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Introducing The Maroon Life Podcast: Pilot Your Living
Ever wonder what those treasured objects in your home say about who you've been and who you're becoming? Welcome to the debut episode of The Maroon Life, where creative power couple Adrian Franks and Nicole A. Taylor open up about the spaces that shaped them and the intentional way they've built their world together.
From Adrian's childhood drawing table (lovingly brought home by his mother on a city bus) to Nicole's meticulously curated first apartment with its Pier One dishes and magazine clippings, our hosts take us on a journey through the physical spaces that have defined their creative evolution. There's something magical about hearing these two lifelong creators unpack how their environments—from cramped childhood bedrooms to Atlanta apartments—became catalysts for artistic expression and community building.
The conversation weaves between heartfelt nostalgia and profound reflection, touching on how certain objects carry our stories through time. A weathered trunk that once held hundreds of CDs and now stores linens. Lamps that have illuminated multiple homes across decades. These aren't just possessions; they're artifacts of identity that connect past to present.
What emerges is a beautiful philosophy about living intentionally and authentically. As Adrian puts it, "Wherever you land, you want to create something meaningful, something inviting, something comfortable—something that brings your personality to life." This isn't just about interior design; it's about crafting spaces that nurture creativity, honor heritage, and make room for joy.
Whether you're a designer, artist, home enthusiast, or simply someone who believes your environment matters, this episode offers both inspiration and permission to approach your spaces with intention. Because as Nicole and Adrian reveal, the way we build our worlds reflects who we are in full, glorious color.
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What does it mean to live creatively, not just in what you make, but how you move and how you dress and how you build your world?
Speaker 2:What does it mean to feel at home in your space, in your skin, in your purpose?
Speaker 1:Welcome to the Maroon Life. Our lives in Full Color, a podcast where we explore the art of creative living, from the way we style our homes to the stories we wear on our backs.
Speaker 2:We're your co-hosts Adrienne Franks, nicole. A Taylor two lifelong creators, curators and culture seekers on a mission to make space for freedom, joy and design that speaks.
Speaker 1:We tap into soulful conversations about joy, design, self-expression, home renovation and everything in between. Wow, can you believe it? We finally did it. Yeah, I mean, we're here, that's what we're doing, we're here with the Maroon Life podcast Our Lives in Full Color.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right. We're here, we're doing our thing and you know we've been talking about doing a podcast. Now for the betterment of what? 20 years.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, Not 20 years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's 20 years, the first time podcasts were a thing on actual iPods. How about that right?
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, Can you believe that we didn't keep all our original iPods?
Speaker 2:I kept mine, I kept the first one.
Speaker 1:All right, we got to roll it back. We got to roll it back for people who are tuning in for the first time to the first episode of Maroon Life Our Lives in Full Color. We got to introduce ourselves. Yeah, my name is Nicole A Taylor. The simple version of who I am is I am a storyteller, a cookbook author, a food writer producer, a mother and a wife, and I'm a person who I definitely live. My life in color, my home, the way I dress. It says hello, I'm here.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Who is this person?
Speaker 2:Well, everybody know me. I go by AD. My government name is Adrian Franks, my artist name is 80 Frank, but my artist name is AD Frank. But all those things are a combination of just my life long journey as a creative. I'm 48. I'm from Atlanta. I've pretty much been an artist my entire life. So out of those 48 years, I would say about 42 of those years has been me being a creative. Me drawing on a wall for the first time. Me learning how to use design in high school. Me going to college and studying the trade of advertising and design. Me becoming an actual designer and art director over the last 20, 30 years, learning how to be an inventor, learning how to be a visual artist, me becoming a podcast host, not just with the part that me you're doing, but other parts I've done. Me just being a creative, entrepreneurial type person. So I feel like that's been like my lifelong journey. Yeah, starting from Atlanta here in New York, now just going worldwide with this.
Speaker 1:It's funny you said so. Everyone knows me. I think some, yeah, a lot of. You do know a lot of people. I must say you are the person that we can show up in a completely different country and you'll bump into someone you know my friend Vic said that and God bless her.
Speaker 2:That was like a running joke.
