Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Hi, so full disclosure. We were just
Speaker 1: recording this. I said Happy New Year, and then it
Speaker 1: like froze. It didn't want to let me finish saying
Speaker 1: what I was saying, because done is that I had
Speaker 1: too much energy, too much for me. Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, January sixth. Oh, January sixth, four year
Speaker 1: university of that shit? Five years? Five years, No, it
Speaker 1: was four years.
Speaker 2: I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 1: Four years ago on this day, some shit went down
Speaker 1: that will forever.
Speaker 3: Blow my mind.
Speaker 2: Mind too.
Speaker 1: But apparently we don't talk about that.
Speaker 2: Why because the people who did it don't look like us.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, well, well and there you go. So I
Speaker 1: can't say happy January six even though I bet a
Speaker 1: lot of people do say Happy January sixth.
Speaker 2: Oh they're getting out.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's about to be crazy.
Speaker 2: Tell them to come to New York and storm the
Speaker 2: Governor's mansion or something.
Speaker 3: For congestion pricing.
Speaker 1: Yep. People are pissed off. So we're starting a new year.
Speaker 1: It is Monday. Diamond is looking for a tissue. I
Speaker 1: have some, you want one?
Speaker 4: No? Did you see that?
Speaker 2: No, it's like something or something went landed right there,
Speaker 2: and I think, I hope it came out without me
Speaker 2: digging in there, but I hope we have.
Speaker 1: To get up in there and get it. New year,
Speaker 1: new nose. It can be exciting. So this morning, everybody,
Speaker 1: here's a stupid If you have the same boogers from
Speaker 1: last year, I'm very concerned about what's happening in your nose.
Speaker 1: Why what do you mean it's been six days? Do
Speaker 1: you should have different boogers?
Speaker 2: Do you dig up your nose?
Speaker 3: I don't dig up my nose.
Speaker 1: No, but since I have a nose ring, I'm in
Speaker 1: my nose more often than not because I don't want
Speaker 1: build up on there. And let me tell you, when
Speaker 1: you have a nose ring, anybody who has one will relate.
Speaker 1: It can block your breathing if you get boogers on there.
Speaker 1: So I'm whipping my nose. There are not six day
Speaker 1: old boggers. I promise you that.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you just really.
Speaker 1: Keep going disgusting. Gotta keep the passageways clean. My god,
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. Gotta breathe. I gotta breathe. Oh god.
Speaker 3: But this morning everyone and the studio.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, I'm so tired. I'm dragging and I
Speaker 1: was like, I feel great. Oh great, I really do.
Speaker 1: I feel really good. I feel like the sleep that
Speaker 1: I got over the break was nice. I'm excited for
Speaker 1: a new year, new possibilities, new options, and things going
Speaker 1: on with the podcast. Like, why wouldn't I feel good?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: I couldn't fall asleep last night.
Speaker 3: I guess were you so excited to see me?
Speaker 2: No? Damn it? I mean I was, yeah, great, I'm
Speaker 2: happy to see you guys. But like I got in
Speaker 2: my bed at around six and I could not fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Well maybe because it's still daylight when you got into
Speaker 1: your bed. Go to bed later.
Speaker 2: Well that didn't work either.
Speaker 1: What do you mean I think?
Speaker 2: Because I mean I was still in my bed at
Speaker 2: one o'clock that's later, and nothing happened. I think my
Speaker 2: body is still on West Coast time.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about your West Coast experience and adventure divin.
Speaker 1: What did you do over the break?
Speaker 2: I went to California. I thought that I was going
Speaker 2: skiing and Big Bear, which is insane.
Speaker 1: Have you ever skied?
Speaker 2: No? Okay, right, you're an adventure Okay, guess And but
Speaker 2: we got there and there was no snow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like nothing global warming, I mean climate change, whatever
Speaker 1: we're gonna call it. Whatever. Did you check before you went?
Speaker 1: Was there supposed to be snow?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: My cousin's checked, because you know who checks that. I'm
Speaker 2: not good with the word.
Speaker 1: It's not going to a place where it is dependent
Speaker 1: that snow be on the ground. I'm gonna check for
Speaker 1: the snow well.
Speaker 2: I brought two coats, I brought a lot of warm things,
Speaker 2: and I didn't even need a jacket.
Speaker 1: So what do you guys do? Instead of ski? Got drunk?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that seems like a good experience.
Speaker 2: And then I got altitude sickness, which my cousin's that's
Speaker 2: very deadly, very bad hangover. They're like, diamond, you're hungover,
Speaker 2: that's not altitude sickness. But this is my story and
Speaker 2: I'm sticking with it.
Speaker 1: Yes, altitude sickness can kill you. Like it is really bad.
Speaker 1: I actually an intern of mine died from altitude sickness.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to she no, no, no, I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you it's it is pretty serio.
Speaker 3: Yes, when that kind of.
Speaker 1: Stuff happens, well, I thought I was gonna die. So
Speaker 1: you've had a hangover. I've been around you hungover before
Speaker 1: bad Yeah, you don't have good hangovers?
Speaker 2: No, no, and it lingers for days.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that I don't get hungover. Well,
Speaker 1: good for you. It's so annoying to people. I love
Speaker 1: it so much. I'm sure there's something wildly wrong with me.
Speaker 1: But for the time being, I don't drink that often.
Speaker 1: My sister believes I haven't fractured my liver yet. That once,
Speaker 1: you oversaturate yourself with alcohol, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: have done that by the time they are twenty one
Speaker 1: or twenty two because you've been drinking all the time.
