Speaker 1: Laugh lame, he laughing lame. If you watch Coffee Time
Speaker 1: to Baby, you know the name Flame, my role also
Speaker 1: known as my role Flame. Come in with last and
Speaker 1: come in with you love lounds. Baby, you better catch
Speaker 1: it when you can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to
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Speaker 1: Yeah you know she raped shot towns on speaking to
Speaker 1: the ground. And second we're gonna last cut of the
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Speaker 1: a lift spirits think you want to revisit. So your
Speaker 1: first like a list of kill folks like it, slip
Speaker 1: old folks that we take it. No do what you don't,
Speaker 1: No fish, do what you do, can't no kiss, do
Speaker 1: what I do. Welcome to laughing like ladies, Jim, I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Flame. I rode along with my co host
Speaker 1: right here, the beautiful and gorgeous Lauren Hogan, as well
Speaker 1: as Nick Smith on Nick Smith News. We're gonna bring
Speaker 1: him in a second, come on the inflame its lounge
Speaker 1: ESTs and firecrackers and bow chests and whatever you call
Speaker 1: yourself today, because you know, we all identify something different today.
Speaker 1: Right this moment, I'm feeling like a girl. I put
Speaker 1: some makeup on in five minutes. Did I shower? I
Speaker 1: did not? I showered this morning. I'm sorry. I'm just
Speaker 1: messing with you. Thank you for joining us. The conversation
Speaker 1: today is going to get a little heavy, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna bring you guys in because next Monday are very
Speaker 1: special in studio guests right here at the Laugh and
Speaker 1: Learn the studio along with our wonderful cameraman Trip Kendo
Speaker 1: and our beautiful camera lady Trip but we will have
Speaker 1: the one and only Tasha k will be here and
Speaker 1: the following Monday, the twenty one, uh the executive producer
Speaker 1: of this show, my friend and our boss, the wonderful
Speaker 1: Tiffany Hattish, to discuss her new projects, her old projects,
Speaker 1: and some things that are near and dear to her heart.
Speaker 1: If you think you know Tiffany Hattish, and if you
Speaker 1: think we're about to talk about her career in the movies,
Speaker 1: you are in for a rude awakening, because that's is
Speaker 1: woke and knowledgeable and she's gonna hit you' all with
Speaker 1: the thing about women's rights and women's issues that I
Speaker 1: was very unaware of, but that she's very passionate about.
Speaker 1: So or to be a part of the conversation, you
Speaker 1: have to join us. Hi, Lauren, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1: Oh no, you're looking at your phone. You ain't talking
Speaker 1: to listen. I'm multitasking going on today. So we got
Speaker 1: a little bit of multitask and just give me one second.
Speaker 1: But I'm here. Well, we got to play barbecue yesterday.
Speaker 1: Lauren did come to the barbecue, I surely did, and
Speaker 1: I ate it was catered. No, it wasn't you cooked,
Speaker 1: y'all flame cooked. It was very good. I had some
Speaker 1: chicken and in the corner of the cop is really good.
Speaker 1: It was really really good. Hats off to you. Cooking
Speaker 1: is the third good thing I do? Yes, what's the first?
Speaker 1: In the second? On another note, though, I would like
Speaker 1: to say, guess whose birthday it is today? Prince? It
Speaker 1: would have been sixty three today, so we have to
Speaker 1: give a special birthday shout out to Prince. He's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite artists. There you are high Nicky, Rest
Speaker 1: in peace, Prince. So I guess love lounge tonight will
Speaker 1: be dedicated to the Prince said the print stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: wearing purple tonight and I got some purple hair. We're
Speaker 1: gonna wear purple hair to a print. Nicholas, you look
Speaker 1: very handsome today. What you do you can? I just Lauren,
Speaker 1: are glowing. There's a light right here because it look
Speaker 1: like good. Candle said, okay, and I'm not moving. It
Speaker 1: gave us to look. I apologize Lauren for not being
Speaker 1: in a shirt and tie today, but a heat wave,
Speaker 1: so we think. I like this. I prefer you like this.
Speaker 1: I do. I like you more comfortable and lax. I
Speaker 1: feel like, yes, I well, I'm not in agreement with that.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't you know what you look like? You know
Speaker 1: the commercial where the lady went on a date with
Speaker 1: the guy here washing the T shirt and a T
Speaker 1: shirt was all stressed up. That's exactly what you know.
Speaker 1: You look very handsome today, so shy? Yeah, I like this.
Speaker 1: Look are you in a different spot? Well? If if no,
Speaker 1: just in the living room this time around? So turned around,
Speaker 1: that's all. If I'm looking that good, then why my bayliss?
Speaker 1: What's up with that? Now? Don't put your relationship business
Speaker 1: on the streets. Nightmare. They're gonna be all up my baby.
Speaker 1: You know they do. Man, they don't stop. That's me
Speaker 1: putting my opening bid in for love lounge later. That's all.
Speaker 1: So maybe on that, yeah you might. How was your week? Nick?
Speaker 1: How was your week? You know you opened the show
Speaker 1: with one of three things you do? Well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to start with you know what my favorite is? Think
Speaker 1: about you flame that you never talked about. Tell me seriously,
Speaker 1: it is your dedication to your friends. I know four facts,
Speaker 1: three people your friends don't shut up? Shut up? Move on, lord,
Speaker 1: never mind, go right ahead, because you know but I'm
Speaker 1: not doing that. Look, let me adjust myself. Ridiculous also too,
Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out for some black
Speaker 1: girl matter to Simone Biles. She wanted her seven US
Speaker 1: all around title um in the Olympics today on the
Speaker 1: uneven parallels. Oh my, if that wasn't the reenaction of
Speaker 1: the of the Natia comedy she put baby that took
Speaker 1: Natas flame. You remember Domini Na Nadia coma ni. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's very seventies. If you a'll know nothing about that,
Speaker 1: watch the old commercial and say sports the Love and
Speaker 1: Pain and the man flew out when he was skiing
Speaker 1: and he flew off and died about twenty five flips
Speaker 1: and crash and broke arms, legs and all that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to love to see that. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you yeah, so shout out to Simone Biles because she's
Speaker 1: making history. She's doing it despite you know, some of
Speaker 1: the critics trying to move the goal line for us
Speaker 1: and for her, I should say, and you know, kind
Speaker 1: of just making it seem like they have to doll
Speaker 1: down what she's doing. But she's phenomenal and black girl
Speaker 1: magic all the way around. So for sure, that was
Speaker 1: I shared that this morning on social media. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: I saw she was saying that. Shout out to her,
Speaker 1: Shout out to another athlete, another female athlete. What's her
Speaker 1: name was soccer? Naomi o Soccer. Yes, and she's we're
Speaker 1: jumping into our first topic. Can I just say that
Speaker 1: I really like this dress. I didn't see it until
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. No flame got dressed today, Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. This is the first so I got dressed
Speaker 1: because last week, y'all know what, y'all got him here
Speaker 1: today and Lauren Lauren's lacks today to somebody had to
Speaker 1: show up to work. I show up, as you know,
Speaker 1: the millennial of the group. So I stay on brand
Speaker 1: with who I am for this show. You know, I
Speaker 1: love that Lauren, when you sent the topics this week,
Speaker 1: talked mentioned Naomio soccer at the top um. It was
Speaker 1: just I felt like the time you couldn't been better.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if life imitates art or art imitates life,
Speaker 1: but you know, this past week I took a break
Speaker 1: from social media because I just got inundated with a
Speaker 1: lot of things I thought were just ridiculously negative. And
Speaker 1: I remember flame stand early on Flames, like why do
Speaker 1: you let this stuff bother you? You You don't know all
Speaker 1: these people who follow you, But I think that what
Speaker 1: bothers me about it. Just to be clear to those
Speaker 1: who watched the show is I do feel an obligation
Speaker 1: to those with whom we engage regularly. We asked him
Speaker 1: to join, to watch the show, be part of the conversation.
Speaker 1: So then when I get comments that I felt like
Speaker 1: we're completely off brand about what it is we do
Speaker 1: or why aren't you elevating, why don't you doing this
Speaker 1: any other it bothered me because I feel like it's
Speaker 1: not only about me. I think we really do try
Speaker 1: our best to put together a product that we can
Speaker 1: one be proud of, and to the way we try
Speaker 1: to engage with people, so when it hit me that way,
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, flame, I'm really struggling here
Speaker 1: in flames, like Nick, take a break from that, and
Speaker 1: and and and that's exactly what I did, said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put this down for a while, and
Speaker 1: it just felt so much better. So then on the
Speaker 1: heels of that, Lauren, for you to send uh Naomi
Speaker 1: Osaka and for the round of criticism Naomi Osaka got
Speaker 1: in the beginning for just simply saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: this doesn't feel good to me. I'm not a professional speaker.
