1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that, right, 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: Lauren came, Hey, y'all, what's up It to Lauren de 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Rosa And this is the latest with Lauren de Rosa. 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: This is your DELI dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby. 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: If I'm checking in behind the scenes of the grind, 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: we are definitely on the roll with the conversations. I 9 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: told you guys, I would be bringing you more sit 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: down conversations. I'm finally back in New York from the 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 1: Finland at Sea Forward cruise that I did, and I'm 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: not I got rest last night. 13 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 2: I was like, and I didn't feel guilty about it. 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 2: I got rest last night. 15 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: I wasn't up all night preparing for the podcast or 16 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: you know, any other thing that I do. This morning, 17 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: I woke up a bit earlier though it was up 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: at three am. Normally, you know, I get a little 19 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: hour or two more. But yeah, like, I'm in a 20 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: very centered space and I want you guys to be 21 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: able to really experience the cruise with me, so you 22 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: know where that centric space is coming from. One of 23 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: the conversations that I had while on the cruise was 24 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 1: with Krystal Renee Haslett, you know from Zatima. She's also 25 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: done work with Tyler Perry Studios and still does I believe, 26 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: I mean outside of just the show, but she was 27 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: like styling behind the scenes at one point. But you 28 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: know her because she is also on Black Effects. She's 29 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: one of her podcast cousins. She has the podcast Keep 30 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: It Positive, Sweetie and Baby her podcast audience. I told 31 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: y'all in one of the last episodes, they are they 32 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: show up for her. So my Lowriders, we got to 33 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: take a lesson out there book when we are ready 34 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: to do our live sit downs. All of that is 35 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: coming live podcasts are coming. But I wanted you guys 36 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: to hear some of the conversations. So I put together 37 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: a few of my favorite clips from the conversation because 38 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: it was just so impactful and everybody needs a little 39 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: bit of this. 40 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 2: Let's get into it. 41 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: So we talk a bit about just the journey through 42 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: all of the things, figuring out our life after TMZ 43 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, and we just have fun with the audience. 44 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: Then we had a conversation about showing up and looks 45 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: and how you show up. Because Crystal Renee Hazy, let 46 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: me tell y'all something about my girl. 47 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 2: Okay, she is pieces. 48 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 1: I saw a post of her on Instagram the other day, 49 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 1: baby big Bulltega Battie. Okay, the Bulltega. Like the designer 50 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: brand stuff, is it. I don't feel like you always 51 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 1: have to be a designer to be stylish. But y'all know, 52 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: I'm a fashioned girly, so I do love my brands. 53 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: But she puts together the pieces, whether they're super designer, 54 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: super expensive or not. But oh my gosh, she had 55 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: this bag on her Instagram the other day. Ah So 56 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: we talk a bit about it and have a little 57 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: bit of fun, and we also get in and then 58 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 1: we also get into the whole mean girl conversation. We 59 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: talk about whether these empowerment brunches and cruises, like are 60 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: they really effective or not? And of course we talk 61 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: about just everything ascension wise and things that you guys 62 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: have been seeing from me over the last year. She 63 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: brought up, you know, everything that tapping here on the show, 64 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: including the live HR meeting that wasn't supposed to happen 65 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,399 Speaker 1: on their Let's sack a listen my girl. 66 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 3: Laura, Laura, let's go. Hey. 67 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 2: Oh wow, love, Like, okay, how are you. 68 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm blessed. I'm even really inspired by you. 69 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:45,119 Speaker 2: Thank you. You're brow amazing. I'm serious. You know. I'm 70 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: new in the podcast space, your podcast cousins. 71 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: We are Yes Podcast Network, and I'm like, all these 72 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: people are here and they're excited, and I'm like, girl, 73 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: you you doing this? 74 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 2: You got my numbers? So oh, I'm gonna call you, y'all. Look, 75 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 2: I'll call you. I love it. 76 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: Well. 77 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 2: I was so excited to be here. 78 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 4: We kids off yesterday with Monica and we carry y'all. 79 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 2: Y'all found it so good. I don't really did what 80 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 2: has been your favorite moment so far? You know what. 81 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 2: I had a great time yesterday, like a real good time. 82 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 2: Probably could much fun. 83 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: But when I was walking on the cruise, like when 84 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: we were about to get thro all the check ins 85 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: and stuff, I was like, this is so flying. 