Silence Protects No One: Choosing Transparency Over Tradition

The first minutes feel like a family reunion—holidays, life updates, and a grateful shout to the listeners who kept nudging us back to the mic—then we flip the switch to what matters now. We map out Texas voting dates, explain why checking registration and party status prevents last-minute chaos, and show how a sample ballot turns anxiety into a game plan. Bring a paper cheat sheet, take your kid for that sticker, and make early voting the new norm instead of a rain-or-traffic gamble.

From there, we wade into deeper water with care and honesty: the weight of family secrets in Black communities. Using a story about passing, abuse, and fractured identity as a launch point, we name patterns many recognize but rarely unpack—surprise siblings at funerals, “uncles” who are actually fathers, relatives everyone quietly steers kids away from, and financial harm like utilities in a child’s name. We sit with the reasons silence took root—survival, shame, respectability—and how those reasons no longer serve safety or healing. Privacy isn’t the same as secrecy; one protects dignity, the other often protects harm.

We talk timing and truth: when to tell kids, how to keep facts age-appropriate, and why clarity is a gift even when it stings. Practical steps anchor the conversation—prepare what you need to say, choose a safe place, invite a trusted third voice, document what matters, watch for red flags, and center children’s safety without apology. We hold space for faith, humor, and the messy middle, because vulnerability rarely arrives neat. Letting secrets go doesn’t shame a family; it strengthens one. The goal isn’t to expose, it’s to heal—so the next generation inherits courage, not confusion.

If this resonates, share it with someone who needs a nudge toward transparency. Subscribe for more candid conversations, leave a review to help others find the show, and send your anonymous stories or questions to allinyourbizz25@gmail.com so we can keep building brave, loving community together.

Transcript

New Year Catch-Up And Shoutouts

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You got the dead work with the breeders. We are all in the stuff. It's 2026.

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Happy year. Happy year. Black History Month.

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Oh, yeah, Black History Month.

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Happy Everything.

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All that good stuff.

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We missed a lot.

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We missed y'all. We ain't talked y'all. We ain't talked to y'all a minute, but guess what?

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It's been a long time. We shouldn't have left you.

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All right. But you know what? Shout out to everybody that was sending us emails by a little break. Yes, we needed a break. Yeah, we needed a break. We were trying to get, you know, trying to stay on top of things. However, we had Thanksgiving, we had Christmas, we had New Year's. We had Kanza. We had all that good stuff, however. So last time we spoke, we were talking about what we talked about?

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Yeah.

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And guess what?

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Past a few meals since then.

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Yeah, my stomach is just from Thanksgiving. Oh, must have had a tasty plate from somewhere.

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Some of that green bean casserole.

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Don't know what it is. We won't say no names, but I recovered and I'm 100%.

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Look at God.

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Look, we'll only do it. But it's 2026. We still have more episodes up our sleeves. Yes. And then if you have any comments, hobbies, got anything that you want to talk about, got anything you want to just out.

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Share them with us because we would love to hear many topics you would like to talk about. And if you have that you want to share anonymous, of course, please send that to all in your b-i-z-z 25 at gmail.com just in case you're what about the ones in the back?

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Can you say it one more time?

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All in your B I Z Z 25 at gmail.com.

Voting Basics And Early Voting Tips

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Guess what? We got but it it is some important things coming up that we should just talk about briefly. No, just because I know y'all already know, but midterm election.

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Oh yes. If you are in Texas, early voting starts February 17th until the end, until the weekend, and then the primaries start March 3rd. Primaries are, just in case you don't know or are not aware, you select your political party candidates for the election, for the November election. So you're peep picking your people, right? Picking your people who you want to see on the ballot for November.

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So picking your people that you want to be picked.

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Peter Piper Peckers. Yeah. So make sure that you easy way to do it is uh look online.

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For your state.

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First, make sure you are registered to vote. Let's do that. Make sure that you are registered under under the appropriate party that you select because I have been reading a few people have been changed in the system for some reason. So make sure that you look into that.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

Do it ahead of time.

