September 1, 2024 • 38 mins
Flame Monroe joined by Bobbi Clifford discuss the Kamala Harris interview, Trump's behavior, voter registration, the upcoming presidential debate, the economy, immigration policy, and student loan repayment, voting and staying engaged in the political process, the recent deaths in Mariah Carey's family and much more. Tune in and comment in the socials below.
Be sure to subscribe, rate and share.
Follow Laugh and Learn:
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Shoe.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
If you watch your coffee time the baby you know
the name Flame, my bro also known as my ro Flame,
come in with last and come in with me and
her love lond Baby. You better catch it when you
can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to politics, shouting now comics,
just paying homage.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What's up tips? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You know she raised shot Towns beacon to the grown
a second, we're gonna lad coming to kick it and
at the end we're leaving with just a lifted spirits.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Did you want to revisit?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So your first second listen, Jim Folks says lift, Oh Folking,
we think it good.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I know this.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Do what you do? I know this. Do what you do?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Nop this, do what I do?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Hi, hey, hey, this is comedian Flame Monroe and welcome
to this week's episode of Laugh and Learn. I think
this is what fourteen fifteen Bobby Clifford, Hello Bobby Clifford.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Hi, honey, Magical fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Magical fourteen. You know that's one of my favorite that
was that's my birthday. Hello Flamance and everybody out there
and Laugh and Learning. We want to thank you guys
for joining us. First of all, before we get this
show started. I just want to say thank you to
New York City Monday Night comedy in Harlem with Jamie
and Nikki, you guys came through. Thank you to Christine
Cougar and Young Teff, and to Smoky Schorez and to
(02:17):
my girl Harmonica, somebody who I'm so proud of and
getting back on stages all these years to do stand up.
And to the young lady I think her name was Sasha,
who hosted for us Tuesday Night at Saint Mark's Comedy Club,
New York. You know I love y'all to death, so
thank you for that. Secondly, we want to just before
we get into the show, the King of Pop. Today
(02:38):
is the King of Pop's birthday. Y'all know, Michael Jackson
was the greatest entertainer in the world for me, my opinion,
my page, my show. If you don't like it, I
don't care. He is the greatest entertainer of all time
for me. So happy birthday to Michael Jackson. Because today
it's his birthday. He would have been sixty five, I
think sixty six, So happy birthday to the King of Pop.
(02:59):
And I said that the weekend has been great. I'm
in Chicago, I'm making a speech Monday, and I'm here
for the Continental Patches System. And I had a good
week so far, and I might have some good news
for y'all next week. So just hold your horses and
tighten up your panties because it's coming down the lane.
How is your week, Bobby Clifford?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Why wasn't as exciting as that? But I love living
vicariously through you. But I'm okay whether it's beautiful, I'm live.
You know all that stuff sucking in air?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Ready? And look you registered to vote all of that? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Always, I'm always. I stay ready so I don't have
to get ready.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Bobby's getting more and more African American, y'all as this
show go on. I just want you all to know
Bobby is turning into a full on SI stole. I
just want you to know, be ready for it if
you show up next season. Her name is Kesha. We
just flipped the y'all, We flipped her. Thank you guys
for joining us here. Thank you to our producer, mister
Aaron Howard. Hey Aaron, where we go on, Bobby? Let's
(04:00):
kick it off. Let's kick it off of what happened today? Now?
Mind you? I didn't see it because I was in
the streets, but Bobby saw it. So let's talk about it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh, we're talking about the Are we talking about the interview?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh, so it's going It's probably over in four minutes.
So I thought the first half hour because we had
to get ready. We had got to get ready for this.
I thought that Dana the interviewer did She was doing
a great job. She was asking hard questions. I thought
that Kama was handling them. I'd like to have a
(04:35):
little bit more information some of the stuff that I
think that Dana is. She's actually doing our favor because
these are the questions everybody has. She's had Harris has
had hard hitting feelings about certain things, and she wants
to know why she's flipped. She doesn't want it to
be known as a flip flopper. So you've changed, and
(04:57):
you know what has changed and why has it changed.
So she got some of that stuff out, you know.
In one of the comments, Kamalas said that you know,
her values haven't changed, but opinions have. And then they
addressed in the part that I watched, I watched the
rest after this, they had asked Tim Walls about his
(05:17):
service record because he had said he'd held weapons of war.
But when we heard the full the full explanation, it
made sense. It was in response to a school shooting
that had come out, and basically what he was trying
to say is that he has held weapons of war
and there's no reason for them to be in schools.
People should not be able to get them so easy.
(05:39):
Either that you know, you're not shooting B and B
with an AK forty seven. He wasn't saying that he
went to war with them, because all of his service was,
you know, like when they have floods and earthquakes and
all that stuff. It was more here, I think in
the Americas where his service was. So I'll be interested
to see. They were just kind of warming up when
(06:00):
I when I dialed off, So I'll be interested to
see to see the rest. I'm glad they they're starting
with these interviews. Trump has been losing his bananas. She's
not a good interviewer. And if she can't interview, and
how does he know, he's never seen her interview before,
but he is he is losing it. On Monday, he
(06:22):
was he was at Arlington National Cemetery because that was
the third anniversary of the thirteen who were killed at
Abbey Gate over in Afghanistan when we're leaving, and he
and his team went in with cameras, which in you know,
the Pentagon says no, no, I don't know if it's
a hard fast law, but you know, it's just you
just don't do it. It's not a place for political coup.
(06:46):
But he went in. He had permission from the families
to take pictures of their kids' graves, and he went
in and he did one of these like thumbs up
in a big smile in front of the I. You know,
I thought he might look in deference or something else.
But it's a big hallaballoo that's going on right now.
(07:06):
I mean, I hope to god he doesn't wind up
with another indictment over something as heartless as this, But
he is. I don't know who's advising him, but Kitty
Correk did a whole write up if you want to
read it, it's she's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Who's ever advising him? It ain't like he's listening.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
That's what I'm you're exactly. I mean, who would do this?
But somebody has to put him in a car. You
couldn't put him in a car and pretend you were
you know, go to an old cemetery and down, pretend
you're out and out like wantn't take all the pictures
he wants. You know, this was just it was a
bad look. He's already calling veterans losers and whatever the
other expressions that he used. He's not so kind to them,
(07:45):
and I thought this was a little disgraceful and distasteful,
but he got his point across.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Well, if you guys don't like that, just to go
to the post and bothe the way you want to vote,
Just make sure that you are registered to vote, because
this is one of the topics that we're going to
talk about. I'm jumping right into it right now. In Texas,
they just reported that a million people's names were taken
off the ballots to vote that they were unregistered. I
don't know what they did on the internet, which is
(08:13):
why we are telling you make sure you go to
vote dot org. It takes less than two minutes to
make sure that you are on the list. Because the game,
if the game is on, the game is on, and
they are playing for the long play, they're playing for keeps.
We can't get frustrated, and we cannot turn our back
on them because a million people removed. We need those votes.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I bet we need I bet absolutely. It's going to
be down Honest to God, it's going to be like
they're hand counting them. It's the numbers I think are
going to be tiny in those swing states played, you know,
in all the states, you know all the areas that
we need. So when you say vote, and if you
don't vote, it's it's your foot. It's the truth, especially
if you're one of the battleground states, because they're they're
(08:57):
going to be close in the number I think, and
some of them. Biden only won by ten thousand. That
was the last time. It's going to be even closer.
