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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey rain Drops. Yes, so I finally got merch. That's right.
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- 0:27Speaker 1: to Reality with the King. It's me Carlos kings the
- 0:31Speaker 1: King of Reality TV and one of the most sought
- 0:34Speaker 1: after executive producers in reality television with over ten years
- 0:39Speaker 1: of production experience. Twice a week on Reality with the King,
- 0:43Speaker 1: we'll sit down with my friends across the entertainment industry,
- 0:46Speaker 1: recap our favorite reality shows, and revisit unforgettable moments that
- 0:51Speaker 1: we are still talking and tweeting about, Hey rain Drops.
- 0:58Speaker 1: On today's episode of Reality the King, I am sitting
- 1:02Speaker 1: with the star honey of one of my favorite shows
- 1:06Speaker 1: that I really want you guys to watch in tune in.
- 1:10Speaker 1: I think y'all are sleeping on it as if you
- 1:13Speaker 1: are listening to a calm app and I need y'all
- 1:16Speaker 1: to wake the f up. Please give it up for
- 1:19Speaker 1: Summer House, Martha's Vineyard's own jazz Man, Hey rain drafts. Hey, Carlos,
- 1:28Speaker 1: you got the white collar rain drop jazzmin of course
- 1:31Speaker 1: with my.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Rain drop, Like, honestly, you break things down. I'm not
- 1:36Speaker 2: gonna lie. I was a little nervous because I was like, oh,
- 1:38Speaker 2: you can't. Carlos is a scholar when it comes to this. Okay,
- 1:43Speaker 2: this is this is nothing like your regular decular. So
- 1:47Speaker 2: I'm very honest to be here. I'm very much a
- 1:49Speaker 2: rain drop, and I'm gonna say it on what you do.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Well, I'm a fan of yours and I thank you
- 1:53Speaker 1: for that. Like you said, we're both rain white studious.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Yes you know it's giving version.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm born again right.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Well, speaking of being born, congratulations on the new Bundle
- 2:07Speaker 1: of Joy. You know what we saw in the most
- 2:11Speaker 1: recent episode was the beautiful announcement of you surprising the kids.
- 2:15Speaker 1: I call you'all kids because I'm like double all age,
- 2:18Speaker 1: but I thought your announcement to them with baby Cooper
- 2:21Speaker 1: was so funny. But congratulations. How does it feel being
- 2:25Speaker 1: a momy?
- 2:26Speaker 2: Honestly, to be real with you, I love it here
- 2:30Speaker 2: and I have a lot of anxiety entering motherhood. Like
- 2:33Speaker 2: I knew I always wanted to be a mom, but
- 2:35Speaker 2: I think we hear too much about the trials and
- 2:39Speaker 2: tribulations and not enough about like the good stuff. And
- 2:43Speaker 2: I'm just pleasantly surprised that it's more good than bad.
- 2:46Speaker 2: I think more good than sleepless nights. I'll put it
- 2:48Speaker 2: that way.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I have been telling the rain
- 2:52Speaker 1: Drop since season one that you guys are sleeping on
- 2:56Speaker 1: Summer's house Martha's vineyard. And our mutual friend Jasmine Hilly,
- 3:00Speaker 1: who's a fan favorite, Hey Jazz, Hey Jazz. We both
- 3:05Speaker 1: have such affection for this show. But I want to
- 3:08Speaker 1: get to know you because when season one started, I
- 3:11Speaker 1: did call you the force multiplier.
- 3:12Speaker 2: I was gonna say, listen, let me grab my crowd somewhere,
- 3:16Speaker 2: because I said, no, he did not. You know what,
- 3:19Speaker 2: let me keep my head down the side. But I
- 3:21Speaker 2: get what you mean. As a storyteller, I get what
- 3:24Speaker 2: you met.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Yeah. No, you know the thing is this, and you
- 3:27Speaker 1: tell me if I'm wrong. So I want to hear
- 3:29Speaker 1: the story about how you were cast to be on
- 3:32Speaker 1: the show, because for me, I feel like the show
- 3:37Speaker 1: was centered around you.
- 3:39Speaker 2: I get this question all the time, as the honest
- 3:41Speaker 2: answer is, I can't speak to what happened before me,
- 3:45Speaker 2: but I know when it was insert jazz in here.
- 3:49Speaker 2: I received a call and I thought that I was
- 3:52Speaker 2: tasked to educate about the vineyard. I'm a history girly,
- 3:57Speaker 2: as y'all know, and I was just excited to talk
- 4:00Speaker 2: about this place that not a lot of us black
- 4:01Speaker 2: folk know about and haven't been to. But then we
- 4:04Speaker 2: started talking about my life and my husband and my
- 4:07Speaker 2: friends and the original trip that we took. So originally
- 4:11Speaker 2: I went with Stylis and that's the trip that he
- 4:13Speaker 2: asked me to be his girlfriend. That was twenty twenty,
- 4:15Speaker 2: my first time there. The next year, we took a
- 4:18Speaker 2: group of sixteen of our friends and let me just
- 4:21Speaker 2: add this disclaimer, only one of them was a couple.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Everybody else was single. Okay, we love our friends, our
- 4:27Speaker 2: single friends, our married friends, so we always try to
- 4:30Speaker 2: get together and have a good time no matter where
- 4:32Speaker 2: we're going. But on that trip, Jordan was there, and
- 4:36Speaker 2: I don't know the inner workings prior to, but I
- 4:39Speaker 2: ended up speaking to someone about just that trip. When
- 4:42Speaker 2: do we go? Who was there? And from that you
- 4:46Speaker 2: see a lot of the folks that were there, Jason, Mariah, Chanise,
- 4:50Speaker 2: Jordan Preston wasn't able to go, but he was invited,
- 4:53Speaker 2: and neither was Nick or Alex. Alex was doing his
- 4:55Speaker 2: own thing in Brooklyn, but a lot of us were
- 4:59Speaker 2: there on that first big group trips and the rest
- 5:04Speaker 2: is kind of history. I remember Colin Silas like, Hey,
- 5:07Speaker 2: how do you feel about doing reality? And he was
- 5:11Speaker 2: just very confused. But yeah, just went through the process,
- 5:14Speaker 2: as you know, because you are on both.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Did they reach out to you or did you see
- 5:20Speaker 1: like a casting bulletin.
