We are so back...PROMISE!

Whats up Sistas sorry for the Sabbatical but we are so back and ready to Kiki with you all for the rest of the summer. Remember Sistas always stay in the SYNC!

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SPEAKER_02 0:23

What's up, guys? Welcome back, welcome back. This is your girl Ashley. Hey y'all, this is Diamond. And we are back from sabbatical for excuse me for Sisters and Saint, y'all. It's been almost a month since we filmed, I think. Mm-hmm. School, medical procedures, with violeneals. It's just it was a lot that me and Diamond had to take away from.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

It's been a lot. Um wrapping up the school year, me starting back in school. Um You started back at school? Yeah. I started my doctoral program this uh this week. Oh my god. How long is your doctoral? Um, it can be anywhere from three to five years. Um and I said that I want to have it before or by or before 40. So I turned 35 this year. So how's it feel? Um I'm I got like mixed emotions. Like I'm excited for the journey because I have missed school, but I'm also um just very nervous and worried because I just know like my day-to-day is already hectic enough and I just want to make sure that I don't forget to turn in assignments and you know, things like that. Like whatever I do, I want to make sure I'm doing it to my a hundred percent. And so I'm just it just worries me. Yeah, yeah, I understand. Where are you going to school at? Uh all online, fully online through Walden, Walden University.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

Okay, Walden University, I've heard of them. Girl, you got this. You got this.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

I think that's a good one. This is also the first time going to school where AI and like chat GPT and shit is so popular. And so I'm like, I don't want that itch of let me throw this in chat GPT and checkers. Your ass are sure will. So I just think it's just I don't know. It's just really weird, it's strange being back in school, but it's just a lot of mixed emotions. So we'll see.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

You got it. That's what you got me for, and you got K-Round for your other friends for to keep you back on because I mean shit. Being having being a black woman and having a master's, which I don't have yet. I need a I'm actually looking at options. I thought I was gonna go back to finish my master's program, but Traveka for HR, that's not what I want to do. That's not what I'm passionate about. So I'm looking at starting over a complete program somewhere else. I'm looking at a few schools now. Um, but I think when you a black woman gets a master's degree, she's in the 6%. And I don't, and I think that is growing. So I can only imagine how like, girl, when you become a doctor, was it a doctor of education that you'll be?

SPEAKER_03 3:45

No, I'm I actually what you just said made me think of me. So um I've decided to go back for developmental psych. Yeah. Um, I didn't want another degree in education, and I didn't want a degree in English. I wanted to do something completely, well, not completely different because not it it's not, it relates, but damn.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Oh, you're gonna be studying like a lot of stuff dealing with psychology and and and mental stuff. And oh girl, that's well, that's green's paycheck. Do you know like where do you want your tri career trajectory to go after you receive this degree or what you thinking?

SPEAKER_03 4:28

So if I stay in the education field, like if say if I you know continue in my job where I am now, um, you have like your directors of special education, you have director of um uh special populations, things like that. Um you would like overseeing full departments. Um so I thought about that, but then I've also thought about getting into like teaching at the college level, maybe being a professor of like developmental site. Um, so yeah, I just I don't know yet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Possibilities are definitely endless, and who's to say once you finish getting your doctor doctorate degree that the the landscape won't be different, and it could be other opportunities that you can lean towards. So that's always good.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Um in my in my uh school is steady growing, so um I know there's been talks of like my school in a five to six years adding maybe an elementary school, so that'll open up more opportunities. So it's just a um, I know they're adding some new things in the high school as far as like work-based learning and things like that. So um more recruitment uh positions are coming down the pipeline for my school. So we are definitely expanding as far as like the charter world, trying to be a bigger charter. Um, but yeah, so I'm I'm excited for what's to come, but I am I am a little nervous.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

And that's I mean, hey, we're starting something new that comes with the territory, right? That's right. That's right. Absolutely. Well, since we're talking about we got your update on school, since how you feeling? How's your mental health?

SPEAKER_03 6:27

My mental health is doing really well. So we finished up the school year. Um, that was super exciting to be done with this school year, and now I'm into summer work. So summer work has begun. I only go in three days a week from eight to three, but it's a lot of planning for next year, and then also creating professional development for teachers when they come back in July. So that's what I've been doing. Also, been doing a lot of interviews. I actually interviewed two potential teachers this morning. I did one at one at 9:40, no, 915, and then I did another one at 12:45. One was for a science position and one was for an English position. So we're because we're trying to be fully staffed. That's like the goal is to be fully staffed by August, by the first day of school. We don't want to have any um substitutes or long-term substitutes in those roles. So that's what I've been doing. So it's just been like a lot of projects, like creating different things and revising stuff. That's always cool. Um, but it's just really low-key. I just love, even though I work in the summer, it's still super, super low-key. So that's been cool. Um, the kids are doing great. Joy will be at my school in August, so that's really amazing. She'll be at my school. She'll finally be in a classroom with it's only as of right now, it's only gonna be three kids in her class. Oh, that's wonderful! So she'll get that one-on-one. Yes. Oh my god. Um, so that's exciting. KJ is a hot mess. Express. Um, dude is just like repeating everything. Here's the thing. He's just really, really smart. And I know like like people say that a lot about their kids, but like the things that he remembers and like puts together is just like, how did you even know how to do that? Or where did that come from at two years old? And so channeling that and then him also having like a lot of fucking energy is just very overstimulating. And I'm just like, dude, and just not listening. He is just a hot ass fest, and I'm like, man, you prayed for this boy, but boys are different, man. Boys are really different.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Um the heart of the potty train.

SPEAKER_03 9:11

Yeah, oh yeah, that's a that's what we're doing right now, and he will get up from the potty and like literally pull his pants back up and be like, I PP. And it's like you're supposed to pee on the toilet, so you can tell me that you pee, but you pissed in your pants. Um but yeah, other than that, man, I'm I'm feeling I'm feeling really good. Um Married life is great. Um Yeah. So I'm doing I'm doing fairly well. Summertime is here. I just always love the summer. Like, even though right now our weather looks like shit. Um, and the rain is fucking killing me. But summertime is usually like my my happy time because my birthday is in the summer and all that good stuff, and I'm just at a slower pace. So yeah, I'm I'm doing really good.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

You have to deal with kids and their when we talk about that off record, but not having to deal with kids and their parents.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Yes, the fucking constant emails of just crazy shit. And I'm just like, man, like I'm the emails that I get from people, I'm just like, is there like a somewhere on the website that says I'm like specifically the person to email? Because I literally I feel like I'm the one on my team who gets email the most. And it'd be about stuff that I don't even own. And I'm like, where who told you to email me?

SPEAKER_02 10:43

Um they just emailed the first person email they saw on the website. That's all I did. Like, what?

SPEAKER_03 10:49

And so that's yeah, I'm so glad that that's paused for now in the summertime to have to deal with that shit. Um, but yeah, I'm doing good. How you doing, sis?

SPEAKER_02 11:01

I'm doing. Um, I share with TJ on Thursday. It's just I know something big is coming. Like, as far as then, I don't know what a job I thought I was gonna get by now, two jobs actually, another full-time and a part-time I didn't get. Um, so I'm like, okay, I gotta go back to the drawing board. I gotta start back applying, and I need I want to get a part-time because it's a trip that I have coming up at the end of July, like July the 30th through like August the 3rd, that I really, really, really want to take and have a nice amount of money for. But I'm like, crap, I thought I would have been working. Yeah, so it's just been dead ends. Um a lot of just getting body along, you know. Um the only thing that I'm certain about is I'm not gonna allow myself to be stressed out like I was last year because that's how I literally developed freaking morphia, which is my skin cond autoimmune disease, which is a skin condition, right? Um, I just don't want any flare-ups, but life is just I uh girl. Yeah, I I have nothing to add. But um outside of the trip, I really don't have nothing to look forward to per se. It's just yeah, but that's depressing. So let's go. We can get this show started. Um girl, say I'm music. It's first of all, maybe it's just me as somebody who's uh I listen to music every day. It's very rare if I'm not talking or if I'm not like listening to something or in a meeting, typically all day through work, either I have music playing in my ear or one of my co-workers, because it helps when you work with a team with six black women. All of y'all typically can agree to let's just listen to some 90s RB or some soft jazz or something. Um, if I'm at home, if I'm not watching something on TV, I have music playing on my headphones. You know, I always have music when I'm doing like when I'm showering, if I'm cooking, if I'm whatever it is.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

I've listened to enough music in my lifetime to understand soulless versus soul. So it's like I hate, even with the girl that went, I think she was the first AI artist to have placement on the Bible Hot 100, Zania or Zania Monane, her shit, all of her shit sounds the same. It's it's it's not it's rhymey rhymey to me. It's it's it's it's like it's empty. There's nothing attached to the music. So it's just like I or like you pop up with the AI album covers and it's like oh King Will Alone is there doing a cover of a song for I'm like that shit's not real. And honey, our parents are fucked. Like, I like this song. Mom, that's not even real.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

Yes. Um, there was, let's see, what day was this? It was like two nights ago. I was super sick. Matter of fact, this is the night that we were supposed to record Wednesday night, and I'm like sick in the bathroom. Um, those of y'all, I've told y'all before here on the pod that um I'm doing GLP1 medication. Um, so far I'm down 37 pounds. Okay. Yes, thank you so much. But I up, I upped my dosage again, and so I take my shot on Sundays, and then midweek I I can get pretty sick. So I was super sick, and I'm in the bathroom, like trying to get my life together, and I hear my mother-in-law, she's playing this song, and it's like loud a f. And I'm like, what is this song? And she's like singing to it, and she's like, Um, how does it go? Um, I believe in me, or I put it on me.

