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here about three months. That's not what you do. It's one of those things who people at home who may be watching right now, they will be a to see all of us in action when they actually watched the video component later this way exactly. Um So one of the things that you need to know. We're not ignoring you on Instagram and log We're purposely making sure that we have clean video to produce and move forward. When you all share this video and like it, so thank you.

But it's been a busy week and I'm excited to be here and we're glad they have you here with that Nicholas, because you ain't been here at a man, the presidents you're well, you're not been reading some of the comments and they're like, you know, one Nicholas is too professional to Nicholas must be a Republican, and three from why don't you fire Nicholas? So guess what one Nicholas is not a Republican to yes, he will say some about landing ship, but so will I. And three

then they ain't going awhere He right here. I'm right here even when he in Arkansas. That nigga right here and now when this contract is up, not only where he might not be here. Welcome. You've been a busy beaving this week. You've been what you've been doing. Um So I went to Atlanta for two of my best friends graduations. One graduated from Georgia State Law School and b a at the same time, So she got a j D and n B A very proud of her.

And then my other best friend finally graduated from Spellman. Actually she had to defer for two years, and then she got into the workforce. You know, it's hard to get back into school, and she've been working and making money. So she finally did it, and I'm very very proud of her. So I went to Atlanta to celebrate her and both of them, actually, and I had a little fun,

you know. I saw some old friends and hung out and I got back at eleven pm last night, and you and I were talking about before flame came in that it's we don't recover the same way we used to. Lauren, absolutely not. I feel old as hell. Oh my god. I had a red eye going out. And I can tellue what well, I can tell you what it is about the traveling now, it's the mask. The mask make

the trips seem longer. I don't take mane off. I'm telling you I've been traveling to the mask to me things like it makes the trip longer because I want to take my mask off and breathe. Do you sleep on the flight? Though? I used to luring, but I ain't got real nervous about sleeping on flights. Now, I'd be scared somebody gonna be touching me in my sleep stuff. That's why I seemed longer to you me. I go to sleep on any flight, Lauren, to sit down, I'm out.

And it used to get upset because I always missed that meal. Serf right because I'm not going to sleep. I need to see what's happening in and out. But I never have a deep sleep because I'm not comfortable. I need to stretch out well. I mean, I have status on Delta two, so i'd be upgrading for free. I feel like first class. See all that. She didn't even had to do it. You see what I'm talking about,

just saying what I'm up against. No, see when you went for these major corporations, not not laughing, other job and you get all these perks first class and something not like I don't like it because they flew my black gass first class. I put you up on some travel game when we traveled together a new favorite hotel in Atlanta. Now it's the only place my heads weren't stretched down because I was I'm just saying, you travel

a little differently now some hanging out with me. So I'm saying, okay, So speaking of mask, first topic, because today is a day that first lady sent me a scripture this morning from um. It was from Proverbs verse eighteen sixteen, and the quote is what Nicholas, let me pull that up because I just saw, because it's very appropriate for what's happening with me today. I'm doing something

really major today. I'm taking some pictures with some legends and I'm really excited about That's why you gotta make up on that, because my makeup art is will be here at two o'clock. Yeah. The quote is Proverb sixteen man's gift maketh room for him and bring it him before great men today. This great man's gift, don't introduce

him to some great men and women. So let's do it, okay, Speaking of our first time, that is Proverbs eighteen sixteen for those who if you want to read that, baby, because I'm the great man and the woman, it should have said, great he weeks, let me call God. You gonna need him to change. He's not being politically correct. Why don't we jump right on end though, on the mask, because you're our president, my president, the one we all voted for, has mandated a mass mandate that you don't

have to wear your mask. He's repeating information from the CDC saying that now CDC guidelines are saying that if you're outdoors, you don't need to wear a mask. If you've been fully vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask. However, individual stores and restaurants can decide what they want their business to do for those who may be patrons of their particular space. Are you guys ready to not wear a mask? And both of you guys have been fully vaccinated,

I'm the one who has not been. Well, you know my vaccine right here. Let me no, I sprayed myself already. I'm not just in case commercially watching. You know this is my vac safe for two a whole year. Uh. You started in what you think? Well, I don't know that. What I do wish though, UM, I believe that people were ready to do some type of unmasking, but I

also believe that there's confusion around what people should do. UM. Not just older, but mostly older are still in the space where they want to continue wearing their masks because they don't feel particularly safe not wearing a mask. I think that there are those who are frustrated and tired

of wearing a mask. What I don't like is that I feel like the ownership or the responsibility of policing those who do and do not wear mask is falling on employees who should not have to bear the responsibility. I just saw the interaction that one Costco employee had with Rick Schrolder. How does this guy argue with Rick Schroeder, who you know is a celebrity? You know? How do I how he should not be in the position where he has to demand that Mr Schroeder wear masks before

he enters into Costco. Yes he should, I remember, damned about him and being celebrity. He is a human and he could give me coronavirus. He could give me I guess I don't want that employee in the in the spot where he has to us. And I hear you said what you say. Celebrities have to take responsibility just like everybody. If there are rudes and we all have

to follow rules. If if this store says that in order to enter our store plan and they do have the signs out upon entering, you must wear man, you either follow rules or shop somewhere else. No that I hear. I just don't like Rick Schroeder making that guy the bad guy, putting him on social media. So Josh, you're telling me to the store I can't walk in and putting that guy didn't have to be on his exam. But let's go back to the source, cause Rick shoulders,

she slid off the crack of many years ago. Go back and do your research. Ricky should have been a cuckoo patty for a long time. He was a cute, little blond boy where he grew up to be a maniac. He did eccentric, over the top. Go back and do your research. Years ago he came out with some kind of political thing he was and some kind of religious thing he was. He's a he's a special special souls. I see it it um. I mean, I personally think that this is the CDC is trying to incentivize people

to get vaccinated. I really think that's what this comes down to, because we're seeing this huge decline and people getting vaccinated, and honestly, coming from a marketing background, you always have to incentivize people to get them to do something. So I think by saying like oh, if you're fully vaccinated, you don't have to be You can be outside you don't have to wear a mask, and out indoors you don't have to wear a mask either. I think they're

trying to get more people vaccinated. I do think that it's grossly your response on the CDC's part, and on Joe Biden. I mean, he is the president. I get he's leaning towards the scientists and the experts, so he's trying to put some trust back into that. But to put the onus on these corporations to decide when and where you can wear masks, and this whole honor system

I think is stupid. Considering before thank you, I mean, I mean considering before you had Karen's and everybody else that didn't want to wear masks, and we're saying that you're violating my rights. And now you expect these people to be honest and say, oh, I've been fully vaccinated, but where's the proof, And so you're you're putting everybody at risk to have the rates of infections of COVID

go up. Bottom line, it's just not It's not so I can just come in and rome and say I've been vaccinated, and everybody who followed me knows that I am completely exactly taking the vaccine. I am not telling nobody else what to do, and y'all gonna believe me. See that honest system. I can honorably get stopped at the stop sign and think I'm gonna honorably get home

office right. But I think where that honor system comes in and s the idea is that I'm supposed to as a vaccinated person, and my responsibility is to communicate that so that if someone who is not vaccinated is in in the same space, I should then say, well,

I've been vaccinated. But to help you feel more comfortable, man, I have no problem wearing a mask because if that helps you feel more comfortable with me wearing a mask so that we can be in the same space, I, as a good steward, should want to do that first or second show we ever did for laugh and learn? What did I say? People do not want to be Americans do not want to be told what to do. This ain't got nothing to do with race. Americans do not want to be don't tell me what to do.

