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it with just a lift dispirit. Ipect you want to revisit, so your first take a listen, young folks, it's left oh funk that we take it to cain't no this? Do you do? No? Do what you do? Can't no kiss? Do what I do? Well? Hello, everyone, welcome to laugh and learn with Flame Monroe and my beautiful co host what's your name? Lauren Hogan? Hello? Ms Flame. She didn't say that with a lot of conviction. Okay, okay, my pretty co host, Lauren Hogan, thank you. I love the compliment.

I'm so glad to be here. I know a little behind this week, but it was Memorial Day this week and so we pushed back and we're here. Now. How was your week, darling? With your busy busy busy. Work has been a little crazy, and I have prepared to be on the road for the next eight days starting next Wednesday. So it's a lot going on, but you know, working, so all good things. How was your week? A week was good, slow, interesting though very interesting. We got we

got from a new project. I've been working on him on page like twenty seven and uh I got a few. I'm leaving for three weeks, so I got some time. Mm hmmm, well great, so I'm excited. And but this week has been a very interesting week. Happy Memorial well not happy Memorial Day. Happy remembrance to all the veterans that served this country, including my dad. My dad was better he was in the Navy. I didn't really know

him because I love to ask them. Did you join the Navy because you wanted to fight for the country or you just needed a job? I think back then he just needed a job. Well, still, we appreciate his service. He still, you know, took the took the time. And I don't know what do you risk your life in

the Navy. That's a dangerous job, right because you're all the time, in any branch of the military, you risk your life, and girl, I'm glad you mentioned that, because we're gonna talk about risking your life for your job a little bit later, though it's not right now, uh huh, because some people take on jobs that you supposed to rich your life for or y'all forget to do it. But we get to that. That's our last subject in the news this week, Lauren Hogan, What has happening the

news this week? Let's go to the drama before we go to the tragedy. So the drama this week. I'm gonna comedian. I'm a stand up comedian by profession, and I know a lot of stand up comedians, including the two that have had a public spat this week, Deal Hugely and Monique about contracts dispute or the lineup of a show. It was so disheartened to see the back

and forth. And I don't want to put my two cents in on how, I in on what because I feel like me and the other friends and I'm cool with Monique, so I don't have a I'm not picking a side because there's no side to pick. As a comedian, and as a black comedian that works in comedy clubs, I hate that displayed out like that, because I don't want an audience to think that that is what we

do at the comedy clubs. We when you come to the comedy cluse, we're hoping to make you laugh, make you think, and take you out of whatever misery you've been going through your day or your week or what have you. I hate that that were so ugly and it got so disgrunt toed, But so many people have waged in, including Steve Harvey today who had a lot

to say, and I thought his message was great. On what he said, it was pretty much don't get don't lose yourself because you think that you're more than what you are. It was a great message and I understood exactly what he's saying, because sometimes as an entertainer, or as a performer, or as a boss, whatever you do, you get too big headed and you get in your own way because you think that you run everything. You don't want to listen. You get on me about this

sometimes too long. That gets so stuffing and starting in my way that I don't want to change up. And I'm and I hear you when you tell me that. So I've been down. But the way this exploded and unpacked. I don't know. I Monique like she went on a rampage. It was just like she was over the lineup. It was it was did you see it? I did. I saw it, and I saw the whole back and forth. I don't. I mean, I'm gonna just express my opinion. I don't know if Monique India or friends or what

their relationship is. I don't know either one of them personally. I just don't think that it was appropriate for Monique to do what she did and just publicly bash him in the middle of a show where he still had to come out and perform. I didn't think that was okay.

