Speaker 1: Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect
Speaker 1: Podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Hello, we are back
Speaker 1: again for another episode of Reasonably Shady. I am Gazelle Bryant.
Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? This is Robin Dixon. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us again. We are back again, and you
Speaker 1: guys already know we start off with our Reasonably Shady
Speaker 1: moment of the week and Robin, I want to go
Speaker 1: first because I am actually a little angry still with um. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I spent about a week in New York with
Speaker 1: my kids and I had to Uber some places. Uber
Speaker 1: drivers in New York are in their own world. I
Speaker 1: was at a restaurant. It was very late at night,
Speaker 1: and I saw I watched all my Uber app, the
Speaker 1: Uber driver drive around the restaurant about three times. He
Speaker 1: just drove around and then drove around, and I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I was like texting him, like sir, stop, like I'm
Speaker 1: front the restaurant, but he just ignored me and kept
Speaker 1: driving around, and I said, cancel. That might have been
Speaker 1: his first day and he was trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to work that app or something. I thought so,
Speaker 1: And then the next day I drove out to or
Speaker 1: I needed to go out to my girlfriend's house in Jersey.
Speaker 1: I was in the city, so that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: a nice uber that I got the extra, the special
Speaker 1: to v ip or whatever. And he drove so slow.
Speaker 1: I sat behind him and I wanted to put my
Speaker 1: hands around his neck and strangle him. I was so angry,
Speaker 1: and I was like, dude, if you draw thirty one
Speaker 1: more time, okay. Then I had to come home from
Speaker 1: my girlfriend's house and the Uber driver was like the
Speaker 1: reject from k pop you know, have your oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the Korean Yes. He had like his hat to the back,
Speaker 1: he had like five gold chains on adiita sweatsuit tattoos
Speaker 1: all over him. He was ready. He was blasting the
Speaker 1: music and he I guess it was too cool for
Speaker 1: school and could not sit in traffic, So that meant
Speaker 1: he was always like changing even in and out. We
Speaker 1: even in and out, and he was changing the route.
Speaker 1: He changed the route about seventeen times, and he literally
Speaker 1: went over. I went over, like five bridges. Does not
Speaker 1: take five bridges for me to get back to the
Speaker 1: city from Jersey. I was angry. I was mad, and
Speaker 1: I said, to hell with all you Uber drives. Y'all shady.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's why I actually whenever I have
Speaker 1: like a special event to go to and the organizer
Speaker 1: it's like, would you like us to send you a car?
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I want to drive myself because I
Speaker 1: want to drive my speed, I want to play my music.
Speaker 1: I want to go my route. Like I hate driving
Speaker 1: in like I hate letting other people drive. Yes, hate it,
Speaker 1: or they drive too slow? You want to strangle them, right,
Speaker 1: it was so good if you strangle them, though, No,
Speaker 1: I would know he I definitely I would have gotten
Speaker 1: a zero rating. Um did you give your drivers? I
Speaker 1: did not. I decided to be a nice person. But
Speaker 1: I am over Uber. I'm over y'all. Over y'all. What
Speaker 1: is with that? I don't know something going on with
Speaker 1: New York. Uber's Okay, Well that's annoying and frustrating. Um So,
Speaker 1: my reasonably shady moment once again goes to myself of
Speaker 1: the word and the worst. It's more of like just
Speaker 1: a ridiculous moment. So this past week we went to Florida.
Speaker 1: We were in South South Miami or South Florida for
Speaker 1: a basketball tournament. So the tournament, I saw you on
Speaker 1: Instagram live with your bikini on looking that was like
Speaker 1: suck and tuck. Okay. Anyway, so we were there at
Speaker 1: the tournament itself. The games were Friday to Sunday, but
Speaker 1: we went from Wednesday to Wednesday. So from Wednesday to
Speaker 1: Wednesday I checked in. We checked into five different hotels.
Speaker 1: Why Robin for what? Who does that? Why would you
Speaker 1: do that to the kids? Why would you do that? Okay?
Speaker 1: We played musical hotels, so like the first one, okay,
Speaker 1: first when we decided to go to the Fountain Blue
Speaker 1: Miami Beach, lit it up, have fun. Nice. So then
Speaker 1: the second one we checked into was actual the tournament
Speaker 1: where the hotel where we were going to spend the
Speaker 1: rest of our time. Okay, that hotel was like the
Speaker 1: Bates Motel. I was waiting and we literally it's so
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's bad when the kids are looking
Speaker 1: around and they're like, we're not gonna stay here, are we?
Speaker 1: Like we literally checked in, rolled our stuff up to
Speaker 1: the room and like the kids wouldn't even walk into
Speaker 1: the room, like the door of the room and we
Speaker 1: turned around, went to the desk and we're like, we
Speaker 1: can't stay here. Did they give you your money back?
Speaker 1: They said we would charge you, and it was funny.
Speaker 1: The girl at the desk like chuckled, like she knew that, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this ain't for everyone. Okay, So that's so you've named
Speaker 1: two hotels too, Okay, but you said five five. So
Speaker 1: then so then the third one is the one that
Speaker 1: we relocated to, okay, which was we didn't have any complaints.
Speaker 1: It was a Marriott. It was fine, it was clean,
Speaker 1: it was actually renovated. It was nice and new. Nice,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't on the beach. So it's like boring,
Speaker 1: boring Marriott. So we stayed there for like two nights.
Speaker 1: So then and now, mind you, it's not just us,
Speaker 1: it's like two other families on our team that are
Speaker 1: moving to So Robin is a road there's a road
Speaker 1: show in Florida. I'm telling you this basketball. This vacation
Speaker 1: was for the parents, that was it was, it was
Speaker 1: for us. So so we're in this boring hotel. I
Speaker 1: mean it was nice. So then we're like, oh, we
Speaker 1: want to go back to the beach. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to the beach. So then we moved to another hotel
Speaker 1: back closer to Miami. Um, we're on the for a
Speaker 1: hotel that's a block away from the beach. Okay, nice,
Speaker 1: very nice. Now that one was just like a So
Speaker 1: I think it's like when you go to the Fountain Blue.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to live up to the Fountain Blue
Speaker 1: when you're in Like I don't want to say all
Speaker 1: the double trade, right, so, but why would you even
Speaker 1: check into that double trade? You know that's not right.
