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end we leave it with just a lick. Spirits make you want to revisit, So your first take a listen, young folks like slit, old folks that we dig it to. Non do what you do, No do what you doin' nokis, do what I Doamela. Good afternoon, Lauren, Good afternoon, Flame. How are you. I'm very good. Happy New Year, Happy New Year. How was your New Year's Eve? It was good.

It was very relaxed. I watched fireworks outside of my window and ate some black eyed peas, and you know, good's yours was very good also, ate black eyed peas. You know that's what we do as black folks, black peace to bringing us already health and all of that stuff. So you know Lauren is old. So I did watch the Twilight Zone marathon. After I did a show with Teresa Griffin New Year's Eve on tea time. We did a show on stream Yard or something. It was a

great show. Thank you to everyone who joined and came. We had a great time. I was a little I was feeling very groovy. New Year's Eve, wasn't the Tina wig and new Wig to Tig is a BREACONDI thank you the one to Yes. She came out, you know, she everybody coming out. Everybody came out, Nancy, Nasha married a woman, and this person came out. I just want yall, some of y'all to go back in. Let me tell you something. The closet on this side and got way

too crowded. I'm going back to the other side. It's just a little too croud in the LGBT, A b c D F gpgs D community. So any who, we want to welcome my partner in in the second. But first I want to say, so what else did you do? What did your mom do? You didn't celebrate it all New Years? No, they didn't even watch like the ball drop or anything. They were on the couch. She was with my dad. They were hanging out, and you know, I was upstairs with my dog. I just did you

here with Laura said? She said they didn't watch the ball drop. Now mind you. I went to sleep and now, but I was up at twelve because my balls did drop. I'm just saying, oh, you're talking about on TV? Yeah, I was talking about, you know, the Dick Clark special that we don't the Dick Clarks say. It's Lauren, y'all. I promise you, it's not me. It's Lauren. I'm gonna set you up all day today. Just let you fall into traps. It's Lauren Nick. I promise you. I'm being

a good girl today. I'm not showing no cleavange or nothing. It's Lauren. Oh my god, she hit that pops chicken. She on one. I ate. I'm in a whole new mood today. Lauren, Lauren Laurence in the corner. That's a nice drop. Yes, show it up. I love that. Yes? Okay, now right, hey, lady roy ms Mar, I have to speak to those two women that was are the mothers of these two and they'd be in boxing, texting and ship while we don't laugh, y'all, stop doing that, y'all,

messing with my with my people, messing with you. Sit up straight, speaking to you much. Don't do that. Leave my people alone, Miss Row and Miss Marshall down. They want to make sure we do the best representation for you, Flame, That's what it is. I can help, y'all know my mouth was reckless. I don't even know down help. How are you this? Happy New year, Happy new year to you friend. I love you, I miss you, Lauren, Happy

new year. Happy you know, we we had had a meeting just for those who are joining us, talking about oh yeah, we're gonna be there. I'm gonna be there on the fourth, and then I'm gonna be there on the eighteen, and Flame, you kept telling the whole time, Nick, because we joke about it, like hey, we we we want to be in the same space. We talked about this, right but f him, you said, you said last month, keep an eye on that. Let's let's kind of hold

off on that for now. Well, the numbers are crazy here, and my issue is not with all this mean along. We're just talking about this, this whole suggestive that you don't fly. We suggest that you don't fly when you stay home these Americans you cannot tell I said this before. We do not like to be told what to do. You have to be one way or the other. The governors of each they should have shut down the airports

if they were their numbers were astronomical. I'm not blaming Newsom for people making doing They're making their own decisions. But if you had to shut down the airport, a lot of options would have been taken away because don't nobody want to drive from here all the way to Florida.

I'm just saying so they would. We would have saved some people, and according to the statistics, by the end of January this month, a whole lot of other people will be caught up and in a place that they shouldn't have been, or they would did not have to be in if they have set their ass down and stayed at home. We talk, you're talking about the lockdown. You know, the UK has decided they are locking down until the middle of February. That came down today from

Boris Johnson. But you know you're talking about what we're doing here. Remember what your president said this week. So you know, my president retired four years ago. I don't have a president until January. I think I'm supposed to have a president by then. But we were talking about those COVID death numbers. Remember how he call those, uh fake news. Yeah. Yeah, here's the hypocrisy of the fake news and the fake COVID death numbers. Some of the

people that passed away, may you rest in peace. I bet you some of your family members voted for this nigga, not once, but twice, and you are the collateral damage behind voting for him of somebody who not too who did not take control of this this virus. So prayers to you your family members. Just look, go look at

yourself in the mirror. If you voted for Donald Trump twice and when your family members there from the COVID and he called it a hoax, go look, go to the nearest mirror, and the first person you see slap the ship out of I got that person, dog. No, we were just talking about that. I just want to make sure people know that we're talking about specifically. Anybody

missed it. Those remarks came from President Trump just as the number of COVID nineteen deaths in the United States past three hundred fifty thousand, and this is according to information compiled by JOHNS. Hopkins, who has been charting this. Uh, the university has been charting this from the very beginning. Can I good question? Is everything COVID death? Now there's

no more car accidents and your hysms heart attacks. Uh remember because now every time somebody dies, everything is COVID, COVID, COVID. Everything is just not COVID. I think that's just what's being reported on. Oh yeah, yeah, that's the that's what's hot right now in the news. So that's what we're gonna hear about before we jump to our topics. So I'm you would want to sound off on a couple

of things. You want to talk about the Georgia Center runoff election, and you're talking about Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi and Mr McConnell's houses were both vandalized this weekend. I believe that Nancy Pelosi's was This is my conspiracy theory. So to my disclaimer, you can agree with me if you want you if you don't want to, I'm giving them. Uh. Nancy Pelosi's house was targeted by probably some people who

don't care for her. Miss McConnell's I think was just deployed to throw us off to think that they only did it to Nancy, so we would only think that they only did it to Nancy Pelosi. This is my theory. How y'all think, what y'all want to think? And what else did you ask me about all? Georgia. Let me tell you something, Georgia, y'all need to show up tomorrow

if you don't need nothing else. I have said over these the course of this year or these eight nine months, if you haven't got the proof in the putting this weekend, with these audio tapes that have been released that he spoke to you guys, Secretary State. What's his name? Yeah, I can't say the name, the nickname, Burger, Hamburger, Cheese, Burger, cat, Burglar, I don't know ship anything. I love I love him because this is what he did. What because Niklas love

to get on me about me not trusting Fauci. So let me give you the synopsis. It's not that I don't think that Dr Fauci is accredited doctor, but when you had the opportunity in real time to speak to help save these three hundred and fifty five thousand American laughs and counting that have died, you should have. This was the only one who stood up in his face

and say, hey, he's completely Republican. He completed, does not go for the Democrats, but he wanted to be fair, so in Trump's face, he turned around and put the ship and say, this is what I'm saying. So all the books that you want to write Bolton and Michael Cohen after the fact, don't tell me nothing after fact. Don't tell me Lord is coming to shoot me tip

minutes after she shot me. Tell me before or why I'm in the middle, because it shows that you care about the American people and not just about the money. So hats off to a chiefs Burger, Hamburger. Yeah, and Georgia. Y'all heard the audios tape. Don't don't believe your ass, but believe your ears. What you heard. He was begging like Keith Sweat, trying to get some snatch. I'm telling you, now, get your answers up in Land tomorrow and go because

y'all partying in Atlanta. If you got time to party, we gotta get these So these seats. Heads off to John Osap and Warneck because John Osft been out like a monster really campaign and really campaign, and he's a handsome white boy. I was looking at it. Oh my god. He woke up some feelings in me. I didn't know I had. Bibs said, feelings are rakening me. I hardly recognize. Come on, soft, Georgia. Not only is the country looking at you and and and and wanting you to step

and step out, We're relying on you. We really have all our eggs in one basket for Georgia for tomorrow. Please Georgia show up. Let's get these syndencies so we can get Ms McConnell moved. Kamala Harris, the new Vice president can make all the final decisions that you know. She tame us, so let's do it. Yeah. I will say though that some of my friends that are in Atlanta are saying they would be very surprised if we lost both of these seats, which makes me very helpful,

very hopeful. Um, so tomorrow will definitely well. I don't think that's gonna be decided by tomorrow, but throughout the week we'll see how this plays out. But I am hopeful because that's the feedback I'm getting. So these are friends of yours who have been on the ground before the general election, so they've been keeping an eye on things and been involved in the process from the beginning. Correct, yes, correct, and one of um my big brothers I like to

call him. I do work with him. Um He's also a part of Stacey Abrams camp and is actually gonna be one of the poll workers tomorrow to really do his due diligence to make sure everything is done, um correctly around this. So that's who I'm getting some of my infro from. So I'm excited to see what happens.

