Latest / The Breakfast Club / Good Moms Bad Choices: Love You, Hate Your Politics
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Once upon a time there was a good old traditional housewife.
- 0:03Speaker 1: She couldn't. She cleaned and cared for her children and
- 0:06Speaker 1: the man of the house, and of course she didn't
- 0:08Speaker 1: talk back. She was both obeed, hint and soft by nature.
- 0:12Speaker 1: She was a good woman who always made.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Good choices that ship off. We're good mom's bad choices.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Two single mom who said fuck the patriarchy, shared all
- 0:21Speaker 2: their bad choices and sound out they were so bad.
- 0:23Speaker 2: After all, we're experts. Over shares and your new besties.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Sit back and enjoy the ride. I can do a
- 0:29Speaker 2: bad mom.
- 0:34Speaker 3: I can do an d me my Flowers. I can
- 0:41Speaker 3: play it back powers Powers plays.
- 0:46Speaker 2: A welcome back to good Mom's bad choices.
- 0:52Speaker 4: I'm Mela and I'm Erica, and.
- 0:56Speaker 2: We're back, motherfuckers. It's the ogs an uncensored motherhood. I
- 1:02Speaker 2: can do that. On my shout out to our new music.
- 1:06Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys peeped, but we've had
- 1:08Speaker 2: the same music for over six years that we just
- 1:11Speaker 2: had to randomly buy because we were using license music.
- 1:13Speaker 2: But now we've leveled up and we got new music
- 1:17Speaker 2: that's personalized to us, with lyrics and artists and beats
- 1:20Speaker 2: and shit. So watch out. Good Moms is about to
- 1:23Speaker 2: drop an album.
- 1:24Speaker 4: Shout out to Renee and Trip who are on the track,
- 1:28Speaker 4: and to Anthem Enterprise Music who supported us.
- 1:32Speaker 2: With the production.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Shout out to them if you need any sort of
- 1:35Speaker 4: podcast music.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Really not just podcasts, any jingle because they're not even jingles.
- 1:39Speaker 2: They're like low.
- 1:40Speaker 5: Key, like amazing music producers.
- 1:42Speaker 4: Yeah, so I mean I'm going to start my music career,
- 1:45Speaker 4: my late life music career. Actually it's my reignited music career,
- 1:48Speaker 4: and I might have to hit them.
- 1:49Speaker 5: Up for some hot beats.
- 1:51Speaker 2: Our beat is pretty hot. I don't know if you
- 1:53Speaker 2: guys peeped it, but maybe we need to rewind and
- 1:55Speaker 2: hear it again. Here, I'll do it for you. I
- 1:57Speaker 2: can do bad all on my no for a new
- 2:01Speaker 2: appreciate Oh, and you can't hold me back. I can
- 2:05Speaker 2: do bad all on my own, and you can't hold
- 2:08Speaker 2: me back. Give me my flowers. I can make in
- 2:13Speaker 2: twenty four hours champagne showers. When I heard that, I
- 2:18Speaker 2: was like, yeah, yeah, I'm not a bad mom, but
- 2:22Speaker 2: a bad mom. We're gonna have to learn the rap.
- 2:24Speaker 2: You guys haven't heard the full song yet, because we're
- 2:26Speaker 2: gonna upload it on Spotify.
- 2:28Speaker 4: Caasting, and we can't put the whole thing even though
- 2:30Speaker 4: we thought about it.
- 2:31Speaker 2: We considered putting all three minutes, but we're gonna just
- 2:33Speaker 2: upload it separately on Spotify, So keep your eye out
- 2:37Speaker 2: or some custom bitches that we do custom shit. Everything
- 2:39Speaker 2: we do is custom. There's nothing we do that's not
- 2:41Speaker 2: custom because, like you said, champagne showers custom bitches, luxury. Okay,
- 2:46Speaker 2: no half passing over here Hererie twenty twenty five. Anyway, Hi, Hi,
- 2:51Speaker 2: happy day, Happy Wednesday, Happy Hemp Day. How are you feeling.
- 2:56Speaker 2: I feel good.
- 2:57Speaker 4: I My titties are out for the utibe tubers. My
- 3:01Speaker 4: skin is clear, my hair I'd put a color deposit
- 3:05Speaker 4: in to just boost the red today, so we're boosted.
- 3:10Speaker 2: My jewel you know, I was thinking, how do you.
- 3:12Speaker 4: Guys feel about wearing jewelry from an egg, like not
- 3:16Speaker 4: from an ex but like represents like an X thing,
- 3:19Speaker 4: Like do you throw away jewelry that like someone gifted you?
- 3:24Speaker 4: Like yeah, sure if they gifted it to you, or
- 3:26Speaker 4: like you got it together, like do not wear the
- 3:29Speaker 4: jewelry anymore?
- 3:31Speaker 2: I wear I will continue to wear whatever I want
- 3:33Speaker 2: if it's still cute. I don't feel like.
- 3:35Speaker 4: If Orlando had like a ring that an X gave him,
- 3:39Speaker 4: would you be mad he was wearing, or like a necklace.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Some ear rings. Yeah, I'll just hide it. Okay, where
- 3:50Speaker 2: is it? I don't know what are you talking about?
- 3:52Speaker 2: That's it was ugly anyway, I was thinking.
- 3:55Speaker 4: I was just I was just thinking about that because
- 3:56Speaker 4: I look down and I have this ring on that
- 3:58Speaker 4: I bought, and I bought a match one for me
- 4:00Speaker 4: and my my ex. And he lost his like the day,
- 4:05Speaker 4: like I think the next day that he wore, which
- 4:07Speaker 4: was very representative. He was out in the streets.
- 4:10Speaker 2: He was in came from.
- 4:11Speaker 4: He was in Portugal at the Afro Beats, probably hoeing
- 4:15Speaker 4: and hearing, and he lost it in the sand. And
- 4:18Speaker 4: then I was like, this is very symbolic. But I
- 4:21Speaker 4: was like, I still have mine, And I.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Was like, am I not supposed to wear this anymore?
- 4:23Speaker 2: Because I like it? I don't think it works that way.
- 4:26Speaker 2: He lost his? Fuck him, it's not even connected him.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Yours is connected to Portugal because we're supposed to go
- 4:31Speaker 2: there next year for the festival. That's what I really
- 4:34Speaker 2: like to do.
- 4:35Speaker 5: Anyway, I'm good.
- 4:37Speaker 2: It's just kind of random thought because I looked down
- 4:39Speaker 2: in my hand and I was like, oh yeah, oh yeah,
- 4:41Speaker 2: that persons I'm not so I'm not supposed to wear this.
- 4:43Speaker 2: I don't think it works that way. I'm doing good.
- 4:47Speaker 2: I am really, really really excited to be leaving soon
- 4:53Speaker 2: to go to Costa Rica. I feel like this February
- 4:55Speaker 2: trip is always at a time where I really really
- 4:58Speaker 2: need to get there, So time between August and February,
- 5:02Speaker 2: I'm like, what the fuck has happened? And I need
- 5:04Speaker 2: to reset and refill my jungle cup and eat real
- 5:07Speaker 2: food and be on the beach and like be with
- 5:10Speaker 2: my tribe with our titties out and eating fresh food.
- 5:13Speaker 2: And so I'm really looking forward to this. I'm looking
- 5:15Speaker 2: forward to like just jumping in and turning off. I'm
- 5:21Speaker 2: plugging from this bullshit and treating myself. And so if
- 5:25Speaker 2: you guys are listening and you're like, oh, it's too
- 5:26Speaker 2: late to go, wait away. I didn't. I didn't put
- 5:29Speaker 2: my deposit down because I'm so stupid. I bought I
- 5:31Speaker 2: bought all these presents for all these other niggas except myself.
- 5:34Speaker 2: I bought titties instead of a trip. Titties are nice,
- 5:37Speaker 2: that's a nice gift. I thought you were gonna say,
- 5:40Speaker 2: because I don't know about that.
- 5:43Speaker 4: If you brought titties, you really need to come to
- 5:44Speaker 4: the trip and show them, honestly.
- 5:46Speaker 2: You know, somebody a couple of years ago, I got
- 5:48Speaker 2: some new titties and I saw them recently and they'd
- 5:50Speaker 2: start they dropped, and I was like, those are like
- 5:52Speaker 2: good girl. But anyway, I don't have new titties yet,
- 5:56Speaker 2: but one of these trips I am going to debut
- 5:58Speaker 2: my new titties.
- 5:58Speaker 5: Maybe you should go, I'm Costa Rica.
- 6:01Speaker 2: To Colombia, I haven't heard a lot. Maybe go to Panama.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Do they have good plastic surgery and Panama? I don't know,
- 6:08Speaker 2: but probably they have everything in Panama. I need to
- 6:10Speaker 2: do more research. I feel like everyone even have good
- 6:12Speaker 2: titties in Costa Rica. Maybe I mean everybody has a
- 6:15Speaker 2: good titty doctor, but it'll probably be significantly less. But
- 6:18Speaker 2: I feel like Columbia people go for those those those
- 6:20Speaker 2: teeth in that ass, and I'm I'm not gonna. I can't.
- 6:25Speaker 2: I can't. Those teeth be big, real big. You gotta
- 6:29Speaker 2: go to Turkey.
- 6:29Speaker 4: You don't even gotta go to Columbia for the big teeth, bitch,
- 6:31Speaker 4: you can go here for the big teeth.
- 6:32Speaker 2: But why would I pay all that money to get
- 6:34Speaker 2: big teeth in America?
- 6:34Speaker 4: I could say, hey, womping's it's an aesthetic right now,
- 6:38Speaker 4: the big.
- 6:38Speaker 2: Teeth my homegirls. Shut out to my homegirl, that'd be
- 6:40Speaker 2: called teeth. Shut out to Becky, she actually got big
- 6:43Speaker 2: teeth on purpose. She said, it's a sign of prestige.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Would you get new teeth? No? If you got a bag, no, okay,
- 6:54Speaker 2: if you won the lottery right now for four hundred
- 6:56Speaker 2: million dollars, what's the first thing you're going to do?
- 7:03Speaker 2: Invest I'm gonna take like a twenty four hour period
- 7:07Speaker 2: and lock my door and just sit in it and
- 7:10Speaker 2: just be like, what do I do next? What I
- 7:11Speaker 2: do next?
- 7:13Speaker 5: I thought you wanted me to tell me what I
- 7:14Speaker 5: was gonna do with my fucking money. Not like I'm
- 7:16Speaker 5: gonna go in meditation.
- 7:17Speaker 2: I'm just asking what was No.
- 7:19Speaker 4: I'm gonna go buy some properties, for sure, go buy
- 7:22Speaker 4: some land. I'm going to read you my whole wardrobe.
- 7:27Speaker 4: I'm going to Oh, I'm gonna buy I'm gonna buy
- 7:30Speaker 4: floor an apartment.
- 7:33Speaker 5: I'm going to get an old school car because.
- 7:35Speaker 2: I like my dream. I really want an old school
- 7:38Speaker 2: car too.
- 7:39Speaker 4: Yesterday and everyone me and everyone on a bike ride
- 7:41Speaker 4: and we were driving. We were like on our bikes
- 7:43Speaker 4: and this like old white man, like this beautiful like
- 7:46Speaker 4: cherry red El Camino.
- 7:48Speaker 5: Is that what it's called.
- 7:49Speaker 4: I'm so bad with the names of the old if
- 7:51Speaker 4: that's why, I just know that I want one. I
- 7:52Speaker 4: don't know which one I want anyway. It was a
- 7:56Speaker 4: red El Camino and he had his hair all slipped
- 7:59Speaker 4: back and he had his cool glasses on. And I
- 8:01Speaker 4: just wrote by and I was like, nice car man.
- 8:03Speaker 4: He was like yeah, And I was like he's been
- 8:05Speaker 4: waiting for someone to tell him that all day. And
- 8:06Speaker 4: I was like, I can't wait to get in my
- 8:08Speaker 4: car and someone to tell me that.
