December 30, 2022 • 37 mins
Flame and Lauren wrap up 2022 with some of the latest news happenings from the uprising of smash and grabs, Trumps taxes, inflation, Flame's rating of Joe Biden, the national weather disruption and much more.
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you're good, We're good. Welcome to laugh and learn. I'm
your host, Flame and row along with my beautiful co
host Lauren Hogan. Hello, miss Laurence. Hello Flame. How are you? Oh?
I'm recovering, Lawrence said they After Christmas, I reason green, Yeah,
I was. How was your Christmas? What you do? I
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cooked Christmas Eve after running away for two days from
home and came home and cooked for my kids. Huh,
what you cook? Potato salad, of beef, pot roast and
some greens. Went to feed the Homers with Tiffany Hattie
and James Massida at the world famous Laugh Factory. Came
home and Zeddie had took a fork, put the greens
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in front of her face and set at the table.
And I think we had greenland because you know my
daughter is successful greens. Know she loves your greens. I
was gonna say, was the pot gone already? The pot
was damn near gone. It was hollow. It was as
empty as Donald Trump's Texas, which we will get too late.
That's good. I'm glad you had a good holiday. My
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Christmas was good. Um, my dad and my brother came over.
I cooked, We hung out and watched basketball. It was
a day full of basketball. And then um they went
home them. I cleaned up my house and that was
pretty much it. It was low key and chill, but
it was a nice little Christmas. What you get for
Christmas go for the ship. Now what you give for Christmas? Um?
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I got some money and that was about it. Like that.
She likes that. Yeah, we decided a long time ago.
It's just easier to give each other money so we
can go get our own gifts less of a hassle.
So well we're go ahead. The Christmas has come and going.
Now let's see what's gonna happen with this new year.
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Happy Kwanza mm hmm happy. Yes, it's officially krans and
all of the discount sales are happening, so this is
the perfect time to use our money and now go
shop boom somebody like a professional shopper. M h. My
mama taught me, well, I told you we didn't have
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gifts under the Christmas tree for Christmas. We went after
Christmas shopping cost effective. So all right, that's good tool.
Before we get to start on the heavy topics, let
me start with as they as their parents and as
the dad. When I watched tory Land's dad japping out
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after the court proceedings after the final Birdie came down
and going to after jay z n Rock Nation, I
was like, oh, he's angry. The daddy short to him
like damn, I wouldn't do a run in the family.
It's short angry. Um. They have some eclectic names, you know.
Uh so Tori's Layne's real name is Day Star and
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his father's name is sun Star. It's very eclectic. Mm hmm, yeah,
very unique. Maybe they had a daughter she becalled Shining Star.
So no, I saw the video though of him being
upset and um calling out those different people. He gets
officially sentenced on January and he's facing up to years,
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so we shall see how that develops. But yes, he's
currently in um l A County jail, so we'll see
what he gets, what his sentences. Oh and man Central,
good god, yuck. I'm saying yuck from experience. Okay, where
are we going? Um, Well, it's Monday, so we all
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know who's back in the news again, and that's um,
former President Donald Trump. And it worries that Sunny Houston,
former president, former one term president twice in peace, twice
in peace, disgraced President Donald and he just continues to
make history for being a criminal um during his presidency.
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So but I know that today we want to talk
about officially the news is his taxes because he officially
had to turn them all over um the January six
committee review them. So I'm just gonna do a quick
highlight of what the report entails regarding taxes and actually
Milannia is a part of this because it's their joint
taxes that they yeah, exactly. So just a quick highlight
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is that. So on the on the federal tax return,
Trump and his wife declared negative income at thirty one
point seven million dollars with taxable income of zero dollars.
The couple paid federal income taxes of six hundred and
forty one tho dollars. A little over that returned declared
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negative income of thirty one point two million with zero
dollars a taxible income. And then that's when Trump paid
seven hundred and fifty dollars in taxes. That was in
UM come seventeen. Once again declared negative income of twelve
point eight million with zero dollars in taxable income. The
couple paid once again seven hundred and fifty dollars in
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taxes twenty four million dollars total income UM. The Trump's
paid about a million dollars in federal tax income um
exeason federal income taxes. Then in twenty nineteen it was
four point four four million dollars. They paid about a
hundred and thirty three thousand dollars and then lastly return
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shows negative income at four point six nine million dollars
and um, the tax paid by the Trumps was zero
dollars and they claimed to refund. This is the highlight
of five point four seven million dollars. So they got
over five million dollars back from the I R S
and paid no taxes. That's a quick highlight of that.
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Mm hmm. I wonder when they got all that money back.
Is that when she purchased that jacket. You remember she
had the jacket No one cares or something like that.
I wondered the very Marie Antoinet when Marie internet they
was getting all the money and the people were starving,
and she said, that'll beat cake. She did let him
watch this jacket. Yeah, so he's been officially exposed regarding
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his taxes. What does this mean. We'll see because there
have been other, you know, criminal activity that's been happening
with Trump and nothing has happened as of yet. So
maybe this is going to be a part of whatever
Merritt Garland does regarded the d O J. But to
get five million dollars back from the I R S
and pay no federal income taxes, um, that's different. M hmm.
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I wanted people in charge of the I R S,
who's over his tax to be investigated opening to him,
because why well, this is no different from you know,
Alan Weisselberg being found guilty and Trump's actual corporation, but
him saying he knew nothing about it. So let's see
if he has the same strategy with this that you know,
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he didn't know anything about the taxes. He had people
to file for him, and then they're the ones that
are responsible if from dragged their name meant, if the
I R S and the government has to drag their
name in it, I feel another gunning experience on the
white side. Well, I mean, if we're gonna be honest,
this is very much his whole family and what they've done,
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it's very much so rico case. If we're gonna be
over honest, he's running a criminal empire. I'm feeling a
gun and experience. Somebody going to tell you, well, I
mean it's happened in his right hand man, Alan I
school were already flipped. Man was found guilty. So he's
just using you know, what's it called plausible deniability? This one, well,
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his thing, weren't we have talked about this. Excuse my
smack and y'all We have spoken about this on numerous occasions,
about this man not being able to hold public office.
If he goes to jail, great if he doesn't, or whatever.
But to me, in fact, that he could never hold
a public office, to hold so much influence over the public,
to make them go the way he wanted them to
go for a very short period of time, which was
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what three or four years, which did a lot of damage.
Trump held all the cards. Trump held all the cards. Well, yeah,
I mean we know that. I think it's more so
he had I mean, if you think about it, Trump
used to be friends with the Clintons. You know, Trump
was like that guy that people wanted to have on
TV shows. He was on the First Prince of bel Air,
Like Trump used to be that guy. So because of
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his influence and all the people he was around, I
wouldn't be surprised if he had dirt on all these
politicians and celebrities. And I wouldn't be surprised because look
at who he was around. He conveniently changed parties when
he wanted to run for president because that was when
it worked best for him. But he was an infamous Democrat.
If we're gonna be honest, so very scary, very scary
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pay taxes. That is one people we don't mess with
is the I R S because they will come knocking
on your though, like Bobby Ball, Matt exactly. Oh okay,
well we got the tax form without the way. Listen
to the objectively. For Donald Trump to be found guilty
to what, he cannot run a whole public office because
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then we want to put that country. This is a
man who may Benedict Honor looked like a saint talking
about trading and treason. It's good God, and to kill
our home. Listen, those people died on January six on people.
