Christmas Wish List: Churches, Taxes, Praying and Spraying

di spirit. Make you want to revisit. So your first take a list of your folks say it slip oh folks that we take it. Don't do what you do, No kiss, do what you do? No kids do what I do? No. Good morning, Lauren, Good afternoon, Lauren hoping? Good, after good, after good? Are you good morning? Good something? It's good somewhere because I look good, Lauren looks good. And as long as I look good, Triple looks good,

Kinda looks good. I'm sure Nickel is looking good. When we bring him on, he's gonna be looking good because this is what kind of show we do. Thank you guys for joining us here and laugh and learned day. We have some topics we've got some topics and things to talk about. How was your week, Laurence, Well, the week last week, it was a little hectic. It was a lot going on, but overall thankful it's over and lessons learn and we're moving on. Right. What did you

do on Friday? On Friday? Well, I was actually with you. Oh my godness, what were we doing? And we were shooting a bit of a parody video and we did a promo shoot for a possible upcoming tour that you're going to be doing with a Tell Care family. That's the truth. That's the truth. Did y'all see the pictures on I G and on Facebook? They dressed me up as a man and a touch Let me tell you how expensive it is being a man. I'm gonna stay a girl because that tuxedo costs about seven hundred dollars.

Not that much. It was it was about It was because I didn't see the because we had to get everything. Oh that's why we got the COVID discount. Yes, we did about everything. Withdrawals. You had to get everything. She was socks, everything was Calvin Klein. Though. Did I look at for y'all know who I look like? I look like the little white boy from from pet Cemetery. Remember a little white boy that got hit by the truck. I didn't get here by truck, but I look like

the little white boy. Thank you guys so much for joining us here at Laugh and Learned. We appreciate you. Flame mets and firecrackers about you. We're gonna bring in my partner, Nick Smith. Whos gonna bring Nick in? Ware you at Mrs Smith looking handsome and fly there you are, hello handed. You know you gotta go back to why you didn't have underwear. That's I'm stuck on that part because it wasn't needed. It wasn't needed for the situation. I'm not the only one on this lab that don't

wear underwear. Nick Smith's news. I've seen you in your great job and pants, working out and running. What's all this ship moving? You know what? This is the wrong show for that. This is this is me. This ain't the wrong show. It's me. This is my shop. You know me. But you know what the uh like my military, you just wear boxers like I know guys who were who were briefs. But I'm just a boxer guy. I'm a boxer guy. So just as simple. You don't even wear boxers when you have one of those great jobs.

You have absolutely nothing on but life, like Lauren, please help me shift that subject. Please, thank you very much. Yes, yes, we're going to shift a little and officially start the show shot. I did actually shift when I had those tight as pants. I had to shift quite often. Let me just say so. Since we were talking about freeballing,

that was what was? What was? Nicklas brought up a very interesting topic this week that we wanted to discuss because we got into a huge discrepancy about this and what was it, Nicholas we were talking about because you cook for the holidays. I cook every day. You cook, and you were doing I said, oh you know this year, Um, what are you doing? Blah blah blah blah. And You're like, oh, such and such. I said, you know what, ha ha ha. My mother washes her meat flame and flame was like

you're supposed to. I said, you are flame, you flame? We made flame, you know better, and flames like, uh, Nicholas, you washed that meat? And I said, you know what, this is a perfect conversation for laugh and learn. I want to know what people out there are doing. Do you seriously not wash your meat before you prepare it to cook it. Yeah, because you all have read the same things I have, So I don't want to sound like I think, Yeah, we all are reading the same things.

We know that the the food guidelines are to not wash because that causes cross contamination. Like we we we all know this, right, Flamets. Somebody helped me. You don't know, because I mean I cooked too. Cooking is actually very therapeutic for me. And what I do is I take my chicken, I rinse it a little bit, then I put it in a pan and I even put some vinegar on top of it to really kill whatever still might be there. You've got to rinse, you gotta do

something to it. You gotta kill that stuff. You just put it in a pan and cook it. Yeah, Yeah, it's it's actually it's actually you're not supposed to that's the idea that, uh, you're not supposed to wash beef, chicken, uh and pork. Yeah. But but hey, I grew up in a house where my mother did that, and she but I also grew up in a house where she used to keep cans of grease on the stove. You all, so it was I grew up in a very different situation. So you've ever in a very black house because there

was two different hands of grease on the stove. There was one for the sake and chicken, and there was one for fish. There was always a separate can of grease that you could reuse for fish and different And Washington meat don't mean putting in the washing machine and put some game on. Washington meet meats, renting it off until you rent all the film and the slime off,

and then you season. And now let me go back to this washing the meat thing, because see, all the salmonella and E cola ship started in the ninth late nineties, early two thousands. In the seventies, we washed our chicken wings that you could give for fat dollars a bag. It was a lot cheaper. Ain't nobody had no salmonella. Ain't nobody had no ecla? What no fucking coronavirus? All this is some new ship from watching your meat. See

you vegans, let me, let me let me start. You vegans and all you health addicts, all y'all run around here time. So oh, I'm vegan and I don't eat anything unless it was grown naturally ain't ship grown naturally. Let's start there. Nothing has grown that, everything has pesticized and whoop the dupe. And I have a running standard joke with my our pair who is if you don't know what i'll pair is. And that was me being grand with my babysitter who says, well, you know, vegans

technically lived twenty years longer than other people. I said, now you get hit by a bus, bitch because you're hungry, because you can't think straight. I'm not gonna be hungry. Yeah, we want to sound off on watching meat because niggas I'm telling I've seen that study, but I never heard about in the seventies or or the eighties about E. Coli or seven. This is all new, just like copid virus is. I think though, too, just the whole idea

behind E coli and all of that. I understand this because also this goes back to just kind of touch on what you're talking about the vegans. I think that what happens is because now we have so many animals herded together that they're not doing the free range. They don't get to move around. Some are just bread just to be slaughtered, and because of that, they're feeding off

of their own waist. In some cases and situations that you you supposedly you want to eat food that has been free range, that has been allowed to move around, grass fed, so that they they're not just raised in a pen and slaughter. Yeah, that's the idea. And then sometime they're being pumped with hormones too, because you think the bigger the chicken, the more appealing it is for folks. So you're ingesting that into your body too. So I

am we are an organic household. Anything organic, that's what we're getting because we know it's hormone free, non gmo, all those good things. That's the natural way to eat. I just have one question. I want to ask, what's the difference between a cage free egg and this egg? Because guess what, they're both gonna get done cracked and put in some salt and some butter and some salt and pepper. What's the difference. Supposedly flame a happier chicken

lays a healthier egg. That that supposedly seriously that that a chicken that is raised too mainly is a healthier chicken. And then that you'll even feel better eating something that had had a quality life and it tastes different too. I'm not even gonna lie. When I eat organic chicken versus regular chicken, I can I can taste the difference. So mad cow disease is because y'all got too many cows and one of the thing and they all man. So is that what man cow disease? I'm asking a question.

