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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to We Talk Back Podcast, a production of iHeartRadio
- 0:04Speaker 1: and the Black Effect Network.
- 0:09Speaker 2: We're just two unapologetically Black women with an opinion who
- 0:14Speaker 2: talk back.
- 0:19Speaker 3: What's up, y'all?
- 0:20Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning in for a new episode of
- 0:22Speaker 2: We Talk Black, a show dedicated to these niggas and
- 0:26Speaker 2: these hoes. Oh, not the niggas and hoes again.
- 0:30Speaker 3: We talk black for Black History Month, okay? Hey, y'all.
- 0:36Speaker 3: It's Tan Bam. I love y'all.
- 0:37Speaker 2: I feel like I haven't been telling them I love
- 0:39Speaker 2: them a couple weeks, but I do love y'all. I
- 0:41Speaker 2: want to remind y'all that you are very much loved
- 0:43Speaker 2: by me.
- 0:44Speaker 3: Love you too, AJ. How's your weekend? My weekend was
- 0:49Speaker 3: about nothing, child. I ain't do shit. And I can't
- 0:52Speaker 3: wait to this weekend to not do shit. You're not
- 0:56Speaker 3: going to watch the Super Bowl? Is that this week? Oh, yeah.
- 0:59Speaker 3: I'm definitely going to try to find me a little
- 1:00Speaker 3: kickback this weekend. Yeah. I'm into that. This weekend. I forgot.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Who going to the Super Bowl? I didn't do anything.
- 1:07Speaker 3: We haven't been following. I know the 49ers. The red
- 1:10Speaker 3: team and the blue team. Is that really who's going
- 1:13Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl? A red team and a blue team?
- 1:15Speaker 3: So I know the 49ers. I know there's a red one.
- 1:21Speaker 3: The Chiefs. The Chiefs are going. They're red. The 49ers?
- 1:27Speaker 3: What color are they? Are they blue? Red team, right? Okay,
- 1:31Speaker 3: then it's red against red. So it's Chiefs and 49ers.
- 1:34Speaker 3: It's a blood. It's a blood Super Bowl. Hold on.
- 1:39Speaker 2: Y'all make sure we know what the fuck we talk about.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Y'all can tell we don't watch sports like that.
- 1:43Speaker 3: It's the Chiefs. Travis Kelton. It's Taylor Swift. I thought
- 1:46Speaker 3: he played for the 49ers. I'm wrong. He played for
- 1:50Speaker 3: the Chiefs.
- 1:51Speaker 2: Oh.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Nah, I know that. So this is Taylor Swift's first
- 1:56Speaker 3: Super Bowl, apparently. I just hate... Yeah, so it's two
- 2:01Speaker 3: red teams. I just hate.
- 2:04Speaker 2: How they got her taking over goddamn NFL, man.
- 2:07Speaker 3: This is just disgusting. She didn't do it, though. She
- 2:11Speaker 3: just supported her dude. And everybody just making it about her.
- 2:15Speaker 2: She has literally come in and they have tried to
- 2:19Speaker 2: take over swag surfing.
- 2:22Speaker 3: And also... fades at this point okay.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Well you saw the swag sir ain't no way they
- 2:29Speaker 2: taking it over because that shit was very uh it
- 2:32Speaker 2: wasn't sturdy it wasn't sturdy at all and in the
- 2:36Speaker 2: fade that is the funniest shit to me it's just
- 2:39Speaker 2: it's how america was founded it really is stupid internet
- 2:43Speaker 2: news that's what the fuck america was founded on on
- 2:46Speaker 2: a motherfucker trying to say they started something that they
- 2:49Speaker 2: didn't you know i guess we're in stupid internet news
- 2:53Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey came out and said, like, uh-uh, don't do
- 2:56Speaker 2: that to me.
- 2:58Speaker 3: I did not invent that shit.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Black people invented that shit. It's Black History Month. I
- 3:02Speaker 2: don't want no problems. Stop playing with the black people.
- 3:06Speaker 2: February 1. They was on some dumb shit, man. February 1.
- 3:10Speaker 2: They don't care about us. All the white boys going
- 3:13Speaker 2: to get the Travis Kelsey.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Bitch, that's a Boosie face. He's calling now. I ain't
- 3:18Speaker 3: gonna lie. I ain't much gonna lie. He is nice looking.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Nice to look at.
- 3:23Speaker 2: I don't even see him with Taylor Swift for real. Like,
- 3:25Speaker 2: I don't know who she's supposed to be with. He
- 3:27Speaker 2: got a little bit too much swag for Taylor Swift.
- 3:30Speaker 3: He got swag.
- 3:31Speaker 2: That's why I say, I don't think he, I don't
- 3:32Speaker 2: find him attractive. I just think he's got a lot
- 3:34Speaker 2: of swag. Cause if you cut that beard off and
- 3:36Speaker 2: you seen him without the beard. He looks like a
- 3:38Speaker 2: Caucasian male. The Paul Bunyan ass looking white man.
- 3:43Speaker 3: Johnny. The brawny man. That's who he makes me think of.
- 3:45Speaker 3: Johnny Appleseed for sure. Faith ass. Same. Let's talk about
- 3:54Speaker 3: the Grammys. That's what I did. I watched the Grammys.
- 3:56Speaker 3: I enjoyed the Grammys this year.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Did you?
- 3:58Speaker 3: I didn't watch it.
- 3:58Speaker 2: You know I don't be watching TV, Jai. I didn't
- 4:01Speaker 2: watch it. I really enjoyed it. I had my hookah up.
- 4:06Speaker 2: I had me a bottle of champagne, and I just
- 4:08Speaker 2: watched the Grammys. I was singing. Fantasia made me so proud.
- 4:12Speaker 2: She looks so good. I'm just so happy for her. Yeah,
- 4:17Speaker 2: she's getting all the accolades she has always deserved.
- 4:20Speaker 3: Who else? Oh, Tracy Chapman. I love that song. I
- 4:25Speaker 3: love that remake. Fast Fast?
- 4:27Speaker 1: Yes.
- 4:28Speaker 3: What's the guy's name? I don't know.
- 4:30Speaker 2: I listen to that shit every single day. It comes
- 4:32Speaker 2: on the radio. I listen to that song.
- 4:35Speaker 3: I love that song. Yeah, that song is... And she
- 4:37Speaker 3: looks so amazing. She look good. She is aging so beautifully.
- 4:41Speaker 3: Them dimples are... The thing is, I never realized that
- 4:44Speaker 3: was her song. I didn't realize that.
- 4:47Speaker 2: When they was playing with that shit on In Living Color,
- 4:49Speaker 2: I didn't realize that was a black woman's song.
- 4:55Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Well, duh, they had the sister playing her part,
- 5:00Speaker 3: playing that character in In Living Color. Girl, I have
- 5:03Speaker 3: no idea what you're talking about.
- 5:05Speaker 2: You don't remember them doing that on In Living Color,
- 5:07Speaker 2: doing that song on In Living Color?
- 5:10Speaker 3: I don't know if I was able to watch In
- 5:12Speaker 3: Living Color yet. What? Your mom didn't let you watch
- 5:15Speaker 3: In Living Color? I was a kid. In Living Color?
- 5:17Speaker 3: I was little. Oh, okay. Oh, I'm thinking about Def
- 5:20Speaker 3: Comedy Jam. Even Def Comedy Jam? Yeah. Like, what? How
- 5:24Speaker 3: old are you again? Never mind. So let's keep playing. Yeah,
- 5:28Speaker 3: you might not have been born yet. I was little. Yeah,
- 5:32Speaker 3: you're right. To that part. And live in color? What's that?
- 5:38Speaker 3: So you never seen Martin either? I love that show.
- 5:42Speaker 3: I watched all the reruns. Dang.
- 5:46Speaker 2: So the Grammys, y'all, let's get into it right quick.
- 5:49Speaker 2: So Jay-Z won one of the most prominent awards, I
- 5:51Speaker 2: would say, at the Grammys, maybe.
- 5:53Speaker 3: It's named after Dr. Dre. It's a Dr. Dre Global
- 5:56Speaker 3: Impact Award.
- 5:58Speaker 2: And in the midst of his acceptance speech, he goes
- 6:03Speaker 2: on to call it the Grammys about how his wife
- 6:06Speaker 2: ain't never won album of the year. She got 30
- 6:09Speaker 2: sound Grammys, but for whatever reason, she keeps getting snubbed
- 6:13Speaker 2: for Album of the Year, while Taylor Swift won this
- 6:18Speaker 2: past Sunday. That's her fourth Grammy for Album of the Year.
- 6:21Speaker 2: It led me to go listen to some Taylor Swift music.
- 6:23Speaker 2: I had to see what the fuck they be hearing.
