WEBVTT - Run it Back: BroMitzfa da Shitza 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:11.240 Welcome to Jay dot Il, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey everybody, 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.240 this is Jail Scott. Thank you so much for continuing 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.560 to listen to Jay dot L the podcast. So we're 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.840 sharing our favorite episodes, and mine would have to be 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:29.640 the episode where Jet and I went on his bro Mitzvah. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.680 The reason why it's my favorite is because one I 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.800 had a chance to experience something really really amazing with 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.960 my son, you know, offering him a piece of world, 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.120 you know what a wonderful experience, and me coming from 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.400 North Philly, like I never imagined that I would be 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.760 able to even do something like this, but we went 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.840 to Paris, we went to Botswana on two separate safaris, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.520 one in the Kylajadi, the other in the Okavango Delta, 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:07.240 and the last experience was in Amsterdam. And you get 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.560 an opportunity listening to this episode to just to be 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:17.720 there with us, and hopefully it inspires you to want 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.199 to create some kind of bromts for or sis Miths forward, 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.800 you know, for your kid. You know, we have an 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.720 opportunity to bless our little people. And it doesn't matter 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.160 if it's a trip to New York or a trip 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:38.400 to anywhere just giving them something that sparks their interests 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:48.240 and enriches their lives. Thank you so much. Enjoy Hi everyone, 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.280 it's Amber the producer here. I just want to give 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.040 a quick disclaimer before we jump into the show, and 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.640 this episode the ladies make reference to some of their 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.760 personal health choices related to COVID nineteen. He wants you 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.480 to know The jedi El Podcast would like to clarify 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.080 that we are not authorized to give any medical advice 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.320 or recommendations. Any of our opinions are our own and 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:15.960 not a reflection of the views of I hear media. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.880 Well them. Well, I'm going back to j dot el podcasts. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:26.800 It's been a whole minute, not too long, but it's long, 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:31.760 you know. Um, Welcome back to j dot Ilga podcast. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.240 I'm sitting here with my sister friends Liars, Saint Clair, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.560 the loud one. My bad. It sounds so ladylike, it 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:47.360 sounds genteel. It's like Saint Clair, I don't know what 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.080 to do. I've got the wrong silver well or you 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.080 need to call Liars. Saint Clair shouldn't tell you what 0:02:55.200 --> 0:03:02.960 to do. Oh, I love it. You a whole character, honey, 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:10.200 And that would be means she Jill, what is she? 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.040 You're a name? Her name? Do her name? My name 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.880 sounds like somebody's third grade teacher. It's a graden Dangeler, Dunsler. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.639 It sounds like I've run a nonprofit. I can definitely, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.120 you don't have to talk about what Jill Scott sound like. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.560 That's that's it. My mother made sure I got a job. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.360 She was like, she said, they ain't gonna know, They're 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.200 not not gonna know till you show up, baby girl, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.720 until she put that exclamation point on it. Then it 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.440 was like, well, wait a minute, who's that hold up now? Jill? 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.800 It sounds like somebody drunk, That's what it sounds like. Yo. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.480 You know how many people thinks to the show putting 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.680 exclamation points on their babies names. I'm just gonna tell 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.800 you it's happening. It's happening. Listen. I wouldn't put nothing past. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.960 Like I told you. There's a brother on a TikTok 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.640 that talks about African Americans and linguistics and our language, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.600 which which is affectionately called now aa vee, which is 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:12.200 African American vernacular English m the language, the language or 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:17.120 the words. It's a thing I think it's been a 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:18.960 lot of new language and words while we've been inside. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:20.960 I don't know if it's just me, I don't like 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.560 what like what covid E? Girl, like what you just said? 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:28.320 A B E T T A V E. I feel like, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.039 since covid, did we get a couple more letters for 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:36.080 the LBGTQ community. Oh plus, Yeah, you just go plus, 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.160 you just go. Well, I noticed that the plus is 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.200 there now that I didn't know about that before. But 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.880 don't think because we just found out it was it 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.680 hasn't been there for a long time. Oh yeah, well 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.280 they and they ended up adding some more eyes and a's, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.000 and so when you start doubling up on letters, you 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:51.560 might as well just throw that plus up. And now, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.920 just not to confuse the layman rights, all the sys, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.960 all the cis heteros out here, right, But then also too, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.040 one of my children was like putting me down that 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:08.680 there's not as multiple flags too. God, Hey, now, well 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.960 all right, that makes sense. I listen. I know it 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.400 confuses everybody else, but I enjoy it. I like people. See. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.599 One of the one of the quands of principles is 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:23.359 name yourself, defining yourself for yourself. And so I feel 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.960 as if if you are defining yourself for yourself. I 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.400 am with you. A cheerleader, I've been with you in them, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:37.679 so I am too. Yes, I'm with you. Listen, y'all. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.360 We we had a we had a we had a summer. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.000 I know it's um, it's kind of early in the 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:47.840 game far as summer's concerned. UM, but we really did 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.479 have quite the summer. This is the first time that 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.080 the three of us have really and truly been outside outside. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.880 But for you too, you haven't been going anywhere. Everybody's 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.000 been staying close to home. You know, we're we're being mindful. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.360 We're not really you know, throwing parties like that, but 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.640 you know, we're not having gatherings like that. But we're back. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.839 You know. I see on the news that the COVID 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:15.080 cases are rising again, and we have to be mindful. 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.599 Nobody wants to wear a mask. I don't either. I 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.240 thought I was gonna do it for the rest of 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.719 my life. I don't want to talk. I don't think 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.680 you do. Yeah, it's not fun, but it's to me. 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.400 It's just the back and forth and the deciding about winning, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.440 where and how long and what you're gonna do. That's 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.920 where I get confused, where I'm like, all right, when 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.960 I'm going in and out of stores, that's a habit, right, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.000 So I don't even have to think about that. I 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.840 put it on, right I get on an airplane, absolutely 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.840 not going bare faced on the airplane. Forget that you're 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.480 good they are a good one. I can't believe people, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.160 I'm gonna put it on, you know, I'm gonna put 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.760 it on on that good people's airplane. But if I'm 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.160 in a restaurant, you know what I'm saying, and there's 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.440 nobody in there, and I gotta eat anyway, I gotta 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.240 take it off to eat. It's about when you walk 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.000 into your seat. When you walk into your seats, right, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.400 I keep it on and then I go eat. But 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.400 then I'll be thinking to myself where I'm eating it. 