If You Can't Say Her Name, Call Her Madame with April Ryan

lift spirits. But do you want to revisit? So your first take a listen to your folks. You slit all folks that we did it. No, do what you do? No do what you do? Can't help Kiss, do what I do, Flamela. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to laugh and learn with Flame Monroe and who and who I am here There is my very handsome co host, Mr Nick Smith. Y'all say hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening to Nick. It is so good to be

here with you right now. And I have to tell you this is not the way we wanted to do with a governor new Some had other plans right, No, it's it's people's fault. I'm not gonna blame my government. It's y'all, damn mask I'm blaming y'all because y'all shouldn't be hard here to put your mask on. Then my co host could be here in studio with me. Can I just say for those who may have taken a sneak peek and didn't get a chance to see it as you walked into the room here, you look really

good in that skirt. That looks good with that little flower and all that. You gave us a little sneak peak a few seconds ago. Did you think that looked very feminine? Do I look like a reporter? You look like a correspondent almost almost most see what people has to say. Speaking of course, mindest you know, we do have a very special White House correspondent that's going to be joining us momentarily here on Laugh and Learn, and I'm very excited about it. Um, how was your week? How?

I'm very bummed that you're not here with me because people are going to get used to seeing us together. But I do have a not a replacement, but a filling for you. Yes, you look at my baby right there, that's my baby, Lauren Hogan y'all. Can you'll see amazing Lauren Hogan for who may not know, Lauren is directly responsible for really helping to keep the ship afloat, because there are a lot of things that Flame has to do, and that woman right there is like Flame, Calm down,

I got this. You just be Flame. I can take care of the rest of this. You were really right about that. Yes, indeed, let me splaining to you all who Lauren Hogan is. Lauren Hogan is now my new manager. And I met Lauren Hogan last year during the HF campaign. Remember doing that burth last campaign last year, guys, And so Lauren was the one who hired me for that, and we just let me Flame tell people what HF. HF is Aids Healthcare Foundation. They hired me last year

to do the bur Lass campaign. And you can speak and just stepping in Lauren because we hear you. But um, Lauren was on the road with us the entire time we were on the road doing the campaign. Lauren is twenty five years old now, she was. I thought Lauren was about forty, not because she looks forty, but because her professionalism was so on point. She was so bombed and she took such great care of me on the roll.

And when I say taking great care of me, I mean my bags were taking care of I was first class all the way. She would leave the credit card at the front office whatever hotel we checked in and say, whatever she wants in her or did you catch that whatever she wants, did you let me go back? Whatever she wants mind you, I'm walking in there looking like James Brown would have had on. But whatever she wants. Oh. I fell in love with Lauren Hoe. It was she

will never get away from me ever. And she's here today because we're gonna talk about some things that's going on with h O. But we're gonna get to that. I want to just tell you I know what your week was like because you're not here with me. But I want to tell y'all got I got a rogue rat in my house, Not in my house, in my garage. Where's my thing? Yet? The rats is smart? One? I caught one, but you know where there's one, there's two,

kind of like roaches or Republicans, you know what. Uh So I caught one rat, but I had left my box of edibles down in the garage. Look what the rat did to the edibles. The rat ate the jelly off the rat trap without popping it. Not only is this rat high, but this rat is brilliant smart. It must be a black woman. It's because black women have taken over. Just black women are the power of the strength and the back ball. But there is a rat walking around in Long Beach. That's like Snoop Dogg sipping

on gin and juice. High as hell, be tms some laid back with my man and my money. You thought you were hiding. You thought you were hiding the edibles from the rat, and the rat was a little bit smarter. Well, I didn't hide them. That is my handcouts. But that's my he weak cave he she week. If you're not familiar with he, she we is, let me break down the definition of he weak. He cash the check, she make the money. We spend the same bitch right here.

He that's my very own pronoun. You know you're talking about pronouns. I do want to before we jump into the show, taking a chance, uh this opportunity to remind people that Friday was actually trans remembrance to day and and and that was especially important this year because the idea behind it is to recognize uh, members of the trans community who have died to violence. Correct, that's that's very correct. And we just lost a sister last week, UH due to her husband stabbing her so all over

social media. Her name was Unicry Mean she rest in peace. And then I just said, on this morning, another young lady was killed. I don't know what's going on with all of that, but I'm gonna ask my sisters to remember too, that self preservation is the first law of nature. Now, you take it how you want to take it. But I'm telling you right now, if it comes down to a choice of me and you, I will always choose me. Plus, I watched plenty along order SVU. I know to get

away with some ship. Oh I can't get away with some ship. Oh baby, trust me. I'm gonna happy with me and I'm put him down. And then when the police come, I'm gonna say, well, what happened. I'm said, well, officer, I don't know what happened. But that was his weapon. He dropped it, I picked up it went off thirteen times. If you don't believe me, ask him. Oh, I'm sorry, you can't ask him. Him dead. But friends, remember is

November twenty thing. For people who want more information, they can go to HRC dot org because they have posted links to different information for those who may want to learn more. So my brothers, to my trans brothers and sisters out there, and protect yourselves whatever, in the words of Malcolm X, by any means necessary. Flame you kind of hinted at it because you're wearing the hair and you're looking good. You're wearing the black looking a bit

conservative conservative. Well, you have to remember I just got to doing a interview with you on Breakfast Club where you didn't necessarily look like the reporter. Well, that will air on Friday, by the way, right, they have things given And I'm telling you all right now, if y'all think I said there and they don't fight the first time, oh, I think the hashtag will be saggy Maggie. That's all I'm gonna say. Will definitely be saggy Maggie. And I'm

telling you something right now. I was watching the news this morning. I was trying to watch a view, but I was put my makeup on and I was looking at the state of the world, and you know, I go back to my whole Wizard of odds effect because I said that in order for us to beat this coronavirus and to beat the system that the Trump is um that we needed to have the whole heart, mind, and the brain because the story Wizard of Oz is we were trying to get back Dorothy was trying to

get back home. She encountered three people that needed a heart, of mind and brain, and those are the three qualities. I think that we need to become great Americans again, to be in a place of at least complicity because the world is so divided right now. But we're gonna fix it because laugh and line, we're gonna bring you in. We're gonna make you laugh, We're gonna make you think, and you're gonna look at the pretty beach that's hosted.

