Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey fam Today on the bright side, it's Friday, y'all,
Speaker 1: which means we're popping off and talking this week's buzziest
Speaker 1: pop culture moments. Joining us to dish is journalists, cultural
Speaker 1: commentator and fellow podcaster Mo Digs. It's Friday, June twenty First,
Speaker 1: I'm Simone.
Speaker 2: Boyce, I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright side
Speaker 2: from Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 3: Danielle.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's tradition. I have to say, we
Speaker 1: made it to Friday.
Speaker 2: Tgif we made it, we made it.
Speaker 3: We made it girl.
Speaker 1: Okay, we are popping off because it is Friday, and
Speaker 1: today we're talking the best rom comms of all time,
Speaker 1: surprise music reunions, and an R and B king who
Speaker 1: says he never eats on Wednesdays.
Speaker 4: How tragic we never skip a meal.
Speaker 2: Well, before we dig into the biggest moments of the week,
Speaker 2: Simon and I want to spotlight our favorite moment of
Speaker 2: the week, brought to you by our friends at BMW.
Speaker 1: Yes, and the spotlight of the week is going to
Speaker 1: a who will forever be an icon. And I do
Speaker 1: not use that word lightly. It's Celine Dion. This week
Speaker 1: she made a rare public appearance at the premiere of
Speaker 1: her new documentary I Am Selene Dion. And in the documentary,
Speaker 1: she gives audiences an unfiltered look at her life as
Speaker 1: she navigates a very rare illness.
Speaker 3: It's called stiff persons syndrome.
Speaker 2: You know, she's been so open about her battle with
Speaker 2: stiff person syndrome, which is a rare neurological and autoimmune
Speaker 2: disorder that causes stiffness in her muscles and sadly, it
Speaker 2: impacts her ability to move and to sing, and so
Speaker 2: she's had to cancel performances and stop her successful Vegas
Speaker 2: show as a result, and it's been hard to watch.
Speaker 4: She's our Selene Dion.
Speaker 1: I know we all feel this like collective sense of
Speaker 1: ownership over her because she's been such a huge part
Speaker 1: of our lives and she continues to be this embodiment
Speaker 1: of resilience and vulnerability. Not only has she shared this
Speaker 1: struggle pretty publicly, but she's also been so candid about
Speaker 1: the challenges of raising her kids as a single mom
Speaker 1: after the passing of her husband in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: I mean, talk about resilience.
Speaker 1: I am just in awe of her and I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to spend my weekend blasting Selene bangers and counting
Speaker 1: down the minutes until I can watch this documentary.
Speaker 2: Honestly, it looks so good and I think we're going
Speaker 2: to get a breath of who Selene Dion is at
Speaker 2: this moment. The documentary received a standing ovation at the
Speaker 2: premiere this week, not surprisingly but very exciting to see,
Speaker 2: and Selene called it a love letter to each of us.
Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see what she means by that,
Speaker 2: and I'm excited to see this. It comes out next
Speaker 2: week on June twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to pop off officially, so let's
Speaker 1: bring in Mo Dig. She's a journalist, a podcast host
Speaker 1: with hilarious hot takes, and a good time girl.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the bright Side, Mo.
Speaker 5: Hi, guys, thank you so much for having me. I'm
Speaker 5: so excited to be initiated as a bride side bestie.
Speaker 4: Ah, you've been a bestimo. We're so happy to have you.
Speaker 3: Yay.
Speaker 1: Mo. You're usually popping off on pop culture with your podcast.
Speaker 1: It's called a convot with Mo, where you enjoy spilling
Speaker 1: the tea and just having great conversations and you actually
Speaker 1: connect all of this the work that you're doing. Now
Speaker 1: to your backstory, how so?
Speaker 5: So I am a first and Ghanian American girl. I
Speaker 5: grew up with African parents that were really strect, and
Speaker 5: so I had to sneak around to get in my MTV,
Speaker 5: I had to sneak around to get in my E
Speaker 5: news and my ety Like I was just what I
Speaker 5: loved pop culture growing up, and I feel like the
Speaker 5: rebellious side of me was just like I have to
Speaker 5: be in the know, and so I always connect just
Speaker 5: like my experiences and growing up first gen African with
Speaker 5: everything that's going on in the world.
Speaker 4: I love that so much.