- 6:27Speaker 2: I hear this shit on the radio. She doesn't have
- 6:30Speaker 2: any albums we could just listen straight through either. And
- 6:33Speaker 2: I feel like Beyonce has had several albums, especially Lemonade,
- 6:36Speaker 2: she should have gotten a Grammy for it. And she
- 6:40Speaker 2: should have called Beyonce on the stage. Like Beyonce did
- 6:42Speaker 2: when she won her first Grammy. Remember when Kanye was like,
- 6:45Speaker 2: I'm going to let you finish. But Beyonce, well, he
- 6:49Speaker 2: didn't lie. Clearly he didn't lie.
- 6:50Speaker 3: He wasn't lying. Now here we are 10 years later
- 6:52Speaker 3: and Jay-Z doing the same shit.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Taylor Swift should have said, I'm going to finish. But Beyonce,
- 6:58Speaker 2: can you come up here? Because I feel like this
- 7:01Speaker 2: should have been your, or some shit like that.
- 7:02Speaker 3: Yeah, but she. Or you should have gotten this a
- 7:04Speaker 3: million years ago. She probably don't feel that way though.
- 7:07Speaker 3: She probably doesn't feel that way. It's because you. You
- 7:09Speaker 3: know what?
- 7:10Speaker 2: Celine Dion gave her the award, and she did not
- 7:14Speaker 2: even acknowledge Celine Dion. I was upset with that. Like, girl,
- 7:19Speaker 2: how you going to be standing right next to the
- 7:20Speaker 2: queen with that bob wig on, looking like a black
- 7:23Speaker 2: girl in that bob wig with them diamonds on?
- 7:26Speaker 3: The diamonds, I couldn't even see her.
- 7:27Speaker 2: The diamonds was blinding me on the TV screen. And
- 7:29Speaker 2: you're not going to acknowledge Celine Dion? Yeah, she got
- 7:31Speaker 2: health issues. She came out there for you, girl.
- 7:34Speaker 3: So.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Let's talk about stats when it comes to Beyonce and
- 7:37Speaker 2: Taylor Swift. So it says, American songwriter Taylor Swift has
- 7:41Speaker 2: released 10 original studio albums.
- 7:44Speaker 3: Beyonce has four.
- 7:45Speaker 2: Excuse me, Beyonce has seven to Taylor Swift's 10. Taylor
- 7:51Speaker 2: Swift has four re-recorded studio albums, five extended plays, and
- 7:56Speaker 2: four live albums. She's sold an estimated 114 million album
- 8:01Speaker 2: units worldwide. And in terms of pure sales, tallied at
- 8:06Speaker 2: 46.6 million in the United States and 7 million in
- 8:10Speaker 2: the UK. RIAA, which is the Recording Industry Association of America,
- 8:16Speaker 2: her albums have garnered 51 million certified units in the
- 8:21Speaker 2: United States. As of February 2024, she is the solo
- 8:25Speaker 2: artist with the most weeks 69 at number one on U.S.
- 8:28Speaker 2: Billboard 200. So that's just a little quick, little brief
- 8:37Speaker 2: rundown of Taylor Swift's whatever. Okay, so now here's Beyoncé. Well,
- 8:44Speaker 2: but here's the thing. Taylor Swift, her tour outsold Beyoncé' s tour.
- 8:50Speaker 3: By a double. Did it? Are you sure? Yeah, I
- 8:53Speaker 3: Googled it last night. Yeah, it did. I know.
- 8:57Speaker 2: She's just very... She's practicing witchcraft. Y'all ain't seen that shit.
- 9:01Speaker 2: I seen those damn clips. She was literally in black
- 9:04Speaker 2: hoods on stage.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Listen. They literally created.
- 9:10Speaker 2: A thing called post-concert amnesia because concert goers don't even
- 9:15Speaker 2: remember attending the Taylor Swift concert. They created a syndrome
- 9:20Speaker 2: for people after Taylor Swift concert.
- 9:22Speaker 3: They don't even remember going. They don't even remember what
- 9:26Speaker 3: happened at the concert. They were there. But they don't
- 9:29Speaker 3: remember what happened. She fucking putting people under hypnosis. I'm convinced.
- 9:33Speaker 3: It's a real thing. So what else happened?
- 9:38Speaker 2: Killer Mike got arrested at the Grammys after winning three Grammys.
- 9:45Speaker 3: He's an elder in the hip hop. Not an elder.
- 9:47Speaker 3: He won three Grammys. He is. He's not 22. You
- 9:52Speaker 3: might call that man an elder. But fuck. In hip-hop.
- 9:57Speaker 3: I don't know if you... You don't think so? An
- 9:59Speaker 3: elder's killing, Mike. He should be, like, what, 45, 46
- 10:01Speaker 3: years old? That's not an elder? He, like, 48, I think.
- 10:06Speaker 3: So we call it... Okay. You really having fun today, bitch. Well,
- 10:10Speaker 3: I'm not calling him an elder for the earth. I'm
- 10:13Speaker 3: not calling him an elder for the earth. I'm calling
- 10:15Speaker 3: it in hip-hop. Elder for the earth. Maybe. That's not
- 10:19Speaker 3: what I'm saying. You know, people were saying like, oh,
- 10:21Speaker 3: you're too old. You're this, you're that.
- 10:23Speaker 2: And he's proven that that is not the case, you know.
- 10:27Speaker 2: So that's all I was alluding to. I was surprised.
- 10:31Speaker 2: I hadn't listened to any Killer Mike album. I didn't
- 10:33Speaker 2: realize he even had an album come out. And I mean,
- 10:35Speaker 2: I really hadn't listened to that much new music last
- 10:38Speaker 2: year for real. Unless, you know, little singles and shit
- 10:40Speaker 2: like that. I haven't really popped in anybody's album. So
- 10:44Speaker 2: I just was kind of under a rock. Last year
- 10:47Speaker 2: with Music Wise. I didn't realize he had an album
- 10:48Speaker 2: that even came out.
- 10:50Speaker 3: Did you listen? Damn. What you was listening to? I
- 10:52Speaker 3: don't know. I don't even know. Shit. Reverend Ike. Yeah,
- 10:56Speaker 3: I listened.
- 10:58Speaker 2: I listened because of the Scientist and Engineer single that
- 11:01Speaker 2: Henry Andrade got the awards for.
- 11:03Speaker 3: You heard that though, right? No. That's the thing. I
- 11:05Speaker 3: hadn't heard it. Damn. I hadn't.
- 11:07Speaker 2: And maybe I've heard it and just don't remember.
- 11:09Speaker 3: I don't know. I got to listen to it again.
- 11:11Speaker 3: But into world news. Hold on. The nigga got arrested
- 11:16Speaker 3: for what, though? Oh, we going back to that? Yeah. Okay.
- 11:22Speaker 2: He got arrested because he had an altercation with one
- 11:27Speaker 2: of the security guards at the Grammys. And I think
- 11:30Speaker 2: it was just like a very overzealous security guard that
- 11:33Speaker 2: just wanted to prove a point that you can't play
- 11:35Speaker 2: with him.
- 11:35Speaker 3: He top flight. So they came and got him up
- 11:39Speaker 3: out of there over something stupid. It really was.
- 11:42Speaker 2: I was trying to act like he ain't no killer
- 11:44Speaker 2: Mike is. Nigga, I just won three Grammys. You don't
- 11:46Speaker 2: know who I am.
- 11:47Speaker 3: I bet you it was a black girl. Oh, yeah, probably.
- 11:52Speaker 3: You know, they take their security jobs. I'm a hex
- 11:54Speaker 3: football player. When them hex football players become security guards,
- 11:58Speaker 3: they be disgruntled.
- 12:00Speaker 2: In light of the Grammys, and like I said, I
- 12:03Speaker 2: was talking about Taylor Swift's discography.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Is it discography? Discography. Discography. Beyonce.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Okay, so American singer Beyonce has released seven studio albums,
- 12:18Speaker 2: five live albums, three compilation albums, five EPs, one soundtrack album,
- 12:25Speaker 2: and two karaoke albums. I don't know what the fuck
- 12:28Speaker 2: a karaoke album is, but I want to do one.
- 12:32Speaker 2: So to date, Beyonce has sold over 200 million.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Records worldwide as a solo artist.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
- 12:43Speaker 2: Billboard ranked her as the 37th greatest artist of all time.
- 12:48Speaker 2: I don't know where Taylor Swift ranks amongst all the
- 12:51Speaker 2: greats that we've had, because giving her these four Grammys,
- 12:55Speaker 2: that means she's... We're not talking about Taylor Swift. We're
- 12:57Speaker 2: talking about Beyonce in this moment. That means she's better than...
