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Speaker 1: the ground. And second we're gonna last cut of the
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Speaker 1: lift spirits. But do you want to revisit? So your
Speaker 1: first take a listen to your folks. You slit all
Speaker 1: folks that we did it. No, do what you do?
Speaker 1: No do what you do? Can't help Kiss, do what
Speaker 1: I do, Flamela. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome
Speaker 1: to laugh and learn with Flame Monroe and who and
Speaker 1: who I am here There is my very handsome co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Nick Smith. Y'all say hello, good morning, good afternoon,
Speaker 1: good evening to Nick. It is so good to be
Speaker 1: here with you right now. And I have to tell
Speaker 1: you this is not the way we wanted to do
Speaker 1: with a governor new Some had other plans right, No,
Speaker 1: it's it's people's fault. I'm not gonna blame my government.
Speaker 1: It's y'all, damn mask I'm blaming y'all because y'all shouldn't
Speaker 1: be hard here to put your mask on. Then my
Speaker 1: co host could be here in studio with me. Can
Speaker 1: I just say for those who may have taken a
Speaker 1: sneak peek and didn't get a chance to see it
Speaker 1: as you walked into the room here, you look really
Speaker 1: good in that skirt. That looks good with that little
Speaker 1: flower and all that. You gave us a little sneak
Speaker 1: peak a few seconds ago. Did you think that looked
Speaker 1: very feminine? Do I look like a reporter? You look
Speaker 1: like a correspondent almost almost most see what people has
Speaker 1: to say. Speaking of course, mindest you know, we do
Speaker 1: have a very special White House correspondent that's going to
Speaker 1: be joining us momentarily here on Laugh and Learn, and
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about it. Um, how was your week? How?
Speaker 1: I'm very bummed that you're not here with me because
Speaker 1: people are going to get used to seeing us together.
Speaker 1: But I do have a not a replacement, but a
Speaker 1: filling for you. Yes, you look at my baby right there,
Speaker 1: that's my baby, Lauren Hogan y'all. Can you'll see amazing
Speaker 1: Lauren Hogan for who may not know, Lauren is directly
Speaker 1: responsible for really helping to keep the ship afloat, because
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that Flame has to do,
Speaker 1: and that woman right there is like Flame, Calm down,
Speaker 1: I got this. You just be Flame. I can take
Speaker 1: care of the rest of this. You were really right
Speaker 1: about that. Yes, indeed, let me splaining to you all
Speaker 1: who Lauren Hogan is. Lauren Hogan is now my new manager.
Speaker 1: And I met Lauren Hogan last year during the HF campaign.
Speaker 1: Remember doing that burth last campaign last year, guys, And
Speaker 1: so Lauren was the one who hired me for that,
Speaker 1: and we just let me Flame tell people what HF.
Speaker 1: HF is Aids Healthcare Foundation. They hired me last year
Speaker 1: to do the bur Lass campaign. And you can speak
Speaker 1: and just stepping in Lauren because we hear you. But um,
Speaker 1: Lauren was on the road with us the entire time
Speaker 1: we were on the road doing the campaign. Lauren is
Speaker 1: twenty five years old now, she was. I thought Lauren
Speaker 1: was about forty, not because she looks forty, but because
Speaker 1: her professionalism was so on point. She was so bombed
Speaker 1: and she took such great care of me on the roll.
Speaker 1: And when I say taking great care of me, I
Speaker 1: mean my bags were taking care of I was first
Speaker 1: class all the way. She would leave the credit card
Speaker 1: at the front office whatever hotel we checked in and say,
Speaker 1: whatever she wants in her or did you catch that
Speaker 1: whatever she wants, did you let me go back? Whatever
Speaker 1: she wants mind you, I'm walking in there looking like
Speaker 1: James Brown would have had on. But whatever she wants. Oh.
Speaker 1: I fell in love with Lauren Hoe. It was she
Speaker 1: will never get away from me ever. And she's here
Speaker 1: today because we're gonna talk about some things that's going
Speaker 1: on with h O. But we're gonna get to that.
Speaker 1: I want to just tell you I know what your
Speaker 1: week was like because you're not here with me. But
Speaker 1: I want to tell y'all got I got a rogue
Speaker 1: rat in my house, Not in my house, in my garage.
Speaker 1: Where's my thing? Yet? The rats is smart? One? I
Speaker 1: caught one, but you know where there's one, there's two,
Speaker 1: kind of like roaches or Republicans, you know what. Uh
Speaker 1: So I caught one rat, but I had left my
Speaker 1: box of edibles down in the garage. Look what the
Speaker 1: rat did to the edibles. The rat ate the jelly
Speaker 1: off the rat trap without popping it. Not only is
Speaker 1: this rat high, but this rat is brilliant smart. It
Speaker 1: must be a black woman. It's because black women have
Speaker 1: taken over. Just black women are the power of the
Speaker 1: strength and the back ball. But there is a rat
Speaker 1: walking around in Long Beach. That's like Snoop Dogg sipping
Speaker 1: on gin and juice. High as hell, be tms some
Speaker 1: laid back with my man and my money. You thought
Speaker 1: you were hiding. You thought you were hiding the edibles
Speaker 1: from the rat, and the rat was a little bit smarter. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't hide them. That is my handcouts. But that's
Speaker 1: my he weak cave he she week. If you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with he, she we is, let me break down
Speaker 1: the definition of he weak. He cash the check, she
Speaker 1: make the money. We spend the same bitch right here.
Speaker 1: He that's my very own pronoun. You know you're talking
Speaker 1: about pronouns. I do want to before we jump into
Speaker 1: the show, taking a chance, uh this opportunity to remind
Speaker 1: people that Friday was actually trans remembrance to day and
Speaker 1: and and that was especially important this year because the
Speaker 1: idea behind it is to recognize uh, members of the
Speaker 1: trans community who have died to violence. Correct, that's that's
Speaker 1: very correct. And we just lost a sister last week,
Speaker 1: UH due to her husband stabbing her so all over
Speaker 1: social media. Her name was Unicry Mean she rest in peace.
Speaker 1: And then I just said, on this morning, another young
Speaker 1: lady was killed. I don't know what's going on with
Speaker 1: all of that, but I'm gonna ask my sisters to
Speaker 1: remember too, that self preservation is the first law of nature. Now,
Speaker 1: you take it how you want to take it. But
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, if it comes down to
Speaker 1: a choice of me and you, I will always choose me. Plus,
Speaker 1: I watched plenty along order SVU. I know to get
Speaker 1: away with some ship. Oh I can't get away with
Speaker 1: some ship. Oh baby, trust me. I'm gonna happy with
Speaker 1: me and I'm put him down. And then when the
Speaker 1: police come, I'm gonna say, well, what happened. I'm said, well, officer,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. But that was his weapon.
Speaker 1: He dropped it, I picked up it went off thirteen times.
Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, ask him. Oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you can't ask him. Him dead. But friends, remember is
Speaker 1: November twenty thing. For people who want more information, they
Speaker 1: can go to HRC dot org because they have posted
Speaker 1: links to different information for those who may want to
Speaker 1: learn more. So my brothers, to my trans brothers and
Speaker 1: sisters out there, and protect yourselves whatever, in the words
Speaker 1: of Malcolm X, by any means necessary. Flame you kind
Speaker 1: of hinted at it because you're wearing the hair and
Speaker 1: you're looking good. You're wearing the black looking a bit
Speaker 1: conservative conservative. Well, you have to remember I just got
Speaker 1: to doing a interview with you on Breakfast Club where
Speaker 1: you didn't necessarily look like the reporter. Well, that will
Speaker 1: air on Friday, by the way, right, they have things
Speaker 1: given And I'm telling you all right now, if y'all
Speaker 1: think I said there and they don't fight the first time, oh,
Speaker 1: I think the hashtag will be saggy Maggie. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. Will definitely be saggy Maggie. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you something right now. I was watching the news
Speaker 1: this morning. I was trying to watch a view, but
Speaker 1: I was put my makeup on and I was looking
Speaker 1: at the state of the world, and you know, I
Speaker 1: go back to my whole Wizard of odds effect because
Speaker 1: I said that in order for us to beat this
Speaker 1: coronavirus and to beat the system that the Trump is
Speaker 1: um that we needed to have the whole heart, mind,
Speaker 1: and the brain because the story Wizard of Oz is
Speaker 1: we were trying to get back Dorothy was trying to
Speaker 1: get back home. She encountered three people that needed a heart,
Speaker 1: of mind and brain, and those are the three qualities.