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.360 So that's where I get confused. I'm just being honest, 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.840 and I'm definitely pro masking. I'm definitely pro vacs. You 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.920 don't have to get into you know, and nobody got 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.960 to hit me up on the side. Yeah, that's what 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.239 we did. We're about that. But my point is as 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.240 as I'm as we're moving towards like you know, the 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.360 rest of this, you know, navigating the outside. Those are 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.480 the things that sometimes get me a little frazzled. I 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.080 won't lie, what should I do? You know, It's like 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.800 I'm jumping into the jump rope. Like, just think about 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.920 aerosol and somebody and somebody aerosol in your mouth, and 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.840 how convenient is it for them the aerosol in your 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.280 mouth within six feet is that they would then six 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.560 set taking aerosol in your mouth, especially if they're facing you. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:57.239 There you go, that's it. Aerosol in your mouth, jill face, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.760 sick fall in your mouth. I don't know the scientific 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.200 way to say. And I'm done. I'm just I'm two 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.840 weeks over to the COVID, so I'm like, yeah, I'm 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.880 back to being massed up. And I did two days 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.360 at the goddamn Roots pic Neck and didn't get the 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.320 motherfucking COVID. I got to say, I must attribute this 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.840 to colloridial silver. I am learning. Shout out to Suzanne 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.600 Christine who told me that if you spray the collordial 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.200 silver and your mouth, you will keep the virus off. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.800 So I think it worked at the Roots Picnic. Then 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.400 I got bougie and comfortable, went to the real cute 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.520 seats at the Hollywood Bowl for juneteenth and got the 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.520 goddamn COVID on June teenth and didn't spray the collordial silver. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.200 So I'm just saying to the people, I ain't saying 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.480 it's secure, but I think that it may work. Clover 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.440 and silver. It's powerful, like rubbing it in. Yeah, for 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.319 like I heard, sometimes it helps your scars and stuff. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.040 He'll quick, quick, good to know, good to know. So yeah, 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.280 so yeah, I got I got the COVID. I mean, luckily, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.240 I feel blessed because I'm like, you know, triple boost 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.280 and so I just headaches and chills and fever for 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.120 a day. But being inside for seven days that ain't cool. 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.760 That it's not fun, I will have to say. But 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.760 I will say that, you know, having to kind of 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.160 get out and experience the world has also been a 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.719 part of people's self care over being locked up for 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.640 a couple of years. And I have to say, of 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.480 all that this summer that we made up for quite 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.400 a bit. Okay, okay, yeah, can you please tell us 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.560 what you have done this for summer thus far? Oh? 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.160 I mean that's I mean work, y'all know, I'm a traveler, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:32.800 so I don't let the virus stop that. So I've 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:37.000 been doing that a little bit. Yeah, I've been. Yeah, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:41.120 because like like Asia said, mask and whatnot? Yeah, no U. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.600 But yeah, I don't know. I think, like I said 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.240 when I went to the Rootspecking, that was the first 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.040 time going out to an outdoor concert for real, for real, 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.200 and that felt so good. That felt like a whole 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:55.439 reunion of sorts. And yeah, I'm just been I've been outside. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.920 Just don't stuff ride my bike doing it, you know, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.360 I don't think. To be honest, I haven't. The only 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.439 new thing I did was be around people. And I'm 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.280 about to go somewhere again. I'm fed to travel, even 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.000 though I'm kind of magic and they lifting these mandates 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.559 and I'm not liking that. I like going places where 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.760 they make you get tested before you leave and then 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.959 nice yes, yes, he's like, because we kind of want 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.920 to know. Yeah, and before you get on the plane, 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.880 we let me see your paper, sir, so that way 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.960 you know everybody on the plane. We're good for this plane. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.760 But I'm gonna still keep my mask on. Yeah I 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.920 missed that. I'm here for your storage, Jill. I want 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.760 to know all about the June. Look at your face. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.520 Your face immediately just went into relaxed and enjoying us 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:40.400 when she said your June, I love it coming to it. Okay, friends, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.120 I am certain that I had the best trip of 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.520 my entire life. Jet turned thirteen. That's my son. For 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.040 anybody who doesn't know, he turned thirteen. And I was like, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:56.079 damn black boys in America, you know, or around the world, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.200 except for maybe Africa. Obviously, they don't have a writer passage. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.480 You know. If you're Zulu, you know, you go up 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.800 the mountain and for anybody who knows what that is, 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.280 you know what that is? Where from from what I understand, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.200 if you go up the mountain, you go up the 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.200 mountain and there's men there and they teach you how 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:18.280 to do important things that help to establish your manhood. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.160 And by the time you get back to your village, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.440 you're a young man and people treat you as such. 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.720 Right for Jewish boys, you got your brab mentzvah. You 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.200 have to learn a passage in Hebrew. That's not easy. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.199 You know, you have a big old party, everybody celebrates you, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.360 and brab mitzvahs are a lot of fun. But I 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.480 was like, what do you do? You know, wait till 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.280 our kids are like sixteen to have a sweet sixteen 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:50.400 or fifteen for King Tiniera with some people do. So 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.439 I decided a couple of years ago I started putting 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:58.640 money away. And I know, I know people will hear 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.560 me say something like that, like I started to put 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.800 money away, But I need you to understand that I 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.560 saved for the things that I want to do, okay, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:11.600 and I compartmentalized money the same way that I compartmentalized 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.400 my emotions sometimes. So I wanted to do it big 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.120 and I took I took money out of everything that 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.559 I earned, and I put it towards this trip for Jet. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.240 I called it a bro Metzvah. I saw that on 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.880 Blackish once and I thought that that was really fly. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.360 I was like, okay, a bro metzvah. But we didn't 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.880 want to. I didn't want to do a party because 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.719 it's been two years. Kids haven't really been hanging out 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.360 like that. So I'm gonna have a bunch of awkward 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.000 kids in the space, and I'm gonna pay a whole 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.240 bunch of money to have them look weird at each other. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.840 I decided Jet had been talking about Paris for quite 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:55.360 some time. So how we flew to Paris. This was 0:12:55.440 --> 0:13:00.240 his first time on like in business class. He was 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:06.280 just like, the chair was so fuss, all the buttons, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.520 all the button the chair was so fun. And I 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.240 was like, this is about to be dope. Okay, that's 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.160 when I got excited. I was like, look and then 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.599 the food came. He looked at this meal like, m 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.520 this is great. We've been on first class tablecloth on 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.400 my table. We've we've even flown private you know before, 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:29.360 but this is our first time flying overseas together ever. Um. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.600 He had a passport when he was seven weeks old, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.319 but not not one you know that he could be recognized. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.360 So now he's thirteen and he's got this passport with 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.360 his real pictures. So he's like that. I think they 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:46.760 have every movie ever. Was mom could watch movies, discuss 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.520 many movies. I want to yes, just the just I 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.760 took a video of him when he realized that the 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:57.480 chair turned into a bed. It was it was it 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.960 was like reliving that moment all over again. For for me, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.439 I was like, this is great, this is gonna be great. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.520 So we arrived in Paris and we just took it 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.000 really easy. We stayed at the Four Seasons because I 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.040 told y'all I put money aside from I saved for this. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.320 We walked in there, it was flowers everywhere. It was 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:22.800 so god darn beautiful. Jet was. He just kept saying, dang, Mom, Wow, 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.640 my mom almost like yeah, this is He's like, oh, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.200 I need to know where the flowers were. All the 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.760 flowers were. We were like wow. And all the people 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.320 were so fancy and they were dressed so sharp. This 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:40.160 this one guy walked by and Jet was like, oh, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.400 I looked the dude's suit was tailored so well in 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:51.400 the fabric. Jet was like, dang, mom, that man looked nice. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.400 I was like, totally look nice. Okay. So we get 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.160 into our room. It's all frenchy dingy. It's super frank 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.680 frenchy dingy. What is that? Even me? I love it? 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:05.640 And and and yellow with with um rich kinds of like 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.840 deep fabrics and swear up in this this beautiful room. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.920 And we're like, okay, we're tired, so we're taking that anyway. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.720 I'm not going to do this, see because it's so 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:19.280 much um. We get out into the world. It's beautiful day. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:26.280 Paris is just is bright and it's it's exciting because 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.800 the everything is so damn pretty. The ark, the streets 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:34.200 are like, oh, you know. The breakfast we ate was like, oh, 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.400 what was the first breakfast? Wait, give me something I need? 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.520 I need to breakfast. It was simple. We just had like, um, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.960 scrambled egg on on bread. But French scrambles be different. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.320 French scrambled eggs be different. Right there, It's like they 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.400 just stay there, just rise in the paint. I don't know. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.640 Fluffy had to close my eyes and hold on something 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:04.480 because the French butter, my friends, the French the botter. Oh, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.560 I said, well, I mean we've had a bunch of 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.960 moments now. We were walking out. They were sitting in 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.480 the park, looking at the Eiffel Tower, walking around, you know, 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.000 the neighborhoods, looking at people's dope ass houses, doing dope 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.520 as stuff. You know. I'm a boyer, so I'm all 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.000 looking in windows like look at you know, and Jetta 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.920 is right along with me. He's fun. You're gonna get 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:31.960 us apprestive. So we had this conversation about two things 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.680 because we ended up going to two major cities, and 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.800 I was like, hey, listen, you know we we're looking 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.200 at the TikTok's and stuff. He's sending these things and 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:41.840 he's like, we went to Paris and we went to 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.360 amstam Um and he was like, Mom, we have to 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.480 be really mindful of pick pockets and in the real 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.560 you know, towards the areas. Okay. So we've we've we've 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.320 been talking about this a lot, like if I have 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:56.800 to go on my purse, I'm gonna need you to 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.640 be like a mere cat and look in every direction. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.120 He was like, what's a mirrorcat? I was like, boy, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.399 so he had to look up a mirrorcat that was 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.720 see first of all, youse, haven't you seen a lion king? Yes? 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:15.760 Thank you? Huh yes, So a mirrorcat is Timon Timona 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:21.960 and Pomba Timona is Americat and Poomba is a ward hall. Okay, 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.800 I knew that part. Okay, thank you. And mirrorcats you 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.080 jump out of the sand and they look here and 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:28.720 they look and we're looking out for each other. We 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.080 put the little bands on our phone so we can 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.919 have our phones around our wrists because we've heard that 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.120 people will run by a snatch your phone and keep going. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.120 So we're trying to be mindful of all of these 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.280 things and have a really good time. And um Jack 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.520 became like my little hey, I'm saying, he became he's 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.960 taller than me now, but he became like my protector. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.960 And when he had an inkling that something was wrong, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.160 I said, We're going to follow these things wholeheartedly, no 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.680 matter where we go. If we feel like it's time 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.959 to go, if you feel that deep in your spirit 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.080 and you just want to leave, we leave in It's 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.400 not a discussion. It's not a discussion. If I tell 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.640 you jet walk to me, slowly, walk to me slowly, 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.639 don't be like mom, we'n what you don't look club. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.360 I don't want to hear all of that. It's important, Yeah, travel, etiquette, safety. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.199 We're gonna do this because it's you and me and 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.160 nobody else in the world right now. Like we don't 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.840 know anybody. We don't we don't have any friends in Paris, 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.600 we don't you know, so all right, and we've seen 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.920 taken exactly. Listen, I'm just saying, and Auntie Aga does 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.439 not have a certain set of skills. Okay, I know 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.199 somebody that know somebody. I know somebody that knows somebody 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.280 that do though, So we go to the Eiffelhower. That 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.200 was dope. We went at midnight so we could see 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.280 it light up, you know, and it was it was lovely. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.520 It just was lovely. And we also saw a very 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.639 big rat and we were like wow. I was like, yep, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.360 this city, homie, don't forget damn big like a raccoon. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.159 Oh like New York, like past New York. Ill, but 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.560 you know, it's it's a big city. It's like you said, 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.320 you gotta you can you take the romance saying the 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:13.280 you know, the practicality. So it was sean delize all 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.880 of that. And then we went to the Louver and 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.480 this was this was a moment for me. Um. First 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.080 of all, the Louvers is gigantic. It is the premier 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:28.359 art gallery of the world. And first things first, we 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:33.959 went straight to Egypt. So we go there and Jet says, Mom, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.600 you know if if if you dig up somebody's grave, 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.720 they call it grave Robin right, like it really wrong. 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.560 And I said, I say, that's my said. This trip 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.200 is about this. This this trip is about hearing him 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.680 out and him opening his mind and seeing things and 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.960 tasting things and discovering that the world is just amazing 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.640 and huge. You better kill Monger that joint. You better 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.520 kill Monger that joint. Listen, I told you what time 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:04.320 we was in the museum. I was in a museum 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:06.600 with the twins one time and they had like a 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.080 room where there was a mummy and Lana was just like, yeah, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.520 it's gonna be a no for that. She was like, 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.639 she said, they didn't disturb that person's spirit and the rest, 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:17.960 and we're not going. She was like an old black lady. 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.480 She was like, oh no, no, no, no, we need 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.720 to get a byt of here. We can't go in there. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.840 I was like okay, I said, okay, So we left 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.200 and then we went and we saw the Victorian design 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.800 and all the rich fabrics and all of that stuff. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:35.560 That was real cool. And then we went to see 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:39.159 Mona Lisa, and you know, we took a picture in 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.720 front of that thing and he was just like, I 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.359 was like, that's what I said. It was like, it's 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:49.280 really a man. It's really a man kind of moment. Yeah, 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.840 that is so interesting. That is so interesting because twenty 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:57.840 years twenty one years before when I first started traveling 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.840 a bit, I'm gone to this Senegalese restaurant called Lovey 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.000 Lodge on Lovy Lodge, and I was like, I want, 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.760 I wonder if they're still open on them They were 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.600 still open, same place and everything. He went and had 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.960 a wonderful Senegalese meal. Um, it was awesome and it 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.320 was this painting of a lion and a cub and 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.080 I was like getting on emotional. I was like the sign, 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.760 you know, I know, look they don't be knowing, but 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.320 your little heartbeat heart just be going all of this. 