Innocent people died because they believed in this narrative that
he pushed, told him he would be out there with
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them when he wasn't, told him he's gonna storm the
capital with them when she didn't, and to kill his
own vice president. I don't even know why we're having
a discussion about this, to be honest, storm, I hope.
But innocent people died. Do you mean people that showed
up to right, No, I mean some of the workers
that were there. Okay, yeah, I just you know, you know,
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someone didn't die on the scene, but they were so traumatized,
because this is what trauma traumatizing looks like. Not will
smap slapping Chris. This is what traumatized me looks like.
The people losing their lives. Um, some of them committed
so many of them committed suicide after the fact. Yeah,
the police officers and the folks that were there that. Yeah,
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so this is what I'm saying. They they they sometimes
the government lets to drag on and lag on for
so long that you forget the severity of what it
was because he didn't they do anything when they first happened.
So you know, it gets old to us and we'd
be like, oh, yeah, I remember that, and we all
say that we're all guilty of that because it does
not happen in the moment, just like it happens in
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the moment. We need to stop making it happen at last, Sona,
and then baby, things will change. Because fear worked for
us to become slaves, Fear worked for the Jews to
become enslaved. Fear has worked forever. Fear still works. But
some of these white men don't feel like they have
nothing to fear. They don't like to go to jail,
and they don't like for you to take away their trinkets,
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y'all take it too long to do it, sid they
as the jail within thirty days and take away their
house boats cause cash goodies. They're coming down. Well speaking
a fear too. Um. There was yet again another shooting
um in all of America. Um actually right before Christmas.
It was on Christmas Eve, and somebody was actually in
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the store with shopping and they actually just happened to
like be making a real about their shopping experience. And um,
they actually the video was recording in real time what
happened when the shots rang out in the mall. So
it's interesting what you're talking about trauma and these sort
of things. And we're still yet again dealing with, you know,
shootings happening in public places. And this is part of
the reason why what I've said on this show before,
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I don't like going to malls anymore. I don't like
doing that because they're just it's not safe. Yeah, speaking
of shopping, Lord, and this is completely off topic, but
I should have put it on that this morning. It's
gonna be a real brief. There's a huge upris and
smashing gramps and they're doing it in groups of organizations.
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So you probably right now they go to malls long
because you just be out with your girlfriends and y'all
shopping and and and ki ki and all of a
sudden full fact gas running something. It's not only guys.
It's scary, and they've running the stores and they break
the winds as they snatched up out And if you're
in the way, girl, you could be hurt, you could
be ran over, you could be possibly be put as
one of the suspects. Have you seen that, Yeah, I've
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definitely seen it. I've seen a couple of things regarding
that the smashing grabs are happening and also too, um,
how women are being um like trafficed these days too. Um.
Have you seen with like a little piece of like
it looks almost like tissue paper putting car doors that
it's like laced with Apparently you have some kind of
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substance on it, right yep, And it can basically incapacitate
you enough so that way you know, these kidnapper as
an opportunity to grab you. So it's just crazy times
that we're living in at this point, and I just
it's scary. Oh if somebody take one of my daughters.
I don't know what I'm gonna do because I ain't
got to Liam Neeson. Lia Neeson had all the skills.
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Remember the movie Taken. He went over there and he fought,
I'd be like, h I gotta I got about three
hundred dollars I send them back. Well, I've always said
I would be the worst, uh kidnap be ever. I'd
be screaming and everything else. I would be terrible. I'm
a wrong person to kidnapped. So, oh, no, are you
gonna get kidnapped? If they don't they have unless they
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had Chanelle blankets and Gucci pillow cases and stuff, because
you know you you would never high. So that's why
I wouldn't get kidnapped. I really I stay at my house.
I did not go outside. So but it's just scary
times that we're living in, and people really just have
to be safe because the scariest part about not just
not being hurt is that as an American citizen and
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a consumer, the prices are going up for us everywhere
because all of this ration of stealing, you know, it
makes the prices go up everywhere, and prices are very
high on everything. Well, really it's inflation to I think
inflation is a probably nine percent now so and this
is how things like you know, we talked about, you know,
recessions and those sort of things, you know, which Joe
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Biden is you know, the shortest that is not gonna happen.
But um, it's just we just avoided a government shutdown.
So like all of these little indicators of what's really
happening in the world right now. Um two, I think
so before we get off, before we get off the
subject of Joe Biden and get on over to President
Vice pressident coming him, I just want to take a
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segment sake. I think that Joe Biden has done a
pretty good job in his term. It looked bleak and
look up and down and look wishy washy. She didn't
think he was doing enough for us as a black people.
But overall, I think Joe Biden is doing all that
he can and more, in fact, more than what they
want him to do. And so maybe this might be
his only term. So he saved I'm gonna do it.
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I'm gonna do it all the way. I appreciate him
for that. Yeah, I mean I'm not totally I would say, uh,
satisfied with everything. But I think that overall he's doing
what he can. Like even with no student loan debt,
He's tried and tried to get that you know, bill passed,
and it just keeps getting rejected and rejected. There's things
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that he's tried to implement that he's definitely been you know,
obstacles have been put in his path, but overall he
has done when he's when he was able to do,
I would think in terms of some of his promises.
So my main concern is just the fact that if
Trump isn't running as his a Republican opponent, I'm concerned
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if he's gonna get reelected. That's my main issue. So
let's go here. The weather and the Midwest and the
East coast and the South has been unbearable. I mean
the weather everywhere except for California. I'm trying to be
nice for you. He's a shady play man. I didn't
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say that, y'all. Lawrence said that I was trying to
be nice. But she's right everywhere from southern California because baby,
y'all have been taught a lot of people out there
that things that thirty seven people has obvious their lines.
But Air was telling it's York. Was in New York area, yeah, um,
New York. And then also to um, I saw some
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really uh crazy video just about how many pipes burst
throughout Atlanta, including the airport. Um. So it was just
really sad, like lntic small pipes bursts in different you know,
like apartment buildings that you know, I'm very familiar with,
being that I lived in Atlanta for four years. And
then also to see part of you know, Hartsfield just underwater,
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it was just a real scary sight to see. So
I'm just sending prayers. And it happened all on Christmas
Eve too, right before Christmas happened. So and as a
person who just experienced water damage too in their own
you know unit, um, I just send prayers out to
everybody because that's just it's a hassle, it's scary, and
it's truly just an annoyance. So the fact that so
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many people's pipes bursts during Christmas Eve is just really sad.
So but the disclaiming they did give out was for
you guys to let the water trickle. But like states
like Atlanta and places that's not set up in that
bitter code they used pipes that we use in Illinois
or in Minnesota. Uh, they probably used a different uh
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material that was not as strong, but they did tell you.
And even Aaron asked us about leaving the water drip
and that produced it, and we told him because those
pipes birth. So I've seen it happen in Chicago because
you I'm from Chicago, but they haven't had a bit
of code like this in Chicago and maybe fifteen years.
