Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, be a fan. What's up? It's Mandy Money.
Speaker 1: I am so excited to be with you guys on
Speaker 1: the whatever birthday this is for our country, whatever birthday
Speaker 1: it is, I just know that there will be There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a party, but we are gonna have I
Speaker 1: feel like there hasn't been a clean Fourth of July
Speaker 1: where like we have been able to just party and
Speaker 1: appreciate this beautiful country. I don't know if it's the
Speaker 1: times or just my age, but like in a good decade,
Speaker 1: like can we like not have anything just truly embarrassing
Speaker 1: happened to us before our birthday? Like one year? Y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into the debate. I know whether you
Speaker 1: watched it or you have just caught up on the
Speaker 1: memes online, I am going to talk about the debate.
Speaker 1: I got some markets news for y'all. We're gonna find
Speaker 1: out is Chipotle actually shrinking their bowls? Because when I
Speaker 1: tell you, I'm so glad that the not all heroes
Speaker 1: were capes somewhere took it upon themselves to analyze the data, yeah,
Speaker 1: being seventy five burrito bowls to find out if Chipotle
Speaker 1: is actually shrinking its portions, and this is silly but
Speaker 1: also serious because shrink flation is the biggest beef that
Speaker 1: I have with the economy and with retailers in general.
Speaker 1: Then I got to talk about Amazon day, y'all, because
Speaker 1: this July and in the ass crack of summer, Amazon
Speaker 1: every year loves to bring out its bargain bin and
Speaker 1: make people gamify shopping so that we just buy more
Speaker 1: stuff that we don't need. We just talked about this
Speaker 1: on last week's episodes. I'm eager to tap into that,
Speaker 1: and I got some pop culture tidbits. Did y'all hear
Speaker 1: that Jonathan Majors is like lowercase B back And I'm
Speaker 1: figuring out how I feel about it, and it's a
Speaker 1: pretty easy no for me. But you know, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about that. Somehow. He won an award, an
Speaker 1: award that means nothing but also means something, the BET Awards.
Speaker 1: We're just on this past weekend, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about that, And full disclosure, did I watch it? No,
Speaker 1: not me. Never. I catch up with the clips afterward,
Speaker 1: like a good hard working, you know mom of two
Speaker 1: has to do. But I did watch Willsmith's performance. I
Speaker 1: did watch Dorogi p Henson kind of hit on Keith
Speaker 1: Lee in front of his own wife. Oh there was
Speaker 1: so much to cover, and we have not had a
Speaker 1: chance to chat about the whole Ken Dot you know who,
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar taking Drake and basically I don't know, just
Speaker 1: digging a grave for him, a very comfortable grave and
Speaker 1: lining it with like satin pillow cases and just saying, Drake,
Speaker 1: here you go. You can lie here because this is
Speaker 1: your career and I have buried it. So we are
Speaker 1: going to talk about Drake's epic concert on the West
Speaker 1: Coast a little bit because I don't want to embarrass
Speaker 1: myself because I am not listen. I am not one
Speaker 1: of those people who's on the internet talking about NonStop
Speaker 1: Kendrick this and here's what Drake what in the dishtrack? This? Like?
Speaker 1: I just am here for the music, okay. And what
Speaker 1: I know is that that distrack not like Us, which
Speaker 1: is probably gonna sweep the Grammys for all of its
Speaker 1: categories and be the nail, like the literal nail in
Speaker 1: Drake's literal career. Coffin is a bop. It's a bop.
Speaker 1: I listened to it NonStop. Now you cannot escape it.
Speaker 1: On the internet. All right, let's get into it. So
Speaker 1: first in markets news quick shout out to the robin
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Speaker 1: as it should, got so much crap during the pandemic
Speaker 1: for basically gamifying stock investing and getting a bunch of
Speaker 1: young somethings or people who were not that you know,
Speaker 1: well versed in investing to pour a lot of their
Speaker 1: money into the market without knowing what they were doing.
Speaker 1: But they have a killer newsletter, so can we forgive
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Speaker 1: top of the news for today Chipotle. So you guys,
Speaker 1: did you invest in Chipotle during the pandemic? Listen tell
Speaker 1: us I will not judge you. I won't judge you
Speaker 1: maybe just a little bit. I personally, I don't invest
Speaker 1: in many single stocks, many individual stocks, point being that
Speaker 1: when I do, they usually tend to tank right after that.
