Your Sign Says So! (feat. Obsidian)

It's all in the stars. On this episode, Trey and JJ welcome their first guest: Obsidian! He is a fellow Quack individual and friend who shares his knowledge of modern astrology. Obsidian gives Trey and JJ brain that's out of this world! JJ plays in Trey's face.

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Obsidian: @thatgeminiboy

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

You're listening to QXCA Radio Yeah, I'm a bad bitch. I bite, he beat it up all night.

SPEAKER_02 0:12

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SPEAKER_00 0:40

We about to make a mark. You're listening to Q and C Play Radio. Yeah.

unknown 0:54

Hey!

SPEAKER_03 0:58

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_04 1:00

Welcome back. We are back, bitches. We are back. And guess who we are? I'm JJ. I'm Trey. And we're Quacking. I fucked up. Oh my God. And today we have a special guest with us. Say hello to our friend. Hi, you guys.

SPEAKER_06 1:21

I'm Obsidian. This is our friend Obsidian. Oh my gosh. I'm so excited to be here with you, both. We're excited to have you.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

This is that bitch we've been talking about for the past couple episodes. Yes, he's a yapper, so y'all are gonna love him.

SPEAKER_04 1:36

Oh my gosh. It's very great for today's special episode about Zodiac signs and their importance in our community. So, but before we begin, JJ had a special plan for today.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

I don't even know what the fuck it's about. Yeah, but he's been doing his own thing. He's playing like scissors in um the days, okay?

SPEAKER_04 1:58

Okay, so um today's game is or sorry, today's game, like I'm doing this off the time. Um today I've planned a special little uh thingamajigger, a little a little game for us to play. So our friend Obsidian has a word written on their hand. And if Trey ever says the word during the podcast, then I have a special sound from Trey that I will record and play on the podcast. He said this thing before, he's probably forgotten by now, but it's like hilarious, and you guys are gonna love it. So is it groovy? Is the word groovy that's on our friend Obsidian's hand?

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:38

Obsidian, how about you confirm? Can you you can't say the word. Just just tell us if that's the word on your hand. You are incorrect. It'll come up naturally. And if it if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't happen, it'll still happen. So does he get hints? Do we get hints? Let's keep it fun. I think I think it'll be it's such a common word. I feel like it'll pop up. I think we'll be good to go. Okay. Just don't talk about cars at all. So, anyways.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Oh, okay. Oh my god. I'm excluded from the group.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

What do you mean exclude? You're right here. You're the main event. Oh my god. Right. This is for you.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

It's centered around you. So like at the end of the episode, are we gonna are you gonna tell him what the word is?

SPEAKER_04 3:22

Um, if I tell you, if he tells you what the word is, then I have to play the sound. Now, I feel like the sound, again, this is something you said like years ago. It's hilarious. Uh-huh. You do not remember it, but it will be funny to hear. So if the word is ever said by you, then we play it. So yeah. So if if if we want to end the podcast and be like, hey, Trey, say the word, then you could do that. But it'll probably happen regardless, so we'll see.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

So, like, okay, I I I'm confused by your answer.

SPEAKER_04 3:57

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 3:58

So at the end of the episode, if we don't have if I don't say the word, you're not gonna play the sound unless I say the word. Yes. Okay. At the end of the episode, if you ask, if I ask what the word is, are you gonna tell me what the word is?

SPEAKER_04 4:12

I'm gonna ask Obsidian to read the word out loud, and then you say the word, and then I'll play the sound.

SPEAKER_06 4:17

Oh. Okay. So if any point like he says the word, you're gonna play the sound.

SPEAKER_04 4:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 4:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Okay. Do you already have it on deck?

SPEAKER_04 4:27

Yeah, like do you have the sound? Oh, actually, I'm so glad you said that because I think I kind of need to pull it up. But it won't take too long. I remember I just I just saw the video the other day. I was like, oh my god. Because I thought we were about to play a game for a second. I did too.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

Where it's like, okay, not a real game. It was like a metagame. Now, mind you, he sent this in a group chat talking about I got something for y'all ass. And he's like, oh, I can't say anything about it until we get to the podcast. Right, right. Well, why'd you say anything? You should just let us get there and be surprised.

SPEAKER_04 4:56

Because now you're thinking the entire time, like, oh my gosh, what's this crazy thing JJ's about to come up with? And then it's like, bam, we're I thought for two seconds, and I kind of forgot about it.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

Not gonna lie, I forgot.

SPEAKER_06 5:08

Oh my gosh. Well, now we're here and now you know. I thought it was JJ doing a JJ thing.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

Well, JJ stayed doing JJ thing. This is kind of a JJ thing.

SPEAKER_04 5:16

But all right, let's get back into it. Um I did have also a beginning question if we wanted to answer that. It is kind of a different topic for what we're actually talking about today, but it is something I thought would be significant. So um earlier this week, I was on a so in my fandom that I'm in, I was a little I was a little, a little, ooh, here's me talking about my favorite show or whatever. On Twitter, apparently, one of the voice actors had said the N-word, white voice actor had said the N-word seven years ago. Now, seven years ago, like 2010 or whatever, this is like when people were saying the word or whatever, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it started a bunch of drama, it started a bunch of controversy, and someone had a discussion video about it. And the debate that had kind of come up in my head, well, what really happened in some like the comment section, dude was like, hey guys, we should acknowledge this instance of saying the N-word. It's it's important, it's important no matter how long ago it's been, no matter why it was said. The guy didn't even actually say nigga. He said nega, but he was making a joke out of it because it was like net like nega, like negative. Like that's what he was saying. But it was people making a joke out of it, and he was making a joke out of it at that time, and he was like, you know what it kind of sounds like. So he was saying the instance of someone saying this word a long time ago, this is still important, and I agree with this. Now, what I do not agree with is consistently talk like the the point of debate, really more so is just like should we always acknowledge when this happens? Because in my eyes, if someone especially in this time and age where we are right now, in my eyes, if you if someone says the n-word or brings it out or whatever, they're obviously doing it to get a rise out of somebody, knowing people who aren't even black will still say something and kind of get you know two people's attention. And I'm wondering like, what's the view on that?