- 5:22Speaker 2: I didn't see it, Honestly, I didn't see a casting
- 5:24Speaker 2: bulletin at all. I just knew that I have a
- 5:27Speaker 2: lot of incredible friends. Like the portion of friends you
- 5:30Speaker 2: see on the show is just like a small amount
- 5:32Speaker 2: of our friends. And I refer like everybody because I
- 5:36Speaker 2: love my friends, think they're great, and most importantly, I
- 5:40Speaker 2: feel like they all bring something different. And if we're
- 5:44Speaker 2: going to highlight a place like Marcus Vineyard, variety is
- 5:47Speaker 2: great too. Like we're not a monolith. We know that.
- 5:50Speaker 2: So they gravitated towards who they liked.
- 5:52Speaker 1: The producers reach out to you first.
- 5:55Speaker 2: No, Jordan put me in contact with someone that I
- 5:58Speaker 2: started talking to about the history, and they start asking
- 6:01Speaker 2: me more about myself, so I get what it made
- 6:04Speaker 2: sense to kind of recreate the trip that Stylace and
- 6:08Speaker 2: I put together originally got it.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Another lot of makes sense. A lot makes sense. Were
- 6:11Speaker 1: you fen of reality television prior to being on this show?
- 6:15Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think I'd be here. No, But I was
- 6:18Speaker 2: absolutely a fan. I was a Potomac girl. You could
- 6:20Speaker 2: not tell me nothing about Potomac From season one. I
- 6:24Speaker 2: was like, oh, this is what I love to see
- 6:26Speaker 2: because it was Patty drama, it was decorum and the
- 6:29Speaker 2: social politics. It was like a fun key. Of course,
- 6:33Speaker 2: I've spent most of my life in Atlanta, so of
- 6:35Speaker 2: course I watched Atlanta. The list goes on and on,
- 6:37Speaker 2: but yes, that was a reality girl.
- 6:39Speaker 1: What was the biggest thing that surprised you being on
- 6:43Speaker 1: a reality show versus what you thought watching it?
- 6:46Speaker 2: Honestly, the listening skills that you need. I think it's
- 6:51Speaker 2: easy as we live, like our regular lives to kind
- 6:53Speaker 2: of just be in your own little world and have
- 6:55Speaker 2: your thoughts and engage with this person and that person.
- 6:58Speaker 2: But in this setting, your mind's going a mile a
- 7:01Speaker 2: minute because there's so much to keep up with, because
- 7:03Speaker 2: there's so many things going at once. And what surprised
- 7:06Speaker 2: me was how much I wasn't keeping up with with
- 7:10Speaker 2: a lot of us in the house while you were filming. Yeah,
- 7:13Speaker 2: I didn't think that that would have to be a
- 7:14Speaker 2: ministry listening. I thought it was a great listener. Apparently
- 7:17Speaker 2: not so. Yeah, the amount of attention you have to
- 7:21Speaker 2: pay to everything going on in front of the camera
- 7:25Speaker 2: and behind.
- 7:26Speaker 1: You have to especially because listen, well, we know what
- 7:28Speaker 1: reality is this there's always a bone collector, hey, Charay.
- 7:32Speaker 1: So the thing with a bone collector is they listen
- 7:37Speaker 1: to everything and they kind of go back and report
- 7:40Speaker 1: to the other folks what was said about them. And
- 7:43Speaker 1: then when you get confronted and they said did you
- 7:46Speaker 1: say this about me? And you like, wait did?
- 7:48Speaker 2: I Like?
- 7:49Speaker 1: I don't remember. So one of the qualities of being
- 7:52Speaker 1: a reality star, you are right, you have to listen
- 7:55Speaker 1: because things can come back to you or things can
- 7:58Speaker 1: be said. Is especially if you're friends with somebody and
- 8:01Speaker 1: they're like, yo, do you remember this, You're like, child,
- 8:04Speaker 1: I was too busy, drunk or thinking about other things.
- 8:08Speaker 1: And the difference with your show is it's a house
- 8:11Speaker 1: reality show. So you guys are filming around the clock
- 8:14Speaker 1: for a few weeks, versus a Potomac right, or a
- 8:19Speaker 1: housewife's show where you're filming three to four days a
- 8:23Speaker 1: week for four to five months, so it's less intensity.
- 8:27Speaker 1: So when the cameras were in your home in the
- 8:29Speaker 1: home excuse me, and you were being watched twenty four
- 8:35Speaker 1: seven Big Brother Style, was that weird for you at first?
- 8:41Speaker 2: Yes, because to be honest, you know, you're the elders
- 8:46Speaker 2: start talking to you, especially being in the age group
- 8:50Speaker 2: that we're in. Yeah, I heard my mom's voice, my
- 8:53Speaker 2: grandma's voice, and I think kind of we all did.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Don't you have us looking stupid on this show? I
- 8:59Speaker 2: think in the beginning that is going to naturally play
- 9:02Speaker 2: a part in how you're processing everything happening around you.
