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a woman and me for twenty five plus. That's plus not l G B t q I A plus just my plus years. Good morning, good afternoon, gooding. Hello Lauren Hogan, Hello, Hello, how are you? I can't see you in the camera. Move over, I am you want me to be closer to you, Just to be closed to you, girl. Oh hello, flame man's welcome to laugh and learned. We thank you guys for joining us today. We know that we missed you all this week. We was on vacation. Everybody was

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I'm giving y'all wash face, no base because oh I'm in a I'm in a space. We had talked about it later. Yes, indeed, what we're talking about today, lot, we were bringing Nick. Let's get Nick first a little bit and see how he's doing. He's fining. He back home in Arkansas, Arkansas, Arkansas. That's not Arkansas, that's spelled our ken. Are you in Arkansas? I am I in back in Arkansas and in the state with no mask mandate. Chill Lord. Never, I'll never stopped wearing my mask, even

when they said that they had lax mandates. I never stopped wearing my mask. We were just discussing that before we came on last Nick. Hello, Nick, welcome, and that's probably the Nick Smith and Nick Smith news on all social media platforms, and we were talking about the whole mass mandate. Nicks, I never dropped how I felt. I've never changed the formula of I have not taken the exit. I'm very very clear about that. I'm very aware of telling everybody openly that I am opposed to me taking

the vaccine. I am not opposed to anyone else doing what they want to do that works for them. But what has worked for me for fifteen months is praying and spraying. Everybody in my vicinity gets sprayed with lights out. You know that because I've sprayed you, I sprayed Kindle, I sprayed Trible, in fact, Trible spray herself today. I got her train. I got a train. She just walking

into the road spread herself. Well. In fifteen months we've been working together in close proximity, we've all testing negative over time every time for coronavirus. So whatever my formula is, it may sound eccentric, y'all may think I'm a little crazy. It has worked for me, Lauren Trible and Kindle and my children, anybody that come in my house, so go figure. I would also say that you've also been a navocate

of wearing a mask every time you travel. You have also been a fan of you you wipe down your surfaces. You've always done that though. That has always been your protocol. So yes, it is well if people who don't wash their hands, this was a fan time to learn how to start washing your damn hands, because I'm telling you some people just was not good about washing their hands, and hands are wanted the nastiest parts because you touched

everything you touch. Baby, I've been in the men's room and in the women's room, y'all know I have those options. And I have seen people roll about the stall after being in their tents twelve minutes because either I was in their ten twelve minutes or I was watching and see who was coming out and go straight out the stall and go straight out the bathroom, don't stop and wash their hands or nothing. It is Yeah, So I

don't know, but it's getting out of control. We're definitely gonna get to the coronavirus vaccine in fact, and and the coronavirus numbers. But how was your week? How was Boston? Boston was good, Boston was fantastic. You know, and went to school in Boston years ago. In Boston has always held a special place in my heart. Um, I think that Boston can be a cold city, but I think the ones you get to know Bostonians, they're like friends

for life. Okay, I will say when I did visit Boston, because I had a good in the mind, she went to Boston Conservatory. The architecture and the architecture excuse me, and Boston is exquisite. It's beautiful. You know, you go there and it's kind of like something you've never seen before. It's very like Victorian and colonial and it kind of it's really beautiful. Definitely. So hey, flame Man's, I see y'all chiming in. Hello flame Man's. You guys are so wonderful.

We appreciate you all. We wouldn't have a show we have you all what we need, we would not you know, I wanted to start off today. I just want to remind everyone to join the conversation. We encourage everyone to jump on in if you want to sound off, to use the flames to let us know. Make sure you're type in all caps and Flame insists that you have good WiFi so that you're not cutting out on it so that we can use the audio. So find a place with good WiFi and go ahead and jump on

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shout out to Robert Moses. We talked about that earlier civil rights icon who passed away over the weekend. UH. He was a crusader from math education and he was also part of the group UH. He died on Sunday, and he was part of the group that UH went through the South in the sixties and a very uncomfortable time encouraging others to register to vote and as trying

to get black people engaged in the political process. He passed away on Sunday, UM at the age I believe of eighty six, and I just wanted to give a shout out to him and the work that he's done, because we have so many UH civil rights pioneers who are UH in the in the latter years of their lives, but have been part of the struggle from the beginning.

And they deserve our highest accolades. Yeah, that's the rest in peace, Robert Moses, and we don't want to disregard what they have done to help us to get to where we are. Even though sometimes it seems like we are going backwards, we are definitely going forward. Rest in peace, and tell him and all the civil rights leaders and people who has helped us through the struggle. You know, I want to go next, Nicklas, because I want to

talk about this. I wanted to go to the Olympics, because we've talked about how ye I gotta go straight there. First of all, I used to love to watch the Olympics. I have no interest in watching the Olympics this year, absolute zero. Um. I don't like how they did so many things. I don't like that the numbers are coming

out crazy with the coronavirus. And I don't like that they are not acknowledging the talent of some of these athletes because of personal reasons, or they change in the laws and the rules day by day by day, they changed it to be what they wanted to be, kind of like what they're doing with the GOP. Uh. Yeah, I see it is. But I don't like this. I don't like that. You're you're right though, because I remember you and I you know, we grew up in the

same age where you got excited about the Olympics. We remember not a Comana and yeah and Mary lou Retton and all of those things that seems so exciting there. And I'm not sure if because we were caught up in what patriotism was at the time, and we weren't as woke then as we are now about so many things that we're supposed to be Americanism and tying us all in together, or things have just changed so much that uh, like I said, like you said, this year, it just does not seem the same. It seems off

this year for some reason. I mean, I don't feel like anything has necessarily changed. I just think because from a personal opinion, I think if we look at history, the Olympics has always been a bit racist. It has, you know, we can go back to you know, the first athlete decided to hold his fist up, you know, when he sit on the pedestal when he was accepting his medal. So I think that there's always been you know, subliminal or overt racism, you know, depending on who you are.

I think now because of all of the turmoil that's really happened in specifically around George Floyd, and you know, all of the police brutality that's coming to light, I think that there's more of a light being shown on the racist tendencies of the Olympics. Um even taking it down to flame. I sent you this article that you know, someone like Shikari Richardson was you know, basically disqualified from participating.

