Take Care

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome to the Call your Cousins podcast, a podcast dedicated to exploring deep and complex topics that shape our world and human experiences. Before we dive into today's episode, we want to acknowledge the sensitive nature of some of the content we discuss. Please be advised that this podcast may include themes and discussions that could be triggering or uncomfortable for some listeners, including, but not limited to, discussions on mental health, violence, abuse, and other potentially distressing topics. Listener discretion is advised. Remember, this podcast is for informational and educational, but most importantly, entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as professional advice. The views expressed by hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the call your cousins podcast. Enjoy the show. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Whatever time you're joining us, the cousins. Thank you for doing so. 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. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Just the two of us. [00:01:35] Speaker C: We can make it if you try. Just the two of us. Just the two of us. Hey, y'all. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Thanks for joining the cousins. We thank you, and welcome back to the call your Cousins podcast. My name is Pete, and I am joined by the lovely twin. [00:02:01] Speaker B: Hey, y'all. It's just us today. You just need a whole bunch of gabbin because you know how we do. [00:02:07] Speaker C: It's just us. But, you know, I don't think the listeners really know. Um, we. We do this like, we do this like we do. We do this. Yeah. Yeah. Because I think when we think about the chat, right, we always been real close to the whole family. Right. But I wonder, I mean, other than us being when we were younger, we would always come up to your parents, you know, me and my brother, and we. Yeah. So maybe that's why we're probably close, or I think maybe we're closer than, um, you know, because we outside of the big group of cousins, it's all these different silos of cousins. And I feel like that's how we ended up becoming a silo because. [00:02:57] Speaker B: And I feel like we're kind of the central because, you know, my daddy and your grandma, best friends. [00:03:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:03:05] Speaker B: And both of them feel like they the center of the family, so I feel like that's how we kind of be plugged in more so to everybody else. [00:03:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:15] Speaker B: They're like, always the ones that know everything and going to visit everybody and making sure everybody's straight. [00:03:24] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:03:25] Speaker B: They are best friends. To each other. So, yeah, that's what happened. Because everybody do be kind of out of the loop, and we be involved in every single thing. [00:03:35] Speaker C: We'd be so plugged in because I was just talking to our auntie out in Cali, and, you know, it's just. It's so much love. Like, I miss her so much. I know. And she was just, you know, the sweetest thing was on the phone for 2 hours. And that's how we are. So, you know. So, guys, it's just us, but we have a whole bunch to catch up to. We've been busy with life, but at the same time, you know, that's important when you need to take the time to do life and handle things. That life. We call that adulting. So that's what we. That's what we've been doing, y'all. We've been adulting. But, you know, we're on the ones and twos, and we're just gonna go ahead and get into it. Got so much. So much going on. [00:04:27] Speaker B: I just wanted to know that it's getting warm and, you know how do when it's warm outside. But now that a bee is old. Okay. The pollen never used to affect me, girl. And I thought I was sick last week. [00:04:47] Speaker C: Allergies. [00:04:48] Speaker B: It's allergies. So as a 35 year old, o b I c t h, we go. I'm tell you that reference later. Hey, I spelled the wrong on purpose. As a o b I c t h. I gotta take my allergy medicine. Well, take care of yourselves, y'all. [00:05:09] Speaker C: Yeah. Um, I would say, um, I've been telling you about them allergy meds, dog, for years, and, you know, you don't take the porsche out like that because your car is in the garage, so. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Oh, my. Let me tell you how my baby is yellow. Today I drove to one place and back from the garage, yellow house way. [00:05:37] Speaker C: It's the. That's what I'm saying. So. And then, you know, that's why you don't know till, um, you go outside and put your, you know, your baby, she'll be outside like that. So. That's funny that you said that, because the pollen down here is not bad. But, um, I was up in north Florida. No, not down. Because of the wind. We get too much of the beach, you know, that kind of thing. [00:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. [00:06:04] Speaker C: But as soon as I went up to mid, I went to Central Florida, and it was all over my car. Oh, I'm talking about my car. Looked like a bumblebee I said. And I was popping two. Two allergy pills up there. Cause like you said, it gets you sick. It'll get you sick. So, yeah, y'all make sure y'all taking care of yourself. And with that, you know, happy spring. We in the new season. Hey, we are. We made it. We made it. And it's, you know, it's when. Those are the times where you take the opportunity to think about the blessings, look at the past, lead the past, lead that winter, leave, leave last season behind, learn from the lessons, move forward. You know, I think that that's important when we're thinking about how also the current status of DEI, race and culture right now in this country is off the chain. But in the midst of it, we have to look at the positives, right? And how there are breakthrough opportunities that are happening. And, you know, I think about it when I think about new seasons, when we're thinking of how data impacts the culture, right? And so specific to HBCUs and the attack on Dei, a lot of people don't realize how federally and statewide is so interconnected with the laws that are being made to not, you know, fund. That's why these programs are closing. Right, but this goes back to why HBCU was even necessary in the first place, right? But people try to talk about how slavery does. How did. It didn't exist or race doesn't exist. You don't understand why we needed to have hbcus in the first place. And you know me as a. I love. It's so interesting. I'm in these academic spaces. Nine. When they call me scholar, I just chuckle because, I mean, it's. It's nice to be welcomed in that space. But when you think about HBCU, the h is historic. [00:08:24] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:08:27] Speaker C: It ain't BCU. It ain't BC, right? They see you. Is HBCU. Historically, why did we need historic black colleges and universities? Why? [00:08:43] Speaker B: Why? Because we wasn't allowed. [00:08:46] Speaker C: So, you know, I say that to say, I want to highlight one of our beloved hbcus in your yo yo. Uh, you know, your little stomping ground, Spelman. [00:09:00] Speaker B: I got my pearls on, too. The illustrious Spelman College, always making headway, always staying ahead of the curb, always producing excellence. [00:09:12] Speaker C: So Spelman will be offering, in the fall semester of 2024, courses in cosmetic chemistry. And this is the first HBCU to offer this concentration for students in STEM. And so, as a student of an alumni of STEM, may we add, how does this make you feel? [00:09:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I was telling you, this before we started recording, you know, I did dual degree at Spelman, which is a program where you can pick a math or science discipline and then pick an engineering discipline and go to an engineering school to finish it up. And I loved chemistry growing up. I was always good at math, like science, physics always loved it. And I wanted to go into chemistry, partly because I read that chemical engineering made the most. But I also was kind of like, but what am I going to do, though? And I definitely. I mean, first of all, I wasn't really into beauty and all that stuff back then, but Spelman did introduce me to it, and I definitely would have been interested in doing that when I was in school. And there's a lot of people at Spelman. I mean, the science department, even though it's a liberal arts school, the science department is rigorous. Okay? And the doctors and biologists and everything that it produce is. Are. They're excellent. And so I think this is great. I think this is a huge step in the makeup industry for black people. I think we definitely gonna be making our headway with this, and hopefully other colleges follow suit. But, you know, we had to do it first because, you know, we. We are trailblazers. You know how we do. [00:11:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:08] Speaker B: Problem in the industry, and we fix it. That's we a choice to change the world. That's what they always told us when we were there. And I do feel like they practice what they preach, so I love this. [00:11:21] Speaker C: Yeah. They said the program's goal, based on Essence magazine news, choose to promote careers in the beauty industry, enhance the technical knowledge of students seeking to work in the industry, or pursue advanced studies in cosmetics, as well as ensure a gendered and racial perspective and product formulation development. And, you know, that's the part that I love, right, where this is specific development, the pinnacle of all girls institution. We know that Angela Jolie's daughter went there. Did she cross as a aka or a delta? Hmm. [00:12:06] Speaker B: I want to say delta. [00:12:08] Speaker C: I know. I don't. Girlies. Girlies don't come for us because we're really spitballing off the top of our heads. But one thing I truly enjoyed was seeing how Angela Jolie allowed her daughter to really engulf herself into the culture there at Spelman, because it really is the Ivy League of. In my personal preference and experience of the all girl experience. Right. And so the fact that they are the first HBCU to do it, like you said, I think they are at the forefront of it, because why not it be black women that are the first to offer this. And also because specific to black women, and we've talked about this before on the show in regards to Rihanna, black women spend over $17.4 billion on cosmetics and personal care products. That was just in 2012, just in 2020, 2022 alone. And the crazy part is that within that number, black beauty brands only make up 2.5% of that market. [00:13:21] Speaker B: That made me so sad when I saw that. And, you know, I love fenty. I am one of those people blessed with amazing skin, you know? So I never really had to do nothing but put soap on it. However, now that I've discovered Fenty and I got a little routine going down, my skin is, like, still a hundred percent better than it was. You know what I mean? And. And it's just crazy that it took this long for us to have somebody caring about our skin. And I think that's why, like I said, I wasn't into makeup like that at Spelman, because I didn't. I was like, it seemed like people who wear makeup, you know, they don't have good skin, and it's just, what did they do to take care of their skin? You know, you kind of had to, like, go out of your way to search. And now I'm like, oh, well, I need some fenty makeup and did some skincare, too, and I'm good. [00:14:14] Speaker C: Well, let's also reel it in a little bit, though, because we're, let's talk about skin complexions. And that's what I said. You probably did it because of your complexion. And it goes back. We both have really, we both have really good skin. And even when I started wearing makeup, you know, being from miami, you, if you have a pretty face, you don't really have to put makeup on. The natural beat. Girls in Miami been doing the natural beat forever. I mean, that's, you know, that's the lip gloss, the clear. Remember the clear, the clear gloss, like, the whole thing with the lashes, that. [00:14:56] Speaker B: Wasn'T a big clear goss the other day, girl. Yeah. [00:14:59] Speaker C: You know, so I think in our generation, we really value pretty skin and a pretty face. And when you had that, you didn't really see the need for makeup. But I think that's what the makeup industry. And so let's be clear makeup. And I think makeup tailoring to the natural beat, right? Because then, remember when we saw, like, heavy makeup, that Mac era, then everything kind of reeled back to like, okay, I want to have a blush look. I want to have rosy cheeks and, like, all of that, and there wasn't makeup that was made for black people. And it wasn't really until Mac really started collaborating with so many different black art. Like, if Mac wasn't willing to collab with Rihanna, Rihanna probably would have never had fenty, right? And so maybe she would have at some point. But it just gives you perspective on how we're talking about how much we spend and how much we are represented. And like you say, you read stats like that and you're just. You. How do you say that? How can you say for real, that there is not a disproportionate advantage to black people in America when you read a number like that? We're talking about skincare, makeup, cosmetics, period. That's what we're talking about. That's something that. And that's one of the most diverse areas of products. Right? Because all products. I remember a point where I. When I couldn't really find the combination skin products. And what was that company that dominated for a while? The blue bottles, the acne. What was their name? Mmm. Mmm. [00:16:53] Speaker B: Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue. Um, olive oil. A. [00:16:57] Speaker C: No no, because proactive. Remember? Proactive. And then before proactive was the Avon lady. So it's just interesting. