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she raped shot towns on speaking to the ground. And second we're gonna last cut of the kicking and at the end we leave it with just a lift just favorite if you want to revisit, so your first like a listen, young folks, like it's lit all folks that we take it to do what you do? No, do what you don't? Nois do what I do. Hey, welcome to laugh and learn. I am your host, flam Rode, along with my beautiful co host, Ms. Lauren Hogan, who's been on vacation. She's on the world tour. She thinks

she'd Beyonce. Y'all not at all. Life has been rough and I'm right now I wish um no. But I went to homecoming this past weekend, which was so much fun because it was the first year let me hear you say it where it was homecoming. It was in Atlanta. It was spell House, so it was spell many More House of Homecoming. It was the first one that happened. It's happened in three years. So, um, it was really fun. I'm excited. It was so exciting to see everybody and

just kind of have that black excellence and camaraderie and everything. Um. We actually had a lot of celebrities show up to which was interesting, from Tibo Champ to you know, Carrie Washington, Rick Ross. It was. It was an interesting homecoming. But I had a great time keeping my fingers crossed. I don't get COVID because it was a lot of people, and yeah, it was just it was nice to be back in my second home. Anders is the coach in one of the schools. Deon Sanders is the head coach

at UM Jackson Jackson State, Mississippi. So yeah, the valley went out for that. I was gonna say at the that was there. Oh oh, I talked to you while you were sound like you had a really good time. Did you have a cocktail or two or six or to fifteen? You know, I was really good on Friday, pretty good on Saturday. Sunday it was a little rough and I had a had a red eye afterwards, so I was a little intoxicated on my flight, almost threw up. But you know, we made it. That's all that matters.

We made it. I'm glad you do. They had a good time. You suppose to you when you're young, you supposed to have a good time. When you get old, you get mad at everybody. I'm mad at anybody right now, but I'm glad to be. It was a good week. My wife was very it was very interesting. Wednesday we did the Three Voices at the Hollywood Laugh Factory. Of course we'll be there to my tomorrow's Gang Gang Night,

by the way. Thursday, I spoke at the Karen Bass political fundraiser at the Hollywood Laugh Factory and it was quite I wasn't on the show, but Jamie macided only invited me to come, so I'm there and I knew it was a political rally, so I covered up. I didn't showed no cleavage. I was oh, I was what I was, everything right right? And so when I was there, sent you. The entertainer had to leave while will I amazon the stage speaking and Jimmy Massara asked me to

close out the show. So I went up no, no introduction, just cold turkey. Turned the show out. Come to find out that they asked me, your partner, your client, to speak at the Democratic National Convention because they love the message that I conveyed about voting and who I am as a person. And I thought it was great and the only message I pushed the Lauren. Yep, I'm black first, YEP, I am transgender, Yep, I'm an entertainer. But I pushed to those people that I am a registered voting American

citizen of the East United States. And as soon as we want to know what American, an American citizen looks like, go to your mirror with your registration, called your voters registration car and you, my dear on America. We told the v and they loved the message. They loved how I did it, so they asked me to speak. Now, mind you, the hardest probably gonna be what I'm aware at the d n C, because you know, I can't

show no skin. Child. I'm gonna easier just to put on a nice blazer, you know, maybe a little skirt. You know, you can show a little leg, but the you gonna have to cover the girls up. I'm gonna cover I'm gonna look like I'm have on a hit job and everything very covered. But it will be type as as oh, your panties. I wanted to fit me like a bodyguard. They just say it couldn't show the shape. They just said I couldn't show no skin. I think it was implied. I think it was implied. I'm just

gonna throw that out there just then, heels. I didn't hear that. All I heard was wake it up and shake it up. And I'm like, oh, I can do that. But I think it's gonna be great, and I think that it's going to be wonderful. A for my career, be for our for a podcast, laugh and learn and see. Just to push the importance of voting, because I think a lot of people miss that. And like I said it on the microphone, I don't know what party you represent.

