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Speaker 1: the Black Effect Podcast Network. Welcome to Reasonably Shady. This
Speaker 1: is just L Briant here and I am here with
Speaker 1: hello everyone. My name is Robin Dixon. Yes, this is
Speaker 1: our Reasonably Shady podcast. This is our first podcast. Guys,
Speaker 1: we don't know what the hell we're doing, but just
Speaker 1: bear with us because we're going to figure it out
Speaker 1: and by the time we're like on episode I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty eight will be great. So we do kind of
Speaker 1: want to tell people how we met, right, Well, I
Speaker 1: think we should start off with, um, just why are
Speaker 1: we Why is this podcast called reasonably Shady? That's very important, um,
Speaker 1: So to know us is to know that Robin is
Speaker 1: extremely reasonable. She's like practical, She's always like Switzerland. She
Speaker 1: always tried to see the good in people. And I'm
Speaker 1: just shady. Okay, Yes, so Geselle's first um reaction to
Speaker 1: something is a shady one, and then I think about it,
Speaker 1: I processed it, and then I try to be like Robin,
Speaker 1: which is very reasonable, but it doesn't really work. I
Speaker 1: just stay on the shady side. Yes, you sure do. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, but sometimes you don't take that much convincing.
Speaker 1: I have to, like, you know, we'll have a private reversation.
Speaker 1: I say, well, look at it this way. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: get through to you. Yes, but yes, so welcome to
Speaker 1: Reasonably Shady, where you will get a lot of reason
Speaker 1: and a lot of shades. Yes. Absolutely. Now I can
Speaker 1: say that a hundred years ago, I moved to Baltimore,
Speaker 1: I got married, and um, me and my husband at
Speaker 1: the time went to the car wash, and who did
Speaker 1: I see but this beautiful woman. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, she really pretty. She kind of looked
Speaker 1: like me. You know what, I'm saying, and beautiful. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's why she was beautiful. But no, I saw her
Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, she's really really beautiful, and
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, I wonder who that is. Then
Speaker 1: years later I was at a party long behold, this
Speaker 1: beautiful woman was introduced to me by our French charies.
Speaker 1: So sheis invited us both to a charity event. Um,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest, you know, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: charity events in the city of d C. All the
Speaker 1: women look forward to it when everyone gets pissy drunk. Um.
Speaker 1: So everyone was pissy drunk at this charity event except
Speaker 1: for us maybe probably like a little bit. I was
Speaker 1: probably partaking. We ended up at the same table, sitting
Speaker 1: right next to each other. Yes, So once I realized
Speaker 1: who she was, She's Robin Dixon. It dawned upon me
Speaker 1: because when I moved to Baltimore, Robin is from Baltimore
Speaker 1: that everybody kept asking me was I related to Robin Dixon?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't know, no, Robin Dixon,
Speaker 1: and who the hell is Robin Dixon? And Robin Dixon what?
Speaker 1: So then I was like, holy shit, you're the girl
Speaker 1: everybody's been asking me about and she's beautiful, so I
Speaker 1: don't mind being related to her. We're not related, but
Speaker 1: I mean, you know exactly, so we instantly became besties
Speaker 1: and like the rest is history. But I feel like
Speaker 1: it took like it was like we were sitting next
Speaker 1: to each other and we instantly we're being reasonably shady.
Speaker 1: I probably was being shady too, though, absolutely we're being
Speaker 1: shady shady, yes, And we were just you know, observing
Speaker 1: the people in the party, you know, making little comments
Speaker 1: about what was going on and having a good time.
Speaker 1: And it probably took a minute, really for you to realize, oh,
Speaker 1: you're the girl from Baltimore that everyone thinks. Yes, my
Speaker 1: cousin is right. It did take a minute. But once
Speaker 1: I figured it out, I was like cool, Like, at
Speaker 1: least it was somebody that I thought was cool as
Speaker 1: opposed to an asshole. And it's you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. It's like, even though you didn't know me,
Speaker 1: just figuring out that there was some sort of connection
Speaker 1: and you knew people that knew me, it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, she's really cool. And then I realized that
Speaker 1: she was the woman on the side of the metro
Speaker 1: bus that I would see I hate robbing right now, Okay,
Speaker 1: I hate robbing because once upon a time I was
Speaker 1: on metro buses as a billboard. Not because um, I'm
Speaker 1: wanted for like a crime or something. Well no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you weren't on the bus for a crime, but you
Speaker 1: were like laying on top of your then husband Jamal,
Speaker 1: like to our church. Yes, okay, they were very cute.
Speaker 1: It was. It was very cute, and I was on,
Speaker 1: look are you hating the picture? I need I have
Speaker 1: to find a picture of these pusses. I mean I
Speaker 1: would literally be like, Oh, who's that woman on the
Speaker 1: side of the bus. She's pretty? Like who are the
Speaker 1: robin is hating on my past? Yes? I like it
Speaker 1: was so we were like instantly I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's the woman outside of the bus, and just I
Speaker 1: was like, oh that's the woman that everyone thinks it's
Speaker 1: my cousin. And we were, you know, both silly, goofy,
Speaker 1: having fun, laughing, instantly hit it off. Yes, yes, And
Speaker 1: then years later, um, we got a call about a
Speaker 1: show called The Real Housewives Potomac and we've rocked that
Speaker 1: out for I don't know, several seasons. So it helps
Speaker 1: solidify I mean we were already best these before then,
Speaker 1: but it really helped with our relationship. And we've had
Speaker 1: each other's back on the show. They've been trying to
Speaker 1: tell us apart, but we have had each other's back,
Speaker 1: and I like, totally appreciate that. By the way, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you. Oh, I mean that's what real
Speaker 1: friends do. Yes, absolutely, Um, so can we talk about
Speaker 1: the Real Housewives of tom How we got here? So
Speaker 1: just that will tell you. So when they first started
Speaker 1: casting for a show for Bravo, um, you know, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're looking for an ensemble cast of women in the
Speaker 1: in the DC area. And Zell had already been talking
Speaker 1: to a casting director and Saris had already been talking
Speaker 1: to the same casting director. And they said, well, Carl Robin,
Speaker 1: because you know, she's our friend, she'd be great, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And I want to say I was already in.
Speaker 1: They liked me. Yeah, she was already in. So the
Speaker 1: casting director calls and so so they're both like, Rob
Speaker 1: when you talk to the casting director, I'm like, for what, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't got nothing going on. I was
Speaker 1: going through like I was. My life was in shambles.