Well to just Atlanta is the city is not really
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I feel like equipped for co weather. I remember when
I was when I lived there. That's when like snow
Mgeddon happened where it's snowed in Atlanta and it hadn't
snowed in like twenty years, and the whole city shut
down because they just didn't know what to do. So
I feel like this was another version of this in
terms of the pipes first, and they really just didn't
know what to do because they've never experienced this in
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so long. So people were leaving their cars on the
freeway when I lived there, when you know, we had
had the first snow and however many years later, So
it was just it was crazy. It was like a week,
you know, it snowed for three days, but it messed
up the city for seven. So I just feel like
with the pipes verst thing was just another situation like
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that and they just really just weren't equipped to handle it.
So oh and people and most people who live in
Atlanta migrated there. A lot of them don't even wasn't
even boring and raging there. A lot of people migrated
to Atlanta, so they came from states where you know
how to drive in the snow, then they were pretty prepared.
But a lot of those people who don't and girl,
you know, people who cannot drive in a certain kind
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of weapon and do more damage than good. See your
ass at home, please, Well, I drew, I drove in
the snow actually in Atlanta, and I think it's a
mixture to um because yeah, a lot of people did
migrate to Atlanta, but you'll be surprised who was really
who still lives there and was from Atlanta. But I
did that too. I drove in the snow when it
was the Snowmageddon happened, and it was a very interesting experience.
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I'm gonna say, I don't I'm like driving the snow.
So I didn't know you were supposed to follow, like
the not the tire tracks or you call them like
they're kind of pre outline on the road you're supposed
to drive. I didn't know all of that. So luckily
one of my really good friends was from Chicago actually
and explained to me how you I mean, you're born
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and raised here, but you lived in You didn't live
in New York, but you spent a lot of time
in New York. You never drove in New York. No,
you don't drive while you're in New York. You take
the subway. Shoot, my mom was born and raised in Brooklyn.
She's a train rat. So when I go to New York,
I get on drain. No, I don't feel like that.
I mean, like, like, so say, if you weren't going
into the city, you just going maybe to the suburbs,
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and you you all were driving near You never drove
in the snow there. I never went to the suburbs
of New York. Yeah, you know, we was in Brooklyn.
We take the train. So anywhere as you need to
go in the city, you take the train. So the
only time I take an uber when I get to
New York is to go from JFK to wherever I'm
staying hotel wise and then I'm on the train the
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rest of the time i'm there. So yeah, No, my
mom was a train rite and she raised me to
be the same. So I don't get in cars and
driving New York. Nope. I don't like driving New York
and especially man hand because people walk over you. Old
people being hurried. That's young people being a hurried, the
sick people being a hurry. They're just walk in front
of your car and damned me to hit them. Please
don't dare me. Oh, I always feel oh my god,
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it's a little scary driving in New York. I have
to say that I haven't done it before. But no,
mostly I get my butt on the trains to everybody
was affected in these states that was possibly homeless. I
hope that the show just had enough a lot of
heat and had enough beds and blankets because a lot
of states lost power, a lot of places lost power.
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I think Texas was one of the states that was
really affected, like their power grid. Once again, I was affected.
So it's just global warming is real. Let's just say that.
And I just hope that everybody was being able to
stay safe and as warm as possible over this holiday
weekend because the temperatures are literally like so I saw
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that in New York it was seven degrees Christmas Day
as a low high with seventeen. That's just that's a
different kind of cold. So I lived any baby, I
know it. That's why I live in in the mother
I pay the higher rate for the warmer weather. Listen,
I hear that for sure. Speaking but speaking of cold weather, Lawrence,
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I was gonna say, speaking of cold weather in Texas,
UM Governor Greg Abbott, is that again? Is at it again?
Excuse me? And he recently just dropped off I think
a little over fifty migrants um in front of Vice
President Kamala Harris's house. Yeah, and the first two bus
loads is reported that those people only had on T
shirt and it was eighteen degrees. I just feel like
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there's just got to be like a special place in
hell for people who do that. You know, people who
use their power literally for evil purposes to push their
own agenda. It's not because you care about you know,
your constituents, or your community at large, or the folks
that actually voted for you. You're just using your power
for personal ego and people in people's lives. The problem.
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It makes you wonder is there a grand wizard hat
in hell? It's got to be something, because there's just
no way. And the crazy part is this man just
got re elected. He just got reelected after after you'valdi,
after all this vootage, just they still reelected him. And
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this isn't the first time he's done this either. That's
the part that's crazy. This isn't the first time he's
done this, and he was still reelected. Texting doesn't exit
want to brexit? They can't, chip I didn't want to brexit,
like no, I think they do. I think, I think
I remember it was saying that they wanted to break
off them in Florida and be their own individual safe
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from the Union. Their governors tried to do that. That
was a great abbot in Rohn de Santis thing, because
you know, Rhon de Santis, since you know we brought
up Florida, was responsible for basically helping get control back
of the House because he did some he read um,
he reasoned a lot of different districts in uh Florida
to turn them from being Republicans, to turn the team
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from being a Democrats to Republican illegally, might I add? So, yeah,
that was something that the governors were touting. So the shooting,
they want to separate Texas. They could give it back
to Mexico, but anyway, that's another conversation, and then they're
gonna end up giving us back to you know, they
say California. Well anyway, that's what I was saying. Yeah. Anyways,
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right past that, we're gonna sat all right, at least
I'll be done. So listen, Lauren, you know what what
hurts my feelings so bad is that you're right, y'all
put politics over people. Those people they had babies and
kids on there freezing, you know, and if they coming
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from me, they're not used to that whether and then
they got on T shirts, you know, and y'all, and
with all that's going on in the world, we got flu, coronavirus,
what's the other ms V? What is it If those
kids could all be subject to all of that, you know,
and the adults, which means that if they catch it
and they're in this country and they're around somebody else,
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it's a snowball effects. It's just gonna spread on around
until it hits us. Eventually they just don't care. You're right,
they just do not care. They don't care. Yeah, and
even you're talking about this whole what's calling the triple
pandemic between RSV, COVID, and the flu. Um, I think
the prediction is that over six d and fifty thou
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people are gonna die. Then it would then be almost
at their quota. Because again I'm gonna say it again.
In eleven what was his name? Gates said that the
that the world was overly populated by three million people.
Did you say three yeah? Three million? Uh Na took one. Well,
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apparently these numbers aren't shocking to folks, which I find
interesting because supposedly half a million people die from the
flu every year. Um. I still think those numbers are
kind of staggering. But with all that's going on between
these three viruses, uh yeah, it's scary. And again I've
had the flu and COVID and within a month of
each other, so I know how bad it is. So
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the only two diseases I had at the same time
was consurance and rank. Those are new. I didn't know.
Those are diseases keep coming. They come, they come everywhere
every month, like they keep coming. I wish they had stopped.
Good god, m no, I hear you. Well, we do
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have to make sure that we're not remiss, and we
have to say happy New Year to everybody that's listening.
Is officially here. It came very quickly, but um, I
hope that you know, brings in new blessings and opportunities
for everybody, and everybody goes into it with a positive
outlook on life. So we gotta stay Happy New Year
to everybody listening. Happy New Year, ladies and gentlemen. And
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before y'all start setting up all of these, um, what
I'm gonna change and what I'm gonna do it, I
don't start on that day. You can try and start
it on that day, but to usually don't work start
you have to start like a week or early, two
weeks early. It's a mindset. It's in mind what is
my resolution for I'm gonna keep my mouth off things
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that really are unemportant to me and keep on bringing
in dollars, because if I keep bringing and putting my
mouth on stuff that's unimportant to me, it's gonna keep
messing with my dollars. Y'all take the have y'all want to,
but don't ask, don't tell you. It's my policy. If
you don't ask me, I ain't got to say nothing.
