Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, and we're back. It is Brown Ambition,
Speaker 1: Episode eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, what's up.
Speaker 1: It's Mandy and it's Tiffany and we're back.
Speaker 2: Man, hope you guys had a good weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope you did have.
Speaker 2: It's October.
Speaker 1: It's fall, Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Honestly. I
Speaker 1: love the fall for the foliage. And I don't mind
Speaker 1: a crisp kind of like slightly chilly, but I don't
Speaker 1: like cold, cold, cold.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess I can agree with that. This is
Speaker 2: the time of year. Like our heat went on this
Speaker 2: weekend at our apartment, and I love the smell of
Speaker 2: the first heat of winter. Like yeah, I like the
Speaker 2: way the apartment you can smell it come on. It
Speaker 2: kind of smells like I don't know what it smells like,
Speaker 2: probably like chemicals and discussing, but it kind of it's cozy,
Speaker 2: except for at night it gets so hot.
Speaker 1: We have radiators.
Speaker 2: We have an old, old, old building, and the radiators
Speaker 2: making noises and they hiss. Yeah, and it's so freaking hot,
Speaker 2: like I'll wake up the middle the night in like
Speaker 2: a dead sweat. Like I wear less clothes in winter
Speaker 2: to bed than I do in summertime.
Speaker 1: Like honestly, I used to. So I used to work
Speaker 1: in this building, which was a housing building aka the
Speaker 1: projects in Newark, and so I never heard of project
Speaker 1: heat before. It's a real thing. So project heat is
Speaker 1: like it's it's heat and like you know one of
Speaker 1: those high rise buildings that's controlled by like I guess
Speaker 1: some sort of main system. So you don't have any
Speaker 1: control over your heat.
Speaker 2: Oh I don't have control over money either.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that project you are.
Speaker 2: I don't pay project money.
Speaker 1: No, no, I wish I was so anyway, it is so hot,
Speaker 1: like literally in the winter time. When I used to
Speaker 1: teach preschool, so our preschool was in the the bottom
Speaker 1: of the building. We would have to like open, like
Speaker 1: in the dead of winter, our like windows and doors
Speaker 1: because literally I would get sick because the heat was
Speaker 1: so hot.
Speaker 2: We crack our windows.
Speaker 1: You could actually boil like the water that came out
Speaker 1: of the heater. You could actually boil the.
Speaker 2: Egg with just straight I d clothes on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah I do. Oh man, do you have project heat.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start calling it that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're getting brown and browner every day.
Speaker 2: I don't like not having control, but yay. Fall.
Speaker 1: All that to say, it's fall, It's beautiful. So what
Speaker 1: do we want to talk about for Buzzworthy.
Speaker 2: Buzzworthy this week? We have a lot of interesting topics.
Speaker 2: Do you want to Well, let's start. Let's start with
Speaker 2: this whole textbook controversy. So obviously, people who win history
Speaker 2: tend to write history books. Yes, which means that a
Speaker 2: lot of I'm guessing probably old white men are writing
Speaker 2: our children's history books. And there's some reaching controversy over
Speaker 2: a textbook that is in a caption of a photo
Speaker 2: describing the slave trade, describes slaves as quote unquote workers.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? It says something like it's like you see,
Speaker 1: they're trying to show you kind of like the route
Speaker 1: that the slaves took by I guess by ship, and
Speaker 1: the caption says something like, this is the route that
Speaker 1: they brought over the workers from Africa to America. The workers.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, did the slaves that they were workers? Did
Speaker 1: they get workers' wages?
Speaker 2: They get benefits?
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe. I mean, it just it's just so
Speaker 1: infuriating because it's very clear they're trying to rewrite history
Speaker 1: to make it seem like slavery wasn't that bad. I've
Speaker 1: heard that a lot from people down south that that's
Speaker 1: kind of like the notion that it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, so loss of freedom and life
Speaker 1: and choice and liberty is not that bad.
Speaker 2: What I love about it is that the chapter, this
Speaker 2: whole like this, this excerpt from the chapter was called
Speaker 2: out by one of the kids. It wasn't like the
Speaker 2: kid's mother saw it and was like, listen, honey, no.
Speaker 2: This kid so apparently his name is Kobe Burn. He's
Speaker 2: from Houston, so he was reading the textbook, saw this
Speaker 2: part and texted his mother. He said with a text message,
Speaker 2: we was real hard workers, wasn't we.
Speaker 1: I love sarcasm.
Speaker 2: Sarcasm obviously yea. And his mother what's her name, Ronny
Speaker 2: Rone or Ronnie So she's the one who kicked everything off.
Speaker 2: Once her son texted her, she put up this. She
Speaker 2: put up a post on Facebook and I think a
Speaker 2: video too where she calls out the textbook and now
Speaker 2: the company, yay black Power. The company is renovating revising
Speaker 2: this page in the book.
Speaker 1: Which is like, why did we even have to say
Speaker 1: call it what it is? These were not workers, These
Speaker 1: were stolen people and they were abused beyond like I mean,
Speaker 1: even though people will say like, oh well I've actually
Speaker 1: read somewhere like oh, our slaves were happy and they
Speaker 1: wanted to be here, Like what does that even mean?
Speaker 2: Oh, here's the thing. This is why it's really fucked up.
Speaker 2: They this this is about so the I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the page of the book. It's it's titled Patterns of Immigration.
Speaker 2: So when you immigrate to a country, that kind of
Speaker 2: insinuates that you want to be there. Yes, choice by choice. Yes,
Speaker 2: So this is Yeah, in that context, it's even crazier
Speaker 2: that they're calling them like African workers who immigrated to America. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they weren't shackle them bound and put on slave ships
Speaker 2: and made to drown at see and die and all
Speaker 2: this stuff. And mm hmmmmm. This is why we need
Speaker 2: more diverse textbook authors. Let's make a call for if
Speaker 2: I don't know, how do you even get a job
Speaker 2: as a textbook writer?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That must be the widest job in America, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 1: Somebody's sitting in the audience like right now, like, oh well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think until I got to college all my
Speaker 2: you know, professors have to write books. I don't think
Speaker 2: I had a textbook written by a black person to college.
Speaker 2: So yay public education.
Speaker 1: Yes, and yay Kobe.
Speaker 2: Oh, I wanted to talk about urban geeks. This isn't
Speaker 2: what it's called.
Speaker 1: It's called hood hood nerds.