Speaker 1: I will be honest about that. Um, you know, financially,
Speaker 1: we were in a bad place, my relationship was in
Speaker 1: a bad place. All that type of stuff. Um, I
Speaker 1: think I was divorced by them. Yeah, you're definitely divorced.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'll talk to him, but whatever.
Speaker 1: I talked to him, and in my first you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, not in my opinion, not auditioning for show.
Speaker 1: I'm having a conversation. So my first you know line
Speaker 1: with him, he was like, you know, tell me about yourself.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I don't live that life bad.
Speaker 1: I should have prepped Robin and I did. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I'm not living that life. And so
Speaker 1: he called either Giselle or she reasons like I hate her. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give the story how it really happened.
Speaker 1: So I was in. I was good to go, and
Speaker 1: they were like, do you have any friends? And I
Speaker 1: was like, yes, Robin, and you're gonna call her and
Speaker 1: she's gonna be amazing. And so they called this person
Speaker 1: that I had hyped up like I was a hype woman.
Speaker 1: I was like, she's amazing. And then Robbin is on
Speaker 1: the phone, like not giving a ship. So the guy
Speaker 1: immediately called me back and was like, um, I hate
Speaker 1: her and she's out, And I was like, oh hell no, callarback, callarback, callarback.
Speaker 1: So it took Robin a minute to be nice to
Speaker 1: casting and so finally, you know, they obviously loved her,
Speaker 1: and the rest is history. Every day I'm still like,
Speaker 1: how did I get on this show? Because I told
Speaker 1: him call robbing back? Right. Um, But it's been fun.
Speaker 1: It's been a journey and most of you who watched
Speaker 1: the show have seen our relationship. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think the name of our podcast reasonably shady? Is it?
Speaker 1: You probably think it fits us? Yes? Yes, So how
Speaker 1: do we get to this podcast? All right? We gotta
Speaker 1: talk about the pandamn demmic, okay, because that is what
Speaker 1: it is. Um. And like I think, during the beginning
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, we decided for whatever reason, to have
Speaker 1: an Instagram live together because we were bored, y shitless,
Speaker 1: we were bored. We missed each other, and so we
Speaker 1: did that. And we don't get on Instagram a lot,
Speaker 1: like we're not, you know, addicted to social media. So um,
Speaker 1: that was kind of like the first time in a
Speaker 1: really long time. We had gotten on Instagram Live together. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you even have lashes at that point? Did you
Speaker 1: have some lashes on it? Because I think I look crazy.
Speaker 1: You might have had a termine on my head or something.
Speaker 1: You had a term I have like my hair like
Speaker 1: on a ponytail top of my head. The pandemic hit. Okay,
Speaker 1: can we talk about like the pandemic hit? Um? And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yes, I mean I was like
Speaker 1: kind of loving in it, pers because I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't have to get my hair done. I don't
Speaker 1: have to get to my lashes done. I don't have
Speaker 1: to put on clothes. I don't have to And that's
Speaker 1: a dream for Robin, for everyone to know, that is
Speaker 1: Robin's dream in life to never have to do any
Speaker 1: of those things anything. I didn't have to get my
Speaker 1: nails done. I let my nails fall off. I still
Speaker 1: haven't put them back on. What else? Um? Um? You
Speaker 1: had on sweatpants every day? Pants every day. I was
Speaker 1: drinking wine at ten a m. And eating chocolate cake
Speaker 1: at four am. Wait wait, I remember Robin called me
Speaker 1: and she was like just how oh my god it
Speaker 1: was midnight and I had I just polished off an
Speaker 1: ice cream bar. I can't do it anymore. And I
Speaker 1: was like, back away from the refrigerator, back away. It
Speaker 1: was hard. I gained like a good fourteen pounds the
Speaker 1: pandemic during that, like that first two months of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I gained fourteen pounds for sure. And then a light
Speaker 1: switch went off and I was like, I hate food.
Speaker 1: I don't want to Yes, I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to eat. I don't want anything. So now, like
Speaker 1: this has been going on till this day. Um, I've
Speaker 1: only had a bar. It's everyone, It's eight thirty at
Speaker 1: night PM and I've had one bar. Like, okay, but Robin,
Speaker 1: we can eat. I mean, we don't have to go
Speaker 1: that far. I know. But something happened. I mean I
Speaker 1: still eat, but it's like I'm not hungry. I went
Speaker 1: from eating all day, all night, staying up until like
Speaker 1: four in the morning and just pigging out to not eating.
Speaker 1: Like so you're like a bear in hibernation, Yes you
Speaker 1: have stored up fat and then yes, but right so
Speaker 1: I decided, Like for me, it was kind of similar,
Speaker 1: like one day I woke up and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not cooking anymore. And I have children, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't care if they starve, because there's
Speaker 1: gonna be no food being cooked up in this home. God,
Speaker 1: I'm done, yes, because at first we were cooking all day,
Speaker 1: three times a day. Now I am proud to say
Speaker 1: I am like a Platinum plus tier member of Chick
Speaker 1: fil A. Like I mean, I can't because I'm right
Speaker 1: behind you. Ever, the highest reward level is I'm that
Speaker 1: should I redeem my rewards for free cookies, for a
Speaker 1: free chicken sandwich? For like? Is this on an app?
Speaker 1: I gotta get on the app. What I'm not on
Speaker 1: the air, You're not on the What am I missing?
Speaker 1: You're missing free chicken sandwich and free nuggets and free Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm doing it now, I'm doing it. Now, I'm doing
Speaker 1: I'm getting on the Scott Damn app. All right? Do
Speaker 1: you are they delivering to you? So what I do
Speaker 1: is I drive up to the mall where the Chick
Speaker 1: fil A is, I give my kids my card and
Speaker 1: I sit in the car and they go in there
Speaker 1: and get the food and to come out. So I
Speaker 1: need to get the app. What I do is I
Speaker 1: opened the app and I hit repeat last order you know, like, yes,
Speaker 1: the app. I want my room, I want my rewards.
Speaker 1: I have already told people I am the cheapest richest woman.
Speaker 1: You will let the meat. Okay, I want my god
Speaker 1: damn rewards. Okay, all right, well we got sidetrack robbing,
Speaker 1: so no, I know, but I feel like all of that,
Speaker 1: Like it's hard to talk about a pandemic and not
Speaker 1: talk about all the ship that we were. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: And it was literally it was a lot because Robin,
Speaker 1: you and I were sending each other menus, I mean
Speaker 1: not menus. We were sending recipes of different food that
Speaker 1: we could cook. And none of it was um, like
Speaker 1: fat free. None of it was like the skinny portion.
