How We Planned A College Graduation Weekend

A college graduation weekend sounds simple until you’re juggling clear-bag rules, early ceremony times, restaurant reservations for a big group, and the reality that some cities just don’t have endless options. We walk you through how we celebrated Kimani’s Alabama State University graduation, what we did to make him feel seen, and the little planning choices that kept the weekend fun instead of frantic. Along the way, we share a moment that caught us off guard: running into one of Kifla’s former students from years ago and realizing how powerful a few timely words can be.

Then we get into the real highlights and the real misses. We talk graduation ceremony details, why splitting ceremonies can make the experience better, and the pride that comes with watching hard work pay off. We also keep it honest about food, because a “large party” is not an excuse for cold plates and wasted money. On the brighter side, we break down our celebration at Big Door Winery in White, Georgia: the views, the live music, the surprise craft fair, the wine, and why it worked so well for a family milestone. Back at home, it turns into smoked wings, sauces, cake, and the kind of laughter that makes the whole weekend feel complete.

Finally, we pivot into two “Believe It” stories that sound fake but aren’t: an eviction protest involving a trailer full of bees, and a Spirit Airlines flight attendant who comes home to a breakup that raises big questions about love, money, and dating for benefits. We close with two side-eyes that matter: only 19 education degrees conferred at Alabama State and what that could signal for the teacher shortage and Black educator representation, plus a frustrating hotel booking cancellation that proves you always need a backup plan. If you enjoy real-life stories, sharp takes, and family-centered wins, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review.

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Welcome And Weekend Recap

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The Refreshingly Normal Podcast.

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Welcome back, everybody. Thank you for tuning in to the Refreshingly Normal podcast. I am one of the most powerful dynamic duo podcast hosts in the history of podcasting time, Kifla.

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And I am Kree, the most magnificent, eloquent, beauty podcaster there ever was.

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Ever.

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Ever.

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And ever to be.

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Yes.

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All right. So um we've had an eventful week.

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Woo!

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We're coming at you a day late. Yeah. But not a dollar short.

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That's right.

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Oh no, we're a dollar, a couple of dollars short after celebrate this this weekend.

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A lot of dollars short.

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Yeah, we celebrated uh Kimani's um graduation from college from the Alabama State University.

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Oh, a mother dear.

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Oh Mother Dear. Oh, see, we got you. Oh Mother Deer. That's right. So um it was a it was a great ceremony. Um very proud of him. Uh I was proud to see uh him do his thing. I was proud of his twin brother showing um general joy um joy for his brother, too. That was that was um a sign of maturity for the brother.

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And a sign of good parenting.

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That's right, good parenting, man. Show love. So um it was amazing, man. We had a great time. We had a great time. Um it was just cool busy.

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Yes, and I just kind of feel like I can keep on pushing along because it was trying to. I'm always when I'm planning things for whomever, um I'm always concerned about if they enjoy all the things. Like when I'm planning it, I'm really thinking of the person or people that I'm planning it for. And I'll tell y'all something, it was a little bit challenging because you know, Montgomery is not Atlanta.

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Yeah, the options are very simple.

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The options aren't the same, yeah. Um, and so in regards

Planning Graduation Logistics In Montgomery

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to reservations and different things, with the graduation being so early in the morning, started at 8:45. 8:45, and we were done about 11:30, between 11:30 and 12. Probably more 11:30, I believe.

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It was a little more 12. I saw the thing, I said, ooh, it's 11:45. It was right when that's when Dr. Ross stood up at 11:45 and then closed it out.

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So trying to find a place or venue or somewhere to eat right after um reservations and having like, you know, 10 to 15 people or whatever, trying to figure that part out was challenging, figuring out the night before. Um, I always am grandioso in the play things that I planned, and somebody brought me down a few notches in regards to what to do in Montgomery. So um we ended up going, and I'll have to I'll share the other part during my side eye. But um got up there and all the family had hot. We had our hotels and all the things, and we had planned um a Mexican place that uh I've we've been a couple or a couple of times with Kimani there to eat. Um just trying to make it very simple and casual because people had just um been on the road from work to there. Like we worked all day, got on the road, went there. So something where nobody had to feel like, oh, we got to go dress up or change that people can just kind of like check in, yeah, do a little something, and then get back out to eating. So that's what we did, and ended up going to a Mexican restaurant, and it was just nice. Um, I got balloons, some more balloons from uh Dollar Tree to put at the center of the table. And while we were there, we saw one of your old students.

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Yes, it was crazy. We ran into a student of mine from when we first moved to Atlanta.

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2006.

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I taught her in uh Clayton County. Um crazy middle school student. And yeah, like I said, 2006, 7, and 8. I was her uh health or PE teacher. And so she was like, we walked in, she was like, Coach here. And I looked and I said, That's essence. Uh-huh. And she was just like, oh my God, how like, I mean, of course, Montgomery. So, but still, that's a lot of miles between here and there. And uh, it was her birthday, and and gave her little words of wisdom, and she really needed to hear that. So, God, you know, he put you where you're supposed to be at the right time. It may not be for yourself, but you know, but he knows who to put in your spot. And so it was it was real cool. She's he was like, Is that is that your wife? I said, Yeah. I said, Why you say that? She said, Because she still looked the same. She looked young, she ain't aged. I said, Yeah, that's my wife. I guess you thought I traded you in for a new model.

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For the new model.

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Then when you said, she said, Oh, and she sounds the same too. Which is so cool for like said, all those years for her to know your voice. So she probably would have heard you and be like, I know that voice somewhere, you know? Yeah, so that was real cool. We ran into her right before we went to the uh Mexican restaurant because Cree was buying the balloons and stuff. And um, we set up, we had a had a good little time. Yeah, nice little uh the margs was the highlight because the margs were the highlight. My food wasn't to par.

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Yeah, my food was good.

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Yeah, so but it was an off and on moment while we were in Montgomery.

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Yeah.

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So in regards to food. Yeah, in regards to food. Everything else was great.

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Everything else is really good.

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And then Kree's side out of it. She'll share later.

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I'll share later.

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You know what I'm saying?

