WEBVTT - If You Can't Say Her Name, Call Her Madame with April Ryan

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<v Speaker 1>Love Flame shooting, he shot shoot. If you watch the

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<v Speaker 1>Coffee Time the baby you know the name Flame, my

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<v Speaker 1>role also known as my role Flame. Come in with

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<v Speaker 1>last and come in with don love louds. Baby, you

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<v Speaker 1>better catch it when you can't drop a knowledge from

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<v Speaker 1>fatherhood of politics shouting out comics, just paying homice. What's up? Tip?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah you know she raped shot town song speak into

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<v Speaker 1>the ground. And second we're gonna last cut of the

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<v Speaker 1>kicking and at the end we leave with just a

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<v Speaker 1>lift spirits. But do you want to revisit? So your

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<v Speaker 1>first take a listen to your folks. You slit all

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<v Speaker 1>folks that we did it. No, do what you do?

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<v Speaker 1>No do what you do? Can't help Kiss, do what

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<v Speaker 1>I do, Flamela. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome

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<v Speaker 1>to laugh and learn with Flame Monroe and who and

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<v Speaker 1>who I am here There is my very handsome co host,

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<v Speaker 1>Mr Nick Smith. Y'all say hello, good morning, good afternoon,

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<v Speaker 1>good evening to Nick. It is so good to be

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<v Speaker 1>here with you right now. And I have to tell

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<v Speaker 1>you this is not the way we wanted to do

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<v Speaker 1>with a governor new Some had other plans right, No,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's people's fault. I'm not gonna blame my government.

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<v Speaker 1>It's y'all, damn mask I'm blaming y'all because y'all shouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>be hard here to put your mask on. Then my

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<v Speaker 1>co host could be here in studio with me. Can

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<v Speaker 1>I just say for those who may have taken a

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<v Speaker 1>sneak peek and didn't get a chance to see it

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<v Speaker 1>as you walked into the room here, you look really

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<v Speaker 1>good in that skirt. That looks good with that little

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<v Speaker 1>flower and all that. You gave us a little sneak

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<v Speaker 1>peak a few seconds ago. Did you think that looked

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<v Speaker 1>very feminine? Do I look like a reporter? You look

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<v Speaker 1>like a correspondent almost almost most see what people has

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<v Speaker 1>to say. Speaking of course, mindest you know, we do

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<v Speaker 1>have a very special White House correspondent that's going to

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<v Speaker 1>be joining us momentarily here on Laugh and Learn, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm very excited about it. Um, how was your week? How?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm very bummed that you're not here with me because

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<v Speaker 1>people are going to get used to seeing us together.

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<v Speaker 1>But I do have a not a replacement, but a

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<v Speaker 1>filling for you. Yes, you look at my baby right there,

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<v Speaker 1>that's my baby, Lauren Hogan y'all. Can you'll see amazing

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<v Speaker 1>Lauren Hogan for who may not know, Lauren is directly

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<v Speaker 1>responsible for really helping to keep the ship afloat, because

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<v Speaker 1>there are a lot of things that Flame has to do,

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<v Speaker 1>and that woman right there is like Flame, Calm down,

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<v Speaker 1>I got this. You just be Flame. I can take

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<v Speaker 1>care of the rest of this. You were really right

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<v Speaker 1>about that. Yes, indeed, let me splaining to you all

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<v Speaker 1>who Lauren Hogan is. Lauren Hogan is now my new manager.

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<v Speaker 1>And I met Lauren Hogan last year during the HF campaign.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember doing that burth last campaign last year, guys, And

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<v Speaker 1>so Lauren was the one who hired me for that,

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<v Speaker 1>and we just let me Flame tell people what HF.

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<v Speaker 1>HF is Aids Healthcare Foundation. They hired me last year

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<v Speaker 1>to do the bur Lass campaign. And you can speak

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<v Speaker 1>and just stepping in Lauren because we hear you. But um,

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<v Speaker 1>Lauren was on the road with us the entire time

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<v Speaker 1>we were on the road doing the campaign. Lauren is

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five years old now, she was. I thought Lauren

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<v Speaker 1>was about forty, not because she looks forty, but because

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<v Speaker 1>her professionalism was so on point. She was so bombed

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<v Speaker 1>and she took such great care of me on the roll.

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<v Speaker 1>And when I say taking great care of me, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean my bags were taking care of I was first

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<v Speaker 1>class all the way. She would leave the credit card

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<v Speaker 1>at the front office whatever hotel we checked in and say,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever she wants in her or did you catch that

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<v Speaker 1>whatever she wants, did you let me go back? Whatever

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<v Speaker 1>she wants mind you, I'm walking in there looking like

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<v Speaker 1>James Brown would have had on. But whatever she wants. Oh.

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<v Speaker 1>I fell in love with Lauren Hoe. It was she

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<v Speaker 1>will never get away from me ever. And she's here

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<v Speaker 1>today because we're gonna talk about some things that's going

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<v Speaker 1>on with h O. But we're gonna get to that.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to just tell you I know what your

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<v Speaker 1>week was like because you're not here with me. But

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<v Speaker 1>I want to tell y'all got I got a rogue

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<v Speaker 1>rat in my house, Not in my house, in my garage.

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<v Speaker 1>Where's my thing? Yet? The rats is smart? One? I

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<v Speaker 1>caught one, but you know where there's one, there's two,

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like roaches or Republicans, you know what. Uh

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<v Speaker 1>So I caught one rat, but I had left my

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<v Speaker 1>box of edibles down in the garage. Look what the

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<v Speaker 1>rat did to the edibles. The rat ate the jelly

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<v Speaker 1>off the rat trap without popping it. Not only is

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<v Speaker 1>this rat high, but this rat is brilliant smart. It

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<v Speaker 1>must be a black woman. It's because black women have

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<v Speaker 1>taken over. Just black women are the power of the

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<v Speaker 1>strength and the back ball. But there is a rat

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<v Speaker 1>walking around in Long Beach. That's like Snoop Dogg sipping

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<v Speaker 1>on gin and juice. High as hell, be tms some

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<v Speaker 1>laid back with my man and my money. You thought

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<v Speaker 1>you were hiding. You thought you were hiding the edibles

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<v Speaker 1>from the rat, and the rat was a little bit smarter. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't hide them. That is my handcouts. But that's

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<v Speaker 1>my he weak cave he she week. If you're not

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<v Speaker 1>familiar with he, she we is, let me break down

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<v Speaker 1>the definition of he weak. He cash the check, she

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<v Speaker 1>make the money. We spend the same bitch right here.

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<v Speaker 1>He that's my very own pronoun. You know you're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about pronouns. I do want to before we jump into

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<v Speaker 1>the show, taking a chance, uh this opportunity to remind

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<v Speaker 1>people that Friday was actually trans remembrance to day and

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<v Speaker 1>and and that was especially important this year because the

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<v Speaker 1>idea behind it is to recognize uh, members of the

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<v Speaker 1>trans community who have died to violence. Correct, that's that's

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<v Speaker 1>very correct. And we just lost a sister last week,

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<v Speaker 1>UH due to her husband stabbing her so all over

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<v Speaker 1>social media. Her name was Unicry Mean she rest in peace.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I just said, on this morning, another young

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<v Speaker 1>lady was killed. I don't know what's going on with

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<v Speaker 1>all of that, but I'm gonna ask my sisters to

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<v Speaker 1>remember too, that self preservation is the first law of nature. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>you take it how you want to take it. But

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<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you right now, if it comes down to

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<v Speaker 1>a choice of me and you, I will always choose me. Plus,

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<v Speaker 1>I watched plenty along order SVU. I know to get

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<v Speaker 1>away with some ship. Oh I can't get away with

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<v Speaker 1>some ship. Oh baby, trust me. I'm gonna happy with

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<v Speaker 1>me and I'm put him down. And then when the

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<v Speaker 1>police come, I'm gonna say, well, what happened. I'm said, well, officer,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what happened. But that was his weapon.

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<v Speaker 1>He dropped it, I picked up it went off thirteen times.

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<v Speaker 1>If you don't believe me, ask him. Oh, I'm sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't ask him. Him dead. But friends, remember is

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<v Speaker 1>November twenty thing. For people who want more information, they

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<v Speaker 1>can go to HRC dot org because they have posted

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<v Speaker 1>links to different information for those who may want to

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<v Speaker 1>learn more. So my brothers, to my trans brothers and

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<v Speaker 1>sisters out there, and protect yourselves whatever, in the words

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<v Speaker 1>of Malcolm X, by any means necessary. Flame you kind

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<v Speaker 1>of hinted at it because you're wearing the hair and

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<v Speaker 1>you're looking good. You're wearing the black looking a bit

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<v Speaker 1>conservative conservative. Well, you have to remember I just got

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<v Speaker 1>to doing a interview with you on Breakfast Club where

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<v Speaker 1>you didn't necessarily look like the reporter. Well, that will

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<v Speaker 1>air on Friday, by the way, right, they have things

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<v Speaker 1>given And I'm telling you all right now, if y'all

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<v Speaker 1>think I said there and they don't fight the first time, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I think the hashtag will be saggy Maggie. That's all

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna say. Will definitely be saggy Maggie. And I'm

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<v Speaker 1>telling you something right now. I was watching the news

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<v Speaker 1>this morning. I was trying to watch a view, but

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<v Speaker 1>I was put my makeup on and I was looking

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<v Speaker 1>at the state of the world, and you know, I

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<v Speaker 1>go back to my whole Wizard of odds effect because

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<v Speaker 1>I said that in order for us to beat this

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<v Speaker 1>coronavirus and to beat the system that the Trump is

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<v Speaker 1>um that we needed to have the whole heart, mind,

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<v Speaker 1>and the brain because the story Wizard of Oz is

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<v Speaker 1>we were trying to get back Dorothy was trying to

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<v Speaker 1>get back home. She encountered three people that needed a heart,

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<v Speaker 1>of mind and brain, and those are the three qualities.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that we need to become great Americans again,

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<v Speaker 1>to be in a place of at least complicity because

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<v Speaker 1>the world is so divided right now. But we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>fix it because laugh and line, we're gonna bring you in.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna make you laugh, We're gonna make you think,

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<v Speaker 1>and you're gonna look at the pretty beach that's hosted.

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<v Speaker 1>And we were talking about that too. I left a

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<v Speaker 1>message earlier today letting people know to join us today

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<v Speaker 1>of one pm Pacific standard for PM Eastern because we

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<v Speaker 1>would have special White House correspondent as a guest. April Ryan,

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<v Speaker 1>who is the author of under Fire, you know, was

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<v Speaker 1>the best claimed How many messages did you get from

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<v Speaker 1>people wanting you to ask different questions to miss Ryan? Ms?

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<v Speaker 1>Ryan um inboxed me and told me that she knows

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<v Speaker 1>exactly my plight that I told her about. That sweet

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<v Speaker 1>because she has a thirteen year old daughter and an

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen year old daughter, so we tweeted in that aspect

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<v Speaker 1>and baby. But the difference is what a woman raising

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<v Speaker 1>daughters to me, I think it's better than a man

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<v Speaker 1>raising them because we put I'm gonna push over. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a monster to everybody, but I'm gonna push over to

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<v Speaker 1>my daughters. And I definitely understand why little girls turn

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<v Speaker 1>into pimps when they get older, because it starts at

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<v Speaker 1>home with their dad's They pimped that out, then they

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<v Speaker 1>pimped out their husbands and boyfriends. You know, I'm just saying,

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<v Speaker 1>you always want to give the man the bed cud.

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<v Speaker 1>You know this equal opportunity. I'm on the man's side

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<v Speaker 1>and on the woman's side because I have been the

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<v Speaker 1>man and the woman in the same night. Sometimes depend

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<v Speaker 1>on who turner was, whether they're the weekend, how much money.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just letting y'all know where we're at. That sounds

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<v Speaker 1>a little creative, like Frankenstein, like you can be a

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<v Speaker 1>real monster, baby, Frankenstin, understand that. Let me let me

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<v Speaker 1>break down the philosophy of Frankenstein to you all, because

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<v Speaker 1>everybody thinks that Frankenstein was the monster. Frankenstein was never

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<v Speaker 1>the monster. Frankenstein created the monster and did not want

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<v Speaker 1>to face his name. It's kind of like what we

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<v Speaker 1>do in real life with everything, with your relationships, with

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<v Speaker 1>your parents, with your children. We create these monsters and

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<v Speaker 1>then we don't want to face them. You know, we

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<v Speaker 1>have a let me and I'm going to use this

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<v Speaker 1>as a synopsis. And you know, some girls gonna get mad.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I don't give a fuck. Um, we have

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<v Speaker 1>a transgender senator, our very first one. Her name is

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<v Speaker 1>um Sarah McBride out of Delaware. We love to holler

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<v Speaker 1>from the trans community that people don't like us, they

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<v Speaker 1>don't accept us for who we are. But statistically, trans girls,

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<v Speaker 1>trans women don't vote regularly. So this woman has been

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<v Speaker 1>put in office as a state senator. And if we

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<v Speaker 1>didn't vote for her, who did? Because she wont You

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<v Speaker 1>know what I'm saying. And I know that sounds like wow,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's not a while. It is real, and we

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<v Speaker 1>have to stop creating monsters and did not want to

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<v Speaker 1>face these demons. We create our own demons and then

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to face them. I'm telling you, I know

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<v Speaker 1>a demon. I got two of them, both of my

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<v Speaker 1>baby mamas. They both name baby. I created two demons.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm running every day. Good God, I'm running. So what

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<v Speaker 1>you're saying is that, you know, here is a member

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<v Speaker 1>of the trans community who clearly was able to win

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<v Speaker 1>office by garnering the vote of constituents who did not

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<v Speaker 1>necessarily look like her exactly. And Delaware must be the

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<v Speaker 1>hot spot because we got the new president from Delaware

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<v Speaker 1>and we get trans woman and she's cute. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>most of the time they had the ones that look

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<v Speaker 1>like Herbert with a wig gonna. She's actually lovely. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>You and I kind of glazed over it earlier because

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<v Speaker 1>we we we talk all the time regularly and people

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<v Speaker 1>know that, and this is just an hour where we

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<v Speaker 1>kind of opened it up to other people. But you

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<v Speaker 1>and I were just talking about how there have been

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of reports about the progress being made with

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<v Speaker 1>vaccinations and vaccines and how we could be just literally

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<v Speaker 1>weeks away from maybe as many as three different vaccines

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<v Speaker 1>that could hit the marketplace. Uh yeah, no, I'm not.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm more than three weeks away. I'm miles and

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<v Speaker 1>millions of years. I am not taking it. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>trust it. I don't trust the people who have created it.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't like any of it. I'm not doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>My baby. My kids don't even take a flu shop.

