Speaker 1: You know when you said you're rolling, you see me rolling?
Speaker 1: They hanging.
Speaker 2: Trying to catch me dirty. Yeah, it took me a.
Speaker 1: Minute, huh. I know right. I was like, come on, now,
Speaker 1: you got it up. We're about to pull your Brown cards.
Speaker 2: Long day. Wait, that is what made me lose my
Speaker 2: brown card. Not knowing the lyrics to ride and Dirty.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody, there's certain songs that you just are.
Speaker 2: Like, come on, I've given you so many other reasons.
Speaker 2: I didn't know who remy Ma was at first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was crazy. Tell me that at least you
Speaker 1: you well, you don't really watch Ratchet TV. Do you
Speaker 1: watch Housewives of the Real Housewives of Atlanta?
Speaker 2: So yesterday I spent six hours watching a Great British
Speaker 2: bakeoff on Netflix?
Speaker 1: So you had me excited. You welcome into the Ratchet club. Girl,
Speaker 1: I'm stripping you over. Your Ratchet card has been revoked,
Speaker 1: not that it was your your your application was pending
Speaker 1: and you just got you know, you're like you put
Speaker 1: to the bottom of the pile and Sothemically I don't,
Speaker 1: but Ratchet TV helps me watch dishes, and so.
Speaker 2: I'm not judging no, for sure. I mean your Nikki
Speaker 2: leaks is my Is that her name? Y'all said, y'all
Speaker 2: and yes her, And that's the only one I know.
Speaker 2: She's your Paul and Mary. I know we have to
Speaker 2: have some listeners who watched the Great British Bakeoff, like
Speaker 2: we have to, or at least the American version.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know there's such a thing. Tell me
Speaker 1: at least. I mean, like, well, I watch HG TV.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you partake.
Speaker 2: I used to when we paid for cable, and now
Speaker 2: it is harder to find, so not as much, not
Speaker 2: as much. Well, but yeah, yeah, I love my property brothers.
Speaker 2: I love Magnolia.
Speaker 1: I love Fixer Upper. That's my favorite.
Speaker 2: Are you ready to see your fixer Upper?
Speaker 1: Ship flop ship Lap?
Speaker 2: I had to google what the hell is ship Lap?
Speaker 2: And the silos, I'm like, what the silo?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I love Yeah. So anyway, for those of you
Speaker 1: who do partic partake in a little ratchet from time
Speaker 1: to time. So I don't watch the show, but I
Speaker 1: do watch the reunion episodes because I mean, if you
Speaker 1: really want to just get to the to the drama,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I really don't care about the day
Speaker 1: to day to the show, but the reunion episodes are
Speaker 1: life and I was like, oh, Phaedra caught in that line.
Speaker 1: For those of you I know, Mandy's like, I have
Speaker 1: no idea what she's talking about. But for those of
Speaker 1: you who are listening, fade got what was coming through her.
Speaker 1: I can't stand.
Speaker 2: Anyone named Fedra type belongs on that show. They're up
Speaker 2: to no good?
Speaker 1: Right, so ad honey, Finally, anything done in the dark
Speaker 1: will come out to light, like a grandma would say, right,
Speaker 1: this is a black grandma saying, what does it come
Speaker 1: out in the wash? Wait? What does it come out
Speaker 1: in the wash? Will come out in the rings? Wait?
Speaker 1: Something like that. I don't know. I had an African grandma.
Speaker 1: She didn't. Those are not her type of parables. But anyway,
Speaker 1: something basically that, like, nothing secret you know, will stay
Speaker 1: secret long. So yeah, yeah, So that was just a little,
Speaker 1: you know, a little beginning ratchet opening up. So have
Speaker 1: you been Mandra? Swell?
Speaker 2: Simply swell. It was a rough week, man. I don't know,
Speaker 2: if you leave for vacation, you come back to work.
Speaker 2: The first week it was rough. I had like a
Speaker 2: real world hangover. I'm like, I forgot how early the
Speaker 2: mornings are and how much coffee I need. But I'm back.
Speaker 2: I'm back at it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask how it was coming back after
Speaker 1: like your world wind life.
Speaker 2: You know, it's hard. It's not like it used to
Speaker 2: be when I used to working at a big company
Speaker 2: where you could be gone for a week or two
Speaker 2: and then back and it's like you just kind of
Speaker 2: pick up where you left off. But you know, being
Speaker 2: just in a management role, and then at a smaller
Speaker 2: company when it came back, it was like, Okay, these
Speaker 2: million things piled up and then you have all these
Speaker 2: million things to edit and stuff. So just a little
Speaker 2: bit of catch up. But I feel a lot better now.
Speaker 2: I feel a lot And we had a very relaxing
Speaker 2: weekend where I like didn't leave the house really on
Speaker 2: like had some friends over on Saturday and cooked and
Speaker 2: then Sunday, like I said, great British bake off all day.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do. I binge on any shows. It's
Speaker 1: very rare typically, you know, after an episode or two,
Speaker 1: I'm like all right, I'm over, But like every once
Speaker 1: in a while, like I've binged on Blue Bloods. That
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Me and Superman before is that j
Speaker 1: Love show? Show Mandy.
Speaker 2: No, Oh, I was sure.
Speaker 1: I was right.
Speaker 2: Sure, Wait what's were blood girl? I'm really good with
Speaker 2: TV usually I know the show like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you would think that Mandy I was a
Speaker 1: millennial and Mandy was not. I mean it's like baby
Speaker 1: could get turned up there. He is colder here. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. No, it's like some I don't even know
Speaker 1: what Chandeler comes on. I just like watch it online
Speaker 1: on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the hell is her show called? Then? Because I
Speaker 2: swear it's blue something.
Speaker 1: It probably is, but I don't. I don't. I typically
Speaker 1: like I don't watch too much like current TV. Instead,
Speaker 1: I'm like, if I'm going to watch TV, it's typically
Speaker 1: ach TV. And then if there's something ratchet on on occasion,
Speaker 1: I'll partake. But and then I just go back to
Speaker 1: work because honestly, I'm just like it's just kind of
Speaker 1: like my escape away when I'm like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: want to think about anything responsible. Where are the housewives?
Speaker 2: Yes? I think we all need that little bit of
Speaker 2: like just give your brain a mental if you have
Speaker 2: a job that's like mentally draining. Some jobs aren't so
Speaker 2: mentally draining, they're physically draining or whatever. But like at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, my brain hurts, and you
Speaker 2: just don't you just can't think yeah anymore. That's why
Speaker 2: when people ask me, oh, you might you must listen
Speaker 2: to all those financial podcasts you're you know, personal finance whatever,
Speaker 2: I'm like, sure, don't, sure, don't. I read and talk
Speaker 2: about this stuff all day. I don't know anything about uh,
Speaker 2: you know, these financial podcasts or whatnot. Because I just
Speaker 2: can't take any more. I want to listen to like
Speaker 2: all the like the storytelling podcasts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to get into something. You have to
Speaker 1: give you something.
Speaker 2: Crime. I like the crime ones. There's some good ones. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love. If you're looking for like a good storytelling podcast,
Speaker 2: it doesn't get better than Strangers. It's this is like
Speaker 2: amazing narrative and every episode usually there's there might be
Speaker 2: a couple that are two partners, but usually it's so
Speaker 2: it's about an hour, hour and a half episode and
Speaker 2: she really like tells the story and they're the stories
Speaker 2: are all over the place, like how this family adopted
Speaker 2: these two Haitian children from Miami and then ends up
Speaker 2: adopting their mother and bringing everyone over to you know,
Speaker 2: to like the story of a girl who's you know,
Speaker 2: sexually assaulted by her father and then finds, you know resolution.
Speaker 2: It's just it's really good. I don't mean to go
Speaker 2: on a tangent.
Speaker 1: No story, okay, no, because I've started to go back
Speaker 1: in the gym in the morning and I need something
Speaker 1: to keep me from looking like at the clock. Literally
Speaker 1: I'm like really one minute, oh my gosh, when I'm
Speaker 1: like like on the treadmill or whatever, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I need something that's gonna keep me going, you know,
Speaker 1: And so I need to be entertained, you know. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking for some good podcasts to start to get
Speaker 1: into because music doesn't do it for me. Like I
Speaker 1: can listen for a little bit and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I hear you.
Speaker 2: I totally hear you.
Speaker 1: You know. So like either I talk to a friend
Speaker 1: on the phone or and that doesn't that's not really
Speaker 1: all that productive because then I'm like, let me sell
Speaker 1: the treadmill that I'm breathed to her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, if I can listen to something that's
Speaker 1: like engaging, it'll keep me going for longer.
Speaker 2: But people are not here to listen to us talk
Speaker 2: about other.
Speaker 1: Welcome, I know, welcome I had a big milestone today.
Speaker 1: It was so random. Me and Superman are so random.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if I could say anything. So I'm
Speaker 2: excited that you got to it already.
