1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:00,720 Speaker 1: Levels to. 2 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 2: This is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with 3 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 2: Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. 4 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 3: You can find us on the iHeartRadio. 5 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 2: App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 4: Hey, what's going on? Everybody? It's your girl, Tareka Foster Brasby. 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 3: What's up, y'all? It's Shaggirl Cheryl swoops. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 4: Hey, And this is the levels to this podcast. This 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 4: is the podcast. 10 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: Where we talk about the levels to the shit that 11 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: women go through. 12 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 4: And we've got such a great, festive and fun episode 13 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 4: for you today because it's Christmas and it's the Christmas season. 14 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: So first, Merry Christmas? 15 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 4: Who all who celebrate happy holidays for others? 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: But how was everything going for you? Cheryl? Like, I 17 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: don't want you to tell me what you got for Christmas? 18 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 4: Because I was about to ask you and then I said, no, 19 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 4: we are adults, we are not children. 20 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: So well, I'm gonna ask how is your holiday gidding? 21 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 3: So far? 22 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 2: I don't ask me shit, Okay, okay, since you ask, 23 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 2: you know, I told you we've had this conversation. 24 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 3: I decorate. 25 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 2: The night of Thanksgiving, right, and usually when I do that, like, 26 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: I'm so in the spirit and oh my gosh, I'm 27 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: doing something every single day. 28 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 3: It didn't happen, didn't happen. I don't know. 29 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 2: I don't know why, but I will tell you. Christmas 30 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 2: Day though, for me, is always about family and friends 31 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: and the cooking and the eating. 32 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 3: So I mean, it's it's good. It's been good. 33 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 2: I think what I got. So I want to ask 34 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 2: you what you got? 35 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 4: No, no, no, because I know I'm the only reason 36 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 4: why I'm not going to say is because I'm gonna 37 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 4: put it all over social media anyway. So I just 38 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 4: rather people to see my pictures and be like, Okay, 39 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 4: that's what you got. But one thing I do know, 40 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 4: I know right, you know what I'm saying, Like that's 41 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 4: the reaction I want, Like I know you, I know you, 42 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 4: But I will say I will say that I do 43 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,839 Speaker 4: do a lot of like secret Santas and stuff like that, 44 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 4: and so this year I think that like my secret 45 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 4: Santa gifts have been on point. 46 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: Like I got an sg row scar. 47 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 4: Okay, a little travel like this little travel jewelry box 48 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 4: because people know I love jewelry, so like its little 49 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 4: gold jewelry backs that I can travel. So like I 50 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 4: feel like the gifts this year have been very good 51 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 4: and very intentional. 52 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: And I love that. 53 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 4: And of course I have my holiday traditions that I'm 54 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 4: gonna do today, Like I always watch die Hard because 55 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 4: Diehard is a Christmas film and nobody's gonna tell me 56 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 4: no different. 57 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 1: I always watch Home Alone one and two. 58 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 4: Because you've got to be a horrible ass parent to 59 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 4: leave your kid twice as wild. 60 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 1: Like what. 61 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 2: I always wonder as a mom, though dad too, but 62 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 2: especially a mom. You how do you leave your kid? 63 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 2: What you say not once twice, but twice. Well we 64 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 2: we we know he's not your favorite, because we know Kevin. 65 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 3: That's one of the best Christmas movies ever ever. 66 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: I love it, love it. 67 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,399 Speaker 4: And then of course the kidd of me is always 68 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 4: gonna end it with Charlie Brown Christmas because I love 69 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 4: Charlie Brown, and so I always watch you know a 70 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 4: Great Pumpkin Patch folloween, I watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving when 71 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 4: they sit there eating popcorn, And of course I gotta 72 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 4: watch the Christmas one because Lucy is gonna get Charlie 73 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 4: Brown every time with that damn football and everything. Don't 74 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 4: understand why he and I don't get why he just 75 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 4: beat Lucy Ass at this point, like, I'm not one 76 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 4: that condone domestic violence, but Charlie Brown ought to just 77 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 4: beat her ass one time. 78 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, because this is. 79 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 3: Christ Like you only take so much for so long? Right, 80 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 3: I agree? 81 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 5: You got a sister. 82 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: Oh no, I agree, tell you like your sister ain't 83 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 2: doing her job. My two, my two besides Tom alone, right, 84 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: My two are I'm just a big Rudolph the Red 85 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 2: Nose Reindeer. 86 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 3: I just love that, yes cartoon. 87 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 2: And Frosty the snow En. I don't care how old 88 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 2: I get. I don't care how old I get. Those 89 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 2: are the two that will forever be on my Christmas 90 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 2: Day playlist, watch list, whatever you want to call. Yes, 91 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 2: without question, yes, yes, yes, yes, I love that. So 92 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: happy holidays to everyone, Merry Christmas. 93 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 4: But also, starting on December twenty sixth, we in this 94 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 4: season with what has become one of my favorite celebrations 95 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 4: of this of this season, and that's Kwanza. 96 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: And so I know that we've talked about Kwansa before, 97 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 1: but I. 98 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 4: Want to say maybe about five or six years ago, 99 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 4: probably longer than that, to be honest, but I have 100 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 4: really made it my business to celebrate Kwansa like in 101 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 4: its totalities, so it doesn't replace Christmas. 102 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: So I don't like obviously not do Christmas. 103 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 4: Stuff, but I like my candles. 104 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: There are seven principles. 105 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 4: So there's seven candles, one black, one three green, three red. 106 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 4: And you start with the black candle, which symbolizes Umojo, 107 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 4: which is the first day unity. 108 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: And you put your candles in the canara. 109 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 4: You like them each day depending on what day it is, 110 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 4: and it symbolizes the first fruit. And so in my house, 111 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 4: I have a whole table that has a kwanza like 112 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 4: a cloth on it. I have a canara, I have 113 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 4: my seven candles. I don't have real fruit because we 114 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 4: black people and we not really going to have all 115 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 4: these fruit flas up in my house. 