Speaker 1: Welcome to the Women about in our podcast. You gotta
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Speaker 1: I'm your girl, Justina Valencine. I got my two very
Speaker 1: talented sisters, be Simone and Pretty V. And we're in
Speaker 1: the building and you know, what's the ladies running the world?
Speaker 1: So what's up sis? What's going on? What they do?
Speaker 1: What they do? What they do? Because I'm boy, so
Speaker 1: be Your voice sounds so scratchy? What you've been up to?
Speaker 1: You said me? Or b you when I tell you?
Speaker 1: I just came up from Colorado, like like I was
Speaker 1: out there? So what was you doing in Colorado? Just
Speaker 1: hanging out? Like I needed it? Like? So I worked
Speaker 1: with I worked with my Yellow, this big beauty brand,
Speaker 1: and she's always like we did Cobbo last year and
Speaker 1: she was like yeah, I want to go on Colorado,
Speaker 1: like girl, let's too So I packed my three city
Speaker 1: and pack my two city trains, three city trains and luggages.
Speaker 1: It's so that city trying. And I went out there
Speaker 1: and had the time of my life. Yeah. I needed
Speaker 1: I needed, I needed it. I love it. I've seen
Speaker 1: you working in the Oh my god, you look so cute. Y'all.
Speaker 1: Got to ving this page and see that video because
Speaker 1: it's so funny, my cardless, So my god. You know,
Speaker 1: literally be in the bed laughing at Venus videos out loud.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're comment on somebody's video l O
Speaker 1: L or the laugh at emojis and you're not even laughing,
Speaker 1: right you just I really be watching Vina like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Oh she is solf funny. Um, so be
Speaker 1: you understand when I sent you that video, I was
Speaker 1: just like, let I have to say it to be
Speaker 1: because I already First of all, y'all, Vina is so annoying.
Speaker 1: She was like, what'soud my caption be? I'll give her
Speaker 1: a whole caption fire emojis, dot dot dot explanation, point
Speaker 1: space bar, space bar. She I go to the post.
Speaker 1: Don't use none of my ship. You know what's funny
Speaker 1: be because you're captions do be really long. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know, I don't give her captions no more, don't
Speaker 1: ask me for ship. What's your caption? Because she's I
Speaker 1: don't be some own nerves like this, but like girl,
Speaker 1: what she's doing. You're like, girl, you just called me
Speaker 1: for like one thing. We already talked about that. Now
Speaker 1: girl said, how your day? It's like, Vina, get off
Speaker 1: my phone. I'd be like, v I have to go.
Speaker 1: I called her when she was in Colorado. No, she
Speaker 1: called me checking in. He was, you know, catching up
Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm okay, girl, I love you like I'm
Speaker 1: about to go to bed, okay, but what you doing Vina? Nothing,
Speaker 1: I'm going to sleep okay, but don't hang up on me.
Speaker 1: If you hang up with me like this, disk like
Speaker 1: like we are really friends with three girl. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you always like to be on the phone. V You
Speaker 1: always stay on the FaceTime. He's always love it. But
Speaker 1: my day, my weekend, and my week has been phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I mean, how y'all, how y'all doing? Justina? What's going on?
Speaker 1: How Jersey? I'm doing good. I know it looks a
Speaker 1: little crazy. I mean, people can't see, but you'all can see.
Speaker 1: I'm in my little production room. So it's like a
Speaker 1: lot going on the here. It's a little cramp, but
Speaker 1: Jersey is good. It's little cold, got a little snow,
Speaker 1: but I know you're coming out here soon, so I
Speaker 1: can't wait to link up with you. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you can't bring the tims and the bubble, don't embarrass me.
Speaker 1: Come out and beat up. I beat that Friday. I'm
Speaker 1: in the city. You feel him in the town. But
Speaker 1: I'm talking, okay, being a cytha, running cheese chop cheesy
Speaker 1: and speaking of speaking in New York. Are our guests
Speaker 1: from New York today, so I know, yeah, hersho some Harlem.
Speaker 1: Her she grew up in brookly In, so I know
Speaker 1: she knows how to move around all those New York streets.
Speaker 1: Once to introduced our guests, I'm excited that she's here.
Speaker 1: I've never met her. I can't wait to meet her.
Speaker 1: All right, honey, we got day nap Johnson. I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking on this a while, not podcast. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: hear more about this. You know, so that what's going on?
