Speaker 1: town and came and drove seven eight hours from northern California,
Speaker 1: Vino Diva and Leslie by the Bay and so many
Speaker 1: So thank you guys for coming out and showing love
Speaker 1: and support. I appreciate it. I told you I was
Speaker 1: gonna get yall your moneys were kid next man. Hello, Lauren, Hello, flame.
Speaker 1: How you guys doing Did you color? It? Did not color?
Speaker 1: You can still see that great I turn. It's only
Speaker 1: a little pass right there, but the rest of it
Speaker 1: looks very dark, and it looks so thick. It looks
Speaker 1: like it it looks like a bush, looks like is
Speaker 1: that the entrance to a burning bush? You know what
Speaker 1: this is. It's a whole lot of filters. Let's keep
Speaker 1: it read. We love a good filter, though it works.
Speaker 1: I'm doing alright, doing alright. It's been it's been a
Speaker 1: challenging weekend, but you know it's it's I'm doing well.
Speaker 1: No complaints. What was challenging about it? What happened? I
Speaker 1: just think it's just been a lot happening in the media, Lauren,
Speaker 1: and I've just tried to stay positive and focus on
Speaker 1: things that I'm grateful for. But it just seems that
Speaker 1: there have been so many things in the media that
Speaker 1: seemed to be a one to punch every time you
Speaker 1: turn around. You know. So, my mom lives in Chicago,
Speaker 1: as you all know, and this weekend they had Lollapalooza
Speaker 1: and it was just massive, four days, four days, a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people per day. More than that because I
Speaker 1: saw Megan the Stallion sets. She had a hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty thousand people and uh yeah, okay, and there was
Speaker 1: not There were masks, but it wasn't a hundred thousand masks.
Speaker 1: And then flame as you know, c t A is
Speaker 1: the major transportation system in Chicago, and there were a
Speaker 1: couple of people who just tweeted pictures of people jammed
Speaker 1: onto c t A no mask. Now this isn't Lollapalooza,
Speaker 1: so everyone is clear is outdoors. However, they were large
Speaker 1: crowds still gathered together, which raised some concerns. And then
Speaker 1: everyone jammed on the trains Lauren going to Lollapalooza, you know,
Speaker 1: back and forth throughout the city. So it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: And I just worry about older people like my mom,
Speaker 1: or people who can't get vaccinated for whatever reason or
Speaker 1: just don't want to um and the spread of this
Speaker 1: virus as it continues to um mutate. So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what was on my mind. Yeah, well, I saw a
Speaker 1: report today it was saying that people that are vaccinated
Speaker 1: are not dying from contracting COVID, whether you're vaccinated or not.
Speaker 1: But we're seeing more and more crazy numbers like I was,
Speaker 1: of course watching my news outlet and MSNBC this morning,
Speaker 1: and they've got the graph back up in the daily
Speaker 1: number of cases and the different you know, color coordinated maps,
Speaker 1: and so we're starting it feels like we're reverting backwards
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. And I also read that
Speaker 1: the delta variant hasn't a new variant. It's called like
Speaker 1: a delta plus. So is that first class. It's getting
Speaker 1: a little crazy around all of this. And you know,
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham just tested positive. The health physician just told
Speaker 1: him while you know, he was at here's the question,
Speaker 1: what did ansay Graham test positive? Four? It's said COVID
Speaker 1: you no answer, no answer. That was a h question.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I do fear the Lauren. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things where we we can remember the
Speaker 1: days of George Bush, when President Bush had mission accomplished victory,
Speaker 1: and I remember President Biden saying that you know, um
Speaker 1: he seggested. We were on the other side of this,
Speaker 1: you know, and and when we were all saying we
Speaker 1: could remove our masks. I think we all know now
Speaker 1: we should probably wear those masks in any type of
Speaker 1: group setting, simply because we just don't know what's happening,
Speaker 1: but it also seems as though we're not through this,
Speaker 1: Like maybe he declared victory too soon. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not beating up on him, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like that we're right back, like you said, where we started,
Speaker 1: if not worse. Well, the problem is is that we
Speaker 1: tried to do this whole honor system like that was
Speaker 1: an intelligent thing to do. I think that was the
Speaker 1: most stupid thing that we could have done. Like I said,
Speaker 1: when we when it first came about, and that's what
Speaker 1: the issue is. You can't determine who's vaccinated versus who's
Speaker 1: not vaccinated, who's been exposed, who's like there was no
Speaker 1: way to um contact trace, there was no way to
Speaker 1: do it. And so now we're getting into this space
Speaker 1: where we're also getting other, you know, mutations of this virus.
Speaker 1: It's just getting worse. So and I also saw the
Speaker 1: CDC director talk about their contemplating mandating vaccines for everybody,
Speaker 1: and you know, um, somebody in the White House I
Speaker 1: forgot who it was, was on MSNBC again and was
Speaker 1: saying that they're not putting past the idea of locking
Speaker 1: us down again. It's all these things are being discussed
Speaker 1: so and it's so funny. I remember teasing you Flame
Speaker 1: when Flames said, Nick, they gonna help us carrying a car.
