Speaker 1: Welcome to Reasonably Shady. This is Gaselle Brian here, and
Speaker 1: I am here with hello everyone.
Speaker 2: My name is Robin Dixon.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is our Reasonably Shady podcast. This is our
Speaker 1: first podcast. Guys. We don't know what the hell we're doing,
Speaker 1: but just bear with us because we're going to figure
Speaker 1: it out and by the time we're like on episode
Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty eight will be great. So we
Speaker 1: do kind of want to tell people how we met, right, well.
Speaker 2: I think we should start off with just why are
Speaker 2: we Why is this podcast called reasonably Shady?
Speaker 1: That's very important. So to know us is to know
Speaker 1: that Robin is extremely reasonable. She's like practical, She's always
Speaker 1: like Switzerland. She always tries to see the good in people.
Speaker 1: And I'm just shady.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, So Gizelle's first reaction to something is a
Speaker 2: shady one, and then.
Speaker 1: I think about it, I process it, and then I
Speaker 1: try to be like Robin, which is very reasonable, but hmmm,
Speaker 1: doesn't really work. I just stay on the shady side.
Speaker 2: Yes, you sure do, Yes, I mean, but sometimes you
Speaker 2: don't take that much convincing. I have to, like, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll have a private conversation. I'll say well, look at
Speaker 2: it this way. Sometimes I get through to you. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: but yes, so welcome to reasonably shady where you will
Speaker 2: get a lot of reason and a lot of shade.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Now I can say that. One hundred years ago,
Speaker 1: I moved to Baltimore, I got married, and me and
Speaker 1: my husband at the time went to the car wash.
Speaker 1: And who did I see but this beautiful woman. And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, she really pretty. She
Speaker 1: kind of looked like me, you know what I'm saying, And.
Speaker 2: That's why she was beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's why she was beautiful. But no, I saw
Speaker 1: her and I was like, Wow, she's really really beautiful,
Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, I wonder who that is.
Speaker 1: Then years later I was at a party, lo and
Speaker 1: behold this beautiful woman was introduced to me. Yes by
Speaker 1: our friend Cherisa.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so Charis invited us both to a charity event,
Speaker 2: one of the biggest, you know, one of the biggest
Speaker 2: charity events in the city of DC. All the women
Speaker 2: look forward to it. Everyone gets pissy drunk. So everyone
Speaker 2: was pissy drunk at this charity event except for us. Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 2: probably like a little bit. I was probably partaking. We
Speaker 2: ended up at the same table, sitting right next to
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: Yes, So once I realized who she was, She's Robin Dixon.
Speaker 1: It dawned upon me because when I moved to Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Robin is from Baltimore that everybody kept asking me was
Speaker 1: I related to Robin Dixon? And I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, no, Robin Dixon, and who the hell is
Speaker 1: Robin Dixon and Robin Dixon what? So then I was like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, you the girl everybody's been asking me about.
Speaker 1: And she's beautiful, so I don't mind being related to her.
Speaker 1: We're not related, but I mean, you know, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: take that exactly. So we instantly became besties and like
Speaker 1: the rest is history.
Speaker 2: But I feel like it took like it was like
Speaker 2: we were sitting next to each other and we instantly
Speaker 2: were being reasonably shady. I probably was being shady too, though,
Speaker 2: absolutely we've been shady shady, yes, And we were just
Speaker 2: you know, observing the people in the party, you know,
Speaker 2: making little comments about what was going on, yes, and
Speaker 2: having a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it probably took a minute really for you to realize, oh,
Speaker 2: you're the girl from Baltimore that everyone thinks.
Speaker 1: Yes, my cousins. Right. It did take a minute, but
Speaker 1: once I figured it out, I was like cool, Like,
Speaker 1: at least it was somebody that I thought was cool
Speaker 1: as opposed to an asshole, right, And.
Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of weird. It's like, even though
Speaker 2: you didn't know me, just figuring out that there was
Speaker 2: some sort of connection and you knew people that knew me,
Speaker 2: it was like, okay, all right, she's really cool. And
Speaker 2: then I realized that she was the woman on the
Speaker 2: side of the metro bus that I would see.
Speaker 1: I hate robbing right now, Okay, I hate robbing because
Speaker 1: once upon a time I was on metro buses as
Speaker 1: a billboard. Not because I'm wanted for like a crime
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: Well no, no, no, you weren't on the bus for
Speaker 2: a crime, but you were like laying on top of
Speaker 2: your then husband Jamal, like come to our church.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, they were very cute. It was it was
Speaker 1: very cute.
Speaker 2: And I was like, look, are you hated the picture?
Speaker 2: I need I have to find a picture of these busses.
Speaker 2: I mean I would literally be like, oh, who's that
Speaker 2: woman on the side of the bus.
Speaker 1: She's pretty, Like who are they Robin is hating on
Speaker 1: my task. Yes she is.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not like it was. So we were like instantly,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, that's the woman outside of the
Speaker 2: bus and Jazelle was like, oh that's the woman that
Speaker 2: everyone thinks it's my cousin. Yes, and we were, you know,
Speaker 2: both silly, goofy, having fun, laughing, instantly hit it off.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And then years later we got to call
Speaker 1: about a show called The Row Housewives Potomac and we've
Speaker 1: rocked that out for I don't know, several seasons. So
Speaker 1: it helps solidify I mean, we were already besties before then,
Speaker 1: but it really helped with our relationship. And we've had
Speaker 1: each other's back on the show. They've been trying to
Speaker 1: test apart, but we have had each other's back, and
Speaker 1: I like, totally appreciate that. By the way, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean that's what real friends too.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, So can we talk about their Housewives of Potoma? Yes,
Speaker 2: how we got here so Jizelle will tell you. So.
Speaker 2: When they first started casting for a show for Bravo,
Speaker 2: you know, they say, oh, they're looking for an ensemble
Speaker 2: cast of women in the in the DC area, and
Speaker 2: Jezelle had already been talking to a casting director, and
Speaker 2: Sureisa had already been talking to the same casting director.
Speaker 2: And they said, well, call Robin because you know, she's
Speaker 2: our friend. She'd be great. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And I want to say I was already in. They
Speaker 1: liked me.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, she was already in. So the casting director
Speaker 2: calls and so they're both like, Rob when you talk
Speaker 2: to the casting director, I'm like, for what, Like, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't got nothing going on. I was going through
Speaker 2: like I was. My life was in shambles. I will
Speaker 2: be honest about that. You know. Financially we were in
Speaker 2: a bad my relationship was in a bad place, all
Speaker 2: that type of stuff. I think I was divorced by
Speaker 2: the Yeah, I was, Yes, you were definitely divorced. So
Speaker 2: I was like, I'll talk to him, but whatever. I
Speaker 2: talked to him, and my first lead, you know, I'm like,
Speaker 2: not in my opinion, not auditioning for a show. I'm
Speaker 2: having a conversation. So my first you know line with him,
Speaker 2: he was like, you know, oh, tell me about yourself.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I don't live that life.