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Okay. The the n-word really on in like okay. Um I think it's interesting you bring up saying that in this time and age, because in this time and age, we're in the time of cancer culture and bringing shit back from the past and bringing it back up Fridays, right? Yeah. If I were to tell you fuck you, like seven years ago, how would you feel about it now? Like if you brought it up again today and was like No, like how would you feel about it now?

SPEAKER_04 7:52

Like, how would you feel about it if I never brought it up? Okay. There's some context that I need. Like, are you telling me like, oh, fuck you, you're angry in this moment?

SPEAKER_02 8:01

Yeah, I was mad at you. Um, it was out of emotion, it might have been just me feeling that type of way that day. I said, fuck you, seven years ago. Okay. How would you feel about it now, knowing our relationship now?

SPEAKER_04 8:15

I don't know if I would. Damn. I want to say that I wouldn't take offense to it just because I'm like, okay, well, I mean, fuck me. Like, okay, I kind of want to anyway. So okay, okay. But like, seriously though, like, I guess, yeah, I would be like, hmm, that that kind of sucks ass.

SPEAKER_02 8:35

Why you would feel sometimes feel sometimes to this day.

SPEAKER_04 8:38

Yeah. Like it.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Even if I didn't bring it up, or it was never brought up.

SPEAKER_04 8:43

I don't think realistically, no, but it would still like be something that maybe like falls into my subconscious. And then I'm like thinking about it. I'm like, oh damn, you know, I kind of sucked ass at one time. But uh now that I have your character, I understand you probably did not really mean that in that way or something like that. I'd probably like reinterpret it as something. But this is like a curse word. This is like you telling me, fuck.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Right. So I was gonna say I think the instances are similar, but they're not exact because the word nigga with a hard R has a very, very deep-rooted um connotation to it and a history to it that's not the same as telling somebody, fuck you. Yeah, right. And I think we're just like I said, that at that time and age where someone could have been in the wrong seven years ago and could have made their rights with it or whatever, but then it comes back as a snapshot in that point in time how they were feeling or what they were doing, and you aren't given the opportunity to grow. And like I said, I don't know this man or whoever it is. You said who was it again? This is a voice actor for an internet series that I like. Right. I don't know nothing about this man. He could be raced behind closed doors. I don't know. I don't know him like that. He's not, just as far as you know. I guess that's true. Yeah. Like I said, I don't I don't know this man. I don't know what work he's done after he made that quote unquote joke, because I don't even think I would call it a joke because it's like it's it's just it's just grow up. It's not I don't think I don't I don't think we should be playing with that word.

SPEAKER_04 10:10

Yeah, we shouldn't. Right. As a yeah. So how I'm I'm sorry, you say your name.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Okay. So I was I think that was probably it, but just like it doesn't need to be joked about as far as from people that are not black, in my opinion. Um because of the history behind the word. And the reason why we're saying it now, because we're taking the word back because of the connotation and the history that is behind the word, we're taking that word back to where it doesn't have that much power over us anymore. Exactly. And now we've flipped the tables, now you bitches can't fucking say it. How about that? Don't do it. So I don't think that they should do it. And like I said, it it brings up the um I don't know if you know about this. It was I was talking to one of my co-workers about it, but a white guy who Are you about to talk about the Tourette's guy?

SPEAKER_04 11:00

Yes. Uh that's exactly that's my point. Okay. Oh my God. So the thing about that was there was an instance of something of him saying something else offensive during that broadcast, but it was not like it was edited out. But what was it?

SPEAKER_02 11:15

And we talked about that too. Yeah. That there's a delay in the broadcasting so that shit like that doesn't happen. Right. So that if there is something that needs to be cut edited out, the person or the people can do that. But they left it in. But they left it in. They left it in, they accidentally left it in whatever, but it was left in. But other you say you're saying the other things were edited out. Yeah. He said something else offensive that was edited out.

SPEAKER_04 11:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

I didn't know that part.

SPEAKER_04 11:42

That's what I'm saying. Like he because it's to rent. It's like you don't really control what you say. So it's just like I recall an instance where it was again said where he said other things during the broadcast, but of course, or maybe like one other instance really that was loud enough, and it was edited out. But they knew. They knew that if he had said the N-word, being a white man on the broadcast, it would get somebody's attention. People who weren't even watching.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

Because I don't even know. Was it the Brit Award or something like that? I don't fucking know. It was some award show that like acting like people that people are talking about now because of the situation. Yes, only because of that.

SPEAKER_04 12:16

And that's the only reason we have even referenced it.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

And that's lame as fuck.

SPEAKER_04 12:19

Yes. That's what I'm saying now. With this instance with this white, with this actor, this voice actor, it's like people who brought it up, I know for a fact, I well, let me not say I know for a fact, but people don't use that word nowadays really to just uh offend somebody. They use it to get attention, they use it to get negative attention, to bring a lot of like they know it's gonna bring controversy, no matter where it's from, no matter who it's from. Well, other than black people. But quite literally, it's like to me, we already understand we don't really if someone says it and it's on a thing and we can't have we can't really have control over it, it's like, okay, whatever. We don't really give a fuck about you. For real, for real. Like a lot of times I hear black people are just like, okay, whatever. You said the word, oh no, uh, like it's been a whole meme and everything. So it's like, yeah. But to me, it's like when people are bringing that word up, they're trying to get attention and they're trying to bring fire and I had a good, I had a good uh thing with jigger to it. Fuck. Essentially speaking, they know they're bringing controversy, which is why they bring stuff up stuff like this up, and why we shouldn't give it attention is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

I think it's interesting because I was in this reminding me a story. Um, I was in, and this happens, people do this. I was in college, and one of my friends, um, one of my homegirls, I guess you can call her that. Okay. Um she was at a party. And at this party, this white guy was saying it the hard art, not the hard art, but he was saying this nigga. He was saying nigga. Like he was a friend or something. Right. And it was right, I think it was right as like right, right after George Floyd and all that, the whole situation. Jesus. So he was saying, and my friend is, I'm not sure exactly what, and then she she is, but she's mixed. But she is black.