Speaker 1:That is so you. But what I think is going to be great about this podcast is people are going to get a deeper understanding of who we are as individuals and how we live our lives as partners, partners in crime, partners in life. And yeah, I'm excited about that, I'm excited. And so the first question that I want to kind of explore that I don't feel like we've explored it together, but, like, what does the word or the phrase intentional space for living mean for me, for you and for us together? Like you always hear, let's have intentions, let's create an intentional space, but what does that mean? And also, do you remember the first intentional space or intentional home that you created for yourself? Or it could be intentional for you, like creative studio or um art space I mean, when you ask that question about intentional space, I'm on.
Speaker 2:I instantly think about this idea of design, because design is intent of outcomes. Um, I would say that first time I created something that was intentional like in terms of a space would be when I was like I don't know, as a kid you know, building the ideal of an outdoor dwelling. You know we call them tree houses or we call them like cool spaces to park your bike. But when it came to my, I guess, overall art and like ideas around just being creative, I would say my bedroom was like that very first thing you know you think about as a kid, you know everybody put their right on uh posters on the wall right for me.
Speaker 2:I personally like the source because I was kind of like a hip-hop snob. Um, definitely, my first time I uh put my drawing table that my mom bought me as a, as a teenager, in that space was, like, very intentional, because I I want to have a place where I can kind of obviously sleep as well as create. And, mind you, you know I got five siblings. So having an intentional space to create wasn't always, like you know, accessible because you know there's a lot of us, but having a space, creating a space as a very young homie in Atlanta, that was like I was in my bedroom first.
Speaker 1:OK, so we got to rewind it back. You said something. I was in my bedroom first. Okay, so we got to rewind it back. You said something. You said drawing table and you know that that drawing table when you bring that up, there are a lot of regrets. There's a lot of happy memories around it for you and a lot of regrets. Tell us about the drawing table. Tell us about the first time you remember it being unpacked and it was in your room and using it, and I am lucky enough that I actually got to see the drawing table.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, that drawing table wasn't necessarily unpacked. It was brought home by my mom and I think at times she had a car, but it was in the shop it was being worked on. But she brought it home on the bus Wow, right, and the 34, gresham to be more specific. Yeah, it is when we was living in south decap well, you know, some say east atlanta. But she brought it home. It was a folding drawing table, so it was one of those things to adjust. You can fold it and collapse it. It makes it pretty easy to maneuver, but it wasn't like super light, right. So she brought that home on a bus. I remember her bringing it to.
Speaker 2:We lived on yukon and, um, yeah, I brought it to my room. I wasn't mary lou, I think it was yukon. I brought it into my room, or was it Mary Lou? I think it was UConn. I brought it into my room and, yeah, unfolded and I started instantly customizing it to what I want. I need a lamp. I need, like these trays to put my drawing pencils. At the time I was airbrushing, so I would sometimes turn this thing into an easel. So, yeah, that was the experience. Now, my biggest regret around that table is that I used it for, like man, up until well, up until like my mid 30s I mean my late twins actually my first apartment. I had it in my first apartment as a, as a young adult when we moved to new york yeah you had already moved, so, okay, I gotta back up and say this to explain to people.
Speaker 1:I love how you just told this story and, like you have so many atlanta easter eggs, you literally just named buses and streets that are straight atlanta but yeah, you got to be from there to get that so adrian and I met in atlanta and I actually had an opportunity to see this this table, because when we moved in together he brought the table.
Speaker 1:The house that we were living in at the time had this beautiful sun room. There's all windows so Adrian set up a studio there and that was the. That was the table that he used in there, and so I got to see like the airbrush things. It was a really beautiful table, and when we moved here to New York in 2008, I said what do you want me to do with this drawing table? Because you had moved up here already, right, and you were like, oh, you can get rid of it yeah, I had to let it go, unfortunately, because I was like that was I.
Speaker 2:I should have just put it back in storage.
Speaker 1:That's why, yeah, I mean, because there are two things. Speaking of design and intent, there are two things um that I about. I think about that table. When we moved here in 2008 and we had to get rid of so many things, I got rid of stacks upon stacks of magazines and they were magazines I had from the nineties and the eighties. I have always been a lover of magazines and when I think about my first intentional space, one of the things that I think about putting words on my wall, like ripping out magazines, my favorite magazine pages, and like posting them on my wall. That's what I remember the most. I didn't get my own room till I was like in the sixth grade.