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Yes. Always, if you can, early vote because voting on the actual election day is very hard. Sometimes the weather is bad, sometimes traffic is bad, sometimes your mind is bad. You have a whole week to vote prior to the election date. No excuses, just do it. Take a friend, bring your child with you so that they can see that you know you are a voting parent, aunt, godmother, whatever. Take them with you so they can get the cute sticker and then they can get encouraged. But Google your county's ballot so that you can know who will be on the ballot. It's a sample ballot. Right. And then you can research all of the candidates. You can look up their pass, you can look up how they voted, you can look up if they fund, if they approve for ICE funding or not. You can do all those things so that when you're ready for early voting or voting on March 3rd, you can write down your cheat sheet. You can't have a phone, but you can have a piece of paper. You take your cheat sheet with you or memorize the names and you cast your vote, your vote. Okay. So make sure you do that. That's important.

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Very important.

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Don't say we didn't tell you and don't complain.

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Very important. Thank you so much for that information. It's very much needed, especially in this day and age. Go ahead and get your vote, your vote count. Rock the vote. So who was our listener that kept us on the straight and narrow?

Researching Candidates And Sample Ballots

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Oh, while we were out. While we were out. Shout out to Kimberly Jacobs from Columbus, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio. Thank you, girl. We are okay. We were just busy and trying to make sure we get things taken care of, but we appreciate you.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

She was gonna deal with it.

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Knocking on our door, checking on us, saying, hey, what's up with the episodes? Yeah. You know, because she listens to us driving into work. So she wanted to be all up in our biz. And I said, Oh, okay.

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She was in our biz.

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She was all up in our B-I-Z-Z. So thank you, Kimberly. Thank you, Kimberly. We appreciate you. And we are back.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

That's a rich name, too. What's he say? Kimberly.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

Kimberly. Kimberly. Yes.

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Yeah, the last name was Jacobs.

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Yes, but the way she was coming at us in email, it was Kim. So Kim Girl. Kim. Kim.

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Kim Jacobs.

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Kim J. Thank you. Kim J here. We appreciate you, Kim J.

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Shout out to you. Shout out to you. Shout out to you. But you know what? We're gonna say this is Rika's fault, okay? Because you know, it was 2026. I say, let's just come in easy. You know, let's land the plan easy.

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It's nothing easy in this day and time.

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Uh but you know what? She said she wanted to come in with a hard landing.

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Yeah, no lube on the water. No nothing.

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Just on the water.

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No OJ, no straw. Will you give it to me? A give it to me. Okay.

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Yeah, she wanted she wanted to come in with a hard landing and all. So today's topic. Black folks and family secrets.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

Now y'all know y'all got some secrets.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

Black folks and family secrets. Now, you go ahead and start us because she was so hyped up and everything. But black folks and family secrets.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

I I mean I guess we can only I guess speak on black. I'm sure it's not all it's just black folks, but I think that's where we are more experienced in. We can't speak about no other races and cultures. But if you got some secrets in your family and you're not a black family, or if you are, hey, hit us up. Let us know. What kind of secrets are going on? Other than recipes. Okay, so we I was watching the movie Jasmine's Blues by Tyler Perry. This is one of the movies that he made that is actually pretty good. Production is great, the writing is great, and it talks about people of color passing and you know, love and turmoil and family issues and things of that nature.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Okay.

Listener Check-In And Community Love

SPEAKER_00 7:15

So the father has some kind of internal issue with his stepson, I guess, and he brings it to his stepson's attention that he is not his father. He belittles him, he disrespects him, he disrespects his wife, and he leaves the family and takes all the money and goes off and does his thing somewhere else. Another part to that is not telling the entire story, but there is a girl who is living with her grandfather, and he she is being SA'd by her grandfather, and you know, her mother left her to live with her grandfather while her mother goes up north to work on passing.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

So what is passing?

SPEAKER_00 8:01

Passing is if you are a person of color and your features, complexion, hair can be misconstrued for a person who is non-colored or white.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Okay, thank you. Okay, can you continue to use?