Speaker 1: That's bad. I should have prepped Robin and I did.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'll be honest, I'm not living that life.
Speaker 2: And so he called either Gazelle or the reason was like,
Speaker 2: I hate her.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm going to give the story how it
Speaker 1: really happened. So I was in, I was good to go,
Speaker 1: and they were like, do you have any friends and
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, Robin, and you're gonna call her
Speaker 1: and she's gonna be amazing. And so they called this
Speaker 1: person that I had hyped up like I was a
Speaker 1: hype woman. I was like, she's amazing, and then Robin
Speaker 1: is on the phone like not giving a shit. So
Speaker 1: the guy immediately called me back and was like I
Speaker 1: hate her and she's out, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: hell no, call her back, call her back, call her back.
Speaker 1: So it took Robin a minute to be nice to
Speaker 1: casting and so finally, you know, they obviously loved her
Speaker 1: in the rest of.
Speaker 2: The rest is history. Yeah, every day, I'm still like,
Speaker 2: how did I get on this show?
Speaker 1: Because I told him called Robin back, right.
Speaker 2: But it's been fun. It's been a journey, and most
Speaker 2: of you who watch the show have seen our relationship,
Speaker 2: and you know, I think the name of our podcast
Speaker 2: reasonably shady, is it? You probably think it fits us?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, So how do we get to this podcast?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: We got to talk about the pandemn demic, okay, because
Speaker 1: that is what it is. And like I think, during
Speaker 1: the beginning of the pandemic, we decided for whatever reason
Speaker 1: to have an Instagram Live together because we were bored. Yes, shitless,
Speaker 1: we were bored.
Speaker 2: We missed each other, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so we did that.
Speaker 2: And we don't get on Instagram a lot, like we're not,
Speaker 2: you know, addicted to social media. So that was kind
Speaker 2: of like the first time in a really long time
Speaker 2: we had gotten on Instagram Live together.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you even have lashes at that point? Did
Speaker 1: you have some lashes on it? Because I think I
Speaker 1: looked real crazy.
Speaker 2: You might have had a turbine on my head or something.
Speaker 1: You had a term. I have like my hair like
Speaker 1: on a ponytail top of my head.
Speaker 2: I have lashes. The pandemic hit, okay, can we talk
Speaker 2: about like the pandemic hit? And I was like, oh, yes,
Speaker 2: I mean I was like kind of loving it at
Speaker 2: first because I was like, oh, I don't have to
Speaker 2: get my hair done, I don't have to get my
Speaker 2: lashes done. I don't have to put on clothes. I
Speaker 2: don't have to And.
Speaker 1: That's a dream for Robin. For everyone to know, that
Speaker 1: is Robin's dream in life, to never have to do
Speaker 1: any of those things anything anything.
Speaker 2: I didn't have to get my nails done. I let
Speaker 2: my nails fall off. I still haven't put them back.
Speaker 1: On, right.
Speaker 2: What else.
Speaker 1: You had on? Sweatpants every day?
Speaker 2: Pants? Every day? I was drinking wine at ten am
Speaker 2: and eating chocolate cake at four am.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, I remember Robit Cobby and she was like,
Speaker 1: just hell, oh my god. It was midnight and I
Speaker 1: had I just polished off an ice cream bar. I
Speaker 1: can't do it anymore. And I was like, back away
Speaker 1: from the refrigerator, yeack away.
Speaker 2: It was hard. I gained like a good fourteen pounds
Speaker 2: during the pandemic. Yeah, during that, like that first two
Speaker 2: months of the pandemic, I gained fourteen pounds for sure.
Speaker 2: And then a light switch went off and I was like,
Speaker 2: I hate food. I don't want to Yes, I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to eat, I don't want anything. So
Speaker 2: now can like and this has been going on till
Speaker 2: this day. I've only had a bar. It's everyone, It's
Speaker 2: eight thirty at night PM and I've had one bar,
Speaker 2: like a protein bar.
Speaker 1: Okay, but rob when we can eat. I mean we
Speaker 1: didn't have to go that far, I know.
Speaker 2: But something happened. I mean I still eat, but it's
Speaker 2: like I'm not hungry.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I went from eating all day, right all night, staying
Speaker 2: up until like four in the morning and just pigging
Speaker 2: out to not eating, Like so.
Speaker 1: You're like a bear and hibernation. Yes you have stored
Speaker 1: up fat and then yes, yeah, but right so I decided,
Speaker 1: Like for me, it was kind of similar, like one
Speaker 1: day I woke up and I was like, I'm not
Speaker 1: cooking anymore. And I have children, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't care if they starve because there's gonna be
Speaker 1: no food being cooked up in this home. My god,
Speaker 1: I'm done.
Speaker 2: Yes, because at first we were cooking all day, three
Speaker 2: times a day. Now I am proud to say I
Speaker 2: am like a Platinum plus tier member of Chick fil A,
Speaker 2: Like I mean.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't because I'm right behind you.
Speaker 2: Yes, Ever, the highest reward level is I'm that I
Speaker 2: redeem my rewards for free cookies for a free chicken sandwich, Like.
Speaker 1: It's just on an app. I gotta get on the app.
Speaker 1: What I'm not on the app? You're not on the
Speaker 1: What am I missing?
Speaker 2: You're missing free chicken sandwich and freeze nuggets and free okie.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm doing it now, I'm doing it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm getting on a scott damn app. All right, you
Speaker 1: are they.
Speaker 2: Delivering to you?
Speaker 1: So what I do is I drive up to the
Speaker 1: mall where the Chick fil a is, I give my
Speaker 1: kids my card and I sit in the car and
Speaker 1: they go in there and get the food and then
Speaker 1: come out. So I need to get a app.
Speaker 2: What I do is I opened the app and I
Speaker 2: hit repeat last Order and you know, sin and like,
Speaker 2: yes the app. I want.
Speaker 1: I want my rewards. I have already told people I
Speaker 1: am the cheapest richest woman you will meet. Okay, I
Speaker 1: want my goddamn rewards. Okay, all right, will we got sidetracked, Robin, So.
Speaker 2: No, I know, but I feel like all of that,
Speaker 2: like it's hard to talk about a pandemic and not
Speaker 2: talk about all the shit that we want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. And it was literally it was a
Speaker 1: lot because Robin, you and I were sending each other menus.
Speaker 1: I mean not menus. We were sending each other recipes
Speaker 1: of different food that we could cook, and none of
Speaker 1: it was like fat free. None of it was like
Speaker 1: the skinny portion. This was all like food food looking good, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: with BUTTA. So that had to stop. That stopped. That
Speaker 1: was horrible. But I feel like, you know, clearly we're
Speaker 1: coming out of the pandemic and I feel better about
Speaker 1: my life.
