Speaker 1: Yes, America dumb bombed Iran.
Speaker 2: Scary times, man, especially just looking at how much of
Speaker 2: the commentary in the past has been actively trying to
Speaker 2: avoid this and then like full on doing it with
Speaker 2: little to no notice is wild.
Speaker 1: Well, it's all. It's all scary for so many reasons.
Speaker 1: But what I've heard is that you know, and there's
Speaker 1: of course TikTok and beams like everyone's like, hey, I
Speaker 1: don't want to let Ron know it wasn't me, I'm
Speaker 1: on your side whatever, which is problematic in its own right,
Speaker 1: because Iran is doing up to some shadiness right right,
Speaker 1: BA fan, Welcome to the Brown Table. I am joined
Speaker 1: by og Brown Table guests. We have jan Nelly Espinal
Speaker 1: aka miss be Helpful and just Chris.
Speaker 2: Already off the back, already off.
Speaker 3: Just the energy is just horrible to start and.
Speaker 1: Peggy, now Hamilton's back so I can sing that Chris
Speaker 1: is just that your name just says Chris, Chris.
Speaker 3: It does around. I was just trying to get in
Speaker 3: the room because if for you who don't know, Mandy
Speaker 3: was sending me all kinds of wrong links. I was
Speaker 3: just happy to be able to get in the room finally.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for test driving the Patreon link. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you guys joined the Patreon, you too could be
Speaker 1: in the audience live to watch the Shenanigans up close
Speaker 1: before I edit out. You could actually hear what Chris
Speaker 1: has to say.
Speaker 2: Really love that, No way, I love that. Imagine actually
Speaker 2: being fully behind the scenes like the whole time, and
Speaker 2: only you get to see for what really goes on.
Speaker 1: And then y'all can be like m I heard what
Speaker 1: Mandy had edited out was Chris said something smart and
Speaker 1: she was too intimidated. She didn't want to.
Speaker 3: You're like, because when I listened to the podcast, Chris
Speaker 3: is only only for about ten seconds. I didn't know
Speaker 3: he was in the whole time.
Speaker 1: I wish there was more. But we're gonna, yeah, Chris,
Speaker 1: Chris is going to be prominent today, y'all. So you're
Speaker 1: welcome or I'm sorry, but yes, if you are a Patreon,
Speaker 1: we'll go to the show notes right now. If you
Speaker 1: want to check it out, you can totally join for free,
Speaker 1: but if you're a paid Patreon member. What I think
Speaker 1: is my favorite perk that I came up with in
Speaker 1: my brain is that you can join Brown Tables Live
Speaker 1: every Monday when I record, so you'll get a link.
Speaker 1: You can be in the audience. You can ask your
Speaker 1: questions live. What else can they do in here? I
Speaker 1: don't know. You could chat us, you could distract us, notes,
Speaker 1: take notes, you can point out if I have anything
Speaker 1: problematic on the shelf behind me, like a child's toy.
Speaker 1: Today I have the brand Ambition book Club pick sky
Speaker 1: full of Elephants. Yes, I wish I could wrap all
Speaker 1: my books like the library does right wpover.
Speaker 2: It's protected, just a nice little protected, protective book cover.
Speaker 1: It doesn't fall off like low Ki. I don't like
Speaker 1: book jackets because they just they go flying.
Speaker 2: Literally last night last night I was reading I just
Speaker 2: started this new nonfiction book and I was reading it
Speaker 2: in the bed and the freaking book jacket just kept
Speaker 2: slipping and sliding, and I just threw the thing all right,
Speaker 2: so annoying.
Speaker 1: The aesthetic gone, so like, why don't they stick it?
Speaker 3: Why why isn't it crintit on the cover itself? Maybe
Speaker 3: it didn't last as long, I don't know.
Speaker 2: No, it's more expensive because it's a separate manufacturing process.
Speaker 2: When they just print the cover book of the book
Speaker 2: with just fabric.
Speaker 1: And then they can like switch it out. When you
Speaker 1: become on the New York Times bestseller, they can just
Speaker 1: put a sticker on it or change the text and
Speaker 1: then just they don't got to reprint books.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: I do know. Let's do a quick little round of
Speaker 1: life updates. We just came through June teenth. We do
Speaker 1: bombed the country that actually the people who celebrated Juneteenth,
Speaker 1: we had nothing to do with that exactly. Now.
Speaker 3: Was that was that consulted on that decision?
Speaker 1: Not not at all. If Congress wasn't, then we definitely weren't.
Speaker 2: You know what, I just want to real quick, I
Speaker 2: want to give a shout out to the Studio Museum
Speaker 2: in Harlem in New York City, because when I was
Speaker 2: fifteen years old, I interned at the museum. I did
Speaker 2: a special internship program which was for students that were
Speaker 2: interested in the arts. And I was a baby, y'all.
Speaker 2: It was two thousand and five, and they taught us
Speaker 2: about Juneteenth and had us canvassing industry to educate the
Speaker 2: community in Harlem about Juneteenth. To celebrate with the cookout,
Speaker 2: they invited people into the community into the museum. They
Speaker 2: had a whole exhibit showing James Vandersey's photography from the
Speaker 2: Black Renaissance. And when I tell you, I was fifteen
Speaker 2: years old, my little Dominican American self from Brooklyn had
Speaker 2: never even heard of Juneteenth. And this was back in
Speaker 2: two thousand and five. And I feel like now people
Speaker 2: are starting to learn about Juneteenth and the history. And
Speaker 2: I've been known since the early two thousands because of
Speaker 2: the Studio Museum in Harlem, which has been doing a
Speaker 2: lot of education. So shout out to them. I just
Speaker 2: got to say.
Speaker 1: That day, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: I didn't learn about Juneteenth, and I was much older,
Speaker 3: like it was that. Never once in school was it mentioned.
Speaker 3: You just didn't even know it was the thing.
Speaker 1: I just went to the barbecues. I didn't really put
Speaker 1: two and three together the history cues we're hanging out.
Speaker 1: It's just what black people do. I did not put
Speaker 1: the two two the causes of a barbecue collinto college. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's so much that we haven't learned. It's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: But while I kind of got distracted by Juneteeth, though
Speaker 1: I was in Atlanta for a few days for a
Speaker 1: very exciting thing. I've been sharing a little bit with
Speaker 1: BA fan about my dad's situation, and I love that
Speaker 1: he has no idea how to ever listen to this
Speaker 1: show because he has no idea how much of his business. No,
Speaker 1: he straight up texted every time he's in the hospital,
Speaker 1: not that he goes, he goes kind of off, but
Speaker 1: he'll text me. Be like, don't y'all answer anyone's dms
Speaker 1: from nosy neighbors or friends or family who wants to
Speaker 1: know about my business? And I was like, well, the
Speaker 1: fine print you did not include. I couldn't mention on
Speaker 1: my podcast. Community got to kid me.
Speaker 2: Yes yoge, which, oh my goodness, Congress your daddy, Congress
Speaker 2: your family.
Speaker 1: That is huge, girl, and huge, huge shout out to
Speaker 1: my sister Mallory. She has a different father. She's not
Speaker 1: a match for my dad. But she donated a kidney altruistically,
Speaker 1: which is just because she wanted to. But the reason
Speaker 1: she did it is because that bumped my dad up
Speaker 1: the list. I think they said it was it could
Speaker 1: take like up to three years for him to get
Speaker 1: a kidney. Some people are on there for a decade
Speaker 1: because you get kicked off, you get back on. But
Speaker 1: all in all, it's it hasn't I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's sunk in because it's been such an intense couple
Speaker 1: of years with his health. But yeah, less than two years.
Speaker 1: He has a brand new kidney. My sister donated back
Speaker 1: in January. She had a by the way, she had
Speaker 1: a ton of complications that I that were just terrible.
Speaker 1: But she's come out mostly on the other side healthy,
Speaker 1: my dad. And so it's January to now June, so
Speaker 1: six months. And also his donate, his donate, his kidney
Speaker 1: was donated by an altruistic donor in Indiana, So thank
Speaker 1: you too, whoever that was.
Speaker 2: That is so cool.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's paying like a champ. No more dialysis.
Speaker 2: Listen, listen with the little things that we take for
Speaker 2: granted every day, like sitting on the toilet or standing
Speaker 2: over the toilet.
Speaker 1: It was so funny. Yeah, that catheter, that feedbag was
Speaker 1: filled to the brim, leaders upon leaders of urine. Liquid gold.
Speaker 2: Poor daddy, Oh, liquid gold them Dad.
Speaker 1: I don't want to why, you know, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to. It's hard for me to ever talk about
Speaker 1: it without getting on my on a little bit of
Speaker 1: a pedestal about health and black communities because dialysis and when,
Speaker 1: and especially in Atlanta, because like, we were driving in
Speaker 1: my dad's hospital. He was in a Piedmont Atlanta staff
Speaker 1: was amazing. He's now had open heart surgery there, he
Speaker 1: had his kidney He's been there a lot. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I was. We were driving there, my brother and I
Speaker 1: from Atlanta Airport to the hospital. We passed so many
Speaker 1: dialysis clinics. It is big business, the business of black
Speaker 1: and brown bodies that have been allowed to, you know,
Speaker 1: develop chronic conditions that lead to kidney disease. It's high
Speaker 1: blood pressure, it's diabetes. Those are the two biggest contributors
Speaker 1: of kidney disease. And then what do you get when
Speaker 1: someone is diagnosed with end stage renal failure. You get
Speaker 1: a cash fucking cow because every chair you can fill
Speaker 1: in a dialysis clinic, who's paying for that insurance, you know,
Speaker 1: and they have to go three times.
Speaker 2: A week, they see dollar signs. That's what they say.
Speaker 1: They see dollar signs. And my dad is so I
Speaker 1: can't even tell you. He is like so not the
Speaker 1: norm for a man his age, in his sixties, with
Speaker 1: his health background, to be what a giddy kidney as
Speaker 1: fast as he did. My sister, I would say, used
Speaker 1: her privilege in the best way possible to give him
Speaker 1: a kidney, to give a kidney for him to get
Speaker 1: bumped up the list. But and I'm not even talking
Speaker 1: about We passed one place that blew my mind. It
Speaker 1: was like, you go, if you're bench of Atlanta, it's
Speaker 1: like strip clubs, gentlemen's clubs, dark, empty, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: in some parts, right, but in like in the in
Speaker 1: some parts. And we're driving down this road, I forget
Speaker 1: what the rod was called. And then the belt line,
Speaker 1: not the belt line, the belt line is gentrification but true.
Speaker 1: And then to my left, I'm like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is it look like? I was like, is that a
Speaker 1: spa kidney? SPA was the name of it. It was
Speaker 1: giving five star Ritz Carlton. Yes, in the middle of
Speaker 1: the Gatau. So all that is to say, I'm so
Speaker 1: damn grateful at the same time that my dad is
Speaker 1: getting a brand new kidney and a new delisan life.
Speaker 1: His brother, his fourth out of six siblings to have
Speaker 1: end stage renal failure, and my uncle David's blind. He
Speaker 1: already He's been in the hospital NonStop because one of
Speaker 1: the complications is gangreen That's how people start losing their limbs,
Speaker 1: like my aunt Sherry Lee, God rest her soul. One
Speaker 1: of the last things happened before she died was she
Speaker 1: lost a leg. Uncle David's in the hospital and they
Speaker 1: are like amputating more and more bits of his leg,
Speaker 1: like he just you know, is in hell. So, you know,
Speaker 1: my siblings and I it was such a fast trip,
Speaker 1: but like at a certain point we were just kind
Speaker 1: of trying to absorb and like touch base on just
Speaker 1: like our joint shared mission to break a bunch of
Speaker 1: generational not just trauma, but generational curses, as my aunt
Speaker 1: Brenda would say, and the the chronic health conditions in
Speaker 1: my family. It's it's horrible, and I really hope that
Speaker 1: we can be a part of that change. So that
Speaker 1: was a lot, but I'm really happy for my dad.