Speaker 1: Said hello? You know, since they never the building to
Speaker 1: meet said stand up comting hosts in Hello, how are
Speaker 1: you doing? Na? I am good, Hey ladies. How y'all
Speaker 1: stand up comeding host actress? Right up? Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to just trying to create generational Well I
Speaker 1: know you're right, that's what's up. Are you right? How
Speaker 1: are you feeling? That's what's up? I feel really good. Actually,
Speaker 1: I mean it's early in the morning. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: We'll just just sink you're in Jersey. I don't know
Speaker 1: what everybody, Yeah, but I'm in l A. So with
Speaker 1: the Okay, are you based out there? Yeah? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we're in Atlanta with it. So, like you're on set
Speaker 1: right now? Is now? Are you working today? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: am on set, but I'm in like, I mean just
Speaker 1: one of their like conference rooms, like one of the
Speaker 1: production office conference rooms. Yeah. Yeah, Well you are so
Speaker 1: funny and talented. Like I was watching um one of
Speaker 1: the sets you did on the Late Night Show and
Speaker 1: you were talking about how you were in like second grade,
Speaker 1: and I think your mom was on her ten kid
Speaker 1: and you were like, nah, you was like I sat
Speaker 1: my mom down. It was like you have to get
Speaker 1: your tubes tied. And you're like, I don't know how
Speaker 1: I knew that in second grade. Yeah, when I'm like
Speaker 1: the second grade that wasn't Google, you know that. So
Speaker 1: that means I opened up in Encyclopedia and was like,
Speaker 1: we gotta fix this problem. So the people that don't
Speaker 1: know zay Nap, tell us about yourself. Um, pretty we
Speaker 1: did a bomb ass introduction. But so the people that
Speaker 1: don't know your story, where you're from, what you do
Speaker 1: in this entertainment world, just give us a little bit
Speaker 1: of background of who you are. I am. I was
Speaker 1: born in New York. I was born in Brooklyn. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Harlem. Um. I moved to l A
Speaker 1: like shortly after college. I um, and I moved. I
Speaker 1: didn't know I was gonna be a comedian. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stand in the comedian I love it. Um And I
Speaker 1: didn't know I was going to be a comedian. But
Speaker 1: my best friend at the time was moving to l A.
Speaker 1: She was trying to be a rapper, and she was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move to l A and be famous. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, my candlea, He'll be famous without me.
Speaker 1: And so that's what got me. You know, when you're
Speaker 1: from New York, Um New York in l A. Comedy
Speaker 1: from East coast to West coast. Every place is different.
Speaker 1: Me being the center comedian. You could say a joke
Speaker 1: in New York heat, you say it in l A.
Speaker 1: They're like, that's not funny out here. Like what what
Speaker 1: coast do you like better? You like more l A
Speaker 1: vibe or New York vibe? Like with the audience, I
Speaker 1: can't You're gonna say New York because right, no, No,
Speaker 1: New York is like New York is built for comedy,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like they go there, they
Speaker 1: built for comedy. They and they like funny. They don't
Speaker 1: care who you are, but they just like to be
Speaker 1: you know, l A is you know free, single thing,
Speaker 1: Like comedy is just like a subset of life, right
Speaker 1: and so l A what they'd be bougee out here.
Speaker 1: They'd want to look good, you want to be with
Speaker 1: the celebrity. So that's gonna exist everywhere. So sometimes people
Speaker 1: at a comedy show in l A. I remember, even
Speaker 1: when I did the old death taping, the thing that
Speaker 1: I hated about that taping was and you know the
Speaker 1: whole part of like HBO Russell's brand at the time
Speaker 1: was like models cute whatever. But it's like you can't
Speaker 1: feel like you're too cute to laugh, Like that's no fun,
Speaker 1: it's no feel what I'm saying, Yeah, I just I like,
Speaker 1: I don't care where you're Like, one of my best
Speaker 1: shows is in Ohio because they were just they're ready
Speaker 1: like to like, we're not ship else going on since
Speaker 1: make us laugh? Yeah, that's my problem. On the first day,
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to laugh, So I'd like, like, it's
Speaker 1: relax the cute. Ain't nothing going on in Ohio. Okay,
Speaker 1: Toledo ain't no baby. So I know you did a
Speaker 1: good job doing that them shows out there, bubo, but no, um,
Speaker 1: can I call you zel? Like it's harder for women
Speaker 1: in comedy to be successful, and especially being a woman
Speaker 1: of color. How do you feel about that? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean absolutely, Like it's very I mean even women, like
Speaker 1: guys can get up on stage and talk about their dicks,
Speaker 1: they could, you know what I'm saying, They could be
Speaker 1: really raunchy and nasty and all of that stuff, and
Speaker 1: women the moment they do it, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: perceived is you know, like, oh, she ain't funny. But
Speaker 1: I think I think if you think about it like
Speaker 1: a numbers game, right, Like I don't think people realize this,
Speaker 1: but like you see a hundred guys and three of
Speaker 1: them are not funny, then you're not gonna think like, oh,
Speaker 1: men are not funny, right, because you see ninety seven
Speaker 1: guys that you think are funny. But if you only
Speaker 1: see three women and you think all three of them
Speaker 1: are funny, then you think a hundred percent of women
Speaker 1: are not funny, you know, And so I just I
Speaker 1: just think that that's like it's just a people don't
Speaker 1: realize that they're seeing way less of us. And then
Speaker 1: out of three women, you're lucky. If you see on
Speaker 1: a on the main stage, you're lucky. If you see
Speaker 1: a woman of color, right right, you're lucky. If you
Speaker 1: see three women. I feel like there's always that a
Speaker 1: stage full of guys and then they put one girl.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, if you if you see three women,
Speaker 1: it's a ladies night, it's a lady's night tour or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's Valentine's Day, it's Mother's Day, you know what it is.
Speaker 1: We're here with zay Nab and she is giving us
Speaker 1: so many jewels and we're loving it. But y'all don't move.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back and we're gonna talk about censorship
Speaker 1: and where's the best place to do commed yet? What's up, y'all?
