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Speaker 1: Now, I've never been. Yeah, you need to go.

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Speaker 2: Let's see who's gonna Yeah, let's see who needs a hashtag.

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Speaker 1: I get stressed out.

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Speaker 1: So we started on a high note. But you know us,

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Speaker 2: I did only because I saw such great reviews on Facebook.

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Speaker 2: You know what it is because they play them back

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Speaker 1: Yees, so he married? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I think that his career has not obviously prospered

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Speaker 1: I was young enough when it was all happening that

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Speaker 1: I don't really remember all particular so, but there's video

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Speaker 3: A general sense of ickiness about him. Yes, he closed

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Speaker 2: So there's video of him of him like urinating on

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Speaker 2: And then just so many other stories that have come

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Speaker 2: that's one thing. A thirteen year old a twenty five

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Speaker 3: So is the is the drama that he performed. People

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Speaker 2: Like yeah, only because like you know, everybody's going in

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Speaker 2: And it's almost like, you know, I saw this article

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Speaker 2: Rapes are not enough. They're like, you know, black girls

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Speaker 2: Yeah she is, and so but it's like cause Erkabadou

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Speaker 2: she actually introduced R. Kelly as my brother, and I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a complicated thing.

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Speaker 3: We kind of talked about it with Bill Cosby before

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Speaker 3: But I can almost I'm staying from both sides here.

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Speaker 3: I'm like playing two sides here at the same time.

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Speaker 3: Like when it is someone who you consider a brother,

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Speaker 3: I know they're not blood really, but if it's someone

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Speaker 3: it's really hard to find a way. It takes a

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Speaker 3: long time to figure out how to like separate yourself

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Speaker 3: to live in both spaces, Like, yes, they did this

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Speaker 3: horrible thing, Yes it's okay that I still feel like

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Speaker 3: a love for them, and then how do you marry

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Speaker 1: It's just awkward ones on a public stage. That's what

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Speaker 2: That's what was bobbling, Like, okay, Ka bade if that's

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Speaker 2: your brother. But I'm like, really, Bet, like of all

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Speaker 2: the artists you could have had, you know, it's not

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Speaker 2: like R Kelly is like you know, some brand new

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't be excusable then, but it's like you had

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Speaker 3: Do you think that's like just for the wow factor,

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Speaker 3: for the would be controversial.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It just really bothered me to see like Janelle Monet,

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Speaker 2: ty Reese, all these people too stepping like.

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Speaker 1: Yes, go ahead, rapist, Yes, do your thing. Because especially,

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Speaker 1: you know what really bothers me about R.

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Speaker 2: Kelly because there are sometimes you know, like like I've

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Speaker 2: Probably not the most appropriate, but whatever. But this is

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Speaker 2: a man who was allegedly I'll put in air quotes

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Speaker 2: like literally going to high schools. He was a predator

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Speaker 2: looking for young women, you know what I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: the part, and looking specifically for young women whose backgrounds

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Speaker 2: would allow him to take advantage of them, like we

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Speaker 2: very much like Bill Cosby, Yes, you know, like women

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Speaker 2: like young women like and from neighborhoods who you know,

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Speaker 2: wowed by a man like him, you know what I mean.

438
00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,800
Speaker 2: So like and so that's it almost sicker. Yeah, it does,

439
00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:16,720
Speaker 2: of course, because that's what I'm saying. He was a predator.

440
00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,480
Speaker 2: This is not just some guy who was like, oh,

441
00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:20,959
Speaker 2: I happen to love my girlfriend and I'm eighteen, she's fourteen.

442
00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,000
Speaker 1: We're just trying to make it work.

443
00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,879
Speaker 2: No, this is a sexual predator, and for him to

444
00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,520
Speaker 2: be celebrated still, Like honestly, when his music come on

445
00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,040
Speaker 2: comes on on the radio, like I always tell Superman

446
00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:30,640
Speaker 2: intended off.

447
00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,720
Speaker 3: I think he'll probably go through now a similar maybe

448
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,320
Speaker 3: not as bad as Bill Cosby.

449
00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:37,160
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure why.

450
00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,399
Speaker 3: Maybe it's because Bill Cosby's accusers it was so far

451
00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:40,960
Speaker 3: after the fact they all came forward and they're all

452
00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,840
Speaker 3: much older. Maybe are Kelly's victims. It's just they're not

453
00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,800
Speaker 3: ready to come forward in the same public way. I mean,

454
00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,600
Speaker 3: it sucks that it took like forty women to come

455
00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,800
Speaker 3: forward in their magazine cover to get people to, you know,

456
00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,520
Speaker 3: care about the Bill Cosby situation. But I mean the

457
00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,600
Speaker 3: public is when we make up our mind about an

458
00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,080
Speaker 3: icon like R Kelly. You know, was meant so much

459
00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:00,800
Speaker 3: for R and B music, you know, coju met so

460
00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,480
Speaker 3: much for comedy and television. Like it's really hard, like

461
00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,359
Speaker 3: you have to show us the evidence, yea, Like the

462
00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,119
Speaker 3: burden of proof is totally on the victim.

463
00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,520
Speaker 2: Also too, R Kelly happened right before the huge social media.

464
00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:12,679
Speaker 1: Way, Yeah, totally, you know what I mean.

465
00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,480
Speaker 2: So it's like I think if it would have happened

466
00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,600
Speaker 2: like Bill Cosby, I think one of the reasons why

467
00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,800
Speaker 2: people are so much more up in arms is because.

468
00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,200
Speaker 1: Social media really took that and like ran with it.

469
00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,159
Speaker 2: But R Kelly like escaped that almost because to me, like,

470
00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,000
Speaker 2: you know, what he did was even more obvious. There's video,

471
00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,760
Speaker 2: but it was before all that, before people could, before

472
00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,560
Speaker 2: black Twitter could really take a hold and like fully

473
00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:34,200
Speaker 2: drag him.

474
00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:35,000
Speaker 1: I don't know.

475
00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,040
Speaker 2: I was just kind of disappointed and I was just like, well,

476
00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:39,760
Speaker 2: and I know they were.

477
00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,240
Speaker 1: I mean honestly, I like the social training. Like I

478
00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:41,960
Speaker 1: didn't watch his part.

479
00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:43,840
Speaker 3: I was like, wow, cable. I don't have cable, so

480
00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,480
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, so I watched the clips. So

481
00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:48,679
Speaker 3: the baby face that was amazing.

482
00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,680
Speaker 1: That was amazing. When they had Brandy come out, I.

483
00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,719
Speaker 3: Was like, yeah, I feel so much real emotion when

484
00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,040
Speaker 3: I get sitting up in my room, like literally I'm trying.

485
00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,320
Speaker 3: I'm like four feet tall, yeah, and like little chubbing

486
00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,040
Speaker 3: girl in my room like dream daydreaming.

