WEBVTT - Started From The Bottom...Now We Here! 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:03.880 But what's up? What's up? This is Robin Dixon, co 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.760 host a Reasonably Shady, which has just been nominated for 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.560 an N double A CP Image Award in the Outstanding 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.440 Arts and Entertainment Podcast category. This is so big for 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.080 Gizelle and I and of course we must thank all 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:21.400 of our fantastic listeners. But we need your help. Visit 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.920 vote dot M double A CP Image Awards dot net 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.920 to vote for Reasonably Shady. That's vote dot n a 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:33.360 A CP Image Awards dot net. But don't wait. Voting 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.560 closes on February five at nine pm Eastern, and make 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.320 sure to listen to Reasonably Shady every single Monday on 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:56.200 the Black Effect Podcast Network. Welcome to Reasonably Shady. This 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.480 is just L Briant here and I am here with 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.000 hello everyone. My name is Robin Dixon. Yes, this is 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.920 our Reasonably Shady podcast. This is our first podcast. Guys, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:07.240 we don't know what the hell we're doing, but just 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.480 bear with us because we're going to figure it out 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.000 and by the time we're like on episode I don't know, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.920 twenty eight will be great. So we do kind of 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.240 want to tell people how we met, right, Well, I 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.200 think we should start off with, um, just why are 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.679 we Why is this podcast called reasonably Shady? That's very important, um, 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.800 So to know us is to know that Robin is 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:34.640 extremely reasonable. She's like practical, She's always like Switzerland. She 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.200 always tried to see the good in people. And I'm 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:42.600 just shady. Okay, Yes, so Geselle's first um reaction to 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.760 something is a shady one, and then I think about it, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.720 I processed it, and then I try to be like Robin, 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.280 which is very reasonable, but it doesn't really work. I 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.520 just stay on the shady side. Yes, you sure do. Yes, 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.040 I mean, but sometimes you don't take that much convincing. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.400 I have to, like, you know, we'll have a private reversation. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.880 I say, well, look at it this way. Sometimes I 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.440 get through to you. Yes, but yes, so welcome to 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.880 Reasonably Shady, where you will get a lot of reason 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.400 and a lot of shades. Yes. Absolutely. Now I can 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.440 say that a hundred years ago, I moved to Baltimore, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.840 I got married, and um, me and my husband at 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.000 the time went to the car wash, and who did 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.680 I see but this beautiful woman. And I was like, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.520 oh my gosh, she really pretty. She kind of looked 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.720 like me. You know what, I'm saying, and beautiful. Yes, 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.160 that's why she was beautiful. But no, I saw her 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.160 and I was like, Wow, she's really really beautiful, and 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.360 I thought to myself, I wonder who that is. Then 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.120 years later I was at a party long behold, this 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.840 beautiful woman was introduced to me by our French charies. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.880 So sheis invited us both to a charity event. Um, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.880 one of the biggest, you know, one of the biggest 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.000 charity events in the city of d C. All the 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.640 women look forward to it when everyone gets pissy drunk. Um. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.280 So everyone was pissy drunk at this charity event except 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.160 for us maybe probably like a little bit. I was 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.480 probably partaking. We ended up at the same table, sitting 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.520 right next to each other. Yes, So once I realized 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.680 who she was, She's Robin Dixon. It dawned upon me 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.200 because when I moved to Baltimore, Robin is from Baltimore 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.680 that everybody kept asking me was I related to Robin Dixon? 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.840 And I was like, I don't know, no, Robin Dixon, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.920 and who the hell is Robin Dixon? And Robin Dixon what? 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.839 So then I was like, holy shit, you're the girl 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.440 everybody's been asking me about and she's beautiful, so I 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.920 don't mind being related to her. We're not related, but 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:40.680 I mean, you know exactly, so we instantly became besties 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.160 and like the rest is history. But I feel like 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.560 it took like it was like we were sitting next 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.840 to each other and we instantly we're being reasonably shady. 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.840 I probably was being shady too, though, absolutely we're being 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.400 shady shady, yes, And we were just you know, observing 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.320 the people in the party, you know, making little comments 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.840 about what was going on and having a good time. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.240 And it probably took a minute, really for you to realize, oh, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.760 you're the girl from Baltimore that everyone thinks. Yes, my 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.200 cousin is right. It did take a minute. But once 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.520 I figured it out, I was like cool, Like, at 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.520 least it was somebody that I thought was cool as 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.760 opposed to an asshole. And it's you know, it's kind 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.080 of weird. It's like, even though you didn't know me, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.359 just figuring out that there was some sort of connection 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.520 and you knew people that knew me, it was like, okay, 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.120 all right, she's really cool. And then I realized that 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.200 she was the woman on the side of the metro 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.880 bus that I would see I hate robbing right now, Okay, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.320 I hate robbing because once upon a time I was 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:47.000 on metro buses as a billboard. Not because um, I'm 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.600 wanted for like a crime or something. Well no, no, no, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.359 you weren't on the bus for a crime, but you 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.720 were like laying on top of your then husband Jamal, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.400 like to our church. Yes, okay, they were very cute. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.039 It was. It was very cute, and I was on, 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.640 look are you hating the picture? I need I have 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.600 to find a picture of these pusses. I mean I 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.960 would literally be like, Oh, who's that woman on the 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.840 side of the bus. She's pretty? Like who are the 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.600 robin is hating on my past? Yes? I like it 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.760 was so we were like instantly I was like, oh, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.240 that's the woman outside of the bus, and just I 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.680 was like, oh that's the woman that everyone thinks it's 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:27.640 my cousin. And we were, you know, both silly, goofy, 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.600 having fun, laughing, instantly hit it off. Yes, yes, And 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.560 then years later, um, we got a call about a 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.080 show called The Real Housewives Potomac and we've rocked that 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:42.760 out for I don't know, several seasons. So it helps 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.960 solidify I mean we were already best these before then, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.320 but it really helped with our relationship. And we've had 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.120 each other's back on the show. They've been trying to 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.840 tell us apart, but we have had each other's back, 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.600 and I like, totally appreciate that. By the way, I 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.400 appreciate that. Thank you. Oh, I mean that's what real 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:02.160 friends do. Yes, absolutely, Um, so can we talk about 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.600 the Real Housewives of tom How we got here? So 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.880 just that will tell you. So when they first started 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.800 casting for a show for Bravo, um, you know, they're like, oh, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.880 they're looking for an ensemble cast of women in the 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.279 in the DC area. And Zell had already been talking 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.480 to a casting director and Saris had already been talking 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.719 to the same casting director. And they said, well, Carl Robin, 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.240 because you know, she's our friend, she'd be great, blah 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.080 blah blah. And I want to say I was already in. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.479 They liked me. Yeah, she was already in. So the 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.080 casting director calls and so so they're both like, Rob 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.520 when you talk to the casting director, I'm like, for what, Like, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.599 I mean, I don't got nothing going on. I was 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.080 going through like I was. My life was in shambles. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.080 I will be honest about that. Um, you know, financially, 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.160 we were in a bad place, my relationship was in 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.240 a bad place. All that type of stuff. Um, I 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.719 think I was divorced by them. Yeah, you're definitely divorced. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.799 So I was like, I'll talk to him, but whatever. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.480 I talked to him, and in my first you know, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.280 I'm like, not in my opinion, not auditioning for show. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.440 I'm having a conversation. So my first you know line 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.360 with him, he was like, you know, tell me about yourself. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.080 I was like, well, I don't live that life bad. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.880 I should have prepped Robin and I did. I'm like, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.040 I'll be honest, I'm not living that life. And so 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.880 he called either Giselle or she reasons like I hate her. Okay, 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.240 So I'm gonna give the story how it really happened. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.560 So I was in. I was good to go, and 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:25.840 they were like, do you have any friends? And I 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.560 was like, yes, Robin, and you're gonna call her and 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.960 she's gonna be amazing. And so they called this person 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.040 that I had hyped up like I was a hype woman. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.840 I was like, she's amazing. And then Robbin is on 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.080 the phone, like not giving a ship. So the guy 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.560 immediately called me back and was like, um, I hate 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:45.440 her and she's out, And I was like, oh hell no, callarback, callarback, callarback. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.040 So it took Robin a minute to be nice to 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:54.040 casting and so finally, you know, they obviously loved her, 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.160 and the rest is history. Every day I'm still like, 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.440 how did I get on this show? Because I told 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.960 him call robbing back? Right. Um, But it's been fun. 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.840 It's been a journey and most of you who watched 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.400 the show have seen our relationship. And you know, I 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.280 think the name of our podcast reasonably shady? Is it? 