Speaker 2: I feel like we're at that age too, like millennials,
Speaker 2: maybe slightly older millennials who are transitioning from like enjoying
Speaker 2: our parents and like older generations being these like older
Speaker 2: mentor kind of figures and like just you know, turning
Speaker 2: into grandparents or just like supporting us in different ways
Speaker 2: as they're getting older, to now us being playing the
Speaker 2: supportive role to them because now they're at age where
Speaker 2: they're just older than older and to a point where
Speaker 2: they need us. And it's I don't know about y'all,
Speaker 2: but it's such a scary thing to experience firsthand. Like
Speaker 2: I've watched my dad. He's now seventy six, he's going
Speaker 2: to be this summer, and it's just so it just
Speaker 2: it feels like it happened one day to the next.
Speaker 2: It was like one day he was the funny, loud,
Speaker 2: laughing jokester, and all of a sudden, now I see
Speaker 2: him struggling to do basic things like get up off
Speaker 2: the couch and you know, the stretches that he used
Speaker 2: to do he can't do. And I'm like, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 2: is it happening. Is it happening? Is happening? And I'm
Speaker 2: watching it happen, and it's so so scary and bizarre
Speaker 2: experience because he's always been in my mind like he's
Speaker 2: always been like fifty years old, like at like a
Speaker 2: static age where he doesn't change, And now it's just
Speaker 2: I can't deny it anymore, you know, And it's just
Speaker 2: like so heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness you have so many siblings too. I'm really
Speaker 1: grateful for my siblings.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, big families and families that come through. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's everything. It really does change change the game.
Speaker 3: It's so weird to be like to kind of become
Speaker 3: like a parent to your parents and how to tell
Speaker 3: them what they should be doing, and like, hey.
Speaker 1: Now, can't be saying that I'm going to get it.
Speaker 3: It's the truth.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: My dad wants to be like, you gotta.
Speaker 3: Let them think. You gotta let them think that they're
Speaker 3: in charge.
Speaker 1: Shoes don't literally tind my dad's shoes. I was sweating.
Speaker 1: That's a heavy leg. I put on socks and shoes
Speaker 1: for little humans every day, but they're about this thing.
Speaker 1: I was like that, I don't want it. First of all,
Speaker 1: I don't want to touch his feet like the way
Speaker 1: I know I could not be a nurse. I'll put
Speaker 1: them gloves on. No, they were crusty. He has not
Speaker 1: been moisturized. Those are the things what is going on?
Speaker 1: And nuwn as those feet shoes on and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I was like, Dad, what are you gonna do? You need?
Speaker 1: You need some slides. He's like, nah, I'm a sneaker.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna put your shoes on?
Speaker 2: Is a market? Is a market in the retirement homes
Speaker 2: for pedicures apparently get something going.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I brought it up. I can talk about amplications,
Speaker 1: I could talk about the pee tracker and all that,
Speaker 1: but don't let me.
Speaker 3: Oh. You know what, guys, they don't believe in moisturizing
Speaker 3: their feet. You know, you put you just lotion. What
Speaker 3: people can see you go up to you where your
Speaker 3: sock is gonna go. And from there.
Speaker 1: You know, guys without black girlfriends, Chris, you don't got
Speaker 1: a black girlfriend, but you have a black sister friend
Speaker 1: right here, and you better be you better be lotion
Speaker 1: in them angles.
Speaker 3: Just don't understand it because sometimes you know, you don't
Speaker 3: put lotion on your feet, you can be slipping on
Speaker 3: the ground.
Speaker 2: So I'm like house then when you sleep, when you
Speaker 2: when you sleep, you cutting up your sheet. You don't,
Speaker 2: you don't feel that.
Speaker 3: Look everything everything the sun's gonna see. It's gonna get
Speaker 3: some loasure. I'm not gonna walk around ashy. But the
Speaker 3: feet sometimes they get skipped. Sometimes they get skipped. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna lie. Nobody's looking at them.
Speaker 2: Put some loation, Put some lotion real quick before you
Speaker 2: put the socks on. That that's the best tip I
Speaker 2: can give you because the lotion and the moisture and
Speaker 2: the warmth of the sock, it will do something for
Speaker 2: the skin.
Speaker 3: Just the.
Speaker 1: Vazoline on your feet at night, put the socks on top.
Speaker 1: You don't want to sleep with soocks. Let them cook
Speaker 1: for like thirty minutes, take them off. You know.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got an aqua for a story because I
Speaker 3: didn't know what that was because I never I seen it,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know what it was. I never used it,
Speaker 3: but I seen it in the house and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And I remember I was with Mandy for the live
Speaker 3: show the live podcast you and Tiffery were doing in
Speaker 3: New Jersey, and I remember we were riding in a
Speaker 3: car and I was like, I'm kind of ashy. Did
Speaker 3: somebody some lotion? And I think it was you. You're like,
Speaker 3: I got some aquardfer. I was like okay, and I
Speaker 3: put way too much on my hands. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's a lotion. I was so greasy. My hands were
Speaker 3: so greasy. For the rest of that day, I was
Speaker 3: trying to wipe it off on stuff. I was like,
Speaker 3: why do you give us a vassoline? What is this?
Speaker 2: I know, Yeah, it's a consistency of bassline bro come on.
Speaker 1: Basically, I don't know. It's it's my it's my vix
Speaker 1: vapor rep. I will put it on everything, bug bites.
Speaker 1: Aquafor sunburned, aquafor.
Speaker 2: It is life changing. When I was in Japan for
Speaker 2: my birthday last year, I was riding a bike across
Speaker 2: the Siddle Bridge and I looked over the bridge real
Speaker 2: quick and while I turned my head, I lost that
Speaker 2: when the bike fell off. The bike so embarrassing, y'all,
Speaker 2: so embarrassing, fell off the like scraped my elbow and
Speaker 2: my arm with I'm talking about like a gash, y'all,
Speaker 2: not like a little scratch. And I put Aqua four
Speaker 2: on that every single day, and when I tell you
Speaker 2: eight days later, it looked like I never had a
Speaker 2: cut in the first place. Aqua four will literally heal
Speaker 2: any open wounds. I mean, Aqua four is seriously changing, y'all.
Speaker 2: If you're not on it, get on that.
Speaker 1: Use Coke Brown Ambition to get a free tub of
Speaker 1: off for you know they don't sponsor.
Speaker 2: Us yet, get your co grup, get your.
Speaker 1: I want some real sponsors, like I don't want, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean no, I want the sponsors. I already have.
Speaker 1: Let me not block my blessings. But I love vexed
Speaker 1: vapor rub. I want some black and he black black
Speaker 1: sponsors are fixed vapor rub. I want orange drink. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that brand is called Crush whatever it is,
Speaker 1: crush sh No, I don't want kidney spots. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's the center.
Speaker 2: You have Dominigan kids. So if you do get vixed,
Speaker 2: you have to save.
Speaker 1: You have to. I don't even have any in my house,
Speaker 1: told Elliott, I don't know. I have, like honest, I
Speaker 1: literally have to.
Speaker 2: I will send you with me.
Speaker 1: But there's a brand called Freda for kids stuff, and
Speaker 1: they have like a bougie eucalyptus oil and vix vapor
Speaker 1: rub knockoff. Someone gave me that.
Speaker 2: Okay, that might be good for the kids because will
Speaker 2: be like extra extra.
Speaker 1: That brings me back to our very first round table
Speaker 1: with y'all, because that was my story, all right. We
Speaker 1: got to get into these headlines, y'all. Yes, America dumb
Speaker 1: bombed Iran. I wanted to unless you'll have something to
Speaker 1: say about conflicts in the Middle East, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to like start thinking about personal finance implications. The one
Speaker 1: that I've heard so far, Well, let me give pause
Speaker 1: for any commentary on the state of our politics and
Speaker 1: peacekeeping operations.
Speaker 2: Girl, I have two brothers in the military, ones in
Speaker 2: the Air Force and the other one is in the army,
Speaker 2: So I was I was certainly scared. I mean, like,
Speaker 2: I'm just praying that, you know, one or both of
Speaker 2: them don't get deployed. But scary times, man, especially just
Speaker 2: looking at how much of the commentary in the past
Speaker 2: has been actively trying to avoid this and then like
Speaker 2: full on doing it with little to no notice is wild.
Speaker 2: It's wild, and it's definitely scary. I mean, even my
Speaker 2: brothers who are both active military right now, like just
Speaker 2: I haven't had a chance to talk to them in depth,
Speaker 2: but we're all in a family chat and when they can,
Speaker 2: you know, pop in and like comments or likes of
Speaker 2: what they're doing. One of them is in Lachlan Air
Speaker 2: Force Base in Texas near San Antonio, a little bit
Speaker 2: south of San Antonio. And then the other one is
Speaker 2: currently in Tennessee, but he's just stationed there. He just
Speaker 2: got back from Romania because they were doing some some
Speaker 2: like intervention on like Ukraine situations. They were like on
Speaker 2: the outskirts Romania, like just setting up some camps and
Speaker 2: just trying to keep eye and keep watching soil. He
Speaker 2: got back from Romania literally just a couple months ago,
Speaker 2: so it's a little heartbreaking to see like he just
Speaker 2: got back. He's finally back home and just so excited
Speaker 2: to be able to see some of his friends and
Speaker 2: maybe get some time off and for family. And then
Speaker 2: immediately like his Fourth of July request was denied. He
Speaker 2: can't see us for fourth of July. Like there's so
Speaker 2: many things where it's like immediately nope, going right back,
Speaker 2: And it is heartbreaking because the kid's been he's been
Speaker 2: he's been working really really hard. Like this poor kid
Speaker 2: has been rocking. Sometimes he'll send us notes to just
Speaker 2: be like hey guys, like I have to do eight
Speaker 2: mile rock this morning with like twice my weight on
Speaker 2: my back, Like that's my morning, Like that's what I'm
Speaker 2: doing today. And I'm like, damn, Like this kid is
Speaker 2: putting in work, physical work, and to then turn around
Speaker 2: and be told, Nope, you can't even get three days
Speaker 2: off to go see your family. So kind of sucks.
Speaker 2: That's the last time you saw him probably Christmas last year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so over six months ago now, But.
Speaker 1: That's the really heartbreaking thing. And well it's all it's
Speaker 1: all scary for so many reasons. But what I've heard
Speaker 1: is that you know, and there's of course TikTok and
Speaker 1: beams like everyone's like, hey, I don't want to let
Speaker 1: Ron know it wasn't me. I'm on your side whatever,
Speaker 1: which is problematic in its own right because Iran is
Speaker 1: doing up to some shadiness right right. But the people
Speaker 1: who are really at risk are in my what I've
Speaker 1: heard is military personnel stationed in the Middle East because
Speaker 1: Iran can reach them with their weapons, with their.
Speaker 2: Missiles pretty directly. Ye yep.
Speaker 1: So I just pray keep them in my thoughts in prayers,
Speaker 1: and God damn commander in chief didn't know you could
Speaker 1: have weapons. Fomo just couldn't couldn't let be b, couldn't
Speaker 1: let Benjamin utt and ya who have all the fun
Speaker 1: So it said, you know what put me in Let's go,
Speaker 1: I'll bring my toys to the play to the play date,
Speaker 1: you bring your toys. Let's let's blow some shit up.
Speaker 1: It's how it felt.
Speaker 2: It's like a pissing contest. I'm like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me right now, that's not that's not
Speaker 2: let's not do that.
Speaker 3: Let's not especially when it's treated as if like these
Speaker 3: are like not human lives involved in this too. I
Speaker 3: think sometimes it gets it's so easy.
Speaker 1: For oh, they don't give a shit about hum.
Speaker 3: Yes, aren't people on the ground and all where it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, like people can't. I just can't. I think
Speaker 3: that's what hits me so hard is like I can't
Speaker 3: imagine like that being your life. You're just there trying
Speaker 3: to raise your family, live your life, and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, this is what happens to where you live.
Speaker 3: You throw it into chaos, Like what does even look
Speaker 3: like anymore? What does life even look like after that?
Speaker 3: So it's it's really painful to see people going through that.
