Latest / Reality with The King / NICK CANNON'S 12 KIDS, TODD’S DRAMA & MORE! | Reality News with Claudia, Dustin and Blue
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Reality with the King is hosted by me, Carlos King.
- 0:06Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer who have produced some of your
- 0:10Speaker 1: favorite shows from the Real Housewives of Atlanta, New Jersey,
- 0:13Speaker 1: and my own creation, the Love and Marriage franchise and
- 0:17Speaker 1: Bell Collective. Every episode, we recap reality television from the
- 0:23Speaker 1: Real Housewives franchise to The Bachelor or Selling Sunset. in
- 0:27Speaker 1: addition to celebrity guests, whether in the unscripted space or
- 0:31Speaker 1: scripted as well. We got to get to Nick Cannon.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Oh, man.
- 0:39Speaker 3: That was fun.
- 0:40Speaker 1: That was a good segue.
- 0:42Speaker 4: A good segue.
- 0:43Speaker 2: God wrote that joke. His last name is Cannon.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Yes.
- 0:46Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Yes.
- 0:48Speaker 3: No, I've heard the stories. No, I've heard he's blessed.
- 0:55Speaker 1: I heard he's, I mean, listen, 12 kids later, 10
- 0:59Speaker 1: baby mamas, you know, I definitely think he is.
- 1:04Speaker 3: I told him the pull-out game is trash. His pull-out
- 1:07Speaker 3: game has to be trash.
- 1:08Speaker 1: He's not pulling out.
- 1:08Speaker 4: I don't think he wants to pull out.
- 1:09Speaker 5: Yeah, but like all of a sudden, he went all
- 1:11Speaker 5: those years without it, and then he just, he laying
- 1:13Speaker 5: it down.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Well, I believe he said, and you tell me if
- 1:16Speaker 4: I got this wrong, Blue.
- 1:17Speaker 1: The reason why he has so many kids now, he
- 1:21Speaker 1: does have lupus.
- 1:22Speaker 6: He does.
- 1:23Speaker 1: And he felt that life was too short, so he
- 1:27Speaker 1: wanted to spread his seed in order to.
- 1:30Speaker 4: Leave a legacy.
- 1:31Speaker 3: He's a whole tap.
- 1:32Speaker 2: He definitely did just that.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:34Speaker 2: There was some seed spreading going on.
- 1:36Speaker 4: Okay.
- 1:36Speaker 7: My thing is just like, can you imagine making that
- 1:38Speaker 7: much oatmeal? You know what I'm saying? How many damn
- 1:42Speaker 7: eggs you got?
- 1:43Speaker 6: Oh, I thought you meant something else when you said oatmeal.
- 1:45Speaker 6: I am so sorry.
- 1:46Speaker 4: I went to another place.
- 1:47Speaker 3: But that's like all the different houses, so it's not
- 1:49Speaker 3: all on his roof.
- 1:50Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:51Speaker 7: But them two Saturdays a month. You know what I'm saying?
- 1:55Speaker 7: That much toast. You know what I'm saying?
- 1:57Speaker 6: How about Christmas, Dustin? Spoons.
- 1:59Speaker 2: You know what I mean? He goes to everybody's house. Yeah.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Yep.
- 2:01Speaker 6: By the way, he doesn't have 10 baby mamas. He
- 2:02Speaker 6: has nine baby's mothers.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Okay.
- 2:05Speaker 6: And a Mariah Carey, an ex-wife.
- 2:06Speaker 4: Okay, my bad.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Yes, because, listen, the woman who celebrates anniversaries and not birthdays,
- 2:13Speaker 1: she is nobody's baby mama. The Aries of all Aries.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Yes.
- 2:15Speaker 6: Put some respect on Mariah's name.
- 2:17Speaker 4: So, no, we definitely have to.
- 2:19Speaker 1: So, listen, Nick Cannon is in the news because his
- 2:23Speaker 1: baby mama and star of Selling Sunset, Brie, okay, She
- 2:29Speaker 1: recently did an interview where she said that it's not
- 2:32Speaker 1: her job to keep the 12 kids connected, that Nick
- 2:38Speaker 1: has to step up. Listen, I'm a product of having
- 2:43Speaker 1: nine siblings. It's 10 of us total.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Same house? Same house, same parents.
- 2:48Speaker 2: There's only.
- 2:49Speaker 1: We got the same parents, right? Married for 50 plus years.
- 2:54Speaker 1: It's a whole thing. So I don't know this idea about...
- 2:58Speaker 1: putting the blame just on one person. But Dustin, starting
- 3:01Speaker 1: with you, does Brie have a point or is she
- 3:04Speaker 1: batshit crazy to believe that you have a child that
- 3:10Speaker 1: has 11 siblings? And is it also her job as
- 3:15Speaker 1: this boy's mother to make sure that he has a
- 3:19Speaker 1: connection with his siblings too?
- 3:21Speaker 2: Yes, it's quite literally her job. What's the alternative? Right?
- 3:25Speaker 7: Well, just willfully be estranged from your siblings because that
- 3:28Speaker 7: ain't my job.
- 3:29Speaker 2: Let's see how that goes once he gets old enough
- 3:31Speaker 2: to reason. You know what I'm saying? That's very immature.
- 3:35Speaker 7: It sounds like it's coming from a place of, like,
- 3:37Speaker 7: it's an emotional reaction, and that's not the route.
- 3:40Speaker 2: Look, wrong road.
- 3:42Speaker 1: Wrong road as a parent.
- 3:43Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
- 3:45Speaker 7: You have to get your emotions out of that and
- 3:46Speaker 7: make sound decisions, and that sounds stupid.
- 3:50Speaker 2: So, no. Claudia.
- 3:52Speaker 4: Claudia.
- 3:53Speaker 5: I kind of disagree a little bit. I do feel
- 3:55Speaker 5: like it's a, I think it's his responsibility, but a
- 3:58Speaker 5: courtesy for her. Because he's the one that decided to
- 4:01Speaker 5: have 12 kids. And so I feel like it's more
- 4:03Speaker 5: on him. Like, I'd be like, okay, I'll do my best.
- 4:05Speaker 3: I'm not going to push against it.
- 4:07Speaker 5: But that was his legacy that he wanted to do
- 4:10Speaker 5: and make all these kids. And I feel like, you know,
- 4:12Speaker 5: she should go along with it because he probably takes
- 4:14Speaker 5: care of them really well. But that was what he wanted.
- 4:17Speaker 5: He wanted 12 kids in all these different homes. Your
- 4:19Speaker 5: parents had it all in one home. Well, your parents
- 4:21Speaker 5: had them all under one roof.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Yeah, mine too.
- 4:23Speaker 3: It's a lot different. Oh, yours are too, right?
- 4:25Speaker 6: They're both from the Michigan area. You know how they are, wholesome.
- 4:27Speaker 5: My father had my brother and I, and then I
- 4:31Speaker 5: found out that I wasn't the oldest later on.
- 4:33Speaker 3: And my mom was still solid. She went out and
- 4:35Speaker 3: sought one of my siblings in Italy and found him
- 4:38Speaker 3: for us.
- 4:39Speaker 5: And my father never did. And I always thought that
- 4:40Speaker 5: should have been his job to do that because he
- 4:42Speaker 5: was the one planting seeds all over the place. But
- 4:45Speaker 5: my mom, because she's such a, she's a good woman.
- 4:46Speaker 5: So she was like, you should know.
- 4:48Speaker 3: Who your brother is.
- 4:49Speaker 5: But I don't think it's her, she had to do that.
- 4:51Speaker 5: I think my father had to do that.
- 4:53Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Blue?
- 4:55Speaker 6: My daddy was a hoe. And because of that, I
- 4:59Speaker 6: know what it's like when Papa was a Rolling Stone.
- 5:01Speaker 6: I told you, I recently found out about a sibling
- 5:03Speaker 6: like six to eight months ago at my big age.
- 5:07Speaker 6: And unlike Nick Cannon, my father was discreet. I think
- 5:11Speaker 6: I believe that Claudia and Dustin.
- 5:12Speaker 4: Are both right.
- 5:13Speaker 6: On one hand, if you are the one who's out
- 5:15Speaker 6: here running these streets, you have to make sure everybody
- 5:16Speaker 6: knows each other. But on the other hand, I watched
- 5:18Speaker 6: the show. I've seen Brie. She's a very prideful, smug girl.
- 5:22Speaker 6: And I think the fact that she's sharing space with
- 5:24Speaker 6: so many fellow baddies and Mariah Carey, I think she
- 5:28Speaker 6: doesn't want to feel like she has to ask for
- 5:30Speaker 6: their approval. And so there's some pridefulness in there very
- 5:32Speaker 6: specifically with her. So I agree with Claudia in general,
- 5:35Speaker 6: but with her, she a little stank.
- 5:37Speaker 1: She's a little stank. I watched Selling Sunset, and although
- 5:41Speaker 1: I enjoy her as a character, I think she's a
- 5:43Speaker 1: bad bitch. And listen, this makeover she has, And I'm
- 5:48Speaker 1: only saying that because she's admitted to it.
- 5:50Speaker 4: New face. She has a new face who this. Yeah.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Okay?
- 5:53Speaker 4: She has a whole new nose, teeth, lip, face, hair,
- 5:59Speaker 4: I mean, body.
- 6:00Speaker 2: A remodel.
- 6:01Speaker 4: She has a remodel, you know?
- 6:02Speaker 1: A fixer-upper, if you will.
- 6:03Speaker 2: A reboot.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Yes, no.
- 6:06Speaker 4: Brie is the human form of HGTV.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Okay.
- 6:09Speaker 4: Okay? It's definitely a remodel. Is there a button for that, Carlos?
- 6:13Speaker 2: Do we have something? I mean, you know.
- 6:16Speaker 5: I mean, outside of Mariah, I mean, when he started,
- 6:19Speaker 5: you know, when your baby mama, number six, seven, eight, nine,
- 6:22Speaker 5: there is a little bit of accountability you're going to
- 6:24Speaker 5: have to have because you know what you're walking into.
- 6:26Speaker 4: You opted in. Well, and I think that's the reason
- 6:29Speaker 4: why I agree with all of you guys because like
- 6:33Speaker 4: Blue said, there's space and room for that in a
- 6:37Speaker 4: general form.
- 6:39Speaker 1: I think when it comes to Brie particularly, she.
- 6:42Speaker 4: Does have this sort of smugness about her.
- 6:46Speaker 1: It's nasty.
- 6:47Speaker 4: I will go on record forever saying I am team
- 6:50Speaker 4: Chelsea Laskani.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Same.
- 6:52Speaker 1: The only black girl on Selling Sunset. And the way Brie,
- 6:56Speaker 1: in my opinion, Brie is somebody... who wants the rhythm
- 7:01Speaker 1: and not the blues. And I think because Brie dyed
- 7:05Speaker 1: her hair dark, went to the Kim Kardashian University of,
- 7:11Speaker 1: you know, trying to, like, become her.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Ethnicity?
- 7:14Speaker 4: Yes, I think... Listen, I think.
- 7:15Speaker 6: She's a blackfisher, Claudia. She wants to be biracial.
- 7:17Speaker 1: She wants to be.
- 7:18Speaker 4: Yeah, so... Oh, no. I.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I literally wish, and Jamie, see if you can find
- 7:24Speaker 1: this so we can give it to Chris to put
- 7:26Speaker 1: it up.
- 7:26Speaker 4: Get the before and after of Brie. It's jarring.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 7:32Speaker 6: Hillary Duff to Claudia Jordan. It's a huge jump.
- 7:35Speaker 2: So what did they name their baby? Finally?
- 7:37Speaker 1: Legendary Love.
- 7:38Speaker 2: She had a black baby. Finally. This is finally canon.
- 7:41Speaker 6: She's one of those white girls who wants to be
- 7:43Speaker 6: biracial but thinks she's better than black girls. The whole
- 7:45Speaker 6: thing is confusion.
- 7:46Speaker 2: Got it.
- 7:47Speaker 6: And you're up against Mariah Carey.
- 7:48Speaker 4: Sit down.
- 7:49Speaker 3: That's irritating.
- 7:50Speaker 4: Yeah, you're up against Mariah Carey.
- 7:51Speaker 3: I've never seen the show.
- 7:52Speaker 4: Once you have it, Chris, show it to the audience.
- 7:54Speaker 1: And again, I think this. Um, this is no shade
- 7:59Speaker 1: to her because I watch the show.
- 8:01Speaker 4: No, Carlos.
- 8:02Speaker 1: No, Carlos.
- 8:04Speaker 6: We can't get that off the person, Carlos.
- 8:06Speaker 1: We can see you.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Oh, after we done writing it down.
- 8:08Speaker 4: No shade, no teeth.
- 8:09Speaker 1: She sucks at life.
- 8:10Speaker 6: Everything she does is trash.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Oh, I know you fucking love her. No shade. Oh, wow.
- 8:13Speaker 3: I know.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Come on.
- 8:15Speaker 6: I'm saying it's Hilary Duff to a biracial girl. She
- 8:18Speaker 6: wants to be mixy.
- 8:19Speaker 3: Yeah, they be thinking they mix.
- 8:21Speaker 6: And doesn't she look doofy in the first one?
- 8:23Speaker 1: Like, come on.
- 8:23Speaker 4: She does.
- 8:24Speaker 3: She looks like she snorts and she laughs.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:28Speaker 1: I thought you.
- 8:28Speaker 2: Wow, wow. Yeah, she looks completely different.
- 8:32Speaker 6: But the second version of her does not like black women.
- 8:34Speaker 6: She's very... She has this whole, like, she's going to
- 8:36Speaker 6: call you girl. Like, hey, girl, you need to... Like,
- 8:38Speaker 6: neck swiveling. Every stereotype you think a black woman is.
- 8:41Speaker 6: And her adversary was a very, you know, lovely, contained
- 8:45Speaker 6: black woman.
- 8:45Speaker 2: I've seen her. The Chelsea girl from Silly. I don't
- 8:47Speaker 2: watch that show, but I've seen her.
- 8:49Speaker 1: Yes. She's stunning.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Didn't you interview her?
- 8:51Speaker 4: I interviewed her.
- 8:52Speaker 2: You did? Yeah.
- 8:53Speaker 4: And she... She.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Is from Nigeria.
- 8:56Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sorry. She's Nigerian. Lived in London. Very British.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Survived an abusive relationship. Her husband that she brought on
- 9:06Speaker 1: the show cheated on her. She was the only black
- 9:09Speaker 1: cast member on the show. She got removed from the
- 9:12Speaker 1: show and Brie got to stay. And I think when
- 9:14Speaker 1: it comes to Brie, Brie just reminds me of those
- 9:17Speaker 1: white girls who... who dip in black spaces. And again,
- 9:22Speaker 1: she wants the rhythm but not the blues. And that's
- 9:24Speaker 1: why I understand that when it comes to her, and
- 9:27Speaker 1: I didn't clock her. You probably did instantly. I didn't
- 9:30Speaker 1: clock her until she started to challenge Chelsea in a
- 9:34Speaker 1: way that I felt like.
- 9:37Speaker 4: You want to be Chelsea. Yeah.
- 9:39Speaker 3: You know where that comes from? I think in my
- 9:41Speaker 3: experience in Rhode Island, we have a lot of girls
- 9:43Speaker 3: like that.
- 9:43Speaker 5: And also I saw that a lot in California because
- 9:45Speaker 5: once they started wanting black dick, They started to adjust
- 9:48Speaker 5: a little bit and simulate and try to take on
- 9:50Speaker 5: the characteristics and some of the looks of black women, right?
- 9:53Speaker 5: Or biracial women, right? And they're laying up with weak-ass
- 9:58Speaker 5: men a lot of times.
- 9:59Speaker 3: Not saying naked. but some of the black.
- 10:01Speaker 5: Men are allowing them to be disrespectful to black women
- 10:04Speaker 5: and also telling them they're better than.
- 10:06Speaker 6: That's the part.
- 10:07Speaker 3: You don't give me as much trouble as them. and
- 10:09Speaker 3: that's why they get this arrogance about them.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I blame the men.