- 8:09Speaker 2: I've been dying to do an old timey shoot in
- 8:12Speaker 2: an old car. But it just hasn't happened yet. But
- 8:14Speaker 2: it's on our list in twenty twenty four, right, twenty
- 8:17Speaker 2: twenty five. Shit, I forgot that. It's twenty twenty five already,
- 8:20Speaker 2: sure is anyway? Oh, actually, one more thing about the lottery.
- 8:25Speaker 2: If you win the lottery, don't tell anyone, and you
- 8:28Speaker 2: have to don't sign the back of it. Actually claim
- 8:31Speaker 2: it in a in a business that you opened in
- 8:34Speaker 2: a state where they can't tell you. They can't it's
- 8:37Speaker 2: not public record who owns it, so don't say I
- 8:40Speaker 2: never touched for anything. Any daddy hides all his money.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Interesting probably.
- 8:48Speaker 4: Going by Oh, back to the retreat though, if you
- 8:50Speaker 4: guys do want to come to the retreat, we do
- 8:51Speaker 4: have spots available.
- 8:52Speaker 5: There's a link in this description.
- 8:54Speaker 2: We do have a special code for the last minute bitches,
- 8:57Speaker 2: because I know you're a last minute but last minute
- 8:59Speaker 2: bitches deserve luxury too. Yeah, use code Tribe for a substantial,
- 9:04Speaker 2: substantial discount if you really really want to come and
- 9:09Speaker 2: bring your bestie, and maybe we'll even give you a
- 9:11Speaker 2: better discount. Don't say good moms didn't give you anything
- 9:14Speaker 2: for the holiday season, because we're giving you the luxury
- 9:16Speaker 2: of rest. It's up to you if you take it.
- 9:19Speaker 2: You bitches want to give everything to everybody else except yourself,
- 9:23Speaker 2: but this is us telling you you are also worthy
- 9:25Speaker 2: and important of rest. Amen.
- 9:29Speaker 4: Hm. We have a segment on our show called bad
- 9:34Speaker 4: Choice of the Week, and last week I shared mine,
- 9:36Speaker 4: which was a sex injury, and you guys got a
- 9:40Speaker 4: big kick out of that, and we actually have a
- 9:43Speaker 4: submission for a bad choice of the week this week
- 9:46Speaker 4: straight from our Facebook group.
- 9:49Speaker 2: This bad choice of the week is.
- 9:53Speaker 4: So My bad choice of the week is I've been
- 9:55Speaker 4: entertaining my baby daddy, my current ex. I'm dating a
- 9:59Speaker 4: different new guy, but I let my baby daddy eat
- 10:01Speaker 4: the groceries and I think I'm in love again.
- 10:04Speaker 2: First of all, I just want to say it for
- 10:05Speaker 2: the record. You lying you ain't in love, bitch. No
- 10:09Speaker 2: for a reason you didn't just let him eat the groceries.
- 10:13Speaker 2: That is just as as an adult, it just doesn't exist.
- 10:16Speaker 2: I've been there. I backtracked many times letting a nigga
- 10:19Speaker 2: eat groceries and guess what every time happened, his dick
- 10:22Speaker 2: went in my vagina. I don't know, I've had pussy
- 10:24Speaker 2: aiden left. It's very rare. I feel like the one
- 10:27Speaker 2: time it happened, I was literally like pushing the nigga
- 10:29Speaker 2: out the door and like closing it after fast, because
- 10:32Speaker 2: you can't.
- 10:33Speaker 4: When you do that, you don't. Actually, she probably doesn't
- 10:35Speaker 4: really like this nigga at all, so then you.
- 10:36Speaker 2: She obviously does. She thinks she's in love again, and
- 10:38Speaker 2: she has a new boyfriend, that's true.
- 10:42Speaker 4: I just like when I didn't like a nigga, I
- 10:44Speaker 4: had him eat my pussy and then I kicked him out.
- 10:46Speaker 5: I didn't come. I didn't want his penis inside of me.
- 10:48Speaker 2: I don't play those type of games. I learned early on.
- 10:51Speaker 2: If you eat my pussy, you're gonna want this pussy.
- 10:53Speaker 2: I know how the pussy works, and I know how
- 10:54Speaker 2: my pussy works, and so I'm just gonna do it harder.
- 10:58Speaker 5: You want to give him the pussy.
- 11:00Speaker 2: It's hard for me if I if you start eating
- 11:02Speaker 2: my pussy or my groceries, I'm the likelihood of me
- 11:05Speaker 2: going to the next level ninety nine point nine percent
- 11:07Speaker 2: chance or Hi, wait, and with the groceries, pussy or
- 11:10Speaker 2: ass as. You don't know, Jay, when I know what
- 11:13Speaker 2: you're saying, what we're talking about pussy, I'm just saying
- 11:15Speaker 2: in general, you eat anything below the waist, we're going there.
- 11:17Speaker 2: So her maybe Daddy ate her ass. That must be
- 11:21Speaker 2: some top tier ass eating. I'm assuming he did the
- 11:24Speaker 2: whole thing. Could you imagine just the ass? Actually I can't.
- 11:31Speaker 5: I went through that.
- 11:31Speaker 2: What do you mean? Oh, oh my god, I forgot
- 11:36Speaker 2: about that. Oh my god. We gotta tell him. So,
- 11:39Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, Erica was seeing a guy.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Seeing is a strong strong word. She was having sex
- 11:45Speaker 2: a few times with this guy who she came to
- 11:49Speaker 2: tell me. She was like, so he told me that
- 11:52Speaker 2: he has a condition with his penis. I was like,
- 11:55Speaker 2: what kind of condition? She was like, he can only
- 11:58Speaker 2: he can't get head because it's like the saliva gets bacteria,
- 12:02Speaker 2: but he can get his ass eight. I said, Eric,
- 12:07Speaker 2: that's a fucking lie. She said, no, there's something with this.
- 12:09Speaker 2: I said, but she could put his penis in your vagina,
- 12:12Speaker 2: but you can't put your mouth on it. But you
- 12:13Speaker 2: could put your mouth on his asshole. She said yeah.
- 12:16Speaker 2: And then we talked about on the podcast. And then
- 12:19Speaker 2: and then someone sent it to him a girl, another
- 12:21Speaker 2: girl he had been fucking with it telling the same spiel. Said, Look,
- 12:24Speaker 2: it's so funny this girl is dating someone who has
- 12:26Speaker 2: the same condition. And it was the same nigga. And
- 12:30Speaker 2: she too thought it was suspicious, like I thought it
- 12:32Speaker 2: was suspicious because the nigga was lying. There is no condition.
- 12:35Speaker 2: For those who are wondering, No, I did not eat
- 12:37Speaker 2: his ass. You did it? Know what the fuss? So
- 12:40Speaker 2: would you say? You just said something, I'm gonna go
- 12:42Speaker 2: skip the dick and go to that. I don't know.
- 12:44Speaker 2: I just hell know. I thought that meant that you
- 12:46Speaker 2: just said, Okay, you're absolutely the fun. Okay, I just
- 12:50Speaker 2: don't look anything. Yeah, I know we're not not you
- 12:52Speaker 2: know what. I pictured like, he's got to start somewhere.
- 12:54Speaker 2: We're not had his legs in the air, was like,
- 12:57Speaker 2: so just go a little bit lower, and you're like.
- 13:00Speaker 4: No, this conversation happened before we even started that process,
- 13:05Speaker 4: Like I think we were making out, hooking up, and
- 13:07Speaker 4: then he said it, and.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Can you give me an example, like we're making up
- 13:11Speaker 2: and I like, oh wait, wait, wait, wait, yeah, hold
- 13:16Speaker 2: hold on, I gotta tell you something.
- 13:18Speaker 5: Yes, the labi makes my my dick breakout, but not
- 13:20Speaker 5: my asshole, not my asshole.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Just make sure you don't get us lava in between
- 13:24Speaker 2: the guch and the dick. Is that what he said? No, sure, yes,
- 13:28Speaker 2: that's what he said. Ladies, if you've heard about this condition,
- 13:33Speaker 2: please call in. Yeah, let us know what is it called.
- 13:36Speaker 2: I'm curious. I even google it. He's gonna have to
- 13:38Speaker 2: lead with a real, actual scientific name in the future.
- 13:41Speaker 2: I bet he's figured it out now that he likes
- 13:45Speaker 2: only his asshole played with.
- 13:46Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe he's like more vocal about just like being
- 13:48Speaker 4: strong about that positioning.
- 13:50Speaker 2: I would rather say I don't really enjoy head, but
- 13:52Speaker 2: I do enjoy getting that ass ey because the medical condition.
- 13:55Speaker 2: I would have cracked up in his face. I would
- 13:58Speaker 2: have been like, what, I was trying to be kind
- 14:01Speaker 2: until you talked from on the podcast, and I'm pretty
- 14:03Speaker 2: sure that was the last time he ever told bitches
- 14:04Speaker 2: that ever, who's kind on podcasts? Who's kind on podcasts? Honestly,
- 14:10Speaker 2: that's true. I mean we try, really, I try to
- 14:12Speaker 2: be nice in person.
- 14:13Speaker 5: I'm a bitch on the podcast.
- 14:14Speaker 2: No, we're not bitches, we're nice ish. Well, my dear,
- 14:21Speaker 2: with your bad choice, I'm gonna tell you that it's
- 14:24Speaker 2: just an overall bad choice. If you broke up with
- 14:25Speaker 2: your baby daddy, it's likely that you don't want him anymore,
- 14:28Speaker 2: and you probably don't need to let him eat your
- 14:30Speaker 2: groceries or you're pussy or stick it in that it's
- 14:32Speaker 2: not even the tip.
- 14:33Speaker 4: I know it's no fucks given January, but we gotta
- 14:35Speaker 4: give a fucks about this type of shit.
- 14:36Speaker 2: You can't backslide. In twenty twenty five, we got to
- 14:39Speaker 2: move on. We have got to move on. She submitted this,
- 14:42Speaker 2: I think still in twenty twenty four, So I'm gonna
- 14:44Speaker 2: hope that she just left the grocery eating the baby
- 14:46Speaker 2: daddy grocery eating back in twenty twenty four. Just teach
- 14:50Speaker 2: your new nigga how to do it.
- 14:53Speaker 5: I know, yeah, because I'm sorry, I had a vision
- 14:57Speaker 5: of your Yeah.
- 14:59Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, I'm so happy for
- 15:02Speaker 2: growth and progress because right now, it seems you probably
- 15:05Speaker 2: says like, oh, I like him, he's so cute, he
- 15:07Speaker 2: can eat my ass really well. But there will be
- 15:09Speaker 2: your time where you're like you're throw up in your
- 15:11Speaker 2: mouth just from we were crying over them. Remembone used
- 15:15Speaker 2: to cry about them. Weird, right, it's such a strange time.
- 15:19Speaker 4: It's such a weird concept, you know for those like
- 15:22Speaker 4: really truly, if you're listening to this right now, you're
- 15:23Speaker 4: going through like a breakup with your child's father, or
- 15:26Speaker 4: like maybe you guys are broken up, but you're like
- 15:28Speaker 4: still kind of in that weird in between, like I
- 15:31Speaker 4: want my family bag.
- 15:31Speaker 2: I can't believe I can't believe it. I'll never get
- 15:34Speaker 2: over it.
- 15:35Speaker 4: Like you think that your story is like the only one, Like,
- 15:37Speaker 4: no bitch has ever gone through this shit ever in history.
- 15:41Speaker 5: We have, And I promise you, I promise you, not only.
- 15:45Speaker 2: Will you get over it, it will be so much better.
- 15:48Speaker 4: You will get over your baby daddy. We are testaments
- 15:52Speaker 4: that nigga will be removed from your not your heart
- 15:56Speaker 4: or your mind. You're always in me family, right, Maybe
- 15:58Speaker 4: I don't know, Oh.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Well, it depends. It depends what the setup is. Yours
- 16:07Speaker 2: is different than most, and so is mine, maybe not most,
- 16:12Speaker 2: But I will say, like you do you time. My
- 16:14Speaker 2: mom always says this time is the greatest neutralizer.
