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We're gonna last, cutting the kicking, and at the end we leave it with just a lift dispirite like you want to revisit, so your first like a listen jill, folks like it's lit all folks that we take it. Do what you do. Do what you do, helpis do what I do. Hey, welcome to laugh and learn, ladies and gem I'm your host, Flaming Roe, along with my gorgeous co host, Lauren Hogan. Hi Lauren Hogan, Hi flam Monroe. How are you? Y'all? Can't see aaron? That's our produced

Slory Hogan. If I'm talking a little slow, we're taping a little late, and I'm feeling quite wonderful. Uh, Lauren, do you know what today? Yesterday is January sixteenth, but technically today is the national holiday the day that we celebrate the birth of the one and only father of the Civil Rights UH Party, Mr Dr mar Luther King. JI here, Yes, today is marm Luther King Jr. Day. Um, So we are celebrating and acknowledging Dr King and all

that he's done for black folks in this country. Um. And I myself actually went to the Kingdom Day parade in Los Angeles that goes all the way down Martin Luther King Boulevard about three miles. So I walked three whole miles today with plates. Girl, You're gonna be skinny. I'm trying to recognized that the King, Dr King, I love. I love Dr King, I loved all the Doctor King still foe with the exception of the non violence because if you put your hands on mother father school, that

reminds me. Have you seen the new statue that was erected in Boston. I can't make that what it is. Lord, I have seen it, but I keep seeing it from weird angles, so I'm not sure it looked like. Girl, I can't make out what it is. It's their arms, so it's like Coretta's arms and then m Martin Luther King's arms. Because did you see the photo that was inspiration. Like basically, he just took their arms out of their embracing photo. And that's what the scope Okay, because all

the angles, I say, reaches up. I'm like, well, girl, what is it? Yes, a lot of people were kind of saying the same thing, like, well what is it? So people were saying, why don't we just erect the full picture instead of just the arms? People were confused. But you know, art is an interpretation of the mirine, I guess, so it may be interpretation, man, but I needed a better picture because I couldn't hear what the hell was going on. I don't know what it was.

And it's in Philadelphia, right, it's in Boston, Okay. It's like if you look at it from the right angle, you can like tell that it's Corretta's arms because she has her ring on her finger and everything. But yeah, it's very abstract. Its abstract. Art coredit what that ring with pride? And I just want to say jokingly, I don't supposed to say it today, but since y'all gonna hear this to tomorrow, out of respect for King On on his day, I don't want to say it. But

since y're gonna here to mom, gonna say it. Dr King's motto was we shall overcome? Or wasn't we shall come over? Because rumor hasn't He made a lot of house of it in here. Nothing to do with civil rights. We all know that Dr King was a bit of

a rolling stone. He personally. I want to say, I think that j Evergan Hooper was the first personal perpet because I think he was beating off to listen to all those King takes, because they say King was putting it down from state to state, But who couldn't stop listening to him talk something? He was using them for black mail? Was he using them for black mail? Or was it only fans long before y'all do about it? Oh? I said, yes, I did. You were in rare form tonight? Alright?

I told you, Aaron, let me way too long? You just sleeing. Well, I'm back to the more sentimental side of the day. So, um, yes, we do want to acknowledge Dr King and all that he did for society. Um. One thing I will say that I think that's so interesting is that the things that he was advocating for, you know, in the fifties and the sixties are still relevant today, which is kind of crazy to still think

almost fifty years later. It almost feels like we're stuck in a bit of a time warp um, but it's we're still advocating for the same things that he was. So sometimes it makes you look twice and be like, are we really moving forward? You know? So, and let

me get credit where credit is due. Shout out to this country for at least acknowledging this powerful black man that did that changed the labs of not only African American black people, but he changed the laves of lots of people because it was a lot of white and and other people that were part of the movement that just wanted fairness in this country and wanted to change. So shout out to him, all of them for that. Rest in peace, my Luther King who he was killed

April the fourth at the Lorraine Hotelmphis. Yes it was in Tennessee. He would have been ninety four. Was his birthday is actual birthday was yesterday, It's so he would have been ninety four years old. Shout out to all the brilliant Capricorns, starting with my son, yeah, and my nut the King and all. So we get back to the King because we want to do some King quotes and some King memories. At the end of the show. We got way too much other stuff to jump into.

