A Thank You Prayer Can Change Your Day

Somebody gets fired from a bank over an $800 error, says a quiet gratitude prayer on the train, and 15 seconds later gets a call that changes everything. That story sets the tone for a conversation about faith, mindset, and why “thank you” can hit different when your day is falling apart. We also catch up on real life, from birthday plans to finally getting a new HVAC system and joking about the price while still facing what rising costs and budgeting actually feel like.

Then we pivot into fun and chaos with games that tell you more about a person than you’d expect. We run through true or false trivia, would you rather questions for couples, and a whole debate about what you’d eat if you could only pick two places forever. It’s light, but it also shows how we think about comfort, hygiene, money, and the little preferences that become big lifestyle choices over time.

The heavy turn comes with our “Believe It, Sister” story about a woman convicted after throwing lit dynamite during a fight, costing her boyfriend his hand. We talk relationship red flags, how people ignore threats until it’s too late, and why domestic violence is never “just drama.” We close with side-eye moments that hit close to home: a rough dentist visit that raises questions about patient care and bias in healthcare, plus a viral “free bleeding” trend that has us asking practical questions about menstruation, hygiene, and sustainable period products.

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Transcript

Welcome And Birthday Energy

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The refreshingly normal podcast.

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And one. Welcome back, everyone. I am Kifla.

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And I am Krame.

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And this is the Refreshingly Normal Podcast. Thank you for tuning in for another amazing episode. Thank you. Thank you for rocking with us thus far. Thank you. Episode 41.

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Thank you.

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That's right. We are on the eve. Well, we're filming on the eve of her birthday. But by the time you hear it, it will be her birthday.

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Happy birthday to me.

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She will be 45 years old.

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Faux.

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45, huh?

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Yeah.

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Alright. Yeah, I gotta jump out of a cake tonight, y'all. So oh my goodness. Jump out all uh cakey. All uh ice in there with uh sprinkles.

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Okay, sprinkles. Yeah. I don't like sprinkles.

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That's all right. You're gonna like these sprinkles. All right, ladies and gentlemen. Let's get into it, man. Um it's a great week, you know. Uh beautiful weather. You know, so even though we had rain, uh, it was it's great weather. Like even today, it's kind of cold, which is, you know. It's not cold. What cool? Cool. But uh when I was out there on the patio just now.

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You were cold.

New HVAC And Real Money Talk

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Yeah. I was cold. Because in the shade and the wind was blowing. Yep, I was a little chilly. Yeah. And guess what, guys? What? We finally got in our HVAC system.

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Oh, yes. And we will be eating ramen for 10 years.

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For 10 years. A whole Kia we're paying for. Just kidding, but yeah. Kia Optima or Kia. Ultima. No, we're not. Toyota Corolla. That's what we're paying for.

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Maybe a kioso.

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Okay. Yeah, Kia Sol.

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Maybe.

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Maybe kiosol. I don't know how much they cost, but maybe a kioso. Yeah, maybe. Or maybe uh 2,000. Uh 2020 Corolla.

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Put it like this. My Jeep was cheaper than this. And my Jeep, I bought my Jeep in 2015. It was a 2009.

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But if less than you. You're counting the what before your rebates.

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And still. My Jeep was only 19.5.

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Yeah.

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So I was about to say. No, it was a couple hundred more.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Two. There we go.

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But it's all good. It's a big old system, too. And it does feel different.

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It does feel different. We'll see. We will see if the um the electric bill. Electric bill feels different. I'm excited to see what that is. Although it's not going to be a good comparison because I feel like last year this time it was warmer.

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Yeah. This is crazy. I'm saying the weather is. I was talking to Kim Money Day. I said the weather is like.

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And I really thought this summer was going to be like super hot. Yeah. But right now, um, yeah, it's it's like cool. So I don't know what the summer's gonna bring if we're looking at right now. And then you know what I'm saying? I'ma say if the summer was gonna be cool, child, we could have kept old Bertha for a little while longer.

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But then the prices would have kept going up. Oh my god because the situation of the world is continually to do what it does is changing, and prices are going up every day in this country. I know. So we would have been paying a we would have been buying a dame uh Tahoe, a new Tahoe.

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Now listen, we would have just had to get a whole bunch of uh ceiling fans. We would have had to get a whole bunch of window units. Because I could have I could have replaced all these lights for ceiling. We would have got window units in each room. People like they got a ceiling fan in their bathroom. Who got that? Yeah, we would have had window. Do they got window units? Show dope.

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Yep, everywhere.

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Show dope. Shoot.

End Of School Grade Check

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But um, other than that, y'all, um, it's been a good, it's been a good week. You know, we're winding down in the school system. Winding down. So, parents, check your kids' grades. Check them. If this is the first time you're checking your kids' grades, it's too late. And it's too late. First of all, shame on you. And it's too late. And stop believing all them lies they're telling. And then saying, My child don't lie. You know, your child also don't do no work.

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Listen, your kids will make a fool out of you.

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Who? Yes, I'm telling you, they got me. They got me. Um, but yes, the last part of the year, and so um, you know, the kids are feeling, they're feeling it too. You know, the seniors are like, man, we got what? We gotta take a test. Man, look. Take a test. Just take it's your last high school test you're getting ready to take. You know, some of you, this is your last test you'll probably ever take besides a pregnancy test.

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It's your last test.

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And a blood test, a paternity test.

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I'm saying.

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Um, but just take it, man. Get it going, you know. Don't complain. You got less than a week. Well, they got one week left, and then they take finals.

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Yeah.

Work Planning And Feeling A Shift

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Um, but you know, it's doing what it's doing. Doing what it's doing. I know you were busy, busy to this week. Uh oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And regular work. So, regular work, my bread and butter work for that. Um, a lot of planning for next year. So um it's good stuff. Yeah, so doing that with my team, but also doing it with the schools that I serve, like already setting up professional learning for the start of the school year. Um decide um ordering, already ordering the things they need for the programs that they do, like my zones. I order all their supplies. So they were getting those. And um, so yeah, we I've just been in my last this week planning for next year. So ordering supplies for them, planning like what PLs do they want, trying to get dates locked in for um August. So that's what I did this week for the majority of my week. Did a little bit of restorative conferencing with uh great levels or teams that are um struggling to work um cooperatively as a team. So had some of those where I go in and Olivia Popum. Olivia Popum wave my magic wands and get things going.

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So that was that's what you do.

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Yes, fix my o my watch.

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I think that's what they thought I was gonna do. Because they had to give, they were given the I think they were given the impression that it was gonna be punitive. Yeah, and so I think when they walked in, they thought that I was gonna be like Ayamla. Is that her name? A Yanla Ayala Ayamla. They thought I was gonna be her, and they were kind of looking a little bit nervous, or then somebody kind of tried to test the waters and kind of tell us a little joke to see if I'm laughing.

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Somebody like if you know Tess D really Tesla D, like this again. Yeah, they'll be like, I know you did.

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Not on my watch. Uh-huh.

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Now let's get y'all right. Yeah.

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And then somebody walked in because they thought they were supposed to be in there, but they weren't supposed to be in there. And I'm meeting with them a different time. I said, Um, taking note, they don't know how to read their calendar.

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They went off.

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But yeah. So, anyways, it was um that was good. And then, in regards to my evening job, um, everything went well this week with well, it went well.

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It went as expected.

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Yeah, yeah.

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That's that's the perfect perfect way to say it. Yeah, because you knew.

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Yeah, I knew, you know, but yeah, it went as expected and and interesting, and I really feel like um all of these things, you know how we say we always feel like all these things are preparing you for something. Yeah, but I really, really, really do feel like that. Not quite sure what it is, what it is, but it's something.

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It's something. I'm telling you, I am I am about I know I'm about to shift, but yeah, because I'm going to a new school. Yeah, but I feel a larger shift than that. Yeah. I really do. I feel a um positive, like no drama, all um celebration fireworks shift about to occur in my life.

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Okay.

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Like, you know, you know, some of you say something bad happens to put you. Yeah. No, I feel like it's all like it's about to be America published publisher clearing house kind of coming to your door.

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That kind of like that kind of way in.

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Yes, I feel it. I feel it. I feel it in my bones, I'm telling you. Yeah, and I'm so excited. Like, cause I don't know when it's going to occur, but I do know it's going to occur soon.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. So I don't know. I just feel like it all is just the sort of thing. And I feel like my knowledge, leadership. I don't know. I feel like like it's being tested. And I don't know if it's being tested in regards to convince me.

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That's what it is. I'm about to say that.

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Yeah, like to convince me like you are prepared, you know this. Da-da-da. I feel like that. Yep.