Speaker 1: That's They're not gonna do that. That's ridiculous. Why would
Speaker 1: they do that? My card is laminated in my wallet
Speaker 1: and mine I got from Pookie right right now for
Speaker 1: Plus tax Baby, it's laminated, and say anything I wanted
Speaker 1: to say. It can also says that I'm female. Go figure,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. I hate that it's happening
Speaker 1: like that. And I'm not going to attack Biden because
Speaker 1: I did both for Biden because I believed in Biden.
Speaker 1: But I did say when he said that the Maxi man,
Speaker 1: they relaxed the maximn that I remember saying on here
Speaker 1: on life and learn that. I think he moved on
Speaker 1: that one just a little too soon. We already had
Speaker 1: opposition about wearing the mask from Jump. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to tell people stop wearing the mask now start
Speaker 1: wearing the mask again when we didn't want to wear
Speaker 1: them the first time. The plus US, I never stopped
Speaker 1: wearing my mask and I never stopped spraying nobody. And
Speaker 1: if you've been in my same vicinity. Guess what you
Speaker 1: have been sprayed with? Lisol? Yeah, I got sprayed this morning.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this too. It's one of those things where,
Speaker 1: you know, we're also just talking about how, you know,
Speaker 1: what do we do because we now have some governors
Speaker 1: like Governor de Santis who has said, you know what,
Speaker 1: we will not impose a mask mandate period. But there
Speaker 1: are some parents who want their kids to go to
Speaker 1: school wearing a mask, you know, And and so now
Speaker 1: there's this there's just so much confusion, I think, for
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it's like to have a little
Speaker 1: one right now where you may be worried about them
Speaker 1: who have to be in this environment, and then having
Speaker 1: conflicting messages from administrators and and and elected officials. You know,
Speaker 1: at least Lauren, you Flame and our we're adults. We
Speaker 1: can decide whether or not to move into those spaces.
Speaker 1: But I feel like so many of our children are
Speaker 1: being used as au as, as guinea pigs. And you
Speaker 1: word to segue in when you itty pig, let's roast
Speaker 1: the pig this morning, this afternoon, the roasted pig will
Speaker 1: be the twelve total six fingered inbred clown white trash
Speaker 1: that they call governor run the santists because from jump,
Speaker 1: he has put Florida, the citizens of Florida, in harm's
Speaker 1: way with no mask. He didn't believe in it. His
Speaker 1: children ain't gonna win. His words, his words. This is
Speaker 1: the governor of the state of Florida said, my children
Speaker 1: ain't gonna win, no mask. He said, ain't gonna win,
Speaker 1: no mask. This is what he said. The person that
Speaker 1: you guys in Florida voted for it to be. Now
Speaker 1: they said he might be the next president because he's
Speaker 1: looking like the best candidate. I like, yeah, Florida may
Speaker 1: want him. Yet we don't trust me. We don't. Florida
Speaker 1: reported twenty one thousand, six hundred eighty three new coronavirus
Speaker 1: cases on Friday Perdeay. That's perfect day total since the
Speaker 1: start of the pandemic. And that's according to data released
Speaker 1: today by the Senate Sturd Disease Control of Prediction. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest to Florida is number two in
Speaker 1: terms of the most cases the we're getting. California is
Speaker 1: number one. So yes and just and just so we
Speaker 1: make a clarifying statement because you guys, I'm always reading
Speaker 1: the comments as we're doing the show. We are not
Speaker 1: blaming the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated in terms of who
Speaker 1: is catching COVID. We are simply relaying what we are
Speaker 1: watching on the news. That's all we're doing, and not
Speaker 1: taking and hear me, and hear me clearly on this one,
Speaker 1: because if you don't like what I have to say
Speaker 1: about the vaccinated and unvaccinated, this door is not locked. Leave.
Speaker 1: I have never changed my stand on how I feel
Speaker 1: about this vaccine. Do I trust the science, I absolutely do.
