Speaker 1: All right, hey, hey, hey guys, and we're busy. How's
Speaker 1: your weekend?
Speaker 2: Oh, weekend was good. Actually, I finally, after like five
Speaker 2: years of saying I wanted to go see Book of Mormon,
Speaker 2: I finally went to go see Book of Mormon. Okay,
Speaker 2: that show. Have you ever seen it before?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not really it's a Broadway show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, anything not Disney. It's not really my style.
Speaker 2: No, this is like Okay, first of all, it's a musical.
Speaker 2: It's hilarious. It was created and written by the creators
Speaker 2: of South Park, so it's raunchy, like raunchy, af do
Speaker 2: not bring your parents. We were sitting wait, I got
Speaker 2: really good seeds. And first of all, it's taken me
Speaker 2: so long because five years ago, Book of Mormon was
Speaker 2: the Hamilton Broadway where you could not get tickets, and
Speaker 2: I five years ago was earning like way less than
Speaker 2: I am now, so I could never afford to get tickets.
Speaker 2: There were four hundred dollars. But I feel like I
Speaker 2: have to say thank you to Hamilton because now that
Speaker 2: Hamilton's out and Book of Mormon is not that popular anymore,
Speaker 2: tickets are actually not bad and we were able to go,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's hilarious. And we were sitting next to
Speaker 2: the whole premise of it is about Mormon missionaries who
Speaker 2: are sent to Uganda and had the task of saving
Speaker 2: or baptizing this Ugandan village, and just hilarity ensues, and
Speaker 2: like it is not if you, you know, if anything
Speaker 2: Larry Wilmore said in his White House correspondence to Inner
Speaker 2: Speech offended you, then you don't want to see Book
Speaker 2: of Mormon. But it was it was like just like
Speaker 2: just fun. And we were sitting next to these two
Speaker 2: old dudes. There's this older couple right next to us,
Speaker 2: and it was really cute seeing them. Like are we
Speaker 2: allowed to laugh at that? It's like, yes, you can
Speaker 2: to joke about the devil and me like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: that was some fun. And you know, that's a nice
Speaker 2: way to spend a Sunday. It was nasty yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was, which is so random because Saturday it
Speaker 3: was so nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I frolicked. I was a little bit. I had
Speaker 2: a girls night Friday and I had, you know, a
Speaker 2: couple of margaritas and I don't really drink that much,
Speaker 2: and so I was not feeling one hundred on Saturday,
Speaker 2: but I forced myself to leave the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Saturday really nice. I spent like most of my
Speaker 1: day outside. I was doing some taping of testimonials for
Speaker 1: the Budget Nista. So we were in the Bronx. We
Speaker 1: taped in New Brunswick, we taped in with Stars, we
Speaker 1: taped in Newark. We're just like all over in New York,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. And it actually was fun because it's so
Speaker 1: crazy to see people living at different walks of life,
Speaker 1: like in their actual environment, and it's just interesting to
Speaker 1: come into their space and to kind of just feel
Speaker 1: their energy in their space. It was really nice.
Speaker 3: Actually, that was cool.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna get the Budget Nista mobile? I know, right,
Speaker 2: like a giant like mad I'm not the big giant placard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, then I'll never get any peace. I already
Speaker 1: go to the supermarket like in my town, in my
Speaker 1: city because everybody knows what I do in my city,
Speaker 1: and I can't even squeeze the tomatoes without someone being
Speaker 1: like quick question right, bunch anisa credit, which actually I
Speaker 1: don't mind. I kind of like that because it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, normally this is someone who might not otherwise
Speaker 1: care about their credit, and now here they are asking
Speaker 1: me about it in shopright.
Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah, you should host your own little
Speaker 2: like show a shop right, I know.
Speaker 3: At the tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Conversations and the produce Atyle.
Speaker 1: So some Morca news a Missy Copeland and this barbie.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I love it. I saw that. I just saw it
Speaker 2: on GMA. I posted it. I think it's awesome. I
Speaker 2: kind of want to go back and redo my childhood now.
Speaker 3: I know, right, like I could get it.
Speaker 1: You know, what I love about the barbie is that
Speaker 1: it's like clearly more muscular and like built like her you.
Speaker 2: Know calves though those calves. Yes, I heard I read
Speaker 2: that she was really involved. I'm sure she was like
Speaker 2: doing modeling for them, like no, this is what my
Speaker 2: cap looks like, you know.
Speaker 1: And even on GMA was cute because Ramin from GMA,
Speaker 1: who was interviewing her, was telling like the people like,
Speaker 1: you know, Missy was actually making sure that the barbie
Speaker 1: was in like the right position before like I guess
Speaker 1: dight before they cut to commercial to show the barbie.
Speaker 1: I thought that was so cute. She was like, no,
Speaker 1: this is not how a ballerina stands. It has to
Speaker 1: look like right.
Speaker 2: She would know exactly I feel like. I mean, I
Speaker 2: I always could get the one brown barbie because they
Speaker 2: had a brown Barbie and a black Barbie when I
Speaker 2: was little. I don't know how long they've been around,
Speaker 2: but I always went for, like, you know, the racially
Speaker 2: ambiguous one like I was. But she didn't like have
Speaker 2: a kick ass career. She wasn't an athlete or a director.
Speaker 1: She was like a mermaid, racially ambiguous mermaid Barbie.
Speaker 3: That's awthful.
Speaker 2: Oh man. So one other headline I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about this, which you know, one of my really close
Speaker 2: co workers had a baby about a year ago now,
Speaker 2: and I alway I wanted to get her opinion on this,
Speaker 2: and she, like so many other moms, were super pissed off.
Speaker 2: There's this woman who wrote a novel called Me Maternity,
Speaker 2: which is like maternity leave but for single women with
Speaker 2: or not single women women without children. And this writer
Speaker 2: she well, she has the novel coming out, which is
Speaker 2: a fictionalized story, but it was based on her own
Speaker 2: experience working in New York in her early thirties, and
Speaker 2: she was jealous of the moms and dads in the
Speaker 2: office who got to call out when they had to
Speaker 2: go pick up their son at six pm, you know,
Speaker 2: or leave the office because the kid was sick. She said,
Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't as it wasn't as kosher if
Speaker 2: I were to say, oh, my best friend just got
Speaker 2: you know, ghosted by her Okay Cupid date and she
Speaker 2: needs a margarita and that girl she felt like she
Speaker 2: felt like people without kids deserve some eternity, which rightfully
Speaker 2: just like blew up. I mean, the New York posted
Speaker 2: a whole interview with her. I do not know why
Speaker 2: this woman put herself on that. Why would you do that?
Speaker 2: It was just like some.
Speaker 1: People do anything for fame, because she had to know
Speaker 1: that that's the stupidest thing you've ever heard, Like maternity
Speaker 1: to leave is not a vacation. Like I babysit my
Speaker 1: nephew Tuesdays.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I was so agreed, I so agreed. I was choking.