Speaker 1: We're back with zaynab Be Simone, pretty v I'm your girl,
Speaker 1: Justina Valentine and you know, we'd love to see it.
Speaker 1: Strong woman in the building, killing it and rapping for
Speaker 1: the ladies. And she is such an interesting backstory, so
Speaker 1: let's just keep getting in to it. Z being like Muslim,
Speaker 1: did your family ever have a problem with you, like
Speaker 1: maybe telling certain jokes if it was a little sexual
Speaker 1: or if you want to dress a little risk a
Speaker 1: or were they just always understanding of it? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: my family is pretty understanding. I talk about my family
Speaker 1: on stage all the time. So they like it. They
Speaker 1: they they be just trying to get into jokes, you know,
Speaker 1: like they don't they want to be celebrated on stage.
Speaker 1: But when I was younger, my dad used to give
Speaker 1: me a hard time. Like I used to try and
Speaker 1: like take off my key mar I would wear like
Speaker 1: short sleeve shirts and my dad used to give me
Speaker 1: a hard time. But he passed away, so now I
Speaker 1: could bop my pussy. If your family come to your
Speaker 1: shows though, like your older families, you don't get scared
Speaker 1: of if you have like a sexual joke and your
Speaker 1: mom is there, your older brother, or you don't get uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: That's a struggle for me. No, No, I don't get no.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I am whoaii. I mean I feel
Speaker 1: like we lived. There's no other time like now where
Speaker 1: every body like more freedom than any other time that
Speaker 1: has ever existed for us to be who we are.
Speaker 1: And you take it or you leave it. And I
Speaker 1: think there's just like pressured that, like your family is
Speaker 1: the end begins all and end all of everything, and
Speaker 1: they're not like if my mom don't like something, it's like, okay, mom,
Speaker 1: I love you, you my mom, but I'm about to
Speaker 1: do this show. That's how I am too, though, like
Speaker 1: I don't know what's telling you. Yeah, well, also, my
Speaker 1: mom got thirteen kids, so if she pretends like she
Speaker 1: don't know what fucking iss like, it's like, come on, lady,
Speaker 1: come on, you've been there. Yeah, you was getting it
Speaker 1: in like you said, at least someone was like, oh,
Speaker 1: your parents was having a lot of sexts. You're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but at least thirteen times, Yeah, my
Speaker 1: mom come to my show at all, because what I
Speaker 1: will be hear in song on the way back to
Speaker 1: the house. So I just rather say, Okay, you need
Speaker 1: to Genesis one and one in the beginning you started
Speaker 1: at the time, Yeah, exactly, And she don't even come
Speaker 1: to my show. So see what motivates you, like, what's
Speaker 1: your what's your like, what's what keeps you motivating this business? Um?
Speaker 1: I really do feel like I have something to say,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like the conversation is never quite um,
Speaker 1: like if we talk about like legacy and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: I just feel like there's not like an accurate, accurate
Speaker 1: representation of like all that exists. I know we say
Speaker 1: women of color, but I'm gonna just say black women,
Speaker 1: UM if that's okay. I just feel like we always
Speaker 1: have feel like it include everybody and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: this is something very specific to us. UM. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like the conversation is always like, uh,
Speaker 1: not level properly, And I just feel like I have,
Speaker 1: um something special to add to that in that that
Speaker 1: motivates me. And then when people confirm it, I'm just
Speaker 1: like Okay, I'm gonna keep going. And when you just
Speaker 1: get something. Do you have a boyfriend. I don't have
Speaker 1: a boyfriend. You got a girlfriend? No? I don't. No,
Speaker 1: I don't have a girlfriend. You said something really funny
Speaker 1: one of your sets. You were like, Um, you like
Speaker 1: how you look that though you never know you in there.
Speaker 1: You were like, um, you're like, I wish you could
Speaker 1: pick if you want to be gay. You were like,
Speaker 1: because then this wouldn't be a comedy show, be a
Speaker 1: ted talk. You said, I'm a black woman, I'm Muslim,
Speaker 1: and if I was gay, imagine that. And I thought
Speaker 1: that was because you know, damn she okay, because you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know the industry. I'm sure y'all be in meetings.
Speaker 1: Y'all be in meetings and they be asking y'all what
Speaker 1: y'all want to do and what you want to make
Speaker 1: and did it. They'd be looking at your numbers and
Speaker 1: then they be they break us, They break us down
Speaker 1: to statistics, you know, and it just is what it is.
Speaker 1: It's like, Oh, we're gonna reach a black demo, the
Speaker 1: female demo, the Muslim demo, the gay demo. Get this
Speaker 1: lady a show you show. Yeah, they don't care what
Speaker 1: the show was about. But they you know, demos are
Speaker 1: like dollar signs, so it's like who killing to reach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: would you have a type in someone that you look
Speaker 1: to date or a comedian? Yes, I probably won't date
Speaker 1: a comedian because well, one you, I feel like you
Speaker 1: gotta be funnier than me. Okay, yeah, because you know,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of my friends are you know,
Speaker 1: male comedians, and I think that they're it's like they're
Speaker 1: either my friends or you gotta be funnier than me.