That ain't even that important to me all the I know it really is as a Democrat, But I just want you to utilize the power that you have, which is your vote. Get your butt up and go to the pos and vote. That is very important. So it's so funny that you say that, because I kind of want a segue and I'm kind of getting off topic. But you just jogged my memory about something and do it last weekend, So you know, early voting started in Georgia. Um, I think this past last Tuesday, so it's been going

on for about a week. Um. But I actually read an article that was supposted by Shaun King that a student that attends the Morehouse School of Medicine, This young girl, she went in to basically exercise her right to vote and perform early voting. When she got there, they basically challenged her voter eligibility and we're trying to force her to fill out of provisional ballot. She said that she felt very intimidated and she felt like, you know, she

was really being almost like cornered. So she ended up leaving and she didn't vote. So what's happening in Georgia now is basically they passed a law where citizens or poll workers can actually challenge you on your voter eligibility and basically, if you don't pass their test, they're not gonna allow you to vote. Sound familiar about you know

how many marbles that in this jar? Exactly? So it's literally like we are back in the nineteen you know, fifties and sixties, when you know there was this big boom around you know, voting and especially in Georgia, and such a key race with Stacy Abrams, Brian Kemp, Raphael Warnock,

Herschel Walker. So there's these keys um races that are happening in the state, and they're practicing voter suppression again to make sure that us we don't vote or make it difficult for us to exercise our right to vote. So that's that is quite scary. And it always goes back to what you said shot a year ago. Um, if I vote wasn't so important, why would why would they do so many things to try to discard it?

And you made me think of something that happens. So I attended the gree Awards on this weekend, and there was a young lady, a thirteen year old girl. She's uh, the first Fina saw. She's the first person. She was the youngest person ever worked fin Saw and she just got accepted to medical school. Her name Blue eludes me. You google you y'all know any who. She was making this great speech because they honored her at the gree Awards. By the way, the gree Awards will become out Oscars.

It was so classy, so wonderful and well put together Byron Allen did an amazing job at the whole black people dressed up in honoring us and us speaking so well. And this girl did not have a prepared speech, low and and she was talking about why I was so important for her to help people who she was and she has done all of these great things in her

young thirteen years. And she kept giggling and laughing, and I was speaking to a ban and Abran was said, I don't like that she didn't have a prepared speech. I thought that her mom should have prepared her speech. And I told April what she did though, was reminded us that she was a thirteen year old kid, and I thought that that was fantastic because with all her great accomplishments, she's still a little girl. And she remembered that. Well.

I think that what you're saying, though, is so important because I think, especially because you know, I think as black women, you know, our innocence, or like our our childhood innocence is almost taken away from us so quickly. So I love that you said that to April, that she's still a child and in those moments of her speaking, she was able to remind the audience that yes, while I am still a child, I'm still doing great things, but I'm still a child at the end of the day,

you know. And it was so a dope and went at the end because I think the three Awards aired November five, she cut one of her dreadlocks for the young lady that was killed and Iran who had the her job on wrong to show solidarity in women and

the power of the youth and young ladies. And oh my god, this little girl had my ass flooded because she was so even with the Tyler Perry's and the and the Dave Chappelle's and the Queenslan thief Is, all these big names, this little girl was a powerhouse Lauren. And I love the fact that she remembered that she was a little girl. It was so adorable. But the Grill Awards was great, hosted by Sherl Underwood and Tay Diggs. And the only issue I had that Sherl didn't change

dresses because I would have changed dress about times. Didn't do that. But I do want to also say something too. I know you like to talk about the gen z Ears and that last generation. I'm telling you there's something special about them. I know people love to talk about them, how they're lazy, they're this, they're that. There's some brilliant minds in that generation. That's all I'm gonna say. Raised in a single parent household, just by her mom. Her

mother was there, and the mother was so supported. She talked about the support from him. I love that because I love when young sisters have a strong mother too to guide them and too mo them. I eat you because you know, I thought you was about forty five on your business savvy, not because the way that I looked, just because we got to clarify that, you know me and and oh my god, thirty three or thirty four, and you said when you said at twenty four, I say, girl,

you laugh. But it was an amazing and your and your your me flamemon bro, your client made the giddy images. I saw them. You looked account dress. That was a bank account dress. A bank account dress. Is that you gotta put some innute in order to get somebody? Did you see what I put in fit like that? You looked like it was a woman. Oh my goodness, that was an amazing event, and we had a good time.