It's going to be by you know, the hair on
your chinny chin chin And in my case, wait a minute,
many chance see it?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Wait a minute? Can you see the hair? Can you
can you see my hairs?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And I know y'all like, oh yeah, say this every week,
but we have to because we cannot get relaxed. We
thought that he'll we thought that Hillary won. It was
a shoe and it was not. You see how it
turned out. So yeah, you got to you gotta do it,
and he.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Got and dieted this week. Did you see that he
got he was he got reindicted, So we'll see how
that goes. Jack Smith. He changed and tweaked the paperwork
and the indictment to match up to what the Scotish
requirements were and put it back in. So well, I
don't know what's going to happen. We're certainly not going
(09:54):
to see anything happen before election day. But he just
wants them to be held accountable, whether he is, you know,
deemed innocent once once you know, they look at the information,
that's one thing, but he should at least be investigated
and then brought to bear. So that's what's going on.
That's what's good. He is, as I said, he's more nonsensical.
(10:15):
He's just off some.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You know, when Hillary Clinton came out at the DNC
last week, they gave her such a resounding round applause.
That was guilt. I think we have said that last week,
but that was guilt. And I want y'all to know, y'all,
y'all knew y'all messed up. Y'all When I say y'all,
y'all who listened to they tell y'all who Hillary was
or who Hillary was not, or whatever mistakes that she
(10:39):
made in her past or whatever y'all knew. Y'all messed up,
y'all put y'all put up, out of touch reality star,
out of touch with reality reality star in the highest
nation in the land. And he did just what he
was supposed to do. He corrupted everything.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yep, he did. He was supposed to shake things up,
and sweet Jesus, he certainly did shake things up, but
not in a good way. You know, it's always nice
to have somebody agitate a little bit, will be become
too complacent, but not in this way. You know, there's more,
there's more hate this more.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Trump has never been a regular person. He has never
been a regular person.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And I don't think he can identify God. He didn't
even speak to like his his nannies or his like
nobody like he he I don't know if he actually
knows the regular person. He's had a conversation. You know,
everybody's sort of been been in his bubble. You know,
if they don't have the money, they have the power.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Oh, I would want to be in his bubble. They
say he had gas in the courtroom, they'll think that
I want to be in his bubbles. I don't want
to get bubbly. I don't want to get bubbly up
in his bubbles.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No Dutch of them for you, Yeah no, but I wouldn't.
I just don't think he doesn't have it. He doesn't
have to be the man's man. So I'm really I'm
surprised that people think that he's he's for the little guy.
He the little guy to him is probably someone that
only makes you know, one billion a year. But anyway,
(12:15):
so he has been kind of, you know, a little
bit off as Rocker. We are nothing new there. The assassion,
assassination attempt is it's there. The committee that that it
was looking into it. They have gone to Pennsylvania that
will still they said, we're not going to know anything
till the fall what actually happened. They're still investigating that.
(12:36):
So he's got nothing new there. And I actually saw
his ear I don't even see that. It didn't even
have a scratch, God bless him. Maybe he did he
maybe he did grow a big, a big earback.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Maybe he's.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Suck God bless him. But I don't even see, well,
my god, I talk about things that I ought so
RFK we know back we spoke about that last week
on Friday. Now his daughter is coming out and saying
that he kind of whales head off. This guy is
he's cookie. So I don't know if that. I don't
(13:11):
know if him endorsing Trump is gonna help or hurt,
Like I don't know where I don't He didn't have
a lot of votes to begin with, but we just
talked about it that it's not gonna it's gonna come
down to small numbers. So I don't know if they
were Democrats that went with him that you know that
Joe is too old or well who who knows so well?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I think I think RFK juniors people will. I think
that he only had five percent according to the Post
is what they said, and seeing in MSNBC one of them, Yeah,
I think that a lot of people just did not
want to vote for Biden or Trump, and then they
don't want to vote for Trump or Kamala Harris. So
(13:56):
he was just to be able to say I actually voted,
but I just it's a different way. But now that
all his cheese is really starting to tell publicly that
they slatting off the cracker, he might turn a lot.
Either his voters will not vote or hopefully they will
vote for somebody else, you know, either one of them.
I'm not telling them which one. I would love to
(14:17):
get them all the votes on the Democratic.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Ticket, obviously, yeah, obviously.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I just I still want them to vote because I'm
glad of them. Might just throw the towel in and said,
we're just not going to vote, which is what we
don't want people to do, because we need you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
No, no, no, we want you. We absolutely talking about
she sliding off the cracker the debate. They were going
to keep the so I'm a little surprised with Kamala.
They were going to keep the rules that Biden had
already put in place where everybody is muted unless you
it's your turn to speak, and she doesn't want that.
(14:52):
Kamala Harris wants wants him to be untapped so people
can hear of these if he sounded nuts. So now
I don't know if this is gonna to be his
reason not to get involved in the end of the debate. Uh,
you know, I I can go either way.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Well, I keep telling y'all four minutes or more on
an open microphone, and he can help himself. He cannot
help himself. So that's that's probably a smart move.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It probably, but I just kind of I don't know.
I also want to hear what she has to say.
I want to see if she's fact checking him. I
want but I don't want him in the background whatever
he does, stocking or being crazy or you know. I'd
like to I'd like to actually hear what and I'd
like to hear what he says. I'd like to hear
him not answer.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'm sure. I'm sure she's going to poke the bear.
She's going to poke the uh dreamsicle bear. That's what.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Oh my god, a dreamsicle. I haven't seen one of
those since I was a little. Kodnays to sell them
on the on the ice cream truck. Yeah, So we'll
we'll see, We'll see what happens. I'll be interested to
see if they actually show. Jd Vance was out hocking
that they will not sign He does not believe that.
(16:08):
I was gonna say, Biden, honest to god, Trump, it
will sign off on three productive lights rights the federal bill.
But we'll see. Even though I'm sure that he thinks
that's the right thing to do. But I think he's losing.
I think he's losing the females, you know. I think
he's he's his numbers are waning in certain areas and
(16:28):
he's trying to figure out how to how to pick
them back up. I wouldn't necessarily believe what he's saying, though.
I think he's saying anything to try to get the vote.
But once he's in there, let's remember, people, you'll only
have to vote for him once.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I think the ropen dope of what the democratics have
finally pulled the rug from up under him, twist him.
Because when he thought he had it in a bag,
he was the most confident person in the world. But
now according to the polls and the media, and we
don't know, we still got a vote, you know, they
like he's slipping and he's losing. So it's not that
he's lose, just that he's losing, which he hates to lose,
(17:03):
according to everyone, and that he's losing to a woman,
which he hates to lose. But he loses into a
black woman, which is going to be a triple kick
in the ass because not lose and then lose a
woman and then lose to a black woman. Yeah, he
might ooh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No, I think he is because a lot of the
polls are coming out. I remember polls were only a
snapshut in time, depending who it's taking them. But some
of the numbers that are coming up as saying that
are saying that Harris has a fifty five percent chance
to beat him, and that might you know, he must
be in a panic because President Biden only had a
forty four percent chance, So that's going to be shaking him.
(17:41):
And that Nicole Shanahan was was rfk's partner, the VP,
and she's supporting the union between the two of them.
She used an expression, and I don't know what it means.
I'd love to hear someone explain it to me. She
said that they both have a desire to form a
coalition government. What in the world is a coalition government job?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Because he needed a job.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Because his wife just stopped her show. I kind of
imagine that they don't have a boodle in the bank,
you know, like that they he actually needs. I don't know,
it seems it seems absolutely crazy to me by coalition.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm like, having money and having something to do is
two different things.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Now, I guess you're right, but Kama was killing it
with the fundraising. She's got five hundred and forty million
since she launched Your Bed eighty two million at the
date DNC alone.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, did they talk about that at.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
The DNC at all? They did, they mention. I wouldn't think,
but I thought that was. I thought that was. That's
quite a bit of money and that's going to be
shaking him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And speaking of the DNC, a lot of people who
left the DNC, they're saying have tested positive of COVID.