Speaker 2: No, okay, yeah, I screwed up, but we'll keep going. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's called hood nerds. Wait is that what's really called?
Speaker 1: It's called hood something.
Speaker 2: But I told you I didn't like the neighborhood hood
Speaker 2: Wait where is it at?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's called hood something, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: what does it have to be called hood smart?
Speaker 2: Goods smart? So there's this new reality TV show and listen,
Speaker 2: this is a let's okay. So this is a huge
Speaker 2: step forward away from like Kardashians and like people food
Speaker 2: dating naked and like in the wilderness naked, just stupid
Speaker 2: reality TV. There's a good just everyone's butt ass naked
Speaker 2: at all times. There's a new show called hood Smart,
Speaker 2: the Urban Stemulus Projects. Stem of course is for science, technology, engineering,
Speaker 2: and math.
Speaker 1: Okay, got that right? Yep, yay.
Speaker 2: And this is featuring how are how many black teenagers
Speaker 2: fifteen teenagers living in house for eight weeks and they
Speaker 2: are competing in all these STEM related competitions and they
Speaker 2: this headline says urban kids, which is kind of stupid, but.
Speaker 1: Code for black black kids.
Speaker 2: They're from black communities, and it's just nice to see.
Speaker 2: First of all, we all know that black black men
Speaker 2: and black women just aren't as prevalent in STEM fields,
Speaker 2: and so it's nice to it's nice to that all
Speaker 2: these kids are getting attention.
Speaker 1: Is there's a push for which is nice. Like they're like,
Speaker 1: I live in New Jersey and nng i T, which
Speaker 1: is New Jersey Institute of Technology. They actually have a
Speaker 1: STEM program like just for girls that starts in fourth
Speaker 1: grade in the summertime and it's free. So I'm totally
Speaker 1: going to sign up. Supergirl, who is super Superman. My
Speaker 1: boyfriend he has a nine year old daughter, so I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yes, she just turned nine like two
Speaker 1: days ago, and I'm like, ooh, Supergirl's totally going to
Speaker 1: sign up for STEM because I want her to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, know that she can be good. She's really artistic,
Speaker 1: you know, but I want her to also know you're
Speaker 1: really smart and you can do everything, you know.
Speaker 2: So there's that there's a group called Black Girls Who Code. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's also supporting young black and women, women people, women
Speaker 2: and tech women, folks, women, folks. I think that's exciting,
Speaker 2: and it's it's great that it's a television show because
Speaker 2: that's where that's what kids are looking at and when
Speaker 2: they see kids like themselves exactly doing this and not
Speaker 2: just like I don't know what other reality TV show
Speaker 2: like skateboarding or like what is it sixteen and pregnant
Speaker 2: that's a big teenage show. It's nice to see that
Speaker 2: example set. So and honestly, we say so often and
Speaker 2: you hear so many studies, read so many studies about
Speaker 2: how education is the most important tool to lift you
Speaker 2: out of poverty, and let's be on minorities are more
Speaker 2: likely to be poor. Yeah, but it's also what you
Speaker 2: study that matters, and you have to teach these lessons
Speaker 2: that like, if you want to get a good career,
Speaker 2: you have to study a certain thing, a certain thing.
Speaker 2: And of course I'm speaking from someone who study journalism,
Speaker 2: which isn't always the most lucrative, but you should study
Speaker 2: something that's going to get you a living, a livable
Speaker 2: wage and really help you lift your I.
Speaker 1: Didn't understand that until my dad told me, like I remember,
Speaker 1: I wanted to go into school and study psychology or
Speaker 1: sociology and he was like no, and he was like,
Speaker 1: that is like the typical brown woman. Like like, I
Speaker 1: forget what he said. He didn't say it that nice,
Speaker 1: but basically he was like every black girl does that.
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, daddy, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: He was like, okay, then you paid for college. And
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, daddy, what do you want me
Speaker 1: to do? And I just remember being so mad at him.
Speaker 1: And now that I kind of take a step back
Speaker 1: and I'm older, I see what he meant in a way.
Speaker 1: He's just basically meant that because I knew I wanted
Speaker 1: to live a life of service. And he was like,
Speaker 1: but if you choose certain majors, it puts you and
Speaker 1: so many of my friends who went to school for sociology,
Speaker 1: psychology and our social workers are not making enough to
Speaker 1: contribute exactly. Yeah, And so because I chose, I think
Speaker 1: I chose like business and marketing something random. But through
Speaker 1: my business, it's almost like I do social work through
Speaker 1: my business, So I'm able to still do what I
Speaker 1: initially intended. But in a way that one is lucrative,
Speaker 1: and I'm also able to affect way more women than
Speaker 1: I would have and maybe like a smaller capacity. And
Speaker 1: not to say you shouldn't go to school for social
Speaker 1: work or psychology, but that you just have to know
Speaker 1: that the major you choose really is going to help
Speaker 1: order your steps for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: And that's why it's important too, just real quick to
Speaker 2: have mentors because I was a first person in my
Speaker 2: family to go to college, my immediately my immediate family,
Speaker 2: and I didn't have anyone sitting me down and telling
Speaker 2: me how to pick a major, like how to plan
Speaker 2: my career. And I think if I'd had someone to
Speaker 2: give me that information, I would have been able to
Speaker 2: use it, you know, and have that knowledge. So I
Speaker 2: think mentor ship's really important.
Speaker 1: So it's brown break, Brown Break, what you're gonna do?
Speaker 1: I like to go low, so I take the hat.
Speaker 1: I'm the soprano brown. Clearly me and Mandy did not
Speaker 1: go to school for safe but I sounded really good.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so what are you breaking from? Mandy?
Speaker 2: My brown break this week is for a collective group
Speaker 2: of people who have somehow proliferated all these lies about
Speaker 2: Planned Parenthood. I don't know if you've been watching or
Speaker 2: paying attention to the news, but there was this anti
Speaker 2: abortion group which did a sting quote unquote operation and
Speaker 2: tried to catch Planned PARENTHOED workers admitting that they used
Speaker 2: fetal tissue and sell it for research purposes. And it
Speaker 2: was this big hole controversy and it's all led to
Speaker 2: this huge Republican left sorry right wing conservative movement to
Speaker 2: defund Planned Parenthood because and this lie that they're spreading
Speaker 2: is that Planned Parented gives abortions and sells dead babies
Speaker 2: for science, and that's what they're doing, which is such
Speaker 2: a total bullshit lie on several fronts. For one thing,
Speaker 2: federal dollars that Planned Parented gets do not go toward abortions.