And we were talking about that too. I left a message earlier today letting people know to join us today of one pm Pacific standard for PM Eastern because we would have special White House correspondent as a guest. April Ryan, who is the author of under Fire, you know, was the best claimed How many messages did you get from people wanting you to ask different questions to miss Ryan? Ms? Ryan um inboxed me and told me that she knows

exactly my plight that I told her about. That sweet because she has a thirteen year old daughter and an eighteen year old daughter, so we tweeted in that aspect and baby. But the difference is what a woman raising daughters to me, I think it's better than a man raising them because we put I'm gonna push over. I'm a monster to everybody, but I'm gonna push over to

my daughters. And I definitely understand why little girls turn into pimps when they get older, because it starts at home with their dad's They pimped that out, then they pimped out their husbands and boyfriends. You know, I'm just saying, you always want to give the man the bed cud. You know this equal opportunity. I'm on the man's side and on the woman's side because I have been the

man and the woman in the same night. Sometimes depend on who turner was, whether they're the weekend, how much money. I'm just letting y'all know where we're at. That sounds a little creative, like Frankenstein, like you can be a real monster, baby, Frankenstin, understand that. Let me let me break down the philosophy of Frankenstein to you all, because everybody thinks that Frankenstein was the monster. Frankenstein was never the monster. Frankenstein created the monster and did not want

to face his name. It's kind of like what we do in real life with everything, with your relationships, with your parents, with your children. We create these monsters and then we don't want to face them. You know, we have a let me and I'm going to use this as a synopsis. And you know, some girls gonna get mad. You know, I don't give a fuck. Um, we have a transgender senator, our very first one. Her name is

um Sarah McBride out of Delaware. We love to holler from the trans community that people don't like us, they don't accept us for who we are. But statistically, trans girls, trans women don't vote regularly. So this woman has been put in office as a state senator. And if we didn't vote for her, who did? Because she wont You know what I'm saying. And I know that sounds like wow, but it's not a while. It is real, and we have to stop creating monsters and did not want to

face these demons. We create our own demons and then don't want to face them. I'm telling you, I know a demon. I got two of them, both of my baby mamas. They both name baby. I created two demons. I'm running every day. Good God, I'm running. So what you're saying is that, you know, here is a member of the trans community who clearly was able to win office by garnering the vote of constituents who did not

necessarily look like her exactly. And Delaware must be the hot spot because we got the new president from Delaware and we get trans woman and she's cute. You know, most of the time they had the ones that look like Herbert with a wig gonna. She's actually lovely. You know. You and I kind of glazed over it earlier because we we we talk all the time regularly and people know that, and this is just an hour where we

kind of opened it up to other people. But you and I were just talking about how there have been a lot of reports about the progress being made with vaccinations and vaccines and how we could be just literally weeks away from maybe as many as three different vaccines that could hit the marketplace. Uh yeah, no, I'm not. I'm I'm more than three weeks away. I'm miles and millions of years. I am not taking it. I don't trust it. I don't trust the people who have created it.

I don't like any of it. I'm not doing it. My baby. My kids don't even take a flu shop. My children are seventh, teen, seventeen, and thirteen. I didn't say seventeen twice because I've made a mistake. I got to seventeen year olds, both seven months apart, two different baby mamas. Oh please, don't let these titis fool you any You know that's called hood twins. You know that's what it's called, actually called it's actually called my pullout game and what it used to be. Let me just

re ruled all about the situation. But have never had a flu shot, and they've also never had the flu. I don't so many things that I don't trust. And it's not that I don't trust all government, but for this last year has been so with the last couple of years, it's been so shaky. I don't want to deal with it. Well, flaim, I do want to plug

in that. There has been some controversy around that because uh, there's been a focus on HBCUs, specifically more than five hundred thousand rapid coronavirus tests have been distributed to hbc U s UM and a lot of people have stepped up to say that this is a great idea because unfortunately, African Americans are five times more likely to be hospitalized from coronavirus, and a recent administration analysis of HBCUs also found that schools to have predominantly minority faculty with other

health variables making them a higher risk demographic, meaning that a lot of the faculty members look more like Valerie, Miss Valerie and Miss Rosetta. So we have to also keep them in mind who may not be um as young and able to recover because they may have co morbidities. Yeah, we're understanding this to all my students at the hbc USE because Lauren Hogan is also an hbc You graduate from Spellman, Uh, don't do it. I know money is tight, don't do all I can think about. Look up the

Tuskegee A report. Look up that. Let me to let you all talk to Laura because she went to hbc U. And I know money's tight when you're in college, but I'm telling you don't get this. Seventeen hundred and Kint enjoy it. Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree. I mean, and a lot of things like I don't get a flu shot either. The last food shot I got, I was twelve and ended up with stomach virus and I was like bed ridden for two weeks. Haven't gotten to flush since I'm fine. So same thing goes for me

with the vaccine. Let you know, however, many millions of people take it, Let's see what happens. I'm not. I don't feel safe to take it. I don't feel confident and what's happened or what's transpired to make me feel like, oh, yeah, this is something that will be good for me. I don't feel that way. And I agree, I mean, I hear all that you're saying, Nick, in terms of why are the reasoning behind you know, they're trying to take

the vaccine to you know what hpc us. But initially when coronavirus came out, there was two friends doctors that came out and said, how do why don't we just go to Africa and test people and see what happens. You know, they've got real culed for it and everything else. But it's very unsettling for me that we're taking into the black community to test out at the guinea pigs say that one more time because black people ain't never

first for ship. Let me let me go back. We ain't never first for Jack, but now we first, because you know, they keeps saying statistically, black and brown children are damn fasted. That's the overplay for the underplay, because they want us to take the shot first. Give it to your mama, because I ain't taking it. I loved you. To be clear, what we're actually say is do your research. We're not necessarily giving medical advice. We're just I'm not

telling you what our opinions. Yes, my strong opinion and how I feel. And y'all know how I feel about Fauci anyway. If you don't know, go watch back and watch you last week's laugh and learn, because every time I see that nigga smiling, Yeah, it's a set up. Nicholas. I love you. I'm gonna sit you up. I got somebody on here. I want to talk to this lady. She looks so pretty. She sent me the most beautiful pictures and we're gonna bring her own because I'll see you.