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Yeah. That's exactly what it is. He's he's letting you know that look, I'm getting ready to do something that normally would scare you. But I'm showing you how you know you you hand you can handle it.

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Yeah.

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So that when I do show it to you, you just one foot in front of the other, regular step. Because normally you'll be like, whoa, oh, surprise starter. Am I supposed to do this? Am I ready for this? No, he's showing you.

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Yeah, that's what I that's what I really feel like. Um, yeah. So I'm just like this week was busy and that, and kind of, I guess you would call it more like God winks in a way, like me being, I'm I'm super reflective. That's just me. It's I some I used to think, am I overthinking? And sometimes I do, I can't overthink. Um, but I just think for me, I'm a grow, I like to grow. Um, so I think it's important to be reflective. Um, I'm not a person who can sit and do the same exact job year after year after year after year. Like it's gotta change, it's gotta be different, it's gotta, you know, and so in my life, just like it has I like to just grow and things to become new and different. And so um I'm always very reflective in that. So um I do I without a doubt feel myself growing. Um, and I know that I always connect, I just connect with kids, period. Um, I feel like I do. But um in what I'm doing now with some of my kids who have some challenging things, um, I think some people get quite surprised. Like they say in therapeutic work, it takes a while to connect with people. Yeah, but I think my gift of being able to connect with kids and people easily, yeah, it to me makes my work more powerful. Yeah, so anywho, I I noticed that um with my with my people, my clients. So yeah, I just feel like, yeah, I'm just kind of excited to see what will come of it all. But anywho, that was my week. Um, yeah, it was productive and there was growth and planning and all kinds of things this week. Nothing to complain about.

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That's good.

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Yep.

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That's good. I'm happy for you. I'm happy for you.

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Yeah.

Fired Then Blessed With A Job

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All right, so let's get on into this episode. So there's a feel-good story.

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Okay.

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Um, I'll read it. I sent it to you, of course. Sent everything to you. Yeah. You probably didn't see nothing.

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I did see it. You know, so you sent me lots of things. Lots of things.

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All right, so today's feel-good story, or this week's feel-good story. All right. Fired prayer 15 seconds later.

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Fire prayer 15 seconds later.

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Yes, so this young lady is a is a story about this young lady who got fired from a bank. Okay. Uh-huh. She was her job.

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So what did she do at the bank?

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Uh, she was a bank teller.

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Okay.

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Yeah. So and there was a mistake. It was an$800 error.$800. Yeah,$800 error. She couldn't fix.

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Okay.

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So she came back to work the next day. The manager was like, yo, you gotta go.

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Oh, for an$800, like not balancing, like her.

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They just said error. I don't know what it was. Okay. I mean, she didn't steal it, you know.

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Yeah, sometimes something happens, yeah.

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Yeah, and then so um, you know, she was let go. And so she was, she was crying, you know, sad about it, because she liked the job. Yeah. So she got on the train.

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Okay.

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And when she got on the train, she uh said a prayer.

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Okay.

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Okay. But she didn't pray um asking for anything. She prayed saying, Thank you, Lord, for allowing me to have this job for so long. So a gratitude, prayer of gratitude.

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Okay.

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And she said, she said the prayer quietly on the train. She put on her um headphones, put on a worship song. She said, exactly 15 seconds later, her phone rang. And it was someone who uh it was a cheerful, a man on the other end had a cheerful voice. He said that his sister had worked with her at the bank and spoke very highly of her, particularly of her kindness and her service. And based on that, he thought she'd be a good fit for his company. And she got the job the same day. So she lost a job and got another job the same day. And um she shared the story on TikTok. So if anybody wants to go on TikTok, it's at A S H P underscore T V. That's her handle on TikTok. If you want to go and check it out, get a good little feel good about yourself. And um she just was saying like how she was so um thankful and grateful that uh, you know, that God came through for her.

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That fast.

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Yeah, that fast. And and it just goes to show, like, sometimes, you know, her prayer was of gratitude as opposed to Lord, why me, why, woe is me, kind of prayer.

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Yeah.

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You know, and then all of a sudden the blessing came out of it. Maybe that's what he was doing, was testing her faith to see if, you know, in the deepest times, will you say, why? Why did you say that? Would you still say thank you? Right, would you still say thank you? And she did, and and here it is. She got her um her blessing. So that's our feel good story of the week. Nice little young lady, man.

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Yeah.

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So we'll listen to her story later on um on our own accord, because it's it's not long, long, but it's sort of long for you guys on here. Waste our uh minutes when we're trying to upload. Yeah. So there it goes.

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All right, I love that.

True Or False Trivia Run

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So let's play a little game.

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All right.

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And um, it's just like some some true or false questions.

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Okay.

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And some would you rather questions.

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Okay.

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Okay. Which one you want first?

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Uh let's do true or false.

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Okay, so these true or false questions, I haven't read them, but there are several different categories. Okay. So we're going to read two each, and we're going to ask each other the questions. Okay.

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Is there a right or wrong?

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Yes, it says it.

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Oh, okay.

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So um the first one, I'm gonna read the first two in the category of animals. I'm just going to the very first two. Well, that's your fault. All right. A group of flamingos is called a flock. True or false? False. Correct. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

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I knew that.

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You knew that part? No, I didn't. But I knew it wasn't a flock. All right. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. True or false? False. False. Elephants, hippos, rhinos, and sloth or sloth, are physically unable to jump. Elephants are simply the most famous example.

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Guess what, guys? Maybe I do know animals.

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No, you already said you didn't, so I'm just smart.

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Uh come on. I'm just one smart cookie. Oh, are we staying with animals?

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Yeah, staying with animals, and then we'll go to another category and read two each.

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All right. True or false?

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Okay.

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A snail can sleep for up to three years. False. True.

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Somebody doesn't know animals. Yeah.

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Snails can enter a long dormancy period called estivation when weather conditions become too hot or dry.

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Okay.

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Because if they come out, they're dead.

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Yeah. They're gonna drop.

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They're gonna drop and be dead. All right. Octopuses have three hearts. True. Yep, that is true.

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Because we're on octopus right now.

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Oh, you learned it in school.

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That's right. That's right. Me being the co-taught teacher in the zoology class, I helped those kids know that.

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All right. So two pump blood to the gills and one pumps it to the rest of the body. Yep. And all three stop beating when an octopus swims.

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That's right.

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Wow, which is why they prefer crawling.

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That's right.

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Because I bet that feels weird. Your heart just stops and you swim. Come on now. Come on. Let me crawl.

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All right. Science. Oh gosh. Lightning never strikes the same place twice. True or false? False. Yep.

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People tell that's a that's a myth.

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It is. Frequently strikes the same place multiple times. The Empire State Building is struck by lightning around 20 times per year. Yeah. The sun is a star, true or false? True. Yes, the sun is a medium-sized star classified as a yellow dwarf located about 93 million miles from the earth.

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Put me on jeopardy. Put me on jeopardy, y'all. What is a star?

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Then it should be. Hold up. Maybe like, uh, all right.

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Sound travels faster than light.

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Um, false.

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Yep, that is false. Light travels at approximately 186,000 miles per second, while sound travels at about 767 miles per hour. That's a big difference. That's right. All right. Water always boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Is it 212? Water boils.

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Uh I'm gonna say true.

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False. Oh, what is it? Yeah. It the key remember every time you hear always.

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Oh, okay.

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Water boils at low temperatures at higher altitudes. Oh, okay. Because atmospheric pressure decreases in Denver, Colorado, water boils at about 202 degrees Fahrenheit.

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But it's ice here is 212. We teach it as 212.

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Yeah, but the key word was always you can't go on jeopardy with me. You right, I show okay. You will make us loose.

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All right, your stomach gets an entirely new lining every few days. True or false? Hmm.

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I'm going to say false.

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Nope, the answer is true. Stomach acid is powerful enough to dissolve metal, so the stomach replaces its lining roughly every three to four days.

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Oh, how interesting.

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All right, here we go. True or false. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

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Don't be looking at your tongue out there. Somebody's gonna use that.

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Oh, sorry. Use that clip. I'm gonna have to cut that.

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Cut that. No, false.

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False. The tongue is strong, but the masked legs, jaw muscle is the strongest muscle relative to its size.

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Oh, maybe that's why yours hurts. I mean, it really is impactful.

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Maybe so. All right, that was mine too. Okay. That was the science.

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Science. Or past science. And we're going over.

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Okay.

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We already did something else. Food and drink. Oh, wait, I missed something. Just do food, whatever.

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Food and drink.

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Uh-huh. And then I'm not sure.