487
00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,080
Speaker 1: Oh. She was so good. Her voice is so good.

488
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:04,439
Speaker 1: I want her to go on tour. You know what

489
00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:05,879
Speaker 1: it is about brand because Brandy and I like the

490
00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:06,280
Speaker 1: same age.

491
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,320
Speaker 2: So I'm thirty six, and I think when Brandy came out,

492
00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,240
Speaker 2: she was fourteen, and I was fourteen when she came out.

493
00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,960
Speaker 2: I know, so I like grew up like that first

494
00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,080
Speaker 2: album of her, like sitting on the front cover. Her

495
00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:16,639
Speaker 2: music was so inche appropriate. I could play it in

496
00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:17,399
Speaker 2: front of my parents.

497
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:27,720
Speaker 1: It was just so ahesha la oh to the we played, Oh.

498
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,840
Speaker 3: The night I got engaged on the platform. It took

499
00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,000
Speaker 3: so long for the train. We played like all the

500
00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,800
Speaker 3: great nineties TV things, family matters, ohow, step by step,

501
00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,560
Speaker 3: Growing Pains, Boesha, sister sister, what is the sister?

502
00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,880
Speaker 1: Kevin knew how much and are doing like the neck wave.

503
00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:47,840
Speaker 1: I don't even know why, but we're both.

504
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,960
Speaker 3: I met and they did the grown up version, sister sister,

505
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,560
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you even need to go back. Oh,

506
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,240
Speaker 3: oh my god, I know not as good as it was. Well,

507
00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,280
Speaker 3: you know what someone said, TV's never been as because

508
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,000
Speaker 3: it wasn't. It wasn't the night it was.

509
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,240
Speaker 2: Very black right because think about Martin was it like

510
00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:05,119
Speaker 2: its all time high?

511
00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:10,000
Speaker 1: Like you're right, fairly matters hanging with mister Cooper.

512
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 3: I used to love that girlfriend someone's girlfriends.

513
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,760
Speaker 2: But it was very very remember because you remember, you

514
00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,919
Speaker 2: know why up and nine remember and t G I

515
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,840
Speaker 2: f Yeah, T J was veriable, g G I Oh,

516
00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:23,400
Speaker 2: and they're all like, huh.

517
00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:24,960
Speaker 1: Now we sound like old people. You know how people

518
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,119
Speaker 1: always say, like, you don't know, y'all don't have good music.

519
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 2: One day, these young people are gonna be telling their

520
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 2: grandkids Daddy.

521
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 1: Wop's classic Oh God Baby, but no.

522
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, TV is changing, you know, Speaking of TV, there's

523
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 3: a new Dominican the very first Dominican focused TV show.

524
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,679
Speaker 3: Shout out to my new Dominican family.

525
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,600
Speaker 1: Really yeah, what is it called. It's gonna be called

526
00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,040
Speaker 1: La V L A D D.

527
00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,919
Speaker 3: And I guess that's the name of the guy who's

528
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,960
Speaker 3: it's like a comedian, kind of like Louis c K

529
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,240
Speaker 3: made his own show, run his own wife. It's gonna

530
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,640
Speaker 3: be like about the Dominican family in the Bronx, which

531
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 3: is I'm excited to watch it.

532
00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 1: I'll get to understand my boyfriends, oh for my fiance.

533
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,639
Speaker 1: What else you want to talk about for Buzzworthy? Do

534
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:05,720
Speaker 1: you want to talk about buying black?

535
00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,840
Speaker 2: That's like the huge new wave I've been seeing I

536
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 2: guess most of my friends on social.

537
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 1: Media the holidays. Yeah, yeah, we can talk about that.

538
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,159
Speaker 3: I mean, like just generally, you know, for me and

539
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 3: one of my friends was I debated my friends about

540
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,679
Speaker 3: this one time. It's like, do you feel pressure to

541
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 3: buy from black owned businesses or you know, do you

542
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 3: feel like you should have freedom to buy wherever you

543
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 3: want to buy from? Did you feel guilty for like

544
00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 3: not buying from a black owned business?

545
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,919
Speaker 2: Right, There's actually a woman who was banned on Facebook

546
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 2: because and actually I knew her.

547
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 1: I was like, she looks familiar. She did this interview

548
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 1: with doctor Boyce Watkins.

549
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 2: And she created like some like booklet for buying black

550
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,359
Speaker 2: or something. And anyway, she created like like just like

551
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 2: a Facebook post about like, you know, buying black, try

552
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,440
Speaker 2: to buy black this week or whatever. And Facebook, I guess,

553
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 2: I don't know if somebody reported as being racist or whatever.

554
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: That's been going on forever.

555
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,880
Speaker 3: I know there's literally like black business phone books and

556
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 3: like online buying guides. Yeah, but I don't know why,

557
00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 3: but these three pamphlets you hand out.

558
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 2: She was banned because Facebook themeed it, I guess, for

559
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:07,160
Speaker 2: lack of a better word, racist, for discriminatory, Yeah, discriminatory,

560
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 2: I'll say that, but yeah, I just thought that was

561
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 2: really strange.

562
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, Okay.

563
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 3: I think it's important to shop small, like in any capacity. Yeah,

564
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,199
Speaker 3: and I feel like a lot of small businesses are

565
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 3: owned by minorities in general.

566
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:18,920
Speaker 2: I guess you know what it is too, Like you

567
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 2: know you've heard, I mean, we've heard the statistic over

568
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 2: and over that the black dollar stays in the Black

569
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 2: neighborhood like for less than like it passes through not

570
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,959
Speaker 2: even one hand before leaving the Black neighborhood. It's like

571
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 2: the Jewish dollar passes through like thirty hands. I don't

572
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 2: that's not the exact, you know number, And then the

573
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,640
Speaker 2: Spanish dollar passes through two hands.

574
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,159
Speaker 3: And the Asias they're more good about buying from businesses

575
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 3: owned by each other.

576
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 2: Yes, and so I can understand that that like that

577
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 2: there's so much wealth I think are buying power nations.

578
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Look at Chinatown? Mm hmm. I

579
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,679
Speaker 1: have friends who can get deals in apartment in Chinatown

580
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 1: that I'd never be able to get exactly.

581
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you can call it discrimination, but I feel

582
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 3: I feel no way about it because I'm kind of like, man,

583
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 3: that neighborhood is like one of the last true, you know,

584
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 3: vestiges of Old New York that have actually stayed the

585
00:22:58,600 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 3: same and in some ways you kind of want to

586
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 3: preserve that and exact.

587
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 2: But that's like too, like like being Nigerian, there's certain

588
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,199
Speaker 2: deals that I get, Like if you go someplace, like

589
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 2: you know, if my mom's like no, no, no, I'll

590
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 2: go for you, or like tell them.