I'm asking for friends. You know have flame like you always do, encourage our flame mats. I'm not making this up. You really are not supposed to. I'm not making this up people, I've yeah, I'm just not. I'm really not. I'm not coming out to let Feld's like I need man friend. Hell is a man cow? Ain't no damn man cow. If they're mad, it ain't no grass. That's

the reason they're angry. There is no grass. They're eating that bullshit they you know, one of the things we were talking about, there are a couple of things that are happening this week in the news that we were talking about the three of us offline that we said, you know what, we really want to make sure that we introduce it today and laugh and learn so that the flame mats and everybody else could sound off. One of those is the thing that happens to lead the

newscast today, UM, the P P P loans. Um. It looks like Congress has come to a deal to actually move forward with assistance for people who have been struggling. Millions of Americans as we know, UM, have been struggling both UH professionally and then at home as well. And it looks like relief maybe on the ways. That's not That is not relief. That is kiss my ass money. Where the government they love. This administration loves to holland

that America is the greatest country on the planet. And England and UM Canada have been given a people three two or three thousand dollars a month since this pandemic hit. We got a stimulus check in April, and now it is December and they have agreed on six hundred dollars. Do you know how many people are hungry and standing in lanes for food and kids will not even have a Christmas dinner. And I'm not talking about the traditional turkey dressing. I'm talking about zero banks overwhelmed to and

they're saying that they need help even providing that for folks. Yeah, and as we because I know we're going to open this up for people to actually sound off. But just to make sure everybody understands that this bill that was passed by Congress or Congress has agreed to a nine hundred billion dollar COVID relief bill. Took eight months to reach that agreement. What it does not include, um Democrats

did not get state and local funding for testing. They wanted to be able to get more funding so that they could test more people. But Republicans also did not get that protection from lawsuits. They wanted to block the ability to sue your employer if you got sick, because some employers do tend to are are intending to force people to come back to the office. They're like, you know what, this remote work thing is not as productive for us. We need you back in the office, or

we want to get rid of you. Six hundred dollars per person for family of four, three hundred dollars per week, and federal unemployment benefits will be continued. Two hundred forty eight billion for small business loans. And we do know that so many of these small restaurants and independent businesses worth suffering and billion and rental assistance, So it looks like there will be some assistance for those who were

on the CUSP but possibly being evicted. We just don't know when this money is actually gonna r The eviction starts on the day after Christmas, so enjoy Christmas because evictions start December the twenty six. They can put you out the day after Christmas. Yeah, we're gonna sound out. We want your flame as to come in and give us your opinion, because six hundred dollars is ridiculous money. Do you know I got a light build at six hundred dollars right now? Yeah, and flame you and I

were talking about. Also in addition to that, uh, six hundred dollars, there are some groups that actually did pretty well. So yeah, we're gonna hit that. We want to get some of these claimants in here to talk about the whole six hundred dollars because some people didn't even get the first go around the money. See that that's the issue the way they put it out. Some people didn't even get the first twelve hundred dollars that we were

promised exactly. Well, I want to hear everybody sound off. Remember, if you want to sound off the flame, throw those flames in the comment so that we know that you're ready in that microphone is hot, and be ready because Kim Joy might show up. If you're not ready, We're gonna come back to Nick. If you haven't met Kim Joy, she's a blocking bitch. Block you. I don't care, baby, I'll block. What do you think about that? Because Lauren,

you you work for HF. You work with a lot of people who are, um, not misfortunate, but are not poor. What's the way I want to use? So what do you think about that? Um? I think it's unfortunate. But are we surprised by this? I mean I saw a CBS News report that came out yesterday that said Ronald Reagan's idea of keep allowing the rich to get richer in the little trickle down to the poor, fifty years later, they're finally realizing that that's not a good, you know,

ideology to have. It took them fifty years later to realize allowing the rich to get richer and it'll trickle down is not going to actually work. So to see things like this happening, Yes, it's unfortunate, but are we surprised anymore? They don't care about us. Every other country in the world, Japan is given their citizens ad percent relief Germany, all these different places. America is the only country that's been operating at zero for the past eight

months of not giving their citizens any relief. America is the only one, the greatest country, the greatest country on the planet, is the only one not actually providing relief to folks. Isn't that something? Well, let's go back to your voting. While we're voting out some of these Republicans, we can vote on some of these Democrats too. They've been in their positions just a little bit too long. But that actually goes back to I will say, is the Georgia runoff race and why it's so important. I'm

sure people can't stand Leffler. He is, he's going to have to climb a little bit. But after Leffler took that photo with that KKK member, it was a rap for her that it's not over to them. We got the fat bitch on stage. We just ain't got a big gas up in this dress yet. So still vote. You'll get to the post and vote. We're gonna bring some of y'all because we want to know exactly how you feel. And with these p P P thoans, you know who get over like a fan rend megachurches in

Kanye West. How much did Kanye get two million dollars? So all I gotta do is put on a red hat and go to the White House and say that Donald Trump was the greatest man on the plan, the greatest president ever. And I get two million dollars passing me my goddamn. I got on a red hat right now. And apparently that's what That's what helps Kick came over to his billionaire status is taxpayers money. So it's not interesting, isn't it interesting? I'm telling y'all. I'm telling you guys now,

y'all got to stop making smarter decisions. Critical thinking is for yourself. I can say what I want to say and think how I want to think, but the decisions you make you Let's talk to t t GN so we we need you in St. Louis. And I know you know some people who are hurting and having a hard time right now. What is six hundred dollars in

about a month going to do? Because it ain't coming until the third week of January or something like that, because there's they're voting on it right now, so hopefully it actually gets past they have anyway yet, right, so it's not even any fine print to even read because they're still putting it together. Um, it's not going to do anything for anybody's household because folks are so behind

in their bills. You know. I do want to say thank you to the food pants because it seems like they're on every corner, But when it comes down to your utilities of your gas and just being unemployed, it's not gonna do anything. And they they kept out small restaurants, so I don't understand, um, why that happened. Um. You know. Also, um, it's not as much to go around this time because

the churches. As I told you guys, that's the reason they can keep this crazy rhetoric up is because the Republicans had them in their back pockets, you know, and now we're seeing it and it just didn't happen with them. But they are the first to fine tune this. So now that the covers are being pulled off, by the chance time that anybody else can start getting in line

to do the same thing, it'll be a rap. But Joe Austen, Kenneth Copeland, Paula White, and the list goes on, you know, last time we spoke some of the folks on the line, We're like, well, you know, some of these people write books, and I'm not putting all religions under one umbrella because we know that t O is different for different religions, you know what I mean. But pastors are not selling books to buy planes. They're just

not selling enough books to buy private planes. And now these white churches are getting together putting up these fake universities, which is another way to get famishing. And they don't even pay taxes. That make that make sense to me? What the churches who don't pay taxes, Why would you get taxpayer money? It's like how many times did you tie? It just provides another avenue where they can hide revenue and it be funneled the way they wanted to be funneled.

