#RolandMartinUnfiltered - House in Turmoil, Trump Ally Guilty Plea, Family Blame Ga. Jail for Murder, Comedian George Wallace

Episode Date: October 20, 2023

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Jim Jordan will push for a third vote after the plan to empower an interim speaker falls apart. We'll talk with Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett about the total dysfunction on the other side of the aisle. Days before he was found unresponsive in the Fulton County, Georgia jail, he pleaded for help. Samuel Lawrence's family attorney is here to explain why jail personnel are responsible for his murder. Speaking of Fulton County, ooh, the Kraken attorney, Sidney Powell, guess what? She's pled guilty to conspiracy charges in the Georgia 2020 election case and will be testifying against the other defendants.

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He's got whatever the piss he's on it. Whatever it is, he's got the scoop, the fat, the fine. Let's rolling. Yeah, yeah. It's Uncle Roro, yo. Yeah, yeah. It's rolling, Martin. Yeah, yeah. Rolling with rolling now. Yeah, yeah. He's funky, he's fresh, he's real the best, you know he's rolling, Martin. Now. I know he's rolling Martel now. Martel. Okay, what happened was that didn't work out.

Didn't work out. Yeah, didn't go too well. Republicans gather to say, hey, why don't we do a deal where we can make Patrick McHenry, you know, the real short dude out of way from Illinois, something like that. Let's go ahead and make him the interim speaker through January. And then while that happens, then Jim Jordan, he can keep trying to sit here and get to 217 votes or to become the next speaker. Well, that plan blew up in the faces of Republicans. In fact, we now have stories of fighting Matt Gaetz getting cussed out by Matt Gaetz, getting cussed out by Kevin McCarthy. Another member threatened to go at Gaetz getting cussed out by Kevin McCarthy, another member threatened to go at Gaetz. Now, they all are blaming him because he was the one who led the mutiny that, of course,

led to Kevin McCarthy being replaced as Speaker of the House. Now, what was pretty dumb by the Republicans is how are you going to do that and not have a plan B? And so that all just the constant back and forth. I got to play y'all some of this, some of this audio because it's pretty funny. And so here is let me see here. Let me pull it up. Here is Kevin McCarthy talking about the blow up in the Republican conference meeting. And I love how they keep blaming Democrats for the dilemma when they're the fools who can't get their act together.

Here is the lame duck ousted Kevin McCarthy. No, no, no, no. I was at the mic, I was speaking, and Matt Gaetz tried to interrupt us. I told him to sit down, and he sat down. What's your view on that, Kevin? interrupt. I told him to sit down, and he sat down. What's your view on that? No, I told him to sit down. I think the entire conference screamed at him.

Listen, the whole country, I think, would scream at Matt Gaetz right now. Remember, it was crazy aides led by Matt Gaetz and every single Democrat that put us into this situation. We've never been in this situation before. But how do you have 4% of your conference remove a speaker when 96% are there? This is why we're here. He had no plan afterwards. Now we have Israel at a war, questions whether Congress can act, questions where we'd be able to go to select a new speaker. I mean, it's a difficult situation driven by one person for his own personal beliefs, his own animosity

towards me and his concern about what's inside an ethics complaint that was filed before I was even speaking. I'm confused. I'm confused here. Didn't Kevin McCarthy agree to this deal? Didn't he agree in order for him to become speaker? Didn't he agree to the deal to allow one person to basically call for his removal? Well, some reporters did catch up with that idiot from Florida, Matt Gates. Again, if you want more laughter? Here you go. I think that I'm against Speaker-lite. I'm against

Bud-lite. I believe it is a constitutional desecration to not elect a Speaker of the House. We need to stay here until we elect a Speaker. And if someone can't get the votes, we need to stay here until we elect a speaker. And if someone can't get the votes, we need to go on to the next person. But twisting and torturing the Constitution to empower a temporary speaker

is having a speaker light that is not constitutionally contemplated, is deeply infirm, and I will do everything possible to stop it. That boy looking like Eddie Munster as every day goes by. All right, joining us right now, Congressman Jasmine Crockett. Glad to have you on the show.

I keep seeing your tweets about, here we go again. And I love how McCarthy keeps trying to invoke the Democrats. You know, they got together with 4% of our caucus. Dude, you can't keep your own people in line. Don't try to blame anybody else. Yeah, I mean, you've summed it up, Roland. I don't even know what you need me for. You know what's happening.

You know it's a clown show. The entire country knows it's a clown show. And this is a problem of mathematics. They obviously are not good at it. We may need to do a simple addition and subtraction test for you to qualify to actually be in Congress. Because at the end of the day, you have to look at what is your majority. They are in the majority. So you have a slim majority. So that means that you can't have that much of a defection. Right now, they can only afford to lose five

people. So therefore, you don't necessarily have to have 100%, but you can't lose more than five. We never elected McCarthy, and therefore, we were never going to vote for McCarthy, especially since the only thing that McCarthy has offered us is more and more oppression and more and more revisionist history where he tries to put everything on us that is bad and it's just not true. We aren't in control. If you wanted to be in control, if you wanted to be speaker, now you understand that there is an actual responsibility that comes with the gavel.

I mean, I just, I mean, as each day goes by, it's laughable. And again, this new talking point, oh, here's the Dems. If they had just gotten in line. But here's the other thing. Everything that Dems have asked for, McCarthy refuses.

He doesn't. And so the deal is, why am I going to vote for somebody who doesn't even care about me? No, not to mention he's not someone that actually honors his word. Democrats are not so unreasonable to believe that we're going to get the speaker of our choice coming from across the aisle. I mean, that's not going to be that's not going to happen. So we're very realistic about it. But here's the deal. When you make a deal with the president of the United States and we expect you to honor that deal and you completely renege on that deal, trying to appease what he's now referring to as the crazy eights. The only one that's crazy, Kevin, I'm sorry, is you because you fell for the okey doke. Listen, this has never happened in the

history of the United States because you were just that bad at negotiating. Nancy Pelosi had the exact same margins and didn't have this problem. Nancy didn't box herself in. And the idea that you want to pretend as if, if Nancy was in this set of circumstances that the Republicans would come and save her, give me a daggone break. So don't look at us. I know that the Democrats are always the adults in the room, but my deal is this, if you were elected as a Republican,

then your constituents need to know what it is that they got. And as far as I'm concerned, they didn't get very much, especially when you start talking about Jim Jordan. But that's on them. And good luck in your next elections. You know, there are some who are saying that, look, Democrats should compromise.

We've got the people's business. I disagree. I don't think there should be any compromise. I think you should sit back, let Hakeem Jeffries keep getting 212 votes and let these idiots keep looking stupid. No, I mean, here's the deal. People keep saying, well, we've got to get back to governing. My answer to that is that we've not been governing. Yes, we had a speaker. And yes, there were things that were going on, but we weren't governing. If we were governing, we wouldn't be talking about a shutdown.

I need people to understand that they had nine months, almost a total of 10 months to pull together our appropriations bills and they did not get it done. So we wouldn't be talking about shutdown if we were actually governing. They haven't done anything. All they've done is sat there and passed stupid bills that have no chance of ever seeing the light of day because they want to attack diversity, equity, and inclusion. They want to go after the LGBTQIA community. They want to make sure that women don't have access to reproductive rights. They claim that they didn't support Roe v. Wade because they wanted it to be up to the states. And now every daggone bill that we get, they want to make sure they put some claws in there, essentially trying to

backdoor their way to a national abortion ban. How about you focus on the basics because clearly you are not going to be able to accomplish these complex tasks if you can't figure out how to participate in the popularity contest amongst your republicans and also republicans i need y'all to pay attention to this if the all if the republican caucus can't find one person that they like. Why are y'all electing these people? Clearly these are unlikable people. Their own people don't like them. So let's do the smart thing. Let's stop falling for the okey-doke and acting like all hell is going to break loose if a Democrat is in office.

Because every time something breaks, you want the Democrats to fix it. So let's just stop breaking stuff and elect the Democrats so that we can get to the people's work and make sure that that's what we're doing in the people's house. I'm going to play one more thing for you to laugh at. So here's former Republican Utah Congressman

Jason Chaffetz on Fox News. And, boy, this just tickled me to pieces. Listen to this exchange. It had no powers. It was supposed to be done for continuity of government purposes. So they got to hash that out. And Tom Emmert, the whip, put out a notice saying they were going to get together at noon. But yeah, we're getting close to noon. And if

they're pulling that back, they're going to announce that any time. Let me ask you this question just before we go. Just a real quick answer. If the script were flipped that it was Democrats who were in control of Congress, if Hakeem Jeffries was put up for a vote for Speaker, how long do you think it would take to get to 218? Well, Hakeem Jeffries has now lost 17 races in a row. So 17 times in a row, he's been put up as Speaker and he's lost. So he's kind of already over that threshold. I just don't think one party is going to come in and support another party. I just don't think we're is going to come in and support another party. I just don't think we're going to get to that point and see it. Maybe we do, but I really doubt

it. No, I just I just meant I think the Democrats would elect a speaker very quickly if they were in the position that the Republicans are in. Jason, great to see you. Thank you. They haven't had those problems. Yeah, exactly. Thanks. President Biden announcing. Hey, John, how about you say, hey, Jason, you look pretty stupid with that answer. Yeah. I mean, I mean, the reality is it probably would take about three minutes for Democrats to elect Hakeem Jeffries as speaker if they win power? If that. When we had the caucus to determine who we were going to nominate, it took us a total of seven minutes. The seven minutes was the nominating speech, the acceptance speech, and the vote. Seven minutes, and we were done. The Democrats were done. We are now, I don't even know on what day, and the Republicans still can't figure it out. And mind you, again, they don't have to get 100%. We have 100% of the caucus

that is standing with Hakeem. They can't get less than 100%. That tells you how bad the Republican Party is right now. And as far as I'm concerned, what they need to do is they need to stand up to MAGA. They need to tell MAGA, go ahead and form your own coalition because you don't see the world the way that we see the world and you know i'm i'm gonna tell you it's it's interesting because i've been doing my daily updates on my tweets and so i decided that my daily update today i was going to call Representative Kim Buck. Nuck, if you buck, Representative Kim Buck. Because, listen, he said, I'm not changing my mind. I don't care what type of threats you send my way, bring it on. He was like, I am not voting for Jim Jordan.

And honestly, it is not the type of backbone that I expected to see out of anyone other than the radical eight. I am so impressed with those people that have decided, you know what, it's time for me to have some principles and we need to start to take our party back. We need to get back to a real two party country and system. We need to go ahead and eradicate the power that is being wielded by these extreme folks that really don't represent who we are in this country. All righty. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, we appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Have a good one. All right, folks. It really is a just comedy of errors on Capitol Hill. And again, I'm a firm believer you let the idiots just keep looking stupid. We'll discuss with my panel when we come back right here on Rolling Martin Unfiltered right

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Lauren, you came from Capitol Hill. I must say, it is a house of horrors happening on the GOP side. And I just, you let crazy keep being crazy yeah they uh they're they're governed by the people in the party right now who don't believe in government who don't believe in uh any much of anything other than being against everything and if you ask these people in congress like nancy mace and uh matt gates what do they want what was was the plan? What are they doing here? You get no straight answers. Matt Gaetz has in his talking points a few lines about wanting to get things done. I'm not sure why he keeps saying that, because, of course, he's had this entire institution on its

knees by vacating his chair two weeks ago. So I don't get it. I don't think anybody really gets it. There's this certain type of MAGA Republican who just wants to be seen on social media and wants to send out fundraising emails and get on TV. And frankly, that's kind of working for them, because the more sensationalist you are, the more airhead you are and the more clicks you get, and you are rewarded by this version of our media in today's politics. That's part of the reason why he keeps doing it. That's part of the reason why they find themselves where they are.

I do have an increasing number of Republicans who are figuring out that this isn't working, and they look particularly stupid when there's a war going on in the Middle East. And so I don't know how this ends. Now we have the rumor of Pat McHenry saying that he might resign as this, you know, resign the chair. But this is really the culmination of the Gingrich years in the U.S. House. This idea that you never you never do anything with the Democrats. I mean, one thing they are united in. One thing they are united in is not working with the Democrats. And so, you know, you have the situation we have right now. This right here, Reese, is one of those moments where you Democrats, you go, hey,

everybody back up, back up. Train wreck is happening to fly very high, and let's just get some popcorn and watch. Absolutely. I think that Congressman Crockett is so right about people always expecting the Democrats to be the adults in the room and play cleanup on all six for the dysfunction of Republicans. But there needs to be very clear messaging that the Republicans have the majority. The way that people expect Democrats to move mountains and make miracles happen when they have a majority, the bar is in hell for Republicans to even function as a caucus. But the reality is the government will be no more functional even with a Jim Jordan, or as Crockett says, Jim, G-Y-M, Jordan, in the speakership because he does not have a plan to govern. He's not talking about funding the government in a way that makes sense. He's

not talking about working across the aisle. He wants to get in there and continue to be a hack partisan and run interference for Trump. And so this is just on full display how Republicans absolutely refuse to govern. They're not learning that the American people really want bipartisanship, even though that's irrational on the American people's part at this point. But at the end of the day, they know that they don't necessarily pay the political price for this. When the government shuts down because of Republicans, Democrats lose. When things don't work well in the government, Democrats tend to lose. And so I don't think the Democrats should rescue them, but I don't think they should be counting their little victory laps and being all smug about it.

Because at the end of the day, people don't differentiate between Democrats and Republicans. They just see government as not working. And that's what they need to be messaging, that the Republicans are the ones that are dysfunctional and put the adults back in charge. And you'll see a difference. These people, Greg, literally are showing us exactly who they are. And this is what happens when you empower nutcases, when the Tea Party people come in, when you allow it to consume you. And when you truly become the Tea Party party, the MAGA party, the Trump party, that's what they are.

I don't want to hear this about moderate Republicans. They don't moderate Republicans. Bottom line is they chose to dance with the devil, and now they mad they in hell. Absolutely. Absolutely, Roland. And you read my mind, brother. As we just heard Lawrence say, well, you know, they are unified against the Democrats. And Recy is right. I mean, the American people, we just saw the inexplicable, well, it's explicable, but the indefensible display of people not voting in Louisiana, hopefully it won't be repeated in Mississippi. But, you know, people are just tuned out. And they treat this like a sporting event,

like that silly remark Joe Biden made the other day about, you know, the bomb that hit the hospital in Gaza was from the other team. It's no teams, man. This isn't sports. But people treat this like a sporting event. We're dealing with government. We're dealing with people's lives. You know, and it's certainly if we can look at mass commercial white facing entertainment media, if there are any clues, it may very well be that Patrick McHenry, who is now termed

limited as chair of the Financial Services Committee, and there was talk, as Lauren said, of him perhaps transitioning out of Congress altogether, either that or being Speaker, we might want to pick up on the hint of the last 24 hours as people start raising his name and asking who he is. We remember he came in

in the Tea Party wave, but since then, he came in as a bomb thrower. He came in kind of like Gymnasium Jordan. But, you know, and, you know, this is last vestige of the era of the Tea Party, as Lauren said. But since then, he has turned into a bit of a policy wonk. He was the Financial Services Committee chair, and he reached across the aisle and has worked with Maxine Waters. It might be that we might want to talk with your friend Maxine Waters to see perhaps what we might be able to expect out of a speakership of Patrick McHenry. One thing is clear, finally. Gymnasium Jordan, who is a great example of affirmative action,

white maleness on the day that the Phoenix Mercury and the WNBA just announced a man with no coaching experience whatsoever has been named the coach, another white man who got the job because he's a white man. Jim Jordan is doing this because he knows that this is the last best chance for the nuts to run the Democratic, I mean, to run the Republican Party. And Jasmine Crockett has laid it out. She's laid it out. Elect some more Democrats, so at least you'll have a chance of having some policy move through Congress. But Patrick McHenry might be the person who ends up with that speaker's gavel to do more than just slam it down.

