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Speaker 1: Good news everyone, I listen to The Black Guy Who

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Speaker 1: Tips Podcast because Rod and Karen are hot.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to another episode of The Black Guy Who

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Speaker 2: Tips Podcast. I'm your host Rod, joined us always by

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Speaker 2: my co host Kimen, and we're live on a Monday night,

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Speaker 2: ready to do some podcasting show notes. You know, look

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Speaker 2: in the link get live tickets. That's it. Got a

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Speaker 2: live show coming up September September ninth on a Saturday,

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Speaker 2: three pm in the afternoon. You ain't got nothing else

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Speaker 2: going on. Check us out. You can be there, however,

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Speaker 2: you need to be there and tickets only twenty dollars.

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Speaker 2: We're at the Night Theater, which we actually got to

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Speaker 2: see for the first time, so the Ninth Theater. Even

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Speaker 2: though you get your tickets from Bloomuthal Center for Performing Arts,

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Speaker 2: same place, the actual ven was like a different location.

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Speaker 2: It's like right up it's in the same vicinity, but

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Speaker 2: right up the street, and it's gonna be lit, y'all.

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Speaker 2: It's so we're part of the comedy this comedy festival

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Speaker 2: that is happening, and so they asked us to be

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Speaker 2: a part of it. And there's gonna be a beer garden.

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Speaker 1: Yes out there types of outdoor events.

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Speaker 2: Right, they gonna be having I don't know, jugglers and

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Speaker 2: ship out there, I don't know. And then inside the

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Speaker 2: theater is gonna be you know, us performing. There's a

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Speaker 2: comedy show going on. Like, there's so much stuff happening

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Speaker 2: this week. We're happy to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I love the fact. I love the fact that we're

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Speaker 2: being included in the Charlotte comedy scene because as it's

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Speaker 2: I mean not to humble brag, but as the biggest

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Speaker 2: podcast from Charlotte definitely the oldest. You know, we uh

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Speaker 2: a lot of times, I think when when people do

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Speaker 2: stuff and it's black, the uh people don't include you

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Speaker 2: because it's like, oh, it's a black thing and that's

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Speaker 2: different than the other stuff. It's like, well, our downloads

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Speaker 2: count the same, I reach counts the same. You know,

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Speaker 2: when we did that live show there and people were

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Speaker 2: coming in from Australia and shit, and they were like goddamn,

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Speaker 2: who was these people?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: So like that's all possible because of y'all. Because of y'all,

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Speaker 2: and you know, even this, this us being included is

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Speaker 2: possible because of fans like you. So please get tickets

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Speaker 2: if you haven't already made plans. If you want to

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Speaker 2: be here travel, Uh, it's gonna be let it's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a fun like day of events. It's not just

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Speaker 2: our show. If you want to come and participate in

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Speaker 2: all the stuff. Parking is five dollars cash, just letting

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Speaker 2: y'all know. And it's like literally a parking deck right right,

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Speaker 2: like literally you walk out the parking deck and walk

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Speaker 2: right into the theater. We just did this for Kevin

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Speaker 2: on Stages show which we saw the Ball Brothers comedy

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Speaker 2: tour while it was in Charlotte. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 2: today as well. Yes, but yeah, man, I just I'm

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Speaker 2: very excited. I'm looking forward to seeing you all. I'm

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Speaker 2: looking forward to putting on a live show for those

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Speaker 2: that will be the virtually and I just want to

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Speaker 2: encourage all to get tickets because it's gonna be super fun.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's gonna be fun. And as Rogick said, and

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Speaker 1: I will continue to repeat this, if you are somebody

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Speaker 1: that goes, I don't I'm not. I know I can't

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Speaker 1: be in person, but I want to purchase tickets. Do

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Speaker 1: that and forward Roger the emails and he will actually

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Speaker 1: be able to give your email, give the tickets to

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Speaker 1: somebody who might not have five. They might be like

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Speaker 1: I would love to come, I ain't got the five.

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Speaker 1: And so Roger will be able to allow other people

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Speaker 1: So if that's something that you want to do, know

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so please come out. Let's see it, Let's see it,

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Speaker 2: let's do it. That's you know, kind of the show

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Speaker 2: notes up front. For some reason, the volume is low. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that might fix that. Yeah, I'm looking at the yes

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Speaker 2: fixed okay, but yeah, so that's the show notes. Also

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Speaker 2: in the show notes all the contact information. If you

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Speaker 2: want to participate in our feedback show, that's the best

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Speaker 2: way to do it. Look there, click on those things,

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Speaker 2: go to the website, all that stuff, email, everything is there.

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Speaker 2: Uh so yeah, do that as well. The main thing

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Speaker 2: we wanted to do, we don't really have like a

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Speaker 2: there's things to talk about, but I know everybody has

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Speaker 2: wanted to hear our experience for going to see Beyonce. Beyonce,

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Speaker 2: going to see Beyonce last week. You know we've been

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Speaker 2: the breakdown of how it went. The first thing I'll

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Speaker 2: say is when we got those tickets, Karen was in

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Speaker 2: charge of getting the tickets. Karen got the hotel. My

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Speaker 2: mom went with us, so we had like two hotel

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Speaker 1: That, I'm not gonna lie was anxiety. I was like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's one of those things to be honest,

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Speaker 2: like I have, I deal with anxiety a lot of myself,

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Speaker 2: and I just didn't want to yuck any of your

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Speaker 2: want to do. I to this day, I do not

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Speaker 2: know how much our tickets costs. I do not know

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Speaker 2: how much the hotel room costs. I don't know how

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Speaker 2: much any of the stuff that Karen spent the money

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Speaker 2: on costs. Because when I got that credit card bill,

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Speaker 2: I know, we got it. I know we've been saving

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was basically like, you know, whatever it costs,

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Speaker 2: because the other thing is I wanted Careen to be happy.

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Speaker 2: people want to go and have that space for them

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Speaker 2: selves and da da da. But honestly, that was too

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Speaker 2: we don't need In my brain, I don't need a

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Speaker 2: we could probably drive there and come back. Yes, there's

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Speaker 2: know that's how my brain works. I'm not trying to Obviously,

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Speaker 2: I kept this to myself. I never said anything about it,

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Speaker 2: So being overprepared, fine, we'll be there twenty four hours

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my anxiety because I was like, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's just interesting because also like I'm seeing people

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Speaker 2: As soon as I walked in. I put that bitch

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Speaker 2: on like sixty six and was like let's go, let's

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Speaker 2: So I didn't like listen because hotel AC is hit

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Speaker 2: then like that night, you know, once we got checked

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Speaker 2: Red Eye Dinner, which is like a diner right downstairs

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Speaker 2: the Epicenter, the Epicenter, and Charlotte used to be swinky

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Speaker 2: and like popping.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it did.

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Speaker 2: But I think the pandemic and stuff really fucked up the.

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Speaker 1: Episode because a lot of the anchor places have gone

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Speaker 2: that I was packing everything in case she went with

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00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 2: the flower top. I needed a flower shirt, you see

431
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,679
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And so she did go with the

432
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,439
Speaker 2: flower top. So I did have a flower shirt. So

433
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 2: I wore that, uh you know, because it's also that

434
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 2: thing too, where like I'm we're not that flamboyant of people,

435
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 2: so you're not gonna really see us wearing like skim

436
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 2: bey clothes or revealing clothes or like look at me clothes,

437
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 2: Like we just don't have those clothes, so we don't.

438
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 2: We're forty some year old married people. That's you know,

439
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 2: we old. Yeah, born from the South. We don't swing.

440
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 2: You know, it is what it is. So it was

441
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 2: I knew we want. I knew I wasn't gonna have

442
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 2: to be like let me wear my throng. You know,

443
00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 2: it was whatever. So you know, we had our already

444
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 2: to go and stuff. And then we walked over there,

445
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 2: and I got to say, even on the walkover, man,

446
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 2: excitement is palpable, you could.

447
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: I love the.

448
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 2: Way Beyonces community is, like, you know, especially for all

449
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 2: the shit she's taken from inside and outside the community

450
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 2: over the years, she that that feels like the black

451
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 2: utopia that I dream of. I know that's not the

452
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 2: one a lot of people dream of. It's not everybody shit,

453
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 2: But for me, the idea of like black people coming

454
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 2: together of all shape, sizes and forms, of all gender orientation,

455
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 2: all sexual orientation, all different statuses you know, single, married, whatever, whatever,

456
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 2: like all those people being free and having a good

457
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 2: time and coming together for some for some common cause

458
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 2: of having fun and and you could see the people

459
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 2: that chose to like show out, you know, like everybody's

460
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 2: titties was out, everybody's ass was out. Everybody, you know,

461
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 2: not everybody, but you know what I mean, like enough,

462
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 2: like the ones who decided like I'm stunting on these

463
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 2: holes tonight. They was out there. Uh, dudes that had

464
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 2: like I mean, look like uh fenty uh the fency

465
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 2: lingerie type shit on. Yeah, you know, and like nobody

466
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 2: was fucking with nobody, nobody was Anybody was there to

467
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 2: have a good time. Nobody was bothering anybody. No one's

468
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 2: talking shit to anybody. Nobody was judging people for what

469
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 2: they had on or their body size or type or orientation.

470
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 2: Everybody was just like on the mission to get to

471
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 2: that colorfucking concert was like.

472
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: It's in that direction, okay, let's roll. And all of

473
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 1: a sudden and you could tell everybody was going because

474
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: you just you know, masks and people kind of pushing

475
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:53,640
Speaker 1: in one direct anything.

476
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 2: The unifying cause of that fucking group was don't fuck

477
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 2: up us getting the Beyonce right.

478
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: As long as you don't fuck fuck up and slow

479
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: the line down, we was good and hid that I

480
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 1: was having a bout the cowboy hats. I'm not. I know,

481
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: I might sound stupid, y'all, maybe because I didn't know.

482
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 1: Did y'all know how cowboy hats have led lights and blink? Bitch,

483
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Chiada was so many led blinking cowboy hats.

484
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: I was like, oh shit, they blink because I was

485
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: walking out of a sudden, I just seen cowboy hats

486
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: just blinking on and off with rhythms and shit. I

487
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,120
Speaker 1: was like, the fuck is happening here?

488
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 2: And the fashions were off the hook, with like a

489
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 2: lot of black designers and stuff in our local Charlotte area.

490
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 2: They talked about how people were going to their shops,

491
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 2: particularly to go to this Beyonce concert to get their fits.

492
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 2: So like even the Charlotte Observer had links to like, hey,

493
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 2: go to this place, this boutique to get your Beyonce

494
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 2: outfit and all this stuff. And you could see people

495
00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 2: was wearing that stuff, yes.

496
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: Boots and the glitters and the shimmering yes.

497
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 2: And so then you know, we get into the arena

498
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 2: and we just we kind of lucked out. Man. And

499
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 2: this was a big concern of mine because what I

500
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 2: overheat easily, but you know, I brought my bottles of

501
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 2: water with me and stuff. But also it's just been

502
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys know, it's been hot

503
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 2: as balls lately. It was one hundred and like five

504
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 2: or one hundred and eight today in Charlotte. So, you know,

505
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 2: the whole time, I've been looking at the fucking weather report, like, man,

506
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 2: please for Beyonce, Lord Jesus, please don't be one of

507
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 2: these motherfucking the last day on Earthfast days we've been having.