Speaker 1: This was all like food food you're looking good, yes,
Speaker 1: with butter. So that had to stop. That stopped. That
Speaker 1: was horrible. Um. But I feel like, you know, clearly
Speaker 1: were coming out of the pandemic and I feel better
Speaker 1: about my life. Oh me too, absolutely, And spring is sprung.
Speaker 1: That always helps. So it was a really rough patch
Speaker 1: for me. Um, just this past like you know, fall, winter,
Speaker 1: and now that spring is here, it's like, okay, spring
Speaker 1: us here. We have a vaccine, we have you know,
Speaker 1: I think we're we've just become more accustomed to life
Speaker 1: as it is. Although I feel like we are getting better,
Speaker 1: um and I'm feeling better about life. I am. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling really good. And you know, we're in the State
Speaker 1: of Maryland, and State of Maryland is doing great with
Speaker 1: their numbers, and that's making me feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's light at the end of the tunnel. It is,
Speaker 1: absolutely but I'm still very cautious. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: out and about. I'm not you know, trying to be
Speaker 1: a big gatherings. I'm not you know when I oh,
Speaker 1: my god, do you see all these spring Breakers spring Breakers,
Speaker 1: I've lost their damn mine. Oh my god. It is
Speaker 1: something called a Petri dish of germs and it makes
Speaker 1: me my stomach kurt. It's like they just like release
Speaker 1: them from jail and they just like, but you know what,
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna throw shade because when I
Speaker 1: get into a club, I'm at like, I can't wait
Speaker 1: until that I'm dropping like us high. I mean right,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to go to the club. But
Speaker 1: when that time, I don't want to go, but I'm going, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you donna have a good old time. So my I
Speaker 1: will say, my outlet has been and we still have
Speaker 1: to get back to this how this podcast. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: getting there. Were bear with us. This is reasonably shady.
Speaker 1: Bear with us. That's why we're here with you because
Speaker 1: we have so much to talk about. And we go
Speaker 1: we you know, we get on a sidetracked and we
Speaker 1: come right back. But my outlet has been basketball tournament.
Speaker 1: So we have you know, want and I or I
Speaker 1: have a youth basketball team that one coaches. I'm the
Speaker 1: one is her husband fiance? Yes, husband, yes, And so
Speaker 1: our son Corey plays on the team. Robin is the
Speaker 1: is a boy mom, I'm a girl momm I know, yes,
Speaker 1: so boy mom. All day so we have been traveling
Speaker 1: every other weekend to play in basketball tournaments. Um, the
Speaker 1: kids playing mass like, it's all very socially distanced all that,
Speaker 1: but in the nighttime, the parents turned all the way up.
Speaker 1: I mean we're literally basketball parent turnout. We're literally at
Speaker 1: the games with hangovers. That's a game. Yes, we are
Speaker 1: turning up. And literally one weekend my son was telling
Speaker 1: me stuff that I said and I did and I
Speaker 1: don't remember. So, yes, those have been my releases that's
Speaker 1: called bad mom. Just in case you'all don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: but mama got to be happy. Mom gotta be happy.
Speaker 1: You gotta be happy. So anyway, that's you know, I
Speaker 1: haven't been in the club, but we have created our
Speaker 1: own little club in the residents in Okay or not
Speaker 1: to turn up in the residence in residence the Wyndham
Speaker 1: Garden turnout. We get the ball, we get the conference.
Speaker 1: It's at the bar. Tell me what's at the bar.
Speaker 1: We have a stock bar. We have to kill it.
Speaker 1: We got what kind of to kill it because there's
Speaker 1: different kinds stuff. Cosamiko, this is this is a horrible
Speaker 1: turn Okay, great goose. Okay, all right, that's my drink anyway.
Speaker 1: So okay, back to where we were talking about, that's
Speaker 1: such been your outlet for the pandemic. That has been
Speaker 1: my outlet in the path over the past few months.
Speaker 1: Like at first I was very like, I'm not leaving
Speaker 1: an house. I'm not going anywhere. And now it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: these kids need to get on the basketball court and
Speaker 1: I need to leave the house. That is like an outlet.
Speaker 1: Getting back to how we are here at this podcast,
Speaker 1: people robbing went on a rant um we like we said,
Speaker 1: we we did Instagram Live together. We did one or
Speaker 1: two maybe just one, I can't remember. And the feedback
Speaker 1: that we were getting or the comments were that, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, j Robin, you'll should have a Green Knight bandage.
Speaker 1: 'all should have a podcast. And and I think it's
Speaker 1: because when we're talking to one another, the people who
Speaker 1: are listening or watching, they feel like they're like our
Speaker 1: girlfriends too, or our friends too, Like they're right there
Speaker 1: in the room with us, and they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're getting it, they're keeping with us, like we're not
Speaker 1: just like talking, you know, just about the show, and
Speaker 1: like we're literally just laughing, joking, having fun. And I
Speaker 1: think people people really responded to that, like they were
Speaker 1: messaging me, messaging both of us, like you guys need
Speaker 1: a podcast, you guys need a podcast. And um so
Speaker 1: I Robin told me. I put it out. Robin called
Speaker 1: me and said, she said, you know, people were giving
Speaker 1: that kind of feedback. I put it out into the universe.
Speaker 1: In other words, I called my manager and I told
Speaker 1: her to make it happen. And here we are today.
Speaker 1: We are on our herd. We we are on the
Speaker 1: Black Effect. Platform. Thank you Black Effect. We love y'all,
Speaker 1: and you know, I feel like this is a great way,
Speaker 1: speaking of outlets of us to like share our stories. Um,
Speaker 1: we've been through person really a lot. You know, I'm divorced,
Speaker 1: I got three kids. Um Robin is not really divorced,
Speaker 1: kind of not really. She's okay, fine, she's married, she
Speaker 1: has two kids, and we're both entrepreneurs. We both believe
Speaker 1: in success. We try to get our hustle on. We
Speaker 1: try to teach our kids, um, to be the best
Speaker 1: people that they can be. And I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of people out there. They
Speaker 1: are striving for greatness. So that is what we are
Speaker 1: going to try to bring you all week by week.
Speaker 1: But first, because we are reasonably shady, we'd like to
Speaker 1: give y'all individually our reasonably shady moment of the week.
Speaker 1: M Robin, would you like to go first? Okay, I
Speaker 1: will go first. So today at an appointment to Kit
Speaker 1: corn Rows, Okay, explain that because is that different from
Speaker 1: loose locks lemon locks. I need an explation because I
Speaker 1: don't know nothing about these braids. Well me neither. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. So you know, I don't know a whole
Speaker 1: much about hair. I just typically I go to my
Speaker 1: hair styles and as they do my hair, thank you.