That's how we feel. Yeah, I just I just don't think that this is a good idea at all. It's just And the other thing too is I don't know. I mean, we can get into this a little bit, but some people may also not want to disclose that they have been vaccinated either, because that can go into hip A violations if we want to talk about that too. So there's just too many layers of irresponsibility to this

that I think that it just wasn't thought through. The whole focus is let's get people vaccinated, So how do we do that? But Nick made a very valid point, yes that we did coffee time yesterday morning. Enick made it every you cannot ring the bill. I personally, and I love Joe Biden. I voted for Joe Biden. I'm believing that Joe Biden. I'm waiting. I'm patiently waiting for him to make some major changes that we can see and that would instill to make the country moving forward direction.

But I I personally think that he spoke on it too soon. The numbers are declining slowly but not done. And I, like Nicolas said, yes that you can't ring the bill. You can't come back in a month and say if the numbers spike up, that okay. Now, you gotta start winning. Man, I'm confused, what do I do? But I think that's part of their trying to normalize COVID at this point because from what I've read, COVID's never going away. COVID is basically going to be like

the seasonal flu. So we're going to see these spikes and well, we're gonna see these increases and decreases in terms of infections all the time, and that there's gonna be these huge spikes during the flu season because they're now normalizing COVID as a flu basically, so that's it's never going away. We're never going to reach her immunity. This is just something that Lauren and I fear that these variants will always play a part. Right, So then here I am vaccinated. What does that mean once I'm

possibly exposed to someone who has a different level of COVID? Right, does does that variant change then and become something that I'm not protected against? So I think there are so many things we have to continue to continue considering. But going back to the original point, what I don't like about all of this are we masking? Are we unmasking? Is that it has left this area of ambiguity, and I feel like the policing of that has fallen on

people who simply want to do their jobs. And it's not and it should not be on that employee at Costco to say, hey, Mr Smith or Mr Schroulder wear masks, because that man can lose his job or at least be threatened by others who may say, where was that

guy he told our Ricky? No, you know, when y'all started falling behind these celebrities, do your research, got some of these celebrities and then did you guys to see the video that was at the gaping of the video about people are shaming people for either a taking a vaccine or be not taking the vaccine. Oh yeah, because I'm not taking the vaccine. These are my partners. Both of them have been fully vaccinated. I'm not holding them accountable for that that. This is with their decision. This

is my decision. You can't hold nobody's feet to the fire for that. I don't tell nobody not to take the vaccine. You do the hell you want to do. You just know the vaccine and now I'm spraying you. And if you did take the vaccine, I'm spraying you twine. Just in case you turn kind of you see how shiny you're looking at them, you might want to bite me. I love it. There's something I want to mention everybody, those who may or may not have seen this flame.

You and I talked about this one show this to everybody at home. I am holding what it's called air tag? Air tag? Have you all heard about this? Larrey about that? So air tag is a new little thing created by Apple and what people have been doing because it tracks everywhere it goes, but it doesn't make a sound. So both parents have been and couples have been placing them like in the liner of a boyfriend's jacket that he wears all the time. And wait, Manute, I thought you

were just doing that one show with Flame. Well you've been well you just my teenage. It's also one of those things where Apple is saying, hey, we're hoping that people are using these in good faith. And that's part of the question. Want to open up to the flamemates. If you have an opportunity to track your team, what you or do you want to trust your team to do the right thing or do you want to trust your spots called air Tagings on four bucks two point

two points. Yes, I want to track my team and two Apple made it to something? Do you want to be trusted? And you know who made it Apple? Bill Gates. Job that nigga did, we only got to track him. Uh we know, you know, we know exactly where he is. Baby, Who is Apple? Which one? Which one is Bill Gates? I might have got him confused, but the nigga still need Melinda girl. Have you read about this so? No?

I like it? La? What you think? Um? I think we're one step away to being injected with micro trips like dogs to track pe. We already got the first. Everyone's talking about the vacan head chips and including me. Somebody point out a very other point. You got a cell phone, you got Internet, you got cable, you already chick. They already knew exactly what you are and which watch and all of that. I'm sure they're going to get lots of sales from that, though, I'm sure of it.

It's going to be interesting to see where that go, especially in relationships. You just casually hug your boyfriend and maybe just put it on the back of something he doesn't realize it, and then all of a sudden you got a track where he went the mileage. And so the idea is that, you know, I'm getting one from my mom because in the house misplacing keys with myself, you know, have mine on my little key ring so that I don't lose my keys or misplace my keys.

Have that. No, as long as you have any Apple device so you can track it also from your laptop. Like I know, it's not Android, it's not Universal. Look at my Alpha's gonna definitely down and keep it in the house. I'm not into apples. I like bananas. I mean I like Android, and I just yes, Miss Harriet is called air Tang air Tag and uh, they dropped him last week, so they bucks you know, I like a little gadget. I want to I want to be able to be able to find my way back home

to YouTube. We also kind of if you don't want to open up to the flames just said, we talked about rent Lauren Fleman. I were just sitting here yesterday. Um well, I had also just read an article about a landlord and Tacoma and what he's been doing. Um this landlord in Tacoma, I'm sorry, in Lancaster, Lancaster p A he has free painted the property showing the tenant's name and rent because since last year, how much they

oh so was his property? So he and he's simply saying, hey, not even so much to shame the tenant as much as government. You keep telling people they don't need to pay rent. This is how much I'm old. This is why I can't pay my property tax because I'm not getting collecting rent. The government needs to make a decision. Quit letting this to is tabulate tabulate without letting us know what an end date is. So the question is kind of twofold, and I want to open this up

to the flame. Mats Lady Allison, okay to do that? As a property owner, do you have the right to display what you are old on property that you own or do you feel like a line needs to be drawn because it's shaming the tenant. I mean, personally, I don't have a problem if you want to display that, oh you have this amount of money owed. I think putting the tenants business out for the world to see is not okay at all. I don't think he should be doing that, But I'm just confused on what this.

