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Speaker 1: Hey guys, this is Marie and this is Sydney, Washington,
Speaker 1: and you're listening to the Unofficial Expert there it is. Well,
Speaker 1: we just we just smart, like we're smarted. As an
Speaker 1: SX teen hundred SAT scores, I was an expert this week?
Speaker 1: What at catching up with my friends? Oh? That sounds terrible.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? How are you an expert at
Speaker 1: catching up with your friends? I always just throw that
Speaker 1: text like hey, how you doing? You get And I
Speaker 1: always try to make plans, which I know that I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do, but I just just throw them out
Speaker 1: there so they know that I'm thinking to them, Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: and do that with how many people? I did that
Speaker 1: with seven people? Seven? You got seven extra friends? Seven people?
Speaker 1: And when are you gonna see these seven people? I
Speaker 1: guess well they come to the warm up, they actually come,
Speaker 1: they see us, They're like, you got time for Marie,
Speaker 1: you don't have time for us? I was like, this
Speaker 1: business business only.
Speaker 2: Wait, what do you really do that? You do that
Speaker 2: every week you message somebody just out of the blue.
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes I see my friends on Snap having a
Speaker 1: good time without me, and I just gotta let them know, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, you can invite me, so I could say, no.
Speaker 2: See, that's why I'm not on Snap. I'd rather not
Speaker 2: know what you're not doing. I don't care.
Speaker 3: I don't I'm not.
Speaker 1: Good at that.
Speaker 3: I feel like I need to be a better friend.
Speaker 1: For sure. This week I was an expert at not
Speaker 1: being a good friend.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, like people call me and I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I don't have time. Or people send me that hey,
Speaker 2: like you do this a lot. You'll send Hey and
Speaker 2: then nothing else. And I'd be like, well, what did
Speaker 2: you like? Sit Hey, Comma and the rest of the
Speaker 2: stuff that you hit me up to ask.
Speaker 1: That's how you get them, That's how you let them know.
Speaker 1: Like I was thinking of you, I'm not gonna finish this,
Speaker 1: but I started it.
Speaker 2: No, see, I don't when I get that hay or
Speaker 2: that high and nothing else. I just don't want to respond.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh it ain't no, no.
Speaker 1: Because because you're one of these people who text like
Speaker 1: a sentence at a time, I do like a sentence
Speaker 1: at a time, and I'd be like, uh, just put
Speaker 1: it all in a paragraph beginning, middle, end. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: then don't you ever see your phone conversation and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh man, this person is like blowing me up. And
Speaker 1: then you only have like one sentence. That's what you do.
Speaker 2: You send like one sentence. Hey, so I was just
Speaker 2: out and I guess what I saw? It was so
Speaker 2: and so and so and so, like every name gets
Speaker 2: like guess you blowing me up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just feel like a paragraph looks like
Speaker 1: what I was saying was way more important than what
Speaker 1: it is. No, because you know what happens is I
Speaker 1: look at my phone and it'd be like seventeen text
Speaker 1: from Sydney.
Speaker 2: I'll be like, oh what is this and it's legit? Hey,
Speaker 2: what are you doing to? I fell got my peer
Speaker 2: red like that's what like so annoying?
Speaker 1: Hey, at least I've messaged you and then see if
Speaker 1: you're doing okay. I'm a good friend to you. You
Speaker 1: are anyway, you need to keep up with your friends.
Speaker 1: How many friends do you have? I probably only have
Speaker 1: what two legit friends like that? Yeah, probably too. What's
Speaker 1: their names?
Speaker 2: Sydney and Joanne? But even that, like shed be texted me.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I be like, and she texts like.
Speaker 1: You like, It'll be like thirty thirty mistexts and I'd
Speaker 1: be like, what happened and it's legit like like and
Speaker 1: then she'll like correct her typo. Yes, I do that
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't care where the ass spell. We're already friends.
Speaker 1: It's too late. You gotta do the asterisk. No, I
Speaker 1: don't even know what what what window I got to hit?
Speaker 3: The asterisk is like, excuse me?
Speaker 1: Just in case you didn't know, I knew that I
Speaker 1: fucked up and not your whatever. Well, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to let you know that I'm smart. Okay, I already
Speaker 1: know that you stupid shit it okay speaking, I'm smart.
Speaker 1: We have a great guest today, so excited to have her.
Speaker 3: We have an expert in all things Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Okay. Our expert today is Carrie cott It yay, hi Carrie,
Speaker 1: you look very west Indian today, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Is that a bright lip, like a neonish green. I
Speaker 1: tried to have on all of the colors. It's yellow,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it's given me like a neon undertone.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Also, you came in here
Speaker 1: with grills, with fronts.
Speaker 4: With front there's a difference, there's no they're actually the
Speaker 4: same thing. But I grew up in Brooklyn in the
Speaker 4: nineties we were calling them fronts. Grills only came out
Speaker 4: in the early two thousands with like Paul Paul.
Speaker 3: Paul was a very Southern thing and he was white.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or was it nelly.
Speaker 4: Well, they all had girls, but Paul Wall was like
Speaker 4: the I think he was like a grills maker, a
Speaker 4: jewelry dude, and then he started rapping, so his girls
Speaker 4: were better than everybody else's no way.
Speaker 1: How many carrots are your grills? Your fronts?
Speaker 4: Oh, they are the lowest of the low. I think
Speaker 4: they're like ten carrots. If you go up to like
Speaker 4: twelve or fourteen, it is like four times more expensive.
Speaker 3: It jumps up that much.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh no, let me get the basic
Speaker 4: bitch fronts.
Speaker 1: That's what I want.
Speaker 3: And I'm how many teeth? How many teeth I have six.
Speaker 4: I feel like I should have gotten eight, but I
Speaker 4: have six on the bottom, and I'm gonna pick up.
Speaker 3: My gold star.
Speaker 1: Do you have nice teeth too.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just have the one cap, just a gold star.
Speaker 1: You're going to do that?
Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
Speaker 1: I'm waking it up. That's I feel like the more
Speaker 1: they gentrify, the more I have to represent and like
Speaker 1: ground myself as an original, like Brooklyn, New Yorker. Is
Speaker 1: there gonna be a diamond that you could take out?
Speaker 3: Or you're going to know you can always take them out? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a little cat you just.
Speaker 1: Like somebody's mama.
Speaker 3: I can't wait. I'm really looking forward to it that up. Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm that serious.
Speaker 1: I believe you.
Speaker 4: I would have gotten them both at the same time,
Speaker 4: but the tooth, the cap takes longer to be ready.
Speaker 3: And this was like a one day grill thing. It
Speaker 3: was like same day.
Speaker 2: It's like a It's like a gold retainer.
Speaker 3: Hmm it is. It's so much fun.
Speaker 1: Is that that's why her teeth looks good? It's so
Speaker 1: good they're marinating underneath those fronts.
Speaker 3: Oh you're so sweet?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Did you have braces? No?
Speaker 3: But I can't wait to get in visil line for real.
Speaker 1: I want to get in visil line for real. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but your teeth looks fine.
Speaker 4: They're fine, but like regular street teeth, but not on
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be on TV.
Speaker 1: Actually, speaking of that, this woman has been all over
Speaker 1: the place. She was on the nightly show joking off
Speaker 1: mm hmm, various things. Comedy, knock out, comedy, knockout, bang
Speaker 1: bang bank. You're just getting it in. You had an
Speaker 1: awesome year, I think, and last year too. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the year is almost over. Yeah, you hadn't can't
Speaker 1: believe this year. I know, were so old times flying
Speaker 1: way too fast. That means that means we're old.
Speaker 3: No, we're good, and that means we're busy. Yeah, getting
Speaker 3: it done. Speak for yourself.
