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spirit to think you want to revisit. Tell your first take a listen, jill. Folks say you slip, oh, folks that we dick it. No kids, do what you do, No fish, do what you don't, No kiss do what I do. Good morning, Laurenkin, Good afternoon, Flame. How are you good evening? Good day? Good something? It's sometimes you know why that's good because we got like they say in jail, we got one day and a wake up. Guess what's happening in one day? And wake up? We

got poor connection, ding dong, the witches dead. Oh yeah. This is dedicated to the current administration. He's leaving the White House in two days. This one is just for you. Play. Y'all see that it says mother had you, mother, love you, motherfuck you out of here. We are free. But y'all know that nigger parton a hundred people to mind about that money? Look like? Well, you know they said that their allies have been getting lons of donations and stuff. So I guess we're going to see who paid the

money to get the pardons? Would those be the same people who gave him two hundred and seventy million dollars for you know, because he's going to be the president again? Win right? Y'all so smart? That special people in the world, so you can't begrudge them. It's special sauce. Special. Welcome ladies and gentle to laughing line with Flame Monroe Loreen Laurie, as we affectionately call her over here, How doing good afternoon, Smith? How are you doing all right? How how is my producer?

And how is our videographer? Triple and Kindle are fine and here and they've been what whether they get this morning? Oh lightsol, Interesting that you would raise that today. You know, I'm raising it. I'm raising it today, but I use it every day on everybody. I wonder if the police are listening right now. I know why you brought up. But police, if you listen, because I sprayed somebody with lights out, arrest me playing I've been to jailing phone. They let me out on a titty count, I mean

a technicality. I get back out, nig I'm gonna get I got buying money. Oh yes you do. How are you? Nick? I know? And I know what you're gonna go to. You're gonna go to Florida where they arrested that teaching from spraying that three year a boy with lights all. But before you, before we talk about that, please explain to us how you felt about lights out now, because you were explaining something to Lord and yesterday on the phone about what lights all has done to contact surfaces

and your body. Your skin is a surface, your cling is so you explain it better than I can. Well, no, you you just you laid it out right there. And that's a clue what it is that the idea behind lysol is to disinfect. And it's that's what has promises to disinfect upon surfaces and things and kill germs that it lands on. Uh. The idea behind the aerosol is to also create this misted and to kill bacteria. Well, covid is among those different viruses in bacteria that lysol

is believed to kill. We were talking about yesterday how I've just been doing a little more reading and a little more research, and I had a situation this week where you have one of those aha moments and you're like, wait a minute, I need a few more answers to a couple of questions that you have now created in my mind, not you, but the world in general. Specifically, we're talking about how covid was introduced to us last year. In fact, we just hit the anniversary a year ago today.

We had our first case, not our first death, but our first case. Hey, we know covid is here in the United States. We went into a lockdown in March. They immediately enacted Operation Warp Speed not after too long after that, where they created and got different companies and pharmaceutical companies to get engaged in creating a vaccine. Totally understand that, proud loved the science. But now last month we were told that there's this superstring that has now

been introduced into the public at large. Oh but don't worry about it, Lauren Flame, because the vaccine that we created for COVID with the original strain. Oh, this works on that one too, And I said to you, might so, And so I said to you, so, then a virus, a vaccine that you created for the original virus just magically may work for this one too, but we don't know, but go ahead anyway. And I was just saying that those are the kind of things I feel like give

people pause and make you say wait a minute. I was riding with you all when you when you were very clear about what your original directive was. Now it seems like, oh, well they work for that, it's gonna work for this strain too. But I mean, I thought you said this new strain was more infectious, and it's super contagious and it's even crazier than the last strain. I just feel as though there's more information needed and I don't believe that we're getting everything we need to know.

And that just gave me pause, and I had to share that with you. Well, you now answer the question, but come on long, because you now answer the question that I asked you, I'm just saying, what about the lights all? Yeah, I think it works. I think the lights all works clearly because you've been doing the Lightsol. So all that to say, you've been doing lights al and I just think the Lightsol must be doing something.

Always said this, We said this too, though, that Lightsol now has these commercials that specifically say that their most effective in killing COVID nineteen. It's a part of their tagline at the at the bottom scroll. So it works. So we can give Flame that credit that she was the first to spray people and it's been working a year later. And let's go back and let's go back to the three to teach you who who lost her

job for spraying the three year kid. At least she didn't tell the kid to take it internally to ingested or put it in a needle and shooting in her arm, and put up who did that? Your president? For one more day, your president, for the record, we're telling everybody about the story that we uh came across last week of Florida teacher accused of spring students with with lysol.

She was arrested because she really wanted to just make sure that the kids were, you know, disinfected when they came in a mist And I want to be clear, it's not like you are, Hey, Nick, stand here, spraying me in my face. That's not what you're doing that

over and over the shield of protection. While according to police and Largo and Penella's County near Tampa, Christina, resident Star fifty one years old, was arrested last week, she allegedly sprayed the air assault disinfectant in and around the children, uh in her classroom. You know, she's fifty one. She was worried about her own safety and everyone else, and they arrested her for that. So fifty one not fifty one. Fifty And I can almost guarantee you that she's a

flame Matt. I bet you she's a flame mat and she watches what we have done over here, because we spray everybody and it works. You know, A flame man just said, you should uh probably be getting a check from Life saw. That might be something we need to look in the way you advocate for them. I need your people to talk to my people so that I can get a check. That might be a good idea. The commercial case, you definitely have a full piece and

everything there might need, but commercial. And we're not saying that's to shame her, because we were also talking about shaming all the way around. Fat shaming and everything is really becoming a thing lately. Flame Lauren has a story about fast shamming. Before I go into my spield, Yeah I told I mean, I told Dick this yesterday. But funny enough, a couple of weeks ago, Flame was in the grocery store. Someone came up to her and it's like, oh my gosh, love the show, Love Nick, Love Lauren,

but decided to say, has Lauren been snacking? So you know, we're talking about fat shaming. I feel like we all have a story, but it's it's no shade because you know, you always need those people to keep you in check. Like, for instance, I have a great grandmother. She turned a hundred and one on January second. I love her dearly, but she's, you know, relatively blind. She can't see, so every time I see her, she always, you know, Ray Charles is me to see if I've gained weight. So

we you know, we appreciate everyone keeping us in check. Sometimes, you know, you need somebody to just nudge a little bit and say, hey, you know you're doing okay, but that's my fat. Okay, let's go to the source of fat shaming, because yeah, understand that there is a process to fat shaming. Gaining weight and losing weight is the exact same process. It takes time to get it off and it takes time to put it on. You do

understand that you contribute to putting it on, becau. It's called hand to mouth, you know, chicken, potato, chips, ice cream. Don't start telling somebody, oh, you fat shamy. You didn't get fat in the day. That was the process. You was fat last week, yesterday, tomorrow, next month, last month, three weeks ago, yeah, next year, last year, all that. So y'all stop with all that. Oh I'm fetching. It's not a such thing as fat shaming. It took time to get fat. It takes time to lose the fat.

Even though you can have the quick surgery now, the fat still don't fall off. So stop saying that people are fast shaming you when you contribute it to that, to that fat. So what you're trying to say, I'm trying to say that. Don't be running around here. Are did I agree with the guy saying you have a snacking no comment? Oh my god, I'm that we're talking

about people who love to shame people. Can we talk about your president and how he has continued to take donations um for a failed of for making false claims about the election being rigged, and he has wrecked in quite a bit donations. Trump has raised four hundred and ninety five million since mid October, including a massive hall fueled by misleading appeals about election fraud. So guess what he owes four hundred and twenty million, apparently either to

China or to Russia. I mean you, I know you don't pay taxes, nigger, but go ahead and pay them because you know them people ain't gonna play with you. So you need to gonna pay Putin or Yan Yang or whoever you owe money too, and get your debt clear because your your followers, your people have gave you that money to pay off that debt. Now he said nothing about the taxes in America that you ain't pay.

We're talked about that other debt because you will disappear because those especially with the Asians, them yangs, don't play baby. Don't owe them no money. They're follow you around the beauty blast ask me how No, Okay, wait a minute.