Speaker 3: And also like, yeah, he was saying, like are people
Speaker 3: who here who are in the military, who now you know,
Speaker 3: didn't ask me a part of this and now they're
Speaker 3: part of it.
Speaker 1: Well it seems trivial, but I did want to do
Speaker 1: some research into what potential personal finance implications there may be.
Speaker 1: I think we're already starting to see one of the
Speaker 1: most noticeable everyone's talking about eggs, but it's also gas prices,
Speaker 1: and Americans are very tied too, so those are likely
Speaker 1: to spike. I think they have already. I think gas
Speaker 1: or sorry oil, which oil prices are tied to gasoline
Speaker 1: prices at the pump, has already shot up to over
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a barrel and likely to keep spiking.
Speaker 1: So we may see gas increase, and y'all know, then
Speaker 1: people go at the gas station, they start, you know,
Speaker 1: hoarding gas, and then we get inflation, which brings me
Speaker 1: to the next thing, which is inflation in general. So
Speaker 1: the tie, my understanding is the tie with inflation is
Speaker 1: that oil prices are a big driver of that. So
Speaker 1: one study by Oxford Economics estimates that when oil reaches
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty dollars per barrel, that could push
Speaker 1: inflation in the US to six percent by the end
Speaker 1: of the year. Wow, ain't we just get this under control? Right?
Speaker 2: It just got back to a regular rate, which would
Speaker 2: has been the goal for so long. We were at
Speaker 2: nine percent, eight percent, seven. Now we're finally down three
Speaker 2: to four, and now we're going back up to six.
Speaker 4: Potentially that would be so scary if it does go
Speaker 4: back up like that because people are just now finally
Speaker 4: adjusting to things feeling normal again, I think after being
Speaker 4: with such high inflation, and of course a lot of
Speaker 4: that was due to COVID and things like that, but
Speaker 4: it just feels like.
Speaker 2: We finally somewhat started to bounce back, and it just
Speaker 2: feels like you can't catch a break.
Speaker 1: Chris my ninja googler, because you seem how you somehow
Speaker 1: know how to Google without making your whole computer shake,
Speaker 1: which I can't do. Because it's like, did you look
Speaker 1: up really quick what the oil is right now? Per barrel?
Speaker 1: I'm seeing now, I'm seeing eighty dollars per I thought.
Speaker 2: It was eighty dollars the last time I read up
Speaker 2: on it, which was like a day ago, two days ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris, check right quick, which could be because so
Speaker 1: far Iran hasn't blocked this crucial shipping container canal. It's
Speaker 1: called the straight of or Mooves.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if they do end up blocking that, which
Speaker 1: could be in retaliation, I don't think they have so far.
Speaker 1: It's hard, right ba Fam, You're gonna hear this on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We're recording this Monday afternoon, So who knows what the
Speaker 1: world could look like by then. But it's something that
Speaker 1: we'll be looking at, is the oil prices and then
Speaker 1: the tie into inflation. When energy goes up, it hits
Speaker 1: all the things y'all get in Amazon shipments, we're getting
Speaker 1: the cost of oh my god, cooling our houses. We're
Speaker 1: in the middle of a heat wave here in New York,
Speaker 1: so we could see prices the places.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, right. I was just in Texas a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, and who it was burning hot
Speaker 2: in Houston. I was in Houston. Then I was in
Speaker 2: Dallas and oh my goodness. I couldn't even step outside.
Speaker 2: I was like, nope, I'm good to stay inside in
Speaker 2: the ac So imagine if that's happening doing a heat wave, It's.
Speaker 1: That'd be rough. My cucumbers are struggling, y'all. I had
Speaker 1: to put up some shade cover. I'm sorry. We have
Speaker 1: what is this breaking? We have an update from Chris
Speaker 1: Chris Browning in the field. Yes, Chris, give us your update.
Speaker 3: Oh, we have an update at a crude oil prices.
Speaker 3: We're looking at prices between seventy and seventy five dollars
Speaker 3: per barrel, depending on what you're checking. All right, right now,
Speaker 3: that's where it's at.
Speaker 1: Is that typical.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can get back to you with that soon.
Speaker 3: I don't know off the top of my head at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, Chris going back into that undercover Google, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for your deep research. Chris Chris Browning,
Speaker 1: San Francisco in his bedroom. Supply chain disruptions again, that
Speaker 1: could be if they close that canal cyber attacks. This
Speaker 1: is the one that freaks me out because I don't
Speaker 1: know if it would impact Like has there been an
Speaker 1: Iranian cyber attack that's impacted everyday Americans? I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I just know that they have been attacking, like I
Speaker 1: know they've been behind some key political figures getting hacked.
Speaker 1: But there was some discussion about potentially hospitals being a
Speaker 1: target for cyber attacks. Apparently they're like a huge target
Speaker 1: and a weak one because I'm guessing because hospitals come
Speaker 1: in all different shape sizes, and they have their own
Speaker 1: systems and there's no like nationwide protection. It's up to
Speaker 1: each hospital individually. But that's scurry.
Speaker 2: That makes sense too, because it's hard for medical institutions
Speaker 2: to keep up in general, and let alone with technology
Speaker 2: that's hard to keep up with period.
Speaker 1: Chris Chris Browning, any word on.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying is that it's actually been pretty low.
Speaker 3: It's been rising over the past several years, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's like between seventy and eighty bucks the past two years.
Speaker 3: It looks like it peaked around ninety bucks in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, and then it was like sixty eight and
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, thirty nine and twenty twenty just because
Speaker 3: obviously the pandemic. So it's getting towards a higher end
Speaker 3: of what we see in the past ten.
Speaker 1: Years that would track with inflation. So okay, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll keep eyes on that. Thanks so much, Christopher Browning.
Speaker 1: That was again, Christopher brown ng hard Ing.
Speaker 3: Let's not forget that that last part there.
Speaker 2: Very important, very important women ally.
Speaker 1: Ally and a nonviolent peacekeeper.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. I am curious though, like because
Speaker 3: it's been like the attitude towards like electric vehicles have
Speaker 3: kind of been shifting a little bit here in the US.
Speaker 3: I feel like people were starting to be like, well,
Speaker 3: I mean one company in particular when I have to
Speaker 3: mention them, but there's a lot of other companies who
Speaker 3: make electric cars that we'll talk about. But I wonder
Speaker 3: we'll gas because there one A gas is like a
Speaker 3: driver for people wanting to go to hybrids and then
Speaker 3: electric cars eventually. So I wonder, is it going to
Speaker 3: be like, hey all, you are hating on like green
Speaker 3: like initiatives, but electric cars, more solar, more alternative fuel sources.
Speaker 3: It may be a driver, even though an environment where
Speaker 3: that's not being supported and with regulations, if the people
Speaker 3: want it, it might be a driver to push us
Speaker 3: in that direction more.
Speaker 2: Right, if the demand is there.
Speaker 1: I'm really getting into my prepper bag right now, y'all.
Speaker 1: And I just feel like, I mean, I don't blame you.
Speaker 1: I want solar panels so bad. My tiny little root
Speaker 1: can't handle them. There's not enough square footage apparently, but
Speaker 1: once they get more efficient, I will be getting solar panels.
Speaker 1: I just want to be I want to be more
Speaker 1: sustainable myself. And I mean, yes for the environment sustainable,
Speaker 1: but also like.
Speaker 2: For life, self sustaining.
Speaker 1: Self sustaining, like I have a literal farmstead outside my
Speaker 1: house now that I'm going with my and I blame
Speaker 1: Mickey Kendall, who was on the podcast this week. I
Speaker 1: interviewed her a month or two ago. She's the author.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of that book Hood Feminism?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 1: Can we talk to you all about Mickey yet? So
Speaker 1: I had her on the podcast and I almost forgot
Speaker 1: how she Oh it just came out. Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: came out this week or sorry, on Friday. It was
Speaker 1: supposed to come out Monday, but I pushed it out
Speaker 1: earlier because once we hit it on, I was like,
Speaker 1: I got to get Mickey out here because she is
Speaker 1: an historian. I mean, she has like a PhD in history,
Speaker 1: and she's a brilliant woman. But she really laid it
Speaker 1: out in academic terms and just you know, but also
Speaker 1: straight talking terms, how history is repeating itself and how
Speaker 1: the only solution she's come up with so far as
Speaker 1: community and prepping and getting ready for potential civil war
Speaker 1: potential you know, lack of resources and next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm growing tomatoes and cucumbers and obsessed.
Speaker 2: She got through to you, She got through to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me know. I'll be cannon tomatoes shipping them across.
Speaker 3: The country Mandy's tomatoes Dand I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, Well, should we leave Iran behind? I feel like, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I think I think it's tough for me at least,
Speaker 2: it's really tough. I haven't I've kind of refrained from
Speaker 2: posting content about like oh, how they're on, how this
Speaker 2: is iron Ta's going to affect your finances. It's like
Speaker 2: I know that that that that that's kind of stuff
Speaker 2: that people use to get clicks. But as a content creator,
Speaker 2: I cannot get myself to do it. I have two
Speaker 2: brothers actively serving right now. I can't sit here and
Speaker 2: go your your bank account and your investment portfolio. Here's
Speaker 2: an opportunity here, let's just what we can learn from it.
Speaker 2: I just i'd rather me personally, I just rather I
Speaker 2: just rather stay quiet. I just rat to stay quiet.
Speaker 2: I've talked about other things, but it's just it's just
Speaker 2: so hard when people take this and make it like
Speaker 2: the butt of the content type of thing, and it
Speaker 2: feels so heavy and it feels so much much bigger.
Speaker 2: So I'm just I'm very careful about the content I'm
Speaker 2: creating right now, but also just what I'm seeing too,
Speaker 2: just like making note of it, like oh okay, okay,
Speaker 2: because we don't want to I don't know, we just
Speaker 2: don't want to perpetuate that, like war is an opportunity
Speaker 2: for your portfolio like that that is so that is
Speaker 2: so cringe eck, and just want to vomit. I want
Speaker 2: to see stuff like that. So I just am trying
Speaker 2: to be aware of it. But I love I love
Speaker 2: that you said, like, hey, let's just address some potential
Speaker 2: impacts of it on your personal finances and not focus
Speaker 2: on like what opportunities you can get like that is wild.
Speaker 2: That framing to me is just so disgusting.
Speaker 3: No, it really is, and it's it's I think it's
Speaker 3: interesting like us as people talk about like money all
Speaker 3: the time and finances in a time where there's so
Speaker 3: much other things outside of that that are happening in
Speaker 3: the world that it becomes really difficult to like find
Speaker 3: want to find purpose in talking about it and not
Speaker 3: be like there's so much like this is the world's
Speaker 3: going crazy and it's like everyone's lines are on hold,
Speaker 3: and it's like it's so hard to hear that and
Speaker 3: then be like, hey, let's talk about top saving stuffs.
Speaker 3: I'm like, just it feels so it feels very hard.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's why I've been doing nothing but gardening. I'll
Speaker 1: go to my ig and I'm like, h what should
Speaker 1: I post. Oh, I have nothing but gardening content, and
Speaker 1: it's fine. Anybody got to hear from us.
Speaker 2: Sometimes exactly, sometimes it's better to be quiet and just
Speaker 2: participate in reading the little book. Check on people offer
Speaker 2: the resources to support help, but not necessarily just add
Speaker 2: noise to the mix, right, Like I did get somebody
Speaker 2: called me out. I posted a video about how important
Speaker 2: financial literacy was and how teens can start early with
Speaker 2: investment accounts and stuff, and somebody commented, this is valuable information,
Speaker 2: but it feels so tone deaf right now, when our
Speaker 2: COMMUNI is really being attacked and struggled this way. And
Speaker 2: I said, listen, I one hundred percent hear you. When
Speaker 2: I was talking on this exact live that I got
Speaker 2: this minute bite from, I talked about how students need
Speaker 2: to learn about taxes early, and high school courses allowed
Speaker 2: you to learn that, including the fact that undocumented immigrants
Speaker 2: paid over ninety billion dollars of taxes. So I'm not
Speaker 2: ignoring it. It's just really hard. But I totally understand
Speaker 2: her position. Like I saw the comment and I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm not even going to be I'm not even going
Speaker 2: to be aggressive or ever Stereo here I just was like, yes, this,
Speaker 2: I hear you. I'm with you on this. I spoke.