- 9:06Speaker 2: And I know for me that was at play for sure,
- 9:09Speaker 2: because I love my grandma, like that's my girl, So
- 9:12Speaker 2: I would never want to do anything to disappoint her
- 9:15Speaker 2: or you know, make someone else look crazy. But at
- 9:18Speaker 2: some point I'm brushing my teeth, I'm grabbing my scarf
- 9:21Speaker 2: we do on laundry. It immediately just you forget.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Well we saw that jazzman because you and your husband
- 9:28Speaker 1: forgot that the word cameras in your bed room, and
- 9:30Speaker 1: we saw a bunch of humping and bumping and noises
- 9:33Speaker 1: being made.
- 9:35Speaker 2: The baby is not an immaculate consumption.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Okay, I mean y'all got it in almost every day,
- 9:41Speaker 1: Jazz main I recall.
- 9:43Speaker 2: But you know, I didn't think it was that interesting
- 9:45Speaker 2: because because that's my that's my African, that's my husband.
- 9:51Speaker 2: But okay, I guess go.
- 9:53Speaker 1: About Africa, you already drop baby. Yeah, I didn't think.
- 9:56Speaker 2: It was gonna be top of I didn't think it
- 9:59Speaker 2: was gonna be top of news of the day, you know.
- 10:01Speaker 2: But okay, at least you know, at least you don't.
- 10:04Speaker 2: We like each other. We're at tracking to each other.
- 10:06Speaker 2: This is great and healthy.
- 10:07Speaker 1: And listen, these Africans they wanted every day girl.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Listen, no comment.
- 10:14Speaker 1: But you know what was funny is now I see
- 10:20Speaker 1: why Silence is like the person I would tell our
- 10:23Speaker 1: mutual friend Jasmine. I'd be like, Silence is more of
- 10:27Speaker 1: the guys that I talked to. And now I see
- 10:29Speaker 1: why because the thing about him. The first season and
- 10:34Speaker 1: your first season of the show, obviously there were tons
- 10:39Speaker 1: of concern about your relationship with him. A lot of
- 10:43Speaker 1: people felt extremely demanding. They didn't like the way he
- 10:49Speaker 1: spoke to you, Jasmine. They didn't like the way he
- 10:51Speaker 1: sort of expected you to be this housewife, to be
- 10:56Speaker 1: somebody who iron his clothes, picked out his clothes, and
- 11:00Speaker 1: fixed him a plate, these things that black men historically
- 11:06Speaker 1: look to their wives to do, especially you know, first
- 11:10Speaker 1: generation Africans as well. When you saw it play out
- 11:14Speaker 1: on the show, and obviously you are new reality stars,
- 11:20Speaker 1: so rightfully so you're reading a lot of comments and
- 11:23Speaker 1: a lot of people had a lot of judgment on
- 11:25Speaker 1: your relationship. Did you have moments where you sort of
- 11:30Speaker 1: saw your life play out, saw your marriage play out,
- 11:34Speaker 1: saw the dynamic playout. Did you sometimes question like, oh
- 11:38Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was like this, or do people
- 11:41Speaker 1: have a point and I should be concerned?
- 11:43Speaker 2: On one hand, I know that was our first I
- 11:47Speaker 2: know that was my first time with him talking to
- 11:49Speaker 2: me like that, because a lot of times that we
- 11:51Speaker 2: were there in the house, I was like are you good?
- 11:53Speaker 2: Are you good? And they didn't always make the cut,
- 11:55Speaker 2: but I really was picking up on like what's wrong
- 11:58Speaker 2: with you? Like the extra irritable that you have, couple irritability.
- 12:02Speaker 2: But that was just like everything was something was being
- 12:08Speaker 2: made into something, So that was a first for us.
- 12:12Speaker 2: But a year later, when you're watching it play out
- 12:15Speaker 2: and people are commenting on it, I absolutely agreed with
- 12:19Speaker 2: don't talk to me like that, like that's unacceptable, Like
- 12:22Speaker 2: that's just my opinion on it. I don't recommend anybody.
- 12:25Speaker 2: That's not how I communicate now hindsight to have other
- 12:29Speaker 2: people comment and really deduce him to I don't know,
- 12:33Speaker 2: just so old school and ungrateful. That's just that's not him.
- 12:38Speaker 2: And the reality is this vacation filmed versus the one
- 12:43Speaker 2: we took pride with the big group. He and I
- 12:46Speaker 2: did the same stuff, like I still got everyone on
- 12:49Speaker 2: the grocery list, coordinated venmos and cash apps, and I
- 12:54Speaker 2: operated in the same way, and so did he. The
- 12:56Speaker 2: only difference is that he was working this time and
- 12:59Speaker 2: we were filmed, and last time those two things weren't true.
- 13:02Speaker 2: But it was shocking, just the visceral response, and that's
- 13:08Speaker 2: really hard to process. I think anybody you love, especially
- 13:11Speaker 2: in partnership, your natural responses to come to their defense.
- 13:16Speaker 2: But I think because I'm confident in who he is
- 13:20Speaker 2: and what I will and when I accept, and then
- 13:22Speaker 2: also where we are it balanced out all the negativity.
- 13:26Speaker 2: And the most important thing to me isn't someone making
- 13:30Speaker 2: a mistake, as y'all see, like I give a lot
- 13:33Speaker 2: of grace to a lot of folks, but only so long,
- 13:37Speaker 2: only so much. It's really how someone responds when they've
- 13:40Speaker 2: done wrong, That's what That's what matters to me. And
- 13:44Speaker 2: he never had any excuse and that took out more
- 13:47Speaker 2: than anything to me.
- 13:48Speaker 1: How did he feel seeing himself?
- 13:51Speaker 2: It was hard, Oh my god, it was so hard,
- 13:53Speaker 2: Like he would start to watch, especially towards the end
- 13:57Speaker 2: of the season, because we would just watch it together
- 14:00Speaker 2: because we know what we went through in terms of filming,
- 14:04Speaker 2: but how it comes together that's out of our control.