Let's jump into this girl. Last night they had another Awards show. Oh my god, they did have another Awards show, and black magic and Black Excellence was definitely prevalent. Um Shirley, Ralph Jue, Nissy Nash One, Quincy quentincon Brunson one and Abbott Elementary one too, So a lot of black folks got a lot of recognition. Um. And I love the

speeches too, didn't you. I love the speeches. I must tell you, Loren, You're not get on you all the time about your black but I must tell you that your girl, Angie, But I'm sorry, our girl, Angie Bassett set the room last night, and that black count to me girl when she came out. When she came out to present the award and I could get the full owned gown, I was like, okay, miss, and don't don't play with these. Help us, okay, miss, and you don't play with And she won as well too. I think

everybody that was dressed in black last night. I'm rooting for everybody black as in Easter, rate would say, because they all look fabulous. Janellemunde, j Ellis, every Quinta, everybody that wore black, everybody's black dressers were lovely. But I will acknowledge I did like Sherill and her gold dress. I love the cutter that dress. But NISI nash to me, somebody took a paintbrush and put that dress off her. Oh my god, she looked incredible. Yeah, her body was

definitely sickening. It was like it was giving what it was supposed to. I say, I know Jessica had a good time last night taking her up out of that gown. Baby, that's her, her husband hers her. Yes, So I'm glad that. You know, even though they didn't win as many awards at the Golden Globes, they got their record mission um in another you know, in another way. So congratulations. Want to shout out Viola Davis. Viola Davis is still my favorite right now, and I'm telling you, but she lost

to my other favorite, which is Kate Blanchet. So I can't be angry about Hallo. And I love that Kate acknowledge not only all the ladies that she was up against in the category, but all the great brilliant actresses and actors that was in the room, and she was like, Kate is so Kate is like a British hood. Oh she's so fun and she cusses and everything. Oh my god, I love her. But she is a brilliant acts That lady can do anything, just like I have Viola. They

can do anything. I will say like I and I could be wrong, but I don't know if Woman King has won any of the larger you know awards yet. So I'm waiting on the Oscar. That's all I'm gonna say, because I needed to get its recognition because it was a hell of a movie that they did. It was like for them to get that and hopefully well, and I know they nominated for a bunch of end Up Lacey p Awards which is also coming up, and I want us to be recognized by us, So I hope

they do a big sweep over there. But it's a whole bunch of Peach people. I want to do a sweep over there. P Valley. Good God, the writing on that show was just unbelievable. So we'll see. But who hosted? Oh Chelsea Handler host Now she did change gowns a couple of times. She won a couple of cocktail dresses. I like that. I didn't see her the full own show, but I went and watched the clip. I thought she was pretty good. I thought, well, compared to what I

seen last week, she was. She was remarkable. Are you coming shade? Is that shade that I hear? No, that was the truth. I didn't actually watch the show either, so I don't know how Chelsea did, but I just you know, I watched Chelsea lately, so I always think that Chelsea's gonna do a good job. She's funny, and she moved it along. She got it on through and everybody looked nice. It was pleasant, went off for no hiccups, So good hats off to the Critics Choice Awards. What's next?

What's the next one coming up? Um? We got the Grand Means that are coming up, and Double A CP Image Awards are coming up. You know, it's awards season, so I think we've got until about March. We probably got at least I think like four to six more awards shows that are going to be happening. I'm very interesting to see who's hostingp Awards. But we'll we'll see I might even get an inbody who knows Auntie who? Where we where we're going? Where we're going? We have

to talk about COVID. Oh wait a minute long. We didn't acknowledge the winner of Best Movie of the Year. So now it makes me want to see that movie. Clay had one Best Actress for Todd. I've seen Todd. It was intense. But that other movie, the Asian movie, isn't everything everywhere all that once? They wont be Oh yeah, I want to see it. Yeah, I haven't seen it either. I'm not as much of a movie watcher as I

should be. Um, I will admit that. So I'm gonna go back and see to your point, who's actually winning, because I can go watching those movies. But because I thought, like the Shape of Water made no sense to me, you know, they won big, So I'm always a little skeptical, but I'll go and watch them. Yeah, it makes you a question like what what what? What? What? What makes it the best? What you're looking for? Because I was

with you on that Shape of Water. I think I was a little I had a lovely too, so girl, and I tell you up that down in the theater, I don't know what the hell was exactly, so but anyway, we haven't we haven't talked about COVID. I don't think this entire season, but now we got to talk about COVID in this vaccine. So long story short, Maderna is