These are all people who will clearly be looking to President Trump need to pay them back or ask for favors, because among those are the Capitol Hill rioters who have been arrested, many of whom have made public appeals, public appeals for uh leniency saying that, hey, I expect the president to pardon me because I was carrying out his orders. Yeah,

that that's correct. Uh one. I would just like to say it's so unfortunate that people are really naive because you've been giving money to Trump as if he was going to run again one and now he's facing facing impeachment for the second time. Um, but also too, it's just it's baffling that, you know, I mean, un let's just say this. Reports are coming out that Trump is definitely going to either trade you know, our intelligence so that way he can you know, knock off some of

his debt. So it's gonna be interesting to see how all of this plays out. And to your last point, Nick, is Trump is expected to pardon about a hundred people tomorrow. So um, overall, it's uh yeah, it's it's interesting because Mr Trump has indeed been in peace the second time. How remix that right? Wait a minute, remix there are you about the who was your job? Your job? About

who's your job? And has the distinction of having more votes for impeachment than any other You know, so not only has he won in a number of times of being impeached he leads that twice now or no one else has been impeached twice, but also by bipartisans support. The fact that ten Republicans joined on board also reset

the stage as well that it wasn't completely partisan. It was indeed a bad partisan decision, but among those Jacob Anthony Chancelly a k A. Jake and Jelly Um was allowed to request and have his request received and approved to have only organic food while he is incarcerated waiting for You know, is that the white boy with all the pain and ship on his faith. Yeah, the one who the one who his mommy came out and said that he's not popped by but he has to have

his spinach. Then he's staying jail long enough, he's gonna get all the fat free men baby, no calorie and ale magam gain no waight uh, it's organic. It comes from the body directly. Did you you can get organic food in jail? Though this was news to me. I didn't even know. I'm gonna say this just just just to be clear. Because there are those who may be aware that when you are incarcerated UM, there is indeed UH, they're indeed ramifications and modifications made for those who have

different areas of worship. So it is not outrageous to me that organic food would be among those things, because there are those who who often convert UH to the nation of Islam, and then they're allowed to worship differently, and they do eat differently. I was not qualified for organic food, though I understand, like maybe if you you know your seventh day advantage, you don't need pork or

something like that. But organic food it's expensive out of jail to purchase, so right, but there are those who choose not to put those toxins in their body, and and and and you know, and he's you know, So I'm just saying that that's not outrageous to be but all of that goes off the table when you are incarcerated for what here you go, right here, he's incarcerated for a crime against America, treason. That's a crime. He shouldn't be allowed to have any If it was a brother,

let me just say the fucking words. If it was a brother, that will eat the same maloney sandwich. Is that the rest of us. Because I've been in jail, I had them maloney sounds. They're hard to get down, but they they're good trading stuff. You know. You can use them, play cards with anything. They think. It's they really think, but you can play cards with them. And yeah, all of that. I don't like the fact that he gets Yeah, I don't like the fact that he gets

special privilege because I'm selling. I'm sorry. They've given too many of them special privileges, and I'm just not for I'm not for it, and I want to talk about them the more. Today is a very special day because today we celebrate whose birthday was on Friday, the memory the legacy of the one and only Dr Martin Luther King, Reverend Dr King, one of the don't think fathers of the civil rights movement. He wasn't the only one that was a bunch of them, but he was the one

that we saw. He was the one that was out there publicly and we spoke because there was a couple of other ones that was right there with him, But the times we were different, and they could not be as open to speak about civil rights because they had skeletons in their closet, one of them being part of the LGBT community. They are Rustin, who was actually supposed to be selected to be Martin Luther King. He was actually supposed to be the king of that era. But

he got cotton car. He got cotton the car with two white boys. I guess it's different if you get cotton card with two white boys as opposed to being king going around from state to stay, smashing and grabbing. Because we love you, Dr King. But the notorious rumors out, so all you side bitches that think y'all just started, baby Martin was putting pushing panties back to the side like jay Z way back in the day. Baby, I'm just saying, and we still love you, Dr King. I

don't think anybody's ever heard that before. And they watched Selma. If you watched Selma, they know it's okay. I'm a knowledge. Now I will say this. I'll tell you what may not become a knowledge. Did you know that Martin Luther King was not his original name? Yes? Yes, we didn't, okay, And when did you? When did you learn that? Sarah yesterday? Who taught you? Who taught you that his name? But his name was yeah, absolutely, I just thought that was interesting.

The story abow Martin Michael King Junior became Martin Luther King Jr. And it all stems from his father having taken a trip to Germany being so influenced by what he saw was the rise of Nazism in Berlin at the time, Adolf Hitler just was just moving into power, and he loved the teachings of Martin Luther of Germany, and he said, you know what, he was so influenced by that, and how he felt that that could enact change, that those teachings were all about empowering people, uh civil discourse,

but uh a peaceful protest, all of these different things, to fight for equality. And he came back and that became his life's mission. Um. And then later in life Martin changed his name, uh to Michael, changed his name to Martin Luther, and so it became Martin Luther King Jr. Just like his dad. And part of that too, though, was that he wanted to distinguish himself from others. You know, I had I had studied part of this in school too, is uh. You know, like you said, Martin Luther did

the thesis. He came back but he also realized that that was more of a distinguished name that would help him stand out in society. So that was also partly two of why he changed his name and then decided to change his son's name as well. So, um, but like flame changing your name, changing your name to stand out, is that how one becomes flame? Unroe? Also, you know

maybe who knew? Uh, let's talk about some of my Martina, Let's talk about Martin is fantastically my personal favorite quote of Martin Luther King because I was I was two when Martin was assassinated after the Rainmon Jail and on April the fourth, I was only two. I was gonna turn in three that year. But it Uh, I remember and I don't remember, like, but I remember my grandmother being in such a funk even at that age. And I'm telling I only remember that recently because you you'd

be surprised at what you remember as a kid. And she was so broken because she had pictures of Martin Luther King, like we have pictures of Barack Obama over the house. I and my grandmother and them had pictures of Martin Luther King and Malcolm Max and people like that. Jesse Jackson at the time she took those pictures down to Jesse Jackson, let me just say before she left here anyway, Jesse get getting caught with us in this ship. Any who. She was so hurt and so broken because

they're assassinated King. But she had said that after they assassinated Bobby Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy was for civil rights and was standing with King, that she knew would only be a matter of time before they And she didn't say that that day, but she told me that as I got older, that she knew that they were going to assassinate Martin Luther King. I think that he knew too. In one of his memoirs. I think it's his sixty three memoir, which is my favorite quote of here's so

many is once you accept death, you're free. It allowed me to the stand that we're all are going to die. I can't be walking around worried about when it's gonna happen, on how it's gonna happen. I just gotta keep living because it's inevitable for not only myself but everybody. We're all going to die. But he has so many quotes, and we want to know what's your favorite and why you got a favorite qute from the I Do I Do? Um, you're gonna to quote it exactly what your favorite We'll

never get this ship all the way right. Well, one of my favorite quotes is actually, in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Um. That's one of my favorite Doctor King quotes. Nick, what about you? I was talking about the one that uh we talked about yesterday. Our lives began to end the day we become silent about

things that matter. And you said thing like whoa, because sometimes you I think people move into space where they feel like, well, I'm just gonna ain't got nothing to do it mean, let me just go ahead and let it go. Um. And we've often talked about the importance of allies and and people who are engaged in the process, because truly, none of us are free until everybody is free. So yeah, definitely what he did do though, even with the with the what with the bus what was it

called bus boycott? He gave us a sense of purpose because we only felt like we could be a maid's or bus boys or in that era, you know, he gave us a sense of purpose that we can be so much more. We can be this, we could be that. In his his speech, I have a dream, he dreamed, and he dreamed big for us, and he did say in his speech prolifically that I may not be there with you when you get there. We still ain't got there. Dr King, we still have not gotten there. It feels

like we're getting close. And every time I feel like we're getting closer and closer, it's snatched away from us. Because we do have some prolific leaders. But right now we need to stand by these female prolific leaders that we have because the women are the ones that standing on the front line right now, being the generals, and the men need to get out I'm talking about the other black men need to get out the way, or get to the out of them, or stand right behind

them to hold them up. Because you know how they always say behind every great man, that every good man, that's a great woman, behind every great woman. Let it be a good man, and it was a black woman, Let it be a strong black man. You know what made me think about that was last night we were I was watching the interview with Abbie Philip, who I absolutely adore sing Abbie Phillips. She was interviewing Vice President that Kamala Harris, you're so roared. I can do that.