Speaker 1: But I didn't really do that, and I still don't
Speaker 1: really drink all that much. I prefer other things. I'm
Speaker 1: a smoker and a shrimmer. No could but she could
Speaker 1: be wrong.
Speaker 2: Okay, we have some things to talk about.
Speaker 1: Go on, did you shroom?
Speaker 2: No, it came up. No, but the shrooming came up.
Speaker 2: But somebody I know almost ruined our New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: because they took something. And let's just say that the
Speaker 2: person can stand up.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're on a podcast.
Speaker 1: What is this.
Speaker 3: Let's just say people took something.
Speaker 1: Get to it.
Speaker 3: What did someone take?
Speaker 2: Okay, my cousin's friend took ketamine.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, got stuck in a hole. And also in
Speaker 1: your whole family. No okay, well well.
Speaker 2: My cousins, my other cousins were there, but like the
Speaker 2: cousins are adults. No no, oh god, okay, good, but yeah,
Speaker 2: we're hanging out, turning up, getting ready to go out
Speaker 2: for New Year's that's not a turn up thing exactly.
Speaker 2: We were drunk and we don't know when this happened,
Speaker 2: but we got into the car and when we got out,
Speaker 2: the girl couldn't move and we were like, the fuck, get.
Speaker 1: The fuck out of the car.
Speaker 2: The man is like he has to leave, and she's like, uh,
Speaker 2: like what the fuck is going on? I don't even
Speaker 2: know how it came out that she did that, but
Speaker 2: how long did this last? We had to go back home.
Speaker 2: We couldn't do anything. She was deep in that whole babes.
Speaker 2: And also, I mean, like, listen, guys, just don't do
Speaker 2: things like that. But also, if you're gonna do it,
Speaker 2: then let the people around you know that you're doing
Speaker 2: these things.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Let people know that you're doing these things,
Speaker 1: one so that they can plan their evening. But two,
Speaker 1: if something happens to you and you have to go
Speaker 1: to the hospital. People need to know what's in your system.
Speaker 1: It's important that you tell people that's our PSA for today.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and just don't do it.
Speaker 1: Don't do what you don't need, like stop it weed?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 5: Some people do a little boger sugar? Is that what
Speaker 5: it's called suar coke? You're talking about cocaine? Yes, I
Speaker 5: should do it, but some people do recreationally. That's their business.
Speaker 5: I think you should stop there.
Speaker 2: I don't really think you should. Like that is the max.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of new information out though it's actually
Speaker 1: not that new about alcohol, saying how absolutely terrible alcohol
Speaker 1: is for you when it comes to dementia and Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1: Think cancer, your liver, your kidneys. You're basically poisoning yourself
Speaker 1: over and over and over. So it's kind of just amounted,
Speaker 1: what do you feel like doing, Whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you feel like doing, just tell your friends so that
Speaker 1: they know be safe.
Speaker 2: Man, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry you're New Year's you've got ruined.
Speaker 2: Well mine didn't like you know, I mean you already drunk.
Speaker 2: I was fucked up, okay, and it was amazing. And
Speaker 2: then I got to watch videos of Vibes Cartel in Jamaica,
Speaker 2: and so that was great because I wasn't in a
Speaker 2: bar with screaming people while I was watching it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty you.
Speaker 2: Know, you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Do you have any resolutions?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: None, I'll probably I kind of.
Speaker 2: Want to be meaner to people this year, not like mean,
Speaker 2: but like more stern, set harder boundaries, And I mean
Speaker 2: that's really hard for me because the boundaries are pretty set.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I was gonna say, I think you're pretty
Speaker 1: good with your boundaries. What boundaries do you think need
Speaker 1: to be enforced a little bit more?
Speaker 2: I think I need to just start saying no to
Speaker 2: people sometimes. I just it's like I'll find ways to
Speaker 2: say yes, but in a diamond way. I think I
Speaker 2: need to be a little bit more short with people,
Speaker 2: Like if I don't want to do something, no, I'm
Speaker 2: not doing it, and I really don't need to give
Speaker 2: you an explanation or like do you like this, and
Speaker 2: instead of like saying yeah, maybe no, just say no
Speaker 2: I don't like it. Yeah I don't like it, So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try. But then I also feel bad because
Speaker 2: I don't want to be an asshole.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, there's such a huge gray space between
Speaker 1: yes and being an asshole. It doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: one or the other. You can be firm and you
Speaker 1: can be kind, and both of those things can exist
Speaker 1: at the same time. And you can take care of yourself,
Speaker 1: take care of your mental health and your time. Time. Man,
Speaker 1: that's the one that I'm trying to do better about
Speaker 1: this here. I'm not gonna waste my time. Oh I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna let other people waste my time. Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: So it's the one thing we never get back.
Speaker 2: If I come to you and I say, well, do
Speaker 2: you like Andrew.
Speaker 3: That is a waste of time, because you know the
Speaker 3: answer is no.
Speaker 2: I knew it was going to be something like that.
Speaker 1: You know this, That fucking Andrew man, just kidding.
Speaker 3: I love Andrew.
Speaker 1: No, I don't mind. I mean, I don't look at
Speaker 1: things as a waste of time if they were enjoyable
Speaker 1: to me. So if I want to talk like ke
Speaker 1: key with you, whatever, fine. When there are people coming
Speaker 1: in to waste my time about things that should have
Speaker 1: been done in a certain way and why they didn't
Speaker 1: get it done in that way and how they can't
Speaker 1: get it done because someone else didn't get it done,
Speaker 1: and there's just a lot of blaming instead of doing.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm gonna say, fo, just get it done.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yes, I'm gonna there's a lot of.