86 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: It's so many black. 87 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: Women, and like we just called we're got to get 88 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: on this boat and just like do stuff that we'd 89 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: be doing. And you know what else, because y'all thought 90 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: we'd be doing the things. Okay, we're doing the things right. 91 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: But that's been my favorite part though, just walking in 92 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: and seeing all of us and then done was doing 93 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: a hot girl walk and y'all was singing and just 94 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: I thought Picha cold was here and it was just dark, 95 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: and I'm like, yo, we really really do be like 96 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: so full of because you can get so wrapped up and. 97 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 2: All the other stuff I make my job. 98 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: So just seeing that has been like such a I'm 99 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: like so inspired by having everybody you by, everybody that's 100 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: like here and just doing. 101 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 2: The things that we do. 102 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 4: There's so many women that I've ran into the I've 103 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 4: seen on Instagram that I followed it I'm inspired by. 104 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my goodness, and they also keep yeah, 105 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: I got like they bye. 106 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 2: It's all little person and they're so sweet, Like everybody's 107 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 2: some time energy. I love it all right, Before we 108 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 2: take a deep dive in, I'm gonna break the ice 109 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 2: with a little rapid fire. Okay, it's gonna help us 110 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: get to know you a little bit. Okay, you're ready, 111 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 2: all right in the perfect world. 112 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,239 Speaker 4: Heals sneakers are slides Hell's group chat voice note Queen 113 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 4: or I'll text you later. 114 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 2: Energy. 115 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: Try my voice stoves to be podcast voice notes. 116 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 2: So do they have like where you can act you fast, 117 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 2: like make speed of love? Now were you oh so? Now? 118 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: Maybe speeding through my voice notes. I'll be so. 119 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: Serious and they'd be a lot happen, and then I'll 120 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: come back with the oh my god, so I got 121 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: cut off in the last one. 122 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 2: Baby all thought I did not know that. Okay, I 123 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 2: must a girl like you on Instagram. I'm like top 124 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 2: six O, God give me through it. Okay, don't she girl? 125 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: Get up has been my my my thing. But for real, 126 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: I future a lot. I'll be I put up, like 127 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: when I want to for a little baby, what's the 128 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: one that's like, uh, I forget, what's the song? What's 129 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: the name of the song? It's hears so many of them, 130 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: but no, there's one song that I always listen to, 131 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: my little Baby, and it'd be like, how are you 132 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: gonna tell us. 133 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 2: We're never gonna look? What is it come out? It's 134 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: like you say something like we the ones so like 135 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 2: we're never gonna fall up a while. Don't know. I'll 136 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 2: figure it out later. But it's this little Baby song. 137 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: And I play that all the time. He talk about 138 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: pushing the but then it may back too. I think 139 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: I'll got the same song. 140 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 2: But yeah, little Baby Future, but don't she girl up 141 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 2: it up? 142 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 5: Huh? 143 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: I like that one too, So girl get up. She 144 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: has been my my theme song recently. And then at 145 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: one part where she'd be like, what's the agenda. 146 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 2: In the it girl black? That one? That little part 147 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 2: right there, that's I'll put. 148 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: It on all my songs and all of that because 149 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: I'll be feeling that, like, yeah, y'all be trying to 150 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: really play with us when we all hearing doing it up. 151 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 4: That's so true. That is so true. Are you the 152 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 4: friend who arrives early or fashionly. 153 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: Late lates, but you came around your day fashion with her? 154 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: I came early because I was here for my last obligation, 155 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: so I was like, all right, let me not go 156 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: find any bars because I might not be back on 157 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: the time. The little Baby song is called all In, 158 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: All In, Yes, that song. Sorry, I had to get 159 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: that outdicating to you. All right, here we go something. 160 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: People think it's glamorous about your career, but it's actually came. 161 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 2: Charles's sitting in the interviews and talking. 162 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: To people and everybody's like, oh my god, what's your 163 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: favorite interview, who's your favorite person to talk to? And 164 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: I'm like, it's a blessing. It's I'm maybe not chaotic, 165 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: but it's just like you don't ever know what you're 166 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: getting and you come into an interview is literally especially 167 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: because we it's four of us. 168 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: So it's like playing spades. 