You know, we just had founders down and and I found out yesterday A k A is the oldest um. Yeah you know the word. I was gonna say fraternity because you know, mixed up over here. This he she week because I couldn't did both of the ship. But any who, what I said that to say that when uh Abby was interviewing Kamala and the husband Tim, when he spoke about his wife, this is how you know when a man loves a woman. To me, this is my opinion. He turned and looked her in her eyes

and said, I love you, I love my wife. Do you know it was some racist wife folks all over this country kicking the ship out. They can I know they was mad at say, oh baby, I know the hill Billies was shooting up every day. I'm playing because that is something that you don't see. It's okay to sneak with a black woman sometimes, it's okay to even have a black woman as a girlfriend, but to marry her and publicly say on such a major platform that you love this woman and he said, I let this

black woman he says, I love my wife. Baby. That that was powerful to me because I can remember when that was taboo. That's how old I am. I'm gonna tell you the best things I heard today. UM. I was listening to NPR earlier and they had an interview with Jim CLYBURNEUM, who I also believed to be absolutely brilliant. I think he is, like UM, one of the most underrated stars of the Democratic Party. And he just talked about King because again this is all part of his

sister as well. And he was just talking about where we are now as a country and why he still has hope and why he still believes and why he's still engaged in this process and and you know, the interview at one point says, but you know, the progressive wing of the party just feels like, you know, older Democrats are just too stuck in the ways that you

all don't get it. And he never condescended. He simply said, you know, and this is what my good brother Martin talked about, is that we're supposed to have creative conflict. And I just loved how he's like, you know, we will never agree on how we're all supposed to get there, But I believe that we will all get there, and

we all have to keep fighting to get there. So his message definitely lives on he um mine and King just it was at such a time that it was so needed, even though I was a kid, that it's set a precipice for people, so we know that we could fight back and we know that we could stand up against the opposition, so that it was a great help.

And I know I make jokes about everything, y'all know who I am, But my Luther King is a great leader and we will always be respected as a great leader in the black community and for so many white people because he did have good white people helping him. We always have good white folks. We got some messed up ones, but we got to mess up black people. Let me just go down to that. We got messed up every damn thing. Come on reading on the quote. Um yeah, this is another quote that Flame really loves.

The quality, not the longevity of one's life is what is important. Um So, I think there's a myriad of quotes that we probably just really hold dear near and dear to our hearts regarding Martin Luther King. He was very inspirational. And I think one thing that even me and my friends talk about nowadays is that it's kind of unfortunate that we don't really have like that public figure anymore. And today, like I don't, I don't feel as though is we can say, Okay, yes, this is

like the Martin Luther King of this generation. This is the one who's going to lead the movement. But they just happen to be female. We got to mcmalory, we have um Stacy Abrams. We even commaa let me tell you something, And y'all know, I had my discripinities with common when she's running for president. But Kamla is sharp, she's smart, she's quick, she's incipfle, she's educated. So she's gonna bring and she's not afraid to say how she feels.

I know. But I don't know if I agree with that, because I was kind of like, you know, when Barack Obama was president. Everybody after he got out office, everybody was like, oh, he's gonna lead, you know, lead us to the Promised Land kind of thing, and I just didn't see that being his role, you know what I mean. So I in my opinion. You know, we always will differ with opinions. I just don't think we have that

person yet. Tamiko Mallory. You know, she was just started getting some notoriety about a year or two ago, so I would always be curious to see what she has to you know, what she's gonna end up doing. But as of now, I don't think we have that one person or even two people leading this charge for us. I don't feel that No, no, he's intelligent, but no, our flamemts are sounded off and one and just said that one of the favorite quotes is how we must

learn to live as brothers or perish as fools. Um, and I just think that we have been flooded in the timeline with a couple of them. Even as we've been speaking that people have been sharing some of their own And I know you and Flame, they are typing in capital letters for you, so so people they know definitely sound up. I think it means a lot to a lot of people. We're gonna bring some people in. Are we gonna be able to bring you back? Oh?

You can bring me back if you want to have people sound Can I bring you back when you come back? With your prejudice, Mr Mr Smith to be in the room with two beautiful women. Absolutely, then I paid him to say that, Hey, James, how's it going good? How are you um alive? That's right because you're in d C. You're right there where all the foodig is you okay?

You say yeah, yeah yeah. The way they've got it set up right now is that you've got the red zone, which is military personnel inauguration personnel only, and then the Green zone, which is actually where I live, where it's restricted to no vehicle traffic at starting since o'clock tomorrow morning, so I won't be able to drive anywhere. So if I have to get anywhere my buds are walking, well, well maybe it could you speak to how things are different today, Like I know here in l A we

normally have, you know, the King Day parade. Everybody's out, it's really festive. It's just it's a cultural and amazing space to be in. So and of course COVID is happening this year, so it's you know, not taking place. But what's the different feeling not only for King Day but also with all of the craziness that's happening in d C. I mean typically d C, because I mean

MLK beyond a lot of things. Was it is a cultural icon, you would have a lot of things celebrating him today, where you don't have that right now, there really are no permitted activities in terms of like gatherings or anything like that. You have no indoor dyeting, and you have nothing indoors that can occur, which would typically be the things like all the museums in the area are closed, all the restaurant's interiors are closed, all the

libraries are closed. So right now there's unless you're trying to do something in thirty degree weather, that's you're really limited to what you can do. And even then you're limited to less than a hundred people in your gathering. And it's you can't be any when the National Mall is completely under lockdown. So any of the places that which traditionally have these things, even the mart Luis King Memorial are all shut down because of paranoia of violence

occurring over the next few days. What's your favorite quote, James actually Nicks. That was my quote that Nick read was the Yeah, that was the one I proposed that we must learn to live as brothers or parishes, schools, I think for me it's really important because I, as you know, I embrace diversity and everyone, and I think it's important that we do that as a culture and that's the only way we would be able to move forward.

So James explained to you in the very beginning that he is, you know, he's down with the brothers and everything. He's also down with the sisters because James likes him. A black James is with the black James is with the world. Know that is true. Yes, for sharing all my business, Yes, And he left the head of down for you. He did that for the black girl because I know you're black women like all that, and you'll

be thinking that's Juana from uh you know what. Yeah, you know Jason Luana with all the Hey, James, I want you to stay safe. And it's too calm, you know, it's like that calm before. It seems like it's just a little too quiet before Wednesday. Yeah, I get like, I really think that if if anything is going to happen, it's gonna be on Wednesday where some stupidity is gonna

break out. My hope is is that between the National guardsmen they expect now the Coast Guard just arrived in the on the waterfront, and you're we're expecting police officers for other states in between ten and fifteen thousand Secret Service thank you, So they're expecting tender fifteen thousand members

of the Secret Service to be in town also. So the discrepancy that the disagreement that we had this morning, Nick and I was and I talked to it about to Kendall and Triple, who the producer and of the photographer here the videographer, was that because they Nick was like, they're quiet because they're afraid because of the National Guard and the army. And when I was like, uh No, I don't think that's what the case is at all, because they've shown that they have restraint of the military.

And I'm only throwing out a number. Let me don't say a number for real, but there's a lot of them that's in uniform that should be on the other side. And if they weren't in the uniform, they would be on the other side. They're not going to hurt themselves. They're not going to kill those people. They're not gonna hurt those people. I don't believe that at all. I think they see themselves because they are those people they just happen to have on their whatever uniform they're wearing

that day. I don't believe they're gonna hurt because it had that been a bunch of us, it would have been a massacre. And I agree with you totally. Well, thank you, James. I appreciate you. Yes, please, thank you. And the next time I see I'll see you. What a black girl? The name enough? But I think this maybe is a good talking point because I'm seeing some people sound off in the comments about what you just talked about in terms of the military. So why don't

we bring Nick back in. We can kind of start this typic a little bit, because you know, Nick is super pro military military. I'm with the military too. But I tell you what, let's kind of see, let's have this. I'm on that other side, baby that I ain't trusted. You said they had, didn't they have a general or colonel or something out there? Come on waiting, Nick, Come on, Nick, let's share your thoughts. Oh No, I don't want to.