I'm hopeful. Shout out to Stacy Abram, Shout out to Common, Shout out to Andrew Yang, to everyone who is in Georgia who's on the battlefield, names that I don't know, And I'm talking not just to the people that we do know. I'm talking to like some of our listeners Hannah Vesper, people in Georgia who have given us information. Hats off. You guys were pushing it, pushing it, pushing it. Okay, Nick's kick off our first topic, because hey guys, let's

get it going. We were talking about kind of keeping on that theme of how we as a community really just need to do as much as we can to empower. We were talking about life insurance. Flame. We were talking about how life insurance is a must and it's a it can be an uncomfortable topic for some people, but we said we needed to bring this up for laugh

and learn. Yeah. So, I mean we kind of had a brief discussion about this yesterday and I told you know, Nick, you and Flame, I said, I don't have life insurance, but partly because you know, I'm still living with my parents at this point in time for personal reasons, and um, you guys are both like, well, you're at home, you don't need life insurance. Um. But just kind of looking through some things and you know, kind of getting you guys is feedback. I realized that this is something very

important that we all need to have. You know, some people don't think that I don't want to pay for this. I don't want to do that, but in the long run, it's really just to protect yourself. So, UM, I'm doing my research. You know. Kind of you guys kind of sparked a light bulb for me. I'm doing some of my research and seeing what my options are. UM. And I saw some of the data that you provided Nick, and you said in two thousand three, virtually ninety seven

of the population purchase term life insurance. Correct, Yeah, absolutely, and basically learned that just came down to for those who don't know, they're really like two basic types of insurance. And there was a time when the hurdle to have life insurance was onerous, right, people couldn't afford to. You were just trying to make it the best way that

you could. But life insurance really has become affordable because the marketplace has expanded, much like how Senator Pelosi has talked about the need to expand the the space for health insurance and Medicare and medicaid and all of those things.

So life insurance is affordable for people. And the reason you want to do at is because Flame and I talked about personally how we have had friends of ours who are now in our age group and some older, some younger who have died, and um, you don't want to have a situation where your family has to pass the hat trying to collect money. And the days Flame was talking about two nick more than that, the days

of the go fund me, Nick that's dead. You know, if folks aren't working, they can't do go fund me. So for as little as and and again we encourage everybody do your own research. But for as little as twelve bucks a month, you can have life insurance that allows you to have a decent burial where you are not leaving the responsibility of having a respectful service, and you put away on your family members who may or may not be able to afford it, or may or

may not be able to carry out your wishes. Okay, and my biggest thing, first of all, Miss Marshall, we see you comment about we got life insurance on you, so thanks, mom, appreciated. Thanks. Insurances in important because you know I'm saying I'm saying this from a transgender perspective. So many of the queens we we will go get our hair done, we'll get our makeup done, we'll get

costumes made, and but we won't you know. And then when when somebody dies, we want to do a benefit show, we want to raise money here, and then it's always the discrepancy of the Listen to me, the funeral home didn't get the money, or this person took the money ran off and with it. This is covering your own behind. So if it's only a ten thousand dollar policy that you can afford. Get that, because what you don't want to do is burden the family or whoever is in

your life to try to put you away. Now, my family, I don't want to hear them talk ship. See this is this is a personal Let me just give it to y'all in the raw. I don't want to be laying in there like you know. I ain't had no money. I don't know why you didn't take it is you're going into my savings. You I had to spend my money. I can't get my beano money, my my mama. I can't go to Bengo. I raised up from the dead and say look at here, old lady, you need to

knock it all shady pas, my shady pans. She just say, nigger, you already in a pan box. Not at all. But it's very important. And we three or four queens, and with the unsurety of the COVID virus, people are dying like this now. They say every ten minutes we lose the depth to COVID virus. It's very important. And they used to give you a lot of a brick wall. I'm getting a life insurance. You had to take all these blood tests, and it's not even like that anymore.

Now you can just pick up a phone and set it up and do automatic bill pay. If you get a month once a month check or if you get paid by weekly or salary haven't automatically taken out that way, you can't miss what you never got, but you'll know that you're covered. And when you do whole life, it usually takes two years before it goes into effect for you to get the all of the money. So do it now, down Flame, that's whole life. I'm glad you

mentioned whole life. The cheapest and least expensive one. Uh. That is least of a burden for people, or less of a burden for something I think would be term life insurance. And that level term means that the death benefits stays the same throughout the duration of the policy. So if you get a ten thousand dollar policy, and I'm gonna tell you anywhere you guys, you can be buried for uh, for ten thousand bucks a nice decent sir.

You may not get the mausoleum and the and the heart with the you know, you know how we used to do was it hoped back in Chicago, Flame, which was the one where they put you in the glass video screen and everything there and people. That's gatlands on a hundred and third and you see how new Exactly what you're talking about, baby was a drive through. Baby, you know that should just not doing draft through funerals again because the COVID you came a lot of people.

We should, baby, drive back, could you? Hey, baby, let me tell you. If I'm driving back and the person then sunk up and way back, baby, I'm running into everything in front of me. Ridiculous. But you can do that for a little bit twelve bucks a month and and and that covers it, and that is good, uh for thirty years. So there you go. It's just that simple. Just please please look into it. You'all mutual of omaha. You can do it online. You ain't got to leave

your home. It really does help you and your loved ones. And it's not like you're trying to leave people a whole great deal of money. You just want to make sure that people put you away safely and make it they'll feel better about themselves. I'm with you, niggas. Sometimes you don't even need the headstone. And the way people are dying now, it ain't gonna be in the room for here. So yeah, exactly, I ain't gonna be another room for here. Someone. I'm gonna have two heir stones

like this one. Somebody on the front, somebody on the back. So we took two people in the casket. Uh, I want to I want to go ahead, and I want to go ahead and move to our next one, so that when you all opened up for the flame message and sound off on both of these, because flame, this tied directly into the topic you were most passionate about this week, which was colorectal health. And we had to educate my baby here at my guys, did you did?

But see, that's why we call this laugh and learn, and this is why we have our own discussions before coming on here, because we are actually kind of learning things ourselves, well at least I am. So when we talked about colorectal health, initially, I really thought that this was something mainly for men. I really did. I didn't. I didn't know that it was something that both men and women did equally, um, because you know, I always like men, and my family always went and got colonoscopes

and that sort of thing. I mean, my mother alone My mother has never gotten a colin oscarpy before, so it wasn't I didn't know, um, but you know, doing some research that sort of thing, I realized that it's very important, not just in men, especially black men, but also black women. UM. Interestingly enough, I had an aunt who passed away a couple of years ago from colon cancer. She didn't have to she didn't want to talk about it or tell anybody, but she did. She's it's something

she passed away from. So uh. I think that we should probably lower the age requirement of when we should go get checked because I think it's fifty correct, Nick, it is was recommended for black men specifically. Yes, I think that's a little too too late. I think we should be doing it earlier. I think forty would probably be a better age. Um, similar to when women have

to get mammograms. I think that would probably be better. Um. But it's something very important and we just have to make sure that we check ourselves and make sure that we're okay. We really do. Yeah, and Nick, you had you had a call as a couple of them, huh and Nick, I have uh and again laugh and learn we're talking. We talked about this because you and I

had this conversation. UM. I have been proactive in my health for years because I come from a family of heavy comorbidities UM, A family of high blood pressure, of family of diabetes, a family where we add insalt before we even tasted the food. So those became my habits until I learned more. Right, UM, I have been testing and doing colonoscopy since I was forty UM, and that's because of the high risk factors that I walk into

it with. UH. So yes, I am a I'm an advocate of UH doing the whole process and just just being proactive. But it can be intimidating for men, and it can be intimidating, I think even more so for members of my community, specifically black men, who may not have always gone to a doctor regularly. So this entire process becomes so foreign. And you and I talked about

this in flame. I know you're gonna talk more about this, but bedside manner matters, and I think that sometimes people don't know how to UH demand that demand requests expect that their doctor or the person UH being as in vain as one can possibly be to your person in your space, be somebody you're comfortable with. But if they're being very clinical with Mr Parker moved here, Mr Parker moved there, and you're like, whoa can you? Can you?