But I was done with Joel when he didn't let the people in doing the hurricane, and he was like, well, no one asked me, Well, if you have a stadium and you're housing these people every Sunday, nobody should have had asked you, can they come in out of the rain and stay in the building, you know what I mean. So I'm not completely I'm not completely shook by this this information. But again I think we have to be responsible for our own households. Do things that make sense

in your own household. No, six hundred dollars not gonna change a lot, but make it work for you, because that's just what you're getting, you know what I mean. Think about the people who have college students home. You know they're still dependent upon their parents, but they don't they're not giving us anything for those those people, and those people are are adults. They eat more than anybody

you know. Now that you're at the office, they're they're at home with every light on at the house, you know. So it's not fairly just at all at all. But they're only given just a little bit to make it look like they're trying to help. But as far as it getting to your household, you're gonna have to move that around the way you see fit in your household. No, it's not coming with any dreams for tomorrow. It's just

six hundred dollars. And the real question because whose renting six hundred dollars a grocery bill can be three hundred easily. Here's my biggest here's my biggest feel here they're gonna come up with a new law saying that the only way that you can get the six hundred is if you take the vaccine. I will never get that six

hundred because I will never take the vaccine. Well that wasn't today today, but one of the but one of the Reps did make mentioned that if you took the best, best name, that you should get an additional Now, again, they're not gonna put I don't think anything that knew in this pot. But this pot, like you said, it's it's still in the make it. So it's not like, oh, we didn't refine print, because they're still putting it together.

Nothing has jailed. Well, I think for this instance specifically, the reason why they actually came to an agreement one is because they wanted to avoid a government shutdown. That's the first thing. And two Republicans didn't want to be blamed for the shutdown. And then that also I think trickled down over to what is happening with Perdue and Loffler. They didn't Republicans didn't want to be blamed for it. So this isn't really about the American people and the

good of the people. This is really just about the Republicans not looking bad. And that's the nice way of because the truth is they didn't want to be stuck there. They want to go home with their families for Christmas. That's the real truth, because they were gonna be stuck there now. Now, now that's that's probably more of the truth.

But they know mitches, Mitch is such a politician. He knows, you know, he's got that rescuing bitch face by nature, but he knows, he knows that, you know, this election, this campaign in Georgia could break him in pieces. You know, at the end of the day, the man is sitting on a hundred. So these are valuable tic tics for him. And Lindsey Graham, let me tell you, you you know, so you know, no, it's not gonna shake the world up, but do what you can do with it, you know

what I mean. I mean, everybody's given I'm singing, some people trying to adjust their behavior just to be decent um. And that's refreshing because we're still going to have to meet the mental, spiritual, and emotional repercussions of all. And we know, you know you always bring you T T J. And y'all know g Jan is the the T T J and'st come Slide you the twenties that the moment I'm supposed to know about. We love you, tech Jan, thank you my God. Let me start with your old

sting I used to watch. I used to watch your old thing every Sunday morning afore. But when I realized it was the exact same inspirational words because he had never been to seminary school. He was put in that position because his father went to be with the Lord. His words every Sunday, not mine. Every Sunday, he says, when my father went to be with the Lord. How many times is your daddy gonna that? I'm just asking for a friend, because they only get that once, and

that's all he ever talks about. And then they always come with this and send money, send money, send money. Now I don't know him personally. I don't follow him because I know he's not a real preacher. He never went to seminary school. I don't even think that he knows scripture. But that happy per pick and he's pretty to look at, and he always brags, and he changed

that football stadium and to a megachurch. My issue was when they had that flood in the scripture in the Bible, it says where one or more flock, then the Lord will show up. They didn't say it had to be in the church. But when those people needed to help, don't tell me that you didn't. They didn't call you. You knew you were in Houston. You knew what was going on, and you're aware of that. Bull. Do you hit me pamper? You ain't never got one of my dollars,

and you won't not want a man? Yeah? I mean, and there's a couple of other people on this list that benefited from these p P wait laund since you got you how much did Joe Old Saint profit from this p P four point four millions? Four four million dollars? How many all your parishioners that go to what's name Lakewood? How much did y'all get? Did you get a twenty? Did you get a turkey? Did you get a bill paid? Oh? I'm asking for you myself, I asking for a friend. Yeah,

that was him. Let's go to the Church of Scientology because you know they Tom Cruise, baby, they got their own money, need your money? How much did they see? That was a low ball? Three? The baby old people right there? I ain't gonna say nothing bad about you. They show at your house and she in the middle of the night, Hey, science, what's next? Who was next? George Joyce Meyer? She got five million dollars. Joyce might not Joyce Mike is another Joe old thing to me?

Hardlet religion is the same rhetoric every Sunday too. And I said rhetoric because every Sunday she talked about how father molested her over three or four years. Okay, girl, we know, we we know he molested you. Well, we're sorry that you got molested, But damn do you have to remind us of it every Sunday. I think that's part of you know, what a good churches versus a bad one is when the pastor of the preacher makes

everything about them. That's not what you're there for. You're here, You're there to receive a scripture and a word to some enlightenment on your life. It's not about you, you know what I mean? And I think that also shows too, who are the real ones and who are the fake ones. I go to church when I do go to church in Chicago Marcill's Baptist Church, and my my pastor, Reverend Clarency Stores and his beautiful first lady Chante Store. I go for the spiritual feeding. I don't want to. I

don't need a warm up. I don't need the choir. I need him to deliver me a word, because it always feels like he's speaking to me directly and networks for me. Who else down to them? TJ. T. D. Jackson Potter's house. How much y'all get your parishioners? And I ain't gonna throw T. G. Jackson up under the bus, but maybe after about twenty minutes the collection plays started going around. I'd be putting food stamps and everything, and then you wouldn't want me to church. I'd be dropping

food stamps and everything. E B. T cars with no pinn up, all that shies. Girl, they don't want me over the church. Out stopped some ship. And then we also got Pollo White. She got three Paul of White didn't need no money because Trump had already paid Hu to call on the African Angels. Bitch, did you forget you was white? The African Angels was black. They weren't come in your way, sister. That's why he lost because

you called on the Africa. You should have called on those European angels, the Nigga might have still the chance because we want that nigga lost African angles doing vote for y'all? Should we just hot enough to get black folks in American vote? You damn show know the Africans weren't go vote. And last on our lest we have Robert Jeffers. He got a two million dollars first Baptist of Dallas. Now I'm not familiar with him. I'm actually not either's who he is. I'm gonna bring you in, Nick,

so you can tell us who who he is. But I'm still trying to figure out if you don't pay, if you don't pay state taxes, why would you get federal money. Well, I'm gonna say this. We're gonna be honest. This is a safe space. People might be upset by what I'm about to say. But I don't go to church. I don't go to church. No, I don't because I feel like looking Nick. He said, Oh see, I told

you honestly. Our We're gonna be honest. I don't go to church because I think as a child, I went to Christian school and then in high school I went to Catholic school. So I've kind of seen both, you know, religions, we can say that, and I feel as though, if I want to have a relationship with God, I don't have to go and pay a church to have a relationship with God. That's my personal relationship, and I can do that at home. How I see fit so and

my parents were similar. My dad grew up in the Catholic Church, so he went, but as he's gotten older, he got married, he kind of had the same thoughts. So I more so see myself as more of a spiritual person, and I don't necessarily identify with a religion. Now that does not make me an atheist, Let's be very clear about that. That is not what that is. But I see myself more so as a spiritual person because I saw a lot of asked backward things in the Christian school, and I saw even worse in the