591
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,959
Speaker 3: I say, you, if my coworker who's Jewish hadn't told

592
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 3: me to go to her, you know, hadn't told me

593
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,400
Speaker 3: specifically go to Irving in the diamondustry, tell him Lisa

594
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 3: sent you. I don't know if I would have gotten

595
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 3: to deal for twenty dollars.

596
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: That's how it goes.

597
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,439
Speaker 2: Something, So I get that, you know, that's how it

598
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: goes sometimes that certain groups look after their own. I

599
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 2: guess the issue is that, unfortunately, it seems like African

600
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 2: American community does not do that.

601
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 3: It seems because there's less of a cultural I feel

602
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,120
Speaker 3: like other minorities sometimes there's such a huge cultural divine,

603
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 3: like especially if you're immigrants African Americans, we grew up

604
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 3: in America and like there's no language barrier, there's no

605
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 3: nothing keeping you from going to like a wide owned

606
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 3: business like that because you're not you don't have that.

607
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure, because.

608
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 2: Well just even like you know, there's a sense of

609
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 2: like I see you, I understand you, like you know,

610
00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 2: like Nigerians, or if you're Dominican, or if you but

611
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 2: you're right, even though you know, you could be African American,

612
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 2: but that could mean so many different things. But if

613
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 2: you are Dominican, there is a shared sense of like

614
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 2: culture and history.

615
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: Like you said, yes.

616
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 2: That's missing in the African American community because it's like

617
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 2: you could be from Atlanta you're African American, and I

618
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 2: could be from Newark and we could have literally no

619
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 2: nothing common as far as our background. But if I'm

620
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 2: Dominican and I live in Canada and you're Dominican and

621
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 2: you live in I don't know, Australia, there's still a

622
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 2: sense of like, oh my god, you know totally, yeah,

623
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So definitely I believe that

624
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 2: to be so.

625
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 3: It's still more American when I'm not in America, when

626
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 3: I'm traveling out, you'd meet the other Americans in the

627
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 3: hostel or exactly, oh my god, maybe all of a sudden,

628
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 3: I'm like waving the flag and I'm proud an American.

629
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 1: You get real country.

630
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, no, for sure, that's a good reminder, though

631
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, god, I live in Queens. I

632
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 3: don't think there are any black owned businesses. I mean

633
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 3: Queens is like literally the I think there's there's. This

634
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 3: is a fact. It's like the single most diverse county

635
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 3: in the United States. Like every single walk of life

636
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 3: is there. But my neighborhood is very Greek, very Brazilian,

637
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 3: very Hispanic, very Vietnamese. It's been like not a lot

638
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 3: of black owned businesses, but I do. I shop at

639
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 3: small businesses all the time. That's what I love about

640
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 3: New York. Yeah, I know, it's hard not to know

641
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 3: a Walmart. We're like a local here, local there. You're right, Oh,

642
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 3: we're here, we're here, We're back. So now we're time

643
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 3: for now it's time for Brown Break. Brown Break, Yeah,

644
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 3: my favorite segment.

645
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,880
Speaker 1: Brown. I love the game. I think to take breaks from.

646
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 2: I know, even though I don't really take the breaks

647
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 2: when I get home, it's like we just take a

648
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 2: break online.

649
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: I'm like, I really should take a break, you know.

650
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 3: I did actually take a break from political coverage for

651
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 3: I'm like done, Like, wake me up when it's October

652
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, Like then I'll look I'll pay attention to

653
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 3: the last month. I don't need to hear all these

654
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,719
Speaker 3: stupid debates one more, no, no more.

655
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: Ben Carson. Oh yeah, foolery, Trump, foolery, you know, thinking

656
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. So we said give me a break.

657
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 2: I said, ooh, that should be a brown break, like

658
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 2: give me a break, give me a break, break me off,

659
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 2: a brown break something something.

660
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: Now I don't know what the words are going to be.

661
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: Just work with me. That's just the first draft. Break. Yeah, break,

662
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: give me brown break. Phones you guys can get the

663
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:25,479
Speaker 1: soundtrack for and marked at zero dollars at zero pay

664
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: you to listen to it. So what should we brown?

665
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,439
Speaker 2: Okay, so my brown break is I want to take

666
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 2: a brown break from being anti social.

667
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: Yes, I said it.

668
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 2: I'm anti social, and not even because I'm not social.

669
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 2: I'm antisocial because as I get older, it takes me

670
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: longer to get cutter. And I noticed that because so

671
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 2: for those of you who don't know, I own my

672
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 2: own business and I work from home, and so I'm

673
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 2: largely in my pjs with like my hair and a

674
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: messy bun which I'm wearing now. This is like my

675
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 2: sleep bun, my wake Bun my everything Bun Drell's like

676
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 2: Superman is like this BN.

677
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: And so yeah.

678
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 2: So because of that, I ended up like, you know,

679
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 2: like no makeup, just in my PGAs. And so when

680
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,479
Speaker 2: fun things are happening and someone said you want to go,

681
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 2: I always start thinking to myself, Oh, that sounds like

682
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 2: oh wait, it sounds like having to wash up again,

683
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: having to put on a little bit of face, having

684
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 2: to find something to wear that actually fits, having to

685
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: do my hair. It sounds like work. So I end

686
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 2: up saying no, stay home. And as a result, I

687
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 2: have not been having so much fun in my life.

688
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: So I've been working and I've been chilling at home.

689
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 2: And unless I'm traveling for the budget these then for business,

690
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 2: I'm not really leaving the house as much. And I'm like,

691
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: I want to take a brown break from nice to

692
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: be such a fun fun, like a fun person.

693
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 3: I think that happens when you get older, though, Like you,

694
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 3: you find so much time for the things you don't

695
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 3: want to do. Yeah, and when it comes to the

696
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 3: fun stuff, you find excuses, Yeah, not enough time or

697
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 3: it's too much work. You like you put your own

698
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 3: like wants and you kind of forget that it's worth THEPA.

699
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's work because then when I end up going on.

700
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,959
Speaker 2: But like, so, for example, one of my friends, I

701
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 2: just love him. His name is Cabral, and Cabral is

702
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 2: like one of my favorite friends because.

703
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: Cabral like lives life.

704
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 2: He eats well, he goes to fancy restaurants, he travels

705
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 2: like every other month, and so Cabrel so he's also gay,

706
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 2: so like he's also like so Superman's always like, yeah,

707
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: go with Cabral. So Cabrel is like my like he

708
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 2: just will always be like, honey, you want to go out.

709
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 3: And I'm just like with the gays, I can be

710
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 3: very detrimental to the budget. And I say that lovingly

711
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 3: because I have many gay friends. He will quickly take

712
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 3: me to the club and I'll see all my paychecks.