And I'm telling you right now you might be onto something with these jmseys because that little girl was so remarkable to me, and um, it just set the president itself. This is going to be our Oscars. Degree Awards will probably be probably become our Oscars. It was just that magnanimous to me. Well, they're starting to create things for us,

which I mean we always still have, like the Image Awards. Obviously, we're creating things for us exactly we have Image Awards, um now the Great Awards, and then even you know what um Tina Lawson does with the Wordable Art Galla, that's turning into our Black met Gala, you know what I mean. I want to invite to that next year. I've actually this is the first year I actually haven't gone because I was in Atlanta for Homecoming, but i've pretty I think, yeah, I've been actually every year that

she's had it. It's a beautiful event, it's beautiful affair. She raises a lot of money. The program is always really fantastic. So I'm sad I couldn't go, but I had to go to Atlanta and get my Black Excellence on. But so yeah, she raised five millions year. So we are two weeks away from election, but it's so many debates going on now. They did have a debate eight um what debates that I watched when I ain't watched none of him in in in full because Kentman, did

you watch that one tonight? That one is going actually went on tonight? No, But I was with feed a Man, and I'm telling I never trusted Dr Oz. I think we talked about this on Episodes of Laughing a while ago. I told you I never trusted him because he always had looked to me and I never believed in his in his medical whatever he was saying, it was always for show. But then he jumped into the political game. He went far left or which yeah, far left? Was

it far right? Which one was it? You know? It's interesting because I never knew that he was a Republican and a Trump supporter. So when he came out, as you know, running on the Republican side of things, I was very shocked and appalled, and I was like, dang, I can't really take advice on anything that you say now, especially not medically, because I don't know what's biased and what's skewed in your eyes. But um, I hope that

he looses. That's all I can really say. I really Fetterman had a stroke, you know, a while ago, and Dr Oz actually used that in his campaign to speak Fetterman to say that he had medical issues and and not nicely. So now he's trying to clean that up because he saw that he was still losing and and now reported according to the news, he's trying to get as far away from that Trump whatever that is. It's possible because it's like a cloud of gloom and doom. Well,

it's interesting too of how some Republicans are shifting. Um. For instance, there was an ad that I saw while I was in Atlanta. Um it was I forgot the organization, but it was like Republicans for credibility. They actually ran an ad against herschel Walker. I couldn't believe it. And it was a Republican organization that paid for primetime TV ad to run against herschel Walker. Yeah, lots of rats to jumping ship, and lots of people are starting to

see things for what they were. Let's tegue into it, ye yee. And speaking of jumping ship, I'm not about I'm not laughing at the man's pain. But when he said anything negative about black people, there was no repercussions, There was no backlash, there was no nothing. Baby. He said something about the Jewish community, and when I tell you, they are snatching things left right, sideways, up under, over between, back to behind the door, through the gangway. Oh my grandma,

it's in the gangway, baby, everybody running ship. They like rats on the Titanic. Listen. Mine. My main issue at this point in time is I just find it interesting that Kanye West has made so many hateful comments about black folks, the black community. So whether it was slavery was a choice, or wearing a White Lives Matter T shirt, these are recent things. But he said so many degrading things about black people. These big companies, Adida's Gap, Valenciaga,

nobody cared about that. But as soon as he offended the Jewish community, all bets are off. They got a part ways. Oh he's racist, He's making all these comments there. He's losing everything, he really is. His net worth literally plummeted by millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. Today, Forbes removed him off of the billionaire list based on his net worth dropping so much after Um, Adidas dropped him.

Today officially parted ways. But it's just so interesting to me that once you offend the Jewish community, that that's the big no no. You can talk crap about black folks and these big companies don't care, but the Jewish community, all bets are off. They were they reminding him that he was a brother. Yeah, they were reminding him for sure that he was black, because we all know hundred Champs when he did that UM episode, he said he could say, you know, anti Jewish comments and he would

be fine, and Ditas couldn't do anything. They sure did dissolve that a partnership and lose almost two d and fifty million dollars. They surely did. Sometimes you get Fantasia Marino said it bit it's best. Sometimes you got to lose to win. I still love her. Speaking of her, she opened up the Green Awards said and that was probably probably the biggest mistake they made in their life, because when I tell you, that's just to open up that show and took that ball all the way to

heaven and could nothing come and touch it. Baby. Let me tell you what was so funny? Lord at the Green Awards so pat they an Patty LaBelle, so pale LaBelle came by the same. You could clearly see the monitor. And you know what, I'm gonna laugh, but I always say, make the words real, big babe. The words on the teleprompter was biggest my head. Good god. It was funny. And miss Patty stopped looking at the teleprompter and forgot the words the Superwoman and told told Fantasia Queen Latifa, Uh,