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Avon lady. My mama told Mary Kay, shout out. [00:17:12] Speaker C: To my mama and the Mary Kay lady, you know? So shout out to Spelman again for doing incredible work. We love to see it. And, you know, also. [00:17:24] Speaker B: Angelina Jolie's daughter was aka. I looked it up. Research team ain't here today. Shout out to research team. [00:17:30] Speaker C: Shout out to research team. Yeah, I remember seeing her probate, but I couldn't. I could not put the. The, you know, deltas and aka's wear pearls again. Girls don't come for me. I'm just keeping it real. And because of Spellman, there was definitely pearls. [00:17:51] Speaker B: So I was just gonna say, and Spellman is automatically pearls anyway, so you don't even. You can't really tell the difference. For real. [00:18:00] Speaker C: And with that, we're just gonna go ahead and get into one saying. We're thinking about black women doing amazing things. We want to take a moment to give a thank you to Regina King. And just the. I haven't had the opportunity myself to watch Shirley Chisholm yet, or I think it's just name Shirley. And, you know, one, I'm glad that people are embracing, um, this film as she's been promoting it. So if anybody doesn't really know. Regina King did the bioptic on Shirley Chisholm's 1972 campaign. She was the first black woman to ever run for president. So, you know, think about that, guys. 1972, right? So we're talking after Kennedy. We're talking after Johnson. And I want to say, when she was running, Miss Shirley, I wonder who she was running against at the time. I want to say Reagan, maybe, but I think. I feel like I'm wrong. [00:19:33] Speaker B: Let me look. [00:19:35] Speaker C: But she ran during the biggest conflict, one of the conflicts we were having at the time, which was the Vietnam War. And so she was obviously very opposed to that and was really spoken out about civil rights, women's rights, poor affordable housing, you know, the hunger. That is something that's always pretty prevalent in America. And when you. And she was from Brooklyn, New York, and so born in 1924. So think about that for a second. You have someone from 1924 only a few years removed from slavery, and she, because of where she is, you know, she's given a little bit more opportunity to go to college. She actually got her master's degree from Columbia University in childhood education. And so, you know, you look, um. You look for her. You look at her. Her quest for the presidential nomination, and really, when she was running, was blocked from doing any of the debates, the primary debates, she took legal action and was permitted just to make one speech. But it was actually kind of crazy that she was able to at some point, get at least some voting, but clearly was underfunded by the campaign and was really kind of, I want to say, blackballed a little bit by the congratulations, the congressional black Caucus at the time, which were male. And you just look at situations like this and you're like, what? You know, who has the. The balls per se to do something like that, right? Where in that time for her to even say, you know what? I'm going to do it because I want to show people it can be done and not that it could be won. Right. Because I think that's something that is lost a little bit in the story. Oh, like, she didn't win. I don't think it was even about her winning. I think it was about people understanding that you can, everyday american citizens can oppose the system and can choose it. [00:22:16] Speaker B: To do something, but somebody has to do something. And the only way that we're going to change the system is if somebody steps up to do something. [00:22:26] Speaker C: Right. And so, you know, and that goes back to the trailblazing, right where we look at the current presidential race right now, and it's like, these are not trailblazers. These are men that are riding into the sunset. [00:22:43] Speaker B: They don't want trailblazers. And that's what they never wanted. And this was crazy to me. Side note, she ran. She lost the DNC nomination to George McGovern, who lost the election to Nixon. But. [00:22:56] Speaker C: Yeah. To Nixon. [00:22:57] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's just, and I'm just, I'm going off on a little tangent here, but when I just think about racism and white people conquering, it just doesn't it make. What makes sense to me is if you really feel like a group of people are beneath you, why would you put all of your effort into not giving them the same opportunity? You know what I'm saying? Cause if we're just stupid monkeys anyway, we're not, then we're not gonna make it anywhere. Right? That has just always been crazy to me. Like, because, like you're saying, and. And I think what gets lost in black history sometimes is how much more of a struggle women had, black women had. Because when white women were barely even seen as anything to white men, so we had to fight being black and being a woman. And, you know, it's just, I guess I'm just, as I get older, I'm seeing how strong we are as black women, and frankly, I'm tired of being strong. And I see why. Because we've had to be the ones to be like, nobody's doing anything about this, so we're gonna have to do it right. You're right. I don't think it was about winning, because we're not stupid. Like, we knew what was going on back then. We barely had a black president now. But I think it was about, hey, we can do this. I'm just a regular person like you. And even though they've told us this is what we are, we're not, like, we're capable of doing this, and we have to do it. [00:24:38] Speaker C: Yeah. And, and you brought up a lot of interesting points, right. Where within that timeframe, you're thinking about the women's suffrage movement, where, as you mentioned, white women also have had to fight for their rights when black men had the right to vote before white women. And so when we think about the feminist movement, but then with black women, in regards to being able to say, you know what? I'm just going to continue. I'm picking, this is going to be what I'm going to stand for. And so I say that because you're absolutely right. When you put it in real context, you're thinking about, especially with what happened with Hillary. And, you know, back during a race against Trump, it was how the country views women and feminine energy and just refuses it just continues to allow the masculine and the patriarchy to just. Just run rampant, run, run all the way while. Because, like I said, these are not trailblazers who are running for this current election. And I'm not going to speak. I refuse at this point to speak about one candidate being better than the other candidate. What is best for America? And if you can't really say that about. And that's. If you can't say that about each party, if you can't truly say that when you're looking at, okay, is this candidate better for this or this candidate better for that? And I would say in the most recent conversations I had with a lot of people, it's like when this pendulum swings, if it swings too much the other way, as you can see now, we have regressed. I mean, the fact that we lost Roe, Roe v. Versus Wade is wild. [00:26:38] Speaker B: To me, but that's what I. And that's why I was telling you, I don't. It seems like there is a concerted effort in general to not change the country at all. In fact, let's go back to where we were in 1935, because that was, you know, the best time ever in the US. And it's just. And it's like we're slowly getting there, and nobody's doing anything about it. What. What are we doing? [00:27:08] Speaker C: Right? And so shout out. So, again, black women on black women, covering black women. Something as a researcher that I currently make sure that I try to do is I cover a lot of black women, black authors, black anthropologists. And let me tell you something. One thing black women gonna do, we gonna look out for each other, period. And so when you think about the feminist movement, we think about everybody, not just, um, race. And so I love that. Not only is this is Regina's king, you know, movie per se, because they produced it through their own company, Royal Todd's production, her and her sister Raina. I believe that's how you say her name. And I. I remember years ago when people would talk about how she wanted to do this film. So this film was like, almost like 15. Like, they've been working on this film for a very long time. And so. And the craziest thing is, you remember Lance Reddick. He. This was one of his last performances in a movie as Welsh rip the. Lance Reddick, we love you. I believe he passed away. I want to say last year or the year before. I want to say it was last year that he passed away. But, you know, it's. So I said to say that she now has been on a media run for this film, and. But this has been. Because in the recent couple of years, I would say the last year or two, I want to say it's been two years since the passing of her son, and I really want to give a one. She did her first interview with Robin Roberts. And Robin Roberts. I mean, what a national treasure, to be honest. [00:29:03] Speaker B: Agree. [00:29:04] Speaker C: I just, you know, I. She, to me, has become our Oprah. [00:29:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:11] Speaker C: You know, because Oprah. I almost feel like Oprah too big to cover. Like, cover the real. I don't know how to say that without saying, like, trying. Yeah. Not trying to slide anyway. Right. [00:29:26] Speaker B: She did her time. She brought us the real for long enough. [00:29:32] Speaker C: Right. [00:29:33] Speaker B: She's over it. [00:29:34] Speaker C: Right. And so, um, she does her first interview with Good Morning America, and she really talks about her relationship with her son, who. Her son Ian, who passed away in 2022. And, you know, this is the first time she's come out to talk about it in conjunction with the film. And I just. I sat there and I watched it, and I really loved that she was not only transparent about how she was doing, but then also, you know, giving real context when we think about suicide awareness and. And how you deal with suicide and how you. How you go through that. Right. And I just. I just really wanted to. The only reason why I brought up Miss King in the show is because. Thank you. We talk about mental health on this show so many times, and people don't understand that she said this point where, you know, a lot of people don't know how to almost respect the choice of why he did it, you know, and that journey and what mental health really looks like, and being honest, that's what I felt. I walked away with her keeping it 100% real, her being 100% honest with it, and then her now still allowing herself to honor her son by how we go through grief. And, you know, black people, we will grieve ourselves to death. We can. We can literally grieve ourselves to death. And that's not to say that you don't process. We see this with, you know, people who deal with not something just as tragic as suicide, but gun violence. Right? How many famous rappers that we've lost through gun violence and stuff like that, or just police brutality. It's like grief itself in the black community. You can grieve yourself to death. And to see how amazing she looked, you know, just strong and confident in this work product, this body of work that she has created as an artist, I just. I literally looked at that as someone that struggled with mental health, and I was like, wow, okay, we can. We can get past that. We can do this. Yeah. [00:32:05] Speaker B: I watched some of the interview, and I. I really enjoyed it, because you can tell, as someone who struggles with depression and has been suicidal before and. And is still currently grieving, you can tell she's done the work. And because I feel like people who really, truly understand depression, there is a sort of respect to that. That's how you feel. And, like, you know, because some people who don't understand, it's like, oh, well, you need to go outside and go for a walk or just pray, you know, hearing her say that it was his choice not to be here anymore, as someone who has been there, I just felt like that was the best gift she could have gave to her son, because it seems like she really tried while he was here, you know, and try to understand, and it seems like she did the work. And it made me sad because she was like, of course, as a parent, you want to ask, what could I have done better? You know? But that's not how depression works, unfortunately. And I think she did her best, you know, and I really enjoyed how she spoke about grief and seeing how well she looks and, you know, you can tell that she's actually faced the grief and she still carries it with her, but she's learned how to live with it. And I think, like you said, we can grieve to death, but I think it's because we don't really face it head on. You know, you have to take time to grieve things. And I think she said, it's grief is like love that has nowhere to go. And I love that she said that because it's such a powerful feeling, like love and the person. So it's like. It's like a love. It's like a hole in your heart that you have to now learn to live with. And so that was just encouraging for me as somebody still kind of going through the grieving process, because, like you said, it makes you feel like you can come out the other end. [00:34:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. You walk away with a sense of, this is a process. And