- 10:13Speaker 6: Thank you for saying that because I have a white
- 10:15Speaker 6: guy that I know and he said that black men
- 10:19Speaker 6: are constantly giving him permission to disrespect black women and
- 10:21Speaker 6: it makes him uncomfortable. There's a lot of black men
- 10:24Speaker 6: in this world. Let's be honest. Heteronormative straight black men,
- 10:27Speaker 6: the higher they get on the food chain financially, they think, oh,
- 10:30Speaker 6: I'm white adjacent. So if I'm talking to a white
- 10:32Speaker 6: woman or any other man, I'm going to almost cannibalize
- 10:35Speaker 6: black women and say, see, here's an offering about how
- 10:37Speaker 6: much I don't.
- 10:37Speaker 4: Care about niggas because I'm one of y'all.
- 10:39Speaker 6: And so those girls, like Brie, to your point, they
- 10:41Speaker 6: think they're better than actual black women while trying to
- 10:44Speaker 6: make other black women with them. What happens if you
- 10:46Speaker 6: are Danny Lay and you're talking shit about black girls
- 10:48Speaker 6: and then you end up birthing one? Who looks like
- 10:50Speaker 6: the lady you're talking about? That's the thing that's awkward. Luckily,
- 10:53Speaker 6: she has one of them J-Lens, so she's going to
- 10:54Speaker 6: have an asymmetrical bob and he can play football and
- 10:57Speaker 6: do the whole NFL thing. But the world has enough
- 11:00Speaker 6: white women who are presenting biracial who love black men
- 11:04Speaker 6: but hate the black women who birth them. And she
- 11:06Speaker 6: makes me sick. And I do think that feeds a
- 11:07Speaker 6: little bit. Because one thing I will say about Nick,
- 11:09Speaker 6: I see him a lot when I'm in Jason Lee
- 11:11Speaker 6: spaces because his sister is a casting director, I think,
- 11:15Speaker 6: for Wilding Out. And she's always at the Hollywood Walk Awards.
- 11:17Speaker 6: You've probably seen her there. She's very lovely. And his
- 11:20Speaker 6: baby mamas are all very low-key and chill. Brie is
- 11:24Speaker 6: a hood rat outlier. She is not like the rest
- 11:27Speaker 6: of them. And so because she's a bit of a
- 11:29Speaker 6: white hood rat, we used to call them wiggers back
- 11:31Speaker 6: in the 90s and early 2000s. As a female wigger
- 11:34Speaker 6: who was at the bottom of the food chain and
- 11:36Speaker 6: has an actual biracial woman at the top of the
- 11:38Speaker 6: food chain. Shout out to Mariah once again.
- 11:39Speaker 2: And Aries.
- 11:41Speaker 6: I can see why you salty and don't want to
- 11:42Speaker 6: take the kids out to play. So to me, it's
- 11:44Speaker 6: bigger than it's not my responsibility. She's mashed at the
- 11:46Speaker 6: bottom of the totem pole. She's not even the cutest one.
- 11:48Speaker 6: Even with the new face, she's not the cutest one.
- 11:50Speaker 6: She's somewhere in the lower middle tier.
- 11:52Speaker 3: The most beautiful one to me is my girl, Lanisha Cole.
- 11:56Speaker 3: The chocolate girl.
- 11:56Speaker 6: Oh, she's gorgeous.
- 11:57Speaker 5: She was a Price is Right model and also Deal
- 11:59Speaker 5: and O'Deal. And she was in that Pharrell video with Mimi.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Oh, her? Yeah, she's gorgeous. That's when the baby mama is?
- 12:07Speaker 3: Yes. The baby's name is Ani.
- 12:08Speaker 1: Brie is low on the roster, baby.
- 12:09Speaker 4: But she's not hanging.
- 12:10Speaker 5: Around to be with Nick. She has a guy that
- 12:13Speaker 5: helps her take care of the baby. She's, when I say,
- 12:15Speaker 5: one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in
- 12:17Speaker 5: my life.
- 12:18Speaker 6: An actual black woman.
- 12:19Speaker 3: Chocolate, beautiful.
- 12:20Speaker 5: Her features, just her aura, how she carries herself.
- 12:23Speaker 3: She's a great photographer.
- 12:25Speaker 2: She's dope. I'll take that, Brie.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Well, all right.
- 12:29Speaker 2: Get her again.
- 12:30Speaker 1: Okay.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Take that to the black team. Okay. So next we're
- 12:33Speaker 4: going to get into Dean's.
- 12:37Speaker 3: Is my mic as low?
- 12:38Speaker 4: Claudia's mic is low again.
- 12:39Speaker 2: My voice is low.
- 12:40Speaker 3: I had the, yeah, my voice is very raspy.
- 12:42Speaker 2: That's okay.
- 12:42Speaker 4: We're going to pull it up.
- 12:43Speaker 3: Doing a lot this week.
- 12:45Speaker 4: Claudia had a busy weekend. She was in D.C. at
- 12:49Speaker 4: the Black Caucus.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Caucus.
- 12:52Speaker 2: CBC. That's right.
- 12:53Speaker 1: Isn't that a freak nick for smart people?
- 12:55Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Yes, it is.
- 12:56Speaker 6: I was like, why are we not saying the elephant
- 12:58Speaker 6: in the room?
- 12:59Speaker 2: It's very classy, though.
- 12:59Speaker 6: Classy freak nick.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Wait, I don't even know.
- 13:02Speaker 6: That's what I thought.
- 13:03Speaker 3: I lived in D.C.
- 13:05Speaker 6: For 12 years. I thought it was classy freakness. My
- 13:07Speaker 6: sister lives in D.C.
- 13:09Speaker 1: Too.
- 13:09Speaker 3: He's very respectful, very honorable.
- 13:12Speaker 6: Was Mr. Luke there?
- 13:13Speaker 2: Sorry. It was amazing.
- 13:14Speaker 4: I had a great time.
- 13:15Speaker 2: Good, Claudia.
- 13:16Speaker 3: I had a great time there.
- 13:18Speaker 6: Come on, baby.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Sorry.
- 13:19Speaker 4: Not Luke Campbell, honey. Yes, we can see your comments. Yes,
- 13:25Speaker 4: we can see your comments.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Okay, so the next story we have, because I want
- 13:28Speaker 1: to read this, is Dee Smith. So Dee Smith is
- 13:32Speaker 1: a former love and hip-hop Atlanta reality star who announced
- 13:38Speaker 1: recently that he's living as a man again after 12
- 13:43Speaker 1: years as a transgendered woman.
- 13:46Speaker 4: I want to make sure to.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Read exactly what... He, because I want to make sure
- 13:55Speaker 1: I respect the pronouns. He's going by he right now.
- 13:58Speaker 1: I'll read some of it. He's pretty much saying that
- 14:01Speaker 1: for most of his life... He's followed his heart, but
- 14:05Speaker 1: over the past several months, he's begun a new chapter
- 14:08Speaker 1: in his life. He'll be living and presenting as a
- 14:11Speaker 1: man and using the he, him pronouns. This is not
- 14:15Speaker 1: about erasing my past. Living my life as a woman
- 14:18Speaker 1: for 12 years showed me the man.
- 14:22Speaker 4: That I wanted to become. Dustin, what are your thoughts
- 14:27Speaker 4: on that?
- 14:28Speaker 2: Listen, man. First of all, shout out to D. Smith
- 14:32Speaker 2: for living in his truth, right?
- 14:34Speaker 7: Just as I respect somebody's transition, I'm going to definitely
- 14:37Speaker 7: respect somebody's detransition. And listen, Donald Trump got prices so high,
- 14:43Speaker 7: makeup has skyrocketed.
- 14:44Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
- 14:45Speaker 3: Wait.
- 14:45Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
- 14:46Speaker 1: This is not where.
- 14:47Speaker 5: I thought this was going.
- 14:50Speaker 2: Hair products have gone through the roof. You have a point. So, look.
- 14:54Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying?
- 14:57Speaker 2: Right. No, but much respect to D. Smith. Do your thing.
- 15:02Speaker 2: Live in your truth.
- 15:03Speaker 7: And it was very easy to say she when she
- 15:05Speaker 7: was presenting as a male, as a woman. Now that
- 15:09Speaker 7: he's presenting as a man, you just call him he.
- 15:11Speaker 2: It's simple. Okay.
- 15:14Speaker 1: One of the things that people are saying, and I'll
- 15:16Speaker 1: go next to you, Claudia, there are people who are
- 15:19Speaker 1: saying that, well, Dustin said, okay, if that's what you
- 15:23Speaker 1: want to do, fine. However, they feel that what Dee
- 15:29Speaker 1: Smith is doing is causing some of the right-wingers who
- 15:36Speaker 1: believe that being gay is a choice. Yep. And that
- 15:39Speaker 1: by you choosing to now detransition, although that's your right,
- 15:45Speaker 1: your choice, your body, you being a public figure, they
- 15:51Speaker 1: do feel like you're now going to sort of take
- 15:55Speaker 1: the movement backwards and cause the right winger to say, see,
- 15:59Speaker 1: I told you so.
- 16:01Speaker 5: That's the first thing that came to my mind. I
- 16:03Speaker 5: felt like this will be great fodder for the right
- 16:06Speaker 5: to use, especially in an election year with the midterms
- 16:08Speaker 5: coming up. They already tried to put that entire movement
- 16:12Speaker 5: on the Democratic Party and use it in a negative
- 16:14Speaker 5: way and really blow up the spot and really exaggerate
- 16:18Speaker 5: greatly about kids are just going to school and transitioning
- 16:21Speaker 5: and getting picked up from school and they're a different
- 16:23Speaker 5: sex now.
- 16:24Speaker 3: That's what they've been doing, right?
- 16:25Speaker 5: They've been just really putting 10 on 20, 20 on 10,
- 16:29Speaker 5: whatever the goddamn phrase is. And I feel like, I
- 16:32Speaker 5: almost wish he would have, I hate to tell someone
- 16:35Speaker 5: to keep it on the low for just a little bit,
- 16:37Speaker 5: because I feel like they will make him be the
- 16:39Speaker 5: face of, well, see, like you said, it's a choice, A,
- 16:43Speaker 5: and bringing it back to the forefront in a negative way.
- 16:47Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Because they will make an
- 16:49Speaker 3: example out of someone and say, yeah.
- 16:50Speaker 5: You can just go back and forth, and this is
- 16:52Speaker 5: a voluntary thing, as opposed to, I mean, I first
- 16:55Speaker 5: was introduced to my trans friend in 1990. And we
- 16:59Speaker 5: had really long conversations about how she felt like she
- 17:02Speaker 5: was born in the wrong body and would cry to
- 17:04Speaker 5: me about it, saying, I really feel like my spirit
- 17:06Speaker 5: and my soul is woman. And so from 1990, that
- 17:10Speaker 5: was really unheard of.
- 17:11Speaker 3: It was very rare, you know?
- 17:13Speaker 5: And so I just don't want them to hijack this
- 17:17Speaker 5: moment and make it a, you know, put that on
- 17:20Speaker 5: the whole community.
- 17:22Speaker 1: And Blue, when he said, look, I lived my life
- 17:25Speaker 1: 12 years as a woman, and it made me understand
- 17:30Speaker 1: what life is like living as a man. What were
- 17:33Speaker 1: your thoughts on that particular story?
- 17:34Speaker 6: 12 years as a slave child. Well, my first reaction,
- 17:39Speaker 6: I'm so sorry.
- 17:39Speaker 1: I tried, okay? These spanks hurt.
- 17:45Speaker 6: My first thought was what Claudia said, and I had
- 17:46Speaker 6: a quick moment of panic, right?
- 17:48Speaker 4: I lived in D.C.
- 17:48Speaker 6: For 12 years. And when you work in politics, you
- 17:51Speaker 6: know exactly what those dog whistles are. What calmed me down,
- 17:54Speaker 6: funny enough, is a quote that Bill Clinton said to
- 17:55Speaker 6: Oprah years ago. He said, when it comes to politics,
- 17:58Speaker 6: the pendulum always swings far left, then it swings far right,
- 18:01Speaker 6: and then it finds the middle, and then it starts
- 18:03Speaker 6: swinging again. So which means that we had the Obama years,
- 18:05Speaker 6: and it swung far to the progressive. It was inevitable
- 18:08Speaker 6: we were going to be in whatever the fuck this is, right?
- 18:11Speaker 6: The pendulum always does that politically. And I realized this
- 18:14Speaker 6: is no different than when Jackie Perry and them all
- 18:16Speaker 6: decided they didn't want to eat cooch no more. This
- 18:19Speaker 6: is nothing different than the former gay movement. You know
- 18:21Speaker 6: what I mean? And when I remember that, it made
- 18:23Speaker 6: me calm down because I was like, if we were
- 18:25Speaker 6: really going to use one person to represent a whole...
- 18:27Speaker 6: That means all white men are school shooters. It means
- 18:30Speaker 6: all Republicans are gay because every time they come into town,
- 18:32Speaker 6: Grindr shuts down. Did y'all see that story? How they
- 18:34Speaker 6: came to town, had a little convention, Grindr couldn't keep
- 18:36Speaker 6: up with all the dick pics.
- 18:37Speaker 2: Sorry, the dick pics. It actually happened for real.
- 18:39Speaker 1: It's very true. Every city.
- 18:41Speaker 6: Every city, Republicans have conventions, Grindr has to shut down
- 18:44Speaker 6: because they don't have enough streams for the stream.
- 18:46Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 18:47Speaker 6: So if we really want to be talking, let's talk.
- 18:49Speaker 6: You're talking about one body from ATL somewhere. Let's talk
- 18:52Speaker 6: about all of y'all in the log cabins.
- 18:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Stooping each other. We can do this all day.
- 18:56Speaker 2: And my thing is they're going to say whatever they're
- 18:58Speaker 2: going to say anyway.
- 18:59Speaker 6: Exactly, because they're dumb.
- 19:00Speaker 2: People who have those residual feelings of life.
- 19:03Speaker 4: You probably can now.
- 19:03Speaker 2: People who are transphobic and shit. You know what I'm saying?
- 19:06Speaker 2: They're already transphobic.
- 19:07Speaker 6: Exactly.
- 19:07Speaker 4: They're going to say that shit anyway.
- 19:09Speaker 2: That's true.
- 19:09Speaker 7: It's also not fair to pin the whole entire responsibility
- 19:13Speaker 7: of representation on one person in any marginalized group.
- 19:17Speaker 2: True. So, like, again, I really.
- 19:19Speaker 6: It's tricky, though, because to your point, you know when
- 19:22Speaker 6: you start making money, so now you have to lie
- 19:24Speaker 6: to your broke friends because you don't want them to
- 19:25Speaker 6: ask you for money?
- 19:27Speaker 2: No.
- 19:27Speaker 6: Carlos, I'm looking right at you.
- 19:32Speaker 1: I'm looking right at you, Carlos, right?
- 19:34Speaker 6: In the same way, it's kind of like that same
- 19:35Speaker 6: personal discernment, right? If you're someone who's detransitioning in a
- 19:38Speaker 6: time like this, you have to decide, even though it's
- 19:41Speaker 6: my personal truth, how much do I want to share
- 19:43Speaker 6: because of the climate? And so it's like, you don't
- 19:46Speaker 6: owe us this and you got a little bit of discernment. Like,
- 19:49Speaker 6: so I understand like, it's not wrong that he's doing
- 19:51Speaker 6: it I also wonder about the need to make a
- 19:54Speaker 6: public statement because I don't know who you are it's.
- 19:56Speaker 5: A statement I've never heard of you it's a statement
- 19:59Speaker 5: right now yeah just handle your business do what makes
- 20:03Speaker 5: you feel good but just be mindful of of the
- 20:06Speaker 5: climate that we're in.
- 20:07Speaker 3: There's certain jokes you can't make and there's certain things
- 20:09Speaker 3: you can't say during a certain time.
- 20:11Speaker 5: And yes, the pendulum, I always say that it swings
- 20:14Speaker 5: both ways and it goes hard right and it goes
- 20:17Speaker 5: hard left.
- 20:18Speaker 6: Carlos, calm down. Carlos, are you ready?
- 20:21Speaker 4: I'm mature.
- 20:21Speaker 2: I'm being mature right now.
- 20:22Speaker 6: Carlos is like having flashbacks.
- 20:25Speaker 3: And it is not his fault.
- 20:26Speaker 5: It's not his responsibility to be, you know, the forefront
- 20:29Speaker 5: of this. But I'm just saying what the right will
- 20:32Speaker 5: attach themselves to and what they will jump on. They
- 20:35Speaker 5: will see this as And never in history have we
- 20:38Speaker 5: been at this point where they are turning whites back.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 20:41Speaker 3: That's a little bit different. Like, they are.
