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We leave it with just a lift dispirit. You think you want to revisit, so your first take a list of your folks. Say it slip all folks that we dig it. No kiss, do what you do, No kiss, do what you don't, No kiss do what I do? No flame. Flame. Welcome afternoon, Flame, Lauren Hogan. How are you? I'm good, and let's welcome everyone to laugh and learn

flame mats where you at chimming and coming in? Come on through, Come on in room Hello everyone, Hello, triple Hello, Kendo, welcome everyone to laugh a land with flame, Nick and Loreen Hogan. That's what Loreen Hogan. We are off to a wonderful the first the first day of February also Black History Month, Hello, Nick, I'm trying to make sure I'm not too close. Are you looking around? Wonderful? Sounds good? Hey? Happy Black History Month, ladies. Your beard looks fantastic. Did

you just freshly get it done? I did? Uh? Brother Lamont Kimball Black owned business here in Little Rock. He's doing his own thing and flame. He was a victim of COVID. Uh so he was able to bounce back. And he has a young son with asthma. Hope. I'm not sharing too much of his business, but he shared this. You know the barbershop, everybody talk uh okay. So yeah, but he's doing well. He's back and I'm happy to support. So yep, Well, thank you for joining us today. Mr

Smith gonna have to tell you that he couldn't. He's like, Nick, how is it working with that funny motherfucker? It wasn't. It wasn't Laurence. So I'm just go let's say I know what the language I know, So that's it. But that's it. I just have to let you know people think you are a funny MF. So there you go. I take I'm an m and I'm an FF. I'm just saying you ask you said I'll just repeat what Lauren looks exactly pretty today, don't she. I didn't look at Lauren, and then I just looked, you look so

pretty today. Look today. I only get dressed for you guys. Well, at least in the face. I got on sweats. There is a saying that it's a universal truth. It's impossible to not be a beautiful woman if you graduate from Spellman. So that's like people people know that that's just a period period. I love that. That was an ass kissing lane. If I've ever heard O. That's just one of those things they say, good morning Black History Month. So let me let me give you all a tad bit of

black history from my perspective. I at atually I'm part of history because I was the first transgender stand up comedian to ever do comic view. Now, I wasn't the first drag comedian to do comic view because because Amazing Grace made she Rest in Peace also did she did def Jam and she passed on. But yeah, I'm the first, the very first, And I remember how it literally upset the room, as in the comedy was good people, uh flame.

People are always surprised by the first of anything, and then when it meets and exceeds their expectations, they're like, well, I didn't know that was gonna be that funny. Well what did you expect? You know? So yeah, this kind of touches onto what Joe was talking about, how there used to be theme nice for different things like that. Well, in two thousand and four, I was on the circuit here in the l A and uh Chris Spencer, I know if you guys remember him, he hosted a show

called after Dark and something years ago. He's a comedian and actor. He made a phone call to a producer Joyce Coleman and BT and say, hey, I want you to put this person on the show. Just like that, I have to audition on anything. When I got there, they were terrified of me. They actually tried to push me as a woman. In two thous I'm like, now, I've been a lot of things, but I ain't gonna pass as nobody's a woman. Y'all know if the body was banging and I was young and slam, but I ain't. Look,

I was never one of the possible girls. And I accept that part about me. I was cool with that because you know, if you came to play you had to play with everything. But anyway, they were so terrified of what I was gonna say and how people were going to receive me that they would not push me as because BT back then in two thousand and four as a trans comedian, because they was like, oh my god, we're terrified, what are you going to talk about? Woo woo. So I'm like, just sit back. But that was the

show that Ricky Smiley hosted. And he came in my dressing room and held my hand and say, you're the first one. Go out there, do your thing, have a good time to represent. And that made it all better because I went out there and I killed it, and you know, the rest is his and here we are, here and in flame. For those who don't know who Ricky Smiley is, give us a little bit of background

because everybody should come ago knows rookie. But I'm not sure that everybody who may be listening and chiming into laugh and learn. Ricky is a comedian from Alabama, has a radio show. What is the radio show called Morning and they have the other one the dish, right, Yeah, So and Ricky was just he was just a cool dude. I'm telling it. Makes it easier when your constituency that work with you except you for who you are and not what they want you to be. And that that's

all that was. That year was great. The next year didn't go so well because it was a different hose with a different energy. Energy is very transferred. Butle y'all need to know that energy is transferred. He transferred good energy to me. I transferred to the TV. After that, they was in love with me. Talk to us, talk to us about this week as we're going here, because you've had a busy week and what we all have Lauren, Lauren has been working, You've been working. I taped um

we did the second year of my second year. This was their third year of the hf's International Condom Day campaign. That's just how that's how I met Lauren. She was over that last year and this year they we couldn't travel, so we did a video, which was much harder than traveling. Taping is harder than life theater and let me just saying that and tell them why though, because you have to redo and redo and retake an over and know and they had to get a certain visual shots. But

that wasn't even the most challenging part. The most challenging part was I had to do stand up no audio. I couldn't even see me talking to me. So they were in the room, but they couldn't make a sound because the audio picked up everything. So I was trying to tell stories and jokes to entertain myself, but I couldn't even see the look on my face. So it was very challenging. But you know, I'm a professional bitch.

I brought it off, baby because it was a check right side checks, and so much about live performance too, was about that feedback immediately, and you couldn't get that. You couldn't well, I didn't have a bait. I love the fact that you're learning to hear, because y'all bait me. See, I had to. It was just go go, I'm not I'm a warman bach. You gotta I gotta seaze into it. It's like getting sex without the warm up. I ain't no gold go what is the hell's go? Jump? No one?

You don't you count the three or don't you look back at something? Go? I'm like, okay, But we made it work, and when it comes out on February, it's going to be visually beautiful. Those were some of the most talented children from this year and let you those kids good dance amazing. So you guys, it's going to be free. It's going to be live stream on HFS website. I'll have all the link and all the information EP

as soon as I get it. And you you should watch your free I mean you should watch it that night because once they put it on YouTube, they might monitor the music and you won't be able to here, and so it won't have the same effect we do week. And we do want to remind everybody because I can see some of the flame Thatt's sounding off that if you want to join the conversation, jump on in there.

Make sure you're sitting in good light, you've got those headphones, and that you use a flame at the bottom so that we know that you're ready to join the conversation. Uh, My week was simple. Lauren and I had a chance to catch up also because we were talking yesterday Lauren, you and I talked about how we're just trying to find different times too in a busy day, still work out and um and so you know, mornings are my

are my time. Like I really enjoyed the mornings I've always been a morning person, though, even when I was a morning reporter, I enjoyed being up four in the morning, five in the morning because it's just quiet, and it's just that nobody cares. If you're listening to old Vanessa beil Armstrong song. You know, it's just it's just you and and and God. You know, you're just in your in your zin space, you know. And whatever happens to be stressing me on my mind, maybe the night before

that day. When you get up that morning, you start moving and exercise and for some reason all just comes together. It really does, yeah, for sure, And I think for me too. On a selfish note, I like working out at six i am because I wake up at four thirty and then I drive to where my trainer is. There's just no traffic. I hate traffic. So that's really my motivation and honesty. But on Sundays I started doing a beach workout one because you know, that person said

I was snacking. So I'm trying to make sure y'all can't talk about me anymore. Um So I took the snacking comment. I have been working out, But to your point, though, it is it helps me get back into the groove of things. I have a new energy, and you know it gets through the day. I hate breaking up at four thirty, but I am I am not a part of this conversation working out what that means. I got hand the mouth. But you're a morning person. You are. I am a morning person. But I'm not going to

the gym. I'm not going. I'm working out for the both of us. What's happening. I lost a couple of pounds because they had me dancing, and here we had four twelve hour days. I had twelve hour days with ten our heels, with six hour legs and four our feet. So yeah, it's like that, which kind of leads into my next point, flame twelve hour days. But you kind of had a little bit of vacation, if I'm not wrong, because the two of the teenagers are gone, the Lord,

my daughters are gone. Drama one and cross Dresser to is not in my house right now, and my house is where we free and my son has been very responsible, So thank you Jesus for the break. They'll be home Monday, but I'm enjoying my time. Where they gone? Any who, where are we going? Where we're going? I want to make sure we recognize Cecily Tyson. That's what we're gonna do before we jumped into anything else there um with it being uh yesty month, but also we knew that

we want to recognize her. Yeah, and I just want to do make a quick quote from what Viola Davis posted. It just really spoke to me. Um. She made an Instagram caption just to honor the relationship that she and Cecily Tyson had and just the phenomenal life that she led in this movie industry. So Um, she basically just said, you gave me permission to dream because it was only in my dreams that I could see the possibilities in myself.