Speaker 1: I just want to come in and I want to play,
Speaker 1: want to do my job job, but the questions that
Speaker 1: come at me get in my head and they I
Speaker 1: don't handle it like everyone else does. And then for
Speaker 1: her to be roundly criticized for that, I just thought
Speaker 1: it was another example of once again, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: of a bias that still extends one of oun mental health.
Speaker 1: And then two people of color saying that, hey, I
Speaker 1: need a little help here. Thank you Venus Williams for
Speaker 1: your clap back. Thank you, thank you Venus Williams for
Speaker 1: your clap back. Because while y'all judging me more than
Speaker 1: half of y'all can't do what I do on the court.
Speaker 1: So I didn't say that exactly where she said it,
Speaker 1: but she shaded the ship out of the media, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate Venus Williams just for that. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: did too, And I think that, you know, Nick, in
Speaker 1: terms of the comments that we get on the show, um,
Speaker 1: I've learned to take them with a grain of salt
Speaker 1: to like, somebody called me Megan McCain last week and
Speaker 1: I cracked the hell up. That's yeah, somebody called me
Speaker 1: Megan McCain in the comments. So I think it's like,
Speaker 1: take it with a grain of salt. And I've honestly
Speaker 1: learned a lot of this too from Flame is that
Speaker 1: you know, people have lots of things to say, but
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you're still watching the show.
Speaker 1: So it is what it is, you know what I mean. Um,
Speaker 1: But on the Naomi Osaka front, I also think that
Speaker 1: I want to applaud her for understanding that she needed
Speaker 1: to keep saying in order to do her job, because
Speaker 1: I think in a lot of ways, you know, black
Speaker 1: women specifically, we get criticized in these you know, large
Speaker 1: arenas for how we act or you know, for our
Speaker 1: attitude and these different things. You know, we've seen it
Speaker 1: time and time again with Serena when she's you know,
Speaker 1: at the French of the US French Open. You know,
Speaker 1: she's gotten criticized for yelling at the umpire because she
Speaker 1: has to defend and saying, you know that she's not
Speaker 1: being coached in the middle of her match, or when
Speaker 1: she has an outpert at a press conference, it's, oh,
Speaker 1: she's unprofessional, she's uncouth, you know, all of these negative,
Speaker 1: derogatory terms that the media puts out towards her. So
Speaker 1: I want to applaud Naomi Osaka for saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't do this and taking the fine and then
Speaker 1: ultimately saying, fine, I'm just gonna withdraw from even participating.
Speaker 1: You know. So she's a fabulous talent and she knows
Speaker 1: what she needs and she did what she needed to do.
Speaker 1: So and for those who may be wondering what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, if you're not familiar, uh, Lauren and I
Speaker 1: opened the show talking about Naomi Osaka when she announced
Speaker 1: Monday that she would withdraw from the French Open, just
Speaker 1: days after tennis officials find her fifteen thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: threatened to ounce her from the tournament for opting out
Speaker 1: of its mandatory news conferences. Miss Osaka explained via Twitter
Speaker 1: that speaking to the international media takes a heavy toll
Speaker 1: on her mental health, compounding the anxiety inherent to Grand
Speaker 1: Slam tournaments. What let me tell you what I love.
Speaker 1: I love that she chose her integrity over the money.
Speaker 1: Find me. I'm pulling out because I'm talented enough and
Speaker 1: I'm young enough. See, she ain't forty in tennis, She's
Speaker 1: very young in tennis. So I can miss a year
Speaker 1: because the money I'm still gonna make in my endorsement.
Speaker 1: Y'all missing out on watching me play as more so
Speaker 1: than I'm missing out on playing. Because she's that young,
Speaker 1: and she's that brilliant and that talented. Hats off to
Speaker 1: And if more people would stand on their principle as
Speaker 1: opposed to looking at that check, we will have moved
Speaker 1: this needle just a little bit further. So whoever is
Speaker 1: in her camp because she's a young woman advising her,
Speaker 1: hats off to, who's ever advising her? Because I would
Speaker 1: have told me the same thing. Kiss my dick in
Speaker 1: the face. You're not gonna ask me no questions I
Speaker 1: don't want to answer because I don't want to answer them.
Speaker 1: You're messing, you getting in my head. I got a
Speaker 1: job to do, and as soon as I dropped the
Speaker 1: ball at my job, you're gonna say, Oh, she wasn't ready,
Speaker 1: she wasn't good enough. But you have planted that in
Speaker 1: my head. Remember I went back when I said, it's
Speaker 1: what you take into your d n A some ship.
Speaker 1: I don't need to know. I don't want to know
Speaker 1: because I don't want to have to think about it later.
Speaker 1: So good for you, Naomi. Tell tell him, I said,
Speaker 1: Tell him that he she we said to funk off,
Speaker 1: jump off a bridge with no water at the bottom.
Speaker 1: Tell you know here too. It's another example, Lauren, where
Speaker 1: you and I have talked about this, how there was
Speaker 1: an opportunity I felt there for also tennis and sports
Speaker 1: to engage right and say, you know what, maybe we
Speaker 1: need to look at how these athletes are being treated
Speaker 1: and why fine immediately and not maybe saying you know what, whoa.
Speaker 1: We didn't know that this was possible that some people
Speaker 1: felt this way. What could we do to support this
Speaker 1: person who is clearly a revenue stream for our industry
Speaker 1: instead of chastising her, why don't we support her? And
Speaker 1: it bothers me that that was not it appears that
Speaker 1: that was never even part of the conversation. The conversation
Speaker 1: was we're gonna find you if you're not here, and
Speaker 1: then we you know, this is why you see my hand.
Speaker 1: What color is the inside of my hand? Because they
Speaker 1: had they had it been this color as opposed to
Speaker 1: this color, maybe that would have happened. Or I mean,
Speaker 1: we can talk about similarities in this situation. You know,
Speaker 1: Pierce Morrigan has been you know, has gone after Naomi
Speaker 1: Osaka is talking crap about her and saying all these
Speaker 1: different things. But I also read too, there's a Russian
Speaker 1: tennis player that I was actually just arrested while she
Speaker 1: was at the French Open because she was intentionally throwing
Speaker 1: you know, matches to gain profit. But that's not a
Speaker 1: headline conversation. It's the fact that you know, all of
Speaker 1: these derogatory terms and talking crap about Naomi Osaka saying
Speaker 1: that valuing my mental health, that's the big headline, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So there's definitely showed himself. Pierce
Speaker 1: Morgan wants to get showed himself to be one of
Speaker 1: the most unpleasant people period. He enjoys beating up on women.
Speaker 1: We've seen this, and I agree with you on that, Nia,
Speaker 1: but let's call let's let me let me call it
Speaker 1: out for y'all, since I don't want you all to
Speaker 1: see because you're in the media and you you're professional.
Speaker 1: I'm not. Pierce Morgan has been angry every since. Every
Speaker 1: black woman that he goes after shuns his ass. Sisters
Speaker 1: don't won't you, player, fand you a white woman or
Speaker 1: whatever you want, that won't you because the sisters keep
Speaker 1: showing you that they don't want you. I Eh, Megan
Speaker 1: Marco the Sparkle with the real black girl Magic. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about with the real black girl Magic just had
Speaker 1: another baby for the ex prince baby, and that baby
Speaker 1: could be the President of the United States. And you
Speaker 1: know they named the baby after Diana. The second name
Speaker 1: is and the first name is is it Lizabeth little Bit,
Speaker 1: which is after the Queen And you know she's somewhere
Speaker 1: kicking and ship out of somebody. You know, the Queen
Speaker 1: man is here, that old whole kicking air body baby.
Speaker 1: She mad as hell. Hats off to Harry and meg
Speaker 1: If for having another healthy beautiful baby to bring it,
Speaker 1: and this baby could actually be the president of the
Speaker 1: United States because this baby was born here in the
Speaker 1: United States. Wouldn't that be you say, how Calma work around.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be something that Dela girl grew up to
Speaker 1: be the president of the United States? Whoa the queen
Speaker 1: would turn over a grave? Yes she would. She ain't
Speaker 1: dead yet, but in about sixty years when yeah, well, well,
Speaker 1: I think to keeping in the lane of sports and
Speaker 1: we can kind of segue into the next I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's the next topic on the list, Nick,
Speaker 1: but that's what's at the forefront of my mind, is
Speaker 1: that we also want to talk about the NBA and
Speaker 1: what happened. Um has been happening during the playoffs with
Speaker 1: um Russell rust Brook, UM, Trey Young, and um oh
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving too. So yeah, so at one of the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets games during the playoff, Kyrie Irving had a
Speaker 1: water bottle thrown at him by a Celtics fan. Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook had popcorn dumped on his head during um A
Speaker 1: Wizards in seventy sixers game. And then we had Trey
Speaker 1: Young was actually spit on at an Atlanta Hawks playoff game.