And my new answers, that's my new answer, Laura claim,
how do you feel like? And keep it moving? I
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like it's me catching myself. What look what? Yeah? Okay?
And keep walking. You can take to have you want
to take it that way? Well she didn't say. Oh,
he didn't say. And all they said was what, Yes,
that's gonna be the new mean what? Because I'm tired
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of it. I'm over it. People too petrified to say
anything or do anything. But I do think, Lord, honestly,
after being out yesterday and listen to some of the
comics and just being caught up in this conversation because
it was such a beautiful thing to see Tiffany passing
Tiffany and Jamie Masada and so many comedies come through
and and helper celebrities too, to pass out food to
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the to the unhoused. And everybody wasn't even a house.
This was if you were lonely on Christmas, if you
didn't cook, if you don't have family, anybody. They had
some big wigs there that just wanted to be around
people on Christmas that didn't have any family or nothing,
and they said the food was good. I didn't need anything.
I did taste the piece of the turkey, but I
didn't need anything. Girl. They had punkin pack right there,
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and the day I knew I was done. Punker. What's
a punker? What's a punker? Well, you know I don't
eat sweep, so yeah, pies on the punk pa. I'm like, no, baby, sweeper,
take the path, not punka pass sweeping hay back. Girl,
I couldn't eat that. But the and the people who
were in line to listen, because I was the water person,
I was going out and standing up past our war.
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You should have seen. I was a waiter and the
waitress at the same time. I was killing it. And
they were so friendly, and they was telling me their
life stories and just talking to me and and it
made me step outside of what I think I am
and who I am or what I want to be,
to realize that it is really some people out here
having a hard time. You know, we feel like we
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have the hard time, we get hit with death or whatever,
but like we got someplace to lay out here, we
get someplace to call that safe haven. Girl. They had
their houses on their back, or they had their houses
in their carts. It was it kind of it kind
of made me a little more grateful. Let me just
say that, because that can be an ungrateful bitch. Did
I say that I allowed you did? But I feel like, um, no,
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I agree. Whenever I see somebody that's homeless, or some
season nations at homeless susan, anybody that's in house or
you know, just less fortunate, um, it definitely makes me,
you know, take a second reflect and just be thankful for,
you know, the life that I've been allowed to live,
because despite how we may feel, things can always be worse. Always,
and that's what I always try to remember. Things can.
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And there were couple there. It was a man husband
and white, white couple. They have four young kids. Nobody
could have been older than teen, but nobody was younger
than three. And they had two dogs. And they had
a station wagon, which is how they carted the kids
around in adult And I'm sitting there and I'm giving
them water. And the husband was such a pleasant man,
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you could see the despair in his face. And he
asked me my name. I said, my name is Slaine.
And I asked his name. He said his name was Matt.
I said, how long have you guys been out here?
He said, they've been out there for a while. He said,
they've been trying to get a place. But here's the
here's the hiccup. He needs an I D in order
to get any kind of services. But in order to
get an I D, you have to have an address
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against the mail to come to I'm like, well, why
don't they fix that? That is such a catch twenty two.
It's almost like we tell you what to do, but
we're making sure that you can't do it because you
don't have the resources to get it done. I thought
it was well that yeah, that's you have to emphasize
that point because it's no different from if you know,
somebody who's in the house is trying to seek a job,
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but they don't have a place to take a shower.
So when you show up, you're not fresh or not groomed,
so you automatically get to clients. So there's almost like
the odds are automatically stacked against you because you were
on house, because you can't be presentable. There's just there's
so many layers to it. But you're right, when when
I get this job working for Mayor Karen Bass to
house the an housed trans community. Lauren, I'm gonna really
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call on your assistance as not only as my partner,
but probably part of this team because she having me
put together a team and you know my motto, I'm
gonna show up, um because that needs to be something
that that needs a resolve. So whether they get them
a PO box or something, because like I have a
PO box and it's a physical address, it doesn't say
p O box. It really just the address and the
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apartment number. What the apartment was actually the box number.
But people need to know that because then you'll be
able to say, you know, I got a place for
you to send me mail or send me literature. It
I thought, I was like, well, that sounds kind of
battling crazy to me. Why are they telling you to
do this? But then then that preventing you would have
placed to help you to do it. That that is
going to be the first one of the first reasons. Yeah,
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well uh mary uh. Karen Bass has a large battle
in front of her regarding um men house in general. Um,
you know, californ really Los Angeles is the homelessness capital
in the country. So it's uh, there's a lot of
arms and legs to it. So that's what that's how
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I go over tree. The other goal is that's why
I wanted less stress off of me and I want
to be happy. I don't want to worry about what
somebody else is doing. I'm not big on that anyway.
But I found myself in these last three months eyeballing
what somebody else was doing that I think that I
should be doing, but I'm not doing it for whatever reason.
I'm going to stop that. I'm gonna because what is
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my motto, can't no bit to do what I do.
But I'm starting gonna stop monitoring somebody else's thing and
just do me whatever. Whatever ill wheels are harbors. I
feel like people are harboring against me. They don't like
me for this three of every reason that has that
is not my issue. That hain't got nothing to do
with me. I will keep doing Flaming Row and I'm
gonna do that bitch better next year. And I did
an issue. I love that, love it for sure. I
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have to. I have one one goal I would like
for you, though you're gonna give me a goal, it
was just one from me to you, and it's with
all up. I want you to think one word for color. Okay,
(35:34):
I'm gonna need you to leave me and my favorite
color alone. But now stay out of black, y'all this
letty will Now, I'm like a little blue look gold
on like my signature color, and I will always wear it.
Can if we are. You want me to walk around
looking like a damn rainbow. I am not doing that. Okay,
(35:55):
I will continue to wear my faperite y'all see you
exactly what I was talking about what I said of her. Yeah,
you're wanna leave me on. You're want me to walk
around in purples and blues and yellows and reds. You
want me to look like a damn skin. No, No,
I'm not doing it. I think you Aaron. Happy New Years, Lauren?
What it? What is that saying? Fore, it's just our
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saying is that here, laugh and learn. We're never trying
to get anybody to change your mind or something trying
to get you to use your mind because mind is
a terrible thing to waste. And we are upon the
precipents of we're on the precipice of a new year.
You're not gonna be a new you. But you can
be a better you. You can be a better version
of you. You're not going to be a new year.
You're gonna be a better version of what you were.
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And if you want to make change, the only person
responsible doing that is you. That's it. Well, we appreciate
you guys as always. Yes, so let's go it off
this show. Thank you guys so much for joining us.
Happy three we had. We made it through two almost
and uh for those of us who made it unscathed
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and unshaved and unhoused, don't don't live on that, don't
do all on it. Look for a better time next year,
because Lauren, next year I need you to bat me
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I'm recovering, Lawrence said they After Christmas, I reason green, Yeah,
I was. How was your Christmas? What you do? I
(02:04):
cooked Christmas Eve after running away for two days from
home and came home and cooked for my kids. Huh,
what you cook? Potato salad, of beef, pot roast and
some greens. Went to feed the Homers with Tiffany Hattie
and James Massida at the world famous Laugh Factory. Came
home and Zeddie had took a fork, put the greens
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in front of her face and set at the table.