Speaker 2: I use my platform when I can't to speak on it.
Speaker 2: I completely get it. But I'm also not going to
Speaker 2: stop fighting the good fight that I've been fighting, that
Speaker 2: my calling is to fight for, which is for access
Speaker 2: to financial education for all of us in this country.
Speaker 2: So companies wants, I mean hello, because I didn't send
Speaker 2: for you people, But.
Speaker 1: I understand the algorithm. It's like people don't do their
Speaker 1: You can see a post from someone that's like from
Speaker 1: a week before, and it's out of context and it
Speaker 1: makes are you posting about this? But people don't just
Speaker 1: like click on a profile to then see, oh, let
Speaker 1: me see what else that person has said. They just
Speaker 1: want to fire off a quick comment. Yep, you know yourself.
Speaker 2: Internet thugs, internet warriors coming from me on your low
Speaker 2: comments section.
Speaker 1: I've got someone thinking of ice. There's some really happy news.
Speaker 1: This first sentence in this article gave me chills as
Speaker 1: I was just reading it, even though I already knew
Speaker 1: the news. But my Mood Khalil, this is the sentence
Speaker 1: ma Mood Khalil emerged from the airport gate fist raised
Speaker 1: and smiling to a cheering crowd as he pushed his
Speaker 1: newborn baby stroller with his arm around his wife. My
Speaker 1: mood is free, y'all. He got out. I'm mad they
Speaker 1: put him through Newark International Airport because y'all know Newark.
Speaker 2: They could have they could have done they could have
Speaker 2: done the guardios, they could have done the guardious right there.
Speaker 1: Right, even if they take the JFK. But he's out,
Speaker 1: So that's some happiness. He should not have been there
Speaker 1: in the first place. But to part him with his
Speaker 1: newborn baby. I had forgotten that his wife was pregnant,
Speaker 1: extremely pregnant when this man was kidnapped.
Speaker 2: Yesh, So imagine having to experience that. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The injustice and the fact that some lawmakers are using
Speaker 2: this on their social media profiles to say, now that
Speaker 2: he's back, we can sentence him, now, we can get
Speaker 2: him in the court, now we can figure out what
Speaker 2: he did wrong. Is like, wait a minute, Now we
Speaker 2: can celebrate that he's free. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: It is wild how people sway things and twisting. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, I can't.
Speaker 1: Well, let's focus on the positive. He was with that
Speaker 1: cute baby on.
Speaker 2: Lli, I know, cute baby and his wifey and AOC
Speaker 2: was there to greet him and welcome him.
Speaker 1: No, AOC. It was a little bit awkward. I think
Speaker 1: when he rushed it, he think he was going to
Speaker 1: hug some loved ones, and he kind of pushed her
Speaker 1: out of the way.
Speaker 3: She should have.
Speaker 1: Been like, oh, please, yeah, war here, carry your bag
Speaker 1: for you. People were saying like, oh, she shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been there, it was a photo op or whatever.
Speaker 2: I think it's fine if she was there. I just
Speaker 2: don't think she should have been like the first person
Speaker 2: he hoped he got off the butt. I mean, you
Speaker 2: know it is no no, but one of the you know,
Speaker 2: one of the first few people. It's like, I think
Speaker 2: I would have waited, and once all that stuff was gone,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, hey, I just want you to know
Speaker 2: I'm here and I wanted to see you and support
Speaker 2: you and welcome you back. But I wouldn't make it
Speaker 2: about me, per se. I don't think she did. But
Speaker 2: if people are complaining to say, oh, she shouldn't have
Speaker 2: been up there in the forefront, like she still should not,
Speaker 2: it's not fair to say she shouldn't be there exactly.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think that's fair to say, like
Speaker 2: not being their period is crazy.
Speaker 3: It's crazy because is the time when you need to
Speaker 3: see that there are government people in the government who
Speaker 3: are supporting the right side, right, and they're not the
Speaker 3: right side, but the correct side, you know of like hey,
Speaker 3: like there are people fighting to make sure this doesn't
Speaker 3: continue to happen to people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and making sure her face is connected.
Speaker 1: And she has been so outspoken trying to get.
Speaker 2: Him out, Yeah, trying to end this dehumanizing rhetoric. At
Speaker 2: the end of the day, Like, I think that's what
Speaker 2: she has been all about. So for her to be there,
Speaker 2: I think was totally fine as long as there was
Speaker 2: no intention to make it all about her, which I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't get that sense at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, people are rallying and support of him, and again,
Speaker 1: like the conflict in Gaza, not the conflict is too
Speaker 1: small of a word. The genocide, the brutality that's happening
Speaker 1: in Gaza is still happening. So people like him who
Speaker 1: are speaking out, I think time for American citizens, as
Speaker 1: scary as it can be, it's almost like we have
Speaker 1: a privilege being a citizen because they are actively trying
Speaker 1: to target non US citizens or people who were here
Speaker 1: at immigration visas, target those who have spoken down against
Speaker 1: what's happening in the middle of what's happening in Palestine,
Speaker 1: in Gaza, what's been happening for Are we going on
Speaker 1: two years now? Jeez?
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, depending on how you define the conflict,
Speaker 2: this is the question.
Speaker 1: Well since October seventh. Oh, yes, you're so right, of course, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my first One of my first impressions of
Speaker 1: New York was coming here biking past the UN in
Speaker 1: twenty ten and seeing the protesters outside the UN with
Speaker 1: the Palestinian flags and being like, well, what's that about,
Speaker 1: and just not really understanding. But yeah, it continues to
Speaker 1: rage on. And yes, two years since October seventh, and
Speaker 1: many decades that they have been and brutalized in this way,
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, it's really heavy. But I think what
Speaker 1: I was just trying to say is like, as US citizens,
Speaker 1: I hope we would have some measure of protection, even
Speaker 1: more so than those who who may feel afraid for
Speaker 1: their families, lives, their lives, their ability to continue working,
Speaker 1: studying living here. So if you can, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think in this small way talking about it helps
Speaker 1: platform their message totally at a time when they're being
Speaker 1: targeted yep.
Speaker 2: And not being afraid to speak out even though they're
Speaker 2: trying to scare us straight scare scare us silent really
Speaker 2: is what they're trying to do. I mean, if you
Speaker 2: look at the potential the prospective mayoral candidate Lander in Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: New York, who was like silenced and violently like put
Speaker 2: up against the wall by like by the ice officers
Speaker 2: because because he was trying to speak up.
Speaker 1: This was a was he running from there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon Lander, He's running from there in New York City.
Speaker 1: It's too many of them. I can't keep.
Speaker 2: Tracks, y'all.
Speaker 1: It's like my knee want to text me.
Speaker 2: My niece texted me literally, she was like THEA, I
Speaker 2: think I might need your help. Is this like a
Speaker 2: multiple choice test? Is just like how do I do
Speaker 2: this for him? I said, baby, you got to rank
Speaker 2: themb Honey, that you means you got to put you
Speaker 2: got to bubble all of them in the spot. And
Speaker 2: don't bubble two numbers for one person, and don't bubble
Speaker 2: one person for the same number, two people for the
Speaker 2: same number. It's literally like the most confusing process. I
Speaker 2: feel sorry for my New York because like there are
Speaker 2: people literally who don't understand and they want to do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they wanted to do the research. They wanted to understand,
Speaker 2: but it's such a complex system and process, and there's
Speaker 2: so many players, there's so many characters to just even
Speaker 2: get familiar with. And oh my goodness, but I am
Speaker 2: very proud of.
Speaker 1: Such a terrible track record with choosing mayors. I'm saying
Speaker 1: we I don't live in New York City anymore, but.
Speaker 2: All of us were all responsible, you know, we are responsible.
Speaker 1: We're like, we're like because Paddy, who doesn't know she's
Speaker 1: a baddie and it's like with a trash We're like
Speaker 1: Hallie Bailey and these mayors are like, who's her boy?
Speaker 1: Her ex ddp ddposdd, whatever.
Speaker 2: His name was.
Speaker 1: It was like, was it his twitch name that I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of? Whatever? The manchild?
Speaker 2: Right, accurate description work.
Speaker 1: But the twenty fourth is tomorrow, that's when they'll be
Speaker 1: That's the primary, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I think New York is very is very
Speaker 2: much so desperately trying to feel relatable to the people
Speaker 2: who are in charge. We desperately want to get rid
Speaker 2: of these people who come up there and are condescending
Speaker 2: and are talking down at us and are doing politics
Speaker 2: as usual with their corruption behind the scenes. And so
Speaker 2: instead we want to pick people who look like us,
Speaker 2: sound like us, talk like us, act like us. But
Speaker 2: we focus so much, we over index on the relatability
Speaker 2: that we don't focus on what are the actual credentials,
Speaker 2: what's actually happening, what is this person actually about. And
Speaker 2: I'm not, you know, here to to talk crap about anybody,
Speaker 2: but the mayor who used to be the Brooklyn or president.
Speaker 2: I had some experience working with in the capacity of
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Borough President, and I had seen firsthand working with
Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Borough President's office how a lot of it
Speaker 2: was all talk and a lot of it was yah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah. And then when you follow through, when you
Speaker 2: follow up, there was there was no follow through. It
Speaker 2: was like all talk. Oh, we definitely could make a
Speaker 2: press release out of that, we can make it a
Speaker 2: pres event, we could take pictures, but no meaning, no
Speaker 2: actual impact, no real true commitment to goals and to
Speaker 2: a long term project plan. And so I early on
Speaker 2: was like, Hugh, I don't know about this, and I'm
Speaker 2: from Brooklyn. So of course everyone that I knew was like,
Speaker 2: what you made out Brooklyn Borough president. He got to
Speaker 2: be mayor, and then all of a sudden, all this
Speaker 2: stuff starts coming out once once this person is mayor,
Speaker 2: and people are like, get him out, he's trashed. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you were the ones who were blindly supporting because how relatable.
Speaker 2: And so we got to stop over indexing for the
Speaker 2: things that New Yorkers love, which is the real talk,
Speaker 2: straight talk, talk to me, shay, you know, no bs.
Speaker 2: But this is why so many people actually who voted
Speaker 2: for Trump also voted for AOC. Weird right, you would think, wait,
Speaker 2: what how you're gonna because people over index for straight talk,
Speaker 2: real talk, no hearing your tongue. You say it like
Speaker 2: it is. You're not about the BS. You have to
Speaker 2: you know, anti establishment. You just say what you And
Speaker 2: that is truly what I think the mistake is in
Speaker 2: New York City is we so hard over index for that.
Speaker 2: We got to cut that out, y'all. We I mean,
Speaker 2: I say, we I live in Miami now, but I'm
Speaker 2: in New Yorker today. I died. We need to stop.
Speaker 2: We need to cut that out.
Speaker 1: We love an extrovert, Like, we need to really value
Speaker 1: the quiet. I mean, we almost elected that Uma Aberdeen's trash, Like,
Speaker 1: wasn't he about to her? Ex pervert? And now I'm like,
Speaker 1: but the fact that Andrew Cuomo thinks he has has
Speaker 1: a real shot. Bill Clinton is on the stump for him,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, throw them both away.
Speaker 2: Til I was so shocked when I saw that Clinton.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, you're trying to.
Speaker 2: You Bill for people respect you Bill respected you Bill?
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 1: He's like really old? Now he's like whatever, I'll show up.
Speaker 1: How do I pivot from that to Megan and the
Speaker 1: Stallion on Love Island? I don't know if I'll even go.
Speaker 2: You know what, I have a little bit of a
Speaker 2: pivot because while you were talking about why New Yorkers
Speaker 2: are always conned by people that we vote for, I
Speaker 2: was about to bring up Ace. I felt like a
Speaker 2: a yes, because I feel like Ace is the perfect
Speaker 2: example for an analogy here, because when you start watching
Speaker 2: the show, you just love Ace. You just love Ace
Speaker 2: because you know he's so real, he's so rough, so
Speaker 2: Jenue down to Then all of a.