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But uh So we did that, and um Kimani, um, we got him his own hotel room as well. Yeah, um, because in his dorm, they have community bathrooms. So it just gave him a chance to kind of go to sleep and get up comfortably and get dressed and make his way. Everything in his own time. In his own time. So we were able to do that um for him. And the night before we left, I decorated the house with balloons and I got a sign made for him.

Surprise Reunion With An Old Student

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Yeah, a nice little poster.

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When he came home, he'd the house would be decorated for him. So we got to do that. And then we made it to the graduation on time. Only thing we did not know was you had to have clear bags. Clear bags, and I said, I said you asked me about it, but I didn't think so because every time we've gone to the honors convocation, yeah, you didn't have to have clear bags for the honors convocation.

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Um, they probably felt like shoot, we're gonna get clear bags up in this time because my baby didn't graduate, so I'm gonna walk up in there and cause a ruckus.

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Maybe, but also we also know people didn't behave the same as they do with honors convocation.

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Exactly.

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So, anyway, so we um you had to get in line and go through the metal detectors, which none of that we have to do for honors convocation. Um, so that we weren't expecting all of that. But the ceremony went beautifully, and our niece, she was in the chorus and so, or ensemble or the family you know, thing, you know what I mean? Yeah, so my in-laws were there and they got to see her singing. She actually had a solo, so they were pretty stoked about that, and so they did all of that, and Kimani got his award. He was Summa Kum Ladi and also got president's uh the President's Awards Award for that Hajji.

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Was it called President's Award of Honor? Yes, so he got the President's Award of Honor.

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And I thought it was really cool that the uh Summa Kum Ladi got the hood. I just thought that was really special. It was really cute, like with all their things, but it really made them kind of stand out.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah, and I love that they broke the graduation up into two ceremonies because it made it like not so long. Lone and drawn out long and drawn out. It was, yeah, it was very nice um to not to hear hundreds of names. You know what I mean? That I enjoy that. I like that they split it up into two. I think that's a good idea. Yeah, yeah. Um, so yeah, we enjoy that. Then we went to eat after, and we're just trying to do something that we could maybe not have to wait a long way. Um, so we know the food should be good. So we went to first watch on Zelda Road. I know there are two in Montgomery, and oh my Lord. We have first watch here, and it's always very delicious.

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Always very good.

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Um, just a nice little breakfast. I mean, you know, um, but ooh, child, it wasn't good.

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Yeah, it wasn't good, it wasn't hot.

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It wasn't good, it wasn't hot.

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And I don't want to hear that. Well, well, you got a large party, your food's not gonna be No. I don't care if I have a large party or a single party, yeah. Your food should be food. It should be warm, it should be tasty. Don't say, Oh, you got 50 people, everybody food ain't gonna be warm. No.

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No, that's not that's not how it goes. And and especially when breakfast is like $14.95 a thing, like they they don't, I mean, I know everything is high now, but they're not like an aha price or yeah, you know, so um, yeah, we we were kind of disappointed. And then after we got there, because we thought we were gonna have more people that ended up driving up for the graduation, but we had less than what we thought. And um we we uh were like I always had first suggested Davis Cafe.

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Cafe.

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Um, but Keith said, Hang on, that's just gonna be too many of us.

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Yeah, like 20 or something. There are gonna be too many of us. That'll be the whole restaurant.

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Yeah, but had I thought about it again before, we would have definitely gone to Davis and got some. Because we could have we could have drove down there.

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We could have drove down there and said, Are y'all able to fit my family of 10? Yeah, they'd have been like, yeah.

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Yeah. Man, we should have drove. Yes, that would have been good. Anywho, we didn't. But um, yeah.

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That's all right when Kahari graduates, we can go down here. Yeah. Even though he goes to school up here in the house. We're gonna go to Montgomery. Where'd Floyd originate from? Hey, at least we know we get some good old souls. Yeah.

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So, anyways, that was good. And so then the next day, what do we do for the next day?

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Um, we um, but no, this recap. Because we were supposed to have people come over Friday night, but I'm kind of glad nobody showed up because nobody called them. I was like, I ain't calling them, they don't call me. Nobody said y'all made it home yet. We swinging through. So I was like, I ain't saying nothing. They ain't saying.

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We were tired too. I was we were pooped.

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Yeah, that was that was one thing I was like, oh, thank God.

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Yeah.

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And so Saturday, uh, we woke up um, you know, with you know, festivities on our mind, and so we had to do what we needed to do. Um Pri and mom had to go pick up Indasia, had to pick up cakes and balloons, balloons, more balloons, more balloons, Lord, and um go out to the winery, to big door winery to set up, and then me and Papa had to do our uh Mother's Day uh shopping and stuff. And so then we came back. We met the boys and uh Casey, which um um Kahari's little lady friend.

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Girlfriend.

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Girlfriend, lady friend, same thing. Okay, all right, my bad. Uh and so uh we went um and then we met went to Big Door Winery in White, Georgia. Very nice place, very accommodating. They're always uh it's always a good place. Beautiful scenery

Graduation Highlights And Family Pride

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view, beautiful, no rain, um uh perfect weather. Um Kimani said that he kept his eyes kind of closed in certain places so that he could be surprised, completely surprised. Um and when we got there, he still didn't know where we were, even in the parking lot, until he walked, because you couldn't see the vineyards.

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Okay.

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Until he walked on that little bridge and he saw, oh, we're at a vineyard. Oh man. He was like, that was cool.

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Yeah.

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And um we got there, had a nice setup table, I mean a table set up, and uh, how many people was it total?

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Uh 21.

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21, okay. 21. And uh they didn't rush us.

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No.

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Um so if you go to Big Door Winery in White, Georgia, which is not too far from the Atlanta area, mostly out from Atlanta. Really close to uh like it's been between Cartersville and Woodstock in between that. So you can get you can go there $575 or just $75.

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Yeah.

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Um, but it was $150 for $20?

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Um no, just to hold your space.

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Oh, just to hold your space. Yeah. And that was outside seating. And if you do outside seating, that $150.

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I'm sorry. The $150 if you have uh $14 plus.

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$14 plus.

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It's somewhere like something plus.