I don't want to. I don't want to make it sound like I don't believe that things are definitely dangerous, because I definitely believe that they are. I just don't believe that anything will happen in the next couple of days. I believe that the message is clear that there has been a strong short of force, and I do believe

um in the strength of our military. And I know I'm moving a space of bias with that, but I genuinely believe that most of most of us who have taken the oath really do uphold the oath, and that is to protect the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. And I don't believe that there are um a cadre of lone wolves ready to move an attack which constitution. They're different in the same one that protects us flames seriously,

that one has not protected has protected us. I think that there are, but we gotta go fight on TV on camera. But I because I know you pro military, and I love you for that, brother, But I'm telling you, Nick, that's not what it is. And I know I just told you this in the car. I think Nick lives in the world with rose colored glass, he said, I do not. I think that you see what you want things to be. And I understand that because there are things that I see that I wanted to be. But

what it is is what it is. Well, while ask this because Nick, you talk about the Constitution, I mean, you do understand when the Constitution was written, it was not black people of color. I'll just say that we're not included when that was written. We were third. That came after the constitutions. That came after that was the ratification. Yeah, but absolutely. But I also understand that the Constitution, also, Lauren,

is a living, breathing document. The idea is it also didn't anticipate that there would be fifty states, right, um, And like everything else, we grow and we learn. I definitely believe also that the Constitution did not mean to exclude women. So and I also believe that the Constitution did not ever see a world where a woman would possibly ascend to the second highest office in the land.

I don't think that what we can do is move into space where um, we don't believe, and move in a way and operate in a way that we know we belong. And I believe that there are men and women who served this country because they too believe in this country and its promise. I among them, Um, But I'm not one of those who are out there today.

But I do believe that are good men and women, many of whom are seventeen eighteen leaving home for the first time, who really do believe in the promise of this country and what it has to offer for people like like me, like all of us. Yell, not everybody, everybody else. But that is a great quality quantity of people that are racist in the military. And they just take their uniforms off. They still go home to the to who they are. You can't leave you back putting

on the uniform. When I take this dress off, Marcus Park is still up under here. And I think that there are a great number of people who are racist who happened to also possibly be in the military. I think that what we can do is say that the races the military somehow attracts racists or something. And I guess that's where I'm just trying to somewhere else. You're taking it somewhere. Okay, come back, you were making you're making it sound like people in military racist every I

didn't say everyone. I said there's a good quality quantity. What does that mean? What does good quantity mean? None of them that if they're not going to kill white people, and the white people that racist, the protesters that came last week. I'm not afraid of the military, Harry, because they don't have to be. See, that's not us. This

is what you missing. They don't have to be. They've never been in a position and showed last week when the police and all the all the law enforcement in his country, when they shot Jacob Blake and his gat down back seven times and he said he wasn't meaning to kill him, Well, what else was you meaning to do? He was unarmed walking away. But here is all this verrager white people. Nobody had guns out. They had their poles, they had their flags, they had their pain on their face.

Y'all had milled y'all had guns, battalions, you had shields. Nobody ever attacked them, Nobody rushed them. In fact, they ran from them, or took pictures with them, or opened the door like they were giving them the key to the city. I don't want you to think that I'm attacking the military. I also don't want you to think that they are completely innocent of this. That was an inside job. Nobody knew what Nancy Pelosi's office was because that place is like a fucking cavern. That was inside job.

And when they get through, they can be mad at me. You know, I don't give two funks because guess what I got paid already Antie who And I'm gonna just say this to uh. You know, the military was not established to protect people of color, like we just we just got to say it is what it is that they just weren't. It just wasn't ingrained in their foundations.

So it's not it wasn't surprising for me to see what took place because that's not what was taught to them when that establishment was created, or that body of government, whatever you want to call them, was established. It just wasn't. And it's no shade. I know that you're a veteran and I appreciate everything that you did for this country, but you were one of the anomalies. You really are, and everybody is not like that. But but but yeah,

back to the military. Let's go back to the military was only created and allowed black people to come in because they were putting us on the front land to die first. They were told way back in the day, you can't even kill a white person, even if they are on the other side. So I understand that we have been collateral damage a long time, long, long time. I'm not throwing me a cheery up under the bus, but there are races on both sides, and that would

have that would have definitely been a bus. If you're saying that it was created and who were collateral? Dadmta, I'm not sure what else what would call that, But I wasn't. I wasn't revoking on that. I'm saying, it's not all bad military. Now. We were created so we could be on the front lines because their soldiers were dying. They were dying. But even with us having gone and them shooting at us, we were not allowed to kill the white person, even if they were on the opposite side.

So when they had the Civil War in the very beginning, the black people that were soldiers and the military were not They were allowed to stand there as barricades, but they couldn't kill the opposition even because they were white. Oh, I'm ready. I'm read about it, you know, I read sometimes. Yeah, it's it's but it's across all things. It's the military, you know. I even have conversations with my dad about

the fire department, in the police department. There's always a subliminal um just kind of foundation and it's so sad to say of just racism that's built in these institutions and like those unions are different animal entirely. Yeah, okay, but I mean I say that to say that there's you know, there's social media groups of just these they're really just these races that are within these you know, bodies.

And we even saw it with you know, the different uprisings that happened on the six even the capitol here in Sacramento. You know, there were four retired l A f D. You know, firemen that were there, sure supporting Trump. So I'm just saying there's we I just feel like we can't just say like, oh no it's it's military is not bad, or oh this group isn't bad. We have you guys have a lot of bad apples. You really just do, because that's how you guys were founded.

It just is what it is. I guess what I wanted to make sure I was clear on is that not only will there not be an incident this week, I just want to make sure we're clear there will not be an incident, and I definitely believe it. I believe in this string. I don't move into space where

I don't have faith in our institution. I genuine believe democracy prevails, and I genuinely believe the men and women of the military and those who are who have been enacted to protect President elect Joe Biden and President Vice President elet Kamala Harris will keep them safe. I just believe that, and I'm I'm not I'm not negating. I'm not negating the dark cloud you all bring. I'm just saying that I do believe in the in the power

of the institute. You know, if something goes down, come here next week and blaze your oh, I'm sure, and it will be the same ones who told me that I should be washing chicken before I cooking, and this week he showed the meat. So it's just I just believe that they've got this covered. I don't believe this is one where you mess it up. I really don't. But we will see, right. I just want to know

where you live, when you live. I'm just saying, you're saying nothing's gonna happen, but there's already instances of things happening, Like there's a one that showed up with firearms to the gate, saying that she was a part of the presidential cabinet with a fake credential trying to get in and they haven't sent it. So exactly, this is what I'm talking about, Lauren. This when I tell you that UM again, and I know this is much further into this topic than we planned on. I just think that

UM to UM dismiss the protocols and things. I think a valuable lesson was learned last Wednesday. I really do. But that's what they did. They did dismissed protocols last Wednesday. That's exactly what they did. But what I'm saying, a lot of a lot of protocols and things were missed last Wednesday. That will not be the case this week. Absolutely not, Absolutely not. There's no doubt because you think it's too many ads on it. Oh. I also believe

in the power of the institution. I genuinely believe there are a lot of people, there are a lot of good people who are involved in bad institutions and bad groups to say, you know what, this is not who we are. I genuinely believe a number of people were embarrassed, mortified, horrified, disgusted by what they saw last Wednesday. And that's what those people that were embarrassed were at home because the

people who was not embarrassed was at the Capitol. There were a lot of people there with their families, flam who were very upset and frightened and and really thought that they their lives what they really fear for their lives last Wednesday, um. There have been a lot of lawmakers who have spoken up saying, whoa what just happened? I was not expecting this when we're hearing guns las because they got the call from the top to to march on Washington. Do whatever you needed to do to

be forcefule, so you take your children out there. Racism is a learned behavior. I don't give I don't have no sympathy for the people who was out there with their children. You taught your children to hate. You taught your children to hurt people because they didn't look like you, or they didn't move like you. You taught your children to hate. Say what you want to because they keep trying to say Racism and and mental illness is the same ship. Mental illness you could be born with or

