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Speaker 1: what I do. Hey, welcome to laugh and learn, ladies
Speaker 1: and gem I'm your host, Flaming Roe, along with my
Speaker 1: gorgeous co host, Lauren Hogan. Hi Lauren Hogan, Hi flam Monroe.
Speaker 1: How are you? Y'all? Can't see aaron? That's our produced
Speaker 1: Slory Hogan. If I'm talking a little slow, we're taping
Speaker 1: a little late, and I'm feeling quite wonderful. Uh, Lauren,
Speaker 1: do you know what today? Yesterday is January sixteenth, but
Speaker 1: technically today is the national holiday the day that we
Speaker 1: celebrate the birth of the one and only father of
Speaker 1: the Civil Rights UH Party, Mr Dr mar Luther King.
Speaker 1: JI here, Yes, today is marm Luther King Jr. Day. Um,
Speaker 1: So we are celebrating and acknowledging Dr King and all
Speaker 1: that he's done for black folks in this country. Um.
Speaker 1: And I myself actually went to the Kingdom Day parade
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles that goes all the way down Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Boulevard about three miles. So I walked three
Speaker 1: whole miles today with plates. Girl, You're gonna be skinny.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to recognized that the King, Dr King, I love.
Speaker 1: I love Dr King, I loved all the Doctor King
Speaker 1: still foe with the exception of the non violence because
Speaker 1: if you put your hands on mother father school, that
Speaker 1: reminds me. Have you seen the new statue that was
Speaker 1: erected in Boston. I can't make that what it is. Lord,
Speaker 1: I have seen it, but I keep seeing it from
Speaker 1: weird angles, so I'm not sure it looked like. Girl,
Speaker 1: I can't make out what it is. It's their arms,
Speaker 1: so it's like Coretta's arms and then m Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King's arms. Because did you see the photo that was inspiration.
Speaker 1: Like basically, he just took their arms out of their
Speaker 1: embracing photo. And that's what the scope Okay, because all
Speaker 1: the angles, I say, reaches up. I'm like, well, girl,
Speaker 1: what is it? Yes, a lot of people were kind
Speaker 1: of saying the same thing, like, well what is it?
Speaker 1: So people were saying, why don't we just erect the
Speaker 1: full picture instead of just the arms? People were confused.
Speaker 1: But you know, art is an interpretation of the mirine,
Speaker 1: I guess, so it may be interpretation, man, but I
Speaker 1: needed a better picture because I couldn't hear what the
Speaker 1: hell was going on. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: And it's in Philadelphia, right, it's in Boston, Okay. It's
Speaker 1: like if you look at it from the right angle,
Speaker 1: you can like tell that it's Corretta's arms because she
Speaker 1: has her ring on her finger and everything. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very abstract. Its abstract. Art coredit what that ring
Speaker 1: with pride? And I just want to say jokingly, I
Speaker 1: don't supposed to say it today, but since y'all gonna
Speaker 1: hear this to tomorrow, out of respect for King On
Speaker 1: on his day, I don't want to say it. But
Speaker 1: since y're gonna here to mom, gonna say it. Dr
Speaker 1: King's motto was we shall overcome? Or wasn't we shall
Speaker 1: come over? Because rumor hasn't He made a lot of
Speaker 1: house of it in here. Nothing to do with civil rights.
Speaker 1: We all know that Dr King was a bit of
Speaker 1: a rolling stone. He personally. I want to say, I
Speaker 1: think that j Evergan Hooper was the first personal perpet
Speaker 1: because I think he was beating off to listen to
Speaker 1: all those King takes, because they say King was putting
Speaker 1: it down from state to state, But who couldn't stop
Speaker 1: listening to him talk something? He was using them for
Speaker 1: black mail? Was he using them for black mail? Or
Speaker 1: was it only fans long before y'all do about it? Oh?
Speaker 1: I said, yes, I did. You were in rare form tonight? Alright?
Speaker 1: I told you, Aaron, let me way too long? You
Speaker 1: just sleeing. Well, I'm back to the more sentimental side
Speaker 1: of the day. So, um, yes, we do want to
Speaker 1: acknowledge Dr King and all that he did for society. Um.
Speaker 1: One thing I will say that I think that's so
Speaker 1: interesting is that the things that he was advocating for,
Speaker 1: you know, in the fifties and the sixties are still
Speaker 1: relevant today, which is kind of crazy to still think
Speaker 1: almost fifty years later. It almost feels like we're stuck
Speaker 1: in a bit of a time warp um, but it's
Speaker 1: we're still advocating for the same things that he was.
Speaker 1: So sometimes it makes you look twice and be like,
Speaker 1: are we really moving forward? You know? So, and let
Speaker 1: me get credit where credit is due. Shout out to
Speaker 1: this country for at least acknowledging this powerful black man
Speaker 1: that did that changed the labs of not only African
Speaker 1: American black people, but he changed the laves of lots
Speaker 1: of people because it was a lot of white and
Speaker 1: and other people that were part of the movement that
Speaker 1: just wanted fairness in this country and wanted to change.
Speaker 1: So shout out to him, all of them for that.
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, my Luther King who he was killed
Speaker 1: April the fourth at the Lorraine Hotelmphis. Yes it was
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. He would have been ninety four. Was his
Speaker 1: birthday is actual birthday was yesterday, It's so he would
Speaker 1: have been ninety four years old. Shout out to all
Speaker 1: the brilliant Capricorns, starting with my son, yeah, and my
Speaker 1: nut the King and all. So we get back to
Speaker 1: the King because we want to do some King quotes
Speaker 1: and some King memories. At the end of the show.