Let's do it, by my love, remove nixt TOI. Y'all know, I got my real glasses on so I can see where you at MS Ryan. Can I call him as April, y'all? Is that appropriate? Is that appropriate? Lawrence? I have to ask because she's my manager and this Lauren put grabbing my hand when I go too far, because you know we'll go too far where you're gonna pinch me. It ain't no fun if you're gonna pinch me where I want to be pinched. So I'm so excited to have

this lad you join us. I have been watching her because I didn't even get into politics until Bill Clinton. I didn't give I didn't vote, I didn't give a damn about God gorgious. I love that head. You were beautiful like it? Good afternoon, Good morning? What are you in Baltimore? I'm outside of Baltimore. I'm in my dark office. I don't know why I changed the lightbulb to a blue light bulb, but I didn't turn it on. Um trying to make sure we're COVID. You know, ready, we'll

just don't shoot yourself up with no lights. So I know somebody said it, but I don't think you like. Can I just start off by saying thank you so much. I reached out to April and asked April when she come and joined me on laugh and learning, and immediately she was like, oh my god, I love you. I was like, you know who? I was so enamored that you knew who I was. I called Lauren, I said, Chirl, she knew who I was. I know who you are.

I saw the Tiffany Hattes special I talked. We talked to Tiffany Hattris and I talked about you, um at Tyler Perry's studio opening, and I'm just I'm just enamored and I'm a fan. That's all. Well, I'll take that, and you know what it is. I just because I see I've seen you in the White House Correspondence for so many years, and this last one just I'm telling you something. If I could come there, there's a man up under these titties. I just want you to know that.

And if I could have got up in there one time, I'm telling you I would have reached havoc up in there because of the disrespect. But we ain't. When you get to that right now, I want to start off with fun. So welcome to this show, Mrs Miss miss April. Can I call you, Miss April? Call me April? No, no, no no, I want to call you Miss April. I like missa. You know Miss April sounds respect. Let me tell you something. You earn that if you was just a regular lady, I'll be like girl if you don't

knock it off. But you're not you, Miss April, Ryan Baby three books, What's the We and We searched hying load. I ordered on Amazon Amazon as the day left, je Bezos, I want my money back. Under Fire two thousand eighteen, two thousand sixteen, you had at mama's knee, and in two thousand and fifteen you had presidency in black and white. You are author, a wife, a mother. She got notife anymore, not a wife anymore. I didn't know you were not

married anymore. Girl. I'm telling you something. I ain't never been married, and I'm never gonna get married because if a man asked me for something I want to do, I'm gonna punch him in the face. And I'm just big enough for girl to do it. Mrs. But you know what. The first question I want to ask you because I've always been interested to know this, and I my guess it's probably different for what it is. I want to know who was the most fun president? Did

you work because you worked up on the Clinton. Um, you worked up under Bush, and you worked up on the Obama and you worked up under this last one. But out of the first three, who were who was the most fun off camera personally to you? So here's here's the deal. Um, each president is different, and it's like children. You know, you can't say which one is best. I think each one of them did the best that they knew how to do when they were in office.

But at the end of the day, UM, you would be surprised when I tell you George W. Bush was us as gregarious as Bill Clinton. And this is you know, behind the scenes, we would talk. George W. Bush and I would talk about issues of race all the time. He recognized the subtle and overt racism that Barack Obama was going through when he was running against John McCain. I'm telling you the stories that I have and the

conversations I had when we weren't on camera. UM, Barack Obama, because of history and because he looks like me, I don't know, he has this this this dry sense of humor he'll say it and it's like your dead hand and then you're on the floor just rolling, you know. And he is. He's got this new book called Promised Land. But I think I'm a little biased towards him because he was the first, and you know, we never thought we would ever see the first. But he he's funny.

He's what. He's got a box, he's plays basketball. He reminds me of my cousin, my brother, you know, somebody. And he was and believe it or not, he would always he looked out for me in his own way. And I appreciate that. And I got some news too with that. You're the first one. I'm telling I ain't gonna tell nobody tell me, girl, I gonna tell you're actually the first one. I'm telling um publicly Monday. Look on my I g live because it's gonna be a

promised plan, That's all I'm gonna say. Oh my god, I'm excited. I'm excited. That is a fantastic mess. See, I would have thought you would have said Bill Clinton as Bill Clinton is most like me. Bill Clinton played the sax, he smoked the blond. He he did some things in the over office that I've done before, and you know all of that, just you know the similarity. It's hard. It's like, like I said, it's hard to pick. It's hard to pick uch one because they were all

so different. Bill Clinton and hears something in my first book, we talked about this. We had a soulful dinner with Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, he didn't play the sax and he didn't smoke a blunt at the dinner. But what he did he ate chiplins and and and garlic fried chicken on one for Clinton was gangster. To me, I'm telling you something right now. I was never angry with Bill about what did he did. I've done that many times.

I've been on both. You know, what he what he did, what he write, what he did now, what he did was basically something I think that Hillary had to deal with. That was between those two, um mostly than anything. And and you know they it was. I don't even get into that. I don't want to relitigate that because we're gonna relitigate that forever. But that that it's as people as they are people. That's something we have to remember. They are people. Um, this one, I I there's no

saving grace for this one. To me, um, but I saw the humanity in the last three and I don't see that with him. Definitely, it's something as small as having a pet. The last three had pets. This one can't even bring himself to love anything else but himself. And that's all I'm gonna say. Well, we are the collateral damage as Americans behind that. So I understand that I want to know something, April, Miss April, and I

need to know the truth from you about this. How in the hell did you keep your professional composure and some of those Let me tell you something. I am a black man and woman up on the all that I would have exploded, But I understand. I want to you have the patience of job. Let me say that because that was one time I think he called you out about the Black Caucus. I'm like, and you looked

at him like, why are you calling on me? But you were so patient and your composure and temperature state to say, please tell me where you learned that from. You know, my mother and father donned glory and both of them were grarians. Date. My mother came from a farming family in North Carolina and my father came from a farming family in Maryland. They never imagined that their

daughter would be at the White House. They never imagined that I a descendant of the last known slave slave that I know of in my family or my mama's side. Five generations we moved from a slave called Joseph Dollar Brown sold on the auction block and faith for North Carolina. And if I get up there doing all this and doing all that, I negate everything that they worked for Harriet Tubman, word for Rosa Parks, work for John Lewis, batt Ruston h Martin, Luther, King, Malcolm X, everybody. Market's

got everyone. I would negate that. I have to stand. It's not about me. It's not about me. It's about the issues that our community, all of the issues that our community still needs answers for. So at the end of the day, I don't know. My mother always you know, my mother always talked me humility, and my father used to you know, when I first went to the White House, God rested, so he said, Lord, he prayed for me before we had his family prayer. Um. He said, Lord,

let her keep her home, training and stuff. I'm glad you brought that up about your mom and stealing something on you because this lady here, this Lord Hogan. When we were on the road last year for HF doing a campaign, I thought she was much older than she is, Miss Ryan, because she's so professional and she's so spot on with her with what she does, and so diligent about it. And I love that you are educated woman. This is a young, powerful, educated woman. I told her