as you know, we have both dealt with grief in the last, you know, couple of years, and I've dealt with traumatic grief. I've dealt with sorrowful grief. I mean, the grief. That's what I mean. Grief in the black community is so. Such a big part of the actual black community. That was she. I wonder, when she said that, I wasn't sure if I'd heard that term before, or that sentence before grief is somewhere that love doesn't have, you know, doesn't have a place to go. And I just was like, because on the, when you get on the other side of grief, you know, especially with my father now, I just use my love for him in the energy of, like, feeling his spirit near or feeling comforted by knowing how much I did love him. And so thank you again, Regina King. And, you know, again, for anyone out there who is going through any type of mental health, you know, or having suicidal thoughts, you know, there is a level of awareness that, you know, and prevention that you can, you know, you are not alone. And that's the biggest thing. I think that when she said it was his choice, you realize that that takes away the stigma of, you know, isolation where, you know, oh, I feel like I'm the only, no, everybody's going through it. Everybody's going through it in some more than others, some more severe than others. And just know that if you, if you want help, there is help out there. I promise you, in this technology, you can google it, I need help. And it will lead you to the new, the nearest health professional, or you can walk into a hospital and tell them, I need help. And so with that, we're going to go ahead. And we had, we had a, in the midst of this conversation, we had some masculine energy pull up on us. [00:36:21] Speaker A: What up, a Doug in the bidding, in the video. [00:36:25] Speaker C: So how you feeling, man? [00:36:30] Speaker A: You know, 2024 is 2024 and it's 24. Mm hmm. We heard. [00:36:42] Speaker C: No, that's what's up. We was talking a little bit earlier about, you know, we've been adulting. You know, we was letting the people know we've been adulting right now. And we back. So, you know, that's, that's the weight. You know, it's like when they, when they say, what's the weight? That's the weight. We've been, we've been adults in 24 been, you know, snatching wigs off. [00:37:03] Speaker A: So we adults, we don't have a choice but to adult. But wait, who's, who's not you, who's nothing. Wigs. [00:37:11] Speaker C: Amen. People be snatching weeds. I mean, I listen, I do. You log into the real Internet. It's so many. We, they tried to take Beyonce wig off. They tried to take J. Cole and Drake. I wig snatched off. I mean, it's a lot of wigs. [00:37:31] Speaker A: Next we talk about. [00:37:33] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of, it's a lot of people getting their wig. [00:37:36] Speaker A: Snatched off the Internet is a wild place, Brian. [00:37:40] Speaker B: My wig almost fell off today, y'all. [00:37:43] Speaker A: Okay, here we go. Here we go. We got action. [00:37:47] Speaker B: I had to run to the bath. Luckily, I had a hat on. It's a new wig, so I'm trying out the fit, you know, so I have to tell him to tighten it up a bit because your girl almost got caught slipping today. [00:38:01] Speaker A: We got action. We got one. Damn. [00:38:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:05] Speaker A: Not the wig slippage. [00:38:12] Speaker C: But, you know, so speaking of somebody who got. They. They wig snitched, seeing they got to pay that 2.4 billion. Good old Donnie say, remy, my money. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Let me take a sip for Don Lemo. Oh, with my pinky out. [00:38:32] Speaker C: Yeah. Don Lemon say, run me my check. [00:38:35] Speaker A: They fired that man. Paid him, you know, his contract, and. And still had him on. He was on. I forgot what her show. What her name is, but I saw her. I saw him on her show. [00:38:48] Speaker B: Do y'all remember when everybody hated Don Lemon? I mean, black people? [00:38:52] Speaker A: I don't remember that. I just started watching a sellout. [00:38:57] Speaker B: So, see, Don Lemon, he made a brand switch up because he used to be a little bit of a sellout. [00:39:06] Speaker C: Really? [00:39:07] Speaker B: And, yeah, back in the day, go watch some old Don Lemon. Because, I mean, I used to be like, don. It's giving Uncle Tom. Oh, no, but he switched it up, though. [00:39:20] Speaker C: Maybe he. Well, he was born in 1966, so maybe, you know, coming up from that. [00:39:32] Speaker A: Good old ideology, that. [00:39:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:35] Speaker B: Type type stuff, maybe because directly done wrong by white people to really get it. And I'm sure them white people that CNN been playing in his face for a long time. [00:39:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Because it's. It sounds that he is trying to really, like you said, I sometimes. I think thought about this just a couple minutes ago. The masculine and feminine energy. I think sometimes black men find themselves being a part of the problem. And if he had that awakening at some point and then, you know, switched his brand, he's clearly going now on brand to more of a. A more centralized black man on tv, because, like you said, you know, what happened with CNN then. Most recently, him and Elon had a sit down with each other a little. A little talk. A little talk. And, um, you know, you're watching. Yeah. You're watching him and Elon talk in Elon. I mean, I don't think most people. I would hope most people understand that Elon is actually quite racist and quite. I mean, he's a. He's a smart man. But if you ever listen to Elon talk, he ain't. He don't talk smart. [00:41:05] Speaker B: Not that smart. [00:41:07] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. [00:41:08] Speaker B: He's smart. But he. [00:41:10] Speaker A: That smart, either. [00:41:11] Speaker B: He's. [00:41:12] Speaker C: He's. [00:41:12] Speaker B: He's. He's smart to the average person. You know what I'm saying? But amongst actual smart people like us, it's like, Elon, you don't be talking about nothing. [00:41:23] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. You see that. You see that in an interview with him. And then the fact that Elon, after the interview, took away his ability to program on x, I thought was interesting. So Don Lemon will be on YouTube, which is, you know, I like you, too. I. That's my little place of freedom. I feel like you go on YouTube and you can really see anything. So I catch you over there, Donnie. Well, I see over there. I hope you had you a cocktail New Year's Eve. I see over there. [00:41:54] Speaker B: Done. I hope they invite him back for New Year's Eve because that was the funniest part. [00:41:58] Speaker A: That was the best part, him being drunk on YouTube. I mean, on New Year's was the greatest thing about CNN. Yeah, we could count on it. Every year. [00:42:09] Speaker B: Every year, I'm like. I'm turning straight to CNN to see Don living drunk ass drunk. [00:42:14] Speaker C: All the way drunk. But it's. But drunk and funny, though. Yeah, drunk and funny. Cause there's levels of drunk. And he was. [00:42:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Just watching him enjoy himself, like, being just a person and that, I think that's what made it relatable and likable to people. Like, oh, Don Lemon, you know. [00:42:36] Speaker C: I. [00:42:36] Speaker B: Think that was my exact thought. And the last time, I was like. [00:42:43] Speaker C: Okay. [00:42:47] Speaker A: Shout out, Don Lemon. Yes, sir. [00:42:51] Speaker C: Yep. And so when we think about when these. These big dogs, you know, um, some. For some people, for the most part, it works out in their favor where if you're done wrong, you know, I'm glad to see that he got his justice within his contract. He gonna get paid. But, man, what God be having for you, be for you. Because just with the continuing on with the bag talk, Shakari with, you know, man, Shakari gonna sweep the Olympics. I'm telling it out right now. She gonna sweep. [00:43:23] Speaker A: She ran right into that bag, ain't she? [00:43:26] Speaker C: She looks. Because they tried to tear her down. Over. [00:43:29] Speaker B: So, bro, you know, I was so salty over Joanna. [00:43:36] Speaker A: This is crazy. [00:43:37] Speaker C: Over Joanna. And then, I mean, but. But over Joanna, like, she was a criminal. Like, she had. Like she I here selling a. Joanna. Hi. Joanna got a problem with each other. And hud. Joanna and her white friend, you know, they made it seem like she was just a drug addict. And the fact that, you know, if she was a real drug addict, she wouldn't have been able to pull like. [00:44:02] Speaker A: Like, you want to go make me run faster, right? [00:44:06] Speaker C: You ain't never heard, right. [00:44:14] Speaker A: Baby. If I'm fast, I'm just fast. It ain't, it ain't. You want to make me slower? [00:44:21] Speaker B: Like, whoever took it and was just like, yes, I'm ready. Mm hmm. I was so mad at that. Anybody that can run in them nails, and I just. I'm so happy for her. I was hoping when that happened, I was like, I hope my girl make it come back because she is just fabulous and they just can't handle her. [00:44:42] Speaker C: No. And you. And that's what it was. I think that was, again, one of those perfect examples of stereotyping the culture. And obviously she, you know, wears the hair, the nails, the lashes, the tattoos, the piercings. I mean, she is full on, fully embracing the culture and her own look, her own style, her own ingenuity. And they basically to take her for a ride. And I'm glad that she was able to dig with deep and within herself and show that one not only I'm a comfort, y'all, I'm taking the bag with me, and I'm gonna take the medals, too. So one, I'm wishing Shakari the best. I hope that she stays healthy all the way through the Olympics and the fact that she was able to pull this huge, huge marketing deal with Nike. And y'all don't come for me. I'm trying to bring my, my French up. Is a Jacqueline collection. The Nike bag, the swoosh bag. Anybody seen that bag? [00:45:49] Speaker B: I saw the bag, but I was not familiar with Jacques. I said, jacqueline, you sound like a mega name. [00:46:00] Speaker A: I don't know what none of this is. That do sound like a hood name, though. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Jacqueline. Jacqueline. [00:46:07] Speaker C: I mean. [00:46:12] Speaker B: Jacqueline. [00:46:12] Speaker A: Jacqueline S. And Jacqueline east. That's his sister. [00:46:18] Speaker C: Yeah. But they did a collection with, it's a famous of Paris, I believe, Paris designer. And they did a collection with Nike. And they created the switchback, which is in a euro, a good full 20 us a USD dollars. That's 520. Now, I'm gonna tell y'all right now, if you didn't go to Paris and buy the bag, you literally could have. You should have. If you were, you should have went to Paris, bought the bag, and came back because it would have been cheaper than the five, right? That's our crazy euro. Yeah. You had to go over there and get it. But I think I don't see the girls out with it. Now, I've seen the girls on. [00:46:57] Speaker A: On Twitter, and honestly, like, the full on it 500. That's. That's a decent little price. Like, that's doable for most people. For a lot of people. Not, I want to say, most people, I want to say. Yeah, a lot of people. [00:47:13] Speaker C: What we're talking about, it's actually in the shape of the Nike. [00:47:16] Speaker A: It's approachable for people. [00:47:18] Speaker C: Yeah, it's in the actual shape, but it's still a clutch cross body. So this girl I went to school with, I forget her handle. Shout out to her, though. She's like this Nike queen. Not Nike Queen, sneaker queen here down south. And she has the bag, and she did a. One of those demos of showing everything that could go in the bag. This would be my issue, though, with the bags. If your purse can't fit, if your. If your phone can't fit in the bed, I have a problem with the bag. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna say it's cute, but it can't fit none in it. [00:47:54] Speaker C: Your lip gloss and some lipstick and your credit cards. I mean. [00:48:00] Speaker A: I've never seen it, so. It's. It's tiny. [00:48:03] Speaker B: What? [00:48:04] Speaker A: A little. [00:48:04] Speaker C: It's like a cross body, but it's. [00:48:06] Speaker B: In the shape in the group. [00:48:08] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like. [00:48:09] Speaker A: And nothing can fit in it. Like nothing. [00:48:12] Speaker C: No, no, your coins, like, think about it. Think about. Yeah, some coins, but, like, your phone. That's crazy if you can't put your phone in the bag. I have a problem when you can't put a phone. And I'm not saying a pro, like a regular iPhone. If a regular iPhone can't go in there, I don't really. I really always have a hard time with that because what am I supposed to do with my phone? [00:48:34] Speaker A: Yeah, your phone needs to fit in it, because these days wasn't. It's not even the fashion thing. It's just these days is your phone has damn near all your cards on it. It got your. They can carry your id, your passport, everything. Your phone has everything. So if it don't, like, what would you put in that? [00:48:56] Speaker C: I mean, you try to promote your. [00:48:58] Speaker A: Cars, some rolling papers, maybe. [00:49:02] Speaker C: I mean, yeah, you write my joint in there. You're right. But no, that's crazy. [00:49:10] Speaker A: You can't carry nothing. [00:49:12] Speaker C: It's tiny. But, you know. Shout out again to Shakari, again, we are wishing you the best. I'm calling sweeping right now on the Olympics, so we'll be sure to tap in this summer to let y'all know how we feel, because there's gonna be already excellent coverage. We don't need to cover it. They got Snoop Dogg covering it and, oh, lord, that's gonna be funny. I mean, I'm going, I'm watching it. I always watch the limbus, but I'm going to watch the sea, snoop, but me. And if I get them get on this flight out there, I'll be out there. So y'all, again, Shakira, real quick, before. [00:49:53] Speaker A: We exit, this just for the listeners, just be likable. Shakari's a likable person. Like, they tried to, they tried to crucify her over some little stuff. Like, she just a likable person just being herself, like you said, twin with the nails and the hair and like, just being herself. And I think Flojo was like that, too. [00:50:20] Speaker B: Yep. [00:50:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:22] Speaker A: So, yeah, yourself be like, just be yourself, man. Just. [00:50:27] Speaker B: That's what I'd be trying to tell people. I don't care. That's what I love about her when I saw her, I'm like, oh, she don't care. She gonna be herself wherever she go. I love that. [00:50:38] Speaker C: Yep. And so, yeah, be yourself or be, be caught up in these streets because we still on bad talk. And somebody that's been they self, but they today self to the core, started a whole mass group. Good old the face of Trumpism. Good old Trump. He owe, he owed him people some money. He owed him, he owed him half a billion dollars. He owed a city of New York, well, the state of New York, a half of Billy, $464 million to be exact. That is due on Monday, march. [00:51:20] Speaker B: Take. Shout out to that. [00:51:21] Speaker A: Hold up, I'm gonna bring my little thing in here. Give me a shot, too. Give me 2 seconds. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Not a clock. [00:51:30] Speaker C: Yeah, it, and I was like, it's given. Because, you know, a lot of people don't understand that this is something that is not necessarily anything to do with the January, um, riots, you know, insurrection. This has to do with actual civil fraud. And a lot of people, when you think about fraud and anytime that goes through a court system, fraud cases are 99% accurate. Those are pretty, those are the most accurate cases. Like when OJ got off for his murder, but then they went and snatched his bag up. That's because there's another show that, you know, he could or could have not been liable for what happened to his wife at the time or ex wife at the time. And so I, but then also how Donald Trump defrauded the state of New York and how he put this image up of, you know, fraudulently telling lenders and insurance companies, you know, false data to get better deals. And so what does that mean when we think, again back to the disproportionate rate of how black people have access to not only capital equity, but lending, here you have someone who deliberately, when it comes to amassing, you know, great amount of wealth, does this in a way where he literally creates this image off a lion. So regardless of if you feel about him as a former president, I mean, as a person, that's just pure, that's scamming 101, that scamming one on one. And that's no different than a PPP loan. This is literally, you know, pure. I, this is what I'm making. But now let me tell some, let me say that I may make this. And so he has a bond requirement to make sure that he pays up this money. If not, it looks like that, you know, what's the state attorney, the attorney general, Leticia. Leticia. James, it's going to come for them, come for his assets if he can't put up a bond. But I think, you know, the interesting conversations that have really come out of this is one, how does that look for a former president to not have the money? And a lot of people don't understand that. Typically, presidents really, one, they don't make any money when they're in office. Two, they usually come out pretty broke after from, you know, how much it cost the campaign. And three, they're saying that Trump may file for bankruptcy, which a lot of people think would help alleviate this, this not alleviate where it would go away, but like kind of push it back until he is either elected or not elected in November. But it would say, you know, when you, what did Trump always say? He was a savvy businessman. And this is my issue with him is you said that you're the best, Brad. The best you could have came up with was $1500 during the pandemic. So when people talk about, that's what I'm saying. When people talk about these demi's, I'm like, okay, but that one, it was pushed through by Nancy Pelosi. What did he really do? He gave a lot of rich people money, the PPP. And yeah, there were some black people who took advantage of it. And, and, but for the most part, when you look at who took the money and then who also didn't have to pay the money back, it wasn't, it wasn't, the percentages are not black people. It didn't help nobody. And our country is still dealing with you know, dealing with that now. And I just will never forgive him for knowing about COVID for as long as he did. And he didn't do nothing. To me, that's unforgivable. I know a lot of people think about insurrection. That's unforgivable. And just like, I think about it like it was yesterday. Y'all remember when all that stuff, the white people's under acting crazy? Yeah. Literally, because we was all home and we're all like, I would have made no people up there at no people house acting up. And they were. [00:56:09] Speaker B: When I saw he owed that much. [00:56:11] Speaker A: I was like, whoa, they really went up there and acted up. That's crazy. [00:56:16] Speaker B: Like, yikes. [00:56:18] Speaker A: That's the capital bit. Like, this is the country's foundation. Like, what? [00:56:26] Speaker C: Hello. [00:56:27] Speaker B: But, yeah, he was asking for that. Because, you know, I watch a lot of stuff about fraud and stuff. If it's paperwork, baby, they defend coming for you. [00:56:37] Speaker C: They gonna come for you. That's what they gonna come for you. [00:56:40] Speaker B: Every single time, they coming for you. And I think people begin comfortable. Cause it might be like, 15 years later, but they're coming. [00:56:48] Speaker A: But they will be there. And they will be there. And you know what? Even if it's 15 years, them building their case against you, they just gonna sit there and watch you for 15 years. And when they come, let's go get the stupid. Let's go get the stupid person right now. [00:57:08] Speaker B: Exactly. They have everything they need. Oh, I knew he was fraud, but I know it was that much. Drain all his accounts, all his assets. Take it all. [00:57:25] Speaker C: Yeah. And that's enough of Trump talk, because at the end of the day, like we were saying earlier, what God has for you is for you. And this is for you. And with that, we gonna go, yeah. Glow. Big glow. [00:57:44] Speaker A: That's the best song on the radio, right? [00:57:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I can't stop playing it. [00:57:51] Speaker B: I saw people on Twitter talking about, yeah, glow. [00:57:56] Speaker C: What? Why? [00:57:58] Speaker B: People on Twitter will make up anything. [00:58:01] Speaker C: Black Twitter. Be off the chain. No, they can't help. Yeah. You know, so, um, I have said numerous times, it may or may not be already out on our podcast, but everybody that knows me know I. Glorilla is a prophet. I've been saying this since she came out. Um, the Memphis, the. You know, when you go from rats to riches, God don't bless you. Like I said, what God have for you is for you. [00:58:30] Speaker A: Is for you. [00:58:32] Speaker C: And if you run around with Cuban, what is. I'm saying? Cuban on. Cuban on Cuba. [00:58:46] Speaker B: Y'all so stupid. [00:58:48] Speaker A: Like, damn it. Ain't even no r in there. But it sounds good when you say glow, right? [00:58:55] Speaker C: Like, I can't. I can't even say it. Yeah, that's what I said. Like, I think because we're for the crib. Cuban is like. I couldn't say Cuban. I don't. I still can't say it. Right. But, you know, a big blow was in the White House for women's History Month. And then, you know, everybody obviously, is like, again, images and a full embodiment of the culture being representation and embodiment of a black woman who is giving. Who's feeding. Literally, she's feeding the culture. She gets on real tv with real people with some shades on. Definitely. Definitely. For sure on some of her. And Joanna had got together a little earlier in the day. And you know what was so funny? It was me. Was how everybody was so surprised at response. [00:59:56] Speaker B: The reporter, I think it was just surprisingly hilarious. And it was perfect. Honestly. I'm still in that. That was a perfect. Ain't got nothing to do with me. Correct. Okay, next question. [01:00:17] Speaker C: I'm sorry, but it's so funny because the day gotta end, and that's why I love tomorrow. And people didn't realize. That's a plug for what, her debut. [01:00:31] Speaker A: Wow, look at you. [01:00:35] Speaker C: That's a. That's a plug from her ep. That's why I love tomorrow. [01:00:40] Speaker A: So that was one of her lyrics, right? [01:00:42] Speaker C: Yeah, that's one of her lyrics and her songs. So for me, as a fan, and like I said, I've been calling glow a prophet because she really says things that are these. You know, when you look at the Bible in the parables, they're made simplified to get a simple message across. And at the end of the day, like, that's such a black thing to say. At the end of the day, that's why I love you. [01:01:14] Speaker B: But did she lie, though? [01:01:15] Speaker C: She did lie. And then here come black people on Twitter to see this. Why we can't go this. This is why. And I'm like, okay, first of all, did you see her. The song that made her famous? Did you see the song, right? See the pregnant woman twerking on? Uh. You say, what you talking about? [01:01:41] Speaker A: Gorilla fnf. Right? [01:01:44] Speaker C: So it's like y'all acting like this. She is not. She is not, um, a academic. She is not a political science major. She is not a political science analyst. Like, she represents a group of black people in America. Like, don't get it twisted. She represents Pete. [01:02:07] Speaker A: Do we know that, though? [01:02:09] Speaker C: Who glow? [01:02:10] Speaker A: Do we know that she didn't go to college. [01:02:13] Speaker C: No, no, no. I didn't know. I didn't say she didn't go to college. I said black people on twitter, soon as this happened, some was obvious, like, yeah, glow. But something haters was hating talking about. See, this why black people can't get. No, I'm saying she's not an academic in terms of. We're talking about political stance. Just because she went to the White House doesn't mean that she has to speak on it as an academic, as a political scientist. [01:02:42] Speaker A: Oh, no, we don't look to glow for that. Okay. [01:02:47] Speaker C: Yeah. So for people to have. No, because you have to clarify, this is a problem with black people in context. Like, she is. That's not. She's a rapper. Okay? A rapper. And she's a rapper who has a, like, an image to herself, and she represents a group of women that look just like. Like what she looks like, how she talks, what she does. That is a typical. That is a. Almost a stereotype in black neighborhoods, actually. The hood. Yeah. [01:03:21] Speaker B: And I think that was a weird question for her. I'm like, why are they asking her anything about anything political? She don't care about that. She just wanted a free trip to the White House. [01:03:29] Speaker C: Thank you. [01:03:31] Speaker A: It don't matter what I do for a living. If. If I get invited to the White House, I'm going to the White House. [01:03:39] Speaker B: Okay. [01:03:39] Speaker C: I'm going. I'm going because I don't think they let you know. [01:03:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the pinnacle. [01:03:45] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuz, y'all remember the school? Did y'all go at school trips to the White House? I think I've been, like, twice. [01:03:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:52] Speaker C: Like, we went. [01:03:53] Speaker A: Yeah, we did go to DC, but we went to Monticello. Tom Jefferson house. [01:04:01] Speaker C: Oh, y'all went over there, huh? [01:04:03] Speaker A: That was dope. That was dope. That was like fourth grade. [01:04:06] Speaker C: I mean, it's a. It's a nice place to be, but it's not a nice place to be. We'll talk about that another. Another episode. [01:04:14] Speaker A: You like black women? [01:04:16] Speaker C: Enslaved black women. And with that, we are done with the culture segment, and we'll be right back. Welcome back. Welcome back. You know, back to black people in black Twitter. I really. I really, really, really want to know why we had this problem with the cowboy Carter already. It comes out March 29, I believe. And Miss Beyonce released the COVID art for her upcoming Ep, LP. And, man, it was wildfire. Some people I know, she ain't got that american flag. I'm like, okay, why she got that, the. The picture. Well, she is not Erica Badu. Okay? Who said what it was? Twitter was off the chain. Black people in academia fighting each other. And I just. I. You know, for one, Beyonce is the queen of code, okay? Like, Beyonce is the queen of. When she puts any type of art out, it's encrypted with encoded messaging all over the place. And for people to respond in that way where they think they need to give an opinion to the visuals. This is why she didn't give us visuals for renaissance forever. Like, she finally gives you. She giving. She giving you act two. And what was it? How long was the drop before? I don't even remember how long the drop