If you were there and I was there, just take
you a test to go get a test if you
have any kind of respiratory problems. I had my mask
on when I was moving through, but I did not
have my mask on. We won once we got to
the box where we were. How many people in the
boxtone maybe like eight or nine.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
They're pretty good. Sounds like you weren't on each other.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh no, no, no, it was plenty in a room.
But it doesn't matter if you were in the building.
You know. It's just that COVID is still very prevalent.
They don't talk around as much on the news, but
they saying that it's on the rise. And Bobby pushes
packs Loavid all the time. They should give her a commercial.
So if you guys, if you guys could take that,
take that or whatever you need to do to protect
yourselves in your family because they and they also pushing
(19:40):
another vaccine.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Good people, Yeah, but only for some. They're starting with
the like the elderly, the elderly and the sickly. You know,
they're not saying it's necessarily this one's appropriate for everybody.
They don't need it because it's I'm not a scientist,
so I don't know, like it's it's helping people that
have that are missing and somethings, and a lot of
us aren't missing certain something, you know, whatever it is,
(20:04):
so we don't necessarily need it. So why put something
in your body that you don't need? It sounds like
sounds like my first marriage.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That was a that was a total joke right there, y'all.
I'm just gonna let it slide though. I'm just Bobby
opened up the door. But I'm just gonna let that
we rag because it was so dirty in my head.
I don't even want to repeat it. Why put something
in your body if you really don't need Oh that
was the double antionomy. But we're gonna go into the
next topic. Okay, let's go so.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Big surprises in Florida. They're saying that it actually could
almost become a swing state, that that Trump had a big,
big lead over Biden down there, but now with hars
that the the gap is narrowing, so that will kind
of be Oh could you imagine, Santan.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Why I f y I've been to Florida. They do
a lot of swinging. Oh you made a swing state.
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, that would be wonderful. That would
be wonderful.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
That Yep, absolutely, we already talked about it.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I told you, Bobby, I told you, and I told
everybody out there on there and learning. Even white folks
are sick of the chaos. We are sick of the
chaotic living. Racism ain't going nowhere. But all this, this
is this the vision. It's just it's nobody's being neighborly anymore.
It's ugly. We don't live. That's not what America is.
(21:24):
People still speak to each other.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, No, I don't, Yeah, I don't. I can't stand it.
I never realized. I don't know if it always It's
been ramped up since since Trump got into office, you know,
or people just feel free to say it, or is
he did he flip people or something. I just don't
remember ever having this. I never was afraid to talk
(21:48):
about politics. I never I never felt such division within
my family. I never decided I wasn't going to go
to a family or a friend event because of politics.
But I do now I think of who's the guest list?
So I don't know. The economy is back up, so
(22:08):
Wall Street is kind of straightening out, so that's kind
of like a positive yay. And the housing market, they
said are has a little bit of improvement. Now, remember
Kamala said that she was gonna give a twenty five
I don't know how she's going to do it. I
want to hear that part, but she was going to
give twenty five thousand new homeowners. But there's a recent
(22:29):
report said that there was a dire situation for owners
and renters, and things are sort of with the inflation
going down. It's almost down to two percent, which is
where they like to see it. That things are looking good.
We're going to get out that, they believe in the
month of September, we're going to have an interest rate drop,
(22:49):
which yay, because I have to buy a car, so
I'm looking for a drop.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yes, sing, and I got too much over here, drop
and I need everything to sit up.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I mean to do a handstand and Bobby.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I would like to see that, because as a single parent,
and I go to the grocery store often food is
I see the price ridiculous. I see the price and
I see it. I'm like, oh my god, wasn't this
just a couple of years ago. Four books? Now it's
seven books? You know, and I know you like, it's
only three more dollars. But if it's three dollars as
everything that you pay, that's expensive.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I would say when I do a full order for
my house, I would say, it's up at least thirty
to forty dollars from what I paid. And I understood it.
I didn't like it during during COVID, but I understood
it because there were supply chain issues getting the food
to you, getting guys to unloaded. So when you only
(23:48):
have two rolls of toilet paper, I'm going to use
that because that's all we ever talked about the whole COVID.
I understood that were more valuable, but there are no
issues anymore. All that stuff is resolved, so the price
should reflect maybe a slight increase, just like everybody gets
a slight increase with their wages every year. I understand that,
but not not the exactly like you said, not on
(24:10):
almost double price and it's stayed there. You know, there
is some price gougeon.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I think, I think I think they think they're trying
to make the money back from twenty twenty one. You're
not gonna get that money back from twenty twenty money
is gone.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Gave you money, yeah, and the government gave you money.
There were all sorts of programs during that time. So
now you're trying to double dips. So that that's not
I don't think that's that's so swell. Let's let's go
to my least favorite subjects, the judicial system. So a
federal judge in Texas paused Biden's immigration policy. Remember he
(24:47):
was putting something out. See, this is why you don't
do the executive ward because they just grab you. You
can do as many executive orders as you want, but
you know, all of a sudden, they start suing you.
He's put a pause on the protections given to spouses
of citizens. You know, like like, we'll say a spouse
as a Mexican, but the wife has she's either a
naturalized citizen or a citizen, and they're not giving those
(25:09):
protections anymore. So it wasn't just the federal judges. Texas
did it, but it was led by several GOP states.
So that's on pause. The other thing that's on pause
that brings a huge tear to my eye is Scotis
actually did not back or did not help the SAVE program,
which was President Biden's student loan repayment plan. And we
(25:33):
know he's been working on that since the minute that
he stepped into office. That was one of his initiatives
that he really wanted to do, just like President Obama
did Obamacare. That this was what he wanted to be
one of his claim to fans. And they they they're
not going to they're not going to take the block off.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
So oh yeah, and they shut that down. Scotis, ladies
and gentlemen, is the Supreme Court of the United States.
But yeah, they just they really are just really trying
to I don't like the way they're trying to tarnish
Joe's position as being the president of the United States.
But keep pushing Joe and keep fighting. And I know
(26:11):
a lot of people Bobby included, who really had taken
advantage of y'all being nicer with these student loans because
that program I did that that at Elbow been tot Elbow.
What was it called? I did for misclarity, but I
think it was called it was an organization that helps women.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I remember you saying, hey pay their taxes on their
student loans because sometimes the interest becomes more than the
actual loan.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
And that's the ones he was helping. So some people
are really so oh my god. There was one one,
I don't know if it was a senator or a
congressman that came out and said, well, you know, the
people don't want this. They want to pay their own
way anyway. Not when you have a loan that started
up we'll say twenty thousand, and now fifteen years later
(26:59):
it's thirty two thousand, that's not No. People are looking
for a little help, or the schools that scammed, or
you're you're a civil employee that that could be helped.
These are all things that were nurses and teachers. There
are also the positions that you know, they require big degrees,
which costs big money. But they're not going to make
(27:20):
big money and ps we need them. We need those
positions fuilled. So we'll see what happens at the end
of that. If he gets anything, anything completed, I mean,
he's doing his job. I say, just keep right right
right writing them the executive orders. Oh you know what's started.
We talked about this earlier today, the Paraalympic Games.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, yeah, and I love that. I love that they
are and now they are being there being shown worldwide.
You know they there was a time that there was
a time that it wasn't They had to grow, which
is why you know y'all handed me my aid. That's
when I talked about creating a lane for trans athletes.
But this just goes to show you that were hard
(28:05):
work and with time and patience and perseverance. Now it is.