you can take the wrong vaccine. Huh huh. Hate is a learned behavior that you learned from whoever raised you or whoever you're around, So don't don't give me that they had their children out there. What were they trying to show? They were that was treason. You were attacking your own government and country. They were going to kill Nancy Pelosi and Cortez if they could have got a hold of them. They they were going to make pens

like them. I mean lawmakers who were there to certify the vote had family members there and they're like, WHOA, what is happening there? On both sides of the I who were just horrified by what happened. And I do think that there may have been those who were there to demonstrate who did not know things were going to

go that far. I do believe that there are flame I do believe that there are decent people who, let me tell you something, you've been smoking that ship because they were told too much on the Capitol by Trump and they were told I don't know the exact words that he said, but whatever it was, we gotta fight or something. It was something to that capacity where they were going with anger and with rage to fight. I'm not bad what they were selling. So I don't feel

sorry for none of them. They shouldn't have had their dumbasds out there. I'm at them for climbing the walls with those what they thought they were or Mario that that was a funny. Mean, this is the perfect time and segue into Jacob Blake because we did say that we wanted to touch on this there, because I do feel like that deserves a little more fleshing out there is wait before you go there, acknowledge the black officer. Let's let's talk about we got down the end on

the high note, but something else. But they keep skipping over him. We don't want to skip over now. It's kind of like they did Brianna Taylor. They kept skipping over her. We don't want to skip over him. What was his name, Officer Eugene Goodman. So he was a black officer faced down, who faced down a mostly white mob at the Capitol. More so, he almost he led this mob away from the Senator so that way they

could all go to safety. Uh So, like you said, we don't praise him enough, you know, because we we've said this, if he was a white officer, he would be getting all these accolades, he to be on the news. More So, we want to make sure that we're honoring this amazing black officer for risking his life to make sure he was protecting those senators that they could get to safety. So thank you for the fordrew his weapon, you know, never drew his weapon. I just think that

that's amazing. He he had his side arm, never drew, purposely pushed led them away. And again a veteran of he served twice in iraq U, two tours in iraq Uh. So it's just so, now that's your perfect segue to go to Jacob because Eugene never drew his weapon. Now they have shot Sandra Bland and so many others because they said that their life was in peril, so they had with no weapons. Being this was a mob after this black man who had a weapon to shoot and

kill and contained himself so and didn't do anything. So that goes back to the whole refund and defund or reform and defund the police department. This man was trained and had the mindset to say, hey, I can I can de escalate this, I can talk this down, I can make this work for me, which he did because had he went on the shooting rampage he did, he'd

be in jail. He wouldn't be fired. So again with the whole guy who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times because he said he wasn't trying to kill Jacob Blake shooting him in the back, there is a move to push Eugene Goodman for the Congressional Gold Medal, so that is the highest, uh civilian honors. So yeah,

Jacob Blake. Uh, this one, UM, I don't even know the long and short of it is the cop who shot him was cleared, and I think that most people felt like some charges would be brought in some form um and how um you know a jury sat there and said because it was convened before grand jury and that or Lauren helped me, was that indeed the case or did the d A just determined there wasn't enough evidence to bring charges? That was on the d A. He made that decision. So, I mean, Jacob Blake is

is one example. You know, we talked about Brianna Taylor. It's just now happening that the officers that were involved in um, you know, her murder are officially being fired. But we have these instances of you know, police coming after you know, these people of color and no charges being drawn So it is a good parallel to draw though, because we say, like you know, we have we have flames, said this, we've had you know, police officers go into

these communities of color. They're not familiar, they don't know how to handle the situation. I've said myself to when somebody's in distress, I call the fire department before I call the police department, because the fire department is trained to deal with these situations, whether they're paramedic or even just you know, regular fireman, they're more equipped to deal

with situations of mental distress. So, um, it's an interesting parallel to draw because, like we said, with the insurrection that happened on January six, guns were drawn, people were out, nobody was shot, Nobody was killed because you know, they weren't viewed as a threat. Interestingly enough, but a man, a man of color, who is actually having a mental breakdown and is trying to walk back to his children gets shot in the back several times. It's not a

big deal. So to be clear, five people did die last which I think is part of the whole the whole shot because was again secret Service said no time blowing what's her name away the minute she came through that window. She had a gun. She had she was shooting, like I mean, at that point, if they didn't shoot her, I would I would be baffled her. What was her name, Abby? What was her last name? I don't believe she was armed, Lauren. I think that she was just denying the She was

denying the order. They kept saying, do not, do not, do not, and she kept proceeding anyway, and she was ex military. I have a question she posted before she went to the whole thing. And there is nothing that will stop us. You think that bullet's name was nothing? You know what? I know who I also know not to claim through nobody else window because I was raised right and she rest in peace. I said what I said,

I'm not saying that. Let me tell you something. You can't go and do these things, and don't think that there's not going to be some kind of repercussions, because even with them being even when as much as I thought that the police or whoever had a party that some of them anyway, I'm not gonna let you kill

me because you're trying to prove a point. So whatever officers shot her, whether she had got enough, they obviously felt like they were in danger, and she x because she was an ex marine or something right air Force, she was highly trained, so you don't know what she was capable of, even with her addiction that sometimes it's not about you the way you grabbed people, your aggression, it's the way you speaking. And she could she could

have came out professional, aggressive, scary. Who knows what the situation was. But in that instance, if I have to make a choice between your life and my life every time you lose, I know that the minute she made a step through that window into the chamber, that's when he fired that one round took her out in the

neck and and dropped um. And it's uh, you know, one of the things we've learned since then that she was already kind of struggling financially and the idea was, you know, she felt like Trump was the one to help. You know, Trump put it in tump, Trump broke her ass. That's what she didn't see. Trump was put it in a financial crisis. Let me tell you something. I need people to stop using it as a crutch to all people, not just white folks, black folks. Never y'all stop saying, oh,

I ain't hand the money, so I was depressed. You can always find a way to make some money. Honestly, you will always be able to find if you've got some any kind of hustle in you, you can. That's nothing excuse for you to go out and hurt people. Black folks been broke, broke, We was broken for years. Years, years. We weren't going out and hurt people. They love to say that black folks the most dangerous people in the world, the most dangerous Black folks for the most power. We

just want to be cool. We just want to be on chill. That's your angry. Ask what y'all mad at? Because I'm because I'm a pretty nigger. This, that's what you're mad at. Get over it. I want to give a shout out because we were talking about standing ground. This topic was introduced to me by one of our flame mess Uh. You can find our instagram at j J Rock zero Sake. That's the miss jay Tera Lockhard j Tera. I hope I'm pronounce your first name right.

But she's a student at Falantis Smith College here in Little Rock, Arkansas, and she brought the topic to my attention to because here in Little Rock, Arkansas. Uh, they're about you. There's a bill of moving forward to amend stand your ground right now. You have to be under a reasonable degree of threat. And what they want to do is they're like, I nope, the fact that you step on my property. We want to lower the standard of what it is, uh, what is required for me

to pull my gun and actually shoot you. I don't need to be threatened by you. I don't, is what they want to argue. I don't need to be threatened by you. The very fact that you're in my presence, um that you may or may not be armed, I still get to pull on you first. Right now, as it stands, before Flame can just unload on me, I have to make a threat or Flame has to feel like there's a threat for her life and Flame is being attacked, and it has to be credible, and I

have to have a weapon. But what they want to do is they want to remove that that know, the person threatening you does not have to have a weapon and do not have to have a verbal or physical threat that you can just unload. This is stand your ground as it stands moving forward here in Arkansas. Yeah, well, I mean we we kind of talked about this yesterday the three of us. But stand your ground is always

kind of been something very prevalent in the South. So I was surprised to hear that you in Arkansas where you are, Nick, that that wasn't already you know in law. But uh, standard ground is always going to be a topic of conversation. You know, it was an issue with George Zimmerman and him shooting Trayvon Martin. It was even a standard ground was an issue um with Brianna Taylor and her boyfriend. You know, thought there was there was

a no knock warrant, there was intruders coming in. He was defending his household, and the announcement made that they were police standard. So standard ground is just always gonna be, uh, something of issue and something that's always going to be biased because at the end of the day, if it's a cop or whatever the situation, maybe you know, with your with the right skin color, you automatically get this