was before. [01:06:10] Speaker B: Well, I think black people. [01:06:14] Speaker A: We. [01:06:14] Speaker B: I think people are doing what people do, which is look at things at a surface level and then just become outraged. And also, I feel like a lot of people be looking for reasons to be outraged at her, but I feel like it's nuanced, you know? And I feel like Beyonce has shown us whose side she's on. And so I understand the initial outrage, but I also feel like people are just angry and not looking deeper into what this piece of art means for her and for black people, too, because I think. I don't think they know that. And I was. I think I was reading something where she. She has been working on country music, but she said what made her really want to get into this is when she felt uncomfortable at the CMA, when she performed. She was like, people was looking at her like, I don't belong here, and my background is country, just like you, so. Oh, y'all gonna make me feel like I'm not welcome in space. Okay, I'm gonna do my research, whatever. And I'm gonna come out with a country album and show y'all that I belong here, too. And so I understand, you know, what she's trying to do, and I do wish we would look a little bit deeper into it. But I understand the surface level outrage, because all you see is an american flag, which is cropped out, by the way. It's cropped out in the photo. [01:07:50] Speaker A: So it was only. It was only 40 stars. [01:07:55] Speaker C: It was no stars. [01:07:59] Speaker B: For real. She didn't really know what flag that is. [01:08:02] Speaker C: Yeah, she did the stripes. And I thought when I immediately saw it, I know rodeo queen rodeos, because y'all know I watch, right? I'm a big cowboy wrestler watcher. Now. I gotta invest in some boots and a hat. But before, I just love that culture. I love anything cowboy related. [01:08:24] Speaker A: So cowboy boots are expensive. [01:08:27] Speaker C: They're super expensive. [01:08:29] Speaker B: Okay. [01:08:30] Speaker A: I wouldn't be talking about louboutins. Not a good pair. [01:08:34] Speaker B: A good pair what, of regular boots. And then Texas, and I was like, oh, y'all serious about the cowboy boots? [01:08:43] Speaker A: Oh, no, they ain't playing about them boots. [01:08:46] Speaker C: No, the boots be booting. And that's why when you see people that have them, they wear them everywhere because they are expensive. Like, I remember being in corporate and some people where they would wear boots, their cowboy boots, and you, like, they. [01:09:01] Speaker A: Do them in construction, too. I'm in the construction world. But, yeah, you can. You can wear them in construction, too. You can put a steel toe in them. And a lot of people wear those because the good thing about boots is that you can. You can read. Sold them. So you just take the old one off and put a new one on. But, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Back to Beyonce. My bad. Got into boot life. [01:09:29] Speaker C: Yeah. You know, it's so I say when people, let's just not hate on each other and let's just appreciate Beyonce for the art she continues to give us, because at the end of the day, life is too short. And the fact that we're getting something worth five years of her producing, I cannot wait. I'm sure it's going to be a timeless piece of work and just leave it alone. And with that said, leave it black women alone. Yeah. [01:10:01] Speaker A: Even. Even if, like, even if you hate Beyonce, which. [01:10:05] Speaker C: But why, like, well, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:10:13] Speaker A: I think you look at somebody at the pinnacle, like, just be cool with. Just be cool. Like, who cares? Like, okay, that's fine. That's my opinion. [01:10:29] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I'm. That's. I think that's where it's like, if you got. If you hate him, you know, black old women used to say, me, I. Nothing nice to say. You don't say nothing at all. And that's it. Just leave black women alone. Let them continue to do a good body of work, and just let it go. Because we see what happens when you leave black women alone, or you don't leave them alone. They still. They still. They're the most resilient women on this planet. Because no matter what. Met thee, stallion. Hot girl. She bring a. How she gonna bring that hot girl summer this year? Now, I think this is kind of interesting because she's going already. She's going on tour. Most of the tours are tickled out. Yeah, most are. You know, I love this for Meg, because last year, I believe this time she was still trying to chase a troll or troll was chasing her. And I just love to see that she's gonna be back on the road and, you know, she went back to her roots, which is hot girl summer, you know, if most people don't remember, that's was really kind of put her on the map was because I was a big meg fan with her album realer and Tina Snow, her mixtapes kind of before that. So love to see that she's no tapes were fired. She's one of her. And then the fact that she's taking one of the best rappers and pimpers. Pimps. Pimp. Pimp is pimp stuff. Big globe going on tour with her. I think that's awesome. [01:12:09] Speaker A: It's my opinion. I think, oh, I think. I think big logo steal the show on tour because big Globe got got pretty much the hottest song right now. Like, they don't got a hot song right now. [01:12:28] Speaker B: But I feel like the people that's going to be there are her like fans. Fans. You know what I'm saying? [01:12:37] Speaker A: Meg fans, you talking? [01:12:38] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:12:39] Speaker A: Because it's Meg's tour. Of course they're going to be Meg fans. But they might come out of it. Big globe being the bigger star. [01:12:49] Speaker B: That's true. I'll let you know because I will be there. [01:12:53] Speaker A: Are you going? Okay, okay, okay. Wait, what's the date? [01:12:56] Speaker B: I think it's June 1. Shout out to pony. She called me and was like, we're going to see Meg. Let's look at the tickets right now. Okay. [01:13:07] Speaker C: Okay. [01:13:07] Speaker B: I wasn't even aware that a tour was happening or anything. So thank you. I will be there. June 1, I think. [01:13:15] Speaker A: Interesting. State farm. [01:13:17] Speaker B: It's at State Farm. It's either the first or the 11th because we going to Ghana, too. And it's one of those y'all want. [01:13:27] Speaker C: To that ran never mindy shout out. [01:13:35] Speaker A: To gutter. [01:13:39] Speaker C: Say y'all don't forget. [01:13:42] Speaker B: I mean. [01:13:45] Speaker A: I mean. [01:13:48] Speaker C: I still can't listen. I can't listen to him. [01:13:56] Speaker A: Well, we don't know it, but we don't know what it was. For real. [01:13:59] Speaker C: I told y'all I can't listen to him till the out and yeah, damn. [01:14:06] Speaker A: So you ain't gonna never hear gunna. [01:14:12] Speaker C: Show lane. [01:14:14] Speaker A: Mind you, that thug case is crazy. Like just, well, y'all been seeing the clips but he's saying, um, yeah, yeah. [01:14:24] Speaker C: Yeah, we all heard it all out there. But you know, um, again, the black women, black rappers still dominating the charts. Cardi B is feeding the streets. Man, I love this with her Cardi. [01:14:42] Speaker A: Shout out Cardi. [01:14:43] Speaker B: I love Cardi, man. [01:14:46] Speaker C: That enough. The enough song, the bars and then even the color. The bringing the color contacts back. The only problem I have with the color contacts is this. Cardi's pretty in the face. She has a face card. I'm not a big fan of her body too much because I just. I really. I really want to empower. [01:15:09] Speaker A: You don't know. You don't know what was what. [01:15:12] Speaker C: I'm not into her body. I like her face because I like when you look at Cardi B's body, our body has had work on it. Like, I'm saying. [01:15:22] Speaker A: I'm saying you don't know what was what. You like what. [01:15:26] Speaker B: I thought it was just me. I'm like Cardi body being changing over the years. [01:15:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, for sure. [01:15:33] Speaker C: Yeah. And then she had kids, too, so I give it a little bit of that. Um, but she has a beautiful face. And the problem is only really the red. The red, the red girls. Them yellow girls. [01:15:47] Speaker A: That was. That was generous of you. [01:15:50] Speaker C: What? [01:15:52] Speaker A: As a man, you, Cardi got a beautiful face. Oh, I thought that was generous. That was generous. I thought that was generous. [01:16:01] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [01:16:05] Speaker B: Oh, so y'all say Cardi not. [01:16:09] Speaker C: She ain't got no face card. She got a face card. [01:16:15] Speaker A: No, she doesn't. [01:16:16] Speaker B: Oh. [01:16:17] Speaker C: Oh. [01:16:20] Speaker A: She might be a. If it is a face card, it's a jack. [01:16:25] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [01:16:27] Speaker B: Well, face to you. [01:16:30] Speaker C: Yeah. Who's. Who's giving face? [01:16:33] Speaker A: So I want you all to think about rapper. [01:16:37] Speaker C: The rapper. Rapper. Rappers a rapper. That's. If it's not Cardi B, who don't got face? Who got face. That's a rapper. [01:16:45] Speaker A: Nikki has face. [01:16:47] Speaker C: Okay, get off my. Get. [01:16:50] Speaker A: What? [01:16:52] Speaker B: Really? [01:16:54] Speaker A: Meg's face is better than Cardi's. [01:16:57] Speaker B: Wow. [01:16:58] Speaker A: Glow has more face than. [01:17:00] Speaker B: Wow. [01:17:01] Speaker A: Are you all serious or y'all. Y'all trolling right now? [01:17:04] Speaker B: No. [01:17:14] Speaker A: Wow. I'm. And I'm speaking it from a man. From a man's point of view. Interesting. [01:17:20] Speaker B: Nikki. Okay, that was. I didn't expect that. [01:17:25] Speaker C: I didn't expect that either, but nice face. Okay, well. Well, how do you feel about sexy red space. [01:17:37] Speaker A: Both looking in the face? [01:17:39] Speaker C: I'm talking about both her faces. Yes. [01:17:45] Speaker A: She looks better with no makeup. [01:17:47] Speaker C: I think so. [01:17:48] Speaker A: Oh, I don't think she's nice looking. Who y'all, Cardi B? I'm talking to my kid. I'm talking to pee. Interesting. [01:18:01] Speaker B: So you said sexy red is. [01:18:04] Speaker A: Yes, sexy red. Mmm. I said she probably has a better face than Cardi. [01:18:13] Speaker B: Wow. [01:18:14] Speaker C: Wow. Now. Okay. [01:18:16] Speaker B: I feel like I'm in the twilight zone. [01:18:18] Speaker C: I'm in the twilight. [01:18:22] Speaker A: Card is not. Not good looking to me. [01:18:25] Speaker B: Okay. [01:18:26] Speaker C: Okay. [01:18:26] Speaker A: Well, yeah, that's dub. That's dub. [01:18:29] Speaker C: Hey. [01:18:32] Speaker A: Male listeners refer to the tagline in the front. [01:18:37] Speaker B: What y'all think? Listeners let us know. [01:18:43] Speaker C: Right? So. Yeah, so, moving right along. I'm just gonna move right along because. [01:18:51] Speaker A: My bad. [01:18:54] Speaker C: I don't. Who friend? Mama saw Mama d at the crazy in the hospital, bruh. Have y'all. [01:19:03] Speaker B: Okay, so I've been watching loving hip hop in my spare time. Okay. [01:19:10] Speaker A: Wait, like, all the season, like, you've been catching up type shit? [01:19:13] Speaker B: No, I just started at the last season for Atlanta, specifically y'all. [01:19:19] Speaker A: I was still doing it. That's crazy. [01:19:21] Speaker B: Did they show? [01:19:22] Speaker A: But. [01:19:25] Speaker B: Huh. You said what season they own? I don't even know. That's why I even try to catch up. I said. And it's. Yeah, it's like I ain't. Okay, so you might have seen the video Mama d's diss track. You ain't see it? [01:19:42] Speaker A: It was like the tagline said, mama Dystrak. So, no, I didn't listen to it. [01:19:49] Speaker B: Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. But my friend said her mama saw her at the hospital getting some cosmetic surgery, and she was in there acting like she was beyonce. You don't know who I am, girl. Hip hop girl. But I just thought that was funny because. Why is Mama d still making music? [01:20:14] Speaker A: Why did Mama d start making music? She's not a rapper. Her son is a rapper. [01:20:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:20:22] Speaker A: So that whole love in hip hop world, it's like, um. What's the name? Um, his. The first baby mama. Well, I don't know. [01:20:34] Speaker B: Oh, diamond. [01:20:35] Speaker A: No. Yeah. Like, what, you all of a sudden, 20 years later, 15 years later, you making music. [01:20:47] Speaker B: Erica made music, too. [01:20:49] Speaker A: Huh? [01:20:51] Speaker C: You. [01:20:51] Speaker B: Erica make music, too? [01:20:53] Speaker A: Yeah, she got a song on the radio. I forget what it's called. [01:20:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:20:59] Speaker A: I have not heard it because I saw the tagline Eric addiction song and then I didn't click it. Yeah. I mean it to be fair to them. Like, you supposed to capitalize off your name. [01:21:18] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. [01:21:19] Speaker A: It doesn't. It doesn't really matter what it is if your name is your name and you famous, cool. Make money off of that. [01:21:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:28] Speaker A: Whether you good or not. Because somebody gonna buy. But I didn't listen to it. [01:21:35] Speaker B: I mean, people buying Carly red music, so I don't know. Living hip hop must be stopped. It's giving these people a platform who. We don't need it. We. We just don't need it. [01:21:46] Speaker C: But people still watch it, and that's why they have one, because I don't