Speaker 1: And I just I don't know. I just comedians like
Speaker 1: we're we're toxic. Can I say that? I mean, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you harder. We put everything in our comedy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you have to be to find a humor
Speaker 1: and everything that's so like in all the ugliness, to
Speaker 1: find a humor, there has to be something, you know.
Speaker 1: So no, also, comedians, let's be honest, ladies, comedians we
Speaker 1: broke at a certain level. Are we talking about Kevin
Speaker 1: Hart or the guy that's up and coming? Yeah? You you
Speaker 1: you really, you really gotta believe And I'm past that
Speaker 1: point of like, you know, believing in potential, like in
Speaker 1: my dating life on past the like he got potential, y'all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he gotta he gotta. He can be mad when
Speaker 1: they booked, when you book and it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: so she's doing like watching cartoons like what we on,
Speaker 1: like we just did a whole show, like you straight like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're playing the game a game. But but I will
Speaker 1: date another artist, like you don't have to be a
Speaker 1: comedian because I just don't want to share that space
Speaker 1: with you. But I'll date an artist, like I'll date
Speaker 1: a musician or like a writer a little one sava rappers,
Speaker 1: rap rap raps. You don't have so much damn fucking
Speaker 1: content Z. But does your does your husband or whoever
Speaker 1: you make date has to be Muslim? Do they have
Speaker 1: to be equally yoked? Or could it be a Christian?
Speaker 1: Could it be Buddha? They could be Christians? Like yeah,
Speaker 1: my husband could be Christians. I mean that's the depend
Speaker 1: if they really, if they slapping that Bible in my
Speaker 1: face every single day, then it's not gonna work because
Speaker 1: you know, you know, like it would be easy if
Speaker 1: they were Muslim. But I'm kind of open to like,
Speaker 1: as long as you believe in God, I don't think
Speaker 1: I could take nobody, just like, no, it's just me
Speaker 1: because I controlled when you are your face, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 1: Oh I could control a little. Yeah, okay, Yeah. What's
Speaker 1: your love language? Do you know I had a talk
Speaker 1: with my uber driver yesterday about this is the one
Speaker 1: you give it? So that's when you get okay, So
Speaker 1: that there's five leve languages, y'all. There's a book out
Speaker 1: on it. Words of affirmation, quality time, um, physically touch.
Speaker 1: What are the other two? Gifts and acts of service?
Speaker 1: I thought that was what's your number one? Um? I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I'm kind of selfish, like I need
Speaker 1: all of those things. Um, but I think the thing
Speaker 1: I think the first thing that I could I think
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me is probably quality time. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I yeah, and then I think the thing
Speaker 1: that I could give up. Of course, first are like
Speaker 1: gifts I could give that. Yeah yeah, if he had
Speaker 1: everything else and he just can't give me nothing, it's
Speaker 1: like I'm working, Yeah, we could get it. Number one
Speaker 1: of his words of affirmation. Yeah, I love just you're
Speaker 1: doing good. I'm so proud of you. Like just what
Speaker 1: I'm an aries too. March twenty Okay, that's that's it.
Speaker 1: I don't need words of affirmation. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want you like verbally abusing me. But I'm so like,
Speaker 1: um confident, I'm I'm I don't I don't want to
Speaker 1: say hilf no, but I'm I'm really self sufficient, Like
Speaker 1: I'm really self sufficient, Like can you do it? I
Speaker 1: could do it? Like like I'm really so and I'm
Speaker 1: really aware, like I know when I can't do something.
Speaker 1: I know, so I don't really need somebody to tell
Speaker 1: me that I can't do something. I'm like, Okay, that
Speaker 1: doesn't really motivate me because I love I love, I
Speaker 1: love words affirmation. But you can slide me that gift
Speaker 1: first though you feel me, and then we can haul
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna leave so you know, gift you're annoying.
Speaker 1: Do you have any bad dating stories, e like, just
Speaker 1: a crazy dating story that you ever put in a
Speaker 1: set or a bad I'm sure I've had a bad
Speaker 1: dating story right now. I'm talking about a guy who
Speaker 1: I really liked and he was Muslim, um the and
Speaker 1: he but he had a small deck and that was
Speaker 1: wasn't hard. It was hard. It was hard to like
Speaker 1: you can just be like Okay, do this do that?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, it's it's crazy too because he didn't
Speaker 1: think he had a small deck, so he you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but and it was like eating it was misleading to
Speaker 1: because he has such a nice body and beautiful ads.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have like eight pack, you just
Speaker 1: feel like that V is going to lead to something.
Speaker 1: Do you think he really didn't know it was small
Speaker 1: or do you think he was just like making up
Speaker 1: for his lack of confidence that he just had to
Speaker 1: act like he thought he had something good going on
Speaker 1: down there. No, I really I think he really didn't
Speaker 1: know it was small. Really. Yeah, yeah, it was quite
Speaker 1: surprising because I was like when you when you say small,
Speaker 1: like like like how like how small? Like like noticeably
Speaker 1: noticeably small enough where I kind of let out a
Speaker 1: scream when I said, I was like, yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: probably scream the wrong way. The scream was. Are you
Speaker 1: the type of person that if you see it's small,
Speaker 1: you're like, we're not doing this? Are you like it?
