The Breakfast Club - Laugh & Learn: Immaturity = Murderer Not Martyr

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

The Black Effect Presents... Laugh & Learn! Flame Monroe and co-host Bobbi Clifford discuss everything from Nick Cannon, the Amazon workers' strike, political investigations, economic challenges, another tragic school shooting, the implications of privilege and violence, media influence, political accountability, the role of youth in society, the holiday spirit, the importance of reflection during this time of year and more. Tune in and comment in the socials below. Be sure to subscribe, rate and share.  Follow Laugh and Learn: @laughandlearnpodcast @monroeflame @cliffordbobbi Laugh & Learn on YouTube  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Make you wanna revisit, tell your friends take a listen Young folks say it's lit, old folks say we dig it Hey, can't no bitch do what you do Can't no bitch do what you do Can't no bitch do what I do Oh fuck that we dig it Hey hey hey welcome to this week's episode of Laugh and Learn. I am comedian Flame Monroe and if I don't sell my bubbly perky stuff y'all I'm under the weather. I went to New Orleans this weekend. Tell me tell me. And I hosted the Queen and King annual pageant the sixth year. I'm the official host. We had a fantastic time. Those of you all who are friendly with the Flemets, the Flemets are real friendly with me on coffee time.

You know that Fantasia Lamour, our girl, won for Queen and then King Angel Saez from Chicago won. It was a great contest, really good time, great turnout. I did Tina Turner, but then the next day we did a brunch show for the winners and

a couple of other people. So it was a great contest. Really good time. Great turn out. I did Tina Turner, but then the next day we did a brunch show for the winners and a couple of the uh formers and that is where somebody put the cooties on me because I have a cooties. I'm a bitch. I'm a terrible cough. I don't have really body aches or anything, but we're gonna bust it through this show because guess what? We owe it to you guys. So I'm not going to have a terrible cough. I don't have really body aches or anything but we're going to bust through this show because guess what? We owe it to

you guys. So, I'm going to shake it through and what I can't carry, Bobby condemns your carry on that booty of hers. She can carry that and then so, hi you too. It is. I an absolute buffet table back there. Um I feel terrible that you did that.

I hope they get cold. The son of a **** II. I'm looking out for them. So they better not they better not Something is going around it's just that time of year. Um, did I also hear that it's Fantasia's birthday a nice birthday coming is it tomorrow today tomorrow should be 60. Okay. All right, I'm gonna send her a little something That might be nice and appreciated but you know and I want you guys if you get a chance to send Fantasia Thank you Congratulations and all that it simply partage or partage a little more on Facebook and Instagram Anyway, let's get on to the get on to it. So anyway, I taped We Play in Space with Nick Cannon in August. Hysterical. And it finally dropped this past

Monday. So if you get a chance listeners, please go to YouTube and download we and it's free. Just type in We Play in Space with Flamer Rowe, where my sister, me and my sister, Doc played Nick Cannon and his partner Courtney B And we beat their ass and let me start with that, but we had the best time y'all got to go listen to it I have a question Yes Being a girl from boston. What is it to run a boston on somebody? That means you get 10 books

10 or more B-U-C-K or B-O-O-K B-O-C-K or B-O-O-K? B-O-O-K, books. I don't know what that means. So when we win, that's called books. So we won. In 10 books or more is Boston. But there was a jewel that came out of the show. Not that me and Nick Cannon got along famously. Not that me and Don had everybody laughing.

Nick Cannon said at the end of the show, I want you guys to watch it. Nick Cannon out of his own mouth, said, I want you guys to watch it. Nick Cannon out of his own mouth said that it would be an honor to executive produce flame arose new comedy special. So I hope he works whatever magic he has and and get this rolling because you have certainly waited long enough to have this happen That you've had people off but you know, let's see this is the magic this is let's see

Let's let's see if we can get this gone. Yeah, and don't jinx it too much because I'm Irish So I get I get a little you know, let's not put the way you get a little you get a little about everything You're worried. I know I am a wicked. I worry about everybody. I don't see. Yeah, but I know it's going to happen. Manifest. Okay.