watch. I stopped watching. Cardi B was on there. So that goes to tell you how the last time I seen it. [01:21:55] Speaker A: And shout out. Shout out to Mona Scott. I don't think. I don't think. I don't think loving hip hop is a bad platform. I think it does good for a lot of people. [01:22:08] Speaker C: Like. Like what people? [01:22:12] Speaker A: Not the viewers. The people on it. Come on. We got a thing. We got to think. [01:22:17] Speaker B: Jim, Michelle. [01:22:20] Speaker A: Jim Jones was on there. K Michelle was on there. Joe was on there. Joe was the biggest in the world. [01:22:26] Speaker B: I think it was a good platform at first, though. I don't think so anymore. I kind of like. [01:22:37] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of like what american idol is like. It's produced these people, and it's produced some greats. American Idol has produced some greats. Clarkson. Who else? [01:22:56] Speaker B: Jennifer Hudson. [01:22:57] Speaker A: Oh, Jennifer Hudson. Fantasia. Kerry Underwood on the countryside. I think. I think. I think loving hip hop is. Has done his thing. [01:23:14] Speaker C: So I say that. Do it. I said, who? It's the toxic show that I believe carries more toxicity than it does. It's original intent on content, like you said. But we can all have our. [01:23:37] Speaker A: But be money. We don't. We don't know the original intent. We're not the producers. [01:23:42] Speaker C: Well, no, I'm saying, no, the original intent was clear because the quality of the show was so much better, because I remember I watched when Jim Jones was that girl he with, they still together. [01:23:52] Speaker A: Married. [01:23:53] Speaker C: Yeah, but see, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. They were so toxic on there that I was, like, into it, but then I was, like, not into it. [01:24:05] Speaker A: And I want to say, was Remy on that one season? Remy and. [01:24:11] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I think when she got out of jail or when she went to jail, if around the time she was doing her be it. [01:24:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it been some quality people on there. I don't know the quality of people that are on there today. [01:24:26] Speaker C: But I meant the quality of the content is tox is more toxic than I think that hip hop is. But you know what? One. We have one of the biggest moments of hip hop right now in rap with, uh, future met Metro, I heard. [01:24:50] Speaker B: More than one person that it was trash. [01:24:54] Speaker A: I didn't listen to it. I ain't gonna lie. [01:24:57] Speaker B: I heard from more than one person. I ain't listening. So I ain't saying it's my opinion. [01:25:02] Speaker C: But I say over here, over here. [01:25:06] Speaker B: Telling people, these are people whose music taste that I respect. So that's all I'm saying. But I ain't listening yet. [01:25:16] Speaker A: If it was your man, just say that. [01:25:18] Speaker C: Right? [01:25:19] Speaker B: Was one of the people. [01:25:21] Speaker C: Right, right. [01:25:25] Speaker B: Nah. [01:25:26] Speaker C: So, so I'm gonna say as a huge metro boom fan booming, yeah, I love Metro. Ain't nobody ever gonna make me not think less than so. So. But we are having fire. But Metro just literally created the space in the platform for about to be one of the biggest, biggest moments in hip hop we've seen in a long time. With real beef on, on the wax on, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the record and calling out J. Cole and Drake. Come on, k die. [01:26:04] Speaker A: Oh, you talking about Kendrick. [01:26:05] Speaker C: K Dot. Kenny. Kenny K Dot. [01:26:08] Speaker A: Hey, Dot. Yep, yep, yep, yep. That's an old school name. What you know. Why would you know I K died. What you know about Michael Jordan? [01:26:17] Speaker C: Listen. [01:26:17] Speaker A: Hey, that's the old. That was one of his first hits. [01:26:22] Speaker C: For you to bring up. I mean, one that's a wine. Metro, congratulations again on another outstanding piece of artwork. Even though some may or may not love it, I really, really enjoy how he allows artists to come, usually almost, of his albums, and have a space to kind of just be creative and with the specific song we're talking about. Is it like that or really like that or are you like that? I think it's like that is the name of the song. But Kendrick Lamar, better known as KDot. [01:27:00] Speaker A: Yes. It's just like that. [01:27:02] Speaker C: Went on that song and not only took the wigs of Drake and J. Cole, which. This is friendly competition. This is no real beef. And also brought up old beef, which I love, between people. Forget Michael and Prince did not mess with each other. They really had. They had beef, right? Real beef. [01:27:28] Speaker A: And if it wasn't real beef, it was real light skin. [01:27:31] Speaker C: No, no, no. [01:27:33] Speaker A: Real life skin. Like pity pat. [01:27:36] Speaker C: Nah, nah. It was beef. [01:27:37] Speaker A: I don't know if y'all can hear my mic. Just. That's my hands flapping together. It was that. [01:27:44] Speaker C: No. Did you see on the Netflix, um, we out of world coverage where they know. [01:27:53] Speaker A: I still need to watch that. [01:27:54] Speaker C: Yes, it's you. [01:27:55] Speaker A: Come on. The greatest night in music, right? [01:27:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's incredible. And they bring, they bring that up where Prince was supposed. They wanted Prince on that song so bad, but because it was Michael song, prince really called over there was like, who all over the. And they like what Michael just kind of doing. You know what? Michael is a great yeah, Prince was like, I ain't coming over there. [01:28:19] Speaker A: Prince wasn't there. [01:28:20] Speaker C: Prince didn't come. They was waiting on. [01:28:24] Speaker B: I love that. [01:28:26] Speaker A: Literally everybody music there, but Prince ain't there. [01:28:30] Speaker C: Prince said, I ain't coming. Like, they at a point was waiting on him and he didn't show up. And so, you know, I say that to say, like, I love friendly competition. And this is huge because for me, as a big rap connoisseur artist, like, we've talked about how many great Cardi B, mad, thee, stallion, young, glow. I mean, yeah, glow, glorilla, Beyonce. The rapper. Beyonce can rap. I mean, we talk about women that, like, these women are rapper. [01:29:10] Speaker A: I don't think a rap. I think, listen, she can recite, rape. [01:29:19] Speaker C: Jay Z has said numerous times that if Beyonce ever decided to rap, she would kill the racking. He's. He's the one that said it. [01:29:28] Speaker A: But why do it? Cuz you the biggest pop star in the world. Who cares if you rap or not? [01:29:33] Speaker C: Well, I'm saying is I just put her in there because she can rap. But I'm saying, back to rapping, rapping, hip hop. We just have 50 years of hip hop. I'm saying women are the ones holding it down. Drake ain't put no bars down. You said it before on the podcast the Cardi B been carrying. She'd been carrying the game by herself. Every time Cardi B even think about putting something out, she kill everybody. [01:30:01] Speaker A: Right? Because of her, who she is and her personality and how big she is. But, but big, low and lotto. [01:30:11] Speaker B: I disagree on the lotto part. [01:30:13] Speaker C: We know. We know Lotto. She hate lotto. She can't stand lotto. [01:30:24] Speaker B: I don't like it. She can't flow. Her latest song is garbage. I just don't like it. [01:30:35] Speaker A: That Sunday service, I want you to really, like, break down the bars in that song. [01:30:41] Speaker B: It's horrible when you have not. [01:30:45] Speaker A: You have not. Like. [01:30:48] Speaker B: I heard it. I was like, this is absolute trash. [01:30:53] Speaker C: You're not bringing her out of it, bro. She hates what she hates her. Like, she think a lot of, like a twat. She do not like lotto. I don't know what Lotto did. [01:31:02] Speaker B: I don't get it. [01:31:04] Speaker C: I don't know what Lotto did to her. But she hate lotto. [01:31:06] Speaker B: I don't like that she's the female rap representation of Atlanta because it's not giving to me. We have much more talented people. [01:31:15] Speaker A: But don't. Don't think of her as the rap representation of Elena. Think of her just as a rapper, like, huh? [01:31:27] Speaker B: She can't rap to me. [01:31:30] Speaker C: Bruh. She's not gonna change her mom damn twin. [01:31:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna leave it right. [01:31:36] Speaker C: I was in Atlanta trying to convince her and she would not let it go. [01:31:42] Speaker A: As far as lyrics, she's probably. Well, I would say she's the best right now. [01:31:48] Speaker B: What? [01:31:48] Speaker A: As far as lyrics, as far as rapping lyrics flow. [01:31:52] Speaker B: Agree. [01:31:53] Speaker A: Yes. [01:31:55] Speaker C: Well, it's interesting that we didn't bring crazy. It's interesting. [01:32:01] Speaker A: We gonna have to clip this up. This is crazy. We don't have to clip up my cardi take. [01:32:12] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. No, man, let it go. I'm telling you. Because even I was. I was thinking about her when we talk about people. Face, car. But I was like, man, if I bring lotto up. Twin Finn at nuts. [01:32:28] Speaker B: No, she's pretty. I thought she was gonna bring it up. [01:32:32] Speaker A: Lotto, nice looking. She nice looking. [01:32:34] Speaker C: I ain't bring it up, cuz I already know how she feels about her. But you know what? Speaking of face cards, we just go ahead and hop into sports real quick because we stay over here forever dealing with these two. The best, the most beautiful face card in the game right now. 39 years old, dream Michelle shout out. [01:32:53] Speaker B: No, let's not shout out to her. [01:32:55] Speaker C: I don't think it's nothing wrong. [01:32:57] Speaker B: I don't like it. [01:32:58] Speaker A: She took advantage of that young boy. [01:33:00] Speaker B: She did. I don't like it. Not I don't like it. She did. And he like 21. [01:33:08] Speaker A: She did. And her son the same age. She did. She took advantage of young man. [01:33:13] Speaker B: But that's the gross part. The same son neglected. [01:33:21] Speaker A: If I was young, if I was a young man with a bag and that money ain't nothing to me do the same. But you knew what she was doing. [01:33:33] Speaker B: Don't knock up no 39 year old. She was trying to secure the bag. [01:33:39] Speaker A: But he don't put twin. He don't know better. He just probably years ago, Twain, he probably had her poster on his wall or something, right? You know I'm saying? And he was probably 1617, just a kid. [01:33:59] Speaker C: As someone that dates younger men. [01:34:01] Speaker B: Gross. [01:34:03] Speaker C: I just feel like, you know, when. [01:34:08] Speaker B: 21 year old who you. [01:34:18] Speaker A: Money say, no, I won't. [01:34:20] Speaker B: What you gonna talk to a 21 year old about? They don't know nothing about nothing. They don't know about no self journey. They don't know about no depression pee. What you gonna talk to them about? The weather? [01:34:38] Speaker C: I listen. I just said I don't see nothing wrong with it. That's it. [01:34:45] Speaker A: They don't know dream. I felt like. I can teach you. [01:34:52] Speaker B: No, I can control you. That's what you mean. [01:34:57] Speaker C: No, no. [01:35:01] Speaker A: Contract. You can't control a young. Right. Young boy like that. He bought to have 300 million in the bank. And basketball. [01:35:11] Speaker B: She can, though. I feel like she took advantage because she wants to be the one in control in a relationship. And you can manipulate younger people easier than people your age. [01:35:26] Speaker A: But this, this is the bad part. Listen to this. They said, um. They said she was at his high school games. That's right. [01:35:38] Speaker C: Together. Because her son played there, too. [01:35:42] Speaker B: It's giving predator. [01:35:46] Speaker C: I don't know about all that. I'm just her. [01:35:48] Speaker A: Britney Renner. What's the other one? [01:35:51] Speaker B: Ew. So she was maybe looking out for these boys. You okay? I don't like. [01:36:02] Speaker A: Definitely predatory, but thank you. Men do it too. [01:36:08] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying is I would say predatory and perceptive perception. Right. Perception is that it does look predatory. And that's a thing. But if we didn't have the same thing happen on the masculine side. That's my issue is there is so many. Who's the one that's beloved, that buried the girl? That's. We've talked about this on the show before. What's his name? Is it Marcus Houston? No. [01:36:34] Speaker A: Oh, no. It is Marcus. I think his wife, like 19 or something. [01:36:40] Speaker C: Yeah. So, you know, I don't. I don't. I'm not going to victimize and vilify her in her decision. And they're two consistent adults, let's be clear about that. And the fact that they started dating within context of him having some allegations about being bisexual or of another sexual preference. [01:37:06] Speaker A: And so are we talking about Mark, Susan? [01:37:09] Speaker C: No. Jalen Green. Jalen Green, you know, had this video. [01:37:14] Speaker A: The little college thing. [01:37:17] Speaker C: Yeah. He stepped outside with her. So, you know, I feel that, because that's in context of how we saw we were kind of introduced to their relationship. Um, you know, I feel that they, like I said, they're consistent results. And I know a lot of people within many families, they got some very questionable things going on in interdynamics of relationships with people that are of the