TELL ALL PART 3: Season 1 FINALE

Sisterhood-- Happy Juneteenth and happy season 1 finale of 3 Peas On A Pod! This has been such an incredible journey (that's only just getting started ;)) and we're so so grateful for all of our listeners who join us on our ride of sharing opinions no one asked for but everyone needs! Enjoy Part 3 of the TELL ALL and then TELL ALL your family, friends, coworkers, and enemies (not necessarily mutually exclusive) about our podcast. With any luck, you may just hear from us again.

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SPEAKER_02 0:04

Hey y'all, welcome back to 3P's on a pod. Where qualified or not, we're gonna talk about it. Um, this is episode 10, aka season finale of season one.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

In part three.

SPEAKER_02 0:18

It's been a really great journey for those who stick beside us. Like, shout out to y'all. Um we couldn't do this without y'all. Oh, okay, sorry. Um say our goodbyes after we finish. Okay, you're right. No, you're right. This episode, this is a continuation of our tell all on a certain um place of education. Um, so this is my episode. I was at this place for 14 years. As in a decade and a half. They put me in there when I was four years old. And I haven't been out yet. Yes, you have you have just been freed. We're just finally out. Finally out, though. Finally out. Courtney just got outwards. Yeah, it's finally backwards. Got out early on good behavior. Uh, yeah. Overcrowding, whatever. Not overcrowding, overcrowding.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

Jails are overcrowded right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Yeah. So, okay, I guess I will start with my first stories. My first stories, they happened in lower school because everybody, you know, in these last couple of months leading up to graduation, you know, we were reminiscing on life. Everybody was like, lower school, that was so much fun. I was like, I don't know. I remember being traumatized. And you were, yeah. Some crazy stories. And it really like, it was just it was just the littlest things. But like, because they would they would throw them off like so slightly that you wouldn't even realize it was something wrong until you really sat and thought about it from a moment.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

You were so young. You were so young.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

So when I was in pre-K, so this was when I was four, we had this little we had this little booklet that like we made as a class, and then basically it would have like our picture and then a little like sentence that the teacher would come up with describing stuff we did in the classroom. So other people's it would be like so-and-so likes to work on her spelling, and um so-and-so likes to practice reading, and da-da-da likes to lead the line to the cafeteria, stuff like that. And mine was Courtney likes to clean up the classroom and likes to clean and likes to clean up after after the students. And I'm like, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_01 2:47

So you were the so yeah, she was the only black girl in her pre-K class. Yes. They were there. I remember two, two. You were the only one in your class. I yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

So like why do you have to make the only black kid in your class be? She likes the cleanup after us.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

So we get this book, so I'm gonna tell it from also before we go back to you, Courtney, from our perspective, because obviously, you know, we're a little older, whatever. So I remember we get this, you get this book, it comes, you bring it home, and of course, like it was our you know, our our mom and our parents, our our mom and our dad bringing this up at first as they're going through this book being like, hmm. That's peculiar, that's really peculiar. Like going through and being like, okay, all these other little girls get, you know, very like, oh, they're learning, they're exploring, they're expanding their young minds in this pre-K classroom. And we get to Courtney, and Courtney likes to clean.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

And the craziest part of it all is I don't like to clean it. Right, that's the craziest part. She doesn't, she doesn't like to clean. Her room is messy.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Her room is messy as we speak.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

So you actually really crazy haven't seen the floor, haven't seen the floor all in entirety in years.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

And so I remember So you know she was lying. Like we said, like they're like, what is going on? So I remember they had set up a meeting with um the teacher to be like, what the heck were you thinking? Um, and of course, the teacher was like, Oh my god, I didn't think about that. Like, oh no, I didn't mean it like that, but I did. Oh uh. Okay. So in fact, ooh-oh brings us into our next story.

SPEAKER_03 4:43

I was just about to say that. I was like, speaking of ooh-the getting this thing.

SPEAKER_02 4:51

Perfect transition into my second lower school adventure. Um, in this story, I was probably about like five years old, maybe six, max six, but probably like five. And so, you know, we had physical education every day. We would go into the little gym, throw some balls around, stuff like that when we were at that ripe page. And so there was this certain PE teacher, and every time like she would talk to me, she would never refer to me like with my name. Like, I guess she wouldn't call me Courtney, she would call me like her little monkey.