Catholic school. Like, for instance, we had a high school student that got pregnant and if she wanted to have an abortion, they we're gonna kick her out. So I've seen a lot of different things that have made me arrive at this place in my life to say I'm more so spiritual and if I want to have a connection with God. I don't have to go tithe and pay somebody to enhance my relationship with the Lord, just my thoughts. I love that at least you know, you

know that. See this is what people because you're not relying on what somebody else thinks. I got my own relationship with God, y'all know. I'll tell you all at the time, Me and that nig is so cool, it's scary. And when I say that, somebody in box me flaiming that you call gun. Whatever relations if you have with your God, that's that's you, Me and my God one hundred. Any Bible to me, any in any religion, in any culture can say three words. The Bible can be three

pages for me in every culture. God is love. That's all I believe. That's all I believe. Nick, who is this pastor jefferis and at the first Jeffers from first Baptist of Dallas. Yeah, he's another one who ascribed, signed up for and received p P PE loans and he, from I understand understanding, like the others, runs a church that once again um does not pay taxes because churches

are tax exempt. But again, when the need arose to pay his staff because for the most part, people who work at these churches like Lakewood and other megachurches, they are actual employees. So as an employer, even though I may not pay taxes because I, as the pastor, don't take a salary in my church is tax exempt, my employees are on the payroll. So they, like other small businesses that were affected because parishioners were not going to church, they then said, hey, we need a loan so that

we can continue to pay people. So he is another one of those churches that did that. But just to let you know, not all of them. Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rules, Louisiana had his own idea.

He said, you know what, I appreciate the fact that all of you are getting these stimulus checks, but why don't you really give in the name of the Lord, I'm going to challenge you to give your stimulus check to the church because he thought that that would be the great In fact, he calls it the stimulus check challenge. Uh so hashtag it, you hashtag and you give the check that you're going to get as a stimulus check. I'm gonna just say this, and that is why I

said what I said right there. That is exactly why I said what I said. What's his what's his name? Lauren? I'm with you, though, I think I do think that is Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church. They're trying to pimp y'all. And if any food who gave up their money doing the dumb Jim Jones ship, don't please don't drink no coolaid at that man's church. Let me

just say it. If you go to that church, don't drink no juice or no cool they when they have first Communion on Sundays, don't drink that ship because that is not grape juice flame. This moves in the direction of accountability, which is another topic that we talked about there as well. We were talking about accountability specifically because you and I both being from Chicago. Uh, I had an emotional moment a lot earlier this way I do I do? You know? You know, and we'll talk about

that at some point. You because I've heard some people say, Nick, it's okay to to to tap into that and know that you are, you know, emotional about things and others and say no, Nick, you've got to be hard and men don't cry. I don't know what to say about that, you know, but I definitely get emotional, particularly when it's something around black women, because I was raised by a

black woman. So this woman in Chicago. All that to say before I get along with it, before Flame jumps on me about that, there was a woman in Chicago, and and Lauren and you, Flame and I talked about this. How much just bothered all of us because, yeah, her name was on Jeanette Young. And this actually happened almost two years ago, and it's now just seeing the light of day now it's getting some traction. But she was

a social worker. She's fifty years old. She came home one night, she was in the middle of getting undressed from coming home from a long day of work, and the police raided her home. And it wasn't the right place. But when they raided her home, she was butt naked. They had all of their body cameras on and they handcuffed her while she was naked, and didn't waited about twenty minutes before they even put something over her. And even when a jacket was put over her, her front

was still exposed. You could still see what was going on. Then another ten minutes goes by, Oh, let's put a blanket on her. But that's not stank. So the whole situation, it was just very degrading. It was very disrespectful and just unacceptable, to the point where even some people are blaming mayor Lightfoot, saying that they tried to bury this so that way there was no you know, repercussions. I don't know if that's true or not, but I have seen some reports saying that that they tried to bury

this whole thing. And this is Chicago, so Chicago police is definitely going to try to buy her off. They're gonna try to pay this off because they want this to disappear, just like they did the Kwan Daniels thing. But let's let's that's a whole another subject. Baby. That's that will get me emotional because they shot that boy

sixteen times. But Flame, this goes back to what you and Lauren, we're talking about the larger issue of accountability because we've seen this overreaction from police before, and we were saying that this is not about defunding. Flame. You were talking about that. You were saying that this is not about defunding, this is about here's my thing don't put if I'm raising the projects and we as black people, because I can only speak about us because I'm black.

This is how I was raised. You may do another culture because you was raised around other people. I was raised around all black people in the projects. Don't bring a police officer that don't know that's not familiar with the way we speak, with the aggression in our hands when we're speaking, to think that I'm I'm just speaking to you. It's just the way we are by human nature. But you bring somebody in who's a stranger, who don't understand our culture, who don't understand that I'm going in

my pockets. I can give you this phone number, or I can write something that you you're thinking, I'm attacking you because you're a coward. They keep giving these cowards guns thinking that that's going to give them courage. It does not give you courage. It just gives you an ability to get away with murdering black people. I said what the funk I said, and if anybody don't like it,

you know I don't care. Yes, So don't bring these straight you cannot be raised in Whoop the Duke Nashville all white community who and then you bring somebody into my neighborhood to be a police officer who does not

understand us. It's not about not accepting that I'm another person, but if you don't understand me, give classes on teaching how to deal with other people, or put police officers that are familiar with those upbringers in those situations in those places to work, because then they'll be able to say, hey, I know this guy, This guy is cool, or I know this girl, This lady is nice, and who she goes to work, she'sward because I see her. You know,

you covered what you see. They don't see us, so they don't understand us because they've just been put in a situation because, oh, my uncle Joel police officer. He got me a job when y'all knew little Billy was crazy at cat ship, he'd attacked the mama, put the gun on y'all. But y'all give him a job as a police officer, a badge and a right to shoot me. That's bullshit, I shoot back, that's bullshit. I'm just saying

this is all about reform and everything. Because you and I were talking about Enginet Young is unfortunately only one that we know in the last two years that we know about. Yeah, we we all know the story of Brianna Taylor, you know again in her own home. Again.