If she wanted to, you know, address it afterwards, maybe, but I just think that it goes to what people have been saying about her, just the lack of professionalism and you know her, you know, doing too much and being difficult to work with, you know what I mean, And she may feel as though she's the season it and she can do whatever she wants to at this

point in her career. Sure, valid, you're entitled to your feelings, but I just don't think that it was cool to publicly bash deal and he still had to come on and perform at the end of the day, that just it wasn't cool in my opinion. Um, and I saw all the back and forth. You know, Deal ended up showing his deal memo from his agent, which is a very valid contract. I deal with artists and talent all

the time. That is concrete because it's coming from your agency and if anything goes left, the agency is liable. It's not just the artist and her performance agreement was just from her media company, you know what I mean. And not to say that it wasn't a valid agreement. If you know, both parties signed a contract, that's still valid. But to try and say that a deal memo is not valid, it's it's not true. So um, yeah, it was just it was a sad situation to see them

are you in back and forth? But I I'm gonna just say Deal has a point. And yeah, I personally thought that Del's video from his radio show when he talked when he finally just let it loose, and I love the way he deciphered the entire situation. I love the way he even took responsibility and accountability for his part because what he said was I knew better and a lot of times we know better in our own

psyches that all money ain't good money. And sometimes I just don't want to be and I don't want to do it because I know it might turn out and I hate to just turn out the deal. I hate the names that they called, that she called him and all of that. It was just not cool. I'm with

you long, it was just not cool. And Monique just got like she they the world, they just opened up an opportunity for her with with BMF, and then she was on another show and they the world is looking like they're trying to that she made up with Lee Daniel, so the world looked like it's trying to bring her back into the phone to work and and and being back on TV and all of that. But I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe maybe maybe something else is going on. That's all I'm gonna say. I

don't know, And now we don't go I don't know. Yeah, And I'll just say this, and Monique is incredibly talented, Like we're not about to sit up here and dispute her resume or just the way that she can deliver. One of my favorite movies that she's done was almost Christmas. That movie is hilarious and she's an integral character that makes everything so funny. Like I could watch that movie over and over and over again. And that was recent. That was just like I think, less than five years ago.

Maybe it was five years ago. But she's a phenomenal talent. So I just hate that, you know, people keep coming at her and saying she's unprofessional based on you know, her reactions to things, and we're not gonna sit up here and act like there's not an equality excuse me in the worksplace, especially for black women, we always have to be ten times better, execute ten times better overall, we always have to do more to be recognized because

that's the world that we live in. So not disputing that part that has she put in the work in absolutely and sometimes you know, the industry not fair, true, but you don't have to go after another black comic because your situation was not you know, what it was supposed to be, or if the promoter lied to you or whatever the situation was. I just don't think that it was cool for her to go after d L like that. Um And at the end of the day, it takes away from her talent because like I said,

she she's phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. So the professionalism to me fell on DL spot because if you go on stage before me and destroyed me like she did with him, and I got to come behind you, and he didn't even address it. Baby, I'm telling you something that is a whole mess of a man to me because I probably have toy ass up hey and d n B. My thing is you as a comedian. You know your

strengths and you know your weaknesses. There are some comics that you just know and you could be a season thirty year comedian, but you just know that you cannot follow. And do I think that d l's content is funnier. Absolutely. I just think that Monique is more electrifying on stage because she's more physic cool and she's you know, she bounces around and she screams and yeah, so she's more electric.

But Deal's content is funny. D L has more season comedy, and I wish they would have worked it out behind the scenes that say, hey, why don't you go first and let me follow you? Because but there was ego there, I believe. I don't know who's in, but there was definitely ego in the way. I mean, when are the headliners and who's closing the show? I mean that that's

just the nature of the business. You always want to close the show because that just means that you're better, and that's you know, that tends to be people remember the first thing in the last thing that they see. That's just you know, that's the saying. So if I'm a headliner, I absolutely want to close the show, you know, and everybody wants that top spot. So I get why there was a back and forth for sure, you know, because they're both season comments. But again, it didn't have

to play off for the public to see. Y'all could have done that backstage. Something else could have happened. So I agree with you on something else could have happened. And we hope that they resolve this because as black working comedians, we want to continuously workdo works every weekend. He has booked at the Comedy Up every weekend and Monique is back doing her things. So I just pushed them both, uh love and peace, and I'm hoping they to watch this because ship we got shipped to do.