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How much this was touch screen? Oh, I don't want to go over something. All right. Ooh. True or false?

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Let's see.

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Honey never expires. True. Yep, that's right. Archaeologists have found 3,000 year old honey in Egyptian tombs that were still edible. It's low moisture content and acidic pH prevents bacteria from growing. That's right. All right. Almonds are a type of nut. False. What is it? A C. Yeah, baby. Come on, Jeopardy with me now. There you go. That's it. I don't have to explain.

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Uh, you don't. You so don't. All right, here we go. Um, white chocolate is a type of chocolate. No, that's false. Yep. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk, but no cocoa solids, which may, I mean, which many purists consider necessary for true chocolate. Yeah. All right. The most expensive spice in the world by weight is vanilla. True or false?

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Oh, it's turmeric. I heard no, it's not. I heard saffron is expensive.

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What'd you do?

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And I feel like saffron might be more expensive than vanilla. So I is saffron a spice? I'm saying false because I think it's saffron.

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False, and you are right. Saffron is the most expensive spice. It takes around 75,000 crocus flowers to produce one pound of saffron. I'm a winner. All right, here we go. Sports. I'll go ahead and read. Okay. The Olympic Games were originally held every two years. True or false?

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Every two years?

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Yes.

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I'm gonna say true.

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False. The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years. That interval, called an Olympiad, was also used as a unit of time in ancient Greece. All right. A regulation MBA basketball hoop is exactly 10 feet off the ground. True or false? True. True. The 10-foot height has been the standard since basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1891. Who is a Canadian?

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Is he a black Canadian?

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No.

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I didn't think so because we didn't have any rights back then. Okay. All right.

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1891. Only basket we were filling up was Peaches. Cotton. Cotton baskets.

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That's it.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Golf was the first sport played on the moon. True. Supposedly. But they do say true. Astronaut Alan Shepard did it in 1971 on Apollo 14 mission. The Tour de Fonts is always won by a French psycholist.

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False.

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Yes, because keyword?

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Always. But what's the name? That guy won it, but then he they take his uh things from him. Um the guy from here, he was had cancer and he was all steroid doping. I forgot his name, though. Yeah, there have been John Something Armstrong.

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They didn't say that, but they just said there have been winners from Spain, the U.S., and Great Britain. They have they dominate that race.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right, good job. We're kind of smart. We kind of smart. All right. History, holidays, miscellaneous. Let's do miscellaneous. Last two.

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Last two.

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All right. A group of cats, a group of cats is called a clowder.

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That's false.

SPEAKER_07 25:16

True. Oh. Another lesser-known term is a glaring, especially when the cats appear unfriendly. I don't like cats. And so they're always glaring at me. They aren't. Yeah, they are. All right. Is it, I mean, it is possible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times. True or false?

SPEAKER_00 25:36

True.

SPEAKER_07 25:37

True. With a large enough sheet of paper, people have successfully folded paper more than 12 times.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 25:44

I just did random. Go randomly.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

Okay. Fortune cookies were invented in China.

SPEAKER_07 25:54

False.

SPEAKER_04 25:55

Yep, they weren't. They were invented in the U.S. And most likely in California in the early 20th century.

SPEAKER_05 26:02

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

But you know why? Because Chinese also came here to build that railroad, so it could have still been invented by Chinese. It could have been a Chinese person. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:12

And motivate them for better days.

SPEAKER_04 26:16

Maybe so. Like they're, yeah, because they were over here working for the main.

SPEAKER_07 26:20

And it makes sense why they got lotto numbers because I don't think they got lottery in China.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 26:24

They had lotto numbers, they said, and they sent them to people. Look, these are the lotto numbers.

SPEAKER_04 26:29

These are the numbers. Maybe it was code for something else.

SPEAKER_07 26:31

It probably was.

SPEAKER_04 26:32

Maybe it was something else that we didn't even know.

SPEAKER_07 26:34

Yep, they didn't even know.

SPEAKER_04 26:35

Okay. All right. It is illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland.

SPEAKER_07 26:44

True.

SPEAKER_04 26:45

True. They say Swiss animal welfare laws recognize guinea pigs as social animals. Yep. So keeping only one is considered neglect.

SPEAKER_07 26:55

And certain fish, too, is illegal to own certain fish like that too.

SPEAKER_04 26:59

Yeah.

Would You Rather Couple Questions

SPEAKER_07 26:59

Yeah. You know, I know I'm like Harry, I know them crazy facts. Regular facts, I'd be like, oh, let me double check. But facts that don't make no sense. I know them. All right, that's a good true or false. Not last game of the week. Would you rather?

SPEAKER_04 27:12

All right.

SPEAKER_07 27:16

All right, here we go.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 27:18

Would you rather questions for couples? Some of these may be a little risque. Some of these are just funny questions. Okay. So here we go. All right. Would you rather walk in on your parents having sex or have your parents walk in on you having sex?

SPEAKER_04 27:36

Walk in on my parents.

SPEAKER_07 27:37

Yes, me too.

SPEAKER_04 27:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 27:39

Yeah, because I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 27:40

Yeah. Uh-uh. And plus, I've already done that before. Ew. Have you ever walked in on your parents?

SPEAKER_07 27:46

No. I have. Never have, yeah. I knew I knew not to. And then my daddy yelled at me. He should have. Because you probably heard them unless they was over there quick.

SPEAKER_04 27:56

I didn't. I was just walking in and it hurt my feelings. And so then I just sat outside.

SPEAKER_07 28:01

Because we always we had a rule, you're supposed to knock anyway. The same way why be talking about, oh y'all ain't gonna knock even we ain't doing nothing in the room. I'd be like, knock.

SPEAKER_04 28:09

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 28:10

Always. To this day, I knock before I go in every door.

SPEAKER_04 28:13

Yep. Oh, so sad.

SPEAKER_07 28:15

You should have been his dad over there trying to do his thing. You over there messing him years from.

SPEAKER_04 28:21

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_07 28:24

I hate that for you. Alright, would you rather never wear underwear again or never wear socks again?

SPEAKER_04 28:33

Underwear or socks? Maybe underwear. No, I'm not gonna go underwear.

SPEAKER_07 28:38

I'm saying socks.

SPEAKER_04 28:39

Yeah, I'm gonna go with socks.

SPEAKER_07 28:41

No, I mean I'm sorry. I never I'd rather never wear underwear again because I hate wet shoes.

SPEAKER_04 28:46

Yeah, because your feet'll be stinking.

SPEAKER_07 28:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:49

But I need my underwear for my Fupa.

SPEAKER_07 28:52

Yeah. Well just start like put you a little something in your pants. You know what I'm saying? A little like what? Some something in your pants. Oh, go guard. Some Fupa pants. We can make some.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Okay, oh make a new one. There might be something out there already. Alright.

SPEAKER_07 29:08

Alright. Um would you rather uh sneeze? Would you rather sneeze every time you orgasm or orgasm every time you sneeze?

SPEAKER_04 29:22

Sneeze every time I orgasm.

SPEAKER_06 29:24

Yes, because you don't want to be orgasm every time you sneeze, they're putting it. Every time you put them be walking pepper around. Watch, watch, y'all, watch.

unknown 29:31

Watch.

SPEAKER_07 29:34

Alright. Would you rather have every meal you eat for the rest of your life be a little too spicy or a little too sweet?

SPEAKER_04 29:45

A little too sweet.

SPEAKER_07 29:48

I'd rather a little too spicy.

SPEAKER_04 29:49

I like sweet because I add sugar to some things. Like gumbo, I like to add sugar to. Chili, I like to add sugar to.

SPEAKER_07 29:56

Grits, I like to add sugar to.

SPEAKER_04 29:58

Grits, yeah. Give me the sweat.

SPEAKER_07 30:00

Okay. Would you rather, and this was funny to me and I was thinking about it, because I've seen somebody do this before.

SPEAKER_04 30:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 30:05

Would you rather wear sweatpants for the rest of your life?

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 30:09

Including funerals and weddings, or have to wear a sequence to everything.

SPEAKER_04 30:15

Give me a sweatpants. I'm not wearing a sequence to everything.

SPEAKER_07 30:18

I ain't wearing a sequence to nothing. Mr. Michael Jackson. I'm not doing a sequence. That's the only way. But I knew this person, he wore a sweatpants. Sequence? No, he likes sweatpants like at a funeral.

SPEAKER_04 30:29

Maybe because that's how he could feel. Was he a big man?

SPEAKER_07 30:31

No, this was just a person, person. And they just wore a sweatpants, suit jacket? No.

SPEAKER_04 30:36

Oh, just sweat sweatsuit?