Speaker 1: You know you're not gonna be happy, you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna leave. Why would you even do that? Because the
Speaker 1: pictures look nice, they looked adequate. You know, we're still
Speaker 1: there for a basketball tournament, right, it looked good and
Speaker 1: I don't have any complaints, but we were just kind
Speaker 1: of like the double fishing, no our expect our. We
Speaker 1: just became bougie. So so then we were like, hey,
Speaker 1: the W has a great rate going on that right now? Okay,
Speaker 1: In other words, Robin can play no more trips. Do
Speaker 1: not travel with robbing. You know it's bad, but you
Speaker 1: know it was actually fun. So we we finished our
Speaker 1: our trip at the W, which was great. It's nice, right,
Speaker 1: it's great. The kids are living their life again. Like
Speaker 1: I've I've created some boogie kids with these hotels and stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: I do recommend though at least I kind of enjoyed
Speaker 1: switching the hotel at least once. So if you say
Speaker 1: so you're going on a trip, you're like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: going on vacation for five days. I think it's actually
Speaker 1: cool to like stay for three days in one hotel
Speaker 1: in two days in another hotel. I agree, especially with
Speaker 1: the kids, because they do get word. Even with the
Speaker 1: nicest of accommodations, they do get bored exactly. So I
Speaker 1: actually like, on my next vacation or my next trip,
Speaker 1: I'm going to at least stay in two hotels. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: and I left one part out. Okay, so I actually
Speaker 1: walked into six hotels because during one of these trips,
Speaker 1: one of these switches, hotel switches, I thought I booked
Speaker 1: one hotel, one Marriott, and I really booked the Marryott
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes down the street. Okay, you are fired. You're fired.
Speaker 1: You can no longer have this job. Those all the
Speaker 1: two families that you're traveling with. Asked one of those
Speaker 1: moms to take over your fired. We were vie, we
Speaker 1: were live with life. I literally got to the well
Speaker 1: they checked it was a mess. So I literally got
Speaker 1: to the desk and they're like, um, are you in
Speaker 1: the Rite Hotel? I was like yeah, and then I
Speaker 1: looked at my email. I was like, no, bye, and
Speaker 1: at all it's already out, you know, unpacked from the car.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we actually tried to check in the six hotels.
Speaker 1: Say it's no, it's not even shade. It's ridiculous. Okay,
Speaker 1: Robin is ridiculous, all right. But anyway, Robin, we have
Speaker 1: so much to talk about as it relates to what's
Speaker 1: going on in the world. Oh my gosh, there's so much.
Speaker 1: Where do we begin. I think we should begin with
Speaker 1: Father's Day because that just fast and Nick Cannon was busy. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was a busy lever because every time we turn around,
Speaker 1: that guy has another baby on the way. Okay. I
Speaker 1: keep seeing these headlines and I'm like, is it around
Speaker 1: all day? Is it? Like? Why do I keep seeing
Speaker 1: the same headline that NICKI Cannon is expecting a baby
Speaker 1: multiple and he always gets people pregnant with twins, which
Speaker 1: is very strange and I just don't understand. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: do these ladies know that they're over lapping? Like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Clearly, these relationships overlap, right. I
Speaker 1: have a feeling that he's probably being honest with them
Speaker 1: and they must not care, clearly not care. But it's
Speaker 1: like it's so weird. I'm like, Okay, so is this
Speaker 1: more of like a Sister Wives type thing, because it
Speaker 1: does appear that like he's like dating these women, like
Speaker 1: they're like oops, babies. They're like he's literally dating them
Speaker 1: and taking family photos and pregnant and you know, maternity
Speaker 1: photo shoots and stuff random women. And I think that
Speaker 1: they think that they're gonna have Thanksgiving dinner with Maria,
Speaker 1: But I want them to understand, Mariah Carrie is not
Speaker 1: eating with any of you baby mamas. She not. I'm
Speaker 1: just here to tell you. And I don't even know Mariah,
Speaker 1: but I know that's going Dawn. But wait, didn't didn't
Speaker 1: Nix say something like he doesn't he feels like he
Speaker 1: doesn't have long to live because he has lupus and
Speaker 1: he has blood clots and so he's just you know,
Speaker 1: living life and not wearing condoms and that is why
Speaker 1: he keeps having these babies. Okay, is this real? Are
Speaker 1: you being serious? Yes? Oh, I hadn't heard this. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is absurd. That's upsurd. Okay, so you're going to
Speaker 1: leave all these fatherless children. Or on the flip side,
Speaker 1: what if you live, live until you're a hundred, you
Speaker 1: might have forty two kids. Yeah, I'm gonna need for
Speaker 1: Nick to get it together, get it all the way together.
Speaker 1: But I guess the good thing is, like you know,
Speaker 1: Nick is rich, yes, so he can afford them, right,
Speaker 1: he can afford them. The kids will be fine once
Speaker 1: he you know, passes along financially. But they're going to
Speaker 1: like that fatherly figure that you know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess with all these kids, like, how can he be
Speaker 1: a fatherly figure to them? No, he's he can't even
Speaker 1: get Father's Day straight. No, it's forging. What what gift
Speaker 1: do you wear? Because you know how the kids can
Speaker 1: give you a gift? Remember that meme And he had
Speaker 1: all these ties he was holding up and he was
Speaker 1: the meme was which one should he wear? Like? Because
Speaker 1: you know, but he's got like enough jobs he can
Speaker 1: wear he can like, you know, wear one on his
Speaker 1: um that was that dancer show called Mass Mass Singer Job,
Speaker 1: and one on his new talk show and then on
Speaker 1: his you know he's got one on America's Got Talent
Speaker 1: like he's got a whole bunch of jobs. He's a
Speaker 1: busy beaver. And I need, I'm gonna need for everybody
Speaker 1: to be clear, Mariah is not entertaining this. Okay, Mariah
Speaker 1: is getting her life. Yes, she's not entertained. We are
Speaker 1: not getting together taking a family photo with all the
Speaker 1: Knicks kids. Let me tell you something. Morocco and the
Speaker 1: other one Moroccan, Moroccan and Monroe. They will not be
Speaker 1: in the Nick Cannon children family photo. I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: that Mariah is not having that. But that's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna move on. So for me, the
Speaker 1: biggest story, because I've been following this for like a
Speaker 1: while here lately, it's this whole Britney Spear situation. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the other day she gave her testimony and she
Speaker 1: was very clear, and it's very clear she hates her father.
Speaker 1: She feels like an indangered servant, a slave. I think
Speaker 1: she's the worst slave. She was not purchased, but so
Speaker 1: she shouldn't really use the worst slave. But we'll give
Speaker 1: it to her. First of all, how she is slave
Speaker 1: and they work for her. We'll give her that whatever.
Speaker 1: But she can't live her life. She can't even be
Speaker 1: in control of her birth control. She they won't let
Speaker 1: her take the I U d out um. She wants
Speaker 1: to get married, she wants to just spend her money
Speaker 1: the way she wants to spend it and live her
Speaker 1: life like I do feel she didn't know that she
Speaker 1: could speak up for herself to get out of this.
Speaker 1: Why are these like, why is this going on for
Speaker 1: soul years? Could you imagine thirteen years somebody's telling you
Speaker 1: how to spend your money? Who was allowed? Right? Who
Speaker 1: is allowing a grown woman to live like this? Her father?