Speaker 1: Do I trust the scientists and the politicians in charge,
Speaker 1: I absolutely do not, And I've been very clear about that.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the lies and the different stories. Who
Speaker 1: warp speed? Super speed got to be refrigerated sub zero
Speaker 1: room temperature? Make up your man? But why are you
Speaker 1: making up your man? You will not use my body
Speaker 1: to help you figure your ship out. You better go
Speaker 1: get some lab rats because it won't be me. But
Speaker 1: I think that's a good point. Circling back to Rohn
Speaker 1: de Santis, though, is that we're seeing in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways that people are trying to put him as
Speaker 1: the forefront of he can be the next Republican president,
Speaker 1: that we have because he mirrors Trump to a degree,
Speaker 1: but in some instances he's trying to seem like he
Speaker 1: has his own individuality. Um. Like, initially he was creating
Speaker 1: all of this, you know, dissension around getting vaccinated, and
Speaker 1: he was a part of, you know, the Fox News
Speaker 1: group that was dispelling all this disinformation about why you
Speaker 1: shouldn't get vaccinated, and a lot of those anchors are
Speaker 1: not being sued. But then all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: flipped and said, you guys should be getting vaccinated. It's
Speaker 1: a great thing to do. And then we reinstate mask
Speaker 1: mandates and he's like, we're banning that. We're not, We're not,
Speaker 1: We're not doing that because this is a choice. So, um,
Speaker 1: I think that, well, I hope. My hope is that
Speaker 1: Floridians are don't fall for the okay doc as we
Speaker 1: would say, and really understand what their governor is doing
Speaker 1: and what the ploy is here. Um But as we
Speaker 1: always know, time will tell so and and before we
Speaker 1: bring you back to say something, let me say this
Speaker 1: before y'all start jumping down Biden stroke if he has
Speaker 1: to shut the country down. Biden did not start this.
Speaker 1: Biden was not at the hand of this when it
Speaker 1: originally started. We have to go back to the root
Speaker 1: of this. The people that were in charge when this
Speaker 1: first hit that we heard about it March, because they
Speaker 1: knew about it before then, they didn't protect They didn't
Speaker 1: protect us, They didn't cover us. They didn't tell us
Speaker 1: to do a B, C and D E. They just
Speaker 1: let it play out. So Biden walked into a room
Speaker 1: full of crap that he had to try to fix.
Speaker 1: So give him patience and time to fix it. But
Speaker 1: don't blame him for somebody else's mistake. He's only trying
Speaker 1: to fix somebody else's mistake before he can even get
Speaker 1: to do the job that he needs to do. And remember,
Speaker 1: the same people that put us in this situation, the
Speaker 1: same puts people that put us here in this situation
Speaker 1: try to um not even allow him to become the president.
Speaker 1: Remember Trump didn't even want to step down. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: was definitely we're still doing with a difficulty with the
Speaker 1: transition of power. So just to let you know, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Santist does have a six percent job approval rating.
Speaker 1: Um And I believe and someone can correct me on this,
Speaker 1: but I know the Santists went to Harvard, but I
Speaker 1: think he may even be a Rhodes scholar. Just so
Speaker 1: you know that he's considered to be one of the
Speaker 1: most intelligent elected officials UM that has served. So just
Speaker 1: just Ryan the santist Nick, Nick, we may have to
Speaker 1: pause Instagram. I think we're talking about COVID nineteen too
Speaker 1: much on Instagram is trying to block our blessings right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've we've officially been flagged by Instagram. No more, No
Speaker 1: more coronavirus talk. Here's my Let me say my last
Speaker 1: thing about the coronavirus and the vaccine. If your decisions,
Speaker 1: if whether you want to be vaccinated or not, it
Speaker 1: is your decision. I'm not gonna tell you what to
Speaker 1: do or what not to do. Whatever you decided to do,
Speaker 1: I'm with you because it's your decision, not man. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to the next topic. Let's talk about some
Speaker 1: own bowels, my hero right now, my Shiro. Yes, yes, indeed.
Speaker 1: So it's getting darker. Uh. They they're attacking flames page.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I tell you what. Let flame. Can
Speaker 1: we talk about your weekend, the shows and things you want.
Speaker 1: Let's do that. Let's talk about how it is getting
Speaker 1: back out there on the road flame. What's they like now?
Speaker 1: Now the people are going back into the comedy clubs
Speaker 1: and such. It was a wonderful experience. I took my
Speaker 1: cheak note on stage with me, y'all, because I hadn't
Speaker 1: been on stage and during a whole hour in a year,
Speaker 1: and I only had to look at it twice. But
Speaker 1: I had an amazing time. I had beautiful people in
Speaker 1: the audience who came to laugh with me and learn
Speaker 1: some things from me. I kick my drink over every show.
Speaker 1: Not on purpose either, clumsy. I did keep my drink
Speaker 1: over every show, but I met some beautiful people who
Speaker 1: asked me some wonderful questions about everything. And I made
Speaker 1: the people laugh. I made the people sit back and
Speaker 1: relax and enjoy me. And before I moved in on
Speaker 1: further on the comedy world, let me just say, um uh,
Speaker 1: let's give a let's get praise and prayers out for
Speaker 1: Kathy Griffin who just was diagnosed with cancer and she
Speaker 1: never even smoked. So you know, outside of coronavirus, there's
Speaker 1: so many other things that could possibly happen to you
Speaker 1: in this life. And that cancer that's c is ugly.
Speaker 1: That cancer eats you up from the inside out. So
Speaker 1: pray us for Kathy Griffin and her family, her trap.
Speaker 1: So flame mets, y'all send some love over there. We
Speaker 1: don't know what's happening with us. We were talking about
Speaker 1: the vaccinat and they have really flagged my page 'all.