Speaker 1: I think that we need to become great Americans again,
Speaker 1: to be in a place of at least complicity because
Speaker 1: the world is so divided right now. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: fix it because laugh and line, we're gonna bring you in.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make you laugh, We're gonna make you think,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna look at the pretty beach that's hosted.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about that too. I left a
Speaker 1: message earlier today letting people know to join us today
Speaker 1: of one pm Pacific standard for PM Eastern because we
Speaker 1: would have special White House correspondent as a guest. April Ryan,
Speaker 1: who is the author of under Fire, you know, was
Speaker 1: the best claimed How many messages did you get from
Speaker 1: people wanting you to ask different questions to miss Ryan? Ms?
Speaker 1: Ryan um inboxed me and told me that she knows
Speaker 1: exactly my plight that I told her about. That sweet
Speaker 1: because she has a thirteen year old daughter and an
Speaker 1: eighteen year old daughter, so we tweeted in that aspect
Speaker 1: and baby. But the difference is what a woman raising
Speaker 1: daughters to me, I think it's better than a man
Speaker 1: raising them because we put I'm gonna push over. I'm
Speaker 1: a monster to everybody, but I'm gonna push over to
Speaker 1: my daughters. And I definitely understand why little girls turn
Speaker 1: into pimps when they get older, because it starts at
Speaker 1: home with their dad's They pimped that out, then they
Speaker 1: pimped out their husbands and boyfriends. You know, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you always want to give the man the bed cud.
Speaker 1: You know this equal opportunity. I'm on the man's side
Speaker 1: and on the woman's side because I have been the
Speaker 1: man and the woman in the same night. Sometimes depend
Speaker 1: on who turner was, whether they're the weekend, how much money.
Speaker 1: I'm just letting y'all know where we're at. That sounds
Speaker 1: a little creative, like Frankenstein, like you can be a
Speaker 1: real monster, baby, Frankenstin, understand that. Let me let me
Speaker 1: break down the philosophy of Frankenstein to you all, because
Speaker 1: everybody thinks that Frankenstein was the monster. Frankenstein was never
Speaker 1: the monster. Frankenstein created the monster and did not want
Speaker 1: to face his name. It's kind of like what we
Speaker 1: do in real life with everything, with your relationships, with
Speaker 1: your parents, with your children. We create these monsters and
Speaker 1: then we don't want to face them. You know, we
Speaker 1: have a let me and I'm going to use this
Speaker 1: as a synopsis. And you know, some girls gonna get mad.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't give a fuck. Um, we have
Speaker 1: a transgender senator, our very first one. Her name is
Speaker 1: um Sarah McBride out of Delaware. We love to holler
Speaker 1: from the trans community that people don't like us, they
Speaker 1: don't accept us for who we are. But statistically, trans girls,
Speaker 1: trans women don't vote regularly. So this woman has been
Speaker 1: put in office as a state senator. And if we
Speaker 1: didn't vote for her, who did? Because she wont You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And I know that sounds like wow,
Speaker 1: but it's not a while. It is real, and we
Speaker 1: have to stop creating monsters and did not want to
Speaker 1: face these demons. We create our own demons and then
Speaker 1: don't want to face them. I'm telling you, I know
Speaker 1: a demon. I got two of them, both of my
Speaker 1: baby mamas. They both name baby. I created two demons.
Speaker 1: I'm running every day. Good God, I'm running. So what
Speaker 1: you're saying is that, you know, here is a member
Speaker 1: of the trans community who clearly was able to win
Speaker 1: office by garnering the vote of constituents who did not
Speaker 1: necessarily look like her exactly. And Delaware must be the
Speaker 1: hot spot because we got the new president from Delaware
Speaker 1: and we get trans woman and she's cute. You know,
Speaker 1: most of the time they had the ones that look
Speaker 1: like Herbert with a wig gonna. She's actually lovely. You know.
Speaker 1: You and I kind of glazed over it earlier because
Speaker 1: we we we talk all the time regularly and people
Speaker 1: know that, and this is just an hour where we
Speaker 1: kind of opened it up to other people. But you
Speaker 1: and I were just talking about how there have been
Speaker 1: a lot of reports about the progress being made with
Speaker 1: vaccinations and vaccines and how we could be just literally
Speaker 1: weeks away from maybe as many as three different vaccines
Speaker 1: that could hit the marketplace. Uh yeah, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm more than three weeks away. I'm miles and
Speaker 1: millions of years. I am not taking it. I don't
Speaker 1: trust it. I don't trust the people who have created it.
Speaker 1: I don't like any of it. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: My baby. My kids don't even take a flu shop.
Speaker 1: My children are seventh, teen, seventeen, and thirteen. I didn't
Speaker 1: say seventeen twice because I've made a mistake. I got
Speaker 1: to seventeen year olds, both seven months apart, two different
Speaker 1: baby mamas. Oh please, don't let these titis fool you
Speaker 1: any You know that's called hood twins. You know that's
Speaker 1: what it's called, actually called it's actually called my pullout
Speaker 1: game and what it used to be. Let me just
Speaker 1: re ruled all about the situation. But have never had
Speaker 1: a flu shot, and they've also never had the flu.
Speaker 1: I don't so many things that I don't trust. And
Speaker 1: it's not that I don't trust all government, but for
Speaker 1: this last year has been so with the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, it's been so shaky. I don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with it. Well, flaim, I do want to plug
Speaker 1: in that. There has been some controversy around that because uh,
Speaker 1: there's been a focus on HBCUs, specifically more than five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand rapid coronavirus tests have been distributed to hbc
Speaker 1: U s UM and a lot of people have stepped
Speaker 1: up to say that this is a great idea because unfortunately,
Speaker 1: African Americans are five times more likely to be hospitalized
Speaker 1: from coronavirus, and a recent administration analysis of HBCUs also
Speaker 1: found that schools to have predominantly minority faculty with other
Speaker 1: health variables making them a higher risk demographic, meaning that
Speaker 1: a lot of the faculty members look more like Valerie,
Speaker 1: Miss Valerie and Miss Rosetta. So we have to also
Speaker 1: keep them in mind who may not be um as
Speaker 1: young and able to recover because they may have co morbidities. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're understanding this to all my students at the hbc
Speaker 1: USE because Lauren Hogan is also an hbc You graduate
Speaker 1: from Spellman, Uh, don't do it. I know money is tight,
Speaker 1: don't do all I can think about. Look up the
Speaker 1: Tuskegee A report. Look up that. Let me to let
Speaker 1: you all talk to Laura because she went to hbc U.
Speaker 1: And I know money's tight when you're in college, but
Speaker 1: I'm telling you don't get this. Seventeen hundred and Kint
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree. I mean,
Speaker 1: and a lot of things like I don't get a
Speaker 1: flu shot either. The last food shot I got, I
Speaker 1: was twelve and ended up with stomach virus and I
Speaker 1: was like bed ridden for two weeks. Haven't gotten to
Speaker 1: flush since I'm fine. So same thing goes for me
Speaker 1: with the vaccine. Let you know, however, many millions of
Speaker 1: people take it, Let's see what happens. I'm not. I
Speaker 1: don't feel safe to take it. I don't feel confident
Speaker 1: and what's happened or what's transpired to make me feel like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is something that will be good for me. I
Speaker 1: don't feel that way. And I agree, I mean, I
Speaker 1: hear all that you're saying, Nick, in terms of why
Speaker 1: are the reasoning behind you know, they're trying to take
Speaker 1: the vaccine to you know what hpc us. But initially
Speaker 1: when coronavirus came out, there was two friends doctors that
Speaker 1: came out and said, how do why don't we just
Speaker 1: go to Africa and test people and see what happens.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got real culed for it and everything else.
Speaker 1: But it's very unsettling for me that we're taking into
Speaker 1: the black community to test out at the guinea pigs
Speaker 1: say that one more time because black people ain't never
Speaker 1: first for ship. Let me let me go back. We
Speaker 1: ain't never first for Jack, but now we first, because
Speaker 1: you know, they keeps saying statistically, black and brown children
Speaker 1: are damn fasted. That's the overplay for the underplay, because
Speaker 1: they want us to take the shot first. Give it
Speaker 1: to your mama, because I ain't taking it. I loved you.
Speaker 1: To be clear, what we're actually say is do your research.
Speaker 1: We're not necessarily giving medical advice. We're just I'm not
Speaker 1: telling you what our opinions. Yes, my strong opinion and
Speaker 1: how I feel. And y'all know how I feel about
Speaker 1: Fauci anyway. If you don't know, go watch back and
Speaker 1: watch you last week's laugh and learn, because every time
Speaker 1: I see that nigga smiling, Yeah, it's a set up. Nicholas.