But then you have this other white athlete named um Megan Rappano who's promoting cannabis usage and saying how it's helping to enhance her athletic abilities around the Olympics. So there's a lot of um, you know, double standards happening around here. And you know, Flames talked about someone Biles and how they're saying it's unfair to score her. Rio. Let's talk about Rio and Ryan locktey oh we got robbed and we see the video like you're kidding me?

How was that not a poor representation of what sportsmanship and what America is supposed to be about. But even more than that, even if we don't want to put the label on the Olympics, let's just talk about the weight that must be on American athletes to go and represent a country that has been less than transparent in its love for you, particularly if you are a person

of color. So I think that it's almost, like you said, Lauren's almost hypocritical, uh to not address the issues or concerns and then to possibly be upset if they dare to. Don't you speak up, don't you go over there and embarrass us, You stay in your lane. You do exactly what they gave you a pre warning they when they when they started changing swim capped laws, and you already knew that it was bullshit in the game. That's why

I said that. I thought personally that all black and brown athletes, even that qualified and ones that support black and brown athletes, shouldn't have taken a stands and pulled out to say, if we're not all gonna be treated fair, send your second best, because we're the first best, Send your second best, Send the B lists because the B lists weren't gonna do what we did. And then now you get the A listers there and you're still not

treating them with respect. They don't want to give some own bios her credit because she is doing something that no one else can do. That is what we do. We create and spaces and become people that no one else can do. Give her acknowledgement. It's bullshit. I wish they would all lead to hear with the Olympics. But I think the interesting part is because I did watch the preliminaries yesterday, Like Simon is still ranked number one, However she didn't. She wasn't perfect yesterday, is what the

narrative is now. So that's it's like you're not going to score her appropriately for her you know, actual gymnastic abilities and how amazing she is. And if she's not perfect, y'all are still going to talk badly about her as well. So and this even goes back to you know, Naomi Osaka and while she pulled out you know of um, I'm forgiving what's the name of it, well, thank you

the Australian Open. Because it's like there's so much criticism around you know, these young black women that they need to, you know, take a moment to really address their mental health. Because if I'm not perfect, you've got a problem with it. But if I am perfect and I have all of these amazing abilities, you're not gonna give me my due credit. So it's like, so what do you do? You know, you pull a Naomi soccer because I think she's the smartest person. Whoever you have asked her. I think they

have asked her correctly. I do. She might this out on a couple of dollars, It ain't gonna stop her talent, and they might come around and respect her. Sometimes you have to ammanded, you have to command I said it all the time. I'm not going to demand your respect. You will treat me the way I treat myself, or I will freestyle on your ass. And I think this goes back to our question that we kind of posed to each other when we said we talked about it

this week. Are the Olympics this year? The numbers did NBC? Is this a bust? You know, how many of our flame mats are actually watching the Olympics this year? And are they as excited about them as they have been maybe in Years Pass? You know, went back in years Pass,

and I used to love about the Olympics. Remember, used to say the joy of victory and the agony of defeat and the gay will flat off the skis and flip over about five thousand times he broke legs, arms, backbones, all that, Oh, my guys, to lift to us that absolutely absolutely, you know I remember just you know, Carl Lewis said, and then later Michael Johnson, and I just remember track and field all of that was just always so exciting, and it just seemed as though it was

just a different time and era. Again, Lauren, I go back to I think that there may have been like a willful or woeful ignorance and un welkeness because again

I think that we were UM. I think that many of us have been conditioned in many ways to love and support and appreciate a country that has not always shown the same level of love and compassion back that has never shown let's clarify, I never shown it never so, which which should segue into our next topic, which is about the whole thing about them wanting to draft women for the military right, so that actually falls under the National Defense Authorization Act. What's happening is, UH, there's a

push to once again reinstate the draft period. Uh. There are many women who feel as though they are no less than men, that they are as smart as capable, UM, that they deserve equal protections, UM. And that that also means that, hey, if there is a draft, we want to be included in that too. That you don't get

to marginalize us when it's convenient. Now that women now serve in every branch of the military, and many of whom also serve in combat roles and have done two and three tours of Iraq, uh, many believe that they are as capable as men and should also be included when, when and if a national draft is reinstituted. I have said personally to you all, I do believe um in conscription,

that everyone in some capacity should serve the country. Uh if not the military, peace corps, hospice, something where you give back and realize that life and community is about all of us in this a shared experience. That's just

my personal belief. I am totally in favor of free college, but I do believe that everything comes at a price, and I believe that free college is something we should do for young people who choose to go to college or a trade or something, if they have also taken the time to do the two years like we do in Germany and in Israel, where we actually just give back to the country. And again, everyone doesn't have to do the military. Military is the best thing that ever

happened to me in my life. I love this country. I love what the military did for me. I am very aware that's not every you sound like Office movie, but the back to something Lauren said, I feel so you and I've talked about this flame. I feel almost I feel so incredibly blessed. At times, I get frustrated like everybody else, but I feel as though because I grew up in a space where I was allowed to grow,

to learn, to to know that anything was possible. I feel honored in that right, and I want others to have that same experience. And I believe that somehow, sometimes being removed from um, a space that is so familiar, where everyone looks like you, can sometimes help to broaden your horizons. Let me say this for the record publicly. I will never allow any of my children my offspring to join this United States military in any capacity. I will never have my children fight for a country that

we are fighting against already. In the words of Malcolm X, why would I go and fight the viet Cong who ain't did nothing to me? When I'm right here in my own country, I can't even be free. Rest in peace, Muhammad Ali, because you were the greatest dear for real,

because hear me when I tell you. If I ain't drive down the street with my windows down and my music playing, because you see my black skin and it's a problem for you, why the hell am I gonna go to Afghanistan or Russia or anywhere else that has a war to fight for some people, and then I'm gonna come back here and be treated like a second class citizens and this is not just for black people.