- 16:16Speaker 4: It is true, Like I literally could not see a
- 16:20Speaker 4: time where I could just be okay, where I would
- 16:24Speaker 4: get the news that he had another child and I
- 16:26Speaker 4: would not give a fuck.
- 16:27Speaker 5: In fact, I was on the blogs eating popcorn.
- 16:31Speaker 4: Saying, no way, that's just crazy, Like, never did I
- 16:35Speaker 4: think I would be able to do that.
- 16:37Speaker 2: That's because yours is a fucking he's like a serial
- 16:43Speaker 2: a serial childmaker.
- 16:45Speaker 4: He likes to make children, you know. And and thankfully,
- 16:48Speaker 4: like now, I'm I'm very It's not even that I'm
- 16:50Speaker 4: numb to it. I've just like released it, let it go.
- 16:53Speaker 4: I'm totally cool with that. And in fact, like I
- 16:56Speaker 4: was telling one of our friends went through a similar situation.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Boy did she She went, honestly like what I like
- 17:03Speaker 2: seeing her. I like seeing our friends go through break up.
- 17:06Speaker 2: But it's so interesting to see friends start where we
- 17:09Speaker 2: were at, where they'd be like so sad, can't get
- 17:11Speaker 2: over it, can't get past it, crying every day, and
- 17:15Speaker 2: then suddenly like something switches and then they're outside. Yeah.
- 17:22Speaker 4: But I was telling her, and you know, because I
- 17:25Speaker 4: was telling her this like a year ago, and where
- 17:27Speaker 4: she was like could not see the time, could not
- 17:30Speaker 4: see the day that it would happen.
- 17:31Speaker 5: And I was telling her, bitch, I bathed his baby, like.
- 17:35Speaker 2: I recently, like this was like two years ago. Oh
- 17:38Speaker 2: I don't remember this.
- 17:39Speaker 4: Yeah, Like when I went over there with Iri and
- 17:41Speaker 4: they both needed a bath, and so I bathed them
- 17:43Speaker 4: both and I just couldn't Like it was actually very
- 17:45Speaker 4: healing for me to like be able to wash your
- 17:48Speaker 4: hands of the bullshit while wash I washed my hands
- 17:50Speaker 4: the bullshit, and I was like, this is.
- 17:52Speaker 5: Not this child's fault.
- 17:53Speaker 4: And I never thought that I would get to that
- 17:56Speaker 4: point because I was I felt like, you know the
- 18:01Speaker 4: way that she was feeling and like you know, like
- 18:03Speaker 4: which was like seeing red. Like everyone has to go,
- 18:09Speaker 4: like when you get territory, your territorial over what you've
- 18:12Speaker 4: created and it's and it's it's expected, and that's okay.
- 18:16Speaker 2: But you will get past it if you allow yourself to.
- 18:19Speaker 2: You have to allow yourself to. You have to remove
- 18:23Speaker 2: yourself from this situation. You have to stop trying, trying, trying.
- 18:27Speaker 2: You have to stop trying.
- 18:28Speaker 4: You have to stop trying to pretend, like you have
- 18:32Speaker 4: to show this family structure to the world and to
- 18:34Speaker 4: your child.
- 18:35Speaker 2: Something has to change. And the sooner you release it,
- 18:38Speaker 2: and the sooner you let it go, and the sooner
- 18:40Speaker 2: you tell yourself, I can do this and I'm okay,
- 18:42Speaker 2: the quicker the process starts. I held myself back so
- 18:47Speaker 2: long from fucking around just because I'm a slow lowner
- 18:51Speaker 2: and I really was just like connected to this idea.
- 18:54Speaker 2: And as soon as I really let that shit go,
- 18:57Speaker 2: like shit started to move, like like my heart healed
- 19:00Speaker 2: so much faster. But sometimes I think as women, we
- 19:03Speaker 2: cling so hard to the title and to the family,
- 19:05Speaker 2: and you know, honestly, I used to think it's because
- 19:07Speaker 2: I'm a black woman, and like as a black woman,
- 19:10Speaker 2: you never want to be a baby mama. You never
- 19:11Speaker 2: want to be like you know, there's an idea that
- 19:13Speaker 2: black families don't keep the family structure, and so you're
- 19:17Speaker 2: fighting for like to prove something, not to prove like
- 19:19Speaker 2: not to be with the stereotype. But our friend is
- 19:22Speaker 2: not black, and she was fighting pretty hard. So I
- 19:24Speaker 2: think it's just like a motherly instinct to want to
- 19:27Speaker 2: keep the family unit together. But you can still be
- 19:29Speaker 2: a family in your own unit and him and his
- 19:32Speaker 2: own unit. So just like no sooner whoever is hearing this,
- 19:35Speaker 2: and I know someone out there is going through it
- 19:37Speaker 2: right now in the midst of the thick of it,
- 19:41Speaker 2: your baby daddy is it's just not working. Sometimes God
- 19:44Speaker 2: makes shit so bad for you you have to let
- 19:47Speaker 2: it go. Let it be bad. And those of you
- 19:49Speaker 2: who are still in the relationship and you know deep
- 19:52Speaker 2: in your motherfucking gut that it's over, but you keep trying,
- 19:55Speaker 2: and you keep praying, and you keep trying to raiki
- 19:57Speaker 2: niggas and go to shamans and the church and baptisms
- 20:01Speaker 2: and counseling full moons and everything you can possibly do.
- 20:07Speaker 2: I'm telling you do one thing. You say the prayer.
- 20:11Speaker 2: You say, dear God, if this is not meant for me,
- 20:14Speaker 2: please make it so so bad that it's so clear
- 20:19Speaker 2: I don't even have a choice but to walk away
- 20:22Speaker 2: from this nigga. And let me tell you, be careful
- 20:24Speaker 2: before you say it out loud, because it only takes
- 20:26Speaker 2: about zero to seven days. Listen. That's the opposite of
- 20:29Speaker 2: Sierra's prayer. Okay, and it works. You think Sierra's fucking
- 20:33Speaker 2: prayer worked. This prayer, this prayer, this God he beat
- 20:36Speaker 2: angwing those prayers on the on fuckation.
- 20:39Speaker 4: And let me tell you it's not just for niggas,
- 20:41Speaker 4: because we did this shit in our business. Literally, we
- 20:43Speaker 4: did this shit in our business and it happened the
- 20:46Speaker 4: next day. I did not realize that we did do
- 20:49Speaker 4: this in our business.
- 20:51Speaker 2: We talked about this last week literally, we said, if
- 20:54Speaker 2: it's not meant to be, remove it. Literally the next morning,
- 20:58Speaker 2: poopoop I was like, okay, well, God said, so it's true.
- 21:02Speaker 2: It's just in general, like when you really asked whoever
- 21:05Speaker 2: you believe in, God, the universe, whatever, Buddha, when you
- 21:09Speaker 2: ask spirit to remove something that really is not conducive
- 21:13Speaker 2: to whatever your goal is or your purpose and you say,
- 21:15Speaker 2: please remove it. Maybe you better believe it's gonna remove it.
- 21:19Speaker 2: And but you have to say the part make it
- 21:21Speaker 2: so clear that I can't ignore it if I tried.
- 21:25Speaker 4: And then the other side of that is when you
- 21:27Speaker 4: don't listen and then you continue on. Just be prepared
- 21:31Speaker 4: for shit to go even worse because you went against God, bitch,
- 21:34Speaker 4: you went against.
- 21:35Speaker 2: Your own ass. You went against God, you went against yourself,
- 21:38Speaker 2: and you know better. You know better. One time that
- 21:41Speaker 2: I got the shit slap out of me after I
- 21:43Speaker 2: went against my own prayer, literally and I had to
- 21:47Speaker 2: tell Erica I got slacked. I remember that long drive
- 21:51Speaker 2: to go pick up those sweatsuits. Was that what it
- 21:53Speaker 2: was se going. I got in the car, She's like,
- 21:55Speaker 2: are you okay? And I was like, no, it's not funny.
- 22:02Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
- 22:02Speaker 2: I shouldn't be laughing atastic violence. It was funny because
- 22:07Speaker 2: my dumb ass brought ass for it and I stayed,
- 22:09Speaker 2: and that's what I got. God said, oh, we bitch,
- 22:12Speaker 2: you want to play. I'm an ike bitch. I mean
- 22:15Speaker 2: I did the same ship. I did the same ship.
- 22:17Speaker 2: So and then she got a there was a baby.
- 22:20Speaker 2: So just just know that when you do that prayer.
- 22:23Speaker 2: It is going to come hard, It's going to come clear. Yeah,
- 22:27Speaker 2: not wishing that on you, my dear Facebook friend. I'm
- 22:30Speaker 2: just saying, stop playing, stop playing.
- 22:32Speaker 4: Stop playing with fire, because even fuck around and have
- 22:35Speaker 4: another baby with that nigga rum, you know.
- 22:52Speaker 2: Speaking and playing with fire and letting shit go. You know,
- 22:55Speaker 2: we're in the year of twenty twenty five. There's a
- 22:57Speaker 2: lot of changes happening right now, including this bitch ass inauguration.
- 23:02Speaker 5: Oh Lord Jesus.
- 23:04Speaker 2: And I've been honest, I'm gonna be honest. I've been
- 23:07Speaker 2: actively avoiding it mentally because it's the only way that
- 23:10Speaker 2: I can keep saying. Because about six months ago, I
- 23:13Speaker 2: told Erica that we needed to be out of the
- 23:14Speaker 2: country by the twenty fifth, and she obviously ignored me
- 23:17Speaker 2: because we were basically, well, we're gonna be out of
- 23:19Speaker 2: the country like three days later, but our kids are
- 23:21Speaker 2: not good mom's bad choices. What can somebody send the kids?
- 23:29Speaker 2: I watched way too many movies about the world ending
- 23:32Speaker 2: and about now and be apocalypses and bad things, and
- 23:35Speaker 2: so my anxiety can be at an all time high.
- 23:38Speaker 2: So I have I have to put on my blinders.
- 23:42Speaker 2: But how are you dealing in this time disassociation the name.
- 23:49Speaker 2: You know, I during the time, I was, you know,
- 23:55Speaker 2: when it all, when it all went down, I knew
- 23:58Speaker 2: Kamala was not gonna win.
- 24:00Speaker 4: You know, I know everyone's rallying for this black woman,
- 24:03Speaker 4: but if a white woman couldn't win, I didn't have
- 24:05Speaker 4: no faith in a black woman winning this election.
- 24:07Speaker 2: So I was not surprised.
- 24:10Speaker 5: I guess what I was surprised. I can't even say
- 24:12Speaker 5: I'm surprised.
- 24:13Speaker 4: I guess my anger was like reactivated for some of
- 24:16Speaker 4: the people in my life, especially just knowing me, knowing us,
- 24:21Speaker 4: knowing the world, taking like I don't know, taking care
- 24:24Speaker 4: of our children at times, our friends, just being in
- 24:28Speaker 4: circle with us.
- 24:31Speaker 2: It just made me really realize how much we are
- 24:34Speaker 2: in such.
- 24:34Speaker 4: An individualistic society that and I don't know how we
- 24:38Speaker 4: go back to being in community in that way. People
- 24:43Speaker 4: vote for their own interests, they don't vote for the
- 24:47Speaker 4: greater good, and this has been a true example of that. Also,
- 24:51Speaker 4: me being Latina and watching my Latina and Latino people
- 24:56Speaker 4: vote read every year, which I've never shocked by everyone.
- 24:59Speaker 5: There are a lot of people.
- 25:00Speaker 2: Can you believe the Latin vote was blah? Blah blah.