Speaker 1: We got way too much other stuff to jump into.
Speaker 1: Let's jump into this girl. Last night they had another
Speaker 1: Awards show. Oh my god, they did have another Awards show,
Speaker 1: and black magic and Black Excellence was definitely prevalent. Um Shirley,
Speaker 1: Ralph Jue, Nissy Nash One, Quincy quentincon Brunson one and
Speaker 1: Abbott Elementary one too, So a lot of black folks
Speaker 1: got a lot of recognition. Um. And I love the
Speaker 1: speeches too, didn't you. I love the speeches. I must
Speaker 1: tell you, Loren, You're not get on you all the
Speaker 1: time about your black but I must tell you that
Speaker 1: your girl, Angie, But I'm sorry, our girl, Angie Bassett
Speaker 1: set the room last night, and that black count to
Speaker 1: me girl when she came out. When she came out
Speaker 1: to present the award and I could get the full
Speaker 1: owned gown, I was like, okay, miss, and don't don't
Speaker 1: play with these. Help us, okay, miss, and you don't
Speaker 1: play with And she won as well too. I think
Speaker 1: everybody that was dressed in black last night. I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for everybody black as in Easter, rate would say, because
Speaker 1: they all look fabulous. Janellemunde, j Ellis, every Quinta, everybody
Speaker 1: that wore black, everybody's black dressers were lovely. But I
Speaker 1: will acknowledge I did like Sherill and her gold dress.
Speaker 1: I love the cutter that dress. But NISI nash to me,
Speaker 1: somebody took a paintbrush and put that dress off her.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, she looked incredible. Yeah, her body was
Speaker 1: definitely sickening. It was like it was giving what it
Speaker 1: was supposed to. I say, I know Jessica had a
Speaker 1: good time last night taking her up out of that gown. Baby,
Speaker 1: that's her, her husband hers her. Yes, So I'm glad that.
Speaker 1: You know, even though they didn't win as many awards
Speaker 1: at the Golden Globes, they got their record mission um
Speaker 1: in another you know, in another way. So congratulations. Want
Speaker 1: to shout out Viola Davis. Viola Davis is still my
Speaker 1: favorite right now, and I'm telling you, but she lost
Speaker 1: to my other favorite, which is Kate Blanchet. So I
Speaker 1: can't be angry about Hallo. And I love that Kate
Speaker 1: acknowledge not only all the ladies that she was up
Speaker 1: against in the category, but all the great brilliant actresses
Speaker 1: and actors that was in the room, and she was like,
Speaker 1: Kate is so Kate is like a British hood. Oh
Speaker 1: she's so fun and she cusses and everything. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I love her. But she is a brilliant acts That
Speaker 1: lady can do anything, just like I have Viola. They
Speaker 1: can do anything. I will say like I and I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I don't know if Woman King
Speaker 1: has won any of the larger you know awards yet.
Speaker 1: So I'm waiting on the Oscar. That's all I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: because I needed to get its recognition because it was
Speaker 1: a hell of a movie that they did. It was
Speaker 1: like for them to get that and hopefully well, and
Speaker 1: I know they nominated for a bunch of end Up
Speaker 1: Lacey p Awards which is also coming up, and I
Speaker 1: want us to be recognized by us, So I hope
Speaker 1: they do a big sweep over there. But it's a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of Peach people. I want to do a
Speaker 1: sweep over there. P Valley. Good God, the writing on
Speaker 1: that show was just unbelievable. So we'll see. But who hosted?
Speaker 1: Oh Chelsea Handler host Now she did change gowns a
Speaker 1: couple of times. She won a couple of cocktail dresses.
Speaker 1: I like that. I didn't see her the full own show,
Speaker 1: but I went and watched the clip. I thought she
Speaker 1: was pretty good. I thought, well, compared to what I
Speaker 1: seen last week, she was. She was remarkable. Are you
Speaker 1: coming shade? Is that shade that I hear? No, that
Speaker 1: was the truth. I didn't actually watch the show either,
Speaker 1: so I don't know how Chelsea did, but I just
Speaker 1: you know, I watched Chelsea lately, so I always think
Speaker 1: that Chelsea's gonna do a good job. She's funny, and
Speaker 1: she moved it along. She got it on through and
Speaker 1: everybody looked nice. It was pleasant, went off for no hiccups,
Speaker 1: So good hats off to the Critics Choice Awards. What's next?
Speaker 1: What's the next one coming up? Um? We got the
Speaker 1: Grand Means that are coming up, and Double A CP
Speaker 1: Image Awards are coming up. You know, it's awards season,
Speaker 1: so I think we've got until about March. We probably
Speaker 1: got at least I think like four to six more
Speaker 1: awards shows that are going to be happening. I'm very
Speaker 1: interesting to see who's hostingp Awards. But we'll we'll see
Speaker 1: I might even get an inbody who knows Auntie who?
Speaker 1: Where we where we're going? Where we're going? We have
Speaker 1: to talk about COVID. Oh wait a minute long. We
Speaker 1: didn't acknowledge the winner of Best Movie of the Year.
Speaker 1: So now it makes me want to see that movie.
Speaker 1: Clay had one Best Actress for Todd. I've seen Todd.