Speaker 1: I love you. I'm gonna sit you up. I got
Speaker 1: somebody on here. I want to talk to this lady.
Speaker 1: She looks so pretty. She sent me the most beautiful
Speaker 1: pictures and we're gonna bring her own because I'll see you.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, by my love, remove nixt TOI. Y'all know,
Speaker 1: I got my real glasses on so I can see
Speaker 1: where you at MS Ryan. Can I call him as April, y'all?
Speaker 1: Is that appropriate? Is that appropriate? Lawrence? I have to
Speaker 1: ask because she's my manager and this Lauren put grabbing
Speaker 1: my hand when I go too far, because you know
Speaker 1: we'll go too far where you're gonna pinch me. It
Speaker 1: ain't no fun if you're gonna pinch me where I
Speaker 1: want to be pinched. So I'm so excited to have
Speaker 1: this lad you join us. I have been watching her
Speaker 1: because I didn't even get into politics until Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: I didn't give I didn't vote, I didn't give a
Speaker 1: damn about God gorgious. I love that head. You were
Speaker 1: beautiful like it? Good afternoon, Good morning? What are you
Speaker 1: in Baltimore? I'm outside of Baltimore. I'm in my dark office.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I changed the lightbulb to a
Speaker 1: blue light bulb, but I didn't turn it on. Um
Speaker 1: trying to make sure we're COVID. You know, ready, we'll
Speaker 1: just don't shoot yourself up with no lights. So I
Speaker 1: know somebody said it, but I don't think you like.
Speaker 1: Can I just start off by saying thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I reached out to April and asked April when she
Speaker 1: come and joined me on laugh and learning, and immediately
Speaker 1: she was like, oh my god, I love you. I
Speaker 1: was like, you know who? I was so enamored that
Speaker 1: you knew who I was. I called Lauren, I said, Chirl,
Speaker 1: she knew who I was. I know who you are.
Speaker 1: I saw the Tiffany Hattes special I talked. We talked
Speaker 1: to Tiffany Hattris and I talked about you, um at
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry's studio opening, and I'm just I'm just enamored
Speaker 1: and I'm a fan. That's all. Well, I'll take that,
Speaker 1: and you know what it is. I just because I
Speaker 1: see I've seen you in the White House Correspondence for
Speaker 1: so many years, and this last one just I'm telling
Speaker 1: you something. If I could come there, there's a man
Speaker 1: up under these titties. I just want you to know that.
Speaker 1: And if I could have got up in there one time,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I would have reached havoc up in
Speaker 1: there because of the disrespect. But we ain't. When you
Speaker 1: get to that right now, I want to start off
Speaker 1: with fun. So welcome to this show, Mrs Miss miss April.
Speaker 1: Can I call you, Miss April? Call me April? No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, I want to call you Miss April. I
Speaker 1: like missa. You know Miss April sounds respect. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. You earn that if you was just
Speaker 1: a regular lady, I'll be like girl if you don't
Speaker 1: knock it off. But you're not you, Miss April, Ryan
Speaker 1: Baby three books, What's the We and We searched hying load.
Speaker 1: I ordered on Amazon Amazon as the day left, je Bezos,
Speaker 1: I want my money back. Under Fire two thousand eighteen,
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, you had at mama's knee, and in
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen you had presidency in black and white.
Speaker 1: You are author, a wife, a mother. She got notife anymore,
Speaker 1: not a wife anymore. I didn't know you were not
Speaker 1: married anymore. Girl. I'm telling you something. I ain't never
Speaker 1: been married, and I'm never gonna get married because if
Speaker 1: a man asked me for something I want to do,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna punch him in the face. And I'm just
Speaker 1: big enough for girl to do it. Mrs. But you
Speaker 1: know what. The first question I want to ask you
Speaker 1: because I've always been interested to know this, and I
Speaker 1: my guess it's probably different for what it is. I
Speaker 1: want to know who was the most fun president? Did
Speaker 1: you work because you worked up on the Clinton. Um,
Speaker 1: you worked up under Bush, and you worked up on
Speaker 1: the Obama and you worked up under this last one.
Speaker 1: But out of the first three, who were who was
Speaker 1: the most fun off camera personally to you? So here's
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Um, each president is different, and it's
Speaker 1: like children. You know, you can't say which one is best.
Speaker 1: I think each one of them did the best that
Speaker 1: they knew how to do when they were in office.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, UM, you would
Speaker 1: be surprised when I tell you George W. Bush was
Speaker 1: us as gregarious as Bill Clinton. And this is you know,
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, we would talk. George W. Bush and
Speaker 1: I would talk about issues of race all the time.
Speaker 1: He recognized the subtle and overt racism that Barack Obama
Speaker 1: was going through when he was running against John McCain.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the stories that I have and the
Speaker 1: conversations I had when we weren't on camera. UM, Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: because of history and because he looks like me, I
Speaker 1: don't know, he has this this this dry sense of
Speaker 1: humor he'll say it and it's like your dead hand
Speaker 1: and then you're on the floor just rolling, you know.
Speaker 1: And he is. He's got this new book called Promised Land.
Speaker 1: But I think I'm a little biased towards him because
Speaker 1: he was the first, and you know, we never thought
Speaker 1: we would ever see the first. But he he's funny.
Speaker 1: He's what. He's got a box, he's plays basketball. He
Speaker 1: reminds me of my cousin, my brother, you know, somebody.
Speaker 1: And he was and believe it or not, he would
Speaker 1: always he looked out for me in his own way.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that. And I got some news too
Speaker 1: with that. You're the first one. I'm telling I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna tell nobody tell me, girl, I gonna tell you're
Speaker 1: actually the first one. I'm telling um publicly Monday. Look
Speaker 1: on my I g live because it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: promised plan, That's all I'm gonna say. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited. That is a fantastic mess. See,
Speaker 1: I would have thought you would have said Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: as Bill Clinton is most like me. Bill Clinton played
Speaker 1: the sax, he smoked the blond. He he did some
Speaker 1: things in the over office that I've done before, and
Speaker 1: you know all of that, just you know the similarity.
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's like, like I said, it's hard to pick.
Speaker 1: It's hard to pick uch one because they were all
Speaker 1: so different. Bill Clinton and hears something in my first book,
Speaker 1: we talked about this. We had a soulful dinner with
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, he didn't play the sax and
Speaker 1: he didn't smoke a blunt at the dinner. But what
Speaker 1: he did he ate chiplins and and and garlic fried
Speaker 1: chicken on one for Clinton was gangster. To me, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you something right now. I was never angry with
Speaker 1: Bill about what did he did. I've done that many times.
Speaker 1: I've been on both. You know, what he what he did,
Speaker 1: what he write, what he did now, what he did
Speaker 1: was basically something I think that Hillary had to deal with.
Speaker 1: That was between those two, um mostly than anything. And
Speaker 1: and you know they it was. I don't even get
Speaker 1: into that. I don't want to relitigate that because we're
Speaker 1: gonna relitigate that forever. But that that it's as people
Speaker 1: as they are people. That's something we have to remember.
Speaker 1: They are people. Um, this one, I I there's no
Speaker 1: saving grace for this one. To me, um, but I
Speaker 1: saw the humanity in the last three and I don't
Speaker 1: see that with him. Definitely, it's something as small as
Speaker 1: having a pet. The last three had pets. This one
Speaker 1: can't even bring himself to love anything else but himself.
Speaker 1: And that's all I'm gonna say. Well, we are the
Speaker 1: collateral damage as Americans behind that. So I understand that
Speaker 1: I want to know something, April, Miss April, and I
Speaker 1: need to know the truth from you about this. How
Speaker 1: in the hell did you keep your professional composure and
Speaker 1: some of those Let me tell you something. I am
Speaker 1: a black man and woman up on the all that
Speaker 1: I would have exploded, But I understand. I want to
Speaker 1: you have the patience of job. Let me say that
Speaker 1: because that was one time I think he called you
Speaker 1: out about the Black Caucus. I'm like, and you looked
Speaker 1: at him like, why are you calling on me? But
Speaker 1: you were so patient and your composure and temperature state
Speaker 1: to say, please tell me where you learned that from.
Speaker 1: You know, my mother and father donned glory and both
Speaker 1: of them were grarians. Date. My mother came from a
Speaker 1: farming family in North Carolina and my father came from
Speaker 1: a farming family in Maryland. They never imagined that their
Speaker 1: daughter would be at the White House. They never imagined
Speaker 1: that I a descendant of the last known slave slave
Speaker 1: that I know of in my family or my mama's side.
