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Polygamy or Perjury · Sistas IN Sync

0:35
SPEAKER_00: Hey you guys, it's your girl Ashley.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: Hey y'all, it's Diamond.
0:40
SPEAKER_00: And we are here for another episode of Sisters in Sync.
0:44
SPEAKER_00: We are back.
0:46
SPEAKER_00: Um, much better, much better.
0:50
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
0:51
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
0:52
SPEAKER_00: So we are back, you guys.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: You know, Halloween just passed.
0:56
SPEAKER_00: We had babies that had to chick-a-treat.
0:59
SPEAKER_00: We're getting PhDs, you know, Diamond has her job.
1:04
SPEAKER_00: Um we're all the things, you know, saw the things, all the things.
1:10
SPEAKER_00: So, sis, how you feeling?
1:12
SPEAKER_00: What's going on in the D's world?
1:15
SPEAKER_01: Woo, man, that is a loaded question.
1:19
SPEAKER_01: Um, I would say I am not in the best place mentally.
1:29
SPEAKER_01: Um, so I've I would say since middle school, I've dealt with bouts of depression.
1:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, and I think in my late 20s, early 30s is when I really put like a label on it.
1:49
SPEAKER_01: I would say back then when I was in middle and high school, I didn't really know what depression was, or you know, if I had uh, or I wasn't formally diagnosed or anything like that.
2:03
SPEAKER_01: But I would say about 25 is when um I really was able to, you know, seek help and like get a formal diagnosis um of depression.
2:17
SPEAKER_01: So I do have like a formal diagnosis of anxiety and depression.
2:22
SPEAKER_01: And I was actually on medication um for a while, and then I got off medication, you know, just to be completely transparent because it was um affecting my sex drive and my libido.
2:40
SPEAKER_01: So I was like, man, I'm too young, you know, being married and stuff.
2:43
SPEAKER_01: I should be, you know, getting it in, you know.
2:47
SPEAKER_01: Um so I had stopped, stopped taking my medication.
2:52
SPEAKER_01: And so it had been about three months, and I would say in the last two weeks is where I'm just like, I'm just not myself.
3:03
SPEAKER_01: And it to kind of make it easier to understand, it's just like a dark cloud is following me.
3:13
SPEAKER_01: Um it reminds me of the, I think it was Zolof commercial when it first came out.
3:18
SPEAKER_01: It was like the little cloud cartoon.
3:21
SPEAKER_01: And he was just like, yes, and he was just walking around, just raining, everything else was sunny, but he was down.
3:28
SPEAKER_01: Um that's kind of what it feels like.
3:32
SPEAKER_01: It's just like a really almost hopeless type of situation where you don't know why you're sad, you don't know why you're upset, so much so that last Monday um I was in such a horrible mood at work.
3:49
SPEAKER_01: And I was just like, man, I gotta get out of here.
3:52
SPEAKER_01: And so I cleared my schedule.
3:53
SPEAKER_01: I left about 12 o'clock and came on home.
3:56
SPEAKER_01: And later on that night, I was talking to K-Ron, you know, about how I was feeling.
4:00
SPEAKER_01: I broke down.
4:02
SPEAKER_01: I was just like, man, I'm just like not feeling myself.
4:05
SPEAKER_01: And um, shout out to my husband, you know, just being very Yeah, shout out to K-Ron.
4:10
SPEAKER_00: Shout to him.
4:11
SPEAKER_01: Yes, he's just a just an amazing man who's always just been in my corner since I was 16 years old.
4:20
SPEAKER_01: And so he's like, you know, I don't care about sex or any of that stuff.
4:26
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you need to figure out what's wrong with you.
4:28
SPEAKER_01: I want you just to feel better and to be better.
4:31
SPEAKER_01: And so, yeah, made my doctor's appointment.
4:33
SPEAKER_01: I had my doctor's appointment today.
4:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, starting a new medication.
4:37
SPEAKER_01: I have a new doctor.
4:39
SPEAKER_01: Um yes.
4:40
SPEAKER_01: And she's like, you know, there's plenty of things out here that you can take that will not affect you sexually, you know, in a negative way.
4:49
SPEAKER_01: It will not look uh lessen your libido.
4:52
SPEAKER_01: So she thinks she found something.
4:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna take it for three weeks.
4:56
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna check back in with her.
4:58
SPEAKER_01: Um, I also have therapy tomorrow.
5:00
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, you know.
5:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
5:03
SPEAKER_01: I just want to like steps.
5:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just strongly, you know, I think just want to just put out there to people that, you know, listen to listen to your body and do what's best for you.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: Especially right now, we like seasons are changing.
5:18
SPEAKER_01: It's about to start getting really dark outside.
5:21
SPEAKER_00: It was pitch black here at five o'clock yesterday, and I was like, it feels like it's 8 30 and it was five o'clock.
5:27
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
5:28
SPEAKER_01: Seasonal depression is real.
5:30
SPEAKER_01: We also, I always say it, like Tennessee has beautiful springs, um, lovely summers, but the winter and fall can look very, very dreary.
5:41
SPEAKER_01: So um, especially winter, and we are there, you know, in wintertime.
5:46
SPEAKER_01: So just look that dreary gray look outside.
5:50
SPEAKER_01: The sun isn't always shining.
5:52
SPEAKER_01: It kind of puts you in a bad space.
5:54
SPEAKER_01: Um, so just listen to yourself, find you someone who you can trust and talk to and um make those necessary appointments.
6:02
SPEAKER_01: You gotta go to the doctor or talk to, you know, a therapist, do that.
6:07
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, but other than that, I mean, family is happy and healthy.
6:12
SPEAKER_01: Work is oh Lord, work is a hot mess um right now, just in the thick of the school year.
6:21
SPEAKER_01: And um, kids are good, school's good.
6:26
SPEAKER_01: I'm almost at the end of this particular class.
6:29
SPEAKER_01: I got a final project that's due on Sunday, and then I'll start my next class.
6:33
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, so all in all, I'm doing good, but I could be better, and hopefully we will see better very soon.
6:44
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
6:45
SPEAKER_01: How are you doing?
6:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm okay.
6:49
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, still don't have a job.
6:52
SPEAKER_00: That's kind of mess with me a little bit.
6:55
SPEAKER_00: And shout out to white people who are truly allies.
7:00
SPEAKER_00: I had lunch with an old friend, a white lady.
7:04
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to her.
7:04
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna say her name out of respect, but shout out to her.
7:08
SPEAKER_00: She knows who she is.
7:10
SPEAKER_00: And she said, I couldn't be your friend, look you in your face and talk to you without letting you know the truth.
7:16
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just like, you know, what's going on?
7:19
SPEAKER_00: The white guy that they fired after me because just now I can open openly talk about it.
7:25
SPEAKER_00: I got let go because of comments that I made on my private time, not related to work, you know, never said where I worked, never said what I did, never said the name, anything.
7:38
SPEAKER_00: I think they took something I said about Charlie Kirk that I had said almost a year ago and they fired me for it.
7:45
SPEAKER_00: Now, the white guy they fired after me for bad, like poor performance, right?
7:56
SPEAKER_00: Allegedly they gave him multiple months of severance and paid him out for all his PTO and he was a pissed poor worker nice guy, but a pissed poor worker.
8:11
SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, I only got a month of severance that they gave it to me at one time, so they taxed it, so I didn't even get a full month's worth of work.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: Paying, excuse me.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: And I had over I had I think I had rather than a hundred hours of PTO because I was saving my PTO because I was planning on being gone.
8:31
SPEAKER_00: I had my whole year planned out and I had three days of sick leave.
8:37
SPEAKER_00: They didn't pay me out for none of it.
8:40
SPEAKER_00: So I feel a little jaded.
8:43
SPEAKER_00: This is the longest I just hit four months yesterday.
8:49
SPEAKER_00: Four full months of not working.
8:52
SPEAKER_00: And I can't lie, I'm a little I feel some type of way.
8:57
SPEAKER_00: I have after this week, I have two weeks left of unemployment, and I don't know what I'm gonna do.
9:02
SPEAKER_00: Um nursing kind of shot.
9:06
SPEAKER_00: The only thing that's bringing me join nowadays is I'm hanging out with a guy.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: He's really nice.
9:15
SPEAKER_00: Um he met my parents already, which is crazy.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: But um I'm really just trying to stay in the moment and not self-sabotage, and I feel like I'm destined to always be single and alone.
9:33
SPEAKER_00: So it feels good to have somebody to just kind of kick it with and just you know hang out with.
9:40
SPEAKER_00: It's a lot I feel like it is a lot of pressure, but at the same time, just like I can just I'm just enjoying.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, that that's cool.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: But um, yeah, I kind of feel like I'm in the same headspace that I was in, you know.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
10:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
10:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm super, I'm super excited for you um to be, you know, talking to someone.
10:09
SPEAKER_01: I think that's really cool.
10:10
SPEAKER_01: It's exciting, it's fresh, it's new.
10:14
SPEAKER_01: Um when it comes to the job situation, I know all too well how that feels when I was let go from um the first charter school that I worked at.
10:27
SPEAKER_01: You know, I was called in random day to come talk to my principal and assistant principal.
10:36
SPEAKER_01: Um, and it was like, well, we feel that you're just no longer aligned with us or some bullshit like that.
10:45
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, what?
10:47
SPEAKER_01: All the while they had heard that I was, they had heard that I was applying to be an AP where I currently am.
10:55
SPEAKER_01: And so that was just like, oh, you're doing that.
10:58
SPEAKER_01: We want to just get rid of you type of shit.
11:00
SPEAKER_01: And when that after that happened, then like right after that, you know, months, well not right after, but months later, I found out that those same people who let me go, they were let go.
11:13
SPEAKER_01: You know, they were fired.
11:15
SPEAKER_01: And see, that's what happened.
11:16
SPEAKER_01: My boss ended up getting fired.
11:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
11:19
SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
11:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I just know, I know how you feel.
11:24
SPEAKER_01: And then I and I was out of work for six months, you know.
11:28
SPEAKER_01: I was set home for six months on unemployment.
11:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, because, you know, I talked to different people.
11:36
SPEAKER_01: I tried to have a case and all of that because I felt like, of course, I was wrongfully fired.
11:41
SPEAKER_01: I didn't do anything wrong.
11:43
SPEAKER_01: But everybody told me that I really have anything like a leg to stand on or anything, because I couldn't prove that they were like targeting me or prove that they were like trying to, you know, get back at me for applying to another position.
11:57
SPEAKER_01: Um, so I didn't really have a leg to stand on.
11:59
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I sat home for six fucking months.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: But I say all that to say um that something is definitely on the horizon.