- 14:06Speaker 2: So it was tough. To put it simple. It was
- 14:09Speaker 2: really really tough for him because he also didn't recognize
- 14:14Speaker 2: him speaking to me that way. It was tough, but
- 14:17Speaker 2: he had to. Whether he got through all the episodes,
- 14:20Speaker 2: the last episode he has not watched all the way through.
- 14:23Speaker 1: If he wasn't deployed, do you think he would have
- 14:26Speaker 1: came back for a season two?
- 14:27Speaker 2: I think so, because one we're not quitters. That's just
- 14:32Speaker 2: what we've been through worse things in life as y'all
- 14:35Speaker 2: know than this. And then two, I would have encouraged
- 14:38Speaker 2: him to come back just because you got to get
- 14:41Speaker 2: back up. People are allowed to have your opinions. I mean, heck,
- 14:44Speaker 2: we've watched so many shows on Bravo before even joining
- 14:47Speaker 2: the Ravo family and had our opinions, So I think
- 14:50Speaker 2: reminding him of that, he definitely would have been open to.
- 14:53Speaker 1: Coming back when it comes to your marriage now, because
- 14:55Speaker 1: the thing that I thought was so interesting was the
- 14:58Speaker 1: fact that you two were still getting to know each
- 15:02Speaker 1: other in a sense right because everything again, it's my
- 15:06Speaker 1: match's point. Watching the show, I felt like everything moved fast,
- 15:10Speaker 1: at accelerated pace, and that you guys were essentially milliweds,
- 15:16Speaker 1: and I know what it's like to be in a
- 15:18Speaker 1: relationship with somebody and then the moment you live together,
- 15:21Speaker 1: it's like, oh, this is how you are, and it's
- 15:24Speaker 1: not like this person has changed. It's more so like
- 15:27Speaker 1: I have to adapt in this new role of us
- 15:30Speaker 1: coexisting in the same space. And I felt like watching
- 15:34Speaker 1: you guys, I felt you guys represented a lot of
- 15:37Speaker 1: young married couples in the sense of we're kind of
- 15:41Speaker 1: milliweds and we're also you guys are watching us trying
- 15:45Speaker 1: to get to know each other on a different level.
- 15:47Speaker 1: And Michelle Obama spoke about this too, where she said like, oh, yeah,
- 15:52Speaker 1: there'll be days you like them and there'll be days
- 15:54Speaker 1: you don't. There'll be moments where you like, you walk
- 15:56Speaker 1: in a house and you be like, damn.
- 15:57Speaker 2: You still here?
- 15:58Speaker 1: Shit, you forget that we live together, okay, because ooh,
- 16:03Speaker 1: so people have this assumption that marriage is a fairy tale.
- 16:09Speaker 1: And the one thing I wanted to express to you
- 16:10Speaker 1: and to him is I applaud the two of you
- 16:14Speaker 1: for showcasing what another side of black love looks like,
- 16:18Speaker 1: because you know, when we hear black love, people think
- 16:21Speaker 1: it's like a lot of people thought it was Barack
- 16:23Speaker 1: and Michelle until Michelle said, we ain't a couple of goals, baby,
- 16:26Speaker 1: let me tell you how it really is, and she
- 16:29Speaker 1: allowed her and Barack to be seen on a very
- 16:34Speaker 1: relatable stage. And I felt like for you two as
- 16:37Speaker 1: young couples, I feel like you two represented that as well.
- 16:41Speaker 1: But do you feel like people forgot that fact that
- 16:43Speaker 1: you two were like kind of nearly as in figuring
- 16:45Speaker 1: this shit out too.
- 16:47Speaker 2: I think you touch on something that's actually so one
- 16:50Speaker 2: of the biggest reasons why he would have come back
- 16:52Speaker 2: is because I can't look around and see a lot
- 16:55Speaker 2: of black young couples on reality television, let alone television period.
- 17:01Speaker 2: So that's an honor in and of itself. And I
- 17:04Speaker 2: do think there is this idea that they just wake
- 17:08Speaker 2: up with their planners out, are always on the same page,
- 17:11Speaker 2: getting their coffee looking at each other. No, absolutely not.
- 17:16Speaker 2: So I always appreciate our former first lady for being
- 17:21Speaker 2: real about that, because we do put them on a pedestal.
- 17:24Speaker 2: But even those two were a couple before we knew them. So, yeah,
- 17:30Speaker 2: you're gonna have your ups and downs, But keep in mind,
- 17:33Speaker 2: we met in twenty twenty, got engaged very top of
- 17:37Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, moved in a couple months after, and
- 17:42Speaker 2: he went away from his corporate job to start military
- 17:47Speaker 2: training for six months. Right after that was our wedding,
- 17:52Speaker 2: So it's not really more so that we got to
- 17:54Speaker 2: get used to each other living in each other's space.
- 17:56Speaker 2: We actually are really good teammates in that regard. But
- 18:01Speaker 2: this big thing that happened was him going away in
- 18:04Speaker 2: this completely different military environment and coming back and having
- 18:09Speaker 2: this wedding and then joining a show I think because
- 18:13Speaker 2: no matter how many times people hear that, I don't
- 18:16Speaker 2: think that if people put themselves in that scenario they
- 18:19Speaker 2: can even know how they would navigate that. I think
- 18:21Speaker 2: that's what's easy to forget that that's just not normal.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Martha's Vineyard is a town that I've heard about for
- 18:30Speaker 1: years where it was the top designation for you know,
- 18:36Speaker 1: upper echelon black folks to you know, partake in the
- 18:41Speaker 1: surroundings in the summer. Yeah, and it's very high esteemed.