Speaker 1:I don't know how, what age you are in the sixth grade, I um.
Speaker 2:I shared a room with 11, something like that Okay, like 10 or 11.
Speaker 1:So I shared a room with my aunts you know, I was living with my aunts them up until then and then I moved in with my mom and I had my own room and I remember having a day bed, which is so funny because when I got an adult and we got an extra room, I bought a day bed. I have this thing with day beds. I see, yeah, I had a day bed. I remember that it was a tiny room. My mom was living in a like a frame apartment and I thought it was so weird.
Speaker 1:But now I'm like oh, we lived in a two-bedroom a-frame apartment. It was literally shaped like an a-frame. I mean it looked like a cabin of sorts. I had one tiny window and I had a desk and I remember wanting an electric typewriter. But what I most remember on the walls were I would cut out quotes from like less Brown, malcolm X, and then I would have like magazines, stuff from magazines that I would put on the wall. I didn't, I don't remember the posters, but I remember having quotes. So I have this thing even now where, um, so every single day, I essentially pull a quote.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you post it on the gram.
Speaker 1:I post it on the gram but even if. I don't post it on the gram, I send it to you, I send it to friends or I just read it to myself. So, um, yeah, that's kind of my room was that intentional space. And then when I went off to college, um, I kind of did that same thing of posting stuff on my wardrobe door. But what I remember the most is my obsession with Martha Stewart bedding collection from Kmart.
Speaker 1:Yes, I had a black and white like striped seersucker bedding set that I got from Kmart sucker bedding set that I got from Kmart, um, and so when I moved into my dorm, this actually was my, my sophomore year, um, and so I had I was in a suite with four other women and not like the bump bed things like my freshman year, but I would say in college, that's when I knew for certain that I had created a space with intention for myself, and not only was it for myself, but people love being in my room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I kind of had that whole Kool-Aid room hangout in Adrian's spot, I guess because I was the youngest. But also I think my room was the most creative and probably was the first. You know, depending on you know how old I was at the time, I either had like all my siblings in the house or a few of us, because you know, we kind of came in waves and people moving out, right. So I guess by the time I was a teenager having my own room, or when I was like 10 or 12 or preteen, you know, my oldest siblings have already moved out. Then you know it's left the twins and then you know it's like my um younger sibling.
Speaker 1:We are now like you know, all living together and yeah, it's like my room was more or less the same thing. Well, let's talk about what was in the room, like okay, so we know we had, you know you had your drawing table posters.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, I had my other like kind of cool figurines, like collectible toys, right, like some would say collecting toys, then yeah, yeah, I was all into collecting like manga toys and not just a McFarland toy, that was before that right.
Speaker 2:But I was into collecting like novelty things, right. So that could be like a cool glove or like a certain kind of like garment, because you know, I was the kind of person too I would like change up my own wear, like how some of my garments that I would wear to school I would actually kind of embellish them and change them up a little bit, so I have those things hanging up. I have obviously tons of magazines, just like you, as well as like just other cool chotsky kind of things like collectibles overall. So my room was like a you know, a creative nerd, black, nerd kid room, essentially it's one thing I'm surprised you haven't said music too.
Speaker 2:I was a lot of. Well, you know, you're not talking depending on what age you're saying, right, like at the time it was tapes, because you know cds, oh my god, I didn't have a lot of cds in the 80s, but you have a diss man like oh yeah, I had two. I had like a gray one, I had the yellow one that was waterproof and I will borrow my brother's um, you know diss man as well. So I had a series of diss man and, uh, you know, boom box yeah, we, we should talk.
Speaker 1:One of the things that we have in common, although you are the true music connoisseur, I mean, I already always had some kind of stereo music system in my room where I listened to the radio, like FM, am radio. And I also remember buying. You remember you could buy like cassette tapes, but they were singles, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah I remember doing that and I remember the first CD that I own that I'm going to assume that I bought or somebody bought it for me. It was SWV's CD and I had a blue Discman. But I remember that was the first CD I owned. So as early as the sixth grade music was always around and I used to my best friend at the time and I think other kids used to do this to write lyrics down to the songs I think certain kids wrote down lyrics.