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:32.000 He you know, he he had rather TWI and you know, 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:37.040 he closed his eyes and he was like, my god, 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:41.280 my god. I looked and I was saying, yes. He said, 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:45.520 he's such an old man. I love j child like 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.760 he is. I just yeah, my god, oh my god. 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.560 I was like, okay, it was so delicious. I had 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.760 no idea what rather tweet was. I saw the movie. 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:56.400 I don't know what it is. I'm not gonna lie 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:00.879 and squash. It's vegetables and some kind of sauce and 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.280 I don't know who prepared it, but they put angel 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.479 dust in that thing, some kind of fairy juice, and 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.920 it was so tender and delicious. I was like Okay, 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:26.000 I ain't no girl, more real talk after the break. 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:29.159 We love Paris, Okay, all right, so let's get to 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.280 the to the other part of this trip. We leave 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.960 Paris and we head to South Africa. I forgot about 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.359 that part. We get to South Africa, told him, I said, hey, listen, 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.600 this was a trick. Okay, yeah, how long a trip 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:47.439 is a well, from Paris to South Africa. It was 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:52.959 about ten or eleven hours. Okay, I'm not too bad, 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:54.840 but this is new for him. He's never flown this 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.840 long before the ETA was broken. So he was like, 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.439 I know, I slept for eight hours, Mom, I know 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:02.919 I did. How is it still four? How is it 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.679 all this time left? And I was like, it's not right. Okay, 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:08.880 just relax, you got a little bit time left again. 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:13.640 The flight was great, um, the whole deceeding and all 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:15.600 that other stuff. He loved it and thought it was 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.560 so dope. He kept looking at me like, damn girl. 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:20.520 You know, he kept giving me the damn girl, look 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:24.560 that thing good. Anyway, we go from South Africa and 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:28.440 we take a little flight to my womb um that's 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.679 in Butuana. So thus far he's gotten three stamps on 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.040 his passport, one to Paris, one to South Africa, and 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:39.520 one to Butwana. So we're back where I was pregnant. Why, 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:44.080 oh god, that's a lot. I know you was crying. 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:48.280 I just was watching most and the arrangement you must 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:51.080 have made based on your knowledge of that area, like, 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:53.919 oh right, So being able to go back and having 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:56.639 it not be a new experience for you so that 0:23:56.720 --> 0:24:01.760 you could be the we discussed things together. So I'm 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:04.199 gonna say that I went to Paris. We went to 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:06.200 Paris first because he really wanted to go to Paris. 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:08.200 He wanted to see what it was hit before. And 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.720 I think that we had a great meandering of streets 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:15.720 and walk of thinnes. We definitely had some walk of thinness. 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:19.439 You know. He got to those ceilings. Friends, if you 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:23.520 have not been to the Louver and in Paris that 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:29.720 art museum, the detail, even the wood on the floors, 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:37.680 the ceilings, your camera will never quite do justice. It 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:40.919 gives a good idea what you saw, but it doesn't 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.640 really give you the dimensions of things. And he also 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:46.480 had an opportunity to see that the moors were present 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:52.119 around Jesus consistently in those in those paintings. I was like, 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:55.119 you know, pointing out the moors, pointing out the brown 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:59.520 skin you know, all over the place is particularly you 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:02.680 know in Greek uh in some of the Greek ared 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:05.360 we saw a lot of brown people. That's not an accident, 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:09.760 that's not time, that's not discoloration. I was like, wow, okay, 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:13.600 did they get Jesus's color right now? Hello? Those hotels, 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:19.720 those those images are in abatment of the Vatican. Oh oh, okay, 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:22.359 the afro downstairs, but the press out is upstairs. I 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:25.119 got you, I got you. So now we're in my 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:29.880 own and then we take a helicopter. Yep, we took 0:25:29.880 --> 0:25:35.159 a helicopter to the Okavanga Delta. It's the jungle of Bruttara. 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:38.159 We're going on. Oh, I can't wait to see what 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:39.600 we land. I can't wait to see what we end 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.480 up coming, right because man, we went to see what 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:45.359 man did with all of this amazing architecture and this 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:49.000 beautiful artwork and these the sculptures and all of this stuff. 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:54.960 Making hair of a blow with stone like that was 0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:58.120 really truly beautiful. A jill, can you spell that? Could 0:25:58.160 --> 0:25:59.960 we could? We want to look as you're talking, I'm sorry, 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:02.560 what's what you spell that for me, it's really what 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:07.080 it sounds like, okay va delta, Okay, oh thank you, 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:10.400 or they or they all say okavango. I think American 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:13.960 says okavango, but it's okay, yeah, I'm about to go 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:15.640 on this tour with you. As you talking, you didn't 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:17.879 know that, but I'm here for this. Just like people 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:21.840 say Botswana, but it's really Botswana. It really is. When 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:25.160 you twa, we know that Asian and I now we're 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:28.399 we're aware now, but you we did not know prior 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:33.879 to the Jay do Ill podcast. Botswana, Zambia, Mozam no 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:38.760 Mozam beach and Botswana, so let us speak about our 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:41.320 mother land. That's when I learned all of the African 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:46.640 countries and that song. Right there, I'm in the helicopter 0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:51.000 with Jet and we're watching the earth change. It went 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:55.120 from my womb and it's it feels kind of uh, 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:59.440 it feels like a beach town, but there's no beach 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.800 and we're flying over and all of a sudden, there's 0:27:03.840 --> 0:27:05.960 absolutely nothing for as far as the yay I can see. 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:09.040 And he just understand how big Batuana is and then 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:13.119 how big the Okavanga delta is. So we we flew 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:17.879 for an hour on a helicopter too. We all of 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:21.120 a sudden there was water and you can see crocodiles 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:25.119 doing what crocodiles, dude. You can see um impala and 0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:31.600 key do and elephants and zebra and everything. It's right 0:27:31.640 --> 0:27:33.800 below us and Jet I could you know, I'm kind 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:35.880 of you know, looking at the corner of my eye 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:38.000 to see what he's doing. And he's just got his 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:40.800 mouth open like this is real. I said, I'm gonna 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:44.560 take you to Lion King, okay, And that's where we're going. 0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:48.760 So we get we laying there and they have a 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:50.960 van a truck waiting for us. You know, you've seen 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:55.040 them on TV, the Safari trucks. So we get in. 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:58.520 Of course they're going to offer us beverages because when 0:27:58.520 --> 0:28:01.000 I tell you, when you go on Safari, the one 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:04.560 thing that they're going to do two things for sure. Um, 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:09.040 they're definitely going to feed you like crazy. I want 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:11.679 to know what that is. Okay too, I want to 0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:13.719 eat a half bath. And you're going to go on 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:18.200 Safari at least three times a day because it's it's 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:21.440 literally never the same show twice. I mean, I see 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:25.119 that okay, so walk us through these things, Jill. I 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:26.600 need to know what the food is. I needn know 0:28:26.600 --> 0:28:30.360 what the different things you saw in the safari. Yeah, 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:36.200 what y'all eat? I guess lounge if you will. Everything 0:28:36.400 --> 0:28:41.120 is on is on a platform, so we're not on 0:28:41.160 --> 0:28:45.880 the ground the tents because we stayed in a tent. 0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:48.880 The tenths that we're in are not on the ground. 