Speaker 2: Oh, me too, absolutely, And spring is sprung. Yes, that
Speaker 2: always helps. So it was a really rough patch for
Speaker 2: me just this past like you know, fall, winter, and
Speaker 2: now that spring is here, it's like, okay, spring is here.
Speaker 2: We have a vaccine, Yes, we have you know, I
Speaker 2: think we're we've just become more accustomed to life as
Speaker 2: it is. Although I feel like we are getting better
Speaker 2: and I'm feeling better about life. I am.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling really good. And you know, we're in the
Speaker 1: state of Maryland, and the State of Maryland is doing
Speaker 1: great with their numbers, and that's making me feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 2: It is, absolutely but I'm still very cautious. Yes, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not out and about. I'm not you know, trying
Speaker 2: to be a big gatherings. I'm not you know, when.
Speaker 1: I'm my god, do you see all these spring breakers
Speaker 1: spring Breakers have lost their damn mine?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It is something called peachry dish of germs and it
Speaker 1: makes me my stomach cart.
Speaker 2: It's like they just like release them from jail and
Speaker 2: they just like, but you know what, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna throw shade because when I get into
Speaker 2: a club, I'm acting like I'm twenty five. Yes, I
Speaker 2: can't wait until that I'm dropping like it's high. I
Speaker 2: mean right, and I don't want to go to the club.
Speaker 2: But when that time, I don't want to go, but
Speaker 2: I'm going, Yes, yes, we're gonna have a good old time.
Speaker 2: So my I will say, my outlet has been and
Speaker 2: we still have to get back to this how this podcast.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're getting there. We're getting there, young us. This
Speaker 1: is reasonably shady. Bear with us.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is why we're here with you because we
Speaker 2: have so much to talk about, and we go we
Speaker 2: you know, we get on the sidetracked and come right back.
Speaker 2: But my outlet has been basketball tournaments. M So we
Speaker 2: have you know, wanna and I or I have a
Speaker 2: youth basketball team that Wan coaches.
Speaker 1: Wan is her husband fiance, yes, husband.
Speaker 2: Yes, and so our son Corey plays on the team.
Speaker 1: Robin is the is a boy mom. I'm a girl mom.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: I know, yes, so boy mom all day.
Speaker 2: So we have been traveling every other weekend to play
Speaker 2: in basketball tournaments. The kids playing mass like. It's all
Speaker 2: very socially distanced all that, but in the nighttime the
Speaker 2: parents turn all the way up. I mean, we're literally.
Speaker 1: Basketball parent turnout.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, wow. We are literally at the games with hangovers.
Speaker 1: Because that's a game.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are turning up. And literally one weekend my
Speaker 2: son was telling me stuff that I said and I
Speaker 2: did and I don't remember. So yes, those have been
Speaker 2: my releases.
Speaker 1: That's called bad mom, just in case y'all don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, but MoMA gotta be happy.
Speaker 1: Mommy gotta be happy.
Speaker 2: We got to be happy. So anyway, that's you know, No,
Speaker 2: I haven't been in the club, but we have created
Speaker 2: our own little club. In the residence in Okay or.
Speaker 1: Not to turn up into residence in is a turnout.
Speaker 2: The Wyndham Garden, This.
Speaker 1: Is a turnout.
Speaker 2: We get the ball, we get the conference.
Speaker 1: Are you drinking dog? Twenty twenty. What is at the bar?
Speaker 1: Tell me what's at the ball?
Speaker 2: We have a stock bar. We have to kill it.
Speaker 1: We got what kind of tequila? Because there's different kinds
Speaker 1: stuff cosamikos. Okay, this is a horrible turnout. Okay, great goose.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that's my drink anyway. So okay, back
Speaker 2: to where we were talking about.
Speaker 1: That's such been your outlet for the pandemic.
Speaker 2: That has been my outlet over the past few months.
Speaker 2: Like at first, I was very like, I'm not even
Speaker 2: a house. I'm not going anywhere. And now it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: these kids need to get on the basketball court and
Speaker 2: I need to leave the house. Okay, that is I
Speaker 2: like an outlet.
Speaker 1: Getting back to how we are here at this podcast,
Speaker 1: people robbing went on a rant. We like we said,
Speaker 1: we we did an Instagram live together. We did want
Speaker 1: our too, maybe just one I can't remember. And the
Speaker 1: feedback that we were getting or the comments were that, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, Jesselle Robin, y'all should have a green eye bandage,
Speaker 1: y'all should have a podcast, right, And I think.
Speaker 2: It's because when we're talking to one another, the people
Speaker 2: who are listening or watching they feel like they're like
Speaker 2: our girlfriends too, or our friends too, Like they're right
Speaker 2: there in the room with us, and they're like, you know,
Speaker 2: they're getting it. They're keicky in with us, Like we're
Speaker 2: not just like talking, you know, just about the show,
Speaker 2: and like we're literally just laughing, joking, having fun. And
Speaker 2: I think people people really responded to that, like they
Speaker 2: were messaging me, yes, messaging both of us, like, you
Speaker 2: guys need a podcast. You guys need a podcast, right,
Speaker 2: And so I Robin told me I put it OUTGA
Speaker 2: one day, Yeah, Robin called me and said, she said,
Speaker 2: you know, people were giving that kind of feedback.
Speaker 1: I put it out into the universe. In other words,
Speaker 1: I call my manager and I told her to make
Speaker 1: it happen. And here we are today. We are on Iehead,
Speaker 1: we are on the Black Effect platform. Thank you Black Effect.
Speaker 1: We love y'all. And you know, I feel like this
Speaker 1: is a great way, speaking of outlets of us to
Speaker 1: like share our stories. We've been through personally a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm divorced, I got three kids. Robin is
Speaker 1: not really divorced, kind of not really. She's okay, fine,
Speaker 1: she's married, she has two kids, and we're both entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1: We both believe in success. We try to get our
Speaker 1: hustle on. We try to teach our kids to be
Speaker 1: the best people that they can be. And I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of people out there that
Speaker 1: are striving for greatness. So that is what we are
Speaker 1: going to try to bring you all week by week.
Speaker 1: But first, because we are reasonably shady, we'd like to
Speaker 1: give y'all individually our reasonably shady moment of the week. Robin,
Speaker 1: would you like to go first?
Speaker 2: Okay? I will go first. So today I had an
Speaker 2: appointment to get corn rows.
Speaker 1: Okay, explain that. Because it's that different from loose locks,
Speaker 1: lemon locks. I need an explation because I don't know
Speaker 1: nothing about these braids.
Speaker 2: Well me neither. That's the problem. So you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know a whole munch about hair. I just typically
Speaker 2: I go to my hairstyles and I say, do my hair,
Speaker 2: thank you. So I don't really know the terminology for
Speaker 2: corn rows or braids or whatever it is. So I
Speaker 2: just told the girl I want corn roads. I'm going
Speaker 2: on a trip I don't want to do with my hair.