I think COVID as a whole has really just thrown everybody for a lootle because I'm confused on what the process is like, I don't understand how you know tenants or I'm sorry, property owners aren't being subsidized if they're not being paid rent. That just it just seems like people would really didn't think to see that's why something you probably own it should have took Section nate because guess what you still was gonna get your rent at least most stuff. Allison, Hi, Allison, to lady m. This

is Alison, Alison Lewis. She's running for city council in Lakeland, Florida. So please follow her donate to her. She got great politics, policies and politics. She's young, she's educated. She's also a teacher of our kids. Allison, what you think about this whole rent moratory and what y'all doing about that down there in Florida. So so you have to understand, you know,

because different states have different statues. Understand that, ladies and gentlemen, and and and make the make your states statues your friend, right, because here in florida's called the Florida Statutes, right, and they have landlord and tenants and so again as I was sharing with Nick on yesterday. You know, of course, the government did not and we as people, some of us, did not go in and read the totality of the memorandum that was put out as it relates to the

order how it was going to go. Yes, they can collect uh, your rent of what's being old because you owe that. That's in the contract in which you sign. Right, and understand, there's a process to viction if you don't pay your wrink for two months. Allison just can't go down to the courthouse and foul an eviction. I have to give you certified notice. I didn't have to give you three days. Right, there is a process to the city eviction. And then when you get to the eviction

me now it becomes a plaintive and defended situation. Right, we're in a litigation and so I have to foul responses. So again, ladies and gentlemen, before you get to eviction, before you get in front of a judge, you have at least by thirty forty eight days to squash it

with your tenant. Well, Alison, my question would be though, because you said that there's like a thirty to forty eight day period where you can kind of squash whatever is going on if you have some disputes between the tenant and the property owner, but can you give some insight to what happens after that time period? If the conflict is not resolved, what happens then, well what happens then then you proceed to court? Right? So between okay

for so for the okay? As an owner, right, I can't just say even though say, Lauren, I can use you for an example, owes me five thousand dollars in red, Right, I can't go to the Pope County Park of Court and fileing me viction against you, Lauren. I have to immediately send you notice with your three day notice in the mail certified. Right. Those are steps, right, and then once that's not resolved, then I can move to the

eviction process. Then it becomes what you call litigation. Right, and that I you are are granted to file a response, and you have most courts give you about about thirty days to respond to it. Um, I'm gonna saying lately it's seven or fourteen days, but I'm for to be on the safe side, thirty I'm gonna say thirty days, twenty to thirty days and you have to file a response. Now you don't respond those that no response within that time, right, then it's just the open case and then you all

really perceive the court. But if you file a response, do understand the judge has to read all this up and then you both have to come to court. Did judges at a court date? Right? You both have to come to court and make an argument, and then the judge determines, hey, do you owe him right? Or how are we gonna how are we gonna do right before they could perceive. But if you don't respond, um, if you don't do anything, understand that it could just go

straight on through. And that's what I think. That's what I've been saying. I think it's communication, if you communit. I've been re renting for years. I'm renting now. I don't even own this house. I would like to bout this. I'm going to bout this house. But you have to communicate with your landlord. So if you fall on hard times, you can say, hey, look, if I don't know what's going on and I don't know what to do, you

leaving me out in the colde. So even if you don't like your landlord, you know and we we have those instances, we don't really get along. It's all business. For the place I just moved from, it was all business. We had no relationship whatsoever, but I communicated with her. I never fell on hard times, but if I would have, I would have communicated with her and say, hey, look I'm working on it. I'm gonna get you. Blacks's kippy.

But when the pandemic first hit, when we first started doing coffee time, I told people, if you have the money, pay on your rent, communicate with you. I remember saying that when we first started going live, talking about this, when this first started happened, when they first instituted, because you always said housing needs to be right, because if you don't talk to me, and I'm the landlord, I

don't know what position you live in. And some of these landlords depend on the money, like you said, to pay property taxes, insurance, upkeep on the property, landscaping. You ain't giving me nothing, and you gonna communicate with me. I'm gonna fail proper paperwork to put you in your children now because you ain't told me nothing. You can't this problem. Not that not to cut you off, Lane,

but I'm seeing a lot of comments. Understand, ladies and gentlemen, I'm speaking from um, I'm speaking from a I'm speaking from Florida's statutes, right, I'm speaking from Florida statues, right, And and yes it varies by different states. But I totally agree with you, Flane. It is all about ladies and gentlemen. It is all about that communication. It's all

about you doing your own research. And my professor, my professors used to always say there is no better research than your own, right, get into the and you you know, listen, everybody don't go to Everybody don't go to law school, right. But I mean it's a lot of us know how to read, right, and so understand, just take some time to the the read on your leisure, to read your statutes on landlord and tenant laws. Take some time to read about you know, the school laws that they have

in there. It's all broken down and so that that is again, that is what I encourage you all to do. And also just just pay attention, pay attention, hold your local officials accountable to inform you about some things, right. And they also have programs in your city, right that they have to educate people on these things. Uh, contingent upon this city because they get money for this. Right, understand about these people, the p p P public private partnerships.

I can't stress that enough, ladies and gentlemen. These public private partnerships drives the growth in your city. The healthcare drives that, which is your p P public private partnership. And what happens is that drives people. I'm not laughing at you when you say p p P. I think about how many people got a p p P. Now you can get that to pay your back red because

your new rent is gonna be free. If you ain't got no business and you take out a p p P loan, they got a thirteen back twelve sail waiting on you. If you can't that you have a business, So you pay your back rent because you're gonna get some free rent for about three years. I'm telling y'all, ain't nothing for free. I teach my children there is absolutely nothing for free, right and I and I toltally so.

So it's a it's an operation, ladies and gentlemen, and to two d and forty six people understand how it operates. And that's where our people, black and brown people really perish, right, you know, we we we failed to understand how the system operates. And so when you understand how the system and the totality of the system operates, don you will begin to understand some of the totalities in the situations that takes place within just within your backyard. Right And

so do do do do? Understand that? Right? We have to understand the system. We have to change the operators of the system. Uh that that we're also tired of, right, We're tired of this system, you know. But in order for the system to change, ladies and gentlemen, we have to change the operators. And who are the operators? The operators are the ones who we fail to participate in voting in our local election, right, you know, so we

have to we have to we have to understand that. Well, I think more all of the story here is of Alison, and we can just basically sum up what you're saying is do your research, because, like we said, everything from Florida to New York to California, every state is different

when it comes to these rent moratoriums. Do your research, make sure you elect the people that you want to elect, and is always Thank you so much, Alison forgiving let to say, here's the thing, here's the catch on that, because if I had been working two jobs, just because a lot of people, especially in California or New York where the rin is exceptionally high, you work, a lot of people are working two regular jobs just to make ends me to pay the rent. They spend more time

at work than they actually did at home. So when the unemployment came in, they was getting an additional six hundred dollars a week. They were making more money sitting on their asses at home than they were both were working both those jobs so I can enjoy my house. I wouldn't go back to work either. People don't people that I wouldn't have went back either. But I think this also goes back to what we've talked about before,

that that that responsibility. I feel like, I think it's easy to blame those who stayed home because they were getting extra money because of pandemic relief. But I would argue that companies need to be paying these people more to begin with, so that that was so that that was not their available option. Right. People don't want to not work. I think they are. Most people want to work. People enjoy either doing what they do or they find something else. I think there are people who enjoy working.