Speaker 1: So I don't really know the terminology for corn rows
Speaker 1: or braids or whatever it is. So I just told
Speaker 1: the girl I want corn rows. I'm going on a
Speaker 1: trip I don't want to do with my hair. I
Speaker 1: want some corn rows. And she's like, well, what stou
Speaker 1: do you want? I was like, oh my lord, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? So I was like, just I said,
Speaker 1: just do something cool, right, I'm thinking because I've gotten
Speaker 1: corn roads before. And it literally took like less than
Speaker 1: two hours to do. And I had all these appointments,
Speaker 1: you know, I had somewhere to be okay, called my
Speaker 1: house to do this podcast podcast. Yes. Um, so I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, my appointments at two, I'll be out
Speaker 1: by four the latest. I can go home and you know,
Speaker 1: eat something or you know, see my kids, make sure
Speaker 1: they're cool. Yeah. Um, five and a half hours later, right,
Speaker 1: I walk out. First of all, I had to I
Speaker 1: texted you out probably like five times. Oh I'm running late.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm even later. Oh I'm even later, Like I
Speaker 1: literally and it's so crazy. It's like I thought she
Speaker 1: was almost done, but she wasn't. It was like, okay,
Speaker 1: there was like a patch of hair and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's the last one. And I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: now it's the last one. And then it was like, so, oh,
Speaker 1: here is reasonably shady you to me because you late
Speaker 1: or the lady that did your hair to you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say me because I did not tell her. I
Speaker 1: was on a time constraint, okay, you know, like and
Speaker 1: it's like once she started doing her thing, it's too late.
Speaker 1: You know. I couldn't be like, wait, wait a minute, Um,
Speaker 1: this feels like it's taking a little bit longer, like
Speaker 1: you know, when I got like half my hair braided.
Speaker 1: So they're very cute. By the way, Robbel looks really cute.
Speaker 1: For those of you all cannot see us, she looks
Speaker 1: very very cute and she's a very pretty woman. And
Speaker 1: that's why we love her. Even though she was two
Speaker 1: hours late. I was too. It's really more like three
Speaker 1: three late. Latest spot there there we go. There we
Speaker 1: are just late. So so I am the shady person
Speaker 1: because you're okay alright, so um, and just to know us,
Speaker 1: just to know that I was always on time. I
Speaker 1: lived by that. I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 1: In my life. I'm a virgo. Yes, I'm always on
Speaker 1: time and Robin is always late. So guys, if you
Speaker 1: all don't get an episode from us, it's because Robin
Speaker 1: didn't show up. She was like, oh ship, then no,
Speaker 1: just call a guest, okay, or I'll just do it myself. Okay. Anyway, alright,
Speaker 1: so my good thing is like you love me. It's
Speaker 1: so crazy. I was like, when I was texting, I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm really late, and I was like, oh shoot,
Speaker 1: I don't want know what she's gonna say. It's like okay.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, what was I going to say? Oh? God? Actually,
Speaker 1: and honestly, we were supposed to do this at ten am. Yes.
Speaker 1: And I called her last night, yes, after I got
Speaker 1: home from a basketball tournament, and I was like, um,
Speaker 1: I think that's a little too soon. We're going to
Speaker 1: a little more time because I get my last done,
Speaker 1: like I gotta have. Let me tell you, I'm the
Speaker 1: book of excuses. Okay, people bear with me. Pray for me, y'all.
Speaker 1: Pray for me, yes, pray for me in these streets anyway. Okay,
Speaker 1: So my reasonably shady moment is you know, I have
Speaker 1: met a couple of new ladies lately, and one of
Speaker 1: them I reached out to because I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: she could be a cool girlfriend and we could kind
Speaker 1: of keep key together or whatever. And I sent her
Speaker 1: a little text message and I was like, hey, um,
Speaker 1: why don't we hang out for drinks? Right? And she
Speaker 1: responds back and says, mmmm, well, um, you're gonna need
Speaker 1: to go on my assistant and have you penciled into
Speaker 1: my schedule? Who does that? Now? That's not reasonably shady.
Speaker 1: That's just shady. That's shady shady. Yes, it's all the
Speaker 1: way whack shady. That's right. Yeah, but it but it
Speaker 1: falls under this is what happened to me, um in
Speaker 1: my week, and I just want to share that with
Speaker 1: you all. So that should be like, okay, well kick
Speaker 1: rocks and keep it moving, kick rocks, keep it moving
Speaker 1: because I have friends that I can have drinks with.
Speaker 1: I don't need any new friends. Yeah, and what and
Speaker 1: that what Drake said? I don't know no new friends.
Speaker 1: That's Drake or who said that? Was that little baby
Speaker 1: or a baby? I can't tell them apart it was Drake. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: new friends alright. Anyway, moving on, Um, so we would
Speaker 1: like to share some our or I would like Robbing
Speaker 1: to be honest, because I've known Robbin for a while
Speaker 1: so I know her past, and we're seasoned women, right,
Speaker 1: we've come a long way, a little more season than me.
Speaker 1: So anyway, um, and I feel like there's a big
Speaker 1: difference between like who we were as children growing up.
Speaker 1: And I can identify with this because my kids are
Speaker 1: teenagers now. They're a little bit of not not off
Speaker 1: the chain, but you know, they do things that make
Speaker 1: me wonder, how will you grow up and what will
Speaker 1: you be? Right? It's extremely scary. So I would like
Speaker 1: for us to give a little tip bit into our past,
Speaker 1: rob and so people can really understand us. Okay, well
Speaker 1: I'm happy to share my past. Um. So you know,
Speaker 1: and I think this is just great. This is just
Speaker 1: we're all going to be friends here. Um. Hopefully you
Speaker 1: all will be tuning in for the podcast you know,
Speaker 1: every week, yes, every episode, and so you're gonna get
Speaker 1: to know more and more and more about us. So
Speaker 1: where what better place than to start with our our
Speaker 1: childhood or you know, how we became who we are today.
Speaker 1: So I grew up um with two professional parents. My
Speaker 1: father is a dentist. UM. My mother was a professor
Speaker 1: at Morgan State University and then also an entrepreneur. Um.
Speaker 1: We lived a very upper middle class, bougie black people life.
Speaker 1: And when I say bougie, I mean we were in
Speaker 1: you know, Jack and Jill. Um. My my mother is
Speaker 1: in a sorority and my father is in a fraternity. Um.
Speaker 1: You know I am in a sorority as well. Um.