169 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, so it's like you know what, everybody's 170 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: like rolling the room and just died this video and 171 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: it was so on point. You know, Charlotte's gonna go 172 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: into like the mental health stuff and like the really 173 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: deep things and and be going, okay, so take us 174 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: back to the beginning. 175 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 2: Just's gonna be funny and she's gonna ask and You're like, 176 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 2: how did that even come into your head? 177 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 1: Girl? 178 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 2: But it gives the interview character and color. 179 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: And then I come in with the news and the 180 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: media stuff and like that whatever was trending and things 181 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: they probably don't want to talk about. But you just 182 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get from a person, and 183 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: it can be a little nerve racket, even though we 184 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: make it look so easy. Yes, I always am like ooh, 185 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: I'm about to access them when I ask this, you 186 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, all right though, Yeah, I don't know. 187 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 2: I mean, you don't have choice. Yeah, no, my goodness. 188 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 4: Now I still get nervous when I do interviews. 189 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 2: He put them on, y'all. Hole, He's gonna put it on. Guys, 190 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 2: go tell me yeah, love me. 191 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 1: Okay. But my friend j Jay Von James, who like 192 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: stops me and tells creative direction and stuff for me. 193 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: He always tells me, you saving these office girl. Every 194 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 1: day is your day. He always try to stop stay the. 195 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 2: Office, but you can't show up here. Not right, No, 196 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 2: seems I said, m h, I'm crude. 197 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, us doing the things he'd 198 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: be doing. 199 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: There's in a lot of news here, y'all. Yes, I 200 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 2: just love us. Can I give it up? I love 201 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 2: it now, Lauren. 202 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 4: You've been thriving in the media space for years, but most. 203 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 2: Recently now you have this new position on the Breakfast 204 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 2: Club that we've all listened to for years. They watched 205 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 2: as well. I want to know when you got the 206 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: news that this was actually your preferent position and you 207 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 2: were on this show, how did you prepare mentally or 208 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 2: were you already ready to walk into that space? Didn't 209 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 2: really come like that. How you go please do that? 210 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell them I don't sell y'all do that 211 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 2: one with you? Okay? 212 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: No, But so so let's go back to when I 213 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: first got the yes just to have it was supposed 214 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: to be one day. I remember they were going to 215 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: rotate and see they didn't know me from a canapaign, 216 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: and I was doing everything I could just to like 217 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: get a shot at the seat because I know I 218 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: wanted to quit my job. 219 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 2: And I was like, cause. 220 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: I'm my background is a marketing so I'm like, okay, 221 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,079 Speaker 1: it's a rollout. So I'm gonna quit my job and 222 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna total the world that I quit my job 223 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: on the breakfast club. 224 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 2: That's how I had it in my mind. 225 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: So when I finally got the guest the guest host, 226 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we'll give you a day because they 227 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: didn't know me, so they didn't know if I would 228 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: come in there and my chemistry wouldn't. 229 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 2: Work with the guys or like whatever. And when I 230 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 2: got the call and they were like, okay, you can 231 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 2: do the day. Actually you can do two days. That 232 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 2: I was like, Oh. 233 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, this is the thing all right 234 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: fast forward, we get through all the process or whatever, 235 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: and I started to see the need Like when I 236 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: was there, before there was any real conversation, I just 237 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 1: started to feel like I could add value even if 238 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: I wasn't going to be on camera, because at that point, 239 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 1: I think we'd all knew like, okay, just it's going 240 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: to be the thirst seed. And for me, I was 241 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: just like, man, I gotta pay rent. I know I 242 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: can add value whether I'm on camera or not. 243 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 2: I'm open. 244 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: So I started seeing like, okay, production wise, here's like 245 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: some things that I can add to. 246 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 2: This part of the show, to this part of the show, 247 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 2: to this to that. 248 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: And one day we were talking after the show and 249 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: Charlotte Mane was like, do you think we could kind 250 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: of sense ourselves more like in the news space kind 251 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: of like TMG does. I said one hundred percent. And 252 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: he was like, how do you think you could do 253 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: it all? I was like, well, you need me and 254 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: and then I was like and after that, it's easy 255 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: because y'all have the culture. 