Speaker 1: So then remember the parents of what's his name were
Speaker 1: bullied in the stands, you know, young parents. Yeah, so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. So there's been a lot of um, you know,
Speaker 1: outcries for the NBA to do something and to actually
Speaker 1: protect the players, and you know, Lebron James has come
Speaker 1: out and made serious statements about what's happening, and other
Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs players, excuse me, are saying like, what are
Speaker 1: you guys going to do to protect us? Because people
Speaker 1: have been locked up in their houses for a long time. Yes,
Speaker 1: but it's interesting to see that the fans that are
Speaker 1: really acting crazy are white. They are they're rich white
Speaker 1: folks that kind of feel entitled. And I've read some
Speaker 1: of the narratives, but they're saying that, you know, these
Speaker 1: rich white folks are coming to the games, they're getting
Speaker 1: drunk and just feeling entitled and are you know, basically
Speaker 1: you know, costing these players. So what are you guys
Speaker 1: going to do to protect them? Can I say something?
Speaker 1: Where is la Trail Spreewell when we need his ass?
Speaker 1: Because when I tell you, Latreil s freeware when it
Speaker 1: came up out with the referee and anybody in his
Speaker 1: way to get to whoever threw something hid? Where is
Speaker 1: the trail spreewere when we need him? Well. The funny
Speaker 1: thing too is I loved Russell westbrook statement of it's
Speaker 1: interesting that you want to come after me and you
Speaker 1: know an arena where I can't get to you, because
Speaker 1: if we was on the street, you wouldn't be that
Speaker 1: bold and you wouldn't know what it would have happened.
Speaker 1: So and a couple of players that made similar comments,
Speaker 1: which I think it's true because I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: fight Russell Westbrook. He's crazy, so it's not even crazy.
Speaker 1: The deal is you are a different person when you
Speaker 1: will walk up to a grown man and throw a
Speaker 1: bottle at him directly. I don't see that happening. So
Speaker 1: throwing a bottle from the stands, like Flame likes to say,
Speaker 1: is a coward move where you can throw and then
Speaker 1: hide your hands. You know. Um. And even if let's
Speaker 1: just be very clear, even if race we're not the
Speaker 1: motivating factor, there's a level of privilege that just goes
Speaker 1: behind something that allows you to feel like you can
Speaker 1: and with impunity just throw something that people are spent
Speaker 1: on somebody there, right, And like that that that I
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about consequences. I don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about anything because you are less than And this
Speaker 1: is what I can do to you, uh, you piece
Speaker 1: of property or you performer. Go dance, monkey, go sing,
Speaker 1: go do whatever it is. I dance. We dribble that ball.
Speaker 1: Just shut up and dribble. I'm not up and dribble, right,
Speaker 1: that's what what's her name, Laura whatever from Fox said
Speaker 1: and and and in the defense, and y'all know, I'm
Speaker 1: never playing Devil's advocate. I feel how I feel. But
Speaker 1: in defense of the other people who are doing who
Speaker 1: are attacking about I don't even want to know that
Speaker 1: it's think that it's all race. I think that because
Speaker 1: some people are just fanatics about their teams, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like if you're a Lakers fan and
Speaker 1: they're playing whatever, the riot of Lakers is, I don't know. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so some people are just real diligent about that. And
Speaker 1: what he had to do with color, even if it
Speaker 1: was a white boy that was on the opposite team.
Speaker 1: Some people are like not meaning, but some are fanatics
Speaker 1: like that, like religious In this particular instance, he had
Speaker 1: this is what I'm going back to Lauren helped correct
Speaker 1: me here. In this particular instance, he had stomped on
Speaker 1: the logo before the game, right, and he used to
Speaker 1: play for the Celtics. All that haven't been said had
Speaker 1: he spat on the logo. I still don't think you
Speaker 1: have a right to throw a bottle at him. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where I'm like, I would have rather
Speaker 1: be bottle then you spit on me, because if you
Speaker 1: spit on me, it's the lowest form of disrespect that
Speaker 1: you can ever do to another person. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what the issue is, and that's why they're saying
Speaker 1: that there's a race component here, because I don't know
Speaker 1: of any like like you just said, you would never
Speaker 1: spit on somebody. That's dehumanizing at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So I think that's why the race component is coming
Speaker 1: into this, because it's it's white fans doing this. It's
Speaker 1: not black fans. Like you may be a fan fanatic.
Speaker 1: I understand that you've been locked up in the house,
Speaker 1: but those aren't the personally. I have season tickets to
Speaker 1: the Laker games, so I've been going to the Lakers
Speaker 1: since they were at the form. Okay, I've been going
Speaker 1: to games for years. It's always the crazy white people
Speaker 1: at the game that have to end up being thrown out.
Speaker 1: I'm just, I'm just that's what it is. And they're
Speaker 1: getting drunk off the beer and they start acting crazy
Speaker 1: and then you gotta call security and they gotta get
Speaker 1: scored it out. That's just what happens. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it in the air. I'm gonna put it in the air.
Speaker 1: Y'all better stop, because you know, these basketball players have laughs,
Speaker 1: and they before they became professional, they were guys hanging
Speaker 1: out on the street, hanging with their friends. When Pooky
Speaker 1: Ray rating them is up in the stands and you
Speaker 1: don't know that Pooky Ray rating them with them and
Speaker 1: you you you you do some foul ship. They may
Speaker 1: not be able to get to you. But understand that
Speaker 1: don't mean that you can't get got that's true. That's true. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if I'm thinking that I'm at a
Speaker 1: game and my life is threatening, I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have some protection in the stands and say, hey,
Speaker 1: get out of land if you want to, because it
Speaker 1: ain't got to come from me for you to get it.
Speaker 1: It came through me, but it ain't got to come
Speaker 1: from me. Understand that there is a method to the madness.
Speaker 1: And if you want to play mad man, let me
Speaker 1: show you the method I'm gonna get you with because
Speaker 1: you won't even know what's coming. Baby, it'd be it'd
Speaker 1: be just like that Coronabody is saying, theybe can't got
Speaker 1: you? You You don't even know you got got I say it.
Speaker 1: I have to agree with play on that because I
Speaker 1: feel like Russell Westbo because Pookine Ray Ray and as
Speaker 1: friends and I just feel like he does He's he's
Speaker 1: a goon like by himself. I just don't understand the
Speaker 1: mentality of you thinking I was okay to dump popcorn
Speaker 1: on that man's head. So when when when come behind
Speaker 1: you said, did you just popcorn on him? Oh? I
Speaker 1: was just joking, and then you come up missing for
Speaker 1: like two games. Makes sense, definitely makes sense. But you know,
Speaker 1: Lauren Flamed, this ties into also, um. I think it's
Speaker 1: another example. In the last few months we've just talked
Speaker 1: about We've talked about bad behavior we've seen displayed across
Speaker 1: the board in so many areas with people. Flame has
Speaker 1: and I've had this conversation. We wonder how much of
Speaker 1: it is anxiety around the pandemic. People are back out
Speaker 1: now and people are stressed or dealing with mental health
Speaker 1: issues that come in various forms. I'm not saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not diagnosing someone else. I think that dress is
Speaker 1: a true thing, you know, that may be associated with
Speaker 1: this pandemic over the last year. I think this is
Speaker 1: my opinion. I think for sure, the fact that we
Speaker 1: were all locked up in the house for over a year,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're seeing things like people getting in
Speaker 1: fights on flights, and you know, all there's just a
Speaker 1: lot of built up I think emotion and in some
Speaker 1: cases anger and anxiety whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: wrapped up and a lot of people and they're trying.
Speaker 1: They're lashing out at this point, like we're seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of folks lashing out, and that's how we have
Speaker 1: all these different instances of you know, fights and altercations
Speaker 1: and these things. So I think now more than ever,
Speaker 1: mental health should be prioritized really for for everyone. You know,
Speaker 1: um in a lot of ways, I've had friends that said,
Speaker 1: you know, I think everybody should have a therapist. You know,
Speaker 1: I personally don't have a therapist, but it's just good
Speaker 1: to have an outside source to talk to, or you
Speaker 1: don't feel like you're going to have, you know, any
Speaker 1: biased opinions towards you, or you're going to be judged.
Speaker 1: So I think that at this point in time that
Speaker 1: we should all be prioritizing our mental health and encouraging people.
Speaker 1: If we need to talk to somebody, please go talk
Speaker 1: to somebody, because you know, we haven't experienced anything like
Speaker 1: this in over a hundred years, so nobody really knows
Speaker 1: how to deal with this, you know. So, and I
Speaker 1: believe everyone of color should have a therapist. I genuinely
Speaker 1: believe that everyone everyone flame. I believe though, I believe
Speaker 1: that being a person of color, we carry so much
Speaker 1: generational trauma that we have just inculcated into our day
Speaker 1: to day lives. Things we don't do because well that's
Speaker 1: not what we do, because they have not given us
Speaker 1: space to or we've been somehow um again, it's been
Speaker 1: inculcated into our culture that we well, we don't do that.