Speaker 1: I gotta do it? We already here. I'm not we
Speaker 1: already here, but I'll try. I'll try to find the
Speaker 1: way to say like I gotta love you first before
Speaker 1: I could even do it, so I'm already invested when
Speaker 1: I find out really yeah, I'm like, I'm real, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta have the strongest feelings for you to even
Speaker 1: be like sexually attract good to you. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm stuck. It's like that's why I screamed because
Speaker 1: it's scary, like, oh man, I'm about to already. Let
Speaker 1: you'll do it. Did you guys do it? Yeah? We
Speaker 1: did it. Y'all did it, and like it was it.
Speaker 1: I had sex in seven months until you did it
Speaker 1: and then I quit it and then like he hit
Speaker 1: it and then it did it and then you know,
Speaker 1: we we were seeing each other, so we did it,
Speaker 1: and I faked it because I have feelings for him.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to hurt his feelings. His feelings you
Speaker 1: never here when he hears this, or did did you
Speaker 1: end up telling him just enough? Yeah? Because so, so
Speaker 1: I faked it. And then right after because he got
Speaker 1: so confident after the faking, he was really and then
Speaker 1: I had to be like, we'll hold on this second.
Speaker 1: Let's let's calibrate, let's let's let me, let's take back.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what happens. Take it back take
Speaker 1: it back in front of see where he from, where
Speaker 1: he's from? Where people? No, I can't don't give filling
Speaker 1: from queens. So I wanted I had a little Queen's boat. Hey, Jason,
Speaker 1: be too much? Yeah, Queen's. I don't never go to
Speaker 1: queen Let's to the airport. Wait. So okay, what what
Speaker 1: was they saying about the masturbation thing? Oh right, they
Speaker 1: said you have to joke about masturbation. Yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: be Simone has never came in her life. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: b really yeah, never had an orgasm and I never
Speaker 1: masturbated because I tried to masturbate one day and then
Speaker 1: I like put on a roade. My friend was like
Speaker 1: light some candle, drink some line, like getting the mood. Girl.
Speaker 1: I felt like it was me and Jesus on the date.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, you know what? I
Speaker 1: felt like Jesus was watching, like bitch watching when I'm
Speaker 1: doing it too, he'd be watching. If you're watching, I
Speaker 1: don't feel my neck like I felt like that deal though,
Speaker 1: Jesus is on my neck, you need to go on.
Speaker 1: And I was too close to my prayer corner. But
Speaker 1: I looked at my right, I said, right, honey. When
Speaker 1: I remember when I was like in my grandmother she
Speaker 1: looking at me like this in the picture. Friend, okay,
Speaker 1: let me move you out the way, Lady so Ze
Speaker 1: tell us about it's about the master story, my st
Speaker 1: My story was a similar as yours actually, like I
Speaker 1: felt the same way, and I had a girl as
Speaker 1: to be and tell me. She was like, um, oh,
Speaker 1: how you expect the guy to please you if you
Speaker 1: don't know how to please yourself? Yeah, And then I
Speaker 1: did the same thing. I waited And it was in
Speaker 1: New York. It was I was in college and it
Speaker 1: was a snowy day so we didn't have to go out.
Speaker 1: See you know what I'm saying, Like every school was
Speaker 1: canceled everything, And I was like this is the time.
Speaker 1: I turned on the music and then I just started
Speaker 1: I just started thinking like them, do I have to
Speaker 1: pay that light buil? Did I pay my electric bill?
Speaker 1: Like That's what I just started thinking about in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that was like right after my father passed away.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh my god, he's what he's
Speaker 1: so disappointed. It was like that all of that same
Speaker 1: associated with no, it's okay, how did you get past that?
Speaker 1: Like when was the first successful masturbation. Of course. So
Speaker 1: I was in a relationship and he moved to Atlanta
Speaker 1: and uh so we were long distance for a little while,
Speaker 1: and he he actually brought me a master. He brought
Speaker 1: me a masturbated he I don't even know how to
Speaker 1: call mastural. No, not a vibrator. He bought me like
Speaker 1: a little um, the little the little thing, the little thing, yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bullet or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And
Speaker 1: I actually I still don't masturbate because again, I gotta
Speaker 1: love you, so I gotta think you know, how people
Speaker 1: be thinking about their fantasy. Like if I don't got
Speaker 1: somebody in my mind that I loved, then it's I'm
Speaker 1: not ain't nothing with that. That's how I feel. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll have it. Ever, was doing somebody that y'all was
Speaker 1: talking to, and you would think about your ex in
Speaker 1: your mind to like how they was doing it, even
Speaker 1: thought about that, But I didn't did that said because
Speaker 1: I be with you because I don't thinking about the
Speaker 1: last one. I just said. She was choking and I'm like, like,
Speaker 1: why are you here on top of me? Like so
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I don't really like you sir,
Speaker 1: I hate when being a talk about sex. I hate it.
