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you want to revisit? So your first like a listen, gentle folks like its lip all folks that we take it. No, do what you do? No, do what you do? Nopkis do what I do? Good Welcome to Laughing landlady and gentlemen. I'm your hosts Flame my room, along with my gorgeously young co host. What's your name, Lady, Lauren Hogan? High flame? He Lauren? How are you, darling? I'm good? How are you? I'm very good? Oh my god, it's been such a wonderful week, Lord Hogan, what did we do? Hi? You

sounds like a girl today. Oh my goodness, girl, you not have my chance. I have my INDs and house girl. You know that Jacob thing. I got that on the inside all the time they made the movie about that, that they were just talking about my life because she showed when she wanted to and he always jumped out when he feels like So that's what it is. Give me if I were seen lou Roles, fine, hey, let me tell you shanking. So Lord just was joked that idea because we were at the new show that we

have long what is it called Free Voice Voices. Yes, and it's every Wednesday at the Hollywood laugh Acts on Sunset at eight pm. So you guys come on that. We have a great time variety show. But we was doing a joke and I had to sing, and that was the song. I said, I sing Shaka Khan or read the Frank that and my DJ DJ count it's so funny. I said, I need something I can sing. I said, what do you think I should sing? And he played lou Roles and I said, oh, I'm up

for the challenge. Ever. Fine, we had a great time. Um, thank you to all the comics that came out. Memphis. Will did a grade my friends out there, Rollins came and just turned the room upside down. Uh, Sharon Array, who else was on the show? Oh, even the funny lady. Yeah, and we had a great time. And then the Tiffany had It showed up and just the support and ended up getting on stage and giving us thirty five minutes. So you just never know who's gonna show up, y'all

saw that picture with me, Tiff and Dave. You just never know who's gonna show up. Well, how did you end up with Dave? Well, they was in town, so we invited him to come to UH to the show, and then he had a meeting, so he came end up, invited me to come to do a show with him and his pop up show at the Hotel Cafe, which was very fun. And then at them Day could talk. Good guy that Dave could talk that today talked for two hours, but we had the time. He's just the

greatest guy to hang out with. It He's so pleasant to everybody around. He even remembers faces and names with right on site. Yeah, he did child, he had told but three four in the morning. Oh and let me tell you something. Oh I felt that the next day long. I was. I was, Oh see that's what we get in I'm only five years older than you, and that's what we got in common. Sorry, I couldn't keep a straight face and he said he was five years older

than me. Okay, six seven is my limit. On a serious note, I do want to say congratulations on the Three Voices show because it's really nice to see you in your element and you really do just see that you're enjoying the hosting aspect, like, yes, you've got comedy tied in there, but you really can engage in audience, you know, and it's not like they're jokes that you practice or like jokes that you you know, thought out.

It's just very organic. So it was just nice to kind of see you in a different element and see kind of your versatility as an artist. So I just want to say congratulations. I'm really proud that, you know, Jamie Masada gave you this opportunity and it's doing so well because you had a sold out crowd on Wednesday, so I know it's only more to come. You started off with like, shoot, what nine people in the room. That was only two weeks so now you got to sold out show on a Wednesday in the middle of

the week. So congratulations. I'm super proud of you. And I will be back for sure. So thank you, Lorie Hogan. I did pay her to say that job. Thank you. Yeah, it is just that, you know, that's what I love to do. You know, that's my first love because that's my superpower. I bring people together. That that is my superpower. But we just have so much fun. And I love the temperament in the room. So I'm loving that part right there because it's not like there's no pressure on

the comics to go out there and do this. Just have a great time. Yeah, And it's not um uptight, you know, like nobody's offended by anything. It's like everybody comes into the room knowing that it's comedy. Like nobody's trying to be offensive, trying to be rude. It's just comedy. And I think because I'm gonna call it stigma for lack of better words, but because that stigma, I feel like it's not associated with your show. The vibe is just fantastic. So you got you brought up the LGBTQ

community too. You got some of your community members and the audience they did, and I love that when Danielle Rowlands talking about his gay brother and broke it down that They laughed at those jokes because they laughed with him. They didn't take it to be offensive because they were funny jokes and Rolls was hilarious. But that's what it is. And if that's what you're coming in here, then that's what you're gonna here. If you come and hear something else,