Speaker 2: That means you're going to be very passionate about all
Speaker 2: the pop culture topics that we're getting into today.
Speaker 3: Oh girl, I am too excited.
Speaker 4: Let's be in sewet all right, let's pop off.
Speaker 2: So first up, the Tony Awards took place in New
Speaker 2: York City this Sunday. Brookshields turned heads wearing crocs on
Speaker 2: the red carpet.
Speaker 4: Did you see those bright yellow crocks?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 5: I did? I did?
Speaker 1: Is now the time to discuss Brookshields dinner crocks? Or
Speaker 1: should I wait until the end, because let's pop ey,
Speaker 1: I need to Okay, let's pop off because I need
Speaker 1: to unpack this. Was it a comfort thing? I mean,
Speaker 1: what was going on there?
Speaker 5: I am like a Jone Rivers of the Red Carpet, y'all,
Speaker 5: like I'd be at home in my pajamas on my
Speaker 5: phone rating everyone's outfits.
Speaker 3: I just couldn't understand it, Like I couldn't make sense.
Speaker 4: Hit, I'm gonna make the two of you feel so
Speaker 4: bad after this.
Speaker 3: You're ready?
Speaker 2: No, No, she has surgery and so she showed up
Speaker 2: to the Tonys even so.
Speaker 4: I love the crocs.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a cuter way to do that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be. I just feel like
Speaker 3: there's a cutter way to do it. Like, I just
Speaker 3: feel like I'm did the doctor prescribe the crops?
Speaker 5: Yell?
Speaker 3: It was cute, Danielle. I'm not hated, Danielle.
Speaker 5: I don't like Wow, Apple, like Sketchers has something that
Speaker 5: could have worked a little bit better than the cropping
Speaker 5: orthopedic from Sketchers.
Speaker 2: Do you know what?
Speaker 3: I'm Sketcher's collab.
Speaker 1: I just think there are other options besides crocs, like
Speaker 1: I get it, girlfriends and recovery, like I no shade
Speaker 1: on that front. But Freda Salvador makes really cute braided flats,
Speaker 1: like there are a ballerina flats, like they are all
Speaker 1: different kinds of thweat's.
Speaker 4: So poor you can't wear a flat post surgery, you
Speaker 4: know what? Never mind, I'm moving on. I don't agree
Speaker 4: with the two of you.
Speaker 2: We're talking Tony So Angelina Jolie attended with her daughter Vivian.
Speaker 2: Daniel Radcliffe won for his role and Merrily we roll
Speaker 2: along and he gave a really moving speech while his
Speaker 2: co star Jonathan Groff got pretty emotional. But this is
Speaker 2: the moment that had me on my feet watching and
Speaker 2: the internet ablaze. There was a surprise reunion and performance
Speaker 2: with Alicia Keys and jay Z.
Speaker 4: Did you guys watch this?
Speaker 3: Yes? So good, so good? But why was I still cringing?
Speaker 5: Like I still felt like someone was gonna walk on stage?
Speaker 1: I know, I think we're all waiting for her Lo
Speaker 1: Mama to walk on.
Speaker 5: Stage, like I was like, oh, like is something gonna happen?
Speaker 5: Like I'm scared? And then after the end, I had
Speaker 5: like a deep breath. Okay, great job, guys, Simone.
Speaker 2: Will you give everyone a background in case they don't
Speaker 2: know about.
Speaker 4: The Little Mama moment.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course.
Speaker 1: So the last time that they performed this song together
Speaker 1: was that the VMA Is in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: and Lot Mama notoriously crashed their moment. I think she
Speaker 1: just got so overwhelmed and overcome by the lyrics and
Speaker 1: the emotionality of the song, and she just she walked
Speaker 1: up into their performance and thought that she was completing
Speaker 1: their ensemble up there.
Speaker 4: It kind of ruined her career. To be honest, yes,
Speaker 4: I will say.
Speaker 5: She's on records saying is the moment that ruined her career?
Speaker 3: She has said.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny, though, the Internet has totally embraced
Speaker 1: that moment. I feel like people like love rewatching that
Speaker 1: moment and talking about that moment. So I'm like, why
Speaker 1: don't y'all just make it a trio, get Little Mama
Speaker 1: on the track, you know, bring her up for the
Speaker 1: next performance. Give the internet what they want, give the
Speaker 1: people what they want.