Speaker 3: That around here.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's a lot of that. I don't like it,
Speaker 1: because you know me, I will just say fuck it,
Speaker 1: I will do it myself. Please move out of my way.
Speaker 1: The last thing I want to hear is twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of you telling me why it couldn't get done when
Speaker 1: it absolutely could get done because I gotta done it myself. Ye,
Speaker 1: trash ass shit around here. I'm telling you, I can't
Speaker 1: wait for this year.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 1: What do you mean Gonna already loves you?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about the texter that pissed
Speaker 1: you off today? And why?
Speaker 2: Oh you a little eight four or five I think
Speaker 2: that was the area code pissed me off or eight
Speaker 2: oh three something like that. What a loser. I can't
Speaker 2: just say that, Like, if you're calling into the show
Speaker 2: to play a game, you don't get to like boss
Speaker 2: me into putting you on the air. Now.
Speaker 3: I may certainly do not.
Speaker 2: First of all, there are a lot of people who
Speaker 2: call in at that specific time. You're not the only person. Now,
Speaker 2: if you called fifteen minutes before, I mean you couldn't
Speaker 2: unless you were psychic, right, But like if you called
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes before, there's probably no one calling, right. But
Speaker 2: you call in when everyone else is calling, and then
Speaker 2: you get upset that I don't give to your call,
Speaker 2: and then you text in trying to get me in
Speaker 2: trouble or something like that. Am I gonna get a
Speaker 2: spanking for not answering your call from whom I don't know?
Speaker 2: Diamond never answers the phone. Well, maybe you should try
Speaker 2: doing Diamond's job for a second.
Speaker 3: She always answers the phone.
Speaker 1: Actually, there are a lot of times where you might
Speaker 1: be hearing the phone ringing. She might not be seeing
Speaker 1: the phone ringing there. And sometimes you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: Disney signal. Sometimes you're gonna get something that sounds like
Speaker 1: somebody picked up and it hung up. We have no
Speaker 1: idea what goes on with these phone lines. But what
Speaker 1: I do see you doing in there all morning is
Speaker 1: answering the gap damn phone. And somebody ticked her off
Speaker 1: today because they made it seem as though she was
Speaker 1: targeting them to not let them play the game, and
Speaker 1: she wasn't having it. She almost called them back and
Speaker 1: had them play the game. And I said, what, what,
Speaker 1: Why are we rewarding bad behavior? Why are you gonna
Speaker 1: reward someone that just cursed you out on text because
Speaker 1: you think you're teaching them a lesson.
Speaker 2: Well, my thing is they probably would suck at the
Speaker 2: game anyway, So come on and embarrass yourself in front
Speaker 2: of however, many people are listening, you know, because you
Speaker 2: think you're gonna bully me. Now I'm gonna bully you.
Speaker 2: Bring back bullying in twenty twenty five, that.
Speaker 3: Too, I told you I've been a fan of that forever.
Speaker 1: Yeap. Just I believe in a bully back. I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna start it. I'm not gonna go just be mean
Speaker 1: to somebody. However, if you poke me, I believe in
Speaker 1: a poke back. Oh maybe a slap, maybe a punch,
Speaker 1: maybe a trip down the stairs. I don't know, But
Speaker 1: if you start it, you can't be mad that. I
Speaker 1: then responded to it, which also happens often. People will
Speaker 1: say some shit to us. For the most part, I'll
Speaker 1: let it go. Every now and then, I will clap
Speaker 1: back and say something, and then they call me a bully.
Speaker 1: It's insanity. Oh yeah, do you know how bullying works? Yeah, Monica,
Speaker 1: your cousin, she talked about that. Who was on Love
Speaker 1: Is Blind?
Speaker 2: Yes, and someone I think DMed her and then tried
Speaker 2: to say it was a minor and they had to
Speaker 2: get legal involved and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Bring back adults bullying kids.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to see. Oh my gosh, can
Speaker 1: I tell you a story? Well, kids get passes for
Speaker 1: way too much. I just want to be like, really,
Speaker 1: you really want to step into this arena. I'm the
Speaker 1: same size as you. People aren't even gonna flinch.
Speaker 2: It's God. Do you remember when people used to just
Speaker 2: grab kids by the collar of their shirt and just
Speaker 2: shake them.
Speaker 1: Like their own kids?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Other people?
Speaker 1: Sure, you know my dad used to do. I don't remember.
Speaker 2: My dad used to shake little kids up on the
Speaker 2: playground and shit, to grab them by the collar and
Speaker 2: ring it.
Speaker 1: Are you listening?
Speaker 2: You know? Henry Cooper was a terror to kids.
Speaker 1: It takes a village, it really does. I don't understand,
Speaker 1: Like I have so many friends who have just had babies.
Speaker 1: They have little kids right two years old, three years old,
Speaker 1: and some who have older kids, and the amount of
Speaker 1: stress that all of them are under and that they
Speaker 1: feel to show up at every event, to show up
Speaker 1: at the PTA meetings, at every meeting for your kid
Speaker 1: at every like all the time, and be a really
Speaker 1: good parent and never yell at your child, and gentle
Speaker 1: parent whatever that is. No, it's crazy how much stress
Speaker 1: they feel. And I just look at it all the time,
Speaker 1: and my mom called it out. She said, yeah, because
Speaker 1: people are just raising kids now with either themselves or
Speaker 1: themselves in a spouse, and that's not how it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 3: We are a communal people. It takes so much.