qualified immunity. So and Lauren helped. It was in Florida or Atlanta where you had that, remember the help me here. I'm not trying to make it the white guy. He told a girl she was parked in the handicap you need to move, you need to move, and she was ignoring him. His boy her boyfriend came out and uh, he said he and then he just unloaded on the

guy and they Hadn't you remember that. I don't remember where it is it was either, But it's just one of those things where I feel like it's so murky now. And what I think has some people concerned is that Arkansas, some may not know, has the second highest rate of gun ownership in the United States, second only to the state of Alaska. UM, A lot of people think it'd be Texas, but Texas is not. Its Arkansas. So in the last six months, there has been a run on

guns and ammunition. Believe it or not, it is almost impossible to find ammunition for for weaponry now because uh, there are a lot of people who believe the Biden Harris administration, will you are make it more difficult to own a gun or raise taxes on on gun. So there's just been a rush, and the spate of violence across the United States has encouraged a lot of people say, you know what, maybe I need to be a little

prepared close folks now are raiding the capital. I don't know what they may do to my little, you know, condo here in downtown Arkansas. Well, a couple of things. One, I see that the city you're referring to was Florida. So thank you everyone in the comments for sounding off on that it was Florida. Um, but I'm very I'm a firm believer in arming yourself. Um. I have a shotgun to my house that's loaded at all times, So I'm a firm believer in that. I'm just saying, you

have to protect and defend what's yours. Stand your ground. Whether stand your ground mean to you, let me tell you what stand your ground mean to me. I just said, if there's ever a question, if it comes down to if it's me or if it's you, I will always choose me. And that is just how it is. And because self preservation is the first love of nature. If I feel like you're gonna hurt me because what I look like or you don't understand, that has absolutely nothing

to do with me. But if you think that you're gonna hurt me, baby, I watch enough line Order SVU and Chicago. Bet I'm gonna get away with some ship. Did y'all not see Paris is burning with Dory and Corey was the training who was putting her makeup on the whole time. After she died, they found the dead body in a trunk and her that had been in her closet for over twenty years. Bitch, I'm a training train These are the most ingenious people on the planet.

We're gonna get away with some ship. Understand me, that baby big brother ain't got to know what happened because I ain't gonna tell nobody. See during court was smart. She ain't tell nobody ship. She died and they was still in the closet dead. Must have been some trade that went left and he went right. Something around is just what it is. And my problem with that that

they let George and get away with that. You know who I partially blame, not blame for the whole incident because it was completely his fault one, but the mother. Let me tell you something to parents of children who are murdered by the police, and it's and it's in its's completely wrong. And you know it. Stop letting lawyers and stop letting people get in your head and tell you that you got to get on TV and speak a certain way, or you got to whether if you

hurt one of my children. Any emotion that I feel at that moment I have no control over because it's authentic. I may take you on a roller coaster of emotions, hate, anger, bitterness, hurt, pain. I may yell and scream. You know, I may laugh and think about a great moment that I shared with that child at that time. I'm not gonna let nobody get in my ear and say, were you speaking for the community. You're a black person. Everybody's watching you. We're

gonna get you, Tim millions. I don't give a damn about your money. I want my baby. I want my baby. So I don't like that. And I thought that, uh Tray Bond's mother's Martin's mother. That she kept her composure. She was very professional, cool, but I'm sure that she had raged and hurt and we didn't get a chance to see that, because I think that would resonate with regular people across the board, not just black folks, but everybody. Because if you are a parent, then you know the

level of love that comes with being a parent. If you are not a parent, you don't know. You never know how much you will sacrifice, on how much you will love until you have your own biological child. I said that because I'm a real parent. So anybody said, well I adopted the child, I have them just the same. I ain't never adopt no kids. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, I had a comment, but I'm not a parent, so I'm gonna just shut up to see,

I sh shipped Laurie. Up, y'all, I shut up, Laurie. That's it's ad Joe. We were talking about workplace vaccination and already know go ahead, but I just so much, you like to talk so much. We're gonna let you have these first three minute it's a teachable moment, your teachable moments explained to them what you told us yesterday on the phone. I think it's a good teachable moment for everybody. This is what the shows about the workplace

vaccination we're talking about. Specifically, a Dollar General is planning to pay their employees to get vaccinated. Dollar General. For some of our flamemts or listeners who may not know, is a chain of stories attend to uh be more popular in areas and communities that that that I live in right now. I live in downtown Little Rock, so it's more urban. Um and it's not as um upscale as suburbia would be or Long Beach where Flame and Lauren live or you know, um. So it serves a

certain community, as certain demographic. Within that demographic, there are people who are less likely to respond positively when you ask them to put on a mask, or if you ask them have they been vaccinated? They're less likely to be vaccinated. So what dollar generalists decide to do is

they say, hey, how do we protect our employees. They're offering to pay their employees to get the vaccination, since you are going to be working in these communities where it can be a challenge, and the members of that community may or may not be vaccinated themselves, may or may not respond positively to you asking them to wear a mask. We would like to protect our employees, and we're gonna pay you to do it, to take the vaccine. So one of the things we talked about yesterday was

just whether or not that was a good idea. You know, how do you Jesus moment with the vaccine yesterday? Please explain to we talked about that earlier. No, we did not. You didn't tell your your your take on the vaccine because it changed yesterday for some reason. But my my take on the vaccine with this new supervirus definitely changed. Before my attitude was simple. I believed in the science. You made it clear. Okay, operation work speed. You've got

this together. You're ready to knock out COVID that came along and got us in January. Now here we are in one. You've talked about this new strain. Oh yeah, that operation warp speed, the virus, the antibody that we created, the vaccine we created. Oh think you'll be fine. It works for this one too. And that's when I said, wait, admitt it that I don't hold up how you didn't even know this one was there? It doesn't roll out. But here's my biggest issue initially, and this is where

I have a problem. Because I'm listening to you. I want to advocate for you. I want to help my community get vaccinated. You told us we needed two shots of the moderna vaccine. Now what we already sent him out. We don't have that second one. You're gonna be fine with one shot. Not only are you gonna be fine with one shot. That one shot you have may work on this new strain of this new supervirus. That's even more contagious. So it's really don't worry about it. We'll

figure it out as we go. And let me have my doctor Fauci moment. Ain't that with that did on TV? You've got to understand that people, that causes confusion and skepticism and doubt. And I'm like, wait a minute. I was cheering for you all and I want to be there and I want to say, mom, you should do this, and now you've got me questioning, don't do a girl? Take that ship? My mother said she would take it

in and let me go back to this. Let me let well, I'm going to be Switzerland here really quickly and say, this is why we call this show, Laugh and Learn. Because we've had discussions about the vaccine flame and I have always been against it, and Nick you were for it, but like you said, you've done your research. You looked into it more to see if you think it would be good for you, and now with all this misinformation, you realize it's not something that you want

to do. And moreover, there's more strains coming out. There's a South African strain now, there's a UK strain now, and there's like three different strains that are all of a sudden out there. And I sent you guys even a video last night showing that the there's a batch of Maderna vaccines that came to California that are causing people to have allergic reactions. It's three hundred and thirty

thousand bad cases of a vaccine. So anyway, point moral of the story, Nick had a come to Jesus moment yesterday, y' all and is officially on this side and it's not taking the vaccine as of today. That would be me if you did not see the movie I am legend it was about a vaccine based on the year twenty one. Y'all think what y'all want to about that nigger West Philadelphia born and raised. But that nigga was on to something, y'all.

I'm telling you now, I ain't taking it. And here's my thing, because if this is a if this is one virus before the new string came out, if it was one virus, while we got fourteen companies coming up with different different vaccines, while one company, one government funded company, American company with our own tax dollars, didn't just create

one vaccine for everybody. Now we got Maderna, uh fights all these and then more companies coming out, and then they just posted that three people died in one day and what was that at and some of them they said they were older, but it doesn't matter. I want to die. You mentioned just because they died. Do we know it was exactly right down from heart attacks and strokes and walking into buildings and ship Yeah, all anythings still happen. Coacs this they just make everything COVID. Well,

this is my main thing. And I said this to you guys yesterday. China, this whole virus supposedly originated in Wuhan. China didn't have to give their folks vaccines for them to get better. They didn't have to. But in this country, and I'm just gonna say this farm agreed is real and just rampant. That's what this is. And it's so unfortunate that money and greed comes before tecting, comes before

excuse me, protecting your citizens. China did what they were supposed to do and protected their citizens even though you know, let's say the virus originated there. We don't know that. You know, I'm not saying that emphatically, but that's what's in the news here, We're just gonna put citizens at risk because it profits us in the end. That's just kind of what I can't get with the same reason why I say I still don't get a food shot.