- 13:00Speaker 2: I'm just doing a comparison still. That means she's better
- 13:03Speaker 2: than Michael Jackson at this point? Anyway... So the Recording
- 13:07Speaker 2: Industry Association of America recognized her as the top certified artist,
- 13:13Speaker 2: so Beyonce, okay, of the 2000s decade. According to RIAA,
- 13:19Speaker 2: Beyonce has sold 30.5 million.
- 13:22Speaker 3: Albums in the United States. And as of November 2023.
- 13:26Speaker 2: The RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist,
- 13:33Speaker 2: including features, as over $ 174 million in the United States. So,
- 13:40Speaker 2: Beyonce is going to be our baddie. Beyonce should have
- 13:43Speaker 2: got the goddamn Grammy.
- 13:45Speaker 3: Okay?
- 13:45Speaker 2: Beyonce, we salute you. You are our baddie who talks
- 13:49Speaker 2: back for this week, girl.
- 13:50Speaker 3: We love you.
- 13:51Speaker 2: And I'm going to put Taylor Swift's ass in the freezer.
- 13:53Speaker 2: They are not winning the Super Bowl this year.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Okay, but in world news. All right, y'all. Come close
- 14:00Speaker 3: to how you're listening to the device. However you're listening
- 14:04Speaker 3: to this. Drake's dick was leaked. Drake's dick was leaked.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Drake.
- 14:11Speaker 3: I was so upset. Dick is leaking. Don't do that.
- 14:18Speaker 3: I can lie. I much can lie. That was a
- 14:21Speaker 3: nice looking penis, Drake. Nice looking penis. It was nice
- 14:25Speaker 3: and long. It wasn't extremely girthy, but it wasn't all
- 14:29Speaker 3: the way, you know, full. It was a half tub,
- 14:31Speaker 3: so it might, you know, expand a little. I feel
- 14:34Speaker 3: like he put that shit out.
- 14:35Speaker 2: I just don't see Drake fucking with somebody at this
- 14:38Speaker 2: point where they would do something like that. You got
- 14:42Speaker 2: to have a little bit more discernment than to be
- 14:45Speaker 2: fucking with a bitch and they put your dick on
- 14:46Speaker 2: the internet like that. Yeah, I hate that for us.
- 14:52Speaker 2: I hate that for us because everybody just see my man.
- 14:55Speaker 2: My sister go message me like, hey, you got the
- 14:58Speaker 2: Drake video? I was like, yes. She's like, can you
- 15:00Speaker 2: send it to me? I was like, absolutely not.
- 15:03Speaker 3: She was like, why?
- 15:04Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not sending you my man's dick. Like,
- 15:06Speaker 2: that's weird for you to even ask me for that.
- 15:09Speaker 2: And she was like, bitch, just send it.
- 15:10Speaker 3: I was like, okay. Bitch, that's not your man. That's
- 15:13Speaker 3: not your man. My man, my man, my man.
- 15:17Speaker 2: Like, all it do is on Twitter, on X, excuse me,
- 15:20Speaker 2: it's talking about Drake got all the hoes, money, and
- 15:24Speaker 2: an XX glizzy.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just too much winning for him. It's disgusting, man. Yeah.
- 15:35Speaker 2: I like cock shots, though. Like, I want to know
- 15:38Speaker 2: who the fuck got that cock shot. Who you sent
- 15:40Speaker 2: that dick to? That dick look all manicured, right? That
- 15:43Speaker 2: dick look like it just been through, like, a manicure session. Like,
- 15:46Speaker 2: it was all nicely shaved. He was having that hairy asshole, too,
- 15:51Speaker 2: with the blanket right there.
- 15:53Speaker 3: He did great. Like, did y'all see our producer, Taylor?
- 15:59Speaker 2: She posted her little picture and at Drake on Instagram,
- 16:02Speaker 2: on her Instagram story. Yeah, I was really mad at
- 16:04Speaker 2: her for that this morning. But I was just like,
- 16:06Speaker 2: you know what? I'm going to let her have that.
- 16:08Speaker 2: She got her little picture.
- 16:10Speaker 3: I was like, nope.
- 16:11Speaker 2: Because you got Tyler Lepley or whatever his name is.
- 16:14Speaker 2: You already got pictures with that nigga. And now here
- 16:16Speaker 2: you come popping out with my, you know that's my nigga. Look,
- 16:20Speaker 2: Drake had his arm around Taylor's neck. I'm like, wait,
- 16:25Speaker 2: why he got his hand on your neck like that?
- 16:28Speaker 3: He was choking her a little bit. I cut it
- 16:31Speaker 3: to her throat a little bit. I don't know, but
- 16:32Speaker 3: I'm like, why?
- 16:35Speaker 2: Why Dre got his hand on your neck like that,
- 16:37Speaker 2: Taylor Todd? But he know what's up. You better get Taylor, girl.
- 16:40Speaker 2: She about to take your man. I would hate to
- 16:43Speaker 2: choke slam Taylor's somewhere.
- 16:45Speaker 3: I would hate to do that to her. Bitch, that's
- 16:50Speaker 3: not your nigga, okay? This is my man.
- 16:54Speaker 2: Y'all, if it ever happened between me and Drake, just
- 16:57Speaker 2: know that I manifested it here with you listeners.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Believe it in it. Right here on this show. From
- 17:04Speaker 3: day one. From episode one. You barely want Drake. What?
- 17:11Speaker 3: I do.
- 17:11Speaker 2: That is not even your type. He's not my type.
- 17:16Speaker 2: But I'm a huge fan and I love him so much.
- 17:19Speaker 3: Y'all, we was at a Drake concert and this bitch
- 17:21Speaker 3: ain't no now Drake song. that's a lie I knew
- 17:25Speaker 3: all the songs all.
- 17:27Speaker 2: The real fans were singing the hell out of that
- 17:29Speaker 2: nigga song we like no that was 21 Savage said
- 17:33Speaker 2: I didn't know that's what it was you is really
- 17:38Speaker 2: hating on my love life right now and I just
- 17:41Speaker 2: don't appreciate it between you and Taylor today is just
- 17:45Speaker 2: die Taylor one step closer than you bitch you better
- 17:48Speaker 2: get She is, but that's okay because I'm going to
- 17:51Speaker 2: see Drake again in two weeks.
- 17:53Speaker 3: Where he going to be at? He back on tour
- 17:57Speaker 3: with J. Cole. Interesting.
- 18:00Speaker 2: He going to be in Ohio. I ain't hear that, Drake.
- 18:03Speaker 3: You going to throw your bra on stage?
- 18:05Speaker 2: I ain't going to have one on one.
- 18:11Speaker 3: Tam Bam coming to see you, baby. Do we have
- 18:14Speaker 3: anything else? I think that's it, man.
- 18:17Speaker 2: It's a whole lot of gang shit going on this week,
- 18:21Speaker 2: but Drake just ruined the internet for the day, I think.
- 18:26Speaker 2: I haven't really been back on to see what the
- 18:27Speaker 2: fuck people talk about about that dick, but yeah. My
- 18:36Speaker 2: mama called me this morning, and she was listening to
- 18:38Speaker 2: the episode with.
- 18:41Speaker 3: Jodi, you know, teaching us how to, you know, to
- 18:46Speaker 3: suck dick. And my mom was like, you know what?
- 18:47Speaker 3: When was she teaching us to suck dick? Well, she
- 18:51Speaker 3: didn't teach us, but she said she could.
- 18:53Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, the choreography class for sucking dick.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Okay, yeah.
- 19:00Speaker 2: And my mom said, good morning, baby. Can I just
- 19:03Speaker 2: say something? I said, yes, ma'am. She was like, every
- 19:07Speaker 2: time I think we can't get to a new level
- 19:10Speaker 2: of what the fuck, you and AJ take it then.
- 19:13Speaker 3: Y'all will take it to a new level of what
- 19:15Speaker 3: the fuck.
- 19:15Speaker 2: It's not really us taking it to a new level.
- 19:18Speaker 3: It's the guests. That's what I said. She said, well,
- 19:23Speaker 3: you brought them on there, didn't you? I was like, yes,
- 19:26Speaker 3: I did. We just be doing like shit for research purposes. Okay.
- 19:30Speaker 3: It's just low hype. We have hypotheses. Education, education, education.
- 19:37Speaker 3: That's all. Speaking of education. All right.
- 19:40Speaker 2: So, I was really like in my feelings, this is
- 19:43Speaker 2: the ninth year in a row that I have not
- 19:45Speaker 2: had a Valentine. And I was like, just you know
- 19:50Speaker 2: I'm still hopeful and I still like what love and
- 19:52Speaker 2: I'm still like a hopeless romantic regardless uh if you
- 19:57Speaker 2: want to see something good watch the vow if you
- 19:59Speaker 2: want to be all in the fields that's a good
- 20:00Speaker 2: movie on Netflix right now the vow but um I
- 20:03Speaker 2: was scrolling and I was seeing like this post I
- 20:06Speaker 2: can't remember whose page it was on but it was
- 20:08Speaker 2: like Tag the happiest wife you know. So I went
- 20:12Speaker 2: in there and I started reading the women who were tagged.
