F.L. "Bubba" Copeland, an Alabama mayor and Baptist preacher, took his own life after 1819 News exposed him as a transgender woman living under the pseudonym Brittany Blair Summerlin. While Copeland claimed this alter ego was merely a stress-relieving hobby involving online erotica and women's clothing photos without medical transition, hosts debate whether his political affiliation or timing of disclosure altered the outcome. The segment highlights the role of the conservative Alabama Policy Institute in the report and speculates on divine judgment versus societal hypocrisy regarding gender identity in rural America. [Automatically generated summary]
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Alabama Mayor's Double Life00:10:04
Yeah, I got a new show for y'all.
Got a damn good show.
Got this story about this mayor down in Alabama.
He's a good old boy.
I bet you he's a Republican.
Bet he's a good man.
I don't even know.
I don't even know who he's talking about, but I know if he's in Alabama.
Politician?
You said he's a governor?
I ain't say nothing about no governor.
I said mayor.
Oh, sorry.
He's also a preacher.
Oh, he's got to be a good man.
I don't even need...
I already know.
Christian?
He killed himself.
Killed himself?
Yeah.
He wasn't supposed to do that as a Christian.
I think he go to hell forever for that.
Give me the article.
He must not.
Watch what, watch.
Wait till you...
Let me show you why he killed himself.
Alabama preacher F.L. Bubba Copeland.
Oh, he's one of them Copelands.
He's a preacher.
Copeland kills himself after being outed as transgender curvy girl.
What?
An Alabama preacher and politician killed himself Friday, two days after being outed for having a secret life.
He shared online as a transgender curvy girl.
F.L. Bubba.
What was he doing?
Webcams?
F.L. Bubba Copeland, who was the mayor of Tiny Smith Station with a population of 6,756, as well as the pastor at a First Baptist church in nearby Phoenix City, shot himself around 5 p.m. in front of the sheriffs who were following him.
Wow, he's doing an OJ thing, huh?
Yeah, Copeland was married, father of three.
His suicide came after police were asked to do a welfare check and began tailing his car.
He exited the vehicle, produced a handgun, and took his own life.
The sheriff office said.
Copeland's suicide followed an expose in 1819 News, a news site once owned by the conservative think tank, the Alabama Policy Institute, that described Copeland's secret life online as a transgender woman under the pseudonym Brittany Blair Summerlin.
Pseudonym, pseudonym.
Pseudonym.
Yeah, that's how you said like a Negro, a pseudonym.
Pseudonym?
The hell's a pseudonym?
Pseudonym.
Pseudonym.
There you go.
Okay.
Black white person.
All right.
Nice, clean, and polished.
All right, look at that.
Pull it back up.
Let me read it.
Read that one thing over, man.
All right.
Show everybody you educated.
Read pseudonym.
Okay.
Online as a transgender woman under the pseudonym Brittany Blair.
Pseudonym, man.
That's what I said.
I'm saying pseudonym.
A transgender woman under the pseudonym Brittany Blair Summerlin.
Brittany described herself as a transgisting, transitioning, transgender curvy girl that loves smiling clothes and shoes.
That sounds like all women.
That's him right there.
He looks gay.
I take one look at him and say, yep, that dude's a homosexual.
Why do you say that?
Look at him.
You can tell he's gay.
You know, gay people have this glow about him like they're pregnant.
He looks like he's about in his third trial.
Kevin, let me keep reading.
Man, that's just a damn shame.
He took me.
Yeah, I know, it's horrible.
One of his social media profiles showed Copeland wearing different women's outfits, including bedroom photos of himself and women's underwear.
1819 News also reported that Copeland could be seen wearing some of his wife's clothes in his post.
Yeah, he's married and got three kids.
Yeah.
Man, what a shame, man.
Yeah.
Copeland.
That conservative think tank came across.
How did they find it?
Yeah, you know, conservatives can't stand no transgenders.
But how did that transgender think tank come across him online?
Put two and two together.
Rumors.
No, man.
Some conservatives over there looking at transgenders, trying to squeeze one off.
Said, man, that looks like the damn mayor of a city.
That's what happened.
Let me keep reading.
I'm going to tell you what.
They threw out that one porn star out of Turning Point USA.
Yeah, porn star.
Yeah, they threw it out.
Yeah, why'd he do that, man?
Because that was wrong.
They said it was a bad look for them.
No, it's freedom of speech.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
Yeah, let me keep reading, Kevin.
And my question is, Copeland.
When they threw out, how did those conservatives know he was a porn?
They watched porn.
They watched porn.
So why didn't you kick out the porn star along with the people who watch her?
You see what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Let me read the article.
I believe in freedom.
And that's a horrible thing when happening.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
If he was a Democrat, he could have came out.
Yeah.
Copeland referred to himself as a thick transgender woman and encouraged other trans women to go on hormone replacement therapy.
Oh, that's the women, grown folks?
Yeah.
He also...
I ain't talking about no kids, right?
No, I ain't saying no about no kids.
He also posted transgender porn as well as transgender fiction and erotica that he apparently wrote.
This dude doing, he posted transgender porn.
Let me say it again.
This dude living a double life.
This dude is posting transgender porn.
What else?
Let me bring back up.
These dudes posting transgender porn as well as transgender fiction and erotica.
Oh, stories about transgenders.