Oh, one other thing. The Speaker Pro Tem, his position, that came into existence after September 11, 2001, when the Speaker of the House had to make up a secret list after that with names of people who might be the—who could be the speaker if he or she somehow was incapacitated. And I don't think anybody in a million years thought Patrick McHenry would hold that gavel, but he might end up as the Speaker if we can look at, read the tea leaves of the mass media.

Yeah, but guess what? This was hilarious. Go to my iPad. Now Patrick McHenry is threatening to quit. Oh my God. So here's the deal. And this is when the closed door meeting Thursday, Representative Patrick McHenry told GOP colleagues he might resign as speaker pro tem. If Republicans push him to try to move legislation on the floor without an explicit vote to expand his powers, according to multiple lawmakers in the room.

If you guys try to do that, you'll figure out who the next person on Kevin's list is. Megan Henry told the room three sources said, referring to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's secret list of GOP lawmakers who would serve as temporary speaker in the event of a vacancy. Oh, my God. You know, Lauren, that would absolutely, you know what? My birthday is in, you know less than a month

that'd probably be a great birthday gift because god if you lose a speaker pro tem then they're like well damn who the hell who the hell are we gonna get like there literally is no cut this is how crazy they are there's no compromise candidate on their side because their margin is so thin, you have the nuts like gates. They control the whole apparatus. Well, actually, him vacating him, him quitting McHenry quitting is actually less crazy than what we witnessed over the last few days, which was the idea of Jim Jordan being the speaker. You would actually have somebody who doesn't, who cannot say into a microphone that Joe Biden was legitimately elected, among other things about him. I mean, this is delusional, the idea that Jim Jordan would be speaking.

By the way, they're talking about another vote tonight, which I'm not sure why Jim Jordan wants to see the number double of people who could be voting against him. Apparently, that's what he wants to see. So, McHenry, people leaving or stepping off the stage is actually a logical move in this moment, because you're only tethered to something that has historically never happened before and is something that is fairly crazy. So it actually makes sense to me to hear that a member of Congress is not going to run for reelection, which we heard yesterday, a MAGA Trump Republican House member. And now to hear that McHenry's thinking, I want to get off this stage. They don't know what they're doing. And they increasingly look like they have no idea what they're doing at a moment of crisis. The Senate is on the other side of the building, you know, doing business and leaving for the evening. But the House

looks ridiculous. The real test is going to come in about 20 days about whether or not, you know, the voters in Virginia are going to decide that this matters to them. They may not. But this is what, quote, Republican governance, in fact, fat quotes, looks like. This is what running your mouth all day on Fox News and saying absolutely nothing and talking loud and saying nothing and and, you know, being the friend of Donald Trump. All of that is what this is the culmination of their nothingness. And it's playing out, they're actually sort of lucky in their timing because we have a serious news story overseas.

So you're not getting the updates that you normally would be getting detailing this level of dysfunction. Yeah. Well, Republican Accountability Project, they put this video out. I'm gonna plug this in before I go to break. So, hey, what the hell? Might slim majority in the House of Representatives. Total chaos.

This conference is absolutely broken. We're dysfunctional right now. We've allowed emotion to get in the way of logic. Now we're in total chaos, and now people are talking about handing our majority over to the Democrats. It hurts the country. It hurts Congress. It's hurting our party. It makes us look like a bunch of idiots. This is petty, and I'm getting freaking tired of it. We don't deserve the majority. We're a ship that doesn't have a rudder right now.

People are looking for a perfect system. They shouldn't be looking at the U.S. House right now. These guys want to be in the minority. That's exactly... I think they would prefer that, because they can just vote no and yell and scream all the time. Hey, the Republicans finally got the chance to drive the car. They're in a ditch. Hey, hey. Ah!

Love it! Y'all, let me go to a break. When we come back, we're going to talk about what's happening in Fulton County there where an inmate was found dead. A terrible situation happening in that Fulton County jail. We'll talk about that. Also, Fonny Willis. Man, all them people in the room say,

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So listen to Everybody's Business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that Taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multibillion-dollar company

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This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug ban is. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer

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we're about to see the rise of what I call white minority resistance we have seen white folks in this country who simply cannot tolerate black folks voting I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of violent denial this is part of American history every time that people of color have made progress, whether real or symbolic, there has been what Carol Anderson at Emory University calls white rage as a backlash. This is the wrath of the Proud Boys and the Boogaloo

Boys. America, there's going to be more of this. This country is getting increasingly racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people. The fear that they're taking our jobs, they're taking our resources, they're taking our women. This is white people. Bye bye, Papa. Pull up a chair, take your seat. The Black Tape with me, Dr. Greg Carr,

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Right now I'm rolling with Roland Martin, unfiltered, uncut, unplugged, and undamn believable. You hear me? Thank you. Folks, the family of a Georgia inmate found dead in Fulton County Jail says his death has been ruled homicide. Samuel Lawrence was found unresponsive in his jail cell on August 2nd, just days after he filed a lengthy, handwritten, prisoner civil rights complaint about the conditions and abuse by the guards. The family attorney, Kenneth Muhammad, says the autopsy concluded Lawrence was strangled to death.

Lawrence's family says an inmate killed him. They blame jail officials for failing to protect him after he repeatedly told them about the dangerous and violent actions of the other inmates. Attorney Kenneth Muhammad, the judge is now from Atlanta. Kenneth, so this is obviously stunning. So the medical examiner has ruled this is a deed of homicide. They have definitely done that, yes. Response from Fulton County Sheriff, Commissioner's Court. My Samuel's father received a telephone call that was very short.

They said that the autopsy report had come in because we didn't have it at that point in time, and that Samuel was strangled. They're going to charge the inmate or the cell mate that was with him with homicide. No further information was given. The call ended. I have reached out to try to get some additional information, and they have not been responsive to us yet. How many deaths does this now make in the Fulton County jail this year?

Ten. Ten? Ten. So we're averaging, we're at a point now we're at about one per month. And in Samuel's case, all of the different problems that you see going on are kind of culminated into this one case. You have a situation where he began complaining from January all the way through the time of his death at the end of August. The gang problem is clear and evident in his case, where he had one incident

in January where his teeth were knocked out. They have listed that some of his teeth were shifted back. There were a number of threats that were made against him to the point where he escaped by threatening to jump off of one of the rails. He managed to get away. They made notations of that. They moved him to a different area. In May, he reported attacks. But in the civil rights complaint that he wrote himself later, he mentioned that in that same attack in May that the deputies were dismissive of it and they were not responding appropriately. You go to the next month in June, there was additional attacks at that point. And what happened was a pattern developed where he was essentially attacked and showed fear of going back to his cell when they did take him to the medical unit or different areas. And they list in their report that they had to take actions to move

him back to his cell. But what he's saying to them is, you can't move me back. Don't do it. And he's doing things like threatening to jump off the rails again. But remember that first incident he had in January, that's how he escaped an attack. So they list as if they just have this problem inmate who is exhibiting mental health problems when he says he's going to jump off of the rail. They take him back into the cell. And lo and behold, he keeps having these incidents where he's attacked. It finally culminates where we get to August. It was August 12th, where the officers report that there was another one of these incidents. And then just a matter of days later, he files this federal complaint where he walks

us through the entire history. And that's how we have this information because the sheriff's office is, you know, for lack of better terminology, there is efforts to hold back information and it's like pulling teeth trying to get information out of them. We have incidents where a report will say that a body cam was turned on, but then when you make the request for the body cam, they say there is no body cam footage. Then when you point out the problem with what they're saying, then they say, oh, well, there's a pending investigation. And the reasoning just keeps changing.

So we have a lot of things like that going on. He mentions how he was constantly writing complaints and sending those written complaints in, but yet they told us that they don't have any copies of any written complaints that he had initiated. So we have all of the information that went on because he actually got the complaint out into the federal court system. It outlines what he wrote there in his own handwriting, everything that went on. He talks about multiple gang attacks, deputies being unresponsive to it, and various things like that. And just days after he sent that in, he is strangled to death. And as I indicated, the family just gets one call where they are told that a cellmate, without giving a name or any further information is being charged, and that's really it. So that's what we're dealing with.

What's next? Any plans to file a civil suit, anything against the jail officials for negligence? Definitely. We are, as we speak, putting together the notice to the county of what we have been able to find and put together thus far and how we see that there is definite negligence on the part of the sheriff's office in failing to protect him given all of the history that we just outlined. And hopefully, it won't be necessary to file a lawsuit. Hopefully they will get it. They'll look at the pattern of behavior and what he had to suffer and how he is killed at the hands of an inmate after screaming and begging for them to protect him. And hopefully something can be worked out without need of a lawsuit being filed. But if this notice that we're sending and our efforts to enter into discussions are not

successful, we will immediately file a lawsuit. All right. Kenneth Muhammad, we appreciate it. Thanks a lot. All right. Thank you. Folks, please note the U.S. Department of Justice is conducting a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Fulton County, citing violence, filthy conditions, and the death of a man whose body was covered in insects. The thing here, Recy, again, this is one of the areas, and I keep talking about this over and over and over again, this is one of the areas where the Biden-Harris deal, Jay, has been extremely strong for the life of me. I don't understand why the White House and why Biden and why Harris don't talk about the successes more on how they are achieving accountability. They announced earlier this week an investigation of the

patterns and practices of a police department in New Jersey. I think this is the ninth or the tenth one. There was only one during four years of Donald Trump. There have been numerous individuals who have been sent to prison for hate crimes, numerous individuals, wardens and corrections officers who have been sent to prison, as well as convictions when it comes to police as well. I sound like a broken record on it, but I'm like, if you're doing good in that area, talk about it. Yeah, but I think that they probably view it

as potentially backfiring as them looking soft on crime because they're going after people who, by the way, are committing crimes because it is illegal to be brutalizing people and abusing your authority and a number of things that are happening in these jails and police departments.

But, you know, it doesn't make sense to not tout this, especially how important this is to Black voters. But we also have to recognize that we live in a society that doesn't really value the lives of people who are in prison. This person, Samuel Lawrence, wasn't convicted of a crime yet. He was being held on bond. So we have a person, and multiple people we've heard these stories about, haven't actually been convicted of a crime yet. He was being held on bond. So we have a person,

and multiple people we've heard these stories about, haven't actually been convicted of a crime yet. But we're not talking about bear reform. We're not talking about a justice system that keeps people in jail, even under these horrific conditions. I remember the sheriff in Fulton County talking about how there's overcrowding and a number of things, wanting more money for jails, when you could let some of these people who are just in jail indefinitely on bond out. Maybe he wouldn't qualify for that, but I don't know, you know, if he's already getting beaten, attacked. I don't know what purpose that's serving for a person who hasn't been convicted. So I think it's a complex situation because at the end of the day, people want people who are

even accused of crimes to be locked up. And until we realize that locking people up is not about that, we're not rehabilitating, we're not making our country safer by just locking up people and throwing away the key and treating them any kind of way, this stuff is going to continue to happen. But here's the thing, Greg, to me, it's a no-brainer. And OK, so what? White people are going to be going, oh my goodness, that's just unfortunate. How dare you put wardens who beat people in prison who break the law?

Again, if you didn't pass the George Floyd Justice Act, you got to be able to say something not only to African-Americans, but to young voters as well, who were demanding criminal justice reform. Your DOJ, this is arguably the most active Department of Justice Civil Rights Division since Bobby Kennedy was attorney general. It's true. But I mean, you know, Recy is, as usual, speaking in the language of real politic. We know the ideal.

We know what's logical. We know what makes sense. And we know what's right. But then we also have to factor in what's political. If people want to see true shifts in policy, they're going to have to get out and participate in the political process. And what the Biden-Harris administration is doing, as we see, is they're playing a game of calculating in terms of how many votes they need, what they're going to need to take those votes from. And as you have said over and over and over again, their formula is deeply

flawed. But that will require a shift to lean into constituencies that they're going to have to work with folks like Black Votes Matter and Reverend Barber and everyone else, Poor People's Campaign, to actually cultivate those people into voters. I mean, let's just be clear about it. I mean, again, you see this brother killed. And as Attorney Muhammad said, they filed that 1983 lawsuit in August. He's found dead a few days later. When you read the complaint, the 1983 complaint that they filed,

under what's called prisoner civil rights, it's really a complaint pursuant to, among other things, the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, cruel and unusual punishment. And what they're saying is you didn't protect our client. Now he's dead. They're going to go back to court and do that again. But again, as Recy said, none of that is going to come into play when they blast on television that these people should be locked up.

And if they kill each other, whatever. And then the Biden-Harris administration is soft on crime, trying to do things like bail reform and get these people out of jail and patterns and practice investigations. They're just pro-criminal, pro-criminal, pro-criminal. And guess what? It ain't just white people that are going to say,

well, I'm voting for the Republicans because they made me feel safe. It's going to be some of these Negroes sitting up in these churches, ultra-conservative people who see the mugshot of the guy that may have killed him, Zaria Shields, and say, I don't want him out either. This is the stupidity of an undereducated electorate. I'm not blaming the electorate. What I'm saying is that if the administration is going to turn the direction of trying to cultivate that, they're going to have

to take a step that's going to be in direct contradiction of the arc of the Democratic Party for years. They simply won't step out and be bold. But if you're going to get hit for inaction, Lauren, you better have a damn good response of the action you have taken. Yeah. I mean, clearly what's going on is the administration does not want to be seen as advocating for policy around justice reform that black people care about. They don't want to be seen in public on justice reform policy saying anything that black folks care about. They got wrapped around the axle on defund, and they don't want to get wrapped around that axle again. again, I think that they are scared to market in any way anything having to do with policing, police brutality, justice reform, any of that stuff. They're still in this haze of thinking

that they can get the mysteriously existent or nonexistent moderate white voter out there. This is a battle in the party that's been going on for years now. It goes all the way back to LBJ when he signed the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. There is always this fear from white Democrats of advocating loudly for things that black folks care about, and particularly around crime and justice reform. And so that is why the Justice Department is not talking about these issues. They should just be talking about them, by the way, in a human rights way. You know, I mean, if this was China or Russia or something like that, then we would have no problem talking about it. It's amazing how when it's the United States and the South, all of a sudden we can't talk about it.