Speaker 1: So old three. Yeah, we can't curse you're old. And
Speaker 1: so you're our expert of Brooklyn and you actually have
Speaker 1: a show called Brooklyn Stand Up.
Speaker 3: Brooklyn Stand Up?
Speaker 1: Where that name come from? I mean the name is great.
Speaker 4: Well Brooklyn stand up business thing. It's something we always said, like,
Speaker 4: were you at Brooklyn stand Up?
Speaker 1: It's a thing? Is it like funk flex Big Cat
Speaker 1: the Tunnel? Like do they say yeah? Maybe?
Speaker 3: Because It's like because DJ Clue. You know, there's certain things.
Speaker 4: When you say it's Brooklyn in the house, everybody goes
Speaker 4: without a doubt. I haven't done that in Brooklyn places.
Speaker 4: And some people don't know what I'm talking about the house.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, yeah, but you did that in the
Speaker 4: nineties or early two thousands. It is Brooklyn in the house,
Speaker 4: everybody without a doubt, you know what I mean. So Brooklyn,
Speaker 4: stand up, you're represent it very well. Yes, so born
Speaker 4: and raised in Brooklyn. It's the only place I've ever
Speaker 4: lived where in Brooklyn East flat Bush. And what's your background?
Speaker 4: I am as West Indian as they come. My mom
Speaker 4: is from Trinidad and my dad is from Guyana.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: You didn't know that that your dad know. I knew
Speaker 2: you were Trinny, I didn't know you were Guyanese as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know you really you really rep where your
Speaker 4: mom is from for the most part. And you have
Speaker 4: a dad like that is amazing. On everybody has a dad.
Speaker 1: Not everyone is privileged like you do.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, what if you had a shitty dad,
Speaker 3: is it still privileged?
Speaker 4: Not that my dad was shitty, he wasn't, but Okay,
Speaker 4: I know your dad, Dad's and created equals.
Speaker 1: I can tell by your teeth, like your father is
Speaker 1: in your life.
Speaker 2: I could tell my dad was in my life, and
Speaker 2: my dad has crazy Samuel Sania is dumb, crazy.
Speaker 1: Carrie, your mother is off the chain. Her body is sick.
Speaker 1: I see where you get everything from? Thank you? She repped,
Speaker 1: she reps hard. Did you go to Carnival?
Speaker 4: She goes to every carnival, all of them, all of them.
Speaker 4: She goes to Miami in October, and she goes to
Speaker 4: Trinidad in February. And we're actually fighting right now because
Speaker 4: my thirtieth.
Speaker 2: Ooh that out your thirtieth, cousins, we don't have to
Speaker 2: cut that rock.
Speaker 4: But we're actually fighting right now because I have a
Speaker 4: huge birthday trip coming up next year and she's trying
Speaker 4: to go to Carnival. And it's like, bro, you could
Speaker 4: sit out one carnival. Oh you want your mom to
Speaker 4: come to come on my birthday trip with me?
Speaker 1: I don't know if Yeah, I would never want Ramona mother.
Speaker 2: I love my mom too, but but it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of us.
Speaker 4: She's gonna bring her boyfriend and I'm gonna man, Oh
Speaker 4: she got a man.
Speaker 1: How tall is your mom? Your mom is pretty tall.
Speaker 3: She seems tall, but she's not. She's five to seven.
Speaker 1: No tall. Yeah, five to seven is as a woman
Speaker 1: is tall to me, like a dude who's seven. You
Speaker 1: don't even talk to her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just look right over him. Excuse me, I'm
Speaker 3: looking for somebody else to buy me a drink? Who's taller? So?
Speaker 3: Who is your mom's boyfriend? He's West Indian too, He's
Speaker 3: from Trinidad. He's very they're equally yoked.
Speaker 4: He wants to go to Carnival more than she does,
Speaker 4: so they party together every weekend.
Speaker 3: It's the cutest thing.
Speaker 1: Wait, now, is your mother from Brooklyn as well? Or
Speaker 1: she's from When did she move to Brooklyn?
Speaker 4: She actually moved when she was young, she did. She
Speaker 4: did high school here, so she got to Brooklyn when
Speaker 4: she was twelve.
Speaker 1: So she's a Brooklyn night. I guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's still you know she's it's Trinidad first, but yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess she's a Brooklyn night.
Speaker 1: Did she teach you everything about Brooklyn or you just
Speaker 1: kind of learned it on your you learned it along
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I learned it along the way because from my parents,
Speaker 4: I feel like I got a very Caribbean influence and perspective,
Speaker 4: and then the other stuff you pick up just learning
Speaker 4: on your own and being going to school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you know like Brooklyn was a different
Speaker 1: place than any other borough? When did you realize that?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: There's just always a sense of Brooklyn pride. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: guys on everybody else. We don't with Harlem.
Speaker 2: No queens from Harlem.
Speaker 4: Queens, Yeah, that's okay. Queens is Justine queens us Staten Island.
Speaker 4: No one talks about one wants to go there.
Speaker 3: In the Bronx. Nobody knows what happens there. We know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just don't want to go.
Speaker 1: It's on Channel seven news all the time, all the time,
Speaker 1: all the time. My mom be like, stay out of
Speaker 1: the Bronx. Every time I turn on the news, there's
Speaker 1: a fire or a stabbing. I had a boyfriend in
Speaker 1: the Bronx and I went.
Speaker 3: It was like a law and distance relationship. No, she lived,
Speaker 3: I lived in Harlem. She was just crossing the street.
Speaker 1: He had corn rolls and beats in uptowns and a cat.
Speaker 1: A cat, Yeah, you had a cat. He was the
Speaker 1: only person in the Bronx that I was like, has
Speaker 1: a cat. There's that's not.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like a street cat that like came in
Speaker 2: and sat down and didn't like he.
Speaker 1: Went to pick up a cat. No, it was a
Speaker 1: fluffy cat like it looked like from the a SBC
Speaker 1: A no to Okay, I brought it down, was my Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody you meet like the Bronx stuck the.
Speaker 3: Shout out to pt.
Speaker 1: That's right. He was awesome. He represented the Bronx.
Speaker 3: Right, he says, the Bronx.
Speaker 1: The Bronx hope of the hood. He was here. He
Speaker 1: was a Bronx expert.
Speaker 2: So, uh, tell us, like your like most Brooklyn memory,
Speaker 2: Like what's something that you're like, this would only ever happen.
Speaker 4: Here, something that will only ever happen in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Or something just like it happened. You're as Brooklyn like
Speaker 1: that that there.
Speaker 3: Probably well I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, like my experiences they have happened to them.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well in high school I was I used to
Speaker 5: I was kind of a terror in high school and
Speaker 5: I went to Brooklyn Tech High schools that school that okay,
Speaker 5: we went to Tech.
Speaker 4: Well it's a gifted school. It's a school for nerds.
Speaker 4: It's like it's it's it's one of the specialized high schools.
Speaker 4: But there were so little black kids in there that
Speaker 4: we sort of had to like band together and be like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're smart, but you ain't gonna come up here and
Speaker 4: jump us. And other students used to come from like
Speaker 4: other schools, like the bad schools. They would come up
Speaker 4: to Brooklyn Tech because they were just like, oh, these
Speaker 4: smart kids are victims.
Speaker 3: So they would come up.
Speaker 4: They would rob the Asian kids and they would rob
Speaker 4: anybody that they could rob. And we were kind of like, nah,
Speaker 4: we we smart, but we could. And I remember I
Speaker 4: feel like every school there's a McDonald's where the fights happened.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is about Donald's and high school.