SPEAKER_07 30:38

Well, I always wore sweatpants.

SPEAKER_04 30:40

Oh. You know what? What if they had a sensory issue? Maybe. And and it was just back then they just feel that felt comfortable. Yeah. They could have had a sensory issue.

SPEAKER_07 30:49

And you know, that's so crazy because when we think about that, how many people did we know did stuff, but we now we know there was a reason behind it.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_07 30:57

But we just dismissed them as weird. Weird. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 31:01

Mm-hmm. But no, I ain't wearing no sequence. Um, would you rather uh not shower for a week or not brush your teeth for a week?

SPEAKER_04 31:12

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_07 31:13

I'd rather not shower.

SPEAKER_04 31:15

I'm gonna say not shower, because even if I didn't brush my teeth, I could maybe put in some gum or mint. You know, if I'm talking to people.

SPEAKER_07 31:22

No, I gotta bring it. But showering. I gotta brush my teeth. And I think showering, I can mask that with cologne.

SPEAKER_04 31:28

No, no, because let me tell y'all a story.

SPEAKER_07 31:31

Dryer sheets. No.

SPEAKER_04 31:35

No, that's not gonna work because when my friends trees right around my balls.

SPEAKER_07 31:40

Uh-uh. The ones that be in the cars.

SPEAKER_04 31:43

No, you just gonna smell like must and trees. Because when I was in high school, one of my friends who got married early, like our senior year, she got married, and I hosted her uh, supposedly supposed been a bridal shower. Then her relatives came and honey, they changed it. It was bridal shower slash bachelorette, and they had ordered a stripper, and that stripper came and he changed in our guest room, and that's what he must have tried to do was cover up his funk with cologne, and my mama was so mad because she is very sensitive to smells, and it took months to get that musty cologne smell out of that, and all he did was change, he didn't get in the bed, he ain't do nothing. He hadn't danced yet. No, he hadn't even danced yet. Pre-must. Pre-must. And my mama was so mad.

SPEAKER_06 32:52

Yeah, boy, I bet there was a jingle bell just and he tried to go bells, your boss, man.

SPEAKER_04 32:58

And I personally do not like male strippers. And when he came down in the basement and was trying to do, I said, sir, gone to the people that want it. Because this is thing, uh-mm. I ain't picking up what you're giving off. I don't like them. I don't like it. But he so uh you can't cover, you can cover if you want to, but you're gonna be funkier because ain't nothing worse than must than mus trying to be covered up with cologne.

SPEAKER_07 33:26

Must know that's how them kids be at school, yes.

SPEAKER_04 33:29

And then if somebody trying to cover up with a cologne that already is uh like jupe, child, just kill be now, child. If you in a room with me, just kill me.

SPEAKER_07 33:40

All right, would you rather um what was it? Oh, would you rather be able to see your own future or be able to see everyone else's future, but not your own?

SPEAKER_04 33:52

I choose to see my own future.

SPEAKER_07 33:55

I don't want to see anybody else's future because it's just something tragic.

SPEAKER_04 33:58

Yeah, you'll feel obligated to tell them.

SPEAKER_07 34:00

Yeah, not even that. I would, I know I can't do nothing about it, and that would hurt me to know I can't do anything about it.

SPEAKER_04 34:06

Yeah, for people that are very empathetic, like I would, that would be hard for me too.

SPEAKER_07 34:09

So I would rather I could get over my own because it allowed me to spend more time doing more things with people. Uh-huh. You know what I'm saying? Like really going out of my way, screw this job, I'm getting ready to die in 20 days. Yeah. You know, but to know that somebody else, you know, see all these other people, and then say everybody else's. So if I see death, death, death, death, yeah, and I can't be there to stop it, yeah. I'd be like, nah, just show me my own future.

SPEAKER_04 34:34

And I and then you probably spend all your time trying to prevent them from it. So if you knew on Tuesday, March 8th, they was gonna get in a car wreck, driving, excuse me, yeah, driving to work, you might say, Oh, let me drive you to work today.

SPEAKER_07 34:48

Yeah, you you would you you would be a wreck. Yeah. Because what if it didn't reveal the actual day, but you just saw the incident, and now every time they do something, you think, oh, this might be today. This might be the day. Yeah. So now I wouldn't have to be a good idea.

SPEAKER_04 35:00

Yeah, that would be that would be really tough.

SPEAKER_07 35:03

Yeah, I can. Mm-hmm. Lord, no. Mm-mm. No, ma'am. All right, would you rather um support your partner's dream of becoming an influencer or have your partner be out of work? So it's like that's all you can do is be an influencer or nothing else.

SPEAKER_04 35:25

Well, then I have to support him because that might bring money. I'd rather bring some money than you sit up and and not have anything. So if that's all we're gonna be able to do, then let's make it happen. Yeah, for sure. But yeah. Why do they put that there? Because some people feel like you kind of have to exploit your loved ones in order to be in influencers.

SPEAKER_07 35:46

Well, maybe some people, some people look at influencing as influencer. You're influencer. Pfft, that ain't no job, you know. That's how some people see those things too. Some of these people make a lot of good money. They do make a lot of good money, but the way um the way the ebbs and flows are you might be out. Yeah, you may not be hot.

SPEAKER_04 36:04

Better to be in hot for a little bit than to be nothing at all every day.

SPEAKER_07 36:10

Yeah. Um, all right. Would you rather change jobs every few years or keep one job for the rest of your life?

SPEAKER_04 36:18

Oh, I already said that. Every few years. I feel like that's what I've almost done. I mean, I've been in the same career but different locations. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 36:30

All right. Would you rather make a huge salary but have to give everything above minimum wage to charity or have a mid-range salary and be able to spend it on whatever you want? Well, yeah, I want a mid-range.

SPEAKER_04 36:47

Because I you're saying I could only make minimum wage.

SPEAKER_07 36:52

Yeah, you gotta give the rest away. You making millions, but living on off a minimum wage. But you make mid-range and it's yeah, give me the mid-range. Whatever you want.

SPEAKER_04 37:04

You can't live off a minimum wage. You cannot live. You might as well not work and be on welfare because you cannot live off a minimum wage. That it is simply ridiculous.

SPEAKER_07 37:15

I know that's right. All right, and the last one. Yeah, would you rather eat out for every meal or have to cook every meal?

SPEAKER_03 37:27

Well, that's easy. Eat out every meal. That's real easy, child, please.

SPEAKER_07 37:38

All right, so if you had to eat out every meal, yeah, you have two options for you only have two options for the rest of your life for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. What would those two be?

SPEAKER_04 37:50

Only two places, I can do it.

SPEAKER_07 37:52

Two places. Like two different places for breakfast and lunch. Two different places for, I mean, you know, oh, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 37:58

I see what you're saying.

SPEAKER_07 37:59

Now the breakfast can be the lunch spot, but you you only get two places.

SPEAKER_04 38:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 38:04

You see what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 38:05

Yeah. All right, so my breakfast is gonna be uh first watch is one. Okay. Um my second, um, mmm, because I gotta get some good coffee. Um my second is gonna be Starbucks for breakfast. You're dying. If I get if I can do first watch coffee and start, where else I'm gonna get good coffee from?

SPEAKER_07 38:34

Food is more important than coffee.

SPEAKER_04 38:36

Is it? It is. I gotta have some good coffee and um first watch. Yeah, I'll put the two together because some days I might be rushing. I don't got time to food first watch, so I can still go by, run, get me turkey, egg white, and a uh mocha, uh cappuccino something. Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. Okay then, okay, and for lunch, ooh, this is so hard. What am I doing for lunch? Hmm, that's too hard to even decide.

SPEAKER_07 39:15

Come on, you gotta come on.

SPEAKER_04 39:17

Okay. Could I say the Marietta Square food court?

SPEAKER_07 39:22

Nope, you gotta pick a spot.

SPEAKER_04 39:24

Oh man.

SPEAKER_07 39:25

Come on.

SPEAKER_04 39:28

Well, I think I'm going to go with it's gotta be a Mexican place.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

Okay, where?

SPEAKER_04 39:35

Um, I think I'm gonna choose the Mexican, the little Mexican spot by my job. Because I'm always satisfied with everything I get there. Okay, all right, yeah, yeah. I'm going with it because they also have other things like they do have hamburgers.

SPEAKER_07 39:50

That little one place that we went to the club.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

Yeah, I like it. My tacos are always so good, and they have other options. All right, um, and then ooh, let me see for lunch. Ooh, I gotta have a good sandwich. Somewhere got a good sandwich.

unknown 40:10

Ooh.

