All Hell's Breaking Loose

the grown a second. We're gonna last kind of the kicking and at the end we leave it with just a lifted spirits make you want to revisit, so your first take a listen, young folks say it's lit old folks that we take it to he' no do don't do what you don't? No kiss, do what I do? You Flame? Hey, hey, welcome to laugh and learn with your host Flame Monroe and my beautiful partner. What's your name? You got jukes today already? Okay, Lauren Hogan with my

baby Laura Hogan. We're here today, you guys. And we know we didn't take on Monday because we had some things going on. What do we have going on? Lord? Lord? Beat me y'all with a whip in a chair. I probably she was a lion taer. You gotta stop with these abuse allegations. People are really going to think that I hit you. It's the truth. Why would you know

what lies? All lies? Know? Somebody was participating in the Netflix as a joke festival, so I had to go put my other hat on and play manager on Monday and support my client at the Hollywood Improv in Hollywood. So yes, she did come out with my baby Christina and and we had a good time. I think, what do you think we have a good time. You did a really good job. I I you know, you know, I'll let you know when you do bad, but you know i'll let you know when you do really good.

You did an excellent job. I definitely got to give your props. It was funny, it was engaging, all of the above. It was good. And let me tell y'all something. What she just said was not not the part about me being good, but the part about if I ain't good. Oh this healf activity. I want to tell you that part of my job. I gotta be honest with you. Otherwise, you know the clause in your contract. Shut the funk up. Hey, you needed somebody to match your energy, so you met

your match, right, Oh my god. Heah, it is too funny. Still week Um, lots going on in the world this week long, We're don't get right to it because it's not gonna be a long episode. We we employ you to download the episode of laugh and Learning on My Heart under the Black Effect Network or on Spotify, Amazon, Apple or wherever you listen to your podcast, because this

is what we're doing right now. We're doing audio, and this is what we really need to do all to do to download the episodes and listen to them in your cars. So we're not gonna make them long because we have been getting your messages that you all don't want it long. Y'all wanted short and tight. I wanted type, but I don't know how short I wanted. Oh we're talking about this? Okay, wait a minute, Wait a minute, So where were going? I was gonna ask the same question.

Let's how about we start light and end on a serious note. Does that sound good? I like it? I like it? Well? Can we start lighting funny or lighting heavy? No? Lighting funny? Let's talk about your girl with Brooks. Donna Brooks, the trans woman who has outed been Zeno two weeks ago and then went on three or four different news publications, including one of her best girlfriends, Angela Stands and King and said nothing ever happened, but sex sexually ever happened

between them, nothing ever transpired. She still on that, she said, and there was because she didn't want anything to happen. But then you make a dis track to come out and it is me. I don't know, ye confused? Yeah, I mean you're you with me both? No. Yeah, that's the part that's kind of baffled me because I definitely saw an interview of her saying that nothing happened between them sexually, but that via text, you know, Benzino was trying to, you know, make sexual advances towards her via

X but nothing happened physically between them. So if you won't come out with a distract, I don't know, the story keeps changing. Well, here's my thing. And so many people are so thirsty for their fifteen minutes. Getting fifteen minutes and how you get fifteen minutes are very two, two very different reasons, two very different things. Because I want my fifteen minutes too, I want longer, I want two hours, I want a lifetime, but I don't want to get it by hurting somebody else's life or career.

It is really messed up. And I'm not even speaking on behalf of Benzino because I'm so sick of me and saying that women, food and whatever. Trans men who are attracted to trans women will not stop being attracted to trans women. There is an itch that needs to be scratched. That scratch won't stop, That itch won't stop until you scratch it. What she has done, in my my eyes, is because you did this, men will still

be attracted to trans women. But on the flip side of it, they'll feel like, oh, let me make sure that you don't tell nobody else. Now. I don't know what that completely entails, but in my head it's like, you're gonna disappear. I'm gonna silence you forever because I can't risk I can't run the risk of you ending my career, making my children look at me sideways, my wife divorcing me. Uh. The cancel culture is out of control. So if you put out that I'm laid up with