SPEAKER_02 15:05

Little songs like that.

SPEAKER_03 15:06

I'm like, oh my god, it's fucking fake.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

If it ain't listen, oh shit.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

What is this? I'm like, what is this? What is this? But of course, I'm sick. So the next day, it's so crazy because I get on the phone with my sisters, and they are, you know, they're the same age as James. And so they're really on social media, they're on TikTok more than I am, and so we're talking about it, and they're like, um, that's an AI song. And I said, I fucking knew it. I said I knew it, y'all, that it was an AI song. And so then Zaryan goes, go on TikTok and type in phenomenal woman. Phenomenal black woman. So I typed this in, and so it's like this TikTok trend of like our generation, a younger generation, my sister's age, who are like recording the older black women, like jamming out to these AI songs. And this shit is so fucking corny.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

It is the corniest shit I've ever heard in my life. Well, what I what I'm not what's not under what I'm not understanding, what's not clicking to me is they'll be quick to say, you know, which I do believe them. So I'm gonna give them grace. They'll say, oh, y'all music is shit, or the music of today is shit, which a lot of it is. A lot of it's bullshit. But it's just like y'all grew up with these amazing fucking artists, and y'all can't tell the shit. AI.

SPEAKER_03 16:35

So I go and tell mom, so I go and tell my mother-in-law, I'm like, mom, who sings that song, that celebrate me song? She's like, I don't know. I said, Yeah, you don't know because it's not a real person. And she's like, You're kidding me, you're kidding me. I said, Mom, it's AI. And I said, I'm gonna tell you something else. The person who typed that shit into AI, you have no idea who that person is.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

I said to me Asian or white man, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:58

That's what I told her. And I said off of black voices and black images. That's right. And I told her, I said, you know, y'all are falling for the okey doe. I said, they're putting in these words and phrases and shit that they feel like y'all are gonna respond to and y'all are doing it. And I said, y'all need to stop pressing the play button on that shit over and over. I said, because really what you're doing is you are getting rid of basically real artistry, real writers, real musicians. Um, you're taking away people's careers and their jobs and their livelihood. And she's like, but but it's speaking to you know what I've been through as a black woman, and I depend on me. And I'm like, mom, it's not real.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

Just like it's this game. I've been seeing it advertised so much, and I refuse every time I see it, I scroll up, put not interested, but it still ends up because I'm on, I would say I'm mostly on TikTok and threads. That's my preferred method of um of social media. And it's it's you'll see like a black, and they use black women to advertise, which is which is very um is is what's some it's very facetious. So you'll see a black girl's uh with her hand covered, like, I received a five-paragraph essay through text message from my AI boyfriend telling me he's breaking up with me. Are we like as lonely as I am? I'm I'm very and I try not to say, oh, I'm single and lonely, but I'm fucking lonely. I get lonely sometimes. I'm fucking human. That's what makes me human. I will never get that lonely to where I'm fucking, my boyfriend is an AI. You're basically feeding a machine to learn how to respond to you. It's there's nothing fucking real. There's no heart, there's no emotion. This motherfucker does not care. You have people out here who are going out with their AI boyfriends or girlfriends who are taking their phones on like first dates who like it's been a few people that's had weddings and like married this persona. How they're doing it, don't fucking know. This one lady in like Japan or South Korea, she had a hundred like the the value was like a hundred um a hundred thousand American dollar wedding to her AI boyfriend. You can't have sex with this person, you can't touch this person, you can't argue, you can't hug this person. And and to be honest, who's to say this shit's just technology? I'm a firm believer. A lot of this, you could be talking demons, people, and you don't know what the fuck. Now who, you don't know what the fuck you're talking to or what entity you're dealing with here.

SPEAKER_03 19:43

Whoa. See, I had no clue. You didn't told me something. I had no, I hadn't, I did not know we were. I have seen the little uh things that come across, like the advertisements for that shit, but I didn't know people was like really like going on dates and marrying these things.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

Girl, even like, okay, this is how you know everything is connected, everything has a central source, right? Anything Michael Jackson thing right now is worth a lot of money, making money, garnering attention. It's almost as if you post anything with Michael Jackson comment, it's for sure to gain traction, you know. It was this I I forget which Asian country it was, but I think China. I was watching some little tech thing, and they had a robot doing the Michael Jackson, his famous routine when he first premiered. I saw that himself doing the first of all, the fact that this fucking AI that it couldn't do the dance. It didn't look good doing it. There was nothing in me about it, but the motherfucker was tripping and falling and just powered off. I guess she was embarrassed. He, she, whatever was embarrassed, but I'm just like, can we stop this? When you have people who grew up dancing their whole life, the average black person knows somebody or in the hood don't have the opportunity to go to dance schools or shit. You got Juliana trained dancers, you got people that are background dancers for all these types of, but this is what y'all do. This is what y'all spend money on. The amount of money that y'all spend on AI, this technology and shit, y'all could really feed an in-world hunger, but y'all don't want to do that. Y'all could, you know, house homeless people that we can get higher pay. It's just like this world, especially living in a capitalistic country like in the United States, is so fucked up. It's so fucked up. I had to talk with the reverend about this, but I'll go into that later. But girl, yeah, this AI music has got to go, and I really feel like there needs to be some ramifications on AI in all sectors, whether it comes to entertainment, music, movies. And I feel bad for celebrities who are are, especially celebrities who are deceased, because if there was a video of Tupac having a conversation with J. Cole, that's not fucking real. Tupac died when Kids of Lamar was potentially fucking bait. Like, What are we doing? So imagine his living family members seeing that shit. Like who would want to, you know what I'm saying? So I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

Yeah. I just saw a video of Aliyah at a fucking uh sitting in the stands at a damn basketball game. Drinking. This shit looked real. Yeah, drinking soda and eating popcorn. And that was the first thing I thought about was fuck, man. Her family has to scroll and see this shit. Like her mother and her brother are still alive.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Alive and well. So it's just well, I don't know if they're well, but you know, it's you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. But when this country is for sale and has been, and when we only protect the 1% of the 1% billionaire class, of course, motherfuckers like Elon Musk don't give a fuck. He's consistently putting up AI data centers in black cities or in cities that are poor. Or where they simply said, we don't fucking want a data center, but you're gonna do this shit anyway, because we don't care about the people in this country. This administration don't give a damn. But this is all part of the ramifications of you got what you voted for. Well, sis, I am going to mute my mic because I want you to get into this next story about the autistic young child out of Louisville and how his mother became his advocate. So I'm gonna mute myself and let you deal with this because I know this is personal.

SPEAKER_03 23:24

Yes. Um, this is extremely personal for me when I saw this come across um my Facebook page is where I first saw it. So out of Louisville, um, you had a um a parent whose son was going to um school every day, he is nonverbal on the spectrum. I can't remember the age. I know it's elementary school.

SPEAKER_02 23:53

Um I think maybe like seven, six, seven or six, if I'm not mistaken, if I can remember.