- 25:03Speaker 4: I'm like, of course it was, it's not every fucking
- 25:05Speaker 4: time because they're voting for one particular topic and it's
- 25:09Speaker 4: like the topic religion, Okay, yeah, religion and abortion, and no,
- 25:17Speaker 4: it's like like the god thing.
- 25:18Speaker 2: It's the God thing.
- 25:19Speaker 4: And also a lot of I feel like a lot
- 25:21Speaker 4: of I don't want to say a lot, but the
- 25:23Speaker 4: majority of Latin people in this country, I feel like,
- 25:25Speaker 4: have been so whitewashed and they want to assimilate so badly.
- 25:31Speaker 4: They don't want to be looked at as those people.
- 25:33Speaker 4: They're not the people on the border, those are not them.
- 25:36Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people have fought and fought to
- 25:37Speaker 2: be here and be equal.
- 25:39Speaker 4: So yeah, and they're not like them, even though they're whatever.
- 25:43Speaker 4: Maybe their ancestors were like them, or maybe their grandparents
- 25:45Speaker 4: were like them, but now they've they've made it, they
- 25:48Speaker 4: made it through and so they're not like that anymore.
- 25:50Speaker 4: Or they're so far removed from the passage over here
- 25:54Speaker 4: that they can't relate to that experience anymore. And so
- 25:57Speaker 4: they and because they're they're assimilation to whiteness is so severe.
- 26:02Speaker 2: I mean, that's every every minority, because that's how it's
- 26:05Speaker 2: by design.
- 26:05Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that's every minority.
- 26:07Speaker 2: That's like, there's a lot of there's a lot of
- 26:09Speaker 2: Uncle Tom blacks, and I mean, I think.
- 26:12Speaker 4: I think, but even in this election, they wanted you
- 26:15Speaker 4: to think that, and most of the black people didn't
- 26:17Speaker 4: vote for vote Republican, even though they wanted you to
- 26:20Speaker 4: believe that that was what was happening. So I don't
- 26:22Speaker 4: I don't agree with that. I do agree though, that
- 26:24Speaker 4: a lot of Latin people I think, have been hit
- 26:26Speaker 4: even more because we are part, we are of the Americas, Africa, Africa. Obviously,
- 26:32Speaker 4: like we were shipped here Mexican people, this is we
- 26:35Speaker 4: were on this land, this was our land, and so
- 26:37Speaker 4: I think the assimilation actually impacted us the most here
- 26:41Speaker 4: because this is our land and it was literally taken
- 26:44Speaker 4: from us here, we were brought from.
- 26:47Speaker 2: I would, I would, I would disagree only be I mean,
- 26:49Speaker 2: I just feel like in general, when you live in
- 26:51Speaker 2: a world globally that is euro cent, like euro European
- 26:55Speaker 2: centered in every capacity in media and beauty and everything like,
- 27:00Speaker 2: that is by design that you want to assimilate. You
- 27:02Speaker 2: want to feel like, you know, like my credit's high,
- 27:04Speaker 2: or I'm you know, you walk into a building. You
- 27:06Speaker 2: don't you want to be associated with that for survival essentially,
- 27:09Speaker 2: And I think for Black people, yes, we were brought
- 27:12Speaker 2: over here and it's not necessarily the same land mass,
- 27:15Speaker 2: but I do feel like that's even more reason because
- 27:18Speaker 2: most African Americans have no direct connection to Africa except
- 27:23Speaker 2: that we know that via slavery. What they told is
- 27:27Speaker 2: via history books.
- 27:27Speaker 4: But just imagine your culture being taken from you on
- 27:30Speaker 4: the land that your cure was creating.
- 27:32Speaker 2: But for Latino people, it hasn't been taken from them.
- 27:34Speaker 2: They have their music, they have they have their food.
- 27:37Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm black. I'm not
- 27:38Speaker 4: debating about that. I'm just speaking for Latin people. I'm
- 27:41Speaker 4: speaking for Latin people that have Like it's so interesting
- 27:45Speaker 4: because during you know, during this time, I went on
- 27:47Speaker 4: this field trip with Iri. She's learning about the missions
- 27:49Speaker 4: and you know, we went to Solving. I don't know
- 27:51Speaker 4: if anyone is familiar with Solving, but it's where a
- 27:53Speaker 4: lot of the missions are Santa Barbara, San Diego, and
- 27:56Speaker 4: you know, they're teaching my daughter about these missions and
- 28:01Speaker 4: they wanted us to come on the field trip. But
- 28:02Speaker 4: I'm so glad that I went, because of course they're
- 28:04Speaker 4: whitewashing everything and they're skipping over a bunch of shit
- 28:07Speaker 4: because they don't want to like traumatize the kids. And
- 28:10Speaker 4: I'm sitting there pissed, and I's like, what's wrong, Mom,
- 28:12Speaker 4: And I'm like they're all lying, and like some of
- 28:15Speaker 4: them parents are like yeah they are, and then.
- 28:16Speaker 2: All the other, you know, the other parents like la
- 28:18Speaker 2: la la, la la.
- 28:19Speaker 4: But when I was sitting there listening to like just
- 28:25Speaker 4: revisiting what has been done and for me as a
- 28:29Speaker 4: Latina and watching my Mexican, the Mexican side of my
- 28:33Speaker 4: family completely assimilate to this side.
- 28:35Speaker 5: My grandmother doesn't like to be viewed as a certain time.
- 28:39Speaker 2: I think also with that is you they can black people,
- 28:43Speaker 2: you can't. You can't assimilate visually.
- 28:45Speaker 5: My grandmother can't assimilate as a white person.
- 28:47Speaker 2: She could like she's she's fair skin. She says, she
- 28:49Speaker 2: god have dark brown hair, like a black person doesn't
- 28:52Speaker 2: have the option. So that's true, but certain Latin people
- 28:54Speaker 2: can't assimilate either. It goes both ways. It goes both ways.
- 28:58Speaker 4: And I'm just saying that because the culture literally was
- 29:02Speaker 4: robbed from us, they were told this is wrong, this
- 29:06Speaker 4: is right, this is savage. Yes, that exact thing happened
- 29:09Speaker 4: to Black people, but it's different when it's on your land.
- 29:12Speaker 4: So I feel like the assimilation was more severe here.
- 29:15Speaker 4: And that's why a lot of Latin people they don't
- 29:18Speaker 4: like to be part of that. They don't like to
- 29:21Speaker 4: be part of that group, and so they're more inclined
- 29:23Speaker 4: to vote for these said reasons of religion, the religion
- 29:27Speaker 4: that they.
- 29:28Speaker 2: Were given that they hold on so dearly too, because
- 29:31Speaker 2: it was literally shoved.
- 29:32Speaker 4: Down their throat, and so this is literally so ingrained
- 29:35Speaker 4: in them, deeply, ingrained even more, I would say than
- 29:38Speaker 4: Black people, because Black people don't vote necessarily for religious purposes.
- 29:40Speaker 4: They didn't vote Republican because they wanted to vote because
- 29:43Speaker 4: they're anti abortion. Maybe some people did, but for the
- 29:46Speaker 4: most part, the Latin people that voted, that was like
- 29:49Speaker 4: the biggest reason religious base.
- 29:52Speaker 2: I think Black people have historically always been democratic, period.
- 29:55Speaker 4: But I'm just saying Latin people generally vote for religious purposes.
- 30:00Speaker 4: And you think about how that was one of the
- 30:04Speaker 4: biggest ways that they pilgrimized that culture, this culture Latin.
- 30:10Speaker 5: People, it was through religion, and so they're voting for that.
- 30:13Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Well, I understand like there's
- 30:16Speaker 2: very it's very heavily catholic, like you know, like abortions
- 30:19Speaker 2: or no, no, there's certain things I think also like
- 30:22Speaker 2: for us, it's like going back to the initial conversation
- 30:25Speaker 2: about like having realizations about people in our friends circle
- 30:30Speaker 2: or people that we you know, you feel close to,
- 30:32Speaker 2: and then you realize you pull back the curtain and
- 30:34Speaker 2: you're like, oh, you voted for this. I think like
- 30:37Speaker 2: a for anybody just joining the show or listening, or
- 30:40Speaker 2: who just doesn't know, who don't know. Eric and I
- 30:42Speaker 2: live Not only do we live in la we live
- 30:45Speaker 2: in the valley. We grew up in the valley. It
- 30:47Speaker 2: is predominantly white, you know what I mean. So I
- 30:50Speaker 2: think that I wasn't really a lot. I wasn't very
- 30:52Speaker 2: shocked to see some of our friends voting a certain way.
- 30:55Speaker 2: But maybe because I'm so, I'm conditioned to there's a
- 30:59Speaker 2: part of me to understand that some of my friends
- 31:01Speaker 2: are just never going to understand, you know what I mean.
- 31:03Speaker 2: Like there's a part of me like we can all
- 31:05Speaker 2: it's all it's all fun in games until some real
- 31:08Speaker 2: shit happens because for us, like for them, it's like
- 31:12Speaker 2: it's political, like everybody's racist. But for me, it's like
- 31:15Speaker 2: if this person promotes and encourages these racist whites to
- 31:22Speaker 2: uproar and like to feel comfortable and their racism, it
- 31:25Speaker 2: incites a different type of violence where if you're not
- 31:28Speaker 2: if you're not subscribed to it, or you're not a
- 31:30Speaker 2: target of it, you could just like pass it off
- 31:32Speaker 2: as just like it's just everybody is like that, you
- 31:35Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like when I talk to my friends,
- 31:37Speaker 2: which I'll be honest, I don't get really deep because
- 31:39Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna probably stop fucking with you. I
- 31:43Speaker 2: know you're not educated enough, You're not gonna understand. You
- 31:45Speaker 2: don't have my experience, and you obviously like your level
- 31:48Speaker 2: of understanding for what that like, what that means for me,
- 31:50Speaker 2: like just the energy of the world is not going
- 31:53Speaker 2: to be the same. And so intentionally I realized that,
- 31:56Speaker 2: like back in twenty twenty, I'm like, I'm just going
- 32:00Speaker 2: to cut the conversation here or else I'm not gonna
- 32:02Speaker 2: like you for real, for real, And because I just
- 32:05Speaker 2: don't want to even go through that or like have
- 32:06Speaker 2: to be like I'm blocking you or I'm not being
- 32:08Speaker 2: friends with you because you've voted this. I'm just not
- 32:10Speaker 2: going to have those conversations. But I know like that
- 32:13Speaker 2: our experience is so different that I don't really expect
- 32:17Speaker 2: you to get it, and.
- 32:17Speaker 4: I'm not even I think I was more so appalled
- 32:20Speaker 4: because a lot of the things, because so much has
- 32:23Speaker 4: happened over the last eight years, and also like so
- 32:27Speaker 4: many of our rights as women have been taken away,
- 32:30Speaker 4: like roal versus way, Like so many of those rights
- 32:32Speaker 4: have been taken away that I would think that those
- 32:35Speaker 4: things at least.
- 32:36Speaker 2: Would perhaps change their perspective do it.
- 32:39Speaker 4: Like I know that there's certain things that they're voting for,
- 32:42Speaker 4: because like I said, we're living in this individualistic society,
- 32:45Speaker 4: but like as women, I thought, and as women, and
- 32:49Speaker 4: as the person that you're voting in, like knowing his
- 32:53Speaker 4: track record, it's just like common like that's what like
- 32:56Speaker 4: kind of that's not kind of That's what grossed me
- 33:00Speaker 4: out about the people that I know that we like,
- 33:03Speaker 4: that we know and like you.
- 33:05Speaker 2: Know, some of them got I know they were mad
- 33:08Speaker 2: at me. One of them is like I'm coming to
- 33:09Speaker 2: pick up my daughters or my son's jackets.
- 33:11Speaker 4: From her house and I'm like, okay, bitch, I don't
- 33:13Speaker 4: That's fine, I don't.
- 33:15Speaker 2: I don't hate you. I just don't guess what the
- 33:18Speaker 2: jacket picked up. Absolutely, it was immediately. It was immediately
- 33:20Speaker 2: after I unfollowed her.