Speaker 1: Sudden, a couple of episodes in and you're like, we
Speaker 1: hate him for Shelley.
Speaker 2: Ace, What the hell are you doing? All these old
Speaker 2: heroier motives?
Speaker 3: Ace?
Speaker 2: What the f And this is truly a great connection
Speaker 2: to what we just talked about New York with politics,
Speaker 2: because this is how people operate. They come out the woodwork,
Speaker 2: they're all positive upfront. Then over time you start to
Speaker 2: see the ulterior motives that they had all along. Hello, Ace,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Why is he so messy? Why is what is the vindictiveness?
Speaker 4: Child?
Speaker 2: What is with this Ace behavior?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: I was so upset, Like I just saw the episode
Speaker 2: where he convinced all the boys to vote Jeremiah off.
Speaker 2: Sorry if that's a spoiler for anybody listening, but you
Speaker 2: know how.
Speaker 1: You going, how you I don't watch the votings. They
Speaker 1: annoy me. I will fast forward and just get to
Speaker 1: the good stuff. So I think I missed all of that,
Speaker 1: But was it, teacher to go back and watch it?
Speaker 2: You should? And honestly, what I do is I.
Speaker 1: Just nater Jeremiah too. He was such a dick.
Speaker 2: Okay, So literally America voted and they basically put the
Speaker 2: three girls and the three boys who had the least
Speaker 2: votes from America up on the front of the fire
Speaker 2: pit whatever. And so then there were six people, three girls,
Speaker 2: three guys, and the rest of the cast members who
Speaker 2: were safe had to vote off one girl, one guy.
Speaker 2: Girls had to vote off one girl, and the guys
Speaker 2: had to vote off one guy. So literally, earlier in
Speaker 2: the episode, you see Ace moving to Nick and to Austin,
Speaker 2: and so all his boys like, oh, you guys, you
Speaker 2: see how Jeremiah was all love bombinghood and now he's
Speaker 2: doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: Now he's doing this.
Speaker 2: You see da da da, And he was like working
Speaker 2: his little influence on them. And so when the vote happened,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I think I can speak for everyone
Speaker 2: who watches the show, and I say, we all thought
Speaker 2: Austin was going his ass home. Austin has no business
Speaker 2: in the house. Don't nobody like him, don't nobody like him,
Speaker 2: don't know about it.
Speaker 1: Before the despicable display during the work challenge with Megan
Speaker 1: thee Stallion, I hate him more after the way he
Speaker 1: is treating Homegirl Dominican homegirl. What's her name?
Speaker 2: Andrena, Well, there's two Amaya with a little bit of
Speaker 2: a little bit of Andrea was raised in Spain, but
Speaker 2: she's from the win Public. Okay, she was Spain, lives
Speaker 2: in Jersey. Yeah, she's She's from a lot of places.
Speaker 2: She said, I live in New Jersey, but I'm Dominican,
Speaker 2: but my family from but I was raised in Spain,
Speaker 2: so all the oldest places. But but yeah, I think
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Austin gives me such the eck. You know his family
Speaker 1: and he's from Michigan. I just can't take it.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, if there was even one person who
Speaker 2: was interested in Austin, actually I would have been fine.
Speaker 2: But Amaya, she's just trying to pretend she's interested in
Speaker 2: Austin because she needs to be safe. She needs a
Speaker 2: way to stay on this damn I villa. She doesn't
Speaker 2: have one. She doesn't have one prospect, so if she
Speaker 2: doesn't make a prospect, she's out the villa. So she
Speaker 2: had to pretend she likes Austin. Austin doesn't like her.
Speaker 2: Austin doesn't like anyone, So send his ass home. Oh no, no,
Speaker 2: they send Jeremiah home, even though he genuinely was into
Speaker 2: Hoodah tried with Iris but then she was like, nah boo,
Speaker 2: I feel like we're platonic. And then now he's into
Speaker 2: Andrena They just jealous that he's with Andrena, so they
Speaker 2: kicked his ass out, and I'm just like, how are
Speaker 2: you gonna tell me that it's because he didn't actually
Speaker 2: tried with women when he tried with three women. And
Speaker 2: not only that, but Tay. I love Taylor, but like,
Speaker 2: what woman besides the laundria the Taylor tried to get
Speaker 2: with Amen exploring who is he? Exploring way why does
Speaker 2: he get to stay? Why he's safe in the village?
Speaker 1: Can we just do like a live watch Sash, like,
Speaker 1: who are you watching leve Islin.
Speaker 2: With my boyfriend?
Speaker 1: Is he into it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But I forced I twisted his arm.
Speaker 1: See, I only want to be watching it with people
Speaker 1: like you, and I don't have any people like you
Speaker 1: in my immediate vicinity. And I mean, I know, watch
Speaker 1: Love Island with us?
Speaker 3: Chris, come on, come on, I gotta tell you.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 3: I know what you two are talking about, because because
Speaker 3: I went down to La to visit my family. Was
Speaker 3: a baby shower going on from a brother and then
Speaker 3: it was Father's Day and my mom was I walk
Speaker 3: in and she's watching Love Island. I didn't know what
Speaker 3: this was. I was like, you're watching was it? When
Speaker 3: I think it was Love is Blind. I was like,
Speaker 3: love is Blind or something. I was one of the
Speaker 3: love shows. No, it's Love Island. And I'm like, what
Speaker 3: are you watch it? And so she was like, you
Speaker 3: want to watch it with me? I was like, not really,
Speaker 3: but I was. I was like, I don't want to
Speaker 3: be mean, so you know what here it.
Speaker 1: Was a bunch of girls with a bikini, So you said.
Speaker 3: I mean, it can't be all bad. So I sat
Speaker 3: down and I watched it. It was like it was
Speaker 3: a pretty ten episode. I was like, okay, whatever, you know.
Speaker 3: She was. She was happy. I decided to spend time there.
Speaker 3: But then the next day another episode came on. I'm like,
Speaker 3: this is on again. She's like, I'm like, I thought
Speaker 3: this was like a what's a week? Show? Houses on
Speaker 3: every day every day? I said.
Speaker 1: The track, film.
Speaker 2: Crew, that film crew, and those editors they were.
Speaker 3: They were working those people their death in the editing.
Speaker 2: Room, overnight, post edit, overnight posts.
Speaker 3: Yes is wild. And so I sit down and this
Speaker 3: is one where there's like some lumberjack challenge and I'm
Speaker 3: like they start they started grinding. I was like, hold up,
Speaker 3: I'm not watching this with you. I gotta leave.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's a awkward.
Speaker 1: I'm not watching.
Speaker 3: I cannot be in this room.
Speaker 2: Soft point, I said, soft point, let's call it.
Speaker 1: It's bad.
Speaker 3: I said, you nasty for watching this. I'm out.
Speaker 1: I couldn't be on. That's why I could have be
Speaker 1: on Like TV TV, it has to be on. Peacock
Speaker 1: has to be on the streamer right.
Speaker 2: Let your fama reminisce she was a bad.
Speaker 3: I don't want to we're not even talking about that.
Speaker 3: I'm not there. I don't want to think about that.
Speaker 3: We don't need to.
Speaker 1: We watched The Megan thee Stallion and one y'all love this.
Speaker 1: The day my dad got out of the hospital. I
Speaker 1: turned that on. I was like, we're gonna get Magian food.
Speaker 1: We're going to watch The Megan thee Stallion. It was
Speaker 1: so good. Meg.
Speaker 2: First of all, I don't love her personality.
Speaker 1: She's faddy, unreal, doesn't make sense, and she's talented, but that's,
Speaker 1: you know, the first and foremost.
Speaker 3: I didn't know she was. I may myself have to
Speaker 3: go cue that episode just to understand what you were
Speaker 3: talking about and then go back and see what was going.
Speaker 1: On with anthropological research.
Speaker 2: Just for research purposes for sure, for just research. But
Speaker 2: Megan was is so natural and so genuine. You know,
Speaker 2: there's so many people that come on and it's forced
Speaker 2: and it's fake. Meg is actually a fan of the show.
Speaker 2: She knew the details intimately, and yeah, she was there
Speaker 2: to promote. She was there to promote a little bit
Speaker 2: bathing suit line. But so what she did it in
Speaker 2: a very natural, genuine way, mad respect. I love that episode.
Speaker 2: I one hundred percent enjoyed it. And she added a
Speaker 2: lot of fun and flared to that episode.
Speaker 1: So I love the marketing tie in. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: this is lovely. Is she a fan? But she has
Speaker 1: a swimsuit line coming out? Will I ever wear it?
Speaker 1: Maybe the one with like the mad underboob, like the
Speaker 1: one the one that the kind of witchy one was wearing.
Speaker 2: She she is witchy. She is witchy, like she's brewied.
Speaker 1: She pour in a big old yeah, like I feel
Speaker 1: like she's got crystals under her boots at all times,
Speaker 1: and probably some tarot cards. I bet she does everyone's
Speaker 1: readings and like kind of white girl dreads. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: got scared one time, but they're not actually dread it's
Speaker 1: just a little braids. She was doing. But she does braids.
Speaker 2: She does braids. I will tell you though, she is
Speaker 2: the one that I am most impressed with in terms
Speaker 2: of her maturity level for the age of twenty five.
Speaker 2: I mean the way that she carries.
Speaker 1: Herself away pretty old island. No, is she twenty five.
Speaker 2: I just assume she's twenty five. But I feel like
Speaker 2: for their age, being in your twenties, I don't. I
Speaker 2: just feel like they're all so immature. I mean, Hudda
Speaker 2: is the queen of saying I'm so mature. I'm a
Speaker 2: girl's girl, and she's immature and not a girl's girl,
Speaker 2: so it's crazy. But then you have Sierra, who genuinely
Speaker 2: is a girl's girl. She's very mature. She's like, tries
Speaker 2: very hard to be logical and not emotional, although recently
Speaker 2: she's been very emotional because she sees that Nick is
Speaker 2: interested in Andrena, so she's getting a little jealous.
Speaker 1: But I just mean, I'm not mad at her, but that.
Speaker 2: It's a lot. I think that she she started to
Speaker 2: deal with like a little bit of yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure. But anyway, I think she's very mature, Like
Speaker 2: when I hear how she approaches some of the conversations
Speaker 2: and how she addresses conflict. I always like, okay, girl,
Speaker 2: wives beyond your years, and Ace was giving me that
Speaker 2: a little bit at the beginning, but now I can't
Speaker 2: stay an Ace.
Speaker 1: He is like, first of all, Shelley reminds me so
Speaker 1: much of Halle Bailey, just in her little like her
Speaker 1: Disney Princess looks like I just like put her in
Speaker 1: Universal Studio. She can play Aeriel all day every day.
Speaker 1: She is just adorable. But then Ace is giving that
Speaker 1: like that not good enough for her, Like has some
Speaker 1: funny jokes and some quirks, and it makes me sick
Speaker 1: to see them get like getting closer together. Now I've
Speaker 1: missed huge chunks of the show because my love isoland.
Speaker 1: Routine is usually to watch the recap and then skip
Speaker 1: through the middle until I get to the end and
Speaker 1: watch the last like ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Because nothing is happening.
Speaker 2: Just skip ahead, nothing happening. So there's a lot of
Speaker 2: long pot it was good.
Speaker 1: I'll go back and watch it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of long pauses, and it's a reality show,
Speaker 2: so like oftentimes it'll be like and so the girl
Speaker 2: that I choose is thirty seconds later. Yes, right, so
Speaker 2: just fast forward. I just fast forward, fast forward, fastward
Speaker 2: until I see them talking, and then I'll go back
Speaker 2: ten seconds and watch. So I just skip all the
Speaker 2: pauses and bread so I'm like, I got time for this.
Speaker 1: This is so stupid.
Speaker 2: This is such a waste.
Speaker 1: Hey, ba fam, We're gonna take a quick break, pay
Speaker 1: some bills, and we'll be right back. All right, ba Fam,
Speaker 1: We're back. By the way, Nelly, I'm gonna be in Miami, Miami,
Speaker 1: which you're never there. I feel like, even though you.