Speaker 1: I guess we should just nate. I mean I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have to protect the name. So my mother
Speaker 1: is a Delta, my father is a Kappa um and
Speaker 1: and you know, they both went to HBCUs. They're very
Speaker 1: like social in the in the city of Baltimore, very
Speaker 1: well known. It just you know, because Baltimore is a
Speaker 1: small town, and you know, years ago wasn't that many
Speaker 1: professional black people in the city of Baltimore. There weren't
Speaker 1: that many black dentists in Baltimore. Just whatever. It is.
Speaker 1: So because of that, my parents we're very I do
Speaker 1: always to call them boogie though, because they're like they
Speaker 1: were like laid back bougie people, like down to earth
Speaker 1: bougie people. Yes, I agree, with that, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're all in in the social organizations that are more
Speaker 1: exclusive and hard to get into. Um. So that was
Speaker 1: kind of the life that I lived. I went to
Speaker 1: a private school, a very prestigious and expensive private school,
Speaker 1: UM from nine through twelve, and um you know, had
Speaker 1: a car as soon as I turned sixteen, like all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Lived a good life. And oh I was
Speaker 1: so smart that by the by the age of three,
Speaker 1: I was reading and so they put me in school
Speaker 1: a year early. Okay, So I was like my parents
Speaker 1: golden child because I was so smart and I was
Speaker 1: so well behaved, and I was and my brother was
Speaker 1: a terror. My brother's three years older than me. And
Speaker 1: my brother was like the worst child ever. Yes, I
Speaker 1: said that he was. You could tell him. I said
Speaker 1: that too. He was the worst, Like he was a nightmare.
Speaker 1: He was wild. I think, like you know they I
Speaker 1: don't know. He just there was just so many issues
Speaker 1: with my brother that when I came along, my parents
Speaker 1: were like, especially my mom, she was like, oh my God,
Speaker 1: thank you. I think God was like, you need a
Speaker 1: break because that son of yours is a terror. So
Speaker 1: I was the perfect child. Yes, I know, this is
Speaker 1: going downhill. Yes, Somewhere along the way, I met some
Speaker 1: people who weren't the perfect children, and I succumbed to
Speaker 1: peer pressure. M in like seventh grade, and what happened
Speaker 1: Robin seventh grade? Seventh grade? I was smoking cigarettes and
Speaker 1: running the streets, like running up and down the you know,
Speaker 1: the literal streets of my neighborhood, smoking cigarettes in seventh grade.
Speaker 1: So you would chain smoking like an old lady. Well not,
Speaker 1: I mean we were like hiding behind the bushes smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Then we will go and like break the Mercedes emblems
Speaker 1: off of people's cars. You are a vandal. You were
Speaker 1: randalizing the streets. So I'm like, I'm sorry if you
Speaker 1: notice one day that your Mercedes emblem was gone from
Speaker 1: the hood of your car. It was me what I
Speaker 1: was taking a can of soda. This is like a
Speaker 1: federal offense. I think the statue of limitations statue, Yeah
Speaker 1: it's over, okay. I was taking a can of soda
Speaker 1: and pouring it in the mail box, like the mail
Speaker 1: box that you like put your mail in, Like people like,
Speaker 1: oh I gotta pay my bills, let me drop it
Speaker 1: in this blue mail box. So you are would be
Speaker 1: like he take a can of soda and poured in
Speaker 1: the mailbox. So people have pepsi mail coat mail because
Speaker 1: of Robbins. This is horrible. I thought I was bad. No,
Speaker 1: you take the cake, honey. So that was seventh grade.
Speaker 1: So then God forbid you get to eighth grades? No better,
Speaker 1: And all the while my parents think I'm perfect. Oh
Speaker 1: they had They were none the wiser. They were none
Speaker 1: the wiser, Like how did they not smell that cigarette
Speaker 1: smoke on being m Maybe they were in denial. I don't,
Speaker 1: glad is girl, you couldn't smell Robbins, you know, Like
Speaker 1: I'm to this day, I'm like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about this. And my brother brings up this ship
Speaker 1: and I'm can we curse here? Yeah, she'd we can,
Speaker 1: Cursey because I have a potty. My brother brings this
Speaker 1: stuff up as if it's like the funniest thing on earth,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, don't talk about it. So anyway, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: eighth grade. I am drinking, mad dog? What in eighth
Speaker 1: grade and you don't even get to high school yet? No? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to high school yet. So you was
Speaker 1: a cigarette drunk and I was smoking, and you were
Speaker 1: smoking with Robbing Dixon in eighth grade grade? Like, that's
Speaker 1: really really young, Like because eighth grade, you're what twelve,
Speaker 1: I'm a year younger than everyone else. You're twelve. I
Speaker 1: started school year early. Okay. So if my children were
Speaker 1: right now, because you know, the twents and fourteen, if
Speaker 1: they were smoking weed, I would be like livid. I
Speaker 1: would beat there, asked for you. Yes, okay, Like and
Speaker 1: my and my son Corey just turned thirteen yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I could not imagine him being around anyone doing that.
Speaker 1: So do I need to keep you away from my kids?
Speaker 1: Are you a bad influence? Robbing? What's happening? Know the story?
Speaker 1: There's like a there's like, um, is there a light
Speaker 1: at the end of the time? The light at where's
Speaker 1: the light? It's coming? I mean, it gets a little
Speaker 1: bad and then it gets when when was sex involved?
Speaker 1: Ninth grade? For what? Robin Dixon cannot come around my kids.
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell y'all she's got some bad values.
Speaker 1: But all the while I'm like, Okay, I know I'm
Speaker 1: doing I'm being really bad, and I hope I don't
Speaker 1: get in trouble. I hope my parents don't find out.
Speaker 1: I don't know how the funk I got away with
Speaker 1: this stuff? I just don't. So ninth grade came. This
Speaker 1: is where the turning point happened. Because at this point
Speaker 1: you're like, uh, what do you call it a delinquent?
Speaker 1: You're a juvenile delinquent, right, I could have been in juvie. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: and this is all because I had a friend that
Speaker 1: was my best friend, and she didn't have supervision, like
Speaker 1: her parents are buried. And her parents smoked cigarettes too,
Speaker 1: so it's like if we were smoking in the basement,
Speaker 1: they weren't going to be able to even tell, right.
Speaker 1: So I spent a lot of time in her house, um,
Speaker 1: and got into all types of trouble. So ninth grade
Speaker 1: something a lightbulb went off in my father's head, Thank you, Jesus,
Speaker 1: because you've been running around town killing people's Mercedes fans Jesus.