Speaker 2: But I think what they wanted was a jay Z performance.
Speaker 2: He's been kind of out and about recently in a way.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen him in a while. Are they older
Speaker 2: on stage? Yes, it's not. The Empire state of Mind
Speaker 2: music video that we saw back in the day, but
Speaker 2: I love it. There's like so much nostalgia there. So
Speaker 2: my question to you is, was this what's next? Was
Speaker 2: the Tony's moment the moment that she was alluding to,
Speaker 2: or is there a potential collab in the future.
Speaker 5: I hope there's a potential collab in the future. Alicia
Speaker 5: has been trailblazing. I mean, she just had like an
Speaker 5: amazing tour and she's doing like a bunch of artwork.
Speaker 2: Hell's Kitchen, her Broadway show. She was not dominated for
Speaker 2: thirteen Tonys for that show.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm hoping that there's more with her and jay Z,
Speaker 5: and I want more from jay Z, Like I feel
Speaker 5: like we're seeing a lot of him on the business front,
Speaker 5: but we want more music, Like we're okay, Sean Carter,
Speaker 5: we want jay Z bring hove back.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Another collaboration that is taking over the internet, y'all, and
Speaker 1: it is striking deep at the core of our nostalgic
Speaker 1: heartstrings comes from Ariana Grande. So on her most recent album,
Speaker 1: Eternal Sunshine, Ariana released a track called the Boy Is Mine. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there are all these immediate comparisons to a nineties classic
Speaker 1: between Brandy and Monica of the same name. That song
Speaker 1: lives rent free in my mind. I don't know about
Speaker 1: you two, but have you heard Ariana's track? What do
Speaker 1: you think about the overlap here?
Speaker 3: I love the overlap. I love Ariana's track.
Speaker 5: I just really want to get into the collab of
Speaker 5: Brandy and Monica, guys, like this is long overdue again obviously,
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys know, but there's so
Speaker 5: much like unspoken between the two of them, and everyone's
Speaker 5: always kind of pitting them against each other. So I
Speaker 5: feel like for them to come out and be like
Speaker 5: the dramas coming from y'all and not ours, Like we
Speaker 5: are legends, we are coexisting, we are bossing, we are
Speaker 5: killing it, creating history together. I just I cannot wait.
Speaker 5: And I loved the music video. Did you guys see
Speaker 5: the music video?
Speaker 2: It was so good and there's a remix dropping now.
Speaker 2: But here's what I'm curious about, because I'm sitting here
Speaker 2: trying so hard not to sing the original boy as Mine,
Speaker 2: like that song is just so in all of us
Speaker 2: that grew up in that moment. But we keep seeing
Speaker 2: this nostalgia, Like we just talked about Alicia and jay Z,
Speaker 2: what do you think it is that we're craving all this?
Speaker 2: Like what did the two thousands give us that we're
Speaker 2: not getting right now?
Speaker 1: People are craving a simpler time. I mean, we were
Speaker 1: all either kids or teenagers in the nineties and two thousands,
Speaker 1: if we're talking about millennials and you know, older gen
Speaker 1: Z folks, And I think we're all craving that simplest
Speaker 1: of growing up then having fewer responsibilities. The world seemed
Speaker 1: like a simpler place back then. I also feel like
Speaker 1: we just like pure music. We like what makes us
Speaker 1: feel good, and I'm always resorting to.
Speaker 3: What makes me feel good.
Speaker 2: Okay, guys, I have a different thought. I think we're
Speaker 2: getting old. I think that we have crossed over into
Speaker 2: true adulthood because I remember being in the car with
Speaker 2: my parents and they would put on like the Rolling
Speaker 2: Stones or the Eagles, and they would be like, oh it,
Speaker 2: remember these classics in college? Like that was their music,
Speaker 2: Tina Turner. Now this is our music, Like we feel
Speaker 2: these memories connected to this music of our childhood, of
Speaker 2: high school, of college, of riding around in cars with
Speaker 2: our friends, of dancing at parties, and we are craving
Speaker 2: those memories like we are officially old.
Speaker 1: Yes, and there is something to be said for the
Speaker 1: fact that the music of yesteryear was just higher quality.
Speaker 3: If you look at it holistically, it was higher quality.
Speaker 1: Helly, yes, it was more pure, like MO said, and
Speaker 1: everything else now that we're getting is derivative from that.