These are all situations where we feel as though where police trained differently or we're a different approach, because I think that more often than not, the message has been turned into one that's anti police, and that's not what we're saying, as much as something has to change in the way that if you are in your own home where you and I talk about how that is the place you're supposed to feel the safest, there's a problem when um, that isn't happening, and that more often than

not it's people who look like us. I think something too that we can touch on here is the term of defund the police, because our forever president, actually you got in trouble with a couple of activists a couple of weeks ago because he said we have to stop just saying these slogans, and he used slogan associated with the term defund the police, and some activists like Tamika Maori and Shaun King were very upset by it and

kind of came after him. In my opinion, I did understand where he was coming from because when I first heard the term defund the police, I was like, why would I want to do that? And I say that because my grandfather worked at l A p D. My uncle recently retired from being a detective at l A p D. And on top of that, I have a father who's a deputy chief for l A City Fire Department. So I have family black males that are significant in my life, that are going out and putting their lives

on the line every day. And so when I initially heard defund the police, and I'm like, wait a second, why why are we doing that? That's not what we should be doing. However, through more research and understanding what was going on and looking at these activists and hearing what they were trying to explain to folks, I said, Okay, that makes sense. So the conversations need to be had further than just the slogan. I'll say that in this

sense not to be anything negative, but the research. The conversation has to be had because when we just say certain things without following up with the proper rhetoric, it can go it's not gonna be really well received. And you and I both know there are groups that benefit from sewing that seed, the seeds of distrust, right, they want,

the fear or the confusion around terminology they want. So it is always incumbent upon us to do the research and learn more about whatever particular mission or message might be, because I think to just leave it out there would

indeed mislead. But we, I think can agree as a community there needs to be more done where the relationship between community and law enforcement um is improved so that it is not one of a slave master, uh, oppressor oppressed, you know, it needs to be one of of of an engagement where where the community isn't afraid of those who are there to Yeah, and I think you can kind of maybe take this opportunity to say what it means to defund the police now that we're talking about this,

So it's really about reforming, That's really what this is in terms of redirecting some funds. Because I'll be honest to my like I said, my dad works for l A city. I'm not going to put all his information on blast. But the h Los Angeles Police Department gets a significant amount of more funds than the fire department does. One which is very interesting, right, fire department, they're the ones that go out they fight the fires are risking

their lives. I know plenty of people that my dad has worked with where they've fallen through a roof because they're literally going into burning buildings. They're not getting the funding and the resources as much as l a p D is. So when we say d fund the police,

it's about reform. So taking some of those the funding that they get and shifting or funneling them into other resources that needed, like for instance, testing, counseling for folks, or sending making sure that you actually send a paramedic in when there's a distress call from somebody saying, hey my you know, my brother, my sister or whatever is having a mental breakdown, instead of you sending l ap D out and then them getting shot, you actually have

the funds to supply somebody to come in with a medical background to address the issue properly. That's what we say. What we mean defund the police. Two times they got away with it that we know of. Amber Geiger got away with shooting the black man in his own house. Now let's let's let's go revisit that Amber Geiger situation. The lady in Texas in Dallas. Yeah, she was convicted. She only got ten years for killing this man in

his house. He was sitting in his chair watching TV because she was on the phone with her ex partners while he was in bed with his wife, and she was trying to get some dick from him. But he was not gonna leave his wife. So she was frustrated and frazzled. After working two shifts. She had worked two ships. She was exhausted. She came home. She went in the wrong department. Her story not man, because let me tell

you something about going in your own house. If you've been living in your house for more than two weeks, there's always a familiar smell in your own home. You'll know if you was in somebody else's house, whether you bland is three blind mice, you know you in somebody else's house because of a familiar smell in your own home. Which and when I say a familiar smell, I'm not talking about bad or good, I'm talking about you smell you,

You smell your presence in your home. She was lying. Then, My issue was with the jel who came off the bench black lady and gave her a hug, and to me, she was saying, I'm sorry I had to give you these ten years when I say defund. When they said defund the police, I understood what they were talking about, but I didn't like the terminology. I am much better with the reform. But let me tell you who escalated

this whole defund the police thing. People on the other side that made they try to make us look bad. And then when some of these major talk shows kept repeating it and repeating it and repeating it, it kept punching us in the face. So it's like, oh, we

don't need the police. I'm almost afraid to call the police now if something happens to me, because I'm afraid they would show up and shoot me, as opposed to the purp Well, for me, I actually nine times out of ten I called the fire department before I call the police. That's what I do. I'm gonna call my purse. Now you're figuring that it's called hand but jewelry, Please say it with me. Jewelry, jewelry, hand jewelry. You know what, but this that you were talking about, they kept doing

the message. This almost leads into our third topic, poor messaging, because even though we kind of touched on this last week. You and I once again, we talk all the time and people need to know that. But and sometimes we're like, oh, we need to bring this up because if you're feeling this way flame, other people are as well. And we were talking about Jerome Adams, you were talking about Nick.

That's just he doesn't do it for me for the message, because I had said after last week, Lauren, quite a few people were in the d M saying, Nick, let's talk to you about you know, it was it was interesting. I'm gonna say that because, um, yeah, you know, I will say this. Those who supported were those who either had older family members or worked in the health care field, and like we talked about, we're just just a little bit more in situations where they needed to protect themselves. Um.

And then others were not as kind. But but you know, heys unfamiliar with is he's the surgeon general. He's the black guy who's been on the side of Fauci and Dr Burch, who I've never trusted either one of them and Trump the entire time. My issue is not that I don't believe that they will come up with a vaccine to help this this whole uh COVID nineteen my issues. That has been so many lives, and I don't know what to believe that. I only believe what I know,

and I believe me. I believe me, And let's let's talk about the lies. Because I saw reports today because I'm not gonna lie. I took a break from the news this weekend. I needed a break, so going back in it was a lot of stuff I was catching up on. But today they're saying now that this COVID vaccine has technically been in the works for seventeen years because they had instances of it earlier before. But it's called COVID nineteen originally because this was the first instance

of US seeing it. It was related to and then we had Trump saying this is operation warp speed. It's the fastest we ever developed vaccine. So which one is it? Do we start developing it seventeen years ago or is it the fastest it's ever been made. This is what we talked about with misinformation, and this is why people don't trust the scientist at this point, or actually I shouldn't say scientists. This is why people don't trust the government.

That's really what this is. It's not the scientist. Let me correct myself and and Lauren, I'm glad you said that because I think again this goes back to flames original point on messaging. I think most of us trust the science, and I don't want to speak for everybody else, but I do think that the messaging has been so

so skewed. And one of the things we're talking about the messaging is that, uh, Flame was saying that when you don't know what to do, you do don't do anything because you will make an erratic decision that we can be crucial for your life, you know. And now what you just said about them giving an extra three hundred dollars, are we for sale? Extra for a fucking shot? I'm not for sale and damn show not for three hundred dollars. Now, if Jeff Bezos called me, it's gonna

be a little bit more than the player. Jeff, Well, you know this is not the first time our nation has been in a crisis for vaccine. In our research, we were talking about this before UH and that there there is an effort to possibly discuss reaching out to different celebrities and influencers who could help to change public opinion. Among them. One of the articles there we we're talking about today that jumped out to us from kron News in San Francisco. Could Beyonce do for Corona what Elvis

did for Polio? In the height of the polio epidemic, Elvis Presley was enlisted to help get people on board for polio And is it possible that the world's most popular entertainer, Beyonce could she um if convinced that this vaccine were a great idea, could she help public conscious? Well, let me let me say this because I don't want to attack to be Have, because you know the be Have will come and shoot my house up. First of all, I love Beyonce. Second about Beyonce is a mother of three.