I don't know that I need you, know dinner, but I need you to at least, you know, talk nice to me. I want to give you my ass. Hold on play a hold on, slow down man. So that's well, thank you Nicholas for sharing that, because that that's the truth. But a lot of times, like I said before, people, um, you don't have to demand respect, you command respect. People treat you the way they see you treat yourself. Even if you're in the hospital. They see how who comes

to visit you, what type of people those are? They see how you speak with the nurses, whether you polite. First of all, I ain't gonna be rude with you if I'm sucking together in hospital, because I don't know what you're putting up in this. I vy you have me a broken out here with taking the vaccine. Y'all know I ain't taking that ship any who. Secondly, I was very against having a colonoscopy. I was afraid I had heard the horror stories. So my to ask me at forty five to take one. I put it off

for ten years. I just had my first one in November, the third this year. I was I talked about it on on coffee time before we got this show on every day, and I talked about the process. It was not bad at all. It was It was not bad at all. Yeah, it isn't trusive. And if you're a man and you're in tune with your body, you know who you're all. Woman, you have to be comfortable with

who you are if you follow the rules. The worst part about the thing was not the taste of the medicine, cause I got a new medicine to little Brown bottics. It's not even bad. It's just being in the restroom for a very long time. But they also tell you that if you don't get it right the first time, you're gonna have to do it again. So don't eat. Get it right the first time. You can go hungry for a day. Good guys, some of y'all, y'all, some

of your mother's can missing me over here there. I'm just saying, but you know, once you get in the and I went to Mount SINAI no, when I go I went to see the sign out and then it was a very distressful morning because I didn't want to do it. I was completely against it. I couldn't find the bait called see the sign that has twenty buildings, so I didn't know where I was on. I called NICKI and the frieze. I said, you know what I'm

not doing. I'm going home. Nick say, calm down. This is the first time he was calm told me to calm down. He picked up the phone, he made a phone call. He called me back and gave me the exact address. Now, I want to tell you that I was too ignorant, say because I had asked the hospital where you going? They want to check your booty. But Nicholas called and said, we need to know where the endoscopy clinic is. I'm like, what is the endoscopy? But it calmed me down. I went. The procedure was smooth

and great. I didn't even know what was done. When it was done, the doctor was very nice. The proper vall was worth it. If you asked me why did Michael Jackson down from propovol, then you've never fing had propovole. Because when I tell you that the proper vol will take you on a rad that the gummies can't touch. Good God, it's it's it's it's a good uh anesthetic to have. I will I will say that I've had it twice in my life and I had some great sleep.

It's the best sleep. And you think you've been sleep at ten twelve fifty, now you've been sleeping like twenty minutes. Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing personal experience. The first time I had proball, I had a procedure on my mouth, I had my teeth extracted that we're impacted, and I woke up to my dear old mother hitting me because Michael Jackson had just passed away from this, so she was

very nervous. Um. But anyway, I kind of want to circle backfield because I think that a good takeaway from this is too is that you know, black folks really need to advocate for our health. You know, Nick, you mentioned you know, poking and prodding and you know, not actually having proper bedside manner um. I think that's kind of like a history of something that we've had to deal with always and that you know, we've had these like stereotypes label to us that we can endure higher

tolerance of pain and these sort of things. So I think that a serious message that we can take take away here is please advocate for your health. You know, don't allow a doctor to tell you like, oh, you're gonna be fine when you know something's wrong with you. It's important to take your health seriously. And it's always important that you actually go and see a doctor because maybe they'll be able to tell you something that you

don't know or that you're not even feeling. So please advocate for your health, because we all want to make sure that we're here for a long time exactly. And and Lauren just touch based on that. The reason we're pushed anga Uh, colon oscary. There are some famous people that we all know who have died because of colon

cancer or had colon cancer. Among them, of course we all know Chadwick Boseman, we talked about, Darryl Strawberry, Uh, Charles M. Schultz, Audrey Hepburn, Ronald Reagan, Vince Lombardi, Elizabeth Montgomery, and of course Ruth Bader Ginsburgh. So it knows no race,

no Asian demographic. It is a killer. One of the things I wanted to talk about too, just because we're on that and I just push it because you know, I try to run and everything in the morning when I can, but I'm still addicted to that bread Aman Church. Colorectal cancer rates are higher in African Americans. This is just a statistic from cancer dot Org. So I want everybody to know, Uh, this is where we source this information,

and it's rising in younger people. They don't necessarily know why, but this is the reason why we're talking about it on this platform, because we want family members to encourage other family members. I know, the black men sometimes we can be uncomfortable going to a doctor that maybe isn't a black male, or I have male friends who are comfortable with female doctors. I've had female doctors. I've had

male doctors. If you pass med school and I'm comfortable with you and I can have a conversa issue that is open, that is honest, Uh, that is completely transparent, We're good to go. But I interview my doctors just like I know they interviewed me, and they said, they're like, you know, I don't know if I want to deal with this way. He talks a bit much. I get

all of that. The last thing I want to throw out there is there's a new app called jet Doc that I learned about today being promoted by Rick Ross. Ross shared his own personal health story today, Um, and I was just it was it was. He talked about the weight loss and his love of the wrong foods and why he wanted to encourage other black men and women, but black men in particularly because we're the group that tends to be the most affected by not really following

through with our health. Women, for the most part, will at least be somewhat proactive in their health, much more so than man. So it was it was this call to reach out to brothers. And I believe the app is like twenty bucks, but it also allows you to find a doctor and all that stuff that works for you. Okay, well, thank you, Nicky and nick Nay opened up the door, y'all. We and now we even open up the floodgates for y'all coming. We're gonna come back to you, nick Alright.

I'm so proud of Rick Ross for doing that because I think that Kevin Hart, to me, Kevin Hart and Timmany had had a big hand and opening and so many other celebrities that go unknown. I love when they help other people, give other artists an opportunity because then people just keep paying it for. We're paying for paying for Yeah, so good job for Rick Rick. Rick Ross had a heart attack on the plane, right. He had a couple of health scares that were really detrimental to him.

So I actually saw what Nick was talking about. I think about two weeks ago, Rick Ross was on our Melbourne show on MSNBC with his other investor and they were just talking about how they really just wanted to provide access to care and you know, access to affordable health care. So um, yeah, definitely shout out to them, thank you for just helping that. And I just want to personally thank you Rick Ross for doing that. And started wearing a T shirt because you was killing me

with no T shirt with that old stommaing. But you got the new stomming, but that old one. Don't do that. Don't don't do that like that. He's got how many baby mamas and kids now? So you know, uncle used to attractive Michael A g n F. Y'all know that stands for p A g n F Old schools. Gonna know what that means? You're too young? Yeah, I was, what does that mean? Pussy ain't got no face. Okay, what's the next subject? Baby? That's the old player in yall.

Y'all know this, laugh and learn. I'm teaching. I'm teaching and teaching. Well, let's bring a couple of flame metsine and see what they bring. Somebody or bring bring Hannah And because Hannah isn't actually d M this morning. Yeah, Hannah is in Georgia. She's in Atlanta. She's on the ground. Baby, Hannah keeps us going, what's going on? Yes? Hello, mask? Okay, Hannah, you on the down right there in Atlanta. What y'all

doing after hearing this audio tape? Y'all? Really, y'all should really be coming together after listen to this fool's audio tape and heats off to y'all, Secretary of State there burger, cheeseburger, Hamburger. Well, not only just Georgia, but the country as a whole. We all should be questioning what's really going on, not just Georgia, but the country, the country as a whole the next go round for our elections, especially in Kentucky. Kentucky,

y'all needs to get it together. George is not the only state that needs to get out to the polls. All the polls and y'all hold all the cars right now though, because everything is writing on tomorrow right now in Georgia. Yes it is, Yes, it is. You are so right. The only thing, um is that we have to get a lot of the transplants to realize you do matter. Your vote matter. Everybody's telling Georgia to vote, but you're not being specific. We have a lot of

males that are not voting. I work with a lot of men that do not vote, not planning to vote, not thinking about voting. Uh, yesterday I dropped off some items to my mom. There you you actually see people going from door to door to get people to vote. They have a lot of volunteers out on the ground. Uh that's asking uh people to come out to vote. Also, I've been inundated by email, text, phone calls about us

getting out to vote. But you will be be surprised of a large group of our black men that will not vote. Do you know why are they saying why they don't want to go out and vote. Many many don't believe in the system. They believe they don't believe in that the system will help them. Many don't believe that they've vote matter many believe in conspiracy theories. Um. I mean, right now, with the eleven thousand, seven hundred eighty votes that somebody wants to negotiate about, that's not right,

that's illegal. But you know, most people, they just don't think that they matter. Um. And a lot of the transplants from other states have been redlined or pushed out of their home and most people won't be honest about that. They won't be honest that you can't get a job in certain states, you can't find housing in certain states. But they're rather talk about other things, but they won't talk about what's going on in their home state and what's sad about it. Many of them come from blue states.

I'm gonna flip all these states blue like my glasses. They're getting my nerve. Hey, Hannah, you stay safe down there. And we're gonna be watching these posts tomorrow. I'm gonna be watching because I know it's gonna be a nail biter. And I love what Laurence said and that you're saying that the people that are out there voting, that it looks like we're gonna get these seats. But I need us as black people or people in the state of Georgia.

Not to rely on that, because you remember, we thought Hillary was a shooting four years ago and three days before they threw a monkey wrench in the game playing comy and you lost your job to this nigga bay uh and we and Hillary lost. Now, Hillary didn't lose because we didn't like a Hillary lost because white folks didn't like Let's be honest, because like, yeah, but then they see the boomerang of life is Trump got the same ship back in his face because he thought he

was going to win, and he was close. But three days and four days before they dropped that vaccine. That's you know, some of y'all are taking not me, but some of y'all are taking that vaccine. But now he will go again. Not ain't release the tape. Hats off to Burger for telling it. Because the nigga needed eleven thousand, seven hundred and ninety nine votes to win. He asked for eleven thousand, eight hundred. You're not going to get him.