I'm not ready for you to be my angel yet, but I also understand that it's only when the last person who has a memory of you dies that you'll truly be dead. So she said that to basically say, she's going to live on forever because she touched so many lives, She influenced so many people, and just broke so many barriers. So she will be in our history books to say the least. And um, we honor and cherish her memory and all that she did for us.

So thank you Cecily Tyson, absolutely, you know flame you and I've had a chance to talk about before, um because we're a little bit older. You and I remember Autobiography of Ms. Jane Pittman when it first came out. How seminal that movie was. And I think it's one of those things where we've also heard people say, give people their flowers while they're here, and I'm glad that.

I do believe from what I can see, because I didn't know Miss Tyson, of course, but from the outside, it seems as though she was allowed to get her flowers while she was here. Seems like she was celebrated by so many African Americans whom's whose lives she touched, who were able to bless her, um and in different ways, you know, as a professional and as the accomplished actress that she was. She made a lot of movies too.

We only know her mostly from some of the new The newer generation knows her for the Tyler period stuff. But Sounder, you know, she was in Sounder with what was the guy's name from Sounder. He was a great actor. Oh my god, I cannot think of his name, but he was a great at Paul Winfield. He had the best speaking voice. Oh my god, he had the most amazing voice. And uh, that was a great movie back in the day. And she was just she lived to

be nineties six. So when you would get to Holland who it's so said, and it is said, the passing is happening. But you know we're all gonna die. We all have to die. It is not about dying, and this is definitely about living. She lived a good life. The Bible promises seventy years if you live according to the Bible, anything after that is a blessing. She got twenty six years after that as a blessing, So hats

off to you. And she always looked good. Let me tell you something, Millie Jackson said, when you look good, you know you're looking good. Don't nobody have to tell you you're looking good. When you're looking good, you've got a different walk. She was ninety six years old and she could still get around and walk. You know how many people ninety six can do nothing? Ms? Ms, what's her name? Since cinccely Tyson because my man just won't blank. Sincely was making her corn perst baby, but sister was

making her change and looking good. And she always was a grand lady. She was always a grand lady. You know that. That's that's especially as an older black woman, because you get older, you get complacent. But I love the fact that whatever era she was from, she always

dressed up. I always dressed up for work. And if you'll remember, it wasn't a couple of years ago and one of the flame maths will remember, but she wore a hat to somebody's funeral and that became a meme because she wore one of the uh it became Cecily

Tyson's church hat became like a meme. And I can't remember if it was Michael's funeral or maybe it had to be more recent than Aretha, But I just remember her hat and her the way she the hat that she wore still in the show, and everybody talking about Cecily Tyson's hat. So yeah, I'm glad. I hope I pray that she I don't know what you did different today, but not only do you look better, you sound good today. You you very clear you took a bath or something.

Working with my producer Triuble, and I've been working on the audio to make sure it's right. So shout out to trouble. Kendall told me where to sit, and I'm using the window instead of using an artificial light. Sore. So that's what it was. Very professional. I don't care what they say about. Well, hey, maybe my mama watching mom a is you there? Mom? Rot peking in baby this week too, y'all got me. I found they gotta be And I'm no longer sleeping on the floor. Weapon

on the floor for how long? Not on the floor. You were sleeping on the mattress. People, was on the damn floor. When you owe and you got to get up out the bed and it's too low. It's like a task. It's like when you get in a car. That's why I drove to drive trucks so I can step out. Getting in the car is one thing. Getting peeling yourself out, you know, you have to roll out sometimes just harder. So I have a bed and I

broke it in yesterday, Thank you very much. I want to kind of start today with one of the things we were talking about, you guys, uh that we saw hit the headlines, and that was just the effect that COVID continues to have on the economy and on the community. One of the things that I read this week that I found, uh kind of interesting because it just never even dawned on me, is the cost of COVID and

how it's affecting nursing homes. Most nursing homes say that they won't be able to stay open another year due to the cost of the pandemic because they weren't expecting to have to pay the overtime, the ppe, the clean up, and the way they've had staff members get sick and they can't have, uh, two staff members now service the entire ward. You have to limit the interaction different people have, and they were not anticipating these costs. And the reason I mentioned that is that so many of us rely

on nursing homes to take care of our older relatives. Uh, there are a lot of people who depend on nursing homes to be that caregiver to their loved ones. And I think this may have a detrimental effect, you know, on a lot of people down the road that they're just not expecting. Yeah, and I think it's something unfortunate. Like up, speaking from personal experience, my great grandmother, like

I've said before, she turned a hundred and one in January. Um, she actually had a live in a because we didn't want to put her in a nursing home specifically. Um. But even with that, you know, when COVID hit, she couldn't be there anymore. So my grandmother went and got her because she's only like five blocks away from her

and she's been living with her. So it's really unfortunate that, you know, COVID has caused so many economic issues, and we're at the point now where you know, to your point, we can't have you know, nursing homes may not be an option, and everybody can't have the capacity to have the relative living with them. So it's just it's just an unfortunate situation to be in at this point. You know, it's about to be a lot of golden girls situations. Understand that a bunch of old folks about to be

living together. Y'all need to know that it's about to be a bunch of golden girls situations. That's it, Um. I don't even know if I want to be put in the nursing home. You wouldn't if I'm on one of those machines and just pull the plug, honey. I don't want to live like that. I don't want to body wiping my button and changing my drawers. I don't want you to do. I'm very independent. I don't want that, so I would rather you just get rid of me, honey,

just throw a bit in a can or something. I'm good. I think it's uh, you know, it's it's it's part of that whole uncomfortable conversation you sometimes have to have because you and I both know you also have relatives who get a little bit older and they still want to be so independent that they try to drive on their own, or they do different things, and you don't want them to be vulnerable or susceptible to crime or somebody coming into the house who does not have their

best interests at heart. So all these things are just uh, I think the best way around it. And you know, again, flames can chime in, but I think the best way to do it is to have that conversation with your loved one, to say, hey, what do we do um in different situations? What do you want when they what if they're not and they write from a man, they're not gonna know what to do? Let me tell you something. What's the man? Y'all? Keep it in Harrison for old

as flat planes. Take the damn keys. Just taken against Harrison. I love Harrison food, but keep he's not gonna keep crashing planes. How many times he crashed twice? Yeah, at least twice. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and no, hell no. Take to have the keys. And they're already thinking they out of their man just work with maybe wait, maybe you saying my keys. I ain't seeing them, Grandma writing

your pocket. I ain't saying them, Grandma. That's simple. But you know what's interesting too, though, Nick, I don't know if you've seen this as well, but Andrew Cuomo, Governor Cuomo is actually being investigated by the Attorney General Lettis as well for under reporting COVID deaths in nursing homes. So I'm curious to see how that shakes out. It will be interested to see how that shakes out. I