256 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 2: Like working at tmcall. 257 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: Was there for eight years. It's like TMZ is really 258 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: great at what they do. Whether you love them or 259 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: hate them or love how they do it or hate 260 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: how they do it, and they lead conversation, so they're 261 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: always relevant. 262 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 2: But the breakfast. 263 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: Club is like that's where the heart is at, Like 264 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: that's home, you know what I mean. You trust them, 265 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,559 Speaker 1: you want to hear from them, you care about them, 266 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: you care about their lives. And when I got in 267 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: that room, and I saw that from the inside because 268 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: I've been a fan of the show forever, so I 269 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: knew that, but being in there, I'm like, oh, this 270 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: is like really what culture is like when people talk 271 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: about the culture, I'm like, oh, this is really it. 272 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: It's the fact that people come here and they feel 273 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: safe and like the conversations are safe. They hard and tough, 274 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: sometimes are funny, but they're safe. So I was telling him, 275 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: I'm like, man, there's nowhere when you look around right now, 276 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: who else can marry news possibly being first and leading 277 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: conversation with actual. 278 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 2: Culture and trust. There's nobody doing that. 279 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 1: You guys could be big, Like not be you guys 280 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: are I remember saying to. 281 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 2: Him, like do you not know who you are? Like 282 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 2: you're gonna gonna listen, Like Howard Stern could y'all do 283 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 2: with TMS? 284 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: Y'all could run circles with your eyes closed around at TMC. 285 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: You just need to figure out what the landscape is 286 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: and how you insert what you're already doing with what 287 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: I know how to do. And that was the first 288 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: conversation we had about it, and then it took some time. 289 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 2: I was doing a lot. 290 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: Of things for like no money, like for a long time, 291 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 1: probably for like months and months and months, And to 292 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: be honest, I didn't even start getting paid. 293 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 2: Until I came to like when Jess went my maternity lead. 294 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 1: That is what made it like a real thing, not 295 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: because she wasn't there, but because she said, hey, Lauren 296 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: can come in and let her come in here, because 297 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: they were trying to figure out what they're going to do. 298 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 2: Up until that point, we were trying to figure. 299 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: Out how I was even want to be able to 300 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: be paid to be behind the scene because money was 301 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: just like you know, right now, people aren't paying people 302 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: and entertainment teams are shrinking. So when she did that 303 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: and they were like, okay, cool, like let's make it 304 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: a thing, they were like, well, we got to find 305 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: a way to pair. So at that point when I 306 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 1: came back, I was being paid. Finally, you know what, 307 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: I mean so like that was like and that was like. 308 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 2: A moment Like I remember I was in the car 309 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 2: with my. 310 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: Mom and I was listening to the show and I 311 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: heard just saying and I was. 312 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 2: Like, she's talking. I'm like yeah, yeah. 313 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: When I I was listening to the show and then 314 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: Charlotte made texted me and. 315 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 2: Said, hey, I don't know if you'd be interested. 316 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: But just said she would like you can come in 317 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: and be here while she's out if you're open to it. 318 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, cool, but I'm in a 319 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: car my mom taking her. 320 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 2: To like a check up. My mom start crying. I'm like, 321 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 2: what are you crying for? And she's like no, this 322 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 2: is just such a good thing. 323 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: Because I was trying to figure out a lot of 324 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: stuff at that point, like I had moved into an apartment. 325 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 2: I didn't even know how I was gonna phit the rent. 326 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: I didn't care cause I was like something's going to 327 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: work and stuff out or I'm going. 328 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 2: To work it all. And then that happened. 329 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: So that kind of like so it was It's there's 330 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: been so many iterations of like here's a job, but 331 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: it didn't really happen. Like just with that one call, right, 332 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: So I hope that answered the question. 333 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 2: No, it didn't. Thank you for living as an insight 334 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 2: on that, because you touched. 