12:08
SPEAKER_01: I was actually thinking about you, you crossed my mind um last week, and I was just like, things have a funny way of like people say death comes in threes, but also like when a tide is changing in in your life, it's sometimes is like a to you, it may feel like a quick like jolt, like, what the fuck?
12:33
SPEAKER_01: Like this just happened to me, but it's really like a setup for your blessings.
12:38
SPEAKER_01: Like, and I hate to sound like cliche, but that's that's what happened to me.
12:42
SPEAKER_01: Like, I was let go and I sat home for six months.
12:47
SPEAKER_01: I landed my AP position.
12:49
SPEAKER_01: I found out I was pregnant with KJ.
12:52
SPEAKER_01: And then I think that was when we had moved into like a new house or something like that.
12:56
SPEAKER_01: Something was just like, or I got my car, something, something like it's three, three big like moves happened in in that span of time.
13:05
SPEAKER_01: Um, and so yeah, I just say all that, just like a it's a shift.
13:10
SPEAKER_01: Things are working out in your favor.
13:13
SPEAKER_01: You just gotta, you know, you just gotta be steadfast and stick with it and don't lose faith, don't lose hope.
13:21
SPEAKER_01: But tide, tide is definitely coming.
13:23
SPEAKER_01: Things are things are in the works.
13:26
SPEAKER_00: I sure hope so, because it's like and it is not funny, but you know, you I love, even though I am a Christian woman, but my mom loved horoscopes too, so I love horoscopes naturally.
13:39
SPEAKER_00: And oh, 2026 is gonna be a good year for Pisces, and I see her looking like Will Smith and I mean where it's at, because baby, I the fuck.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: But listen, 2026 drugged me by my edges.
13:53
SPEAKER_00: When I say I lost two really good friends, or women I thought were my really good friends gone, got fired wrongfully.
14:07
SPEAKER_00: My whole I feel like my whole world just got turned upside down, like not having money to go out to dinner when that never was an issue, having to change my lifestyle drastically, having to cancel all my vacations to getting done up by a nigga.
14:26
SPEAKER_00: And it's just it's just so much that's happened to me up until now.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, you know, even when I look at the beginning of the year, I was the biggest I was weight wise because I could not stop eating.
14:42
SPEAKER_00: Having the flare-ups, you know, not knowing what's going on with my skin until mid-year.
14:47
SPEAKER_00: And it was just, it was just a lot.
14:50
SPEAKER_00: It was just simply a lot.
14:53
SPEAKER_00: So I do pray for this time.
14:56
SPEAKER_00: I pray it's a good one because Lord knows, like, I just feel like I really haven't had a good year since 2018.
15:06
SPEAKER_00: Life has just kind of fucked me in more ways than one.
15:10
SPEAKER_00: So I hope that time's coming.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: And I, you know, and in regards to your situation, I definitely I applaud you for taking the steps to get better, for knowing, like, hey, this ain't me.
15:24
SPEAKER_00: I need to, we need to figure this shit out.
15:26
SPEAKER_00: So going back to the drawing board, not only did you get new medication, matter of fact, bitch, let me get a new doctor.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: So I'm so proud of you for that.
15:32
SPEAKER_00: You're back in the therapy, you're actively taking a role in your life.
15:36
SPEAKER_00: And that's what, like, like I told you, I have a really bad habit.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: A lot of the times I feel like a passenger in my own life.
15:44
SPEAKER_00: I don't feel like an active participant.
15:46
SPEAKER_00: I just feel like most days I'm just coasting by.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: Because like everything I try to do is just it's never enough, or I'm not good enough for.
15:53
SPEAKER_00: So I love the fact that you were definitely active.
15:56
SPEAKER_00: You're like, you know what?
15:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna take over this driver's seat.
15:59
SPEAKER_00: You know, we finna get down to the bottom of this.
16:01
SPEAKER_00: So I'm proud of you for that.
16:02
SPEAKER_00: I am.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
16:03
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
16:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:09
SPEAKER_01: I think, I think the only reason why I was able to pick up on it so fast is because I now know what it's like to be on medication and to be getting the help that I need for my anxiety, depression.
16:28
SPEAKER_01: I know what day-to-day feels like when I'm good.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: And now to I could feel myself like ticking down back to being in the depths of like a dark space.
16:43
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, mm-mm.
16:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
16:45
SPEAKER_01: Nope, nope, nope, nope.
16:47
SPEAKER_01: We're not doing that.
16:48
SPEAKER_01: We gotta know.
16:50
SPEAKER_01: Because you just can't, I can't function.
16:52
SPEAKER_01: I can't be, I can't be the best mom.
16:55
SPEAKER_01: I can't be the best wife.
16:56
SPEAKER_01: I can't be the best friend.
16:58
SPEAKER_01: Feeling like this.
17:00
SPEAKER_01: So absolutely not.
17:01
SPEAKER_01: I gotta do what I gotta do.
17:03
SPEAKER_01: And I wanted to say something to what you said too, Ashley.
17:06
SPEAKER_01: You mentioned, I didn't notice that you had lost um two people out of your life, too.
17:12
SPEAKER_01: Something like that similarly happened to me around that same time.
17:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, with some, with my circle of folks that I thought were, that I thought was close with me.
17:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, they exited stage left.
17:27
SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna tell you too, once that happened, things started turning in my life as well.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: And I think that speaks to a lot of when there's people in your circle who are not who they say they are, they could really be preying on your downfall or sucking the fucking life out of you.
17:49
SPEAKER_01: So even that right there, I mean, that's confirmation as well that two people, you know, left and your your life is starting to like shift and mold.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling you, man, you're about to see some, you got some big things in store.
18:07
SPEAKER_01: Things that are so big that you are not even prepared for.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: Things that you are going to be like, wow, this happened to me.
18:19
SPEAKER_01: I I never in my wildest dreams.
18:22
SPEAKER_01: Or these were my dreams, and now they're coming to fruition.
18:25
SPEAKER_01: They're coming to reality.
18:27
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, man, I feel it.
18:29
SPEAKER_01: I feel it.
18:30
SPEAKER_01: It's it's coming.
18:31
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it, Fran, because when I say I've never been stripped like this ever.
18:36
SPEAKER_01: Like when I said it takes that though.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: Like, if you really think about it, it takes that.
18:42
SPEAKER_01: And I was listening, it's fucked.
18:43
SPEAKER_01: This is crazy because I was listening to The Breakfast Club.
18:45
SPEAKER_01: You know, I listen to Breakfast Club every morning.
18:47
SPEAKER_01: And Kirk Franklin was up there and they asked him a question this morning.
18:51
SPEAKER_01: They asked him, you know, Kirk Franklin that has some, he didn't have issues.
18:56
SPEAKER_01: Um, but they asked him a question, they said, you know, what do you tell a person who's praying and they're fasting and they're going to church and they're doing this and they're doing that, and they still are, you know, going through it.
19:11
SPEAKER_01: And he's like, you know, every day is a struggle.
19:17
SPEAKER_01: No matter if you're a Christian or not a Christian, you're still gonna have cancer.
19:22
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna have this and you're gonna have that.
19:24
SPEAKER_01: And he was like, at your lowest point when you don't have anything else, that is when you have to find that little piece of strength and that little piece of hope to lean on.
19:40
SPEAKER_01: And he was like, What more can you do but you know, to look to God, you know, for answers.
19:47
SPEAKER_01: And he was like, you know, that's where just faith and those things come in.
19:51
SPEAKER_01: He really said some good stuff today on the Breakfast Club.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, I believe it.
19:57
SPEAKER_01: I believe it.
19:58
SPEAKER_01: I believe it.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: Your time is coming.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: Thanks, friend.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of faith and and and Kurt Franklin, we we got the other side of that.
20:10
SPEAKER_00: We are talking about the polygamous pastor, and that was such a good lead-in.
20:16
SPEAKER_00: So, sis, I want you to take this over, and and and and I will come in on the back end.
20:23
SPEAKER_01: Yes, straight out of Cleveland, Ohio.
20:27
SPEAKER_01: Um, this story broke out.
20:28
SPEAKER_01: Was this last week or week before last?
20:31
SPEAKER_01: It was like last, it went viral like last week.
20:34
SPEAKER_01: Yes, where we have um a uh black pastor, um, him and his first lady, um, they addressed the church.
20:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, well, I'm not even gonna say they, because let's break it down.
20:50
SPEAKER_01: I think that's another thing that we didn't even get into before the show started, that me and Ashley were talking about the dynamic of the situation.
20:59
SPEAKER_01: Do you think that they were shocked?
21:04
SPEAKER_01: I think I'm more irritated that he had her announce it.
21:09
SPEAKER_01: Like, why didn't he even have her?
21:12
SPEAKER_01: I don't think it was planned.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: Woo, that's interesting that you say that.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: It was a shock to me.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: Some, even though it wasn't outwardly, because for me, when I'm shocked, I can give you one, I can give you, or I can give you a this yeah, we'll address that shock later.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: That's I don't know.
21:35
SPEAKER_00: Something about that was just kind of like, yeah.
21:39
SPEAKER_01: So the pastor is standing behind her.
21:43
SPEAKER_01: She's the first lady's at the pulpit, and she's like, you know, um, you know, want to introduce or, you know, introduce our, there's an our, what did she say?
21:54
SPEAKER_01: Our wife or pastor has another wife or something like that.
21:58
SPEAKER_01: Y'all all know her.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, she's been up here preaching to y'all and giving y'all the word.
22:04
SPEAKER_01: And so they introduce her and she comes up, and a lot of people like comedians have been spoofing the whole hugging.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: They do this awkward.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: It was an awkward ass motherfucking hug.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't think that was another indicator for me.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: I was just like, it kind of gave like, uh, I'm I'm fucking you, but I'm not supposed to game just weird.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: It was awkward, it was weird as hell.
22:31
SPEAKER_01: And so she comes up there, she's like introducing, you know, I think her name is Shekela.
22:36
SPEAKER_01: One of them is Shekela.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the the new, the new, the younger one.
22:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, her name's Shakelayla.
22:40
SPEAKER_01: Yes, you know, brings her up there and she starts talking.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: Okay, here's the thing.
22:45
SPEAKER_01: So from my seat, I earlier on when we first started the podcast, I let everyone know I am a bisexual woman.
22:55
SPEAKER_01: Um, have been for a very, very long time been attracted to women.
23:01
SPEAKER_01: People that are close to me know this.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: I am also married.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: And my husband and I, we do date women.
23:12
SPEAKER_01: And a poly lifestyle for us is a closed poly triad.