But to suggest that people don't want to work and that those who are not going back to work, like some leaders are suggesting, I think it's unfair. I agree with that because I think too, in a lot of spaces is that the issue as well was, um, some of our actual like parents couldn't afford to actually you know, they couldn't afford to actually go to work because they had issues with childcare and other things like that. So

it wasn't just people are being lazy. And I think that's part of the issue with some of the narratives that some of these red state governors are trying to drum up as to why they're pulling out of these assistant programs for people in particular exactly like like, y'all are being lazy and it's not that, but I saw some stats like and I think you and I have said this before. Even the language lazy is suggestive in and of itself, and I've heard my governor use that

is completely disrespected. But in terms of paying what you have to pay, like I think of people's paychecks, like in Arkansas goes to childcare, so it wasn't a matter of people being lazy. It's just people couldn't afford to send their kids to child care and go to work. So getting these extra this money was allowing them to actually care for their kids and provide for their kids. Is the same gop s or the same people who were in who was in position of power who didn't

want to give the minimum wage raise. Are the same ones that saying that people are lazy. Don't call me lazy, and you don't want to pay me for coming to work. This ain't slavery, No, my baby, it ain't free. You can't visit the slave quarters without no money, and that that inflame. Situations have changed, right. We no longer live and grow up in the same communities like our parents did. Right, there was a time when you knew, uh, Mrs Miller down the street, Mrs Jackson, watched the kids who came

home from school. We have all moved, We've lived in different areas. Communities are split up there not the same way that they used to be. So now your parents who are working and have to find a way to care for those children, what do you do? You know you've got to You've got childcare is childcare is more expensive than rent. Childcare is no joke. When you sit back and you're just friends who are paying for childcare,

you're like, how much? Whoa can you? Can you do two for one, you know, since they're watching both your kids. But that's not the way it works at all at all. It is prohibitive for many parents to try to work and also for childcare. So yeah, definitely something has to be done. So you think people should say home, don't think. I think that we need to do more where we are working collectively. The minimum wage should be raised, and

that's that's the foundation of this. As if the minimum wage was raised, and even in some states like California or New York, we have one of the highest minimum wages and it's still too expensive to live. What do you do forty hours a week? You can't afford rent? Thank you, that's ridiculous. You still got a child to take care of. So I think, as a at a minimum, the minimum wage needs to be raised and housing needs to be more affordable. Those two things go hand in

hand at this point. I remember my rent. When I was renting one of my places in San Francisco, my mother came to visit. My rent was one bedroom, uh, one bedroom bucks a month. Mom. I said, oh, you gotta live all fancy, and I'm like, uh, this is not at all. But rents are so different then what they paid back. And you know when my mother was like, Mom, I'm telling you, that's how exorbitant rents have become in the state of California. It's ridiculous New York, New York.

You agree, you cannot find You would be hard pressed to find a clean one bedroom four thousand bucks in California. You can. Okay, Yeah. I think people think I'm being They're like, oh, you're just trying to be all and I'm telling you that's not the case. California is ridiculous. New York as well. A shoe box is at least two were in a month, at least New York. We're talking about moms earlier and just people paying rent. There was another story that came up that I want to

kind of segue to that that was interesting. Um and Laurence kind of touches into your area simply because you did play sports. Who are an athlete growing up? Volleyball team. A coach on the volleyball team, UH was told she had to leave because she went into the lobby to nurse. This is in Colorado. Um, so her mom had a new baby and she wanted to nurse her baby. This is she just wants simply nurse on the sidelines because

she's coaching the team. Uh, disqualified her, told her she had to leave, and they disqualified the team because nursing they found to be pornographic and not acceptable. This is Colorado. This is Colorado. And I'm just surprised by that because I'm thinking, this is this shouldn't even be an issue now. Volleyball coach was asked to sit out the tournament because you're not not that, not that Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Coach sat outside convention center after tournament director bars her

from nursing her infant um. Yeah so they. I think it's ridiculous and that people need to get over women nursing in public. Like, we bring you life. The only reason why you're here is because of us, So just respect us, Let us do what we gotta do to nurture and bring up life, and just move on. I'm really sick of that because we're having so many issues around women like I saw this morning. Mississippi is going to this abortion case to the Supreme Court. It's just women.

We really rule the world, and just respect us and let us do what we need to do. I'm so sick of the hypocrisy of them canceling that woman because they thought she was doing some pointographic by taking her baby into the lobby, when slave black women had to pick out on the field and pull their titty out in front of everybody to feed your baby right now, and this was a white woman. And you know what I'm leaving. I don't know if we want to get into the deep topic that we talked about, because we

are talking about kids right now. This might be a good segue to talk about what's happening in the Middle East. Yes, because we started this morning invest We're gonna bring best for in on this because Vestler was very passionate about invest put your hair on baby, were bringing you in, was very passionate about the conversation this morning about what's happening with the it Israeli and Palestines over in the

Middle East. And it is not a topic of expertise for me because but think I've got my thoughts are that I'm so sorry and it's such a tragic thing. I'm watching the news, I'm sending them finding babies and and then women everything up under the rubble. And I don't want to sound hardless or as if I don't care,

but I kind of don't. I kind of want you all to fix the problems in America first with black people, before you tell me I need to go over to these people back, y'all to help them fix their ship. Listen to me if I if they and their homes being blown up by bomb because they made it over religion. If if me and Nick gets stopped at the stop saying right now, they're gonna see two black men in the car, they might open fire because and my cause

are completely legit. I'm tagged, licensed, insured and everything. And I drive like a maniac, but I drive legally. But I kind of I don't want to sound hardless and say, but fix America first, before you're going over there trying to fix somebody else ship first, Right before you start, I'm just gonna let us share our points really quickly. We'll bring you into Nick go ahead. Yeah, I think my issues this because I've gotten a lot of d M s. Hey, you guys really need to talk about this,

you really need to talk of this. I've been UM, I've been purposely uh restrained in my comments simply because it is not an area of expertise for me. It is not something because I do believe it's much more than we in the media tend to UM. We tend to try to find both sides to every story. And I'm not sure that this is proportional. I don't know that, um.

Israel that operates under a dome, which is literally called the dome, because they have the ability to deflect much of the armory coming in from Palestine to them, So it's not proportional. Uh, the amount of ammunition destruction that Israel is able to impose upon the Palestinians is not proportional. That having been said, the United States has always had a long stands where we just stand with Israel and we kind of dismiss everything else. I think that's shifting.

I think that a lot of progressive Democrats have been pushing back on that stands that um that America has long held, specifically Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Cassio Cortez. So when we have not spoken about this is not because we don't have compassion and and empathy for those who are struggling, because no one should have to live like that. But that is not an area where I have spent enough time to give a whitewashed answer on what I think needs to happen, because I'm not a policy expert.

But what I do know is that what is happening right now is not proportional and something needs to change because there are innocent people getting decimated in the crossfire. Okay, I'm I'm gonna say what I gotta say, and it's not that I'm an expert in this field. I'm not about to sit up here and say that I am. But these are my feelings. Though. What I feel Invester, we see you, We're gonna bring you in just a second. What I feel is, yes, are do does something needs

to happen in America for black people? Absolutely agree with you on that flame. My issue is, though, I think for the United States to stand by and not do anything is completely wrong because we've added to this issue if we're going to talk about it. Okay, Palestine has the one of the oldest religions pretty much in the world at this point. They have, and the United States was a part of assisting in Israel taking and overtaking them.