Speaker 1: But we watch them move in spaces where they don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about the repercussions of things, and I
Speaker 1: feel like being a person of color. We really need
Speaker 1: to have tools to deal with these things, the different
Speaker 1: layers of aggression that are both implicit um and explicit,
Speaker 1: and I think that they happen every day in our lives.
Speaker 1: We need more black therapist then, because ain't no white
Speaker 1: therapists mean to tell me how to be how to
Speaker 1: be black? Period. And I'm sorry if somebody took that
Speaker 1: the wrong way. Ain't no white therapists can tell me
Speaker 1: nothing about being black. There is no white person that
Speaker 1: can tell me anything about being black. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that offensively. I'm saying that honestly from my DNA.
Speaker 1: There is not a Caucasian person on this planet that
Speaker 1: can tell me anything about being a black person, not
Speaker 1: even just in this country at this time, just period.
Speaker 1: And there's too many white therapists, and black people keep
Speaker 1: going to white therapists thinking they can fix you. White
Speaker 1: people can't fix you. White people are part of the
Speaker 1: reason that we are broken. Let's be very clear and
Speaker 1: very honest about it. There is no not a doctor,
Speaker 1: Field or nobody else that can tell me Yana black
Speaker 1: ass couldn't even fix and she was just starting in
Speaker 1: your house and leave it. You have to find somebody
Speaker 1: that you can talk to, that you trust with, that
Speaker 1: you like. Just because you've got pH ds and degrees
Speaker 1: does not mean that you can help me with my situation.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know my struggle and story because
Speaker 1: of my badge of honor, which is my skin color,
Speaker 1: there is not ship you can tell me. And please
Speaker 1: don't take that offensively. If you're a white person, know here,
Speaker 1: because I'm not dragging you. I'm just telling you what
Speaker 1: you cannot do. For the Flame, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I can't even hold you it. And I think because
Speaker 1: I know, like last week, we talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: the Tulsa race massacre that happened a hundred years ago.
Speaker 1: Part of that story was for seventy five years, it
Speaker 1: wasn't talked about, but more so, the black folks that
Speaker 1: experienced that trauma didn't want to talk about it because
Speaker 1: it was so traumatic and they didn't want to talk
Speaker 1: about it. So that's so in that space, I definitely
Speaker 1: do agree with Flame, you know. And I watched reality
Speaker 1: TV shows and everything else, but mental health has been
Speaker 1: coming up more and more. And on one show I
Speaker 1: was watching, there was a black mail he was saying,
Speaker 1: I'm very I'm a little depressed, you know, the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I've got some anxiety. But the only person that I
Speaker 1: want to talk to that I feel like it's going
Speaker 1: to understand me is another black male. Like I want
Speaker 1: a black male therapist because I feel like he's going
Speaker 1: to understand my experience and not belittle my trauma. So
Speaker 1: in that space, I absolutely I agree with him. I
Speaker 1: think we definitely need more black and people of color,
Speaker 1: you know, mental health professionals. And I'm going to say this, Lauren,
Speaker 1: even using the race Masacre as an example, I think
Speaker 1: that's part of the problem. So you had older blacks
Speaker 1: who didn't want to talk about because that was traumatic
Speaker 1: and painful to them, so they didn't share it with us.
Speaker 1: We talked about our amongst ourselves. How there are people
Speaker 1: within our group who knew nothing about it, right, So
Speaker 1: that information, that pain, that legacy is lost by not
Speaker 1: talking about it. So then we are prone to either
Speaker 1: allow mistakes from the past to repeat themselves because we
Speaker 1: don't have the information and the knowledge to stop it.
Speaker 1: Because I feel as though the benefit the oppressor has
Speaker 1: had is making us uncomfortable speaking and talking about our
Speaker 1: own truth. Right, So what happens is they sit there like,
Speaker 1: well if they are gonna talk about what we got
Speaker 1: to talk about, because they'll just forget about it and
Speaker 1: move on. I can tell you right now to this day.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I should be ashamed or what.
Speaker 1: But I love I love sound of music. Uh I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Uh Gone with the Wind Flame, I love the other
Speaker 1: one that Flame, like with Betty Davis. But they make
Speaker 1: slavery seem so um it's it's I won't even say trivial.
Speaker 1: It's part of the story and it's an integral part
Speaker 1: of the story, right, but what it isn't isn't the
Speaker 1: horror story. Flame talks about nobody putting bags over the
Speaker 1: Sun's head and making them have sense like I didn't
Speaker 1: see that part and Gone with the Wind, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just you know so and I didn't see that part.
Speaker 1: And um, I can't think of the name of it now,
Speaker 1: Flame with Betty Davis said we both love but it's
Speaker 1: just but what But it's it's a thing where they
Speaker 1: made sure the history was told, but it was told
Speaker 1: in a way that wasn't true to our history and
Speaker 1: the way we know it. So no, no, no, no, no, No,
Speaker 1: it was told from their view. It was told from
Speaker 1: their eyesight. Not it wasn't because you're talking about the
Speaker 1: movie Jezebel with Betty David you but it was told
Speaker 1: from their point of view. So it made slaves like,
Speaker 1: we love being slaves, we were happy, we would we
Speaker 1: love to be complicit and co that is not the truth.
Speaker 1: They didn't show the beatings and the lastings. So I
Speaker 1: know what you're saying, Nicholas, but I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1: And I do love going with the wind too, and
Speaker 1: I don't want them to remove it. I know they
Speaker 1: were saying they're going to remove it. They want to
Speaker 1: remove it. But if we, like you said, if we
Speaker 1: don't know our history, we will repeat it. The problem
Speaker 1: is too many black and brown people are relying on
Speaker 1: the colonized education system to teach our children black history.
Speaker 1: It is your goddamn job in your house to teach
Speaker 1: your children what you have been through, which means that
Speaker 1: you need to sit down and have a conversation with
Speaker 1: your mother, your grandmother, and whoever else is older than them,
Speaker 1: so they can come down through the lineage and tell
Speaker 1: you the truth and not what they want you to know.
Speaker 1: In the textbook because right now that there's a whole
Speaker 1: bill to remove black history, they don't even want to
Speaker 1: talk about slavery, and they don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: the Germ Crow South. Now they want to remove that
Speaker 1: from school. It is your job, as a black person,
Speaker 1: as an indigenous person, as any person of color, to
Speaker 1: teach your children their own history, because they're not gonna
Speaker 1: teach you in school. Everything is just mintin Luther King,
Speaker 1: Child mine Luther King. Then believe in valence, Slappy. If
Speaker 1: you won't do, I'm gonna show your ask Malcolm make,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be sitting right next to him. Well, I
Speaker 1: think to the important part is us. As to your
Speaker 1: point as well, Flame is also taking back our history.
Speaker 1: And I think one of the most recent examples that
Speaker 1: I can think of in terms of movie cinema is
Speaker 1: we all remember well when hopefully a lot of us
Speaker 1: remember when Birth of a Nation originally came out, and
Speaker 1: what the premise of that movie was about to showcase that,
Speaker 1: you know, black men were raping white women and black
Speaker 1: men were so problematic and black people need to be
Speaker 1: in change in chains. And then in two Sen Nate
Speaker 1: Parker decided to remake the movie and tell it from
Speaker 1: the perspective of what was actually happening to slaves during
Speaker 1: that time. And I think the remake of Birth of
Speaker 1: a Nation was probably one of the most explicit films
Speaker 1: that I really really gave insight to what slavery was like.
Speaker 1: So um, i'd say that as well as I think
Speaker 1: it's also too about taking back our history. And I
Speaker 1: know a lot of times I see all over social
Speaker 1: media people were like, I'm tired of seeing these movies
Speaker 1: about slavery and black marama. I want to see us celebrated.
Speaker 1: I wholeheartedly agree with that too. I want to see
Speaker 1: black culture celebrated. All the amazing things that we've done
Speaker 1: for this country. But we still have to remember where
Speaker 1: we came from. He had seeing it. Imagine if you
Speaker 1: had to live in it, right eye. Ancestors lived in
Speaker 1: it every day. And this country once again has existed
Speaker 1: with slavery being a part of it much longer than
Speaker 1: it has without, So we have to also recognize that.
Speaker 1: And that's real. So when I say to you that,
Speaker 1: I feel like we carried that trauma in so many
Speaker 1: different ways that it just manifests itself in ways that
Speaker 1: we don't even think about because it's inculcated into our DNA.
Speaker 1: I genuinely need that. When when I decided this summer
Speaker 1: to come out and just call myself big black, it
Speaker 1: wasn't because I haven't always known I was big and black,
Speaker 1: but I was ashamed of being big and black because
Speaker 1: I've moved in spaces where they wanted people look more
Speaker 1: like Flame. You know, Nick, you a little too dark?
Speaker 1: You're not? No anyway? You care what I'm talking about? Lauren?