I believe that her because and her mother Tina. It seems to be an extremely wise woman. Beyonce nothing to fall from, no chick. First of all, she doesn't need the money. She definitely don't need the popularity or the publicity. I think she's going to think about her children first. And the realization of that is I'm thinking about my children. I'm not gonna let my children beguinea pigs because I

need some popularity or some money. I think Beyonce will take the rational thing and just like and Beyonce, it's very close mouth about what she don't want to talk about. I think she's not going to even entertain that. That's just some ship that they put out that they want her to do. I don't think she's going to even entertain that. I don't. But my thing is, that's not her responsibility. It's not that's That's what really pisces me off here is because we have we pay taxes every year. Okay,

that's what we do. Well, not everybody, I'm sorry. Most people pay taxes every year, and through our taxes, we're paying the government and these certain elected officials, for instance, you know, Congress still made a hundred and thirty thousand

dollars within these eight months that nobody got anything. We pay our money, we elect these officials, and then they don't do their jobs, and then we look to celebrities and influencers to say, oh, well, can you influence the culture to make them feel safe because we didn't do our job properly? No, I pay you for a reason, do your damn job. That's it pisces me off. It's not Beyonce's responsibility to make the American people feel comfortable

to shoot this vaccine in our arms. It's not her responsibility, and stop calling on her to do everything when the government fails us. It's no different from people trying to call her out saying, well, what is she doing for COVID nineteen relief? She was doing plenty for the city of Houston. She just didn't advertise it, and it's still doing stuff. Stop calling on her to fix America. Stop it. This of course fell on This of course fell under

the umbrella because the numbers continue to rise. Uh flam And I talked about a passenger on the United flight. United is what I take all the time. Um, he didn't disclose he was positive. Um, he's just getting on the plane or just felt just a little bit sick but had someplace he needed to be. Um, and he died on the plane. So now United is trying to get in touch with everyone else who may have been on that flight because needless to say, passenger drops dead

on the plane for uh complications to COVID. You of course have been exposed to COVID's That's just a no brainer. And I think that it's a situation that's simple. Uh that United is now talking about possibly uh screening people before they're allowed to board the plane, because needless to say, not everyone is going to be forthcoming about their own diagnosis if it impedes on what it is that they

want to do. And California has reached critical masks, it looks like we're gonna bring you back in, and we're gonna bring in another flame. Man two sounds off on this, but we're gonna bring you back on subject number three. So stay handsome, and I hope you've got pants on

back uh that that you know? With that whole Beyonce thinking, the whole celebrity thing, I hate that every time they think somebody gets in a position of a little fame or little power that you're naturally supposed to be the spokesperson for what, whatever your community or whatever you represent. I love Beyonce and I love so many other people, but no one will persuade me to do nothing that I don't want to do because I think for me. Period.

But that's the unfortunate thing. They'll flame you in some ways. You're an anomaly because some of these folks don't think for themselves. Look at Trump supporters. I'm just saying some people literally look to these celebrities to be the one to guide them. And I'm just saying, Beyonce, as a black woman in America, that shouldn't have to be her responsibility. It's just not. She has her own family. To your point, she's got her own kids, she's got her own family

to think about. She shouldn't have to be thinking about the well being of the entire country because the government can't do their jobs. What is that that is the greatest country on the planet. You didn't know? Hello, my god, just Michelle, Hello Hill, you just say too, I love it is. Let me prepared, let me explain to you. So Michelle is my wonderful UK correspond because she's in London and she always, indeed, she keeps us rest on

what's going on over the pond. She always goes until the queen and I saying hello, Tell the Queen, I'm coming over for some tea. As soon as we get past this COVID she she said, he's waiting for you. She's really got the paddle laid out for you. Don't worry. I want some of that jury. So wait a minute, Michelle, you guys got a new strain over there. What is that about yeah, well it's it's it's the finals. It's self here has kind of mutated into they say it's

a variant and basically it's still COVID. However the transmission is quicker, So basically they're trying to say to us we're back on lockdown here in London and most of England will probably be in lockdown by Thursday. But basically are saying the transmission from one person to the other is far greater than the actual original COVID that we always living with for the past eight months, so they're

basically tending us to be extra careful. They want to start testing students when they go back to school um after this Christmas period because they want to see whether the students were either carriers or have basically had transmitted the disease to us adults or two members of people's family. So everyone's back in bubbles where there is no Christmas

in London. I personally feel that when they brought us back out of lockdown back in December, it was a wrong move for the government again with a lot of miss messaging. They want to please one sector of the you know, the country, they want to please another sector of the country, and what is basically bringing is the country itself is not listening to nobody and having a free fall, which there in turn has made the numbers rise.

London never used to have so much number, you know, um people with the virus or even just symptoms, and now it's everything skyrocketed. So I'm here in my house being here. We got put down, lockdown Thursday. Every two weeks. Our government Mr Boris has given us, you know, updates, but again you have no faith in him. He said that he's given over fifty thousand people the vaccine, which is only part one of vaccine. It comes in two stages. So but then you still are not allowed to go out.

You still have to be within your own sector. You can't go in pubs and restaurants, shops. Everything's closed down again back in London. So my thing is they tell us one thing, they tell us to do another thing, but then a day or so later they changed their minds again. We know whether we're coming or going over there as a regular person, let alone. I'm not a

business owner, you know, I I have a job. But luckily they've kept the furlough going until April twenty one, which makes me think for myself that they know a lot more than what they're really telling us, in the fact that this is going to be a lot longer than just this Christmas period one January February March, even we could still be in another lockdown across the world. I don't know about the America, but I'm just mainly speaking for the for England at the moment. Michelle, let

me ask you a question. Didn't Boris test posity for COVID? Yeah, but he had it. He had it back in at the beginning. This was maybe around I don't know, April, this earlier on when we was in a lockdown, and he when he did get positive, and he did isolate twice because a few months back one of the cabinet ministers had a meeting and a few of those ministers got tested positive. So he put himself in side self isolation.

But also in England, what the problem is with here we have COVID, but then we have the Brexit situation where the government is not really focusing now on COVID. They're focusing by the first of January because they have to make Europe kind of give us deals which we haven't gotten. And Boris is kind of going in circles, trying to sort us out with the COVID, trying to deal with the European Council, and trying to get deals done on our behalf, and they think is a missionmatch

over the here. So the government is really not ptention to us as citizens. Definitely don't they call him like the Donald Trump of the UK is kind of his nickname's He's definitely a wanna be, want to be Trump supporter. And I think that was a problem because, like most things, at the beginning of the lot, then when Trump got sick and then obviously you had your elections. It's really funny how after your elections in America, US as England, we suddenly had the vaccine and then a week or

two later everybody else had the vaccine. I don't believe in coincidence like that. I think that everything was planned to see whether Trump was still going to be in office after you know, the elections, because he lost. It's like, oh god, we have to now give the people the vaccine. They're gonna have a new government in America, you know, Biden and Kamala Harris Um. You know, they're gonna obviously

be world leaders to be looked upon. So people now are kind of saying, you know what, we can't deal with Trump. No more, we don't have to deal with Trump. We have to now find new friends and new favors, and that's going to be another problem for our leaders.