SPEAKER_03 5:24

And right, right, and not even a little monkey, her little monkey. No, ownership.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Like, not only are you a monkey, but she owns you. But yes, I belong to her. Exactly. That's what made it so crazy. And I don't know, I didn't think much of it, seeing as I just got into the world like a couple of days ago for real.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

You're a fresh babe, actually, fresh out of the womb. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

Like, I just got here, and y'all already calling me your little monkey. I just got here. I literally just got here, and so I don't know. I guess I just bring it up to mommy one day, and I'm like, oh yeah, we in PE and coach. Oh, bleep that. I'm gonna have a lot to bleep. And I guess I came home and I was talking to mommy, and I was like, oh yeah, the the PE teacher, she called me her little monkey. And and mommy was like, what? Like, hold on, hold on, hold on. I honestly don't even know what the resolution of that one was.

SPEAKER_03 6:36

I don't remember if she ever went and talked to the PE teacher. I feel like she did. I feel like she did. Like knowing mommy, she did, you know. She sent she at least sent an email. An email was like, he definitely didn't let that send, like, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

But I just don't remember what that conversation looked like. But again, crazy though. Crazy work. Because my little bunch. What do you mean? You're calling the oldest little black girl your little monkey in P in PE class, as she's like, it really don't take much time.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

Like, as running right, you're running this little girl running. Just trying to get my like work on my cardiovascular system.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

And you know what you look like? A monkey. You know what I'm gonna call you?

SPEAKER_03 7:22

A monkey. Yeah, they was getting at you from the jump, bro. They're like, we don't care that you're four. You're bleak and two.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Like, no, I was never given a chance to breathe. Let her get up, please. Like, let her never was given a chance. Not even for a day was I allowed to think black was okay. Not even for one day. Oh. Okay, then we can move into middle school. So those are my that's my lower school story. Or should I tell the sustainability one first?

SPEAKER_03 7:57

Is that middle school?

SPEAKER_02 7:58

That one's that was freshman. That's freshman year. I can tell that one first. Yeah, let's tell that one. The middle school one has a it takes you aback a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Okay, tell that one then.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

So this was every year, our school they do the little like assembly for MLK Day or whatever, you know. So again, cool.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

Like I said. Call back to episode one. This is just a thing that they just can never get right.

unknown 8:22

Okay? Like ever.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

Never. Never good. They never get it right. Ever.

SPEAKER_02 8:28

And so like we it's like it's an X day, so we don't have classes, and it's just the whole day is blocked out for MLK day. It's like a half day or something. And so we get into the little room where they're gonna tell us what we're doing today, and they're like, shout out to MLK, and today we're gonna be learning about recycling. He had a dream and now I dream of recycling. And so everybody look to the right, look to the left, like, what are you talking about? And so they're like, today we're going to be partnering with State Farm in order to make videos about sustainability. So they split us into like groups, and they're like, Okay, you and your group, y'all gonna be given a topic. Y'all have water, y'all have food, y'all have trees. You gotta you gotta make a video, uh like you know, two-minute video on sustainability. And so the seniors at the time, because I'm a freshman, I'm a freshman, and the seniors at the time, they texted our black people, our black student union group chat. They said, Oh no, we're not doing this. Me and the black student unit union meeting room. And so we're like, oh okay, and I didn't know what was going on. I tried to invite some white people because I thought I didn't know like what I didn't I didn't know what the vibes of the situation was, and uh, they were in my group, so I was like, come on, y'all. But then when we got to the room, they're like, nah, they can't come in. I was like, I was like, oh, sorry. And so then we're like, okay, what are we gonna do about this? And so we're like, okay, they're showing, they're showing the videos in the theater in an hour, and we're gonna walk into the theater, we just gonna stand in the back. And I'm scared because I'm a freshman, okay? Like, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not trying to make waves, okay? I'm trying to lay low. I'm trying to lay low. But no, they're like, we're gonna make waves. And so we walk into the theater while they're showing the videos, and we just stand in the back. I'm trying to look all tough. I don't think I've heard this, actually.

SPEAKER_03 10:23

Yeah, I don't think I've heard this story.

SPEAKER_02 10:27

I'm just standing there. And so the video is showing all the people in the theater, they're all looking back at us, like, oh my god, what are these black people doing? They're like, oh, they're about to jump us. The administration, they like come up to us and they're like, oh, what are y'all doing? Oh, what are y'all doing?

SPEAKER_03 10:48

We're taking a stand.