Speaker 1: But don't don't say that. Don't say the V word again.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can. So on another note that
Speaker 1: we do want to talk about some own biles. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be running tech over here, Nick, so I
Speaker 1: may need you to pop in a little bit, but
Speaker 1: to talk about to talk about some own biles, I
Speaker 1: want to give huge, huge kudos a shout out to
Speaker 1: her for all um that she's doing right now in
Speaker 1: the world of gymnastics. Not only did she prioritize her
Speaker 1: mental health, I think the component of her story that's
Speaker 1: kind of being missed is despite her taking a step back,
Speaker 1: she's really open the doors for these other gymnasts to
Speaker 1: actually have an opportunity to win some medals. You know,
Speaker 1: Sunny Lee has gotten you know, a gold medal for
Speaker 1: um all around and um Jay Kerry I believes her
Speaker 1: last name, she just got a gold medal for the floor.
Speaker 1: So I did see reports today that someone is going
Speaker 1: to be back in time to do the beam, which
Speaker 1: I think is great. She's going to be competing with
Speaker 1: her teammates Sunny Lee. Um. But I think that's one
Speaker 1: thing that's being missed here is that because of someone
Speaker 1: taking a step back and prioritizing her mental health, she's
Speaker 1: really opened the doors and allowed for her other teammates
Speaker 1: and even other alternates to be in a space where
Speaker 1: they can actually compete where they really thought they weren't
Speaker 1: going to have the opportunity. So can we talk about that,
Speaker 1: Lauren and the selflessness and the bravery that takes because you,
Speaker 1: first of all, she's talked about how she had to
Speaker 1: uh adjust her training because she was prepared for the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Happened when they were supposed to happen, right, So now
Speaker 1: you've continued to put your body through this, You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna get this
Speaker 1: done now. To get here and realize, you know what,
Speaker 1: I may not be at my best or the most
Speaker 1: important thing for me to do is to make sure
Speaker 1: that my teammates have an opportunity to shine. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that she's chosen to step
Speaker 1: out and let somebody else step into the sunshine. And
Speaker 1: I just think that's absolutely fantastic. Just like you said, Lauren,
Speaker 1: it's just once again a young woman leading the way.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday morning, that will be the last time we
Speaker 1: get to watch our favorite gymnasts compete at the Tokyo Olympics.
Speaker 1: The final day of gymnastics events finals promises to be
Speaker 1: a special one cause Simone Biles will make her return
Speaker 1: to the competition floor. The four year old, as you said, Lauren,
Speaker 1: withdrew from competition earlier, but she'll be back on that beam.
Speaker 1: My issue, though, Lauren, that beam is the one that
Speaker 1: makes me the most nervous the way they slip on
Speaker 1: that thing that is no wider than an iPhone. I'm like,
Speaker 1: come on, you know, it seems like to me, big
Speaker 1: black cane jump rope on that being. We know big
Speaker 1: black at do no joe rumping rope jumping on that
Speaker 1: being that absolutely not get yourself between the legs. So
Speaker 1: that the most adult thing that I think that happened
Speaker 1: with her and whoever surrounding her and her team told
Speaker 1: her to save your mental capacity, because that's that mental
Speaker 1: health right now? Is we all we all need so
Speaker 1: fus they just need to put couches out. We all
Speaker 1: need some therapy right now after this whole madness that
Speaker 1: we've been living through. But I applauded that they did.
Speaker 1: She had the right people in her ear and then,
Speaker 1: and she listened to them, because a lot of times
Speaker 1: you can have the right people around you. That's me,
Speaker 1: and you don't listen to him, that's Lauren. But but
Speaker 1: Lauren always advises me correctly. And sometimes I listened. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I was that girl knock at all, But she listened.
Speaker 1: And it's going to pay off for her because she's
Speaker 1: still young enough and she is still one of the
Speaker 1: greatest athletes of all time. She's still got a whole
Speaker 1: lot of life left in her. So hats off to
Speaker 1: some own vile for uh for covering your mental stability
Speaker 1: because I'm changing without your man, don't she work? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I think too, is that I've seen um minimal
Speaker 1: I'll say, negative backlash of people trying to come after
Speaker 1: her considering all she's been through, because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, let's be real, she doesn't really need
Speaker 1: any more metal. She's got nineteen and being a survivor
Speaker 1: of sexual assault and all of the things that she's
Speaker 1: gone to. I saw a tweet that she put out.