SPEAKER_04 14:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

Um and so she was like, she stopped the whole party. Who? She stopped the whole party, was like, whoa, what's what's going on? And she was like, Oh, I just I thought I could say it. No, I know that's what it is. And then he said it, and she said, Well, why do you think you should say it? Because my friend that was at the party gave me a pass. I was like, and she was like, and she said it, she said it the way she explained it to me, she said it very clearly like with all that's going on right now, do you really think that's appropriate for you to be saying? She clocking the fuck out of his tea. She did. She did. And I think it was very interesting.

SPEAKER_04 14:54

Um Yeah, no, that's a really interesting, interesting uh instance. Interesting instance.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Yeah. Uh what do you think, Obsidian? About about the whole everything that we just said.

SPEAKER_06 15:05

Um, for one, I'm glad she clocked his tea because why do you think that because you got the pass from one person that that means that you can say it generally.

SPEAKER_04 15:14

By the way, the past does not exist. I don't really give a fuck who you are. This is not a real thing. We we can't just be given passes, quotations. I'm hot take literally, you do not get a pass because it does not exist. Don't say it because you know you're not supposed to say it.

SPEAKER_06 15:30

That's the end of the story right there. And then, like you were saying, like, we use that word in a way where it's like we're taking our power back from it being used against us. Like that was that was used to like degrade us. Now we like, what's up, my nigga? Like that's that's camaraderie right there. So yeah, no, if if you're not a part of the club, you can't. And in terms of what it was that you were talking about, JJ, um I think that if it if it was said a little a little while ago, like it's still relevant. Like, because that's a part of what makes you the person that you are now. So like if you said that. No.

SPEAKER_04 16:04

And here's the thing, here's the thing. So I totally agree with this. Both the points of it still being relevant. The person immediately apologized. They they already understood the instance of even no matter how long how long it is, sent a whole twit, twit about Twit. What do you call it? Tweet. He said the whole tweet about, hey, I apologize for this very properly. It wasn't like one of those um AI generated fucking responses to some shit. It was an actual human response saying, hey, I apologize for this, that sort of thing. People were still making controversy of it, and and I'm just here thinking about like, if he had already apologized and this instance did happen, it's like what more do you want him to do about that? What more is there to do? He understood his he understood what was done wrong. He apologized in the now years later, and it should be over. There's that and also the fact of just like again, giving stuff like this attention on social media. In your instance with your friend and him at the party, I would very much encourage somebody to stop everything to approach that. On social media, people are very much different. They again they're using that as a thing to garner attention, to get those numbers and just keep it moving. They aren't really trying to use it as a way of, oh, I didn't know, I didn't really care about using that word, or such of the sort. They know what they're doing and acknowledging this stuff, and it's just like I don't think it deserves, I don't think it deserves that oxygen to the fire. I don't I think when we give oxygen oxygen to a fire, it does not put it out. It it ignites it, and we understand that the more that's how fireworks. Okay, put off. I feel like I was cooking with that one, okay?

SPEAKER_06 18:05

Yeah, you're cooking with fire.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Not the podcast!

SPEAKER_02 18:13

Oh my god. I was too loud. I was way too loud to me. I'm gonna put a disclaimer before we fucking post it. Oh, I'm so sorry. No, it's not you. It's JJ. Uh yeah, what I said. Um yeah, I think it's interesting because you're saying people are getting, like you said, just doing it for likes of views.

SPEAKER_04 18:31

Yeah, essentially.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

That's like a gag word, basically. Like when people do it. Like a meme. Yeah. And we're in that culture where we're just bringing up old stuff just to bring up old stuff.

SPEAKER_04 18:43

And also the fact, like, every if you bring up something right now, it's irrelevant and it stays relevant for as long as everyone's talking about it. And people know that that's the power. So it's like once it dies out, once no one talks about it anymore, there's no more relevance. There's no more point. There's nothing else.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Right. And I think it's a I think TikTok is a good thing and a bad thing because of us bringing up old stuff because we're able to bring back old hits, like um My students started singing yoga by Janelle Monet. I don't know. Do y'all know that song? No. I want you bitches to understand what the fucking happened. They just didn't know a fucking song that went bottled on TikTok and they high five on the shit.

SPEAKER_06 19:21

They high five and the shit like that together. You are the more musically inclined one here. I know where.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

No, because if this was just me and a trade, if this was me and trade on the podcast, I'd be like, dang, another, another, another loss for JJ.

SPEAKER_02 19:34

But anyway, I think that song came out probably in 2016, I want to say 2016, girl. I don't know. If I might be just spitballing, yeah. But that's 10 years ago. Yeah, literally. Like bringing up a new song that she's getting this new traction, new attention. Brandy is gonna, Brandy and Monica are getting new attention now. Like I said, we were sitting at um Oh, at Sage Too, and they were and they were playing Brandy. They were playing Brandy, and that's one of the reasons why because Kaylani had a song with Brandy, and she just released the album with a new song with Brandy, and her songs are starting to like there's a TikTok trend going on with Brandy. Ha ha ha ha. If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_06 20:12

Yeah, if you know, you know. I'm not one of those people. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

And that's the beauty of that. But on the flip side, on the flip side, there's other instances like with I'll about say your friend, with the guy the voice actor, yeah, that this is starting to make a past mistakes are starting to make a resurgence. So, like I was saying, if I told you fuck you seven years ago, you might never forget that. But you're not, I would think that you wouldn't have the same emotional connection to at the very beginning that you had seven years ago. Yeah, no. Okay, that's I I want to say that, but I I didn't know I sort of saying and asking at the same time. Sorry. But yeah, um So I think, yeah, it's just it's just interesting. Yeah, that was interesting, interesting topic.