508
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: And so.

509
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: It was.

510
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 2: It was perfect. It was like eighty degrees or something.

511
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: It was a little humidity, it was a little bit

512
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 2: of wind, and for us to have to be outside

513
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 2: for that long, it was gonna be, you know, the shit.

514
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 2: And also the thing I had done to prepare for

515
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 2: the research. Yeah, the thing I had done to prepare

516
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 2: for the concert though, was I've been listening and you

517
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: get I don't know if y'all are doing it too,

518
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 2: but I've been listening on on Spotify to this playlist

519
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 2: called Beyonce set List twenty twenty three Renaissance, And so

520
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 2: I shouted at Ashley Johnson with two ends at the end.

521
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 2: So I knew that the order of the songs, which

522
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 2: the old song she was using from the other album

523
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 2: who covered she was gonna be singing all this shit.

524
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 2: So I've been listening to shit for weeks, Like I

525
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 2: was like, I know, as soon as this shit start,

526
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: where we going.

527
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: You know, everything was a surprise to me.

528
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 2: Yeah I don't. Yeah, that's fine. I'm not saying it

529
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 2: shouldn't have been, but I wanted to know, and so

530
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 2: I I had looked up like how long does it

531
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: actually take her to start, because like, yeah, a concert

532
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: says eight, but she doesn't start until nine. And when

533
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 2: I tell you she's are this motherfucker at nine? Not

534
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 2: eight fifty nine fifty nine seconds, not nine minutes and

535
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 2: one second act not nine, nigga, she like that hour

536
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 2: was exactly what was supposed to be. We didn't have

537
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 2: a rain delay, so you know, it is what it is.

538
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 2: But I looked that shit up too, because I was like,

539
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 2: we actually don't need to get there at eight. We

540
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 2: can get there like eight fifteen, eight thirty and we'll

541
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 2: still be plenty early.

542
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: When sho was opening up, like at six thirty and

543
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: they were telling everybody to get that ad. When me

544
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: and your mama was walking, we actually did like a

545
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: pre walk to the stadium to kind of find out

546
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: the quickest and the most most effective way to get

547
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: there without like the most turns and shit, trying to

548
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: go downtown, and people were already in front of the

549
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: little stall buying out the T shirts. I said, but goddamn,

550
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna be sold up for the show start.

551
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: And we found out, like going to the south interest

552
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 2: to get to the place we want to be for

553
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: the clears, and that was the interest with the least

554
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 2: people and stuff. So it worked out really well for

555
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: us to get there on time. And so you know,

556
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 2: we sit down, you know, everybody gets situated. You got

557
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: your thirty minutes or whatever that we had to wait.

558
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 2: And then the motherfucking lights went down and the goddamn screamed,

559
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 2: the led screen lit up. They stopped playing like all

560
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: the little whole music shit, and there was an announcer

561
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 2: that came on and said that, you know, welcome, you know, Beyonce,

562
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 2: and then there's like a five minute video montage of

563
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: shit before she come out. It's just other shit, like

564
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,719
Speaker 2: it's like Beyonce, Cybord, Beyonce, Spaceship, Beyonce, Robot, Beyonce as

565
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 2: a beat, Beyonce as a time traveler, yon Say as

566
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: the superhero. It's like nothing but just Beyonce montage before

567
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 2: she pops up on the screen. And when I tell

568
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 2: you this woman is an elite level athlete, yes she is.

569
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 2: This motherfucker came out here and gave us two and

570
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 2: a half hours, no fucking opener. And this ain't two

571
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 2: hours standing around. This ain't two hours with an acoustic guitar.

572
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 2: This ain't two I'm talking about when she was on

573
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: that stage, she was moving move out the way, you

574
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like she was coming through and

575
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 2: like all the old songs, all the new songs blending

576
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: together perfectly. Like the one thing you can't get from

577
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 2: the playlist is the mashups and the way like certain

578
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: things move over and then seeing it live, it's certain

579
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 2: shit that would beyoncey that you just can't appreciate till

580
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 2: you see it live. Like right, for example, people really

581
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: gave her shit about that fucking Frankie Beverly and Maze

582
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 2: before I let go the Homecoming edition, being like it

583
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 2: ain't better than that, Regil ain't. And I'm like, do

584
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 2: y'all think she really set out to make the better

585
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 2: fucking Frankie Beverly. She wanted to be like Frankie Beverly

586
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 2: and like take that fly and put on that No,

587
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: but it's really more of a mashup of a bunch

588
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 2: of party songs and a bunch of atmosphere. And when

589
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: you do when you see it live, it just come together,

590
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it just come together.

591
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,239
Speaker 2: And I think that was a big moment for me.

592
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: Was like watching those songs perform live. And of course,

593
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 2: I mean it's that thing where you know all her songs,

594
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 2: even if you don't know her songs like you. She

595
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 2: had so many hits that that's been on the charge,

596
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 2: so many videos, so much so you know when she

597
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: comes in and she didn't even I don't even think

598
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 2: she started right away with the renaissance stuff.

599
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: She was all black and she's not like a really

600
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: slow song.

601
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like a montage.

602
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: I was like.

603
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 2: Dangerously in love, flaws and all one plus one. Uh

604
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 2: did she do on going Down?

605
00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: Yeah?

606
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: She did them going down on the Mary j Well

607
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 2: not marriage. I know Mary j Di isn't originated, but yeah,

608
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 2: I'm going down.

609
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: I care.

610
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 2: She did that Tina Turner tribute and then she like

611
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 2: went went back into the back and let me tell you,

612
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: so that's like twenty minutes or so right there. The

613
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 2: way this show works, she do like twenty thirty minutes.

614
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: Then there's like an interlude of other shit you might

615
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 2: get like a band coming out, you know, the guitars

616
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 2: doing solo, singers coming out, background singers dance off. I

617
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 2: forget what you call it, but like you know that

618
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 2: the pos kind of dance off, like when they have

619
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 2: a ballrooms type situation like that. It was all kinds

620
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: of stuff like that happening, and it's such high energy,

621
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 2: and when it's not people, it's like the screen is

622
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 2: taking you place well you know. And so one of

623
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 2: the things that was to me why it was her

624
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 2: being on stage was standing only yeah, the whole time.

625
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: It's like the end of a fucking game of basketball

626
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 2: where it's the fourth quarter and every bucket is fucking

627
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 2: like tying the game up. That kind of like that's

628
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: how everyone was standing. Like if you thought you was finish,

629
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 2: sit wrong, you was wrong as shit. You was gonna

630
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 2: be standing or you wasn't gonna be.

631
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: Why I tends out like, bitch, I'm not trying to

632
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: be cuted out here and I know I'm popping around.

633
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that reminds me. Y'all, I made a

634
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: best friend. I sat next to the most adorable black woman.

635
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 2: She came there by herself. She sat in the wrong role,

636
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: but I think she might have sat in the wrong

637
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 2: row because someone was originally in our seats, and so

638
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 2: Karen kind of was like, no, no, no, your seats

639
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 2: are displaced, and they got up and left.

640
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: Because I asked the usher because I was like, Usher,

641
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: where am I going with Usher? And Usher was like, y'all,

642
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: was like, no, I know, I'm in the right spot.

643
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they you know, I wasn't like no beef

644
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: or nothing.

645
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: It was very like, oh it was one section over.

646
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just went and got to the right session

647
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 2: or whatever. But this this woman who was by herself,

648
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: and she was like in a row down. But then

649
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 2: she was like, wait, so those I think those are

650
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 2: my seats too, So she actually had the end seat,

651
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: and which honestly, I liked the end seat, but you know,

652
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: beggars can't be chicks. But I almost I almost was

653
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: gonna ask her like do you want to switch? Because

654
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 2: you can sit next to my wife and my mom

655
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: and it's black girl time. I don't want to get

656
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 2: in the you know, she's by herself. But honestly, man,

657
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 2: it was so I didn't ask her to switch. But

658
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 2: it was so cool because we ended up talking a lot,

659
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: and uh, she was like funny and stuff too, and

660
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 2: we were having a good time and like singing all

661
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: the words and all that type of shit and you know,

662
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 2: recording with our phones and uh, like we had the time.

663
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 2: We me and her, We was buddies. Like she dropped

664
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 2: her keys or something and she I was like, oh,

665
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 2: and there was a white lady below us. And I

666
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 2: was like, do you want me to tell her to

667
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 2: get your keys for you? And she was like, no,

668
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: I'll get them. I'll get them. And she was like,

669
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but like at the beginning, she said, I'm sorry,

670
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,280
Speaker 2: but I my feet are killing me in these heels

671
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna be able to I'm either gonna

672
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 2: have to sit or take these hills. I said, girl,

673
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 2: take your fucking shoes off.

674
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: About there.

675
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 2: It was ain't nobody judge, listen, this ain't black twitter.

676
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell you dirty feet and then tell

677
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 2: everybody take.

678
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: Those shoes out of people that took their shoes off,

679
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: like hells trying trying to be cute.

680
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 2: You ain't bad standing in them hills for two and

681
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 2: a half hours.

682
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: It's fun. Only Beyonce cond do.

683
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: That, right, And so she took her heels off, and

684
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 2: then she also was like, uh, like she dropped her

685
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 2: keys and she was like, I don't want to I'll

686
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 2: get them later. I'll say, you sure, because I can

687
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 2: just ask the woman to get them. She was like no,

688
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 2: She's like, I just don't want nobody to see my

689
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: skirt if I have to bend over to pick a mover.

690
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 2: I was like, I'll stand up and then you can

691
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 2: get them. And so she got her keys like when

692
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 2: nobody was looking and stuff. She also she also was

693
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: talking when we first got there about how she was like,

694
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 2: I was telling my my hairdresser because she put the

695
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 2: point me back. She pushed my appointment back. I said,

696
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 2: you better not make me late for Beyonce. I'm never

697
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be mad at you. This ain't the day

698
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 2: to be moving, no appointments around. Everything need to be

699
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 2: on time.

700
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: Right.

701
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 2: Uh So yeah, we and then she couldn't really bring

702
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,959
Speaker 2: extra shoes because they have weird rules at the stag

703
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 2: of where you got to wear. The only bag you

704
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 2: can bring in there is a clear twelve by something

705
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 2: something really tag so you can't put shoes in there.

706
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 2: So she really it's like whatever shoes you walked there

707
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: and is what you got, yes, sir? So uh at

708
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 2: any rate, man, we had a good time. She was cool.

709
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: Uh.

710
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 2: It was loud as fucking there. So she was talking

711
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 2: to me a lot, and I couldn't hear everything, but I,

712
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 2: you know, polite, laughed and nodded, and when I could hear,

713
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 2: I tried to respond, you know, but yes, so uh,

714
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: Beyonce was party, just getting it. There were also three

715
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 2: white women in the section, the one row beneath us

716
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 2: chill deal.

717
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: White women were getting their motherfucking lies. Honey. They got

718
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: white girl wasted. But they was having a ball. It

719
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: was three of them. It was hilarious. When they all

720
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: came down. They all had beers and I seen them.

721
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: One went up and got three beers, the middle one

722
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: wasn't get up and got three beers. The other one

723
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: g went up and got three beers. And every time

724
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: you turn around, they was tossing them beers and having

725
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: the time. Of they lives.