- 33:22Speaker 4: Oh, I think that I just a I followed her
- 33:28Speaker 4: because she was posting shit, and I was like, I
- 33:30Speaker 4: don't want to see the ship. I followed two people
- 33:32Speaker 4: and I was like, I don't want to see your shit.
- 33:33Speaker 4: It's not that I hate you, It's just that I
- 33:35Speaker 4: don't think.
- 33:36Speaker 5: I don't.
- 33:37Speaker 4: We don't have anything that we actually relate on. Yes,
- 33:39Speaker 4: you're Are you a terrible person? No, I don't think
- 33:41Speaker 4: you're a teleproper person. Are you a danger to my child?
- 33:45Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 33:45Speaker 2: If the world were ending, like what kind of I
- 33:50Speaker 2: just feel like.
- 33:53Speaker 4: This election really highlighted just how much we differ in
- 34:00Speaker 4: the values of the human race and society and us
- 34:05Speaker 4: as women, and I do believe that for me, I
- 34:09Speaker 4: have a lot of integrity about the people that I
- 34:12Speaker 4: keep close to me. I am I'm a fucking territorial
- 34:14Speaker 4: bitch when it comes to my friends. I don't just
- 34:17Speaker 4: I'm not friends with everybody, you know, and like if
- 34:20Speaker 4: we don't agree on certain things or we can't see
- 34:22Speaker 4: eye to eye on certain things, and you're gonna also
- 34:24Speaker 4: hide that's what That's another thing that I don't like
- 34:27Speaker 4: is that people like kind of like avoid the conversation
- 34:30Speaker 4: or just don't say anything, Like if you're gonna be
- 34:33Speaker 4: about it, then just be about it, then say it.
- 34:35Speaker 4: Just be about it, you know. I feel like a
- 34:37Speaker 4: lot of people were so scared to like just say
- 34:41Speaker 4: this is why I'm voting, this is this is why
- 34:43Speaker 4: I'm voting for.
- 34:44Speaker 2: This first thing, until until it until you came into office,
- 34:46Speaker 2: until I I just really feel like, honestly, a part
- 34:50Speaker 2: of me feels like, are you dumb? This is someone
- 34:55Speaker 2: who is like he to me, he's a joke. Like
- 34:59Speaker 2: everything I co out of this man's mouth is a lie,
- 35:01Speaker 2: is a joke. And it's not even very well hidden,
- 35:05Speaker 2: like he's there's no like he's he's like, I'm there's
- 35:08Speaker 2: no problem, I'm not doing product twenty twenty six, twenty
- 35:10Speaker 2: twenty five. It's like this nigg is lying. He lied
- 35:12Speaker 2: about getting shot. He lied. He just lies. He's grabbing
- 35:15Speaker 2: bitches by the kouchy. He's a felon. So if this
- 35:17Speaker 2: is not enough to say I'm cool off this, nigga,
- 35:21Speaker 2: you're kind of slow, so then why keep those people
- 35:25Speaker 2: in your life. I don't feel like I have to
- 35:28Speaker 2: have deep conversations about people's political beliefs, because I honestly
- 35:33Speaker 2: don't even think that a lot of the people that
- 35:35Speaker 2: we're talking about specifically are even educated enough to even
- 35:40Speaker 2: defend themselves in a conversation. I think the things that
- 35:42Speaker 2: they would be talking about would be regurgitated information from
- 35:45Speaker 2: the Internet, and I don't think and I think with
- 35:47Speaker 2: this my things would go over their head and a
- 35:49Speaker 2: lot of those people, I mean not I don't know
- 35:52Speaker 2: if you're talking about the same two people, but I don't.
- 35:55Speaker 2: I don't have deep conversations with anyway. It's it's very surface,
- 35:59Speaker 2: it's very how are you, it's very let's let the
- 36:01Speaker 2: kids play, so on those terms. Sure, I don't mind
- 36:04Speaker 2: that our kid our friend, our kids are our kids
- 36:07Speaker 2: are friends. They're not talking about political things. If things
- 36:09Speaker 2: come up, I'm glad to have a conversation. I know myself,
- 36:14Speaker 2: and I just feel like i'd rather keep it surface.
- 36:17Speaker 2: And I'm okay with that because I'm not here to
- 36:19Speaker 2: necessarily be your best friend and go on trips together
- 36:23Speaker 2: and do certain things like I know where each person
- 36:26Speaker 2: in my life sits, stands and sits, and I'm okay
- 36:28Speaker 2: with that. I don't have to like remove you in
- 36:32Speaker 2: order to understand that we have different goal like views
- 36:36Speaker 2: that way. I'm black, and especially as a black woman
- 36:39Speaker 2: growing up in this environment where most of my friends
- 36:41Speaker 2: haven't had the same experience as me, I've come to
- 36:45Speaker 2: the place where i'm I know where everybody sits in
- 36:49Speaker 2: my circle. I think I just I'm only interested in
- 36:53Speaker 2: in like integrity based friendships.
- 36:56Speaker 4: I don't care to even have small talk. I don't
- 36:59Speaker 4: care to drop my kid off at your house just
- 37:02Speaker 4: because I need a break because whatever that I've known
- 37:05Speaker 4: you for, however.
- 37:06Speaker 2: I don't know how to drop my kid off anywhere
- 37:07Speaker 2: and if they want to play. But like we see
- 37:09Speaker 2: you in passing, see a birthday party.
- 37:10Speaker 5: I'm just speaking for myself.
- 37:12Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just and a lot of people, like I said,
- 37:14Speaker 2: I grew up here. A lot of my friends that
- 37:15Speaker 2: I've known twenty twenty five years. I there's nothing I
- 37:19Speaker 2: can tell you that's going to make you understand being
- 37:22Speaker 2: black in America. And I know you don't get it,
- 37:25Speaker 2: so it would be a waste of my time and
- 37:27Speaker 2: energy and breath to even attempt to start that conversation.
- 37:31Speaker 4: But it's not even just being black at this point,
- 37:33Speaker 4: it's about being a woman. At this point, you're voting
- 37:36Speaker 4: against my rights as a woman. And then I understand
- 37:38Speaker 4: that when you.
- 37:40Speaker 5: Need to fuck.
- 37:41Speaker 2: I understand people being confused. Also, he also said in Milania,
- 37:45Speaker 2: whatever his wife said, she doesn't believe in the government
- 37:48Speaker 2: having having anything in her and in the terms of
- 37:52Speaker 2: her body. And so that's confusing. If if a nigga
- 37:55Speaker 2: is telling you, I'm not gonna do this, I'm not
- 37:56Speaker 2: going to do that, but someone else is saying something else,
- 37:58Speaker 2: niggas are confused.
- 37:59Speaker 4: But he doesn't look at it. Look at the actions
- 38:02Speaker 4: they overturned Roe versus Wad under his term he was.
- 38:06Speaker 2: That wasn't when he was there. Yes, it was when
- 38:09Speaker 2: truck was in office. Yes, that wasn't during That wasn't
- 38:11Speaker 2: during Biden's term. That was recently. That was four years ago.
- 38:15Speaker 2: That was almost four years ago. Has it been four
- 38:17Speaker 2: years yes? And thin it was. That was per state,
- 38:21Speaker 2: So federally is one thing. Per state is different. So
- 38:24Speaker 2: I think that within the state, a lot of these
- 38:27Speaker 2: backwards ass states did that, and he was basically saying
- 38:29Speaker 2: that federally, he's not going to be in women's birth business. Obviously,
- 38:34Speaker 2: there's a lot of lies that are being generated from
- 38:36Speaker 2: the entire political parties. Honestly, the thing about me is,
- 38:39Speaker 2: I'm not a government type of bitch. I'm a black
- 38:43Speaker 2: person and I don't believe in any like American government
- 38:46Speaker 2: is fuck to me as an African American person, I believe.
- 38:50Speaker 2: I know people keep saying this like the greater of
- 38:52Speaker 2: two evils. America's evil as fuck. It always has been.
- 38:57Speaker 2: It's not a secret. So I don't subscribe to either
- 38:59Speaker 2: side just because I know they're both full of shit,
- 39:02Speaker 2: and it's both. It's both for profit and monetary gain.
- 39:05Speaker 2: It's not for the ethics or morals of the people
- 39:07Speaker 2: that they contain. So with accepting that, it's like, I
- 39:11Speaker 2: live here and let's just keep it moving until I
- 39:13Speaker 2: can get to Costa Rica permanently forever. I want to know.
- 39:16Speaker 2: I just for me, it's no new friends.
- 39:18Speaker 4: I got my friends, if you I mean, obviously, the
- 39:22Speaker 4: tribe is always the tribe. But when it comes oh
- 39:24Speaker 4: my god, actually there's a bitch in our who used
- 39:27Speaker 4: to be in our tribe that.
- 39:30Speaker 2: She blocked us on everything. Oh yeah, because we talked
- 39:33Speaker 2: about Palestine, and I'm like, wow, interesting. It's so it's
- 39:38Speaker 2: such an interesting, fickle time, and you know it's so
- 39:41Speaker 2: telling too that like the thing about it is like
- 39:45Speaker 2: people get in.
- 39:46Speaker 4: This is the thing and I'm guilty of this too,
- 39:48Speaker 4: is like we get in an uproar around around these topics, right,
- 39:51Speaker 4: and we get mad at our friends, and we get
- 39:53Speaker 4: mad at the people that we deem as whatever friends, acquaintances,
- 39:57Speaker 4: and then time fizzles out and then we're back to
- 40:01Speaker 4: going to brunch and then we're back to you know,
- 40:03Speaker 4: having play dates.
- 40:04Speaker 2: And it's like, did you go to brunch with any
- 40:06Speaker 2: of those people?
- 40:06Speaker 4: I'm not talking about them specifically, I'm just saying in general,
- 40:09Speaker 4: all of us like this, this is what happens. We
- 40:12Speaker 4: get it, We have this like outrage, and then we
- 40:15Speaker 4: go back to just whatever it feels normal again.
- 40:19Speaker 2: I think there was a turning point in my relationships
- 40:21Speaker 2: where I was like over different as like as an adult,
- 40:25Speaker 2: and I've kept those people in those places. Maybe we
- 40:29Speaker 2: would have contact with me. But am I calling you
- 40:31Speaker 2: every day?
- 40:31Speaker 1: No?
- 40:31Speaker 2: Am I keeping up with my life. No, I like,
- 40:34Speaker 2: as an adult as i've especially as a black woman
- 40:36Speaker 2: growing up in the valley, in certain situations, I was
- 40:39Speaker 2: just like, oh, okay, this is where I'll leave you forever.
- 40:43Speaker 2: Twelve degrees. You know, there's some people who are two
- 40:46Speaker 2: degrees or some people who are across the mountain around
- 40:48Speaker 2: the corner, and I just know how to jeeal in
- 40:50Speaker 2: those those distances and not like take it very personally
- 40:53Speaker 2: because then it's going to piss me the fuck off,
- 40:55Speaker 2: and then I might have to punch you in the face.
- 40:57Speaker 2: And I don't want to punch somebody in the face.
- 40:59Speaker 2: Late in life, I could be getting in a fight
- 41:00Speaker 2: at thirty six years old. Can you imagine if I
- 41:03Speaker 2: called you so I got a fits fight, girl, come
- 41:06Speaker 2: give me. I had to be her ass, I could imagine. Actually,
- 41:11Speaker 2: I'm surprised I ain't got one of those calls yet.
- 41:13Speaker 2: Shut up, now, you trying to make me the violent friend,
- 41:17Speaker 2: not me thinking about it.
- 41:18Speaker 1: I know.
- 41:19Speaker 2: Yeah, when was your last physical altercation? Probably like when
- 41:27Speaker 2: I live in Atlanta, I can think of two physical
- 41:30Speaker 2: altercations as an adult, Like once outside the club, this
- 41:37Speaker 2: bitch that was talking shit about me, and I saw
- 41:39Speaker 2: her in the club and I could not let it go.