0:28:49.080 --> 0:28:53.760 Everything is like a bridge. Right, we're high up. Um, 0:28:53.760 --> 0:28:57.600 not too high. UM, maybe about a good ten feet 0:28:57.760 --> 0:29:03.920 off the ground. Um. Right. So that's all like really pretty. 0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:09.960 Everything is just really well done. And it's what you 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:15.120 imagine with the white curtains and the um. It doesn't 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:18.920 have heat, it doesn't have air condition. Um. At night, 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:21.160 it gets very very cold, depending on the time that 0:29:21.240 --> 0:29:24.600 you go. But they put what they call bush babies 0:29:24.760 --> 0:29:29.200 in your in your bed um and and bush babies 0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:33.800 are hot water bottles that are covered in something fuzzy 0:29:34.080 --> 0:29:39.080 and it keeps your bed nice and warm. So every 0:29:39.200 --> 0:29:41.760 night there's bush babies in your bed and you're it's 0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:44.600 so happy to have them because this brick is really 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:48.120 really cold in the desert at night. But the dag 0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:50.520 on foods, you know, I'm here with it. The lady 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:54.880 comes out and when I tell you, everybody's so pretty, 0:29:55.000 --> 0:30:01.280 like they're just pretty. That's that was one of Jet's 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:05.840 first observations. He's like, Mom, everybody's just so pretty. I said, 0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:11.360 this is crazy, right, just crazy. All different kinds of faces. Um, 0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:15.200 some some with really big guys, some with slanted eyes, 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:20.400 some some really fair skinned, some some wide nose, some 0:30:20.520 --> 0:30:24.800 big lips, some one big lip, one small lip, some freckles, 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:27.480 some balls. You know, this is people. People come in 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:30.840 all different shapes and sizes, but that there's something else 0:30:31.160 --> 0:30:33.960 that is attached to these folks. It's like a light 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:38.600 within that is just you can't ignore it. So the 0:30:38.880 --> 0:30:42.240 pretty lady comes out and I can't remember her name, 0:30:42.240 --> 0:30:45.240 it was it was like four syllables forgive me. And 0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:49.040 she comes out and she says, today I have prepared 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:52.920 for you and ted Acle, I'm soup with a fresh 0:30:53.040 --> 0:30:57.440 crema and a sparticles. And then she goes on and 0:30:57.760 --> 0:31:00.520 we're like just amazed, just like look, I'm like, oh, 0:31:00.560 --> 0:31:03.440 whatever you say, you know, we're gonna eat it. Why 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:07.120 was it even better than Paris? Of course? Because way better, 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:12.000 like way better of course we got because these them 0:31:12.080 --> 0:31:19.440 seasons there is just incredible and they feed you breakfast, lunch, dinner, 0:31:19.480 --> 0:31:24.200 and high tea. They typically have like an English breakfast, 0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:30.160 which is some baked beans, eggs, sausage. Um. They had 0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:32.600 beef sausage, they had chicken sausage. I was like, thank 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:37.680 you so much. Um. And I don't recall eating like 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:42.719 fresh muffins and things like that. But they made omelets. 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:47.520 They made. The thing that Jet loved the most was porridge. 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:51.160 He loved porridge. Just ate it slow and looked at 0:31:51.160 --> 0:31:54.560 the spoon and he was like, this is crazy porridge. 0:31:54.560 --> 0:31:58.080 He loved porridge. Okay, so we go out on safari 0:31:59.280 --> 0:32:03.040 and you know, I'm a little nervous because now I'm 0:32:03.080 --> 0:32:06.400 second guessing myself. Did I just bring my cup out 0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:09.520 here to get epped by something? Because you do have 0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:11.800 to sign a waiver saying that if you happen to 0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:15.400 die itself, the fault that you fully knew that you 0:32:15.440 --> 0:32:18.040 were coming to an area where they're a wild and 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:22.440 honey mouths. That's a moment. They make sure that you 0:32:22.480 --> 0:32:25.120 know as much as possible. How you know, they take 0:32:25.200 --> 0:32:28.560 every precaution, every procution to make sure that you're safe, 0:32:28.600 --> 0:32:31.320 and you have to follow the dog on rules. Don't 0:32:31.360 --> 0:32:33.920 go off the damn bridge and decide you're gonna take 0:32:33.920 --> 0:32:37.600 a walk. You're not safe, dummy, you know, but bab 0:32:37.600 --> 0:32:41.160 boon could kill you. Mind you. They're babboons outside of 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:45.600 our room, and they are we just sitting on the 0:32:45.680 --> 0:32:50.200 deck and just watch them play. And the baboons and 0:32:50.240 --> 0:32:53.800 the zebra and the impala and the kid. They're all 0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:57.120 together because you know, they're not out here eating meat. 0:32:57.120 --> 0:33:01.520 They're just chilling, just chilling. It's so much to say. 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:07.200 We saw a leopard. They had killed a zemina and 0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:11.320 had a piece of the legs up on the tree, 0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:17.240 and she just looks She looked so satisfied. She looked 0:33:17.280 --> 0:33:21.360 so satisfied. Her legs were gapped over, and I said, wow. 0:33:22.800 --> 0:33:27.520 Our guide, his name was Kambungle. We also Delta, Delta 0:33:27.680 --> 0:33:29.760 just he wanted to make sure. I told him while 0:33:29.800 --> 0:33:34.000 we were there, and he really made sure to educate 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:39.520 Jet and Tom to go as close as possible. We 0:33:39.520 --> 0:33:41.680 were so close to lions. I just was like, I 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:44.960 prayed the whole time. We also had a flat tire 0:33:45.120 --> 0:33:49.440 while we were in the tall brush all bush. It 0:33:49.520 --> 0:33:54.280 was during the day, but that means nothing. And the lions. 0:33:54.560 --> 0:33:57.520 The lions are the exact same color as the bush. 0:33:57.560 --> 0:34:01.080 And I stood up and Jet was like, what are 0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:03.840 you doing? And I said, I'm looking like a mere cat, 0:34:04.880 --> 0:34:06.720 and he was like, here you go with this meercat. 0:34:06.800 --> 0:34:09.680 I was like, I'm watching because all I could think 0:34:09.719 --> 0:34:12.440 of was if a lion happens to come out and 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:19.239 God for big killed come bonga, the wheels off. And 0:34:19.320 --> 0:34:23.040 even if I could drive this truck, I don't know 0:34:23.080 --> 0:34:27.959 where to go. We started an hour ago, an hour 0:34:28.000 --> 0:34:32.040 in every direction, you still have not reached them. The 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:36.719 delta is so big. We saw hippopotamus, we saw ostrich, 0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:41.000 We saw babylons, we saw leopard, we saw lions, we 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:45.200 saw so many. We saw eagles, white eagles. I didn't 0:34:45.200 --> 0:34:48.439 know they existed. We saw my favorite animals, the key due. 0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:52.040 We saw loads of them with their pretty selves, whatever 0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:55.760 kind of mixture they are. We saw jackals, we saw 0:34:56.400 --> 0:35:00.920 oh boy, we saw it off, and we saw morning, noon, tonight. 0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:04.960 Because the show is never the same, like the animals 0:35:04.960 --> 0:35:11.720 are always doing something. Yeah, they're living, They're okay. So 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:16.239 this is my first example. Oh god, oh my god, 0:35:16.280 --> 0:35:19.279 a freedom. This is what freedom looks like. This is 0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:22.440 there's no confines here. This is what freedom. It's like 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:25.439 You're able to do whatever you want, whenever you want, 0:35:25.480 --> 0:35:30.000 however you want, for as long as you want. Period. Okay, 0:35:30.400 --> 0:35:34.840 So um at night that the sky turns read sometimes 0:35:34.840 --> 0:35:39.400 it's purple, sometimes it's it's it's the orange. Like we 0:35:39.520 --> 0:35:43.239 can't fathom the way that the moon shines and the 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:46.440 way that the pictures do no justice. There's no camera 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:49.960 I think that could capture what these colors really look like. 0:35:50.360 --> 0:35:53.319 So we spent four days there with them. Then we 0:35:53.360 --> 0:36:00.440 took a helicopter to um the Kalajadi desert. Wow. At 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:03.480 this point, can I just ask an American question, Jill? 0:36:03.719 --> 0:36:06.480 At this point, how are you guys avoiding the bites, 0:36:06.560 --> 0:36:09.000 the bug bites these things? Are you still buck bite free? 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:11.960 Because y'all was standing in it's also fabric all around 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:14.040 you to make sure that you're that you don't get bitten. 0:36:14.239 --> 0:36:17.040 They have the spray called boom in the room. UM, 0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:19.680 so you can spray boom just in case if you 0:36:19.680 --> 0:36:22.120 you know, you feel away. But I make it a 0:36:22.160 --> 0:36:25.840 point to go um if and when I traveled to 0:36:25.840 --> 0:36:30.120 to Putuana, I'm not going in there summer. I go 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:32.959 in the winter, okay, So, and that's June and July 0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:36.160 are the best times to travel to me. And and 0:36:36.239 --> 0:36:39.040 at winter the weather it's still what in June July 0:36:39.120 --> 0:36:41.520 and what is done. It's reasonably warm during the day, 0:36:41.560 --> 0:36:44.400 but it's a different sun there. It's a whole different 0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:49.600 sun there. Okay, So warm is you know, eighties, upper 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:54.120 eighties um during the day and at night somewhere under twenties. 0:36:54.880 --> 0:36:59.920 We slept in sweatsuits and fuzzy socks. Well yeah, I mean, 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:02.360 and I heard that the desert can't get really cold, 0:37:02.480 --> 0:37:05.280 but I didn't think you're that cold, not that cold, 0:37:05.320 --> 0:37:06.880 and that less it's the bugs because they don't be 0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:10.080 around in the cold, that's true. So at least you 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:11.759 know when you're sleeping, they ain't gonna get you in 0:37:11.800 --> 0:37:15.480 that sleep. So that experienced. They laid out the carpet 0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:19.840 and then then there was one moment when they wanted 0:37:19.840 --> 0:37:22.920 to tell me how they felt, and I didn't see 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:25.319 it coming, and it was very emotional. They were just 0:37:25.360 --> 0:37:29.880 talking about my time there as modern mostway and um 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:33.640 in front of jet which was really awesome. You know 0:37:33.960 --> 0:37:39.200 that I had introduced Patuana too so many to the world. 