think a little bit of backstory to that. I think that there were different ways of reporting, right, and I think that the the the problem is um Governor Cuomo hasn't necessarily been as transparent MS. James argues, as he should have been with the number of people who are dying in different facilities. He says, yes, some of the people died in the facility, but they were already sick before they got there, and it may or may not

have been COVID related. That there are people who die in nursing homes who do die and it's not related to COVID, and that's where I think the investigation is going from. But he and Governor Newsom out of California right now are both under a lot of um, a lot of scrutiny because of just different ways they both governors have handled the pandemic. They with Newsome here too, they got scans all on the freeway. They are protesting against news and they hot with new I think they

want to stage a recall. Right, Yeah, that's been discussed as well too. Yeah so so so COVID continues to claim casualties clearly, and and not only the physical realm, but also the political realm um as well. There. So we'll see, We'll definitely see how it all shakes out. It's just one of the many things I think that we need to keep an eye on, because now where are we now with the COVID death numbers of you guys, I stopped looking at it, stop looking at and I

didn't stop looking at it because I don't care. I just was very busy this week, so I really haven't had a chance to look at the news a and then be if two million people passed, I'm still not taking the vaccine. So that's not gonna ben persuade my man, baby. And I'll tell you if I see one more company come out with a vaccine. You know, first, what was it? What was it at first? Lauren Fiser? Two shots had to be sub zero temperature, then it turned into one shot.

Different companies did it. It could be room temperature. First of all, don't like room timpt to water. I don't even like room timpt to sex. I like it to be hot. Secondly, yeah, I'm not interested in taking any of that. You guys knew what you want to do, but I'm not taking him when you went some ships off. All in all, call me hey, Well, speaking of casualties,

I think we can shift into the next topic as well. Nick, you and I talked about this yesterday, is that over the weekend, Trump's legal team for his impeachment trial actually quit on him. Yes, dude, and that happened due to he wanted them to argue that the election was fraudulent allegedly now his false person his his his false first before his team. UM has since come out and said that, UM,

that's fake news. But according to sources, and according to reporting by The New York Times, that's indeed what happened. That the legal team for President Trump wanted to mount a defense on the constitutionality of whether or not one can impeach uh a person who is no longer in office. Uh. Mr Trump wanted them to argue the fact that the election was false. Um. And UH. The challenge with that is you cannot argue something you know not to be true as a licensed attorney and want to hold onto

that license. And so they would do it. Yeah, they would not do it. He has though since then, we are happy to report, Um. He has. Indeed, since then, Lauren hired two new attorney to con Please tell me one of the Miss Juliani. I just want to make sure he actually two controversial attorneys. They have a record of being very controversial in the cases that they argue, So go ahead, please, they are Indeed, they are David Showing and Bruce Castor Showing, an attorney from Georgia numbers

amongst his clients all sorts of reputed mobster figures. Um And also does not believe that Jeffrey f Stein killed himself. He was he was supposed to represent Jeffrey. I agree with him on that one. And then Mr Caster is an attorney from Pennsylvania and the former district Attorney um And.

He's known for his decision to not prosecute Bill Cosby in two thousand five after Andrew Constat accused the comedian of sexual assault um And he said that, you know, in seventeen he sued um Ms Constant for deformation, claiming she destroyed his political career. So okay, here, here, here it is. Guess what those two lawyers are already paid because y'all not y'all not my flamemts, because you know, we pride ourselves of having the smartest listeners on the internet.

But all you all who donated four hundred plus million dollars to that He's going to be the president again campaign, y'all already paid for his lawyers. Y'all already paid for because it's like cashp you ain't getting your money back you send the money to the wrong person. Yeah, you blessed them, Thank you. They hopefully they needed it. They're already paid. They're already pay because he don't need to

raise no money for that. So before he started saying I need money for legal fees, nigger, we already sent you from hundred and twenty million dollars that you owe from hundred and twenty million dollars to not not me because you know I'm not sending your ship. But I know my flame man's didn't need it. Nig. Did you don't neate to the Trump administration for you know? I did not? No, I did not you know, Um, yeah, yeah, I have to. I have to check with you, player,

because sometimes you'd be surprised at me. But you look so handsome today, Nicholas. If we were friends, I would probably try to push up on you. But you Oh yeah, I said probably. I said probably, don't don't don't don't don't run with don't run it with a little bit of shade. It is. It is this hardening to think that his whole legal team click quit, but they still got republ like it's in the Senate that's still pushing

his narrative. It's ridiculous. It is really what is the beach name, Let's what's called what is the beach name? Her name is Marjorie Taylor and she's actually in the house, bring in, bringing Marge. You come on, I got something for you, sister. She goes to work every day at the pushing the whole quand nine or what is it called and nine thing with her gone. She don't even

have to go through the mantal detective. So she goes up in here angry already talking about something should happened to Pelosi and what's the other one, Corteils, and she still got her job. That's that's BS on every level. That is BS on every level with this government. And you wonder why I won't take a vaccine from this government. If you don't know, well, let's let's add some context

to it, so I'll do this intro, Nick. So, Marjorie Taylor Green is an American politician and US representative for George's fourteenth Congressional district. And some Republicans and Democrats are calling on, you know, their stituents to stand up against her in terms of some of the controversial things she said and to your point of her, you know, making very threatening statements towards Nancy Pelosi and other folks that

are within congress Um. The claim is that she didn't before she was elected, so she shouldn't be held accountable because they decided to elect her anyway. That's the argument that's being made that bys they hold everybody else to count them. But this council culture would cancel everybody, starting with starting with what's his name, Kevin Hard when they wouldn't let him host for something that he said twelve years ago. No, everything is canceled, and they own Ellen's

asked about oh she people work for hers. Me. I'm not buying that she should be removed. That is a threat on somebody's life. And let me tell you something, lady. Let me let me move up a home fun for Pelosi if you want to, because you know Pelosi is might be funk whatever you want to. This weird coming off and I'm coming at you ain't gonna even recognize I'm gonna roll up on you like a brother. You're gonna think I'm the damn doing man. You ain't gonna

you see it. Comments I didn't grab that gun, and you're as you better leave my Nancy Pelosi. You know I love Nancy Pelosi. I think it's it's saying, it's really saying. It's really it really shows who America is. They keep continuing to show themselves again and again and again and more so, I think the Republicans and Nick, I'll turn it over to you after I make this

last point. Even a representative Adam Kissinger, I don't know if you've seen that today, he actually came out against and said, you know, Marjorie Taylor Green is a problem. And he's also supporting Trump's impeachment. And he said he's been getting like, you know, disownment emails from his family, from his friends and people saying, you know, you're the devil. How dare you turn your back on Trump and support Democrats? So the Republican Party as a whole is really experiencing

a break, is what people are saying. And um, it's Trump has really shaken up the whole dynamic of it. So yeah, indeed, Lauren and I don't I think this is where, uh, either we are ridiculously removed or something is happening where we are missing, um what the draw is, because I really do try to get it when I when I don't get it when people say, oh, you're gonna love such and such. It's so funny, you're gonna

love blah blah blah. It's it's the best thing ever Blair which project is the scariest movie you'll ever see. So you go and you're like, Okay, wow, what didn't I get? You know, what are we missing that so many people are willing to literally lay prostrate for President Trump, for former President Trump. I'm blown away by the number of people who will fall and take a knee uh and and and and kneel before his highness just to kiss the robe of him, of his garment, or you know,

just to be blessed by him. I'm seriously floored. I don't get where he moved into deity status, uh that people are just so uh enamored with him that they will literally walk away from everything that they know. I told you two weeks ago. This is because before he got into politics, he was a businessman who did business with both sides of the coin. He did business with

Republicans and with Democrats. He knows dirt on everybody. Yes, so he is in a position to destroy you because he knows dirt on you, illegal dirt as far as uh what do they call when you're building buildings and all that. What is that called? Yeah, real estate and with with building the buildings to all the materials, but the order construction from his hand is in all those pots. And as dumb as we think he is, and I do think that he's done, he's smart enough to remember

I hold the cards on you. I can pull the plug on you at any given time. The only people who challenges him are people who have never done business with him. I eat Nancy Pelosi, I e Kamala Harris, I et Joe Biden. But the people who have done business with him, he got the guns on them. He has. This is why they revert to not saying anything because I'm still not gonna understand that as a man ted cruise.