Nigga in every language, Slovekian with your wife is boomerang Budapest, China. You lost your favorite words. Nigga is you're fired. Look in the mirror and tell the first nigga you see you're fired. This is flaming bro, thank you having I have to that. If you need a ride to the poles, Left is giving rise to the polls. What you need to do if you have the lift app UM, go to Georgia Vote to Live, Georgia Vote to Live. They're giving a thirty dollar credit so you can go to

the polls and vote for free. I voted the first Saturday that I could during UH early voting. So you guys, it's so many organizations that are giving free rides. All you have to do is go to UM. All these nonprofit organizations that's getting out. Thank you so much. It's a lift is giving it and you. All you have to do is put in Georgia g a Vote to Live. Okay, you can go to that website. A lot of celebrities

are putting it out there. But yeah, if you need a ride, that's no problem getting the ride to the vote UM to to the vote to the post. So y'all get out there and vote. And my people that have people UM that live out of state, please talk to your people and let them know please go out and vote because the Georgia's Yeah, we're getting that. We're looking at the whole world watching Georgia exactly. Thank you, Hannah.

We all watching Georgian baby Georgia. And if you're gonna get in the lift, why I keep doing that to the light. Okay, if you're gonna get in the lift, get you some lights off. Spread the asses, I spray everybody, baby, spread everybody where. We're gonna we're gonna get vesper girl. You know I can't see those words. Yes, y'all, get y'all asses out there and vote, vote, vote, vote vote, because I'm telling you, Georgia, we need you. Hell don't look like John Osoft. Let me tell you something, John

Osoft is fine, he could get it. I stay in drag almost the whole time and everything, but eventually we're gonna slat off. I'm just letting you know. I gotta be comfortable. Ship. Your mind is in the gut of today. And it's a new year, same thing, a new year in Georgia. Look, the voter suppression is real. And the thing about it is they make it look so natural, like it's normal that people don't really think about it.

But when I went like I had my mail in ballot and as I was about to seal it, I was like, realized I didn't put the actual ballot into the envelope. I was like, oh, ship tore it open, and it tore just a little edge on. So I put my ballot in there, sealed it. It looked good, but I didn't even want to like chance it that

they would, you know, not take it. So I went up to the polls this weekend or right before the New year, and um, there was a long line, um, and you could tell who the Trump supporters were because they weren't wearing masks even you know, and they weren't social distancing. Everybody else was like good ten feet away from those people. Everybody else was keeping good six ft apart,

but the tension was there. There was no parking. They purposely chose a location that was small with very little parking, blocked off half of the parking. And um, people were just crazy in the parking lot. Um, and they were all giving me mean looks and you know, cussing at me. I just nordom as I was walking up to the ballot and just dropping it into the dropbox. Um. And as soon as I dropped it in a drop box, they were all like, oh, okay, you know, but I mean,

tensions are high. There's very few voting locations. There's very few, there's very little parking. And the thing about it is, I'm trying to remind people that this is what voter suppression looks like. Okay, they want to make it as difficult as possible so that when you show up, you don't want to vote because you rather just not deal with it. And the thing is, we have to deal with it because this is everything is writing on Georgia

right now. Every the whole country, and not even the whole country, the whole world is kind of watching Georgia right now because this will determine the fate of not only the future of our nation, but the future of the world. Because if we have a Senate that is controlled by the Democrats, we will pass um some type of climate change legislation and that will affect the world.

So it's so important that we all get out here and vote, and so important that you don't let anything discourage you from doing your part and doing your God give him right to vote is my resident white boy, black boy. But that's my white chocolate y'all vest. But you gave me that with conviction. I felt that all in my spirit. Baby cut through my breast and plans good God. I mean I was feeling it too. I was so upset when I saw that. And I'm like,

y'all don't realize. This is what voter suppression is. It's not like it was in the sixties. It's you know, they have to do it in a more coverts. The scariest part of all that best is we are on the power to keg about to explode. I believe that, and this fuel is igniting it and igniting it. Here's the thing. We can't even really fall Trump anymore. We can't because we know because he keeps showing who he is, the powers that's over him. The Congress is sending in

both strip this nigg of power. Well remove him out of this position. I don't care that we get what sep four team more days, sixteen more days, remove him now the detriment that what are you gonna do? Commit all these crimes publicly and then pardon himself. So we're gonna let this nigga do this and then tell usself, nig you get to get out of jail free card.

This ain't monopoly. Well, I mean, I will say, I don't know if if I totally agree with that plame because I think, especially now that you're seeing all of these like senators coming out and supporting, for instance, not certifying the election for Biden come January six to, it really makes me think that Trump really just has stuff on all of these different senators, and that's why we're

seeing them flip. We saw instances with Lindsay Graham, so we're it's we're in a very interesting time, to say the least. Um, So yeah, I don't I don't know if it's that simple great point, may great point. May let me say this best, but thank you, my don

We're gonna hit you than you see. Donald Trump probably does have dirt on all of these politicians because here it is, he was never a politician, this nigga still ain't a politician, but he did business with them for so many years before he decided to throw his head in the politician reign. So he did business with the Democrats, the Republicans, these people. So I got all, y'all, I know where the bodies is buried, I know where the

count is hid, and I know this and that. So there everybody is afraid to throw him up under the bus. If they have not done business with him, they are not like Kamala Harrison and lives a bit warm people like that. But if you've done business with him before politics, expecially,

then they got holding something up. You're right, he's holding something over there here, because somebody should have been the smashed him with with that, with what they know about him exactly if this was a normal democracy, if we were actually living in a democracy, I think those would be the circumstances. But it's just not. I think Lindsay Graham is probably the biggest example of that of just one time Trump's racist, He's all this. In the next

moment he's supported. Well, he ain't bad self because that terr crews Texas, y'all should be shamed. Yallself got that nick in office, This nick. Let me tell you something about a man. Let me let me educate you on, let me let me change his voice to me hold on, let me let me let me give it to you right any who, A man is a heart. A man has a heart and a sense of responsibility like no it else. Because a woman is more um, what's the word loyal? Women? Way more loyal. I mean, you know,

I'm gonna bothize the offense. I know, but the man got a heart tear Crews. You allowed this man to tell you in your face that your wife was ugly. He disrespected you, Michael Rubio. He told he threw your father under the bus y'all were going against him. And now you allowed this man to come in between your marriage, ted Crews. And you're standing up for this fool who disrespected the woman that you got on your knees and said, for better or for worse, for she should have divorced you.

And I we knew you was batshit crazy when you got on the Senate floor to speak for twenty four hours telling something green eggs and ham, I am, I am nigga. The eggs are green and the ham is brown. That ship ain't no good. But if the disrespected Loyd, don't you ever As long as I know you, you know I ain't gonna allow it to ever. Let him man, let somebody, just your husband disrespect you like that. Not this nigger got the lay in the bed next to you.

That nigga should have been afraid. He should have been real afraid. Oh there ran my blood pressure come back, Flane, come back, bring me back along and bring me back and bring me back. Hannah talked about the expense in housing and why people move there because they've been redlined, and she's right, So many of those states are blue states. Just looking at the quick list, New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts. These states have the highest cost

of housing. So then people moved to a place that they think is less expensive, um, and then they don't partake in the voting process, and that can just be frustrating all the way around. So Hannah's absolutely right. People need to get out there and vote, and one can go to Georgia voter guide dot com and there's a full list of different places that will take you to the polls if you need to ride. For different levels

of ability and disability. Nicholas hold On weigh in on that last subject about all of the whole the voter suppression that Vesper was talking about, because I know you know about that because you're down and you in the South, but but that's not unique to the South. This is exactly what fair fight dot org has been about with

Stacy Abrahams. Regardless of where you live, the whole idea behind voter suppression initially was, you know what, we're going to create a barrier that blacks will have to be able to read this and they need to add this before they can vote. Jim Crow change that. Now we move forward and there are new ways that they we marginalize. Florida voters said, you know what, we want people who have been convicted of a felony to have the right

to vote. The court comes in and says, oh, but they need to pay their fines first, so again another barrier. All of these are barriers to voting. What they've done in Georgia, what they do in other places, this redistricting, this gerrymandering, all of that is part of voter suppression because what we want to do is want to divide, is split up districts so that Lauren and I can live across the street from each other, but we both can't vote for the same representative to try and get

things that affect our neighborhood. As a whole. The idea behind voter suppression in Georgia specifically, I've heard people right and talk about is simply the runoff system Georgia decided to some time ago you know what, Atlanta is a little bit dark. We can't control Atlanta, but we got the rest of the state. So what we'll do is we'll create a situation where we have a runoff. The likelihood of two candidates being in the runoff who are

African American are slim to none. This way, if one of our people who are of a lighter hue is running against an African American, chances are one of them will be in the runoff. If that white person is in the runoff against an African American. The idea is those who sat back and say, oh, I don't need to worry about it, because maybe I liked either one of these two white Can it is who split the vote? Now? Oh my god, there's no choice here. I can't I

can't vote for this black guy. The problem with us off for some is that he's Jewish, right, running in the South, running in Georgia. For the most part. I will tell you, though, flame you know, we keep talking about the South. Atlanta doesn't really consider itself the South. It considers itself a city that happens to be in Georgia. I think most who live in Atlanta would argue they're

more progressive than you all in California. I think at Lantin's tend to put themselves um from It's been my experience that Atlanta's tend to um have delusion, not delusions of grandeur, but they definitely do not consider themselves Southerners. They cause you're you're right, You're you're right about that, Nick, I will say, because you know, I did live in Atlanta for four years. And what's what's said is that there's Atlanta and then there's the rest of Georgia. That

is definitely something that said. And I do wanted to add to what you just said to because part of the voter suppression, too is also gentle cation, and that's directly talied into housing, because you know, we gentrify colored folks out of these areas and all of a sudden they don't have anywhere to go. If you know, if you don't have an actual address or a house of where you're residing, you don't get a ballot, you can't

register to vote. So that's also part of the And Lauren, that's everywhere, that's d C, that's San Francisco, that's l A. There are neighborhoods where people what we were talking about the wrong side of the ten flame. If you're on the wrong side of the ten you know you in the hood, right, or that was the idea. I live in Long Beach. I don't know what you're talking about. Believe it or not. There was a time though there were parts of Long Beach they were considered hood right.

