Speaker 1: Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect
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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome to another episode of Reasonably shad Dy.
Speaker 3: I am Jaselle Bryant. What's up? What's up?
Speaker 1: This is Robin Dixon. Thank you for being here with us.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is a special day.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it is because tomorrow's election day, a special week.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And you know a lot has.
Speaker 2: Been happening in the world and with all that has
Speaker 2: transpired to get to where we are today in which
Speaker 2: a black woman is the Democratic nominee, yes for the presidency. Yes,
Speaker 2: and then we have one man, no Chacker.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: We've had I don't know millions of white men yes,
Speaker 2: that have run for the presidency on the Republican.
Speaker 1: Side, Yes, and the Democrat side.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the Democratic side. So now we got an
Speaker 2: election with a little bit of color.
Speaker 1: Yes, and we love it.
Speaker 3: Yes, we are here for woman.
Speaker 1: First of all, a woman is huge alone, right, and
Speaker 1: then a woman of color is even huger a word huge.
Speaker 2: We are cooking with Greece. Yes, yes, it's huger. It's
Speaker 2: not a word, but it's a word today. It's a
Speaker 2: word today, it's.
Speaker 1: A word today. It is Huger.
Speaker 2: I have already voted because I did early voting. Yes,
Speaker 2: because I you know, I've been traveling around or whatever
Speaker 2: to have you voted yet or are you gonna wait
Speaker 2: till tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll just I'll vote. I like to do the thing.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. I like to like experience the day with like,
Speaker 1: you know, standing in line, Okay, you know, having the
Speaker 1: people check you. I mean, I know you do that
Speaker 1: on early voting too, but I like to like I
Speaker 1: like the rush.
Speaker 3: Of it, Okay, in the experience of the thrill of it.
Speaker 3: I like that. I like that for you.
Speaker 2: But today it is all about making sure people do
Speaker 2: get out to vote. Yes, this is and we know
Speaker 2: that we have international listeners. And so we're just going
Speaker 2: to ask y'all to give us a pass for the
Speaker 2: day because today is very important. For tomorrow in the
Speaker 2: United States, we will.
Speaker 4: Achieve success that no one can imagine. And I'm asking
Speaker 4: you to be excited about the future of our country. Again.
Speaker 5: We know and we'll always remember the vast majority of
Speaker 5: us have so much more in common than what separates us,
Speaker 5: and we are all in this together. So remember, your
Speaker 5: vote is your voice, and your voice is your power.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like do or die.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, wait, it's kind of like do or we might
Speaker 2: go right exactly, and we're joking, but joking.
Speaker 1: I know, I know it is. This is a definitely
Speaker 1: very interesting election, yes, as they normally are, but this
Speaker 1: is like a very interesting one. And I really hope
Speaker 1: that the young people get out and vote yes and droves. Yes.
Speaker 1: I hope the black community gets out.
Speaker 3: In vote yes. Wait, man, how about the black man?
Speaker 2: Because Barack Obama got y'all all the way together a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Yes, he was like, looking at here, and look at
Speaker 3: here black men.
Speaker 2: Right, let's talk right, how dare you act like you
Speaker 2: can't vote for a woman?
Speaker 3: How dare you?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 3: I was here for that. Yes, I was like, whip
Speaker 3: them into shape.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that helped? Yeah, help, yes, yes, because then yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. The guy on the other side was like,
Speaker 1: what is that, black man? Black people would be stupid
Speaker 1: if they voted for no.
Speaker 3: He said, imbeciles. Wait what does he call her?
Speaker 1: How does he get away with just calling all types
Speaker 1: of names people, all types of names.
Speaker 2: The name calling is out of control. It's really and
Speaker 2: it's so elementary.
Speaker 1: It's so elementary, it's so pathetic, it's so weird, like
Speaker 1: the name calling, the name the words are just so basic.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, okay, did you did you check out?
Speaker 2: Because there's so many weird things that have been happening
Speaker 2: on the Republican side with this guy. But one thing
Speaker 2: in particular was a couple of weeks ago, he had
Speaker 2: a town hall meeting.
Speaker 1: Did you see this shit clips of it?
Speaker 2: Okay, he had a town hall meeting. So town hall
Speaker 2: meeting is when people are able to ask you.
Speaker 1: Questions, right, whatever they want to ask.
Speaker 2: So he decided to have like a dance party. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, it was like and they put a ticker time,
Speaker 2: I mean a timer on it to show how long
Speaker 2: he was like playing this music and dancing.
Speaker 3: Around thirty four minutes or something. There's like fifty nine
Speaker 3: minutes or it was something. It was almost an hour.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Instead of answering questions, he decided to play all this
Speaker 2: music that was not cleared.
Speaker 3: I'm sure this music.
Speaker 2: Is not cleared, right, and all the artists are probably
Speaker 2: gonna come out and do a revolt revolution or playing out.