Speaker 1: Well know what I mean. We can actually let's bring
Speaker 1: in some flamets and see what they gotta say. A
Speaker 1: couple of things so far, Flame, What do you do?
Speaker 1: Are you doing pilates? Are you doing yoga? What are
Speaker 1: you doing? She stopped eating bacon? No, that's not try
Speaker 1: a five pieces this morning. You know I said I
Speaker 1: cut back. I ain't stopped eating ship diet. What color?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Anyway, what have you been doing different?
Speaker 1: Here's the question I want to ask for my listeners,
Speaker 1: and I want you to answer me this, and I
Speaker 1: want this from black folks please, and I'm not being racist,
Speaker 1: but this is what I want. What it's the black agenda.
Speaker 1: Please answer that question for me and don't come on
Speaker 1: here just talking about reparations and money of us. We
Speaker 1: need that. What is the black agenda? Hi? John, how
Speaker 1: are you welcome? We missed you last week? Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: how y'all doing? Do you change your has since coffee time?
Speaker 1: This morning? I changed man to my head was hurting
Speaker 1: and thought I let my braids hang that' don you've
Speaker 1: been listening to the conversation Before you answer my question,
Speaker 1: what is the black agenda? Tell me what you think
Speaker 1: about our conversation we were having thus far. Please about
Speaker 1: our athletes and everything else. I've been agreeing with everything.
Speaker 1: I've been agreeing what you said, Lauren flame Nick, I
Speaker 1: agreed everything. But the athletes people are just minds. Hey, OK,
Speaker 1: then why are they're sitting up there doing stuff at people?
Speaker 1: But the young lady, the Naomi uh Naomi Osaka, she
Speaker 1: has every right to protect her mental health, whichbody would
Speaker 1: have taught us and thirty years to go to protect
Speaker 1: don mental health. So she's young and doing it. She
Speaker 1: she's she's she's making money. And if they don't like it,
Speaker 1: mother had a mother love him you know the rest.
Speaker 1: Ye oh yeah, Please please speak up on the issue
Speaker 1: because you've been in the comments kind of heavy. That's
Speaker 1: why I had to bring you in because I know
Speaker 1: you've got some thoughts so about these NBA players, So
Speaker 1: go ahead and share. Um Herst Harry started that stuff
Speaker 1: in Boston, and he knows what that what that logo
Speaker 1: means to those people in Boston. You you can't reinvent
Speaker 1: the wheel. He knew what he was doing. They don't
Speaker 1: even have happy hour in Boston because of the way
Speaker 1: they act with liquor. But anyway, if if black NBA
Speaker 1: players would start marrying their own, they wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: running into this if they thought, you dick Jane there
Speaker 1: and watch them play, and they're sitting there wishing that
Speaker 1: they could do with like them. We do want to
Speaker 1: turn around and marry out women. That's right, That's all
Speaker 1: that's hidden aggression. White into the plane take off and
Speaker 1: then start acting the ass. They're never doing a taxi
Speaker 1: and they wait to the plane in the air. So
Speaker 1: I believe that you better love, honor and respect your
Speaker 1: black woman. The well, the show is alway later. Yea,
Speaker 1: we have had a wonderful today because just shut it down. Baby. Well,
Speaker 1: y'all talking about in birth of a Nation while they're
Speaker 1: saying that black men raping white women. There's no need
Speaker 1: for you, the raper white woman. All you need to
Speaker 1: do is say that you're a professional athlete. There's no
Speaker 1: they're gonna throw the panties at you. Right, that's the
Speaker 1: top of the show. That of the show is what
Speaker 1: is the black agenda? But I tell you what we
Speaker 1: could say all you want, if you want some white cat,
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is say you're a professional. You
Speaker 1: can say you're a hockey player and ain't even that
Speaker 1: many of us and hockey ships. And then as much
Speaker 1: and in as much as I agree with both of
Speaker 1: you ladies, we can't fault that. We cannot fault the
Speaker 1: black women. We have the fault the black man. It's
Speaker 1: the black man who keep thinking that Mary and Mary
Speaker 1: and Becky with the good hair is going to raise yourself.
Speaker 1: And love is love. I'm not knocking love. If you're
Speaker 1: in love with that person, I get it. But don't
Speaker 1: marry for thinking that that's going to be your trophy
Speaker 1: wife or your stature, because that's beautiful black women to
Speaker 1: be your trophy wife. And but this goes back to
Speaker 1: generational trauma. Help me here, don we got foopas were
Speaker 1: too dark and we got fooples. They don't want that.
Speaker 1: They get they got the money to go get their
Speaker 1: aspecting hair. I don't have foopa. I got dupa. Well,
Speaker 1: I got a poopa and I'm too dark and they
Speaker 1: don't they don't won't know, but don't want to. But
Speaker 1: I ain't never self eliminate. We in the starting gates.
Speaker 1: I'm running my best race. I don't know who's standing
Speaker 1: next to me in the room. You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting though that I just realized it's
Speaker 1: like the players that get messed with the most. I've
Speaker 1: just had an epiphany are the ones that have the
Speaker 1: black wives. Have y'all realized that Lebron James has a
Speaker 1: black wife, Russell Westbrook has a black wife. They're the
Speaker 1: ones that get, you know, kind of targeted the most.
Speaker 1: And that's interesting. It's hidden aggression. White men are not
Speaker 1: sitting there cheering for you unless they think they have
Speaker 1: the upper hand. So they already mad that you're these big, old,
Speaker 1: statuous men with all this ecleticism. And then for the
Speaker 1: larger portion of the numbers, you didn't had all these
Speaker 1: white women. You know, cause when the rookies come that's
Speaker 1: the only only people they bring around them. That's those
Speaker 1: those groupies trust all stage for every sport in college.
Speaker 1: So when you get lebron in in X, Y and Z,
Speaker 1: they take that hit in aggression, that passed aggression and
Speaker 1: they passing on to them. They don't want it to
Speaker 1: look too obviously, you know what I mean. And I really,
Speaker 1: I really, really really believe that the Kardashians think they
Speaker 1: got everything on lock. Ain't no, my boy's gonna sleep
Speaker 1: behind all them brothers, No, all that messed over stuff
Speaker 1: like oh my god. And it's like they go after
Speaker 1: black man, that's all they go after. And the black man, well, well,
Speaker 1: in defense of the black men, Nick, I'm here that
Speaker 1: you come right in in defense of the black men.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the white women, a lot of
Speaker 1: like me and young black men watch porn, and they
Speaker 1: watch a lot of black men destroying white girls and porn.
Speaker 1: It is a fantasy in their head. It starts in
Speaker 1: their teen years and it's looking at it's the truth.
Speaker 1: So it really is the truth that you watch a
Speaker 1: lot of porn, and they watched these big black bucks
Speaker 1: destroying these little white girls, and that is a fantasy.
Speaker 1: So they wanted at that fantasy sometimes get them twenty
Speaker 1: five years and the penitential to the white Yeah, it does,
Speaker 1: it does. But I'm telling you it starts young. Because
Speaker 1: I've caught my son watching porn and he watched he
Speaker 1: watching the black black. He watches a lot of the
Speaker 1: black guys sleeping with the white girls. Tell him to
Speaker 1: go in the google black porn black. If you have
Speaker 1: self hatreot, that's what you desire, if you have self hatred.
Speaker 1: I mean I've set up amongst women, uh, in the
Speaker 1: parent groups, women watching our sons play first rite of
Speaker 1: patcheck passages. Oh you know these white people crazy about him?
Speaker 1: What the hell did you just say to me? Like
Speaker 1: it's a rite of passive or you know this white
Speaker 1: family or this white and all it is is a
Speaker 1: cycle building in his mind. You know, I really believe that.
Speaker 1: You know, part of that is passed on generational curse Parma,
Speaker 1: and I think part of it. You know, they can't
Speaker 1: wait to celebrate these boys because all the white people
Speaker 1: really want to hang out, would them when they get
Speaker 1: on campus, they don't walk to their classes. They have
Speaker 1: somebody taxing them over in golf courts. They already started
Speaker 1: giving them this imagery and all they surround them. What
Speaker 1: is a bunch of white folks and white girls? You
Speaker 1: better think about it so catrid. You gotta know your work.
Speaker 1: Hold on, go ahead and chime in, Come on, say
Speaker 1: something that. I think that everything that has been it
Speaker 1: is completely valid. But I also think that sometimes the uh,
Speaker 1: simplest answer is the easiest one. I think that young boys,
Speaker 1: in particular, having been one, you covered what you see.
Speaker 1: So if all you see is hustler, if all you
Speaker 1: see is playboy, if all you see is you know, uh,
Speaker 1: the guys who are stars right now, and they're with
Speaker 1: a particular actress who may or may not be black.