same age. Because we're gonna talk about that in a quick bit. You know, what happened on Nickelodeon. [01:37:51] Speaker A: But I just want to say this real quick before we get off. 22, 21 year old is not a consenting adult. Like, oh, that's not an adult. [01:38:03] Speaker B: You don't. You don't fully know what you're consenting to. [01:38:06] Speaker A: You don't know what? You don't know nothing. [01:38:09] Speaker B: Your frontal lobe is nothing developing adult. [01:38:13] Speaker A: I didn't know nothing at 2021, 22. I didn't know anything. I didn't know nothing at 25. [01:38:19] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. Your frontal lobe is not even finished forming until 25. Okay, so you're taking advantage. [01:38:28] Speaker A: And then, y'all see, he said, uh, now I'm only focused on my family and my baby. [01:38:34] Speaker C: Yeah, but, you know. [01:38:41] Speaker A: But that's it. That's. [01:38:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:38:44] Speaker B: Yeah, we did that out talking. [01:38:48] Speaker C: That's Doug talking. We gonna. We gonna continue. [01:38:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:38:50] Speaker C: Sorry, Doug with face card. Face card with March Madness. Basketball. Basketball is here. My favorite time of year is March Madness, and LSU went ahead and secured the bad today and got to good old sweet 16. Angel was out there looking as beautiful and gorgeous as ever. I got an opportunity. [01:39:09] Speaker A: Oh. [01:39:10] Speaker C: Unless you win a dance they in the dance they finna get. Yeah. [01:39:19] Speaker A: No, I don't know nothing about. [01:39:26] Speaker B: I usually do one, but I ain't doing this year. [01:39:29] Speaker C: I always go with Obama's bracket. Always. I usually, like, go with his bracket because money, you say what? [01:39:41] Speaker A: Please fill us in. What. What is Obama's bracket? I don't know what that is. [01:39:46] Speaker C: Oh, Obama, he. You know, Obama always does his, um. So Obama do a couple things I like since he left the office, which is his. [01:39:56] Speaker A: I missed. [01:39:58] Speaker C: Yeah. His, uh. [01:39:59] Speaker A: And no diddy. [01:40:01] Speaker C: Yeah. His. His. His books and his music. He usually does his wrap up of. Of every year, but then he also does a march madness brightness every year. He does a women's one and a men's. So I always go with his bracket because, you know, it's a. He plays ball and he's a big, you know, follower of the sports. So I usually go, oh, you follow. [01:40:25] Speaker A: You follow Obama on Instagram and stuff? [01:40:28] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:40:30] Speaker B: Do his records. [01:40:31] Speaker C: Be right. I got to get up sometimes or they get busted. But, um, I think a lot of people in the last recent years, a lot of people, brackets. Done. Gotta got bust, though. [01:40:43] Speaker A: So you know what? Um, we had a good time with Obama. Just politics and all that stuff aside, that's my guy right there. And he was just. He was just cool as hell. [01:41:03] Speaker C: Yeah. So he. He put his bracket out, but, yeah, LSU went ahead and did that thing today. I think he actually has USC going all the way with juju Watkins. I got to see juju play yesterday. [01:41:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Juju obese. Juju obese. Shut up. Juju and USC. [01:41:20] Speaker C: Yeah. So I think he got SC going for the whole thing or South Carolina. I think it's USC he got going to the whole, the whole thing. But yeah, you know, it's, uh, it's that time of year and, um, I just love, I love going to the bars because that's one of the opportunities you can to kind of like, meet other sports fans because a lot of people, like you said, um, twin do brackets. And so some people be there because they actually got something going, but other people, like, really kind of get into it. And I find that's like one of the few sports, sports that you really can find that in. So. [01:41:56] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. [01:41:58] Speaker C: By the time we get on the mics again, we'll know who has come out with the number one, the championship. But again, you know, march Madness, always a good time. And y'all go ahead and support. They say the women's sports done outsold out view the men's. And so that's incredible, incredible, incredible for women sports right now. So again, like I said, march Madness is, you know, doing its thing. And so with that, we're going to go ahead and wrap up the sports segment and we'll be right back. So guys, we're at eight and I kind of have to hop, but I can try to do one more, but I got it. I really do have to get off. [01:42:44] Speaker B: Let's just do the cookout. That's probably going to be like two minutes. [01:42:49] Speaker C: Okay. [01:42:50] Speaker B: And then we can end the. I'm. [01:42:54] Speaker C: Here you go with that. [01:42:58] Speaker A: I didn't hear it. Say it again. [01:43:02] Speaker B: Oh, I'm just saying we can just do the cookout segment real fast and then end on shot o'clock. [01:43:09] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a bit. [01:43:12] Speaker B: It's only ten questions. [01:43:14] Speaker A: I miss research team. I'm gonna leave that. I'm gonna leave a part in there. [01:43:21] Speaker B: We miss you. [01:43:22] Speaker C: We miss you. [01:43:23] Speaker B: I had to do my own research. I was taking forever. [01:43:28] Speaker A: No, I had to do my own research. [01:43:31] Speaker B: Wow. [01:43:36] Speaker C: Yeah, straight like that. All right, well then let's get into it. All right. And we are back. So again, like we said, thank you guys for tuning in with us. Again. You always know y'all can catch us on social media. We appreciate so much the love. Hit us up on Twitter. All your cousins. That. C a l l y o u r s. No, I spent that wrong. C a l y o u s I n s. Instagram at call your cousins, pods. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and make sure you send us an email. We do check the emails. It be some crazy stuff up in there, but we check them. Call your cousins that c a l l y o u r c o u s I n s. Pod. Podmail.com. And we're going to end with our fabulous segment, the cookout. What y'all bring in? Spring edition. It's a new season, new era. Sarah. Dang. You have to cut that out. I said it big enough, though. Um, yeah, so, you know, we're going to end things with the cookout. What y'all bring in? Spring edition? Twin. What you got? [01:44:52] Speaker B: All right. We already said it's allergy season, which I got Zurtec or clarity. Are you good? [01:44:59] Speaker A: It's clarity for me. Well, actually, it's over the counter. Um, allergy relief from. Yep, that's me. [01:45:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I was gonna say my allergy relief is the cheapest one I can get at Walmart. I swear to God. I get. [01:45:17] Speaker A: It's the same stuff. [01:45:18] Speaker C: It's the cheapest one. It's the. I was in public today in the allergy pills for or the generic published brand was $20 when in Walmart is literally between 599 and 899. [01:45:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:45:35] Speaker B: Okay. [01:45:36] Speaker A: Walmart brand. Allergy relief. Gotta say that on there. [01:45:40] Speaker C: What you got? Twin. [01:45:41] Speaker B: I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to switch because I'll be on the Zurtec. I gotta switch on over because there take do be like $30 a bottle. [01:45:49] Speaker A: Twin bougie. Twin bougie. [01:45:51] Speaker C: I ain't got that. Wow. I ain't got $30 to get nobody, let alone. [01:45:57] Speaker A: Queen got monies. [01:45:59] Speaker B: Y'all switch into the Walmart. Okay, so at the park. Okay, when you having your cookout, you got the bug spray or the candles to keep the skeeters away? [01:46:12] Speaker C: Now, you know I do both. You remember. You remember your party? [01:46:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:46:16] Speaker C: I have all the candles I have. [01:46:19] Speaker B: You gotta have the skin so soft. [01:46:20] Speaker A: I didn't do both, but if you choose in one bug spray every time. [01:46:25] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Do y'all remember the family reunion when was out there in the wilderness and they had all the bugs out there? [01:46:31] Speaker B: The wilderness. [01:46:32] Speaker C: Where was I? That part. The mosquitoes were so bad out there. [01:46:36] Speaker B: Where was it at? Which city? [01:46:39] Speaker C: This was in your city. The last one was that me and Duh was over there drinking some ultras with our other cousin. [01:46:46] Speaker B: Are you talking about this past one that we just had? [01:46:48] Speaker C: Yeah, the brother side. That was crazy. [01:46:51] Speaker B: Oh, I ain't stay that long to notice. [01:46:54] Speaker A: I guess they have no member. Twelve months ago. That's crazy. I don't know what y'all talking about. This is crazy. [01:47:02] Speaker C: Literally was like last year. That's wild. [01:47:05] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [01:47:08] Speaker A: Oh, that was in the wilderness. [01:47:11] Speaker C: You remember them stickers they gave us? The little patches? [01:47:14] Speaker A: Yes. The little thing was trying to fight a twin. [01:47:20] Speaker B: Okay, I don't remember that. [01:47:23] Speaker A: What? [01:47:25] Speaker B: Wait, what? [01:47:26] Speaker C: Okay, anyway. [01:47:34] Speaker B: Okay. Is it. [01:47:36] Speaker A: Try to find a 20. And p money was like, let's go. [01:47:44] Speaker B: Let's move on. Okay, we're gonna move on. It's springtime, but it ain't summer yet. So y'all pool side or you at the park with it? [01:47:53] Speaker C: I'm beach side. You know, some bottle water. [01:47:56] Speaker B: Wow. You didn't have to. [01:47:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I did. [01:48:02] Speaker A: Being from the crib, I'm gonna say, yeah, I'm here now, so I guess I gotta be poolside. I ain't got no more ocean. [01:48:14] Speaker B: So is y'all making hot dogs or hamburgers at the cookout? [01:48:23] Speaker C: I ain't eating no hot dogs. [01:48:25] Speaker B: Saiyan. [01:48:26] Speaker C: Yeah, we put, we putting the Garcias on pea money. [01:48:33] Speaker A: Okay. No, no, no. You know, you said, you said the Garcias. That's, that's, that's a honey, that's some crib. Crib stuff. [01:48:42] Speaker B: Y'all put me on to them. They do be good. [01:48:46] Speaker A: No, they're not. Garcia's are not good. They're the best. That's probably the only thing. [01:48:52] Speaker C: Yeah, the spicy ones are the best. You know, the Garcia sausages, the down here in public, so like $20, $15, but in public stay 899. It's crazy. [01:49:05] Speaker B: For real. [01:49:06] Speaker C: That's bad. Wow. Wally. Wally Mart, you got a, you got a. [01:49:10] Speaker A: They don't have Garcia up here. [01:49:12] Speaker C: They do. They got a man. Twin publix. They got them over. [01:49:15] Speaker A: They don't have a man. [01:49:16] Speaker B: My public see. [01:49:20] Speaker A: Which, you know, we met. [01:49:26] Speaker B: It'S a. [01:49:26] Speaker A: No, it ain't the same, but. [01:49:30] Speaker C: Well, with your Garcia, you having a margarita or a mojito? [01:49:36] Speaker B: I feel like I like mojitos for the slight springtime. Yeah. [01:49:44] Speaker C: You know, you might be onto something because I was at this, um, networking event the other day and it was free, everything. And they had margaritas and man, I felt terrible. This. [01:49:57] Speaker B: Yeah, you begin be getting a little too little margaritas. [01:50:04] Speaker C: I was gonna say I feel like the margarita be lit because you on a. But you know what? Maybe the margarita shouldn't kick off until sink of the mile. Maybe. That's what, that's what I'm saying. [01:50:14] Speaker B: You got to warm up tomorrow. Yes. [01:50:19] Speaker C: You got duck. [01:50:20] Speaker B: You got up. [01:50:22] Speaker A: Give me one. Mark read. I'm open my chat. Give me two. Marie, you give my. [01:50:28] Speaker B: He had to be. [01:50:30] Speaker C: I was about to say the bees. The bees. [01:50:33] Speaker A: I ain't had the bees. I'm home. [01:50:34] Speaker C: Now we know the bees. [01:50:37] Speaker A: I don't think I've ever had them on here, so it's just a margarita for me. [01:50:43] Speaker C: Okay. [01:50:44] Speaker B: You bringing bay with you or you single and ready to mingle? Well, we know what your answer to. [01:50:50] Speaker A: Y'All wanting to be honest. [01:50:53] Speaker C: Yeah, be honest. [01:50:58] Speaker A: I want to have a look over my shoulder. It's just. It's just dub. [01:51:06] Speaker B: Oh, okay. And we gonna pee. What you got? We gonna move it right along. [01:51:12] Speaker C: I ain't moving on. What's a dub? [01:51:15] Speaker A: No, I'm dub. [01:51:18] Speaker C: No, I'm saying. But you. You overlooked on your dub shoulder. What you trying to say? You trying to tell us something? [01:51:25] Speaker B: He coming, dolo. [01:51:26] Speaker C: Oh. He coming, dolo. [01:51:28] Speaker B: Oh. [01:51:31] Speaker C: For spring. Nah. Y'all know I'm outside, but also. Okay, here's the thing, because we said this on the show about me before y'all, to question my outsideness. I am definitely single and ready to mingle, but I do. I need love. And if anybody's listening, you know, I want a little babe. [01:51:54] Speaker A: I need love. [01:51:55] Speaker B: It's baby. [01:51:57] Speaker A: Look at. Look at summer come around the come corner. [01:52:01] Speaker C: I mean, that's what I'm saying. I don't think for me, I just. The more, like, the more I am busy, and I don't have that component because I'm busy. Like, it would just be nice to have a little love in my life