Speaker 2: I want some corn roads. And she's like, well, what stout.
Speaker 2: Do you want? I was like, oh my lord, what
Speaker 2: do you mean? So I was like, just I said,
Speaker 2: just do something cool, right, I'm thinking because I've gotten
Speaker 2: corn roads before. And it literally took like less than
Speaker 2: two hours to do. And I had all these appointments,
Speaker 2: you know, I had somewhere to be Okay.
Speaker 1: Yes, call my house to do this podcast podcast.
Speaker 2: Ye. Yes. So I was like, okay, my appointments at two,
Speaker 2: I'll be out by the latest. I can go home
Speaker 2: and you know, eat something for her, you know, see
Speaker 2: my kids, make sure they're cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nah. Five and a half hours later, right, I walk out.
Speaker 2: First of all, I had to I texted you out
Speaker 2: probably like five times. Oh I'm running late. Oh I'm
Speaker 2: even later. Oh I'm even later, Like I literally and
Speaker 2: it's so crazy. It's like I thought she was almost done,
Speaker 2: but she wasn't. It was like, okay, there was like
Speaker 2: a patch of hair and I was like, okay, that's
Speaker 2: the last one. And it was like oh okay, no,
Speaker 2: now it's the last one.
Speaker 1: And then it was like, so, oh, here is reasonably
Speaker 1: shady you to me because you late or the lady
Speaker 1: that did your head to you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say me because I did not tell her
Speaker 2: I was on a time constraint, okay, you know, like
Speaker 2: and it's like once she started doing her thing, it's
Speaker 2: too late. You know. I couldn't be like, wait, whoa wall,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, this feels like it's taking a little
Speaker 2: bit longer, you know, when I got like half my hair.
Speaker 2: So they're very cute.
Speaker 1: By the way, Robin looks really cute. For those of
Speaker 1: you all cannot see us, she looks very very cute,
Speaker 1: and she's a very pretty woman. And that's why we
Speaker 1: love her. Even though she was two hours late.
Speaker 2: No, I was two. It's really more like.
Speaker 1: Three yeah, no, no three late latest bock. There we go.
Speaker 1: There we are just late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I am the shady person because.
Speaker 1: You're okay, all right. So, and just to know us
Speaker 1: is to know that Justzelle's always on time. I live
Speaker 1: by that. I don't know where that came from in
Speaker 1: my life. I'm a virgo. Yes, I'm always on time,
Speaker 1: and Robin's always late. So guys, if you all don't
Speaker 1: get an episode from us, it's because Robin didn't show up.
Speaker 1: She was late.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, then no, just call a guest, okay, or
Speaker 2: I'll just do it myself.
Speaker 1: Oh no, So okay, anyway, all right, so my good
Speaker 1: thing is.
Speaker 2: Like you love me? Yes, It's so crazy. I was
Speaker 2: like when I was texting her, I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: running late. I was like, oh shit, I don't know
Speaker 2: what she's gonna says, like okay.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, what was I gonna say? Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh god?
Speaker 2: Actually, And honestly, we were supposed to do this at
Speaker 2: ten am. Yes. And I called her last night, yes,
Speaker 2: after I got home from a basketball tournament, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I think that's a little too soon and
Speaker 2: we're gonna need a little more time because I get
Speaker 2: my lashes done like I got I have.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I'm the book of excuses. Okay,
Speaker 1: people bear with me. Pray for me, y'all. Pray for me, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: pray for me in these streets anyway. Okay. So my
Speaker 1: reasonably shady moment is, you know, I have met a
Speaker 1: couple of new ladies lately, and one of them I
Speaker 1: reached out to because I felt like, you know, she
Speaker 1: could be a cool girlfriend and we could kind of
Speaker 1: keep key together or whatever. And I sent her a
Speaker 1: little text message and I was like, Hey, why don't
Speaker 1: we hang out for drinks? Right? And she responds back
Speaker 1: and says, mmmm, well, you're gonna need to go on
Speaker 1: my assistant and have you penciled into my schedule?
Speaker 2: Who does that?
Speaker 1: Now? That's not reasonably, that's just shady. That's shady shady. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's all the way whack shady. That's right. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: but it falls under this is what happened to me
Speaker 1: in my week, and I just want to share that
Speaker 1: with y'all.
Speaker 2: So that should be like, okay, well kick rocks and
Speaker 2: let's keep it moving.
Speaker 1: Kick rocks, keep it moving because I have friends that
Speaker 1: I can have drinks with, right, I don't need any
Speaker 1: new friends. Yeah, and that what Drake said, I don't
Speaker 1: know no new friends. That's Drake or who said that?
Speaker 1: Was that little baby or dub baby. I can't tell
Speaker 1: them apart it was Drake. Okay, no new friends, all right? Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on, So we would like to share some hour
Speaker 1: or I would like robbing to be honest, because I've
Speaker 1: known Robin for a while, so I know her past, right,
Speaker 1: and we're seasoned women, right, we've come a long way,
Speaker 1: a little more seasoned than me. Okay, So anyway, and
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a big difference between like who
Speaker 1: we were as children growing up. And I can identify
Speaker 1: with this because kids are teenagers now, they a little
Speaker 1: bit of not not off the chain, but you know,
Speaker 1: they do things that make me wonder, how will you
Speaker 1: grow up and what will you be? Right? That's scary,
Speaker 1: It's extremely scary. So I would like for us to
Speaker 1: give a little tidbit into our past, robin so people
Speaker 1: can really understand us.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm happy to share my past. Okay, so
Speaker 2: you know, and I think this is just great, This
Speaker 2: is just we're all going to be friends here. Hopefully
Speaker 2: you all will be tuning in for the podcast, you
Speaker 2: know every week, yes, every episode, and so you're going
Speaker 2: to get to know more and more and more about us.
Speaker 2: So where what better place than to start with our
Speaker 2: childhood or you know, how we became who we are today.
Speaker 2: So I grew up with two professional parents. My father
Speaker 2: is a dentist. My mother was a professor at Morgan
Speaker 2: State University and then also an entrepreneur. We lived a
Speaker 2: very upper middle class, bougie black people life. And when
Speaker 2: I say bougie, I mean we were in you know,
Speaker 2: Jack and jail my mother is in a sorority, my
Speaker 2: father's in a fraternity. You know, I am in a
Speaker 2: sorority as well. I guess we should just name. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't have to protect the name. So
Speaker 2: my mother is a Delta, my father is a Kappa,
Speaker 2: and you know, they both went to HBCUs. They're very
Speaker 2: like social in the city of Baltimore, very well known.