It was not televiassed, nobody really paid attention. Now it's
about to be worldwide. This is what we could do
for the trans Olympics if they ever created. It might
start as small, but it'll get be. You start when
you started with your husband, he started small, you made
(28:26):
a get big.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I don't have to say that was true. I have
to say that was true. Yeah, no, I agree. I
think it's great. I think of you know, Schreiber back
in the sixties starting it in her backyard, I mean
in her own pool, you know, with like twenty people,
twenty eight volunteers and so many kids like and all
of a sudden, looking at now worldwide, there's millions and
(28:49):
millions and millions of people. But you are right, So
what I think in today's society, and not just with this,
with everything, especially the kids, they want everything immediately. We
all want everything where you know, we're like in an
instant McDonald's kind of culture. So, but you're right, if there,
if somebody puts it together. And I'm going to say
(29:10):
it again, I've said it before or on this and
I've said it to you and personal conversations, I think
the perfect person who holds exactly your opinions on all
of this is Caitlyn Jenner. And I do not know
why she doesn't pick up the ball and run, because
what a legacy that would be for her if she
got this started. She is an Olympian herself, she would
know exactly what the infrastructure, or at least know the
(29:31):
people to tap into to put the infrastructure in place
and to try to get it going. And you could
even start out with just the United States, you know,
each state represent instead of each country. And then if
it catches on here and people hear about it, I'm
sure that other countries would kind of want to tap in.
I think it's a great issue.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You say you think she should pick up the ball.
I think she's trying to get rid of her balls anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, she cut those off.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
The don't and we don't completely agree with everything because
sometimes she goes a little too extreme with that Republican
bullshit that she pushes.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Oh, just on this that it would be nice if
they had their own that's all.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
But she would be a good representative because she has
that experience. But I don't know, Bibby, she seems a
little too radical right now. I don't know what Kaitlin
is looking for. But I agree with you. We do
need somebody needs to be the spear head behind that
and really push that because it's time, it's pastime.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
No, I agree, Chill, I agree Youill so Yeah, Paralympics.
Good luck to all of the athletes. Oh something that
they probably don't have to worry about in France is
what's now virus. Doctor Fauci had it. We have here.
We had a town here in Massachusetts because of triple
(30:49):
LEI that is actually asking for a a curfew, you know,
a voluntary curfew because the mosquitoes are so bad, you know,
and of course we don't talk about. You know, there's
no global warming. It's too warm. You have to have
thirty days of below freezing temperatures to kill off the
the mosquitoes. We don't have that. We have a few
(31:11):
here and there now. But that was I'm like, oh
my god, I didn't think half of these diseases even
happened any longer.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Put on the voting it's a voting year. We talked
about this last earlier in the year. Every time it's
a voting year, either a new disease comes out or
old when some kind of way manages to find its
way out again, something that we thought that we had
gotten rid of and took vain vaccines for it just happened. Statistically,
(31:40):
if you look at that, every time that it is
a voting year, some kind of disease comes out. Why.
I don't know. I think it's meant to deter people
from going to the Poles. Honestly, well, they can keep.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
It over there. We went with a global warming. We
had a in the past week we've had Alaska had
a landslide, the Grand Canyons flooded, and then Iceland an
ice cave collapsed because of the warmth. It had an
American tourist inside. I mean, talk about scary, but there's
no global warming. Climate isn't a big deal. We're not
(32:13):
going to talk about climate. You know what I saw
that I thought was really interesting because we talk about
needing immigration reform and prison reform and police reform. I
I caught an article while I was researching topics today
about an Ohio prison that I thought it was worth
talking about. And they're doing fine dining. So they had
(32:37):
fifty or sixty citizens from the outside come. The prisoners
grew the food. They had a chef that was on
site that taught them how to cook, and they served
the food to the people. Isn't that interesting? They could
(32:57):
have learned skills.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
We all need to learn how to guard. But yeah,
that is a good one, Bobby, And they could save money.
But here's the thing that's.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Good food instead of swill.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'd like to know how much those prisoners get paid,
because the amount of money that you make in prisons
is beyond slave labor.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I'm sure they didn't make much. I mean, you're paying
you for your room and board, probably, but it got
you out of your out of your cell. You learn
some skills. You got to eat something that's that's delicious
and make something it's you know, it's I don't know.
I think it's sort of it's sort of positive.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, I agree, it is positive.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I thought, oh, and I'd love to they said they had.
It was the people were thrilled, like it was. Everybody
the prison was happy. The people who came in the
neighbors of the prison were happy. So I thought, oh,
I wish that's the type of reform. Those are the
kind of feel good, happy stories that we need. And
I hope they made a few dollars. But if they have.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
To, and I see the big picture in that, Bobby,
because you're right, they done. They could go work on
the arm when they get that, or they could decide
to you know, become a chef or work exactly. So
I see the big and I think that if you
have something to do positive in your life, whatever job,
it is or whatever you have to look forward to
(34:15):
that that makes you happy or enjoyable. You live longer,
and you live happier you do.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
And you know what did your grandmother always say? Idle
hands the you know, the devil's workshop. But it's the truth.
So if you're doing something positive and you have something
on the outside and a new group of friends maybe
to hang with. I don't know, I don't know how
all that works. I live in a bubble myself, but
it's not a Dutch chop them. I don't have gas.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Just say it, yes, ladies, and then I'm telling you
it is. We're not doing a long show today because
it's thirty. We want to get a show out and
it just has not been an overwhelmingly blowout in politics
this week. But hold your horses. Each and every week
it changes, and I'm sure something is coming down the
(35:03):
pipe now for next week. But what we want you
guys to know is that we appreciate you. Please continue
to send your ideas and send your stories and topics
to add laugh Aline podcast page, because Bobby gets it.
She will decipher it and pick and choose what she
wants to bring to the show. And we discuss it,
because this is a learning page and we don't just
(35:25):
teach you guys, we learn from you all. Because here
at laugh Aline, the motto has not changed and will
not change that. We are not trying to get you
to change your mind. We are only trying to get
you to use your mind.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Because why Bobby, Because a mind is a terrible thing
to waste in a vote. And can we give a
shout out in prayers to Mariah Carey for losing the
mom and the guy.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yes, how ironic was that about? So when I heard
the story, I thought that maybe they were in a
car accident or something because they were together. But they
just happened to both die on the same day.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Can you imagine? I think, because they haven't told us
why or how, but they Her comment was something like
she was so lucky to be able to be with
her mom, you know, during these days. So I'm guessing
the mother was sick. I'm guessing, and you know, we'll
hear the mother was eighty seven, so you know, Julliard
trained opera singer. So can you imagine that that voice
(36:19):
that's going away?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Anything about other than she was estranged from her sister Allison.
So I know nothing about that, so I feel terrible.
I have no idea. God bless it's gott to be
what a loss.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, praise to Mariah Carey and the family that he
is said. I hope that my Nick Kenny show cod
Game comes out soon. Speaking of mariak here because that's
her excellent shoe come out. And we still haven't gotten
a date, but I want you guys to know that
I will be at Dre's Comedy Club September the twentieth
through the twenty second, get your tickets. And I'm in
Chicago at the City Winery November the twenty second and
(36:52):
twenty third with Tiviney Habits. I got some other dates
coming up and I'm hoping to have some very great
news for you guys next week. Thank you guys for
joining us here at laugh a Learn. Please download laugh
a Learn on iHeart, under the Black Effect Network or Spotify, Apple, Amazon,
wherever you listen to your podcast and where can we
find you at.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Bobby Clifford, Oh God, I'm on Facebook at Bobby Clifford
and Clifford Bobby on Instagram and Bobby Clifford on TikTok.
Not that I wouldn't even know what to do with
a tech or a talk but down there if you
need me.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And I'm Flaming Moro on everything, and in the bathroom stall,
I'm Monroe flying. Oh hey, now, thank you guys for
doing us. We appreciate you, guys. We will see you
guys here next week for Laughing learn might have a
fantastic week. Vote blue, It'll save you peace. Don't miss
an episode of Laugh and Learn. Listen and subscribe on
the Black Effect Podcast Network, I Heart Radio app or
(37:43):
wherever you get your podcasts. Laugh and Learn Podcast is
a production of the Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartRadio.