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<v Speaker 1>My children are seventh, teen, seventeen, and thirteen. I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>say seventeen twice because I've made a mistake. I got

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<v Speaker 1>to seventeen year olds, both seven months apart, two different

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<v Speaker 1>baby mamas. Oh please, don't let these titis fool you

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<v Speaker 1>any You know that's called hood twins. You know that's

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<v Speaker 1>what it's called, actually called it's actually called my pullout

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<v Speaker 1>game and what it used to be. Let me just

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<v Speaker 1>re ruled all about the situation. But have never had

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<v Speaker 1>a flu shot, and they've also never had the flu.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't so many things that I don't trust. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's not that I don't trust all government, but for

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<v Speaker 1>this last year has been so with the last couple

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<v Speaker 1>of years, it's been so shaky. I don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>deal with it. Well, flaim, I do want to plug

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<v Speaker 1>in that. There has been some controversy around that because uh,

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<v Speaker 1>there's been a focus on HBCUs, specifically more than five

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<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand rapid coronavirus tests have been distributed to hbc

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<v Speaker 1>U s UM and a lot of people have stepped

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<v Speaker 1>up to say that this is a great idea because unfortunately,

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<v Speaker 1>African Americans are five times more likely to be hospitalized

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<v Speaker 1>from coronavirus, and a recent administration analysis of HBCUs also

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<v Speaker 1>found that schools to have predominantly minority faculty with other

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<v Speaker 1>health variables making them a higher risk demographic, meaning that

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of the faculty members look more like Valerie,

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<v Speaker 1>Miss Valerie and Miss Rosetta. So we have to also

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<v Speaker 1>keep them in mind who may not be um as

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<v Speaker 1>young and able to recover because they may have co morbidities. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we're understanding this to all my students at the hbc

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<v Speaker 1>USE because Lauren Hogan is also an hbc You graduate

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<v Speaker 1>from Spellman, Uh, don't do it. I know money is tight,

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<v Speaker 1>don't do all I can think about. Look up the

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<v Speaker 1>Tuskegee A report. Look up that. Let me to let

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<v Speaker 1>you all talk to Laura because she went to hbc U.

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<v Speaker 1>And I know money's tight when you're in college, but

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<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you don't get this. Seventeen hundred and Kint

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<v Speaker 1>enjoy it. Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>and a lot of things like I don't get a

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<v Speaker 1>flu shot either. The last food shot I got, I

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<v Speaker 1>was twelve and ended up with stomach virus and I

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<v Speaker 1>was like bed ridden for two weeks. Haven't gotten to

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<v Speaker 1>flush since I'm fine. So same thing goes for me

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<v Speaker 1>with the vaccine. Let you know, however, many millions of

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<v Speaker 1>people take it, Let's see what happens. I'm not. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't feel safe to take it. I don't feel confident

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<v Speaker 1>and what's happened or what's transpired to make me feel like, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>this is something that will be good for me. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't feel that way. And I agree, I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>hear all that you're saying, Nick, in terms of why

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<v Speaker 1>are the reasoning behind you know, they're trying to take

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<v Speaker 1>the vaccine to you know what hpc us. But initially

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<v Speaker 1>when coronavirus came out, there was two friends doctors that

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<v Speaker 1>came out and said, how do why don't we just

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<v Speaker 1>go to Africa and test people and see what happens.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, they've got real culed for it and everything else.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's very unsettling for me that we're taking into

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<v Speaker 1>the black community to test out at the guinea pigs

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<v Speaker 1>say that one more time because black people ain't never

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<v Speaker 1>first for ship. Let me let me go back. We

0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.960
<v Speaker 1>ain't never first for Jack, but now we first, because

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<v Speaker 1>you know, they keeps saying statistically, black and brown children

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<v Speaker 1>are damn fasted. That's the overplay for the underplay, because

0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.200
<v Speaker 1>they want us to take the shot first. Give it

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<v Speaker 1>to your mama, because I ain't taking it. I loved you.

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<v Speaker 1>To be clear, what we're actually say is do your research.

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<v Speaker 1>We're not necessarily giving medical advice. We're just I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>telling you what our opinions. Yes, my strong opinion and

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<v Speaker 1>how I feel. And y'all know how I feel about

0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.320
<v Speaker 1>Fauci anyway. If you don't know, go watch back and

0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.600
<v Speaker 1>watch you last week's laugh and learn, because every time

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<v Speaker 1>I see that nigga smiling, Yeah, it's a set up. Nicholas.

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<v Speaker 1>I love you. I'm gonna sit you up. I got

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<v Speaker 1>somebody on here. I want to talk to this lady.

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<v Speaker 1>She looks so pretty. She sent me the most beautiful

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<v Speaker 1>pictures and we're gonna bring her own because I'll see you.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's do it, by my love, remove nixt TOI. Y'all know,

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<v Speaker 1>I got my real glasses on so I can see

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<v Speaker 1>where you at MS Ryan. Can I call him as April, y'all?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that appropriate? Is that appropriate? Lawrence? I have to

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<v Speaker 1>ask because she's my manager and this Lauren put grabbing

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<v Speaker 1>my hand when I go too far, because you know

0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:53.280
<v Speaker 1>we'll go too far where you're gonna pinch me. It

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<v Speaker 1>ain't no fun if you're gonna pinch me where I

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<v Speaker 1>want to be pinched. So I'm so excited to have

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<v Speaker 1>this lad you join us. I have been watching her

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<v Speaker 1>because I didn't even get into politics until Bill Clinton.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't give I didn't vote, I didn't give a

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<v Speaker 1>damn about God gorgious. I love that head. You were

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful like it? Good afternoon, Good morning? What are you

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<v Speaker 1>in Baltimore? I'm outside of Baltimore. I'm in my dark office.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know why I changed the lightbulb to a

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<v Speaker 1>blue light bulb, but I didn't turn it on. Um

0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.800
<v Speaker 1>trying to make sure we're COVID. You know, ready, we'll

0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.800
<v Speaker 1>just don't shoot yourself up with no lights. So I

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<v Speaker 1>know somebody said it, but I don't think you like.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I just start off by saying thank you so much.

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<v Speaker 1>I reached out to April and asked April when she

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<v Speaker 1>come and joined me on laugh and learning, and immediately

0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:44.760
<v Speaker 1>she was like, oh my god, I love you. I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, you know who? I was so enamored that

0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.800
<v Speaker 1>you knew who I was. I called Lauren, I said, Chirl,

0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.800
<v Speaker 1>she knew who I was. I know who you are.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw the Tiffany Hattes special I talked. We talked

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<v Speaker 1>to Tiffany Hattris and I talked about you, um at

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<v Speaker 1>Tyler Perry's studio opening, and I'm just I'm just enamored

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm a fan. That's all. Well, I'll take that,

0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.800
<v Speaker 1>and you know what it is. I just because I

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<v Speaker 1>see I've seen you in the White House Correspondence for

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<v Speaker 1>so many years, and this last one just I'm telling

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<v Speaker 1>you something. If I could come there, there's a man

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<v Speaker 1>up under these titties. I just want you to know that.

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<v Speaker 1>And if I could have got up in there one time,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you I would have reached havoc up in

0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.800
<v Speaker 1>there because of the disrespect. But we ain't. When you

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<v Speaker 1>get to that right now, I want to start off

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<v Speaker 1>with fun. So welcome to this show, Mrs Miss miss April.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I call you, Miss April? Call me April? No,

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<v Speaker 1>no, no no, I want to call you Miss April. I

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<v Speaker 1>like missa. You know Miss April sounds respect. Let me

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<v Speaker 1>tell you something. You earn that if you was just

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<v Speaker 1>a regular lady, I'll be like girl if you don't

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<v Speaker 1>knock it off. But you're not you, Miss April, Ryan

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<v Speaker 1>Baby three books, What's the We and We searched hying load.

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<v Speaker 1>I ordered on Amazon Amazon as the day left, je Bezos,

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<v Speaker 1>I want my money back. Under Fire two thousand eighteen,

0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.119
<v Speaker 1>two thousand sixteen, you had at mama's knee, and in

0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.879
<v Speaker 1>two thousand and fifteen you had presidency in black and white.

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<v Speaker 1>You are author, a wife, a mother. She got notife anymore,

0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.159
<v Speaker 1>not a wife anymore. I didn't know you were not

0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.760
<v Speaker 1>married anymore. Girl. I'm telling you something. I ain't never

0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.159
<v Speaker 1>been married, and I'm never gonna get married because if

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<v Speaker 1>a man asked me for something I want to do,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna punch him in the face. And I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>big enough for girl to do it. Mrs. But you

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<v Speaker 1>know what. The first question I want to ask you

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<v Speaker 1>because I've always been interested to know this, and I

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<v Speaker 1>my guess it's probably different for what it is. I

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<v Speaker 1>want to know who was the most fun president? Did

0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.480
<v Speaker 1>you work because you worked up on the Clinton. Um,

0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.960
<v Speaker 1>you worked up under Bush, and you worked up on

0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.120
<v Speaker 1>the Obama and you worked up under this last one.

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<v Speaker 1>But out of the first three, who were who was

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<v Speaker 1>the most fun off camera personally to you? So here's

0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:44.560
<v Speaker 1>here's the deal. Um, each president is different, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>like children. You know, you can't say which one is best.

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<v Speaker 1>I think each one of them did the best that

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<v Speaker 1>they knew how to do when they were in office.

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<v Speaker 1>But at the end of the day, UM, you would

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<v Speaker 1>be surprised when I tell you George W. Bush was

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<v Speaker 1>us as gregarious as Bill Clinton. And this is you know,

0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.760
<v Speaker 1>behind the scenes, we would talk. George W. Bush and

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<v Speaker 1>I would talk about issues of race all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>He recognized the subtle and overt racism that Barack Obama

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<v Speaker 1>was going through when he was running against John McCain.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you the stories that I have and the

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<v Speaker 1>conversations I had when we weren't on camera. UM, Barack Obama,

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<v Speaker 1>because of history and because he looks like me, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, he has this this this dry sense of

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<v Speaker 1>humor he'll say it and it's like your dead hand

0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.480
<v Speaker 1>and then you're on the floor just rolling, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And he is. He's got this new book called Promised Land.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think I'm a little biased towards him because

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<v Speaker 1>he was the first, and you know, we never thought

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<v Speaker 1>we would ever see the first. But he he's funny.

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<v Speaker 1>He's what. He's got a box, he's plays basketball. He

0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.760
<v Speaker 1>reminds me of my cousin, my brother, you know, somebody.

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<v Speaker 1>And he was and believe it or not, he would

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<v Speaker 1>always he looked out for me in his own way.

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<v Speaker 1>And I appreciate that. And I got some news too

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<v Speaker 1>with that. You're the first one. I'm telling I ain't

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<v Speaker 1>gonna tell nobody tell me, girl, I gonna tell you're

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<v Speaker 1>actually the first one. I'm telling um publicly Monday. Look

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<v Speaker 1>on my I g live because it's gonna be a

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<v Speaker 1>promised plan, That's all I'm gonna say. Oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm excited. I'm excited. That is a fantastic mess. See,

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<v Speaker 1>I would have thought you would have said Bill Clinton

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<v Speaker 1>as Bill Clinton is most like me. Bill Clinton played

0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:43.080
<v Speaker 1>the sax, he smoked the blond. He he did some

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<v Speaker 1>things in the over office that I've done before, and

0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.840
<v Speaker 1>you know all of that, just you know the similarity.

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<v Speaker 1>It's hard. It's like, like I said, it's hard to pick.