Speaker 3: And it was like, how.
Speaker 2: What stuck struck me was you're not taking this situation seriously, right,
Speaker 2: You're not taking you running to be at the highest
Speaker 2: office of this country seriously.
Speaker 1: It's a popularity contest in his yes, yes for him.
Speaker 1: No policies, yeah, no, nothing. Yeah, it's just like, how
Speaker 1: can I what can I do to what lies can
Speaker 1: I spew? First of all to try to influence people
Speaker 1: to vote for me, And what can I do just
Speaker 1: to continue with the popularity that I have in whatever
Speaker 1: his You know his segment is okay, I cracked up though,
Speaker 1: And this was a couple of weeks ago when he
Speaker 1: put out this long message about Kamala Harris's health is failing.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, let's get into it, and.
Speaker 1: Referenced that she has she suffers from you to carry you?
Speaker 3: What is that? What's it you to carry?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 1: One had you to carry it? Actually, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember. Do you remember when he he would
Speaker 1: like break out in hives if he got hot?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Do you ever remember remember him experiencing that? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: I think yeah, So he would like get be hot
Speaker 1: and break out in hives. And then so he had
Speaker 1: to take like a steroid, a steroid like an allergic
Speaker 1: allergy medicine, a steroid all that, and it's fine. That's
Speaker 1: not life tharting. This is that's not newsworthy. That's not
Speaker 1: something to say to to say that her health is failing. Secondly,
Speaker 1: he said, she also has allergic rhinitis.
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 1: Allergic conjunctivitis? What's that something that I have? You know
Speaker 1: how I wipe my nose all the freaking time. My
Speaker 1: nose runs all the time.
Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, you're you're allergic to allergies. You have allergies?
Speaker 1: No, Like that means like your my nose runs because
Speaker 1: of allergies.
Speaker 2: Right right, So I'm saying no, so Kamala has she's
Speaker 2: he needs to take a clariton.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, okay, great.
Speaker 1: He thought it a very messy and dangerous situation. These
Speaker 1: are deeply serious conditions that clearly impact her functioning. Like stop.
Speaker 1: So this is what he does. He puts out these
Speaker 1: reports and stuff and makes it seem like they're like
Speaker 1: the end of the world, Like, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is no. She has a running note, she.
Speaker 2: Has a running nose, and she breaks out high sometimes
Speaker 2: when she gets hot. Right, but I'm sure that that
Speaker 2: I'm sure they have taken care of that because we
Speaker 2: have not seen any hobs on this woman, and she'd
Speaker 2: been running around hopscotch and all over the country trying
Speaker 2: to win this thing, right okay, and.
Speaker 1: It can be managed like wa wall go every month
Speaker 1: and get a shot and then to the point where
Speaker 1: like he didn't have to go anymore. So it's like, like,
Speaker 1: this is the nonsense. I can't like, we can't, we
Speaker 1: cannot approve of this nonsense.
Speaker 3: I appreciated. A couple of weeks ago, she went on Fox.
Speaker 3: She did an interview with Brett Bayer yeah something.
Speaker 2: And he was really coming for her, like not wanting
Speaker 2: her to he was man handling her verbally, didn't want
Speaker 2: her to talk.
Speaker 3: He was going to control the conversation.
Speaker 2: He was going to control the direction of her answers,
Speaker 2: which I ain't never seen nothing like it.
Speaker 3: I was like disturbing. I was like, is this abusive?
Speaker 3: It was getting a booze. But guess what, she handled
Speaker 3: it very well. That thing came out and said look ahead,
Speaker 3: look ahead.
Speaker 1: I know how I would have responded, oh my god,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 3: That's why you're not running me or you.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, oh my gosh. That would have been a disaster.
Speaker 1: So that like, yeah, she was very cool under pressure,
Speaker 1: totally under being disrespected, just you know, like.
Speaker 3: Highly highly disrespected.
Speaker 2: But I did like the way that she the way
Speaker 2: that she summarizes her opponent. I do love because she
Speaker 2: lets everyone know like you are lying, sir, and everything
Speaker 2: coming out your mouth is a lie. And it's because
Speaker 2: the lies are becoming more and more disturbing from the
Speaker 2: perspective of is is it all up?
Speaker 3: There? Are we are? We? I'm just like, what a
Speaker 3: full deck? Right?
Speaker 1: Like? What's the thought process when when you put these
Speaker 1: lies out that that you know are blatant lies? You know,
Speaker 1: it's just like, what is the thought process here?
Speaker 3: And why?
Speaker 1: Why is this? Why is it okay? I still don't
Speaker 1: understand how we got here? Like how are we here?
Speaker 3: We?
Speaker 4: How?
Speaker 1: Why is it okay?
Speaker 3: But I'm okay with and and let me let me
Speaker 3: say this.