SPEAKER_07 40:12

Who got a good sandwich?

SPEAKER_04 40:14

Now, I will say, and I keep wanting to take you there, but we have not been, but I loved my sandwich there. I think it's called Kepernelli Cap or something. It's over there off of um Chastain going um behind what uh Whataburger, the Whataburger over there, it's behind there. Okay, they got a good sandwich and they got some good fries too with their sandwiches. Yeah, I think I'm gonna choose them.

SPEAKER_07 40:40

So dinner.

SPEAKER_04 40:40

Okay, dinner. Okay, if I were gonna choose dinner, um, oh, oh, oh. I'm choosing because I want a good steak now and again. So I'm choosing a little alley.

SPEAKER_06 40:59

Okay, little alley.

SPEAKER_04 41:00

That's gonna be that, and then I'm gonna choose. Okay, I got steak for lunch. I got Mexican. So I feel like I need some kind of seafood, good fish. Um, you know, it's gonna take me a long time to figure this out. Figure out what I'm gonna be. Oh, I ain't got no Chinese or sush. Come on. Oh, honey, Chinese and sush. Where am I gonna get good Chinese and sush? Did they have they had they had some like little Chinese stuff at um the eight sushi lounge? I'm going eight sushi lounge.

SPEAKER_07 41:49

All right, there you go.

SPEAKER_04 41:50

Yeah. All right, that's hard, but that that I'll just do that.

SPEAKER_07 41:55

What are you doing? For breakfast, I'm gonna do uh IHOP. Um and more than likely, probably. Um I'll probably stick with uh what's what's the place called?

SPEAKER_04 42:15

You ain't got no good coffee.

SPEAKER_07 42:16

I ain't worried about the good coffee. Um iHop and um We just said it. First watch. Okay. Do I hop and first watch?

SPEAKER_04 42:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 42:24

For lunch, I'm going to do I'm changing my breakfast to um seasons. So seasons?

SPEAKER_04 42:30

Yeah. Uh first watch and seasons because season got because got good coffee. Yep, I changed it.

SPEAKER_07 42:39

So I'm doing for lunch, I'm gonna do um um um four season wings. The place we went to, husband and wife, right there. Four season wings. That's over there by the mall. The place we went to.

SPEAKER_04 42:55

Oh, you're going over there for lunch. Yeah, one time going is not enough for me to commit.

SPEAKER_07 42:59

Well, hey, but I can get fish, I can get chicken filly. Okay, I can get wings.

SPEAKER_04 43:05

We only went one time, though. We got it.

SPEAKER_07 43:08

Okay. Hey, I'll be all right. They hit me right. All right. And then I would probably go to what is another spot? Um, where else for lunch? That would be good for me.

SPEAKER_04 43:21

Um, Ted.

SPEAKER_07 43:26

The uh Mexican restaurant over there by my my uh by the school.

SPEAKER_04 43:30

By Bank of America?

SPEAKER_07 43:31

Yeah. Okay. I would go there.

SPEAKER_04 43:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 43:33

Okay. And then for dinner, yeah, I'm going to the Cheesecake Factory because it's so many selections. That's true. I won't get bored.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

That's true.

SPEAKER_07 43:41

And then I would do uh probably um papa douze. Papa do. Ooh. I can get great seafood. I get great drinks.

SPEAKER_04 43:52

Oh man, I'm changing.

SPEAKER_07 43:54

Great seafood, all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_04 43:56

I'm changing. I'm changing eight lounge to papa do.

SPEAKER_07 44:00

And so uh that'll be my spot.

SPEAKER_04 44:02

Yeah, those are good choices. Good choices.

SPEAKER_07 44:06

All right. So let's jump on into our sister of the week. Now there were two stories.

SPEAKER_04 44:13

Oh gosh, him and two stories. You can't choose one. You should have any, mini, minor moded. And then you could have chosen one.

SPEAKER_07 44:18

I already know which one I'm gonna do. I'm doing uh what JJ used to say. Who was JJ on um on the uh Good Times? Dynomite. All right, so speaking of Dynomite, that was this lady.

SPEAKER_04 44:33

Oh, somebody won't know where she got the I heard this story.

SPEAKER_07 44:36

Uh-huh. So this lady, her name is Kiana Waddell. Kiana. Kiana Wadale. She was convicted of assault in a Long Island courtroom. That's New York. Okay? Yes. Here's the story. Okay. So she attacked her boyfriend. All right. They were in an argument in his apartment this past March. And so he woke up by a hissing sound and saw a flame on the floor of his bedroom. So when he got up, he looked down. He didn't really know what it was at first. Yeah. And he grabbed it and threw it. But when he threw it, I mean where did he throw it? He attempted to extinguish the f the you know all that. Because he didn't really know what is this? Yeah. Because, you know, most people don't know what dynamite is.

SPEAKER_04 45:26

Yeah, we only see it really on cartoons.

SPEAKER_07 45:28

Cartoons. And TV shows. Sometimes you don't even see it then. So when he grabbed it, all of a sudden, he heard a loud, he was getting ready to try to throw it out of the room.

SPEAKER_02 45:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 45:38

He heard it say boom. And then he was like, Woof, I'm hurting. And he looked down and his hand was gone. So he was like, oh Lord, oh Jesus. So he ran outside to the end of the driveway and saw his girlfriend. Because his girlfriend threw it in there and then dipped. So he woke up hearing the and he looked around. Oh, what is that? Oh, shoot, what? Boom.

unknown 46:04

Ah, my hand.

SPEAKER_07 46:05

Oh, it blew up in his hand. Blew up in his hand. So he takes off running, because he, you know, somebody, what's going on? Adrenaline. He ran outside, saw his girlfriend running down the street. And then he went to the ho to the hospital. And when he went to the hospital, of course, his hand was gone. They uh part of it was gone. They had to take the rest of it and part of his arm off. Had to amputate it. So they arrested her, Keanu Waddell, the dynamite girl.

SPEAKER_04 46:32

What did she get?

SPEAKER_07 46:33

I don't know about it.

SPEAKER_04 46:34

Charged with, I mean. Oh, I was just saying. I mean, yeah, I was gonna say, well, I that is also a question. Like, where did she get the dynamite?

SPEAKER_07 46:40

Charged with assault. She was she's charged with convicted of assault.

SPEAKER_04 46:43

With a deadly weapon, I hope.

SPEAKER_07 46:44

I'm sure.

SPEAKER_04 46:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 46:46

She faced up to 25 years in prison.

SPEAKER_04 46:48

She should get all 25.

SPEAKER_07 46:49

Yes. And um, so she um That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 46:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 46:54

So she was arrested the following day, and they learned that she previously threatened him with dynamite multiple times in the months preceding the incident. So she was always saying, I'm gonna blow your ass up with this dynamite, or I'm gonna, you know what, I should blow some dynamite or you know, blow you up with dynamite. So she she already had that dynamite.

SPEAKER_04 47:15

OMG, where did she get dynamite from?

SPEAKER_07 47:18

Maybe the dark web, but something. Oh, wow. Where do you get dynamite? Like I said, I'm not looking it up. No. That wasn't Charlamagne, know they say, I want to know, but I ain't finna type it up on the computer because then I get flagged.

SPEAKER_04 47:29

Type it up on somebody else's computer. Don't do that. Right, you're right.

SPEAKER_07 47:32

Where do you get dynamite from? But yeah, she faced up to 25 years in prison. Domestic violence. Mm-mm-mm.

SPEAKER_03 47:40

So oh Lord.

SPEAKER_04 47:44

Okay, so here's my question.

SPEAKER_07 47:46

She must work for the city. You know, when they be uh doing excavation and stuff like that. What's her name again? Kiana Waddell.

SPEAKER_04 47:54

Um, so do you think Kiana gave this young man some red flags that she might be uh a little erratic?

SPEAKER_07 48:08

Um not very before her even saying, I'ma blow your ass up with dynamite.

SPEAKER_04 48:15

Yeah. Do you think well that was that certainly was a red flag. But do you think prior to that did she show signs of that she was a little bit off?

SPEAKER_07 48:29

She looked like she did.

SPEAKER_04 48:31

Let me see, Kiana.

SPEAKER_07 48:32

She looked like she did because her uh you ain't gotta show me nothing else. She looked like she did.

SPEAKER_04 48:38

Yes. Kiana, um people, y'all need to pay attention to the red flags. When you look at somebody, things they say, and and and you think, oh, they funny. That's that's crazy. No.

SPEAKER_06 48:54

That's just Kiana being Kiana.

SPEAKER_07 48:56

Uh-uh. You know Kiana ain't that. No.