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:42.399 That was very emotional and they were like, we love you. 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:46.040 And they told jet Um. You hear about these stories 0:37:46.040 --> 0:37:49.160 when when somebody says you're in Africa, welcome home. But 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:52.680 they were like, jet you were, you were created here, 0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:58.160 you were, you were created here, Welcome home. They knew that. Wow, 0:37:59.040 --> 0:38:02.399 you know. And I was three three weeks pregnant when 0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:04.040 I when I got there, and I know they wanted 0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:06.160 to give you all the advice and all of the things. 0:38:06.239 --> 0:38:09.640 So yeah, I'm sure they were heavily invested. I mean, 0:38:09.680 --> 0:38:13.480 that's just so beautiful. That's so beautiful. It's still bugging 0:38:13.480 --> 0:38:18.160 me out how how beautiful it all was. So I'm 0:38:18.160 --> 0:38:20.040 gonna try to make it brief because I've been talking 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:22.279 my head off. No, this is good because he is 0:38:22.320 --> 0:38:25.480 going to this is going He's going to open up 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:30.319 bits and pieces of this gift over the years. You 0:38:30.360 --> 0:38:32.560 know what I'm saying. It's going to continue to kind 0:38:32.600 --> 0:38:35.200 of gift him forward. And it's it's good for people 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:38.840 to hear it because because you're also creating like goals 0:38:39.000 --> 0:38:41.240 for people in a way like I never thought about 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:43.480 doing that. Okay, like Jill did. I might have to say, 0:38:43.520 --> 0:38:46.799 my ducks because that sounds really cool. Right, And that's 0:38:46.840 --> 0:38:49.799 that's the cool You're giving people a very real kind 0:38:49.840 --> 0:38:52.000 of you know, just this moment where they can say 0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:54.120 I can come up with the thing and create it 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:56.840 and then follow through and that these are all the 0:38:56.920 --> 0:38:58.920 elements to what it would look like and feel like. 0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:02.600 And then it goes with with whatever budget you have 0:39:03.320 --> 0:39:07.120 that if we can't if we're not doing the big party, 0:39:07.640 --> 0:39:10.759 you know, if we're not doing the walk with all 0:39:10.800 --> 0:39:13.840 the men, you know, and they take the boy away 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:16.600 for you know, a week's time or whatever the case, 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:18.480 if we're not doing those things and we have to 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:21.680 do something to acknowledge, you know, that they're going into 0:39:21.719 --> 0:39:24.600 their manhood and that they're going into their womanhood as well. 0:39:24.680 --> 0:39:28.920 Like these things are super valuable, you know, I think. Anyway, 0:39:29.160 --> 0:39:34.240 So we're in the Kalajadi. This is the most luxurious shit. Honestly, 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:39.160 I've ever seen this tent. The tent is a mansion, baby, Okay. 0:39:39.440 --> 0:39:44.240 The fabrication of the tent is rich. That there's there's 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:49.480 um Persian rugs all over, Moroccan rugs all over the floors, 0:39:50.120 --> 0:39:55.440 the sculptures, the mahogany beds. We both have four post 0:39:55.520 --> 0:39:59.720 mahogany beds um. The bathroom has a as a chaise 0:39:59.800 --> 0:40:04.240 la ounge in it, made with yellow velvet. The toilet 0:40:04.400 --> 0:40:07.920 is an absolute throne of mahogany. Like you gotta be 0:40:08.080 --> 0:40:12.359 kidding me. Ye, Look, we had our private pool, our 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:16.400 punge pool. We had an outdoor shower and an outdoor 0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:19.799 toilet and they were separate from each other, just in 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:22.280 case you felt like taking the poop in the bush. 0:40:22.840 --> 0:40:26.160 We went on safari twice a day because we were like, 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:29.160 we're a little bit We took naps in between. So 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:31.920 we got up in five three. We had an amazing breakfast. 0:40:32.000 --> 0:40:36.400 Every day we went out, saw all the things in 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:38.879 the desert. It's different. So we're now we're looking at 0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:42.240 we're looking at we're looking at the sky, we're looking 0:40:42.320 --> 0:40:45.720 at the animals. Of course, we ended up bumping into 0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:49.000 a very large lion, like okay, I don't understand what 0:40:49.080 --> 0:40:51.800 a bump a bump. He just happened to turn the corner. 0:40:51.920 --> 0:40:54.640 He was there in the car. We had a cage around. 0:40:54.719 --> 0:40:58.600 There's no cage around the car. So he saw us, 0:40:58.680 --> 0:41:02.200 we saw him, and then we just sat quietly and 0:41:02.360 --> 0:41:05.160 he did He was like oh uh, and went on 0:41:05.200 --> 0:41:08.799 about his business doing what he was doing because he's 0:41:08.920 --> 0:41:12.880 free and living without fear. There's nobody there to shoot 0:41:12.960 --> 0:41:15.799 him or hunt him or kill him. Right, So he 0:41:15.920 --> 0:41:19.880 was like, oh, there's one of these things, huh. And 0:41:19.960 --> 0:41:24.280 he's not hungry so because and we're also not exactly 0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:30.480 on the menu, um, but there is. I've heard many times, 0:41:30.719 --> 0:41:33.239 um that people get killed in Safari because they don't 0:41:33.239 --> 0:41:35.640 follow the rules. They get out the van, they get 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:38.359 out the Safari jeep, they go and want to take 0:41:38.400 --> 0:41:41.279 a picture with the lion like it's freaking simble. It 0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:45.399 ain't and ain't. I can guarantee you they ain't got 0:41:45.400 --> 0:41:48.799 this brown on their arms. I can guarantee you those people, girl, 0:41:49.480 --> 0:41:54.600 Because what we're gonna do is follow the rules. We're 0:41:54.640 --> 0:42:00.359 gonna do. We're gonna take a quick break and then 0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:14.640 we'll be right back. We're we're in the Kalajadi. They're 0:42:14.640 --> 0:42:17.960 serving meals that are so beautiful. Give us wine, Come on, jil, 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:19.880 give us, come on. They said, we've have we have 0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:25.760 fried chicken and a lintil salad. And I was like, oh, okay, 0:42:25.800 --> 0:42:29.839 I don't know what to expect this chicken. I don't 0:42:29.840 --> 0:42:32.520 know they fried the chicken. It was so light and 0:42:32.640 --> 0:42:37.880 crispy um and it was just the moistest pieces of chicken. 0:42:38.400 --> 0:42:42.080 I need to take a picture of LA's face. I'm 0:42:42.160 --> 0:42:45.600 sorry I got lost. Don't nobody talk about food like Jill. 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:47.680 You know that it'd be like close your eyes, y'all. 0:42:47.719 --> 0:42:51.640 Just the salad was cold and the chicken was hot. 0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:55.839 And they have something called pi pi. He said. The 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:58.200 salad was going and the chicken was hot, like it 0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:01.320 was a surprise. I'm sorry, y'all's eyes is closed, and 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:04.400 y'all look like y'all two seconds away from a whole moment. 0:43:04.440 --> 0:43:11.319 But it's fine. Popo sae. It's an oil. It's an 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:14.080 oil with all these peppers in it. It's like a 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:17.520 vinical oil with a lot of peppers. And you just 0:43:18.000 --> 0:43:21.600 marinated and I poured that hot. It was. It was hot, 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:24.080 but it was like the righteous hot. It wasn't It 0:43:24.160 --> 0:43:26.040 was hot, and you with a hint of sweet at 0:43:26.080 --> 0:43:28.799 the end, not burning. It was sweet at the end. 0:43:28.920 --> 0:43:31.880 I was like, oh, th friend, I ate Pilly Pilly 0:43:31.920 --> 0:43:36.480 popo and everything. I couldn't stop myself. Sometimes I just 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:39.160 did a piece of bread and put some pill. Somebody 0:43:39.200 --> 0:43:43.880 give me something to stop this up with, please, somebody 0:43:43.920 --> 0:43:47.799 got a little piece of bread please, so so so 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:51.279 so so so so so so so that was the 0:43:51.360 --> 0:43:54.080 meal for me. I ate it all. And I watched 0:43:54.120 --> 0:43:56.160 the sea with Jimmy. He ate it all, and we 0:43:56.280 --> 0:43:59.480 just looked at each other like, this is what's happening. Okay, 0:43:59.840 --> 0:44:01.239 you talked about the food, but can you just tell 0:44:01.280 --> 0:44:03.200 us did you have any cocktails? Did you have any? 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:06.759 Every day? Every day? They serve your dreams all day long. 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:09.520 And I never knew how good a Gin and Tonic was. 0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:12.239 I was never a Gin and Tonic girl. Now I am. 0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:17.120 That is the perfect summertime refreshing, just a little hint 0:44:17.160 --> 0:44:20.560 to get your tipsy, just a little. I love a 0:44:20.640 --> 0:44:23.680 Gin and Tonic. Now I'm in with a splash of lemon. 0:44:23.760 --> 0:44:27.520 I'm in lemon on line, Okay, lemon on live. And 0:44:27.560 --> 0:44:31.520 if I can get Botswana gin, that's what that's really amazing, 0:44:31.680 --> 0:44:35.400 all right? All right? So we go for a walk 0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:41.359 with the bushmen. They're called by saddleway. Fine, they look 0:44:41.440 --> 0:44:45.319 like Asian folks. They look like Asian folks, but they're 0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:51.440 really brown, and they they're titties is out? Okay? And 0:44:51.680 --> 0:44:54.120 I just get the bushmen, know, right, or the bush 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:57.440 bushmen and women you know how you know how patriarch 0:44:57.640 --> 0:45:00.359 is of course, yeah, we don't get a work. Won't 0:45:00.400 --> 0:45:02.279 get a word, right, man, don't get a full word. 0:45:02.400 --> 0:45:06.640 But there are women and of all eighties, um and 0:45:07.000 --> 0:45:11.560 you know, titties out, and beautiful necklaces like string beads 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:15.320 are all over their bodies, and they have very short 0:45:15.400 --> 0:45:18.480 hair that looks just like the earth. I swear it does, 0:45:18.840 --> 0:45:21.040 like from a distance in the helicopter when you look 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:24.439 down on the earth, it's the exact same textures. Come 0:45:24.480 --> 0:45:27.600 on and they take us for a walk. They speak, 0:45:27.640 --> 0:45:31.000 they are one hundred thousand of them left. This is it. 0:45:32.000 --> 0:45:36.960 This is it because the world is coming and the 0:45:37.600 --> 0:45:44.040 kids want to experience other things, you know, and there's 0:45:44.200 --> 0:45:47.280 very few, you know, one hundred thousand left that really 0:45:47.320 --> 0:45:50.640 want to. I guess hold on to that. But they're trying. 0:45:50.760 --> 0:45:53.320 They're trying. So they take us out for this walk 0:45:53.880 --> 0:45:57.280 and they're they're all of a sudden, you know, they're digging, 0:45:57.800 --> 0:46:00.560 and they're telling us about all the earth and all 0:46:00.560 --> 0:46:03.279 the stuff. You get this take this dug a hole 0:46:03.360 --> 0:46:06.120 and found some big ass thing. And they were like, 0:46:06.640 --> 0:46:09.719 boil this is for pains. And I was like, damn, 0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:11.600 I wish I could take this whatever, this thing it's 0:46:11.640 --> 0:46:16.800 with me? Right, you did notice cell bring foil? Right? 