We have We have veterans here in California that are homeless, all nationality, all races, that they are doing absolutely nothing for it. So it's an absolute note for me, A man. I hear you, Nicholas, I'm glad it worked out for you. But for the ones that I see out here on the streets Salmon Exit where they where their dog tags and walking around here homeless looking scragg fuck the military.

Did I say that publicly? Yea um. But my question is I think that it's you know, great that they want to open up this draft to both men and women. But what's going on with the pay is my question? Are we gonna start paying men and women equally that are participating in the military. Is that gonna happen? That's my question. Well, you're you're paid by rank, so it's definitely not gender based. I think the military is the one area where and comfortably say Lauren that it really

is not about gender. That you come in as an enlisted member, if you're enlisted, unless you come in as an officer. But the ones, all the ones are paid the same, regardless of anatomy um, regardless of gender. Identification. Uh, and the one is paid in the one salary and up the scale. So can I ask the question? Can I ask you a question the seriously? So if I joined the military and I'm trying, can I get two checks, one for him and one for her? I'm just asking

for free. I didn't combo, didn't they kicked the trains out the military? And didn't they? Yeah? Trump put a Yeah Trump, Trump put a band, but that was lifted immediately with the y'all just keep on rolling with the Trump because y'all see they knocking them down. They're trying to get to them. They're going through all the bowling Pine. Who they get yesterday? What's his name? They're getting close, and that's not Obama. Don't don't get it twisted. That

is not Obama. Obama ain't got nothing to do with that ship. You know, he loves to blame Obama for everything. You can't blame Obama for their someone. They're coming. They're coming to get you, Barbara, Barbara, They're coming to get you that in Hillary. I'm surprised they have not found a way to blame Hillary. So the question remains also for the flame mets when they chime in later, do

you believe women should be included? Uh if they reinstitute the draft, do you believe that women should be included and also be required to uh sign their name and register for a potential draft. That's the question for the Flamemets. We shall see, we shall see. I'm not running. I don't want to be in the military. I don't want to check. I don't want to be I don't want a few good men. I don't want to get my country,

none of it, not just the military. What do you think about like peace Corps, something where you give back community service? Anything? Should people done community service? I owe some tickets and I've done community service, so my my time has been served. I had some tickets that I couldn't pay back before they ready, and I did community service for forty hours, so I have done my time.

Thank you. Ridiculous. Well, listen, listen. I love the fact that they're saying, and you know, opening enough for everybody. But what kind of war we're gonna have? You know what I'm saying. I don't want to go and fight a war where it's not gonna do anything fair for the country that we live in. I need the people that we live in the people who were willing to go and sign up and fight for this country to be treated fairly and until the end. I don't think

and and this is me. I have no, of course idea, but I don't believe the next combat we have will be one that is boots on the ground. I just think that the world has got to move past that. I expected to be cyber or some type of chemical warfare or something where we use drones. I don't know what you're doing that. Guess what it's called coronavirus. Ain't nobody ain't no damn bad. Ain't nobody ain't no bad.

Even even the Yangs don't eat bad. Now. They may either look look fightal or a look heavy, but they ain't ain't no damn match. This was some ship that they created. And I said, Hi, I'm saying it publicly. Baby, I said, I ain't gonna even finish because y'all know they'd be mad at me. You know, I don't care them. We have it on the list that we were going to talk about doctor Dre and Nicole Young. Wow, Yeah, that's right. So just to let everybody know what Lauren

is talking about. There, Uh, we're talking about Dr Dre has been ordered to pay ex Nicole Young more than three point five million dollars per year in spousal support. Um. As we know, the couple have been on the alson at times their divorce and the acrimony over that had become rather public. But it looks like it has been settled. So um, yeah, it looks like three d thousand dollars a month in spousal support. Um. But you know, supposedly um.

The rapper also sees a win. According to the blast Uh, the music mocal and his ex wife are both happy about this settlement. Um, he is the three hundred thousand dollars a month, but he I'm sorry, three hundred thousand dollars a month, but he doesn't have to give up any publishing rights and this is only until the children are all of legal age or she remarries. Let me tell you something in response to the code, she was an attorney before smart girl. Secondly, from the woman aspect,

good pussy speak for ourselves. Don't let anybody tell you different than it, don't baby, three hundred three hundred how much you getting three hundred thousand a month? Million a year? But three hundred thousand a month. Ye come on the code. Uh huh. I'm happy for her. Shoot, twenty five years. That's a long investment, I know, and I hate to say this, but I'm just being honest. You know, people talk about love and marriage. When you get married, that's

a business contract, okay. And when you get divorced, you're finalizing you know, you're getting your affairs in order around your business. So I'm happy for her. You know, that was a large investment, and you know, she came on the scene in the midst of Michela and everything else Dr Dre had going on, and she invested twenty five years, gave him two kids. She said, I'm ready to leave now, and she's getting three point five million dollars a year.

So peace and blessings to her. Good for her, I know, I know, Lauren, you know what you just kind of touched on something I want to ask you about. Flame. I kind of discussed this earlier, but I just want to throw this out there because an actress I absolutely love got married over the weekend. I was like, oh, Flame,

she got married, and Nick. She was like, Nick, that's a good thing, and I'm like, funny, I think that's gonna kill her creativity though she's like you think so, I said, yeah, something about marriage throws people off their game, that they won't be the same anymore. And I'm talking about one of my favorites. And what did I say to you about her get married? You said that, you said that love makes a woman even stronger, especially when

you got a strong backbone. The old phrase about behind every good man is a great man is a good woman. Behind every good woman is a strong man. If that man is believing in her and in her corner, he will open her mind and her her abilities to places that she never knew. Because love is phenomenon. I just don't work with it. But love is phenomenal. I don't fok with that lady, and they don't play fair. I don't like. Let me just something love can be now

by the woman. I don't work with her because she too faced. She stabbed you in the back. I don't with love. I'm not afraid of a new love, but I'm afraid of the old hurt. Congratulations to East. First of all, let's talk about how fucking beautiful she looked down and mirror and her smile is incredible. Let's start right there that chocolate skin diva right there, baby, But that and the man is handsome. I would I bet you the mirror was pleased on the night of the

marriage because you know the mirror was one. You know they did it in the mirror. You know, mirror have to have to say so, you know, a mirror, mirror on the wall if you want, ugly people do it and then in front of the mirror, and the mirror just cracked. But when pretty people do it in front of the mirror, like yes, now when funny what can people do it? The mirror just turned around back was

like I can't look at this ship. No. But on a serious note, I do I have to disagree, like I think that one I thinksa Ray is too much of a businesswoman to enter into anything that's not going to um, you know, grow or make her career even more fruitful at the end of the day. And if that man was not supporting her the way that he was supposed to, I do not see her marrying him in any way, shape or form. But I have to

agree with flame that when you get married. Yes, I talked about it being a business agreement, but the love should still be there. You know what I mean. There should be the emotional support, the trust, you know, all of those different components. Um. Business is just always at the forefront of my brain. So, like I said, whoever I'm married, it's still gonna be a business agreement. I gotta love you and everything to that that comes second.