I was interviewing with you. She said, old Flanne, please let me come. Because what you have said, those words about your mom, her mother, I know her mother. Her mother is a monster. And when I say that, I mean that she has instilled in her daughter such a powerful professionalism and and getting the job done and not making excuses because you're a woman, and at least being a woman of color. She just made it happen. So I wanted to bring Lauren because Lauren wants to talk

to you. Talk to Lauren. We talk to the April. Come on, Lauren, talk to me. We got we got flame over there and flame flame but whatever, the flame and the Monro always I love him, I said, funny, it's holding well first and foremost, Like I said, I'm a huge fan. There's only a couple of reporters on Twitter that I follow and you were one of them. So it's it's a pleasure to be here to talk

with you. I'm more so wanted to ask you, did you ever imagine that you would be at the forefront, you know, as a White House correspondent, having to defend one your credibility and also to what you're ringing to the media. Um, you know what, that's such a powerful question. Thank you for asking that. Never Okay, I'm a journalist, a trained journalist from Morgan State University and HBCU. I'm

a product of Baltimore, Maryland. Not many people out of Baltimore, UM, really step out and in the community, not gravitate towards us and say, you know, we've done it. There's a thing of pride, there's a thing of community here and also in Baltimore. You know, the first thing that they say is you know, um, you have the word failure built into your existence. But you have to overcome all

of that. And with that said, then you have someone challenging you mm hmm about your your who you are, about your journalistic integrity, about just anything about your being that knocks at you. And sometimes you go home and say, wait a minute, what are they staying and you have to really come back to yourself. And I believe if you are standing on the pillars that you know for

sure cannot be not you will be okay. But it's it's it's a lot to have a president of the United States, particularly this one, where people who may not be so sound in mind listen to him. They believe him, and they believe him so much so that right now, in this moment, you have sevent of Republicans that believe wrongly that he won this election. And their thought is is that Joe Biden stolen. Joe Biden is doing things

to take it. Why because he said so, and just because he said so, it's not right to be president of the United States. You have to understand. You have to honor your words, you have to honor people. You have to understand that your words vibrate, your words mean something. And every time he took a knock at me and what he was saying enemy of the press, I got death threats, bomb scares. I've had the bomb squad at my home, I've had the FBI at my home. I've

had to move my home. But in the midst of it all, everything that I've said is panning out to be And sometimes you have to know what you know and stand on it. I mean, it's tough. And I didn't sign up when I went to Morgan State University to do this, to run for my life. Because I raised my hand and asked about Mr President, do you realize we're taking the knee really means, Mr President? Or you want to apologize to to the Exonerated five formerly

the Central Park five. I never thought that asking those questions would cause me to run and run with my children for my life if I had a chance to do it again. I don't know if I saw the movie play out before me. This thing is scary. But you know what, I thank God for giving me the strength to do it, because at the end of the day, I'm not going anywhere because if I do, I thank God for your Meiche and for Abby if all those

other reporters. But before I started asking questions like that, and I've been at the White House in January will be twenty four years and before I started asking these questions, you will even hear about it that much. Enjoy read my friend Joy Read Who's doing a wonderful job anchoring seven pm on MSNBC. She said, before April, you know, there wasn't anyone, and now April's here, it's now vogue to ask questions on matters of race. It shouldn't be vogue.

It should be every community, every issue should be asked, no matter why. Everything comes to the White House from water, peace and everything in between. And that bothers me so much that people are afraid to ask questions, and it bothers me more so that people feel that I am

out of order by asking it. There needs to be a Civics lesson, a universal civics lesson of United States history and United the interaction of government to government, the interaction of the president of government, because people don't know because instead of saying okay, they want to fight you, they want to meet you after you leave word, they want to teralyze you. And your kids didn't want to

simple It's crazy and that's all from this president. You're right, and I think in a lot of ways, I also say like, I thank you for the questions that you asked, because under the Obama administration, you know, there was a sense of comfort, at least for myself that I had that I didn't really feel like I had to tune in and pay attention because it was kind of like, I know, we're gonna be all right, but if it wasn't for reporters like you, you know, under this administration,

it made me wake up and pay attention and really start to engage and listen and learn what was happening in our country. Lauren, you have to because you I don't know how what you are, but I'm I'm loud and proud about Okay, you cute somber when I was remember um, let me have um a few strands ago. Um, let me say, is I want you to look up Bull Connor. I want you to look up the name George Wallace. I want you to look up the Edmund Pettis Bridge that was back in the fifties and sixties.

If you close your eyes, turn your head and opiagere fast and close him again, you think you were back there with this moment in time, with the CPS own picture. We can't go backwards. And what I've found is that each generation has to be a steward maintain what's happening because we can't just rely in fact, oh, the Civil Rights Act was passed, that was back in nineteen was sixties something, early sixties and early mid sixties, and then oh, the Voting Rights Act was passed nine five, mid sixties

Voting Rights Act. We're voting without the full enforcement of the Voting Rights Act now because they stripped it in in the Spring Court with Shelby versus Older. It took out pre clearance. If you don't know, I don't want to go through a lot with this for pre clearance, but look up what preclarance means. But the synopsis of a synopsis with preclarance is is that certain Southern states we're mandated. Anytime they changed the rules for their voting procedures,

they had to get approval from the Justice Department. They gutted that. That's what happened back in nine five. So we in where we're voting. They're stealing out there. They're stealing our votes. They are hijacking the mail boxes, breaking up the sorting machines. They have put out fake ballot boxes. You know, I'm getting back. Every generation has to maintain something, and the civil rights if we had civilantic while we being pushed away from certain places. Now it's like this

is crazy. MS. April, I'm on payback because guess what I'm doing. They're cheating. So I cheated to I voted in my man name and in my woman name and got a whole busload of bitches that looked like me. And I don't say, said Donald Trump. Donald Trump, if you're watching, you've been looking for a woman with balls to stand up to you for years. I am a woman with balls for real. Understand I would that's what and I would have to watch. Miss. Let me ask

you a question. How excited were you when Biden and Harris got the ticket? How when I saw Bid run to the podium, I got recharged. I was like, come on, oh, Joe, they keep calling Joe. Oh, I say, Joe and Jill went up to heal and they weren't looking for the water Jill gave Joel. Jill gave Joe that blue peel and they still getting it in bo. I was like, come on, Joe. I was so excited for him. And I was overwhelmed with Kamala Harris sister who graduated from HBCU,

who clammed all the way up to the ladder. Because we all expected it to be a Michelle Obama to be the first, very first woman in a position like that or somebody shell Obama does not want problems. You know, she Southuth of Chicago. From Chicago, baby, you get it. So you get because you cross, you crossed, either one of you. It's like, no, that's why you should have hired me to be your bodyguard, because when they would have got out of land, I would have looked like

your girlfriend. I would have dropped them. I would have dropped them when they stew it there, boom, y'all get out a lot of meat flame. And I know you were. I know you were, Biden, and I was so excited. I want to know how you feel about Biden getting this so so, as a journalist is a trained journalist, I'm unbiased for this moment, for the looking over everything and what the nation is dealing with anybody but Trump.