Speaker 1: It was intense. But that other movie, the Asian movie,
Speaker 1: isn't everything everywhere all that once? They wont be Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see it. Yeah, I haven't seen it either.
Speaker 1: I'm not as much of a movie watcher as I
Speaker 1: should be. Um, I will admit that. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back and see to your point, who's actually winning,
Speaker 1: because I can go watching those movies. But because I thought,
Speaker 1: like the Shape of Water made no sense to me,
Speaker 1: you know, they won big, So I'm always a little skeptical,
Speaker 1: but I'll go and watch them. Yeah, it makes you
Speaker 1: a question like what what what? What? What? What makes
Speaker 1: it the best? What you're looking for? Because I was
Speaker 1: with you on that Shape of Water. I think I
Speaker 1: was a little I had a lovely too, so girl,
Speaker 1: and I tell you up that down in the theater,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell was exactly, so but anyway,
Speaker 1: we haven't we haven't talked about COVID. I don't think
Speaker 1: this entire season, but now we got to talk about
Speaker 1: COVID in this vaccine. So long story short, Maderna is
Speaker 1: being very greedy on the money front. They are now
Speaker 1: charging people a hundred and thirty dollars to get a vaccine,
Speaker 1: but it only costs two dollars and eighty five cents
Speaker 1: to make. So the billions of dollars that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be making out, well, they've already made billions, let's just
Speaker 1: start there for developing the vaccine and getting their patent.
Speaker 1: But the amount of farm agreed is just a little
Speaker 1: crazy gourd. That takes me back two two thousand and
Speaker 1: twenty early when you and I were on the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club shout out to the Breakfast of Charlemagne and DJ
Speaker 1: Envy and uh you were talking about big farmer then,
Speaker 1: because when they you were talking about a cure for
Speaker 1: HIV and AIDS because your other job where you're a
Speaker 1: big big or hf AIDS health Care Foundation. If y'all
Speaker 1: for dolls who listen, don't know what those acronyms stand
Speaker 1: for Lord is still there and still a big wig there.
Speaker 1: And you were talking about the money is in the
Speaker 1: treatment and not the cure, because I'm like, how are
Speaker 1: you going to charge poor people if if y'all don't
Speaker 1: want the world And this is just my crazy logic,
Speaker 1: how are you going if you want the world to
Speaker 1: survive and people to live, why would you charge a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty year dollars, especially to poor people or
Speaker 1: people in a financial crisis, for something that costs less
Speaker 1: than three dollars to make. It's always about making the
Speaker 1: rich people richer and the poor people poor. That's really
Speaker 1: what it is at the end of the and it's
Speaker 1: so sad, but that's why we have the economy that
Speaker 1: we have, in the societal glass that we have, because
Speaker 1: people don't want poor people to succeed. That's not the
Speaker 1: name of the game. It's let's make the rich people richer.
Speaker 1: You know. We see that in government, we see that
Speaker 1: in so many aspects of our society in life, and
Speaker 1: it's no different when it comes to healthcare. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing that is so scary, good God, And is
Speaker 1: that just for the vaccine not the boosters that's just
Speaker 1: the vaccine. That's just the vaccine. So I don't even
Speaker 1: know what the charges because what number boosts we on
Speaker 1: right now, I can't remember. I've gotten to and I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good girl. If it's left up to them, it'd
Speaker 1: be six. A year, baby, it'd be five. We'll be
Speaker 1: at number five four. Yeah, but I mean I've told
Speaker 1: you too. I don't even get flu shots because the
Speaker 1: last time I got a flu shot, I was twelve
Speaker 1: and I ended up with the stomach virus and I
Speaker 1: got the flu. You know, this food was really bad
Speaker 1: this year, so I got it. Now, but that's fifteen
Speaker 1: years later. I haven't had the flu, So that's a
Speaker 1: that's a ridiculous mark up. Though. That is they always
Speaker 1: want to talk about ponzi schemes who all doing illegal
Speaker 1: stuff that should be illegal, that should honestly be illegal,
Speaker 1: And it wouldn't be if we didn't know that it
Speaker 1: costs two dollars and thirty eight cent or whatever. But
Speaker 1: since we do know, that should be illegal. But this
Speaker 1: is their country and they do what they want to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's at the end of the day, they monopolize the market.
Speaker 1: They have the products, so they can attach whatever price
Speaker 1: type that they want to. It's really, it's really sad.
Speaker 1: I'm planning to make the real thing. Okay, I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm glad. Look who I got my two dollars and
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Yes, I do where we're going. So we
Speaker 1: got to talk about our dear President Joe Biden. He's
Speaker 1: in a bit of a situation right now. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something on behalf of Joe Biden. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be very very honest. Girl. He forgot. Let's let's go
Speaker 1: with that. Yes, he just forgot. He for god. It's
Speaker 1: different with Trump. Trump was hides of ship. Biden's yes, forgot,
Speaker 1: you know, the nigga like two hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 1: years old. He forgot. I'm gonna go with that at
Speaker 1: this point because and I will say, there is grave differences.
Speaker 1: We're not comparing Joe Biden to Trump. Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: flamemate a joke. But Joe Biden is cooperating with you know, um,
Speaker 1: the d O j anytime he found these documents, he
Speaker 1: called the National Archives. Trump didn't do that. You know,
Speaker 1: Trump's residents had to have FBI come in and get
Speaker 1: all the documents back because he didn't want to give
Speaker 1: him up. There's grave differences, but it's still bad because
Speaker 1: it's giving the Republicans ammunition to of course create a
Speaker 1: conspiracy or a narrative that, you know, why was Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, being ridiculed and his house was rated. Is
Speaker 1: giving them a narrative to push, which is not good.