Speaker 2: There's always a McDonald's, like right on the front or
Speaker 2: across the street from my high school.
Speaker 4: Always yeah, and that's where everybody used to meet up.
Speaker 4: And I remember one time I had to fight. Me
Speaker 4: and my friends had to fight with another group of
Speaker 4: girls and some dude came in and it was just
Speaker 4: like no, don't jump and not fight, and me and
Speaker 4: the girls were just fighting against.
Speaker 1: We all just flipped this dude. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: a very Brooklyn thing.
Speaker 3: To do, Like, get out of here.
Speaker 1: Wait, he tried.
Speaker 3: He come in. He came in to try to fight
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 4: In hindsight, I'm sure he was trying to break it up.
Speaker 4: When you see some old dude named Oldest with a
Speaker 4: Jerry curl and he's just pulling pulling chicks off of
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a major place. What.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you beat up this poor old man.
Speaker 2: See that's why I will. I've never broken up a
Speaker 2: fight in my life.
Speaker 1: No, I would never. I'm not about to get scratched
Speaker 1: or get my iPhone. I don't even want to get
Speaker 1: in a fight. No, let alone break up a fight.
Speaker 3: I mean, I slow down if a fight is happening
Speaker 3: and it looks like.
Speaker 1: And then you'll have her phone out, like no, I don't.
Speaker 3: Put my phone out.
Speaker 1: I won't put my phone out because I don't.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna You're not gonna World start.
Speaker 1: No, I don't even know how one submits videos. I
Speaker 1: was wondering about that. I don't see enough Brooklyn fights
Speaker 1: on World Star.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they get a million videos a day. How
Speaker 2: do they like go through to find the right ones
Speaker 2: at World Star.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Sidny, you've been a world Star.
Speaker 1: How do they do it? Well, you have to be
Speaker 1: on a hoverboard with a dildo on it. That's how
Speaker 1: you gotta do it. You gotta have a blue skirt
Speaker 1: from Rainbow, probably a probably a dusty wig. You gotta
Speaker 1: do things you gotta do to be on there. Carrie,
Speaker 1: what's like the dudes of don'ts of like breaking it
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn? You know what?
Speaker 4: I was on the train and I drive, so I
Speaker 4: don't take the train a lot.
Speaker 1: And what kind of car you got carried? It's a
Speaker 1: little hatch bag wagon.
Speaker 2: It's sexy, it's silver, fuzzy dice, you got buzzy day?
Speaker 1: No you got? Does it have fronts?
Speaker 3: Fronts on the front of the.
Speaker 4: No, I don't have my car is very practical. I
Speaker 4: only trick myself out. I don't check out.
Speaker 1: You ain't got no sun rooftop, no nothing, no crazy.
Speaker 4: I was on the train last or the night before last,
Speaker 4: driving coming into Brooklyn. It was probably after midnight, and
Speaker 4: I saw this lady with her fifteen inch MacBook gleefully typing.
Speaker 4: I was fucking enraged. I was enraged because I was like, Brooklyn,
Speaker 4: we slipping. Ain't no way in hell this bitch should
Speaker 4: be this comfortable. Yes, you're too comfortable.
Speaker 3: It was a MacBook. Yeah, it was a MacBook Pro.
Speaker 3: When she's I wanted.
Speaker 4: To a trian go on to bed, start like I
Speaker 4: wanted to snatch her fucking her laptop, just to let
Speaker 4: her know that it gets that real.
Speaker 3: And stealing your toes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but that's the thing Brooklyn has changed so
Speaker 2: a SMA. There's the Starbucks on Myrtle Avenue now like
Speaker 2: a Starbucks.
Speaker 1: And a pole and breaks my heart.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: It literally it breaks my heart so much that one
Speaker 4: day I was driving and I saw a beer garden
Speaker 4: open up on a Bergen and something and I just
Speaker 4: started I literally started crossing.
Speaker 1: It's done.
Speaker 2: My sister was like, what's wrong. I'm like everywhere, it's
Speaker 2: everywhere in my mind. When I see a Starbucks, that's
Speaker 2: when I know. It's like, it's the Starbucks on Eastern
Speaker 2: Parkway now in Franklin.
Speaker 3: Is this, yes?
Speaker 2: And every time I pass it, I get I don't
Speaker 2: get no, I don't think.
Speaker 1: It's a Starbucks. It's an American apparel. Because when they
Speaker 1: put the American apparel on Harlem. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was up there the day. I was like, we
Speaker 1: are done zo No Harlem been done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that's the upper or whatever side.
Speaker 1: It's so hot. It's so hot, so people can use
Speaker 1: their laptops on the a t ring now. But what
Speaker 1: was like something that you couldn't do? I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe that you couldn't do that.
Speaker 4: You couldn't you couldn't you And I'm not trying to
Speaker 4: it out like it was a super dangerous place, but
Speaker 4: you understood that there are people that are suffering, that
Speaker 4: there's a level of privilege, and there's a level of
Speaker 4: things that you have access and resources to and you
Speaker 4: kind of don't flaunt it in front of other people
Speaker 4: that yeah, and they flaunt and it's sort of taunting almost,
Speaker 4: it's like I'm daring you.
Speaker 3: So I mean Brooklyn, Brooklyn's change.
Speaker 4: My boyfriend talks about it all the time because he's
Speaker 4: a real Brooklyn dude.
Speaker 3: He is like mister Brooklyn where.
Speaker 1: He's New York.
Speaker 4: He's always like that is he should have been on
Speaker 4: this podcast. He is always talking just about how Brooklyn
Speaker 4: changed because we lost our identity and Brooklyn used to
Speaker 4: mean something. Brooklyn music used to sound a certain way.
Speaker 4: Brooklyn rappers used to have a certain sound. Now you
Speaker 4: got designers sounding like he from the South. I didn't
Speaker 4: know he was from New York may neither. I met him,
Speaker 4: and I said, what's part of Brooklyn you from? I
Speaker 4: don't know what the fun part of Brooklyn he's from.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like Vinegar Hill or something like. I
Speaker 4: have no idea, but so I think I think Brooklyn
Speaker 4: is losing what it means and people are trying to
Speaker 4: come in and redefine it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's it's getting diluted, I think is what
Speaker 2: it is, right is people move into these into all
Speaker 2: these neighborhoods and to them. And you know how when
Speaker 2: when a neighborhood is like want to come up or
Speaker 2: they gentrify, they changed the name of the neighborhood, like
Speaker 2: it's respect Lefford's Gardens into the flabersh.
Speaker 1: Now it's like and.
Speaker 2: It's like people come in and they think that that's
Speaker 2: what it is, because that's what all they know, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But there's some places in Brooklyn that are still brooking,
Speaker 1: like her Narzi.
Speaker 4: Those are just the furthest and they're even starting to
Speaker 4: push it up, like they're starting to build up things.
Speaker 1: Crown Heights really.
Speaker 3: And we always share Crown Heights with the respected the spaces.
Speaker 4: But now it's Franklin and Eastern Parkway and what she's
Speaker 4: talking about, it's a whole bunch of it's gentrified. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, it's a lot of cafes. It's just so
Speaker 4: a cafes cafe for sure. What if it's black.
Speaker 2: One of the looks the way that it looks on
Speaker 2: Franklin though Avenue is like it looks like like thirty four,
Speaker 2: like thirty fourth Street now like it's mainly white folks
Speaker 2: and then a couple of black folks who like held
Speaker 2: the one who lived there for like years and years
Speaker 2: who still have like their apartments and there are brown
Speaker 2: stones and whatever that lived there.
Speaker 3: I went to Erica bydu concert two weeks ago, and
Speaker 3: you were the only black.