Our ejective producer is Tippany Hattish. Our theme music is
by the one and only Chrissy Payne. Thank you guys,
this is Flaming Road. Don't forget to laugh. Listen and Learn,
Shoe.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
If you watch your coffee time the baby you know
the name Flame, my bro also known as my ro Flame,
come in with last and come in with me and
her love lond Baby. You better catch it when you
can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to politics, shouting now comics,
just paying homage.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What's up tips? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You know she raised shot Towns beacon to the grown
a second, we're gonna lad coming to kick it and
at the end we're leaving with just a lifted spirits.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Did you want to revisit?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So your first second listen, Jim Folks says lift, Oh Folking,
we think it good.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I know this.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Do what you do? I know this. Do what you do?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Nop this, do what I do?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Hi, hey, hey, this is comedian Flame Monroe and welcome
to this week's episode of Laugh and Learn. I think
this is what fourteen fifteen Bobby Clifford, Hello Bobby Clifford.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Hi, honey, Magical fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Magical fourteen. You know that's one of my favorite that
was that's my birthday. Hello Flamance and everybody out there
and Laugh and Learning. We want to thank you guys
for joining us. First of all, before we get this
show started. I just want to say thank you to
New York City Monday Night comedy in Harlem with Jamie
and Nikki, you guys came through. Thank you to Christine
Cougar and Young Teff, and to Smoky Schorez and to
(02:17):
my girl Harmonica, somebody who I'm so proud of and
getting back on stages all these years to do stand up.
And to the young lady I think her name was Sasha,
who hosted for us Tuesday Night at Saint Mark's Comedy Club,
New York. You know I love y'all to death, so
thank you for that. Secondly, we want to just before
we get into the show, the King of Pop. Today
(02:38):
is the King of Pop's birthday. Y'all know, Michael Jackson
was the greatest entertainer in the world for me, my opinion,
my page, my show. If you don't like it, I
don't care. He is the greatest entertainer of all time
for me. So happy birthday to Michael Jackson. Because today
it's his birthday. He would have been sixty five, I
think sixty six, So happy birthday to the King of Pop.
(02:59):
And I said that the weekend has been great. I'm
in Chicago, I'm making a speech Monday, and I'm here
for the Continental Patches System. And I had a good
week so far, and I might have some good news
for y'all next week. So just hold your horses and
tighten up your panties because it's coming down the lane.
How is your week, Bobby Clifford?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Why wasn't as exciting as that? But I love living
vicariously through you. But I'm okay whether it's beautiful, I'm live.
You know all that stuff sucking in air?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Ready? And look you registered to vote all of that? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Always, I'm always. I stay ready so I don't have
to get ready.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Bobby's getting more and more African American, y'all as this
show go on. I just want you all to know
Bobby is turning into a full on SI stole. I
just want you to know, be ready for it if
you show up next season. Her name is Kesha. We
just flipped the y'all, We flipped her. Thank you guys
for joining us here. Thank you to our producer, mister
Aaron Howard. Hey Aaron, where we go on, Bobby? Let's
(04:00):
kick it off. Let's kick it off of what happened today? Now?
Mind you? I didn't see it because I was in
the streets, but Bobby saw it. So let's talk about it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh, we're talking about the Are we talking about the interview?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh, so it's going It's probably over in four minutes.
So I thought the first half hour because we had
to get ready. We had got to get ready for this.
I thought that Dana the interviewer did She was doing
a great job. She was asking hard questions. I thought
that Kama was handling them. I'd like to have a
(04:35):
little bit more information some of the stuff that I
think that Dana is. She's actually doing our favor because
these are the questions everybody has. She's had Harris has
had hard hitting feelings about certain things, and she wants
to know why she's flipped. She doesn't want it to
be known as a flip flopper. So you've changed, and
(04:57):
you know what has changed and why has it changed.
So she got some of that stuff out, you know.
In one of the comments, Kamalas said that you know,
her values haven't changed, but opinions have. And then they
addressed in the part that I watched, I watched the
rest after this, they had asked Tim Walls about his
(05:17):
service record because he had said he'd held weapons of war.
But when we heard the full the full explanation, it
made sense. It was in response to a school shooting
that had come out, and basically what he was trying
to say is that he has held weapons of war
and there's no reason for them to be in schools.
People should not be able to get them so easy.
(05:39):
Either that you know, you're not shooting B and B
with an AK forty seven. He wasn't saying that he
went to war with them, because all of his service was,
you know, like when they have floods and earthquakes and
all that stuff. It was more here, I think in
the Americas where his service was. So I'll be interested
to see. They were just kind of warming up when
(06:00):
I when I dialed off, So I'll be interested to
see to see the rest. I'm glad they they're starting
with these interviews. Trump has been losing his bananas. She's
not a good interviewer. And if she can't interview, and
how does he know, he's never seen her interview before,
but he is he is losing it. On Monday, he
(06:22):
was he was at Arlington National Cemetery because that was
the third anniversary of the thirteen who were killed at
Abbey Gate over in Afghanistan when we're leaving, and he
and his team went in with cameras, which in you know,
the Pentagon says no, no, I don't know if it's
a hard fast law, but you know, it's just you
just don't do it. It's not a place for political coup.
(06:46):
But he went in. He had permission from the families
to take pictures of their kids' graves, and he went
in and he did one of these like thumbs up
in a big smile in front of the I. You know,
I thought he might look in deference or something else.
But it's a big hallaballoo that's going on right now.
(07:06):
I mean, I hope to god he doesn't wind up
with another indictment over something as heartless as this, But
he is. I don't know who's advising him, but Kitty
Correk did a whole write up if you want to
read it, it's she's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Who's ever advising him? It ain't like he's listening.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
That's what I'm you're exactly. I mean, who would do this?
But somebody has to put him in a car. You
couldn't put him in a car and pretend you were
you know, go to an old cemetery and down, pretend
you're out and out like wantn't take all the pictures
he wants. You know, this was just it was a
bad look. He's already calling veterans losers and whatever the
other expressions that he used. He's not so kind to them,
(07:45):
and I thought this was a little disgraceful and distasteful,
but he got his point across.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Well, if you guys don't like that, just to go
to the post and bothe the way you want to vote,
Just make sure that you are registered to vote, because
this is one of the topics that we're going to
talk about. I'm jumping right into it right now. In Texas,
they just reported that a million people's names were taken
off the ballots to vote that they were unregistered. I
don't know what they did on the internet, which is
(08:13):
why we are telling you make sure you go to
vote dot org. It takes less than two minutes to
make sure that you are on the list. Because the game,
if the game is on, the game is on, and
they are playing for the long play, they're playing for keeps.
We can't get frustrated, and we cannot turn our back
on them because a million people removed. We need those votes.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I bet we need I bet absolutely. It's going to
be down Honest to God, it's going to be like
they're hand counting them. It's the numbers I think are
going to be tiny in those swing states played, you know,
in all the states, you know all the areas that
we need. So when you say vote, and if you
don't vote, it's it's your foot. It's the truth, especially
if you're one of the battleground states, because they're they're
(08:57):
going to be close in the number I think, and
some of them. Biden only won by ten thousand. That
was the last time. It's going to be even closer.
It's going to be by you know, the hair on
your chinny chin chin And in my case, wait a minute,
many chance see it?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Wait a minute? Can you see the hair? Can you
can you see my hairs?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And I know y'all like, oh yeah, say this every week,
but we have to because we cannot get relaxed. We
thought that he'll we thought that Hillary won. It was
a shoe and it was not. You see how it
turned out. So yeah, you got to you gotta do it,
and he.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Got and dieted this week. Did you see that he
got he was he got reindicted, So we'll see how
that goes. Jack Smith. He changed and tweaked the paperwork
and the indictment to match up to what the Scotish
requirements were and put it back in. So well, I
don't know what's going to happen. We're certainly not going
(09:54):
to see anything happen before election day. But he just
wants them to be held accountable, whether he is, you know,
deemed innocent once once you know, they look at the information,
that's one thing, but he should at least be investigated
and then brought to bear. So that's what's going on.