what else is saying? Yolanda Adams? And that was somebody else? She said, y'all just saying so when Petty could remember the word, she stopped flying like a bird. We lost our mass. I screezed the landlord. I had a great time, good guy. That was fun. Get off topic. What was

we at talking about? Mr? West? I told you on the Breakfast Club, I said, told y'all, y'all, he played in that card incessiful baby whoo who it's scary And and you know he told his wife or ex wife whatever, they don't even know if they're divorced, yit um that she would never make her career was going to end when she divorced him. With her in a fashion world and Vogue has party ways with him, and she's still in bed with them, so you know, it's interesting to see.

Well for now, for now, we all we don't know what the future is gonna bring. I'm curious to see how her fashion career works out, though, considering she does have all of these relationships because of Kanye. It was gonna call a spade a spade. That is true. He really built up a fashion career. So I know she came out and said she doesn't support what he said, but I'm curious to see what happens for her considering

she's tied to him. You've already seen it. You've already seen it once another black man helped build her career and boom, she's ten times more big, bigger than him. Well she is. She's who she is now because of family. That's very true. So crazy to see how her relationships, if they're maintained, or if people are distancing themselves from her. I'm curious to see how it plays out. And back to these politics, layd until Ron the Sands is your favorite governor in Florida has made some of the most

bogus Outlandis statements. I thought he wanted to run for president and I'm not sure if that's what the case definitely does We've been in the audio. I feel like we should play the audio because what he said was so ludicrous. I feel like we should play the audio on this episode. Um, Aaron, let me know if you can hear this from the French that they do have programs unfortunately, well they will take a student look at their race. Okay, you're white, you're an oppressor. If you're black,

you're oppressed. And think about what that does to a six or seven year old kids. That's wrong. You're seeing that you have people that are teaching and actually his running mate has said this in the past that teaching the United States was built on stolen land. That is inappropriate for our schools. It's not true. Uh, and I'm happy teaching that the United States was built on stolen

land is not true. Listen. I've said publicly before that he was Patrick the Starfish from SpongeBob Square Paints, which and I don't change my statement at all. It is such a divide, it is such a great divide, and it is so tactical and ugly, and we already in a horrible crisis for race. Uh. The critical race theory that we might erupt in this country, I don't know. I'm telling it's getting scarier. Every day is getting scarier.

It's just it's interesting, and I feel like it goes back to the previous episode that we talked about troll culture, because you're knowingly spreading misinformation. People are getting sued behind this at this point for spreading conspiracy theories and actually telling lies that you know are not true. So for you to say that people are in classrooms telling white kids that, oh, your oppressors, nobody's doing that. People telling black kids, Oh, you're oppressed, nobody's doing that in school?

What what teachers are trying to do, like folks like Alison who's been on our show, who's an educator in the Florida area where she has this terrible governor, Alison le Yes, you're trying to teach children the truth behind this country and behind what our ancestors, their ancestors did, and how it was wrong and how it's honestly built an ongoing cycle in this country of what should not happen. You stole killed to create this country, and they couldn't

even build it yourself. You have to go to freaking Africa to get us to build it because you couldn't do it yourselves. So it's just Rond de Santis is also another example of a person of color, specifically Latino, trying to assimilate and be white. There's just there's so many things that are wrong with what he's saying, and I feel like how he has an identity crisis and identifies himself. It's just I just can't believe that he

actually said that in the middle of a debate. But you know, the wild thing is people are still gonna vote for him. Oh, he's in the right state. He's in the many petty states, so yeah, petty. And I'm not disrespecting Florida at all, but some of y'all just really needed who that cool. Ain't got to be real sweet, because good god, y'all keep drinking it, And even Jim Jones cool aid at this point it is because people

are going to keep voting for him. That's yeah. We're not gonna just blame Florida because Texas and and tar Cruise. First of all, Tar Cruiser was on the view yesterday and he could hardly even get through because the audience they were booing him, and you know what and s ob and Whoopy had to get mad to try to

sell him down. Whoopy could not settle them down. They talked about joy not joy Anna Naviral question him as a Latino woman to another Latino man, how could you let this man insult your wife because she's part of Cuban she said, a Cuban man would never and uh, he just well, you know, I knew the assignment, and I figured I would have to work with this man. He skirted past it and made every excuse in the book.