Speaker 1: Girl, right.
Speaker 3: It was awesome. I love Erica.
Speaker 1: It was like my second or third time did you
Speaker 1: look her in the eyes, because I feel like when
Speaker 1: you look her in the eyes, it's over.
Speaker 4: I love her. We were really close. My friend came
Speaker 4: in and the last minute with some VIP tickets. And
Speaker 4: it was at the new Amphitheater that they built in
Speaker 4: Coney Island, which.
Speaker 3: I never heard of.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. It is amazing. It's beautiful. It's like
Speaker 1: indoor outdoor.
Speaker 4: It has like these movie theater styles seating where like
Speaker 4: white leather, they have servers coming around.
Speaker 3: It's huge.
Speaker 4: It seas like five thousand people like it was dope,
Speaker 4: and I was like, this is great for Brooklyn, and
Speaker 4: then I was like, is this not for us though?
Speaker 4: So you know the changes coming, like they don't put
Speaker 4: nice stuff in here for us. When you see something
Speaker 4: like that happening, you know, you know displacement is about
Speaker 4: to happen.
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna go up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But that, you know, eric is like the beginning. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's the beginning.
Speaker 4: If you look at let's let's let's have the same
Speaker 4: conversation five years from now and see what Coney Island
Speaker 4: looks like.
Speaker 2: It doesn't even need to be five years from now.
Speaker 2: When is the when they you know, they bring the
Speaker 2: Q train up Second Avenue to like the upper east side, right,
Speaker 2: so the Q train is gonna connect all the way
Speaker 2: to Coney Islander. So it's it's already happening. Every time
Speaker 2: I go outside, it's like a like a like a
Speaker 2: happy white man in boat shoes walking two little ass dogs.
Speaker 2: Every time I step out in my neighborhood and I'm
Speaker 2: in flappud.
Speaker 4: It drives me nuts, not only because of the people
Speaker 4: that it displaces, but also because they come into the
Speaker 4: community and and take over the community. They don't want
Speaker 4: to become a part of it. They want to do
Speaker 4: what they want to do. But they don't send their
Speaker 4: children to our schools.
Speaker 3: Nope, you know that.
Speaker 4: I don't see them their kids playing in the park.
Speaker 4: So our kids are not able to even benefit from
Speaker 4: this cultural diversity because it's still very segregated us and theirs.
Speaker 3: They come in. They you know what's so crazy.
Speaker 4: They have called three woman complaints on the ice cream
Speaker 4: trucks this whole summer. We were talking, were like, yo,
Speaker 4: we haven't heard mister softy. They don't like the noise
Speaker 4: from the ice cream truck.
Speaker 3: Wait, you called you one and told and they told.
Speaker 1: You that no.
Speaker 3: I saw an article on DNA info.
Speaker 1: You know how.
Speaker 3: It's just like the local the local water.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, they've been seeing they've been receiving a
Speaker 4: lot of complaints from people, and you know it's the
Speaker 4: white people and the GENI side the.
Speaker 2: Ice cream trucks. Yes, that's a beat that even they
Speaker 2: can follow. Right, So I had like a slave song.
Speaker 2: I feel like, how atle bit about it?
Speaker 1: And he's like, that's actually a slave catch the store
Speaker 1: like that song.
Speaker 2: I was in my I was in my kitchen last night.
Speaker 2: My roommate is a white girl from Connecticut. She like,
Speaker 2: that's how that's who she is.
Speaker 3: And she was like.
Speaker 1: Is there an ice cream an outside right now? Legit?
Speaker 1: It was like ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, people like it's hot out, like
Speaker 2: people on ice cream.
Speaker 1: There's still people outside. And she was like why though,
Speaker 1: like why she's but she's the type of person who
Speaker 1: will call and complete Well wait, didn't she call the
Speaker 1: cops and tell the story? Showed tell this story. I
Speaker 1: got home.
Speaker 3: I'm minding my business.
Speaker 2: She had a little tender piece coming through because you know,
Speaker 2: she stays swiping on that, and she.
Speaker 3: Was like, oh my god, the guy downstairs this yelling.
Speaker 3: I can hear him through the floor. Can you hear him?
Speaker 3: I was like, no, I go in her room.
Speaker 2: She's like She's pressed her ear against the grounded She's like.
Speaker 1: He's so loud. That loud put you on the floor ear.
Speaker 1: She let the cop out.
Speaker 2: It was amazing, and she was like, I'm gonna call
Speaker 2: the cops. And I was like, why are you gonna
Speaker 2: do that?
Speaker 1: Because it's so loud.
Speaker 3: But she had a dude coming, she had a she
Speaker 3: had a you know.
Speaker 1: She had some tender.
Speaker 2: So she wanted it to be quiet for some tinder
Speaker 2: dick come into the house.
Speaker 1: She wanted it to be quiet for him. I guess right.
Speaker 1: So she was like, I'm gonna call I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I wouldn't never called the cops. I'm on
Speaker 1: anybody like ever. I've never dialed nine one one except
Speaker 1: when I was a kid one.
Speaker 3: And I was like, let me see what happens. They're like, good, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not something we do, no for what for why?
Speaker 2: So I was like, well, if're gonna call them, I said,
Speaker 2: don't tell them where you're calling from, don't say my
Speaker 2: apartment number, nothing.
Speaker 1: She did all of that. So she gets on the
Speaker 1: phone and I hear her go three as I said,
Speaker 1: what what did you just say?
Speaker 2: She was like, oh, they asked, and I just answered
Speaker 2: I would you could have just hung up. She's like no, no,
Speaker 2: and then a bunch of like a wave of cops,
Speaker 2: like a.
Speaker 4: Like a all the cops and she's concerned.
Speaker 1: They can set and she they probably heard her voice.
Speaker 1: And she's blonde hair and her eyes.
Speaker 4: Are maybe hazel and irritates me, like, don't come in here,
Speaker 4: don't come in here. I've like I live with my
Speaker 4: sister now in bed Stye and you know we have
Speaker 4: block parties. It's just it's just what we do in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4: People sit outside, We sit in the soup because it's hot. Oh,
Speaker 4: don't nobody got money we spend in Why we opened
Speaker 4: the fire hydrants? Why do Why does this bother you
Speaker 4: so much? Don't move in here. This is something that
Speaker 4: was happening before you got here. Don't think you could
Speaker 4: come here and be like, well, I want it to
Speaker 4: be peaceful. There's this lady that bought a house next
Speaker 4: to my sister's neighbor on the other side, and I
Speaker 4: guess they share a backyard. He always plays music on
Speaker 4: like Saturdays and Sundays, just cleaning his house. And I
Speaker 4: guess the lady had a baby. And when she brings
Speaker 4: her baby home. She's like, you know you're gonna have
Speaker 4: to turn all that music down now.
Speaker 1: Right okay?
Speaker 4: Like she's just like, oh, you know you can't do
Speaker 4: this anymore, right, you know now that me and my
Speaker 4: child are here, you know that this has to stop.
Speaker 3: You don't want to have the baby exactly that she
Speaker 3: moved in here. When you came here, I was playing
Speaker 3: music every Saturday and Sunday. Bitch bye, like get.
Speaker 1: Out of here.
Speaker 3: So what happened?
Speaker 4: He looked at her and kept playing his music. That's
Speaker 4: the story he told us. He was like, I just
Speaker 4: looked at her and was like, crank it.
Speaker 3: Up, like go ahead, bitch, oh ahead.
Speaker 2: People don't realize how important it is to have music
Speaker 2: when you clean. Yet you have to always and it's
Speaker 2: always like some old ass nineties.