Speaker 1: So I babysitd my nephew on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings
Speaker 1: from like seven to like ten thirty. And it is
Speaker 1: like I'm exhausted afterwards, Like literally I spend the hour
Speaker 1: after he leaves and I take a nap because my
Speaker 1: sister was on maternity leave for a while and decided
Speaker 1: she had to go back to work, you know, to
Speaker 1: help support the family.
Speaker 3: That I she had a baby. It was hard for
Speaker 3: her to leave.
Speaker 1: But her mother in law babysits him mostly when they're gone,
Speaker 1: but her mother in law can't on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings.
Speaker 1: And she asked if I would, and I was like, sure, easy, peasy.
Speaker 1: What From the moment I walk in, Roman that's his name,
Speaker 1: is like seven months, He's like, hey, Auntie, So what.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna do is any work.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna go to the bathroom because as soon
Speaker 1: as you put me down, I'm going to scream bloody murder.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna know why I'm crying. If I need
Speaker 1: to poop, if I need to pee, if I need
Speaker 1: to eat, if I just want to play, if I
Speaker 1: don't want to play, if I want you to.
Speaker 3: Leave me alone.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is so much work. I can't even
Speaker 1: imagine twenty four to seven with the baby. What I mean, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm single and I don't have any kids, so yeah,
Speaker 1: having me time is not the same thing as having
Speaker 1: having to come home and take care of a kid.
Speaker 1: It is egg exhausting and just the fact that I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just so selfish and so like, is she a millennial?
Speaker 1: Sorry millennials, she's thirty eight.
Speaker 2: She's like just she's like jen X. Sorry, she's yeah,
Speaker 2: you can claim you can have her.
Speaker 3: We don't want her like I want to. I want
Speaker 3: to draft her, get drafted in the age draft.
Speaker 2: Listen. This is the part of her whole, her whole
Speaker 2: thesis that drives me nuts, she says. As I watch
Speaker 2: my friends take their real maternity leaves, I saw that
Speaker 2: spending three months detached from their dusts made them much
Speaker 2: more sure of themselves. One friend made the decision to
Speaker 2: leave her corporate care weird to create her own business.
Speaker 2: From the outside look like it looked like those few
Speaker 2: weeks of them shifting their focus to something other than
Speaker 2: their jobs gave them a whole new lens through which
Speaker 2: to see their lives. You mean, the lens where if
Speaker 2: you don't work and feed your kids, they will die, like.
Speaker 1: And if you want to break, that's what vacation is for.
Speaker 1: Save your vacations on time, and you know, take three
Speaker 1: weeks off.
Speaker 2: If you all have kids, you have maternity time, maternity
Speaker 2: time all the time.
Speaker 3: Exactly. It's called coming home, fool.
Speaker 2: Coming home and doing whatever the hell you want to do.
Speaker 2: I am enjoying thirty almost thirty years of maternity time myself,
Speaker 2: and this is just bogus. Did you And also what's
Speaker 2: funny is she was supposed to go on GMA and
Speaker 2: she bailed. Really yeah, she toly let them hanging, like
Speaker 2: I guess right up before the segment was supposed to air,
Speaker 2: because she probably got in the building and you know
Speaker 2: two GMA's audiences.
Speaker 1: Right, women who have kids, women who.
Speaker 2: Are yes, either have kids or you know, their home
Speaker 2: at eight nine am watching this, so they were ready
Speaker 2: with their pitchforks, I'm sure, and she just like went
Speaker 2: into the building and walked right out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was like, you know what, actually, I'm not
Speaker 3: getting paid enough for this. But that was dumb.
Speaker 1: You had to know that that was gonna happen, because
Speaker 1: I justay, no.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say. In the concept, she talks
Speaker 2: about people who have three months time off, Well that's
Speaker 2: not the norm. America is one of the only developed
Speaker 2: nations that does not guarantee paid family leave time. You
Speaker 2: might get eight weeks twelve weeks off, but you're not
Speaker 2: going to get paid for it. If you are, you
Speaker 2: may even get paid half what you were getting paid
Speaker 2: at a normal time. So it's just it's just bs,
Speaker 2: and it's from someone who clearly does not understand the
Speaker 2: way that maternity leave works.
Speaker 1: I'm like, does she not know anybody with children? Like
Speaker 1: anybody ever? Like if you've just been around someone who's
Speaker 1: had a baby, you just see just how struck. I
Speaker 1: remember within the first three months, I always would visit my
Speaker 1: sister and I'd be like, uh, are you okay.
Speaker 2: Because she looks like, hell, you're a human boob.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Literally, She's just like I just sit here and
Speaker 1: take my shirt. I mean, like I have never my
Speaker 1: adult life seeing my sister's boobs. But like, once you
Speaker 1: get to a point, she's like, I don't even care anymore.
Speaker 1: Just stand right there. I have to get the baby.
Speaker 1: It wasnt exactly and it's just literally she just looked exhausted.
Speaker 1: I was like, do you want me to do your hair?
Speaker 1: She's like hair, what's that? And it's just so tiring.
Speaker 1: So and three months is not really enough time to
Speaker 1: get a baby acclimated to the fact that they're not
Speaker 1: no longer in tide of wone. They're still like, wait,
Speaker 1: so where am I at? And who are you again?
Speaker 1: Your voice sounds familiar, but I don't know who you are.
Speaker 1: And it's just very, very, very stressful. It's just now,
Speaker 1: like when I was babysitting and I was telling her,
Speaker 1: oh man, I'm so exhausted, She's like exhausted.
Speaker 3: She was like, he's darn near independent. He's darn near
Speaker 3: an adult.
Speaker 1: Now she's like when he was three months, two months,
Speaker 1: She's liked.
Speaker 3: This is the easy part. Seven months is nothing.
Speaker 2: And here's one thing I've learned working with, you know,
Speaker 2: working like side by side to someone who just had
Speaker 2: a baby, Like you do not want to complain about
Speaker 2: how tired you are or how exhausting your weekend was,
Speaker 2: Like you just you can't complain anymore. I look at
Speaker 2: her and I'm like, yeah, I really am going to
Speaker 2: shut up and take a seat now, because that's that's
Speaker 2: a real struggle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said in the beginning, you know,
Speaker 1: as the kids get older, it definitely gets a little
Speaker 1: bit easier. But I just can't believe she wrote that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think she just wanted to be polarizing
Speaker 1: on purpose and did not quite realize how polarizing she
Speaker 1: was going to be and how much she was going
Speaker 1: to be dragged.
Speaker 3: But here we are.