Because I'm telling you, he showed that he had no spy, no backbone, and he had not been to see the Wizard because he didn't have no brain, no courage, or no damn hard When Donald Trump called his wife ugly to his face, unattractive and his father was a killer, and he said, bowed down. And they're here too. I don't know what's wrong when people along people are broken and lost, and the same party is that the people that are broken alongst are in positions of power to

destroy us. And all right, so out to your first point, I will say, I don't I think when Ted Cruz has to run again, I think he's seat up is up in four. If I'm not mistaken, when he has to run again, I think he's gonna lose. I don't think he's gonna keep his seat because I think the people of Texas are really piste off, piste off at him, especially after he left in the middle of a crisis and went to Mexico. I don't think he's gonna get reelected. But I also am not confident that Beto is gonna

win against Greg Abbott. I'm not. Yeah, Well, Beto was too emotional, and then there's too many, um, it's too many Republicans in Texas. Re Texas still has it's fully even after all that Vality tragedy, and it has showed the they were wrong in every way possible. In law enforcement, you're right lawing. Unfortunately, I hate to agree with you on this one because you probably you know you you're

you're right on that. Uh, they do. Old Rourke I like, but I think he gets a little too emotional, and as a politician you really have to remove the emotion. That's why I love Stacy Aram so much, because you can't shake that lady. You don't. You You can say the worst things about her and her temperament is whatever. And speaking of Stacy Abram's my good spelling sis was at homecoming and did a tent tailgate. She was with the people and she better win. But anyway, that's work on.

I said, come on, Stacy with the people and it's for the people. I need her to win. But anyway, UM, yeah, I don't know. I don't. I don't think the Ted Cruiz is gonna actually win his seat again, and he probably knows that too. And I think once he loses that seat, it's gonna be what are you going to actually do? He's gonna have to become a political correspondent, probably on Fox or something. And I fantastic uh producer here reminds us today that he went to the to

the game Yankee game. Yeah, abe, not only booed him, but disrespecting him, called him all kind of names just in everything, and and and well deserved. He has shown his ass too many times to be so disrespectful, not only to the Texans but to the country. So I think it's well deserved. I don't feel no pity for him at all. I just don't have any sympathy for Ted Cruise at this point. So best of luck. You better be glad. I wouldn't sitting next so them because

I would call him Mary. You probably would be right there with everybody else at Yankee Stadium. So but I would have been allowed. I'm welcome the tiffany Hatrisan jumped on his face and moved my hand with him. But back and forth and back and forth. He might have punched me. He wouldn't have punched me. He said nothing about Donald Trump saying about his wife. He woudn't. He wouldn't hit me because I would have took my wig off and get with him. Uh. I'm only a girl

with with the check. So last, but not least, we do need to talk about. There was another school shooting in St. Louis. Um. I just feel like school shootings at this point, people are kind of like become immune to it, like it's not as big of a deal anymore because they're happening so often, and it's just breaking my heart that it's not safe for kids to go to school, which is not I can't say that I'm immune to it, but when I hear about it, the

first thing I say is another one. And the only reason I'm not immune to it is because I have a kid that's still in high school, so it kind of like, oh my god. The first thing I do

is text my door to call girl. You're okay, you say, and we have gone over the rules a thousand times that if it ever happens at her school, you get to the safest place you can and had don't you open the door, don't you make a sound, turn that phone off, Text me and say Dad, this is it, but this is where I'm at and I'm safe to let me know because parents worry. You don't know what's going on, and you never know when it's going to happen. And it seems like it got quiet down for two

or three weeks, and then here we are again. Here we are again. My concern is that it's still happening and it's not being reported. Well, he left us to it. He left the note. He was nineteen years old. He graduated at King I don't know his name. You can tell him his name, Lauren. He graduated from the school last year. He came back because you said he had

no friends, no family, nobody loved him. He had six hundred rounds of ammunition from an A R fifteen that he had just purchased, so now they're going after that. But this is what blows me. Why sell these weapons to these youth and then you're gonna, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, he's not gonna bring my baby back. But who who? What does? What? Does TJ? And say? Keep your keep it on? But no, it's getting ready, so