Speaker 1: She said she literally couldn't tail up from down a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, so she's she's really been going
Speaker 1: through it. So I really want to applaud her and
Speaker 1: just say that we are here to support you. I
Speaker 1: saw what she said. The only thing I can think
Speaker 1: about I wanted did she get into my gummies? And
Speaker 1: I will say this to Lauren. I think it's another
Speaker 1: example of how uh, the bravery it takes for athletes
Speaker 1: who are professional athletes to come out and talk about
Speaker 1: how they too struggle. Because I also think we can't
Speaker 1: ignore the cultural implication as well, right, I think that
Speaker 1: it's not uncommon for African Americans to move into space
Speaker 1: where we don't always say hey we need help or
Speaker 1: hey I'm struggling here because we're culturally we're always just
Speaker 1: to shake it off, keep moving, keep going. And then athletes,
Speaker 1: professional athletes, I think as another layer of you better
Speaker 1: tough it out, keep going. You don't you don't get
Speaker 1: to complain. But yeah, she's like, wait a minute, WHOA,
Speaker 1: I'm a human underneath all of this and back to
Speaker 1: something you just touched on, Lauren. Let's not forget we
Speaker 1: literally just got through dealing with Larry Nassa. He's still
Speaker 1: running around you all. The Olympic committee still hasn't really
Speaker 1: dealt with. I feel as though the trauma that so
Speaker 1: many of these athletes have been through with a predator
Speaker 1: on their staff for so long, and and we still
Speaker 1: don't know if they've completely cleaned house enough for those
Speaker 1: who knew and could have possibly done more to protect
Speaker 1: these young women. Yeah. Absolutely, and I mean great thing
Speaker 1: that Larry uh Nasa is in jail now. But to
Speaker 1: your point, though, we don't know who always involved. You know,
Speaker 1: we have situations like r Kelly where it was like
Speaker 1: his whole staff was involved in what he is doing
Speaker 1: with these young girls. So who knows who was covering
Speaker 1: up on the Olympic term side of things and how
Speaker 1: you know, just the proper support wasn't in place where
Speaker 1: the parameters to say, to protect these girls and there
Speaker 1: were so many of them. So um, I absolutely agree
Speaker 1: with you on that front. So that's why I'm saying
Speaker 1: it's more important than ever to be protecting your health.
Speaker 1: And you're in Tokyo without your family in the midst
Speaker 1: of a pandemic, and Japan's cases are going up. It's
Speaker 1: a lot to have on your mental capacity, and then
Speaker 1: you still got to compete and perform at a certain level.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, it really is so. And the way
Speaker 1: in the world is on your shoulders. That speaking of
Speaker 1: the way in the world on being on people's shoulders.
Speaker 1: I know we didn't bring this up, but today there
Speaker 1: the rent moratorium ended. Yeah. Oh, evictions is about to
Speaker 1: come down left and right. If y'all go back to
Speaker 1: coffee time with flame Monroe March, I told y'all keep
Speaker 1: an open communication with your landlord. Always pay whatever you can,
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you it's gonna a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that. I'm sure the courthouses in all fifty
Speaker 1: states was flooded this morning with landlords vouling eviction notice.
Speaker 1: But I really have to say, though, I think that
Speaker 1: the government really screwed up in this area. Because while
Speaker 1: I understand, you know, people, we need to definitely um
Speaker 1: house the unhoused. However, the government didn't take care of landlords.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw a report yesterday that said across
Speaker 1: the country there's over you know, twenty one million dollars
Speaker 1: worth of just rent in general that landlords didn't receive
Speaker 1: because of this whole eviction moratorium. So while yes, we
Speaker 1: want to unhouse those and not have anybody on the streets,
Speaker 1: but there should have been parameters in place to protect
Speaker 1: landlords as well, because they still got to pay their mortgages. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why y'all needed some section A baby. Gets you
Speaker 1: some section a baby if you came. If you can't
Speaker 1: wait on the list, I know, pooky ray um, they
Speaker 1: hook you up for like three hundred dollars. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you on know something's happening. I've been flagged here
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure what's happening of your You got
Speaker 1: flag too, it says try again later at the top. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so we got fat too. Can you still see me?
Speaker 1: We have Kendall is letting us know if we are
Speaker 1: still okay, because we've officially been flagged and we can't
Speaker 1: see anything in. Your screen is going to go dark eventually, Nick,
Speaker 1: just as a four warning. So let me see the
Speaker 1: screen is now as darker. I can see the questions
Speaker 1: on Kindle's phone because I'm looking at Oh yeah, let's
Speaker 1: let's leave this here so we can kind of see
Speaker 1: some of the questions or comments that you'll have. But y'all, Instagram,
Speaker 1: it's after us today. My god, do you want to
Speaker 1: apologize to Mark Zuckerberg? Hell no, hell no, we don't.
Speaker 1: In fact, Mark Zuckerberg, please catch me on August eighteenth,
Speaker 1: when I would be taping the Breakfast Club, because baby, yes,
Speaker 1: that got confirmed. Oh Nick, you just went out. Huh
Speaker 1: oh no, you're there. We hear you, We hear you. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: we're good. Um, it's just this is interesting. We've never
Speaker 1: had this before. Well, August eight will be at the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. And because we don't even know where to
Speaker 1: go now because we the screen is black and the
Speaker 1: comments are still movement. We can see him, I can't
Speaker 1: say him when I tell you kinda got the little
Speaker 1: bitty phone. I can't see them. But I'm a just
Speaker 1: for warn y'all. For all y'all that are in the
Speaker 1: comments previously talking about what happened to Nick and why
Speaker 1: is it a photo? Is because of stuff like this,
Speaker 1: we still got to put out a show. So Nick
Speaker 1: may just have a picture of if we can't download
Speaker 1: this damn video, Just so y'all know And here's the thing, y'all,
Speaker 1: because we use our own minds, which is the end
Speaker 1: of the message that we give every laugh and learn.