They're they're colonizing them. That's what's happening, similar to what happened in this country when you've talked about the Cristopher Columbus and everybody else that came over this America was colonized. So the US assisted in Israel colonizing Palestine, and now we're seeing a new blow up because of it. So for us to sit back and be idle and not

do anything I think is real see irresponsible. And then once we gave you your places, we're like, well, we need to move you again, So now we're taking land back from me that we had given you. So how do you feel as a Palestinian when this continues to happen time and time again, and every policy seems to favor Israel and keep a certain group continuously oppressed. All we're doing is assisting in colonizing them. And so for us not to send any assistance and not to do anything,

I think is absolutely irresponsible and wrong. Palestine, they had their place in the world and they keep being pushed. You have people being murdered, you have children being murdered, and Israel is a percent wrong. Bottom line, that's my feelings. What you get see, I'm not an expert on this either. I've done my own research. Um, I have dyslexia, so it's it's hard for me to read. But I picked up the audio book that Jimmy Carter. Okay, he called

this apartime. It was he called this apartheid when this was taboo and he got canceled for it, but he's still I've always agreed with Jimmy carter stance on this. And the thing about it is we are their biggest ally, we are the one that is advocating for them in the u N. We are letting them have carte blanch on everything that they want to do and flaim. You're right, like, we have to fix our own stuff. It's it's really hard for us as as a country to condemn another

country for doing something that we're already doing. And my biggest point that I really want to make is killing of anyone is barbaric and it has to stop period. Like yeah, I mean and for me, you know what, I opened up this kind of worms earlier. All I was bringing up was the fact that John ass Off and twenty eight other senators actually stood up and said, you know, we want to cease fire. And for me, that's kind of like, you know, the bare minimum. But

it it's a big deal. It's a very big deal for senators to actually stand up and speak out against the Israeli stating what they're doing to the Palestinian people. And for me, this isn't about religion at all. Like you can look at it from that side, but it's really not. It's about politics. I have a lot of Jewish friends, I have a lot of Palestinian friends. It

doesn't matter. Killing is wrong and that's all it needs to Like, if we just stick to that point, that's all that matters, because all of the other arguments fall apart, So we just have Jericho just entered the chat. Welcome Jericho, Thank you so much for coming in. So I'm sure you've been listening. I've we've seen you guys, we've seen your comments. Rather, so please give us your insight to this.

What do you think? So I want to thank you first for allowing me to join your feed, because oftentimes we are talked about, but we're not included in the conversations. Um and so I have to push back very hard about this religious argument because Palestinians are not a religious identity.

We are an ethnic identity, right, And so before Israel was created in ninety eight, we had Palestinian Christians, we had Palestinian Jews, we had Palestinian Drews, we had we had Christian Palestinian Muslims, and we we co existed, right. It was the epicenter of the Middle East where we were all able to get along. We shared the culture, we shared similar languages. We had our own internal conflict internally, like the Muslims had their own issues and the dudes

had their own issues. But that was internal right, and so the religious the religious idea is completely debond. This is not a religious conflict, it's an ethnic conflict. The second UH point is about the historical piece. Right to say that your ancestors lived here two thousand years ago and somehow you have a right to be here. Um, you know, I think that connects with UH. With the UH. So, first of all, I'll make two points around the historical piece.

The first piece is around UH. If you look at the history of the landscape, you will see that it has been dominated by so many different people and different powers. So to claim that one group has exclusive authority and exclusive rights to this land. You have um Romans, and you have Egyptians, and you have um uh Arabs and Greek and Persians, Babylonians. I mean, there is a laundry

list of people who have inhabited this land. So to clean that one group from the past has a right to come in and to and to claim exclusive authority and power is absolutely abhorrent. And so I want to move now. If if the religious argument is not going to work, and the historical argument doesn't work either, because there have been so many people in having the land, then the next question is is a moral question. And so as an indigenous people, people don't like to consider

us indigenous people. We are indigenous people. We've been on the land for hundreds of years, were descendants of Canaanites two thousand BC. So so even the historical argument doesn't work for them. But but my point here is that it's about erasure. It's not about religion, it's not about the history. It's about erasure. Uh. What sparked this, Like the reason why the world is on fire right now, the reason why the Millie stun fires because of a video that went viral and I want to show you

the video if you give me a chance. I know I've been talking a lot, but we don't get hurt. UM. I want to show you this video why we are here. Thank you, Westen. We hear you come on with the video. Listen. I thought you were a troll for a long time, Jericho.

I never thought you was real. But now I see you and you're talking because you've been following me for a while and so you never came on last So I was exciting when you said you want to come home and that you're Palestinian, which is how we have this conversation about talking to somebody that can relate way more than any of us because you are part of that group. Thank you, and I want to. I want to. I also want to respond to your your comment about

UM and I'm not a troll. I love you. I don't agree with you always, but I still you know, I still like you. So but I want to show you this video of how this like. The reason why there's a option right now, the reason why there is a volcano is because of this video. It went viral. I'm gonna show it to you and I want you to tell me how you feel about it. This is yes, but if I call you don't go back. But you are no. No. So this guy from New York City

is Jewish. Uh came to this neighborhood che in Jerusalem and basically they're taking over. And the reason why this spark sparked a nerve for Palestinians is because in ninety eight when Israel was created, five hundred villages were just we were decimated, right, and so our people had to flee. If you look at the refugee population, we have over five million refugees in Lebanon, in Jordas, in Egypt, around the world, and so that moment in history was recaptured again.

It's recaptured every day. The reason why this is not about religion and it's not about history is because there is so much vacant land on this fucking landscape. Why do you have to go to someone's house and kick them out. You can build your own house. These people have built their own homes. Build your own fucking homes. If you if you really care about coexistence and you really care about people coming together, then build your own home.

Why are you dispossessing people? Right? It's about erasure. We want to erase us from the landscape and so. And the reason why we know this is because they the villagers they take over, they renamed them in Hebrew. They're Arabic, we rename them in Hebrew. The food, the food is also reappropriated into Jewish names um, couscous and homeless and all these these are Arab foods. They're the loving team sort of. It's not even like a Rocky food or

Kuwaiti food. It's what the Levan team Lebanon, Palestine, Syria. So there is a there is a systematic system of erasure. And the reason why this is connected to black people, particularly black people and Apartheidean in America, is because we find we pay three point eight billion dollars, that's ten million dollars a day to make Israel what it is today. Right,

we have an apartheid system. Into our fed up And the last thing I'm gonna say is that when we put out a call and said that we want to mimic the the anti apartheid South African movement, we want to boycott Israel, we created a movement. If you it's called b d S. If you google it, you learn about it. It's has exploded. I mean far before today it was, it was launched in two thousand five. It has exploded around the world and in the in the US today, they are creating laws to dismantle the movement.

They're creating laws to criminalize people who boycott. So when we create a nonviolent movement that criminals and were ostracized and excluded, and so then when we respond to our flints with with violence, where where do we learn the violence from? I mean it's the same. There are so many parallels to to to black Americans and indigenous people around the world and in the America's that it's just it's it's devastating, right, and and are the heart of

our I mean we talked about responding with militancy. Not all Palestinians, I mean the majority of Palestinians do not respond with militancy to to the apartheid system that we live in, right, And so there is a militant group they do respond because they're living in a cage there there they're ready to explode, right, and so are the center of our movement is no system peace if you can't sleep, but if we can't sleep at night, you

can't sleep either. I like that one. Jered, I want to ask you a question before you go any you do you agree with Joe Biden pulling the troops out of it? No, I'm done, But do you agree with your Biden pulling the troops out of the middle ease? You know? Um, Joe Biden is he's he was, He's just really disappointing. Um when it comes to this matter, And it's not just a Joe Biden thing, it's I think pulling the troops out. Is this a symbolic move? Um?