335 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 4: On so many key points, one working for no money, 336 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 4: being in a position where. 337 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 2: You needed the money but was willing to do it. 338 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 4: For free until they decided to pay you, showing your value. 339 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 4: I think a lot of times we missed that moment, 340 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 4: like I just wanna. 341 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: Get here and forget the steps to get you there. 342 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I wanna say something too, like when people 343 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: were talking about like doing things for free, it's like, Okay, 344 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: i'm'na do it until they pay me. 345 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 2: I didn't think that I was gonna be paid. 346 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: I didn't think I was wanting to have a job there, 347 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: Like I knew that they didn't have. 348 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 2: At the time. 349 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: For what I was being told there, it just wasn't 350 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: a role for me. They hired what they had already needed. 351 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: I was like, this is the best of the best, 352 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: and if I could come in here every day and 353 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: learn and be around this until whatever else happens, I'm 354 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: gonna do that. 355 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 2: As long as y'all tell me I'm going to come, 356 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 2: I'm gonna come. 357 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: I didn't do it thinking like, oh, eventually one day 358 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: they gonna pay me, I'm and get a job. I'm like, yo, 359 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: I'm literally sitting with the best in the industry. 360 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 2: I wanna be y'all think i'might gonna come in here 361 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: every day and axt questions. You know what I mean. 362 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 2: I'm just grateful to be in a space of learning. Yes, So, okay, 363 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 2: I al. 364 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: Just practiced this conversation. Was saying that I been asked 365 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: about this a lot, and I don't ever mind talking 366 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: about it because I feel like all of y'all had 367 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: lost it, were able to learn something from it and 368 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: be able to see yourself in it. Yeah, and that's 369 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: why I never mind talking about it, even though. 370 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 2: Me and Yes are in no way different, says sure, 371 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 2: so I'll say that first, we love her. It's just 372 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 2: a person like that. 373 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: So, you know, I think, if I'm being real, it's 374 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: like I I understand. 375 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 2: Like I was able to sit that day and have 376 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 2: the conversation the way that given. 377 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: Even throughout the process, a little moments was happening and 378 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: it was going marble, and I was like, you know, 379 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: I come like I didn't know what was happening. 380 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 2: I was happening for me. 381 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: It was like if I were in her place, how 382 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: would I feel? Yeah, And I've actually been in her place. 383 00:16:58,320 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 5: And after that sent when my mom got said. 384 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: When I was working at teams, my mom was bad 385 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 2: in the campus. She stood at him. But when I 386 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 2: go be So when I was working at PMD, I. 387 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: Remember I had to take a lee from work to 388 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: be with my mom and I got took the roaci 389 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: the bay day to day like literally, so I was like, yo, 390 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: I'm like trying to stip in teams like I'm a 391 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: hospital and all that, and I'm like, I can't do 392 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: it anymore, Like I'm. 393 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: Not myself right now. I needed to be with her 394 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 2: and go through this. 395 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: They hired another girl, and I remember the black girl. Now, 396 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: I mean they hired her. They sat her right where 397 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 1: I would sit it, and they would give her all 398 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: you know, they might to hit them. 399 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 5: So they they were waking like they like because you know, 400 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 5: it's like white people that like be around black people 401 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 5: and then it's like the. 402 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 1: White white people they're like, it's like yeah, so they're 403 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 1: very like sometimes they can I think people in those 404 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: phases can be kind of tone them to what they're 405 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: doing in the wise, right, So you have people that 406 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: are really upset called me, like why would they sit her? 407 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 1: Like they just pop one black girl off another one 408 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: in right, and it was causing Like she was there 409 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 1: and she was being put in positions to do things 410 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: and like whatever, and she was uncomfortable. But I've already 411 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: talked to her a bit before I sets out, so 412 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: we had a little bit of a report. 413 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 2: But I remember the fan. 414 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 5: Of the shows when they were making it that CMD. 415 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 5: They were making it such a thing with me and 416 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 5: her Man Sash and McClay. 417 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 2: She U works in Indianapolis now tenC. She's gone around. 