Juneteenth

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Welcome back to the call your cousins podcast, a now tangible group chat of cousins that wanted to share our thoughts, humor, and growth with the world. And everyone's invited, most of y'all. [00:01:31] Speaker B: My friend texting us, talking about her fiance, Finna get to it with her baby daddy. [00:01:41] Speaker A: We bite. This is the call your cousin's podcast with what I hope to be a special episode today. If it ain't special, it's necessary. If it ain't necessary, it's obligatory. This is our Juneteenth episode. Um, we got a bit to get to today. Join today with me. I have miss Joy, aka twin, on the mic. [00:02:05] Speaker B: What's up, y'all? [00:02:09] Speaker A: We got the research team. [00:02:12] Speaker C: Hey. [00:02:16] Speaker A: And I'm coming in hot. I'm coming in hot. Which one of y'all was at the white people job on Juneteenth? [00:02:22] Speaker B: I was not. I was technically, I was working remotely, but I didn't go to the office, and I barely did any work, so that counts, right? [00:02:39] Speaker A: I think that definitely. Wait, does it count as not going. [00:02:43] Speaker B: Or as going as not going? Being off. You know the weird thing? My client was off there on the west coast in Cali. You know, they always ahead of the time, and I was not. And I was. I was kind of mad about that. People were still putting meetings on my calendar and everything, and I declined. Okay. Because I will note, be a slave on the holiday commemorating the end of slavery, right? [00:03:16] Speaker A: I would hope not, even though you would be getting paid. But that's. No, never mind. Um, I work for a black person, okay? I work for black folks. I popped my head into work and left. I ain't gonna lie. And everybody was gone by noon anyway, so thank you. I worked a total about 15 minutes. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Thank you. That is what is supposed to be happening? Okay, because why are we at work? And then my manager, somebody was like, yeah, I claim off tomorrow. My manager talking about, wow. Wow. What is that supposed to mean? That's why I can't be involved with colonizers. This is why. And she wasn't white. She was, like, indian or something. [00:04:06] Speaker A: But the thing is, at this point, it really is a federal holiday, so how could you say wow to somebody? [00:04:16] Speaker B: I was so confused, y'all. [00:04:18] Speaker C: The post office was closed. The banks was closed. Like, it's a federal holiday. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Let me ask you all this much, like history month, do y'all feel like we should be doing something specific on Juneteenth or we just off not being slaves? [00:04:41] Speaker C: I think. [00:04:42] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. [00:04:45] Speaker C: I think we should just be off. Our ancestors were forced work, so I think, you know, we need to go ahead and reclaim they time and ours and just not work. [00:05:01] Speaker A: So you think it should be, like, a labor day for black folks only? [00:05:08] Speaker B: Oh, I like that. I like that. [00:05:12] Speaker A: Even though, like, you know, it's been. Shoot, the weather been lovely in Atlanta the last couple weeks. Yeah. I think black folks use it as a time. Used it as a time to just fellowship, cook out, be outside. I think it's fitting to me. Oh, that's crazy. Be outside. We were slaves. Wow. [00:05:37] Speaker B: We been outside. That's why we all be talking about being outside. We've been outside. [00:05:51] Speaker A: Oh, but. But being outside on Juneteenth is crazy. If you really think. [00:06:01] Speaker B: We should be inside. [00:06:06] Speaker A: Wow. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Not out. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Only this. You can only get it here, folks. Only here. Only here. [00:06:12] Speaker B: I ain't gonna lie, though. I feel. I don't feel like white people should be off on Juneteenth. What they resting from? [00:06:21] Speaker A: Whipping ass? [00:06:22] Speaker B: What are y'all celebrating? Crickets? Exactly. I felt some type of way. I ain't like it. What white people doing today. Y'all need to be at work. I feel like this should be a black people only holiday because y'all weren't slaves for 400 years. [00:06:48] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know what to say to that. [00:06:52] Speaker B: I'm just saying I felt some type of way. I mean, I know there's no way you could be like this, a black only holiday, but still, I felt weird about it. [00:07:03] Speaker A: Speaking of white and black, though, do y'all know the real codes of Juneteenth? So I'm trying to see what y'all know. [00:07:11] Speaker B: It's actually red, white, and blue. We always have the pan african flag, and we be talking about, give us. Us free with the. With the fist up. But it's really red, white, and blue. The same as the american flag. It's not the same flag, but it's the same colors. [00:07:31] Speaker C: Colors, correct. [00:07:32] Speaker A: They stole that from us to dash grade. No, I'm just kidding. [00:07:38] Speaker C: It was based off the. Off the Texas. Whatever. Whatever flag colors. [00:07:44] Speaker A: That makes sense. That makes sense. [00:07:47] Speaker B: So we really. I was gonna wear dashiki to work until I came to my senses. I was like, I don't need to be going there at all. But my friend was like, you should just wrap an american flag around you and wear. That'll really shake the whites up. I was like, you know what? You right, because they want us to go back to Africa so bad. But we here. We here, and we american, okay? And we belong. The american flag don't belong only to trumpsters. We was born here, and we're black Americans. So I might do that next time, because y'all know I live to make the whites uncomfortable. [00:08:33] Speaker A: Yeah, you got to have that h before the w. Yes, yes. Just speaking about Juneteenth on a surface level, can y'all believe, like, they was really working an extra three years after he was actually after they were freed, and nobody would tell them? That's crazy. [00:08:58] Speaker B: That shit so wild to me. Like, I feel like I would just have to start burning down bridges just because, like, so we were slaves. An extra three years for no reason. [00:09:11] Speaker A: Well, in that part of Texas, or, yeah, Galveston or wherever it was, I would have just went. I would have ripped up every crop I planted or, bruh. What? [00:09:25] Speaker B: Burned down all the cops. [00:09:26] Speaker A: What? [00:09:26] Speaker C: Come on, rebel. [00:09:28] Speaker B: Come on, rebel. Nat Turner. Let's go. [00:09:32] Speaker C: Right? [00:09:35] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:09:36] Speaker B: It's wild. It really is. I'm like, wow. So y'all just wasn't gonna say nothing? This why you can't trust white people. Y'all knew. The powers that be knew. It was like, no, we just gon get as much labor out of them as possible till they figure it out or not. Figure it out or not. What if they was just slaves forever? And this is why I feel like whites should not get juneteenth off, okay? They tried it too many times. [00:10:06] Speaker C: I don't know if I'm a, like, do all the whites, but. [00:10:13] Speaker B: You the problem. This is the problem because I don't think every single white person is. Is untrustworthy. The problem is you don't know which one of them is or not, so you got to look at them all sideways, and that's the real issue. [00:10:29] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:10:33] Speaker A: You could. You could look at all of them kind of indifferently, and then you could look at that opposite. To look at them indifferent. And then just when one disappoints you, then, okay, he sucks or she sucks. [00:10:46] Speaker B: Right. [00:10:47] Speaker C: When shows you who they are, believe them. [00:10:50] Speaker B: We. I've been through too much with white people. I have to look at them sideways first. That's my first reaction because it catch me slipping like y'all have in the past. I've been traumatized. And your boss ain't helping research team, so. And especially white women. I be looking at all this sideways. I'm sorry. It's been a long week, y'all. It's been a long week at work, clearly. [00:11:17] Speaker A: That's fine. That's fine. Not the long week on Juneteenth week, right? [00:11:22] Speaker B: That's why I'm angry. I'm like, this supposed to be my rest week. This lady called me on Friday at 02:00 p.m. talking about, can you work on this and send it over today? Today? [00:11:35] Speaker C: It can't be that serious. It can't be. [00:11:39] Speaker B: And I did not send anything over. I logged off. I'm done. I'm done. [00:11:46] Speaker A: She wanted to. She wanted the team members from California. [00:11:49] Speaker B: Yes. [00:11:51] Speaker A: So they scheduled. [00:11:54] Speaker B: They know. They know because a lot of the other team is east coast and Central. [00:12:02] Speaker C: Oh, she didn't. But I'm saying, anything. [00:12:04] Speaker B: You. [00:12:04] Speaker C: You asked for the day of, like, it couldn't have been that serious. You would have asked me way beforehand. You know what I mean? [00:12:12] Speaker B: Don't ask. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Especially on a Friday. [00:12:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:17] Speaker B: Friday. 