Speaker 2: In the beginning, when when Kamala Harris was the first
Speaker 2: was going to be the nominee, right, I was a
Speaker 2: little concern and I think I spoke my concerning yea,
Speaker 2: my concern concerning my concerning that concernments you're concerning. Yes,
Speaker 2: I spoke it because I said, I'm not the issue. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm it's not the issue. The men voting for her
Speaker 2: are the issues. And will men step up to vote
Speaker 2: for a woman, let alone a black woman. But if
Speaker 2: we have to just go on, do we vote for
Speaker 2: somebody that tells the truth or somebody that lies? Y'all,
Speaker 2: we got to vote for the truth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: Even if you don't like she's gonna tell you that you're.
Speaker 1: We can't take the chances that whatever he's saying that
Speaker 1: you think is going to benefit your life, that he's
Speaker 1: actually going to do. Yes, you can't take the chances.
Speaker 1: He told y'all he was going to build a wall
Speaker 1: four or five years ago, right, and that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: No, right, No, Like.
Speaker 2: With COVID hit, he told y'all to drink chloride right
Speaker 2: like bleach something.
Speaker 3: He said something crazy like, come on now.
Speaker 1: So you can't take the chance whatever he's feeding you
Speaker 1: that it's actually going to happen.
Speaker 2: So when I was in about a month ago, when
Speaker 2: I was in Atlanta, I think I told you this.
Speaker 3: I was at the pool.
Speaker 2: With Angel We're minding our business, and a woman comes out,
Speaker 2: her friend came out, her girlfriend came out. So she
Speaker 2: was a lesbian obviously, and she had her hat to
Speaker 2: the back and then she turned around and it said Trump.
Speaker 3: Mm so she was wearing a Trump past.
Speaker 1: Wow. Interesting And I was like, wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: And then her girlfriend comes out and they do some
Speaker 2: work out together and they were all happy.
Speaker 3: Great. I wanted to tap her on her shoulder and
Speaker 3: be like, do you know Trump does not like you? Right?
Speaker 2: He would love now I've seen lately he's all trying
Speaker 2: to be like LBT and he's like, you know, trying
Speaker 2: to big up them.
Speaker 3: But he put people in the.
Speaker 2: Supreme Court to take your rights rights away period for sure.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 2: So for you to be confused by that, it's confusing
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would be curious just to find out why
Speaker 1: she supports him.
Speaker 2: Like right, I did want to. I did want to
Speaker 2: have a discussion, but I said, let me mind my bus.
Speaker 2: Do you remember, Like, I'm not done?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So then in my suitcase I had a shirt you on,
Speaker 2: my Preys shirt with Kamala's face on. I was like,
Speaker 2: I hope I see her tomorrow, right because I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put my press shirt okay, And I did and I
Speaker 2: saw her and she did a double take.
Speaker 3: Oh, Like she looked at me and she looked at
Speaker 3: me again and I was like, how are you did
Speaker 3: have her head on? She did not have her head on.
Speaker 2: Okay, but my point is be clear what you're voting
Speaker 2: for and who you're voting for, and don't be tracked.
Speaker 1: Do you remember it was like a few months ago
Speaker 1: we were talking about the election in politics and we
Speaker 1: were saying, you know, if there's someone out here that
Speaker 1: can help us understand why you support the candidate on
Speaker 1: the Republican side, like write to us and let us know.
Speaker 1: We like, because I really honestly want to be educated
Speaker 1: on that, and it's not in a a controversial or
Speaker 1: combative type of way, Like, no, I really want to
Speaker 1: know why someone supports him, right. No one wrote in nobody,
Speaker 1: so nobody educated me on that.
Speaker 2: I forgot that you had put that out there to people,
Speaker 2: and people No, the people.
Speaker 1: Spoke, zero, nobody had anything to tell me. I really
Speaker 1: want to know, like, what is it, why is it?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: What is it that makes you feel like this would
Speaker 2: he's going to benefit your life, your family, your job,
Speaker 2: that you.
Speaker 1: Want your children or the kids in your community to
Speaker 1: see this man as our president and think, oh, this
Speaker 1: is how I'm supposed to behave. Yes, this is how
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to talk to people, right, This how I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to treat people like this is how you how
Speaker 1: you you know, show show your your power and your
Speaker 1: leadership and your influence. Huh No, now, no, I don't
Speaker 1: want my kids thinking that it's that's okay.
Speaker 3: No, it's not okay. It's not okay.
Speaker 1: Like it's just that simple.
Speaker 3: It's it's cut and dry. So I'm excited because all
Speaker 3: three of my kids can vote this time.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so nice.
Speaker 3: They're so happy?
Speaker 4: Are they?
Speaker 1: Are they doing early voting?
