Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club. Morning Everybody.
Speaker 1: It's DJ n v J.
Speaker 3: Just hilarious.
Speaker 4: Chelamine the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
Speaker 4: some special guests in.
Speaker 1: The building, my girls, Lex p Andre and the Cole.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: Great, really good. Happy to be here.
Speaker 2: Happy to see y'all. You'll got the new show Travel Queen.
Speaker 2: I'm happy to see y'all. Just evolving. Poor Minds podcast
Speaker 2: is a hit. Poor Minds podcast Evolving. Now y'all got
Speaker 2: the Travel Queen's TV show on BT. It's a docu series.
Speaker 2: How'd that come about?
Speaker 5: Also, the production company Cocoa Butter, they actually reached out
Speaker 5: to us because they wanted us to audition for it
Speaker 5: because they had us and like I think some other
Speaker 5: maybe like two or three other friend groups in mind.
Speaker 1: So we auditioned for it.
Speaker 5: They loved us, and then we got it and we
Speaker 5: started filming maybe like a month after.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then really filmed the whole show in two weeks.
Speaker 2: Coc but I, No, it's actually not.
Speaker 5: It's a white guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what a travel Queen's about?
Speaker 4: Where y'all going with what y'all doing?
Speaker 1: So we went to four different cities.
Speaker 5: We went to Cardahena, Mexico City, and Key West Charleston.
Speaker 5: So it's basically really showing, like young black millennials gen zers,
Speaker 5: especially women, how to travel, where to go eat, where
Speaker 5: to find other black people when you travel, just how
Speaker 5: to be safe and.
Speaker 1: Have a good time.
Speaker 5: I think right now, and media I won't say right now,
Speaker 5: but I feel like a lot of stuff that we're
Speaker 5: seeing in the media with black women it's like who fighting,
Speaker 5: throwing drinks in people's face. So I really think it's
Speaker 5: refreshing to see two black women who are really friends
Speaker 5: just having good innocent fun.
Speaker 1: We're not talking.
Speaker 5: About men and dating and gender wars and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's just good fun.
Speaker 2: What about the ladies that are watching it, like, well,
Speaker 2: how am I going to be able to fly myself.
Speaker 5: Out grad from there?
Speaker 1: Actually?
Speaker 5: But I will say so a lot of the stuff too,
Speaker 5: is like it's budget friendly. I mean, we went to Charleston,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, But you can do it
Speaker 5: aur on trip. We went to key West, so you
Speaker 5: can drive to key West, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You don't have to necessarily fly. It's not like we're
Speaker 5: doing extremely expensive things to be honest.
Speaker 1: So I think if you.
Speaker 5: Budget you know, it's not like we're doing luxurious things
Speaker 5: and going to the Maldives and you know, staying at
Speaker 5: the Four Seasons. It's very budget friendly stuff. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: I think that was the point of the show. They
Speaker 5: wanted to make everybody feel like, Okay, I can come
Speaker 5: here and I don't have to.
Speaker 1: Spend a lot of money to have a good time.
Speaker 2: So for God was flying.
Speaker 5: I still want to go to those destinations, yeah, but
Speaker 5: I probably would have some different.
Speaker 1: Beautiful West is one of them.
Speaker 5: A little ducked up, I remember it is.
Speaker 1: That's before I wasn't through out by cocoa butter, but
Speaker 1: that that's usually the older gentleman. Yes, it's a very
Speaker 1: like quiet town. You can definitely sneak off there with
Speaker 1: the old I haven't never been the key waste before.
Speaker 1: That was my first time it was you know, it
Speaker 1: was water blue. The water was blue.
Speaker 2: That's a fact took you be confused.
Speaker 6: So I just told them that when the older guys
Speaker 6: performed filatio, they don't.
Speaker 1: Really know.
Speaker 6: What the congo lings kind of when when they're doing
Speaker 6: that they say leal lit.
Speaker 1: I guess they they don't have teef anymore.
Speaker 6: You know, they're trying to figure out where it is,
Speaker 6: especially the ones with glasses, you know when they slip
Speaker 6: down on the nose and they say, legally they be
Speaker 6: doing as a glass because a lot of it's gonna
Speaker 6: get a little nobody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Four Cities y'all went to?
Speaker 2: Which one did you like the best? And why?
Speaker 1: Mexico CD because it was just so nice.
Speaker 5: I feel like, it's so many black expats that are
Speaker 5: moving there from the United States, so it's a lot
Speaker 5: of black people out there. We went to a R
Speaker 5: and B night while we were out there, we went
Speaker 5: to a black vegan restaurant. It's just it reminded me
Speaker 5: a lot of the United States, but just in Mexico C.
Speaker 1: I feel like, out of everywhere that we win, that
Speaker 1: was my favorite place.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie. I keep saying that Charleston surprised
Speaker 5: me too, like that I've never been to Charleston, and
Speaker 5: I have a really close friend of mine that lives
Speaker 5: out there and he's been trying to get me to
Speaker 5: come out there forever.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what is in Charleston? Like, isn't
Speaker 1: that a dance?
Speaker 5: Like? I was like, I'm not trying, but I was
Speaker 5: so surprised, like people be taking the nice boats out.
Speaker 1: The food is good.