That's what I felt because I've had to take myself out of the journalistic journalistic role for a minute, because the last few months have been so deadly. You got two over two hundred and fifty some thousand people who are dead, You've got a race war that he put setuates. This should not have been a million mega march in the streets of Washington, d C. In the midst of a COVID pandemic, and then it should in this in this country, there never should have been a million, a

mega million March number one. That's nothing but white supremacy. You know that was only about six people. It was kind of like should have never been, right, I know what you're saying. It should have never been. And it's someone, and it's someone, and it's someone that has had to deal with his terrorism, who has been traumatized by him. Anybody meant him? Now. I do know Joe Biden very well. Um. I do know Senator Kamala Harris for race. Um. She

is a woman of color, but she identifies black. And she's in an HBC you just like I attended an HBC. A matter of fact, Howard and Morgan have a rivalry, but bears eat Fyson. But anyway, I hear a challenge because you are an honorary Delta, right, Yes, I am a Delta, and all of my soulars out there. Hello. But you know it's so beautiful that acceptance night, when they came out and accepted it, you saw deltas, you saw a k You saw black women out there. We

are seen, We are finally seen. We have been the backbone of so much in this nation, save democracy, and we are finally seen. And I'm gonna say this. I never thought, you know, after the Clinton is, I know that that was Clinton was your guy. After Clinton Is, I said, you know, oh, it will never be as newsy as Clinton. Here comes George W. Bush. I said, Oh, it'll never be as newsy after George W. Was. Here comes as black man with Biggs Will Bob and played basketball.

Oh it'll never be as newsy after Barack Obama. Then here comes the orange infestation. So you gotta stop saying that, April. You gotta Stuncle tells you invited this foolishness in here now because you can see it will never be so I get where it came from because you kept saying so I need you to stop saying that right now. I'm gonna say this. But I never but I never thought I would see the history of the first black president. I was there at the White House when he was

elected and George Bush was upstairs. I didn't cry. I saw the spontaneous crowd coming to Alafia Park in front of the White House. Guard Nana naa Hey Bush good bye. I didn't cry. Other people did. But I cried when he left because I saw history. I didn't cry with Kamala, but you know what, it brings chills to me to raise my I raised my hand for the first black president, and to raise my hand saying, madame vice president, vice president. They fly, they can't get a name right, but you

can get that right, madame vice president, madam. And you don't know her name, you call her man, you damn tree. And you know, you know I was not team common for president. You know, I was Yang. But as soon as Commona got the nomination, I started wearing my blue glasses because I was team Biden and and and Harris all the way. But on my ye, it's cool John John Yang gave a lot. It's one. All of those twenty five thousand candidates were all the stage games. It was a lot of them, and I was like it

was the wedding down started. But they all brought something, and they they brought something to the table to make the party think, because the party needs to have a renaissance. Actually, the Democrats and the Republicans need to rethink who they are because are you a Trump likan or are you the old guard? The vanguard of the Republican Party. Are you conservative? Are you a Trump Lakant? What are you for the Democrats? Are you centrist? Are you far left?

Are you progressive? What are you? There needs to be a coming together and it's each party is not a monolitht but they have to make sure that everyone is under the When I say everyone, everyone is under the umbrella. And that's some of the reasons that Donald Trump wrote because you found a lot of people who not just feeling in the Obama years, but for many decades that they weren't touched by government. So everyone has to feel

like they matter. Everyone. You just made a statement about women coming so far and black women, and I appreciate that. I'm I'm excited to know what you think that that this new administration is going to look like, how colorful it's gonna look like thirty one flavors at basket Robbers. We got we got indigenous, we got a rainy in, we got a trans woman. Missing about that she's cute and she's cute because you know a lot of times they're looking like James Brown with a wig go, but

she's actually cute. I can say it because I'm part of the trans communtery. I can say. You can't say, but I can say so. And here's the hypocrisy that I've stated earlier, because they say statistically trans women don't vote so and we loved it as a transparent I can imagine you know what, you know why because they probably felt like they were included. Do you know it's taken? We remember Biden was the one who made the mistake talking about same sex marriage. He he's the one who

pushed the envelope and that was a mistake. He wasn't supposed to say it so early. So and then that brought a lot of people like, wow, we're included. It is. It is unfathomable that there is any group of people who feel like the United States government is not covering them. It is. It's I don't understand, and everyone I don't care raised gender, sexual orientation. You pay your taxes, right, and more than seven hundred and fifty dollars, let me

say that. How about that? And he's alive, when he's allowed when that seven hundred fifty thousand, fifty seven hundred fifty dollars and we paid what is it, two hundred fifty thousand just for the drugs to save him until January noon. Letitia, Letitia that prosecuted in the you hit Me girl, get him? Remember the movie what's the movie

not a Living Dead? When the lady was in the cemetery and he kept saying, Barbara, they're coming to get you, Barbara Donald, They're coming to get your dollar, get his ass. I'm gonna I'm gonna send them those emails that he was so hell being about from Hillary. I'm gonna send those emails while you're locked up. People don't know what that email was. You know what those emails was, miss April, all those emails cause see Bill had cheated on Hillary publicly,

so Hillary had a boyfriend on the low low. Those were actually nudies and she didn't want abody to see him. That's you know, that's just my take on it. I love Hillary clips. I don't care who don't like that. I love Hillary. Baby. That was a joker, man, don't you tell y'all start Oh my gosh, you said, I said, What the hell? I said? It is my page. Thank you for joining me and laugh and learned. Don't come with it though, Can you come at me sideways? I'm

gonna straighten you up. I promise I'm with Ms. April. Ryan Baby white House corresponded Ms. April, you know what I want to know. Also, since you've been in government, because you've been in government working in the way House since ninety seven. Yes, I've been working with them. I'm not in government, but I've been working with them. How has um the political uh satire changed from your perspective