Speaker 1: So I am a classic ETF index fun kind of girl.
Speaker 1: But Chipotle is in the news. They were one of
Speaker 1: those stocks I think during the pandemic that got a
Speaker 1: little bit of a lift. They survived the great e
Speaker 1: Coli drama of two thousand and what was that like
Speaker 1: seventeen or something, where like half of a basketball team
Speaker 1: dropped from e Coli. But they are back in the
Speaker 1: news because again TikTok's favorite food credit Keith Lee is
Speaker 1: out here setting these companies straight, y'all and trying to
Speaker 1: get us the best bang our book. And what y'all
Speaker 1: have been reporting, yes, Keith Lee and also all of
Speaker 1: y'all on the Internet who have been sharing photos and
Speaker 1: videos of your Chipotle orders. The intensity around this debate
Speaker 1: of whether or not Chipotle is cracking down on portion
Speaker 1: sizes has reached this new level of hotness. Right, there's
Speaker 1: actually surveillance of burritos, like literally, there's memes of people
Speaker 1: like strapping on cameras steady cams to walk into a
Speaker 1: Chipotle and watch so you can see the people making
Speaker 1: the bowls. But what I thought was hilarious is there
Speaker 1: was actually an analyst, Yes I'm going to open this up,
Speaker 1: an analyst who bought seventy five burritos from eight different
Speaker 1: Chipotles to prove that the portion size problem is real.
Speaker 1: And guess what it's not just us Chipotle. Burrito bowls
Speaker 1: can vary widely wildly in size, all right, so what
Speaker 1: did they find? The smallest bowl that they found was
Speaker 1: thirteen point eight ounces, y'all, do you really need to
Speaker 1: pound a burrito bowl? Like? That's wild? But the largest
Speaker 1: bowl that they found at a seventy five was twenty
Speaker 1: six point eight ounces. My gosh, my goodness, I want
Speaker 1: to interview the person who gave someone a pound and
Speaker 1: a half of burrito. Can that little little cardboard bowl
Speaker 1: that is basically disintegrating as you take it to your
Speaker 1: seat from all the salsas and all the liquids, Like,
Speaker 1: can anyone fit a pound and a half of burrito
Speaker 1: into that bowl? Like? Come on? And after they just
Speaker 1: had their fifty for one stock split go into effect,
Speaker 1: they have been reporting increasing sales. So even though they're
Speaker 1: playing us in some cases with giving us smaller portions,
Speaker 1: the fact that they are only getting more sales bodes
Speaker 1: well for the stock. But I don't want y'all to
Speaker 1: be play to fool by another retailer the way that
Speaker 1: Chipotle and many others has been with their shrink inflation practices,
Speaker 1: giving us the same product but in a different size.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, Trader Joe's. I feel like Trader Joe's.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the Trader Joe's study because I know,
Speaker 1: like one of the things that I can't get over
Speaker 1: is how much more I get these chicken dog treats
Speaker 1: for my dog, because you know, she's a sensitive girly,
Speaker 1: so she can't have a bunch of fillers in her treats.
Speaker 1: And so they have these, like one kind of dog
Speaker 1: treat that has it's like dried chicken or something like that,
Speaker 1: and it's not cheap in the first place, but the
Speaker 1: package keeps getting smaller. I'm like, I'm not spending six
Speaker 1: dollars on two little crusty chicken strips for my dog.
Speaker 1: Like it's not happening, but no big announcement. The products
Speaker 1: are just getting smaller. There's less in there. Look at
Speaker 1: a cereal box, Look at a bag of chips. Look
Speaker 1: how much air is in there? Look at the My
Speaker 1: favorite thing at the grocery store is to see how
Speaker 1: much per unit the price is. So like, if you're
Speaker 1: buying a box of cereal and you're like, should I
Speaker 1: get the family size or the regular size? What's the
Speaker 1: price difference. Don't just look at the difference in price,
Speaker 1: look at the unit price, which is going to tell you,
Speaker 1: like per ounce, how much you're paying for that cereal.