Speaker 5: I had a ball in Charleston, like I'm actually playing
Speaker 5: a trip to go back.
Speaker 1: Like beautiful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mexico City is nice to Yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 5: of people moving there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My husband's family is from there. Really that's why period. Okay,
Speaker 1: y'all both like to travel already.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and we already traveled together a lot anyway,
Speaker 5: so we felt like that's why it was the perfect
Speaker 5: show for it.
Speaker 4: Y'all get tired of each other at all, Like, you
Speaker 4: know what, you go your way, I'll go walk my way.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Wow, we're neighbors.
Speaker 1: We literally live in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: I live in a building right here, and her building
Speaker 5: is right here, and the unit that I used to
Speaker 5: live in. She could see my apartment from so she
Speaker 5: would be like waving me from the pool. No, she
Speaker 5: I followed her because I started building a building ourself
Speaker 5: in the move, right next door to my sweetie pool.
Speaker 1: I love that I would. Y'all get tired, sugar. You
Speaker 1: know what's crazy.
Speaker 5: I think when we were younger and the show first started,
Speaker 5: we didn't have any direction. We didn't know what we
Speaker 5: wanted to do. We're going through growing pains, but now
Speaker 5: it's like she's thirty four, I'm thirty five. We've grown women. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we don't have anything to fight about. And honestly, I
Speaker 5: think it's so crazy when people have podcasts and they
Speaker 5: make so much money and they be arguing. You know what,
Speaker 5: we have so much fun, like to be able to
Speaker 5: travel the world with your best friend and have a business.
Speaker 1: It's great, it's fun. How was it when y'all get
Speaker 1: in relationships?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 1: Ooh?
Speaker 5: I feel like we do a really good job of
Speaker 5: still keeping the balance of our friendship and still being
Speaker 5: in a relationship, Like we always find the time to
Speaker 5: hang with each other, to go to dinner, to talk
Speaker 5: on the phone. As crazy as it is because the
Speaker 5: podcast we do talk about dating a lot, we are
Speaker 5: really not male centered women and a lot of people
Speaker 5: think that because we talk about dating so much on
Speaker 5: the show, But we really not like.
Speaker 1: We like to be.
Speaker 5: Like last year we went to Turks for her birthday.
Speaker 5: We wasn't inviting them. We went to Miami one year
Speaker 5: for my birthday. Like, we just go on trips by ourself.
Speaker 5: We're not like, oh, our boyfriends have to come or
Speaker 5: if we go to dinner. It's not like, oh, bring
Speaker 5: your man, it's none of that.
Speaker 1: We none of yah.
Speaker 2: Y'all still bowed up.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You know now you're not in a rocky place. We
Speaker 1: gonna see what happens.
Speaker 5: It's complicated, yeah, which is crazy, right because I feel
Speaker 5: like it happened simultaneously, like at the same time for
Speaker 5: both of us. We started kind of going through a
Speaker 5: transition and a break up at the same time.
Speaker 1: But it's not like in the bad space. No, yeesh,
Speaker 1: it's not like we're cool. It's cool.
Speaker 5: We're figuring it out type sua suck each other up
Speaker 5: like girl leaving, I'm gonna leavehim if you leave him,
Speaker 5: or if.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know what's crazy.
Speaker 5: No, I'm really like that friend where when she calls
Speaker 5: me and she talks to me about what's going on
Speaker 5: in her relationship and stuff, I'm just always.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, girl, well you know, do what you want
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 5: I try to be supporting of what she want to
Speaker 5: do as long as it's not a fly violent situation
Speaker 5: or something that you need to leave the abusive or
Speaker 5: anything like that.
Speaker 1: I try to be supportive of my friends. And I
Speaker 1: get it. When you love somebody, you want to stay
Speaker 1: with your man. It's hard all here, y'all.
Speaker 5: All men, y'all all married, y'all got y'all.
Speaker 3: No, And I don't know why.
Speaker 2: He was just in love last year.
Speaker 1: I still ever loved. I'm very much in love. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it's just a situation. We're figuring it out.
Speaker 5: I don't, you know, but I think we're both so
Speaker 5: focused on our careers right now. And I know it
Speaker 5: sounds so cliche, but I'm just a person. He's an
Speaker 5: amazing guy. If we're meant to be together, we're gonna
Speaker 5: be together. So I'm just not putting pressure on it,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's cool. We're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 2: You know what have y'all learned about y'allselves from doing
Speaker 2: the podcasting? The podcast first of one, No longer than that.
Speaker 1: We started doing Poor Minds when I was like twenty seven,
Speaker 1: so yeah.
Speaker 2: Seven years yeah, seven years now, Okay, So y'all at that,
Speaker 2: See is people don't realize this is at the point,
Speaker 2: this is the time when podcasts really start to take off.
Speaker 2: Round your seventh fifure everybody think it's just instant success. Yeah,
Speaker 2: round your seven fifth years. So what have y'all learned
Speaker 2: about yourselves?
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 5: I would say transparency and vulnerability is healing. When I
Speaker 5: first started doing the show, I think that I always
Speaker 5: have kind of had more of a closed off personality.
Speaker 5: I've always been a little bit more private than like
Speaker 5: She's always been like an open book on the show.