Speaker 2: They cannot. The majority of Planned Parented's work is contraception,
Speaker 2: and like it says, Planned PARENTHO, a lot of women
Speaker 2: do and they don't just do abortions. The majority of
Speaker 2: the work is contraceptive. While women visit some women who
Speaker 2: can't afford to go to a fancy guy in tocologist.
Speaker 1: Me in college. That's why I used to go because
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't want to tell my mom,
Speaker 1: I was sexually active.
Speaker 2: That's why I went for birth control.
Speaker 1: I iced to go for birth control. I used to
Speaker 1: go for like just checkups and be like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm good. Like if I had like any questions, I
Speaker 1: would go there. And I didn't come from like my family.
Speaker 1: You know, we definitely were not well off, but I
Speaker 1: probably could have afforded something different. But also too, just
Speaker 1: being young, I was like, I don't want to tell
Speaker 1: my mom I'm doing it. Wasn't I was a Vergis
Speaker 1: till I was forty.
Speaker 2: My mom was like counting on the days?
Speaker 1: Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Still not?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Oh? Really is that my foreigner?
Speaker 1: Is that like a cultural thing a thing?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think I was just so chronically single.
Speaker 2: I think she was just like, come on, Mandy, like
Speaker 2: get it because something.
Speaker 1: Oh my parents were like, you should be a virgin
Speaker 1: it til you get better. That's so funny.
Speaker 2: But so that's one of the lies. Okay, So let's
Speaker 2: just dispel that myth. Most of the work they do
Speaker 2: is not for abortions. The abortions they do do do
Speaker 2: not use federal dollars, So defunding planned parented will not
Speaker 2: actually take away from the abortion work they do. This
Speaker 2: is and so all this call to defund them had
Speaker 2: led to a congressional hearing and they had the CEO
Speaker 2: of Planned Parenthood come to Capitol Hill to sit for
Speaker 2: this hearing. And it's supposed to be a conversation and
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be truth telling. However, Republicans use this
Speaker 2: as basically a platform to just things at her and
Speaker 2: use lies. At one point, this idiot congressman, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: find his name in a second so I can just
Speaker 2: call him out. He pulls up this chart and tells
Speaker 2: cecil Richards this chart is showing that as the rate
Speaker 2: of abortions that planned parenting goes up, the rate of
Speaker 2: contraceptions given goes down. And Cecila's this is an excellent clip.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it on our website. Cecilia is saying like,
Speaker 2: I've never seen this chart before, and then she looks
Speaker 2: to her left and she's like, actually, my lawyer has
Speaker 2: just told me this chart was furnished by an anti
Speaker 2: abortion group. You should check your sources.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And his face is like there because like, how do
Speaker 2: you and those and you know what, But so many
Speaker 2: people will have just listened to that and cut off
Speaker 2: at where he's like that gotcha moment. Yeah, and they
Speaker 2: wouldn't hear that this is a lie because people just
Speaker 2: want to hear what they want to believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's really what it is people are gonna
Speaker 1: I had to learn that, like when the whole like
Speaker 1: Trayvon Martin, all these things were happening, like, you know,
Speaker 1: because my friends are people who basically have similar belief systems,
Speaker 1: so it was I felt like, oh, the sentiments kind
Speaker 1: of the same. And then I would have maybe like
Speaker 1: a one off friend that wasn't part of my normal
Speaker 1: social circle and they would tell me what the sentiments
Speaker 1: were going on in their timeline and I'm like what.
Speaker 1: But then you realize, like, oh, so like people literally
Speaker 1: like your timeline and what you're experiencing, what you're seeing
Speaker 1: really is just a direct reflection of what you want
Speaker 1: to see and experience. So you curate your life basically,
Speaker 1: which you know that's just normal, you know, no judgment,
Speaker 1: but it's just being careful not to get so safe
Speaker 1: in that life that you've curated, to see that there
Speaker 1: are other opinions out there that are there are just
Speaker 1: as valid as yours.
Speaker 2: That's why it's important to vote, and that's why so
Speaker 2: many people don't vote, because they especially people like I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know your beliefs, but like I'm
Speaker 2: pretty moderate and so I'm not extremely conservative. I'm not
Speaker 2: extremely liberal. So and the people who are winning these
Speaker 2: elections are the ones, like the Trumps of the world,
Speaker 2: I mean, Jesus extremely the ones you tap into these
Speaker 2: like baser instincts, you know, xenophobia and racism, and these
Speaker 2: can really really extreme left or rightists and leftist groups,
Speaker 2: and those are the ones who go out and vote
Speaker 2: because they get so upset by happening. And we need
Speaker 2: to as moderates. If you're moderate out there, you kind
Speaker 2: of feel complacent. You need to remember it's so important
Speaker 2: to vote because look at how Trump's doing in the polls.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Disgusting. Yeah, don't even get me. We had a
Speaker 1: brown break on Trump and yet he brought him up.
Speaker 1: I think Mandy should be in the botry.
Speaker 2: I can't, but I'm wearing I'm wearing pink today for
Speaker 2: Planned Parented and there's a hashtag I Stand I Stand
Speaker 2: with p P which is for planned Parented, and it's
Speaker 2: just been really great to see there was all these
Speaker 2: rallies a day of the hearing out and supportive planned parented,
Speaker 2: and I just we just have to keep spreading these truths,
Speaker 2: you know, spread the truth when for every post you
Speaker 2: see on your timeline of people spreading lives about planned
Speaker 2: parented or issues of abortion, right, you know, go to
Speaker 2: go to any website fact check dot org and just
Speaker 2: put some facts up there just to like counter it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so my brand, bak is it's not quite as heavy.
Speaker 2: Are you not gone yet? No? Okay, I feel like
Speaker 2: I just sucked all the air out of my.
Speaker 1: Brown break is I want a brown break from blackface?
Speaker 1: So fair enough? How Halloween is coming up? Tis the
Speaker 1: season for blackface, Tis the season for this foolishness. So
Speaker 1: there's always one misinformed gentleman or a young woman.
Speaker 2: Last year it was Juliane Huff. Yes, and oh well, Pauladine.
Speaker 2: First of all, she wasn't Halloween. Was it Halloween?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Did you see where she like dressed up? It wasn't
Speaker 2: even it was brown face. She dressed up as Lucy
Speaker 2: and Ricky Ricardo her son was like with dark dark
Speaker 2: brown ing up.