So no, actually where I live in Long Beach? Now? Uh, In the seventies and sixties they used to have actually klu Klux Land marches that, yes, but there are there are all some some um ghetto areas of Long Beach. I'm saying, I don't know that. Let me but they got the best department, So let me just say that. Any who. I hear you, Nicholas, I hear Lauren. I'm talking about this, y'all talk about this voter suppression Georgia.

I'm talking to y'all right now, Atlanta, whatever wherever they have, the whole state of Georgia be inconvenience for one day being baby. From what I see, they said to me and won't go vote ship Magic City down and some of them got the p Valley on the trip clubs down for a day. Them niggas go vote. Set them down for a day, because whatever it takes, by any means necessary. This is how Donald Trump almost won by any means necessary. He adopted Malcolm X's philosophy and he

took it to heart. We always love to speak it, but we got to walk it. We got to do this by any Some of y'all got them together. I'm stimilar to check. You got money to get to a lift, to get to the voting post. You got your stimula today. Some of y'all got a searity. I got man last week three hundred. I was happy. Yeah, y'all got your stimula. Used that stimila and go vote. I'm telling you now, Georgia,

we can't. We can't do this again. And then you they're cheating right in our faces and you can't look me in my eyes and I see you and hear you and tell me that you were one thing. And I'm looking at you and hear what you really are. I ain't that dumb. Some of y'all gonna have to pick at you. You can't be dumb and stupid. Some of your Republicans, let me just say, some of your ch supporters got both of them. You can't be dumb.

And stupid. You gotta pick up one. Well I do, I hope wait a thing I do want to say those shout out to strippers in Georgia because they did create an entire campaign and they encouraged quite a few people to go out and vote. Shout out to all the strippers in Atlanta. Thank you for doing your completely agree. We will actually talk about another city going through a

change right now. Chicago. Uh, Chicago, Chicago. I think Chicago is a perfect example of how one can be an industrial city and reinvent itself right because there was a time when I think that there are those who would argue and I please jump in flamets. Detroit and Chicago were really the same city. Detroit was a living city in the fifties sixties. People wanted to be in Detroit.

People raising great middle class families, middle class homes, people were able to African Americans were able to go and buy and they worked at Ford or they worked at GM. They had great schools. Then when the industry changed, Detroit didn't change with the times. Chicago found a way to

reinvent itself. In that reinvention, we now have an African American mayor who seems to be getting some of the same pressures that white mayors have gotten before her flying and you know, I'm gonna speak about so y'all, first of all, tell you something about Chicago. We're talking about Mayor Lory Lightfoot, who completely annihilated Tony PreK in the in the in the in the runoff. She beat her in her own district. This is how bad she beat her. So that goes to say that Chicago y'all really wanted

Lory Lightfoot to be mayor. Here's my problem with it. So Lory Lightfood did tell a lie. We ain't gonna say. She sugar coated the truth and she smoothed over. She lied and said that she didn't know about the young lady talked about two weeks ago. Yeah, that the police came in her house and kept her neckd But such a long time. But she had just gotten into the job that this happened two years ago. This happened like the first month or so that Lori Lifer was in

the job. So it wasn't like she had gotten used to be in the mayor. You get you a job, you hit a new job. You still it's a learning process. You know what I mean, and I'm saying in my way. I ain't speaking all technical and high booksh it. This is not the way I talk any who. So she was fresh in the job. But as black people, we are ready. We are protesting and trying to strip this woman off her job. We seeing as a people to

forgive white ugliness before we forgive black ugliness. And I got a problem with that because they are protesting trying to remove that her. You ain't never made a mistake at your job and ask for a second chance. No, here's the thing. Nobody died. I understand the humiliation of this woman and the Frost station, but nobody died. We're so quick to attack us. It shows how we treat each other. It's how they treat us. So we keep attacking us so that that they feel like it's okay

for them to attack us, because that's what we're showing them. Again, you don't have to demand respect, you commanded. People treat you the way they see you, treat you goddamn self. And I'm tam Lorie Lightfoot. Apologize for the mistake. You may say, yep, I made a mistake. I was fresh and new or whatever, and keep it pushing. I'm tam Lorie Lightfood. I like hers. She's a star brow too. If you need a boyfriend or a girlfriend called me.

It's also important to mention to Lorie Lightfoot took responsibility right where she stepped up, and she has owned it. She has owned not being more proactive. She has owned needing to apologize to Miss Jeanette's I forget her last name. I want to. I want to give this young respect. She's she's and she has met with her uh to own it. So she didn't try to duck and dodge. So yeah, definitely, no, Yeah, I definitely think that there's

a there's a double standard here for sure. But at the same time, you know, we I think she does

deserve a second chance. However, but the narrative always is as a person of color, you're supposed to look out for your folks, and I think that's probably what people are having trouble a hard time swallowing at this point, is that not only you know, was this somebody black, but she was also a woman and she was humiliated in the worst way, thank you, so, But I'm saying that what happens on Jeanette Young, she's black, she's a woman, and she was really really humiliated in the worst kind

of way. So I think because of the circumstances, it's adding more fuel to the fire. And that's why I think uh mayor Lightfoot's receiving more backlash. But to you know, your point, Nick and your point Flame, that she deserves the second chance. She came out, she apologized, she recognized the wrongdoing, and it's just like, learned from your mistakes,

don't do it again. But there's always going to be that double standard because we are always taught that we have to be ten times better at everything that we do, so when we make a mistake, we're going to be ridiculed more for it. So you know, learn from it.

And let's just you know, the last African American woman to help somebody out of Chicago who did get backlash was miss Fox who shifted the removed prosecuting justice small at Remember that was Chicago also, So there are times when when they do look out we look out for and we do hold their feet to the fire. It's not it's not correct. This is not one of those tams. And I think they're handling this. I think they're handling

this completely incorrect. And I'm telling you that as a people, we got to start for giving each other a little bit more. So they'll start for giving us a little bit more because we still don't hold the cards. You know, sometimes you don't want to admit to And I loved that all these young entrepreneurs and all these young men and young women of power and money are branching out and starting their own record labels and businesses. Who but

we're still playing in their sandbox, real talk. And they proved it to us November the third, and that's trying to prove it to us. Now. That's why we need you to get in bup that we're playing in their sandbox. No, this is our own corner of the sandbox, because first of all, I was over in that sandbox over in Africa when with you dancing at the Grascart, you shouldn't have brought your airs over there with those pop as chicken sungers and teased bitch, you know, I'm easy for

a piece of chicken. And you know what, But that's I would almost argue that this sandbox is as much ours as it is there's, if not more so, because I do believe we built because we feel I just feel that, I just feel as though we have to collectively say, you know what, if these are the rules we're all going to play by, or we're gonna tear up the rule book and and move forward, closing out on Lorrie life. But I just want to say, and then you guys, wait, wait, wait, wait, nick, La, I'm

going to say into that though too. We always talk about how we have to create our own table, and we have to have a seat at this table. Once we get a seat, two people, don't be so quick to remove us from it just because you get a little offended. You know, allow us to have the time to figure it out and you know, and actually sit in said seats so we can affect, you know, proper change. And wait, Nick, before you say anything, thank you, Lauren.

Lor Lyfefoot is openly gay, understand, And in Chicago. I'm from Chicago, baby, You've got to be tough in them streets of Chicago because you know, do you know what kind of backlash she is getting in corporate America where she works, or around gay gay the word even in some outside of our black community, people look at it. And really, people as much as you guys are open here on this page and receive me from what I am and who I am because I'm comfortable with me.