being very greedy on the money front. They are now charging people a hundred and thirty dollars to get a vaccine, but it only costs two dollars and eighty five cents to make. So the billions of dollars that they're gonna be making out, well, they've already made billions, let's just start there for developing the vaccine and getting their patent. But the amount of farm agreed is just a little

crazy gourd. That takes me back two two thousand and twenty early when you and I were on the Breakfast Club shout out to the Breakfast of Charlemagne and DJ Envy and uh you were talking about big farmer then, because when they you were talking about a cure for HIV and AIDS because your other job where you're a big big or hf AIDS health Care Foundation. If y'all for dolls who listen, don't know what those acronyms stand for Lord is still there and still a big wig there.

And you were talking about the money is in the treatment and not the cure, because I'm like, how are you going to charge poor people if if y'all don't want the world And this is just my crazy logic, how are you going if you want the world to survive and people to live, why would you charge a hundred and thirty year dollars, especially to poor people or people in a financial crisis, for something that costs less than three dollars to make. It's always about making the

rich people richer and the poor people poor. That's really what it is at the end of the and it's so sad, but that's why we have the economy that we have, in the societal glass that we have, because people don't want poor people to succeed. That's not the name of the game. It's let's make the rich people richer. You know. We see that in government, we see that in so many aspects of our society in life, and

it's no different when it comes to healthcare. It's the same thing that is so scary, good God, And is that just for the vaccine not the boosters that's just the vaccine. That's just the vaccine. So I don't even know what the charges because what number boosts we on right now, I can't remember. I've gotten to and I'm good. I'm good girl. If it's left up to them, it'd be six. A year, baby, it'd be five. We'll be at number five four. Yeah, but I mean I've told

you too. I don't even get flu shots because the last time I got a flu shot, I was twelve and I ended up with the stomach virus and I got the flu. You know, this food was really bad this year, so I got it. Now, but that's fifteen years later. I haven't had the flu, So that's a that's a ridiculous mark up. Though. That is they always want to talk about ponzi schemes who all doing illegal stuff that should be illegal, that should honestly be illegal, And it wouldn't be if we didn't know that it

costs two dollars and thirty eight cent or whatever. But since we do know, that should be illegal. But this is their country and they do what they want to do. Yeah, it's at the end of the day, they monopolize the market. They have the products, so they can attach whatever price type that they want to. It's really, it's really sad. I'm planning to make the real thing. Okay, I'm glad. I'm glad. Look who I got my two dollars and thirty eight. Yes, I do where we're going. So we

got to talk about our dear President Joe Biden. He's in a bit of a situation right now. Let me tell you something on behalf of Joe Biden. I'm gonna be very very honest. Girl. He forgot. Let's let's go with that. Yes, he just forgot. He for god. It's different with Trump. Trump was hides of ship. Biden's yes, forgot, you know, the nigga like two hundred and thirty seven years old. He forgot. I'm gonna go with that at this point because and I will say, there is grave differences.

We're not comparing Joe Biden to Trump. Yes, you know, flamemate a joke. But Joe Biden is cooperating with you know, um, the d O j anytime he found these documents, he called the National Archives. Trump didn't do that. You know, Trump's residents had to have FBI come in and get all the documents back because he didn't want to give

him up. There's grave differences, but it's still bad because it's giving the Republicans ammunition to of course create a conspiracy or a narrative that, you know, why was Trump, you know, being ridiculed and his house was rated. Is giving them a narrative to push, which is not good. So and plus there's a special counsel that's also been elected to investigate this case from Joe Biden, which is not a good thing either. That's the name of this episode, Errant.

He forgot He just I honestly believe that he really forgot long. I think he and now thinking an absent manded way, but I think because he didn't think that they were significant, and he was going on to be become the president and his son and he had so much other stuff going on. It was locked up in the garage with his corvette, just like he's saying now, I'm sure he ain't driving that corvette that often. You know,

he fell off the bike. Be damned if he's gonna be driving, he says, is locked up in his garage very safely, and that's where some of these documents were found. So that's what I'm saying it ain't like he pulled the corvette out on weekends to go driving. You see what happened on the body, Kale. So the papers are safe, like on the stairs up the plane um, on the

stairs up the way to the plane um. But also to uh, the GOP House Oversight chair also can't explain why, and all of a sudden they want to launch an investigation into this too, but he can't explain why he's doing that. So you know, the Republicans got the house back and are doing a lot of unexplainable things that really don't make any sense. But speaking speaking of unexplained about rumor looked like it looked like Kevin McCarthy's want to keep Santo's own. They ain't hold him because the