Speaker 2: So Angel is going to do I think they should
Speaker 2: go to the polls. Well, no, because they're registered because
Speaker 2: they're at school, so they're registered. So they have to
Speaker 2: go to the polls in Maryland. In Maryland, so they're
Speaker 2: doing what's it called absentee Yeah, they're doing the absentee ballad.
Speaker 3: They're all there excited.
Speaker 2: This is like a thing and just this is this
Speaker 2: is this is how you know, there's something called progression
Speaker 2: in life. The first time because Grace, I think voted
Speaker 2: last time. I think did she vote last time? Was
Speaker 2: she old enough?
Speaker 3: Yeah? She had old she's twenty. So no Okay.
Speaker 2: So the first time that all three of my kids
Speaker 2: can vote for a president, able.
Speaker 1: To vote for a black ones, that is beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's so beautiful.
Speaker 2: I remember, and everybody will you probably remember where you
Speaker 2: were when Baraquan.
Speaker 3: I do, yes. I remember.
Speaker 2: I was home, the kids were little, they were in
Speaker 2: the bed sleep and he my mother called me crying.
Speaker 1: Going oh.
Speaker 2: So she called me crying in the middle of the
Speaker 2: night because I had turned the shit off because I
Speaker 2: was like, I can't take the pressure.
Speaker 3: It give me too much anxiety. I couldn't watch all
Speaker 3: like the poles come in.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: Mother called me.
Speaker 1: She was like yes.
Speaker 2: So then the next morning when I saw my kids,
Speaker 2: I was cool until I saw my kid's face and
Speaker 2: I just broke down crying, like finally, right right right.
Speaker 3: And they're represented.
Speaker 1: They're going to grow up. Not they're going to grow up.
Speaker 1: Just think just seeing that representation is normal, that African
Speaker 1: American representation, representation is normal. They're going to think, okay,
Speaker 1: they're not going to think anything of a black president,
Speaker 1: like being, oh my god, this is the first black president,
Speaker 1: like this is normal, this is normal. So I remember
Speaker 1: where I was. I mean, I have a picture and
Speaker 1: I want to recreate it. Okay, So I'm holding Corey
Speaker 1: in my arms like that. There's like a you know,
Speaker 1: a flat screen on the TV and it says Barack
Speaker 1: Obama has won. And so I'm like standing in front
Speaker 1: of the TV.
Speaker 3: Carter born.
Speaker 1: No, no, Corey was little. So Corey's sixteen, so he
Speaker 1: was Corey was born in two thousand and eight. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it was he was more March two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: so the election was November two thousand and eight. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm just like I have this picture and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, if Kamala wins, I want to recreate
Speaker 1: the picture and like pick Cory up and stand in.
Speaker 3: Front of the TV. This recreation is gonna be terrible.
Speaker 3: I could say, right now, stay in front of the TV.
Speaker 1: The terror Kamala Harris is one.
Speaker 3: Like that would be so cute, that'd be beyond cute.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, I hope I can make that happen. I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope we people together definitely can make that happen.
Speaker 1: So I can take a picture of me holding my Corey, yeah,
Speaker 1: in front of the screen saying that Kamala harrisone, and
Speaker 1: then Oh my gosh, so cool. Jimmy Carter, our former president, voted.
Speaker 1: He voted for Kamala. He said he's one hundred years
Speaker 1: old and he told his his family that, you know,
Speaker 1: he hoped that he could live long enough to vote
Speaker 1: for Kamala. So he was able to put in his
Speaker 1: early voting ballot and vote for her. And he's been
Speaker 1: in hospice for like ninety days.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know he was in hospital. Yes, okay,
Speaker 3: so shout out to him.
Speaker 1: So thank god he was able to like hold on
Speaker 1: and vote for her.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: So y'all can't have my children's first presidential vote being yes,
Speaker 2: so if they can do it, First of all, y'all
Speaker 2: got to get off the couch. I don't think we're
Speaker 2: gonna have a couch problem. Yeah, because we were gonna
Speaker 2: have a couch problem with Joe Biden. We're not gonna
Speaker 2: have a couch I think everybody's gonna get up and
Speaker 2: get it done.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: So, and I'm you know, I'm good. This girl has
Speaker 2: already done it. So boom check a lock a boom
Speaker 2: check a lock a boom checker. Okay, all right, anyway,
Speaker 2: this is our mini vote because this was our get
Speaker 2: out to vote.
Speaker 1: This episode, our mini vote.
Speaker 2: This is our mini episode because this was our get
Speaker 2: out to vote episode. So we're we're actually gonna stop
Speaker 2: this episode now so that y'all can go do what
Speaker 2: you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so you can call everyone, tell them. Make
Speaker 1: sure everyone in the neighborhood, all the you know, all
Speaker 1: the young folks are getting out and voting. Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, So make it half of people are, y'all. Okay,
Speaker 2: bye bye, love y'all.