Speaker 1: Why because I don't see her like that. I see
Speaker 1: her like a little innocent, fun, goofy child. And she'd
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, we was doing it. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that nasty he You don't need
Speaker 1: to be having to me the same age. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter you act twelves. So see what's next for you
Speaker 1: and your career. What are you trying to manifest? You
Speaker 1: don't know manifest queen. Let me help you manifest. I
Speaker 1: gonna give you a good energy, not that you need
Speaker 1: everything one you get in, but I can always seen
Speaker 1: you some good vibes. Oh, I love it, and I'll
Speaker 1: take all the vibes, all of them. Yes, I'm manifesting
Speaker 1: a one hour special. Oh, come on. I think the
Speaker 1: world is ready for it, and I'm definitely ready to
Speaker 1: give it. Yeah, I'm gonna sell a show based on
Speaker 1: my life, you know, a scripted half hour comedy, um
Speaker 1: and yeah, and I feel like it's going you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like the show that I'm going to make
Speaker 1: is gonna, like, you know, be culture changing, culture shifting.
Speaker 1: So because I just I feel like what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to show we ain't seen on TV yet. So hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: and if you need, if you need any if you
Speaker 1: need anybody to be in a budega in the corner
Speaker 1: is nothing. Just called me and be let me this year,
Speaker 1: just be the waitress. Here's your water, ma'am. Y'all listen,
Speaker 1: y'all are so talented and great. Y'all, y'all be more
Speaker 1: than welcome. Look, I thought you're gonna say, do your
Speaker 1: own ship. Yeah, you're not so talented. I'm sure you're blessing.
Speaker 1: Don't come down. We got we gotta we have. We
Speaker 1: gotta do ship together, like I think that's you know
Speaker 1: we got we have to give us Yeah, yeah, me
Speaker 1: and just just seen in the boat day the chips.
Speaker 1: We're good to go, girl story. Okay, okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: see you to give. But I have one more question
Speaker 1: before you're gonna give us a quote before you go,
Speaker 1: um think about that. But my last question is how
Speaker 1: long have you been doing stand up? I believe this
Speaker 1: year it will be eleven years. Twelve I started. I started,
Speaker 1: so this year okay, at the end of it, twelve years.
Speaker 1: Yeah you got please, that's your schedule. I swear I
Speaker 1: will pull up. I want to see a show. I
Speaker 1: get so inspired by seeing women on stage inspired. I
Speaker 1: got another question. I got another question. How long you've
Speaker 1: been growing your hair? Um my hair? I started growing
Speaker 1: it back in two seventeen. I think, oh, yeah, how
Speaker 1: long you how I'm airring them like, I not even
Speaker 1: care about that. I just want to think that you
Speaker 1: ask a question wasting time. I wanted to know how
Speaker 1: long you've been doing stand up? Because you know, I
Speaker 1: asked about stand up because you know it's not a
Speaker 1: fear anymore. But I definitely do get panicky and anxiety
Speaker 1: and nervous before I get on stage. He used to
Speaker 1: be fearful, like I used to throw up and ship,
Speaker 1: but now I'm like, okay, I try to. I'm learning
Speaker 1: to fight through it. So it inspires me. Like when
Speaker 1: I see just hilarious or a pretty v or whoever
Speaker 1: on stage you want to stand up, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just look like this is not easy, so for you
Speaker 1: to even get up there, I love to see other
Speaker 1: women do that. So that's why I asked how long
Speaker 1: have you been doing in it? And I would love
Speaker 1: love to come to a show. It just inspires me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not easy. But also I think with
Speaker 1: like you and pretty being just hilarious, people know who
Speaker 1: you guys are before they come see you perform, right,
Speaker 1: and so there's a part of it it's like they're
Speaker 1: they're rooting for you. But there's also a part of
Speaker 1: it where you have to meet their expectations and that
Speaker 1: can be very easy, and they're testing you. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: come in they'd be like, is this a bit funny.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, you know. So definitely had moments
Speaker 1: where it's like a little cricket it's like, okay, I
Speaker 1: need to punch that up. Yeah. But I mean I
Speaker 1: definitely get nervous all the time. And you know what,
Speaker 1: this will be my quote. It's actually not my quote.
Speaker 1: It comes from Beyonce, but I always think about it Beyonce.
Speaker 1: Be Like Beyonce said when she, you know, was first
Speaker 1: getting big, she was like, if you're not nervous, then
Speaker 1: you don't care. M Okay, Okay, that's so true. So
Speaker 1: if you're not nervous, you don't care. When you stop
Speaker 1: getting nervous and stop caring, you need to figure out
Speaker 1: something else to do. But because I'm always nervous going
Speaker 1: on the stage, I'm always nervous. When I got the
Speaker 1: phone with if A Nickel called me on what did
Speaker 1: I do? But I'm nervous, stay nervous, like what's going on?
Speaker 1: What I did? Like you know, we love we love
Speaker 1: you to meet you this way and see the side
Speaker 1: of you. And I'm on your Instagram right now, ground
Speaker 1: and type of ding and tell everybody out here I'm
Speaker 1: looking at you when they can find you at Z
Speaker 1: like you know all that, what's coming, what's up next?
Speaker 1: Like you gotta know you so you're doing all you
Speaker 1: manifesting everything that you want. But like tell people when
Speaker 1: they can find you ad and all that good stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well March eleventh, you guys can watch the second season
Speaker 1: of the show Upload, which is on Amazon. That's the
Speaker 1: show that I'm on. So March eleventh, Um, you can
Speaker 1: find me on social media or social media platforms ain't
Speaker 1: that Johnson Z A I and a B. Johnson website
Speaker 1: is ain't that Johnson? And my website has all my dates,
Speaker 1: so you know, check out my website to see when
Speaker 1: I'm coming to your city, because I'm a treat to
Speaker 1: see live. I pay I'm gonna treat to see unless
Speaker 1: your links your Instagram, everybody. I'm on your Instagram right now.