Speaker 1: So and plus there's a special counsel that's also been
Speaker 1: elected to investigate this case from Joe Biden, which is
Speaker 1: not a good thing either. That's the name of this episode, Errant.
Speaker 1: He forgot He just I honestly believe that he really
Speaker 1: forgot long. I think he and now thinking an absent
Speaker 1: manded way, but I think because he didn't think that
Speaker 1: they were significant, and he was going on to be
Speaker 1: become the president and his son and he had so
Speaker 1: much other stuff going on. It was locked up in
Speaker 1: the garage with his corvette, just like he's saying now,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he ain't driving that corvette that often. You know,
Speaker 1: he fell off the bike. Be damned if he's gonna
Speaker 1: be driving, he says, is locked up in his garage
Speaker 1: very safely, and that's where some of these documents were found.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying it ain't like he pulled
Speaker 1: the corvette out on weekends to go driving. You see
Speaker 1: what happened on the body, Kale. So the papers are safe,
Speaker 1: like on the stairs up the plane um, on the
Speaker 1: stairs up the way to the plane um. But also
Speaker 1: to uh, the GOP House Oversight chair also can't explain why,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they want to launch an
Speaker 1: investigation into this too, but he can't explain why he's
Speaker 1: doing that. So you know, the Republicans got the house
Speaker 1: back and are doing a lot of unexplainable things that
Speaker 1: really don't make any sense. But speaking speaking of unexplained
Speaker 1: about rumor looked like it looked like Kevin McCarthy's want
Speaker 1: to keep Santo's own. They ain't hold him because the
Speaker 1: GPS want him out and want him off. They don't
Speaker 1: want him to have no power, They don't want him
Speaker 1: to be afforded any other luxury because he lied. I
Speaker 1: listened then, as much as I disagree with so many
Speaker 1: things that they have done, I completely agree with them
Speaker 1: out as he lied all the way. Well, it just
Speaker 1: keeps getting worse because not only did Santos lie like
Speaker 1: bringing news today was showing that his firm that he
Speaker 1: had was a Ponzi scheme. So it just keeps getting worse,
Speaker 1: the revelations that are coming, you know, out behind Santos.
Speaker 1: So here's the real question, Lauren. It's his real name,
Speaker 1: George Santos. I don't believe nothing now at this point,
Speaker 1: I don't either. Because he said he went to UH
Speaker 1: school on a volleyball scholarship. He's had to knee replacements,
Speaker 1: not with that shape. It turns out he never went
Speaker 1: to this school. He There is no volleyball scholarship to
Speaker 1: school that he was referring to. They don't even offer
Speaker 1: athletic scholarships. It was just really bad. I was watching
Speaker 1: the interviews today and people kept laughing at him. I
Speaker 1: was like, that's just embarrassing. Why, like, why do you
Speaker 1: have to Why are you compelled to lie that much?
Speaker 1: But what kind of nerves that he does? This man
Speaker 1: have that the whole world? Oh, well, let me go
Speaker 1: say that, because you know we got one of them too.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not gonna say his name, but empire. Oh anyway,
Speaker 1: Well I didn't say I didn't, I didn't say anything,
Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't know what's gonna happen with
Speaker 1: Mr Santos, but it just keeps getting worse by the day.
Speaker 1: I don't like that that the government not be Republican
Speaker 1: on Democrat. This man is a clear blading out now
Speaker 1: lying and before you put him in a position to
Speaker 1: sit in a boardroom to hear so called secrets that
Speaker 1: you made at an ex president and a sitting president
Speaker 1: about old paper why would you allow the enemy to
Speaker 1: sit in something that's brent that's happening now when you
Speaker 1: know that he is lying to me, you see all
Speaker 1: of that. You're mad And I ain't defending Trump, but
Speaker 1: y'all mad at Trump about some old paperwork. You're mad
Speaker 1: abiding about some old paperwork. But you're allowing somebody who
Speaker 1: lied to your face. You didn't count this man in
Speaker 1: a lie every day, But you're gonna allow him to
Speaker 1: sit and listen to the stuff that is happening now.
Speaker 1: How you know he won't turn on us and and
Speaker 1: put the more America and more America. Sometimes American saints
Speaker 1: real government saints real stupid. To me, I said, I
Speaker 1: was being nice, glowing day speaking of other things that
Speaker 1: the GOP is doing that's putting, you know, our economy
Speaker 1: at risk. Let's talk about this whole debt ceiling crisis
Speaker 1: that we might be in. I heartened. How can y'all
Speaker 1: pay me before we go into recession? So, as of yesterday,
Speaker 1: UM House Republicans won't budge on demands for federal spending
Speaker 1: cuts in return for agreeing to lift the debt ceiling
Speaker 1: and avoid a US payment default, GOP representative James Comer said,
Speaker 1: as a federal government moved closer to breaching its statutory
Speaker 1: debt limit, lawmakers on Sunday mostly talked past each other.
Speaker 1: Republicans renewed demands for cuts, and Democrats insisted that the
Speaker 1: government be allowed to honor commitments made by previous Congresses.
Speaker 1: So the Republicans, of course, who just gained control of
Speaker 1: the House in the US midterm election campaign on the
Speaker 1: fact that we were going to be serious about spending cuts.