they don't come. Yeah, And I also want to give a huge kludos to Tiffany. Um, you know, she's been through a lot. I feel like, unnecessarily I'm gonna say that. And the fact that you know, she got on stage. You know, she came out and she did a fantastic job. It was just like she was telling a story, but there was she was just funny. You know, there's just

another example of just her artistry. So, UM, I gotta say we love Tiffany, and UM, I'm just glad that she came out not only to support you, but you know, she got on stage, so did you And did you see the joy on her face? She looked so happy? Yeah, yeah, yes, And that was the courage to me because you're always talking about my Wizard of Chronicles. But I love some of the jewels and messages that Dave gave her to

when we were because they were so awesome. I said, they've talked a long time, but day was dropping so many jewels David ask and go, and it's so funny and was so accommodating, and we we love Dave Chappelle. Baby, let me tell your shows to be a on both. But he's just the coolest do ever. But he can party like a rock star and I cannot. I think Dave might be a superhuman because his energy level is crazy. And I just have to say I'm old because I'm twenty seven and I can't hang. I can't, and I'm

thirty seven. I surely can't. Anyway, that's all y'all get into. Anyway, Yeah, he and he was so wonderful and so great, but so many jewels that he dropped. I just was listening to him wile he was on stage when he was talking to Tiffany about the industry and everything, and it was such a great show. I'm telling you, guys, they're doing that day. I think me and David Franks, as you see me, intestinates. I said, I think you really are my brother, he say, and you m and to

y'all brothers for sure. Oh my goodness, is a mess, but we do want to take a moment before we continue the show and say we want to send out our condolences to cooley Use family who recently passed. Um. I think it's so unfortunate. It's just I think it's a weird time that we're in. Every time I look up, I feel like we're losing somebody else that's been you know, so influential to whether it's music, art, culture, entertainment. So um,

you know, condolences to Julio's family. I'm not sure what exactly he died from, but you know, a loss is a loss. So Um years young and gangs para that baby he revived Gangsters paras that because everybody thought he originally made that. I'm like Stevie one that really made but baby he brought it back to life. Yeah. I think that's what's missing now to in music. A lot of times, like I feel like back in the day, artists could you know, kind of remaster things like you know,

Aretha Franklin did that all the time. She remastered a lot of people's music. Health respect wasn't even her song. But I just don't feel like artists have today do that. Um and I think maybe that's why I'm an old soul in a lot of ways, because I just feel like the artistry is just not necessarily the same as it was back then. And he was another one, Like I said, that just influenced music in a beautiful way. So really sad to see another one go for sure.

Now that just sounds like a real gangster. Look, Aretha just would take a song and make it her. You know, she felt Detroit. You know how to Detroit people do love. She took a lot of songs and made him her own. But I think the fact that people don't know that respect wasn't hers is so interesting. That was Otis reading song and she took it and made it her own. Arrest in piece to reata Franker because after they read the Franker on My Love Lounge all the time, Uh yeah, Lauren,

you know else we rest in peace? Uh to Coolio and his family that that is scary because you don't know. And then it's just been so many depths recently, like you see it in the news in the media. I don't know, and young because when we were when I was young, fifty Nan sounded Oh I'm I'm up of age. Now, I don't sound that old. Fifty nine is not old at all, so you know you still got a lot of life to live at that point. So but like

we said, rest in peace to Kulio. But I do want to talk about something though that's not necessarily on our agenda, because it just reminded me. Have you watched the new uh series on Netflix called Monster that's based on Jeffrey Dahmer. I can't watch it, Lauren, let me tell you why I can't. Netflix, don't hate me. I can't. I can't take the racism. It's too racist for me. I made this episode three and a half and and that have now went back because I can't take the

racism I've I've been watching. He could have been got caught. He was driving around drinking with a damn cut up dead body in the back of the car, stopped by the police, and all he said was his there guys divorce, But because he was white, they let him go. Girl, we get stopped at it, stop saying but have a busted tail light or something, or just not even putting the knough flashes and we get killed. No, I can't watch that, girl, I can't watch that. It was um,

because I do like crime shows. So like I ended up telling my dad I was watching it. He was like, yeah, I'm not surprised. He was like, you like from crime shows and stuff. But it was just baffling to me how long he was able to evade police. To your point, that was like, there was so many instances where he could have gotten caught. Even the fourteen year old boy,