713
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: No, Cabral is a treater too.

714
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 3: That's the benefit of getting older to your friends are

715
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 3: old enough to actually treat him.

716
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: Yes, And it's like it's like four of us like

717
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 2: that we hang out sometimes now and so like he'll

718
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 2: be like, so he'll call because he knows we're all

719
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 2: the same. Where like all the women, it's like three

720
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 2: other women who are entrepreneurs that we kind of never

721
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: go anywhere.

722
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: So Gobrel's always wanted to be.

723
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 2: Like, hey, girls, where we are on this week and

724
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 2: we're all like a cobral He's like, be ready tomorrow

725
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 2: and then he'll drive and then he won't tell you

726
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 2: where he's going, and then he'll just take you somewhere

727
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 2: and then you're like it's amazing, and then he'll.

728
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 3: Treat and so yeah, what always like, I mean, that

729
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 3: sounds like an invitation that you would not pass up.

730
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: So when when when the cabro calls, I'm like, when where?

731
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: But what I love about him is that he takes

732
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 2: me out of that comfort zone to say tip to

733
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 2: get out and go and so and not to say

734
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: Superman doesn't, but I don't know, Like I mean when

735
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: we hang out, it's just like, I mean, we're like

736
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: a Netflix and Chill kind of couple.

737
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: And like also too, we have like different takeing.

738
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 3: Me something different when you're in a committed relationship, you

739
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 3: know what it means when you're dating, Yeah, you finished

740
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 3: in Brook, Yeah exactly.

741
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 2: He's like, oh exactly, I know when that highl So

742
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: but yeah, I just want to be a little less

743
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 2: like I used to love, like rollerblading. I'm like, you

744
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 2: know what, there's a roller skating drink around the house

745
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 2: and they have adult Night's supposed to be really fun.

746
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go, you know, probably this week. And then

747
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: a friend of mine was like, oh, let's go on

748
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 2: this this like a trail in.

749
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: The other house.

750
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 2: And my best friend's like, we should go in the

751
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 2: hike and I'm like, I don't only want to, but

752
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna try to force myself and

753
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 2: small one thing, yeah, one thing a week, right, one

754
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 2: fun thing a week.

755
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 3: You can fall into that trap though you work so

756
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 3: hard to get here, and then you keep working so

757
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 3: hard that you can't enjoy it. So I try and

758
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 3: be cognizant of that for sure.

759
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: So what's your brown break?

760
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 3: My brown break is so I don't know if funny

761
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 3: my coworkers are listening, but I love you dearly. But

762
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 3: recently someone at the office passed around this New York

763
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 3: Times article which talked about the idea of a de

764
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 3: energizer in the office, which is a kind of person

765
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 3: or people who tend to let their negative attitudes just

766
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 3: like bring the whole environment down, okay, and it can

767
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 3: be difficult that a huge company, especially when there's like

768
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 3: a lot of moving parts and maybe like especially like

769
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 3: if your job maybe doesn't get impacted by all the

770
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 3: other stuff happening around you, and you're kind of if

771
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 3: you just stay in your bubble, Like if I just

772
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 3: stay in my bubble, I don't have to worry about

773
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 3: any of the corporate bs happening.

774
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: I just do my job. I get to write, I

775
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: do what I love, I get to do video, I

776
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: do the podcast on the side.

777
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 3: No one's saying no, but if sometimes like there's a

778
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 3: lot of stuff happening and it can get in the way.

779
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 3: Like for example, we have a group chat, which is great.

780
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 3: It's like the literal it's like a digital water cooler.

781
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 3: We pass around gifts, we joke, we like shoot the breeze.

782
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 3: It's like where we catch up and.

783
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 2: That's the thing that went down the other day slack

784
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 2: or something slack. I don't know, there's something that went down.

785
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 2: It was like group chat. Everybody was talking about it,

786
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 2: but I'm not.

787
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 3: There's a million different kinds we use the Yahoo one obviously, okay,

788
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 3: I am, but it's like where it's just a great

789
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 3: place to catch up and just you know, camaraderie or whatever.

790
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 3: So I love the group chat. It's hilarious, we crack

791
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 3: up all that, we just passed plenty links. But sometimes

792
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 3: it can get to be like a bit of a

793
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,959
Speaker 3: down or if everyone else's like feelings about what's happening

794
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 3: with their separate stuff at the work is, then it

795
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 3: starts to bring everything down. And while it's fun to

796
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 3: commiserate and important, I think to commiserate, it's like a

797
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 3: healthy way of venting, you know, And.

798
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: You don't want to stay in that negative You don't

799
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: want to stay in it.

800
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 3: And I've found in the past month that like it's

801
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 3: really getting me down and I kind of want to

802
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 3: take I've tried.

803
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: It's hard to break out of it.

804
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 3: Because you don't want to be disconnected, Like I don't

805
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 3: want to be I don't want to lose access to

806
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 3: my friend coworkers, my friends, and like the gossip and stuff,

807
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 3: all the good stuff. But at the same time I

808
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 3: want and I don't want to make them feel bad

809
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 3: for venting, because they should because like they're they they're

810
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 3: valid and whatever their complaints are. But at some point

811
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 3: you just have to like, and we don't have an office,

812
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 3: this is another symptom I think of, like being in

813
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 3: this open concept, Like the last three places I've worked

814
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 3: at have been just rows of desks and no one

815
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 3: has offices. Everything's glass walls, everything's transparent. But it just

816
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 3: it just gives everyone else more license to just come

817
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 3: into your area, like your personal space. Like this one

818
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 3: coworker who she recently left, I don't feel that talking

819
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 3: about honey, I'm like, really gonna get in trouble.

820
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: She used to come over all the time and just

821
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: pop up, Hey, what's going on? What you doing?

822
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 3: Staring at my computer screen talking about whatever gossip she had.

823
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, leave me alone. I'm trying to focus.

824
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: I'm a writer. Leave this is our musical segment, Like

825
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: this is our most musical show. I was at Michael Jackson.

826
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 3: Interrupting such a ham Yeah, And so I feel like

827
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 3: I just have to find like I've started taken my

828
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 3: laptop and working somewhere else sometimes, you know, whenever I can,

829
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 3: like it was a big office, I can go still

830
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 3: on the couch, or you know, go to a different

831
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 3: floor and work someone else, or work from home a

832
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 3: couple hours, leave a little bit early and work a

833
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 3: little bit you know, coming early to.

834
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: Have that quiet time.

835
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 3: So yeah, I just got I guess like my brown

836
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 3: break is just about like yeah, Debbie Downers and and

837
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 3: and just the general lack of personal space at work.

838
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: So if you have any brown breaks, feel free to share.

839
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: You can tweet us at the BA podcast.

840
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 3: Email us at Brown Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com.

841
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: I almost message. You can also hit us up on Facebook.