Speaker 5: And I never used to want to talk about things
Speaker 5: that I was going through because I felt like it
Speaker 5: was a sign of weakness.
Speaker 1: And I've just always had this thing where.
Speaker 5: I don't want people to look at me like, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm weak or whatever. So I think that now I'm
Speaker 5: in a space where I enjoy telling my story. I
Speaker 5: enjoy telling people the things that I'm going through because
Speaker 5: I feel like it can help other people get through
Speaker 5: this through similar things or you know, just being transparent
Speaker 5: to me is just very important at this point in
Speaker 5: my life life because I don't know, I just I
Speaker 5: don't want to get emotional.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get emotional a little bit.
Speaker 5: But like I lost my dad and it was something
Speaker 5: that was thank you, It was something that was really
Speaker 5: really hard for me to talk about on the show,
Speaker 5: But I wish that back then I had the same
Speaker 5: mindset because I feel like I was dealing with so
Speaker 5: much by myself, and when I started talking about it
Speaker 5: on the show, it was just so many people in
Speaker 5: such an outpouring of love, people saying I've been through
Speaker 5: the same thing. I can understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 5: So that's what I've learned over the years about myself.
Speaker 5: I think that I really enjoy now telling people what
Speaker 5: I'm going through instead of just feeling like I have
Speaker 5: to go through everything by myself. I think with me,
Speaker 5: I'm such like a loud personality, and I think a
Speaker 5: lot of times I would try to hide that from people,
Speaker 5: and I just embrace who I am, Like I'm not
Speaker 5: the sexy girl that's doing all this, Like I'm a tomboy.
Speaker 5: I like to be loud, have fun. So I really
Speaker 5: got confidence about myself because I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, this is who I am.
Speaker 5: I think for when I first started, like being on
Speaker 5: social media, I was like doing the bikini pigs and
Speaker 5: poles and bottle pull I'm like, girl, this is not
Speaker 5: you at all. So I've really been able to embrace
Speaker 5: myself and be like, you know what you'd allow homegirl,
Speaker 5: and that's okay, Like you don't have to fit into.
Speaker 1: This box of what you think that a woman is.
Speaker 5: Supposed to because people always love to say, because I
Speaker 5: know you hear this a lot, they'd be like, oh,
Speaker 5: funny women aren't pretty, or you have to either you
Speaker 5: funny or you're pretty.
Speaker 1: You can't be both, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So I feel like I used to try to lean
Speaker 5: into being the pretty girl, and then I would try
Speaker 5: to lean.
Speaker 1: To be the funny girl. And I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't have to be in anybody's box. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So you've always been sexy, you just don't give off
Speaker 6: sex like you said, like you're just not prissy, You're
Speaker 6: just yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, we talked about this on the show.
Speaker 5: There's a difference between like having sex appeal and like
Speaker 5: being attracted.
Speaker 1: Like Drea just is like sexy, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: She's walking around she's like, hey, oh you know yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I said, I just think, like being said.
Speaker 5: Really much, sex appeal is something that's just inside yes,
Speaker 5: and I just think like that's not a part of
Speaker 5: my personality.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. It's not. I'm not saying I'm unattractive.
Speaker 1: I'm a patty uncle. You feel me, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So I just think that I've been more comfortable, like
Speaker 5: being in my skin and who I am.
Speaker 1: For sure, growing out loud is hard yees, you know.
Speaker 2: And that's what you'll been doing the last seven years
Speaker 2: on that podcast.
Speaker 5: Like going through everything like she said we she lost
Speaker 5: her dad, I lost my mom, going through breakups and
Speaker 5: then it's like, you know, we'd be like, oh, we
Speaker 5: in love and then the next month were talking about
Speaker 5: a different doing and every like oh my dad doing
Speaker 5: the same thing about you, you know, and people not
Speaker 5: in your business. So I think, yeah, going through relationships
Speaker 5: and growing pains. And I've always been honest about my
Speaker 5: financial status too, because I always said when I'm it
Speaker 5: was Atlanta, i had three dollars because I did like
Speaker 5: I wasn't lying. So I think it's important to be transparent,
Speaker 5: especially as a black woman in this industry. I feel
Speaker 5: like we always try to hide what we're making because
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, this company signed up for your ass.
Speaker 5: How much they paying you? Because it's how much they
Speaker 5: paying us. Let's make sure that they not, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So I think that with the platform
Speaker 5: that we have, it's like, yeah, we've grown in front
Speaker 5: of the camera. But like she said, being open and
Speaker 5: vulnerable has helped us one thousand percent.
Speaker 2: So what have y'all learned about y'allself from doing the
Speaker 2: TV show?
Speaker 1: Mmm?
Speaker 5: Honestly, I feel like everybody always asked that because they're like,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, how was it?
Speaker 1: It was two weeks, But I'm like, I don't know nothing.
Speaker 1: I guess to.
Speaker 5: Be honest, Well, I mean because it's crazy because I
Speaker 5: thought it was gonna feel so different, but it felt
Speaker 5: so natural, Like I feel like we made for TV
Speaker 5: because it felt so natural. It kind of felt like
Speaker 5: and maybe because we did it together and we're best
Speaker 5: friends and we already have that chemistry and the camaraderie
Speaker 5: and stuff, it just felt thank you camaraderie.