- 18:45Speaker 3: Very talented, tempt Yes, exactly exactly was the toime receptive
- 18:50Speaker 3: to you guys being there because it's you know, it
- 18:53Speaker 3: has a lot of higher up echelon people who are
- 18:56Speaker 3: a part of it is their legacy as well.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Well. To be honest, I still don't know. What I've
- 19:03Speaker 2: heard from my older mentors, who are very much connected
- 19:09Speaker 2: with other women that do summer on the vineyard is
- 19:12Speaker 2: they don't mind that we're getting this opportunity. That's fine,
- 19:16Speaker 2: but they got their limits and their boundaries. What those
- 19:19Speaker 2: are I don't know. But one thing I had to
- 19:22Speaker 2: remind myself is it should be allowed for however we are,
- 19:28Speaker 2: as young black folks, to just exist in vacation so
- 19:33Speaker 2: all that pressure that I can't speak for everybody else
- 19:36Speaker 2: on the show, but I can speak for me, all
- 19:38Speaker 2: that pressure of who am I Jasmine Minister Marie's grand
- 19:43Speaker 2: baby from Saint Louis to represent this community. I had
- 19:47Speaker 2: to let that go because I'm allowed to live my life.
- 19:50Speaker 2: I know the amount of integrity that I come with,
- 19:53Speaker 2: and as a group, we're allowed to just have a
- 19:55Speaker 2: good time. Like it's called Summerhouse, it's a vacation. Things happen,
- 20:00Speaker 2: So yeah, I have nothing but respect for them, But
- 20:03Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe they can join two.
- 20:05Speaker 1: Are they invited? Because we don't want them to be
- 20:07Speaker 1: kicked out the way y'all did Phil and Mariah.
- 20:09Speaker 2: This is not Survivor. This is not Summer House Survivor.
- 20:12Speaker 2: I promise it's not. But yes, they're invited. Everybody's invites
- 20:15Speaker 2: you to cook out. It's a vineyard when you go,
- 20:18Speaker 2: you know, it's a very welcoming energy. So we have that.
- 20:22Speaker 1: So I'm gonna tell you what my eyeball saw, honey.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Season two is everything. We're loving season two and obviously
- 20:29Speaker 1: in the most recent episode, you know, we saw Phil
- 20:32Speaker 1: talk to Preston and there's conversation Maria and Phil coming back.
- 20:37Speaker 1: I was not happy when Mariah and Phil Werson home, right,
- 20:43Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you why. I think me and
- 20:45Speaker 1: you and our white shirts with Africans are going to
- 20:47Speaker 1: think the same thing too, child. So I felt like, okay,
- 20:51Speaker 1: what's wrong with them being there? Like, let's not divide
- 20:56Speaker 1: the sort of social circles of black people in that space.
- 21:00Speaker 1: And although one may not be, not my words, a
- 21:04Speaker 1: lot of people the most polished, right, doesn't mean they
- 21:08Speaker 1: can't coexist in our science. Because I'm from Detroit and
- 21:11Speaker 1: like I said, I grew up not with a silver spoon, honey,
- 21:14Speaker 1: it was definitely a plastic fork and again humble beginnings
- 21:19Speaker 1: with a bougie mine. And the reason why I think
- 21:23Speaker 1: a lot of people people were so triggered by Phil
- 21:27Speaker 1: and Mariah being sent home because it felt like, what's
- 21:31Speaker 1: wrong with them? Like we're not agreeing with Phil taking
- 21:35Speaker 1: a dump and not flushing no toilet, but worst things
- 21:38Speaker 1: have happened, like we got Bria with her dog honey
- 21:42Speaker 1: do dooing on the carpet, the grass, the pool. But
- 21:46Speaker 1: I think all of us felt like not all of us,
- 21:48Speaker 1: A lot of us felt that, which.
- 21:49Speaker 2: Is which is these are not like the other, Like,
- 21:52Speaker 2: if we're gonna speak on it, let's speak on it.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Are they uncouth? Is there an aesthetic? Like? What's wrong
- 21:58Speaker 2: with what's what's different? What's the is? Are there undertones
- 22:01Speaker 2: to this? You know what I mean? And the reality
- 22:04Speaker 2: is no, I was there, so there wasn't. But I
- 22:08Speaker 2: can completely understand how you get a side eye from that,
- 22:13Speaker 2: because one, we didn't think anybody was gonna be voted home.
- 22:17Speaker 2: That was gonna happen, period. And two why them that's valid?
- 22:23Speaker 1: Was upsetting to you like it was to me and
- 22:25Speaker 1: my homegirls.
- 22:26Speaker 2: You upsetting me and my homegirls. I'll be honest, Phil,
- 22:31Speaker 2: I didn't really know like that. So sorry to that man.
- 22:35Speaker 2: I didn't know him. I never knew him like that. Mariah,
- 22:37Speaker 2: that's my girl. That is my girl. So I'm the
- 22:42Speaker 2: type of person and this can be a good thing
- 22:44Speaker 2: and a bad things. I can be very diplomatic, I
- 22:47Speaker 2: can be very maybe it's the capricorn to me, I'm
- 22:49Speaker 2: very black and white. And so if we're setting a
- 22:52Speaker 2: precedent of okay, this is a boundary. Now. Granted I
- 22:55Speaker 2: never saw what happened until I watched with y'all so yes,
- 23:00Speaker 2: I was frazzled with this position that I'm put in,
- 23:04Speaker 2: which happened a lot. I feel like season one is
- 23:06Speaker 2: that Stilas and Ira put to his parental roles before
- 23:09Speaker 2: we've even became parents. But I did not feel like
- 23:13Speaker 2: it was fair for Mariah or not speak her piece,
- 23:15Speaker 2: at least because I had every intention as a peacemaker
- 23:18Speaker 2: that I am to sit those two girls down, even
- 23:21Speaker 2: though I was shading Bria all season one. I was
- 23:23Speaker 2: never going to not have them sit down and talk
- 23:25Speaker 2: about like we're grown, what is this, this is a
- 23:27Speaker 2: big thing or not. But I didn't like coming across
- 23:30Speaker 2: as like a not a good friend. And although Mariah's
- 23:34Speaker 2: my best friend, I'm friends with everybody in the house.