Speaker 2: It just you know, because Baltimore is a small town
Speaker 2: and you know, years ago wasn't that many professional black
Speaker 2: people in the city of Baltimore. There weren't that many
Speaker 2: black dentists in Baltimore. Just whatever it is. So because
Speaker 2: of that, my parents were very I don't want to
Speaker 2: call them bougie though, because they're like they were like
Speaker 2: laid back bougie people, like down to earth boogie people.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree with that.
Speaker 2: And you know, we're all in the social organizations that
Speaker 2: are more exclusive and hard to get into. So that
Speaker 2: was kind of the life that I lived. I went
Speaker 2: to a private school, a very prestigious and expensive private
Speaker 2: school from ninth through twelve, and you know, I had
Speaker 2: a car as soon as I turned sixteen, like all
Speaker 2: that stuff. Lived a good life and oh mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I was so smart that by the age of three
Speaker 2: I was reading and so they put me in school
Speaker 2: a year early. Okay, So I was like my parents'
Speaker 2: golden child because I was so smart and I was
Speaker 2: so well behaved, and I was and my brother was
Speaker 2: a terror. My brother's three years older than me, and
Speaker 2: my brother was like the worst child ever. Yes, I
Speaker 2: said that he was. You could tell him.
Speaker 1: I said that too.
Speaker 2: He was the worst, Like he was a nightmare. He
Speaker 2: was wild. I think, like you know, they I don't know.
Speaker 2: He just there was just so many issues with my
Speaker 2: brother that when I came along, my parents were like
Speaker 2: especially my mom, she was like, oh my God, thank you.
Speaker 2: I think God was like, you need a break because
Speaker 2: that son of yours is a terror. So I was
Speaker 2: the perfect child.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know this is going downhill.
Speaker 4: So yes, Somewhere along the way I met some people
Speaker 4: who weren't the perfect children, and I succumed a peer
Speaker 4: pressure in like seventh grade.
Speaker 1: And what happened robbing in seventh grade.
Speaker 2: In seventh grade, I was smoking cigarettes and running the streets,
Speaker 2: like running up and down the you know, the literal
Speaker 2: streets of my.
Speaker 1: Neighborhood and smoking cigarettes in seventh grade, so you would
Speaker 1: chain smoking like an old lady.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean we were like hiding behind the bushes
Speaker 2: smoking cigarettes. Then we would go and like break the
Speaker 2: Mercedes emblems off of people's way ladies cars.
Speaker 1: You are a vandal.
Speaker 2: You were randomize, yes, So I'm like, I'm sorry if
Speaker 2: you noticed one day that your Mercedes emblem was gone
Speaker 2: from the hood of your car. It was me what
Speaker 2: I was taking a can of soda. This is like
Speaker 2: a federal offense.
Speaker 1: I think the Statue of Limitations statue. Yeah, it's over, okay.
Speaker 2: I was taking a can of soda and pouring it
Speaker 2: in the mailbox, like blue mailbox that you like put
Speaker 2: your mail in, Like people like, oh I gotta pay
Speaker 2: my bills, let me drop it in this blue mailbox.
Speaker 2: So you are and take a can of soda and
Speaker 2: pour it in the mailbox.
Speaker 1: So people have pepsi mail cold mail because of Robbins.
Speaker 1: This is horrible. I thought I was bad. No, you
Speaker 1: take the cake, honey.
Speaker 2: So that was seventh grade. So then ain't God forbid?
Speaker 1: You get the eighth grass no better?
Speaker 2: And all the while my parents think I'm perfect.
Speaker 1: Oh they had they were none the wiser. They were
Speaker 1: none the wiser, Like, how did they not smell that
Speaker 1: cigarette smoke on me? Maybe they were in denial, gladys girl,
Speaker 1: you couldn't smell robins.
Speaker 2: Do you know? Like I'm to this day, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about this, and my brother
Speaker 2: brings up this shit and I'm can we curse here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: She'd we can cursey it?
Speaker 2: Okay, m hm, because I have a potty mouth. My
Speaker 2: brother bring this stuff up as if it's like the
Speaker 2: funniest thing on earth, and I'm like, no, don't talk
Speaker 2: about it. So anyway, okay, okay, eighth grade, I am
Speaker 2: drinking mad dog what twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: In eighth grade and you didn't even get to high
Speaker 1: school yet? No, no, I didn't get to high school yet.
Speaker 1: So you was a cigarette drunk and I was smoking
Speaker 1: weed and you were smoking with Robbing Dixon in eighth grade.
Speaker 1: Eighth grade, Like, that's really really young, Like because eighth
Speaker 1: grade you're what fourth to twelve, you're thirteen.
Speaker 2: You I'm a year younger than everyone else.
Speaker 1: So you're twelve.
Speaker 2: I started school a year early.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if my children were right now, because you know,
Speaker 1: the twins or fourteen if they were smoking weed, I
Speaker 1: would be like livid.
Speaker 2: I would beat their ass for you. Yes, okay, Like,
Speaker 2: and my and my son Corey just turned thirteen yesterday,
Speaker 2: and I'm not imagine him being around anyone doing that.
Speaker 1: So do I need to keep you away from my kids?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Are you a bad influence? Robin?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No. The story there's like a there's a is there
Speaker 1: a light at the end of the time?
Speaker 2: A light at the end? Where's the light it's coming?
Speaker 2: I mean, it gets a little bad, and then it
Speaker 2: gets when.
Speaker 1: When was sex involved?
Speaker 2: Ninth grade?
Speaker 1: Robin Dixon cannot come around my kids. I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell y'all she's got some bad values.
Speaker 3: But all the.
Speaker 2: While, I'm like, Okay, I know I'm doing I'm being
Speaker 2: really bad, and I hope I don't get in trouble.
Speaker 2: I hope my parents don't find out. I don't know
Speaker 2: how the fuck I got away with this stuff. I
Speaker 2: just don't neither do I. So ninth grade came, and
Speaker 2: this is where the turning point happened.
Speaker 1: Okay, because at this point you're like, uh, what do
Speaker 1: you call it? A delinquent? You're a juvenile delinquent?
Speaker 2: Right? I could have been in Julie. Okay, So, and
Speaker 2: this is all because I had a friend that was
Speaker 2: my best friend, and she didn't have supervision like her
Speaker 2: parents are buried lean, but you did. And her parents
Speaker 2: smoked cigarettes too, so it's like if we were smoking
Speaker 2: in the basement, they weren't going to be able to
Speaker 2: even tell, right. So I spent a lot of time
Speaker 2: in her house and got into all types of trouble.
Speaker 2: So ninth grade something a light bulb went off in
Speaker 2: my father's head.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus, because you've been running around town killing
Speaker 1: people's Mercedes fins, Jesus.
Speaker 2: And I was at my friend's house and we were
Speaker 2: running the neighborhood somehow, I'm trying to remember the story. Oh,
Speaker 2: there was a guy I was talking to and he
Speaker 2: was four years older than me.