116 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 3: But I got some say no, we're not gonna do that. 117 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 4: Dan look real and now you're gonna sit there all 118 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 4: seven days. And so if you are unfamiliar with Kwanza, everyone, 119 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 4: it was created in nineteen sixty six, and it was 120 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 4: created based on the African harvest festival tradition, and what 121 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 4: it does is just it aims to reaffirm African identity 122 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 4: and cultural pride. So there are seven principles of Kwanza. 123 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 4: And each of these principles stands for something different. The 124 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 4: first principle is moja, the second one which is unity. 125 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 4: The second one is kuji chakalia, which is self determination. 126 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 4: The third one is ujima, which is collective efforts. The 127 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 4: fourth one is ujama which is cooperative economics. The fifth 128 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 4: one is nia, which is purpose, the sixth one is kumba, 129 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 4: which is creativity, and the seventh one is imani, which 130 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 4: is faith. I'm pretty sure everybody knows somebody named Nia 131 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 4: or they know Imani, and that's probably where they got 132 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 4: their names from. So today, yeah one, today's show, we 133 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 4: are going to take a deep dive, not into Kwanza itself, 134 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 4: but into how two young, amazing, amazingly talented black women 135 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 4: have really taken Brooklyn and New York by storm by 136 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 4: creating a really unique way to celebrate Kwansa with a 137 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 4: bar crawl that they call the Kwanza Crawl. 138 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: So with that, let's get off. 139 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 4: Into this conversation and just take this thing to the 140 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 4: next level. Everybody, Sheryl and I are super excited to 141 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 4: welcome in to women who truly understand both business and 142 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 4: the artist storytelling. Right, So we've got one who brings 143 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 4: a decade of experience in high level marketing, entertainment production, 144 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 4: now leading Stark White Entertainment developing content everywhere from Netflix 145 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 4: to HBO. And then we have another one who is 146 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 4: hilariously funny. She's a writer, producer, comedian. Her work has 147 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 4: really shaped conversations on and off the screen. She's worked 148 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 4: with Showtime Hulu has really pushed industry to confront some 149 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 4: issues regarding representation and much more. And together they have 150 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 4: created the Kwanza Crawl, which I need to get my 151 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 4: st and have experiences and rooted in culture and creativity 152 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 4: and collectivity. I am excited and I hope you all 153 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 4: are excited to welcome in Crystal Paine and Carrie Cadet 154 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 4: to the show. Hey Chrystal, Hey Carry. 155 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 6: We are so excited to be talking to you both. 156 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 5: That was such a great intro. 157 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 2: I'm like, was that, Like, can you just do that 158 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 2: intro one more time? 159 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 3: Because it sounded really good. I know, I was like. 160 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 5: My mama on the line so she can hear all 161 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 5: that in one place. I love that. I love that. 162 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 4: I'm so excited, Like we are so excited to be 163 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 4: talking about talking to you both, because coming into this 164 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 4: show for like a few weeks. I've been telling Cheryl 165 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 4: how I have over the last maybe five years, started 166 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 4: being more into like celebrating Kwanza and how like I 167 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 4: love to see different things with Kwanza. And when we 168 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 4: came across the Quanza Crawl, we were like, hold up, 169 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 4: why haven't I known about this? Like I'm in Connecticut, 170 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 4: I'm only two hours away, so like, where have I been? 171 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 4: So I would love to know just the moment where 172 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 4: this idea just sparked for a Quanza Crawl. Like, given 173 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 4: that neither of you celebrated Kwanza before creating this crystal, 174 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 4: we can start with you. 175 00:09:59,400 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 176 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 7: Yes, So we started in twenty sixteen, and Kerry and 177 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 7: I were sisters and we're business partners, and we're not 178 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 7: ones to complain. We're like, if there's a problem, how 179 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 7: do we fix it? How do we work within the 180 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 7: realm of our own control? And so in twenty sixteen, 181 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 7: there was a lot of killing of black people, and 182 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 7: I mean, it still happens today, but that was the 183 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 7: year that we started the Crawl, and that was the 184 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 7: year that we're like, we need to take matters into 185 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 7: our own hands. And so we got a bunch of 186 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 7: the smartest people that we knew to get in the 187 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 7: room and we're like, people, what. 188 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:32,719 Speaker 3: Is we going to do? 189 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 7: And so we decided that as a community, what we 190 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 7: need is political and economic empowerment, and what we decided 191 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 7: to do carry and I is focused on the economic 192 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 7: aspect because he doesn't like the money, and we know 193 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 7: how to throw events, and so that's how the idea 194 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 7: behind Quantacral came to be. Essentially, we were like, we 195 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 7: need to get black people together all on one accord. 196 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 7: And when we looked into to Kwanza, but like, these 197 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 7: are the principles that would make us really tap into 198 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 7: what it means to be black, beautiful, just amazing, and 199 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 7: if we follow those principles, then I think the rest 200 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 7: will fall in line. And so that's how we started 201 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 7: celebrating Kwanza and how the crawl came and care see 202 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 7: you looking at me like you got more. 203 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 8: No one has ever been like directly Crystal answer this. 204 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 5: And I was staying here like, you know, I'm just 205 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 5: watching her and this is fun. But yeah, because we're 206 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 5: like a. 207 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 8: Tag team and we you know, we're sisters and we're 208 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 8: very very close, so we're almost like twins. So we 209 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 8: have this thing where we'll finish each other's sentences and 210 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 8: we feed off each other's energy, and so just that 211 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 8: like separation we felt, and we were just sitting here 212 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 8: like but I love that, No, I love that. I 213 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 8: love to see you rides to the occasion and that 214 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 8: good job. 215 00:11:59,000 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 216 