SPEAKER_03 23:58

Yeah. Um going to school every day, and she had, you know, you have those even though, and I'll speak to the like the fact of being a parent of a child who's on the spectrum and being non-verbal, even though our kids cannot speak, we still of course know when something's wrong. So, for example, with Joy, um, she'll pace, like, she'll she does walk around a lot, but like her um pacing will become very aggressive, she will become aggressive, she may even start to um SIB, which means like self-induced behaviors. So she may scratch herself, she may make very loud noises, she might try to lunge um at you. So it's just things that we know as a parent when our kid is, you know, um going through something or having a hard time. I also, you know, like for instance, Joy does not like going to a specific doctor's office, um, her developmental um doctor's office, and she knows the building really well, and she doesn't like to go because um a few times back she had to get blood drawn, and that was very, very traumatic for her. And so oftentimes I see her like when we get to that building, she'll start rocking back and forth, she'll start getting like really fidgety, and so I know that um I have to do certain things to calm her down. With all that being said, this parent, this um, this woman, this black woman, um she obviously, you know, felt that there was something going on um at the school and was, you know, wondering what was happening in the classroom. Um, so she placed, of course, because there are no um cameras in the classroom, you know, and our kid our he can't talk, you know. We have a child who's non-verbal here, so it's not like he can come home and say, Mr. or Miss So-and-so did XYZ. Which I'm gonna tell you, as a parent, that is the most because already your kid is out of your eyesight, and so you can't be with them every day, but then also they are not able to communicate to you when they are away. I think for me, speaking from my point of view, especially having a daughter who is very well developed at her age, um, who does not even look like she is 10 years old, she looks more like she's pushing 13, 14. And so for me, it is a constant worry and a fear every time she is out of my eyesight that something is gonna happen to her, and she will not be able to tell me. So us, you know, black women, what do we do? We figure out a way. So this mom, um, her son has natural hair, he has locks, he had a style done to his hair, and she was able to put a camera in this baby boy's hair. Um, I'm gonna tell y'all something. I went on Amazon because I was looking for actually for a camera for Joy's bedroom because she's still having like toilet issues, and so I was looking for something that I could put in her room that would alert my phone when she would get up, blah blah blah. Y'all. Speaking of AI and technology, talking about cameras, yo, it's some shit on Amazon. So if you ever want, if you ever want to like uh put something in your house, put something on your person, whatever you want to do to for security, there is a lot of shit on Amazon and it's cheap. Um, well, I won't say cheap, it's affordable. So, anyways, this woman she puts the camera in her baby boy's hair and records, y'all, records this particular fucking nasty ass, disgusting ass white man being abusive, both verbally and fucking physically, to her child. Um yelling racial slurs to him, telling him get up. Um, I think even one time, correct me if I'm wrong, Ashley, but he kicked him or some shit like that. Um Lord have mercy. I cannot even imagine, imagine what this woman was going through as she is taken in watching these things unfold with her child while she is fucking at work. Um, you know, you send your kid to school thinking that people are gonna have their best interests at heart and take care of them, and this is the shit that they're doing. Um, I will say this, and then I also, because she also had the camera on her and recorded. Well, she didn't have a camera on her, she recorded herself when she went up to the school. I will say this: the amount of strength and advocacy and level-headedness that this woman possessed, and she went in there and demanded it's commendable.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

I still would have been beating that teacher. You it would have taken God Himself to prime me from that motherfucker. You hear me?

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Ashley, like there is no way in hell and fucking uh hey, I don't even know this woman's like family background or anything like that, and that don't even matter. But I'm thinking about Heyron.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

Oh, shit, I'm thinking about I'm thinking about um mom. Mom wouldn't go for that shit.

SPEAKER_03 30:06

So, I mean, it was a time one time uh at Joy's in Clarksville at Joy's uh old school where she had a guy where she had gotten a new teacher, and they weren't sending her uh log home every day, and it's in her IEP that they're supposed to send home a log of what she does all day because she can't tell us. And there was a point in time where they had stopped following the IEP and they weren't sending the log home. And then also a couple of times when they were putting Joy in the car when mom and TC were going to pick her up from school, the people was just like just talking, like just putting her in the car, not saying hello or speaking. Um, and so we had a parent meeting, and I was on Zoom because I was at work, but mom Kron, mom and K Ron were in school in person, and my mother-in-law was going off. And I was like, Yeah. So I cannot, I can't, I can't even imagine, I can't imagine how this woman kept her cool and was able to walk into that school and demand justice for her child. I I I would have gone into the school and fucked the front office, fuck all that shit. Like I would have gone right to that room and like grabbed this man. I would have I would be in jail. I would be in prison because I would have just lost it. I would have been temporarily insane.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Yeah, I would have clicked out too because the fact so first of all living in a society as a woman or a child is already hard. Living in this society as a woman or a child is already hard. Men in the patriarchy love to cause us harm. Right? Add that layer, two layers for this baby. This baby is a black male child, and this baby is a nonverbal black male child. Just like, you know, we talk about I don't understand how people get in certain fields. Like, you know, you have doctors, police officers, uh teacher, t shit, teachers that are really fucking racist or evil or sexually predatory. But to be that sadistic to work with a subsector of children, despite race, that are either, you know, whether it's visually impaired or, you know, uh they're autistic or down syndrome or they can't speak for themselves, like how much of a sick fucking human being do you and you wonder why. And you wonder why m um what is it? Mortuaries, not moraries, what are they called? Uh funeral homes, don't hire men. You have some states where it is extremely hard to become a male teacher. You you know, it it's it's men are just so I don't fucking understand. Not that there are not women abusers out there, that's not what I'm saying, but you know how they say it's not every man, but it's always a fucking man. Like I couldn't imagine. I could not imagine. But I mean, this goes back to that white lady who she if she didn't get fired from her job. She's just they just moved her to another hospital. She was breaking all of the black babies' bones, like their legs and arms in the NICU. These are fucking newborn babies. So just the thing, it's a sick sadistic bitch out there that's like, ooh, first of all, black people are not protecting in this country. There's no hate crimes for us, there's no reparations for us, so we're already exposed and vulnerable with an administration that's emboldened. But to take a child already, put them in that harm because you're a fucking sick, twisted, disgusting racist, and you need to be under a fucking jail. But that extra nuance of this baby don't even have a fighting chance to fight for himself. And this is why like I love the fact that black women typically, because a uh let's be clear, and I had this discussion with a friend the other night. Most white women are fucking medicated, so you're not, you know, white black women are just tapped in different. We're tapped in with nature, we're tapped in with each other, and we're tapped in our fucking kids. When I was living, when I was studying abroad in England, my mom would call me and we're eight hours apart. Hey, what's wrong with you? I felt something today. And I was living in England. I was overseas. So to know your child, how they pace differently, how Joy, you know, she might feel a little aggressive because this, that, and the. But to be that tapped in to realize, like, hey, something is wrong with my baby. They can't talk to me. I'ma figure out why. I commend that mother. And I pray to God, that motherfucker not only gets fired, but he needs to face criminal charges. And if he and if he don't face criminal charges, y'all niggas that want to shoot up each other, go shoot that nigga up. That part. Beat his fucking ass.

SPEAKER_03 35:22

So the biggest question is that you know has been circulating now is should in fact schools put cameras in classrooms? Um, I think so. Yeah, I think so. I definitely think so. And the reason why I say this is because and it's not just for, of course, it's for accountability of teachers, especially in um this particular day and age and all the shit that's you know happening in our society right now, how divided we are, especially right now with race and um um, you know, just every fucking thing, political views. Yes, the accountability there. Um, but I also think, too, with that being said, as an administrator, um, I'm also thinking about the teachers um who are at risk as well. So I'm gonna kind of flip things for a second because I know a lot of people say, well, yeah, you know, um these kids be with any teacher as a kids.

SPEAKER_02 36:26

Yes, honestly, you couldn't pay me to be no fucking teacher. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 36:29

Now there's not enough money where duty badass kids. And the last, I would say the last, you know, I'm going into year four as an administrator. You do not know how many times I have had parents sitting in parent meetings and they go, This is the first time I've heard of this. He doesn't do this at home. His last school never said this. And we're talking about kids who are in sixth, seventh, eighth grade, not just fifth graders. I'm also talking about my upper school kids as well in middle school that now all of a sudden, you know, these particular things just came out of nowhere, and they're just happening, and they and you don't see none of this at home, or you can it's no way, it's no way that's happening. Well, when I was at home at the at the breakfast at the dinner table, I asked him, and he said that's not true. Miss uh so-and-so in bat, his math teacher has to be lying. So clearly, clearly, there is a there's a there's a there's a there's a there's a breakdown nowadays of parents and parents.