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Okay. So $150, $14 plus. And that's to, like I said, hold your place, and that's your table for your duration, whatever your hours are. But that money goes also to your drink and food. So like they have pizza and um sandwiches and stuff like that. It's curriculum, appetizers, yeah. Um, some great amazing uh spinach artichoke dip. Yeah, that was really good. Their pimento cheese is better than any pimento cheese in Georgia because uh it ain't too pimento cheesy. Uh what else everybody was falling in love with?

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Uh they they love the um the salsa.

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The salsa, yeah. They fill in love with the salsa because they make all that stuff there. Yeah. Like really like chop it up and all that stuff right there.

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And the um and the charcuterie boards are really good. They like those too.

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Yeah, they're very good.

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That's such a variety of cheeses on.

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Of course, we were there for the wine, which was great. It's like $34 a bottle, you know what I'm saying? But what do you expect at a winery? Um, but it's so good. They even they're like they're f they're sweet, you know. Most people like we're dry people, but we can drink anything in Korean eye, but we prefer dry red. Um, but you know, most of my family likes sweet. And so the cool thing that I like about this is their sweet wine still had a high alcohol um volume content. You know what I'm saying? Or alcohol B A B or A C V, something like that. Yeah, alcohol content for volume. So it was like 14 to 13%, even on the sweet wines. You know, most sweet wine is like five, nine.

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That's what your brother told me. I go, uh, because which one? Uh Kurtz. Because Nyla was saying she likes uh what's the Moscato tang.

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Uh the the the the the the the Roscato out of the something like that.

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So she said that's what I was like, girl, that's like juice. It's like five percent ACL. And Kurtz is like, well, you don't drink it for the ACL, you drink it for the taste. I said I drank it for both.

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That's but yeah, and I know me. I'm like, if I I'm not gonna spend this much money just for some juice, I'd rather buy some juice. Yeah, it's gonna be cheaper.

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Yeah.

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And if I'm drinking, you know, alcohol, at least give me a buzz.

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Yeah.

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Other than that, just let me drink something regular. That's what I'm buying it for.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, it's like you don't buy the food just to get fooled. You buy it just because you say you ate. No.

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Yeah.

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It gotta taste good and fill me up.

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All the things.

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But um, we did that, took some great pictures.

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Yeah.

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Um, stayed uh for a great time. And then it was so good. Uh what was so good about that day also, we did not know that they were having a crafts like fair Arson Craft thing there too. So they had several little food trucks and jewelry and things like that. Um live music. Yeah, live music. So it was very nice, very, very nice.

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So and I asked Kimani, I said, Kimani, how do you like everything? How do you feel? He goes, I feel bougie. So it was nice.

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And then we came back to the crib.

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Which I didn't know everybody was coming back with us, but it was okay.

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Yeah.

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It turned out everybody came back with us.

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Yeah, everybody followed. Boom. Came back to the crib, and um, and they stopped, people stopped and bought food, meaning they was ready to stay.

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Yes.

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They stopped and bought food to bring the share and stuff like that. And I stopped and bought, because Kimani said he wanted some smoked chicken wings. So I wanted to keep my promise with dad. I bought some chicken wings, put them on the grill, you know, offset, smoked them real good. And when I tell you, they ate those wings. Them jokers ate those wings so fast. I'm talking about like went bananas on those wings.

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Uh-huh.

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And Chris was over there. What'd you say? You was wing stopped.

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I was, yeah, I was wingstop. I was shaking up them wings in the bowl. Because we had different flavors.

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We had three sauces over there.

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Yeah, I did uh garlic parm and um and a golden mustard and uh the chipotle.

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The chipotle. Uh-huh.

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Yeah.

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So um that was good. We had a lot of cake. And um, I mean, I had a great time. Great, great time. And then everybody got got up out of there and Sunday, Mother's Day breakfast. You know, we did some potatoes, pancakes, cheese grits, eggs, sausage, and sausage, chicken sausage. And then uh my mom and dad left and went to my niece to stay with them before they uh left to go back to Foley. And for Kree's Mother Day dinner, she got a soul food dinner. Some fried chicken wings, nice crispy, deep fried chicken wings. Very delicious. Cabbage and uh turkey sausage, smother, like turkey sausage, cabbage, and what else? Macron and cheese. Oh, yeah, macaroni and cheese.

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And cornbread. It was very good. Yeah. Very, very, very, very good. Yeah. So, anywho, with all that being said, it was a busy week.

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Busy week. I was one of my students uh today, I needed some help in environmental science. And so I went over there and I was helping, like, my voice is a little deeper now. And he was like, Coach, are you all right? I said, Yeah, I'm good. He said, You sound tired. I said, Man, I had a busy week so I can hear you in your voice. He said, like that. Because I can hear it in your voice. Yeah. I said, My bad, homie. I said, but I had a great time. And I told him, I said, my son graduated college. He said, Oh, that's

Food Wins And Breakfast Disappointment

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cool. He said, Why are you tired?

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I said, because we kicked it too. Yeah, we did. We had a good old time. Parents ain't supposed to celebrate like we celebrated and uh we celebrated Friday night and um Saturday night and Saturday and Yeah, we're gonna celebrate now.

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That's one thing we're gonna do.

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Yeah, so it all to me turned out perfectly. And uh asked him, I did he feel special like things were about him? He says he did. And I said, Well, that was that was the plan. That was the plan so that you feel celebrated and special and just acknowledge all of your hard work, all the stress and all the things you went through. Just wanted you to know we were proud of you. So that was the goal.

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And we was starting we were sitting at the table, we were saying everybody started counting, saying how long it took. Say, dang, he the only one that finished in exactly four years.

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Yeah, he was the only one.

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But everybody was like four and a half. Uh me, myself were like almost ten. We was yeah. Everybody was like, and then my brother's like, it took me a while. And then my daddy said it took him nine years to finish.

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Papa?

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Yeah.

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But that y'all all everybody seems to forget. Everybody on you talking about you, and he took nine.

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Well, you it took you, you took some time out, and then he messed around and said that later. I said, wait, then you was on me. And he said it out loud. I said, You was on me. You took nine years. I said, Now granted, I I understand you probably had a lot more going on.

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Because he had kids and yeah, for the family and all that stuff than I did.

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Because I didn't have kids than my undergrad. But still.

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And this one sometimes. This one sometimes was at first with Kahari.