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 3: So are you saying you have nothing more to add 217 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 3: to that? 218 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 6: Of course something she definitely definitely does. 219 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: She does well. 220 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 8: The reason why we started Quanta Cral is like everything 221 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 8: she said, but the economics of it all, it's tangible, 222 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 8: it's actionable. I think so many times when we sit 223 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,839 Speaker 8: down and now almost nine years later, we're in that 224 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 8: same feeling of black people feeling like what can we do? 225 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 8: The world around us is telling us like what the 226 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 8: canceling DEI? They're telling us they want us to die, 227 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 8: and it's like, what do we need to do? And 228 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 8: how can we can control what we can control? And 229 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,719 Speaker 8: we don't need nobody to save us. We have everything 230 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 8: that we that we need. We're all we got and 231 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 8: if we can just like get outside of our houses 232 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:40,839 Speaker 8: and support. 233 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 5: One another, you can actually move the collective. 234 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 8: And that's what we've done with Quanto Crawl we've brought 235 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 8: in over five hundred thousand dollars in black dollars. 236 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 5: In this event. 237 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 8: And that's something that people can do all over the 238 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 8: world and the all over the cities and you don't 239 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 8: need much, you just need willingness. And so that's really 240 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 8: what the Crawl represents now. 241 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 7: And it's very important to us to also have fun, 242 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 7: right and everything we do, we want to have fun. 243 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 7: We want to make it our own. And when we 244 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 7: thought about Kwanza previously. 245 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 8: No Shade re reason why we the reason we didn't 246 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 8: celebrate it really growing up too, because it didn't even 247 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 8: feel accessible, it didn't feel. 248 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 5: Cool, and you know, we want to be cool. 249 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 8: We still want to like, you know, like No Shade, 250 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 8: but there's a way for us to do it in 251 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 8: a way that speaks to us, and it's in a 252 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 8: contemporary way and in a creative way. And Kwansa is 253 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 8: being creative. So we reimagine what it could look like 254 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 8: for us in our generation. And since the Crawl, we 255 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 8: celebrate Kwanza every year. It's a new tradition in our family. 256 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 8: It doesn't replace Christmas or any of the other holidays. 257 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 8: There's so many other people that have started celebrating Kwans 258 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 8: and now we know about it. We do what Kwanza 259 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 8: ceremony in the beginning to teach people, and so there's 260 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 8: an educational component to it. And so we really really 261 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 8: believe that, you know, Sharon is caring and we just 262 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 8: want to spread the word. 263 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 4: I'm so glad that you mention it, and I'm gonna 264 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 4: let you go after this show. But I'm so glad 265 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 4: that you mentioned the fun part because I'm gonna tell 266 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 4: you so, Kwanza's been in my family for years, but 267 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 4: we never really celebrated it, like in my household, but 268 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 4: been in my family for years, and a reason. 269 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: Why we, like, I never really got into it when 270 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: I was younger. It was because it like it did 271 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: not ever ever ever look cool. 272 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 5: It was all the. 273 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 4: Old people in my family who would get together and 274 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 4: they would have all of these African kin take cloth 275 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 4: and traditions on. 276 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: And so you know, I'm from Detroit, a little black 277 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: girl from Detroit. I'm seven years old, eight years old. 278 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: I'm with my cousins. 279 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 4: We laughing because we think y'all all look crazy as hell, right, 280 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 4: and we're like, what are. 281 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: We what are we doing here? Why? Why I got 282 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: this old fruit sitting up here? Why are we passing 283 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: this candle? 284 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 4: I don't understand what's happening, But I just got a 285 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 4: new Sega game that i'd really like to get home 286 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 4: and play. Like that's how I viewed Kwanza as a kid, 287 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 4: and like now being an adult and understanding the principles, 288 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 4: understanding like there are so many different ways to celebrate 289 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 4: it and acknowledge it in a way that's fun. 290 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: I think being cool is that is so important. We'll 291 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: go ahead. 292 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 2: I just first of all, I need to know where 293 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 2: I can get the hoodies like Kwanza Crawl hoodies, because yeah, 294 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: they're cute and I need in my life. 295 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 3: So you can tell me that later. 296 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 2: But so for me, growing up, I heard about Kwanza right, 297 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 2: had no idea what it was. We didn't talk about 298 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 2: it in my family, and honestly, Tea, it probably wasn't 299 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 2: until last year when when you were talking to me 300 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 2: about Kwanza right like you celebrated and I was like, 301 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 2: I need to learn more about it. 302 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 3: I need to do stuff, and so then. 303 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 2: Hear about Kwanza Crawl. Unfortunately I'm not two hours away. 304 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 2: I'm a good four and a half hour flight away. 305 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 2: But I think the idea, or not even the idea 306 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 2: of what you all do, what Kwanzacrawl represents sounds like 307 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 2: so much fun and I would love to come and be. 308 00:15:58,640 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 3: A part of it. 309 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: Question for you is when the both of you came 310 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 2: up with this idea, Like, what was the reaction from 311 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 2: people in your circle people around you? Did they look 312 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 2: at you like, yeah, you're crazy? Or were they supportive? 313 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 5: Or like how did how do. 314 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 3: People around you respond? Carry? How about you take this one. 315 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 8: Diffic I think we're fortunate enough that in our Brooklyn 316 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 8: community people we're known for always having ideas that are 317 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 8: ambitious and like doing something if it's not a comedy show, 318 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 8: or it's we used to design for jay z or 319 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 8: or whatever, like so many random things and like spreading 320 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 8: love truly is the Brooklyn way, and so we're always 321 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 8: fortunate that we can call on people to be like, 322 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 8: can you help us pull off this hair brained idea? 323 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 8: And so initially it was a lot of our friends, 324 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 8: a lot of stand up comedians, Like I always say 325 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 8: that Quanta Crawled the first here was really powered by 326 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 8: stand up comedians. They came in to help us roll 327 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 8: up flyers. One girl had a day job and she 328 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 8: printed off a bunch of the maps illegally after hours, 329 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 8: and like, the community really rallied together, and I think 330 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 8: if anything, the hardest self was the venues. 