726
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 2: But they were cool, they were drunk, they were dancing,

727
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 2: they were having a good time. Here's what I mean

728
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 2: when I say I loved the way Beyonce brings people together.

729
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: And it's not that platitude of like it was white

730
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 2: people up, there were black people. No, white people love

731
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: black people shit all the time. That's not that's nothing

732
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 2: to be proud up. Yes, sir, it was this. They

733
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: knew they was visitors, by which I mean, at the

734
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 2: end of America's got a problem, Beyonce throws up black

735
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 2: power fish. Them white women kept their motherfucking hands down. Okay, Now, look,

736
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 2: you might not be impressed by that. I don't know

737
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: the whites around your area. I was extremely fucking impressed

738
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 2: because it took it take a little bit of a

739
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 2: little bit of extra knowledge to know that's not for us,

740
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 2: that's for everyone else. And it wasn't like a I'm angry,

741
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 2: I can't put my fist up. It was a respectful thing. Now, look,

742
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 2: did they want some ally cookies? Yes? Them white women

743
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 2: made eye contact with me. They turned all the way

744
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 2: around to be like, did you see what I did?

745
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 2: Did you see I knew? Not that I knew not

746
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 2: to throw the black power fist up. And I nodded

747
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 2: at the Becky's like, yes, I saw this. Please turn

748
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 2: around because they kept trying to like make eye contact

749
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: with me the whole time. I don't know if it

750
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: was like that one degree. Y'all know the solidarity between

751
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 2: white women and black men. Y'all know what I'm talking

752
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 2: about too. I'm not saying the like POGs kind. I'm

753
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 2: talking about that. Listen. We're both privileged in certain ways,

754
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 2: and we both are visitors to this space in certain ways,

755
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 2: and we're gonna be friends, right, you get it. You

756
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 2: get annoyed with the black women sometime too. You know

757
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 2: that that's suit. And so they kept turn around to

758
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 2: be like, but we both know the words, and I'm like, ma'am, please,

759
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 2: let's I'm not gonna make eye contact with y'all. And

760
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna give y'all credit for knowing the words

761
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: to one of the most popular artists on the planet.

762
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 2: I think everyone in this vision of the words, so

763
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 2: it's not really special. But you know, and also like

764
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: I'm in my own head, like I don't I'm not

765
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 2: here to dance with anyone else. I'm not here to

766
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 2: sing together with you. I don't know you, stranger. You

767
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 2: know it's already enough. Me and this new person I

768
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 2: just met, is we already vibing? My mom and my

769
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 2: wife are behind me, like Leo, we got our four

770
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 2: black people, vib we met, we met, vib metimu. So

771
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 2: but now they were they were cool too. And then

772
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 2: the the the highlights to me were, of course, like twins.

773
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:23,479
Speaker 2: I think that's what they.

774
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: Call the first time seeing them live. They are, man,

775
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: they something else to see live.

776
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, she loved them and they have like their

777
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:34,439
Speaker 2: own like segments and stuff. The fucking ballroom dance off.

778
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 2: I bet it's different every night, right, but.

779
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I've never seen anything like I've seen it,

780
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: but I never seen anything like that live.

781
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 2: You never watched polls either, So yeah, but it was

782
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 2: it was even better than that, like just because of

783
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 2: like how much space and range people got to go to,

784
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 2: different body types, everybody getting a chance to go off.

785
00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 2: Like and then one of the major highlights, Blue Ivy performed.

786
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: Yes, motherfucking Blue Ivy body ass out there and hunted.

787
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: I think people was like people like Roger said, people

788
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: cheering for her, like like their niece was out there,

789
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: people like, bitch, you better dance.

790
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 2: It all turned into a recital. It all turned everybody

791
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 2: out there was an auntie your uncle to Blue Ivy.

792
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 2: At when she came out there, we was all cheering

793
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 2: like she was ours and like even Beyonce had that

794
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 2: energy of like, you know, it's my baby, y'all Blue Ivy.

795
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 2: The real started show, and everybody was cheering. The real

796
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 2: started show, people alluded for hunting. It was I was like,

797
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 2: this eleven year old girl has so much swag, didn't you.

798
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 2: That's so much fun and I obviously none of us

799
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 2: could have like not. I don't want to say no,

800
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 2: but come on, that's a lot eleven years old of

801
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 2: stadium full of people. You out there dancing, not fucking

802
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 2: up swagging it out. Your mama's fucking Beyonce. I mean listen,

803
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 2: if I was pressure, if I was Blue Ivy, I'd

804
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 2: be like roomy and sir, y'all would never see me

805
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 2: because I'm like, what what the fun I'm gonna do?

806
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 2: Be a better rapper than my daddy, one of the

807
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 2: greatest all times, a better performer singer than my mama,

808
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 2: one of the greatest all times. No, I'm gonna go

809
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 2: into some different ship that these niggas don't do and

810
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 2: be like it was like my rebellion during my teenage year,

811
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 2: is gonna be like I'm gonna be a rocket scientist.

812
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 2: I want to study physics. I want to do some

813
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 2: ship that's not cool, y'all, y'all not fitting the fuck

814
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 2: with me. But Nah, she got out there so confident.

815
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 2: It was so dope. The energy was so beautiful and

816
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 2: everybody was feeling it, and uh, it was like, honestly,

817
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 2: if the energy in that place was, oh my god,

818
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: it was, it was, it was. You could feel it

819
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: when she was out there. So that was definitely a highlight.

820
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: We listen, I think, and I know I'm biased because

821
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 2: I was there. I think he got a nine out

822
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 2: of ten on the mute.

823
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got nine out of ten.

824
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,280
Speaker 2: We didn't get a ten out of ten or whatever.

825
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone actually got a ten out

826
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 2: of ten. I'll take DC's word for it, but I don't.

827
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 2: I'm be honest, I don't believe it because it's and

828
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,919
Speaker 2: I've realized what the problem is with the mute thing.

829
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 2: The problem now is everyone knows the Muta's coming. Everyone

830
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 2: expects the muta's coming. But part of the problem is

831
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,760
Speaker 2: people start chairing because people are doing a good job

832
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 2: at doing the fucking mute. So you get like ten

833
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: seconds into the mute, and then some motherfuckers at the back.

834
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 2: So I'll being like, yes, we're doing a good job,

835
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 2: and it's like that fucks up the mute.

836
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what happened.

837
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 2: And also there's it's arena fuck peoples. It was always

838
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 2: stupid to think everybody's gonna mute like it's a funny. Well,

839
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 2: it used to be a funny internet kind of joke. Yeah, like,

840
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 2: oh they fucked up the mute, ha, But then it

841
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 2: seemed like people starting it a little taking the fun out. Yeah,

842
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,439
Speaker 2: taking it seriously because it's like an impossible thing. You're

843
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 2: talking about a lot of people, and there even if

844
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 2: it's just an individual person that don't and there's some

845
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 2: people that I think are sucking it up on purpose

846
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 2: to be like correct, oh haha, it's funny, I'm the

847
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 2: one that fucked up the mute. And so like in

848
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 2: the back near the top, you could hear some people

849
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 2: like yelling and clapping and stuff. Near the end, like

850
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 2: after about five or six seconds of silence, you hear

851
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 2: some people in the back like and then she starts

852
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 2: to singing it again. And but yeah, it was you know,

853
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 2: I think it was. We did a great job. It

854
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 2: just wasn't. And then it was funny because when me

855
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 2: and the girl next to us I never got her name,

856
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 2: Me and a girl next to me, we was like,

857
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 2: you know, early, like, you think we're gonna do the

858
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 2: mute thing. I was like, I don't know, man, it's hard.

859
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 2: I was like, I ain't really see nobody really get it.

860
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 2: I heard, do you see you got it? But I

861
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 2: didn't see it. I just heard it. And she's like, yeah,

862
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 2: I hope so, but I said, you know, we gonna

863
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: suck it up. She was like, yeah, we're gonna suck

864
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 2: it up. And so during the mute, everybody's quiet, and

865
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 2: then you hear a couple of people start yelling and

866
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 2: her looked at each other like we knew they was

867
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 2: gonna suck it up. But the mute thing was fun.

868
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: Yes, it was fun. Did she can't to give us

869
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: reach outls like that that's better? She gave us a

870
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: what a retry? She did it again and she was

871
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: like much better.

872
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, So like I think it's just supposed to be cute,

873
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 2: but I think people it was fun. Yeah, people got

874
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 2: a little too uh, I don't know something, uh like

875
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 2: I don't know what the word is, but y'all know

876
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:33,839
Speaker 2: what I mean. She got it got a little too

877
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 2: something in that motherfucker. Another highlight when she sang Love

878
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 2: on Top and then she let us sing the chorus,

879
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 2: and she let us sing that last part of the

880
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 2: chorus where it's just you say that shit like five

881
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 2: six times in a row.

882
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: And they were getting it by and a whole like

883
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: a minute. It's not like a minute. I was singing too.

884
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, a whole arena of people singing that Love on

885
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 2: Top chorus at the just it was it was like

886
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 2: a religious experience. It's that fun, really fun, you know.

887
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 2: It was.

888
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was surprised I didn't lose my voice

889
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,240
Speaker 1: because honey, I was ready.

890
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, it was. Everyone was yelling

891
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 2: and like I said, that part, I think everyone was

892
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 2: yelling at this because she just literally stopped. She just

893
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 2: held the mic out, and every baby, you know, everybody

894
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 2: was fucking oh. And it just kept and as it

895
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 2: kept going, everybody kept getting hyped and it's like, you know,

896
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 2: and she's looking impressed and listen. I think I have

897
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 2: very high mental acuity and everything, but I think I

898
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 2: could get how you could be in a coat. Now

899
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 2: I get it, because like she's doing a lot of

900
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 2: like talking to us, but really she must do that

901
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 2: in every city. But I'm like, she's talking to.

902
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: Me, you know, And that's how I felt. I remember

903
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: when she first came out and at black and she

904
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: was like I've been doing this twenty five years, and

905
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: she kept telling us thank you. I was like, bitch,

906
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: you ain't got to tell me that. What is you

907
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: thinking me for?

908
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 2: No?

909
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming to show or everybody to skip

910
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: around this bitch.

911
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 2: Yes, she was like thanking people. She she was thinking people,

912
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 2: I don't know how they figured this out if it's

913
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 2: on the telepropter. She's just looking at signs and she's like, yeah,

914
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 2: you know, happy birthday to Madison. Oh it's your anniversary June.

915
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 2: Good for you, you know, And like I'm like how

916
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 2: she even know this shit? And then she's like shouting

917
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 2: people out during during the fucking show and stuff, and

918
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: then you know, stopping and talking to us and and

919
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 2: and you know, giving us like anecdotes and stuff, and

920
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 2: you know, and of course she don't know us, she

921
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 2: don't know me. It can't possibly be what I think

922
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 2: it is. But in my mind she was like, I

923
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 2: love you, Roger, thank you said that.

924
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: I was hit for it. Oh and something else. I

925
00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: really really loved about the show. No matter how close

926
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: you were or how far you were, you had a

927
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: good seat in the house.

928
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, that screen was really big.

929
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: And that screen literally helped everybody in the whole arena

930
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: see what was happening.

931
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 2: Also, y'all the fucking props and stuff for this goddamn show. Child,

932
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 2: I'm talking flying horses. I'm talking a giant fucking horse

933
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 2: a tank, like and what the fuck?