Speaker 1: The crazy thing is that white people be making noise too,
Speaker 1: noise that don't have no rhythm, no beat, No, it's
Speaker 1: not even music. They just be like yelling and screaming
Speaker 1: like frat boy shit.
Speaker 3: I have let me ask you all this.
Speaker 4: This is a theory that I'm working on, and I'm
Speaker 4: pretty sure and I know you guys could probably relate,
Speaker 4: because you guys are great laughers. Do you feel like
Speaker 4: there's something irritating about the black people laughing around white people?
Speaker 4: Like there's something about our laughter that irritates them, and.
Speaker 3: You know we laugh ha ha.
Speaker 2: They're always there is literally always a complaint about black laughter.
Speaker 2: What think part of it is that they think we
Speaker 2: might be laughing at them, and we might be.
Speaker 3: There's like fifty nine percent chance.
Speaker 1: That we laughing at them, definitely, so that's what it is.
Speaker 1: And then also when we laugh like we like, you know,
Speaker 1: when children laugh, they laugh like they've never heard.
Speaker 3: Something so funny.
Speaker 2: When black people laugh, it's the same laugh we laugh
Speaker 2: on the dive, We throw our whole next back and
Speaker 2: they're like, well they can't you just hold it in.
Speaker 1: But also I feel like white people don't know how
Speaker 1: to laugh. They don't know how to let it out
Speaker 1: and have a good time. The Equasians, you know, agents
Speaker 1: cover their mouths when they call me laugh, and when
Speaker 1: they do laugh, like you laughing at that, you're laughing
Speaker 1: at that shoe string just blowing in the wind, that
Speaker 1: you're laughing at that paper bag? What's trying across the streets? Crazy? Crazy?
Speaker 1: When you think of like Brooklyn girls Carrie, Like, what
Speaker 1: do you name the whole lookar head to toe? What's
Speaker 1: the outfit look? Brooklyn girl? What would she be wearing?
Speaker 1: Because of a different kind of brook girl? Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: a name of example. When I think of a Bronx chick,
Speaker 1: I think she probably Puerto Rican. Her hair is jelled
Speaker 1: all the way down. It's the ponytail is probably wavy.
Speaker 1: She got on a white T shirt tucked into some
Speaker 1: jeans with a than belt.
Speaker 3: Jeans.
Speaker 4: Always they always get the kids Jordan's, like Spanish girls
Speaker 4: like small feet, so they.
Speaker 1: Baby Jordan's that match the belt, the coach belt, the
Speaker 1: coach and like a little like the little coaches something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Yes, so that's bronx to me. When you think Brooklyn girl,
Speaker 2: what do you think?
Speaker 4: Well, I guess if I'm thinking quintessential Brooklyn girl from
Speaker 4: like the nineties, not like Brooklyn Now, there's all different ways. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's hoop errands. Gotta have hoop errings. But some
Speaker 4: door knockers. You know, I'm from the I'm from the
Speaker 4: I'm from the coogie sweater coogie guess guest guest suits,
Speaker 4: guess denim suits, like you have to have the jackets
Speaker 4: and the jeans and and a pair of construction construction
Speaker 4: tins like that's quintessential. You always have a tin boot
Speaker 4: on always, Yeah, no matter what you need, some times
Speaker 4: you need you need a pair of terms.
Speaker 1: And I feel like the Brooklyn people, they don't have
Speaker 1: the different kind like the beef and berief and broccoli
Speaker 1: or the chicken and something. It's just mainly the construction boot,
Speaker 1: the right, the classic classic, I mean.
Speaker 4: All of that, but I think the construction boot is
Speaker 4: the constructs are the only ones now that are still trendy.
Speaker 4: Look but back in like the early two thousands, we
Speaker 4: had had every every pair I had different.
Speaker 1: I had two pairs that I tried to keep up with.
Speaker 1: The gems you had.
Speaker 3: You had like the food beef and broccoli, broccoli.
Speaker 1: Stop it, all of them.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, tims are like even tims aren't hours
Speaker 2: no more because the Kardashians were tims. Now, so everybody
Speaker 2: wears tins or about it. Yep, the classics.
Speaker 1: It's so gross's karen, do you know about this place
Speaker 1: called Casablanca?
Speaker 3: Yes, so strongly against it.
Speaker 1: Yes, so there was an older black woman who used
Speaker 1: to own it. She died. I mean it's legendary place.
Speaker 1: It's white men owning, and now they kept the name.
Speaker 1: Most of the crowd is black, but the owners are white,
Speaker 1: and they're like, I feel like they're fronting.
Speaker 4: So I happened on the inside of that because I
Speaker 4: used to work at another black owned lounge.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Voodoo.
Speaker 1: That's right, that was so great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love Voodoo and apparently I don't love voodoo.
Speaker 4: Oh the space spaces the place, not the voodoo as
Speaker 4: in the Haitian you thank you anyway, But apparently Solons
Speaker 4: was in town and she called someone up and was like,
Speaker 4: where can I go?
Speaker 1: Where's open?
Speaker 4: And at that time, Voodoo wasn't open on Monday nights,
Speaker 4: like it was the one night that they were that
Speaker 4: they were off. So they went by Voodoo and Voodo
Speaker 4: wasn't open, and then somebody was like, try Constablanca, and
Speaker 4: so Ulange went to Constablanca, had such a good time
Speaker 4: there that she was like, oh, guys, this is going
Speaker 4: to be on new spot.
Speaker 3: So she had like a birthday event there.
Speaker 4: Jay Z and Beyonce pop by, and it became this
Speaker 4: thing now where all the black people are just going
Speaker 4: there because they just think it's the cool place. It's
Speaker 4: not cool, it's it's very it's very bland. It's nothing
Speaker 4: special about it. It's small. And I only know this
Speaker 4: from hearsay because I won't step inside it.
Speaker 1: Come on, No before the.
Speaker 4: White ownership, No, because when it was maybe it was
Speaker 4: closed down for a while. Yeah, it was closed down
Speaker 4: for for a little minute.
Speaker 1: So I know.
Speaker 4: And the owner I actually know him too. It's two
Speaker 4: of them. But I just won't patronize it. I feel
Speaker 4: like there's so many great black owned businesses and I'm tired.
Speaker 4: And that's the ship that I hate about these fake
Speaker 4: woke people.
Speaker 1: It's the same.
Speaker 4: It's the same people, Like I know people that go
Speaker 4: there every day, all every weekend. It's the same people
Speaker 4: that's on Facebook, Oh this, this, that. But it's like
Speaker 4: you're not even walking that walk here. You are making
Speaker 4: costa blanca popping. They don't even serve stuff that caters
Speaker 4: to black people, like they the beers that they carry.
Speaker 3: They don't carry corona or red stripe.
Speaker 4: They carry the white people ship.
Speaker 3: So it's just like, why are you even playing yourself?
Speaker 1: And can you tell us? Can you tell us like
Speaker 1: top five black owned restaurants or spot clubs Inoklyn.
Speaker 4: Okay, Voodoo is number one, three three three, that's one Woodland,
Speaker 4: that's one. Sugar Cane is an awesome restaurant, black owned.
Speaker 4: It's it's Caribbean. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Wait, where's Sugar Cane.
Speaker 4: Sugar Cane is on Flatbush Avenue right near Barklass. Bedford
Speaker 4: Hall is another black owned spot.
Speaker 1: I did not know Bedford at all? Was ourss Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh maybe I didn't know.
Speaker 3: That besl Love Bessel.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah we went. We went there for your party. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So like like I have my go to places that
Speaker 4: whenever I throw an event, this is where I'm giving
Speaker 4: business to. Whenever I'm eating, this is where I'm going to.
Speaker 4: I've heard of Milk River. I haven't really been there.