We gotta go to work. We got to get to work, and I don't want to society think that black comics cannot get along because they love the holiday. Speaking of not getting along, what are we doing about these damn gun rights, Lauren? Good god, we have so many shootings just in this week alone. To this week has been one of those weeks where like I had to stop watching the news because it just it was like depressing.

It was just so depressing to see one you valde, those nineteen beautiful kids being murdered and the fact that you know, the police and teachers and the two teachers too, yes, but it's just like it's the kids. Like these children had their whole lives ahead of them, and they were taken away because of a raged gunmen who was allowed to go out and buy buy an assault rifle who shouldn't be allowed to. And then the police didn't even

go in and save these kids. They saved their own kids because some of the police officers had kids at that school. They went in and got their kids and allowed nineteen children to be murdered. So, and to be fair, apparently the nineteen officers that were in there outside of the classroom listening to these children being slaughter none of

their kids were in there. The children that kids that were rescue came out the back of the school where the police were outside, and they broke out a window and pulled their kids out of winning and got their keys. But lowing to your point, your nineteen nineteen skilled police officers trained all kind of military weapons, body arm and

everything were afraid and let's just say that word. They were afraid to bombard the room with one eighteen year old, no technical training, no military training, no police training, but two a R. Fifteens, and they were afraid because the one officer that did get shot, hand of condition. Oh my god, I got shot. I got shot. You signed up for a job where that is part of the collateral damage for you, your job description. There is a possibility that you can get shot and killed on the

job because your job is to serve and protect. They didn't do any of that. Nineteen police officers outside those rooms nineteen kids. Did one police officership been accounted before every kid that was murdered. Well, the other thing that I heard too is at the um the school police chief actually told them to stand down. So, UM, I don't know which side is true. I'm leaning towards the police chief sold them to stand down because he's also

an under investigation now. And I understand if you get an order from your command leader, like my uncle is ex l A p D. My dad, you know, is second in command for l A f D. When you get a command from your superior officer, you do what they tell you to do. So my thing is, why did this you know, police chief tell his men to stand down and let these kids get murdered. There's been different stories saying like, oh, they thought that the gunman was you know, secured in the room and didn't realize

he was in the room with the kids. None of it makes sense. But if this police chief really told all of his officers to stand down and allow those kids to be murdered, he needs to go to jail. That's all I'm gonna say. He needs to go to jail. Well, the police chief doesn't even want to talk down the story has changed from day one because I remember calling you when it first happened, and I told you that. And the original story was that they had the gunmen,

They had the gunmen and custody. Ten minutes later he was dead. That's what the story that they sent down. It was so many stories about the door being unlocked, and then an officer approached him as he was going through the back door. That story has went away. The story changes by the hour you have left off. These parents with their children that are gone, Their children were murdered. They heard their children being slaughtered. Good God, I could

not imagine that. And I command the parents that broke free and went in and got their children because you hear so many parents say, oh I da for man. Those people in your valley. Was trying to prove that. But the officers gave the parents opposition, gave them a hard time about going in, like they were going to them and tackle them to the ground and put one of them in handcuffs. Yes, like they were going to

interrupt what was going on. Nothing was going on, But I was allowing this eighteen year old idiot coward to murder people. That's what was going on. They were going in to save their children because you all did not have the courage to do it. There should be nineteen job positions open for law enforcement in your valley, and the only job requirement should be that you need to

go see the wizard because that nigga passed. Now. Courage because none of them had any well, like I said, and I won't never I won't never go to your valley, Texas because they're gonna hate me. Well, so I don't see. I don't know if that should be the case. Because again, if like I said, if that police she really gave him a command to stand down, I can't blame those nineteen officers for not going any of those kids. I don't blame them. Your human instinct have kicked in whenever matter,

hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. So if Sky was in the room, and Sky is your baby, if Scott was in the room locked up, and it was somebody crazy in there, and you know Scott and Sky is a dog, y'all for y'all think that somebody else guys that she sucking a doors. You know, Scots cried yea over anybody when you have win in that room to get your dog, because I know how much you would do it this animal me as a person,