Speaker 1: And it's clearly agreed, But how do the courts even
Speaker 1: allow that? I think I feel like it should have
Speaker 1: been okay. So when they established it, I understand it
Speaker 1: was around the time when she had the breakdown, and
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I guess the argument is it was
Speaker 1: for her better, you know, the whatever better judgment on
Speaker 1: her part, right health or whatever? Can you safe blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, But like there should have been a time
Speaker 1: limit on that where you reevaluate it. Yes, And and
Speaker 1: the judge kept allowing this to happen. So I feel
Speaker 1: like the judges getting paid I noticed probably wrong for
Speaker 1: me to say, I do Judge is getting paid. Daddy
Speaker 1: is getting paid. He gets like six dollars a month,
Speaker 1: I think for doing nothing, for being her conservatory yes, um,
Speaker 1: and he gets to say what job she takes on,
Speaker 1: what job she doesn't take, which is a um conflict
Speaker 1: of interest. It's it's just I feel bad. And then
Speaker 1: she said okay, she said they put her on lithium?
Speaker 1: Was this okay, clarify this was this while she was performing,
Speaker 1: she was on lithium. I don't like when she was
Speaker 1: in that during that Vegas residency because I feel like,
Speaker 1: how are you? How can someone who is under a
Speaker 1: conservatorship perform a Vegas residency? Right? Like that? That really
Speaker 1: that sounds like abuse. It's so it's like does she
Speaker 1: even have an option to not want to perform? And
Speaker 1: then they give her this lithium to like force her. Well, well,
Speaker 1: she her last um residency or something. She was getting
Speaker 1: ready to do, the last thing she was getting ready
Speaker 1: to do. Remember, she walked off like they announced, oh,
Speaker 1: Britney Spears, she's gonna have another tour, and she like
Speaker 1: left and she didn't even say anything, She just rolled out.
Speaker 1: And it was because she's refusing to work because all
Speaker 1: of this is going down and she just wants to
Speaker 1: chill out and live her life. And I really feel bad,
Speaker 1: I really really really feel bad for it's really sad.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like bas heartbreaking, and she seems like
Speaker 1: such a sweet person. She's thirty nine years old, she's
Speaker 1: down here forty. She can clearly figure out, um where
Speaker 1: to bouy Tampa into place. I couldn't imagine, but imagine
Speaker 1: like the long term damage that has done to her,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's like I pray that, um, you know,
Speaker 1: the outcome of this is in her favor, but I
Speaker 1: also pray that she has the right people around her
Speaker 1: moving forward that will really support her and help her
Speaker 1: become independent. And like I cannot imagine long term damage.
Speaker 1: So and what's her dad's name, Joe Jamie Jamie spears,
Speaker 1: you're wrong, sir, you're wrong, and karmas a bit, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get yours. And what's up with the mom right now? Now?
Speaker 1: She's been strangely quiet. She doesn't while she doesn't, Oh,
Speaker 1: she was okay, So she was on linthium lithium while
Speaker 1: she was performing, and okay, which is horrible because lithium
Speaker 1: from what I understand you're not even here. No, and
Speaker 1: and that has lasting damaging effects, I believe on your brain. Um,
Speaker 1: we don't know where Britney's mommy mom is. She has
Speaker 1: been strangely like not around. That is so crap. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sad. Like the greed, so they literally like put
Speaker 1: her on lynthium, forced her to perform, and she can't
Speaker 1: even control her own life and her own money. Like
Speaker 1: the greed, the greed of it all, the greed of
Speaker 1: it all. And she wants to have a have a family,
Speaker 1: get married, have a family, right right, yeah, And they're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, you're gonna keep that. I u D stuck
Speaker 1: up in you so you don't have any kids so
Speaker 1: that you can perform. That's just I mean, it's feeling
Speaker 1: like borderline like Michael Jackson. How Michael Jackson's life was
Speaker 1: where he kind of wasn't really like it to live
Speaker 1: a normal life. And I wonder if that was controlled
Speaker 1: by I mean, you know, I don't know it was
Speaker 1: that by choice or was that controlled by other people? Gosh,
Speaker 1: it's bad. I just want Brittany to be free. So
Speaker 1: I'm hashtag free Brittany. Oh hell, yes, free Brittany and
Speaker 1: pray for Brittany. Let's not just free. Let's pray for her,
Speaker 1: and I pray that she has support, the support that
Speaker 1: she needs that that will help her just move forward
Speaker 1: with Ye. On another note, black girl magic at the Olympics,
Speaker 1: let's give it up for the Olympic Trials. The Olympic trials. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I mean if they're going to kill it in
Speaker 1: the trials, which they have been, Yes, the Olympics is
Speaker 1: gonna be hands down black girl magic. Absolutely. Yes. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, of course some own bios, like we already
Speaker 1: know that she's doing a quadruple somersault talk, she's gonna
Speaker 1: she's gonna flip go high five Jesus up and yes
Speaker 1: and come on down and laying really softly. Yes, now,
Speaker 1: samon is everything. She's making up routines that they ain't
Speaker 1: never seen before. And then the create within the crazy
Speaker 1: part is like don't they like deduct um? Then they
Speaker 1: make the points lower something for like certain moves that
Speaker 1: she like created like something crazy. It's just the hate
Speaker 1: ration of the Olympics. But whatever, someone's gonna kill that
Speaker 1: thing dead. Then we have some o manual small manual swimming.
Speaker 1: She qualified go girl, you don't really see a whole
Speaker 1: lot of black people swimming. And she might be like
Speaker 1: the first black woman on the Olympic female for sure.
Speaker 1: And she just debunked that myths that black people don't
Speaker 1: know how to swim. Yes she did, Yes, she did.
Speaker 1: Real fat black people know how to swim. Thank you
Speaker 1: Simone for letting the people now, okay, and then what
Speaker 1: what what was my girl to runner Shikari Shikari Richardson,
Speaker 1: who I actually like her orange hair. Anybody talking about
Speaker 1: her hair, y'all stop hating. And I like her fingernails
Speaker 1: being long. And I cried when she ran into the
Speaker 1: stands and hugg took her a mother like she first
Speaker 1: of all, First of all, she was she started, she like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know how they do on your mark gets set
Speaker 1: go and then they start running real fast. Okay, she
Speaker 1: wasn't looking good, right, she right, it wasn't looking good.
Speaker 1: But she zoomed past everybody, and she was pointing at
Speaker 1: the clock man like yeah, I beat that ship. She
Speaker 1: was pointing And that's when you know you, babe, when
Speaker 1: you're pointing at the clock man, like clock me, bitch.
Speaker 1: And she had her mother, her mother passed away, but
Speaker 1: her mother clearly was there with her. Yes, and I
Speaker 1: feel like, I mean, I feel like I want her
Speaker 1: to demolish, demolish the Olympics. I can't wait to see that.