Speaker 1: So it just felt.
Speaker 5: Like I'm doing this show with my homegirl, and the
Speaker 5: cameras just happened to be here.
Speaker 2: How many bags did y'all pack?
Speaker 1: We too?
Speaker 5: Right, No, we had that when we had one big
Speaker 5: suitcase and like our totes and stuff and then a
Speaker 5: carry on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So what we did though, is so we had the
Speaker 5: the bags from Amazon that you vacuum. So what we
Speaker 5: did is we had each bag for each city. So
Speaker 5: I had like my three outfits for Columbia and my vacuum.
Speaker 5: Back then I didn't have to open that bag no more.
Speaker 5: Then when we went to Charleton, I had my bag
Speaker 5: for Charuton. So it wasn't that bad. But I will
Speaker 5: say shout out to the producers at BT, James Knox
Speaker 5: and the Cocoa Butter family, because they.
Speaker 1: Really let us be ourselves.
Speaker 5: Like they were literally like press record, y'all, just do y'all.
Speaker 5: And that's another thing I was worried about. I was like,
Speaker 5: how are they going to edit this and make us
Speaker 5: look But it's definitely given lex p Andre and the call.
Speaker 1: You know what's really fun time.
Speaker 5: So that was my second time going to Columbia, my
Speaker 5: first time going to card Diana because.
Speaker 2: The first Columbia country you said, I was in Combia.
Speaker 5: You are.
Speaker 1: Sure white. I am weak, so yeah, but I mean
Speaker 1: funny enough.
Speaker 5: I think that's what people think of though when you
Speaker 5: think to Columbia, you think of the cartel and stuff,
Speaker 5: because like I said, I went to Medayane a few
Speaker 5: years ago to get my teeth done. And I was
Speaker 5: scared to leave from the area where my hotel.
Speaker 2: Was and where my doctor.
Speaker 1: Crazy.
Speaker 5: I mean, I was just nervous to travel around because
Speaker 5: that's what you hear about Columbia. So when we went
Speaker 5: to Cardina, I had a really really good time. And
Speaker 5: then especially with us going to Polink, which is the
Speaker 5: first free black city in the Americas, it was just
Speaker 5: so you know that it's Afro Latinos in a lot
Speaker 5: of these countries. But when I say when we were
Speaker 5: in Polenk, we felt like we were somewhere in Ghana
Speaker 5: and Nigeria, like these people look like our cousins, our
Speaker 5: family members. It was just amazing being there and being
Speaker 5: submerged in the culture.
Speaker 2: Do you go away to Columbia get your tees.
Speaker 5: Then, because it was shaper, I think here was like
Speaker 5: thirty thousand. You know, I'm getting a little miney.
Speaker 1: But to say get him done here.
Speaker 6: They're just all the same size, like the extra largest
Speaker 6: for the mediums or they.
Speaker 5: Got the front, they get front teeth for the whole.
Speaker 1: When they get the top done and don't get the
Speaker 1: bottom of the and it's like.
Speaker 5: You to get the texture, like I think that's why
Speaker 5: my teeth looks so natural because he made like the texture.
Speaker 4: And how the men treat you when they see y'all
Speaker 4: from outside of which we are usually outside of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Because Atlanta, you know, they see beautiful women. Sometimes they
Speaker 4: might not see that in Colombia, like like.
Speaker 2: DJ he said, Columbia got ugly women. If you said,
Speaker 2: you know, like usually.
Speaker 4: When you go out the country and they see American women,
Speaker 4: they treat American women differently because they don't usually see
Speaker 4: American women like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5: I feel like whenever we go anywhere, I really can't
Speaker 5: tell the difference because I feel like everywhere we go
Speaker 5: we kind of draw Attenson. I know that sounds bad,
Speaker 5: but it's like everywhere we go we're used to people
Speaker 5: like we're like, oh my god, I know y'all from
Speaker 5: the pod saying hey. And then when we were in Colombia,
Speaker 5: it's a little different because we had cameras around us,
Speaker 5: so of course people are like looking and saying stuff
Speaker 5: and being so it's kind of hard to tell the
Speaker 5: difference between, you know, people how they treat us outside
Speaker 5: of Atlanta versus anywhere, because I feel like everywhere we
Speaker 5: go now people kind of recognize us. So it's not
Speaker 5: really like we're getting treated differently per se, if that
Speaker 5: makes sense.
Speaker 1: When you said.
Speaker 6: They you were scared of how they were gonna edit
Speaker 6: y'all and make y'all look.
Speaker 1: Were y'all allowed to be in the room.
Speaker 6: During the enterprocess, So you just like the y'all trusted them,
Speaker 6: and you just like the way they ended up editing
Speaker 6: the episode.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we didn't know anything, girl, We've seen everything. When
Speaker 5: everybody else seen, you didn't know how they were were
Speaker 5: still watching. We was on the plane last night watching
Speaker 5: the episode the first time.
Speaker 1: So are y'all nervous for every episode that? You know what? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not nervous now. I was nervous of.
Speaker 5: How my body was gonna look because I just lost
Speaker 5: thirty pounds okay, thank you, Okay, So I when we shot,
Speaker 5: I weighed like two o five.
Speaker 1: So I was so nervous.