They don't need troops there anyways, I mean, and so I think it's just was this a decision? Uh, it's a symbolic move to say, look, I'm I'm we're not complicit here, but we pay for this. And and diplomatically and politically, I mean, the u N recently if you if you google it, you'll the you N the Security Council proposed a resolution for US sees fire and the US locked it. The US does not want peace. Do

you ask, can't have peace? And and if you ask why, countries like Australia and France and the US, all these countries, um, white supremacists, settler, colonial countries support Israel because in South Africa, Israel supported South Africa the apartheid system in South Africa. That was Israel. Israel supported apartheid South Africa. So let's talk about white supremacy, right and settler colonialism and let's

have a real honest conversation. Um uh. And so anyways, the point is that like it's not just financial, it's also diplomatic. Um, when it comes to the U N when it when it comes to our politicians. LGBTQ politicians are are hostile against Palestinians. Uh, even black and brown politicians are hostile. I mean there have been some really uh excellent like Corey Bush Rashida lay aoc um jamal

uh bowen. Uh, there have been some really excellent politics, like there is a movement happening, but um, we have a long way to go, Jericho. Can I just tell you thank you so much for coming on and sharing that information with us. This is stuff that we would have never known had you not been who was a part of it, that that whole experience telling us that's what laugh and learned is about. Thank you so much, And now I know you're not in trouble and you cue,

and we do want to thank as well. I just want to say one last thing before y'all have me off. Let's just call this what it is. It's ethnic cleansing that the Israeli government is trying to do the Palestinian people. They're trying to erase their history and that's and like I said, it just boils down to one simple fact. Killing of anyone is barbaric. We are in the twenty first century. We shouldn't be allowing anyone to be getting killed. This.

This is government sanctioned murder and it to stop. And it's the same thing going on here with the Black Lives Matter movement, the same thing applies. Well, thank you guys. Y'all just opened it up for our next time ject. Thank you Jerichos, Thank you invest because we're talking about killing people and the next subject Lauren brought to us today from South Carolina. Right, yeah, come on with, Lauren, Come on with. I was like, well, that was a

hard work kid. Well before we move on, though, I do this is the last thing I want to say on this topic is I think that the main point that should be made about one saying that this is not something that the U S should be involved. And like I said, initially, the US perpetuated what's happening now, so I think that there's a responsibility for them to do something. But to Jericho's point, though, the US doesn't want to get involved too much, because then we have

to acknowledge the colonization that's also happened here. We have to talk about slavery. We also have to talk about how blacks are being ered. I don't think we have to address that here, no what we do, because unless that's addressed, they can't actually take a proper stance of what's happening when we ever done that. But to your point, what you're saying, but can you that would be that would require a level of awareness that I don't think

this country genuinely wants. And I think that, and I'm I would even argue there's some of us who don't know whatever, Like, wait a minute, if I really have to start taking responsibility, hold, I'm not. I kind of like my government assistance. So I think there are a number of things that are purposely designed to keep us

trapped in a system. I genuinely believe that, and I know that that's an uncomfortable area for some because I do believe that we live in a system, Lauren, that has been created to keep certain demographics in a situation of perpetual need. And I genuinely believe that they also say, Oh, then I can also count on their vote because as long as I keep kicking them another stimula or whatever that thing is, uh, if I continue to offer assistance for this to any other the problem with the United

States not stepping in. Now, United States has always operated as the world's police. Should that change? Absolutely? Should you worry about sweeping your own from port before you sweep somebody else's. Absolutely, It's just not the way we operate. So in a word, in a word, what Nick just said is that the US is kind of like fix in my life. They start some ship and then they leave. That's what they started some ship and then they leave. Yes, but it's also too of not addressing our own ships.

That's the here and then that that's why they over there trying to fix somebody else because they don't want to fix the ship. Right. We Europeans started the issue here with the indigenous folks. If we're gonna, you know, take it back there. But I'm just saying we have to address what's happening. Unless we address this is reel and what's happening in Palestine cannot be properly handled. And that's why we're not talking about a ceasefire. That's why

we don't want to do this. We're like, it's all of that because we're colonized country too. At the end of the day, I really appreciate best per saying that nobody should be killing nobody and speaking of that, Laurend, what happened today, girl, Yes, So we talked about this earlier. So South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has signed a bill into law that forces death row inmates for now to choose between how they want to be executed, either by electric chair or by a firing squad, so the state

can restart execution after involuntary tenure pause. So this is coming back after being on a hiatus for about ten years. So South Carolina had been one of the most prolific states of its size and putting inmates to death, but a lack of lethal injection drugs has brought executions to a halt. So McMasters signed the bill on Friday with no ceremony or fanfare. According to the States legislature. Um. It's the first bill that the governor decided to address

after after nearly fifty UM hit his desk this past Thursday. Lauren, you know what I feel like I'm embodying you on this one. This is so not about the firing squad or the electric chair. Let's talk about the fact that this eight enjoys putting people to death. Let's talk about the fact that we have a state and a governor where with little fanfare, he didn't need any fanfare. Where

was he going to get the pushback? Right? How about we know for a fact, through the Innocence Project, that many who are convicted are not necessarily guilty of those crimes, or at the very least deserve the opportunity for reasonable doubt to be entered into that conviction. If all things once again being legal, being equal, with their representation, with their opportunity to examine evidence, we know for a fact that there are a number of people who are wrongly executed.

So now to shift that focus, because we're not saying we're going to change possibly the policies that have incarcerated many of these people, primarily of color or at the very least low economic status, fair. Um, we're not saying we're gonna You know what, since we have a backlog where we don't have the injection material that we need for lethal injection, why don't we use that money to look at some of these people who have been convi and who may be sitting here on death row. No, Nick,

we're not going to do that. We want to kick back up these executions. So what would you rather, Mr Parker? Would you rather get the electric chair or would you rather have a bullet to the head. You're gonna shoot me. I needed to be over with quick, all the electric chairs shaking and ship and then they let me tell you what, maybe turn against the electric chair. Let me

just be honest with y'all. This is laughing learned fucking watching The Green Man when a man forgot to with the sponge and I like that down with the mouse and he didn't with the sponge, and baby all the puke and the smith on the blow my brains out. Just get it over with you, boom, I'm done. That's not the point. The point is if I have to have a choice, and I'm on death row, and I get a choice, which I would like to have firing squad or either the electric chair blow my brains out.

I think the moral I know exactly what it is. Sure, no, I understand that. I mean, I've got to know if you have to be executed, how you would like to go. So everybody take no, just and get you know, anything happens, but it I think to even what Nick was saying is that there's just so many examples of specifically black men that have been on death row and they've been falsely accused and they're being executed. We just got we just finished talking to Jericho about you know, ethnic erasure.

This is just another form of this. I know you were trying to make it funny that we got to emphasize the point then we can make that was a reason you got this job, get your daughter. But I'm just saying is that this is just another form of ethan ratier what we were just talking about in terms of, you know, we couldn't put all of these you know, black people to death, so how can we you know, kick back up, you know, making sure that we're still

executing people. So oh yeah, we can electrocute you, or you can be you don't hit by a firing squad and you'll get to choose coming back. I don't want to be talking. You know, there was. If you think about it, it's kind of up like I'm choosing how I want to die. I don't want to die not Yeah, I got some ship to do. I mean, if we go back in time, the youngest boy to ever be executed in Alabama was fourteen years old. It just came out two years that he was innocent. He was a

young black boy. I saw another article two days ago about a man who was executed I think actually in Arkansas four years ago. He turns out he was innocent as well. So this is more of the story. It's no different from when we talk about, you know, Mitch McConnell lining up the local circuit courts with all of these lifetime appointments of judges to keep all these black and brown bodies in jail. It's all a part of absolutely,

regardless of one's politics. If we can agree that not everyone has been given a fair trial, which I believe everyone is entitled to, if we can agree that everyone is not always given a fair trial, and that it is possible that someone who has been convicted of a capital crime and maybe sitting on death row may not have received a fair trial, then I think it's not unreasonable to say that we need to do everything that

we can to re examine that case inside out. If we can spend the money and resources to how people we can find money for different programs, at the very least, the sanctity of human life should be paramount. It should absolutely be something that we respect to say we've got this right. If we are a society that has decided through our own judicial system, through laws, through the passage of bills, that you know what, I live in a state where I actually support the death conalty. Okay, got it.