Also basically trying to be nice to other leaders around order because a lot of leaders forward boris, I'm sorry for Donald Trump in his decisions around the world, in the way they govern their countries, and it's a bit of a backlash now and the people citizens are now, you know, facing the problems we're suffering, people are dying. You know, this kind of somebody just put in the comments and this kind of just was like a full

circle moment for me. Um. I don't know if you guys have seen in the news reports that across the world they were saying it's going to be a dark winter for us. Have you guys heard that in the UK as well? Oh yeah, they've been telling us that since summer. They've already told us that our second you know wave was going to come around the Christmas time. Bear in mind also in England we have the flu season, so you know, a lot of the elderly would have been,

you know, getting sick because of one thing. And then also they're putting it down to COVID. Some of the statistics I'm not sure whether it is flu or COVID. They never really tell us about, you know, the honesty statistics I think a bit too hit and miss. But yeah, they told us about this dark winter from time, which is why I believe they knew about, you know, how they were going to deal with the situation way back

in March April. May you know, they just kind of keep the society just kind of wait, waiting because government don't make decisions that instantly so quickly, unless there's a threat of a nuclear war or some kind of global you know, destruction. They see, they have meetings, they decide what they're gonna do months in advance of telling us that,

you know, citizens and the voters. I think that's my point though, because what I'm thinking, what I'm seeing here is that they knew a at the second strand, because this is the first time I've heard that there was a second strand of COVID. It just so happens that this new strand that's coming up is more contagious than the original COVID strand and that's what so I think that's what this whole it's going to be a dark winter thing is. Because they're saying it's only in the UK.

I guarantee you it's already here in the US. Go ahead. No, I was gonna say retro, we're saying it's gonna spread. I mean they are only basically telling us now you know, we've got the vaccine, but also suddenly, now we've got this new strain. It is hitting people severely, but again they're turning us just become It's that if you get it, or you get COVID, your symptoms are still going to be the same as the original strain because virus is new.

Take quite a number of times. So we just have to kind of in a sense, we are, in a way still the guinea pigs. You know, I like flame. I'm not taking the vaccine, they said, I refused to take it. I've never taken a flu shot, so I refused to take that. And just to retreate what you said Loran earlier, I don't think any former celebrity should tell any voter what they should do, whether take the vaccine or not. Even here in England, they tried that pr campaign with us. I was I put in the comments.

You know, we had a football and Mr Mark Rashville he plays from UM I think it's Majesty United And basically he went to the government first of all and said, listen, Boris, can you basically give them their school kids, you know, food to eat during the lockdown because some people are their starvation in England believe it or not. You know,

we're not a richer, vibrant country as people think. And Boris basically said no. So this young football off his back of his you know, off his back of his hand, decided, you know what, I'm going to it myself. When he managed to secure funds from companies and food donations, then the government jumped on board and I think that is despicable. The governor should have been there from the very off, not have to wait for a footballer to come and say, listen,

people are starving in London, in England. You know what I mean? You know what I need no news, Thank you, Michelle. I was fucked up. Let me just say this. I wish I feel at this moment in my life. I wish I hadn't head children to experience this because I don't know how to explain this for real to my kids.

So if anybody's out there at your age, even Lauren, because Lauren don't have any children as of yet, No, I don't wait until if you can, wait until this is done, wait until we get some resolution with this, because we are just being used as fucking collateral damage even though we're in the in the UK people we are not. We are is showing us that we are nothing as people, not just black or white, just period. Well, if you don't have the finances, you're nothing at this

point in time, because there thank you. Yeah, so that's what matters at this point. It's the rich still getting richer and still benefiting off of taxpayer dollars and the government. You know, unfair Lee, And if you don't have that kind of financial backing, you were just lost on the costs. I wish. I just wanted to strain that Jeff Bezos gonna get because you saw that that Mike Pence took the shot live on YO, I'm gonna talk about that.

Let me say so, Mike Pence took the shot last week, but then they had a video going around that said it was one of those retractable needles, so when the needle hit his arm, it went back into the actual um and to the syringe, not until his arm he said, oh, I didn't feel the thing. Well, of course he didn't feel the thing. He never got injected with anything. I'm telling y'all now, please think for yourself and pay attention to what's going on around you, because it's some bullshit.

And I know some of us like, I'm just gonna take the vaccine so I can survive. I can live. You're not going to survive. You saw the nurse on TV. They gave us a shot. She wasn't even a sister, she was a white girl. They gave her a shot. About two minutes later, she collapsed right there on that. I know they wished they could take that away, and we didn't see that. And what they tried to say was she had a condition where she sperience pain. It

caused her to collapse. Somebody thing was, if you knew that ahead of time, why did you pick her to be on cameras You knew she had a pain. What do you wanna call it? A pain tolerance syndrome? I don't even know what the bones furs like Donald Trump and he didn't want to go to the military. Bitch, she had bones spurs, I see it. What the hell I see? She had no damn bones spurs. They sucked up and they let us see the real And that's why I'm telling you. When they see it, when y'all

your eyes don't fool you. When you see some ship, believe what you see. Didn't mind Angelo say what was her statement? Lauren? Um, When they show you who who they believe them, believe what they showing you. Stop listening to. Oh this was that, this wasn't that, this was exactly what we saw. Now they saying that people who don't even have allergies having allergic reactions to this. And that's round one. Remember it's two doses. Baby, understand me. Wait, Wait,

pray and spray. This is the year because I've been praying all year, and I was prayed every big would come in my vicinity with Lisol, including everybody in this office, because everybody gets every week. Everybody gets freighted. Lord and I just had a COVID test on Thursday and we are both taking negative. I don't know if the lifesong works. I don't know if it doesn't work, But I've been doing the same thing for eight or nine months. My grandmama once told me, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I don't need no shot. I need a shot of millions, but I don't need no shot from the vaccine. And I think this can also segue into our last topic of the misinformation that's happening around this whole Russian hack for the US that's been going on for six months that we didn't know about big Brother Big Brother watching us and somebody watching them, but they say that they don't need to hack us. Donald Trump has given them all the information they need to putin because he don't

want them piss tapes released from the prostitutes. I see it. What I said, Well, yeah, I think Putin has a couple of things on a couple of folks, And that's kind of why we see certain senators like Lindsey Graham kind of shift his narrative from was a it was a huge shift, um. But yeah, it just goes back

to all the mis messaging. I feel like it's coming from the government, and that's part of the reason why, you know, there's a lot of distrust there in all aspects from not taking care of us financially during this you know, pandemic, not providing accurate information for us the vaccine. There's so many misinformations, and then you know just what's happening in our country as a whole. You know, systemic

racism is just constantly something we're faced with. And then we get told things on the back end that there's hacking going on and we don't know anything about it, and we don't know what they've taken, right It's just like everything else, um Flame. It looks like they've talked about how it's it's a situation where they may have laid traps like someone and someone used the analogy I

thought was absolutely fantastic. You know someone's been in the house, you know they've been through your drawers, but you don't know what they've seen, and you don't know what they've taken because you're not looking for that thing right now. So I came in Flames house, I took a T shirt, but you weren't looking for that T shirt, so you

don't know what I'm doing with that T shirt. And and it's just one of those things where this is uh grown into a situation where if it were not for the private sector, letting us know that something had gone wrong, um that we wouldn't even be aware of it. Right now, let me tell you what breaks down the whole government constitution. First of all, I don't know whatever you measure a man to be. That's on you. I don't know what. Everybody has a different measure of a man.