418 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: She's gonna be out say for her for uh USA 419 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: today though she's doing very well after TZ. 420 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 2: But I remember which out heard just being like, look, 421 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:34,399 Speaker 2: even when I come. 422 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: Back into my my role, or if I don't ever 423 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: come back, I want you to understand that, like I 424 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: have no issue. 425 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 2: With business is business. 426 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, And I know it's not you. 427 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: I know that there are things are happening around you 428 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: that you might not be aware of, or. 429 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 2: Even if you're aware, there's nothing you can do. You're 430 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 2: just showing enough the other day to work. So mm 431 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 2: fast forward into the breakfast of situation. 432 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 5: I'm like, Okay, God, now I'll see like you had 433 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 5: me in. 434 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 2: That situation a few years back. 435 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: And because now I'm able to be here and be like, Okay, 436 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: you're showing that every gets the work. 437 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 5: You're not really in control of what's happening, but you 438 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 5: can't act like. 439 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: You don't know what's happening, right, So I having a 440 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: certain empathy first us and it's understanding there like. 441 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 5: What's also my first time being at ups parent notting. 442 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 2: And I was like it not. 443 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 3: M not yet know that was my first time being 444 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 3: that up coasing personal with. 445 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: So H was precant and then just recently had a 446 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: baby and going back, I. 447 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 2: Never experienced that that close. 448 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, like when people talk about all 449 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: of the things that happen like this, I'm like, oh, 450 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: that's a real thing, and I'm watching it happen so 451 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: like a woman, I'm like, bro, it's no way that 452 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: even though I know she's upset and she don't want 453 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: me hearing them, if I can set in she's having 454 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: us up there, if I can set in and back 455 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: and she says it to and. 456 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 2: Say like you were so hard to be that because 457 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 2: you were coming every day so refreshed, and I'm like, oh, 458 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 2: want of the past, because like I got at once 459 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: us personally. 460 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 5: And I knew that I wasn't her problem. 461 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,919 Speaker 1: I was actually her partner in that, but she just 462 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: wasn't at the place where that was something she wanted to, 463 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. 464 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 2: And I put the horse set and I. 465 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 5: Also felt like she was like it was above us. 466 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: I just was getting a grunt up it because I 467 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 1: was a physical representation of what needed to happen from 468 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 1: a bigger standing point way from an opator. 469 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 2: That wasn't happening. 470 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: So as I took all that into mine, you know, 471 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: and when everything happened, I was just like, look, I'm 472 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: not gonna win, and it's by making this a me 473 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: versus using So what can I What I can do 474 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: is like I have to come in here and be 475 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: honest about how I felt, because I mean, the world 476 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: said there's nothing I can do now, and everything's all 477 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: play on table, so you know. 478 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 3: Let's do it. 479 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: But for me it was important and doing that, it 480 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: was like this is how I feel, and this is 481 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 1: how I'm. 482 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, like oh sorry, like this is how I feel. 483 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 1: This is a lot our acts, but at the end 484 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: of the day, I very But that's why I go 485 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: to the words yeah, but at the end of the day, 486 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: I want, like, there's gonna be other women that are 487 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 1: won't go with some real time time to somebody else, 488 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: And even if we walk away from this not liking 489 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: each other at all, and it's not that, but in 490 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: my mind, I was like, even if that's the kid, 491 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: because we never decide to be friends in real life. 492 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 2: I want to show people that, like, you can have. 493 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: An issue, but like we don't have to allow it 494 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: to like like you know what I. 495 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 2: Mean, Like at the end of the day, you won't 496 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 2: vote with some people. 497 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: That only I look present and I'm gonna voting spink 498 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 1: that I mean, you won't understand it because we're both 499 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: here in the space and we look like each other, 500 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: we both like our person. 