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Yes, so mom goes up north to work on her passing skills, and granddaughter is left behind in the deep south, where she is essayed by her grandfather. And we started having the conversation as far as did the granddaughter ever share this with her mother, or did the grandfather do this to his daughter? Like, and then we start talking about family secrets and how embedded they are in the black culture. Like we've all heard that that saying, what goes on in this house? What?

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Stays in this motherfucking house.

SPEAKER_00 8:58

Okay, so where do you think that came from? Like why are we so secretive as a people, especially when it comes to certain things of sensitive nature? What do you think?

Opening The Topic: Family Secrets

SPEAKER_01 9:18

So definitely in I could only speak for black families because yeah, this is a deep one. So I don't really know why we keep those a secret so much and all, and some of these secrets people would literally take to their grave.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

I mean, it's like everybody kind of knows it, but nobody speaks on it. Yeah, it's like the real elephant in the room, but nobody talks about it, you know, especially the older generation, you know.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

So let me ask you so if somebody passes away, you've seen this and probably heard it. Somebody passes away, right? There's a service, a funeral, and then all these mystery people come, right? And you're like, oh, okay, let's just say the deceased is Mr. Mr. Bill. Oh, that's Mr. Bill's daughter, and that's Mr. Bill's son. And these kids aren't with Mr. Bill's wife, but they're here. But nobody knows, either nobody knows. Somebody knows, and it could be Mr. Bill's relatives, and maybe Mr. Bill's other family lives on the other side of town. But now the kids show up and everybody's gasping, other people are rolling their eyes, or and other people are saying, Oh, y'all didn't know this. So it's like, why that's a start. Why are we not talking about these things? Why are we not talking about the uncle that lived in the basement all these years? And and somebody's keeping him, you know, touched somewhere, but you know, this uncle is not safe around kids. Why are we not talking about this?

SPEAKER_01 11:04

That's a good question. You know what? And I really I thought about this topic for a long time. Like, I don't know why we do that. You know, we we hold on to things, you know, and it may be something like legit where it's like it has nothing, no, it's no bearing on anyone directly. Like it's no nobody's fault for a birth defect or something like that. But people just I remember growing up, people say, hey, they just a little, a little off.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

A little slow, a little, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

Yeah, they really had problems and and everybody just kind of accepted, never dealt with it, never gave the services that was needed, and then that person grew up and they got older, you know, but nobody ever said anything. It was just like taboo. Everybody knows it, but nobody wants to say it or address it.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

It's just understood that that's just what it is.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

That's just how they so why do we do that then? I don't know.

Passing, Abuse, And Hidden Histories

SPEAKER_00 11:56

I think I think personally it's the uncomfortable space or the uncomfortable conversation to be in. I think it is nobody really wants to address or point the finger or understand how or why this happened.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

Right. It's just what it is. It is what it is. I remember growing up when I don't know if it's before, but if, say for instance, you were a teenager or you were young, you know, and I have known girls that would have, you know, they had got pregnant, and then all of a sudden they just vanished and they always say they went down south.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Is is the south the the keeper of of pregnant secrets or something?

SPEAKER_01 12:39

I don't know, but it was that is very common. They disappeared, and next time you s saw them, like the baby was like three or four, you know, and it's like nobody spoke down south.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Like there a decision was made and that person was shipped off down south to who knows where, but when they came back. They came back with a plus one or two.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

Or what happened, like what happened to daddy, you know? Stuff like this, you know. Everybody knows daddy was a rolling stone. You know, they made songs about this, you know, like spoogles and rules. Where every lady's hat was his home. So this secret was kept, and then it's like your daddy really was probably your that man that used to come over, and you thought that he was real cool.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Your uncle, you thought it was uncle daddy, but that was really your daddy.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

You know, I've I have known I have known this to happen. Like people say, this person has been in my life all this time, or they may be either a friend or uncle, but all the time, that was your papy.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Or sometimes children may ask their mother, like, who is my father? And for years they've known their father to be one person when it turns out that that person is not their father.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Right. Now is that is that the now is that uh it's sad, and it's I mean I don't even know what to say.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

It's so sad because it's like as a mother or as a person, like maybe you just had a good time or maybe you were in a bad space and you don't know. And it may just be hard to tell your child, baby, I don't I don't know. I'm sorry, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

Is oh I mean, do you tell do I mean so when do you tell your children that I was in a bad space?