- 20:43Speaker 5: Looking for any excuse to demonize marginalized communities already. I mean,
- 20:47Speaker 5: they've shown successfully that they can take away women's rights,
- 20:50Speaker 5: including white women, so you don't think they'll do it
- 20:52Speaker 5: to us.
- 20:52Speaker 3: To black trans folks?
- 20:54Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
- 20:54Speaker 6: Could it be a cop chase, though? A part of
- 20:55Speaker 6: me is wondering, if you're a Z-list... Oh, sorry. If
- 20:58Speaker 6: you are someone who is known only in certain silos
- 21:01Speaker 6: and it's not necessary to make an Obama-like statement, is
- 21:05Speaker 6: there some.
- 21:06Speaker 3: No, everyone has a brand and everyone's... Yeah, is there.
- 21:08Speaker 6: Some sort of ploy for relevance here? That's what makes
- 21:11Speaker 6: me nervous is the ploy for relevance.
- 21:13Speaker 4: I will say this. So, listen, I... I watched the
- 21:17Speaker 4: season that Dee Smith was on.
- 21:19Speaker 2: I'm happy for that.
- 21:21Speaker 5: Okay.
- 21:22Speaker 6: Somebody did in the room.
- 21:22Speaker 4: No, no, no.
- 21:23Speaker 1: I'm only going to say Tama Rivera. You know the
- 21:26Speaker 1: scene I'm talking about, Dustin?
- 21:28Speaker 2: Yeah, where she did the gesture.
- 21:29Speaker 1: Yeah, she did the gesture, pretty much inferring that, you know,
- 21:32Speaker 1: these are my... I'm going to speak for Tami, but
- 21:36Speaker 1: Tami did a moment where she kind of like motioned
- 21:38Speaker 1: to her titties.
- 21:40Speaker 4: You know, okay.
- 21:42Speaker 6: I don't know. Finish the sentence.
- 21:43Speaker 4: That's the sentence.
- 21:43Speaker 2: That's what happened.
- 21:44Speaker 4: Well, that's what she did, but it was left for interpretation. D.
- 21:47Speaker 7: Smith and Tammy were arguing as Tammy was exiting the argument.
- 21:51Speaker 7: They were insulting each other. And Tammy did like this.
- 21:54Speaker 6: So if, oh, mine are real.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Whatever. We don't know. She didn't say anything.
- 22:00Speaker 1: She just made that joke. She made that movement. But
- 22:03Speaker 1: she did leave a comment. I believe if I don't
- 22:06Speaker 1: got this wrong. And Tammy, I love you if I
- 22:08Speaker 1: got this wrong.
- 22:09Speaker 2: I know what it said.
- 22:09Speaker 4: It was something about.
- 22:10Speaker 2: I know you fucking lying. Thank you.
- 22:12Speaker 1: I was just about to say that. I know you
- 22:13Speaker 1: fucking lying. I will say this. I agree with all
- 22:17Speaker 1: of you guys in terms of, again, D Smith, his body,
- 22:20Speaker 1: his choice.
- 22:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 22:23Speaker 4: As a gay person, I was, I'll speak for me.
- 22:25Speaker 1: I'm not going to speak for the community. I'll speak
- 22:27Speaker 1: for myself as an individual. I was born gay. I
- 22:31Speaker 1: knew at five. My daddy said four.
- 22:35Speaker 4: I said, well, you should tell me something.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Hey, so you can get back to moving back. I
- 22:39Speaker 1: knew you was four. I said, well, nigga, you should have.
- 22:41Speaker 2: Right.
- 22:41Speaker 6: Girls came on like, wham.
- 22:43Speaker 5: Well, damn.
- 22:43Speaker 2: Okay. I love it.
- 22:44Speaker 1: No, my mom, rest in heaven. I would read bridal magazines. Oh, damn, Carlos. Okay,
- 22:50Speaker 1: you know what? Wow.
- 22:51Speaker 4: I wasn't even doing that shit.
- 22:52Speaker 1: You were gay in the Lutheran parties.
- 22:54Speaker 6: Oh, my God, that's gay.
- 22:55Speaker 3: I was playing, I was in the woods playing, building forts,
- 22:59Speaker 3: reading bridal magazines.
- 23:00Speaker 1: I was reading books. I had two moments. I'm a
- 23:04Speaker 1: stereotype in some instances.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Okay. No. Shut up.
- 23:07Speaker 1: You don't say.
- 23:08Speaker 2: Shut up.
- 23:11Speaker 1: It's a high-pitched voice. This guy was dating once. He said,
- 23:14Speaker 1: you know, you mind me up? I said, Marlon Wayans.
- 23:16Speaker 1: He said, no, Gilbert Gottfried. Damn.
- 23:20Speaker 6: If Gilbert Gottfried put his hand up, Marlon Wayans is
- 23:22Speaker 6: like a puppet.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Check, please. I hope you said check, please.
- 23:25Speaker 1: No, I literally said, you're not attractive to me anymore.
- 23:28Speaker 1: I was like, I know who this is.
- 23:30Speaker 3: It's the iconic boy.
- 23:31Speaker 1: You should be like Beast. But no, so I, as
- 23:35Speaker 1: a kid, I would do this.
- 23:36Speaker 4: Hey, mom.
- 23:37Speaker 1: So like, I'm thinking, and she would do this. She said,
- 23:42Speaker 1: do this before your father gets home. And I would
- 23:44Speaker 1: read right on magazine. She would say, put that away
- 23:46Speaker 1: before your father gets home. I said, what about the tabloid?
- 23:49Speaker 1: She said, read that. And look, a whole career. Look
- 23:52Speaker 1: at that. And I would, I maybe was seven or, no,
- 23:56Speaker 1: I was 10 when I tried on my mother's heels.
- 24:00Speaker 6: I was waiting for that, like a bingo card of
- 24:01Speaker 6: gay stuff. Yeah, yeah.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Bingo.
- 24:03Speaker 4: Because, you know, but my point is from my experience
- 24:07Speaker 4: as a boy, boy, as a person born male, I
- 24:12Speaker 4: know that I'm different. I'm trying to figure things out.
- 24:17Speaker 1: I never thought, this is me though, that's why I'm
- 24:19Speaker 1: not saying this is for everybody.
- 24:21Speaker 2: Right, right.
- 24:21Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I was in the wrong body,
- 24:23Speaker 1: but I felt like I'm different. I'm not like my brothers.
- 24:27Speaker 4: And then although I did all those things, I never
- 24:30Speaker 4: wanted to be a woman.
- 24:32Speaker 1: And that's why when it comes to the trans movement
- 24:35Speaker 1: that I love so much, I appreciate De Smith's honesty.
- 24:41Speaker 1: But I do agree in a sense that I wonder if, okay,
- 24:46Speaker 1: did it have to be a public declaration only because...
- 24:49Speaker 1: No disrespect to Dee Smith, and I would love to
- 24:51Speaker 1: talk to him. It's not like T.S.
- 24:54Speaker 4: Madison, Dominique Morgan.
- 24:56Speaker 6: Exactly.
- 24:57Speaker 1: You know, like these extremely famous, popular trans activists who
- 25:06Speaker 1: have notoriety. He was a cliffhanger, Carlos.
- 25:09Speaker 4: You know.
- 25:10Speaker 6: He put a cliffhanger after two pages. You could have
- 25:12Speaker 6: just got to the point. That made me feel a
- 25:13Speaker 6: little clout-chasey, like a teaser. He was like, hey, I
- 25:16Speaker 6: did it because I had to do it because I
- 25:17Speaker 6: did it.
- 25:18Speaker 1: Because I did it.
- 25:18Speaker 4: I had to do it.
- 25:19Speaker 6: By the way, come back later for the reason why.
- 25:21Speaker 6: By the end, it felt like a commercial.
- 25:23Speaker 4: I read the whole thing.
- 25:24Speaker 6: Two pages of WordTube, and then at the end you say,
- 25:27Speaker 6: come back to figure out why I did it. That
- 25:29Speaker 6: feels like a rollout.
- 25:33Speaker 4: This is Reality with the King, and I'm Carlos King.
- 25:36Speaker 4: Let's get back into the show.
- 25:39Speaker 5: I really liked life a lot better, and I'm the
- 25:41Speaker 5: oldest one here. I liked life a lot better before
- 25:44Speaker 5: social media.
- 25:46Speaker 1: I loved it.
- 25:48Speaker 3: The 1900s, I miss them as well.
- 25:49Speaker 4: I have a 50-50 love.
- 25:53Speaker 6: I wouldn't be as rich without social media. Can we
- 25:56Speaker 6: all just say that?
- 25:57Speaker 2: I like money.
- 25:58Speaker 6: So let's be careful.
- 26:02Speaker 5: I mean, interpersonal relationships.
- 26:07Speaker 2: I know what you're saying. Career-wise.
- 26:10Speaker 3: Relationships. And, like, I get sick of people.
- 26:14Speaker 5: Everyone's a goddamn model and a rapper and has a brand.
- 26:17Speaker 1: And a brand, yeah.
- 26:18Speaker 2: And all that.
- 26:18Speaker 3: I'm like, you don't. You're not.
- 26:21Speaker 1: Knock it off.
- 26:21Speaker 3: But filtered social media and attention makes you feel like
- 26:25Speaker 3: you are.
- 26:25Speaker 1: A teaser.
- 26:26Speaker 5: And I remember back in the day when models had to, like,
- 26:28Speaker 5: look like something when they showed up to the go-sees.
- 26:30Speaker 3: And they had to show their real face.
- 26:31Speaker 7: You know, if anybody deserves to be put in front
- 26:33Speaker 7: of the firing squad, it's whoever invented the comment section.
- 26:38Speaker 2: That mother... Yeah. How can we talk? You can... Go ahead. Well,
- 26:41Speaker 2: that person. Whoever that was.
- 26:44Speaker 7: Whoever the miscreant is that invented the comment section.
- 26:48Speaker 6: Isn't that Mark Zuckerberg?
- 26:50Speaker 7: If it is, then much like the sound of the
- 26:53Speaker 7: letters in the middle of your name, Zuck, you.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Well.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Okay.
- 26:58Speaker 1: Okay.
- 26:59Speaker 2: Because you have ruined it for all of us, man.
- 27:02Speaker 7: It's the fucking comment section that makes people feel like
- 27:05Speaker 7: what they have to say matters.
- 27:06Speaker 2: And it might some places, but not over here.
- 27:09Speaker 3: It carries too much weight now.
- 27:10Speaker 2: People in the.
- 27:11Speaker 5: Comments trying to out-common each other. Like they're having a
- 27:14Speaker 5: separate show there.
- 27:16Speaker 4: Oh, they are.
- 27:17Speaker 1: But that's why I will always admit my fault in it.
- 27:22Speaker 1: I will always admit that I will see a post,
- 27:27Speaker 1: have intrusive thoughts, and go straight to the comments.
- 27:31Speaker 2: And see them.
- 27:31Speaker 4: To see if they're saying what I'm thinking. Oh, wow.
- 27:34Speaker 4: Which is not, listen, as somebody who gets dragged on
- 27:37Speaker 4: a regular basis. So how do you feel, friend?
- 27:39Speaker 1: Well, that's why I can't, I'll say this. I no
- 27:44Speaker 1: longer have the disdain for comments that I do anymore.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Dustin Ross actually changed my mind when it came to comments.
- 27:53Speaker 1: I will never forget when he said this to me
- 27:55Speaker 1: two years ago. He said the comments section is for them.
- 28:01Speaker 1: It's for them to have conversations about the art that
- 28:04Speaker 1: you put out. It is not your job to see
- 28:07Speaker 1: what people are saying about your art.
- 28:10Speaker 2: I live by that.
- 28:11Speaker 1: He said that's for them to tussle, get into it,
- 28:14Speaker 1: drag each other. He said, it is not your job
- 28:17Speaker 1: as the creator of art to see what they're saying.
- 28:22Speaker 1: And it changed my life. Like it really did. So
- 28:26Speaker 1: my point is, I know that I have this life
- 28:31Speaker 1: because of social media and this privilege because of comments.
- 28:35Speaker 1: It's quite nice. But I also know that I can't
- 28:38Speaker 1: be a prisoner to.
- 28:40Speaker 4: It can be a slave to the comments yeah a
- 28:41Speaker 4: slave to the comments.
- 28:42Speaker 3: That's even better well I haven't reached that level of
- 28:43Speaker 3: enlightenment yet.
- 28:44Speaker 6: It's coming Claudia as you were talking I can feel
- 28:48Speaker 6: her booty she's crunching you know.
- 28:51Speaker 5: I used to work with Jamie Foxx and them on
- 28:53Speaker 5: the radio like we would be firing back all the
- 28:55Speaker 5: time and that was what helped me actually on Housewives
- 28:58Speaker 5: and all the other shows like my quick comebacking it's
- 29:00Speaker 5: a great muscle you have like it's kind of a
- 29:01Speaker 5: thing that I just it's part of my personality like
- 29:03Speaker 5: I it's hard for me to just.
- 29:04Speaker 6: Be like can you find someone else can you like
- 29:06Speaker 6: go to the debate club or something No.
- 29:08Speaker 4: She's here. I'm here.
- 29:10Speaker 1: That's true. This is the debate club. Well, speaking of debate,
- 29:14Speaker 1: our next topic, listen.
- 29:16Speaker 6: Nice segue.
- 29:17Speaker 4: We did talk about this last.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Night, but I know that Monday Night Live audience, you know,
- 29:25Speaker 1: we have thousands of people tune in.
- 29:29Speaker 4: Thank you to the people who showed up last night.
- 29:30Speaker 1: But I know that you guys have been asking since
- 29:34Speaker 1: last week because Claudia and Blue were.
- 29:39Speaker 4: Off last night.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Week and the comment section... Sorry, Dustin, I read something bad. Oh,
- 29:45Speaker 1: so you did read it.
- 29:46Speaker 6: Dustin changed my life. But last week, though, y'all had
- 29:50Speaker 6: me fucked up.
- 29:50Speaker 2: Hear me out.
- 29:51Speaker 4: Hear me out.
- 29:52Speaker 1: My YouTube strategist said I have to comment within the first...
- 29:57Speaker 1: like hour.
- 29:58Speaker 2: Okay, for the algorithm.
- 29:59Speaker 6: About 30 minutes, yeah.
- 30:00Speaker 3: Let's say 30 minutes. I see you in there sometimes.
- 30:02Speaker 2: Hey, girl.
- 30:03Speaker 4: Love you.
- 30:04Speaker 1: Thanks.
- 30:05Speaker 3: He puts a lot of hearts and smiles. I see that.
- 30:07Speaker 4: Can you see it?
- 30:08Speaker 1: Okay. So a lot of people said, we cannot wait
- 30:12Speaker 1: to hear Claudia and Blue's commentary on Todd and Candy.
- 30:17Speaker 1: So obviously, Dustin, we're going to chime in too, but
- 30:21Speaker 1: Claudia and Blue.
- 30:23Speaker 4: So as you all know, Todd....
- 30:29Speaker 1: Todd Tucker has a divorce movie series. What's a movie?
- 30:36Speaker 1: What's a series?
- 30:36Speaker 6: What do these words actually mean?
- 30:38Speaker 3: Look at Kandi's face. She's like, no.
- 30:41Speaker 4: That's my face.
- 30:42Speaker 1: Me and Kandi look kindred right now. What do we call.
- 30:45Speaker 6: So everything's a movie now. Well, out of his.
- 30:48Speaker 2: You get a movie.
- 30:48Speaker 1: You get a movie.
- 30:49Speaker 2: It's a series.
- 30:50Speaker 7: So he's Todd partnered with. I guess he going to
- 30:54Speaker 7: cut this too and put this in his next commercial, huh?
- 30:57Speaker 2: He is. I don't even want to fucking.
- 30:58Speaker 4: Say it, Todd.
- 30:59Speaker 2: Anyway, Todd partnered with- Hi, Todd. Hey, Todd.
- 31:03Speaker 4: Hi, Candy.
- 31:04Speaker 6: Hello, Candy. Hi, Don Juan.
- 31:07Speaker 2: Hi, Candy. Don Juan, my boy.
- 31:09Speaker 7: Anyway, so Todd partnered with AMC to do a screening
- 31:15Speaker 7: of his film, Don't Bring Your Man to Atlanta.