331 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: Yeah and yeah, the venues. 332 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 8: We had to like really ask them, right, Crystal, like 333 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,919 Speaker 8: what was that like from the venues. The venues didn't 334 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 8: know what was going They didn't they had no idea 335 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 8: what we were talking about. They didn't care about our 336 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 8: past experience, and so then we had to really go 337 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 8: into sales mode and say, listen, we know. 338 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 7: You don't know us, but this is what we've done 339 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 7: in the past. This is why we think it could work. 340 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 7: And we also met with venues to understand their experience 341 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 7: that they had with crawls in the past. 342 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 5: That's Cristal's dog is Amlin. 343 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: It's okay. 344 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 6: And so. 345 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 7: When we explained to the our day where with other 346 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 7: bar crawls, it's just a list of venues and people 347 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 7: just go at the participating venues. 348 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 6: There's no rhyme or reason. 349 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 7: And what that means for the venue is you're providing staff, 350 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 7: you're providing you know, you're purchasing food, You're making sure 351 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 7: that your bar is stocked and you don't know who's 352 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 7: going to show up. With the crawl, we created a 353 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 7: snarrow where everyone gets assigned to a team and each 354 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 7: team is accompanied by a team leader. Yeah, and the 355 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 7: team leader's job is to take. 356 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 6: You from bar to bar. And so for the crawl, 357 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 6: you go. 358 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 7: To a tourtal total of three stops that are freed 359 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 7: programmed by us. And so the establishments know that every 360 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 7: two hours you're going to get a team full of people. Yes, 361 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 7: and so the form the venues. Once we gave them 362 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 7: the vision, they finally got on board. And then from 363 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 7: the first year, like we sold out. We were surprised ourselves. 364 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 7: We didn't think it was going to be as big 365 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 7: as it was going to be. So we were like 366 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 7: tremendously faithful. And I will say that there were some 367 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 7: people who, unlike us, celebrated Kwanza for years. 368 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 6: They were they hated it. 369 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: They were like, why why drink? 370 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 8: And then and that's when Crystal told me I could 371 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 8: no longer be on social media. 372 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 5: She's like, you're not. 373 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 8: Allowed because I would just be like the thing about 374 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 8: it is, yeah, we're drinking, but we're also eating. These 375 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 8: restaurants serve food and there's not a celebration that you 376 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 8: can name where alcohol. 377 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 6: Is not consumed. 378 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 8: We drink at funerals, we drink at weddings, We drink. 379 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 8: Alcohol is a part of the Christmas. 380 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: We drink and c. 381 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 5: Where's where's the sacrilege? You know what I mean? 382 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 8: And you don't have to drink at the crag. You 383 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 8: can get juice, you can get water. 384 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 1: Like, listen, the drinks ain't free. 385 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 4: Hello oujama cooperative economics, my dude, Like we spending money? 386 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? Like there's always that one hater, y'all? 387 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 6: Yeah, there were several. 388 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 7: There were several and then some of the press, I think, 389 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 7: just to be honest, because we're amongst friends. 390 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 5: Yes, because we're family family. 391 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 7: Yes, some of the media publications didn't and receive it 392 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 7: very well either, and we were surprised, like we've gotten 393 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,439 Speaker 7: we've gotten responses to our art. 394 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 6: We say, we don't cover random events. 395 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 8: I think I think you're specific and you're trying to 396 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,439 Speaker 8: you're trying to censor it and you're doing a half measure, 397 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 8: and it's not right. So the truth is the truth 398 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 8: is true, is that the black publications in the beginning, 399 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 8: we're the ones who were like, we don't we don't 400 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 8: mess with Quansa. We don't know what this is. This 401 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 8: seems random, we're not covering it. And white people had 402 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 8: white guilt, and ABC, NBC and all the local affiliates 403 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 8: they didn't want to be the ones that didn't cover 404 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 8: the one Kwanza event that pitched them, and so they 405 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 8: came out and they covered it. And then we're nine 406 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 8: years later, fortunately we don't have that. 407 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 5: We don't have that anymore. 408 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 9: Now. 409 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 8: You know, we've established enough for ourselves. But some of 410 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 8: the initial sometimes it beyond your own man's people. 411 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: Sometimes it does, but that's. 412 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 8: Okay because it was still the black people who showed 413 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 8: up and supported Quansa Crawl and made it what it is. 414 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 5: So I we take the good. 415 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: An. 416 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: I just love the fact that even in knowing that 417 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 2: and hearing that and seeing that, y'all were like, yo, okay, 418 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 2: well we gonna keep it pushing, We're gonna do it. 419 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 2: We're gonna make it happen, and at some point y'all 420 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 2: are gonna get it and you're gonna want to be 421 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 2: a part. 422 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 3: So here we are what you say, nine years later. 423 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 2: Yep, and we still crawling, okay, but we still crawling. 424 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 2: Take So now you at the time when you originally 425 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 2: began the crawl, it was three different establishments or three 426 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 2: different venues, but like now in twenty twenty five, the 427 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 2: heading into the future, have you expanded to include more 428 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 2: businesses and more venues and honestly, you know, have you 429 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 2: maybe spoken to some of the business owners or entrepreneurs 430 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,479 Speaker 2: or folks that you've been able to work with and 431 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 2: how they've been impacted by this event over the years. 