SPEAKER_04 21:02

Um, I'm I just wanted to bring it up.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

That's a quack.

SPEAKER_06 21:05

Quack.

SPEAKER_04 21:06

Because it's very relevant to us.

SPEAKER_06 21:07

But that's still relevant though. You don't think like if yeah, and then like if just because he said it like a while ago doesn't mean that, you know. I mean, personally, I don't think that he shouldn't still not feel the the consequences of his actions, because like you you said the N-word. So like if people are bringing it up now, like I think that he's feeling what it is that the impact of him saying that is, or like was. So I still think it's relevant. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

I'm not saying it's still wrong what he did.

SPEAKER_04 21:34

Like I'm like making a passing joke where it does, you know it's sound what it sounds like. Yes, that is bad. You should receive the throwback from that throwback, whatever is called right.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

Okay, okay. We need the camera. We need the camera. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

I know it's on the fucking back. That's gonna be a mic person. How about that?

SPEAKER_04 21:58

Okay, but Yes, he deserves the the the controversy.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

Because it's like you at uh we're all how old was he? Um how old is he now? Yeah, let's see. Let me look up, let me look this up real quick. Let me look this up. Because it doesn't matter. If you were an adult, like w if you and you making those decisions, it's like, well, where did that come from? Where did that stem from?

SPEAKER_06 22:20

And then if he's saying now, like, you know, I understand that I shouldn't have said that word, what is going on now that's different? Like in terms of if you understand now that you shouldn't have said that, what was going on back then that made you think that this was okay to say that.

SPEAKER_04 22:33

Here's what I can say. Because if you were on the internet, chronically online, on the internet, you knew a lot about how it used to work back then. You there was a lot less power in our presence online. That's what I will say. And back then, we were still kind of getting used to things and people were just kind of saying anything. There are a lot of instances where a lot of different people were saying a lot of different stuff, like being saying crazy shit. You can still look up tweets of like stuff Taylor Swift has said is probably a racist. But obviously speaking, like people understand like times have changed in that sense. So it's just like the internet culture back then was the reason why people thought that all these things were okay. We weren't educated on in the same way that we are now, where it's instantly like, hey, this person has done this, you should know not to do this. Back then, everyone was just ever doing everything.

SPEAKER_02 23:23

I think we also I think sometimes we pick and choose. He's 30. He's 30 years old. Yeah, he's 30. He just turned.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

He just turned 30.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

Oh, he's gonna be 31 on June 17th, sorry. Seven years old, he's 20 something. He's what? 20 something? He was. He was 20 something.

SPEAKER_04 23:38

What was it? Seven years ago.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

So he was 20 something. Yeah, it was 20 something. Early 20s. Something like that. So it's like, what were you doing? Uh what world were you living were you living in where that was okay to joke about? Yeah, just like I was just saying. And what time period were you living in where that was okay to joke about? It shouldn't ever been okay. So, and like I said, I think we pick and choose when and where we want to do it. Like, people literally will be like, oh my god, I hate this person. Let me scroll all the way down to his fucking first tweet and then just work my way up from there. I'm gonna find something true hater, right? I'm gonna find something, and I'm not saying it's what he did was right, but I'm just saying, like some people will literally just be a haters to be a hater. Yeah. In this specific instance, it's not right what he did, and it's never right what he did. But it's like in other instances, I think people pick and choose when they want to um when they want to cancel. Bring something up. Yeah, try and do that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_04 24:40

Yeah, that's that's very true.

SPEAKER_06 24:42

You said calcify? Cancel somebody. Oh, cancel. Oh, yeah, cancel culture. Okay, sorry. Let's just say calcify. I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_04 24:48

Okay, cancel five.

SPEAKER_06 24:49

Right.

SPEAKER_04 24:50

Okay, calcifer.

SPEAKER_06 24:55

Oh, that's the anime, right?

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Mm-hmm. Oh, okay. Is it anime? Well, I guess it's the studio gibbl Studio Ghibli album. I guess it is anime. When I think anime, I don't think of that, but I because I think of Studio Ghibli.

SPEAKER_04 25:05

That's that's that's true, actually, because low-key, I mean, it can fall under the same category, but it certainly is on a different level.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

I feel like it's on a different tangent than just regular old anime. Yeah, okay. Regular old anime.

SPEAKER_06 25:18

Anime's so mainstream that we have people calling a regular old. So I think I asked y'all this before, but y'all don't consider boondox anime, right?

SPEAKER_04 25:26

Actually.

SPEAKER_06 25:27

Oh. Mm-mm. That's I do.

SPEAKER_04 25:30

Oh, I do. I think specifically because of the animation studio, that's that might be one of the reasons I think people previously said it wasn't.

SPEAKER_06 25:40

But I also don't think that's true. So I'm gonna say it's anime. Because every time that I've ever brought that up to somebody before, they're like, nah, the boondox is not anime. Why? I'm like, why? They're like, because like it does, it doesn't, it's not like uh part of uh Korean, Japania, Japanese, Korean. Like that's what I think.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

Is that what it should be? So it's SpongeBob anime? It's an animation, apparently, but apparently it's not anime. Because I feel like that, I think that anime, then what I know about anime, I feel like it comes from right. I feel like it comes from I feel like it comes from the Jap I'll say Japanese diaspora. Can you say that?

SPEAKER_06 26:16

I don't know if that's I don't know. Don't worry, 10 years from now he's gonna come back and apologize for six.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

I was saying it was it was comes from Japanese culture. Yeah, period. Yeah. So I wouldn't say that that's the anime. I wouldn't say the boondock's the anime because it doesn't extend from Japanese culture.