Speaker 1: I sent you the picture like it's happening. We were
Speaker 1: just we were at City Hall really because we had
Speaker 1: a meeting with the Housing and Economic Development Office because
Speaker 1: we've been having trouble finding a house, as you know,
Speaker 1: and so I wanted to be like, like, you know,
Speaker 1: what's going on. Is there something that you guys can do,
Speaker 1: and are their programs and whatever. So we had a
Speaker 1: really good meeting where they're going to help us to
Speaker 1: really move forward in the home buying process because you know,
Speaker 1: the first house we were so excited about, but then
Speaker 1: it didn't pass inspection. It was like contaminated soil, messed
Speaker 1: up foundation, blah blah blah, everything was wrong. So we
Speaker 1: had to walk away second house. You know, we look
Speaker 1: the other two or three houses that we've seen since
Speaker 1: then that we put in offers for, we've been outbid,
Speaker 1: so it's been like really disappointing. So I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me go to the city to
Speaker 1: see they have him helping some solutions and they are
Speaker 1: going to help us. So I'm excited about that. So
Speaker 1: hopefully and then you know, a few months, something will
Speaker 1: something will pop. And while we were there, because last
Speaker 1: week we'd gone to get a marriage license but the
Speaker 1: city of Newark didn't, we talked about this last week
Speaker 1: they held up for ransom. Yeah, that was really weird.
Speaker 2: They were hacked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so the hacker, you know, held you know,
Speaker 1: the city or the city's files anyway for ransom for
Speaker 1: like thirty thousand dollars. I'm like, what are you twelve?
Speaker 1: You know, like it just seemed like such a random,
Speaker 1: arbitrary number. So anyway, either they fixed it or they
Speaker 1: paid them. And so when we were there today, he
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, we should go downstairs to
Speaker 1: see if we can get our marriage license. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I didn't bring our application, but we could probably fill
Speaker 1: it out downstairs. But I'm like, do I have a
Speaker 1: random bill? Because you have to bring a bill with
Speaker 1: you to prove residency. And I happen to have and
Speaker 1: this like never happens. I happened to have a random
Speaker 1: light bill in my purse. I'm like, oh, and it
Speaker 1: was it was recent. It was like this month's light bill.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, this works out perfectly. But then
Speaker 1: we also needed a witness, and so he was like, well,
Speaker 1: let me see, you know, my best friend, and he
Speaker 1: happened to be like around the corner, which is also weird.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what at the universe? Just lining everything up?
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm actually around the corner at a diner.
Speaker 1: So he was like, well, come around.
Speaker 2: So here I was coupled together a wedding and minute, you.
Speaker 1: Know, when you apply for the license, you're just applying
Speaker 1: for the license. You're not you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: you get married. And so you apply for the license
Speaker 1: and then they ask you, you know, when you're gonna
Speaker 1: get married or where, and then we were like, well,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna go to the Justice of the Peace,
Speaker 1: which in New York is just the courthouse, which is
Speaker 1: next door. And she was like all right, take this
Speaker 1: slip to the courthouse and they'll give you a date.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay. It felt so weird and
Speaker 1: it's a real I was like all right. So we
Speaker 1: went to the courthouse and they were like, you know,
Speaker 1: this is the nearest date, you know, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: is that when you want to get married, and he
Speaker 1: was like sure. He was like, give us the quickest,
Speaker 1: the soon ast date you have.
Speaker 2: And I was like, and then they're like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: that kind of wedding congratulations.
Speaker 1: And then and then and then it's so crazy to
Speaker 1: have a business trip literally the next day. And I
Speaker 1: was like, mayb, maybe we should pick it up the
Speaker 1: date because I'm a business trip. And he was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, our life is like it's not like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're already living together, you know. So he was like, well,
Speaker 1: that's just life. So I was like, okay, so we're
Speaker 1: just gonna go to the courthouse. I am gonna gonna
Speaker 1: you know, get something cute and wear something cute. But
Speaker 1: it's exciting but weird because I thought to myself, I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna think it was a big deal because you know,
Speaker 1: like I feel like, well, we're like married now. But
Speaker 1: then you're like, whoa, I see what you mean, Mandy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I feel like it's like real.
Speaker 2: You know, because I have to be a big deal.
Speaker 2: Make it a big deal. I mean, I know you're
Speaker 2: doing it low key, but you should still make it.
Speaker 2: I think it's really sattle.
Speaker 1: You should like I text my my friend who well,
Speaker 1: like she's a makeup artist, and so she like, I
Speaker 1: have a bunch of friends who are makeup artists, but
Speaker 1: she was amazing when she did my face, and so
Speaker 1: I texted her. She's like, oh, yeah, I'm available. I
Speaker 1: was like yes, And so I'm going to reach out
Speaker 1: to another friend of mine who has a she like
Speaker 1: makes wedding gowns to see if she's going to make
Speaker 1: something like simple and really cute and like summary for me,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to be married, getting married, like you know,
Speaker 1: when the weather's going to be nice, because like that's
Speaker 1: so me. I don't want to wear like, you know,
Speaker 1: some big, heavy gown. I want something like floating and
Speaker 1: like a summer dress.
Speaker 2: You know, as soon as the when's the big day?
Speaker 2: Can I ask?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be in June?
Speaker 2: Oh a June wedding.
Speaker 1: I know at the end of June. I'll just say,
Speaker 1: because I feel like some people are crazy, you be surprised.
Speaker 1: I've eaten places and people have just shown up. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just kind of don't want someone to
Speaker 1: be like I heard you gotta get married today.
Speaker 2: I know how it is a Newark Tiffany is a
Speaker 2: public figure. It just never I love they come by
Speaker 2: with like a potato salad, and then.
Speaker 1: Afterwards we'll probably like, you know, like me and because
Speaker 1: I'm just literally just like my mom, my dad, my sisters,
Speaker 1: and my two best friends and his immediate family. And
Speaker 1: then we're gonna have a big to me when we
Speaker 1: get our house. Then I want to have a big
Speaker 1: invite everybody that we care about. Well not big, but
Speaker 1: you know, the like the reception slash party when we
Speaker 1: get a house.
Speaker 2: And so that's it.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited though, because I'm like, hey, I ain't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, way, I'm going to get married, lady could
Speaker 1: feel so weird. I never really thought I was gonna
Speaker 1: get married. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so capitol w weiss it is a big deal.
Speaker 1: I know. I'm like, whoa, this seems weird and it's
Speaker 1: so crazy, Like I have not cooked in like forever.
Speaker 1: I'm the worst sometimes, Like I'm the type of like
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 2: Like you see that every episode, like literally every episode.
Speaker 2: It's been so long. I feel so bad. I cooked
Speaker 2: some dinner tonight. I think it's every other Sunday or Monday.
Speaker 2: You are cooking dinner.
Speaker 1: Like when I cook, like I'll like go hard for
Speaker 1: like two or three weeks, and then I'll take off
Speaker 1: a week like I don't feel like doing any day.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, I felt like it's such
Speaker 1: a good wifely mood. I'm like, I'm gonna make a
Speaker 1: fold that I made meat, love roast potatoes, roasted vegetables,
Speaker 1: and I even made gravy from scratch for the.
Speaker 2: First Oh delicious.
Speaker 1: I know, I didn't even know how. I have a
Speaker 1: call friend of mine. I was like, I'll take I
Speaker 1: don't know how to do this for two hundred Alex.
Speaker 1: So that's my lad.
Speaker 2: Well, while you were out getting married and I was honeymooning,
Speaker 2: apparently like the Republicans finally got around to completely f
Speaker 2: and up our healthcare system. Well they're halfway there anyway.
Speaker 2: This new I love how they're calling it. What are
Speaker 2: they calling the American Health Act or something like that, Uh,
Speaker 2: their replacement for Obamacare. So strike one, they didn't get
Speaker 2: their first plan through, so now they've pushed through some
Speaker 2: kind of turd, yeah, through the house.
Speaker 1: Exactly like that.
Speaker 2: Like they were like they're like, just eat this shit
Speaker 2: pie that we made for you. Like, I just keep
Speaker 2: thinking of what's her face from the help, you know,
Speaker 2: when she makes the boos the pie and then feeds it,
Speaker 2: Like we're the white woman who's being fed the ship
Speaker 2: pie right now. It's sort of how I feel. Yeah, this, uh,
Speaker 2: this Healthcare Act is like I don't know what else
Speaker 2: to say about it, just big fat turd.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's only it has to still pass
Speaker 1: of what the Senate.
Speaker 2: It has to go through the Senate. Yeah, but the
Speaker 2: fact that the House passed that I think is what's
Speaker 2: frightening because at least the last time it was blocked
Speaker 2: and and I think that the biggest, the biggest, like shocker,
Speaker 2: not shocker, but the fact that they're eliminating eight hundred
Speaker 2: billion dollars from the Medicaid system and somehow think that
Speaker 2: Medicaid is going to get better and that it's going
Speaker 2: to bring more health care to more people. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't understand how tax cuts for the rich and
Speaker 2: then taking away eight hundred billion dollars is going to
Speaker 2: make that any better. And on top of that, it's
Speaker 2: going to make things like pregnancy being a woman, like
Speaker 2: a lot of women related needs, like a pre existing
Speaker 2: condition where you could like you may still get healthcare,
Speaker 2: but you may have to pay a lot more for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, I am definitely not going to
Speaker 1: say say that. You know, the system that you know,
Speaker 1: President Obama put, you know, brought him to existence was perfect.
