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Speaker 3: They tell us what to eat, how to exercise, and
Speaker 3: which of our favorite things are giving us cancer?
Speaker 2: All of them. But with new.
Speaker 3: Studies coming out every day, sometimes it's hard to keep up. Luckily, though,
Speaker 3: we've got Dulce Sloan in our brand new segment Studies Show.
Speaker 4: Hi Friends.
Speaker 5: This week's studies are all about relationships, specifically romantic relationships.
Speaker 5: Everybody wants one, especially me. I thought I was in
Speaker 5: one until he told me that his gifts were just
Speaker 5: Amazon packages because he's my male man.
Speaker 4: Hmm, all right.
Speaker 5: I can tell when somebody's playing hard to get, And
Speaker 5: thanks to new studies, we're learning all sorts of things
Speaker 5: about relationships, like this one, which shows that the only
Speaker 5: thing gold diggers are mining for is French frogs.
Speaker 6: According to a new study, many women are choosing free
Speaker 6: meals over relationships. The study in the journal Social Psychological
Speaker 6: and Personality Science says up to a third of women
Speaker 6: have engaged in a foodie call. It's when a person
Speaker 6: sets up a date with somebody they have no romantic
Speaker 6: interest in off of a free meal.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: Studies show a third of all dates are just people
Speaker 5: trying to eat for free, So fellas, sometimes that eggplant
Speaker 5: emoji just means I'm in the.
Speaker 4: Move to eat eggplants.
Speaker 5: There's only one emoji that always means sex, and it's
Speaker 5: the hockey net because you're about to score and it's
Speaker 5: nice and wide. And if you're trying to figure out
Speaker 5: what's going to happen to your relationship after the first date,
Speaker 5: we got studies for that too.
Speaker 7: Have you ever witnessed a couple making out in public
Speaker 7: and thought get a room? A surprising new study found
Speaker 7: that the amount of affection between you and your partner
Speaker 7: may determine whether or not a marriage will last. And
Speaker 7: we're talking about public displays of affection.
Speaker 2: They found the couples.
Speaker 7: Who were overly affectionate from the start of their relationship
Speaker 7: maybe more likely to divorce.
Speaker 5: So PDA couples are more likely to break up.
Speaker 4: Ha, that's what you get.
Speaker 5: Always getting a third base in the stationary isle of Walgreens.
Speaker 5: Get your mouth off each other, trying to pick a
Speaker 5: birthday car for my grandma.
Speaker 4: I don't need y'all.
Speaker 5: Look at all the envelopes, And why do people have
Speaker 5: to make out in public? I haven't seen each other
Speaker 5: in a decade. He just got back from the back room,
Speaker 5: not Afghanistan. Although if you did just come back from Afghanistan,
Speaker 5: thank you for your service.
Speaker 4: Get it wet. But if you want to keep your relationship.
Speaker 5: Healthy, this last study shows a little jealousy can go
Speaker 5: along way.
Speaker 8: Smart device snooping and something more people do than will admit.
Speaker 8: But consecretly scanning your partner's phone actually help your relationship,
Speaker 8: a new study says maybe. According to his study from
Speaker 8: the University of British Columbia and the University of Lisbon,
Speaker 8: about twenty five percent of the participants said that their
Speaker 8: relationship got stronger after they or their significant other were
Speaker 8: called snooping. The study concluded this strengthened bond came from
Speaker 8: a heightened desire to solve trust issues.
Speaker 5: Ahhh yeah you hear that, damn row.
Speaker 4: I wasn't snooping. I was strengthening the relationship. Okay, you're
Speaker 4: going to complain that our face id you in your sleep, Well, if.
Speaker 5: You don't want that to happen, stop leaving your.
Speaker 4: Face outfit.
Speaker 5: Now, if you'll excuse me, I have ordered several packages
Speaker 5: to my apartment and I have to have dinner ready
Speaker 5: for when my man drops them off.
Speaker 2: You'll say, slow than every money my back.