Speaker 4: I've seen it. It's black owned. But I don't go
Speaker 4: out a lot, so I don't club, but I've heard
Speaker 4: about it. Black Swan is on Bedford. The food is popping.
Speaker 4: That's another spot that's black owned. There's BK Wine Bar,
Speaker 4: There's therapy, there's mad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's all like.
Speaker 1: Expert right here somehow some way. That's amazing. Wait, but
Speaker 1: a whole list of all these places. Yeah, Well, Carrie,
Speaker 1: has Operation Mobilized, Ye talk about that, tell us about this,
Speaker 1: let the let the followers know.
Speaker 4: Operation Mobilized is a community based resource group that I
Speaker 4: started with a couple of like my new individuals like myself,
Speaker 4: basically trying to figure out how is it that black
Speaker 4: people can become united and start to empower themselves both
Speaker 4: politically and economically. Right, I feel like we're so divided.
Speaker 4: We're getting information from all these places. Things aren't being
Speaker 4: properly vetted. We don't know what to do. Yeah, a
Speaker 4: lot of misinformation is spread. There's a lot of people
Speaker 4: spinning and wheels, and Operation Mobilized is basically just identifying
Speaker 4: the key things that are important in black people's lives
Speaker 4: in terms of civil rights, human rights, and economic and
Speaker 4: we're saying like, look, this is what's happening, and this
Speaker 4: is how, this is what we do. So in terms
Speaker 4: of like like the MPD they ask for bodycam feedback
Speaker 4: and they have a pilot program for their police cameras
Speaker 4: and they opened it up for feedback from the general
Speaker 4: public and was like, what do you think about this?
Speaker 4: No one really knew that the MPD was asking feedback.
Speaker 2: They were asking what the public things about them wearing cameras.
Speaker 4: Yes, and about their actual pilot program. So their program
Speaker 4: outlines like, you know, when the officers will be able
Speaker 4: to record things, what the protocol is, when would they
Speaker 4: be allowed to view the footage in relation to making
Speaker 4: a written statement about it? And they were like, what
Speaker 4: do you guys think about this?
Speaker 3: And no one really knew.
Speaker 4: About it, and the people that did know, they didn't
Speaker 4: know what meaningful feedback to leave. So me and Me
Speaker 4: and Operation Mobilized. We did a ton of research on
Speaker 4: different body camera programs all across the country. We looked
Speaker 4: at pair review articles that sort of already reviewed it,
Speaker 4: and we put together our own ten point lists based
Speaker 4: on what we thought the NYPD needed to implement. Like,
Speaker 4: for instance, one of the main points in their program,
Speaker 4: they said that a police officer should be able to
Speaker 4: watch the footage forsent his camera before write in a
Speaker 4: written statement in what worlds and what world could a
Speaker 4: cop shoot somebody or do anything? And then why should
Speaker 4: take first and then riteous statement. That was what they outlined.
Speaker 4: So one of our feedback was like, no, shut this down.
Speaker 4: They should not have access to it. Another thing is
Speaker 4: we thought that the footage should be uploaded to an
Speaker 4: independent third party class. Why are they recording it? And
Speaker 4: it's going to the sixty seven precinct, it's always there.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, the camera fell.
Speaker 4: Or if it turns off, or if it mouth functions,
Speaker 4: there should be a written documentation explaining exactly what happens,
Speaker 4: and it needs to be corrected. Like if there's something
Speaker 4: wrong with that camera, that model, that number, you need
Speaker 4: to recall it and do something. So we outlined all
Speaker 4: of these things.
Speaker 2: They said, I don't think they should be allowed to
Speaker 2: turn them on and off themselves. They shouldn't. But then like,
Speaker 2: as soon as their hand touches their gun, it should
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 4: But here's the thing about that is that what happens
Speaker 4: when they come into your house, you know, Like like
Speaker 4: so in times like this, we often think, oh, surveillance
Speaker 4: is great, but when shit goes back to normal or
Speaker 4: in situations in which our rights are violated, then we're
Speaker 4: gonna be like, oh, wait, this is too much.
Speaker 3: Like if the cops.
Speaker 4: You see how the cops came to call that guy
Speaker 4: underneath you in two A, what if he had weed?
Speaker 3: What if he has.
Speaker 4: Something it's recording and that that could be used against him.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that is tricky.
Speaker 2: But like if he if you're answering your door with weed,
Speaker 2: then you stupid.
Speaker 3: But like they still can't enter his house. They can't.
Speaker 4: A lot of they can if he allows them in,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. And a lot of people
Speaker 4: don't even know come back with a warrant exactly a
Speaker 4: lot of people don't even know that. So Operation Mobilized
Speaker 4: is just trying to get people to know what's going
Speaker 4: on and what to do.
Speaker 3: And we're making very.
Speaker 4: Easy where people find this information Operation Mobilize dot com.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm here for all of that.
Speaker 1: Wait, I was wondering if you guys told them that
Speaker 1: it should be like a live streaming from an independent
Speaker 1: party when the bodycam comes on, because then it will
Speaker 1: be live and someone could be watching it while it's happening,
Speaker 1: like the whole thing with the cars. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: What live streaming? When she was left streaming when they
Speaker 1: shot her on she live streaming from Facebook? So what
Speaker 1: if the big bodycam had like a third party who
Speaker 1: can watch it live while it's happening.
Speaker 4: The only thing with that is that it's who's watching
Speaker 4: it all of the cameras, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So it's one thing.
Speaker 4: So what happens is, let's say it gets uploaded to
Speaker 4: the cloud. The way that it says now is wherever
Speaker 4: the footage goes, it stays on record for six months
Speaker 4: and if there's if there's a problem, then they hold
Speaker 4: the camera longer, they hold the footage, They hold onto
Speaker 4: the footage longer. So situations like that, like it's important
Speaker 4: to just know that it's going someplace safe and if
Speaker 4: something happens, you can recall it. But I don't think
Speaker 4: anybody's gonna be watching all police officers.
Speaker 3: We're run into that. But it is a good eye.
Speaker 1: They need that though. They need that. They need as
Speaker 1: many killings that's been going on. Yeah, they need somebody
Speaker 1: watching everybody. They if everybody had a section that can
Speaker 1: be watching each I guess precinct we can get somewhere
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 3: I feel like they they know.
Speaker 2: What they should be doing, and they know how they
Speaker 2: can get this stuff done, but they're like, Eah, too
Speaker 2: much work and it's not worth it for us. Ultimately,
Speaker 2: I think that's what it is.
Speaker 1: We're glad you're doing.
Speaker 4: My issue isn't even the recording, because I saw a
Speaker 4: video of Rodney King right back there, right nineteen ninety
Speaker 4: or whatever. It was, Like, we see all of these videos,
Speaker 4: so it's the problem is what do we do when
Speaker 4: we see them wild'n out on video. It's a lack
Speaker 4: of accountability, And that's really what we're focused on. All
Speaker 4: the laws that make sure that when they do something wrong.
Speaker 1: They pay for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they should, and every time they in my mind,
Speaker 2: anytime a cop gets sued, it should come out of
Speaker 2: like their precincts pension fund because if if because they
Speaker 2: be quick to form that little thin blue line or whatever,
Speaker 2: and like none of the cops are snitching on any
Speaker 2: of the other cops, but if every time something happened
Speaker 2: it affected all of those.
Speaker 4: Cops that they worked with one of our That's one
Speaker 4: of the things I was saying too, Like if you
Speaker 4: have a if you have a police officer that's known
Speaker 4: to be a cowboy, but every time somebody files a
Speaker 4: complaint against him, y'all all lose one vacation day. Then
Speaker 4: the next time you go out with cowboy Marie and
Speaker 4: she's trying to wild out on a already lost Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: Marie Exactly, it's a non refundable.