Speaker 1: More than just a mom and a dad to actually
Speaker 1: raise your kids. Your neighbors, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles,
Speaker 1: and everybody is so spread out all over the place
Speaker 1: that the onus falls on one or two people to
Speaker 1: do all of this and still function and work and
Speaker 1: be happy. I don't know how people with kids do it.
Speaker 1: That is one of the many reasons I don't want
Speaker 1: any I don't know.
Speaker 2: It scares me. I was talking to some of my
Speaker 2: cousins about it this well last week, and one just
Speaker 2: declared not having kids, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, there's a lot of that going around. She's like,
Speaker 1: doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Just sound like life is like so much better without them?
Speaker 6: And it was very weird because some mother family members
Speaker 6: were talking about the fact that they can't.
Speaker 2: Wait to have kids, and I was like, bad timing.
Speaker 1: But you know what, like, why is that bad timing?
Speaker 1: Your family members who want to have kids should absolutely
Speaker 1: have kids, and that's great. I'm sure that your cousin
Speaker 1: who said she doesn't want to have kids is not offended,
Speaker 1: but the fact that they want to have kids. People
Speaker 1: get offended when you say you don't want to have kids.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the thing that a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't talk about now is that I know a lot
Speaker 2: of people who are struggling to sure, so in the
Speaker 2: middle of conversations like that where people are being vulnerable
Speaker 2: and she's like not doing it, it's like fucking lunatic.
Speaker 1: I do understand that, and I know that there are
Speaker 1: some sensitivities, but there is definitely a double standard. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: where people look at you saying I don't want to
Speaker 1: have kids as an attack on their life. And the
Speaker 1: thing is I wasn't thinking about your life at all.
Speaker 1: I was talking about life. I just think about what
Speaker 1: I want to do with my time and my body
Speaker 1: and my money and my mental health. Like, that's what
Speaker 1: I was thinking about. You want to have kids, do it.
Speaker 1: I will clap for you. I will applaud for you.
Speaker 1: People just get very angry at women who say they
Speaker 1: don't want to do it.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. People do get equally angry at men like that.
Speaker 2: No, you're right. One thing that people don't talk about
Speaker 2: enough when it comes to not wanting kids is the
Speaker 2: money aspect. Can you imagine cooking dinner for six people?
Speaker 2: Do you know how much money that costs? Like grocery shop
Speaker 2: and we were talking about that too. You gotta spend
Speaker 2: at least two thousand dollars a month probably if you
Speaker 2: have a family like that. Yeah, and that's not included that,
Speaker 2: that's only groceries.
Speaker 1: And that's as long as they don't have friends come over,
Speaker 1: hell and eat all your shit.
Speaker 2: Locking that shit down. Nobody could come over if they do,
Speaker 2: tell their parents to pack them a lunchable. It's not happening.
Speaker 1: Are you insane?
Speaker 2: Know how parents could allow their friends' kids to come
Speaker 2: over and like raid the refrigerator like kids used to
Speaker 2: on TV, and shit are you because they're kids, they're growing.
Speaker 2: They gotta eat. No ringing you by the next cuss.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things I will say this, living
Speaker 1: by myself all my groceries, I can just get a
Speaker 1: tiny amount of groceries and I'm good with it and
Speaker 1: it's not a problem. Well, these little kids come over
Speaker 1: there eating all my snacks. I said, what, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I had to do double groceries. Id' even think about that?
Speaker 1: This is insane. But yeah, eat the food, man, eat
Speaker 1: the food.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: You never know, it's just twenty twenty five is going
Speaker 1: to be a different year. I feel it.
Speaker 3: There's something in the air. I think I like it.
Speaker 1: You would think I wouldn't like it based on how
Speaker 1: things have gone the past few months. But I'm liking
Speaker 1: what I'm feeling.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, six days in, six days in I just did Gandhi. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: shit we can't control, and I'm I'm gonna do my best.
Speaker 1: Where I can control things, I will control them. Where
Speaker 1: I can't, I'm going to do my best to just
Speaker 1: let it go. But it seems like there are a
Speaker 1: lot more people that are at like, fuck this shit
Speaker 1: o'clock than I anticipated there being so early on.
Speaker 2: Oh god, that makes me nervous. Yeah, yeah, absolutely scares me.
Speaker 2: Revolution is a foot Oh please. Somebody said that earlier,
Speaker 2: probably me, No shock you, I'm starting the revolution.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, stop bitching, start the revolution.
Speaker 1: And revolution does not have to be violent and terrible.
Speaker 1: Revolution can just be uh in the Gandhi way. No,
Speaker 1: I will not do that. I will peaceful, non violently
Speaker 1: abstain from all of this.
Speaker 3: Leave me alone.
Speaker 1: Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2: But also, I mean when I brought up earlier on
Speaker 2: the show spray painting, the congestion pricing the cameras, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know I was peaceful, not by me.
Speaker 1: I told you I have spray paint, Come meet me.
Speaker 2: Let's get it in.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, because that won't just be for us, Diamon, No,
Speaker 1: that'll be for everybody.
Speaker 2: I'd be a legend.
Speaker 3: And in case you don't know what congestion pricing.
Speaker 1: Is, because we did realize there are people from all
Speaker 1: over the world and the country who.
Speaker 2: Listened to this.
Speaker 1: So here in New York City, pretty much everything that
Speaker 1: happens as far as work goes, especially for us, happens
Speaker 1: in lower Manhattan, Midtown end below sixtieth Street end below.