Speaker 3: Yes, everyone is sampling.
Speaker 2: This is proving my point that you are old because
Speaker 2: that is what our parents said.
Speaker 4: That is exactly what our parents.
Speaker 1: Said, because it was correct, because it's true. Okay, I
Speaker 1: have a question before we move on to our next topic.
Speaker 1: What are some other Y two K collabs or songs
Speaker 1: that you would love to.
Speaker 3: See remixed with a new perspective.
Speaker 5: I need some in sync like I want take me
Speaker 5: back to the boy bands. I need the remix on
Speaker 5: the boy bands please. I feel like nobody is tapping
Speaker 5: into the boy bands and I need the collabs. I
Speaker 5: need the reunions. That's some other topic, but yeah, take
Speaker 5: me back to the boy bands please.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: I need the five part harmonies. Where are the five
Speaker 1: part harmonies?
Speaker 5: I want to hear the boys crying in the songs
Speaker 5: like I want to hear the emotion and the muse like.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for a Destiny's Child moment. I'm waiting for
Speaker 2: TLC kind of tried. They brought Lotto in instead of
Speaker 2: Left Eye. It didn't really work. That's a tough one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah I want how about the Nellie Kelly Rowland.
Speaker 4: I want a Dilemma reunion. We need something from Kelly.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I also miss those fat Timberland be like
Speaker 1: there was a whole era of just like Timberland club
Speaker 1: bangers that I would love to come back, like the
Speaker 1: Nellie Fertado area. Yes, come on, Timberland. We need you
Speaker 1: the people, We need you to bring Sexy back. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Mo.
Speaker 2: We're having so much fun with you, but we have
Speaker 2: to take a quick break. Stay with us, and we're
Speaker 2: back to popping off with Mo Digs. Okay, we talked music.
Speaker 2: I want to talk movies. Are you rom com girlies?
Speaker 5: I am a rom com girly on the airplane, especially,
Speaker 5: like specifically it's a.
Speaker 3: Niche like on the airplane. I only watch rom.
Speaker 4: Coms me too. Why do you think that is?
Speaker 5: I just feel like I'm always if I'm traveling, I'm
Speaker 5: always just in like a lovely happy mood. So like
Speaker 5: I don't want to watch like some dark movie on
Speaker 5: the plane, Like I want to watch something that's.
Speaker 3: Gonna make me feel good.
Speaker 5: Like give me something like Matthew McConaughey, Like you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, Like something that's gonna make me feel good.
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't always been a rom com girly
Speaker 1: to be honest, Like I didn't grow up loving them.
Speaker 1: But now I think I'm softening to them. I'm like
Speaker 1: opening myself up to them more. I love that Simon,
Speaker 1: like I love Bridgerton. That's about as rom com as
Speaker 1: you could get. Is we're just in a rom com.
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of yeah, kind of bit. I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a period rom com. I have to tell you.
Speaker 1: Rom Coms are my genre. They are the they are what.
Speaker 2: I consider cinema. I love the rom com genre. They
Speaker 2: make me so happy and Moe I agree. I watch
Speaker 2: them on planes all the time. But there's this new
Speaker 2: list from the Cut that's all about twenty five best
Speaker 2: rom coms to watch right now, So I'm not going
Speaker 2: to go throughout twenty five, but I do want to
Speaker 2: ask you about the top five to see if you
Speaker 2: agree or disagree.
Speaker 3: Let's hear it, let's hear it. Okay.
Speaker 4: Number five is a Knight's Tale. I've never seen that.
Speaker 5: I love a night's tale. He fledged, I've also never
Speaker 5: seen that. Oh my gosh, a Night's Tale is so good.
Speaker 3: Simone.
Speaker 4: Maybe you're more of a rom com girlly than you
Speaker 4: let on.
Speaker 3: But see it.
Speaker 1: They got me with the knights like I love anything medieval,
Speaker 1: so they got me with like the jousting, and then
Speaker 1: I was there for the jousting, and then the romance
Speaker 1: was like a side, like a juicy little side.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, speaking of period pieces, P and Prejudice, but
Speaker 2: the two thousand and five version with Karen Knightley came
Speaker 2: in at number four.
Speaker 3: Love classic.
Speaker 5: Am I not a wrong come girl because I've only
Speaker 5: seen the real pride in Prejudice?