A lot of people are still comfortable and sell. But she's the mayor of the city of Chicago. It's very Chicago is a very conservative city. It's what you don't know, y'all. Just hear about the crime and ship Chicago is super concerned. I can only imagine the names that she has been called loud enough to hear in the same space to put her. And she is a woman, whatever she identifies as. She because she dressed like Uncle Willie from San Franson, but she is a woman. She still has a woman's

hard mind and soul. I'm sure they have broke her a couple of times where she had to break down to her partner, and nobody is taking that consideration. Y'all need to stop being so goddamn me and she the letty made it damn mistake. I'm gonna make a couple of before the show is over today, and I'm asking for forgiveness that Gloria Wilmer, we see you. Gloria Wilmer just said, truth be known, we engineer her civilizations. Gloria

Wilmer one of the flame mats. They're sounding off. We just love that the altamen of color just got a note Bobby sh Murder could get out of prison. You know, you guys. We love that you guys continue to sound off while we're having this conversation, because this is all part of the conversation, different things that we're learning. Hannah Vesper, who both just jumped in and shared information with us.

Lory Lyffoot, I just want to leave everybody with this note to let everybody know that we're not bashing her. We're just trying to call out what it is that we're seeing it there on the ground. Lory Lightfoot did mayor Lightfoot excuse me, uh did note that the police department has made changes to a search warrant policy uh since January, and that she has directed a review of how this matter was handled. That is a direct so

she knows. Okay, this January four, if you mean for three days free, all right, We're gonna bring you out and we bring you back here. We want to get some weight on it because we got Jessic's in Chicago, honey, and I'm teeing Lory Lightfoot, miss justin h tell me who you voted for because I ain't like that only break Winkle. Let me just say, I ain't suit Hi, how are you you in Chicago? What you think about me?

A lory Lightfoot? Okay? To be fair. When they wanted to release the video, one of the city mayors, I'm sorry, not the city mayor. One of the lawyers of the City of Chicago asked the judge not to release it. He has since resigned. I can't recall his name off the bat because I had it written down, but he resigned, so and uh, Mayor Lightfoot except that his recosignation. Also, don't forget because everybody's pointing a finger at their Lightfoot, which I am Team Lightfoot. I don't expect it to

be a saint. I'm not a saint. I expected to do a good job, period. Man. Woman doesn't matter to me. Do your job, that's what That's what I expect from you when I support you to your job. Um. Also, um, Superintendent Eddie Johnson, everybody's forgetting who the superintendent was. He had that happened in the beginning of the year at and all kinds of loop the loops happened with him.

He ended up resigning after that mine drew. When when I believe Lakwen McDonald was shot seven or seven sex sixteen, I know somebody else was. Unfortunately, I know there's more than one victim that was shot multiple times. So I apologize that I didn't get that correct. Um So. Also, the superintendent before Eddie Johnson was thrown under the bus by Robbie Manuel, he resigned. So we've had problems with the mayors and the superintendent of the police not being

on the staying. Do you think that do you think that they should remove Lory life? Do you think they should give a second chance. No, they shouldn't remove her because she's been trying to get at the root of the problem with the weeds and the police department. Mind you, I do support the police department. I do make them coffee, have my volunteer when I do my volunteer work, I

do make them coffee. I treat and respect everyone until you give me a reason that um But also but also um so, we've had problems with the police department and the god what is his name, the head of the Federal Order Police, the union. He he's always he's a Trump supporter, he's always all there. I just want you to come back to the Lord Life, because girl, you have taken me over the I'm not to see the Wizard girl. What the hell are you going? I'm not to see the Wizard girl, That's what I mean.

They're coming after Lord Life book home. Being the woman, the mayor of our city. Yes she is the accountable, the buck stop for her, but they forget that all the little undercones that happened when people are trying to one undermine her authority, and too they're trying to do stuff behind you know where they're trying to cover each other when they do missee Now, mind you, Like I said, she has to atone for what happened on her watch,

which this happened und her watch. She has met it was it was on the notes that she met with with the lady. And I saw the videotape. I was horrified. I was also I I I am so you know, horrified at what happened to her, because I can't even imagine being by yourself and you're you're changing, you're totally naked, and they and they put you in handcuff with no like they're nothing, you know, like you're not We're just saying, you know, we always love when you weigh in. Thank

you my do you look beautiful? Happy New Year? Happy? I mean, I think the the overall what she's talking about is there's a lot of corruption within the Chicago government. I mean, we just talked about facts. It is not that nothing personally. Well, there's there's some corruption that she's having to deal with, and you know, at the end of the day, everything is being blamed on her, but she inherited, you know, a corrupt system, and then she's trying to weed the bad folks out and get it together.

Chicago politics been corrupt for so many years. I can say because I'm from there. I can say, because I'm from the Chicago politic has been corrupt for years. Signed with them Daily's baby them Daily. That first day the daddy was a gang. I don't can know what the body is beared in airthing, But then we get who we get. We had, we had a man, we had, we had another black man. We had Harold Washington. Back in the day with Harold Washing was strong wheeled and

he ended up dying from food poison. Now is it food poison? Poison? Food? As to what way you use the words I'm just saying. Then we had a gangster man named Jane Byrne. She gave bad the projects of Turkey, and that's how she wants. She gave us all the turkey for Christmas. Seriously, this is how. This is how

Chicken had been getting us fun up for years. But she if everybody in the projects of Chicken and then said she was gonna take apartment in the Caprini Greens, which was the most hurious project in the country at that time. She came in the building, they probably took us in the front and camera took right on the back then and she didn't stayed. She got an apartment and projects. Girl, if you don't knock it off, she says, didn't gone. But then we had the other daily hold on,

we had another. We had the Sun Now the song was Gangster. He made Chicago beautiful. The Chicago skyline is absolutely now, the city downtown is beautiful. The corruption is still there. Yes, I know Harold was murdered. Y'alln't listened to what I said. I'm not gonna say that. You said, um, the city is beautiful. But his wife Maggie, who suffered from cancer for years and battle battle battle cancer. He had a black secretary that worked behind him on the

low low. Him and the black secretary was like missing me and Mrs Jones. They had the thing going on. After Maggie Dad, she gave him his approved, her approved vote to go on and be with somebody else. He married the black girl. We ain't seen or heard from Mayor Daily since because Mayor Daily get caught up on that black girl magic, because that black girl magic. And at the Maggie said, I'm leaving here. He got but she not only did he hook up with this black woman,

he married this black woman. She had some black girl voodoo magic. Well, let's bring Nick back and so we can slide into this last topic, which I think is going to be a major topic that we're really going to have to go through. So they're gonna go deep, y'all. I can't handle deep. We're gonna talk about this last

topic nasty all day today, all day today. A couple of things before I want to close out with LORI life for a couple of things I just want to touch on that was brought up with that last uh I guess because she's absolutely right. It looks like, just so people know the video shows the Chicago police officers smashed up on the door of fifty year old and Jeanette Young's townhouse in February twenty nine. Team Lightfoot, who was who promised to bring more transparency and accountability to Chicago,

took office in April of twenty nineteen. So she was not Mayor win this one down. And it's just important that we kind of kind of mentioned that, let them know, Hey, Okay, you know, leave that woman alone, y'all. And you know what you remember Burn Mayor Burn I just talked about and she lived in Cabrini Greenford. No, no, no, she she took that no no, no, no, no no, she walked through Capparini Green She and she took that apartment at CANU that uh huh. And they we saw the

camera walking in. Understand that they didn't have a They had a back door in Caprina Green. She was hanging out of Caprina Green playing state And this is why she's my long Lord. I needed help with that. Lad. I'm sorry. I just feel like our last subject is so heavy, but we felt like we just had to kind of talk about it there. Um, Lauren, go ahead, take us away. Yeah, So, um, Nick, you actually sent us this article. UM. But an eight year old boy

named Gabriel Tay he was in the third grade. He actually committed suicide in seventeen and it was due to him being bullied at school. Um And, so this was January seen. His parents have since UM filed a lawsuit against an alleges that Gabriel was attacked by another student while he was at school and was left unconscious at one point. There's also a video that shows Gabriel lying on the floor for more than five minutes before any

help was received for him. And Gabriel's parents were saying in their lawsuit that the principle and the assistant principle knew Gabriel was being bullied but did not communicate that information to his parrants. So they're basically saying that the school is at fault and that um they need to do something. And that's that's one of the reason why we started talking about this topic because UM, I personally believe, you know, uh, these parents deserve to have some type

of justice for the death of their child. Um And And I know people say, Nick, I don't want teachers hitting my kids. I don't want some kid feeling like they don't have an out and uh, this this is what happens. I need teachers to intervene, and I know that's not their job, and I don't know what to say. I'm just saying that I don't think a three somebody in the third grade, y'all, third grade, you know that that that broke my heart. That's why I shared it,

you know. I mean, I have have a couple of thoughts. So one, I don't think that the school is solely responsible. Um now, the incident of him being bullied and laying on the floor for five minutes not being helped, that is absolutely on the school. They should have done something about that. But I don't know. Maybe it's the way it I was raised, but my parents knew when something was wrong with me. I can't imagine this kid going to school being bullied and the parents saw nothing. I

understand that. You know, they may have been working, they couldn't take time off to come up to the school. Everybody's circumstances are different, but there's just no way that you didn't know something was going on with your kid. And even in the instance where you can't go to the school. My mom straight up was like you getting bullied because I got bullied when I was younger. She encouraged me to fight. We can just we're gonna take