Speaker 1: So the Republicans are basically just like, we need to
Speaker 1: cut spending and if we reach a debt ceiling, so
Speaker 1: be it. We don't care about the American people or
Speaker 1: the economy. Well, when they when they raised a shot
Speaker 1: to say last from two dollars to thirty eight sent
Speaker 1: to a hundred and thirty dollars, they already said that
Speaker 1: without saying it, so oh, um, we'll see what happens. Um.
Speaker 1: But this is just it's interesting to me because I
Speaker 1: think about all of the American voters that voted for
Speaker 1: these Republicans to be in office, and everything that they're
Speaker 1: pushing for now is like nothing of what they ran on.
Speaker 1: So I wonder how they have to feel as an
Speaker 1: American voter that you were swindled. You don't stop talking
Speaker 1: about West Virginia after they voted for Trump and he can't.
Speaker 1: You know, I told you didn't kick in. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm on Baby comedy. Uh what's the name of the show?
Speaker 1: The Daily Show. I hope y'all listening, baby, because I'm
Speaker 1: telling you I'm ready to sit there say. Um. I
Speaker 1: think it's ridiculous. I think it, and I think that
Speaker 1: people in charge that the supposed that it signed up
Speaker 1: to service and help other people should be ashamed of themselves,
Speaker 1: should be damn ashamed of yourself that you have let
Speaker 1: money consume everything empower and I just but there is
Speaker 1: no shame. That's why Santos is still sitting the way.
Speaker 1: There is no shame. There is no shame. There isn't
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's always about power,
Speaker 1: and it's really sad to say that these Republicans just
Speaker 1: don't care about the American people and the American people
Speaker 1: elected y'all. That's the crazy part. Uh, what are you eating?
Speaker 1: Is that cake? We're recording a show. I'm not eating.
Speaker 1: But No, it's just really sad though at this point
Speaker 1: in time that we're like, I'm just nervous that we're
Speaker 1: gonna be on the brink of an economic crisis at
Speaker 1: this point, basically with the um the House being Republican led.
Speaker 1: I mean, luckily we still have a Democratic Senate, so
Speaker 1: a lot of their legislation that they may have passed
Speaker 1: in the House is it's gonna die because you know,
Speaker 1: the Senate is not gonna pass it. And then we
Speaker 1: also still have a democratic president. But it's just very concerning.
Speaker 1: It's very concerning. M So people just have become cattle.
Speaker 1: People are like numbers. Everything is a number, number number.
Speaker 1: I think that's why I'm so against self checkout. No,
Speaker 1: I don't like talking to automated stuff. I want to
Speaker 1: talk to person. What is self checkout do to you?
Speaker 1: I love self check out or I hate stelf checkout
Speaker 1: A long Oh my god, I hate self checkout really
Speaker 1: because I hate looking at the vengeans and stuff, so
Speaker 1: I just still the people. Wait a minute, care what
Speaker 1: you're honest about. It's okay, we've lost some things. I
Speaker 1: used to sell water out of war. I mean only
Speaker 1: want to look up bail peppers on you. I just
Speaker 1: want me to bag and slide them over to the side.
Speaker 1: Taking somebody's job. Speaking of taking somebody's job and self checkout,
Speaker 1: I know this, they're on the topic. I'm just throwing
Speaker 1: it out there anyway. So the testlas, I see they
Speaker 1: have lowered the price on teslas because they're not performed
Speaker 1: or they're not doing as well as they used to.
Speaker 1: Because here in California, just this past weekend, a testla's stop.
Speaker 1: Remember my joke I always tell about, I don't want
Speaker 1: no card with no brains drive me, because if you
Speaker 1: get to a cliff and it can't make up with
Speaker 1: this man, I don't want to tail with all. Louise
Speaker 1: and the car just stopped in the middle of the freeway.
Speaker 1: Lauren and Nan car accident. It just decided didn't want
Speaker 1: it to stop, so it stopped right in the middle
Speaker 1: of traffic doing a freeway and nine cards here the
Speaker 1: baby was injured, a lot of people injured. I'm not
Speaker 1: and I'm not bashing Tesla. I can't afford one right
Speaker 1: now in no way. But I don't want one because
Speaker 1: I can drive my own sale and Elon Musk also
Speaker 1: lost two hundred billion dollars in a day his Tesla
Speaker 1: stock plummeted to so I'm sure that's a contributing factor.
