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In each episode Traneisha English, a very opinionated black woman, and a guest try to find humor in current events, culture, politics, and life as an adult while sharing things you should know.
Things You Should Know
But Let Me Tell you Exactly What Happened
You wanted the details—so we’re running it back. From the look in his eyes to every bizarre thing he said, we’re breaking down the night I met an alien. Think of this as the director’s cut of the encounter. Do you believe me yet?
What's up, gang Trenisha English here and you are listening to the Things you Should Know Podcast, because that, yeah, that was like a Hold on. Oh, you're fine, I'm just waiting for him to here you go. Don't mind that, friends. Just a little reset, just a little reset. Nothing too much, nothing too much, just literally just a little, just a little reset. So, so, yeah, so crazy, crazy.
Speaker 1:But, as I was reflecting, there are a few things that happened last night that I really don't know how I feel about. Okay, uh, the first thing was and some of this I didn't tell you, okay, so well, again, we were how many? Yeah, we were a lot of shots in, exactly, it had been a lot of Vegas, it was a lot of things happening. Shout out to crown royal and red bull, let us know if you want to sponsor. You are going to sponsor us, because the amount of people we've turned on to vegas bombs. You got a sponsor, yeah, you got sponsors now, but, uh, yeah, so, so he's really trying to like sell me, which I actually want to pause here and be like okay, because I'm, I'm all right, the libra is about to come out, is about to get very air signy out here, okay.
Speaker 1:So uh, and I think I told you about this a couple of days ago, I saw this clip of somebody talking and they said that men knew, know who to love, but they don't know how to love. And women know. That came up on my timeline yes, how to love, but they don't know who to love. Right, and that feels very um, centered in reality for me, like I think that there is some truth in that and definitely some things that need to be unpacked, right. So that's in the back of my mind, because when I tell you like he is talking forever, this man I know you don't know this, but do you know? This man looked me in the eye and said do you like plants? We can have plants together, do you like plants? So at this very point my mouth dropped open.
Speaker 1:But again, okay, so just trying to set the scene for you guys, we had no intentions of this night going how it went, so that's why we were just kind of dazed and confused. It's like how did we get here and was that man even real? It was even real, was he even real? Hallucination, right. And so I'm not shocked about him talking about plants, because while we were sitting at the table at one point. I look up and look at him and he's just staring dead at your face, just staring at you, and you were looking at your phone because we were all talking and laughing, you know whatever kicking it. Yeah, and I look up and he's just staring dead at your face and just smiling and I'm like, okay, I love this because my friend is dope, but also, sir, I watch a lot of true crime and he was sprung so quick, so quickly, and I'm just like sir. But that made me think this okay, maybe he's realizing who.
Speaker 1:Okay, so this makes me say this if we're gonna, if that's grounded in some reality, men know who, then the charge is to convince me, you gotta convince, you gotta convince, you gotta sell me on it. Yes, please, you have to. Because at this point I don't, I don't know how to feel about this, but I'm not gonna lie. Asking me, telling me that we can own plants, strong selling point. No, you got me there because, first of all, what do you say? Like so?
Speaker 1:And here's the thing, because I, we all know I can be very slick and I enjoy flirting, I can be really slick, like I mean, don't the man is gassing me, but I am definitely responding like, don't think that I'm just like shook, right, but there were a lot of things that he said to me that caught me so off guard that I didn't have a response. So he said that do you like plants? We can have plants together, do you like plants? And I was like, can you like who doesn't like plants? Like I? Just, yes, I like my carbon dioxide to be turned into oxygen, like we do. Like, what plants are we talking about? Are we talking about trees? Like they're cool, okay. So, with you saying that, okay, all right, because here's the other thing I don't do plants because I don't. I killed any plant that I have ever had. I don't have anymore, right, I don't do plants. Well, okay.
Speaker 1:So, and I was thinking about this too, because trying to get my words, because some some women know how to like, play like this, like you know, coy, and I realize I don't know how to do that, oh, yeah, no, that's actually not my vibe, okay, so that's what I'm getting to. So, like, when do you feel? Like? When he was like do you like plants? Should I have been like, oh, like what? No, you know, no, because here's all right, okay, yeah, here we go. Okay.