Speaker 1: We don't ask you to um what what is it.
Speaker 1: We're not getting you to change your mind. We just
Speaker 1: want you to use your man. But you have to
Speaker 1: have one to use it. Because we critically think professionally,
Speaker 1: and we don't always agree on this platform, all three
Speaker 1: of us. We don't always agree, but we speak our mind.
Speaker 1: But now you see when you do speak your mind,
Speaker 1: if you're not following the masses, This ain't the Jim
Speaker 1: Jones effect. Nobody will never tell me everything to do.
Speaker 1: I think for flame row, and sometimes I'm right and
Speaker 1: sometimes i'm not. But when i'm not, I say I'm
Speaker 1: not because I don't. I don't know where we're going
Speaker 1: with this thing. I just made my own man. I
Speaker 1: know y'all can see and hear us, but we can't
Speaker 1: see his ship. We're looking at a black screen. Oh
Speaker 1: they're blocking some of our viewers to somebody else just
Speaker 1: said that their screen is black. So yeah, see, we
Speaker 1: we may have a short show today, you guys, but
Speaker 1: we're still gonna have a show. Yeah, We're still gonna
Speaker 1: have a show, and we're still putting out the message
Speaker 1: and we're still talking about what we're talking about. So
Speaker 1: hats off to some own bios and all the athletes
Speaker 1: over there that are doing that thing, or from American
Speaker 1: athletes to all the other countries. I saw one girl
Speaker 1: tried to defect from Belfast or something. Did you see that?
Speaker 1: And they arrested her. She didn't want to go back
Speaker 1: to her country. She didn't like the treatment. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember they used to do that in the seventies and
Speaker 1: it was much easier. It looked like it's much more
Speaker 1: controversial now. It used to be like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go back, and they would take those people to
Speaker 1: safe places. Now it's a whole lot of real take
Speaker 1: I think too though, because of the pandemic. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have also just seen from
Speaker 1: a um nature perspective, I guess we can call it
Speaker 1: of what's happening in so many different countries across the world,
Speaker 1: between floods and wildfires and just natural disasters. It almost
Speaker 1: looks like in some ways that the planet is retaliating
Speaker 1: against us. And you know, there's a lot of protests
Speaker 1: happening from Brazil to Germany, and people are really starting
Speaker 1: to be freethinking individuals that a lot of these regimes
Speaker 1: and governments are like absolutely not so in the midst
Speaker 1: of you know, COVID and everything, it's hard to go
Speaker 1: back and forth between different countries. So I just think
Speaker 1: that we're kind of seeing a lot of things, you know,
Speaker 1: boiling to a head in a lot of different spaces
Speaker 1: where people are going to be seeking refuge to come
Speaker 1: to America. Not not that it's really a great country
Speaker 1: at this point in time, but you know, it's safer
Speaker 1: than a lot of other countries. So I'm on delay.
Speaker 1: I'm moving in slow motion, y'all. Stop looking at just
Speaker 1: stop looking at think. I think my wife I had
Speaker 1: an addible real talk one of them good California, Northern California,
Speaker 1: and it was where they grow it up in the farms.
Speaker 1: I think that after today's show, we will reset, And
Speaker 1: I didn't what's funny, flamous. I don't feel like today
Speaker 1: was anything super I'd really like to know what the
Speaker 1: standards and parameters are. I said a week ago or
Speaker 1: two weeks ago that the conspiracy was they would start
Speaker 1: telling everybody. Snake went out that they would start telling
Speaker 1: everybody who who's unvaccinated this, this, this is this and this,
Speaker 1: and then pushing people to get vaccinated. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to change in my tune. Y'all can ship me down.
Speaker 1: You ain't gonna ship me up. You can show me down,
Speaker 1: but you damn shore we're gonna shut me up. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll say this, let's move on to our last topic,
Speaker 1: and then we're probably gonna close out because I see
Speaker 1: some of the flame mats, their screens are starting to
Speaker 1: go black to um. We wanted to talk about ed
Speaker 1: Buck before the day was over, so somebody put an
Speaker 1: Instagram up post up a couple of days ago to
Speaker 1: say I don't hear any celebrities talking about a book,
Speaker 1: and my name was listed in it. It was a
Speaker 1: bunch of celebrities name. I was like, well, player, do
Speaker 1: your research, because what you don't know's two years ago
Speaker 1: when I take the ready, I said that they are
Speaker 1: a buckets still running free while killing black men in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Nobody ain't say nothing because you're all too worried about
Speaker 1: which bathroom you can use and what the baby the
Speaker 1: mama of the cousincy Because I don't give a damn
Speaker 1: about that either, So don't attack me for saying I
Speaker 1: didn't say, because I knew who he was, and I
Speaker 1: addressed the situation, y'all. They finally arrested him after two years.