- 23:37Speaker 2: So imagine being in that situation where you truly are
- 23:39Speaker 2: you have a relationship with everybody and then looking at
- 23:42Speaker 2: you like get your homegirl. That's a lot of pressure.
- 23:45Speaker 2: That is a lot of pressure.
- 23:46Speaker 1: How did Mariah feel after she got sent home?
- 23:49Speaker 2: She definitely felt she definitely felt betrayed, betrayed by me,
- 23:52Speaker 2: but then also by some of the girls that were
- 23:55Speaker 2: all on my Bachelor trip Bachelorett trip months before. So yeah,
- 24:01Speaker 2: she definitely felt like, did I really know y'all? Like
- 24:05Speaker 2: why me? And I get it because I can live
- 24:08Speaker 2: with the news to her, but no.
- 24:09Speaker 1: So this season is so good, Jasmine, and it's nice
- 24:14Speaker 1: to see the gang back together, and obviously we have
- 24:18Speaker 1: some new additions as well. When it comes to a
- 24:21Speaker 1: second season of any show, when people see themselves on
- 24:26Speaker 1: season one, one or two things happen, or sometimes both.
- 24:30Speaker 1: You get the well, I'm the star, and I mean
- 24:35Speaker 1: I'm the fan favorite, so like whatever, So that happens,
- 24:39Speaker 1: the ego starts to form, right because being a reality start,
- 24:43Speaker 1: you're famous overnight, literally overnight.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Right. The other thing that happens is people start to
- 24:51Speaker 1: censor themselves because they saw how the audience responded to
- 24:55Speaker 1: them season one, and they come second season they're not
- 24:59Speaker 1: as vocal or they act different because they're like, no,
- 25:03Speaker 1: I'm not doing that because I don't want people to
- 25:04Speaker 1: say this, or no I'm not doing I'm not gonna
- 25:07Speaker 1: say all of that because if I say that, they're
- 25:09Speaker 1: gonna take it this way, right, blah blah blah. Did
- 25:11Speaker 1: you see some of those things happening coming into season two?
- 25:14Speaker 2: I wasn't really hanging out with everybody like that, so
- 25:16Speaker 2: I wasn't even in the mix prior to walking back
- 25:19Speaker 2: into the house, to be honest, so I can only
- 25:21Speaker 2: speak for me. I feel like for myself and Alex
- 25:25Speaker 2: and Nice, what I'm proud of us for individually is
- 25:29Speaker 2: opening up and being more vocal about just who we
- 25:32Speaker 2: are and how we feel about things. That was the
- 25:34Speaker 2: musk for me, because season one was it was cool,
- 25:37Speaker 2: then it was humbling. That was the musk for me
- 25:39Speaker 2: going into for other people, I'm not gonna lie. I
- 25:43Speaker 2: kind of feel like everybody's more of themselves, if like
- 25:47Speaker 2: more of what we saw season one, Like I don't
- 25:49Speaker 2: really see any one eighties for real.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Did anybody develop an ego?
- 25:55Speaker 2: Yeah? Those swelled up, those swoll up, I feel for
- 26:01Speaker 2: some people, for some people, and it's not even like
- 26:05Speaker 2: an ego and a bad thing. It's kind of a
- 26:07Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit to do with kind
- 26:09Speaker 2: of where we are society wise, and we're very individualistic
- 26:13Speaker 2: and it's very like I gotta do this, me, me, me,
- 26:16Speaker 2: Like what am I doing? I gotta get to where
- 26:18Speaker 2: I want to go. Like, I think it's more so
- 26:20Speaker 2: from that and culmination to probably feedback, but the fact
- 26:26Speaker 2: that we haven't seen anybody go completely like one like
- 26:29Speaker 2: who is this person? Speaks to the fact that no
- 26:33Speaker 2: one really thought of them thought more of themselves in
- 26:36Speaker 2: that way, if that makes sense.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Who would you say developed the biggest ego.
- 26:39Speaker 2: Jamaica crew the Jamaica crew less stay heard? Amen?
- 26:46Speaker 1: So for those who may not know, can you explain
- 26:49Speaker 1: who the crew is? For those who may not know?
- 26:51Speaker 2: Yeah, so some are put together a trip to Jamaica
- 26:55Speaker 2: prior to filming, and that included I don't recall all
- 27:00Speaker 2: was invited initially, but that included who actually went summer herself, Preston,
- 27:06Speaker 2: Jordan and Shinis. They went to Jamaica, had a good
- 27:10Speaker 2: old time, a good old key and you know, they
- 27:14Speaker 2: enjoyed themselves to the fullest.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Are they still enjoying themselves to the fullest?
- 27:20Speaker 2: I mean, there's definitely trouble in paradise the Jamaica crew is.
- 27:24Speaker 2: They're not exactly where they were when we started the season.
- 27:27Speaker 2: So I can't win them all.
- 27:29Speaker 1: I guess, well, no, you can't win them all and
- 27:32Speaker 1: the one so I don't have favorites, but I because
- 27:36Speaker 1: I love the cast. One of the ones who I
- 27:40Speaker 1: just think is great television because I've never seen anything
- 27:43Speaker 1: liking on TV before. I really do like Nick.