Speaker 1: But tell us where everybody? She said. She said, I'll
Speaker 1: say it again. I'll say it again. She did, Well,
Speaker 1: I kind of hate to say that, because you know
Speaker 1: what I said. I got to meet this Beauty Today
Speaker 1: podcast and it ain't popping up those pieces. If they'd
Speaker 1: have Johnson so z a I n A B and
Speaker 1: then Johnathan Okay, thank you, yea, what is it? Z
Speaker 1: A NA say no, she said, I got it. I've
Speaker 1: been a well, yeah, thank you. You know. Funny story.
Speaker 1: I auditioned for a while and now, oh talk to me.
Speaker 1: Audition and then they kicked me off and it was like,
Speaker 1: you're not kidding. Brought my ass back. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you why I did the first of all, I'm let's
Speaker 1: tell my story before you get off. I lied. I
Speaker 1: lied to get off. I lied to get on the show.
Speaker 1: I said, d co Fly my cousin, and Carlos Miller
Speaker 1: my uncle. How have it gonna work? It's gonna work.
Speaker 1: I got on the They told me to be myself.
Speaker 1: I didn't muskit theme, peanup, mama, all these different things
Speaker 1: they knew me. And now then they said, can you
Speaker 1: wrap so we did a rapping game. I did all that,
Speaker 1: can I find that I ain't get a call back.
Speaker 1: I never got a call back, so then be smone.
Speaker 1: Just everybody got feeling like where are you at? I'm like, girl,
Speaker 1: why did I have any call you? On the plane
Speaker 1: they flying me, I said that to say that, because
Speaker 1: of course I lied, and then you know whatever, but
Speaker 1: I say that it wasn't my time, it wasn't my
Speaker 1: season to do that. So they called me back two
Speaker 1: seasons later, and I've been on the show since then,
Speaker 1: but at that time, I was like, oh, I got it.
Speaker 1: I got it. I'm going like not and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: you show. They're like, well know I think you. I
Speaker 1: think you gotta have a special set of skills to
Speaker 1: be successful on that show. So so don't ever take
Speaker 1: it for granted. But my audition was definitely like, um,
Speaker 1: do stands up? And I did stands up and they
Speaker 1: was feeling, I'm I'm very confident in my stands up.
Speaker 1: They're like, okay, this is one of the while and
Speaker 1: now get you know. I felt like they enjoyed myself,
Speaker 1: like I felt like I got them with my stands
Speaker 1: up and then they was like, okay, this is a game.
Speaker 1: Play this, You're gonna play this game. And then I
Speaker 1: played the game and they was like okay, cool. And
Speaker 1: then they was like rapp and they gave me a
Speaker 1: scenario and I was like, all right, you on stage
Speaker 1: with Kevin Hard and he just said this and now
Speaker 1: go And I was like, you are too short. What
Speaker 1: are you talking? Say that's what I'm doing. I said nothing.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna just I'm gonna just go.
Speaker 1: Was it a big guy? What is it a big
Speaker 1: guy in on this sh and he had like he
Speaker 1: was a stuffy dude. It he's it was done. It
Speaker 1: was definitely don't do that. He was was because now
Speaker 1: I'm scared to shout. My god. Me and Bena cried
Speaker 1: every fucking night. It was nice talking to you. We
Speaker 1: love you, black sister. You keep doing your thing, keep
Speaker 1: being confident, can being saucy, and keep breaking down these walls. Honey.
Speaker 1: When the enemy tell you know, baby, God said yes,
Speaker 1: so let's go. Yes, ye see, thank you for coming.
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm definitely gonna come see you in New
Speaker 1: York and just keep killing the game. You are so
Speaker 1: funny and I know you're just gonna take your career
Speaker 1: like all the way killing it. So thank you for
Speaker 1: being a guest. We appreciate you. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: lady love huge shout. We really apreciate her coming through
Speaker 1: and just imparting her wisdom here and the women a
Speaker 1: while and out podcasts and we'll be right back after
Speaker 1: this great keep alock all right, you guys, we are
Speaker 1: back with the woman. While in that podcast, yo z,
Speaker 1: I love zs energy like she is so love so
Speaker 1: beautiful inside. It's so confident that you gotta be confident
Speaker 1: to be a comedian. You gotta believe in your jokes
Speaker 1: to yourself. And I cannot wait to see her live.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make that, um you know, a goal to
Speaker 1: see her live about you. You feel like you're gonna
Speaker 1: You're specially gonna get one of those in I want.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm working on it. I think it's
Speaker 1: time to work towards it. And I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: time to just throw anything out, but I want to
Speaker 1: work towards it. I would love to shoot my special
Speaker 1: in London. I just show over there in for New Years.