Speaker 5: I kept saying, oh my gosh, I hope cause I
Speaker 5: have like a little belly on me.
Speaker 1: So whenever I gave weight.
Speaker 5: Like people always tend to think I'm pregnant, they be like,
Speaker 5: let's pregnant, I'm like, oh my god, can I just
Speaker 5: have a little shot at tequila?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I had a little you know.
Speaker 5: So I was really more so nervous about my body
Speaker 5: after I saw the first episode.
Speaker 1: But I was like, okay, body team.
Speaker 2: Columbia pure coke.
Speaker 1: You say what? Oh no, Honestly, I used to be
Speaker 1: a girl. I used to do everything under the sun.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: The first time I went to Columbia for my bbah.
Speaker 5: So y'all talking about y'all know Columbia for the coke.
Speaker 5: I know, Colombia for them good doctors. But I just
Speaker 5: did a natural this time. I was doing a lot
Speaker 5: of cardio, eating healthy. You know, I feel like and
Speaker 5: I feel better now. I think I'm getting older and
Speaker 5: I'm just all the I'm not dissing people who do
Speaker 5: take other routes, but I just had to do it
Speaker 5: for it wasn't the ompic. I don't like needles.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do that to myself. But no, no ospic.
Speaker 2: I do want to say to you, talk about walking
Speaker 2: in the room, There's something different about Houston women. Houston
Speaker 2: women have a presence about them that stands out a
Speaker 2: lot more than a lot of other women.
Speaker 5: I think it's the side, really the side usually taller
Speaker 5: tall were not originally from Houston.
Speaker 1: I'm from Orange, Texas.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I agree with that. I think we do
Speaker 5: have a certain or we kind of command the room.
Speaker 1: You know, we walk in. We're very friendly.
Speaker 5: So it's especially when we walk in some rooms with
Speaker 5: people like from New York, they're not used to people speaking.
Speaker 1: We like hospitality. It's very huge.
Speaker 5: As far as some hours, yeah, it's like two hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's something about your friendship that y'all think the TV
Speaker 2: show made stronger? If anything, I.
Speaker 1: Think that we realized how strong we are together and.
Speaker 5: How many I feel like, how many doors that we're opening,
Speaker 5: even though I think and I know people.
Speaker 1: Gonna be like, what doors you open?
Speaker 5: Honestly, podcasting, especially in the South, it's not a lot
Speaker 5: of podcasts in the South really, right, And the fact
Speaker 5: that there has been podcasters out there that have gotten
Speaker 5: TV shows, but it's mostly TV shows that are based
Speaker 5: on their podcast. The fact that Travel Queens has nothing
Speaker 5: to do with poor minds, and we're showing our talents,
Speaker 5: like we have communication degrees, like we went to school
Speaker 5: for this. So I think a lot of times people
Speaker 5: don't take influencers or people who started on the internet.
Speaker 1: Seriously, you started on the internet as well.
Speaker 5: So a lot of times we get so much backlash
Speaker 5: because they're like, uh, y'all just the girls who grabbed
Speaker 5: the mic and start a YouTube channel. But I think
Speaker 5: being on this show it shows like, no, we we
Speaker 5: got some tricks up our sleeve, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So I think that it made our friendship stronger because
Speaker 5: I'm like, bro, look at what we have done, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Even from the first time when we came on Breakfast Club,
Speaker 5: I was like, oh my gosh, like this is huge,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So I think this is
Speaker 5: just like we realized how strong we are together and
Speaker 5: how much more that we have to do.
Speaker 2: And don't speak past the fact y'all got communications degree.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: I think people always forget that because we never highlighted
Speaker 5: that much. But yeah, graduated from Texas Southern and I
Speaker 5: graduated from Stephen F.
Speaker 1: Austin.
Speaker 2: What y'all want to do?
Speaker 1: Y'all?
Speaker 2: In college, I just wanted to be like on TV
Speaker 2: news anchors.
Speaker 5: Or you know, I didn't really know what I wanted
Speaker 5: to do to be honest, I knew I wanted to
Speaker 5: do something in media, and then when I graduated, I
Speaker 5: had a little fake internship at ninety seven nine buck
Speaker 5: shout out to Kiyati.
Speaker 1: He's still.
Speaker 5: Yatis, still on the radio in Houston right now, and
Speaker 5: I had a little fake internship with him. I shadowed
Speaker 5: him for maybe like two months, and then I realized
Speaker 5: I didn't really like radio. So then I didn't know
Speaker 5: what I wanted to do, and so I moved to Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Of course, y'all know, Lex ended up moving out here.
Speaker 5: One of her friends who was also already into podcast
Speaker 5: and was like, y'all need to turn y'all YouTube channel
Speaker 5: into a podcast. And I feel like that's when I
Speaker 5: found my niche. I was like, okay, I'm supposed to
Speaker 5: be podcasting, but prior to that, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna do like hard news.
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm gonna be out roke up, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna be reporting everything.
Speaker 1: It's gonna great. I'm doing everything, like y'all don't understand.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on America bitch.
Speaker 5: I was trying to do everything, but like I took
Speaker 5: an internship in my uh my school radio station and
Speaker 5: we were just reporting on hard news every morning.
Speaker 1: It was so sad, and I was like, I cannot do.