432 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 5: Yes, okay, so that's the two part question. 433 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: Yes. 434 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 8: So the first is that we've had like sixteen venues 435 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 8: since the first month. The person sixteen yea, the first 436 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 8: one was sixteen and I think at our max we 437 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 8: had thirty five because we went in Brooklyn and Harlem 438 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 8: at the same exact time. 439 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 1: Oh nice. 440 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 8: So when she said three venues, it's per team because 441 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 8: one group can't go to all fifteen. So we divide 442 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 8: you up and you can see your team will personally 443 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 8: stop at least three, and then after the three, after 444 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 8: the third one, you. 445 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 5: Can go wherever you want. 446 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: Why got it? 447 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 5: If you still got it in you? And so we do. 448 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 8: We do have quite a list of actual black owned 449 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 8: businesses that are stops on the krawl. But then also 450 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 8: we've added the pop up shop because we're always looking 451 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 8: for more ways to collaborate with black owned businesses. So 452 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 8: we have the pop shop with how many vendors do 453 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 8: we have that come Crystal fifty? 454 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 6: Around fifty? 455 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, So we work with fifty black owned businesses 456 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,880 Speaker 8: and they have to come to the pop up shop 457 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,239 Speaker 8: to pick up their wristbands for the crawl, and so 458 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 8: they come on down and that sur vibe and there's 459 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 8: DJs and food and they come to do that. And 460 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 8: then we've also started a new initiative this year called 461 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 8: the Black Pages, which is a digital directory with other 462 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 8: black owned businesses that can't be serviced by the crawl 463 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 8: or by the pop up shop. So plumbers, barbers, accountants, estheticians, 464 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 8: yell sex, photographers, all these black owned businesses are going 465 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 8: to go there and have like a special promotion that 466 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,439 Speaker 8: they're going to run for Q one to help the 467 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 8: crawlers and to help themselves in like to kick off 468 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 8: twenty twenty six. 469 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: Because I love that. 470 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 5: We need all the help we could get. 471 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: Every last one. Yeah, oh I love that. 472 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry, wait, time are y'all in the right place. 473 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 10: Yes, weird, we are, but we dogs well because I'm saying, hey, 474 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 10: I'm seeing like the plants behind both of them, and 475 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 10: then I hear the dogs Like I. 476 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 5: Had a plant from her just so I didn't have it. 477 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 8: I borrowed this from her situations. 478 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 5: Background, Like what's going on? 479 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 2: My first question, any like discussion to expand the crawl 480 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 2: like two different cities. 481 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 1: You just. 482 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 8: Yeah one after we did it the first year and 483 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 8: we pulled it off and we're like, oh my god, 484 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 8: this is so amazing. 485 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 6: We went crazy. 486 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 8: He immediately started like we had a. 487 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 5: We had a spreadsheet with Chicago, Detroit. 488 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 8: Yeah, and then we went to Haarlem and was like, 489 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 8: you know, I think. 490 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 5: Black people, we're dealing with that. At one time. We're good, 491 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 5: were good. 492 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 4: We st you have to get some organizers to help 493 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 4: you with other cities. 494 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,479 Speaker 1: I volunteer for Detroit. 495 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 3: Is all about wow, okay, No, we. 496 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 5: Do want to take it to other cities. We do. 497 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 8: Next year is going to be our tenth year, and 498 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 8: so we are trying to figure out what does year 499 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 8: ten look like and like how can we because now 500 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 8: we have a well oiled machine and we have the blueprint. 501 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 8: We have a team, we know, we have a full 502 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 8: understanding of like what it takes to pull this office. 503 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 8: So we are open to go into other cities for sure. 504 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 3: Well if Houston's on. 505 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 2: The list, look at sister up because listen, I'm still 506 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 2: trying to educate myself on Kwonsa, like what it means, 507 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 2: what it represents, and I know it's more than just 508 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 2: a crawl, right. 509 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 3: So have the two of. 510 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 2: You found in doing this that people have connected more 511 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 2: deeply to what the meaning of Kwansa is? 512 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 7: I think so, I really do. And I think that 513 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 7: as it relates to the crawl, because we do have 514 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 7: a ceremony at the beginning of the day and we. 515 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 6: Talk about the principles. 516 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 7: We talk about how the principles embody the crawl. We 517 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 7: talk and encourage people to celebrate those embody those principles. 518 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 3: Crystal, what are the principles? 519 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 9: So there are seven principles and the principles are unity. 520 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 5: So that's that's the first. 521 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 9: Day cooperative economics faith. 522 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 2: We got. 523 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 3: Because it's not live right now, it's not live. 524 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 6: So day one emulsion unity. So we had thousands of people. 525 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 7: That coming together all one day under one accord to 526 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 7: do one thing, which is to celebrate ourselves as black 527 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 7: people and celebrate the community that supports us. We have 528 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 7: kujishakoli or self determination. We are determined. We can decide 529 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 7: for ourselves how we even want to celebrate Kwanza. Define 530 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 7: ourselves for ourselves period ujima, collective work and responsibility. It's 531 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 7: not just us, it's responsibility of all of us. So 532 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 7: we all are working together. We have a team that 533 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 7: works with us to put this together. And we all 534 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 7: think it's very very important that we work together with 535 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 7: black people UJAMA or ujama cooperative economics, and that's just. 536 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 5: For ourselves, black people circulating a black. 537 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 6: Dollar Kumba creativity exactly. 