And I think we had greenland because you know my
daughter is successful greens. Know she loves your greens. I
was gonna say, was the pot gone already? The pot
was damn near gone. It was hollow. It was as
empty as Donald Trump's Texas, which we will get too late.
That's good. I'm glad you had a good holiday. My
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Christmas was good. Um, my dad and my brother came over.
I cooked, We hung out and watched basketball. It was
a day full of basketball. And then um they went
home them. I cleaned up my house and that was
pretty much it. It was low key and chill, but
it was a nice little Christmas. What you get for
Christmas go for the ship. Now what you give for Christmas? Um?
(03:13):
I got some money and that was about it. Like that.
She likes that. Yeah, we decided a long time ago.
It's just easier to give each other money so we
can go get our own gifts less of a hassle.
So well we're go ahead. The Christmas has come and going.
Now let's see what's gonna happen with this new year.
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Happy Kwanza mm hmm happy. Yes, it's officially krans and
all of the discount sales are happening, so this is
the perfect time to use our money and now go
shop boom somebody like a professional shopper. M h. My
mama taught me, well, I told you we didn't have
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gifts under the Christmas tree for Christmas. We went after
Christmas shopping cost effective. So all right, that's good tool.
Before we get to start on the heavy topics, let
me start with as they as their parents and as
the dad. When I watched tory Land's dad japping out
(04:16):
after the court proceedings after the final Birdie came down
and going to after jay z n Rock Nation, I
was like, oh, he's angry. The daddy short to him
like damn, I wouldn't do a run in the family.
It's short angry. Um. They have some eclectic names, you know.
Uh so Tori's Layne's real name is Day Star and
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his father's name is sun Star. It's very eclectic. Mm hmm, yeah,
very unique. Maybe they had a daughter she becalled Shining Star.
So no, I saw the video though of him being
upset and um calling out those different people. He gets
officially sentenced on January and he's facing up to years,
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so we shall see how that develops. But yes, he's
currently in um l A County jail, so we'll see
what he gets, what his sentences. Oh and man Central,
good god, yuck. I'm saying yuck from experience. Okay, where
are we going? Um, Well, it's Monday, so we all
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know who's back in the news again, and that's um,
former President Donald Trump. And it worries that Sunny Houston,
former president, former one term president twice in peace, twice
in peace, disgraced President Donald and he just continues to
make history for being a criminal um during his presidency.
(05:44):
So but I know that today we want to talk
about officially the news is his taxes because he officially
had to turn them all over um the January six
committee review them. So I'm just gonna do a quick
highlight of what the report entails regarding taxes and actually
Milannia is a part of this because it's their joint
taxes that they yeah, exactly. So just a quick highlight
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is that. So on the on the federal tax return,
Trump and his wife declared negative income at thirty one
point seven million dollars with taxable income of zero dollars.
The couple paid federal income taxes of six hundred and
forty one tho dollars. A little over that returned declared
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negative income of thirty one point two million with zero
dollars a taxible income. And then that's when Trump paid
seven hundred and fifty dollars in taxes. That was in
UM come seventeen. Once again declared negative income of twelve
point eight million with zero dollars in taxable income. The
couple paid once again seven hundred and fifty dollars in
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taxes twenty four million dollars total income UM. The Trump's
paid about a million dollars in federal tax income um
exeason federal income taxes. Then in twenty nineteen it was
four point four four million dollars. They paid about a
hundred and thirty three thousand dollars and then lastly return
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shows negative income at four point six nine million dollars
and um, the tax paid by the Trumps was zero
dollars and they claimed to refund. This is the highlight
of five point four seven million dollars. So they got
over five million dollars back from the I R S
and paid no taxes. That's a quick highlight of that.
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Mm hmm. I wonder when they got all that money back.
Is that when she purchased that jacket. You remember she
had the jacket No one cares or something like that.
I wondered the very Marie Antoinet when Marie internet they
was getting all the money and the people were starving,
and she said, that'll beat cake. She did let him
watch this jacket. Yeah, so he's been officially exposed regarding
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his taxes. What does this mean. We'll see because there
have been other, you know, criminal activity that's been happening
with Trump and nothing has happened as of yet. So
maybe this is going to be a part of whatever
Merritt Garland does regarded the d O J. But to
get five million dollars back from the I R S
and pay no federal income taxes, um, that's different. M hmm.
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I wanted people in charge of the I R S,
who's over his tax to be investigated opening to him,
because why well, this is no different from you know,
Alan Weisselberg being found guilty and Trump's actual corporation, but
him saying he knew nothing about it. So let's see
if he has the same strategy with this that you know,
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he didn't know anything about the taxes. He had people
to file for him, and then they're the ones that
are responsible if from dragged their name meant, if the
I R S and the government has to drag their
name in it, I feel another gunning experience on the
white side. Well, I mean, if we're gonna be honest,
this is very much his whole family and what they've done,
(09:07):
it's very much so rico case. If we're gonna be
over honest, he's running a criminal empire. I'm feeling a
gun and experience. Somebody going to tell you, well, I
mean it's happened in his right hand man, Alan I
school were already flipped. Man was found guilty. So he's
just using you know, what's it called plausible deniability? This one, well,
(09:28):
his thing, weren't we have talked about this. Excuse my
smack and y'all We have spoken about this on numerous occasions,
about this man not being able to hold public office.
If he goes to jail, great if he doesn't, or whatever.
But to me, in fact, that he could never hold
a public office, to hold so much influence over the public,
to make them go the way he wanted them to
go for a very short period of time, which was
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what three or four years, which did a lot of damage.
Trump held all the cards. Trump held all the cards. Well, yeah,
I mean we know that. I think it's more so
he had I mean, if you think about it, Trump
used to be friends with the Clintons. You know, Trump
was like that guy that people wanted to have on
TV shows. He was on the First Prince of bel Air,
Like Trump used to be that guy. So because of
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his influence and all the people he was around, I
wouldn't be surprised if he had dirt on all these
politicians and celebrities. And I wouldn't be surprised because look
at who he was around. He conveniently changed parties when
he wanted to run for president because that was when
it worked best for him. But he was an infamous Democrat.
If we're gonna be honest, so very scary, very scary
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pay taxes. That is one people we don't mess with
is the I R S because they will come knocking
on your though, like Bobby Ball, Matt exactly. Oh okay,
well we got the tax form without the way. Listen
to the objectively. For Donald Trump to be found guilty
to what, he cannot run a whole public office because
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then we want to put that country. This is a
man who may Benedict Honor looked like a saint talking
about trading and treason. It's good God, and to kill
our home. Listen, those people died on January six on people.
Innocent people died because they believed in this narrative that
he pushed, told him he would be out there with
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them when he wasn't, told him he's gonna storm the
capital with them when she didn't, and to kill his
own vice president. I don't even know why we're having
a discussion about this, to be honest, storm, I hope.