a trans woman, I could lose my position. It is. It is such a dangerous and deadly and scary game, but they keep playing the same game and they keep saying, Oh, she fooled me, She fooled me, Lauren, you're a woman, you twenties, five years old. Six. I guarantee you know the difference between the penis and a vagina, So I can they can say all that she could be. It's pretty she wanted to you open them legs up, because most men who gonna have sex with a woman want

to look at it. Touches smelling. Most men do the finger and the sniff test. So you ain't gonna sniff that. Look, I've produces on the land. Errand he's straight. I don't think do the sniff test. Air. You can wait in uh. And the women and they keep saying, they keep blaming, want to blame me and whether me and had a choice.

So did the trans woman. She had a choice. If you know that this man is not going to walk down the street with you and hold your hand, take you to the family barbecue, introduce you to his kids and his mama, ain't the relation. The relationship is going to stay under the road because that's what the society

has put them. It's a rarity that you found a man that will boldly be with a trans worman whether she's passible or not, and Nane times out of team if he would want, he's sucking on Nane other ones and that's just the god on this truth. They're called trendy chasers. Mhm. I mean the whole situation is definitely giving side trick syndrome to me, because it's pretty much the same situation even if it was you know, a heterosexual man and like, you know, a girl that he

had on the side, same situation. You know, he's keeping you in the shadows if he's got you know, a main situation happening. So but you know it's not this, I don't know. I don't know if it's as extreme is like you know, fatal attraction kind of thing that you're describing flame how you know trans women won't be safe anymore in some of these situations. I hope that doesn't become the case. But I feel like she's just doing a lot and the just the math is not mathing.

So the scary parties because they keep saying trans women of color are dying, they're not saying what trans women are dying. They keep saying trans women of color, So why are they not killing the trans women of color? But not killing the white trans women. Guess what, the white trans women ain't exposing nobody. That is not your story to tell. That is not your story to tell.

And as soon as the girl's realize your story is your story, Yeah, well I hope she gets it right because it's conflicting, uh information, So I hope you get is that the word we're using is that the way we're using conflicting? How about beat your lying and I used it is walking? It is walking us back was long. It is walking us backwards because every time we think that moving the needle, we're moving it backwards for them. Just like with the whole trans woman that they put

in Rikers. They they never showed a picture of the trans woman that they put on the female sale of Rikers and he raped or she raped a female inmate. Enough is enough. That is walking us backwards, that is making us So when a beautiful, passible trans woman is arrested who still has her biological penis um, you just now instead of putting her with the women, because she may not be at all trans women will not have sex with a woman. She might be one of those

words that just won't. But if y'all put her with the me and the men are gonna destroy her, They are going to rip her apart. And it's true, but y'all did that with all this identity thing again, like I said, but the identity, it's how you feel. Sexuality is what you desire. But gender is a fact. And I know I get my ass hands in to me about that, but I know that they between a stick and a stone. Hopefully they do too long. I know that sounds brash, but that that that is what the

problem is. We have made it so difficult. It's so great. It don't have to be this great. And now there are awesome circumstances where things can be different chromosomes and hormones, but for the most part, it's not. And y'all making it difficult. We are we are going back with girl. Okay us Benzino and he knows so many people. He has already threatened this woman's life. He's already put out a threat on her publicly. Yeah, yeah, it is well well,

staying in the lane of uh. You know, our trans community. Let's talk about isaially Isaiali Uh attacked Dave Chappelle on stage the other night in the middle of his comedy set a transmar I thought that's what you said, or he is a part of the no, so I don't know if he's probably here. But when day when he wos, they came back and said it wasn't trans man. So I don't know if he said as a joke or was it true. But according to Isaiah Lee's profile, it

doesn't give a gender. There's no pronoun, so we don't know. Oh he's non binary. Oh that don't explain that to me. Lohen you worked for a major age Nope, we're not getting into that. No, because if I stay wrong, I'm getting in trouble. So I'm gonna just keep my mouth shut on that note. But yes, Dave Chappelle was attacked on stage in the middle of his set, and um his security They might have been, as you know, quick