Speaker 1: Whatever, Paladine and I have just so many more issues
Speaker 1: besides the whole I use butter for everything, and I
Speaker 1: think she's killing people slowly with her recipes and anyway,
Speaker 1: and her oppressive racism anyway, So black face it's not
Speaker 1: appropriate ever. People who are not brown, please do not
Speaker 1: don black face. You don't have to, you don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know why people think like every year something
Speaker 1: comes out, like it'll be a frat house sorority house,
Speaker 1: and then they'll post a picture of like, you know,
Speaker 1: black paste on their face and big red lips, and
Speaker 1: then they get bashed and yet and still every single
Speaker 1: year some fool will say, you know what I want
Speaker 1: to do. I want to just be as racist as
Speaker 1: possible and post a picture of it. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hlleious. It's not. We're gonna drag you. See. The
Speaker 1: good thing is black Twitter is a real thing. It
Speaker 1: is vicious.
Speaker 2: They will please post a picture, yes, please do. They
Speaker 2: will drag you for days, hours, years, We dare you
Speaker 2: post a picture.
Speaker 1: I will take a nap and wake up and black
Speaker 1: Twitter will still be dragging. Oh god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna make a prediction. I think that this
Speaker 2: year's black face no Food is going to be someone
Speaker 2: dressing up as lover and Cox. Okay, I think that'll
Speaker 2: be the thing.
Speaker 1: No, I think it's gonna be a Rachel Dolazar Someone's definitely,
Speaker 1: But isn't that.
Speaker 2: See I feel like Rachel so I saw a costume
Speaker 2: for Rachel Dolozol. She's obviously she's the white woman from
Speaker 2: who worked for the NAACP, And yeah, was faking as
Speaker 2: if she was black. And that's like a costume this year.
Speaker 2: But I feel like, if you want to black, if
Speaker 2: you've ever thought about doing like a brown face black
Speaker 2: face costume, this is your chance because you can. Like
Speaker 2: that's the whole point is that she was like.
Speaker 1: Listen to man, if you want to I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: many don't get you drags.
Speaker 2: But like I mean, if you're a white woman you
Speaker 2: want to do Rachel Doles, I'll just put like some
Speaker 2: bronzer on. I think that's I think that's accurate. Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I mean, but I always feel like
Speaker 1: people just don't know how far to take it, so
Speaker 1: it's just best to err on the side of caution. Okay, maybe,
Speaker 1: don't you know, if you look in the mirror, you
Speaker 1: think yourself. I might get dragged for this turn around
Speaker 1: and say, Mandy, no, now, I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: you might do Rachel Dolazar without you know, going too
Speaker 1: far with it, because I mean, I think, honestly, that's
Speaker 1: a funny castule h.
Speaker 2: So did you see SNL past SNL? They did? They
Speaker 2: did an amazing Rachel Doles Vanessa Bear. Okay, I love
Speaker 2: she's the redhead. She also does the funny Jewish kid
Speaker 2: bought Mitzvah dude whatever his name is. So, but she
Speaker 2: did not do brown face now that I remember it,
Speaker 2: But she had curly black hair. Just reference her if
Speaker 2: you want to do a tasteful Rachel Dola's just.
Speaker 1: And honestly, remember you told me that Ellen did Nicki
Speaker 1: Minaj right, and she didn't put on black face a bron,
Speaker 1: It's possible we'll know who you are. Well no, well no,
Speaker 1: you don't have to, don you know, black lacquer on
Speaker 1: your face and think that that's funny.
Speaker 2: Anyway, that was like a brown break slash tip.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Ooh, speaking of tips, is it time for tips? Tips? Tips?
Speaker 2: Are we gonna do tips first or wins? No?
Speaker 1: I like to end with winds.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, let's start with tips. So this week, this
Speaker 2: is a topic that will never get old. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: can never you can never answer enough questions or say
Speaker 2: the same things enough times. But people always want to
Speaker 2: know how do I improve my credits for So.
Speaker 1: We're me and many are going to give you a
Speaker 1: few tips to the pizza. We'll go back and forth.
Speaker 2: I have I have some very just it's like logistical.
Speaker 2: You can find this. This is a pie chart that
Speaker 2: I turn to every time someone asked me about their
Speaker 2: credit score. It's on myfiico dot com. There is a
Speaker 2: pie chart it It shows you exactly what goes into
Speaker 2: your credit score. And the most important thing, which people
Speaker 2: take for granted is on time payments. That is thirty
Speaker 2: five percent of your fight go score. So if your
Speaker 2: score is lowered if you've missed a payment, the most
Speaker 2: important thing you can do is if the payment is
Speaker 2: missed an error, like if you actually didn't make miss
Speaker 2: a payment, you have to get the taken off your
Speaker 2: credit report. So go file a dispute at all three
Speaker 2: credit bureaus. It sucks, but you have to do it
Speaker 2: at every single one. Get that taken off your report.
Speaker 2: I guarantee your score will go.
Speaker 1: Up and don't dispute online.
Speaker 2: Don't dispute online. I found that online, So.
Speaker 1: You have to be careful. So I found out from
Speaker 1: a friend of mine who's like, I don't know, he
Speaker 1: does like credit stuff for a living, right, and he
Speaker 1: says that disputing online it's very tricky because sometimes it's
Speaker 1: just like you know, I like they have that little
Speaker 1: like waiver box, and sometimes there's like the wording by
Speaker 1: that little waiver box. It's basically that you cannot redispute
Speaker 1: that basically by checking this box and disputing online. It's
Speaker 1: not for all of them. It'll say something like you
Speaker 1: know that you are agreeing to whatever the decision is made.
Speaker 1: So you want to be careful about disputing online because
Speaker 1: you don't want to wave away your rights and say
Speaker 1: because you like, let's just say they're like Mandy, you
Speaker 1: were late, and Mandy says, no, I wasn't, and she
Speaker 1: writes a letter or facts is a letter, and so
Speaker 1: Mandy can redispute and say no, I was not. But
Speaker 1: if she clicks that box by a mistake or fails
Speaker 1: to read the fine print and it's there, then it's like, well, technically, Mandy,
Speaker 1: you've already waved away your right. So no, you were late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 1: So just one Yeah, just be careful about disputing online.
Speaker 2: I guess, use your judgment. Yeah, I've successfully disputed stuff.