You know why China. You know why Chinese people, because Asian people are some of the most disciplined people on the planet, and those Chinese people have been trained since birth. This is a dictatorship. This of what you're gonna do when we tell you not to come out of the house at the five o'clock, don't leave your house, and we're gonna shoot you. And I heard they were releasing tigers and and hungry tigers in China, So take your

aside of you want to Chinese food. I don't know about that, but what I'm saying is that they are very disciplined people. And I sit on here before when we talked about this, Americans just do not want to be told what to do. None of us want nobody telling us what to do. We want to do what our way always our way is not always the right way. But I mean, we saw our democracy at the end of the day, and that is part of it. But

to what's happening, misinformation and everything else. Now we're here, So I encourage people and speaking of misinformation, there literally came out yesterday that misinformation in the last week dropped by because they've been going after people have been spreading misinformation. I think people need to read more. I do know that the whole idea behind the vaccine was never to stop you from getting it, is to reduce your chances

of dying should you become positive with COVID nineteen. So I just encourage all of our listeners to read and and speak to their own healthcare provider about what is the best choice for them in their body. So well, and I'll also say this to it's fact that I there are people that have taken the COVID vaccine and are still testing positive. So think about that. That's all I'm saying. That's a fact. That's not something I think.

That's something I know. So y'all running around here taking off y'all mask y'all all down there fighting, and y'all all up in d C last week pushing and touching all on each other, and then y'all took no COVID test. Y'all need to knock it off. All that, and then they'll put them in jail. Did y'all test them before y'all put them in jail? That's my thing. Did you test them? Because if you're arrested some of these people who were at this event last that's what it was.

It was an event that was an event for them. That that all that it was tragic. It was so this beach that wasn't even I had my popcorn and get my life. That was an event for them. Let me say what I said. But did you attest them before you put them in jail? Because you remember a couple of weeks ago, well, they arrested that black man in Virginia, the two officers and they didn't have a mask on, and they arrested him with thought that he was in the mall still and he was with his

wife and kids. They didn't have mask on. He tested positive a few days later for government virus that he caught from those police officers. So you arrested these people who did all this foolishness last weekend, d C. But before you put them in jail and exposed all these innocent prisoners who weren't there at that event, did you test their asses because they should have been isolated somewhere else if they tested positive. Real talk, that's true, and

nobody ain't talking about that, y'all. Oh, don't give me mad. And I had to gut me too. Okay, what happened, But before we go, you did want to make sure that we hit those numbers in l A. Just talking about in l A right now. How many This is why you're not here. How many we just hit. So l A was one of the first states, well, l A County, I'm sorry, it was one of the first counties to hit one million cases in California. Overall, we have over thirty thousand deaths. So we l A County, California,

we are really at the forefront. Were like the New York. We're almost like the epicenter of this virus now. And uh, it's pretty crazy. And I gotta fact check. I was watching MSNBC earlier today. Now all of a sudden, they had a runner across the bottom saying that we have three million cases here. So I gotta fact check back to see if that's accurate. I know for sure that we hit one million over the weekend. Y'all have to understand. I know you want to see your loved ones and

I'm telling you I said this before. Nick wants that Nick has not eyeballed his mom, and what two years has been? Two years? Two years? He has not imagined not saying I ain't say man in three But I was mad anyway, not seeing your mama, that your mama's boy, and Nicola is a mama's boy. So I know something. Y'all want to see your parents, but you have not

whens tell you that you can't come. They're not telling you to protect them, They're telling you to protect your heart because if you come and your parents get sick after you're going to visit them because you needed to see them, and then they end up getting sick and dying, the guilt that you will live with. That's all she's trying to save you from. That's all she's trying to save you from. She wanted yass on here watching that. Hey, miss Rosette girl, you're watching that, you know, and I

know what you're doing, Miss Rosette. You older, older woman like myself, So I know what you're doing. You saving your baby's feelings and you know how overly sensitive your baby is. You know that's a big old crap baby. But he wants to see you, and I know you want to see him, but sometimes you have to step outside of that that. I want to see my parents because the older people are more likely to get it and die. And you don't want to walk around with that.

You'd be walking around crazy. It's Kanye. They'll be starting a couple of your asks like they didn't get out. You said what you said? Can you please answer this one question for the viewers? They keep asking, are you single? Can we just let's get this out here right now? You weren't dating? You didn't tell them we were dating. See there you go, there you go. No, I have just played out there. You know I am. I'm twice divorced, but right now I am definitely single. I live in

Little Rock alone. Okay, plays, there's your answers, so stop asking. Okay, y'all know, y'all want you'all some of that. Y'all know his his screen name is Big Black. Anybody trying to come to Arkansas people me and so we got to make something happen. Not to you get a gun? You say, y'all got more guns? And anybody else? I think anybody got one? But you play? I know Pooky right right now in Arkansas King Draft. You know, Martin Luther King

in every neighborhood is the black neighborhood. Baby, I know every every city that they got the King Draft is the black neigh Very true, very true. We were talking about work culture just so flamemt's know what we're talking about, because many of them may know this very well, because we know we have those in every age group that how the work culture today has changed and it's been

designed to accommodate a new workforce. Specifically, what we were talking about is how managers today who are doing hiring friends of mine who work for different Fortune five companies like Apple or Amazon, they've had to hire people who are Lauren's age and speak to them about work life balance, a topic that never came up when I entered the workforce.

As in now managers have to take into consideration, am I giving Lauren enough personal time to balance what she needs to do so that she can be her best creative self when she comes here to work? And those are things that were just beyond the pale when we enter the workforce. Playing Yeah, I mean, and I said this to you guys too. I know from experience that

it's very It's true. It is, and especially you know when you're in departments like marketing and in all these different creative spaces and you have these younger generations now it is something that has to be considered. You know, nine to five and salaried employees. All of these things have to be negotiated and worked through because some people really feel like I need to have some type of separation from my job when I go home. Me for instance, for the company that I work for. You guys all

know I don't have that. I yes, I'm salaried. So my I worked around the clock, flame knows that, you know, she can call me anytime. I'm always working. Sometimes I'm like, okay, I need a moment. But that's just how things are, you know. And I work in a nonprofit sector. I don't work in corporate America. That was a conscious decision that I made because I didn't want to do that. I wanted to go to work for a for a

greater purpose. So it is something that is discussed more and more um and it also just depends on who you are as a person and what you want to do. Work life balance is not as much of a priority when it came to me. You know, I wanted to enjoy what I was doing, so I made that decision. But to your point, that is something that's very real and something that I've experienced and witnessed in the workplace, and it's also changed, Lauren. I think the days of

working for a company. My mother worked for and retired from Illinois Bell after being their thirty years. The idea of being with the same employer for thirty years just isn't the reality of today's workforce. It's not at all. And so she retired with the pension and you know, all of that pension. What's that You know, if you don't start the four oh one k when you enter in now, Uh, it's a rap. I don't think most companies even offer if you do, know, but the majority

expect you to save on your own. So it's definitely changed. My biggest issue out of all of this that you're talking about with the workforce is, Laurence said, the younger generation. This have for twenty five talking about the younger generation that works. Eighteen year olds don't even work. They still live in my house spending my money. Oh that's my personal ship. Okay, So you see I never had to

work in corporate America. I never had to dance for Mr Charlie ast t Janet would say, I never had to do that because I was always an entertainer and pretty much freelance. So I wouldn't know, and I wouldn't do good in spaces like that because because I've never had to work in those spaces. You can't talk to me any kind of way because of how I view myself and how I treat myself. So and I know sometimes in corporate you have to put your head down.