GPS want him out and want him off. They don't want him to have no power, They don't want him to be afforded any other luxury because he lied. I listened then, as much as I disagree with so many things that they have done, I completely agree with them out as he lied all the way. Well, it just keeps getting worse because not only did Santos lie like bringing news today was showing that his firm that he

had was a Ponzi scheme. So it just keeps getting worse, the revelations that are coming, you know, out behind Santos. So here's the real question, Lauren. It's his real name, George Santos. I don't believe nothing now at this point, I don't either. Because he said he went to UH school on a volleyball scholarship. He's had to knee replacements, not with that shape. It turns out he never went to this school. He There is no volleyball scholarship to

school that he was referring to. They don't even offer athletic scholarships. It was just really bad. I was watching the interviews today and people kept laughing at him. I was like, that's just embarrassing. Why, like, why do you have to Why are you compelled to lie that much? But what kind of nerves that he does? This man have that the whole world? Oh, well, let me go say that, because you know we got one of them too.

Oh I'm not gonna say his name, but empire. Oh anyway, Well I didn't say I didn't, I didn't say anything, So I don't. I don't know what's gonna happen with Mr Santos, but it just keeps getting worse by the day. I don't like that that the government not be Republican

on Democrat. This man is a clear blading out now lying and before you put him in a position to sit in a boardroom to hear so called secrets that you made at an ex president and a sitting president about old paper why would you allow the enemy to sit in something that's brent that's happening now when you know that he is lying to me, you see all of that. You're mad And I ain't defending Trump, but y'all mad at Trump about some old paperwork. You're mad

abiding about some old paperwork. But you're allowing somebody who lied to your face. You didn't count this man in a lie every day, But you're gonna allow him to sit and listen to the stuff that is happening now. How you know he won't turn on us and and put the more America and more America. Sometimes American saints real government saints real stupid. To me, I said, I was being nice, glowing day speaking of other things that the GOP is doing that's putting, you know, our economy

at risk. Let's talk about this whole debt ceiling crisis that we might be in. I heartened. How can y'all pay me before we go into recession? So, as of yesterday, UM House Republicans won't budge on demands for federal spending cuts in return for agreeing to lift the debt ceiling and avoid a US payment default, GOP representative James Comer said, as a federal government moved closer to breaching its statutory debt limit, lawmakers on Sunday mostly talked past each other.

Republicans renewed demands for cuts, and Democrats insisted that the government be allowed to honor commitments made by previous Congresses. So the Republicans, of course, who just gained control of the House in the US midterm election campaign on the fact that we were going to be serious about spending cuts. So the Republicans are basically just like, we need to cut spending and if we reach a debt ceiling, so be it. We don't care about the American people or

the economy. Well, when they when they raised a shot to say last from two dollars to thirty eight sent to a hundred and thirty dollars, they already said that without saying it, so oh, um, we'll see what happens. Um. But this is just it's interesting to me because I think about all of the American voters that voted for these Republicans to be in office, and everything that they're pushing for now is like nothing of what they ran on. So I wonder how they have to feel as an

American voter that you were swindled. You don't stop talking about West Virginia after they voted for Trump and he can't. You know, I told you didn't kick in. You know, I'm on Baby comedy. Uh what's the name of the show? The Daily Show. I hope y'all listening, baby, because I'm telling you I'm ready to sit there say. Um. I

think it's ridiculous. I think it, and I think that people in charge that the supposed that it signed up to service and help other people should be ashamed of themselves, should be damn ashamed of yourself that you have let money consume everything empower and I just but there is no shame. That's why Santos is still sitting the way.

There is no shame. There is no shame. There isn't at the end of the day, it's always about power, and it's really sad to say that these Republicans just don't care about the American people and the American people elected y'all. That's the crazy part. Uh, what are you eating? Is that cake? We're recording a show. I'm not eating.