Speaker 2: I would say, just make sure that you're in the right.
Speaker 2: I mean, if it's like, if you feel like this
Speaker 2: is absolutely it's going to be hard for them to
Speaker 2: prove this is clearly an error and go ahead and
Speaker 2: dispute online. It's easier. It sucks to I mean, yeah, anyway, I'm.
Speaker 1: Not going to So thirty percent of your score. So
Speaker 1: thirty five is like on time payments and thirty percent.
Speaker 1: So to me, this is like the hidden little secret
Speaker 1: that people don't tell you. It's like your utilization. That's
Speaker 1: like the big buzzword right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so describe utilization. I feel like people don't get it.
Speaker 1: So utilization basically is how much of the credit that
Speaker 1: it has been extended to you are you actually using,
Speaker 1: Meaning like you have a credit card, it's one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a limit, and you're using fifty dollars of the
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars that has been extended, So your utilization
Speaker 1: is fifty percent, which is too high.
Speaker 2: The magic number for utilization is thirty percent or less
Speaker 2: I've read, although I always say ten percent or less
Speaker 2: just to be.
Speaker 1: Safe, ten percent is like really ideal. Thirty You should
Speaker 1: consider thirty your max. That's totally. A credit person told me.
Speaker 1: They were like, thirty is your max. So if you
Speaker 1: have one hundred dollars limit, then you should not be
Speaker 1: swiping more than thirty dollars at a time. Should be
Speaker 1: like that you should have on that card.
Speaker 2: Well, basically, you take up all the credit cards, you have,
Speaker 2: all the available limits. Let's say it adds up to
Speaker 2: ten thousand. That means across all your cards, you should
Speaker 2: have less than three thousand dollars. That's the basic way
Speaker 2: of explaining it. I just I told my little brother,
Speaker 2: he recently got his first one of his first credit cards.
Speaker 2: I said, your limit is a fake. You need to
Speaker 2: tell yourself your limit is thirty percent of whatever the.
Speaker 1: Actual That's actually a really good way to think about it.
Speaker 2: That's what I do for myself, and so that's a
Speaker 2: really important thing to do. What's some more, Oh, one
Speaker 2: of my friends, this is a myth. I don't know
Speaker 2: how this myth keeps going on and on, but I
Speaker 2: hear this again and again. My friend got it. He
Speaker 2: had pretty bad credit and then he got a proved
Speaker 2: for a credit card. He's like, oh, manday, you gotta prove.
Speaker 2: It's a two thousand dollars limit. It's awesome. I've already
Speaker 2: charged sixteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Isn't that great?
Speaker 2: I'm like, why is that a good thing? You're way
Speaker 2: almost maxed out. You're like, oh, but isn't it good
Speaker 2: to keep charging?
Speaker 1: No, you know who's selling that live We know credit
Speaker 1: card company.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, well they're especially with us. I hate these
Speaker 2: offers unless you okay, so this is a good thing
Speaker 2: and a bad thing. These like bonus if you spend
Speaker 2: four thousand dollars, we'll give you one hundred dollars free. Like,
Speaker 2: but you have to spend four thousand dollars, well, I
Speaker 2: guess the more realistic example is like spend five hundred
Speaker 2: and get fifty bucks free or something like that. Unless
Speaker 2: you have that money and you can pay it off
Speaker 2: right away, Yep, it's not worth it. Don't do it
Speaker 2: because all you're gonna end up doing is carrying a balance.
Speaker 1: And that interest that fifty dollars you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay an interest anyway.
Speaker 2: Yes, So that do not do not charge more than
Speaker 2: you can afford to pay off every month.
Speaker 1: Every month, And honestly, that's the magic make your credit
Speaker 1: score jump. Like Jordan trick that if you can pay
Speaker 1: off your credit card every month in full, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it's eight dollars. People don't realize it's not
Speaker 1: about the amount, it's the habit that they're really recording.
Speaker 1: So it can be eight thousand dollars a month, it
Speaker 1: could be eight dollars a month, but it really helps
Speaker 1: to strengthen your credit score.
Speaker 2: If you want to strengthen your credit and this is
Speaker 2: what a lot of actually parents will do for their kids.
Speaker 2: Then your dad do this. They open up a credit
Speaker 2: card for you and just charge one small bill and
Speaker 2: then you pay it off every month. And that's a
Speaker 2: good way to And if you have a if you
Speaker 2: have a credit card that it's old, it's when of
Speaker 2: your older credit cards, and it's good to have old
Speaker 2: credit cards on your account and you want to keep
Speaker 2: it active, just you know, charge your light bill or
Speaker 2: your seamless.
Speaker 1: I would say, like Netflix, you know right, so like
Speaker 1: and then automate it, like leave that card home. Netflix
Speaker 1: charges eight dollars a month and have your your bank
Speaker 1: account pay off eight thousand months, like an automated circle
Speaker 1: that you're not even a power of, and that card
Speaker 1: just stay home. Or like what a lot of parents do,
Speaker 1: which is smart too, is that you can add your
Speaker 1: kid on as an authorized user and not give them
Speaker 1: a card, so you can inherit the good behavior from
Speaker 1: that card. Right, So that's another thing that a lot
Speaker 1: of parents are like, Oh, you're going off the college,
Speaker 1: no card for you, but I will definitely start to
Speaker 1: grow your credit score as you're away at school, so
Speaker 1: that way, when you finish school, you actually have you know,
Speaker 1: a decent amount of credit history and a strong enough
Speaker 1: score so you can move out.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at this FICO score chart, and again
Speaker 2: the FIGHTO score is the one that all of the
Speaker 2: lenders mostly use. There's these websites that are awesome where
Speaker 2: you can track your credit score and get your credit
Speaker 2: report for free, Credit Karma, credit dot Com, credit sessame Quizzle.
Speaker 2: These are great websites to monitor your credit. But your
Speaker 2: FIGHTO score is what people are really looking out. So
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it right now. And like we said,
Speaker 2: payment history, that's your number of on time payments. That's
Speaker 2: thirty five percent of your score. The next one is
Speaker 2: how much you owe. We've talked about ut utilization, so
Speaker 2: that's thirty percent of your score. And right there that's
Speaker 2: sixty five percent of your score. If you pay on
Speaker 2: time and keep your balances below thirty percent of how
Speaker 2: much you can actually charge, you're already golden.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: After that, it's little things. It's the mix of credit
Speaker 2: you have that means not just having like having all
Speaker 2: credit cards, like especially having a bunch of like store
Speaker 2: credit cards does not look good.