Speaker 3: Oh wait, hold on, maybe I'm not a.
Speaker 2: Row I'm going to give you the next three and
Speaker 2: then you let me know. Number three is ten Things
Speaker 2: I Hate about You. Number two is my best friend's wedding,
Speaker 2: and number one I have to be honest, I haven't
Speaker 2: seen this either. It's called Sabrina, released in nineteen fifty
Speaker 2: four with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
Speaker 5: I think I've seen the remake of Sabrina same. I
Speaker 5: don't think i've seen the you remember that one. I
Speaker 5: don't think i've seen the original with Audrey. I've never
Speaker 5: watched anything while Audrey Heppern loved her Double.
Speaker 4: Fashion, I can don't want to see the old ladies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like my movie's gotta be in color. I just
Speaker 3: I like list.
Speaker 5: This is my thing with Lis. I just feel like,
Speaker 5: who is making these lists? If you're going to pull
Speaker 5: a list out, I need to know who's making them.
Speaker 5: I need to know their social security. I need to
Speaker 5: know where they grew up. I need to know what
Speaker 5: kind of music they listen to, what gives them the
Speaker 5: credigious How many rom coms have they watched their entire life?
Speaker 5: Because like Sabrina's number one, cause way it's a classic,
Speaker 5: Like I don't I've never seen it.
Speaker 3: You know, where is love in basketball? Where's love? Actually?
Speaker 1: Like where are some of the Maybe they're on this list,
Speaker 1: they're just deeper, but they those belong in the top ten.
Speaker 2: To me, I want to give you my new list
Speaker 2: because I agree with you. I don't think this person
Speaker 2: was credentialed everything. Julia Roberts notting Hill, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride.
Speaker 2: If she's in it, it's a rom com to me,
Speaker 2: Sweet Home Alabama, classic rom com, How Stella Got Her
Speaker 2: Groove Back? Simone, you hit on one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Love in basketball when Harry met Sally, He's just not
Speaker 2: that into you.
Speaker 3: What about You've Got Mail?
Speaker 4: Classic?
Speaker 5: Yes, all the Nancy Meyers movies, Crazy Rich Aisans is
Speaker 5: so low on this list. This Crazy Rich Asians is
Speaker 5: like a top five movie of all time for me.
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry, Like, that movie is amazing. I can
Speaker 5: watch that movie backwards. That movie is so good.
Speaker 3: I feel the same with what we need to do, Danielle.
Speaker 1: We need to let's release our own bright side version
Speaker 1: of the best twenty five rom coms and we'll post
Speaker 1: it on our social media.
Speaker 4: I love this so much. We could do it right now.
Speaker 4: It's so easy.
Speaker 2: Up next is a story that I'm really having a
Speaker 2: hard time digesting. A major celebrity is making news about fasting.
Speaker 2: And I'd love to make this feel like it's a
Speaker 2: news story, because yes, it was a conversation in the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal. But I'm just gonna put this out there.
Speaker 2: Usher doesn't eat on Wednesdays. I don't understand Usher is
Speaker 2: claiming that he's intermittent fasting. Let me start by saying,
Speaker 2: there are several different types of fasting that you can do.
Speaker 2: Intermittent fasting is one of them where you only eat
Speaker 2: during a certain window of time during the day.
Speaker 4: But he doesn't eat all Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is a more extreme form of fasting.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are turning to fasting these days
Speaker 1: because of alleged anti aging properties or longevity properties that
Speaker 1: you can gain from these eating habits. I saw this story,
Speaker 1: and it's concerning to me, honestly, because he's talking about
Speaker 1: this drink that he makes. The drink has lemon juice,
Speaker 1: cayenne water, perhaps a couple of other ingredients. But does
Speaker 1: anyone remember that this drink was around during like the
Speaker 1: early two thousands, like during like the Heroin Chic skinny craze,
Speaker 1: and celebrities were drinking this detox drink and not eating
Speaker 1: much else. I just worry about this creating this new
Speaker 1: cycle of like really unhealthy eating habits and body image
Speaker 1: issues for women.