But No, it's just really sad though at this point in time that we're like, I'm just nervous that we're gonna be on the brink of an economic crisis at this point, basically with the um the House being Republican led. I mean, luckily we still have a Democratic Senate, so a lot of their legislation that they may have passed in the House is it's gonna die because you know, the Senate is not gonna pass it. And then we also still have a democratic president. But it's just very concerning.

It's very concerning. M So people just have become cattle. People are like numbers. Everything is a number, number number. I think that's why I'm so against self checkout. No, I don't like talking to automated stuff. I want to talk to person. What is self checkout do to you? I love self check out or I hate stelf checkout A long Oh my god, I hate self checkout really because I hate looking at the vengeans and stuff, so I just still the people. Wait a minute, care what

you're honest about. It's okay, we've lost some things. I used to sell water out of war. I mean only want to look up bail peppers on you. I just want me to bag and slide them over to the side. Taking somebody's job. Speaking of taking somebody's job and self checkout, I know this, they're on the topic. I'm just throwing it out there anyway. So the testlas, I see they have lowered the price on teslas because they're not performed or they're not doing as well as they used to.

Because here in California, just this past weekend, a testla's stop. Remember my joke I always tell about, I don't want no card with no brains drive me, because if you get to a cliff and it can't make up with this man, I don't want to tail with all. Louise and the car just stopped in the middle of the freeway. Lauren and Nan car accident. It just decided didn't want it to stop, so it stopped right in the middle of traffic doing a freeway and nine cards here the

baby was injured, a lot of people injured. I'm not and I'm not bashing Tesla. I can't afford one right now in no way. But I don't want one because I can drive my own sale and Elon Musk also lost two hundred billion dollars in a day his Tesla stock plummeted to so I'm sure that's a contributing factor. But when I've written in Tesla's it feels like I'm in a spaceship. I don't feel grounded. I don't like feeling like that when I'm driving. So I'm not a

fan of Teslas either. But um, yeah, we're going towards automated cars and robots. I thought Elon Musk made a tweet about at the other day too, that the future is going to be robots or something like that. No, thank you, he already looked a little robody. I want me a flying car, though. That's gonna be even worse for air traffic control. You saw that the whole air uh what's it called, the f d A air traffic

control grid went down. Yeah, I saw that. Thirty and thirty years they neither updating and dad was a great segue into us talking about the horrible accident that happened over and where and the plane crashed and all seventy people that. Yeah, that's always like my biggest nightmare too, is just to be on a plane in the plane crash. Now, I guess nobody really knows what happened, but you know, pretty there were no survivors. So prayers go out to

all of those people's families who lost their lives. But it's just it's crazy that a plane just went down and nobody knows why, and they have the black they recovered the black box and they have video up. I know it's very graphic to watch though, you guys, uh, you're playing right before it went down, and then you can actually see some of the flames because somebody was actually recording, and I think they would lad recording it

went out. But that is scary. But it when we get to King, because one of my favorite quotes is from King is about death. Remind me to say that at the end because I might remember that. I don't remember the first part of this conversation right now anyway, what happened in the pole, Yeah, that's very tragic. Praying to all the paper families and people involved. But I'm asking you, Lauren, I think that I think that was

a dark area. I don't think that they were shot down, but I think that was a dark area, which is like no fly, it's very possible. My whole thing is nobody knows what happened that. That doesn't make sense to me because you have to get clearance to fly. So how do you not know what happened to a plane that it ended up crashing. Maybe the the system went down over there like it did over here, I guess, But that's just it's I got a lot of questions, so the math wasn't mathing for me. And to lose

seventy two people, that's just unacceptable. But well to say any too, Yeah, seventy two people lost their lives. Jesus, Jesus, Jesu. Money, money and power don't matter when you're up in the air. You ain't gotta control over machine. Machines. Machines make mistakes just like people. Yeah, people can apologize if your machine snatch your arm off, it's just snatched off. M And continuing with that, the war in Ukraine. You're still sending

prayers over to Ukraine. Um, they did an air mischel strike today and they killed I believe, over forty civilians at once. Um. They were saying that this is one of the more deadliest civilian attacks in Ukraine. UM. Putin, I don't I don't know what I have to say about him. He's his own countrymen have turned on him. There's people that were fleeing Russia because they didn't want to fight a pointless war just to you know, fuel his ego, and people keep dying unnecessarily. But I will