934
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: And and the thing is, y'all. I was not on

935
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: nobody's drugs, but that horse was so three D. I

936
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: was like, is that real? I was like, is that

937
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: three day? Or reels? Like? Am I tripping? Because the

938
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: way the horse came out of the circle, it kind

939
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: of went like out beyond like where I.

940
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 2: Thought it was real. It was a real thing, And

941
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 2: I was at first I thought it was the screen

942
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 2: doing like some type of optical illusion, but it was.

943
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 2: They actually have a big ass like building sized horse.

944
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 2: From my understanding, it takes them five days to set

945
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 2: up the concert, and I see why.

946
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, before she gets.

947
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, like this, nigga's flying around and shit like glowing

948
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: and fireworks are going off and lights are everywhere and shit,

949
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 2: and you know the fucking there's a tank they're driving,

950
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 2: and there's like these fucking polls that the twins get

951
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 2: on that flip back and forth and shit.

952
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: They was doing all types of shit in the.

953
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 2: L Yeah, and of course there's a band. There's fucking

954
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 2: like the goddamn singers could have been their own group.

955
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 2: They just the backup singers, and they came out and

956
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 2: did like basically they was on some in vogue shit.

957
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 1: Yes, yes they was. They like y'all, y'all gonna get

958
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: these vocals.

959
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 2: Like, so, the way the concert works is like I

960
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 2: told her, she do twenty thirty minutes, and then there's

961
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 2: a transition about five minutes for the change clothes, drinks

962
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 2: and water, and then she's back on the stage like

963
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 2: she's Lebron James and some shit.

964
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: And every time it's a whole different ass outfit.

965
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 2: And honest to god, you need the break, you know,

966
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 2: like you as a human being in the audience, think

967
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 2: you need you. I was like, I was having a

968
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 2: great time, but every time she went to change the colors,

969
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 2: I said, oh, thank god, I can sit down for

970
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 2: five minutes.

971
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: Yes, and and everybody, it's okay, sit down, It's okay, okay, okay.

972
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 2: And sometimes you really don't get to take a break

973
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,280
Speaker 2: because you know what's happening. You about to take a break.

974
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 2: And then she'd be like, ladies and gentlemen, the greatest

975
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 2: fucking guitar player you ever heard of in your life. Bamn.

976
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 2: And then you'd be like, well, I got to stand

977
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 2: to give this nigga some props. He can't be out here.

978
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 2: It's like the Twins. You're like, oh, these niggas need

979
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 2: some promps. They dancing hardest fuck. I can't just sit

980
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 2: down while they dance the hardest fun And the next

981
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 2: thing you know, you'd be like, oh, no, Beyonce coming

982
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 2: back already. I didn't sit down. I didn't sit down.

983
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: That's how you feel like.

984
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 2: I didn't take my mendatory and break with the Handles

985
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,479
Speaker 2: wrote me, I was sitting down chugging water every time

986
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 2: she left the stage. I was, I was, I was,

987
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 2: It was funny. I was almost mad how good everybody was.

988
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:51,439
Speaker 2: It was like, oh damn, they doing the ballroom. What shit?

989
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 2: I got to stand up for this.

990
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: That barroom was. That was a sight to see as

991
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: somebody who has never seen that in real life. I've

992
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 1: always seen the videos. That ship was really really I.

993
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 2: Was looking at myself like I was a kid. I

994
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 2: was like looking at myself outside of my body, like

995
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 2: he gonna sleep good tonight. I was just walking all

996
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 2: this standing, all this dancing and singing. He gonna sleep,

997
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 2: he gonna sleep real, he going bed so as he

998
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 2: get back and I did so. Yeah, that like that

999
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 2: was off the chain. The ballroom thing is just honesty, guy,

1000
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 2: it could be its own fucking concert.

1001
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:30,399
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1002
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 2: That shit could have went thirty minutes if they wanted,

1003
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 2: and I would have watched it all. They were killing

1004
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 2: that shit. And once again like so, here's the thing

1005
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 2: I did want to say about Beyonce in general, because

1006
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 2: I think Beyonce is like Coca Cola with the cocaine. Okay,

1007
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 2: she's the last of a generation, well Coca Cola with

1008
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 2: the cocaine in it. By what I mean is she's

1009
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 2: so ubiquitous at this point people have convinced themselves. Well,

1010
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take shots at her cause she's she's always

1011
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 2: gonna be here. She's always been here. You know, I'd

1012
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 2: rather make fun of the people that love her, make

1013
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 2: fun of the work she does, make fun of her

1014
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 2: as a person and all this shit, because she feels

1015
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 2: like an institution, you know, forget about the girl who

1016
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:23,919
Speaker 2: was in beauty pageants and then talent shows and parents helped,

1017
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 2: and she worked her way up to this and all that.

1018
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 2: She feels like American royalty. And you know, you laugh

1019
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 2: at the power, you punch up laughing at the power. Right,

1020
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 2: But I don't really do that shit. I don't really

1021
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 2: make jokes about Beyonce. I don't really pick on. I

1022
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 2: never picked even before I was a big fan of hers,

1023
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 2: just before a self title album and stuff, even before then.

1024
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 2: I've never talked shit about people that loved Beyonce, her fans.

1025
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 2: You know, Karen used to think she was annoying me

1026
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,760
Speaker 2: playing b D all the time back in the old apartment.

1027
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: I've never, Wow, I've never once in my life said

1028
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 2: a cross word about Beyonce. He did that album, I

1029
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 2: was in my own day. I've always been happy that

1030
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 2: that like, the thing I always loved about Beyonce before

1031
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 2: any of this stuff is that the black women that

1032
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 2: I had in my life got their life to her,

1033
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 2: and to me, that's enough.

1034
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and and, Like I said, a lot

1035
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: of that is like getting in my own head because

1036
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: I remember we was in one of the old apartments

1037
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: and I think you, did you get it for me?

1038
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: I think you, yeah, you end up buying it for

1039
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 1: me and b day And when I tell you, bitch

1040
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,919
Speaker 1: every day for about a year, every single motherfucking day,

1041
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: that bitch his own play me in the kitchen. I

1042
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: was cooking to it. I was mother fucking grilling to it.

1043
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 1: I was getting me body, honey. I was popping and

1044
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: locking and bopping literally every motherfucking game.

1045
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's one of the reasons I know some

1046
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 2: of those songs is because I've never owned that album,

1047
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 2: and I just know some of the songs from Osmosis

1048
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 2: because she used to play it so much. But once A,

1049
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 2: I always felt like, even before I was like a

1050
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 2: huge fan of Beyonce, it was always like, it's black

1051
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 2: girl time. Shut the fuck up. When it's black girl time,

1052
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 2: they be getting their life to this. They came to

1053
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: when it was Destiny's Child. They came to our college

1054
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 2: campus my freshman year, and you know, even then, I

1055
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 2: know they were a pop group, and I know that

1056
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 2: was before the music was so before Beyonce kind of

1057
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 2: like really took controller career and like was like, I

1058
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 2: am making this message. You know. It was like that

1059
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 2: was back when white people felt like they're all of ours.

1060
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 2: You know, the music was Survivor. You know, it was bills.

1061
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 2: It wasn't like, you know, I like my Negro nose,

1062
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 2: you know, a certain way. And so they were white

1063
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 2: people were able to envision themselves to it too, like

1064
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 2: oh yes, this girl power stuff, who run the world?

1065
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: You know.

1066
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 2: But the thing I wanted to point out about Beyonce

1067
00:54:55,560 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 2: that to me separates her from even some other artists

1068
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 2: that I love, other artists that Black people love, other

1069
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 2: artists that black women love. To me, the difference is

1070
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 2: the intentionality. We often shit on intentionality, like, oh, you

1071
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 2: gotta try. Everything's supposed to come to you naturally, it's

1072
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 2: supposed to be easy. But I think Beyonce's intentionality, as

1073
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 2: gifted as she is and as easy as she makes

1074
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 2: it look, is what makes me love what she does

1075
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 2: because she chose us. She didn't have to do that.

1076
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 2: A lot of artists don't, so a lot of black

1077
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 2: artists that they don't want to step on the that.

1078
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 2: You know, Republicans by shoes too, they don't want to

1079
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 2: step and if you had. I remember seeing the Super

1080
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 2: Bowl at show where she came out dressed like the

1081
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 2: Black Panthers, and I felt so immensely proud of this

1082
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 2: woman and turned on. Of course we all feel that,

1083
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,399
Speaker 2: but I felt so messly proud of this woman because

1084
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, she's she wants us to know it.

1085
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 2: She's for us, you know, it's what we do with

1086
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 2: our podcast, it's for us. Anyone can listen. We ain't

1087
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 2: never kicked anyone out out of listening, but it's not

1088
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 2: for everybody. And you're not to be served here first

1089
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 2: and foremost you can find some nourishment here. But just know,

1090
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 2: when we came up with our plan, our curriculum, we

1091
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 2: wasn't sitting around thinking about anybody but black people, right, right,

1092
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 2: And so to see an artist of that magnitude that

1093
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 2: sort of rejected the Hey, y'all, it's just about one

1094
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 2: world and coming together, and it's just about girl power feminism.

1095
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 2: She took it to like, it's about black feminism and

1096
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 2: maybe it might not be your feminism. Blah blah blah blah.

1097
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 2: She an individual person, she get to pick. You don't

1098
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 2: have to like it. She didn't say I'm coming to

1099
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 2: represent you. She just made her choices of like, no, no,

1100
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 2: I'm with the black folks, you know what I mean,

1101
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 2: And I think not just black folks. But it's like

1102
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 2: with Renaissance, it's like not just black people, black LGBTQ people,

1103
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: because that was, you know, something that people used to

1104
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 2: like try to knock her on. But a lot of

1105
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 2: this stuff is about people's journey. They come to it

1106
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 2: when they come to it, and whether she's been responding

1107
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 2: to criticism, whether she's been evolving, or whether she's just

1108
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 2: been like, you know, if you just in the most

1109
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 2: cynical mind ever, she's just I'm just such a capitalist.

1110
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 2: I'll just pretend to like gay people. If you're that

1111
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 2: kind of ass off, fine, But I don't think I

1112
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 2: don't think she is. I think it's genuine. But it's

1113
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,479
Speaker 2: the evolution and the freedom for me. You know, it's

1114
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 2: watching her And I don't mean this in a negative way.

1115
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 2: People might take it this way, watching her shed the

1116
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 2: guidance of her parents and guide herself. Because you know,

1117
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 2: I feel the same way about a lot of stuff

1118
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 2: with Taylor Swift too, And I think too many of

1119
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 2: us have got brought up, caught up and brainwashing too

1120
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 2: this like I gotta hate all white people white, she's popular,

1121
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 2: I gotta hate her. And it's like, it really isn't

1122
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 2: about that. It really isn't same story for her. All

1123
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 2: these people that come into our purview as children, as

1124
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 2: their parents are managing them, dog their life different and

1125
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 2: it's hard. Is like they don't go to normal school normally.

1126
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 2: They're not socializing you that famous, You're not just out

1127
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 2: here socializing with everybody and learning all these life lessons

1128
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 2: from going to public school and living in the neighborhood.