23:18
SPEAKER_01: A closed poly triad is for us, which would be a female, male, female triad, would be all three of us in a relationship together, closed.
23:31
SPEAKER_01: There is no one from the outside coming in, type of situation.
23:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, everyone is sleeping together, in a relationship with one another.
23:41
SPEAKER_01: There's no sister wife dynamic.
23:43
SPEAKER_01: We are all together.
23:44
SPEAKER_01: That's what we are looking for.
23:45
SPEAKER_01: That's how we date.
23:47
SPEAKER_01: Um, this particular situation, I was really trying to read the dynamic.
23:52
SPEAKER_01: And me and Ashley were talking about it because she's watched some other uh interviews.
23:56
SPEAKER_01: I have not.
23:57
SPEAKER_01: And so I was just kind of asking her like, does this seem like a sister wife situation to you?
24:02
SPEAKER_01: Does it seem like, you know, that um, you know, what are the dynamics, you know?
24:07
SPEAKER_01: And I think that's the biggest thing for me is because as a person who is in this particular lifestyle, um, I just have a really hard time with having someone like this who has a platform be the voice of a whole community.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: And so hearing more about him and their relationship dynamics is like, ew, like, no, thank you.
24:35
SPEAKER_01: I don't want someone who is potentially like a um one of those men who are like, these are my wives.
24:47
SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know, like the male.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: And then, like I said, the biggest one of the biggest issues for me is that the motherfucker's a pedo.
24:54
SPEAKER_00: And then he was found guilty and served time for fucking with his stepdaughter, for sexually abusing and beating on his stepdaughter.
25:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's crazy.
25:02
SPEAKER_01: No.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: Like, that's wild.
25:04
SPEAKER_01: Like, absolutely the first thing.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: But if I told Diamond, like with Shekela, because I don't know the pastor, his first and the first lady.
25:11
SPEAKER_00: At this point, I don't give a damn.
25:13
SPEAKER_00: Pastor, first lady.
25:16
SPEAKER_00: When I went back and was just kind of like looking at the pages, and they referred to this girl as their daughter.
25:22
SPEAKER_00: And that's another layer that I don't like.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: She's 28 years old.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: That's fucking grooming.
25:28
SPEAKER_00: Like, that's that sounds like some grooming shit.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: They were because you know, like, if you grew up in the black church, even now at 32 years old, I can see somebody I grew up with in church.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: I was still looking like, hey, sister so-and-so, hey, brother so-and-so, how you doing?
25:41
SPEAKER_00: How you I literally, I've been called daughter so many times in the church.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: And never once has anybody ever crossed the line with me sexually that has referred to me as daughter ever in life.
25:54
SPEAKER_00: So, how does she go from your daughter, your spirit, your daughter, and then your spiritual daughter, to you fucking her?
26:01
SPEAKER_00: And now she's, and then, you know, let's be clear, past her first lady, and in their upper 40s, going into their 50s.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: So I have an issue with that.
26:11
SPEAKER_00: It's like, and and this is their second time doing this shit.
26:14
SPEAKER_00: I guess the I was telling Diamond with the research that I found allegedly, the first lady that they did this with, she was in, she was 24, I think.
26:22
SPEAKER_00: I ran, and they ended up breaking up with her at 30, because I guess she aged out.
26:28
SPEAKER_00: So it's looking like you're stealing this girl's usefulness, because it gave, in one of the interviews I watched, because it was two that I watched, one of the interviews I was telling Diamond, it gave like the first lady's an undercover grandom lesbian, and the pastor is just a snake-ass nigga who's having his cake and needed too.
26:51
SPEAKER_00: And then Shekayla, who was a young lady who's coming into their marriage, she's very meek, mild, timid, and she's one of those women that spoke when spoken to.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: She wasn't answering any questions.
27:03
SPEAKER_00: She was just sitting there.
27:04
SPEAKER_00: So I was just like, I didn't like that.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: Even if I was a person that agreed with polyamory or that practice, if we're all in a relationship or we're together, then all of us are equal.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: Especially, I think, too, as a and as a woman that has a diet, because I'm a jealous bitch, I'm not sharing shit.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: So if I was in that situation, it would be very important for us to be on equal playing field because that's how this session starts.
27:33
SPEAKER_00: Given I didn't like it.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: It didn't give relationship to me.
27:47
SPEAKER_00: And I to an outsider.
27:49
SPEAKER_00: And again, I like I and like I was arguing with people on social media.
27:53
SPEAKER_00: I said, I know people that practice, I know people that actively want to practice, and I know people that does this.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, this is not a healthy dynamic to me.
28:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's not okay.
28:01
SPEAKER_01: No.
28:02
SPEAKER_01: That's not okay.
28:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, it almost even seems like, I mean, if you want to be completely real, the way you describe it, uh, Ashley, it almost sounds like the fucking R.
28:14
SPEAKER_01: Kelly shit.
28:15
SPEAKER_01: Like, it was like, I mean, I see, I could compare, you know.
28:20
SPEAKER_01: I I don't know.
28:20
SPEAKER_01: You just gotta be really careful.
28:22
SPEAKER_01: I know for me and K-Ron, like when it comes to dating out here, there are a lot of young women between the ages of like 21 and 25 who are seeking, you know, poly relationships and those things.
28:44
SPEAKER_01: But I'm just like, you know, they don't know what they want.
28:48
SPEAKER_01: I just couldn't see myself as a me being 35, K-Ron being 36, wanting to date, you know, a 21-year-old or a 19-year-old.
29:01
SPEAKER_01: Like, that is just too much.
29:02
SPEAKER_01: So y'all don't want to mold somebody.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: Y'all want something in an actual loving relationship with someone.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: Now the other layer of this, and this was just me.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: This is just me, especially in the in the black community, the black American community, there's a certain level of faux pas and richness that comes with being a pastor first lady.
29:26
SPEAKER_00: Typically, those be the richest motherfuckers at church.
29:28
SPEAKER_00: They live very well, they go out to eat, they drive very good cars.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: So if I was a young girl who's cool with who was a bisexual woman, and I look at this like, well, shit, why not get taken care of if all I gotta do is cook and clean.
29:43
SPEAKER_00: And you know what I'm saying?
29:44
SPEAKER_00: So I look at it from that aspect.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: Like, are they tricking off on this girl?
29:49
SPEAKER_00: Are they, you know, spending the church's money going on trips?
29:52
SPEAKER_00: You you just never know.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: So that's another layer of that too.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: But then, like I was telling Diamond, the issue that I have is I hate for, I tell anybody, I don't know, I don't know a lot of things, but I can read and I can comprehend.
30:06
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
30:07
SPEAKER_00: Don't purposely insult my intelligence, okay?
30:11
SPEAKER_00: There was they're making this scene, and I'm gonna let Diamond go into that with them being the face of the community because I want her, because you know, it's important for you for me to hear your opinion and for our audience to hear your opinion on that.
30:26
SPEAKER_00: But one thing I don't like, this is why I don't take black church and black Christians seriously.
30:32
SPEAKER_00: Don't guise what you're doing under the aid of God because it's not of God, in a sense.
30:40
SPEAKER_00: In the old testament, a lot of men, poly, pop people, polyamory before it was even known as polyamory or polygamy, that shit been around since the dollar time.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: Okay, Abraham had wives.
30:55
SPEAKER_00: A lot of the men in the Bible had multiple wives.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: That just was what it was.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: But people were taking care of their wives, and it was understood that it was in the guise of, okay, these are the guidelines that we follow.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: But when you quote that Bible, y'all never quote what the actual verse is.
31:15
SPEAKER_00: You know, in the New Testament, when God changed the rule of one man, one wife, one in union, a man should love, men should love their wives as Christ loved the church.
31:26
SPEAKER_00: This fool, this false prophet said, Oh, that was a verse I used to justify what I'm doing.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: Nah, nigga.
31:34
SPEAKER_00: If that was the case, the verse would have read, a man should love his wives.
31:39
SPEAKER_00: He said men.
31:40
SPEAKER_00: So that encapsulates niggas as a whole, like men should love their wives.
31:44
SPEAKER_00: Don't, don't, don't cut the malaki.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: Don't try to play semantics with me, nah, bitch.
31:49
SPEAKER_00: You're trying to change the Bible what you want to change it to.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: That is not, and I feel like if you're going to be leading God's people, you should follow a specific example.
32:01
SPEAKER_00: That's I like, and I hate to compare because it is an extreme, but that's like with me being so like pro, pro, pro, pro, pro, pro black, and then I just purposely go out to date a white partner.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: You shouldn't listen to me.
32:15
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, you just shouldn't.
32:17
SPEAKER_00: That's like me being pro-black and being homophobic.
32:20
SPEAKER_00: Cut me the fuck off because I don't believe in what I'm saying.
32:22
SPEAKER_00: All black life is important.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: So it's it's that's an extreme example to use, but it's just like, how you preaching the word of God and everything else?
32:34
SPEAKER_00: You're so because even I've like looked at some of his sermons and he condemns homosexual people.
32:40
SPEAKER_00: He hates thieves, but it's just like my nigga, you had an act of canceling you where you were found guilty for sexually assaulting and being your stepdaughter, and you serve fucking time.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: And whoever this church is, all y'all are going to hell in the handbasket.
32:51
SPEAKER_00: You are following this man in hell.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: Not only was he able to come back into the pulpit after that incident alone from being a fucking pedophile and a physical abuser, but as a woman, this is why I don't like when black women have kids and they date these sorry ass, dusty ass niggas that want to date them for their kids and they just stay with this nigga because she hasn't talked to her own daughter in years, allegedly.
33:17
SPEAKER_00: So even outside of the polygamy stuff that you're using to justify your relationship with Christ, which don't work for me, you're you're you're aiding and abandoning the fucking peed on somebody that beat your child.
33:29
SPEAKER_00: Couldn't be me.
33:30
SPEAKER_00: That's why I don't take part the black church seriously.
33:35
SPEAKER_00: So since how you feeling?
33:39
SPEAKER_01: As you continue to give me, that's why I love Ashley, because Ashley does her research, um, and she gets the the backstory of individuals, and I I had no idea that, you know, all of these things allegedly in this in their past, you know, even existed.
33:58
SPEAKER_01: And so I just don't I don't understand like how your we we calling a sin, you know, sins for sins or whatever you want to say it.
34:11
SPEAKER_01: You know, you stand up in front of the church and you say, This is my second wife.
34:17
SPEAKER_00: Which which ain't even fucking true because polygamy is illegal in the United States.
34:22
SPEAKER_00: So you're not, and then for you to be such a Christian and preach the word, you're not legally married.
34:27
SPEAKER_00: There is no spiritual covenant with this woman.