0:46:17.440 --> 0:46:21.960 A scorpion, right, this big scorpion they dug out the 0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:24.200 ground and now they're playing with it. And I was like, 0:46:25.200 --> 0:46:29.080 you know, I'm allergic to be stings, so now you know. 0:46:29.440 --> 0:46:32.160 But they're they're telling us they didn't really they didn't 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:34.520 really speak English. We had a translator who had to 0:46:34.600 --> 0:46:36.600 live with them in order to learn how to speak 0:46:36.640 --> 0:46:40.680 the language, because people who speak Paddi, people who speak 0:46:40.760 --> 0:46:43.560 Zulu pulsa, I don't know how to say that. Right, 0:46:43.719 --> 0:46:50.759 whatever the language is, this is not that. This is old, old, old, old, okay, 0:46:51.080 --> 0:46:53.920 And it takes a lot of time, and you have 0:46:54.000 --> 0:46:56.359 to live, you have to be completely immersed in it 0:46:56.880 --> 0:47:00.800 in order to learn it. And even still our guide 0:47:00.920 --> 0:47:04.920 spoke six or seven languages, but he said he lived 0:47:04.920 --> 0:47:07.480 with them and still struggles. He said, I can hear, 0:47:07.960 --> 0:47:10.360 but I can't speak as well as I wish I could. 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:15.400 I was like, damn, okay. So they play with the scorpions. 0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:19.520 The guy this this, the bushman puts the scorpion in 0:47:19.640 --> 0:47:23.919 his mouth. I'm never I'm bugged out. I'm bugged out. 0:47:24.239 --> 0:47:26.880 He was like, there, there are friends, there are toys. 0:47:26.960 --> 0:47:29.600 We play with them. And they dug another hole, put 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:32.000 their dude away and buried him. And I was like, 0:47:32.040 --> 0:47:37.759 it's scorpions in this damn doesn't really big factas right 0:47:37.840 --> 0:47:40.680 underneath us. So now Jet and I are looking everywhere 0:47:40.719 --> 0:47:43.080 because we are a little bit scared. Now, yeah, I'm 0:47:43.080 --> 0:47:46.120 going back to meercat status. You know, have thorns in 0:47:46.120 --> 0:47:48.600 our socks and trying to act like everything is cool 0:47:48.680 --> 0:47:51.680 because their barefoot. Why aren't they stopping to take thorns 0:47:51.680 --> 0:47:55.080 out of this socks because it hurts. How you got 0:47:55.120 --> 0:47:57.640 you got shoes on the right, Yeah, but there's there. 0:47:57.640 --> 0:48:00.239 These thorns are coming up under the under the hands 0:48:00.320 --> 0:48:03.000 or something I don't know, and getting stuck like a 0:48:03.040 --> 0:48:09.239 tiny mean needle, like a mean little needle. Well, this 0:48:09.320 --> 0:48:12.719 is the reality also of nature and being outside and 0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:16.480 you know, different terrain. We struggled with that one because 0:48:16.560 --> 0:48:19.960 every few steps it was a new mean needle. And 0:48:19.960 --> 0:48:21.680 when we didn't want to, we didn't want to play 0:48:21.719 --> 0:48:26.160 ourselves like you y'all don't have no shoes on, how 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:30.680 are you not getting stuck by mean needles? I was like, yeah, 0:48:30.719 --> 0:48:33.640 so they made fire out of jackal dung. How you 0:48:33.680 --> 0:48:36.520 make fire to dodo, I don't know, but what we 0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:40.799 watched it, we were amazed. We were mazed. I mean 0:48:41.719 --> 0:48:44.120 I never even seen the jackal. Wait fire, I mean 0:48:44.160 --> 0:48:48.880 out of the jackal, I'm dung. Wow. Okay, there's a 0:48:48.960 --> 0:48:52.440 gas or something that comes off of poople. Well they 0:48:52.520 --> 0:48:55.040 mashed it up and it was like soft because there's 0:48:55.080 --> 0:48:58.120 a like a like like hey, it turns into kind 0:48:58.160 --> 0:49:02.760 of like hey, so you know, enough friction it became fire. 0:49:03.080 --> 0:49:07.400 We were like damn happy too. And it's crazy. The 0:49:07.440 --> 0:49:10.160 pictures that we took with the with the bushmen, they 0:49:10.320 --> 0:49:14.120 came out black, all of them in that crazy what 0:49:14.239 --> 0:49:16.200 you feel like some things weren't meant to be seen 0:49:16.440 --> 0:49:19.120 or you can't see their faces. And the pictures in 0:49:19.160 --> 0:49:22.840 between are there, but the pictures directly with them standing 0:49:22.920 --> 0:49:26.600 next to them are black. And we were like, oh wow, 0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:31.560 in that dope. They bring us our lunch outside. It's 0:49:31.600 --> 0:49:36.600 so it's so jazzy, it's so special, it's so extra okay, 0:49:36.640 --> 0:49:39.680 all the things, and then we take ATVs into the 0:49:39.719 --> 0:49:44.680 salt flats. A TVs are those four wheels vehicles. The 0:49:44.800 --> 0:49:49.920 salt flats are as big as Switzerland. It's where your 0:49:50.080 --> 0:49:54.560 water used to be, but no more, right, and so 0:49:54.600 --> 0:49:56.799 it's like it's like white on the ground with the 0:49:56.840 --> 0:50:00.760 big cracks. Yes, and we went directly into the salt 0:50:00.800 --> 0:50:05.240 flass beautiful on the a TVs where we sped like crazy. 0:50:06.160 --> 0:50:09.440 The guy was like a valet. He was like, you 0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:13.680 want to go fast style? Jed was like yes, because 0:50:13.719 --> 0:50:18.839 he's driving himself for the first time. Yes, and that 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:22.680 was dopeest shit. We get out, We get way out there. 0:50:22.719 --> 0:50:25.439 We drove for like an hour into the salt flats. 0:50:25.480 --> 0:50:27.959 That's what I'm saying. That's how big it is, Okay, 0:50:28.120 --> 0:50:31.000 And then we get off and he says, find an 0:50:31.040 --> 0:50:35.400 area by yourself. And I noticed that as I'm walking, 0:50:35.480 --> 0:50:39.680 there's really no sound out there. There's no sound. Yeah, 0:50:39.719 --> 0:50:41.719 I felt like that. Well, it's not the same, but 0:50:41.840 --> 0:50:43.719 like out in the desert when you go to like 0:50:43.800 --> 0:50:46.080 Arizona and stuff like that, Like you get out to 0:50:46.080 --> 0:50:48.879 a certain point and it's like standing in like a 0:50:49.080 --> 0:50:52.960 studio or something like, it's like flat, no sound. It 0:50:53.040 --> 0:50:55.200 was deep and I honestly started to feel a little 0:50:55.320 --> 0:50:59.440 fear because I'm not accustomed to not hearing any sounds. 0:50:59.719 --> 0:51:01.560 But I was safe. I knew I was safe because 0:51:01.560 --> 0:51:05.400 we're an hour away from any trees or vegetation. Animals 0:51:05.400 --> 0:51:08.160 are not walking out there. They'll die, they know better. Yeah, 0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:11.359 there's nothing growing out there. So he says, all right, now, 0:51:11.440 --> 0:51:16.120 lay down, and we're in three different places, and he says, 0:51:16.560 --> 0:51:23.960 enjoy the sunset. And the sky turned peach and then 0:51:24.000 --> 0:51:28.680 it turned blue and then and then all of a sudden, 0:51:29.000 --> 0:51:34.000 there were stars just popping up. I've seen you know, obviously, 0:51:34.040 --> 0:51:39.520 we've all seen stars before, but they turned colors. They 0:51:39.520 --> 0:51:42.800 were green and red and yellow. I've never seen a 0:51:42.920 --> 0:51:47.840 rainbow of stars before. And then they were shooting stars 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:53.640 in between, not one, not twelve, not fifty, just so so, 0:51:53.640 --> 0:51:59.600 so many. And he says, all right, now after and 0:51:59.640 --> 0:52:06.400 now realize that we have to ride back. Yeah, there's 0:52:06.440 --> 0:52:09.160 there's lights on the ATVs, but we also have to 0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:14.359 ride through the bush on these ATVs. The driver, i 0:52:14.360 --> 0:52:17.120 mean the guide valet shout out the valet. He's in 0:52:17.160 --> 0:52:19.960 the front, jets in the middle, and I've decided to 0:52:20.000 --> 0:52:22.640 take the back because I figured I'm gonna protect him. 0:52:22.880 --> 0:52:25.719 And I got his back. I said, my god, what 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:28.719 am I gonna do something? Decided to jump on my chad, 0:52:29.480 --> 0:52:33.520 where which direction to do? Out? What does something jump 0:52:33.560 --> 0:52:37.600 on me? And Jet is gunning it. He's gunning it hard. 0:52:38.160 --> 0:52:41.279 Just I got a gun it too, But also not 0:52:41.400 --> 0:52:43.680 get in his dust because if I'm in his dust, 0:52:43.719 --> 0:52:47.759 I can't see, you know. And we're just out here 0:52:47.920 --> 0:52:50.319 in the middle of all of this, you know. And 0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:54.399 I figured, Okay, maybe the noise will distract and they 0:52:54.400 --> 0:52:56.879 won't want to, you know, fuck with us. But I 0:52:56.960 --> 0:53:00.520 was scared. I was very, very scared. But we arrived 0:53:00.560 --> 0:53:02.279 back at our jeep and then we rode on to 0:53:02.520 --> 0:53:06.120 camp and had a wonderful meal, met people from all 0:53:06.120 --> 0:53:08.719 over the world. Most of them were Americans, which was 0:53:08.760 --> 0:53:12.640 really surprising. And then we left. We out there, any 0:53:12.719 --> 0:53:15.400 chips out there, any chips, any American chips out there? No, 0:53:15.520 --> 0:53:17.640 but I want you to go. I know you do. 0:53:17.920 --> 0:53:21.000 We're gonna working on it, just to see that. See what. 0:53:21.440 --> 0:53:23.279 So the first part of the trip was so Jack 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:25.279 to see what men can do in Paris with the 0:53:25.440 --> 0:53:29.000 architecture and the artes. This next part is for him 0:53:29.040 --> 0:53:31.839 to see what God does and what God can do. 0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:36.759 We couldn't capture what the stars did. We only could 0:53:36.800 --> 0:53:41.719 look at it with our eyes and be humbled by it. Yeah, magnificence, 0:53:41.960 --> 0:53:45.319 like the true definition of creativity. Nothing better than this, 0:53:45.600 --> 0:53:50.279 nothing from the animals, to the trees, to the all 0:53:50.320 --> 0:53:54.400 of the things. Okay, so we leave this wonderful experience 0:53:54.480 --> 0:54:02.840 just floating. We've learned so much. We'll be back after 0:54:02.880 --> 0:54:18.040 the break. Now we're on our way to Amsterdam, and 0:54:18.160 --> 0:54:20.800 we get to one of my favorite cities in the world, 0:54:20.800 --> 0:54:25.239 and we kicked it. We walked the dogs, we ate 0:54:25.280 --> 0:54:32.400 the waffles. We went to fabric the Luminesque, a light museum, 0:54:32.440 --> 0:54:36.200 and that was freaking phenomenal because the light it was 0:54:37.239 --> 0:54:40.640 what's his name, Gustav Clement his artwork, which is very, 0:54:40.719 --> 0:54:44.560 very colorful. They had it everywhere. It just became all 0:54:44.600 --> 0:54:49.080 around you. They have a black warehouse and they created 0:54:49.080 --> 0:54:53.920 these freaking dope ass lights and the art was all 0:54:53.920 --> 0:54:57.319 over you, everywhere you look. It was amazing. We must 0:54:57.360 --> 0:54:59.680 have stayed in there for at least an hour, like 0:54:59.719 --> 0:55:02.759 it was fresh. You can ride your bike everywhere. We 0:55:02.840 --> 0:55:07.000 took a canal. I wanted to Heineken because Heineken is 0:55:07.080 --> 0:55:10.239 better overseas. I gotta Heineken and I was like, you 0:55:10.239 --> 0:55:13.920 want a beer, and he was like Mom, Mom, I'm 0:55:13.960 --> 0:55:18.640 not I'm a child. I said, okay, and the guy says, well, 0:55:18.760 --> 0:55:22.120 I mean we have Heineken zero. I said, what's Heineken zero? 0:55:22.239 --> 0:55:24.719 He was like, just no alcohol in it? And I 0:55:24.760 --> 0:55:27.200 was like, you got a coastin He was like I do. 0:55:28.000 --> 0:55:30.799 So we enjoyed a beer together and we did that 0:55:30.920 --> 0:55:34.920 multiple times, his Heineken zero or my Heineken, and we 0:55:35.080 --> 0:55:38.000 you know, chatting it up and enjoying ourselves. We sat 0:55:38.080 --> 0:55:41.239 on park benches. He's like, mom, I don't think or 0:55:41.480 --> 0:55:43.439 a little cafe tables. He was like, Mom, I don't 0:55:43.440 --> 0:55:46.719 think we could sit here. Where's the restaurant? I said, exactly, 0:55:47.000 --> 0:55:51.440 their seats here because people need to sit. There'sh lollipops here, 0:55:51.440 --> 0:55:53.920 because people get drug out there. It's like, you know 0:55:53.920 --> 0:56:00.080 what I'm saying, Like, there's it's a conscious consideration of 0:56:00.120 --> 0:56:04.319 what people want in this place. So we got a 0:56:04.400 --> 0:56:10.360 chance to experience three different kinds of creativity and freedom, 0:56:11.280 --> 0:56:14.960 which is hopefully, you know, the goal to inspire. He 0:56:15.040 --> 0:56:17.719 bought some dope shit. I gave him a budget. I 0:56:17.760 --> 0:56:21.960 watched he found his style between Parish, some good shopping 0:56:22.000 --> 0:56:25.319 and Amsterdam too. Oh yeah, for sure, he found his thing. 