Yeah, we had a great time. I want you guys to watch the episode and leave a comment. We cut up now. We were playing space. If you're a space player, that is the game to watch. And he was so you know what I

loved about Nick Bobby. He was so cool. Some of the topics were a little cringy cuz and he was so you know what I loved about Nick Bobby people so cool some of the topics were a little Cringy, but he was so fun and he made it light that he laughed that we laughed and that is what it's all about So y'all make sure y'all watch I learned a little something with the windmill card That the questions on the cards were a little they were a little there were a little lot for this this mission physician lady But I learned a little something. I learned a little something But that was fine actually if you guys are looking for a laugh I loved dot I thought she had a phenomena phenomenal

Personality just as big as everybody else there. She made me laugh Her bangs god bless. They should have their own zip code. I love them. And I love that she was so comfortable and that you all, all four of you, you would never guess that was like your first time meeting. You would think you were all old pals. So you had a real great chemistry for you. That is my superpower Bobby. My gift is that I can make you laugh. My superpower is that make you very comfortable?

I that well, you know, I think we have that in common. I my mother always says you have never met someone that's not a friend You've never met a stranger And so yeah I think that's important to be able to do to people Sometimes so when I get looking to get out of a store or something quickly and I'm someone's telling me their whole life history I'm like I've got a I've got've got a big beacon on my head for them. No, Bobby, no. You mean somebody talks more than you? No.

Sometimes. Sometimes. We're not going to have a long episode because I really muster it through this because my chest is, every time I cough, it just seems to punch me further and further. So I want to talk. First, I want to start to start I know Bob you got I know you got a laugh I just want to give a shout out to the Amazon employees that are on strike I know days before the holiday they are saying that they are overworked big time not underpaid because I think Amazon pays

a fair wage but they are working the they won't be anything late, everything will keep going. They move it along and I'm thinking, oh, that's not what the response I wanna have. I wanna have, you'll go to the negotiating table, try to get these people, fix up your facilities or rent new facilities or whatever. I was a little disappointed with that one. Well, let me tell you the flip side of that, just playing devil's advocate.

While they're doing all this, I understand because don't overwork me and have me work in bad conditions, but they know that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are working hand in hand, and Elon Musk wants to replace so many employees with machines. So machines don't take bathroom breaks. They don't take lunch breaks. They don't care about the facility,

because all they're built to do is work, work, work, work, work. I just want everybody to just- Until they break down. Until they break down, and then somebody has to fix them. I just want to break down until they break down and then somebody has to fix them. And again, if you are a worker at Amazon and they try to replace you in a machine and you are a good American offer that machine a cup of salt water, you will get your hours back. That's all I'm saying. Okay. Where we going?

So the next thing that we had is a sort of a little early Christmas gift. Although I don't understand I keep thinking you saying the overplay for the underplay there, the ethics committee, the house ethics committee is actually going to release the gates investigation. I was kind of shocked. He doesn't seem to be bothered by it. He said that this is more if there's nothing illegal, but it's more embarrassing what's in there. And he was he party too much in his 20s and 30s. And he's a totally different person. And if it is true, it's old stuff. Let's see what comes out. Maybe, you know, maybe I'll go, Oh, okay. But for what they're saying is in there. It

doesn't sound like it's driving with what with what he's saying Yeah You cannot exchange that he allegedly has sex with an underage kid Well, that's what let's see what they're coming out for some of the GOP Some of the old staunchy ones are like well If that's the case because he's no longer in and this is the part that I'm struggling with. It is right, he is no longer in, but he is going for some sort of public job. And I don't know if that's why they're going to release it. But he wants all of the investigations on everybody released. And I'm like, okay.

You know, if that's but this guy's this guy's kind of get the biggest one. So we'll see. I will, I'm, I'll be interested to see. I think it's supposed to be out not too long. Well, listen, I need them to pull it all out. And I need that not to go through because Matt Gates gives me mad man. Not that it's not a whole lot of other ones.