But at any rate, that is the reason that this is not getting marketed and it will continue not to get marketed. Alright, hold tight one second. We come back from this break. We're going to talk about what DOJ also announced today regarding redlining in Florida. Like I said, they are tackling significant issues. We'll discuss

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The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on Everybody's Business from Bloomberg Businessweek. I'm Max Chavkin. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business, taking a look at what's going on, why it matters, and how it shows up in our everyday lives. But guests like Businessweek editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams, and consumer spending expert Amanda Mull will take you inside the boardrooms, the backrooms, even the signal chats that make our economy tick.

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have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops call this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that Taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company

dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. and episodes 4, 5, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug thing is.

Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Caramouch. What we're doing now isn't working, and we need to change things. Stories matter, and it brings a face to them.

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Roland Martin on Unfiltered. Thank you. Să ne urmăm. Department of Justice announced an initiative out of Jacksonville, Florida, dealing with the issue of redlining. Kristen Clark, who has a civil rights division in the Department of Justice, was there along with the Attorney General. Here. Kristen Clark, who has a civil rights division in the Department of Justice, was there along with the Attorney General. Here is what they had to say. Morning, everyone. I'm joined today by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Kristen Clark,

and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Roger Hanberg. We are here today to announce a major development in the Justice Department's anti-redlining initiative, which was made possible by the hard work of the staffs of both of their offices. But first, I would like to address those who are living with understandable fear in the wake of Hamas's terrorist attacks on Israel. As the FBI has noted, we are seeing an increase in reported threats

against faith communities, particularly Jewish, Muslim, and Arab communities and institutions. Last week, I directed all 94 of our United States Attorney's Offices and the FBI to be in close touch with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners in their districts. Yesterday, I met with, and today and tomorrow, I will continue to meet with our U.S. attorneys and federal, state, and local law enforcement officials here in Florida. I have also directed our U.S. attorneys to reach out to religious and other community leaders in their districts to reaffirm our commitment to them and to assess what additional support they may need. The entire Justice Department remains vigilant in our efforts to identify and respond to hate crimes, threats of violence, or related incidents with particular

attention to threats to faith communities. And as always, the Justice Department remains focused on doing everything we can to keep Americans safe from the threat of terrorism. We are here today to announce Ameris Bank's agreement to enter into a consent decree regarding our allegations that the bank engaged in redlining in violation of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Redlining occurs when lenders deny or discourage applications or avoid providing loans in neighborhoods because of the race, color, or national origin of the people who live in those neighborhoods. Our complaint alleges that the bank denied or discouraged home loan applications and other credit opportunities and services in major Black and Hispanic neighborhoods here in Jacksonville. As a result of our investigation, we have reached a settlement agreement with Ameris. If approved by the court,

the bank would pay $9 million to expand access to credit opportunities for residents of Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Jacksonville. This investigation is part of the Justice Department's Combating Redlining Initiative, which I launched two years ago this month. Once this agreement is approved, the initiative will have secured in total more than $100 million for communities across the country that have been harmed by discriminatory lending practices. Our complaint ledges that the bank located its branches in specific areas of Jacksonville to serve majority white neighborhoods and to avoid serving black and Hispanic neighborhoods. This included failing to open even a single branch in majority black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Jacksonville, despite having opened 18 full service branches in other parts of Jacksonville. For example, we allege that in 2019,

Ameris closed two of its Jacksonville branches as part of its so-called efficiency initiative. Ameris had identified both of those branches as having, quote, minority populations, quote, higher than nearby branch locations. One of those branches, which was located within what Ameris called the, quote, urban core of Jacksonville, was the closest branch to most of the city's majority Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. That branch was closed despite the fact that Ameris itself rated it as one of the, quote, best financial performers of all of its branches across the United States. Ameris did not close any branches in the majority white areas of Jacksonville as part of this so-called efficiency initiative.

In another example, we allege that in 2020, Ameris sent out a, quote, free checking mailer that the bank said was targeted to low and moderate income areas in majority minority neighborhoods. Ameris mailed out over 22,000 postcards with images of white models to 13 zip codes in Jacksonville. Not one postcard was sent to a single resident in a majority Black

and Hispanic neighborhood. Folks, if you want to watch that full news conference, go to the Black Star Network app, go to our YouTube channel. We live streamed it a little bit earlier. That right there, Greg, is what I'm talking about. That ain't going to get covered on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, but that's the kind of relevant stuff that for African-Americans, you go, wait a minute, hold up. That's the difference between a Biden-Harris Department of Justice and a Trump-Pence Department of Justice. Absolutely, Ronan. It's quite striking, isn't it?

We focus, and rightfully so, on voting rights, on the criminal punishment system. But this one here, you know, when people say tangibles, tangibles, tangibles, what's more tangible than being able to get a loan and a mortgage for your house? With this $9 million settlement, $7.5 million over five years is going to go towards subsidizing home mortgages, improving and refinancing loans in majority black and Spanish-speaking communities. In Jacksonville, they're going to hire a person that does nothing but service and oversee giving out those loans. In Jacksonville, Ameris has to open up a full service branch in a majority black and Hispanic neighborhood. And as you heard the attorney general say, sure, everything's not perfect, but this is

tangible. And this is, they've got more than two dozen other active investigations to go with what we just saw in Jacksonville. And then Houston, Columbus, Ohio, Philly, Rhodeode island tulsa oklahoma memphis la you know this is you know everybody talking about tangibles needs to watch this clip again needs to read this settlement again there it is lauren uh yeah home ownership obviously as everybody knows is uh the way that wealth is built in the United States. This is the type of story that, of course, should get a lot more play. But we do live in a media world where it's the type of story that requires some nuance and some deep thinking on policy and some deep analysis on policy. And for the most part, particularly broadcast media, is not up to that task.

And Greg, you make a great point about when you're talking about tangibles i hear these people whining and complaining i uh you know this this nutcase rapper waka flocka you know came out with his trump endorsement uh and all these other people i was looking at some mess i was looking at some instagram pages and others and these people like oh that's right you know i'm black i'm gonna vote for trump and i'm like do you have any idea what the hell y'all talking about uh and it's a whole lot of this uh you know, I'm black, I'm going to vote for Trump. And I'm like, do you have any idea what the hell you're talking about? And it's a whole lot of this. You know, a lot of brothers I see making these comments as well.

And then when you hit them with it, like I had one brother who got mad. He was like, well, you know, he goes, why aren't you pushing Cornel West, folks to vote for Cornel West? And I said, let me know when Dr. West is going to access to all 50 ballots in the country, all 50 states in the country with ballot access. And he's like, well, you should be trying to fight to make that happen. I said, man, let me explain something to you. The Republican Party is trying to put in federal judges who want to dismantle nearly everything that we've gotten in this country. I said, if you think I'm about to sit here and ignore that reality and be on some other tangent, I said, you have truly lost your mind. Absolutely. And this again, this is

the disconnect, Roman. I mean, again, you said it's over and over again. You know, we have to be involved, not just in mobilizing our communities, but organizing and building in our community so that this kind of foolishness can go by the boards. I mean, it's Howard's homecoming weekend. And, you know, tomorrow they'll have their legendary yard fest on Howard's campus. And, you know, they haven't announced who the entertainers will be, who are there. But the students are floating the idea that this rapper, Sexy Red, is going to be there. And I'm not going to be anywhere near that current circle.

Well, she's trolling or not, talking about supporting Trump. People say, well, you know, she's making some great points. She's making no points. It's purebred ignorance. How did it—you renting your house. What did you just hear Lauren say? I mean, home ownership is the way to produce generational wealth. You want to talk about reparations?

Let's be very tangible about it. If you have access to credit and capital so that you can buy a home and $900,000 of this settlement is going to advertising, outreach, and consumer financial education, including how to build your credit, we know that the playing field is not level and it may never be level. But just knowing those things, being able to then get a mortgage and be able to then pass on something to the next generation so that you don't have to go from hand to mouth, from generation to generation to generation. It's not

reparations in its true sense, but it is a leg up to beginning to get out of the hole. And it beats the hell out of Waka Faka Flame or Sexy Red. Come on, y'all. I'm glad Greg made that point there, Lauren, because

when Dumb Red made her comment about, oh, folks in the hood love Trump. We were getting those checks when Trump was there. First of all, you dumbass. Democrats controlled the House. That's how it got passed in the House. It got passed in the Senate. Just like when I hear these dumbasses go, you know, Trump, he was letting black men out of jail. Again, the First Step Act was led by Democrats in the House. A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.

The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on Everybody's Business from Bloomberg Businessweek. I'm Max Chavkin. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business, taking a look at what's going on, why it matters, and how it shows up in our everyday lives. But guests like Businessweek editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams, and consumer spending expert Amanda Mull will take you inside the boardrooms,

the backrooms, even the signal chats that make our economy tick. Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing. So listen to Everybody's Business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a

company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multibillion-dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad.

Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st, and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glod. And this is season two of the war on drugs.

We are back in a big way, in a very big way, real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star studded a little bit, man. We got a Ricky Williams, NFL player,

Heisman trophy winner. It's just the compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug ban. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee, when it passed the House and went to the Senate,

it was Democrats, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and others who said, this ain't strong enough, including Republican Charles Grassley, who would chair the Senate Judiciary Committee, and that's how it got strengthened before it goes to Trump. Now, Trump was a master at taking credit for everything, like, for instance, holding up the checks so his signature can go on every single one of those checks.

But I want to show people again, to all these dumb people who are sitting here going, yeah, let's get Trump back in so we can get some of those checks. Your ass ain't getting the checks, okay? COVID ain't, we're not operating in COVID. You ain't getting those stimulus checks again. So sorry, suck it up. Go to my iPad. This is the Axios store. And it shows that between 2019 through 2022, the median household of black folks increased. Okay. You see this here? I want you to understand. Okay. This is why y'all got to

watch this show and stop watching these dumb ass housewives shows and these other shows where you get no information because y'all watching silly folks stuck on stupid. Story sitting here says the Federal Reserve's survey of consumer finances showed a sharp rise in wealth among black households. First of all, I hate us using even that phrase wealth. No, having some money in your pocket, that is not wealth, okay? This is what it says. The 60% increase in medium net worth of black households between 2019 and 2022 suggests

their financial well-being recovered far faster after the pandemic than it did after the Great Recession. Black households experienced the largest jump percentage-wise in median net worth of any racial group or ethnicity captured by the survey. Yes, but the median net worth of black households is the lowest among the groups included in the survey. Hmm.

White households' median net worth is 285,000. Hispanics' median net worth is $285,000. Hispanics' median net worth is $61,600. Black people's median net worth $45,000. Greg, guess what? The median net worth of black folks from 2019 to 2022

is directly tied to stimulus checks. So I can guarantee you when this comes out next year, ain't going to be the same because guess what? The pandemic checks stopped, the PP loans, all of that, the billions that were spent during COVID. So frankly, anything between 2019 and 2022 for me is a complete aberration, because that ain't coming back. But, Roland, you are speaking as, I hate to use the phrase, but I'm going to use it here because it's more appropriate

to be used by you instead of these academics who really aren't. You're speaking as a public intellectual. In other words, you're a thinker who communicates to the masses of people in mass media, so people can break it down. But people are not going to do that. What Lauren and Reesey said a minute ago. They're going to say,

hmm, who was the president between 19 and 20? That was Trump. So all that money came from Trump. And then you're going to scream again, no! You're going to walk them through the math. But it's still not going to register. No, no, it had to be Trump. Trump was the president. Who was in control

of the federal legislature? Who pushed that legislation? No, no, it had to be Trump. Trump was the president. Who was in control of the federal legislature? Who pushed that legislation? No, I didn't know. It was Trump. This is the stupidity. And then, of course, what the white nationalists understand and the Republican Party is, they've got their base. We saw that in the first show, in the first story you covered.

They're going to vote for Satan if he's got an R in front of his name. And then, in order to erode other potential voters, erode other bases, they say things like, well, you know, you had it better when we were in charge. So if you want to fix this, you want to fix this median income gap, if you want to fix this shrink, you need to vote for us, put us back in office. Remember when Trump was there, you had it good. And people say, oh, yeah, that's right. I got a stimulus. I'm going to vote for Trump because that or the Republicans, they will be the ones somehow to make this gap smaller. When, in fact, they're the ones who if they were in office, it would be much lower than forty five thousand.

But again, it's not logic. It's not logic. It is simple mass media propaganda. It works effectively. Otherwise, it wouldn't do it. And here's a perfect example on this last point for you before I go to a break. And that's here. All of these polls, it was a new polling that came out today saying Donald Trump 20 points ahead of Biden on the economy. Republicans are better on the economy. Here are the actual facts.

And this is where, again, God rest his soul, if we had our dear brother uh bill spriggs we lost him earlier this year breaking this thing down but numbers don't lie if you examine the last 50 years of of america matter of fact you can go back to last 75. America has always improved economically under Democratic presidents, then Republican presidents. But here's to Greg's point, Lauren, how Republicans get over. They tout tax cuts, tax cuts. That's going to spur the economy. When we know what happened with Trump's tax cuts, they were like, oh, no, they're going to reinvest that money in the worker. No, they didn't.

The CEO said, no, we're not. They said, we're going to do stock buybacks, which used to be illegal. And so they have created this notion that, oh, no, Republicans are business people. It's about business and all these folks walking around here kissing the ass of the gop voting for business tax cuts and them fools ain't seeing none of the money wages are not increasing and so you've got these ceos who literally are saying i mean look how many ceos agree with that dude out of australia who said hey unemployment too low these workers they get an attitude they like like, we too special. That's what their thinking is.

And so I don't understand why Democrats are trying to be so damn, you know, I don't want to sit here and really take credit. Damn that. Democrats need to watch that scene from Jungle Fever where Wesley Snipes was playing flipper and when he quit, he was talking about all his architectural designs. He was like,

see that? Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. That's how you do it. They are losing messaging because they don't know how to take credit for shit they've done. Yeah, for whatever reason, the Democrats are not doing good in the polling when it comes

to the economy. And nobody can completely figure out why that is. It's probably a messaging mistake of some type. What moves the needle, at least in Virginia's polling right now, is abortion for the Democrats, moves favorably for the Democrats. But somehow the economy, for some reason, does not. Whether that's the tax argument or, you know, bad messaging on the Democratic side. Who knows? You would think that the child tax credit moment we just had would have been a big winner because people really felt that.

And it reduced the poverty rate in a sizable, sizable way. It is interesting to watch the Republicans try to pursue this. You know, this Waka Flocka sexy red thing as an influencer strategy that assumes that black people are stupid. That influence strategy that assumes that black people are stupid when you just throw a rapper out there and the rapper says something, and I guess we're supposed to be stupid and go into the voting booth and do what the rapper says. That has proven not to work before because they tried it with Kanye West and it didn't work. So I'm not sure why they keep doing that.