Speaker 1: I don't know this is it's like a cult. It's
Speaker 1: like a cult, it's like a fraternity. I know.
Speaker 4: That's why if you win together, you lose together, exactly
Speaker 4: if that's how it works, and that's in most sports.
Speaker 4: Most punishments are team punishments. If your if your team
Speaker 4: captain is late, you'll all got to run the extra lap.
Speaker 3: That's how it works. Find everybody, yep, fine, carry you
Speaker 3: so smart.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're helping other communities so much. I feel it.
Speaker 3: What we gonna do?
Speaker 1: We want to test how Brooklyn you really are. We
Speaker 1: gonna give you a little wheels. Yeah, okay, this is
Speaker 1: a big deal. Okay are you ready? Are ready for
Speaker 1: me to not know nothing? That's not true?
Speaker 2: You know everything are Some of these are very quite easy,
Speaker 2: like none of this beginner, Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: You wins Brooklyn Tech. You got this, Okay, You're so smart.
Speaker 1: And now for everything that you get right, you get
Speaker 1: a point, okay, and then at the end of that
Speaker 1: you use that point to get tickets, and those tickets
Speaker 1: are going to get you, uh a new Remy weed
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 3: I haven't had a Remy weave in a jack.
Speaker 2: Look nowhere, Sydney you can give that ticket Sydney weave
Speaker 2: that she's about to put it.
Speaker 1: It's left over pieces left over. I got a bat
Speaker 1: the last installation. I showed you that bag. I got
Speaker 1: a bag.
Speaker 2: You got a bag full of hair and it's not
Speaker 2: even organized. Okay, first question, are you ready?
Speaker 1: Yes? You need a moment.
Speaker 2: You need to sit some water, get like your lifelines together.
Speaker 2: What train is not available at Atlantic Terminal.
Speaker 1: A, C E G.
Speaker 3: Do you want to keep going?
Speaker 1: I feel like you give us four girl. I thought
Speaker 1: you said the three, the four out of five, the end,
Speaker 1: the Q, the R, and the los. Not the F either,
Speaker 1: not the F F f mm hm. Okay, so that
Speaker 1: was like four points. That's four points right now, you're
Speaker 1: ahead of the game. Right, Name three classic movies that
Speaker 1: were made in Brooklyn? Do the right thing? Uh, she's
Speaker 1: got to have it? Is that one? I don't know
Speaker 1: where that movie is at. We did not do our research.
Speaker 1: We didn't I have tons of them, brown sugar. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: that's the Brooklyn There's one major one that you you
Speaker 1: have the name. You gotta know it. It's it's major.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I'm blanking out holding It's.
Speaker 1: Similar to do the right thing.
Speaker 3: But it's a Spike Lee movie Sydney.
Speaker 4: Really wait, I just want her to get it. Wait
Speaker 4: a minute, how am I losing it? Wait a minute,
Speaker 4: well let me look, let me look up.
Speaker 1: She's got to have it. You might You might already
Speaker 1: of some summer.
Speaker 3: Sam that was in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: No I don't count. Don't that don't count?
Speaker 3: How about blanking out?
Speaker 1: Got it the right? Damn? What's the one?
Speaker 3: What's the one?
Speaker 4: What's the one with the girl? He calls her name?
Speaker 4: And it was a Wesley Jungle Fever Vampire in Brooklyn. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was also in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: We were looking for Crookland, but you got the Crookland.
Speaker 1: She's got to have it was Queen Queen. So you
Speaker 1: get your you get your points for that.
Speaker 3: Uh okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: Can you name three rappers from Brooklyn? Me the Big
Speaker 1: cam fab Wait, yes, Babbins from Brooklyn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, stop it right now, shut the front door. He
Speaker 4: Bobby Designer, No, little Mama.
Speaker 1: Don't you dare?
Speaker 4: I thought she was from Harland, from Brooklyn. Tailor Brooklyn.
Speaker 4: We get our nails done at the same salon.
Speaker 1: Well maybe she lived in Brooklyn. She went to Madison
Speaker 1: High School. I thought she was from Harlem. Sorry, I can.
Speaker 3: See why you would think that.
Speaker 1: But she looks very very yeahs because I want associate
Speaker 1: her with the chicken noodle soup yeah type.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's Harlem.
Speaker 1: That's definitely with a solder on the soy, what day
Speaker 1: did Biggie die?
Speaker 3: Biggie died on March ninth in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Okay, you were like crushing.
Speaker 2: First for the bonus point, for the bonus point.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. Can you name three major streets
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn? Oh, come on, come on, just three major
Speaker 1: streets Utica, flat but Bedford, Bedford. There.
Speaker 3: Can you give us another street.
Speaker 1: Brooklyn? F I was I was actually no, yeah, or Fulton.
Speaker 4: Well, you know I'm from Flatbush. So my major streets
Speaker 4: are those that come I mean notion. Maybe there's a
Speaker 4: million streets.
Speaker 1: I know. Carrie yourself, you're so Brooklyn. Wait, let's give
Speaker 1: it up. Yay, you are the unofficial expert of Brooklyn. Carrie.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that is like a misconception of Brooklyn
Speaker 1: that you feel like you want to like clarify, like
Speaker 1: something that you're like, oh, Brooklyn's not that is this?
Speaker 4: I did hear someone White blame Brooklyn the other day.
Speaker 4: They were like, they were like, you know, it's the
Speaker 4: you know when you go to mics. It must have
Speaker 4: been some comic and they were like, I was just
Speaker 4: doing the most Brooklyn thing ever, you know, just like
Speaker 4: riding my bike, drinking.
Speaker 3: A coffee and sitting.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 4: It was something that was just I was like, Oh,
Speaker 4: it's this is what Brooklyn is to y'all, because that's
Speaker 4: not what it is.
Speaker 1: That's maybe Williamsburg, yeah, but still green Point and that's
Speaker 1: not even what williams Burg.
Speaker 2: Wast I wrote down just a short anecdote of what
Speaker 2: Brooklyn is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got these notes.
Speaker 3: I got my notes. I love carry that you.
Speaker 4: Brooklyn is bio Hydrants, double Dutch play. No, but these
Speaker 4: are just all the things from the Brooklyn that I
Speaker 4: remember by a Hydrants playing double Dutch reggae music, blasting,
Speaker 4: dancing in the street and black parties, King's Plaza Mall,
Speaker 4: Nathan's Hot Dog, the Coney Island Boardwalk in Brooklyn. We
Speaker 4: don't care where you're from or who you know, it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter. We're not impressed.
Speaker 1: Nope.
Speaker 4: Empire Skating Rink is where everybody used to go to
Speaker 4: go skating, flexing. Brooklyn. We started a whole dance movement.
Speaker 4: Dances come out of Brooklyn. Music comes out of Brooklyn.
Speaker 4: Brooklyn is Grand's Army Plaza Library on a Saturday. Kids
Speaker 4: don't go to libraries anymore.
Speaker 3: Brooklyn. It's picked Nick game in Prospect Park.
Speaker 1: Definitely, we should do.
Speaker 3: We should do. I love you Brooklyn and Brooklyn is
Speaker 3: fucked jay Z.
Speaker 1: I'm just I don't really like jay Z neither wait
Speaker 1: to speak on that.
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it because he blew up and then left.
Speaker 4: Well, it's because yeah, kind of like he didn't do
Speaker 4: anything like Listen. The thing is everybody that wants to
Speaker 4: do these things behind closed door when you're a public
Speaker 4: that could be public.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that.