SPEAKER_02 10:50

They go up to the seniors first, and the seniors, like, they don't say anything. They're just like, you know, they're just mean mugging them. They don't say nothing. Then they come up to us and we're like, we don't know. We don't know. We're like, we we're like, we're not sure. We're taking a stand, okay? We're not sure.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

We're taking a stand for what? We don't know, but we're here, period.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

We don't know. And then there was like some meetings that came after after that that the seniors sat in on the freshman. We didn't really have much to do with the aftermath of that. That's so funny. But that was my experience with MLK Recycling Day.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

State farm sponsored sustainability. State farm sponsored sustainability. Sure, exactly. Yes. Those words together make sense. Yes. Like that has not like that has that is an original sentence. That is what I call an original sentence. Those words have never been strung together before, and they should not be.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

We are the first in our blood sentence. Now, I feel like a thing that we have to get into next. What is it? The N-word. Okay, yes. So this is it's time to get into the N-word. So this is a whole segment. Right. Love it. You know, you shouldn't be allowed to say that, but we're gonna get into that later.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

This is a whole segment about slurs in the classroom.

unknown 12:13

Right?

SPEAKER_01 12:14

Is that where we're that's where we're at? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

Slurs in the classroom. And just know we gonna focus on the ones in a classroom. Just know they weren't always in the classroom. Trust. Trust at the parties, often at the football games. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

They were on the Snapchat stories. Thank you for bringing that up. Yes, that is a great point. TikTok. But we're gonna be talking about in the classroom. So in the place that you show up and you said, I'm trying to learn and get an education. I'm trying to get my education forward myself.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

Slurs are being brought up.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

And now they will call you on slurs are being brought up and talked about. Okay, so the first one before we get into the last well, because Courtney's story is the craziest, honestly. Um we did have we did have one person uh submit a story outside of the three Ps. Um this was um shout out to you and my best friends from the school. And so she said that um at some point, I think this was in high school, because I kind of remember this. Um the debate teacher, she was in debate, she said, Oh, you calling Word Girl. If I remember Word Girl, it was like a PBS show.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

I love Word Girl.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

Shout out to Word Girl, okay? Shout out What is it?

SPEAKER_03 13:36

Yeah, it was a PBS show. Oh wait, weren't the people weren't the animals? I think so. I think so.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Anyway, it was a well, anyway, it was a show like about like it was like for young young kids. Kids how to write? Yeah, like focused on like literacy, reading, whatever. Um, and I guess somehow in their debate class, whatever, the show came up, and uh my friend she had referred just like whatever, like talking, called her like a chick or something. I don't know. I don't again, I don't know the context, but whatever. Um, and the teacher said you calling Word Girl a chick was the same thing as me calling you the N-word. Not even and I want to just focus on the language here. I'm not seeing the correlation. No correlation language because it's not even like is it's not even someone calling you it's me envisioned that you like this teacher personalized it and said it he fantasized that exactly about calling you the kids.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

Like I've been I've been thinking about this for a while now.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Like that's I didn't read the platform because there's literally not even like that's no correlation, like there's no correlation. So he just wanted to let her know that he was. Like that's just no, I've been thinking about that.

SPEAKER_03 14:56

Just no I dream about it. Mm-hmm. I have a dream. Yeah. That's my dream. Call you the N-word.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

My dream is calling you the N-word.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

So that is just again, we got we have four stories. What did she even say to that? Because like, what do you even say in that situation? Like, dang.

SPEAKER_02 15:17

I don't, I don't, I have no idea how she responded. I really don't because again, I remember like imagine one of your one of your teachers, an adult, being like, that would be me calling. You me call you.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

Me teacher call you student. You young black student. Like, no, I'm very, I'm very, I'm gonna have to I'll have to ask her, like, how did you respond? Because I don't I don't remember. Because I was wondering.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

Like, literally, I was wondering if you wanted to do that.

SPEAKER_03 15:49

Oh, but yeah, I'll it's in my story. This is like this one isn't even like terrible because honestly, I mean, it was with a teacher I actually really liked and and still do like.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

But again, I think it just gets into like yeah, the what were slurs?

SPEAKER_03 16:05

Why were slurs being brought up in the classroom so often? And so it was like ninth or tenth grade, and we're reading this story. Um, I don't even know what it was or book, but I don't remember what it was about or like what the book was called, but it was about black people. Um yeah, I just know that. And so at one point in the book, we're analyzing a piece of of the paragraph, and it was something about like it mentioned this like dead or or injured raccoon or something like that. And she and she was like, Okay, so why do you think the author chose specifically, you know, raccoon as the animal to be injured or in this moment? And I raised my hand and I was like, Well, you know, coon is a slur. And she was like, Yes, Dominique, Coon is a slur. Because the fact is Well, the fact is, why didn't you read that? You did not have to repeat it in order to make the sentence make sense. Like she's verbatim. I'm telling you, I'm quoting her. She's a yeah Coon! Coon is a slur. She just wanted to say that. And I'm sitting there like, uh, yeah, I I just said that. That was my point in saying that. She saw the opportunity. I like the teacher. She was like, she was cool. Like, she was a cool English teacher for sure.