Speaker 2: There's one other thing I'll say on this is that,
Speaker 2: you know, she talks about the concept of how it's
Speaker 2: so easy for parents to just say, oh, I have
Speaker 2: to leave my I have to leave at six, you know,
Speaker 2: on the dot, because you know, little Joey needs soccer
Speaker 2: practice or whatever. But in my experience, the parents that
Speaker 2: I work with, they don't. They feel almost less like
Speaker 2: they should be able to, like, less likely to say
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff because they fear being looked at,
Speaker 2: as you know, of not valuing or prioritizing their work,
Speaker 2: and they try and do it all. And I think
Speaker 2: it's even easier. And this is experience I've had just watching,
Speaker 2: you know, over several employers, is that sometimes the men
Speaker 2: you have kids are more likely to be like, oh sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm running late, or oh sorry, I have to leave early.
Speaker 2: Then the women I work with, I can't think of
Speaker 2: a you know, one time my coworkers like called out
Speaker 2: or said she's going to be late for you know,
Speaker 2: her kids spit up on her or whatever. But I
Speaker 2: can think of a couple dudes who have sent that
Speaker 2: inter office email. Yeah, and there's just that extra pressure
Speaker 2: I think to try and you know, act like to
Speaker 2: cut it all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like and it's just so crazy because you're right though,
Speaker 1: Like my best friend just had a baby. He's just
Speaker 1: turned one, and well not just had a baby, but she,
Speaker 1: you know, she's always stressed when he was sick for rock,
Speaker 1: because he's teething and all of a sudden, you're teething,
Speaker 1: all these things go wrong. There's like stomach issues, there's fever,
Speaker 1: and so he's been sick. And she does have a
Speaker 1: daycare center where she drops them off, but they were like,
Speaker 1: you can't bring a sick baby to daycare, just can't.
Speaker 1: So she's just so stressed, like what are we going
Speaker 1: to do? Like I have to go to work, I
Speaker 1: have you know, I don't want to be the person
Speaker 1: who's like not at work for a week because my
Speaker 1: baby's teething.
Speaker 3: What do we do?
Speaker 1: What do we do? And I'm just watching like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's really hard. My nephew was in the hospital because
Speaker 1: his feet had gotten really high.
Speaker 3: They didn't get home.
Speaker 1: Until like five, six o'clock in the morning on a Monday.
Speaker 1: She texts her boss like, I'll be there at ten.
Speaker 3: You know, just got back from the hospital.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine, like what like if I just got
Speaker 1: back from the hospital, There's no way I'm going into work.
Speaker 1: But she's feeling like, oh my gosh, I just got
Speaker 1: back to work. I don't want to not come in,
Speaker 1: and thankfully she got. She had a great boss and
Speaker 1: he was like, are you crazy, Like your baby just
Speaker 1: came home from the hospital, like stay home, It's okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and so yeah, yeah think I mean, but
Speaker 1: not every boss is like that. Some bosses would be like, well,
Speaker 1: we'll see you at ten. So, yeah, this is not well.
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see how this kind of like
Speaker 1: blows out.
Speaker 2: I hope her both bombs.
Speaker 1: I know, well, it'll probably do well, just because you know,
Speaker 1: people want to read it just so they can drag her.
Speaker 2: It's about a woman who fakes a pregnancy so she
Speaker 2: can take maternity leaves. That's what it's about. So I
Speaker 2: already hate her.
Speaker 1: So this is a little random, but I thought you
Speaker 1: might be interested. Your hometown of atl has the first
Speaker 1: annual mac and Cheese Festival.
Speaker 3: Have you heard of this? What?
Speaker 1: I know? October eighth, get on it. It's like supposed
Speaker 1: to be the biggest mac and cheese festival in the nation.
Speaker 1: It came across my fee because one of my friends
Speaker 1: is like such a FOODI he like travels the country
Speaker 1: looking for food and so yeah, I was like, ooh,
Speaker 1: a mac and cheese festival. They actually have a website
Speaker 1: atl Mac and Cheese Festival dot com, and I was like, ooh,
Speaker 1: I love mac and cheese.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm lactose intolerant. I got really crampyge just
Speaker 2: thinking about that idea.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so crazy because so many people of
Speaker 1: color a lactose in tolerance.
Speaker 3: I'm like, really, in Atlanta, you want to do this?
Speaker 3: Are you sure that's going.
Speaker 2: To be the stinkiest skeep festival? You better take your lactape.
Speaker 1: We have to take lackad as soon as it's like
Speaker 1: as you enter, you pay your ticket and you get
Speaker 1: a lactate pip.
Speaker 2: You'd better be a fart zone, like a tent where
Speaker 2: you can just go and just like past gas and peace.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I never grew up drinking milk. I always hated it
Speaker 2: from like a young young age. I remember being in
Speaker 2: daycare like a like KinderCare or whatever. When I was
Speaker 2: three or four and I was forced to drink milk
Speaker 2: and I refused, and I instead of drinking milk, they
Speaker 2: put me in time out or they would force me
Speaker 2: to eat this like tomato soup with like bits of
Speaker 2: onion in it or something, And it was so bad
Speaker 2: that I never drank milk all through my childhood. I
Speaker 2: always ate cereal cold like without anything in it. And
Speaker 2: now whenever I like, I could eat cheese and stuff.
Speaker 2: But recently, whenever I put a piece of cheese anywhere
Speaker 2: near my vicinity, I just get sick immediately. I don't
Speaker 2: know what it is. I think my dad's the same way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cheese, I mean I can have some cheeses, like
Speaker 1: you know, I can have mozzarella. American cheese is a
Speaker 1: big no no yellow American cheese. It's a big, huge
Speaker 1: no no. I just drink like almond milk. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's Superman still drinks home milk. I'm like, what are you,
Speaker 1: like five years old who still drinks whole milk?
Speaker 3: I know, I'm like, homework is like literally like cream.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh so.
Speaker 2: Thick discovering unsweetened almond breeze that was like my life changing.
Speaker 2: Yes me too, cereal with milk.
Speaker 3: Yes, I like the vanilla one, right, you get the vanilla.
Speaker 2: I get the vanilla unsweetened. That sweet and stuff's nasty.
Speaker 1: I didn't mind the sweet and stuff, but I was like,
Speaker 1: it's too much sugar, titty, way too much sugar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I have on sweetened too. And then if I need,
Speaker 1: like if I'm having cereal that I feel like needs
Speaker 1: a little something, I'll put honey and like a little
Speaker 1: squeeze of honey.
Speaker 2: And I will just last thing like in the like
Speaker 2: in February, I did this. I gave up. I was
Speaker 2: doing like a lemonation diet where you're trying to see
Speaker 2: what food's upset you, and then clearly I found out
Speaker 2: mine was dairy. But like when I cut out completely
Speaker 2: all the dairy and not just like I would have
Speaker 2: a little bit of coffee sometimes a little bit of
Speaker 2: milk in my coffee sometimes if there's no almond milk,
Speaker 2: or I'd have a little bit. I'd always have cheese,
Speaker 2: you know, my burger and pizza and stuff. I cut
Speaker 2: out completely all that dairy, yogurt, nothing, and my skin
Speaker 2: has never looked as good really in my life. Yeah
Speaker 2: I heard that, but I thought that was another like
Speaker 2: BS beauty trend. And I don't know if it works
Speaker 2: for everybody, but I'm so happy. Yeah, I don't like
Speaker 2: break out and not just said it, don't break out,
Speaker 2: but even the people here who do makeup for us,
Speaker 2: they've been commenting and you know they.