SPEAKER_02 37:51

I don't fucking know. And I try to be real careful with my words because I don't have children. But I just I just live off of my experience and how I see my friends who were teachers or because it couldn't be me, had your child, like there's a there was a teacher and I watched her story. She, this little black girl beat her so fucking bad her eye fell out her fucking socket. And she's still living with the I'm sorry, I would have stomped your child to the fucking ground. And I'll stomp you in the ground too if you if I saw you. Ain't no fucking way. These kids are so disrespectful. And then it's just like I was talking to shout out to Candace. Talking to her, she was just telling me we were talking about this thing called teen takeovers. Now, I Nashville isn't like a big, big city like a Chicago or in Atlanta or Detroit, you know. It's a big city, but not quite that big. And I think it's a cultural thing too, but I'm like, what the fuck is a teen take the teen takeover? She said she was in traffic getting off from work from downtown Chicago, only 20 minutes away. It was like a swarm, like of a thousand teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18 that just they're jumping on cars, breaking windows, storming business. And I looked them up. They're very popular in like big cities. Ain't no fucking way. And y'all wonder why y'all, as as Gen Z, it's getting really strict. I think Clarksville passed the law. Your ass can't be in the mall after a certain time and you have a certain cause they even when I went to the movies three weeks ago, it was me, a white guy, it was a black couple, and there was a gang full of teenagers that walked in. Super disrespectful, super riley. That black man stood up, I shut the fuck up. And they shut the fuck up. Because ain't don't nobody pay to be. We could go to the movies. I was getting dropped off at the movies at 11. But I we were not causing ruckus and our and our parents didn't drop us off nowhere without fucking money. We weren't going nowhere acting a fool. We went, you know, it's just like y'all can't even do the basic things because y'all don't know how to act. So yeah, that will protect the teacher. Cause or people that not my child, your fucking child's a menace. They yell at you too. You just keep your child on the fucking tablet or phone all day to get out your hair.

SPEAKER_03 40:08

Correct. So yeah, I mean, and that's the conversation I have to have with parents too, is they're like, that doesn't happen at home. And I have to remind them, well, home looks very different. You know, we are asking your child to sit in a seat amongst 30 other kids and pay attention to a lesson. Something that they do not, this is not a choice activity, something that they want to do.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

So and it's all day during working hours. You don't be home. We know your kids more than you fucking do.

SPEAKER_03 40:39

You don't be home with your child like that. So clearly, there's a disconnect on both sides. There's a disconnect on both sides. There needs to be accountability on both sides. And I've always said if a police officer has to wear a body cam, then yes, the classroom should have a camera. I just I've always I've always felt like that. And I've always felt like this too, as a teacher, especially in the in the high school, but now shit, elementary and middle school too. I've I've always felt like it would be the students were against mine once I shut my classroom door. They couldn't say that I did anything. Just because they was pissed at you that, you know. Yeah. So I mean, and even like I used to just always make sure, like when I was um, you know, when I started Boys to Men, my mentoring club, that was all boys, and I was I was I was not dumb and naive, you know. I was a young black teacher who a lot of people thought when I first started at Kenwood, people thought I was a student.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

And you're a very attractive woman too.

SPEAKER_03 41:48

So that could have been the perception of that just yeah, and so I would always make sure, like when anytime the boys would want to come talk to me or whatever, one-on-one, I would always make sure my door was either open or we were in eyesight, like of my door, people were passing by. Or, you know, when I would have after school activities, K Ron would be there. I would, you know, try to have at least one male teacher that was there, someone else or somebody else around. Um, just for the sake of I just did I just always I just never wanted people to think that ill of me or something crazy was going on. But I've always felt that way. That if a if a if a student hated your guts, you told them something, then that is just one allegation away from you losing your fucking job because that's your kids word against it.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

Smart in a different way. These kids were in your fucking livelihood to today. Yeah. We like you had people that kids like that you grew up with that were just vindictive or just like, oh, this, you know, this motherfucker is no good. But like these kids will change the trajectory of your life off of a fucking lie and not have no emotional qualms about it. Yeah, yeah. Much like our much like our next kid, this crash thing I've been hearing about, and I don't let you talk about it because I didn't watch it. I kind of after I watched the entirety of the Nature Boy, I'm like, well, I need to step out of true crime for a while. I was having dreams about motherfucker. Talking about peace reflections. No, I said, let me step away from true crime. So talk about it, sis.

SPEAKER_03 43:26

Oh lord. So I said uh it was once again, y'all. I say it all the time, but I get on social media and something is just like over and over and over again. I'm like, God damn, like, okay, I'll check it out too. So I, you know, went ahead. It was all over my timeline. Um, the documentary, The Crash. Um, and so I love a good true crime documentary anyway. So it piqued my interest. So I was like, cool, I'll go check it out. Um, got into the documentary. I'm watching a documentary to make a long story short. Um, This particular young girl, her name is McKenzie. Am I saying it right? Mackenzie Sherilla. Sherilla, I guess you're saying, I don't know. Um, she was 17 at the time. Um, her boyfriend, I believe, was 20. His friend um was about 19, 18, or 19, very young. Um, it had like a really weird relationship. It started out at the beginning of the documentary. They were like really lovey dubby. Of course, he was older than her. When she graduated high school, she moved in with him. Um, that was a red flag to me, of course. Moved in with him. Um, they had been having like some, you know, back and forth. I'm gonna break up with you, kind of like toxic situations. Right. Um they get to, they ended up, you know, going to a friend's house one night, um, smoking, hanging out, doing a little drinking. Um, there were shrooms that were around, even though there was toxic toxicology reports um found that there was no shroom psychedelics in McKenzie's system at the time of the crash. Um, but yeah, so they ended up, you know, hanging out at the friend's house. Um, McKenzie gets in the car, she's the driver, her boyfriend is the passenger. Davion um is the friend who's in the back seat. Now, Davion was not supposed to ride home um with them. He actually changed his mind at the very last minute because he was gonna stay at that friend's house that they gathered at because he was gonna work on um the guy's car. But he was like, Man, you know, I'm gonna go with them, change my clothes, take a shower, and I'll be back. He gets in the car, and it had to be, I think it was like 5:30, 6 a.m. They left. Um, they get in the car. There is video footage of them turning on a street. Mackenzie puts her signal light on. The car is working fine. All of a fucking sudden, the damn car goes from regular speed, goes from um regular speed to up to a hundred miles an hour. What? Yes. Um it just like it just fucking takes off and it never swerved out of nowhere. There is like, so it's not like a recul reckless situation. Um the car did hit like a sign and then it slams right into a building. Um the they were in they were able to get like the box, it's like the black box report from the car. Um, there was nothing wrong with the brakes, there was no type of malfunction, none of that. The only thing that it showed, it was like the car was went from um it went from neutral park during those couple of seconds. And like somebody was messing with the gear shift. People are assuming that maybe Dom, her boyfriend, or Davion was trying to like stop the car. Smashes into the building, kills Dom and Davion. The first responders get on the scene and McKenzie is alive. Um Mackenzie is alive. She said, Yeah. Well, the way that the car smashed into the building, it did smash on Dom's side. So that's where the impact the car took the most impact on the passenger side. The way that, um, and this is a little graphic, I'm not gonna get into too much detail, but the way that uh Davion was positioned, um, the way that first responders found him was on top of Dom. Like stacked on him is how they found him in the car. Um Jesus Christ. Yes, yes, and so that's why a lot of people think that they were like trying to like stop it.

SPEAKER_02 48:35

Like they were probably arguing and trying to get change gears.

SPEAKER_03 48:40

Oh my god. Now here's the thing though. Home girl Mackenzie says that she has no recollection of what took place, all she remembers is getting in the car and waking up at the hospital. There's no psychedelics in her blood system. The only thing that they found traces of was marijuana. Um, but yeah. Now she did, her parents did, you know, try to use the fact that she has a history of Potts syndrome. So Potts syndrome is some type of fucking syndrome where you can lose consciousness from time to time or blackout. So her lawyers just might be convenient. Uh-huh. So her lawyers tried tried to use that during the trial. Um, it did not work. Um, and they still did give Mackenzie 15 years to life, and they found her at fault. A couple of reasons why they found her at fault, that she that they felt like she did the shit on purpose and ruled it as like a homicide. Um, is because she was seen. Um her phone was pinged at that location where she had like driven around that street a few times several days before. Like it seemed like she was casing out that street. Where to get into an accident at. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 50:13

Girl.

SPEAKER_03 50:14

And then also there were some text messages between her and her boyfriend, them going back and forth talking about how um she would like kill him or whatever in the car or kill them together in the car. The really, really sad, sad part about this whole thing, I think, is Davion. Um, Davion was a um a mix, he was a mixed boy. Um, he was adopted. Him and his siblings were adopted by a white couple. Um, they had like a really tumultuous growing up or whatever, and this white couple um adopted them to give them, you know, a chance at a new life. Um, Davion was a football player, he was really good in school. Um, and so it just kind of just like the wrong place at the wrong time type of situation. Um, that's who I really feel for. I also feel like the Netflix documentary did not do enough, and his parents and his sister are really pissed off because they feel like they didn't do enough in the documentary to shed light on who he was. It was kind of like glazed over. Um, and then the other takeaway from this is that Mackenzie is now a household name. This bitch is sitting in prison. Um, she's wearing makeup, she's getting her nails done. Her mom, you know, sends her money all the time. She's living her best life. She's has had several girlfriends in prison. Um, yeah, she's just doing her fucking thing, doing her big one in prison. She still says that she has dreams of being a model. Um, some um, she's even been caught on uh the jail phone calls saying things like, um, glad my face. Oh, well, no, this was not on the jail phone call. This is what she's allegedly said to her prison bay, um, who got out, who was in there with her. Um, she said, luckily my face didn't get messed up in the crash, so I could still be a model when I get out.