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Yeah.

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At first you were. And I was like, did he forget how long it took him and the trouble he got into?

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But that was different.

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As he was trying to finish.

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But that was different. I was I was activated. Okay. I was doing stuff in the meantime.

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Okay.

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Like when it took me long, like, okay, when I one year was gone for the military. Well, I mean, I know you was gone for the transfer. Another year was gone for the show.

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Yeah. I understand you were activated, but you know, things.

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It does. It took me a minute. But hey.

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You finished.

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You ain't got to take the same time. I took. No, come on. Oh, Lord. Come on now.

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Do as I say, not as I do. Amen. Oh, Lord. We talked about that last.

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Come on now. Come on now.

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Oh my gosh.

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I earned my stripes.

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All right, stripes.

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All right. So, you know, needless to say, everybody had a great time. And uh can't wait to do it again. He'll finish in due time. When he's when it's time for him to finish, we're gonna party. We're gonna party. We're gonna party every time somebody gets a degree. I get mine in another year. Somebody else will have theirs then. My um my nut my my Erda Master, I get that one. So we're gonna party. We celebrate accomplishments, that's for sure, around here.

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That is for sure.

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Yep. All right, so let's um let's move on. So we don't really have a major story today where we got two believed sisters and then um two side eyes, and we're gonna Get out of this camp because we're hungry. Shaw L. So the first Believe It Sister, there was a story about this lady.

A Beekeeper Protest Goes Too Far

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So we're gonna title this. Oh, go ahead.

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Oh Believe It Sister.

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All right. And so we're gonna title this story She Be Goin to Jail. B B. And so the reason why I call this She Be Going to Jail, there was this person who was being evicted out of this property. And this person was supposedly a you know great neighbor, great friend of the neighborhood. And his actual immediate neighbor was protesting his eviction. And she was so disappointed that he was being evicted. And she was a beekeeper. So she had on, she uh like she had some bees or something with her. And one of the police said, Hey, get it away from me. Uh get that away from me. I'm allergic. And she said, Oh, you are, aren't you? And then she went back, got a B suit on. Oh. A whole little thing, and they brought back a whole bunch of bees. Oh. And released them. Oh, yeah. Like that on their show. Released them. She did that. She released them bees.

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Oh, no. Yeah.

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Yeah, she released the bees on the on the police.

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So for him, that's a deadly weapon.

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Exactly. So they arrested her, um, took her to jail. I don't know what the what what's going on with it because that's the part of the story that I got. So she went to she went to jail for assault and something um, what did you call that when you um not an arrest, but obstruction.

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Obstruction. And she also got in trouble because you know you aren't supposed to kill bees.

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So she killed them?

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So when she was wrestling with the officer, many of them got crushed, which killed the bee. So she was in trouble for killing bees. Um, on top of that.

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So she be going to jail.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

She be going to jail. And in the footage, a deputy is her shouting, hey, hey, hey, she has a truck full of bees. To which other deputies responded, understandably. Say what? Bees? What? Where them bees at? Where them bees? And one deputy was seen frantically waving his hands.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

That must have been the one that was.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

That was allergic. She's trying to shoe him away. Yeah. And um, so she had her beekeepee suit on, so she was just fine.

SPEAKER_03 24:28

Yeah, she wasn't worried about it. And she was like, okay, I'm gonna show you. I'ma show you.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

No, you just act like she came up. This this is how she came up.

SPEAKER_03 24:36

Okay, tell me how she came up.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

Woods, who put on her beekeeper suit during the incident, had driven up to the property with the hives stacked on a trailer pulling. Oh, she bought the trailer with the S U V. Uh-uh. She bought a whole trailer full of bees.

SPEAKER_03 24:55

She ready.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

So she had them all ready, and that's where the large swarm of bees flew around the property's front yard. And she says, Oh, you're allergic? Good.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

Yeah, I told you. You're allergic. I got you. Let me get my bees out here. Ride them with a bees.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

So she didn't come like when you said it, I was thinking maybe she came just with a tray of bees. That lady brought a whole trailer of all her sex.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Yeah, her.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

So she was getting ready to take them out.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

She bought them bees. I like Beyonce bring the beehive out at Coachella. Over there at uh at the Mercedes Benz when they when she be at concert.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

Yeah, she brought the whole beehive. So, honey. And um Okay, so it it really was just a sin, it says it was really just a sincere hope that he would not suffer the humiliation and devastation of going through an eviction of losing his home. So, according to the Times, a jury acquitted Woods of seven felonies, but convicted her of four misdemeanor counts of assault and battery and two counts of reckless assault.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

Well, like we said, she be going to jail.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

And guess what? Her friend still lost his house.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

Yeah, he lost it. He'd be he'd be evicted.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

He'd be evicted and she'd be in jail. So I guess she'll never do that again.

SPEAKER_03 26:26

She but she'll do it again. You think so? She'll do it again, yes. All right. So that was a believe it. A believe it sister. So the next believe it sister comes from it's kind of sad in regards to dealing with Spirit Airlines.

Spirit Airlines Breakup And Travel Perks

SPEAKER_03 26:44

You know, recently Spirit Airlines uh has was shut down due to a failed merger or a failed bailout plan from the U.S. government. Go figure. But anywho, the Spirit Airlines shut down, and they shut down drastically. Like they was pe people was in the air, and the pilots were jumping out the plane when they found out they said, Hey, we done. So the pilots just jumped out with the parachute on and said, I'd have got to clock out because I ain't getting paid for the about an hour. Nah. But what they really did, they landed the planes and they people couldn't do their connection flights, even if it was on Spirit. So this story of Ready Sister on Spirit Airlines, this young lady, she was a flight attendant. And it was during that time when she uh was away on a trip. So she was away on a trip. She has a lived in, lived-in boyfriend at the time, who has all the, you know, the bills are in her name, but they split it 50-50. So she loses her job and she stranded for like, I think, a day because they was trying to get everybody, you know, wherever they were, connecting flights home. So she said when she finally came home, she noticed that there were uh all his things were gone. Things missing in the house. He had taken everything that belonged to him and left. She was devastated that he broke up with her during this time in her life. Come to find out, he just said, Little story, it's not working for us. We have to leave.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

Yeah. But she actually called him because she realized his things were gone and he didn't answer, and he texted her.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

He texted her, he was dodging her call.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

He texted her and said What he said. He said, I'm sorry, but I can't do this anymore.