And speaking of mad men, I'm angry, I'm a mad man. Not that it's not a whole lot of other ones. And speaking of mad men, I'm angry, I'm a mad man right now and a mad woman that they want to remove. They have voted to remove Fonny Willis from the Trump case now in Georgia because she was having an affair with a co-worker. He had an affair while he was the president with the prostitute, but he still gets to do the job. Yeah, they're saying, I don't know if it has to do with, they're definitely saying the judge said that they're not gonna let her go forward. But remember, any and all of his cases

have to go under the new Supreme Court rules that came out last year. And I don't have a lot of information on that one other than they're not letting her move forward and I'm wondering if it's because it falls within the parameters of what the Supreme Court came out with. But I'm, you know, I feel, you already know how I feel about this. I don't think it's going to go anywhere anyway, any of these cases.

So this is the case I would have liked to have heard first. This one in the January six, those are the only two I didn't care about the hush money. I didn't care about the documents. As I said, I feel like he sort of manipulated that. But these are the ones had they come out sooner and quicker. These are the ones that had some meat to them. So it's unfortunate. So you know, I'm a little disappointed myself.

I'm seeing that a lot of people are calling from her. King Jeffries to others are calling for the removal of the speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, because there's the possibility that the country will have a shutdown tomorrow. But it's not a full shutdown. It's a partial shutdown. Yeah, they the House rejected today that Johnson's slam beat. But they're what they're rejecting is he was trying to push, well, Trump wants the debt ceiling removed.

That was the one thing that he wanted put into place earlier, and now because he doesn't want to take responsibility for it, that he's not going to be able to meet it with all of these new tariffs and fees and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They're looking for it to be removed. And both on the Republican side and obviously, the Democrats said no, he would have had to come up with 60%. He couldn't come up with 60%. Supposedly, there's something up their sleeves for tomorrow. Like you know, there is maybe the Plan C. We'll see what happens. I hope to God that we don't go into the new year. And with everybody on break and we have, the system is shut down.

Well, with the terrorist things, let me tell you something, I know that Trump said, came out recently and said that he cannot guarantee that the price of food is not going to go up. Oh, and the tariffs. I went to the grocery store yesterday, Bobby, just yesterday, because I needed to get some stuff to fight this cold.

And I love eggs. I bought a dozen of eggs, not even extra large, just large eggs, cage free, which is where I like $8. $8. You guys pay a fortune in California. Like your gas is so much. My gas right now is 270. What is yours or

I use 91 only in my Jeep it's 497 or $5 something like that depending on where you go but I'm just saying the eggs were eight bucks you know bacon the price of bacon was about the same yeah well it's not gonna be easy especially once he raised the tariffs when we get 60% of our produce and stuff from other places. It's all I want to say flame, no shift. What do you think Joe Biden's been saying? That's two years since COVID is over.

The prices went up and we had the inflation due to COVID. You know, it's a worldwide phenomenon. We came out of it the best and the easiest. There are some countries that are literally at their knees that have not come out of COVID. Of course, you can't just wave a finger and wave a wand. Of course, he didn't say that on the campaign trail. But had he looked a little bit more, I told you his economists went in and started looking at stuff and said, I read an article from CNN, this was probably about three weeks ago. And the expression was so simple. It was like, oh, the economy is actually not that bad. But he's been telling everybody it was it

was desperate. Now that said, we don't want to sound like we're not empathetic. Because as you just said, you know, we're feeding ourselves. And I know that I live paycheck to paycheck. I think when on the off times when you're not working, like we've got a break right now with from TIFF's tour, you're feeling the pain. So I don't want people to not think that but the economy for the country isn't as bad. It's the inflation and the inflation with him talking about the migrants and all of that jazz, we spoke about it last episode, that some of the prices are starting to come up. Was it 2.7, I think was the number that we had last week, inflation was starting

to rise. Joe Biden had it starting to come down. And then with all of this immigration and whatever talk, we had a lot of the migrants who were picking stuff. This is only one of the things I know there are many things going on. But they were self-deporting themselves because they want to be able to come back. And you know, we've got a lot of, you know, vegetables on the vine, so to speak. So you're exactly right. I mean, it's between the tariffs and the immigration issues, we're going to have big problems with food.