How are you gonna let him disrespect your wife publicly to to to the world and then you still sad with this, Nick, I'm just telling you he got dirt on people. Yeah, I think blackmail is definitely a key part of this because there's different stories that are around. I'm not going to say anything it's factual or true. I'm just simply stating what I'm reading is that you know the Lindsay Graham situation and going to the UK,

and there's this whole little boy you know component to that. Um, we don't know exactly what he is where you haven't read that. You haven't read that. So there was a two years ago or I think it was two years ago, Lindsay Graham was flying to the UK. He made about twelve trips to the UK, and there's supposedly he was doing something with little boys. It's not confirmed or denied. I'm just simply stating what I'm reading. So nobody hold

me accountable. But that is the story behind Lindsey Graham and why he flip flopped so drastically from to when Trump was elected to being a Trump supporters. Supposedly that's what it is. Everybody look it up. You can go and read it. It's not confirmed. We don't know it's true, but that is something that I've read in you know, news articles. I'm just gonna say this about that. Stevie wanted to can see that ship, you know. I think I think, you know, specifically with with with Mr Trump.

I think my biggest issue, if we didn't have an issue before, is the fact that now you have someone who clearly lad an insurrection against the House of congress Um, a House of Representatives and Congress. You know that this happened. Many of you were there and were yourselves moments from being victimized. Yet you still will not hold this man

accountable for the actions of those whom he incited. I just I just don't get it he got that story is not even a straight because you know for years I'm telling you, I know a bunch of the boys who do the dating sites and we rent porn, rent rent me, and it's called rent me. And whenever they have those big conventions Republican Democrat, let me, let me be honest, they say a lot, they make a lot of money doing those things. They go to those cities and they get picked up by a lot of statesmen.

That's what I'm saying. That somebody said Lindsay Graham name personally, but I've heard that from for years from personal friends. And to be messy. We'll just be a little messy. It's no different from if you know, the whole mail ordered bride thing situation as well, because there's some politicians where it's like, where'd your wife come from? So I mean, hell, we can't even say hell, we can't even say that

about Milannia. Milannia married Trump and all of a sudden, her whole family came over here and got green cards. So they're even saying that about her. But I'm just saying, let me tell you something about that Malanya. Y'all she gone that so I can see it. I don't know who the hell card B was talking about with the want because kry b Man had a whapp for her. Man kept cheating on her, and she married to him. Baby,

let me chat about Milanya. She went from being a uh escort to suppose allegedly allegedly to a model showing all her body, so she married the most powerful man in the world. Baby, let me check some about milan Ya. I don't know what you were talking about, Cardio B. You might have to whop, but that Milania got the baby because she became the first lady off of hers I'm thinking about getting me when I can go as far as at least the secretary of State. That's what

she was. Well, I think I think in Milannia's case, she was looking for a meal ticket to get her family out and just ended up becoming the first lady, which she wasn't too happy about. But yeah, it's my girl, Milania. I can't fight on that one. When it's good, it's good. And when you found the food, you found the food. Unfortunately they unloaded him on us for four years. But when you can find the food, you can find the food.

I just wanted to say with Marjorie Taylor Green though, I think that to kind of bring it back to how we started with her. The number of things that she has done, many believe literally moved beyond the pale right um. She has openly mocked UH survivors of the UH shooting at in Color Sandy hik Um, saying that it wasn't real, you know, and and it's is, I

don't know anything. I think that could be crueler than to maybe mock a parent who loses a child, right and and for you, Tobe, for you to say that now, I understand that what she has also said privately to them, Listen, I don't really believe that I'm sorry for your loss, but I support people who do, and I need to

represent my people, so I'm not sure. At that point, I'm like, then you really are morally corrupt if you will purposely say things publicly that you know hurt people uh, and you don't even believe it, but you want to hold on the political power, you know, in order to go forward with that that was released this morning on CBS that supposedly she has said h to uh parents of those who were victimized at Sandy Hik. Look, I don't really believe it, and so let's let's let's clarify though.

So the Sandy Hook situation from what I was reading, is she was not empathizing with the parents and basically saying that it wasn't accurate of all that happened in terms of Parkland. She actually was walking behind one of the students who was at the forefront of speaking out against gun violence and was mocking him as that he was walking across the street and basically trying to de

legitimize the experience of the shooting. So those are the two instances regarding her, just to clarify, but go ahead, flame um. Racism is a learning behavior. I'm even surprised that we have in this conversation about that. There is no Oh I'm shocked. I'm shocked up. They have been getting away with stuff just like this for years and

years and decades. She's just bringing it out if this was somebody of color, black or brown, they would have FBI, their phones will be tapped, they would probably be under the jail. So I don't even want to make an excuse for her. This is some ship that they are allowing her to get away with. And that's how I felt like about Trump. They allowed this food to do half the things that he did. Somebody is in control

of everybody flame. I think that what has people so surprised about this that they have censured and removed members before, And that's why everybody is surprised that why are you all continuing to let this go forward? That something very different is happening here. When Steve King of Iowa had said something about to The New York Times UH a few years ago about um, I don't understan where everybody's so upset with white supremacy, it did a lot of good.

They're like, whoa dude, this is just too much. Mid Romney led the charge to have him removed. In fact, he even they all thought it was just too much. You don't represent Republicans. We are not racist people. Well things that somewhere something has shifted that Marjorie Taylor Green is now and going back to something else you said. Flame.

There are those who also argue we can't remove her because she was fairly elect it and the people in Georgia love her, or people in her district they love her. She won Faarren Square saying many of these things before the election. We knew who she was before we elected her. She is. They're doing exactly what we elected her to do. Don't let my voice not to be heard. If you don't like what she has to say, vote her out next time around. That's black folks, Black folks in Chicago.