SPEAKER_04 48:58

Pay attention to all of that. And I don't care how good the good, good. It ain't never that good. It is not worth your arm and your hand. You pay attention because people too give you red flags, but people just are wrapped up in something else or ignoring it, or sometimes you think it's cute that she that jealous and crazy, or that he's that jealous, and that just you think it's cute. And listen, crazy things happen. And if we look in our world today, the audacity has risen in this world.

SPEAKER_07 49:38

It really has. So crazy, crazy is every day.

SPEAKER_04 49:43

Yeah, like it's becoming the new normal. And that is just old dynamite. That's frightening.

SPEAKER_07 49:50

She's a dude dynamite at black.

SPEAKER_04 49:52

That's frightening. I mean, it makes you not even want to date.

SPEAKER_07 49:56

I ain't gonna say that. Because I know I'm a good picker.

SPEAKER_04 50:00

Yeah, well.

SPEAKER_07 50:01

I'm a good picker.

SPEAKER_04 50:02

Some of y'all that aren't good pickers.

SPEAKER_07 50:03

Yeah, some of y'all are not good pickers, yeah. Y'all need to quitter if I notice something quick. Yeah. I'm yeah, like that man playing the piano in color purple.

SPEAKER_04 50:16

Yeah. Got the goat.

SPEAKER_07 50:18

Goodbye, y'all. He was right in the goat. Goodbye, y'all. Didn't even look around. That's how I get up out of that. If I'm in a relationship and all of a sudden I noticed that one, bim. Oh, all right. See you later.

SPEAKER_04 50:27

Some of y'all too legit. Too legit to quit. Hey, hey, y'all better not be too legit and get on to quitting.

SPEAKER_07 50:35

That dynamite got him.

SPEAKER_03 50:37

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 50:38

Yep. So that's Keanu Wide there. That's our belief. Believe it, sister.

SPEAKER_04 50:42

And listen, if y'all look out y'all window and y'all happen to see a young lady with lighting some lighting some dynamite fuse and throwing it in the window. Y'all call somebody. Don't say, Did she just play some dynamite?

SPEAKER_07 50:57

Tell us, hey.

SPEAKER_04 50:58

Hey.

unknown 51:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 51:01

Don't just sit back and say, no, no, I didn't just see her do something. That can't be. Call the police. Call the police.

SPEAKER_07 51:12

They can come police coming.

SPEAKER_04 51:14

Yes. Call the police. Because it's better they come and it is play dynamite, then it's real dynamite and it's not. If you see something suspicious, that's the police. That's their job. Call. Because I know somebody saw that little crazy thing sitting out there.

SPEAKER_07 51:30

She done told me. I'll blow his ass up tonight. Oh, you hey. You wanna bomb, you wanna be, yeah. I got you. You want some dynamite? I got some dynamite. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 51:41

Yes. Don't do not be an accessory to the crime. Yep.

SPEAKER_07 51:44

Inject up.

SPEAKER_04 51:45

See something, say something.

SPEAKER_07 51:48

Like the little video of the girl point of gas in the guy called and then lit and blew herself up.

SPEAKER_04 51:54

Well deserved.

SPEAKER_07 51:55

Yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 51:56

So because that's just crazy.

SPEAKER_07 51:58

But yeah, if y'all see anybody with some dynamite, and if they ain't doing construction, call somebody.

SPEAKER_06 52:04

Or they ain't on a TV show with a with a road runner running behind them, call somebody.

SPEAKER_04 52:11

Just like that young lady that was putting the gasoline in the boy's car. She was out there for a minute putting that gasoline in there. I know there were people. Yes.

SPEAKER_07 52:21

It was on the phone.

SPEAKER_04 52:22

If y'all don't quit filming and call the police, call the police. Quit filming. Can't even use your phone to call because you're too busy filming. This world is sick.

SPEAKER_07 52:33

Yep. So that is our believe it, sister of the week. And then that's it for us. We we'll say the next story for next week.

SPEAKER_03 52:42

Believe it, brother.

Side Eye Dentist Pain After Crown

SPEAKER_07 52:43

Believe it, sister. All right. So side eye of the week. We're gonna get up out of here. Okay. We're gonna go get us something to eat. We are. Yeah. Oh, it's 7 30. Yeah, we gotta find something.

SPEAKER_04 52:54

I know what I want.

SPEAKER_07 52:56

Oh, you know? Okay, great. Thank God. Alright, so we're gonna go get something to eat. All right, so side eye to week.

SPEAKER_04 53:04

All right. Well, y'all. Listen. I tried out a new dentist. And um I it came with referrals because I have two colleagues who who went to this dentist and they um didn't have any issues. But this sister did. This could have been, I believe, his sister's story, actually. So I went to the dentist. I had to get a crown. So I went in and um she numbed up the cheek part, and then she was like, So I'm gonna give you this little thing to squeeze because she was gonna numb the inside of it, like near your top of the roof of your mouth, you know. So it was in the back. It was a tooth way in the back on the right side. So she went in to numb on the inside, and so then they let it sit, of course, and she got ready to go to work, and she was they were spraying the water in there. But my tooth on the bottom, you know, you have some teeth are just more sensitive than others to cold things. And so this tooth was, and so I kind of jumped a little bit. She said, Okay, you still feel that, but I didn't get really time to say, like, I don't know what where it was, and so she so she immediately went to numbing me again. But it was actually my sensitive tooth here. So then she kind of put something to cover this tooth while they did the work. So when I left, I mean, this was the numbest I'd ever felt in my whole saying that it was like my whole like starting to feel it was terrible, and when I was at work, I was in a meeting, and I mean, like my mouth was like this, like most of the day. And they were like, Kree, oh my gosh. And so I was like, I can't believe I just still feel numb because it's two hours supposed to be done. And I was like three, four hours in. And so they were like, so Alexis was like, Cree, I think maybe just drink more water, like just chug water, and it'll kind of like flush it through. Maybe that'll help flush it through. So I started chugging water, and then if then it did start feeling better, like a numb. But then the next thing I know, the next day, I was like, damn, my mouth hurt at the top. Yeah, it's a little swole, and my face was still swole after three days.

SPEAKER_07 55:28

Like you had been back to Tulum.

SPEAKER_04 55:30

Okay, it was terrible.

SPEAKER_07 55:32

Mosquitoes.

SPEAKER_04 55:33

So I I had a um, so I went through the weekend and my whole mouth hurt at the top. And I uh, you know, with my tongue, I could feel like it felt like a little sore or something was there. So after I left for school on Monday morning, I was going back towards the office, and that place is like that's why I said, Oh, I'll try it because it's on the way home from work and all that, so it's convenient. And um, so I called them. I was like, listen, I'm not supposed to come in on the fourth to get that uh crown, but listen, this is the can't take any more pain. I said, I can't do it. My mouth still hurts. They go, Where did you get work done? And I said, Wednesday. And they go, Oh, you should definitely not be feeling any pain. I said, Well, I do. And I'm sorry, I can't come in for that until I rescheduled, and they're like, Um, can you take a picture of it?

unknown 56:22

What?

SPEAKER_04 56:23

When I described to them where it was, I was like, Hell, I'm gonna take a picture of that. So I happened to be driving by and I just told them, Um, you know, I'm right like a block down. I could just stop by. And so I stopped. They're like, Oh, you really were. Went through and they were like, Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. That, yeah, that, yeah. And they tried to say, like, has this ever happened to you before?

SPEAKER_01 56:45

No, this ain't never happened to me before.

SPEAKER_04 56:48

So they try to say it was like a like a stress-related, like almost like um a like a canker sore or something, like a breakout. And sometimes if you're like really stressed, it could happen, or hormonal change. They gave them with all these things. So in my head, I'm thinking y'all can sit here and say everything y'all want to say, but know this. This is done. So they gave me a prescription to help it heal faster, um, some mouthwash. I gotta go back to to finish the crown because you know, it's under the insurance, and I didn't paid for it already. And so I gotta go back to get the crown. I did have a feeling to get, but um, I'm gonna tell them, listen, don't worry about the feeling, just finish the crown and I'm I'm moving along. So this brother over here, he was scheduled two days later to go for his cleaning or do something. So he called them and was like, uh, yeah, I need to go ahead and cancel my appointment. They're like, Oh, do you want to reschedule? He's like, No, I'm gonna be out the country doing a little some some acting out the country. And they were like, Well, what about your wife? Is she gonna be out the country too? He goes, Oh no, she'll be able to make all her appointments. But listen, I have had lots of dental work because I think genetically my teeth are just what they are, and so I have had plenty of dental work, and um I've never had this experience in my whole life. And finally, probably today is the first day that it feels back to normal. And I got my teeth done not this past Wednesday, my tooth, sorry, one tooth, it was the Wednesday prior to, so yeah, that I I won't be going back. And the ladies at work are like, Kree, we're so sorry. It's not y'all's fault. Y'all aren't the dentist, so yeah, I won't. And it all it really made me go back and think about you know how people say they're rougher with black women or like when it comes to medical things and they just our tolerance is higher. And and I just wonder, like, you know, was that the case? Like, because the women I work with are not black women. Um, and I don't, you know, and if and and I always think, like, if she knew maybe she pricked me a little bit and she saw something that was like not go ahead and um send me home with the mouthwash and just say, yeah, it was a little prick right there. I just want to make sure it's okay. Exactly. You should, you know, you know what you did when you did what you did. Yeah. Um so yeah, uh that that is all for me. I won't be going back. I'm not gonna put the whole dentist on blast, but um, yeah, I won't be going back to that dentist. So they they definitely get the side eye. Side eye, okay and and I guess he said I I was the um the test dummy or the blessing for him for because God was like, don't do it.