538 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 7: So I think this is a huge one for us 539 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 7: because in celebrating Kwansa, we're like, we want it to 540 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,439 Speaker 7: be creative as fuck, and what better way to do that? 541 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 6: Yeah with a crawl yep. 542 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 8: And then you should see how we get we get 543 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 8: dressed the outfits, because we also want people to know, sorry, 544 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 8: but this is important that it's not black Santa Pon, 545 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 8: it's not black people with Santa has acting the fool 546 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 8: in the streets. It is us like celebrating ourselves and 547 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 8: we tell them to where whatever makes them feel unapologetically black, 548 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 8: and people come out and they really take liberties and 549 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 8: it's a beautiful sight to see their creativity or their 550 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 8: kumba all over their garments. 551 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 7: Go ahead, love that okay Nia which stands for purpose. 552 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 7: So I think in life, what is your purpose? What 553 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 7: drives you, what keeps you going, what keeps you grounded, 554 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,959 Speaker 7: what keeps you sane? 555 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 6: And imani faith. It took faith in ourselves to even 556 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 6: start this. 557 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 7: The first year we started planning, and I think like 558 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 7: October and we were like, oh my god, it took 559 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 7: faith in the businesses to trust us with something like this. 560 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 7: We require the businesses to shut down to the public 561 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 7: so it's a private We require them to hire security, 562 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 7: We require that they hire a DJ. 563 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 5: Full DJ. 564 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 8: A playlist is not going to work for our people 565 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 8: on that day. We require that they have at least 566 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 8: four bartenders, so we require them to do a lot 567 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 8: of things before they've even seen a person walk through 568 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 8: the door that before. 569 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 7: They even met us, right, they didn't know us, They 570 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 7: didn't know our track where. 571 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 6: They don't know anything other than what we told them. 572 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 7: And it took faith for us to continue to do 573 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 7: this and be doing it nine years strong, and faith that. 574 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 8: The community will continue to show up that no matter 575 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 8: what we're going through collectively, because we know that times 576 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 8: are hard for a lot of people, but Black people 577 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 8: will show up and we have faith that we will 578 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 8: come through and make this event what it is. 579 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 4: Every I love every bit of this because it is 580 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 4: so difficult to get our people to experience new things sometimes, 581 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 4: like you get in a habit of wanting to do 582 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 4: the same thing over and over and over, and this 583 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 4: was such a brilliant and new and fresh way of 584 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 4: bringing a real old celebration. Honestly, I mean like maybe 585 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 4: like the sixties, So it depends on I'm a millennial, 586 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 4: so for me that was a few years ago, but 587 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 4: for these babies now it feels like forever ago. 588 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, what. 589 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 4: Do you hope that attendees will take away from this experience, 590 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 4: Whether that's you know, their personal feelings towards Kwansa, whether 591 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 4: that's how they engage with their communities you're around. What 592 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 4: do you want people to come to this event to 593 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 4: take away from it when they leave? 594 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 9: I'd say for them to make it their own. 595 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 7: Right, make Kwansa your own sin now show you said 596 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 7: that you're near to this and you're still learning. But honestly, 597 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 7: as long as you understand the principles, you may not 598 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 7: remember them all by heart, you may not remember you know, 599 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 7: the slackening name. 600 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 6: That doesn't even matter. 601 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 7: But if you understand and you're just operating with intent, 602 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 7: then I feel like you're making it your own and 603 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 7: that's that's all that matters. 604 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 8: Yeah, And I would add that if you've ever come 605 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 8: to Quanza World, the one thing that people always say 606 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 8: from the business owners for the crawlers is there's just 607 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 8: this intangible energy that cannot be described. It feels like 608 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 8: you are in like an electric love blanket. Like everyone 609 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 8: says hi to each other. People are greeting each other 610 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 8: like there's no you don't. 611 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 2: Have to worry if somebody steps on somebody's foot, is 612 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 2: it going to be your problem? Is people are like 613 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 2: they are just so welcoming and so open, And I 614 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 2: think it's because they know they came to this event 615 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 2: with that in mind. 616 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 5: And so I would want people to just move through 617 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 5: the world that way and just. 618 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 8: Like be kind to people and have your heart be 619 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 8: open and realize that we get back so much of 620 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 8: the energy that we give and if we could take 621 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 8: some of that quans of crawl energy in a bottle 622 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 8: and use it and be moved through the world intentionally, 623 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 8: honestly and purposefully, that it will open up doors that 624 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 8: we don't even know about. And so that is what 625 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 8: I hope they take away from it. 626 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: And this is Brooklyn people. 627 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 4: They are just spelling all the myths about Brooklan. 628 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 5: Maggie said, so good. 629 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 8: We might say it different, like. 630 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 3: About that, Oh my gosh, I love that. So I 631 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 3: just I mean, I just got a couple more. 632 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 2: But just listening to the both of you talk, first 633 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 2: of all, like I love your energy, like I feel 634 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 2: it coming through the screen. 635 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 3: It just I love it. I love it. 636 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 2: How how would the both of you say leading this 637 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 2: event has changed you personally and but also like understanding 638 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 2: the like a community, culture and even entrepreneurship. 639 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 8: Wow, oh my god, we can have a whole separate podcast. 640 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 2: Oh wow. 641 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 5: It has changed our lives. It's changed who we are. 642 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 8: One of the most important things that we learned and 643 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 8: it feels like we keep having to learn over and 644 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 8: over and over again, is that you need to pivot. 645 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 8: Things will never go the way you plan. Not your birthday. 646 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 5: Party, not your wedding, not your nothing. 