- 31:17Speaker 1: A one-time show?
- 31:18Speaker 2: No, it's like 10 different cities. In the Tin City tour, right?
- 31:22Speaker 1: A tour? So we're using words loose today.
- 31:24Speaker 2: In the Tin City tour.
- 31:25Speaker 4: Nothing means anything.
- 31:26Speaker 7: He is also screening an episode of his new series.
- 31:30Speaker 7: It's a docu-series, right, Carlos?
- 31:33Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
- 31:34Speaker 7: It's a docu-series called Till Divorce Do Us Part. And
- 31:38Speaker 7: that is what everybody is getting that clip from where
- 31:40Speaker 7: he was talking about the personal matters.
- 31:43Speaker 1: What's the movie called?
- 31:45Speaker 2: Don't Bring Your Man to Atlanta.
- 31:46Speaker 6: Oh, the one when Shamia had her legs out?
- 31:49Speaker 2: No, I think that was the past.
- 31:50Speaker 1: No, no, no.
- 31:51Speaker 6: I saw the video. It's like Cinemax.
- 31:54Speaker 4: It has since been deleted.
- 31:56Speaker 1: With Bolo and his face in her.
- 31:57Speaker 4: I saw it. Yes, Shamia unfollowed Todd. Todd, welcome to
- 32:01Speaker 4: the unfollow club.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Aw. No, if I was Shamia, I would have unfollowed
- 32:06Speaker 1: Todd too.
- 32:07Speaker 7: I wish everybody not talking about Shamia. I just wish
- 32:09Speaker 7: that the audience would grow up because Shamia's acting.
- 32:13Speaker 4: Yes.
- 32:13Speaker 1: She's acting.
- 32:14Speaker 2: What the fuck?
- 32:15Speaker 6: But have you seen the clip?
- 32:16Speaker 2: Y'all act like She is cheating on her husband. She's fucked.
- 32:20Speaker 2: She's acting.
- 32:22Speaker 4: Dustin, I understand.
- 32:23Speaker 1: I understand. But when Bolo.
- 32:25Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
- 32:26Speaker 1: But you know when Bolo has your.
- 32:28Speaker 6: Nears to your ears.
- 32:29Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 32:29Speaker 6: And, you know, maybe it's flesh panties, but it looks
- 32:32Speaker 6: like he's giving back shots.
- 32:34Speaker 2: It should.
- 32:34Speaker 1: And also, Bolo has some.
- 32:36Speaker 7: It's supposed to be a sex scene for him.
- 32:38Speaker 6: But it felt like sex because it's Bolo.
- 32:40Speaker 2: It should.
- 32:40Speaker 6: It's a horse penis. You can't tuck that so far.
- 32:44Speaker 5: I do not like how she was demonized and vilified
- 32:50Speaker 5: for playing a role in it being good acting.
- 32:52Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 32:53Speaker 3: It was great acting, yeah.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Listen, ask someone.
- 32:56Speaker 5: Who's done sex scenes in movies and all of that.
- 32:59Speaker 5: There's all kinds of tricks. It's so not a sexy
- 33:01Speaker 5: environment when you're doing it.
- 33:02Speaker 1: It's really not.
- 33:03Speaker 3: There's more people in the scene that are in this
- 33:05Speaker 3: room right now. You have, like, there's all kind of
- 33:08Speaker 3: privacy guards. You rehearse.
- 33:09Speaker 6: An intimacy coordinator.
- 33:11Speaker 3: Yes, there's an intimacy coordinator.
- 33:12Speaker 1: Does Todd have all that? I don't know, but there's.
- 33:14Speaker 5: Someone usually there that you can talk to about it, right?
- 33:17Speaker 5: And it's just like, I just feel like because of
- 33:19Speaker 5: what happened, like, the villainization of Shamia this season, anything she.
- 33:24Speaker 3: Does, it's like, oh, she's this, she's that.
- 33:26Speaker 2: Oh, look at her.
- 33:26Speaker 3: Look at her cheating. She's an actress.
- 33:28Speaker 5: And I would be damned if I'm in a... Just
- 33:30Speaker 5: because I'm in a relationship, I can't take certain roles because...
- 33:33Speaker 5: You guys are going to really be dumb enough to
- 33:34Speaker 5: think that I'm cheating on my husband. I'm on set
- 33:37Speaker 5: with 20,000 people.
- 33:38Speaker 2: You shot a kid in a Tubi movie.
- 33:39Speaker 3: I shot several.
- 33:40Speaker 2: Damn, Dustin.
- 33:41Speaker 1: You feel me?
- 33:42Speaker 6: No, here's the thing.
- 33:43Speaker 3: I shot kids.
- 33:45Speaker 1: I don't fuck people in movies.
- 33:47Speaker 3: I cheated on my husband in the kitchen with a handyman.
- 33:51Speaker 3: Watch The Handyman on Amazon and Tubi.
- 33:53Speaker 1: Please watch it.
- 33:54Speaker 6: Please watch that, girl.
- 33:55Speaker 1: The issue isn't her, though. It's Todd.
- 33:56Speaker 6: I actually believe she means an actress. I don't think
- 33:59Speaker 6: Todd knows how to spell intimacy coordinator.
- 34:00Speaker 3: What?
- 34:01Speaker 6: My issue is not Shamia and her acting. I think
- 34:03Speaker 6: Todd had her ass out with Bolo saying, and action.
- 34:08Speaker 3: But so what, though? I don't think it's the intimacy.
- 34:10Speaker 7: Not so what, regarding her. I'm just saying, like, what
- 34:14Speaker 7: is the... I just don't understand what everybody is.
- 34:17Speaker 1: We don't trust Todd.
- 34:18Speaker 6: The answer is we don't trust Todd.
- 34:19Speaker 3: Now, the thing is that.
- 34:20Speaker 6: It's a movie.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Movie.
- 34:22Speaker 2: So how is Shamia, like, what happened... How was she wronged?
- 34:26Speaker 6: She was not wrong. I'm saying it's Todd.
- 34:28Speaker 2: How did he wrong her? That's what I'm saying.
- 34:30Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you because Shamia.
- 34:33Speaker 1: He cut the clip now.
- 34:34Speaker 3: He does have a choice of cutting the clip.
- 34:35Speaker 6: He did her dirty.
- 34:36Speaker 1: It's Todd. It's not Shamia.
- 34:37Speaker 3: It's Todd.
- 34:38Speaker 5: Of course, as a producer, you would do that if
- 34:40Speaker 5: you want people... We're all talking about this movie that
- 34:42Speaker 5: we would not have probably seen.
- 34:43Speaker 6: But he cannibalized her after what she'd been through.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Of course.
- 34:45Speaker 6: I actually feel bad for Shamia.
- 34:47Speaker 3: I agree with that.
- 34:47Speaker 1: He threw her under the bus.
- 34:49Speaker 2: I agree with that.
- 34:50Speaker 1: Todd threw Shamia under the bus.
- 34:51Speaker 4: Let me tell you what Shamia did. She did text
- 34:54Speaker 4: Todd and told him to take it down.
- 34:56Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 34:58Speaker 4: Her text to him was, first.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Why would you add the Real Housewives of Atlanta clip
- 35:04Speaker 1: to it?
- 35:05Speaker 6: That part.
- 35:05Speaker 4: After that, she told him to take the post down.
- 35:09Speaker 2: Oh, he tied it to the shit on the show.
- 35:10Speaker 4: He played the clip first. And she unfollowed him to
- 35:13Speaker 4: my team.
- 35:14Speaker 5: Yes.
- 35:15Speaker 4: Did Todd take the pose down?
- 35:17Speaker 1: Oh, no, I checked myself. You can ask me. He
- 35:19Speaker 1: took it down.
- 35:20Speaker 4: He took it down.
- 35:20Speaker 1: I want to send it to my friends.
- 35:21Speaker 4: So Todd did take it down.
- 35:22Speaker 1: And then Todd did apologize to Shamia. It was nasty
- 35:27Speaker 1: work on Todd's behalf.
- 35:27Speaker 4: On the radio.
- 35:28Speaker 5: If I was in a relationship where I was like,
- 35:29Speaker 5: you know, all this drama is already happening. People are
- 35:31Speaker 5: questioning my marriage. And then I happen to do a
- 35:33Speaker 5: movie probably six months prior or however many months prior.
- 35:37Speaker 5: And then that's the clip you chose to use?
- 35:39Speaker 3: Yeah. During this week of hell that I'm going through?
- 35:42Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 35:42Speaker 3: I get why you're doing it because you want attention.
- 35:45Speaker 5: But as my friend, I would hope you'd have a
- 35:47Speaker 5: little bit more care. Because I don't think she did
- 35:48Speaker 5: anything wrong. I do think the choice of that, again,
- 35:51Speaker 5: for me, it's always timing.
- 35:52Speaker 6: It's Todd.
- 35:54Speaker 1: Todd is the problem, as usual. As a producer, listen,
- 35:57Speaker 1: Todd's job is to get the most reaction out of
- 36:01Speaker 1: the audience.
- 36:01Speaker 2: And it worked.
- 36:02Speaker 1: I disagree with him for adding the Housewives of Atlanta clip.
- 36:06Speaker 1: You could never do that to Claudia. I could never
- 36:08Speaker 1: see you doing that to Claudia.
- 36:09Speaker 3: No, no, no.
- 36:10Speaker 6: I would never.
- 36:11Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 36:11Speaker 6: As a producer. No, no, no.
- 36:13Speaker 4: She and I, she knows that.
- 36:15Speaker 1: Todd was 1,000% wrong for adding the housewife's clip.
- 36:20Speaker 2: Right?
- 36:20Speaker 6: Wrong.
- 36:21Speaker 1: That's why it's inflammatory. It sensationalized the moment. And I
- 36:25Speaker 1: think it should be his defense. Like Claudia is saying, look,
- 36:29Speaker 1: this woman has been dragged through the mud, the coals,
- 36:32Speaker 1: this entire season. So to know that they are filming
- 36:38Speaker 1: season 18, a lot of things that are going to
- 36:42Speaker 1: happen this season is residue from last season. And from
- 36:47Speaker 1: the mental space she's in filming, and you know that
- 36:49Speaker 1: she's filming a reality show, that's the last thing she
- 36:51Speaker 1: wants to deal with. So listen, Todd, I respect the
- 36:54Speaker 1: trailer that I want to talk about with Apollo, Peter,
- 36:57Speaker 1: and stuff. But in all fairness, adding the Housewives of
- 37:01Speaker 1: Atlanta clip was not finishing me up.
- 37:03Speaker 2: Too much. Now, help me understand. What was going on
- 37:05Speaker 2: that week? with Shamia, why was this a tough time
- 37:08Speaker 2: for her?
- 37:08Speaker 6: Well, no, no.
- 37:09Speaker 1: I think what Claudia was saying, a tough time because
- 37:10Speaker 1: she's back filming the show. It was the week she
- 37:13Speaker 1: started filming.
- 37:13Speaker 6: It was the week she started.
- 37:14Speaker 4: It was the week she started filming.
- 37:16Speaker 1: And look, as a former producer of Atlanta Housewives, that
- 37:19Speaker 1: first week, the ladies are nervous because they're sort of like,
- 37:24Speaker 1: Who's going to come at me? And I just think
- 37:26Speaker 1: you don't. And let's be clear. These, I know how
- 37:30Speaker 1: this game works and so do you. These girls are
- 37:32Speaker 1: going to watch that clip and use it against her
- 37:35Speaker 1: as they're filming.
- 37:36Speaker 5: And she just came off the reunion, which wasn't that
- 37:38Speaker 5: long ago, where there was allegations that she cheated on
- 37:40Speaker 5: her husband.
- 37:40Speaker 3: And you saw the clip. And if you're not selling
- 37:42Speaker 3: the list, we watch these shows, right? But there's a
- 37:45Speaker 3: lot of people that don't.
- 37:45Speaker 1: I'm happy you get in there.
- 37:46Speaker 3: I'm not crazy. And then you see this.
- 37:49Speaker 5: And if you're just like a casual watcher of these
- 37:51Speaker 5: shows and you see Shamia's legs up in a clip,
- 37:54Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, I saw her cheating. Not everybody is
- 37:56Speaker 5: thoroughly watching these shows and really paying attention. And it's just,
- 38:00Speaker 5: it's piling on when she's already kind of like got
- 38:03Speaker 5: the weight of the Real Housewives world on her.
- 38:05Speaker 2: Back, I think. Yeah.
- 38:06Speaker 6: I just want to say one last thing back to
- 38:08Speaker 6: the original point. The man who would do that might
- 38:10Speaker 6: have your coochie out on set. I still think that
- 38:14Speaker 6: I question Todd's discernment. I question how safe, because here's
- 38:18Speaker 6: the thing, not to name drop. But many moons ago,
- 38:21Speaker 6: Lena Waithe wanted me to be an intimacy coordinator for
- 38:23Speaker 6: her team. As someone who almost went into.
- 38:25Speaker 4: I think she's so beautiful, by the way.
- 38:27Speaker 6: She's very swaggy.
- 38:28Speaker 4: Shout out to Lena. Is she your type?
- 38:30Speaker 6: I'm not doing that right now. Oh, my bad.
- 38:33Speaker 1: Hold up, we talking about... Blue.
- 38:37Speaker 3: We talking about Dustin's dick. We talking about Carlton's titties.
- 38:40Speaker 1: We talking about my weekend in DC. The black hawk kiss. Yes,
- 38:44Speaker 1: the black hawk kiss. Freak Nick, conservative Freak Nick. We
- 38:49Speaker 1: can talk about... You and Lena. Oh, no.
- 38:53Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
- 39:00Speaker 1: I went to the African American Film Critics Association. And
- 39:05Speaker 1: Lena Waithe was there. And she follows me on Instagram.
- 39:10Speaker 1: But I got a chance to meet her.
- 39:11Speaker 4: What are you flicking? Because Barbara Brocker kills being honored.
- 39:14Speaker 4: And you know, that's Lena's mentor. Long story short. Ty Young,
- 39:23Speaker 4: you ain't got nothing on Lena Waithe, baby.
- 39:25Speaker 3: I agree.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Lena Waithe, I was like.
- 39:27Speaker 6: Lena can pay her bills.
- 39:28Speaker 2: Lena Waithe got that money too. That's Lena Waithe. Waithe.
- 39:30Speaker 2: Lena can pay her bills.
- 39:32Speaker 6: Lena Raith.
- 39:32Speaker 1: Lena Raith.
- 39:33Speaker 6: Lena Waithe is the reason why I met.
- 39:36Speaker 3: Don't give Ty no ideas.
- 39:37Speaker 6: What's the name? The one from Cruel Intentions.
- 39:40Speaker 1: Reese Witherspoon.
- 39:41Speaker 6: Lena Waithe, the Jewish woman, Reese Witherspoon. She's that kind
- 39:43Speaker 6: of famous.
- 39:43Speaker 2: Reese Witherspoon smiled like Eve, like a white Eve.
- 39:46Speaker 6: She is a whitey. And also, she was the only
- 39:48Speaker 6: white person at the function. We were having a Hillman
- 39:50Speaker 6: grad production party. She was the only white person. She
- 39:52Speaker 6: showed up with her white husband. They were at the cookout.
- 39:56Speaker 6: But back to the point. As somebody who almost went
- 40:01Speaker 6: into intimacy coordination, I literally sincerely believe somebody who would
- 40:05Speaker 6: cannibalize Shamia, who was a friend and an actress who
- 40:09Speaker 6: trusted you in that way in this season, I also
- 40:11Speaker 6: don't trust the parameters that you had on set.
- 40:14Speaker 1: But Shamia I don't either I'm going there I'm going
- 40:18Speaker 1: there I'm going there What does that say About Shamia
- 40:20Speaker 1: though What does that say About Shamia.
- 40:22Speaker 7: Right Nothing about Shamia My people with Todd But this
- 40:23Speaker 7: is what I'm saying I don't think Shamia I don't
- 40:26Speaker 7: think that Shamia Would even allow herself To be in
- 40:29Speaker 7: an unsafe Environment on set Right?
- 40:32Speaker 2: It's not like Shamil would just sit.
- 40:34Speaker 1: Back and allow... How many movies has she done? That's
- 40:35Speaker 1: a real question.
- 40:36Speaker 2: Allow that to happen, right?
- 40:37Speaker 1: Movies, how many movies?