But um and and all in all, I think that Easter Ray wouldn't have married that man if he wasn't doing what he was supposed to do in that relationship. Ms. Marsha, you trained this and whales. You know what to do. Baby, you're married. You look you're married. You Mary, I like, I like you enough that I'm gonna have your kids, but you're gonna take care of my grandkids and I ain't gonna have to worry about smart move on the ladies, but my daughter. Yeah one, I'm okay. Let's stay in

the world of entertainment. Because one of the things that also came up before you bring in the Flamets, because I definitely want to hear them sound off about this Prince and new music. So it looks like new music will be dropping this September from Prince, and I had said earlier to Flame, you know, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I feel like Prince was one of those artists who if he wanted his music out there,

he would have put it out there. I think that doing it posthumously isn't the same as the artist himself dropping the music. But I'm open to hear what people have to say. Okay, well, we're gonna bring you all in on that, Nick, thank you. We're gonna bring in some Flamet's. I ain't got to say about the whole Prince music then, because let me tell you someone, I'm dead, they're gonna still show my videos. Thank god. I ain't got no elicit ones, but some people do get some

elicit ones of me. But John wait time did just to show him all right, Nick, thank you, love. Let's get us a flamemting here, um Flamet's way in. Tell us what you think about what we have started off this conversation with thus far, I started off with coffee time. This want to bring my baby Bobby in. Hi, Bobby, Hey, First, I want to say, you know, for us unfriendly called Bostonians, I didn't hear from you, Nick. Oh that's right, you were right there and you were right there with Bobby Clifford.

You never called Bobby shady even just a hop skip and it jump down the cape. How are you, Ms Clifford, I'm okay, sweetie. How are you? I'm just busting your chops neck. I'm only joking. I hope you had a great time. I wish your weather was better here we had really crutty weather. Have you been watching the Olympics, Bobby, No, I'm not watching. I'm out. I'm sort of out. I'm not I'm not interested. Um and the Olympics this time? Is that awful? No? Not, because, let me tell you something,

I was excited about the Olympics. They maybe I'm like you. They made me not want to watch. All the controversy around it made me uninterested. Hello handsome Jesse. Hello, Hello. We saw you Nick with your with your body hanging out one. I just finished alone old Mole on Old School that it's a real mod But back to the subject. You guys have brought up some great subjects. Women in

the military. I liked the idea of if there's a draft, not just drafting people into the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and now Space Force, but also possibly having it go to the peace Corps having it. Yeah. Yeah, like like this is just giving back the service. And then then if you do that, yeah, you can get free free state college or whatever. And it doesn't have to be fighting, right, It wasn't wasn't set up, but wasn't one of Joe Biden's things that he wanted to give free military for

state college. You don't have to go to the military. When one of his things that he wanted to do he wanted to cancel student Day. Yeah, he still he wanted to cancel. He wanted to do both of those things. Yeah, and he wants to. It was also Barack Obamas. They get um community college free for everybody that the first time, and he's really set on trying to get it done again.

I don't know if he'll be able to, you know, with the partisanship that we're all seeing, and that that ended of itself is a totally different subject that we should talk about one of these days, because the whole idea of free college, like the fact that they're saying that it's impossible and it's not. It doesn't have colleges

have gone up in prison anyway. Back to what you said, the military, I think it's a good idea that if you're going to have the draft, if you're going to have the draft, do it like like like, um is read everyone, Well, here's my question. Here's my question. So you started drafting all these people to the military, and some of these people are homophobic, but you you you draft trans women and ran trans me into How are

you gonna treat me? So if I'm drafted into the military and you homophobic and I'm putting in a place with you, I can't feel like you're gonna protect me or you're gonna save my life because you don't like

my lifestyle. That no, I'm not. I mean, even if we want to take it to what's happening currently too, is that a lot of there's a serious rape culture problem in the military that is currently finally starting to be addressed, where um, I don't know all of the specifics, but I saw a news report where it's saying that now outside like counsel and those sort of things can come into play when these allegations come up, because before the military stands was We're gonna handle all of these

allegations internally and no outside council can come in and participate. Now they're changing those laws so that way these women who were you know, have these accusations are saying, like, you know, I was assaulted or actually assaulted, they can actually get fair trials and you know, a fair shot at actually, you know, addressing set accusers. They raped me in too, Come on, climb through my window and take

my pennies off. You're surprised it is something else, but Violin though, Violin, like, I think that it's too often what we're doing here. It's not what's happening. Everything is so partisan that you're not having these discussions to where I'm thinking, Okay, yeah, so if you're going to start the draft, let's keep it open for everyone, not even thinking, well, wait a minute, there's the whole rape culture in the military. You know, why aren't we addressing that first of all? Yeah,