SPEAKER_07 59:50

And so I'm gonna show you why you don't need to be going to this new dentist.

SPEAKER_04 59:54

Oh my gosh. So I'm gonna try. I sent the boys to a different dentist for my old, my old work bestie. I sent them to her dentist after the pediatrician, their pediatrician dentist that they had till I think he let them come till 19. So they went um to the new and they've been fine. So I'm gonna go on to the boys' dentist. It's out the way, but I would now I think about it, I would have preferred to have gone out the way and been well than to go where it's convenient and be all jacked up. God's gonna be say the F-word, but you know, child. Oh, they messed me up. Yep. So, anyways, that's my side eye. That was long, besides.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:36

So I didn't have anything side eye worthy this week. Like it's like I said, today was a good week.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:42

Um Today was a good week.

Side Eye Free Bleeding Debate

SPEAKER_07 1:00:45

Um, this was a good week this week. Um maybe the only thing like which is when I had to take off for the furnace guy, I wish it would have been, you know, Friday. But hey, it is what it is. I had to use a day. But so I have a side-eyed story. Oh. About this lady. Oh, I saw this story. All right. Her name is Zoe Butler. You know, her name's Zoe Butler. Zoe Butler, um, she is a free bleeder during her period. So, yes, I'm a man.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:21

I'm talking about a lady's menstrual cycle because I found this difficult.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:27

You know what I'm saying? Um, also a health educator, so I do know things about the body. All right. But this lady here, so here it goes.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:39

She went viral after sharing her setup in her house.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:44

Of um how she It was weird. She completely ditched tampons and pads. And now she practices free bleeding during her period. Instead of using traditional products, uh, she listens to her body and releases her flow naturally when she feels it coming. So in her sofa area, she has like uh diff, she, you know, the sheets and stuff are all. She has towels and like a waterproof mattress, she says, that, you know, helps where the blood doesn't soak in. And um, and she just lets it go when she feels it coming.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:17

So she doesn't have to work.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:18

That's what people were saying in the top.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:20

Like how did she just sit at home all day and just sit on the bed?

SPEAKER_07 1:02:22

That's what they were saying. It was like, yo, so you don't go to work, and you, you know, some people can't do that because they gotta go to work. So we can't just be bleeding all over the people's furniture, you know. Um you had you at Burger King and you just sitting there, blood running all down.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:37

I I think I wonder how true her story really is.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:40

Oh, yeah, I wanted to, but she's because how does she get up and go to I mean, she just don't sit on that bed all day.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:47

How does she get food to eat? How does she probably door dash? But she still got to walk to the door.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:51

Yeah, she probably got what's the name?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:53

Uh plastic topic stores.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:55

Or or or yeah, or the little the little runways people used to have in their own.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:59

Why does she just use the new, if she doesn't want to use tampons and things, yeah, why don't she just use the little cup?

SPEAKER_07 1:03:04

Yeah, the little funnel cup, yeah. Yeah. She says it helps her feel more connected to her body, it reduces waste, and she challenged societal norms around menstruation. You know, people like that, screw it to the man that don't want to do nothing that nobody else says you should do. Um, but as you can imagine, not everybody's on board. Like I said, a lot of people in the comments, they was eating this lady up, man. Uh, some people praise her empowering, you know, uh ideas and eco-friendly ideas.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:30

Man, hear me roll.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:31

While others question her practicality and hygiene.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:35

Because also there are some women who do are like environmentalist people who care about and so they um have uh re like a reusable like pad thing that they can wash and reuse, like like how um for diapers for families who who are concerned about pollution, they use they there are people that still use cloth diapers and they use those in the same way. So there are other things that that's just clickbait.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:03

Yeah, even like you know, I know people say, you know, um tampons being, you know, you want to insert those uh toxicity, you know, and the metals they say that are in it. Uh-huh, all that stuff. You know, I understand that. Um some, you know, the younger people who leave, they don't know when to take them out.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:19

And that's what, you know, they get um, yeah. I forget what it's called.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:23

Um but you gotta have something. You know what I mean? I can tell you, I know when middle school I saw it more often when I had to be the person who'd be like, oh my God, hey, sweetheart, come here. And I would give her something to say, hey, you you started your cycle.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:40

And they would be scared because that's their first time ever.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:43

You know, but I just know like it was a lot. And it was on my chairs, my seats, or whatever. So I just, you know, wash it off. I tried not to make, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:49

Make a scene. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:51

Um, like that one time we had a girl here in high school, we had a uh fire drill, and all of a sudden her cycle came on, and they was like, she needs to go outside for the fire. I said, No, she can't. She has emergency. Well, everybody has to be out the building. I and I said, This young lady just had her cycle. There's nothing, she has no clothes. She has on white clothes.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:10

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:10

And I said, I just gave I gave her my uh I had a jacket on. I gave her one of my little like team jackets. I gave it to her, and then and she was like, so she felt so embarrassed. But then when I stood up for her, that lady was still trying to make her go outside for the fire drill. I said, Well, put it like this. I'm not going out with, you know, I'm gonna stay right here with her. I'm not gonna let her go outside. And they was like, oh, I'm so uh okay. They was like, really like, uh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:34

Cause it's not even a real damn fire.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:37

Right. It's a drill. It's a drill. Yes. And so I was like, I'm not gonna let this on. And from that moment on, that little girl, every time her, she has a twin sister, they see me, they always Hey coach, hey Dr. Hair, how you know, always real, like really go out of their way to speak to me. I was like, ain't no way in the world. You know, so I just know how much of a flow it is. So for her to just be like, I'm chilling at the crib.

unknown 1:05:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:00

Doing whatever, it's probably just like, oh my.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:04

Yeah. She's probably gonna try to make that some sort of uh um weekly show or something on her social media. Probably so sitting there talking to people while she just free to bleed.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:14

Hi guys, I'm here.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:15

And the other thing was she got like red sheets and yeah, girl.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:19

So I guess so it don't show up as much. Hey guys, I'm over here. Just bleeding. Yep, it's me and my bleeds.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:30

And what's so ridiculous is in our world today, there is somebody that will sit there and watch her. Yeah, sit there all day and bleed. And she some little freak will. Somebody will. They'll just do that. And it's just like, why?

SPEAKER_07 1:06:46

Because somebody might watch this and say, oh my God, I can't be talking about women's part. Listen, this I ain't gonna say disgusting, but unsanitary is unsanitary.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:56

Yeah, that is. And I understand she washes and she does whatever, but in in um, I don't know. I wonder, does it, you know, everybody has their choice in whatever they do. That's the biggest thing to understand. Like that is her choice. It would not be my choice, but also does it make someone else feel like I need to do that too, or I feel bad because I am waste, or like, is it, you know, even though we understand. Does she wipe her ass? I mean, she still has to go to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:26

But I'm saying, do when she takes a dump, does she wipe her ass? Nope. I don't want to waste products. Oh, I hope. You know, I don't want to waste products. She might have a bidet if you got a bidet, but that still ain't gonna clean it all up. And that's you got a pressure washer.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:40

That's the same products.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:42

That's what I'm saying. The tortoise. You can just wipe, wrap up little tortoise, put it in a paddy. That's what you're worried about. But you go on now, you go to stinky booty and everything.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:52

Well, her booty ain't stanking.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:55

If she doo-doing and not wiping, oh, yeah, it's that she's a naturalist.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:59

Yeah, I wonder that's some good questions to ask her. Like, what other paper products does she refuse to use?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:05

Yeah. It's natural. That's a naturalist.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:08

It's natural, but she also did say she wanted to, it makes her feel more connected to her um feminism, women, womaness, her body, her body, so she feels more connected to her body.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:21

You do do, you connect to yourself.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:23

Lord have mercy.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:24

That might be what she wants. Go ahead, do it all, go all the way. You want to go all, go all the way.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:28

I'm curious to in what way it makes her feel more connected to her body. Because I will say, for me as a woman, this whole menstrual cycle is a nuisance, and I don't even want to be connected to it. I just want it to go away. I just want it to go away. So I just I don't even want to be connected to it. So I I would really love to understand her need and desire to feel connected to it because I don't want to. It's an absolute nuisance. It's one thing I wish I did not have to endure every month. Yeah, so I'm interested in that. Like, what how does she feel connected? It's very interesting. Very interesting.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:17

But that's my side. I was like, Gary. You know, I hey, I know some people say I ain't supposed to have a uh a uh comment or a thought or an opinion on this matter, but you do. I do.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:29

He does.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:29

I'm a health educator, I teach about menstrual science.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:32

So you can, that's right.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:33

I can.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:33

You can.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:34

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:35

For real.