- 40:38Speaker 2: Well, how many coochies does she have? It only takes
- 40:40Speaker 2: one to know that.
- 40:41Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, we can.
- 40:41Speaker 7: It only takes one to know, like, I don't want
- 40:43Speaker 7: my coochie out unless I want my coochie out, right?
- 40:46Speaker 2: So I don't think that.
- 40:47Speaker 6: She was vulnerable for.
- 40:47Speaker 2: He was saying it's art for my movie with AMC. Yeah,
- 40:49Speaker 2: it's coochie. I don't think Todd would do that, and
- 40:53Speaker 2: I don't think Shamia would allow that. I don't think nothing.
- 40:56Speaker 2: She was compromising that way on set.
- 40:57Speaker 4: No, I think we all can agree respectfully.
- 41:00Speaker 1: No, I think all of us agree that respectfully, Todd
- 41:04Speaker 1: showing the clip, adding the hospitals of Atlanta to it
- 41:07Speaker 1: at this time was wrong.
- 41:08Speaker 5: And then knowing her husband has a problem with that
- 41:10Speaker 5: and using that as the promo for the movie, again,
- 41:13Speaker 5: makes sense business-wise. But it doesn't make sense as a friend.
- 41:16Speaker 2: Gerald, fight him.
- 41:16Speaker 1: Gerald, fight that man.
- 41:17Speaker 2: It's not compassionate.
- 41:18Speaker 4: Sometimes as producers, we have to use our sensibility.
- 41:22Speaker 3: Can't be all business, right?
- 41:25Speaker 1: No, you got to use your sensibility in terms of like,
- 41:28Speaker 1: I don't want to have this woman have this case.
- 41:31Speaker 4: But again, that's why, listen, Todd, I will say this
- 41:36Speaker 4: to your face. Like, I just.
- 41:37Speaker 1: think that, I understand as a producer, you're trying to
- 41:40Speaker 1: promote this movie, but adding the Housewives of Atlanta clip
- 41:45Speaker 1: was wrong.
- 41:45Speaker 4: And in Todd's defense, he did apologize to Shamia.
- 41:48Speaker 2: Yeah, publicly.
- 41:49Speaker 4: And publicly.
- 41:50Speaker 3: But once it's out, the scandal is out.
- 41:52Speaker 2: He got the view.
- 41:52Speaker 3: The scandal is out.
- 41:53Speaker 6: After y'all started calling.
- 41:54Speaker 1: His shit a movie.
- 41:55Speaker 3: Okay.
- 41:55Speaker 2: He did.
- 41:56Speaker 4: Okay. I do want to get into this moment.
- 41:59Speaker 1: I do have a strong feeling we're going to disagree
- 42:01Speaker 1: on this like we did last... Is there any more water?
- 42:03Speaker 4: Okay, let me do that now. Okay, get the Saratoga, baby.
- 42:05Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 42:06Speaker 4: Okay.
- 42:06Speaker 1: We got money, friend. That's their token, honey.
- 42:08Speaker 4: A little blue bottle. Not blue light. So....
- 42:16Speaker 1: The Black Hawk is all I got.
- 42:17Speaker 6: Conservative freak.
- 42:19Speaker 3: The Black Hawk is.
- 42:20Speaker 5: The Black Hawk is.
- 42:23Speaker 1: I'm never going to get invited. Okay, it's all good.
- 42:25Speaker 3: I'll bring you next year.
- 42:27Speaker 2: Ooh.
- 42:28Speaker 1: You would love it.
- 42:30Speaker 3: You would love the Black Caucus.
- 42:33Speaker 2: DC is one of the best places to meet.
- 42:35Speaker 6: It's great for a live show, too.
- 42:38Speaker 1: DC, Howard Theater. I did get a text from Claudia saying, look,
- 42:45Speaker 1: and I said, Claudia, you are a hot mess.
- 42:47Speaker 4: Oh, shut up, Claudia.
- 42:49Speaker 6: Oh, Yo, the daggers that just came out of his
- 42:57Speaker 6: puss in boots eyes.
- 43:00Speaker 7: Okay.
- 43:01Speaker 3: Cole did nothing wrong. He did nothing wrong.
- 43:03Speaker 6: Well, I thought you started this.
- 43:05Speaker 3: He didn't. He's innocent. In case he's, you know, significant
- 43:09Speaker 3: others watching. I was at the after party.
- 43:13Speaker 6: Oh my God, we're doing this right now.
- 43:14Speaker 3: It was like New York. It was like, you know.
- 43:16Speaker 2: She really telling it.
- 43:17Speaker 1: She really talking it.
- 43:18Speaker 3: Someone came up to me and they said.
- 43:19Speaker 6: I love.
- 43:19Speaker 2: You keep going.
- 43:20Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I am. Listen, you think I have guardrails?
- 43:25Speaker 1: Have we met? What is this show? Have we met?
- 43:27Speaker 6: We're worse live.
- 43:28Speaker 1: Oh my God, we're worse in person.
- 43:29Speaker 3: I love it. He came up to me and said,
- 43:30Speaker 3: I love Carlos King. I think he's so beautiful. And
- 43:32Speaker 3: he's like, I love him. And I said, what's your Instagram?
- 43:35Speaker 5: And I got his information and I just sent it
- 43:37Speaker 5: to Carlos. And I don't know if he's probably not
- 43:39Speaker 5: going to do anything with it. But I just want
- 43:40Speaker 5: him to know that he has love out here in
- 43:41Speaker 5: these streets.
- 43:42Speaker 3: It was nothing more than that. I didn't get his
- 43:44Speaker 3: phone number. It was just his IG. Nothing ever happens
- 43:47Speaker 3: from an IG.
- 43:49Speaker 2: Nothing.
- 43:50Speaker 1: So Todd did.
- 43:51Speaker 4: This on Instagram.
- 43:54Speaker 6: Do you regret having us all in the same room
- 43:55Speaker 6: or you love it here?
- 43:56Speaker 4: You love it here? No, somebody had to comment that
- 43:58Speaker 4: Carlos loves sitting next to Claudia.
- 44:00Speaker 1: He's having a good time.
- 44:03Speaker 5: I want to stop patting your nose like CBJ did
- 44:06Speaker 5: to Duff.
- 44:06Speaker 3: Oh my God! Yeah.
- 44:09Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 44:09Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 44:09Speaker 2: Thank you, baby.
- 44:11Speaker 1: And Mimi's like, fuck. And I'm in the back like, Mimi.
- 44:16Speaker 6: Okay.
- 44:17Speaker 1: So, thank you, Claudia, for all this.
- 44:19Speaker 3: Black Caucus.
- 44:22Speaker 6: Make that a drinking game. Every time you hear Black
- 44:23Speaker 6: Caucus this episode.
- 44:25Speaker 5: Okay.
- 44:25Speaker 6: Take a sip.
- 44:26Speaker 4: All right.
- 44:29Speaker 3: Deke. Deke.
- 44:31Speaker 1: Sponsored by Deke. Deke. Deke.
- 44:37Speaker 4: Okay, so.
- 44:38Speaker 6: That's from the T-shirt, by the way.
- 44:39Speaker 1: D-I-Q-E-E. Todd and Kandi are divorced. We know that they
- 44:46Speaker 1: had threesomes, right? It's not a surprise. Todd is catching
- 44:50Speaker 1: a lot of controversy and strays for mentioning in his
- 44:55Speaker 1: trailer when Peter Thomas asked him, if they had threesomes
- 44:59Speaker 1: in their marriage, and Todd responded by saying, in most
- 45:02Speaker 1: of our marriage, we did. A lot of people feel
- 45:06Speaker 1: like Todd is being disrespectful to Kandi. Kandi's team released
- 45:13Speaker 1: a statement where Kandi, the statement was on behalf of Kandi,
- 45:18Speaker 1: in her defense, I don't know if she approved it,
- 45:24Speaker 1: but it was on behalf of her. And I think
- 45:26Speaker 1: all of us in media and I want the audience
- 45:28Speaker 1: to understand that when things are saying on behalf of
- 45:32Speaker 1: Kendi Burris, that could be her.
- 45:34Speaker 4: Publicist, her manager.
- 45:35Speaker 1: She did not post it on her Instagram or her
- 45:38Speaker 1: Twitter account, but it did say that Todd is trying
- 45:41Speaker 1: to extend support. His five minutes of fame.
- 45:45Speaker 4: She deducted the 10.
- 45:46Speaker 1: She can count.
- 45:49Speaker 6: Money, time, she can count.
- 45:50Speaker 3: Could he be on the next 15 or would you
- 45:52Speaker 3: make the next five? Yikes.
- 45:55Speaker 6: Next two and a third.
- 45:56Speaker 3: The next five could be a show.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Is that a movie or a series? Because I want
- 45:59Speaker 1: to know what are these words?
- 46:00Speaker 3: People's attention span is a lot shorter now. That's all.
- 46:02Speaker 4: The next five. I want to be corrected. He actually said,
- 46:05Speaker 4: thank you, Jesus, girl behavior. He actually said throughout their marriage.
- 46:10Speaker 4: Thank you for correcting me.
- 46:12Speaker 1: Look, she said he's trying to extend his five minutes
- 46:16Speaker 1: of fame, intimating that, you know, when it comes to
- 46:21Speaker 1: her reasoning for divorcing him.
- 46:24Speaker 4: This proves why she had to.
- 46:26Speaker 1: And she did start off the statement by saying that
- 46:29Speaker 1: after much heartache that she experienced and how Todd hurt
- 46:33Speaker 1: her to her core. And last but not least, mentioned
- 46:37Speaker 1: that this was a private moment between them. There's people
- 46:41Speaker 1: who think, well, Candy, you told everybody on a show
- 46:44Speaker 1: that is the biggest show on Bravo that y'all had threesomes.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Where was Todd's privacy then? Todd did say on the
- 46:50Speaker 1: radio show that he didn't like that Candy would talk
- 46:54Speaker 1: about that. So starting with you, Dustin, do you think
- 46:58Speaker 1: that Todd has a fair assessment of you talked about
- 47:04Speaker 1: it first.
- 47:05Speaker 4: I didn't like it.
- 47:06Speaker 1: I'm only answering a question that Peter asked me based
- 47:10Speaker 1: on what you put out there already.
- 47:11Speaker 7: No, I felt like when Candy talked about them having threesomes,
- 47:15Speaker 7: that was she was speaking for both of them.
- 47:18Speaker 2: And she was protecting the information. I even remember her
- 47:22Speaker 2: saying in.
- 47:22Speaker 7: The clip that was shared amongst us, she said, literally,
- 47:27Speaker 7: I don't know how much I should share, how much
- 47:29Speaker 7: I should tell.
- 47:30Speaker 2: Kandi protected that information. So I want to make, the.
- 47:35Speaker 1: Clip you're talking about was a conversation between her and
- 47:38Speaker 1: DJ A1 that was aired months before she filed for divorce.
- 47:45Speaker 4: So this is like 2026.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 47:46Speaker 2: Or something like that.
- 47:48Speaker 7: And so when Todd talked about it, I think it
- 47:51Speaker 7: was post-divorce. Again, we just got through talking about Todd
- 47:54Speaker 7: having an understanding of how to sensationalize things to make
- 47:59Speaker 7: them appeal to audiences. I think that's what he was doing.
- 48:02Speaker 7: It made the edit for the trailer. So that was intentional.
- 48:05Speaker 7: And I think it's a clear difference in the two statements.
- 48:08Speaker 7: So I get what people are saying. But again, everybody
- 48:12Speaker 7: needs to grow the hell up. People have threesomes. So really,
- 48:15Speaker 7: y'all are the ones giving it gas by making.
- 48:17Speaker 2: It like, he said this, he said this, he said this. Okay.
- 48:20Speaker 2: You have them too.
- 48:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't understand the backlash personally. And I want
- 48:27Speaker 1: to hear from you too, because the audience has been
- 48:29Speaker 1: waiting a week to hear from you guys.
- 48:31Speaker 3: No pressure.
- 48:32Speaker 4: Okay. You know, yeah, I will say this.
- 48:36Speaker 1: As somebody who has watched every single episode of Atlanta Housewives,
- 48:40Speaker 1: obviously I produced nine seasons of it. Kandi has been
- 48:45Speaker 1: very open about her sexuality, which has been empowering for her.
- 48:49Speaker 1: She's been very open about, you know, being with women
- 48:52Speaker 1: out of her own admission. she has been open about
- 48:55Speaker 1: having threesomes out of her own admission. I do think
- 49:00Speaker 1: what I believe is fair is the fact that Todd
- 49:04Speaker 1: saying that, okay, we had threesomes throughout our marriage, I
- 49:10Speaker 1: did not take that as a numerology statement in terms
- 49:15Speaker 1: of the amounts. I took that as him co-signing that, yes,
- 49:19Speaker 1: we had... threesomes throughout our marriage. Candy, the interview me
- 49:24Speaker 1: and Dustin referring to, that happened months before she filed
- 49:31Speaker 1: for divorce and she said out of her own mouth
- 49:34Speaker 1: that within the last six months they had a threesome
- 49:37Speaker 1: and she mentioned people signing NDAs.
- 49:40Speaker 4: So it's something that I agree with Dustin. And when
- 49:43Speaker 4: I agree with Dustin, I agree with Dustin in the
- 49:45Speaker 4: sense of.
- 49:46Speaker 2: Everything I said.
- 49:47Speaker 4: You know.
- 49:48Speaker 1: That part.
- 49:49Speaker 2: The totality.
- 49:50Speaker 1: That two adults in the same marriage, to me, I
- 49:54Speaker 1: thought they said the same thing.
- 49:57Speaker 4: I don't understand this backlash.
- 50:00Speaker 2: Go ahead, Blue.
- 50:01Speaker 1: Oh, light work. Okay. That was a question?
- 50:05Speaker 3: Okay.
- 50:05Speaker 6: So here's the thing. It's no secret what I think
- 50:09Speaker 6: of Todd.
- 50:10Speaker 4: What do you think?
- 50:12Speaker 6: I think Mama Joyce was disrespectful, but not inaccurate. And
- 50:18Speaker 6: I do think that the scheming that she saw in him,
- 50:21Speaker 6: we're now seeing what it looks like. Here's my thing.
- 50:24Speaker 6: Something being accurate is completely irrelevant when it comes to weaponizing.
- 50:27Speaker 6: In fact, weaponizing accuracy is the best way to be manipulative.
- 50:30Speaker 6: So it being accurate actually means absolutely nothing to me.
- 50:33Speaker 6: So that's irrelevant. What's relevant is consent, timing, and intention.
- 50:38Speaker 6: When I'm in a relationship, perfect example, if I'm sitting
- 50:40Speaker 6: here and I have me a little man friend and
- 50:42Speaker 6: I say, you know, sometimes we do fun things on vacation.
- 50:44Speaker 6: It is what it is. And you say, well, Blue,
- 50:45Speaker 6: how many times? You're like, I don't want to say
- 50:47Speaker 6: too much. I don't know how much I want to say,
- 50:48Speaker 6: but it's been within the last six months. And I
- 50:51Speaker 6: still think that even with an open relationship like this,
- 50:53Speaker 6: there's still ways to cheat if you go outside of
- 50:55Speaker 6: our covenant. That's very different than you in a car
- 50:57Speaker 6: with Patricia that you probably rented talking about, yeah, you know,
- 51:01Speaker 6: all throughout that bitch, we were doing it. Uh-huh. And
- 51:03Speaker 6: Patricia's like, oh, I'm innocent.
- 51:04Speaker 1: I'm innocent.
- 51:05Speaker 4: No, you're not.
- 51:05Speaker 2: You broke.
- 51:05Speaker 6: But anyways, like, it's a lot going on. It's a
- 51:07Speaker 6: different timing, different intention, lack of consent, and the fact
- 51:11Speaker 6: that he's weaponizing her truth. It being true doesn't make
- 51:15Speaker 6: it okay to weaponize it. And what I say... coyly,
- 51:19Speaker 6: before I'm in a relationship with you, about who I
- 51:21Speaker 6: am open sexually, and then say in shades about us
- 51:25Speaker 6: in a relationship is very different than you using it
- 51:27Speaker 6: as a promo. Because it'd be one thing if you
- 51:28Speaker 6: said it in the episode and somebody in the comment section,
- 51:31Speaker 6: like we were talking earlier, pulled it out and made
- 51:33Speaker 6: a big deal out of it. He chose it for
- 51:35Speaker 6: the trailer of his movie, series, Instagram reel, whatever we're
- 51:39Speaker 6: going to call it today.