They're throwing rappers out there and rappers are talking. Nobody's in the voting booth, you know, thinking about what some rapper said when they're voting. They're thinking about their bread and butter issues in their personal life. So I'm not sure why they keep doing that. It assumes black people are stupid. It assumes black people just do what any other random black person tells them to do. There's no community out there that operates that way, and certainly not the black community. So it's interesting that we keep getting these rappers on social media.

Here's my last point on this here. Go to my iPad. I just pulled this up. This is from the POTUS Twitter account. And so this person named Mark sent an email that said, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you for your leadership and experience. I opened a new business in April of 2022, a small record shop. We are flourishing. This person named Mark sent an email that said, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you for your leadership and experience. I opened a new business in April of 2022, a small record shop.

We are flourishing. Just want to say thank you. Our economy here at Lake of the Ozarks is booming. Construction everywhere and your infrastructure bill has helped evenly. Roads and bridges are being repaired and upgraded. Thank you again, Joe. Keep up the good work. We appreciate it. Mark, I'm sorry. Can y'all tell me the last time either President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris took a trip to the Ozarks to take credit for this shit? Wow. Again, see, here's my whole deal. If I got this kind of email in June, I'm scheduling a presidential trip to Arkansas with that idiot Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor, and I would sit here and I would make a visit to Mark's record shop, and I would be having an event

and I would be sitting here and saying, y'all see all this stuff being rebuilt? I did it. That's right. I'd be like, holler at your boy. All this happened because of me, not these other fools. You have to take credit. You have to take credit.

You have to let all these Republicans who are sending out press releases going, hey, thank goodness for that rural broadband. The fools who all voted against it. Democrats should be sending people showing up at the ribbon cut and say, hey, hey, hey, hey, Joe did that shit. Y'all didn't do that. Y'all didn't do that. Y'all didn't do that. I'm telling you right now, if I did something and somebody took credit for what I did, I'm showing up wherever the hell they are.

I'm sending people with signs and everything. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate it, Joe. Again, that's how you have to call people out. You have to drive that home through. Unfortunately, they don't do that. Makes no sense to me. But, oh, well.

But guess what? They better get on it because, you know what? Abortion ain't going to be the only issue people care about come next year. They had better get much better when it comes to the economy. All right, y'all got to go to break. We come back. Sidney Powell, that crazy-ass Trump attorney, guilty. Y'all know this is a whole bunch of guilty folk around trump plus i'll be gonna talk with comedian george wallace he is in the house y'all get a shot of jordan in that bright ass pink shirt looking like a pot looking like a pile on uh what no i can't sit up. I've got to host the show. Pumpkin spice shirt on. First of all, it's all gold. I'm an alpha.

A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one. The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on Everybody's Business from Bloomberg Businessweek. I'm Max Chavkin. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith.

Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business, taking a look at what's going on, why it matters, and how it shows up in our everyday lives. But guests like Businessweek editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams, and consumer spending expert Amanda Mull will take you inside the boardrooms, the backrooms, even the signal chats that make our economy tick. Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing. So listen to Everybody's Business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Or the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple.

Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad.

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Roland Martin unfiltered right here on the Black Star Network. Hatred on the streets. A horrific scene. A white nationalist rally that descended into deadly violence white people are losing their damn minds there's an angry pro-trump mob storm to the u.s capital we're about to see the rise of what i call white minority resistance we have seen white folks in this country who simply cannot tolerate black folks voting. I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of violent denial. This is part of American history.

Every time that people of color have made progress, whether real or symbolic, there has been what Carol Anderson at Emory University calls white rage as a backlash. This is the rise of the Proud Boys and the Boogaloo Boys. America, there's going to be more of this. Here's all the Proud Boys guys. This country is getting increasingly racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people.

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That's just outside of Austin, folks, since September 10th. The 16-year-old is 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing light-colored jeans, a gray tank top, and black Nike Jordan tennis shoes. Anyone with information about Graham James Freeman is urged to call the Pflugerville, Texas, Police Department at 512-990-6700, 512-990-6700. Yo, crazy-ass Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell. Remember, she was talking about all that trash, lying, oh, the election was stolen. She had all this data, her and that raggedy-ass pillow man, Mike Lindell. Well, guess what? She got indicted by Fulton County D.A. Fonny Willis, and her punk ass played

guilty today. They're supposed to have a jury selection for a trial tomorrow, and that's why y'all see her little, look at her little raggedy behind. She played guilty today. All misdemeanors that she agreed to actually also testify against everybody else. Uh-oh, her initial charges included violation of the Georgia Racketeer Influencing Corrupt Organizations Act, conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, conspiracy to commit computer trespass, conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state. She entered the plea a day before jury selection was set to begin in her trial.

She pled guilty again to six misdemeanors, accusing her of intentionally conspiring to interfere with the performance of election duties. Here's exactly what happened today in court. Ms. Powell, I just have a few questions for you. Do you understand the nature of the charges that have been reaccused and that you would be pleading guilty to today? I do, sir.

And you've heard all the rights that the state has gone through that you would waive by going forward with this plea. Do you still wish to waive those rights? I do. And are you pleading guilty today because you agree that there is a sufficient factual basis, that there are enough facts that support this plea of guilty? I do. Mr. Rafferty, are you satisfied your client is competent in understanding that the plea

is voluntary and that there is a sufficient factual basis for entering this plea? Yes, Your Honor. I agree and find that there is a sufficient factual basis, and I find this plea of guilty to be knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently entered. There's been a request that the sentence be entered under the first offender act, and the court will approve that request, withhold adjudication.

But I must notify you, Ms. Powell, that you're not allowed to withdraw your plea simply because you do not comply with the terms of the sentence. And the terms of that sentence would be as recommended by the parties. On count one, conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance

of election duties, the sentence would be 12 months probation. And counts two through six would also be 12 months probation consecutive to each other and to count one for a total term of essentially six years probation, but we're going to translate that into months for the sentence sheet. Special conditions would include a $6,000 fine with $1,000 for each count, restitution to be paid in the amount of $2,700 to the Secretary, Georgia Secretary of State's office. You are to have written a letter, which you've already satisfied. You're also to provide a recorded profit with the state, which you've already satisfied. You're also to provide a recorded profit with the state, which you've already satisfied. You're to testify truthfully against any and all co-defendants in this matter at any

upcoming proceedings. You are not to have any communication with any witness, any co-defendant, or any member of the media concerning the facts or circumstances of this case. And you're to provide all documents to the district attorney's office as requested and relevant to this case. Again, Ms. Young, I would ask if you could provide the state's recitation of the exact phrasing of these, and we'll make sure that's reflected in the final disposition form. In order to make this sentence consistent with Mr. Hall, I do believe it would be appropriate and I'm willing to include the language involving moral turpitude,

although that language being included on the sentence form may not ultimately have any effect on the entities responsible for actually determining that. Are there any other expressed conditions and special conditions, Ms. Young, that you would like to see reflected on this sentence? I think you covered, yeah. Okay. Mr. Rafferty, is there anything else that you think needs to be on the record today? No. Ms. Young, do you, the state, have an announcement regarding the indictment in this case? Yes, Your Honor. The state will be entering an all-price order on indictment number 23SC188947 as it applies to Ms. Powell. All right. Well, upon being provided a copy of that motion, I will sign it and the charges in the indictment will be dismissed.

All right. If there's nothing else, then we will conclude this and be off the record. Good luck, Ms. Powell. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Cheers.

Hey, Lauren, remember all the people who said, oh, Fonny, what's wrong with her? She moving too fast. She ain't ready. You can't do this here. And they were like, okay, yonny, what's wrong with her? She moving too fast. She ain't ready. You can't do this here. And they were like, okay, y'all want to get trapped in October? Bring your ass. Now look what happened. She has testified against everybody. Sidney Powell is a

huge, huge get. Fonny look like she know what she doing. Yeah, well, all the lying and the nonsense and the theatrics and sydney powell standing next to rudy giuliani lying and the you know the bloviating all of it comes down to this moment and i'll bet what probably caught up to her are the legal fees because when you're paying these attorneys uh what you're paying these attorneys you sure as heck don't want to be paying that fee

because, of course, there's an extra fee when an attorney makes a court appearance, which was about to happen. And she, of course, is not doing the court appearance. I'm sure that that coincided with the first set of legal bills that showed up in front of her that she would have to pay for this. And at some point, I mean, you just have to start telling the truth. The lying, there's typically no penalty for lying in our culture right now. But where there is a penalty for lying is a courtroom and a legal proceeding. And this is a great example of it. And it's going to be interesting to see what she told them with regard to Donald Trump,

which I suspect at some point we're going to find out under this prosecutor, Fannie Willis, very soon. I mean, look, that's the whole thing right there, Greg. You could sit there and talk all that trash on television, outside the White House. You can do all that stuff. It ain't no different than Trump sitting here trashing Tish James every single day, you know, and all this sort of stuff like that. And matter of fact, since we're talking about these black female prosecutors,

this is Tish just yesterday responding to that racist Trump. I'm going to come to you, Greg. He's called me venomous. He's called me disgraceful. He's called me radical. He's called me a racist, he's called me disgraceful, he's called me radical, he's called me a racist. And this is only week three.

The reality is that none of his behavior, which can best be described as performative, will change what's happening in the courtroom. The courtroom, as you know, where we have submitted evidence, and the evidence is clear, and that is he inflated his statements of financial interests to enrich himself and his family. And nothing will change that. Not the attacks on me or anyone. At the end of the day, we are here to seek justice, and we will seek justice. And so I look forward to seeing Mr. Trump again.

I understand that he will be returning next week from Michael Cohen, but we are here to enforce the law, and nothing will change that. No attacks, no words. I will not give in. I will not give up. I will only serve justice and enforce the law.

Thank you. You're right there, Greg. Again, you can talk all that shit outside the courtroom, but when you walk in that courtroom and you start lying, it's called perjury. When you start making stuff up, it's called yass and trouble, guilty, and Sidney Powell

when he says, Judge, you know what you're pleading to, right? Yeah, I do. You're admitting, you know what? Yeah, I'm right. See, all that posturing, they sat there and they said, OK, these little sisters, they ain't going to do nothing. Finally was like, OK, keep talking. And they kept talking.

They kept going on Steve Bannon's show, Newsmax, Fox News. They kept lying everywhere. And every time they talked, they were like, you taking them notes? You taking them notes? And they using everything against them. And now she got talked. Now she has to testify against

everybody. You know the rest of the clients like, oh, hell. Let me get in. And y'all, don't be like Michael Vick. Don't be the last one to get your plea bargain in. Come on now. That's right. Come on. Come on, Roland. Don't be the last one. First of all, before I say anything else, all you young people out here who are wondering what difference a historically black college or university makes, you're looking at two graduates of HBCUs and Fannie Willis, who went to Howard University undergrad, and a proud graduate of the Howard University School

of Law, and of course, our sister in New York, who you just heard say, once you come in the courtroom, it's going to be a little different. So when you understand, when you hear Tish James say that, that, as you said, Roland, that is the theme. You know, law is malleable. If you're in the federal legislature, in the Congress, then, yeah, you can ignore a congressional subpoena. You can say that Joe Biden isn't the president. You can be gymnasium Jordan. But in a court of law, the rule of law is unavoidable. And you're right.

Everybody got all that bass in their voice. Everybody's screaming in a loudspeaker. And then Sidney, oh, pal, oh, you're in court now. Real meek. Yeah, Sean. Donald Trump talk all that smack outside the courtroom. He ain't in the courtroom saying she's a racist, man, because you ain't trying

to get bound up in them handcuffs, because guess what? You know, them working class people, those bailiffs and stuff, oh, they'd be very happy to put that stick on you. You understand? And then finally, it comes down to this. I mean, and Lauren, you said it beautifully. I mean, it's costing her money. See, Sidney Powell ain't even got up to the federal election subversion case

with Jack Smith. Uh-oh, who's on the bench? Oh, you black women up on this bench. Lord, have mercy. Can't practice law because they're trying to snatch that law degree, that law license. Can't practice law, Roland. And of course, the money ball, emphasis being on money, are those defamation lawsuits that those voting tech companies have against her.

Now, I don't know if your billionaire friends are going to bail you out. They won't. And, brother, what's worse? We face jail often as people of African descent in this country. But guess what? When you are white that's broke after talking all that smack, Cindy Powell's worst days in court are ahead of her, not behind her. Hey, Mike Lindell, he already said he broke.

No question. He broke. He ain't selling as many... He ain't not selling as many of them lumpy-ass pillows. Y'all see the deposition when one of the attorneys said he had a lumpy-ass pillow and that fool just lost his

mind. I mean, he just, he started yelling and cussing and acting a fool in the deposition. I thought that was funny as hell myself. So I am getting, I'm getting a huge enjoyment out of, first of all, watching these white people go broke. Because I told y'all, we warned y'all, hashtag, we tried to tell you, don't mess around with that fool. He stiffs everybody. That fool owes Rudy Giuliani $3 million. Do you think for a second I would have been out there defending that fool and he owes me some money? Hell no. Uh-uh. I would have been like, cash app, hit me on Venmo or Zelle.

Direct deposit. But that's what they do. See, they sit here and they mess around with these fools. And that's what they do. That's what they do. Matter of fact, you know what? Since we're here, let me just, I found a video here. This is Mike Lindell crying because his attorney's dropped him.

I just find it. Look, I'm about to talk to George next. So, you know, I got to have some comedy leading into talking to George. Watch this. Ten minutes ago, all the lawyers we have for my pillow and myself in the lawsuits with the lawfare with Dominion and Smartmatic, they just filed in federal court to drop us as our attorneys. And this comes from the lawfare, basically, and from the media. The attacks on MyPillow, what American Express did, just devastating our credit. And we have to, I can't pay the lawyers. We can't pay. There's no money left to pay them.

This is really a tragic tale. Now, it's completely self-inflicted. You don't have to feel bad for the guy, but it is a tragic tale in the sense that he does have an employee-owned company. I mean, it's like he owns most of it, but he has a company with employees in the sense that he does have an employee owned company. I mean, it's like he owns most of it, but it's, it's, he has a company with employees in the United States that provide jobs that I think are at least okay. And imagine being one of those employees and you don't have 200 million bucks or whatever amount Mike pillow has. And all of a sudden your boss loses it. It's in a way, like if you're just calmly working at Twitter and in comes the wrecking ball of Elon Musk. And next thing you know, you're out of a job and the company's imploding.

Yeah. Yeah. What's that? Remember that brother with a racist white woman came to the hotel? He's like, it's above me now. It's above me now. I don't give a damn if he go broke. The man, did he used to be on crack?

Oh my God, I don't know, did he? Yeah, Mike Lindell used to be on crack. He might need to go back, he might need to go sell us some crack to pay his legal bills. Legal bills. Shit, the drug boys always pay the attorneys up front no question mike question mike get the slanging get the slanging the rocks mike the problem is people think he's been using them right right all right you can smoke stuff it in them pillows indeed indeed all right y'all gotta go to break uh when we come back back. George Wallace is in the house.

You see his ass over there reclining. George act like he at his damn house. No, take a wide shot. Look at all that shit he got. He got a backpack. He got another bag. He got water, a pad. Look, he took his damn shoes off.