0:56:25.440 --> 0:56:28.960 He was like, this is apparently Hugo Bosses is where 0:56:29.000 --> 0:56:31.400 the boy lives. I was like, oh, I said, you 0:56:31.440 --> 0:56:33.799 know what this means, right, you know what this means? 0:56:34.400 --> 0:56:37.239 He was like, what is it me? You good job? 0:56:37.920 --> 0:56:41.359 You gonna shot. You gotta get that good good good. 0:56:41.800 --> 0:56:44.600 We go into stories. He's like, oh, those sneak is mom, No, 0:56:44.719 --> 0:56:48.000 sneak is fresh. Oh man, oh man. I looked at 0:56:48.000 --> 0:56:50.960 the price. I was like, oh, look at your taste. 0:56:51.000 --> 0:56:55.279 He was like, you're gonna be taking care of mama. Okay, good. 0:56:55.320 --> 0:57:00.799 Ain't like it, you know? So we we did all 0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:03.120 of those things. He had a burger in a place, 0:57:03.360 --> 0:57:07.120 Oh my god, Cannibal royal. I think that's what it 0:57:07.160 --> 0:57:11.200 was called Royal Cannibal. They made a veggie burger for 0:57:11.280 --> 0:57:15.160 that child. I watched my son have his first food orgasm, 0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:20.520 and I loved it. He did. He absolutely lost himself. 0:57:20.520 --> 0:57:23.720 He didn't speak for forty five He kept looking at 0:57:23.760 --> 0:57:27.160 it and shaking his head. He rolled his eyes back, 0:57:27.200 --> 0:57:29.680 he closed his eyes, he looked at it again. He 0:57:29.760 --> 0:57:33.200 bit it slow. I said, this is that's it. That's 0:57:33.240 --> 0:57:35.960 what I'm looking And he is his mother's child. That 0:57:36.160 --> 0:57:41.440 is truly. We're establishing your taste as well. Okay, I 0:57:41.560 --> 0:57:43.800 see how you get there. So yeah, And when in 0:57:43.800 --> 0:57:47.760 the Amsterdam, we also went to the Torture Museum and 0:57:48.280 --> 0:57:51.400 all of this understanding when you take these trips that 0:57:51.680 --> 0:57:54.840 this is really about the education of our kid, you 0:57:54.840 --> 0:57:56.760 know what I mean, You want to broaden their horizons 0:57:57.120 --> 0:58:00.480 and help him understand. So we got in there and 0:58:00.520 --> 0:58:03.920 when I tell you the medieval shit that was going on, 0:58:04.520 --> 0:58:10.280 the time it took to create some of that maniacal, vicious, 0:58:10.560 --> 0:58:16.200 brutal shit, Jet says, Wow, So it's always been like that. 0:58:17.080 --> 0:58:18.360 That's what I was just thinking that you were saying. 0:58:18.400 --> 0:58:21.479 I was like the mind, the way these minds work. 0:58:22.520 --> 0:58:26.160 They had a piece of wood, piece of wood, a 0:58:26.240 --> 0:58:29.960 big triangle, right, This was the one that got me. 0:58:30.000 --> 0:58:33.200 I think all of them were crazy and way too 0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:37.560 freaking much, but this thing was a big triangle. And 0:58:37.680 --> 0:58:41.360 what they do is they put the triangle way up 0:58:41.720 --> 0:58:44.240 and you gotta get on a ladder to get up 0:58:44.240 --> 0:58:48.160 on the triangle. Then they sit your raw neked ass 0:58:48.640 --> 0:58:53.160 on the triangle and add weights to your arms and 0:58:53.320 --> 0:58:56.360 your feet. Oh so it just hurts on your ass, 0:58:56.360 --> 0:58:58.360 like you're just just digging into your ass. Like it 0:58:58.440 --> 0:59:04.080 did slowly, ah, slowly. These others are so creative with 0:59:04.120 --> 0:59:09.720 their torture. Wow, we saw oh they cutting titties off. 0:59:10.080 --> 0:59:15.360 They was all kinds of crazy, extra brutal. And the 0:59:15.720 --> 0:59:20.920 museum was only, you know, maybe about a thirty minute visit. 0:59:21.960 --> 0:59:26.600 But we walked out of there like damn. Yo. Shout 0:59:26.600 --> 0:59:29.000 outs to Jill because into all the people listening, y'all 0:59:29.000 --> 0:59:32.560 gotta understand, Jill just broke down Amsterdam heavily without using 0:59:32.600 --> 0:59:35.600 the word cannabis or red light district. And that is 0:59:35.680 --> 0:59:40.000 truly beautiful because it is so much more, because it's 0:59:40.040 --> 0:59:42.800 so much more to these cities. She didn't even say 0:59:42.800 --> 0:59:47.120 to it. So look they had on June teenth, because 0:59:47.160 --> 0:59:50.240 we were there for June Tea on Juneteenth um, they 0:59:50.280 --> 0:59:55.960 had DJ's on every block. So in the areas where 0:59:55.960 --> 0:59:58.800 people were eating and shopping, there were DJs. Now we 0:59:59.000 --> 1:00:01.960 took it as it was June Teeth for us, like 1:00:02.000 --> 1:00:04.680 this was but will know why y'all doing this, But 1:00:04.760 --> 1:00:09.120 this is June teeth. They play Biggie and my son 1:00:09.160 --> 1:00:15.200 and I blacked out dancing in the streets, dancing in 1:00:15.240 --> 1:00:20.200 the street. It was so fun and so what again, 1:00:20.680 --> 1:00:23.720 free free can I remind people as they as people 1:00:23.800 --> 1:00:26.000 listen to your story. I want to also remind people that, 1:00:26.080 --> 1:00:27.680 you know, not for nothing, most of us have a 1:00:27.720 --> 1:00:30.400 friend or some type of family member that works for 1:00:30.560 --> 1:00:33.680 the airline, and most of us tend to use those 1:00:33.720 --> 1:00:37.640 advantages that we take to go to like Miami or California, 1:00:37.680 --> 1:00:39.400 where I like to remind people that if you got 1:00:39.440 --> 1:00:42.920 access to some type of flying privileges, you need to 1:00:43.040 --> 1:00:45.640 use those internationally. Use some of this stuff that Jill 1:00:45.680 --> 1:00:48.240 is saying, use it internationally. It's cheaper, it's cheaper, it 1:00:48.280 --> 1:00:50.080 gives you more of a discount. I just want to 1:00:50.080 --> 1:00:52.760 remind people that people who think they can't everybody knows 1:00:52.760 --> 1:00:55.960 somebody to work for the airline. Think about it. Well, 1:00:56.000 --> 1:00:57.960 I've been traveling for forty something years and I used 1:00:58.000 --> 1:01:00.640 my mama's flight attendant privileges. But I'm you're saying it's 1:01:00.640 --> 1:01:02.680 a blessing. I just think it's closer than people think 1:01:02.680 --> 1:01:04.560 it is. It's always yeah, I mean, you can you 1:01:04.600 --> 1:01:07.800 can accumulate miles in a bunch of different ways these days, 1:01:08.000 --> 1:01:11.080 and also to like even through your credit cards to 1:01:11.200 --> 1:01:13.680 all kinds of different things. But you know, but then 1:01:13.720 --> 1:01:16.680 also too, like there's a bunch of different travel hacks 1:01:16.720 --> 1:01:21.800 and a bunch of different websites and Instagram and TikTok 1:01:21.840 --> 1:01:27.200 pages around being black and traveling solo and traveling with kids. 1:01:27.680 --> 1:01:31.240 You know, there's a blog called the Traveling Child. I 1:01:31.280 --> 1:01:33.600 believe it's called there's a black woman who travels with 1:01:33.600 --> 1:01:38.360 her young daughters all the time and they've been everywhere together, 1:01:38.960 --> 1:01:42.960 traveling Noir, which is another good one, and so just 1:01:43.080 --> 1:01:45.040 just like a lot of different you know, so it's 1:01:45.120 --> 1:01:49.120 ways to travel and make it more affordable and travel 1:01:49.160 --> 1:01:52.720 with kids. You know, I have six kids, even though 1:01:52.720 --> 1:01:55.360 I wish they would give y'all your own plane sometimes, 1:01:55.400 --> 1:01:57.600 but that's fine. I'm here. I'm here for it. I mean, 1:01:59.240 --> 1:02:03.400 it's a thing. In restaurant Cannonball Royale, they played a 1:02:03.480 --> 1:02:06.080 hip hop they played hip hop in Dutch and they 1:02:06.080 --> 1:02:08.360 got veggie burgers and it's called cannabaun. I love that. 1:02:08.600 --> 1:02:10.680 I got a chicken sandwich and they put a chicken 1:02:10.680 --> 1:02:13.240 wing on it, on top of it, and I was like, 1:02:13.240 --> 1:02:17.720 why I would just what made you do that? I 1:02:17.720 --> 1:02:20.480 don't know who's back there and whatever that mustard is, 1:02:21.000 --> 1:02:24.720 fuck you, fuck you for that mustard. Fuck you, but 1:02:24.920 --> 1:02:27.600 that mustard I wanted to. I wanted to lay down 1:02:27.960 --> 1:02:30.760 in it. I wanted to lick it off of someone 1:02:30.840 --> 1:02:37.400 I love deep. Now I want to look it on 1:02:37.560 --> 1:02:43.160 somebody I love dearly. I was like, that's that's that 1:02:43.200 --> 1:02:45.400 should be the caliber of sauce you should have or 1:02:45.480 --> 1:02:48.520 anything from now warm. Yeah, that's a new standard. It's 1:02:48.520 --> 1:02:51.400 definitely the standard. That's the standard of sauces from now war. 1:02:52.160 --> 1:02:58.600 Oh what a wonderful time you got, Like food, culture, art, nature, 1:02:58.800 --> 1:03:02.040 It's all all these really beautiful things that I kind 1:03:02.040 --> 1:03:04.960 of incorporated, and then so much more. Like I said, well, 1:03:05.080 --> 1:03:09.880 it'll probably unfold over time all the things, you know 1:03:09.880 --> 1:03:13.200 what I mean, It's gonna take me, take me some 1:03:13.320 --> 1:03:15.320 time to do that. But we're gonna, you know what, 1:03:15.360 --> 1:03:18.680 We're gonna end this podcast today because you know, it's 1:03:18.720 --> 1:03:20.400 been kind of long, and we're just talking about this 1:03:20.480 --> 1:03:23.080 one thing so much. You feel long because you've been talking, 1:03:23.760 --> 1:03:26.680 but it's been great. Please take your time and unwrap 1:03:26.760 --> 1:03:31.400 these thoughts that our children deserve to have some kind 1:03:31.520 --> 1:03:36.640 of right of passage into their maturation. We are their parents, 1:03:37.360 --> 1:03:41.160 We are their aunts and uncles, were their grandparents. And 1:03:42.960 --> 1:03:45.560 this was what I chose to do with the means 1:03:45.600 --> 1:03:49.880 that I had, But it's it's fair to say that 1:03:50.880 --> 1:03:55.720 our kids deserve to have something really really special around 1:03:55.760 --> 1:03:58.960 this time. And guess what you can do it. You 1:03:59.000 --> 1:04:02.280 can do it. You can do it, Just figure out 1:04:02.360 --> 1:04:04.640 how you want to do it. If that means a 1:04:04.760 --> 1:04:09.200 lake house, an airbnb for a week with family and friends, 1:04:09.320 --> 1:04:13.840 or just all your kids friends, that's dope. If it 1:04:13.880 --> 1:04:17.360 means a trip to New York City, you know, all 1:04:17.520 --> 1:04:21.400 lights and all the fast pace and energy. If that's 1:04:21.440 --> 1:04:24.480 what it means to that, oh yeah, a Broadway show. 1:04:24.560 --> 1:04:26.320 Take your kids to a Broadway. So thank you so 1:04:26.400 --> 1:04:28.920 much for listening to j Elba podcast, and we're going 1:04:28.960 --> 1:04:41.280 to continue this conversation. How do you eat an elephant? 1:04:42.080 --> 1:04:48.040 One by? It time? Hello listeners, It's Amber the producer here. 1:04:49.120 --> 1:04:51.760 I have a two year old son, and after listening 1:04:51.760 --> 1:04:56.880 to this, I'm starting a travel fund. Like now, speaking 1:04:56.920 --> 1:04:59.360 of travel funds, you do not have to be rich 1:04:59.480 --> 1:05:03.280 to see the world, just intentional. I'm going to share 1:05:03.320 --> 1:05:06.480 with you in an article from Nerdwallet that outlines a 1:05:06.480 --> 1:05:10.760 couple of the best apps for saving money. I personally 1:05:10.880 --> 1:05:14.000 use capital to build my little travel fund and I 1:05:14.120 --> 1:05:17.120 love it. I'm saving and I don't even realize it. 1:05:17.120 --> 1:05:20.120 It allows you to create rules around your spending habits. 1:05:20.120 --> 1:05:23.680 For example, like if I get a coffee, it'll automatically 1:05:23.720 --> 1:05:26.680 put two dollars into my savings. I'll also drop in 1:05:26.800 --> 1:05:30.440 links to some of the incredible places Jill visited on 1:05:30.520 --> 1:05:32.960 her trip. I hope we all get to see a 1:05:33.040 --> 1:05:49.480 zebra soon. Hi. If you have comments on something we 1:05:49.600 --> 1:05:53.439 said in this episode, call eight six sis. Hey Jill, 1:05:54.000 --> 1:05:56.720 if you want to add to this conversation, that's eight 1:05:56.800 --> 1:06:00.439 six SIGs four three nine five four five five. Don't 1:06:00.440 --> 1:06:02.760 forget to tell us your name and the episode you're 1:06:02.760 --> 1:06:06.200 referring to. You might just hear your message on a 1:06:06.240 --> 1:06:10.440 future episode. Thank you for listening to Jail Scott Presents 1:06:10.720 --> 1:06:16.800 Jay dot Ill. The podcast JA dot Ill is a 1:06:16.840 --> 1:06:22.560 production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the 1:06:22.600 --> 1:06:27.480 iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your 1:06:27.480 --> 1:06:28.400 favorite shows.