you can stay ready. I forgot what it was saying all that to say, I just got my gun this past weekend or right before I left Atlanta last Tuesday. I have my weapon now. So because that's I feel like that's what we have to do at this point to protect ours else because there is so much violence happening because my switchblade is not gonna be good enough anymore. My switchblade can't stop a bullet. Yeah, you can't take

a knife to a gun fight. And he killed the sixty old young lady, and he killed the sixty one year old teacher. And I'm glad that you brought that up about your gun, because there was an incident that just happened. I think it was in Alabama where a off duty firefighter wrestled and man handled a black guy for more than ten minutes because he insulted the lady

in the store. They got into a not to a physical education, just to a shouting match, and he stepped in the intervened, and this was a black guy and he's a big white boy and he just owned this white boy on this black guy for ten minutes. And the girlfriend kept saying, get off him, get off him. She had a gun. She shot him one time and killed them and there are no charges. And I'm telling you that was justice in America to me for that one time, because there were so many warnings and he

would not get off of this guy. I don't know why these people think that they can take the long to their own hands, but that is the that is the plethora of problems that Trump opened to make people think that can do what they want to do. I love that she stood up on herself, and I'm with you on that might be what we have to do, just to let them know that this is not that. This is not like they said, yesterday's money ain't today's money.

Maybe yesterday's black people ain't today's black people. Talk about I am not my ancestors. You've seen them shirts. I am my ancestor. But I got there. I get their heart. But God Davin, and I got a gun. I don't. I don't. I don't have a gun. Well, I I legally have a firearm. I took a test, I passed background we in California, so you know, you can't get around that, especially with the governor that we have. But

I went through all the legalities. But my dad just he because especially because I'm in you know, my place by myself, he wanted to make sure that I was protected. So he was like, you need to purchase a gun. So I'm officially a gun owner. I go to the gun range with my uncle who's x l A. He's an x l A p D detective, and you gotta protect yourself. My switch plate isn't good enough anymore. Sadly, Loring,

it's just it's just tragic. And you know, and I saw the kids and they were they were interviewing the students that come out to school in St. Louis. And that was a young black girl. She couldn't have been no older than fifteen or sixteen. She said, I'm never going back to school anymore. They have petrified these children in school. Our biggest worries was who got the best sneakers or who were in the Adidas jacket or you know who got the tom Ford or whatever. You not

who's going to live not? Who's going to live today. I don't think if I was a parent tomorrow and have to send my kids to school, I don't think I would be comfortable to do it. I wouldn't. I would probably homeschool my kid. I don't think I would be okay, said of my kids to school, Well, they it's so much because then when you home school, if you're not traveling and teaching them outside of the world, they become so stagnated in the house, almost like a hermit.

Which put us back to the pandemic situation. And don't let us leave without saying rest in peace to the great Uh Leslie Joe And oh my god, I met that little queen one time. He was so funny and so what you doing? He got me through the pandemic. Let me tell you, Leslie Jordan got me through the fantom. What are y'all doing with this little video fact? Uh? He's still he still worked sixty seven years old. He worked to the day that and he died living his dream.

The question is are you living yours? Because your happiness everybody's going to die, that is a given. Everyone is going to leave here. But while you're here, are you happy doing what you're doing. It's not about we put so much uh weight on money and success and fame, but success and famous is what you think of it as inside of you. You know, Lauren, you're successful at your job. I don't know what your big dreams are for what you want to do, but you seem happy

with with your position. You seem happy in your personal life, and a lot of people missed that because they want status. I want to be the number one, I want to be the most famous. I want to be this. I want to be happy, and Leslie Jordan pushed happy this. He pushed that he was a happy person, and he said that it took him years to find that happiness. A lot of people will never find that happiness in their life. They just be content. I hate the way that he passed though, to have a heart attack in

the car and then you had a car crash. I always said, if I ever had to go, I just wanted to go in my sleep, So I hate that he did. I want to go pretty, let me just be. I want to go real. I want to go done, beat child. I'll be okay being bare facing in my bed and just you know, my sleep. But I don't know. Um, I know we talked about a lot today. It just seems like we're back in the space where things are

getting really really heavy. Yeah, and world, and I want to talk about another debate that the young the lady who's running for the governor of Arizona. I cannot think she is a Trump She Trump would a vaginia. Oh my god. She's a nightmare. She um, she a huge Trump supporter. She sees things her way. She keeps pushing this that the election was stolen and she's winning in Arizona and she's winning. Um, I'm trying to think of her last name. Um, there's Carrie Lake and uh as,