842
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: You guys have been doing great on the Facebook group

843
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 2: at just Brown Ambition.

844
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: Just type in Brown Ambition will come up. You find us.

845
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 2: You'll see pictures of me and Mandy Smiley a rare occasion.

846
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 2: Mandy makes me hugger every time I see her, just

847
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 2: so you guys know.

848
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: It's an end. I can't stop it. I know you

849
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: don't like hugs. You know it's okay. Body just comes at.

850
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: You would think, because you know, Mandy's like more like

851
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 2: the like straight guy, like, oh, you know, and I'm

852
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: more like the silly when you would think that i'd

853
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 2: be like such the hugger.

854
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: And I'm so not a hugger.

855
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I'm so like, hey, you touched me well,

856
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 2: because I didn't really gro up in a hugging household.

857
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: Nigerians tend not to be super huggle ishous. That's what

858
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: I've heard about families, their immigrant family. Yeah, I mean definitely.

859
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: I know my parents love me, just Nigerians.

860
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 3: But like you know that new Asiason sorry show Master

861
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 3: of None.

862
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: Yes, I have been watching, And did you watch the

863
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: Immigrant Parent? No, I it's like his real parents. Yes,

864
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: I want to watch it.

865
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 2: Not from Nigeria, no, India yeah no, but he no, no,

866
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 2: but I've heard, like I read like an article saying

867
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: it was like his real parents. And then his dad

868
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: like made him cry because his dad said something like

869
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 2: he's a dad had a feel like being in Hollywood.

870
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 2: He's like, honestly, I only just came because I wanted

871
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 2: to spend time with you. Yeah, and I was like, oh,

872
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: these old parents, they make you tear up.

873
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: You should definitely watch Master of None. That's a great show.

874
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been watching, like I watched the first I

875
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 3: watched the Immigrant Parent episode because I think it will resonate.

876
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: All right, Well, so now we actually have tips man,

877
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: Oh tips, Yes, we have ever reader. Yes, let me

878
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:01,720
Speaker 1: get mine, which.

879
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: Is good because you guys are asking questions. So definitely email.

880
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 2: What was the email again?

881
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 3: The email is Brown Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com.

882
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 2: Yes, for sure, email us your questions because you got

883
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 2: a good one. We're going to answer it and Mandy

884
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 2: shall read.

885
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: I shall read. So this question, have you ever if GI,

886
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: have you ever gone to Harlem? You know, the Black Israelites?

887
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: They were like, I don't know, they almost look like adult.

888
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: I don't want to be disrespectful.

889
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,479
Speaker 2: They wear garments, but like they have this thing where

890
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:27,479
Speaker 2: like they're reading from their.

891
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: Holy Book and it's just as a kid.

892
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: I just always remember walking through the guy would say

893
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: something like and then the man is walking and they

894
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: would stop and then someone would.

895
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: Yell rude.

896
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 2: Anybody from Harlem or even they used to do it

897
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 2: in Nework. But yeah, so I'm just telling Mandy rude.

898
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 3: I'm reading reading, I'm going okay. So our questions from

899
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 3: Carrie and Pittsburgh the long question.

900
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: You guys like to write about your feelings, so.

901
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 3: Let me try and summarize what she says. So thanks

902
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 3: again Carrie for writing the question. Yes, she says, my

903
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 3: husband and I both work full time and we make

904
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 3: decent salaries. I work in higher ed he works in

905
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 3: upper management and retail. Unfortunately, they feel like their salaries

906
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 3: are not getting them very far. They're working paycheck to

907
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 3: paycheck and have been for years. Last year, my husband

908
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 3: took on an amazing job opportunity, but they had to

909
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 3: do long distance for five months because she, at the

910
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 3: same time was in grad school. So they had two apartments.

911
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 3: They were paying for, two rents, two water bills, two

912
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 3: electric bills. I'm sure a lot of couples can relate.

913
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 3: This sounds like a horrible plus. She had to take

914
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 3: out student loans just to help fund all those expenses.

915
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 3: They're living off of his one salary, and they both

916
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 3: want to save, and they want to start a family,

917
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 3: and they want to be homeowners soon. Of course you do.

918
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 3: Every young couple wants that, and it's unfortunate that, you know,

919
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 3: so many of them are stuck with student loan debt

920
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 3: like you guys are. So Carrie says with her new job,

921
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 3: part of her benefits now is to talk with the

922
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 3: financial advisor. She wants to, but she says, my hobby

923
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,720
Speaker 3: says it'd be a waste of time. Men.

924
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was going to say yeah whenever had

925
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 2: that question, was like, oh, that's such a man thing.

926
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: Sorry, man, he.

927
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 3: Thinks so her husband says he thinks all he thinks,

928
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 3: all he or she would tell us to do is

929
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 3: pay off her credit cards. My question is will going

930
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 3: to a financial advisor be useful giving our scenario? And secondly,

931
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 3: should we consider a debt consolidation servicer PROS or cons

932
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 3: sore with the first one?

933
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: So the first one, I would say, so usually a

934
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 2: financial advisor.

935
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: What usually sets them apart?

936
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 2: It's sounding like you're needing more like a financial planner,

937
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 2: because a financial advisor, their main focus usually is retirement

938
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 2: and investment investments, right, I mean, some of them do

939
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 2: help with budgeting, but that you can't.

940
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 3: But if you're a good advisor, though, you can't get

941
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 3: to retirement without first starting with the budgeting and play.

942
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, but honestly, I know, literally because you know that's

943
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: what I don't. I'm not a financial advisor. I'm a

944
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: financial educator. So, like, I know a ton on ton

945
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 2: on ton of financial advisors, and they not to say

946
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 2: that they don't want to help with budgeting, but that's

947
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: not usually where their focus is lying when they're helping,

948
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 2: so they might do like a cursory kind of like oh, yeah,

949
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: this is a basic budget but.

950
00:37:58,600 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: They're not going to lean in.

951
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 2: And it sounds like to me that you're needing first

952
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 2: and foremost you need like some sort of budget, like

953
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 2: a plan of like paying down the stead a plan

954
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 2: for this is like if you're gonna if you want

955
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 2: a house, you have to have a plan for that.

956
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 2: So it's sounding like not to say you have to

957
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: go out and hire a financial planner, but that's what

958
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 2: it's really sounding like, that sitting down and creating a budget.

959
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 1: There are some free resources that you can get because

960
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: she can free.

961
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 2: So see what I would say, ask your husband if

962
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: because you don't want to do stuff behind his back,

963
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 2: because that's your husband, So asking him, like, you know,

964
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 2: even though you might not totally agree or whatever, how

965
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 2: do you feel if I just at least go and

966
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 2: ask some questions, like even if you want to create

967
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 2: some questions with him and sit down at least talk

968
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 2: because if it, if it comes free, why not use

969
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 2: it and just see? And you know, if that financial

970
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 2: advisor doesn't seem as helpful, then you can look for

971
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: sources of you know, and I know, like there's a

972
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: ton of books out there, but there are also some

973
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: like online resources that you can use there's mint.