- 20:15Speaker 2: But the ones that I was most impressed with were
- 20:19Speaker 2: the wives who tagged themselves. So I messaged those wives
- 20:23Speaker 2: and I asked them to come on this show and
- 20:25Speaker 2: talk about why you're the happiest wife. Because I want
- 20:28Speaker 2: us to be hopeful. I want us to find love
- 20:30Speaker 2: and I want us to grow. So we'll be right
- 20:33Speaker 2: back with our first guest. who's going to talk about
- 20:36Speaker 2: why she's the happiest wife. Okay, guys, we're back. And
- 20:44Speaker 2: y'all know I'm a hopeless romantic. So I was scrolling
- 20:47Speaker 2: and I just saw this beautiful post about the happiest wife.
- 20:51Speaker 2: So I got to digging through the comments to see
- 20:53Speaker 2: who they were shouting out to be the happiest wife.
- 20:56Speaker 2: And then I was more impressed with the women who
- 20:59Speaker 2: were saying that they were the happiest wife themselves. Because,
- 21:01Speaker 2: you know, outside people can think you the happiest wife.
- 21:04Speaker 2: You may not be. But these women were saying, no, baby,
- 21:07Speaker 2: look at me because I am the happiest wife. And
- 21:10Speaker 2: I came across this one profile for our guest, Jennifer Allen.
- 21:14Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me.
- 21:16Speaker 2: And she is the CEO of Just a Loaf LLC
- 21:19Speaker 2: in Dallas, Texas, where she curates micro weddings all over Dallas.
- 21:24Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. Tell us.
- 21:29Speaker 3: what makes you that, like, what made you decide to
- 21:32Speaker 3: say type right there? I am the happiest wife. Don't
- 21:34Speaker 3: play with me.
- 21:36Speaker 2: Don't play with it because let me tell you something.
- 21:38Speaker 2: My husband is, he is top tier. He has been
- 21:43Speaker 2: intentional about being a husband, not just wanting a wife
- 21:49Speaker 2: since I met him. And we have been married for
- 21:51Speaker 2: 13 years and we have three, three sons.
- 21:56Speaker 3: Um, 11, nine, and two.
- 22:00Speaker 2: And every day that we've been together, I've never had
- 22:05Speaker 2: to question whether or not I am enough for him,
- 22:09Speaker 2: whether he loves me, whether I am secure within our relationship.
- 22:14Speaker 2: And that's not to say that we don't have issues
- 22:17Speaker 2: or petty arguments or that sort of thing, but it's
- 22:21Speaker 2: this security that comes with no matter what.
- 22:26Speaker 3: He can be upset with me. If he.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Leaves out the house, he going to bring me something back.
- 22:32Speaker 2: If he goes to go do something, he going, I'll
- 22:35Speaker 2: be back. I'm about to go do whatever. It's no
- 22:37Speaker 2: storm out of the house. It's all this security of
- 22:40Speaker 2: no matter what, you are the most important thing to me,
- 22:44Speaker 2: even though you're getting on my last nerve at this moment.
- 22:47Speaker 3: And I'm sure I work his nerve, but I don't care.
- 22:50Speaker 3: How long did y'all date before you got married?
- 22:54Speaker 2: So we met in January 2009, and we got married
- 22:58Speaker 2: in July 2010. So you knew that quickly? Yes. So
- 23:05Speaker 2: I met my husband on MySpace. So let's start there.
- 23:14Speaker 2: And what's so random is I had not been on
- 23:17Speaker 2: MySpace in years, right? Like so long. Facebook was popping then.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Hadn't been on for so long. And my best friend
- 23:26Speaker 2: was like, girl, I logged into my MySpace page the
- 23:29Speaker 2: other day. And I'm like, let me get on here
- 23:31Speaker 2: and see. And I don't know how, whether he has
- 23:34Speaker 2: sent me a message. So much time has passed since then.
- 23:37Speaker 2: But I don't know how we end up connecting.
- 23:39Speaker 3: We exchange.
- 23:40Speaker 2: We end up exchanging phone numbers like that same day.
- 23:45Speaker 2: Talked on the phone all day. It was a Saturday.
- 23:49Speaker 2: We talked on the phone all day long. And then
- 23:51Speaker 2: he was like, man, I wish I could see you,
- 23:53Speaker 2: but I got to go to work tomorrow. He's 19
- 23:55Speaker 2: years old, right? So kids. And so I'm like, oh,
- 24:00Speaker 2: don't stop your bag behind me. Like, go, you know,
- 24:03Speaker 2: go take care of your business. So the next day
- 24:05Speaker 2: he calls me and he's like, what you doing today?
- 24:09Speaker 2: And I'm like, nothing. What you doing? I thought you
- 24:11Speaker 2: had to go to work. He's like, I'm sick. I'm like, oh,
- 24:15Speaker 2: hell no. I'm like, yo, you got this poor work ethic.
- 24:22Speaker 2: If you finna take off from your job from some
- 24:24Speaker 2: chick you done met on the internet, you finna not
- 24:27Speaker 2: go to work behind somebody you don't even know. And
- 24:31Speaker 2: we end up going to Razzle's and going to the movies.
- 24:35Speaker 2: And he went with me to Walmart so I can
- 24:37Speaker 2: get my little groceries for the week. And we had
- 24:41Speaker 2: a really good, like, just a really good time. So
- 24:44Speaker 2: that was a Sunday. That Wednesday, he came over my
- 24:47Speaker 2: house and he was like, we are going to get married.
- 24:51Speaker 2: And I'm like, boy, you are just trying to get
- 24:54Speaker 2: you some and you don't have to say all that
- 24:57Speaker 2: because I'm going to.
- 24:58Speaker 3: Give it to you. So you don't got to gas
- 25:04Speaker 3: me up. You know what I'm saying?
- 25:05Speaker 2: Like, I don't I don't need this is happening because
- 25:08Speaker 2: I want it to happen.
- 25:09Speaker 3: This has nothing to do with you telling me that
- 25:12Speaker 3: we're going to get married. And he was like, no,
- 25:15Speaker 3: like we're we're going to get married. I'm like, all right, whatever.
- 25:18Speaker 2: So literally we became inseparable from that moment on. And
- 25:24Speaker 2: I had just got out of a relationship a couple
- 25:26Speaker 2: months prior. And I was really on some like, I'm
- 25:31Speaker 2: setting boundaries with people.
- 25:32Speaker 3: And whoever don't get it, don't get it. So he
- 25:36Speaker 3: would come stay the night at my house.
- 25:38Speaker 2: And I told him, I said, hey, if you stay
- 25:41Speaker 2: here seven times throughout the month, you're going to have
- 25:44Speaker 2: to pay my light bill. Because you over here using electricity,
- 25:48Speaker 2: the microwave, like you just, because he lived with his mom.
- 25:52Speaker 2: And so he was in the military waiting orders. And
- 25:55Speaker 2: so I'm like, my life bill was like $ 60. It
- 25:58Speaker 2: wasn't even like it was anything crazy. And so he
- 26:02Speaker 2: was there.
- 26:02Speaker 3: The end of the month came. I'm like, I need
- 26:05Speaker 3: my $ 63.
- 26:06Speaker 2: 54.
- 26:06Speaker 3: Like, where's my money at? And he, and he paid it.
- 26:13Speaker 2: And like, I didn't have cable. And he would come
- 26:15Speaker 2: over there and he was like, you don't have cable.
- 26:18Speaker 3: You just watching DVDs. So Redbox was, was big. He's like,
- 26:21Speaker 3: you just watching DVDs all the time.
- 26:23Speaker 2: I'm like, I have to choose between being able to
- 26:27Speaker 2: consistently keep my nails done or having cable. And I'm
- 26:32Speaker 2: choosing my nails. And so I said, if you want
- 26:35Speaker 2: me to have cable, then you get the cable. I don't,
- 26:37Speaker 2: I don't need no cable. And so he got the cable.
- 26:41Speaker 2: And so when I would leave to go to work,
- 26:44Speaker 2: I would make him leave, get up to like, you
- 26:47Speaker 2: got you got to go to work. So you head
- 26:49Speaker 2: back to where you going because you're just not going
- 26:51Speaker 2: to be laying up in my house. And so it
- 26:54Speaker 2: started to go to where I would we would leave
- 26:57Speaker 2: at the same time. Then it would be when he
- 27:00Speaker 2: would leave. He would bring my key to my job.
- 27:03Speaker 2: And then that turned into him saying, well, can I
- 27:05Speaker 2: just have a key? And so I was like, well,
- 27:08Speaker 2: you know, you've never had an apartment before. So let
- 27:10Speaker 2: me explain to you.