Speaker 1:Another thing this man said to me will you dance with me right now? Oh so, he's legit out of a rom-com right now. Now, the song that was playing I'm trying not to the song that was playing is by an artist that I would never dance to. Okay, like, absolutely not. Like never. Like it was stepping the name of love. Wait, so this is when y'all were at the bar. So, yes, because we have, we're having. That was actually very wild, actually. No, now that I think about it, step in the name of love was playing. So we are having a conversation about r kelly at the bar. Okay, because he says to me hey, I feel where you're coming from right now, but r kelly is a goat.
Speaker 1:Another thing this man said to me and I was like what? And he was like you can't say that he, when we, when we talk about his songwriting, you can't say that he didn't impact music. He's very right. I mean, he's right, and that was a whole nother thing that we had to talk about and that conversation, when I have that people with r kelly stands, it's like coming from me, somebody that has a daughter. I'm sorry, no, you can goat him all day long, but at my end of the year rap list, is it gonna be? Is r kelly gonna be there? No, r Kelly. And the other thing I also feel like there's an age there also feels like there's an age where people don't want to give them. Everyone's got a problematic fave. Everyone's got a problematic fave.
Speaker 1:Right, I can give up R Kelly because at the time when, when you remind me of a jeep comes out like I'm a kid, like, right, all of the lore around r kelly music I don't need, by the time I'm into what r kelly is doing. It's when r kelly's writing for b2k, like that right in the early aughts where he was literally writing any r&b song that was on the radio, so like, so that's my whole thing. Like, do I need r kelly's catalog? No, but am I out here, being like, oh, he wrote this, I'm not listening to that. No, I'm not doing that. So you're making a really valid point. And then, thankfully, the man comes with the vegas bomb, so then we can walk away, and then we walk into y'all's conversation by r kelly. So I'm like no, I just finished. No, I just finished this, I don't want to do this, and I and here's.
Speaker 1:So there's also part of that a conversation that, for me, was really attractive, because I love the way he handled the way I disagreed with him. Oh, that's a good one. It was really great. It was like hey, and I love the way it like felt like hey, I respect where you're at. You're like the stalemate was so good. I love that. The conversation, even though you're like talking about this serious shit, is never actually serious. It's never serious. It's never where we have to like you literally are looking me dead in the eyes and I'm asking you what you want, what you want. You're saying me you like this is a rom-com and we realize how ridiculous that is and we both just bust that, laughing like I really.
Speaker 1:He really showed up in a way that I would give him my time, yeah, but the man also asked me and he asked me how many instagram followers I had and I did not know. But I looked today. Really I was like huh, he asked me how many instagram followers I had and he asked me if he was on a tf. Okay, so we can't leave now, because that was my red flag, because imagine me leaving, because at this point this man has confessed his um love and how right and how fly trinisha is. So I'm like, okay, well, I'm gonna just go to the bar. Oh, I said I had to go to the bathroom. So I went to the bathroom and I sat at the bar for a minute because clearly y'all need some time. So at this point y'all did because'm like y'all need to exchange numbers or something Because this man is in love. And I come back to the table and this man says am I on the T app? No, because I need for you.
Speaker 1:So before that, because I don't remember what we're laughing about and he says hey, real quick, can I ask you a serious question? And I was like, yeah, sure, like about what? And he was like am I on the tf? Uh, and I said wow, oh, my goodness. So now I'm thinking he's probably not alien, not one, he's not an alien. And then, two, what's your real?
Speaker 1:Age is like like how old are you for real? Because I'm trying to think do I know any 30 year old man? Because a lot of guys don't even know what the tfp is. That was really what surprised me. I didn't know that. Dudes knew what it was. Yeah, and he was like I got a sister. He was like I have a sister, we real close.