Speaker 1: Five generations we moved from a slave called Joseph Dollar
Speaker 1: Brown sold on the auction block and faith for North Carolina.
Speaker 1: And if I get up there doing all this and
Speaker 1: doing all that, I negate everything that they worked for
Speaker 1: Harriet Tubman, word for Rosa Parks, work for John Lewis,
Speaker 1: batt Ruston h Martin, Luther, King, Malcolm X, everybody. Market's
Speaker 1: got everyone. I would negate that. I have to stand.
Speaker 1: It's not about me. It's not about me. It's about
Speaker 1: the issues that our community, all of the issues that
Speaker 1: our community still needs answers for. So at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I don't know. My mother always you know,
Speaker 1: my mother always talked me humility, and my father used
Speaker 1: to you know, when I first went to the White House,
Speaker 1: God rested, so he said, Lord, he prayed for me
Speaker 1: before we had his family prayer. Um. He said, Lord,
Speaker 1: let her keep her home, training and stuff. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you brought that up about your mom and stealing something
Speaker 1: on you because this lady here, this Lord Hogan. When
Speaker 1: we were on the road last year for HF doing
Speaker 1: a campaign, I thought she was much older than she is,
Speaker 1: Miss Ryan, because she's so professional and she's so spot
Speaker 1: on with her with what she does, and so diligent
Speaker 1: about it. And I love that you are educated woman.
Speaker 1: This is a young, powerful, educated woman. I told her
Speaker 1: I was interviewing with you. She said, old Flanne, please
Speaker 1: let me come. Because what you have said, those words
Speaker 1: about your mom, her mother, I know her mother. Her
Speaker 1: mother is a monster. And when I say that, I
Speaker 1: mean that she has instilled in her daughter such a
Speaker 1: powerful professionalism and and getting the job done and not
Speaker 1: making excuses because you're a woman, and at least being
Speaker 1: a woman of color. She just made it happen. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring Lauren because Lauren wants to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Talk to Lauren. We talk to the April.
Speaker 1: Come on, Lauren, talk to me. We got we got
Speaker 1: flame over there and flame flame but whatever, the flame
Speaker 1: and the Monro always I love him, I said, funny,
Speaker 1: it's holding well first and foremost, Like I said, I'm
Speaker 1: a huge fan. There's only a couple of reporters on
Speaker 1: Twitter that I follow and you were one of them.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a pleasure to be here to talk
Speaker 1: with you. I'm more so wanted to ask you, did
Speaker 1: you ever imagine that you would be at the forefront,
Speaker 1: you know, as a White House correspondent, having to defend
Speaker 1: one your credibility and also to what you're ringing to
Speaker 1: the media. Um, you know what, that's such a powerful question.
Speaker 1: Thank you for asking that. Never Okay, I'm a journalist,
Speaker 1: a trained journalist from Morgan State University and HBCU. I'm
Speaker 1: a product of Baltimore, Maryland. Not many people out of Baltimore, UM,
Speaker 1: really step out and in the community, not gravitate towards
Speaker 1: us and say, you know, we've done it. There's a
Speaker 1: thing of pride, there's a thing of community here and
Speaker 1: also in Baltimore. You know, the first thing that they
Speaker 1: say is you know, um, you have the word failure
Speaker 1: built into your existence. But you have to overcome all
Speaker 1: of that. And with that said, then you have someone
Speaker 1: challenging you mm hmm about your your who you are,
Speaker 1: about your journalistic integrity, about just anything about your being
Speaker 1: that knocks at you. And sometimes you go home and say,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what are they staying and you have
Speaker 1: to really come back to yourself. And I believe if
Speaker 1: you are standing on the pillars that you know for
Speaker 1: sure cannot be not you will be okay. But it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot to have a president of the
Speaker 1: United States, particularly this one, where people who may not
Speaker 1: be so sound in mind listen to him. They believe him,
Speaker 1: and they believe him so much so that right now,
Speaker 1: in this moment, you have sevent of Republicans that believe
Speaker 1: wrongly that he won this election. And their thought is
Speaker 1: is that Joe Biden stolen. Joe Biden is doing things
Speaker 1: to take it. Why because he said so, and just
Speaker 1: because he said so, it's not right to be president
Speaker 1: of the United States. You have to understand. You have
Speaker 1: to honor your words, you have to honor people. You
Speaker 1: have to understand that your words vibrate, your words mean something.
Speaker 1: And every time he took a knock at me and
Speaker 1: what he was saying enemy of the press, I got
Speaker 1: death threats, bomb scares. I've had the bomb squad at
Speaker 1: my home, I've had the FBI at my home. I've
Speaker 1: had to move my home. But in the midst of
Speaker 1: it all, everything that I've said is panning out to
Speaker 1: be And sometimes you have to know what you know
Speaker 1: and stand on it. I mean, it's tough. And I
Speaker 1: didn't sign up when I went to Morgan State University
Speaker 1: to do this, to run for my life. Because I
Speaker 1: raised my hand and asked about Mr President, do you
Speaker 1: realize we're taking the knee really means, Mr President? Or
Speaker 1: you want to apologize to to the Exonerated five formerly
Speaker 1: the Central Park five. I never thought that asking those
Speaker 1: questions would cause me to run and run with my
Speaker 1: children for my life if I had a chance to
Speaker 1: do it again. I don't know if I saw the
Speaker 1: movie play out before me. This thing is scary. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I thank God for giving me the
Speaker 1: strength to do it, because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere because if I do, I thank
Speaker 1: God for your Meiche and for Abby if all those
Speaker 1: other reporters. But before I started asking questions like that,
Speaker 1: and I've been at the White House in January will
Speaker 1: be twenty four years and before I started asking these questions,
Speaker 1: you will even hear about it that much. Enjoy read
Speaker 1: my friend Joy Read Who's doing a wonderful job anchoring
Speaker 1: seven pm on MSNBC. She said, before April, you know,
Speaker 1: there wasn't anyone, and now April's here, it's now vogue
Speaker 1: to ask questions on matters of race. It shouldn't be vogue.
Speaker 1: It should be every community, every issue should be asked,
Speaker 1: no matter why. Everything comes to the White House from water,
Speaker 1: peace and everything in between. And that bothers me so
Speaker 1: much that people are afraid to ask questions, and it
Speaker 1: bothers me more so that people feel that I am
Speaker 1: out of order by asking it. There needs to be
Speaker 1: a Civics lesson, a universal civics lesson of United States
Speaker 1: history and United the interaction of government to government, the
Speaker 1: interaction of the president of government, because people don't know
Speaker 1: because instead of saying okay, they want to fight you,
Speaker 1: they want to meet you after you leave word, they
Speaker 1: want to teralyze you. And your kids didn't want to
Speaker 1: simple It's crazy and that's all from this president. You're right,
Speaker 1: and I think in a lot of ways, I also
Speaker 1: say like, I thank you for the questions that you asked,
Speaker 1: because under the Obama administration, you know, there was a
Speaker 1: sense of comfort, at least for myself that I had
Speaker 1: that I didn't really feel like I had to tune
Speaker 1: in and pay attention because it was kind of like,
Speaker 1: I know, we're gonna be all right, but if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for reporters like you, you know, under this administration,
Speaker 1: it made me wake up and pay attention and really
Speaker 1: start to engage and listen and learn what was happening
Speaker 1: in our country. Lauren, you have to because you I
Speaker 1: don't know how what you are, but I'm I'm loud
Speaker 1: and proud about Okay, you cute somber when I was
Speaker 1: remember um, let me have um a few strands ago. Um,
Speaker 1: let me say, is I want you to look up
Speaker 1: Bull Connor. I want you to look up the name
Speaker 1: George Wallace. I want you to look up the Edmund
Speaker 1: Pettis Bridge that was back in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 1: If you close your eyes, turn your head and opiagere
Speaker 1: fast and close him again, you think you were back
Speaker 1: there with this moment in time, with the CPS own picture.