SPEAKER_04 26:31

I would say anime refers more to the style than it does like the uh specifics of it. Because again, like no matter the studio, there's like it's a specific style, and it's a specific like way they go about things. Because there's little so many different types of anime and so many different I well quotations, different t styles of anime that's like I feel like it falls under for that fact alone. It's still dubbed in that same way. Well, I guess everything kind of is, but you know what I mean. Like, in a sense, just like you you look at it and it has those very thin lines, those uh uh big eyes, those small noses, just like other anime do. So it's just like to me, I would say it is because it takes just as much effort, but I that's just me. That's just me. And I would know a little more about anime than Trey over here. So I'm um take my word for it actually more than anyone else.

SPEAKER_06 27:32

So you think it's you think it's anime? I don't think it's another. You don't think it's anime.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

Okay, he doesn't think it is.

SPEAKER_06 27:36

Okay, okay, okay. But apparently JJ knows more. Right, right. She's the anime savant over here.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

So fun fact anime.

SPEAKER_06 27:44

You say you used to hate anime. Period.

SPEAKER_04 27:47

I now Okay. This is don't let's not get too deep into it. I just just know I don't hate anime on the same level I hate TikTok. I just like uh anime is okay. I'm not like a big fanatic about it. It's like a passing thing. Like, okay, there's like one or two that I'm really interested in or something, that sort of thing. I'm kinda gagged, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:08

Oh, you thought I'd Yeah, that's probably one of the reasons. I thought like, okay, anime was just right up your steeler. Right up your steel. You would think it would be, right? Yeah. So you're the game guy, the cartoon guy.

SPEAKER_04 28:21

This is why, because I grew up in a in a in a in a high school, most of the black men were into anime video games, and everybody thought that everybody who looked like that was into all that shit. And I was like, no. He just reminded me of something.

SPEAKER_06 28:37

You just reminded Oh, uh do you consider people that are like uh heavy on into anime like geeks or nerds? And what do you think the difference between being a geek and a nerd is?

SPEAKER_04 28:48

A nerd refers to more academics, I'd say. Like it refers to your smarts and ability to understand something. Like there are nerds in specific things, just like I guess you could say there are geeks in specific things, but they don't ever intertwine. Geeks more so refers to nerd culture, it's such a funny thing to say. Um it refers to like stuff like anime, video games, that sort of thing. That's where you'd get geeked because that's when it's like, oh hey, this is this whole um thing that I guess these types of people would be into, but nerds are very much like into, I would say, specific, like I want to say, for lack of a better term, like useful things. Like academics. Yeah, like a math, there's a math nerd, there's a there's an English nerd. Yeah. So it's like they have their things.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

I think it's interesting because I think when we looked it up, his definition was pretty similar to what we looked at. Exactly. A nerd is more someone who's interested in academia and academics and shit like that. Yeah. But a geek is somebody that's just somebody that's interested in something that's very niche.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

Yes. Oh, okay. So that's the that's the specific, okay.

SPEAKER_06 30:00

Well my girl was on the money. Right. You didn't even know. If that was the Google definition, then fuck. I guess I was right there. I just know my shit, bro. That was Google You the dictionary.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

Oh. So we we do have our we do have our topic for the day.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

It's not that time. Oh my god. It's already been an hour.

SPEAKER_06 30:24

Don't say that. Really?

SPEAKER_02 30:25

No, no. Yeah. I was joking. Oh my god. So before we get into the topic, let tell our listeners a little bit about yourself. Like, I want to say a little bit, I mean a little bit. You mean say one thing? Your favorite color, bitch. Yeah, like my favorite color is yellow, burgundy, pepper forest green. Talk to us because you are on the show, like, and it's about quack, being quack. Okay. Talk to us a little bit about what does it mean to you to be a quack individual.

SPEAKER_06 31:00

Oh, what does it mean to me to be a queer and black individual? Yeah. Indeed. Um that's very nuanced. Uh for me, it's just like being able to exist in how I feel comfortable expressing myself in my life. Like, regardless of what it is that people tell me, what it is that the ideas that people have about me, me being able to exist how it is that I feel comfortable to express myself. And I feel comfortable as a a queer man, a queer black man. And that that comes with like tribulations already, because like you're black and that that's already a thing. And then you're queer, which that's already a thing. That those are two ostracized communities in the world. Right. So I think like navigating that experience is something that's like you take in one day at a time, you kind of figure out how it is that you feel comfortable being able to express yourself knowing that the world views you a certain type of way because you're those two things already. But like, I'm just me. I just express, I love I love that. I just I love being I love being a queer black person. I'm not gonna lie, it's lit and dangerous, but you know? Yeah. I love it. We just do shit like this though. Okay, yeah. I'm in a queer black space right now with two intelligent baddies. Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

I know listeners are gonna be like, damn, he's in his bedroom voice. Is that right? I know you, I know it, I know, I know, I heard it, I heard, I hear it the time loop. The y'all bitch is getting wet. Goodbye. I know it. This is crazy. I hear it.

SPEAKER_04 32:27

I love his reference to the time loop all the time.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

So, speaking of geeks and nerds, I would say that you are an astrology geek.

SPEAKER_07 32:42

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

Like you are really into astrology. Like, it's the first thing like when we first when I first met you, we were talking about astrology. It's every time I meet with you, it's an astrology, it's an astrology conversation. You talk about the aspect of astrology. So tell if no one lended if listeners don't know, give your little synopsis on what astrology is and how it can connect to everyday life.

SPEAKER_06 33:09

So, astrology is a pattern recognition tool, like it's used to understand specific situations, circumstances, and people when the planets are in a specific position in the sky. So, if the sun is in this position in the sky in Leo in 1970, what was going on around that time? And what are the similarities when the sun is in Leo in like 2000 or like 2005? What are the similarities that are going on between this time period and this time period between the people, the situations that are going on, and the things that are happening around that time? Um, astrology has become more of a personality-based thing, um like in current times where people just use astrology as a way to understand their personality and the people's personalities around them. Um, but it just goes so much deeper than that.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

I'm so glad you were able to like fully acknowledge what it is now and what it was back then, and just kind of bring it all back. That's that was a perfect explanation.