SPEAKER_02 52:34

The way if I was one of them young young boys, the sister I'd be ringing her ass around like oh, roping her ass like okra. Cause what? Just no empathy. Like none. Oh Jesus, here you go, and you only got first of all, you only got 15 years, you took two lives. It's fucking crazy. Fucking crazy. And you just non-the fucking wiser, it's a Tuesday, and you getting your coochie by Bull Deck in jail, like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_00 53:05

Oof, girl.

SPEAKER_03 53:07

Um, and a lot of people are saying, I know I was talking to my mom and my sisters about this, um, and they were saying, you know, if this had been, you know, a black, a black teenage girl, um, we wouldn't have had no damn uh documentary. Hell no. And she would have she would have got life without parole. That shit would have made the news one night. We would have never and we wouldn't have heard nothing else about the shit ever again. And this is not the only documentary. Come to find out, there's one on fucking Hulu. Um, Mean Girl Murders has an episode on her. There's one on fucking Tubi, and there's one on YouTube.

SPEAKER_02 53:57

So Netflix, what was the fucking point? Y'all would rather make a bullshit documentary about Michael Jackson, who was acquainted for his crimes back in the fucking 90s, who y'all are trying to cash grab uh off of his success. But there's a documentary about a little bitch who nines out of ten purp purposely killed, and Dave Yon was just a residual. She really didn't even want to kill him, she wanted to kill his friend. Oh, there's an orb in here, honey. Oh, no, wait, no, that's not an orb. That's a little circle thing on my little on the cause a little bit. I'm like, damn, that's the perfect sphere. I was like, oh, whatever spirit in here, honey, hey. Hey. But um she gets another documentary special. Like, I that's why I was just like, I cannot wait within the next 10 to 15 years, 10 to 20 years. What was the propaganda y'all are trying to push for true crime?

SPEAKER_00 54:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:54

The shit is addictive as hell, but it's just like y'all build this sorrow for, but I mean, we're always sorrier for white people. That's just how we've been programmed. But it's just like, where are y'all trying to get at? Even when I think about that fucking, and I couldn't even finish it. I ended up finishing it later because it just pissed me off. That little quasi modo-looking bitch who fucking was texting her daughter. Oh, yeah. You remember that one? Like, that was crazy work.

SPEAKER_03 55:24

That was wild. That was wild. Um, but yeah, and then this bitch's parents is even worse than her. Um, that shit, the shit that they've, you know, said on camera, the things that they said during the trial, the things that they've been caught saying on the phone with her. It's just despicable. Like, it's just some disgusting ass people. Like her mama was caught on the phone telling her, um, laughing and saying, Can you believe it? Can you believe it? You made the daily mail, you made the daily mail. And then McKenzie goes, Yeah, maybe Kim Kardashian will reach out to me now. Everything just to get fucking clout.

SPEAKER_02 56:03

And like, did I girl? Social media was the worst fucking thing that happened to the internet. It really was. Like, I just don't.

unknown 56:14

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 56:15

I'm gonna tell you though, Kim K as wrote on X, and that bitch was like, no, I'm not interested.

SPEAKER_02 56:22

I I like you a little bit for that, Kim. I do.

SPEAKER_03 56:25

She was like, no, that is not what I got into uh what I got into like uh not not uh I'm about to say politics, not politics, but like law school, law school four. She was like, no, I'm good.

SPEAKER_02 56:39

For Kim can't tell you, nah, we don't want nothing to do with you. Yeah. Mm-mm. You have a horrible fucking moral character. Um rest in peace to Dom and Debian you said. Yes, yep. I have to watch it. But like I said, I had to get true commerce. I watched a 46-part documentary on hood whores. It was a total of like 50 hours of content and girl.

SPEAKER_03 57:02

Actually, I I tried to do that, and I was like, this is so much. I had to stop. And so I just I just did the cheat way and just watched the Hulu one for Nature Boy. The Hulu one fucking sucks.

SPEAKER_02 57:14

It the Hulu, but here's the thing. It's not like the Hulu was short and condensed. There were so many things that the Hulu documentary didn't even sacrificing of a fucking child, the death of a mom, a white person infiltrating this, the how Nature Boy started sleeping with transsexuals and calling them more women than women. Shit that you you have to really get into. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna have to go back. Yeah. It's how motherfuckers leaving cults to join three or four other cults. How other cults, how Jack Warrior Wright was involved with fucking Carbon Nation. How one of the members of Carbon Nation was spraying his ash, her dead son's ashes on himself and her. Fucking crazy. Hulu doesn't begin to scratch the surface. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna have to go back. You have to take a break or something, but honey, like I said, I'm having peace reflections. I was seeing that motherfucker in my sleep. I said, oh, absolutely not. I said, absolutely not. I just stopped having dreams about um Elegio, the guy who started carbonation, Elegio Bishop. How this man wanted to sleep with his own fucking sister. How he was a gay, um, he was a gay for pay. He did porn. Girl.

SPEAKER_03 58:36

Well, the shit that he said about his fucking son. Talking about when um when his son is breastfeeding, he'll have sex right there and let the little boy play with him. How he was holding his daughter and had a full on erection in the camera.

SPEAKER_02 58:52

Like, you have I know it gets can that shit honestly is good, but it's very like, all right, damn, it's a lot. Up until you get to like part 14, you're like, oh bitch. Yeah, it's it's oof. Shout out to Lemo.

SPEAKER_03 59:11

Huh? I said it was a lot, but I I I I'ma have to go back because the stuff you're telling me, yeah, Hulu didn't even know. They didn't even fucking that documentary was ass.

SPEAKER_02 59:22

Ass. Okay. Speaking of ass, you know who else's ass? Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart's a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_00 59:30

Um yes.

SPEAKER_02 59:32

Kevin Hart, complete ass. And the way what is that sound?

SPEAKER_03 59:37

That was me. Ditch right here. Oh, stop.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 59:40

I moved my headphone, sorry. I was like, oh.

SPEAKER_02 59:44

But um, the way he got on this breakfast club and just kind of justified all his actions and felt no remorse. Like, nah, nigga, you are a capitalistic ass nigga who loves white approval and you're a tap dancer. And you haven't been black funny in a very long time, so we leave your ass where you are, where you're at. Because I didn't forget when George Floyd died, you went to George Floyd's fucking funeral just for you to let a Jewish white man talk about this man in a way that was so fucking disgusting. I couldn't even watch this shit. Like, I think what was hard for me to watch, the fact that every black person that was in attendance wasn't laughing. Regina Hall didn't crack once more. The only thing I watched was Kevin, uh, not Kevin Hart's, um Cat Williams. Cause people were laughing, but he didn't tell one fucking joke or one lie. Nope. Like, I just, it was just disgusting. And I'm so sick of, but I that like I was telling me my friend, me and TJ talked about this. Shout out to Black Paradigm and the Family Breaming Network. Me and TJ talked about this, and it's just like the hardest thing about that, with the whole Kevin Hart in this roast, you go to realize when you're looking at these, even with my favorite makeup influencer. There's a lot of shit going on in the influencer space. Once a black celebrity or a black influencer gets to a certain point and they get to a certain tax bracket, they lose themselves. They get so infatuated with being the one and the only. They get so infatuated on laughing for white people and making them fucking happy where you forget your morals and you forget your blackness in the in the end. There will be no fucking way you would get in front of me to talk about a George Floyd, a Breonna Taylor, of I There will be no world where a joke about Trayvon Martin or Mike Brown would be fucking funny. And then you let you're and then you you you keehe in a cocaine in front of fucking white folks on a just in the guise of fucking comedy. And a lot of people, because you know what they say, comedy always has some truth to it, but y'all was saying whatever the fuck y'all want to say about black people under the guise of fucking comedy. Yeah. So you're the same bitch that probably voted for Trump, Kevin. Yeah. Cause you have no morals, you'll do anything. Yeah. So I've just, like I said, Kevin Hart hasn't been funny since his first his black wife started writing his fucking jokes for him, allegedly. Fuck Kevin Hart. I was wondering very long time.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:16

I was wondering if you had uh heard him this past week on the Breakfast Club. I was wondering if he was like, Girl.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:22