Speaker 2: Les that's what I was about to say, I said,
Speaker 2: what dates girl? You know, because I'm always I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Be there for three days by myself because I'm speaking
Speaker 1: at Color Calm. It's just.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 1: Be very excited. I'm get to do a panel on
Speaker 1: podcasting and I get to do it with one of
Speaker 1: my I forget who the third panelist is. One of
Speaker 1: them is Ayusha Roscoe from NPR. I am such a fan.
Speaker 1: I love her so much. I'm gonna have to not
Speaker 1: be weird.
Speaker 3: Because I know a little weird. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's so much like to hear her voice on NPR.
Speaker 1: I will get it. I was not an NPR kid
Speaker 1: growing up. My parents didn't play that in the car.
Speaker 1: I didn't even be either.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm an NPR adult. I mean I was
Speaker 2: an NPR college kid. But growing up in.
Speaker 1: College, people made me feel dumb, like dumb for not
Speaker 1: knowing what NPR was, like not knowing this shit. I
Speaker 1: could tell you what NPR was, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: there was a local station, and like there is is
Speaker 1: like all things considered and like you know, this American
Speaker 1: life and all that that was not my I was
Speaker 1: third ninety four.
Speaker 2: Up is July twenty fifth in Miami. I'm home that weekend.
Speaker 1: You didn't even wait for me to tell you.
Speaker 2: You was talking and I was looking it up. I
Speaker 2: was looking it up.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be here, Okay, Yes, I'll be home. So
Speaker 2: you got to come hang with me.
Speaker 1: Yes, come by the pool. We'll got on Megan thee stallion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a real summer swimwear.
Speaker 2: Yes, honey, wear it.
Speaker 1: I'll just put it on top of my one.
Speaker 2: Yeh. We'll get the fine blue beach chairs that come.
Speaker 2: You know, when you stay at the hotel, you get
Speaker 2: the nice little beach access the ip.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm excited. I was gonna bring the children, but
Speaker 1: I was like, nah, don't do a.
Speaker 2: Girl, don't do it.
Speaker 3: It was a great decision right there, summer.
Speaker 2: No, no South Beach. It's not for the kids.
Speaker 1: It's not the it's hot, it's you know, adults and hot.
Speaker 1: H A WTT and Chris. I mean, you're here, so
Speaker 1: I guess I should. Also, you want to come to
Speaker 1: my Miami.
Speaker 3: You would invite me to be your videographer.
Speaker 2: Social media.
Speaker 1: You're always looking for at excuse to get out, honey,
Speaker 1: come travel.
Speaker 2: The whole trip is a business, right off. If you
Speaker 2: come to support with the podcast, with the social media promo,
Speaker 2: this is true.
Speaker 3: And maybe said she's paying for my flight too, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll be there.
Speaker 1: I need some girl time. You can stay there. I'm
Speaker 1: definitely not paying for that. It's gorobably be an expensive flight.
Speaker 2: But I was to say, now you San Francisco to Miami.
Speaker 2: They don't really have a corner because I do that
Speaker 2: flight quite a lot. They don't have any during the day,
Speaker 2: so you would have to fly red eye or leave
Speaker 2: super early in the morning, like at five six am.
Speaker 2: It's very annoying. It's very annoy because sometimes I'm done
Speaker 2: with work at like three or four pm Pacific time,
Speaker 2: and I'll be like, oh, let me get the next
Speaker 2: flight outs not till midnight, and I'm like, why the hell? Why,
Speaker 2: what the hell is going to Miami?
Speaker 3: Mayday's gonna put me in business class. I have a
Speaker 3: little pod to sleep in. You know, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I told you my credit card. That should
Speaker 1: tell you I should not be paying for for Beyonce tickets.
Speaker 2: I don't care wait one of the dates for Beyonce
Speaker 2: and Atlanta Mandy, because I'm going to go to the
Speaker 2: one in Houston opening night Saturday this weekend coming.
Speaker 1: She's bringing out the goodies. Now. Now I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: Paris in London. I saw her in London. I love
Speaker 1: that show so much. I don't know. People say that
Speaker 1: she loves London more than America. I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: don't have men.
Speaker 2: You can't live in more than Houston, her own hometown, I.
Speaker 1: Know, But like she was doing I guess, different songs.
Speaker 1: And then in Paris though, Miley came out, Miley and
Speaker 1: j Z and Jays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was crazy. You saw the crowd in that.
Speaker 1: Man. Kendrick I'm rooting for Kendrick to come out.
Speaker 3: Where is he right now? It's going to be lining up,
Speaker 3: the location is going to be lining up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's move.
Speaker 2: Let's see. We got to ask matched up their their
Speaker 2: towards schedules.
Speaker 1: But the way I am ready to relive it and
Speaker 1: London was cold and rainy and I had a good time.
Speaker 1: It was it was what it was, But I just
Speaker 1: was like, I really want to look to my left
Speaker 1: into my right and see nothing but like beautiful black
Speaker 1: girls from Atlanta. Like I just know the vibes are
Speaker 1: going to be on one hundred and it's going to
Speaker 1: everything I need. And I wouldn't be alone, you know
Speaker 1: what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, You won't absolutely not. It's never never, it's gonna
Speaker 2: feel like that. I went to Usher in Atlanta and
Speaker 2: it was incredible. But but in which my homegirls in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: she works at the CDC, So every time I'm in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: I'll go hang out with her. But this time, my
Speaker 2: knees had begged me, begged me, beg me to do
Speaker 2: it in Houston opening night, and she just finished paying
Speaker 2: off her student loans. So I got me and her tickets.
Speaker 2: I got her tickets as a gift for her celebrating
Speaker 2: paying off her student loans, and so so I was like,
Speaker 2: all right, she wants Houston. We're gonna do Houston Opening
Speaker 2: Night Saturday, which is this weekend.
Speaker 1: Coming I'm gonna before okay.
Speaker 2: It's before I land. It's this Saturday coming up.
Speaker 1: I am so I hope that out fit.
Speaker 2: I got my cowboy boots in the mail, and I
Speaker 2: got my belt, which I got literally for like twelve
Speaker 2: dollars using my points. And then bell, I have my belt,
Speaker 2: a belt with the belt with the ut Austin.
Speaker 1: You're going to be okay with the Longhorns on it.
Speaker 2: And then I got nam like you already know, I
Speaker 2: got the ten of denim tube top with the DNMG
Speaker 2: and with the girl. It will be on my Instagram.
Speaker 2: It will be on my Instagram. I'll repeat all day.
Speaker 1: Happy for you.
Speaker 2: I'm excited. If you want to get if you want
Speaker 2: to do it three times, you want to come this
Speaker 2: weekend to Houston, girl, No no, no, no, no, you know,
Speaker 2: just more joy. You know, it's just more joy in
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 1: That's all good for good.
Speaker 3: I have a Google before you, Sorry to tell you.
Speaker 3: Sorry perplexity that's why I've been googling that Kendrick is
Speaker 3: going to be in uh in Europe all of July.
Speaker 2: Oh dang, so it's not going.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, it would be someone else, maybe Miley, which
Speaker 1: I'm not a fa Shaboozy. I would love Shaboozie. Or
Speaker 1: it might be Shaboozy, right, that would be lit. I
Speaker 1: love Sweet Honey Bucking. Oh my god. I made my
Speaker 1: dad listen to the whole Cowboy Carter album on the
Speaker 1: way home from the hospital because he he told me
Speaker 1: to turn my GPS off because he knew.
Speaker 2: The album is spicy. You guys, him listening to that
Speaker 2: it is. She got some naughty live girls. She worked
Speaker 2: it into a country album, but it's a lot of nasty.
Speaker 1: I think it's a nasty We didn't get through the
Speaker 1: whole we listened to like the first five tracks. I
Speaker 1: might have skipped like a couple in the middle. I yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think it's very spicy.
Speaker 2: But see, when you really listen between the lines, you're like.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is because she got.
Speaker 2: Some mature themes. She got some mature themes and some
Speaker 2: sensual undertones, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Do you have a Beyonce figure? Like, who's your Beyonce?
Speaker 1: Who would you like?
Speaker 3: Pay?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I like music, like I got nobody I care.
Speaker 2: About like that, Like you're not a concert guy or
Speaker 2: you just don't know how many music artists that's your person.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like all kinds of music, but I'm not
Speaker 3: like you got anybody. I'm like, oh, I gotta go
Speaker 3: see them. I'm not a concert person. Does that mean?
Speaker 3: But I do love live music, so it's kind of weird.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really make sense.
Speaker 1: I don't trust people are well.
Speaker 2: I think a concert is different from live music in
Speaker 2: terms of like a live music experience usually for me
Speaker 2: is much more intimate and smaller. Like live music, I
Speaker 2: feel like I can actually see the instruments like that
Speaker 2: within like versus a concert. For me, it kind of
Speaker 2: takes away the live music feeling of it. It's more
Speaker 2: of an experience rather than like a live music spectacle.
Speaker 1: It's art, yes, yes, theater.
Speaker 2: It's theater.
Speaker 1: It's especially acrobatics.
Speaker 2: It's acrobatics. It's that kind of thing. It's not more
Speaker 2: circusolate than it is like a live music thing. Because
Speaker 2: I do love live music in smaller settings. I love that,
Speaker 2: but concerts, but I feel you.
Speaker 1: I'll take it all. But yeah, I saw her from
Speaker 1: the floor in London, on the floor to the east,
Speaker 1: so I saw one very specific viewpoint. I am just
Speaker 1: excited to be dead center. Also, the screen stopped working
Speaker 1: during this one dance routine where she had like, no
Speaker 1: spoilers for you, Nelly, but anyway, and I want to
Speaker 1: see it up close.
Speaker 2: So okay, I'm not mad at you go.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get my one fifty stub Hub credit
Speaker 1: and let's take a quick break. We're going to come
Speaker 1: back with Brown Boost bron break and then we go
Speaker 1: and wrap but on up. So we'll do yeah, a
Speaker 1: little quake, A little A little quake, look quake, quick break, quake.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back via fam all right, v A fan,
Speaker 1: we are back. We're gonna do our brown Boost Brown
Speaker 1: Break at the Brown table. And I have vetted Chris's
Speaker 1: boost or break this week, y'all, so I know it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be trash.
Speaker 3: Had did you tell them what you vetoed one that
Speaker 3: I was very I'm gonna say it. Anyways, My up
Speaker 3: from the birth of my of my nephew, Mandy was
Speaker 3: like veto. Nobody cares about this child.
Speaker 1: Even the birth went for a baby shower. Come on,
Speaker 1: and he's not even born yet.
Speaker 3: Wow, I'm gonna I'm gonna save this.
Speaker 2: Think the birth of your baby nephews is important news, Chris,
Speaker 2: very sweet news.
Speaker 1: It is very sweet.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna save this older. Yeah, it is like you.
Speaker 2: You see how much you love Auntie Mandy? Right, let
Speaker 2: me tell you what she did before you were born.
Speaker 3: She was she usual number one. Hate her from day zero?
Speaker 1: What you did come up with? But I did push
Speaker 1: you to come up with a juicy or boost, and
Speaker 1: you came up with one.
Speaker 3: You did?
Speaker 1: You? Did?
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 3: You want to go ahead and not get out?
Speaker 1: Go for sure makes diamonds, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So if you just withstand the Mandy money pressure for
Speaker 1: a little bit longer, you will becomes person.
Speaker 3: Yeah let's go with that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Anyways, my boost for this week is uh I had
Speaker 3: a friend who does these they call them like sprints.
Speaker 3: You see them a lot out here with the tech
Speaker 3: company tech founders where they kind of sit down for
Speaker 3: this concentrated time to think through ideas that they have
Speaker 3: with It's like a business idea, I change what you're doing,
Speaker 3: and she even modified it for like, if you want
Speaker 3: to make big life changes, it's a way of sitting down,
Speaker 3: thinking through your life and the things that you value
Speaker 3: and that makes sense to you and thinking about it
Speaker 3: a very critical eye and coming up with something at
Speaker 3: the end of the time. And so we spent a
Speaker 3: whole day doing this. We started at like we started
Speaker 3: at ten in the morning and we went to about
Speaker 3: four and the Africa.
