WEBVTT - Can't we try and fix America? 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:44.239 Laugh if you watch coffee time too. Baby, you know 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.160 the name flame, my role also known as my role Flame. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.560 Come in with last and come in with jam love lounds. Baby, 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.720 you better catch it when you can't drop a knowledge 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.840 from fatherhood of politics shouting now comics just paying homics. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.800 What's up? Tip? Yeah you know she raped shot towns 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.800 on speaking to the grown a second. We're gonna last 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.920 cut of the kicking and at the end we leave it, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.399 which is a lift. Spirits make you want to revisit. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.280 So your first take a list at jem. Folks like 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.920 it slip oh, folks that we dig it to hein. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.320 No kids do what you doin't no kids do what 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.680 you do. Can't no kiss do what I do? No kid. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:45.280 We're saying, come on, come on, come on in the room. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.440 Did I sound like you? Sounded just like the lady. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.760 It's the gospel song when she said come out the 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.120 room baby about two hundred and fifty years old. Baby, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.520 that's called good living, good ebt funny. Come on, flame 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:06.560 matts chiming, chime up, chime around, Come onlification. You started 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.400 a live video there, well, Hello, welcome, welcome, welcome, Come on, 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.360 come on, come out, Lauren say that today y'all. Y'all 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.000 missed it though, so we gotta get how to do 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:19.960 it again. Y'all. Come on, Lauren, what is it? Come 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:25.000 on in your room, baby, Laurna got old on y'all 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:30.600 for a come out. I've always been a claim MAT's welcome, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.040 fire crackers, welcome, loungeets and vouch it's and all of 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.520 my people. Welcome to the Laugh and Learned show with 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.080 your host Flame and Row. That would be me my 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.880 partner Lauren Hogan, and we'll be bringing our other party 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.919 of the Nick Smithing and momentarily we just want to 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.839 welcome you guys to the show. Hello everyone, wave, y'all 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.840 say hello. We hope you guys are ready for the 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.160 show today because it might be a Wayne Dang and 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.840 the doodle. Wait, what a Wayne? That's my white people 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.440 were a Wayne Dang doodle. That's interesting how they teach Hi, 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.520 Mark Uh, I'm i'm I'm I have a verbage? What 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.040 is they say when you I'm a ordologist? I was 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:11.639 gonna say you were multifaceted, but I got layers. I 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.280 don't know about that multi fascet. I definitely got some layers. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.000 I wish a couple up would come up over. There's 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.320 no one home today, so I have nobody interfering with 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.960 my internet. So all kids are going, thank you Jesus. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.840 One is at work. My daughter, my baby daughter is 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.240 auditioning for track, trying out for track. And my son 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:35.280 as a Tennessee State University because I took my son 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.760 last week to Tennessee to Nashville. He is a in 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.040 the Honest program at Tennessee State University for mechanical engineering. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.680 So I am very proud of that young man. But 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.280 tell them the whole story though, because how long does 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.280 he actually have to be in school because he already 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.240 got his associates degree right yeah, so he only actually 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.600 has to do two years because he graduated high school, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.880 which is with his associates degree. That is just intelligence 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.800 right there. Well that was because my I wouldn't let 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.040 him transfer schools, you know, like you're gonna stay in 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.920 the school, because he wanted to leave, but I knew 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.480 what the school was offering. The curriculum, whooped his The 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.800 sophomore year is probably the hardest year of high school, seriously, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.560 because I think that's the year that you do the 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.640 most work and that that sophomore year whooped him. Indeed, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.840 he was ready quit, but I'm like, you ain't going nowhere, 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.159 so he stayed. It paid off because now he's in 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.479 his junior years as a freshman in college. So praise 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.279 the Lord, Thank you Jesus. Outside of that, honey, we 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.159 are here. I am still taping the Breakfast Club this week, 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.440 but I am not taping it until Friday. So I'm 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.800 leaving on Thursday because I got another job tomorrow and 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.800 we were able to move some things around, and then 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.480 I'm going to idis taping for HBO Max for her 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.359 one hour, specially on Saturday in Brooklyn. But outside of that, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.640 we got topics you talk about. Hello, how was your week, Lord, 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.520 because you've been traveling. I just got back from Atlanta 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:56.520 yesterday afternoon around five o'clock. Um, so very busy. You know, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.320 work is, and you made it to work. Of course. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.720 I wasn't going to get cussed out. That's just I 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.120 didn't want them problems to this. So I'm here a 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.560 little tired, but I'm here at the end of the day. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.320 You are here, so it's very appreciated. Well, thank you, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.719 thank you. How was yours? What you're a week? I 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.359 got a sign in college. That was a week. I 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.960 got some new realistic from Liquid Burns. Any real, y'all. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.160 It's bloody, very red, and it's very mad. It's very 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.679 kiss me. Oh you know you should know you should 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.640 sing a kissable from the kissable commercial from Boomerang. And 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:37.119 I'm talking about you. Never watched Boomerang's Boomerang the movie 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:41.599 with Eddie Murphys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I bring nicking. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.120 I thought you was talking about one of those young channels. No, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.200 I have the kids shows. We haven't already gone over. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.240 I'm an old soul now. The only kids shows I 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.560 love is The Incredible. I can watch The Incredibles every 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:59.080 day all day long. I love Edna mod Hello, next man, Hello, Hello. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.200 I'm sending your like everybody else. I guess kind of 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.560 watching President Biden at the same time, and I guess uh. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.840 I can honestly report it seems as though he's doing 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.119 very well, being very direct. He said I would always 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.600 be direct with the American people, and that's what he's doing. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.159 He's breaking it down. Yeah, we don't get to buying. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.880 Buying is our last closing subject, because that's gonna be 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.640 the most heated one. I'm sure. How are you? How 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.880 is your week? Week was good? It's been a lot, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.240 but but thinking things are good. I've been um, just working, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.400 you know, we've been trying to We now use a 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.520 green screen and everything for work, which is what you 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.080 see behind me, um, and so it's made it a 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.880 little bit easier. But it's also increased our workload a 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.640 bit because we can there's no reason to ever take 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.240 a day off now. So they're like, uh, well, I've 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.120 been working with this green screen that kind of travels 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.520 and moves around. But but things are good, no complaints, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.480 you know. Vacation in Mexico? How was Mexico? Mexico was good. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.359 It was a challenge, you know, because you have to 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.520 test before you can come back into the United States. Uh, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.880 why make your test? You fully vaccinated? Why don't make 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.799 you test? Because people who are fully vaccinated can still 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.320 contract cope, because there are people who are not vaccinated 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.760 running around. So what's happening is the unvaccinated are infecting 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.800 or spreading the virus. So I would't agree with that. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.440 I don't think that. I think that everybody's still spreading it. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.440 Vaccinated and no unvaccinated. I do, but I know what 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.120 you're saying. But yeah, they like, I ain't spread because 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.080 I spread you. So they they they and there were 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.320 a couple of people who were stopped right there at 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.200 the right there before they come bored, so they don't 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.920 even let you passed, and they're like, hey, you need 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.720 to you need to self quarantine for fourteen days or 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.120 come back with the negative test. So wait a minute. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.800 So if they were in Mexico and they tested negative 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.280 a positive, what if they don't have enough money to 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.280 stay for fourteen days, that's on you, dear, Like you 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.560 would probably say, you're like, well, you should have thought 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.880 about that before you with So yeah, but that's everywhere. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.480 It's not just Mexico. It's anyone trying to enter the 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.920 United States, American or not. Yeah, well, thank you for 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.920 joining us. Welcome to laughing my mom somewhere I'm telling 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.680 I'm so excited about my son gonna call you. See, 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.880 I'm representing when my Tennessee stay. I can't wait to 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.600 go to homecoming. Oh I think I'm gonna going with 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.960 let me just show me my son will be like, nigga, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:18.040 you know what, just just don't just don't. I think 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.320 I'm going in four drag to home Coming Baby, let 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.520 me get it crunk baby. I will say that Lauren 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.640 can attest to this homecoming out an HBCUs like unlike 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.120 anything else, it really is a party. So and I'm 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.400 going in October to my own home coome come coming 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.840 to Spellhouse. So, um, I will be on vacation those days. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.800 Nobody call me k Welcome to the show. Thank you 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.120 guys for joining us. Let's just kick it off with 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.880 let's start low, slow and build it up. So let's 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.880 start with the Philippines that they have had a volcano 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.480 erupt over there and it's not really getting a whole 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.280 bunch of coverage on the news. I don't like that part, 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.839 but I want to send special prayers out to that 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.600 country and to my friend Manela lose On, who I 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.520 did that Netflix show with the Filipino girl. She's over 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.520 there because she was doing some kind of RuPaul's drag 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.079 race contests over there, so she stuck over there. So, um, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.480 oh my God, just bring us to the people over 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.120 there in the Philippines. So much is happening in the 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.680 world that we just have no control over, and it's 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.280 just unforeseen. I don't know what I told you you'll 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.200 and pissed God off, and God don't even get mad. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:23.720 But he I think he made his ship right now. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.920 Real talk. No, I agree with you. There's so many 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.480 natural disasters happening in the world. Um. I saw a 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.160 report to that July was like recorded the hottest month 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.920 ever in Earth's history. There's just so much, you know, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:41.199 like global warming and natural disasters and volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.080 and it's just like, my God, when is it going 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.960 to stop. The Earth is retaliating against us? Seriously, Lauren. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.280 I have friends in California, of course, who who hike regularly, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.240 and they were just talking about how even up in 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.400 Mount Shasta everything is so dry. They're like, Nick, California 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.480 is really dry right now, and it's uh. I think 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.280 it's a combination of both the fires and and just 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.520 you know, the water resources. But we also wanted to 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.160 send a prayer out to our brothers and sisters in Haiti. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.280 You know, we're gonna get to that. We're gonna get that. Okay, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.800 don't come down. We're just we're doing it in sections. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.800 But like section eight is that section five but not. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.480 But to your point, though, California is actually experiencing a drought, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.840 and Gavin Newsome was trying to tell us to let 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.640 cut your water supply by but we all don't know, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.840 but he's actually doing that. So we are experiencing a drought. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.600 I think it rained or it's sprinkled, I should say 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.120 a little bit over the weekend. I wasn't here, but 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.199 I saw my weather APPO said it was sprinkling a 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.360 little bit. But we're in a drought in California. May 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.559 Or may not remember when Governor Brown was governor, he 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.400 asked people to shower together when we were we've been 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.520 in this drought before. He's like, hey, can you shower together? 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.240 I like that. Governor Moonbeam is what his nickname was, 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.120 Governor moon Yep. So yeah, it's not the first time 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:56.320 in California. So you brought up Gavin Newsom, so I 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.800 gotta talk about my boy. A lot of y'all upset 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:01.280 with ever A knew some a lot of they're trying 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.720 to do this whole recall. Understand me that I voted 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.920 for Gavin K. Newsom the first time. I will vote 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.400 for Gavin Newsom again. I think that he is doing 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.680 a good job as the governor. A lot better than 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.760 them last couple of ones that we had, and God 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.040 will come and take me personally if I vote for 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.920 Larry Elder. Larry Elder is worse than Tim Scott to 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.480 me when I tell you that he's a sellout nigga, 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.640 like you wouldn't believe I said what I said because 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.080 it's my show. He is a sellout nigga, and we 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.000 don't do sellout niggas on this show. Larry Elder is 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.920 a clown and he has been a coon and a 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.200 buffoon and a puppet for the Republican Party for a 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.040 very long time. I am team Gavin Newsom because he 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.080 is Nancy Pelosi's nephew. He's doing a good job, and 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.640 y'all know Nancy Pelosi is my bitch. I love Nancy Pelosi. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.760 I can't see that. I ain't got my glasses. Um No, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.520 but I agree with flam mil I will say, I 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.200 don't from what I'm hearing in the political space, I 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.200 don't think that, Um, Gavin Newsom is going to end 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.360 up losing this recall ellection and he'll be just fine 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.400 at the end of the day. Um. This is just 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.160 like we've said. Another ploy by Republicans to kind of, 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.400 you know, cause some dissension. But at the end of 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:09.960 the day, I think he'll be fine because I even 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.160 saw Caitlyn Jenner made some comments and yeah, I went 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.679 to the border and has made this pledge to continue 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.240 President Trump's you know, building of the border wall. And anyway, 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:27.400 the buffoonery continues. The newest contestant on survivor that one, 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.760 that's who I'm talking about. So get your money, Chris, 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:37.280 get your money, you better, Pampa, all of them, oh, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.560 and saying that he was showering together with Lauren to 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.920 save some money. Lauren, are you showing with me? I'm 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:48.880 gonna tell your mama. Anyway, anyway, it is Yeah, and 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.840 I hate that they are really holding Gavin new some 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.800 feet to the fire because they ever said that he 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.520 went to the French laundry and had lunch with no 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.400 masks in the middle of a pandemic. We have all 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.560 done some things in the middle of the endemic that 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.120 we were not supposed to do. He just happens to 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:08.920 be a government official. Yeah, I'm gonna kind of shift. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.600 It's in the same vein. But I did see something 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.640 today that I found very interesting that it seems as 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:21.800 though Trump's two main you know, no, no, not the 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.720 boot liquers, but just the two main individuals that had 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.520 the most turmoil with Trump are literally just getting so 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.280 much backlash, whether it's you know Cuomo or in Newsom 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.120 so it was I went down the rabbit hole. I'm 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.160 not even gonna lie through this thread of people just 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.680 kind of drawing comparisons and how they're saying that things 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.040 are kind of ironic. How these two individuals that had 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.080 you know, so much that they really set up for 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.160 what they believed in terms of their you know, their states, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.400 and they're getting so much backlash and being recalled and resigning. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.760 It's just it's it's interesting to see heat's all to 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.880 Andrew Cuomo. I believe they went after his family. It 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.840 was the reason he stepped down because he is a 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.959 not He is a monster. So he is a beast, 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.040 and he stands in here because of stands in his conviction. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.600 And he did great work for the City of New York. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.040 And I hate that they made him because I believe 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.040 they put him in a place where he had to 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.840 step back because they they were going to do something 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.280 that would have disrupted his family. Well, can I be 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.200 honest I think what's gonna end up happening is he's 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.440 going to file a civil suit against the State of 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.520 New York. That's what I really think is gonna end 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:30.040 up happening. So scary, scary, scary, scary, scary, scary, scary. Okay, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.920 let's get on to the next subject. What we're going 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.080 Haiti last? Next? Or what is it? Because you want 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:40.120 to talk about Joe Biden last? Yeah, uh, hats off 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.640 to all the Haitian uh, to the Haitian government, to 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.640 the Haitian citizens over there. They had a massive seven 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.120 point to um earthquake the other day. Was it yesterday? 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.600 I did before yesterday, two days ago, two days ago? 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.680 And and here's the thing, because he is like a 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.600 third World country, right, it is, it is, it is. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.200 Let me just let me just put this in a box. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.200 I'm not, I'm not. I'm pairing. But i am. Haiti 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.760 had a seven point two earthquake two days ago. They 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.400 are removing the rubble all as of yesterday, which was 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.240 they started already. And they are third World country, then 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.080 their country, don't do you have a bunch of money. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.480 But Florida had a building collapsed. It took four days 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.600 before they started removing I'm sorry, three and a half 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.400 days before they started removing the rubble, and they don't have, 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.320 not even closer the resources of money that Haiti has. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.840 I'm just saying, when you put somebody in charge in 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.240 leadership and in government that knows what they're doing, things 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.960 happen and move a little faster. Let's go back to 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.280 the old space movies. Every time somebody came from out 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.200 of space. What was the first thing they said when 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.360 they landed, Take me to your leader. I bet you ain't. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.520 Nobody gonna take them to the santis dumb ass, I 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.480 said it. Okay, prayers to Haiti, y'all. Make sure y'all 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.080 find out what the legit link is so we can 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.680 all donate money to Haiti because they really are going 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.280 to need it. They are finding bodies and an incredible 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.960 now amounting numbers, but they are making progress by moving 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.120 the rubble to find whever they can find. A La 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.440 Florida Police thing. No, well, I'll say I think a 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.000 couple of things on Haiti. One. They've kind of been 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.800 going through it, and I I don't even know at 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.280 this point if it's about leadership in terms of them 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.760 removing the rubble. Like Nick, I don't know if you've 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.520 ever been to Haiti, but I went to Haiti two 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.280 years ago. Um because our company or the a sl 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.680 that I work for, we actually have services in Haiti, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.280 so I was able to travel there, and our clinic 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.320 is actually import to Prince. So the seven point to 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.760 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti was on I think them. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.320 The city is called Lakey if I'm not mistaken, and 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.560 it's more of like a rural area versus ten years 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.160 ago there was a seven point on magnitude earthquake that 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.360 actually hit Poor to Prince um. So just from my 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.040 experience of going and seeing the jail for instance that's 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.000 in Haiti. And I think we've kind of talked about 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.520 this on the show before, is that you know, in 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.400 two when the earthquake hit Poor to Prints, everything collapsed, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.480 including like this jail. So going there to two years 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.960 ago and seeing how half of the jail is still 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.920 currently collapse. It has not been rebuilt, but they went 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.679 out and rounded up people who they thought were guilty 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.000 and put all these folks in jail. Um very just. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.040 It was horrible to watch and it was horrible to 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.920 see all these arms and legs hanging out of jail sales. 