SPEAKER_00 14:30

I think maybe the sooner the better. But I think parents try to protect their children's heart, but at you know, eventually it comes out, eventually they ask questions, you know, uh eventually they want to know certain things, and so you gotta address it. You have to address it the best way that you can, and I'm sure that's not easy, I'm sure it's not, but you know it's so sad when you see like these TV shows, and two, three, and four, and five people are tested, and it's like it's still not the person, so it's it's just like I actually knew somebody like that, really? Yeah, and it was like that's I was I would think the person is in a bad space, you know.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Yeah, but you know, and it's like I try to be supportive as possible. You know, I was, but then when in hindsight I thought of I'm like, wow, this is this is busy. You know, and the longer it goes on, I think the tougher it gets. It doesn't get easier because you take time, you know.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

But then I think sometimes a parent doesn't want to confuse their child or cause harm at an early age, you know, like if they're eight or ten or or even fifteen when they're going through that adolescent stage where they're trying to figure themselves out, and then now they have this issue on top of their identity, identity, and it's like when is it ever the right time? Right. I don't know, but it's sad for both parties the child and the mother.

Funerals, Surprise Relatives, And Denial

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Yeah, but we'll keep it in. That's one thing I know as black folks, we'll keep we'll keep it in. Or or you know, I've known people, like I thought they were the smartest people in the world. But as I got older, come to find out like they did not graduate. They they dropped out of school, or back then I think it was common to drop out of school, you know, and start working, however. But I mean, all this time I'm thinking this person can read and they're this and that other, and they couldn't, you know. So it was a best, it was the best kept story of my life for a little bit. Because I I never I never understood. I was like, yeah, I know this person can read, person didn't graduate.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

A reading ring.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

Or how about the light bills and the kids' names and stuff like this? I mean, come on. You gonna tell me you building, you building credit? I didn't heard it all. Like, I'm building their credit. No, I didn't heard, you know, no, that cable and all that stuff. They should be able to watch TV when they want to. It's in their name.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

The electricity in their name, they can keep that light on.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Baby six years old, got a whole light bigger.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Got two, three credit cards. Hey, and they keep getting it, they keep getting a credit extension and more uh credit, a line of credit every two, three years.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

Uh come on, come on.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

You're talking about not see, see what I did for you? No, you forged, you forged my name.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

I would I should put you in jail.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

But that guess what? That's the best kept secret. I'm not gonna say it's the best kept secret, but that happens all the time.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

It's very common. Very common people cashing people's checks and social security checks and then the secret is people know. Yeah, but there's no.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

We know, but nobody's gonna say anything. Why?

SPEAKER_00 17:53

We don't want the confrontation, we don't want it's not my business. We turn the other.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Now wait a minute. Now, if you know something is not right, what is the line draw when you say it ain't my business?

SPEAKER_00 18:04

I guess when it comes to your front door.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

No, you'd be like, it is, it is your it is our business. I think that's we we skip over it so much. It's like it's not our business. It is your business because that can affect everybody.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

If something is not right, then it is our obligation to reach out and say, Hey, I'm noticing, you know, right, little Sarah's not, you know, showing up or she's looking a little enlarged around the waist or or this or that, not to shun her, not to shun anyone, but just to find out is if everything is okay. Right. And if everything is not okay, then it's not, oh, they're trying to, you know, split our family up, or we're gonna these people want to be involved, and you know, you get in the state and child protective services involved. Well, somebody has to do something to protect innocent children. You know, that's the obligation of a parent as an adult. As an an adult, protect children, yes. Right, so I agree.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

So we is so you can't just overlook it, you know, or there could be some signs or some problems, and if you know that there are problems or you see some red flags and all, like, is your obligation to let other people know. I agree, protect that person, you know, they may have a real uh a mental illness, but you have to protect the other people around you.