SPEAKER_06 34:09

And then the way that it like interacts with like everyday life, astrology is literally in everything. Like this the planets are always moving, the stars are always moving, and they're always showing a reflection about what it is that's going on now and the similarity, the similarities of what was going on back then. And they'll do the same in the future. So like the similarities that are going on now and in 3032. So yeah, everything just connects back to astrology low-key.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

Right. And we've talked about it together, like how astrology was. I feel like now I I think it's becoming well, I don't know, it might be becoming less taboo, but I feel like there's been waves of like it being more taboo than others. But at one point it was actual like science, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:51

For sure. Like astrology and astronomy were both like considered a science until like I think in the 16th century, um, they ended up like deviating from each other. They decided to make astrology a pseudoscience versus an actual science where they're able to pick up evidence or uh receive evidence on the logistics of what it actually is. So they took astrology, which is the study of how we, the people, are impacted by the planets and separated it from astronomy, which is the study of the planets and how they interact with each other.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

Okay. So uh it's interesting. Co with some, I feel like people know generally more about astrology, like, oh yeah, I'm an Aries. JJ is a Capricorn. You're a Gemini. I feel like a lot of each other, right? People know people know that, but after that, it's like that's where it gets a little like, eh, I don't know. I don't know if I really want to uh pay more attention to this, or I don't know about it. So I don't know. So like talk to us a little bit about let's just say the big three. Like when people say, like, what are your big three?

SPEAKER_04 36:05

Like what Yeah, I really want to know that one because you guys keep mentioning it about the sun and the moon and something else.

SPEAKER_06 36:11

Yeah, the stars and like when yeah, when people are talking about like the big three, they're talking about your sun sign, your moon sign, and your rising sign. So your sun sign is the thing that everybody knows. Or I've met some people that don't know their sun sign, but the sun sign is basically like when you're born, like your birthday. So like if you're born March 25th, you're an Aries.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

Yeah, shout it out. Okay, shout it out, okay.

SPEAKER_06 36:33

Big ramp in the G. Okay.

unknown 36:36

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

Oh my god. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 36:41

And then like if you're born uh October 16th, like you're a Libra, June 1st, you're a Gemini, like those are your sun signs. Your sun sign is your ego, your your soul, and how it is that you've come to feel connected to life. Your rising sign is based on the hour that you were born, because the sun moves through different signs very fast. So the rising sign, if I'm remembering correctly, because I don't want to, but the sun rises from the east to the west. So the eastern horizon of where the sun was when you were born is your rising sign. Okay. The rising sign is how you come to express yourself in your lifetime, how it is that people perceive you, your first interactions with people, your physical appearance, and how it is that you interact with life and how interact life interacts with you. So the sign that your rising sign is is how it is that you view life through. Um, so like if you're a Leo rising, like life has an everyday flair of like dramatics or like a creativity to it. If you're like a Pisces rising, like there's an emotional connection or an intuitive connection through life. Um so yeah, that's that's how that is. And then the moon is your emotional body, your emotional existence, how it is that you come to understand how you feel safe and stable in life. And that also is dependent on what time you are born, because the moon moves through different signs through different times. So when people say, like your big three, your sun, your moon, and your rising, those are your main personality traits pertaining to astrology that people more so understand. But you have like six personal planets that go into depth about your personality. So when people are referring to your big three, that's the main thing that people want to know about. That's how they read your personality when they're interacting with you.

SPEAKER_02 38:32

And it's interesting because that I feel like those encompass a lot of how you interact with the world. Definitely. Your ego, your emotions, and I guess with your rising, it's how you interact with people. How you come off to people.

SPEAKER_06 38:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:46

Cause you could have I feel like I'm the baddest bitch in the world. Always, but I can come off as a pussyfoot. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_06 38:55

This is a crazy point to jump to. Oh my gosh. At least one time, huh? At least one fucking time. We love you sister.

SPEAKER_02 39:07

Right. So I think it's interesting. Um, and so like how can we figure out our big three?

SPEAKER_06 39:16

Like, so if you want to ever like learn more about your big three or you want to know more about like your astrology generally, if you just like look up a birth chart, so like if you go to Google or Safari or whatever, and you type in free birth chart calculator, there's gonna be a plethora of different options and websites to calculate. Right? Okay. There's gonna be a plethora. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Yeah. Please. It's everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

Please don't listen to this in the future. I swear to God, I do not want everyone to know about my first time, okay?

SPEAKER_06 39:57

Oh, it's already out there, right? Juicy fruit. Oh my god. Juicy fruit, okay. But you go and you look up a free birth chart calculator, you choose one of the websites that they have to offer for you to get that. Um they ask questions, they ask your the city that you were born, your name, the time you were born, and you calculate it, and a birth chart appears. It's like a huge pie chart with different glyphs of the planets and where they were when you were born.

SPEAKER_02 40:28

Okay. Yeah, so because I've I've done it a couple times with like a general just so I know, but I haven't gone in depth until I met you about the different signs and what they mean. And that I love that you said different patterns, because it is it's a it's a science, and would you say it's it's not an exact science?

SPEAKER_06 40:47

Um I think that it still has ties to the science community. I think that it's still a science.

SPEAKER_02 40:52

Yeah, I would say when I say it's not an exact science, I mean it's a science, but it's not like Okay, it's not right all the time.

SPEAKER_06 41:02

I wanna say I agree. I would say astrology has a habit of not always being right, but there are nuances to astrology that certain people don't understand sometimes. So it gets perceived different. I would to answer your question though, yes, I do think it's an exact science. I'm not gonna lie. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 41:18

I wanna like have a definition right quick of like what you guys think pseudoscience would be, because in my eyes, it still is a science. It's not, I will it's not it, it sounds like it would be just the type of science that you're talking about. Like it is still like a pseudoscience in that sense of just like it's not able to be calculated in proper ways, but it still is like scientific in some way. So I feel like pseudoscience is like a proper term for it, but in what ways would you say super pseudo- it it isn't pseudoscience, I guess?