say everybody didn't know, not everybody. Nobody thought that Ukraine was gonna win. They're winning, So it's very tragic this is happening right now. And like I said, we're set in press to Ukraine. But they're winning and Putin is losing. That's because Zelinsky is a beast baby. I likes me. Some zelinscular tall, little, but it's tall self. I like me. He tall to look he about five five, but stall small in stature and mighty in his heart. He got a he does. He has the heart of a lion

because he's not he he fights for his country. I can't say that about some leaders that we have had had in the bunkers. So sure are some leaders that have done smilar things that Putin did. But Iraq o prayers to Irene, I mean to a Ukraine. I hope that that war is done with soon. So many people lost their lives and the situation had to leave that

country and start over either. And I think that's what really bothers me when it's older people and you get this, you displaced older people because as a seasoned person myself, when you're at your home, you and your compass on, you can you know, you can feel your way through the dark, whether you're old or you know, incapacitated or whatever. But they have removed a lot of those people out of their comfort zones. That's got to be disheartening. That's

got to be messed up. Yeah, and to be displaced too. To your point, it's its memories, you know, childhood. It's just it's a lot, you know, it's it's I've read somebody that Putin but they they they challenging his his mental stability. I want to see it correctly. I want to say something else, but I'm trying to be nice. Well, I think they tried to well. I think he just had an election a few years ago and it was for him to be president for front of the thirteen

years or something like that. So I don't know. I don't want to put anything negative out there, but I'm gonna just say somebody needs to do something. I know he's heavily guarded, but he's just he's problematic. He's very problematic for the country. Good old young woman like to turn him out, then he won't have time to be so angry. Well, you know, he was a part of the whole so A union regime, so he's very much a dictator, so dangerous, it's very dangerous. He needs him.

A young woman should turn him out. Uh uh. With the paperwork, with putting back to I mean back with Biden. Lord, I think it's just I think it's just they're trying to throw ashes on Biden's fire because nobody ain't doing a great job. But he's doing a pretty decent job. He coming through with some promises that he said he was going to do, and I think they're trying to make discourage him because next year, if he hasn't made

that he said that he was going to run. But if they can, if they can tarnish his record and put more blemishes on his record, it might make it harder for him to win if if, if, if, if in fact he's going to run or win. I'm just concerned because I think I see more negative media coverage for on Joe Biden on a daily basis at this point. Like he did a he was conducting a ceremony and he called Kamala Harris the president during the ceremony. He

looked at her and said myself and President Harris. So you know that kind of went viral on social media. But yeah, Joe Biden called commentary. He did not take those papers home on purpose. Girl, he forgot. So I'm just concerned if he reruns, if he's at at this point, because it's not looking good. And I don't think that Trump is gonna actually gonna end up being able to

rerun either. And I've said this before. The only way I really saw Joe Biden winning again is if Trump want if Trump ran, so I don't I don't know. You might need another Democratic nominee to make sure that we can hold onto the president's seat. I think how King Jeffrey's gonna be the new Golden Boy. I could see that, um, but I don't know if he would be willing to leave Congress to become president. Um, he may feel more effective being in Congress. So I like

to be the president for like a month. You're gonna get a lot of gray hair, and they're being got him und there everybody, everybody would get freestyle. Oh my god. Well you know that why Barack Obama said that Michelle would never be a good president because she said her mouth is a little too reckless. We're both from Chicago. I understand. Hats off to the first Lady Michelle Obama baby and President Barback Obama. But yes, we're both from Chicago.

Where we're going, Lauren, because we're almost done. We are. The last thing you wanted to talk about was Trump's tax fraud and how he's kind of just saying I'm not I didn't do it. I didn't do it. We touched on this, um a little bit throughout the week. Um, but my thing is this Trump's getting more and more indictments coming down the pipeline. I really want to wait and see what Miss Fannie Willis does in Atlanta. That's what I'm his organization get to find at one point

six million dollars for text fraud. But I'm sure he hasn't it, because they donated more than two million dollars towards to stop to steal in the fake campaign. And I'm talking to y'all who donated, ain't talking to nobody else with y'all. Well, now you know, he can't use those funds because he knew nothing about the tax fraud. Even though he was ahead of the organization, he knew nothing about it. That's the that's the story, and he's

sticking to it exactly. That's why Alan Weislerberg is in rikers for the next hundred days and Trump isn't so and you got to do a five month bid um, so he can't use that money. I do said, I will say that it's interesting that his prize child um Ivanka's walked away from him. Oh, I've seen that. I've seen the publication that there's troubled in Paradise, that her and Jared maybe going through some rough trouble marriage. May

whos that's unfortunate. Well, they did a lot of illegal things, so I can understand why that would breede, you know, some difficulties in I promise you we wasn't saying for a third season. It was someone that's sitting on the tip of my tongue. Good God, almost jumped off. Yeah yeah, I'm praying that their marriage is wonderful. Yeah yeah. Comes see me, Lave and hear what I really got to say. Um. So, like we said at the top of the show, we're gonna circle back to end the show with Dr King.