09:00 a.m. 02:00 p.m. it'll matter. Don't ask me for nothing the day of on Friday. [00:12:24] Speaker A: Yeah, my brain is done about 04:00 on Thursday. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Correct. [00:12:28] Speaker C: Correct. [00:12:31] Speaker B: So y'all see how my juneteenth week went and rip to the pool party this year. [00:12:42] Speaker A: Don't say RP. We don't hiatus. We don't hiatus. Little break. Little break. [00:12:49] Speaker B: And fans of the pool, because people was asking me, y'all, I feel like. [00:12:52] Speaker A: I had really, like, little Gabby, you made a difference in the community, in the culture. For real? For real. [00:12:59] Speaker B: I ain't even say nothing. People was calling me like, so you ain't having a pool party? Like, damn. I already done amassed the following. I was broke this year, y'all. We gonna be back next year. Call your cousins. We might go live next year from the pool party. We'll be back next year, y'all. Don't. Don't forget don't count me out. I was just a little broke this year. I'm in transition. Might be a new location next year, but we're going to be back. We're going to be back. [00:13:29] Speaker A: We, like, we got listeners, follow, followers, viewers, got something to listen, look forward to. If you've been to one of these very, very special events, if, you know. [00:13:44] Speaker B: You know, I feel like the summer ain't start out right. Like, it just don't feel right now. [00:13:51] Speaker C: I mean, it's hard as hell, but. [00:13:55] Speaker B: That'S what I'm saying. It was a perfect year to have it. But anyway, we're gonna be back next year. I just had to regroup right quick. And we gonna be back bigger and better than ever. [00:14:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:14:07] Speaker A: For sure. For sure. The pool party going nowhere. We gonna ride to the wheels fall off. Ride or die. Just like, oh, my God. [00:14:16] Speaker C: I saw yesterday. [00:14:20] Speaker B: Who saw bad boys for that was a great. [00:14:24] Speaker C: I saw yesterday. My bad. I saw yesterday. First of all, I'm not, I'm not gonna have no twin. Well, we tried to see it. When was I in town? [00:14:39] Speaker B: We tried last weekend, but we was tired of. [00:14:42] Speaker C: Mm hmm. I was tired. And then I thought, wow. Wow, really? [00:14:49] Speaker B: So you didn't. [00:14:51] Speaker C: I didn't. [00:14:53] Speaker B: Tell me. I just randomly texted. She said my, yeah, I'm in the theater fantasy bad boys. Wow. I thought we had made plans, but okay, all right. [00:15:02] Speaker C: I'm back sometime in my area of storage, where my bed is, where I pay rent. I'm back. [00:15:12] Speaker B: Here, though. [00:15:14] Speaker C: Listen, the way this, this management boss situation set up, you're right. [00:15:20] Speaker B: You right. [00:15:22] Speaker C: So, yeah. [00:15:26] Speaker A: I did see it. And, you know, honestly, before I saw it, I was like, you know what? This gonna be one of them. Pardon me that I'm a wait for it till it come out on bootleg. I just watch it at home. Nhd, of course, theater quality, for sure. But I was like, you know what? I don't need to go to the movie and see that. But the initial reviews were so good, it drove me to the theater. No cap, right? [00:15:55] Speaker C: Same. And I was like, it was good, but, like, not to discredit the franchise, but I could have probably waited to watch that at home. And I didn't even pay full price, so, I mean, I rarely pay full price for movies, but I could have probably waited till Tuesday to watch that for like $7 instead of the $9. [00:16:17] Speaker B: So you gotta disagree with the reviews. [00:16:20] Speaker C: I don't disagree with the reviews, but it's nothing. It wasn't like it was just good. Like, it wasn't anything like, oh, I'm gonna go back and see it, but I'm a very, like, hard movie critic person, especially when it comes to, like, franchise movies. So it's just like. [00:16:42] Speaker A: Right. I'm also that same way with franchise movies. And I even took my. My. Me and my lady went to this, and she does not stay away from movies. We watched the whole thing. We both enjoyed it. I thought it was. I thought they did a great job. It was good to me. I wanted to see it again, but I don't have to go back to the movie theater to see it again, and I don't watch movies a second time for the most part. [00:17:12] Speaker C: I don't know if this is. This one was a rewatch for me. That's all I'm saying. Like, I saw it once. Okay, got it. Cool. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Are you a movie rewatcher, though? You one of them people that. [00:17:27] Speaker C: My bad. [00:17:28] Speaker B: We gotta be real good. Uh uh. [00:17:32] Speaker C: I'm on a spectrum. Like, if the movie is really bad, sometimes I'll watch it just to see how bad it is again. Like, just to remember. [00:17:39] Speaker B: I agree. Soul plane shout out to you. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Yeah, you do. [00:17:45] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Like, some stuff be so bad that you just like, man, let me watch this. Watch this again because it's so horrible. But other stuff is like, dang, this is really good. Like, I want to watch it again. I might have missed something. This one. It wasn't like that for me. There just weren't elements of it. Of it in totality where I was like, oh, I want to listen to that song again, or, ooh, that was a bomb scene. Like, let me, you know, go back. It wasn't enough of that. In this particular round, movies. [00:18:18] Speaker B: Let's rank the bad boys movies I seen. I didn't even see it. Okay, so I'm new to this, so this would be a surprise to me. But what's y'all ranking? [00:18:32] Speaker A: I personally would go one. [00:18:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Four, two, three. Whoa. [00:18:42] Speaker B: 1423. Okay. [00:18:46] Speaker C: I was gonna do 1324-1324 so you. [00:18:55] Speaker A: Like four the least, correct? [00:18:58] Speaker C: Yeah, four is the. Definitely the least. And I feel like the first one, you have to, like. Everybody has to put that as the number one spot because it introduced you to. So it's really a toss up between two and three. That's what I'm looking at. [00:19:09] Speaker A: Well, no, the first one is, obviously, it's a classic is. [00:19:15] Speaker C: Right. That's what I'm saying. [00:19:18] Speaker A: And then also, it's just, like, the most realistic one. Like, any of that stuff. Could I'm saying it was the storyline that brought you in. [00:19:28] Speaker C: That's my rationale. Yeah. A lot of people put four as in the second slot, and I was like, what? [00:19:36] Speaker B: Okay, I gotta see it because I feel y'all are number one, but I feel like number two, entertainment wise, is, oh, no, I think I enjoy too a bit more entertainment wise. [00:19:59] Speaker A: It was the early two thousands. [00:20:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's given two thousands. [00:20:03] Speaker A: Yeah, it was cool. It was cool. [00:20:05] Speaker B: It's like the epitome of early two thousands, I guess. I guess I feel like given the. [00:20:09] Speaker C: Time period of which they came out. [00:20:12] Speaker B: They did the movie. I feel like it was perfect. But also number one was perfect for the nineties. [00:20:19] Speaker C: I think number one was perfect because it was number one. [00:20:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Number one could have been done eighties, nineties. It would have been fire regardless. [00:20:30] Speaker B: That's true. That's true. I really enjoy number two, though. I would have to do one, two, but then I got to see number four. [00:20:39] Speaker A: You gotta see it. I think you'll enjoy it. [00:20:41] Speaker B: I might go today, actually. I might be feeling up to it. I've been tired. [00:20:48] Speaker A: Oh, I saw it for free, the whole movie for free too. What, in the theater? Because I got that on, oh, you, regal subscription, bucks a month. And then I went in there and I had like points on my thing. So I got a ticket. We got free popcorn and drink. Whole thing free. [00:21:10] Speaker B: Look at me, okay. [00:21:12] Speaker A: Being thrifty and stuff. [00:21:18] Speaker B: This is a good segue into, oh, yeah, you went on, you went on mute up. This is a good segue into a topic I, but I wanted to, um, tell me how the subscription works, dub, because I just watched the movie pass documentary. If y'all haven't seen that, go watch it because I'm talking to the listeners. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Y'all don't have to watch movie pass or movie phone. [00:21:44] Speaker B: Movie pass. Do y'all remember movie Pass? [00:21:47] Speaker A: Mm mm. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Movie Pass was the original movie subscription, but it was kind of a sham from the beginning. It was basically you pay, originally it was, you pay $40 a month and you can go see any, I think it was like one movie a day or something ridiculous. But then they went down to get their subscribers up. They went down to $10 a month. And you could see any movie, you know, one movie a day. Obviously the math, a math and if you just think about it. But I was fascinated because two black dudes actually started that and then some white dudes took over it and ran it into the ground and then the black dude got it back and now it's back up and running, apparently. And I was like, do people use movie? Are people using it? So I didn't know that there were, like, other movie subscriptions. So how does the regal one work now? I'm curious. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Yeah. So I actually look at it during the movie, movie subscription, deep dive. Um, I actually compared it because AMC and Regal and one of the other major, um, theater companies, they all have, like, this subscription thing. So mine is, I think you can get the $20 a month, which is you have to lock yourself at one theater, but you can see as many movies as you want. So I chose to get that one location of Regal for me. So I chose a 25 for $5 more. You can see as many movies you want as many days as you want at any regal theater. So that's the one that I chose. And then, of course, you get, like, little discounts on concessions, which is an arm and a freaking leg. Like, oh, my gosh, obviously. Obviously. If you real. Since we talking, since we on Juneteenth, you know, you, you take your own thing in the theater. So, I mean, drink your food medium. [00:23:52] Speaker B: All that with the peach on the side. [00:23:56] Speaker C: Wow. [00:23:59] Speaker B: You got to. For the culture. [00:24:02] Speaker A: For the culture. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Oh, so you can see any amount of movies in a month for $25. [00:24:09] Speaker A: Yep. All you do is you go on the little app, pick your movie. It gives you a little QR code. When you walk in the theater, they just scan it. So that's it. And that's if they scan it. Because most of these theaters be so empty and short staff like, you go walking a lot of them. Don't nobody be in there. [00:24:29] Speaker B: See, I feel like movie pass was before their time. The two black dudes was on it. It was just before that time. I feel like after the pandemic and after was the perfect time for movie past to thrive because people stopped going to movies and stuff, you know. [00:24:49] Speaker A: White people, the. I'll say this real quick. When I went to bad boys, I'm used to when I go to the movies now, like, there's nobody in the theater. I might be the only person in there. It do be empty depending on what, what it is. But bad boys, it was filling up. It was almost like 50 people in there. [00:25:13] Speaker B: That's a lot. [00:25:14] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a lot. [00:25:15] Speaker A: Now I was like, ugh, people in here. [00:25:18] Speaker C: I was mad same. I couldn't get my regular seat that I always normally get because don't nobody be in there. I said, where y'all came from, y'all don't be here normally. [00:25:31] Speaker A: Isn't that so crazy? You mad to other people where you. This is getting older. This is what this is. That's what this is like, pretty much. [00:25:41] Speaker C: People in theaters at the same time. [00:25:45] Speaker B: But I feel like. And not to get too deep on the corporate slashing train, but I feel like this is a testament to how much money they've made off of us over the years, because don't nobody be at the movies. And how are they still intact? Like, they still just running? Like, everything fine. Don't nobody be in there. [00:26:09] Speaker A: I don't think they run and fine. They got, like, you remember when you used to go to the movie theaters? Like, the concessions there used to be, like, somebody working at each little register. Now might be one person up there in that whole long concession. [00:26:25] Speaker C: I was gonna say that. [00:26:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:27] Speaker C: I don't say the same person who took my, like, bar order and to pay for the ticket is the same person who had to get the food in concessions. [00:26:39] Speaker B: They just walking around. [00:26:40] Speaker C: It was like, really? It was like maybe two. It was like two people. [00:26:46] Speaker A: And you got to think of how much money they're losing because they. They have these huge movie theaters. I'm sure rent is freaking crazy. [00:26:56] Speaker B: How are they still operational? [00:26:59] Speaker A: They losing. They. But that's why they got to do these subscriptions. Just to get some kind of residual money every month, I guess. [00:27:07] Speaker C: In hopes that you, like, spend even more at concession than you normally would. Because it's like. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Or you bring somebody with you or. Yeah, yeah. [00:27:17] Speaker C: Because the one that. The one that I go to is called sign mark. And they have it where you pay either $11.99 monthly or 131 for the whole year. And you get, like, additional, like, one movie ticket for free. And then you get 20% off concessions and you, like, build up points as well. [00:27:43] Speaker A: For the year is nice. [00:27:45] Speaker C: Yeah. And the movie ticket rollover. So if you. Even if you don't use it for the month, you could just let it roll over. But I don't. They try. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Oh, but it's. But it's not unlimited. It's just one. Okay, okay. [00:28:05] Speaker C: But I mean, if you pay monthly 1199, a regular price of a ticket, is it still. That's still cheaper? [00:28:12] Speaker B: That's true. [00:28:14] Speaker A: That's a fact. [00:28:15] Speaker C: Because Saturday I paid $9, and that was the matinee price. [00:28:21] Speaker B: What? Remember matinee's used to be $5. [00:28:24] Speaker C: That's only on Tuesdays over here. [00:28:26] Speaker A: I feel like they used to be $2. [00:28:28] Speaker B: They did all the Tuesdays. [00:28:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:36] Speaker A: I ain't gonna lie. I used to sneak in movies, like when I was in college. [00:28:40] Speaker B: So did. [00:28:42] Speaker A: What's up with this college hill thing in Carlos? What's that? [00:28:46] Speaker B: Okay, so I. Have y'all seen the new college hill? I haven't seen it. [00:28:51] Speaker C: Um, I stopped watching, but I did see a commercial that's not one of my vices. But I did see a commercial with, I think. Is Tamar back on there? [00:29:03] Speaker B: Yes, she on here. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Oh, celebrity College Hill thing. [00:29:09] Speaker B: Celebrity. Yeah, I ain't watching that foolishness. But I was scrolling twitter and clip of. I don't even know who this person is. Carless Miller. Y'all know him. [00:29:23] Speaker C: But. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Come on, you ain't in the culture. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Come on. [00:29:31] Speaker C: God. Did she just. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Y'all know I'll be out of loop. [00:29:33] Speaker C: She really did. [00:29:35] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:29:36] Speaker C: Ada, did she just really. [00:29:38] Speaker A: Nah. Carlos Miller is a. He's a. He's a pretty decent figure in the culture for a. For. He's a comedian. He. And he has a show podcast with DC Young Fly and Chico Bean. And he's from wild and out also. [00:29:59] Speaker B: Who there is. Okay, y'all know I don't be knowing people name and stuff. [00:30:04] Speaker C: I was just about to send a pic. [00:30:07] Speaker B: I see the picture. I see the picture. [00:30:09] Speaker C: Okay. [00:30:10] Speaker B: Cuz I was like, lord, I know who that is. I mean, I did see. And I was like, he looked familiar, but. Okay. Anyway, so he own there. So y'all know it's foolish. And they was talking about, I wanted to get y'all opinion. That's why I put it on here. They was talking about homelessness. And everybody was so shocked at his opinion. He was basically, he basically said, homelessness ain't my problem. It ain't got nothing to do with me. It's the powers that be with the millions and billions who could stop homelessness today. And, you know, that's their. Basically, that's their responsibility. And everybody was like, oh, you don't care about homeless people, blah, blah, blah. Then he was talking to. I forgot the dude name. He in the NBA. And he was like, have you given your millions to homeless people? [00:30:58] Speaker C: Because. [00:30:59] Speaker B: And then the dude was like, I can barely afford a house in LA. What you talking about? But they was just shocked that he was like, basically like, fuck homeless people. But he wasn't really saying that. I feel like he was saying like, the institutions can do something about it and they're not. And what are we as individuals supposed to do about that? But everybody basically was like, wow, you trash and you heartless, and how could you say that? But what y'all think. [00:31:32] Speaker C: Um, based off the context that you're. You're giving it, my opinion on unhoused. [00:31:40] Speaker B: People. [00:31:43] Speaker C: Are that I think it's all of our responsibilities to help where we can, whether that's, like, financially or, you know, volunteering our time. So I don't think it falls on one group of people. I think that's, like, a human to human issue. Like, you see someone that needs help, and you're in a position to help them, you should help them, because that's the right thing to do. Okay. [00:32:12] Speaker B: What you think, though? [00:32:16] Speaker A: I didn't hear the story. I stepped away for a moment. [00:32:20] Speaker B: Wow. [00:32:21] Speaker A: My bad. But if you just want my opinion. I don't. I mean. [00:32:31] Speaker B: People obligated to give their millions