Speaker 1: And that's how I make a lot of my choices
Speaker 1: at the grocery stoes just looking at the per ounce cost.
Speaker 1: But many, many retailers are getting away with making us
Speaker 1: feel like not much has changed, and yet we are
Speaker 1: getting less for our money. And that is why me
Speaker 1: and if you're a parent or whatever, you just have
Speaker 1: do a lot of grocery shopping. It feels like I've
Speaker 1: never done shopping, Like I always need more stuff and
Speaker 1: it's always it's always running out, and the bills are
Speaker 1: always getting run up. So what the hell? Okay, state
Speaker 1: farm agents are small business owners too, so they know
Speaker 1: how to help you choose personalized policies that fit your needs,
Speaker 1: like a good neighbor. State farm is there. Talk to
Speaker 1: your local agent today. Everyone's favorite stock, Amazon is in
Speaker 1: the news too, y'all coming up in another couple of
Speaker 1: weeks Amazon tenth. They're tenth. I've really been ten years?
Speaker 1: God dang, why am I? This old tenth? Prime Day
Speaker 1: is coming up this July July sixteenth through seventeenth. Now
Speaker 1: for some people, this is like the summer event. This
Speaker 1: is the Black Friday of the summer months. And shout
Speaker 1: out to whoever at Amazon came up with this brilliant
Speaker 1: marketing concept. But you really did it, and you made
Speaker 1: people excited to shop for on a random day in July,
Speaker 1: just because the thing is that people love Amazon Day. Okay.
Speaker 1: Analysts estimated last year people spent thirteen billion thirteen with
Speaker 1: a b billion dollars. This year, the marketing budget has
Speaker 1: been rammed up even more. They teamed up with Megan
Speaker 1: the Stallion to showcase there must have picks and they
Speaker 1: even dropped a music video. I haven't watched it. Have
Speaker 1: y'all watched it? Like? Was it good? I mean, I
Speaker 1: love Megan, I really do. I really want to see
Speaker 1: her on tour, but I missed out. She's almost she's
Speaker 1: wrapping it up. They also got Millie, Bobby Brown, and
Speaker 1: and other influencers to do promos ahead of the event.
Speaker 1: Sixty five percent. So even if you try to be
Speaker 1: cool and I'm like, you're not going to shop on
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day, basically you are and we know you,
Speaker 1: we know you are. Sixty five percent of Americans said
Speaker 1: they plan to do more bargain hunting this year because,
Speaker 1: like I said, inflation is straining our wallets. So we
Speaker 1: are looking for a deal. But this is where we
Speaker 1: have to give a shout out to competition. Okay, and
Speaker 1: this is why I stand for the FTC. And you
Speaker 1: guys don't know what the FTC is. That is an
Speaker 1: organization that stops companies from buying each other up and
Speaker 1: basically monopolizing the market. Okay, we like competition. We like
Speaker 1: these big retailers Amazon versus Walmart versus Target versus Best
Speaker 1: Buy to be competing. Why because it's going to drive
Speaker 1: down prices for us? Right. We like deals, so ten
Speaker 1: years in other retailers competitors are really understanding, like we
Speaker 1: cannot play around when you li rules around. We need
Speaker 1: some deals. And y'all I've already seen this happen. Have
Speaker 1: y'all been to Target recently? I was in Target a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago with my kid and he had
Speaker 1: a twenty dollar bill and I was like, twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: You know. He was very excited to spend it, and
Speaker 1: I was like, sure, you're probably gonna get like one
Speaker 1: monster truck for twenty bucks. Now, because of how inflation
Speaker 1: has just made everything so much less for so much
Speaker 1: more money. But he walked out of that store with
Speaker 1: three toys because everything in the toy section was either
Speaker 1: like thirty percent or fifty percent off, like to the
Speaker 1: point where you would go to check out, and we
Speaker 1: thought his toy was seventeen dollars, it was actually eleven.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, nothing makes a four year
Speaker 1: old learn math on the spot like finding out he's
Speaker 1: got an extra nine dollars instead of three. So he
Speaker 1: bought it was really sweet though. He bought a birthday
Speaker 1: card for his dad and then a rocket ship craft,
Speaker 1: which he ended up giving to his dad. I love
Speaker 1: my kid. But see what I'm saying, You can tell
Speaker 1: that not only are retailers competing with Amazon, but they're
Speaker 1: getting in the game earlier. So we love to see that.