Speaker 1: Um and we've got to remember too that there aren't
Speaker 1: many black actresses in as many because they don't get
Speaker 1: booked as often as some of the other actresses. Because um,
Speaker 1: so they they're going to the sites and the um
Speaker 1: the productions that they enjoy. So that's what they're seeing.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's so much conscious decision to
Speaker 1: only prefer a one particular type of woman. I think
Speaker 1: that also, and this is just me, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to go into an area that's two blue in
Speaker 1: case there are those who this is in love lines
Speaker 1: like PA would say. But I also think that men
Speaker 1: ladies don't make that association like um. For guys, I
Speaker 1: think it's really physical more than emotional. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how to say that. I don't want to sound crass,
Speaker 1: but I think that that's not in it. I'm sorry, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know I love the vagina, so I'm gonna speak
Speaker 1: on this because I love the vagina period, and it
Speaker 1: could be any color. When I want to smash, I'm
Speaker 1: not looking at the color. I'm turning lights out and
Speaker 1: going in. But the fantasy, the fantasy for the young
Speaker 1: black brother, a lot of the younger because what you
Speaker 1: you're speaking old school hustler, play girl. All that ship
Speaker 1: is on land now, pawn herb and Twitter. You can
Speaker 1: see anything you want to. You can see them fucking
Speaker 1: goats and everything else if you want to, because that's well,
Speaker 1: it's the truth. It has become readily available at the
Speaker 1: type of your fingers. So it's a lot of it.
Speaker 1: It's fantasy. A lot of it is fake. But when
Speaker 1: you get a chance to live it out in real life,
Speaker 1: that makes it different. And it's not about them not
Speaker 1: being loving with their sisters because of black women promote
Speaker 1: black men to marry a black woman, period. That is
Speaker 1: the truth. Black mothers promote their black sons to marry
Speaker 1: a black woman, but you have no say so over
Speaker 1: what your son marries or who they fall in love with.
Speaker 1: So what Jane and Don was saying, when these young
Speaker 1: college boys getting ready to come to college they slew
Speaker 1: you with a gang of white girls, say they let
Speaker 1: them white girls do any and everything to your body
Speaker 1: that you never experienced. So you think that sisters don't
Speaker 1: do that because the white girls have done everything, So
Speaker 1: you think a black woman ain't gonna do that. So
Speaker 1: that is why they get in their head and then
Speaker 1: grained in their DNA that I have to marry somebody
Speaker 1: like this because she's gonna keep me satisfied. So it
Speaker 1: is not that Nicholas at all. I promise you it's not.
Speaker 1: You know, I hadn't been across the spectrum. I had Asian, white, black, indigenous,
Speaker 1: homeless crazy crazy. By the way, by the way, the
Speaker 1: craziest bitches got the best. I'm thinking about just getting
Speaker 1: me a cotton sitting outside the mental health and so
Speaker 1: because them girls right there got the good good, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you right now, I'm just trying to get me
Speaker 1: some of them. I'm trying to give me some megamark
Speaker 1: of the Sparkle baby because Cardi be her Man kept cheating.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you it is anything grained in their
Speaker 1: head because they're young and it's funked up, and I'm
Speaker 1: Sara's sucked up. But black women, black women who have
Speaker 1: black sons, really pushed for their black sons to marry
Speaker 1: a black woman. Where it gets smoky in the water
Speaker 1: is especially when they're professional athletes or they're going to people.
Speaker 1: When they get to them colleges, them coaches and all
Speaker 1: them people get in their head and slew them with
Speaker 1: a ton of Becky's with a good hair. I think
Speaker 1: all they do is take them and use them and
Speaker 1: make them babies and then that's a cash call for
Speaker 1: the rest of their natural lives. Well, I think in
Speaker 1: an example to what you're talking about, I can't think
Speaker 1: of the name of the movie, but I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the movie. It's uh, it's a Spike Lee movie, but
Speaker 1: it's with Ray Allen and Denzel Washington. He's got game banking.
Speaker 1: That's a perfect example of it. Thanks I could take
Speaker 1: the name exactly, you know, and it's just the fact.
Speaker 1: And then you know the little white pearls have the car.
Speaker 1: It's like you're feeling startom even if you know you're
Speaker 1: not gonna play professionally. It boosts this year he got. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, they they don't make the plan feel very
Speaker 1: leveled when you get there because they're pushing their promoting
Speaker 1: her exactly. You know what I mean, I have lived that.
Speaker 1: And you know what to add to what you're saying,
Speaker 1: T T j. And because the h b c us
Speaker 1: don't have the money like the big white schools, does
Speaker 1: they go to the white schools because that's where the money.
Speaker 1: And then but they're changing that. Baby, you better look
Speaker 1: at them black, Yes, you you just but better be
Speaker 1: careful because the HP are usual coming for blood. They
Speaker 1: we are promoting them in it all terms start getting
Speaker 1: these kids they need. That's a whole. That's a whole.
Speaker 1: Another issue too that you guys are talking about in
Speaker 1: terms of HBCU using sports, is that T. GJN is
Speaker 1: absolutely right. We have or I think Donna think you
Speaker 1: just said that, is that we have a lot of
Speaker 1: these like athletes that are coming out of high school
Speaker 1: that are you know, possibly like NBA players or NFL players,
Speaker 1: and they're going to these p w wise which stands
Speaker 1: for predominantly white institutions. For those that you don't know,
Speaker 1: they're going to these p wise because that's how they
Speaker 1: know that they can get their contracts. You know, if
Speaker 1: you historically, if you went to a Howard University for
Speaker 1: a basketball scholarship, you may not get drafted as a
Speaker 1: first round draft pick for the NBA. You know, if
Speaker 1: you can go play for coach k at Duke, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: there you go, or U n C. Absolutely, so their
Speaker 1: economics play a huge part. If you don't get a
Speaker 1: get picked for the NBA. At an HBC, you got
Speaker 1: your degree, you have the professors that cared about you
Speaker 1: to get your lessons. Yeah, but I know what they're
Speaker 1: not looking to get. But you know what I would
Speaker 1: tell children if you don't get it, if you can degree,
Speaker 1: get a degree in bullish it just as long as that.
Speaker 1: I hear part of what Joanna saying though, because you know,
Speaker 1: even you know dudes that I've talked with that have
Speaker 1: been athletes, it was like, oh, I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: for a year and get out and try and go
Speaker 1: being a you know, a big league or anything. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, get your degree at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, because if you get hurt, what's your fault,
Speaker 1: Black plan, You don't have it. You don't have a degree,
Speaker 1: you don't have anything else to do. So I hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying on that front. Down I agree with
Speaker 1: that education, but nobody bull no going to take a
Speaker 1: chance of being hurt playing college ball and be knocked
Speaker 1: out from getting up a contract or going up. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they do go for an education, but they already know
Speaker 1: they're short term or trust I've been around too. I've
Speaker 1: been around too too long to know that to be factual.
Speaker 1: They don't even plan on getting degrees. Do go back later.
Speaker 1: But when you're talking about money, yeah, set your family free,
Speaker 1: y mama, your that's a good answer. They started, and
Speaker 1: those kids in college and have they started. They made
Speaker 1: a decision, what you know, and I'm not mad at
Speaker 1: them about that at all. I'm not mad about that
Speaker 1: at all at all. Okay, So here's the question I
Speaker 1: want to propose to you, both of you all. What
Speaker 1: is the black agenda? Okay, hold up, Dohn, you go first,
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go first. Well, like we said, I said earlier,
Speaker 1: it's so much that we need. Hell, where do we begin?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know where to begin. That's that's
Speaker 1: a that's a wide question. Where do we begin? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We need so much, we need laws
Speaker 1: in place for us. You know, it seems, as I've
Speaker 1: said this earlier, everybody else can get things targeted for
Speaker 1: their race, for their community except us. You know, we
Speaker 1: need protection, we need fair house, and we need um
Speaker 1: what is it called um across? We just needed everything,
Speaker 1: you know, but we need to have the right representation
Speaker 1: to speak for us. You know what, I'm gonna gifer
Speaker 1: just a little bit. I don't think there's an agenda,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be landlocked with saying X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z. You know what I mean. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to chisel it down on paper. This
Speaker 1: is the black agenda, because it's like you said, darn,
Speaker 1: we need everything. So I can't up and say, hey,
Speaker 1: give me that and give me this, because in the
Speaker 1: next five years it could change for something else for
Speaker 1: the kids behind us, you know what I mean. UM, So,
Speaker 1: I don't see uh agenda being a blueprint or a
Speaker 1: tempest for the future. How about just giving us fair opportunity.
Speaker 1: How about you knowing I'm not wishing that I'm you.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with being me. See you got a problem
Speaker 1: with me. I don't have a problem with you. I
Speaker 1: never woke up saying I wish I was blind with
Speaker 1: blue hair. I like being black. It's not convenient, but
Speaker 1: I like this exactly. What do you think I think? Uh?