Gratitude Birthday And Graduation Plans

SPEAKER_07 1:09:35

And I did. All right. So what are you grateful for? And did.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:42

Um, let's see. Um I'm real okay, I don't want to say I'm grateful for everything, so let me be more specific about what I'm saying. Well, let me go first. Yeah, you may go.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:52

And so that you can figure out what to say so that you don't give away anything about the coming days. I wasn't gonna say I'm just saying. Just on to be on the side.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:03

I'm gonna, I'm already ready.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:05

So uh I'm grateful for this weather. It is beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:10

It is beautiful. You know, that pollen was blowing in my eyes, so they still feel itchy.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:14

Yeah, I I I did experience that. I didn't take my top off my jeep. I did experience that, and I've been sneezing a lot lately. Um, and that's normal. I don't sneeze as like that, and I'm like, oh, why am I sneezing? But I'm grateful for this weather. It's it's very nice. Um, I was gonna cut grass today, but I thought you were gonna be home at one. I mean, going to the nail salon at one, thinking you can be home by two.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:36

So I was like, let me help him get out and do what I gotta do.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:39

But I'll I'll cut grass sometime this week. Um, you know, so because next weekend's gonna be great. Um busy and stuff. So but I'm grateful for the weather. I love beautiful weather. I sat on my patio today, it was amazing. And um can't wait to do it some more.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:58

Oh let's see. Um, I'm grateful that um, well, if it's the Lord's will and I'll wake up tomorrow. Grateful to have another birthday.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:09

All right.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:10

Um, another, what is it? Uh what's the name around the sun?

SPEAKER_07 1:11:17

Another uh is it journey or rotation or around the sun. I forget what the saying. The one that we say grand rising queen, grand rising queen.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:27

Um, so yeah. So happy about that. My mama sent me the best card. She says, Um, I sent you two cards because I couldn't decide between the two. I said, that sounds like somebody else I know. But um, she sent me two of the sweetest cards. So um, so yep, I loved my cards. I told her, I said, you didn't even have to put any gift cards in here. These cards were just good on their own. Um, they were very sweet. So I'm grateful for that. And today I was in the office from 9 to 1. Um, there was one other uh therapist that came in, but she just had an hour. And I thought it was more people there because the doors are closed. But her little client, she does This is Gratefulness? Yeah. Okay, she does a little group group session with uh brothers and sisters, and so I think they were going through shutting the doors because I thought people were in there, so I kind of knocked my got ready to leave because one of my clients brought in donuts for everybody. They like um Miss Creeby brought in donuts for the office, and so um, so I'm grateful like for that, but there was nobody to eat them because I was y'all left them there? Um, yeah, I left them there. It was a lot of donuts.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:42

Y'all might get roaches and rest. Oh well.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:45

It's really sealed up. Well, I left them there, but that I was just gonna say grateful that they were like one thinking about us, but they didn't realize they they thought people like a regular job that people just have to come to work. They didn't realize that people only come if they have clients. Okay. So they just thought their the office would be filled with people. So they didn't realize that. But grateful that they were thinking about us this morning to think to stop and get donuts for us before then, but there was nobody there. Um, so anywho.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:18

That's good. Now, I will say with the cards situation, I was disappointed.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:25

Right.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:26

Because the cards are horrible. So normally when I do select cards, there was hardly nothing to select from this time.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:35

Where did you go?

SPEAKER_07 1:13:37

To three places.

unknown 1:13:38

Really?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:38

Well, Mama found more wonderful cards.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:40

I d I know, and I didn't see nothing like the what your mom found.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:44

Maybe because you maybe because we're the side of town we live.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:47

It may be, but you know, normally, but even I said, yo, I normally find better cards than this. Like the funny cards, nothing. Like even Kimani was like, what is this? I said, bro, I do not know. He said, is it me or do they seem like they're getting worse? I said, I think they are getting worse.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:05

Like they we were very disappointed.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:07

Like there was nothing to like they were horrendous.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:11

We should go, like, when we go to Kimani's graduation, we should go look at cards in Montgomery. And see if it's a difference into in Montgomery.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:19

All I know is that they like you would have thought, like, I don't know what, but it was horrible. I was I was very disappointed.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:26

In Kansas, somebody's doing a good job because my mama found the best beautiful cards, mahogany um cards.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:35

No, these cards were horrible. Yeah. They were horrible. Okay. So, but anyway, anyhow, um, what are you looking forward to?

SPEAKER_04 1:14:43

My birthday. I'm so looking forward to my birthday. And of course, keep mine's graduation coming.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:57

And he got his final grades and he finished with a 3.89. So my coon lade.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:09

I was summa kum lade, though.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:10

Yeah. So we're excited that he's gonna be graduating with honor. So looking forward to Friday's graduation. Yes, love. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:19

Yes, love.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:20

What are you looking for?

SPEAKER_07 1:15:21

I'm looking forward to your birthday as well. You know, um, you know, the little festivities we have building up.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:27

Oh, festivities.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:30

Um, you know what I'm saying? We're gonna do our thing. You know, I can't wait.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:33

Do I find you know I'm saying we're gonna go lead a little sound?

SPEAKER_07 1:15:37

Do it. Yeah, you know, I'm gonna do the uh laundry and stuff like that, you know what I'm saying? Alright. Yeah, yeah. But no, I'm looking forward to your birthday, and of course, the graduation. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:54

I wonder what song do they play the regular graduation song?

SPEAKER_07 1:15:57

You think they're gonna do a remix at the black scene?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:59

Hell no. Maybe they come out hot stepping. You make me happy. We might put a little remix in the game. Because that is true. I've never been to HBCU graduation. Oh, okay. This will be my first. Well, welcome. Welcome. But I will say, even though we went to Honors Convocation, they have the choir there. But their choir sounds things like opera.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:25

They sing the opera. Yeah, you I would want them to sing more gospel. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:30

They sing like opera.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:32

Yeah, a lot of people say that. They say, why couldn't we?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:35

Yeah, mix it up. You can do a little opera, do a little more, you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:39

Some HBCUs, I will say, some HBCUs, you'll see them like they will actually have it different. Like a little is a little more jazz. Yeah. It's still nice, but then there's a point when you show them why we are an HBCU, they do that. Yeah, they do that at times.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:55

Yeah, because convocation is the singing is just kind of yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:59

I don't I don't like when we just are so rigid. Stiff, like mom say stiff shirt formal, you know. Yeah. When mix it up. You can still be professional, you can still, you know, be uh have grandeur, but you know, let's do a little something.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:17

It's really it reminds me of when uh I was in battalion, and that battalion has always been so rigid where you gotta learn the ballroom. And then we were like, listen, we're gonna do y'all ballroom, but can we do what we like to do as well? So we were able to mix it up and it it showed, you know, our culture of who we are. We're you know, it doesn't make us less then because we aren't grandioso, right? It's important, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:45

Because that to me is showing you showing out for the people.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:48

It is, and to me, when we try to do grandioso, which means to me, we we are trying to be who they we the other places are. Hello, yeah, and so let's be us.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:01

Not us, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:01

Be us. Anyways, and we are multifaceted. That's right.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:06

That's right. So that's us, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:08

That's us.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:09

Yeah, we're gonna be able to do that. This is us. Yeah, next time you see this lady, she's gonna be older.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:14

Older. Yeah, I might be getting me some Botox and some fillers.

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SPEAKER_04 1:18:59

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SPEAKER_07 1:19:01

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SPEAKER_04 1:19:09

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