WEBVTT - EP 429: Essence Fest 2025 (Ft. Kandi Burruss) 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:01.840 Welcome to Decisions Decisions. 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:03.880 I don't think you should say decisions decisions. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:07.080 It sounded like you was talking to cursing. You definitely 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:08.080 say to welcome. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:09.440 Welcome to the new podcast. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.440 Oh wait, you want to say together Decisions Decisions. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:20.000 Welcome everybody to a very, very very special edition of 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.040 Decisions Decisions. 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:23.840 I'm your girl, Mandy V. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.880 Hey, everybody, welcome back to Decisions Decisions. My name is Weezy. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.120 We are so excited to share this episode with you. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.320 If you've never listened to Decisions Decisions and you only 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.600 know Candy, this is a very fun show where we 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.800 destigmatize kink. We talked about dating, relationships, sex history, but 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:46.520 today Candy's episode is really more focused on motherhood, parenthood, 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:51.680 being a boss woman, just her her journey throughout entrepreneurship, 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.279 and she gave some really good financial tips. So we're 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.040 excited to get into that with y'all. But before we do, 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.400 we got to reconnect this sessas best well. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.240 By the way, y'all, we are gonna work on bringing 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:06.120 Candy on to sit down for a real Decisions Decisions episode, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.040 she said, But we can talk about she said, with us. Yeah, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.760 y'all know you know, we are now rebrunded, so working 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.560 with you know, just bigger entities. They was like, don't 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.600 be going up on stage talk about no sucking deep, 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.640 So we leaned away from that. But when I say Candy, 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:29.080 her energy was amazing, y'all. I told her about my 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.280 story going to Mexico picking up a couple, and her 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.400 jaw drops and I was like, Candy, not me making 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.760 your jaw drop. But it was really interesting, even her 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.920 hearing my story about being a unicorn in Mexico from 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:44.480 the book, because. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.199 She was like, I'm hearing your story, but I'm. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.480 Realizing me and Todd would be the couple in this 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:54.160 so being picked up by a girl on vacation, she's like, ooh, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.520 I can't wait to read the chapter. But really definitely 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.240 hoping that we get Candy back on the podcast soon. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.680 But yeah, we'll start with the recap of essence Fest, 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.200 and before we start, we want to give a really 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:13.920 really big shout out to Black Effect Network, Heller, Gilead Sciences, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.519 Black Women in Health, whose booths we were at on Friday, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.200 as well as essence Fest in general. This was our 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.919 first time being at essence Fest. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.280 And ooh and so much of the recently expected. Like, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.400 so shout out to Gilead for buying books for attendees 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.720 of Essence. They paired us with Black Women's Health Initiative 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.480 and they were so much fun. So fire, I know 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.360 we're definitely going to work with them again. Like, I 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.200 really liked everything that whole brand was about, all of 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:48.000 their staff. But let's talk about the arrival of New Orleans. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.639 What did you see besides fedoras and fans. Oh, I'm 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.680 not gonna lie. Here's here's my overall consensus, right, and 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.840 I have a few takeaways. My overall consensus is that 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.280 I never want to be referred to as an aunty 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.280 ever again, because if Essence is the aunty Fest, I 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:11.120 have another sixty years before I become an aunty. I 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.399 saw everyone that was one hundred and two years old, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.760 and I was like, oh, where are the millennials. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.320 When I hear aunty like and shit like that, I 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.040 think it's like thirty five and up. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.200 So I was expecting to see. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:27.840 Well, Aunty is not thirty five. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.360 Bro, Unty is thirty five. They did a whole breakdown 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.000 on the internet. Aunty is thirty five and up. And 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:38.520 so I was like, definitely looking for younger people. I'm 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.120 not gonna lie. It took me two days to spot 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.960 a yn. I was looking for the yn. It took 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:44.520 two days. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.960 I did not see a Yn until Saturday morning. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:54.000 But overall, overall, I will say my favorite thing about 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.840 the weekend by far was the food. I think that 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:03.400 New Orleans has is it is probably top three, one 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.560 of the best spots in the US to get food, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.960 and they have their own cuisine, and I was so 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:15.720 glad to just have crawfish and fucking oysters. And I 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.360 think I had red beans and rice three different ways. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:23.800 Like, I had a great time. I was outside. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:30.120 So went to a mayor's gala on Thursday night, followed 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.920 by Club Quarantine with djd Nice. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.400 What was your favorite of that of the weekend? 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.640 Okay, my favorite event at the weekend okay for me honestly. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.479 And we'll get into like our work portion, but I 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.719 wanted to start out with the wildness of me actually 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.440 enjoying essence before we get into all the work parks. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.080 I have a story and it's the random story, y'all. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.560 It made me feel like I was in the metaverse. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.000 I was in some other universe, because what the fuck? 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:06.080 So Saturday night. Saturday night, we completely finish all of 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.160 our obligations, all of our duties, and I'm like, bitch, 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.719 I just want to be outside. So in my mind, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.479 I was going to be crawling on Bourbon Street, drunk 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.120 at fuck, swimming and pissed, because that's what Bourbon Street is. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:22.279 It's full of piss on the ground. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.640 And I was just like, I'm ready to block out 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.359 where New York Times bestsellers. I was ready to just 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.000 celebrate it because we hadn't really had the chance to 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.760 celebrate because we got the announcement on Wednesday and then 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:38.000 we were in New Orleans by Thursday. So anyways, I 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:42.640 end up meeting the first night that I arrived Spectacular 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:43.799 from Pretty Ricky. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.039 So we knew on each other. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.880 From online and in passing, and so I'm leaving to 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.400 the gala, run into him. I'm like, I know, I'll 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.680 see you again, see him again Friday. So Saturday, he 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.840 hits me like, what are y'all doing tonight? Do you 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:00.760 wanna slide to the to the club with me? And 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.120 I'm like sure, So I ask my homegirl, who's with me? 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.240 Mind you, she's celebrating her thirty seventh birthday and New 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.200 Orleans is like one of her favorite cities that she 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.280 hasn't been to since pre Katrina. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:12.800 So I'm like, bitch ollo. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:19.159 So so we we link up with Spectacular and the 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.080 club appearents time keeps getting pushed back. So y'all we 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:28.880 go to a bar maybe three blocks away from the hotel. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.680 Y'all know, lie, I love that my friend lives in 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.000 LA and can keep the scene. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:35.960 Y'all. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.159 Spectacular was about to get lined up. There was these 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.159 bitches trying to like rob his ass, and my friend 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.599 was like, she spoke girl. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.479 There was two girls. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.120 Just standing behind him on the phone, and so my 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.320 homegirls in front and peeping these girls and they're just 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.960 standing at the bar, not ordering nothing, but on the phone. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.479 So I go inspecs here and I'm like, uh, my 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.840 friend thinks like these girls are about to try to 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.600 so I say, let's go sit down where. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:04.919 No one can be behind you. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.520 So girl, as we go sit sit down, these two 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.440 stub bitches pull up and sit at the end of 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.720 our table and I'm like, now. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:15.960 There, now there's four. 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.800 But he was about because this nigga had all his 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.840 goddamn jewelry on he was bedazzled, Nigga had on diamonds, 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.120 and I'm like, we are still in the Orleans, sir. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:27.760 So anyway, we. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:32.000 At the table and I'm like, I think these sub 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.320 bitches is here to rob you. So I look, mind 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.960 you now his security guard slash assistant is peeping, and 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.320 I'm like, I ain't gonna hold you. I don't want 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:42.880 to stay around to see how. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.040 Bold they are. I said, we need to go, bitch. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.480 As we get up and go tell Jazz we're leaving, bitch, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.600 I hear one of the bitches say, stand there. I said, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.080 oh no, bitch, we out of here. When I tell you, 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:55.720 we don't even wait for it to go plate for 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.400 my homegirl's food, I say, bitch, let's get the fuck 0:07:58.520 --> 0:07:59.240 up out of here. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.280 So anyway we leave. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.280 We start zigzagging down the things because I'm like, let's 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.600 just go back to the hotel. These roads are blocked. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.160 Let's just go back to the hotel so we can 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:10.920 go to the club. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.000 So boom, why. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.760 We're still with Spectacular, So we go because. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.560 We're going to the club with him. So we're like, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.600 let's just go back to the hotel. Let's head to 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:27.200 the club. Okay, so we get in the car and 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.960 by this time, clearly because we stopped at a couple 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.800 of bars, my friend has been drinking mind You. We've 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.880 been playing it in the room since we ran into 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.560 him on Thursday. We've been listening to her favorite song 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.480 on the Blue Stars album, which, if you guys know, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.320 because which, if you, if you know, you know is. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:53.520 A classic album to me. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.200 So we are in a car on the way to 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:02.160 the club and my homegirl shout out to Jasmine, decides 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:07.520 to start singing her favorite records on the Blue Stars 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.760 album Too Spectacular. Let's be very clear, she starts singing 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.000 his songs to him. So she goes to start singing 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.000 aj nothing but a Number, and talks about how problematic 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:25.240 the song is today. But she goes you say, hey. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:25.880 Hey, mind you. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.280 She's grinding, She's singing this goddamn. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:33.400 Song, and then out of nowhere, she yells, I'm a 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.200 young man, but my dick grown up and literally starts 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:42.920 rapping the first verse, but literally emphasizes I'm a young man, 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.160 but my dick grown up. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.960 And I'm like, oh my god, she is. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.080 Singing down this pretty ricky song, and all I could 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.959 do is smile because my friends are my friends and 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:01.679 they are their unique selves. And this one, bitch, we're 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.559 already in the car going to the club with this niggas, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:08.599 so I'm like you Jazz. It was funny because we 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.440 started singing like grind on me and all this stuff. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.480 And I even admit, I tell him, I'm like, listen, 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.200 I say, that album to me is such a classic. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:19.480 I've talked about it online. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.160 I said it's my favorite, and I said, what's crazy 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.319 is not too many men put it on their sex playlist. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.040 And he ended up sending me to my phone one 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.960 of his sex playlists, and I was like, I said, 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.240 not too many men put it on sex playlist, But 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.560 I said, anytime I am in bed with somebody and 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.720 a pretty ricky song comes on, I stopped and just 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.200 know you a nasty niggle. Mind you, that album came 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:49.600 out before I was even hunching. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.640 But baby, that is the album. So anyways, we. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:54.400 Get to the club. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.720 I didn't announce it yet because this is where we 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.240 got into the metaverse of it all. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:02.880 Y'all. We get to the. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.960 Club and we leak up with who we're walking into 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:11.520 the club with. So, y'all, I am now with my Homegirl, Spectacular, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:17.840 his homeboy, and Keith Sweat and his entourage. We into 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.240 the club with Keith Sweat, who's performing. It's like one 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:26.240 point thirty in the morning, and I'm like, bron am 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:26.760 I young? 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.200 Where you said? 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.320 What I would think? Like? 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.280 What is the crowd like? 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.319 Because Spectacular and Keith Sweat, it's essence best mind you? 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:36.959 Spectacular. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.520 I think just is friends with Keith Sweat, so he's 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:40.840 not on the fire or anything. 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.480 No, no, no, no, no no. So we go to the club. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.760 Keith Sweat is set to perform, and I'm like, what 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.400 is life? I'm walking into the club with goddamn a 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:52.880 member from Pretty Ricky and. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.080 Fucking Keith Sweat. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.280 So me and my homegirl are the only bitches at 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:02.040 the table. Mind you, it's like fifteen dudes. So we 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.640 get approached, y'all. We get approached to do something that 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.120 I can't believe I did at the grown age of 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.959 thirty four, But I obliged because I was like, this 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:11.320 is fun. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.760 Were we were, girl, let me finish a story. We 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.400 were I'm just guessing and having fun. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:23.960 We were set to literally go around the club and 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.599 select bitches to bring to the stage for Keith's Sweat 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.360 and I'm like, bro, I am thirty four years old, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.199 literally about to go scope the. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.920 Scene for bitches for a sixty three year old Keith Sweat, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.360 and I'm like, what is life? 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.000 So anyways, we rummaged the club, we bring some bitches 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.440 up on stage. It's Essence Fest, so it definitely wasn't 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.760 giving options like a Miami or a New York here 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.679 in LA, but we did our due diligence. We had 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.400 a good time. I ended up getting one of the 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.560 girl's numbers because she was so cute. So then I 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.720 ask her because Keith Sweat is now performing and clearly 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.680 I brought bitches on stage that I thought was cute too, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.280 So I'm shooting my shit with one of the ones 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.800 that I really like. I'm like, by the way, how 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.520 old are you? She says, she's twenty seven years old. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.400 I said, do you even know this man on stage? 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.640 And she admits she doesn't. She said, I think some 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.520 of these songs my mom listens to. I said, you 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.560 know that gentleman right there with the dreads and she 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:33.040 knew spectacular from Loving Itmpop And I'm just like, wow, 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.000 we are literally in the era of where our generation 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.679 is probably the last to really know how great pretty 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.120 Ricky is, but also to realize that the generation that 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.960 is now outside also does not know Keith Sweat. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:50.560 I was like, Wow, okay. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:56.000 This is a generational era type of event where there 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.839 could be someone so young that they don't know a 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.640 mega superstar who has been him for the last forty years. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:04.320 Mind you. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:05.920 So I called my mama because I sent her a 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.080 video of Keith Sweat. She was like, oh, you have 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.319 the best seed in the house. I said, Mom, I've 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.600 been tasked to bring bitches to his table. Why my mama, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.840 Why miss Tammy? Y'all said, Now, why you ain't facetimed me? 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.120 I could have been a bitch for Key Sweat. I said, 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.080 So you were gonna get to New Orleans and ten minutes, Mom, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.720 I'm like, my mom's still wanting to gyrate on Keith 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.040 Sweat after all these years. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:30.440 I found to be hilarious. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.840 But to me, that was my most real type of 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.160 night to where I was like, Wow, I'm partying with 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.840 someone I grew up loving. I'm parting with someone my 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.800 mom grew up loving. But I definitely know his songs 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.480 and it was just a good ass, black ass time. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.960 I had a really good time. So that was probably 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:59.960 my favorite night of essence. Wheezye, what was your favorite 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.240 moment outside of work? 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:03.120 I guess for you. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.080 So for me, I was really exhausted with our book tour. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.040 Like the day before I had just flown in. So, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.120 as you guys now know, we're New York Times bestsellers. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.040 I got to host a really dope book signing in 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.400 La Reparations Club. Shout out to them. We did two 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.720 black owned bookstores, Uncle Bobby's and Pheeley and Reparations Club 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.160 was your store, black owned Atlanta and now. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.760 The store in DC was also black owned. And yeah, 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.840 the store in Atlanta was also black owned. It was 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.160 forty fourth and third bookseller. Shout out to them. They're 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:39.840 on the campus of Filman and Moorhouse Medical Center. So 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.560 and then I think the store that we did in 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.600 New York was woman owned. So we did request indie 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.960 stores that were black owned, queer owned, and or woman owned. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.000 So we accomplished that for the entire first week. 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.520 That was really exciting. Like La was so vibe. So 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.400 two hours before getting into hair and makeup, on out 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.800 about our New York Times bestseller I got to tell 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.800 my mom in front of everyone. It was really special, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.520 and also got some info on just a New York 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.680 Times bestseller period. I mentioned this to Manny when we 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.640 were in New Orleans Shan was hosting. She's like, damn girl, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.120 I didn't even get that. She's like, you know who 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.920 else didn't get that. She was like, Drake had a book, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.360 he didn't get that. Like I saw a comment on 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.480 one of Charlottagne's videos that were like, everybody's a New 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.720 York Times bestseller. I literally replied, and I. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:29.480 Was like, oh, you do it. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.640 Like not only that, Tempests alerted me for you guys 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:41.120 who aren't aware, point zero one percent of authors are 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.000 New York Times bestsellers. I think there's only about five 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:49.720 hundred people out of the millions of authors that actually 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.960 have the title. And so it's a really really big deal, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.440 like the way that our artists want to win Grammys 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.200 and like, you know, like actors when Tony's and Emmys. 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.919 The New York Times Bestseller Award in title is like 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.080 the Krem Dela Krem of authors outside of getting into 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:14.120 like politary awards type shit. But yeah, it's a huge deal, 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:15.640 and not many people get it at all. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.720 It's a huge deal, and I think for us to 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.000 have received it after having such a tough week with 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.720 bookstore stuff. As you can hear on our Patreon episode 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.480 on the town Hall, it's super juicy over there. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:27.800 It was just dope. 