Speaker 1: So if you are looking for deals, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and say try to find things that you
Speaker 1: were gonna buy anyway, but check out Walmart. Walmart has
Speaker 1: their Walmart Deals. Target has Circle Week where if you
Speaker 1: sign up for their loyalty program you can get deals,
Speaker 1: and they're going to have another one in July. Best
Speaker 1: Buy is also bringing back literally Black Friday in July. Wait,
Speaker 1: should my husband have waited to buy He just bought
Speaker 1: a brand new TV, y'all? Sixty five inches that's a
Speaker 1: lot of inches. And sometimes you just got to like
Speaker 1: black out a little bit when things happen in the
Speaker 1: house and I'm just like, yeah, sure that's the TV.
Speaker 1: Now it's as big as the wall on. Huh, this
Speaker 1: is great? But damn, should he have waited until Black
Speaker 1: Friday in July? I don't know, But y'all, do not
Speaker 1: sleep on these other deals, especially if you're shopping for
Speaker 1: back to school? Why not start a little bit early
Speaker 1: if you get some be interested to see if there's
Speaker 1: some back to school deals and if you can actually
Speaker 1: I mean, I got Creola Kranz at Target that were
Speaker 1: ninety nine cent for a full box. I never thought
Speaker 1: in my life I would be so excited about a
Speaker 1: sale on Creola crayons. But here I am, and here
Speaker 1: it is who I am. Do y'all you're still listening, right,
Speaker 1: I haven't lost half the audience. Have I very excited
Speaker 1: about that. I'm really curious to hear if you guys
Speaker 1: are going to be shopping these deals in the middle
Speaker 1: of the summer. But I gotta stay away because the
Speaker 1: last thing I need is more stuff in this house.
Speaker 1: Stuck and a signed Stuck in a Starter Home. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the name of my memoir, Stuck in
Speaker 1: a Starter Home. Since it is July fourth, I do
Speaker 1: want to talk about this little tidbit that I read
Speaker 1: the American I love these random associations. Of course we
Speaker 1: need an American Pyrotechnics Association. They are predicting that we're
Speaker 1: going to drop two point four billion dollars twice as
Speaker 1: much as we spent before the pandemic in fireworks. So
Speaker 1: if you are one of those people like we were
Speaker 1: back in the day, you have to drive to the
Speaker 1: border of Alabama to get your fireworks. Listen, do what
Speaker 1: you gotta do. Please be safe. I'm not purchasing fireworks.
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of liability. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go to a big fireworks show and just watch them.
Speaker 1: You know the way that I like to staying my
Speaker 1: ass in side the other five days of the week,
Speaker 1: because if you live in a black or Hispanic neighborhood,
Speaker 1: you know that the entire week of the fourth of
Speaker 1: July it's going to be until like three in the morning.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I do not miss living in the
Speaker 1: heights on Dykeman. I do not. The Dominicans love a party.
Speaker 1: They love they love popping off fireworks on the roof
Speaker 1: at all hours of the night. No think you, mam.
Speaker 1: I am a patriot, but I also need to sleep.
Speaker 1: M hmm. Okay, all right, So that's a little bit
Speaker 1: of business and markets. Let's move to a little bit
Speaker 1: of politics. I just want to say a prayer. I
Speaker 1: want to say a prayer for America and for democracy,
Speaker 1: because it ain't looking good, y'all. It ain't looking good
Speaker 1: to the point where Joe Biden. And if you have
Speaker 1: been sleeping under a rock or just you know, on
Speaker 1: a social media news kind of cleanse, you know, more
Speaker 1: power to you. It's not nice over here. Just stay
Speaker 1: off the internet, Joseph R. Biden. I just want to
Speaker 1: give the man an electric blanket and a mug of
Speaker 1: hot piping hot Earl Gray tea, the little squeeze of lemon,
Speaker 1: and like a little drizzle of honey. And I want
Speaker 1: to give him a crossword puzzle. And I want to
Speaker 1: give him the big lazy boy chairs, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like the kind that your grandparents probably had
Speaker 1: if you grew up between the you know, the nineties
Speaker 1: to like the early two thousands. He needs one of
Speaker 1: those lazy boy chairs. He needs some cute cozy socks.