Speaker 1: Does not look good. They like to see, like it's
Speaker 1: almost like they like to see, Oh, she's got experience.
Speaker 1: She's got a mortgage and a credit card and a
Speaker 1: student loan, so like she's like someone who has experienced
Speaker 1: in different types of blending and borrowering and autoly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it exactly perfectly said. Next is length of
Speaker 2: credit history. This is fifteen percent. And we just we
Speaker 2: mentioned that that's how old your credit is. I have
Speaker 2: a credit card that has a really stinking high interest
Speaker 2: rate from Bank of America that I got too, A
Speaker 2: got you too. Yes, they came to my college campus. Yes,
Speaker 2: and I fell hook line and sinker. It's like I
Speaker 2: don't know. It was a three hundred dollars limit when
Speaker 2: I first got it, and I would max that baby
Speaker 2: out every like I don't know it was. I was
Speaker 2: constantly like paying off ten dollars and then charge in
Speaker 2: like lunch, and then just keeping it at three hundred.
Speaker 2: But so I paid it off, finally got my act
Speaker 2: together and I just charge. I charge like one thing
Speaker 2: everyone my gym membership, I think on that card, and
Speaker 2: you don't want to cancel. The only reason I tell people, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's okay to cancel an older account is if there's
Speaker 2: a crazy high annual fee annual feed.
Speaker 1: You don't want to have to pay an annual fee.
Speaker 1: But keeping that old credit card open will really help
Speaker 1: you with length of credit history, cause basically it's like
Speaker 1: that they don't want to if you are a new
Speaker 1: bar it's like being a new driver. A new driver
Speaker 1: is a bad driver because you don't have experience, you know,
Speaker 1: and so you don't want to say, like, you know.
Speaker 1: It's the difference between saying, oh, I got my license
Speaker 1: yesterday and I've never been an accident. It's different from
Speaker 1: saying I got my license ten years ago and I'd
Speaker 1: never been an accident exactly, So keep your keep basically
Speaker 1: your experience on the books precisely.
Speaker 2: And last but not at least ten percent of your
Speaker 2: score is how much new credit you take out. Yes,
Speaker 2: they're called they're called hard inquiries. Whenever you go to
Speaker 2: a store, go to the Gap, and they're like, do
Speaker 2: you want to get a Gap card? And then what
Speaker 2: you're really saying.
Speaker 1: Is you want to you want to lose some points
Speaker 1: right quick. Yeah, you know you can lose up to
Speaker 1: like thirty points.
Speaker 2: Really, I believe it.
Speaker 1: But it depends if you keep getting repeat like store cards,
Speaker 1: like up to third that's really once.
Speaker 2: I mean if you can manage it. Honestly, if you
Speaker 2: shop at the Gap you have kids and you know
Speaker 2: you're gonna at the Gap or wherever Old Navy for
Speaker 2: their clothes and you need that discount and you can
Speaker 2: manage it, then okay, but don't go and get three
Speaker 2: more story, don't go to them all and like from
Speaker 2: ever get a Forever twenty one card or yeah, my sister,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna call her out anyway whatever to keep
Speaker 2: over that. You know, she's getting married. I can't, I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't call her out like that. But lots of
Speaker 2: people get at store credit cards and they get you
Speaker 2: with that, with that, you know, twenty percent off today,
Speaker 2: but then they're gonna charge you twenty percent interest. I
Speaker 2: mean as a minimum and a minimum minimum.
Speaker 1: Store cards are typically like what twenty five.
Speaker 2: Mike Cole's credit card is twenty three percent? Well, I
Speaker 2: have great credit.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: They won't lower it. I called them to ask them
Speaker 2: to lower it. They don't.
Speaker 1: Love that's what store cards make their money off of it. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't make sense. If you can't buy the shirt, now,
Speaker 1: don't get the shirt. And the good thing is they
Speaker 1: have really brought back lay away. Remember lay away. My
Speaker 1: mother used to lay away some kids. My mom and
Speaker 1: dad had five kids, so I mean layaway was like
Speaker 1: the jam, right, and so I just remember like sometimes
Speaker 1: going with her to Bradley's that was Target before Target
Speaker 1: for you youngins out there, and we would go to
Speaker 1: Bradley's sometimes literally just to put some money down, Like,
Speaker 1: oh baby, I go to go to Bradley's real quick,
Speaker 1: put some money down on your school clothes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Walmart, so a Kmart, Yes, sometimes there's some fees,
Speaker 2: I feel like, so always check the fine print, but.
Speaker 1: I believe like Kmart's layway, I don't think they there
Speaker 1: are any fees, which is awesome compair of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always good sites you can compare layaways for.
Speaker 2: So that's the bulk of credit tips. I know you
Speaker 2: guys probably have some weird credit questions we haven't even
Speaker 2: gotten into, like balance transfers or debt consolidation. What to
Speaker 2: do if like your boyfriend's credit sucks and you guys
Speaker 2: are moving in together. We'd love to you know, if
Speaker 2: you guys have questions, email us at Brown Ambition Podcast
Speaker 2: at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Or tweet us at at the BA podcast.
Speaker 2: We should have them written on cards because like always pause.
Speaker 1: And on Facebook, Brad Ambition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, join the Facebook group. We post way more than
Speaker 2: what we talk about on the air on the Facebook group.
Speaker 2: It's it's becoming a really fun place to share and
Speaker 2: like get involved in what we talk about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was good.
Speaker 2: I like those tips tips done? Moving on to winds
Speaker 2: of the week. Yes, so are ending on a high
Speaker 2: note here?
Speaker 1: Yes? So I really want to shout out my girl,
Speaker 1: my buddy.
Speaker 2: Mine too, mine too, her ears first.
Speaker 1: Right, Marcia Marcia Marcia Marcia Horton Barnes, You lady are amazing.
Speaker 1: You is smart, You is intelligent. No, honestly, Marshall. So,
Speaker 1: Marcia is a friend of Manny's and eyes and she
Speaker 1: started this amazing initiative called the Finance Bar, which is
Speaker 1: a mobile hub. She took a school bus and she
Speaker 1: renovated it and it's so cute and she basically drives
Speaker 1: around Charlotte and surrounding areas and brings financial education to schools.