to get to Isaia Lee. But when I tell you the way that his arm was twisted on that stretcher, Uh, it looked like they took the arm off and put it back on back. Was didn't It looked like a mannequin's arm, you know, when you don't put it on right and it's all twisted and messed up. Yeah, it looked very disfigured. So it was wild. It was wild and and and I'm hearing some publications on how the

security wasn't fast enough. And know who would have expected somebody to run on stage at the Hollywood Bowl, people in the Audies, all these major alist celebrities. My question is, how did he get a weapon through? Because don't they have metal detectives and all of that foolishness at the thing. How did he get that through? But even though getting that through, I'm so glad, like you said that the security active because he actually tackled Dave, he knocked Day down.

Oh yes, it was definitely giving linebacker somebody He's not down because it was unexpected. You know, he wasn't a tall guy. But we're also what wasn't unexpected was them hammers that they put on his ass because they say Jamie Fox was the first one to grab. I'm like,

y'all know Jamie Hood, everybody from Texas hood. But what do you think about the whole situation, because like we've seen things where people are like, oh, you know, comedians have to have this heightened sense of security now and you know, safety around these things are going to change. How does that make you feel, you know, being a comedian in the industry. As a comedian in the industry, it does give me a wall, not a wall of fear,

but a wall of urgency too. Now and the words of T. T J And which is one of my favorite flame mats, to keep my head on the swivel. But do you know how hard that's going to be when I'm on stage in the dark room, because most comedy clubs are dark and step for the license and blinding you in your ass and you really can't see pass the front two rows. Okay, okay, I can't see pass the rovers two rows, and so you won't see somebody out of your peripheral or audio blind side run

up on you. And they can have a weapon, they can have anything. And I usually don't go after my audience. I'm pretty much talking to you. But if you if you heck on me, I heck on you back, but quick and sharp and over not. My whole set is

not built on heckling my audience. It is going to make the responsibility of the comedians, UH really have to step up to read the room, which we should be doing anyway, but now we're going to really have to see but lord, you don't at the crisis that we are in right now, with so many people battling mental illness and uh separation, anxiety from the coronavirus and from from us being stuck in house. People are like a powder cave, and any little thing you will make them expode.

I could say something about an autistic he now you've got an autistic joke, girl, somebody could be an autist or snap at me. And I don't know as and I and I was explaining to the air and I produced it before we came on live. I'm hope nobody don't run up at me because I don't know what I would do. I don't I know who I am, but I don't know what I would do and in what situation? And would I go too far? Would they go too far? I don't know. And I don't want

to be put to the test. I don't want I don't want to fail that test because I may fail that test. Not to reaction. If you touch me, I'm

gonna fight you back. I don't care who you are, what color you are, what side you are, what race, what sexuality, what gender, non binary, repair, sexual skillless crop pots at all of you get buffed to the face and do you think that page what do you think that this is gonna cause censorship when it comes to comedians, because you know, comedy is supposed to be about your lived experience, says you know, what's going on in the

real world. So you know, we just had this whole incident with Chris Rock and Will Smith, and Chris Rock even made a little joke after they was attacked, you know, calling said person Will Smith. Um, do you think the censorship is gonna, you know, be a bigger part of the comedy scene now, yes, because I think they have been working on it. Anyway, it depends, and I think it's going to depend on whether areno or what club that you're working in, because again it goes back to

the responsibility of the comics. So I could do three shows in the night with three different audiences and tell horrible Trump jokes. So if it's a black audience they don't like Trump, they're gonna buy it. If it's a white audience and the Trump supporters, I have to know how to reword that joke to where it can still be funny and not so offensive. So because like his people are really eat you know, I ain't know about him, so it is the responsibility and I'm side of people

blaming will Smith. Will Smith did not open this can of worms. People have been coming on the stage attacking comics long before now. It was just on a major platform that we actually saw it. He usually was on the comedy clubs and we would see it on the internet or something. But we watched this in real time. But we also watched George Floyd that in real time

and ain't talking about that now. Mo. Yeah, I think it is gonna be interesting, and I hope to your point, well, I'll just say this to your point, Flame, it's important to know your audience, hands down, in any well there it's a comedy, whatever genre you may be in, if you're doing public speaking, you need to know your audience period.