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:32.440 But beyond eating food, I think so a few things 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.000 happened that I wanted to chat with you about because 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.920 I think it'll be a really cool conversation for everybody 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.000 that listens. And I would love to know everybody's top five. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.320 So we always see the memes when someone's like me, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.520 five minutes into being drunk in a city, I can 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:49.439 move here. So I had been creating a list in 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.359 my head of places I could live forever. I've always 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.119 said that New Orleans was my favorite city in the 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.000 country because I don't think, and I repeat this so much, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.440 there's anything else that is that has that much consistency 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:07.360 or culture native to that city. Now, everyone that's listening, 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:09.919 y'all are in New York and Texas somewhere else and 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.800 screaming at me, hear me out. The sound of New 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.480 Orleans is unique. The taste of New Orleans is one 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.560 spread around the world, and I truly believe It is 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:27.440 a place where everyone almost assimilates to the culture, the accent, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.840 and I generally don't see that when it comes up 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.359 to different ethnic groups. New York is the best city 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.080 in the world, right, nothing the top New York. You 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:36.920 can go to any fucking country in the world by 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.720 just a walk through Queens. But there's something about New 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.640 Orleans that's so unified and special that I just love it. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.600 So I made this list, and I wanted to see 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.399 if some of the cities could be the same for you, 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.440 or at least one. So these are places I want 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.960 to live or have my forever home. Number one for me. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:58.560 Is New York. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.040 My forever is priced about eleven million dollars in the 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:07.199 Greenwich Village. It's a townhouse. It is literally how I 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.159 would love to live in New York. Living in New 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.919 York in your dream home is literally impossible for anyone 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.879 I know that's not a billionaire, fuck millionaire nigga. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.400 Two La. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.320 I could find my dream home for a million dollars 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.360 in La. La. Got some beautiful landscape, beautiful views, nature, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.399 good weather, and there's enough black people there for me. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:28.920 Paris I love. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.040 I think it's got some of the best black scene 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.719 in Europe, fashion, capital, food, impeccable. I just love it. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.679 And number four is now New Orleans for me. 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:41.880 Here's why. 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.800 I haven't felt so at home by every single person 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.760 that I met that was in hospitality. You know how 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.480 you can get attitudes of time you pull up to 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.200 a motherfucking spot and everybody just met. I just felt 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.800 so at peace at home in New Orleans. It reminded 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.840 me why I love this place. And I started going 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.359 Magazine Street, one of the most famous streets to New 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.960 Orleans outside of Bourbon in the French Quarter. Nine hundred 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:10.080 thousand dollars for a fucking three story home, and I 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:14.320 was like, oh, bruh. Then my last one is Mexico City, 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.119 and y'all already know I think I'm Mexican, so I'm curious. 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.320 So a lot of this for me. Obviously, I can't 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.560 afford my dream home in New York today, but I 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.639 really thought about all the factors of this shit and 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.680 where I could be happy, where I can find community, 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:29.960 cities I could live in where I have no friends, 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:37.840 but I can make some just cities that feel like home. Art, food, culture, la. Sorry, 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:39.439 I ain't got the food, but y'all are good at 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.480 everything else. But yeah, I really want to know, what 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.480 do you think those five are for you? I know 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:46.840 for sure I don't have five. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.200 New York great would be New York would be where 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:56.240 my dream home is New York, and I would want it. 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.080 Actually in Columbus Circle, overlooking Central Park. 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:05.080 That's my happy my happy place. I probably went there. 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:06.960 I used to live like three stops from Central Park 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.960 when I was in Long Island City, and so for 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.200 me being able to overlook the park, be able to 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:18.399 ride the scooters, some of my favorite restaurants are over there, 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:20.280 I would just say there. 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.000 I mean clearly, I'm in Atlanta now. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.119 This is my third time living in Atlanta in my life, 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.280 where my community is. This is where people I've went 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.080 to high school with, these are where. This is where 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.880 my best friends are. Other than that, I. 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:36.280 Just like traveling. I think I really liked the Bay. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.320