the police gave him back to Jeffrey Dahmer. You gave him back to him because there was so much stick when it was the height of the AIDS, you know, epidemic, so he was considered a homosexual. So the police were like, oh, I don't want to catch anything, and we're making sinister remarks. You know, the police in general just played such a big role in terms of negligence and then also harassing the victims when they were trying to receive settlements for

you know, their loved ones being murdered so viciously. The police were actually calling the victims and harassing them. Those police, some of those police were fired, but they all get they all got recompensated and re hot. Yes they did, they get reht. I'm telling you, I could not take the racism around it. Well, so no, they got suspended with pay and then they were cleared and one of

them actually ended up becoming a police chief. But they got recognized by the Police Association for all of their hard work. That same year, nothing happened to them. They never they didn't lose any money even their suspension. They were suspended with pay and that was what year and this is what year. A much change change. You're sorry to say, Yeah, but that series, I mean, I know you said you can't take the racism, but I do encourage people to watch it because there's so many, um

life lessons that you can take from that. Um it. But I did think with my girl niece and Nash just killing it, because that is a good actress. That oh fantastic. Yeah, especially when she I think she's in competition, see she had the bigger man, miss nay No. But um yes, it's definitely kudos to her because she played the role of gleather Cleveland incredibly well. But that series just too Honestly, it kind of messed me up a

little bit. I was in Atlanta when I started watching it because my body hadn't adjusted to the East Coast time, so I Binge watched like the first four episodes, and it's just every episode got worse, every episode got worse, and you know, it was just it was crazy to watch. I highly recommend you watch it just too, because I'm always, like I said, I'm always fascinated by things like this, by crime, you know how people think. But that was something else. I've been the very dark side of you

that I was not very familiar with them. I have to watch my bags. But like shows like that, like I watched Criminal Minds and you know, I watched To get Away with Murder and Law and Order s VU. I love crime show Blue Buds. It's been a very dark side on the Girl. No, I'm a thinker. You gotta think. It makes you think so. But yeah, it's a it is a good series. But it'll uh and and other news really quickly because I don't want to forget.

I see that Mydrew Taylor Green's husband foul before the Voice. That's one. And then to Trevor Noah is retiring from The Daily Show. I would love that job. Let me just put that out in the universe. I would love that. Listen, there is no that's not one person of color on late night television. There is not Uh, I would love that job University. I'm a comedian. I'm identified as female most of the time or some of the time, couple of the time, and um, and that's something I'm and

I'm likable. I got a good person. I could do that job. I need work, have energy. So okay, well, yeah, I'm just if y'all listening out there in uh hunan,

let's do it well. I think that's also a good point that you made though, too, is that it's like we're getting less and less representation on late night TV, and it's in it's in every space because even on the news network now with Don Lemon switching to daytime with CNN, Joy Read is the only you know person or I should say she's the only black person that has a primetime spot in news anymore. So it's just interesting how things keep changing. But the representation for us

is uh dwindling. So shoot, the look TV at night is becoming like certain areas in Chicago and just say, don't get caught in this area after dark. Yeah, yes, don't get on TV after dark. That's what TV turning into. It definitely feels that way. So it's like I said, Joy Read is the only one in primetime news anymore in the evening. So um, let's do it. Yeah, we need more people of black people, specifically um in late night television in all areas, all genres. So and that

would be good. I would curtail my mouth if I wouldn't say none of my h no, none of those curtail that mouth. Really, Oh my god, yes, girl, Remember I worked, you met me a professional that I know how to be professional. Just kidding with you, I know, but you do talk a lot of ship though that fact. I'm being new Peter Green, Oh my love, Petty Green. I love that movie. Talked to me. Oh my god. I think Don Chet did a great job human tourage you in that movie. Okay, let me don't get out

track because I stopped talking about something else. What's oh so when we have not talked about uh, this damn hurricane in Oh my God, shout up prayers for people in Florida, the many petty state. I know, I talk many many, much foolish and oh my goodness, much foolish about Florida. But God, the pictures and the live video show they don't even look real. They get hit so hard by this hurricane. Yeah, they're definitely calling it an historic hurricane. UM for many reasons, and I don't know.