SPEAKER_00 19:30

Right. You never know. You just have to pay attention and your spidey senses will let you know something's not right.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

Right, but again, that's black folks and family secrets. That's you know, we that it's just bad.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

It's it is bad. It's very you there's a lot of things you don't find out until someone has passed, or you're having a conversation and say, Hey, did so-and-so ever do this, this, and this at your place? And you know, and they were like, Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

And then you start putting two and two together, and guess what? It don't even take a long time. But you know what?

Unspoken Harm And Protecting Children

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Dang it, you're right. Is that why so-and-so wasn't allowed to come around, or is that is that why so-and-so wouldn't allow her kids to be at so-and-so's house? You know, all these different things, and it's like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

But that but none, so that was like we said, I believe that that is the the older generation, like family, like they kept it. They but they protect it. Now the the new millennium families, kids, grandmas, they letting it out. They want to know why this, this, and the other, how and somebody got explained. It just like why somebody need to know because grandma like 25, the daughter, like 15, you know, like they want to know why is Lil' Ray Ray's name on this cable bill. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

And who told who took my food stamp card and did this, this, and that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

Why you 23 and I'm 15? I mean, like I we need to know why.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

We only Why do I look like this and everybody looks like that?

SPEAKER_01 21:12

Exactly. You know, like why does man only come around holidays and you know, however, then he leaves. I don't see him again.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

We need to just answer these questions and get rid of all these secrets. We got too much else to be worried about, like elections.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

And life and stability and health and mental health and all these things of importance. This is not something that we, I believe, should continue to hold on to and not have transparency when it comes to protecting something that's not right.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

Right. And I think that's that kind of that's a stronghold, I think, for us as as black families. We just have to do that. It's a generational thing, I think. You know, need to be transparent. Yeah. Need to be transparent because These younger kids, this younger generation, they gon' dig. As they should. Yeah. Say they should know. You know, they should not be in the dark to not know, so be prepared. I mean, they may ask.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

You need to have an answer. We ain't about to cover it up again. Well, you know. No. Stop doing that.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Stop doing it. Just say it. Like little Johnny is okay. This is your papy, okay? He ain't your uncle.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

The mailman? The milkman? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

So maybe that would that would smooth the landing a little bit. You know, but you don't want little Johnny to be like 40. And he's still thinking he thinking. Such and such is is his a good friend of mama's.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

No, that's your papy.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

That's your papy. But we're gonna get better though, I hope.

Generational Silence Versus New Transparency

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Yeah, I hope. If you have some family secrets that you would like to share anonymously, of course, then send that to us at all in your b-iz25 at gmail.com. I'm sure this conversation and topic can go on forever. And we try we're trying to make this as sensitive as we can while still having the conversation and changing the narrative of everything that goes on in this house, stays in this house because somebody has to be the representative of the innocent, of the manipulated, of the mentally challenged to speak up for them and be a voice for them. So there are many things that we hold on to to protect other people's feelings, to protect other people's freedoms, to protect other people's ego, other people's representative representation. It's just a lot of different things because we want to look so polished on the outside, but our inside is just ruined. Ruined, decomposed, just nasty. Right. And it's easy to polish that outside and make it shine like new money. But then, you know, behind closed doors, other things happen.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Right. And you don't want that.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

No.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

You know, as long as you got you got breath in your body and you got a heart to want to do the right thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

You can always that you trust, you know, share with someone that you trust.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

Right. And get the secret out.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

Get it out.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

Get it out. You'll feel much better.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Even if you're in church, you gotta stand up during testimony service and talk about the goodness of God. That's what testimony is. You you get up and you say, Hey, Uncle Joe was doing blah, blah, blah, and you just say it, and who cares? You know, you're there with a whole bunch of people, nobody, and you don't just have your exit plan.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

If you're not sure, don't get too rashy with it. No, you're not gonna be able to get it.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

Remember the lady who was testified in church sessions.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

You don't want to get that rampy.