Speaker 1: And then one more we got Alison Felix thirty five, yes,
Speaker 1: with a two year old child, qualifying for the Olympics
Speaker 1: for the fifth time. So mom's out here doing it. Yes,
Speaker 1: good luck to all our girls. I'm sure there's gonna
Speaker 1: be more y'all that we're gonna be rooting, rooting, y'all on.
Speaker 1: But I love the Olympics and I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: they're back a year later. Well, um, last year, but
Speaker 1: the pandemic just shut everything down, And it should be
Speaker 1: great because it gave all of these olympiads a whole
Speaker 1: another year to Yeah, so y'all should be amazing or
Speaker 1: get fat I wanted to do, I think, yeah, but y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all should be amazing. All right, So we got to
Speaker 1: talk about our girl, Porsche and Sigmon because you know
Speaker 1: we love Porsche. Um, she got his name tattooed on
Speaker 1: behind her ear, like his middle name, right, Yes, And Robin,
Speaker 1: I know you and Wan have a tattoo situation going
Speaker 1: on on y'all fingers? Okay, so is this a trend?
Speaker 1: Is this a thing? No, this should never be a thing.
Speaker 1: So getting okay, getting a person's name or face that's
Speaker 1: not your child should not like that should never happen.
Speaker 1: So like my tattoo, why don't I have matching tattoos
Speaker 1: on our ring? Fingers? Um, this tattoo is actually more
Speaker 1: significant to me than our actual rings? Why? Um? I
Speaker 1: mean we've had rings before, and what happened to that
Speaker 1: first marriage? Like y'all took them rings off with him
Speaker 1: in the trash, right, So that's so so our rings
Speaker 1: it definitely has I mean, our tattoo has significance. But
Speaker 1: if one and I were ever two part ways, guess
Speaker 1: what this tattoo represents my children? That's what you're gonna say.
Speaker 1: It represents what happened the world, Okay, the whole world. Okay,
Speaker 1: just for y'all know who didn't see it. Robbin's tattoo
Speaker 1: is two hearts, two kids, okay, okay, And it's Robin's
Speaker 1: heart and one's hard. So if one all of a
Speaker 1: sudden loses his mind acts of food, you're gonna say
Speaker 1: that the hearts belong to your children, you don't. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have his name on it, not his name, none
Speaker 1: of that. The world saw you all because that was
Speaker 1: a season something of Potomac. I can't remember what season
Speaker 1: that was maybefore the world saw y'all, and it was
Speaker 1: it was a robin one thing. I don't know. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I know, but I can still change the
Speaker 1: significance of it if I need to, Okay, but if
Speaker 1: it says one, I can't change the significance, yes of it.
Speaker 1: If it says one, that is true, Okay. I always
Speaker 1: feel like getting someone's tattooed name tattooed on you is
Speaker 1: like the kiss of death, right it? Like I think
Speaker 1: I feel like there's some survey out there that says,
Speaker 1: if you do it, you're gonna break up. It's like
Speaker 1: you're trying to prove your love. Like and I'm not, okay, Like,
Speaker 1: why don't I've been together. We were together over twenty
Speaker 1: plus years when I got when we got our tattoos,
Speaker 1: so there was nothing for us to prove. But I
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes, especially you know, in in young relationships,
Speaker 1: people do things hastily because they're trying to prove how
Speaker 1: much they love someone, or or they're in this honeymoon phase.
Speaker 1: Everything's good. Yes, they're google gotta over each other. I
Speaker 1: just good. I just love you so much. We'll put
Speaker 1: your name on my body. You want to kiss them
Speaker 1: all the time, and I want you with me all
Speaker 1: the time, and then so so you do it, Like
Speaker 1: that's stupid, right, So it's either it either happens when
Speaker 1: you're like in this honeymoon phase, which is you know,
Speaker 1: lights and lovely and stuff, but like, um, you think
Speaker 1: you're so in love and you do it, or it
Speaker 1: happens like when a man's up, when a man he
Speaker 1: sucks up and he's like the girl's gonna leave him,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I love you so much, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you your name on me right. Like that's when
Speaker 1: I happen, just like stupid and you turn around. Listen,
Speaker 1: no man has ever loved me that much because the
Speaker 1: Gezelle is not written on any man that I know, Okay,
Speaker 1: and I don't. Maybe maybe I need to redo something different,
Speaker 1: because maybe I need to make a man. You don't
Speaker 1: want that. I don't want that that. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not that, you know, not My cup of tea,
Speaker 1: but you know, to each their own. I guess I
Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, well, let's let's move on, because I
Speaker 1: was watching Wendy Williams and we all know Wendy is shady,
Speaker 1: which I'm not even mad at because you know I'm shady.
Speaker 1: I love another shady person. Wendy Williams is as shady
Speaker 1: as it comes. She's a queen. She's queen, she gets
Speaker 1: the crown. Okay, So Cynthia was on her show, and
Speaker 1: you know we all have heard like there's gonna be
Speaker 1: in Atlanta shake up and I'm not mad at a
Speaker 1: shake up because you know it keeps the shows spicy,
Speaker 1: yeah fresh and knew. So she's straight up toll Cynthia,
Speaker 1: you should not return to the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: She told her, you should not return or you should
Speaker 1: not be asked to return. She said you should not
Speaker 1: be asked to return. You in other words, she said
Speaker 1: you should be fired. Yes, that's rude, and Cynthia kind
Speaker 1: of laughed it off or whatever, but she but Wendy
Speaker 1: explained it. Wendy said, you have nothing more to give.
Speaker 1: You have already got married, you have um got your businesses,
Speaker 1: since you better get divorced now, and that's what Wendy said.
Speaker 1: Wendy was like, I don't want to see you get divorced.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see you cuss people out. I
Speaker 1: just want you to go off and just be a model.
Speaker 1: Cynthia stop messing on her check? Oh my god? Like well,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, if I'm Cynthia, I'd be like, damn, Wendy, Wendy,
Speaker 1: stop messing with people's checks. Yes, How will Wendy feel
Speaker 1: if people came on her show and told her you
Speaker 1: don't need to show no more? Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: Wendy Williams, is anybody would you? Would you even accept
Speaker 1: somebody coming around saying oh? Actually, Jocelyne Hernandez did say
Speaker 1: Wendy should be canceled because Wendy's always throwing shade to
Speaker 1: black women. Wendy, you didn't like that that? Now? Did you?