Speaker 1: It wasn't. It was expensive and a little bit convoluted,
Speaker 1: but it was a start to something. I feel like
Speaker 1: folks just didn't want it because it was him, you know,
Speaker 1: like certain people you know that like if you said, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to fix health care because that's that's what
Speaker 1: it should be. It's like this president brought in a
Speaker 1: system that we didn't have it all before, where everyone
Speaker 1: should have health care. It's not perfect, so every president
Speaker 1: should be improving upon it, versus just saying like well no,
Speaker 1: you know, like I just feel like it's more about
Speaker 1: about you know, discrediting his legacy than it is about
Speaker 1: really wanting to help people. And I'm just like, and
Speaker 1: then it's so crazy. I think to myself of the people,
Speaker 1: some of the people that voted for him, and how
Speaker 1: they're going to suffer, And I'm like, do you even
Speaker 1: realize you know what I mean, Like, did you really
Speaker 1: think this billionaire was this down to earth guy who
Speaker 1: was like, you know what you there, you know in
Speaker 1: the backwoods of Alabama. I'm I'm for you, Like, are
Speaker 1: you crazy? That's not what's happening, Like, it's just I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, I mean, I guess if anything is
Speaker 1: the one thing that this has helped is that you
Speaker 1: saw you saw the French elections.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I feel like that some of the result.
Speaker 1: I was just reading this article from the New York
Speaker 1: Times called them what what is it? What's wrong with
Speaker 1: France or something like that, and basically saying that part
Speaker 1: of the reason why you know whatever his name starts
Speaker 1: with the M he won over basically their Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was because of our Donald Trump. You know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Marilla Penyah, she well she was like the populist complete
Speaker 2: like the xenophobic. Yeah, the Trump of France essentially. So
Speaker 2: it was kind of like a sigh of relief that
Speaker 2: she didn't win, because it was looking like she was
Speaker 2: gonna lose. I mean, sorry that she was gonna, uh,
Speaker 2: if not win, but at least get a bigger share.
Speaker 2: And I think I read this was last night, so
Speaker 2: maybe it changed, but looked like she had that. The
Speaker 2: the guy who won Macron had has that how you
Speaker 2: say his name Macron. I think I took four years
Speaker 2: of French I shouldn't know that he got like sixty
Speaker 2: four percent of the vote, which was a huge margin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I heard it actually was more like sixty
Speaker 1: six and really okay, yeah, Like I was like this
Speaker 1: morning when I was on the tread mill, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was just crazy. And then so
Speaker 1: many people like I was just like reading like article
Speaker 1: after article, and so many folks were like, we don't want,
Speaker 1: we don't want what happened in America to happen here.
Speaker 2: Well, he was still different. He was still an independent
Speaker 2: candidate completely sort of like he was aver. He reviewed
Speaker 2: sort of like the status quo U in French government.
Speaker 2: But at least he wasn't like the xenophobic crazy person.
Speaker 2: Yeah Trump, I wish it almost makes you wish, you know,
Speaker 2: I he you know, he was a little bit Burnie esque,
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, okay, if not in his policies. I
Speaker 2: don't know much about his policies. I don't think it
Speaker 2: was his policies that made him Bernie esque. But he
Speaker 2: was like the anti Hillary, but still on the other side,
Speaker 2: you know, what I mean, Yeah, like not so establishment
Speaker 2: and definitely yeah, thirty nine years old too.
Speaker 1: I know that's crazy.
Speaker 2: He's a baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like, oh, so like my brother is
Speaker 1: going to be like so what we're going to do
Speaker 1: is right? Yeah? So, I mean I don't know.
Speaker 2: So the world's not totally in a hell going to
Speaker 2: hell in a hand basket, but it certainly feels like.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was I was reading something about Glorious
Speaker 2: Sin and said about Trump. But I think we can
Speaker 2: all agree that yes, he's a class a moron and
Speaker 2: completely incompetent and has no idea what he's doing this job.
Speaker 2: But he's also I think made America wake up in
Speaker 2: a way and the attention in a way that we
Speaker 2: haven't before and get involved. I mean, everybody is talking
Speaker 2: about this, the passage of the new health plan in
Speaker 2: the House and going ahead to send it and just
Speaker 2: encouraging everyone to contact your legislators. Go just go to
Speaker 2: your senate's website and send an email or call, leave
Speaker 2: a voicemail to your senator and let them know that
Speaker 2: you don't want this and speak up and have a voice.
Speaker 2: It worked the first time because the bill didn't pass
Speaker 2: the first time, you know, hopefully it can work again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree, I wish they would. You know, it's like naive,
Speaker 2: you want to wish that they won't let politics get
Speaker 2: in the way or but you know that this is
Speaker 2: a big deal for Trump to pass something and say
Speaker 2: that he accomplished something. You know, he didn't have the
Speaker 2: best one hundred days and now he's got to at
Speaker 2: least get his health plan across and it was a
Speaker 2: huge fail when he did it. So for him, it's ego.
Speaker 2: It's like I need to get something through, and unfortunately
Speaker 2: they're not taking the time to maybe improve upon what's
Speaker 2: already there. They're just trying to rip it apart and
Speaker 2: just build something even jankier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is crazy. It just makes you like sometimes
Speaker 1: you just want to like check out. You're like, h
Speaker 1: chia call me tomorrow, Like I'll peek my head and
Speaker 1: I'll read some stuff, and I'm like, oh, my head,
Speaker 1: my heart, I can't well grind, break ground break.
Speaker 2: It makes me just it makes me grateful to have,
Speaker 2: you know, employer coverage and I I mean, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be honestly, it's it's the use of the it's the you,
Speaker 2: it's the entrepreneurs, it's the self employed, it's the people
Speaker 2: who work for small businesses and then don't get healthcare.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to deal with this crap.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. So we went to get our
Speaker 1: marriage license today. Superman was like, welcome to health insurance.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, because he's got awesome helvisus.
Speaker 1: He works for the city, so his health insurance is
Speaker 1: like that grade A Like what when he had his
Speaker 1: annuals and surgery two years ago, he didn't pay not
Speaker 1: a nickel or not. I mean he had, like, you know,
Speaker 1: all the best of everything, the best doctors, the best
Speaker 1: aftercare everything, and you know, and I just remember being like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: what health insurance do you have? They even treat you differently, Mandy.
Speaker 1: When we walked in places, he we give his card
Speaker 1: and it was like we sat in a different waiting.
Speaker 2: Room, like oh no, no, no, you don't have to
Speaker 2: add a little.
Speaker 1: I remember, no, but I do remember like he had
Speaker 1: to get a he was like he had a headache
Speaker 1: after he'd had surgery, you know, and so he had
Speaker 1: to get a not a memor ran. I'm look at me.
Speaker 1: What are those things called? When you go through like that,
Speaker 1: like the not an ultrasound. They put you in that
Speaker 1: big huge magneque land in your back. It's like a
Speaker 1: little circle. They put you inside of it ultrasound, No
Speaker 1: din of my memory. I'm all right, there you go. Remember.
Speaker 1: So we went to the emergency room and they immediately
Speaker 1: put him in a room, and I was like okay.
Speaker 1: And then when we came out, the emergency room was
Speaker 1: full and there was an older gentleman like in his seventies.
Speaker 1: So like an older, older gentleman in the hallway on
Speaker 1: like a gurney, and I was like, well, how long
Speaker 1: have you been here? He was like oh hours. I said,
Speaker 1: well what are you waiting for? He said, MRI And
Speaker 1: I was like what. And so when Superman found out,
Speaker 1: he went to the head nurse and said, you know,
Speaker 1: like he can have my room. I didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: we're waiting for the same thing, and I don't it
Speaker 1: just it golt wrong to have this seventy year old
Speaker 1: man like in the hallway and she's said, oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you guys are here for different things or whatever. And
Speaker 1: I asked my brother in law later, like does that
Speaker 1: make sense? He was like, he said, I guarantee you.
Speaker 1: It's about insurance. He was like, you know, your fiance
Speaker 1: can pay his insurance can pay for that room, and
Speaker 1: that gentleman probably didn't have any and it just made
Speaker 1: me say, wow, doesn't that feel so terrible? You know?
Speaker 2: That was my dad before Obamacare. My dad would go
Speaker 2: to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and I would call
Speaker 2: him in the morning. He'd be in for like he's
Speaker 2: had knee pain and like other issues since he's gotten older.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he'd go in in the morning and he
Speaker 2: would still be there when I got off work, waiting
Speaker 2: and waiting and waiting for an emergency room. It got
Speaker 2: to I mean, my dad now he has made friends
Speaker 2: and he has doctor friends who will see him. He
Speaker 2: had Obamacare, He had a plan through Obamacare. That's how
Speaker 2: he got his gastric bypass surgery two or three years ago.