You better get yourself a chicken and start planting some crops. I don't know what I can plant in 20 degree weather, but some root vegetables. But we better start doing something because it's not gonna get better under. Even though he says it, what did Elon Musk say that you keep telling everybody?

It's going to get it's gonna be tight or something for a little while. It's gonna be hard. Yeah, it's gonna be hard for a little like as if it's gonna affect him. Yeah. Yeah. Well, for the for the regular American. Yeah, it is gonna get hard. We're gonna have to get used to it. And people I believe that we'll all get through it. We're gonna have to tighten our belts. We're gonna have to get used to it. And people, I believe that we'll all get through it. We're going to have to tighten our belts. We're going to have to say no to the kids for some stuff and not overspend. Be careful and mindful of our money. And if you are in the climate that you

can grow a little something, grow a little something. And try to tide you over. Can your stuff win? They did it in the depression and stuff. We're going to have to do it. But we will get through the next four years. Two years, remember, we're going to have to do it. Um, but we will get through the next four years, two years. Remember we vote again. Hey y'all.

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It is going to be very, very difficult, Bobby. We just, listen, we're survivors. We will have to make do. It will not be easy. And you know what I think it is also is is because we look on the internet and I see my neighbor live in this kind of way. And I'm thinking on the outside looking in that,

but I promise you, sometimes it looks good on the internet, but they have the same troubles. They may not have the financial woes, but they have a whole lot of other issues. Let me tell you who's having an issue. The shooter this past week, a 15 year old girl who went and shot up a school. This was a 15 year old girl. They have not divulged all the information.

Something was, I believe that something was happening to this kid for her to have this much anger and bitterness. More than bullying. Something was happening with her in her personal life. Oh, I think it was happening in her home, right? So she, they said that her parents have been married and divorced to each other at least two times. She was living under a very difficult child custody situation.

These are just the things they've been able to pull so far. We still don't know if that's the motivation. The only thing that we really know about it is that we had a 14-year-old and a 42-year-old that were killed. They identified them. Ruby Vergara, who's 14, and Erin West, who's 42. She entered an open study room and six other people were injured. Four of them immediate really least two of them that are still in critical condition fighting for their lives. So there's got to be something it is so sad. And this was a private Christian school.

My god, I can't even. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see which you get the gun flame. I It's a private Christian school. So this new Republican regime, that's all they're pushing is private It's Christian schools and who I wonder did she have one of them Trump Bibles up in there. Her name was Natalie Ruffno Yeah, because you know, he's selling Bibles. He's selling Bibles for 60 bucks. I wonder, did she have one of those Trump Bibles up in those Christian schools? I don't know, but I will be interested to A, to find out, but B, to see, like, where did she get the gun?

If she was in between parents, you know, parents are being held accountable with this stuff now. You know, we've already seen two parents that have gone to jail and two more that are that are going to be be tried. It'll be interesting to see, see what happens with this terrible before the holidays. I just feel you send your kid your kids going to get some extra help. And, and this is what happens. Did you see the Gilgo beach guy has two, there are two more bodies, two additional, um, people that they're, they're looking at. He is nuts.

Um, I just can't believe it. I I'm like, jeep is creepers. It, you know, how old are these bodies have been for a long time? One of them they think may have looked like a woman or, or dressed as a woman, but they think it might be a man. There's still, they have to check the bones and stuff. You know, Bobby, stories like that make you think, how do these people even, because I couldn't walk around

with that heavy blanket on me every day, knowing that I had killed and buried somebody. That's a lot to carry around for years and not disclose to nobody, you know? I will be paranoid or something. I don't know, I think people's consciousness are different, but ooh, the way that story sounds like he has no conscience, no soul.

No, when you look in his eyes too, and of course that, you know, we've seen him all over the news for the past year. But when you look in his eyes, there's like a, and he's a big strapping guy. Like I think he's a six foot four, you know, four, 300 pound. Like if you were a small woman, you wouldn't have any chance. There's like a deadness.