- 27:46Speaker 2: Oh interesting, tell me Moore.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Nick is a He's a quiet hit. And what that
- 27:54Speaker 1: means is it's not every day on reality TV you
- 27:58Speaker 1: see a black man who is not only very much
- 28:04Speaker 1: into the esthetic, like into the fascists, into their looks
- 28:07Speaker 1: and their parents, and who isn't hyper masculine. And you know, like,
- 28:16Speaker 1: what I love about him is I feel like he's
- 28:19Speaker 1: so authentically him, you know, and he lives in his
- 28:23Speaker 1: own skin and as a black man in this space
- 28:28Speaker 1: and always being around black men my whole life, right,
- 28:31Speaker 1: I know that sometimes as a black man, and I'll
- 28:34Speaker 1: speak for black men as a black man, when you're
- 28:36Speaker 1: around other black men, sometimes you feel the need to
- 28:40Speaker 1: sort of like be this tough guy or like be
- 28:43Speaker 1: a hyper masculine.
- 28:45Speaker 2: No, none of, none of. Honestly, my favorite part of
- 28:49Speaker 2: our show are the men, and I could honestly say
- 28:53Speaker 2: that has never happened amongst them ever last season. This season,
- 28:57Speaker 2: they have this great camaraderie that I just wish you
- 29:01Speaker 2: could see more of. To be honest, They're my favorite
- 29:05Speaker 2: part of our show, hands down, because they're all so different,
- 29:09Speaker 2: each and every one of them has had such a
- 29:11Speaker 2: tender moment, an authentic moment, an honest moment, a goofy moment,
- 29:16Speaker 2: and they really do let each other just be and
- 29:19Speaker 2: support each other, like the brotherhood is real, and I
- 29:22Speaker 2: personally love to see it and I would love to
- 29:24Speaker 2: see more of it. But it's interesting you mentioned Nick
- 29:27Speaker 2: because Nick and I weren't the closest, not in terms
- 29:32Speaker 2: of any friction. We just, I guess, gravitated towards other
- 29:35Speaker 2: sides of the group, and we realize that after filming
- 29:39Speaker 2: this season. But I agree with you and that there
- 29:45Speaker 2: is a delicate nature to how he wants to be
- 29:51Speaker 2: soft with how he's presented himself in a good way,
- 29:55Speaker 2: like what she sees, what you get. You're gonna get
- 29:57Speaker 2: this purple label, but what she sees what you get.
- 30:00Speaker 2: And I do think every one of them have are
- 30:04Speaker 2: really just I can't even find the word for it,
- 30:07Speaker 2: which is shocking.
- 30:08Speaker 1: No, I think they're all just refreshingly themselves and as
- 30:11Speaker 1: nice as seems. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's refreshing. And
- 30:15Speaker 1: I felt I want to I want to get your
- 30:17Speaker 1: thoughts on it, because when the conversation came up amongst
- 30:20Speaker 1: the group, that Nick was handsy. How did you feel
- 30:23Speaker 1: about that?
- 30:24Speaker 2: Honestly, I was like quietly on pins and needles, because
- 30:32Speaker 2: here's what happened off season. To my knowledge, Jordan's summer
- 30:37Speaker 2: pressing and Nick were like a square. They were all
- 30:41Speaker 2: very close. And so when it started to be talked
- 30:44Speaker 2: about from Jordan in summer, I'm like, well, am I
- 30:47Speaker 2: missing something? Because y'all did get really close, Like it's comfortable,
- 30:50Speaker 2: Like you said, it's comfortability. How it comes across on
- 30:52Speaker 2: screen is how it is in real life. And I
- 30:57Speaker 2: was nervous for him to be honest, because are we
- 31:02Speaker 2: going somewhere that we can't walk back. Let's be very
- 31:05Speaker 2: specific and how we speak about this and what questions
- 31:07Speaker 2: we ask and how we bring it up in this setting.
- 31:11Speaker 2: So when it got to a point where he just
- 31:14Speaker 2: went upstairs to talk to Jordan in summer, watching that,
- 31:19Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, so you did just
- 31:21Speaker 2: go to dem and talks to him. Okay, cool, you
- 31:24Speaker 2: can hash it out. I felt so relieved, And I
- 31:27Speaker 2: honestly felt like, I don't know if we've seen this
- 31:29Speaker 2: on TV where someone was like validated so quickly and
- 31:34Speaker 2: something that really could have gone left. I felt very
- 31:38Speaker 2: happy for him because I know he has the best intentions.
- 31:42Speaker 2: I know that, and even if it's hard to read
- 31:46Speaker 2: sometimes he's always a person that's happy to talk about it.
- 31:50Speaker 2: So yeah, I was nervous, but I was very happy
- 31:53Speaker 2: that everyone was like, no, this makes sense, not to
- 31:56Speaker 2: invalidate jordan in Summer's feelings or any of the other girls,
- 32:00Speaker 2: but it really didn't come up to being more like
- 32:03Speaker 2: when you're drunk, you just get real like life of
- 32:06Speaker 2: the party. Hey, y'all, da da da da, you know
- 32:08Speaker 2: what I mean?
- 32:09Speaker 1: So yeah, no, and I thought, listen, I'll give everyone
- 32:13Speaker 1: credit involved for having the conversation. I give Nick the
- 32:19Speaker 1: credit for immediately confronting a hit on, like, hey, I
- 32:23Speaker 1: want to talk about this, like do y'all think it's
- 32:25Speaker 1: about me? And I appreciate the women for feeling safe
- 32:29Speaker 1: enough to say, well, y'all, we feel this way, and
- 32:31Speaker 1: well we don't think it's that, but we're just you
- 32:33Speaker 1: know whatever. So I thought it was a very mature conversation.
- 32:37Speaker 2: But I can see how Nick might be like, so,
- 32:39Speaker 2: if y'all did feel that way, then what do we
- 32:41Speaker 2: talk about? I can tell he was still processing that
- 32:44Speaker 2: for sure, and I understood because I'm just like, should
- 32:48Speaker 2: I change how I'm interacting with the if I were him?
