WEBVTT - Ep. 115 — Is This the Worst Time Ever to Buy a House? 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.799 Hey, hey, hey, I'm back and I'm feeling great. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:25.400 It's Tiffany and it's Mandy. Hey guys, and this is 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:27.360 Brown Ambition. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:29.640 Yes, look at about professional. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.159 I got the results of my DNA test that I 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:41.159 that I sent to twenty three and me. No, my 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.080 husband said we might have to change the name of 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:44.199 the show to Beijes Ambition. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:45.919 Why. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:51.960 It turns out I'm fifty four percent European and forty 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:58.520 three percent sub Saharan African. I'm only forty three percent black. Yay, Like, so. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.480 What because so your father like because. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.280 I was saying, like it's so funny. I mean I 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.720 guess that means maybe my dad. I mean, yeah, I 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.080 had a little bit of European. Who knows. It was interesting. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.200 I mean there was nothing too shocking. That was just 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:12.040 really hilarious. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.880 Yeah. Also sub Saharan African, that's like what Ethiopia? Like, 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:16.319 what's that? 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:16.679 Oh? 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.480 Actually did I say sub Saharan? Sorry, I met Western Africa. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.640 I'm a little bit Subsaharan. It was the same thing, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.800 you know. I shared my dad's results a little while ago. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.560 He was he did ancestry dot Com. I did twenty 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.240 three and me and his results were all the you know, 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:34.000 the the main you know, Ghana, Nigeria, all those West 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:39.399 African countries, African countries, and I basically had the same. Yeah, 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.920 I'm way more British and Irish than I thought. I mean, 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.040 I guess that makes sense. I knew my I knew 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.160 my mom's side came from Ireland. I didn't know all 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.520 the all the all the British side too. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.960 But interesting, did your dad when he did his did 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.320 any like European things pop up, even in the smallest. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.960 I should go back and look now and see, because 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.160 I didn't really, I didn't even look that hard at 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.200 my dad's results. I just looked at, you know, like 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.320 what we're in Africa, my people came from. But yeah, 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.000 a thirty nine point eight percent West African I am 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.320 and two point five percent whatever broadly sub Saharan Africa means. 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.640 I don't know, that's that's the other two percent. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:23.040 Well, I if I can speak for the Black delegation, 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.280 we certainly would love for you to maintain your membership. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.200 There are things you're gonna have to say every year 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.880 you will have to renew to watch good Times. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.959 You have to pay the extra dues. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.800 Yeah, the extra dues, You're going to have to wear 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.160 your curly hair at least I would say one or 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:43.200 two months out of the year. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.560 Are you kidding? I haven't straightened this hair in two 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.000 years exactly. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.160 This is why we're allowed you to maintain your membership. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.680 It's a mess now for real. My hair has turned 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.560 into like a chia pet gone wrong. Really, but I 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.079 love your hair, I know, but like it's bad. It's 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.320 like an overgrown head right now. And I keep trying 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.160 to trim it. I keep saying, like, oh, I can 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.240 just trim my own hair, and I mean, I call 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.880 it a hedge. I'm just making fun of my hair 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.000 because it's just, you know, I really do trim it 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.120 like a hedge. I just snip, snip, snipped, like around 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.639 till it's shaped roughly, like evenly. But I haven't been 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.160 to a real salon in two years now, so I 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.320 need I need an actual haircut. I'm like, because I 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.880 turn around and there are long strands of curly hair 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.920 that are like that are way longer than the rest 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.240 of it. I slick in a little ratchet like you know. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.720 I saw my nineteen year old cousin yesterday and she 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:35.000 was like it don't look right, like, you know what. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.440 Once the kids start telling me, you're like, you know what. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.240 That was my real rude awakening. I was like, oh, yeah, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:41.960 I can't. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.440 Start saying stuffing. You're like, you know what, let me adjust. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.160 She's just say it doesn't look right. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:49.680 So I was. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.200 I went to I had my two week update with 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.320 the doctor. Everything is great. I told her my plans 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.840 of trying to have twins, and she said, she's like, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.440 I want you to try naturally first. There's some tests 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.800 you can take apparently where they like sir die inside 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.040 you and they kind of follow the path of the 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:06.880 way an egg would go. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.320 And she was like, yeah, I know. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.360 She's like it's kind of unpleasant, so take motrid ahead 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.480 of time. I'm like, great, but basically it'll it'll show 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.920 to make sure that my tubes and everything are flowing fully. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.520 But she said she suspects they are, and she doesn't 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.080 want me to go through IVF. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.480 She really wants me to do natural first. And I'm like, 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:26.559 but what if I want twins. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.560 She's like, the female body is really meant to carry 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.360 one baby at a time, although it does happen that 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.040 people carry two, but that's not really what the uterus 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.680 is for. And I'm like, so now I'm torn. So 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.880 I'm definitely open to brown ambition and feedback. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.080 She said, I get those babies in bulk. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:44.320 I know. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:45.919 Well she said that, you know, it's not me. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.520 She's like, obviously people do it, but she's just like, well, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.520 I would prefer now if I was like thirty, I 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.120 would definitely be like, sure, girl, But I'm thirty eight, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:55.920 and so I guess I'm a little nervous that what if, 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.279 like I can't, like I really would like my my 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.760 baby to have a sister or a brother, and I'm nervous. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.960 I mean, Supergirl is obviously it's gonna be her sister, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.599 but Supergirl is already eleven. And I'm like, you know, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.359 like a playmate, so like, because I know what it 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.279 was like growing up with like somebody in my age range, 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.400 you know, yeah, well, I. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.680 Mean you can only plan so much. And what I 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.120 would say is, you know you're gonna have what you're 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.520 gonna have, and you know you are friends who have kids, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:25.520 and like I. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:26.720 Have a these to a nephew. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.440 So I just said, well, at the very least, I'm 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.440 at least gonna take do the test to see if 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.840 she was like, if you flow freely, then there, then 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.279 you can decide after that. So my mom told me 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.760 she was gonna say, my mom is off for go 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.960 get your twins, girl. But that's because every every grandma, 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.440 potential grandma is always like more than marrier, the more 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:45.960 the marrier. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.320 So but she told me, she's like, your doctor's gonna 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.120 tell you shouldn't, but it's not like you can't. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.560 So I'm gonna just gather as much information as I 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.680 can and make the best decision possible. Superman is getting 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.000 nervous now because he's like, I can't raise these babies 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.560 on my own. I'm like, you are so dramatic. He's 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.440 just he's worried that like something would happen to me 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.599 and like childbirth. I'm like, oh my god, please don't, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.160 let's not go that far just yet. 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.039 Well, I mean that's a that's a sweet inclination. Yeah, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.479 I mean, did you see Actually that reminds me. On 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.120 a sad note, there was this this viral. This guy 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.680 on Instagram is going viral because he's been posting about 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.920 he lost his wife and childbirth. It's amazing to think 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.440 that still happens. In like twenty eighteen, I know, right 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.839 in America. Yeah, so he lost his wife and it's 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.000 just like this video of him dancing with his newborn 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.679 and like the internet is just eating I'm not eating 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.840 it up. That sounds like cheap, but it's so sad. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:41.440 I see that. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.599 It's like sharing his pain. It's it's the most It's 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.120 what social media. It's when I like social media for once, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.240 I'm like, Okay, someone's sharing something real, but it's just 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.400 so sad, like he's really working through the grief and 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:54.480 the public eye. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.279 Yeah, he's probably therapeutic for him. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.440 I don't know. I mean it's it's definitely. I feel 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.240 like he's probably getting a lot of support and yeah, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.240 it must be really hard, but someone did. We did 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.200 get an email from someone who reached out and just 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:11.920 wanted to check on you after your surgery. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.200 Oh a lot of people have hit me up on 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.880 social Just thank you guys. Honestly, I feel really like 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.760 last week was like kind of like the last week 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.600 where I was like, oh, my stitches. I feel I mean, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.560 it's deceptive because you want to be careful, but I 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.400 have to say I feel like eighty five maybe even 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.680 I would say eighty five percent myself. Like I'm sleeping normally. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.040 You know, I'm not carrying anything heavy or anything like that. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.720 But I'm not in pain at all. Sometimes I feel 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.680 a little tight and it's down there just to remind me, 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:41.640 like slow down. 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:43.600 But other than that, I feel good. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.680 I've been I'm back to quote unquote work, you know, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.720 as far as meanings, back to sitting at my computer. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:51.960 I'm not gonna lie. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.360 It's been at It's been hard to jump start because 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.240 I literally took off like a week and a half 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.880 and I'm like, all right, Tiffany, come on, Tiffany, come on, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.840 you know. But yeah, if you guys have reached out 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.640 to me on social and just hit me up in 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.880 the inbox, and I just want to say thank you, 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:06.160 you know. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.880 It's and it was. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.720 It's what's so crazy is how many women are like 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.880 I had the surgery or I have fiboids, and somebody 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.320 hit me that I thought was great. She was like, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.240 thank you so much for talking about how your insurance 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:19.640 covered it. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:20.400 I didn't know that. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.880 She's like, I checked, and my insurance covers my surgery. 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.679 I'm getting mine too, And I was like, yes, that's awesome. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.440 Thanks. Oh relation. That just reminds me tomorrow was Valentine's Day. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:31.960 I'll me Valentine's Day. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.959 Everybody listen, and if you're with somebody who's called a 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.520 Valentine's Day, break up with them. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.520 Oh god, man, someone misspelled definitely today and I just 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.760 got the shivers. I was in that word. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.719 Like pacific and specific. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.600 Oh lord, I can go, we can go. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:55.360 I don't. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.480 Let's not do that mean while I'm the word like, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.440 I don't even judge because when like, in my head, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.840 I type correctly, But then I reread some of my 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.880 Facebook statuses and I'm like, so there's no spell check 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.360 anywhere on your computer, Tiffany, because this is horrendous. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:10.000 I'm just not a. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.360 Good like typer, although in my head I know the 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.400 right things to say. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.160 That's okay, we forgive you. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.280 Are you guys gonna do anything I told I told Superman, like, eh, 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.640 I don't you know, I don't care. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.040 It's a nice excuse to actually it's a nice excuse 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.760 to do something nice if you want to. But I 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.839 don't feel pressure. We we're you know, we're in the 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.760 middle of this house process and we're both just like 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.600 a bundle of nerves. So we are going to see 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:39.040 Black Panther on Friday, not technically a Valentine's Day date, 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.240 but I'm excited. It looks really good. I got these 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:42.280 tickets like a month ago. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.720 It does look I honestly, everyone keeps saying I have 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.920 not seen one negative review, which is. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.160 Like unheard of. Yeah. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.120 The soundtrack is amazing. Kendrick Lamard did the soundtrack. It 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.680 is like the blackest I mean, first of all, like 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.040 to have the first. This is this is the first 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.480 all black superhero movie, right or primarily black, right. I 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.000 can't think of another one. Maybe that one on Netflix 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.200 with Luthor or whatever it is. But this is like 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.079 a Marvel movie. Yeah, And I just love that they 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.040 they are doing the most with it and really embracing it. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.440 And they got they got Ryan Kugler to direct, like 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.960 he directed? Did he direct Fruitvale Station in Rocky? 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.240 I don't know. I'm not a good director. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.160 Okay, I'm pretty sure that's right. And they got Kendrick 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.080 Lamargin to the soundtrack, like you know, I don't know. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:29.840 It's amazing. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.000 It's black on black on black, black and. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:32.800 Black by black. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.720 All right, are you ready for some brown break? 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:52.920 Brown booth always well, I am going to take a 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.280 brown break from the people who are going a little 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.920 bit too hard against these new presidential the first Lady 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.199 and President Barack Obama their their new official portraits. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.240 Oh lord, I'm gonna take a brown I mean. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:09.319 I'm not the break. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.400 Yes, Like, so, when I first saw, I'm very familiar 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.280 with let me you know, let me portraits because I'm gonna. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:17.760 I don't want to say their name is wrong because 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:23.319 especially since the young man who painted it is is Nigerian. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.840 So then was it a young because I've only seen 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.480 the woman who painted Michelle. So two separate artists did 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:29.119 the portraits. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.199 So it's like, let me see, but. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.040 They selected them personally, right. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:39.599 Yeah, so and and and the portraits are honestly, the 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:45.079 portraits are perfect representations of like their work, you know 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.880 what I mean. And so it's like, Okay, it's Cayenne 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.160 Dee Wiley. I believe he's Nigerian and at least I 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.400 think he's West African. So and then Amy Sheryld who's 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.959 from Detroit, So Kayne Wiley, Like. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.880 Sorry, people are already messing with this one of Obama 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.480 because you know he's in like the bushes it's beautiful. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.800 They put like Sean Spicer creeping out from behind the bushes. 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.320 All right, sorry, but people are going so hard and 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:16.280 I'm like, so most people liked the President Obama's his portrait, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.240 but I mean that's how and some people don't. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.240 But that's if you look at Cayenne's and stuff, it's 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.600 it's larger than life. I've seen it at the Brooklyn Museum. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.040 It's beautiful and like his stuff always has his background 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:26.240 like this. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.199 So it's not a huge surprise. They clearly knew. It 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.160 wasn't like, oh my god, I've never seen it before. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.920 Like you know, anybody who's an artist knows that that 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.800 you do a sketch and then the color sketch. There's 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.360 all of these processes that go along. So these weren't 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.160 unveiled like oh my god, what is this? And then 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.560 Amy Cheryl that's the one that people are having the 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:49.800 biggest pushback with because so she is the first lady 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:54.000 is kind of gray tone, which is typical of her paintings. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.200 And then but her dress has a lot of meaning 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:03.040 that there's different take cloth and can't take cloth. It 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.320 was meant to give different messages, like different patterns that 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.600 you wove into can't take cloth. We'd give different messages 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:14.160 so that way slaves could communicate with each other without 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:19.240 their master's knowing. And so she, yeah, she embedded all 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.160 that in there. And so when I first saw the 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.560 first ladies, I wasn't in love, I will be honest, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.960 but it's definitely grown on me, especially as I've looked 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.760 up this woman's her her work, and I'm like, you know, it's. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.000 Grown on me. But people are really like, I mean, 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:32.920 this is historic. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:38.840 This is two black artists drawing the first black president 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:45.319 and his first lady, who is also African American, and 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.800 and they're black artists, and this stuff was gonna live 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.760 in history forever and ever. I don't know if you've 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.320 seen the lineup of like the last ten presidentss their 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.960 their portraits, it's like gray and brown and black tones. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.000 They're all beautiful and then all of a sudden boom 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:05.120 present Obama's portrait, which is like beautifully lush and green 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.840 and full of life. And they will go down in history. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:12.840 And you cannot like the art itself because it's super subjective. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.520 But people are like just dragging almost like the artists, 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.000 which I'm just like really like I'm just over it, Like. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.440 I get it. You don't like it. Honestly, I don't care. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.560 I think people are too quick to judge. I mean, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.440 if you ever go to first of all, I think 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.120 seeing a little tiny image on your computer or your 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.080 phone is not the same thing as being in front 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.840 of this massive work of art. And if you've ever 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.000 gone to a museum, you mean, the whole point of 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.080 those benches in a museum is to sit with it 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.000 and to look at it and let it wash over you. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.640 And some art isn't necessarily as easy to digest as 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.920 others because it challenges you because it doesn't look easy 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.680 and palatable. And I'm not This is not to shade 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.160 the man who did Obama's portrait, because it's beautiful and lush, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:56.920 and I think that's maybe a little bit more appealing 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.240 just because the color is used. They're just easy to 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:04.440 digest and they're they're so clearly vibrant, and Michelle's is quieter. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.240 I mean, I think that you just have to give 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.320 it a chance. It's regal, it's elegant. To me, it's 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.320 like it's almost like a black and white image with 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.320 a little bit of saturation added. And I just think 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.120 it's I loved it and I don't see anything like 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.600 I just think people are just First of all, I 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.920 think it's a great headline. Michelle Obama's portra doesn't look 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.200 anything like her. I mean, whether it's a magazine cover 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.640 or you know, an Instagram post. Michelle Obama's appearance from 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.480 the second you know, they hit the national stage has 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.680 been like picked apart. And to me it's kind of 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.800 sad but not surprising that the same as happening with this, 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.280 you know, this work of art maide in her image. 