Speaker 9: As you know, March is Women's History Months. Yes, it's
Speaker 9: the one month when Mike Pants can't be alone with
Speaker 9: a calendar. And to help us celebrate, we're joined by
Speaker 9: our senior women's history correspondent.
Speaker 4: You'll say slowan everybody.
Speaker 9: They'll say, hello, happy Women's History Months.
Speaker 5: Happy, it would be happy if you got me a gift.
Speaker 2: Well, another one.
Speaker 3: I just got you a gift for Black History Months.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I'm black in February and in March I'm
Speaker 5: a woman.
Speaker 2: Oh no, but that's not fair. Okay, So then when
Speaker 2: do I get a.
Speaker 4: Gift in April? Because you're a fool anyway, Trevor.
Speaker 5: Have you ever wondered why women don't get the historic
Speaker 5: credit they deserve? The sexism statues, Trevor, women don't have
Speaker 5: as many statues as men. In fact, nationwide, only eight
Speaker 5: percent of outdoor statues are of women.
Speaker 2: Wow, how did you know that statistic?
Speaker 4: I drank a snappook. I read what Internet come on dot,
Speaker 4: and I've seen it for myself.
Speaker 5: I was walking through Central Park the other day under duress,
Speaker 5: and I saw statues of Alexander Hamilton, Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare,
Speaker 5: all famous men from history. But it comes to there's
Speaker 5: only two statues in Central Park, Alice in Wonderland and
Speaker 5: Mother Goose, which makes no damn sense. Alice is just
Speaker 5: a white girl who took Molly, And why does Mother
Speaker 5: Goose get a statue?
Speaker 1: All she did was a ghost.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's right.
Speaker 4: Fine, she made love to No, that's what okay?
Speaker 2: Anyway, do say I'm lost?
Speaker 3: How does having more statues.
Speaker 5: Help, because Trevor statues help us remember history when you
Speaker 5: walk past the statue and you're like, oh, yeah, MLK
Speaker 5: did have a dream.
Speaker 4: Thomas Jefferson was a complicated individual.
Speaker 5: And when you don't honor women the same way you
Speaker 5: honor men, you're leaving them out of history.
Speaker 9: That's true.
Speaker 3: Well, at least at least women have the Statue of Liberty,
Speaker 3: that's one of the most famous statues in the world.
Speaker 4: That doesn't count.
Speaker 5: We need statues of real women, not some giant French
Speaker 5: bitch holding ice cream. Now, someone like Tony Morrison, the
Speaker 5: first black woman to win.
Speaker 4: The Nobel Prize for.
Speaker 5: Literature, or someone like Francis Perkins, the first woman appointed
Speaker 5: to a presidential cabinet or someone like Beyoncet, the first
Speaker 5: woman to be beyond set. Why doesn't she have a statue?
Speaker 5: I mean she's already standing like a statue.
Speaker 4: She's ready. This is actually a great idea.
Speaker 3: But I hope you understand building thousands of statues of
Speaker 3: women is going to be difficult. I mean, statues are expensive.
Speaker 3: You know this is gonna be a project that's gonna
Speaker 3: take a lot of time.
Speaker 5: I've already done, at, Trevor, what I've designed one statue
Speaker 5: to symbolize all women, their power, their mystique, a flawless
Speaker 5: avatar of womanhood that anyone can look at and see themselves.
Speaker 3: Don't say that that's a statue of.
Speaker 4: You, Oh, Trevor, I'm touched that you can see me
Speaker 4: in that art.
Speaker 2: No, it's literally you. It has your name on it.
Speaker 2: So why are you holding a baby? You don't have kids.
Speaker 5: That baby symbolizes America, Okay, which women have been carrying.
Speaker 1: For for Joe Loah Alpha.
Speaker 5: Now I'm kidding this it is Elvis baby. Because that's
Speaker 5: some history. I want to make everybody show me right back,
Speaker 5: Black women, we gave you Oprah, beyonceying and all your
Speaker 5: favorite reaction means. I've heard people say they like their
Speaker 5: women like they like their coffee, strong black and hot
Speaker 5: enough to give you second degree burns. Care for what
Speaker 5: you wish for, Darius. But the thing is, not all
Speaker 5: black women are strong, and even the ones that are
Speaker 5: strong aren't.