I agree with Jesse. I'm saying they have to fix that. So the hope is that they figure it out to fix it. I mean that we have to be number one, right, you can't have women coming in and triens women coming in if they haven't fixed the rape people. Bobby, I'm I'm you know, I'm even just listening. I'm changed in my mind, like it's saying they have to fix it. Is the beginning of the process, Like that's going to

be they have to fix it. It's going to take years. Yeah, so what are they talking about the what are they talking about doing the draft? So it was in the next four years. They could have started on January six in d C. We already had a war right here in this country at the Capitol ship. We ain't got to go nowhere else. We ain't gotta go nowhere else and fight. They started writing at January six. Oh, I'm sorry they said that it was tourists. Well, the good

thing is there committee members. There's a committee that's actually been assembled for that. You know, we'll see something come out of that as well. Y'all know that's my beach right there, y'all get y'all can say with y'all, y'all know I adore Nancy Pelosi. If she was on here right now, girl, I get naked for you, come get it. I love Nancy Pelosi. You know what I love about Nancy Nancy She's unafraid. She's gonna say what she got

to say, and she's gonna get the job done. And even when all these big week me and try to come at it. Miss Nancy, don't play with y'all. Bobby, what did you just say about Shaney? I said, it's brave like that she's on the group. I think any of the poor Republicans and I'm just saying for for the first time. I mean, I think they're going to be excommunicated after being on this committee. I don't feel

bad about I think the overplay for the underplay. I think publicly she tried to make it look like she was on on on our side, and privately she was running a scam. Well you could look at her voting record. It was like ninety percent of the time she voted in favor of what Trump wanted to do. So it's just I guess they took it a little too far. And she was like, wait a minute, I'm not, you know, a Trump Republican. I'm a Republican like my daddy was. So I think they just took it a little too

far for her. Well, thank you guys so much. You know, we appreciate it you thanks for letting us be on. Jesse said, it was lovely. I love Jesse. Jesse is from London, from the from the UK. It's a mix of Texas in UK love it. They say everything is bigger in Texas. Jesse, show us that, show us the Texas part. I don't want to see the UK pass lounge. They love lounge. Lauren. Would if you got drink because you're in the age, would you would you go to

fight for the military? What would you use to say you got out of Would you say you had bones spurs? Can they like they can't do that anymore? Right? If you don't want to go, they can't force you. Oh, I don't go this caut you do? What the hell they want to do? You see what they're doing? That their limits? Now they get black. They don't wanted with the black women to wear swim caps because of their breeze. Let me tell you how something you got to pay

attention to what's going on? It was always some bs. Can they do that? Like, they can't force you to go overseas, right, m I ain't going. You can't force me to go to the grocery stores out there? You know? Yeah, thank you. If there was a draft, call yes to him. But what if you have a medical condition? Yeah, you have to like qualify. We worked for Trump. How many times did Trump have a bone spur in his foot nine times and the scary fight. I got a bone

with spuri. You got a golf club, you shoot and be like I have asthma so I can't breathe in a lot of spaces. Hi, Pam, Hey, how beautiful? Hey baby, how are you? I'm good, I'm good. So how do you feel about these topics? Let us know some of your feedback. Well, the military thing, I think we should do,

like uh, Israel, everyone gets drafted. We have problems that have to be addressed for real and put in place with the Commission of studying what the rape culture will be for men and women joining the military, and fix that ship because you know it's all been undercover so far, you know, with all these people getting killed and the women getting raped and then cover ups. You can't ask for a draft and then keep the same thanks. You know, I got my home spurts. I can't go, you can't go. No,

they hurt too much. But you say, uh, the what's your thing? You've got the meat? What can't all three of them things can't can't hurt? You mean, oh, the head, the feet and the meat. Yeah, it's three things that cannot hurt when I'm on stage. That is the head defeat. No, No, that ain't gonna that can't happen. And we have the meat. We all the meat, thank you, Pamm highs. Everything. It's

going good. We're staying uh, trying to stay safe, trying to stay uh from keep them getting Still, what's having in Jersey? What's happening in Jersey with y'all man's mandate. Well, it's you know, it's a relaxed a little bit, but a lot of the shops and stores they still require people where mask when they shop. But you know, you've got the hard headed people still. That's why we end up, why we in the predicament we in now now they're trying to blame it on all the un unvaccinated people. Uh,

let's let's let's roll that narrative. It's the unvaccinated people's fault now instead of just let's keep protocols that have been working. I eat mask, wearing hand washed it and the six ft apart. We still have here a lot of places where they require six ft apart and that's major. And you know people in Jersey for the most party like um, excuse me, back it up. That's that's like your New Jersey and New York. That's in general, y'all gotta have your space. Let me tell you, don't roll

up on nobody from New York or New Jersey. You will get clocked. Okay, now, because we're already very densely pope populated, and there's a thing in place where it's like especially COVID now, you know, saying the six feet apart. Hey, you gotta do it. You know, people are people just want to be hardheaded man at you in place? How much further we would be if everyone has been more co operative with just mask wearing m Where would we

be right now? Image we would be. Imagine where we would be if we would have been for warned, like from the top, from the top at the time that they knew what was coming, because they didn't tell us until it was here. Yeah this, it was here in in in August of two thousand nineteen. They should have been putting putting the alarm out two thousand nineteen or the end of August, or at least September. But you know what, that would interrupted Christmas and Thanksgiving and things

like that, right, bad leadership. First of all, let's go out let's revisit Christmas. I don't know where y'all think that Santa Claus is for real. Ain't no fat ass white man in no desert in the rear velver suit. Because if the nigga is, the nigga was dead. Jesus was born in the manger. It was warm. It might have been a little scrawl, a little camels, a couple of mules, even a little pool. But it was a fat white man in a red velvet suit. That's some

bullis ship, first of all. And I didn't realize the beauty of Christmas until I moved to California, because on Christmas Day in California they rad bikes and walk around in beat shoes. In Chicago, you can't even go outside because the hawk is waiting for you. So all that fat white man in the rear velven suits and full on bullshit, I see it it. I gotta know, I gotta be honest with the My mom, my mom, yes, and I know she's on this live too. She ruined