Speaker 2:I wasn't big into lyrics as much. I was big into like the harmony and the melodies because I was in a band, yeah you know. But uh, I think a lot. I think girls in particular, and that's not the gender norm us out here, but whatever. But you know, I think in most cases, most of the time, the girls will probably know the lyrics to any song they just would yeah so I would have in the room, you know, of course, the music, um, and the lyrics.
Speaker 1:And another thing that I've always kept I always had a journal. I've, I have my journals from, I think, the high school ones I might have gotten rid of. I have my what they call date book, a calendar book from high school, um, but yeah, those are the things that I had had and I start every morning right did you start your day with music?
Speaker 2:I would start my day either with music or morning cartoons, because I was a. You know I'm an artist, so I wanted to see something cool and visual. But if I didn't start the day with the music, then some of my siblings would.
Speaker 1:All right, let's move to adulthood.
Speaker 2:Yeah, early adult right yeah early adulthood your first apartment.
Speaker 1:I think we both got our first apartments. We were still in college, or at least still in our early 20s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got my first apartment at 21, because you know why I try to rush, I can get it. Uh, you know, in college I was still living at home because I, you know, my school, was the cab tech, so I would catch the bus home every day right just to come home from college. I didn't stay on cameras, it was, you know, it was a community college but it was paid for, so whatever. Um, but, yeah, when I became an adult, uh, you know, after I got my, finished my internship and, you know, start taking my full-time job as a directory artist. Yeah, I moved to kranbrook apartments off la vista road and they're no longer there anymore, but that was my very first apartment, me and my sister antonine. We were roommates and you know, my niece hope was obviously my other roommate. But, yeah, my goal was to create a space not just for the three of us but for my, you know, a place to hang out Right, like all my creative friends, other cousins, like Gerald and Earl, and other creative friends that I've met along the way from college and just in Atlanta at the time. I want to create a space that we can just hang out Right, we can cook, we can listen to music.
Speaker 2:Music was a big thing. Like my cousin Marquez, we call him Fez, love him dearly. God bless him. Man, he brought over the 100-disc CD changer. Whoa Right, and that was huge back then. So you're now talking. Each CD got more or less 10 to 12 songs. 100 CDs, this is 1,000 songs at your disposal, right your fingertips. So we hooked it up to the speaker. So it was like all about music, kind of like a little small concert hall.
Speaker 1:Rest in peace, fez. So Fez was into music like that too Big time.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know you're talking 90s.
Speaker 1:So was it in the black, like zippable thing that you would keep in?
Speaker 2:the car. No, had a big 100 disc changer, um kind of something you will hook up to like an amplifier and speakers. Oh wow, you can open up the front and literally load up 100 cds and you can see 100 cds in this changer and you can control the remote and it will play like music for like hours. You know, and in the back in my room I was at my computer and my easel in the living room it was that hundred disc changer with the, with the tv and the, the so you had to create a space.
Speaker 2:I did right, I wanted to create a communal space, like even a trunk that held the tv, but that's the same trunk that's inside of the maroon now in our in our bedroom, like that's the same way wait wait, we, we gotta, we gotta do a whole episode.
Speaker 1:We unpack the trunk, this brown trunk that we still have the adrian brought when we moved in. That was over 20 years ago so you had this trunk in the first apartment I did whoa okay, we gotta do a whole episode that trunk was hideous. We have to do it. It's a footlocker brown trump, less, less trunk. Yeah, we, we got to do a whole episode on that, okay. So, wow, you had a whole creative studio then, yeah, the disc changer definitely gives me creative the easel.
Speaker 2:So that same drawing table you had in there yeah, and my mom gave me a couch, which was great so, and also too I've heard this story before but you always had the latest and greatest computer.
Speaker 1:What kind of computer you had.
Speaker 2:Oh, I had a Performa 1300 Macintosh. Oh yeah, I knew that name and all of that. It's a 3100, actually not a 1300. It was a 3100 Performa PC Macintosh computer.
Speaker 1:Interesting.
Speaker 2:All along before you. Little creatives of today was into Macs. Professional creatives today was into max professional creatives. We all had max and they was pretty expensive back then. But yeah, I bought that computer I think like my third or fourth check, uh, from becoming a full-time designer director at bell south. But mind you, even in college I had to have a computer, so I had a mac yeah, I, will, I.