Speaker 1: So leave these housewives alone? Well? Maybe Cynthia set herself
Speaker 1: up for that. Maybe I don't know. I mean, but no,
Speaker 1: that's shady as hell. That's ouch. That hurts ouch. Yes, Wendy,
Speaker 1: your words have hurt. Robin Okay, she's over here saying ouch, okay, insane,
Speaker 1: all right, But speaking of shady, there's some men out
Speaker 1: here being extremely shady with their penises. Um person number one,
Speaker 1: Tristan Person number two, Carmelo Anthony both, We're gonna put
Speaker 1: both of your basketball players in the same category and
Speaker 1: over and over again. What is wrong with y'all? Okay,
Speaker 1: So my theory is, um, Chloe La la way until
Speaker 1: they're retired, if you even like if if you all
Speaker 1: want to be together, if you want to be with them,
Speaker 1: but you're just like, I have to move on, like
Speaker 1: just just leave and wait for them to retire. These men,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to, you know, stereotype. But
Speaker 1: it's really, really, really really hard for NBA players to
Speaker 1: live a monogamous life when they are playing in the league.
Speaker 1: It's just too much temptation. They travel so much there
Speaker 1: in the spotlight. But I'm telling you, when their career
Speaker 1: is over, nobody cares about them anymore. Okay, but but
Speaker 1: Mellow's career is almost over, but it's not so until
Speaker 1: that contract is done, until he's sitting at home board. Okay.
Speaker 1: But bore is when you would think that they would
Speaker 1: cheat because they're bored. But then they're like up under
Speaker 1: you they're like, what are you doing? Where you go?
Speaker 1: But if they're still like living that life, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: some of them never even get past like some of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be like the day the first
Speaker 1: day after they're retired in their careers over, because they're
Speaker 1: gonna have a hard time, um, transitioning to the fact
Speaker 1: that their career is over. So they're still gonna be
Speaker 1: trying to like live that life and get that rush
Speaker 1: and do all that stuff. So you know, you might
Speaker 1: want to give him a good year or two after
Speaker 1: their NBA career is over. But like, Tristan is young,
Speaker 1: Like he's first of all, he's younger than Chloe Um
Speaker 1: and he's ready. Okay, he's ready for a Let's just
Speaker 1: hope he's not spraying it like Nick Cannon. Yes, but
Speaker 1: really I think Tristan is young. He's still in the NBA,
Speaker 1: like he really Like as much as they want to
Speaker 1: be with their family, they want to settle down, they
Speaker 1: want to do what's right. The temptation is so hard.
Speaker 1: It's so hard. And I can say this because I
Speaker 1: do have a girlfriend who will will remain nameless, and
Speaker 1: she said she slept with Tristan and she said it
Speaker 1: was amazing. Yes, now you're gonna have more of people.
Speaker 1: You know, it could be why Chloe was trying to
Speaker 1: hold on to him because he was amazing. She said.
Speaker 1: She was like, yeah, she was like trying to call
Speaker 1: him off, hitting him up all the time, like dude,
Speaker 1: you're coming through, and he was too busy hitting everybody
Speaker 1: else up. So you know, she had to wait her turn.
Speaker 1: But she didn't want nothing from him, just that. And
Speaker 1: you know, anyway, even with the amazing penis, you gotta
Speaker 1: walk away if he's not treating you properly. It's my
Speaker 1: point of the story. But I feel I do feel
Speaker 1: bad for a lot because she's put in some years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's put in some years. But it's like, I mean,
Speaker 1: this story, it don't matter. This story happens over and
Speaker 1: over and over again, like and it is really not
Speaker 1: a new story when it comes to athletes. And because
Speaker 1: they want, like I said, they want to be with
Speaker 1: their family, they want to do the right thing, they
Speaker 1: want to be a family man. But it's just it's
Speaker 1: too much. I'm a little disappointed in Mellow. I thought
Speaker 1: you had stopped with the Shenane against No, he's still
Speaker 1: playing basketball. Okay, we're gonna move on anyway. So ladies, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: who's ever listening? Robert and I started this podcast after
Speaker 1: Mother's Day, so we really didn't get to talk about
Speaker 1: like being a mom Mother's Day. That would have been
Speaker 1: like our Mother's Day tribute if we were on at
Speaker 1: that time. So guess what to day is. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about parenting moms, being a mom, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna label this not your average mama. No, no,
Speaker 1: far from it. Yes, so we are not your average mama. Alright.
Speaker 1: So first of all, Robin, I want to ask you
Speaker 1: when it comes to parenting, when your boys were babies
Speaker 1: and how were you as a mom to like now
Speaker 1: because now they are what preteens? So Coorean Carter are
Speaker 1: thirteen and eleven. Um, so I'll just say I okay,
Speaker 1: so even before I had babies, I was never that
Speaker 1: person that like wanted a baby or wanted to be
Speaker 1: a mother. Like I wasn't yearning for motherhood. I didn't
Speaker 1: have it planned out. Um, whenever I would if my
Speaker 1: friends would have kids, um, and you know they have
Speaker 1: a baby, and I'd be like, oh, hi baby, and
Speaker 1: that's it. Like I don't want to pick the baby up. Baby,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, look at the baby, because most
Speaker 1: times the babies aren't cute, because you know, when babies
Speaker 1: are like you know, you borns, they look like real funny,
Speaker 1: and so instead of being like, oh, how cute, I'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh, baby, you know what I mean? All right,
Speaker 1: you gotta do better with your fake cute voice a
Speaker 1: gay because if it's not cute, I'm not gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 1: my gay, she's so cute. Did she really look like
Speaker 1: an alien? Like I'm just like, oh baby, oh okay.
Speaker 1: So then you had children, and what did you have aliens?
Speaker 1: I did? Carter was an alien? So Corey was like
Speaker 1: really cute, Like he came out with this cute dark
Speaker 1: curly hair and just like just really cute. Carter was alien,
Speaker 1: which is like, so I can say that with like
Speaker 1: my chest because Carter is like the cutest thing right
Speaker 1: like next you know day, and he quickly grew to
Speaker 1: be cute like a month later. But like you can
Speaker 1: ask anyone, I wasn't sending pictures of Carter out when
Speaker 1: he was first born. I waited, that is wrong, Carter, Carter,
Speaker 1: let me say something. Your mom is wrong. He knows,
Speaker 1: he knows. So so as a mom um, I mean,
Speaker 1: of course, like you know, when you have new babies,
Speaker 1: you're like worried about everything. I did have a lot
Speaker 1: of like worry about like you know, just protecting them
Speaker 1: and keeping them healthy and safe and alive. Um. But
Speaker 1: outside of that, like I always had the philosophy like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not the first mother in the world, and my
Speaker 1: kids aren't the first babies in the world. So like
Speaker 1: it didn't like everything didn't have to be perfect, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I used to be
Speaker 1: a perfect mom. I didn't have to like you know,
Speaker 1: run in and you know my kids cry, like jump
Speaker 1: up and and know exactly why they were crying and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And so I and I think that's
Speaker 1: just part of my personality and very a back, I
Speaker 1: tried not to like stress out, and so I was
Speaker 1: not a stressed out mom um when they were newborns.