974
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have a budgeting component.

975
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 3: Well, there's so many different layers here. I mean, ment

976
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: is more about you have a budget, and you tell

977
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 3: it you have a budget, and then you tell it

978
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 3: what your limits are. But you have to already have

979
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 3: decided what your budget is. I mean, it sounds like

980
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 3: she wants to know about debt consolidation. That may be

981
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 3: a question that your financial advisor could help you with,

982
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 3: but if it's through your benefits package at work, he

983
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 3: may just or he or she may just want to talk.

984
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 2: To you about your four While I was going to

985
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 2: say that that's what, but just see, how would you

986
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 2: know unless you see I mean, I'm not trying to

987
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 2: do like a plug here, but this is free. So

988
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: one thing I started that we'd be really great for

989
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 2: you as a woman, and a lot of women join

990
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 2: and then they kind of pull their husbands in. Later

991
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 2: I started this thing called the Live Richer Challenge specifically

992
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 2: for that because so many people are like, I don't

993
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 2: know what to do. So the way it works is

994
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 2: you sign up at live richer challenge dot net and

995
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 2: starting in January, every day I send you one small

996
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 2: easy tip tour saving more getting your budget together and

997
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 2: having more so that you can do the things that

998
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 2: you want. And so that's a totally free resource, but

999
00:39:58,960 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 2: it's I would.

1000
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: Look to for stuff like that.

1001
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,919
Speaker 2: If your financial advisor does not seem like that, that's

1002
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,959
Speaker 2: what they're gonna be helping you with. But it doesn't

1003
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: hurt to ask questions because your financial advisor usually will

1004
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 2: start with a budget, but you might need a little

1005
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 2: bit more handholding. And we can't really tell you whether

1006
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: or not you should consolidate your debt because you.

1007
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: Can talk about this too.

1008
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 3: If it's student loan debt that you're worried about. You

1009
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 3: went to graduate school, which means you might have private

1010
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 3: student loan debt, and if that's the case, there are.

1011
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: Resources out there for you.

1012
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 3: There's so FI that's my favorite. I say, yeah, they're

1013
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 3: the big wig, but there's also Common Bond is another one.

1014
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 3: These are both startups, but they do private student loan refinancing.

1015
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 3: They do some mortgages and stuff too, but as loans. Yeah,

1016
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 3: but their main business is.

1017
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: A student loans.

1018
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 3: Student loans how they started off, I think, And if

1019
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 3: you have private loans, they can I mean if you

1020
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 3: have good credit, which is you know you didn't. You

1021
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 3: haven't mentioned your credit, but if you have good credit,

1022
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 3: I think their minimum credit score to qualify for loans

1023
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 3: is seven hundred, so you have to have pretty good

1024
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 3: credit to qualify, but can reduce your rates to pretty low.

1025
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 3: I think they started like two percent, So depending on

1026
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 3: what your private student loan interest rates is, that could

1027
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 3: be an option. If you have federal student loan debt,

1028
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 3: there are ways for you to apply for income based repayment.

1029
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: I did. I know.

1030
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 3: It can be overwhelming because it's separating like private from federal,

1031
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 3: but you can go talk to your loan service or

1032
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 3: just call them up and say ask them about income

1033
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 3: based repayment. There are There is a federal debt consolidation program. However,

1034
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 3: they won't like take all your loans and give you

1035
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 3: a lower rate. They'll take the average.

1036
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: Of basic.

1037
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 2: But it's just you'll be paying one bill versus like

1038
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 2: multiple exactly.

1039
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 3: And although so FI and Common bond do allow you

1040
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 3: to refinance federal student loan, you should not because I

1041
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 3: mean for one specific reason, which is that you'll be

1042
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 3: turning those federal loans into a private loan, and.

1043
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 1: Private loans are private.

1044
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 3: They don't have any the same federal benefits and intent

1045
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 3: based repayment, the pay as you earn plan, all these

1046
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 3: sort of barons deferment stuff like that. And also, yeah,

1047
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 3: that's a big that's a big reason why.

1048
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 2: So one, so I guess this is our our three

1049
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 2: prong tip. Yes, you should meet with your financial advisor.

1050
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 2: Definitely talk with your husband about it and just CONVINCEM

1051
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 2: for you to at least sit down with him.

1052
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: That's one.

1053
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 2: Two it's sounding like you guys need to get a

1054
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 2: clear budget on the table of like like.

1055
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: What's really happening.

1056
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 2: So that way, because you can't have a debt plan

1057
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 2: unless you have a budget. First, you can't start to

1058
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 2: really rebuild your credit unless you really figure out what

1059
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 2: is your money doing. And that's just what a budget is,

1060
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: a physical picture. So you need to get a budget

1061
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: on the board. And so that free resource of the

1062
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 2: liverature challenge can help with that. If your financial advisor

1063
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 2: isn't able to or just that's just not his specialty,

1064
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 2: So financial advisor, get yourself a budget, and then if

1065
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 2: you find you know what, we really do need help

1066
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,439
Speaker 2: consolidating this debt, look into companies like so far, if

1067
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 2: you have private loans, not federal. If you have federal loans,

1068
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 2: hit up your federal loan company. There are things in

1069
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 2: place to help. Like at one point I was in

1070
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 2: forbearance for like ever, and you know, I think for

1071
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: you was it for banter to ferment but whatever one

1072
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 2: of those basically why I didn't have to pay for

1073
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 2: a little while, just because I had to get myself together.

1074
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 2: So those are kind of like your three steps, I

1075
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 2: would say.

1076
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 3: It sounds like from her question, so when you guys,

1077
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 3: when you were in grad school and he was you

1078
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 3: were paying for two runs and all those extra expenses.

1079
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 3: You said you were putting all the additional expenses on

1080
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 3: credit cards. And my concern is that you guys might

1081
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 3: still be leaning on the credit cards. And if that's

1082
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 3: the case, you really have to figure out why you're

1083
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 3: turning to credit cards so much. And it could be

1084
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 3: that your expenses are too high. And it sounds like

1085
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 3: really painful, you know to do this, but you need

1086
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 3: to start cutting your expenses. There's just no other way

1087
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 3: around it. You have to cut your expenses figure and

1088
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 3: stop relying on credit like you can't keep paying off.

1089
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 3: I was in this trap after college. I was I

1090
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 3: was maxing out my card and paying off just a

1091
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 3: little bit, and then I was maxing it out again

1092
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 3: and paying off just a little bit and getting those

1093
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 3: interest charges. You got to start paying that down. And

1094
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 3: once you get your budget under control, once you start

1095
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 3: cutting expenses, hopefully you'll have room to really start whacking

1096
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: away at that credit card debt aggressively, because.

