Speaker 1: Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect
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Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of Reasonably shake Dy. I am
Speaker 2: Jaseelle Bryant. What's that? What's up?
Speaker 1: This is Robin Dixon. I hope you are having a
Speaker 1: wonderful Monday. Yes, a wonderful summer.
Speaker 2: A wonderful holiday. This is this is the holiday?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, this is lights, camera action, fireworks, barbecue. Where is
Speaker 2: your Where is your barbecue? Are you? Are we having
Speaker 2: a barbecue? Are we eating? You know what? Anything that's
Speaker 2: on the queue? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Are you hosting? I'm not hosting. Okay, I don't do
Speaker 1: you have Do you cook on the grill? Because I
Speaker 1: don't know how to use mine? Yeah, I cook on
Speaker 1: the grill.
Speaker 2: Okay. Mine has never been used, will probably never be used.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to use it. But I do
Speaker 2: have a very nice girl. Really, yes, oh man, I
Speaker 2: need to use it. Okay, you did your whole outdoor space.
Speaker 2: I know I need to get into it. I've been
Speaker 2: busy robbing.
Speaker 1: Why don't you have like, I don't know, one of
Speaker 1: the men in your life come over and yeah, or
Speaker 1: I can just have like on the grill, a real chef,
Speaker 1: maybe a barbecuer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like partake and you have a little party.
Speaker 2: Oh my gokay, it's on come to my house. You
Speaker 2: don't like tomorrow during the summer. No, no hot dogs
Speaker 2: on the grill, ribs, salmon, none of it.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I don't even like smoke, Like I don't like smoke,
Speaker 2: you know, because because the barber. If you don't know
Speaker 2: what you're doing, it's a smoke fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I when I'm outside on the grill, I
Speaker 1: actually put a shower cap on my head because I
Speaker 1: don't want to.
Speaker 2: In my hair. I don't want you have to take
Speaker 2: a picture of it. I don't. I'll be there my
Speaker 2: shower cap on the neighbors like, Hi, okay, does like
Speaker 2: the black people live at whatever your age is it? Okay?
Speaker 2: So does does wine cook on the groundpe? Okay? I
Speaker 2: think I already knew that answer. So when you're cooking
Speaker 2: on the grid with your shower cap on, what is
Speaker 2: Win doing inside? Watching TV?
Speaker 1: Or we might be like, oh, the flame looks a
Speaker 1: little how you might need to turn.
Speaker 2: It down out. I'm a need for him to make
Speaker 2: you a drink or something. He needs to stur up
Speaker 2: the lemonade.
Speaker 1: Yes something, you're right? Yes, absolutely?
Speaker 2: Okay. So today, as we celebrate independence, I would like
Speaker 2: to share that my daughter is officially quote independent. Grace
Speaker 2: is at college orientation or yeah, she's doing a little
Speaker 2: a little summer action, and I want her to embrace
Speaker 2: her independence. Now, when do I get to say she's
Speaker 2: not independent? How many times of her asking me for money? Right? Okay?
Speaker 2: So is it like the four time she's gone asked
Speaker 2: me to cash? Have her the third time? Which one?
Speaker 1: Is it? Okay? Wait? So I assume they get this,
Speaker 1: she gets an allowance or no.
Speaker 2: So she had some really nice job situations. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I asked her and that she got paid for. I
Speaker 2: asked her, you're like, you know, you need some money
Speaker 2: or whatever. She said, I'm good. Now, if a child
Speaker 2: who's eighteen tells you they're good, right, believe them. Okay,
Speaker 2: walk away, Okay, turn around.
Speaker 1: But clearly she's no longer good. Why because she says
Speaker 1: she's asking you for a moment that she hasn't yet.
Speaker 2: But I'm the question out there is, oh, when are
Speaker 2: they not independent?
Speaker 1: She's not independent yet?
Speaker 2: Not till she gets a job at W two pays
Speaker 2: some Yeah.
Speaker 1: Not until she's like I mean, in my opinion, not
Speaker 1: until she's graduated and actually like working, has her own apartment,
Speaker 1: her own place.
Speaker 2: Yes, true, yeah, very true. But I'm very I'm very
Speaker 2: proud of her.
Speaker 1: Did you when you graduated college, did you like go
Speaker 1: to work right away and have your own Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I've moved back home for like two three weeks,
Speaker 1: and then I had a job, and then I got
Speaker 1: an apartment.
Speaker 2: I got an apartment with a girlfriend of mine, a roommate. Yes.
Speaker 2: And then she I was so excited, fell in love. Oh,
Speaker 2: and so she was always was there. She was always
Speaker 2: at her boy. Matter of fact, you know the guy
Speaker 2: she married, Oh you do? Okay, his name is blanking
Speaker 2: on me right now. Who's the guy who's a real
Speaker 2: estate agent? Oh boom, yeah, yeah him. So they fell
Speaker 2: in love. She was always at his house. I had
Speaker 2: the place to myself. She still continued to pay the rent,
Speaker 2: thank god. And then after a year, I went got
Speaker 2: a place by myself.