1129
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 2: So like there has to be an intentionality with one

1130
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 2: what you want to learn and pursue and to the

1131
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 2: message you want to do. And you almost always number three,

1132
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 2: have to fight against the control of your parents who

1133
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 2: are here to God you, who love you. You gotta

1134
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 2: fight against them to say no, I want to be myself,

1135
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 2: and myself might not want to make the safe music.

1136
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 2: That's a little bit nebulous and it's just girls run

1137
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 2: the world, and it's all and it's hey, Bill's Bill's bills,

1138
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 2: and it's hey, you know, it's it's single ladies, it's

1139
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 2: you know, it's everybody can get their life to this. No, no, no,

1140
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 2: I just want black people to get their life to this. No, no, no,

1141
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 2: I'm making the choice. You know. I'm yeah, still still girls,

1142
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 2: black girls. Okay, now black films. Like, to me, there's

1143
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 2: something so tremendously power about powerful about that and I

1144
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 2: respect it and I respect her because she chose us.

1145
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 2: It's not to ship on. I'm not even gonna say

1146
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 2: other artists names because I just think pitting women against

1147
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 2: each other, putting artists against each other is people always

1148
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 2: lose the point, right, So I'm not even gonna point

1149
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 2: out these other people. But there's other people that people

1150
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 2: like pit against her. Well, I'm like, I mean, yeah,

1151
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 2: they cool, but I kind of like the race nerd

1152
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 2: of Beyonce. That's like, no, I'm picking us, Like, you're

1153
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 2: not just you don't have to imagine, you don't have

1154
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,439
Speaker 2: to glom onto this. I'm making blackest king. You don't

1155
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 2: have to like like it. But you know what the

1156
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 2: fuck I mean, and you know what the fuck I'm

1157
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 2: talking to. And it's not just the music in the shit,

1158
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 2: it's not service level. It's the fact that if you

1159
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 2: go and talk to the artists that contributed The Blackest King,

1160
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 2: they will tell you, like Beyonce treated us unlike anybody

1161
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 2: the fuck else paid us out worth. So while no

1162
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 2: name is shitting on me on shitting on Beyonce on Twitter, understanding,

1163
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 2: the actual artists that worked on that project are like,

1164
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 2: we don't ask it for your help, no name, We

1165
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 2: were seen by this woman. Now you you could feel

1166
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 2: however you want to feel, as a person that was

1167
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 2: outside the room judging the optics, we telling you you

1168
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 2: ain't gonna catch nobody shitting on her from inside the

1169
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 2: room because we were like, no one's let let us

1170
01:00:57,880 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 2: in the room. Then they paid us to be in

1171
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 2: a room. Then they respected us to be on the road.

1172
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 2: They let us show out in the room, they gave

1173
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 2: us direction, creative direction, they let us contribute. These are

1174
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 2: things that a lot of people don't get. When she

1175
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 2: comes to town and she's all the black small businesses

1176
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 2: are making bank like that matters. There's a reason it

1177
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 2: wasn't like if you look at Charlotte Server. It's a

1178
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 2: reason it's not like the businesses are booming, it was

1179
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 2: black businesses, especially small black businesses, are booming. Because even

1180
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 2: her fans are intentional with where they spend their fucking money,

1181
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 2: Like it is different for her. And so I was like,

1182
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 2: it don't matter what it costs, we need I want

1183
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 2: to experience this. I feel like this is the closest

1184
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 2: we're gonna get to.

1185
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: Like Michael Jackson, She's not gonna say she's the last

1186
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: breed of that generation. And I will continue to say

1187
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: that because for those of you that were around at

1188
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: the time, y'all knew that when Michael Jackson performed or

1189
01:01:56,080 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: did anything, the world stopped. Everybody knew who Michael Jackson is.

1190
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 1: Everybody knows who Beyonce is. Now with everything being so segmented,

1191
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: people have their things they listen to, but there are

1192
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: very few artists nowadays that are as a megastar. Yeah,

1193
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: you might have a handful her Taylor Swift, like it's

1194
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: a handful, but other than that, most everybody the niche

1195
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: they Diane, They're like, I show up somewhere, it's going

1196
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: to be a globally.

1197
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 2: Dan and I like I said, I'm not trying to

1198
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 2: ship on people, but take it with how I mean it.

1199
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson ain't never have to worry about what size is.

1200
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 2: Clothes came in right. There was never an intentionality behind it, Like, yo,

1201
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 2: I gotta make sure these zipper jockets come in five

1202
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 2: X because some of my fans are five X and

1203
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 2: they need to Beyonce, did you know what I mean?

1204
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 2: But like she listened to the feedback. She wants people

1205
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 2: to be happy and include it and feel that, you know,

1206
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 2: and each step I feel like you watch her push beyond.

1207
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 2: Like she like her capitalism's like Disney capitalism to me,

1208
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 2: where it's like if you complain it be like, but

1209
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 2: I want to buy our Ivory Park or whatever, and

1210
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 2: I ain't got you know, they ain't have my size.

1211
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 2: She like, what's the size? Next thing? You know, she's

1212
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,720
Speaker 2: sending Ivory Park to people you know on Instagram and shit,

1213
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, I'm that person's size and they

1214
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 2: got dog okay, so I can go ahead and get that.

1215
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 2: Then that's the point, you know what I mean? And

1216
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 2: I think it's the work ethic that it's not just

1217
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 2: on stage, it's the whole fucking thing. I mean, I

1218
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 2: still remember when Black and Skin came out, all the

1219
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 2: people that's getting involved in the project, and there was

1220
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 2: some motherfuckers. Some of these raggedy motherfuckers had talked shit

1221
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 2: about her, and then she was like, come do this project,

1222
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 2: and they was deleting them tweets. They was getting this.

1223
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: Shit just appeared.

1224
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 2: Of course, you know the hive which everybody's in, but

1225
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 2: nobody's in right the high One found them screenshots to

1226
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 2: be like this you. But at the end of the day,

1227
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 2: I liked that she wasn't even petty about the shit.

1228
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 2: She was like, Okay, I'm Coca Cola with the cocaine.

1229
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 2: Everybody drinks me. Everybody got a fucking opinion. Here's the thing.

1230
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 2: Do you want to work with me? Yes, of course

1231
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 2: you do, because I'm Coca Cola with the coca and

1232
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 2: the nigga. Of course you want to work with me.

1233
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:18,560
Speaker 2: And no, I'm bigger than that. I don't care that

1234
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 2: you was talking shit. Let's go. I love that shit,

1235
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 2: you know, so, I like I said, man, it's I

1236
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 2: think to have an artist this big that just wanna

1237
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 2: be ours. We're not gonna see that again.

1238
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 1: You know what.

1239
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 2: I mean, because even Michael Jackson didn't really want to

1240
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 2: be ours like that, like when he went through that

1241
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 2: criminal shit, he was getting walking around with the fruit

1242
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 2: of Islam and shit. But that's more than like O. J.

1243
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 2: Simpson come back to Blackness was my Dashiki type shit. Like, right,

1244
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 2: this is her getting bigger and could have made that look.

1245
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 2: I know, she could be looking like like people sometimes

1246
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 2: use it as a knock on her, like yeah, I mean,

1247
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 2: y'all think she's so big on the end of that shit,

1248
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 2: but look, these people be out selling her. This person

1249
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 2: be out selling her. I'm like you, I love Taylor Swip.

1250
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 2: I'm not a hater, but you know why Taylor Swift

1251
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 2: ourselves Beyonce, because Beyonce is picking being black, Right. She

1252
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 2: could be up there singing a bunch of fucking like

1253
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 2: ballads that kind of are inclusive of everybody, and hey,

1254
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to catch a vibe in a feeling.

1255
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying Taylor doesn't pick a side or something,

1256
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 2: but she can't be black, right, There's a cost to

1257
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 2: picking black, you know, there's a cost. We look at

1258
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 2: the podcast that really blow up, look at this, this

1259
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 2: is niggas Tom relationships and hip hop and a bunch

1260
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 2: of and having a bunch of ignorant opinions about blackness,

1261
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 2: and not wanting to pick a political side. And Democrats

1262
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:52,959
Speaker 2: you know, they kind of bad too, And I won't

1263
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 2: gonna say nothing too much about Republicans, you know Trump.

1264
01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I kind of give you Trump be kind

1265
01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 2: of funny. Those are the niggas at the top, right

1266
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 2: for black folks. They gonna always be at the top

1267
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 2: because you once you picked that black side and say, actually, no,

1268
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 2: I'm joving for Joe Biden, and I don't care if

1269
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,600
Speaker 2: you niggas don't like it. I don't care if it

1270
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:14,959
Speaker 2: make me look weird to say, you know that ice

1271
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 2: cube is out the pasture on this bitch. Well, unless

1272
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 2: people gonna listen, you know what I mean. So like

1273
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 2: she picked a side and went so to me. I've

1274
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 2: always thought the potential of Beyonce could have been a

1275
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift type, could have been Michael Jackson type, if

1276
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 2: she would have said, you know, I'm just gonna make this,

1277
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 2: make these songs that a white person would make, and

1278
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 2: just you know, be a black woman singing them and

1279
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 2: raise my profile a little bit. But nah, man she

1280
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 2: picked us. You know, she put the Black powerfit stuff.

1281
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 2: She fucking you know, dressed like the Black Panthers. She

1282
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 2: put the lyrics off through her fucking songs. She said,

1283
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:56,680
Speaker 2: America's got a problem, you know. She said, these kars

1284
01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 2: are turning a terrorists, Like come on, man. She picked

1285
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 2: a fucking side. And I think that's why I was

1286
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 2: so happy to be in the building to watch her

1287
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:09,800
Speaker 2: do her thing.

1288
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:16,240
Speaker 1: And I think for me, I remember, uh, this is

1289
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 1: the year the Panthers went to the Super Bowl. Something

1290
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,320
Speaker 1: happened and me and you came home early, and Twitter

1291
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 1: was just like a blaze, what's trying to figure out

1292
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,919
Speaker 1: what was going on? And this was when Formation came out.

1293
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 1: But it was like on a private stream, like you

1294
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: couldn't just it wouldn't just open. And when me and

1295
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 1: you watched that, that was the blackest shit I've ever

1296
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 1: seen in my life. We sat and watched that shit

1297
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: for like four or five hours straight on repeat. We

1298
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 1: was like play again, play again, plat again, plat again.

1299
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:45,919
Speaker 1: And then she turned around and she did the Super

1300
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 1: Bowl and then she turned around Robert. She finished finished

1301
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:52,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. She was like, I'm going on tour, so

1302
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 1: a lot of people had to memorize Formation, you know,

1303
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: and she breaks her own records because this tool basically

1304
01:07:58,560 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: out sold Formation, and.

1305
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 2: She she got drop that album. Remember, yes, I woke

1306
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 2: you up. I remember that it was pre downloaded it

1307
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 2: on your phone.

1308
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: It was Scandal. It was I think I forgot it was.