SPEAKER_03 28:34

I can't I can't do this with you.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

And she was uh visibly uh shaken.

SPEAKER_03 28:39

But she believes that he was only with her for the Spirit Airline benefits because she would take him on several flights. He would also be able to use, you know, his pass without her and stuff like that, all the different discounts that he would get. And they were going great trips, and he would be able to go on great trips. And as soon as she lost her job, he said, I'm out. He caught a flight. I don't know if he called a flight, but he took flight and got up out of that house. And she was like, Oh my god, I can't believe you would do this. Everything is in my name. All the bills were split in half. Now I don't have a job and I have 100% responsibility for these bills.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

And she also said And they lived together for two and a half years. Two and a half years.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

But she also said, Yeah, I mean, we you know had times in the past, but we were working through those times. So I said it wasn't because of those benefits and because of the fact that you lost your job. He knew that you was gonna be bananas and losing this job. He was like, Oh shoot, let me get up out of here now, because she already acting a fool. Let me just go, because I ain't gonna be able to handle this. And he left. She was crazy. And he left.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

Well, you know what they say. They they say, like, flight attendants, because of how they work and how they get, you know, free flights and can go from here to there, that they oftentimes don't know why, aren't sure if they should date certain people because are they just dating me for my benefits? So it's kind of like they're they they wrote this like um people describe people dating ballers, NBA. Like, are you only dating me for my money? For my money. So are you you just date me for my plane tickets? Yeah, and then when they get to wherever they're going, their hotel and stuff is paid for, and so it gives this whole like they get to travel and do all of these things because of their girlfriend or whomever. And they say oftentimes a lot of flight attendants because they're going and going and going. So, in actuality, whoever you're dating can be doing multiple things because of how you travel. So oftentimes they end up realizing that the person didn't really like them, they just like their benefits.

SPEAKER_03 31:04

Like their benefits, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

Yeah, that is so sad.

SPEAKER_03 31:09

But I think in her case, she's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 31:11

Why do you think she's crazy? I didn't read nothing in here that said she was crazy.

SPEAKER_03 31:15

She's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

It didn't say nothing about her being crazy.

SPEAKER_03 31:18

And have it just in case, but it just said something about her family being in from Jamaica. Starting alone now with a few other kids, she said something about she was not wrong. She said my family, people are laughing about it on that.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

They like to, ladies, ladies, they like to always say somebody's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

Yeah, they y'all, y'all are.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Even with that, who is the crazy one that he just stayed with her and used her for her um benefits of being a flight attendant? If he didn't like her and thought she was crazy, he should have been gone a long time ago. Then all of a sudden, he was just using her. So both of them, if that's they were using each other. What was she using them for? She's not using it for anything.

SPEAKER_03 31:57

Yeah, she was using them for a single.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

Oh no.

unknown 32:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

Now tell me, see, he can't even find it. No, I'm I'm trying to find it fast.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

But when I was looking for it during my um downtime, I had time. And you don't want to have downtime when you're on the um on the uh podcast. Plus, you know, my butt, my phone might die soon.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

When you're on the air.

SPEAKER_03 32:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

All right.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

Anywho, I didn't find it. When I skimmed, when I skimmed it just now, I didn't even see nothing. So guess what? Believe it, sister. He's a user. He's a user and use her for her flight benefits. Yeah, okay. And so next time, hopefully, she'll be cautious. And you know what I would do if I was a flight attendant? I'm not giving no free flights. We got to be in at least six months in before I say, oh, sure, I'll give I I fly, I'm gonna just pretend like I don't. Oh, they change the rules.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

Yeah, I can't get you no discount.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

Only for immediate family members, um, not for partners. Um, or you we have to be married. Um I I can maybe see about a buddy pass, but uh, you know, it's it's I have to wait so long before I'm able to give a buddy pass for a friend. You need to wait. Don't give out, don't give all your benefits.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

Treat it like your cookies.

SPEAKER_00 33:13

Yeah, don't give all your benefits from the beginning because then that's how you get used. So you wait, you keep your little flight stuff to yourself. Don't be trying to do it again, a man, child. He should not even be asking you that. And if he asks you that, then you know. So don't do it. See, you can't find it.

unknown 33:32

All right.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

So I wanted to dig deeper. So I asked whether there had been any signs that their relationship was nearing its end. She admitted they had been experiencing some issues recently, but nothing that would seem to lead to how things unfolded. Even if he wanted to leave me, she said, why do it on that day?

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Mm-hmm. Why?

SPEAKER_03 33:50

So why did she say that even if he wanted to leave me, why do it on that day? Yeah. Why he didn't do it before? No, no, no, no. Why didn't he do it before? No, no, no, no, no, no. Because he knew that this was gonna be that thing that was gonna take her over the edge, and he was like, I just can't. If I already we're having issues now, and now she lost a job, oh, it's let me be a bottom.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

You made this up. That is just your assumption. That's not what that means. But to me, what she's saying is why. I'm speaking man.

SPEAKER_03 34:15

I'm speaking man. Okay. Oh, so I don't know what she's saying.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

No, I agree with the lady. Let me speak. I agree with the lady.

SPEAKER_03 34:21

But let me speak man.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

I ain't got no more useful. I don't have no more use for.

SPEAKER_03 34:27

At least, at least, if I'm getting benefits, I can deal with the crazy when I can deal with the plane trip, too. There's a couple of things. But now no benefits and still crazy, I can't deal with it.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

No evidence of crazy.

SPEAKER_03 34:37

I can't deal with it. It is a lot of evidence of crazy.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

None.

SPEAKER_03 34:39

One, you you already just said she's just been giving up um plane flights. So that's crazy. She's been living with this man two and a half years. Two and a half years, and everything was in her name. That's crazy. Every bill was in her name, two and a half years.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:56

That's not crazy.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

She was a sugar mama, but she put herself in that shoe in that position. She just wanted to make her. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 35:01

So we're not gonna call them crazy now. We're just gonna say they put themselves in that position. So she put herself in the position for them to have these arguments and not to be great in the relationship.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

Oh my god. She's not crazy or nothing like that. It doesn't make her crazy. Maybe it makes her naive.