Speaker 1: I think she has done homeless shelters and basically the
Speaker 1: places that people would normally not get financial education. And
Speaker 1: if you've ever met Marcia, she is just like the
Speaker 1: sweetest and just the dopest and just to see her
Speaker 1: get her recognition. So she was on the front page
Speaker 1: of Yahoo Finance not too long ago thanks to Mandy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys should go che If you want to
Speaker 2: see the bus, go check out my story on Yahoo Finance.
Speaker 2: Finance at Yahoo dot com or just google it or sorry,
Speaker 2: Yahoo search it. Marcia Buns Barns up. Could you have
Speaker 2: you did a whole video interview with her and you
Speaker 2: get to see the entire interior of the bus.
Speaker 1: It's so cute, cute, So we all for fin Con.
Speaker 1: For those of you who remember us talking about Fincann,
Speaker 1: they're like Finn again the Financial Blockers. So we all
Speaker 1: wakes ago. So we all went down to Fincann and
Speaker 1: Charlotte and Marsha's and Charlotte, so we all kind of
Speaker 1: went took pictures by the bus. It's just even better
Speaker 1: in person. And honestly, she's just such a dope, cool,
Speaker 1: chill chick. And I just want to say congratulations Marsha
Speaker 1: because remember so I met Marshall maybe like two years ago.
Speaker 1: She reached out to me on social media. It was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I love what you're doing, dope chick. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: well you too, dope check and she's like, we should
Speaker 1: form a group. And so we formed a super group
Speaker 1: called the Frugal Fab Five. It was five brown girls
Speaker 1: who believed in teaching financial education and Marshall kind of
Speaker 1: brought us together. And although we don't like tour and
Speaker 1: stuff like we used to, I know, like Destiny's Child,
Speaker 1: but honestly no, we used to like travel all over
Speaker 1: and teach financial education together. But still we're all super
Speaker 1: supportive and Marsha was just on NPR, I mean, learn best,
Speaker 1: I mean she has been all over I think ABC
Speaker 1: News did like this whole story on her and just
Speaker 1: to see her kind of get like the limelight shine her,
Speaker 1: because Marsha's not really like a limelight girl, but I
Speaker 1: just love to see, like, you know, that she's shining
Speaker 1: bright as she off to.
Speaker 2: The best end we have to I have to. I
Speaker 2: think the most interesting thing for me learning more about
Speaker 2: her story when I when I covered it for y'allhoo,
Speaker 2: was that she invested all of her own money into this,
Speaker 2: all of her savings, and she really threw her life
Speaker 2: into it and took a huge gamble. And it's only
Speaker 2: been around for what this will be a year in November,
Speaker 2: So I just really want to support her. She just
Speaker 2: got her status, has five O five oh one C
Speaker 2: three nonprofit status, approof which means she can now take
Speaker 2: donations and grants. So go check out her website, Thefinancebar
Speaker 2: dot com and donate. You can join her virtual members
Speaker 2: clubs only only ten dollars a month, and she has
Speaker 2: weekly or monthly webinars and financial education tools. There's an app.
Speaker 2: It's so it's so, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: She's just amazing, honestly.
Speaker 2: Yay Marcia.
Speaker 1: I know yay. I can just see Marsha's like, oh
Speaker 1: babies think because Marcia Southern, well, she's so cute. She's
Speaker 1: gonna be like, oh, Tip, I just love you, Tip.
Speaker 1: So who's your win?
Speaker 2: My win this week? Because I've struggled with my weight,
Speaker 2: probably my entire life. I come from a family my
Speaker 2: dad used to own a soul food restaurant. Yes, probably
Speaker 2: like half of my dad's family has suffered from some
Speaker 2: form of like diabet us or weight related.
Speaker 1: Did you say diabetes?
Speaker 2: Diabetes the sugar, the sugar. It's it's funny but so
Speaker 2: sad like I've had I've had family members who have
Speaker 2: died from complications with diabetes, and it's and I was
Speaker 2: very overweight as a child, and I struggle with weight
Speaker 2: my whole life. YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA. So I want
Speaker 2: to call out for my win of the week Shonda rhymes.
Speaker 2: So we already like as if I could love her anymore,
Speaker 2: like respect her anymore. She basically owns Thursday night television
Speaker 2: with three shows. She's a badass showrunner, like one of
Speaker 2: the only black female showrunners that has all these shows
Speaker 2: on television right now and on top of all that,
Speaker 2: she managed to lose one hundred and seventeen pounds. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in the last one or two years, and it happens.
Speaker 2: I just saw her in a magazine cover, I think
Speaker 2: it was Entertainment Weekly, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, what is what?
Speaker 2: How did she do that? I was convinced she had
Speaker 2: had like gastric bypass or lap band surgery or something,
Speaker 2: but she exercised and she ate right. And I just
Speaker 2: want to give her all the brown Break Brilliance points
Speaker 2: for this week and really encourage her because I know
Speaker 2: that it's this fight is not a one and done
Speaker 2: thing like those one hundred and seventeen pounds, like you
Speaker 2: work to keep them listen like I have. I've dropped
Speaker 2: forty pounds and take me six months to lose it.
Speaker 2: It'll take me a week to lose and to gain
Speaker 2: it back. And it's like the constant struggle, especially when
Speaker 2: it's in your genes and people. Often when you see
Speaker 2: someone who's overweight, you're you tend to think, oh, well
Speaker 2: they're just lazy and fat, they just don't eat right.
Speaker 2: But there's real, like biological factors that can contribute. There
Speaker 2: was just a study out last week or this week.
Speaker 2: That said that for millennials, we can eat the same
Speaker 2: stuff that people ate in the eighties, but something has
Speaker 2: changed in the food and the food or whatever we're in,
Speaker 2: like all the chemicals were in or whatever that have
Speaker 2: it making it harder to lose weight.
Speaker 1: I have put on about twenty pounds since me and
Speaker 1: Superman have gotten together, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: nothing fits behind is like growing too magnanimous portions, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, struggle is real.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean obviously, like I am, you have
Speaker 2: to be realistic, Like I know, I have thighs four
Speaker 2: days and they are never going to go away no
Speaker 2: matter what I do.
Speaker 1: But you know, you want to be your best self.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't, That's what I'm saying, Like, I
Speaker 2: want to be realistic about what your body should look
Speaker 2: like and being a hell healthy version of yourself. That's
Speaker 2: what's important. And it took me a long time to
Speaker 2: learn that. I used to beat myself up a lot
Speaker 2: when I was.