Y'all hear that that y'all voted Glory light footing in. She's not pleasing you. But ain't nobody mitching outside of margare Taylor Green's house. I'm just I'm just showing the hypocrisy of the other races. I don't want you always think that I'm against everybody else. I'm talking about us right now. I'm talking about us. Y'all voted her in. Give her a chance. I can't give this woman no chance. This woman is in Congress openly threatened to harm the House,

the Speaker of the House, as well as courtiers. She should be She should be arrested they should take away all her fire arms, she should lose all her pension and everything else, because if it was one of us, it would be way worse. And I'm not gonna see it in no other way. I'm gonna let you say

what you got, Sad. I'm ready to I'm just gonna say, though, that Nick to your point of people making that argument that she was elected, But we've expelled senators and you know, house representatives before you know, and I don't remember the exact dates, so don't hold me to it. But when they were still house representatives that supported the Confederacy, they were expelled. And I think the latest expulsion that we had was in the nineteen eighties, if I'm not incorrect. So,

Lauren al Franken, remember thank you? So yes, I know exactly what's saying thank you. I don't understand. That's how it goes back to him, like what is happening here that people are so hypnotized? What made Trump greater to them than Reagan? Reagan used to be the beacon of what Republicanism And we've we've all heard this before. Reagan was the great, communicated, best president that ever walked the face of the earth. He was like literally the second

coming of Christ. Too many. Um, So something happened along the way. Some then happened along. This is how I feel about. Let me tell what the Republicans are trying to do. They're trying to get their reputations back. Y'all elected to put this person in front of you'all to represent y'all. Y'all not gonna get it back. That will be a stain on y'all, and y'all's in y'all record for the rest of your existence. I feel about This

is how I feel about it. Mother had you, mother, love you, you know, and I mean and there is bipartisan support to half her removed. Um One, like I said, is Adam Kissinger. He's getting death threats and discernments and everything else from his family and um there's also another devil crowd on the other side of the idol of the Isle. I'm sorry, and they're working together to develop a strategy to have her removed. So we'll see if that happens. What's the black senator's name that made the

video and it was saying that she felt threatened. She had to look over Corey Bush looked like she gonna take her down. If she put them guns down, they had to go toe to toe. Ms. Marjorie, girl, you better put your duke some baby because Ms. Corey Bush. But she's feeling from a couple of people. I saw a video too. She walked into the Capitol and she didn't have a mask on, and the representatives yelling at her, saying put her mask on, and she put that mask one, yes,

yes she did. So she's feeling the problem is I wish she could take her mask off because she has a mask on. But we see who you really are. And I ain't talking about the mask for coronavirus. I'm talking about that other mask, that mask of hate that you're wearing. Or racism is a mental illness. So we got this mental illness bitch on the damn uh in the Senate. Is that what it is? Because you know, racism is mental illness. So we got a slow bitch

representing Georgia. Okay, Georgia, y'all did good with the blue on one hand, but that little part of Georgia where she's from. I'm just saying, but there's work to be done. Hey, I'm doing well. I'm doing well, now, you know. Quarries from St. Louis and she was getting ready to dusk. The Marjorie and sit and even their staffs. There's their staff people have had yelling matches about the mask. But the whole time Marjorie was on live trying to incite rhetoric, saying,

you see what what has come down to? You see what's going on here. She's definitely got an agenda and I don't know what it is yet, but we gotta keep watching her because they just gave out committee assignments and they put her on She shouldn't be on education. She's on education, labor and budget. So they need to take her committees and start isolating her UM because McCarthy's not going to deal with her if she she wants to keep the crazy, the craziness up, she really does.

Her husband's there, her all her kids are not there, but she her husband's there so and they own um a construction deal. So it's some kind of way, I know, because white folks don't come without an agenda that they're going to try to swing something or or grasphole of some power because that's their motivation, hate us for being who we are. Now, you know what if I don't want an abortion, then I don't have an abortion. If I don't like people with blue eyes, then I just

stay away from people with blue eyes. If I don't like going to the Synegalue, I don't go to the Synegale. But all these things, they've made a whole movement of disliking these people. Hate who Trump hate. I don't. I don't know one person that's getting up saying damn, I wanted some blue eyes. I don't wanna be white. Well wait a minute before y'all sefo y'all judge T. G. Jenney and think that she's racist because she said she got a blue id diep. So I'm just let y'all knows.

But she got a blue idea. If you joined Love Line, you know about that, and you know I do. I do have a blue idea, but you know there are and I have blue eyed friends as well. So when I make blanket statements, I have to speak from where people are suffering and not try to put on kid gloves to make everybody feel like, oh, she's not talking about me. Because on your way to the office today, if you saw somebody pull over the police pull over somebody to give them a ticket. You didn't stop and

said last week I ran that stop sign too. You kept on going. So if it doesn't apply to you what I'm saying, then don't be insulted. But we have to know positively what this movement is about. As long as they felt like we couldn't have what they had, they could stomach us. So we didn't have a black president. So we know that they're onto something. They've got a black vpre the smart as a whip. We know they're on something. Every sport we feel like we want to

compete in, we dominate that sport. When you look at blue eyed women, they want you around for necessary because they're dubbing your swag. They're trying to be you and be you better than you. They've always wanted to late with your men. And for these white men that are sitting around talking about what they don't like, if they had a quick fifteen minutes and they thought you buy into it, they've had them some jungle love. So all

this is to make them feel better. Because if you don't want these people, if you don't want this type of music, you turn to a different station on your radio, bringing up to you saying, hey, like me, you're gonna like me. I don't give a damn about what you don't. I love it. I'm getting vacan try to imitate, copy duplicate, But what's the model, Janet K know what? And and for those just tuning in what T T jan is talking about his cultural appropriation at its finest, Okay, that's

what it is. And uh to go back to Marjorie though, um I do want to touch on one point you made to her being on the Education committee, why it is so offensive and why people are so upset and Republicans are saying, oh, Kevin McCarthy is going to go have a conversation with her, which is not going to do anything, because there are reports to that he is the one that actually reports to some folks that are associated with Q and on. So it's gonna be you know,

it's gonna fall on deaf ears. But because of the you know, in sense tif and you know, just disrespectful comments she's made about you know, Parkland and Sandy Hook, that's why people are so outraged about her being assigned to the education community, because it's more of a slap in the face almost like all of what's happening on the Republican side of the aisle is intentional to cause hurt and more damage. And it's not like the education system can stand it any longer. We have four years

the best divorce. Dumbass. She just ruined the damn education systems and along with the COVID, the kids have not been in school since March of last year here in California and in so many other different states. We don't need. You don't replace dumb with even dumber with even dumber,

because she's even dumber and she's even more racist. And we'll never get black histories taught in schools because they don't teach black history in the schools that my children go to a long beach because of the district that we live in. So if they don't learn it at home, they won't learn it. We are in a situation, I said it the end of the day. We have been in some ship and we're still in it. But we have shovels, and I'm gonna need us to get some

mini shovels because we need to micro we do. But also to this is gonna be a defining point in history though, and that's also to what's being talked about more is which side of history are you going to be known for standing on which side of the aisle? Are you gonna be on the side where it's convenient for you because you know, Trump may have some blackmail on you, or are you gonna be on the side of right? That's what it is. And you know what,

everybody can't spend twenty years in Congress. So if that means that you had to be the mortar and stand up, then be that and be known for something then falls or anything. This woman moved out of the district of her home, which is not uncommon, but to move to a district where she thought and she did win it. It's so it's so crazy. I mean, I just don't know anybody who says, you know what, I want to be with you white people. I woke up and I'm

piste off. I've been trying to bleach my skin. Nobody's trying to warm up to these people. They're entertaining their own selves with stupid Well, you said at the beginning of your conversation, I'm sorry that there's a method to the manness. There is always a method to the man yesterday, Well, I also do want to acknowledge that all of these far right extremists too, they're not all white. Let's also bring that in because, for instance, the leader of the

Proud Boy is his first name is Enrique. So here's the one who he's not a founder, he's their heads. He's the leader of the Proud Boy like the head hunt. But his name. But my point is, my point is his name is Enrique. So we still all of these folks that are the far right extremist racist groups, they're all not white, so we also need to acknowledge them to those are those folks are trying to assimilate and be a part of white supremacy. However, they are not white.