Right?
Romance novels about transgenders.
Right?
And they writing comics about transgenders.
Yeah.
All right, keep going.
Not bad.
Not bad.
I dated women like that.
Got some nice hips on him.
He's got hips like a woman, too.
Them feet is a dead giveaway.
Look at them big old fat feet he got.
Yeah, there's some big ass.
I'm dating a big girl.
Look at that.
Wait a minute.
What size shoe do you wear, bitch?
That's a red flag for me.
Because that looks like just a fat chick right there.
Yeah, it does.
Yeah.
But that foot, that look like a size 12 right now.
A size 12 wide.
Yeah, that shit belong on a Negro side.
Copeland told 1819 News, which published a report on his 62nd birthday, that his...
Daniel's 62?
Yeah.
He looks good.
Yeah, he looks good.
Hope I look that good when I'm 62.
Yeah, that his, let me keep reading.
That his online alter ego was a homeless hobby that did not go beyond his home.
Just my wife knows about it, Copeland said.
It's a hobby that I do to relieve stress.
I have a lot of stress and I'm not medically transitioning.
It's just a bit of a character I'm playing.
I don't go out and seek solicitation or anything like that.
Oh, man.
Man.
What I do in private life has nothing to do with what I do in my holy life.
I think God disagrees.
Copeland told 1819 reporter Craig Munger, does this have any effect on me being mayor?
That I sometimes put on a dress or sometimes put on makeup?
For a blue area, no.
For a red area, you're done.
Does that have anything to do whatsoever with me being mayor or being a pastor?
Oh, it's his campaign right there, huh?
I guess it was his campaign.
That's a good campaign.
Got Ralph Lawrence on.
FL Bubble.
Copeland Smith Station Mayor.
Dude's name Bubble, dressing up like a woman.
He appeared to take his outing in stride after they exposed they was published Wednesday.
That night, he delivered his regular sermon at the First Baptist Church of Phoenix City and briefly addressed the scandal.
I've been an object of an internet attack, Copeland said, in an article that was written about my capacity as the mayor and capacity as a pastor.
The archaeologist, not who or what I am.
He downplayed the online material calling an attempt of humor.
You know what happened?
You know what?
I don't think it's meeting Trump.
I don't think he was gay.
I think it was just a hobby of his, just screwing around.
And those pictures got out and it was going to ruin his name.
No, man.
He didn't see a way out.
It was more than that, Kevin.
It was more than a hobby.
No, until I was a little bit of a drink.
A lifestyle behind closed doors with the wife.
He was writing stories.
He was deep into the trans stuff.
You sure about that?
Man, that dude was probably dressed up like a woman, and his wife was probably pegging him.
Man, just speculation on bleed.
Probably his wife probably got, well, I ain't gonna bring his wife into it.
It's sad, man.
It's sad.
He didn't have a way out, man.
So he's just dead, man.
Well, he didn't have to kill himself.
It was embarrassing for him, I'm sure.
Yeah, he didn't see a way out.
Think about a few pictures of you coming out, dressing up like a woman.
Oh, I'm eating a gun.
And I'm going to choose a shotgun because it's going to be a closed cast.
I don't want nobody to ever see me again.
Fit to both barrels right here.
I know we're making a lot of situations, but man, that's sad man to take his own life, though.
Yeah.
I wouldn't wish that were anybody.
You know?
Yeah, I know.
It's horrible.
Yeah.
Just look like a nice guy, too, man.
I'm damn conserved.
He's probably gay, man.
I mean, you didn't have to write up.
Well.
Man, look.
There's no such thing as the perfect Christian.
Well, he's far from perfect.
Who's perfect, though, Kevin?
I mean, nobody's perfect, but you would think the average Christian ain't going to be, you know.
Hey, Dale O'Malley and a damn pastor.
I went to a Baptist church growing up.
That's Holby had to take his own life, and he did it right there in front of the cops.
Let me pay tribute to this video to you.
What?
Paying tribute to him.
He's a Republican.
I don't know if he's a Republican, Kevin.
Oh, Trump went to go see him.
He's a Republican.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's a Republican.
Yeah.
Yeah, he gets...
It'll have blew over.
Look at Marv Albert.
What's the name?
The guy that was the commentator?
What's the name of Marv Albert?
He was biting bitches.
No, that was Brett Musberger, wasn't it?
Keep bringing up Brett Muskberg.
Who is it?
Oh, it's Marv Albert.
Marv Albert.
Yeah, see, he came out.
Tribute To A Tough Man00:01:22
He was wearing lingerie and stuff.
Famous sports knot.
Then they banned him for a while or something like that, but he brought him up.
You know, that's back in the 80s.
We're talking 2023 now.
We're talking post-COVID.
The world has changed.
Man, it's just sad he had to kill himself.
Yeah, I know.
Man.
Look all the fun you're missing.
He's got a family too, man.
Got three kids.
I guess he couldn't face his kids.
Betches, kids came home and looked at him like this.
Probably had his phone.
It's like.
Yeah, it's got to be tough, man.
It's got to be tough, man.
You know what?
I think he's in.
He's got to be in heaven.
He's in heaven.
He shouldn't be in hell.
You know who they send to hell, right?
Trans guy.
I always think they go to hell.
That's what it said in the Bible, though.
That's what God said, man.
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