1309
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 2: Scandal was on I happ was asleep and I was up,

1310
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 2: and I went and got your phone and pre downloaded

1311
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:17,640
Speaker 2: it so you could wake up in the morning. And

1312
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 2: I already have it downloaded and ready to go, because

1313
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 2: this is back. This was back before like Spotify and

1314
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 2: uh right, title and shit. You needed to download by

1315
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 2: the album off of Apple, download it to the phone

1316
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 2: so you could have it in the morning when you

1317
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 2: left the house, because it was this is a while

1318
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 2: ago at least for our phone plans or whatever, because

1319
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 2: you couldn't just stream the ship. So yeah, man, like

1320
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 2: you know, I honestly she made me a fan, like

1321
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 2: I and I and I, like I said, I was

1322
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:50,599
Speaker 2: never dismissive or disliked or any I never have said

1323
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 2: a shady thing about this woman in my life. But

1324
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 2: I just saw her before. It's like, okay, she's like

1325
01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:02,400
Speaker 2: a beautiful pop star that makes like, you know, girl anthems,

1326
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:05,559
Speaker 2: and she came from a girl group, and good for her.

1327
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:07,679
Speaker 2: Of course she's fine and ship, you know, so there's

1328
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 2: obviously that. But then she just was like, oh, I'm sorry, America.

1329
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 2: Now that I'm in control of my own career, I'm

1330
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:16,599
Speaker 2: black as fuck.

1331
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: And people went't ready for that. A lot of people projected.

1332
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 2: That I remember the I remember the pushpect and.

1333
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: People people got selective memory. But them white women, their

1334
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,680
Speaker 1: hearts were broken because they was like, we thought you was.

1335
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 2: This ship wasn't no easy choice. You talk about a

1336
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 2: Negro knows this ship wasn't no easy choice. And also

1337
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 2: it was a ship ton of black people shipping on

1338
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 2: her too. You not doing your black shit black right,

1339
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 2: and all this stuff. And it's crazy because she's coped

1340
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:47,800
Speaker 2: with the cocaine in it, because she basically overcame all that.

1341
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 2: Most of these niggas are quiet as fuck now because

1342
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 2: because she been doing it so long, it's not even

1343
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,479
Speaker 2: an act. It's just who she is, you know, And

1344
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,759
Speaker 2: I get people be untrustworthy or they be untrusting at first,

1345
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 2: but it's been like long enough that they like, nope,

1346
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 2: she just fuck with black people that hard. This is

1347
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 2: what it is, and it's whether it be the list

1348
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:09,680
Speaker 2: on her website, the people she shouts out the podcast

1349
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 2: and she's sending shit to the fucking like she making choices,

1350
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,599
Speaker 2: you know, and I and it's that kind of thing

1351
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 2: that I really don't understand any hate for this point.

1352
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 2: It's really like I said, you just mad that the

1353
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 2: brand is the Coca Cola and so we can all

1354
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 2: make fun of Coca Cola.

1355
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And speaking of Coca Cola, after she dropped that album,

1356
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 1: everybody started doing that bullshit. It's like a lot a

1357
01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 1: lot of times she people people don't give her credit

1358
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 1: for the trend she sets right. And also there was

1359
01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 1: a lot of things I remember years ago. She would

1360
01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:46,560
Speaker 1: feel herself constantly and turn the camera towards herself consistently,

1361
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: and people always people. I remember the jokes, I remember

1362
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: people Stranger recording and this is before you know, the

1363
01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 1: the YouTube and Instagram years before that and a lot

1364
01:10:58,120 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 1: of that ship she turned around and put down the

1365
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: motherfucking dot community. But I remember at the time, you

1366
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,080
Speaker 1: hit strange, bitch like you recall yourself.

1367
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 2: I'll never forget out the Super Bowl performance. Perez Hilton

1368
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 2: and a bunch of other bloggers took still shots of her,

1369
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 2: like during the dance and tried to find the most

1370
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 2: unflattering moments and really like on some real like coded

1371
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 2: racial trope shit being like here's her flexing her face

1372
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 2: or flexing her muscles and her abs, and they try

1373
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 2: to be like, look how manly she looks, which is

1374
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:33,040
Speaker 2: some real fucking old school racism. It's just some back

1375
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 2: to the old country racism. And I remember being so

1376
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 2: fucking furious. And then when she sued and had them

1377
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:40,680
Speaker 2: take it down, there were people being like, uh, she

1378
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:42,880
Speaker 2: really swing them, And I was like, because this black

1379
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 2: woman has to protect her fucking image from you fucking Neanderthals,

1380
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 2: because y'all all sit up there and say shit like

1381
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 2: while she's in the middle of pregnancy, she faking her pregnancy,

1382
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 2: y'all say shit like, uh, look how how ugly she

1383
01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 2: is. Isn't that funny? And it's fucking as a human being, Like,

1384
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 2: I get why she is so uh keep so how

1385
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 2: much she keeps her shit insulated away from everybody, Like

1386
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:12,720
Speaker 2: when y'all want to see something about my family, I'll

1387
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:14,680
Speaker 2: fucking tell you right you want, I want to do

1388
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 2: an interview. I remember she interviewed herself. People was mad.

1389
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 2: I said, why not right?

1390
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 1: Why the fuck not right? She been enough interviews to realize,

1391
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: motherfucker's racist. They put out a context and everything, like

1392
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to control this shit.

1393
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 2: Also, just it's my family is I want to This

1394
01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 2: is how I can have my piece of mind right,

1395
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 2: because I don't know if y'all heard, but I'm one

1396
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 2: of the most popular people on the planet, and maybe

1397
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 2: I can't just go to the grocery store like you do.

1398
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 2: So I don't want to, like I get my prophecy

1399
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 2: by going up in the house and staying in there

1400
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 2: unless I got something to fucking tell y'all to sell.

1401
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:48,439
Speaker 2: Y'all stay out my dick.

1402
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:53,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and not only that, I remember it was something else.

1403
01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 1: I forgot all but talking I forgot it was something else.

1404
01:12:58,479 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 2: Is gonna say, Okay, well, I I just remember, you know,

1405
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:06,600
Speaker 2: all that stuff she was going through. And you know,

1406
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 2: when you look at how we dissect black women in public,

1407
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:12,519
Speaker 2: you know, Serena Williams all this stuff, and especially once

1408
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 2: she got like she picked black people. A lot of

1409
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 2: the criticism of her was very racially coded, very unfair,

1410
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 2: and I, like I said, I love what this woman represents.

1411
01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 2: I love her the fact that she chose us, and

1412
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 2: she's just so fucking talented to back it up, like

1413
01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:36,640
Speaker 2: it's undeniable talent. And I you know, people always got

1414
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 2: their little caddy shit to say. But at the end

1415
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 2: of the day, ain't nobody doing it better than her.

1416
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:43,960
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody else gonna go on the tour two and

1417
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 2: a half hours, this physical, Like I said, I'm not

1418
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 2: shitting on Taylor Swift, this physical, like this athletic shit

1419
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 2: she's doing, moving around this much by herself, no opener,

1420
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 2: no clothes, two and a half hours doing the shit

1421
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 2: every other day, adding shows the day. Bruh. She left

1422
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 2: here and did three shows of the goddamn Atlanta How.

1423
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 2: I really don't know how she's able to do this.

1424
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 2: I would have understood if halfway through the show she

1425
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 2: would be like, guys, give me a second. That's how

1426
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 2: much she was worthing. So yeah, man, I iconic show.

1427
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,000
Speaker 2: If it's in your town, I mean, you know you

1428
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,320
Speaker 2: need to see it. If it's if you waited to

1429
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 2: get a ticket. The tickets have come down in a

1430
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:27,719
Speaker 2: lot of places now because these fucking scalp for people.

1431
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 2: As the fucking concert gets closer, they're not gonna sell

1432
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 2: all the tickets, and now you can get a ticket

1433
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:36,200
Speaker 2: for a more reasonable price, right I honestly, I honestly

1434
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 2: think it's worth the price of admission. It's worth doing it.

1435
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 2: And I knowing what the show she had in Baltimore

1436
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,759
Speaker 2: where it rained, or DC where it rain, she fucking

1437
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 2: paid one hundred thousand dollars so people could get home

1438
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 2: using mass transit because the transit was gonna close on them, right, Like,

1439
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:54,879
Speaker 2: it's the intentionality for me, man.

1440
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I really do. I appreciate that. And it's

1441
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:04,680
Speaker 1: also one of the things where I'll just aside, I

1442
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:11,960
Speaker 1: really appreciate you and I love you just allowing me

1443
01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 1: to love on her and just be me. And the

1444
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: reason why I'm gonna set a is because, particularly when

1445
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:21,599
Speaker 1: you see interactions online and particularly when you hear straight

1446
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: black men talk, it's very frustrating because you know, as

1447
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: a black woman, I'm like, I just want to enjoy

1448
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: my thing. If it's not your thing, that's fine, But

1449
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: so many men get wrapped up in their own egos

1450
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 1: and they shit on anything that black women love. Like

1451
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:46,680
Speaker 1: it's a motherfucking problem. We're nobody. We're minding our business.

1452
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: But you know, anything that, particularly when it comes to Beyonce,

1453
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 1: y'all we like and love, we gotta hit these ashes.

1454
01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 1: Shady ass big baboon lip niggas coming over here talking

1455
01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: shit and you're like, nigga, what you over here for? Gone,

1456
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: gon't get don't get what? Okay, Yeah, I know I'm

1457
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:05,679
Speaker 1: doing that on purpose.

1458
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:08,200
Speaker 2: I know you did it on purpose. That's the problem,

1459
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:11,920
Speaker 2: isn't that I thought you did it on accident. But uh,

1460
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 2: this episode, we didn take it off of YouTube too.

1461
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 2: I guess it's fine, it's fine, we can't upload right

1462
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 2: now anyway. But yeah, I absolutely feel you. I think

1463
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:24,559
Speaker 2: it's that gender wars bullshit, and I think it's the

1464
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 2: you know, niggas are still pulling girls hair at their

1465
01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:32,599
Speaker 2: big age. And you know, like I said, even before

1466
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 2: I was a fan, I was like, well, I just

1467
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:36,800
Speaker 2: enjoy black women getting their life. It's never come back

1468
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:39,439
Speaker 2: to heart me, like I've never seen black women having

1469
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 2: a good time and being like, god, damn it, that's

1470
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 2: gonna ruin to day. So it's not it's not an

1471
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,840
Speaker 2: issue for me. And I think also, like, honestly, a

1472
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 2: lot of those dudes have come around. I think Beyonce

1473
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 2: one over a lot of fucking people like you even

1474
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 2: see that shit less now of the dudes trying to

1475
01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 2: shit on her. It's a lot of dudes that like

1476
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 2: it's cool to like her now, you know. So yeah,

1477
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:06,560
Speaker 2: I think you know that that was our That was

1478
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 2: our experience for the most part. We came home, came

1479
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 2: back to the hotel and slept like babies.

1480
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 1: I mean slept like rocks and literally because of the

1481
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:18,840
Speaker 1: humidity and stuff and us getting up and getting up

1482
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: and down. When you came back, your clothes was just

1483
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 1: sweatd like you just swept through everything.

1484
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 2: Listen, that walk felt so long. That walked back. I'm like,

1485
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:32,760
Speaker 2: I would have paid Serge prices for an uber that's

1486
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 2: how much. I mean, the uber wouldn't have made it,

1487
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:38,439
Speaker 2: but that's how much that walk. I was like, should

1488
01:17:38,479 --> 01:17:41,960
Speaker 2: I just sit down for like ten minutes, just lay

1489
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,880
Speaker 2: on the ground next to this roach and just just

1490
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 2: let let the wind carry me away. You know, I

1491
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:48,720
Speaker 2: wake up in a couple hours to take the rest

1492
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 2: of the walk. But you know, considering we had, you know,

1493
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:56,719
Speaker 2: my ring just from the concert was two hundred every

1494
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 2: ring on my ipple watch and you know what.