Speaker 1: We can't go backwards. And what I've found is that
Speaker 1: each generation has to be a steward maintain what's happening
Speaker 1: because we can't just rely in fact, oh, the Civil
Speaker 1: Rights Act was passed, that was back in nineteen was
Speaker 1: sixties something, early sixties and early mid sixties, and then oh,
Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act was passed nine five, mid sixties
Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act. We're voting without the full enforcement of
Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act now because they stripped it in
Speaker 1: in the Spring Court with Shelby versus Older. It took
Speaker 1: out pre clearance. If you don't know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go through a lot with this for pre clearance,
Speaker 1: but look up what preclarance means. But the synopsis of
Speaker 1: a synopsis with preclarance is is that certain Southern states
Speaker 1: we're mandated. Anytime they changed the rules for their voting procedures,
Speaker 1: they had to get approval from the Justice Department. They
Speaker 1: gutted that. That's what happened back in nine five. So
Speaker 1: we in where we're voting. They're stealing out there. They're
Speaker 1: stealing our votes. They are hijacking the mail boxes, breaking
Speaker 1: up the sorting machines. They have put out fake ballot boxes.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm getting back. Every generation has to maintain something,
Speaker 1: and the civil rights if we had civilantic while we
Speaker 1: being pushed away from certain places. Now it's like this
Speaker 1: is crazy. MS. April, I'm on payback because guess what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. They're cheating. So I cheated to I voted
Speaker 1: in my man name and in my woman name and
Speaker 1: got a whole busload of bitches that looked like me.
Speaker 1: And I don't say, said Donald Trump. Donald Trump, if
Speaker 1: you're watching, you've been looking for a woman with balls
Speaker 1: to stand up to you for years. I am a
Speaker 1: woman with balls for real. Understand I would that's what
Speaker 1: and I would have to watch. Miss. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you a question. How excited were you when Biden and
Speaker 1: Harris got the ticket? How when I saw Bid run
Speaker 1: to the podium, I got recharged. I was like, come on, oh, Joe,
Speaker 1: they keep calling Joe. Oh, I say, Joe and Jill
Speaker 1: went up to heal and they weren't looking for the
Speaker 1: water Jill gave Joel. Jill gave Joe that blue peel
Speaker 1: and they still getting it in bo. I was like,
Speaker 1: come on, Joe. I was so excited for him. And
Speaker 1: I was overwhelmed with Kamala Harris sister who graduated from HBCU,
Speaker 1: who clammed all the way up to the ladder. Because
Speaker 1: we all expected it to be a Michelle Obama to
Speaker 1: be the first, very first woman in a position like
Speaker 1: that or somebody shell Obama does not want problems. You know,
Speaker 1: she Southuth of Chicago. From Chicago, baby, you get it.
Speaker 1: So you get because you cross, you crossed, either one
Speaker 1: of you. It's like, no, that's why you should have
Speaker 1: hired me to be your bodyguard, because when they would
Speaker 1: have got out of land, I would have looked like
Speaker 1: your girlfriend. I would have dropped them. I would have
Speaker 1: dropped them when they stew it there, boom, y'all get
Speaker 1: out a lot of meat flame. And I know you were.
Speaker 1: I know you were, Biden, and I was so excited.
Speaker 1: I want to know how you feel about Biden getting
Speaker 1: this so so, as a journalist is a trained journalist,
Speaker 1: I'm unbiased for this moment, for the looking over everything
Speaker 1: and what the nation is dealing with anybody but Trump.
Speaker 1: That's what I felt because I've had to take myself
Speaker 1: out of the journalistic journalistic role for a minute, because
Speaker 1: the last few months have been so deadly. You got
Speaker 1: two over two hundred and fifty some thousand people who
Speaker 1: are dead, You've got a race war that he put setuates.
Speaker 1: This should not have been a million mega march in
Speaker 1: the streets of Washington, d C. In the midst of
Speaker 1: a COVID pandemic, and then it should in this in
Speaker 1: this country, there never should have been a million, a
Speaker 1: mega million March number one. That's nothing but white supremacy.
Speaker 1: You know that was only about six people. It was
Speaker 1: kind of like should have never been, right, I know
Speaker 1: what you're saying. It should have never been. And it's someone,
Speaker 1: and it's someone, and it's someone that has had to
Speaker 1: deal with his terrorism, who has been traumatized by him.
Speaker 1: Anybody meant him? Now. I do know Joe Biden very well. Um.
Speaker 1: I do know Senator Kamala Harris for race. Um. She
Speaker 1: is a woman of color, but she identifies black. And
Speaker 1: she's in an HBC you just like I attended an HBC.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, Howard and Morgan have a rivalry,
Speaker 1: but bears eat Fyson. But anyway, I hear a challenge
Speaker 1: because you are an honorary Delta, right, Yes, I am
Speaker 1: a Delta, and all of my soulars out there. Hello.
Speaker 1: But you know it's so beautiful that acceptance night, when
Speaker 1: they came out and accepted it, you saw deltas, you
Speaker 1: saw a k You saw black women out there. We
Speaker 1: are seen, We are finally seen. We have been the
Speaker 1: backbone of so much in this nation, save democracy, and
Speaker 1: we are finally seen. And I'm gonna say this. I
Speaker 1: never thought, you know, after the Clinton is, I know
Speaker 1: that that was Clinton was your guy. After Clinton Is,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, oh, it will never be as
Speaker 1: newsy as Clinton. Here comes George W. Bush. I said, Oh,
Speaker 1: it'll never be as newsy after George W. Was. Here
Speaker 1: comes as black man with Biggs Will Bob and played basketball.
Speaker 1: Oh it'll never be as newsy after Barack Obama. Then
Speaker 1: here comes the orange infestation. So you gotta stop saying that, April.
Speaker 1: You gotta Stuncle tells you invited this foolishness in here
Speaker 1: now because you can see it will never be so
Speaker 1: I get where it came from because you kept saying
Speaker 1: so I need you to stop saying that right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this. But I never but I never
Speaker 1: thought I would see the history of the first black president.
Speaker 1: I was there at the White House when he was
Speaker 1: elected and George Bush was upstairs. I didn't cry. I
Speaker 1: saw the spontaneous crowd coming to Alafia Park in front
Speaker 1: of the White House. Guard Nana naa Hey Bush good bye.
Speaker 1: I didn't cry. Other people did. But I cried when
Speaker 1: he left because I saw history. I didn't cry with Kamala,
Speaker 1: but you know what, it brings chills to me to
Speaker 1: raise my I raised my hand for the first black president,
Speaker 1: and to raise my hand saying, madame vice president, vice president.
Speaker 1: They fly, they can't get a name right, but you
Speaker 1: can get that right, madame vice president, madam. And you
Speaker 1: don't know her name, you call her man, you damn tree.
Speaker 1: And you know, you know I was not team common
Speaker 1: for president. You know, I was Yang. But as soon
Speaker 1: as Commona got the nomination, I started wearing my blue
Speaker 1: glasses because I was team Biden and and and Harris
Speaker 1: all the way. But on my ye, it's cool John
Speaker 1: John Yang gave a lot. It's one. All of those
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand candidates were all the stage games. It
Speaker 1: was a lot of them, and I was like it
Speaker 1: was the wedding down started. But they all brought something,
Speaker 1: and they they brought something to the table to make
Speaker 1: the party think, because the party needs to have a renaissance. Actually,
Speaker 1: the Democrats and the Republicans need to rethink who they
Speaker 1: are because are you a Trump likan or are you
Speaker 1: the old guard? The vanguard of the Republican Party. Are
Speaker 1: you conservative? Are you a Trump Lakant? What are you
Speaker 1: for the Democrats? Are you centrist? Are you far left?
Speaker 1: Are you progressive? What are you? There needs to be
Speaker 1: a coming together and it's each party is not a
Speaker 1: monolitht but they have to make sure that everyone is
Speaker 1: under the When I say everyone, everyone is under the umbrella.
Speaker 1: And that's some of the reasons that Donald Trump wrote
Speaker 1: because you found a lot of people who not just
Speaker 1: feeling in the Obama years, but for many decades that
Speaker 1: they weren't touched by government. So everyone has to feel
Speaker 1: like they matter. Everyone. You just made a statement about
Speaker 1: women coming so far and black women, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited to know what you think that that
Speaker 1: this new administration is going to look like, how colorful
Speaker 1: it's gonna look like thirty one flavors at basket Robbers.
Speaker 1: We got we got indigenous, we got a rainy in,
Speaker 1: we got a trans woman. Missing about that she's cute
Speaker 1: and she's cute because you know a lot of times
Speaker 1: they're looking like James Brown with a wig go, but
Speaker 1: she's actually cute. I can say it because I'm part
Speaker 1: of the trans communtery. I can say. You can't say,
Speaker 1: but I can say so. And here's the hypocrisy that
Speaker 1: I've stated earlier, because they say statistically trans women don't
Speaker 1: vote so and we loved it as a transparent I
Speaker 1: can imagine you know what, you know why because they
Speaker 1: probably felt like they were included. Do you know it's taken?