Speaker 3: Yeah they do.
Speaker 1: They tell the truth. No, Oh, I gotta try that
Speaker 1: because lately, I don't know, I've been breaking out, Like
Speaker 1: I've never been to someone to break out a lot,
Speaker 1: but I've been. I've broken down the last week like crazy,
Speaker 1: not just my Facebook, like my chest, my back a
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I know I'm thinking like did I change? I?
Speaker 1: Am I eating something new? I feel like I'm having
Speaker 1: an allergic reaction. I mean, it doesn't look like it's
Speaker 1: crazy because when I take pictures, like you can't really
Speaker 1: see it because they're not like thiscolored.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, what are all these little bumps and lumps.
Speaker 1: You know now that I'm bringing I feel like a teenager.
Speaker 1: So maybe I'll try that. Maybe because I know Dairy
Speaker 1: and I are really not friends, but sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: we try to be acquaintances, so maybe it's time to
Speaker 1: move on.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a bachelor's of Arts and journalism, so
Speaker 2: definitely take my advice on healthcare in dermatology.
Speaker 1: So sidebar, like right before we get into like some
Speaker 1: brown breaking in brown a boosting.
Speaker 3: So Malia's going to Harvard. Woot.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say that.
Speaker 3: I know, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised either. What I think is really cool.
Speaker 2: She's taken a gap year.
Speaker 3: I really she's gonna take a year off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but a year off, which I didn't do until
Speaker 2: after I graduated college. I took a gap year after
Speaker 2: my senior year of college, which was the best thing ever.
Speaker 2: Not a full year, but it was like nine months.
Speaker 2: I love that idea. I'm actually writing something up on
Speaker 2: it for Yahoo today about like, yeah, what is a
Speaker 2: gap year? How do you do it the right way?
Speaker 2: And it's sort of a new concept in America, but
Speaker 2: people in Europe and Australia have been doing it forever.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I think that's great. Just sometimes you just need to
Speaker 3: like senate yourself.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good idea because I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: because you know, the whole world would of your father
Speaker 1: being president. It's like, yeah, it'd be nice to take
Speaker 1: a break from all that.
Speaker 2: Well has already been interning on like if she's taken
Speaker 2: her summer internships with like HBO on The Girls Show,
Speaker 2: and there's one of the show she worked on. I
Speaker 2: think it could be cool. I mean with you could
Speaker 2: because I didn't realize you can for up to a year.
Speaker 2: You can defer your freshman year of college. So you
Speaker 2: get the idea is you get admitted, you accept, and
Speaker 2: then you write a letter or some schools are organized
Speaker 2: and they actually have a specific form and you defer
Speaker 2: for a year and you say, okay, I'll you know,
Speaker 2: enter next fall, and like you can do there's like
Speaker 2: whole organizations. There's a there's a group called the American
Speaker 2: Gap Association which has they actually review in a credit
Speaker 2: different gap year programs. There's internship programs. There's volunteering ones
Speaker 2: where you go to different countries, or there's a lot
Speaker 2: of like in like American based domestic ones. You can
Speaker 2: do AmeriCorps. There's another one called oh crap, I'm forgetting
Speaker 2: the name of it, but American Gap Association is like
Speaker 2: a really good resource for that. But it's not like
Speaker 2: a like time for you to like hang out on
Speaker 2: the couch and catch up on your real housewives. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't see Malia doing all that.
Speaker 2: Do you think Michelle would allow that?
Speaker 1: I know, Miselle's like, what that's all we've been through?
Speaker 3: Are you better get up? Let's move.
Speaker 2: Oh let's see what you did there. Congrats Malia.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then congratitude one last one. Congratitude to the national
Speaker 1: the Detroit girls chess team. They won like a national championship.
Speaker 1: I thought that was dope.
Speaker 2: Oh that could have been a win. Okay, Oh that's right.
Speaker 3: One of these are supposed to be my win.
Speaker 2: Darn it wasted your way?
Speaker 3: What am I.
Speaker 1: Gonna do now?
Speaker 3: Okay, that was supposed to be my win. I was wondering.
Speaker 3: I'm like, why is it separate?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 3: All right. So it is time for a brown break
Speaker 3: or brown boost? So are you breaking or boosting?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a boost boost today because I'm super
Speaker 2: proud of my online shopping skills and I don't think
Speaker 2: i've ever I mean, you probably have heard of these,
Speaker 2: but I don't think i've ever shared my favorite three
Speaker 2: tools I use when I save money online and I
Speaker 2: was just stocking up on some really cute summer dresses
Speaker 2: and I was super proud of myself. I found like
Speaker 2: a twenty percent off coupon. But I didn't have to
Speaker 2: even do anything because I have my web browser set
Speaker 2: up with these things called extensions, and you install them
Speaker 2: and they just like pop up and they tell you
Speaker 2: exactly what deals you have going on. So there's two
Speaker 2: main ones that I use that I love. One of
Speaker 2: course is e baits, which pops up immediately and it
Speaker 2: says activate, you know, and it always tells you there's
Speaker 2: no you used to have to like go to e
Speaker 2: baits dot com and type in the place to see
Speaker 2: if there is a cash back thing. But if you
Speaker 2: install the extension just Google like Ebates browser extension for
Speaker 2: whatever browser you have, then it just pops up whenever
Speaker 2: you go to website whre Tho's cash back and you
Speaker 2: hit the button and you activated. And the second one
Speaker 2: I use is called price Blink, and price Blink is
Speaker 2: like a little yellow bar that pops up and it
Speaker 2: tells you what coupons are available, but like not just
Speaker 2: what coupons are available. What I like is I don't
Speaker 2: really buy gadgets a lot, but when I do, if
Speaker 2: you have the price Blink attachment or extension installed, it'll
Speaker 2: tell you, oh, you want this HGTV. Well, I found
Speaker 2: it for this much less at best buy dot com,
Speaker 2: Amazon dot com, Hhgreg, like all the different websites. So
Speaker 2: this saved me like fifty bucks when I was trying
Speaker 2: to get back. It totally works. Like when my sister
Speaker 2: and I were buying my MoMA one of those Ninja
Speaker 2: blender thingies for Christmas, okay, and I was on like
Speaker 2: I don't know, Target dot com somewhere because I had
Speaker 2: a coupon, and it alerted me that the same exact
Speaker 2: blender was on sale for like fifty dollars less at
Speaker 2: some random website I'd never really heard of. Like it
Speaker 2: was like, that's the one where you I'm forgetting now,
Speaker 2: but it ended up being it was like a home
Speaker 2: goods website that I hadn't heard of before, and I
Speaker 2: never would have known if not for price Blink.