Speaker 1: Your friend coming up with it on their own.
Speaker 3: No, No, she does this for a living, so she
Speaker 3: does a lot of facilitation of these for companies, for startups,
Speaker 3: for founders and things like that. I met her through
Speaker 3: Burna because Berna was there doing this with us. It
Speaker 3: was me, Berna and b was there and a couple.
Speaker 1: Other friends whatever you want.
Speaker 3: I know. It's it's it's like it's like it's like
Speaker 3: it's like your credit card parks. This is the San
Speaker 3: Francisco perk. I get to hang out with Berna and uh.
Speaker 3: It was really interesting because like basically she gave us
Speaker 3: like a little bit of homework before the event started,
Speaker 3: before the day and she's like, Okay, I want you
Speaker 3: to sit down and map out your life and any
Speaker 3: important milestone so other it's like personal career wise, whatever
Speaker 3: it may be, and plotted on a timeline, and she
Speaker 3: said some link to this thing is called a mirror board.
Speaker 3: And it's basically like almost like a if you can
Speaker 3: imagine like a big workspace where you can build like
Speaker 3: sheets and forms things like that, and you can like
Speaker 3: type and work directly in it. And so she gave
Speaker 3: us all these pre made things.
Speaker 1: Like a kind of thing.
Speaker 3: It sounds like no shot, not notion, because it's more
Speaker 3: free flowing. It's like you have a big like what
Speaker 3: do they call it, like a grid paper? She had
Speaker 3: a grid paper, but it like you can move around
Speaker 3: and add things to and you can zoom in, zoom out,
Speaker 3: and if they use for presentations and for working through
Speaker 3: ideas and mapping things out. And so you have this
Speaker 3: timeline and you have like a little post notes you
Speaker 3: can put on there and then type onto it, and
Speaker 3: then you can like link things together. And so you
Speaker 3: start off with like what was this big like what
Speaker 3: are the things in your life? Were there or decisions
Speaker 3: you made that you that kind of shaped where you
Speaker 3: are now or could have forked off and gone somewhere else,
Speaker 3: and you have to sit there and think through all
Speaker 3: of this, and then you have to put down what
Speaker 3: did you do? And then if you what if you
Speaker 3: hadn't have chosen this, what would you have done? What
Speaker 3: would have life done look like? Or what how did
Speaker 3: you feel when you made those decisions? Before, during, and after.
Speaker 3: You have to do that for your old timeline, and
Speaker 3: it really makes you reflect on all the decisions you
Speaker 3: made and like why, Like why did you make that decision?
Speaker 3: And did you feel good about it? And the things
Speaker 3: you didn't feel good about. It kind of gives you
Speaker 3: insight into like, oh I didn't I actually didn't end
Speaker 3: up liking this. Maybe I took something from it, But
Speaker 3: it helps you as you plan now to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: I don't want to do that again, or I really
Speaker 3: like this thing. And it was such a cool thought
Speaker 3: process because when we came together the next day we
Speaker 3: started kind of working on that a little bit more.
Speaker 3: And then from there what you do is you start
Speaker 3: thinking about like why do you want to make a change,
Speaker 3: and right, no, that's the reasons why. And then if
Speaker 3: you didn't make this change, what would you feel like
Speaker 3: how would your life be if you just didn't do anything,
Speaker 3: and you kind of keep diving into things piece by piece,
Speaker 3: and at the end of all this, to make a
Speaker 3: long story short, you end up with these things you
Speaker 3: take from each of these pages. So there's like a
Speaker 3: little some of the sheets have like a little box
Speaker 3: where it's like, Okay, what do you what was like
Speaker 3: the biggest thing you took away from this thing? So
Speaker 3: you go through and you vote. You have little dots,
Speaker 3: little stickers, you can digital stickers you can place on
Speaker 3: all the responses you gave through this whole long process,
Speaker 3: and then you look through the ones you voted for.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, this was like this was meaningful to me,
Speaker 3: and then you move that down to this bigger worksheet
Speaker 3: and it builds almost kind of like a mad libs
Speaker 3: Like for me, it was like I really enjoy like
Speaker 3: video production, even though I'm thinking like I like, you know,
Speaker 3: making podcasts and stuff like this, but I really enjoy
Speaker 3: making things and being behind the scenes with a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff. And it's like, what do what do you value?
Speaker 3: And it was like, oh, I really enjoy working with
Speaker 3: other people and it kind of gave me thoughts, like
Speaker 3: insights into things that I didn't even think about. And
Speaker 3: maybe like, oh, I need to prioritize working with other
Speaker 3: people and not just working by myself all the time.
Speaker 3: I need to work on or focus on maybe trying
Speaker 3: out doing more behind the scenes production because that seems
Speaker 3: to be something that is enjoyable to me and it
Speaker 3: really gives you something to work with. And this is
Speaker 3: just step one. It's like stage one and then we're
Speaker 3: going to all get together another day and work on
Speaker 3: what comes after this, which is where you start brainstorming
Speaker 3: ideas from what you've learned about yourself. No, she's doing
Speaker 3: it for free. She charges other people for this, but
Speaker 3: because we're all friends, she's doing this for free for us,
Speaker 3: very kindly giving up her time for this.
Speaker 1: But I bet it was better coming from yourself. Ellah,
Speaker 1: you love people, You already pay to go to coworking spaces,
Speaker 1: and you're a you're a gizmo gadget dude. That sounds
Speaker 1: really great. It's also like carving out the time to
Speaker 1: reflect is just something that it never feels like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of time for, but it is so nice
Speaker 1: that you got to do it and that you've spent
Speaker 1: time and that it was a group activity.
Speaker 2: Yep, and people don't put that on the to do list.
Speaker 2: People don't put that on the to do list. Like
Speaker 2: you're constantly like an energizer bunny, like you go go, go, go, go,
Speaker 2: complete the next task, check the check that box, check
Speaker 2: that box. Reflection doesn't feel like one of those things
Speaker 2: that gives you a sense of like you know that
Speaker 2: you were actually productive. And so I think that's why
Speaker 2: it's you have to force yourself to be in spaces
Speaker 2: and experiences like that to make room for reflection, because
Speaker 2: I feel like that's so important, especially when you have
Speaker 2: a business, because you're just holding the weeds, doing the
Speaker 2: go to go every day. And yeah, I think that's
Speaker 2: that sounds amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like you just don't make time for this,
Speaker 3: and it was and you have the pressure of being
Speaker 3: around other people, so you got to do it. If
Speaker 3: I was doing this by myself, I probably want to
Speaker 3: stop fifteen times and gone and done something else, picked
Speaker 3: up my phone. But you're like you're in an environment
Speaker 3: where everyone's doing it, We're all focused, we all want
Speaker 3: to hit the same endpoint when we're done with this.
Speaker 3: And uh, yeah, I feel very fortunate to you know,
Speaker 3: may friends with someone who would do this and facilitate
Speaker 3: this and help us all kind of kind of figure
Speaker 3: it out, you know at the you know, in your
Speaker 3: thirties man, basically forty like me. You know, when you
Speaker 3: get to this point in life, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 3: need to it's good to reflect. You don't have to
Speaker 3: be doing the same thing forever.
Speaker 1: Forty this week, Oh, who does my husband happy birthday?
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, younger, mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure about for about five.
Speaker 1: Minutes days younger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris, I feel like the one thing that you
Speaker 2: said that really stuck with me about how cool that
Speaker 2: experiences is that you can do it for anything. It's
Speaker 2: not just like a work thing. It's like if you
Speaker 2: have a personal issue that you're dealing with, a work issue,
Speaker 2: a relationship issue, like if any aspect of your life
Speaker 2: you can kind of workshop through in this way. And
Speaker 2: maybe this person over here is working on their business,
Speaker 2: you're working on something personal. Somebody over there is working
Speaker 2: to a relationship issue. And it's so cool that that
Speaker 2: framework allows you to work through pretty much anything that
Speaker 2: you want to reflect on. So I like that a lot.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's really smart for her in terms
Speaker 2: of versatility for her business, for the model that she
Speaker 2: can offer it in a lot of different settings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's exactly what it was like.
Speaker 1: You could give her. I was going to say, did
Speaker 1: she teach it online? Does she like do tips on
Speaker 1: ig or something? Does she have a social media handle
Speaker 1: you can shout out?
Speaker 3: Oh, I think I can. Let me look it up,
Speaker 3: so I know she does this for a lot of
Speaker 3: companies out here in the Bay Area. Her name is
Speaker 3: Kristen shout out to her and her husband run a
Speaker 3: restaurant called Swopshop. It's a Filipino restaurant out.
Speaker 1: Here, and she's got a restaurant.
Speaker 3: Okay, and they got a restaurant. But I'll find I'll
Speaker 3: find her handle it out, I'll share the people that
Speaker 3: connect with her. But we were telling her like, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is a great idea. You definitely should be doing
Speaker 3: this more because she's also this is her way of
Speaker 3: like molding it for individuals instead of companies to see
Speaker 3: if there's like a way to do it that makes
Speaker 3: sense and kind of works. Well.
Speaker 1: I would love to talk to her, Yeah, because I'm
Speaker 1: doing this VIP coaching one on one now and I'm
Speaker 1: so happy that I started doing it. It's just one
Speaker 1: person for twelve weeks, well twelve sessions, and I don't
Speaker 1: have And they've been asking like, is there a framework?
Speaker 1: Is there such and such? But I mean, I create
Speaker 1: it on the go for each person. But there's so
Speaker 1: much introspection like baked in side by side thought work
Speaker 1: where it's just like asking, leading questions and thought exercises
Speaker 1: that that I don't have a particular framework. I just
Speaker 1: know that it's very helpful. But it's cool that she's
Speaker 1: come up with one, So I want to I want
Speaker 1: to learn more.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'll get all there for information together and
Speaker 3: I'll send it over to you.
Speaker 1: Now do we agree, ba fam that we got more
Speaker 1: value out of that boost then the sole the only boost.
Speaker 1: I mean, we love, we love a new black king
Speaker 1: being born into the world, but didn't.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmmm, you know, go and spin to keep spinning it.
Speaker 1: We learned a lot. Also, congratulations to your brother and sister.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I want another baby. It's really sick. It's sickening,
Speaker 1: yan Ellie. I want you to go last because I
Speaker 1: know yours is going to be happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm going to do a break, all right,
Speaker 2: go for it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do a break, Like I said, I
Speaker 1: was in Atlanta recently and one of the stories that
Speaker 1: I haven't really talked about, but it's been in the news,
Speaker 1: especially because she's from Atlanta, is Adrianna Smith, which fam
Speaker 1: If you've heard this name, maybe it sounds familiar to you.
Speaker 1: This has been an ongoing story in the news for
Speaker 1: months because this poor woman who's in her thirties was
Speaker 1: declared brain dead. And a lot of people start the
Speaker 1: story by talking about the fact that she which is true.
Speaker 1: She has been declared brain dead but kept on kept
Speaker 1: on life support because the reproductive laws were over or
Speaker 1: if Rover Wade was overturned, and in Georgia, almost immediately
Speaker 1: it triggered a new piece of legislation that reduced the
Speaker 1: window for abortion to like six weeks. And I believe
Speaker 1: she was nine weeks pregnant when she became brain dead.
Speaker 1: But I was reading and what happened last week is
Speaker 1: that the baby was delivered, and the baby was delivered prematurely.
Speaker 1: It was like one point something pounds. We don't know
Speaker 1: if he's going to survive. They gave him a name
Speaker 1: of Chance, And there's so much wrong with that story
Speaker 1: in so many ways, And I just as a mother
Speaker 1: there's it's it's heartbreaking that she wasn't able to, you know,
Speaker 1: fulfill that part of her life. She already had a
Speaker 1: son as well, it's heartbreaking that he's left without a mom.