Speaker 1: We remember Biden was the one who made the mistake
Speaker 1: talking about same sex marriage. He he's the one who
Speaker 1: pushed the envelope and that was a mistake. He wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to say it so early. So and then that
Speaker 1: brought a lot of people like, wow, we're included. It is.
Speaker 1: It is unfathomable that there is any group of people
Speaker 1: who feel like the United States government is not covering them.
Speaker 1: It is. It's I don't understand, and everyone I don't
Speaker 1: care raised gender, sexual orientation. You pay your taxes, right,
Speaker 1: and more than seven hundred and fifty dollars, let me
Speaker 1: say that. How about that? And he's alive, when he's
Speaker 1: allowed when that seven hundred fifty thousand, fifty seven hundred
Speaker 1: fifty dollars and we paid what is it, two hundred
Speaker 1: fifty thousand just for the drugs to save him until
Speaker 1: January noon. Letitia, Letitia that prosecuted in the you hit
Speaker 1: Me girl, get him? Remember the movie what's the movie
Speaker 1: not a Living Dead? When the lady was in the
Speaker 1: cemetery and he kept saying, Barbara, they're coming to get you,
Speaker 1: Barbara Donald, They're coming to get your dollar, get his ass.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna send them those emails that he
Speaker 1: was so hell being about from Hillary. I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: those emails while you're locked up. People don't know what
Speaker 1: that email was. You know what those emails was, miss April,
Speaker 1: all those emails cause see Bill had cheated on Hillary publicly,
Speaker 1: so Hillary had a boyfriend on the low low. Those
Speaker 1: were actually nudies and she didn't want abody to see him.
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's just my take on it. I
Speaker 1: love Hillary clips. I don't care who don't like that.
Speaker 1: I love Hillary. Baby. That was a joker, man, don't
Speaker 1: you tell y'all start Oh my gosh, you said, I said,
Speaker 1: What the hell? I said? It is my page. Thank
Speaker 1: you for joining me and laugh and learned. Don't come
Speaker 1: with it though, Can you come at me sideways? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna straighten you up. I promise I'm with Ms. April.
Speaker 1: Ryan Baby white House corresponded Ms. April, you know what
Speaker 1: I want to know. Also, since you've been in government,
Speaker 1: because you've been in government working in the way House
Speaker 1: since ninety seven. Yes, I've been working with them. I'm
Speaker 1: not in government, but I've been working with them. How
Speaker 1: has um the political uh satire changed from your perspective
Speaker 1: because you on the other side. We're not on that side,
Speaker 1: We're only outside looking at it, but you're actually on
Speaker 1: the inside. How has the the other Republican senators and
Speaker 1: Democratic senators and everybody in that pool treated you? Because
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a huge Nancy Pelosi fan. Nancy, if
Speaker 1: you're watching, girl, I would take my wig off of you.
Speaker 1: I get my breast cut out for you. I'm in
Speaker 1: love with Nancy Pelosi. Let me just you know Nances
Speaker 1: from Baltimore. You know her brother and her father were
Speaker 1: mayors in Baltimore. She's from Little Liblely in Baltimore. There's
Speaker 1: a special there's a special sauce in Baltimore. And also
Speaker 1: Elijah Comments was from Baltimore. A lot of y'all gangster
Speaker 1: from y'all got Monique from Baltimore. You've got just hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's from Baltimore. It's so many wonderful, powerful people from Baltimore,
Speaker 1: and y'all from Baltimore. I love you, Jada, but you're
Speaker 1: gonna cut your head go back to like you did
Speaker 1: at the end of set it off. I was in
Speaker 1: love with Ja at the end with the white beater
Speaker 1: and the ball here. Oh my god, I tried to
Speaker 1: knock that TV over. Jesus, thank you. That was the movie.
Speaker 1: Was that was the movie. So how have they been
Speaker 1: treating you? Because I know that, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff comes from the top. So we've seen his
Speaker 1: blade and disrespect of you publicly. How has people in
Speaker 1: his camp been towards you? Well, well, um, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna calling names. Lynn Patty remember her. At the very beginning,
Speaker 1: she called me miss Piggy. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: They called me miss Piggy in college and Miss Piggy
Speaker 1: was fabulous. I'm like, you know, and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be careful calling people names because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, it doesn't work so well for for people.
Speaker 1: But they don't like me. But the Republicans that I
Speaker 1: know that I've known for years and my sources they've
Speaker 1: been kind. But you have to you have to be
Speaker 1: very strategic and how you communicate. I cannot say who
Speaker 1: gives me information because people try to find out where
Speaker 1: I got things from. I mean, you'd be surprised with
Speaker 1: who I know and who I have their phone number
Speaker 1: and I text with who's in the ear of the president.
Speaker 1: So any good reporter worth their salt has um a
Speaker 1: rollerdex that is worth goal, titanium, platinum, whatever. People who
Speaker 1: I have, people who are in his ear, people who
Speaker 1: he interviews with. I have people who are in the
Speaker 1: Senate and the House that he talks with, or people
Speaker 1: who are very close to the situation there in the
Speaker 1: room when it happens or where it happens. So I
Speaker 1: get information still, Um, it's it's it's harder, but you know,
Speaker 1: I still get it. And it's on the money. Um.
Speaker 1: People are very easy. They're very good at giving me information,
Speaker 1: but they don't want their fingerprints on it. M M, Well,
Speaker 1: you tell that lady whatever her name was, that I said,
Speaker 1: you're a beautiful black woman, and black women have gonna
Speaker 1: let me tell you something that damn Stacy Abrams have
Speaker 1: came through like a battle lax baby and not playing
Speaker 1: with And this is the strength of the black man
Speaker 1: and the black woman. I'm saying this publicly because I
Speaker 1: know I'm about the Rockers some fellas, But y'all do
Speaker 1: know that I do not give a damn okay. Black women,
Speaker 1: black man. Same scenario, two different things that could have
Speaker 1: played out very differently. Stacy Abrams was cheated out out
Speaker 1: the governorship and I said it in in Georgia, and
Speaker 1: instead of her going on role and getting depressed, she
Speaker 1: got on the battlefield as a soldier and guarded all
Speaker 1: these votes so that Georgia turned blue, something that has
Speaker 1: not happened in many, many years. Andrew Gilliams same scenario,
Speaker 1: but she did out the governorship in Florida. But instead
Speaker 1: of him taking the high road, this nigga went to
Speaker 1: the hotel with the boy free. And I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to make a different choice and go
Speaker 1: a different route. Strong black But let me say, but
Speaker 1: you talk about Stacy was cheated, Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: seriousness of how she was cheated out of it. The
Speaker 1: man that she was going against counted the votes. There,
Speaker 1: you're talking about cheating and you see how they're recounting everything.
Speaker 1: Now Donald Trump is trying to put something in people's
Speaker 1: minds that that's not true or making them sway. This man.
Speaker 1: We can't ever say, yeah, your name, but how you
Speaker 1: want to be in a contest and you don't want
Speaker 1: counting the vote? Volks? How fair is that? That's this
Speaker 1: America right now? Because here do you want to tell you,
Speaker 1: miss April? I think that somebody and I'm you know
Speaker 1: who I'm going to fall. I don't like all these
Speaker 1: fense writers. I don't like the fence riders. I fought
Speaker 1: people who were standing there in it, who should have
Speaker 1: cared more about the American people than their own personal game,
Speaker 1: because they threw us under the bus as collateral damage
Speaker 1: because they wanted to keep their purse strings going, or
Speaker 1: they wanted to keep their relationship with this current administration,
Speaker 1: starting with Fauci, because when Faucci was standing behind this food,
Speaker 1: when he was talking about this, and Faucia is supposed
Speaker 1: to be a scientist, which I never trusted him since
Speaker 1: the Reagan years with the age benefic Ya don't want
Speaker 1: to get me started on that, because he said a
Speaker 1: z T will kill age. It did kill age. But
Speaker 1: in missed of killing the age that killed your pancreas,
Speaker 1: your liver, your goll bladder, and every and then it
Speaker 1: killed you. So the age died with you. So I
Speaker 1: didn't trust to him since then. And I said what
Speaker 1: I said, turn him to my house. He shorted me,
Speaker 1: I would drop their any who. I never trusted him since,
Speaker 1: but when they had that opportunity, when you were standing
Speaker 1: behind him, and one time Trump was saying something outlandish.