Speaker 1: But when I've written in Tesla's it feels like I'm
Speaker 1: in a spaceship. I don't feel grounded. I don't like
Speaker 1: feeling like that when I'm driving. So I'm not a
Speaker 1: fan of Teslas either. But um, yeah, we're going towards
Speaker 1: automated cars and robots. I thought Elon Musk made a
Speaker 1: tweet about at the other day too, that the future
Speaker 1: is going to be robots or something like that. No,
Speaker 1: thank you, he already looked a little robody. I want
Speaker 1: me a flying car, though. That's gonna be even worse
Speaker 1: for air traffic control. You saw that the whole air
Speaker 1: uh what's it called, the f d A air traffic
Speaker 1: control grid went down. Yeah, I saw that. Thirty and
Speaker 1: thirty years they neither updating and dad was a great
Speaker 1: segue into us talking about the horrible accident that happened
Speaker 1: over and where and the plane crashed and all seventy
Speaker 1: people that. Yeah, that's always like my biggest nightmare too,
Speaker 1: is just to be on a plane in the plane crash. Now,
Speaker 1: I guess nobody really knows what happened, but you know,
Speaker 1: pretty there were no survivors. So prayers go out to
Speaker 1: all of those people's families who lost their lives. But
Speaker 1: it's just it's crazy that a plane just went down
Speaker 1: and nobody knows why, and they have the black they
Speaker 1: recovered the black box and they have video up. I
Speaker 1: know it's very graphic to watch though, you guys, uh,
Speaker 1: you're playing right before it went down, and then you
Speaker 1: can actually see some of the flames because somebody was
Speaker 1: actually recording, and I think they would lad recording it
Speaker 1: went out. But that is scary. But it when we
Speaker 1: get to King, because one of my favorite quotes is
Speaker 1: from King is about death. Remind me to say that
Speaker 1: at the end because I might remember that. I don't
Speaker 1: remember the first part of this conversation right now anyway,
Speaker 1: what happened in the pole, Yeah, that's very tragic. Praying
Speaker 1: to all the paper families and people involved. But I'm
Speaker 1: asking you, Lauren, I think that I think that was
Speaker 1: a dark area. I don't think that they were shot down,
Speaker 1: but I think that was a dark area, which is
Speaker 1: like no fly, it's very possible. My whole thing is
Speaker 1: nobody knows what happened that. That doesn't make sense to
Speaker 1: me because you have to get clearance to fly. So
Speaker 1: how do you not know what happened to a plane
Speaker 1: that it ended up crashing. Maybe the the system went
Speaker 1: down over there like it did over here, I guess,
Speaker 1: But that's just it's I got a lot of questions,
Speaker 1: so the math wasn't mathing for me. And to lose
Speaker 1: seventy two people, that's just unacceptable. But well to say
Speaker 1: any too, Yeah, seventy two people lost their lives. Jesus, Jesus, Jesu. Money,
Speaker 1: money and power don't matter when you're up in the air.
Speaker 1: You ain't gotta control over machine. Machines. Machines make mistakes
Speaker 1: just like people. Yeah, people can apologize if your machine
Speaker 1: snatch your arm off, it's just snatched off. M And
Speaker 1: continuing with that, the war in Ukraine. You're still sending
Speaker 1: prayers over to Ukraine. Um, they did an air mischel
Speaker 1: strike today and they killed I believe, over forty civilians
Speaker 1: at once. Um. They were saying that this is one
Speaker 1: of the more deadliest civilian attacks in Ukraine. UM. Putin,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what I have to say
Speaker 1: about him. He's his own countrymen have turned on him.
Speaker 1: There's people that were fleeing Russia because they didn't want
Speaker 1: to fight a pointless war just to you know, fuel
Speaker 1: his ego, and people keep dying unnecessarily. But I will
Speaker 1: say everybody didn't know, not everybody. Nobody thought that Ukraine
Speaker 1: was gonna win. They're winning, So it's very tragic this
Speaker 1: is happening right now. And like I said, we're set
Speaker 1: in press to Ukraine. But they're winning and Putin is losing.
Speaker 1: That's because Zelinsky is a beast baby. I likes me.
Speaker 1: Some zelinscular tall, little, but it's tall self. I like me.
Speaker 1: He tall to look he about five five, but stall
Speaker 1: small in stature and mighty in his heart. He got
Speaker 1: a he does. He has the heart of a lion
Speaker 1: because he's not he he fights for his country. I
Speaker 1: can't say that about some leaders that we have had
Speaker 1: had in the bunkers. So sure are some leaders that
Speaker 1: have done smilar things that Putin did. But Iraq o
Speaker 1: prayers to Irene, I mean to a Ukraine. I hope
Speaker 1: that that war is done with soon. So many people
Speaker 1: lost their lives and the situation had to leave that
Speaker 1: country and start over either. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: really bothers me when it's older people and you get this,
Speaker 1: you displaced older people because as a seasoned person myself,
Speaker 1: when you're at your home, you and your compass on,
Speaker 1: you can you know, you can feel your way through
Speaker 1: the dark, whether you're old or you know, incapacitated or whatever.
Speaker 1: But they have removed a lot of those people out
Speaker 1: of their comfort zones. That's got to be disheartening. That's
Speaker 1: got to be messed up. Yeah, and to be displaced too.
Speaker 1: To your point, it's its memories, you know, childhood. It's
Speaker 1: just it's a lot, you know, it's it's I've read
Speaker 1: somebody that Putin but they they they challenging his his
Speaker 1: mental stability. I want to see it correctly. I want
Speaker 1: to say something else, but I'm trying to be nice. Well,
Speaker 1: I think they tried to well. I think he just
Speaker 1: had an election a few years ago and it was
Speaker 1: for him to be president for front of the thirteen
Speaker 1: years or something like that. So I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't want to put anything negative out there, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just say somebody needs to do something. I know
Speaker 1: he's heavily guarded, but he's just he's problematic. He's very
Speaker 1: problematic for the country. Good old young woman like to
Speaker 1: turn him out, then he won't have time to be
Speaker 1: so angry. Well, you know, he was a part of
Speaker 1: the whole so A union regime, so he's very much
Speaker 1: a dictator, so dangerous, it's very dangerous. He needs him.
Speaker 1: A young woman should turn him out. Uh uh. With
Speaker 1: the paperwork, with putting back to I mean back with Biden. Lord,
Speaker 1: I think it's just I think it's just they're trying
Speaker 1: to throw ashes on Biden's fire because nobody ain't doing
Speaker 1: a great job. But he's doing a pretty decent job.