- 27:11Speaker 3: How it works.
- 27:13Speaker 2: When you go into the leasing office and you sign
- 27:16Speaker 2: on the paper and say you're going to pay the
- 27:18Speaker 2: full month's rent, they give you a key.
- 27:21Speaker 3: I said, so I don't need a roommate.
- 27:23Speaker 2: So if you want a key, then you need to
- 27:27Speaker 2: pay the rent. And so I said, but you don't
- 27:30Speaker 2: make enough money to pay the rent and be my boyfriend.
- 27:36Speaker 3: Like, so take me somewhere. So I'm three years older
- 27:43Speaker 3: than my husband.
- 27:45Speaker 2: And so, like I said, I had just dated somebody
- 27:48Speaker 2: who was trash on top of trash.
- 27:52Speaker 3: And I just knew what I did not want to
- 27:53Speaker 3: continue to deal with.
- 27:56Speaker 2: And so he was like, okay. So like the next
- 28:00Speaker 2: month he had got a new job. And he came
- 28:03Speaker 2: in there and slapped the money order on the table.
- 28:07Speaker 2: It was like, hey, give me my key. I'm like, boy,
- 28:10Speaker 2: you can have my key.
- 28:11Speaker 3: I'm not going to get in the door. I'm not
- 28:14Speaker 3: going to get in there. I don't care. I see
- 28:17Speaker 3: if I can come over.
- 28:23Speaker 2: Because I don't care.
- 28:26Speaker 3: You got it. So we.
- 28:29Speaker 2: We kept dating. He moved in. We were getting serious.
- 28:34Speaker 2: And then in October of that year, so we met
- 28:37Speaker 2: in January. So by the time October came.
- 28:41Speaker 3: We were, I mean, it was serious. It was, you know,
- 28:44Speaker 3: we were locked in.
- 28:46Speaker 2: And I told him, I said, well, my lease is
- 28:49Speaker 2: up and I'm going to move to another apartment inside
- 28:52Speaker 2: of my complex. And I said, you cannot come with me.
- 28:57Speaker 2: And he was like, what do you mean? I said,
- 29:00Speaker 2: you've never experienced living by yourself before. And I know
- 29:05Speaker 2: that you do a great job of taking care of
- 29:09Speaker 2: things in the house with me together. But I need
- 29:14Speaker 2: to know that you could take care of yourself by yourself.
- 29:17Speaker 2: I said, because if you're going to be my husband,
- 29:20Speaker 2: you're going to be these things. I don't want you
- 29:21Speaker 2: to feel like you missed out on living alone. I
- 29:23Speaker 2: don't want you to feel like, you know, I need
- 29:26Speaker 2: to see that you can remember to pay your bills
- 29:28Speaker 2: because they your bills to pay, not me bringing them up,
- 29:31Speaker 2: you know, and that sort of thing. How old were
- 29:33Speaker 2: you at that too? Cause that's very, uh, mature. I
- 29:38Speaker 2: was 23. So when, when, when we met, he was 19,
- 29:42Speaker 2: I was 22 and then he turned 20 in March
- 29:46Speaker 2: and then I turned 23 in June. And so I
- 29:50Speaker 2: was like, you know, I just, I just don't, I
- 29:53Speaker 2: just need to, to know, baby, that man told me
- 29:56Speaker 2: if you move out this apartment and I don't go
- 29:59Speaker 2: with you, we are done. And I said, well, I
- 30:03Speaker 2: guess we done. And I told my mama and she
- 30:07Speaker 2: was like, Jennifer.
- 30:10Speaker 3: Okay. And I said, what? She's like, nothing.
- 30:13Speaker 2: And so we, we, we just kind of left it alone.
- 30:17Speaker 2: He ended up getting his own apartment. I moved into
- 30:20Speaker 2: my apartment. And he stopped talking to me. We broke up.
- 30:25Speaker 3: We were done.
- 30:26Speaker 2: His mama tried to hook him up with the girl
- 30:29Speaker 2: across the street. They went to Ikea. Yeah, they went
- 30:32Speaker 2: to Ikea and everything. I said, oh, I know you
- 30:34Speaker 2: ain't out here picking out pillows for the bitch.
- 30:36Speaker 3: Like, they went to Ikea. My feelings just crushed. I said, what?
- 30:44Speaker 3: Are you serious right now?
- 30:47Speaker 2: And I was talking to my mama about it. And
- 30:49Speaker 2: she said, you know, I really need for you to
- 30:52Speaker 2: understand that Tavares is a good man because he's a
- 30:57Speaker 2: good man. It has nothing to do with you. So
- 30:59Speaker 2: he's going to be a good man to whoever he's with,
- 31:03Speaker 2: not just you. So if you want to keep this
- 31:07Speaker 2: going and be on your high horse and I'm putting
- 31:09Speaker 2: my foot down, I'm setting boundaries. She's like, you are
- 31:13Speaker 2: going to miss out. And she's like, so you do
- 31:16Speaker 2: with that what you want to do with. And I'm
- 31:17Speaker 2: not telling you who you're supposed to be with, but
- 31:19Speaker 2: you do what you want to do with it. And
- 31:23Speaker 2: I ended up needing to go get my tooth pulled.
- 31:26Speaker 2: And I'm like, I mean, I'm like, can you please
- 31:28Speaker 2: take me to the dentist? I can't drive myself back
- 31:30Speaker 2: back home. And he was like, yeah, that's fine. So
- 31:35Speaker 2: he took me to the dentist. And when it was over,
- 31:37Speaker 2: it was like a traumatic experience. And then he was like, well,
- 31:40Speaker 2: you just come back to my apartment. And I end
- 31:43Speaker 2: up being in his house for like three weeks. And
- 31:48Speaker 2: we were back together. And that was in April of 2020,
- 31:55Speaker 2: April of 2010. And then in May, he found out
- 32:01Speaker 2: that he was going to be leaving for deployment. Um,
- 32:04Speaker 2: and so we kind of had this conversation like, Hey,
- 32:07Speaker 2: I know we just got back together. Like this doesn't
- 32:09Speaker 2: have to be a thing. Like we can, you know,
- 32:11Speaker 2: call this off. And he was like, no, like this is,
- 32:14Speaker 2: this is where I want to be.
- 32:15Speaker 3: I'm like, good. Cause me too. Cause I don't want to,
- 32:18Speaker 3: I don't want to do that. Yeah, exactly. I don't
- 32:21Speaker 3: want to go nowhere.
- 32:23Speaker 2: And, um, we decided before he left for deployment and, um, he, he,
- 32:30Speaker 2: he went, he went to San Diego for trainings in Navy.
- 32:33Speaker 3: Went to San Diego for a training. He came back
- 32:36Speaker 3: in July and.
- 32:37Speaker 2: He proposed and he proposed on a Thursday and we
- 32:44Speaker 2: got married that next Tuesday. And so we went to
- 32:48Speaker 2: city hall and got married and we've been married for
- 32:52Speaker 2: 13 years.
- 32:53Speaker 3: And I, it has been, when you.
- 32:59Speaker 2: Get married young, it's difficult because you are growing up
- 33:03Speaker 2: in front of somebody else. All of your, all of
- 33:12Speaker 2: your flaws are on display and all of your wants
- 33:18Speaker 2: and needs and desires, they're constantly changing and shifting and
- 33:22Speaker 2: you're doing this with somebody else and then you become parents.
- 33:27Speaker 2: And so now you're not only trying to figure out,
- 33:29Speaker 2: you know, how to be, a husband and a wife,
- 33:31Speaker 2: but now a mother and a father, but I'm still
- 33:34Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to be Jennifer. I'm still
- 33:36Speaker 2: trying to figure out, you know, what I'm doing with myself.
- 33:40Speaker 2: And it has been the best journey now when I
- 33:47Speaker 2: look back on it, because all the things that are
- 33:50Speaker 2: good about my accomplishments, people say, oh, you're so awesome.
- 33:55Speaker 3: Oh, you've been on Netflix, Love is Blind. Oh, you
- 33:57Speaker 3: married to Brad and Judy. Oh, you did this. Oh,
- 33:58Speaker 3: you did that. And I'm like, I would not.
- 34:02Speaker 2: Have been able to do any of these things had
- 34:05Speaker 2: I not had my husband, number one, hyping me up
- 34:08Speaker 2: so tough to say, you deserve all of that.
- 34:11Speaker 3: Go do it. You should do it. And him being
- 34:15Speaker 3: here to be a great dad to his kids. Because
- 34:17Speaker 3: we're going to watch these kids while I'm jet-setting, you know? Right.
- 34:22Speaker 2: I'm out here frolicking around town. Oh, Jennifer, we saw
- 34:26Speaker 2: you was in Chicago at a speaking event.