That's what's good. He is, as I said, he's more nonsensical.
(10:15):
He's just off some.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You know, when Hillary Clinton came out at the DNC
last week, they gave her such a resounding round applause.
That was guilt. I think we have said that last week,
but that was guilt. And I want y'all to know, y'all,
y'all knew y'all messed up. Y'all When I say y'all,
y'all who listened to they tell y'all who Hillary was
or who Hillary was not, or whatever mistakes that she
(10:39):
made in her past or whatever y'all knew. Y'all messed up,
y'all put y'all put up, out of touch reality star,
out of touch with reality reality star in the highest
nation in the land. And he did just what he
was supposed to do. He corrupted everything.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yep, he did. He was supposed to shake things up,
and sweet Jesus, he certainly did shake things up, but
not in a good way. You know, it's always nice
to have somebody agitate a little bit, will be become
too complacent, but not in this way. You know, there's more,
there's more hate this more.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Trump has never been a regular person. He has never
been a regular person.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And I don't think he can identify God. He didn't
even speak to like his his nannies or his like
nobody like he he I don't know if he actually
knows the regular person. He's had a conversation. You know,
everybody's sort of been been in his bubble. You know,
if they don't have the money, they have the power.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Oh, I would want to be in his bubble. They
say he had gas in the courtroom, they'll think that
I want to be in his bubbles. I don't want
to get bubbly. I don't want to get bubbly up
in his bubbles.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No Dutch of them for you, Yeah no, but I wouldn't.
I just don't think he doesn't have it. He doesn't
have to be the man's man. So I'm really I'm
surprised that people think that he's he's for the little guy.
He the little guy to him is probably someone that
only makes you know, one billion a year. But anyway,
(12:15):
so he has been kind of, you know, a little
bit off as Rocker. We are nothing new there. The assassion,
assassination attempt is it's there. The committee that that it
was looking into it. They have gone to Pennsylvania that
will still they said, we're not going to know anything
till the fall what actually happened. They're still investigating that.
(12:36):
So he's got nothing new there. And I actually saw
his ear I don't even see that. It didn't even
have a scratch, God bless him. Maybe he did he
maybe he did grow a big, a big earback.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Maybe he's.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Suck God bless him. But I don't even see, well,
my god, I talk about things that I ought so
RFK we know back we spoke about that last week
on Friday. Now his daughter is coming out and saying
that he kind of whales head off. This guy is
he's cookie. So I don't know if that. I don't
(13:11):
know if him endorsing Trump is gonna help or hurt,
Like I don't know where I don't He didn't have
a lot of votes to begin with, but we just
talked about it that it's not gonna it's gonna come
down to small numbers. So I don't know if they
were Democrats that went with him that you know that
Joe is too old or well who who knows so well?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I think I think RFK juniors people will. I think
that he only had five percent according to the Post
is what they said, and seeing in MSNBC one of them, Yeah,
I think that a lot of people just did not
want to vote for Biden or Trump, and then they
don't want to vote for Trump or Kamala Harris. So
(13:56):
he was just to be able to say I actually voted,
but I just it's a different way. But now that
all his cheese is really starting to tell publicly that
they slatting off the cracker, he might turn a lot.
Either his voters will not vote or hopefully they will
vote for somebody else, you know, either one of them.
I'm not telling them which one. I would love to
(14:17):
get them all the votes on the Democratic.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Ticket, obviously, yeah, obviously.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I just I still want them to vote because I'm
glad of them. Might just throw the towel in and said,
we're just not going to vote, which is what we
don't want people to do, because we need you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
No, no, no, we want you. We absolutely talking about
she sliding off the cracker the debate. They were going
to keep the so I'm a little surprised with Kamala.
They were going to keep the rules that Biden had
already put in place where everybody is muted unless you
it's your turn to speak, and she doesn't want that.
(14:52):
Kamala Harris wants wants him to be untapped so people
can hear of these if he sounded nuts. So now
I don't know if this is gonna to be his
reason not to get involved in the end of the debate. Uh,
you know, I I can go either way.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Well, I keep telling y'all four minutes or more on
an open microphone, and he can help himself. He cannot
help himself. So that's that's probably a smart move.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It probably, but I just kind of I don't know.
I also want to hear what she has to say.
I want to see if she's fact checking him. I
want but I don't want him in the background whatever
he does, stocking or being crazy or you know. I'd
like to I'd like to actually hear what and I'd
like to hear what he says. I'd like to hear
him not answer.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'm sure. I'm sure she's going to poke the bear.
She's going to poke the uh dreamsicle bear. That's what.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Oh my god, a dreamsicle. I haven't seen one of
those since I was a little. Kodnays to sell them
on the on the ice cream truck. Yeah, So we'll
we'll see, We'll see what happens. I'll be interested to
see if they actually show. Jd Vance was out hocking
that they will not sign He does not believe that.
(16:08):
I was gonna say, Biden, honest to god, Trump, it
will sign off on three productive lights rights the federal bill.
But we'll see. Even though I'm sure that he thinks
that's the right thing to do. But I think he's losing.
I think he's losing the females, you know. I think
he's he's his numbers are waning in certain areas and
(16:28):
he's trying to figure out how to how to pick
them back up. I wouldn't necessarily believe what he's saying, though.
I think he's saying anything to try to get the vote.
But once he's in there, let's remember, people, you'll only
have to vote for him once.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I think the ropen dope of what the democratics have
finally pulled the rug from up under him, twist him.
Because when he thought he had it in a bag,
he was the most confident person in the world. But
now according to the polls and the media, and we
don't know, we still got a vote, you know, they
like he's slipping and he's losing. So it's not that
he's lose, just that he's losing, which he hates to lose,
(17:03):
according to everyone, and that he's losing to a woman,
which he hates to lose. But he loses into a
black woman, which is going to be a triple kick
in the ass because not lose and then lose a
woman and then lose to a black woman. Yeah, he
might ooh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No, I think he is because a lot of the
polls are coming out. I remember polls were only a
snapshut in time, depending who it's taking them. But some
of the numbers that are coming up as saying that
are saying that Harris has a fifty five percent chance
to beat him, and that might you know, he must
be in a panic because President Biden only had a
forty four percent chance, So that's going to be shaking him.
(17:41):
And that Nicole Shanahan was was rfk's partner, the VP,
and she's supporting the union between the two of them.
She used an expression, and I don't know what it means.
I'd love to hear someone explain it to me. She
said that they both have a desire to form a
coalition government. What in the world is a coalition government job?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Because he needed a job.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Because his wife just stopped her show. I kind of
imagine that they don't have a boodle in the bank,
you know, like that they he actually needs. I don't know,
it seems it seems absolutely crazy to me by coalition.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm like, having money and having something to do is
two different things.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Now, I guess you're right, but Kama was killing it
with the fundraising. She's got five hundred and forty million
since she launched Your Bed eighty two million at the
date DNC alone.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, did they talk about that at.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
The DNC at all? They did, they mention. I wouldn't think,
but I thought that was. I thought that was. That's
quite a bit of money and that's going to be
shaking him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And speaking of the DNC, a lot of people who
left the DNC, they're saying have tested positive of COVID.
If you were there and I was there, just take
you a test to go get a test if you
have any kind of respiratory problems. I had my mask
on when I was moving through, but I did not
have my mask on. We won once we got to
the box where we were. How many people in the
boxtone maybe like eight or nine.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
They're pretty good. Sounds like you weren't on each other.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh no, no, no, it was plenty in a room.
But it doesn't matter if you were in the building.
You know. It's just that COVID is still very prevalent.