But with Marco Rubio, with his cutthroat trying to get some popularity, want to be in Marco Rubio should be voted out. I don't know what what state is he in Florida? He should be gone. They love him? And what's the other one? What? What's the crew? The complete ass, whole coward ass. Let me tell you something. I'm not a married person. I have no intentions, don't getting married. I don't want to get markers. Don't ask me for

because I want to give it to you. Uh. When he when Donald Trump destroyed Ted's crew Cruis his wife in his presence, and then Ted Crews said nothing and then turned around and jumped on the bandwagon. I don't know who your wife is, but she should have left you. You You would have never gotten no pussy for me, not ever again. You've been working at hole in the wall because I would never let you disrespect my wife or my partner in my presence and then jump on

your team. Understand that you have to see people for what they're I don't like fencewriting me in period. We got a lot of those, even on CNN and I ain't gonna say his name Vay and Jones, but we got a lot of fence writing me and make up your mind. It's not that you're with us or against us, but at least if you're in the middle, we know it's one or the other because they have shown us that you can't be on this side or on that you have to pick a side. They keep throwing us

up under the bus. Canye, I think I think it's simpler than that. I genuinely believe. You know, we've all been in school. I think there are people who are just afraid of the bully, right, Like he even attacked Ted crwiss father. If you remember, he said his father was responsible for killing Kennedy And we know that's not true. But but the fact that even said had that on on the stage. You know, Uh, going back to Marco Rubio.

You mentioned Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio was part of De santiss mission to not encourage people to wear masks, continue to gather and moving crowds maskless, continue to bounce around and say no vaccine, vaccine is until the vaccine became available. Marco Rubo, Marco Rubio is one of the people who took first in line take the shot less. I hope

they gave him the experimental shot. And let's talk about De Santis too, because I just want to shift to that really quick, because you brought him up and brought up some things that came out. He there was a memo that came out last week that specifically said let them get infected. Yeah, and once that once he received that memo, he opened up all the beaches, all the bars, all the restaurants. He intentionally intentionally infected the people of

Florida with COVID. And that's why a report came out that said Fort Lauderdale is a most dangerous city in the country for COVID. Right now, Flame Flame, Lauren, we were talking about this also. If you notice we're all on Instagram, we all have friends and cities that have a larger African American demographic. We got friends who are partying their butts off in Atlanta, their party and their butts off in Florida. And I'm like, wow, you know, and now mind you, I'm in Arkansas. I'm the only

person here, you know, who turn up? Turn up. It's just me and that Christmas tree right there is nobody here. If it were not for Flame talking on the phone every day, I'd have nobody to talk to. I really continue to party in Atlanta. Just make sure you get your ass to the Pose on January five so that we can take back you see it all as Florida goes. You know, I call that the many petty state. And I ain't talking about the manicure and a pedocut. I'm

talking about the men pedophiles. Tons of them are most A lot of pedophiles migrate, not all, and not all of Florida is bad people, but a lot of pedophiles migrate to Florida because it's warm weather and there's lots of children, and they fucking love kids. And I'm telling you right now, I do not believe in my whole hearted heart that pedophile can be reformed, he can be changed, he can be fixed. None of that. I say. We go there from the virus helb I'll get there. Florida.

You mentioned the Ronda Santist is Ronsea Santis is the mayor, I mean the governor of Florida. He is a complete asshole. He reminds me of Patrick the starfish from uh from SpongeBob SquarePants because he's a complete retard. He want them short yellow busses, brothers that draw pictures and then use the bookers to make the nose and make the eyes. Yeah, he's very sad to me, rocking and ship with a helmet on and the bowl of cereal. And he he

used his helmet for the boat for the cereal. This ain't no dig get nobody who got special needs kids? Because I ain't talking to you. I see it the Santist if you take it personally, which we would even knew you had a specially these kids. If you're taken in personally, so just taking how I gave it to you. God damnit, I'm telling you now to go. Thinking and thinking for yourself will save your life. I don't need

you to save my life. Critical thinking and thinking for you will save your life because I'm gonna save man and my children because I think for me I'm gonna say this because I know you're gonna wrap up pretty soon. You mentioned how this is a difficult time to have children. Flame you know, it's so funny because I feel like now we're sounding like our parents. Because my mother's grandfather used to tell her, you know, baby, it's nothing worse

than trying to raise a child through the depression. Right then, my mother genuinely believes the worst time in history Nick was when we lost uh Kennedy and King Nick was just such a dark time. So every parent, I think goes through this moment when they feel like, oh, nothing could possibly be darker than this moment. I do believe in this country, and I'll just close with this. I do believe we will get through this, and I do

believe that we will get through this together. And I understand that we all have different opinions about the way to do that and how we will do that. But I see people leaning on each other in difficult times, and I do believe that the holidays bring people together. I am blessed to have you at work because we can't get together because of COVID nineteen. So you go back so believed in this country, But what about the three hundred and fifteen thousand people who are also and

counting who have died, who believed in this country. I'm speaking for them, you know. I what I would say to that, Nick, I just hope that the story, when it's written, of what's happened in this period of our history, is written correctly, because I think a lot of times, you know, we get these westernized European history versions of what actually took place in our country and how this

country was started. So I hope that they write it correctly so people can actually understood what we go through, so that way, if we do have another dark time in our history, whenever that may be, we actually have learned from our mistakes and are actually using the expert tutelage to do better for our country. Let me let me close on this and let you guys know that I appreciate you all following me here on laugh and learn, because this is the he, the she, and the we.

You don't understand is that this didn't even happen like this. This this happened Lauren just was able to come and fell in and be and do such an amazing job. And we love your energy, Lord, I love your youth. I love your intelligence, and she pretty to look at. But what I want you guys to know is that what I say this all the time, My motto is kano bitch, do what I do. And I don't say that out of vanity. I don't say that out of nobody else can do the job that I'm doing. You

cannot do it like I do it. And if you believe in who you are as a person and surround yourself with people that will help you grow and think and just allow you to be who you are Nick Smith and Lauren Hogan and Trible and Kindle. Because I'm me, I'm not changing for nobody. I'm not shuffling. I don't have to. If you I don't come to you, I allow you to come to me. If it don't match, it don't match. Everybody's not going to get along. It don't matter about gay or fat, or black or white

or straight. It matters that if we don't have nothing, we don't have nothing. And you're gonna feel that right off. I ain't working with you. If I don't fun with you, I don't funk with you. I prefer to say, if I don't sunk with you, we don't funk with you. But I can't think for nobody else. I can only think for me. The decisions you make today about your future will have will Sometimes we'll give you a future.

But if you make the wrong decision and listen to somebody else being segued by the government, listen to your mama sometimes because your mom ain't always right, they what they say, your mom ain't always right, or you selling yourself out because we're desperate for money and they're relying on us being desperate for money at these times. So we're gonna give you an extra three hundred dollars, We're gonna give you another thousand ills, We're gonna pay your rent.

Think long term, don't think right now. Think tomorrow. And tomorrow is not guaranteed to nobody. But don't just think now, think tomorrow. Ladies and gentlemen, this is laugh and Learn with Flame Monroe, Nick Smith, Loran Hogan and of course the Flame Masks, because we can do this show without you all, and of course Kendoll our cameraman and Triple our producer. We thank you, guys. I want you to know that we need you to care share the show.

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