Speaker 1:I know what the tfp is, which also gonna say this this is crazy, crazy for me men who have sisters green flags, because men who only have brothers don't know anything about women. Okay, like I really feel like they don't know anything about women. I'll be talking to my cousin and I'll be like, oh, my god, you grew up with boys. Like how, like, for real, you grow up with boys. Like you don't get this um. So I was like, okay, pause, but why would you ask me that? Why are you worried about me? And on it, and I've been looking, he ain't popped up yet, but yet, exactly, and you gotta make sure you're, can you change your location? Oh, you know what? Yep, let me do that. Yeah, do that because that's the other thing, because that's the other thing like you, yeah, again, like I said, the things that are based in like reality.
Speaker 1:Your name I don't think you gave me the right name, even though maybe he did. I meant to be like let me see your id. Yeah, um, because he would definitely would have gave. No, he definitely would have given it to me. Um, his name, I don't think he told us where he I don't think he was honest about where he's from and I don't think I don't think he's, I know he's. When he said he was 25, and I like reacted like that and then he was like I'm not, I'm just playing, I, you are 25. I was like you're 25 because people think we're in our twenties, which and that's my whole thing Like did you think that I was in my twenties? But that's the thing. He never asked me how old I was. He never asked me if I had kids. He never asked me. He never asked me if I was in a relationship. He's in love with you. None, none of what you named have would have stopped him from pursuing you. So why would I ask that?
Speaker 1:Hey, listeners, a quick reminder to subscribe and follow our podcast so you never miss an episode, and if you're enjoying the show, please rate and review us. Your support means the world to us. Now back to the show. This man literally fell from the sky. I did not and then no, as far as I know went back. He went back. They said the aliens is on the way. You know what? Oh my god, what if he's an alien? I'm actually so into it. Now I am Please, because y'all just really don't understand how this man swooped in and he just disappeared. He just disappeared, never to be seen again, never to be seen or heard from again.
Speaker 1:Because here's the other thing, though he left like a rom-com, too, he did. It was legit a rom-com Trenisha. And a rom-com, too he did. It was. It was legit a rom-com trinisha. And you have to figure out what the name of your rom-com is, and that's gonna be the name of this episode a little bit. Yeah, he legit swooped in like, oh my gosh, I was in a rom-com, you are, and whatever. You got to figure out a name. So, and here's the thing, right.
Speaker 1:So pause, because this is what I've been thinking about all day, because I've been knowing that we was gonna talk about this in a podcast. I'm going to run into him again, okay, and I just feel it in my, because you think he lives out there. I think he, because he was walking, I don't know. All right, I just it's it was. You have to. What? If he's an alien? I love that. I think he.
Speaker 1:This is why we need listen, we need to start streaming, because y'all do not understand how this happens to us and I honestly think he was an alien. He really fell from the sky and he literally felt like I was in a will pecker film, like it was crazy. You are, and I cannot wait to see how this develops because you are gonna see him again, but that that whole night was crazy. And again, I'm actually kind of into the fact that he's an alien. Yeah, because I mean, even if he isn't, that's fine too. No, it's not fine. I'm gonna pretend like he is, like no, he is alien. So yeah, the end of day, literature is we want you to understand is that we set out to just like, go get a quick bite and go home and it turned into this.
Speaker 1:But isn't that crazy? Isn't that how it always starts? It is. It's always a girl who just had a terrible breakup, right and just be an hour. And you know what I am? The workaholic stereotype. The girl. She works, works, works. She doesn't do anything else, she hasn't had a relationship in a really long time. And then here comes, here comes mr perfect, mr perfect, and he says all the right things with you. That was, isn't that the craziest thing you've ever heard? That is I don't think a guy has ever said to me do you want to get yo? Literally let's get no, no, no, no, sadia, no, no, not singular plants with an s, yeah, multiple. That would be a such a cute first date, would it? I don't know anything about no plants. That is going to be such a cute first date for y'all. No, y'all. See how quickly sadia is about to plant me off. I just uh what. Plant me off is crazy. That was cute. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:I am just trying to be helpful because I am the rom. Well, I used to be the rom-com queen. I love a good rom-com. Well, no, let me hold on, let me take it back. I'm not the rom-com what? No, I'm not a rom-com queen. I'm like a like for real romance. Like there's no romance movie. Yeah, like super duper, like that's where I am. Maybe that's that's because we're out of eye right now, because you're in a rom-com. I'm in, like I want to be in a rom-com.