Speaker 5: This, Like we're having to interview people who just lost
Speaker 5: their house and a fire like all this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, maybe I need to redirect.
Speaker 5: And so I've always been into entertainment news Like I
Speaker 5: grew up, you know, watching news.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The kids was watching Coco,
Speaker 1: Mela and Rugrass. I was watching news.
Speaker 5: So I was like, okay, let me do something in
Speaker 5: the entertainment world like that might be, you know, more
Speaker 5: of my speed. So I knew I want to do
Speaker 5: something on TV and media, but I just wasn't sure.
Speaker 5: So podcasting kind of made it easy because I was
Speaker 5: applying for all the jobs in Houston and I just
Speaker 5: couldn't get my foot in the door.
Speaker 1: So I was like, well, let me just create our
Speaker 1: own lane and do our thing.
Speaker 2: How'd yall connect with eighty five South?
Speaker 1: It was because of Carlos.
Speaker 5: So Carlos always followed us on Twitter and we were
Speaker 5: cool with him on Twitter, and I think I shot
Speaker 5: my shot and I was just like, oh, can you
Speaker 5: come record Poor Minds with us? And At this time,
Speaker 5: we weren't even recording in the studio yet. We were
Speaker 5: still recording in the living room at my house, and
Speaker 5: he pulled up on us, sat on the floor in
Speaker 5: my living room and recorded Poor Minds with us, and
Speaker 5: then I think ever since then he was just kind
Speaker 5: of watching us, and then he saw how the show
Speaker 5: kept growing and elevating, and then a few years later
Speaker 5: he ended up asking us to come on eighty five South.
Speaker 5: We went on eighty five South. I think that episode
Speaker 5: did a million views in like five days or something.
Speaker 5: So we ended up the episode like a million views
Speaker 5: in five days. And then he introduced us to Chad
Speaker 5: and he was like, I think you know we want.
Speaker 1: To sign y'all.
Speaker 4: I still have a question, Uh some advice. I have
Speaker 4: a single friend. Uh she has a closet full of wigs, curly.
Speaker 2: Terrible wigs.
Speaker 1: Oh you know who the friend is?
Speaker 2: I do sadly.
Speaker 4: She has a bunch of wigs curly, one day is straight,
Speaker 4: different colors. She's she's funny, she's smart, she switches up
Speaker 4: her wigs like like a Netflix series. But when it
Speaker 4: comes to dating, she doesn't seem like she can.
Speaker 1: Find the right guy.
Speaker 4: She doesn't know, if guys get intimidated or if they
Speaker 4: just confused, how would you suggest she meets somebody to
Speaker 4: secure a relationship because time is running out?
Speaker 1: And saw her wigs? But why did you include the
Speaker 1: stuff about the wigs? You think the wig might be
Speaker 1: the reason why she can't find the men.
Speaker 2: I mean, think about it, just thinks that. I'm sure
Speaker 2: that y'all felt like y'all had to change about yourselves
Speaker 2: a little bit and it probably made them, you know,
Speaker 2: debate a little stronger for the fist.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, you know what kind of men are she
Speaker 5: is she trying to date? Because you know they say
Speaker 5: they like bad weeds, the white They love a crunching,
Speaker 5: a crunches steal. I could not keep the Brett's off
Speaker 5: of me. They do. But I will say this, we
Speaker 5: were actually just having this conversation.
Speaker 1: We was literally just talking about this.
Speaker 5: They do. They have that same hardwig soft life.
Speaker 3: Maybe a different pool.
Speaker 1: She's in the wrong pool.
Speaker 5: She might be in the wrong pool one, But I
Speaker 5: will say we were just telling our producer this, and
Speaker 5: I was saying, like, when you get your look together
Speaker 5: and you feel confident in yourself, it doesn't even matter,
Speaker 5: Like whatever makes you feel good, You're gonna attract the
Speaker 5: right person. I enjoy being polished. I used to have
Speaker 5: a stiff wig or two.
Speaker 1: You got one of them? She does, she does, but
Speaker 1: I called her.
Speaker 5: I said, well, she wins her first EM. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: put it on eBay and you don't got the pony
Speaker 5: Collectors item and it still has the scruencheet on.
Speaker 1: It and everything. It's in a ponytail.
Speaker 2: Who do you think lies? More women with bad wigs
Speaker 2: are men with podcasts.
Speaker 1: Me and with with podcasts hands down. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: The girl with a stiff wig a bad week? You
Speaker 1: living in your truth?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Agree for the two weeks that we we didn't.
Speaker 5: Me and Lex honestly really get along most of the time.
Speaker 5: We never really argue again if we do, because I
Speaker 5: feel like we can. We're at a point now in
Speaker 5: our relationship where we can since when the other person
Speaker 5: low key's hired to like, but it be over silly
Speaker 5: stuff like drag be running late sometimes and like she'll
Speaker 5: getting the ober and I'll just be on my phone, like.
Speaker 1: You don't even speak girl, you are late, bring your ass.
Speaker 5: So it'd be silly stuff like that, but we just
Speaker 5: don't it don't be nothing like that serious.
Speaker 1: Like I said, life is good. What do we have
Speaker 1: to be mad about?
Speaker 2: Its great to go back to this wakship for one,
Speaker 2: I won't have to over the phones at some point.