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<v Speaker 1>It's hard to pick uch one because they were all

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<v Speaker 1>so different. Bill Clinton and hears something in my first book,

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<v Speaker 1>we talked about this. We had a soulful dinner with

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<v Speaker 1>Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, he didn't play the sax and

0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.119
<v Speaker 1>he didn't smoke a blunt at the dinner. But what

0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.720
<v Speaker 1>he did he ate chiplins and and and garlic fried

0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:15.720
<v Speaker 1>chicken on one for Clinton was gangster. To me, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>telling you something right now. I was never angry with

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<v Speaker 1>Bill about what did he did. I've done that many times.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been on both. You know, what he what he did,

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<v Speaker 1>what he write, what he did now, what he did

0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.040
<v Speaker 1>was basically something I think that Hillary had to deal with.

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<v Speaker 1>That was between those two, um mostly than anything. And

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<v Speaker 1>and you know they it was. I don't even get

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<v Speaker 1>into that. I don't want to relitigate that because we're

0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:43.919
<v Speaker 1>gonna relitigate that forever. But that that it's as people

0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.520
<v Speaker 1>as they are people. That's something we have to remember.

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<v Speaker 1>They are people. Um, this one, I I there's no

0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.840
<v Speaker 1>saving grace for this one. To me, um, but I

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<v Speaker 1>saw the humanity in the last three and I don't

0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:03.080
<v Speaker 1>see that with him. Definitely, it's something as small as

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<v Speaker 1>having a pet. The last three had pets. This one

0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.560
<v Speaker 1>can't even bring himself to love anything else but himself.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's all I'm gonna say. Well, we are the

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<v Speaker 1>collateral damage as Americans behind that. So I understand that

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<v Speaker 1>I want to know something, April, Miss April, and I

0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:20.960
<v Speaker 1>need to know the truth from you about this. How

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<v Speaker 1>in the hell did you keep your professional composure and

0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:26.960
<v Speaker 1>some of those Let me tell you something. I am

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<v Speaker 1>a black man and woman up on the all that

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<v Speaker 1>I would have exploded, But I understand. I want to

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<v Speaker 1>you have the patience of job. Let me say that

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<v Speaker 1>because that was one time I think he called you

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<v Speaker 1>out about the Black Caucus. I'm like, and you looked

0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:41.320
<v Speaker 1>at him like, why are you calling on me? But

0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:45.160
<v Speaker 1>you were so patient and your composure and temperature state

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<v Speaker 1>to say, please tell me where you learned that from.

0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.720
<v Speaker 1>You know, my mother and father donned glory and both

0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.760
<v Speaker 1>of them were grarians. Date. My mother came from a

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<v Speaker 1>farming family in North Carolina and my father came from

0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:59.600
<v Speaker 1>a farming family in Maryland. They never imagined that their

0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:03.840
<v Speaker 1>daughter would be at the White House. They never imagined

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<v Speaker 1>that I a descendant of the last known slave slave

0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:10.160
<v Speaker 1>that I know of in my family or my mama's side.

0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:13.640
<v Speaker 1>Five generations we moved from a slave called Joseph Dollar

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<v Speaker 1>Brown sold on the auction block and faith for North Carolina.

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<v Speaker 1>And if I get up there doing all this and

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<v Speaker 1>doing all that, I negate everything that they worked for

0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:31.960
<v Speaker 1>Harriet Tubman, word for Rosa Parks, work for John Lewis,

0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:37.680
<v Speaker 1>batt Ruston h Martin, Luther, King, Malcolm X, everybody. Market's

0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:42.200
<v Speaker 1>got everyone. I would negate that. I have to stand.

0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:47.040
<v Speaker 1>It's not about me. It's not about me. It's about

0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:50.439
<v Speaker 1>the issues that our community, all of the issues that

0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:54.360
<v Speaker 1>our community still needs answers for. So at the end

0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:57.919
<v Speaker 1>of the day, I don't know. My mother always you know,

0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.600
<v Speaker 1>my mother always talked me humility, and my father used

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<v Speaker 1>to you know, when I first went to the White House,

0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:07.040
<v Speaker 1>God rested, so he said, Lord, he prayed for me

0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:10.160
<v Speaker 1>before we had his family prayer. Um. He said, Lord,

0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:15.080
<v Speaker 1>let her keep her home, training and stuff. I'm glad

0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:17.240
<v Speaker 1>you brought that up about your mom and stealing something

0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:20.200
<v Speaker 1>on you because this lady here, this Lord Hogan. When

0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:22.160
<v Speaker 1>we were on the road last year for HF doing

0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:25.280
<v Speaker 1>a campaign, I thought she was much older than she is,

0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.479
<v Speaker 1>Miss Ryan, because she's so professional and she's so spot

0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:31.600
<v Speaker 1>on with her with what she does, and so diligent

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<v Speaker 1>about it. And I love that you are educated woman.

0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:36.560
<v Speaker 1>This is a young, powerful, educated woman. I told her

0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:38.920
<v Speaker 1>I was interviewing with you. She said, old Flanne, please

0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:41.879
<v Speaker 1>let me come. Because what you have said, those words

0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:44.000
<v Speaker 1>about your mom, her mother, I know her mother. Her

0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:46.320
<v Speaker 1>mother is a monster. And when I say that, I

0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:50.640
<v Speaker 1>mean that she has instilled in her daughter such a

0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:54.960
<v Speaker 1>powerful professionalism and and getting the job done and not

0:24:55.080 --> 0:24:58.240
<v Speaker 1>making excuses because you're a woman, and at least being

0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:00.959
<v Speaker 1>a woman of color. She just made it happen. So

0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:02.920
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to bring Lauren because Lauren wants to talk

0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:05.400
<v Speaker 1>to you. Talk to Lauren. We talk to the April.

0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:07.880
<v Speaker 1>Come on, Lauren, talk to me. We got we got

0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:11.959
<v Speaker 1>flame over there and flame flame but whatever, the flame

0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:14.879
<v Speaker 1>and the Monro always I love him, I said, funny,

0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:18.680
<v Speaker 1>it's holding well first and foremost, Like I said, I'm

0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:20.919
<v Speaker 1>a huge fan. There's only a couple of reporters on

0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:23.360
<v Speaker 1>Twitter that I follow and you were one of them.

0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:25.720
<v Speaker 1>So it's it's a pleasure to be here to talk

0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:28.560
<v Speaker 1>with you. I'm more so wanted to ask you, did

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<v Speaker 1>you ever imagine that you would be at the forefront,

0:25:32.480 --> 0:25:35.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, as a White House correspondent, having to defend

0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:38.840
<v Speaker 1>one your credibility and also to what you're ringing to

0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:45.439
<v Speaker 1>the media. Um, you know what, that's such a powerful question.

0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:49.640
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for asking that. Never Okay, I'm a journalist,

0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:53.920
<v Speaker 1>a trained journalist from Morgan State University and HBCU. I'm

0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:59.080
<v Speaker 1>a product of Baltimore, Maryland. Not many people out of Baltimore, UM,

0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:03.200
<v Speaker 1>really step out and in the community, not gravitate towards

0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.199
<v Speaker 1>us and say, you know, we've done it. There's a

0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:09.920
<v Speaker 1>thing of pride, there's a thing of community here and

0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:12.960
<v Speaker 1>also in Baltimore. You know, the first thing that they

0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:15.840
<v Speaker 1>say is you know, um, you have the word failure

0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:19.200
<v Speaker 1>built into your existence. But you have to overcome all

0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:21.919
<v Speaker 1>of that. And with that said, then you have someone

0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:26.720
<v Speaker 1>challenging you mm hmm about your your who you are,

0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:32.520
<v Speaker 1>about your journalistic integrity, about just anything about your being

0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:36.560
<v Speaker 1>that knocks at you. And sometimes you go home and say,

0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:38.760
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, what are they staying and you have

0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:41.920
<v Speaker 1>to really come back to yourself. And I believe if

0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:44.439
<v Speaker 1>you are standing on the pillars that you know for

0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:47.800
<v Speaker 1>sure cannot be not you will be okay. But it's

0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:51.359
<v Speaker 1>it's it's a lot to have a president of the

0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:57.600
<v Speaker 1>United States, particularly this one, where people who may not

0:26:57.880 --> 0:27:05.240
<v Speaker 1>be so sound in mind listen to him. They believe him,

0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:07.199
<v Speaker 1>and they believe him so much so that right now,

0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:10.120
<v Speaker 1>in this moment, you have sevent of Republicans that believe

0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:16.600
<v Speaker 1>wrongly that he won this election. And their thought is

0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:20.280
<v Speaker 1>is that Joe Biden stolen. Joe Biden is doing things

0:27:20.920 --> 0:27:24.119
<v Speaker 1>to take it. Why because he said so, and just

0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:27.120
<v Speaker 1>because he said so, it's not right to be president

0:27:27.119 --> 0:27:29.520
<v Speaker 1>of the United States. You have to understand. You have

0:27:29.600 --> 0:27:33.040
<v Speaker 1>to honor your words, you have to honor people. You

0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:36.719
<v Speaker 1>have to understand that your words vibrate, your words mean something.

0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:39.600
<v Speaker 1>And every time he took a knock at me and

0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:42.440
<v Speaker 1>what he was saying enemy of the press, I got

0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:46.280
<v Speaker 1>death threats, bomb scares. I've had the bomb squad at

0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:48.520
<v Speaker 1>my home, I've had the FBI at my home. I've

0:27:48.520 --> 0:27:51.080
<v Speaker 1>had to move my home. But in the midst of

0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:54.560
<v Speaker 1>it all, everything that I've said is panning out to

0:27:54.640 --> 0:27:58.080
<v Speaker 1>be And sometimes you have to know what you know

0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:01.800
<v Speaker 1>and stand on it. I mean, it's tough. And I

0:28:01.840 --> 0:28:04.960
<v Speaker 1>didn't sign up when I went to Morgan State University

0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:08.719
<v Speaker 1>to do this, to run for my life. Because I

0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:12.639
<v Speaker 1>raised my hand and asked about Mr President, do you

0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:17.320
<v Speaker 1>realize we're taking the knee really means, Mr President? Or

0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:21.400
<v Speaker 1>you want to apologize to to the Exonerated five formerly

0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:25.440
<v Speaker 1>the Central Park five. I never thought that asking those

0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:29.879
<v Speaker 1>questions would cause me to run and run with my

0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:32.000
<v Speaker 1>children for my life if I had a chance to

0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:34.480
<v Speaker 1>do it again. I don't know if I saw the

0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:38.320
<v Speaker 1>movie play out before me. This thing is scary. But

0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:40.840
<v Speaker 1>you know what, I thank God for giving me the

0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:43.680
<v Speaker 1>strength to do it, because at the end of the day,

0:28:43.920 --> 0:28:47.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm not going anywhere because if I do, I thank

0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:49.560
<v Speaker 1>God for your Meiche and for Abby if all those

0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:56.160
<v Speaker 1>other reporters. But before I started asking questions like that,

0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:58.320
<v Speaker 1>and I've been at the White House in January will

0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:02.360
<v Speaker 1>be twenty four years and before I started asking these questions,

0:29:02.360 --> 0:29:05.320
<v Speaker 1>you will even hear about it that much. Enjoy read

0:29:05.360 --> 0:29:09.600
<v Speaker 1>my friend Joy Read Who's doing a wonderful job anchoring

0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:14.320
<v Speaker 1>seven pm on MSNBC. She said, before April, you know,

0:29:14.440 --> 0:29:16.840
<v Speaker 1>there wasn't anyone, and now April's here, it's now vogue

0:29:16.880 --> 0:29:20.400
<v Speaker 1>to ask questions on matters of race. It shouldn't be vogue.

0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:25.280
<v Speaker 1>It should be every community, every issue should be asked,

0:29:25.360 --> 0:29:29.440
<v Speaker 1>no matter why. Everything comes to the White House from water,

0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:32.000
<v Speaker 1>peace and everything in between. And that bothers me so

0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:35.320
<v Speaker 1>much that people are afraid to ask questions, and it

0:29:35.360 --> 0:29:39.880
<v Speaker 1>bothers me more so that people feel that I am

0:29:39.960 --> 0:29:42.920
<v Speaker 1>out of order by asking it. There needs to be

0:29:42.960 --> 0:29:46.840
<v Speaker 1>a Civics lesson, a universal civics lesson of United States

0:29:46.880 --> 0:29:51.040
<v Speaker 1>history and United the interaction of government to government, the

0:29:51.080 --> 0:29:53.840
<v Speaker 1>interaction of the president of government, because people don't know

0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.840
<v Speaker 1>because instead of saying okay, they want to fight you,

0:29:57.880 --> 0:30:00.760
<v Speaker 1>they want to meet you after you leave word, they

0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:02.920
<v Speaker 1>want to teralyze you. And your kids didn't want to

0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:08.720
<v Speaker 1>simple It's crazy and that's all from this president. You're right,

0:30:08.760 --> 0:30:10.800
<v Speaker 1>and I think in a lot of ways, I also

0:30:10.960 --> 0:30:13.200
<v Speaker 1>say like, I thank you for the questions that you asked,

0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:16.120
<v Speaker 1>because under the Obama administration, you know, there was a

0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:18.360
<v Speaker 1>sense of comfort, at least for myself that I had

0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:20.520
<v Speaker 1>that I didn't really feel like I had to tune

0:30:20.520 --> 0:30:22.120
<v Speaker 1>in and pay attention because it was kind of like,

0:30:22.160 --> 0:30:24.239
<v Speaker 1>I know, we're gonna be all right, but if it

0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:27.280
<v Speaker 1>wasn't for reporters like you, you know, under this administration,

0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:29.400
<v Speaker 1>it made me wake up and pay attention and really

0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:32.200
<v Speaker 1>start to engage and listen and learn what was happening

0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:36.960
<v Speaker 1>in our country. Lauren, you have to because you I

0:30:37.000 --> 0:30:39.000
<v Speaker 1>don't know how what you are, but I'm I'm loud

0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:51.720
<v Speaker 1>and proud about Okay, you cute somber when I was

0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:59.000
<v Speaker 1>remember um, let me have um a few strands ago. Um,

0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:01.840
<v Speaker 1>let me say, is I want you to look up

0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:04.120
<v Speaker 1>Bull Connor. I want you to look up the name

0:31:04.200 --> 0:31:07.680
<v Speaker 1>George Wallace. I want you to look up the Edmund

0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:11.120
<v Speaker 1>Pettis Bridge that was back in the fifties and sixties.

