WEBVTT - Ep. 43 — The Power of Grit and a Good Book 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.160 We should open with we never say this is Brown Ambition. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:18.800 Should we do that? 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.960 I'm like Brown, we never like you know it time 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:22.000 like the present. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:24.799 And we're back. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.280 So I was just telling Mandy, we never say like, hey, 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.840 you're listening to Brown Ambition. I mean, do you guys 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:30.880 care or do you kind of know? 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.320 I feel like if you downloaded the if you subscribe 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.080 to the podcast and you have to push play and 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.600 you see the logo, you might know it's Brown Ambition. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.760 For those of you guys who've like stumbled home drunk 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.879 and just started listening, this is Brown Ambition. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.400 And I'm Tiffany and Mandy. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.880 I will be your co host Mandy and Tiffany. Yes, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:57.760 you know what I don't you know what I want 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:59.880 to say off the bat, because I was just going 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.119 our inbox and we have so many sweet notes from listeners, 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.360 like at least a dozen from the past couple of 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.600 weeks alone, and I just wanted to say, we really 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.280 appreciate the emails. It's so nice of you. What we'd 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.760 appreciate even more is if you could turn those emails, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.880 just copy and paste them and put them on iTunes. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.480 Oh yes, just a simple, a simple way to do 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.399 good in your podcasting immunity because iTunes reviews are like 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.360 currency in the podcast world, and that just means that 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.200 other people like you can find the show and enjoy 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.600 the show. And we live in a yelp world and 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.160 people want to know, you know, what others think of 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.279 something before they try it out. So it would definitely 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.640 help us out if you guys, could you know, kindly 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.000 send all the emails you want, but a nice little 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.560 iTunes review on top of that would just be so sweet. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.720 Be your best friend, best friend, that's my best friend, 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:53.920 that's my best friend. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.400 Yeah, we'll just pass out free best friend cards exactly everybody, 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.560 and yeah, send us. Maybe we should do another giveaway 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.440 that worked out pretty good the first time. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.880 Oh yeah, well, I mean it's not ready yet, but 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.320 I do have these DreamCatcher t shirts that I'm making 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.120 and they're so cute, but they're not quite finished yet. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.000 But when they are, we can do that as a giveaway. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.040 Who doesn't love a T shirt? Yeah, So, when you 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.360 leave a review, take a screenshop and go ahead and 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.800 email it to brown MBIs Podcasts at gmail dot com. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.440 And when we come up with the sweet giveaway idea, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.440 we will we'll have to do it some sorlver drawing 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:26.919 or something. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:28.320 Mm hmm. I'll be fine. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.239 I love giving stuff away me too. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:31.480 I love a good giveaway. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.560 Oh lord, Okay, let's get home with the show. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.000 So this is kind of well, you know, I was 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:39.480 gonna say this, but I'm like, I may or may 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.440 not have regifted a really great gift to one of 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.520 my VFF and she was so convinced that I bought it, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:45.359 and I didn't tell. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:45.799 How I did it. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.720 I was like, what should I do? Should I just 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.440 let her rock out? So it was a it was 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.760 a a Kindle fire. I'd want it at FINCNN remember 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.919 Finconn last year, like I got an award or whatever, 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.720 uh huh, And it gave me like this awesome kindle fire, 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.800 And but I already have a kindle and I have 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.239 a laptop. So I was just kind of like, I 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.160 kept it in the packaging. I didn't even open it 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:09.320 because I thought, like Supergirl has an iPad, Superman doesn't care, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.160 like he's not really tech, mister tech guy. And so 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.320 everybody who I kind of was thinking about giving it 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.120 to at the time when I first got it, it 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.760 just didn't make sense. And then her birthday passed not 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.240 too long ago, and I was like, oh, I should 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:22.799 give it to dust friend because I called her and 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.800 I said, do you have an iPad or Kendall? She 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.639 said no. But then when I gave it to her, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.000 she was so overwhelmed, and I realized quickly, I don't 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.799 you know. I didn't think that to say, oh no, no, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:34.760 I'm regifting. But I'm like, do you tell. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:35.520 People when you read gifts? 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.200 Because now I feel bad, But I'm like, it's still 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:38.560 a really good gift. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.320 Well, does your best friend listen to the show. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.240 No, but I'm sure people who know her, dude, don't 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:44.600 tell her. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.160 She knows, don't go. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.120 I mean, she's still gonna be geeked up. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.720 But she was like so like overwhelmed, and I was like, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:53.520 what's the idea? 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.440 And I was like, oh, cause she. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.960 Knows, like like you know, I'm like notoriously like cheap, 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.200 so I think she was like, I was like, he's 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.320 so excited. It's just a candle far Oh. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:06.000 She thinks I bought this. I mean it is brand new. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.120 You know, I don't think you have to tell something. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.160 You wouldn't tell her if you had bought it, like 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.800 how much it costs. I don't I don't know. I 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.200 feel like I'm leaning towards no. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.840 Okay, So if you guys know bff, I have two 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:22.680 and you don't know which one it is. So I'm 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.960 not gonna say, but if you see her with a 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.880 new kindel fire, allow her to enjoy and to think. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.440 That I purchased it. It was not intentional. It was 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.159 just like it was just I knew that she would 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.480 enjoy it, and I was like, she care it to 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:37.000 be f f. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.400 Yeah. There is that thing though of like you know, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.400 when you give someone a gift, not that money means that, 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.120 it means more, but it's I mean, as long as 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.159 the gift is thoughtful, like you thought she'd really enjoy it, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.560 and clearly she does. It'd be one thing if like 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:52.919 you were you know, it's like, oh, I have this 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.080 free scarf and your friend lives in Florida and just 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.359 like give it to her for birthday, you know. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.600 Yeah, No, she's a big reader. That's why I was like, ooh, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:00.440 she would love it. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.640 Yeah, and you could have easily sold out for I 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.960 don't know how much it's worth, Like that's just one 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.600 hundred and fifty bucks or something and you. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.400 Do No, you're right. I could have You're right. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.400 See, Mandy, I'm just here to affirm every all the 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:13.200 choices you make. 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.839 How good of that? So we have to talk about 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.440 the BET Awards. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.520 Yes we do, but really, just to be completely transparent, 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.640 I did not watch it because I haven't been in 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.040 a place in my life where I can watch an 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.240 entire music awards show in a long time, I know. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.839 But I watched the clips usually, and usually I'm the 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:36.800 clips the next day. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.240 Girl but best friend was like, hey, I was on 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.880 my way to go for a walk and I called her. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:43.479 And she's like, what do you do? 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.240 And I'm like about to start with this walk so 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.600 I can be snatched for Essence Fest And she was like, no, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.760 come over and watch the BET Awards instead, and I 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.599 was like, okay, So I missed like the first hour. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:55.840 But it was just fun to hang out. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.200 Honestly, I'm not an award show person at all, but 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.000 it was actually really good. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.359 I heard it was good, But I feel like the 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.880 BET Awards, like you're not really there to see who 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.880 wins the awards, do you know what I mean? It's 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:12.040 more of like the entertainment. The host I saw that 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.680 Tracy Anderson or not Tracy Anderson. What is happening Tracy 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.520 Ellis Ross thesting together again? 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.040 Yes, that's why I thought you mixed them up because 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:22.640 you blended their. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.479 Name, did I? No? I think Tracy Anderson is that 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.920 like workout coach that Madonna and Tracy Ellis Ross also 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.480 use I digress. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.080 No, but she was she was great. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.719 Well, Tracy alis Ross is always great, and Anthony Anderson 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.279 was funny. But you know, it just was because BT 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.159 is not exactly known for keeping a classy but it 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.520 was so well done and the way they honored Prince, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.719 this was the best tribute I'd seen, just period, across 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.520 the board, not just BT, just in general like giving 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.920 tribute to an artist. Because what they did was that 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.760 everymusical selection there was a Prince tribute like folded in, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.159 you know, for the most part. So it wasn't like, oh, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.920 just this one long montage of Prince Vince, Prince, let's 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.520 go about our business. It was like everyone who sang 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.080 a song gave tribute, usually in some way, and it 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.000 was just really nice. It was so well done. I 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.840 was like, look at bat growing up. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.280 You knew there was a lot of pressure on them though, yeah, 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.960 especially after what award show was it that happened right 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.880 after Prince passed and in Madonna Bond Yes, oh Madonna 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.520 was Stevie and everyone was like, bet you better come, 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:32.680 like put up or shut. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.600 Up, yup, and they honestly they put up. It was 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.280 like I said, like my favorite musical selections. Beyonce killed 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.800 it with Kenchrick Lamar in the beginning. Jennifer Hudson laid, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:45.640 I mean, I mean her voice is just like, you know, 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:50.000 genius anyway, but she just was incredible Janelle Money, although 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.200 vocally I wasn't there with her necessarily, but her energy, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.080 like she know, she's got like that great dance thing 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.040 that she does, and so she that was awesome. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.520 Butlile who he was Prince and Carnate like, so, who 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:03.880 is so blod? 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:09.520 You know you must be my soul sister, soul sister, hey, sis, 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.560 you never heard that song? Well you still have not 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.400 heard it because that's not how he sounds. But he 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.560 came out like maybe like I want to say, ten 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.720 to fifteen years ago, maybe longer, but when he was 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.800 part of like the neo soul movement, remember when like 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.760 di'angelo and all that, like yes, yeah, yeah, so he 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.160 was part of like the neo soul movement. But he 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.839 What I love about Blau is that very similar to Prince. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.800 He is a classically trained musician. He has perfect pitch. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.679 He plays a number of instruments, and he's got that 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.800 same rangers Prince, like that super high falsetto and then 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.000 that super low like baritone voice and he. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.080 Redid I forget what song? 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.560 It was a difficult Prince song and he killed it. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.240 I mean he sounded like Prince even like rolled on 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.440 the ground like Prince. He he was Prince. And everybody 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:58.440 was like, yes. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.400 Okay, I haven't watched that clip. I need to watch 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:02.400 the Prince tribute. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.360 Yeah it was good. Yeah, honestly, everything was just really good. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:06.920 I mean I was like, look at Beyonce, because you know, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.920 Beyonce usually doesn't do the BET Awards. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.720 All the headlines I saw today, including the front page 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.360 of Yahoo, was about Jesse Williams's speech. 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:15.440 Sure, yeah, oh. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.600 I forgot about that, just to find himself to his 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:19.640 beautiful wife. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.280 But his speech, did you listen? Did you watch it? 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:22.560 Later? 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.760 The clip I watched, and and well I read the 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.800 transcript first and then I watched would you think? I 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.400 thought it was really poetic, like that's the only way. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.920 It was almost like spoken word. We know Jesse Williams 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.440 as the beautiful face on Gray's Anatomy. Yes, I still 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.679 watch how many years like twelve thousand years later anyway, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.680 but he's always been very vocal and outspoken during the 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.920 Black Lives movement move matter or sorry, black Lives Matter 0:09:51.040 --> 0:10:03.000 movement since four AM anyway. Yeah, so it's it was 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.400 I'm gonna let you talk, said yeah, without joke, but. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.120 Honestly, it was very poetic. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.360 It was there were some things that he said that 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:16.440 just especially the last few lines he said something like that, 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.200 like you know, uh that you you what did he say? 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.560 We may be magic, but that doesn't mean that we're 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:23.000 not real? 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.760 Yeah, they we're not humans. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.440 That was really no yeah to that effect. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.960 Yeah, and there was no something that he said. He said, 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.840 you you put us on like clothes and then discard 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.360 us like the rhymes of strange fruit. I mean I 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.200 was like the so like I used to do like 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.680 spoken word like all that yes, yes, yes, back in college, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.480 and I was like yes, like that old Tiffany was 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.520 from twenty one was like just like snapping my fingers 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.600 and like just sipping my tea. It was amazing they 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.520 had done some Do you hit that feedback feedback? 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:56.480 No, I don't hear anything. 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.319 I'm sorry, sorry I heard feedback, But no, they'd done 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.280 like kind of like a little clip leading up to Jesse. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.560 I did not know that he was an Africana studies 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.480 professor at one point. It totally makes sense that he 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.800 was a teacher and the Africanda studies professor. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:10.719 Did you see his. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.000 Yeah, did you see his father in the audience, like 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:13.719 tearing up? 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:15.640 Yeah, I didn't know have his father. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.080 Yeah, it was like his father and his mother. So 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.920 Jesse is biracial, his mother is white, his father is black, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.600 and his father and his mom they just looked so proud, 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.680 and I thought I saw tears in his father's eyes, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.600 like look him all, I have taught him good. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:28.080 You know. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.880 Well, we didn't even say he was there accepting an 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.720 award for Humanitarian of the Year. That's the whole reason 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.240 he wasn't just like you know, oh yeah up there, 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.120 just you know, grabbing the mic from somebody, and he 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.199 also runs, I'm gonna I want to I'm want to 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:44.960 talk about the group he runs. Oh, it's called the 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.520 Advancement Project. We've talked about him a couple of times 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.199 on the podcast before The Advancement Project is I believe 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.319 mostly about I don't know. I'm not even gonna try 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.679 and pretend like I know exactly what it's about. But 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.760 there's one there's one thing he does forcifically. There was 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.960 like a documentary series or something that was all about 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.560 black men in America. That's right, Okay, got. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.480 Something right that like just basically shifting the portrayal of 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.400 black men. And it's I think it's a docuseries, but 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.000 I just they showed like clips of it on. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.280 The BT woards like while they were honoring him. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:18.320 Yeah. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.960 Yeah, but he got a bigger standing ovation than any 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.560 other artists, like like you know who's saying or anything else, 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.240 Like he really moved the crowd. He talked about how 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.800 yesterday or the day or today would be tame or 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.880 Rice's fourteenth birthday, and that you know that sanction that 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.720 they did a that paid public servants did a sanctioned 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.920 drive by on a twelve year old playing alone in 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.920 the park alone. How can you say that we've advanced? 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.040 I was like, oh my goodness. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.640 You don't hear a language like that in the news. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.120 You don't you know, accidentally discharged his weapon or you know, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.600 not a sanctioned drive by, which is essentially what it was. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:53.720 Like. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.120 He's not mincing words at all. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.480 If you haven't listened to it. It's like mandatory viewing, honestly. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.680 And you know it's important when like he's making headlines 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.520 and not Beyonce, not Jennifer Hudson, not the Prince Tribute, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:12.959 Jesse Williams, Ye anything, Oh did you? Justin Timberlake got 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.559 in a little bit of trouble afterward. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.199 But he didn't say anything wrong. I thought he just 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.079 said I'm inspired. That's what I thought he said. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.440 Well, he responded to someone who tweeted at him, saying, Okay, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.920 so does this mean you're gonna stop appropriating our culture? 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.160 Because you know, people have issues with Justin Timberlake and 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.120 Robin Thick and being like white dudes singing R and B. 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:32.719 I find it really hard to be upset at Justin 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.640 Timberlake because I've loved him for so long. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.679 Exactly, I'm sorry, I'm like sorry, I think. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.360 There's rude enough for everybody, and Justin Timberlake. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.760 Yes, I'm like, I'm actually gonna give him a past 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.960 like I always I mean, I grew up at that 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.160 time where I was like just that. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.200 Yeah, he has like the Black card of passes, like 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.240 the Black visa or what is it, the Black AMX. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.559 You can get it unlimited for your lifetime. He has that. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.000 He has that pass card anyway, but he responded to 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.480 them saying oh sorry. He was like, first of all, 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.960 he said, sweet heart, which is my pet peeve. Southerners 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.520 do that when they're being condescending, they call you sweetheart. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.760 He was like, sweetheart, I'm just trying to say that 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.360 I think we're all one human race and something to 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.920 that effect. You know. He might as well have put 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.400 hashtag all Lives Matter at the end of it, basically. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.280 But then he like walked back and apologized. I just 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.160 feel like, this is again a moment where it's like, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.920 no one, it's your moment to speak and sometimes just 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.040 let just let us have our moment without chiming in, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:27.640 you know what I mean. 