And I put my mask on. I don't trust you. He done brought his own candles in here. I mean, George really think he at his hotel room or something. All right, y'all. We come back. We talk to George Wallace. And I gotta get George's take on that

sister. She probably from Atlanta. Remember the one who got mad when the dude took her to Cheesecake and she was like, uh-uh. You don't take me to Cheesecake? Oh, I gotta get his take on that one. All right, y'all, you're watching Roland Martin Unfiltered right here on the Black Star Network, a place where we do not sleep on hard-ass, lumpy Mike Lindell, my pillow.

A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding, but the price has gone up. So now I only buy one. The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on Everybody's Business from Bloomberg Businessweek. I'm Max Chavkin. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business, taking a look at what's going on, why it matters, and how it shows up in our everyday lives. With guests like Businessweek editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams, and consumer spending expert Amanda Mull, we'll take you inside the boardrooms, the backrooms,

even the signal chats that make our economy tick. Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing. So listen to Everybody's Business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple.

Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multibillion-dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad.

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I'm also from Coatesville, Pennsylvania. You are watching Roland Martin Unfiltered. Stay right back. Redwood, my beautiful world, Texas for me. Oh, it's Texas for me. I just got a taste. Say bring ice, liquor, and some beer. It's always that one person that needs something when you're almost there. I'm gonna play play my part so I'm turning back around I saw a sexy Hi y'all welcome back Roland Martin on the filter here in the Black Star Network matter of fact y'all hold on

Since George mentioned when I before I sat down George mentioned but so y'all know George is a huge Atlanta Braves fan and so The Braves they lost in the first round. Won all them damn games. Didn't do a damn thing in the playoffs. So. Stop it. So, George, I'm always prepared, George.

So, you know. Stop it. So, you know, I don't mean to have to embarrass you with, you know, my Astros stuff. You need that on your head when I bust you upside your head. I'm just saying. You need it on. Just in case you old, so in case you get a little cold, I got an Astros Afghan for you. They're going to need that to wrap your ass up in when they lower you in the ground.

When I bust you upside your head, you get on my nerves. Now, don't bring up the Atlanta Braves. Oh, don't bring the Braves up. Don't bring up the Falcons either. You know we got to change the name of Mercedes Benz to Chick-fil-A, right? But the Falcons, because they both closed on Sunday. The Falcons and Chick-fil-A.

Yeah. Oh, man. Roland, this is so good. I don't know about what I can say. You have been doing such a wonderful job with the news tonight that I'm so impressed. And I'm sitting here like, this is amazing. It was so nice that I saw you earlier and I stole this from the hotel.

Yeah, I know. But where are your candles? I mean, a real comedian, Donnell Rollins, he got his own black ash candles. That's another thing. My hotel I'm staying in, they ain't got no lotion. Damn! Your head. Let me be right back.

Y'all know we do ass checks. I didn't say ass. We do ass checks. I got no lotion. You know when you stay at a hotel, you got to have some lotion. No, you can't. George, you can't use that raggedy ass hotel lotion. Wait a second.

My hotel is $500 a night. Well, they still got that watery damn lotion. They ain't got no. They got no lotion. My hotel is $500 a night. Well, they still got that watery damn lotion. They ain't got no... They got no lotion. That's what I'm complaining about. They got no lotion? They got no...

And they got no tissue. There's something going on in Washington, D.C. Hey, man, listen. This is terrible. Listen, I keep... Take that blanket and put it over your head.

Listen, this is a black show where we have black guests. Why you got on a cowboy hat then? Because it's my show. I own it. So we got a black show. First of all, they not paying, so let me take their label off. What Why you got on a cowboy hat then? Because it's my show. I own it. So we got a black show. First of all, they not paying, so let me take their label off.

What do you got there? It's a black show. So we keep lotion on the set. That makes sense. Because, you know, right now, your hands look like my daddy's hands. I might be your daddy. No, you're not my daddy. No, because my daddy looks just like me.

Listen, my daddy. Oh, hell no, ain't your daddy. Your daddy exactly. I guarantee you, man, listen. I might be your daddy. No, you're not my daddy. No. No, because my dad looks just like me. Listen, my dad... Oh, hell no, ain't your daddy. And nobody... I guarantee you, good-looking man. God put two ugly people on the... Good-looking man. I'm going to pull up in a minute. Let me tell you something. My dad, I was like, I cannot stand ash. If y'all see the interview I did with Glenn Turner...

I cannot stand ugly. I can't... Huh? You know what the hell I said. You can't stand ash. I can't stand ugly. Oh, you must have had a rough life looking in the mirror. So, my parents would be like. You know I love when I'm getting hit. I'm usually doing the talking. Well, you used to Jay Anthony Brown in here. Keep going, keep going.

So, my dad, I was about to go somewhere. My dad said, son, where you going? I go, which I was like, not with the manacles or the knees. I said, you got to put some lotion on. I said, we can't you going? I go, which I was like, not with the manacles or the knees, you're not. I said, uh-uh, you got to put some lotion on. I said, we can't. Your daddy said that. I told him that. Your daddy didn't have lotion.

You come from, you're from the country, right? Y'all had lard. No, no, no. I'm from Houston. I'm from Houston. That's the country. You don't get any country than Houston. No, no, no.

I'm from the city, damn it. Oh, man, everybody from Texas thinks you're from the city. No, I'm from the city. You're from one of those wards. Yeah, since your hotel ain't got no lotion here. They got that almond oil in there, too. What is this right here, too? Hey, they not paying, so I ain't going to say their name.

Okay. But that's some good damn lotion. It's clear. It's one of those things you buy at the store. No, that's what it's thick, too. That's right. It's thick. Well, one thing when you stay in a hotel, we do need our lotion.

Oh, hell yeah. We don't play. Hey, you know what happened, too? When we stay in a hotel, it's supposed to be a really good hotel where they got good lotion. And good soap. Do you do what I do?

When they had a cart that's in the hallway. That's what I do for Christmas. And then when homegirl duck into the room, I just grab one of them bags and just grab like eight, ten bottles. I did that joke 30 years ago. I steal the towels, too. I went to a wedding.

I stayed at the Hilton. The towels with the H on them, that was their wedding gift. That's his. That's hers. See, I did that joke. years ago. I steal the towels too. I went to a wedding. I stayed at the Hilton the towels with the H on them That was their wedding gift. That's his that's hers Say I did that joke. I'm older than you. I did that joke many years ago. It ain't no joke I take the damn good lotion. Yeah, I've been looking for that cart. What is that? Evelyn Crabtree and Evelyn the stuff like that every day like I said a five-star hotel right and that Christmas time That's how I make my Christmas baskets. I get all the soap. I get all the lozenges.

I do all that stuff. And people appreciate, the ladies appreciate that. Yeah, but also, they got also, but in the good hotels, they got like the scrub things in there. You don't take the scrub and things, too. You're probably still taking the candles. No, you put that in the kit. Well, that's true, too. You put it all in the kit.

They got candles. How do you think I brought these candles down here? I stole everything. They got spray, air spray. That's when you paint. Right. The new thing now, they have the little spray that they put on the pillow. On the pillow, yeah.

That's right. That's what you have to put on your MyPillow.com. You have to spray that on there. It's still going to be lumpy. It's going to be a good-smelling, lumpy-ass pillow. MyPillow.com. He's gone. He's broke.

Did you see him crying? Oh, they gone. Yeah. Lawrence left me and American Express, he used to have a million dollar credit line on his card.

They dropped it to 100,000. Oh my goodness. Good. I like it. I say drop it to 10,000. I'd like, whatever. I don't mind. Anybody type Trump, I want them to go broke.

I want to do the same thing to Trump. That's why I'm in D.C. right now. Why are you in D.C.? I come in to see the, well, I didn't come to, five white people. Look at you, the ass is gone. Five white people that I don't like. Let me finish this joke. You're supposed to ask me, who are the five white people you don't like?

I'm sorry, who are the five white people? Donald Trump with. I'm sorry. Who are the five white people? Donald Trump. I'm from Georgia. What's that lady named Marjorie Taylor Greene? Marjorie Taylor Greene. Jim Jordan. Can't stand his ass. Oh.

That's three white people. Right. Judge Clarence Thomas. I used to be a Hershel Walker, but I changed it to Tim Scott. You know why I don't like Tim Scott? Why? Anytime you have an opportunity, look at my skin. Right.

If I have an opportunity to vote for a Supreme Court justice that's black, what am I supposed to do? I don't give a damn what anybody says. Am I going to do what I'm voting for this lady? So you voted for Clarence? Oh, God, Lord. I thought, actually, Tim Scott didn't vote for Judge Katani Brown Jackson. Right, right.

And I thought that's the worst thing that could ever happen for a man in Congress. He's a senator, too, isn't he? And she was eminently qualified. So it's not like Clarence wasn't qualified. No, he wasn't. But he was from Georgia. I thought he was going to change. And in fact, listen to this. Andrew Young told me this story. They had a reception. Andrew Young said they had

a get-together. And Clarence was drinking. They were all talking. They had a good time. They all thought, all right, this brother, this brother's gonna be... He's gonna be all right. That's what they thought. That's what I thought. That's literally what Andrew Dunn thought. Because he's from Georgia. He knows he's taking

advantages of all the program. He's a black man. He's gonna change. Don't worry about it. Didn't do a damn thing. Matter of fact, the color of his robe should be white. They should give him his cap. They should give him his cap. They should give him a cap. You know, what has he done

for the black community? Tell the truth. Not a damn thing. Well, I guess he's been getting free airplane rides and wine. With all the white billionaires?

Hey, so that's, he's been used. Oh yeah. Oh, I mean, look, they done bought him,

bought them one. Hey, he make me so mad, I hate all the Thomas's. He for sale? He so mad, I said, I hate all the Thomases. He for sale. He's for sale. Okay, so. All the Thomas.

Whatever Thomas Edison. I don't like Thomas Jefferson. I don't give a damn. Thomas English Muffin. Get rid of all the Thomas. I'll go off on him. I'll go off on him. If there was a number for you to turn your back on black people.

Ain't no number. Well, Klan's got a number. Well, he's stupid. He did it. But there's no number for me. I love black people. I'll do anything I can for black people because we deserve it, the hardest we work and what we do and how we're treated and the racism. You know, I'm from Georgia. I've seen racism. I rode the back of the bus, Roland.

Really? You're not old enough to know about that. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. And I rode it, and it happened then when they had segregation. Then I rode the back of the bus rolling. Really? You're not old enough to know about that. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. And I rode it. And it happened then when they had segregation. Then I rode the front of the bus. I was in the front of the bus. A white lady came up and said, would you please let me sit?

And my punk ass got up. I was the only black woman on the bus, right? My punk ass got up and let the lady sit down. I'll never forget that. Never do it again. They could have whooped my ass on the bus. I was the only one on there. I was on Pree Street in Atlanta.

Have you been to Atlanta lately? Yeah, I'll be there on Friday. You'll never see no Peachtrees. First of all, you got too many damn Peachtrees. I mean, what happened? They ran out of damn names and name stuff? Listen, we used to have Peachtrees everywhere. That's why it was Peachtree.

That's why it's called the Peachtate. Yeah, I know. I get the Peachtate stuff, but damn, you can't have 30 Peachtrees. Well, we do. And it's Peachtree, Lane, Road, Boulevard, N-E-S-E-N-W. Yeah, we got them all in Atlanta. Maybe it's because. And ain't no peaches anywhere to eat. That's what I just said.

I ain't never had a peach all the time I've been in Georgia. I ain't never had nobody out talk me. Well, here's my show. You're stupid. You know, stupid is a compliment these days. You know, when somebody says you're stupid, yeah, yeah. But that's my... Well, see, Atlanta, they call it the A now.

The A. Yeah, that means... Because I teach people all over America right now, if you ever wanted to travel, all young people should travel, right? And I'm teaching them, if you ever want to go to Africa, and I'm people that are watching me right now, if you ever wanted to travel, all young people should travel, right? And I'm teaching them, if you ever want to go to Africa, and I'm people that are watching me right now, if you ever want to go to Africa, you call Delta Airlines.

And they're going to fly you to Atlanta. So Atlanta is... You won't know the difference. Now, it used to be Hotlanta. But now it's Atlanta. Then it used to be the ATL. Yeah, now it's the A. Now it's the A. Yeah, it's the movie making capital of the world too. Did you know that?

Yeah, I know. Like the movie, Wakanda. Right. A few years back, they wanted to make that movie in Africa. You mean Black Panther. Black Panther, they wanted to make that in Africa. And they actually went over to Africa to make the movie. Right.

But when they got over there, they didn't have no black people. So they had to call Delta and fly them right back to Atlanta. And stop by Tyler Perry's studio. All over. They got a second Atlanta called College Park. And they ain't got no college.

And they ain't got no park. But that's my hometown. Well, they got college there. I'll be at the Clark Atlanta homecoming on Saturday. That's going to be wonderful. You know, I'm born and raised in Atlanta, and I've never been on the campus,

Clark Atlanta campus, Morehouse. I have got to go and do that. How you been doing? I don't know. I drive by all the time and I just look at the stadium and I need to go over there and visit those people. I should have gone to college there. Yeah, just pull over and walk around. They'll probably lock me up.

George Wallace, what you doing over here on this campus? You can't old people just be walking on campus. Yes, you can. Well, I'm going to do that. George, you better act like a VIP. Yeah. I'll do that. I do it all the time. I know. I just show the hell up. Hey, I'm going to do my show from here this evening.

They go, cool. You know, somebody's going to beat your ass one day. I don't know whether it's in Houston or where it is, talking people like you do. Somebody's going to beat your ass. They're not going to know you rolling. Everybody don't know you it's in Houston or where it is, talking people like you do. Somebody's going to beat your ass down. They're not going to know you're rolling. Everybody don't know you're rolling. It's just like Tim Scott talking about there's no racism. Somebody's going to beat his ass down one day.

George, I am the mayor of Black America. How old were you when your mind just got up and walked away from your ass? What is wrong with you? George, I'm telling you. Your employees are now laughing at you. No, they're laughing because they know. Listen, we did a show in Dallas for Congressman,

now Congressman Jasmine Crockett. And so we were going to Houston. Was she good or what? Oh, yeah. She was on earlier. Come on. Really? She was on a show earlier.

Oh, my God, is she good. I was like, you know what? We're going to do the show from Prairie View. I picked her up and said, hey, this is Roland Martin. I'm coming through. I'll do the show from the campus. Hi, mr Martin ain't no problem. We'll have you right over here. Get it right there for the middle of the campus really great Come on. I'm proud of you. So George. Yes, it ain't hard for you to stop by I'm gonna do it. Well, I'm gonna do it My mama said cut

Okay, you know what that means? Oh, I'm not seven. I'm gonna do it. I mean, come on, man. What the hell you been waiting on? My mama said, cut. Okay, you know what that mean, huh? 78 years old. I'm not 78, I'm 77. I gotta ask you this here, and I think this woman from Atlanta. So this thing went real viral. It went viral. I wanna say it because I've been working, I've been traveling, flying overnight, and I'm tired, and I wanna see what happens. Oh, yeah, you got it right, because you went to a hotel.