So we've got those groups of folks too. You've always saw that there are some they're gonna sell out themselves because they want a larger chrome. It's not like the world's gonna see them any differently. As Oh Jake asked Tiger, they still see you as such. You've just been selling out yourself and as soon as they got a chance to put their foot on your neck, that's just what they do. I know their canvas owns out there. We know then we know Pierre, I don't know his last name,

who's a correspondent. I mean that fight this and stands up Paris. Oh my god, let me get you like because you had went too deep for me. And I'm not used to you going so deep, Jane, because girl, you had got aggressive. I had almost got turned on. Girl. If you don't knock it off, got voice myself. Jee who's your super Bowl prediction? For the Super Bowl? Who

are you going with? Well, I'm going I like people, and so since my guy is Patrick, I'm going with Patrick Homes for the Chiefs all day, every day, thank you. And that's not gonna with the experience. Is Tom you mean the Trump supporters? You mean the Trump support time. Don't getting no love from me at all? Now I do have a prussure on his wife if I was gonna go there, But Tom don't get love from me at all? Patrick my home? Oh no, no, no, I'm

definitely what's going with Kansas City? Yeah, okay, I get Tom Brady to Oh he needs to all this now. I ain't got passing with those with those shrinking the balls like the shrinks and balls. Okay, thank we always appreciate you, Thank you, my god, Jane said, Baby, I'm like he's about to come through this phone. She got Piste so vespers here. I think I saw Mark earlier. I think Cash is here, thank you. The family is here,

so I want to make sure. I just want to share a quick story with you all because I want to begin with an apology. Last week I made a joke about we've been talking about the weight loss and just the exercising, and I had mentioned at one point, I said, you know, part of my struggle is because of me and my love for bread. And I said specifically, I'm addicted to bread. Well, I got pushed back on that,

and I'm just gonna share with you guys. I got that from my mom and um, I hadn't thought about it, and she says, Nick, don't joke about stuff like that, and UM, I said, oh Mom, it was. It was just a joke. She says, I know, but that could offend some people. And I said, that was not my intentions. So if I offended anyone, I apologize because me saying that I was addicted to bread may have come off to some that I was making fun of addiction. That

was not my intention. Because I then shared with you, and I'll share with you all because I do believe that addiction is a disease, and I did not want to make fun of anyone who may be suffering from the disease of addiction. So well, I don't think you need to apologize for it, Nick, because I didn't take it that way. I didn't. I know your mom took it that way. But and as someone who has family members and close personal family members battling addiction, I didn't

take it that way. I didn't, So you're totally fine. I want to address the addiction is a disease topic bullshit. Let me say and if it's if it's any addics, and I'm talking about drug addiction. I don't know about no other addiction. But this addiction is a disease is bullshit. Unless you're born into a crackhead mother as a baby, you're born into it. You are already addicted as a newborn baby. That's a choice. Y'all can say what y'all

want to. That's a fucking choice that you made. And in order to understand how that feels, speak to the child of of an addic parent that was old enough to see their mom or dad doing things that they should have never seen their parents due for a fix or for a hit, be a child that had went to the meetings with their mother to hear the addicts could laugh and joke about turning tricks in the alley, rolling of the car us, sucking a dick for ten dollars,

and but they didn't remember your birthday. They didn't remember that you need to go to school. They didn't remember our food for your house. I'm gonna raise my hand because I'm the bitch I'm talking about. My mother was an attic for twenty five years, but that was a choice that she made because she went through a broken heart. It's always another way, but we sometimes choose the way that's going to take the pain away. I'm not bashing my mother. My mother has been clean for thirty years.

I'm very proud of my mother. But I'm talking about what I've witnessed as a child and the ship that I went through. And I hate when addicts, especially drug addicts, say, oh, it's a it's not a disease. It's a fucking choice that you made wherever you were in your life at that time, and you made that decision. That's a decision that not only you have to live with, but whoever you are responsible for it has to live with and

it stays with you forever. I'm gonna go back to seven Club, raised in Chicago, my girlfriend Karen Alexander, who is still allowed to this day, but and one of the most talented queens I've ever met in my whole life. The same thing now that the guy in the back was passing around. He went to a Million, say you want to bump? She said no. He went to Erica Christians, said you want to bump? She said no. He came to me and asked me that I want to bump. I said no. He went to Casey Cortermain. May she

rest in peace. She took it. She was addicted from that night on. Karen Alexander took the hit. She's been addicted from that night on. She has had a stroke. She is in a wheelchair. She's still alive to tell her story, and she's my friend, and she knew I was gonna tell this story today. But that was a conscious choice that she made as a twenty one year old. Understand me. Stop using that crutch to say that fucking addiction is a disease, just like they saying mental illness

and racism is the same thing. You made a choice to do what the funk you wanted to do. And if I sound like I'm upset about and I'm angry, i am because I think that that is a cop out. And until we accepted for what it is and see if what it is, we're gonna keep on holding on to. Oh, it's addiction. He addict. My mother was on drugs, my father dad, who I didn't really know from cross other liver. It was always a conscious choice for me never to

smoke or drink. Now, I got introduced to hannibals about two years ago, and bitch, but have every sense. But had I taken that fingernail that night, because I can see it as vibly as I'm talking to you, had I wouldn't be this person right here, right now. That's all I'm saying. That's a cop out to me. So, if you're addicted to something and you made the choice to constantly do it, and do it and do it.

If you know that you don't have that strong enough gene in your constitution or your DNA to fight, why even go and do it the first time? If you know you're gonna mess yourself up, That's all I'm saying, and you have people that are responsible for you, because for a very long time I held onto that anger with my mother for a year. And not only I'm sure of me, plenty of other children. What about the

ones that go to jail? And you know that kids are you never apologize to your children to me, because I don't think you could ever make that up and keep holling, oh it's a disease. A lot of you guys who get clean and sober with the whole twelve step program, you'll need thirteen most steps, because you'd be cleaned from the drugs, but you still have the drug mentality.

That's worse than being high. That's fucking worse than being high. Sorry, Y ain't mean to go downhead of it's so and I think to flame and wow, this is why I think it's so powerful. It's because you know, um, I watched you raise your little brother, and I think that that's why your kids are so I don't know. I think that's why they're so independent, so smart, and so so like you. You you made sure none of the

things that you experience. It Again, I don't want to speak for you, and I will stop here there they've never had to worry about the lights being on, they've never had to worry about refrigerator not being full. Uh, they they've never been without you give them saying that that you've always made them a priority. And I think that that is also what has made you a caregiver. You've cared for me. You know you've cared for me. And don't cry. I'm not you not. I told you

about that. I will come through this phone on your as that relationships matter, you know, and uh, yeah they matter. I'll be right back, Lauren, go ahead and get Yeah. Sensitive, probably got some good sex, so he cried a lot. I'll say this, Um, I don't disagree with you. I don't. I totally acknowledge what you're saying, but I will say I'm I'm kind of in the middle on the argument.

And I say that because having a close family friend who was on drugs, homeless and everything else in the streets for over you know, for about ten years, and has been also cleaning sober for ten years. And I also currently have a family member who's addicted to drugs. We have no idea where he is having conversations where I think the disease argument sometimes is made is more so in the recovery and maintaining sobriety aspect of it

is what has you know, been explained to me? And I say that because if we if we give an analogy like diabetes for an example, that's a disease, you can get over it, right, you can. You can get over diabetes. But I see it as when you're diabetic, you have different triggers that can you know, throw off your blood sugar level and not have you um in a state of stability in terms of where your blood sugar is. But you don't necessarily be born with diabetes.

Diabetes could be something that was already in you. You choose to do drugs, no no, no, no, no no no. But but that's that's to my point though you even mentioned how you know, some babies are born because they're cracked babies, and then there's other people that decide to get on drugs. So it's a choice. That's what I'm saying. When you said that part, I absolutely agree with you.

But I'm saying I think the disease argument could possibly be made is in terms of maintaining your sobriety in your recovery, because like I was saying, with diabetes, you have different triggers that can throw your blood sugar of balance, and that's something you constantly are going to have to battle with, you know, drug addiction and overcoming that, You're going to constantly have to battle with different triggers that might want, you know, trigger you to go get that fixed.