Speaker 2: But I don't believe that I've never heard the white
Speaker 2: men like you.
Speaker 1: And you said hard Yeah, who told you this? I
Speaker 1: lived it lived. I'm serious.
Speaker 5: If you go look on TikTok right now and type
Speaker 5: Hardwig soft life, you're gonna see nothing but interracial couples.
Speaker 2: So why didn't you stick with the white man?
Speaker 1: Because I wanted a man. I wanted a hard life
Speaker 1: with a hard man.
Speaker 5: With my.
Speaker 1: Struggle. She wanted to struggle with the raw.
Speaker 2: The doctor Lamar influenced you. The dump that white man.
Speaker 1: You know what people hate when I say this, I
Speaker 1: love doctor. It's no funny.
Speaker 5: First of all, exciting me. They're talking about me, talking
Speaker 5: about I got a bad we can't find a man
Speaker 5: talking about it's brooch.
Speaker 1: He's so nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: He looks beautiful boy, hard Wig Will Halloween, what what
Speaker 2: did you talking about?
Speaker 1: Talking about you? Hear talking about her in that sac.
Speaker 1: First of all, the sad thing that will normally comes
Speaker 1: from over here.
Speaker 5: But you were your sad song all over there, spinning
Speaker 5: around looking at me.
Speaker 1: Nobody was talking about come in here and let you know.
Speaker 1: So it's somebody. We walk.
Speaker 5: Right nice and I love the show. I think y'all
Speaker 5: look so pretty on the show. I've watched all three episodes.
Speaker 5: Why you kept turning around to me? We got cameras
Speaker 5: all in the studio. We're gonna run the tad. Oh
Speaker 5: my god, that's stiff.
Speaker 1: Next talk my heart. We din't talking about that hard
Speaker 1: die that's dried over there? All right, get I'll talk
Speaker 1: to you all ladies show. Okay, Yeah, I think your
Speaker 1: wig is beautiful to I like it. I love the ball.
Speaker 3: So many.
Speaker 2: Listen, how do you'll protect y'all mental health? While still?
Speaker 1: How do y'all protection my heart, my head and other people?
Speaker 1: And we keeping my hard wigs to protect me? No
Speaker 1: ct over here, I was Protectingsparens and on TV?
Speaker 2: How do y'all protect y'all at though?
Speaker 5: I praize, I have a great relationship with God. I prayalize,
Speaker 5: I also go to therapy. I think it's so important
Speaker 5: to go to therapy, and I don't know why in
Speaker 5: the black community so many people don't want to try
Speaker 5: it out, are afraid to.
Speaker 1: Try it out?
Speaker 5: Like it has completely changed my life, especially when I
Speaker 5: was grieving when I lost my dad. That's when I
Speaker 5: started therapy and I've been going ever since. It's been
Speaker 5: about five years now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the same. I go to therapy. I recently
Speaker 1: started going. I go to church every Sunday. I do
Speaker 1: not play.
Speaker 5: I've worked on my relationship with God, and honestly, I
Speaker 5: really have a tight, close knit circle, like my friends
Speaker 5: and my family, like me and my sister are extremely close,
Speaker 5: and I feel like that's important. Like when I have
Speaker 5: my bad days and I'm just like, my best friend
Speaker 5: is here with me, killer, I'm like, you need to
Speaker 5: come to Atlanta, like I'm not doing too well, and
Speaker 5: she will literally hop on a plane and come see me.
Speaker 5: And you know, because we all have our moments, even
Speaker 5: with Drave me and my neighbor, I'm like, I had
Speaker 5: a breakdown last week and I called her.
Speaker 1: I was like, bro, I'm finna lose my mind.
Speaker 5: So I think it's very important to have people around
Speaker 5: you that you know, when I'm down, they can pick
Speaker 5: me up.
Speaker 1: And vice versa.
Speaker 2: So you had a grief counselor or you're just just
Speaker 2: a therapy.
Speaker 1: But I mean she did specialize in grief, so yeah,
Speaker 1: and that helped.
Speaker 5: It helps me a lot for sure, because I mean,
Speaker 5: I will talk to my mom about it, but it
Speaker 5: was hard talking to my mom about.
Speaker 1: It because she was also grieving as well.
Speaker 5: And it was just nice to have somebody who was unbiased,
Speaker 5: who I could let all my feelings out and let
Speaker 5: them know how I was feeling. Because at the time,
Speaker 5: you know, Lex hadn't lost her mom yet, so I
Speaker 5: didn't have any friends that had lost the parents, so
Speaker 5: it wasn't anybody that I could talk to that I
Speaker 5: felt like could relate to what I.
Speaker 1: Was going through.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, condolences man. And when you are going through those breakdowns,
Speaker 2: like you said, you hit dred, what you pull over
Speaker 2: the bottle or something, some smoke, what you'll do?
Speaker 1: I always got about it, not some smoke, And I
Speaker 1: think either about to go out to make yourself feel better.
Speaker 5: No, But honestly, you know what, I don't even think
Speaker 5: we do that anymore. We used to, but now we
Speaker 5: really just talk like we drink through our problems.
Speaker 1: But we really don't do that anymore.