Speaker 1: He needs Jill by his side, although she's a young
Speaker 1: little thing, so she's probably like, you know, on her phone,
Speaker 1: grading papers whatever. But I need him in front of
Speaker 1: a fireplace. I need him to take a nap. I
Speaker 1: need him to be eighty one years old. It is
Speaker 1: sad to me, this is my take. I wish I
Speaker 1: could come here and give you, like all these different
Speaker 1: angles of policies and like whatever was spoken about, you
Speaker 1: know the truth. I don't know what the f they
Speaker 1: talked about. I know that I was in a literal
Speaker 1: like I was in Thank God I was watching in
Speaker 1: bed because I could just curl up in a tight
Speaker 1: little ball of anxiety, because it was so deeply uncomfortable
Speaker 1: to watch this old man flub question after question, flub,
Speaker 1: response after response. Do you want to know why? Because
Speaker 1: he's an old man, we should let this man age
Speaker 1: with dignity, and we are in such dire straits that
Speaker 1: we have to like prop him up with whatever he took,
Speaker 1: Probably nothing, by the sights of it. Whatever he needed
Speaker 1: to stand up on that stage and try to string
Speaker 1: words together way after his bedtime. The man is eighty one.
Speaker 1: My grandparents, God rest their souls. They each passed away
Speaker 1: in their early eighties. And like, that's already a little
Speaker 1: bit above I think the lifespan for the average American.
Speaker 1: But he's the president, so we'll give him an extra
Speaker 1: ten twenty years. Look at Jimmy Carter, I feel like
Speaker 1: they really get the good medicine, the secret stuff that
Speaker 1: the rest of us probably don't know yet. But uh,
Speaker 1: it made me so deeply uncomfortable. And what was so
Speaker 1: depressing for me too, is just like I feel so
Speaker 1: bad for him because he no one, no one, and
Speaker 1: you compare him to Trump. No one I don't think
Speaker 1: has given over as much of their life to public
Speaker 1: service as this man. He has been through so much.
Speaker 1: We all know what happened to his first wife and
Speaker 1: his children who passed away, and the other son who
Speaker 1: had a brain tumor in the other son who's just
Speaker 1: like convicted of a felony. He can't catch a break,
Speaker 1: and yet we are. He's still showing up for us.
Speaker 1: He still cares about this country so much, and I
Speaker 1: don't really have you know, of course, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to vote for you know who, for Voldemort, but I
Speaker 1: feel so much compassion and sympathy for this man that
Speaker 1: he cannot just age with dignity and with grace. And
Speaker 1: I feel so much gratitude. And this may not be
Speaker 1: the popular response, but I feel a ton of gratitude
Speaker 1: for him for putting himself up there and out there
Speaker 1: in that way. Because y'all know that that man walked
Speaker 1: out on that stage. He shuffled out there and his
Speaker 1: Lemon pepper stoppers, and I wish he had a nice
Speaker 1: comfy pair of Costco slippers to wear, but he shuffled
Speaker 1: out on that stage and he probably knew like, this
Speaker 1: is not going to be it. And I have read
Speaker 1: that since the debate, not only has Obama had to
Speaker 1: come out and issue a statement basically saying like, oh shucks,
Speaker 1: can't win them all. I've had a couple of bad
Speaker 1: debates myself, but the Biden campaign has been in damage
Speaker 1: control mode since before Biden even left the stage, they
Speaker 1: were contacting donors. So for voters, what does this mean?