Speaker 1: But how many dead bodies? Yeah, And I think the
Speaker 1: main thing was ed book was this you know, prominent
Speaker 1: and you said, I use air quotes. He was this
Speaker 1: prominent white male with a lot of money, and he
Speaker 1: was politically connected. He was politically connected, and all of
Speaker 1: these you know, young gay black men were mysteriously dying
Speaker 1: and nobody chose to investigate it. So I think now
Speaker 1: that you know, we're starting to see some retribution in
Speaker 1: the space around him, that people are starting to feel
Speaker 1: better about it. I guess you could say, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that it's getting as much media attention as
Speaker 1: people think it should. And quite honestly, I agree. I
Speaker 1: think that's a major story that should be talked about
Speaker 1: in the news and the media, and it's frankly, it's not. Well,
Speaker 1: if it was if it was white boys, it would
Speaker 1: have been a Jeffrey Dahmer, And I mean not Jeffrey Dhmer.
Speaker 1: What's the other one? Game have been black? Black white boys?
Speaker 1: Did have been gaze the effect, but because it was
Speaker 1: Buck with black boys, it kind of get scurted by
Speaker 1: the wayside. The country ain't changed. Understand me that the
Speaker 1: country has not changed. And I see this country. I
Speaker 1: see you. You're trying to block me, but I see
Speaker 1: you no flavors like I see you. I see you
Speaker 1: trying to block when you can't block me. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's um. I think that finally, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of families who have been screaming and uh,
Speaker 1: trying to get justice for their loved ones who had,
Speaker 1: you know, fallen at the hands of ed Buck or
Speaker 1: at the very least had been involved with him. Um.
Speaker 1: And then questions weren't answered or investigations did not follow
Speaker 1: the course that they thought was best to really receive
Speaker 1: justice in the way and manner that they felt as
Speaker 1: though they deserved. UM. So Yeah, Ed Buck is definitely
Speaker 1: in jail right now. And he was convicted for I
Speaker 1: believe I'll look up the exact charge, but I believe
Speaker 1: was convicted on manslaughter for at least two of those incidences. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and let's see if those charges stick. Let's see what
Speaker 1: the pelops process looks like. I hope that this story
Speaker 1: gets more media attention and they dive more into it. Um.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm glad that there's some type
Speaker 1: of retribution starting to come. And like you said, Nick,
Speaker 1: some of these families are really starting to get some
Speaker 1: closure whatever that may look like around this process and
Speaker 1: you know, losing their loved ones. And I hope that
Speaker 1: he gets into gym pop real talk who that's what
Speaker 1: I hope. He like needles, He liked the stick needles
Speaker 1: and people to see the tested limits. Let's see what
Speaker 1: a little shut up to say. We already gotten flag
Speaker 1: already in trouble. Don't don't pull a little down, You're
Speaker 1: gonna pull a little boosty on me up. So on
Speaker 1: that note, Nick, do you have any final thoughts because
Speaker 1: I'm seeing more and more people are starting to get
Speaker 1: uh kicked out. So yeah, I think I think it's
Speaker 1: trying to get us here. Just uh No, I really
Speaker 1: don't want everybody to stay safe. I want people to
Speaker 1: continue to wash their hands and do what's best for them.
Speaker 1: Like Flame mentioned earlier, because we would not have a
Speaker 1: show if you all were not here. So you all
Speaker 1: are our extended family and we appreciate you and we
Speaker 1: value yourself that where your masks, wash your hands, social
Speaker 1: distance and if you black me spray everybody with lifes
Speaker 1: it works. Yes, indeed, m Nick please follow Nick Smith
Speaker 1: on all social media platforms and Nick Smith News. What
Speaker 1: you get to say? What's your agenda this weekend? Um?
Speaker 1: My agenda this weekend is definitely to stay safe. Like
Speaker 1: you guys are saying, Um, you know, I'm traveling a
Speaker 1: lot again. I'm going back to Atlanta next week and
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I went to New Orleans and
Speaker 1: Atlanta in different places, and the MAX wearing is very lax,
Speaker 1: and it's easy to kind of fall into that, oh
Speaker 1: it's safe kind of feeling. So I would just say
Speaker 1: definitely to continue to wear your masks. Get tested if
Speaker 1: you can. I just gotta COVID test. I am negative
Speaker 1: by the way, thank god. And you know, overall, just
Speaker 1: just stay safe. And the other thing too, is I
Speaker 1: really encourage people to watch the news. Um. I really
Speaker 1: got into the news when Trump was president, and I
Speaker 1: think now since Biden has become president, I've been kind
Speaker 1: of comelax and trying to stay up on current events
Speaker 1: and what's happening in the world. It's also too it's
Speaker 1: kind of draining sometimes, but it's just really important to
Speaker 1: keep yourselves informed, so you know what's going on. Nick.