I can't think of her name. Google carry Lake and Katie Hobbs. There we go. She is a nightmare. Oh my god. And to me, I look at her and I see the face of evil. Yeah. There was some hope in a couple of states, um, I know, from Michigan, Georgia and um well Georgia really for the Senate race too. But it's gonna be interesting to see how things end up. Shaking out because, like I said, Georgia, for instance, we're

seeing voter suppression. I think we're gonna see that in more and more states as we, you know, really get to election day. I already had my absentee ballot or not my absentee excuse my mail in voting ballot, because I always do mailing. I just feel my ballot it out at home and I drop it off afterwards. But the voters depression, and there's voted intimidation because in some states they have mass people sitting in cars apparently with guns, so when you go up to vote, it's an all

the intimidation factor. They're gonna have to get the right ones, because I'm telling you, I went to see the wizard and he gave me his job. I anski ship. Well, that's all about voter suppression. You know. That's the same thing that they did back in the fifties and sixties. You know, and even when black folks got the right to vote, when they exercised their rights to vote, their

employers would fire them. That's why they ended up creating in tense city in the middle of between Montgomery and some Alabama, because black folks literally ended up being homeless, and I had to live in tents, and the you know, racist white folks would drive by and shoot into tents that they were living in because they were fired from their jobs for exercising their right to vote even after

it was legal. So there's just so much that has gone into allowing us the right to vote and to feel like we're in a tie more dealing with the same thing, and it's two is just baffling. It's so baffling. So I just encourage everybody that even if you're in Georgia, if you are, you know, if your voter eligibility is challenged, just take the extra time fill out that provisional ballot so that way you can ultimately cast your vote, because

your vote is needed. It's unfortunate that we have to take those extra steps with this day and time, but it's what we have to do. And to the people within my listening here, if you say my little one vote don't count, hear me, and hear me very clearly and loud, because this was the message that I pushed. If twenty people feel like you and we lose the Democratic vote by twenty people, understand that that weight falls

on you. It's as simple as that your vote does count, and they're counting on you not to vote, so understand that we have to beat them at their own game. They are changing the laws, changing the ways that you can vote, moving all kind of pull link stations and everything, but for the for the ones that told you to hold your vote until we figure out what the black agenda is. The black agenda is the same thing as the white agenda, and the Latino agenda, and the Asian

and Indigenous agenda, and Italian every other nationality. We all want to be treated fairly as Americans. Americans all look the same. If you're a registered voter, then damn it you in America. So god damn, let's make America wonderful, because America have been wonderful. Was America ere wonderful before Columbus came with his bullshit? The Indians were good. They ain't need no help. They were smoking the pea pipe peace piper, eating their maize, which is corn, and having

a good time on the whack. Columbus came with all that bullshit. Look at you about to fall out to be it again. Well, here a laugh and learn. We have a saying. We're never trying to get anybody to change your mind or always just simply trying to get you guys to use your mind. Because wife line, Because if you don't vote, you don't have a mind. So get your ass to the pos and register. Vote and vote. Don't vote your future because your future is not promised.

Vote your president. We are living in hell. Vote your present. I understand that the future is coming, but baby, a lot of people ain't even gonna have a future because the president is so jacked up. They're trying to cancel our future. You better vote your present. Don't worry about the future. Couldn't have said it better myself. Shoot. Um, November eighth is right around the corner. Right around the corner, that's Timmy's birthday. Um, so make sure that you're registered

to vote. Like I said, already got my mail in ballot. I'm gonna get it done. And it's scary times that we live in because that's really going to decide the next two to four years for a lot of uh, for a lot of things in this country. And then all I can say is God, caring Bass, both caring bass, Yes, caring bass because Karen Bass is a woman who cares about the people and not only just a woman. She is a Los Angeles uh what they call him and

Leno that kills about Los Angeles. So and that's all people. Her and Gavin Newson of the best team for me. So I'm looking forward to her winning and taking over because that other one that smiles so far, so fake and so forced. The girl looked like it hurt him. It hurts him to smile. Well, you know, Rick Crusoe is a convenient Republican turn Democrat. But I digressh I can you telling you the Republicans know how to play the game. The Democrats just learning what they need to

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