Speaker 1:Will have to say though I didn't, I didn't, I didn't know how can I say this, describe myself as creative until you came into the picture, until we started dating, because I had I had like a little rinky-dink computer but, I, will say, though terrible the inklings and the, the evidence of me being a creative person, were around my first apartment. I cannot think of the name of them. They were all six flags drive. Literally you could throw a rock.
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't Douglasville, it was. It was basically the next exit after six flags, but it was not a Douglasville address. I can't even remember the name of it. But I moved off campus and I had all these twists and turns. I was supposed to have a roommate I can see her and I know her name just very clearly. At the last minute she was like no, my dad said he didn't think it was a good idea that I'd be roommates with someone.
Speaker 2:Oh really.
Speaker 1:So, yes, and so she is like an attorney. Now she went to Howard. We've lost touch. Maybe we were friends on Facebook anyway, but I always think about what if we had to become roommates. But I moved by myself off Six Flags Drive. I had a one bedroom apartment, I had a car, there were a lot of Atlanta University students I graduated from Clark Atlanta University but there were a lot of students in this complex that attended the Atlanta University Center and you can tell me nothing because I had. What I remember most about this apartment, um, obviously I had a couch that was in my home house garage, um, and I had like shampooed the couch. It was like a pullout couch. I remember renting a U-Haul and bringing it to atlanta, so I was so both our moms gave us our first yeah, give us a first couch and the lamps that we have in the maroon house, our house in athens.
Speaker 1:That came from your mom right that came from my home house too, the house that I grew up with my mom and my two aunts. I got it out of the garage and I've literally had those lamps. I've had those lamps like 30 some years and they had them before I've changed them. You know, I've had them rewired, but yeah, those two things. But I remember going to Pier one. Oh my gosh, I was obsessed with Pier one.
Speaker 2:And what?
Speaker 1:I remember I had some I guess people call them Melomane dishes from Pier one. They were green and I had the napkin holders and I set up my dining room table with this beautiful, what I thought was beautiful. I mean it was beautiful. Let me say now, I thought beautiful serving ware and plateware from Pier 1. And between that and my obsession with collecting recipes from newspapers and magazines, those were the early inklings that I was definitely a culinary creative. But I was serious about having my apartment look adult-like. But now, when I think about it, I was like oh Well, you know you're young, right, Adult is relative.
Speaker 2:You're going off what? These salons? Right, I was inspired by everything from like Love Jones, Cause you know Love Jones at the time.
Speaker 1:Right, that was like the film out at the time.
Speaker 2:So for me, I think your apartment seems like it was definitely set up for, like you know, these, these, these salons around. Eating was, for me, it was more about the salons around, you know, portrait readings, showing art, showing creative ideas, sharing ideas. And you know, even the minimal amount of furniture I had in my first apartment was intentional because I wanted to feel more like a studio space.
Speaker 2:A space that we all can move around and you can display or you can do some type of performative, Like my very first apartment at Cranbrook. People read poetry, people sang songs. Cranbrook, people read poetry, people sang songs. Um, you know, it was like a set, a creative space that I want to. I wanted my gathering to feel more like these cool salons than just parties, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't there yet, but the Inklings were there. I definitely would gather people around food. I'd love to have people over and I remember having a party and um this Morehouse. The guy from our who graduated from the same high school as me, who's now like a big time civil rights attorney that I actually see in like all of these big Black Lives Matter civil rights cases I see him in the background. I have some like old school photos like real photos, not cell phone photos of us being at that printout.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:That I probably took to CVS or Dwayne Reed Right Well or CVS wasn't in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And printed out and we had a party there and I re I remember that party but I I I definitely back then knew that I had um the ability to bring people together and there was always going to be food and drinks.
Speaker 2:Right, I mean it's funny because even my first couch I mean it was the one my mom gave me but I also got, like you know, a futon that I can turn into like a couch in my bedroom. So I see even one of my bedroom to be like a private studio, Interesting, you know, even though the futon would turn into like a bed or a chair. So I wanted, I was kind of always into like this design, modular furniture that can kind of be repurposed for multiple usage. You know, what are the learnings that we, what are like some of the takeaways you can think of If you think about, like you know, your first, your first spot to your current dwelling, like what was some of the learnings that you probably, you know, pulled from that and inspired like that's?