Speaker 1: I did London and we sold out. It was like
Speaker 1: four hundred people. There was literally like two hundred people
Speaker 1: outside the tre me like Beyonce. When I was over there,
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't even do this, and then like,
Speaker 1: you know, but um, I want to do I want
Speaker 1: to go over to London. I loved by the energy,
Speaker 1: the people. I want to do it over there, have
Speaker 1: a camera crew over there and film it and see
Speaker 1: what happens. I might drop it myself. I might drop
Speaker 1: it on my app or a website, or you know,
Speaker 1: I might hit up L O L network or hit
Speaker 1: up shit Time, hit up Nick. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: but I want to film it and get it out
Speaker 1: sooner than later. But I'm working on it. You know,
Speaker 1: you never when you're working on something big like that,
Speaker 1: you know you ready, you know, and even when you
Speaker 1: feel like you ready, always feel like you can fix it.
Speaker 1: So you gotta get that out of your mind. Like
Speaker 1: you gotta set. You got an hour, put it together,
Speaker 1: put it out. I'm sure Kevin Hurt's first set wasn't
Speaker 1: the most phenomenal set ever, but he put it together
Speaker 1: and put it out. So congratulations to z On. You know,
Speaker 1: even working special that's a big deal in her and jazz,
Speaker 1: which is one of our friends. Like she She's definitely
Speaker 1: that's her go to. Like everybody's just working towards something.
Speaker 1: I love it, Justina, would you ever try stand up?
Speaker 1: I would yeah, I think yeah, like when I when
Speaker 1: I go and do like colleges and stuff. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I do the stand up more as like a hosting thing,
Speaker 1: like I just freestyle, like I'll be talking to people
Speaker 1: in the crowd, like I don't have like set jokes
Speaker 1: that I do. But it was one time Con and
Speaker 1: Brip we're both like an hour late, and I basically
Speaker 1: did like forty minutes of just being up there saying
Speaker 1: anything like I did a whole twork contest and I
Speaker 1: was just you know, messing with the kids in the
Speaker 1: class and long as time, yes, because I still wanted
Speaker 1: to get the back. But and then one time I
Speaker 1: wrote a couple of jokes. It was me Con and
Speaker 1: hit Man, and I did like a little like um
Speaker 1: tem fancy mans. I would definitely do it because you know,
Speaker 1: I like, I like being on stage. Um. I would
Speaker 1: definitely want to like sit with some of my peers
Speaker 1: that do that for real and punch it up and
Speaker 1: all that. But I would definitely consider it. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I like better to do the host thing
Speaker 1: like bring up the real stand up comedians, the whole
Speaker 1: headliner right right right, But I would when you do
Speaker 1: with the do you do it more hosting or you
Speaker 1: do like a set like be ho like but but
Speaker 1: I but I do. It's a set that requires hosting though,
Speaker 1: so you have to have a couple of jokes to
Speaker 1: order to make sure that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I'm doing a different this way. I'm doing it my way.
Speaker 1: I really thought, like when I was in my last
Speaker 1: Chicago show with Ricky Smiling and all these dope legends,
Speaker 1: I thought it was like amazing because me and d
Speaker 1: Ray did it together. But also, like I've been watching
Speaker 1: so many like of Martin Lawrence, we needed deaf jam,
Speaker 1: like just all these different people that I love and admire,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, I'm gonna do it my way.
Speaker 1: So I gotta show cun up with be with me
Speaker 1: and Bruce booson Low Duval, and I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be amazing because I'm gonna just like really and truly,
Speaker 1: like really work on my hosting set and really do
Speaker 1: something where it's like it's me, like I'm gonna literally
Speaker 1: bring myself that I do in my kitchen on set,
Speaker 1: like I have to do that. Like when I thought
Speaker 1: about it when I was sitting and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't give if I gotta rent a table out
Speaker 1: in in where we at Innnapolis, I'm gonna have that
Speaker 1: big I'm gonna throw that sht on the stage. You
Speaker 1: feel me, and just if you like, I want to
Speaker 1: do it my way, and I even want it to
Speaker 1: be after my Chicago show and I loved it so bad,
Speaker 1: like so much to be in front of these people
Speaker 1: and be beside them. But I was like, so much
Speaker 1: that I have to do to make sure I'm comfortable
Speaker 1: on stage, Like I don't even got to be cute
Speaker 1: on stage, Like I don't even gotta be fly down,
Speaker 1: like I would come in with my damn booty shorts
Speaker 1: on a wife beta and whatever because I'm hosting, you know,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you gotta do what you're comfortable with. But
Speaker 1: I think I'm with you on that. I'd rather do that,
Speaker 1: like the hosting stuff to like you know, beat someone
Speaker 1: and Jesse and how long how and now Martin was
Speaker 1: doing that death coming for like a long time, right
Speaker 1: hosting that, Yeah, because I heard they heard they to
Speaker 1: throw that at to Chris Rock, and Chris Rock was like,
Speaker 1: not after Martin, you know? So yeah, So I literally
Speaker 1: been watching all that on my thing, like, yo, let
Speaker 1: me see what I could do different. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: proud of you think I'm proud of y'all. I'm proud
Speaker 1: of Z and Z. We had an amazing show today
Speaker 1: with her, y'all. This is the Women a While, our
Speaker 1: podcast I'm Your Girl, be some, I got my girl
Speaker 1: Pretty We and just in a Valencinee. You'all next time.
Speaker 1: Love you,