WEBVTT - Ep. 128 — Beauty Confessions and Stock Moves 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.320 Hey, hey, Hey, I'm back and I'm black. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.000 Do you know what I I listened to this podcast. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:30.760 Hi guys, it's Mandy around Ambition. I was listening to 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.400 this because I I decided that it's been you know, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.199 I'm such a Broadway nerd, and I don't listen to 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.479 any Broadway podcast and I've been meaning to sign up 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.640 for some and I found I follow Broadway Black dot Com, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.000 which is which is basically a blog that was started 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.840 to highlight you know, all twelve women people of color 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.240 in Broadway. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.400 Which is highlights still Cynthia Erbia. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.440 Oh yeah, yeah, I mean this was started. Broadway Black 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.319 dot Com was started years like a few years ago. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.640 I want to say, at least I started following it 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.360 a couple of years ago. The whole but the beauty 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.760 of it is that Broadway has changed so much, like 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.080 it is so much more diverse now. There's not just 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.760 twelve people anymore. There's like entire shows. I saw a 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.119 play last week with a black Joan of Arc. Hm 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:17.000 Condola Rashad, Felicia Rashad's daughter played Joan of Arc and 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.759 it was it was amazing and it wasn't like the 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:21.560 hip hop version of Joan of Arc you know what 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.520 I mean, it was like it was just a black story. Yeah, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:31.280 she just happened to be blackmcials. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:29.360 Where they're like. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.960 By Ford, You're like, you know, you could just say, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.679 you know, this is a great car. You don't you 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.720 don't have to hip hip hop size it for black folks. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.000 We likely all other types of music, all of it. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.080 She was phenomenal. So Broadway is just becoming. So it's 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.360 just such a you know, there's the same theater that 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.000 premiered this Joan of Arc or it's called Saint Joan 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.000 starring Condola Rashad. The same theater is doing a play 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:57.800 this summer which I couldn't even get tickets to because 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.240 it's already sold out called Oh Crap, Oh Sugar in 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.600 My Wounds that takes place in the age of slavery 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.920 between slaves who are gay. So an actual like, can 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.079 you imagine this play getting made like five years ago. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.080 It's it's amazing. So theater is just like it's so 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.239 I mean after not just I don't want to just 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.240 credit Hamilton for it, but it just feels like in 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:19.799 the years that I've lived here, in the past eight 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.840 or nine years, going to see Broadway shows. Something has 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.360 changed the past two years. Like I've never had so 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.080 many options for to go see shows that are written 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.919 by performed by people of color. And it is freaking fantastic. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:34.760 So happy. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.080 So I did something today. It was not cheap, but 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:39.600 it was my first time doing it, and said, let 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.359 me try I got let me know. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.360 I don't, well, Mandy, you have long lashes. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.200 I feel like I've got semi permanent lashes for the 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:46.800 first time. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.760 And it was expensive, but I wanted to try it. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.320 And because the girl who does my makeup for events 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.720 that if you have three or more events in a row, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.640 you should just do it because in the long run, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.360 it's it's less money. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.600 So not something I would you like to keep up with. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.440 But I have like four events in the next like 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.520 week and a half, and so I said, let me 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:05.960 try it. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.400 And I was like slash, like a lash extension, yeah, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.520 with they saw weave for your eyelashes. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.840 Yeah, they well, you know how like you you've seen 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.800 like that, you know, like there's actually like lashes that 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.040 you could put on for the day. No, but they 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.720 actually have one that they attached to your eyelash and 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.520 they last for about two weeks or so like, so no, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.880 it's literally it's time consuming. Actually, I was like, wow, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.680 women are dedicated. It's like what literally one hair attached 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.360 to one of your lashes and another hair attached to another. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.000 It actually looks so natural that. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.520 Like I came home and I said, hey, Subpan, like, 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.960 you know, blinking profusely, see anything different, see anything different? 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.440 And he's like, uh, literally, look at me from toad 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.720 toad to head. Your eyebrows are dead. I'm like, sir, no, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.040 I was like, my lashes he looked. He was like, oh, yeah, 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:56.560 I don't know if that's a good or bed thing. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.680 Because I told her I didn't want them to look 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.920 I wanted them to look naturally. You know, men never 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.680 noticed anything, but he would know if they looked crazy. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:06.000 So I didn't want them to look crazy, but I 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.720 at least wanted them to look like I had lashes, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:08.560 because I have none. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.560 But it was so expensive, Mandy. There were ninety dollars. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:12.520 Ninety nine dollars. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.520 Someone told me that that's actually not that expensive for 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.000 a full set, but whatever, I'm yes, and. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.360 Then to fill them in. So let's you say. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.159 I wanted to keep them, like, you know, keep it 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.720 going to fill them in every two or three weeks. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.839 It's like forty bucks. I'm like, I'm not that committed. 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.640 But if anybody familiar with Lamb Chops play along? Are 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:29.560 you familiar with Mandy? I? 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.799 Yeah, I can't start it because it'll never end exactly. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.919 So that little puppet had like this super First of. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.480 All, why would you say you got something natural? And 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.800 then you're like, you know, lamb Chop the puppet because 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.239 instantly what I see is she had like four thick 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.080 dark eyelashes on her. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.000 I'm like, I didn't get those, but it took. What 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.680 she did tell me, which I knew, is that my lashes. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.400 Are hold on. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:53.640 No. 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:58.719 Sorry, that's your example of like over to an eyelashes. Yeah, 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.920 lamp shop, not real Paul, not Wendy Williams, lamp stops. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:05.000 All right, I'm with you. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.800 I'm on the journey, no way. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.400 So I was like really afraid that it was gonna 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.200 look because everybody knows me. Then they're like, I'm you know, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.000 I'm slightly like a tomboy, so you know, off off 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.240 stage or whatever, or I'm not. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:18.760 I don't typically wear makeup. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.880 I usually like a lip gloss and mascara is more 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.400 than enough, and so I was like, I don't want 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.479 to look like, you know, basically a. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.200 Lambshop of lamp shops playing a long time. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.560 And so I think, I think, I mean, and you 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.760 girls who get glashes let me know, but I think 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.280 they kind of typically about one hundred and fifty dollars, 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:34.640 I think. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.320 So I felt like it was a pretty good deal. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.240 That's not bad. I mean my guilty pleasure speaking of group, 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.720 not a guilty pleasure. It's just like, wells, this is 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.839 the way my body is. It just likes to grow 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.480 hair in places where I do not want it. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.000 So what I did. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.720 I've been doing laser hair removal, which was always so 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:54.760 expensive I never thought I could afford it. But you 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.120 can get really good deals on group on for laser 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.200 hair removal packages, like for one hundred bucks, you'll get 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.680 six treatments. The only catch is that they only usually 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.359 offer those deals to new customers. In a city like 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.320 New York, there's literally a like a place I can 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.839 get laser hair removal on every corner. So it's not 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.919 hard for me to find new deals and go, you know, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.919 bop around from place to place. I probably do it 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.680 once a year, I'll do like sub sessions. I'll be 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.680 good for the year. I mean, but the thing is 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.680 you'll do your six sessions or whatever. But it's really 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.480 hard to permanently stop hair growth. So real talk, ladies. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.400 We're all friends here, right, So it's you know, it's 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.039 like an investment that I make in my I put 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.040 in myself like once a year to make to make 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.440 me happy and you know, not self conscious about little 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.479 fred and ginger on my chin. That's all. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:42.360 How much does it cost? 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.640 Typically, God, like the actual sticker price for a treatment, 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.239 I'll have to look it up. It can be several 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.560 thousand dollars because each treatment, Yeah, because each treatment is 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.719 like a few hundred dollars, if not more. It depends 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.240 on where you're getting it, if you're gonna get your 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.719 entire leg done, because you need to have it. Like 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.760 I said, at least four to six sessions. They say 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.719 sometimes eight sessions. Per session, you're paying a few hundred bucks. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.760 So like for a large area, for like a small 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.080 chin area, then there's like the medium chin area, then 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.440 the whole neck, and then there's like you know, the 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.800 bikini area. I've never done that. I don't have a 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.960 death wish. There's all there's all different grades of it, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.600 so that's why there's those groupon deals are clutch. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.000 Yeah, I can imagine, you know that. I don't know. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.680 I just feel like I don't know. I feel like 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.080 Ebos or Nigerian's I don't know. We don't, I don't, 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:32.640 we don't know how any hair do you see? 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.080 Neither does any of my African room baits. I hated them. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.560 They were gonna canyon for real. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.320 I don't know what I'm like when I say like 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.640 I could probably go the whole summer and not maybe 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.160 I'm I might if I really really wanted to. I 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.840 guess I could shave my leg, but you wouldn't. The 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.360 difference is you can't even see, so that's what. But 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.280 the problem with that is that because of that, that 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.760 also meant I didn't have long lashes. So it's like, eh, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.040 you know, so my my lack of hair like really 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.400 kind of like goes all the way up to like 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.840 my eyelashes and you know, so, I mean, I guess you. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.280 Know you win some clue though, but I don't think. 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.040 That's a fair I mean, like I'd rather not have 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.760 long lashes than have to go have someone shoot a 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:19.480 laser at my face every year. So because that's what 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.480 it is, y'all. I'm not gonna lie. Just imagine someone 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.680 taking a rubber band, like your little brother, taking your 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.400 rubber band and just smacking you in the face for 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:32.440 fifteen minutes straight. But you know, it's worth it for 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.400 for society to like depend. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.440 So right, like sitting and getting my eyelashes done where 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:38.240 nobody can even notice. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.080 My husband was I mean Legit was like. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.400 I don't, I don't know, I don't you have to 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.800 tell me something, what what is it? And I was like, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.640 I don't know how I feel about not looking different 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.560 for ninety nine dollars. I thought I should be looking like, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.920 I don't know, like for ninety nine dollars, I feel 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.119 like it should be a transformation. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.240 And I'm like, well, you know, but you have to 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:57.520 do it for your see, this is what you got 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.360 to do it for you on the inside, to make 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.520 you happy. Because if you're doing it for the man, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.480 who's never gonna notice. That's why I stopped buying lingerie. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.040 Oh that's well, that's true. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:08.680 Some men are into it, some men are not. I 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.800 learned early on it's a bad investment for some people 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.120 just making a sandwich, a nice sexy girl cheese sandwich. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.080 Now that it is a very cheap turn on. 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:22.240 Right, Like are you hungry? Yes, yes, it's true. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.679 Some guys are just not you know, like and I'm 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.760 telling you lingerie is not cheap. That's another like total ripoff. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.120 I don't know where these companies are getting off charging 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.600 so much money for Like I went to a I 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.880 had to buy a lingerie for a bachelorette recently, like 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.200 where you do, Like at my bachelorette, for example, they 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.240 all gave you like lingerie, and then you had to 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.880 guess based on how trashy it was, like who gave 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.920 it to you? You know, shout out to Jess for 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.440 giving me a edible candy necklace gee string. I have 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:56.880 never used that, but anyway, I couldn't. But when I 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.400 went myself to go shopping, I couldn't believe like the 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.720 actual of like a little like you know, neglige or 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.880 whatever that you're probably gonna wear for like five seconds. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.880 It's it's it's insane. I think it's like someone needs 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.240 to disrupt the lingerie. Is there, like a lingerie box? 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:12.840 Yeah, or something. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:18.000 It's called Joyce Leslie Rainbow like those you know, like 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.880 the little plastic like the little cheapy like stories that 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.120 used to go to when you were in college it 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.839 didn't have much money, oh like. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.480 Forever twenty one, like Real twenty one. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.200 Yeah, that kind of thing, Like that's I mean when 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.839 I was like in my twenties, yep, I used to 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.079 go there be like, huh this has laced in. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.920 It five for five songs from May twenty one. Yes, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.400 fifteen year old Nandy was really into that. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.800 Oh my god, No, but I totally agree that. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.680 Some to me, I believe in the safe splurge method 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.839 of you know, you say, if you do what you're 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.560 supposed to do, but then because you know you are 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.080 a good steward of your money, that it's time to 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.200 kind of splurge, that you splurge without guilt. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.080 So I say, for my splurges basically. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.880 Yes as long but again like if you're doing it 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.079 for yourself and you feel good, then yes, do it. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.679 That's that's that's why I get my because you know what, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.960 I love getting my hair lasered off. It is so 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:14.680 self satisfying. What else happened this week? Oh shout out 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:19.200 to my one of my credit card writers. She pointed 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.800 out that the Supreme Court this week passed, uh, basically 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.600 struck down this long standing federal law that made it 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.360 illegal to bet across the country like in all these things. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.719 Yes, New Jersey was pushing for that. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.520 On sports, sorry, on sports, specifically sports betting. Yeah, so 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.280 it was like it was a New Jersey case that 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.640 went to the Supreme Court. So shout out to Chris 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.679 Christy the last one of his last Oh. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.439 I don't know, only we recognized is. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.200 No, Okay, I mean I recognize him. He's cute anyway, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.480 So this means that you can doesn't mean it does 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.959 not mean that. Okay, now it is totally the Supreme 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.560 Court struck down this federal law that basically made it 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.720 illegal to bet on sports any were but Las Vegas. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.240 But it doesn't mean that now you can just bet 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.720 on sports wherever you are across the country. What the 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.360 Supreme Court's ruling basically said was that it's not up 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.959 to the government, the federal government to decide what states 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.520 should do. So it's kicked back to the states to 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.959 make a call. So check your state rules. I'm pretty 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.160 sure this means in New Jersey. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.719 Yeah, because they were pushing for it specifically, and all 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.600 of these betting companies were getting ready. I saw it 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.000 on the news like maybe, like I don't know, a 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.480 few days ago. So they were holding their breath hoping 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.800 that it would be a go and I guess it 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:34.840 is go Jersey. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.600 I guess I mean more destroyed families. I don't know. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.000 I don't have the stomach for betting. I am stressed 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:42.600 lottery tickets. I can't. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:43.679 Oh. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.160 I feel like I get stressed if I win, and 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.600 I get stressed if I lose, because if I win, 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:48.760 I'm like, wait, I. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.680 Could win again. Wait no, okay, wait no wait, so yeah, 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.000 I'm not once I do my once I get one winning. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.520 I remember a woman when I used used to teach preschool. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:57.880 One of the teachers were like, do you want to 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.720 scratch off? I was like, now, she's like, I'll get 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.240 you one. I said, okay, it was a dollar, and 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.079 I won too, two dollars. And then the next day 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.640 she said, do you want to get a scratch, I'll 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.400 give you two dollars from yesterday, And for like a 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.240 week straight she went every day I won, I kept 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.880 rewinning just two dollars, and then by the end, I 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.200 was like, just give you mine. Then I think, like 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.280 the last day you know she was it didn't win anything. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.319 So I was like, well, there you go. That and that, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.839 my friends, is how the lottery works. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.720 I think of how much my father, like my father's 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.920 like part back to my dad again. God, I really 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.280 need to like he needs to be on the show someday. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.120 But the amount of money he had stuffed into the 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.040 side door of his Accura when I was a kid, 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.439 just stuffed like old lottery tickets, a lot like scratch offs. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.000 Like all the money he just like shiffed into his 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.920 you know, the inner console of his car over the years, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.559 I mean, probably amounted to like one hundred thousands of dollars. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:49.000 It has to. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.280 He spends so much money on this crap. But he's 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.320 still you know one day one day and maybe I'll 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.319 like bite my you know, eat my words one day. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:01.040 But anyway, good for some people. Thank you for playing 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.720 the lottery because it does pay for like school scholarships. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.480 So yeah, thank you Georgia citizens for putting me through school, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.040 getting my tuition paid with the Hope scholarship. I appreciate that. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.959 Yeah, you know, I was gonna say so I don't 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.800 know if you guys, like, you know, buy stocks, but 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:16.319 so I got I had to. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:17.160 You know, did you? 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:18.600 I think it was you that I when I got 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.080 the robin Hood app. Was that like a couple of 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.800 years ago when you were like, hey, it's free trades. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.920 I feel like it was you a couple. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.720 Of years ago. It was probably like three weeks ago 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.320 when we talked about Robin up on the podcast. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.560 Right probably, And so I really enjoyed the app. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.880 But what I'm excited is because I bought a stock 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.320 which I'm not going to say the name of, because 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:37.600 you guys are going to rush and be like, oh 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.840 my god, it went down and now I'm broke. But 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.880 I bought a stock. The IPO was like, which is 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.480 the initial public offering when the stock first goes live, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.520 was maybe like a week or so ago. It opened 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.920 at twenty nine dollars and now it's have forty five dollars. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.600 I'm like, woohooky, So I'm feeling rich. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.160 How many well, I guess you won't share how many 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.000 shares you bought mine. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.160 I bought twenty four shares honestly because it's it's a 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.440 stock of something that I use all the time, and 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.800 I'm seeing this shift to like every company that I 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.240 interact with using this, and I was like, uh, this 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.680 is a no brainer. Because my sister, who's really into stocks, 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:12.920 kind of like emailed all the sisters and she's like, Hey, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.960 the stock is coming up. You guys should watch. I've 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.800 been watching and waiting to see, like what's going to happen. 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.520 She's like, it's opening at twenty nine dollars, but I 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.120 feel like it's going to do much better. And sure enough, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.280 it's like, you know, it's doing great, honestly, and so 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.160 I feel like, you know, I feel rich. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.240 Yeah, my husband really wants to buy Spotify when it 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.400 goes public or no is it so and nose Spotify 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.800 so and knows one of those that's going public. I 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.000 actually bought my first stock on robin Hood too. This 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:39.720 is not a plug for robin Hood, it's just it's 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.840 free trade. So why not. I forgot I had like 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.360 a hundred bucks on there, so I was like, what 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.480 can I get for a hundred bucks? And I realized 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.680 whenever I go to Charlotte, I eat at the same restaurant, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.320 this really delicious fast food restaurant, I mean, not Fat's 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.600 like fast casual, but it's really healthy. The food is 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.360 so good, and I'm like, man, why isn't there one 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.480 in New York City? So I started researching it and 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.600 I realized it's actually it's like a regional train chain 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.320 in the Southeast, and it's a publicly traded company. So 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.200 I ended up just buying the shares weren't that expensive. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.440 It was like, how much was it per share? Like 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.080 thirteen dollars a share when I first bought it, and 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:13.920 I was like, I love this food, you know, maybe 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.080 it's an extrapot way. So I bought, like, I don't know, 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.040 however many shares you can get for a hundred bucks, 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.320 And I just checked it because you were talking about it, 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:22.960 and now the shares are sixteen dollars. 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.400 I had to see you, right, because we don't we 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.560 don't give stock advice. We don't. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.400 No, no, this is literally play money, Like this is 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.720 one hundred dollars. I forgot about because I don't need 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.960 it right now, and if I lose it, you know, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.680 that would suck. But I'm just I'm just playing around 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.160 with it. You know, it's fun. I still got my 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.240 four to one k. I know you still have a 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.960 million different you know. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.600 Not my account coin, but yes, I have my safety accounts, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.440 my retirement account. This is definitely money that I've literally 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.880 set aside to do this. And my dad is so cute. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.280 He was like, because he invests like in this kind 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.560 of more a more traditional way, and so when I 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.200 told him about Robinhood, he was like, oh, you know what, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.520 let me do it. And so I went to the 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.520 house and set him up and my mom up and 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.440 they each put three hundred dollars in and my dad's 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:09.840 I'm just gonna play around with this. So it's just 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.560 something fun, kind of like outside of like, you know, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.720 because my dad has taken care of their finances, this 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.480 is just something new and fun. And I'm like, yeah, 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.800 look at Daddy on his cell phone looking at his 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:20.480 robin Hood. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.000 You know what my strategy is? Maybe, you know, I 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.840 think what I've I've sort of I'm finally investing. But 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.120 it's like, after I have absorbed all of this information 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.240 for so long, like talking to different investors and like 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.199 reading different books about the psychology of investing and what 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.840 goes into it and the whole by it's very simple 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.800