Speaker 1: But the part of her story that really was getting
Speaker 1: to me as I read more about her was that
Speaker 1: what actually caused her to become brain dead declared brain dead,
Speaker 1: is that she went to the hospital with severe headaches
Speaker 1: and they pretty much brushed it off. Now, if you've
Speaker 1: been pregnant and you've gone to the hospital as a
Speaker 1: pregnant person, and there's actually jokes about this, like in
Speaker 1: pop culture, in like on medical TV shows that I've seen,
Speaker 1: where it's like, okay, incoming patient to the er, they're pregnant,
Speaker 1: kick them up to labor and delivery. I myself had
Speaker 1: cracked a rib from being really sick. I cracked a
Speaker 1: rib from coughing when I was pregnant with my second baby.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing you can do for a pregnant lady
Speaker 1: with a cracked rib. I can't get an X ray,
Speaker 1: there's no painkillers I can take. It's like, but they'll
Speaker 1: like immediately kick you up to LL and D before
Speaker 1: really looking at you. And I don't even think in
Speaker 1: this case she was actually kicked to L and D.
Speaker 1: She was just given really nothing. They were like, you're fine,
Speaker 1: go home, take some til and all. Well, it turns
Speaker 1: out she had several brain clots, blood clots in her brain,
Speaker 1: and so she suffered a stroke and her poor husband
Speaker 1: woke up to her in the throes of you know,
Speaker 1: having one of these blood clots that ruptured, and that's
Speaker 1: how she ended up on life support in the first place.
Speaker 1: And we talk a lot about we talk a lot
Speaker 1: about reproductive rights and how women of color are going
Speaker 1: to become or largely will become the victims of the
Speaker 1: lack of reproductive health care access in the weight in
Speaker 1: the wake of Robi Wade being overturned. But I also
Speaker 1: just think it underlines just in general, in healthcare, women
Speaker 1: and women of color especially are not always taken seriously
Speaker 1: and are you know, and that we are required. It
Speaker 1: requires so much of us to like advocate and push
Speaker 1: for the care that we deserve. And sometimes you're just
Speaker 1: tired of fighting and sometimes you don't want to have
Speaker 1: to do that for yourself. And it's not fair and
Speaker 1: it's not right, but it's just so heartbreaking that she
Speaker 1: tried to do the right thing and advocate for herself,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't enough, and she was still sent home,
Speaker 1: and then her body was used as if it were
Speaker 1: a machine, as if it was you know, as if
Speaker 1: she was less than human, just because some old white
Speaker 1: dudes decided for her, decided.
Speaker 2: For her, not her husband, not her mother, not her son,
Speaker 2: not her family, not.
Speaker 1: Her husband who already had to grieve his wife and
Speaker 1: his now son without his mother, but now has to
Speaker 1: worry for the life of his newborn son, who may
Speaker 1: or may not make it because he was kept alive
Speaker 1: in a woman's body who was dead, effectively dead. So
Speaker 1: my heart just goes out to Adriana Smith and her family.
Speaker 1: I also want to someone had asked me to, you know,
Speaker 1: what happened into the medical bills? Who pays who pays
Speaker 1: the medical bills for keeping this woman alive for months
Speaker 1: and months and now her newborn? And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the answer to that is. But
Speaker 1: if it's not the State of Georgia, or I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, if it's not her family's insurance, even
Speaker 1: insurance has its limits, you know, So if they have
Speaker 1: a gofund me or they have any other way you
Speaker 1: can support the family. I'll post that in the show notes.
Speaker 1: We'll look it up. But I just wanted to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope. I just hope she's resting in peace now.
Speaker 1: I hope that she gets to go in peace.
Speaker 2: Fine, right, And I would definitely support that GoFundMe girl,
Speaker 2: I would. And if anybody listening, if you haven't heard
Speaker 2: the episode that Mandy did with doctor u J. Blackstock
Speaker 2: from the She's the author of the book called Legacy,
Speaker 2: which is about bias in healthcare, specifically against communities of
Speaker 2: color and more specifically black communities. That episode was so good, Mandy,
Speaker 2: like so good, and that book is so good. But
Speaker 2: I love that you had doctor ujay on because she's amazing.
Speaker 2: I recommend that for this specific topic. It was very powerful.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah. So I'm just sending love to you, Adriana.
Speaker 1: I hope you're resting in peace, and to your family.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that their trauma continues on, but
Speaker 1: you know that is the world we are in, right
Speaker 1: And as I start to cry, I will let you on, Ellie,
Speaker 1: Now bring us back up, bring us up, uplift us.
Speaker 2: I'll make a connection in terms of why this matters
Speaker 2: the most to me. Last year, in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: the state of California passed a law that required financial
Speaker 2: literacy to be taught as a semester, standalone, dedicated course
Speaker 2: for all high school students before they graduate. So it's
Speaker 2: a graduation requirement in the state of California. And I
Speaker 2: was over the moon because California is the state that
Speaker 2: has the largest population in the United States, so the
Speaker 2: largest state by population and the largest percentage of Latinos
Speaker 2: in the US that live in one particular state. Now
Speaker 2: the second largest state by population is Texas, which has
Speaker 2: the largest population of Black Americans, almost four million in
Speaker 2: one state, which is Texas, and so about fourteen percent
Speaker 2: of the population in the state of Texas is black.
Speaker 2: And now Texas on Saturday, June twenty first, officially got
Speaker 2: the law signed by the governor. So it is not
Speaker 2: just passed the legislature, not the Senators and representative passed
Speaker 2: the bill because that's what had happened before. But so
Speaker 2: many times the bill passes and it sits on the
Speaker 2: governor's desk for weeks and weeks and weeks it gets
Speaker 2: ignored or the governor would pick it up and like
Speaker 2: veto it if they don't like it. But in this case,
Speaker 2: it was passed and signed into law on Saturday, June
Speaker 2: twenty first, which means it is officially now a requirement
Speaker 2: for high school graduation. It goes into effect officially on
Speaker 2: in the fall of twenty twenty six, So this school
Speaker 2: year twenty twenty five to twenty two twenty six, the
Speaker 2: teachers are going to take this year to train, to plan,
Speaker 2: the school districts are going to start making decisions about
Speaker 2: what curriculum they're going to use, how they're going to
Speaker 2: rearrange the master schedule to make sure every student takes
Speaker 2: the class. And then starting in the twenty twenty six
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven school year, every single text in high
Speaker 2: school kid that's in a public high school is guaranteed
Speaker 2: access to an eighteen week long course dedicated to personal
Speaker 2: financial literacy, all the things that we all wish we
Speaker 2: had learned when we was in high school. So it
Speaker 2: was a huge win. I mean, just based on the stats,
Speaker 2: there's like we were at sixty five percent of students
Speaker 2: in the US guaranteed access with the twenty eight states
Speaker 2: that were already that had already passed this law, and
Speaker 2: with Texas, it's now seventy five percent of students in
Speaker 2: the US have guaranteed access.
Speaker 1: And this is the legislation that y'all wrote.
Speaker 2: Then, basically, this is the legislation that we drafts. Start
Speaker 2: push incredible and shout out to testified. There's videos on
Speaker 2: my instagrament testifying, but the shoutout for shore goes to
Speaker 2: Representative Lindagar's and Representative Ken King, who are the two
Speaker 2: House the House representative. So Linda Garcia is a Democrat
Speaker 2: and Ken King is a Republican, and so it was
Speaker 2: a bipartisan effort, which means it doesn't matter if you're
Speaker 2: a Republican or Democrat. Everyone agreed on both sides that
Speaker 2: this was so important and that's why it was so
Speaker 2: successful with so many, so many votes in support of it.
Speaker 2: So it's official. If you live in Texas, spread the
Speaker 2: word and if you see the news, share it far
Speaker 2: and wide, because we need everybody to know that this
Speaker 2: is an official change that happened, that it was signed
Speaker 2: by the governor, and this is real, and no more
Speaker 2: denying or making it an elective. It has to be
Speaker 2: required in every single high school amazing.
Speaker 1: So you're doing a little victory lap when you go
Speaker 1: see Beyonce.
Speaker 2: Girl, it's a two for it. I'm going to see Beyonce.
Speaker 2: But I'm also like, this is Texas. We won, Yes,
Speaker 2: we did it. It was a long fight, and there
Speaker 2: were so many things along the way that made me
Speaker 2: think we were not going to win, that it wasn't
Speaker 2: going to happen. There were so many hot political issues
Speaker 2: like anding THHC product sales in the state of Texas
Speaker 2: and a school funding bill getting the Ten Commandments posted
Speaker 2: in public school. There was so much. There was so
Speaker 2: much going on in Texas that was like distract It
Speaker 2: was distracting people, I think from this bill that actually
Speaker 2: is such a good thing. And we're over here fighting
Speaker 2: about whether the Ten Commandment should be posted up in
Speaker 2: the school. Students might not even say that, let's focus,
Speaker 2: let's focus on what they're you know. So I'm so
Speaker 2: glad it wasn't so much distraction to the point where
Speaker 2: it kind of washed this bill off to the side.
Speaker 2: This one really did make it to the end, which
Speaker 2: it's very very hard to get a bill signed into law.
Speaker 2: So I'm really really proud of Texas and I'm so
Speaker 2: honored to have gotten to be a part of that
Speaker 2: fight and to be able to tell the story. And
Speaker 2: now now I'm like, Okay, which state is going to
Speaker 2: be number thirty, number twenty nine? Yes, we got a
Speaker 2: couple more twenty one more states to go. Who's going
Speaker 2: to be number thirty?
Speaker 1: I'm cross? Is everything right? So now that Texas is
Speaker 1: like the biggest one, it's like it doesn't become easier
Speaker 1: to then convince more states.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, because you have really big states like New York
Speaker 2: who haven't who has not done it yet, Illinois, who
Speaker 2: has not done it yet. And when they see big
Speaker 2: states like California, Texas, Florida have already done it, they see,
Speaker 2: oh there's no excuse, Oh we're too big to do that, No,
Speaker 2: because there's precedent, like you said, So hopefully this definitely
Speaker 2: makes the fight a little easier as we move forward.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you went last. Congratulations, Thank you, and
Speaker 1: as you and the work you're doing is so impactful.
Speaker 1: It already was, but it's just a lot of times
Speaker 1: you don't get a chance to like see the impact.
Speaker 1: But your work is, yeah, I mean it really, it
Speaker 1: actually happens, and there's a lot of people working to
Speaker 1: pass legislation that's so needed that don't get to celebrate that,
Speaker 1: so and don't it doesn't get past, you know, the
Speaker 1: filibusters and the bullshit. So just really excited for y'all.
Speaker 2: Yes, a little bit of the buss and all the
Speaker 2: and all the madness going on.
Speaker 1: There's M's be helpful.
Speaker 3: She is be real helpful over there.
Speaker 1: Well, it's so nice to be with y'all again. Have
Speaker 1: you back at the brown tape? Yeah, Nellie, have so
Speaker 1: much fun in Houston. I can't be following you're I
Speaker 1: g I'm gonna put my notifications on for your stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the algorithm I'm gonna tag you so you can't.
Speaker 1: And Chris, So, how many more sessions do you have
Speaker 1: before you have your life plan all laid out?
Speaker 3: Oh? You know, I got homework now, but one more
Speaker 3: and I actually have my whole I figured out. I'm
Speaker 3: sure it all.
Speaker 1: Answers come, sure, But that's really exciting. I'm proud of
Speaker 1: you too.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. And before we go, I wanted to
Speaker 3: know I sent you in you Nellie the link. I
Speaker 3: did find that there is a go fund go fund
Speaker 3: me for Adriana's family and because they were responsible for
Speaker 3: the medical bills, I.
Speaker 2: Will be clicking that.
Speaker 1: Yep, wonderful. Thank you. You're such a good on air
Speaker 1: correspondent with the easy back checking access, that's what I
Speaker 1: need video production often.
Speaker 3: You can come on. This is only when I ask
Speaker 3: a question, that's all you're gonna go.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm like that. Whenever I try to Google,
Speaker 1: I'm like that snl s get the ego, what is
Speaker 1: her name? Where she does like the cutting the steak
Speaker 1: at the steakhouse, and I'm just like trying to google. Gosh,
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