1097
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 2: You're not gonna be able to be able to get

1098
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 2: a home if you have mass, masses massive amount of

1099
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 2: credit card debt.

1100
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: At least overwhelming.

1101
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 2: But it's not honestly because like Mandy said the same

1102
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 2: thing like me, Like I lost my job in like

1103
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. I was a teacher, and I

1104
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 2: was relying heavily on credit cards until literally one day

1105
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 2: I had to be like, like I was paying I

1106
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 2: was paying them down, using it, paying it down, using it.

1107
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 2: And then finally I was like, Tiffany, the number one

1108
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 2: rule when you're in the ditch and you're trying to

1109
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 2: get out is stop digging. Like that's just I literally

1110
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 2: had a shovel in my ditch and I kept digging,

1111
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 2: it kept digging.

1112
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, stop digging.

1113
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 2: So if my shovel was my credit card, I literally

1114
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 2: took the credit card out of my wallet and cut

1115
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 2: it up and was like, now what We're gonna only

1116
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 2: deal with what's here now. And that helped significantly because

1117
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 2: it was like now, when I was paying, at least

1118
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 2: it was going somewhere, you know, because it wasn't.

1119
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: For like a few years, I was.

1120
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 2: Just paying and getting back into debt. So finally I

1121
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 2: put down the credit card. It was not easy. They

1122
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 2: were definitely bills that were late. I think sometimes people

1123
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: are looking for us to say.

1124
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: Like, well, you know, it'll work.

1125
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 2: No. Sometimes there were bills that were late, and it

1126
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 2: was scary because I had never been late before. But

1127
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: I had to prioritize like shelter food everybody else can wait.

1128
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 2: And then slowly but surely, I doug. I used to

1129
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 2: have like an eight to h two credit score because

1130
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 2: I lost my job. I couldn't afford my mortgage and

1131
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 2: it fell to like a five seventy four. But slowly

1132
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 2: but surely, after putting down a credit cards and paying

1133
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: them off, it took me a few years to do

1134
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 2: so my credit score started to raise. I finally got

1135
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: out of credit card debt, but it took a number

1136
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,919
Speaker 2: of years. But it also took me literally putting down

1137
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 2: the credit cards and just working with what I had,

1138
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 2: and if that meant some things were late, they were.

1139
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 2: But I would call the companies ahead of time and

1140
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 2: be like, look, this is what's happening. I'm gonna pay,

1141
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: just not this month or just not this week, and

1142
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 2: just know that it's not it's not always gonna look pretty,

1143
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 2: but you'll eventually get there.

1144
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: Absolutely. And it sounds like you have a I mean,

1145
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 1: not to be cumming down.

1146
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of I'm shoying it's going to be

1147
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 3: along road, like you're not going to get all this

1148
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 3: at one time, and you shouldn't put that pressure on yourself.

1149
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 3: I know it feels like everyone should be at we

1150
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 3: should all be homeowners and having kids and starting families,

1151
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 3: and like, I mean, I just got engaged. I don't

1152
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 3: feel ready to pay for a wedding, but I mean,

1153
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 3: you just can't have it all at one time. To

1154
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 3: focus in the little small things. Yeah, and I think

1155
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 3: most importantly again back to your husband, like not wanting

1156
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 3: to go to the financial advisor if he's afraid to,

1157
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 3: because he feels like it would be you know somewhat,

1158
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 3: I don't know, like admitting he doesn't know how to

1159
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 3: do something, you know you need to help them sort

1160
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 3: of get over that because it's about your family and

1161
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 3: if it could help, then you should both want to

1162
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 3: do that for your family. And it sounds like you

1163
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 3: might need like an outsider, I mean like us, but

1164
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 3: like someone who really can get down and here heat

1165
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 3: with you guys, and look at what those root issues

1166
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 3: are that are causing me to lean on those credit

1167
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 3: cards and help you get out of that.

1168
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: And also see, you know what you could try to

1169
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: do too.

1170
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 2: If he doesn't want to go to the financial advisor,

1171
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 2: maybe because like the United Way by me would have

1172
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 2: financial education classes and they were free.

1173
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: I used to actually teach them.

1174
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 2: So looking to see maybe in somewhere are there some

1175
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 2: organizations that have free financial education classes. Well, they'll walk

1176
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 2: you through, you can ask questions, and so maybe your

1177
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 2: husband's not comfortable with the financial advisor, but hey, how

1178
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 2: do you feel about me coming to the class even

1179
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 2: if he doesn't want to go. Places to have a

1180
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 2: lot of women that will come in and like their

1181
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 2: husband will come in the first time, and then I

1182
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 2: would never see the husband again, but.

1183
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: The wife would keep coming. She would bring the information home.

1184
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 2: So that might be also too, because it sounded like

1185
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 2: you need a little handholding, which is fine, and you

1186
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 2: might be able to get it for free.

1187
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: And Pittsburgh is a pretty big city.

1188
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's some resources available that way, So hit

1189
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 2: up your local United Way and see if they can

1190
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 2: tell you something. A lot of times banks will have

1191
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 2: stuff too.

1192
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So I'm hoping we'll give you just enough

1193
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: to make your head spend.

1194
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 3: You can't solve all your problems ten minutes, but.

1195
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 1: No.

1196
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 2: But yeah, Carrie, the fact that you wrote in lets

1197
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: me know that you are willing to take this, willing

1198
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 2: to take the next step.

1199
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: So that's the biggest part you can do it.

1200
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 3: You just got to pivot exactly, just got to change

1201
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:56,919
Speaker 3: the storyline.

1202
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: So pivot in Pittsburgh. We believe in you.

1203
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 3: Speaking of pictspurdh never mind, I was gonna say I

1204
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 3: saw create that takes takes place in Philly. Oh okay, rocky,

1205
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 3: all right, anyway, that's second way.

1206
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: So that is our tips men for the week. We're

1207
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: at the end of the show. Yes, it's time for

1208
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: wigs to the.

1209
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 3: Show, which boys to men was on the way they

1210
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 3: were they were amazing.

1211
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: I was like, what happened.

1212
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 3: I mean Brandy and Soul Train on Fantasia was in

1213
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 3: the middle, but she actually was not bad.

1214
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: She was amazing.

1215
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 3: But the songs like the Sitting Up in My Room,

1216
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 3: the End of the Road, like those two.

1217
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:47,919
Speaker 2: And even you know Tevin Campbell, even though his voice

1218
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 2: is not where it was that song honestly, like can

1219
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 2: We I used to.

1220
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: Love that song.

1221
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 3: Did you have quiet storms on radio when you were

1222
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 3: a kid? Yeah, that was my feel one O three.