- 34:28Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 34:29Speaker 2: And I got three children, you know? My husband is
- 34:33Speaker 2: an amazing dad. I often tell him that he's truly
- 34:39Speaker 2: the dad that I wish that I had growing up.
- 34:42Speaker 3: And to see him with our sons.
- 34:45Speaker 2: It almost makes me jealous sometimes because it's like, man,
- 34:51Speaker 2: I wish I had that. I wish I could have
- 34:55Speaker 2: experienced what it was like to have a dad who
- 35:00Speaker 2: was so intentional and so involved in everything that I,
- 35:05Speaker 2: that I did. My dad really didn't come around until
- 35:09Speaker 2: I became me now, you know, when it's cute to say, Oh,
- 35:14Speaker 2: look what my daughter, my daughter, you know, look what
- 35:17Speaker 2: she's doing.
- 35:18Speaker 3: Right. Right. And so it's like, yes.
- 35:21Speaker 2: Um, in spite of, you know, so, um, my husband
- 35:25Speaker 2: is just, I, shout from the rooftops to anybody that
- 35:30Speaker 2: I'm the happiest wife, not because we have this fairytale love,
- 35:36Speaker 2: but it is the securest thing I've ever experienced in
- 35:40Speaker 2: my life. To have somebody who you don't have to
- 35:45Speaker 2: question whether or not your best intentions are their main
- 35:51Speaker 2: intentions and to know that he's not going to get
- 35:55Speaker 2: out like if he come down to it if he
- 35:58Speaker 2: come down to it if he come down to it
- 36:02Speaker 2: he ready throw them hands behind his woman and so
- 36:05Speaker 2: the fact that I know that also gives me the
- 36:09Speaker 2: security to know that you know it is what it
- 36:13Speaker 2: is and I just look forward to what we can
- 36:17Speaker 2: keep building and having and Sometimes I just be like, oh,
- 36:24Speaker 2: my God, I live in a house full of dudes.
- 36:25Speaker 2: I'm the only girls because we have three, three, three boys.
- 36:29Speaker 2: And I live in a house full of clingy, touchy.
- 36:33Speaker 2: Every five seconds, somebody got to be in my space.
- 36:36Speaker 2: And you look around and everybody in the house has
- 36:40Speaker 2: been inside your body.
- 36:41Speaker 3: Everybody. Listen, in or out, you know. And so I'm like, Jesus,
- 36:47Speaker 3: give me a break.
- 36:48Speaker 2: Yeah. Give me a break and, you know, my mom,
- 36:52Speaker 2: I'll say little things to her like, oh, girl, she's like, Jennifer,
- 36:57Speaker 2: it is worse problems to have.
- 36:59Speaker 3: Let me tell you, if your.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Biggest complaint with Tavares right now is that every time
- 37:05Speaker 2: he go to the store, he got to call you
- 37:06Speaker 2: 20 times to say the same thing, if that's your
- 37:10Speaker 2: only problem, then take it. So you know online is
- 37:20Speaker 2: always this thing about women being submissive and blah.
- 37:23Speaker 3: Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. How do you and your.
- 37:26Speaker 2: Spouse like navigate decision making in your relationship? So each
- 37:33Speaker 2: one of us is good at different things. And we
- 37:36Speaker 2: have always allowed whoever has the strength to make the decision.
- 37:42Speaker 2: So my husband is really good with keeping up with
- 37:45Speaker 2: things like making everybody's doctor's appointments and dentist appointments and
- 37:50Speaker 2: figuring out where we should go and do.
- 37:54Speaker 3: And certain things.
- 37:56Speaker 2: But his strong suit is not remembering when somebody has
- 38:00Speaker 2: a project due at school or when the parent-teacher conference
- 38:03Speaker 2: is and when the follow-up or the kids were volunteering
- 38:07Speaker 2: for the Valentine party, what they need back. That's not
- 38:10Speaker 2: his strong point. So whatever you're good at, that's what
- 38:14Speaker 2: you take the point on. Because we look at it
- 38:18Speaker 2: like these kids don't care who do what. The light
- 38:23Speaker 2: company don't care who pay.
- 38:25Speaker 3: It as long as it's paid.
- 38:29Speaker 2: Money has been one of those things in our relationship
- 38:31Speaker 2: that's never been an issue because when we didn't have it,
- 38:36Speaker 2: we figured it out. And now that we do have it,
- 38:38Speaker 2: it's the same. We pay what needs to be paid
- 38:41Speaker 2: and we keep it pushing from there. I think the
- 38:45Speaker 2: whole debate on, you know, I'm not going 50-50 with
- 38:49Speaker 2: no men on no bills. We have a joint account.
- 38:53Speaker 2: So all the money going into the account and I'm
- 38:56Speaker 2: paying the bills. He's paying the bills. I mean, it.
- 39:00Speaker 3: You ain't got no little account on the side. Oh,
- 39:03Speaker 3: I have a big account on the side. Okay. That's right.
- 39:08Speaker 3: That's right, girl. And he knows that. And so, you know.
- 39:15Speaker 2: I work a full time job and I run my
- 39:18Speaker 2: business full time. And so my husband is a data analyst.
- 39:24Speaker 2: So he, makes more than I do. So the way
- 39:29Speaker 2: that we do our funds is that all the money
- 39:33Speaker 2: goes into one account from our job. So all the
- 39:36Speaker 2: money goes into one account. We pay all of the bills,
- 39:40Speaker 2: whatever is left over, half goes into savings, and then
- 39:43Speaker 2: we split the other half for you to be able
- 39:45Speaker 2: to do whatever it is that you want to do it.
- 39:48Speaker 2: I manage my business money on my own. Um, and
- 39:54Speaker 2: it's not that it's, it's mine. It's just that my
- 39:59Speaker 2: husband knows if he sees it, he going to be like, well,
- 40:02Speaker 2: we could do, or what if we did? And I'm,
- 40:05Speaker 2: and so we, once we recognize that that was a thing,
- 40:08Speaker 2: he's like, I don't even want to have access to
- 40:10Speaker 2: it because then when something happens and he's like, man, we,
- 40:14Speaker 2: we got to spend $ 4, 000 on.
- 40:17Speaker 3: X, Y, Z. I'm like, all right, bet it. I
- 40:19Speaker 3: got it. Because I'm the saver. And since we know.
- 40:24Speaker 2: That's our strong point is what, then I handle the money.
- 40:29Speaker 2: If I wasn't the saver and he was, then he
- 40:32Speaker 2: would handle it. And I wouldn't look at it like
- 40:35Speaker 2: he's giving me an allowance. No, we have to keep
- 40:38Speaker 2: living beyond our immediate needs.
- 40:42Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
- 40:43Speaker 2: And so because we recognize that it's whoever has, whoever's
- 40:47Speaker 2: strongest at whatever it is, that's who does what. I
- 40:51Speaker 2: hate washing clothes. I don't want to touch nobody's dirty-ass drawers.
- 40:55Speaker 3: I don't want to touch your socks. I can imagine.
- 40:58Speaker 2: I don't want to turn your socks. And they take
- 41:01Speaker 2: their socks off, but everything is inside out. Like, I don't,
- 41:04Speaker 2: and my husband, I had to, like, don't wash the
- 41:08Speaker 2: clothes inside out. Like, he will just put it in there. But-
- 41:12Speaker 2: At this point, I'm like, whatever. I don't like washing clothes,
- 41:16Speaker 2: and he doesn't like folding clothes. So instead of it
- 41:19Speaker 2: being this power struggle of who needs to do what,
- 41:22Speaker 2: he washes the clothes, I fold the clothes up. Everybody
- 41:26Speaker 2: put their stuff up. Instead of it being this, well,
- 41:29Speaker 2: you the woman, you need to do... We don't have
- 41:32Speaker 2: gender roles. Of course, you know, it's certain things that
- 41:34Speaker 2: people gravitate towards. He makes sure the car has gas.
- 41:40Speaker 3: Like, stuff dealing.
- 41:41Speaker 2: That's not my strong point. He makes sure the law
- 41:45Speaker 2: men come. But listen, listen, he be ready too. He
- 41:50Speaker 2: is so funny. I'm like, boy, I ain't never seen
- 41:52Speaker 2: you vibing by your life. But the fact that you
- 41:54Speaker 2: be so ready.
- 41:55Speaker 3: I believe it. I believe it. I believe it with
- 42:01Speaker 3: my whole heart. I believe it. I bet you would.
- 42:05Speaker 2: And that's all I need. Because they ain't never going
- 42:08Speaker 2: to let you fight nobody. I just know that you
- 42:12Speaker 2: will when the time comes. If the time got that.
- 42:14Speaker 3: Dog in you to go in here and come through,
- 42:16Speaker 3: I can appreciate that.
- 42:19Speaker 2: Girl, listen, I had a million questions, but you answer
- 42:22Speaker 2: all of them. You answer every last one of them.