- 51:40Speaker 4: Not Instagram reel.
- 51:41Speaker 1: Right?
- 51:41Speaker 6: Making it part of the trailer tells me everything I
- 51:45Speaker 6: need to know about the intention. So yeah, I think
- 51:48Speaker 6: he's whack.
- 51:49Speaker 4: So, okay.
- 51:49Speaker 1: So you believe because he put it in the trailer,
- 51:53Speaker 1: his intention was to do what exactly?
- 51:55Speaker 6: To leverage her once again to pay his bills. As
- 51:58Speaker 6: a woman who knows what it's like to be up
- 51:59Speaker 6: while your man is down, you know what it's like
- 52:01Speaker 6: when you are choosing. And Claudia, I think we can
- 52:04Speaker 6: both agree with this. You know what it's like when
- 52:06Speaker 6: you are doing really well at life and you really
- 52:08Speaker 6: believe in the person that you're with and he's still
- 52:10Speaker 6: in between blessings? And so you give him a layup, right?
- 52:14Speaker 6: Candy knows what it's like to give Todd a layup.
- 52:16Speaker 6: Most of what we know about Todd and his relevancy
- 52:18Speaker 6: is because of Candy giving him a layup. Now that
- 52:20Speaker 6: we're no longer together, you can't keep on going to
- 52:22Speaker 6: the bank to make withdrawals like that. And I think
- 52:24Speaker 6: she's sick of being took from even after they've separated.
- 52:26Speaker 6: She's like, you broke my heart. I kept the cue
- 52:28Speaker 6: for us to raise the kids. And I did my
- 52:30Speaker 6: best to give you some sense of dignity because I
- 52:32Speaker 6: want my children not to be embarrassed by their father.
- 52:34Speaker 6: And you're still trying to put your gourd into the
- 52:37Speaker 6: well and take from me. Enough. I think she's tired
- 52:40Speaker 6: of being took from.
- 52:42Speaker 2: Claudia.
- 52:43Speaker 5: Again, I agree with a lot that Blue's saying. I
- 52:45Speaker 5: think it's a timing thing as well. It's one thing
- 52:48Speaker 5: when things are good. Oh, you know, last night on
- 52:50Speaker 5: Black Caucus and then say we get in a bad place.
- 52:54Speaker 1: Everybody drinks Black Caucus.
- 52:55Speaker 3: So say we're in a bad place and we fall out, right?
- 52:58Speaker 5: And then you're with them and you're like, you know
- 53:00Speaker 5: how she gets down at Black Caucus.
- 53:02Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 53:03Speaker 5: It's like it hits differently than when we were saying
- 53:05Speaker 5: it when we were like in a good place.
- 53:07Speaker 1: Right?
- 53:07Speaker 3: And that's where there's a difference. And also.
- 53:11Speaker 5: We're hearing allegedly that she was cheated on. I'll be
- 53:14Speaker 5: damned if I gave my man all this rope to
- 53:16Speaker 5: have threesomes with me.
- 53:18Speaker 3: And that's consensual.
- 53:19Speaker 5: And then that's still not enough where you still go
- 53:21Speaker 5: outside of that and you cheat on me. And I
- 53:23Speaker 5: know people that I've never had a threesome. And so
- 53:26Speaker 5: that's not my world. But I have friends that are
- 53:28Speaker 5: in relationships that do that. And they explain to me
- 53:31Speaker 5: how there's still rules on that. And the cheating probably
- 53:34Speaker 5: hurts even more when you give all this rope and
- 53:37Speaker 5: they still cheat on you. And you're like, damn, I'm
- 53:40Speaker 5: not enough. And then a plus one bitch is not enough.
- 53:43Speaker 5: And that's still, like, you still go behind my back.
- 53:45Speaker 5: So I think that because of the timing, there's more
- 53:48Speaker 5: of a betrayal thing about this than when we were
- 53:50Speaker 5: in a good place saying Black Caucus.
- 53:52Speaker 1: Ooh, drink again. Well, I think at this point, listen,
- 53:57Speaker 1: there has been this... conversation that a lot of women
- 54:01Speaker 1: have been having about men being the new bitches. And
- 54:05Speaker 1: the first time I.
- 54:06Speaker 4: You mean me and Claudia on the couch?
- 54:07Speaker 1: Well, you know what's so funny? You don't have to
- 54:09Speaker 1: be obtuse.
- 54:10Speaker 4: I'm right here. I think you'll probably remember this too.
- 54:13Speaker 1: The first person in my memory that I heard say
- 54:15Speaker 1: this was Toni Braxton. When she talked about this with
- 54:19Speaker 1: her ex-husband, the first... Well, she's only been married twice.
- 54:22Speaker 1: From Nick Condition.
- 54:23Speaker 4: Yes, Carrie.
- 54:24Speaker 1: The little pretty nigga from Nick Condition, yeah.
- 54:25Speaker 4: Carrie, because she had to pay him alimony.
- 54:27Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 54:28Speaker 4: And she did an interview saying, men are the new bitches.
- 54:31Speaker 5: Just be a man about it was her song, remember?
- 54:33Speaker 1: Yeah, just be a man about it. So the thing
- 54:35Speaker 1: is this, there is this conversation. We talk about Peter
- 54:38Speaker 1: on my podcast saying that Cynthia.
- 54:42Speaker 4: Cynthia.
- 54:42Speaker 2: Cynthia.
- 54:43Speaker 1: Okay.
- 54:44Speaker 2: To Cynthia.
- 54:46Speaker 1: About how Cynthia, he wanted Cynthia to take over his condo.
- 54:53Speaker 1: He mentioned how he took Cynthia out to dinner and
- 54:57Speaker 1: she said yes at dinner. And then she left to dinner.
- 55:00Speaker 1: And when he tried to contact her, she didn't answer
- 55:04Speaker 1: the phone. And he was hurt by that. And then, Peter,
- 55:08Speaker 1: I love you. 100% of the audience was not on
- 55:12Speaker 1: his side.
- 55:12Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
- 55:14Speaker 1: We know that Ralph is being, Ralph Pittman, Drew Sedora's
- 55:18Speaker 1: estranged husband.
- 55:19Speaker 6: From the basement?
- 55:20Speaker 1: The one in the basement who recently got custody.
- 55:24Speaker 3: He's on the ground floor now.
- 55:25Speaker 4: Well, he got the house. He got the house.
- 55:28Speaker 1: Handed him from the ground up.
- 55:29Speaker 2: Look at that.
- 55:30Speaker 3: Started from the bottom, now we're here.
- 55:31Speaker 1: Yeah. Brownstone for the bottom up album.
- 55:34Speaker 4: Shout out to Nikki Gilbert, Dustin's favorite lead singer in Brownstone.
- 55:38Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
- 55:39Speaker 4: So, the thing is.
- 55:40Speaker 6: Are there others?
- 55:41Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
- 55:42Speaker 2: I was there. Side joke. Now, the thing....
- 55:46Speaker 4: My mouth's the bullshit. Okay.
- 55:50Speaker 6: I'm sorry. Me and Dustin have the same kind of tism, y'all.
- 55:53Speaker 4: Okay?
- 55:54Speaker 3: So.
- 55:54Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Okay.
- 55:57Speaker 1: Do you?
- 55:59Speaker 6: Do you?
- 56:00Speaker 1: I took no tests. I think I'm the test. Who
- 56:04Speaker 1: said that? So the thing is this. Why is it
- 56:10Speaker 1: that men... Here we go again.
- 56:14Speaker 3: Cancel it.
- 56:14Speaker 5: Someone's going to be mad again.
- 56:19Speaker 1: Why is it.
- 56:23Speaker 1: Why is it that some men on reality television Dustin
- 56:27Speaker 1: yes cannot.
- 56:28Speaker 4: State how they feel without being called a.
- 56:31Speaker 7: Bitch the way they say it Todd could have had
- 56:35Speaker 7: that conversation a totally different way Peter could have kept
- 56:38Speaker 7: his mouth closed about personal matters.
- 56:40Speaker 2: Well, things that really aren't even matters.
- 56:43Speaker 7: Because Cynthia got on in the car and went on
- 56:46Speaker 7: down the road and said, the hell with all that.
- 56:49Speaker 2: You know, I'm about to go do the trade.
- 56:50Speaker 7: This nigga got me completely fucked up.
- 56:52Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
- 56:55Speaker 1: You're a bad bitch.
- 56:57Speaker 3: She's like, I done been married, got a.
- 56:59Speaker 2: Divorce, got a new boyfriend. You're my ex-husband twice removed.
- 57:02Speaker 1: You're not even the best one I had, Leon.
- 57:03Speaker 6: Are you crazy?
- 57:04Speaker 3: What are we saying?
- 57:05Speaker 7: Like, So yeah, it's the way they do it, man.
- 57:09Speaker 7: Come on, it's a way you could tell your story
- 57:11Speaker 7: without trying to disparage the woman or without sounding like
- 57:14Speaker 7: the woman.
- 57:15Speaker 2: You could just tell your story.
- 57:16Speaker 1: Not a woman, a bitch.
- 57:17Speaker 5: Yeah, because I resent when people say they're acting like
- 57:20Speaker 5: it's feminine because actually.
- 57:24Speaker 3: The women aren't even doing that anymore.
- 57:25Speaker 6: Yeah, we're real niggas now.
- 57:26Speaker 3: Women are like, we're like manning up now.
- 57:28Speaker 6: Yeah, we're real niggas.
- 57:29Speaker 1: It's not even a thing you can say.
- 57:31Speaker 5: Like when people say, oh, they throw like a girl.
- 57:34Speaker 5: They talk like they're being like a girl.
- 57:35Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 57:37Speaker 3: What is this new thing? It's a new subcategory.
- 57:39Speaker 5: Yeah. It's a bitch assness category and I don't subscribe
- 57:42Speaker 5: to bitch assness.
- 57:43Speaker 6: Bitch is gender neutral, guys.
- 57:44Speaker 2: Yeah, bitch ass is sure gender neutral.
- 57:46Speaker 6: Yeah, bitch is gender neutral.
- 57:48Speaker 4: But Blue, you are a woman who strongly believes that
- 57:52Speaker 4: everybody should have a voice, whether you are male, female,
- 57:56Speaker 4: a they, no matter your identity. Why is it that
- 58:01Speaker 4: black men, straight black men feel like the moment we
- 58:04Speaker 4: state how we feel, it's an issue with women?
- 58:09Speaker 6: I'm also an ego death coach, so I can call
- 58:11Speaker 6: the bullshit out.
- 58:11Speaker 2: Okay.
- 58:12Speaker 6: So what you're saying is happening. What's actually happening, there's
- 58:14Speaker 6: a disparity there, right? If you are speaking your truth
- 58:16Speaker 6: with the intention of creating a bridge between you and
- 58:19Speaker 6: others to have further understanding, that is honorable, and I
- 58:22Speaker 6: will always defend that, and that's the only thing I defend.
- 58:24Speaker 6: Once you take the truth and shank people with it
- 58:26Speaker 6: like a knife, that's no longer honorable. And so I'm
- 58:29Speaker 6: never going to tell black men, black dogs, Chinese men,
- 58:33Speaker 6: Asian trans people. I'm not going to tell anybody to
- 58:36Speaker 6: shank people with the truth and weaponize it.
- 58:37Speaker 1: And so that's bullshit, right?
- 58:38Speaker 6: And what's actually funny is, It's actually really dangerous in
- 58:42Speaker 6: a new form of misogyny to flatten the female experience,
- 58:45Speaker 6: flatten the woman experience into its lowest, nastiest, most scheming parts,
- 58:49Speaker 6: and then cosplay as the worst parts of flattened womanhood.
- 58:53Speaker 6: Women are more than being flewed out. We're more than
- 58:55Speaker 6: men paying the bills. And here's the thing, too. Women
- 58:58Speaker 6: had to do those things back in the day because
- 58:59Speaker 6: up until 1974, we couldn't even have our own bank accounts.
- 59:02Speaker 6: So when we did it, it was a response to misogyny.
- 59:04Speaker 6: Y'all built that shit. You don't need to respond to it.
- 59:06Speaker 1: You built it.
- 59:07Speaker 6: And so to flatten us down to city girls, uh,
- 59:10Speaker 6: and then cosplay as city girls and have us pay
- 59:12Speaker 6: the bill, that's whack to me. And that has nothing
- 59:15Speaker 6: to do with emotional intelligence. That has nothing to do
- 59:16Speaker 6: with therapy speak. And I resent men who weaponize therapy
- 59:19Speaker 6: speak and emotional intelligence as a new way to still
- 59:22Speaker 6: cause harm to women.
- 59:24Speaker 3: It feels bitch ass.
- 59:24Speaker 1: Did I answer your question?
- 59:25Speaker 3: It does.
- 59:26Speaker 1: Okay.
- 59:26Speaker 5: I think the bitch assness argument, I think there's a
- 59:29Speaker 5: difference between a woman just shutting a man down when
- 59:33Speaker 5: he expresses himself and saying, oh, you're being a bitch.
- 59:35Speaker 3: You shouldn't have feelings. Men don't cry.
- 59:37Speaker 5: I think that's a big mistake to say men shouldn't cry.
- 59:40Speaker 5: I think that's bullshit. I think that's why we have
- 59:42Speaker 5: a lot of our problems, right? This is different because
- 59:45Speaker 5: it's a category of women. that are all alphas, got
- 59:50Speaker 5: their money and put their men on their platform. So
- 59:53Speaker 5: it just hits a little bit different when you're kind
- 59:55Speaker 5: of biting the hand that kind of fed you. And
- 59:58Speaker 5: even though these men had things going on, let's not
- 1:00:01Speaker 5: sit here and act like being on The Real Housewives
- 1:00:03Speaker 5: of Atlanta did not elevate Ralph Pittman, Peter Thomas, and
- 1:00:06Speaker 5: Todd Kerr.
- 1:00:07Speaker 4: Well, let's not also act like them being married to
- 1:00:12Speaker 4: this man did not elevate their storyline.
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: But they still got the show without.
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: That's icing, not cake. You can't eat icing by itself.
- 1:00:18Speaker 4: But I'm saying, let's call a spade a spade, right?
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: So, I do agree with you.
- 1:00:23Speaker 4: The show definitely brought these men notoriety and fame. But again,
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: when I interview Peter Thomas, listen, I.
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: Know that I'm out here.
- 1:00:34Speaker 6: You insist on reminding us.
- 1:00:36Speaker 4: You insist alone.
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: But I will say, the men that's been on my podcast,
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: I've had Peter Thomas and Apollo.
- 1:00:42Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 1:00:44Speaker 4: I'll stick with Peter because he's most recent. Peter did say...
- 1:00:47Speaker 4: And Cordell Stewart said this.
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: That's not helping.
- 1:00:53Speaker 4: What a line of winners.
- 1:00:53Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, no, no.
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: So many winners on this list. Win, win, win, win.
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: All we do is win, huh?
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: I'm trying to have your back, man.
- 1:01:01Speaker 4: I got you.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: Two L's make a W, huh, Carlos? Two losers make
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: a W.
- 1:01:04Speaker 4: I want to be clear when I say this.
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: I'm on no one's side. I'm here as the moderator
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: to give you guys all sides, right?
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
- 1:01:12Speaker 4: So....
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: These straight men who come from Real Housewives, they have
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: said this show inevitably ruined them because they felt like
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: they're now only seen as you're the husband of dot, dot, dot.
- 1:01:32Speaker 4: You're the ex-husband of dot, dot, dot.
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: And the reason why they feel like Cordell made a
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: very public statement, and I talked to Porsche about this
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: in our interview.
- 1:01:42Speaker 4: He said, I'm a Heisman Trophy winner.
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 1:01:44Speaker 4: And I've been reduced to being introduced as Portia's husband.
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: In that demographic.
- 1:01:50Speaker 4: No, no, no.
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. But these men do
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: feel like I helped these housewives that I was married
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: to get ass back season to season because of our relationship.
- 1:02:03Speaker 3: And that's true. Okay. But let me get in. That's true.
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:02:07Speaker 5: They did help the women's storylines who are the stars.
- 1:02:11Speaker 5: But like, we can interchange the husbands and those girls
- 1:02:14Speaker 5: still have the personality.