Speaker 1: Of course he was.
Speaker 2: He was probably because of course the fourteen year old
Speaker 2: boys weren't you know, they weren't doing it?
Speaker 1: And was this were you even of age? No, you
Speaker 1: were not, and he was. This was called rape, it
Speaker 1: sure was right. Clearly, you can never talk to my
Speaker 1: kids again.
Speaker 2: I can speak from experience. Okay, what not to do?
Speaker 2: I am the example of what not to do. But
Speaker 2: what happened was so fourteen, hanging out with my friend
Speaker 2: and her boyfriend who and they had been like having
Speaker 2: sex for two years, you know. And then and then
Speaker 2: this guy that was a senior in high school, and
Speaker 2: we drank mad Dog, we smoked weed, and all I
Speaker 2: remember is I was in the back of the car
Speaker 2: getting laid.
Speaker 1: Getting what's laid me? You were having sex? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Okay, yes, okay. And then what happened, Yes,
Speaker 1: this is getting good.
Speaker 2: So that happened, and then something, it's something in my
Speaker 2: father's head, like a light bulb went off, and he
Speaker 2: was like he started looking for me, like I was
Speaker 2: at my friend's house, and he literally drove to their
Speaker 2: house and was like, where's Robin, Like something's not right?
Speaker 1: Oh? How long did it take for your father figure out?
Speaker 1: How much are right? Three years?
Speaker 2: No, probably three years, I guess, So yeah, I think
Speaker 2: he always I think it was one of those where
Speaker 2: like they knew that my friend probably wasn't the best influence,
Speaker 2: but I would always be like, but that's my friend.
Speaker 1: I want to go to her house, right please?
Speaker 2: And we spent like all like a lot of time together.
Speaker 2: She was Jewish, I can recite Hebrew prayers I've been
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It was just like I
Speaker 2: spent that much time that I was at like Rashashana
Speaker 2: dinner with her and all that type of stuff. So
Speaker 2: but something my parents would always try to like, no,
Speaker 2: we don't want you to go over there, because I
Speaker 2: think they knew that it just we were not supervised, right,
Speaker 2: So for whatever reason, that night he drove over there,
Speaker 2: came and got me, and I'm drunk as a skunk,
Speaker 2: and literally it was like for me, that was like
Speaker 2: the worst thing imaginable for me, for my parents to
Speaker 2: see that I was drunk like that, right, and to
Speaker 2: disappoint them like that that I literally didn't drink again,
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, like after that experience, right, Well,
Speaker 2: I don't say I didn't drink again because clearly because
Speaker 2: you were drunk last week with me, moms, Okay, I
Speaker 2: won't say again. I probably didn't pick back like by
Speaker 2: partying up until like senior year in high school, Okay,
Speaker 2: but I pull I wasn't. I stopped hanging out with
Speaker 2: my friend great and do you know by senior year
Speaker 2: in high school, she was addicted to heroin. Mm hmmm,
Speaker 2: like she had to go scary.
Speaker 1: Who you telling?
Speaker 2: I mean, when I think about it, I'm like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, that could have been me. Even though I
Speaker 2: felt like I was a little I have, like, you know,
Speaker 2: more willpower than that I had, Like I was always one.
Speaker 2: Like you know, when when you were in like drug
Speaker 2: did you have dair class? What's it called dare? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 2: when I was in dair class and they showed you
Speaker 2: the pictures.
Speaker 1: When they tried to scare you, well it scared me great, right,
Speaker 1: So I didn't think I was going to go that far.
Speaker 2: But the fact that my friend that I hung out
Speaker 2: with every weekend was addicted to heroin by the time
Speaker 2: she was in twelfth grade, Like, I just think about,
Speaker 2: like what could have been.
Speaker 1: So clearly we love your father because he got you
Speaker 1: on the street and narrow. He saved me, He saved you.
Speaker 1: But back then, back then, you weren't. You were not
Speaker 1: thinking about your future and what you were going to
Speaker 1: do and who you were going to be.
Speaker 2: No, who's doing that in ninth grade?
Speaker 1: Well my children do that?
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yes, Oh they're gonna be okay. Oh they
Speaker 3: are like ahead of the curve, they are, Yes, Okay,
Speaker 3: that's amazing, because no, I'll be honest, I'm forty one.
Speaker 2: I still don't know what I want to be.
Speaker 1: And that we're gonna save for another episode of People.
Speaker 1: Robin's forty one and she has no clue what she
Speaker 1: wants to do with her life. Yes, that's because I
Speaker 1: feel like that's a lot of people and people can
Speaker 1: relate to that.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, yes, absolutely. I mean I just feel like, yes,
Speaker 2: how many times in college like you. I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel like all of my friends in college are like
Speaker 2: I don't know what I gonna do unless you're that
Speaker 2: one friend that's like I'm going to be a doctor.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, good for you, bitch, I'm so.
Speaker 2: Happy that you figured that out.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Yeah, so that story, that experience like probably
Speaker 2: saved my life. Yeah you know what I mean, It
Speaker 2: probably really saved me from just being like just totally
Speaker 2: jacked up and seeing my parents so disappointed, like literally
Speaker 2: scared me to the point where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that again. Great, And you know,
Speaker 2: I still was a good student, Like you know, I
Speaker 2: finished off, was a good student. I was. I went
Speaker 2: to college, yeah, you know, graduated all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: You met wan, you had some kids, Yes, and you
Speaker 1: met a friend named Joseelle Boo. We're here today, so
Speaker 1: just out. Yes, Well, mine is like Cinderella in comparison
Speaker 1: New Yors. Mine is very PG rated. I was not
Speaker 1: vandalizing any cars in the streets. I think I had
Speaker 1: a wild moment. Let me see, probably high school going
Speaker 1: into college, and I remember like one of the nights
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't do this anymore. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was turned so in college. I happened to turn
Speaker 1: twenty one. Being in college twenty one is a very
Speaker 1: big difference from Robins fourteen years old. Okay for the record,
Speaker 1: but anyway, and I was enjoying myself, living my life
Speaker 1: and doing my thing. I'm in college and the guys
Speaker 1: I was hanging out with they was like, Youselle, you
Speaker 1: turning twenty one. You have to take twenty one shots
Speaker 1: h And I was like, okay, that sounds good to make.
Speaker 1: It's like so I was down. I was like ready
Speaker 1: for the challenge. And I don't know where in the
Speaker 1: twenty one I literally have no idea about the rest
Speaker 1: of the night, but I can promise you I tried
Speaker 1: to get there because it was a challenge and I.
Speaker 2: Wanted our lucky your life.
Speaker 1: I know, I wanted to I wanted to beat the challenge.
Speaker 1: And I remember saying, I don't think I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: it y'all. Probably around shot ten, I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna make it y'all.
Speaker 2: Some cheap ass liquor too.