Speaker 1: Our lovely political officials decided that it would be a
Speaker 1: good idea to charge the people who come to work
Speaker 1: and already pay these ridiculous tolls to cross bridges, go
Speaker 1: through tunnels, to charge us an extra at least nine
Speaker 1: dollars a day if you want to go below sixtieth Street,
Speaker 1: where again I say everything happens you want to enter
Speaker 1: the city. Guess what that's going to be between twenty
Speaker 1: two and thirty two hundred dollars extra a year for you.
Speaker 1: Are companies matching that? No, absolutely not is anyone absorbing
Speaker 1: this price except the everyday person.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Firefighters are firefighters who drive their own cars, oftentimes to
Speaker 1: take care of things. Are sitting here saying I can't,
Speaker 1: I can't do that. That's effectively taking three thousand dollars
Speaker 1: away from my paycheck yep, for what just to come work.
Speaker 1: And then they want us to ride the freaking MTA
Speaker 1: that is the subway. Every other story, this is what
Speaker 1: was making me laugh today. It was congestion pricing. It
Speaker 1: started here. It is next story two stabbed on a subway.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 1: Next story one pushed off to a platform on a subway.
Speaker 1: One a woman set on fire, Like you want me
Speaker 1: to get onto this yep? Or pay you the money.
Speaker 1: This feels like a hostage situation.
Speaker 3: I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ransom Cathy, Governor hocel Oh girl. You know, I
Speaker 2: don't want anything bad to happen to her, But I
Speaker 2: just want her to look in the mayor one day
Speaker 2: and just see congestion pricing on her forehead. I want
Speaker 2: her to hallucinate a little bit.
Speaker 1: Her ass needs to be taking the subway everywhere she goes. Well,
Speaker 1: she needs she was to take the train everywhere she
Speaker 1: goes and then talk to us about condestrier price.
Speaker 2: Even that doesn't count because Mayor Adams, the mayor of
Speaker 2: New York City, tried to say it. But you're walking
Speaker 2: around with security kitty police escorts everywhere. Also, I saw
Speaker 2: a video yesterday of a woman who was on the
Speaker 2: train saying that she had to get off. Not her stop,
Speaker 2: she just had to get off because someone was like
Speaker 2: having a mental health crisis on the train. And she goes,
Speaker 2: I get off and I'm looking around. There's no one
Speaker 2: in this station. No police in this station, no National Guard,
Speaker 2: which promise yes, she oh, we have deployed the National
Speaker 2: Guard to the New York City Subway. That's literally forty
Speaker 2: second Street and thirty fourth Street, and I think one
Speaker 2: more times square, like please, that is where everyone is.
Speaker 2: But what happens when you get on the train and
Speaker 2: you're by yourself?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 2: And let's say the train stops, because it usually does underground,
Speaker 2: you have no service in a specific spot, and someone
Speaker 2: is having a mental health crisis and there is nowhere
Speaker 2: for you to go.
Speaker 1: Now, why would you subject yourself to that? It's horrible.
Speaker 1: The one thing they told me as soon as I
Speaker 1: moved here about the trains was if you ever find
Speaker 1: yourself alone in a train car, get off, yes, or
Speaker 1: go to a different car. Never be alone in a
Speaker 1: train car. And when I tell you, sometimes the panic
Speaker 1: that has set in when we pull up to a
Speaker 1: station and everybody gets off, I'm like, yeah, yep, run
Speaker 1: off the train, try and find another one to get on.
Speaker 1: I've let trains go and had another one come.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's it's easy to say, just ride the train. It's
Speaker 1: another thing to ride the train.
Speaker 2: I saw some people on social media talking about the
Speaker 2: fact that they didn't understand why so many people were outraged,
Speaker 2: and I really wanted to know where they grew up,
Speaker 2: where they live now and what they see on a
Speaker 2: day to day basis in New York or about New
Speaker 2: York on social media. Because I don't get it. I
Speaker 2: don't get it.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I think it's really overhyped how
Speaker 1: horrible people try to make New York seem. It's not
Speaker 1: a horrible place. It's actually really fucking great. There are
Speaker 1: some issues right now that need to be addressed. And certainly,
Speaker 1: I guarantee we're going to find a million New Yorkers
Speaker 1: who say, I ride the turn every day, nothing has
Speaker 1: ever happened. I'm one hundred percent sure that that exists.
Speaker 1: I'm not rolling that dice, no, but I just don't
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 2: But also those people are there. I have friends who
Speaker 2: are like that. Oh, I ride every day and they're
Speaker 2: one of my best friends is like that. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: they're on some of the busiest lines always, they're never
Speaker 2: in a car by themselves. A lot of the times
Speaker 2: when people are having mental health crisises, they don't necessarily
Speaker 2: want to be around a lot of people, so they're
Speaker 2: not getting on the cars where there's a thousand people
Speaker 2: on it. They're going on the cars where let's see
Speaker 2: me if I leave here after the show, we leave
Speaker 2: at ten on a good day, right, if I get
Speaker 2: on the train, I'm going in the opposite direction of
Speaker 2: traffic basically there everyone else is coming into the city
Speaker 2: right now I'm leaving. I'm usually on a car or
Speaker 2: in a car by myself.
Speaker 1: Get out of.
Speaker 2: Here, and people get on and they're losing it, which
Speaker 2: is a whole other situation and topic that we could
Speaker 2: discuss at another time. But like it's just me. I'm
Speaker 2: looking around.