it there. I was encouraged to fight, and my instructions were clocked that heap and when she's not looking, Lauren, straight up, straight up, clock her. When she's not looking, I guarantee you she's going to leave you alone. And what you get in trouble probably, what you get suspended, probably, But guess what, I'm gonna be right up at that school when I can get there, supporting you and defending your actions. Because you don't you don't allow yourself to

get bullied. There's ways to figure that out. So that's why I'm saying, yes, this is the school responsible on one front, absolutely, because you're kid goes into this classroom, this school, and it's the teacher, principal, assistant, principle. It's their job to take care of you within these six

to eight hours that you're there. Absolutely, But it's also the parents job when your kid comes home, to check in with your kid and make sure that they're okay, and then instruct them properly, properly of how you need to handle themselves. When they're away from you. Okay. So thus were the both the textbook and no no kid policies. Let me talk to you as a parent. Now came with my kids. I'm showing up period. I'm going to follow protocol which I have and if you watch me

on the ready, I talked about this subject. All my jokes got some truth to the stories. If you, if I follow protocol, which is go up to the school and speak with the principles, speak with whoever is in administration, speak with security that my child, my child is being and you do nothing. Step two is I'm not gonna wait because bullying these days don't mean what it meant when I was a kid. Bullying we you to fight and all that. See, Nicholas never had a fight in

his life. Let me first, let me go back. Nicholas never had a fight. You see them hands this nigga will get down because they fought me because I was sissy markets or they fought me because I I lived the life that I wanted to live. Whatever the reason was, it taught me to fight some people that I fought on Monday, mean mug on Tuesday, smiled at on Wednesday, winked that on Thursday, and we were speaking again on Friday. We are our best friends to this day. This is

fifty years ago. This the hostility of these children not being able to release all this aggression and its frustration and it's hurt because of the Internet and cell phones and woo woo, they need someplace to let it out. Unfortunately, because we encourage children non violence and don't fight, they all this is built up on them. So now they're snapping out and they're killing their parents, or they're going to shooting up the schools, and then they're cutting themselves.

They're hurting themselves. Sometimes these kids need to have a good old fashioned fist fight to get the ship up all of them. But if you funk with my kids and my kid is being bullied and you don't follow a protocol, I will fight your kids. Let me just say I'm not the only black bitch on here there to say that I will fight your I will meet your kid on the barkat lot or in the playgrou and fight your kid. And I know that sounds fame. You can't fight a kid. Some of these kids don't

act like kids because they were raised by children. So they are the ones that are in control. My children don't run my house. They think they do. But when I get mad and take this weird off and the boys get deep, they run for the corners like roaches when you cut on the light in the kitchen because they know they didn't cross the land. And I'm not having it. These kids not scared of their parents, and these youngest parents ain't raising their kids. Some of these

kids will hurt your children. Sometimes you have to meet fire with fire. And that's why my name is flame, because if your kid funk with my kids, they're gonna meet the fire that is flame. But no, yeah, but that's I would say, that's the dad in you, because even for me and my mother is crazy as all can get out, and you know, love her dearly for it. She's always been the helicopter mom. But everybody knew my mom was crazy. But it's when my dad showed up.

That's what we called the brigade. We didn't want him showing up. We didn't. That's when everybody was like, Okay, he's coming up here to shoot. We don't want them problems. As crazy as my mother was, my dad was feared. Okay, So that's what I'm saying that's that's the dad, and you're talking about fighting kids and not that's that's the dad,

and you in protecting your your you're young. Well you know what I said on the ready, I said when when I went up there to read the little boy, I wasn't in drag the space and a beard and a bad breath. So he went home and told that his mom and dad that he was attacked by her mom and dad. That Nick, And I'm not encouraging anyone to go fight somebody else's children, but I love what you're saying. You need to cover your children, and good parents are the first to discipline their children, but they

also are the first to defend that you. My mother's name never came up to the school to see about me. My mother never came when I got in trouble. I got into fight, so I had altercations because she never came to see about me. I knew that when I became a parent, that was not gonna be my story for my children because I'm like Lawrence Dad. They hate to see me coming because I showed up like Mdia.

I'm cussing out everybody first, especially when it comes to my children and I've always told my children, and both of you guys know my children. You tell me the truth right in their face. Whatever the principal says about you, I'm gonna believe you first, because you don't lie to me. I teach my children never to lie to me. I'm still working on their last one. But I teach my

children never to lie to me. But you stand flat foot and look in their face, because I'm gonna let them tell their story, and then they're gonna let you tell you. And I'm giving y'all. For instance. So I had an altercation two years ago because you know about this, at the school my baby girl. The principal was a son of a bit. He was, and he told he said a racist remark to my kids. We were driving home from school. She told me, I turned the car

around mid show I had a nineteen eighty nine. Uh what, I have a big gas truck, a General motor something. It was a old cranker. We called a BIRTHA God is good. Two years later I got something new. Any who, We went right back, and she begged me not to go back because she didn't want to conversate because she knows how I am about them. She knows that I'm super overprotective. I said, you say the same thing to

him that you said to me. He she told her story, and he, you know, he told his story first, and I never interrupted him, neither did she did. She was telling her story and he interrupted her, and I said, stop. She didn't interrupt your story. Let her tell her story. My daughter told the story to me and to him in his face, the exact same way she had said it in the car. I knew my daughter was not lying. Baby that wasn't rehearsed every me and that man headed

out at the school. He is now the principal at the school that she's at, and for two years he has been to my shows to see my shows. He supports me. I'm not and I'm telling you. But because I addressed that as Lauren say, as the dad, and he didn't see the flamer bro, he saw that other one. And we are cool. Sometimes, like again, we go back to people treat you the way they see you treat yourself.

So many of my children's friends are well to do, kids with money and woo woo, but they spend more time with the nanny's than they do with the parents. I eat they like to hang out with us because I'm always at home. I'm a hands on dad, even on the days, and I want to be And I think that's the point to you gotta have you gotta be hands on with your kids as much as possible.

I understand, like I said, everybody's circumstances are different, but like those car ride homes from school back to the house, that was important time with me and my mom or my dad because they wanted to know what happened at school. Just like Flame talked about some your principal made a racist comment, what happened today as cool, That's not the

job of the nanny. But this is something completely Because you all talked about being hands on parents, I'm often criticized or still even to this day, tease by friends in mine for that. They're like, Nick, you still call your mother mom like I never called I joke with I said, you know, Mr Rozetta got on my nurse today, but I would never say to my mother Rosetta. I told you, like, there's still this. I am not a child, and I still fear my mother in some ways, you

know what I'm saying. There And we did talk and we played, we played Monopoly together, sorry, and things like that. We played board games together, you know, and we should encourage your reading. But but I've had two divorces now, Flame, because why are you gonna talk to your mama every damn day? You know that ain't healthy you you need to so so so so, I don't know, Flame, Is

it possible to be too much of a parent too? Well? Well, I want to go back to the original topic, which was that the eight year boy eight year old boy killed himself. This is what I'm talking. I don't know his situation. I don't know whether he was gay, whatever

they bullied him for. But I want to give hats off to the Wayne Way because had I had a parent in my home that cared about me at eight years old like that, you know, my mother was there, but my mother was on George'll we already know the story her that and I ain't telling Oh, he freached out on his mama. My mom had been cleaning us over over thirty years, but she was on drugs, big time,

big time, and she wasn't there. And if I had the asuity of having one person in my life to talk to, imagine if that little eight year old boy has somebody he could confide in and tell that listen to him, didn't talk at him, didn't want to go up to the school, but listen to him and try to help him and show that they care. Maybe he wouldn't have killed himself. How losst was this baby at eight years old that he committed suicide. A lot of these kids don't have nobody to rely on. They really

don't have nobody. You've talked about how unlike when you and I were growing up, the bullying doesn't stop when you leave that school. Oh no, because it's on the internet. So you I come home and so when we get off the page. You know how much hate I get on my page? Oh I can't stay in flame my row, So you get a hundred likes. Bitch, I don't give

a fuck, but I'm fifty. A child won't see that because if they don't, if their self esteem is already low, and then they you a hundred people saying agreeing with somebody saying they don't like you. First of all, you don't even know who these hundred people are. But nobody has explained to an eight year old. Because that's there's a self esteem is low, and then a hundred people don't like me, I should kill myself. I'm not killing

myself and your mama and generations of your mama. She But I think that also too goes back to the parents and that we're talking about, because, for instance, social media, like on Instagram, you'ren't even allowed to have an Instagram account to you're fourteen years old, So it also goes back to of the parenting. Now, mind you, I will fully accept I'm not a parent. I don't have kids.