That's just you know, just basics one on one. But I hope that comedians don't feel like they can't you know, express themselves and be their authentic selves because of all of the craziness that's happening, because you're right, I mean, between you know, COVID being cooped up in the house and people you know telling us that we can't can't do it's so many things, and I think that's what happen. We were Will, It's just a human being, and he had a temporary lapse of judgment. It just and he

just snapped. You know, everybody has a breaking point, and we Will have been here's with his sexuality with the wife and doing this and that and the key and tell everybody. Everybody has a breaking point. So I'm not blaming with all for that. I do want the comedians, all my fellow comedians to be a v leery. But if you're set ain't going well, and this goes to

the communities. If you'll set ain't going that well, and you get heckled and you jone on somebody from the stage and you get a big laughter in the artience, don't stay on that, do that and then go back to your set, because you don't know what kind of day that person has had. You don't know what kind of situation that person is in. And people ready to explode, Lauren, I don't know. Sometimes sometimes I think it's just for

fame because so many of them are copycats. There's so many copycats out here, you know, I gotta like stick on that real quick, because um, even on Monday while you're at the Hollywood improv, you know, d lay open for you. And to your point, there was a lady that coughed in the audience and Delay kept calling her coffee brown and she was really getting pissed. You know.

At one point I thought she was about to, you know, kind of turn into a heckler at Delay and didn't escalate that far because you know, he kind of just moved on from it. But to your point, he kind of you know, danced on that nerve maybe a little bit too long, and she was getting really agitated. So case and point, you know, to what you just talked about. I just saw a firsthand on Monday night. So that is the responsibility of comedians. You have to and learn.

You do public speaking, and like you you made a great point. Anyone who does public speak, you really need to know the temperament of your room. Yeah, because not only would it could get you canceled, it could get you hurt, It could get you blacklisted. Uh. Trevor Noah just did a perfect job hosting the the dinner for Joe Biden and Michelle what's her name? Did it last year? A couple of years ago, she offended everybody she offended everyone because she did not know how to the responsibility

of reading the room. Trevor Noah was fun. He was light, he was never heavy, and when he was heavy, he was heavy on us, helping other people around the world as well as our own country. So it was never that it. Sometimes you just can't be mean. I don't know why somebody some of these comics are so mean. I want to be fun. I want to be personally. If I'm gonna be mean, I'm gonna be mean towards me. I will about me. I talked because if you see me self deprecated, it's a lot easier for me if

I have to say anything about you. But if you get material. That is why Godfrey always said, you have to have hours. You need hours so you so you can get an hour. It takes hundreds of hours to get one hour. A lot of communities don't have hundreds of hours. They just have Oh oh I did good this night. Okay, that was this night? What about tomorrow? What about the next show? You only as good as your last show? Yeah, it is the situation, But I'm not I don't like that they blame will for this.

I'm never gonna blame Will for this. I don't like. I don't support the violence that Will did. But Will is human and Chris poked the bear. And I'm not giving Chris a pass saying Chris was right or wrong either. It's just it was a sad situation. And they kept saying black black people set us back, they set us back. No, they didn't, because we didn't do that. I wasn't there. We weren't even invited to their moscars this year, so

I wasn't there. He sent me back and to a list black Hollywood actors and comedians handled two different situations, the same situation in two different scenarios. Pass off to Chris Rock to keeping it, you know, for for keeping his composure, and hats off to Will Smith because he was tired of y'all poking him. I don't even get pope,

really quick. I do want to give some recognition and a little bit of black girl magic real quick and say congratulations to miss Karen Jean Pierre for officially being named White House Press secretary. She's actually the first black woman to ever hold this position, and she's openly gay as well, so um, and she's basically going to be the face of the Biden and Harris administration. That's a triple on time. She's the first one, she's black, and she's a lesbian babe back who they covered a lot