Christmas for me when I was five years old. She told me the Santa Claus was not real. She said, I buy all these me and your father. She opened up the trunk of the car. She said, this is where the presents come from. So me still being in like preschool, I went back to pre school and I was like, your parents are lying to y'all. Santa is not real. And I got in trouble. I got in trouble. I got a phone call home. The people were pissed, and my mom was like, I don't understand why my

child is in trouble for telling the truth. So yeah, that's how I found out Santa Claus wasn't real. I just thought I should share that Santa Claus is whoever bring that check home? Exactly. I'm Santa. Mrs Clau's a couple of the elves all that, I'm all of them. Thank you, my PAMMI pant, thank you, my darling. Let's talk about this this variant. I knew you was going there. I was. I was waiting for I have to talk

about the variant, the delta variant. So we got the Delta varian now, but they're predicting which one they say it's coming. Oh wait, my mom said, I was three, Sorry, which one which one they say was coming? After the delta variant. Um, there's the delta variant there's the lambda variant, and I think there's a gamma variant. There's like three of them. See, I thought they would have went from

Delta to Southwest to uh yeah, all of those different variantes. Well, the crazy thing is they they're ruining the Greek alphabet for folks. The brother are adding some negative connotation. I'll tell you what. If they're going about the airlines Delta Varian, United Area American Airlines. If you get the spirit variant, the spirit Bearian will make you a spirit. Just understand that spirit will make you a spirit. So how are you feeling about these variants? So seriously, I ain't gonna

be able to do it. I'll never tell you something I believe, and I believe the science. I have never discredited the science. I have never trusted the scientists and the way they made it political. Do I I have vaccines I've had when I was a kid, I've had vaccine. I just don't trust the weight. Every day it's a

different story. So it makes me leery. And like Nicholas said earlier, I wasn't woke, and I took the vaccines because I had to in order to go to school, because my parents told me I had to, it was gonna do. But now that I'm grown and I know, and I'm watching this in real time, and a bunch of my friends who have been double vaccinated, double vaccinated

are in the hospital sick right now on ventilators. I had a girlfriend who has been in hospital for more than a month, three weeks on the ventilator, and she was double vaccinated with the visor or madary, she had one of them, and she still got sick, and she got gravely ill sick. Well, I think, well, I think a couple of things. One because you brought up previous vaccinations versus what we have with this what is it called wars operation warp speed. It's a couple of things.

I think. One that previous vaccinations that we've gotten, like polio and HPV, we can go down the list, chickenpox, whatever they were in we can call it development for a longer period of time. It took years for them to figure out what this you know, vaccine was when COVID first came about, and like you said, you know,

Trump said operation warp speed. He had us thinking that this vaccine was developed in six months, and then later on scientists said, no, we've actually been developing this for twelve years because of m R and A. The difference, however, still is that this COVID vaccine is not actually a vaccine because I've done my research. It's it's a protein that we're being injected with. And I think that's also to why people feel like they're being misled because scientists

are technically are not giving full disclosure around it. However, with all that being said, I still did get my vaccine because I've been traveling, like I just went to New Orleans last week, and I'll be very honest, I didn't wear my mask like I was supposed to, and came back. I got a COVID test two days ago and I'm negative. But I also know people that have gotten, you know, the COVID vaccine, and they currently have COVID

right now. So it's kind of just like we're in a place of I don't know, and then we got these variants going on, and so it's just it's it's adding more chaos, I think, to the situation. But I would say that I think that the orange upa umpa really kind of started all this, So I agree, Lauren, I think that so much. I think so much misinformation have been placed out there that it caused people to doubt the messenger, and I felt like it became politicized.

I will also say this, I think that because we're still in that emergency use authorization phase, that has caused disease and discomfort amongst a lot of people. Right I think that once it goes into full FDA approval UM, I think that some minds may change with that, but right now because it's still in that emergency use authorization. However, I do believe a pandemic as an emergency. I think

that that has given some people pause. I want to say something else that you mentioned too, that there are people who are fully vaccinated. I Bobby was on early. Bobby Clifford was on earlier, and I messaged her while I was in Boston or in Massachusetts. I was actually on the Cape and we were just talking about how one particular area of the Cape had an outbreak UM and this was amongst people who had been vaccinated. So

you're absolutely right. It is poss supposed to be fully vaccinated with either Maderna Fiser or Johnson and Johnson and still contract. First of all, let's me go into that Johnson Johnson. I wasn't gonna bring it up. But since you said the damn name first of all, y'all knew they couldn't get baby paladed right now. So and yeah,

oh it's one shot. I'm gonna be saying, yeah no, and I'm not beating up on john But Flame, you know, you know the question is who messes up baby pal But you know what, Flame, you know what happens is well you you know what I'm talking about. But we grew up with larger black women. Who would I didn't you did. I didn't want no body my family. Fan. Okay, let me let me tell you how I knew women in my I should said, excuse me, there are some

women in my family who were larger. Um, and they would use baby powder, uh in the on the breast areas in places not like babies like you would on the baby right, um. So they would use it as almost like um, I won't say hygiene, but would use it to prevent you from sweating. Make people didn't just do that, nick should? I did that too. You just didn't want to sweat in certain places, so you just powdered here in between your legs, in your armpits. Yeah,

under you like Thomas's English muffins. You gotta get allies hell to keep you dry. And you smell good too, So it worked. You know, you got to stay dry and you know hygiene, you smell good. Yeah, a dual purpose. I think the challenge was that's not what it was supposed to be used for. And I think that's why that talc became an issue from repeated use and because it wasn't supposed to be used for that purpose. You put it on my baby bottom. A baby's bottom is

more precious than the grounut's bottom because it's more vulnerable. Honestly, I used but babies never, But babies never developed. That's that's that's why they can't figure it out. Why did women develop the cancer but babies did not? And that's that's that's the that's the challenge. And the only correlation is women were using it differently than babies were. I have two daughters. I used it on the same areas that women used their zone. It just happened to be

a smaller one, a little girl one. But you and hopefully my children, you know, I didn't we didn't know. I didn't know. I don't know. I'm telling you. I'm just the variants. And now that's why I call people come on here vaccine shame, and to think that I'm vaccine shame, I'm not. I have encouraged you all from day one to use your own man. You don't have to go to a critical race theory with me, because I'm gonna tell you exactly how I feel. You do what works for you, and I'm going to do what

works for me. We may not agree on the outcome or whatever, but I'm never gonna tell you us don't go get the vaccine. I told you to wait. I told Lauren the same thing. But I know, and I know Lauren's situation with her mom, so I understood and her traveling with her other job, just like I knew you had to do it and you were pro military, So you did it because you want to go visit with your mom. I get that. Even if I want to go visit my mom, I ain't taking a vaccination.