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: Bingo.
- 1:02:15Speaker 5: Of course, she's still going to have her personality. Nene
- 1:02:17Speaker 5: Leakes is still going to have her personality. You know
- 1:02:19Speaker 5: what I mean? Like, you can put any man.
- 1:02:22Speaker 3: In their storyline and we're going to still care because
- 1:02:24Speaker 3: the women are the stars. Yes, they did hell.
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: Agreed.
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: They're supporting cast. And guess what? Supporting cast members can
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: be replaced.
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: Right. And they literally were replaced. They got fucking divorced.
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: And the show still went on.
- 1:02:36Speaker 7: They left the shit out of all of them. Cynthia
- 1:02:37Speaker 7: left the shit out of Peter. Portia left the fuck
- 1:02:40Speaker 7: out of Cordell.
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: Left them hard.
- 1:02:41Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying? NeNe and Greg got divorced.
- 1:02:45Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying? Rest in peace to the
- 1:02:47Speaker 7: one and only Greg Leakes. But NeNe divorced Greg.
- 1:02:49Speaker 3: And it didn't take away from her storyline.
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: He wasn't there.
- 1:02:51Speaker 7: And these women continued on the show. So that's always
- 1:02:53Speaker 7: been a really weak argument to me, you know, for
- 1:02:57Speaker 7: them to say that. I've never understood why they... And
- 1:03:00Speaker 7: even if we were to accept that as truth, then what?
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: I have a question.
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: So what do you want from that type? What do
- 1:03:06Speaker 2: they want?
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: Based on what I did listen to Todd's interview on
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: B1 on 3.
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:03:12Speaker 4: Todd feels like.
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: I did too, by the way.
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: Yeah. Todd did say at the end of the day,
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: because they did ask him like, what do you want
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: out of this?
- 1:03:20Speaker 4: He said, I do want my wife back.
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: Todd.
- 1:03:24Speaker 3: Well, that's not the way to go.
- 1:03:25Speaker 6: As a tourist and a chance at hell.
- 1:03:27Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, she would have pissed on you if
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: you were on fire.
- 1:03:29Speaker 5: I don't get the Todd Tucker's and the Michael Blackson
- 1:03:33Speaker 5: of the world that have sexy, successful women in their
- 1:03:37Speaker 5: lives that have given you the rope to have other
- 1:03:41Speaker 5: women in your life and still squander that. I don't
- 1:03:43Speaker 5: understand that. Because my brain doesn't work like that.
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: I'm like, what?
- 1:03:47Speaker 5: That's still not enough? And then you regret it later
- 1:03:49Speaker 5: because you realize you had one that did hold you down.
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: And let's say this. Candy, for many, many years, was
- 1:03:54Speaker 3: very quiet and very protective of time.
- 1:03:56Speaker 5: To the point of even having issues with her own
- 1:03:58Speaker 5: family over it, like having smoke, right? She protected him
- 1:04:01Speaker 5: all those years. So that's when cheating hits even more.
- 1:04:04Speaker 5: Because then you've got to deal with the I told
- 1:04:06Speaker 5: you so's and Mama Joyce is right and it was
- 1:04:08Speaker 5: a scheme. And I'm sure that feels like shit.
- 1:04:11Speaker 6: I think he enjoyed that. I will say this, and
- 1:04:14Speaker 6: I love this conversation. Carlos, you realize that every single
- 1:04:17Speaker 6: thing you said that those men say that we're supposed
- 1:04:19Speaker 6: to play the world's smallest violin for is what women
- 1:04:21Speaker 6: have been saying for centuries. And so what they're really
- 1:04:24Speaker 6: saying is how dare you put me in the place
- 1:04:26Speaker 6: that I wanted to put you in first. And that's
- 1:04:29Speaker 6: why that argument is bullshit to me. Women for years
- 1:04:31Speaker 6: have helped men build their careers, be the one who
- 1:04:34Speaker 6: helps their storyline by being the pretty trophy on their arm,
- 1:04:38Speaker 6: be the one who supports them on their way up,
- 1:04:40Speaker 6: makes them substantial because they have a family to come
- 1:04:42Speaker 6: back to at home, and they're expected to eat shit
- 1:04:44Speaker 6: and be quiet. And the men are saying, how dare
- 1:04:46Speaker 6: you do the thing to me that I was allowed
- 1:04:47Speaker 6: to do to you instead?
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: Drake even had a whole line about it. You wasn't
- 1:04:50Speaker 3: with me shooting in the gym, right?
- 1:04:52Speaker 6: Women haven't seen that for centuries, so that argument is
- 1:04:54Speaker 6: tired and means nothing to me. That sympathy you feel
- 1:04:56Speaker 6: for them is them projecting what they wish they could
- 1:04:58Speaker 6: do first. It's like when white folks try to use
- 1:05:00Speaker 6: reverse racism.
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: I would also like to add that the show is
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: called The Real Housewives.
- 1:05:04Speaker 6: Yeah, not the real niggas.
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: Not the real niggas of Atlanta.
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: My thing is.
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: Like, so what are you even speaking up to.
- 1:05:13Speaker 7: Have a say in this for? We don't care about
- 1:05:16Speaker 7: how you even feel. This show is called The Real Housewives.
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: You're her husband. It's a subordinate role in its entirety.
- 1:05:23Speaker 3: In this show.
- 1:05:24Speaker 2: How dare you? I'm speaking up.
- 1:05:26Speaker 4: How do you make a man subordinate?
- 1:05:27Speaker 2: Hearing that is just wild to me.
- 1:05:28Speaker 5: Imagine someone bringing you on a show that they're eating
- 1:05:32Speaker 5: off of, and your bookings go up, your quote goes up,
- 1:05:34Speaker 5: you're getting all these things, and at the end, you
- 1:05:36Speaker 5: have all this shit to say. Now, I do think
- 1:05:38Speaker 5: men's feelings matter as well. Y'all's feelings do matter.
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: They should be able.
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: To express themselves. My feelings definitely motherfucking matter.
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? They matter. They matter.
- 1:05:49Speaker 5: These househusbands' feelings do matter, but again, it's the way
- 1:05:52Speaker 5: you do it.
- 1:05:53Speaker 3: The way you do it. That's why there was so
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: much respect. For Greg Leaks.
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 1:05:57Speaker 3: Because he found a way to, you know, state what
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: he had to say. From what I know of.
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: No, no.
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: He probably had... Well, yeah, I don't want to.
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: I'm going to rewrite that. We remember that radio interview.
- 1:06:08Speaker 4: You learned the hard way.
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: You remember that, Carlos? I was actually.
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: I was there with season three. And this is the
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: reason why, listen, I want to make it very clear.
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: I love this conversation because... Listen, there isn't a Real
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: House Husband who's here to defend himself. And I'm basing
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: my statements based on conversations I have with these guys
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: on my podcast.
- 1:06:31Speaker 6: Fraudulent masculinity, by the way. The next time they say that,
- 1:06:33Speaker 6: tell them that they're fraudulent masculinity. Their slip is showing.
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: Okay, but the thing is... Okay, okay. But to what
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: Dustin is saying, season three of The Real Housewives of Atlanta...
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: I mean, by that point, NeNe Leakes was the biggest
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: reality star in the world. And their lives changed overnight. Greg, unfortunately,
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: was being recorded where he thought he was having a
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: private conversation with a friend. And he said things like,
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: you know, rest in peace, Greg. He just said things like,
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: I made her. I invested all this money, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 1:07:06Speaker 5: 300,000.
- 1:07:07Speaker 4: Yes. And Nene was devastated.
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: And I had to be there that moment. Nene took
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: off her eyelashes. You know, that's in the kitchen.
- 1:07:14Speaker 4: And she was devastated.
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: And the next season, they divorced. And Greg had to
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: win her back. And one thing that he said through
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: therapy is, And I will never forget this. And I
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: think maybe the reason why I do, I will admit,
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: I do have a little, not a little, I'm not
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: going to denounce it. I do have sympathy for these
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: men who joined the show because I think it's easy
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: to say, yeah, but you're the husband of, right? I
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: think based on what Greg Leakes experienced early on in
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: our conversation, he just felt like, What is my identity
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: outside of this? And I think because we do live
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: in a patriarchal world, right?
- 1:08:02Speaker 4: Where men were raised, and especially Greg's generation, especially his generation.
- 1:08:08Speaker 6: It should be him.
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: Right?
- 1:08:09Speaker 4: Where I'm the breadwinner and I help you.
- 1:08:12Speaker 6: Yep.
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: And when the roles are reversed, I do want to
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: know to the four men watching on Monday Night Live.
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: Oh my God, here we go.
- 1:08:21Speaker 4: You know, that we saw in the audience last night.
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: I do think there is a conversation that needs to
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: be had with straight men being like, what is it
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: like being married to a Kandi Burris?
- 1:08:37Speaker 4: To a NeNe Leakes? To a Cynthia.
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: You know, what is that like? So I understand that.
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: Man, Carlos.
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: I understand.
- 1:08:47Speaker 6: No, no.
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: I understand that, yes, there's a lot of privilege there.
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: But I think when you are raised to be the
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: man to provide, what is that like when you feel like,
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: I don't have a voice anymore because the public doesn't
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: want it.
- 1:09:03Speaker 7: So to me if you are a person who governs
- 1:09:06Speaker 7: yourself that way if you're a man that has those
- 1:09:08Speaker 7: sorts of thoughts and feelings those sort of perspectives on
- 1:09:10Speaker 7: relationships and who's doing what that should motivate you to
- 1:09:15Speaker 7: be up so high That your woman can be just
- 1:09:19Speaker 7: as high and as successful as she wants to and
- 1:09:22Speaker 7: it won't affect your ego. If that's the case and
- 1:09:25Speaker 7: that's how you find your self-worth, then you should be
- 1:09:29Speaker 7: that driven in your career to where you're.
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: Satisfied. Your ego is satisfied. You know what I'm saying?
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: I'm happy you said that.
- 1:09:38Speaker 7: You're not looking for that from her. To me, that
- 1:09:41Speaker 7: would be the only way to hold fast to those
- 1:09:43Speaker 7: types of views.
- 1:09:44Speaker 6: It's quite literally the only.
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: You know what Carlos said?
- 1:09:47Speaker 6: He said therapy, right? Here's the thing. If you are
- 1:09:50Speaker 6: a man, I'm going to keep on saying this because
- 1:09:52Speaker 6: just because something is sympathetic doesn't mean it's right. And
- 1:09:55Speaker 6: if you are a man whose entire identity falls apart,
- 1:09:58Speaker 6: if you cannot rely on the privilege of patriarchy, that
- 1:10:01Speaker 6: has nothing to do with your wife. What you're saying
- 1:10:04Speaker 6: is you feel bad for men who can't benefit from
- 1:10:06Speaker 6: patriarchy in the way that they thought they were promised.
- 1:10:08Speaker 6: I'm never going to have sympathy for that. I understand
- 1:10:10Speaker 6: why you do. But as somebody who does the work
- 1:10:12Speaker 6: that I do, that means they need an ego death.
- 1:10:14Speaker 6: That means the part of you that needs to be
- 1:10:16Speaker 6: superior to her in order for you to be a man.
- 1:10:19Speaker 4: Is already weak.
- 1:10:20Speaker 6: That's already a weak stance to have to begin with.
- 1:10:22Speaker 6: There's something in you that was broken before she got
- 1:10:23Speaker 6: there and will be broken with your next wife. Because
- 1:10:26Speaker 6: there will be another one, right? Because women like that
- 1:10:27Speaker 6: tend to leave men like you. And so what has
- 1:10:29Speaker 6: to happen is, like what happened with Greg is, you
- 1:10:31Speaker 6: have to go to therapy to realize you thought your
- 1:10:33Speaker 6: heart was breaking the entire time your ego was just dying.
- 1:10:35Speaker 4: So the woman has no fault in this.
- 1:10:38Speaker 6: It's not about fault.
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: It's about responsibility. No, I don't think so.
- 1:10:40Speaker 6: So the answer, I will answer that. I will answer
- 1:10:41Speaker 6: that directly.
- 1:10:42Speaker 4: Because the thing is this. Because listen.
- 1:10:43Speaker 6: I will answer that.
- 1:10:45Speaker 4: I do believe. Responsibility. Thank you.
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: I do believe that there's a responsibility that women should
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: have when it comes to making sure that their man
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: feels valued. And Kandi did that.
- 1:10:58Speaker 6: And look what happened.
- 1:11:00Speaker 4: I'm not saying she didn't.
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: Right, you're just talking about women in general.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: I'm talking about women in general. I do think, one
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: thing Todd did say, he said, I have lived my
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: life under her shadows for so long, and now that
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: I'm out of it, I'm just living my life, right?
- 1:11:12Speaker 4: And I'm not saying he's right or she's wrong. I'm
- 1:11:14Speaker 4: not saying that.
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: But what I am saying is, I do feel like
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: it's a lot of men, men, men, men, men, and
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: what I haven't heard yet is, we are all imperfect people.
- 1:11:24Speaker 1: You mean to tell me that these women, and I'm
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: not talking about anyone specifically, because I wasn't in their marriage, right?
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: I do believe strongly that when it comes to successful
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: women who are married to men that make less than them,
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: that are more famous than them, I do feel like
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: there needs to be some sort of responsibility to them
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: that they must do better when it comes to making
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: sure your man feels like he's still a man. Pause, pause, pause.
- 1:11:54Speaker 6: You guys, he asked me a question. I would like
- 1:11:55Speaker 6: to just land this, because he was looking directly at me.
- 1:11:58Speaker 6: And I want to address it directly because there's a
- 1:11:59Speaker 6: real answer because that was a great moment. And there's
- 1:12:03Speaker 6: also a very clear answer. It's not actually a mysterious answer.
- 1:12:06Speaker 6: The direct answer is people have to be responsible for themselves.
- 1:12:09Speaker 6: Statistically speaking, women already are the breadwinners. So this whole
- 1:12:12Speaker 6: patriarchy thing is a facade that we put up for
- 1:12:15Speaker 6: men's egos. Any woman who's a strong woman, I'm included,
- 1:12:18Speaker 6: Claudia's included, we understand this. We all know to play
- 1:12:20Speaker 6: the game about how to stroke your man and make
- 1:12:22Speaker 6: sure that he feels like a man, even if you're
- 1:12:23Speaker 6: the one who can pay the tab, technically speaking, right?
- 1:12:25Speaker 6: That's the thing that women have actually mastered. The issue
- 1:12:28Speaker 6: with all the women in this situation, whether it was
- 1:12:30Speaker 6: Nene or Candy or anybody else, most women in their
- 1:12:34Speaker 6: position do their best to uphold their man's dignity when
- 1:12:37Speaker 6: it comes to their family, when it comes to their children,
- 1:12:39Speaker 6: when it even comes to the audience. What ends up
- 1:12:40Speaker 6: happening is, as a woman who's dated men not for money,
- 1:12:43Speaker 6: When I date men who don't make as much money
- 1:12:45Speaker 6: as me, no matter how much of that I do,
- 1:12:48Speaker 6: and I do it a lot, if a man doesn't
- 1:12:50Speaker 6: respect him, he won't respect you for doing it either.
- 1:12:52Speaker 6: Because if a man doesn't like himself, he will always
- 1:12:54Speaker 6: find a way to sabotage the relationship. So the real
- 1:12:56Speaker 6: answer is, even if I did everything you said, the
- 1:12:59Speaker 6: work still has to come from you. It's not my
- 1:13:01Speaker 6: fault or your fault. It's your responsibility. Nobody can fill
- 1:13:04Speaker 6: that hole in you. And so a lot of men
- 1:13:06Speaker 6: are so busy feeling sympathetic to themselves, like, I feel
- 1:13:10Speaker 6: bad because I lived in her shadow. And the thing is,
- 1:13:12Speaker 6: if she was in your position, women for centuries have
- 1:13:14Speaker 6: figured out how to figure out how to still have
- 1:13:15Speaker 6: their own lives outside of their partners, even when they're
- 1:13:17Speaker 6: in a shadow. Todd needs to go to therapy. Greg
- 1:13:20Speaker 6: had to go to therapy. Ralph had to go to therapy.
- 1:13:23Speaker 6: And if you spend all your time worrying about what's
- 1:13:25Speaker 6: not her fault, and I will also say this, a
- 1:13:27Speaker 6: lot of you believe that all women who make a
- 1:13:28Speaker 6: lot of money are ball busters. And that's actually not
- 1:13:31Speaker 6: the truth.