Um flames favorite Doctor King quotes, um, my favorite Doctor King quote. So I can go first, or would you like to go from? Oh, you know, I want you to close yours out because it was gonna be more detailed. Mine was always in high school because you know, we always walking around fear of death, fear death, and being in high school, you know you know when people would die, and when you're young, you do don't understand death and

everybody so I'm afraid to I'm afraid to die. I think it was in sixty three his sixty three memoirs, Dr King said that once you accept death, you're free. When that impact hit me during the Ages pandemic of the eighties, understand that exactly what that meant that you cannot walk in fear wondering what day, what hour, what moment was second, because it's going to happen. It really made me like, good, let me just keep living because

it's inevitable. We're all gonna take that walk. You just want to live as long as you can until it comes. I always liked that cord. That was always the one that made me understand transition of you know, two of dying because it was always such a feel like, oh, I ain't rated that I wanted that, I wanted that like this, I want to do like that. You have no say so. But that was one of my favorites.

And I love Dr King the love that he put out, all the screw and everything that he screwed, love and acceptance. But I look back on life now, loring how I see how people are. They're becoming a seasoned person. And I think segregation was not uh I mean was segregation might have been helped out people. I think we should have strived to be better as a people and stay together.

But they wouldn't leave us the funk alone. Let me just say that, because when we did try to separate, and what's successful, uh Oklahoma cosa or you know in different places that y'all get angry and you you win another route. So but you know, it was kind of like you damned if you do, damn dead if you don't. But in memory of Dr King, I love what he stood for. I love that he brought so much to the forefront. And I still think the King was the man too. I still say that they said that Bernard

Bayard Rustin was man one. But Bayard Rustin was fullown out and gay in the fifties and y'all was not having no partit of that. Oh my god, where is the inclusion? Um? Well, part of what you said leads to my quote, um, one of my favorite quotes um from Dr King. He gave this speech in Montgomery, Alabama, March Town. He said, we must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself,

a society that can live with its conscience. And I think at this day and time, the conscience of our society is nowhere to be found because you talk about the hate that we've experienced, you know, just the racism that's still ongoing that we still see today. You know, I just saw another you know, young black man who was a teacher at a poet of his community, was just murdered by L. A. P. D. So. And when we talk about society I'm talking about everything that encompasses that.

So that is you know, police brutality, that is racism at the highest level. That is all of the disparities that we get as you know Black people in this country of why we can't get ahead. So when we talk about society having a conscience, it doesn't have one at this point in time, and that's a true problem.

So you just but that could be a great name for this episode because you just said conscious of the society and then you talked about a two dollar paint, a two dollar lifesaver for the hundred thirty for a hundred and thirty dollars when I'm on a fixed income and when when after I pay all my necessary bills every month, i got seventy four dollars left. Mm hmm.

Wealth care is society compases so many things, and especially at the end of the day, it's us black folks that are always at the shore end of the stick when it comes to society. So um, that quote always stuck with me. But like I said, it's just crazy to see over fifty years later, Dr King's messages are still resonating true to this day because these things are still happening so I bet you Dr King is up in head and looking at God and say, man, I

told him they need to knock it off. I told me we were gonna get to the mountaintop, but they're going the other way. So here last, we do have a saying that we're never trying to get anybody to change your mind. We're simply trying to get you to use your mind because wife Laime. Let me do that again. So here at laugh and learned, we have a saying that we're never trying to get anybody to change your mind.

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Thank you for joining us here left, Happy New Year, Happy happy birthday, and recognition to Dr Martin Luther King, one of the greats, one of the greatest of the Black community and I say black, and I know somebody'all say African American because names changed because it started off this and the other. But I'm a black American. I'm a black African American. But and guess what, I'm an American. That's you know who else. We gotta wish you have a birthday to today. I would be remiss if we didn't.

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