1223
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 3: I used to listen to go to sleep.

1224
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 2: Honestly, now you have maybe like literally I was like

1225
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 2: and Jill Scott rocked out. I love the Jill Scott.

1226
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: I gotta catch up with my clips.

1227
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just made me want to like literally just

1228
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 2: sit in front of my laptop and just stay up

1229
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 2: all night listen to like the great music of.

1230
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: Like my error. Yes, so boys, men can be a win. Yes, well, no,

1231
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: we know what the win is. The win is that rock?

1232
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 3: The rock that I'm gonna get back. I feel like

1233
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 3: I dropped my baby off at daycare. I know it,

1234
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 3: I know it's on a baby, but I feel like,

1235
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 3: while the ring is getting resized, I'm like having palpitations.

1236
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 2: So I think that's our win, and then we all

1237
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 2: we both have really good Thanksgiving, So that's a good win.

1238
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 2: I cooked a turkey. I came out really good, and

1239
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 2: the pictures look amazing. I'm not gonna lie.

1240
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 3: I was like, look a Mandy, you cook it in form.

1241
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 3: But it was my very first turkey. You know what's

1242
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 3: disgusting preparing a turkey?

1243
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: Really?

1244
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 2: You know what's inside that I don't want to know.

1245
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 2: I remember you wrote you can't unsee gooblet. You cannot

1246
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the giblet, the neck bone.

1247
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: I like neck bone, but you don't want to see

1248
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: it raw. I wasn't expecting it either.

1249
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,399
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, the giblet is like a bloody bag

1250
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 3: of guts, and then you get the deck bone, which

1251
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 3: is just out there.

1252
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I was a trooper.

1253
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 3: I used to make the gray bead green. It was

1254
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 3: on point.

1255
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: Really. Oh yeah, I was. I was all like the

1256
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: southern balin you just came out. I'm a good cook.

1257
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: I realized my dad used to.

1258
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 3: My dad used to own a soul food restaurant so

1259
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 3: called Ruby's Soul Food in Atlanta. I like, yep, but

1260
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 3: I was happy. I had just small gathering all my friends.

1261
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: You know who you are. Let me with the leftovers. Wow, greed.

1262
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 3: I tried cleaning up, putting the plates away, trying to

1263
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 3: be sneaky. They're like, oh no, no, no, all the pots

1264
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 3: back out, all the pants, where's the tinfoil. One of

1265
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 3: my friends left with an ice pack because they went

1266
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 3: to the movies. After She's like, oh, you have that

1267
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 3: ice pack?

1268
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: Let me get that. I just like, I want to

1269
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: keep this food on ice. Yeah, I love it. Went

1270
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: to the movies, yeah, to see Creed. Yeah, I heard

1271
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:45,800
Speaker 1: like good things about Creed. Creates amazing.

1272
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 3: You know, it's crazy how many so boxing is a

1273
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 3: sport with like what majority black men? Right? I feel

1274
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 3: like right, But there's no like movie with the black actor.

1275
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 3: All the boxing movies you think of, like Rapky, what's

1276
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:00,280
Speaker 3: the one Cinderella Man thee with Jake Jill.

1277
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: So it's nice to see Michael B. Jordan. He's amazing. Yeah,

1278
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: each from newarkau is he Yes, his body though he

1279
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: could be from Mars. It doesn't matter. Creed was amazing.

1280
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 3: You should get and it sounds corny, like oh my god,

1281
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 3: the good Seventh Rocky, But that's a whole new life

1282
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 3: for the whole genre. I'm sure we do sequels and stuff.

1283
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: I loved it, so that's a win. Creed is a win.

1284
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: That Rock is a win. Yes, and having great Thanksgiving.

1285
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 2: So Superman came to the to like, well, he'd met

1286
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 2: my parents before, but it was his first Thanksgiving with

1287
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 2: what was it?

1288
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: M he was?

1289
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 2: He was all nervous, well, because it's only we've only

1290
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 2: went together. We only had like I think when we

1291
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 2: got together last year. When did we get together? Anyway,

1292
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 2: There's only been one Thanksgiving. Yeah, so it was like

1293
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 2: kind of but he was all nervous. He was gonna

1294
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 2: get all dressed up. I'm like, where are you going?

1295
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 2: Are we going to church?

1296
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 3: No, put on some sneakers on the elastic pants. That's

1297
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 3: what Thanksgivings all of that, and so he was all

1298
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 3: tight at first. But everybody was really nice to him,

1299
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 3: so he like relaxed and he had a good time.

1300
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 3: I had a very diaspora of Thanksgiving because we went

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Speaker 3: to my sister's house.

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00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 2: So we're Nigerian, her husband Jamaican. So we had like

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00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 2: we didn't even have stuffing and stuff. We had jerk

1304
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 2: chicken like more and more, which is a Nigerian food.

1305
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 2: We had like all these things that were like Jamaican

1306
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 2: and Nigerian. And then like later on we went to

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00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 2: Jarell's cousin's house, well Superman's cousins house and his family

1308
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 2: is like you know, roots southern black.

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00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: So it was like all like the potato candy, Gams Collagen.

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Speaker 2: It was just so I had literally every type of

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00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 2: not not every type, but we had Caribbean food, African food,

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00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 2: and soul food. It was just the best greedy Thanksgiving ever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god, shout out to my friend Jessica

1314
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 3: for that mac and cheese girl, my Archerie, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So we had a good, good holidays. I got a

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Speaker 1: Christmas tree.

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Speaker 3: We hope you guys are having a good pre holiday

1318
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 3: for those of you who you know.

1319
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Speaker 2: Yes, and so remember you can always find us on

1320
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:57,280
Speaker 2: Twitter and at the BA podcast on Facebook, Brown Ambition

1321
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 2: and Gmail.

1322
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Speaker 3: Brown Ambision Podcast at gmail dot com. We love love

1323
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 3: your question. Yes, we also love love when you tell

1324
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 3: it how much you love love Brown Ambition, And we'd

1325
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 3: also love love some iTunes reviews.

1326
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Speaker 1: Please send some itunesroo.

1327
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 3: We had some great momentum, but you guys.

1328
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 1: Have can leave yeah review. We got a couple of reviews.

1329
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: Don't get paid for this, yes we do not.

1330
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 3: This is the goodness of our hearts and just like

1331
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 3: a passion project, so it's great to have your little leak.

1332
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 2: How much we do love your reviews.

1333
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 3: Every review you leave will just make it all the

1334
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 3: better when I'm like red eyed at midnight editing this

1335
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 3: thing and trying to get it up by six thirty

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00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 3: in the morning. But really the support has been awesome. Yes,

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Speaker 3: thank you guys, thank you. Almost see you next week.

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Speaker 1: See