Speaker 1: Just that.
Speaker 5: We like doors open for us too, especially with someone
Speaker 5: with biceps like Michael B.
Speaker 4: Jordan, abs like Michael B. Jordan's hair like Michael B. Jordan.
Speaker 5: But unfortunately, the strong black women's stereotype is ingrained in
Speaker 5: American culture. It has a long history, about as old
Speaker 5: as Morgan Freeman and Betty White combined. Now you may
Speaker 5: be wondering what is a strong black woman. It's the
Speaker 5: idea that black women are emotionally resilient, naturally selfless, too
Speaker 5: proud to ask for help, and can succeed with no resources.
Speaker 5: So basically every character played by Viola Davis. The irony
Speaker 5: is the strong black woman's stereotype was started by black
Speaker 5: women to combat on the negative ones. See in the
Speaker 5: aftermath of slavery, there were really only two stereotypes of
Speaker 5: black women. You were either some sex temptress Jezebel or
Speaker 5: a mammy who was just there to smother people in Haboo.
Speaker 5: In response, Black suffragette Mary Church Terrell coined the strong
Speaker 5: black woman motto lifting as we climb, and I get
Speaker 5: what she was going for, But lift as we climb.
Speaker 5: Even bodybuilders don't do both at the same time. You
Speaker 5: can't expect a black woman to do more than Swarzenegger
Speaker 5: in his prime. But over time, society shrank a black
Speaker 5: woman down to just her strength. And the popular conception
Speaker 5: now is that black women can bear and overcome any birth.
Speaker 5: We see it all over our culture in movies like
Speaker 5: The Color Purple.
Speaker 1: Ooh My Life, I had to fight them.
Speaker 5: And how can we forget Ghosts where Whoopy Goldberg literally
Speaker 5: has to let a white man use her body to
Speaker 5: rub foreheads with his fiance. Even when black women only
Speaker 5: have one line, it's strong as hell, or you will
Speaker 5: be moved. Damn at least let her say hello. But
Speaker 5: tool say, what's wrong with being perceived as strong? Isn't
Speaker 5: it a good thing?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Not if black women destroy their mental and physical health
Speaker 5: trying to live up to it, And not if people
Speaker 5: think black women are so strong they make them do
Speaker 5: all the work on their own. Look at Stacy Abrams,
Speaker 5: She helped Democrats win Georgia, and before you knew it,
Speaker 5: she was being asked to fix vaccine distribution, the New
Speaker 5: York subway.
Speaker 4: And Kim and Kanye's marriage.
Speaker 5: The stereotype even reaches the doctor's office. Black women are
Speaker 5: less likely to be properly diagnosed, they have a much
Speaker 5: higher maternal mortality rate, and they're less likely to be
Speaker 5: believed about their.
Speaker 4: Symptoms and pain.
Speaker 5: So a black woman basically has to be a doctor
Speaker 5: to know everything that's going on with her body and
Speaker 5: then convince another doctor.
Speaker 4: That that's what's happening.
Speaker 5: I was in a car accident, I have contusions, lacerations
Speaker 5: and internal bleeding. Get me a morphine drip and prep
Speaker 5: surgery stack. We'll get you a couple of band aids
Speaker 5: and you'll be fine. What So, the next time you
Speaker 5: see a black woman struggling at work or trying to
Speaker 5: lift the box, help her. Don't just stand there like
Speaker 5: you're about to see wonder woman in action.
Speaker 4: In fact, if you're.
Speaker 5: In the New York area, I'm moving this week and
Speaker 5: I could use some help moving my couch because I'll
Speaker 5: be damned if I'm gonna pull my back lifting my
Speaker 5: own couch.
Speaker 4: Hello, friends.