SPEAKER_01 17:29

She was.

SPEAKER_03 17:29

Um, but it was just one of those moments that it's like, you know, even the cool ones sometimes slip up.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

Right. Because why did you have to repeat that back to me? She could have been like, You could have just been like, correct, Dominique.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

And that could have been the end. Right. Thank you so much. Thank you for your insight. Anyone else?

SPEAKER_03 17:49

Yes, Coon is a slur.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Uh, so in the same vein of English teachers and slurs.

SPEAKER_03 17:59

It's always the English teachers. Like they just love it. They're like, we must maintain the author's intention.

SPEAKER_01 18:07

So that's exactly what my story was about. So, seventh grade, we were reading To Kill a Mockingbird. As one does. Yeah. Which shout out to that book. Um, shout out to Atticus Finch. Anyway, we're like your role model. Atticus. No, okay. But he is a cool defense of fiction fiction defense attorney. Anyway. Um so part of you know what we were doing in the class, like we were doing popcorn reading, you know, where we all like we were reading parts of the book out loud. Um, parts of the book that she wanted to, the English teacher wanted to focus on.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

And she chose all the parts with the N-word.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

Because that's what she wanted to do. She was like, in no particular reason, I'll be choosing these sentences. And then you realize it's the only time they've said the N-word in a book. And they have like no correlation to what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

So we're reading this section. It's like, so she prefaced it before we're like starting to, you know, popcorn around. She was like, so as you'll, you know, see the what we're about to read, um, there is you know the N-word, and you know, but I encourage you, because this is she like said encourage is crazy! I encourage you, like if you feel comfortable, like read it as it's written. Like this is there's a reason why the author put in this language to really get into the racism of the time. We need to read we need to bring that back. We need to bring that racism back. So like she would start out and like she would read, like again, purpose of being like, I'm like, we're gonna read this out loud. Like, I'm sorry, like we don't need to, we don't need to. Like, we're all right. Everybody quiet. I'm gonna scream it. Because we're all reading it in our heads, obviously, as you you know, as you read along, like, duh. But you've been like, I encourage you to keep with the authenticity and say the word out loud. Like, huh?

SPEAKER_03 20:10

Encourage. You're probably like every other word, keep it in your head. But this one we need to hear it.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

We need to hear it to really put ourselves in the story. And I just thought that was so crazy. Like, we actually don't need to hear it, and you're encouraging all these little white girls to read this out loud. No, the fact she actually used the word encourage is crazy. Yes, like I remember like it was like like we like if she did say like if you felt comfortable, but she was like, like, I you know, like I invite you to like lean into this.

SPEAKER_03 20:42

Like it was urge you. I implore you. Just say I require you.

SPEAKER_02 20:50

Your grade will be reduced if you do not say the N-word. How loud.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

And let me hear that last, let me hear that last, that er, that er.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

If you do not pronounce the er, your grade will suffer.

SPEAKER_01 21:11

So then speaking of er, Courtney.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

Um the most incredible story.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

Um so this is this is a little, remember, I'm gonna remember back in episode two, or for not episode two, part two of this, we talked about the slave ship class. This is the same class, just like as context, just so you know like the vibe of this class.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

Same class where Mind you, I love that class. No, like me too, though. I know. It was a fun class. I enjoyed my time. I thought he we had all those cool projects.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

A lot of cool projects, a lot of good activities. Was that teacher a little like sometimes he would talk out of the side of his mouth? Was he crazy? Was he a good teacher though? Yes, he was a good teacher, but sometimes I'd be like, I don't know, but not even like racism aside, like sometimes I'd be like, Can you say that? Like to students. You're an adult, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

No, but he he he was he would do what he wants. He was my advisor that year too. Oh, he did not care at all.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

Like he said, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 22:11

Yeah, especially an advisory role. But like, okay, this story, so this was during COVID, because my sixth grade year, that's that's when COVID had got us. And um, so I was at home doing pretending to do school on the laptop, wearing my pajamas. No work was done. Right. Of course, right, um, of course, yeah. And we were about to watch a video, and he was like, Okay, here's like guys, we were about to watch this video, and y'all, there's a really serious word in this video. A really serious word, okay? And I just want y'all to be ready when a word for when they say the word, so that way y'all know what's going on. And so the word starts with and ends with igger. And I was like, hmm. I wonder what word. What do you mean it starts with and ends with iger? What do you mean? No, in another class, in another class he did, it starts with N and rhymes with Igger. Probably hasn't written his notes app. Ways to say the N-word without getting cancelled. We're gonna have fun with this one. Yeah, and it was crazy. I remember going to like tell y'all, I was like, Y'all, my history teacher just said the N-word.