Speaker 1: He coming through with some promises that he said he
Speaker 1: was going to do, and I think they're trying to
Speaker 1: make discourage him because next year, if he hasn't made
Speaker 1: that he said that he was going to run. But
Speaker 1: if they can, if they can tarnish his record and
Speaker 1: put more blemishes on his record, it might make it
Speaker 1: harder for him to win if if, if, if, if
Speaker 1: in fact he's going to run or win. I'm just
Speaker 1: concerned because I think I see more negative media coverage
Speaker 1: for on Joe Biden on a daily basis at this point.
Speaker 1: Like he did a he was conducting a ceremony and
Speaker 1: he called Kamala Harris the president during the ceremony. He
Speaker 1: looked at her and said myself and President Harris. So
Speaker 1: you know that kind of went viral on social media.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Joe Biden called commentary. He did not take
Speaker 1: those papers home on purpose. Girl, he forgot. So I'm
Speaker 1: just concerned if he reruns, if he's at at this point,
Speaker 1: because it's not looking good. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: Trump is gonna actually gonna end up being able to
Speaker 1: rerun either. And I've said this before. The only way
Speaker 1: I really saw Joe Biden winning again is if Trump
Speaker 1: want if Trump ran, so I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: You might need another Democratic nominee to make sure that
Speaker 1: we can hold onto the president's seat. I think how
Speaker 1: King Jeffrey's gonna be the new Golden Boy. I could
Speaker 1: see that, um, but I don't know if he would
Speaker 1: be willing to leave Congress to become president. Um, he
Speaker 1: may feel more effective being in Congress. So I like
Speaker 1: to be the president for like a month. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of gray hair, and they're being got
Speaker 1: him und there everybody, everybody would get freestyle. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Well you know that why Barack Obama said that Michelle
Speaker 1: would never be a good president because she said her
Speaker 1: mouth is a little too reckless. We're both from Chicago.
Speaker 1: I understand. Hats off to the first Lady Michelle Obama
Speaker 1: baby and President Barback Obama. But yes, we're both from Chicago.
Speaker 1: Where we're going, Lauren, because we're almost done. We are.
Speaker 1: The last thing you wanted to talk about was Trump's
Speaker 1: tax fraud and how he's kind of just saying I'm
Speaker 1: not I didn't do it. I didn't do it. We
Speaker 1: touched on this, um a little bit throughout the week. Um,
Speaker 1: but my thing is this Trump's getting more and more
Speaker 1: indictments coming down the pipeline. I really want to wait
Speaker 1: and see what Miss Fannie Willis does in Atlanta. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm his organization get to find at one point
Speaker 1: six million dollars for text fraud. But I'm sure he
Speaker 1: hasn't it, because they donated more than two million dollars
Speaker 1: towards to stop to steal in the fake campaign. And
Speaker 1: I'm talking to y'all who donated, ain't talking to nobody
Speaker 1: else with y'all. Well, now you know, he can't use
Speaker 1: those funds because he knew nothing about the tax fraud.
Speaker 1: Even though he was ahead of the organization, he knew
Speaker 1: nothing about it. That's the that's the story, and he's
Speaker 1: sticking to it exactly. That's why Alan Weislerberg is in
Speaker 1: rikers for the next hundred days and Trump isn't so
Speaker 1: and you got to do a five month bid um,
Speaker 1: so he can't use that money. I do said, I
Speaker 1: will say that it's interesting that his prize child um
Speaker 1: Ivanka's walked away from him. Oh, I've seen that. I've
Speaker 1: seen the publication that there's troubled in Paradise, that her
Speaker 1: and Jared maybe going through some rough trouble marriage. May
Speaker 1: whos that's unfortunate. Well, they did a lot of illegal things,
Speaker 1: so I can understand why that would breede, you know,
Speaker 1: some difficulties in I promise you we wasn't saying for
Speaker 1: a third season. It was someone that's sitting on the
Speaker 1: tip of my tongue. Good God, almost jumped off. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm praying that their marriage is wonderful. Yeah yeah. Comes
Speaker 1: see me, Lave and hear what I really got to say. Um. So,
Speaker 1: like we said at the top of the show, we're
Speaker 1: gonna circle back to end the show with Dr King.
Speaker 1: Um flames favorite Doctor King quotes, um, my favorite Doctor
Speaker 1: King quote. So I can go first, or would you
Speaker 1: like to go from? Oh, you know, I want you
Speaker 1: to close yours out because it was gonna be more detailed.
Speaker 1: Mine was always in high school because you know, we
Speaker 1: always walking around fear of death, fear death, and being
Speaker 1: in high school, you know you know when people would die,
Speaker 1: and when you're young, you do don't understand death and
Speaker 1: everybody so I'm afraid to I'm afraid to die. I
Speaker 1: think it was in sixty three his sixty three memoirs,
Speaker 1: Dr King said that once you accept death, you're free.
Speaker 1: When that impact hit me during the Ages pandemic of
Speaker 1: the eighties, understand that exactly what that meant that you
Speaker 1: cannot walk in fear wondering what day, what hour, what
Speaker 1: moment was second, because it's going to happen. It really
Speaker 1: made me like, good, let me just keep living because
Speaker 1: it's inevitable. We're all gonna take that walk. You just
Speaker 1: want to live as long as you can until it comes.