You have to take it because it's your livelihood. And then people speak and you can't get another job here. You can't get a job there because somebody has sput out a bad word about you. That happens in entertainment as well. I want you, but it's very different. So I don't want to. I don't know that, but I would be I would be mortified. If I'm on this

job twenty years. I've trained everyone up under me. But because I don't have a college degree, or because I'm not highly educated, or don't speak on the level that you think that I should speak of, even though I've been doing this job successfully for twenty years, you bringing somebody younger because they have more qualifications on paper, on paper, not skilled, not experienced, because you can't buy that. You can't buy that, but you give them a higher position

than me, and so now they become my bus. I would have a problem with this bitch coming in here being my boss because she got an HBCU and I ain't got jack and I know niggas playing niggas at HBCU. I ain't got a degree from, but I got some other things from. But she's gonna get more money than me. I would have a problem with that. That's seriously I think. Also in the area of entertainment, you and I have talked personally about how we have seen different shows and venues,

the different brunches that we used to go to. They will hire girls who have done different shows. Um, and then we're sitting there as audience members watching the show during our best to stay away until you come on the stage. But because you have not done that show, uh, you know, people are like, well, you know they've done that show. They're amazing, and then they realize whoa then

in real life isn't the same thing. I just watched them edit for that TV show that I may have been watching like we have different We've had this, We've had I'm gonna say it because Flame and I've had this conversation. That's the other thing that just goes back to checking somebody's resume because to what you just said, For instance, Nick, you should know that live theater and television is not the same thing. And if you don't know that that that's just ignorance and you haven't done

your homework. So that's the first thing that I'll say. That's really just I mean, my skin crawl anyway. Um. Sorry, But but to honestly, all of what we're talking about though, it's it's just it is what it is now, you know, like Flames said, I am do have an HBCU degree, even though it's becoming more critically acclaimed now, Once upon a time having a degree from an HBCU was saying that,

oh you didn't actually get a real education. So it's interesting to see how times change and how things you know, evolved. But to everything that you guys are saying, it's it's that is not the situation anymore in the workplace. It's just not things evolved people, it's just changing, you know. Lauren I want to piggyback off of that. And the only reason I want to stop that because we never know who's listening. And I just want to say this

one thing. I grew up with hbc U S This was always the case, um that everyone I knew who attended an HBCU always made sure you knew they went to an HBCU. That there is a pride that comes with attending an HBCU. That I mean, I love, I love the school I went to. Everybody's college experience is unique to them. But relatives of mine who went to Shaw, who went to North Carolina A and T or went to more House, the first thing that came out of their mouth was reminding you that they went to an HBCU.

Because I do think that HBCUs are unique in uh instilling in their students the value of their education and the value of community. So I don't know that it ever did not have shine. I think that what has happened is different. UH fortune par un companies have recognized the value and the work ethic that those who are graduates from HBCUs bring. That they that they are extremely driven and tend to be extremely competitive, whereas others kind of float on. Well, you know, I want to you

know I did. I did my graduate work at Harvard, so you are just in by proxy. And do you realize, oh wow, any idiot can get a degree. Well, let me just clarify a couple of things. One amongst us, it's always been a pride going to an HBCU. I always say there's no place like Spellman. There really isn't. And everybody's going to say that about their individual HBCU. That's just that's their experience. But I would just say s Woman is a number one HPCU in the country.

But anyway, um, but because because of Howard grad and he will remind you, oh, Nick, you know you do know the center of the universe revolves wrong? How is the hot spot right now? Because Vice President elect came from spell But anyway, but back to what you were saying, Nick, is though, it's that it's the outside world. And I hope everybody understands what I mean by outside world is understanding now just how competitive to your point, and how

really difficult it is to matriculate through an HBCU. It's not like we're getting a pass or you know, it's it's an easier time. More so to the point where some of these white folks and their parents are like, well, maybe I can just send you there because maybe I can pay a little less than what I have to pay a Harvard or a Stanford, and you get that same education and you come out and you're a part of something else. So it looks like you're you what

I support diversity and inclusion. So that's really what's happening now too, is you know, some of these white folks are getting a little smart and like, oh, maybe I can send my kids to an HC. That realized it's a more degree. Some of the white folks are just buying the tests and getting caught later. Laurie what was her name who just got out of jail. Oh yeah, I'm just saying, because I was going to pack my

key is the college degree. But the wife folks didn't got caught, So the jig is up because you know what, actually, let me let me let me jump on you with that, because your children are smart enough they won't need you to buy them. You know, I think I think people think your kids um are as ghetto as I am. I didn't say that. I know you Rosetta get your baby, get your side. I never went to college because you know,

I was doing other things. Although I didn't have a four year scholarship to Throne Cookman in Florida when I graduated high school for music, because a lot of people don't know I was a talent, very talented musician, probably why I love music so much. And if y'all join me on Loveland jealousy, why But I didn't want to go to college because I didn't have that support system

at home my mom. You know, my mom was on drugs and doing her things, so I didn't have that support system at home, so that was not for me. But I love to encourage people to go to college and get that college life, but there isn't even college life right now because of COVID. They're doing it from home, from school, from their being rooms. I'm not I'm not spending money on that. Uh, I'm not doing that. If the luxury of sitting your kids away to college is to get them the hell out your house so you

can walk through your house, I'm not doing that. I would like to walk through my house naked, but if I can't see me naked, they will be like Baron Trump, special Sauce. I just want to say thank you guys for a supporting show. We're doing very well in the ratings with Heart and Amazon, and we thank you for that. It's only because of you all. We also want to acknowledge that this this this last four years have been

a real shaky time in this country. I do think that we can get back not to basic, but with Nicholas pushing the whole constitution, I think that they're not going to rewrite the constitution, but they will actually include us into the constitution because I felt very excluded, like as a people, and I'm talking about black people, so hopefully they will. Because all we want is fairness. We want to be treated equally. We want to be given a fair shake. We're not asking for your hand outs.

We will we work, We do what we're supposed to do. We just was trd of work. Have me picking the kind and sh don't even like like that my dress any So honestly, we just want, we want to get back to some sense of normalcy in the world. Because I tell my children, because they hate to zoom school, that y'all didn't fail school. The school system, the world

failed you. All the world this world. This America has been failed their children seriously with the school systems and what they're missing out and so many people out of working. American has failed us, America. You always to make it back up to us. And we're hoping that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris can be the two people that can help mend this gap between this broken America because these

racism am not gonna do it. They these racists wanted to be just what it was, a nice, racist, divided country. Were better than that, y'all. We are more like than we are different. It just don't look like that right now. But we're gonna fix it. And I mean, and that agenda is going to be pretty extensive of the first day. And I'm excited to see what these first couple of

weeks of this new administration looks like. And I'm excited to have a I'm excited to have a president who won't be mean tweeting and and just I like, it was so uncomfortable because you know, yeah, I'm I'm just happy for a turning of the corner. So you know, we've talked about a lot of things today. Everybody. We talked about everything from Jacob Blake to recognizing the officer Mr. Goodman, who put itself in harm's way to protect UM leadership.

We also talked about the lysol and the teacher in Florida. And remember whatever we talk about, we want everyone to remember that. We want you to laugh, who wants you to learn, want you to have a good time, because we are not trying to get you to change your mind. We are only trying to get you to use your mind. And for those of you who don't have a man, get you some privilegence so you can remember what your man is. Privileging is the ship that make you remember ship.

It's for all folks. I'm thinking about starting taking in my damn self. We appreciate you all. We absolutely adore you guys, and we want you to follow Nick Smith at Nick Smith News on all social platforms. Guests who has a YouTube page? I do. Yes, I'm officially on YouTube Lauren Cogan. You can follow me there, and I'm also Lauren armani h on Instagram and you can find the big Bitch that's me, not big black, but big brown. Yes, yes, let's be brown. I am on YouTube, Flame Road, Twitter,

Flame Underscoring my Road. Monroe Flame here on i G and Marcus Flame Rod Parker on Facebook. I'm telling you guys that this show is only about what you guys teach us, because we get It's like a boomerang. We just circumvented, you know, we learned from you the questions and the in boxes that we get, and we get plenty of Oh my god, we get plenty of I don't read them, but they do. So I'm just letting y'all know. So keep on sliding up in my sliding up in the d MS. I appreciate it. That's how

some of the topics come about. So thank you, guys, Thank you. Thank you to our videographer Kendall. Thank you to our producer Triple We thank you Flaming for comtuniting in watching it with you on Thursday. Peace