SPEAKER_06 41:47

Astrology? Yeah. Um I feel like pseudoscience refers to like it not being something that has evidence or it being something that doesn't have anything that we can fall back on with like full certainty. But astrology does have a lot of moments where it's like, oh snap, like you're you're able to speak on this because these planets were in this type of position on this day, and it be related to what's going on now. Like, yeah, I'd be like, okay, that's evident bas evidence-based, or like when you describe certain things to people using astrology, like your sun sign or like your Mercury sign, which is how you think and how you speak, like people will end up being gagged, like, oh snap, how do you know that about me? Or how are you able to say this? And this is our first time meeting each other. So I would say, I would say, yes, pretty, it's pretty accurate, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:41

Okay. If the right person knows their astrology and they can actually describe stuff to you, then you'll actually understand.

SPEAKER_06 42:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:47

That's exactly what you were for me, essentially. And that's funny. Yeah, because uh I remember the the first day we kind of did that random ass trip to Insomnia Cookies, and you were just telling me about like all my astrology things and all my points and stuff like that. And I was like, oh my gosh, wow.

SPEAKER_05 43:01

I remember that. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 43:03

All these things about how you I rely on luck and whatnot. Like a lot of that stuff was really accurate to my person, and it was just like, hmm, you know, you really haven't known me before.

SPEAKER_06 43:12

Oh my gosh, I love that moment so much because we really were getting into it, girl. I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_04 43:16

Yeah, no, you were really deep. It was like kind of crazy how detailed you were able to get.

SPEAKER_06 43:18

It was and that that's that'd be the thing. Like, it's like astrology can take you to different places that get you to realize other things and to understand, like, oh, snap, like you're able to actually use the stars to understand certain things about me and understand certain things about other people. Right. So that's really cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:34

That was a wonderful moment right there.

SPEAKER_06 43:36

I love that. I love that so much. And then with like with pop astrology, to go back to like what it was that you were saying about like sometimes it can be inaccurate, like pop astrology nowadays, um, which is basically like the more oh, if you go on TikTok, this is gonna be what's said about your zodiac sign type stuff. Like, there's inaccuracies in that, and that can deter a lot of people from the belief of astrology. Because it's like, okay, like I don't. Resonate with you saying this about my sign because that's not true for me, and I haven't observed that with other people that have the same sign. So, like you just saying this to say it. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

Perfect example. Aries get a bad rap. We say they say we're hot-headed. We just don't give a fuck. Impatient. Impatient. Okay, well, impatient. Oh, if I'm in my flow states or whatever, I do get impatient. Or if it's not thinking about it, I do get impatient. Like, I think that's probably how it was when we got breakfast this morning. Oh. I'm a little impatient. Um, but hungry, like my car was acting up, so I was impatient about that. When Trey is hungry, that's when you know it's coming. Yeah, it's over. It's coming. You become the big bad wolves. Right, dude. I become fire in my fucking footsteps.

SPEAKER_06 44:43

Okay, that fire sign. Okay. I do.

SPEAKER_02 44:45

I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, if I'm hungry, I'm like if something is like physically wrong with me, I I can't like fix it myself. Like, it's like, okay, bitch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:54

Ah.

SPEAKER_02 44:55

So I think we can get a bad ride. So like so those memes. Like fucking, there's I know there's an account called Aries memes or like um fucking astrology memes.

SPEAKER_04 45:04

It's just like and it's just like the most basic stuff, like literally the stuff that you see everywhere. Stereotypical. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 45:15

Exactly. And I think that's what deters people a lot because they don't only want to hear about the stereotypes, they want to get into the nitty-gritty of their core, their personality.

SPEAKER_04 45:23

Like it's funny media to kind of like run into when it's like, oh, okay, this is a little accurate, this has some merit, but then it's just like other times people are actually just like they want to know more about it. And some and you might not find it through shit like that. So that makes sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:37

Yeah, the and the a lot of zon signs get like a bad rap. Like Libras get the whole, the whole Lion Libras thing, Aries get the the the hot heads, like y'all are always angry. The the Aquarius get the the weird, the weird signs, like y'all are the weird ones. The Capricorns, they get the the oh y'all are so serious. Y'all are about your money. That's it. And Geminis, we get we get two-faced. Like girl, yeah, yeah. I've heard about that, yeah. Girl, I don't even want to get it. I could get into it, but I don't even want to get into it.

SPEAKER_02 46:06

Says the one with one dyed eyebrow.

SPEAKER_05 46:08

Uh it's called Duality. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_06 46:11

Multiplicity. Okay, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 46:15

Two-faced.

SPEAKER_06 46:18

Oh my gosh. You know. I'm not gonna lie, Charlie. Oh my gosh. Now y'all about to get on me with freaking Papa Charlie.

SPEAKER_04 46:27

I'm gonna lie, Obsidian. He might have eat you up with that one.

SPEAKER_06 46:30

Oh my gosh. Two-faced energy can also be related to like people being people being more expressive with their inner world than what it is that they perceive on the outside. Right. That's true.

SPEAKER_02 46:42

Yeah, like you can put a little bit on it.

SPEAKER_03 46:48

It's okay.

SPEAKER_06 46:49

You're even embodying uh Aries energy right now, wearing that red card again. You just wanted to be like me so bad today. It's not bad. It's okay. I literally was going to wear a red card again. Who went through with it? Okay, that's a cutoff. Take an initiative like an Aries. I do. That's a bitch.

SPEAKER_05 47:09

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 47:10

Right, right. Who's taking my shit? Who's taking my shit? Okay. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 47:16

Oh my god. Right. Oh my gosh. So, like I said, it's so you're saying it's even in pop culture, it's it's stereotypical. And I think with a lot of young adults like our age, we use astrology to navigate the world. Why do you think that? Like, I think my my dad, he's um he's a cancer. He is the boomer generation or whatever. Yes, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 47:42

Is it baby boomer or boomer?