Speaker 1: They have basically taken the approach of yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a bad night, but he's still the best beat versus Trump,
Speaker 1: and that is honestly the truth. I don't have a
Speaker 1: ton of patients for conversations around well, we're just not
Speaker 1: going to vote. We have two bad candidates. I get
Speaker 1: really pissed off when I see people call Trump and
Speaker 1: Biden like, for example, two mediocre white men, Like, look
Speaker 1: what they can do. They're two mediocre white men. We
Speaker 1: should be doing this. Ah. I don't think that's fair
Speaker 1: at all to Biden and his public service legacy. And
Speaker 1: you can pick apart his policy and there's so much
Speaker 1: going wrong. I know that the fact that we continue
Speaker 1: to funnel weapons into a war zone that is killing,
Speaker 1: that is performing genocide on an entire people. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Gaza and Palestine. It is not okay that
Speaker 1: the Americans that we have anything to do with that,
Speaker 1: and that it's our weapons who are killing children's lives
Speaker 1: like that is unacceptable to me. And Biden has complete
Speaker 1: control over whether that continues or stops. However, the man's record,
Speaker 1: the man's decades of public service, Like I just think
Speaker 1: that we need to give people some respect, give them
Speaker 1: some space. Unfortunately, he is the candidate that we got
Speaker 1: so yes, I'm showing up to the polls in November
Speaker 1: and we have to vote. Please don't stay home, you
Speaker 1: must vote. This is also a really good reminder of
Speaker 1: the fact that the presidential election is not the election
Speaker 1: to really worry about. You need to be involved in
Speaker 1: your state politics. We just had a really progressive representative
Speaker 1: in my district, Jamal Bowman, got ousted by a moderate
Speaker 1: dude who's the executive the town, the county executive for
Speaker 1: the county. I live in Westchester, George Latimer oust in
Speaker 1: him because he's more moderate, because he wasn't as tough
Speaker 1: on the whole Israel, the Israel genocide of Gaza right now.
Speaker 1: And this is what can happen if we take our
Speaker 1: eyes off of these smaller I would say they're not smaller,
Speaker 1: but like less publicized, less known about races like we can't.
Speaker 1: We can't, We cannot afford to put our country on
Speaker 1: the line in this way by just taking the easy
Speaker 1: way out and saying like Biden is not fit for office,
Speaker 1: so we're just not going to give a fuck mmmmmmm.
Speaker 1: We must show up, show up to the poles. Okayba fam.
Speaker 1: A little bit of brown buzz some pop culture moments.
Speaker 1: Be ET Awards aired this weekend. I watched the Will
Speaker 1: Smith performance because I couldn't believe he was performing. My
Speaker 1: husband and I just saw Bad Boys. What was the tagline?
Speaker 1: I don't know the fifth or fourth Bad Boys movie
Speaker 1: that he and Martin Lawrence put out. All I can
Speaker 1: say is, I don't know if the movie has changed.
Speaker 1: It just you know, it is what it is. It
Speaker 1: was a popcorn movie. It was entertaining, and maybe it
Speaker 1: would have been funny if the Margarita had not already
Speaker 1: worn off by the time I sat down in my seat. However,
Speaker 1: when I heard he's performing, I was like, Wow, talk
Speaker 1: about a comeback kid. So I want to talk about
Speaker 1: two combat kids. Will Smith on one end and then
Speaker 1: Jonathan Major's on the other, completely different offenses. Right, Will
Speaker 1: Smith the smack her around the world. It's been a
Speaker 1: few years since that hasn't really been a few years,
Speaker 1: at least two years since that happened. And I'm actually
Speaker 1: pleased to see Will still making art, still making movies.
Speaker 1: He's obviously still a huge brand. He was defending his
Speaker 1: wife no or you know whatever she is at this point,
Speaker 1: defending her against someone else, but like of course, using
Speaker 1: violence is never the answer. But I do think that,
Speaker 1: you know, he wrote, he had that memoir that came out,
Speaker 1: He's had this movie, he's got the Bad Boys franchise,
Speaker 1: which is still you know, bringing in tons of money.
Speaker 1: But music, like music is not where I expected for
Speaker 1: him to go next. But he couldn't let Willow have
Speaker 1: all the fun right Like He's like, oh no, baby girl,
Speaker 1: Like he just can't let Willow have it because she
Speaker 1: is flag right now and he could just be like
Speaker 1: he could just be a proud papa, but no, he
Speaker 1: had to put on a silver suit and get on
Speaker 1: stage the BET Awards and basically do like a like
Speaker 1: a Christian gospel kind of rap moment. It was giving
Speaker 1: like I think he was wanting to do like a
Speaker 1: Jesus Walks Kanye moment, but I didn't get that. It
Speaker 1: was actually reading a lot of the comments on TikTok,
Speaker 1: and I was expecting them to be giving him so
Speaker 1: much shit, but a lot of people were like, wow,
Speaker 1: I needed that message from Will Smith right now. And
Speaker 1: the song it's called you Can Make It, So it
Speaker 1: was very like, I think it's true to will and
Speaker 1: how he's always been. I wasn't keeping track of a
Speaker 1: TV cursed or not. I know that's his like big thing.