And the way he was talking to Lauren LaRosa, like, just the way he was talking, interacting with Lauren LaRosa and um his answers just was snarky, like, yeah, I did it. And so what? Nigga, fuck you. Yeah. When you piss them white folks off and you have your black wake-up call, don't come back over here. Mm-hmm. Because it's coming. It's coming. It's it's your downfall is coming very fucking soon because that's another thing. Y'all get on this high horse. Just like with Tiffany Haddish, y'all was fuck her. Just because you're you're fucking obnoxious and you're loud, that doesn't make you funny either, bitch. You're still weird. Who was y'all, you and Ari Spears had that weird thing with that fucking kid on that show that y'all was filming. Yeah. So bitch, we ain't forget that shit either. Y'all are just fucking weird. And honestly, Hollywood is fucking weird. Yeah. And I, like I said, if this podcast, if we get to a point where we're where we hit a news network or, you know, a bigger entertainment, I I'm if if I have to sell out, I just won't do the shit. Yeah. Same. But I I just I can't because it disappoints our people every fucking time. But hell, I've people been telling us about Kevin Hart. We just didn't listen. We've we labeled them as crazy. Fuck Kevin Hart.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:40

I never thought he was funny. I never, I never thought Kevin, he was never a favorite comedian of mine. Never. Never. I never thought he was fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:52

When he first came out, I was just like, yeah, okay. But then, you know how they just, they, they, that's what I hate about black entertainment and black business. You just have a few. Meanwhile, a white person can have 20 to 30 people at one time. I mean, you only have a few, and they recycle us and everything, and they type, and then it was just like, that motherfucker's playing the same character in every movie. He's playing opposite of the fucking rock in a weird fucking comedy.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:18

And it's just like, and then that that whole, I don't, you said you didn't watch the whole thing, but they had a little those jokes.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:25

No, so I watched clip them jokes about The Rock and Kevin Hart. It made me just be like, it's giving James Harden the little baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:35

It was so cringy and so uncomfortable and so fucking weird. I was just like, just if I was his wife, take me out the motherfucking group chat. Like, please. It's like one of those things where you're watching like something crash and burn and you want to lose. You just can't take your eyes away from it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:53

Yes. I was just like, what the fuck is this? If I was his wife, baby, I would be like, let me look to your text messages. Cause baby, what the fuck is going on? What's going on? I look, girl, I just mm-mm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:07

Mm-mm. It was it went way past oh, freedom of speech. I'm a comic. It went, it went so far past that. It went down the street, round the corner, round the block. Like, we were way past that. And then he had a nerve to like fucking talk about how other roasts did this. And I'm like, my nigga, no. I watched other roads, and I've never said and felt so had so much secondhand cringiness in my fucking life.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:36

To be honest, it's always a freedom of speech when it comes to us getting disrespected. You wouldn't go on fucking a roast of a white Jewish comedian and joke about Ann Frank being killed. Your ass will get fucking canceled. When it comes to our legend, our likeness, and our trailblazers, people always feel comfortable dis disrespecting us. That's right. And in a certain way, we fucking allow it. That's right. You wouldn't, you wouldn't go. Talking about fucking the the Japanese survivors of Hiroshima Nagasaki. Nope. You wouldn't be talking about the Trail of Tears Native Americ. When it comes to black American people specifically, everything's a fucking joke. Get over it. It's just comedy. Fuck you. Y'all want to cancel Kyrie Irvin for what he said, and y'all wanted to call Nick Cannon anti-Semitic. Y'all wanted to, y'all cancel Colin Cap in his career because he took a knee and took a stand. But it's just jokes. Oh. Hi. Alright. Bullshit. Bullshit. And Kevin Hart, fuck you, you fucking coon.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:38

Yeah, I'm done with his ass. I was already like not a fan and just solidified that shit for me. Like you're fucking, you're it's over with.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:46

Yeah, pack it up. I'm not finna spend too long on this next topic. In another episode of They Do Whatever the Fuck They Wanna Do, The White House Bills, the rest. I saw that bullshit. I'm just I just really want, I really wanted Iran to come over here and just bust our shit up. I really want God just to strike a fucking White House and everything and it's a bl just strike it down. Because what's the what are we doing?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:12

I seen that shit and I thought that shit was AI. Tell that shit made it on like CNN and World News.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:18

And I was like, yo, what the fuck? That's what I saw it. I saw it as a news blurb in my, I get, I subscribe to Apple News. So I be, I be, I love Apple News. I get stories from everywhere. I pay that little subscription fee. But I was just like, oh, this, I and when I saw it on TikTok, I said, oh, this shit is AI. Boo. When I saw that shit come across by Apple News to like the New York Times or the New York, it was one of them big news. I was like, this shit is serious.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:45

Yeah. Like we're living in like an alternate universe. Like this shit can't be real. Who the fuck does shit like that?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:52

Like, what is this? I've been saying that maybe we live in a twilight zone because y'all crucified Obama for wearing a tan suit. Y'all wanted to impeach him for wearing a tan suit, but then did you hear too how white people Trump wants to give white people who suffer injustices at the insurrection $1.8 billion. Yeah. I just was so pissed off. I went to bed and I'm like, y'all are just insatiable. Nothing's ever enough for y'all. And I can't wait till this shit comes crashing down. I hope it comes sooner than later. But like I told TJ on Thursday, I'm ready for the first to become last and last to become first. Y'all talk about the Bible so much. Can it come to fruition? Because I'm just like, how much more do we as a black people and we as a people have to take in this country when there's no fucking reason why anti-perspirant is $11. A tube toothpaste? $6. What I have a SUV typically, I could fill up my car $36. $52 fucking dollars.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:54

I was sit, it was $60 and it don't last as long. Nope, $60 to fill my takeover. And once again, thankful to God that I do not have my commute because it's no way. I probably would have had to goddamn spend the night out this motherfucker a couple times a week or so. I don't know. What would I do?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:14

Uh-uh. Well, yeah, um, the White House, Trump, that administration. I just really hope y'all decompose soon. On to the next topic. Girl, we made the neighborhood talk. I didn't, you could not have told me the richest count, the richest city and county in the state of Tennessee. Y'all had them babies outside, and it wasn't like a light rain, it was torrential raining. So that's how you know it really wasn't no black kids in the school. Because who finna get their hair wet? Soaked. Soaking wet. And y'all had equipment out there that's probably ruined. It was the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Not the richest city in the state of Tennessee, honey. Had the motherfuckers out there swimming at graduation, okay? And it and y'all could do the shit in y'all school's gym. What? But and and them parents, baby, I know I saw my parents and I know a lot of my um friends' parents that are in the wood. They all would take saying, hell no, we can reschedule this shit for like ain't no fucking way.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:25

Well, yeah, I was gonna say that too. Like, what do you do if motherfuckers just be like, no, we not coming? You do y'all just not have a graduation. Y'all can't have a graduation with nobody motherfucking walking.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:39

But then it's like, I saw people talking about how like in COVID, you remember that for like two years, there was no graduations period. So it's kind of like you feel bad, but I wouldn't be out there. And then you risk getting sick because you just been sitting in rainy fucking club, girl.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:55

That shit was crazy. But yeah, it made it um, they got donkey of the day. It was on the Breakfast Club. It's been every fucking year, it's been everywhere. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:03

I saw in a neighborhood talk, they did a blurb about it on uh USA Today. I was like, oh embarrass are you not embarrassed? Not an embarrassing. I beg. That was Nigerian people say I beg.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:18

Oh my god, that shit is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:21

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:22

Any any summertime plan? Summertime plan. So um I am a part of so we have this thing at my job called Compass and Leadership. So it's like a leadership wellness group, and so um we get like every year, there's a cohort every year, and my cohort started two years ago. We just finished, um, and so and it's not just leaders from my school, we like it's like a thing that we my school started it, but we also get leaders from all different places around the country, so it's a cohort of my cohort was fairly small, it's only like eight of us. Um, but anyways, so we are doing an alumni retreat. So uh huh, and I was able to um my school was able to pay fully for me to go. So from June 30th to July 3rd, I am going to Colorado to a wellness retreat, and I'm so excited. Um, there'll be hiking, and there's like uh uh sound baths and oh yeah, just uh they got like this big uh gym for you to like work out, massages, meditation areas. Um I'm just like super, super excited. I'm also gonna be there with people from because it's an alumni retreat, they do it every year, so anybody from any cohort can go um as long as like they have the money to do it. So either their organization pays for them or you can pay out of pocket. Um, and so I'll be there with some of like a lot of my other leaders that weren't in my cohort, they'll be there as well from my school. So it's not like I'm going alone because I was like, oh, Colorado in the mountains by myself. Oh but I won't be, you know, the you know, black folks.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:34

I'm kind of like, you know, who else is going? I don't want to be the only one anywhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:39

So it's other people going that I know, and so I'm just really excited. Um, so that's that's one of the things that I'm doing this summer. I also want to try to get in at least one beach trip with the family or something like that. So I'm trying to see if I can do that. My birthday is um in July, it's July 25th. I really, really wanted to go to the RB tour. K-Ron said he's still trying to pull strings for me to go. I'm like, dude, it's okay if you can't. I really wanted to go to that, but them prices are high as a bitch. But I really wanted to go because it's on my birthday, but I don't know if I'm gonna go. So that's really that's really it for right now. Those are like the biggest things. Yeah, what you got planned for the summer?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:29