away. [00:32:35] Speaker A: Absolutely not. No. [00:32:39] Speaker C: I don't think anyone is obligated to give anything away. It's not. It shouldn't. There's no obligation. However, if you see someone in need and you are able to help, then you should help, because that's just, like, the right thing to do. Like, we're on this earth together. We need to build, like, communities together. So it just. In my head, my thoughts, it just makes sense. I'm not saying you got to give, you know, your millions to this group or this particular person, but I think that you should help if you are in a position to help. [00:33:24] Speaker B: I feel that. Well. [00:33:30] Speaker A: This actually made me think of something else, but go ahead. [00:33:33] Speaker B: What? [00:33:35] Speaker A: Twin. Twin. Twin. [00:33:37] Speaker B: You know, edit it up. What. What you thought of. [00:33:42] Speaker A: Oh, did y'all see the clip of Birdman in prison? [00:33:46] Speaker C: Wait, present day. [00:33:51] Speaker A: This is like, nah, he ain't injured. Well, he was at it. He was at a prison, but he's not in jail. He was. He was there, like, you know, helping the inmates or whatever, or speaking to. [00:34:02] Speaker C: Oh, I was like. [00:34:04] Speaker A: So he goes to tell them, hey, like, what y'all. What y'all need help with in here? Like, I'm in a position to do whatever y'all need. And then one of the. I don't know, house bosses or whatever, I don't know, what they call in prison, he stood up and said, you know, we need books. Like, we really need books. Like, there's not enough books in here. And Birdman goes on to say, y'all think. Y'all think books gonna help y'all. Like, no disrespect to books. [00:34:37] Speaker C: Wow. [00:34:40] Speaker A: Like, Brad, all they ask it for is a books. And you say books gonna help y'all. [00:34:46] Speaker C: See, this is. [00:34:51] Speaker B: This is what I gotta find that clip. [00:34:56] Speaker C: He said that with the straightest of faces too, huh? [00:34:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, for sure. Books. Y'all think books gonna help y'all? Like, no district? And then he said, no disrespect to books. That's hilarious, bruh. [00:35:10] Speaker B: I gotta find that. Who? That's funny. [00:35:17] Speaker A: But, yeah, I was just relating that to the Carlos homelessness thing, because it's like they both go, think both gonna help y'all? [00:35:28] Speaker B: Yes. What you think gonna help us, Birdman? [00:35:34] Speaker A: And it's crazy, because buddy just got up asking. He wouldn't ask if for him to put no money on their books or nothing. He said, we need books, like, so simple. Like, they giving books away because nobody reads books anymore. Yeah, he probably could have spent ten grand and bought 10,000 books. [00:35:54] Speaker B: Well, for real, he really could have. No disrespect to reading books. [00:36:03] Speaker A: No disrespect? No. He didn't even say no disrespect to reading books. He said no disrespect to books. Like books of persons. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Oh, this is funny. I found it. Like, what did he expect them to say? [00:36:19] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know what he was thinking. [00:36:22] Speaker B: Y'all think Birdman can read? Maybe he can't read. [00:36:26] Speaker A: I would hope. I'm sure he can read. [00:36:28] Speaker C: I'm sure you gotta be able to. [00:36:33] Speaker B: Read, man. [00:36:34] Speaker A: He's a very savvy businessman. Like, he. I think he can read. [00:36:40] Speaker B: How you gonna say, okay, Birdman? No. All right, we wrapping up the culture. [00:36:53] Speaker C: Mm hmm. Moving on to this music. I'm so excited, so twin, to let us know about your experience at Meg thee stallion and, you know, gunner concert, but mostly Meg, because that's what I care about. [00:37:13] Speaker B: You know what? And I'm ashamed to say this, as I was like, I was real excited for Meg, and I was like, I'm gonna go to the gunner concert, but, man, it's gonna be all right, y'all. That gunner concert was so fire. [00:37:35] Speaker A: I've heard, bro. [00:37:39] Speaker B: I mean, we were sitting, like, in the right, the same spot as the med concert. I had fun at the mad concert. I probably got a little too late, because I don't really remember the last part of the concert. That gunner concert, y'all, was so litanous, and it was like, a production member. I told you all the Drake concert was trash. Gunna made me feel like the Drake concert was even more trash than I said before. Like, it was when I tell you it was a production, okay? Visuals, live band. [00:38:13] Speaker C: An experience. [00:38:15] Speaker B: It was an experience, okay. That. It was lit, y'all. I was shocked. And y'all know I love mega. I am a meg fan. And glow was there, you know, so. [00:38:28] Speaker C: Of course get a glow. [00:38:31] Speaker B: It was probably people at the gunner concert in a Meg concert. And it was on a Tuesday. I was like, and that's. That's what made me feel like even more. Okay, it's a Tuesday, so it's just gonna be, you know, it's gonna be. I, y'all, that's one of the. This one of my top five concerts. I ain't gonna lie. [00:38:55] Speaker A: Of all. [00:38:56] Speaker B: Oh, Liddy. Okay. Especially for a rapper. It was good. It was good, man, I wish. I wish p money was here, cuz I could, you know, young thug father was there, Pete talking about, oh, y'all don't forgave Gunna. I feel like thug forgave him as well. Okay. And it's safe for the city to go up for Gunna. So, yeah, it was great, y'all. Dub, you would have had a great time. I was thinking, I'm like, dub should have been here, man lit. [00:39:35] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:39:37] Speaker B: I should have ten stars. But Meg was great too. Meg was great too. What about you? [00:39:47] Speaker C: Research the research team. I be at these concerts, whether it's in a group or if it's just me sliding. I want to go see the Kendrick, the family soul. This husband and wife, like r and b, neo soul group again. [00:40:09] Speaker B: Right? [00:40:09] Speaker C: I say it's probably my fourth or fifth time seeing them in the past two years, so I love them. It was great. Got my t shirt signed last time. Didn't get them to sign this t shirt because I'm actually wearing. But I had a great time. It was like everybody, mama and daddy and probably some grandmas in there. I was literally probably like the youngest person. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Love that. [00:40:37] Speaker C: And it was great. I had a blast. Learned from the old folks. It was just a good time. [00:40:44] Speaker B: Was the food? Did they have food? [00:40:47] Speaker C: Yes. This place is actually known for their, like, food or whatever, but I never go for their food. I just go for the concerts they be having. So I never go to, like, eat or drink. I just be going for the music. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Oh, it reminded me of when we went to see Eric Bene. [00:41:07] Speaker C: Was it Eric Jackson Southern? [00:41:11] Speaker B: No. When we went to see, it was all the old people. [00:41:15] Speaker C: Maxwell. No. Kim girl, I don't know. [00:41:18] Speaker B: Yes. Somebody. And it just made me think about them wings. [00:41:24] Speaker C: Yes. Y'all could be good, but it's just like, pricey, you know what I mean? [00:41:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:41:32] Speaker C: Very, very pricey. And I be like, uh, I don't pay for my ticket. Now I gotta pay for another ticket. [00:41:38] Speaker B: And I. For parking, right? [00:41:41] Speaker C: Either to park or actually, you know, uber or lyft there. But. But it was good. I had a good time. [00:41:50] Speaker B: Love that Kendrick performance. [00:41:58] Speaker C: Listen. [00:41:59] Speaker B: The pop out. [00:42:01] Speaker C: Listen. [00:42:02] Speaker A: Yep. Ken and friends. Ken and friends. [00:42:05] Speaker B: I was so sick. Y'all know I love a concert, man. I should have went, like. It was so. You don't have to edit a lot of this. My bad. That looks so lit, man. [00:42:17] Speaker C: I was watching, like, a youtuber, blogger person, and she was saying, like, it was the most, like, la concert you could ever get because it was just so LA. And it had, like, a lot of, like, spots for you just, like, take pictures, and. [00:42:34] Speaker B: It just. [00:42:36] Speaker C: It felt good watching it. So I know probably being there was, like, cloud 10,000. [00:42:41] Speaker B: See, I'm supposed to be in. L. I'm supposed to be living in LA right now. Okay. I'm sad. I could have been there next time. [00:42:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I haven't even. I mean, I wish I had streamed it that day. [00:42:56] Speaker B: Me, too. [00:42:57] Speaker A: But I had a week myself on June Juneteenth, so I was like, I really wouldn't even think about it, to be honest with you. And now you can't even find it. How Amazon gonna stream something and then don't leave it up to watch later? Like, that's gonna drive people to your app. [00:43:19] Speaker B: They'll try to make us purchase it. You know probably right. [00:43:24] Speaker A: Don't say that. Don't say that. But you probably right. [00:43:26] Speaker B: You know how they do, man. [00:43:29] Speaker C: I'm already paying for the stream now. I gotta pay for specific streams. [00:43:34] Speaker B: The subscription has gotten out of