as a human. Yes, but I'm saying these the police officers specifically, if they're giving a specific command, you can get fired for overriding what your superior officer says to you. That's a fireball offense. So that's what I'm saying, I don't blow the firing over having to live with being a coward. I mean, I'm just saying I'm not holding

them fully accountable. If that's what their commanding officers told them, was to stand down, and they were given information that this man was in a room and was so dued, I can't blame those nineteen officers. I have to blame that one of a commander. That's who I'm blaming. That's what I'm saying. Well, he he wasn't to do. He was still shooting and shooting and shooting. That want one they called nine one one more than once. I'm very

well aware of the situation. I saw the timeline. But I'm saying from what the reports are saying and what's coming out, it was him. The police chief said stand down. He's been subdued. That's why they didn't move. If that's the truth. Because now yea, now he doesn't even want to talk that, he won't answer no reporters questions. He it is this. It is the ugliest situation to happen because they ate there with children, and I hate when

they always hell it. We we don't get along with people were racist or just talking about people in general. I didn't know one person in your body, Texas. I didn't know one kid that was killed. But did that break my heart? Yes? It did because those were children. Even though the two of women that were murdered the teachers, because they said they tried to protect those kids. They did, some did he had to. Yeah, they did protect those kids.

And I think what's even worse is Irma Garcia's husband died the next day literally of a broken heart because she was murdered. So the whole situation is just it's heartbreaking. And then I saw photos yesterday of the baby's caskets and that just took me out and I had to change the channel company. Shout out to that casket company that donated those cats and made those caskets personal. I

thought that was beautiful. I hate that that just was the situation, but I appreciate that they made those caskets personal for however, whatever that particular kid was great. I saw a dinosaur one, I saw some superhero one one. I thought that was so great because that just it just helped the family hopefully put them out a little easy. I don't know the depth of a kid, and I hope I never know, the death of one of my children. I hope my children bury me because I don't think

I wish if I have that pain neither. I would be like the man. I would probably have a heart attack of that. Yeah, it's just overall, it's just sad. And then today there's a shooting in Tulsa, oaklad Homa. There was a shooting, and you know in Laguna Woods here in California. It's just the level of gun violence

is happening across the country is just it's ridiculous. And I've seen stats too that says more um, teenagers and children die by gun violence in a year than any other cause, any other whether it's not a car accident, it's not a drug overdose, kids die more often due to gun violence, children and teenagers. It is the It is the crush that they are using, Lauren, is that they're saying that everybody has been locked up for two years and we have mental illness. But mental illness was

here long before the pandemic. It just wasn't addressed. And I do understand that people have been cooped up. They gave a lot of people a lot of time to realize that I am not okay. But this is not how you fix it. You go to therapy, you talk to somebody professional to help you find your way of get I'm out the darkness. I don't understand it. I don't want to understand it. But I tell you what, Lauren,

self preservation is the first line of nature. I ain't the baddest on the earth, but a damn sure ain't the scariest. I'm hoping that in the situation is in Walmart, I'm in Walmart, I'm paranoida's hell, I'm looking at people. I'm looking at people if they got on the extra coat, or they're looking at me crazy if they look This is the fear that we're living in because where church, grocery store. They had a shooting at a Xavier University the other day they killed the grandmother. They had a

shooting at the graduation, Lauren. And in Louisiana's You're not safe anywhere purchased a cemetery, a graduation. Nothing is safe. Well, that's also too why I refused to go to a movie theater now, because I just don't feel safe and I'm always on edge and I can't enjoy a movie anymore because of those things. But yeah, I just, uh, it's just it's sad. Like I said, I've been sad

this whole week. Um, you know, and I'm I'm it's and I'm not trying to say that mental illness can't be a contributing factor, but it just it pisces me off. When you know, if, first of all, people of color tend to really not commit Matt's murders, it is the white people. Um, you Valde Texas was you know, it was the same Salvador Ramos, he was the Tino. But we all the the narrative is always when it's a white person, it's mental health or he was mentally ill,

he had something wrong with him. We should be praying for him, we should be you know, wishing him the like. No, but if it's a black person, or they're a terrorists, or if it's somebody who's an Arab, they're a terrorists. They're committing domestic terrorism in our country. Stop using mental health and as an excuse for these crazy white people. Stop it. Calling spadeus absolutely not. He was not mentally ill.