that's not just family. Some romantic love. You know, romance, a little, you know, something. Something. You know, like, for example, I met a man the other day, like, outside, and I made this man walk me to my car. [01:52:34] Speaker B: Okay. [01:52:35] Speaker C: And that was only because those homeless people outside. [01:52:37] Speaker B: Okay. [01:52:41] Speaker C: I was downtown in Miami. [01:52:42] Speaker B: And you made it. [01:52:45] Speaker C: Yeah. I said, hey, you gotta walk me to my car. He was like, huh? I was like, yeah, please. Huh. I got the number, though. Nah, nah, nah. But for real, though. Yeah, it would be nice. Spring. Summer. [01:53:01] Speaker A: He was. He was black or caucasian? [01:53:04] Speaker C: He was black. But I've opened up. I was listening to this article the other day that said, you know, if you're pro black, which y'all know I am, and I've dated caucasian non black before, right? She made a valuable argument. Um, I believe her name is, uh, sun. The sun. The slum flower on Instagram. She's very, very, very highly intellectual podcaster, uh, influencer. Uh, y'all check her out. But she really was saying how, you know, you just got to go where the love is. [01:53:38] Speaker A: This is. But what was the uh, that was. [01:53:42] Speaker C: That's what it was. She said, you got to go where the love is, because even if you're pro black, she's a black woman, um, feminist. And she was just saying, how do you, um, justify dating somebody outside of your race? And she was just like, you got to go to love is. I think the difference. [01:53:57] Speaker A: Hold on, hold on. Okay. [01:53:59] Speaker B: What's her name? [01:54:00] Speaker A: Let's take it back a little bit. [01:54:02] Speaker C: Slump, flower. [01:54:03] Speaker A: Like, s. Let's take it back, like, two steps. Like, why do you need to justify. [01:54:11] Speaker C: That's what she was. She was. [01:54:14] Speaker A: I could date a white woman. I could date a black woman. I could date a Latina, European. Who cares? Asian woman. [01:54:23] Speaker B: I think some people. [01:54:24] Speaker A: I don't gotta tell you nothing. [01:54:25] Speaker B: I mean, there they were saying. [01:54:29] Speaker C: It was a question about, if you're a pro black person, when you date outside your race, how do you justify it? And so. [01:54:40] Speaker A: You can love yourself and your people and not date with your people. But that's like. That's like some doctor Umar stuff. [01:54:52] Speaker C: I was gonna say. Yeah, that's. I mean, shout out to Doctor Umar. I'm with him. Omar, on some things. Some things. Omar be talking about pro african. [01:55:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm good with all that, but. [01:55:07] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, you don't have to. [01:55:10] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? Like, you can be yourself. [01:55:14] Speaker C: I don't, but that's what I think that you, from a male's perspective, are saying. You could be yourself. But twin knows my dating journey more. I don't think the woman I am now and how I dated non black people before, I can't be that way because I'm so much more embodiment. We talked about this earlier with the culture in black women, right? We have to be so many different versions of ourselves and spaces, and that's real. That's a real thing. And I am now, at my age, I can only be one version of myself when I'm with a man. I cannot. I do not have the luxury to be anything else but me. So specific to even how I talk about non black people are struck in our black people struggling our plight, and kind of what I am doing to be active in that. I'm saying is, I like to hear the perspectives, because you just asked, is this a non black or a black person? Before, since George Floyd, I've been more drawn to black men because I feel I see the fragility in their. Like, you know, I want to say not their existence, but just, like, how they are to be treasured, to be honest and I don't. But at the same time, I realize I'm such a diverse person anyways. Like, that's what I think drew me to non black men in the first place was because black men are, you know, that it's an interesting group of men to date, to be honest. And that's not to generalize, that's just to say what it is. And so I'm just saying that I was listening to someone who was of black, pro black feminist, more in the activism area than I am. And for her to say that, I really thought about it, like, go where the love is, because like you said, at the end of the day, who cares? If that person accepts you for everything that you are and you embody and you're being your true, authentic self, who cares? So I'm with you, dub. But I don't think previously I couldn't honestly say that where, um, the people that really, really know me, they know I'm all through. Cut. Cut me open. I'm all black. But, you know, I have to be in so many other spaces, sometimes I can't be the fullness of who I really am. And so with this guy that I specifically met, he was black, I was myself. And we had just left a kind of space where I had to be a different version of myself. Yeah, I made him walk me home. It was cool. I mean, walk me to my car. [01:57:46] Speaker B: So speaking of cars, it's pollen season. You washing your car? Are you just going to wait in the summertime? I had an answer to this until I saw my car today. [01:57:58] Speaker A: No, I just. I'm letting it rain. [01:58:02] Speaker B: See, I think I need to leave Austin. The next time it rain. I'm gonna put my car outside. [01:58:11] Speaker C: Um, I. I have to wash out, you know, my color, my car. I have to because of the paint. Then segregated a paint, so I can't not wash it. Mmm, yeah, Cuz I have to just because of the kind of paint job I got. [01:58:27] Speaker A: So. [01:58:28] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I take it. Cuz like I said, I was up in central Florida, not recent, most recently. And it was pollen all over my car. And as soon as I got back down, I had. I took my car straight to the car wash to get it off because it can mess. [01:58:43] Speaker A: Wait. It was Paul in central Florida. [01:58:45] Speaker C: Everywhere. Dog. Every. I wasn't there, but I wasn't there but three days, four days, and it was like on my car, like my car look like a bumblebee. It was crazy. [01:58:57] Speaker B: Dang. [01:58:57] Speaker A: Well, you don't. You don't want to see what no, nobody car in Georgia. My car. [01:59:04] Speaker C: Green autumn trees. Yeah. [01:59:09] Speaker B: Dropping the top during the springtime. Are you turning the AC on? [01:59:14] Speaker C: AC? I mean, I had my drop top today, but that's because I hadn't been outside. [01:59:21] Speaker B: What you doing? Doug, we know you had the recent fiasco, but in theory, what would you do? You on mute? I dropped the top a few days, personally, but sometimes I'd be having AC on. [01:59:39] Speaker C: I don't say in theory. He probably always dropped his top. [01:59:42] Speaker B: That's true. [01:59:43] Speaker C: Because if you got a convertible, why wouldn't you? [01:59:46] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. I have forgot I had that sunroof. So now I try to, whenever it's warm outside, I try to let it back. Okay, well, this more for you, p. You got a wig? [02:00:00] Speaker C: Braids. [02:00:00] Speaker B: Are you chopping it off for the springtime? Um. [02:00:07] Speaker C: You know, it's so funny you ask. I literally, um, I just got so I had my, um, Barbara cut my sides down because I just, I, you know, I've been growing my head to try to get braids, and then I think I lock up. I don't know. I actually was thinking about it the other day. I was like, man, I'm gonna go tell him to bring me back down to a one. I don't know, but I ain't wearing. Yeah, I. Cuz I just, I I love the low maintenance of it. I really do. I love the way my hair feels. I love how beautiful people love my hair like this. I get so many people that tell me all the time, you are so beautiful, and I never. Women, men, people always like, with my hair this short. I don't know what it is. People love my hair like this. And I think it takes confidence to wear this hair, and maybe that's what it does. Confidence. [02:01:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:01:08] Speaker C: So, yeah, I'm. I might. I actually sworn to you asked me that because I was like, I might just, you know. [02:01:13] Speaker A: You don't think you just have, like, a nice face, not like a cardi b face? Like. [02:01:19] Speaker C: I know. [02:01:19] Speaker A: I saw how I brought that back. [02:01:21] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I have. I have a real face car. I am beautiful. [02:01:29] Speaker A: For sure. It run in the family, though. It run in the family. [02:01:34] Speaker C: I was gonna say, I waked up like this. I am beautiful. [02:01:37] Speaker A: I woke up like this. [02:01:39] Speaker C: Yeah. You roll over next to me. [02:01:41] Speaker A: You saw. I rolled it back to Beyonce. [02:01:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:01:46] Speaker A: That's a two for. Okay. [02:01:50] Speaker C: What you got on? Twin. But you say you got a new. [02:01:53] Speaker B: Wig, so, yeah, I've been wigging it out, but I got this pink wig that I think I want to cut into a bob for the springtime, but we'll see. I'm also dying my own hair black because I'm gonna give. I'm gonna give the color a little. A little break, but I think I want to chop my hair back. I'm just talking about my hair now, the wigs. [02:02:17] Speaker A: No, I know. I get what you're saying. Yeah. [02:02:20] Speaker B: I got a black wig, y'all. And it's weird. Like, I feel like it's just weird having a regular color. I haven't done just natural color in years, so we're gonna see how that goes. Lastly, your toes out. Are you still rocking the sneakers? Is it warm enough yet? You can answer that. [02:02:47] Speaker A: I mean, my toes out in the winter, I love cold weather, so. [02:02:53] Speaker B: Okay, toes out. [02:02:54] Speaker A: I was. It was 50 degrees this morning. I was up. I was on the patio with no shirt on. [02:03:00] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. I love the cold weather, too. Even though it's not been cold here. I'm doing both toes. Sneakers. Sneakers. Big globe, big glow. Says she outside today with her shell. Toes on. [02:03:18] Speaker A: Yeah, glow. [02:03:21] Speaker B: I. I still got my sneakers on because I ain't got my toes done. But, you know, maybe in the next few weeks, I'll bring the claws out. But we've been here long enough, y'all. Let's go ahead and end on shot o'clock. So last week, I was burnt out. Y'all just tired from not getting no rest and just not taking care of myself. So I want to do shot o'clock to self care. Make sure you're taking time for yourselves and pouring into yourselves and loving on yourselves as much as you love on other people. Shot today. [02:04:03] Speaker A: That's what's up. That's what's up. Um, I guess my shouter clock will be. Actually, I want to double back on what you said. Twin overnight yourself. As a black man, we hate to talk about the things that are wrong or even even talk about the things that are right. But, yeah, I've been going through it. It's a 2024. 2024. Been 2024. So shout to that. But, uh, I'm still here, so it's all good, and I'm be here for y'all, so that's a bet. [02:04:57] Speaker C: Yeah, that's, uh. Yeah, that's that bombing, that 24 and 24 and 24. That's real. That's that mamba mentality, man. You gotta love yourself first. [02:05:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Rest in peace. Rest in peace. Kobe, shut up. The code, all that. [02:05:12] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, you gotta. You gotta put. You gotta put the air mask on when the cabin depressurizes first to help yourself before you can help others. So I'm just gonna tell ended on that too, as well. Take the time to, take the time to make the time to take care of yourself, y'all, because life is too short. Life is precious. Make sure y'all, I haven't already go to them doctors. Get your yearly test done, get your blood work, get your scans done. You know, it is never too early and it's never too late. So if you're hearing this, go do that right now. But yes, self love is the best love. [02:05:50] Speaker A: And with that money, p money, tell them again, I'm sorry. Go to the doctor. [02:05:55] Speaker C: Go now. [02:05:56] Speaker A: Get yourself checked. Especially you. If you men in general, we ain't going to the doctor like that. So just 100% go to the doctor. [02:06:10] Speaker C: I need you to go. I just need you to go. [02:06:13] Speaker A: Even if it's something minor, just, yeah, yeah, go. [02:06:18] Speaker C: Go. You have to go nearly, but go. If you sexually active, make sure you want to get your test like you, it's better to know than not to know. And that's the best. If you do that, that mean you love yourself. You have to take and make sure that you take the time to take care of yourself. That's the biggest component, right? You find most people don't take the time to do those things. So with that, we're just going to go ahead and end the show. Thank you again for tuning in. Please, again, again, we love our followers. Give us a shout, give us a DM, give us an email. Like subscribe and hit those buttons on YouTube again. We are call your cousins. The podcast. Hit us up again on Twitter at cal l y o u r s. Why do I keep saying that wrong, y'all? I just keep going to it. Like it's call your cousin. Like call yours. It's not copy yours. [02:07:11] Speaker B: Call your cousin. [02:07:13] Speaker C: Y'all know how to spell call your cousins. Everything will be in the the link. But again, we appreciate you all. Until next time, peace. Bye.