34:30
SPEAKER_00: That's respectable in the eyes of God.
34:32
SPEAKER_00: So you're fucking lying.
34:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
34:35
SPEAKER_01: And but then to condemn other things, but then yours is all good.
34:44
SPEAKER_01: I just, I don't know.
34:45
SPEAKER_01: It just sounds, that shit sounds crazy to me.
34:48
SPEAKER_01: Um, I also think too, I because I was talking to K-Ron about this, and you know, he he took it from a place of um if you are a leader of a church, there are just some things that you should just keep to yourself.
35:06
SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, well, K-Ron, I mean, so you mean to tell me that if I'm a leader of a church, I can't be who I really am, you know, in front of my congregation?
35:19
SPEAKER_01: He was like, Yeah, because you've taken an oath that you're supposed to be this example.
35:24
SPEAKER_01: I said, but isn't that like you're lying then?
35:26
SPEAKER_01: If you can't really be who you are.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: And so me and him kind of got into this like back and forth about, because before I heard about, you know, these things about this man allegedly and their situation or their dynamic, I was like, oh, you know, okay.
35:43
SPEAKER_01: So he's like, hey, we're gonna be who we are in the church, you know.
35:49
SPEAKER_01: I was like, well, that's interesting, you know.
35:52
SPEAKER_01: I, you know, I've seen, you know, outwardly gay pastors, you know, and lesbian preachers.
36:00
SPEAKER_01: So I was like, well, this is this is okay.
36:03
SPEAKER_01: We are turning the times here.
36:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, K Ron was very much like, no, Diamond, that's not okay.
36:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, if you're saying that you're a pastor, you're preaching the word, then you should keep your, you know, things that you do behind closed doors.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: You should keep that separate.
36:20
SPEAKER_01: And so I'm just kind of like, for me, this is why I don't go to church, though.
36:28
SPEAKER_01: This is why I don't practice a form of um what you call religion, a form of religion?
36:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, organized religion.
36:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't do that anymore because I feel like you're either gonna get the way that Kron just said, I'm not getting a person who is a hundred percent them, which means you're a hypocrite and you stand up in front of me and you lie to me every, every Sunday, and you go home and do whatever the fuck you want to do.
36:55
SPEAKER_01: So that's fucking crazy.
36:57
SPEAKER_01: Why am I sitting in here, you know, buying into some lies then?
37:01
SPEAKER_01: Why am I doing that?
37:03
SPEAKER_01: Or you're gonna get someone like this person who is, you know, claiming to be, you know, outwardly or living a lifestyle.
37:13
SPEAKER_01: I now want to come forward and be honest and truthful.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, but then it's almost like, but then what well, I don't really need to know all of that.
37:24
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
37:25
SPEAKER_01: I just have a problem with a motherfucker like leading the flop type of shit.
37:32
SPEAKER_01: Like, who are you to lead me any motherfucking way?
37:35
SPEAKER_01: So that's why I just can't, I can I can't.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: And then there was another comment that was made where he said, Yeah, I have a big sexual exercise.
37:42
SPEAKER_00: So you're not with this woman because you want, you desire a real relationship.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: You just don't have no sexual discipline, like most men.
37:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a problem.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: In that issue, I look, that's the only thing, that's the only issue I have of polygamy for the most part.
37:59
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not talking about you because you and Cameron have gave me plenty of reasons as to why y'all want to do this.
38:05
SPEAKER_00: And I truly believe you're looking for an equal partner.
38:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm cool with that.
38:10
SPEAKER_00: I support that.
38:11
SPEAKER_00: I feel like y'all have rules, y'all have guidelines, and y'all have what's the word?
38:17
SPEAKER_00: Y'all have boundaries that y'all are not willing to cross.
38:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I and I will say this too.
38:22
SPEAKER_01: I think the rules and the guidelines and the boundaries are exactly why we have not found anybody to date.
38:31
SPEAKER_01: And probably never will.
38:33
SPEAKER_01: And I think we are both completely fine with that.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: But the issue, the common vaccine, and this is why I don't like polygamy, especially in the black spaces, because he said, Yeah, I just have a big sexual appetite.
38:49
SPEAKER_00: So you don't have sexual discipline.
38:52
SPEAKER_00: That's the only reason why you want to do this.
38:55
SPEAKER_00: This is your hall pass to cheat.
38:58
SPEAKER_00: That's all it is for most people, especially black men.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: And I'm sorry, but it has to be said, most black men do not, most of them, not all, most black men do not have sexual discipline.
39:09
SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
39:10
SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at Tiana Taylor, her and her husband was busting down a different bitch every weekend and he still was fucking around.
39:16
SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
39:17
SPEAKER_00: And most women have sex with other women with their husbands, even though when they don't want to.
39:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
39:23
SPEAKER_01: And I think that's what I always feel like I'm up against when that comes up in conversations, because that's the first thing that I have to defend, you know, because people are like, oh, your husband wants to do that because he wants to sleep around.
39:40
SPEAKER_01: And so you're given, like, that's your way of like, you know, bending down to him and being like, oh, okay, well, you you want to cheat on me anyway, so we'll just, you know, happy and poly relationship.
39:52
SPEAKER_01: And I always have to be like, no, that is not, you know, I always have to defend that.
39:57
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and I think that is like so damn annoying.
40:01
SPEAKER_01: But then you have a motherfucker like this.
40:07
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and it's like, oh god, here we go again.
40:11
SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
40:12
SPEAKER_01: Thanks a lot, buddy.
40:14
SPEAKER_01: You're like the poster child of what the fuck.
40:17
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no, that is not poly.
40:19
SPEAKER_01: That's not poly.
40:20
SPEAKER_01: That's just like the fucking Netflix movie that came out called polygamy.
40:25
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, that's not polygamy.
40:26
SPEAKER_01: The dude was cheating the whole time in the movie.
40:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh my god, what the fuck are we doing?
40:32
SPEAKER_00: That's that shit is so annoying to me.
40:35
SPEAKER_00: So I do feel like there's a lot of oh have mercy.
40:41
SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of work to be done with I would say the representation, and then it's just like I don't think reality TV helps, especially how everything is just meant to push a narrative and to push drama.
40:58
SPEAKER_00: So especially in the black space, and you know, I just, you know, I really hope and pray that there's more people like you that come out on the forefront.
41:09
SPEAKER_00: Because that's the only reason why I care, because I have somebody in my life like you that this is a desire of yours, but we've had plenty of talks as to why, not that you have to justify anything in me, but I can see from I'm like, okay, I get it.
41:23
SPEAKER_00: Like, it ain't for me, but I get it and I respect it.
41:27
SPEAKER_00: So I just I hope that young lady, the only thing that triggers me with her being 28 years old compared to the men in their upper 40s, I just pray one day she done wake up and hate that she did that.
41:41
SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
41:42
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
41:43
SPEAKER_00: Or felt like she wasted her time because allegedly, like I was telling Diamond 2 with the research that they've already done this and came public in front of the church as another woman and was with her for a certain amount of time until she aged out.
41:57
SPEAKER_00: So that's crazy.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of siphoning energy and using people to drain them of their life force, we gotta get on Keisha Cole.
42:10
SPEAKER_00: Keisha.
42:12
SPEAKER_00: What the fuck?
42:14
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, it's gonna be a lot of F-bombs this episode, y'all.
42:16
SPEAKER_00: I apologize.
42:18
SPEAKER_00: Keisha.
42:21
SPEAKER_00: When I saw her on Ken, when I saw her out partying in Kensington in Philly, I knew it was a rap.
42:28
SPEAKER_00: And for y'all who don't know what Kensington is, Kensington, you can look it up on TikTok.
42:35
SPEAKER_00: You see people like hunched over like zombies on horse tranquilizers.
42:39
SPEAKER_00: It's one of the pla I think Philly well not Philly, I think what was the stat?
42:44
SPEAKER_00: I looked this up on the CDC.
42:46
SPEAKER_00: Pennsylvania as a state is like one of the states with one of the highest drug opioid uh problems in the United States.
42:54
SPEAKER_00: And Kensington is known as a city in the United States where ain't shit but drugs going on.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: And Keisha, you're in your upper 40s dating a nigga who's 27 years old, who raps about getting his girlfriends addicted to drugs, who openly talks about practicing in the occult.
43:13
SPEAKER_00: There was an interview he did with the white guy who is a fucking ass licker to me.
43:18
SPEAKER_00: But he asks him about like, you know, do you practice dark magic?
43:24
SPEAKER_00: And the Skrilla was like, Yeah, he put he puts people's names in his socks and shoes.
43:30
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you know, you know.
43:32
SPEAKER_00: He puts people's names in the back refrigerators, he practices in dark magic.
43:37
SPEAKER_00: He has pictures with different um he practices epha and different deity worships and all that stuff.
43:46
SPEAKER_00: And here's my thing just like with Christians, in it's bad Christians out here, and it's people that practice India cult that are bad too.
43:54
SPEAKER_00: Everything is about intention.
43:55
SPEAKER_00: So do don't think I'm trying to come down on him because he's not a Christian.
43:59
SPEAKER_00: That's for That I can't stand.
44:04
SPEAKER_00: So I'm not saying that, but you could just look at him in his eyes and tell he has no soul.
44:10
SPEAKER_00: Keisha, in all of the years that I've we've been introduced to Keisha Cole, came across the scene in 2005.
44:17
SPEAKER_00: Well, I changed my mind.
44:20
SPEAKER_00: Keisha Cole has always been a beautiful woman.
44:25
SPEAKER_00: Keisha Cole, in the height of her fame, she had reality TV shows, and we met her family.
44:32
SPEAKER_00: We saw her trauma.
44:34
SPEAKER_00: We saw her going to get Frankie from getting high with younger men, and she's turning into her mother before our very eyes.
44:40
SPEAKER_00: This woman has never had a bad hair day, never looked the messed in public.
44:46
SPEAKER_00: Now you're in public with pajamas with a Gucci coat on with your hair wrapped up.
44:51
SPEAKER_00: Since fucking when?
44:54
SPEAKER_00: You can barely sing.
44:58
SPEAKER_00: I just feel like she's turning into the thing she hated the most.
45:41
SPEAKER_01: She was raw.
45:42
SPEAKER_01: She was real.
45:43
SPEAKER_01: And she was someone that I I looked up to because I felt like I could live next door to Keisha.
45:50
SPEAKER_00: You know, there was nobody like her when she came out.
45:52
SPEAKER_00: She wasn't.
45:54
SPEAKER_00: She wasn't Beyonce.
45:55
SPEAKER_00: She wasn't Aunt Marie.