Speaker 1: And I was at my friend's house and we were
Speaker 1: running the neighborhood somehow, I'm trying to remember the story. Oh,
Speaker 1: there was a guy I was talking to and he
Speaker 1: was four years older than me. Of course he was.
Speaker 1: He was probably because of course the fourteen year old
Speaker 1: boys weren't you know, they weren't doing and was this
Speaker 1: were you even of age? No, you were not, and
Speaker 1: he was this was called rape? It sure was right.
Speaker 1: Clearly you can never talk to my kids again. I
Speaker 1: can speak from experience what not to do. I am
Speaker 1: the example of what not to do. But what happened
Speaker 1: to was so fourteen, hanging out with my friend and
Speaker 1: her boyfriend who and they had been like having sex
Speaker 1: for two years, you know, and then um and then
Speaker 1: the guy that was a senior in high school and
Speaker 1: we drank mad dog smoke weed and I remember is
Speaker 1: I was in the back of the car getting laid,
Speaker 1: getting what's laid me? You were having sex? Okay, I'm sorry, okay, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: And then what happened? This is getting good. So that happened,
Speaker 1: and then something something in my father's head, like a
Speaker 1: light bulb went off, and he was like he started
Speaker 1: looking for me, like I was at my friend's house
Speaker 1: and he literally drove to their house and was like,
Speaker 1: where's Robin, Like something's not right? Oh? How long did
Speaker 1: it take for your father figure out? How much? And right?
Speaker 1: Three years? Probably three years, I guess, so I think
Speaker 1: he always I think it was one of those where
Speaker 1: like they knew that my friend probably wasn't the best influence,
Speaker 1: which but I would always be like, but that's my friend.
Speaker 1: I want to go to her house please, And we
Speaker 1: spent like all like a lot of time together. She
Speaker 1: was Jewish, I can recite Hebrew prayers. I've been you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It was just like I spent
Speaker 1: that much time that I was at like Rasha Shana
Speaker 1: did her with her and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: So but something that my parents would always try to like, no,
Speaker 1: we don't want you to go over there, because I
Speaker 1: think they knew that it just we were not supervised.
Speaker 1: So for whatever reason, that night he drove over there,
Speaker 1: came and got me, and I'm drunk as a skunk,
Speaker 1: and literally it was like for me, that was like
Speaker 1: the worst thing imaginable for me, for my parents to
Speaker 1: see that I was drunk like that and to disappoint
Speaker 1: them like that that I literally didn't drink again, like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like after that experience, right, well,
Speaker 1: I want say I didn't drink again because clearly because
Speaker 1: you drunk last week with the basketball moms, Okay, I
Speaker 1: want to say again, I probably didn't pick back like
Speaker 1: my partying up until like senior year in high school,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't. I stopped hanging out with my friend
Speaker 1: and do you know, by senior year in high school,
Speaker 1: she was addicted to heroin, Like she had to go.
Speaker 1: Who you telling? I mean, when I think about I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that could have been me. Even though
Speaker 1: I felt like I was a little I have, like,
Speaker 1: you know, more willpower than that I had, Like I
Speaker 1: was always one. Like you know when when you were
Speaker 1: in like drug did you have d air class? What
Speaker 1: was it called dare? Yes? Okay, when I was in
Speaker 1: da air class and they showed you the pictures and
Speaker 1: when they tried to scare you, and it scared me
Speaker 1: right right. So I didn't think I was going to
Speaker 1: go that far. But the fact that my friend that
Speaker 1: I hung out with every weekend was addicted to heroin
Speaker 1: by the time she was in twelfth grade, Like I
Speaker 1: just think about, like what could have been? So clearly
Speaker 1: we love your father because he got you on the
Speaker 1: straets and arrow. He saved me, he saved you. But
Speaker 1: back then, so back then, you weren't you were not
Speaker 1: thinking about your future and what you were going to
Speaker 1: do and who you were going to be. No, who
Speaker 1: Who's doing that in ninth grade. Well, my children do that. Yes,
Speaker 1: Oh they're going to be okay, they're like ahead of
Speaker 1: the curve. They are. Yes, that's amazing, because no, I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I'm forty one. I still don't know what
Speaker 1: I want to be, and that we're going to say
Speaker 1: for another episode. People, Robbin's pretty one and she has
Speaker 1: no clue what she wants to do with her life.
Speaker 1: That's because I feel like that's a lot of people
Speaker 1: and people can relate to that. Oh. Absolutely, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean I just feel like, yes, how many times
Speaker 1: in college like you. I mean, I feel like all
Speaker 1: of my friends in college, like I don't know what
Speaker 1: I do unless you have that one friend that's like
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a doctor. And I'm like, good
Speaker 1: for you, bitch, I'm so happy that you figured that out.
Speaker 1: Like this is true. But anyway, yeah, um yeah, So
Speaker 1: that story, that experience like probably saved my life, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, It probably really saved me from
Speaker 1: just being like just totally jacked up and see my
Speaker 1: parents so disappointed, like literally scared me to the point
Speaker 1: where I was like, Okay, I don't want to do
Speaker 1: that again. And you know, I still was a good student. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I finished, I was a good student. I was.
Speaker 1: I went to college, you know, graduated, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: You met one, you had some kids, and you met
Speaker 1: a friend named just Ol. We're here today, so it
Speaker 1: just out, Yes, well, mine is like um Cinderella in
Speaker 1: comparison New Yrs, mine is very PG rated. I was
Speaker 1: not vandalizing any cars in the streets. Um. I think
Speaker 1: I had a wild moment. Let me see, probably high
Speaker 1: school going into college, and I remember like one of
Speaker 1: the nights I was like, I can't do this anymore, right,
Speaker 1: was like I was turned so in college, I happened
Speaker 1: to turn twenty one. Being in college one is a
Speaker 1: very big difference from Robin's fourteen years old, for the record,
Speaker 1: But anyway, Um, and I was enjoying myself, living my
Speaker 1: life and doing my thing. I'm in college and the
Speaker 1: guys I was hanging out with it was like, Giselle,
Speaker 1: you turn into one, you have to take twenty one shot.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, that sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: It's like so I was down. I was like ready
Speaker 1: for the challenge. And I don't know where in the
Speaker 1: twenty one. I literally have no idea about the rest
Speaker 1: of the night, but I can promise you. I tried
Speaker 1: to get there because it was a challenge and I
Speaker 1: wanted our lucky your life. I know, I wanted to
Speaker 1: I wanted to beat the challenge. And I remember saying,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna make it, y'all. Probably around
Speaker 1: shot ten, I was like, I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it. Jo some cheap ass liquor too. It was
Speaker 1: probably like a mad dog, but it was like shots anyway.