0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:13.880
<v Speaker 1>If you close your eyes, turn your head and opiagere

0:31:14.080 --> 0:31:17.520
<v Speaker 1>fast and close him again, you think you were back

0:31:17.560 --> 0:31:20.959
<v Speaker 1>there with this moment in time, with the CPS own picture.

0:31:21.600 --> 0:31:24.240
<v Speaker 1>We can't go backwards. And what I've found is that

0:31:24.680 --> 0:31:30.120
<v Speaker 1>each generation has to be a steward maintain what's happening

0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:32.040
<v Speaker 1>because we can't just rely in fact, oh, the Civil

0:31:32.120 --> 0:31:35.080
<v Speaker 1>Rights Act was passed, that was back in nineteen was

0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:39.160
<v Speaker 1>sixties something, early sixties and early mid sixties, and then oh,

0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:42.880
<v Speaker 1>the Voting Rights Act was passed nine five, mid sixties

0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:48.680
<v Speaker 1>Voting Rights Act. We're voting without the full enforcement of

0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:51.320
<v Speaker 1>the Voting Rights Act now because they stripped it in

0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:55.320
<v Speaker 1>in the Spring Court with Shelby versus Older. It took

0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:57.320
<v Speaker 1>out pre clearance. If you don't know, I don't want

0:31:57.320 --> 0:31:59.160
<v Speaker 1>to go through a lot with this for pre clearance,

0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:02.200
<v Speaker 1>but look up what preclarance means. But the synopsis of

0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:05.880
<v Speaker 1>a synopsis with preclarance is is that certain Southern states

0:32:06.400 --> 0:32:11.800
<v Speaker 1>we're mandated. Anytime they changed the rules for their voting procedures,

0:32:11.800 --> 0:32:15.360
<v Speaker 1>they had to get approval from the Justice Department. They

0:32:15.400 --> 0:32:19.440
<v Speaker 1>gutted that. That's what happened back in nine five. So

0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:24.000
<v Speaker 1>we in where we're voting. They're stealing out there. They're

0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:30.280
<v Speaker 1>stealing our votes. They are hijacking the mail boxes, breaking

0:32:30.320 --> 0:32:34.000
<v Speaker 1>up the sorting machines. They have put out fake ballot boxes.

0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:39.000
<v Speaker 1>You know, I'm getting back. Every generation has to maintain something,

0:32:39.240 --> 0:32:41.640
<v Speaker 1>and the civil rights if we had civilantic while we

0:32:42.600 --> 0:32:45.840
<v Speaker 1>being pushed away from certain places. Now it's like this

0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:49.600
<v Speaker 1>is crazy. MS. April, I'm on payback because guess what

0:32:49.640 --> 0:32:52.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing. They're cheating. So I cheated to I voted

0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:53.920
<v Speaker 1>in my man name and in my woman name and

0:32:53.960 --> 0:32:56.000
<v Speaker 1>got a whole busload of bitches that looked like me.

0:32:59.240 --> 0:33:05.840
<v Speaker 1>And I don't say, said Donald Trump. Donald Trump, if

0:33:05.840 --> 0:33:08.280
<v Speaker 1>you're watching, you've been looking for a woman with balls

0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:10.280
<v Speaker 1>to stand up to you for years. I am a

0:33:10.320 --> 0:33:17.080
<v Speaker 1>woman with balls for real. Understand I would that's what

0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:20.480
<v Speaker 1>and I would have to watch. Miss. Let me ask

0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:23.160
<v Speaker 1>you a question. How excited were you when Biden and

0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:26.600
<v Speaker 1>Harris got the ticket? How when I saw Bid run

0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:30.360
<v Speaker 1>to the podium, I got recharged. I was like, come on, oh, Joe,

0:33:30.360 --> 0:33:32.680
<v Speaker 1>they keep calling Joe. Oh, I say, Joe and Jill

0:33:32.720 --> 0:33:34.520
<v Speaker 1>went up to heal and they weren't looking for the

0:33:34.640 --> 0:33:38.920
<v Speaker 1>water Jill gave Joel. Jill gave Joe that blue peel

0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:40.840
<v Speaker 1>and they still getting it in bo. I was like,

0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:43.600
<v Speaker 1>come on, Joe. I was so excited for him. And

0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:48.360
<v Speaker 1>I was overwhelmed with Kamala Harris sister who graduated from HBCU,

0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:51.160
<v Speaker 1>who clammed all the way up to the ladder. Because

0:33:51.240 --> 0:33:53.720
<v Speaker 1>we all expected it to be a Michelle Obama to

0:33:53.760 --> 0:33:56.080
<v Speaker 1>be the first, very first woman in a position like

0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:59.840
<v Speaker 1>that or somebody shell Obama does not want problems. You know,

0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:03.480
<v Speaker 1>she Southuth of Chicago. From Chicago, baby, you get it.

0:34:03.600 --> 0:34:06.640
<v Speaker 1>So you get because you cross, you crossed, either one

0:34:06.680 --> 0:34:09.120
<v Speaker 1>of you. It's like, no, that's why you should have

0:34:09.200 --> 0:34:10.839
<v Speaker 1>hired me to be your bodyguard, because when they would

0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:12.080
<v Speaker 1>have got out of land, I would have looked like

0:34:12.160 --> 0:34:14.040
<v Speaker 1>your girlfriend. I would have dropped them. I would have

0:34:14.120 --> 0:34:18.839
<v Speaker 1>dropped them when they stew it there, boom, y'all get

0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:22.839
<v Speaker 1>out a lot of meat flame. And I know you were.

0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:26.000
<v Speaker 1>I know you were, Biden, and I was so excited.

0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:28.080
<v Speaker 1>I want to know how you feel about Biden getting

0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:31.400
<v Speaker 1>this so so, as a journalist is a trained journalist,

0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:37.440
<v Speaker 1>I'm unbiased for this moment, for the looking over everything

0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:41.520
<v Speaker 1>and what the nation is dealing with anybody but Trump.

0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:45.080
<v Speaker 1>That's what I felt because I've had to take myself

0:34:45.239 --> 0:34:49.719
<v Speaker 1>out of the journalistic journalistic role for a minute, because

0:34:49.719 --> 0:34:52.960
<v Speaker 1>the last few months have been so deadly. You got

0:34:53.120 --> 0:34:55.719
<v Speaker 1>two over two hundred and fifty some thousand people who

0:34:55.760 --> 0:35:00.640
<v Speaker 1>are dead, You've got a race war that he put setuates.

0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:04.440
<v Speaker 1>This should not have been a million mega march in

0:35:04.480 --> 0:35:07.080
<v Speaker 1>the streets of Washington, d C. In the midst of

0:35:07.120 --> 0:35:11.239
<v Speaker 1>a COVID pandemic, and then it should in this in

0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:14.360
<v Speaker 1>this country, there never should have been a million, a

0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:18.200
<v Speaker 1>mega million March number one. That's nothing but white supremacy.

0:35:19.160 --> 0:35:22.600
<v Speaker 1>You know that was only about six people. It was

0:35:22.680 --> 0:35:27.040
<v Speaker 1>kind of like should have never been, right, I know

0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:30.720
<v Speaker 1>what you're saying. It should have never been. And it's someone,

0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:34.759
<v Speaker 1>and it's someone, and it's someone that has had to

0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:39.960
<v Speaker 1>deal with his terrorism, who has been traumatized by him.

0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:44.799
<v Speaker 1>Anybody meant him? Now. I do know Joe Biden very well. Um.

0:35:45.000 --> 0:35:49.960
<v Speaker 1>I do know Senator Kamala Harris for race. Um. She

0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:52.440
<v Speaker 1>is a woman of color, but she identifies black. And

0:35:52.560 --> 0:35:55.120
<v Speaker 1>she's in an HBC you just like I attended an HBC.

0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:58.280
<v Speaker 1>A matter of fact, Howard and Morgan have a rivalry,

0:35:58.360 --> 0:36:04.080
<v Speaker 1>but bears eat Fyson. But anyway, I hear a challenge

0:36:07.440 --> 0:36:10.440
<v Speaker 1>because you are an honorary Delta, right, Yes, I am

0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:13.080
<v Speaker 1>a Delta, and all of my soulars out there. Hello.

0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:17.080
<v Speaker 1>But you know it's so beautiful that acceptance night, when

0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:20.040
<v Speaker 1>they came out and accepted it, you saw deltas, you

0:36:20.120 --> 0:36:22.880
<v Speaker 1>saw a k You saw black women out there. We

0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:27.400
<v Speaker 1>are seen, We are finally seen. We have been the

0:36:27.560 --> 0:36:32.400
<v Speaker 1>backbone of so much in this nation, save democracy, and

0:36:32.520 --> 0:36:36.600
<v Speaker 1>we are finally seen. And I'm gonna say this. I

0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:38.920
<v Speaker 1>never thought, you know, after the Clinton is, I know

0:36:39.120 --> 0:36:42.680
<v Speaker 1>that that was Clinton was your guy. After Clinton Is,

0:36:42.719 --> 0:36:44.719
<v Speaker 1>I said, you know, oh, it will never be as

0:36:44.800 --> 0:36:48.120
<v Speaker 1>newsy as Clinton. Here comes George W. Bush. I said, Oh,

0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:51.520
<v Speaker 1>it'll never be as newsy after George W. Was. Here

0:36:51.640 --> 0:36:54.520
<v Speaker 1>comes as black man with Biggs Will Bob and played basketball.

0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:59.440
<v Speaker 1>Oh it'll never be as newsy after Barack Obama. Then

0:36:59.520 --> 0:37:06.560
<v Speaker 1>here comes the orange infestation. So you gotta stop saying that, April.

0:37:06.560 --> 0:37:09.120
<v Speaker 1>You gotta Stuncle tells you invited this foolishness in here

0:37:09.160 --> 0:37:12.719
<v Speaker 1>now because you can see it will never be so

0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:15.160
<v Speaker 1>I get where it came from because you kept saying

0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:16.799
<v Speaker 1>so I need you to stop saying that right now.

0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:19.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna say this. But I never but I never

0:37:19.560 --> 0:37:22.080
<v Speaker 1>thought I would see the history of the first black president.

0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:25.279
<v Speaker 1>I was there at the White House when he was

0:37:25.360 --> 0:37:27.920
<v Speaker 1>elected and George Bush was upstairs. I didn't cry. I

0:37:28.000 --> 0:37:31.680
<v Speaker 1>saw the spontaneous crowd coming to Alafia Park in front

0:37:31.719 --> 0:37:34.560
<v Speaker 1>of the White House. Guard Nana naa Hey Bush good bye.

0:37:34.760 --> 0:37:37.440
<v Speaker 1>I didn't cry. Other people did. But I cried when

0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:41.920
<v Speaker 1>he left because I saw history. I didn't cry with Kamala,

0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:45.200
<v Speaker 1>but you know what, it brings chills to me to

0:37:45.400 --> 0:37:48.200
<v Speaker 1>raise my I raised my hand for the first black president,

0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:54.360
<v Speaker 1>and to raise my hand saying, madame vice president, vice president.

0:37:55.080 --> 0:37:56.920
<v Speaker 1>They fly, they can't get a name right, but you

0:37:57.000 --> 0:38:00.320
<v Speaker 1>can get that right, madame vice president, madam. And you

0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:02.640
<v Speaker 1>don't know her name, you call her man, you damn tree.