Speaker 1:a good way of living I think the biggest learning when I look back on that that was probably like 1998 is that you'll grow. Nothing stays the same. You know the people who are around you at the moment. They may be still in your life, they may sadly have passed away or they may have been at that one party and you haven't seen them since.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, right, but that who you are, you know at a moment, is not who you are going to be um 20, 10 or five years from now, and your style will change, but it will stay the same because I still have those lamps.
Speaker 2:Hey, I still got that trunk. Ah right, but that trunk did morph into a better looking trunk. Like I said, it was busted but it was still sturdy.
Speaker 1:But um, I put some care and love into it and transformed to make it look more you know up to date. Uh, rehabbed it and it's a lot more functional, you know, thanks to my cousin.
Speaker 2:What does that trunk symbolize? Oh, it symbolized um connections. You know I was able to store art supplies in it at first. Nine stores linen, and you know, bed, bed linen and even towels. But it definitely feels like a capsule. It says connections from my first apartment to my current living house down in Athens and even you had CDs in it at one point too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, it's funny. You say that all my CDs were in that trunk. Um, when we first met, cause I had like 500, some CDs and I had like multiple levels of like music in it. So I had cds, I had a few tapes. No, no albums, because, you know, albums kind of came back, you know, in the last 15 years or so. But yeah, all my music was in that trunk at one point in time and everybody know, hey, if you wanted some dope music, hey, go to asia's truck, that's where it's located. Wow, it wasn't in the car, it was definitely in the car, it was definitely in the trunk. So, yeah, shout outs to the trunk, so that trunk is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to do a whole episode on the trunk and the and the, the lamps.
Speaker 2:But I do think the learnings I'll pull from is that, to your right, that nothing stays the same.
Speaker 2:But you do have to kind of look at you know how can you improve your living space from one location in your life to a physical location, to the next, right, you know it went from the small apartment to a bigger apartment with more roommates. I went from, you know, an apartment with roommates to I got a loft apartment off Ponce de Leon at the Ford factory, went from that to you know, at some point me and you start, you know, crashing together and then, you know, we got married and then moved to New York from a house to a smaller dwelling. But I think the learnings from all of those different spaces that, wherever you land, you know you want to create something that's meaningful, something that's inviting and something that's comfortable and something to actually bring your personality to life, whatever you may be, you know, for me is art and design. For you it's definitely started out with, you know, things around culinary and friends and and games, cause you were big into the games, right, yeah.
Speaker 1:I need to bring that back. I mean, I'm so happy about this podcast because it's funny. It took us 20 years to do this. We've been talking about we need to, we need to have our dear friends on here Gabrielle Fulton Ponder and Greg Ponder to talk about. When you mentioned the word podcast, we're like what's podcast? But I'm excited about this because you know, behind the scenes we're like, ah, how are we going to do this? How are we going to do this? How are we going to do it? And we've done it. Yeah, we're doing it. And we got so much to talk about, so much to share with people, and we want people to get inspired by this, you know, to really just kind of live their life in full color, to look at the past, to see the things trumps there you go, trunk trumps, my uh lamps, for sure, in terms of storytelling, um. But this is what we want this podcast to do to be fun, to show our personalities. So many people like y'all need a reality show.
Speaker 1:We're like never do a reality show but this is the closest we're gonna get and this is the podcast the maroon lives, the maroon life that's right our lives in color.
Speaker 2:Um the first episode yeah, I hope you guys enjoy it. Um, tune in for future episodes we're going to be recording. You know how we feel. We're creators and I don't like to be over dedicating to things, but we want to make sure that whatever we put out is quality. So, yeah, just be checking back and checking all the things on ig, but we want this series of like conversations and just this audio experience to feel unique, authentic and just cool quality and at some point we may bring in some guests, but we want to you guys to hear our perspective, how we've been marooning our entire lives really yeah, we've been.
Speaker 1:That's how we live. Prior to being together, it was very much intentional. It was very much about honoring our ancestors, honoring ourselves and looking towards the future and really making our places like a safe haven. And then, when we got together, it just so happened that that's how both of our worlds already were. So, yeah, man, we did this thing.
Speaker 2:That's what's up.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, guys. Click subscribe and we'll be back soon. Thanks for tuning in to the Maroon Life where creativity meets culture and joy. Part of the Caffeine Media Network. Follow us on Spotify, apple or wherever you listen.