Speaker 1: Okay, nice, Yeah, yeah, I definitely. I graduated college, I
Speaker 1: got a full time job. I did prolonged. So instead
Speaker 1: of graduating in four years, I graduated in four and
Speaker 1: a half and.
Speaker 2: I did that. It's called super senior.
Speaker 1: Super senior. I did that on purpose. Why Rob, I didn't,
Speaker 1: like I knew, like while I was in like those
Speaker 1: four years, I was like, I'm not ready to like
Speaker 1: go out and be in the real world. So I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna like not take instead of taking what five classes?
Speaker 2: I took four? I thought it was because your father
Speaker 2: wasn't available to write your papers or something something like that.
Speaker 2: Just kidding, not kidding.
Speaker 1: So anyway, So after my four and a half years
Speaker 1: of college, Okay, yeah, I got a job and then
Speaker 1: I had a roommate and then where was one?
Speaker 2: He was still in college? How many years did he take?
Speaker 1: So? You know, one played basketball? Yeah, I'm aware, Okay,
Speaker 1: So he finished he did so, he finished his college eligible.
Speaker 1: He finished playing basketball in college. He played four years
Speaker 1: of college basketball.
Speaker 2: Let's get the story straight. I'm getting it.
Speaker 1: I'm getting it together. I'm got it together.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So he stopped playing his senior year. Ye mean, okay,
Speaker 1: he played four years of basketball Maryland.
Speaker 2: Are you sure?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Okay, two thousand and two. Well, Jesus, he finished his
Speaker 1: playing his basketball playing career at Maryland. Okay two Okay?
Speaker 1: Then he went to play in the NBA. Okay, and
Speaker 1: then in two thousand and thirteen, okay, he went back
Speaker 1: and finished his course.
Speaker 2: Oh that's nice. Yeah, Okay, that's actually admirable. It is.
Speaker 1: However, during that time, so from between two thousand and
Speaker 1: two and twenty thirteen, every summer, like every NBA off season,
Speaker 1: I would say to him, one, go to summer school,
Speaker 1: like work on your degree, go get your finish a degree.
Speaker 1: Finish a degree. And he would always be like huh.
Speaker 1: He would always like put it off, and he'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play basketball time. I'm like fifty, I don't
Speaker 1: need it, like I mean, you know, like no, I
Speaker 1: would play basketball for like another ten years. Like he
Speaker 1: would always put it off off, And then two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine was his last year of playing professional of
Speaker 1: playing NBA basketball. He played a couple of years overseas
Speaker 1: and he had like he ended up having really bad
Speaker 1: knee problems, and so he was forced to stop playing. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he stopped playing. He didn't have a degree. Can't
Speaker 1: really get a ton of jobs without a degree, especially
Speaker 1: like he wanted to go in coach, and he couldn't
Speaker 1: even start his college coaching career because he didn't have
Speaker 1: a degree. Oh so, then it came back to them,
Speaker 1: I told you so, said.
Speaker 2: That, Rob. Hell yeah, I said that, Robin. That's like
Speaker 2: the key. You know, You're never supposed to say I
Speaker 2: told you I told you so all the time. What
Speaker 2: do you yeah, I told you so, girl?
Speaker 1: I am and I told you so girl, No way,
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: Okay. So, but he'll even come back and be like,
Speaker 2: you were right. I know, but you're supposed to allow
Speaker 2: him to say, Robin, you were right. You're not supposed
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: I told you so, and I'd be like, mm hmm,
Speaker 1: I told you so. You okay, So you ain't want
Speaker 1: to listen?
Speaker 2: Okay? Do you which one? Do you which one happens first?
Speaker 2: Do you say I told you so first? Or do
Speaker 2: you wait for him to say it and then you
Speaker 2: say I told youself because that's important for a relationship
Speaker 2: and we weren't even supposed touch on relationships today.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I think he'll say it first.
Speaker 1: You think, yeah, he'll say it first, and then I'll
Speaker 1: be like, mm hm, I told you so.
Speaker 2: Any want to listen? Okay? So that's that's that's respective.
Speaker 2: That's better that's better. But if you come at him,
Speaker 2: like charging at him, because I've done that a time
Speaker 2: or two. If you start charging at him like I
Speaker 2: told you so, with your fake pointing your finger.
Speaker 1: Well no, I don't do it that bad, Okay, but
Speaker 1: he'll be like you know during that time, Man, I
Speaker 1: want to I need to get a job, but I
Speaker 1: need to agree, and i'd be like, mmm, I told
Speaker 1: you so. Any want to listen all the and then
Speaker 1: I go on to the little rant autumn years, every
Speaker 1: every summer, every off season, I said, go to so,
Speaker 1: go to summer school. Go to summer school. Do you
Speaker 1: only have nine credits left? Go to summer school? You
Speaker 1: only had nine? Yeah, you can do nine in one summer,
Speaker 1: can you. Yes, that's three courses.
Speaker 2: That's three courses, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have like an internship and like a couple
Speaker 1: other classes. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he got the big I told you so.