of bases with that with, didn't he m? She's replacing jen Psaki. Um. I don't know why Jensaki is leaving, but piece and blessings to her. But this is exciting. You know, this is some great black girl magic. We just have an official scotus ms Kanji Um Brown Jackson. It was officially nominated and selected and now we have our first black female press secretary. So we left to

see it. Black girl magic is movement. And since you opened up the dough, I wish Kataji Brown Jackson was already sitting in her seat because maybe we wouldn't be on this Tita Tta about Roe Versus Wade and Lauren Hogan. I am not a biological woman. I will never be a biological woman. I don't care if I changed everything on the exterior, the interior is different. How do you feel about somebody telling you what you can and cannot

do with your body? Um, I think it's the most absurd thing that I've ever heard, because there's no law, you know, where the government is telling men what they can do with their penis or anything with their body for that matter. So, um, I think it's absolutely ludicrous. Um. But again, you know, imitation, I guess is the best form of flattery is sometimes the term that's used. So we have shows like Handmaid's Tail where everybody was like, oh,

this is so scary, this is so scary. But you know, the writers of that show clearly, you know, saw something, because that's what it feels like. It's turning into. You know, ro versus Wade has been a law for the past fifty years. And to think that you know, these white men and I'll say one white woman who are deciding

to overturn it is Um, It's just it's baffling. And and this is gonna be the gateway to you know, other things like in a racial marriage becoming a problem and you know, gay marriage and all of these different things. So I mean, I'm happy that I live in California because our current governor, Gavin Newsom already said this is going to be in an abortion sanctuary state. But what about those that live in the Rule South, and especially women of color that aren't going to have access, you know,

to have the ability to have an abortion. What about and money? People with money will always have the options of getting abortions because money go alonger than any laws. And that's mean, And I know that sound ridiculous to say, but it is the truth. Money and power goes farther than any laws. I think it's terrible lore. And what I really hate is that Susan Collins comes out and said, well, I interviewed all three of them. You knew that they

were not for that. You knew who these Republican freaks was. That's why Trump rushed to put all them three in because he needed them people over there to overturn this. This is going to cause civil unrest in this country. Well, and I think a couple of things to be done, and I think that the Democrats are just too afraid

to do it. They either need to end the filibuster to make sure that this doesn't happen, or Joe Biden needs to expand the Supreme Court because even with the appointment of Katanji Brown Jackson, I don't think she's officially in that seat until June. I believe is when she's officially takes over. But even with her being appointed they'll

still have a majority. It'll still be a five four vote because unfortunately, you know, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, so Trump was able to elect to you know, nominees to the court, and that officially tipped the balance of scale. So even with Katanji Brown Jackson still won't be enough. So I know people are trying to say a hope in a prayer that Brett Kavanaugh will change his mind based on you know, his confirmation hearing and what he was saying to Congress when he testified before them. Um,

but I wouldn't keep hope alive, y'all. And they all three of them. Yeah, and to your point, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski saying, oh, I'm so baffled. Thought I could believe him. Y'all must be the stupidest people on the planet. Yeah, really, Oh my god, Lorden, we just I don't know. It seemed like what the world is going backwards? Because I completely agree with you. If they opened up this floodgate and allowed this to happen so many things, what are we going back to? Jim Crow?

But that's what this is being modeled after, because it's gonna be if roll versus way to actually gets overturned. It's gonna be up to states to decide, you know, if abortion is legal versus illegal. And that's exactly what they did around Jim Crow laws. That's exactly what they did in segregation. That's exactly what happened. It was up to the states. Oh my god, it is just it behools me to think that all these old white dinosaurs in positions of power, we'll don't get voted out and

getting voted out being primaries. Primaries are going on as we speak. I think once started yesterday. I think it was in Ohio. Well, the Ohio already selected their GOP front runner and he is a racist white man who was an author. He actually had his a little special on Netflix. Um but I mean, I don't know if you've seen his ad, but he's talking about like, if you hate Mexicans, you know, there's nothing wrong with you. It's he's being overtly racist in his ad. And he