Speaker 1: A kid about one super skinny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, about you know, wanting to have like yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: a beautiful Brittney Spirits sized bottom, Okay, and that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff like that's.
Speaker 1: Never gonna happen, you know, it's so crazy. I remember,
Speaker 1: like I was super super I was abnormally skinny as
Speaker 1: a kid, like so much so that like they used
Speaker 1: to take me to the doctor to say, like what's
Speaker 1: wrong with her? And they were just like nothing, she
Speaker 1: just bones because I was at a big eater. And
Speaker 1: then I but I always had like this little bubble butt,
Speaker 1: like it was like one of these butts that were
Speaker 1: so random because you're like so skinny, They're like, wait,
Speaker 1: you turn around and say, what in the world's going
Speaker 1: on back there? And I remember I was on the
Speaker 1: tennis team. So I went to like an almost all
Speaker 1: white high school to you little browns here and there,
Speaker 1: and I was on the tennis team, and I was
Speaker 1: wearing a tennis skirt, and so my skirt it's like
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, tennis skirts are like mid
Speaker 1: thigh in the back, and it was like grazing the
Speaker 1: bottom of my behind in the or mid thigh in
Speaker 1: the front, and in the back it was like up
Speaker 1: hiked up. And so I remember the girls from the
Speaker 1: tennis see and they're like tivioty pulling down my skirt
Speaker 1: one day, like your skirts up and then what is
Speaker 1: that like trying to wear a skirt as a Yeah,
Speaker 1: but especially like a little skirt, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my booty. It's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: I wear this skirt today and I'm pulling down the back.
Speaker 2: You have to buy a size banger.
Speaker 1: You have to get tailored, yeah, because then your thigh
Speaker 1: and your booty is one thing, and then your waist.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I'm a six in the ways and
Speaker 1: I'm a fourteen and thig.
Speaker 2: It always looks good in the front, but then you
Speaker 2: turn around in the profile and then it's like shorter.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But you know what I've learned though, I've learned
Speaker 1: like my silhouette, like cause I have like I don't
Speaker 1: really have much of a bust, So I learned that
Speaker 1: like you know, like I do the dresses that kind
Speaker 1: of are like snatched, like fit and flare. That's what
Speaker 1: I've learned. It works really good from my body side,
Speaker 1: like okay, fit and they kind of like flare out.
Speaker 1: But and honestly, like I've put on like way or weight.
Speaker 1: But I was looking at myself the other day and
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, Tiffany, I love your shape.
Speaker 1: I don't you know. I know I'm not skinny like
Speaker 1: I used to be anymore, but I don't I don't
Speaker 1: want to, just want to be healthy and fit and firm.
Speaker 1: So I've been going back to the gym for that,
Speaker 1: not necessarily to lose weight like I was originally like,
Speaker 1: I want to ge skinny, and I'm like why. Drew's
Speaker 1: like why, I mean Superman. Sorry, I hear that he's
Speaker 1: not gonna listen.
Speaker 2: I mean say he will, but then when he won't,
Speaker 2: mention that that he didn't listen.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Superman is like what what you know? The
Speaker 1: men's love it. They're like, yes, Mandy, keep that weight.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I am dating a Dominican. Yeah, so you already know
Speaker 2: he's like more rice and beans for you. You love yourself
Speaker 2: and then you find someone else you also love it exactly.
Speaker 2: So yay Shanna Rhimes. Oh and just a quick shout out.
Speaker 2: My dad lost like one hundred pounds. He had gastic
Speaker 2: bypass surgery, and I'm proud of him because, like I said,
Speaker 2: even if you get gastric bypass surgery, that's not a
Speaker 2: band ad. I mean, that's not like a one and
Speaker 2: done fix. You have to really, you can stretch your
Speaker 2: swomming back out. I have had family members who have
Speaker 2: lost the weight, gotten the surgery, gone through all that hell,
Speaker 2: and then put on double what they weighed before. Because
Speaker 2: it's a lifestyle thing. And I'm proud of my dad.
Speaker 2: He's always texting me photos of like the soup and
Speaker 2: like the salads he's making and chopping up his Oh
Speaker 2: my god, he sent me them. This had to be
Speaker 2: the most Southern like ghetto photo my dad's ever sent me.
Speaker 2: He so hill one of his friends brought him, had
Speaker 2: just harvested her garden or whatever. She had a bunch
Speaker 2: of turnip greens, and he's like, look all these greens
Speaker 2: and I washed them. Look this way I washed them.
Speaker 2: He texted me a photo of all the greens in
Speaker 2: its washing machine, like his, his laundry machine. Yes, that's
Speaker 2: how he washed the greens. And he just couldn't he
Speaker 2: could not understand why. I didn't understand why, Oh Papa
Speaker 2: would drug He's never gonna find a wife all you
Speaker 2: never know, he doesn't want one.
Speaker 1: But well there you go.
Speaker 2: Oh, well that's my dad for you know. Yay yay Daddy,
Speaker 2: Yay Shonda rhymes and yay Marcia barn.
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Speaker 1: reviews really really really help, and just keep keep sending them.
Speaker 2: So emails are nice, that were tweets, but please leave
Speaker 2: us reviews and send us a screenshot because we're going
Speaker 2: to be announcing the winner of our iTunes review giveaway
Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks and we'd love to have
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, this has been lovely as usual, Mandy.
Speaker 1: Mandy looks so pretty today. Gal, She's got like her
Speaker 1: hair all done up.
Speaker 2: I did my band two nuts, two strand twists and
Speaker 2: bands busy last night. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I know she's got like a cute outfit. I was like,
Speaker 1: where you going? Meanwhile, I haven't like tights and like
Speaker 1: a big shirt. Alyssa was like, I mean, supergirl, I'm
Speaker 1: mess and she looks like we're you. I have like
Speaker 1: read chucks on Converse. They my family told me before
Speaker 1: I left, you look like Punky Booster. Some of y'all
Speaker 1: youngins don't even know what Punky Booster is. Google it.
Speaker 2: I have Punky.
Speaker 1: Oh well yeah, but you're like Moonfry whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I look very like twelve years old, and
Speaker 1: Manny looks like very sophisticated ladies.
Speaker 2: All right, stop best version of yourself.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, I mean I think I look cute, but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, yeah, cut in the ten year
Speaker 1: old one. All right. Bye. Got By