Um, I'm gonna have to start by working seven days a week. I'm trying to find a part-time job. Trying to find a full-time job. So job searching. Um, I do have a trip from July 30th through August the 3rd. I'm going, I've never been to Destin. Well, I went to Desert. I was super little. But going to the beach, I already got my clothes and my plane ticket for this. Um I went a few years ago. It's so nice. You're gonna love it. It's so beautiful. My mom and dad go every year. Um, my one friend Gab, shout out to Gabs. Gabs and her family take a family trip there every year. They love it. And I heard they have amazing food out there. They do. It's so good. It's so good. I'm excited. Just something to get away. But I'm gonna, much as I don't want to go back to working two jobs, working seven days a week because it's mentally exhausting. I'm gonna have to. Hopefully, by the end of the summer, I will my a goal. So I don't really don't have nothing to look forward to as far as in that, but goal-wise, I definitely want to get back into a master's program. So by August the 1st, either I'm getting prepared to go to school in the fall or I'm not already starting it. So okay. That's really it for now. Um, what you've been listening to and watching?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:50

So Lotto's album came out today. It came out today. Lotto's album came out today. Now, here's the thing. I was I was convinced that it was gonna be really bad because her last album was shit. Um, I listened. I um I listened today whatever. Wasn't it literally titled Sugar Honey Ice Tea? Yeah, and it was. It was horrible. It was fucking.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:18

I'm not a lot, I'm not a Lotto fan. Okay. I like maybe three songs, but a whole lot of project will never see me.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:25

Okay, hear me out. I went to the doctors today and I was like, I am going to listen to this from front to back. Listen to it twice. I have favorited so many of the songs, and the reason for it is because her slow songs are so good. There's maturity in her, coming of age. She's talking some good shit. The fads get out my face, like that one song with her and Glorilla, garbage. That shit, she needs to stop. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:09

I can't, I cannot I just get so sick of her playing. First of all, you grew up with a witch, a rich biracial girl with a white mama who wanted to be a hood princess from Atlanta so fucking bad. Then you spent your whole career, I'm a virgin, I got, I don't got no bodies. My pussy clean, pussy tight. Just for you to have baby by a nigga who's allegedly fucking married, and y'all kept y'all relationship secret from the internet for like six years. Everybody fucking know you was fucking 21 Savage girl. Very true. Like I just was so, as a PR and I don't Lotto just has never been my like as much as I love being from Georgia, the rap girlies in Georgia just don't do it for me. I tend to be a Texas rap girly and I love some Cardi, but I just can never Lotto just her songs just don't hit for me. They don't have no replay value. Um, I like Bitch from the South and Lottery, which is the pop song, but I don't know. Lotter, uh Lotto just, but I when she announced that she was pregnant, she I just was like, I feel like Viola Davis from damn um how do we get the word? I just grabbed my suitcase and just went on about my business. Like, girl, okay, next.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:21

It it I would give it like a a B minus. This new album, a B minus. It's really, it's really not bad. It ain't great, but it's not bad. Um, Kaylani's project was very good. Um, so I've been continuing to listen to her. Um, boss man D'Lo getting into my rap bag. Yo, do has come a long way. This album, he has come a long fucking way. I remember when K-Ron first put on his music, I was like, what the fuck is this?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:53

Um, but this album is so damn good. Did you hear the remix, the motion party remix with Meg? Yes!

SPEAKER_02 1:19:00

I live.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:01

Yay!

SPEAKER_02 1:19:02

I live.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:03

Oh my god. Um, what else am I listening to? Something. Oh, Maya! Maya's new song, Maya's new project came out. Um, it's giving very much 80s vibes. Love it. You're talking about like um My Love is Light. Oh, I might have to check that out. Yep. Um, it's called Retrospect. Uh, that came out. And then honorable mention to our girl, because we gotta we talked some cash shit about her several episodes ago when she broke out with that Risha stupid ass fucking song about when them two fingers touch it. But spin that shit, bitch, that's my summer song.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:51

You know, and me and T had to apologize to Carisha this past Thursday. Even with like I was in the car, I was in the car and came, you know, it's tingling to see the two fingers touching. I said, okay, bitch, it catches. So Carisha did that. I yeah, I can say I'm sorry, Carisha.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:09

Yeah, it's I apologize here on Sisters in C. Bitch, you did that. You got you one sis, because that motherfucker, that's my motherfucking song, okay? I put that shit and I got to give me a goyard bag. I don't know what the fuck, how the fuck I'm about to get me one, bitch, but I'm about to get me one, okay?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:27

That to be honest, I feel like, like TJ said it. TJ has said yes to that. I truly feel like that could be the song of the summer. Yes. Or it's already has it.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:36

It's mine, it's my summertime song, bitch. I love that fucking song. Go yard bags is ugly, though. They ugly as fuck, but I want one just because that's my song. Diamond. Oh god. But yes, shout out to Miss Carisha Blease, okay? Yo, Miami, bitch. But yeah, that's what I'm listening to. Definitely. Mm-hmm. What you listening to, sis? Or what you watching or listening to?

SPEAKER_02 1:21:05

Listening? I so my I am a TJ Moses fan over here. So TJ Moses released a single um called Single April 17th. That was really good. Um, shout out to her. Tra Moses, I saw her at the City Winery. I will see her again and again and again. She's beautiful. She has an amazing voice. She's an amazing songwriter. And I wish her other two albums were on Apple Music. I love me some TJ. Also, it's um what is that? I like, we just mentioned the motion party remixed by Bossman D Lo Megan. I love so I'm a pink lover. Everything Pinker by Mona Leo featuring T's the touchdown just came out. Loved it. She paid old to Beyonce. Check up on it. Love it. Glenn Lewis, who was a singer from the early thousands, he remade a song from Sage Montrosity called Giving You All My Love. It's amazing. Love it. I want to give a shout out to Jungle. They are the group that sings that song. Oh back on 74. They released a new song called Um, what is it called? The Wave and Carry On. Amazing. They're like contemporary, you know, Poppy RB, whatever. I want to give a shout out to Black. Um Love is the New Gangster. Amazing. My favorite song is All That Matters with Leon Thomas and AZCK. Love it. Obviously, you know, um everything Michael Jackson is trending, but I'm a Michael Jackson fan, so I'm he's never left my rotation, right? Now, in terms of what I'm watching, I want to give a shout out and I want to encourage you to go watch black movies. Go watch movies where black men and women are the lead actors or actresses. Like, I will say this year thus far, we've had some really good contenders. Like Michael was amazing, Jafar did his thing. Is God Is. It's the play about two twins. I think Mallory, I can't remember her last name, and Carl Young portrayed fraternal twins. They sold me, even though they look nothing alike. The chemistry, the dialogue, the amazing stat cast from your Sterling Kate Browns, your Vivical Foxes, your Erica Alexanders. I loved it so much because it gave a place for black women's rage to go. Um it shows the it felt freeing to be able to just experience rage at the most without worrying about having to be labeled angry. There was not one white character in that movie. Shout out is God is. I love it. I want to give a shout out to I Love Boosters by Boots Riley. His work is not for the faint of heart. Um, you have to really not necessarily be educated, but you have to be open and really pay attention to the overall theme. It was amazing. Uh it wasn't just about boosting and scamming, it talked about black women being innovators and white women taking ideas. It talked about capitalism, it talked about perception, it talked about sexual deviences, how men can be demons and warlots, it talks about a plethora of topics, it talks about how capitalism makes you do certain things, right? Amazing. It talks about the government, how half of these people you see walking around really are people, you don't know where they come from, what entity they are. It I Love Boosters talked about a plethora of topics. It talked about how people of color are perceived versus black. It was an amazing movie, and I do want to watch that again. Kiki Palmer, uh Naomiaki, Taylor Page, they did their thing. Kiki Palmer was an amazing standout actress. And I, and for um nostalgic sake, for nostalgia's sake, I went to go see Mortal Kombat. It wasn't as bad as y'all made it seen. The fighting scenes were great. I love a good campy movie, and I can't wait for Street Fighter to come out in October. So yeah, I am a moviegoer. This weekend I'm gonna see. I'm very I really don't know what it's about. I've seen one commercial and I kind of allowed myself to be left in the dark. I'm going to go see um what's it called?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:30

I'm slipping on my movie bag. I gotta get my shit together and get out here to the movies.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:37

Oh, I don't see my ticket. Now wait a damn minute. It's called Backrooms. I'm so excited to see that. But yeah, I've been to I can so let me order. Of course, I've seen I love boosters, is God is, I watched Michael twice, Mortal Kombat 2. Um yeah, that's what I've seen and made thus far.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:08