Speaker 5: We really just talk it out and you know, just
Speaker 5: give each other time and just be there for each other,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Yeah, And one thing
Speaker 5: I've learned is just like I've learned so much patience.
Speaker 5: I have so much peace in that because it doesn't
Speaker 5: rain forever. So every time I'm going through something, I'm
Speaker 5: just like, just let it pass, and it always always passes.
Speaker 1: So I think we we we we still get turned
Speaker 1: on the wine though.
Speaker 5: Yeah we don't drink now, but we don't use it
Speaker 5: as a crutch anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you how do y'all balance like
Speaker 2: turning up for the show because you still got to perform,
Speaker 2: right because it's a TV show, but then being present
Speaker 2: for the moments that you're experiencing, like those cultural you
Speaker 2: know what's crazy.
Speaker 1: We didn't really drink that much the whole time that
Speaker 1: we were filming.
Speaker 5: Like, we had a few scenes, like we had a
Speaker 5: mexcal scene, so of course we were drinking during that scene.
Speaker 5: I think the Drag show, Yeah, we were drinking a
Speaker 5: little bit, and then we had some mohitos, But honestly,
Speaker 5: those were the only three times throughout the whole time
Speaker 5: we were filming that we were drinking because we really
Speaker 5: wanted to stay present in the moment because one thing
Speaker 5: about this we're gonna take it to the moon, We're
Speaker 5: gonna take it too far.
Speaker 1: So it's missed to just not have no drinks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's crazy because the mescal scene that we
Speaker 5: did that showed in Mexico City last night. That was
Speaker 5: actually the last scene that we did for the entire show,
Speaker 5: and that was probably the most like lit that we
Speaker 5: got because we were drinking so much. But I think
Speaker 5: it's very different from Poor Minds. But honestly, we stopped
Speaker 5: drinking a lot on Poor Minds, Yeah, because it was
Speaker 5: like some cringy episodes and we just like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: it was the Houston Live showed. It was so embarrassing
Speaker 5: because we recorded the show and then we went back
Speaker 5: and watched it when we got back to Atlanta, and
Speaker 5: it was just so cringey. We was on stage like yeah, Lex,
Speaker 5: let's turn up, and were bringing our friends on stage
Speaker 5: and just drunk, taking shots, twerking.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a miss one of my favorite shows. Y'all
Speaker 2: came out and y'all was just dancing and was in
Speaker 2: the zone.
Speaker 5: Not that one you're that was Houston. But that was
Speaker 5: like our second Houston show. You we have the freaking
Speaker 5: outfits on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a good show. We have put ourselves
Speaker 1: on a drink minimum. We have a two shot.
Speaker 5: Minimum before we go on stage, and then we'll have
Speaker 5: like a drink on stage, but we have one drink
Speaker 5: go on stage and that's it. Once we're done with
Speaker 5: that drink, you're done. Yeah that first Houston show, we
Speaker 5: drunk that whole bottle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we was.
Speaker 1: We was turning. I'm always not always a little nervous,
Speaker 1: always trying to turn up. I didn't realize I was
Speaker 1: getting so drunk.
Speaker 2: With the long term vision for the show, more.
Speaker 5: Seasons, Yeah, if we're hoping it's gonna get picked up
Speaker 5: for a second season, I think we should probably know
Speaker 5: that within like the next two weeks or so. So
Speaker 5: obviously we wanted to get picked up. And as far
Speaker 5: as Poor Minds, we want Poor Minds to get picked
Speaker 5: up as a TV show as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's on our bucket least.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, I think, like with Travel Queens, I
Speaker 5: definitely wanted to be a lot more seasons. I feel
Speaker 5: like we should do like a whole season, like in Africa,
Speaker 5: A whole season in Europe. So that's what we're holding
Speaker 5: that'll that it'll grow to. And you know, same thing
Speaker 5: with Poor Minds. I can see Poor Minds living on
Speaker 5: like you know, maybe like a streaming app or something
Speaker 5: that you know, outside of YouTube. I think we're ready
Speaker 5: to make that transition with Poor Minds as well. And yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah for sure, and more hosting opportunities for the both
Speaker 5: of us and individually. She still has her cosmetics line
Speaker 5: that's doing really well, so her just growing in the
Speaker 5: beauty industry. I have started my YouTube channel love Lexp,
Speaker 5: so I'm just doing like hot topics show reviews because
Speaker 5: that's the line.
Speaker 1: I want to get into more hosting as well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we just have so much stuff to do.
Speaker 5: And I feel like now that we've that step into TV,
Speaker 5: it's like, you know, people can actually see what we
Speaker 5: can do now, you know.
Speaker 1: I was already on the shop Music Beauty Collection dot com.
Speaker 5: Make sure you get your lip glosses, Matt Liqui lipsticks,
Speaker 5: lip liners. I also just branched into other cosmetics products,
Speaker 5: so now I have some jelly blushes, I have Mescira
Speaker 5: and eyeliner.
Speaker 1: Us Beauty Collection dot Com.
Speaker 4: We'll check out Travel Queens on b E T Y.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us, Subscribe to the Poor podcast,
Speaker 2: Big love for Lex p Andre and the.
Speaker 4: It's the Breakfast Club, Good morning, wake that ass up
Speaker 4: in the morning.
Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club