I spread how I asked some lights ships in me back. But uh, that is I've never came on to vaccine shame anyone. You have to do what works for you. The difference is a lot of people are doing it because they are under peer pressures. See that they think peer pressure is only for teens. Everybody's saying, you need to get it, you need to get it, you need to get you need to do what works for you. And my formula has worked for me for fifteen months, and if I gotta go fifteen more months, good good,

stack up on lights off. Well. I think that the flip side to that too, is that you also have these Republicans and um TV news anchors like the Sean Hannity's and those sort of folks that are creating all of this you know, doubt around the vaccine. But these are the same individuals that have been vaccinated and you know, I'm glad to see that some people are taking legal action against them now. But those types of folks who are only adding into the confusion around what's going on.

Because I whole heartedly agree with flame, like, this is your choice. You have to figure out what is best for you. But those people that are just you know, trying to throw negative energy into what you know, people are trying to figure out that's not that's so disingenuous and just unnecessary. Go do something better else with your time. Seriously so. But anyway, and those are the same people

that have been vaccinated. And the latest breaking news with vaccinations, New York City and California will require workers to be vaccinated or tested um. The mandate extends to municipal employees in New York City, including police officers and teachers, and state and healthcare workers in California. Yeah, we knew that was coming. I mean California, especially l A County. Our

positivity rate is it is crazy. I literally got the stats yesterday that our positivity rate as of Sunday was like five two and back in June it was only zero point four. And we've gotten over three thousand new cases per day. We've gotten you know, over six people being hospitalized. So it's it's a lot going on over here. It's a little crazy. I've just gotten alert that the SANTIS is pushing now for the Florida to be vaccinated for people vaccinating. Wait, wait a minute, this is the

same governor. Hold on because I'm gonna back it up a little taste. Nick you now you verifying me if I'm around in my best hashik voys, bitch, I got receipts. Ain't he the same one? Who told them not to get backinated and they don't have to wear masks. They didn't have the social distance because it was gonna go

away because he was so on Trump. I'm asking for real because y'all fail for the Oki dough and Florida's numbers are outrageous right now and they still have a massive concerts and woo, no masks, no social distances, Florida, yeaall play too much floors. Just a special state. Same thing with our governor. Governor Hutchinson has been touring the state pushing vaccination. But we're the same state that does not have a mask mandate or a mask requirement, so

you cannot require me to wear a mask. And in fact, Nickolas, then you tell me that Arkansas shames you for wearing a mask. Absolutely absolutely, in my best rapper voice, I wish you, nigga would I wish somebody would tell me to take my man skull um. So yeah, it was just uh and and you know what, what what do you say? You just keep on going and keep on and you keep on pushing. You know, let me let me, let me, let me put the word out to Florida,

because I'm sorry, ain't gonna cut you out Florida. Andrew Gilling only got caught with his pants down. His politics were fantastic. At least you all now know who he is. To state of Tampa, the city of Tampa already knew who he was. Let me tell you something, baby, y'all need to rethink who y'all putting in position of power in Florida, because that man blatantly and openly does not care about the citizens of Florida, the ones that are

just regular people. If you're not part of that one percent, Trump looking rich, rich, rich, it's looking like you don't give a damn and Florida only off a hundred and fifty million dollars for family if you don't. Well. I think the other thing too we can always look at is that the Santis is coming up upon an election. Florida's about to have an election, and there's some past beloved governors that are now coming out to say that

they're going to possibly run against him. So I think that it's very convenient that not all of a sudden, he's changing this narrative, Oh, we should vaccinate people, and I care about you know, the commonwealth, and all these different things. So saying that to say, I hope Florida Floridians aren't naive or easily manipulated in this instance, and then they voke appropriately. I gotta look at you from the second being nice. I'm I'm the end to the

yang of the Florida debate. Okay, I'm I'm giving the nice side or the optimistic side, and my own here he's confused to who round the santasy is if you have children and you watch SpongeBob SpongeBob SquarePants, just look at Patrick the Starfish, same person just gonna you know, he's getting his own show, Patrick Starr. I just saw that. You know what, you guys, you Flame your touch on that. I do think it's worth mentioning. They just found the body body or the remains of the person that they

were missing in the condo collapse. And again we're talking about softly in Florida, um and the what they have not been able to account for. I heard one reporter asking, I thought it was a very good question, the accounting for those who live in the building. But what happens if I were visiting Flame and I'm not registered there and I have Yeah, I never thought about that. I was interesting that I would still see I would still

sue absolutely. I don't care if my even you're still so I wasn't even there so much as do you even are you looking for me? You get what I'm saying that because you didn't know that I was at Flames? Are you even looking for Nick there? Yeah? You're like, well, we found Flame, who lives in the house. We had no reason to believe that Flame would have a visitor. What if I was what if I was having a meal or a gentleman, a gentleman or a general woman

called and y'all didn't know nothing about it? What about? First of all, let me tell you something that billing was built with a lot of Jewish people did. Jewish people do not play about money. Let me let me, let me, let me put the camera on for me for this. Jewish people play no games about money. Understand me that they are going to break Florida when this is done because Jewish people plays no games about money.