hand. [00:43:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it really has. [00:43:39] Speaker B: They really dollar back. [00:43:44] Speaker C: Hi, Ray F. That kid. Um. [00:43:50] Speaker A: That'S. I saw it was. I mean, I heard it was a great event. Um, a lot of unification going on. Bloods, crits, every game, pretty much. I heard it was dope. Everybody did well. They said the dj's was going in. [00:44:10] Speaker B: I feel like people be kind of sleep on Callie a bit sometimes, too. Cause, you know, I feel like the vibe of Cali is kind of, like, laid back. And, you know, people be talking about how they don't really get lit like that, you know? So I feel like that concert was like, yeah, what's up? Y'all forgot about us. We out here. [00:44:32] Speaker A: I think it's just a different vibe. Cause, you know, Cali, they have. They really. Their own ecosystem. They are like, you could be an artist popping in Cali and Cali only and have a great career in life and the east coast may not even know about you. Same thing with Texas. So I think that's just what it is, just a different coast. So we just don't get a whole lot of the vibe and music all the time. [00:44:57] Speaker B: That's true. That's a good point. [00:45:03] Speaker A: Well, yeah, speaking of unification, tembo and swizz back with another one versus his back, but they had to go get a south african white man. [00:45:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know how I feel about them. How y'all feel? Eh, I don't know that we needed versus to come back. [00:45:33] Speaker A: No, no, don't even do that. [00:45:35] Speaker B: We need that. [00:45:36] Speaker A: Think about versus. In the pandemic. Versus was all we had. [00:45:41] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. I feel like it was a specific. [00:45:44] Speaker C: Thing for that time before what it was. [00:45:48] Speaker B: You know, we needed that then, but. [00:45:51] Speaker C: Now it's kind of like back to regular schedule program. [00:45:54] Speaker A: But no, I still want. Versus. Versus. Versus was lit. The versus was lit because they had. They had the idea for versus before the pandemic ever happened. Like, they had been talking about it for a long time. It just so happened. Like we was all stuck in the crib. So those are, you know, let's get it. Let's get it popping now. But I'm down for the versus. I mean, their platform, if that's how they had the structure to get money, whatever, whatever. I mean, that's business stuff. But I'm down for versus coming back. [00:46:26] Speaker B: But is it going to be my thing? Is, is it going to be as authentic or is it going to seem like a tv product? Is it going to be on tv? A tv production. [00:46:40] Speaker A: Is. It's probably going to be the same of what it was towards the end because they were all productions towards the end. Like, they been got away from the artist. Just being in front of the computer, that was like the very, very, very beginning. But shoot earth, wind and fire, Isley Brothers, the damn. The locks and Cameron and, sorry, dipset, they all became productions. They were on stages. They had crowds. They were production. [00:47:15] Speaker B: Well, we'll see. What, what platform is it gonna be on? [00:47:19] Speaker A: It's gonna be on x. [00:47:22] Speaker B: We'll see. I mean, I'll be on it. I'm gonna watch it or whatever. [00:47:30] Speaker A: I know, I'm. Oh, who knows? I have no clue. [00:47:38] Speaker B: We'll see. And eggs need a little revitalization anyway, so. Correct. [00:47:50] Speaker A: Ain't it still just same twitter? [00:47:54] Speaker B: I feel like ever since, I feel like people like it less and kind of participate less. [00:48:05] Speaker C: The engagement is down. [00:48:07] Speaker B: The engagement is down for sure. Because it's weird now. Like, now it'd be like, random tweets from people you don't even follow or know. And it's just. [00:48:16] Speaker A: I don't. [00:48:17] Speaker B: This is weird now. [00:48:18] Speaker A: Oh, bots. The bots took over. [00:48:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Or he'd be like, check this out. And it'd be like, somebody you didn't even. You don't even know or would never follow. It's just. I don't know. It's weird. [00:48:31] Speaker A: I. Yeah, I don't know. I think I left Twitter, and I ain't even leave. I just stopped tweeting. That was probably, like, 2014 or 15, so I don't know. [00:48:43] Speaker C: Whoa. [00:48:44] Speaker A: You. [00:48:44] Speaker C: Bingo. [00:48:47] Speaker A: Yeah, 20,000. 20,000 tweets deep. And I left. [00:48:51] Speaker B: I feel like there was this weird mass exodus from Twitter from, like, people that I know personally, because I feel like people used to be on Twitter. [00:49:03] Speaker A: Twitter was heavy. But now that I think about around the time I left, that's around the time Instagram jumped off. [00:49:11] Speaker B: I think that's what happened. Instagram and Snapchat. [00:49:15] Speaker A: Yeah, that 2012 2013 area. And I really even better go back once in a while. But I. It ain't like it was old. Twitter was the wild, wild west. That shit was so fun, right? [00:49:29] Speaker B: It was. [00:49:30] Speaker C: Wow. No regulations, just, you could say what. [00:49:35] Speaker A: You wanted and have to worry about. You know what I'm saying? [00:49:40] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:49:44] Speaker A: Anyway, speaking of black folk uniting with the white folk, the negro league stats are now included in major League baseball's history, which is. I think that's huge. [00:50:01] Speaker B: I did not know that. [00:50:03] Speaker A: Yeah, they were. They never counted the negro leagues, so now they are. And what it is, is like, there were players that. That were in the negro leagues. We're going to speak about one in a moment that once they came from negro leagues, they also became superstars in major league Baseball. So knowing that they came from negro leagues and then they came into major league baseball and became stars, that kind of legitimized the negro leagues. [00:50:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:37] Speaker A: Now they're going to include all negro league stats. They do exist. I think investigators are trying to, you know, still pile together all the stats, but up until this point has been mostly, like, legends and stuff. Oh, Josh gets and hit 85 home runs in the season in the negro leagues. So all their stats that they accomplished in the Negroes are now being major League baseball. So pitching stats for white people, they're going to go down. Batting stats, all that stuff. Yeah, they all getting knocked way down the list, which is crazy, because if you're talking about this home runs, which is. Everybody knows what a home run is. The two people first on the list for home runs already were black men anyway. Well, yeah, Hank Aaron, that's Atlanta's own. He. He was always the leader in home runs. And then Barry Bonds broke his record. Another black man. So it's like, I didn't know it was already black, huh? [00:51:43] Speaker B: I didn't know they still held the record. [00:51:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Nobody beating that record. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Do you know what made them start including it now? [00:51:55] Speaker A: Probably just all the old crackers just dying off. Nobody cares no more. All the, like, legendary white people that held all these records or whatever, they probably just gone so they don't got nobody to fight no more. Of course we should include them, because. [00:52:16] Speaker B: I feel like you kind of think about baseball as being a white people sport. [00:52:22] Speaker A: Yeah, you kind of do. Yeah. But some of the greatest players were black. And even if you think about the way baseball is today, there's a lot of great black players. There's a lot of spanish, dominican, puerto rican players. And they black. Yeah, more or less the same thing. [00:52:45] Speaker B: Love to see it. [00:52:46] Speaker A: Love to see it. Love to see it. Rest in peace. To Willie Maze. I believe he died. Was it? Or in the. Be honest, I think most people probably thought the way I thought. I thought he had passed a couple of years ago. [00:53:01] Speaker B: Wow. [00:53:03] Speaker A: I know that was Hank Aaron, but. [00:53:05] Speaker C: Yeah, don't even. [00:53:07] Speaker B: I ain't gonna lie. When I saw it, I was like, oh, he wondered. [00:53:11] Speaker C: Okay, he died the 18th. [00:53:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:16] Speaker B: 93 years old. [00:53:18] Speaker C: Mm hmm. [00:53:19] Speaker A: Yeah. And speaking of the negro leagues, he actually played in the negro league. So talk about somebody who's seen it all. Like, you played in the negro leagues, you became a superstar hall of famer in the major leagues. You made it all the way to 2024. That is so cool as a hell of a life. [00:53:39] Speaker B: Born in 1931. [00:53:45] Speaker A: Yeah. That's crazy. So crazy. [00:53:51] Speaker B: I was just thinking about how my dad shout out to, my dad was born in 1936, y'all. And to be still alive in 2024, it's just kind of crazy. I know your grandma old, but it's just weird to think about, like, you was. You was born when black people wasn't even. [00:54:14] Speaker C: They done seen a lot. My grandma was born 1928. [00:54:18] Speaker B: People. That's wild to me. Do I want to live that long? [00:54:27] Speaker C: Yes. For