45:56
SPEAKER_00: She wasn't Ashanti.
45:57
SPEAKER_00: She was like, I'm a real hood bitch.
45:59
SPEAKER_00: Like, yes.
46:00
SPEAKER_01: And so that was very like that stuck out to me.
46:04
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, wow, like Keisha could be from my neighborhood.
46:07
SPEAKER_01: I could know her.
46:09
SPEAKER_01: Um, I love her music.
46:11
SPEAKER_01: You know, I was just all things Keisha Cole.
46:14
SPEAKER_01: I remember when um I started like dyeing my hair, you know, different colors.
46:19
SPEAKER_01: And I wanted the tattoo that she had on her arm.
46:22
SPEAKER_01: And like I was just very, very into her.
46:25
SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I think I'm feeling like right now, I just feel feeling really sad for her.
46:34
SPEAKER_00: Um it's like watching your big sister crash and burn.
46:37
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
46:37
SPEAKER_01: And then also like I tell people all the time, like, addiction is hereditary.
46:44
SPEAKER_01: People don't believe that, but it just because you may not have the same addictions that your mother or father or you know, grandparents had, maybe theirs was drugs, maybe yours is now alcohol, maybe theirs was alcohol, maybe yours is like, you know, you have a shopping addiction.
47:05
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yeah.
47:07
SPEAKER_01: Um, that is a hereditary thing.
47:09
SPEAKER_01: And even to have an addictive personality, um, like for me, addiction runs deep in my family, but I feel like mine, mine used to be alcohol.
47:20
SPEAKER_01: You know, I was a big drinker, you know, in my teens.
47:24
SPEAKER_01: I probably started drinking when I was probably like 11, 12 years old, and you know, could hang with the best of them drinking.
47:33
SPEAKER_01: And then my early 20s, very heavy in alcohol.
47:37
SPEAKER_01: Um, but then I feel like as time as I've gotten older, you know, I feel like my addictive personality manifests in other ways.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: It manifests in shopping, it manifests in hobbies and shit like that.
47:53
SPEAKER_00: You put that's me.
47:55
SPEAKER_00: I get hyperfixated on some shit because alcoholism was very, I mean, my dad's function alcoholic.
48:02
SPEAKER_00: He is.
48:04
SPEAKER_00: And I've lost uncles to alcoholism and drug addiction.
48:08
SPEAKER_00: Same, especially on my dad's side.
48:10
SPEAKER_00: Even on my mom's side.
48:12
SPEAKER_00: No, they've they have on my mom's side, they mostly recover, but like, especially my dad's side.
48:17
SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I'll be addicted to food, I'll be addicted to shopping, I'll be addicted to fucking self-loathing.
48:24
SPEAKER_00: You know, it it's I'm very hyper-fixated when I shit.
48:28
SPEAKER_00: I mean, for nine months I ate the same meal every day when I lived on my own.
48:32
SPEAKER_00: That's how fixated I was on it.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
48:35
SPEAKER_01: And so I think we have to be as a people very cognizant of those things.
48:40
SPEAKER_01: I think when it comes to Keisha, you know, of course, her mom and other members of her family being addicted to drugs.
48:48
SPEAKER_01: And I feel like for a while, Keisha, it almost was like a me versus them type of situation.
48:57
SPEAKER_01: You know, she's trying to make sure that she distanced, not distance herself from it, because she was always, you know, with her family or connected to her family.
49:06
SPEAKER_01: But I think she really made it a point to show that she was going a different way and not going that path that her family did.
49:16
SPEAKER_01: And so I feel like she's gotten with this guy, and now Keisha has always been, I don't want to say desperate for love, but she's always wanted the type of love that, uh, how can I put it?
49:35
SPEAKER_00: She's always looked for love in around places.
49:37
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that fantasy, you know, the nigga.
49:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, girl, even her second baby daddy was much younger than her.
49:46
SPEAKER_00: She when she dated um fucking Antonio Brown, who is a walking CTE case, when she dated um Hancho, and I'm just like, and you remember when Keisha was fighting Glaciana over him.
49:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, Glaciana is literally, you could be her mama.
50:03
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
50:04
SPEAKER_01: And so she's always just look for love in the wrong, horrible places, and I'm just afraid Keisha.
50:11
SPEAKER_00: Keisha played in the game for over 20.
50:14
SPEAKER_00: First of all, Skrilla ain't shit.
50:16
SPEAKER_00: This is a nigga that's famous for six sex.
50:20
SPEAKER_00: Keisha, do you know you Keisha Cole?
50:23
SPEAKER_01: But see, I think that's the thing though.
50:25
SPEAKER_01: I think we're also dealing with a woman who's never known her true the meaning of who she really is.
50:33
SPEAKER_01: Does she really even love who she is?
50:36
SPEAKER_01: I think that's a problem.
50:37
SPEAKER_01: She don't know that she is the Keisha Cole.
50:40
SPEAKER_01: She's never known that she has arrived to this amazing woman.
50:45
SPEAKER_00: And put she's never felt that way.
50:47
SPEAKER_00: And do you feel like she's going through maybe an identity crisis because she don't know who her dad is?
50:52
SPEAKER_00: Now, Frankie did say your daddy is white.
50:54
SPEAKER_00: And when that black man was like, I'm your father, and it tested that he wasn't, and yeah, she was like, Do you think Keisha's having some identity issues because she's never been exposed to her white side?
51:04
SPEAKER_00: I think so.
51:05
SPEAKER_01: I think Keisha has a lot.
51:07
SPEAKER_01: I think Keisha has a lot of trauma.
51:08
SPEAKER_01: I think she's got a lot of um self-esteem, identity, crisis.
51:15
SPEAKER_01: I think it's just a it's a mixture of so many things.
51:18
SPEAKER_01: And I think right now in her life is coming to a boiling point, and the way that she's handling those demons is substance.
51:28
SPEAKER_00: Substance.
51:30
SPEAKER_00: With how Frankie, how passionate she was about getting Frankie, I would have never thought she would have gone down this route though.
51:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
51:37
SPEAKER_01: And I don't even know if it's like heavy drugs.
51:39
SPEAKER_01: I mean, is it just could it just be alcohol?
51:43
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
51:45
SPEAKER_00: We'll say allegedly for game said, but nah.
51:48
SPEAKER_00: That wasn't alcohol.
51:51
SPEAKER_00: Then it was a video I seen.
51:53
SPEAKER_00: First of all, Keisha in pajamas in the broad daylight.
51:56
SPEAKER_00: She had on the Gucci jacket, but she was in pajamas.
51:58
SPEAKER_00: This nigga Skrilla is dressed in the Nas in an all-level outfit, and he's taking her by the hand in and out of the stores.
52:04
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, are you spending her money about her knowing what's going on?
52:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I saw that.
52:08
SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
52:09
SPEAKER_00: That shit looks crazy.
52:12
SPEAKER_00: First of all, nigga look gay.
52:14
SPEAKER_00: And he looks like he done bathed.
52:16
SPEAKER_00: His eyes are sunken in, and he got this big tattoo of Keisha's name across his back, which, in my opinion, that to me, it signifies some type of stamp.
52:25
SPEAKER_00: He's siphoning her energy from her body.
52:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, sucking the fucking life out of her.
52:30
SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
52:30
SPEAKER_00: And Keisha has never looked out of place.
52:33
SPEAKER_01: There was one point uh were they getting on like a plane or something?
52:38
SPEAKER_01: And I didn't even know that was her.
52:40
SPEAKER_00: She looks crazy.
52:42
SPEAKER_00: And it pisses me off because people are starting to make fun of it.
52:45
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, y'all, everything ain't funny.
52:48
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah.
52:49
SPEAKER_00: This is not a funny matter.
52:51
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I'm more so pissed because I'm just like, where are the people in your life in your corner?
52:56
SPEAKER_00: Where's your team?
52:57
SPEAKER_00: Where's your family that adopted you?
52:59
SPEAKER_00: Shit, are you even close with Nephi?
53:01
SPEAKER_00: And then, like, what's where are your people?
53:04
SPEAKER_00: And then it's like, you got two kids.
53:05
SPEAKER_00: Keisha's always been a great mother to her children.
53:08
SPEAKER_00: Just like she might have parting with this damn devil.
53:10
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just like, what about your kids?
53:13
SPEAKER_00: And she's incoherent.
53:15
SPEAKER_00: She's never been on the stage and be incoherent and not singing.
53:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
53:19
SPEAKER_00: And she up there doing songs with, she's up there singing with Joe.
53:22
SPEAKER_00: Like you in front of other legends looking up, looking the menace.
53:25
SPEAKER_00: Looking crazy.
53:27
SPEAKER_00: It was so fucking sad.
53:30
SPEAKER_00: I was like, what in the world?
53:32
SPEAKER_00: I pray Keisha gets the help that she needs.
53:36
SPEAKER_00: I pray that she comes to her senses, and I pray that she doesn't get so far gone to where it's too late.
53:43
SPEAKER_00: Yes, Lord.
53:52
SPEAKER_00: Lord, this next story.
53:54
SPEAKER_00: What's the next story, friend?
53:57
SPEAKER_00: Nikki and Trump.
53:58
SPEAKER_00: Dumb and Dumber.
54:01
SPEAKER_00: I just I ain't never seen nobody kill their own legacy that fast.
54:08
SPEAKER_00: I've never seen it.
54:10
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
54:12
SPEAKER_01: When I tell you, I clicked on the little thing that I reposted when it was like Trump told Nikki to get up and shake that ass, and she did it.
54:21
SPEAKER_01: And so I clicked on it.
54:22
SPEAKER_01: I was like, what?
54:24
SPEAKER_01: And when he told her to stand up and started talking about her body, okay, it was two things that came to mind.
54:35
SPEAKER_01: Number one, yes, definitely Sarah Bartman.
54:38
SPEAKER_01: And the comparisons of the two is just freaking crazy of how he put her, you know, on a platform and basically like had a whole room of majority white people look at a black woman's body as if she's like in a fucking exhibit or some shit.
54:57
SPEAKER_01: That shit was crazy.
54:58
SPEAKER_01: And then number two, I'm like, the weird ass, nasty ass, like flirtation shit that they doing.
55:09
SPEAKER_01: Is this like, is he trying to make her like the new first lady?
55:14
SPEAKER_01: Are they like a thing?
55:16
SPEAKER_00: No, she can talk of being the new press secretary.
55:18
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just like, the bitch ain't even a citizen.
55:21
SPEAKER_00: She can't vote.
55:24
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, yo, is this real life?
55:27
SPEAKER_01: What is happening right in front of our eyes right now?
55:30
SPEAKER_01: This is crazy.