They don't talk around as much on the news, but
they saying that it's on the rise. And Bobby pushes
packs Loavid all the time. They should give her a commercial.
So if you guys, if you guys could take that,
take that or whatever you need to do to protect
yourselves in your family because they and they also pushing
(19:40):
another vaccine.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Good people, Yeah, but only for some. They're starting with
the like the elderly, the elderly and the sickly. You know,
they're not saying it's necessarily this one's appropriate for everybody.
They don't need it because it's I'm not a scientist,
so I don't know, like it's it's helping people that
have that are missing and somethings, and a lot of
us aren't missing certain something, you know, whatever it is,
(20:04):
so we don't necessarily need it. So why put something
in your body that you don't need? It sounds like
sounds like my first marriage.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That was a that was a total joke right there, y'all.
I'm just gonna let it slide though. I'm just Bobby
opened up the door. But I'm just gonna let that
we rag because it was so dirty in my head.
I don't even want to repeat it. Why put something
in your body if you really don't need Oh that
was the double antionomy. But we're gonna go into the
next topic. Okay, let's go so.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Big surprises in Florida. They're saying that it actually could
almost become a swing state, that that Trump had a big,
big lead over Biden down there, but now with hars
that the the gap is narrowing, so that will kind
of be Oh could you imagine, Santan.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Why I f y I've been to Florida. They do
a lot of swinging. Oh you made a swing state.
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, that would be wonderful. That would
be wonderful.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
That Yep, absolutely, we already talked about it.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I told you, Bobby, I told you, and I told
everybody out there on there and learning. Even white folks
are sick of the chaos. We are sick of the
chaotic living. Racism ain't going nowhere. But all this, this
is this the vision. It's just it's nobody's being neighborly anymore.
It's ugly. We don't live. That's not what America is.
(21:24):
People still speak to each other.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, No, I don't, Yeah, I don't. I can't stand it.
I never realized. I don't know if it always It's
been ramped up since since Trump got into office, you know,
or people just feel free to say it, or is
he did he flip people or something. I just don't
remember ever having this. I never was afraid to talk
(21:48):
about politics. I never I never felt such division within
my family. I never decided I wasn't going to go
to a family or a friend event because of politics.
But I do now I think of who's the guest list?
So I don't know. The economy is back up, so
(22:08):
Wall Street is kind of straightening out, so that's kind
of like a positive yay. And the housing market, they
said are has a little bit of improvement. Now, remember
Kamala said that she was gonna give a twenty five
I don't know how she's going to do it. I
want to hear that part, but she was going to
give twenty five thousand new homeowners. But there's a recent
(22:29):
report said that there was a dire situation for owners
and renters, and things are sort of with the inflation
going down. It's almost down to two percent, which is
where they like to see it. That things are looking good.
We're going to get out that, they believe in the
month of September, we're going to have an interest rate drop,
(22:49):
which yay, because I have to buy a car, so
I'm looking for a drop.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yes, sing, and I got too much over here, drop
and I need everything to sit up.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I mean to do a handstand and Bobby.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I would like to see that, because as a single parent,
and I go to the grocery store often food is
I see the price ridiculous. I see the price and
I see it. I'm like, oh my god, wasn't this
just a couple of years ago. Four books? Now it's
seven books? You know, and I know you like, it's
only three more dollars. But if it's three dollars as
everything that you pay, that's expensive.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I would say when I do a full order for
my house, I would say, it's up at least thirty
to forty dollars from what I paid. And I understood it.
I didn't like it during during COVID, but I understood
it because there were supply chain issues getting the food
to you, getting guys to unloaded. So when you only
(23:48):
have two rolls of toilet paper, I'm going to use
that because that's all we ever talked about the whole COVID.
I understood that were more valuable, but there are no
issues anymore. All that stuff is resolved, so the price
should reflect maybe a slight increase, just like everybody gets
a slight increase with their wages every year. I understand that,
but not not the exactly like you said, not on
(24:10):
almost double price and it's stayed there. You know, there
is some price gougeon.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I think, I think I think they think they're trying
to make the money back from twenty twenty one. You're
not gonna get that money back from twenty twenty money
is gone.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Gave you money, yeah, and the government gave you money.
There were all sorts of programs during that time. So
now you're trying to double dips. So that that's not
I don't think that's that's so swell. Let's let's go
to my least favorite subjects, the judicial system. So a
federal judge in Texas paused Biden's immigration policy. Remember he
(24:47):
was putting something out. See, this is why you don't
do the executive ward because they just grab you. You
can do as many executive orders as you want, but
you know, all of a sudden, they start suing you.
He's put a pause on the protections given to spouses
of citizens. You know, like like, we'll say a spouse
as a Mexican, but the wife has she's either a
naturalized citizen or a citizen, and they're not giving those
(25:09):
protections anymore. So it wasn't just the federal judges. Texas
did it, but it was led by several GOP states.
So that's on pause. The other thing that's on pause
that brings a huge tear to my eye is Scotis
actually did not back or did not help the SAVE program,
which was President Biden's student loan repayment plan. And we
(25:33):
know he's been working on that since the minute that
he stepped into office. That was one of his initiatives
that he really wanted to do, just like President Obama
did Obamacare. That this was what he wanted to be
one of his claim to fans. And they they they're
not going to they're not going to take the block off.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
So oh yeah, and they shut that down. Scotis, ladies
and gentlemen, is the Supreme Court of the United States.
But yeah, they just they really are just really trying
to I don't like the way they're trying to tarnish
Joe's position as being the president of the United States.
But keep pushing Joe and keep fighting. And I know
(26:11):
a lot of people Bobby included, who really had taken
advantage of y'all being nicer with these student loans because
that program I did that that at Elbow been tot Elbow.
What was it called? I did for misclarity, but I
think it was called it was an organization that helps women.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I remember you saying, hey pay their taxes on their
student loans because sometimes the interest becomes more than the
actual loan.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
And that's the ones he was helping. So some people
are really so oh my god. There was one one,
I don't know if it was a senator or a
congressman that came out and said, well, you know, the
people don't want this. They want to pay their own
way anyway. Not when you have a loan that started
up we'll say twenty thousand, and now fifteen years later
(26:59):
it's thirty two thousand, that's not No. People are looking
for a little help, or the schools that scammed, or
you're you're a civil employee that that could be helped.
These are all things that were nurses and teachers. There
are also the positions that you know, they require big degrees,
which costs big money. But they're not going to make
(27:20):
big money and ps we need them. We need those
positions fuilled. So we'll see what happens at the end
of that. If he gets anything, anything completed, I mean,
he's doing his job. I say, just keep right right
right writing them the executive orders. Oh you know what's started.
We talked about this earlier today, the Paraalympic Games.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, yeah, and I love that. I love that they
are and now they are being there being shown worldwide.
You know they there was a time that there was
a time that it wasn't They had to grow, which
is why you know y'all handed me my aid. That's
when I talked about creating a lane for trans athletes.
But this just goes to show you that were hard
(28:05):
work and with time and patience and perseverance. Now it is.
It was not televiassed, nobody really paid attention. Now it's
about to be worldwide. This is what we could do
for the trans Olympics if they ever created. It might
start as small, but it'll get be. You start when
you started with your husband, he started small, you made
(28:26):
a get big.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I don't have to say that was true. I have
to say that was true. Yeah, no, I agree. I
think it's great. I think of you know, Schreiber back
in the sixties starting it in her backyard, I mean
in her own pool, you know, with like twenty people,
twenty eight volunteers and so many kids like and all
of a sudden, looking at now worldwide, there's millions and
(28:49):
millions and millions of people. But you are right, So
what I think in today's society, and not just with this,
with everything, especially the kids, they want everything immediately. We
all want everything where you know, we're like in an
instant McDonald's kind of culture. So, but you're right, if there,
if somebody puts it together. And I'm going to say
(29:10):
it again, I've said it before or on this and
I've said it to you and personal conversations, I think
the perfect person who holds exactly your opinions on all
of this is Caitlyn Jenner. And I do not know
why she doesn't pick up the ball and run, because
what a legacy that would be for her if she
got this started. She is an Olympian herself, she would
know exactly what the infrastructure, or at least know the
(29:31):
people to tap into to put the infrastructure in place
and to try to get it going. And you could
even start out with just the United States, you know,
each state represent instead of each country. And then if
it catches on here and people hear about it, I'm
sure that other countries would kind of want to tap in.