Speaker 1: I don't know what day, every day he said something outlandish,
Speaker 1: but Foulci put his hand down and put his head
Speaker 1: down and start laughing as if I'm he's lying to y'all,
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing him lying, and I can't even take
Speaker 1: this lap. You should have spoken then, because that we,
Speaker 1: the American people, would have heard you. We would have
Speaker 1: had something to believe. The unsurety of this pandemic and
Speaker 1: what was coming from the top has scared the hell
Speaker 1: out of all of us. It's scared the hell all
Speaker 1: of us. I'm with you, I am so with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen I've had friends who died early on,
Speaker 1: you know, from AIGs I've had, and and and the drugs.
Speaker 1: You're right, the drugs will killed early on. The drugs
Speaker 1: will kill you. I remember that and I remember how
Speaker 1: you know those drugs. If you're on this drugs, you
Speaker 1: can't eat this kind of food, you can't do It
Speaker 1: was crazy, um. And now the drugs have come, They've
Speaker 1: come a long way. But I'm my question is you know,
Speaker 1: I'm i'm i'm I'm looking at the science. I'm reporting.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the three companies UM now that have something
Speaker 1: very close. But the question is will there be trust
Speaker 1: because of what happened with AIDS? Will there be trust
Speaker 1: because of Tuskeg as well? I'm glad you brought that
Speaker 1: up because there are four two of we knew of
Speaker 1: HBCUs that are giving these students seventeen hundred dollars to
Speaker 1: be lab rats guinea pigs, two of which are in Louisiana.
Speaker 1: What are the Xavier and Dillard? And I know people
Speaker 1: are type of money. I know this is a rough,
Speaker 1: rough time, but I need somebody to get in these
Speaker 1: young kids here, because you know, when you're young, you
Speaker 1: think you're invincible. You're in college, you can conquer the world,
Speaker 1: but you're still a human in your body is still
Speaker 1: flesh and bone. You take this and you get the
Speaker 1: SEV you will never be allowed to live it. You
Speaker 1: gonna turn into a damn zombie. And personally, I hope
Speaker 1: they have to ask their parents permission. But just to
Speaker 1: let you know, the president of Dillard is also in
Speaker 1: the trial as well. He's taking it to He's in
Speaker 1: the trial. The president of Dillard, the president of Dillard
Speaker 1: University is in the trial. He wouldn't he would have
Speaker 1: to give me the dose out the same needle that
Speaker 1: he's taken because I'm not trusting nobody. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, miss April girl. I'm let me. I'm already figured.
Speaker 1: I'm already you know. They say flame you have to
Speaker 1: be politically correct. I said, I got a breast and
Speaker 1: a penis. I'm not even anatomically correct. Please don't tell
Speaker 1: me what to say or what to do. It's a
Speaker 1: whole lot of movement parts over here. I'm scared if
Speaker 1: I take the vac say something else gonna grow. But
Speaker 1: you know what, you're human being, this humanity. I'm a
Speaker 1: beautiful human being and gorgeous love your girl. I'm seriously,
Speaker 1: I mean you are. I mean, look, I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: looking at the pictures you there and all the pictures
Speaker 1: on our gem like I need to come for some tips.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, okay anyway, Um, But what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is we all are human beings. We all are human beings.
Speaker 1: And I say this and it's almost with tears in
Speaker 1: my eyes. Politics is not about party. It's about people,
Speaker 1: and it's about humanity and what we are watching right now,
Speaker 1: it is wearing a mask, to wear a mask or
Speaker 1: not to wear a mask. It's it's political. It's about
Speaker 1: your life. My uncle, my my late mother's brother, who
Speaker 1: will who I just talked to on the phone. He's
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia right now. He had bladder surgery and then
Speaker 1: he went for transfuction. Been in the hospital for about
Speaker 1: a month. Thursday they said he had COVID nine two
Speaker 1: years old. And listen to him on the phone breathy.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to cry. I didn't say anything to
Speaker 1: him myself. Uncle Paul, You're gonna be all right, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, it's in God's hands. I'm like, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this didn't have to be and it's it's said. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've lost other people, but it just hurts my heart.
Speaker 1: He's going to be ninety three years old if God
Speaker 1: allows it. On January nineteenth, the day before the inauguration,
Speaker 1: ninety three years old, and he's laying up in the
Speaker 1: hospital with COVID. Why because this president called it a
Speaker 1: hole tea don't want to wear a mask and all
Speaker 1: this foolishness. But he only paid seven hundred fifty dollars
Speaker 1: for taxes, and our tax dollars saved. It's life when
Speaker 1: everybody else is gone. You ain't hear that for me?
Speaker 1: Ms April. Let me ask you a question, because you
Speaker 1: were there with her, and I know you met Ruth
Speaker 1: Beta Geinsburg, the late great Miss Ruth Beata Ginsburg. How
Speaker 1: was she? You know? Because when she died, we were like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we lost, we lost. And so I
Speaker 1: went back to a teaching that my grandmother taught me
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and she said that we're
Speaker 1: all here only on loan. I felt like Ruth had
Speaker 1: struggled so long with cancer, so many different versions of cancer,
Speaker 1: losing her mother, her husband, so many people that she
Speaker 1: was like, I can't do no help here. So she
Speaker 1: left ten eleven days before the elections, go personally talk
Speaker 1: to God in his ear to say, look, my people
Speaker 1: need help do this up there, because she had a
Speaker 1: lot more impact up there with him than down here
Speaker 1: with us. This is how I've seen her, because people like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I was like, no, she she knew.
Speaker 1: She was a strong, fighting monster. And when I say monster,
Speaker 1: I say monster with love and affection. Y'all. Don't don't
Speaker 1: get it twist y'all, oh flame count No, I'm saying
Speaker 1: that that as a beastly, that she she saw what
Speaker 1: she wanted, she pushed through for women's rights, and so
Speaker 1: when she did, we did feel like, he mean, she
Speaker 1: should have held on for eleven more days. But I
Speaker 1: felt like my grandmother told me that before that we're
Speaker 1: only here on loan, that she went to do more
Speaker 1: help for us. Was she a sweet woman? To you?
Speaker 1: She was. Her body was tired. Um. When you see
Speaker 1: someone like that, it's like I still get awestruck, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like when I met met Mandela, it was like
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it someone could be that convicted in
Speaker 1: their spirit to put their life on the line literally
Speaker 1: for others. She worked for equality, She worked on women's issues,
Speaker 1: and she defied the odds and prayed to the gods
Speaker 1: to last just a little while longer. She didn't give
Speaker 1: up her seat on the Supreme Court because she knew
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump was gonna do. She's hung around as
Speaker 1: long as she could and her body gave out. She
Speaker 1: could have easily every time something happened, every time she
Speaker 1: had pneumoni or some kind of issue pack criticascer or
Speaker 1: whatever that came up, she could have easily walked away.
Speaker 1: She didn't. And that kind of strength, it's more that
Speaker 1: is something supernatural, that is a strength that you don't
Speaker 1: get every day. That's the strength of Nelson Mandelada. He
Speaker 1: forgave those who persecuted him Nelson mandel A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know this, but we couldn't take pictures with
Speaker 1: flash with Nelson Mandelda because when he was working in
Speaker 1: the quarry some of the lines don't got in the
Speaker 1: back of his eyes and if if if the light
Speaker 1: able to refracted and caused a lot of problems in
Speaker 1: this with the site. He went through so much for
Speaker 1: Africans in South Africa to first class citizenship. Because how
Speaker 1: long was he imprisoned is abl twenty seven years something
Speaker 1: like that. He was in prison for a while. He
Speaker 1: was in prison for for that several decades. Yes, seem
Speaker 1: that couldn't have been me first day. Baby, I'm telling
Speaker 1: them everybody, just I'm telling see like that's the determination,
Speaker 1: like Harriet Tubman head, because if I would have got away,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't coming back. Y'all want y'all own and see.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's what That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: See what you know. We get up on Instagram, we
Speaker 1: gotta pose and all that to try to show you
Speaker 1: I'm this, I'm that, But look under you know, get
Speaker 1: the sub story, get the backstory. That's the story I want.