Speaker 2: And you know that was completely covered and he paid
Speaker 2: for it for a year and then the price has
Speaker 2: got to be too expensive and he was like, nope,
Speaker 2: not doing that anymore. So uh, yeah, he didn't go
Speaker 2: back and I don't think he will be back. And
Speaker 2: that's that scares me, as his daughter, thinking of you
Speaker 2: know what if something really serious happens, and you know,
Speaker 2: he'll laugh and he'll like look at He'll show me
Speaker 2: his like bathroom counter, which is like covered in every
Speaker 2: single supplement that you can get a CVS basically, or
Speaker 2: that you can see on Doctor Oz, and he's like,
Speaker 2: I'm fine, I take my gensing and my doo ding
Speaker 2: and I have my spinach smoothies. But I know that's
Speaker 2: not a healthcare plan. Yeah, and it Yeah, it's frustrating
Speaker 2: that there's nothing, you know, nothing for him at least
Speaker 2: as it stands. And I don't see that it's going
Speaker 2: to be getting better anytime soon fortunately.
Speaker 1: So this is just a random little twist. Do you remember,
Speaker 1: like you being a journalist and like, so, have you
Speaker 1: ever written for Ebity magazine? Never? So, do you know
Speaker 1: you know, like, I don't know what happened with Ebony,
Speaker 1: but I guess one of their writers. Did you see that?
Speaker 1: It was like a while ago, maybe like a week
Speaker 1: or so ago. Well a writer had said, like I've
Speaker 1: been the magazine is not paying its writers, and then
Speaker 1: it became this whole Twitter hashtag kind of like campaign
Speaker 1: where like other writers like steps stood up and were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they have not paid me either, and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's such a shame because you know, Ebony is this
Speaker 1: iconic black magazine, you know, Yeah, And I guess they've
Speaker 1: been struggling for a while financially because I remember maybe
Speaker 1: it was last year that I heard that Ebany was
Speaker 1: trying to sell their their archives. They're like their pictures,
Speaker 1: the physical archives of like I guess, they're the pictures
Speaker 1: that they've collected over years and years and years, and
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, that would truly be lost if it
Speaker 1: wasn't available for the public somewhere like in a museum
Speaker 1: and somebody like a private collector collected them. And I
Speaker 1: just remember they thinking shady, like, Oh, I remember I
Speaker 1: wrote for Ebony, like I don't know, three or four
Speaker 1: years ago, I wrote an article. Chah. It took them
Speaker 1: nine months to pay me. I think it was like
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars. Oh, nine months of like daily emails.
Speaker 1: And you know, back then, three hundred dollars was I mean,
Speaker 1: it's still a lot of money now, but especially back then,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, And I just remember every day, every week,
Speaker 1: every Monday, it was like one of my routine. It's
Speaker 1: Monday time to hit up Ebony. I didn't really think
Speaker 1: I was gonna get it, and then one day it
Speaker 1: came to the mail and I nearly cried tears of joy.
Speaker 1: Nine months and so I thought it was just me
Speaker 1: because you know, like, who was I I thought that
Speaker 1: they were like.
Speaker 2: Girl, oh, it's never just you. Yeah, especially when it yeah,
Speaker 2: these magazines, that's just a sign of trouble and how
Speaker 2: they've been struggling though, I just for a long time.
Speaker 2: So what happened did that writer?
Speaker 1: Now? Ebony basically was like, we don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. I mean, it's such a shame because, like
Speaker 1: I said, I just thought it was meal. You know.
Speaker 1: Of course I was never gonna say anything publicly or
Speaker 1: post anything or whatever. I just thought, oh that I'm
Speaker 1: a small time and they were like, girl, you're not
Speaker 1: even on our radar or whatever. And but to hear
Speaker 1: that they haven't paid some major major writers, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why is that? You know? That's crazy to me?
Speaker 2: Google Hello Google? So oh yeah. So on Friday they
Speaker 2: announced that they were cutting one third of their staff,
Speaker 2: which and I was at first, I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, how many people ten there's only thirty five employees. Wow, man,
Speaker 2: that's that's that's teeny for a magazine thirty five Now
Speaker 2: they're only going to have twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: They're moving from Chicago to California. I mean, that's it's
Speaker 2: especially sad because it's Ebony, which means so much to
Speaker 2: the African American experience in the US. But also just
Speaker 2: you know, magazines in general, it's just not like it
Speaker 2: used to be. You know, they're just uh, it's I
Speaker 2: literally I studied magazines in college and that's not even
Speaker 2: a major anymore because everyone knows that's not a career,
Speaker 2: you know, that's not a specific career you should be
Speaker 2: you know, striving toward I guess, you know. And I
Speaker 2: worked at a magazine at my first job in New York,
Speaker 2: and it's kind of sad to see them, to see
Speaker 2: them struggle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're right, it's iconic and so but you know,
Speaker 1: you've you've heard you've all heard that like magazines, you know,
Speaker 1: are not making money anymore, that people are really you
Speaker 1: know online and digital.
Speaker 2: Maybe someone will some of like big investor will save them.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's what they need. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 2: like you never know, you never know, you never know.
Speaker 1: Theybele have to make a shift. You know, Like you
Speaker 1: heard the Adidas right, Adidas is no longer going to
Speaker 1: be doing magazine ads or any of their their shift.
Speaker 1: They're shifting all of their ad money to just just digital.
Speaker 1: That's humongous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just killed some magazines, I know exactly.
Speaker 1: So it's hard, like you know, even TV. Look what's
Speaker 1: happening with Netflix and Hulu and stuff like and so
Speaker 1: you know somebody that you know, how do you get
Speaker 1: money for these shows? How you get money for these
Speaker 1: These advertisers advertise on your show, but if you know
Speaker 1: people are not watching, then there's really no money in
Speaker 1: it for them. And honestly, my marketing guy, who I'm
Speaker 1: like aka the Genius, one of the things he told
Speaker 1: me was, and this is years ago, we well a
Speaker 1: year or so ago we first started working together, he said, Tiffin,
Speaker 1: you have to get into digital marketing now. You know.
Speaker 1: At the time, I was like, I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that means. And he was like, so he said,
Speaker 1: here's why, he said, right now, people don't really get it,
Speaker 1: so it's cheap. He said, like for example, Google ads,
Speaker 1: when they first came out, people it was only the
Speaker 1: computer geeks and so there was a lot of computer
Speaker 1: geeks making big money on Google Ads, and then once
Speaker 1: these big companies understand, hey there's money to be made here,
Speaker 1: then they throw so much money at it that they
Speaker 1: make it so that you can't afford it anymore, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know, you know, Adidas is paying ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars you know, a day in ads, and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: my ten dollars doesn't do anything anymore. And so he
Speaker 1: was like, digital ads are like that. This was like
Speaker 1: last year or a year and a half ago. He
Speaker 1: was like, these large companies are slow to move, so
Speaker 1: there's still money in it. Like It's one of the reasons, honestly,
Speaker 1: why I was able to go from when I started
Speaker 1: working with him twenty thousand community members like dream Catchers
Speaker 1: to three hundred thousand in a year and a half.
Speaker 1: It was because we were using digital ads and inexpensively,
Speaker 1: like we were converting people, and converting means this that
Speaker 1: how much money do you have to spend for someone
Speaker 1: to take the action you want them to take. So
Speaker 1: I might say, hey, I want people to side up
Speaker 1: for my challenge, and so I'm going to spend ten
Speaker 1: dollars and if the conversion rate is a dollar for person.
Speaker 1: That means for every ten dollars I spend, I get
Speaker 1: ten people. We were converting people for as low as
Speaker 1: a penny. A penny sometimes that's unheard of. And so
Speaker 1: and then there's some people who if you're not good
Speaker 1: at doing ads, you convert people like for example, there
Speaker 1: I know an insurance company that it takes them twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars to get one person. So now what's going
Speaker 1: to happen these bigger companies kind of come into this
Speaker 1: digital space is that it's going to cost more money
Speaker 1: to convert, and smaller people are not going to for that.
Speaker 1: And so for those of y'all with small businesses, if
Speaker 1: you don't know nothing about Facebook ads and Instagram ads
Speaker 1: or whatever, you have like another year and maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit to learn before you get outpriced. And honestly,
Speaker 1: it's just it's really why it's so useful or it
Speaker 1: just even better than a magazine. Think about when you
Speaker 1: pick up a magazine, you never know who's picking up
Speaker 1: that magazine to see your ad. But when you're on Facebook,
Speaker 1: you can literally say I want black women ages twenty
Speaker 1: five to forty who live in Florida and like to
Speaker 1: watch Real Housewives of Atlanta. If Facebook will whittle it
Speaker 1: down to that list for you and only show your
Speaker 1: ads those people, so you can really get so specific
Speaker 1: about who sees it. Because once you know your archetype,
Speaker 1: like the type of person that enjoys your brand already,
Speaker 1: you can find that woman over and over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. That's what I figured out. Like, we
Speaker 1: figured out that women who liked Black Enterprise versus essence
Speaker 1: liked me, and women who like which is weird illness
Speaker 1: Elba but not Oprah liked me. Right, So there's like
Speaker 1: this weird like mix of a type of personality that
Speaker 1: really would enjoy me if they knew I existed. So
Speaker 1: once we figured out like what her archetype was, we
Speaker 1: just started putting ads toward her and you know and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got this like great, this great resource,
Speaker 1: the Live Ritual Challenge, and so yeah, if you're a
Speaker 1: business person, you need to learn now how to how
Speaker 1: to start doing digital ads and stuff or else you're
Speaker 1: going to be left behind and it's going to get
Speaker 1: too expensive to do.