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.280 Yes, wasn't there there was a video, this awesome video 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.360 of a Muslim woman speaking on the same panel as 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.320 Glorious Steinem and I can't remember where it was but 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.720 they asked basically like what can people do? And he 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.800 said and she said, and it was just so appropriate 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.200 because Glorious Sinum was literally literally passing her the mic 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.440 to speak. And she said, that's what you can do 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.720 that allow us to tell our story past the mic, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.640 Like you cannot decide for us or speak for us. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.120 Allow us to speak for ourselves. And I think sometimes 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.440 that I mean And like I said, I didn't have 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.240 a problem with his original tweet justin Timberlake, but I 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.400 get what you mean. Sometimes you're just like, yeah, now 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:11.000 it's not just sh yeah some. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.000 Part you know, you want to talk about allies. The 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.760 best thing you can do is an ally. Sometimes is 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:16.200 no one. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:21.120 Touch Yeah, you need to shut it. That's right. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.160 Hashtag passed the mic. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.960 Yes, hashtag passed the mic. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.520 Yeah, is anything? Did anything else happen in life? Oh? 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.440 Game of Thrones? This has absolutely nothing to do with finance. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.120 If you guys came for finance topics today. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.120 This is not the Yeah it's gonna happen. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.640 Game of Thrones was last night. I know you don't 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.520 watch it, but the finale was epic. If anyone wants 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.840 to swap notes, feel free to tweet me at Mandy 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.480 Woodruff or email us at Brand Ambition Podcast at gmail 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:51.960 dot com. I have a lot of thoughts on the 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.000 show this is. This show was increasingly becoming like the 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.080 feminist icon, I feel like, because I mean, it's a 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.360 medieval show, and I can't really think of another period 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:07.560 of time when women were more like victimized and objectified. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.160 Maybe all the times in history, but anyway, this period 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.520 is specifically it's all about like corsets and wenches and 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.640 rape and like using women as pawns and like just 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.240 make me an air, you know that kind of stuff. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.600 But this, like and this author, he's he's like this big, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:28.160 like Santa Claus looking white dude from like Phoenix, Arizona, 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.400 and he's made some bad ass like feminist characters we have, 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.640 and even like even Beyonce if you don't, if you don't, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.000 if you want a reason to watch this, Beyonce watches 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.880 it too because she paid tribute to Kalisi, the Queen 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.840 of Dragons. Anyway, like five of the major and i'd 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.400 say prominent characters are all women right now. And this 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.960 is a show that started out like majority males six 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:50.560 seasons ago. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.160 I think that Superman and I we were talking about it. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.600 I was like, he's like, me and him are like eighty. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.800 He's like, have you heard of Game of Thrones? I 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.600 was like, I have, I have. I think I want 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.280 to get into it, and so I don't know, I 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.919 think that we might, you know, because we tend to 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.679 do that like wait forever and then like just like 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.520 watch like one weekend or like a week and then 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.200 we'll just sit and watch it together as a family. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.400 So well, obviously Supergirl can't watch. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.879 Yeah, but man, it's a little, uh, it's very vulgar. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.160 It's not just the sex and the in the the language. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.439 It's like just the violence, the sheer violence, and the 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.360 blood and goods. Oh and the zombies. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.639 Zombies, and yeah, I'm confused. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.600 Don't get too caught up in the zombie aspect. It 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.440 can kind of turn you off. But it's interest. It's good. Okay, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.159 it's scary, but good. The zombies are there. They're like 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:45.359 they're called white Walkers. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:46.640 Oh, I think I've heard of them. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.440 Don't read the books either, another just don't do it. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.520 I did it because I'm a masochist. But you don't. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:57.040 You don't have to read the books. To enjoy the show. Okay, okay, yeah, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:58.880 I'm jealous. You guys get to start from scratch. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.720 I know, we'll see, we'll see how long I laugh 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.119 because I usually have like I end up being like 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:04.720 I'm bored to this. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:07.840 Oh I do kind of have a financial topic. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:08.560 Okay. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.520 I sat down with my wedding budget this week and 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.639 my my nice little multi sheet spreadsheet and Google docs. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.320 I don't know what happened, but my wedding is like 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.159 twice as expensive as I thought it was going to be. 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:23.399 You know what happened. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:24.080