0:38:02.760 --> 0:38:04.800
<v Speaker 1>And you know, you know I was not team common

0:38:04.840 --> 0:38:07.359
<v Speaker 1>for president. You know, I was Yang. But as soon

0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:10.799
<v Speaker 1>as Commona got the nomination, I started wearing my blue

0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:14.480
<v Speaker 1>glasses because I was team Biden and and and Harris

0:38:14.680 --> 0:38:17.160
<v Speaker 1>all the way. But on my ye, it's cool John

0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:20.839
<v Speaker 1>John Yang gave a lot. It's one. All of those

0:38:20.880 --> 0:38:24.520
<v Speaker 1>twenty five thousand candidates were all the stage games. It

0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:26.080
<v Speaker 1>was a lot of them, and I was like it

0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:29.000
<v Speaker 1>was the wedding down started. But they all brought something,

0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:32.000
<v Speaker 1>and they they brought something to the table to make

0:38:32.080 --> 0:38:36.240
<v Speaker 1>the party think, because the party needs to have a renaissance. Actually,

0:38:36.400 --> 0:38:39.880
<v Speaker 1>the Democrats and the Republicans need to rethink who they

0:38:39.960 --> 0:38:43.960
<v Speaker 1>are because are you a Trump likan or are you

0:38:44.360 --> 0:38:48.560
<v Speaker 1>the old guard? The vanguard of the Republican Party. Are

0:38:48.640 --> 0:38:51.120
<v Speaker 1>you conservative? Are you a Trump Lakant? What are you

0:38:51.719 --> 0:38:55.759
<v Speaker 1>for the Democrats? Are you centrist? Are you far left?

0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:58.440
<v Speaker 1>Are you progressive? What are you? There needs to be

0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:01.160
<v Speaker 1>a coming together and it's each party is not a

0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:05.360
<v Speaker 1>monolitht but they have to make sure that everyone is

0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:08.800
<v Speaker 1>under the When I say everyone, everyone is under the umbrella.

0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:12.439
<v Speaker 1>And that's some of the reasons that Donald Trump wrote

0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:15.480
<v Speaker 1>because you found a lot of people who not just

0:39:16.080 --> 0:39:19.719
<v Speaker 1>feeling in the Obama years, but for many decades that

0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:23.720
<v Speaker 1>they weren't touched by government. So everyone has to feel

0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:27.080
<v Speaker 1>like they matter. Everyone. You just made a statement about

0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:30.640
<v Speaker 1>women coming so far and black women, and I appreciate that.

0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:32.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm excited to know what you think that that

0:39:32.840 --> 0:39:35.200
<v Speaker 1>this new administration is going to look like, how colorful

0:39:35.200 --> 0:39:37.720
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna look like thirty one flavors at basket Robbers.

0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:40.320
<v Speaker 1>We got we got indigenous, we got a rainy in,

0:39:40.600 --> 0:39:44.720
<v Speaker 1>we got a trans woman. Missing about that she's cute

0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:46.879
<v Speaker 1>and she's cute because you know a lot of times

0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:48.680
<v Speaker 1>they're looking like James Brown with a wig go, but

0:39:48.719 --> 0:39:50.799
<v Speaker 1>she's actually cute. I can say it because I'm part

0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:52.440
<v Speaker 1>of the trans communtery. I can say. You can't say,

0:39:52.480 --> 0:39:57.480
<v Speaker 1>but I can say so. And here's the hypocrisy that

0:39:57.560 --> 0:40:00.759
<v Speaker 1>I've stated earlier, because they say statistically trans women don't

0:40:00.840 --> 0:40:03.279
<v Speaker 1>vote so and we loved it as a transparent I

0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:05.560
<v Speaker 1>can imagine you know what, you know why because they

0:40:05.640 --> 0:40:08.680
<v Speaker 1>probably felt like they were included. Do you know it's taken?

0:40:09.520 --> 0:40:12.680
<v Speaker 1>We remember Biden was the one who made the mistake

0:40:13.400 --> 0:40:17.480
<v Speaker 1>talking about same sex marriage. He he's the one who

0:40:17.520 --> 0:40:20.120
<v Speaker 1>pushed the envelope and that was a mistake. He wasn't

0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:22.880
<v Speaker 1>supposed to say it so early. So and then that

0:40:23.040 --> 0:40:26.200
<v Speaker 1>brought a lot of people like, wow, we're included. It is.

0:40:26.360 --> 0:40:29.520
<v Speaker 1>It is unfathomable that there is any group of people

0:40:29.560 --> 0:40:33.279
<v Speaker 1>who feel like the United States government is not covering them.

0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:38.359
<v Speaker 1>It is. It's I don't understand, and everyone I don't

0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:43.359
<v Speaker 1>care raised gender, sexual orientation. You pay your taxes, right,

0:40:44.560 --> 0:40:46.560
<v Speaker 1>and more than seven hundred and fifty dollars, let me

0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:50.520
<v Speaker 1>say that. How about that? And he's alive, when he's

0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:53.520
<v Speaker 1>allowed when that seven hundred fifty thousand, fifty seven hundred

0:40:53.560 --> 0:40:56.040
<v Speaker 1>fifty dollars and we paid what is it, two hundred

0:40:56.320 --> 0:41:00.600
<v Speaker 1>fifty thousand just for the drugs to save him until

0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:04.880
<v Speaker 1>January noon. Letitia, Letitia that prosecuted in the you hit

0:41:04.920 --> 0:41:08.080
<v Speaker 1>Me girl, get him? Remember the movie what's the movie

0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:10.160
<v Speaker 1>not a Living Dead? When the lady was in the

0:41:10.360 --> 0:41:13.279
<v Speaker 1>cemetery and he kept saying, Barbara, they're coming to get you,

0:41:13.400 --> 0:41:18.200
<v Speaker 1>Barbara Donald, They're coming to get your dollar, get his ass.

0:41:19.000 --> 0:41:21.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna I'm gonna send them those emails that he

0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:24.080
<v Speaker 1>was so hell being about from Hillary. I'm gonna send

0:41:24.120 --> 0:41:26.320
<v Speaker 1>those emails while you're locked up. People don't know what

0:41:26.400 --> 0:41:28.840
<v Speaker 1>that email was. You know what those emails was, miss April,

0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:32.080
<v Speaker 1>all those emails cause see Bill had cheated on Hillary publicly,

0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:34.640
<v Speaker 1>so Hillary had a boyfriend on the low low. Those

0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:36.799
<v Speaker 1>were actually nudies and she didn't want abody to see him.

0:41:36.840 --> 0:41:41.800
<v Speaker 1>That's you know, that's just my take on it. I

0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:44.480
<v Speaker 1>love Hillary clips. I don't care who don't like that.

0:41:44.520 --> 0:41:47.319
<v Speaker 1>I love Hillary. Baby. That was a joker, man, don't

0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:49.879
<v Speaker 1>you tell y'all start Oh my gosh, you said, I said,

0:41:49.960 --> 0:41:51.759
<v Speaker 1>What the hell? I said? It is my page. Thank

0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:53.520
<v Speaker 1>you for joining me and laugh and learned. Don't come

0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:55.480
<v Speaker 1>with it though, Can you come at me sideways? I'm

0:41:55.480 --> 0:41:57.960
<v Speaker 1>gonna straighten you up. I promise I'm with Ms. April.

0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:00.759
<v Speaker 1>Ryan Baby white House corresponded Ms. April, you know what

0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:03.160
<v Speaker 1>I want to know. Also, since you've been in government,

0:42:03.200 --> 0:42:05.000
<v Speaker 1>because you've been in government working in the way House

0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:07.480
<v Speaker 1>since ninety seven. Yes, I've been working with them. I'm

0:42:07.520 --> 0:42:09.799
<v Speaker 1>not in government, but I've been working with them. How

0:42:09.960 --> 0:42:14.759
<v Speaker 1>has um the political uh satire changed from your perspective

0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:16.759
<v Speaker 1>because you on the other side. We're not on that side,

0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:18.600
<v Speaker 1>We're only outside looking at it, but you're actually on

0:42:18.680 --> 0:42:23.239
<v Speaker 1>the inside. How has the the other Republican senators and

0:42:23.320 --> 0:42:27.000
<v Speaker 1>Democratic senators and everybody in that pool treated you? Because

0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:29.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm a huge Nancy Pelosi fan. Nancy, if

0:42:29.719 --> 0:42:31.759
<v Speaker 1>you're watching, girl, I would take my wig off of you.

0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:33.279
<v Speaker 1>I get my breast cut out for you. I'm in

0:42:33.320 --> 0:42:35.400
<v Speaker 1>love with Nancy Pelosi. Let me just you know Nances

0:42:35.400 --> 0:42:37.839
<v Speaker 1>from Baltimore. You know her brother and her father were

0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:40.839
<v Speaker 1>mayors in Baltimore. She's from Little Liblely in Baltimore. There's

0:42:40.840 --> 0:42:44.160
<v Speaker 1>a special there's a special sauce in Baltimore. And also

0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:46.760
<v Speaker 1>Elijah Comments was from Baltimore. A lot of y'all gangster

0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:49.719
<v Speaker 1>from y'all got Monique from Baltimore. You've got just hilarious.

0:42:49.760 --> 0:42:53.560
<v Speaker 1>It's from Baltimore. It's so many wonderful, powerful people from Baltimore,

0:42:53.600 --> 0:42:58.879
<v Speaker 1>and y'all from Baltimore. I love you, Jada, but you're

0:42:58.880 --> 0:43:00.480
<v Speaker 1>gonna cut your head go back to like you did

0:43:00.560 --> 0:43:02.759
<v Speaker 1>at the end of set it off. I was in

0:43:02.840 --> 0:43:04.399
<v Speaker 1>love with Ja at the end with the white beater

0:43:04.520 --> 0:43:06.440
<v Speaker 1>and the ball here. Oh my god, I tried to

0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:12.640
<v Speaker 1>knock that TV over. Jesus, thank you. That was the movie.

0:43:12.800 --> 0:43:15.319
<v Speaker 1>Was that was the movie. So how have they been

0:43:15.360 --> 0:43:17.279
<v Speaker 1>treating you? Because I know that, you know, a lot

0:43:17.360 --> 0:43:19.520
<v Speaker 1>of stuff comes from the top. So we've seen his

0:43:19.640 --> 0:43:22.680
<v Speaker 1>blade and disrespect of you publicly. How has people in

0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:28.359
<v Speaker 1>his camp been towards you? Well, well, um, okay, I'm

0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:31.640
<v Speaker 1>gonna calling names. Lynn Patty remember her. At the very beginning,

0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:33.960
<v Speaker 1>she called me miss Piggy. Let me tell you something.

0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:36.280
<v Speaker 1>They called me miss Piggy in college and Miss Piggy

0:43:36.400 --> 0:43:42.160
<v Speaker 1>was fabulous. I'm like, you know, and I said, you know,

0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:45.080
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna be careful calling people names because you know,

0:43:45.160 --> 0:43:48.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, it doesn't work so well for for people.

0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:52.520
<v Speaker 1>But they don't like me. But the Republicans that I

0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:55.919
<v Speaker 1>know that I've known for years and my sources they've

0:43:55.960 --> 0:43:58.719
<v Speaker 1>been kind. But you have to you have to be

0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:03.799
<v Speaker 1>very strategic and how you communicate. I cannot say who

0:44:04.440 --> 0:44:06.799
<v Speaker 1>gives me information because people try to find out where

0:44:06.840 --> 0:44:09.640
<v Speaker 1>I got things from. I mean, you'd be surprised with

0:44:09.760 --> 0:44:12.879
<v Speaker 1>who I know and who I have their phone number

0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:15.720
<v Speaker 1>and I text with who's in the ear of the president.

0:44:16.440 --> 0:44:22.000
<v Speaker 1>So any good reporter worth their salt has um a

0:44:22.200 --> 0:44:28.400
<v Speaker 1>rollerdex that is worth goal, titanium, platinum, whatever. People who

0:44:28.520 --> 0:44:30.200
<v Speaker 1>I have, people who are in his ear, people who

0:44:30.239 --> 0:44:33.000
<v Speaker 1>he interviews with. I have people who are in the

0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:35.600
<v Speaker 1>Senate and the House that he talks with, or people

0:44:35.640 --> 0:44:37.680
<v Speaker 1>who are very close to the situation there in the

0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:40.960
<v Speaker 1>room when it happens or where it happens. So I

0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:45.320
<v Speaker 1>get information still, Um, it's it's it's harder, but you know,

0:44:45.800 --> 0:44:48.359
<v Speaker 1>I still get it. And it's on the money. Um.