SPEAKER_03 35:15

Uh yeah, but anyway it go. Naive, not he leave.

SPEAKER_00 35:19

Naive doesn't mean you're crazy.

SPEAKER_03 35:21

Naive, he leave, there.

SPEAKER_00 35:25

Ladies.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Ladies. Exactly like wrong. Ladies, how y'all feel? Exactly wrong.

SPEAKER_03 35:33

Ladies, how y'all feel? Brothers, y'all alright?

SPEAKER_00 35:37

No.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

I think you better call Delta.

unknown 35:43

Call.

SPEAKER_00 35:44

Anywho, don't believe them. Girl, I I understand.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:49

Some of us are naive and we are trying to figure out this dating thing, and sometimes we've got to learn from our mistakes. So I hope that you learn when you get your flight attendant job with Delta. Yeah, that you will be very cautious into sharing your benefits with someone else.

SPEAKER_03 36:08

That's right. Now, if you see me on a Delta flight, don't treat me bad just because I said what I said.

SPEAKER_00 36:13

Yeah, do it, y'all.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

This is only because you better do her too. No, y'all no. I'm gonna sue y'all.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

No, put me, put me for uh put for uh what's it what's it called? What's it called?

SPEAKER_03 36:28

Sue somebody for doing doing them wrong.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

Upgrade me.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

Yeah, yeah, upgrade her, please.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

So sister, when you are in the Delta flight attendant, and you see Lucretia Hare, you're like, oh. Up be upgrade, and I'll be and I'll just look at him from um from the front.

SPEAKER_03 36:45

I'ma still benefit from it because if she got a comfortable flight, that means when we get to the hotel, it's gonna be old and popping.

SPEAKER_00 36:51

I might upgrade her. I might go back and bring him a glass of champagne.

SPEAKER_03 36:56

No, don't do that because then you get kicked out.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

No, you don't. Because I saw this. I saw this happen when I was on a flight. That don't mean it was right. It was uh they were on a work trip, but the bosses were in uh first class and everybody else was not, and they came the boss came back and brought them all drinks.

SPEAKER_03 37:12

Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't know if you can do that, but they did. Anyhow. So that was I'll bring you a cocktail.

SPEAKER_00 37:19

Believe it, sister. Don't let them do you like that again, girl.

SPEAKER_03 37:23

Mm-mm-mm.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

Zombie no sucker MC.

SPEAKER_03 37:27

Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

All right, let's close her out. What's

Why So Few Education Graduates

SPEAKER_00 37:30

your side eye?

SPEAKER_03 37:30

My side eye is uh unfortunate situation when that I noticed at the graduation this weekend. Alabama State conferred 19 education degrees. That means there was only 19 people graduated with a degree in education from Alabama State.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

Well, you're side-eyeing.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

I'm side-eyeing the situation, not Alabama State, is because it's the situation that if you look at it, when I graduated, yeah, it was two in the year 2000, but Alabama State is what used to be known as Alabama Teachers College. Okay. Um known for we were second in producing the most um black uh educators. Fam U was first because of the population of Fam U was the main reason that put us up. Percentage-wise, we was, you know, we pres yes percentage of graduates per year was Alabama State in education, but FAMU was number wise.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:26

And so to know that um when we already need more black educators in the field, um, male and female, just you know, to represent because representation matters. You know, representation brings understanding, you know. Um, and so 19 was heart-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because I hope that's not a pattern all over.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:55

At at not only just HBCUs, but even, you know, our black uh graduates, period, in education.

SPEAKER_01 39:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:02

You know what I mean? Yeah. Because we're gonna be in, I'm not gonna say trouble because but we definitely need our education our educators in the school. And we it could it could lead, it could be a because of finances, you know.

SPEAKER_00 39:17

Well, some are some are choosing more profitable careers about that. More profitable careers. And and I just think currently with the state of our world, it is so imperative that that we have, you know, some black educators there to balance out what's being what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 39:36

Yeah, yeah, that's about to say it it's not necessarily what we can teach or to teach the kids, but just make sure that there's someone in that building um validating that what is that treatment. Yeah, advocating and validating that the treatment that is being done is is uh appropriate and you know for all students, you know, and so um yeah that uh I mean that that hurt my soul so bad, man. And you know, with teaching, because teaching was one of the ones that was dismissed from being a professional degree, as well as mental health. Um I mean that's the teaching is probably the most professional degree you can have because it is the one that teaches everybody else to be anything else. If I'm a lawyer, you have a teacher. If I'm a doctor, you have a teacher. You know, they may change the names to instructor or professor, but you still have somebody who educated you. That's right. The role is still the same. Yeah. And for that to not be classified as a professional degree, um, a professional job, or even to not warrant um a nicer pay, you know, uh is is insane. But also people's patience are not the same as it was before.

SPEAKER_00 40:50

And children aren't the same.

SPEAKER_03 40:51

Children aren't the same because everybody parents aren't the same. Everybody gets that voice and that kid is like, I don't have to do it. I mean, you know, all that's yeah. It's it's tough, but it's necessary. So are I mean police officers. That's a tough job, but it's necessary. You know what I mean? Um being a doctor is a tough job, but it's necessary. It's a lot of jobs that are extremely tough, but necessary, and and I I hate to say if you're doing it for the money, then they don't want you, but no, I mean everybody you gotta pay bills. But it would be more attractive if the pay was a little better.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

It would would be. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 41:28

Yeah, and I hate when people say, well, y'all get the summers off and uh and the holidays off. Work it for a year. You will understand why we get those summers and holidays off. Trust me, work it for a year. I mean, it's just like, you know, next time somebody says that, so you say, so you never send your kids to the grandparents or whatever. You see that little break that you get. And we see you, we got your kids the majority of the day.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:52

But you want your kids to go somewhere for the weekend or go to their dads or whatever for the week, or their moms for the weekend or the grandparents or their cousins for the weekend.

SPEAKER_00 41:59

Think about And you only have a few. Come on. When a teacher has 20-something of them per period. Per period. Come on. Or all day.