501 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 5: I'm talking to her the first time I met in 502 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 5: real life. 503 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: And she's talk you just tell me, and I'm like, yeah, girl, 504 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: this secause I'll be important doesn't mean she's like. 505 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 5: Oh, so you believe them her around, yes, Like like 506 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 5: but I think that. 507 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: Women don't get to see that often because remody is 508 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,239 Speaker 1: only room for one of us, right, so we all 509 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: got your real life, see, like, okay, the conversation are 510 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: really going for one of us, it's there because. 511 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 2: It's like how long are we gonna sit in that? 512 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 2: Like because for real, for real, what just doesn't when 513 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 2: she's great at it's what she. 514 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: Does, and when she's great at what I do, what 515 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: I'm great at is what I'm doing what I'm great at. 516 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: And when you married it too, when people begin to 517 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: see that, like man, we have it could be the 518 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 1: relief we have, the news, we have, the mental health, 519 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: we have, the issue like we all bring to seek. 520 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: You don't mixture into the pot and it works like 521 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: in real life. 522 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 2: I was just like, man, I looked really hard to 523 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 2: get here. 524 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: I can't get this situation and control and change everything 525 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: I worked for. 526 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 5: It cannot, Like I have so many other places to 527 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 5: get it. I love that many people that I think so. 528 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 4: Many women can say something A lot of lady, what 529 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 4: you just said. But I love how you showed we 530 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 4: can have conflict resolution. That's gonna be conflicts, it's inevitable, 531 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 4: but there's a way that we can. And then you 532 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 4: realize we're actually growing life than that. And a lot 533 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 4: of times I think people that we have situations with 534 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 4: the conflict to it. 535 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 2: Once we actually sit down with. 536 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 4: That person, we see so many different similarities and I'm like, wow, 537 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 4: I actually see myself in yet. 538 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 2: And you know, I was still coming on this cruise. 539 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: I was like, man, I know Heaven and Suno is 540 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: gonna be like real because sometimes you come to me 541 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 1: space and everything, it's like, oh my god, when. 542 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 2: Apartment we're all white and it's like, y'all are not 543 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 2: even nice for real? 544 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 5: We want to shot, you know. 545 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 3: What I mean? 546 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: Being here in his space, and cause I know Heather 547 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: and what she be on, I'm like, no, she gonna 548 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: curate this where it's like if that is your personality, 549 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: she gonna break you down before we get back to 550 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: where we're going on one. 551 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 2: Day, right, And that's how I decided to come here. 552 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 2: But that was my energy too. 553 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: With that, I'm like, yo, we can do all of 554 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: and the mean girl stuff and all of that, but 555 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's like we gotta 556 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: learn that, like it's us or it's nothing. 557 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 2: They couldn't platform. 558 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: They're taking black people out of media, they space, They're 559 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: shutting our voices down. They don't want people like me 560 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: and just people got mad at me because I said, 561 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: I love the fact that you got two real. 562 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 2: Black girls like and not be planning of our skin cone. 563 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: Because last seed Darston, I'm not talking about that. I'm 564 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,719 Speaker 1: talking about like we really from around. We talk, how 565 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: we talk, We come from certain things, we eat certain things. 566 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 2: Our nails, our hair are lashes, the edges is laid. 567 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 2: Like we're doing all of that on this mainstream media 568 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 2: black room and you don't see that. 569 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: So imagine if like we're showing it and now you 570 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: see it more right, And so now we don't all 571 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: have to be in white smiling and don't really care 572 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 1: for each other. 573 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 2: We know how to work. 574 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 3: There was. 575 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: Ill it's the white So it's like the white guys 576 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: talk because y'all know what. 577 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 2: I'm talking about. If you over there and grips and shrike, 578 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 2: if y'all like goatlet'll talk about it, you actually played too. 579 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 2: So it's so good. 580 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I always tell you, guys, 581 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: y'all could be anywhere with anybody my low riders having 582 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: this conversation, but y'all choose to be right here with me, 583 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: and I appreciate you guys. For that, I hope you 584 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: guys have enjoyed this episode. Make sure you back out 585 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: Crystals Podcast again. She is also on the Black Effect 586 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: podcast network. It's called Keep It Positive. Sweetie, these are 587 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: very intentional conversations. I'll see you guys in my next episode.