I think it's a great issue.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You say you think she should pick up the ball.
I think she's trying to get rid of her balls anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, she cut those off.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
The don't and we don't completely agree with everything because
sometimes she goes a little too extreme with that Republican
bullshit that she pushes.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Oh, just on this that it would be nice if
they had their own that's all.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
But she would be a good representative because she has
that experience. But I don't know, Bibby, she seems a
little too radical right now. I don't know what Kaitlin
is looking for. But I agree with you. We do
need somebody needs to be the spear head behind that
and really push that because it's time, it's pastime.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
No, I agree, Chill, I agree Youill so Yeah, Paralympics.
Good luck to all of the athletes. Oh something that
they probably don't have to worry about in France is
what's now virus. Doctor Fauci had it. We have here.
We had a town here in Massachusetts because of triple
(30:49):
LEI that is actually asking for a a curfew, you know,
a voluntary curfew because the mosquitoes are so bad, you know,
and of course we don't talk about. You know, there's
no global warming. It's too warm. You have to have
thirty days of below freezing temperatures to kill off the
the mosquitoes. We don't have that. We have a few
(31:11):
here and there now. But that was I'm like, oh
my god, I didn't think half of these diseases even
happened any longer.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Put on the voting it's a voting year. We talked
about this last earlier in the year. Every time it's
a voting year, either a new disease comes out or
old when some kind of way manages to find its
way out again, something that we thought that we had
gotten rid of and took vain vaccines for it just happened. Statistically,
(31:40):
if you look at that, every time that it is
a voting year, some kind of disease comes out. Why.
I don't know. I think it's meant to deter people
from going to the Poles. Honestly, well, they can keep.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
It over there. We went with a global warming. We
had a in the past week we've had Alaska had
a landslide, the Grand Canyons flooded, and then Iceland an
ice cave collapsed because of the warmth. It had an
American tourist inside. I mean, talk about scary, but there's
no global warming. Climate isn't a big deal. We're not
(32:13):
going to talk about climate. You know what I saw
that I thought was really interesting because we talk about
needing immigration reform and prison reform and police reform. I
I caught an article while I was researching topics today
about an Ohio prison that I thought it was worth
talking about. And they're doing fine dining. So they had
(32:37):
fifty or sixty citizens from the outside come. The prisoners
grew the food. They had a chef that was on
site that taught them how to cook, and they served
the food to the people. Isn't that interesting? They could
(32:57):
have learned skills.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
We all need to learn how to guard. But yeah,
that is a good one, Bobby, And they could save money.
But here's the thing that's.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Good food instead of swill.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'd like to know how much those prisoners get paid,
because the amount of money that you make in prisons
is beyond slave labor.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I'm sure they didn't make much. I mean, you're paying
you for your room and board, probably, but it got
you out of your out of your cell. You learn
some skills. You got to eat something that's that's delicious
and make something it's you know, it's I don't know.
I think it's sort of it's sort of positive.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, I agree, it is positive.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I thought, oh, and I'd love to they said they had.
It was the people were thrilled, like it was. Everybody
the prison was happy. The people who came in the
neighbors of the prison were happy. So I thought, oh,
I wish that's the type of reform. Those are the
kind of feel good, happy stories that we need. And
I hope they made a few dollars. But if they have.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
To, and I see the big picture in that, Bobby,
because you're right, they done. They could go work on
the arm when they get that, or they could decide
to you know, become a chef or work exactly. So
I see the big and I think that if you
have something to do positive in your life, whatever job,
it is or whatever you have to look forward to
(34:15):
that that makes you happy or enjoyable. You live longer,
and you live happier you do.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
And you know what did your grandmother always say? Idle
hands the you know, the devil's workshop. But it's the truth.
So if you're doing something positive and you have something
on the outside and a new group of friends maybe
to hang with. I don't know, I don't know how
all that works. I live in a bubble myself, but
it's not a Dutch chop them. I don't have gas.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Just say it, yes, ladies, and then I'm telling you
it is. We're not doing a long show today because
it's thirty. We want to get a show out and
it just has not been an overwhelmingly blowout in politics
this week. But hold your horses. Each and every week
it changes, and I'm sure something is coming down the
(35:03):
pipe now for next week. But what we want you
guys to know is that we appreciate you. Please continue
to send your ideas and send your stories and topics
to add laugh Aline podcast page, because Bobby gets it.
She will decipher it and pick and choose what she
wants to bring to the show. And we discuss it,
because this is a learning page and we don't just
(35:25):
teach you guys, we learn from you all. Because here
at laugh Aline, the motto has not changed and will
not change that. We are not trying to get you
to change your mind. We are only trying to get
you to use your mind.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Because why Bobby, Because a mind is a terrible thing
to waste in a vote. And can we give a
shout out in prayers to Mariah Carey for losing the
mom and the guy.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yes, how ironic was that about? So when I heard
the story, I thought that maybe they were in a
car accident or something because they were together. But they
just happened to both die on the same day.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Can you imagine? I think, because they haven't told us
why or how, but they Her comment was something like
she was so lucky to be able to be with
her mom, you know, during these days. So I'm guessing
the mother was sick. I'm guessing, and you know, we'll
hear the mother was eighty seven, so you know, Julliard
trained opera singer. So can you imagine that that voice
(36:19):
that's going away?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Anything about other than she was estranged from her sister Allison.
So I know nothing about that, so I feel terrible.
I have no idea. God bless it's gott to be
what a loss.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, praise to Mariah Carey and the family that he
is said. I hope that my Nick Kenny show cod
Game comes out soon. Speaking of mariak here because that's
her excellent shoe come out. And we still haven't gotten
a date, but I want you guys to know that
I will be at Dre's Comedy Club September the twentieth
through the twenty second, get your tickets. And I'm in
Chicago at the City Winery November the twenty second and
(36:52):
twenty third with Tiviney Habits. I got some other dates
coming up and I'm hoping to have some very great
news for you guys next week. Thank you guys for
joining us here at laugh a Learn. Please download laugh
a Learn on iHeart, under the Black Effect Network or Spotify, Apple, Amazon,
wherever you listen to your podcast and where can we
find you at.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Bobby Clifford, Oh God, I'm on Facebook at Bobby Clifford
and Clifford Bobby on Instagram and Bobby Clifford on TikTok.
Not that I wouldn't even know what to do with
a tech or a talk but down there if you
need me.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And I'm Flaming Moro on everything, and in the bathroom stall,
I'm Monroe flying. Oh hey, now, thank you guys for
doing us. We appreciate you, guys. We will see you
guys here next week for Laughing learn might have a
fantastic week. Vote blue, It'll save you peace. Don't miss
an episode of Laugh and Learn. Listen and subscribe on
the Black Effect Podcast Network, I Heart Radio app or
(37:43):
wherever you get your podcasts. Laugh and Learn Podcast is
a production of the Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartRadio.
Our ejective producer is Tippany Hattish. Our theme music is
by the one and only Chrissy Payne. Thank you guys,
this is Flaming Road. Don't forget to laugh. Listen and Learn,
Popular Podcasts
United States of Kennedy
United States of Kennedy is a podcast about our cultural fascination with the Kennedy dynasty. Every week, hosts Lyra Smith and George Civeris go into one aspect of the Kennedy story.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com