Speaker 1: It was probably like a mad dog. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: but it was like shots So anyway, Oh.
Speaker 2: I don't want to cut you off. Go ahead, but
Speaker 2: you said mad dog. So when my parents when when
Speaker 2: I got caught being pissy drug and my parents were like,
Speaker 2: what were you thinking? Why are you doing? I was like, well,
Speaker 2: it says that it's wine, and I didn't think that
Speaker 2: wine was bad.
Speaker 1: So she's just lying on top of line, on top
Speaker 1: of line.
Speaker 2: Try and then oh my god, this is like the
Speaker 2: blink the victim. I was trying to victimize myself. So
Speaker 2: then they're all like mad at me, and my brother's like,
Speaker 2: oh that's me. I was like, I want to kill myself.
Speaker 2: I've got to kill myself. That was like to get
Speaker 2: them to like leave back off, Yeah, leave me alone.
Speaker 2: I'm going to kill myself. So yeah, so at least you.
Speaker 1: Were a smart juvenile to language.
Speaker 2: Yes, I like that.
Speaker 1: Yes, So back to a little bit of a backstory.
Speaker 1: I am the youngest of three kids, so by the
Speaker 1: time I was coming up, and we're all kind of
Speaker 1: like eighteen months apart. So by time I got like,
Speaker 1: you know, in my high school years or whatever, my parents,
Speaker 1: like I think, were tired and they didn't feel like
Speaker 1: dealing with me, and they didn't care what I did.
Speaker 1: So I did get away with a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe sneaking out the house couple of times, things like that,
Speaker 1: but no, nothing like too traumatic. But yes, when I
Speaker 1: was trying to take my twenty one shots on my
Speaker 1: twenty first birthday, I realize I can't do this. No,
Speaker 1: and I feel crazy. And I felt crazy for like weeks,
Speaker 1: like I felt sick, I felt like delirious. I felt
Speaker 1: like God was trying to tell me something. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he was trying to tell me, but he
Speaker 1: was just like, bitch, you don't need to be drinking
Speaker 1: all this, Like that was what I was getting from God.
Speaker 2: You are lucky you are alive. Yeah, I mean cause
Speaker 2: and not like I guess to be serious now, like
Speaker 2: we do hear stories of people in college, Yeah, who
Speaker 2: die from alcohol overdose.
Speaker 1: Right, But whoever was giving me the challenge? I know
Speaker 1: who they are to this day. Why did y'all.
Speaker 2: Do that to me?
Speaker 1: Like, right, that wasn't nice, That wasn't a good challenge.
Speaker 2: That was the worst, and how they feel their daughter? Right?
Speaker 1: And I was so crazy. I just was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do it right. Who agrees to this?
Speaker 2: Right? Okay, so stupid Carloge students?
Speaker 1: Right? And then you know, after I graduated from college,
Speaker 1: and I still I didn't know what I wanted to
Speaker 1: do either. I didn't know you know, where I wanted
Speaker 1: to land. I do know that I did want to
Speaker 1: like plan things. I want to be like an event planner,
Speaker 1: wedding plan or something like that. And I did do
Speaker 1: that for a little while for the NAACP where I
Speaker 1: met Jamal got married.
Speaker 2: So I didn't planning background as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and Mayor Royn got you know, things
Speaker 1: and comings. But never in a million years if somebody
Speaker 1: said you're going to be in a reality television show
Speaker 1: and you're going to be a housewife and you're gonna
Speaker 1: be on Bravo, I would be like hell no, not
Speaker 1: only no, but I don't want.
Speaker 2: To do that, right. It wasn't a desire and not
Speaker 2: some people want to be on TV.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I had no desire. I was living my
Speaker 1: life and enjoying myself prior to our casting director calling
Speaker 1: me and saying this is what you're gonna do? Right
Speaker 1: and then and then I actually talked to When you
Speaker 1: and I talked about it, you were like to say,
Speaker 1: you we only live once, Like why not? And where where?
Speaker 1: Why not? And who knows if we'll make it past
Speaker 1: season one? Right? We on season six?
Speaker 2: I didn't eve think season one was going to make
Speaker 2: the light of day.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're on season three, just for the for the
Speaker 1: for the people in the in the cheap seats in
Speaker 1: the back were on season three and Robin's like, are
Speaker 1: we still on this show?
Speaker 2: Right? Is this is this real?
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, Robin is ceasing three? Yes. Robin didn't get
Speaker 1: it for a very long time that we were on TV.
Speaker 1: Like she'd be like confused, Like we'd be walking down
Speaker 1: the street, people screaming our name. She's like, who are
Speaker 1: they talking to? They talking to us, Robin, We're on TV.
Speaker 2: I actually experienced that this past weekend at a basketball tournament. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like there's this lady like waving crazy and I'm like
Speaker 2: looking behind me, I'm like what she oh she sees someone,
Speaker 2: Oh you're waving at me. Hi.
Speaker 1: Yes, I will never forget. And actually this was actually
Speaker 1: season one, so it was a little weird. So this
Speaker 1: could this could be believable. I mean, you could, you know,
Speaker 1: not be this naive. We were in Bethany Beach and
Speaker 1: because we went there for Ashley's that was our trip.
Speaker 1: That was our trip Bethany and they got win that
Speaker 1: a reality show was filming and Bethany Beach, so we
Speaker 1: were like, i think going to the boardwalk or whatever,
Speaker 1: and it was a mob of people just like waiting
Speaker 1: for us to get off the bus. And Robin was like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, who are those people? Why are they here?
Speaker 1: What are they doing here? It's like robbing they're here
Speaker 1: for us And she was like what.
Speaker 2: Do you mean. I'm like no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, they see camera crews and they're
Speaker 1: running now. At the time, they.
Speaker 2: Nobody knew that Beyonce was getting off the bus though,
Speaker 2: and Beyonce did.
Speaker 1: It was me and you, I'm just saying, but anyway,
Speaker 1: so we get off the bus, and they didn't know
Speaker 1: who we were. But like after that, it's like you
Speaker 1: know it is. This ride has been a blessing, I'll
Speaker 1: say for myself, and I think I can speak both
Speaker 1: for the both of us. You know, it's ups and downs,
Speaker 1: there's highs and lows, but we have been able to
Speaker 1: showcase things that we do love and our family. I'm
Speaker 1: proud of my family. I'm proud of the mom that
Speaker 1: I am, and I feel like that is a blessing.
Speaker 1: And if anybody can, especially your story, Robin, because you're
Speaker 1: so relatable, if anybody can learn from our lives, I
Speaker 1: think the whole thing is worth it.