Speaker 1: He never cussed, but this was like inspirational rap and
Speaker 1: there's a lane for everybody, so like, more power to him.
Speaker 1: I think he deserves to be here. I think he
Speaker 1: deserves to be on a stage if he cares to
Speaker 1: grace one. He is and forever will be my fresh prince.
Speaker 1: And I cannot untangle my love for that character, for
Speaker 1: Will Smith, like he just is that guy. People were
Speaker 1: giving a lot of did not have so great things
Speaker 1: to say about the Usher tribute because they had It
Speaker 1: was all women who did the tribute, which I think
Speaker 1: was pretty like bad ass. Why not? Some people didn't
Speaker 1: like it, but it is what it is. I thought.
Speaker 1: The funniest moment for me that I've seen on Twitter
Speaker 1: is one Taraji p Henson accidentally hit on Keith Lee
Speaker 1: like in front of his life, but also shout out
Speaker 1: to Keith Lee, who literally just used to sit in
Speaker 1: a Paw Patrol children's foldable chair and talk about his
Speaker 1: food that he got from the drive through and now
Speaker 1: he is this huge Internet star at the BET Awards,
Speaker 1: Like that's incredibly dope and has remained so humble and
Speaker 1: does just incredible things for the community that communities that
Speaker 1: he blesses with his presence. Keith Lee, I am excited
Speaker 1: for you to return to Atlanta and give us another try. Yes,
Speaker 1: I will say us, even though I do not live
Speaker 1: there currently, but always in my heart, I think Atlanta
Speaker 1: deserves another try, and I'm glad that he is doing that.
Speaker 1: So that's BET Awards. But the two, the second comeback kid,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Major is now this one I feel very different
Speaker 1: about and what I had heard. I didn't watch the
Speaker 1: like I didn't want to give clicks to the actual
Speaker 1: award ceremony because I think Brezen just kind of like
Speaker 1: reinforcing why they did this as a PR stunt. They knew, like,
Speaker 1: this is a random ass award show I've never heard.
Speaker 1: I mean, no offense to the other honorees. I hope
Speaker 1: that you deserved it. But he was awarded at the
Speaker 1: Hollywood Impact Awards. So Jonathan, if you guys again are
Speaker 1: not want me just remind you he was convicted of assault.
Speaker 1: He never served any time apparently, but the fact that
Speaker 1: he is now winning a Perseverance Award on any stage
Speaker 1: and he was there with his girlfriend Megan, Why do
Speaker 1: I want to say, Megan Fox, Meghan Good, Sorry about that,
Speaker 1: and to be on a stage like that. Soon after it,
Speaker 1: he even addressed the supposed incident his conviction. I think
Speaker 1: it ended up being I don't think it was a felony.
Speaker 1: It was like a misdemeanor. But he likened himself to
Speaker 1: any other black man navigating through the justice system, and hey,
Speaker 1: it's his story, he should own it. He can say
Speaker 1: whatever he wants to say. But I just feel some
Speaker 1: type of way about him getting an award and being
Speaker 1: introduced by a woman who was saying how after being
Speaker 1: in a nine year marriage where she was assaulted, she
Speaker 1: was proud and humble, like those words came out of
Speaker 1: her mouth to introduce Jonathan Major. So I do think
Speaker 1: that it's very fair for us to talk about the
Speaker 1: ridiculousness of cancel culture and how people don't have room
Speaker 1: for redemption, But at the same time, it sort of
Speaker 1: has to require some sort of reckoning and humility. And
Speaker 1: I do think when you're a public figure, when you
Speaker 1: are trying to seek redemption after doing something so heinous
Speaker 1: as putting your hands on another human being, especially a
Speaker 1: woman in a relationship, and from all reports that I've read,
Speaker 1: not just one. It maybe was convicted for one, but
Speaker 1: that was kind of his mo for years now, right allegedly,
Speaker 1: I will say allegedly, allegedly, do not sue me. We
Speaker 1: ain't got money like that anyway, But I do think
Speaker 1: there's there's room for a redemption redemption arc. But awards
Speaker 1: after a situation like that, it just it's giving pr
Speaker 1: publicity stunt to me. And this little known award show
Speaker 1: is now of course being written about and talked about,
Speaker 1: so hey, it's all marketing at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, I'm gonna wrap up the buzzworthy And
Speaker 1: by the way, Tiffany's not here. It's just me today.