0:44:48.480 --> 0:44:51.320
<v Speaker 1>People are very easy. They're very good at giving me information,

0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:55.080
<v Speaker 1>but they don't want their fingerprints on it. M M, Well,

0:44:55.160 --> 0:44:57.520
<v Speaker 1>you tell that lady whatever her name was, that I said,

0:44:57.560 --> 0:45:00.239
<v Speaker 1>you're a beautiful black woman, and black women have gonna

0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:02.920
<v Speaker 1>let me tell you something that damn Stacy Abrams have

0:45:03.120 --> 0:45:05.640
<v Speaker 1>came through like a battle lax baby and not playing

0:45:05.680 --> 0:45:07.279
<v Speaker 1>with And this is the strength of the black man

0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:09.400
<v Speaker 1>and the black woman. I'm saying this publicly because I

0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:11.239
<v Speaker 1>know I'm about the Rockers some fellas, But y'all do

0:45:11.400 --> 0:45:14.280
<v Speaker 1>know that I do not give a damn okay. Black women,

0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:17.000
<v Speaker 1>black man. Same scenario, two different things that could have

0:45:17.040 --> 0:45:21.080
<v Speaker 1>played out very differently. Stacy Abrams was cheated out out

0:45:21.120 --> 0:45:24.719
<v Speaker 1>the governorship and I said it in in Georgia, and

0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:27.480
<v Speaker 1>instead of her going on role and getting depressed, she

0:45:27.600 --> 0:45:30.040
<v Speaker 1>got on the battlefield as a soldier and guarded all

0:45:30.120 --> 0:45:33.440
<v Speaker 1>these votes so that Georgia turned blue, something that has

0:45:33.520 --> 0:45:37.200
<v Speaker 1>not happened in many, many years. Andrew Gilliams same scenario,

0:45:37.640 --> 0:45:40.480
<v Speaker 1>but she did out the governorship in Florida. But instead

0:45:40.520 --> 0:45:43.000
<v Speaker 1>of him taking the high road, this nigga went to

0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:45.400
<v Speaker 1>the hotel with the boy free. And I'm just saying,

0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:47.920
<v Speaker 1>sometimes you have to make a different choice and go

0:45:48.000 --> 0:45:51.680
<v Speaker 1>a different route. Strong black But let me say, but

0:45:51.760 --> 0:45:53.880
<v Speaker 1>you talk about Stacy was cheated, Let's talk about the

0:45:54.000 --> 0:45:56.600
<v Speaker 1>seriousness of how she was cheated out of it. The

0:45:56.760 --> 0:46:01.759
<v Speaker 1>man that she was going against counted the votes. There,

0:46:01.840 --> 0:46:04.840
<v Speaker 1>you're talking about cheating and you see how they're recounting everything.

0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:07.560
<v Speaker 1>Now Donald Trump is trying to put something in people's

0:46:07.640 --> 0:46:11.759
<v Speaker 1>minds that that's not true or making them sway. This man.

0:46:12.440 --> 0:46:15.279
<v Speaker 1>We can't ever say, yeah, your name, but how you

0:46:15.360 --> 0:46:16.839
<v Speaker 1>want to be in a contest and you don't want

0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:21.480
<v Speaker 1>counting the vote? Volks? How fair is that? That's this

0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:23.840
<v Speaker 1>America right now? Because here do you want to tell you,

0:46:23.920 --> 0:46:27.360
<v Speaker 1>miss April? I think that somebody and I'm you know

0:46:27.400 --> 0:46:28.960
<v Speaker 1>who I'm going to fall. I don't like all these

0:46:29.000 --> 0:46:31.600
<v Speaker 1>fense writers. I don't like the fence riders. I fought

0:46:31.600 --> 0:46:34.000
<v Speaker 1>people who were standing there in it, who should have

0:46:34.080 --> 0:46:37.240
<v Speaker 1>cared more about the American people than their own personal game,

0:46:37.360 --> 0:46:39.720
<v Speaker 1>because they threw us under the bus as collateral damage

0:46:39.880 --> 0:46:42.320
<v Speaker 1>because they wanted to keep their purse strings going, or

0:46:42.400 --> 0:46:45.239
<v Speaker 1>they wanted to keep their relationship with this current administration,

0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:49.080
<v Speaker 1>starting with Fauci, because when Faucci was standing behind this food,

0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:51.480
<v Speaker 1>when he was talking about this, and Faucia is supposed

0:46:51.480 --> 0:46:53.399
<v Speaker 1>to be a scientist, which I never trusted him since

0:46:53.440 --> 0:46:55.279
<v Speaker 1>the Reagan years with the age benefic Ya don't want

0:46:55.280 --> 0:46:57.120
<v Speaker 1>to get me started on that, because he said a

0:46:57.239 --> 0:46:59.680
<v Speaker 1>z T will kill age. It did kill age. But

0:46:59.800 --> 0:47:02.239
<v Speaker 1>in missed of killing the age that killed your pancreas,

0:47:02.239 --> 0:47:04.520
<v Speaker 1>your liver, your goll bladder, and every and then it

0:47:04.640 --> 0:47:06.800
<v Speaker 1>killed you. So the age died with you. So I

0:47:06.840 --> 0:47:08.400
<v Speaker 1>didn't trust to him since then. And I said what

0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:10.400
<v Speaker 1>I said, turn him to my house. He shorted me,

0:47:10.480 --> 0:47:14.799
<v Speaker 1>I would drop their any who. I never trusted him since,

0:47:14.880 --> 0:47:16.960
<v Speaker 1>but when they had that opportunity, when you were standing

0:47:17.000 --> 0:47:19.960
<v Speaker 1>behind him, and one time Trump was saying something outlandish.

0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:22.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what day, every day he said something outlandish,

0:47:22.960 --> 0:47:24.960
<v Speaker 1>but Foulci put his hand down and put his head

0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:27.759
<v Speaker 1>down and start laughing as if I'm he's lying to y'all,

0:47:27.800 --> 0:47:30.080
<v Speaker 1>and I'm seeing him lying, and I can't even take

0:47:30.120 --> 0:47:33.080
<v Speaker 1>this lap. You should have spoken then, because that we,

0:47:33.280 --> 0:47:35.000
<v Speaker 1>the American people, would have heard you. We would have

0:47:35.040 --> 0:47:38.480
<v Speaker 1>had something to believe. The unsurety of this pandemic and

0:47:38.600 --> 0:47:40.759
<v Speaker 1>what was coming from the top has scared the hell

0:47:40.800 --> 0:47:42.920
<v Speaker 1>out of all of us. It's scared the hell all

0:47:43.000 --> 0:47:44.920
<v Speaker 1>of us. I'm with you, I am so with you.

0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:48.320
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I've seen I've had friends who died early on,

0:47:48.800 --> 0:47:51.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, from AIGs I've had, and and and the drugs.

0:47:51.520 --> 0:47:53.800
<v Speaker 1>You're right, the drugs will killed early on. The drugs

0:47:53.840 --> 0:47:57.000
<v Speaker 1>will kill you. I remember that and I remember how

0:47:57.160 --> 0:47:58.719
<v Speaker 1>you know those drugs. If you're on this drugs, you

0:47:58.760 --> 0:48:00.320
<v Speaker 1>can't eat this kind of food, you can't do It

0:48:00.760 --> 0:48:05.279
<v Speaker 1>was crazy, um. And now the drugs have come, They've

0:48:05.360 --> 0:48:08.920
<v Speaker 1>come a long way. But I'm my question is you know,

0:48:10.440 --> 0:48:14.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm i'm i'm I'm looking at the science. I'm reporting.

0:48:14.840 --> 0:48:19.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm watching the three companies UM now that have something

0:48:19.520 --> 0:48:22.760
<v Speaker 1>very close. But the question is will there be trust

0:48:22.840 --> 0:48:26.000
<v Speaker 1>because of what happened with AIDS? Will there be trust

0:48:26.160 --> 0:48:30.160
<v Speaker 1>because of Tuskeg as well? I'm glad you brought that

0:48:30.239 --> 0:48:32.759
<v Speaker 1>up because there are four two of we knew of

0:48:33.360 --> 0:48:36.440
<v Speaker 1>HBCUs that are giving these students seventeen hundred dollars to

0:48:36.480 --> 0:48:39.719
<v Speaker 1>be lab rats guinea pigs, two of which are in Louisiana.

0:48:39.840 --> 0:48:44.000
<v Speaker 1>What are the Xavier and Dillard? And I know people

0:48:44.000 --> 0:48:45.920
<v Speaker 1>are type of money. I know this is a rough,

0:48:46.040 --> 0:48:48.319
<v Speaker 1>rough time, but I need somebody to get in these

0:48:48.400 --> 0:48:50.120
<v Speaker 1>young kids here, because you know, when you're young, you

0:48:50.200 --> 0:48:53.000
<v Speaker 1>think you're invincible. You're in college, you can conquer the world,

0:48:53.280 --> 0:48:55.160
<v Speaker 1>but you're still a human in your body is still

0:48:55.239 --> 0:48:57.600
<v Speaker 1>flesh and bone. You take this and you get the

0:48:57.640 --> 0:48:59.880
<v Speaker 1>SEV you will never be allowed to live it. You

0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:03.359
<v Speaker 1>gonna turn into a damn zombie. And personally, I hope

0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:05.960
<v Speaker 1>they have to ask their parents permission. But just to

0:49:06.080 --> 0:49:08.800
<v Speaker 1>let you know, the president of Dillard is also in

0:49:08.880 --> 0:49:13.000
<v Speaker 1>the trial as well. He's taking it to He's in

0:49:13.080 --> 0:49:16.440
<v Speaker 1>the trial. The president of Dillard, the president of Dillard

0:49:16.520 --> 0:49:19.120
<v Speaker 1>University is in the trial. He wouldn't he would have

0:49:19.200 --> 0:49:21.200
<v Speaker 1>to give me the dose out the same needle that

0:49:21.280 --> 0:49:23.759
<v Speaker 1>he's taken because I'm not trusting nobody. Let me tell

0:49:23.800 --> 0:49:26.440
<v Speaker 1>you something, miss April girl. I'm let me. I'm already figured.

0:49:26.480 --> 0:49:28.120
<v Speaker 1>I'm already you know. They say flame you have to

0:49:28.160 --> 0:49:30.200
<v Speaker 1>be politically correct. I said, I got a breast and

0:49:30.239 --> 0:49:33.200
<v Speaker 1>a penis. I'm not even anatomically correct. Please don't tell

0:49:33.239 --> 0:49:35.759
<v Speaker 1>me what to say or what to do. It's a

0:49:35.840 --> 0:49:38.400
<v Speaker 1>whole lot of movement parts over here. I'm scared if

0:49:38.400 --> 0:49:40.080
<v Speaker 1>I take the vac say something else gonna grow. But

0:49:40.239 --> 0:49:43.360
<v Speaker 1>you know what, you're human being, this humanity. I'm a

0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:50.560
<v Speaker 1>beautiful human being and gorgeous love your girl. I'm seriously,

0:49:50.640 --> 0:49:52.719
<v Speaker 1>I mean you are. I mean, look, I'm sitting here

0:49:52.800 --> 0:49:55.320
<v Speaker 1>looking at the pictures you there and all the pictures

0:49:55.360 --> 0:49:58.120
<v Speaker 1>on our gem like I need to come for some tips.

0:49:58.200 --> 0:50:01.520
<v Speaker 1>But I'm like, okay anyway, Um, But what I'm saying

0:50:01.680 --> 0:50:07.160
<v Speaker 1>is we all are human beings. We all are human beings.

0:50:07.520 --> 0:50:10.880
<v Speaker 1>And I say this and it's almost with tears in

0:50:10.960 --> 0:50:16.440
<v Speaker 1>my eyes. Politics is not about party. It's about people,

0:50:17.840 --> 0:50:21.719
<v Speaker 1>and it's about humanity and what we are watching right now,

0:50:22.239 --> 0:50:25.279
<v Speaker 1>it is wearing a mask, to wear a mask or

0:50:25.320 --> 0:50:28.640
<v Speaker 1>not to wear a mask. It's it's political. It's about

0:50:28.680 --> 0:50:32.680
<v Speaker 1>your life. My uncle, my my late mother's brother, who

0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:35.400
<v Speaker 1>will who I just talked to on the phone. He's

0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:39.400
<v Speaker 1>in Philadelphia right now. He had bladder surgery and then

0:50:39.440 --> 0:50:41.600
<v Speaker 1>he went for transfuction. Been in the hospital for about

0:50:41.600 --> 0:50:45.680
<v Speaker 1>a month. Thursday they said he had COVID nine two

0:50:45.760 --> 0:50:49.840
<v Speaker 1>years old. And listen to him on the phone breathy.

0:50:51.200 --> 0:50:53.279
<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to cry. I didn't say anything to

0:50:53.360 --> 0:50:55.600
<v Speaker 1>him myself. Uncle Paul, You're gonna be all right, he said,

0:50:55.640 --> 0:50:59.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's in God's hands. I'm like, and I'm like,

0:51:00.000 --> 0:51:03.239
<v Speaker 1>this didn't have to be and it's it's said. I mean,

0:51:03.280 --> 0:51:06.960
<v Speaker 1>I've lost other people, but it just hurts my heart.

0:51:07.080 --> 0:51:09.399
<v Speaker 1>He's going to be ninety three years old if God

0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:13.759
<v Speaker 1>allows it. On January nineteenth, the day before the inauguration,

0:51:15.239 --> 0:51:16.960
<v Speaker 1>ninety three years old, and he's laying up in the

0:51:17.040 --> 0:51:20.200
<v Speaker 1>hospital with COVID. Why because this president called it a

0:51:20.280 --> 0:51:21.920
<v Speaker 1>hole tea don't want to wear a mask and all

0:51:22.000 --> 0:51:25.120
<v Speaker 1>this foolishness. But he only paid seven hundred fifty dollars

0:51:25.239 --> 0:51:28.120
<v Speaker 1>for taxes, and our tax dollars saved. It's life when

0:51:28.160 --> 0:51:30.880
<v Speaker 1>everybody else is gone. You ain't hear that for me?