1495
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:02,400
Speaker 1: My shited out to all the walking I was doing,

1496
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:05,599
Speaker 1: and it was hilarious. Not only was it doing that,

1497
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: uh and doing the concert. My father was like, hey, bitch, hey, bitch,

1498
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: is loud in here? It kept showing me that little ear.

1499
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: It was like, hey, you going over your decibels? Hey, bitch,

1500
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:14,679
Speaker 1: is loud?

1501
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 2: I been turned that ship off?

1502
01:18:16,120 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 1: You hear me?

1503
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 2: I said, it's loud. I've been turned that shit off

1504
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 2: my motherfucking phone. They know what time it is. Okay,

1505
01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 2: leave me alone. It's my ears. Anyway. If you don't

1506
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 2: like it being loud while you make the beats headphone

1507
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,160
Speaker 2: so loud, why you let them even go up that loud?

1508
01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:35,360
Speaker 2: That's your fault. Leave me out of it. It's not

1509
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 2: your business.

1510
01:18:36,479 --> 01:18:39,680
Speaker 1: It's not your business. So all the little circles and

1511
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:42,000
Speaker 1: the and and and and and the little and my

1512
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: little watch was like, uh, who you don't. It was

1513
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 1: like you your personal you broke personal records. I was

1514
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 1: walking so much to my watch was like, uh, we

1515
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,360
Speaker 1: say you walking? Is it in? Don't walking out step,

1516
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:55,559
Speaker 1: don't walking you're just walking.

1517
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. It wasn't just the walking too, like I said,

1518
01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:00,639
Speaker 2: it's just standing there in the concert. It's the dancing,

1519
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 2: it's the singing, it's a workout, you know. But I would,

1520
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 2: honest to goodness, I never left that concert in my brain.

1521
01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 2: I the next night, I woke up and said, I'd

1522
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 2: fucking go tonight, like I do another two hundred percent

1523
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 2: on my rings tonight if I could. If she said, guys,

1524
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 2: stay here tonight and I'm gonna do another show, I'll

1525
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 2: be like, well, then fuck it, let's go back, Let's

1526
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 2: do it again.

1527
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: Let's do it again.

1528
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:28,679
Speaker 2: So I like, man, I love that concert. I love

1529
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 2: the act. I love uh everything Beyonce did. The community

1530
01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 2: that was around it, the excitement, the joy, everybody getting

1531
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:42,240
Speaker 2: a life, everybody leaving each other alone. But also like

1532
01:19:42,479 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 2: having unity was beautiful. Everybody that was there knew the assignment,

1533
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 2: you didn't have to worry about.

1534
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 1: You felt safe. I don't know if that makes sense,

1535
01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: but I felt really safe.

1536
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't ever use the word safe safe face

1537
01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 2: you know, it's just not my I don't believe in that.

1538
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, it felt like this is the right place

1539
01:20:05,160 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 2: to be, you know. And I don't know, man, in

1540
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:14,639
Speaker 2: my mind, like I think about I had a cousin

1541
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 2: who passed a long time ago, but he had moved

1542
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 2: to Atlanta. Uh he was gay. He moved to Atlanta

1543
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:26,519
Speaker 2: really to be like I think, more free, you know,

1544
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:29,679
Speaker 2: because it's just hard to be free here, and especially

1545
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 2: you know, family and shit, religious shit, like it's a

1546
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 2: lot of shit, and Atlanta's like a home for people to.

1547
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:37,240
Speaker 1: Be free, you know, right particularly down south.

1548
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 2: And he passed at a young age, and I remember

1549
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:43,320
Speaker 2: we went to his funeral and there were all kinds

1550
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:45,360
Speaker 2: of people that we had that I didn't know from

1551
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:47,639
Speaker 2: his life because he had this whole other life in Atlanta.

1552
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 2: And that was actually the first time I ever saw

1553
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 2: a trans person, because I'd never seen a person that

1554
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:57,920
Speaker 2: was trans that I knew of anyway. And the reason

1555
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 2: I knew this person was trans is because somebody my

1556
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,800
Speaker 2: family had made a cruel joke about this person. And

1557
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:05,760
Speaker 2: I was young, and even at that time, it still

1558
01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:10,599
Speaker 2: struck me, like why, like we're grieving, this is another

1559
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 2: person that cared about, you know, this family member of

1560
01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 2: ours that passed. You know, like what, there's nothing, there's

1561
01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:20,960
Speaker 2: nothing to be had. That's funny about this to me?

1562
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:24,840
Speaker 2: Correct and you know, and I feel more strongly than

1563
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:29,400
Speaker 2: now about that than I even did then, But you know,

1564
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 2: at the same time, you know that's kind of the

1565
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 2: culture too, Like you know, people gonna be ignorance, ay,

1566
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 2: ignorant shit like. But my point being like I felt

1567
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 2: like part of the thing was my cousin couldn't really

1568
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:48,160
Speaker 2: feel like they were free here, right, you know, And

1569
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 2: now you know, thirty years later or whatever, to be

1570
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:55,720
Speaker 2: at this concert and see a bunch of people that

1571
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:59,760
Speaker 2: remind me of my cousin that was being free and

1572
01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:02,680
Speaker 2: like unafraid and free with all of us, Like it

1573
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 2: wasn't like free because the only people here are people

1574
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 2: like me. No, free, because this artist has created a

1575
01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:12,600
Speaker 2: community and a space for me to just fucking be

1576
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,880
Speaker 2: myself and if I want to wear my thigh high

1577
01:22:15,920 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 2: boots and my cutoff shorts and you know, be as

1578
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 2: loud and flamboyant as I want walking down the street,

1579
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:26,639
Speaker 2: and everyone here knows this signon and what we're here for,

1580
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 2: and nobody's gonna say a goddamn thing to me. Ain't

1581
01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 2: no jokes coming my way. It's just we're here to

1582
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:36,759
Speaker 2: see this woman perform and participate in this community together.

1583
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 2: That is why I love Beyonce, And that's the space

1584
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:46,599
Speaker 2: that's the feeling of that utopia that you know I'd

1585
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 2: love to have here. You know, that's the space where

1586
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 2: you really can feel more like, oh yeah, we can

1587
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:56,360
Speaker 2: all get in on the joke because we can all

1588
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 2: be equal here. And there's not a lot of people

1589
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 2: creating that, not white people, not black, not other black people.

1590
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 2: Very few spaces are like that, you know what I mean.

1591
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 2: Because it's cocaine in the Coca cola, so everyone's coming

1592
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 2: to get some around it, you know, at the break room,

1593
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:16,240
Speaker 2: it's not you know, everybody liked the cocaine in the

1594
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 2: Coca cola, y'all. So I felt like that was the

1595
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 2: vibe for that night, and I was just I couldn't

1596
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:26,920
Speaker 2: miss it. I really, you know, I'm so glad I went.

1597
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:29,760
Speaker 2: I'm so glad I fought through and pushed through the anxiety.

1598
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:35,720
Speaker 2: I felt glad you went. I'm thankful that you went. Yeah. So, uh,

1599
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 2: that's it for for for me. Is there something else

1600
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 2: you want to talk about with Beyonce stuff?

1601
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 1: Oh, y'all, I'm just gonna say this. I am glad

1602
01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 1: you win. I'm glad that you enjoyed yourself and my

1603
01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:49,680
Speaker 1: biggest thing and it's back to me just being very

1604
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:56,880
Speaker 1: grateful and thankful to you. I'm glad that you I

1605
01:23:56,880 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to, and I guess I could

1606
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: say this, you know, because we married, But I'm glad

1607
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: you kind of allowed me to plan everything out kind

1608
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 1: of the way I wanted to to do it, with

1609
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:11,720
Speaker 1: the purchasing of where we got the tickets and the

1610
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:14,800
Speaker 1: hotels and all that stuff, because, like you said, our

1611
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:18,720
Speaker 1: anxiety is sit differently, and my anxiety was I knew

1612
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a lot of people coming to town,

1613
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:22,760
Speaker 1: and I got it. I was like, I didn't want

1614
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: to be fight sitting in traffic the day before.

1615
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 2: I totally understood your reasoning, and like I said, I

1616
01:24:29,200 --> 01:24:31,479
Speaker 2: didn't even say nothing about it, like cause I really

1617
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 2: was like, if it's overkilled, then fuck it. Sometimes you

1618
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 2: gotta kill him over you know it Just it is

1619
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:39,439
Speaker 2: what it is, Like I'd rather have too much shit

1620
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 2: and like I'd rather have too much preparation and not enough.

1621
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 2: So I'm you know, and I knew you needed that.

1622
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:50,720
Speaker 2: So I wasn't gonna tell you, like, we don't need

1623
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:54,080
Speaker 2: to be downtown a night before the concert, you know.

1624
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 2: I wasn't even gonna say it because it was like,

1625
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 2: or what you know what I mean, Like, so we

1626
01:24:59,439 --> 01:25:01,880
Speaker 2: get an extra night in the hotel. Now, I know

1627
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 2: a lot of people look at that as like a

1628
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 2: swinky cool thing. This is just the way my brains worked.

1629
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:08,679
Speaker 2: The same thing happened with me in New York. I'd

1630
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:12,800
Speaker 2: rather be in my bed if it's like everyone's telling

1631
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 2: me how great New York is. I had a great time.

1632
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:16,640
Speaker 2: Some of my favorite people are in New York. I

1633
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:17,519
Speaker 2: love those people.

1634
01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:18,639
Speaker 1: End of the day.

1635
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 2: I like Charlotte, North Carolina. And there's nothing wrong with

1636
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 2: me liking Charlotte, North Carolina, and there's nothing wrong with

1637
01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 2: them loving New York the way imagine the way you

1638
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:29,719
Speaker 2: feel about New York. Someone can feel that way about

1639
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:32,280
Speaker 2: a different place and then it adds up and they're like, oh,

1640
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 2: I see you just like the Carolina blue skies and

1641
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 2: the weather and the fucking you know, everyone's got their

1642
01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:41,679
Speaker 2: butts out all the time and all that stuff. Like

1643
01:25:41,320 --> 01:25:43,640
Speaker 2: you like your home, you like what you like, you

1644
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:47,720
Speaker 2: like where you came from. And so for me, you know,

1645
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:51,600
Speaker 2: we just have different coping methods. But you know, I

1646
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:53,640
Speaker 2: put together kind of a plan on my own to

1647
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:55,639
Speaker 2: be like I can go back home I can lay

1648
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 2: down for a while, I can be in my creature comforts,

1649
01:25:58,439 --> 01:26:01,679
Speaker 2: I can decompress, and I can go back up there,

1650
01:26:02,080 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 2: and I won't be interrupting your time because you don't

1651
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 2: need me to be downtown. My mom's with you. You

1652
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 2: can have all the fun you want to have, if

1653
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:10,519
Speaker 2: anything is better than having me, because I would have

1654
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 2: been like, y'all niggas want to walk a mile to go,

1655
01:26:14,280 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 2: why won't we just walk back to the fucking hotel?

1656
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:18,960
Speaker 2: We just ate, we're full of food. What are we

1657
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 2: trying to prove? Like? What go to the gym if

1658
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:24,320
Speaker 2: you need to work out, But let's we got a

1659
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:26,240
Speaker 2: hotel to go be in the hotel.