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Speaker 1: as more than just a monetary item that we all
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Speaker 1: So by the time you hear this, it's going to
Speaker 1: be the fourth of July roundabout there. But you still
Speaker 1: have time to sign up for the FINCN Women and
Speaker 1: in Money Mastermind event that's happening in July fifteenth and
Speaker 1: sixteenth in Manhattan at the Nasdaq. I will be there,
Speaker 1: hitting the stage with some of my favorite financially free
Speaker 1: and financially fabulous influencers and authors and experts like Jamila
Speaker 1: Sufran from Journey to Launch. Friend of the show, We've
Speaker 1: got Bernadette. Wait, what is Bernadette's last name? I said,
Speaker 1: Bernadette Peters, But that is actually a Broadway actor and
Speaker 1: not at all I think Bernadette. I only know her
Speaker 1: has Bernadette, Bernadette, Do you have a last Bernadette like debt?
Speaker 1: Because it's so clever, Joy, Bernadette Joy, there we go.
Speaker 1: Not the curly redhead from the Brandy Whitney Houston version
Speaker 1: of Cinderella. Also going to be on the stage with
Speaker 1: my podcast network sister Paula Pant, Jamila Sufron, Bernadette Joy
Speaker 1: and me. I am sharing four keys to negotiate your
Speaker 1: business contracts without selling yourself shorts. And if you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with the Money Women in Money event, it's new
Speaker 1: to the Fincong community, but basically it's a networking event.
Speaker 1: They have a mastermind where you can go all day
Speaker 1: and just kind of get poured into by your peers.
Speaker 1: If you have a business or you want to start
Speaker 1: a business, and you know what, I have three free
Speaker 1: passes to this Women in Money event. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much it costs, probably a few hundred dollars, but
Speaker 1: I have one left. I've given two of the passes
Speaker 1: to business owners in my Mandy Money coaching community, and
Speaker 1: I have one left. So how about the first person
Speaker 1: who can send me a DM on IG yes me
Speaker 1: at Mandy Money, not the brand ambition one. Just directly
Speaker 1: to me and say that you want the pass and
Speaker 1: you can be in New York because I don't want
Speaker 1: to just give it to you if you're not going
Speaker 1: to use it. It is Monday, July fifteenth, between four
Speaker 1: and seven pm. That's the first event. That's where I'm
Speaker 1: going to be at the Nasdaq, which is in Midtown Manhattan. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's in New York, not virtual in person. After
Speaker 1: the event, there's going to be a networking dinner, so
Speaker 1: you can share a meal in small groups and you'll
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to create content in Nasdaq's studio Sweet.
Speaker 1: And then on Tuesday there is actually a mastermind. Like
Speaker 1: I said, nine to five pm. The entire day you
Speaker 1: can focus on your creator business with other like minded creators.
Speaker 1: You'll be grouped on you'll be grouped up based on
Speaker 1: similar levels of experience, and you'll have a mastermind facilitator
Speaker 1: to make sure the conversation flows. And the whole purpose
Speaker 1: is just to connect you with other creators and to yeah,
Speaker 1: just enrich the work that you're doing. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: love this. I have one pass left. You just have
Speaker 1: a code. You can use my special code to get
Speaker 1: a free pass and you can come hang out with
Speaker 1: us at NASDAK in New York City. That sounds like
Speaker 1: an amazing way to spend a Monday in a Tuesday, right,
Speaker 1: okaybi fam, that is it for me. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening. Happy fourth of July. Go vote in November.
Speaker 1: We'll keep on y'all about that, all right. If there's
Speaker 1: anything you want to hear us talk about in the show,
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