I'm only speaking on not not yet exactly, but I'm only speaking on the experiences that I've had with my mother because my mother, like she likes to say, she was liberally strict, as much of an oxymoron that is. But I understand now as I'm getting older, what that means and how important. You know, some of those harsh boundaries I may have thought she had laid out for me, but they were needed because the flames point. You know, when people say things, I don't get affected by it

as much. You know, I've had my share of fights because people have pissed me off, and people have pissed me off and guess what, they didn't do it twice. So although you may not agree with the parenting or the upbringing that you received. Sometimes it's necessary to give that tough love and just to kind of be overbearing because you know it pans out well in the end. Before we leave you, guys, we've got to hear one

more thing we cannot ignore. Kean. Yes, yes, yes, I was gonna say, speaking of her black dad's let's talk about great black dads. So um. A couple of weeks ago and actually Grammy Award women, a Grammy Grammy Award winning artist Keion Harold was in a hotel in Soho, New York, and uh with his fourteen year old son, and this woman came in and literally tackled his son, saying that he stole her iPhone. Um so the woman, her name is Maya Miya. However, you want to say

a poncetto. She's twenty two years old. She she falsely accused Keion Harold's son of sealing her iPhone at the Arlow Hotel in Manhattan, Soho neighborhood. Um ponsetto who uh uh activists have dubbed her Soho Karen, We'll get to that too. Was arrested actually in February of last year for public intoxication with her mother and got a d y uh in May for driving drunk in l A County.

So Poncetto has been named in a civil case involving an eviction for nonpayment, and my p D says that they're planning to charge Maya Poncetto with multiple charges of assault, and the New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has blasted the running as plain and can we just say, can we give a shot off to the fact that they finally put somebody else's information out there for once, because usually the minute a person of colors victimized, they're like, oh,

but you know, back when he was fourteen, he did such and such. And I'm glad that they're like, oh, by the way, the woman who attacked him, let's tell you a little bit about her. She tried the wrong one, is what happened. She tried the wrong one. No, no, no, no, what's the best name? Miya Maya Pto? Please please let let me be in there, and ran up on one of my children. Hats off to everybody involved. I'm glad

that little boy is okay. Nobody was hurt, and I'm gonna give you some for instances, because you know, if the dad would have hit the mom, he's black and she identified as his white because I don't think she might have Italian right, Yeah, y'all black Italians, good hair, black any who. I would have sucked this lady up. Let me tell you I had a problem with the dad video tape, and I said, this my love lounge because you're standing back videotaping, but I understand the plight

that we are in in America. As a black man, they would have turned it all the way around and said he attacked this woman because she looks white to the to the naked eye. But as a transgender dad and parents, I would have beat that bitch ass right there for touching my kid on the spot. And then they said a man ain't supposed to for the woman. I always keep a spare wig in my purse. I would have put a wig on and said, this was

a woman whooping this woman for touching myself. What we're not gonna do is put our hands on my children. Because when they made that woman's phone, they made a thousand, ten thousand more just like it. You walk in and tackle my son, all of my kids are like me. If I'm swinging, they all swinging. If I go to the purse, they duck and run because they know some ship coming out. Well, let's let's talk about that too.

So the phone ended up being returned because she was a guest at the hotel, but three days prior, she wasn't even a guest at the time. The phone was returned from an uber driver that same day. And to top it all off, the phone that she had was a lesser version of what the sun had. It wasn't even the same version of the same fun. Well, you know, the bitch was confused. She got caught drunk driving and

the bitches publicly intoxicated. So the bitches an alcoholic called triple A A triple A a r P somebody because the bitches are drunk, and it's public knowledge that the bitches a drawn, and y'all keep giving them a pass. Ain't no pass. She drunk and she was out drunk with a mama. Who does that? And and get and get charged for it? Because I know mothers and daughters. They go to the tavern often, drink, have a good time, go home, anybody que ain't nobody started ship with no

police and her mama. It's the generational drunk, it's in the longevity, it's in the know that I got a problem with that. I don't like that they make excuses for them. But we always made out to look like the monsters. We're not the fucking monsters. And that boy was fourteen years old. The dad had every right to slap you know what the dad should have did. Y'all see that video where the man slapped the man with a d He slapped the twelve days of Christmas out

of his ass, got there. He kicked that candy baby. He he kept calling him a nigga. He get my nigga, nigga, nigga, that nigga, that nigga, that baby. That man kicked that can. He took that canny. He slapped the twelve horses running Christmas listing six dogs and slap five. Slapped the ship out of me baby. He slapped the yellow moans, pink stars, and was out there that that's what that lady need.

I'd have slapped her as her hands spent around like Linda Bland xes, don't put your hands on my keys, and and understand that in a different climate and in a different time, he wouldn't have had every right because you protect your children at all costs. She tackled this man's son, she don't know if he had a knife and was stabbing her baby or what have you. I would my natural reaction would have been to punch the

hell out of her. Honestly, I wouldn't have thought about what it would have been different too, because I'm just saying if it was me and my mom, oh, my mom would have weld on yeah, so and and I think that's probably the difference too, because because this was a black male and it was his son, you know he I think he handled it the best way he could have because I saw the security of video, and

then I saw the cell phone video. She literally like bulldozed his son down, and Kean Harold ran up and pulled her off of him and everything else, and then she tried to do it again. So I'm glad they had the security footage. I'm glad he did the cell phone video because if he didn't have that evidence, the narrative would have been so much different. It would have been like, oh no, I was attacked and everything else. It should have been a black mama named key Show

or like to baby Sophia. Woman woman, woman, bitch head to ground for touching her baby. Very Beyonce and obsession. You touched my child? How are you way in? We want your opinion on anything and everything. I'm gonna tell you this thing. I'm from DC City, the as you know. This lady in my school made me do something. My dad came to that school and I've never seen him

do something like this. He choked that lady and put her up the wall and said, if you ever touched my son again, this will be your last day on this what's your daddy's number? That? I mean, he did fight in Vietnam, so he's a little touchy and he's a black panther. But my dad would have messed that woman up, hands down. I've seen him do it. So she was totally wrong. And it is inappropriate for me and honestly to me for them to put a hand on a woman. But sometimes a woman pushed the envelope.

And now that was not about her hitting him, that was about him protecting his sea. Yeah, absolutely, your son. Yeah, you gotta protect your kids. If if no one's gonna do, it's gonna be your well. If your children don't and if your children don't feel safe with you as their parents, they'll go find safety in the arms of the wrong person. Correct, absolutely, exactly, exactly, Well, thank you, I Ferris, Happy New Year. You know what? Quick like that was it? You claim you're ridiculous, you've

been on fire today? You have been. You know you can't feed you were the show, Do not feed the beast. I just want to close out reminding everybody to remember to uh share the show, comment on the show, subscribe. We really do appreciate that, and those who have our show going like it as well. So I'm gonna send it back to you guys. Guys again, great show, Happy New year, ladies, look forward seeing you both very very soon. Absolutely,

and Nick, what is the whole laugh and learn? Though, we gotta always give what we're talking about, Lauren, every time we talk about We're not trying to get anybody to change their mind. We just want you to use your mind. That's it. Think for yourself, do your own research, because we are here to laugh, but we were also here to learn, yes, and we're here to teach and lovely move on, slap let me slap on, fine, ladies.

The best with Georgia. We cannot, we cannot push it enough for you guys to really get out and in Georgia and vote. We have to get control of the Senate. And when I say control, we're not even getting control. We're just getting the fair play of even even the deciding vote will be uh broken by Kamala Harris, the vice Vice presidential Canada, Kamala Harris, and we know she's raning with Team Democrats. So let's do this so we can have some kind of power because Ms McConnell is blocking.

And I know some of y'all hungry, some of y'all can't pay your rent. They are dropping everything. And I'm not saying hungry in vain or in comedy. I'm saying for real. Because if you showed, they showed the hypocrisy of what they could have been done for Americans last week. Y'all waited all this time. Y'all gave the first stimulus is in April, and y'all waited all the way to December, the almost the end of the fucking year, and you clicked one button and just released money to so many people.

You could have done this in May, June, July, August, September, October November. You waited to almost the end of the year to do six hundred disrespectful dollars to people who have been hurting for months because of the back of responsibility that you guys voted to put this clown in office. Don't blame nobody but yourselves, but don't use us as ponds,

which is what y'all did. That was like when you go to a welfire office and you get them so secret and they hit one, but they can see what states you have welfame because I had state welfaend like seven states and I'm get off topic. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, please vote, Please wash your hands, please wear your masks, Please practice social distancing. They have just shut down us in travel band in California. You don't even come here because you can't get out. Don't come here because you

can unless you're driving, because you can't fly out. That's why Nick ain't here. Yes, and Nick, where can everybody find you crying in a corner at Nicksmith News At Nicksmith News. Definitely on a platform. You can find me at Lauren armani h on Instagram. And I think you also told some folks this morning to YouTube channel because we need Lauren to be on YouTube. Didn't even know, but you know, I thank you guys that have been supporting on and leaving such wonderful comments, cause y'all like

the addition to the show. And I don't read the comments. She does, and this overly sensitive nigga right here, dude, I don't read your comments because you know, I don't care what you think. I love you anyway. If you don't, right, they tell me. I listen, lady, this is Slaimer. Where you can find me on all platforms. Flame Monroe on Twitter, Monroe flame here on Instagram. Uh, please subscribe to my YouTube channel as well as Nicholas and Lauren when we get it up today, and also you can follow me

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