me. [00:54:32] Speaker B: They don't seen a lot. [00:54:34] Speaker C: Mm hmm. That's a lot of wisdom. Could you imagine, like, they have seen the price. I be thinking about this all the time. They have seen the price of bread be Pentiesd and now it's like $17,000. You know what I'm saying? [00:54:50] Speaker B: Like, sad. I can't make it sad to know that I have to pay $5 for bread when it used to be $0.05. Right. [00:55:00] Speaker C: But not even for the same quality or the same slices. I'm pretty sure we're getting less slices. [00:55:07] Speaker B: I'm finna start a garden. I can't buy food no more. [00:55:11] Speaker A: Well, I think a lot of that comes from. I know it sucks, like, the inflation and all that, but you got to think, like, back in the day, a lot of people just. They had a baker on their corner. [00:55:21] Speaker C: They had a. Yeah, they did. [00:55:23] Speaker A: They had a little market across the street. Like, it was just, everything was localized, and then big box stores, they just came and swallowed everything up and controlled the price, and here we are. [00:55:36] Speaker B: Things weren't being, like, mass produced. [00:55:39] Speaker C: Right, right. Get strawberries all year round. It was just this one time off. [00:55:45] Speaker B: Some off your neighbor tree. [00:55:47] Speaker C: Correct. All right. [00:55:52] Speaker A: I keep saying, I can't wait for that time machine to come out on Amazon. I'm gonna order one. I'm out of here. I'm out. [00:55:59] Speaker B: Definitely getting in a time machine. [00:56:03] Speaker C: Where y'all going? [00:56:04] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:56:05] Speaker A: I might go to the eighties and nineties when just right before the Internet was here. I'll be straight. [00:56:12] Speaker C: Would you go back as an adult? [00:56:13] Speaker A: Like, yeah, I'm gonna go back as an adult. [00:56:16] Speaker B: I want to be an adult in the nineties. That's what I'm gonna do. [00:56:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, for sure. [00:56:20] Speaker B: Definitely going back as an adult in the nineties. [00:56:25] Speaker C: What a time. What a time. [00:56:27] Speaker A: Would you. [00:56:29] Speaker B: I would absolutely get in a time machine. What? I'm there. I'll probably get killed, though, and know. [00:56:36] Speaker C: Everything that you know now. [00:56:39] Speaker B: Right? That's what I'm saying. I could go back as me now, but I can't go back too far. [00:56:44] Speaker A: Cuz I don't think. I don't think we could. I think we could. I don't think we could. Because if you go back in a time machine knowing what you know, you could alter the future. [00:56:58] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:57:00] Speaker A: I mean, this is gonna be rabbit hole. Have y'all watched dark matter? [00:57:05] Speaker B: No. Should I? That's been on my list. [00:57:07] Speaker C: What is this? [00:57:08] Speaker A: For? Sure. 1000. There's a lot of this in there, though. Like a lot of. [00:57:13] Speaker C: What is dark matter? [00:57:14] Speaker A: Physics and wormholes and time travel, stuff like that. It's a tv show on Apple. [00:57:21] Speaker C: Oh, okay. You need a login twin. [00:57:25] Speaker B: I got you. Got you. [00:57:27] Speaker A: That's funny. [00:57:29] Speaker C: What they give me, the login or the dark matter. [00:57:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Jeff. Jeff Bezos, drop that. Drop that time machine. Need that. [00:57:42] Speaker B: I need that. I'm going back somewhere because this ain't it. Maybe go back to just before the pandemic. [00:57:54] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's. [00:58:00] Speaker A: Go back to right before the pandemic. Invest in Pfizer and autumn. Autumn journey. [00:58:05] Speaker B: Right. [00:58:07] Speaker C: Quick little. [00:58:08] Speaker A: Quick. Little insider trade. [00:58:10] Speaker B: Oh. Go back to the eighties and invest in Microsoft, baby. [00:58:16] Speaker C: Correct. [00:58:17] Speaker B: I'm definitely. I wish I would have. Anyway. I'm definitely getting bitcoin. [00:58:24] Speaker C: Okay, well, I would just make the Microsoft move and then be done. [00:58:30] Speaker B: Didn't you just done after that? [00:58:32] Speaker A: Yeah, we being greedy. You write. You write. Research team. You. Right. [00:58:37] Speaker C: I only need to be in the. I still want to be able to walk through the grocery store a little. [00:58:42] Speaker B: Bit or hear me out. Go back and invest a whole bunch of money with Bernie Madoff, but pull it out real fast. Will he go to jail? [00:58:58] Speaker C: I'm gonna stick with my Microsoft. [00:59:04] Speaker B: He was making people a lot of money before he went to jail. They just didn't pull the money out. So the point is, we will all get in the time machine. That's what I heard. [00:59:14] Speaker A: Okay, so you. You gonna stick with your Microsoft? [00:59:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:21] Speaker A: Okay, so. So if it was a man, you'll stick beside him like a shanti. [00:59:26] Speaker C: And nellie, listen. Shout out to them. [00:59:33] Speaker B: Love that segue. [00:59:35] Speaker C: Allegedly. They've been married for six months now, which is very interesting because the Internet just tried to rip them apart and be like, oh, she done signed up to circle the block only to be a baby mama, and da da da da. What'd you say? [00:59:56] Speaker B: Didn't we know they were engaged, though? [00:59:59] Speaker C: Correct. But people sometimes just don't like engaged doesn't mean married. And the fact that they've already allegedly have been married kind of takes the. I guess, the negative aspect away of, like, oh, you know, she's not a baby mama. She's actually a wife or whatever. I guess it's for, you know, societal norms and for people to feel comfortable that she doesn't spun the block, and it's actually working out really well. People are happy. It's a positive thing, and, you know, that's their lives, honestly. Like, just. Just being frank, like, what that got to do with the money that's not in your pocket or that is in your pocket, you know what I'm saying? So shout out to Tenelli and Ashanti, either being married or on the way to get married or whatever the case may be, black love y'all happy? I'm happy for you. I'm happy that you're happy. [01:01:02] Speaker B: People gotta let go of this. Marriage is the end all, be all. They look happy, everybody. I seen a picture video of her right before this, and she look happy. Like, everybody don't want to get married. And just because you're not married doesn't mean that you in an unhealthy relationship. [01:01:22] Speaker C: Correct. [01:01:24] Speaker B: Like, okay, she a baby mama. So are a lot of you, like, okay, so what? [01:01:33] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's just a lot of projection from people of, like, oh, yeah, you matter. [01:01:38] Speaker B: You're not married. [01:01:39] Speaker C: Exactly. It's like you're not in that happy, blissful situation. You being you, the bitter baby mama. [01:01:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that's you. [01:01:50] Speaker C: But I'm happy for them. I'm curious to see what they have in who the baby gonna take after. You know, Nellie is, like, 50, I think. [01:02:02] Speaker B: Damn, he there. [01:02:02] Speaker C: Oh. [01:02:07] Speaker A: Ashanti can't be that far behind, though. [01:02:09] Speaker B: I thought Nellie was, like, 40. [01:02:14] Speaker A: No, Nellie, you gotta remember Nelly's first album came out in 2000. [01:02:20] Speaker C: He 49 right now. [01:02:22] Speaker A: Dang. [01:02:27] Speaker B: I guess I am getting. Yeah. Ashanti 43. I guess it's about that time. Yeah. Yikes. I mean, I'm still 28 in my head. It's still 2005 to me, so, like, what, you mean, be 50? Well, I guess I am. I'm about to be 36, so. [01:02:49] Speaker C: All right, hang in there. [01:02:55] Speaker B: I'm not going to afford you myself, so. [01:02:59] Speaker C: Also, there is a rumor, I don't know if y'all heard that Cardi B might be pregnant because of the clothes options she's choosing to wear these days that are covering up her. Her figure or her form. Like, she not in her normal, like, sexy, sexy attire. So what are your thoughts on that? Because her and offset are allegedly separated right now. I don't know. It's. [01:03:33] Speaker B: I was gonna say, I don't even know what the status of their marriage is, so I'm confused. But I guess if she. If she want another baby child, I guess. Honey, I had not heard that rumor. I've been out of the social media loop. [01:03:57] Speaker C: Yeah, she accepted some award and had on a very interesting, like, outfit that, like, she was very covered up, black. [01:04:07] Speaker B: Suit looking thing on. [01:04:08] Speaker C: Yeah, that story. [01:04:11] Speaker A: So what, they got two kids together now, or three, and it's about to be four. [01:04:16] Speaker C: Two, allegedly three. [01:04:19] Speaker B: And it's about to be three. [01:04:21] Speaker C: Correct. [01:04:21] Speaker B: Two and a half. [01:04:24] Speaker C: Did you say two and a half? [01:04:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what people mean when they say they want to. They want a white picket fence. And a husband and two and a half kids. That mean two and a baby on the way. [01:04:38] Speaker C: Oh, today you're though. Cause I feel like you can't go half on a. It's either a whole