Speaker 5: Yes, and I also feel like, you know, Kim Kardashian
Speaker 5: couldn't come out and say that she was doing this
Speaker 5: or Beyonce could not come out and say that she
Speaker 5: was doing this or Qy. Literally, any woman could not
Speaker 5: come out and saying that they do not eat on
Speaker 5: Wednesday without getting ripped to shreds by the media. So
Speaker 5: I just feel like I understand and fasting I do,
Speaker 5: especially like spiritually, I think it's a great way to
Speaker 5: like discipline yourself. Point yeah, like discipline yourself. But it
Speaker 5: doesn't seem like there is any spiritual reasoning to this.
Speaker 5: It's more like I want to be skinny, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, That's what it seemed like.
Speaker 2: I just feel like about six months ago, there was
Speaker 2: rhetoric online about Simone you mentioned, like nineties heroin chic,
Speaker 2: like that moment coming back in time. People were starting
Speaker 2: to talk about how we're valorizing thinness again. After I
Speaker 2: think we did like ten years of unlearning that, like
Speaker 2: we finally embraced real bodies, and I'm bummed to hear that.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's back in the cultural zeitgeist. What's
Speaker 2: interesting to me is that it's back with men too.
Speaker 2: Like in the nineties it was just women. Now it's everybody.
Speaker 2: I mean, at least we're doing equal opportunities than here,
Speaker 2: but I don't appreciate this movement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really hope that this is not indicative of
Speaker 1: like a larger, more widespread trend. We're we're reverting back
Speaker 1: to those really toxic eating habits and body image perceptions.
Speaker 1: The thing with fasting is that men and women our
Speaker 1: bodies are wired completely differently, and our hormonal cycles are
Speaker 1: completely different. So if this works for Usher, great, I
Speaker 1: hope that he's consulting with his doctor about a healthy
Speaker 1: way to do this. This is not going to work
Speaker 1: for women, So I just hope that women don't copy
Speaker 1: this and try to do this, because if we don't
Speaker 1: eat for an entire day, our hormones are going to
Speaker 1: be completely out of whack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5: There's so many dangers that come with all of these fast,
Speaker 5: skinny dieting trends, and so many long term harmful effects
Speaker 5: that come with this. So let's just do what works
Speaker 5: for our bodies, and let's just be our best selves
Speaker 5: and be healthy and have long, healthy lives.
Speaker 2: I love how you said that so much because I
Speaker 2: keep repeating to myself, my body is not a trend.
Speaker 4: My body is not a trend.
Speaker 2: And I know it's like a little bit of a platitude,
Speaker 2: but it helps me remind myself not to buy into
Speaker 2: any of these trends. As you said, Mo, like my
Speaker 2: body is not a trend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we have so much more to talk about,
Speaker 1: but we got to go to a short break.
Speaker 3: Stay with us. We'll be right back, and we're back
Speaker 3: with Moe Diggs.
Speaker 4: So I'm a single girl.
Speaker 2: Moe and Simone are both married, and this next story
Speaker 2: is all about.
Speaker 4: An engagement ring.
Speaker 2: We love engagement rings, sagas. On the bright side, I
Speaker 2: am dying to know what you think about this. You
Speaker 2: have to bear with me a little bit. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take you on a journey of this story. Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So a man went on Reddit to talk about how
Speaker 2: he told his girlfriend she wasn't worth a ten thousand
Speaker 2: dollars ring. Guys, so he's been talking about proposing to
Speaker 2: his girlfriend. He starts sending her rings in the fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred to eighteen hundred dollars range. She starts sending him
Speaker 2: more expensive rings between like the six thousand to ten
Speaker 2: thousand dollars range. He says that is way too expensive,
Speaker 2: that no one is worth a ten thousand dollars ring.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, can you put a price
Speaker 2: tag on love?
Speaker 3: Certainly? Not that is that is insane? Insane?
Speaker 4: True or insane?
Speaker 2: Bad?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, no, okay. So I have a couple thoughts on this.
Speaker 5: This is my expertise. I love some of my relationships.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 5: I just feel like, if a man can come out
Speaker 5: of his mouth to your face and tell you that
Speaker 5: you are not worth anything in this life, not even
Speaker 5: a ring, just anything, you need to let him go.
Speaker 3: Just let him go. That's yeah, that's it, see you later,
Speaker 3: see it. Never how about that?
Speaker 2: Hm?
Speaker 3: But on the topic of who is worth what? And
Speaker 3: I just feel like, if.