He was just faing. He was smart enough to go on that day and about two weapons when he said the story that they leaked was that he was he was, uh what you call it, were harassed because of his clothing. He was. He took two thousand dollars and when it's spent on weapons to kill people, you could have went to Walmart and brought you some clothes. Yeah, and he also too, shot his grandmother that morning as well. So I will say, though I don't feel no pity for him.

I hope the devil got a pitchfork of his ass, twisted it with coronavirus and monkey poks, and anybody don't like it, I don't care. It's very I don't like the fact that I don't like the fact that people were murdered senselessly because you were angry, and if you was bullied in high school, because it still ain't made sense to me if you were bullied in high school. Not to say that you should shoot up any school, but why don't you going to shoot up to them

babies that the elementary school? Right, I will cowards. I will say though, in terms of I don't even know to call it justice. I'll just say that I'm happy that as of today, the Buffalo, New York shooter, I'm at the top groceries. He was given a domestic terrorism charge as a part of his ten counts, So I was actually very happy to see the they actually indicted him on a domestic terrorism charge because that's exactly what he committed. So I hope that he's convicted in place

in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Yeah, yeah, please take him out, Please take him out of his misery. So the story for um for Oklahoma is this was a black man who shot up the who killed four people at the medical center. He killed the doctor because he said the doctor gave him about surgery and he's been in excruciating back pain the entire time. The other three people were just one of them was just a patient and the other two actually worked at the hospital.

One was an assistant and one was another doctor, I believe, and they were just there. It was they were collateral damage. It was just it's so sad, lord, and it's so scary. And you don't think that's because you're going to the grocery store to the doctor's office, so, you know, just our regular routine in life. You don't think that you're going in there for that. But now you have to really stay focused on who's coming in and what's going on around you. The whole world gonna have to have

better to take this everywhere in the minute. Yeah, honestly at this point, and it might just being everybody's best interest. But you know, some of my friends make fun of me because I'm a bit of a homebody, but shoot, my house at this point is the safest place I

can be. So because I have um as you would call it, hand jewelry in my house, So my house is then the safest place I can be at this point, because it's scary to go outside, you know what I mean, people are crazy and just I don't know what it's come to. And let me have lawmakers who actually don't want to put in any type of legislation for gun safety because I'm not even calling it gun control because I don't know. I just don't feel like that's appropriate enough.

It's just gun safety. At this point, we have to look at the safety of our well being because I don't feel like gun control is just it's not good enough. It needs to be gun safety. And we've got these Republican lawmakers who are getting backed by the n r A and getting millions of dollars from them. They don't want to say anything about it. Greg Abit, for instance, day is introducing legislation for the state of Texas around safety and there's nothing about the safety in there. Nothing.

And he just had the incident about the Texas and and the governor of Texas, Greg Evit is just he came out wrong. I love that bettle 'roor put him in a box right there. They escorted him out, but he came out wrong and he said he was told last. But there's so many lass with that story lawin It's just I wish that Joe Biden, who's the President of the United States, were just pushing executive order. I'm tired of him about where his hands attack that. Damn Donald