Speaker 5: Hispanic Heritage Month just wrapped up. But before we go,
Speaker 5: I want to talk about reggaton and if you don't
Speaker 5: know what it is, you've probably heard the unmistakable beat
Speaker 5: of reggaton before, especially if you have upstairs neighbors.
Speaker 4: Can you keep it down up there? I will not
Speaker 4: like this song.
Speaker 5: The rest of this music go back as far as
Speaker 5: the seventies and as far south as Panama. It could
Speaker 5: have started further south, but the beach is so big
Speaker 5: they don't fit to the canal. It was here in
Speaker 5: the nineteen eighties when music artists started putting Spanish lyrics
Speaker 5: over Jamaican dance hall songs, creating the new sound of
Speaker 5: reggae and Espanol. And honestly, I'm glad I wasn't there,
Speaker 5: because watching Spanish words and dance hall music talking together
Speaker 5: for the first time not even too sexy to handle.
Speaker 5: There's no way you didn't leave that dance floor too pregnant.
Speaker 5: It's like being the jelly and a Diego Luna and
Speaker 5: bad Bunny Sandwich ooh delicious. Two of reggae tone's earliest
Speaker 5: pioneers were Leonardo and natal There and at Gablofronk Franco
Speaker 5: would later be known as El Hannadl and even look
Speaker 5: like if the Fresh Prince got sent to military school
Speaker 5: instead of bel Air. These two and other artists grew
Speaker 5: their new sounds by giving tapes to bus drivers who
Speaker 5: would bump their music. It's basically the way rappers in
Speaker 5: Atlanta give their singles to strip plug DJs, except in
Speaker 5: this case, you hope people jam out to your music
Speaker 5: while running late for work.
Speaker 4: In nineteen eighty five, El Hanadadan moved.
Speaker 5: To New York City, where he would again spreading early
Speaker 5: reggaetone in the club. It almost didn't happen, though, because
Speaker 5: while he was in New York, el Hanadan also pursued
Speaker 5: a degree in business administration in an effort to get
Speaker 5: a real job.
Speaker 4: You have to wonder what if that path had worked out.
Speaker 5: He'd beat an office going Ernstannan el Handadan speaking how
Speaker 5: may I direct your call? Thankfully, he was sucked back
Speaker 5: into music, hosting parties and performing. In nineteen ninety he
Speaker 5: put out the song to Boom Boom, a tribute to
Speaker 5: the power of the Pisse.
Speaker 4: To Boom Poom, Mommy, Mommy, No Man and El Henadle's
Speaker 4: cover blew up.
Speaker 5: It was a hit in Mainland America in Puerto Rico
Speaker 5: and spread to Central and South America. The music was
Speaker 5: spreading so fast it would have made COVID jealous. Not
Speaker 5: too far from Brooklyn, on Long Island, the defining beat
Speaker 5: of reggaetone, the dem bot rhythm, was popularized by Panamanian
Speaker 5: rapper Nando Boom. The sound was originally created by Jamaican
Speaker 5: dancehall musician Chaparank, who looks like if Blade became a
Speaker 5: DJ instead of fighting vampires.
Speaker 4: From there, the sound moved to a for Long Island,
Speaker 4: Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5: And here's where all the Panamanian and New York ingredients
Speaker 5: finally mixed together to make something special like Sofrito for
Speaker 5: your ears. It took over a club called The Noise,
Speaker 5: founded by the Quincy Jones and reggaetone DJ Negro. He
Speaker 5: had been selling hot dogs on the street to get
Speaker 5: by and then had an idea.
Speaker 4: To start a club.
Speaker 5: It was there that the genre became known as l
Speaker 5: underground and created a whole new generation of artists like
Speaker 5: Edy Quinton. They also popularized reggaetones Moe famous dance at Ale.
Speaker 4: Oh I Know this dance.
Speaker 5: This is just me in two thousand fives. This is
Speaker 5: the dance you do when you don't want to pay
Speaker 5: for drinks. At one point, Puerto Rico's government cracked down
Speaker 5: on l underground and tried to regulate the lyrics and
Speaker 5: bettio dance moves, but all that.