But innocent people died. Do you mean people that showed
up to right, No, I mean some of the workers
that were there. Okay, yeah, I just you know, you know,
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someone didn't die on the scene, but they were so traumatized,
because this is what trauma traumatizing looks like. Not will
smap slapping Chris. This is what traumatized me looks like.
The people losing their lives. Um, some of them committed
so many of them committed suicide after the fact. Yeah,
the police officers and the folks that were there that. Yeah,
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so this is what I'm saying. They they they sometimes
the government lets to drag on and lag on for
so long that you forget the severity of what it
was because he didn't they do anything when they first happened.
So you know, it gets old to us and we'd
be like, oh, yeah, I remember that, and we all
say that we're all guilty of that because it does
not happen in the moment, just like it happens in
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the moment. We need to stop making it happen at last, Sona,
and then baby, things will change. Because fear worked for
us to become slaves, Fear worked for the Jews to
become enslaved. Fear has worked forever. Fear still works. But
some of these white men don't feel like they have
nothing to fear. They don't like to go to jail,
and they don't like for you to take away their trinkets,
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y'all take it too long to do it, sid they
as the jail within thirty days and take away their
house boats cause cash goodies. They're coming down. Well speaking
a fear too. Um. There was yet again another shooting
um in all of America. Um actually right before Christmas.
It was on Christmas Eve, and somebody was actually in
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the store with shopping and they actually just happened to
like be making a real about their shopping experience. And um,
they actually the video was recording in real time what
happened when the shots rang out in the mall. So
it's interesting what you're talking about trauma and these sort
of things. And we're still yet again dealing with, you know,
shootings happening in public places. And this is part of
the reason why what I've said on this show before,
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I don't like going to malls anymore. I don't like
doing that because they're just it's not safe. Yeah, speaking
of shopping, Lord, and this is completely off topic, but
I should have put it on that this morning. It's
gonna be a real brief. There's a huge upris and
smashing gramps and they're doing it in groups of organizations.
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So you probably right now they go to malls long
because you just be out with your girlfriends and y'all
shopping and and and ki ki and all of a
sudden full fact gas running something. It's not only guys.
It's scary, and they've running the stores and they break
the winds as they snatched up out And if you're
in the way, girl, you could be hurt, you could
be ran over, you could be possibly be put as
one of the suspects. Have you seen that, Yeah, I've
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definitely seen it. I've seen a couple of things regarding
that the smashing grabs are happening and also too, um,
how women are being um like trafficed these days too. Um.
Have you seen with like a little piece of like
it looks almost like tissue paper putting car doors that
it's like laced with Apparently you have some kind of
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substance on it, right yep, And it can basically incapacitate
you enough so that way you know, these kidnapper as
an opportunity to grab you. So it's just crazy times
that we're living in at this point, and I just
it's scary. Oh if somebody take one of my daughters.
I don't know what I'm gonna do because I ain't
got to Liam Neeson. Lia Neeson had all the skills.
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Remember the movie Taken. He went over there and he fought,
I'd be like, h I gotta I got about three
hundred dollars I send them back. Well, I've always said
I would be the worst, uh kidnap be ever. I'd
be screaming and everything else. I would be terrible. I'm
a wrong person to kidnapped. So, oh, no, are you
gonna get kidnapped? If they don't they have unless they
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had Chanelle blankets and Gucci pillow cases and stuff, because
you know you you would never high. So that's why
I wouldn't get kidnapped. I really I stay at my house.
I did not go outside. So but it's just scary
times that we're living in, and people really just have
to be safe because the scariest part about not just
not being hurt is that as an American citizen and
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a consumer, the prices are going up for us everywhere
because all of this ration of stealing, you know, it
makes the prices go up everywhere, and prices are very
high on everything. Well, really it's inflation to I think
inflation is a probably nine percent now so and this
is how things like you know, we talked about, you know,
recessions and those sort of things, you know, which Joe
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Biden is you know, the shortest that is not gonna happen.
But um, it's just we just avoided a government shutdown.
So like all of these little indicators of what's really
happening in the world right now. Um two, I think
so before we get off, before we get off the
subject of Joe Biden and get on over to President
Vice pressident coming him, I just want to take a
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segment sake. I think that Joe Biden has done a
pretty good job in his term. It looked bleak and
look up and down and look wishy washy. She didn't
think he was doing enough for us as a black people.
But overall, I think Joe Biden is doing all that
he can and more, in fact, more than what they
want him to do. And so maybe this might be
his only term. So he saved I'm gonna do it.
(16:45):
I'm gonna do it all the way. I appreciate him
for that. Yeah, I mean I'm not totally I would say, uh,
satisfied with everything. But I think that overall he's doing
what he can. Like even with no student loan debt,
He's tried and tried to get that you know, bill passed,
and it just keeps getting rejected and rejected. There's things
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that he's tried to implement that he's definitely been you know,
obstacles have been put in his path, but overall he
has done when he's when he was able to do,
I would think in terms of some of his promises.
So my main concern is just the fact that if
Trump isn't running as his a Republican opponent, I'm concerned
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if he's gonna get reelected. That's my main issue. So
let's go here. The weather and the Midwest and the
East coast and the South has been unbearable. I mean
the weather everywhere except for California. I'm trying to be
nice for you. He's a shady play man. I didn't
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say that, y'all. Lawrence said that I was trying to
be nice. But she's right everywhere from southern California because baby,
y'all have been taught a lot of people out there
that things that thirty seven people has obvious their lines.
But Air was telling it's York. Was in New York area, yeah, um,
New York. And then also to um, I saw some
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really uh crazy video just about how many pipes burst
throughout Atlanta, including the airport. Um. So it was just
really sad, like lntic small pipes bursts in different you know,
like apartment buildings that you know, I'm very familiar with,
being that I lived in Atlanta for four years. And
then also to see part of you know, Hartsfield just underwater,
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it was just a real scary sight to see. So
I'm just sending prayers. And it happened all on Christmas
Eve too, right before Christmas happened. So and as a
person who just experienced water damage too in their own
you know unit, um, I just send prayers out to
everybody because that's just it's a hassle, it's scary, and
it's truly just an annoyance. So the fact that so
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many people's pipes bursts during Christmas Eve is just really sad.
So but the disclaiming they did give out was for
you guys to let the water trickle. But like states
like Atlanta and places that's not set up in that
bitter code they used pipes that we use in Illinois
or in Minnesota. Uh, they probably used a different uh
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material that was not as strong, but they did tell you.
And even Aaron asked us about leaving the water drip
and that produced it, and we told him because those
pipes birth. So I've seen it happen in Chicago because
you I'm from Chicago, but they haven't had a bit
of code like this in Chicago and maybe fifteen years.
Well to just Atlanta is the city is not really
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I feel like equipped for co weather. I remember when
I was when I lived there. That's when like snow
Mgeddon happened where it's snowed in Atlanta and it hadn't
snowed in like twenty years, and the whole city shut
down because they just didn't know what to do. So
I feel like this was another version of this in
terms of the pipes first, and they really just didn't
know what to do because they've never experienced this in
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so long. So people were leaving their cars on the
freeway when I lived there, when you know, we had
had the first snow and however many years later, So
it was just it was crazy. It was like a week,
you know, it snowed for three days, but it messed
up the city for seven. So I just feel like
with the pipes verst thing was just another situation like
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that and they just really just weren't equipped to handle it.