Speaker 1: For me, I do think that they're UM. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with an action plan and one that begins with
Speaker 1: an honest conversation about acknowledging our history. Lauren, I genuinely
Speaker 1: believe we can't get anything done until we really have
Speaker 1: a conversation about who we are as a country, the
Speaker 1: pain we have inflicted on a people, UM, the way
Speaker 1: I believe race and bigotry and racism is inculcated in
Speaker 1: everything that is quote end quote American UM. And that
Speaker 1: is around housing, that is around healthcare, that is around education.
Speaker 1: So I think until we have a conversation about who
Speaker 1: we are as a country, how this country was built
Speaker 1: on the backs of black people who were in slaved
Speaker 1: I really think everything else is perfunctory. So this is
Speaker 1: my thought and I'm going into a little different lane.
Speaker 1: I think the black agenda should be us as a
Speaker 1: Black community getting on one accorded first, first, and foremost.
Speaker 1: That's what I think, because I think within our community
Speaker 1: we still have a lot of underlying stigma that has
Speaker 1: not been addressed. There's still an issue of black folks
Speaker 1: not accepting, you know, the LGBTQ community and their stigma
Speaker 1: around that. I think that there's still an issue of
Speaker 1: us not knowing how to support one another like we
Speaker 1: see in other communities like Asian community and different things
Speaker 1: like that. So I think until we as black folks
Speaker 1: can actually get on one accord and truly support us
Speaker 1: no matter what shade we are in this essence and
Speaker 1: in this instance, we can't get anywhere because we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep fighting each other. We gotta start there first before
Speaker 1: we expect somebody from an outside race to actually support
Speaker 1: us and do something. That's how I feel, Lauren. I
Speaker 1: still and I know Flame is going to close this out,
Speaker 1: But Lauren, if we're saying that just being honest in
Speaker 1: this safe space, because it's only the five of us, um,
Speaker 1: I still have my own personal biases against people who
Speaker 1: are light skinned and quote unquote pretty right, Okay, thank
Speaker 1: you done done? Because I grow well, you know, so
Speaker 1: and so got good hair, and you know so and so.
Speaker 1: You know so it's a light skin, so that made
Speaker 1: him more attractive. So I was never the one picked,
Speaker 1: and so I still walked with around with that bias.
Speaker 1: I was never a thirty two inch waist because I
Speaker 1: was always a bigger every all the girls they look
Speaker 1: like Lauren always wanted to Oh he fag because he
Speaker 1: got good hair, you know what I'm saying there. So
Speaker 1: it's always that thing too. So um if you, if
Speaker 1: you weren't a capit, you couldn't get Lauren's attention. Not you, Lauren,
Speaker 1: but Lauren, you know what I'm saying. So it's so
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where I've got to get
Speaker 1: past my own bias that well, you know, flame is
Speaker 1: I was gonna be more proper because flame was light skinned,
Speaker 1: Flame was Flame was small. Flame. Can I say, Marcus,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm sorry, look she forgot but
Speaker 1: but but old pictures of flame, uh you think you're
Speaker 1: like damn uh good hair like so you get the idea.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about the different hues. Look at look
Speaker 1: at my arm right now, My top of my arm
Speaker 1: is lighting my titty and look at the bottom of
Speaker 1: my arm and looked like I got gloves on. We
Speaker 1: come in so many beautiful shades and so many gorgeous hues.
Speaker 1: It's not them, something like I'll saying, it's not always them,
Speaker 1: it is some of us. And I don't know the
Speaker 1: darker struggle because I've never been dark, even though I
Speaker 1: think there are beautiful dark people in the world, and
Speaker 1: I talk about on Love Lounge all the time. I
Speaker 1: think Tika Sumter from Having Have Nots is one of
Speaker 1: the most beautiful black women on the planet right now.
Speaker 1: And she is dark skinning, but she is a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: We gotta get past looking at the huge So I
Speaker 1: get that part. But my black agenda right now, because
Speaker 1: if we had a town call, if Biden called for
Speaker 1: a meeting right now with black black leader and with
Speaker 1: the white folks, and he said, he asked the black leader,
Speaker 1: let's say, um, President Obama, what is the black agenda.
Speaker 1: You can't come with ten things. You got to come
Speaker 1: with one thing that's going to have an impact on
Speaker 1: all the black community. Because all of these so called
Speaker 1: celebrity rappers and all these people who have so much
Speaker 1: influence six months ago, was telling us hold your vote,
Speaker 1: hold your vot until they come up with the black agenda.
Speaker 1: They told us to hold a vote, but they never
Speaker 1: laid out a blueprint on what the black agenda was.
Speaker 1: Ice Q said that he was going with Trump's plan
Speaker 1: of what Trump's plan is to annihilate and get rid
Speaker 1: of anybody that's not that's not fall in line in
Speaker 1: complicity with what his plan is. This has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with black. Black is at the bottom or at
Speaker 1: the top. But if you're you are in his pocket.
Speaker 1: All the niggas is quiet right now. You don't hear
Speaker 1: none of them niggas saying a damn thing. But the
Speaker 1: primaries are coming up. I want them to have the
Speaker 1: same energy then that they have now. Don't say ship
Speaker 1: because you're doing detriment to your people. And too many
Speaker 1: people are lost in the amazes of their mind. So
Speaker 1: you play follow the leader with somebody who don't know
Speaker 1: who the funk they are, so you want to follow them.
Speaker 1: Loss follow loss. That's why I seventy four million people
Speaker 1: voted for Trump cause loss follow loss. I ain't lost
Speaker 1: the flame, mess ain't lost. You got to know who
Speaker 1: you are. You have to know who you are in
Speaker 1: order for your life to be successful. And that don't
Speaker 1: mean being rich. That means being content and happy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and having some plain old common ass. Well, good luck
Speaker 1: with that, all these dumbasses on here ship. But I
Speaker 1: think that's why I'm saying, is that until we as
Speaker 1: a community get on one accord and nothing is actually
Speaker 1: gonna move forward because of things that I just said said.
Speaker 1: You know, we've all said between the five of us,
Speaker 1: and so we get on one accord, there is no
Speaker 1: moving forward. There isn't because we got like you said,
Speaker 1: we got ice Cube saying the whole your vote. You know,
Speaker 1: we got this one. You know over there, you know
Speaker 1: we have the Kanye West and I could go on,
Speaker 1: you know about the just And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And they know that, and they know that because we're
Speaker 1: not on one accords and you know who, you know,
Speaker 1: you know who told us that, and we didn't listen.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi then when they tried to impeach Trump the
Speaker 1: very first time, she said we're not ready. She didn't
Speaker 1: mean that we didn't have the information to impeach this food.
Speaker 1: What she meant was that we are not together as
Speaker 1: a unit to do it together. We all over the
Speaker 1: plane the Democrats. First of all, let me talk about
Speaker 1: the Democrats needs some balls. Second of all, I watched
Speaker 1: the news this weekend. I do believe that Liz Channey
Speaker 1: was part of the conspiracy theory that I talked about.
Speaker 1: She made it look like she was for us. She
Speaker 1: never would see how question she is. Now you see
Speaker 1: how question she is now? Okay, we could get into
Speaker 1: Liz Cheney. I was really upset that everybody was trying
Speaker 1: to root for her and every thing. I'm like Liz
Speaker 1: Chenese record, she's still like the time voted with Trump.
Speaker 1: So let's just call spade in that space. So but anyway,
Speaker 1: she got me for him, and she didn't get me
Speaker 1: for a minute. I ain't gonna front. She did smoothe
Speaker 1: me over. But if I see you, I'm taking a
Speaker 1: deer hunt like a daddy win. Here's the deal that
Speaker 1: you know again, I believe this, and I'll close it
Speaker 1: out because we're at our time. But part of the
Speaker 1: secret to with the oppressor is to continue to have
Speaker 1: those who are oppressed fight amongst themselves. Right, So what
Speaker 1: happens is we forget all about the four the People Act.
Speaker 1: How simple was it? Five months ago we talked about,
Speaker 1: of course it makes sense that we should have clear
Speaker 1: voting rights across the country. They have chipped away at that.
Speaker 1: Now it doesn't look like we have the momentum for
Speaker 1: that that we're even questioning, well, what are democrats doing.
Speaker 1: We were all on board on this not even five
Speaker 1: months ago, and something happened in the political discourse. Because
Speaker 1: there's always a shiny object, right, they throw out vaccine,
Speaker 1: they throw out stimulus, they throw out the economy, things
Speaker 1: to distract, So the bouncing ball continues to move, and
Speaker 1: we're doing like this, right, So the political discourse, the
Speaker 1: conversation changes, and we're still no closer to enacting laws
Speaker 1: that guarantee people who are part of this country the
Speaker 1: opportunity to participate and a fair and free election. And
Speaker 1: that's absolutely ridiculous. That should be part of the black agenda. Well,
Speaker 1: they won't happen in our lifetime. The only way we're
Speaker 1: gonna ever get fair treatment in this country or in
Speaker 1: this in this world, God gonna have to destroy the
Speaker 1: whole earth and we had to start over because it's
Speaker 1: just not gonna happen. It is too many people who
Speaker 1: you you're trying to make me. I got my glasses on.