55:34
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't believe it.
55:35
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't believe it.
55:37
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, it's been a whole lot of, once again, more, you know, comedians who've like taken it and started like acting the shit out.
55:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, it is just, I couldn't believe my eyes.
55:50
SPEAKER_01: I could not believe he told her to stand up.
55:54
SPEAKER_01: It was almost like, look at my side, my side, bitch.
55:57
SPEAKER_01: Like, bitch, that's my girl.
55:59
SPEAKER_01: Standing up.
55:59
SPEAKER_01: Look at this nigga with this fat ass.
56:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, bruh.
56:08
SPEAKER_01: Have y'all looked at her?
56:10
SPEAKER_01: Have y'all seen her lately?
56:11
SPEAKER_01: Look at how she looked.
56:13
SPEAKER_00: I was like, hair looks a fucking mess.
56:16
SPEAKER_00: So you don't, you don't got your same team.
56:19
SPEAKER_00: And then the fact, I think the thing, and you know, people say, oh, people do not, nah.
56:25
SPEAKER_00: As as as long as I've been the, well, I stopped messing with Nikki back in 2018.
56:30
SPEAKER_00: So this, I haven't been a fan for a very long time.
56:33
SPEAKER_00: But when I was a fan, and I'm talking stand, I'm talking my whole room was Nicki Minaj thing.
56:40
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
56:40
SPEAKER_00: Same, same.
56:43
SPEAKER_00: Nikki has never worn colored contacts.
56:46
SPEAKER_00: For her to be a light-skinned woman, this bitch was up there with blue-colored contacts.
56:53
SPEAKER_00: I said, it's giving the blue style by Tony Morrison.
56:57
SPEAKER_00: Have you always wanted to be white?
56:58
SPEAKER_00: Like, what is going on?
57:00
SPEAKER_00: What is going on?
57:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, you did such a good job repressing those feelings.
57:06
SPEAKER_00: If they've always been there.
57:08
SPEAKER_00: Or was there something like the Megan really beat your ass into psychosis?
57:13
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it is.
57:14
SPEAKER_00: Ever, you big foot bitch.
57:17
SPEAKER_00: What is going on?
57:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm like, are we in the fucking Twilight Zone?
57:24
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's like really.
57:26
SPEAKER_00: You couldn't have told me this shit in 2012 in the height of her face.
57:29
SPEAKER_00: I would have been like, girl, you fucking lying.
57:31
SPEAKER_00: Never.
57:32
SPEAKER_00: Even when you think about like when two years, two, three years later, when she came out with you remember that album, the pink for the one with uh truffle butter and uh real niggas only, and she was anaconda again when she was in the height of her career.
57:48
SPEAKER_00: You couldn't, you couldn't have told me she would have ended up like this.
57:53
SPEAKER_00: Never I don't know.
58:00
SPEAKER_00: I just yeah, she's done.
58:05
SPEAKER_00: I don't give a fuck.
58:08
SPEAKER_00: You know.
58:09
SPEAKER_00: The next round of deportations, I hope she can stay.
58:13
SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
58:13
SPEAKER_00: I actually don't give a fuck.
58:18
SPEAKER_00: She's sitting up there with a literal shit bag.
58:25
SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and talk about your boy.
58:27
SPEAKER_00: He was trying to clean up and back back and backtrack Mr.
58:30
SPEAKER_00: DaVinci.
58:31
SPEAKER_00: Yo.
58:32
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
58:33
SPEAKER_01: So last week, Da Vinci decides that he's gonna get on the Breakfast Club.
58:38
SPEAKER_01: He claims that, because that was the first thing.
58:41
SPEAKER_01: Charlamagne be Kelly, yo.
58:43
SPEAKER_01: Charlamagne was like, yo, why are you doing this?
58:46
SPEAKER_01: Why did you come up here?
58:48
SPEAKER_01: You know, he was like, Well, you know, I was, you know, I didn't even realize what I said had created such backlash.
58:56
SPEAKER_01: You know, people were taking the things that I said and spinning these narratives.
59:01
SPEAKER_01: And so I talked to my team and I told them, you know, um, the community, the community that has supported me and been riding for me for my career.
59:12
SPEAKER_01: I've hurt them.
59:13
SPEAKER_01: And I need to fix this.
59:15
SPEAKER_01: I need to, you know, I need to get out there and, you know, rewrite this narrative and clean things up.
59:23
SPEAKER_01: And so he gets on the Breakfast Club and he starts talking about, you know, the things that he said, and that's not what he meant.
59:34
SPEAKER_01: But then the the conversation went left when he brought up, you know, Charlamagne brought up slavery.
59:41
SPEAKER_01: They started talking about slavery, and eventually goes, you know, well, everybody's owned everybody.
59:49
SPEAKER_01: No.
59:52
SPEAKER_01: And this is when I was like, you know, what you should have did, sir.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_01: You should have just took to Instagram, wrote a little snippet, and said, you know, I apologize for the things that I've said if I hurt anybody in the statements that I made, and posted you a little picture, black and white background, AI, with your little shirt unbuttoned, maybe with a tie or something, and kept it pushing.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_01: Why the fuck did you get on the Breakfast Club a live damn interview show with Charlamagne and Lauren LaRosa?
1:00:35
SPEAKER_01: Because those are two ones that HOS up and started asking you questions.
1:00:40
SPEAKER_01: Things about history and chattel slavery and shit that you don't know a damn, yes, that you don't know a damn thing about.
1:00:52
SPEAKER_00: And was raised here.
1:00:53
SPEAKER_00: And the nigga was born in the United States.
1:00:58
SPEAKER_01: Till finally he had to start saying things like, you know, I'm not I'm not gonna touch that.
1:01:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm not even gonna, I'm not even gonna touch that.
1:01:05
SPEAKER_01: Cause I I don't want, you know, I don't, I don't, that that's that's a nuanced topic.
1:01:10
SPEAKER_01: It ain't nuanced.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_01: You just don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
1:01:14
SPEAKER_00: Like you have no idea what you're talking about.
1:01:19
SPEAKER_01: And so it just it it he thought he was going up there to do one thing, and he just continued to put his foot in his mouth, and then he just ended the shit with like, you know, the little cop out.
1:01:31
SPEAKER_01: I love everybody, and I just want people to be, you know, who they are.
1:01:36
SPEAKER_01: And I just, you know, I just want to re-emphasize that I never said things to create to create right back.
1:01:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I never said anything to, you know, create a wedge between the community or to harm anyone, you know.
1:01:55
SPEAKER_01: Um, but they did.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_01: Charlamagne and Lauren LaRose, they continue to like hammer and ask him questions.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_01: And he also said that the things about, you know, him you losing millions of followers after he said what he said, that was false.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, he hasn't um lost any deals or anything like that.
1:02:19
SPEAKER_01: Those were all false narratives, and he just wants people to just love one another and be kind, and you know, people have the right to love who they love.
1:02:32
SPEAKER_01: It just got it just got really really weird, and I was just like, dude, why did you come up here?
1:02:40
SPEAKER_01: It was just a bad, bad choice to come up there.
1:02:46
SPEAKER_01: I also feel like you knew exactly what you were saying, and I think a lot of times in this day and age, we have especially younger people in the industry who make these wide statements like he did about black Americans being he didn't necessarily say they were lazy, but he said that black Americans take the easier way out.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_01: Whereas individuals from overseas, like, you know, where he's from or his culture, his Haitian culture, they tend to work harder.
1:03:28
SPEAKER_01: I think in this day and age, we forget that social media is real and the shit that we say can be played back, it can be um, it is documented forever.
1:03:41
SPEAKER_01: And you also are hitting a very, very large group of people at once who are not gonna let shit like that fly.
1:03:50
SPEAKER_01: And so I think he tried to use a cop-out of that's not what I meant, that's not what I meant.
1:03:58
SPEAKER_01: Well, you very well knew what you meant, but you didn't think, you didn't think that folks were going to come at you the way that they did.
1:04:10
SPEAKER_01: And so you tried to get on the Breakfast Club, um, you tried to clean it up, but you really did, you really did end up screwing yourself.
1:04:19
SPEAKER_01: You just continued to screw yourself, and I'm just not I'm not supporting the bullshit because I feel like even him going on the Breakfast Club was not genuine.
1:04:31
SPEAKER_01: Um, you were scared.
1:04:33
SPEAKER_01: You were scared that you were gonna lose some deals.
1:04:35
SPEAKER_01: You were scared that your supporters, all of your supporters in the black community were gonna leave you um and not continue to support your endeavors.
1:04:44
SPEAKER_01: So you thought you would take your black ass to a black radio station and you thought other black people were gonna help you clean up your mess, but they actually actually held your feet to the fire and kept your ass accountable, and I appreciate that.
1:05:03
SPEAKER_01: Definitely.
1:05:04
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, DaVinci, I'm not fucking with it.
1:05:08
SPEAKER_01: Not at all.
1:05:11
SPEAKER_01: Not fucking with it at all, DaVinci.
1:05:13
SPEAKER_01: Um you realize real quick that the black community is gonna hold you accountable and we ain't going for it.
1:05:23
SPEAKER_01: But yeah.
1:05:24
SPEAKER_00: You can say over there, and all this shit going on.
1:05:27
SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
1:05:28
SPEAKER_00: Good day.
1:05:30
SPEAKER_00: Nope.
1:05:34
SPEAKER_00: So the Fortress Initiative.
1:05:41
SPEAKER_01: What you got, sis?
1:05:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what you got on the um Fortress Initiative?
1:05:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, is this primarily like what we were talking about before with the uh the 90 days?
1:05:50
SPEAKER_00: I just feel like it's so funny.
1:05:55
SPEAKER_00: It's just so lackadaisical when you have other countries like Germany telling their People to prepare for 14 days without power.
1:06:07
SPEAKER_00: Sweden, France.
1:06:10
SPEAKER_00: And they haven't formally made an announcement.
1:06:12
SPEAKER_00: They've just been telling the military bases that they need to be ready to create their own power grids for 90 days, and they're still not coming out telling the American people.
1:06:21
SPEAKER_00: But I've been in the doomsday prepping circles for a long time, and we've been doomsday prepping.
1:06:26
SPEAKER_00: I'm not worried.
1:06:28
SPEAKER_00: But I do think it's funny how all of a sudden now all the apocalyptic ass movies are coming out a day after tomorrow just came on Netflix.
1:06:36
SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, people need to take heed to this shit.
1:06:38
SPEAKER_00: They really do.
1:06:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:06:40
unknown: Yeah.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_00: Because we'll take shit serious.
1:06:43
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
1:06:43
SPEAKER_01: We don't.