Like the few times they've had, he just, there's like a deep, dark deadness in those eyes. I mean, thank God they actually have them. I hope they can tie everything to them. I really hope if there are other bodies that they are able to identify them for the family so the families have some sort of closure because yikes, that is some really crazy, crazy stuff. Look at them. They just did an extradition, didn't they? On Luigi Mangione. Yeah, he's so he's off to, well, you know, he didn't like the conditions of the jail in Pennsylvania. So let's see how he likes Rikers Island. Okay, that's oh yeah, maybe they can. They did say he didn't speak much. Everything was

a yes or no. His, his attorney asked him, is he sure that this is what he wanted? He said, yes. Uh, you know, he thinks he's not going to do, of course, I mean, he probably won't do any, any worse in New York than he would in, um, Pennsylvania. I don't know. It's not like, you know, they're, they're living in the lap of luxury there. Um, I, I wonder if, so we're talking about a deadness or craziness. I think I don't know if he was so immature. I don't get it. I wonder if he realizes that he's going to jail for the rest of his life. I mean, they have them have them. Do you know like this isn't there is a life maybe he is to me another Menendez brothers.

And when I say that, I don't mean that he killed his parents, but he was so entitled and he felt so privileged. He came from money. He was a valet. He had everything that you could possibly want to be afforded in his life. Everything. And it still wasn't enough that you would go out

and oppose, and you're so smart. You're the Kool-Adi of a private school, you know You're the number one you couldn't sit down and call the board meeting who that you had to go this extreme And again, Bobby, I agree with you that you were cow or you shot this man in the back He didn't even see you coming. You could even have a conversation with you was just that angry and you would hit you had millions and millions of dollars. Hey bump that you were young bright and extremely handsome young man you probably could have had anything you wanted but you chose to kill somebody so now you have to take what they give you. I can't even he had every he he had a privilege his sex. He had privilege by his color socioeconomic status

Education he had every privilege there isn't I don't know think there's one other privilege that he didn't get and you know What's even crazier so his family is is? Hired in the maternity. I was listening to News Nation. I think it was last night or the night before they were saying he hasn't even Nobody his parents haven't even spoken or visited to him. It's through the attorney. But he has collected as of yesterday, one hundred and ten thousand people are paying for his legal defense fund. Is that nuts?

Well, they look at him as a Robin Hood because of the way that they help a kind of because of the health care system here in America. So they some people have actually have like, well, they have a lot of people have labeled him a modern day Robin Hood, probably take for the rich and give to the boy. But this is so here's the difference, which I find infuriating. So we just talked about everything that he had. Mr. Thompson, he came up by his bootstraps himself. He found his own way, got himself to school, paid himself. He just came from a regular average family. He wasn't brought up in privilege. So he is

the hero that he made it. And again, he didn't necessarily make the decisions for people's claims not to get paid or whatnot. He just happens to head the company, the largest healthcare company. I just, I really, I don't have a lot of his immaturity that he has to have. I feel badly for that because I think he's 26. He made a decision for the rest of his life that his life is destroyed, it's over. I mean, he's never going anywhere.

Think of all the good that he could have done with that Magna Cum Laude and the education, the both prep school, the college. I'm gonna cut you off and disagree with you right there. Because if he writes Donald Trump a nice letter and says he's gonna donate some money, he might get a pardon. He might get a pardon. I mean he feels terrible for the average man and the little guy.

But he didn't mind taking his parents' money and being self-funded down in Hawaii while he sunned his buns. There's too much hypocrisy in all of it. I just don't. But you are right. He could God knows. You I'm telling you the way the way the country is set up now, you really just don't know what is going to happen. But I think that was still a tragedy because even if the guy who was murdered was wrong in some aspect, and I don't know, because they have not disclosed enough detail as to say what went right. He still was a parent He still was a dad. He still was a husband, you know, he still had a life

there are other ways of dealing with things but like you said by the immaturity is and Like the internet tells you or these some of these video games kill kill kill kill kill kill kill Not reason not rhyme rhyme, not talk, not have a situation. It's just kill, kill, kill is we live in a monstrous times. It's crazy. And then I haven't, I don't know a whole lot about him either. Um, Chris Cuomo had somebody on, I think from the company, this was last week. And they said, the sad part is he was the type of agitator Thompson himself that questioned things. How can we do it better? How can we do it more cost-effectively? How do we change things in lower rates?