If that's indeed the case, that we need to make sure we also exercise the responsibility of having done it right. Well. More importantly, the people that should be getting executed, I can get executed because was still alive right last out on bail, right last time I checked. He should be

in office. He should be so. More importantly, the people that should be getting executed, they're still alive and kicking in those This is a very personal question you don't have to answer to y'all want to do you'll believe in death? I do? I think it applies. Yeah, I'm sorry,

I just do. Yeah, he needs to be or he she whoever needs to be executed, he or she girl not mind you, there are something who do what she we just talk you know has Let me tell you what what what makes me think that the death penalty

is appropriate in certain instances? Yeah, in certain instances. Molesting a kid, all that, and consistently child molestation, um brutal ship just just that you don't even want to think of, and I don't even want to mention it by name, but things that you know about the the guy who killed his wife and the kids, like he could just left her, you know what I'm talking about, the one and he did that interview on TV talking about, oh, somebody just helped me find my wife. You know where

she was when you dumped in the silo? You can't, and the kids I can, and I'm going left. I can understand leaving her. I get that people break up all the time, but I will never understand her. And they're about to give him another try. I don't get that he killed his wife with two of them when you don't know one wife. But she was, she was pregnant, So that's saying people. And now they're giving him another trick.

This thing ain't on death ro y'all should get this nigga the choice of a firing squad or either a electric ship. I said, get that niggat of gas. I want to see him turning yellow. California, California got the California won't put them, won't kill. We don't have Gavin newsom player. You know I still support you. Call me you steal my gover because I ain't voting for that picking of Gavin. I have to say that minute before we do that, before we go to Gavin, who I like.

That's about that other nigga who trying to replace Gavin. The other nigga is Bruce k not nowhere even close. I just I just have to I just have to say, that's not even to go into the Gavin thing now, but as we talked about this in California, I have to let it every right now. I posted the commercial on my Instagram page. There is literally a guy for governor California. Those of you who don't live in the state, I'm sitting there watching this commercial. He's walking with a bear.

I'm not making this out only in California, where you talking about Florida's crazy. His name is Cox and they call him the angriest Beast, the angriest nice beast. It's ridiculous.

But he's walking with a bear, and the bear. Get this is sad after the bears actually has equity points because when when the rest of us fight for representation and to make equity here called this bear walking around with with an agent and every California saying publically and I'm saying that on this day, don't be surprised if you're here within the next year to him and the bear is fucking I see it, I see it, I see baby. Let me tell you something. They've got some

weirdos out here. Baby. If we're gonna do California, let's do it. Baby. If you hear that him in the bed and get married, remember that you heard it here first first Mr and Mrs Business. Let's bring in a got heavy with that, definitely. I had to come back. We're about to circle back and think about if you've got some of our favorites coming in right now, are available? Oh, I want to hear them something. Nick, you didn't say how you felt about the death penalty, though I don't

know that I'm for it. But wait a minute, let me give you so if and I know you know everybody don't hear who watch you know how much you adore your mom, if somebody did something horrific to your mom, would you want that person to That's a great question. Would you want to be a vigilante? Yeah? The truth is I think I tried to think what she wants. You know what I'm saying there. Like my mother, my mother does believe in the power of prayer, like she

believes God can save everybody, don't. And I know, but my mother genuinely believes that, um, prayer changes things. Not that I don't, but I think her faith is a more fervent than my own. Right, Um, so she can understand that you want to pray with those who may have harmed you. I would rather, you know, I'd rather flip the switch. Shit. I think that's what they should personally start doing too. If you hurt my family and you, you don't need to hire a guard in them. Just

call baby. I flip it when I flicked it too soon? Okay, but I got him, know right the life you say, right? Shock the sh out you? Yeah, Hey, Cassie, you can see them. Hi, y'all, Hi, Cassie, were you were in We were just were having a moment, right, So what are your thoughts? I say, if it's a whole card, cold heart fact that you murder somebody, you need to be murdered. Why do I got to pay my taxes to support you forty five years because you because you're

awn life sentence. Dylan Ruth killed those people, so he should be taken out. Wait, now that's a great point. After praying in a black church, those people praying for this nigga and then he killed them. So exactly what you just said about your mom saying the power. I do believe that the power of prayer works. It didn't work that day, and then here we go. There were people in that group whose family members said and said, you know what, I'm praying for him because that's what

they would have wanted those that they lost. That makes sense. Like so, and I don't know where the line should be. I don't know if it should be about what I'm feeling or if you really want to respect the wishes of that person and who they walked and how they walked in faith? What does that mean? F T f TS flip the switch forget this stuff. Stuff. I don't.

I don't think that's right. I understand being on death row, being on death row, or being life imprisonment, but we pay taxes and it costs a lot of money to keep people in jail for life. If it's a hard called fact, like dealing route you went and murdered than people, then we you should we should take your life Pitt period. Hey Mark, Hey guys, sorry, I don't know why it wasn't working. Are you here now? It's okay? What are

your thoughts? I don't think I'm totally against the death penalty. Um, if anyone thinks that it's, yes, I get the tax dollar point, but people will stay on death row. Some people die on death row. So really, if you look at the analytics of that, I don't know that we're gonna save money from it. Um. I think a true punishment is living your life in a cage and getting

your ass beat every day, honestly, you know. But I do think that it's too risky putting we are not We shouldn't be allowed to make the decision of someone's when someone's life ends, and there are too many times where innocent people die. As I said earlier in the comments, the Innocence Project is something that we have said once we die, like we would love all of our wealth to go to them because we don't have kids or anything. Right, So I just I can't stand with the death penalty

and I think it should be a ballus mark. You know, you just say that we don't have the choice to take somebody's life. Did that did the murderer? Did the murderer? Did the murderer have a choice? And the consequence that they will have is m yes or no? Did the murderer have a choice on whether they was going to kill somebody innocent? They didn't have the choice, but they did it. They but did they have a choice? Yes or no? Yes? Then then ftsli the switch. And I

think the other thing too. A part of this is that it's not a I mean, I understand Cassie's point too, even about the tax dollars though, but I think it's also the sentiment of the family. You made this decision to take my loved one, even if it's not a loved one. All everybody's body matters at the end of the day. We're all human beings. But you made if from a family standpoint, you chose to take my loved

one because of whatever your rationale was. UM, I should also have the opportunity to say if your life should be taken as well. I just think that's a fair eye for an eye, and then to pick back off of that, just to follow that logic, let's just even say if it's someone who may be indigenous and does not have UM A family, they still deserve to have that same protection. Absolutely absolutely. But I have a let

me tell you my story though. I have a family member whose husband took her life, choked her to death, and buried her up in the woods, and he's still on he's still serving. So every five or ten years, my aunt has to go before the parole board to say, no, he doesn't deserve to get out. Why we have to keep reliving it over and over the trauma? If they would just kill him because he murdered her in playing clothes blood, I mean, you know he murdered her in