or not at all. I didn't know you could do a half well, okay. [01:04:51] Speaker B: Out yet then that mean they halfway here. [01:04:55] Speaker C: Mmm. Interesting, interesting. [01:04:59] Speaker B: That's the other half. Okay, I'm done. [01:05:03] Speaker C: Interesting, interesting point of view. This month is also black music month and men's mental health month. So we have a lot happening in June. [01:05:17] Speaker B: It's also pride. Shout out to the Alphabet crew. [01:05:21] Speaker C: Yes, yes. So June is definitely full and. [01:05:28] Speaker B: Full. [01:05:28] Speaker C: Of all the things. [01:05:29] Speaker B: If y'all don't know, Piedmont park is where all the queers be. They said Piedmont was lit yesterday. Shout out, queers. Love y'all. [01:05:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Shout out to them over there. Shout out to them. [01:05:48] Speaker C: I just want to touch on the black or the. Not the black men, but yes, men's mental health Month awareness. [01:06:01] Speaker B: They know that. [01:06:04] Speaker C: I mean, if not, they do now. [01:06:06] Speaker A: No, we did not know that. We did not know. [01:06:10] Speaker C: Okay, well, is this. [01:06:14] Speaker A: No, this is absolutely news to me. I had no clue. Wow. [01:06:18] Speaker C: Okay. [01:06:19] Speaker A: And look, I only got seven days left. [01:06:23] Speaker C: You have the. You have the remainder of the year, sir. There is no, you know. [01:06:28] Speaker A: No. I thought you said it was mental health. Men's mental health, black mental health month. [01:06:33] Speaker C: It's men's mental health month. But specifically for, like, black men. I encourage you all to, if not professional help, seek a positive outlet to, you know, release any stressors or any things that may be triggering, but in, like, a positive way. I know for me, there's a lot of things that I internalize and let fester, and then that has, like, physical ramifications. And I think for men, it's been very taboo to, like, share your thoughts, feelings, or even say, hey, I'm struggling. So I think it's a great time to seek that type of help in those type of, like, conversations, even if you're not in a space of, like, struggle, just knowing that you're not doing this thing called life by yourself. Because I know for men particularly, they have, like, a lot to bear on their shoulders, but they also don't have those safe spaces to speak about certain things. [01:07:49] Speaker B: I love that research team. [01:07:53] Speaker C: You know, I love me a good black man that's emotionally intelligent, so trying to encourage that. And then, you know, last but not least, what letter? E. I don't know if y'all saw that on the notes. [01:08:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I see it. I see it. Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Now. [01:08:20] Speaker C: I was on the fence about bringing this up because this is clearly, like, you know, something I watched. But TLC has a show called, like, something with the Doricos or whatever. Basically, it's a people of the world. One more time. [01:08:44] Speaker A: Oh, never mind. [01:08:47] Speaker C: It's a. I know what you're talking about, but no, it's a black couple that has 14 children. They are on season three, I think is about to launch or drop. But long story long, they recently announced that they are divorced. There are many shockers for me when it comes to this because their divorce got finalized in, like, two days. And typically, you know, I've never been married or divorced, so I thought you had to go through, like, mediation or something before they finalized it. But I. [01:09:36] Speaker B: Why not getting divorced? [01:09:43] Speaker A: I think I might. It sound like to me, they did it for the show. [01:09:48] Speaker B: Oh. [01:09:49] Speaker C: They've been now wondering. [01:09:52] Speaker A: Okay, never mind. A lot. [01:09:56] Speaker C: They. They've been married for 19 years, and they have 14 kids together, 13 minors. They have triplets. [01:10:11] Speaker B: What? Again, it didn't say they got twins and triplets. That lady. Fertile. [01:10:19] Speaker A: I know that thing. [01:10:20] Speaker C: Loose. Correct. [01:10:21] Speaker B: Okay. [01:10:25] Speaker C: Correct. [01:10:27] Speaker A: They probably just fall out at this point. Just. [01:10:35] Speaker C: The children are all homeschool. My issue is, girl, I mean, that's. [01:10:41] Speaker B: The whole elementary school right there. [01:10:43] Speaker A: I would. I would gladly send 14 kids to school every single day. [01:10:48] Speaker B: Every day. [01:10:49] Speaker A: Please go to school and do activities after school. [01:10:53] Speaker B: I'll come. I'll see you at 08:00 p.m. do you know what? [01:10:57] Speaker C: That pickup and drop off and that's like, you gotta have crazy involvement that just, I don't know, having them in. [01:11:05] Speaker A: Your ear all day. [01:11:07] Speaker B: What you just gotta buy. [01:11:08] Speaker C: I'm just saying, like, at that point. [01:11:11] Speaker B: And drop them all off. You the bus. You the bus driver. Okay. Invest in a small bus. Drop them off and get on back home. [01:11:29] Speaker C: I just. [01:11:30] Speaker B: You gotta deal with them every day. Like, teach them stuff. [01:11:34] Speaker A: No, crazy. Teach them and raise them. That's wild. That's too much. Too much. Not in juneteenth month. No, no. That's too much. [01:11:48] Speaker C: That's parenting in a nutshell, though, because you can't expect the school system to do, you know, day job. That's just supplemental. But. But my. My issue with this whole, like, thing is I just saw them on Sherri Shepherd a couple months ago, and they were talking about, you know, promoting, you know, their new series or whatever that's coming out. And they seemed. And I know looks can be deceiving or whatever, but they seem very happy. They was even like, you know, she asked them are going to have another one. And they was both like, whatever the Lord blesses us with. So it's not like it was actively on birth control. They just, you know, he's shooting up the club and if it, if it lands, it sticks. Hey, that's what we roll it with. Um. [01:12:41] Speaker A: No, I know what it is. One of them, one of them. Them kids got on their nerves and they just ready to go. That's what it is. [01:12:54] Speaker C: I just think that that's wild. And he all, oh twin, I know you don't flip when you hear this, but he's only paying like 1146 city boys up. [01:13:09] Speaker A: Let's go. [01:13:12] Speaker B: When I saw that I was like, um. That don't sound like enough. [01:13:17] Speaker C: That don't support. Yeah, and she is responsible for the health insurance. [01:13:26] Speaker B: He finessed cuz my friend get $800 for her one baby. [01:13:33] Speaker C: I just, I don't. [01:13:35] Speaker A: Well maybe, maybe, maybe the residuals from the show are going to the wife. Maybe that's what it is. Because otherwise I don't even, don't even make sense with 14 children. Well, 13 months. You said 13 minors, right? [01:13:50] Speaker C: Right. So I. They have one that's like 18. [01:13:54] Speaker A: Just makes sense. So maybe she gets the show residuals. [01:13:58] Speaker B: Maybe so. And maybe she's gonna be the one still on the show. [01:14:03] Speaker A: Ah, she gets off. Maybe. [01:14:07] Speaker C: I don't know. I just know that it's, it's crazy. [01:14:12] Speaker A: To see good for a spin off though. She, she might get one. [01:14:16] Speaker B: They really are. [01:14:18] Speaker C: I'm just saying, I think it's crazy that TLC, it's like something is always happening with couples. And when it comes to like reality tv, like, I don't know if it exposes people's like weaknesses or whatever, like it amplifies their issues. But 14 kids. Sir, where are you going? What are you doing? [01:14:40] Speaker B: You know, people's relationship failing because of tv because they really, I mean it's reality, quote unquote. But you know, they produce. [01:14:52] Speaker A: Yeah, but them shows be scripted and produced. Your family, your relationship is not supposed to be on tv. That's why they run into issues. [01:15:03] Speaker B: They put you in intentionally in situations, drama, you know, that's really not a place for a relationship. So I'm not shocked. I mean, you. When do you have private time? Like your private moments sometimes. Me, I'm not sure, like, yeah, film them. We haven't even dealt with this. Then you got to deal with commenters and people all in your business, you. [01:15:29] Speaker C: Know, woo child, I just social media. [01:15:34] Speaker A: Plays a huge part now. You wrote. [01:15:37] Speaker C: Mm hmm. [01:15:38] Speaker B: People all in your business somehow. Oh, you a terrible mom. It's just. It's too much. [01:15:45] Speaker C: I just don't understand what co parenting looks like with 14 kids. I don't understand, like, now y'all gotta move out of the house to go where? [01:15:58] Speaker A: Like, where's their home? Like, life, like, set up? Like. Like they live on a farm or something. They live in a regular house. [01:16:07] Speaker C: They live in a regular house. That's not. They're having, like, the show's called doubling down with the Doricos, but they're there. It's like, their home was supposed to be fixed, but it's not fixed. So they're going through, like, issues with, like, the contractor. So now they got to, like, move out of that house and move into something