WEBVTT - FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Started From The Bottom...Now We Here! (Ep.1) 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.520 Welcome to Reasonably Shady. This is Gaselle Brian here, and 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.040 I am here with hello everyone. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:15.200 My name is Robin Dixon. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.960 Yes, this is our Reasonably Shady podcast. This is our 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.040 first podcast. Guys. We don't know what the hell we're doing, 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.040 but just bear with us because we're going to figure 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.720 it out and by the time we're like on episode 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.440 I don't know, twenty eight will be great. So we 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:32.600 do kind of want to tell people how we met, right, well. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.199 I think we should start off with just why are 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.920 we Why is this podcast called reasonably Shady? 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.040 That's very important. So to know us is to know 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:47.920 that Robin is extremely reasonable. She's like practical, She's always 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.240 like Switzerland. She always tries to see the good in people. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:51.960 And I'm just shady. 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:57.720 Okay, Yes, So Gizelle's first reaction to something is a 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.320 shady one, and then. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.400 I think about it, I process it, and then I 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.400 try to be like Robin, which is very reasonable, but hmmm, 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.399 doesn't really work. I just stay on the shady side. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.760 Yes, you sure do, Yes, I mean, but sometimes you 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.560 don't take that much convincing. I have to, like, you know, 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.200 we'll have a private conversation. I'll say well, look at 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.759 it this way. Sometimes I get through to you. Yes, yes, 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.040 but yes, so welcome to reasonably shady where you will 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.080 get a lot of reason and a lot of shade. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.280 Yes, absolutely, Now I can say that. One hundred years ago, 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.320 I moved to Baltimore, I got married, and me and 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.200 my husband at the time went to the car wash. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.319 And who did I see but this beautiful woman. And 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.080 I was like, oh my gosh, she really pretty. She 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.520 kind of looked like me, you know what I'm saying, And. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:44.480 That's why she was beautiful. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.679 Yes, that's why she was beautiful. But no, I saw 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.920 her and I was like, Wow, she's really really beautiful, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.200 and I thought to myself, I wonder who that is. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.440 Then years later I was at a party, lo and 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.120 behold this beautiful woman was introduced to me. Yes by 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:00.960 our friend Cherisa. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.960 Yes, yes, so Charis invited us both to a charity event, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.920 one of the biggest, you know, one of the biggest 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.320 charity events in the city of DC. All the women 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.520 look forward to it. Everyone gets pissy drunk. So everyone 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.200 was pissy drunk at this charity event except for us. Maybe, yeah, 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.680 probably like a little bit. I was probably partaking. We 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.040 ended up at the same table, sitting right next to 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:24.400 each other. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:29.400 Yes, So once I realized who she was, She's Robin Dixon. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.000 It dawned upon me because when I moved to Baltimore, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.560 Robin is from Baltimore that everybody kept asking me was 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.320 I related to Robin Dixon? And I was like, I 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.440 don't know, no, Robin Dixon, and who the hell is 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.320 Robin Dixon and Robin Dixon what? So then I was like, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.200 holy shit, you the girl everybody's been asking me about. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.720 And she's beautiful, so I don't mind being related to her. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.679 We're not related, but I mean, you know, okay, I'll 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.560 take that exactly. So we instantly became besties and like 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:56.440 the rest is history. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.880 But I feel like it took like it was like 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.360 we were sitting next to each other and we instantly 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.360 were being reasonably shady. I probably was being shady too, though, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.840 absolutely we've been shady shady, yes, And we were just 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.320 you know, observing the people in the party, you know, 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.000 making little comments about what was going on, yes, and 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:15.880 having a good time. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:16.200 Yeah. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:21.360 And it probably took a minute really for you to realize, oh, 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.280 you're the girl from Baltimore that everyone thinks. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.920 Yes, my cousins. Right. It did take a minute, but 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.360 once I figured it out, I was like cool, Like, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.400 at least it was somebody that I thought was cool 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.200 as opposed to an asshole, right, And. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.160 You know, it's kind of weird. It's like, even though 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.200 you didn't know me, just figuring out that there was 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.520 some sort of connection and you knew people that knew me, 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.760 it was like, okay, all right, she's really cool. And 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.280 then I realized that she was the woman on the 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.280 side of the metro bus that I would see. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.200 I hate robbing right now, Okay, I hate robbing because 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.440 once upon a time I was on metro buses as 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:02.760 a billboard. Not because I'm wanted for like a crime 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:03.360 or something. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.880 Well no, no, no, you weren't on the bus for 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.560 a crime, but you were like laying on top of 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.600 your then husband Jamal, like come to our church. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.920 Yes, okay, they were very cute. It was it was 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:15.520 very cute. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.919 And I was like, look, are you hated the picture? 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.400 I need I have to find a picture of these busses. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.440 I mean I would literally be like, oh, who's that 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:23.640 woman on the side of the bus. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.279 She's pretty, Like who are they Robin is hating on 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:27.640 my task. Yes she is. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:31.320 No, I'm not like it was. So we were like instantly, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:32.919 I was like, oh, that's the woman outside of the 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.680 bus and Jazelle was like, oh that's the woman that 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.480 everyone thinks it's my cousin. Yes, and we were, you know, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:44.320 both silly, goofy, having fun, laughing, instantly hit it off. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.280 Yes, yes, And then years later we got to call 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.680 about a show called The Row Housewives Potomac and we've 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.600 rocked that out for I don't know, several seasons. So 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.960 it helps solidify I mean, we were already besties before then, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.320 but it really helped with our relationship. And we've had 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.240 each other's back on the show. They've been trying to 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.240 test apart, but we have had each other's back, and 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.320 I like, totally appreciate that. By the way, I appreciate that. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:09.640 Thank you. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.040 Oh, I mean that's what real friends too. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:12.440 Yes. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:17.560 Absolutely, So can we talk about their Housewives of Potoma? Yes, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.880 how we got here so Jizelle will tell you. So. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.960 When they first started casting for a show for Bravo, 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:25.960 you know, they say, oh, they're looking for an ensemble 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.000 cast of women in the in the DC area, and 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.120 Jezelle had already been talking to a casting director, and 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.960 Sureisa had already been talking to the same casting director. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.960 And they said, well, call Robin because you know, she's 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.839 our friend. She'd be great. Blah blah blah. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.400 And I want to say I was already in. They 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:41.760 liked me. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.280 Yes, yeah, she was already in. So the casting director 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.560 calls and so they're both like, Rob when you talk 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.720 to the casting director, I'm like, for what, Like, I mean, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.200 I don't got nothing going on. I was going through 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.520 like I was. My life was in shambles. I will 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.640 be honest about that. You know. Financially we were in 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.000 a bad my relationship was in a bad place, all 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.039 that type of stuff. I think I was divorced by 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.840 the Yeah, I was, Yes, you were definitely divorced. So 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.600 I was like, I'll talk to him, but whatever. I 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.880 talked to him, and my first lead, you know, I'm like, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.640 not in my opinion, not auditioning for a show. I'm 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.800 having a conversation. So my first you know line with him, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.440 he was like, you know, oh, tell me about yourself. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.400 I was like, well, I don't live that life. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.560 That's bad. I should have prepped Robin and I did. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.479 I'm like, I'll be honest, I'm not living that life. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.240 And so he called either Gazelle or the reason was like, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:32.919 I hate her. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.680 Okay, So I'm going to give the story how it 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.440 really happened. So I was in, I was good to go, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:39.800 and they were like, do you have any friends and 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.480 I was like, yes, Robin, and you're gonna call her 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.720 and she's gonna be amazing. And so they called this 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.560 person that I had hyped up like I was a 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.640 hype woman. I was like, she's amazing, and then Robin 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.360 is on the phone like not giving a shit. So 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.320 the guy immediately called me back and was like I 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.440 hate her and she's out, and I was like, oh, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.520 hell no, call her back, call her back, call her back. 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.080 So it took Robin a minute to be nice to 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:08.040 casting and so finally, you know, they obviously loved her 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:09.080 in the rest of. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.120 The rest is history. Yeah, every day, I'm still like, 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:13.680 how did I get on this show? 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.240 Because I told him called Robin back, right. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.000 But it's been fun. It's been a journey, and most 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.200 of you who watch the show have seen our relationship, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.760 and you know, I think the name of our podcast 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.120 reasonably shady, is it? You probably think it fits us? 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.600 Yes, yes, So how do we get to this podcast? 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:34.560 All right? 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.040 We got to talk about the pandemn demic, okay, because 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.280 that is what it is. And like I think, during 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.840 the beginning of the pandemic, we decided for whatever reason 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.000 to have an Instagram Live together because we were bored. Yes, shitless, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:49.520 we were bored. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:50.880 We missed each other, yes. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.320 Yes, and so we did that. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.160 And we don't get on Instagram a lot, like we're not, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:01.320 you know, addicted to social media. So that was kind 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:02.880 of like the first time in a really long time 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.280 we had gotten on Instagram Live together. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.560 Yeah. Did you even have lashes at that point? Did 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.040 you have some lashes on it? Because I think I 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:08.800 looked real crazy. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.480 You might have had a turbine on my head or something. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.040 You had a term. I have like my hair like 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.360 on a ponytail top of my head. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.760 I have lashes. The pandemic hit, okay, can we talk 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:21.160 about like the pandemic hit? And I was like, oh, yes, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.040 I mean I was like kind of loving it at 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.800 first because I was like, oh, I don't have to 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.640 get my hair done, I don't have to get my 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.560 lashes done. I don't have to put on clothes. I 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:31.560 don't have to And. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.400 That's a dream for Robin. For everyone to know, that 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.480 is Robin's dream in life, to never have to do 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.400 any of those things anything anything. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.719 I didn't have to get my nails done. I let 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.000 my nails fall off. I still haven't put them back. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:44.439 On, right. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:45.280 What else. 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:47.920 You had on? Sweatpants every day? 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:52.400 Pants? Every day? I was drinking wine at ten am 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.480 and eating chocolate cake at four am. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.120 Wait wait, I remember Robit Cobby and she was like, 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.520 just hell, oh my god. It was midnight and I 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.040 had I just polished off an ice cream bar. I 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.960 can't do it anymore. And I was like, back away 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.959 from the refrigerator, yeack away. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.760 It was hard. I gained like a good fourteen pounds 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.880 during the pandemic. Yeah, during that, like that first two 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.320 months of the pandemic, I gained fourteen pounds for sure. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.840 And then a light switch went off and I was like, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.679 I hate food. I don't want to Yes, I was like, 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.679 I don't want to eat, I don't want anything. So 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.080 now can like and this has been going on till 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.280 this day. I've only had a bar. It's everyone, It's 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.560 eight thirty at night PM and I've had one bar, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.280 like a protein bar. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:42.720 Okay, but rob when we can eat. I mean we 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.440 didn't have to go that far, I know. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.560 But something happened. I mean I still eat, but it's 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.160 like I'm not hungry. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:49.400 Okay. 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.720 I went from eating all day, right all night, staying 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.920 up until like four in the morning and just pigging 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:58.760 out to not eating, Like so. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.199 You're like a bear and hibernation. Yes you have stored 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:09.040 up fat and then yes, yeah, but right so I decided, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.080 Like for me, it was kind of similar, like one 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.160 day I woke up and I was like, I'm not 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.120 cooking anymore. And I have children, and I was like, 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.240 I don't care if they starve because there's gonna be 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.720 no food being cooked up in this home. My god, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:21.439 I'm done. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.920 Yes, because at first we were cooking all day, three 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.560 times a day. Now I am proud to say I 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.960 am like a Platinum plus tier member of Chick fil A, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:32.800 Like I mean. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.680 I can't, I can't because I'm right behind you. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.760 Yes, Ever, the highest reward level is I'm that I 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:48.200 redeem my rewards for free cookies for a free chicken sandwich, Like. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:49.920 It's just on an app. I gotta get on the app. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.520 What I'm not on the app? You're not on the 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:53.960 What am I missing? 0:10:54.600 --> 0:11:00.439 You're missing free chicken sandwich and freeze nuggets and free okie. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.640 Okay, I'm doing it now, I'm doing it. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:01.800 Now. 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.680 I'm getting on a scott damn app. All right, you 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:05.240 are they. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:05.760 Delivering to you? 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.599 So what I do is I drive up to the 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.960 mall where the Chick fil a is, I give my 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.000 kids my card and I sit in the car and 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.440 they go in there and get the food and then 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.400 come out. So I need to get a app. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.960 What I do is I opened the app and I 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:26.960 hit repeat last Order and you know, sin and like, 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.280 yes the app. I want. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.240 I want my rewards. I have already told people I 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.280 am the cheapest richest woman you will meet. Okay, I 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.679 want my goddamn rewards. Okay, all right, will we got sidetracked, Robin, So. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.800 No, I know, but I feel like all of that, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.920 like it's hard to talk about a pandemic and not 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:47.320 talk about all the shit that we want. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.760 Yeah, that's true. And it was literally it was a 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.480 lot because Robin, you and I were sending each other menus. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.599 I mean not menus. We were sending each other recipes 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.360 of different food that we could cook, and none of 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.040 it was like fat free. None of it was like 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:06.640 the skinny portion. This was all like food food looking good, yes, yes, 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:11.240 with BUTTA. So that had to stop. That stopped. That 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.320 was horrible. But I feel like, you know, clearly we're 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.560 coming out of the pandemic and I feel better about 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:18.040 my life. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.120 Oh, me too, absolutely, And spring is sprung. Yes, that 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.920 always helps. So it was a really rough patch for 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.920 me just this past like you know, fall, winter, and 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.160 now that spring is here, it's like, okay, spring is here. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.840 We have a vaccine, Yes, we have you know, I 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.880 think we're we've just become more accustomed to life as 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.400 it is. Although I feel like we are getting better 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.600 and I'm feeling better about life. I am. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.240 I'm feeling really good. And you know, we're in the 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:46.960 state of Maryland, and the State of Maryland is doing 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.520 great with their numbers, and that's making me feel like, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.880 you know, there's there's light at the end of the tunnel. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.600 It is, absolutely but I'm still very cautious. Yes, you know, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.160 I'm not out and about. I'm not you know, trying 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.760 to be a big gatherings. I'm not you know, when. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.600 I'm my god, do you see all these spring breakers 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.320 spring Breakers have lost their damn mine? 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:04.000 Oh my god. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.560 It is something called peachry dish of germs and it 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:08.960 makes me my stomach cart. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.720 It's like they just like release them from jail and 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.480 they just like, but you know what, I'm not gonna 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.160 I'm not gonna throw shade because when I get into 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.840 a club, I'm acting like I'm twenty five. Yes, I 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.320 can't wait until that I'm dropping like it's high. I 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.320 mean right, and I don't want to go to the club. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.320 But when that time, I don't want to go, but 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.520 I'm going, Yes, yes, we're gonna have a good old time. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.960 So my I will say, my outlet has been and 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:33.880 we still have to get back to this how this podcast. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.120 Yes, we're getting there. We're getting there, young us. This 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:37.600 is reasonably shady. Bear with us. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.720 Okay, this is why we're here with you because we 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.679 have so much to talk about, and we go we 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.400 you know, we get on the sidetracked and come right back. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:53.280 But my outlet has been basketball tournaments. M So we 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.800 have you know, wanna and I or I have a 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.720 youth basketball team that Wan coaches. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.240 Wan is her husband fiance, yes, husband. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.920 Yes, and so our son Corey plays on the team. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.640 Robin is the is a boy mom. I'm a girl mom. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:09.120 Love it. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.680 I know, yes, so boy mom all day. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.559 So we have been traveling every other weekend to play 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:20.080 in basketball tournaments. The kids playing mass like. It's all 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:24.680 very socially distanced all that, but in the nighttime the 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.320 parents turn all the way up. I mean, we're literally. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.000 Basketball parent turnout. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:39.960 Oh yes, wow. We are literally at the games with hangovers. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.200 Because that's a game. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.720 Yes, we are turning up. And literally one weekend my 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.440 son was telling me stuff that I said and I 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.880 did and I don't remember. So yes, those have been 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:49.560 my releases. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.640 That's called bad mom, just in case y'all don't know. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.520 I mean, but MoMA gotta be happy. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:54.480 Mommy gotta be happy. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.320 We got to be happy. So anyway, that's you know, No, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:58.960 I haven't been in the club, but we have created 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.840 our own little club. In the residence in Okay or. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.200 Not to turn up into residence in is a turnout. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.640 The Wyndham Garden, This. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:09.480 Is a turnout. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.920 We get the ball, we get the conference. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.240 Are you drinking dog? Twenty twenty. What is at the bar? 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:16.480 Tell me what's at the ball? 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.520 We have a stock bar. We have to kill it. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.560 We got what kind of tequila? Because there's different kinds 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:27.840 stuff cosamikos. Okay, this is a horrible turnout. Okay, great goose. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.080 Okay, all right, that's my drink anyway. So okay, back 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.520 to where we were talking about. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.120 That's such been your outlet for the pandemic. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.600 That has been my outlet over the past few months. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.280 Like at first, I was very like, I'm not even 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.040 a house. I'm not going anywhere. And now it's like, okay, 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.520 these kids need to get on the basketball court and 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.400 I need to leave the house. Okay, that is I 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.080 like an outlet. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.480 Getting back to how we are here at this podcast, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.840 people robbing went on a rant. We like we said, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.840 we we did an Instagram live together. We did want 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.720 our too, maybe just one I can't remember. And the 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.400 feedback that we were getting or the comments were that, oh, 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.720 you know, Jesselle Robin, y'all should have a green eye bandage, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.560 y'all should have a podcast, right, And I think. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.800 It's because when we're talking to one another, the people 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.800 who are listening or watching they feel like they're like 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.760 our girlfriends too, or our friends too, Like they're right 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.760 there in the room with us, and they're like, you know, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.160 they're getting it. They're keicky in with us, Like we're 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.480 not just like talking, you know, just about the show, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.640 and like we're literally just laughing, joking, having fun. And 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.440 I think people people really responded to that, like they 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.920 were messaging me, yes, messaging both of us, like, you 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.920 guys need a podcast. You guys need a podcast, right, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.840 And so I Robin told me I put it OUTGA 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.560 one day, Yeah, Robin called me and said, she said, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.280 you know, people were giving that kind of feedback. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.520 I put it out into the universe. In other words, 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:54.920 I call my manager and I told her to make 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.560 it happen. And here we are today. We are on Iehead, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.040 we are on the Black Effect platform. Thank you Black Effect. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.240 We love y'all. And you know, I feel like this 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.920 is a great way, speaking of outlets of us to 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:15.159 like share our stories. We've been through personally a lot. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.719 You know, I'm divorced, I got three kids. Robin is 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.760 not really divorced, kind of not really. She's okay, fine, 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.120 she's married, she has two kids, and we're both entrepreneurs. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.560 We both believe in success. We try to get our 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.439 hustle on. We try to teach our kids to be 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.840 the best people that they can be. And I feel like, 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.080 you know, there's a lot of people out there that 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.119 are striving for greatness. So that is what we are 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.919 going to try to bring you all week by week. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.720 But first, because we are reasonably shady, we'd like to 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:57.880 give y'all individually our reasonably shady moment of the week. Robin, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:58.800 would you like to go first? 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:03.359 Okay? I will go first. So today I had an 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.160 appointment to get corn rows. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.560 Okay, explain that. Because it's that different from loose locks, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.639 lemon locks. I need an explation because I don't know 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:14.600 nothing about these braids. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.560 Well me neither. That's the problem. So you know, I 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.640 don't know a whole munch about hair. I just typically 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.320 I go to my hairstyles and I say, do my hair, 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.119 thank you. So I don't really know the terminology for 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.320 corn rows or braids or whatever it is. So I 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:31.959 just told the girl I want corn roads. I'm going 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.760 on a trip I don't want to do with my hair. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.480 I want some corn roads. And she's like, well, what stout. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.879 Do you want? I was like, oh my lord, what 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.080 do you mean? So I was like, just I said, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.000 just do something cool, right, I'm thinking because I've gotten 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.200