was just elected as a front runner. And then Pennsylvania's GOP primary started in Dr Oz who was a Trump supporter. You know, he got Trump's endorsement. He's in the lead right now for the race. So I never thought he was a good doctor. Damn show ain't gonna for politics. I never watched it. I never trusted his map. He's the funniest looking mouth to me. You know, yes, I like. I never liked Bird either. Remember she was on the CDC with with Trump with the Corona he I never

like telling you because she had messed the map. I don't trust bad teeth. I just don't. You got too much money for bad team. We all we all heard it back and and I'm seeing all the protests in d C and around the country. Women margin But here's my thing, Lauring some women afford that, understand. I need you to help me, make help make this make sense to me, Lauren, as a woman girl, how a women

for this? I think, honestly, and some people may disagree with me, I think this is coming down to preserving your race. I'm just gonna be very honest. And it's a lot of white women and all of these old white men who are trying to preserve their race. That's what it's coming down to. Because if you look at statistics, most people that have abortions are white women. It ain't us, it's white women. There is no pure race period. Okay,

we know that, but they don't. And I think more and more, you know, white people are actually dwindling in terms of being the majority race in this country and more they're not. So it's coming down to they want you to have these babies. But the funny thing is you want to protect a baby, but you don't care a crap about children, because once the baby's out, then what, oh, you don't care about them anymore. Yeah, because one if the mother is single and she gotta get on wear fair,

you complain about that. You don't want how to get on now you gotta be on well fare. And well, she didn't want to have the baby, so wouldn't even have this issue. Um it is. It is blowing my mind lawing that women stand for this foolishness, because I'm like, and you what if you rape by your uncle, your brother, you're daddy, and I don't want I don't want to look at my child's my violent and now you violent rape not just raped, but violently beaten and raped and

hurt and he destroyed you. You can't even have no more babies after this on or something you don't know and you have this key and you got to look and this kid looks just like your attacker, so you got to look at his face every day. Girl, That ain't cool. The yeah, and you're forcing these women not only do you have to go through a pregnancy what that does to your body mentally and physically, but then you're stuck raising this child mm hmm. And what is

no regard for that? What is the six weeks? Most women don't even found out they're pregnant in the damn six weeks. They don't find that for like two Very true, exactly, it's very true. And in Mississippi specifically, they pretty much got rid of all abortion clinics except for one. And even now, I mean I saw the news today there are literally women outside in Mississippi protesting this abortion clinic and they're like, this is the last one. We've gotten

rid of all of them. And they have official like abortion Clinic X escorts outside to help, you know, women come in safely to receive their abortions if they so choose, because they're being heckled about it as they get in. It's it's crazy Texas. You know, Greg Abbott once is allowing people to be bounty hunters and you're getting ten thousand dollar rewards rewards. If you know, you find out somebody's trying to have an abortion, you get to turn

them in and do citizens arrests. Like it's crazy. I think I'm going to go to Texas and flat the tires on his wheelchair. I am sick of him. Good God, Yeah, I think I'm gonna flatting tires. It's just wild to think of the times that we live in, because you know, you talk to your your grandparents in my situation, or

your you know, or your great grandparents. Have a great grandmother's who's still a hundred and two, and I think she's pretty much lived through every major event in US history, starting in you know, n And to think of some of the stories that I hear from her around race and violence that she experienced. We're seeing it now in real time, you know. So to your point, it's like it's almost like we're stuck in a time warp. And it's like all this progress Street thought we made U

we were boo booda fools, so unmanageable. I just don't even know. And this is our generation and Generation Z is coming, which is the last letter of alphabet. I don't know where we're going after that. But if and I gotta say too, I know you got something against gen Z Pop. The gen Z people, not against them at all. It's just the last letter of alphabet. So I'm like, well, okay, were we going after that we

start to do alphabet? Well you've been calling them slow and stuff, but I will say, but I will say, they're a more UM aware generation I think, And I think that um they know they're rights, like, they're very outspoken, and they want to be involved and they care and they don't want to be put in boxes. You know. I like that about them. You know, they were one of the largest groups to turn out to vote you