- 41:42Speaker 2: I had to say something. And I was like, what
- 41:44Speaker 2: was that you said to so and so? And she
- 41:46Speaker 2: said we saw each other outside the club and we
- 41:48Speaker 2: got into a physical leducation. And then one time I
- 41:51Speaker 2: didn't I didn't really participate in it, but I was
- 41:53Speaker 2: talking shit because I have a really my gift is
- 41:55Speaker 2: talking shit with like a very straight face, with like
- 41:57Speaker 2: a smile on my face. And I really pissed some
- 42:00Speaker 2: got my gift. I was just like jokingly but like
- 42:03Speaker 2: getting under this person's skin. And I was just talking
- 42:05Speaker 2: sitting on the bed. It was really late with a
- 42:07Speaker 2: bunch of people, and she jumped across the bed to
- 42:09Speaker 2: attack me. But that was it. That was about fifteen
- 42:13Speaker 2: years ago, What about you.
- 42:15Speaker 4: My last one was about eleven years ago at Casa
- 42:20Speaker 4: Vega eleven.
- 42:22Speaker 2: That's not about actually wait no, it's not. Costaviga was
- 42:24Speaker 2: another Oh MEXICALI, oh right here, Ventre. Yeah, shout out
- 42:27Speaker 2: to MEXICALI down why.
- 42:30Speaker 1: It was.
- 42:30Speaker 2: It was very uncalled for.
- 42:31Speaker 4: Actually we were all there was a long it was
- 42:34Speaker 4: single to mile. There was a very long ass fucket yeah, tequila.
- 42:37Speaker 2: There was Keep in mind these physical altercations removed by
- 42:40Speaker 2: domestic violent situations because that would have been more recent
- 42:43Speaker 2: for me.
- 42:43Speaker 4: There, yeah, there was uh oh yeah because second name
- 42:47Speaker 4: one of those two, because.
- 42:48Speaker 5: That would be last year.
- 42:50Speaker 2: Oh sure, yeah for me. No wait, there was a
- 42:54Speaker 2: long ass line.
- 42:55Speaker 4: We were all waiting to pee and this bitch was
- 42:57Speaker 4: in there for a fucking ever and I was next
- 42:59Speaker 4: up and I was knocking, like hello, bitch. She opened
- 43:03Speaker 4: the doors swinging. No way, Yeah, she opened the door,
- 43:08Speaker 4: she fears lf. No, she opened the door because she
- 43:10Speaker 4: was mad. I was knocking trying to get in because
- 43:12Speaker 4: bitch took Lois in there. I don't know if she
- 43:14Speaker 4: was doing some fucking cocaine or what the fuck she
- 43:16Speaker 4: was doing, but she was taking too goddamn long and
- 43:17Speaker 4: I had to pee and there was a long ass
- 43:19Speaker 4: line and everyone was like what the fuck.
- 43:21Speaker 5: So she came out swinging and we started fighting and
- 43:23Speaker 5: they had to break it.
- 43:24Speaker 2: Up and then that was it.
- 43:25Speaker 4: But that was that was my last physical altercation. I
- 43:27Speaker 4: don't like to fight because I'm like my face, I
- 43:30Speaker 4: like it. I don't want to get my face hit.
- 43:32Speaker 4: I don't want to get scratched and I might black out.
- 43:35Speaker 2: I don't I don't.
- 43:35Speaker 4: I don't trust myself in that situation. I haven't fought
- 43:38Speaker 4: a lot of bitches in my life. I fought more
- 43:40Speaker 4: niggas in my life and the bitches.
- 43:44Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I just don't believe in getting in a
- 43:47Speaker 2: fight at this grown age, now, will I? I'm very
- 43:49Speaker 2: much have two parents from Philly. Absolutely, I'll fucking fight
- 43:52Speaker 2: you if need be. But I don't think it's classy
- 43:56Speaker 2: as a fucking grown ass adult, and it's not my
- 43:57Speaker 2: go to. However, there are a couple of things spinning
- 44:00Speaker 2: in my face. Certain words. Yeah, I'll beat your fucking
- 44:03Speaker 2: ass and it's gonna be go time, and I might
- 44:04Speaker 2: pull a knife or something. But other than that, you
- 44:06Speaker 2: got a knife, No, but I would break a glass
- 44:09Speaker 2: and make it a shank. I don't know. I've seen
- 44:10Speaker 2: movies Flash Bleach. You know, I'm ninety eight pounds. I
- 44:15Speaker 2: gotta do what I gotta do. Weapons all around can
- 44:17Speaker 2: be weapons.
- 44:18Speaker 5: You know, there's the key with the key between the fingers.
- 44:20Speaker 2: Listen, I'll bite all the things. I just would recommend
- 44:23Speaker 2: you get in a fight with a little person because
- 44:24Speaker 2: I'll go love not like Michelle obomb Michello, bombshell bomb Anyway,
- 44:39Speaker 2: it feels like a good time to segment into secrets Safe.
- 44:42Speaker 2: Is your secret safe that I might beat somebody's ass
- 44:44Speaker 2: with a shank?
- 44:46Speaker 1: Uh?
- 44:46Speaker 4: So this segment secret Safe is for you to write
- 44:50Speaker 4: in and share your secrets with us anonymously.
- 44:54Speaker 2: We know how to keep a secret. So if you
- 44:56Speaker 2: are interested or.
- 44:57Speaker 5: Have something you want to share.
- 44:58Speaker 4: Maybe you can't tell the homies, maybe you can't even
- 45:01Speaker 4: bear to tell yourself, tell us.
- 45:04Speaker 5: Go ahead and click the link in this episode description,
- 45:06Speaker 5: or you can.
- 45:06Speaker 2: Just go to Good Momsbad Choices dot com and tell
- 45:10Speaker 2: us your secrets. We won't say your name if you
- 45:12Speaker 2: don't want us.
- 45:12Speaker 5: Tom, So, this was a write in question, a write
- 45:17Speaker 5: in secret?
- 45:17Speaker 2: Excuse me? Okay, please don't judge. Is this has been
- 45:22Speaker 2: hard enough already?
- 45:23Speaker 4: I just found out the guy I've been dating for
- 45:25Speaker 4: the last five months has a whole other secret life
- 45:28Speaker 4: with a wife and two kids. He doesn't know that
- 45:31Speaker 4: I know, and I haven't told his wife yet. Of course,
- 45:33Speaker 4: I'm not going to keep dating him, but I'm torn
- 45:35Speaker 4: on whether or not I should tell his wife. I'm
- 45:37Speaker 4: a little fearful of his retaliation, so I really don't.
- 45:40Speaker 2: Know what to do.
- 45:42Speaker 5: What would you do.
- 45:44Speaker 2: A I just really want to know, like how motherfucking
- 45:48Speaker 2: spy wear all these niggas Because me, as a woman,
- 45:52Speaker 2: my intuition is so high. I ask so many questions,
- 45:57Speaker 2: where do you live? All the things, so many questions.
- 46:02Speaker 2: I don't know if this could pass me, Like maybe
- 46:05Speaker 2: it was long distance. Oh, I mean even then nigga
- 46:08Speaker 2: facetimey bitch. Yeah. This reminds with an episode he once
- 46:13Speaker 2: had I'm triggered, I'm dating a married man, where Erica
- 46:17Speaker 2: was stating a married man long distance because because niggas
- 46:20Speaker 2: are strange, and they kind of did research because we
- 46:23Speaker 2: tell all our business on the internet, and he knew
- 46:24Speaker 2: exactly what to do and say. He did and he
- 46:27Speaker 2: and he was facetiming, and he was facetiming me. He
- 46:30Speaker 2: was face timing me with his son, his son like
- 46:33Speaker 2: saying hi, yeah, Yes. He was flying out like he
- 46:39Speaker 2: driving out to our show, like he was doing a lot.
- 46:43Speaker 1: What was that?
- 46:43Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen of twenty nineteen, Please, if you guys have
- 46:48Speaker 2: not dipped back in the archives, it is worth dipping
- 46:50Speaker 2: back in the archives to listen to I'm Dating a
- 46:53Speaker 2: married man. It is my my dear, dear, my best friend,
- 46:57Speaker 2: my brother, shout out to Sebastian.
- 47:00Speaker 4: He really coached me through this very dark time in
- 47:02Speaker 4: my life. And when as far as just like any good.
- 47:06Speaker 5: Gay man would do, he wrote a letter to the
- 47:09Speaker 5: wife for me.
- 47:11Speaker 2: So you know, did you have done that? Had he
- 47:13Speaker 2: not done it for you, would you have contacted her
- 47:16Speaker 2: in any way? Or would just let it go? I
- 47:20Speaker 2: would have contacted her. I mean I did. I threw him,
- 47:24Speaker 2: you know, like that was my choice. I mean he didn't.
- 47:27Speaker 2: He didn't do it on his own accord. I mean,
- 47:29Speaker 2: I don't know sebas should be doing.
- 47:33Speaker 4: I think that you know, and and and granted did
- 47:36Speaker 4: it change the situation. No, the bitch was got pregnant
- 47:38Speaker 4: and the probably.
- 47:39Speaker 2: Still forgot She got pregnant right after that and had
- 47:42Speaker 2: a baby with him.
- 47:43Speaker 4: And you know, I think sometimes women go like double
- 47:46Speaker 4: down even more when that happens.
- 47:48Speaker 2: That's never, which is never a good look like ever,
- 47:52Speaker 2: It's just never.
- 47:53Speaker 4: But I don't know, like I think that as from
- 47:57Speaker 4: a woman to woman, I leave that she deserves to know.
- 48:02Speaker 4: But do not be surprised if nothing changes you. You
- 48:05Speaker 4: really need to wash your hands with this completely, like
- 48:07Speaker 4: you said you are. I hope you have, But I
- 48:10Speaker 4: would want to know.
- 48:13Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you just on the just on
- 48:14Speaker 2: the karma in general. Whatever you choose to do with
- 48:18Speaker 2: this information.
- 48:18Speaker 4: Is on you.
- 48:19Speaker 2: But I'm gonna let you know, bitch, this is what
- 48:21Speaker 2: your nigga's doing. But yeah, I do. If I if
- 48:24Speaker 2: it was happening to me, I would want to know.
- 48:25Speaker 2: I don't even know how my husband could ever think
- 48:28Speaker 2: he was having upside bitch because I'm a nosy bitch
- 48:30Speaker 2: on both sides. Yeah, laugh, because it's never happening. It
- 48:35Speaker 2: would never happen because I am too nosy. I'm all
- 48:38Speaker 2: up in your phone, I'm all up in your whereabouts,
- 48:40Speaker 2: and I asked too many questions. But I do know
- 48:44Speaker 2: that they're sneaky double live leading men because I even
- 48:46Speaker 2: met that guy. I met that guy who was she
- 48:49Speaker 2: met to the podcast. She was talking to him for
- 48:51Speaker 2: a while. He was sending stuff, being kind, all types
- 48:54Speaker 2: of shit. They were really dating. He took us to dinner,
- 48:58Speaker 2: he came out to dinner. Was it? Who was I with? Ashley? Oh? Okay.
- 49:04Speaker 2: But for the men who are listening and the men
- 49:06Speaker 2: who do shit like this, what the fuck is the point?
- 49:10Speaker 2: What are you doing? And if you're grown like to me,
- 49:14Speaker 2: if you're a late in life cheater, like an old
- 49:16Speaker 2: ass nigga that cheats, I don't think they're late in life.