Speaker 4: Did was make l underground more popular.
Speaker 5: This was like when your parents tell you not to
Speaker 5: date somebody, but then that person gets ass. I'm sorry, mama,
Speaker 5: you make some good points, but I could wash clothes
Speaker 5: off his stomach. Later, the genre exploded all the remaining
Speaker 5: stream with the release of the hit Sog Gasolina by
Speaker 5: Daddy Yankee in two thousand and four, and Daddy Yankee
Speaker 5: was everywhere MTV, Time Magazine, even the campaign trip. I
Speaker 5: just want to say thank you, Daddy Yankee.
Speaker 4: That's right. You know a genre is big when the
Speaker 4: old white Republicans start calling for a little while.
Speaker 5: Reggaeton was huge, but then record companies moved on and
Speaker 5: it disappeared in much of America, which basically means most
Speaker 5: Americans thought it.
Speaker 4: Didn't exist anymore.
Speaker 5: Were like a baby who falls for peekaboo, but with
Speaker 5: Latin music. But even as America forgot about it. Reggaeton
Speaker 5: went through a rebirth in Many. Ain't Colombia the city
Speaker 5: you recognized from Narcos. Colombian artists like Jave, Alvin Raycon,
Speaker 5: and Carol g gave reggaeton a new, more mainstream sound
Speaker 5: with lyrics that focus less on violence and more on
Speaker 5: sex and romance. Like if neo became neo. It grew
Speaker 5: and grew in popularity until America caught on.
Speaker 4: Again with Yes.
Speaker 5: That's right, who is Foncie and Daddy Yankee took over
Speaker 5: the globe Des Basito It was number one for sixteen weeks.
Speaker 5: This song was so popular even a racist for learning Spanish,
Speaker 5: come o say d say, go back to your own country.
Speaker 5: And since Desposito, reggaetne has kept its hold in America,
Speaker 5: which is great because this is a genre that is
Speaker 5: still evolving and becoming more exclusive.
Speaker 4: You know, it grew out of a.
Speaker 5: Rich Hispanic heritage of Oh seriously that neighbor again?
Speaker 9: Hey, sorry about before, but can you actually turn it up?
Speaker 5: Everyone downstairs started dancing and I just want to keep
Speaker 5: the party going.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know how you got in here, but
Speaker 4: sure we turned it out.
Speaker 5: Please thank you, No, thank you.
Speaker 1: You can get out now.
Speaker 5: O friends, I'm Atlanta raised celebrities do a face mom now.
Speaker 5: Atlanta has been called many things, the black mecca, Wakanda,
Speaker 5: a black utopia.
Speaker 4: It's basically the opposite of Portland, Oregon. But does the
Speaker 4: aid limp up to the hype.
Speaker 5: I'm at con City Market to tak a fellow, APLI
Speaker 5: and a cultural curator, Bang Joiner of Atlanta Influences Everything
Speaker 5: to find out.
Speaker 10: My name is Banged Joiner, co founder of Atlanta Influences Everything,
Speaker 10: which is a civic minded creative consultancy known for a
Speaker 10: popular phrase and shirt in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: You said a lot of it sounds like a very
Speaker 5: Atlanta thing because it sounds like you got a bunch
Speaker 5: of like slashes on your business.
Speaker 4: Like do you also DJ?
Speaker 2: Nope, But there's a DJ in this story.
Speaker 4: There's always a DJ. There's always a DJ. Okay.
Speaker 5: We've been talking about this question for decades as black
Speaker 5: people who live in Atlanta or who are from Atlanta.
Speaker 4: Is Atlanta of black utopia?
Speaker 10: I don't know if I would say utopia. We're still
Speaker 10: in America. Black mecca, black utopia, Wakanda.
Speaker 2: Uh, all of the things.
Speaker 10: It's a place where where black people are comfortable. Utopia
Speaker 10: makes it seem like, you know, ain't no crime and
Speaker 10: you know, ain't no problems.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Well, it is interesting because where your story is run
Speaker 5: the pull up and we're at Pont City Market. But
Speaker 5: you know, and I know for a long time on
Speaker 5: this backstreet, the streets be very sketchy.