647 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 8: Not your right trip, not your life, but things you 648 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 8: won't go according to plan, and you need to figure 649 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 8: out how to pivot. And we have had some times 650 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,479 Speaker 8: in this crawl where we had had to learn how 651 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 8: to think on our feet, and that has changed our 652 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 8: whole lives. 653 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 5: Our whole lives. Like being able. 654 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 8: COVID pivot AI pivot too trumps pivot, Like we are 655 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 8: just able to like roll with every single punch that 656 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 8: life throws at us and just be able to be 657 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 8: solution oriented. 658 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 5: How else has it change us? 659 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 4: I mean, it just got all about the pandemic when 660 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 4: you said, like, as soon as you said that, I'm like, damn, 661 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 4: twenty twenty did it happen? 662 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: Like how y'all outside? 663 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 4: I mean I guess maybe outside, but businesses was not 664 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 4: the same. 665 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 6: That's true, That's so true. 666 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,479 Speaker 9: That's crazy. Yeah, I'm not having covered to be honest. 667 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 8: Yeah, one hundred percent. And even even in our entertainment business, 668 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 8: we're in production now, we make films. I went through 669 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 8: like a TV showrunner's training program running Kwanza Crawl. We 670 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 8: supervise a team of twenty and underneath that we have 671 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,919 Speaker 8: one hundred team leaders, and then we have one hundred volunteers, 672 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 8: and then we have fifty different business owners that we're 673 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 8: dealing with. Then we have fifty vendors of the pop 674 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 8: up shop that we're dealing with. Then we got the 675 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,799 Speaker 8: four thousand crawlers. And it's so many different personalities that 676 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 8: this crawl has prepared us for life. 677 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 678 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 6: Yeah. 679 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 7: And I think the other thing is to not think 680 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 7: take things personally. Right when you work so hard and 681 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 7: you feel like you put your blood, sweat and tears 682 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 7: into a thing, and you feel like you've done everything 683 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 7: you can, you gave it, you're all and if someone says, 684 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 7: you know what, it's not organized a listen and you're. 685 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: Like the fuck you? Oh my god. 686 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 6: So moments like that have definitely humbled us. 687 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 9: And then learn to not take it personally. 688 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 6: It's not about me. From their perspective, I understand what 689 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 6: they're saying. 690 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. When dealing with criticism. 691 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 5: We yeah, that's that was a big one. 692 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 4: I can carry. Reminds me of me. Yeah, Gimri reminds 693 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 4: me of me. She looked like she pop your fire sign. 694 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:26,840 Speaker 4: I'm a Leo, Yeah exactly. 695 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,880 Speaker 5: I'm an air period, So what are you talking about? 696 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: It will be like Tarka, get off, get off social media. 697 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: She'd be like, get off. I G I'm like no, but. 698 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 3: Because they. 699 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,240 Speaker 4: Don't do anything, I don't do it. 700 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 5: Don't put your phone down. 701 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 8: The last thing I will say too, that it's taught 702 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 8: is not to be entitled, like nobody owes us anything. 703 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 5: There's no there's no room. 704 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,879 Speaker 8: For we doing this for black people and how they're 705 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,760 Speaker 8: nobody owes you anything in this world, in this life. 706 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,160 Speaker 8: And that's also a huge learning lesson, is that, yeah, 707 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 8: they're actually entitled to. 708 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,800 Speaker 5: The time we're promising them if anything. 709 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,799 Speaker 4: Yeah good, Yeah, that's really good. That's really good. That's 710 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,359 Speaker 4: really good. 711 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 1: I love that. 712 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,319 Speaker 4: Well, ladies, we have had a great time kicking it 713 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 4: with you both and so much appreciate the time that 714 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,359 Speaker 4: you've given us. But before we let you go, we 715 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 4: need our listeners to know that outside of this, you 716 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 4: both are really doing the damn thing. You guys have 717 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 4: some current projects, upcoming projects. You're on Apple TV, you 718 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,239 Speaker 4: both worked on a film Zeke. I mean, what can 719 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,879 Speaker 4: we expect from you? And twenty twenty six? Can where 720 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 4: can we find you? 721 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 1: What's going on with y'all, what's what's new? 722 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 7: So collectively we started Grandma's House Productions and under that 723 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 7: banner we are producing original content of all kinds. So 724 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 7: one of the projects are a solo show that Carrie 725 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 7: is doing. 726 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,320 Speaker 8: It's a one woman show that is Jobismo meets Whoopy 727 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 8: Goldbird meets Beyonce. 728 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, mudhole. 729 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 8: We just I have my off Broadway debut this last year, 730 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 8: twenty twenty five. But we're gonna be at Netflix as 731 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,320 Speaker 8: a joke festival in La and A and we're hoping 732 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,480 Speaker 8: to take that on the road to Scotland and do 733 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 8: a regional theater run. 734 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,919 Speaker 5: Sorry, I just want yeah your chance. 735 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 3: I love that at all. 736 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:29,359 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, And we are also working on a 737 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,279 Speaker 7: TV show, a crime drama that we're currently in the 738 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,040 Speaker 7: process of pitching, so that's another thing. 739 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,640 Speaker 9: And then we also have a half hour sitcom that 740 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:39,399 Speaker 9: we're working with us. 741 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,200 Speaker 3: God love it. 742 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if y'all know, y'all 743 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,680 Speaker 1: might know our sore or Her name is Okima Tmour. 744 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 5: Yes, she she was our first ad on zeke Wow. 745 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 5: Her name is in the credit. 746 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 4: Yes, Okima is literally my girl. I love, love love Okima. 747 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 6: She's a girl. 748 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 1: We got to talk that for words, because now I'm 749 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:03,359 Speaker 1: going to go. 750 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:03,759 Speaker 5: Off the DNA. 751 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:11,799 Speaker 4: But yes, but I only said that to say that 752 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 4: if you guys need an actress for anything, I'm here, 753 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,919 Speaker 4: I'm available, I'm two hours away. 754 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: I will send in my stuff. I got you. 755 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:23,120 Speaker 4: But no, seriously, everything that we do on this show 756 00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 4: is always with the intent to make sure that we 757 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 4: get people their flowers. And you two are really killing 758 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,399 Speaker 4: the game in so many different spaces. I've seen interviews 759 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 4: where you know you, Carrie, have talked about how when 760 00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,400 Speaker 4: people introduce you as a comedian, they always are like, 761 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,960 Speaker 4: you know this female, this female comedian coming up and 762 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah, and it's just like, no, I 763 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,840 Speaker 4: need y'all to respect the craft, respect what people are doing. 