So oh and people and most people who live in
Atlanta migrated there. A lot of them don't even wasn't
even boring and raging there. A lot of people migrated
to Atlanta, so they came from states where you know
how to drive in the snow, then they were pretty prepared.
But a lot of those people who don't and girl,
you know, people who cannot drive in a certain kind
(20:45):
of weapon and do more damage than good. See your
ass at home, please, Well, I drew, I drove in
the snow actually in Atlanta, and I think it's a
mixture to um because yeah, a lot of people did
migrate to Atlanta, but you'll be surprised who was really
who still lives there and was from Atlanta. But I
did that too. I drove in the snow when it
was the Snowmageddon happened, and it was a very interesting experience.
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I'm gonna say, I don't I'm like driving the snow.
So I didn't know you were supposed to follow, like
the not the tire tracks or you call them like
they're kind of pre outline on the road you're supposed
to drive. I didn't know all of that. So luckily
one of my really good friends was from Chicago actually
and explained to me how you I mean, you're born
(21:28):
and raised here, but you lived in You didn't live
in New York, but you spent a lot of time
in New York. You never drove in New York. No,
you don't drive while you're in New York. You take
the subway. Shoot, my mom was born and raised in Brooklyn.
She's a train rat. So when I go to New York,
I get on drain. No, I don't feel like that.
I mean, like, like, so say, if you weren't going
into the city, you just going maybe to the suburbs,
(21:49):
and you you all were driving near You never drove
in the snow there. I never went to the suburbs
of New York. Yeah, you know, we was in Brooklyn.
We take the train. So anywhere as you need to
go in the city, you take the train. So the
only time I take an uber when I get to
New York is to go from JFK to wherever I'm
staying hotel wise and then I'm on the train the
(22:09):
rest of the time i'm there. So yeah, No, my
mom was a train rite and she raised me to
be the same. So I don't get in cars and
driving New York. Nope. I don't like driving New York
and especially man hand because people walk over you. Old
people being hurried. That's young people being a hurried, the
sick people being a hurry. They're just walk in front
of your car and damned me to hit them. Please
don't dare me. Oh, I always feel oh my god,
(22:34):
it's a little scary driving in New York. I have
to say that I haven't done it before. But no,
mostly I get my butt on the trains to everybody
was affected in these states that was possibly homeless. I
hope that the show just had enough a lot of
heat and had enough beds and blankets because a lot
of states lost power, a lot of places lost power.
(22:57):
I think Texas was one of the states that was
really affected, like their power grid. Once again, I was affected.
So it's just global warming is real. Let's just say that.
And I just hope that everybody was being able to
stay safe and as warm as possible over this holiday
weekend because the temperatures are literally like so I saw
(23:19):
that in New York it was seven degrees Christmas Day
as a low high with seventeen. That's just that's a
different kind of cold. So I lived any baby, I
know it. That's why I live in in the mother
I pay the higher rate for the warmer weather. Listen,
I hear that for sure. Speaking but speaking of cold weather, Lawrence,
(23:41):
I was gonna say, speaking of cold weather in Texas,
UM Governor Greg Abbott, is that again? Is at it again?
Excuse me? And he recently just dropped off I think
a little over fifty migrants um in front of Vice
President Kamala Harris's house. Yeah, and the first two bus
loads is reported that those people only had on T
shirt and it was eighteen degrees. I just feel like
(24:05):
there's just got to be like a special place in
hell for people who do that. You know, people who
use their power literally for evil purposes to push their
own agenda. It's not because you care about you know,
your constituents, or your community at large, or the folks
that actually voted for you. You're just using your power
for personal ego and people in people's lives. The problem.
(24:29):
It makes you wonder is there a grand wizard hat
in hell? It's got to be something, because there's just
no way. And the crazy part is this man just
got re elected. He just got reelected after after you'valdi,
after all this vootage, just they still reelected him. And
(24:51):
this isn't the first time he's done this either. That's
the part that's crazy. This isn't the first time he's
done this, and he was still reelected. Texting doesn't exit
want to brexit? They can't, chip I didn't want to brexit,
like no, I think they do. I think, I think
I remember it was saying that they wanted to break
off them in Florida and be their own individual safe
(25:12):
from the Union. Their governors tried to do that. That
was a great abbot in Rohn de Santis thing, because
you know, Rhon de Santis, since you know we brought
up Florida, was responsible for basically helping get control back
of the House because he did some he read um,
he reasoned a lot of different districts in uh Florida
to turn them from being Republicans, to turn the team
(25:34):
from being a Democrats to Republican illegally, might I add? So, yeah,
that was something that the governors were touting. So the shooting,
they want to separate Texas. They could give it back
to Mexico, but anyway, that's another conversation, and then they're
gonna end up giving us back to you know, they
say California. Well anyway, that's what I was saying. Yeah. Anyways,
(25:57):
right past that, we're gonna sat all right, at least
I'll be done. So listen, Lauren, you know what what
hurts my feelings so bad is that you're right, y'all
put politics over people. Those people they had babies and
kids on there freezing, you know, and if they coming
(26:21):
from me, they're not used to that whether and then
they got on T shirts, you know, and y'all, and
with all that's going on in the world, we got flu, coronavirus,
what's the other ms V? What is it If those
kids could all be subject to all of that, you know,
and the adults, which means that if they catch it
and they're in this country and they're around somebody else,
(26:41):
it's a snowball effects. It's just gonna spread on around
until it hits us. Eventually they just don't care. You're right,
they just do not care. They don't care. Yeah, and
even you're talking about this whole what's calling the triple
pandemic between RSV, COVID, and the flu. Um, I think
the prediction is that over six d and fifty thou
(27:02):
people are gonna die. Then it would then be almost
at their quota. Because again I'm gonna say it again.
In eleven what was his name? Gates said that the
that the world was overly populated by three million people.
Did you say three yeah? Three million? Uh Na took one. Well,
(27:26):
apparently these numbers aren't shocking to folks, which I find
interesting because supposedly half a million people die from the
flu every year. Um. I still think those numbers are
kind of staggering. But with all that's going on between
these three viruses, uh yeah, it's scary. And again I've
had the flu and COVID and within a month of
each other, so I know how bad it is. So
(27:50):
the only two diseases I had at the same time
was consurance and rank. Those are new. I didn't know.
Those are diseases keep coming. They come, they come everywhere
every month, like they keep coming. I wish they had stopped.
Good god, m no, I hear you. Well, we do
(28:12):
have to make sure that we're not remiss, and we
have to say happy New Year to everybody that's listening.
Is officially here. It came very quickly, but um, I
hope that you know, brings in new blessings and opportunities
for everybody, and everybody goes into it with a positive
outlook on life. So we gotta stay Happy New Year
to everybody listening. Happy New Year, ladies and gentlemen. And
(28:35):
before y'all start setting up all of these, um, what
I'm gonna change and what I'm gonna do it, I
don't start on that day. You can try and start
it on that day, but to usually don't work start
you have to start like a week or early, two
weeks early. It's a mindset. It's in mind what is
my resolution for I'm gonna keep my mouth off things
(28:56):
that really are unemportant to me and keep on bringing
in dollars, because if I keep bringing and putting my
mouth on stuff that's unimportant to me, it's gonna keep
messing with my dollars. Y'all take the have y'all want to,
but don't ask, don't tell you. It's my policy. If
you don't ask me, I ain't got to say nothing.