But it's going to constantly be be a battle that you have to deal with for the rest of your life to maintain your sobriety. So that's why I'm saying, I understand. I think I'm kind of in the middle because I absolutely agree with what you're saying. I do. I I understand that it's a choice part. Like I said, I have a family member who is currently addicted to

drugs that I have no idea where he is. However, I also have, you know, a close family member who has talked about his recovery and what that's like and how he constantly has to deal with it. So and I think that's where the disease argument can be made. Those are my thoughts. I told her that she had to agree with me because I would have fought her. I'm just I'm just well, you never you never deny somebody's experience. I also don't believe in that because that's

your experience. You you know, had it firsthand. You never deny somebody's experience. You acknowledge it, and then you provide feed. That's how you actually have open ended conversations and you learn from one another. So hey, that's for Oh, hey, there's my white chocolate. How my white chocolate? How are y'all doing? Beautiful ladies, how are you so that we are struggling? You you hear the conversation, you hear the emotion, you hear the roller coaster round y'all know when I'm

at home, this is how I talk. So I ain't gonna change me for nobody's Let's do it. Yeah, and and and when Nick was apologizing earlier, my whole thing is like, it's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission. It's kind of the same thing. It's like, why I apologize for something unless people get upset? And you shouldn't apologize for having your own opinion. Um, you know, unless that opinion is actively harming someone else. You know

what I'm saying. And I agree with you because everything you were talking about addiction, Um, it's at all boils down to self control. And Lauren is right too, it's more about after that self control comes into play that you know, addiction can be, you know, considered a illness, you know. But on Marjorie Taylor Green, I've been on top of it plane, I've been on top of it.

I just I want to urge everyone to be as active as you were under forty five, because if we do not put the pressure on them, they will continue to do whatever the hell they want to do. And I'm already on top of us off and more not. They promised us, promised us two thousand dollar checks. What are they doing right now trying to play around with Mitch McConnell and work around the filibuster. No, they can do this through reconciliation, and they should have done it

last week. So I'm gonna give them a month before I start losing my ship. But no, like we should have had that two thousand dollar checks in our accounts before the first it is the first. I'm I'm just I'm to me, it's like that six hundred dollars barely got us over the hump of this month, and I know that we are better off, Like we're not great financially,

but we we positioned ourselves to weather this storm. But now we are coming close to that that little bit of you know that six hundred dollars did not go very far, and I know it wasn't like that for I mean, there's so many people out there struggling right now to buy food, to put roof over their head, and whether or not they did, this moratorium on evictions

does not matter. People can still have an eviction on their record because it gets filed with the courts and that it affects their credit and then it affects their future housing opportunities. So a moratorium on evictions doesn't do anything except for kick the can down the road. There's still people who owe money on their rent, who owe money on their mortgages, and they're playing around with this money. That's our money. That's my biggest thing, and we need

to put the pressure on Democrats Republicans. It doesn't matter. They are elected to serve us, and that's what we need to make them do. That'sper that's the word, because let me tell you, if you pay taxes, that's your money. And the fact that they're whold our money hostage is a damn shame. So I am right there with you. Vesper give me my money. Absolutely, what the commercial, it's my money, it's my money. And I needed that exactly, exactly.

Wanted to go back and remake pits. Better have my money and member of the black community, Vestival because I love that you get so here. But let me tell you how I know you white because you keep sitting down the right emails and write lettership you know black phones, saying right now, let us we might send an email. We're gonna make a phone call and if you don't answer twice Wayne calling back, you have to call me back. What they're gonna have to call me back? Now, we

know you're white, vest but we appreciate best. But you always keep us on the ground level in Georgia, letting us know what's going on your politically saving bring one more thing to your attention. I want to bring one more thing to your attention. There is another senator. I am right on the border of Margie Taylor Green district. There is another House representative here in door Georgia who is my House representative, Very louder Milk. He has not

denounced these white supremacists. He has not denounced the insurrectionists, and now he's falling in line with Marjorie Taylor Green and starting to like parrot her. He's got to go. And I've been calling Kim's office about him too, So this isn't just about her. I mean, the pressure is on her right now. We need to keep that pressure

on her until she's gone. But all of these people that are in office right now that did not denounce white supremacy, that did not denounce those insurrectionists, their traitors, and they gotta go. Come on. That's it. I'm sorry, you're thanks, Besper, thank you for having met. That's number two. You've got people all hot today. Let's get something before you bring NICKI and let's brings somebody else on. We gotta get another pain people. It's hot. Uh your baby, y'all,

y'all Loo, it's wanting to Cassie. We're coming to you. Hi, everybody. Oh yeah, Hi, Lord, beautiful Lord, high blame and high nick Addiction is a choice. It is a choice. You make a choice if whether you're gonna go out and purchase that alcohol, or if you're gonna go buy that joint, or if you're gonna get that go out and get the mess and smoke it or the heroin and stick it in your It's a choice that all it takes is one time. If you can't smoke weed or eat

edibles or and do it casually. And it's an addiction, and and you want it, and you want it, and you want it, you have to make a mental choice in your mind that I want to get right. It's a choice, just like I make a choice about nick. I love bread too, and i'd be gribbing on bread too, and I got a big gas stomach to show the bread that I like to eat. But no, I'm sorry that I got me heated. It is a choice. It's a choice if I want to eat a bunch of candy.

And if I have diabetes and my blood sugar goes through the roofs, I make a choice. I have a family member who is addicted to gambling. She had a choice if she's gonna drive to the casino. Mind you, this family member banned herself from certain casino so that she couldn't go to casino. Girl, she's gonna drive to another casino. It's your choice if you get in the car and drive, or if you get that weed and smoke it, or if you get the alcohol and drink it.

It's all self control. But mind control. Have you made up in your mind that I want to be better, that I don't want to take these drugs because drugs has tore my family apart too. So I'm sorry, I just came on righting and raving. But oh no, that's what we love, that emotion, you know, that's my whole right about. Whenever something happening on TV, don't be trying to show off other cameras. We want to know it

for the real I want the authentic you. Whether you would have agreed with me or not, that's not what this page is about. Get it out, Get out. You know, I gained a lot of weight because I like to eat food choice. If I want to get up in the middle of the night at two o'clock in the morning and cut some cheese, because I like to cut the block of cheese and eat in the middle of the night. Oh that's fat, for real, kid, girl, that's fat. For real. I thought my bacon every day was fat.

In the middle of the night cutting the cheese, I thought you were talking about putin girl. No, actually, a block of cheese. I'm cutting slice it, eat it with some crackers. Oh that is ghetto and ship. I love as project. We used to give us free cheese and butt in the projects in Chicago. But I love it ghetto ghettle. But yes, I agree. I agree that's for they should give us our money. And I do agree that we need to vote. People need to vote. It

ain't just about the you know, uh presidential election. We need to get the right people in the positions of power, and we need to get a lot of them rich white people out of the Senate because they don't understand what us little people go through. Cassie, thank you for coming on with all the emotions, girl, you was all already. I had an interview with NBC this morning because apparently this weekend, uh, Michael g made a joke about them lifting the band on the on the trans people for

the military. So NBC one in my opinion, because you remember I made a joke about it on They Ready in two thousand nineteen. Speaking of They Ready, the new They're Ready to season starts tomorrow on Netflix, So make sure you can watch a midnight tonight. But if you have Netflix, please watch Tiffany Hattis Presents. They ready to it starts tonight. Any who. They called me because they was asking my opinion on the whole them lifting the band on the transgender in the military, and I was like,

I think it's great. I think that the transgender community have made so many strides in the last two years that we are we keep um the little stuff supersedes it. So with the pronouns in the bathroom rights and all that, this is the fight that we want to have. But we have a state Senator McBride and Delaware we have under the Biden administration a doctor who's transgender. Now we

have them, they have lifted the band. Percent of the transgender community that's complaining that, Michael, she made a joke on Saturday Night have standing. I don't even want to be in the military, wouldn't even sign up for it, probably probably don't even vote. So what is the big issue here? So it would just go I'm sorry, I'm saying this. So the interview is coming out of NBC because it's gonna go on to our next top because the w NBA player just had top surgery. Very m te.