Let me take these glasses off, too, so I can... Oh, shit. You ain't lying, because you're blind as hell. Put my glasses back on. You Johnny Gill sitting here with them shades on. Hey, hey, Johnny Gill's a friend of mine. Shut the hell up over there. I know. I guarantee you, Johnny got some shades on right now.

I guarantee you. You are... Something wrong with you. If I FaceTime Johnny right now, I guarantee you got some shades on. And that old-ass sweater you got on 1906, that's when it was made too, go ahead. Hey, hey, hey, I'm an alpha now. Go ahead. You go ahead with your Barbie shirt.

Would you go ahead with the meaty sweater we talking about? All right, so here's the deal. Cheesecake Factory. I have never met anybody talk more than me. I swear it. I get paid to talk. The Cheesecake Factory's been free. You get paid to talk shit.

We talking. I love, I gotta come back on this show and be with you because you can call it one of the Freaky Friday shows or something like that, okay? No, actually, we used to do a thing called, it was called Wild Night Wednesdays. Yeah. And I had the comedians on. Yeah, and I did it with you several times. Yeah, so we did it because y'all normally work

in Thursday through Sunday. That's right. There you go. Let's do that again. So you gotta come back for Wild Night Wednesday. Alright, so here's the, Cheesecake Factory's been trending for a week. First of all, that's a lie. It ain right. There you go. Let's do that again. So you got to come back for all my Wednesday All right. So here's the cheesecake factor has been trending for a week. First of all, that's a lot It ain't no factory. You know banana life is a lot a cheesecake factory. It's a restaurant. Okay, and technically it's not a cake It's a back. It's a pie. See I'll study this up and technically there's more cheese in it than there is There's more sugar in it than there is cheese. So should we call the sugar anything is cheese, so it should be called a sugar pie. Anything wrong with the word thee? She should have broke down everything else. Cheesecake and factor.

Yeah, all factors are locked. Burlesque and coke factor. When's the last time somebody bought a coke from the burlesque? Only thing is the laugh factor. You do get laughs at the laugh factor. If your ass needs some gloves or a scarf, damn it, you know you can go to the burlesque and the coke factor. Ain't no coke in the burlesque.

They even took coke off their name. But you can get some gloves and a scarf. Would you go to the clip, please? And factory. Ain't no Coke. No Cokes in the... They even took Cokes off their name. But you can get some gloves and scarves. Would you go to the clip, please? And it's a $3.99. There's something wrong with it. All right, so here's the deal. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here with Roland Martin. My name is Dr. George Wallace, and I just love laughing,

and I thank God for being here in Washington, D.C., because I want to be president of the United States one day, and I want to do things like people that are walking and texting. I think he should be able to just knock the hell out of them when they're just walking across the street. Knock the hell... Some things I want to do. And no more knock the hell out of them when they're just walking across the street. Knock some things out. And no more, let me get a joke in.

No more support dogs either. I'm not talking about service dogs. Support dogs, people opposite to... What's the difference? Support dogs are just people that are emotional. And what is stressing... I was at the Olive Garden yesterday. A lady had a support dog, big-ass dog. What is stressing your ass out?

You can't handle these breadsticks down here? What the hell, just sell a bowl going around, you know? We don't need these big ass dogs. I'm sitting here trying to eat my lasagna, and the dog at the next table licking himself. I don't need to see no shit like that while I'm, go ahead. I agree. No cussing on the show, damn it.

All right. Plus, I want to be a preacher, too. I want to make me some real money, like Joel Osteen down there. You going to be the cussing preacher? Let me tell you something. Why do preachers lie so much? Did you know there was a preacher? We got a preacher in Atlanta. His name is associated

with money called Keppel Dollar. And we got another guy. We got another guy. He said, just to do planters, he said the Lord told him he needed a new jet. Remember that? Right. And he already has two. Right. The Lord ain't telling him that bullshit. He's just making up stuff. Why would they lie? Let alone on Sundays when they walk up in the

pool. But Jesse is from Louisiana. I don't give a... And he got the biggest house in the state of Texas. And he's bragging about it. I'm sick and tired of these. I love preachers, but they got more money than anybody and they don't give back. We got a guy to come on. Another guy from Dallas. I think it's something in the water in Texas.

Kenneth Copeland. He's the richest one. I'm talking about Popoff, the one with the water, the prayer water that he puts on people and there's water out of the tap. Oh, yeah. He's always sitting on BET. But they make me, they're preying on black people. It's always black people in those

audiences. You ever see that? Benny Hinn. I was talking to him one day, and I said, what happened to that lady? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He healed a lady. George, my brother. Listen, he healed a lady in a wheelchair, and I said, oh my God, I saw you

when you touched that lady, and she got up out of that wheelchair. And I said, I never heard of her. What happened to her? He says, oh, we had to let her go. Because she was actually on staff. She was on staff. She was on staff. Yeah, yeah. So it's crazy.

Now, how do we start talking about preaching? All right, now we're talking about cheesecake. Let's get to the cheesecake. All right, so, George, I want you to see. You have not seen this video. I have not seen this video. I need you to give us your expert analysis. Yes, sir.

On this ignorant-ass woman. Press play. You don't know what the lady ignorant-ass is. Trust me. Watch. Where is the camera? Where am I supposed to watch? Yes, sir on this ignorant ass woman press play. You don't know what the lady trust me watch Where's the camera? Where am I supposed to watch? Come on press play I'll be damned. I can't hear it. See I be say what did the lady do somebody call and let me know What did the lady do at the cheesecake back? She probably from texas all right listen what are we doing factory y'all what's the problem with that this is a chain

restaurant who takes someone that looks like this to a chain restaurant you want to talk about it i'm i'm talking about it even in front of them oh yeah i want to talk about it yeah come on get up on in the car yeah we're gonna talking about it. Even in front of them. Oh, yeah. I want to talk about it. Yeah. Come on. Get on in the car. Yeah, we're going to talk about it. Oh, okay. Okay. So.

So, yes. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. So, you expect a man to go all out on the first day is that right i mean you're supposed to look at i mean when you take out a beautiful woman and you're courting her because i i get courted so you're courting her right you're supposed to take care of her you're supposed to cover her you're supposed to protect care of her. You're supposed to cover her. You're supposed to protect her, cherish her, treat her well, right? Yeah. And I agree. I went into this state as I expect

with the expectations for myself to keep you safe, you know, to respect you, uh, to pay for your food of course pick you up of course and just treat you like a gentleman which i believe i have done i mean you you've been pretty nice but i mean and then she's cake pack i on the other hand have certain expectations for a girl i go out with on the first day all right george let me tell you something first of of all, number one, let's start off. You ain't that damn beautiful, okay? That's number one. You're ugly, you're heifer. Let me tell you something, somebody's supposed to take her.

She going to the Cheesecake Factory. I go to, I'm a millionaire. I go to the Cheesecake Factory. Ain't nothing wrong with going to the, we need to take her ass to Checkers. That's where she used to go on to a drive-thru. What the hell she know about going to Cheesecake Factory? Take your punk ass and then we're and eat the cheesecake and whatever they got.

Your ass don't deserve to be there. That guy was trying to be nice to you. If you're going to Cheesecake Factory, next time he'll take you to a better place. He don't know you that well. But guess what? What? He was going to take her to a better place, but her ass was an hour late coming downstairs. She didn't tell that part, did she? No, they played it later. They played it later. Then she's like,

you taking me home? Hell yeah, I'm taking your ass home. Take her ass back home. Don't even take her home. Drop her ass. Get out the car. Get out the car, hoe. Help her. I never said that before.

I'm so mad at that clip, you know, because this lady going, take me to the Cheesecake Factory. Who the hell are you? Your ass probably never been to a better place than the Cheesecake Factory. She can't go to the Capitol Grill. She won't even know how to use the fork or eat the damn steak with her punk ass. That pisses me off. Somebody takes you, just go. That could have been the nicest guy in the world.

He was. Yeah, right? That is so stupid of her. What they were getting me is she go talk on her phone and go talk to her girls. He went, you report me? To the Cheesecake Factory. Your ass don't belong in no Cheesecake Factory. You need to take your ass down to the Waffle House and sit down and get some grits and shh.

What y'all laughing at? They laughing and going to get some cheese. Let me ask you a question. What do you think of this? Oh, my God. You know, I'm so angry. I like Cheesecake Factory. The B word almost came out of my mouth.

Give me the orange chicken, extra sauce, white rice. Give me some chicken piccata and the carrot cake. And it got an 85-page menu. It's something on there your ass like. And it got an 85 page menu. It's something on there your ass like. And it ain't cheap either. No. So she need to shut her punk ass up. Find out who she is.

We need to take her out to dinner. Take her ass to Crystal or White Castle so she can get some real beef. And you're right, Shane. What the hell are they laughing at in the studio? Laughing at you. For what? I ain't saying nothing.

This lady done pissed me off. Find out what she is. She got to be from Houston, Texas. That's all this. No, she from Atlanta. She from Houston? I'll say. No, she's from Atlanta. She's from Houston? She's from Atlanta. No, Atlanta people know better.

They know how to appreciate whatever. Let me tell you something about country people. We country people know how to appreciate anything. If a person takes you out to dinner, you go and you say, thank you so much. You can talk about it later. She can give what her girlfriend. Can you believe he took me to the Cheesecake Factory? But don't do it first and keep your ass in the car.

Stay your ass in the car. Open the door. Get the fuck out. Get the... Yeah, I know, hey, all of my preacher friends out there sometimes, okay, let's use this. I don't cuss. I want to use my... There's a guy in Atlanta that's voting for Trump. Waka-flocka-flank. Put that waka-flocka

out of your car. Get that waka-flocka and get up out of my car and walk home, you ugly waka-flocka. Can you believe she's going to get the man? He's taking me to the Cheesecake Factory. She ain't never been in there because there's some good food in there. Am I right? I agree. I agree. She don't want to go to the Cheesecake Factory. She don't

want to go to P.F. Chang's. She don't want to go to P.F. Chang's. She don't want to go to... There's so many great restaurants. And she literally said, he's taking me to a chain restaurant? I thought Popeye's a chain restaurant. And I just mentioned the Capitol Grill. She don't know what that is. She had no idea.

Hell no, right? You taking me to a grill. You taking me to a cookout. Yeah, to a cookout, yeah. All right, we're going to go to a quick break. We come back. Find out who that lady is so we can talk about her ass and put it in the paper. I hope she is from Atlanta so I can go over to her house and knock on the door and just go, are you stupid?

Now here's your doggy bag. For cheesecake. For cheesecake, yeah. We're going to come back. Greg, Lauren, they got questions for George. Folks, we're talking to George Wallace. He's here in DC. Where you performing?

I'm at the DC, coming at the DC Improv with my friends right there. Not only me, but Sylvia Tremor. George at the DC Improv uh and he with two people I ain't never seen before you are lying you know those people that said you're saying my first black lady I ain't getting no respect first black lady on saturday night live and that's chris paul used to be on the time during the morning show and this is how it's homecoming weekend people got nothing to do and they're coming in from all over the world it is crazy here in DC and by the

way the city is beautiful 30 years ago this was a was a, what did Trump call it, a shithole? Yeah, he called it. But now this city, the DMV is beautiful, people. Come back and visit. Can I go to a break, please? Shut up while I'm talking. Can I go to a break? Go ahead.

I'll be right back. My... Hatred on the streets, a horrific scene, a white nationalist rally that descended into deadly violence white people are losing their damn lives there's an angry pro-trump mob storm to the u.s capital we're about to see the rise of what i call white minority resistance we have seen white folks in this country who simply cannot tolerate black folks voting. I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of violent denial. This is part of American history.

Every time that people of color have made progress, whether real or symbolic, there has been what Carol Anderson at every university calls white rage as a backlash. This is the wrath of the proud boys and the boogaloo boys america there's going to be more of this this country is getting increasingly racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people the fear that they're taking our jobs they're taking our resources they're taking our women, they're taking our resources, they're taking our women. This is white people.

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Hey, y'all. Welcome back to Rolling Martin Unfiltered. We're talking to George Wallace. He's here at the DC Improv the entire weekend. This weekend. If you're in town, if you know somebody in town. He's doing town shows a day The DC improv who they working. He's doing a show every two hours. He's working 16 hours a day

Guess who's coming tomorrow night Chris Tucker? You don't know what's gonna happen when you stop by the George Wallace show you got Sylvia Tremor Morrison gonna be there Chris Paul You got Tony woods. I might not even do any time That's great when you have friends. That's when I was in Los Angeles. Chris Tucker's popping by? He's supposed to. Oh, gotcha. That's what he told me.

Well, you popped by his golf tournament. We were all there together. You were awesome. I thank you for getting up there. You know Roland takes over everything, right? We got 1,000 people in the room, nothing but millionaires, and Chris is up there auctioning stuff, and he's selling a cup, and everybody offered a dollar, and Chris gave it to him.

And we're going like, hold on, that ain't the way you auction. You got to somebody, because I'm the first one, you know me, at an auction, I'm the first one to raise my hand, because I know somebody's going, I'm giving it to you. So they had a Shaquille O'Neal signed basketball, and Chris took the first offer. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It was like $250. Chris,

come here. Give him the mic, give him the mic, give him the mic. I was going to, but you didn't do it. You don't leave money in the room. Exactly. You you'll leave money. Well, he was leaving money in the table I think we've been to the soul that ball for like $1,500 I thought it was 5,000. We finally got it rolling up. We got it up there because I bet Did the person was more than $250. Yeah, yeah, right more 250. Let's see here Greg car. I saw you over there cracking up, laughing, as George was over here telling them damn stories.

Is Greg Carr still here? Yeah, Greg Carr, he's right there. How you doing? We were talking about Jacksonville. I was in Jacksonville yesterday. Jacksonville is backwards. Jacksonville is the only city in what is two rivers, the river going backwards.

But Jacksonville is there. I was there as a kid, the first black beach, Verandina Beach in Jacksonville, Florida. Lift every voice and sing. Lift the Jacksonville Florida. I guarantee you Greg got a book on that beach somewhere behind him. Is that right?

You don't see all them damn books? He ain't read them books. You ever go to people's house, they got all them damn books. You know they ain't read them damn books. He can turn around, Greg, and just pull a book, ask him has he read it. I guarantee. OK? All right, test me. Greg, hold up, Greg, and just pull a book, ask him has he read it. I guarantee. Okay. All right.

Hold on, Greg. Greg, break his ass off. Tell me to stop. Tell me to stop. When you say stop, I'll tell you to stop. Go, go. Hold on, Greg. Hold on. Go. Go, Greg. Stop. This goes back to the fourth dynasty in ancient Egypt around

maybe 2800 BCE. She's in the so-called pyramid age. So that takes you back to... Now you're bragging. Now you're trying to embarrass me because you know I don't know a damn thing about this. I really think I need to go back to school, Roland.