It's Uh. Florida is a scary place to live. I remember, UM. One of our senior people at my other job that I work for was like, oh, you could come live in Florida and I was like, absolutely not. I was like your hurricanes and they're like, well, you live with earthquakes. I said, I take earthquake over a hurricane any day. I really would. And just to see the devastation that people are going through right now, it's heartbreaking, it really is.

To just lose everything. It completely demolished Fort Myers and UM so many remote cities. I don't even know all of the names of it. But just to the thought of losing everything, it just breaks my heart. It makes me want to cry because I can't imagine you lose everything. I saw a man on the news today he was like, my house used to be right there, and he's just sitting in a chair in the middle of dirt. He

has nothing. So I know. UM, they're supposed to be receiving federal aid now after Biden declaration today, but still, how long is that going to take. You know, we still have places in New Orleans, like you know, the ninth word from Hurricane Katrina. It still looks like the hurricane hit there just yesterday. They've never recovered. So and then you you always wanted if the money is gonna

be done the right way? Because look what, Look what just happen with Brett five, the football player from uh from Michigan, well, I mean from Wisconsin and Great Bay Packers. He stoles six million dollars because he wanted his daughter to have a new volleyball facility. Child. Brett Farve stole

money from poor people. Ah, And I think what's interesting that you mentioned that the news is not covering it because this is like a couple of weeks old now and I'm just starting to see, like, you know, a blog post here, a blog post there. But somehow he's really evaded the media from them like picking up the fact that he stole money from poor people. And he's already rich. He's a Heisman Trophy winner, football star, played

for Green Bay, played for the Vikings in Minnesota. Like he is this rich white man that stole from poor people. Maybe because he stole because maybe because some of the poor people were probably white too. That's why they're not covering it. I don't know. It's crazy to me. That's not from Mississippi, which is the poorest thing in the Union.

And for the and for the record, they're more white people on welfare than black people something because there's more white people and there's a lot of poor white people. People just don't know that that that's what. But after this day pandemic, a lot of one welfare, poor, middle class and everything else. Yeah, the pandemics said, uh, they didn't see race, color anything. A lot of people just

ended up. He was just boud for that. And when the media liked you, they just don't cover because you're right on it is not getting much courage at all, and that's a major thing. It's just ridiculous that he did that, and then for the reason then he light and said he didn't want to do it. But I love that the governor of Mississippi was like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no. Player in those text messages, I don't want no part of this. I'm not having any of this. You could

have it. Because he didn't want to go down. He said, I don't want to go to jail for this, right, it's just crazy greed, greed. But back to Hurricane in and I have friends down there and it just hit now it's just hit South Carolina. But Herricans should be over October. But this one, this one was major white flow it out and as much foolishness as I talked about Floid, I really do have some friends down there, and I hope they're safe because they have the power. Well,

you know what's global warming happening. We don't even know what the seasons are like anymore. Shoot, because you're right, like hurricane season. I think it's from like March until about like September. I think so. I guess technically it's still hurricane season, but it's like the tail. And to be getting something like this, Yeah, what the alligators were

like because the sea level raised. I wasn't because they all got all those alligators and everything down that wanted that make more alligators and snakes come out, because Floyd got a lot of wow animals, I'm sure, dide. I can only imagine what came out the cracks and crevices from the water. I have been scared to put my butt on the toilet. That would have killed, So that would have came over and beat me all my booty.

Oh no, girl, No, it's scary for sure. So and I've been watching, um I'm seeing looking at MSNBC right now, and they're talking about recovery efforts that are beginning in Florida as Ian moves up the coast and Fort Myers is just decimated. Like I'm literally looking at the inside of somebody's house right now on TV mm hmm. And and I think, let me be very fair, I've been watching this Stance to speak, and he's been very good about,

you know, talking about the devastation of his state. And because you know how I feel about him most of the time, but I like that he has been very fair about talking about getting help and relief for people in Florida. But I've seen some of those people ling. They look lost. I would be lost too if I lost this, just lost everything all of a sudden, Because what do you do start over you didn't lose, you should the stance is better say something nice and be helpful.