Speaker 1: I always liked that cord. That was always the one
Speaker 1: that made me understand transition of you know, two of
Speaker 1: dying because it was always such a feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: I ain't rated that I wanted that, I wanted that
Speaker 1: like this, I want to do like that. You have
Speaker 1: no say so. But that was one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: And I love Dr King the love that he put out,
Speaker 1: all the screw and everything that he screwed, love and acceptance.
Speaker 1: But I look back on life now, loring how I
Speaker 1: see how people are. They're becoming a seasoned person. And
Speaker 1: I think segregation was not uh I mean was segregation
Speaker 1: might have been helped out people. I think we should
Speaker 1: have strived to be better as a people and stay together.
Speaker 1: But they wouldn't leave us the funk alone. Let me
Speaker 1: just say that, because when we did try to separate,
Speaker 1: and what's successful, uh Oklahoma cosa or you know in
Speaker 1: different places that y'all get angry and you you win
Speaker 1: another route. So but you know, it was kind of
Speaker 1: like you damned if you do, damn dead if you don't.
Speaker 1: But in memory of Dr King, I love what he
Speaker 1: stood for. I love that he brought so much to
Speaker 1: the forefront. And I still think the King was the
Speaker 1: man too. I still say that they said that Bernard
Speaker 1: Bayard Rustin was man one. But Bayard Rustin was fullown
Speaker 1: out and gay in the fifties and y'all was not
Speaker 1: having no partit of that. Oh my god, where is
Speaker 1: the inclusion? Um? Well, part of what you said leads
Speaker 1: to my quote, um, one of my favorite quotes um
Speaker 1: from Dr King. He gave this speech in Montgomery, Alabama,
Speaker 1: March Town. He said, we must come to see that
Speaker 1: the end we seek is a society at peace with itself,
Speaker 1: a society that can live with its conscience. And I
Speaker 1: think at this day and time, the conscience of our
Speaker 1: society is nowhere to be found because you talk about
Speaker 1: the hate that we've experienced, you know, just the racism
Speaker 1: that's still ongoing that we still see today. You know,
Speaker 1: I just saw another you know, young black man who
Speaker 1: was a teacher at a poet of his community, was
Speaker 1: just murdered by L. A. P. D. So. And when
Speaker 1: we talk about society I'm talking about everything that encompasses that.
Speaker 1: So that is you know, police brutality, that is racism
Speaker 1: at the highest level. That is all of the disparities
Speaker 1: that we get as you know Black people in this
Speaker 1: country of why we can't get ahead. So when we
Speaker 1: talk about society having a conscience, it doesn't have one
Speaker 1: at this point in time, and that's a true problem.
Speaker 1: So you just but that could be a great name
Speaker 1: for this episode because you just said conscious of the
Speaker 1: society and then you talked about a two dollar paint,
Speaker 1: a two dollar lifesaver for the hundred thirty for a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty dollars when I'm on a fixed income
Speaker 1: and when when after I pay all my necessary bills
Speaker 1: every month, i got seventy four dollars left. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Wealth care is society compases so many things, and especially
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's us black folks
Speaker 1: that are always at the shore end of the stick
Speaker 1: when it comes to society. So um, that quote always
Speaker 1: stuck with me. But like I said, it's just crazy
Speaker 1: to see over fifty years later, Dr King's messages are
Speaker 1: still resonating true to this day because these things are
Speaker 1: still happening so I bet you Dr King is up
Speaker 1: in head and looking at God and say, man, I
Speaker 1: told him they need to knock it off. I told
Speaker 1: me we were gonna get to the mountaintop, but they're
Speaker 1: going the other way. So here last, we do have
Speaker 1: a saying that we're never trying to get anybody to
Speaker 1: change your mind. We're simply trying to get you to
Speaker 1: use your mind because wife Laime. Let me do that again.
Speaker 1: So here at laugh and learned, we have a saying
Speaker 1: that we're never trying to get anybody to change your mind.
Speaker 1: We're simply trying to get you to use your mind
Speaker 1: because wife lame mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Speaker 1: And some of y'all to stop playing. Okay, we're in three.
Speaker 1: Y'all understand that next year is a major voting year
Speaker 1: for the next president. Please pay attention to everything that's
Speaker 1: gonna get thrown at you in the next ten eleven months.
Speaker 1: I promise you it's gonna be a doozy. That's it.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us here left, Happy New Year,
Speaker 1: Happy happy birthday, and recognition to Dr Martin Luther King,
Speaker 1: one of the greats, one of the greatest of the
Speaker 1: Black community and I say black, and I know somebody'all
Speaker 1: say African American because names changed because it started off
Speaker 1: this and the other. But I'm a black American. I'm
Speaker 1: a black African American. But and guess what, I'm an American.
Speaker 1: That's you know who else. We gotta wish you have
Speaker 1: a birthday to today. I would be remiss if we didn't.
Speaker 1: It's Ms Debbie Allen's birthday. So happy birthday. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: oh girl, you're gonna get beat up. Happy birthday, I
Speaker 1: text her, so I'm okay, but still we gotta say
Speaker 1: happy birthday to birthday. It is today, lord. And as
Speaker 1: you said that Richard T. Jones from Why Did I
Speaker 1: Get Married? Oh wow? That Jill Scott hit the head
Speaker 1: with the champagne bottom. He was always on ye yeah,
Speaker 1: So happy right days all the capricorns out there. We
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