Washington state where you live. Yes, Yes, that's why I left Washington State. Y'all got way too many cereal killers, and there's too many places to be everybody, too many places in Washington. It's so much greenery, Baby get loved and the Black Bears, between the Black Bears and crazy Oh Baby, I had to come up out. I gotta I gotta agree with you on that one. When I when I went to Atlanta to go live for a couple of years, my mom was like, we looked out

the window. She said, Oh, that's a lot of places to bury somebody. Yeah, that's that's what I'm talking about. With the death with with death penalty or life on life in prison. Every ten years or so, she goes back and she goes before the board, No, he should not be released. I think that's a bad judge though, because why would you give someone if it's clear I'm sorry, not everyone deserves the right to parole. So the fact that that's even an option and within itself is a problem.

But again, I think with the innocent people who get put to death, and then the fact that, in my opinion, living out that reality that you killed someone, that you're serving your life in prison, oftentimes you're you're getting your ass beat depending on your crime. To me, that's a worst sentence is one person you're not in You're not

around a bunch of people. And here's the thing. So that story what you just said, Cassie reads personal with me because Fantasia, who has shared this story publicly, he had her had her throat cut. Fontation almost died. She still has the very prevalent cut across her throat. The guy in ten years. She had to go and the judge let him out of jail, partially, I believe because she was transgender, and I'm saying this publicly, partially because

she was a transgender woman. He cut her throat. Fantasia almost died. She talks about this story, and they let that Nia. She had to go to court, and she went and she threw herself in the mercy of the course. She told her story. She cried, They still let that nick outa jail. He walking around free right now? What if he decided that he wanted to do it again? She lived close enough to me. If the nigga watching you don't want to do that while I'm this close,

I promise you you don't because I wasn't at a house. Okay, so wait a minutelet's go back to their original. Which one would you guys prefer if you had, if you guys were on death row, would you prefer firing spot or all my brain, give me the give me the no, no no, no, that's not what's the firing squad or

electric chair? Just shoot me with the firing squad. You don't know if you have the loaded gun and not, because what they do is load un eight or nine people and only one person has a bullet, so they don't have to carry that. They don't have to carry the gifts. So you never know who killed the rest of my all blanks, so you never know whether you kill somebody. But we're all aiming at Mark's forehead. We just don't know which one of us is the one with with with Marks Why, well, I don't I don't

see Mark wanting the electric chair. Electric chair is a less glamorous way to go. Plus Mark like showing off his booty, so you know he wants to say it as opposed to city, The injection is not peaceful. The injection is a horrible way to die. I heard that. I heard that. You are literally like almost suffocating to that, Like, you know, it's not it's not like they're putting you extra dose and anesthesia and good night seeing you know, sheep in the clouds. That's not how it is. Watch me,

watch me to be messy. The injection is kind of like the second dose of the Fighter or the Bernernas. We don't want to get sus stay wrong, but you will not rest until you guys. The last thing I want to bring up because I thought this was funny and we kind of laughed about it earlier. US airlines may start waiting passengers at the gate. Yours airlines may need to start weighing passengers in order to comply with

f a A rules for safety reasons. Carriers have been carrying too much weight and they've had to adjust either fuel or baggage requirements. That's not fair because after the pandemic, we already got a waiting and unfortunately, some passengers believe it or not need two belts to sit in passenger seats, but they're only paying for one ticket. Well, I'll just say this, if you know you are a larger person, you should absolutely buy two seats. That is just the

courtious thing to do, especially with COVID going on. I have I have been on a plane where there has been a bigger person in the middle seat and I'm looking at them like, you know, damn well, you should not be sitting in the middle seat. You need aisle. So I don't agree. You can't wait me. That's my personal business. That's just so we're clear. Other other countries already way passengers, Uh, Netherlands, you better stand, uh, China,

And well what's the weight requirement though? The weight requirements that you can comfortably sit in the seat, so if you are spilling over, Yeah, that's not a weight requirement though, because some people are tall and their height their weight in the height. Like she's not a big girl, but she's a tall person, so there's more weight in her. That's not fair. That ain't fair. But I'm until y'all start talking about that. The US Airlines is fat shaming.

There is no such thing. It's fat shaming. Let's go back and reads that shame. Fat shaming is a process. It takes time to get it off. It takes time to put it off. If we make more sense to me, if they said we got to measure your waist side and if you're over there, if you can't, you can't fit the bell, Yeah, yeah, that makes more sense. You can't wait. But they've got to stop putting big people in the middle. I wi you on because you all over my side and ship. I can't even think spilling

with your arms this way. So you just Laura, I'm just saying, we can't excuse me. I am not wide, I am not wide. I am tall is tall? Don't do that to me. Words have energy that's almost slapped Early's hostility. Look at me in this seat. I'm I'm wadding this seat. Nick's wide across the air. So imagine us, no serious, but imagine us especially like let's just say, for instance, Southware sailines. I'm not putting nobody on Blad very standard. Now, we didn't even talk about Spirit because

bitch the baby seat. You know, I think Southwest is better than Delta dripping. You've been, you've been in a cheap seat. I find Delta comfort. You ain't rolled delft up in the front. Delta is the worst. Let's be very clear. Oh no, absolutely, United is the only one. Let me be very united. Is the only one has a normal legroom for normal people. You haven't one in the nice Delta planes. You haven't because there aren't any. That's just it Delta Delta comfort. And that is like

hold on the Music Express. The Music Express by Nicholas, do not reflect those for this episode. No, because have you been on the Delta planes where the first class turns into beds. You've been the pods that open and closed international plant. To be clear, I usually only fly Delta internationally. Let me just say that because they just upgraded their planes and are very nice, and I will say this Delta comfort is. You do not want the mistake of possibly being rebooked on the flight and not

having your Delta comfort. That's when you will pay the price being a person who's larger. Well, yeah, yeah, absolutely. My legs are like Southwest I have found for the most part, Southwest is flying bus. They don't try to be anything. But I'm not gonna do. Southwas like the bus is spirit. First of all, Spirit will break your spirit. Understand the spirit is a tramp like. Spirit don't want to give you a seat. You're gonna be having an accidents though real talk, they don't be having accidents. I

didn't hear that they've had several accidents. Spirit is one to make you share the seatbelt. They're like, we got one. Jun told me that they would trying to get people to stand in the in the in the in the words of the Bible, the Spirits Spirit over I got. I love you guys so much joining us today for laughing learning, but up when I tell you that the flamemt y'all trammed in today and gave us Jericho, Oh my god, thank you Vesper or Cassie, who else came?

Alison started off the ball road. We thank you guys so much because this show would not be this show without you guys transferring this information to us. Spirited Section Nate Baby Spirit Spirited Section seven and a half. Thank you guys so much for the information. And here we have a model that we tell you each and every week, and the model is wasn't it. We are not trying to get anybody to change their mind. We're simply trying to get you guys to use your mind, because why

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