- 32:50Speaker 2: Should I change HOWM interacting with the women? Or is
- 32:52Speaker 2: it was it just a one off? That's what's unclear.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, congratulations, it's been announced that you guys are
- 33:00Speaker 1: getting a reunion. When it comes to reunion, we know
- 33:04Speaker 1: the importance of having first chair, right, I've heard who
- 33:10Speaker 1: should have the first seat next to Andy at the reunion?
- 33:15Speaker 1: There's two first seats.
- 33:16Speaker 2: I know. I'm just gonna preface by saying this, this
- 33:19Speaker 2: is so hard, and I've also been like, I've seen
- 33:22Speaker 2: it on social media, the conversation, and I see what
- 33:25Speaker 2: the folks are saying. But we kind of touch it
- 33:29Speaker 2: on two seasons, and there is no clear one villain
- 33:35Speaker 2: this season. It's a couple of them. So are we
- 33:38Speaker 2: going who's the villain? Or we're going with story. I
- 33:42Speaker 2: don't know if we're going with Sorry, I just feel
- 33:45Speaker 2: like one of those shares should be mine. I mean
- 33:50Speaker 2: left or right. I mean I'm not hard to please. Okay, No,
- 33:58Speaker 2: I'm gonna be very honest with you. This goes without saying.
- 34:01Speaker 2: It's not to diminish anybody else, but the rate in
- 34:04Speaker 2: which my life has been shared and what I have
- 34:07Speaker 2: openly let everybody into. I think that is of note.
- 34:12Speaker 1: So who's if you and the first seat, who should
- 34:15Speaker 1: be opposite of you?
- 34:16Speaker 2: I'm going to go with who I think I will
- 34:18Speaker 2: have fun being opposite in me. I have to say, Preston,
- 34:21Speaker 2: I don't know. I just feel like I just feel
- 34:24Speaker 2: like we took my answer.
- 34:26Speaker 1: I was thinking you and Preston as well.
- 34:30Speaker 2: I just feel like, because let me tell you why, Preston,
- 34:34Speaker 2: We're not exactly the same, right, But I feel like
- 34:38Speaker 2: he also He's I don't want to sound ageus, but
- 34:42Speaker 2: he and Nick are the oldest, and I do feel
- 34:45Speaker 2: like Preston has this elderly statesman era to him, but
- 34:49Speaker 2: he knows how to give a good read. So you're
- 34:53Speaker 2: thinking about in terms of where my head wants to
- 34:55Speaker 2: turn to, I just want to look across.
- 34:57Speaker 1: Oh my god. So my prediction is it's you and
- 35:01Speaker 1: Preston as well. That's so funny.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Dang, I'm kind of sad we're in think I wanted
- 35:05Speaker 2: like a different.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Oh no, because the thing is this. Listen Carlos King's
- 35:09Speaker 1: prediction and low key hope for the first chair at
- 35:14Speaker 1: the Summerhouse, Martha's Vineyard Reunion is Jasmine and Preston should
- 35:20Speaker 1: have first chair because you two are the force multipliers
- 35:24Speaker 1: of the show. And although Bria is a great Villainy
- 35:28Speaker 1: and Bria, that's a compliment. That's a compliment, by the way,
- 35:31Speaker 1: don't take you you know, it's a huge one. It's
- 35:35Speaker 1: a huge one. Although Bria is a villain, I think
- 35:39Speaker 1: Preston will give a good o funny shade read moment.
- 35:44Speaker 1: I think Andy is going to live for all the
- 35:46Speaker 1: Preston's commentary. And I think you you have a way
- 35:51Speaker 1: of explanation and decorum and your whimsical but you're also,
- 35:58Speaker 1: like you said, you have a lot of story. And listen,
- 36:00Speaker 1: dare I say, I think in terms of the women,
- 36:04Speaker 1: to me, you're the face of the show. So thank you.
- 36:08Speaker 1: It has to be you, and that's why you're talking
- 36:12Speaker 1: to me first while I'm talking to you. Although I
- 36:16Speaker 1: love all the girls and the.
- 36:17Speaker 2: Guys, extremely humble love that for you. No, I mean,
- 36:23Speaker 2: here's the thing. It's what I do love about this season, honestly,
- 36:28Speaker 2: is that, like I said, there's no clear villain. Everyone
- 36:31Speaker 2: has a moment and some of the girls are rubbing
- 36:37Speaker 2: people the wrong way. That's why I said there's not
- 36:40Speaker 2: one villain, there's actually like three because everyone has a
- 36:44Speaker 2: different point of friction that is unsettling the group, so
- 36:50Speaker 2: you can't. But that's why I didn't go with one
- 36:53Speaker 2: person for a chair, because it's like there's three, especially
- 36:58Speaker 2: if you look at social media right now and if
- 36:59Speaker 2: you just watch as the episodes are playing out. Like
- 37:02Speaker 2: I said, it's not black and white, it's very gray.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Let the rain drops know, honey, what they can expect
- 37:09Speaker 1: from the rest of the season of Summer House Martha's
- 37:12Speaker 1: Vineyard that y'all can catch every Sunday at nine o'clock
- 37:16Speaker 1: a Central on bra Yes.
- 37:18Speaker 2: And Mondays on Peacock. I think this last episode I
- 37:23Speaker 2: announced it I'm Pregnant, was a nice holid cleanser. But
- 37:28Speaker 2: the rest of the season you're going to really see
- 37:33Speaker 2: why this group specifically has so many layers, like we're
- 37:38Speaker 2: all onions and with the significant others coming and you know,
- 37:44Speaker 2: Mariah and Phil making a little though as you saw
- 37:47Speaker 2: on the previews, it is a recipe for hopefully a
- 37:53Speaker 2: greenlit season three. That's what I will say.
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