Speaker 2: So I just read this headline. I needed to share
Speaker 2: it though the Senate has I was talking about Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: hopefully the Senate's going to block this healthcare bell. But
Speaker 2: I just read that they have formed a committee of
Speaker 2: thirteen members, all of whom are men, to discuss the
Speaker 2: future this Healthcare Act and you know, women's needs and
Speaker 2: oh yeah, the current version of the bill is going
Speaker 2: to defund planned parenthood for a year. So yay, America.
Speaker 2: Just don't the ambulance fans.
Speaker 1: I'm like, so nobody has any daughters, nobody has like
Speaker 1: any They don't care.
Speaker 2: They don't care. They don't care because they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: I have money, my daughter will be fine. They don't
Speaker 2: care about you know, they don't care about the susie
Speaker 2: who's the you know, doesn't have healthcare. Parents can't afford
Speaker 2: to help to help her, you know, or pay for
Speaker 2: her to travel across state lines to get an abortion
Speaker 2: if she's sexually assaulted or something like that. You know,
Speaker 2: they don't, they don't, they don't know. They cry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just like, how do you sleep at night?
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, I guess you're right. So people
Speaker 1: literally have divorced themselves from the fact that everyone doesn't
Speaker 1: look like them.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well, it easier than ever because they live in
Speaker 2: other increasing the living in a bubble where the people
Speaker 2: in the administration. Every photo of the current administration makes
Speaker 2: me want to like hurl or it makes my stomach
Speaker 2: tight because I see it is like white man, white man,
Speaker 2: white man, white man, white man, woman, white man, white man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Morosa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're like, oh, hey, look, oh no, she's
Speaker 2: just a reporter, Like, oh no, she's just there delivering
Speaker 2: the news or delivering the mail. You know, it's it's
Speaker 2: not it's not a great time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh chah, Well that's a great segue into are
Speaker 1: we gonna boos? Are we gonna break? Either way, we're
Speaker 1: staying brown. I like that, but I'm gonna keep that.
Speaker 1: It's brown break, brown booth time.
Speaker 2: You're so confident. I'm like, yeah, I like it too.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just had to like loosen, like
Speaker 1: lighten up the mood because I'm like, oh, that whole
Speaker 1: forty five makes me so depressed. I don't matter what. No,
Speaker 1: forty five, you know, that's the number of our presidents.
Speaker 1: The presidents. I don't even like say his name, So
Speaker 1: forty five makes me, Yeah, Ley moron, it makes me depressed.
Speaker 2: Listen, you're gonna boost her break Evening.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to boost. It's a little random,
Speaker 1: but I think it's a little lighthearted. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: boost Zendaya. Here's why this little this young woman is everything.
Speaker 1: Have you seen this, Like, you know, there's a show
Speaker 1: called Lipstick Battle? Yes, I know, yes, yes, on the
Speaker 1: same cultural page. Look at this.
Speaker 2: I see YouTube videos. I know, I know what's up
Speaker 2: Chrissy Till cool J.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so it's a fun show. And I mean
Speaker 1: I've seen everybody on there, from Lupita to Mary j
Speaker 1: BLI just it's just a fun, fun, fun show. So
Speaker 1: Zendeia did she did this really fun Erica Badou Lipstick
Speaker 1: Battle to Tyrone. She's got the big head rap. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's literally I gotta watch that. Yes, it is everything.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, So I just said,
Speaker 1: you know what. I always love her. She looked amazing
Speaker 1: at the met gala. She had very afrocentric dress on,
Speaker 1: huge like loose curl frown.
Speaker 2: So I was definitely watching the metcal of red carpet
Speaker 2: via Twitter. Yeah, just refreshing that hashtag refresh Risanna, refresh.
Speaker 2: That's a big picture of Mandy Kaling refresh exactly.
Speaker 1: She was everything at the at the met gala, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, I just think that as a day. Every
Speaker 1: time you know, you read about her, she's either standing
Speaker 1: up for herself or someone else's rits or just flang.
Speaker 1: And so just a little boost to you, Zee, that's it.
Speaker 2: I love her. Good boost And it's fun if you follow,
Speaker 2: Like there's all this there's like a new class of
Speaker 2: young black girl magic, like among celebrities like Yara Hashidi
Speaker 2: from Blackish, and then Zendeia and then Amandola Stenberg and
Speaker 2: and then two it's like the fairy godmothers like Tracy
Speaker 2: Ellis Ross and Kerrie Washington, Shonda Rhimes and do Ava
Speaker 2: Duvernet and I follow them all on Instagram and it's
Speaker 2: so cute because they all share each other's posts and
Speaker 2: they all like, like, you know, support each other. It's
Speaker 2: really beautiful. But just throwing that out there, I want
Speaker 2: to do I'm gonna do a boost too. And I
Speaker 2: love this time of year because it's college graduation season.
Speaker 2: And congratulations to the class of twenty seventeen, which includes
Speaker 2: my really good friend Toulou who just actually got her masters.
Speaker 2: I just got her NBA when I'm super proud of
Speaker 2: her because she did it while commuting an hour and
Speaker 2: a half to school with a toddler.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah for most I think for half the year,
Speaker 2: he was in daycare at her school, so she was
Speaker 2: commuting with her son to class, like really just juggling everything.
Speaker 2: So shout out to Tulou. Hey Tulu, Hey Tulu. And
Speaker 2: I want to shout out because my favorite time of
Speaker 2: this is the reason I like this time of year
Speaker 2: so much is because there's always these like fabulous stories
Speaker 2: of these like black Girl, Black Boy, Matt of like
Speaker 2: kids getting into every single Ivy League school. And there's
Speaker 2: two that we shared and I wanted to share them.
Speaker 2: So this one is that as this teenager who apparently
Speaker 2: did not get asked to prom, which I can't imagine
Speaker 2: because she's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw this hilarious.
Speaker 2: So instead of not instead of going, you know, just
Speaker 2: spaying the night at home and eating ice cream, she
Speaker 2: showed up a prom uh with her Harvard acceptance letter
Speaker 2: in her hand.
Speaker 1: And they're.
Speaker 2: So badass, Like, who what school does she go to?
Speaker 2: For some idiot not to want to take her A
Speaker 2: problem I don't understand, So shout out to her, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna find her name real quick. Oh Priscilla, samey. She's
Speaker 2: seventeen years old. So that was badass. And then the Quadruples.
Speaker 2: Did you see this? The quadruples from Ohio?
Speaker 1: Yeah, who all.
Speaker 2: Got into IVY leagues and they're going to go to
Speaker 2: college together.
Speaker 1: That is awesome.
Speaker 2: Where they go on Yale?
Speaker 1: Oh Yale?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yea yeah. The one I'll go into Yale is
Speaker 2: right there. Seriously, it's hard to get one kid right
Speaker 2: plus four.
Speaker 1: I know. And then on top of that, like what
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been like my sister, you know, she
Speaker 1: just had her baby, so I've been like sleeping over
Speaker 1: because her husband works nights, and I was sleeping over
Speaker 1: and like babysitting or at least helping because she had
Speaker 1: the newborn that she has to get up every few
Speaker 1: hours to feed. And then she's got the one and
Speaker 1: a half year old Roman, who is crazy in a
Speaker 1: good way, but still crazy. And I was like, yo too, dude,
Speaker 1: two yo. I would try to put the baby to
Speaker 1: sleep and Roman is doing flips, like look at me.
Speaker 1: His big thing is wow, he knows like three words. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Roman, we get it. It starts like, wow,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know what are you communicating? That
Speaker 1: was so overwhelmed. I can't imagine four So congrats to
Speaker 1: your parents, quadruplets, quadruplets, quads, whatever, Just congrats.
Speaker 2: And the dad has quoted us saying what's the secret.
Speaker 2: He says, lots of push ups and stead up and running,
Speaker 2: discipline and structure. That's a good dad right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I could see that, Like, what you're
Speaker 1: not gonna do is make me crazy.
Speaker 2: I guess just god man like good parenting. I guess
Speaker 2: just four kids at one time.
Speaker 1: My god. She see the article that the kids inherit
Speaker 1: their they're smart from their mom.
Speaker 2: Oh I believe that one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like, ah, I never thought they were,
Speaker 1: like because I guess is it the why is it
Speaker 1: women's we're the Y chromosome or the X chromosome?
Speaker 2: We have double X, so double X.
Speaker 1: And they said that your intelligence is found in that chromosome.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter who your daddy is. Your mama
Speaker 1: gives you your brain. And I said, oh, interesting.