Speaker 2: Right absolutely. One of the biggest blessings for me is
Speaker 2: when I receive feedback and comments from people who are like,
Speaker 2: you have helped me. Yeah, you know you, I've you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not in a good place, but I watch the
Speaker 2: show and either it's for comic relief or it's because
Speaker 2: they look at our stories and say, whoa I can
Speaker 2: relate to that. I love how you overcame. Thank you
Speaker 2: for sharing. And so for me, the best part is
Speaker 2: just affecting other people's lives that I don't even know.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you it's not easy. No, it's
Speaker 1: not easy. No, I don't recommend reality television for anybody
Speaker 1: who does not have thick skin. When I say thick skin,
Speaker 1: like elephant skin.
Speaker 2: Right right. Fortunately, and that's the thing about both of us. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't care like you know, all of the scrutiny
Speaker 2: we received. I mean, sometimes it is a little jarring
Speaker 2: when we can receive so much negativity, But we know
Speaker 2: who we are, and we have the people in our
Speaker 2: lives that are important to us, and we know that
Speaker 2: love us, and they're not going to change for us,
Speaker 2: and we're not going to change for them. So fortunately,
Speaker 2: I've been able to maintain friendships with all of my
Speaker 2: friends that I've been friends with before the show, and
Speaker 2: they don't give a damn about the show, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. And so I can have good girl
Speaker 2: time with my friends and not talk about the show
Speaker 2: and just feel like myself. And so, yes, it's stressful.
Speaker 2: It's hard. Filming is hard, Watching the show is hard.
Speaker 2: The you know, scrutiny is hard. But overall, the blessing
Speaker 2: has been just like way more than the negativity.
Speaker 1: Right right, So people, we're about to wrap up this
Speaker 1: first episode that was so fat. I know, but we
Speaker 1: have a couple takes from the episode. Okay, so take
Speaker 1: number one for me is Robin Muss. You've not delinquent.
Speaker 1: But she has come so far people, Okay, she has.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, she didn't come from vandalizing Mercedes Benz
Speaker 1: to being an owner of Embellished and her hats are
Speaker 1: selling I have on one right now. Her hats are
Speaker 1: selling like hot cakes, honey cakes. So that's amazing. Do
Speaker 1: you have a take from this show?
Speaker 2: I do. I would say thank God that Giselle did
Speaker 2: not overdose and she's here because won do it? Yes,
Speaker 2: because we wouldn't be here. We would not be on
Speaker 2: season six of The Real Housewives of Potoma.
Speaker 1: We would not. We would not. And you know what,
Speaker 1: more importantly, like the power of friendship, Like I'm so
Speaker 1: happy that we're friends and we have a sisterhood that is.
Speaker 2: Unbreakable, absolutely absolutely, yeah, And that is so valuable. And
Speaker 2: when you have that friendship, everyone just nurture it. Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, Now, at the end of every episode, guys, we're
Speaker 1: going to be giving you our reasonable person of the
Speaker 1: day or the week or the year, and our shady
Speaker 1: person of the day, the week, or the year. So
Speaker 1: who's reasonable these days?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is our first podcast, ye, and we
Speaker 2: just have to pay homage homage homage. Both the age
Speaker 2: is silent, right, it's it's hama homage homage. I promise
Speaker 2: I went to private school. Yeah, we have to just
Speaker 2: give doctor Fauci. Yes, yes, yes, yes, pribes. I don't
Speaker 2: care if you believe the pandemic is a hoax. We
Speaker 2: have been through hell and doctor Fauci has remained steady, steadfast,
Speaker 2: factual yep. And I mean, for the most part, it's crazy,
Speaker 2: like they would say, like, oh, I predict that in
Speaker 2: three months the numbers are going to skyrocket, and we're
Speaker 2: sitting there like, oh whatever, And then come three months
Speaker 2: and the number of skyrocket. So like I feel like
Speaker 2: everything that they said would happen happens.
Speaker 1: Yes, So he's a reasonable person. He is our reasonable person.
Speaker 2: And we got to give it up to our new president,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden, just for the sake of thank you for
Speaker 2: being here. Yes, thank you. One.
Speaker 1: If I find myself at this point in a reasonable way,
Speaker 1: not having to stalk CNN anymore to find out the
Speaker 1: bad news, I can actually go to bed feeling kind
Speaker 1: of safe and secure. About the world.
Speaker 2: I knew that life was crazy when I would literally
Speaker 2: be listening to CNN in my car. Yeah, Like I
Speaker 2: would be driving and turn the scene in and it
Speaker 2: was like almost like comforting to hear those voices that
Speaker 2: I've been listening to, like all day, all night. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And now I don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean you can if you want to, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't want to start the rating.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, don't if y'all ratings go down. It's not
Speaker 2: our fault. No, it's not our fault. Yes. So it's
Speaker 2: because the world is a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Yes, and we're feeling a little bit more secure about
Speaker 1: our leadership. And then now we have our shady person
Speaker 1: of the year and ooh, she been shady, shady, shady,
Speaker 1: shady hoo, this thing been shady. And I don't even
Speaker 1: like to say her name because I just want her
Speaker 1: to go away, but that she needs to go sister girl,
Speaker 1: COVID girl, you are shady. Coronavirus better known as coronavirus,
Speaker 1: Miss coronavirus. You so shady. Ooh you shady, and I'm
Speaker 1: a need for you to leave, Okay, So get your
Speaker 1: shady tail up. Out of here. We are done with you.
Speaker 2: She has outworn her welcome, Yes she has, she's never
Speaker 2: welcome never, no no.
Speaker 1: So we've had we've had enough of you. We're done.
Speaker 1: And I think our reasonably shady combination is a good
Speaker 1: one because I think Bauci and Biden can get rid
Speaker 1: of are shady. Oh, absolutely, miss correct.
Speaker 2: We are going to be back to normal one day
Speaker 2: one day.
Speaker 1: Soon, one day soon, one day soon. So I think
Speaker 1: I think that's it for today. That's it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we should tell people thank you
Speaker 2: number one for listening to us. Yes, and I hope
Speaker 2: you continue to listen to us because we have a
Speaker 2: whole lot of exciting topics to talk about. Yes, you
Speaker 2: can expect to hear, you know, just topics about relationships
Speaker 2: and business and friendships and beauty and you know, current
Speaker 2: events we're going to tackle. Yes, And so I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: and I mean, and it's going to be fun and
Speaker 2: funny and you're going to feel like you're talking to
Speaker 2: your girlfriends. Oh. And then you know, at some point
Speaker 2: we're going to have advice segments, so if you have some,
Speaker 2: if you need your advice from me or Geselle, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know who you want advice from me, we'll
Speaker 2: both give it to you.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but next our next podcast, we believe it's
Speaker 1: going to be about breaking up or making up, all
Speaker 1: about relationships and that animal that we call love. So
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss that. Yes, So until then,
Speaker 1: holla back Reasonably Shady.
Speaker 2: Which one are you going to be this week?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be shady.
Speaker 2: I will continue to be reasonable. My bye people. Thank you.
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