Speaker 1:No, something terribly wrong, because, to be honest, the first day is actually in a rom-com. The first day actually is not supposed to go. Well, right, that's okay. See, that's, that's where we're okay, yeah, we're on two different sides of the street. You're talking about a romance film, yeah, which I love that for you. I'm in, like the photograph, I'm in how to lose a guy in 10 days. Okay, I mean like, yeah, I give you things I hate about you. I'm okay, okay, yeah, okay, I'm the problem and I accept that. No, it's fine, but maybe my alien first date does go well. Right, listen, if that's my thing for real, for real we're going to have, when people ask, how did we meet, we probably don't lie. Probably we're going to have to lie because I don't know how this would go.
Speaker 1:As, like, um, now I sound like a disney channel original man. I was like um, are you an alien? Are you an alien? Oh, man jury say, I fell in the day. I fell in love with an alien, with an alien, because I may want us to go buy plants, plants. I've never heard that before and I'm just gonna tell you like it caught me so off guard.
Speaker 1:I literally did not know what to say to him because I really wanted to be like no, I don't like plants, right, I'm gonna kill them, unhinged, that is, you can't say that so different, that's wild. But then, when I think about it wasn't even flowers. Like, do you like flowers? No, he said plants. I don't know anything about plants. I do like flowers. If you're listening, plants are a vibe too, they are.
Speaker 1:But then when I think about stuff that people have, the stuff that has come out their mouth and they asked me, I would have preferred them to ask me do I like plants, do you like plants? Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. I would go. I would go on. I would go on the terrible rom-com first date. You wouldn't have to tellcom first date. You wouldn't have to tell me that you wouldn't have something to it. I wouldn't be. If I have anything to be like, I wouldn't be like the textbook, like workaholic woman that y'all have to convince to go out with this man. Y'all would have to convince me. I would go because you were going.
Speaker 1:And then I want to hear all the details about the plants, all of the. I love how you're still planting me off. Yes, that is so cute. Now I'm going to be like. People are going to be like why are you into plants? Why not?
Speaker 1:Well, one day, this alien this alien yeah, I'm convinced he was an alien. I'm into it. I actually am kind of into that. Oh, I wish we could use his name because it's like Blank the Alien. Oh, yes, that would be a cute title for this episode Blank the Alien. Oh, we got to come up with a. The name he gave will be perfect. It really would. It would. I'm going to think about it. It's a work in progress. It's a work in progress. It's a work in practice. What's up, gang? It's trinisha again, and I hope you're enjoying the episode so far.
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Speaker 1:Think about it, wow, cedilla. So I really do appreciate you helping me realize that I was in a rom-com last night. Actually, I'm currently still in a rom-com. Yeah, you're still in it. Yeah, because it's not over. No, it hasn't been 24 hours thing. Yeah, it has not been 24 hours.
Speaker 1:Yo, listen, it's the season finale of america. What do we have to lose? We ain't got nothing At this point for the rest of 2025, we're just about to go with the flow and whatever happens happens. And, to be honest, we're just here Beam me up Because any place has to be better than here. This, right here. Anything has to be better than here. I am convinced. Yeah, because there's no way that this is it, and not in a way that y'all need to be worried about us, but in a way like y'all see it, yeah, y'all see it, and you're agreeing. I would rather be somewhere else. Yeah, you're, you're agreeing, agreeing with us as well, because there's no way that this is it.
Speaker 1:Like, and listen, he was very pro-black, so, yes, that's, that's what the aliens are giving. They're giving pro black, they're giving plant lovers, they're giving comedians, because, when I tell you that man had me cackling at him a lot, it was a great night, had a good time, this was a great weekend, and it wasn't even planned, it was all off the fly, it was. I'm cracking up. Oh, my God, y'all All right. So what do you want to say? Before we get out of here, we need to reevaluate some things. This world is crazy. This world is crazy.