Speaker 1: So oh price, I'm gonna get that one because I
Speaker 1: use honey that you put me onto. Honey, Yeah, of
Speaker 1: course e baits, but price Blink.
Speaker 3: That's a new one. Ooh, nice one.
Speaker 2: Honey, is a little one I like, and I use
Speaker 2: that too, especially if I'm on a site like Sephora
Speaker 2: where there's tons and does of coupons, because Honey will
Speaker 2: when you're ready to check out Honey, you can click
Speaker 2: the Honey button and it will pull up all the
Speaker 2: promo car codes it has for that website, and it'll
Speaker 2: just try them for you. But what I found with
Speaker 2: Honey is sometimes if there's multiple promo codes and one
Speaker 2: of them works, it'll keep trying them and then that
Speaker 2: one will disappear, and then another one will get added.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of not as like I think price
Speaker 2: blank is a little bit easier.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna try price blank for sure. Like literally,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hang up and be like, because I have
Speaker 1: e baits online and I do have Honey.
Speaker 3: Of course I like retail me not. But you can
Speaker 3: never save enough.
Speaker 2: Never, Yeah, and there's no I mean sometimes I'll double
Speaker 2: check retail me not. But really with price blank and
Speaker 2: ebaits and ebaits now too is adding they I think
Speaker 2: to compete. They started doing coupons too. If you click
Speaker 2: on the little ebaits button once you have the extension installed,
Speaker 2: you'll have a little button that has an E and
Speaker 2: when you click on that, it'll also give you the
Speaker 2: deals in store. Like I'm on Lulu's one of my
Speaker 2: favorite upside to luluse dot com right now, and it's
Speaker 2: like two point five percent cash back, and then I
Speaker 2: click down on ebates and it's like free shipping over
Speaker 2: fifty dollars, thirty percent off on this type of outfit,
Speaker 2: on these shoes, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, so pro tips.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take a brown break again this week,
Speaker 1: and I'm taking a brown break from my locks. I'm
Speaker 1: so tired of him. So, I mean, they're really.
Speaker 2: How do you take a break from those?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just taking a break from thinking about it because
Speaker 1: I'm not really a girly girl, so I don't.
Speaker 3: Really know how to style them.
Speaker 1: And they're so long now, Mandy, they're like mid back
Speaker 1: way to you see me, they're mid back, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Like I don't know what to do
Speaker 1: with them. I feel like, you know, there's like long
Speaker 1: hair and then there's like freakishly long hair. I'm borderline freakishly.
Speaker 1: We were like, oh, what religious sect are you from?
Speaker 3: Longness.
Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, they've gotten so long and I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do with them. So any of you are
Speaker 1: listening and you are like really stylish with your locks,
Speaker 1: have a great YouTube channel or something like that, definitely
Speaker 1: tweet me, tweet us at the BA podcast or tweet
Speaker 1: me at the budget me stuff. Because I'm side of
Speaker 1: these locks. I just always put them in like a
Speaker 1: messy bun or like that's about it.
Speaker 2: I would suggest Pinterest. Pinterest. I've been pinning like all
Speaker 2: my natural hairstyles. I've been like going to Pinterest and
Speaker 2: just listening for a dinner. But do you and also
Speaker 2: do you follow the Cipriana twins.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, but no, but I don't. Their locks are
Speaker 3: not like I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, I know they're much different. But I was just
Speaker 2: saying locks are beautiful.
Speaker 1: No, No, I mean I think so, honestly, I think,
Speaker 1: and honestly mine are. Really they're beautiful, they're well kept.
Speaker 1: It's just that I'm so I don't know how to
Speaker 1: style them. So I always feel like it's such all
Speaker 1: this wasted beauty because they're really long, they're clean, they're slim,
Speaker 1: they're all the same size, and you know, everywhere every
Speaker 1: time I go somewhere, someone will say, oh, your locks
Speaker 1: are so nice. But I'm like, I wish I see
Speaker 1: these women and their hair is so beautifully styled, and
Speaker 1: here I am with the ponytail like I'm five.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I need help.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I finally have big girl underwear,
Speaker 1: I need big girl hair.
Speaker 2: YouTube and Pinterest, Yeah, I just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pinterest is hard because I need someone to step
Speaker 1: by step to show me, like with a twist and turn,
Speaker 1: and I just there's to me, there's a thin line
Speaker 1: in overly styled blocks. I don't like for myself anyway,
Speaker 1: Like overly style where it's like a twist and a
Speaker 1: curl and a curl and a twist and a turn.
Speaker 1: I like more classically styled. So yeah, So if anybody
Speaker 1: has any suggestions, because until then, I'm taking a break
Speaker 1: from these things, I'm tired of them kind of looking
Speaker 1: like my same old self.
Speaker 2: How to take a break from something attached to your head?
Speaker 1: Ah, well, if a break from trying to style.
Speaker 2: Them it least would you ever cut them?
Speaker 3: I would?
Speaker 1: And actually I was considering getting them layered, like maybe
Speaker 1: taking a few inches off the bottom and then like
Speaker 1: layering the front so that way when I do wear
Speaker 1: them out, they look styled. That's like I'm like the
Speaker 1: queen of how do I look like I did them
Speaker 1: but didn't do them? And so I was thinking that
Speaker 1: and I think that I might do that this week. Actually,
Speaker 1: Like a friend of mine cuts flocks and she said
Speaker 1: she do that from me. But I'm nervous because I'm like,
Speaker 1: what if he looks crazy new hair?
Speaker 2: Knew you, I know, just ask her for referrals.
Speaker 1: No, well, I've seen her, like, you know, like her
Speaker 1: what she's done before. But I'm like, what if I
Speaker 1: just don't like it on me? But I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: heyre it'll grow.
Speaker 2: Back, it will grow back.
Speaker 3: So we had a question this week, don't we.
Speaker 2: Yes, we have a question, And if you guys want
Speaker 2: to send a question, you can email us at Brown
Speaker 2: Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com. W fa HAA, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's a question this week from anonymous. So here's a
Speaker 2: little background, and this one's an interesting question. I wish
Speaker 2: I had this problem. She says. I'm twenty three years old,
Speaker 2: living in New York City with a full time job.
Speaker 2: I graduated in twenty fifteen with no debts or loans
Speaker 2: due to a full ride scholarship I received during my
Speaker 2: time in undergrad. My mother passed away and because of that,
Speaker 2: I received a significant inheritance. It's divided among savings and
Speaker 2: investment accounts and some real estate. So here's your question.