- 42:26Speaker 2: I was about to ask because another thing, like how
- 42:28Speaker 2: do you guys handle disagreements? Just different things that come
- 42:31Speaker 2: up in a marriage that people who haven't been married,
- 42:34Speaker 2: they think they're going to do something one way, you know,
- 42:37Speaker 2: I can get some advice from you because you've been
- 42:38Speaker 2: married for 13 years now. How do you guys handle
- 42:41Speaker 2: disagreements in a marriage? So my husband is a, he
- 42:45Speaker 2: wants to talk about it right now type of person.
- 42:48Speaker 3: And I am not. I need a minute.
- 42:51Speaker 2: And so we had to learn that it's okay that
- 42:56Speaker 2: I need a minute, but I have to also be
- 42:58Speaker 2: respectful of the fact that I can't let.
- 43:01Speaker 3: That drag out for the day.
- 43:04Speaker 2: And so it was like, we set these boundaries of,
- 43:07Speaker 2: you get an hour to cool down because he.
- 43:10Speaker 3: Is burning him up to not be able to talk
- 43:12Speaker 3: about it.
- 43:13Speaker 2: Right.
- 43:13Speaker 3: Right then and there. And I'm, I'm more coming down
- 43:17Speaker 3: and he going up. Yeah. Right.
- 43:18Speaker 2: And so for, it's a lot of things that may
- 43:21Speaker 2: happen that he'll, he'll, he'll say you are too nonchalant
- 43:25Speaker 2: about things. And it's not, and I had to remind him,
- 43:28Speaker 2: it's not that I'm nonchalant about it. It's not that
- 43:30Speaker 2: I don't care. It's just that I know that, In
- 43:35Speaker 2: 20 minutes, none of this is about to be relevant.
- 43:39Speaker 2: So because I know it's not going to be relevant,
- 43:41Speaker 2: I'm not going to let myself get that worked up
- 43:44Speaker 2: because why?
- 43:47Speaker 3: And the stuff that we.
- 43:48Speaker 2: Going back and forth about isn't like, oh, who is
- 43:51Speaker 2: this woman or who is this and that?
- 43:53Speaker 3: It's like, why you didn't put a trash bag inside
- 43:55Speaker 3: the trash can?
- 43:56Speaker 2: Or I thought you said that you was going to
- 43:59Speaker 2: take this out or, you know, just little things.
- 44:02Speaker 3: But our biggest thing has always been.
- 44:05Speaker 2: To keep it respectful. There is no name calling and
- 44:09Speaker 2: you this and that and degrading and being demeaning to
- 44:16Speaker 2: the other person to get your point across. And we
- 44:20Speaker 2: often have this little thing like, if you got mad
- 44:23Speaker 2: at your boss, you wouldn't go to them and cuss
- 44:25Speaker 2: them out and talk to them all kind of crazy
- 44:28Speaker 2: or your coworker because you would fear that you would
- 44:31Speaker 2: lose your livelihood. But people will talk to their spouses
- 44:35Speaker 2: like trash. And it's like, how can you give a
- 44:38Speaker 2: stranger more respect.
- 44:40Speaker 3: Than you give your significant other?
- 44:42Speaker 2: And we adopted that model a long time ago. Like,
- 44:45Speaker 2: talk to me like your coworker. Talk to me nice
- 44:50Speaker 2: or don't talk to me at all. And sometimes, like,
- 44:54Speaker 2: if it's like a heated thing, especially because we have kids,
- 45:00Speaker 2: we'll text, like, because you thought she was about to
- 45:07Speaker 2: or so because we don't ever want to create this
- 45:11Speaker 2: environment for them you know where they living with their
- 45:14Speaker 2: parents going back and forth and that sort of thing
- 45:18Speaker 2: I never want to give my children a childhood that
- 45:21Speaker 2: they have to recover from like be fun loving black
- 45:26Speaker 2: boys who just your kids are either going to want
- 45:30Speaker 2: a marriage just like yours or nothing like yours.
- 45:33Speaker 3: Right. Those are the only two options.
- 45:35Speaker 2: They're going to be like, I ain't never seen my
- 45:37Speaker 2: mama and daddy fight. Meanwhile, y'all texting like, yeah, nigga. Ooh, baby,
- 45:42Speaker 2: your ballin' mama. Like, I'm on y'all ass. I'm on
- 45:46Speaker 2: your mama's ass.
- 45:47Speaker 3: They have to save relationships sometimes. You know what I'm saying?
- 45:50Speaker 3: Because verbally, you fuck around and say something real nasty
- 45:53Speaker 3: to your partner. Yes. Yes. It's a little bit different.
- 45:57Speaker 3: You don't mean it.
- 45:59Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't mean it because my text, because
- 46:02Speaker 2: your texts are autocorrect. When you're trying to cuss and
- 46:05Speaker 2: it's like duck, it's like, I wasn't trying to say duck.
- 46:08Speaker 3: Like, I didn't mean what I was trying to say.
- 46:10Speaker 2: But it definitely helps to going back to the security
- 46:16Speaker 2: piece of things. I don't let too much get to
- 46:19Speaker 2: me because I'm like, dude, you... I know this is
- 46:24Speaker 2: not going to be a big deal. And because I
- 46:27Speaker 2: know it's not going to be a big deal, I'm
- 46:29Speaker 2: not even going to get ready to get all that
- 46:31Speaker 2: work worked up. Our biggest argument always across the board is,
- 46:37Speaker 2: and I wouldn't even call it an argument, but the
- 46:38Speaker 2: biggest thing to go back and forth is, my husband
- 46:41Speaker 2: thinks that we're supposed to have sex like 45,000 times
- 46:44Speaker 2: a day. And he thinks that other people, he's like,
- 46:51Speaker 2: I'm sure we the only married people that's having sex
- 46:54Speaker 2: like four times a week.
- 46:55Speaker 3: That's not, I'm like, I'm like, do you not know.
- 47:01Speaker 2: What, no, I'm like, bro, we have like, we literally,
- 47:06Speaker 2: like clockwork, are going to have sex at least every
- 47:08Speaker 2: other day. Like, at least every other day, that is
- 47:11Speaker 2: going to be a thing. And he'll say stuff like, people,
- 47:17Speaker 2: I'm sure folks out here married, they doing, you need to, I'm.
- 47:21Speaker 3: Like, No, that is four times a week with a
- 47:24Speaker 3: healthy sex life.
- 47:24Speaker 2: For two people who've been married for 13 years and
- 47:26Speaker 2: three kids, that is a lot of sex.
- 47:31Speaker 3: Three kids, three.
- 47:34Speaker 2: Kids, a business, a this, a that, all of these things,
- 47:39Speaker 2: a dog, all this stuff. I'm on the PTA board.
- 47:44Speaker 2: I'm room mom, all these things. I'm like, it is
- 47:51Speaker 2: this is healthy. And I, and it's not that we
- 47:53Speaker 2: argue about it, but it's like, if it's anything that's
- 47:56Speaker 2: going to cause some type of friction, it is him
- 48:02Speaker 2: looking at me and I'm looking like, I'm, I bend
- 48:09Speaker 2: over the time I.
- 48:09Speaker 3: Show up and he's like, Oh, you trying to be, you, you,
- 48:11Speaker 3: you trying to be freaky. I'm trying not to fall.
- 48:17Speaker 3: I'm trying not to trip. Like, I'm putting on lotion.
- 48:20Speaker 3: You're going to fall on this dick you bend over
- 48:22Speaker 3: right now.
- 48:22Speaker 2: Basically, basically, you know. And he's like, I'm like, I'm
- 48:26Speaker 2: putting on lotion. I was like, oh, so you're trying
- 48:27Speaker 2: to get oiled up for me. I'm trying to preserve
- 48:31Speaker 2: my skin. Like, I don't, I'm trying to moisturize myself.
- 48:36Speaker 3: But, okay, we both work from home.
- 48:40Speaker 2: So, it just feels like it just needs to be
- 48:43Speaker 2: this free for all, all the time.
- 48:47Speaker 3: So, that is probably what we.
- 48:49Speaker 2: But something that I do, I make it a point
- 48:54Speaker 2: to like randomly, or it could just be a random Tuesday,
- 48:57Speaker 2: 10 o'clock. I'm like, boom, I'm going in here. I'm
- 49:03Speaker 2: in here before I even go in there. I'm going
- 49:07Speaker 2: in and show out real quick on a Tuesday. It's
- 49:10Speaker 2: going up on a Tuesday for real.
- 49:12Speaker 3: I'm like, come on.
- 49:13Speaker 2: And then I catch you off guard, you know what
- 49:15Speaker 2: I'm saying? And you you out here thinking you missed
- 49:18Speaker 2: a big shot for the rest of the day but
- 49:20Speaker 2: in my mind I'm thinking why not the rest of
- 49:22Speaker 2: the night to.