because you on the other side. We're not on that side, We're only outside looking at it, but you're actually on the inside. How has the the other Republican senators and Democratic senators and everybody in that pool treated you? Because you know, I'm a huge Nancy Pelosi fan. Nancy, if you're watching, girl, I would take my wig off of you. I get my breast cut out for you. I'm in love with Nancy Pelosi. Let me just you know Nances from Baltimore. You know her brother and her father were

mayors in Baltimore. She's from Little Liblely in Baltimore. There's a special there's a special sauce in Baltimore. And also Elijah Comments was from Baltimore. A lot of y'all gangster from y'all got Monique from Baltimore. You've got just hilarious. It's from Baltimore. It's so many wonderful, powerful people from Baltimore, and y'all from Baltimore. I love you, Jada, but you're gonna cut your head go back to like you did

at the end of set it off. I was in love with Ja at the end with the white beater and the ball here. Oh my god, I tried to knock that TV over. Jesus, thank you. That was the movie. Was that was the movie. So how have they been treating you? Because I know that, you know, a lot of stuff comes from the top. So we've seen his blade and disrespect of you publicly. How has people in his camp been towards you? Well, well, um, okay, I'm

gonna calling names. Lynn Patty remember her. At the very beginning, she called me miss Piggy. Let me tell you something. They called me miss Piggy in college and Miss Piggy was fabulous. I'm like, you know, and I said, you know, you're gonna be careful calling people names because you know, I'm like, it doesn't work so well for for people. But they don't like me. But the Republicans that I know that I've known for years and my sources they've been kind. But you have to you have to be

very strategic and how you communicate. I cannot say who gives me information because people try to find out where I got things from. I mean, you'd be surprised with who I know and who I have their phone number and I text with who's in the ear of the president. So any good reporter worth their salt has um a rollerdex that is worth goal, titanium, platinum, whatever. People who I have, people who are in his ear, people who

he interviews with. I have people who are in the Senate and the House that he talks with, or people who are very close to the situation there in the room when it happens or where it happens. So I get information still, Um, it's it's it's harder, but you know, I still get it. And it's on the money. Um. People are very easy. They're very good at giving me information,

but they don't want their fingerprints on it. M M, Well, you tell that lady whatever her name was, that I said, you're a beautiful black woman, and black women have gonna let me tell you something that damn Stacy Abrams have came through like a battle lax baby and not playing with And this is the strength of the black man and the black woman. I'm saying this publicly because I know I'm about the Rockers some fellas, But y'all do know that I do not give a damn okay. Black women,

black man. Same scenario, two different things that could have played out very differently. Stacy Abrams was cheated out out the governorship and I said it in in Georgia, and instead of her going on role and getting depressed, she got on the battlefield as a soldier and guarded all these votes so that Georgia turned blue, something that has not happened in many, many years. Andrew Gilliams same scenario,

but she did out the governorship in Florida. But instead of him taking the high road, this nigga went to the hotel with the boy free. And I'm just saying, sometimes you have to make a different choice and go a different route. Strong black But let me say, but you talk about Stacy was cheated, Let's talk about the seriousness of how she was cheated out of it. The man that she was going against counted the votes. There, you're talking about cheating and you see how they're recounting everything.

Now Donald Trump is trying to put something in people's minds that that's not true or making them sway. This man. We can't ever say, yeah, your name, but how you want to be in a contest and you don't want counting the vote? Volks? How fair is that? That's this America right now? Because here do you want to tell you, miss April? I think that somebody and I'm you know who I'm going to fall. I don't like all these

fense writers. I don't like the fence riders. I fought people who were standing there in it, who should have cared more about the American people than their own personal game, because they threw us under the bus as collateral damage because they wanted to keep their purse strings going, or they wanted to keep their relationship with this current administration, starting with Fauci, because when Faucci was standing behind this food, when he was talking about this, and Faucia is supposed

to be a scientist, which I never trusted him since the Reagan years with the age benefic Ya don't want to get me started on that, because he said a z T will kill age. It did kill age. But in missed of killing the age that killed your pancreas, your liver, your goll bladder, and every and then it killed you. So the age died with you. So I didn't trust to him since then. And I said what I said, turn him to my house. He shorted me,

I would drop their any who. I never trusted him since, but when they had that opportunity, when you were standing behind him, and one time Trump was saying something outlandish. I don't know what day, every day he said something outlandish, but Foulci put his hand down and put his head down and start laughing as if I'm he's lying to y'all, and I'm seeing him lying, and I can't even take this lap. You should have spoken then, because that we,

the American people, would have heard you. We would have had something to believe. The unsurety of this pandemic and what was coming from the top has scared the hell out of all of us. It's scared the hell all of us. I'm with you, I am so with you. I mean, I've seen I've had friends who died early on, you know, from AIGs I've had, and and and the drugs. You're right, the drugs will killed early on. The drugs will kill you. I remember that and I remember how

you know those drugs. If you're on this drugs, you can't eat this kind of food, you can't do It was crazy, um. And now the drugs have come, They've come a long way. But I'm my question is you know, I'm i'm i'm I'm looking at the science. I'm reporting. I'm watching the three companies UM now that have something very close. But the question is will there be trust because of what happened with AIDS? Will there be trust

because of Tuskeg as well? I'm glad you brought that up because there are four two of we knew of HBCUs that are giving these students seventeen hundred dollars to be lab rats guinea pigs, two of which are in Louisiana. What are the Xavier and Dillard? And I know people are type of money. I know this is a rough, rough time, but I need somebody to get in these young kids here, because you know, when you're young, you

think you're invincible. You're in college, you can conquer the world, but you're still a human in your body is still flesh and bone. You take this and you get the SEV you will never be allowed to live it. You gonna turn into a damn zombie. And personally, I hope they have to ask their parents permission. But just to let you know, the president of Dillard is also in the trial as well. He's taking it to He's in the trial. The president of Dillard, the president of Dillard

University is in the trial. He wouldn't he would have to give me the dose out the same needle that he's taken because I'm not trusting nobody. Let me tell you something, miss April girl. I'm let me. I'm already figured. I'm already you know. They say flame you have to be politically correct. I said, I got a breast and a penis. I'm not even anatomically correct. Please don't tell me what to say or what to do. It's a whole lot of movement parts over here. I'm scared if