SPEAKER_03 42:08

Yeah. Um some schools sitting on 35 per class.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

Yeah. And having to manage all of the needs and behaviors of those students. Some medicated, some not. Some diagnosed, some not.

SPEAKER_03 42:21

Some strong personalities, some not.

SPEAKER_00 42:23

Some not. And some parents who are willing to um to partner and team with the teacher, and some who do not.

SPEAKER_03 42:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:32

So yeah, that's a it's a it's a it's it's it's tough.

SPEAKER_03 42:35

So that is my side eye, is just the fact that the education degrees that we conferred at Alabama State. It's no, it's not their fault. It's just the fact that we don't have enough people going into the field of education. That's a sign of the times.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

Now I'm interested in like if we look at other HBCUs, what were their numbers like?

SPEAKER_03 42:53

I'm gonna have to do I'm gonna I'm gonna put on my doctorate hat in research. That might be my first little article I want to publish. I would love to publish an article about that.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

Um and how do we increase that?

SPEAKER_03 43:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:06

Yeah, for them.

SPEAKER_03 43:07

That'd be great. So, all right, what's your side?

SPEAKER_00 43:10

My side eye.

SPEAKER_03 43:12

Go ahead, give it to them.

Hotel Booking Chaos And A Better Stay

SPEAKER_00 43:13

All right, so um we I booked actually booked three hotel rooms at a hotel.

SPEAKER_01 43:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

Um and um through Expedia, um, not realizing uh, because I booked one for my in-laws. For whatever reason, I think it was a different day, and I don't I did a different card.

SPEAKER_03 43:31

I think did that didn't daddy send you his information? No, that's what he did.

SPEAKER_00 43:35

No, he I thought he did, but I think it was mine.

SPEAKER_03 43:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Um, anywho, um, and the others I had booked sometime before on a card, and I couldn't remember what I used to book what. So, anywho, I was booking theirs, and the card that I booked my two on, the card expired.

SPEAKER_03 43:52

Um, so Expedia expired. But expeditiously.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

But it wasn't Expedia that did this. Um, it was actually the Hotel that did this. And so my father-in-law was calling us on our way there because they had made it to the hotel before us. And he was like, They said this in your name, da-da-da-da-da. And I was like, Well, no, I put it in your name. So you should be able to check in, but maybe because it was my card is what the problem was. And so and I told us, May I go, No, because I have two in my name and one in my father-in-law's name. He goes, Um, yeah, we don't have two in your name. I go, You should, because I'm looking right here at my expedia and it's showing that I have two, and it doesn't show that they're canceled. And he says, Well, um, and he was talking real slow, and I was like, Well, he says, So this morning they went on and ran the rooms for payment, and that's when the card was expired, but nobody emailed or called or said anything. This was not like some big resort or it's Montgomery.

SPEAKER_03 44:59

Yeah, I've had I've had that happen where a company called and said, Yeah, your card.

SPEAKER_00 45:03

Do you have a different card? We have a different card. Do you have a different card?

SPEAKER_03 45:06

And I said, Oh, yes, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

They did not call or say anything and just canceled the rooms. And so um I'm really side-eyeing this place. We ended up staying in my favorite hotel. Um, and it was trilogy. It actually ended up being cheaper than what it was when we were looking at it previously.

SPEAKER_01 45:29

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:30

Um, so, anyways, trilogy is our favorite hotel to stay in in downtown Montgomery. Everybody's always so nice there. We just like the hotel. Nice location. Nice location. Um, the rooms are very nice, um, have a little character in them.

SPEAKER_03 45:45

Starbucks is connected. She likes that.

SPEAKER_00 45:47

And I love Starbucks. And we even ate breakfast there that one time in the back. Breakfast was real nice.

SPEAKER_03 45:53

Rooftop bars.

SPEAKER_00 45:54

Yeah, they have a rooftop bar. We did that. I forgot to say we did a rooftop bar too with the boys and that night uh with the fire pit and everything going. Yeah, it's just a nice hotel. So it ended up, I I will say, even though I was um ticked off and um had to um get my father-in-law-in-law online a little bit because he wasn't listening to me.

SPEAKER_03 46:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

Um, but uh God had better plans. He had better plans, and it turned out fine.

SPEAKER_03 46:20

We probably turned out better.

SPEAKER_00 46:21

It turned out better.

SPEAKER_03 46:22

We wecause I'm glad we was at trilogy. That's where I like to stay.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

Uh, that's what I like to say too. We ended up spending probably about two, two, two, maybe two to three hundred dollars more because we ended up saying getting doing something getting extra room.

SPEAKER_01 46:36

We got a whole extra room.

SPEAKER_00 46:37

We got a whole extra room, but it was fine. It worked out perfectly. Really side-eye on the other hotel, because I'm like, listen, y'all could have called and said something, although we that is not my normal choice of a hotel, but at first I thought we were gonna have more people coming. So I was trying to find something that was reasonable for everybody. Right. So that's why I chose that specific hotel, uh, Stay Bridge Suites, I H I H I H G I H G.

SPEAKER_03 47:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:11

Yeah, I just that's why I chose that. We've never stayed there before. We we normally stayed at the well, embassy, not embassy, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And uh the first time because that's where the uh ASU was hosted. Yeah, so the first time, but then uh from there moving forward, we love the trilogy. That's where we've always stay for um homecoming. Right. Um so, anyways, that yes, they bridge they can stay there, they can stay right on there. I'll never do it again. I'm just gonna do my trilogy and keep it at that. Um, and that turned out perfectly for us. But definitely side eye. That that was a and and and on top of that, knowing I got three rooms.

SPEAKER_01 47:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

So if you saw one room, if you saw one room with my name that was fine, then you should say, Oh, I wonder why she didn't let me call her.

SPEAKER_03 47:59

Yeah, to keep the party together. Let me call her. Screwing on to keep the party together. Trifling. Yeah, that was that was yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:05

That was good and trifling. So they ain't got to worry about getting my dolls, and I'm glad I didn't get it.

SPEAKER_03 48:10

Nope, they didn't get nothing but a side eye.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

Show did.

SPEAKER_03 48:13

Of the week.

SPEAKER_00 48:14

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 48:14

All right, so what are you grateful for?