know in UM. Yeah. So I think that there there may be some hope, you know, because we have a generation that has a lot of fire in their belly that is just not gonna take things, you know, lying down. So maybe there's some hope for us yet in terms of, you know, making sure that the right people get elected. But I think at this point some states maybe just lost for the cost, like especially Ohio. Steve Lauren, just

what you see. I think people really need to stop sitting back and my vote don't count my vote, Your vote counts. Your one counts, and they have instituted what secretary of states in different states who count the votes with gops. They are setting up right and now getting ready. Even if we win, we lose because they put people in position of power to control of the counting of the votes. Yeah, but they're like I said, some states

might have hope. You know, Stacy Abrams is running for governor UM in that in that state, so and I feel like she may really want And I think there's some splitting of the vote on the GOP side of things too. So I know that there was some issues between Brian Kemp and UM former congressman. I can't remember that man's name. He was racist anyway, it doesn't matter, Um, So, you know, we'll see how things shake out. But to that point, we need people like the Stacy Abrahams to actually,

you know, step up and run. We need you know, community folks who are actually have moral compasses to be in legislation in these in the positions of power. So, UM, well, we'll see how this works out. But that's why people need to go out and vote. We got to get these monsters out of there. And I hate when people say my one vote don't count. We listened to so many people. You've got to think for yourself. You got

to vote. They're gonna cheat as much as they can, but your vote needs to be putting in a needs account. And if you don't, if you don't sure how important your vote is, do me a favor and watch the movie Salma and see what they went And that is just the movie version of it. That ain't what really went down. Go do recent research. Go to many cyclopeas. I'm sure they've got some graphic pitches way worse than

what they did in Selma. Understand that your ancestors was beaten, burned dogs that an't set a fire, spin their face just so you can vote. And then you tell me that somebody can tell you or your one vote don't count. That's bullshit. My vote counts and I vote every time though I take my kids with me because I want

to know how important that is. Well, I would just take it a step further and say, if you ever pay attention to how you know how much effort goes behind you know, especially like you know, the white people trying to make sure that people of color don't vote, whether it's you know, we're gonna close down, you know, three out of your five Poland places, and you know in the urban communities, and they're only gonna be open from a certain amount of time, so people don't have

time to get off work and go vote. They make it so hard for us to vote. There's a reason why. It's because our votes actually do matter. People don't go out of their way to do all of this if your vote really didn't matter. So please just be wise and just you know, don't fall for the foolishness and just exercise your right to your point that flame that you know, our answer just did fight so hard for us to have the ability to do this, and they

changed the laws everywhere. So just make sure that all your ads done and your tease across everything matchup address, drivers, license, voters, registration card, because they're going to be real petty. They're gonna be really petty. They were furious that bite and beat the trunk, so they're gonna be real petty. So outside of that, all we can say is vote, vote, vote your conscience, vote what's important to you and your children. And thank you for joining us for this episode of

Laughinger Window. REGI name Joe, you know what's funny. I don't know if you realize this. Every time you start a video or something on live, you always start singing. Do you realize that you do that? I didn't know that you do, like every single video, and I'd be like the Flame, think that she could really sing in her head. I'd be wondering, Wait a minute, now, Oh my god, you see what I had to put up with? Oh my god, Flame, y'all see showly. Thank you for

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and learned. We have a saying that we're not trying to get anybody to change your mind, but we're simply trying to get you guys to use your mind, because wife, Flame, in order to use your mind, you have to have a mind. So and the mind is a terrible thing the way some of y'all gotta pro I'm sure you ain't got a man, not of your own, but we appreciate you anyway, and that's why you come to us, because this is called laughter with me and learned from Lauren.

Oh that's cute. I like that. Remember that for next week, girl lady. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, Aaron. We missed that kinda this week, but we couldn't bring kinder in this week because we had something going on. We was working, we had things going on. But we appreciate you guys, and we look forward to seeing you guys on Monday for laughing larn every Monday on Instagram at mon row Flame at one pm Pacific Standard time.

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