Speaker 2: Yeahsh how we got here, been here?
Speaker 1: Okay, So we're happy.
Speaker 2: So one received his independence his collegiate independence Get Independence
Speaker 2: Day twenty thirteen from the University of Maryland. Yes, congratulations one.
Speaker 2: And you decided to extend your college experience because you
Speaker 2: just want to live like to the full list.
Speaker 1: I should have I should have done a whole year.
Speaker 1: But you know, just.
Speaker 2: Robbing your parents. Let me tell you something, they love you. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: because my father said, you got four years of my
Speaker 2: money right now after that.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy. I was so blessed. I didn't really realize,
Speaker 1: like how blessed you are? Know, like how much tuition cost?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of that, Like, oh I was, I was.
Speaker 1: I had a good childhood, yes, and I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize it, clearly speaking of speaking of how much tuition goes.
Speaker 2: So this is a funny story. So at they don't
Speaker 2: let you pay tuition until you register. Until you register, right,
Speaker 2: clearly that makes sense. You have to register for your
Speaker 2: classes and then you pay.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, Grace's father was leaving where she leaving where
Speaker 1: she is before she registered, so he just went to
Speaker 1: the registrar's office to pay anything.
Speaker 2: There's no such thing, okay. So he was like, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to give y'all money. Y'all't want to take my money,
Speaker 2: and they was like, sir, calm down, and he was like,
Speaker 2: y'all gonna take my money. No, long story short, Grace
Speaker 2: has a nice credit and it'll balance out one day. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: he said, you ain't coming for me.
Speaker 1: Yes, my daughter is not her academic h well, he
Speaker 1: just didn't want to deal with it later.
Speaker 2: He just just like, I'm here. I'm in the office.
Speaker 2: Mind you, the the two pay office. There was no
Speaker 2: one there, right, the financial aid office? H what's afram?
Speaker 2: What's that thing? It was freak nicking that. Okay, it
Speaker 2: was so many people in there. Who lord? Okay, but anyway,
Speaker 2: I digress. We want everyone to enjoy their holiday season. Yes,
Speaker 2: we're not going to keep you all long because you
Speaker 2: know it's the holidays, and we know that y'all have
Speaker 2: a barbecue to get to y'all have to eat some parties. Barbecues.
Speaker 1: You can get the cues crabs, so cook some some
Speaker 1: hot dog hot's.
Speaker 2: So what's your favorite from a barbecue?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: I love like the ribs.
Speaker 1: Mmm? Really I like hamburgers. Cheeseburgers, do you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Nice cheesey cheeseburger. Cheeseburgers are all not all created equal.
Speaker 1: That's very true, Yes, very true.
Speaker 2: Who made the cheeseburger? Right?
Speaker 1: And where did you buy the burger from?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Was it like the big super frozen pack? You know
Speaker 1: of like one hundred patties. You put the girl and
Speaker 1: they shrivel up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or and the bun. The bun is very important.
Speaker 1: The bun is important too. Yeah. So if you have
Speaker 1: a burger at my house, you want to get like
Speaker 1: the nice, the nice, juicy, thick, okay burger then yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay. So I have gotten sick at a barbecue eating
Speaker 2: a hot dog. Be careful with these hot dogs, y'all.
Speaker 2: I didn't know, like, it wasn't really cooked. I thought
Speaker 2: they were. No, well, oh are they? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Something happened on that grill. I was beyones. So I
Speaker 2: will never eat a hot dog as someone buy someone
Speaker 2: else's grill. I don't really eat hot dogs, but you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Yeah, I like the ribs if
Speaker 2: they're nice and juicy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good. I just don't like this. This is
Speaker 1: too messy for me.
Speaker 2: What the ribs? Yeah? Okay, So you need to you
Speaker 2: need to. I'm about to go to a crab boil. Oh.
Speaker 2: The people there have no idea. I'm bringing like a
Speaker 2: couple of plastic bags and I'm taking my crabs home. Really, yes,
Speaker 2: they have no idea. I'm coming for the bucket of crab.
Speaker 1: You know what, it's so weird. I had crabs recently.
Speaker 1: We had crabs in my house recently, and in the
Speaker 1: middle of eating them, I like really was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know that I like these that much anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, listen, I had some crabs recently and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh, these are amazing.
Speaker 1: Really, yes, yeah, I mean the crabs they were. There
Speaker 1: was nothing wrong with the crabs that I had, but
Speaker 1: I think didn't like it. Yeah. I think I'm just
Speaker 1: like I'm over it for me, like, you know, to
Speaker 1: be from Baltimore, Like.
Speaker 2: That's that's saying a lot. Okay, So you're going to
Speaker 2: the same crab party that I'm going to, so I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take your portion. Yeah, okay, right, and that's that
Speaker 2: on that. But anyway, guys, enjoy and we will see
Speaker 2: you next Monday.
Speaker 1: Happy fourth of July. Happy Independence Day, Happy Independence Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fireworks going off exactly. Yeah, oh no, that's betters cool. Okay, goodbye,