Gratitude Plans And The Busy Stretch

SPEAKER_00 48:17

Well, let's see. Um, I'm just grateful for the weekend that everything turned out right. Yeah, the rain, it came all week. Even on Saturday morning, it was cloudy, it was a little bit drizzly, and I was like, oh man, but I it was almost like our wedding day.

SPEAKER_03 48:33

Yep. Sun came out.

SPEAKER_00 48:35

As soon as I stepped on that property.

SPEAKER_03 48:39

Look at God.

SPEAKER_00 48:40

The good Lord Jesus. I mean, the sun came out. My children here. It was still the it wasn't too hot. Um, our table was right in front by the lake and by the the music. The music.

SPEAKER_03 48:56

Yeah, we had a good spot.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

The um owner of the place came over and checked on us and was like, y'all, thank y'all so much for coming. Did y'all like everything? Yeah, it was just really good. So I'm just grateful that the that everything worked out great for um Mani's uh weekend celebration.

SPEAKER_03 49:17

Yeah. I'm grateful for the same thing. I'm gonna share my gratitude. I'm grateful for that uh, you know, every everybody showed up.

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Oh, grateful for that for sure.

SPEAKER_03 49:25

Showed up for him.

SPEAKER_01 49:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:27

Um, you know, because sometimes kids need to feel love. They think sometimes just, oh, they're here just because they're my relatives. But they showed up and had a great time. You know, so the presence alone is is important. Um everything went well, man. Just thank God for that. Uh that's what I'm grateful for. What are you looking forward to?

SPEAKER_00 49:45

Oh, goodness. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking forward to.

SPEAKER_03 49:49

Oh, you want me to go?

SPEAKER_00 49:50

Uh yeah, you can go.

SPEAKER_03 49:51

All right. I'm looking forward to uh these next couple of days because this is the seniors' last day, is today and tomorrow. You know, we had tests today, we got one more set of tests tomorrow. And then so the other classes that are not seniors uh laden are just doing reviews. Okay. And so next week we have half days, either Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

SPEAKER_01 50:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:12

Monday is like the whole, we have one through four every block in that one little half day period half day period. And then we got a half day for testing first and second block Tuesday, and then third and fourth block Wednesday, and we do the senior parade where they drive around inside the courtyard. Um, and then that's it. Graduation on Thursday. Yeah. And I say my goodbyes to everybody on Friday, and um I'm trying to I'm praying on this one.

SPEAKER_00 50:39

Right. You're gonna be sad or angry. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:43

Ain't angry, but I got some things to say.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

Things on the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 50:47

And they normally make you say something.

unknown 50:49

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 50:50

And so the good Lord's gonna make sure it's out. It goes.

SPEAKER_03 50:53

I think, and he's gonna let me say something too, though.

SPEAKER_00 50:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:55

You know what I mean? But yeah, you know, I'm gonna be meticulous with it.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

I know.

SPEAKER_03 50:58

I'm gonna say what I gotta say. Uh it's gonna be very smart, and they're gonna go and they call me like, ooh, what? Whoa, he said.

SPEAKER_00 51:04

Yeah. Oh, I wonder why. I wonder what.

SPEAKER_03 51:08

You know what I'm saying? So that's what I'm looking forward to.

SPEAKER_00 51:11

Oh my goodness. Andy is Andy.

SPEAKER_03 51:15

All right, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 51:16

Um, I don't know. I'm trying to fit look forward to it, and I will say I'm not gonna complain about the things that um I prayed for. Right. So it's busy. I'm busy. Yeah, you are. Um, and I'm busy, I feel like I'm on till June 27th. Yeah, you are so even though um I'm doing the conference, we're presenting at the conference. I was thinking about like maybe since we're done on Wednesday, I was like, maybe we could like you and I go like uh Kiowa or something just so, and then come back since my flight Saturday? I think my flight is Saturday.

SPEAKER_03 51:57

So that's on a Wednesday?

SPEAKER_00 51:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:59

So Wednesday.

SPEAKER_00 52:01

Maybe not. I gotta come back and get my life together.

SPEAKER_03 52:05

What are you saying? Maybe even just if we did a two-day, see, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Oh, you could you leave Saturday. I think my flight is Saturday. That's not gonna work. Never mind. We're gonna have to do it when you come back.

SPEAKER_00 52:15

Yeah, but I that is for sure. So when we come back, boys' birthday. Maybe I'm looking forward to what we can planned for. I'm not talking about I don't want nothing for me. Not I know my boy boys having a birthday, but for me.

SPEAKER_03 52:30

I'm gonna have to make sure I can get get off my little intern, child. We stuck, man.

SPEAKER_00 52:33

Listen, I'm guess what? I'll be leaving people because I got to get gone.

SPEAKER_03 52:37

Okay, yeah, leave then watch what happens. Watch what happens.

SPEAKER_00 52:39

I got to get out of here.

SPEAKER_03 52:40

There's gonna be plenty of times I'm gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 52:42

I got to get out of here. I need to be somewhere by a pool.

SPEAKER_03 52:45

Go leave.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

And I can order some drinks and just relax. I'm looking forward to that because from June 7th to June 27th, I will be a nurse at a nursing home. That's right, which is my mama's house when she's getting her knee. She's getting her knee replaced. I'm praying. And she is the caretaker from my daddy and my uncle, her brother. Um, and so I'm taking care of them and taking care of her from June 27th. Come on, let's wrap it up to June 27th. And goodness gracious.

SPEAKER_03 53:13

All right, but you got this.

SPEAKER_00 53:14

I do, I got it. And I said, you know what, you know, I'm just I I get to be able to care for my parents. They care for me for however many years. Amen. So me going from the 7th to the 27th is not a big a deal. No. So I'm gonna go do that. But I do know after that, I want to be able to have something relaxed.

SPEAKER_03 53:39

We'll figure it out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:40

Anywho.

SPEAKER_03 53:40

Well, ladies and gentlemen, you know, we had to rush that my battery might die. Yeah. So this has been the Refreshingly Normal Podcast with Kefla and Kareem. And we hope you enjoy. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe. And we'll see you when we see you.

SPEAKER_00 53:56

There.

unknown 53:56

Peace.

SPEAKER_02 54:05

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