1:06:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, so the Pentagon released a statement saying that, you know, their, you know, military bases are prepping for um a catastrophe of that could last 90 days, you know, be without power and all of that stuff.
1:07:02
SPEAKER_01: Um and so I think also to that.
1:07:05
SPEAKER_00: What a ushering in why nobody's giving the explanation as to why we're possibly going on the black out for 90 days.
1:07:13
SPEAKER_00: And nobody's asking why.
1:07:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:07:16
SPEAKER_01: But you know that shit too, you know, that just happened in Florida.
1:07:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, Trump with the damn, what was like some missile shit.
1:07:24
SPEAKER_01: Um, he has some missile shit, and then the damn plane falls in Florida.
1:07:29
SPEAKER_01: That's a whole thing that's going on right now.
1:07:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, it's a lot of shit going down there.
1:07:35
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, what the fuck is going on?
1:07:39
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, like I told us on The Black Paradigm, you need to get food, non-perishable food items, you know.
1:07:49
SPEAKER_00: It might not be shit that you like, but you're gonna eat.
1:07:52
SPEAKER_00: I would recommend shit like tuna in the can or the pack, sardines, vienna sausages, canned vegetables, canned fruit, pre-packaged fruit, prepackaged already cooked rice, um, collecting water, so having a lot of bottled water, jugs of water, nice clean filter water, possibly life straws, some type of light source.
1:08:15
SPEAKER_00: So I know we're probably we have kerosene heaters, a lot of kerosene.
1:08:22
SPEAKER_00: So if we do lose electricity, we'll be warm.
1:08:24
SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of wood for the fireplace.
1:08:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, collecting batteries.
1:08:31
SPEAKER_00: Um, if you're a person that has to be on a specific medication to survive, having a few months' worth of medication, um life straws to filter out nasty water.
1:08:45
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you have a lot, I would keep a lot of candles, I would keep matches, I would keep lighters.
1:08:50
SPEAKER_00: We always have a lot of those in the house.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_00: Um, hot plates, having some type of light source.
1:08:57
SPEAKER_00: So they have like several self-lighting lanterns or a small, even if you can't afford a big generator, which I wouldn't even want a generator right now, just because generators make noise.
1:09:08
SPEAKER_00: So when shit does go down, people are gonna be looking at your house.
1:09:11
SPEAKER_00: Um I will have physical media, so books, you know, to keep you entertained, magazines, something.
1:09:19
SPEAKER_00: I will have all of my documents in order.
1:09:22
SPEAKER_00: I will have like, you know, living wills, have it make a video of what is in your house and in every single room to keep track in case if we do come up online and shit, your shit get destroyed or stolen.
1:09:34
SPEAKER_00: I will keep like powdered milk, powdered butter, meal supplements that you can find off of Amazon.
1:09:40
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna put together a playlist for you guys.
1:09:43
SPEAKER_00: We have weather radios that are battery or solar ran.
1:09:47
SPEAKER_00: Um we have we also have phone solar charged phone um chargers.
1:09:54
SPEAKER_00: Um what else?
1:09:58
SPEAKER_00: Hygiene products, enough to stockpile.
1:10:02
SPEAKER_00: Um just get ready.
1:10:07
SPEAKER_00: I don't people are taking this lightly.
1:10:10
SPEAKER_00: This has been coming out of pot line for a very long time, and they would do this shit in the dead of winter.
1:10:15
SPEAKER_00: And I mean, if y'all didn't learn anything from Gary, especially if you live in the black area, they're not coming to fucking save you.
1:10:21
SPEAKER_00: They had no people in the dark for upwards of 10 10 days to two to two weeks.
1:10:27
SPEAKER_00: So shit goes down.
1:10:29
SPEAKER_00: If the crime goes up, I would recommend having your firearms, having a little billet or two.
1:10:37
SPEAKER_00: Um and I will stay in the fucking house.
1:10:44
SPEAKER_00: Because it's just it's just not happening saying, it's not it's not if it's gonna happen right now, it's a matter of when.
1:10:52
SPEAKER_00: And nobody's trying to fear monger or it this is real life.
1:10:58
SPEAKER_00: Real life and with everybody talking about oh military, military, military that's for the military community.
1:11:05
SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna do?
1:11:07
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people don't live close to a military base.
1:11:10
SPEAKER_00: Even living close to one, I live within 10 minutes of one, but still, I don't live on a base.
1:11:15
SPEAKER_00: And I know a lot of these military bases who's coming, who's coming up with their own power grids or having 90 days worth of you know, that makes them a ton because you know people are gonna be aiming for the military bases, and a lot of these bases, I know Fort Campbell is getting a nuclear reactor, so so you guys need to be very, very cautious.
1:11:39
SPEAKER_00: You got anything to add for this one?
1:11:43
SPEAKER_01: Uh um, I think we need to be very mindful and cautious about the shit that is, of course, on all these news platforms, on social media.
1:12:00
SPEAKER_01: I think there are a lot of AI images that are dancing around.
1:12:05
SPEAKER_01: I think we need to be checking our sources.
1:12:09
SPEAKER_01: We need to be um, you know, just stop being so trusting on the information that we're receiving.
1:12:18
SPEAKER_01: I think we also need to stop being so blinded by, you know, popular culture and trends and shit that are on the internet that are, you know, and then we don't we miss out on shit like what the uh Pentagon release, you know.
1:12:37
SPEAKER_01: I know some people like I was talking about it at work, and people were like, huh?
1:12:41
SPEAKER_01: What?
1:12:41
SPEAKER_01: I ain't hear nothing about that.
1:12:43
SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, I feel like if you're going to for every fucking two stupid ass websites or internet dumb shit that you're clicking on, you also need to be looking at some credible news sources as well.
1:12:58
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
1:12:59
SPEAKER_01: Um, so not just having, you know, the shade room on your damn phone, but are you also getting CNN and MSNBC or whatever fucking local news shit coming to your damn phone too?
1:13:12
SPEAKER_01: You know, so stop, you know, just taking in a bunch of dumb shit.
1:13:18
SPEAKER_01: Also be mindful, even if you don't, if you don't watch the news every day.
1:13:22
SPEAKER_01: But the way that you receive your information, make sure that you have a variety of things that you are listening to and reading.
1:13:30
SPEAKER_00: I have a conspiracy theory.
1:13:31
SPEAKER_00: You know what I think?
1:13:32
SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
1:13:33
SPEAKER_00: If this election doesn't go how the Republicans wanted to go, because we just, you know, we just have, we'll have midterms tomorrow.
1:13:40
SPEAKER_00: I voted early, so I don't have to worry about being out of that bullshit.
1:13:44
SPEAKER_00: But if this election doesn't go how they want us to go before the Republicans and the Magnum Code as a whole, oh, they're finna be lifestyle on our we're gonna be lifetime on you bitches.
1:13:55
SPEAKER_00: That's what I think this is coming from.
1:13:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:13:58
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
1:13:59
SPEAKER_01: I think so too.
1:14:01
SPEAKER_01: I think so too.
1:14:02
SPEAKER_01: I think a lot of shit is just, it's just because it's just too, it's too close to what's happening.
1:14:10
SPEAKER_01: Like it's just too coincidental that things like this are being said right here at fucking election time.
1:14:16
SPEAKER_01: Like, and I still go back to um when Trump was elected, I'll never forget in Clarksville there was a fucking um power outage.
1:14:27
SPEAKER_01: Do you remember that?
1:14:29
SPEAKER_01: You talking about in 2015?
1:14:30
SPEAKER_01: During the voting?
1:14:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, during the voting, there was a big ass like power outage.
1:14:37
SPEAKER_01: Like a, like a, like a, it was like a it didn't stay off long.
1:14:42
SPEAKER_01: And I just remember saying, like, how the fuck did that happen like during voting?
1:14:46
SPEAKER_01: When you was elected.
1:14:51
SPEAKER_01: No, not the first time.
1:14:52
SPEAKER_01: This last time I was living in Indiana.
1:14:55
SPEAKER_01: This last time with uh with Kamala.
1:14:58
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember, fam.
1:14:59
SPEAKER_01: Yes, it was like a a jolt in the fucking grid.
1:15:04
SPEAKER_01: And I remember going to go vote, and they were like, you know, we just had, you know, outage, it's gonna be a little while.
1:15:11
SPEAKER_01: We were waiting till like shit, you know, was coming back up and stuff.
1:15:14
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, okay.
1:15:22
SPEAKER_00: Y'all just need to prepare.
1:15:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:15:25
SPEAKER_00: Everything that fear mongering.
1:15:27
SPEAKER_00: Like, it might not be what you want to eat, but baby, I'll either sardine every day and be just my little sardine, little cracker, bitch.
1:15:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:15:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh, another thing too.
1:15:42
SPEAKER_00: We gotta get two more.
1:15:43
SPEAKER_00: We have one from one door, but we have three entrances where I say the door stopper sticks.
1:15:50
SPEAKER_00: So mama in your house, because I I feel like vigilante and people being thieves, that shit's oh, they look like they got money.
1:15:58
SPEAKER_00: I know they got resources because you failed to prepare.
1:16:01
SPEAKER_00: No?
1:16:01
SPEAKER_00: You have your family.
1:16:03
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
1:16:04
SPEAKER_01: You know, that it's definitely gonna get like that.
1:16:07
unknown: Yep.
1:16:08
SPEAKER_01: Because that fucking um movie that was on Netflix by the Obamas.
1:16:13
SPEAKER_00: Leave the world, even the new one.
1:16:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, not leave the world behind, but um what is it called?
1:16:20
SPEAKER_00: It had the Asia family where they locked all the people in their houses for a long ass time.
1:16:25
SPEAKER_00: Nobody could get in or out their house.
1:16:28
SPEAKER_00: Was that with the like the alien one?
1:16:31
SPEAKER_00: That wasn't the alien.
1:16:33
SPEAKER_00: I think so.
1:16:33
SPEAKER_00: I didn't watch that one though.
1:16:34
SPEAKER_00: Was it that one?
1:16:35
SPEAKER_00: Even with disclosure day, that was weird.
1:16:37
SPEAKER_00: Why y'all talking about alien disclosure all of a sudden?
1:16:39
SPEAKER_00: Now y'all tried to make it seem like people was crazy for believing in aliens, but now they're real.
1:16:45
SPEAKER_00: What's what what y'all finna do?
1:16:47
SPEAKER_00: I said that too, you know, either it has to do with the election or what's finna who finna be out there.
1:16:53
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
1:16:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:17:00
unknown: Yeah.
1:17:01
SPEAKER_00: But I said y'all gonna be a reading ass.