764 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,680 Speaker 4: And we have tons of love and respect for both 765 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,960 Speaker 4: of you. So thank you guys so much for coming 766 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,839 Speaker 4: to join us, for gracing our show. Keep killing it. 767 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,960 Speaker 4: And I'm coming to Kwanza Crawl. I don't give a damn, 768 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:55,800 Speaker 4: I'm coming. 769 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 8: We will send you some tickets and sure we will 770 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,400 Speaker 8: send you much offline. 771 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 2: But even if our listeners are like where and how 772 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 2: can I get the hoodie? 773 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,360 Speaker 3: How can they get the hoodie? 774 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 5: They really can't. 775 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 8: Be honest, we don't even have I'm not gonna lie 776 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,360 Speaker 8: to you, like we sell it at the proper shop here. Okay, 777 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,920 Speaker 8: we don't, you know, if we get into the online 778 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 8: system and then we don't ship your hoodie in time. 779 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: Now you comments, now, nobody, don't. 780 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 6: Hold me back. 781 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,799 Speaker 5: Don't get me into a game. I'm not gonna lie. 782 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:34,799 Speaker 5: I'm not doing I will have to hear you. I 783 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,440 Speaker 5: love it you. 784 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,080 Speaker 1: I don't know when I again. 785 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 2: I would just keep taking my mail back every day. 786 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,319 Speaker 2: I just keep looking in the math for it. 787 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,719 Speaker 3: When I get it, I get it. 788 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 5: Once a quarter, just checking. 789 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:50,600 Speaker 3: Love it. 790 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: I love it so you guys. Thank you guys so much. 791 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 5: Thank you guys, thank you so much. 792 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 6: Thank you appreciate, thank you. 793 00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,880 Speaker 1: Crystal and Carrie are hilarious. Number one. Carrie is definitely hilarious. 794 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,840 Speaker 4: And I'm glad that we have like got an opportunity 795 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,440 Speaker 4: to kind of talk to them in the way that 796 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,799 Speaker 4: we did, because I think they think I'm playing when 797 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 4: I tell them I'm about to pop up. 798 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,879 Speaker 3: They don't think that, And if they think it, they 799 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,400 Speaker 3: need to ask me. They don't. They don't know. They 800 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:38,040 Speaker 3: don't think that. 801 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 1: All I'm asking I'm popping up at the brawl. 802 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 2: I need I need I got before before, during the 803 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 2: crawl and after. No don't Yeah yeah, maybe I don't 804 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,879 Speaker 2: know about because I know you, or maybe I don't 805 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:54,200 Speaker 2: know about. 806 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,120 Speaker 1: No, I don't need no evidence during the crawl. 807 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,920 Speaker 3: I can wait to see there the right hit. 808 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 1: They got me amped about this fit case. I got 809 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 1: to find the right to look good. But so I'm 810 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,960 Speaker 1: gonna pop up and I'm gonna say yeah, yeah, yeah. 811 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 4: So I gotta tell everybody out there for the next 812 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,239 Speaker 4: seven days, when you are meeting people, greeting people in 813 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,800 Speaker 4: the street, you greet them by saying, haibari Ghani. Harbari 814 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,800 Speaker 4: Ghani is what's the news. That's how we're gonna celebrate Kwanza. 815 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,320 Speaker 4: So from now until the New Year, all my people, 816 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,399 Speaker 4: when you see somebody, hey, haibari Ghani. Now, folks don't 817 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:33,919 Speaker 4: look at you like you're crazy, like what the hell 818 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:34,120 Speaker 4: is she? 819 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 3: Okay, but don't worry about it. 820 00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,440 Speaker 1: You know, you know what you're saying, what's the news? 821 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:40,400 Speaker 1: So and. 822 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,280 Speaker 2: On out you said hibari Ghani, and it means what's 823 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:45,800 Speaker 2: the news? 824 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:48,280 Speaker 1: It mean what's the news? 825 00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 4: Right, now sure off in the level us on out 826 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,880 Speaker 4: as she usually does, and I'm gonna say, Haibari Ghani. 827 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:09,359 Speaker 3: All right, well listen here we are right Christmas. We're 828 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 3: heading into the new year. 829 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 2: I want to level everyone up with hopefully some positivity, 830 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:21,400 Speaker 2: right because we know twenty twenty five has who has 831 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:25,200 Speaker 2: taken us through some things. Getting ready for twenty twenty six. 832 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:26,960 Speaker 3: Here's what I got. 833 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:33,439 Speaker 2: Whatever happened over this past year, be thankful for where 834 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,720 Speaker 2: it brought you. Where you are is where you're meant 835 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 2: to be. And I know some people might be like, 836 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 2: this can't be where I'm meant to be. It can't be, 837 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,720 Speaker 2: but I'm going to disagree and say that God brought 838 00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,920 Speaker 2: you through it and you. 839 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,240 Speaker 3: Are exactly where He wants you to be in this moment. 840 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:57,960 Speaker 1: Yes, I love that. 841 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 4: Yeah that is so I needed to hear that because 842 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,440 Speaker 4: I needed to hear that what you're going through is 843 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,160 Speaker 4: meant for you to go through it. 844 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:08,880 Speaker 1: It's meant for you to be where you are. 845 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:10,759 Speaker 3: Even if you don't understand the reading. 846 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:11,440 Speaker 1: Tot love that. 847 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:12,719 Speaker 3: Just just trust in it. 848 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,880 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, just trust that face. 849 00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, have faith that you're supposed to be where you're 850 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:21,480 Speaker 4: supposed to be. 851 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,000 Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. 852 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:29,920 Speaker 4: Well, friends, it has been a great episode and Sheryl 853 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,520 Speaker 4: and I thank you guys so much for continuing to 854 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,640 Speaker 4: tune in and listen, and so we want you to 855 00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,480 Speaker 4: keep doing that. Keep tuning in to the Levels to 856 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,600 Speaker 4: this podcast, keep showing us love. Remember this is not 857 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,560 Speaker 4: just our show, but it's our show, so we want 858 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:49,799 Speaker 4: to hear from you. Send us a message on Instagram 859 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,200 Speaker 4: at ltcpod you can follow us there. 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