Speaker 5: She's telling you she wants a tenth or six thousand
Speaker 5: dollar ring, she obviously knows, and you guys are talking
Speaker 5: about marriage. She knows where y'all stay at financially, She's
Speaker 5: women are we are not crazy. So I feel like
Speaker 5: you obviously can somewhat afford something around that rage.
Speaker 3: And I just feel like if you can afford, can't
Speaker 3: even afford. Does he talk about how much he makes
Speaker 3: out all.
Speaker 4: Danielle, No, we don't know how much he makes.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I just feel like, if you love this
Speaker 5: woman and she knows your podcast, and she knows how
Speaker 5: much you can make. I am also not against like
Speaker 5: moist nights and of more affordable rings, like, I'm not
Speaker 5: against it.
Speaker 3: I don't have one. My man didn't get me one.
Speaker 3: But I'm not against it. I just feel like for you.
Speaker 5: To tell her that, for you to just tell her
Speaker 5: that she's not worth xyz, it's insane like for you
Speaker 5: to even want to marry her. She's poured so much
Speaker 5: into you, so for you to say she's not worth
Speaker 5: a ten thousand dollars ring.
Speaker 3: No, woman, let me say. You don't want to know
Speaker 3: how much my ring calls been, like my husband won't
Speaker 3: tell me how much firing costs. I wish. I that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Why the mystery? They want to keep the mystery. I
Speaker 1: think it's cute. I think it's cute that he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to tell me. But for me, I got to
Speaker 1: agree with mo it's the sentiment behind the statement that
Speaker 1: you're not worth a ten thousand dollars ring that really
Speaker 1: bothers me. I don't think that we should be putting
Speaker 1: outsized pressure on the man to produce a ring that's
Speaker 1: out of his means. That's just going to I think
Speaker 1: create a lot of stress in the relationship. It's really
Speaker 1: not it's not about the ring. It's not about the
Speaker 1: price of the ring, but it is important to consider
Speaker 1: what this ring represents to your fiance, and it's clearly
Speaker 1: something that's really important to her. She wants it to
Speaker 1: be something that she's happy with, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be this permanent symbol, hopefully of your everlasting love. So
Speaker 1: to just outright say you're not worth a ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars ring, that tells me everything I need to know
Speaker 1: about this man, And I'm sorry, like this conversation that
Speaker 1: would kind of be a deal breaker for me because
Speaker 1: it's not Again, it's not about the price of the ring.
Speaker 1: But if a man said that to me, I would
Speaker 1: be like, hmmm, I think I'm making a mistake.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna walk away.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, you should not be able to tell me that
Speaker 5: I am not worth anything. You should be telling me
Speaker 5: that I'm priceless to begin with. There's no cost to
Speaker 5: my you know what I mean, Like, there's no cost
Speaker 5: to my who I am and my being. And for
Speaker 5: you to be like you're not worth a ten thousand
Speaker 5: dollar ring, I don't think anybody's worth ten thousand dollar ring,
Speaker 5: no thing.
Speaker 1: You know what you can say, you can say I
Speaker 1: would love to get you a ten thousand dollars ring.
Speaker 1: I can't afford it right now. I'm going to get
Speaker 1: you this ring, but let's upgrade it in five years.
Speaker 1: Let's upgrade it at our ten year anniversary. Like I
Speaker 1: want to get you, I want to work towards your dream.
Speaker 5: Communication, I feel like is a lost art form in
Speaker 5: the relationships of today, Like this is something that could
Speaker 5: be easily solved with one conversation, with transparency and just
Speaker 5: sharing your emotions about how you feel about what right.
Speaker 5: The girl conveying how she feels about the ring. The
Speaker 5: man conveying I understand how you feel, and I understand
Speaker 5: what you want, but this is what works for me.
Speaker 5: This does not signify how much I love you. I
Speaker 5: do love you, and I want you to have what
Speaker 5: you want. I just feel like for him to come
Speaker 5: out of his mouth and say that on to the
Speaker 5: next girl, he did you a favor. MO.
Speaker 1: That brings us to the end of our popping off segment.
Speaker 1: It has been so much fun.
Speaker 3: Having you here. I hope you come back.
Speaker 5: All you gotta call me, you call me, beat me
Speaker 5: if you want to reach me, y'all, I had a blast.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Mo Diggs is a journalist, podcast host, and cultural commentator.
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