Speaker 1: I don't care about all that post and you might
Speaker 1: see me pose that's but get the backstory. Oh, speaking
Speaker 1: of posing that picture with the microphone, Oh April, I
Speaker 1: love that picture of your That picture is boss. Let
Speaker 1: me say that picture is so BOSSI with the microphone
Speaker 1: like that, I'm like, oh, she looked gangster. I bet
Speaker 1: you the dang are you from Baltimore? You ain't gonna
Speaker 1: say nothing. El I know how y'all did, baby, I
Speaker 1: know how y'all did. Mr al Let me ask you
Speaker 1: another question before we get off of here. I want
Speaker 1: to know how was Mr John Lewis personally because we
Speaker 1: know his history. We know so many stories of how
Speaker 1: he just took on the baddest bridge, how they beat
Speaker 1: him across the head. And he's been in the civil
Speaker 1: rights he's he's still with Martin Luther King. He's still
Speaker 1: would be our rusting. A lot of y'all don't know
Speaker 1: who be our rusting is by our rustin Look it up,
Speaker 1: Please look him up, because he was mind you that
Speaker 1: the LGBT community has been involved in politics long before
Speaker 1: we was popular to be involved in politics, right, first
Speaker 1: class citizenship for everyone. Re godless of where you come from?
Speaker 1: What any what any orientation? Gender raised, what have you?
Speaker 1: Sexual orientations? Been around a long time and bear Rusting
Speaker 1: was a monster. He was a month So whatever you don't,
Speaker 1: don't tell me yet, Make them have that. Make them
Speaker 1: have their quiz for the next time you come on
Speaker 1: so they can tell you on the I g live.
Speaker 1: Have class, have class, teach them, teach them, Yes, teach
Speaker 1: me some class. But you know, I'm gonna throw back.
Speaker 1: How was John Lewis? What's he's? He? A friendly man?
Speaker 1: So John Lewis was the most wonderful man I ever met.
Speaker 1: And he was shortened stature but large and love um.
Speaker 1: I would see him and he would always make it
Speaker 1: a point to come, no matter he's seen me across
Speaker 1: the room, and he started moving towards me, and people
Speaker 1: would stop him and shake his hand and everything, but
Speaker 1: he kept coming, and I just stood there and waited.
Speaker 1: And it may have taken him half an offer. He'd
Speaker 1: come to me, how you doing, I'm good. I love
Speaker 1: you so I love you too, and he want to
Speaker 1: always see how it was because he knew that I
Speaker 1: was going through some stuff. He also knew that um
Speaker 1: I was one of the few people asking questions about
Speaker 1: us at the time. And game peeps, game, you know.
Speaker 1: And he had a heart for people. But he also
Speaker 1: had a heart for peace. I remember one time being
Speaker 1: angry about something. I was at Roland Martin's show, yeah
Speaker 1: years ago, and and the Congressman was coming in and
Speaker 1: I said something to the effect of I'm so angry.
Speaker 1: I'm so angry. He said, I'm with you no matter
Speaker 1: what you do, but you've got to do it peacefully.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, and we just started laughing. He broke
Speaker 1: the tension. But he believed in peace. Peace work. He believed,
Speaker 1: and no matter what you had to say do it peacefully,
Speaker 1: because you get further with peace, farther with peace than
Speaker 1: you would violently. Non violence was his was his, was
Speaker 1: his being, was its essence. And I missed him the
Speaker 1: day Biden was elected officially, which was that thirty after
Speaker 1: that Tuesday, and we finally got I put right on
Speaker 1: my Instagram page, please now bring April White Ryan back
Speaker 1: to the White House. Correspond because I miss you. I
Speaker 1: put that on my you. That was me. I started
Speaker 1: a campaign to bring you. I wanted you back and
Speaker 1: see and I didn't know that you that'll be back
Speaker 1: in I'm gonna be back, and we're gonna be doing something.
Speaker 1: I'm making some I believe that. I believe that this
Speaker 1: moment is a moment of creativity. Even in the midst
Speaker 1: of all of this pain, I said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go low and get the press, which I can do,
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna find out other ways to put the
Speaker 1: message out and just stay tuned. There's more comments and
Speaker 1: I won't Monday is promised land with President Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for the time. Girl. Tell tell President Obama
Speaker 1: that me and my child I make I have a
Speaker 1: huge book and a huge picture of him in my
Speaker 1: home because when I tell you, he gave me such hope,
Speaker 1: such joy, and such belief when I saw him, because
Speaker 1: I'm from Chicago. So when him and Michelle came out,
Speaker 1: when he actually got the nomination, I was not in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I was in Houston, Texas. And when I song, um
Speaker 1: him get that, and people would just overwhelmed. And it
Speaker 1: gave me such hope. It's not only as a black
Speaker 1: man or a trans woman. It gave me hope as
Speaker 1: an American that I can be and do anything I
Speaker 1: want to be. This brother then pulling it off, and
Speaker 1: then Michelle came out of her red and black Target dress.
Speaker 1: I said, girl, I got that dress. That was Jay Crew.
Speaker 1: It was Jay Crewe. I think I got the knocked
Speaker 1: off from Target. Though Michelle is so bond. Michelle is
Speaker 1: Chicago South side of the first shout out to Chicago,
Speaker 1: my hometown. I love my city. But Michelle is a
Speaker 1: big baby. Let me try something. You don't want to
Speaker 1: walk up on Michelle. I know all that. First lady.
Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all now, you don't want to walk up
Speaker 1: on Michelle. I'm telling you Oprah to see Oprah from Chicago.
Speaker 1: But she stayed in Chicago long enough, y'all think open, nice, Open,
Speaker 1: got a bodyguard named Gayl. That's what y'all know. Gail
Speaker 1: ain't just her best friend. Baby Michelle would drop you
Speaker 1: by miss Gell. Did you see how she coined Robert R.
Speaker 1: Kelly like birth. I'm like, okay, if Gail get up,
Speaker 1: she's gonna floor you so bad. And you know what,
Speaker 1: Ms Ryan, you have just gave me the greatest compliment
Speaker 1: I wanted. That's what I wanted you to leave this show.
Speaker 1: I wanted you to be able to say that you
Speaker 1: had a great time. Thank you for that. I enjoy you.
Speaker 1: I think you're amazing. Thank you, Ms Ryan. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: You are the bed I'm ready for you. Get back
Speaker 1: in there and let me tell you something. I know
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is not gonna put your ovelope with you,
Speaker 1: but if you ever need a bodyguard that they won't
Speaker 1: know that your bodyguard call me. You got my novel
Speaker 1: called me. But you know what, I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. The White House is going
Speaker 1: to be open, and it's they are saying it's gonna
Speaker 1: reflect America. I want you to hold them to that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Mr. Everybody. I'm telling you we
Speaker 1: got some soldiers on it. But I wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: good spokesperson for our community because I say things sometimes
Speaker 1: that ruffle people's feathers. But I want to I want
Speaker 1: to speak about these soldiers that we have that go
Speaker 1: on unmentioned. SORRYA Saint Claire out of Louisiana, Tatiana Moor
Speaker 1: now Chicago, Valerie Spencer here in Los Angeles. These girls
Speaker 1: are trans women who have been on the battlefield fighting
Speaker 1: for trans rice and equality invisibility for such a long time.
Speaker 1: And now we got a trans woman on the Senate. Baby,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something like Virginia Slams. We've come
Speaker 1: a long way, baby, and black women the same, black
Speaker 1: women taking over. I'll tell you my mom is a
Speaker 1: black woman. That's why I emulate a black woman, because
Speaker 1: I know black woman a beastly. I wanted to be
Speaker 1: a beast. April Bryan white House corresponding Fantastic mother, author,
Speaker 1: corresponding journalists. The next time you want see any n,
Speaker 1: you tell um um uh Anderson Cooper that I love him,
Speaker 1: and you tell that, damn, what's the big Italian name
Speaker 1: you tell Chris Pomo that I would I would crush
Speaker 1: bricks for Chris Pomo. That is a monster baby and
Speaker 1: wonderful way. Everybody has a crush on Chris Walmar. I
Speaker 1: know his who the brother, and I ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: able to pull Andrew a little little out of my league.
Speaker 1: He's just a little to you. I gotta type and
Speaker 1: he don't cut the age require but that Chris koo
Speaker 1: good guy. Let me I know his wife is a
Speaker 1: heavy woman. Every time she think about him taking his
Speaker 1: clothes off, she just stopped doing jumping every time Chris
Speaker 1: is working out and yeah, yeah, I'm like, but no,
Speaker 1: he's a He's a nice guy. And Anderson is wonderful.
Speaker 1: I love me some Anderson, and I love you some. Chris.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a blessed woman to be able to hang
Speaker 1: around with those people. Those What you are is an
Speaker 1: amazing role model. Thank you so much for doing this.
Speaker 1: I appreciated, heart me and Nick Smith laugh and learned.
Speaker 1: Ms Abra Ryan lations you. White House corresponded, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. It was a pleasure to meet you. Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Baltimore's finest baby. I want to talk with Lauren Hogan
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Speaker 1: on it with Miss April when we were discussing it.
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