SPEAKER_03 23:24

You're like, uh what? Oh, goodness. That's all the stories we had in this part three, this three-part tell all.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Yeah, low-key, feel free to leave questions below. Like any questions you've got, I will be answering all the questions.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

You know, we had a we had a time at that school, and we have many more stories and friends with stories that we didn't want to tell on their behalf, but oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

Trust.

SPEAKER_03 23:58

There's an infinite amount more that I have heard from um wicked, you know, and obviously, you know, this the school brought me my best friends, great education, but it also brought yeah, it also brought great education these stories.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

So yeah, I mean, my favorite teacher of all time, and having gone through college and law school, still came from that school. Yeah. Phenomenal teachers.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

But that's beautiful. But also, again, but lots of mess as well.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

Trust. Um like so much mess. But yeah, that concludes season one of Three Piece on a pod. Um, so grateful for all our listeners who tune into all the episodes because we do put a lot of effort. I put a lot of effort into editing.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Yeah, especially Dominique, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

Yeah, shout out to our leader. Shout out to the team. Shout out to the group leader, Dominique.

SPEAKER_03 25:08

She is in charge of this.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

Um, there's not even a question about it.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

I don't do much. Like in the promos, and I'd be begging I'd be begging Courtney in the chat, but can you make a promo for episode? I can't do it. Then I have if you saw a decade.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

Don't worry, y'all.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Season two, I got you.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

Let's, yeah. Courtney, getting Courtney to record, just really briefly, the energy that that took sometimes. We would give this girl warnings on warnings. Hey, we're about to record. Okay, we'll call back in an hour. Call back. Is she ready? No.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

I didn't know it was like a hard start time.

SPEAKER_03 25:53

And Mikey, she's the one talking about she has a deadline. She has, oh, we need to finish by this time. Hey, so we're like, she's like, oh man, I'm not ready. But all that is to say, I've truly enjoyed being able to share my opinions in this way with my sister. Me too. We are hoping, yes, for season two. Um, don't know what that's gonna look like or when it's gonna start. But just know it's gonna be big. Yeah, just know it's gonna be big. But we're coming back bigger, stronger, better. Um, yes, always.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

But yeah, but honestly, there are there are a few people. Y'all know who you are, suppose if you're listening that would actually tune into most of these episodes and would text about it. We really, really appreciate that.

SPEAKER_03 26:43

That makes me so happy. You know who you are, that's it. I'm so happy that people actually listen. Um, we're hoping to get even more listeners in season two. Um, tell your friends to catch up on season one.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Before we before we start season two, tell your friends, tell your enemies. Okay, yeah, tell your enemies.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Yeah, why not?

SPEAKER_03 27:12

But yeah, we got a lot of cool topics that we're already thinking about for season two, so make sure to tune in for that. Um, y'all got any of your favorite memories from the pod?

SPEAKER_02 27:23

I think my favorite memory was the baddies episode. Like, oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:27

You can give your favorite episode. Okay, good. So according as it was the baddies episode.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

Okay, mine I think, well, okay, I loved this, the ones we just did, but as because I think that listen, we had a time at that school. But aside from that, I really loved the dating episode. That one was a lot of fun. And Courtney, I just want to say, like, you saying the ground people, I had so many people like text me being like, that is a ground person. And I also like like have also like incorporated that, and I think that that was a really funny thing that came through that episode.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

Um, my favorite episode was either the dating episode or Twitter, the Twitter part two, the classic Twitter discussions. Um, yeah, we got some good content from that one. But yeah, we're also gonna be posting on TikTok. Like, like I'm trying to like just get us out there, you know, so y'all have to like engage, like, comment, repost, right, please. Yeah, all the things, all the things, but yeah, this has been really fun. I'm glad we started this in 2026. It was on my um 2026 bingo card one to start, and two to get 10 episodes, which you can now check off. Um, yes, yeah, um, so yeah, thank you for listening, and we will see y'all for season two. Goodbye. Bye.