Speaker 2: I'm planning to get my MBA part time in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: Should I use money for my inheritance to pay for
Speaker 2: school in full? Or should I consider other methods such
Speaker 2: as my own income which wouldn't be much, loans, credit cards,
Speaker 2: et cetera, to pay for school. Should I not pay
Speaker 2: such a large chunk of money outright? She also adds
Speaker 2: this MBA scholarships are hard to come by, especially for
Speaker 2: part time students. Well, I'm very sorry about your mom
Speaker 2: passing away.
Speaker 3: Yes I am as well.
Speaker 2: But how nice that she was able to give you
Speaker 2: something for you know, your future.
Speaker 3: No, that is that's like, it's a beautiful gift that
Speaker 3: she gave you. So that's awesome.
Speaker 1: And then the fact that you don't have any debt
Speaker 1: moving forward is doubly awesome.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: Well, my initial knee jerk reaction is to say not
Speaker 1: to use credit cards to put yourself through school I
Speaker 1: feel like that'd be a step back, you know, totally.
Speaker 3: And I mean I can.
Speaker 1: Understand her hesitancy and like using a lump sum of
Speaker 1: money for school, but it's to me, it's better than
Speaker 1: putting yourself back in debt. I feel like she needs
Speaker 1: to sit down and just like, are you gonna.
Speaker 3: Sell real estate to go to school?
Speaker 1: You know, like some of it, Like is that what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen or I just don't know, like what specifically
Speaker 1: some of her her money is tied up in, and
Speaker 1: just being mindful of making sure the places that you're
Speaker 1: going to get the money from is probably the best
Speaker 1: place to take it from. Meaning like if you have
Speaker 1: like rental property and it's giving you a ton of
Speaker 1: money a month, or maybe there's ways to shift and
Speaker 1: adjust where some of your investments are so that with
Speaker 1: the investment yields more income and you can use that
Speaker 1: income like dividends you know, from stocks and stuff to
Speaker 1: pay for your MBA. Just being creative, like maybe a
Speaker 1: mix between what you make at work and then you know,
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that your mom left you, but
Speaker 1: not all of it, but definitely not new debt if
Speaker 1: you can avoid it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I definitely. I mean, I am a fan
Speaker 2: of Okay, so you have this inheritance, and it's obviously
Speaker 2: education is an amazing way to use it. I mean
Speaker 2: the fact that you're even considering that is just it
Speaker 2: shows you have pretty good judgment already. And the fact
Speaker 2: that your mom went out of her way to make
Speaker 2: sure you had this in a mix of savings and
Speaker 2: investment accounts in real estate, like she set you up
Speaker 2: for success. But I would say, first thing is you
Speaker 2: want to set aside money so you have an emergency fund,
Speaker 2: just basics, So don't blow through your entire cash savings
Speaker 2: on education and then have nothing left when you know
Speaker 2: something could go wrong and you might need some money.
Speaker 2: So I would set aside like the standard three six
Speaker 2: months amount of income you need on the side. And
Speaker 2: I don't see a problem personally, I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: think there's any problem with taking that money and using
Speaker 2: it for school. I think it's especially if you're going
Speaker 2: to pay use them, like spend the money anyway. All
Speaker 2: you're going to do, and especially with MBA is like
Speaker 2: that's usually that means private loans, and private loans me
Speaker 2: high interest rates because usually you max out your federal
Speaker 2: and your federal student loan allowance pretty quickly with your MBA.
Speaker 2: But I say, keep your job, use the inheritance to
Speaker 2: pay for your MBA. I mean, it's great if it
Speaker 2: can pay for all of it, but doesn't really give
Speaker 2: that much detail. It may seem like it's crazy to
Speaker 2: put that much money down right up front, but people
Speaker 2: do it. I mean, and and you'd be doing it anyway.
Speaker 2: If you take out loans, you're still putting down a
Speaker 2: huge lumps on a cash exactly.
Speaker 3: So you're going to pay for one way or the other.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I and you have the investment accounts, don't
Speaker 2: touch those. And you have the real estate in real estate.
Speaker 2: It's a great long term investment, or it can be.
Speaker 2: But that's the kind of thing you you know, you
Speaker 2: want to hold on to, especially if it's New York
Speaker 2: real estate. Hang on to that exactly, especially right now.
Speaker 2: But it sounds like you got a good head on
Speaker 2: your shoulders.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was like, Wow, that's good.
Speaker 1: I wish. I mean, I feel like my father has
Speaker 1: I mean, he's still alive, thankfully, and I feel like
Speaker 1: that he has made financial choices that will make sure
Speaker 1: that my mom's okay. And we're all grown now, but
Speaker 1: that he has set up his finances in a way
Speaker 1: that will be you know, that they'll be something left
Speaker 1: over to put toward generational wealth, just because that's just
Speaker 1: the kind of person he is. And that's like some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that he's shown us. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: you do have money. He's like, yes, what do you
Speaker 1: think I'd been.
Speaker 3: Doing all the side?
Speaker 2: That is my dream man. When I was talking about
Speaker 2: I was talking to my coworker earlier about how much
Speaker 2: he spends on his kids, just childcare. I mean, he
Speaker 2: showed me a bill. I don't want to put his
Speaker 2: business out there, but it was several thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: his like toddler's childcare and he and then he was like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, and he has another kid who's in kindergarten.
Speaker 2: And even that doesn't really help, you know, because they're
Speaker 2: not it's not that they're paying for all day daycare now.
Speaker 2: But then I have to pay for after school daycare
Speaker 2: because school lets out at three and they work till
Speaker 2: like five or six, and then summertime is coming up.
Speaker 2: And he was telling me how much summer school costs
Speaker 2: or not a summer camp costs and I was thinking like,
Speaker 2: and we were going back and forth, like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: when we were kids, our parents didn't have the money
Speaker 2: or didn't even know about those kinds of opportunities. But
Speaker 2: I would be so happy to be able to give
Speaker 2: my kids those kind of like opportunities. Like it sounds
Speaker 2: like the worst, thousands of dollars for childcare, thousands of
Speaker 2: dollars for college tuition, but like I feel like that's
Speaker 2: my goal is to be sure that you know, like
Speaker 2: your dad, I do all the work, all the hard
Speaker 2: work now and the and the make the tough decisions,
Speaker 2: you know, to save money now so that we can
Speaker 2: can do things like that for our kids later on.
Speaker 2: The kids I don't even know yet, but you know,
Speaker 2: and if they're breads, I'll just take it off from
Speaker 2: myself exactly.
Speaker 1: Like, see, you were gonna have a great life, but
Speaker 1: you decided now.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: But I think that yeah, So I mean I think
Speaker 1: that's our advice for you is to, you know, do
Speaker 1: a mix of maybe some of the things that you're
Speaker 1: working with, Like Mandy said, put aside money for emergency fund.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't sell real estate, but there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: using some of the money that your mom gave you
Speaker 1: and left you for education. It's because of education, if
Speaker 1: done right, will help put more money in your pocket.
