WEBVTT - We boycotting or nah? 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:21.360 Hey va fam, Welcome to Brown Ambition. Happy Wednesday, Happy 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.680 Lunar New Year. If you're celebrating, we're going red. Well, 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.280 I mean I got the memo, but some other. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:33.479 Round table is that isn't the Red family. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.199 That's probably what like a dude thinks it's red. But 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.520 I'm talking about like like Chinese red. That's not Chinese 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.040 New Year red. No, it's not not at all, but 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.840 it's fine enough. There's a huge like Chinatown and SF 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.479 is like a big thing, right, Oh. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:54.320 It's a huge yeah. Population. I don't have any specific plans, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.400 but I will always partake in, especially the food portion 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:58.160 of the celebration. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:03.400 Yeah, man, so souper dump. Yeah so wait you moved 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.600 to SF so much has changed? Oh my god, I 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.199 went with an afro today. What else have you missed 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.880 in the past like two weeks. We call it the 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:17.280 Brown table. Now, welcome to the Brown Table. Yes, so yes, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.800 officially going to like you know, let you know that 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.800 and shout out to Mark from Better Wallet for giving 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.160 me that name. I'm going to mention you every time 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.160 so that you don't ask me for any kind of 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.320 like royalty or benefit residual from that. Okay, but thank 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.600 you for the idea. You were right. What else did 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.720 you miss? You on Nelly? Our girl is in Switzerland. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.720 Yeah. I was like, where's Nellie when I got here. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.280 She's a Rudelyn babe. She's doing something fancy. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.840 Well that's right, because I saw a video and I 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:44.840 was like, is this right now? 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.160 I was like where she was on the panel? 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:47.840 Yeah? 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.000 Yeah, but you know I was teasing. I'm like, look 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.120 at that girl from the from Brooklyn almost said the 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.760 Bronx from Brooklyn bk out there in Switzerland. So we 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.080 wish her the best doing her big girl, big speaking thing. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.960 But yeah, so you had a big move. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.400 Oh man, It's like one of those things where you 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.720 you whatever, you move right, you know it's horrible, but 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.639 then you just forget about it, and then the next 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.280 time you move you're like, oh, yeah, this is horrible. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.560 That's what happened. Like, yes, yeah, you think about oh, 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.280 it's gonna be so exciting a new place. You don't 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.440 think about the fact that you're constantly boxing of stuff, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.280 lifting everything. It was it was a journey, But I've 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:24.080 been here for a weekend. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.160 I rid of so much stuff. You made a big deal, like, oh, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.680 a minimal snow blah blah blah. You could fit my 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.160 things in a carry on suitcase. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:32.720 That's the thing. I got rid of so much stuff. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.640 And then I'm like, I still got too much stuff. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.239 So it ended up being I have like one you 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:38.960 can't see it's out a frame here of a giant 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:40.800 suitcase that had all my clothes in it. So I 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.480 was able to fit pretty much everything in that one 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.519 big suitcase, and then everything else fit in the back 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:46.400 of a round. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.680 I have suitcases, multiple of clothing that no longer fits me, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.960 that that might fit me one day, you know that, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.680 I just like stack up in my crawl space. So 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.480 I have to buy a new luggage when I'm like, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.280 oh damn, I'm using that big suitcase for Why. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:01.480 Don't you just put it in a box? Why are 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:02.960 you put it in a suitcases? 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.440 It just feels like vermin could get in there. You 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.120 know I'm in I'm in the suburbs. Now, we might 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.000 have little mice and stuff. I don't want them to 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.320 like chew through a box. Get clothing. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.680 Get those little bags. So the ones we you stuck 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.240 the air out of the bag, it seals it up. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.720 I don't have a vacuum does that does not compatible 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.560 with the dice in the little dice and skinny back little. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.520 Pump thing like a little bike pump thing you put 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.320 on it sex all the air out come on. So 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:25.799 I'm making excuses a. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.480 Bike so I could use my bike pump. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:27.680 To do it. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.560 No, no, you can't. It's a special one. You can't 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.040 just plug a bike pock doing it is gonna work. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.720 Listen. I don't do any any like appliance or tool 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.840 that has different components and nozzles. I just can't be bothered. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.560 I'm like, Oh, the wooden floor attachment is not on it. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.160 It's the carpet attachment. Well, I guess I'm not vacuumting 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.680 the living room today. I'm just I'll wait until my 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.160 husband feels like finding out finding the carpet attachment or whatever. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:54.560 What were we discussing? 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:54.960 You? 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.080 Okay, God moved up here about a week and a 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.960 half ago. It's been great, but the move was still horrible. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.240 So now you're starting your new I mean, you're not 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.320 starting your new single life in the city because you 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.200 went and got booed up, I. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.280 Know, locked it down before I got here. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.600 I just think that's great. It's almost like you manifested 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.960 that relationship too, because you had planned to move and 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:16.240 then you met me, right. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:17.960 Yeah, exactly three mutual. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.960 Friends, I mean, and how long has it been since 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.640 you were last really? I know you've shared on the 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.960 show candidly. I know that you're like your skin's crawling 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.200 because you're like, oh, not personal. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.160 Details, more personal. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:34.000 But you were divorced, divorced by divorce, Okay, in Adele's voice, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:38.240 divorce it's fine, like most people will so anyway, but 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.200 you came back. It's fine. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:41.960 One of the things I told myself, right, because I 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.279 was like, as I was getting back at there, because 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.880 I didn't really want to at first. I was I 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.360 was just working on myself, going to therapy, trying to 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:48.480 figure out what am I doing. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.280 Amen, as you should, right. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:51.880 You don't want to bring all your problems into a 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.479 new situation, so I'm trying to take my time. And 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.360 I was like, Okay, I want to whoever I meet, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.400 I want to be friends with them first, because I 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.159 want to make sure that we like each other, we 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.240 get along. You don't when it's jumping something to something, Beau, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.720 you're attracted to somebody, right, Because there's a lot of 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:05.360 attractive people. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:06.640 I mean, you guys going to get along, you do 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.960 if you're under thirty, which we're not. So yeah, you 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.359 know for that different now, relationships so only have so 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:15.440 much time to live. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:20.839 Like you got the count, you're a later dater. You 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.200 just dry all the way up, you know. Yeah, And 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.080 I gotta say, you like, you never know, right you 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.520 meet someone and you start dating, and you know, anyway, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.800 we're all putting our best foot forward, right, like we're 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.960 all being our best version of ourselves, and so you 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.160 always wait. I'm sure she's waiting for the shoot to 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.159 drop for me, and I'm waiting for her. And I 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.479 gotta say, she's still been the same amazing person since 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:47.520 when I met her, very even, very consistent personality and demeanor, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.920 and yeah, it's been it's been really good getting to 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.880 know her more. And that's kind of like just like 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.359 you know, getting through like the very early stages. And 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.520 I will say being friends first definitely helped because you 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.640 can know the person a little bit. You already know 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.520 the good and the bad of who the person is, 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.120 and so it kind of helps as you transition to 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.600 that relationship part. And I was very fortunate that I 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.480 ended up meeting her through a friend, because I was like, 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:10.919 that was what I was hoping for. But you know, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.160 you don't know, like you know who your friend's friends are. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.000 They may not have a good pool of people and 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:15.760 they're bullet fed. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.360 But it wasn't like a setup. It wasn't of those 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.960 awkward like, Okay, you got to meet this girl that 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.640 I feel like is less successful than what you've done, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.680 which is the organic like your I mean, did you 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.400 tell your friends, hey, just in case you know anyone 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.120 who's single, like make sure that they're invited, or did 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.119 you just like let it happen. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.560 No, you don't shout out to my friend. My friend 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.839 Ning got throw her name out there. She was wanting. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.400 To be the friend who like met who like connected 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.320 the two soulmates, you know what I mean, Like, whoever 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.159 there was that friend who introduced Harry to Meghan, And 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.240 I'm just like the way that my ego would just 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.479 be fed for the rest of my life, like she 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.480 gave us Harry and Meghan. So shout out to Ning. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.359 Ye do better next time, Maddie. You're you're way too slow. 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.680 I'm really bad at it. Ning. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.000 She told me she met Bee just through a co 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.760 working space, the same co working space I go to. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.240 And she was like, Oh, she's just a really cool person. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.320 I really I really like it like her. We're becoming friends, 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.480 like great, and that was it. Then when I went 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:13.960 to where I came back for like my second long 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.520 trip up here, we went to the co working space 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.240 and then B just happened. She literally just walked in. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.360 Ning wasn't even sitting next to me. I was just 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.240 sitting in a chair and be sat across from me. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.360 Didn't know who I was. I didn't know who she was, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.080 so we didn't like we weren't talking. And then Ning 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.720 walks up. She's like, oh, hey, hey, B, this is Chris. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.200 Chris is B And I was like, oh, this is 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.760 the person you've been talking about all this time. I 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.280 had no idea, and so then yeah, we just kind 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.560 of were just Ning was very respectful. That was the 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.040 one thing we both give her credit for. She was 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:41.680 not like forcing us to be there, and then we 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.160 think she deep down was like I think these two 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:45.880 people were where they hit it off, but she never 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.920 like forced us to go do something together and then 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.000 like make us like sit by each other. Wasn't like 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.000 always orchestrating things. But but it feels like a good 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.280 investment at this point. I mean now, definitely a good investment. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.360 I'm paying I paid for the annually annually, so somewhere 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.120 around like I think one fifty ish a month. It's like, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:03.480 what's the equivalent price of. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.320 Well, just be careful you don't end up on one 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.520 of them websites. You know, there's like Facebook groups. Now. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.800 I was hanging out with my husband's coworkers and they're 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.840 all like in their early twenties or mid twenties, and 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.119 they said that there's a Facebook group where they it's 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.280 and it's for every city, and girls get on there 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.920 and share pictures of boys that they're about to go 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.360 out with and basically ask the crowd, hey, any ride 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:25.400 flags I should know about? 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.840 Oh that it's gonna be way worse and whatever. I 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.840 know what you're about to say some webcam orsbody, it's terrible. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.040 Oh no, but that's horrible. I'm like, And they were 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.199 just talking about how yeah, I put a picture of 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.040 this one guy, and then someone said that he had 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.040 cheated on her, and I was like, well, never mind, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.320 onto the next and I was like, first of all, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.360 when is anyone, someone's gonna get sued if they haven't 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.680 already been by these Yeah, because that's like you could 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.560 really you know, you're you're just like tearing down someone's 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.920 character and out of and people could be doing it 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:56.800 for revenge. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.240 You know, Like that's the thing, because I get it 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.160 for a woman, right cause it's like, look, you got 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.360 to be careful out there. You gotta make sure you're right. Yeah, person, So. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.520 We do it anyway informally, but to have it like yes, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:08.520 I agree, but. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.800 Right, but there's too much room for stuff for a 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.440 jealous visual person to be like, oh no this, let 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.600 me tell you all this fake, horrible stuff about this person. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.280 We mess up a potentially good relationship. So I'm like, 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.960 I get it, but I'm like, oh, there's a lot 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.280 of room for that to go real wrong. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.360 Well, I'm just saying you might want to do a 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.640 little quick glance at that that group for s f 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.040 any of your awkward early dates. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.640 Oh yeah, you know, I got no skeletons in my closet. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.840 I'm open bug though, I'm like, I'm not worried about 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:38.640 anything out there. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.880 Ooh famous last words. I will be saving this clip 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.959 for when the next Chris Browning scandal occurs. You know, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.560 remember when he said, I never knew he was so normal. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.600 He was my friend for years. I never saw it coming. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.160 Please put this out there. They'll put his energy out 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:54.679 into the world. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.439 Thank you, all right, ba Fan. Well, the biggest things 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.440 in the news right now, other than like everything happening 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.480 with lowered Voute Mowort, has just been like the economy, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.760 you know that we're so easy to screw with. I 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.760 feel like, honestly, the stock market in America, like we're 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.800 so fickle just anything anything can happen. Like, you know, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.240 I feel like the now the founder of that company 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.679 whoever founded a Deep Deep Seek in China, like they 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.480 could just have a really bad cough or something, and 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.000 then like the American markets would just be jacking the 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.240 price up of all these tech companies to be like, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.800 oh well maybe they were like got an illness, so 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.760 we need to like, you know, maybe these companies are 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.199 going to be doing better now when that company obviously 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.280 goes under because the CEO is gonna die because he 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.240 has tuberculosis or whatever it is. You know, like we're 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:46.480 just so emotional. Homeboy, stock market. Homeboy is in his 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.719 feelings he's a very emo and yeah, tech stocks were plummeting, 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.720 and it's like Navidia, this company that makes the chips 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.839 that these AI. Now I understand why Nividio is such 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:58.280 a big deal. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:02.439 It's in video is a name. I call it Navidia, 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:07.840 which is a beautiful day. My brother's having another kid. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.520 I like, you could name your kid Navidia. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.800 Well listen, at least I didn't do the real Southern thing. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.400 And I was like, Navidia's call it in videos. Anyone 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.880 been to m going down to in videos like crokers, Yo, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.320 their stock has been going boom boom, up up up 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.880 up up. I know Amandy money Maker had gotten a 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.040 job there and her comp offer. I was like, this 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.240 is a work of art. I got no notes ten 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:34.000 out of ten. Don't negotiate, just run run and say yes, hey, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.839 Jake it which is very unusual for me to say, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.840 don't negotiate. But I was like, girl, you got it, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.920 Like this is an amazing offer. Let's talk about like 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:48.280 something that really impacts American finances, which or at least 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.800 it feels like. I don't know if it was like 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.120 if this is too apt of a cliche to use, 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.040 but as a chicken or the egg. When the egg 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.840 became the the indicator. There's just research came out showing 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.400 that the price of a dozen eggs, and this is 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.480 like the bare minimum eggs, like the squeaky styrofoam, the 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.640 pink and blue containers that the bougie ones of us 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:15.040 don't you know, don't get those have doubled in price 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.840 from like two bucks to four dollars. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.880 Since how much of your budget is your eggs compared 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.280 to things like your rent or your mortgage, or your 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.959 car insurance and car paper, like, there are things that 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.120 make up a much bigger chunk of your budget that 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.040 should be more more concerned, Like we should be putting 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.440 all this energy into like why is the cost of 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.680 living increasing so crazy and such a crazy rate, versus 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.400 thinking that if egg prices went down, if eggs went down, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.600 if eggs went from four dollars to fifty cents a carton, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.760 that's not going to danger your life. But if you 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.240 have got way more affordable, that would make a big difference. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:42.840 But it becomes this thing, this talking point that they 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.200 can just focus on, and it's not like eggs have 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:46.960 gotten are going to get cheaproblem a sudden it's because 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.320 we have a new president, because they have not. So 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.960 it's it's one of those things that's like, it's not 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.240 really where we should be putting our anger and energy 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.000 into right now. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.560 What I would rather focus on is like the cost 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.680 of technology. If the Trump administration and goes through with 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.800 these tariffs that they're threatening to put on countries like 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.200 Mexico and China, then like, I don't want us to 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.880 lose sight of what could happen to that, because I 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.719 feel like people who voted for Trump are like, yeah, 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.120 he's going to be like tough on trade, but not 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.840 understanding the crucial, crucial piece of information about a tariff 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.680 is that it does increase the cost for them to 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.880 ship their products to us in America, but they passed 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.520 that cost on to us. So there's one report that 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.760 says if they go through with an up to sixty 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.480 percent tariff on Chinese goods, that could lead to an 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:41.040 insane increase in the cost of things like computers and smartphones. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.440 So one example is that wait, we're in this tago 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:54.680 n VideA hold on everything all be oh, here we go. Yeah, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.440 So if they actually go through with a sixty percent 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.440 tariff on China. A new report said that laptop and 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:04.040 tablet price might increase forty five percent, video consoles by 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.280 as much as forty percent, smartphones by as much as 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.040 twenty six percent. So let's just take it a smartphone 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.040 for example, I just bought my dad, well with his 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.120 credit card. I helped him order the new iPhone Promax 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:15.240 or whatever, because. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.360 He doesn't really like you. 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.040 I just know absolutely not. You'll hear later in the 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.640 show about why I did not no money like that 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.400 right now. But anyway, he can't. His phone is so 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.680 bad that he couldn't even get online to purchase a 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.440 new one. I did it for him, and it was 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.640 a thousand bucks or whatever. Of course he got one 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.000 of those insane thirty six month payment plans. But anyway, 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.080 if a tariff like this goes through, that could be 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:40.800 a two that could that phone, the same phone I 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.840 got him could cost twelve hundred dollars because yeah, we're 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:48.760 not making these products in America, so tariffs mean more 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.360 money from us. So I don't understand how that is 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.920 part of like the make America affordable again. Well that's 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.440 why we're here in ba FAM because we ain't going 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.320 to be that dumb. Okay, well, what do you think 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.520 about all these d de I Rollback says. The big 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.240 one that is like breaking the girl's hearts is Target? 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:11.040 Oh Target, Why why a Tab at the Brown? Probably 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.440 the biggest, I feel like the biggest black owned brand 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.200 in Target. I can't think of a bigger one, can you? No? 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:16.800 I don't think so. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.400 Yeah, So she has I mean she sells food there 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.200 and cookwaar, and she had a clothing line and she's 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.120 just a huge personal brand unto herself. We love Tab 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:27.920 and so for Tab to be swept up in this 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.920 and she did this. She put a video on social 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:34.560 weear she's eating like the biggest crispis fowl of grapes. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.200 Like it was very asmr Like I've never heard a 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.480 grape that crisp. Like where did she get this from? 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.080 And she's not even saying anything. She just don't want 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.000 I was like, black girl, I'm not going to say anything, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:49.880 but I'm going to communicate with my m like do 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.640 you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.920 No word needed to add an important POV to this, 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.680 which is I believe the actual founders of these black 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.520 owned businesses like what is what does it mean to 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.120 them if we boycott these retailers and get that perspective. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.600 I have a very special guest who's going to join 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.720 us now, and her name is Kim Lewis. She is 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.120 the CEO of curl Mix, which is I know, Chris, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.280 your favorite natural curl haircare brand. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.080 Right love? Which had more? I could use more of it? 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.840 How many ball jokes will she do in an episode? 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.640 At least two? So she's gonna come on and she's 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.440 going to weigh in because curl Mix has been around 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.560 four I feel like, I don't know a decade now, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.080 and she has built of like an e commerce heavy business, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.080 but has recently been in the past year selling her 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.000 products at Alta Alta Beauty. So Kim's going to join 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.000 the show, and I think y'all really love what she 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.360 has to say. So I wanted to have a friend 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.360 of the show. Kim Lewis the CEO and founder of 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.480 curl Mix, one of your one of the best brands 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.800 for curly hair, and naturally, I'm wearing my curly hair today. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.800 One of the best friends out there is like, Kim, 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.919 You've been in business for quite some time now, in 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.320 the past year, your products have been put on shelves 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.520 at ALTA. So yeah, I wanted to get your perspective 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.640 on all of this, Like is it fair for us 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.960 to say boycott these retailers? Is that the best thing 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.240 we can do to show that we do care how 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:21.639 they invest in our communities? 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.320 You know, I saw the founder of Buy from a 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.680 black woman and talk about how it's like if you 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.480 look at the Montgomery book bus boycott, and if there 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:29.840 was a group of black people were like, you know what, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:30.960 we can still ride bus. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.760 Fourteen and seventy eight. We just want to do the 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.880 other buses, it wouldn't have been effective. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.560 It was all around canceling of a retailer that really 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.400 got changed, and that really made because people people only 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.000 respond to their pocketbooks, right, They're not going to respond 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.479 to like goodwill and incentive and kumbaya. They're like, oh, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.760 I'm not making it so much money, let me change 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.280 my policy. So boycott of Target could turn into, Hey, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:54.320 we're going to double. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:55.879 Down on the DEI we were doing before and do 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:56.320 even more. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.000 We might even have a black section, you know what 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.280