Speaker 1: Do you have pepper spray or anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh she's locked and loaded, babes.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love it. I have it too, I say
Speaker 1: all the time. I understand why people carry firearms. I
Speaker 1: do for the most part. You can really dismantle a
Speaker 1: shitty situation with pepper spray. Everyone's going down in that car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you ever hear me, y'all, hold your breath, girl,
Speaker 1: hold your breath, and shut your eyes trust me. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's legal to carry pepperprd New York, by.
Speaker 2: The way, now tasers either, But please doesn't s.
Speaker 1: To pry it out of my cold dead hands. Pepper spray. Okay,
Speaker 1: So a couple questions on twenty twenty five. No, it's
Speaker 1: it's just like it's a new year. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about new year things, right. I have a couple questions
Speaker 1: for you me and I want to answer them to Yeah,
Speaker 1: just about what you expect from this year, like specific questions,
Speaker 1: so to reflect upon the last year, let's start there. Okay,
Speaker 1: biggest accomplishments of the past year. Personal, Yeah, whatever you
Speaker 1: think is an accomplishment, doesn't have to be professional.
Speaker 3: Something that made you.
Speaker 1: Happy that you were like, yeah, fuck yeah I did that.
Speaker 2: Oh cool. Oh at jingle Ball the broadcast room, someone
Speaker 2: who usually runs it was sick and so I had to,
Speaker 2: you know, step up. And I really was like, oh cool.
Speaker 1: You know absolutely, I feel like you did a lot
Speaker 1: in the last year.
Speaker 2: You think so.
Speaker 1: I mean you had a podcast with someone else, Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: you saw that to fruition. Yes, you did this podcast
Speaker 1: with me. You joined the podcast network where you're doing
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. It's a lot. Yeah, okay, good
Speaker 1: for you. Great, don't understand yourself. Okay, amazing you went
Speaker 1: off the grid.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did some stuff drafted. Wow, give yourself some credit.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't think about these things. I need to
Speaker 2: start writing these things down, girl.
Speaker 1: That's why I have a diary. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: It's not a diary, it's it's a note in my phone,
Speaker 1: but it's a diary. It's I think I told you this.
Speaker 1: Every day I write down something that made me laugh
Speaker 1: and something that I learned.
Speaker 2: How much storage do you have.
Speaker 1: It's two fifty six. Not really here. I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: like flash you a note real quick, because when I
Speaker 1: go back and I look at these things, they make
Speaker 1: me really happy. And it's also just a good way
Speaker 1: to keep track of like stuff. See December Boom, there
Speaker 1: we go, baby.
Speaker 2: You're writing paragraphs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you like me? Now?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: What about you? You didn't answer the question.
Speaker 1: Because accomplishments personally, I would say, and maybe professionally. I've
Speaker 1: gotten our art business together and we're going to launch
Speaker 1: something kind of cool, hopefully. In the middle of February. Hey,
Speaker 1: I started going to the gym a lot more and
Speaker 1: tried to get my fatness a little bit under control.
Speaker 1: I wanted Gracie started a podcast, started this podcast did
Speaker 1: off the Grid with you guys, and I had so
Speaker 1: much fun. It was a really good time, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure I could think of a bunch more things if
Speaker 1: I go through my notes here, good fights, but necessary conversations,
Speaker 1: I think with people that brought us to a new place.
Speaker 1: I think that's all good stuff. Yeah, thank you, and
Speaker 1: same to you. I feel like we both did a
Speaker 1: lot this year. All right. When you think about something
Speaker 1: that brought you the most joy in last year, what was.
Speaker 2: It the most?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: This is bad?
Speaker 1: Why because what did you do?
Speaker 2: This is just so dumb, But it really did bring
Speaker 2: me a lot of joy.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: Got converted two people into Bravo people okay within the
Speaker 6: past year, and I'm very happy about it because now
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 2: More people to talk to about who.
Speaker 1: Are the people.
Speaker 2: One of my best friends, Ayana Okay, she'd never watched Housewives,
Speaker 2: and then I think winter break of twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: into twenty twenty four, she started, Okay, and now she's
Speaker 2: a full blown Bravo girly has watched so many of
Speaker 2: the Housewives franchises, which is amazing. And then I converted
Speaker 2: my little cousin recently, actually since Thanksgiving she's watched two
Speaker 2: different franchises.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're very excited. I love that people need to
Speaker 1: know that this Housewives thing with Diamond it is not
Speaker 1: a joke. She eats, breathe lifts this.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Do you ever think that the amount that you consume
Speaker 1: of how they interact with each other, that's how you
Speaker 1: interact with people.
Speaker 2: Yes, for sure, Okay, but I don't think like I
Speaker 2: watch people argue all day on these shows. I don't
Speaker 2: argue with people. I think for me, I've always though
Speaker 2: felt like live your life like a camera is like
Speaker 2: somewhere you know, just in case not me. I don't
Speaker 2: want to argue with people and like yell and throw
Speaker 2: glasses Like I'm just like, that's actually embarrassing. So I
Speaker 2: don't argue with people because that may be one of
Speaker 2: the reasons. Okay, So I'm like, I'm not exerting all
Speaker 2: that energy. What if somebody's watching?
Speaker 1: So that brought you joy?
Speaker 2: So much joy?
Speaker 1: Were there other things that brought you joy this year?
Speaker 2: Probably just family time.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: A lot of things that brought me joy were in
Speaker 2: the winter break of twenty twenty three into twenty twenty four. Cool,
Speaker 2: So it was very like, you know, someone who didn't
Speaker 2: bring me joy?