0:51:31.160 --> 0:51:33.000
<v Speaker 1>Ms April. Let me ask you a question, because you

0:51:33.080 --> 0:51:34.640
<v Speaker 1>were there with her, and I know you met Ruth

0:51:34.680 --> 0:51:38.040
<v Speaker 1>Beta Geinsburg, the late great Miss Ruth Beata Ginsburg. How

0:51:38.239 --> 0:51:40.160
<v Speaker 1>was she? You know? Because when she died, we were like,

0:51:40.239 --> 0:51:42.200
<v Speaker 1>oh my god, we lost, we lost. And so I

0:51:42.719 --> 0:51:45.040
<v Speaker 1>went back to a teaching that my grandmother taught me

0:51:45.080 --> 0:51:46.839
<v Speaker 1>when I was a kid, and she said that we're

0:51:46.880 --> 0:51:49.560
<v Speaker 1>all here only on loan. I felt like Ruth had

0:51:49.600 --> 0:51:52.600
<v Speaker 1>struggled so long with cancer, so many different versions of cancer,

0:51:52.680 --> 0:51:55.719
<v Speaker 1>losing her mother, her husband, so many people that she

0:51:55.920 --> 0:51:57.880
<v Speaker 1>was like, I can't do no help here. So she

0:51:58.080 --> 0:52:00.839
<v Speaker 1>left ten eleven days before the elections, go personally talk

0:52:00.920 --> 0:52:03.080
<v Speaker 1>to God in his ear to say, look, my people

0:52:03.160 --> 0:52:05.239
<v Speaker 1>need help do this up there, because she had a

0:52:05.280 --> 0:52:07.680
<v Speaker 1>lot more impact up there with him than down here

0:52:07.719 --> 0:52:10.360
<v Speaker 1>with us. This is how I've seen her, because people like,

0:52:10.400 --> 0:52:12.759
<v Speaker 1>oh my god, I was like, no, she she knew.

0:52:13.000 --> 0:52:16.799
<v Speaker 1>She was a strong, fighting monster. And when I say monster,

0:52:16.800 --> 0:52:18.919
<v Speaker 1>I say monster with love and affection. Y'all. Don't don't

0:52:18.920 --> 0:52:21.200
<v Speaker 1>get it twist y'all, oh flame count No, I'm saying

0:52:21.239 --> 0:52:23.719
<v Speaker 1>that that as a beastly, that she she saw what

0:52:23.880 --> 0:52:26.320
<v Speaker 1>she wanted, she pushed through for women's rights, and so

0:52:26.400 --> 0:52:29.320
<v Speaker 1>when she did, we did feel like, he mean, she

0:52:29.360 --> 0:52:31.239
<v Speaker 1>should have held on for eleven more days. But I

0:52:31.320 --> 0:52:33.919
<v Speaker 1>felt like my grandmother told me that before that we're

0:52:33.960 --> 0:52:35.520
<v Speaker 1>only here on loan, that she went to do more

0:52:35.520 --> 0:52:37.120
<v Speaker 1>help for us. Was she a sweet woman? To you?

0:52:38.320 --> 0:52:42.520
<v Speaker 1>She was. Her body was tired. Um. When you see

0:52:42.600 --> 0:52:46.360
<v Speaker 1>someone like that, it's like I still get awestruck, you know.

0:52:47.480 --> 0:52:53.160
<v Speaker 1>It's like when I met met Mandela, it was like

0:52:53.760 --> 0:52:57.520
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't believe it someone could be that convicted in

0:52:57.680 --> 0:53:02.760
<v Speaker 1>their spirit to put their life on the line literally

0:53:02.880 --> 0:53:08.240
<v Speaker 1>for others. She worked for equality, She worked on women's issues,

0:53:09.120 --> 0:53:13.440
<v Speaker 1>and she defied the odds and prayed to the gods

0:53:14.040 --> 0:53:17.359
<v Speaker 1>to last just a little while longer. She didn't give

0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:19.960
<v Speaker 1>up her seat on the Supreme Court because she knew

0:53:20.040 --> 0:53:23.359
<v Speaker 1>what Donald Trump was gonna do. She's hung around as

0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:26.880
<v Speaker 1>long as she could and her body gave out. She

0:53:27.000 --> 0:53:29.719
<v Speaker 1>could have easily every time something happened, every time she

0:53:29.760 --> 0:53:32.640
<v Speaker 1>had pneumoni or some kind of issue pack criticascer or

0:53:32.680 --> 0:53:35.360
<v Speaker 1>whatever that came up, she could have easily walked away.

0:53:35.760 --> 0:53:40.000
<v Speaker 1>She didn't. And that kind of strength, it's more that

0:53:40.239 --> 0:53:43.520
<v Speaker 1>is something supernatural, that is a strength that you don't

0:53:43.520 --> 0:53:46.040
<v Speaker 1>get every day. That's the strength of Nelson Mandelada. He

0:53:46.200 --> 0:53:52.040
<v Speaker 1>forgave those who persecuted him Nelson mandel A lot of

0:53:52.120 --> 0:53:54.960
<v Speaker 1>people don't know this, but we couldn't take pictures with

0:53:55.080 --> 0:53:57.360
<v Speaker 1>flash with Nelson Mandelda because when he was working in

0:53:57.440 --> 0:53:59.480
<v Speaker 1>the quarry some of the lines don't got in the

0:53:59.520 --> 0:54:02.480
<v Speaker 1>back of his eyes and if if if the light

0:54:02.600 --> 0:54:04.759
<v Speaker 1>able to refracted and caused a lot of problems in

0:54:04.840 --> 0:54:09.840
<v Speaker 1>this with the site. He went through so much for

0:54:11.239 --> 0:54:16.839
<v Speaker 1>Africans in South Africa to first class citizenship. Because how

0:54:16.880 --> 0:54:19.520
<v Speaker 1>long was he imprisoned is abl twenty seven years something

0:54:19.560 --> 0:54:21.040
<v Speaker 1>like that. He was in prison for a while. He

0:54:21.120 --> 0:54:24.040
<v Speaker 1>was in prison for for that several decades. Yes, seem

0:54:24.480 --> 0:54:26.560
<v Speaker 1>that couldn't have been me first day. Baby, I'm telling

0:54:26.600 --> 0:54:29.600
<v Speaker 1>them everybody, just I'm telling see like that's the determination,

0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:32.080
<v Speaker 1>like Harriet Tubman head, because if I would have got away,

0:54:32.120 --> 0:54:34.759
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't coming back. Y'all want y'all own and see.

0:54:34.800 --> 0:54:36.919
<v Speaker 1>That's what I'm saying. That's what That's what I'm saying.

0:54:37.160 --> 0:54:40.040
<v Speaker 1>See what you know. We get up on Instagram, we

0:54:40.120 --> 0:54:42.080
<v Speaker 1>gotta pose and all that to try to show you

0:54:42.239 --> 0:54:45.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm this, I'm that, But look under you know, get

0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:49.799
<v Speaker 1>the sub story, get the backstory. That's the story I want.

0:54:49.960 --> 0:54:51.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't care about all that post and you might

0:54:51.640 --> 0:54:55.280
<v Speaker 1>see me pose that's but get the backstory. Oh, speaking

0:54:55.320 --> 0:54:58.560
<v Speaker 1>of posing that picture with the microphone, Oh April, I

0:54:58.840 --> 0:55:01.160
<v Speaker 1>love that picture of your That picture is boss. Let

0:55:01.200 --> 0:55:04.040
<v Speaker 1>me say that picture is so BOSSI with the microphone

0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:06.040
<v Speaker 1>like that, I'm like, oh, she looked gangster. I bet

0:55:06.120 --> 0:55:07.959
<v Speaker 1>you the dang are you from Baltimore? You ain't gonna

0:55:07.960 --> 0:55:10.239
<v Speaker 1>say nothing. El I know how y'all did, baby, I

0:55:10.320 --> 0:55:12.680
<v Speaker 1>know how y'all did. Mr al Let me ask you

0:55:12.880 --> 0:55:14.879
<v Speaker 1>another question before we get off of here. I want

0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:18.719
<v Speaker 1>to know how was Mr John Lewis personally because we

0:55:18.880 --> 0:55:21.879
<v Speaker 1>know his history. We know so many stories of how

0:55:22.040 --> 0:55:24.759
<v Speaker 1>he just took on the baddest bridge, how they beat

0:55:24.800 --> 0:55:26.919
<v Speaker 1>him across the head. And he's been in the civil

0:55:27.040 --> 0:55:29.560
<v Speaker 1>rights he's he's still with Martin Luther King. He's still

0:55:29.600 --> 0:55:31.080
<v Speaker 1>would be our rusting. A lot of y'all don't know

0:55:31.080 --> 0:55:33.440
<v Speaker 1>who be our rusting is by our rustin Look it up,

0:55:34.520 --> 0:55:37.640
<v Speaker 1>Please look him up, because he was mind you that

0:55:37.719 --> 0:55:41.440
<v Speaker 1>the LGBT community has been involved in politics long before

0:55:41.560 --> 0:55:46.040
<v Speaker 1>we was popular to be involved in politics, right, first

0:55:46.080 --> 0:55:49.719
<v Speaker 1>class citizenship for everyone. Re godless of where you come from?

0:55:50.000 --> 0:55:53.920
<v Speaker 1>What any what any orientation? Gender raised, what have you?

0:55:54.160 --> 0:55:57.960
<v Speaker 1>Sexual orientations? Been around a long time and bear Rusting

0:55:58.080 --> 0:56:00.560
<v Speaker 1>was a monster. He was a month So whatever you don't,

0:56:00.560 --> 0:56:02.799
<v Speaker 1>don't tell me yet, Make them have that. Make them

0:56:02.880 --> 0:56:04.400
<v Speaker 1>have their quiz for the next time you come on

0:56:04.640 --> 0:56:06.200
<v Speaker 1>so they can tell you on the I g live.

0:56:07.760 --> 0:56:11.680
<v Speaker 1>Have class, have class, teach them, teach them, Yes, teach

0:56:11.719 --> 0:56:13.719
<v Speaker 1>me some class. But you know, I'm gonna throw back.

0:56:14.680 --> 0:56:17.000
<v Speaker 1>How was John Lewis? What's he's? He? A friendly man?

0:56:17.800 --> 0:56:21.759
<v Speaker 1>So John Lewis was the most wonderful man I ever met.

0:56:22.600 --> 0:56:28.920
<v Speaker 1>And he was shortened stature but large and love um.

0:56:30.400 --> 0:56:32.560
<v Speaker 1>I would see him and he would always make it

0:56:32.600 --> 0:56:34.880
<v Speaker 1>a point to come, no matter he's seen me across

0:56:34.880 --> 0:56:37.399
<v Speaker 1>the room, and he started moving towards me, and people

0:56:37.440 --> 0:56:40.040
<v Speaker 1>would stop him and shake his hand and everything, but

0:56:40.160 --> 0:56:42.120
<v Speaker 1>he kept coming, and I just stood there and waited.

0:56:42.520 --> 0:56:44.399
<v Speaker 1>And it may have taken him half an offer. He'd

0:56:44.400 --> 0:56:47.120
<v Speaker 1>come to me, how you doing, I'm good. I love

0:56:47.239 --> 0:56:49.120
<v Speaker 1>you so I love you too, and he want to

0:56:49.200 --> 0:56:51.640
<v Speaker 1>always see how it was because he knew that I

0:56:51.800 --> 0:56:54.719
<v Speaker 1>was going through some stuff. He also knew that um

0:56:55.560 --> 0:56:57.880
<v Speaker 1>I was one of the few people asking questions about

0:56:57.960 --> 0:57:02.040
<v Speaker 1>us at the time. And game peeps, game, you know.

0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:06.720
<v Speaker 1>And he had a heart for people. But he also

0:57:06.840 --> 0:57:09.759
<v Speaker 1>had a heart for peace. I remember one time being

0:57:09.840 --> 0:57:14.600
<v Speaker 1>angry about something. I was at Roland Martin's show, yeah

0:57:14.760 --> 0:57:18.480
<v Speaker 1>years ago, and and the Congressman was coming in and

0:57:18.600 --> 0:57:21.720
<v Speaker 1>I said something to the effect of I'm so angry.

0:57:21.880 --> 0:57:24.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm so angry. He said, I'm with you no matter

0:57:24.840 --> 0:57:27.360
<v Speaker 1>what you do, but you've got to do it peacefully.