I mean, this was the guy that that potentially could have sat on a committee with people and Tried to change health care and he was taken out by by a coward I'm sorry anybody that shoots somebody in the back when they don't even know it. No, is that's a coward in the darkness in the get me. Oh, can we started? Um. Anyway, well, well, he's been he's in the Brooklyn penal system. Maybe he'll share baby oil and sales with a penal system.

And maybe he'll share sales with Diddy. They'll maybe all the health care stories. Maybe maybe. Diddy getting out, they keep turning him down. He ain't going nowhere. They got him right where they want him. Because they know and you know, the thing is, so his privilege, his financial privileges and helping him and his notoriety and all that stuff stuff because they know he's going to take off.

He's not staying. If they let him out, he'd be gone in an hour. He's going to run like Peter, Paul and Mary. I'm leaving on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again. Yeah, no, it's the truth. It's yeah, he'll be back again. Yeah. No, it's the truth. It's, um, yeah, he'll be gone. The one thing I was, I don't want to say I'm glad because immigration, they're

talking about the massive deportation, but that borders are they are trying to come up with a formula for, for, for, uh, easier way to deport. And they're definitely going after the criminals first. I don't think they're going to do much better than Biden has done. But it's funny when you're sitting back in the big seat and he's tried to educate himself a little bit more, or at least getting people in, it's not as easy. Like we just talked about groceries, he was going to magically make all the wars disappear. He was going to bring inflation down on day one. And now all of a sudden, now that he's in, oh, not so easy. So we won't deport everybody. But the Yeah, I need Jesus. He's been we talked about this last last week or the week before for

a second. I've never seen anybody that we waiting to go in, you know, we still has a month to go. And he's acting like he's president. He's sitting with everybody meeting with everybody. So he's already doing it all. Why isn't it? Why isn't it over? because he sold, he was like a snake oil man. He sold the middle of the ocean, a condo in the middle of the ocean, and you knew it was in the middle of the ocean, and you still bought it. And people fucked around and now they're gonna find out.

Ha ha ha, say that Bobby, say it. It's true, fuck around and find out. And the big cop up is, and I actually heard Trump come out against it. I did hear about the polio vaccine. He likes the salt vaccine. I think that I don't think that RFK and that's what this piece with this segment's about, was talking about getting rid of the polio vaccine. That's how the media is sort of twisting it.

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He is giving me a mad man. Awful. But the one thing that you and I have said is I feel like the young aren't listening to the regular media. They feel like it's passe and they're only listening to TikTok and all these crazy things. I think everybody else, you got to vet things not just once, but twice. So he had somebody that had worked with him at one time that was on again, News Nation, I'm like News Nation all

over the place today. And he said, there's one vaccine, there were three of them, one of them for children, that he doesn't feel like it's been vetted enough, and he wants more more information done on it. So he wasn't talking about getting rid of all of them, which is what the media made it seem like, you know, it was being whipped off. I haven't heard RFK himself say that. No, I'm sort of, but he hasn't been saying much. He's just been sort of shaking the bushes, you know, up in Washington. I haven't heard him. Have you speak this week? I haven't really, I haven't heard a whole lot of a lot other you've been too busy. You haven't been, you haven't been him. Have you speak this week? I haven't heard a whole lot. I think you've been too busy. You haven't been looking at that.