So all that golf and the nigga was doing at Marla Ago, Yeah, nigga, you better get here, get your golf gaming because it's about to be over. Because Jews do not play by money. At all. Well, Uh, you know, only other thing I want to make sure we mentioned because I do think it's important, Uh, the space race. I think it's pretty cool that we had two people live out their childhood dreams that many young people have

about going into space, both Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson. Uh. And Jeff Bezos, I just want to give a special shout out because when he when he landed as an American, he landed and he thanked everyone who has been supporting Amazon over the years because you all made it possible. And he thanked everyone who shops at Amazon. And it's one of those things where you know, I've had this conversation with friends. I have friends flame we will sit there and shop on Amazon before they go to the

corner store. So they have been part of this journey and it's it's an avenue that will eventually open up, you know, space travel commercially. So I just thought that was pretty cool. I say this to Jeff Bezos. I wanted to hear my name mentioned personally because during the pandemic I was Amazon ordering Queen Baby. I love Amazon, and I loved his hustle because what he has done, I don't know where Richard Branson's motive was, but Jeff

Bezos is going to capitalize off of this. So a lot of people are gonna want to go to space for five minutes for a million dollars. Make your money, Jeff be You know, he gave up that sixty billion to the ex wife. He said, I gotta get my he gotta recoup him. And then when he and then when he came down, he gave the grants to both Jose Andrea's and Van Jones. You know, one hundred million dollars. That was pretty cool. What did you have to did

you have? He gave a hundred million dollars to Ben Jones. That was cool. Anyway, though, let me ask the question, I wonder how much of that Kim Kardashi ain't gonna get. Oh that's how rumors get started. Now they were supposed to being kicking a bobo. She went from uh, I may not know Karani, but I know crazy. She went back when she went from crazy to karate because baby, she was married to crazy, but now she got Karate.

Back then, but well, she was just in Atlanta supporting her soon to be ex husband with all of the kids. So um. But speaking of space though, Um, I'm seiging to talk about space. Jam. I eat Lebron James because we do want to congratulate Lebron. He's the first athlete to officially reach, you know, to earn I should say, a billion dollars. So congratulations to Lebron. I think he does amazing work for his sport. Not his endorsements, No,

it's everything together that includes the endorsements and everything else. Yeah, so he has officially earned a billion dollars. I'm very very happy for him. You know, he has a beautiful school in um in Akron, Ohio. He has um you know, he's actually started housing for some of those kids that kind of like that are coming to the school. So he's doing a lot of philanthropic things. And he feeds families. He he provides positions for single mothers. He makes sure

those kids eat, even the parents eat. Lebron James is a great giverback give backer is that a word. He's a givebacker. So I love Lebron James. I don't care what they think about him. I don't care what they think about him on a professional level as far as his game and none of that. I don't even watch that much of his game. I just like to watch

and walk down bull legs across the field. But I love what he does for people and what he does for his community because he never forget where he came from and the situation that his life was before he became this Lebron James. I'm not gonna lie to you when like Lebron played for like Cleveland and Miami and other teams, because y'all know, I'm an avid Lakers fan. Um I did not like him, and then he came to l A and then you know, I kind of jumped on his bandwagon and solid things that he's doing.

So I'm a newly flound Lebron James fans almost came from around table girl you almost says. I used to really feel like, you know, he would like kind of wine and complaining games like, oh, you know, get up off the floor, it's not that big of a deal.

But then watching him play so much for the Lakers, like I would realize that, you know, he was this big broad, you know, burly man, and you know we talked about other athletes like the Simone Biles and you know, Naiomi Osaka, but you know, he doesn't necessarily get treated the same way either on the court. You know, he doesn't get some of the calls that he's supposed to get. They don't play fairly when it comes to him because they're like, oh, he's so big, Like you know, we

can't you know. So I am a newly found Lebron James fan. Over the past with three years that he's been a part of the John mcenrote through a temper tantrum every yet damn week on on TV. So guess what go to hell? True? So yes, congrats to Lebron James for sure. Nick, what you think about Lebron because you know, I love don't don't think I think one of the things that But I told you I'm a fan of his show, Um the Shop. I think it's just fantastic what he does when and I just like

the format and all of that. But Lebron is the first while still actively playing and what does one of the caveats people see? So um flame before we go, because the last time we were all together, your birthday birthday had not come. Since then, you've had a birthday, and you and I were also talking about j Lo. You know, both of you seem to um um have been shining in the month of July. So before we go,

I want to make sure that you, uh. You and I talked about j Loo and how good we thought she looked, and you and I also talked about how you have a very special event coming up that we want to draw people to who maybe at Chicago uh later day weekend. Okay, let's not with jlo first. J Lo Jo got back with her old man been afflent because a Rod's rod must not have been held up to capacity, because I can't see no other reason that

she went left to go back to being. But I'll tell you something right now, ay, rod by Rod, you might need a rod being. Happy birthday, j Loo, I love Joel was a hustle baby. And yes, if you have not ordered your tickets for September six, which will be in Chicago for the White Party with Splash, you need to come. We're gonna videotape it and it's going to be a big deal. It's called the list Event

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tickets on even Bright. Then we are all together in September the ninth to the twelve and d C for DC Comedy Loft, and we're gonna be having the live taping, so we hope we won't be having all these damn video issues for Laugh and Learn and September at the level of Bar and Grill and Philly and September thirty of My Heart, the Black Effect Network is having the one year anniversary and I would be co hosted alongside Just Hilarious at eighty five South, d C. Y'all, fly,

don't be stealing on me either, because I know you have beat up the other Gather Flame Flame. Are you ready for eighty five South? You know that's a rather, that's not the question to ask. That is not the question is is eighty fist South ready for mother brother? That's what you need to be asked because he she we coming with both guns of blazing. Well, thank you guys for joining us today for laughing Lione. You can follow all of us on social media. Nick where can

we find you at? You can find me at Nick Smith News on all social media platforms. Oh, that's the Internet is giving me. That's the blues today. Y'all. You can find Nick Smith at Nick Smith News on all social media platforms. That's one word, Nick Smith News. Laurie, where can we find you at? On Instagram? And I am just Lauren Hogan on YouTube and she's also my manager. You can contact her he we bookings at gmail if you want to get in touch with me, because I

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chiming in. We know that the Internet was a little glitchy today, but we are here because you are here. Uh at laugh and Learning. Nick, I want to ask you the question, but your by friend Laura's gonna to do it. We're not trying to learn. We are not trying to get anybody to change their minds. We are simply trying to get you all to use your mind if you have to have one, because you got to

make your own god damn decision. Because how many times on Flames say because I ain't told you do that, because I want you to do what you want to do. And yes, we will be doing Love Lounge tonight between six thirty and seven right here on Instagram. I will see you out on Friday for Karen Hunter Show. And I see y'all tonight for Laughing learn I mean for Love Lounge. Thank you guys for joining us. Thank you producer Triple and I can't remain Kendall. Thank you guys.

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