Speaker 10: Man, It's crazy you say that because the other piece
Speaker 10: of that meant with the name of the Kroger that
Speaker 10: was right here.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, And I don't care how I know y'all
Speaker 5: call it beltline proger.
Speaker 4: It's murder Kroger. We don't care. And when they try
Speaker 4: to change it if we call it murder proger.
Speaker 2: So this is a multi layered thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there are the perceived streets paid with gold for
Speaker 10: black people to achieve whatever they are trying to achieve
Speaker 10: without a barrier. But there's also so like multi layered
Speaker 10: classism here too.
Speaker 2: That's just how black it is. You know, it's aggressively.
Speaker 10: Black where ITA's tribal like Wakanda, it's a safe black
Speaker 10: place to be black. And then you have a fair
Speaker 10: shot to make it what you want.
Speaker 5: It to be do you think that black people here
Speaker 5: have a different experience and black people from other places
Speaker 5: because we've seen generations of black wealth and black at
Speaker 5: higher education and just upward morbility for black people.
Speaker 10: It is rooted in the black narrative kind of going
Speaker 10: back to w eb the Boy and Booker T.
Speaker 2: Washington's debate on blackness that took.
Speaker 10: Place on Atlanta University Center campus. So yeah, and if
Speaker 10: we want to tell that narrative all the way up.
Speaker 10: But if you look, none of these other black cities
Speaker 10: have anything like the Atlanta University Center.
Speaker 4: Right, there are four.
Speaker 5: HBCUs historically black college universities in Atlanta. It's Morris Brown Clark,
Speaker 5: Atlanta's Film and Morehouse and so you know, as people
Speaker 5: grew up here to see not only one black school
Speaker 5: but four black university.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and so it's that post secondary education that Oakland, Chicago, Detroit,
Speaker 10: they don't have the more House and spell many thing.
Speaker 10: And I think along with the consistent black mayors, yes,
Speaker 10: that became the attraction is the.
Speaker 5: Fact that Atlanta has had black mayors for forty some
Speaker 5: odd years. Has that made a significant impact on the city.
Speaker 10: Most definitely the mayor that kind of set everything off.
Speaker 2: Maynard Jackson he put.
Speaker 10: Forth those politicies and took that risk. He understood that police, chief,
Speaker 10: police force, superintendent, teachers, everything that the public sector could touch,
Speaker 10: that that also had to be on mission like what
Speaker 10: he saw, and if he couldn't get buy in from
Speaker 10: the working class people in those sectors, that this was
Speaker 10: the mission.
Speaker 4: Got to get along. So we have to understand.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, that's a very interesting thing for you
Speaker 5: to come for someone to come in and just go,
Speaker 5: especially a black man to come in and go, Okay,
Speaker 5: we got a chance. Yeah, So compared to the rest
Speaker 5: of the country, is it easy to be black in Atlanta?
Speaker 10: So the way we engage with blackness, the way we
Speaker 10: engage with white people, we didn't know that it was
Speaker 10: odd until you start traveling or you get these other stories.
Speaker 2: You're like, man, you talking to white people like.
Speaker 10: That, Like, yeah, yeah, you just have more confidence, whether
Speaker 10: it's louder, whether it's quiet, confidence than that average black person.
Speaker 10: And we don't know that that's odd until people start
Speaker 10: exposing us to the rest of the world.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, you'll move like that where you're from.
Speaker 10: I think white Atlantans are unique in their experience with blackness,
Speaker 10: for better or for worse, Atlanta seems to have become
Speaker 10: a safe place for that.
Speaker 5: As somebody who grew up here from here, what do
Speaker 5: you love about Atlanta?
Speaker 2: The ability just to be my black self?
Speaker 10: You know whatever I soldo.
Speaker 2: Rules work that.
Speaker 1: So there you have it.
Speaker 5: Atlanta might not be Rikarda, but it is a city
Speaker 5: where you can just see your black self.
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