Well, he is. He's longtime chair in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. Kenna, how do I get into Howard and study my daughter-in-law, my granddaughter-in-law? How do you say my grandkid's wife?

They're back here. They're studying. You call it my grandkid's wife. Yeah. They're studying. They're coming back. They studied. She's a doctor.

They look like little kids, but she's a doctor from Howard. I'd like to go back and learn how to—I just need to learn. Learn what? I need to go back to school. Learn what? Everything. I don't know shit. Just go back to your grandhouse. Get all of them books. That's not true. But I can't to learn. I need to go back to school. Learn what? Everything. I don't know shit. Just go by Grandhouse. Get all of them books.

But I can't read either. Hey, Gray, I can't help you. Roland, all I was going to ask, first of all, I'm a big fan, brother, and also a great admirer. And my name is Dr. Wallace, by the way. No question. The Reverend Doctor,

the way I understand it. Don't you feel better since you're talking to me? I'll make people feel better. Listen, that's what laughter is. The greatest medicine in the world. Laughter is healing for the soul. And that's why it's important to keep laughing. When you stop laughing, you stop living. So that's why I encourage everybody. I have the greatest job in the world and I teach young people to make sure you honor your essence. Let people know that you enjoy what you do. Just because you got a degree in marketing doesn't mean you got to do

statistical analysis the rest of your life. You might enjoy arranging flowers or fixing cars or painting refrigerators. The money will come. Make sure you enjoy your life. Now you sound like Jesse the Plantist. Greg, go ahead. No, no, no. I'll keep in that vein. First of all,

anytime you want to come up, Howard, Brother Wallace, we give you the talk. We need you to talk and talk to these young people. But since you mentioned Lift Every Voice and Sing in Jacksonville, you know, I thought it was interesting because I know you went to the University of Akron. I'm LeBron James' daddy. Go ahead. Absolutely.

I remember an interview where I saw you talking about when you got there, it's in the wave of activism, anti-Vietnam War and SNCC and the Black Student Union. And you were shocked that the Black students, all 200 of them, however many small number were there at Akron, did not know Lift Every Voice and Sing,

didn't know Black history, didn't know who George Washington Carver was. And only question I have with you, because, you know, having written for Red Fox and done this kind of work, and all jokes aside, one of the most educated folk we have, certainly as a comedian, how important is

study? How important is education to your career as a writer, as a comic, as a film actor? Just as a kind of force out there, how important is it to know our history? Everything away from you, but when you got that education, let me tell you something. I can say it on this show.

I'm never able to tell this joke. My dad had told me, Deacon George Wallace told me, son, I want you to go to school. I want you to get all the education you can and make all the bread that you can. Back in the day, remember, Greg? They called it bread. Yep.

He said, because life is like a shit sandwich. That's what my daddy told me. Make all the bread that you can, because the more bread you have, the less shit you gotta eat You'll never forget that by the way my dad text me and he said tell Jordan's a bad blue jacket He got on now see bad means good. Okay, Greg. Yes Greg as a doctor. Bad means good It's just like I call him stupid does a compliment. Everything is different these days, you know asshole used to be offensive Let me tell you what you do right now.

You're walking down the street tomorrow, wherever you are, you see a lot of people on the street, get a shout out. Hey, asshole! At least five or six people are going to turn around. What? Somebody... Why? Why? Somebody call... See, the words are different now. I'm working with words too now, Greg.

I'm working with... What's the name you put the cheese on the thing? Chitutory board? Chitutory. What'd you put the cheese in that? I don't know. I hate cheese. Well, you know that thing that put the wood on a chitutory.

They put the cheese and the sausage on a chocutory or something like that. The board they used to whip your ass. All y'all bougie people in the control room, what is it called? Right. You know Mark Clark knows it. I'm sorry. My earpiece is out. Chocutory. It's called chocutory, right? What'd you say, Carol? What is it called? Right. You know Mark Clark knows it. I'm sorry, my earpiece is out. Charcuterie.

It's called charcuterie, right? What'd you say, Carol? Carol, what'd you say? Charcuterie. Charcuterie. Charcuterie. Charcuterie. Charcuterie, yeah.

The boy they used to whoop your ass with. Now they're putting meat on it. Am I right, Greg? Meat and cheese. Yeah, man. But education is the most important thing that you can get. They can deny you, but when you got that education, I am so good that I studied marketing and advertising.

The first one I got out of college, I sold real rags. I sold the ShamWow back in the day. You sold do-rags? I said real rags. Shut up and listen. I thought you said do-rags. I said real rags. I sold the ShamWow back in the day.

It didn't even have a name. ShamWow? We sold 800 commercials. Yeah, yeah. I sold that back in 1972. And I was selling rags. I was four. You'd be surprised how many people need rags, how much money you can make selling rags. And I did that, then I went into

advertising. This is educational. My point is that when I got to Las Vegas, I never wanted to be a television star. I never wanted to do movies. But I wanted to be a comedian since six years old. Is that because you couldn't read the script? What was that? No, I'm only going to hit you one time. Listen, but I know I had to get education

because I wanted to be a comedian. I heard all of the older guys saying how tough it was. And sometimes they didn't have food to eat because they were struggling as a comedian. I'm going to hell with that. I'm always going to eat. And so I went to school at the University of Akron, got my degrees and come out.

And I worked and made a lot of money in selling. And then I went to Las Vegas. I went there for 30 days, 60 days, 90 days. Next thing you know, I'm there 15 years. I'm the only black American that has gone to Las Vegas and actually owned the show. I did not work for the hotels. And you came out and you came to the show,

750 people in the room, and I created that by my advertising knowledge and education that he's talking about. I had more billboards in Las Vegas than any company, even more than Caesars. And then that's why they started calling me the new Mr. Vegas. I'm so blessed to have lived my passion.

I achieved my goal, and I had only five years ago, I'd go, wait a second, what am I going to do now? So now that's what I'm just getting into movies and television right now. And I'm teaching the young people, make sure you enjoy your life. Travel, because life is backwards. Nobody tell the kids at Howard that life is backwards. As soon as you get out of college, as soon as you get out of high school, get on an airplane, go to another country and see how other people live. Charge it to your parents.

I don't give a damn how you do it. But the real education is learning to live with other people from other countries, okay? Don't I say life is backwards? Don't you hear, doctor, when people, old people say, when I turn 65, I'm going to retire and travel all over the world. For what?

You're too damn old. You can't do shit. I see old people in eye for child. And then old people got to be in bed at 6 o'clock, you know, so they're going. But make sure, young people, you enjoy your life. Honor your essence. Live your dream and do what you want to do. You know what I've never done?

What? Dr. Greg, you know what I've never done? I've never put out an application. My goodness. Because you can't write? No, I mean, you wrote for me. Do you have a write? No, I mean, you wrote for me. Do you have a mic stand here? I'm going to take his temperature.

I swear to God. Greg, the doctor had another question there, sir. Lauren had a question. Okay, Lauren. Lauren? Hey, George, how you doing? How are you? I feel good. I was so educated listening to you guys that I go like, what am I going to talk about?

No, it's all right. You're right when you say laughter is a healing thing. You're absolutely right about that. I may actually come over to the comedy club. I've been to that club and it's really good. I wanted to know, I'm from New York, so I'm going to ask a New York related question. I wanted to know about Jerry Seinfeld. Who? Did you ever, Jerry Seinfeld. I think I heard of him. Go ahead.

Yeah, I think you've heard of him. And so are you going to ever be on his show? Have you been on his show? His car show? Yeah, comedians in cars drinking coffee. And were you ever on Seinfeld? Because there weren't that many black people on Seinfeld, but I figured if there was one, you'd be the one. But tell me about – tell me about if you're going to be on any of his shows, because that show with the cars

where they go to drink the coffee, as simple and as silly of a concept as it is, is actually really, really funny. You know what I don't understand? Seinfeld and I was talking about how journalists can take them 15 minutes to ask one question, and then you don't know what the question is. She said, Lauren, let me tell you something. I'm going to educate this on this. I'm actually the real George. I was Jerry's roommate for 13 years. Okay? I was best man in his wedding.

I'm also the father of his kids. He is my best friend. I can't get rid of him. What happened? Father of his kids or Godfather? best friend. I can't get rid of him. What happened? The father of his kids or the godfather? Just go along with the joke and shit. Okay, got it. I'm just checking. Y'all had some freaking roommate stuff.

Look at the kids. Don't they look a little bit like me? But yes, what happened was we had a friend named Gary Shaling, comedian. And he had a show and his best friend was on the show named Louis Smith. And Louis got fired, and they broke up. He said, why didn't you tell me? You're supposed to be my best friend.

We go, oh, hell no. So we keep business and friendship separate. There you go. Money, friendship separate. Yeah, I got you. And that's why we've been friends for all these years. I did the show. I did one episode.

It was called Desperado, something like that. At the end, I was a doctor, and I wanted to do, he wanted me to do a scene, because when they circumcised the baby Brist, they called him Brist, the Jews do, and so it's supposed to be the father and the grandfather. So Jerry held one leg on his first slot, and I held the other leg. And when the rabbi did his little circumcision thing, the baby went, ah! The baby went crazy. They got him drunk first.

They gave him some wine. They gave the baby some wine. But to this day, when I walk into his house, that little boy looks at me and go, I know you from somewhere. And that's the look we needed for the Desperado scene when they sang the song and I was

a doctor and I looked up. Now, comedian in the car is getting coffee? Check it out on YouTube. We did the most expensive one ever made. He came to Las Vegas. We got in the car. He surprised me with the car that my dad used to have, a 65 Buick Riviera. And we drove all over Las Vegas.

Then we went down to a little restaurant called the Pepper Mill that's open. That used to be the club that everybody went to after the shows were there, the Pepper Mill. And that was really fun. So Lauren, make sure you check it out. It's called Comedian Cars Getting Coffee with George Wallace. Y'all heard George earlier say, hey, Mr. Mill, listen, when I went to see George, George know every damn chef in Vegas.

Yes, I do. Every damn chef. Now go ahead. No, no, no, go ahead. Chefs who had the worst thing. He went through nine chefs. I No, no, no. Go ahead. Guess who had the worst steak? He went through nine chefs. I said, George, when are we going to eat? Listen, guess who has the worst steak in Las Vegas?

Who? Gordon Graham. The guy that does all of the— Gordon Ramsay. Ramsay. The guy that does all of the— Hell's Kitchen. I swear to God, I've been eating in every steakhouse in Las Vegas,

and I went there in the Paris Hotel. I'm going, and John Murray was with me. I'm going, Just is not good. So now you go to the kitchen and say, this thing sucks! That's where he needs to be in the kitchen. Shut it down! That's when I should have shut it down. But I tell you, we have good food in Las Vegas. You need to come to Las Vegas right now. Let me be an ambassador for the city. You know, that sphere that's there. That's fire. That's nice.

And we got the new hotel, the Fountain Blue, the tallest hotel. That's next door to me. We got the Resorts World. Las Vegas has, it's really the town that never sleeps. I'm going to say this, the entertainment capital of the world, I'm going to go ahead and say Las Vegas more than New York City. Because 10 years ago, 15 years ago in New York City, it used to be all night. Also in Las Vegas, after 11 o'clock, it's pretty hard to find a restaurant that's open anymore.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know what's up. I don't know. And you know, back in the day in New York, we'd go to breakfast at 5 o'clock, it's pretty hard to find a restaurant that's open anymore. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what's up. I don't know. And you know back in the day in New York, we'd go to breakfast at 5 o'clock in the morning. Right. Chicken and waffles, damn it. That's how it was created. In New York. In New York.

Exactly. In New York. In Harlem. That's right. A lot of people think it's Los Angeles. No, it wasn't. And see, when you talk about... Stop pointing at me.

When you talk about, okay, when you talk about the Vegas... I understand that. When you talk about the Vegas, do you advise taking your woman to the Usher show? Yes, I would do that. You know, Kiki Palmer, boyfriend, like, acting this damn, like, his mind. Oh, my, Kiki Palmer, oh, my goodness. She's so beautiful, and she's so talented. Do you see her hosting the show, The Game Show?

Yeah. She's so fantastic. But, yeah, go see Usher. Her old show, what she's so talented. Do you see her hosting the show, The Game Show? Yeah. She's so fantastic. But yeah, go see Usher. Her old show. Wait a second. Wait a second. Usher's from Atlanta. We have to support each other.

You know, all good things come out of Atlanta. Except Waka Flocka Flame. I don't understand. Listen, I had a problem one time. I said I don't like black Republicans, but I had to correct myself. I don't like the black MAGA supporters. Gotcha. There are some good Republicans everywhere,

but the black, I don't understand what they, what do you get, these people don't like you? At all. At all. Why are you wearing a red hat? This is a punk ass. I think Greg had another question before we go. Greg?

No, listen, I'm just enjoying the conversation. I'll ask you one more question, Brother Watson. Again, just great respect to you for being not only a master comedian, but really somebody who not only makes us laugh but makes us think. Somebody asked you one time about your influences, and it was a name that came up, wasn't Red Fox, wasn't Rich Pryor. It was Red Skelton. Do you mind saying something about how was Red Skelton an influence on you? Are you old enough to remember Red Skelton? The people that really know comedy know that.

Red was hilarious. He did the different characters, Clem Cadiddlehopper. Oh my God, he was so good. He's the reason I'm in the business. He was born on the same day I was born. Robin Williams was born on July 21st. Also, Kim Whitley was born on, and Don Knox was born on. More entertainers were born on July 21st than any other day. Now, I read that in the book.

Seven months. What the hell you know? No, I'm going back to like when y'all all conceived. You ain't no astrologist. What the hell you going? What you looking up in there for? When y'all were conceived. So the July 7th month. So what, y'all were all like, what? Probably Thanksgiving babies. Thanksgiving.

Y'all were like August, September. Always on the July area. I know. I just told you July. No, you were born July. You were conceived nine months earlier. So the freakiness has to be around Thanksgiving, three months later.

So all y'all were concede around Freak Nick? Because I'm a freak of Nick. Freak of Nick. Now, I want to talk about toilet paper. I got some jokes. Greg, this is my legal pad. If they're not on this pad here, they're not legal jokes, okay? Lauren, I went to buy some toilet paper the other day, and it was 36 Mega Rolls.

These are new jokes here. I already get paid for those jokes. Mega Rolls or Mega Rolls? Oh, if you don't shit the... And it was 36 mega rolls. These are new jokes here. I already get paid for those jokes. Mega rolls or mega rolls? Oh, if you don't shit the fuck out of me. You know I like this, right? You know I like it. You can interfere with me. I love it.

So the 36 mega rolls equal 128 rolls of regular toilet paper. So I bought this at 4th of July. So I'm in my house. There's a ghost in my house. I am not using all. I got three rolls left. There's technically nine. There's a ghost in your house.

I'm not the only one wiping my ass with this paper, okay? All of that paper. Greg, can you figure it out? Because you're pretty smart. 128 rolls. Since 4th of July, somebody else is in my house. And now I want to do a bit. I want to finish the bit up.