Speaker 2: Some dads are like, whoof not my fault, that's all you.
Speaker 1: So I just thought I throw that in there, like
Speaker 1: all right, well, congratulations, mama.
Speaker 2: Well that's my brown break to all the college guys
Speaker 2: at twenty seventeen makes me feel so old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about these prom pictures? Prom? Two K? What
Speaker 1: is it? Prom to seventeen? K?
Speaker 2: I don't know from two K?
Speaker 1: No prom seventeen.
Speaker 2: I mean like I've been seeing like, oh, two K seventeen,
Speaker 2: that's what it is, two K seventeen.
Speaker 1: And so if you click on that these prom dresses.
Speaker 1: I mean I was on looking today and I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, so is she is she? Is she twenty five?
Speaker 1: I mean these girls look like grown, beautiful, accomplished. I
Speaker 1: have a job and a Porsche and a penthouse apartment
Speaker 1: in New York City. Women meanwhile, they're like, I'm sixteen.
Speaker 2: Their parents are like they look.
Speaker 1: But they look. I mean, I did not have it.
Speaker 1: I don't have this together now, Like now, I can't
Speaker 1: even slay like that. These girls are out here slaying
Speaker 1: and I just I can't deal. And I love it.
Speaker 2: Did you go to prom?
Speaker 1: I did, but nobody asked me either. So my best
Speaker 1: friend had her date say, you know, I'm going with
Speaker 1: Tiffany and Veronica. I was like, oh, I love you, Veronica.
Speaker 2: That's the way to do it. Just go with your girlfriends. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just go with your girlfriends.
Speaker 1: Actually, her mom like, could you hook me up? She
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, no, I.
Speaker 2: Do remember that. My twelfth grade prom dress was a
Speaker 2: big that was like my first big purchase. I think
Speaker 2: it was two hundred and eighty dollars and I picked
Speaker 2: it out a special and I worked really hard at
Speaker 2: the gap and then I took my gay ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1: To the problem. Did you know he was gay? Well,
Speaker 1: obviously not when you were dating. No, I was so naive.
Speaker 2: Everybody but me knew let's not go down that. Let's
Speaker 2: not go down that role. Now you guys know officially,
Speaker 2: you officially know way too much about my life, way
Speaker 2: too much.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 2: He was a great dance partner.
Speaker 1: I think we all liked the guy that You're like,
Speaker 1: how did I not? How did how did I not?
Speaker 1: How did I go?
Speaker 2: Not only did I go with him? I turned down
Speaker 2: the hot six foot something basketball player who I will
Speaker 2: not name. Maybe he listens, why don't you turned down
Speaker 2: because I had a crush on a crush on my
Speaker 2: gay ex boyfriend. He was very sensitive and listen to me.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my gosh, feel like he's so great,
Speaker 1: he's like a friend. He's like, if you only do.
Speaker 2: He braids my hair? He didn't do that, all right, anyway,
Speaker 2: we're going down a treacherous path.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that is how hilarious And he's like no, clearly,
Speaker 1: like yeah, that is hilarious.
Speaker 2: They were an all Ivy League. Quadrupe was from we
Speaker 2: were in school. Okay to school with the Ivy League
Speaker 2: quadrup was our questions. Our listeners do have questions. And
Speaker 2: you know what I love even more is when they
Speaker 2: when people get up to us or back to us.
Speaker 2: I can't speak today when they get back to us
Speaker 2: with updates. So I don't remember what we used for
Speaker 2: this woman's code name a while back, but she asked
Speaker 2: us a question I would say a couple of months ago,
Speaker 2: she says, a few. I feel like it was longer,
Speaker 2: asking about she needed encouragement to find a new job
Speaker 2: and to continue her job or she wasn't happy at
Speaker 2: her job. And I forget what we said, but apparently
Speaker 2: it was awesome, because she says, I just wanted to
Speaker 2: let you know that. I ended up having two offers
Speaker 2: this week for new opportunities I found through networking. I
Speaker 2: have happily accepted an offer and will be starting at
Speaker 2: the end of May.
Speaker 1: Yeahs, we'll be making things happen me where I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do we say?
Speaker 2: I'm sure she did all the work, I know, but
Speaker 2: that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Yay.
Speaker 2: Even when you're down, you always bounce back, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure. So if you have questions, as always, you
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Speaker 2: Let's just call her Okay, okay, okay, okay. So she says, Hi, girls,
Speaker 2: I'm a new listener and I am trying to become
Speaker 2: more aware and educated on my finances. Listening to your podcast,
Speaker 2: I realize that I'm currently in a circumstance that no
Speaker 2: one really talks about anymore. I'm currently working for a
Speaker 2: small business owner, and although it's very successful, my boss
Speaker 2: is not in a position to provide her office with
Speaker 2: any benefits other than vision and dental. With that being said,
Speaker 2: what is the best way to invest in a retirement
Speaker 2: of a retirement fund without the assistance of an employer
Speaker 2: and without employer matching shaw?
Speaker 1: You should It's not one of my employees. I know
Speaker 1: it's not because they don't even get vision in that anyway,
Speaker 1: we're working on it.
Speaker 2: I think this is probably a lot more common than
Speaker 2: than some people think, because a lot of small businesses
Speaker 2: don't have to offer If you have under a certain
Speaker 2: I think like twenty five or fifty, you don't have
Speaker 2: to offer any benefits. So so yeah, that's tough, but
Speaker 2: not impossible.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: I think your first step is and she's she asked
Speaker 2: specifically about retirement, although she didn't mention where she gets
Speaker 2: health care from. But since she asked about retirement, I
Speaker 2: would say you can easily open an IRA through a
Speaker 2: brokerage firm and some of my favorites because they tend
Speaker 2: to be very transparent, very long term investment, and very affordable.
Speaker 2: Our Vanguard Charles Schwab I'm about to get trans America
Speaker 2: and TD Ameritrade mixed up, but they're both fine. So
Speaker 2: but top top top pick will probably be Banguard, Vanguard,
Speaker 2: uh In Tarls Schwab is another one.
Speaker 1: Rock iray or you're telling her.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's up to her. The difference between
Speaker 2: a wroth and a traditional iray. Traditional iray you put
Speaker 2: money in and it's put in tax free, and your
Speaker 2: tax later when you withdraw the funds. With a wroth iray,
Speaker 2: your tax today your current tax rate, and you withdraw
Speaker 2: the funds tax free when you're ready to retire. If
Speaker 2: you're wondering, why would I just give the government money now?
Speaker 2: The idea if you're younger, they typically say, although you'd
Speaker 2: probably want to get advice from a you know, investment excerpt,
Speaker 2: but typically the idea generally and why they'd want to
Speaker 2: they recommend people take out a wroth iray. It is
Speaker 2: because if you get tax at your current tax rate,
Speaker 2: as you get older, the ideas that your income will
Speaker 2: increase and so will go tax rate. So really it's
Speaker 2: a tax savings because you're forgetting tax at a lower
Speaker 2: rate today. It means you won't get tax at your
Speaker 2: higher rate later. Yeah, but again it's very it's hard
Speaker 2: to give general advice. But unfortunately, there's not much you
Speaker 2: can do if you don't get a match from your employer.
Speaker 2: All you can do is increase or try to increase.
Speaker 2: It just invests all that a little bit more than
Speaker 2: what you maybe would do if you're getting a match
Speaker 2: from your employer, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, because I and not every I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know too many small businesses that do match.
Speaker 1: I mean because it's expensive to like, you know, bring
Speaker 1: on so in all and and to be all transparent.
Speaker 1: I just switch from an LLC, which is basically like
Speaker 1: it's just a different type of business, to an es corp,
Speaker 1: where now I work for my business, I'm not my business,
Speaker 1: which an LLC is kind of like you are your business,
Speaker 1: you know, And so with an es corp, you have
Speaker 1: to have at least one employee, one official official employee,
Speaker 1: like right now, I like on the books, they're not
Speaker 1: the people who work for me are not employee ease,
Speaker 1: they are contractors, right, So that because I can't afford
Speaker 1: and we're working towards that, but I can't afford because
Speaker 1: if I make somebody an employee there's certain things that
Speaker 1: you have to do, like you know, you have to
Speaker 1: there's certain packages you have to pay. I have to
Speaker 1: provide certain types, certain level of health care, you know
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So right now I'm the only
Speaker 1: official employee, and then the next employee, like hopefully later
Speaker 1: on this year it'll be my CEO CR and then
Speaker 1: we'll bring on more people. But you have to be
Speaker 1: able to pay for that, and so, you know, so
Speaker 1: you kind of ask yourself, do I bring on additional
Speaker 1: employees or do I the employees I do have, do
Speaker 1: I give them better benefits? And so everything costs, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of money basically, But if you're with the
Speaker 1: company that you really see a lot of growth there
Speaker 1: and you see that it's like you know that there's
Speaker 1: a that there's something happening here. These are things you
Speaker 1: could talk to your employer about about, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: I we really love this because now, for example, I
Speaker 1: have a I don't I mean, for lack of better word,
Speaker 1: I guess she's like our CFO. But you know, like
Speaker 1: I said, I don't have any employees. She just does
Speaker 1: contract work for us, but she has been like really
Speaker 1: helping us to see what we're making versus what we're
Speaker 1: spending and what we can't spend before. Like literally this
Speaker 1: is how I used to make decisions. Sierra would be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we should get this program. It's
Speaker 1: gonna you know, make it smoother to like add courses
Speaker 1: to the academy. How much is it thirty dollars A long?