- 1:13:31Speaker 4: I agree with that.
- 1:13:32Speaker 6: That's a fallacy of patriarchy.
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: I agree with that.
- 1:13:33Speaker 6: Most of us will actually bring up, we're submissive breadwinners.
- 1:13:37Speaker 4: We'll give you the big piece of chicken.
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: I want to know what you think that looks like. Yeah,
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: what does that look like? Oh, easily.
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: Because Kenny did it, child.
- 1:13:43Speaker 4: I'm going to have Claudia go first, and then I'll
- 1:13:47Speaker 4: answer your question after her.
- 1:13:48Speaker 5: I've been in this situation a couple of times and yeah,
- 1:13:52Speaker 5: like where the man makes less. And I was very
- 1:13:54Speaker 5: conscious of how I'm allowing people to treat him and
- 1:13:58Speaker 5: how I was in my mind, like being overly concerned
- 1:14:02Speaker 5: with not emasculating him and making sure he doesn't feel emasculated.
- 1:14:05Speaker 5: So I agree with some of the stuff you're saying.
- 1:14:06Speaker 5: I agree with a lot of what all y'all saying,
- 1:14:09Speaker 5: but like being in that space, right? I would try
- 1:14:12Speaker 5: extra hard to like not ever let him be in
- 1:14:14Speaker 5: a place where he would.
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: Ever get embarrassed.
- 1:14:16Speaker 5: Like say my car is better than his and we
- 1:14:17Speaker 5: take my car. I give him the keys so he
- 1:14:19Speaker 5: can look like he's driving the car and it's his shit.
- 1:14:21Speaker 5: And I'm like, that's my shit. We're not doing that.
- 1:14:23Speaker 5: That's a surface thing I'm saying, right? That's just an example, right?
- 1:14:26Speaker 5: I would be, I would always have to be thinking
- 1:14:28Speaker 5: about not like just being so aware of people not
- 1:14:32Speaker 5: disrespecting my man. Cause sometimes a richer man sees you
- 1:14:35Speaker 5: with a guy that they know is blue collar or whatever.
- 1:14:37Speaker 5: They'll try it. And it is a lot of work.
- 1:14:39Speaker 5: And I will say I didn't mind doing that because
- 1:14:42Speaker 5: I love the person.
- 1:14:43Speaker 4: Right.
- 1:14:43Speaker 5: I think there's a difference between women that, um, actively
- 1:14:47Speaker 5: emasculate their men, yes, there is a responsibility on those women.
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: They should not do that.
- 1:14:50Speaker 5: And there have been examples on that show of women
- 1:14:53Speaker 5: who I think who have done that. And I think
- 1:14:55Speaker 5: you're right about that. And I think that's fucked up.
- 1:14:57Speaker 5: I don't think a man or a woman should do
- 1:14:58Speaker 5: that to their partner. It's your job to protect your partner.
- 1:15:01Speaker 5: You're right about that. I do agree with that.
- 1:15:03Speaker 3: But in my case, and probably Blue can agree with this.
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: You're the norm.
- 1:15:06Speaker 6: That's the thing. She's the norm.
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: But I think the beautiful thing that I love that
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: she said is she can also admit that I had
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: to get it right. Yeah, I did.
- 1:15:16Speaker 5: Because I had to really think about it. Things that
- 1:15:20Speaker 5: you think is no big deal because you're operating in
- 1:15:22Speaker 5: your boss space, I had to be a little bit
- 1:15:24Speaker 5: extra conscious.
- 1:15:25Speaker 3: And aware of the situation. It's exhausting. It's exhausting. And
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: some men, no.
- 1:15:29Speaker 5: Matter what you do and how much you go out
- 1:15:31Speaker 5: of your way to make sure everything's right, if they're
- 1:15:34Speaker 5: not right within, like what she's saying, they will resent
- 1:15:36Speaker 5: you for it later on and they will blame you.
- 1:15:39Speaker 5: You know, like I remember being with the one guy
- 1:15:41Speaker 5: that lost his job and I did all the things,
- 1:15:43Speaker 5: like I tried to be the crutch and the cover
- 1:15:46Speaker 5: and provide cover for him. And at the end of
- 1:15:48Speaker 5: the day, I got dropped over that, really, because he
- 1:15:51Speaker 5: didn't feel good about himself. He did not like me
- 1:15:53Speaker 5: trying to help him.
- 1:15:54Speaker 3: Exactly. Listen, you do not get away with it.
- 1:15:57Speaker 6: We care about men's dignity. The thing is, no matter
- 1:16:00Speaker 6: how much we care, you still have to do the work.
- 1:16:01Speaker 4: No, I know, but I also think, in all fairness,
- 1:16:04Speaker 4: women also have to do the work, though.
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 1:16:08Speaker 4: Did you hear the word she had, Marge? It's a
- 1:16:09Speaker 4: lot of work. And to answer Dustin's question, my example
- 1:16:12Speaker 4: would be this.
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit up here and spill anyone's tea.
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: One of the beautiful things about my privilege of being
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: a producer is is I worked on shows where women
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: were the stars, the breadwinners, et cetera. And I have
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: seen women emasculate these men. They're toxic. I have seen it.
- 1:16:31Speaker 3: And I don't like that.
- 1:16:32Speaker 6: And they're not all women.
- 1:16:33Speaker 1: In all fairness, you've seen it. And they're not all women.
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: Yes.
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: I've seen it.
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: And they're wrong as hell for that.
- 1:16:37Speaker 6: They're wrong as hell.
- 1:16:38Speaker 4: I know, but let's have a conversation. We all agree
- 1:16:42Speaker 4: that they're wrong as hell, right?
- 1:16:44Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: God forbid, though, these men then go on the platform
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: to talk about it.
- 1:16:49Speaker 4: He's a bitch.
- 1:16:50Speaker 6: If he weaponizes it, he's a bitch.
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: You can't weaponize your truth. Yes, you can, actually.
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: No, no, no.
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I mean. That's the best thing
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: to weaponize. I mean, I do agree.
- 1:17:00Speaker 4: When you said that, I actually like that smart.
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: Some people do have the intention of weaponizing the truth,
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: but all men do not have the intention of weaponizing
- 1:17:10Speaker 1: the truth. Of course not. When I look at Todd Tucker,
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: for example, so we're talking about him. I think Todd
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: is hurting. I think Todd is sad.
- 1:17:18Speaker 4: Me too.
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: I think we have to look at it that Todd
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: doesn't have his mother anymore.
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 1:17:25Speaker 4: Okay?
- 1:17:26Speaker 1: He doesn't. Todd has no one.
- 1:17:29Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: He has nobody. I'm not trying to get sympathy for Todd. No,
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: he's a human being.
- 1:17:36Speaker 4: He can have sympathy.
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: When I look at what Todd is doing, I see
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: a man who is lost without candy. Whose actions are those, though?
- 1:17:44Speaker 3: He's free-falling a little bit.
- 1:17:45Speaker 6: I see a man who's trying to.
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: I see a man who's trying to pick up the
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: pieces of what my life is post-Candy. Because for the
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: past 12 years, all he knows is his life with.
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: He knew who he was pre-her.
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: Yep. Okay?
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: And I think what Todd is doing that a lot
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: of men do resonate with is, what was my life
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: like before you? We talked about the Beyonce-Jay-Z situation when
- 1:18:14Speaker 1: Beyonce talked about, courtesy of Lemonade, what happened to her marriage.
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: Halle Berry, Eric Benet.
- 1:18:20Speaker 3: What?
- 1:18:21Speaker 4: You?
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: Beyonce? Halle Berry? They're still people. They're still just people.
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: Because they're human and they're imperfect.
- 1:18:28Speaker 4: My thing is this.
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: We are living in a world where Black women are
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: the largest entrepreneurial group in the world and they deserve
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: it and they work hard for it.
- 1:18:38Speaker 4: Okay? I want a Black female president.
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: Me too.
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: My doctor is a Black woman.
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: Okay? That's right.
- 1:18:44Speaker 4: The woman who runs my company is a Black woman.
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: Okay?
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: I have Black women surrounding me because they make me
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: a better human okay even within that even within that
- 1:18:54Speaker 1: I can also see okay babe And K says, you
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: kind of, you know, coming down your man and emasculating him.
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: And my last point would be this. I did an
- 1:19:09Speaker 1: interview with Mona Scott Young. And Mona Scott Young is
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: a multi-gazillionaire. And Mona's so rich, y'all.
- 1:19:18Speaker 6: Are you hanging around thinking about how rich Mona is?
- 1:19:21Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
- 1:19:22Speaker 6: I think the hickey got bigger.
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: Mona, man.
- 1:19:26Speaker 4: I've had a missy since day one, Claudia.
- 1:19:27Speaker 6: My fellow Haitian sis.
- 1:19:28Speaker 1: That's all I gotta say. If Mona had no other clients,
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: just know Mona did two things. She managed Missy since
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: day one and still does. And Mona was a part
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: of the violator with 50 Cent, Spiderman.
- 1:19:40Speaker 6: And we also have the same politics on men, ironically.
- 1:19:42Speaker 4: And she's your big Haitian sis.
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:19:45Speaker 4: I did an interview with Mona Sky Young.
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: I know what you're about to say.
- 1:19:49Speaker 6: I do too.
- 1:19:50Speaker 1: Because I agree with Mona. That's why it's funny. And
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: I said, how does your husband... take you being the breadwinner.
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: And she said, what are you talking about? And I said, well,
- 1:19:59Speaker 1: you know, like your husband stays, stood home all those
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: years to take care of the kids while you're out
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: there working.
- 1:20:06Speaker 4: She said, who told you that?
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: She said, let me tell you something about Sean.
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: My husband.
- 1:20:11Speaker 4: Okay.
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: It's we.
- 1:20:14Speaker 1: It's us.
- 1:20:16Speaker 4: This is our company. It's not mine.
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: She said, everything I do is a we. The conversations,
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: the deals, he's included. She said, the difference that you
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: don't get, right, is I may be the front-facing person.
- 1:20:32Speaker 1: But what we're not going to do is not give
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: this man the props for being a part of everything
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: I've done. He allows me to do that. He's the
- 1:20:40Speaker 1: one who said, I'll take care of the kids. You
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: go out there and work. She said, I get offended
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: when people call me Mona Scott. She said, bitch, add
- 1:20:48Speaker 1: back young. You're not going to disrespect my husband. She said,
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: so thank you for the question. And it's not for you,
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: this energy I have. She said, but I need the
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: world to know that just because I'm seen as Mona
- 1:21:00Speaker 1: Scott Young... we're never going to negate what Sean Young
- 1:21:04Speaker 1: did for me and what he continues to do for
- 1:21:07Speaker 1: me and what he continues to do for us. And
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: in that moment, I said to myself, I do wish
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: more women, when given the opportunity, can do that.
- 1:21:19Speaker 5: If you're a woman that is the financial red winner,
- 1:21:23Speaker 5: the front facing person, you definitely do need to be
- 1:21:26Speaker 5: on that type of energy.
- 1:21:27Speaker 3: You should.
- 1:21:28Speaker 5: And I highly recommend it because once you start letting interviewers,
- 1:21:32Speaker 5: people in the public, the social media, disrespect your dude,
- 1:21:36Speaker 5: it becomes a thing. And then that creates a problem
- 1:21:38Speaker 5: at home.
- 1:21:38Speaker 4: And that's why with Todd, the situation, we're going to
- 1:21:41Speaker 4: move on to love and marriage.
- 1:21:41Speaker 1: By the way, you just came.
- 1:21:43Speaker 6: To my point though. The irony is you just agreed
- 1:21:45Speaker 6: with me after all that, that, that debate. Oh yeah. No,
- 1:21:50Speaker 6: we actually agree a hundred percent because here's the thing that,
- 1:21:52Speaker 6: that is being missed here. Mona is the statistical norm,
- 1:21:56Speaker 6: but because you're in a space where you are dealing
- 1:21:59Speaker 6: with a vocal minority and And so the vocal minority
- 1:22:02Speaker 6: feels like a much larger majority to you. The average
- 1:22:04Speaker 6: woman moves more like Mona than what you're used to.
- 1:22:07Speaker 6: You're in rarefied air. So you're seeing a woman that
- 1:22:09Speaker 6: is actually not the norm, but you're seeing her.
- 1:22:11Speaker 4: More because you're a producer. Yes?
- 1:22:13Speaker 6: No air quotes like a movie.
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: No air quotes. He's a real producer.
- 1:22:17Speaker 6: As a producer, you're seeing a vocal minority that is toxic.
- 1:22:20Speaker 6: The average woman, I believe like Mona.
- 1:22:22Speaker 4: But here's the thing.
- 1:22:23Speaker 6: If Mona's husband sabotaged the relationship and was free-falling, Mona
- 1:22:27Speaker 6: didn't do that to him. So every time we're talking
- 1:22:29Speaker 6: about Todd and you bring it back to the woman,
- 1:22:31Speaker 6: that's where the conversation gets lost because he had it.
- 1:22:34Speaker 6: And to me and Claudia's point, he didn't think he
- 1:22:36Speaker 6: deserved it and he sabotaged it. The only person who
- 1:22:38Speaker 6: has to work with on that is Todd. The man
- 1:22:41Speaker 6: who sabotages that is the only person who's at.
- 1:22:43Speaker 4: Fault for that.
- 1:22:44Speaker 7: Let's also be clear when we talk about what Mona said.
- 1:22:47Speaker 7: Mona didn't say... I want everybody to respect my husband
- 1:22:51Speaker 7: who's at home.
- 1:22:51Speaker 2: Not doing nothing.
- 1:22:52Speaker 7: Mona was like, no, actually my husband is an integral
- 1:22:55Speaker 7: part of my company.
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: Amen.
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: He worked and earned the respect that she demands for him.
- 1:23:01Speaker 7: So that's totally different than someone being upset because they're
- 1:23:05Speaker 7: not getting a piece of the pie of the fandom
- 1:23:08Speaker 7: that these housewives get. And further to my point, Mona's
- 1:23:13Speaker 7: husband ain't said shit. Even after her saying that, we
- 1:23:16Speaker 7: still ain't never heard nothing from him. He's not seeking
- 1:23:20Speaker 7: validation from Mona's celebrity.
- 1:23:22Speaker 1: Amen.
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: And I think that's what the difference is.
- 1:23:25Speaker 3: Okay.
- 1:23:26Speaker 1: All right.
- 1:23:26Speaker 6: That felt good.
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: Okay, Oprah. How do you feel, Carlos?
- 1:23:30Speaker 2: How do you feel?
- 1:23:31Speaker 4: I love this conversation.
- 1:23:33Speaker 6: By the way.
- 1:23:33Speaker 4: I can talk about this for another two hours.
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: Same. Do we have it?
- 1:23:38Speaker 6: No, we do not.
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: Look at Claudia. You know what? There's a healing in this.
- 1:23:43Speaker 6: Because I think because of the work that you do
- 1:23:45Speaker 6: and you hold space for so many people who are
- 1:23:47Speaker 6: powerful but have blind spots, I think me and Claudia
- 1:23:49Speaker 6: are reminding you, even Dust is reminding you, in the
- 1:23:52Speaker 6: real world where everybody's not so rich and famous... we're
- 1:23:55Speaker 6: actually doing the thing that you're seeking.
- 1:23:57Speaker 1: It's actually happening.
- 1:23:58Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree with that.
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: And that's why for me, my lens, and I want
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: to be very clear on this, the lens in which
- 1:24:04Speaker 1: I speak was solely on the reality space because we're
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: talking about Todd, Peter, and Ralph. But hey, Raindrops, we
- 1:24:12Speaker 1: will see you guys next Monday.
- 1:24:15Speaker 4: I love you all. Give it up for Blue, Claudia,
- 1:24:19Speaker 4: and Dustin.
- 1:24:19Speaker 2: Yeah, we love y'all. We love y'all, Raindrops.
- 1:24:22Speaker 4: We did it, loves.
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: We did it!
- 1:24:26Speaker 6: Live, too.
- 1:24:27Speaker 1: Bye, y'all. Bye. Reality with the King is executive produced
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: by me, Carlos King. Produced by Jamie Shaper in partnership.
- 1:24:41Speaker 4: With the Black Effect Podcast Network.
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