Speaker 1: It was you know what I mean, It was like
Speaker 1: I was very I was um, and I made it
Speaker 1: a point to not hold them all the time because
Speaker 1: you didn't want them to feel loved, No, because I
Speaker 1: didn't want them to always have to be held all
Speaker 1: the time, you know, so I would actually like, you know, people,
Speaker 1: it's like, what did you read? Did you read a
Speaker 1: book when you were going to what? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just like it was like, and I want to
Speaker 1: let people hold them all the time. It's a tough love.
Speaker 1: As it wasn't tough love. It was like, no, y'all
Speaker 1: not gonna come here and hold my baby for two
Speaker 1: hours and then put it down and you leave. And
Speaker 1: then my baby's like, what I got to be held
Speaker 1: because you're held me for two hours. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you can hold it for like five seconds and then
Speaker 1: put it back down. The hugs is rashing ng newborn
Speaker 1: baby hugs. Now, this is the first I heard of this.
Speaker 1: This is this is a new parenting tip. My baby's
Speaker 1: didn't cry a lot. Okay, you know when it was
Speaker 1: time to sleep, that's when they cried. Um. But I'll
Speaker 1: just I'll say, like you know, mother had the first
Speaker 1: time around was pretty easy, breezy. When I added that
Speaker 1: second child eighteen months later, I was a situation. That's
Speaker 1: when it got real. Yeah, yes, it's a situation for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So and I was a walking zombie for like two years.
Speaker 1: But you know, I passed that I had grace, and
Speaker 1: I literally was like, I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: I'm doing. Like I felt it, like immediately as soon
Speaker 1: as I brought her home, I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how to change the diaper, I don't know how
Speaker 1: to feed her. The breast thing ain't working. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the hell I'm doing. I'm exhausted. I might
Speaker 1: even have depression. I was. It was just bad. It
Speaker 1: was bad. It was very bad. Um. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it just like kicked in. Like but
Speaker 1: I did hug her all the time, and I just
Speaker 1: want you to know that, just be clear. I look
Speaker 1: like it's all the time now. Um. And then eighteen
Speaker 1: months later, I bring home twins. So I was like
Speaker 1: dying a million deaths. So I decided the only way
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it is to be a military sergeant. Right,
Speaker 1: So I like fed them all at the same time,
Speaker 1: I changed diapers all at the same time. I fed them.
Speaker 1: I changed diapers. It was like it was like military clockwork,
Speaker 1: clockwork to have alarms to remind you or you just
Speaker 1: like no, I just realized, like like I had it.
Speaker 1: I had it on on a routine every day. Every day.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to survive. Oh my gosh, No,
Speaker 1: did you have a nanny. Yes, I had a nanny,
Speaker 1: but I had three kids and was me and the nanny.
Speaker 1: You need more hands than that. I felt like I
Speaker 1: was always out numbered. To this day, I'm out numbered
Speaker 1: by these children. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, But you know what
Speaker 1: you know, once I got divorced and I moved away
Speaker 1: from like Baltimore and I moved back to the d
Speaker 1: C area, That's when I got into my stride, like
Speaker 1: my mommy stride. So when they were maybe like first grade,
Speaker 1: first grade in kindergarten, so they were young, but I
Speaker 1: was like the room mom, and I was always helping
Speaker 1: out at school and I would always like have apples
Speaker 1: for them when I picked them up from school. I
Speaker 1: was like the mom of the year. We just still are. No. No,
Speaker 1: that went left, okay. So then when I started like
Speaker 1: working a lot and like getting into my groop and
Speaker 1: they started getting older, I just forgot about them kids.
Speaker 1: If they had Dorito's padana, okay, whatever was going on,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't. I didn't allow them to run my
Speaker 1: life anymore. Yes, and then you have to like actually
Speaker 1: make that declaration like out loud, like you know what,
Speaker 1: Like I love my kids. I'm gonna be the best
Speaker 1: mom I can be to them, but I'm not going
Speaker 1: to let them control my life. It's like you have
Speaker 1: to have an epiphany. It's like a ha moment where
Speaker 1: you know, at first you're like, Okay, this is my life,
Speaker 1: clearly is when they're babies and stuff. But at some
Speaker 1: point you're like, you gotta get over it. I gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta allow yourself to live and to be a
Speaker 1: person again. I felt like I was only a mother
Speaker 1: and that's not healthy. It's not good for them, it's
Speaker 1: not good for me. Right, Like I remember times when
Speaker 1: like okay, I would want to go out and the
Speaker 1: babysitter comes and the minute you know, you try to
Speaker 1: walk out the door, they're like mommy, no, mommy, And
Speaker 1: you know then sometimes you you you like, okay, well
Speaker 1: I'll stay home, and you just have to like that, right,
Speaker 1: you gotta be steadfast. You gotta walk out that door
Speaker 1: and don't call, don't say are they okay? Like, just
Speaker 1: go and keep it moving. I remember I had a
Speaker 1: nanny that would come like three days a week, and
Speaker 1: she would talk my head off so much. That I
Speaker 1: would literally have to like, like my when I had
Speaker 1: a nanny, I was like, Okay, I want a nanny,
Speaker 1: like so so she can give me a break, so
Speaker 1: I can like chill and and just you know, relax
Speaker 1: and lay around. And she would talk my head off
Speaker 1: to the point where I was like, okay, where should
Speaker 1: I Where am I going today? Like you know, I
Speaker 1: would like literally like you're running away from the nanny.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I would literally have to like force
Speaker 1: myself to leave the house because she would literally follow
Speaker 1: me all around the house. Fired she was. I'm she
Speaker 1: was awesome. She was great with the kids, but I
Speaker 1: had like so at that point, I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm just going to put these kids in school.
Speaker 1: So that's when I started them in like a dare
Speaker 1: to get away from the nancy. I talked too much,
Speaker 1: isn't that? Yes? She talked? Okay, So have you ever
Speaker 1: lost a child out in the streets? Have you ever
Speaker 1: lost a childe? Yes, I have. Um Carter went missing
Speaker 1: in Ocean City, New Jersey, Oyland, New Jersey. All right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So we were staying it was so scary. We were
Speaker 1: staying in a house like a shore house. With my
Speaker 1: friend and her family, so with her, you know, her husband,
Speaker 1: her two kids at the time, and then me and
Speaker 1: this was um Want and I were maybe separated or
Speaker 1: not together, I don't know. And so I'm in the
Speaker 1: house with Korean Carter, and this is the day we're leaving.
Speaker 1: We're packing the house up to leave, okay. So it's
Speaker 1: just like a lot of you know, you're like getting
Speaker 1: your backs together and you put in the car and
Speaker 1: you're in and out. And so at some point I'm like,
Speaker 1: where's Carter. I'm like packing up the kids' carter. So
Speaker 1: we looked all over the house. He's not there. We
Speaker 1: looked all in the backyard. He's not there. We look
Speaker 1: all in the front yard and he's not there. And
Speaker 1: he was literally probably like I mean, he was walking clearly.