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.120 But what they're saying now is that the seven point 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.520 two magnitude earthquake that hit Laky, it's better because it's 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.680 in a rural area, so they're not expecting the same 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.320 large amount of deaths. But in terms of the leadership, 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.119 to talk about your point, flame, their president was just 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.320 assassinated a month ago, so I think it's more so 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.399 about the community rallying to really remove this rubble, and 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.800 it's not so much the leadership because from what I 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.840 had seen just going there, they don't really have much 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.280 that they can pull from at this point, especially with 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.320 their president being assassinated. So oh, and they are hurricane watch. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.520 They have a hurricane that's opposed to expect it to 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.680 hit I think before, I think it's tomorrow or Wednesday. 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:02.840 So yeah, Haiti has had a has had problems for years, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.560 and the infrastructure is extremely a poor like you said, uh, Lauren, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.080 so the buildings aren't built extremely well and anything like 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:14.160 this only helps to further exacerbate the problem of infrastructure 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.040 that they have there. But yes, um, I took one 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.359 trip to Haiti. That is the place I never have 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.400 to go back. To again. Um, I put it kind 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.919 of in the same vein is like Morocco, And there 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.359 were just a couple of places I've been in my 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.240 life that just made me immediately uncomfortable for a number 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.000 of reasons. But Haiti, Dominican Republic, that entire region just 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.760 did not speak to my spirit. But I totally understand 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.919 and and and again. The people right now are just 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.119 really dealing with a lot, and it's just it's just 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.040 it's heartbreaking. What what do you mean by that, Nick, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.639 Because I think I have an opposite view like I 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.200 although it was very sad what I saw in Haiti 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.359 because we went to Port to Prince and Haiti is 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.200 interesting because they've I don't I'm not gonna blame one 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.720 entity or another, but it's interesting to see how they've 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.960 been able to confine the poverty. So if you go 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.679 to Port of Prince, the poverty is very much, you know, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.480 contained there. But if you go kind of outside to 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.200 more of the touristy attractions, they have white sandy beaches 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.880 and boats come in and dock there and everything. But 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.359 I really got the essence of Haitian culture when I 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.359 went to Port of Prince. So so what do you 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.080 mean by that, like you didn't speak to your spirit 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.880 and you would never go back there. I'm not. I'm 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.280 uncomfortable when I had people serving me, and I didn't 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:28.240 like how those who were in the service area were 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.520 dark like me, but the ones who worked in the 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.399 hotel were lighter like flame. And so I was very 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.040 aware of the disparity and it made me uncomfortable. Same 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.240 thing with Dominican Republic and I just the extreme poverty 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.520 is just is gut wrenching to me and I and 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.480 so the idea of like vacationing and and going back 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.240 to places like that. I had a hard time too 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.560 with the with the illness and the infrastructure around sanitation. Lauren, 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.680 it was just it reminded me of how again we've 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.000 talked about this, but how blessed we are here in 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.560 the United States right um, how literally we were just 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.760 talking about jamacus and and school. There isn't a single 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.200 African American who cannot go to college if they choose 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.080 to because of the institutions of h b c U S. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.320 And it's hard when you go to places that don't 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.800 have that same infrastructure, same support is just gut wrenching. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.720 So my trip to Haiti, my trip to Dominican Republican. 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.840 Those are like the trips that I said to myself, Nicholas, 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.919 you never have to do this again and counter your 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.919 blessings every day because you are truly blessed. M hm. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:33.280 That's interesting. Are we having a damn moment? I'm like, 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.200 do you want to add anything? I'm just listening. I'm 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.679 just taking a Yeah. I mean I've kind of I 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:41.679 have the opposite feeling. I don't know why. I just 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.600 I enjoyed Haiti. I mean, it was really sad to see, 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.560 but I still wanted to go back, you know, I 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.080 feel like there's something we can do, Like there's like 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.879 I said, we have a clinic in the main jail 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:57.520 that's their importer prince, and we offer you know, TV 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.480 testing and free HIV testing and everything. And while it 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:05.199 was so sad, I just I enjoyed the culture. You know, 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.200 it kind of spoke to me. But to your point, though, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:11.400 there's definitely a classism issue. But one of like one 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.119 of them, she's an ambassador for Haiti. She actually works 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:19.320 for HF, and I guess it was kind of the 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.240