- 49:23Speaker 3: Do whatever to.
- 49:26Speaker 2: Do without without without you sitting on the couch like
- 49:30Speaker 2: what are you talking about what time you going to bed.
- 49:36Speaker 3: That's a good problem to have though. Yeah.
- 49:38Speaker 2: That's a good problem to have. So I'll take it.
- 49:41Speaker 2: I'll take it. Do you have any advice for women
- 49:46Speaker 2: who are in marriages and they don't seem very happy
- 49:49Speaker 2: or any advice for women who are looking for love
- 49:52Speaker 2: or any advice?
- 49:53Speaker 3: What do you have?
- 49:54Speaker 2: If you are in a marriage and you are unhappy,
- 49:57Speaker 2: first of all, figure out why you're unhappy. Are you
- 50:00Speaker 2: unhappy because you are comparing your life to somebody else's?
- 50:06Speaker 2: are you unhappy because you want this social media love
- 50:11Speaker 2: and you're not getting that? I see that with a
- 50:15Speaker 2: lot of people. Your husband may not be the Instagram
- 50:20Speaker 2: husband and that's okay. It doesn't mean he loves you
- 50:24Speaker 2: any less. And so it's comparison is the thief of joy.
- 50:29Speaker 2: And I think that that really hurts people. My husband
- 50:33Speaker 2: is not going, if you go to his Instagram, it's
- 50:35Speaker 2: probably like 30 pictures.
- 50:37Speaker 3: I'm sure 17 of them is of me. The other
- 50:40Speaker 3: ones are the kids. He don't, it ain't, it ain't
- 50:42Speaker 3: nothing on there. He's not a, I'm a post you
- 50:46Speaker 3: type of dude.
- 50:47Speaker 2: And I'm okay with that because in real life, like.
- 50:54Speaker 3: You, you, you double tapping me in real life. So it's, Okay.
- 51:01Speaker 2: But I think that a lot of times in this
- 51:03Speaker 2: day and age with social media, I'm finding that people
- 51:07Speaker 2: are unhappy in their relationships because it's not living up
- 51:09Speaker 2: to this 60 second reel that's being put up with
- 51:14Speaker 2: your husband showing up with flowers and doing this and
- 51:19Speaker 2: doing that. But the things that he is doing for you,
- 51:23Speaker 2: you know, could be taking the place of all of that.
- 51:26Speaker 2: It's just not aesthetically pleasing.
- 51:28Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
- 51:29Speaker 2: And so I think that focusing on the good in
- 51:32Speaker 2: your own relationship is great.
- 51:35Speaker 3: Now, if he whooping your ass, you need to be divorced.
- 51:40Speaker 2: If he out here knocking you upside your head and
- 51:43Speaker 2: sleeping with everybody under the sun and doing all.
- 51:46Speaker 3: Go ahead and move on, sis. Like, go ahead.
- 51:50Speaker 2: But to people that are dating, that are wanting to
- 51:55Speaker 2: be in a relationship and want to be with somebody.
- 51:57Speaker 3: My.
- 51:57Speaker 2: Biggest piece of advice is that list that you have
- 52:01Speaker 2: of he needs to be this tall, make this much money,
- 52:07Speaker 2: have all these things that at any point could change, right?
- 52:13Speaker 2: So he has to be this tall. What if he
- 52:17Speaker 2: was that tall and he got in a car accident
- 52:18Speaker 2: and now he in a wheelchair? Now he's not that tall.
- 52:22Speaker 2: What if he had this amazing job and then he
- 52:25Speaker 2: lost it? Those are not character traits. Those are not
- 52:28Speaker 2: things that will sustain.
- 52:30Speaker 3: You in a marriage.
- 52:32Speaker 2: And I think that having people often say like, I
- 52:36Speaker 2: want a good man.
- 52:38Speaker 3: I want a good woman. Well, what does that actually
- 52:40Speaker 3: mean for you? Right.
- 52:43Speaker 2: What that means for you and what that means for
- 52:45Speaker 2: me is two totally different things. So I think being
- 52:49Speaker 2: able to write down like character and look at what
- 52:52Speaker 2: you write. If you say, I want a good man,
- 52:56Speaker 2: and then you immediately go into, he got to make
- 52:59Speaker 2: six figures, be six foot.
- 53:01Speaker 3: Five, light skin, drive this and that. Those are not.
- 53:06Speaker 3: Got to have a dick like Drake. Girl, I said, uh.
- 53:10Speaker 3: I said, what? I was like, girl, did you see
- 53:17Speaker 3: Drake Dick? My husband.
- 53:21Speaker 2: Was like, so y'all just really only looking at Drake Dick?
- 53:27Speaker 3: And I was. And I was. I said, oh my God,
- 53:29Speaker 3: this is a video. Hold on. This was a picture.
- 53:34Speaker 3: Just in case they take it down, Drake, I always
- 53:36Speaker 3: got your dick, baby. Yes, you did.
- 53:42Speaker 2: And that you know that is something that i do
- 53:44Speaker 2: love about my marriage is like he wasn't insecure by
- 53:47Speaker 2: that insecure or offended that i i mean it's something
- 53:52Speaker 2: that's floating around on on social media if somebody said
- 53:55Speaker 2: i've seen beyonce's titties.
- 53:57Speaker 4: I'ma look i'm just like it's curiosity you know and
- 54:02Speaker 4: so i just yeah drake's drake's dick definitely has been
- 54:07Speaker 4: the donkey of the day.
- 54:09Speaker 3: For real. Literally.
- 54:17Speaker 2: Literally donkey of the day.
- 54:23Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you something. Mrs.
- 54:24Speaker 2: Jennifer Allen, this was such a great interview. You were
- 54:27Speaker 2: a great guest. I want you to plug all your things.
- 54:30Speaker 2: Plug your micro.
- 54:31Speaker 3: Wedding venue and all the costumes, please.
- 54:34Speaker 2: Yeah, so I am the owner of Justy Lope. I'm
- 54:39Speaker 2: a micro wedding planning expert based here in the Dallas,
- 54:42Speaker 2: Texas area. I'm on social media at Justy Lope LLC.
- 54:46Speaker 2: I have a podcast called the Wedding to Wife Podcast
- 54:49Speaker 2: where we talk about all things from wedding planning to
- 54:52Speaker 2: wife life because it is more than just getting that ring.
- 54:55Speaker 2: And we also want to educate brides on what it
- 54:58Speaker 2: takes to actually pull off these Pinterest worthy weddings. We
- 55:02Speaker 2: talk about bridesmaids disaster stories and people that have called
- 55:08Speaker 2: off weddings called off in engagements and season two launches
- 55:13Speaker 2: next month and i'm super super excited about that but
- 55:17Speaker 2: yeah so that's the wedding to wife podcast and my
- 55:19Speaker 2: personal social media is.
- 55:21Speaker 3: I am thank you so much.
- 55:23Speaker 5: Thank you girl i'm gonna listen to your podcast too
- 55:25Speaker 5: i am thank you thank you because i'm very excited
- 55:28Speaker 5: I'm getting engaged next year to Drake, so we probably...
- 55:32Speaker 5: Come on, come on, come on.
- 55:35Speaker 3: I won't even look at him no type of way.
- 55:37Speaker 3: For everybody. For everybody. For everybody. She was like, y'all...
- 55:49Speaker 3: She said, look at our man. Ladies and gentlemen, our husband.
- 55:57Speaker 3: I was like, I feel relieved for some reason. Like,
- 55:59Speaker 3: now she know. Yeah. Yeah. Y'all have been great. I
- 56:05Speaker 3: appreciate y'all having me on. You too. Thank you so much, Jennifer,
- 56:10Speaker 3: for joining We Talk Back.
- 56:11Speaker 2: Y'all, if you enjoyed this episode, y'all tune in every
- 56:14Speaker 2: Thursday on your iHeartRadio app.
- 56:15Speaker 3: And we're going to fuck you, get your podcast ad.
- 56:18Speaker 3: This is your co-host, AJ Holiday. 2.0 on Instagram. Let's
- 56:23Speaker 3: kick it, Tam. Y'all, it's Official Tam on Instagram. Y'all
- 56:27Speaker 3: follow me. And if y'all enjoyed this episode, I really
- 56:29Speaker 3: enjoyed this episode. It makes me so hopeful.
- 56:31Speaker 2: And I'm just like a hopeless romantic, and I know
- 56:33Speaker 2: some of you all are. So if you enjoyed this,
- 56:36Speaker 2: come back next week for a part two. We're going
- 56:38Speaker 2: to have another happy wife on. Y'all remember, speak now.
- 56:42Speaker 3: And never hold your peace or meet like Drake. Have
- 56:46Speaker 3: a good day. Stop talking about my husband, okay? Bye, y'all.
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