Speaker 1: Um but he was younger than two. But I can't
Speaker 1: maybe two or less, right, And this is so crazy.
Speaker 1: My first thought is, oh my gosh, if I can't
Speaker 1: find Carter, one is gonna kill me. It's not like
Speaker 1: I need to find my child because I love him,
Speaker 1: because I hug him all the time. I don't um
Speaker 1: gonna kill like, oh my god, my child. It's like
Speaker 1: wan is going to kill me. So my friend's husband
Speaker 1: literally oh so then we so we go ostside and
Speaker 1: there's a girl and stupid ass girl. So there's a
Speaker 1: girl who literally I was getting out, like had gotten
Speaker 1: out her car and maybe had some bags, and she
Speaker 1: was like, oh, um, are you looking for kid? I
Speaker 1: just saw a kid walk down the street and he
Speaker 1: turned the corner and he's literally like a year and
Speaker 1: a half. And so my husband, my friend's husband, took
Speaker 1: off running down the street, literally turned the corner like
Speaker 1: I couldn't even see him anymore, and got and he
Speaker 1: said it was he was almost at an intersection and
Speaker 1: like Carter was gone. He had his blankie, he was pacifier.
Speaker 1: He was out of here because he didn't get hugs.
Speaker 1: That's why he was leaving, because Robin refused to hug
Speaker 1: the boy. Yes, it was. It was so scary, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, like we literally if it's like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? So how much time I passed for
Speaker 1: him to get down the street, turned the corner to
Speaker 1: the point where I couldn't even see him anymore. I
Speaker 1: mean that probably was a good like six minutes, right,
Speaker 1: because anything, because someone could have driven past and seen
Speaker 1: this kid walking and scooped him up, or he could
Speaker 1: have gotten hit by a car or whatever a dog
Speaker 1: could have been. I don't. I mean like it was
Speaker 1: like I was traumatized by that. I was like that
Speaker 1: it was really really, really a close call. And Carter
Speaker 1: was always the one, especially after that, he was always
Speaker 1: the one. I'm like when I'm out, I'm like, where's Carter.
Speaker 1: Where's Carter? I have to have eyes on Carter. Did
Speaker 1: you tell one? What do you say? He probably, you know,
Speaker 1: gave me a whole you know, this is the reason
Speaker 1: why I don't when you know, just like this past weekend,
Speaker 1: they my freaking kids had to spill the beans and
Speaker 1: tell them that they saw shark in the ocean. And
Speaker 1: he's like, you ain't telling me it was because one
Speaker 1: was he wasn't there for the whole trip. Did they
Speaker 1: tell him? Yeah, it was a shark in the ocean.
Speaker 1: And one is like terrified of the ocean. So the
Speaker 1: kids can't have fun anymore. Oh my god, They're scared
Speaker 1: of everything. They're so scared of everything because one is
Speaker 1: like scared of nature. He's scared of everything. It's so crazy.
Speaker 1: I asked my kids, you know, before we started this podcast,
Speaker 1: how they felt about me as a mother, because they're
Speaker 1: teenagers now and so they really have formed an opinion
Speaker 1: of Giselle as mother. And they're like, oh, mom, we
Speaker 1: think that you. Um, we really liked you when you
Speaker 1: were like the room mom and when you had apples
Speaker 1: for us when you picked us up from school, Like,
Speaker 1: we really liked you during that phase. However, we like you,
Speaker 1: you know in this in this mode as well. They
Speaker 1: were like, because you Okay, so I've done some things. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have a story so my kid that the twins
Speaker 1: were in ballet. They were about third grade, fourth grade,
Speaker 1: and I didn't like whatever whatever was going on in
Speaker 1: the ballet class. You know, the parents can't be in there.
Speaker 1: Wh when they would come out, they would tell me
Speaker 1: these crazy stories like they didn't like to teach you
Speaker 1: to teach, it was playing favorites all of this stuff. Right.
Speaker 1: So I was just like very angry, and I had
Speaker 1: had it. Okay, so um the next class, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm getting that teacher. I'm gonnallow her know how I feel.
Speaker 1: So I walk my kids in. I allowed them to
Speaker 1: go inside, and then I poked my head in and
Speaker 1: I was excuse me, I need to talk to you, teacher,
Speaker 1: can you come out? So she came out and I
Speaker 1: let her have it. I'll it's like my kids told
Speaker 1: me blah blah blah, and I don't appreciate you treat
Speaker 1: my kids. It's two with them, it's tour with them.
Speaker 1: You are not going to be unfair to them. So
Speaker 1: I let her have it. It was like a very
Speaker 1: long speech. She goes back and said she was like,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. She goes back inside.
Speaker 1: So the class is over and my kids come out
Speaker 1: and then getting a card, he run to the car.
Speaker 1: They're like, Mommy, that was a substitute. That wasn't the teacher.
Speaker 1: I cussed out the wrong teacher. Okay, but they were
Speaker 1: like so happy that I was just writing for them. Right,
Speaker 1: even though I cussed out the wrong lady, it didn't
Speaker 1: even matter. She didn't stop me, no, no, she just
Speaker 1: she just took it. She took the cussing and she
Speaker 1: was like, it's my day to get cussed by a
Speaker 1: crazy black woman. And she went on about her business.
Speaker 1: She apologized. She didn't know what she was apologizing for.
Speaker 1: She just apologized and kept it moving. But I cussed
Speaker 1: out the wrong person, and they were like, you know what,
Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter. Our just gonna stand up for
Speaker 1: us no matter what. Which they appreciate it. Um, they said,
Speaker 1: they you know, I never let them have sleepovers. They're
Speaker 1: a little traumatized by it. I don't care, but they
Speaker 1: do like the fact that every year I try to
Speaker 1: do something different. Like five years ago, our new thing
Speaker 1: was like we're gonna have sushi, and so now they
Speaker 1: love sushi, so like we would try all these different
Speaker 1: sushi restaurants. Like every year, I try to like start
Speaker 1: a new tradition. Um. One time it was like, let's
Speaker 1: do tea parties. So we would go to all these
Speaker 1: places that you know do little tea services. And I
Speaker 1: know you guys would go bike writing. Yes, we do writing.
Speaker 1: I mean I try to do like fun things with
Speaker 1: my kids so they know that I'm president and I'm
Speaker 1: in their lives. I just don't really cook dinner for them,
Speaker 1: and you know there they can eat whatever they can eat,
Speaker 1: like air sandwiches. I don't care. I don't care because
Speaker 1: I do other and I and they know that I
Speaker 1: love them, right, yes, and that is the most important part.
Speaker 1: It is it is and I can say as a parent,
Speaker 1: I am like I would you know, I should go
Speaker 1: back and ask my kids what they think of me
Speaker 1: as a mom, But I think they would say that
Speaker 1: I'm a cool mom, that I'm a fun mom. Uh.