1:17:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:17:07
SPEAKER_01: I I feel it.
1:17:08
SPEAKER_01: It's some shit coming.
1:17:11
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what or when, but I hope this shit over by my birthday.
1:17:16
SPEAKER_00: I ain't got fucking time.
1:17:19
SPEAKER_00: Shit.
1:17:21
SPEAKER_00: Right, sis.
1:17:26
SPEAKER_00: Bath and body works, storm steel.
1:17:29
SPEAKER_01: Yay, stormy steel.
1:17:31
SPEAKER_01: So um, I was a big Bath and Body Works girly, but um I would say in the last couple of years, their lotion just dries me out.
1:17:42
SPEAKER_01: I hate this.
1:17:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, I never used it.
1:17:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:17:45
SPEAKER_01: So I, you know, was looking for something else to use that would moisturize my skin, but something that was also like uh a very powerful, you know, scent, something that would last all day.
1:17:58
SPEAKER_01: And so um Stormy Steel, she um was on the hit show.
1:18:05
SPEAKER_01: It was the um nope.
1:18:08
SPEAKER_01: Was it Love and Marriage Huntsville?
1:18:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think that's it.
1:18:12
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
1:18:13
SPEAKER_01: Love and Marriage Huntsville reality show.
1:18:16
SPEAKER_01: Um, she is a black business owner.
1:18:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, and so her brand is the what is it, Canvas Beauty?
1:18:24
SPEAKER_01: Canvas Beauty, mm-hmm.
1:18:25
SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
1:18:26
SPEAKER_01: Canvas Beauty brand, and she has her um body glaze products, and so I have been um shopping with her now.
1:18:36
SPEAKER_01: I just ordered my second shipment of body glaze, and so I'm just really loving body glaze because it is a you know thick consistency, it is very nourishing, moisturizes the skin, and then it also gives a um like a shiny, a shiny finish to it.
1:18:57
SPEAKER_01: Um, it's not like a sticky, nasty, gritty thing, so it's very soft on the skin.
1:19:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, and then the smell, the smell, oh my god, it's like absolutely amazing.
1:19:08
SPEAKER_01: So she has a lot of different scents.
1:19:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, Siama is my favorite.
1:19:13
SPEAKER_01: I love, love, love it.
1:19:14
SPEAKER_00: Is it like a fruity smell?
1:19:17
SPEAKER_01: It's like um, oh, it's not really fruity, it's like a rich wood.
1:19:29
SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's hard to say.
1:19:31
SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at it, smells so good.
1:19:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, I love it.
1:19:38
SPEAKER_01: And she's just doing her thing.
1:19:41
SPEAKER_01: I just she also has like oils, so she does have body oils.
1:19:46
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna turn into a body oil girly.
1:19:48
SPEAKER_01: She has those.
1:19:49
SPEAKER_01: So like all of, yep, so all of her scent, she has like an oil for it, and she has the um the body glaze.
1:19:58
SPEAKER_01: I am waiting on the soap, like hand soap.
1:20:04
SPEAKER_01: Once she comes out with some hand soap, because she I think she also has candles.
1:20:09
SPEAKER_01: I might be wrong.
1:20:10
SPEAKER_01: I know she has lip.
1:20:12
SPEAKER_00: Candles, hold on.
1:20:13
SPEAKER_01: I might be wrong.
1:20:14
SPEAKER_01: I know she does have um like lip oil and lip cream.
1:20:20
SPEAKER_01: Oh, she got diffuser oils, room spray.
1:20:22
SPEAKER_01: Hold on, skin.
1:20:24
SPEAKER_01: She might not have candles, then.
1:20:26
SPEAKER_01: If she, I think she might just have the diffuser stuff.
1:20:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I didn't see any lip stuff on here.
1:20:32
SPEAKER_00: She must have got rid of it.
1:20:33
SPEAKER_01: She don't have lip stuff.
1:20:34
SPEAKER_01: Damn.
1:20:35
SPEAKER_01: Well, I know one thing.
1:20:36
SPEAKER_01: Once she gets some damn hand soap, baby, bath and body will never see me again.
1:20:42
SPEAKER_01: That is the only thing right now that I'm buying from Bath Body is hand soap.
1:20:46
SPEAKER_00: Um little plug hand stuff.
1:20:47
SPEAKER_00: I love them.
1:20:48
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
1:20:49
SPEAKER_01: So I just, I don't know.
1:20:50
SPEAKER_01: I'm excited for her to like expand, like take over the I want her to be black girls bath and body works.
1:21:00
SPEAKER_01: Like, what?
1:21:00
SPEAKER_01: Let's just go ahead and just shut them on down.
1:21:03
SPEAKER_00: Like now, wait a minute, bitch.
1:21:05
SPEAKER_00: I love bath and body now.
1:21:06
SPEAKER_00: Wait a minute.
1:21:08
SPEAKER_01: Let's just go ahead and stormy.
1:21:11
SPEAKER_01: Do the candles, do the little scent plug-ins, do the hand sanitizer, do the soap.
1:21:17
SPEAKER_01: Baby, bath and body don't never get to see me again.
1:21:20
SPEAKER_01: I'll be all the way 100% with you.
1:21:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, I also need her to get a little faster with shipping, even though this last shipment, beautiful packaging.
1:21:33
SPEAKER_01: Love it.
1:21:34
SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna need my stuff a little faster.
1:21:37
SPEAKER_01: But, you know, that's just a little critique because I'm gonna keep it all the way 100.
1:21:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, it does take a little time to get your order, but it is worth it.
1:21:46
SPEAKER_01: I love, love, love the body glaze.
1:21:49
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:21:50
SPEAKER_01: So um, shout out to Stormy Steel.
1:21:53
SPEAKER_01: I think she's um about to welcome a new baby, too.
1:21:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I just said I'm like, I didn't know she was pregnant.
1:22:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so shout out to her.
1:22:02
SPEAKER_01: Um, working hard, a mommy, a wife, black business owner, um, black entrepreneur, black female entrepreneur doing her thing.
1:22:13
SPEAKER_01: Um, definitely support her.
1:22:16
SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, we got to start putting our money back into our own communities, supporting our own.
1:22:24
SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
1:22:25
SPEAKER_01: Shout out to her.
1:22:29
SPEAKER_01: Um, Ashley, you got any anybody that you really like supporting right now?
1:22:35
SPEAKER_01: Black business owner, black entrepreneur, female entrepreneur?
1:22:41
SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
1:22:43
SPEAKER_00: Right now I'm not supporting anybody because my funds don't allow myself to, but when I can, baby, when I get myself back financially stable, I'm doing myself a big shot of spree on Danissa Merrick's cosmetics.
1:22:58
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:22:59
SPEAKER_00: Every her skin blurring formula, her makeup.
1:23:03
SPEAKER_00: I have never seen a bad review.
1:23:05
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not just talking about from black women, just anybody that uses her product, everybody has something amazing to say about her products.
1:23:13
SPEAKER_00: I really want to divulge and keep up with my makeup and go back to how I used to be with makeup.
1:23:20
SPEAKER_00: I can't wait.
1:23:21
SPEAKER_00: So shout out to Danessa Meric's Myricks.
1:23:24
SPEAKER_00: I think it's Danessa Myricks.
1:23:27
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:23:30
SPEAKER_01: Well, sis, that's all I got tonight.
1:23:33
SPEAKER_01: You got anything?
1:23:34
SPEAKER_00: No, that's all I got.
1:23:35
SPEAKER_00: I'm about to.
1:23:36
SPEAKER_00: My little man friend, he texted me good.
1:23:39
SPEAKER_00: Cause he was like, What's up, big head?
1:23:41
SPEAKER_00: But no, he's finna go to bed though.
1:23:43
SPEAKER_00: He's like, I'm finna go.
1:23:46
SPEAKER_00: But I was like, I'm I'm finna find me a little movie to watch.
1:23:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm excited because tomorrow I plan on seeing Wicker and I'ma take myself out.
1:23:57
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
1:23:58
SPEAKER_00: You know that movie Wicker?
1:24:00
SPEAKER_00: No.
1:24:01
SPEAKER_00: What is it about?
1:24:02
SPEAKER_00: Oh, this one this white woman, she's a village woman.
1:24:05
SPEAKER_00: This is based in olden days.
1:24:07
SPEAKER_00: She tells the guy who he she tells a man in her community to make her a husband.
1:24:13
SPEAKER_00: This man builds her a husband out of wicker, like wood basket wicker, and he be fucking her down.
1:24:21
SPEAKER_00: Can't wait.
1:24:22
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go in the daytime and be like this.
1:24:28
SPEAKER_00: Oh shit.
1:24:30
SPEAKER_00: I'ma I'm gonna do my little ghetto thing I be doing, girl.
1:24:33
SPEAKER_00: I go get me some wing stock, put it in a little thing, and take it with me to the movies and eat my chicken wings.
1:24:37
SPEAKER_00: Don't fucking.
1:24:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
1:24:40
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:24:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're gonna have so much fun.
1:24:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm jealous.
1:24:43
SPEAKER_00: I thought we should go to the movies.
1:24:45
SPEAKER_00: You know, I sign up for a movie club, so I pay, I'm with Regal Movie Club.
1:24:49
SPEAKER_00: I pay 23 a month.
1:24:50
SPEAKER_00: My movie tickets, if you're like, oh, that's a lot a month.
1:24:53
SPEAKER_00: I go to the movies at least eight times a month.
1:24:56
SPEAKER_00: But my movie worth it.
1:24:58
SPEAKER_00: Only be 55 cents.
1:25:00
SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
1:25:01
SPEAKER_00: It's worth it for me because I love Hell yeah.
1:25:05
SPEAKER_00: Damn.
1:25:06
SPEAKER_00: That's all.
1:25:07
SPEAKER_00: I hope you have fun.
1:25:10
SPEAKER_00: Girl, I'm so excited.
1:25:13
SPEAKER_01: Ugh, I'll be at work.
1:25:18
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, that's all I got, boo.
1:25:21
SPEAKER_00: All right.
1:25:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, you guys, that has been Wicked Punch Cyber Patch Kid with chicken wings, bitch.
1:25:30
SPEAKER_00: I know you lying.
1:25:31
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, disgusting.
1:25:32
SPEAKER_00: Ugh.
1:25:33
SPEAKER_00: That's big mama your arm.
1:25:35
SPEAKER_00: But no.
1:25:35
SPEAKER_00: All right, you guys.
1:25:39
SPEAKER_00: That has been so sus the sick.
1:25:41
SPEAKER_00: We will see y'all next week.
1:25:44
SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye.
1:25:45
SPEAKER_00: Bye.