Speaker 1: Did you see your boy Don Lemon his statement that
Speaker 1: he made this weekend about people who are unvaccinated? Did
Speaker 1: you see what he had to say? I did you know?
Speaker 1: I have a bit of a bias there with that.
Speaker 1: I don't believe journalists should give opinion in that manner,
Speaker 1: but that's my own personal opinion on that theory. I
Speaker 1: don't think we should shame people one way or the other.
Speaker 1: But he said people who have been unvaccinated. Me. Let
Speaker 1: me just let y'all know case y'all didn't hear it,
Speaker 1: because you know how I feel about Don Lemon. People
Speaker 1: who have not been vaccinated should not be able to
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store, should not be able to
Speaker 1: go to the mall, should not be able to do this,
Speaker 1: and that should be able to do that. Nigga, If
Speaker 1: you don't go somewhere and continue doing what you've been
Speaker 1: doing with that white boy and leave us the funk
Speaker 1: alone and just sit there and report the news that
Speaker 1: CNN tells you report, letter for letter and word for word. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're not that good real talk. Let me, be honest,
Speaker 1: because you know, I never forgave him for the Ferguson riots,
Speaker 1: but the ship he went down there, and forget that
Speaker 1: he was a black man. You might be a gay
Speaker 1: black man, but you're still a black man. I don't
Speaker 1: give a how much you think that you're friendly with them.
Speaker 1: They look at you and they see your skin color
Speaker 1: before they see your sexuality. Player, so you're a double negative.
Speaker 1: Don't don't do that. And I said, what the funk?
Speaker 1: I said, y'all can record the screenshot and send them
Speaker 1: to him. I'm not worried about no, damn don lemon.
Speaker 1: If you don't like what I had to say, go
Speaker 1: back and look at the Ferguson riots when they killed
Speaker 1: that young boy and he went down the report from
Speaker 1: the ground level, and see how he threw his own people,
Speaker 1: his own people up under the bus. Because if it
Speaker 1: does go down, they're not gonna see that you're gay
Speaker 1: and you're working for them. They're gonna see that you're
Speaker 1: black first. Okay, I said it, what happened, So I
Speaker 1: guess those re flames. Final thoughts Umka September the six,
Speaker 1: Chicago for the White Party with a splash of the rain,
Speaker 1: but get your tickets on the rim bright dot com
Speaker 1: Slash Flame September nine through the twelve, go to d
Speaker 1: C Comedy Lift with the Flame Mats where will be
Speaker 1: meeting at the DC Comedy Left the ninth through the twelve,
Speaker 1: and we'll be recording the live Laugh and Learn on
Speaker 1: that Sunday. Hopefully they won't flag us UH September at
Speaker 1: the level of Barn Grid in Philadelphia and September thirty
Speaker 1: if I will be hosting with eighty five South and
Speaker 1: Just Hilarious in Atlanta for the one year Black UH
Speaker 1: I Heart Black Effect Network Reunion. So yeah, we were
Speaker 1: on the move and I will be at the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club on the August. August and taping with I will
Speaker 1: be at Idaadriguez is one. I was taping special in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn on the twenty one outside of day. Y'all this
Speaker 1: is Laugh and Learn. Yea, y'all trying to get us,
Speaker 1: but you can't stop this train. This train has left
Speaker 1: with no breaks, and we are reiterating that if something
Speaker 1: is a miss, you're gonna see pictures and not a
Speaker 1: live video feed, So don't attack us in the comments. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're just trying to maneuver around this technology, all right,
Speaker 1: And I would say I'm gonna do Love Lounge tonight,
Speaker 1: but I might be flagged. It might be you might
Speaker 1: be I might have to pull a little booty. Oh
Speaker 1: I got another page. Oh I don't even want to
Speaker 1: tell you what it is because it's not going anyway.
Speaker 1: Nick where can everybody find you at Nick Smith News
Speaker 1: on all social media platforms, and I am Lauren Armani
Speaker 1: h on Instagram as well as Lauren Hogan on YouTube
Speaker 1: and flame is everywhere. Uh huh. We're not trying to
Speaker 1: get anybody to change their minds. We're simply trying to
Speaker 1: get you to use your mind, because to use your mind,
Speaker 1: you cannot be a Republican in Florida. Lay No, We're
Speaker 1: just trying to get you to use your man. But
Speaker 1: in order for you to use your mind, you have
Speaker 1: to have one. Please think for yourself. So the decisions
Speaker 1: that you make are decisions that you can live with
Speaker 1: because only you have to face you in that mirror.
Speaker 1: Only you have to face you, lady. This is Love Lounge.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Yeah, you know what it is. This is
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Speaker 1: but you know what, when you're talking about something that
Speaker 1: goes against the grain, these are some of the oppositions
Speaker 1: that you will have to face. You can shut me down,
Speaker 1: but you damn show won't shut me up. Okay, And
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