You just can't. You're full of shit. You're right about that. But after you it's a new day. And after you finish using toilet paper now, that ain't good enough anymore. They got a thing called booty wax. And you got to get a sample. Disposable. Why would you say something stupid? And after you finish using toilet paper now, that ain't good enough anymore. They got a thing called booty wipes. Right.

And you got to get pampered. Disposable. You know what I'm... Disposable. Why would you say something stupid? People can say some stupid shit, can't you? Disposable. What else would you do with toilet paper?

You mean flushable. That's the word you're trying to use. No, no, no. They're called disposable. They're like... I know, but they're literally called disposable on the package. Yeah, that means you can throw them away.

I know. Flushable mean you can't throw them down the toilet. They're unflushable or they're flushable? Would you just let me finish these? I mean, you're the ass wiping expert. I'm just trying to check with you. You're an ass wiping. So, what I'm

trying to say is so many stages right now. Okay. And then when you finish with the booty wipe, now they got a thing called deodorant now called Lume. Lume is for down there. They got this different deodorant. That's how I come up with these new jokes, okay? Here's another new joke. What happened to the bidet?

Just, I mean, just... You ain't got no bidet in your house like you rich or something. You here working every night, you ain't got no bidet to wipe your ass and put water up your ass. I do have a bidet. You ain't even been to France. You can't even been to France. I have not.

Actually, I have been to France. Where'd you go? I went to the Eiffel Tower. I went to the hood You can't even have been to France. I have not. Actually, I have been to France. Where'd you go? I went to the Eiffel Tower. I went to the hood. I bet you didn't go up. I didn't go up because you know why? Because you're country. You're scared. No, no.

Because your ass is all over you. They wouldn't let my ass go up because I had my camera gear bag and I had a screwdriver in it. I was like, are y'all serious? Is that true? Straight up. Like you're going to unscrew it up there. Straight up. We were coming back from unscrew it up there. Straight up. We were coming back from Liberia.

Antoine, my V-Doll, was with me. So I had my, I don't put my camera bag below. I carry my gear. They were like, oh, you can't go up. Why didn't you leave it downstairs? They got a thing down there they can lock your stuff. No, no, no. I don't leave my shit down there.

But I'm glad you do. So you traveled. You was in Liberia. Then you stopped off in Paris. What is your favorite city in the world? My favorite city in the world is. Because my first degree was in transportation, that's why I'm talking about that. No, no, seriously. So this was a

question that was asked to my speech communications class in Texas A&M. Okay. They said, what is your favorite place in the world? And I said, me being as creative as I am. Also, I grew up broke. So I said my favorite... You're still broke. No, I'm not. Look at you. Have you looked in the mirror late? Look at you tonight. Are you walking down the street? Somebody will offer you some money with your broke ass. Actually, they should. You should be joining the Bring the Funk Fan Club, Roland Martin.

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Do it right now because we're bringing you entertainment every night and Roland is very good at it and he needs your support. That's what we got to do. And do me a favor, my assistant, could you bring me $10 out of my wallet right now so I can help support this guy? Ten? Yeah, so you can get some lotion. Yeah, you can pay me back.

You can pay me back. Okay. So what's your favorite city? Come on, come on. You had two more. Okay, hold on. Okay. So here's what it was.

We're going to come to your favorite city, and you're going to tell me the rest of these legal pad lane jokes, and then... No, let's go to the other one. Who the hell is Lululemon? Lululemon. I know she's from the country. She's from...

But my mama's maiden name is Lamon, but they call him Lemon in Louisiana. Lulu Lemon. I know she from the country. But, my mama's maiden name is Lamon, but they call them Lemon in Louisiana. Straight up. Why y'all do stupid stuff down there? Why you keep telling people in Louisiana, keep, you try my gumbo, your gumbo suck like,

you ever been down there? They got shoestrings, hubcaps, all the shit they can find. They put it in there, you see shit moving. See, we don't do all that. Yeah, you ain't taste mine. Yours tastes like shit like everybody else. Matter of fact, I was on Martha's.

I bet you gonna tell me right now you can cook some gumbo. Oh, I can. Oh, I can, and my dad can damn cook. When I come to your house, you'll be there. No, I live stream us cooking gumbo. It's on YouTube. That don't mean people gonna eat it.

Oh, no, no, we don't. A lot of us are on YouTube. Oh, no, no, no. That's why I said that. Our gum't mean people gonna eat it. Oh no, no, we don't. A lot of stuff on YouTube. Oh no, no, no, no. That's why I said it. I want gumbo damn good. Damn good. Like slap your mama and your daddy and your step daddy good.

I'm not gonna eat it. I don't give a damn. I might slap your mama and slap your daddy. And I ain't going to say whose house we went to, but we took it to his house. They said, hey, they fixing a gumbo. It was at President Barack Obama's house. I was there, too. I was in the kitchen. You can't say that. So, man, I went there. And look, I had gumbo before I had breast milk.

I know gumbo. You have what? I had gumbo before I had breast milk. I had chicken before I had breast milk. My mama would put her titties in. I said, lady, go get me some chicken. So here's what I... What is wrong with you, Greg? That's it. So here's what I... What is wrong with you, Greg?

That's it. So here's what happened. My mama put her... You go get me some... Chicken is that good. She said... Chicken is the only animal that never dies of natural causes. Did you know that?

A chicken has a short life. You've never seen a chicken have a happy birthday party one year. Chicken comes and hatches out an egg, is that somebody with a napkin? But Atlanta, I'm from Atlanta, Atlanta is the capital chicken place in the world. Did you know they're home office for Popeyes,

home office for Chick-fil-A, home office for Zaxby, Crystal is there, Arkansas, where Tyson's is, where they actually strangle the chickens and process them? Well, where they actually, you know, strangle the chickens and process them? Well, no, but that's in Gainesville, Georgia.

Oh, so when you say the king of chicken, you mean after the fact? The restaurants. Gotcha, gotcha. You know, we got chicken and waffle there. So we love chicken. I was talking to the chicken man the other day. This is a true story I'm making up.

The chicken man? A chicken man told me you would think... Was. Tell me, you would think the automobile... Was it Chicken George? You would think the automobile... What do you think the number one industry in the world is? The number one industry

in the world? Porn. Porn? That's a good answer. Could be automobile, could be oil. But actually, it's chickens.

If the chickens were to stop laying eggs, just think about this, Greg, there'd be no Grand Slam at Denny's. Oh, no. You also have earlier this year when 100,000 of the chickens were to stop laying eggs, just think about this, Greg. There'd be no Grand Slam at Denny's. Oh, no. You also have early this year when 100,000 of the chickens killed in that fire and a dozen eggs went up to like $12, $15, $20 a dozen.

Exactly. Negroes lost their minds. This is true. And then it's going to happen again. You ever notice another thing about Atlanta? Watch this. In the next three months, around Christmas time, somebody steal 50,000 pounds of chicken wings just before the Super Bowl

and sold them out of the freezer. Watch and see. But if chickens were to stop laying eggs, there'd be no Grand Slam and then you don't have the coffee sales. There'd be no, if chickens were to stop laying eggs, there'd be no Easter eggs. And they're selling the color and the green shit in the basket. What do you call it? The green shit in the basket. And then there'd be no Easter service.

Fake grass. I'm just trying to tell you how the economy works, okay? Got it. And then you have no Easter service. Fake razz. I'm just trying to tell you how the economy works, okay? Got it. And then you have no Easter service, and now you're messing with the preacher. And see, the preacher don't have Easter service because no Easter eggs. Now there ain't no Easter dinner.

There ain't no Easter dinner. And then no Easter service, the preacher ain't got no Cadillac, okay? So you just sit at home and just think of this shit? That's my job, is just make up shit. And I'm going to make this a long bit, I think of food all the time. No, really?

Right now I'm tired of pumpkins. I don't want no pumpkin spice, I'm tired of pumpkin donuts. You remember what Bernie Mac said about pumpkin? He never ate no pumpkin pie. Never had no pumpkin pie. Hey, Lana! That's no damn question like that.

Never had no pumpkin pie. That's another thing I wanna talk about. Son of a bitch! We got about 90 seconds. Okay, I want to talk about Patti LaBelle. You ain't paying overtime for my staff. Patti LaBelle, she has the sweet potato pie. I'm the only black person that ever ate a sweet potato pie.

And I worked with her last night and I said, Patti, when are you putting in these pies? Because I know she's selling them at Walmart for $2.48. For $2,048. And Greg and Lauren, you know if you go to Kroger or Ralph's and you buy the pan and the crust, that's $2.48, okay? So she ain't putting but a dollar worth of shit in there, okay? So I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, well, what could you, lemon extract, what do you put in a pie? Lemon extract, vanilla extract, nutmeg, sweet potato pie, what else do you put in there?

Egg, cinnamon, and brown sugar. You know, and the fact of the matter, if you put brown sugar and cinnamon on anything, you're going to eat it. It's going to be good. It's looking great. You're going to eat it, right? You can put cinnamon brown sugar on a white potato, and you're going to eat it. A lot of you people out there, listen, a lot of you out there,

I'm going to tell it to you, a lot of you people out there don't like having oral sex. But let me tell you what you do. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Get you some cinnamon. Since you married to Brown Sugar. Get some cinnamon. Put some cinnamon on it. Even the church people be going,

yes, Lord. Church people be speaking in tongues, cinnamon on my mouth. Cinnamon on my mouth. On that note, put some cinnamon on it. It's 8.32. George ain't paying the staff overtime.

We got to go. And from what I hear, you ain't paying them that much. That's true because the people ain't giving fast enough. A doctor. I need to have Creflo come in here and raise some money,

him and Jesse the planters. Kept your dollar made so much money. Guess what he's saying now? He used to demand, he would look at your, what you call it? Tax return. Tax return and made you pay tax. Now he's made so much money, Guess what he's saying now? He used to demand he would look at your tax return and make you pay tithe. Now he's made so much money, he's telling the people

you don't have to tithe anymore. That's some bullshit, ain't it? He done made that much money. So I'm going to be at the improv this weekend. If you know anybody, you have any cousins that live in the Washington D.C., in the DMV. And if you haven't been in the DMV lately, it's a beautiful area. You should come and see it. I got tomorrow.

I'm going to go. I want to see Dr. King today. You think he ever dreamt he was going to be white? I bet he didn't dream that, did he? Did he, Greg? I bet he didn't have that dream, did he? And you need to know somebody. Is Mr. Lonnie still over there?

Because I want to go to the African American Museum. Yeah, Lonnie's not over all the museums. I want him to get me in, yeah. Huh? But I want people to come to. You want him to get you in a what? Into the museum, you big head. What?

No, I'm just trying to check, man. Like, you all over the place. I don't know if you want him to get you into the King Memorial. I don't know if you want. I'm from Georgia. Both of them. B-O-F. I don't know what you want him to get you into.

I want to get him into the museum. And I want to get into the... Dr. King, I want to see the whole thing. I want to enjoy the museum. Okay, you know, the King Memorial is outdoor. You can just go by. I know that, but you're the one missing. Do you want me to get in there?

It's like walking on a Clark Atlanta campus. Just go on by. Okay, I will do that. Whose telephone is that ringing? He's trying to call Lonnie. Yeah, I'm trying to... Trying to impress me. He's going to call somebody.

He's going to call somebody. They know it's him. They won't pick up. They won't pick up. All this talk is unnecessary. Yo, Lonnie. I'm sitting here with George Wallace. George Wallace is in town. You know, he's on the no-fly list.

So he would like for you to get him into the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. That's where you want to go to, right? Yes, sir. You want to go to the white one. I want to go to both of them. I want to go see Dr. King. I know I can just walk up and see that. Right.

I'm from Atlanta. I know more about Dr. King. Man, hurry up. It's a voice message. Lonnie, I'm coming by. I want to go see the whole, all three floors. There's a three floors and four floors. Doc, it's like my eighth floor. I don't know. That's why I want to see it.

Lonnie, let me call you back, dog. Okay. All right. It's the National Health Institute here in D.C. because we need to take your ass over there. It's called the NIH, the National Institute of Health. I don't do the N-words. All right, y'all. George Wiles had the DC Improv all week.

Why you talking so loud? Ain't nobody here but me and you. Easy. Because I'm talking to the public. They got to hear me. And you got your microphone. They hear you. My voice carries in here.

And it's my shit. Thank you very much. All right, y'all. So again, George Wiles, DC Improv. You still got to pay rent. He and DC Improv pulled up. Y'all see right there, Showtime, 7, 9, 15, Saturday, 6 and 8, 15. Are you serious?

Hey, that's what they sent us. You paid $150 to send me to Las Vegas. Look what that is up there. Actually, I did not pay. All right, so I. I know you're broke dancing. The security guard knew who I was and let me in for free. All right, y'all.

You get the ticket information right there. Go to the DC Improv website. Y'all check George out. Don't you have a book with no pictures in it? I got a book called Laugh It Off. Make sure you enjoy your life. Laugh it off. Greg needs one to go behind.

Okay. I'm going to put it on the screen. I also got a book called Bull Twit. I was voted the top 25 funniest tweeters in the world by Rolling Stone Magazine. So I do have a book. The next time I come back, I will promote my books, okay? Please. I'll do that.

So Greg made another book back there, a book of laughter, and teaches you how to live and enjoy it. Laughter is the greatest, man. That's why we encourage people to overdose on laughter. Keep it in the reach of children. And when you stop laughing, call your doctor. Gotcha. And when you laugh for more you stop laughing, call your doctor. Gotcha. And when you laugh for more than four hours, call your doctor.

We'll give the doctor prescriptions so the doctor can laugh along with you. It's important to laugh. When you stop laughing, you stop living. There you go. I'm George Wallace, I love you. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it. I'm gonna take over the show.

That's my, I'm auditioning for this show right now. I'm doing pretty good. Y'all go to DCM Prime, you go see George, be sure to bring you some cinnamon. It's gonna be a whole thing. I'll see y'all tomorrow, new birth. New birth.

Bishop David Baptist Church in Atlanta. In Atlanta, you going there? I'm going to my- Bishop Brian is a good friend of mine. I worked his church there. And I didn't have to tell him. I couldn't tell him that I used to work for Eddie Long. Chris Tucker and I went to Chris.

Listen, listen, listen. Hey, you're not going to believe this. I was up in the pulpit with Bishop Eddie Long before he died, right? That makes sense, before he died. Yeah, but he told me to sing a song. And my dumb ass couldn't think of a song. You know what I sang?

What? He touched me to sing a song, and my dumb ass couldn't think of a song. You know what I sang? What? He touched me. Oh, he touched me. Something, something happened. And now I know he touched me and made me whole. He touched me. Y'all, I'm at Newburgh tomorrow for the McDonald's Inspiration Gospel Tour. We're going to be in the house. I'm going to be doing a show from there as well.

Looking forward to that. Saturday, I'm at Clark Atlanta's Homecoming. And then Sunday, I'm going to be signing books at New Birth on Sunday. Who the fuck you signing? My book, White Fear, How the Browning of America is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds. That's right. That's right, because they have no cinnamon in their cabinets. All right, y'all.

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