Speaker 1:Y'all men are crazy, and even the ones of the alien, yes. And then it's like, how do you just set out just to be like, and I don't know. This is my whole thing. It's like y'all just be saying stuff and I just be thinking like I would never, just like say that to somebody. You know, yeah, but I was in a rom-com, so I know you were in a rom-com, but I'm just like what, I don't know, I'm just weird about this stuff, because I'm not saying none of that stuff until you let me know, um, that you feeling me, I ain't saying nothing and you just out here. Just my whole thing is like all right, yes, agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think the argument that people will make in this situation is he, he told me, but he was pointed on way too. It was very, very like thick and listen. So in my like romance movie in six months, when you guys are engaged, we're gonna love listen to this. This. That was crazy. Y'all see that she sent me to the botanical gardens and down the aisle in six months.
Speaker 1:I am a lover girl, people want me to be like a mean and, first of all, y'all are not. This is not to you, I know, but I mean, why not? What else are we doing? What else are we doing, like, like, what we wait? No, what are we waiting on? What is there? To wait on six months is crazy. I don't think it's crazy. You wouldn't marry somebody in six months, oh, 100%, I would like whatever. But yeah, like we ain't got nothing to wait on and it I and I felt like this, like I don't know, I need to, I need to go talk to the lady. Yeah, I feel like this is a moment to talk to the lady.
Speaker 1:I really wish we could get like a when I okay, so whenever I say a male perspective, I want a male perspective of somebody that's not out here on bs, that is like really out here trying to pursue and find whatever that he's looking for and is not thinking that tori lane's is innocent. So that's the type person I'm looking for when I say I want to be that type of person. Give us a call two, three, nine, nine, six, nine, six, yes, and let us know, let us know. Let us know Because, again, I do realize that some men are out here just telling you what you want to hear, because they only have one thing on their brain, whatever. But I also think it's like, if you're giving out that type of energy, that's what is given to you, and we were just kicking it last night, yeah, I mean, yeah, it was not on no type of like, nothing and and that, and that's why, again, I think he was an alien.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of questionable things, but I also think that he was just super infatuated and I love that, which I get it, and that sounds crazy like I get it right, I get it, and I'll never see him again. No, you are, you're gonna see him again, and then we're gonna come back to this episode and we're going to laugh and we're just going to be like we didn't know where this was going. You were alien, blah, blah, blah. I don't think there's anything at this point he could do to convince me he's not an alien. Oh, that's not a deal breaker for me. I'm not going to lie. Oh, me either. Listen, I would prefer an alien and I know everybody is all in a hoopla about AI, but I just want to get to a point to where I can build me a man and I build my man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I put me in a Black Mirror episode because that's exactly what it's giving, and I'm not mad at it at all. I'm into it. Yeah, I'm not mad at it at all. So, yes, yeah at all, I'm into it. Yeah, I'm not mad at it at all. So, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that was the day. That is the day that I was in a rom-com, and so we'll keep you all posted. That was, like you know, the little meet cute. That was really weird and yeah, we'll see where this goes. We'll keep you posted. We will see where this goes. I'm'm really excited about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, now we can get out of here for realsity, anything that you want to say. I really don't have anything. Everybody just drink your water and mind your business. Oh, that's always good to remind people. Yes, the best that you can. Yeah, drink your water, mind your business, mind your business. Y'all wish me luck with my new alien booze, with my alien man. We'll see you next time. Okay, bye, yes, bye, bye. I'm just saying it's going to be a great time, sadia, I want you to. Yeah, well, we told him in the beginning that we were about, we are and we are. Yeah, we're a vibe. You're gonna have a great time, but we just got to get you off this tequila, bro, and the white claw. You cannot be hanging out with me getting tequila and white claws. Yeah, that's embarrassing. It's so embarrassing, like at all. But yeah, it was good night now.