Speaker 1: We laugh and joke and giggle and have fun and
Speaker 1: you know, play around and wrestle and like I'm the
Speaker 1: one when they wrestle me. They don't wrestle wand well
Speaker 1: because they know I'm will like maybe hurt them, like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, yes, but now you're fighting
Speaker 1: with boys all the time. Yes, yes, So I mean
Speaker 1: it's just I and and I hug them a lot.
Speaker 1: When did the transition happens? I mean not saying okay,
Speaker 1: you misinterpreted that, right, But I do to this day
Speaker 1: hug and kiss on my kids. And I really think
Speaker 1: as a as a parent, that's so important to give
Speaker 1: your kids that type of love that like physical affection. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, my parents are awesome, but I didn't really
Speaker 1: get a lot of physical affection for my parents. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's like a generational thing, but
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, I what the most important
Speaker 1: thing for me as a parent is to make sure
Speaker 1: that my kids know that they're loved. Um, because when
Speaker 1: kids don't feel like they're loved, it can affect them
Speaker 1: negatively so much. You know, they act out for attention,
Speaker 1: or they seek attention in other places and whatever. So
Speaker 1: for me, as I'm like, as long as my kids
Speaker 1: know they're loved, they're good to go. And I I
Speaker 1: so right now. My challenge with them is showing them
Speaker 1: that I trust them. So um, you know, minor teenagers.
Speaker 1: So just last week, we were in New York and
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, God and I had
Speaker 1: to work, so they're with me. I'm working, and so
Speaker 1: I didn't want them to sit in a hotel all day.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you guys can do New York, right.
Speaker 1: They had their little girlfriends that are from New York.
Speaker 1: So I gave them my credit card. I had just
Speaker 1: sign it across and pray to Jesus, but I gave
Speaker 1: them my credit card. I downloaded Uber on one of
Speaker 1: my daughter's phones and I was like, how fun do
Speaker 1: your thing? So they appreciated that. I know, they appreciated
Speaker 1: that so much. They would do stuff like oh no,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna call it Uber, We're gonna walk you
Speaker 1: know what. They're like, We're gonna save mommy some coins.
Speaker 1: Like that's their favorite thing to say, We're gonna save
Speaker 1: mommy her coins. So and any time, like they say
Speaker 1: they would go to a restaurant because I told him,
Speaker 1: you know, food is on me, so like like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pay for food. But if you guys want to
Speaker 1: go shopping and buy you know, stupid little t shirts
Speaker 1: or ear rings, that's the money that you got from
Speaker 1: your parents. Yeah, so you're allowing if the food bill
Speaker 1: went over like eighty dollars, they would text me and
Speaker 1: they'd be like, okay, we at the restaurant the bill
Speaker 1: is like eighty two dollars, and I'd be like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine. It's fine. But for them to feel a
Speaker 1: sense of responsibility and like, let you know, they were
Speaker 1: spreading their wings a little bit in the big n
Speaker 1: y c. And I feel like that for me right now,
Speaker 1: is there our biggest um is the biggest learning lesson.
Speaker 1: I can tell parents, like, at some point in time,
Speaker 1: you gotta let go and you gotta just trust your kids.
Speaker 1: It's hard. Were you nervous? I wasn't nervous because I
Speaker 1: knew the two girls are like New York girls like
Speaker 1: you know they're the same age as my kids, but
Speaker 1: they next know the city, they know where to go.
Speaker 1: They're about it, about it, but they oh, my funny story,
Speaker 1: my kids did go on the New York subway and
Speaker 1: there was a crazy man they said crazy put that
Speaker 1: in quotes, that was after them. They're like, this man
Speaker 1: was after us. We would keep changing cars, he would
Speaker 1: keep coming after us, and he wouldn't leave us. We
Speaker 1: think he was trying to check Grace out. We didn't
Speaker 1: know what was happening. He was crazy. And they ended
Speaker 1: up getting off the train and then they told me
Speaker 1: that they were going to call it uber and they
Speaker 1: asked a man who had a kid with him so
Speaker 1: he was a father, to kind of like wait with
Speaker 1: them while they got the uber. So that was kind
Speaker 1: of smart. Now, let me know, they really felt like
Speaker 1: they were in danger, but guess what is the big city,
Speaker 1: honeys and y'all went through a little right welcome And
Speaker 1: it's real world in real life. So I was I
Speaker 1: wasn't afraid or scared for them, but I felt like,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's good, it's good that you see
Speaker 1: that in because in our little world it's a bubble.
Speaker 1: And I've protected you all. But there's all kinds of
Speaker 1: crazy people out right, and that's good that they were.
Speaker 1: You should you should be happy and feel good that
Speaker 1: they were aware of their surroundings. Yes, yes, we so
Speaker 1: my kids are actually kind of vigilant too, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna wrap up. So we were walking in South Beach,
Speaker 1: so nice South Beach we went. It's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know why we did this. I haven't been a South
Speaker 1: Beach and so long. So we we ate, you know,
Speaker 1: at a restaurant, and then with all the kids. It
Speaker 1: was a big group of us and we decided to
Speaker 1: walk on Ocean driven Beach like you know, eleven pm
Speaker 1: at night. Kind of crazy. Yeah, bad decisions because I
Speaker 1: didn't know like how crazy it was there on there.
Speaker 1: So my kids are like all of it, were like
Speaker 1: walking and then all of a sudden they start like
Speaker 1: like ducking and they're like, what are y'all doing? And
Speaker 1: they're like, these guys just out of the car and
Speaker 1: they said, the chopper is in the back seat, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you talking about? Don't even know
Speaker 1: what the hell of Choppa is. Apparently it's a gun.
Speaker 1: It's a gun. Apparently it's a gun. All right whatever,
Speaker 1: and they're like he just said the choppers in the
Speaker 1: back seat and they're like literally like trying to run away.
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all, like okay, but what why do your
Speaker 1: kids know what Choppa is? I don't know you tube
Speaker 1: games to these kids know what I know? I was like,
Speaker 1: what is it? Chopper? So then I had to realize
Speaker 1: like what they were talking about. But they their antenna's
Speaker 1: were like on alert, high alert down there, and they
Speaker 1: were like Carter, my youngest, he was like, can we leave? Good?
Speaker 1: Can we? He was just looking around. He was like,
Speaker 1: this don't feel safe? Can we leave? So our kids are,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're definitely more sheltered than than we were
Speaker 1: as young kids, but they're very aware of their surroundings.
Speaker 1: Well okay, so no to South, no South Beach, and
Speaker 1: no New York Subway. Y'all are crazy up in there.
Speaker 1: Okay to so I we took. I thought it would
Speaker 1: be a good experience for them. Okay, alright, well people,
Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap up because you know, we have talked
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Speaker 1: She bought her own one with her own money. She said, quevo,
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