I take the vac say something else gonna grow. But you know what, you're human being, this humanity. I'm a beautiful human being and gorgeous love your girl. I'm seriously, I mean you are. I mean, look, I'm sitting here looking at the pictures you there and all the pictures on our gem like I need to come for some tips. But I'm like, okay anyway, Um, But what I'm saying is we all are human beings. We all are human beings. And I say this and it's almost with tears in

my eyes. Politics is not about party. It's about people, and it's about humanity and what we are watching right now, it is wearing a mask, to wear a mask or not to wear a mask. It's it's political. It's about your life. My uncle, my my late mother's brother, who will who I just talked to on the phone. He's in Philadelphia right now. He had bladder surgery and then he went for transfuction. Been in the hospital for about a month. Thursday they said he had COVID nine two

years old. And listen to him on the phone breathy. I just wanted to cry. I didn't say anything to him myself. Uncle Paul, You're gonna be all right, he said, you know, it's in God's hands. I'm like, and I'm like, this didn't have to be and it's it's said. I mean, I've lost other people, but it just hurts my heart. He's going to be ninety three years old if God allows it. On January nineteenth, the day before the inauguration, ninety three years old, and he's laying up in the

hospital with COVID. Why because this president called it a hole tea don't want to wear a mask and all this foolishness. But he only paid seven hundred fifty dollars for taxes, and our tax dollars saved. It's life when everybody else is gone. You ain't hear that for me? Ms April. Let me ask you a question, because you were there with her, and I know you met Ruth Beta Geinsburg, the late great Miss Ruth Beata Ginsburg. How was she? You know? Because when she died, we were like,

oh my god, we lost, we lost. And so I went back to a teaching that my grandmother taught me when I was a kid, and she said that we're all here only on loan. I felt like Ruth had struggled so long with cancer, so many different versions of cancer, losing her mother, her husband, so many people that she

was like, I can't do no help here. So she left ten eleven days before the elections, go personally talk to God in his ear to say, look, my people need help do this up there, because she had a lot more impact up there with him than down here with us. This is how I've seen her, because people like, oh my god, I was like, no, she she knew. She was a strong, fighting monster. And when I say monster,

I say monster with love and affection. Y'all. Don't don't get it twist y'all, oh flame count No, I'm saying that that as a beastly, that she she saw what she wanted, she pushed through for women's rights, and so when she did, we did feel like, he mean, she should have held on for eleven more days. But I felt like my grandmother told me that before that we're only here on loan, that she went to do more help for us. Was she a sweet woman? To you?

She was. Her body was tired. Um. When you see someone like that, it's like I still get awestruck, you know. It's like when I met met Mandela, it was like I couldn't believe it someone could be that convicted in their spirit to put their life on the line literally for others. She worked for equality, She worked on women's issues, and she defied the odds and prayed to the gods to last just a little while longer. She didn't give up her seat on the Supreme Court because she knew

what Donald Trump was gonna do. She's hung around as long as she could and her body gave out. She could have easily every time something happened, every time she had pneumoni or some kind of issue pack criticascer or whatever that came up, she could have easily walked away. She didn't. And that kind of strength, it's more that is something supernatural, that is a strength that you don't

get every day. That's the strength of Nelson Mandelada. He forgave those who persecuted him Nelson mandel A lot of people don't know this, but we couldn't take pictures with flash with Nelson Mandelda because when he was working in the quarry some of the lines don't got in the back of his eyes and if if if the light able to refracted and caused a lot of problems in this with the site. He went through so much for

Africans in South Africa to first class citizenship. Because how long was he imprisoned is abl twenty seven years something like that. He was in prison for a while. He was in prison for for that several decades. Yes, seem that couldn't have been me first day. Baby, I'm telling them everybody, just I'm telling see like that's the determination, like Harriet Tubman head, because if I would have got away, I wouldn't coming back. Y'all want y'all own and see.

That's what I'm saying. That's what That's what I'm saying. See what you know. We get up on Instagram, we gotta pose and all that to try to show you I'm this, I'm that, But look under you know, get the sub story, get the backstory. That's the story I want. I don't care about all that post and you might see me pose that's but get the backstory. Oh, speaking of posing that picture with the microphone, Oh April, I

love that picture of your That picture is boss. Let me say that picture is so BOSSI with the microphone like that, I'm like, oh, she looked gangster. I bet you the dang are you from Baltimore? You ain't gonna say nothing. El I know how y'all did, baby, I know how y'all did. Mr al Let me ask you another question before we get off of here. I want to know how was Mr John Lewis personally because we know his history. We know so many stories of how he just took on the baddest bridge, how they beat

him across the head. And he's been in the civil rights he's he's still with Martin Luther King. He's still would be our rusting. A lot of y'all don't know who be our rusting is by our rustin Look it up, Please look him up, because he was mind you that the LGBT community has been involved in politics long before we was popular to be involved in politics, right, first class citizenship for everyone. Re godless of where you come from? What any what any orientation? Gender raised, what have you?

Sexual orientations? Been around a long time and bear Rusting was a monster. He was a month So whatever you don't, don't tell me yet, Make them have that. Make them have their quiz for the next time you come on so they can tell you on the I g live. Have class, have class, teach them, teach them, Yes, teach me some class. But you know, I'm gonna throw back. How was John Lewis? What's he's? He? A friendly man? So John Lewis was the most wonderful man I ever met.

And he was shortened stature but large and love um. I would see him and he would always make it a point to come, no matter he's seen me across the room, and he started moving towards me, and people would stop him and shake his hand and everything, but he kept coming, and I just stood there and waited. And it may have taken him half an offer. He'd come to me, how you doing, I'm good. I love you so I love you too, and he want to always see how it was because he knew that I

was going through some stuff. He also knew that um I was one of the few people asking questions about us at the time. And game peeps, game, you know. And he had a heart for people. But he also had a heart for peace. I remember one time being angry about something. I was at Roland Martin's show, yeah years ago, and and the Congressman was coming in and I said something to the effect of I'm so angry. I'm so angry. He said, I'm with you no matter what you do, but you've got to do it peacefully.

I said, okay, and we just started laughing. He broke the tension. But he believed in peace. Peace work. He believed, and no matter what you had to say do it peacefully, because you get further with peace, farther with peace than you would violently. Non violence was his was his, was his being, was its essence. And I missed him the day Biden was elected officially, which was that thirty after that Tuesday, and we finally got I put right on my Instagram page, please now bring April White Ryan back

to the White House. Correspond because I miss you. I put that on my you. That was me. I started a campaign to bring you. I wanted you back and see and I didn't know that you that'll be back in I'm gonna be back, and we're gonna be doing something. I'm making some I believe that. I believe that this moment is a moment of creativity. Even in the midst of all of this pain, I said, I'm going to go low and get the press, which I can do, or I'm gonna find out other ways to put the

message out and just stay tuned. There's more comments and I won't Monday is promised land with President Barack Obama. Stay tuned for the time. Girl. Tell tell President Obama that me and my child I make I have a huge book and a huge picture of him in my home because when I tell you, he gave me such hope, such joy, and such belief when I saw him, because I'm from Chicago. So when him and Michelle came out, when he actually got the nomination, I was not in Chicago.