1660
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:30,600
Speaker 1: And also, I think I'm not gonna lie. Me and

1661
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:34,720
Speaker 1: yo Mama. Every time we talked, me and hub been

1662
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:37,720
Speaker 1: like Judge Judy tapping that watch. I was like, gird,

1663
01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:39,559
Speaker 1: there's a time. Yeah. She was like I read it,

1664
01:26:40,160 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 1: like like this is something ever since I bought up

1665
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: tickets cause and the thing is, even before Beyonce I

1666
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 1: announced it. I told your mama, I said, hey, there,

1667
01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:53,720
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know she been quiet. I was like,

1668
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 1: ain't nothing been happening? I told her, said she can't

1669
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:58,439
Speaker 1: really go on tour. I don't know when, but I

1670
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:00,720
Speaker 1: told her. I said, i'mnna get my money read and

1671
01:27:00,760 --> 01:27:03,160
Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna get us tickets to go. I

1672
01:27:03,240 --> 01:27:04,200
Speaker 1: told her this months ago.

1673
01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:06,280
Speaker 2: Now you've been talking about this. Everyone on the show

1674
01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:08,759
Speaker 2: knows this too. You've been talking about this for years, literally,

1675
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 2: so I think everybody. I mean, I just didn't want

1676
01:27:12,920 --> 01:27:15,960
Speaker 2: to fuck up Black Girl Time, you know, like I said,

1677
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:18,320
Speaker 2: I almost fucked up and didn't go. Like a few

1678
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:19,800
Speaker 2: weeks ago, I was like, maybe I should just let

1679
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 2: y'all go, because what if I fuck up Black Girl Time?

1680
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:23,920
Speaker 2: What if I get up there and I'm like, I

1681
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 2: don't want to go eat while y'all gotta go eat,

1682
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:28,839
Speaker 2: like And I just was like, don't. I'm an adult.

1683
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,439
Speaker 2: I actually can do what I want. Yes, I'm gonna

1684
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 2: drive my car up there, and if I want to

1685
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:35,639
Speaker 2: go back home, it's fifteen minutes a way. I'm gonna

1686
01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 2: go back home, and nobody's time be ruined, cause my

1687
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:41,160
Speaker 2: mom and you'll be together, and y'all are grown ass

1688
01:27:41,160 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 2: adults that can choose to do what y'all. Y'all want

1689
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:45,719
Speaker 2: to walk seven miles to get ice cream? Do that shit.

1690
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:49,120
Speaker 2: You know, y'all want to go do whatever, do that shit.

1691
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 2: So I think a lot of that's about you know,

1692
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:54,639
Speaker 2: adjusting and stuff, And honestly, a lot of that's about

1693
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 2: therapy for me too, because therapy gives you tools, it

1694
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 2: tells like, it helps you prepare. It's not this shit

1695
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:04,799
Speaker 2: you see on Twitter where it's all just everyone should

1696
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:07,679
Speaker 2: be into what you want to do. Like, no, that's

1697
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:10,160
Speaker 2: that Twitter version. Twitter would have been like why didn't

1698
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 2: you tell your wife you were having anxiety and she

1699
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:14,960
Speaker 2: needed to stay in the room with you or whatever?

1700
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:17,800
Speaker 2: And I was like, cause she's a grown ass woman

1701
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 2: that wants to have a good time and why would

1702
01:28:19,320 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 2: I want to fuck that up for anybody? But instead,

1703
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:26,439
Speaker 2: you know, going home doing some things by myself. That

1704
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:29,800
Speaker 2: was the thing that helped me. I listening to some podcasts,

1705
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:34,720
Speaker 2: drove around, ran some errands. It helped me and it

1706
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:37,040
Speaker 2: didn't fuck up Black girl times. And that was really

1707
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 2: what it was about.

1708
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:40,559
Speaker 1: Because that's what you needed. And like I said, I

1709
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:44,240
Speaker 1: didn't realize it, but I was. So my anxiety was

1710
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:46,280
Speaker 1: different and I just had to get that energy out.

1711
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:49,320
Speaker 2: Because you're an extrovert, we've responded differently to shit. Also,

1712
01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:52,240
Speaker 2: I love that my mom went. I loved that she

1713
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:56,719
Speaker 2: was able to go. You know, my mom is also

1714
01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 2: very chill and like, you know, not a lot of

1715
01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 2: like she's not a lot of work. You know. I

1716
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:05,479
Speaker 2: love y'all that y'all's relationship has never been like an

1717
01:29:05,520 --> 01:29:09,680
Speaker 2: animosity relationship. Y'all always been road dogs like that the

1718
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 2: whole time.

1719
01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:12,000
Speaker 1: Have when people go, I don't get over with my

1720
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:14,640
Speaker 1: inlaws out ooh child that ghetto. I do not have

1721
01:29:14,720 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: a problems.

1722
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:17,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, she never brought that attitude. You never brought that

1723
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:22,560
Speaker 2: attitude to it. And you know, I love that. You know, uh,

1724
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 2: y'all hang out and y'all do stuff like that too.

1725
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 2: And I really feel like this a once in a

1726
01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:31,360
Speaker 2: lifetime concert and being able to have my mom be

1727
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,639
Speaker 2: able to go to that, you know, what's so? What's

1728
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:37,200
Speaker 2: so dope? You know what I mean? Like to me,

1729
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:39,880
Speaker 2: I wasn't like that's I think that's why I've never

1730
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 2: cared about the price of the ticket, because I wasn't

1731
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:44,520
Speaker 2: looking at it like money. I was looking at like experience.

1732
01:29:44,600 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 2: And I don't think you get to do two of these,

1733
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:50,479
Speaker 2: you know, like maybe hopefully you do, but you ain't

1734
01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:51,080
Speaker 2: no guarantee.

1735
01:29:51,080 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 1: Ain't no guarantee. Shit, she might not to ever again.

1736
01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:53,840
Speaker 1: We don't know.

1737
01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:56,360
Speaker 2: I don't know. She's been doing this twenty five years.

1738
01:29:56,479 --> 01:29:59,519
Speaker 2: Same to her. So I'm glad that we all got

1739
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 2: to have that time together. And uh yeah, it was beautiful.

1740
01:30:03,439 --> 01:30:05,479
Speaker 2: We're gonna probably have to talk about here's the thing.

1741
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:07,679
Speaker 2: I mean, here's the thing, talk about Kevin on stage

1742
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 2: and Bob Brothers next episode. I think because we've done

1743
01:30:11,080 --> 01:30:13,800
Speaker 2: such a deep diving and it's getting late and I

1744
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:16,680
Speaker 2: still need to edit this and put this out, no problem,

1745
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 2: but I know people were waiting on our renaissance report.

1746
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:23,760
Speaker 2: So the Reporter is five stars out of five, ten

1747
01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,600
Speaker 2: out of five, fifteen out of five. What fuck are

1748
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:29,879
Speaker 2: you waiting for? Go see this? If you got tickets,

1749
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:32,680
Speaker 2: stay in line.

1750
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 1: Line, don't get your tickets up. You're gonna have a

1751
01:30:34,240 --> 01:30:36,160
Speaker 1: great time. And if you have to sell them.

1752
01:30:36,160 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a great time. I promise you. This

1753
01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 2: woman is other world lead. Ain't nobody doing it like her?

1754
01:30:43,160 --> 01:30:45,799
Speaker 2: Outfit changes worth the cost of mission. I mean literally,

1755
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:50,240
Speaker 2: she had upteen outfit changes. Yeah, it's just I honestly,

1756
01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 2: outfit changes, the songs, the transitions, the side acts that

1757
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:59,919
Speaker 2: got to take the main stage, the atmosphere, the profession

1758
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 2: Lisa that I mean when I tell you this woman

1759
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:04,840
Speaker 2: started this shit at like nine on the dot and

1760
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:07,400
Speaker 2: ended this shit at eleven thirty on the dot, I

1761
01:31:07,439 --> 01:31:10,080
Speaker 2: mean not a goddamn beat was out of sink. It

1762
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:12,880
Speaker 2: was and it was impeccable. The thought that went into

1763
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 2: every transition, every outfit, every uh everything she did, every

1764
01:31:18,400 --> 01:31:21,920
Speaker 2: image on the screen. I get it. Listen if I

1765
01:31:21,960 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 2: get it, Colt people, Now I get it. I thought

1766
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:26,000
Speaker 2: I was above being in a coat. But if that

1767
01:31:26,040 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 2: woman would have waited about an hour into that show

1768
01:31:28,040 --> 01:31:30,639
Speaker 2: and said, guys killed them three like ladies in front

1769
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:33,280
Speaker 2: of y'all being like, well, she you gotta go, I'm

1770
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:36,479
Speaker 2: like you heard, It's not my fault.

1771
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:38,840
Speaker 1: She sent to meself, been a messages on that big

1772
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:39,360
Speaker 1: as screen.

1773
01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:42,799
Speaker 2: You seen the screen, You see them being got a problem.

1774
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 2: You seen when she transnd into a spaceship and flew

1775
01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:50,719
Speaker 2: off into space. Only only the leader of the next

1776
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:54,080
Speaker 2: god on Earth can do that. Nobody else, how only

1777
01:31:54,240 --> 01:31:56,960
Speaker 2: the person that communicate with the hereafter could even say

1778
01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:59,360
Speaker 2: some shit like that. So I'm sorry, white ladies, I

1779
01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:02,800
Speaker 2: gotta stab y'all drunk asses. I know you didn't even

1780
01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:05,600
Speaker 2: put the black power fist up. But the Queen demands

1781
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:11,720
Speaker 2: the queen at the hive. Okay, now they said, look

1782
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:14,680
Speaker 2: under your seasons, rifles and knives. It's y'all, it's go

1783
01:32:14,840 --> 01:32:18,519
Speaker 2: time for y'all's you know, I get it. It was

1784
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:21,599
Speaker 2: I get the coat. Sitt now. So all right, y'all,

1785
01:32:21,600 --> 01:32:24,960
Speaker 2: that's it for tonight's show. Thanks for listening. Get live

1786
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:29,160
Speaker 2: tickets to our show at the Night Theater, September ninth,

1787
01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:34,559
Speaker 2: three pm in the afternoon. Virtual or in person, doesn't matter.

1788
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,400
Speaker 2: Click the show notes if you want to buy the tickets.

1789
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:39,720
Speaker 2: If you want to buy in person tickets and have

1790
01:32:39,880 --> 01:32:44,400
Speaker 2: us give them away, just remember they'll send you an

1791
01:32:44,439 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 2: email for confirmation now, but about a week out from

1792
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:49,000
Speaker 2: the show, they're going to send you an email with

1793
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:52,120
Speaker 2: the PDF. Foul. I need that email, not the first one.

1794
01:32:52,160 --> 01:32:55,120
Speaker 2: I don't care, but I need the PDF email for sure,

1795
01:32:55,240 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 2: or I can't give your tickets away right. So thank you.

1796
01:32:58,320 --> 01:33:03,640
Speaker 2: Everybody was great and I hope you all enjoyed this recap.

1797
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 2: Until next time, I love you.

1798
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:05,800
Speaker 1: I love you too.

1799
01:33:06,040 --> 01:33:06,439
Speaker 2: Why