Speaker 1: So and then oh, I don't want to cut you off,
Speaker 1: go ahead, but you said mad dogs. So when my
Speaker 1: parents when when I got caught being pissie drunk, and
Speaker 1: my parents were like, what were you thinking? Why are
Speaker 1: you doing? I was like, well, it says that it's wine,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think that wine was bad. So she's
Speaker 1: just lying on type of line, type of line. And
Speaker 1: then oh my god, this is like the the victim.
Speaker 1: I was trying to victimize myself. So then they're all
Speaker 1: like mad at me, and my brother's like let me.
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to kill myself. I got
Speaker 1: to kill myself. That was like to get them to
Speaker 1: like leave back up off, you leave me alone, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna kill myself. So at least you were a smart,
Speaker 1: juvenile delinquent. Yes, I like that. Um so back a
Speaker 1: little bit of a backstory. Um, I am the youngest
Speaker 1: of three kids, so by the time I was coming up,
Speaker 1: and we're all kind of like eighteen months apart. So
Speaker 1: by time I got like, you know, in my high
Speaker 1: school years or whatever, my parents like, I think we're tired,
Speaker 1: and they didn't feel like dealing with me and they
Speaker 1: didn't care what I did. So, um, I did get
Speaker 1: away with a lot, you know, maybe sneaking out the
Speaker 1: house a couple of times, things like that, but no,
Speaker 1: nothing like too traumatic. But yes, when I was trying
Speaker 1: to take my twenty one shots on my twenty first birthday,
Speaker 1: I realized I can't do this and I feel crazy.
Speaker 1: And I felt crazy for like weeks, like I felt sick,
Speaker 1: I felt like delirious. I felt like God was trying
Speaker 1: to tell me something. I don't know what he was
Speaker 1: trying to tell me, but he was just like, bitch,
Speaker 1: you don't need to be drinking all this Like that,
Speaker 1: that was what I was getting from God. You are lucky.
Speaker 1: You are alive. I mean because and and not like
Speaker 1: I guess to be serious now, like we do hear
Speaker 1: stories of people in college who died from alcohol overdose.
Speaker 1: But whoever was giving me the challenge, I know who
Speaker 1: they are to this day. Why did y'all do that
Speaker 1: to me? Like that wasn't nice, That wasn't a good challenge.
Speaker 1: That was the worst, and how they feel their daughter? Right?
Speaker 1: And I was so crazy. I just was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. Who agrees to this? Okay? So stupid
Speaker 1: Carllege students right um? And then you know, after I
Speaker 1: graduate from college, and I still I didn't know what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do either. I didn't know you know,
Speaker 1: where I wanted to land. I do know that I
Speaker 1: did want to like plan things. I wanted to be
Speaker 1: like an event plann or wedding plant or something like that.
Speaker 1: And I did you that for a little while for
Speaker 1: the double a cp UM where I met jam All
Speaker 1: got married, So um, I couldn't been planning background as well. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: a mayor Ron got you know things are coming. But
Speaker 1: never in a million years somebody said you're gonna be
Speaker 1: in a reality television show and you're gonna be a
Speaker 1: housewife and you're gonna be on Bravo. I would be like,
Speaker 1: hell no, not only no, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. It wasn't a desire. If not some people
Speaker 1: want to be on TV, right, I had no desire.
Speaker 1: I was living my life and enjoying myself prior to
Speaker 1: our casting director calling me and saying this is what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. And then and then I actually talked
Speaker 1: when when you and I talked about it, you would
Speaker 1: like to say you we only live once? Like why not?
Speaker 1: And where where? Why not? And who knows if we'll
Speaker 1: make it past season one? We all season six. I
Speaker 1: didn't even think season one was going to make the
Speaker 1: light of day. Yes, we're on season three, just for
Speaker 1: the for the for the people in the in the
Speaker 1: cheap seats in the back. We're on season three And
Speaker 1: Robs like, are we still on this show? Was is real?
Speaker 1: Like yes, Like Robin didn't get it for a very
Speaker 1: long time that we were on TV. Like she would
Speaker 1: be like confused, like we'd been walking down street people
Speaker 1: screaming our name. She's like, who are they talking to? Right?
Speaker 1: They talking to us? Robbing, We're on TV. I actually
Speaker 1: experienced that this past weekend at a basketball tournament. Like
Speaker 1: there's this lady like waving crazy and I'm like, looking
Speaker 1: behind me, I'm like what she she sees someone, Oh,
Speaker 1: you're waving at me. Yes, I will never forget. And
Speaker 1: actually this was actually season one, so it was a
Speaker 1: little weird. So this could this could be believable. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could you know, not be this naive. We were
Speaker 1: in Bethany Beach and because we went there for Ashley's
Speaker 1: um it was our trip. That was our trip Bethany Beach,
Speaker 1: and they got wind that a reality show was filming
Speaker 1: in Bethany Beach. So we were like, I think going
Speaker 1: to the boardwalk or whatever, and it was a mob
Speaker 1: of people just like waiting for us to get off
Speaker 1: the bus. And Rob was like, holy shit, who are
Speaker 1: those people? Why are they here? What are they doing here?
Speaker 1: It's like where I'm being there here for us? And
Speaker 1: she was like, what do you mean, no, No, I
Speaker 1: was like, yes, they see camera crews and they're running now.
Speaker 1: At the time, they nobody thought beyont he was getting
Speaker 1: off the bus though, and Beyonce did. It was me
Speaker 1: and you I'm just saying but anyway, um, so we
Speaker 1: get off the bus and they didn't know who we were,
Speaker 1: but like after that, it's like you know, it has.
Speaker 1: This ride has been a blessing, I'll say for um,
Speaker 1: for myself, and I think I can speak about for
Speaker 1: the both of us. You know, it's ups and downs,
Speaker 1: it's highs and lows, but we have been able to
Speaker 1: showcase things that we do love and our family. I'm
Speaker 1: proud of my family. I'm proud of the mom that
Speaker 1: I am, and I feel like that is a blessing.
Speaker 1: And if anybody can, especially your story, Robin, because you're
Speaker 1: so relatable, if anybody can learn from our lives, I
Speaker 1: think the whole thing is worth it, right absolutely. One
Speaker 1: of the biggest blessings for me is when I receive
Speaker 1: feedback and comments from people who are like, you have
Speaker 1: helped me. You know you, I've you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: in a good place, but I watched the show and
Speaker 1: either it's for comic relief or it's because they look
Speaker 1: at our stories and say, WHOA I can relate to that.