Considering he's being sued, he needs to do something. So but before we come up on our time, we cannot close out today without talking about our girl, Katangi Brown Jackson, we have to she officially starts, um too, what is it the session I think starts on Monday. Yeah, so she officially starts on Monday as a Supreme Justice. As a Supreme Court justice. Excuse me, so shout out to her. Congratulations. Um,

I'm excited. She's the first black woman to ever have that seat and it is um and she's actually the most qualified person two to be in that space. So congratulations to her that she can finally step into her role,

because it's a big one. If I was a little black girl, oh again, Oh, I could't even get that without app Okay, if I was a little black girl, I wonder how inspiring that must have been or must be, you know what I mean, Because when I was a kid, the the biggest, the only thing we even heard about the Supreme Court justice was on Good Times when Florida and then always tell Michael they wanted him to be a Supreme Court justice. I promised you that was the

only time we ever heard about it. I think right now, representation in all aspects of life is so important. I mean, case in point. I don't know if we talked about this already, but just like somebody like um Hallie Bailey. You know, she's the black the first black mermaid, you know, and the racist white people are in an uproar about it. You know, So anywhere, especially black women, we get representation.

I think it's just so important. So the fact that we have the first black Supreme Court justice, she's actually starting on Monday, we'll get to see her and see that updated photo and somebody look to your point, a little black girl can say, I can that can be me one day. I think it's so important more than people realize, because we need people in all spaces to say you can't do this, because society is always telling us we can't. So when we have somebody that's an

actual example that we can look at, it's just so important. Yeah. Oh, speaking of shout out to Norman Lee and normally they just celebrated his one hundred birthday. Did we talk about this last week? I talked about his birthday show? No you didn't. Yeah, it was so great because Iderondriguez was on there. My sister from the Ready comedy My My My Puerto Rican Deeve, my Puerto Rican Fire, she was on there, and I see he just green lit a

show with Laverne Cox's She's Gonna be on there. I would have loved to have been on it to tell my Bablie the Soud story. But it was a really good show that there his fing on the post many years ago. Some of the stuff that he did then, curly they even try to do now the world will be flipped upside down. But good guy. He was a He was a way maker and a deal breaker and just a visionary. And I just I loved so many

of his shows. I wish they would remake him or something at least close to it, But you can't because everybody a crap baby baby? Is that the word sensitive? I mean, it's one of money that could be used. But yeah, yeah, it was really nice and he's still I love it. He still had his wits about him here a hundred years old. He still know what's going on. Child. He's not the only one. You be surprised at how many folks that are past, that are a hundred or

older will have their wits. Shoot, my great grandmother she's very much aware of what's going on and still talk plenty crap. Let me tell you. So, there's there's a few of them out in the world. Oh, I think pople who talk shit live longer. I'm gonna live about trust. I believe that. I believe people who because we don't care that stress with us, people who talk ship live longer. I believe that I received that for sure. I'm about three hundreds. Well you would bake break again his world record,

that's for sure. So but here and laugh and learn. We do have a saying that we're never trying to get anybody to change your mind. We're always just trying to get you to use your mind because the wife flame, because the mind is a terrible thing to waste. Your man. You registered to vote because I'm telling you right now, primaries we will These primaries I will be the segue to the real deal. We need to know where this money is going, and we need to get some folks

in office that we want. And can I tell you something, I have a prediction. Okay, our dear Governor Gavin Newsom is going to run for president on the Democratic ticket. We would lose him as a governor, I know, but I some in my spirit is telling me he's gonna run for president. Now hear me. And as much as I would love to see gut and Newsom be the president of the United States. I am not ready to lose him as the governor of California because he has done such a great job to me and I am

not ready to lose him. I agree, he's really done a lot for this state. Um, it's incredible what he's able to accomplish and just how progressive years And I just can't here with the fact that he gave Manhattan Beach Black back to the black family. That it was stolen from. Manhattan Beach has been called Bruce's Beach, and he gave it back to the black family it was stolen from. That will always be like number one things that he did, amongst the many other things. But I'm

calling it. I really think that he's gonna run for president. He would be like the white Obama. I'm seeing him. He would be like the white Obama. I love it. Yeah, but I I'm I'm putting it out there, so we're gonna see you and what about shoot a year, yeah, a year and a half, two years, yeah, because this is over so but um, yeah, that's what I'm predicting. So shout out to my friend Dave Chappelle. Thank you.

For the invite to the pop up show. Uh, ladies, Jim, you can follow my my partner Lauren Hogan at Lauren Hogan on YouTube uh and loring O money h on Instagram. And remember, you can listen to us, download us on I Heard under, the Black Effect Network or Apple, Spotify

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