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.920 You probably think it fits us? Yes? Yes, So how 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.080 do we get to this podcast? All right? We gotta 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.360 talk about the pandamn demmic, okay, because that is what 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.760 it is. Um. And like I think, during the beginning 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:31.040 of the pandemic, we decided for whatever reason, to have 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.960 an Instagram live together because we were bored, y shitless, 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.840 we were bored. We missed each other, and so we 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.440 did that. And we don't get on Instagram a lot, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:46.679 like we're not, you know, addicted to social media. So um, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.160 that was kind of like the first time in a 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.520 really long time. We had gotten on Instagram Live together. Yeah. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.640 Did you even have lashes at that point? Did you 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.760 have some lashes on it? Because I think I look crazy. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.400 You might have had a termine on my head or something. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.000 You had a term I have like my hair like 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.280 on a ponytail top of my head. The pandemic hit. Okay, 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.280 can we talk about like the pandemic hit? Um? And 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.160 I was like, oh, yes, I mean I was like 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.239 kind of loving in it, pers because I was like, Oh, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.000 I don't have to get my hair done. I don't 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.560 have to get to my lashes done. I don't have 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.640 to put on clothes. I don't have to And that's 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.559 a dream for Robin, for everyone to know, that is 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.800 Robin's dream in life to never have to do any 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.560 of those things anything. I didn't have to get my 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.000 nails done. I let my nails fall off. I still 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.640 haven't put them back on. What else? Um? Um? You 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.360 had on sweatpants every day? Pants every day. I was 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:41.160 drinking wine at ten a m. And eating chocolate cake 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.559 at four am. Wait wait, I remember Robin called me 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.600 and she was like just how oh my god it 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.000 was midnight and I had I just polished off an 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.320 ice cream bar. I can't do it anymore. And I 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:55.160 was like, back away from the refrigerator, back away. It 0:09:55.240 --> 0:10:00.079 was hard. I gained like a good fourteen pounds the 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.240 pandemic during that, like that first two months of the pandemic, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.480 I gained fourteen pounds for sure. And then a light 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.920 switch went off and I was like, I hate food. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.000 I don't want to Yes, I was like, I don't 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.640 want to eat. I don't want anything. So now, like 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.719 this has been going on till this day. Um, I've 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.840 only had a bar. It's everyone, It's eight thirty at 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:27.920 night PM and I've had one bar. Like, okay, but Robin, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.280 we can eat. I mean, we don't have to go 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.560 that far. I know. But something happened. I mean I 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.840 still eat, but it's like I'm not hungry. I went 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.320 from eating all day, all night, staying up until like 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.240 four in the morning and just pigging out to not eating. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.679 Like so you're like a bear in hibernation, Yes you 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:53.960 have stored up fat and then yes, but right so 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.760 I decided, Like for me, it was kind of similar, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.160 like one day I woke up and I was like, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.880 I'm not cooking anymore. And I have children, and I 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.800 was like, I don't care if they starve, because there's 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.600 gonna be no food being cooked up in this home. God, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.640 I'm done, yes, because at first we were cooking all day, 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.360 three times a day. Now I am proud to say 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.520 I am like a Platinum plus tier member of Chick 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:23.200 fil A. Like I mean, I can't because I'm right 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.920 behind you. Ever, the highest reward level is I'm that 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.040 should I redeem my rewards for free cookies, for a 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.880 free chicken sandwich? For like? Is this on an app? 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.960 I gotta get on the app. What I'm not on 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.920 the air, You're not on the What am I missing? 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:46.360 You're missing free chicken sandwich and free nuggets and free Okay, 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.439 I'm doing it now, I'm doing it. Now, I'm doing 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.480 I'm getting on the Scott Damn app. All right? Do 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.800 you are they delivering to you? So what I do 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.719 is I drive up to the mall where the Chick 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.000 fil A is, I give my kids my card and 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.600 I sit in the car and they go in there 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.680 and get the food and to come out. So I 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.199 need to get the app. What I do is I 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:13.440 opened the app and I hit repeat last order you know, like, yes, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.679 the app. I want my room, I want my rewards. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.760 I have already told people I am the cheapest richest woman. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.720 You will let the meat. Okay, I want my god 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.360 damn rewards. Okay, all right, well we got sidetrack robbing, 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.760 so no, I know, but I feel like all of that, 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.880 Like it's hard to talk about a pandemic and not 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.000 talk about all the ship that we were. Yeah, that's true. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.680 And it was literally it was a lot because Robin, 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.760 you and I were sending each other menus, I mean 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.880 not menus. We were sending recipes of different food that 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.240 we could cook. And none of it was um, like 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.959 fat free. None of it was like the skinny portion. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.400 This was all like food food you're looking good, yes, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:57.240 with butter. So that had to stop. That stopped. That 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.080 was horrible. Um. But I feel like, you know, clearly 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.240 were coming out of the pandemic and I feel better 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.640 about my life. Oh me too, absolutely, And spring is sprung. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.760 That always helps. So it was a really rough patch 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:14.120 for me. Um, just this past like you know, fall, winter, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.720 and now that spring is here, it's like, okay, spring 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.600 us here. We have a vaccine, we have you know, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.560 I think we're we've just become more accustomed to life 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.319 as it is. Although I feel like we are getting better, 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.800 um and I'm feeling better about life. I am. I'm 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.400 feeling really good. And you know, we're in the State 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.240 of Maryland, and State of Maryland is doing great with 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.240 their numbers, and that's making me feel like, you know, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.120 there's there's light at the end of the tunnel. It is, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.160 absolutely but I'm still very cautious. You know, I'm not 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.280 out and about. I'm not you know, trying to be 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.920 a big gatherings. I'm not you know when I oh, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.319 my god, do you see all these spring Breakers spring Breakers, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.640 I've lost their damn mine. Oh my god. It is 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.800 something called a Petri dish of germs and it makes 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.360 me my stomach kurt. It's like they just like release 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.800 them from jail and they just like, but you know what, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.320 not gonna I'm not gonna throw shade because when I 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.200 get into a club, I'm at like, I can't wait 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.640 until that I'm dropping like us high. I mean right, 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.640 and I don't want to go to the club. But 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.440 when that time, I don't want to go, but I'm going, yes, yes, 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.400 you donna have a good old time. So my I 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.280 will say, my outlet has been and we still have 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.280 to get back to this how this podcast. Yes, we're 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.000 getting there. Were bear with us. This is reasonably shady. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.000 Bear with us. That's why we're here with you because 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.360 we have so much to talk about. And we go 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.640 we you know, we get on a sidetracked and we 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:36.720 come right back. But my outlet has been basketball tournament. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.280 So we have you know, want and I or I 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.000 have a youth basketball team that one coaches. I'm the 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:49.040 one is her husband fiance? Yes, husband, yes, And so 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.960 our son Corey plays on the team. Robin is the 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.280 is a boy mom, I'm a girl momm I know, yes, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.320 so boy mom. All day so we have been traveling 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.720 every other weekend to play in basketball tournaments. Um, the 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.640 kids playing mass like, it's all very socially distanced all that, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:13.640 but in the nighttime, the parents turned all the way up. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:19.440 I mean we're literally basketball parent turnout. We're literally at 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:25.320 the games with hangovers. That's a game. Yes, we are 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:29.800 turning up. And literally one weekend my son was telling 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.000 me stuff that I said and I did and I 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.960 don't remember. So, yes, those have been my releases that's 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.200 called bad mom. Just in case you'all don't know. I mean, 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.440 but mama got to be happy. Mom gotta be happy. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.360 You gotta be happy. So anyway, that's you know, I 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.040 haven't been in the club, but we have created our 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.920 own little club in the residents in Okay or not 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.680 to turn up in the residence in residence the Wyndham 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:57.920 Garden turnout. We get the ball, we get the conference. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.400 It's at the bar. Tell me what's at the bar. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.440 We have a stock bar. We have to kill it. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.760 We got what kind of to kill it because there's 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.880 different kinds stuff. Cosamiko, this is this is a horrible 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.680 turn Okay, great goose. Okay, all right, that's my drink anyway. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.040 So okay, back to where we were talking about, that's 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.720 such been your outlet for the pandemic. That has been 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.600 my outlet in the path over the past few months. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.200 Like at first I was very like, I'm not leaving 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.120 an house. I'm not going anywhere. And now it's like, okay, 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.600 these kids need to get on the basketball court and 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.080 I need to leave the house. That is like an outlet. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.440 Getting back to how we are here at this podcast, 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:43.760 people robbing went on a rant um we like we said, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.000 we we did Instagram Live together. We did one or 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:50.160 two maybe just one, I can't remember. And the feedback 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.280 that we were getting or the comments were that, oh, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.680 you know, j Robin, you'll should have a Green Knight bandage. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.560 'all should have a podcast. And and I think it's 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.920 because when we're talking to one another, the people who 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.480 are listening or watching, they feel like they're like our 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.880 girlfriends too, or our friends too, Like they're right there 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.720 in the room with us, and they're like, you know, 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.320 they're getting it, they're keeping with us, like we're not 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.800 just like talking, you know, just about the show, and 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.720 like we're literally just laughing, joking, having fun. And I 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.640 think people people really responded to that, like they were 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.280 messaging me, messaging both of us, like you guys need 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.280 a podcast, you guys need a podcast. And um so 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.240 I Robin told me. I put it out. Robin called 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.520 me and said, she said, you know, people were giving 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.600 that kind of feedback. I put it out into the universe. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.560 In other words, I called my manager and I told 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.040 her to make it happen. And here we are today. 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.520 We are on our herd. We we are on the 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.800 Black Effect. Platform. Thank you Black Effect. We love y'all, 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:54.160 and you know, I feel like this is a great way, 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.320 speaking of outlets of us to like share our stories. Um, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.360 we've been through person really a lot. You know, I'm divorced, 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.840 I got three kids. Um Robin is not really divorced, 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.679 kind of not really. She's okay, fine, she's married, she 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:15.080 has two kids, and we're both entrepreneurs. We both believe 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.639 in success. We try to get our hustle on. We 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.720 try to teach our kids, um, to be the best 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.760 people that they can be. And I feel like, um, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.040 you know, there's a lot of people out there. They 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.080 are striving for greatness. So that is what we are 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.800 going to try to bring you all week by week. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.679 But first, because we are reasonably shady, we'd like to 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:37.720 give y'all individually our reasonably shady moment of the week. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:45.240 M Robin, would you like to go first? Okay, I 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:50.320 will go first. So today at an appointment to Kit 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.640 corn Rows, Okay, explain that because is that different from 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.359 loose locks lemon locks. I need an explation because I 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.640 don't know nothing about these braids. Well me neither. That's 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:05.920 the problem. So you know, I don't know a whole 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.000 much about hair. I just typically I go to my 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:09.679 hair styles and as they do my hair, thank you. 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.720 So I don't really know the terminology for corn rows 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.640 or braids or whatever it is. So I just told 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.119 the girl I want corn rows. I'm going on a 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:19.840 trip I don't want to do with my hair. I 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.400 want some corn rows. And she's like, well, what stou 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.800 do you want? I was like, oh my lord, what 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.000 do you mean? So I was like, just I said, 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.960 just do something cool, right, I'm thinking because I've gotten 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.120 corn roads before. And it literally took like less than 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.720 two hours to do. And I had all these appointments, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.520 you know, I had somewhere to be okay, called my 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.639 house to do this podcast podcast. Yes. Um, so I 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.600 was like, okay, my appointments at two, I'll be out 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:49.320 by four the latest. I can go home and you know, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.640 eat something or you know, see my kids, make sure 0:19:53.680 --> 0:20:00.400 they're cool. Yeah. Um, five and a half hours later, right, 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.199 I walk out. First of all, I had to I 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.680 texted you out probably like five times. Oh I'm running late. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.439 Oh I'm even later. Oh I'm even later, Like I 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.399 literally and it's so crazy. It's like I thought she 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.040 was almost done, but she wasn't. It was like, okay, 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:17.800 there was like a patch of hair and I was like, okay, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.639 that's the last one. And I was like, oh, okay, 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:25.240 now it's the last one. And then it was like, so, oh, 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.760 here is reasonably shady you to me because you late 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.960 or the lady that did your hair to you. I'm 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.920 gonna say me because I did not tell her. I 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.639 was on a time constraint, okay, you know, like and 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.640 it's like once she started doing her thing, it's too late. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.600 You know. I couldn't be like, wait, wait a minute, Um, 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.439 this feels like it's taking a little bit longer, like 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:46.280 you know, when I got like half my hair braided. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:50.480 So they're very cute. By the way, Robbel looks really cute. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:52.160 For those of you all cannot see us, she looks 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.040 very very cute and she's a very pretty woman. And 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.359 that's why we love her. Even though she was two 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:02.000 hours late. I was too. It's really more like three 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.320 three late. Latest spot there there we go. There we 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.639 are just late. So so I am the shady person 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.719 because you're okay alright, so um, and just to know us, 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.720 just to know that I was always on time. I 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:18.640 lived by that. I don't know where that came from. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.000 In my life. I'm a virgo. Yes, I'm always on 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:24.480