else, because now the parents, you know, now they divorce, and it's just like. But where. Where is he gonna stay? Why does he get the option to just leave? And then she is the, like, primary parent. You know what I mean? [01:16:42] Speaker A: Cuz that's what y'all asked for. That's. That's what happens. [01:16:48] Speaker B: Maybe she was the primary parent anyway. [01:16:51] Speaker C: Who. [01:16:53] Speaker A: No, but the courts are generally gonna send the kids with. With the mother. And even if. Even if the father wants the kids, it's generally gonna be a fight. And the mother usually wins, especially if. [01:17:10] Speaker B: She'S already acting as the primary caregiver. I guess I would just think 14 kids, though, as a judge, you gotta be like, all right, that's what I'm saying. [01:17:25] Speaker C: Like what? [01:17:27] Speaker B: That's a lot. [01:17:28] Speaker C: Y'all need to fix it. It just need to be fixed. Figure it out, because it's a no. [01:17:33] Speaker B: Y'all deny. You cannot deny. There's too many kids. [01:17:37] Speaker C: Denied. [01:17:41] Speaker B: Well, research team, I know you want kids and a family, so now is the time to manifest. I didn't put this on the notes, but I forgot. Today is the last day of the strawberry moon, which is the full moon. I don't know if y'all saw it outside. The summer solstice was on the 21st. Okay, which is the point in the summertime where the earth is most pointed at the sun. All right? Okay, so this is a time of intense energy, and it's to manifest all your dreams. All right? The earth, we are in Capricorn, which is the earth sign. They hold dominion over money. Okay, so bills, coins, whatever attracts the money energy. All right? So say some mantras, some meditations, whatever you've been trying to manifest now is the time. Today's the last day, guys. Listeners. Well, by the time y'all listen to this, well, hopefully you would have manifested some dreams on the 23rd, and I'm gonna manifest this. [01:19:01] Speaker A: Does this fall under cosmology or astrology? [01:19:07] Speaker B: Probably a little of both, I would say. [01:19:11] Speaker C: Cosmology. [01:19:12] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Study of the cosmos. [01:19:18] Speaker B: A little of both, I would say, because they have. They have some. Some tips, astrology wise, for me. Cancer. It's time to reassess your relationships. [01:19:30] Speaker C: Will you send me the link? [01:19:36] Speaker B: When I was leaving my dad house, I was like, oh, that is a beautiful full moon. Let me look up. Let me see what that means. So I looked it up. I'm gonna send you. I'm gonna send y'all the link. Manifest everyone. Today, the last day. [01:19:50] Speaker A: That was really fun. Cancers, it's time to assess your relationships. That was funny. [01:19:58] Speaker B: What's your time? Research team. Pisces. Get social and celebrate life. Pisces. [01:20:06] Speaker C: You know, that's what I'm trying to do. I've been doing. [01:20:10] Speaker B: What's your sign? [01:20:12] Speaker A: Aries. [01:20:13] Speaker B: Oh, you was first. Let me go on back to the top. Reach for the stars. Aries. Oh, I got what this could be a promotion. Lucrative job offer, new client, or even an award. [01:20:28] Speaker A: Let's do it. Let's do it. [01:20:29] Speaker C: Let's go. [01:20:32] Speaker B: Manifest y'all. I ain't read all of yours. You. You could now attend a dazzling party or mixer. So get ready to meet new people and expand your network. Pisces. [01:20:45] Speaker C: That's actually coming up low key. [01:20:47] Speaker B: See? [01:20:48] Speaker A: Oh, look at that. Look at the cosmos. [01:20:53] Speaker B: For me, this could be a time of euphoric union for you and another party as you commit or make long term promises. [01:21:02] Speaker A: Oh, what you got going on? [01:21:06] Speaker C: Twin business venture aspect. [01:21:10] Speaker B: My eyes open. Maybe. Maybe. So this dry is real dry over here. Yeah. [01:21:19] Speaker C: I'm thinking on a business level, not necessarily romantic, that's looking real bleak. [01:21:25] Speaker B: Never know. You never know. [01:21:28] Speaker C: It's. You know, it's an opportunity. Uh, everybody can't be like a dub. So blissfully in love. [01:21:38] Speaker A: Excuse me. [01:21:42] Speaker B: Shout out to wifey. I'm gonna say her name. And wrapping up. Juneteenth week. Y'all shot a clock. I got water this week. [01:21:58] Speaker C: This week? [01:21:59] Speaker B: Yes. Water. [01:22:03] Speaker C: Oh, wow. Okay. I mean, I just got about a new filter picture, so I also have water. [01:22:12] Speaker B: Hydrate. Okay. [01:22:14] Speaker A: Adulting. Adulting. [01:22:16] Speaker B: Hydration. [01:22:17] Speaker C: It's hot out here. [01:22:19] Speaker B: It was. [01:22:19] Speaker A: You know what? You know what I think is so cool about being an adult? Like, when you buy, like, a new something for your crib. Or some kind of new accessory, and it don't mean much, but you just want to tell somebody. Yeah. [01:22:37] Speaker C: So you trying to come after the. [01:22:38] Speaker A: I'm not. Because water filters. Yes. And we, and we love sales. Yes. [01:22:45] Speaker B: And we love a sale. [01:22:48] Speaker A: All the, that was like, unimportant stuff. That was unimportant. We were like, young. It's like, nah, this stuff is important. [01:22:55] Speaker B: This is, I know this is it. [01:22:57] Speaker A: Like when I go in Home Depot, I love Home Depot. Like, I just want to look at tools all day. Stuff that I don't need, but I know one day I might need it. [01:23:06] Speaker B: But you might need it one day. That's me and target. That's why I can't go in there, girl. [01:23:14] Speaker C: I just spent $80 yesterday. I said, get me out of here. [01:23:17] Speaker A: You're going to, you got buy two things. [01:23:21] Speaker B: You got three items. [01:23:24] Speaker C: Don't do that. I don't want to discuss how many items. One of them was the filter, though. The water pitcher. [01:23:30] Speaker A: I need to get brittle water. Pick what you got. [01:23:34] Speaker C: I got a, here. [01:23:36] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. [01:23:39] Speaker C: And then there was a coupon inside the box so I could get the, um. It's like a double filter thing that they offer now with it. And I was like, oh, shoot. Not the double filter. Okay. [01:23:51] Speaker A: I might, I might get me a water filter today because, you know, well, my mom, she went down to, I don't know if you ever heard, called Indian Springs. [01:24:00] Speaker B: Mm hmm. What's that? [01:24:02] Speaker A: It's basically a cave in the ground in Georgia. It's got natural springs. No, it's like a tourist site, too, but they've got natural sulfur springs. So it's like healing water. It's delicious, and it's free. You can bring back as much water. Yeah. I think it's called Indian Spring caves or something. [01:24:23] Speaker B: Okay. [01:24:24] Speaker A: But it's like an hour south of here. South of Atlanta. [01:24:27] Speaker C: Drop that in the group chat. [01:24:28] Speaker A: And she brought back, like, two big five gallon jugs. This water is so good. See, that's what I'm saying is good for you, too. [01:24:39] Speaker B: I'm a water snob. I'm terrified of case, but I'll go for the water. [01:24:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm a water snob. I'd be on that. I'd be trying to find a. I'm. [01:24:52] Speaker A: Gonna look up the name right now for you to be. [01:24:55] Speaker B: People call me Bougie, because if Fiji is available and I got the money, I will purchase Fiji over everything. It just tastes so good. [01:25:05] Speaker C: You know? I like path water, the one that comes in the aluminum oh, that's good, too. [01:25:12] Speaker B: That's good, listeners. [01:25:15] Speaker C: What y'all's favorite water? Let us know. [01:25:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Indian Springs State park. I'm sorry. There you go. [01:25:20] Speaker B: Indian Springs State Park. I love me some good water now, especially if it's cold. We sound. [01:25:28] Speaker C: I can't do cold. I could do room temp. [01:25:32] Speaker B: I do know. [01:25:33] Speaker A: I don't know if it's cold, but it is a natural spring. [01:25:36] Speaker C: I mean. [01:25:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, that's. That's how I drink it. Cold out of fridge. It was delicious. [01:25:46] Speaker C: I gotta let mine sit for a little minute. [01:25:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it got to be like, crisp, cold. [01:25:51] Speaker C: Ooh, child, I heard. Ooh, that hurt. I sound old when I say that, but, ooh, it hurt. [01:25:56] Speaker B: I need that. [01:26:00] Speaker C: 85. I'm about 85, so my bones can't take that. [01:26:09] Speaker B: Let's shoot our old water. Our cold water. [01:26:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Like research team said, let us know your favorite waters down in the comments. Comments before we go, just want to say f those colonizers drinking water to that dub. Edit that out. [01:26:30] Speaker B: Yeah, edit that out. Please shout out to all the black people. Shout out to all the ancestors that were slaves an extra three years and didn't have to be. [01:26:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Shout out to black people and black people only. [01:26:51] Speaker C: Well, this is some good water. 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