Speaker 1: I love how you overcame. Thank you for sharing. And
Speaker 1: so for me, the best part is just affecting other
Speaker 1: people's lives that I don't even know. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you, it's not easy, No, not easy. I don't
Speaker 1: recommend reality television for anybody who does not have thick skin.
Speaker 1: When I say, think scan like elephant scan, right right. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing about both of us. We don't
Speaker 1: care like you know, all of the scrutinyus received. I mean,
Speaker 1: sometimes it is a little jarring when you can we
Speaker 1: can receive so much negativity, but we know who we
Speaker 1: are and we have the people in our lives that
Speaker 1: are important to us, and we know that love us,
Speaker 1: and they're not going to change for us, and we're
Speaker 1: not going to change for them. So fortunately, I've been
Speaker 1: able to maintain friendships with all of my friends that
Speaker 1: I've been friends with before the show, and they don't
Speaker 1: give a day we're about the show, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And so I can have good girl time
Speaker 1: with my friends and not talk about the show and
Speaker 1: just feel like myself. And so, yes, it's it's stressful.
Speaker 1: It's hard. Filming is hard, Watching the show is hard.
Speaker 1: The you know, scrutiny is hard. But overall, the blessing
Speaker 1: has been just like way more than than the negativity,
Speaker 1: right right, So people, we're about to wrap up this
Speaker 1: first episode. We that was so fat. I know, but
Speaker 1: that we we we have a couple of takes from
Speaker 1: the episode. Okay, so take number one for me is
Speaker 1: Robin was, as you have, not delinquent. But she has
Speaker 1: come so far people, Okay, she has I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: she didn't come from vandalizing Mercedes Bens to being an
Speaker 1: owner of Embellished and her hats are selling have on
Speaker 1: one right now. Her hats are selling like hot cakes,
Speaker 1: Honny hot cakes. So that's amazing. Do you have a
Speaker 1: take from this show? I do would say thank God
Speaker 1: that Giselle did not overdose and she's here because we
Speaker 1: don't do it, because we wouldn't be here. We would
Speaker 1: not be on season six of The Real Housewives of Potomac.
Speaker 1: We would not We were not um. And you know
Speaker 1: what more importantly, like the power of friendship, Like I'm
Speaker 1: so happy that we are friends and we have a
Speaker 1: sisterhood that is unbreakable, absolutely absolutely, and that is so valuable.
Speaker 1: And when you have that friendship, everyone just nurtured it. Yes. Yes, Now,
Speaker 1: at the end of every episode, guys, we're going to
Speaker 1: be giving you are reasonable person of the day or
Speaker 1: the week or the year, and our shady person of
Speaker 1: the day, the week, or the year. So who's reasonable
Speaker 1: these days? I mean, this is our first podcast and
Speaker 1: we just have to pay homage, homage, homage both the
Speaker 1: age of silent right, it's it's homma homage, hommagemmage. I
Speaker 1: promise I went to private school. We have to just
Speaker 1: give Dr Fauci, yes, yes, yes, fou yes probs. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you believe the pandemic is a hoax.
Speaker 1: We have been through hell and Dr Fauci has remained steady, steadfast, factual.
Speaker 1: And I mean, for the most part, it's crazy, like
Speaker 1: they would say, like, oh, um, I predict that in
Speaker 1: three months the numbers are going to skyrocket, and we're
Speaker 1: sitting there like, oh whatever, And then come three months
Speaker 1: and the number of skyrockets. So like I feel like
Speaker 1: everything that they said would happen happen. So he's a
Speaker 1: reasonable person. He is a reasonable person. And we got
Speaker 1: to give it up to our new president, Joe Biden's yes,
Speaker 1: just for the sake of thank you for being here, Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you. If I find myself at this point in
Speaker 1: a reasonable way, not having to stalk CNN anymore to
Speaker 1: find out the bad news, I can actually go to
Speaker 1: bed feeling kind of safe and secure about the world.
Speaker 1: I knew that life was crazy when I would literally
Speaker 1: be listening to Seeing In in my car, like I
Speaker 1: would be driving and turn to Seeing In and it
Speaker 1: was like almost like comforting to hear those voices that
Speaker 1: I've been listening to, like all day, all night. And
Speaker 1: now I don't have to do that. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't if you want to, but I feel like
Speaker 1: I don't want to stop there. I'm sorry, don't if
Speaker 1: your radings go down, it's not our fault, it's yes.
Speaker 1: So because the world is a little bit better, yes,
Speaker 1: and we're feeling a little bit more secure about our leadership.
Speaker 1: And then now we have our shady person of the year.
Speaker 1: And oh, she'd been shady, shady, shady, shady who this
Speaker 1: thing been shady? And I don't even like to say
Speaker 1: her name because I just want her to go away,
Speaker 1: but that she needs to go. Sister girl, COVID girl,
Speaker 1: that sa coronavirus better known as coronavirus, Miss coronavirus. You
Speaker 1: so shady, Oh you shady, And I'm gonna need for
Speaker 1: you to leave, okay, So get your shady tail up
Speaker 1: out of here. We are done with you. She has
Speaker 1: out warned her welcome yes, she's never welcome never. No. No.
Speaker 1: So we we've had, we've had enough of you. We're done.
Speaker 1: And um, I think our reasonably shady combination is a
Speaker 1: good one because I think Algie and Biden can get
Speaker 1: rid of our shady were We're going to be back
Speaker 1: to normal one day one day soon, one day soon,
Speaker 1: one day soon. So I think I think that's it
Speaker 1: for that, that's it. I mean, I think we should
Speaker 1: tell people thank you number one for listening to us,
Speaker 1: and I hope you continue to listen to us because
Speaker 1: we have a whole lot of exciting topics to talk about. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can expect to hear, you know, just topics about
Speaker 1: relationships and business and friendships and beauty and you know,
Speaker 1: current events we're going to tackle. Yes, and so I'm
Speaker 1: sorry about and and I mean, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be fun and funny and you're going to feel like
Speaker 1: you're talking to your girlfriends. Oh and then you know,
Speaker 1: at some point we're going to have advice dogments, So
Speaker 1: if you have some, if you need your advice from
Speaker 1: me or just hell, I mean, I don't know who
Speaker 1: you want advice from. Probably we'll both give it to you.
Speaker 1: But um, next, our next podcast, we believe it's going
Speaker 1: to be about breaking up or making up, all about
Speaker 1: relationships and and that animal that we call love. So
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss that. So until then, halliback
Speaker 1: reasonably Shady. Which one are you going to be this week?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be shady. I will continue to be reasonable
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