OK, and JD Vance have seemed to be very quiet because the president-elect is Donald Trump. But from what I'm seeing from the news and what I'm seeing on the outside, the president is Elon Musk. He's certainly the social media king. He made a comment something I this is not this is not verbatim that you know, he

They have between Trump and himself they have all the media like he thinks he's Putin who puts out the media because between X and and News what what is what is Trump's cult? and news, what is Trump's called? Truth Nation. I knew it was Nation, I was gonna say News Nation just because I had just said it, which is not the truth. That's only that type of, that's the, you know, that's a streaming, whatever you wanna call it platform.

Not even streaming, isn't even correct. That the stuff you're seeing people. People say something to you, go and look. Don't believe what they're saying 100%. Because we can get ourselves in a twist over stuff. And until the 21st, we're not even gonna know what's gonna happen. There's no use of us getting crazy right now. To me. I'm looking at that shutdown stuff just keeps coming up.

Oh, they're still working on it. I'm petrified about a government shutdown too right now. It is so close to the new year. No, we can't because they're all going to be gone for whatever. They're going to have to come up with something. There was some crazy mess, I guess, in the, um, in what Trump had wanted. He wanted that debt ceiling gone. And he wanted a few other crazy things

He wanted the lower disaster relief What about the poor people that are that are voted for you that are living in North Carolina that are still intense right now You're gonna take their disaster money away from them. No, I don't think so um Is it you know, just absolutely not so hopefully by tomorrow they'll do something. The Dow plunge, which is sort of normal right after an election, but it also caused in order for us not to get into inflation, they're saying that the Fed's going to reduce the interest rate by a quarter percent. I'm always happy for that.

Anytime any of my credit cards or potentially my student loans will go down. I'm like I'll take it. I think I think that when I was watching MSNBC earlier how they're going after this training they're blaming this change for so many things Because she had a different point of view I don't like that this training to me was standing on an American principle that was implemented by men of the Constitution of the United States in 1776. Because she's not saying what you all want her to say.

Now y'all wanna change all of these different laws and rules. We are living in a crisis y'all, I'm telling you. It is, but the only thing I like about Liz and that I'm really appreciating it is that she has her receipts fling. So she had, it was one conversation that they were, they're upset about something that was said or Trump is something that was said, like it was slanderous and she said it one way.

The person she said it to said, no, that's exactly what she said. So that's one of the things he might, he might try to sue. Cause you know, he's suing that pollster Trump. They, they said that her, her company said that Harris was up by three points. So he wants to go ahead and, and sue her. I'm trying to think of what the hell her name is And I'm thinking really this is this is the way you're gonna spend your time. It seems absolutely crazy And seltzer well, yeah. Well, well, he's his whole campaign. He was on revenge So nothing has changed. He's on revenge. He said it. Well, I know, no, and he did. I mean, hopefully nothing happens with Fani.

We already know what the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified her from bringing that forward. We also did this week because we live in a democracy. The electoral college actually did clinch that he that he did with when it takes a long time. This is what we had. We started to have some of the troubles that the last time he won 312 and she won 226. I didn't really she was so low. For some reason I thought she was like 230.

Yeah, it is a little disappointing. It's going to be a shake up week. But especially if we go into a lockdown with this country I just want to say with the whole Luigi guy. I understand people. I understand both sides of that story I don't I don't agree with him going to shoot that man period killing that man, but I do understand both I don't understand though that you were rich and privileged and people out here struggling like yourself. I myself, you know, I'm where I only work from gig to gig, you know, and you work from paycheck to paycheck, which is the same thing as me. But when things get tight, I don't want to go lash out and kill somebody because I'm not getting things my way or they're not

doing it fast enough. That is definitely what you said. There's a level of maturity that is lacking and missing in this country right now. And I think that'll be a good title, the lack of maturity in America, because that's the extreme. That is the, that's the last resort. You go murder somebody, you know, not talk it out, not let's have a meeting, let's try to come to some situation to where we can sit and talk and hash it out. Just go and kill. That is what we're going to give me ideas. What do we always say? I've said it.

I never mind if you complain about something, you don't like it. And it's it's health care is awful in the United States. We have I mean, we have to be having some sort of negotiation with the pharmaceutical companies. We have to work with the insurance companies to get prices down. There's a million things we can do, but Luigi, bring your ideas. Be willing to put on some shoes and walk the pavement and do some of the work. Get people together. I mean, there's a million. He could have become a lobbyist and lobby for this.