Trump pushed an executive order every other week. His hands were not tad. He did what he wanted to do, and I know he had to send it on his side, but damn it. Something has to give. Laan while y'all keeps selling these weapons of mass destructions to unbalanced, under age keats because he you're at eighteen, Your man ain't even right. You don't even know what the hell you know. You're crazy. Yeah, And then on the other hand. You got Canada and Justin Trudeau who's putting a free ease

on all all weapons, all of them, all firearms. You won't be able to get a gun in care And you know what what made me feel happy long but said at the same time today, so I'm watching the Queen's jubileeue because the most famous women on a planet, which is Queen Elizabeth, they just celebrate herby in seventy years on the monarchy. Thousands of people out there in England, thousands, nobody worried about guns being massed student because they have

control over their guns in England. In the UK, we don't. We just reckless. Here in the United States, thousands of people out loving each other, hug and camping, not worried about something like this. We can't even put twenty people together. And and it's a shooting in this country, United States. For us to be the supposed richest country on the America in the world, we are the poorest when it comes to love and with hate and racism and and

fear fear. We can also take it a step further and say that in the UK they actually know how to disarm a person with a gun without shooting them something that we still have yet to figure out when it comes to shooting unarmed black people. Um, in the UK, they know how to disarm suspects that actually have guns on them without excessive force. So we could always take a page out of Yeah, I'm not saying this as a joke, but I'm saying it as a joke and as real we they know how to disarm the subjects

here too, in view black. They just shot a black woman in St. Louis two days ago, pregnant, shot at five times in the back. She lived, she was compliant, she had her hands up, no weapons. They shot at five times in the back just because her skin was mailing it. I did hear though that she was trying to steal a car. It was a car jack and gone wrong, not justifying her being shot, and she was unarmed, she was pregnant, but she was in the middle of

committing a crime, So that's what I read. So I don't know if that's changed, but um, that still doesn't give an excuse. But to your point, but I did read about that as well. Um, I just say, like the state of the world is just sad. It's just really sad. I'm not like it's sad to be just in this space right now. However, I will say I am proud to be a Californian right now. I don't

know if you saw. I am proud to be living in the state of California, and I am happy for the governor that I have and Gavin Newsom, and I will be voting for him on June seven for his election. Um now that's the mayor election, but anyway, when Gavin's news selections happens for governor, I'll be voting for him again.

But the task force that he assembled for reparations for black folks is actually they created a five hundred page document that they're submitting to the legislature about how slavery and being enslaved has had grotesque trauma and effects on black people. And that was his committee that he is sent for his task force that he assembled. So they're doing the work. So I'm just that was actually a piece of joy that you know, was brought to me today when I read that article. So very happy to

be um of the state of California. California. I ain't probably my gas prices, but I'm probably be a California right now too. That ain't gotten into the with my governor. The gas prices. We need to blame Joe for that too. I ain't blaming my governor for that. I say, I'm just I'm not proud of these haghs gas prices. But what I like about news what he has made the state of California also a safe haven for if they overturn this road versus way uh uh mandate, because California

is a safe place. You can still come here and have an abortion and not be looked at Jewish or treated unfairly. So thank God for California what this is looking like. But I was listening to Vice President Kamala Harris speak earlier today and when she was talking about the road, the road is really just she was saying that road, not the way. The road is really just a form of control. It really is still a form of control. After all these years, they still want to

control a certain demographic of people. All Roll versus Wade is. If anybody really needs to understand the intent behind it, please just watch Handmaids too. Just watch Handmads too. You'll get it. That's all it is. It's just an extreme version of what our country would be like, and I'm sorry to have a flamet's that we don't have anything like up beating positive to just embarked on this week

because things have been so hectic. So before we leave, let us close with something Okay, So, Junie Levin, I will be in Auburn, New York at the Other Theater, Uh You Last Second with t F at Joe, Tommy Davidson, and Tony Robberts, in Chicago at the Rose Mint and June the twenty nine, I'll be in Chicago at the Battime Show Lounge for my friends Tony's birthday. I'm hosting

that show. I hope that everyone is safe. I'm hoping that if you are legal, that you have your legal paperwork to get your gun license, because the way that the world is is shaping up and it is facing and it's and I'm not pouring anything into the world. I just want everybody to have something and just in case anything goes left or goes a ride, that you have some form of protection to keep your fakes, to