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.680 Yeah and yeah, and like you said, and art doesn't 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.600 have to look like a photograph, like it's. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:52.080 Not yah interpretation and it's yeah, the only person who 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.160 really knows it is the artist and whoever's looking at it. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.800 You know, what does it say to you exactly? 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:01.320 And from what I understand, you know, first Lady Michelle Obama, 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.200 she picked the artist like seeing some of her work 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.920 like this is this is indicative of her work, like 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.040 gray tones for the skin like it just. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.400 It looks like her work. I mean some of her 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.000 work is a little bit more colorful, but the. 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.000 Skin of all of her, of all of her people 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.920 are always this color. So I'm just like, and people 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.080 are like putting brown on to talking about I fixed it, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:23.480 and I'm like, oh, I don't know. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.320 Oh that is soone. That's the worst insult I know 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:27.440 to her. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:30.840 Yeah, I it does me because I know what it 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:32.800 is to like and I think we all know what 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.360 it is to put your heart and soul into something 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.800 and then the reception. It's one thing, like you don't 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.480 have to like everything I do, but then the reception 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.440 to be you know, just levels of disrespect that's just unnecessary, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.320 like I fixed it, Like girl, this is like my 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.000 life's work, Like to be able to to work with, 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.320 you know, the first black president and his wife, and 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.880 for my things to sit in the Smithsonian as a 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.000 black artist. Do you even know what that means for 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.120 you to say I fixed it or I just so 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:01.000 you don't have to like it? 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:01.840 But I don't. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.120 I think we live in the social media age has 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.960 made everybody think that disrespect is cute. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:09.119 Yeah and funny. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.399 It's like we're all bad three year olds, you know, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.480 like the three year old that's like listen, Linda, listen. 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.360 Remember that video with that little boy was telling his mother. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.400 I still quote that video to this day. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.119 Listen, listen, listen. Okay, listen, listen listen. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.959 Like we all are like bad three year olds getting 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.679 like high fives for being like disrespectful and unruly. But 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.399 they're like, oh, but it's so funny, like okay, until 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.119 you grow up, but you see people in person and 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.240 you wouldn't say it's in my face. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.480 Though. Yeah, everyone wants everyone wants a funny hot take 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.200 the most retweets, But this is going to stand through history. Tweets, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.399 don't you know? Tweets are nothing. This is gonna you know, 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.119 decades from now, kids are going to be passing this 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.879 portrait and they won't think anything of it exactly. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.119 So that is my brown break from the negativity about 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.200 the portraits. Whether you like it or not, They're here 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.399 to stay. And I'm proud of the two artists. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.520 Absolutely. Oh I just find anything with their faces on 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.439 and comforting. I'm gonna buy some Michelle Obama socks or something, 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:08.600 just so I want to do a brown boost this week. 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.920 I actually was hanging out with a couple of friends, 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.720 not this a couple of weekends ago, and I meant 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.240 to do this break this boost last week, but the 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.359 whole lasting took over. So I need to do a 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.919 boost for Sesame Street, the wokest show on the war 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.159 in the world right now. Because I was I was, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:26.720 I happen to stay over at their house and they 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.840 have a young daughter, she's a year and a half 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.679 and she loves Sesame Street. And it was Sunday morning, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.960 and I guess a new, a new hot Sesame Street 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.160 episode drops on HBO every every Sunday at like nine am. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.280 I didn't know it, but I found out, and so 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.600 when we were all watching it, and it was this, 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.639 it was the cutest little episode it was about. It 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.679 was one muppet with with the curly natural hair and 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.800 two poofs on either side, like the same way I 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.320 wore my hair, and a lot of black girls wore 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.080 their hair on their little kids and sometimes still now. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.000 And then a little muppet with like blonde hair and 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.880 they were they were damn and the blonde hair girl. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.240 It was all about teaching about self love and how 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.360