Speaker 2: I like I had no, like, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: know the budget needs to have no budget for the business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is so crazy because in my personal life
Speaker 1: budget to the tea. But with the business, I was
Speaker 1: more like, I don't know. You just do whatever you
Speaker 1: can to grow. And I'm like, well, the thing is
Speaker 1: we don't have any debt. The business doesn't have any debt,
Speaker 1: and so I just kind of felt like, well, we
Speaker 1: made money, so I know there's more than thirty dollars
Speaker 1: left over. So yeah, but there was no real I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you what I was making versus what I
Speaker 1: was spending, although I kept really copious, like I kept
Speaker 1: really detailed records. So when Rachel, our new CFO, came on,
Speaker 1: she was like, for someone who was all over the place,
Speaker 1: you have like the best records, So like I kept
Speaker 1: record of every petty spent and every penny made, but
Speaker 1: there was no sense made out of those records, you
Speaker 1: see what I mean? And so like just because there
Speaker 1: was so much on top of everything else, I didn't
Speaker 1: really like, yeah, I could tell you like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: this month we made ten thousand and then we spent
Speaker 1: you know, two, but there was no real sense made
Speaker 1: of like, well, where is the money really going? You know,
Speaker 1: how much of this is staff? How much of this
Speaker 1: is this? How much? So I didn't have any like reports.
Speaker 1: I just had like numbers like ten to eight, ten
Speaker 1: to two, three to four, you know. And so with
Speaker 1: her coming on, like I asked the other day, I
Speaker 1: always feel like that we're spending too much, you know.
Speaker 1: And I asked her the other day form for example,
Speaker 1: the academy, and I was like, you know, Rachel, can
Speaker 1: you share with us, like, you know, if we have
Speaker 1: a meeting every Thursday, with like a money meeting every
Speaker 1: Thursday with everyone. Rachel and I talk almost every day
Speaker 1: about money, but with everyone. And she said, you know
Speaker 1: that we spend six percent our operating expense is six
Speaker 1: percent of our gross I'm like, what, that's good, right?
Speaker 1: She was activity that's incredible and I was like, oh, Neil,
Speaker 1: I didn't. Who know, she's activity. You only have to
Speaker 1: spend six dollars to make one hundred dollars. And I
Speaker 1: was like, that's really that's good, okay. And so now
Speaker 1: we can work from a place of you know how
Speaker 1: business should go. So the two things I wish I
Speaker 1: would have known better, you know, as far as running
Speaker 1: a business is like one I should have gotten like
Speaker 1: an assistant sooner and to your money person. And so
Speaker 1: I say that to say I'm be a listener with
Speaker 1: this letter that sometimes sitting down and talking with like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how small the small business is, but oftentimes,
Speaker 1: you know, small business owners are good at not necessarily
Speaker 1: the money aspect. But they're good at the thing that
Speaker 1: they're doing. They're good at baking the cake, or they're
Speaker 1: good at singing the song or teaching or whatever that is,
Speaker 1: but they're not necessarily good at running the business. And
Speaker 1: a little nudging, a little suggestion can go a long way,
Speaker 1: because I know we go along with for me and
Speaker 1: so you know that would be my advice is that yes,
Speaker 1: do do it on your own, but don't don't discount
Speaker 1: that they haven't done it. Just because they don't want to.
Speaker 1: Maybe they just need some help restructuring, you know, their
Speaker 1: finances right.
Speaker 2: And it's and that's what makes it sort of hard
Speaker 2: to work for a small business too, is that it's
Speaker 2: almost good because you're so close and up close and
Speaker 2: personal with your with your bosses, with the founders and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But and you have the opportunity to speak up and
Speaker 2: ask for what you need or what you want. But
Speaker 2: it also is kind of like you have to because
Speaker 2: it's not like anyone else is going to do it.
Speaker 2: You know, like you really have to be your advocate.
Speaker 2: There's no HR department and you know, no union or
Speaker 2: whatever to talk up. So but in the in the
Speaker 2: near future, what K can certainly do is just open
Speaker 2: up a basic I ray and I'm a big fund,
Speaker 2: a big fund. Here I go again. I'm a big
Speaker 2: fan of target date funds. I think they're super simple.
Speaker 2: And these are just basically funds where you match it
Speaker 2: to the date you anticipate that you'll retire, and they'll
Speaker 2: they'll invest your funds accordingly. And typically that means more
Speaker 2: aggressive starting out with more stocks, and then as you
Speaker 2: get older and closer to retirement, it'll wean you off
Speaker 2: and shift your investments more toward low risk investments like bonds.
Speaker 2: And I think, well, I definitely know that Vanguard, Charles Schwab,
Speaker 2: Fidelity all have their own versions of target date funds,
Speaker 2: so they're all good. And you only need about what
Speaker 2: five hundred bucks to start five hundred to one thousand
Speaker 2: dollars to open up one of these accounts, so not
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so just get started as sooner the better. When
Speaker 1: it comes to.
Speaker 2: Retirement, absolutely like don't yeah, and you don't let the
Speaker 2: fact that you don't have it makes it harder if
Speaker 2: you don't have, you know, a employment offering for benefits.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I mean, just because your
Speaker 2: employer offers you benefits doesn't mean it's going to be awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a good retirement plan. So it's nice to have control
Speaker 2: over everything in a way. Yeah, so thinks Okay, and
Speaker 2: again if you have questions, go to brand Ambition pot
Speaker 2: cast dot com or email us Front Ambition podcast at
Speaker 2: gmail dot com dot com. No, I know you still
Speaker 2: knew it.
Speaker 1: I was on it down when I was like waiting,
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, she's sick, Okay, is it time
Speaker 1: for wins?
Speaker 2: I believe it's wins. It's been a wile since we've
Speaker 2: done wins.
Speaker 1: I know, all we do is win, win, win, no
Speaker 1: matter what. We haven't done wins in the wild, so
Speaker 1: what so yeah, so it's time for you know, first.
Speaker 2: Whens.
Speaker 1: Colleenla, nobody came from her wins.
Speaker 2: I forgot what wins were supposed to be.
Speaker 1: There's supposed to be. I mean, if they can be personal,
Speaker 1: but this is supposed to be like you know, some
Speaker 1: because sometimes and I mean today was was was decent.
Speaker 1: But I think we started wins because you know, it
Speaker 1: was during the time of the reign of He who
Speaker 1: shall not be named, when when that transition was happening
Speaker 1: and it got a little heavy and we needed something.
Speaker 1: We wanted to always end on a bright note. And
Speaker 1: so Winds were like no matter what we talked about,
Speaker 1: whether how bad or whatever, that we always ended with
Speaker 1: something positive. Got it.
Speaker 2: I'm back on the Winds train.
Speaker 1: Well, here's a win, even though this is like, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit on the old side. But no, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do that one that is really old. I'm
Speaker 1: like to like, go play yourself. I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, let's see I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just didn't think wins are just brown girls in general,
Speaker 1: because we're like just pretty awesome. I have to say,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we're just out here slain and you know,
Speaker 1: I know, I mean, I know, I thought I had
Speaker 1: a win and I was like, I don't. Well, okay, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, well that's the first one I feel like
Speaker 1: I already talked about, like you know the list name. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be at fest like I have a win.
Speaker 2: But it's really fun listening to your ramble.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, yes, please bring.
Speaker 2: Let's see how long Tiffany can go. No, I did
Speaker 2: want to do a win, and actually I had this
Speaker 2: written down for last week. I was prepared for a
Speaker 2: win last week, but we didn't do one. And it's
Speaker 2: gonna sound like a cheap one, but it's really meaningful.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to give a win to my sister,
Speaker 2: who I feel like is she's like the unsung hero
Speaker 2: of my life and of my siblings' lives, and I
Speaker 2: just feel super appreciative to her. You know how in
Speaker 2: a family like we have four siblings, and I feel
Speaker 2: like there's always the one who gets like the brunt
Speaker 2: of everyone's like, you know, they're the ones that you
Speaker 2: get all the phone calls. They're the one who have
Speaker 2: to deal with the emergency and you know, be there
Speaker 2: when you know the parents need something or when something
Speaker 2: goes wrong, and just handling everything and anyway. So I
Speaker 2: feel like my sister is just like the backbone of
Speaker 2: our siblings right now. And at the same time, I
Speaker 2: wanted to, I want to give her that shout out,
Speaker 2: which she definitely deserves, because she's amazing and she, you know,
Speaker 2: kept me saying even before you know, she was my
Speaker 2: maid of honor and it was her job to keep
Speaker 2: me saying. She's always there supporting me. But she makes
Speaker 2: me think a lot about the role of like sisters
Speaker 2: and families and how the women in families typically end
Speaker 2: up being the caretaker. And I look at my sister
Speaker 2: and I kind of already see that we are defaulting
Speaker 2: toward Okay, Mallory will take care of it. My sister's
Speaker 2: name is Mallori. You know, she'll be the one. And
Speaker 2: and it makes me like I wanted I had started
Speaker 2: having a talk with her about it because I wanted to.