Speaker 3: So it's a win win.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's a teeny tiny amount to have some fun. Yes,
Speaker 2: I believe in that, maybe like five percent. I believe
Speaker 2: do something your mom. Maybe take a gap year between
Speaker 2: or take a trip between you know your your uh
Speaker 2: you're you graduate in twenty fifteen, take a little time
Speaker 2: and got some new time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's always a good idea. And I don't
Speaker 1: like I took a while between, did you? When I
Speaker 1: got my master's I took I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: think it was like four or five years because I
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure this is what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: I feel like your undergrad degree is a degree that
Speaker 1: you're just like, I guess, and your master's degree is like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm pretty sure this is how I
Speaker 1: want to spend like my career.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because you have to be so focused. I
Speaker 2: don't know, I'm I would love to go back because
Speaker 2: I'd love to teach one day. Oh really yeah, I
Speaker 2: always think about that, But I have to have a master's.
Speaker 2: Like most cases, you have to have a master's yeah,
Speaker 2: unless you're like, I don't know, Christiane, I'm on poor
Speaker 2: but of course I'm sure she has like ten degrees.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and I would go back for that, but
Speaker 2: not until I'm sure, because.
Speaker 1: It's exactly it's expensive to be unsure with your.
Speaker 2: Masters, and it hasn't hurt me yet. So anyway, all right,
Speaker 2: Well that wraps up the tips for today. Again, if
Speaker 2: you don't want to, email us or email us Brown
Speaker 2: Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com dot com. Where's that from?
Speaker 1: That's like Travelosity, isn't it Media.
Speaker 3: Expedia.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get sued for like I don't know.
Speaker 1: Travels is like really, all this money we spent and
Speaker 1: you can't even get it right? So it's tad for Winds.
Speaker 1: All I do is Wayne wa wain No matter what?
Speaker 3: Do you have any wins this week?
Speaker 2: Money? Oh, mama wins this week? Well, yes, I have
Speaker 2: a win I want. Well, it's a win. I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk about this during Buzzworthy, but I decided to
Speaker 2: make it a win because it's like a win and
Speaker 2: a let's have an educated conversation about this. So Larry
Speaker 2: Wilmore hosted The White House Correspondence dinner on what was
Speaker 2: it Saturday night? And first of all, President Obama. I
Speaker 2: guess the win of this is that President Obama's speech
Speaker 2: was like the best twenty minutes ever. Did he get
Speaker 2: a chance to watch it? No, but I will spoiler
Speaker 2: at the end spoiler alert, he just like takes the
Speaker 2: mic and drops it.
Speaker 3: Yes, I heard that, drops mic.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, bad assery from start to finish. So
Speaker 2: Larry Wilmore came on aut I didn't watch the whole
Speaker 2: thing as it happened. I watched like Sunday morning, because
Speaker 2: you can go to c C span dot org or
Speaker 2: whatever the website is and watch it yourself. But I
Speaker 2: thought Larry Wilmore it was like really funny, and you know,
Speaker 2: we haven't had a black host of the White House
Speaker 2: correspondent cinner and like I don't know how long, but
Speaker 2: one of the things he said at the end was
Speaker 2: kind of controversial. Was he used, well, there, I only
Speaker 2: heard one thing. He made a joke about the word jigaboo, jigaboo,
Speaker 2: which was like a very old timey derogatory term for
Speaker 2: a black person.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and at.
Speaker 2: The very end of his speech he was saying, I
Speaker 2: forget what it was like the punchline of some joke.
Speaker 2: But he's like, yo, bear, you did it my n word. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And Obama didn't seem to like phase by it. But
Speaker 2: of course the media it's all over it, and yes,
Speaker 2: thought pieces and tweets and like people are it's always
Speaker 2: like this, you know, and I'm just wondering, is that
Speaker 2: a win or is that a miss? Like I personally,
Speaker 2: I don't know. To me, it's like a like maybe
Speaker 2: they know each other like that, or I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know how to feel about it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so crazy because to me it's it's
Speaker 1: it's like a typical like you know whatever Superman and
Speaker 1: his boys, you know, like you like, yeah, my nick
Speaker 1: you know, and so it's not a but I guess
Speaker 1: because of like where it was, like I'm president, Obama
Speaker 1: probably didn't feel any kind of way because with his
Speaker 1: you know, black friends, college, growing up, whatever, it's a
Speaker 1: big deal to.
Speaker 3: Say that to each other.
Speaker 1: Like but like it just it's rare in like such
Speaker 1: open company that you.
Speaker 3: Use words like that.
Speaker 1: You know. There's definitely stuff that I say with my
Speaker 1: girlfriends that I would not ever say, you know, and
Speaker 1: like public public we might just say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: with each other. So that's probably where he wasn't based
Speaker 1: because it wasn't like He's not going to take a fence.
Speaker 1: President Obama's like, you know, whatever, what's up? But like, yikes,
Speaker 1: the whole world is watching, so they're like, you.
Speaker 2: Know, so audience, I know, so they were like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, but I mean awards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just exactly if there had been the BET Awards,
Speaker 1: nobody would have better than that. So I can see
Speaker 1: both sides for sure, And I don't know that it's
Speaker 1: a win or loss. I'm kind of like neutral on it.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, well, you know, it's just normal,
Speaker 1: you know, black guy camaraderie conversation. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I don't know that the world is ready to see
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 2: It's like it just made me think about code switching
Speaker 2: and how we kind of turn it on and off. Yes,
Speaker 2: I never grew up saying that word. I'm never comfortable
Speaker 2: saying it's I don't have a code to switch. I
Speaker 2: just don't turn that code on. I just don't say it.
Speaker 2: But I have friends, obviously, friends who do family my
Speaker 2: dad like, and it's just it's natural for me. To
Speaker 2: hear that kind of thing. But yeah, it's sort of
Speaker 2: for me, it's a win in that. Larry was like,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to turn the switch, like for this moment,
Speaker 2: Like in this moment, you are my brother, like we
Speaker 2: and what you signify is so huge for not just
Speaker 2: black men but all of black you know, America, And
Speaker 2: can we just take a second and acknowledge how fucking
Speaker 2: cool this is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean, I think you know
Speaker 1: what it's so I think, like I like that the
Speaker 1: way you phrase that. You're right, it was like we
Speaker 1: all cold switch. It's like, honestly, it's not a word
Speaker 1: that I use typically. I don't think too many, like
Speaker 1: I mean, none of my girlfriends. It's not like a
Speaker 1: hey girl, Like that's not a normal greeting, Like it's
Speaker 1: mostly usually a normal greeting among men of color, not
Speaker 1: necessarily women of color. So that's not something I normally
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say unless I was just trying to be
Speaker 1: really funny with a girlfriend of mine, you know, or
Speaker 1: even if I'm talking to a guy friend maybe to
Speaker 1: be funny with him. But but yeah, it was that
Speaker 1: is definitely like kind of like a win in that,
Speaker 1: like you know it. Normally I would code switch, but
Speaker 1: today I will not, and you will deal.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's listening to sleep over it, honestly.