SPEAKER_00 25:11

I was I was prostituting and yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

She was but she was letting it out, but she had a secret. Yeah, she she had a secret. She had to let it out.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

I was sucking, I said, Whoa.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Ooh. Yeah. Ooh. But guess what? And what's so funny about that's a whole nother subject, though. Because guess what? It was somebody else and then doing the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Yeah, but they would never be that brave. And I know that they judge that woman because they tried to turn her mic off and try to, you know, tell her not to tell her story. But like that's a testimony. If church is the refuge, then why can't you share these things? You know, why can't you express the and it may not have been it it could have been, you know, done in a different manner, but maybe that was the only way she could get it out. Maybe she had been holding on to that secret for a long time. And sometimes church is that's the hospital, the hospital for your soul. And sometimes you got to go there and get some treatment.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

No, and guess what? That may have made somebody else it gave somebody else the courage to say, you know what? I've been I've been doing it too.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

I've been doing it behind the the Woolworth too for the past 45 years, and I need to get delivered. Exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

And then they said, then you overcome. Then somebody else says something.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

I've been having I had I done had about six. Six kids from the women in the congregation.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Listen, listen. Now you're going too far. I think, I think, I think now listen to get the point. Okay. Okay. Okay. You talk about Woolworth. I've been sears.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

I've been on the Montgomery Ward. I was on the bridge of Selma. Sucked. Like.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Whoa. Whoa.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

But the point is that the point is is that don't secret. Let them go. They will kill you, they will haunt you.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

And get them light sided, that boy name.

SPEAKER_00 27:07

Yeah. Work on your your credit so that you can put and you don't have to have cable. That's not a necessity.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

But if them if them if I tell you what, if that cable and your little baby's name, you better let that little boy, that little girl watching. Anytime they want. And you better record.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

You better get a DVR. Since you already got the cable in the baby's name, you might as well get the DVR package and the credit card. And plug in all the night lights they want and record those shows so they can watch their shows.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

You better not say not. Because I know a family secret, somebody else in the family know you're doing it.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

And somebody else probably got the password to the cable that you done stole from the baby and they watching it too. So we see you.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

We see you.

SPEAKER_00 27:50

We see you. We see you.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

But we're gonna leave it right there though. But how can they reach us though?

SPEAKER_00 27:56

Y'all done made me upset. All in your BIZ. This is what you wanted. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

This is what you wanted.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

And we didn't go deep. Now we were we traded very lightly. We were in three feet.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

Three. We was like a this was three feet.

Letting Secrets Go And Finding Support

SPEAKER_00 28:09

This is ankle. Calf. We ain't go deep to the to the throat.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

To the shoulders.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

We ain't do that. Okay. All in your BIZZ25 at gmail.com. Now, if somebody sends some some information in and we may have to go to the throat with the K on the end.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

Yeah, we had to, you know what? We're gonna have to we're gonna have to run this back. We're gonna have to recircle the block on this conversation.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

Because I I'm sure there's a lot. I'm sure there's a lot to share, or a lot of secrets that people know of others, or things that have been shared with them, or things that may have gone on in their own family.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

You know what? I may even come out, you know. So I'm not gonna be that uncle no more.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

What kind of uncle are you? Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

I'm your papy. So uncle Rika, I'll be your papy.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Uncle, Uncle Daddy? Is that you?

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Is that why you were so generous for Christmas?

SPEAKER_01 29:03

We look alike. Did you not get it after all these years?

SPEAKER_00 29:07

No, I didn't even know.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

I'll be your papy. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

Nobody tells me anything. Okay. Well, well, don't find out anything at the next funeral.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

Don't let it come out then. Do it now.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

That's why I'm putting out there now. Rika, I'm your papy.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

Okay. Thank you. And if you need to have these uncomfortable conversations, make sure you do you do that. Respectfully, of course. And if it goes left, then okay, at least you try. But you know, I think people deserve the right to know.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

Go to Woolworth or go to Sears and call it a day.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

Montgomery Ward, something.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

Testify. But we're out of here, y'all. We certainly appreciate y'all. And it's 2026.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

We'll be back. We'll be back.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

We'll be back.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

Peace.