Speaker 3: Jim Jones, Cameron Harlem.
Speaker 4: They they invested into the basketball courts, into the basketball
Speaker 4: courts out there. They invested into Dykeman and Brooklyn. A
Speaker 4: lot of basketball courts are closing down. Brooklyn used to
Speaker 4: be where a lot of the ballplayers go a lot
Speaker 4: of kids from Brooklyn made it to the NBA. You
Speaker 4: don't see that anymore. We lost the basketball, We lost
Speaker 4: all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Jay Z.
Speaker 1: The p a ls.
Speaker 4: All these things are closing down, all these courts and browns,
Speaker 4: these things with community, Like I just want to see, didn't.
Speaker 2: He open Barlay's No open Barley he made he put
Speaker 2: his name on it basically to help kind of push us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that we so that there wouldn't be a pushback,
Speaker 4: so that the black community, especially downtown. He used to
Speaker 4: live across the street from them on Stage Street. So
Speaker 4: it was so if jay Z got on board, then
Speaker 4: the rest of Brooklyn would back it. And I was
Speaker 4: in Brooklyn. I was at Berkley's opening night, the very
Speaker 4: first concert. We bought floor tickets. We were like, we're
Speaker 4: going to be here for Brooklyn and and it was
Speaker 4: it was a big waste of money. And I felt
Speaker 4: like jay Z played himself. I felt like he's not
Speaker 4: even affiliated with them anymore.
Speaker 1: Let that go whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt like he could have on the first concert.
Speaker 4: He could have brought so many people to Brooklyn, and
Speaker 4: he just did what he does.
Speaker 1: It was just him.
Speaker 4: You could have brought Sting to Brooklyn. You could have
Speaker 4: brought you could have brought back Foxy Little Kim so many.
Speaker 1: Yeah, inga right, I mean, we know she's she's available
Speaker 1: a long hair, can you I'm so doe.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, everything that you're saying is partially partially the reason
Speaker 1: why I don't care about jay Z either. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've never been a fan of his though, so I
Speaker 1: was never impressed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a Brooklyn It's a Brooklyn stance, Like I've
Speaker 4: made a this song about him after because I had
Speaker 4: a clothing line and I used to make sure for him.
Speaker 1: And you had a clothing line. What was it called?
Speaker 3: Save your Vanity?
Speaker 1: Okay s y V?
Speaker 2: Wait wait did you not bring the music? You would
Speaker 2: have played it if you provided.
Speaker 1: Definitely, It's on YouTube. So that was to tear me apart.
Speaker 1: We can started comedy. Send me the clip and we'll
Speaker 1: like insert it in here somewhere. That's so crazy. That's dope, girl.
Speaker 1: That was a beautiful poem. Thank you, Thank you, Carrie.
Speaker 1: You have been one of the most educated, most inspiring,
Speaker 1: most most smart, most smart small geniuses that we've had
Speaker 1: on the show. And now the edge is laid for
Speaker 1: the gods, the designs. Do you have any projects coming up? Anything, film, TV,
Speaker 1: anything we should look out for. We were watching your
Speaker 1: MTV joking off. You're killing it. Where can people see you.
Speaker 3: When does this stuff air?
Speaker 4: MTV Joking Off comes on ten thirty on Thursdays. I
Speaker 4: was just on last night's episode. They're about twenty episodes.
Speaker 4: I'm about eight of them, so you just have to
Speaker 4: see it.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. Plus is all of them. You should
Speaker 1: be on all of them. Then you You and Matt
Speaker 1: Richards so proud, very very proud of you guys.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So ever people are on that cast.
Speaker 3: There's twenty of us. Wow, it used to be. It
Speaker 3: used to be twelve or sixteen or something.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 3: The season we got more people and more episodes and we.
Speaker 1: Have more guests.
Speaker 4: Popular on MTV and we moved to TV and Brooklyn
Speaker 4: stand up every first Wednesdays. I'm doing some stuff for
Speaker 4: Brooklyn Comedy Festival. That's it, just just trying to get
Speaker 4: funny your yo, just write in.
Speaker 3: And staying on stage.
Speaker 1: You gotta girl, you have it. You guys have never
Speaker 1: seen carry perform.
Speaker 2: She puts like, like you're so physical on stage to
Speaker 2: like Carrie gets on stage.
Speaker 1: And she comes off and she'd be I don't realize
Speaker 1: how physical I am until I'm on stage.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, did I just soap through my shirt?
Speaker 1: The sweat is real.
Speaker 4: I'm also sweating right now, to be fair, and I
Speaker 4: haven't moved, so I also disorder.
Speaker 1: What I want is like, if you do your half hour,
Speaker 1: you do your hour. I just want a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of people on the front to like try to catch
Speaker 1: your sweat. Okay, that's what that's what.
Speaker 3: You know when you what you need to do is
Speaker 3: have them Beyonce fans. Yeah, I want Beyonce fans.
Speaker 4: I'm happy that we're doing this now on the record
Speaker 4: and saying that I sweat a lot, because in five
Speaker 4: years they're gonna blame it on the drugs.
Speaker 1: No drugs, but.
Speaker 3: I sweating, shaming on the crack.
Speaker 1: Carrie, you have outstanding and thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being our Brooklyn expert.
Speaker 4: It's such a can I just say this has been
Speaker 4: about me, But honestly, I tell y'all this every time
Speaker 4: I see you, there is not enough. I love what
Speaker 4: you guys are doing. You guys are an inspiration. I
Speaker 4: remember seeing y'all like all the MIC's hearing your laughs.
Speaker 4: I love how motivated y'all are. I love the friends
Speaker 4: that you guys are to each other. Please do not
Speaker 4: let anything tear that apart. I love how supportive you
Speaker 4: are of each other. I think grown girls and girls
Speaker 4: and just people that are doing dope shit need to
Speaker 4: stick together. So I'm proud of y'all and I love
Speaker 4: that every time I turn around, y'all got a new
Speaker 4: project and you got a new thing.
Speaker 3: I keep seeing you on these videos, seeing you on videos.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it out here.
Speaker 3: Thank you Black Girls Creating.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are right here. Black girls feelings Brooklyn girls
Speaker 1: don't do feelings. She does so right there. She was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, she's really saying things for the emotions.
Speaker 1: She could have said this one who way else?
Speaker 3: Don't edit this out?
Speaker 1: No we won't. We'll leave it in. You're amazing. What's
Speaker 1: your social media? Yes?
Speaker 3: Over fab short for overly fabulous.
Speaker 1: Over fat on everything on Twitter, Instagram.
Speaker 3: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.
Speaker 1: You have a fan page on Facebook as well.
Speaker 3: Carrie caught it. How you play your lesson name? See
Speaker 3: oh double double d e double double double double d.
Speaker 1: Hey, I see how you dissed ja Z And as always,
Speaker 1: I'm Marie and this is Sydney, Washington. You can see
Speaker 1: us at the warm up the second Saturday of every
Speaker 1: month at the amazing show.
Speaker 2: Carry has done it. Everyone who's been here has done
Speaker 2: the show. Yep uh Carmel Lounge seven thirty every second Saturday.
Speaker 3: Free, free, free, free people.
Speaker 1: Be sexy there, okay, and tall. We had some tall
Speaker 1: people this last show. Everybody was like six three oh,
Speaker 1: stop it. You had to raise the ceiling, raise.
Speaker 3: The roof, Sidney.
Speaker 1: We not raising. That's very harlam of you. We do
Speaker 1: not raise the roof. Guys.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go.
Speaker 2: Make sure you listen to all the other episodes that
Speaker 2: are up wherever those are, and we will see you
Speaker 2: in a week.
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