Speaker 3: I think both of them.
Speaker 1: President Obama's like, honestly, yeah, so elections are happening in November.
Speaker 2: I don't care. It's been like rever, you know, the Rev.
Speaker 2: Al Sharpton is speaking out about it, and I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I doubt Larry is worried exactly at all. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to make it a win, A win for you, Larry,
Speaker 2: a win for Obama. It was his last White House
Speaker 2: correspondence dinner. He gave it hilarious speech, so I go
Speaker 2: check it out. Like President, whoever wins the next leg
Speaker 2: election is not going to have a swag like swag
Speaker 2: like Obama. He just they just won't like Hillary whoever.
Speaker 2: It just it's never going to be the same. Like
Speaker 2: I'm going to miss him. I miss him already.
Speaker 3: I know that's so crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh eight years he was the first president I ever
Speaker 2: voted for?
Speaker 1: Real?
Speaker 3: Is that really? Wow?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think who was the first person I
Speaker 1: ever voted for it, and it's Clinton.
Speaker 3: I think Clinton.
Speaker 1: Let's sae my wind so my wind was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the Detroit Girls, and I totally forgot to put
Speaker 1: w byer.
Speaker 2: Well, you didn't like go into detail if you want
Speaker 2: to talk about it exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't exactly have exact detail. I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just thought it was so great because you know,
Speaker 1: so many things. Detroit just holds like a little deer
Speaker 1: place in my heart for me, because it's like Newark,
Speaker 1: you know, where I live, and everyone always has something
Speaker 1: to say about Detroit. Everyone always has something negatives to
Speaker 1: say about Newark or Oakland or you know, places like
Speaker 1: that that people have written off as like lost cities
Speaker 1: or like cities that can never come back. And so
Speaker 1: when something like this happens, and chess is not traditionally
Speaker 1: seen as something that people of African American descent excel at,
Speaker 1: and so to see these group of brown, beautiful girls win,
Speaker 1: you know, the national championship for chess nationally, and so
Speaker 1: that just really warmed our heart to say, you know,
Speaker 1: like Detroit, it's not just the water issue. Detroit is
Speaker 1: not just a broken city. You know, Detroit has things.
Speaker 1: You know, I always think whenever people talk about cities
Speaker 1: like that, I'm like, someone's living there, you know. It's
Speaker 1: not like it's like a it's like you know, like
Speaker 1: Battle warn and it's like everything is like broken down
Speaker 1: buildings and it's all empty. No people live there. Don't
Speaker 1: just write off places that people live, you know. And
Speaker 1: so it was just nice to see something other than
Speaker 1: what we normally see about the city like Detroit.
Speaker 3: And I just want to say congratulations ladies.
Speaker 2: And they were like they were busies thirteen thirteen years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so cute.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, look at them and they're all
Speaker 1: like we won. I just thought that was great, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, yes, I want to see more. I
Speaker 1: wish there was more balanced news about places like Detroit
Speaker 1: and you know, in Newark and Oakland and places like that,
Speaker 1: because they are good things that are happening here and
Speaker 1: that you know, if you only focus on the negative,
Speaker 1: then sometimes to me, you just bring more negativity about
Speaker 1: because what you think about you bring about I really believe,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I'd love that.
Speaker 3: So that was just really nice to see something good
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Two of the girls were twins and their names were
Speaker 2: Jayden and Jada. That's just mean, I'm just going to
Speaker 2: confuse everybody.
Speaker 1: First of all, there's social security stuff, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so jacked up when they getting older,
Speaker 1: because you know how like it's already what because my boyfriend,
Speaker 1: his name is it's a J and his.
Speaker 3: His twin, he has a twin.
Speaker 1: His name starts with the T, but it's like the
Speaker 1: same like ending, you know, and so what happens with
Speaker 1: them all the time?
Speaker 3: And he was like if they they always.
Speaker 1: Are mixing records, you know, like his stuff and his brothers,
Speaker 1: and so you just gotta be careful with names like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that is a little.
Speaker 1: Bit like come on now, Jada, JJ you hey you.
Speaker 2: I feel all this affirmation right now because I was
Speaker 2: in the academic team when I was in school, which
Speaker 2: is like the nerdy club where you just answer like
Speaker 2: trivia questions about everything. This makes me feel better about
Speaker 2: that you're.
Speaker 3: Not a nerd or were you not?
Speaker 2: I got teased, Oh I did. It wasn't just about
Speaker 2: my hair. People also found time to tease me for
Speaker 2: my nerdy club affiliations.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I was always well see, people were very
Speaker 1: careful about teasing me because although I was a super geek.
Speaker 1: My best friend, oddly enough, was not. She was like
Speaker 1: super cute, super cool. Everybody loved Veronica. And also Veronica
Speaker 1: was a really good fighter, which came in handy for
Speaker 1: super geek like me. So one thing you didn't do
Speaker 1: was mess with tifty, not because I was. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was plenty of fodder, so Therefrey people tried to
Speaker 1: sneak it in, but then I'd be like, let me
Speaker 1: go give Veronica and quickly.
Speaker 3: I literally it isn't so funny.
Speaker 1: But oh, Veronica, if you're listening, I love you because
Speaker 1: you were like the best in high school.
Speaker 3: She kept me like just out of the trash cans
Speaker 3: and out.
Speaker 2: Of my locker, like your bodyguard.
Speaker 1: What. Meanwhile, Vernica is like five to five and I'm like,
Speaker 1: by thee not even five five, probably like five four.
Speaker 1: She's so little fatigue, but that girl can fight. I've
Speaker 1: actually had guys who would tease me come up to
Speaker 1: me later and say, Hey, Tiffany, I just want to
Speaker 1: apologize to you about what I said yesterday.
Speaker 3: And I'm like what, And then I'm like, did Veronica
Speaker 3: talk to you?
Speaker 1: They're like, uh so, I just want to apologize to them,
Speaker 1: but yeah, shout out to her, but shout out to
Speaker 1: all the girls out there and guys out there who
Speaker 1: protect their friends even if their friends are not on
Speaker 1: the same level as cool as them. Because Ronica made
Speaker 1: sure I had a very smooth high school experience. She's
Speaker 1: still the same way now, Like if I call her, now,
Speaker 1: who did it?
Speaker 3: Do?
Speaker 1: I need to come down there? Let me get my vasseline.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Veronica, we're thirty six now, I'm okay. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's probably in too, just Veronica having friends who
Speaker 1: will have your back. I mean, she rarely had to fight.
Speaker 1: People were just naturally afraid. I don't know why. I
Speaker 1: think she just had persona that seemed like this is
Speaker 1: to the death and like.
Speaker 2: The seven girlfriends to back you up. I'm sure these
Speaker 2: I'm sure these chess girls real deep.
Speaker 3: Exactly like what next move man? Yes, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: All right.
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