- 49:18Speaker 2: I think they've been doing this. I just feel like
- 49:20Speaker 2: your I just feel your whole life's a lie and
- 49:22Speaker 2: that's on you, Like I don't. I think this even
- 49:25Speaker 2: goes to your ex. Like there's a couple of people
- 49:27Speaker 2: I could think of specifically who go so hard to
- 49:31Speaker 2: to present as one thing and then when you find
- 49:34Speaker 2: out you're not. You know what I think also for
- 49:36Speaker 2: us as podcasters. For us as podcasters, we talk so
- 49:40Speaker 2: honestly all the time, even the things that are not
- 49:42Speaker 2: so desirable. You know, like I'm gonna say some shit
- 49:44Speaker 2: even if I know it's going to make a nigga
- 49:45Speaker 2: judge me, but I'm still gonna say it because it's
- 49:47Speaker 2: the truth. So if somebody goes so far to hide
- 49:50Speaker 2: who they are, it makes me know that you don't
- 49:53Speaker 2: really like yourself or what you represent, and you hate
- 49:56Speaker 2: it so much that you'd create a whole facade over
- 49:59Speaker 2: who it is. So it's always just like, damn, I
- 50:02Speaker 2: feel bad for you because you really dislike yourself and
- 50:05Speaker 2: you don't have any self love and that's something even
- 50:07Speaker 2: deeper that you have to go on the journey into.
- 50:09Speaker 2: And I have no time for it and no guidance,
- 50:11Speaker 2: but it does make me feel like, damn, what a
- 50:14Speaker 2: sad life to live. Long story short, bitch, Tell her, yeah,
- 50:21Speaker 2: tell her and make sure she gets the message. Yeah,
- 50:25Speaker 2: like email her directly, like Sebastian did. Yeah. As a
- 50:30Speaker 2: matter of fact, can we play that clip? Yeah? I
- 50:32Speaker 2: think Orlando. Can we insert Yeah? I think we need
- 50:34Speaker 2: to insert the clip.
- 50:35Speaker 4: We need to insert the clip of Sebastian reading the
- 50:37Speaker 4: message to Kishan Khan.
- 50:40Speaker 2: That was his name. Oh Sean, I should have known. God,
- 50:43Speaker 2: his voice bothered me. Yeah, beautiful. Before we before we
- 50:52Speaker 2: let go of this topic, let me talking about Kishan.
- 50:56Speaker 2: It was around Halloween time and he told Erica that
- 50:58Speaker 2: he was dressing up as Martin. Shut up, and I said, girl,
- 51:02Speaker 2: you know good and god damn, well, no one's dressing
- 51:04Speaker 2: up as Martin without Gina. You knew he was married,
- 51:06Speaker 2: because how the fuck you just gonna be Martin? What's
- 51:09Speaker 2: she gonna wear? You have to have Gina. And sure enough,
- 51:13Speaker 2: well we finally got into this, got into the files.
- 51:16Speaker 2: There was a picture of him because no one's gonna
- 51:20Speaker 2: be just fucking Keishawn as Martin. No one's gonna know
- 51:23Speaker 2: who you are. The fact that we say his government name,
- 51:26Speaker 2: that's what the fuck? You get? What the fun I
- 51:27Speaker 2: should say your last name? What was it? The b damn?
- 51:32Speaker 2: All her friends are gonna know he's where was he?
- 51:34Speaker 5: North Carolina?
- 51:35Speaker 2: Always get the Carolina, one of the Carolinas. There's bored
- 51:38Speaker 2: as states where you've got nothing to do. No, sorry,
- 51:41Speaker 2: I didn't mean to say that. There's a lot of
- 51:42Speaker 2: stuff to do there. It's just him, lots of things
- 51:45Speaker 2: to do. You go with your state statism. Sorry, guys,
- 51:52Speaker 2: Oh we didn't pull a card? Or is it terrible?
- 51:56Speaker 2: Or did we not smoke a joint?
- 51:57Speaker 4: Okay, well hold on, oh speaking of this joint, I
- 52:01Speaker 4: didn't get to tell you last episode.
- 52:03Speaker 5: This is a very very special strain.
- 52:07Speaker 2: You did start with saying that, and then you never
- 52:10Speaker 2: never shared why why. This comes straight from my parents' backyard,
- 52:15Speaker 2: actually not the backyard, my brother's bedroom where my stepfather
- 52:19Speaker 2: was cultivating cannabis because my brother went to college, so
- 52:24Speaker 2: he made I don't think you should tell their business.
- 52:25Speaker 5: But okay, that's fine, schol we're in fororing we're in
- 52:28Speaker 5: Cali for.
- 52:31Speaker 2: Anyway.
- 52:31Speaker 4: Fine, anyway, he grew this. It took about a thousand years,
- 52:37Speaker 4: and that does not take two months. It took forever
- 52:39Speaker 4: because he takes forever, and this is forever does He's slow.
- 52:45Speaker 4: He's slow. I love him dearly, but everything he does
- 52:47Speaker 4: is slow. He cooks slow, he talks slow, he thinks slow.
- 52:50Speaker 2: And he's a great man. And the cannabis. But you
- 52:53Speaker 2: know what I will say, when people take their time,
- 52:55Speaker 2: they make good product. I do, and the product is
- 52:58Speaker 2: is good product. Taking the shout out to Rory smells good.
- 53:04Speaker 2: I don't know what strain this is. It's so it
- 53:07Speaker 2: feels like a hybrid. Actually, no, this seems like a og.
- 53:13Speaker 2: Basically that all the weed people tell me that everything's
- 53:16Speaker 2: a hybrid. Don't get it twisted, which I could see
- 53:22Speaker 2: all contaminating each other. Okay, yeah, I've been wheezing lately.
- 53:33Speaker 2: Probably I mean me too, probably because we've probably at
- 53:35Speaker 2: some point you need to stop smoking weed.
- 53:36Speaker 5: But no, I think it's allergies.
- 53:39Speaker 2: Okay, couldn't be weed. Nope, it's allergies.
- 53:45Speaker 4: Let me just take a moment to cleanse the palate
- 53:47Speaker 4: after all the shit talking we did a little palette.
- 53:51Speaker 2: Cleanser wherever you are, just take a few deep breaths, sounds,
- 54:05Speaker 2: remove the tension from your body. That's nice what you
- 54:15Speaker 2: do with wheed. Oh yeah, using weed with the breath
- 54:19Speaker 2: work is actually a clutch.
- 54:28Speaker 1: Too.
- 54:29Speaker 2: Can do weed and breath work together in Costa Rica
- 54:32Speaker 2: with me and Jamila February first through the sixth in
- 54:36Speaker 2: Costa Rica near the Black Sand beaches. That's strong on
- 54:41Speaker 2: the Caribbean side, yuess.
- 54:43Speaker 1: It is.
- 54:45Speaker 2: For those of you who smoke cannabis.
- 54:47Speaker 5: It's also available.
- 54:48Speaker 4: I know people always ask me, can we smoke weed?
- 54:51Speaker 4: I'm in Costa Rica, yes, and but in fact we
- 54:54Speaker 4: will provide it for you.
- 54:55Speaker 2: Don't you worry. You've got everything, everything you need, You've
- 54:58Speaker 2: took it, taken care of it. Breathing for you. Pick
- 55:01Speaker 2: a card, my love. King of Pentacles, hmmm, the King
- 55:10Speaker 2: of Pentacles. That's the King of the Money.
- 55:15Speaker 4: He looks like he's he's really proud of himself, like
- 55:18Speaker 4: he's he's accomplished things.
- 55:20Speaker 5: He looks like fairness and show the camera luxury.
- 55:25Speaker 2: He stands for wealth, business, leadership, security, discipline, and abundance.
- 55:30Speaker 2: The King of Pentacles represents material wealth, financial abundance and
- 55:34Speaker 2: worldly success. This king is a faithful provider. He uses
- 55:37Speaker 2: his ambition and confidence to create wealth for himself and others,
- 55:40Speaker 2: and generates his self worth from what he has accumulated
- 55:43Speaker 2: and can share with others. He is also a fatherly
- 55:46Speaker 2: figure who provides others with advice, guidance, wisdom, especially in
- 55:50Speaker 2: financial and work related matters. When the King of Pentacles
- 55:53Speaker 2: appears in a terror reading, you are confident and successful
- 55:56Speaker 2: at attracting and managing wealth. Not only do you identify
- 55:59Speaker 2: opportunities for growth and success, but you also draw upon
- 56:02Speaker 2: your self discipline and control to manage your wealth and
- 56:04Speaker 2: invest in wisely for the long term. Hmm my four
- 56:08Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. The King of Pentacles indicates that you
- 56:11Speaker 2: can translate your vision into something tangible, practical, and often
- 56:16Speaker 2: very lucrative. You are the ultimate business owner. Amen, Amen, Amen, Yes, yes,
- 56:24Speaker 2: I'll take that. Twenty twenty five. We've gotten some good
- 56:27Speaker 2: cards this last two weeks. You standing on business, stand
- 56:30Speaker 2: on business. Did y'all see our trailer because we stand
- 56:33Speaker 2: on BABS trailer. You saw it right and now you
- 56:36Speaker 2: saw it. You liked it, didn't you? You did it?
- 56:38Speaker 2: You saw it we're bossy, right. We've she was acting,
- 56:40Speaker 2: saw her acting debut. She was not our acting debut.
- 56:44Speaker 2: We've been acted so many times, bitch, We've had a
- 56:47Speaker 2: two women show. It's not acting, it's real life, but
- 56:51Speaker 2: it is entertaining. Yeah. I think we were talking about
- 56:58Speaker 2: before we start this episode that a lot of times,
- 57:01Speaker 2: at a certain age, people people cap their passions and
- 57:07Speaker 2: their creativity and the things that they can tap into.
- 57:10Speaker 2: And I just want to say, because sometimes I fall
- 57:14Speaker 2: victim to this too, Because society, you could be a
- 57:18Speaker 2: late in life whatever you want to be, except a
- 57:20Speaker 2: bad person, that would be a waste of time. But like,
- 57:24Speaker 2: if you want to act late in life, like even
- 57:27Speaker 2: the guy both Well, one of the gentlemen who was
- 57:30Speaker 2: in our art. Wait, we got to stop calling it
- 57:32Speaker 2: late in life. You know where that came from. I
- 57:36Speaker 2: know where it comes from, the late life lesbian. One
- 57:39Speaker 2: time somebody wrote us in and they were like, I'm
- 57:43Speaker 2: a late in life lesbian lesbian, and ever since then
- 57:46Speaker 2: we've been like late in life, porn style, late in life, Peter,
- 57:49Speaker 2: everything's late in life. Shout out to that girl. I
- 57:51Speaker 2: wonder if she's still lesbian. Oh my god, I hope
- 57:53Speaker 2: she is I just live in her truth, or maybe
- 57:56Speaker 2: you fall out of lesbianism like me. Maybe she seemed
- 57:59Speaker 2: like she was really she really needed to go in
- 58:01Speaker 2: there for a while. Can you relate this for me? Absolutely?
- 58:05Speaker 2: I know, But I just feel like sometimes later in
- 58:08Speaker 2: the latter years, people have a lot of fear about
- 58:11Speaker 2: starting something new because there's this expectation that you have
- 58:14Speaker 2: to be wildly successful or make a lot of money.
- 58:16Speaker 2: And I think it's ridiculous, and I have experienced this,
- 58:19Speaker 2: like this year I forgot I mean, I started a
- 58:20Speaker 2: podcast with Orlando called Love Like This. Go listen to it.
- 58:24Speaker 2: But I had a lot of anxiety around it, even
- 58:26Speaker 2: though obviously I know I already podcast, but I only
- 58:28Speaker 2: do it with Erica, and it's so I'm used to
- 58:29Speaker 2: doing with Erica. And it was very it was very
- 58:32Speaker 2: telling for me that I had so much fear around
- 58:34Speaker 2: it and like anxiety, and I was like, Pitch, you
- 58:37Speaker 2: didn't have fear where you were sitting in the dining
- 58:38Speaker 2: room with Erica, and I just had to like do it.
- 58:41Speaker 2: And it took some time to feel like, to realize that.