Well, I haven't been to the movies, but of course, you know, me, I'm an avid TV TV watcher. Um, The Shy is back. The shy is back for his final season. Um, I'm such a fan and I'm so excited. The first episode was good. Um, and so I'm sad to see The Shy go. Um, but I think this season is going to be amazing. So I'm looking forward to see all of these characters um come full circle and see how directors and writers decide to wrap this season up. Um yeah, so I'm super, super excited for this shy. I also want to give a shout out.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:56

He's an actor. Let me find let me find his name. I want to say it okay. Um let me look at the phonetic spelling of his name. I think he's Yaya Abdul Mateen the second. He just had um his show on Netflix was really good. I gotta finish it man of fire. And he had one.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:23

I need to watch this.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:24

So good, so good, and he's so fun. So shout out to him. Shout out to him. And we talk about, you know, I think this episode we talked about autism in regards to your baby, the young mother and her child in Louisville. There was a business that me and TJ advertised all the time where we have been the last few episodes on Black Ter on the Black paradigm called More Crunch. It's M O O O R E Crunch. It's the young man's last name. He is the proudly ran autistic business. He is an entrepreneur. And with the help of his parents, he runs his own pretzel company. When I say those are some of the best pretzels I've ever eaten in my life.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:08

Oh, I gotta check that out.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:10

They were so good. I got the sample pack. I ordered every flavor. Um, but his story is heartwarming because it just was, hey, I'm a grown man, I want my own business, and I want to work for myself. I might have autism, but that doesn't stop me from achieving what I want to achieve. And I just thought it was inspirational. And I thought about, you know, joy could be more crunch, you know, any, you know, so I want to give a shout out to Mark Crunch. That young man has done something amazing. The customer service was next to none. So communicative, so sweet, so nice, personalized messages, everything was fresh. I just love more crunch and what he stands for.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:51

I just looked him up. Yeah, I'm gonna have to order me some.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:54

I literally ordered every baby as quick as I got them, as quick as it was gone. I so I love seafood. So of course, the is it the Maryland crab or crab cake? What's the name of the flavor? I think it's Maryland Crab. The Maryland Moore Crunch, Maryland Crab, seasoned. Yeah, so Maryland crab. I would say I ate that in one setting, and that damn Buffalo Ranch, I ate that in one setting. Now the other two, the other three, like the garlic ranch was amazing. The the sweet one was good, cinnamon sugar. When it comes to pretzels, though, I love any either sweet or savory, but then what was the other flavor? Um uh sour cream and onion, I think. All the flavors were immaculate, but that damn Maryland crab and that buffalo, oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:39

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:42

He did his thing with those. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:45

Is that the baby?

SPEAKER_02 1:29:47

But yeah, that's what I've been watching and seeing. But um, yeah, girl.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:53

Anything else you gotta add? Uh shout out to your parents. The vow renewal was amazing, it was beautiful. They celebrated 32 years. Um, it was so very inspiring, it was uplifting, it was empowering as a um young married couple. Um, me and K-Ron, we were there, we attended together, of course, and it was just it was just was really wonderful to see. Um, they are a great example of black love, um, uh being not just a partner, but being a um someone who holds each other accountable, someone who lifts one another up in their time of need. It was just amazing. It was just amazing to see. It was also amazing to see the amount of people who came out and they spoke um so highly of your parents, Ashley, and just how much they mean to other people. Um, and so shout out to them. I love them, I appreciate them. Um, mom, she texted me and was like, thank y'all for coming. And I was like, girl. And my mom, like, girl, I wouldn't have been nowhere else. Of course I was coming. Um but yeah, it was just it was just beautiful. Um, I sent pictures and videos. I was like sending stuff to my family in Virginia. Like, I was just like, look, look how beautiful this is. I sent stuff to mom because of course she was here watching the kids. Um and so just they just are amazing. Like they are just two amazing people, and you are so blessed to have um two amazing parents who made the decision to stick with each other no matter what. And so God, I just I was just overwhelmed and just so excited and just happy, and like I said, I wouldn't have been anywhere else um that day, even though the fucking uh damn people at the gate made me drive all the way down to the other gate because I needed a damn pass to get on post, but I didn't give a damn. Um I still made it and and it was just it was just wonderful. It was just black love, man. I swear. Um Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:12

And we listen, we've we've told y'all at the beginning of this podcast how far we go back and how we had our family has history. So y'all are family. So it brought my heart joy to see you, K-Ron and TJ there. Um just, you know, I thank you for being a part of that moment. And I just think it's important, you know, we talk about all the issues in our community, but to come together as a community, as a family, to celebrate something that is going right or, you know, that's not perfect, but it's genuine love there is amazing. So I thank you and K Ron for taking time out of TJ too for taking time out of y'all day and spending with our family and our element. And I couldn't really part, I was I feel like I was just everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:55

Yeah, that's how it is. So when you like helping cure curate something or create something, or you're running, running something, you put things together, you don't get to sit back and enjoy, you know, the fruits of your labor. But actually, the few the food was amazing, the drinks were amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:12

Shout out to my aunts. They so my auntie pumpkin is a caterer, and she had the help of my auntie Denise. They my dad has smoked the uh ribs and did the chicken, and then we ordered the only thing that wasn't ours, we ordered fried chicken, but like the all the so they made all of that. So, shout out to my auntie pumpkin. Yes, and her she is a licensed caterer, everything was immaculate.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:36

The dessert table. I mean, it was like I was like, damn, this is how Val Reno, like I'm expecting like a little, you know, little I didn't I didn't know y'all were going that grand. Like this was like a full-on wedding, another wedding. Um I mean, the decorations, the dessert table, the DJ, the bar, the food. I mean, it was just wonderful. The place settings. I mean, everything was just the fucking colors. I don't know who the hell picked them colors, but those were those were gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:09

We looked at the plate, girl, the plates and the forks came from TikTok shop. Like, just knowing how to do certain stuff. So, shout out to Miss Shavanda, who was the decorator. She had a vision and she made the voids and stuff, and the flow, like it truly takes a community to come together to make things like this happen for your friends and the people that you love. Um, but it was gorgeous. But mom picked like the corals, the accents of the gold, and the chocolate and cream. It came together beautifully. And my nephew stole the show, honey.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:42

You look so gorgeous. I mean, the pictures, then I went back and this week, was it this week or last week the pictures got posted? But I saw like the professional pictures, I was just blown away. Like it was just like fuck 10 out of 10. That was like a hundred out of ten. Like it was just, it was just the great perfect ceremony. It was just, it was amazing. I loved every moment of it. So I'm just so glad I was able to be there, just to be in the presence of just black love. It was just amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:14

Not you wanna make my eyes water again. Mm-mm. Maybe not today.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:18

So fucking good. And then I when we got there, we got there when mom, when I heard mom was in there doing her vows, and me and K-Ron were standing, and I'm gonna tell you, everything happens for a reason because we walked in right when the vows was happening, and K-Ron was like, We're not gonna walk in because they're doing their vows. I was like, okay. But me and him were standing there and we were like making eye contact, just me and him in the hallway, and like really digesting and taking in what your mom and dad were saying to each other. It was just, it was really good. It was it was amazing. Yes. So I see, I love that.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:54

Oh, not y'all connecting through words, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:58

I was like, oh my God. He was like, hey, like, we're halfway there. We just kept saying it. Like we just I literally was just been saying 15 years. Yeah. I'll be right over now. Yep, we halfway there. And I told mom and your dad that when I gave them um a hug and kiss good night, I was like, we halfway there, y'all. We halfway there.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:18

That's so sweet.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:20

But yeah. We're so glad that y'all were part of that. So amazing. It was amazing. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:25

It was.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:28

And on that note, we are back, y'all. We will not take the hiatus song again. We're back. We're back. Um because I seen some comments like, uh, you what y'all been just at. But um, and I'm I've had some personal messages from a few of my girlfriends. What the fuck is going on? Yep, yep. We're back. We're back. Um thank y'all for being patient with us, waiting with us. And I feel like Diamond and I are on another chapter. I feel like we're different than what we were when we started. So we got some more growing to do, and we are back with Sisters in Sync. And as announced through our text message for our Stinking of the Minds book club, we will be reading Phases by Brandy. So next week we'll still have time. So we'll kind of go through the timeline dates of that because if you want to be a part of our book club, we'll show you how, we'll tell you how. We're gonna have it virtual and we're gonna have it in person. So I have that all planned, me and Dee have that all planned out. We'll share that with you next week. But yes, we are so bad. Yes, and we love you guys. Love y'all, and we'll see you next week.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:39

Bye.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:41

Bye.