Oh my god, you know I love me a trans main good and topless. Yeah, but long as you'll mess with that bottom. Any who, what's her name, Lauren? Come on? Her name is Lasia Larendon? Am I saying that right, Clarendon. I'm sorry, Clarendon, Lashia Clarendon, I'm saying that correct, right, Nick, I think it's lateshare Clarendon. I don't know because I've not heard anyone pronounce her name. I know that she went to cal and I know that she has also Lauren because you mentioned her in the story we did

a few months ago. Because she's also been one of the core sources of the w n B A being behind say her name and and and the whole Black Lives. Yes, so she's been extremely active in all of that. So yeah, yeah, yeah, But like flames that she's a w NBA player. She recently had top surgery, um and she actually plays for the New York Liberty Guard. And tom surgery is when a woman has her breast removed to be flat chested

because that's how they identify. So she had her breath removed so she would have a flat chest like a man or like a yeah, like a male. And it's my understanding she chose to do this, um uh, for cosmetic reasons. We know that some women have made that choice to as a preventative measure as well. So it's it's, it's it's it does happen for different reasons. And I

believe flame that she is identifying as non binary. So I don't know that she necessarily wants to be identified as male as much as she um just did not want the uh impingement. Maybe, well, you know, that's not my area of expertise. I identify as an a team wheel truck, and I will roll your ass over if you get in my way. Now, I identified as he, she, we, she makes the money, we spend it. That is my identity.

I think what I love about the story, and one of the reasons I wanted to make sure that we spoke about it is that we always talk about people living their truth and and finding their space. And one of the things that she said that actually probably just brought it all home for me. She said that she was fearful and coming out sharing her story because she is in a relationship. She has a girlfriend or wife.

I'm not sure, uh if they're married or not. But she talked about how she was afraid of what the backlash might be. And then what she found out was that there was so much overwhelming support from UH, those with whom she plays in the w n b A and the people that she feared the most would reject, and she's got She's been overwhelmed by the love and the positivity. So I always think that that is an absolutely beautiful thing when someone steps out there and UH

lives lives in that, you know, uncharted territory. Let me tell you what's a beautiful place when you know who you are. When you're looking at mirror and you see you looking back at you and you recognize you, that's a beautiful place to be. That's off to you, Leasia clearing it because at least you know who you are. You know how many people walk around here don't know who the hell they are, real and powerful and still

don't know who the hell they are. It's fucked up. Recently, Joe Biden signed an executive order to end a federal contracts with private prisons, which is very monumental, to say the least. Now, to provide some context, we understand that this is not going to completely obliterate the private prison UH system. It's the it's a small piece of the larger pie. However, we still want to acknowledge the fact that he did this because it's still something that's very important.

You know, private prison system it's a billion dollar industry. Every bed that's filled is a check for somebody, and you know, nine times out of ten it's filled with somebody who is of a black or brown color. So, Um, the fact that Joe Biden did this, you know, within the first two weeks of his administration, I think speaks to what he's trying to do overall. So shout out to him. Um. But like I said, this is just a small piece to the larger problematic pie of of

prison systems, private prison systems. Yeah, we um. I'm gonna tell you all consplain. I know you enjoy him as much as I do. Uh. Bill Maher had Van Jones on this past Friday, and one of the things that Van talked about is his work, you know with uh the Prison Project and all of that, and I forget the name of his particular good is that what it is? And talked about Uh one thing I thought was interesting And I know that people have varying opinions on Van

Jones and on Kim Kardashian. But I do think that it is possible for some um of the really uh most flawed among us to still do things that maybe are are part of a larger important project, right um, And I'm trying to think of what is the uh

uh without getting into the weeds. But there are those who have committed their lives to prison reform, right And one of the things he mentioned is how they've been really wise in a lot of these private prisons there in rural communities where they employ so many people, so they get tied into your economic base, and all of a sudden, you know, well, we've got x amount of people who worked there, and we ought to keep it here.

But one thing he said that just resonated. Any time there's a profit margin for any thing, you are now looking at inmates as product and no longer as people. And what needs to happen, which I thought was really interesting, is that prisons should be more of a Christian based model where we're talking about reform. Everyone Christians believe in redemption.

We don't focus on that in prison. It really is about incarceration and it's about punishment, and that whole system needs to change, Nicklas before we get off of here. We never get who you can pick taking for the Super Bowl because I know you're a huge who I am a football fan, you know, uh and this is oh I'm gonna get it. But you know, and my my crew, we always root for the black quarterback. Uh you know, so uh yeahy no, this is what I will say. I will say this. Tom Brady showed us,

um just how he really is. Let's say that Tampa Bay Buccaneers never would have made it to the playoffs without Tom Brady. They definitely would not have made it too Super Bowl without Tom Brady because we saw what they did with the talent they have now last year with Jamis Winston who threw for more yards half of them interceptions, but look where they ended up this year. First year learns a new system, moves to a completely

different climate, completely everything changed. Players he never played with, and you still get them to the How do you do that? Aaron Rodgers was supposed to stop him. He said, yeah, Aaron, Okay, I'm gonna show you what old man can do. So part of me is like, you know what, for old men everywhere with a little bit of great I'm like, yes, I love it. But Tom Brady's behalf the reason Tom Brady is so bombed is because he's married to lunch Baby.

She's beautiful to look at. I'm telling you sometimes when you look in the mirror when you get it in and the person that you wait is prettier than you, it may makes you feel wonderful. Just a bunch of beauty, good woman on the side, baby making boss. I still don't think they're gonna win, but he got a good woman on the side. Back to a thing you said, Nicholas about religion in prison. The prison definitely don't teach religion. But every when I was in prison, because I was

in prison. When I was in prison, you know how many men was in there. They found God in prison. They go to jail, they get clean, they get a lot of Lord, bless this house, and they talked the whole God. But when they get out, they leave God in jail. You need a God while you was in there, but when you get out, you leave them in there, But he waiting for you when you come back. I'm just letting you know because that's the last Oh you know,

I found God in jail. They are all religious and living a certain way, and then soon as they get back free into the world, they go back and revert to the same thing, if not worse. Not all of them, but a lot of them. But then but they leave God in there, So they leave the religion in there, they find God why they're in there. As soon as they get out they free. They're back to basics. Baby. Let me tell you something, religion is one of the

touchiest subjects. And when my one hour special come, I'm gonna give it to y'all for the first seventeen minutes I have had a one offul time. I don't know about you, but you know I can. You know. I just want to say to the flame maths, you know something got in my eye. I don't know what's going on in this place because getting bad. I'm telling maybe

it was just a hint of COVID and something. I don't know what's going Absolutely not, We're not taking that one, because no, niggers, we love your sensitivity here and we love that you know who you are. I'm telling it takes I don't cra in public in front of nobody, because I don't I'm a monster. But men who know who they are I've come from me and who they are in front of that, and that's what this page

is about. We are who we are period. Yea, we are indeed, and again we're not trying to get anybody to change their minds. We are just simply trying to get you to use your mind because critical thinking it's powerful. Baby, when you're talking to me, don't come every dumb because if you come at me sideways, I'm gonna straight you up. We had an amazing time. Thank you guys so much

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