I was in Houston, Texas. And when I song, um him get that, and people would just overwhelmed. And it gave me such hope. It's not only as a black man or a trans woman. It gave me hope as an American that I can be and do anything I want to be. This brother then pulling it off, and then Michelle came out of her red and black Target dress. I said, girl, I got that dress. That was Jay Crew. It was Jay Crewe. I think I got the knocked

off from Target. Though Michelle is so bond. Michelle is Chicago South side of the first shout out to Chicago, my hometown. I love my city. But Michelle is a big baby. Let me try something. You don't want to walk up on Michelle. I know all that. First lady. I'm telling y'all now, you don't want to walk up on Michelle. I'm telling you Oprah to see Oprah from Chicago. But she stayed in Chicago long enough, y'all think open, nice, Open, got a bodyguard named Gayl. That's what y'all know. Gail

ain't just her best friend. Baby Michelle would drop you by miss Gell. Did you see how she coined Robert R. Kelly like birth. I'm like, okay, if Gail get up, she's gonna floor you so bad. And you know what, Ms Ryan, you have just gave me the greatest compliment I wanted. That's what I wanted you to leave this show. I wanted you to be able to say that you had a great time. Thank you for that. I enjoy you. I think you're amazing. Thank you, Ms Ryan. I appreciate you.

You are the bed I'm ready for you. Get back in there and let me tell you something. I know that Joe Biden is not gonna put your ovelope with you, but if you ever need a bodyguard that they won't know that your bodyguard call me. You got my novel called me. But you know what, I'm gonna tell you something. I'm gonna tell you something. The White House is going to be open, and it's they are saying it's gonna reflect America. I want you to hold them to that.

Thank you for that. Mr. Everybody. I'm telling you we got some soldiers on it. But I wouldn't be a good spokesperson for our community because I say things sometimes that ruffle people's feathers. But I want to I want to speak about these soldiers that we have that go on unmentioned. SORRYA Saint Claire out of Louisiana, Tatiana Moor

now Chicago, Valerie Spencer here in Los Angeles. These girls are trans women who have been on the battlefield fighting for trans rice and equality invisibility for such a long time. And now we got a trans woman on the Senate. Baby, let me tell you something like Virginia Slams. We've come a long way, baby, and black women the same, black women taking over. I'll tell you my mom is a black woman. That's why I emulate a black woman, because I know black woman a beastly. I wanted to be

a beast. April Bryan white House corresponding Fantastic mother, author, corresponding journalists. The next time you want see any n, you tell um um uh Anderson Cooper that I love him, and you tell that, damn, what's the big Italian name you tell Chris Pomo that I would I would crush bricks for Chris Pomo. That is a monster baby and wonderful way. Everybody has a crush on Chris Walmar. I know his who the brother, and I ain't gonna be able to pull Andrew a little little out of my league.

He's just a little to you. I gotta type and he don't cut the age require but that Chris koo good guy. Let me I know his wife is a heavy woman. Every time she think about him taking his clothes off, she just stopped doing jumping every time Chris is working out and yeah, yeah, I'm like, but no, he's a He's a nice guy. And Anderson is wonderful. I love me some Anderson, and I love you some. Chris. I'm I'm a blessed woman to be able to hang around with those people. Those What you are is an

amazing role model. Thank you so much for doing this. I appreciated, heart me and Nick Smith laugh and learned. Ms Abra Ryan lations you. White House corresponded, thank you so much. It was a pleasure to meet you. Baltimore, Baltimore's finest baby. I want to talk with Lauren Hogan about AIDS Healthcare Foundation. You know, we are the largest global nonprofit servicing HIV and AIDS in the world. We are in sixteen states domestically, including Puerto Rico in Washington,

d C. And forty five countries globally. World Aid's Day is coming up, which is on December one, which is this Tuesday. So you know, you guys kind of touched on it with Miss April when we were discussing it. But there are some similarities, you know, between AIDS and coronavirus. You know, we're seeing some similarities there. So with that, we decided to have a theme this year of AIDS the other pandemic, just so people can understand, you know,

that AIDS is still very much an issue. You know, people think now because everybody may not you know, it's not a death sentence anymore. It's not as serious as it is. But there's still you know, sixteen million people globally who are infected with HIV and don't know their status. I saw a statistic report with Let's saying that people who take the AGE medication to answer it is supposed to be a blocker for coronavirus. Is that any founded

found foundation? Today? I saw that twice. Actually, that's interesting. Uh. They said that the anti retro American medicine supposed to be really good to fight coronavirus. I'll tell you what else works, lisol spray a bit either or oh well. So AHF has rehired me, ladies, gentlemen to do the HF burlesque campaign. So thank you very much for HF. I ain't got my check yet, but I love you. Michael. Michael Minstein is the CEO, and I met him last year when I was doing it, just on the whim.

He was in the audience and I can semeil the money and I went right to him because that's who I am, my sale money. But we thank you guys so much for good joining us. Thank you my special wonderful woman Lauren Hogan. That's Lauren the Diva to y'all Lauren. And if you want to book me for something outside of this, you have got which is he she We bookings at gmail dot com. I also want to push my friend's coffee up and at HM this is up and at him he has his coffee. So y'all order

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we can follow Lauren on oh Instagram. I am Lauren ARMANI h on Instagram and that's really my main platform to be honest, Ye wor at HF, so you have any questions, And what I wanted her to come was that I wanted her to be a face not of representing HF as a client, but as an employee to let you guys know that because so many people think that the myth is that HF only caters to gay white men. Yeah, and I mean, I appreciate you addressing

that because I think that's a huge misconception. You know, one key thing about HF is we have affinity groups

and it's really geared toward target outreach. So we have specific groups for you know, the black community, Latino community, um for gay men in general regardless of you know, your racial background, and also you know, for the Latino community and for women specifically, we have a group called Spark, So you know, we really want to make sure that we're getting into specific community so we can do the work.

You know, that's a huge misconception. It's not accurate, and we're all about diversity inclusion and every day we're taking strides to make sure that we follow suit. So just in case you were wont she's the manager. Now you know why. I thank you guys so much. I will see you all next week. You all have been amazing.

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