- 58:45Speaker 2: And it's just like even with my sexology and my
- 58:48Speaker 2: tantric practitionership is like even with writing a book, you know,
- 58:54Speaker 2: it's just like we tell ourselves so many lies and
- 58:57Speaker 2: it really handicaps us from like expanding and doing other
- 59:01Speaker 2: things and literally having fun doing it and like discovering
- 59:04Speaker 2: parts of ourselves that we haven't honored. And so I
- 59:07Speaker 2: just want to say, if you're late in life anything,
- 59:10Speaker 2: do it. I agreed.
- 59:12Speaker 4: I've been really thinking about that a lot lately too,
- 59:15Speaker 4: because I've recently got back into acting, and you know,
- 59:21Speaker 4: acting kind of like broke my heart for a while
- 59:23Speaker 4: because I've been auditioning and acting for the majority of
- 59:27Speaker 4: my life. And actually it's so crazy now that I'm
- 59:30Speaker 4: getting back into it, because it feels like I was.
- 59:32Speaker 5: Like, oh my god, that was a whole lifetime of.
- 59:35Speaker 4: This thing until like it started to give me so
- 59:38Speaker 4: much anxiety that I needed to take a break. And
- 59:40Speaker 4: I think there's also that is like not being afraid
- 59:42Speaker 4: to take a break from something and thinking it's the
- 59:44Speaker 4: end because you need to go focus on that late
- 59:48Speaker 4: in life whatever, you know what I mean, like being
- 59:50Speaker 4: able to also dissect that idea as well, because some
- 59:54Speaker 4: of that is being fear of quitting your job and
- 59:56Speaker 4: switching careers. Some of that is like, oh, I'm actually
- 59:59Speaker 4: in the art and I'm doing things, but I actually
- 1:00:02Speaker 4: don't want to do this anymore.
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: Well I'm successful at it, like why would I stop?
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: Or you know what, it's just also starting something at
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: the beginning, it can be overwhelmed, it could be intimidating.
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: And because we do have this idea socially that at
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: a certain age you have to be an expert. But
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: guess what, you don't have to be an expert at
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: anything as long as you genuinely enjoy it.
- 1:00:26Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you become an expert because you're going
- 1:00:28Speaker 4: to be actively doing it, because you're really going to
- 1:00:32Speaker 4: embody it at some point, even if at first you're
- 1:00:35Speaker 4: just learning what it is, you know. So yeah, And
- 1:00:39Speaker 4: I've been seeing other women kind of tap into that,
- 1:00:41Speaker 4: Like I'm seeing some of the women that are in
- 1:00:43Speaker 4: my life and in my circle starting to.
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: Explore themselves in that way.
- 1:00:48Speaker 4: And I think that is also a telling sign of
- 1:00:51Speaker 4: like a woman that women that have agreed to.
- 1:00:55Speaker 5: Have chosen to heal and know themselves.
- 1:00:57Speaker 4: You start to be able to give yourself permission to
- 1:00:59Speaker 4: even con that, you know, like sometimes the block is so.
- 1:01:02Speaker 5: Deep you can't even consider you want to be what
- 1:01:06Speaker 5: you want to sing? Bitch, what are you talking about?
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: Well, the mind is such a like like the mind,
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: like the the the energetic weight we give other people's
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: opinions that actually, like it's an illusion, No it doesn't matter,
- 1:01:20Speaker 2: but like the opinions of others is such a heavy
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: energetic weight sometimes that it literally paralyzes us from the
- 1:01:28Speaker 2: expansion that is sometimes necessary to like tap into the
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: get to the next realm, the next level. Yeah. No,
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: I was the other day.
- 1:01:37Speaker 4: So my partner, he sings, and he's been like wanting
- 1:01:41Speaker 4: to me to sing on songs with him, and you know,
- 1:01:44Speaker 4: I love singing, but I don't know.
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: Like again, I was like, that's done.
- 1:01:48Speaker 4: I actively told myself I'm cool, Like I love music,
- 1:01:51Speaker 4: you know, I have really great taste in music. Sound
- 1:01:54Speaker 4: is really important to me. But I'm not that anymore.
- 1:01:58Speaker 4: And so he was like asked me to sing. We did,
- 1:02:00Speaker 4: and then he was like giving me notes that I
- 1:02:02Speaker 4: can feel myself like the critique like wanting to paralyze
- 1:02:05Speaker 4: me and even like like.
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: To say not even do it.
- 1:02:07Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And I was like, huh breathe.
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: Like why a you're taking it this, Like why a
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: you're taking it personally.
- 1:02:13Speaker 4: It's not that like having to walk myself through and
- 1:02:17Speaker 4: experience like that, especially like this person loves me, like
- 1:02:21Speaker 4: he's only he wants to be here.
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: But observing that your initial reaction to those, like to
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: certain words, even though you get, you had that, you
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: had that moment where you get you get to choose
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: if it means this or.
- 1:02:32Speaker 4: That, but taking that pause and then but also because
- 1:02:36Speaker 4: I'm so connected to my body, I can feel how
- 1:02:38Speaker 4: my body like what it started to do.
- 1:02:40Speaker 5: And I was like, damn, Whereas before I wouldn't even
- 1:02:43Speaker 5: feel it. I wouldn't even know it was happening.
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: I would literally just flee right Like I feel my
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: body going into flight mode. You can identify it, and
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: you can you can reverse I can reverse it, like
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: I can really truly do that. Yeah, re read redirect
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: the energy and say, hey, this is not real. Your
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: mind just told you that. Let's redirect it here and
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: let it. That's a really good friend. It was cool. Yeah,
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: and I'm still working through it and I'm going to
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: keep doing it because it was fun and I found
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: it good being good, good.
- 1:03:27Speaker 5: Hello after you.
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: Took the notes willingly so funny it's true, but like
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: you know that that's that's the perka being later on
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: in life and being aware and intentional. It's like, am
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: I staying in the same programming or am I taking
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: the time to observe how I feel and like why
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: I feel that way and how I'm showing up and
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: then like once I figure that out, do I continue
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: because it's comfortable, or do I then do this thing
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: that's like I'm resisting from because I'm so used to
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: doing this. That's how I protect myself.
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: You know.
- 1:04:02Speaker 4: It was even more like it's an added layer and
- 1:04:05Speaker 4: it was probably the thing that kept me going was
- 1:04:08Speaker 4: Irie like she came she's I realized she was witnessing me.
- 1:04:13Speaker 4: She was there, she was in the house, and then
- 1:04:14Speaker 4: she came in, was like, what are you doing? And
- 1:04:16Speaker 4: she's like I want to hear and you know, it's
- 1:04:17Speaker 4: like she's witnessing me do something she's never seen me do,
- 1:04:20Speaker 4: and like she's never she's heard of that.
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: But you get to make an example exactly, and if
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: you flee, she'll when she something comes up for her.
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
- 1:04:28Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I was like, Okay, no, this is
- 1:04:30Speaker 4: this is actually even more important right now, it's not
- 1:04:33Speaker 4: even about me.
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: Yes it is, and it's all going to be good.
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: Only good is going to come from this if I
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: say yes.
- 1:04:40Speaker 4: So you know it's yeah, it was interesting, it's interesting,
- 1:04:44Speaker 4: and that's also I'm like, okay, so then.
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: I have now I have to commit and how you
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: grow out of it too? Because even Luna was talking
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: she wants to like do Broadway. She's obsessed with Hamilton.
- 1:04:51Speaker 2: And we went to Ashley's and we were they were like,
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: we were waiting for you, for you guys to do karaoke,
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: and I was like she called me. I was like,
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: you called me about carry because she's like, yeah, you
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: guys hear it. So I turned out was like Luna,
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: what are you going to do it? I'm like, do
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: something for a Hambleton. She's like, no, I'm not going
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: to do it. And I was like, how are you
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: going to do Broadway if you won't do the thing,
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: And she's like and I was like, listen, you know
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: it's like me and Erica we do shows. I'm like,
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: I'm scared every single time. I'm nervous. I was like,
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: but then I just have to do it. And I
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: was like there comes au point you're gonna have to
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: just do it. And she's just like I can see
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: it all in her head, like she's heady because at
- 1:05:21Speaker 2: home with us singing, dancing like vibrant, and I'm like,
- 1:05:24Speaker 2: it's so interesting, you know, And it's like, truly we're
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: just child versions of ourselves, because truly, I'm so nervous
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: when we do shows, Like I'm telling Eric, I'm like,
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: I'm so nervous, like shaking, you know, fifth time we
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: did it that week, you know, but still it's like
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: something you may not ever get over the nerves. But
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: it's like, but are you going to be the bit
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: she says, fuck it and I do it anyway? Are
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: you going to be let it like debilitate you to
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: not move? And then you have regrets? Yeah, I feel
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: like I've done both. As a kid, I've frozen.
- 1:05:58Speaker 4: As an adult, I've put through, I've pushed through, but
- 1:06:03Speaker 4: felt frozen.
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: The whole time and knew it was horrible.
- 1:06:07Speaker 4: Have you ever known that you never had that feeling
- 1:06:09Speaker 4: where you're like, this is going bad, but you're not
- 1:06:14Speaker 4: going well at all, And then it's yeah, and then
- 1:06:18Speaker 4: maybe you've even fleeed, you know, you like try to
- 1:06:21Speaker 4: forget about that ever happening, and just like keeping and
- 1:06:24Speaker 4: putting it away and drawer at the bottom.
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: Feelings are so much got I'm so sometimes I'm over them,
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: but I know that's no way to get over them.
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: You gotta go in them. Yeah, I gotta run in
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: that shit is. That's the journey. That's what else are
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: we supposed to be doing here? We'd be bored as
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: hell doing everything was safe. If our nervous system was regulated,
- 1:06:48Speaker 2: we'd be fucked. If I don't, there'd be no drama.
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: There'd be no drama, there'd be no love stories. What
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: would be doing We'll be watching Day Along and ship right,
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: you're right. The whole life is all about learning to
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: understand your nervous system and learning to regulate it very much.
- 1:07:09Speaker 2: But there's always going to be predator. There's always going
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: to be the good, the bad, the duality of both. Yeah,
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: oh my god, that's for another episode.
- 1:07:17Speaker 4: I have a whole episode, because, bitch, we were talking
- 1:07:21Speaker 4: about the ancestors and the oh my god, the drama
- 1:07:24Speaker 4: of the ancestors, and like, how there's duality up there
- 1:07:27Speaker 4: in that space, that there's duality in every is that
- 1:07:30Speaker 4: the heaven realm. It's like in between, like because you're
- 1:07:34Speaker 4: an ancestor not, you're not necessarily like a fucking like
- 1:07:38Speaker 4: a master teacher. You're just up there hoping that you're
- 1:07:42Speaker 4: hoping that your descendants are feeding you like they're thirsty
- 1:07:45Speaker 4: up there too. There's like probably a graveyard of ancestors
- 1:07:48Speaker 4: just underfed, and shit, no one's saying hi, giving offering anything.
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: So yeah, anyway, that's that's a whole other conversation, but
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: yes it is. Join me on an episode of Erica's
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: Deep High Thoughts, the drama Ancestors. There's a hotel novella
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: happening up there anyway.
- 1:08:12Speaker 5: Well, this is Smaniel affirmation affirmation.
- 1:08:19Speaker 2: There was one I had with.
- 1:08:22Speaker 5: No new friends, just the ones that accept you.
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: No new friends, just the ones I.
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: Think, like you.
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: Just want to think, just think just like you. I'm
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: so high. I think it's affirmation time. You guys were high.
- 1:08:44Speaker 2: Today's affirmation is the only fucks I have to give
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: are the ones that serve my mind, body and soul.
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: The only fucks I have to give are the ones
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: that serve my mind, body and soul and soul. And
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: so tray, Thank you, guys, for joining us today. It
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: has been another pleasure, another pleasure. My Stepdaddy's weed got
- 1:09:11Speaker 2: us a little toasted. It's gonna be a little slow,
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: made me feel slow. Damn God, damn, thank you.
- 1:09:19Speaker 5: Pick more from the garden.
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