0:57:27.960 --> 0:57:30.280
<v Speaker 1>I said, okay, and we just started laughing. He broke

0:57:30.400 --> 0:57:34.960
<v Speaker 1>the tension. But he believed in peace. Peace work. He believed,

0:57:35.080 --> 0:57:37.560
<v Speaker 1>and no matter what you had to say do it peacefully,

0:57:37.600 --> 0:57:40.960
<v Speaker 1>because you get further with peace, farther with peace than

0:57:41.040 --> 0:57:45.040
<v Speaker 1>you would violently. Non violence was his was his, was

0:57:45.120 --> 0:57:48.480
<v Speaker 1>his being, was its essence. And I missed him the

0:57:48.640 --> 0:57:52.040
<v Speaker 1>day Biden was elected officially, which was that thirty after

0:57:52.120 --> 0:57:54.320
<v Speaker 1>that Tuesday, and we finally got I put right on

0:57:54.400 --> 0:57:57.520
<v Speaker 1>my Instagram page, please now bring April White Ryan back

0:57:57.560 --> 0:57:59.600
<v Speaker 1>to the White House. Correspond because I miss you. I

0:57:59.680 --> 0:58:04.000
<v Speaker 1>put that on my you. That was me. I started

0:58:04.040 --> 0:58:06.440
<v Speaker 1>a campaign to bring you. I wanted you back and

0:58:06.520 --> 0:58:08.880
<v Speaker 1>see and I didn't know that you that'll be back

0:58:08.920 --> 0:58:11.040
<v Speaker 1>in I'm gonna be back, and we're gonna be doing something.

0:58:11.400 --> 0:58:14.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm making some I believe that. I believe that this

0:58:15.160 --> 0:58:18.120
<v Speaker 1>moment is a moment of creativity. Even in the midst

0:58:18.200 --> 0:58:20.960
<v Speaker 1>of all of this pain, I said, I'm going to

0:58:21.680 --> 0:58:23.520
<v Speaker 1>go low and get the press, which I can do,

0:58:24.240 --> 0:58:26.480
<v Speaker 1>or I'm gonna find out other ways to put the

0:58:26.560 --> 0:58:29.880
<v Speaker 1>message out and just stay tuned. There's more comments and

0:58:29.960 --> 0:58:36.520
<v Speaker 1>I won't Monday is promised land with President Barack Obama.

0:58:36.800 --> 0:58:40.680
<v Speaker 1>Stay tuned for the time. Girl. Tell tell President Obama

0:58:40.760 --> 0:58:43.200
<v Speaker 1>that me and my child I make I have a

0:58:43.320 --> 0:58:44.960
<v Speaker 1>huge book and a huge picture of him in my

0:58:45.040 --> 0:58:48.200
<v Speaker 1>home because when I tell you, he gave me such hope,

0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:51.880
<v Speaker 1>such joy, and such belief when I saw him, because

0:58:51.920 --> 0:58:54.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm from Chicago. So when him and Michelle came out,

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<v Speaker 1>when he actually got the nomination, I was not in Chicago.

0:58:57.600 --> 0:59:01.360
<v Speaker 1>I was in Houston, Texas. And when I song, um

0:59:01.760 --> 0:59:05.720
<v Speaker 1>him get that, and people would just overwhelmed. And it

0:59:05.880 --> 0:59:07.760
<v Speaker 1>gave me such hope. It's not only as a black

0:59:07.840 --> 0:59:10.520
<v Speaker 1>man or a trans woman. It gave me hope as

0:59:10.520 --> 0:59:13.600
<v Speaker 1>an American that I can be and do anything I

0:59:13.680 --> 0:59:16.280
<v Speaker 1>want to be. This brother then pulling it off, and

0:59:16.320 --> 0:59:19.040
<v Speaker 1>then Michelle came out of her red and black Target dress.

0:59:19.160 --> 0:59:23.280
<v Speaker 1>I said, girl, I got that dress. That was Jay Crew.

0:59:23.360 --> 0:59:25.360
<v Speaker 1>It was Jay Crewe. I think I got the knocked

0:59:25.360 --> 0:59:32.120
<v Speaker 1>off from Target. Though Michelle is so bond. Michelle is

0:59:32.760 --> 0:59:35.560
<v Speaker 1>Chicago South side of the first shout out to Chicago,

0:59:35.640 --> 0:59:38.080
<v Speaker 1>my hometown. I love my city. But Michelle is a

0:59:38.120 --> 0:59:39.840
<v Speaker 1>big baby. Let me try something. You don't want to

0:59:39.840 --> 0:59:42.439
<v Speaker 1>walk up on Michelle. I know all that. First lady.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm telling y'all now, you don't want to walk up

0:59:44.560 --> 0:59:48.520
<v Speaker 1>on Michelle. I'm telling you Oprah to see Oprah from Chicago.

0:59:48.600 --> 0:59:51.240
<v Speaker 1>But she stayed in Chicago long enough, y'all think open, nice, Open,

0:59:51.280 --> 0:59:53.680
<v Speaker 1>got a bodyguard named Gayl. That's what y'all know. Gail

0:59:53.720 --> 0:59:56.520
<v Speaker 1>ain't just her best friend. Baby Michelle would drop you

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<v Speaker 1>by miss Gell. Did you see how she coined Robert R.

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<v Speaker 1>Kelly like birth. I'm like, okay, if Gail get up,

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<v Speaker 1>she's gonna floor you so bad. And you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>Ms Ryan, you have just gave me the greatest compliment

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted. That's what I wanted you to leave this show.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted you to be able to say that you

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<v Speaker 1>had a great time. Thank you for that. I enjoy you.

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<v Speaker 1>I think you're amazing. Thank you, Ms Ryan. I appreciate you.

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<v Speaker 1>You are the bed I'm ready for you. Get back

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<v Speaker 1>in there and let me tell you something. I know

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<v Speaker 1>that Joe Biden is not gonna put your ovelope with you,

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<v Speaker 1>but if you ever need a bodyguard that they won't

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<v Speaker 1>know that your bodyguard call me. You got my novel

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<v Speaker 1>called me. But you know what, I'm gonna tell you something.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna tell you something. The White House is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be open, and it's they are saying it's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>reflect America. I want you to hold them to that.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for that. Mr. Everybody. I'm telling you we

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<v Speaker 1>got some soldiers on it. But I wouldn't be a

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<v Speaker 1>good spokesperson for our community because I say things sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>that ruffle people's feathers. But I want to I want

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<v Speaker 1>to speak about these soldiers that we have that go

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<v Speaker 1>on unmentioned. SORRYA Saint Claire out of Louisiana, Tatiana Moor

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<v Speaker 1>now Chicago, Valerie Spencer here in Los Angeles. These girls

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<v Speaker 1>are trans women who have been on the battlefield fighting

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<v Speaker 1>for trans rice and equality invisibility for such a long time.

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<v Speaker 1>And now we got a trans woman on the Senate. Baby,

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<v Speaker 1>let me tell you something like Virginia Slams. We've come

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<v Speaker 1>a long way, baby, and black women the same, black

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<v Speaker 1>women taking over. I'll tell you my mom is a

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<v Speaker 1>black woman. That's why I emulate a black woman, because

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<v Speaker 1>I know black woman a beastly. I wanted to be

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<v Speaker 1>a beast. April Bryan white House corresponding Fantastic mother, author,

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<v Speaker 1>corresponding journalists. The next time you want see any n,

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<v Speaker 1>you tell um um uh Anderson Cooper that I love him,

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<v Speaker 1>and you tell that, damn, what's the big Italian name

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<v Speaker 1>you tell Chris Pomo that I would I would crush

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<v Speaker 1>bricks for Chris Pomo. That is a monster baby and

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<v Speaker 1>wonderful way. Everybody has a crush on Chris Walmar. I

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<v Speaker 1>know his who the brother, and I ain't gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>able to pull Andrew a little little out of my league.

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<v Speaker 1>He's just a little to you. I gotta type and

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<v Speaker 1>he don't cut the age require but that Chris koo

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<v Speaker 1>good guy. Let me I know his wife is a

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<v Speaker 1>heavy woman. Every time she think about him taking his

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<v Speaker 1>clothes off, she just stopped doing jumping every time Chris

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<v Speaker 1>is working out and yeah, yeah, I'm like, but no,

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<v Speaker 1>he's a He's a nice guy. And Anderson is wonderful.

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<v Speaker 1>I love me some Anderson, and I love you some. Chris.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm a blessed woman to be able to hang

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<v Speaker 1>around with those people. Those What you are is an

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<v Speaker 1>amazing role model. Thank you so much for doing this.

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<v Speaker 1>I appreciated, heart me and Nick Smith laugh and learned.

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<v Speaker 1>Ms Abra Ryan lations you. White House corresponded, thank you

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<v Speaker 1>so much. It was a pleasure to meet you. Baltimore,

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<v Speaker 1>Baltimore's finest baby. I want to talk with Lauren Hogan

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<v Speaker 1>about AIDS Healthcare Foundation. You know, we are the largest

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<v Speaker 1>global nonprofit servicing HIV and AIDS in the world. We

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<v Speaker 1>are in sixteen states domestically, including Puerto Rico in Washington,

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<v Speaker 1>d C. And forty five countries globally. World Aid's Day

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<v Speaker 1>is coming up, which is on December one, which is

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<v Speaker 1>this Tuesday. So you know, you guys kind of touched

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<v Speaker 1>on it with Miss April when we were discussing it.

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<v Speaker 1>But there are some similarities, you know, between AIDS and coronavirus.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we're seeing some similarities there. So with that,

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<v Speaker 1>we decided to have a theme this year of AIDS

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<v Speaker 1>the other pandemic, just so people can understand, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>that AIDS is still very much an issue. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>people think now because everybody may not you know, it's

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<v Speaker 1>not a death sentence anymore. It's not as serious as

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<v Speaker 1>it is. But there's still you know, sixteen million people

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<v Speaker 1>globally who are infected with HIV and don't know their status.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw a statistic report with Let's saying that people

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<v Speaker 1>who take the AGE medication to answer it is supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be a blocker for coronavirus. Is that any founded

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<v Speaker 1>found foundation? Today? I saw that twice. Actually, that's interesting. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>They said that the anti retro American medicine supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>be really good to fight coronavirus. I'll tell you what

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<v Speaker 1>else works, lisol spray a bit either or oh well.

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<v Speaker 1>So AHF has rehired me, ladies, gentlemen to do the

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<v Speaker 1>HF burlesque campaign. So thank you very much for HF.

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<v Speaker 1>I ain't got my check yet, but I love you. Michael.

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Minstein is the CEO, and I met him last

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<v Speaker 1>year when I was doing it, just on the whim.

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<v Speaker 1>He was in the audience and I can semeil the

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<v Speaker 1>money and I went right to him because that's who

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<v Speaker 1>I am, my sale money. But we thank you guys

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<v Speaker 1>so much for good joining us. Thank you my special

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<v Speaker 1>wonderful woman Lauren Hogan. That's Lauren the Diva to y'all Lauren.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you want to book me for something outside

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<v Speaker 1>of this, you have got which is he she We

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<v Speaker 1>bookings at gmail dot com. I also want to push

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<v Speaker 1>my friend's coffee up and at HM this is up

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<v Speaker 1>and at him he has his coffee. So y'all order

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<v Speaker 1>the www dot get up in Adam. I thank you

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<v Speaker 1>guys for joining me. Here. We will be back next

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<v Speaker 1>week this Friday. My interview with the Breakfast Club will

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<v Speaker 1>be up to you guys, watch that and share. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Flame Underscore Monroe on Twitter, I'm Monroe Flame on Instagram,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm Marcus Flame Monroe Parker on uh Facebook. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>you have the whole legal name. That's where it checks

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<v Speaker 1>coming in. So that's what we fall into play. And

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<v Speaker 1>we can follow Lauren on oh Instagram. I am Lauren

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<v Speaker 1>ARMANI h on Instagram and that's really my main platform

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<v Speaker 1>to be honest, Ye wor at HF, so you have

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<v Speaker 1>any questions, And what I wanted her to come was

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<v Speaker 1>that I wanted her to be a face not of

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<v Speaker 1>representing HF as a client, but as an employee to

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<v Speaker 1>let you guys know that because so many people think

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<v Speaker 1>that the myth is that HF only caters to gay

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<v Speaker 1>white men. Yeah, and I mean, I appreciate you addressing

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<v Speaker 1>that because I think that's a huge misconception. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>one key thing about HF is we have affinity groups

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<v Speaker 1>and it's really geared toward target outreach. So we have

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<v Speaker 1>specific groups for you know, the black community, Latino community,

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<v Speaker 1>um for gay men in general regardless of you know,

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<v Speaker 1>your racial background, and also you know, for the Latino

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<v Speaker 1>community and for women specifically, we have a group called Spark,

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<v Speaker 1>So you know, we really want to make sure that

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<v Speaker 1>we're getting into specific community so we can do the work.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, that's a huge misconception. It's not accurate, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're all about diversity inclusion and every day we're taking

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<v Speaker 1>strides to make sure that we follow suit. So just

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<v Speaker 1>in case you were wont she's the manager. Now you

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<v Speaker 1>know why. I thank you guys so much. I will

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<v Speaker 1>see you all next week. You all have been amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you to our very special guests White House corresponding

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<v Speaker 1>around y'all get her book, which is called under Fire,

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<v Speaker 1>and she will be with President Barack Obama on Monday

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<v Speaker 1>on last So let's watch, follow, share and do all

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<v Speaker 1>of that, laugh and learn. As a production of The

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<v Speaker 1>Black Effect Network and I Heart Radio, our executive producer

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<v Speaker 1>is Tiffany Hattish. The show is produced by Triple Our

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<v Speaker 1>theme music is by Chrissy Paine sat BA