Speaker 1: What is he doing?
Speaker 2: Andrew?
Speaker 1: And Jow he just came and hovered like the little
Speaker 1: that he is, and he's back all there she is?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: Oh? And we're flipping scarves. We were briefly discussing some
Speaker 1: of our things from the past year that brought us joy. Oh,
Speaker 1: do you have something?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: What brought you joy? Andrew?
Speaker 4: The off the Grid trip brought me joy?
Speaker 1: We set off the grid.
Speaker 3: That was one of the things that.
Speaker 1: Was a good one that brought me joy. Should we
Speaker 1: start planning the next one?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Please? Okay, floppy Mike, The.
Speaker 3: Mike got floppy.
Speaker 1: What about personal accomplishments in the past year? Something that
Speaker 1: you I mean, I already have something for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The podcast networks getting this show off the ground.
Speaker 4: That was really great. There's so many great shows coming
Speaker 4: this year too.
Speaker 1: You got politically involved in things?
Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, yes, politically involved. I donated a lot
Speaker 4: of my time to charities, which I felt was great,
Speaker 4: between the Blood Drives and the community cook that we do,
Speaker 4: which is great.
Speaker 3: Are we doing that this Tuesday?
Speaker 4: Uh, it's the third Tuesday of every month, So.
Speaker 3: I'll ask you again next Tuesday.
Speaker 4: There we go. So yeah, no, it was great professionally, personally,
Speaker 4: I think I need to work some things out, you know,
Speaker 4: got to find some better work life balance. Okay, so
Speaker 4: that's a resolution. But yeah, otherwise it was a good year.
Speaker 1: Okay. So then that brings me to the next question.
Speaker 1: And Diamond, while he answers this because I feel like
Speaker 1: it's right there for him, you think about it too.
Speaker 1: What would you like to be different in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a resolution, but what would
Speaker 1: you like this year to look like for you?
Speaker 4: I'm protecting my piece. I'm not going to get involved
Speaker 4: with anything that is outside of my control. Just let
Speaker 4: it be, let it work itself out. Get involved only
Speaker 4: if you're asked to. Don't volunteer at your time for
Speaker 4: something that is going to take up your time that
Speaker 4: you will then regret later. Let it fall and pick
Speaker 4: it up if they ask you too, and if they don't,
Speaker 4: guess what, you just saved yourself some time and energy.
Speaker 1: Is there a specific example.
Speaker 4: There's there's a couple on twenty twenty four that I
Speaker 4: am not picking up anymore.
Speaker 1: Go what are they?
Speaker 2: Just?
Speaker 4: You know, personal?
Speaker 1: It's the podcast We spill the tea here. It's a podcast.
Speaker 4: Well, that kettle still needs to boil, so we'll chat
Speaker 4: about it later.
Speaker 3: Don't think I won't circle back.
Speaker 4: Oh I love that angela ping later.
Speaker 1: I'll ping you. Oh my god, I hate what people
Speaker 1: say pang. I'm like, what does that stop? If you
Speaker 1: could see the face Diamond was making it andre as
Speaker 1: he throws his scarf around his neck.
Speaker 4: And I must be going now, No, stay right here.
Speaker 1: You have to hear what Diamond has to say.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll listen to you too.
Speaker 2: So this year, I really want to prioritize my body.
Speaker 4: Ooh, that's a good one too.
Speaker 2: Because she's getting to the point where she might be
Speaker 2: getting on the table if things don't change. Honestly, okay,
Speaker 2: I cannot deal with the ten pounds that I can't lose.
Speaker 2: And it's very bad because I'll lose it and it
Speaker 2: shoots right back up.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Yeah, ten pounds is
Speaker 1: enough for you to risk your life.
Speaker 3: Ten pounds is.
Speaker 2: Getting there, and you tell me I hate surgeries, not
Speaker 2: that much. I'm not back.
Speaker 7: Ten pounds. Yep, we're going to the table. Yeah, yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: we're going to the table. Very Regina George, I just
Speaker 7: need a least three pounds. Yep, we're going to the table.
Speaker 3: Ten pounds.
Speaker 1: You can like, shit that out. I've tried. Okay, you
Speaker 1: look great, by.
Speaker 4: The way, and a probiotic. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4: I have the unholy trinity.
Speaker 1: Why are you yelling? The microphone is right here.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, I have the unholy trinity that helps you
Speaker 4: ship your brains out. Burberine, a probiotic, and facilium husk
Speaker 4: will help you take hearty shits.
Speaker 1: They go ten pounds, Maha get out. Oh make America
Speaker 1: healthy again. Oh the girlies, the non pastorized milk people, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, have you seen the benefits? Just kidding.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of the stuff just on a side
Speaker 1: note here that the MAHA team is talking about. I'm like,
Speaker 1: do you know you will die? You're gonna You're gonna die.
Speaker 1: That's not healthy. Death is literally the unhealthiest thing you
Speaker 1: could do to your body. But cool non pasteurized milk,
Speaker 1: by all means cheers, seems supernatural. Drink the fluid of
Speaker 1: another animal without it being chemically treated or treated anyway.
Speaker 1: I digress. Okay, your body is a priority. What's next?
Speaker 3: One more thing?
Speaker 2: On the body.
Speaker 1: You want to be healthier. You're just trying to look
Speaker 1: good because I met.
Speaker 2: Your healthiest fun I'm very healthy right now, and that's
Speaker 2: the thing that pisces me off.