There's a million things that he could have done. But he chose the easy kind of sexy way. And I put that right back to what you said earlier. It's, we've, we're up against the young people. What are we teaching them? We are crazy. We are in an environment that 20 years ago, you and I would both go, this is no way. It's no way.

I mean, you know. Well, with the internet, we have sensationalized beauty. We have because if he was an unattractive man, Bobby, I don't know if people would still see him the same way. But because he's such an attractive man, I think that we have and wealthy and young and I think they have centralized that and made him like a martyr. And no, he's a murderer, not a martyr. He's a murderer. Please don't get twisted.

I like that. He's a murderer, not a martyr. So not a martyr. It's gonna be crazy, Bobby, but you know what? We're gonna keep reporting to you guys here at Laugh and Learn, and I'm gonna feel better, y'all. I'm gonna be better next week. I just got the coogies. I think Bobby gave it to me long distance I know I did have it last

week but mine was in my nose not in my chest yours is in your chest that's that's tough stuff feel better honey it's a whole lot of stuff in my chest but yeah it's definitely in there you got yeah I was gonna say something naughty, but I'm not. We wanna thank our producer, Mr. Aaron Howell, for coming in and showing up late. I was like, we were supposed to take yesterday, but I was under the weather, but I pushed through today.

Thank you guys for joining us here. Bobby, what can we follow you on social media? I'm gonna tell you, but first I'm gonna say, and also because I was looking at Christmas lights, we probably won't speak to you before Christmas. So ho ho ho, have a wonderful, peaceful holiday. If you celebrate. So now you're going to call me on my name. You got it. You got, you got, you got a couple of other people in there.

I want to make sure, but I'm, I'm Clifford Bobby on Facebook. No, Clifford Bobby on Instagram, no Clifford Bobby on Instagram Excuse me Bobby clipping on TikTok and and Facebook. How about you and she's and she's at laugh and laugh podcast. Yep, or IG. I am Monroe flame on IG and I will be free tomorrow I get out of ID jail. And then I am flame Monroe road 125 on TikTok and flame on road everywhere else. Thank you guys for joining us. I'm sorry my voice is so raspy. I was in the woods. I had a great time, but I came home with the cooties, but I won't have them next week. Here at Laugh-A-Lot. I want you guys to remember as we close it out this year,

because we're almost over. First of all, Merry Christmas to everyone. Have a great time. Watch It's a Wonderful Life. Watch A Christmas Carol with Gene Lockhart and with Reginald Owen. Go back to yesteryear, remember your childhood. Stop listening to all the publications about this person was a racist and this person like these are the movies that we grew up on as children. Watch it's a very quick watch it's a Christmas Charlie Brown. Watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer especially if you're a seasoned person. It'll take you back to when you were a kid different times happier times hopefully in your life and make you remember what Christmas is all about just worshiping God the birth of Christ giving gifts and being with people

that you know love and want to be around. So try to remember that with the world that we live in right now. Because here at Laugh-a-Lan we are not trying to get you to change your mind. We are only trying to get you to use your mind because why Bobby? Is a mind is a terrible thing to waste. And a Christmas Carol or a wonderful life is a terrible thing to not watch during the holiday season. It's fun. Watch it happen one night. Oh my God.

Oh my God. Oh, black and white. I love all that stuff. I do that too. And watch the Christmas lights. That's what I did tonight. Yes. I went to Gillette Stadium and it's so fun to see the people.

They're enthusiastic and you gotta get the vibe going. Put a little Christmas music on. Every city has a channel that, you know, after Thanksgiving between the two holidays they play the music. I'm telling you make it nice. If you're a parent or grandparent you have kids around take away their apparatuses get popcorn sit down and watch those Christmas movies together it will warm your heart because they will never forget those moments. I'm just trying to let you guys know have a Merry Christmas and we will see you guys before the end of the new year. But please have a fantastic Christmas.

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