Speaker 1: I see everything when my glasses on. But I watched
Speaker 1: January six and January six in this country meant two
Speaker 1: different things to two different sets of people. To us,
Speaker 1: we were celebrating in uh in Um, Georgia that we
Speaker 1: turned Georgia blue. But to them, they were right insurrection.
Speaker 1: They were rioting at the capitol. But they said that
Speaker 1: they were it was tourists, and will I never say
Speaker 1: no tourists busting windows and ship exactly? They were right,
Speaker 1: they're the right. That was that we didn't get the
Speaker 1: whole story about that they and jan We won't because
Speaker 1: not enough people believe it's necessary to have a bipartisan investigation.
Speaker 1: And we all watched this. But that's gas sliding at
Speaker 1: its best. You did not see what you thought you saw.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Flame? That flame? It was
Speaker 1: a tour. Why do you try to make it something
Speaker 1: that it wasn't. It was a simple tour like any
Speaker 1: other day at the Capitol. And I'm a real woman.
Speaker 1: If if if I decided that I in my head
Speaker 1: and write it down that I want to go and
Speaker 1: finish what they did January six, they have stopped my
Speaker 1: playing before I even get over there. Well that's already
Speaker 1: been established too. Is that there's some you know, congressional
Speaker 1: leaders and senators that said, if this was black lives matter,
Speaker 1: of course, I wasn't been scared. You know, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have even breached. They would have been climbing up the
Speaker 1: wall like Spider Man. Here's the kickoff. Here's the here's
Speaker 1: the kickoff. Here's the kickoff. This nigga say in August
Speaker 1: that they were going to reinstate him back into into presidency.
Speaker 1: Understand me, if y'all wanted a civil war, y'all didn't
Speaker 1: get what y'all wanted, be ready. Well, I to know
Speaker 1: to the one time, I will give Mark Zuckerberg a
Speaker 1: shout out. They did suspend Trump's account until for the
Speaker 1: next two years, so that is somewhat a good thing
Speaker 1: for Facebook and Instagram. He could have done it indefinitely.
Speaker 1: It's true, he could have. You know, what I see
Speaker 1: it as is they're just trying to get past primaries.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 1: it's small, it's it's small. But I appreciate Mark on
Speaker 1: that because because Facebook honestly perpetuates a lot of hateful messaging,
Speaker 1: they do. Don't read. Don't read the messages, Nicholas, don't read,
Speaker 1: don't read the comments. Jim Jones ain't got ship on
Speaker 1: forty five. I don't know what I forgotten his mouth,
Speaker 1: but I don't off the rare kool aid, all the
Speaker 1: green kool Aide. It's definitely it's slow. It's the slow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do that at the Prince. It's a slow
Speaker 1: kool aid. It's the slow kool aid. On a lighter note,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, on this Wednesday, I'm celebrating my very
Speaker 1: first graduation. My son is graduating from high school this Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I also have one Monday and Tuesday of next week.
Speaker 1: So I'm a proud bird over here. Well as always,
Speaker 1: thank you John, and thank you T t. Jan. This
Speaker 1: was a great unexpected convo. And and we see you
Speaker 1: guys tonight at Love Lounge. Thank you Jane, Thank you
Speaker 1: Um Dawn. We will see you at the Love Lounge tonight. Nicholas,
Speaker 1: where you at? Where you at? Baby bad? Here? There
Speaker 1: he is there he is quite interesting conversation. And see
Speaker 1: what it is is that the Black agenda means so
Speaker 1: many different things to so many different Black people, because
Speaker 1: if you ask people, the first thing they holly is reparation. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing is, you know why we're not don want
Speaker 1: a court, why we can't get an agenda together, because
Speaker 1: we don't want to court. If there it is right, right,
Speaker 1: Nicholas and Lauren, we're not a monolithic people because once
Speaker 1: again we definitely liked this conversation for that reason. Right,
Speaker 1: what would you like? Would you like reparations? I believe
Speaker 1: reparations are only a part of the whole process. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: But let me ask you a question. So if they
Speaker 1: gave every black person three hundred thousand dollars and and
Speaker 1: then and the black person, the person some because some
Speaker 1: people will have a plan, Some people are businessman and
Speaker 1: seven and that three hundred thousand dollars will last them
Speaker 1: because they would grow a business, start a business, grow
Speaker 1: a lifetime. But if I gave it to my uncle,
Speaker 1: who I know is a fucking drunk and gonna go
Speaker 1: on the corner and get high and play gone cards again,
Speaker 1: so three hundred thousand dollars might last him three from
Speaker 1: five months, and then he's broke again. Then what you
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying, If you ain't got no blueprint,
Speaker 1: if you don't have a plan, a master plan, don't
Speaker 1: deserve the money because and we need somebody needs to
Speaker 1: eyeball to make sure that you are following the guidelines
Speaker 1: that you set up for yourself. And I'm not. And
Speaker 1: I just want to say this too. I don't want
Speaker 1: what I'm saying to come off like I'm putting all
Speaker 1: of the onus on the Black community of why we're
Speaker 1: in this state, because that is not true at all.
Speaker 1: We are in this state is because of systematically what
Speaker 1: has happened to us. That is definitely a fact of
Speaker 1: you know, colorism, of us being basically crabs in a
Speaker 1: barrel amongst each other. So it was definitely outside forces working.
Speaker 1: But to Flames point is that outside forces continue to
Speaker 1: work continuing. Absolutely, You're not gonna talk about Tim Scott
Speaker 1: on my laugh, You're not gonna talk about Bay and
Speaker 1: Jones on my laugh. But I'm just saying, is that,
Speaker 1: so where do you start? You know, do you start
Speaker 1: at the landownership? Because if you give people land, though,
Speaker 1: and they can't pay for it, then you're back in
Speaker 1: the same place that you started, So it's like where
Speaker 1: do you start? Or they don't have the training to cultivate.
Speaker 1: I got a whole garden in the back and the
Speaker 1: dead tomatous because I don't know how to plan. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to do that. Training. I need training.
Speaker 1: I need you have to teach me these things so
Speaker 1: that I will know. So where do you start? If
Speaker 1: you don't how to file your taxes correctly? And then
Speaker 1: you get a lean put on your house, and like,
Speaker 1: there's just so many different things that could possibly happen
Speaker 1: because we just don't have the education. We don't have
Speaker 1: the things set up to make you fail. And then
Speaker 1: when you do get it, let's say property, then we're
Speaker 1: back in a situation where maybe through you know, just
Speaker 1: simply through a different act or different proclamation, we take
Speaker 1: that land because we're going to do you know, imminent domain,
Speaker 1: and or we're building a highway. Guess what nick that
Speaker 1: place that you had over there and cottage girl, we're
Speaker 1: just going to go through that because they're building a
Speaker 1: new freeway. You know. I think ultimately what has happened
Speaker 1: and what we've seen this happened, they'll just kill us
Speaker 1: the ones that knew how to do what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: They were just murdered, that's what. Or or drag somehow
Speaker 1: image image, uh, sullied, whatever the thing is, Absolutely I
Speaker 1: completely agree. Well, first of all, nickas forty seven College
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Speaker 1: And I posted on flames page about her interview. I
Speaker 1: did that? Oh yeah, Lauren did that? You see all
Speaker 1: the backlash because class starts with you and baby, they
Speaker 1: are not going This is for the black community or
Speaker 1: any community that wants to be relevant and and and
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Speaker 1: we see ourselves. Black folks, we gotta see us. Gay people,
Speaker 1: we gotta see ourselves. You have to see you first
Speaker 1: before you decide for somebody else to come in and
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Speaker 1: looking at in the mirror. Some of y'all so lost
Speaker 1: when you're look in the mirror, the reflections just turned
Speaker 1: around looking like like, bitch, you don't know who you are?
Speaker 1: Why the know? I'm just saying, okay, ladies, I'm here
Speaker 1: at laughing. Learn here that laughing. Learn we are not
Speaker 1: what we are not trying to get you to change
Speaker 1: your mind. We're simply trying to get you to use
Speaker 1: your mind. Because why some of you hosts ain't got one.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all just real dumb real talk. Ain't got
Speaker 1: no common sense and I just see what I see it.
Speaker 1: Let me get in my Keyshia voice. And no, no,
Speaker 1: we we appreciate critical thinking here there. This is a zone,
Speaker 1: a judgment free zone. Come with it, correct because the
Speaker 1: Flame Maths is some of the smartest listeners on the
Speaker 1: social media. And you come down, we hand you your
Speaker 1: ass starting with the bitch with the blue glasses Hello,
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Speaker 1: If you can find me on all social media platforms
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