Speaker 1: But under the knife could change it drastically.
Speaker 2: It could, But it doesn't mean I didn't think about it.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, we just have to be honest.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I don't care what anybody says. Real
Speaker 1: bodies are winning, No they are. But my thing is
Speaker 1: is that, like, there's no.
Speaker 2: Reason my cheek should look like this. If I feel
Speaker 2: the way that I feel, my cheek should not be
Speaker 2: looking like they're gonna explode.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're crazy, you know, Yeah, there might be somebody
Speaker 1: just moving.
Speaker 2: Please, it's horrifying.
Speaker 3: You're insane.
Speaker 2: It's the puppiness.
Speaker 1: So I'm done.
Speaker 2: I am Oh my.
Speaker 1: God, no, finish the thought. Okay.
Speaker 2: I I am going to go on a journey to
Speaker 2: figure out what works best for my body.
Speaker 1: You're trying to unbid your cheeks, yes, okay, and my
Speaker 1: arms and your arms? Yeah, arms and cheeks. Okay. Now
Speaker 1: what was the revelation?
Speaker 2: Scary asked me to do Doctor Fat Loss with him today,
Speaker 2: and I wondered, are my cheeks really as bad as
Speaker 2: I thought they were.
Speaker 1: No, he just wants someone to join him in his
Speaker 1: misery where he doesn't eat or drink or think about
Speaker 1: anything for like three months. I thought about it.
Speaker 4: In fact, it's forty five days all the time. It's
Speaker 4: forty five days. So that's something, you know what.
Speaker 1: I gotta give it to him. The he loses a
Speaker 1: shit ton of weight. Is it through a glorified arexia? Yes,
Speaker 1: but he does lose a lot of weight. So I
Speaker 1: applaud him for the discipline because I could never know.
Speaker 2: I want to do it for like ten.
Speaker 3: Okay, ten to fifteen.
Speaker 1: You know, as soon as you eat again, yeah, you
Speaker 1: blow up with the lifestyle change. This might be the
Speaker 1: GLP one time with our friends at your way.
Speaker 2: Hell, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: I'm just scared of the needle. You're scared of that needle,
Speaker 1: but not anesthesia and chopping boards of your body. If
Speaker 1: you put me to sleep and give me the needle
Speaker 1: every day, are you crazy?
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. I keep saying the table. We keep
Speaker 4: saying the table, like.
Speaker 2: Both three sixty. I'll show you a girl who got
Speaker 2: it done. It looks so good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you ten who looked terrible.
Speaker 2: No, but no, these people are injecting it back in.
Speaker 2: I don't want that. I just right around here, a
Speaker 2: little in the arms. I mean, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: do it. But a girl can dream, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: You can dream?
Speaker 4: Good luck?
Speaker 1: Okay, so your body anything else, we'll cross that bridge
Speaker 1: when we get to it.
Speaker 2: I don't really know. I want to do something for
Speaker 2: me this year, but I do that all the time.
Speaker 2: You know, housewives okay for me, housewives for you?
Speaker 1: Cool and on that. No, I feel like we what
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I have some professional things that I would like to
Speaker 1: launch this year that I want to get going that
Speaker 1: hopefully go in a good direction. That wouldn't just be
Speaker 1: for me, that would be for more than just me,
Speaker 1: good stuff. I would like to be healthy. I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily care what my body looks like. I want it
Speaker 1: to function really well, high functioning, good joints. Andrewie snapping
Speaker 1: at me, what was that?
Speaker 2: Okay? Thank you?
Speaker 1: And like I said, I just I want to make
Speaker 1: choices that do not waste my time. I don't want
Speaker 1: to let other people waste my time. I don't want
Speaker 1: to waste my own time. That's it. I just want
Speaker 1: to be peaceful and healthy and see if I can
Speaker 1: accomplish some of the stuff that I really want to
Speaker 1: Fingers crossed, y'all, fingers crossed, Anto's fingers, but never legs.
Speaker 1: It's like, wait, you leave those wide open. And on
Speaker 1: that note, Andrew, people want to find you online? Where
Speaker 1: will they find you at?
Speaker 4: Andrew Pug on Instagram?
Speaker 3: Are you still over ten thousand?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Ten point three?
Speaker 1: Baby Diamond?
Speaker 3: Where are you at?
Speaker 2: Diamond? Sincere on Instagram? Why did I almost not know
Speaker 2: my Instagram name?
Speaker 3: And you're still on Twitter?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? On Twitter too though.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and I am she's locked down at Baby
Speaker 1: Hot Sauce. Probably still shadow Man. Maybe for the rest
Speaker 1: of my life. People don't want me to be great,
Speaker 1: But that is fine because, like I said, revolution is
Speaker 1: a foot it's coming. I'm gonna get that ship back
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be great. Leave us a talk back,
Speaker 1: by the way, we're gonna go through some of these
Speaker 1: in the next episode. How do they do that? On
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, there's a little red microphone when you're
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, and you just pap it and
Speaker 1: basically leave us a voicemail and we will play them back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, and that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, we like subscribe And if you're listening to
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Speaker 4: Subscribe to the podcast wherever you're listening to it. So
Speaker 4: new episodes drop whenever they drop on Wednesdays. So yeah,
Speaker 4: five stars leave, five stars, boys.
Speaker 3: Overwork, not in his future. And that is okay.
Speaker 1: It's not for everybody, it's okay. Love you, Andrew. Bye,
Speaker 1: I'm bye,