Speaker 2: I felt bad. I wanted to stop doing that so
Speaker 2: much because I didn't want her to feel like every
Speaker 2: time something goes wrong, she must be the one to
Speaker 2: swoop in, because it wears you down after a while,
Speaker 2: and it's not really fair to that sibling. And I mean,
Speaker 2: we don't have to. I mean, there was a Vice Viceland,
Speaker 2: which is that Vice network. They have a business finance show,
Speaker 2: and they had a woman on talking about the role
Speaker 2: of women and how women almost always end up being
Speaker 2: a default caretaker, and how women are more likely to
Speaker 2: turn down promotions because they have to take care of
Speaker 2: elder family or spouses. Women are more likely to leave
Speaker 2: the workforce because they have to be a caretaker and
Speaker 2: to sacrifice themselves. And I feel like it doesn't always
Speaker 2: have to be that way, Like sometimes it is because
Speaker 2: there's only the daughter or only the niece or whatever.
Speaker 2: But I feel like in families sometimes it's easy to
Speaker 2: step back and say, Okay, well my sister has it, yeah,
Speaker 2: and she's the one ever you know, that can take
Speaker 2: care of it. And I certainly did this when my
Speaker 2: mother a couple of years ago, my mother fell and
Speaker 2: shattered her kneecap on ice and I went from this, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I went from my to Wisconsin, and I spent
Speaker 2: my week with her, and after that, my sister was
Speaker 2: on her own and she was the only one living
Speaker 2: near her to take care of her. And that's like
Speaker 2: my mother couldn't use the bathroom on her own. So
Speaker 2: I mean, that's like around the clock taken care of
Speaker 2: and she was there for months and months and months
Speaker 2: for her recuperation. And I kind of used that distance
Speaker 2: as an excuse, but I'm just anyway, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to give her the shout out and the wind. But
Speaker 2: also your.
Speaker 1: Author right, and your mother had those moves on the dead,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, really, she heeled great.
Speaker 2: I know it is. I mean when I think about
Speaker 2: if I showed you pictures or video my mom two
Speaker 2: years ago, I swear I was like, she's never gonna
Speaker 2: walk again. Like I just had to help my mother
Speaker 2: use the bathroom. How this is crazy. She's in her
Speaker 2: mid fifties. That is so scary, so scary, and and yeah,
Speaker 2: her recovery was amazing. She also lost fifty pounds this year.
Speaker 2: Let's just give Mama a shout out to you. Let's
Speaker 2: give mama win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why are we here, right? Yeah? I kind of
Speaker 1: sister's got great energy, and so does her wife. I
Speaker 1: was just like, oh, they were just just all of
Speaker 1: your family. When I was there and in uh and
Speaker 1: husband's family, it was just such a great, like warm,
Speaker 1: welcoming environment. And so everybody gets a shadow. You get
Speaker 1: a shadow, you get a shout, everybody gets a shout out.
Speaker 1: You know, even what's your what's your what's what's his name?
Speaker 1: Your your best friend's.
Speaker 2: Guy Baron or Kevin Baron?
Speaker 1: Now you Baron, you left me, I know, just thank
Speaker 1: you so much because I know he's listening.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's ever been mad at Baron Brown.
Speaker 1: Like go. He's really awesome too. He had such great edergy.
Speaker 1: He made sure that was good. So yeah, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just know sisters are really I mean, there's something
Speaker 1: special about sisters. I mean brothers too, but I don't
Speaker 1: have any brothers, so I wouldn't know. So, but there's
Speaker 1: just something special about sisters and how far they'll go
Speaker 1: for you. So that's awesome, thanks Mallie.
Speaker 2: But they also have to take care of themselves, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: It's nice to be the one who swoops in, but
Speaker 2: it's also like up to the rest of us, me
Speaker 2: who is the most awkward caretaker in all of history
Speaker 2: needs to get better at trying and being there.
Speaker 1: I've got to win. Yes, yes, So I was just
Speaker 1: doing a little scrolling through. So a friend of mine
Speaker 1: named Ivida her course Robinson. Yes that's her real name.
Speaker 2: Wait I know that name? Where do I?
Speaker 1: Yes? She is the founder of No Madness, got it?
Speaker 1: And so No Madness for those who don't know, it's
Speaker 1: this awesome travel community specifically for people of color, brown people,
Speaker 1: brown ambition people. Right, So Avida was already awesome. I
Speaker 1: was already like, Oh, Avita's awesome. She's amazing her movement,
Speaker 1: Like you're seeing this huge uptick in brown travel, and honestly,
Speaker 1: they really credit a lot of it to her. And
Speaker 1: there's a few other kind of like folks that has
Speaker 1: started that movement, but she's one of the founding folks.
Speaker 1: So she's, like, like I said, amazing. But what I
Speaker 1: love about Avida is, yes, No Madness is great, But
Speaker 1: she's always been so civic minded and recently she dropped
Speaker 1: to me one of the most amazing things that she
Speaker 1: could have done outside of starting No Madness, she started
Speaker 1: this lip stain line called Compass by a Vida and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is cute, Like okay, these
Speaker 1: lipstains that you can wear, And honestly, the stains are
Speaker 1: actually really nice. You know sometimes people make things and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I guess, but they're really nice. But
Speaker 1: what I love about it is that she names the
Speaker 1: lip stain after a city in the world, like there's Aleppo,
Speaker 1: there's joe Berg, there is Haiti. Well, Haiti's a country,
Speaker 1: but whatever, Bangkok Legos for Nigeria, Soweto for South Africa.
Speaker 1: So she names the lip stain after places in the world.
Speaker 1: And because she's so like pro women focused, she gives
Speaker 1: ten percent of the income from that lip stain to
Speaker 1: women in that country. How dope is that?
Speaker 2: That's amazing?
Speaker 1: And so what I love about it is that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get to buy this dope product, but you're buying
Speaker 1: something where you're giving to women like you and the
Speaker 1: other countries. So she just today she just dropped what
Speaker 1: percentage of I guess of what percentage of lipstains are selling?
Speaker 1: Like who like, what's selling more Haiti? It's you know,
Speaker 1: joe Burg has gotten the most and then Haiti has
Speaker 1: gotten the second and most I guess of sales. And
Speaker 1: so if you loving to wear like and the lip
Speaker 1: stains what I love about it. But I don't know
Speaker 1: how she made this work, but she her campaign. She
Speaker 1: shows women of all brown shades, not just brown shades,
Speaker 1: women periods. Honestly, it's not just the a lip stain
Speaker 1: line just for brown girls, but so women of all
Speaker 1: shades wearing these stains and it looks good. From super
Speaker 1: super chocolate girls like me to Lily Lily, Lily white
Speaker 1: girls like some of her friends that have warn it
Speaker 1: and you're like, wow, that's the same lipstain. It looks amazing.
Speaker 1: It's like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants where the
Speaker 1: jeens fit all of their body sizes. Yes, what stain does.
Speaker 1: And I'm just really proud of her because this is
Speaker 1: just something that she's created to bring awareness to the
Speaker 1: fact that there are women around the world that really
Speaker 1: need our help, but doing it in a way that's
Speaker 1: like fun and that way you could participate, you know,
Speaker 1: while buying something really cute and like, you know, so girly,
Speaker 1: like a lip stain, but knowing that your your contribution
Speaker 1: is helping out the women. So if you're interested in
Speaker 1: learning more about it, it's compassed by ivida e v
Speaker 1: I t a dot com and get yourself a lipstain.
Speaker 1: I've ordered. I've ordered the Red. I think it's Aleppo,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited about it because I'm like, ooh, I
Speaker 1: love me a good Red. Now it's time to say
Speaker 1: goodbye to all our company.
Speaker 2: I guess we have a few. Is this the end
Speaker 2: credits of Golden Girls?
Speaker 1: Yes? No? No? How do you not know? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: forgot you're millennial? P r O w N A bitch.
Speaker 1: It's a Mickey Mouse Club, am I? I know that, Gondy,
Speaker 1: I don't know. On that you're either super young or
Speaker 1: super old, depending on like what the topic is. Mandy's like, what,
Speaker 1: but you did know Golden Girls? Which so you know?
Speaker 1: I mean you actually knew the name of that even
Speaker 1: though you're new to them, right? Was it you who
Speaker 1: never heard of Golden Girl, like you never watched the
Speaker 1: episode until recently?
Speaker 2: Yes, that was me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know we're slowly bringing you into the
Speaker 1: gen X am I gen x or y I don't
Speaker 1: even know. But either way, either way Brown Ambition, it's
Speaker 1: been awesome, as per usual,