And my new answers, that's my new answer, Laura claim,
how do you feel like? And keep it moving? I
(29:21):
like it's me catching myself. What look what? Yeah? Okay?
And keep walking. You can take to have you want
to take it that way? Well she didn't say. Oh,
he didn't say. And all they said was what, Yes,
that's gonna be the new mean what? Because I'm tired
(29:45):
of it. I'm over it. People too petrified to say
anything or do anything. But I do think, Lord, honestly,
after being out yesterday and listen to some of the
comics and just being caught up in this conversation because
it was such a beautiful thing to see Tiffany passing
Tiffany and Jamie Masada and so many comedies come through
and and helper celebrities too, to pass out food to
(30:05):
the to the unhoused. And everybody wasn't even a house.
This was if you were lonely on Christmas, if you
didn't cook, if you don't have family, anybody. They had
some big wigs there that just wanted to be around
people on Christmas that didn't have any family or nothing,
and they said the food was good. I didn't need anything.
I did taste the piece of the turkey, but I
didn't need anything. Girl. They had punkin pack right there,
(30:26):
and the day I knew I was done. Punker. What's
a punker? What's a punker? Well, you know I don't
eat sweep, so yeah, pies on the punk pa. I'm like, no, baby, sweeper,
take the path, not punka pass sweeping hay back. Girl,
I couldn't eat that. But the and the people who
were in line to listen, because I was the water person,
I was going out and standing up past our war.
(30:47):
You should have seen. I was a waiter and the
waitress at the same time. I was killing it. And
they were so friendly, and they was telling me their
life stories and just talking to me and and it
made me step outside of what I think I am
and who I am or what I want to be,
to realize that it is really some people out here
having a hard time. You know, we feel like we
(31:08):
have the hard time, we get hit with death or whatever,
but like we got someplace to lay out here, we
get someplace to call that safe haven. Girl. They had
their houses on their back, or they had their houses
in their carts. It was it kind of it kind
of made me a little more grateful. Let me just
say that, because that can be an ungrateful bitch. Did
I say that I allowed you did? But I feel like, um, no,
(31:33):
I agree. Whenever I see somebody that's homeless, or some
season nations at homeless susan, anybody that's in house or
you know, just less fortunate, um, it definitely makes me,
you know, take a second reflect and just be thankful for,
you know, the life that I've been allowed to live,
because despite how we may feel, things can always be worse. Always,
and that's what I always try to remember. Things can.
(31:54):
And there were couple there. It was a man husband
and white, white couple. They have four young kids. Nobody
could have been older than teen, but nobody was younger
than three. And they had two dogs. And they had
a station wagon, which is how they carted the kids
around in adult And I'm sitting there and I'm giving
them water. And the husband was such a pleasant man,
(32:16):
you could see the despair in his face. And he
asked me my name. I said, my name is Slaine.
And I asked his name. He said his name was Matt.
I said, how long have you guys been out here?
He said, they've been out there for a while. He said,
they've been trying to get a place. But here's the
here's the hiccup. He needs an I D in order
to get any kind of services. But in order to
get an I D, you have to have an address
(32:37):
against the mail to come to I'm like, well, why
don't they fix that? That is such a catch twenty two.
It's almost like we tell you what to do, but
we're making sure that you can't do it because you
don't have the resources to get it done. I thought
it was well that yeah, that's you have to emphasize
that point because it's no different from if you know,
somebody who's in the house is trying to seek a job,
(32:57):
but they don't have a place to take a shower.
So when you show up, you're not fresh or not groomed,
so you automatically get to clients. So there's almost like
the odds are automatically stacked against you because you were
on house, because you can't be presentable. There's just there's
so many layers to it. But you're right, when when
I get this job working for Mayor Karen Bass to
house the an housed trans community. Lauren, I'm gonna really
(33:19):
call on your assistance as not only as my partner,
but probably part of this team because she having me
put together a team and you know my motto, I'm
gonna show up, um because that needs to be something
that that needs a resolve. So whether they get them
a PO box or something, because like I have a
PO box and it's a physical address, it doesn't say
p O box. It really just the address and the
(33:42):
apartment number. What the apartment was actually the box number.
But people need to know that because then you'll be
able to say, you know, I got a place for
you to send me mail or send me literature. It
I thought, I was like, well, that sounds kind of
battling crazy to me. Why are they telling you to
do this? But then then that preventing you would have
placed to help you to do it. That that is
going to be the first one of the first reasons. Yeah,
(34:04):
well uh mary uh. Karen Bass has a large battle
in front of her regarding um men house in general. Um,
you know, californ really Los Angeles is the homelessness capital
in the country. So it's uh, there's a lot of
arms and legs to it. So that's what that's how
(34:26):
I go over tree. The other goal is that's why
I wanted less stress off of me and I want
to be happy. I don't want to worry about what
somebody else is doing. I'm not big on that anyway.
But I found myself in these last three months eyeballing
what somebody else was doing that I think that I
should be doing, but I'm not doing it for whatever reason.
I'm going to stop that. I'm gonna because what is
(34:48):
my motto, can't no bit to do what I do.
But I'm starting gonna stop monitoring somebody else's thing and
just do me whatever. Whatever ill wheels are harbors. I
feel like people are harboring against me. They don't like
me for this three of every reason that has that
is not my issue. That hain't got nothing to do
with me. I will keep doing Flaming Row and I'm
gonna do that bitch better next year. And I did
an issue. I love that, love it for sure. I
(35:14):
have to. I have one one goal I would like
for you, though you're gonna give me a goal, it
was just one from me to you, and it's with
all up. I want you to think one word for color. Okay,
(35:34):
I'm gonna need you to leave me and my favorite
color alone. But now stay out of black, y'all this
letty will Now, I'm like a little blue look gold
on like my signature color, and I will always wear it.
Can if we are. You want me to walk around
looking like a damn rainbow. I am not doing that. Okay,
(35:55):
I will continue to wear my faperite y'all see you
exactly what I was talking about what I said of her. Yeah,
you're wanna leave me on. You're want me to walk
around in purples and blues and yellows and reds. You
want me to look like a damn skin. No, No,
I'm not doing it. I think you Aaron. Happy New Years, Lauren?
What it? What is that saying? Fore, it's just our
(36:22):
saying is that here, laugh and learn. We're never trying
to get anybody to change your mind or something trying
to get you to use your mind because mind is
a terrible thing to waste. And we are upon the
precipents of we're on the precipice of a new year.
You're not gonna be a new you. But you can
be a better you. You can be a better version
of you. You're not going to be a new year.
You're gonna be a better version of what you were.
(36:42):
And if you want to make change, the only person
responsible doing that is you. That's it. Well, we appreciate
you guys as always. Yes, so let's go it off
this show. Thank you guys so much for joining us.
Happy three we had. We made it through two almost
and uh for those of us who made it unscathed
(37:03):
and unshaved and unhoused, don't don't live on that, don't
do all on it. Look for a better time next year,
because Lauren, next year I need you to bat me
a Lamborghini. I ain't got it. Don't work with driving.
You already know what that means, that wag. Don't miss
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