keep your family safe. Because I hear so many people say I don't like guns, I don't want to touch a gun, but I need more people to God, start going to gun training and gun um gun range is to learn how to properly equip yourself for whatever happens in this country because you need to be ready for anything that happens, because you can't go to the gun range on the day that it happens. You need to be prepared already. That's my message, Lauren. Lauren asked, got

one you know? No, I've got you said, shoot, I'm going to the gun range next week, So I encourage you. I mean, it's it's like a double edged sword because it's like we have to protect ourselves at this point because there's so many crazy people in the world at this point in tire not even in the world, I'm gonna say America, because we're the We're the country that's

in shambles right now. There's so many crazy people in America that it's just important for you to know and to have a gun at this point in your life because you just have to protect yourself. A knife is not going to stop a bullet, a bat is not gonna stop a bullet, So you gotta arm yourself to make sure that you can stay safe. That's that's where we are at this point. And it's sad, I'm gonna do this. That's not gonna stop anything. It's not gonna

stop a bullet. So it's it's unfortunately they are going to get amma. Honestly, it's stop going to get labels and go get you some amma. Yeah. So here, laugh and learn. We have a saying, and we're never trying to get anybody to change your mind. We're simply just trying to get you to use your mind because of wi flame. In order to use your man, you have to have one. And we want you to be comfortable with the decisions that you make, not that somebody else

makes for you. You need to be comfortable with the decisions that you make over your life. Speak positivity, speak joy, speak safety, insanity, and remember that self preservation is the first of all nature. You are responsible for protecting you and yours Because on the plane where they tell you put your mask on first, then put on your keys man, uh huh. And the last thing I'll just say is I just want to encourage everybody to please exercise your

right to vote. Um, there's a lot of elections happening right now. You know, Stacy Abrams is officially the Democratic nominee for Georgia. I need you all to turn out for her like y'all did for Joe and make sure that she gets elected and gets her spot that she deserved four years ago that was stolen from her. And Um, there's a lot of black candidates that are running that I'm you know, just proud to see. Um, there's a candidate in Texas, Uh, Georgia. Yeah, there's a candidate in Kentucky.

He's running for the U. S. Senate nominees name is Charles Booker. He's trying to take Rand Paul's seat, and he had a really powerful message. Um, it's gotten some you know, mixed feelings. He had a noose around his neck in the actual video that he did, But honestly, it was well received with me and I liked it. It was powerful. It wasn't done in bad taste. He was sending a message that my ancestors were lynched and Rand Paul voted against the Anti Lynching Act that finally

was passed. So please get out exercise the right to vote. We've got a lot of great candidates in various states across the country on the ballot, and we really need to just get the right people in office, So please go out and vote. It's important. Yea. That was great to the end the online because you know we've been pushing that on laughing line and I don't know how long if anybody tells you yet your vote does not count.

And the words of my beautiful co host Lawren, if your vote didn't count, they would be trained so hard to make your vote disappear. Get your behind up and go to the poll please, it's important, is very important. And if you're afraid to go to the polls, they got mail in ballots everywhere. Man your battlety so and thank you for the information. And I know we had a slow week, flame Mask. We appreciate you. We know we've been a little all over the place in the

last couple of weeks. But the world is all over the place. We're just playing the hand that we've been there. Let's say we all feel like Mr Crabs these days show all right? Thank you, and Kendall did come to film today, so we appreciated Kendall. Uh, thank you, Aaron, our producer Lauren. I will see you on Monday, dear, because Lauren is leaving on Monday and I'm leaving on you're leaving on Wednesday. I leave on Thursday, right, but yes,

I will see you on Monday. We'll be doing an in person Laugh and Learn and back to our regular schedule program and we'll be River Thought will be audio for a few weeks, so which is great because that's what we want you guys to do, is download Laugh and Learn on your I Heart under the Black Network or what you ever podcast you listen to Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or wherever you listen to your podcast. Thank you my being for co host Lauren Hogan. It was good to

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