SPEAKER_02 47:44

It's both.

SPEAKER_06 47:44

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:45

Boomer is short for baby boomer.

SPEAKER_06 47:46

Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. Did you think they were like two different booms or something? Yeah. I thought they were two different boomers.

SPEAKER_04 47:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:52

So my dad said he's a cancer all the time, and yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:56

Wait, what? Your dad just like, oh, I know.

SPEAKER_02 47:59

No, it's all the time, but like it comes up. Right, right. Okay, big guy. I'm not gonna get into the stereotypical, not big guy. Big guy. Big guy. Oh, don't think it must be a pair. Look at look at me. The singing bitch talking about don't sing it. Sing every other song. See my guitar app. That was a musical reference. Yeah. You've never heard big guy? It's in the Spongebob movie.

SPEAKER_04 48:29

We have to make you listen to it now. Right after the podcast. Yeah, when we get back to the quib stuff. The quib. Stop.

SPEAKER_02 48:36

Yeah, that's gonna be a thing. Q you can do it. It's gonna be a thing.

SPEAKER_04 48:38

I cannot wait till we stop or till we forget about it. That's when I'm gonna be like, right? Right.

SPEAKER_02 48:41

I'm gonna write it down. Okay, but yeah, anyways, why do you think as young adults we use it to navigate through life? People always like, what's your sign? What's your sign? What's your big sign? What's your big three? Like, why do you think we use that to navigate in the world? And why do we do that?

SPEAKER_06 49:01

I think um that's a good question. I don't know. Um, I would say I think people around our age are constantly looking to understand things. Like for a direction. Yeah, and I think that it's easy to lean on something that that has the that people perceive as having the answers to things and being able to explain things that don't make sense or that it that explains things that makes people feel more connected to what it is that they're trying to feel connected to. And I think when it comes to signs and astrology, people lean on it because it gives them a sense of understanding with the people that they're dealing with and the people that they interact with, along with understanding certain things about themselves and how they come to understand things about themselves through the other people and the mediums that they're coming to learn about those people, and astrology being one of those things.

SPEAKER_04 49:50

Yeah. Oh my gosh, that makes so much sense in so many different ways.

SPEAKER_06 49:53

And then like the the previous generation, like I don't even think that like because we're Gen Z.

SPEAKER_04 49:58

Right.

SPEAKER_06 49:59

Um, I think the previous generation, like millennials, is it? Yeah. And then the generation before that, they didn't necessarily like use astrology the way that it's more popular now. Um, and I think that that comes from a time period of people like believing that astrology was just a gimmick, and it was just something that's like a game that you play with people to try to like get to know them. Yeah, to get to know them, quote unquote. Because certain people don't think that astrology can actually be used to get to understand certain people. So I think with our generation, since we are the generation of change, um, Gen Z shit, um, we're coming more to terms with the comfortability with using astrology as a way to understand that this can be used to help us connect more with our life and ourselves.

SPEAKER_04 50:46

Okay, real. All right. So, Charlie. Um, so obsidian, I was gonna wonder, I was gonna ask about like, how did you get into astrology? I don't think we really went over that actually. That's what you mean.

SPEAKER_02 51:03

Are you in my mind?

SPEAKER_04 51:04

No, we have the same document. Nigga, I know that nigga, I know that. That was supposed to be our little cue. Oh, so oops. Um, that was a little bit of a oops back behind the scenes BTS. Bloopers. Um We can't afford that.

SPEAKER_06 51:20

We don't have the budget for bloopers. Keep moving. Um I've been interested in astrology ever since I was younger. Like it was just something that came to me. I don't necessarily have the specifics on how that happened, but astrology has always been something I just gravitated towards and it just it just always stuck ever since I was younger.

SPEAKER_04 51:40

Um I think for the do you think for the same reason that you were explaining before about the direction and just like having a way of looking at life?

SPEAKER_06 51:47

Hmm, bitch, not you, you guys have a good question. Um I'm definitely a person that loves to be able to understand any and everything. Yes, yeah. And I think ever since I started to get into astrology and I understood how it can explain things in a very intricate way, that I grew an attachment to the ability that comes with being able to know things about things. So I think the more that I grew to understand astrology, the more connected that I became to it because I'm like, oh snap, like you can describe certain things to me, or you can get me to rise to the occasion of understanding certain things through me understanding astrology. And I like that. I like that. My connection with astrology is more now, is stronger now than what it was when I was growing up because I took breaks with it growing up. But within the past like four to five years, I've been strengthening my ability to understand the stars because it's just another language. So yeah. And I think that goes along with me being a Gemini. Like we're we're big on like languages and being able to understand things. So I think when it comes to being able to understand life and the things around me, astrology is just is one of those things for me.

SPEAKER_02 52:57

Yeah, real. Okay. And like I said, I think it's you say it's an it's like another language. And when you said that, knowledge and the power came to my mind. Because you're able to recognize your own patterns and your own flaws and recognize other people's and kind of build from that. Um like I said, it is just pattern recognition. Um so like I guess with astrology, you can tell a lot of stuff about yourself that you can bring more to light that you might not have been even realized was a natural occurrence in your life. That you're like, oh, like you were saying, JJ, at an assignment of cookies, he was describing your life almost to a T. Yeah, right. So astrology has that power to do that.

SPEAKER_06 53:42

Yeah, for sure. Like I the the the word astrology, like if you look at the etymology, it translates back to the telling of the stars, the the language of the stars. And the language of the stars is just another way to be able to understand and communicate to things or with things. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:00

So yeah, so you knowing about this, being able to know your flaws and your shortcomings, but also knowing your strengths and weight as well. Do you think maybe it is a double-edged sword, knowing all its astrology knowledge?

SPEAKER_06 54:14

Oh girl, yes. Um, I'm not gonna lie, it can definitely be a double-edged sword because it's like you you're learning all of these things about yourself that you don't necessarily you're not necessarily like aware of, or you've never had verbalized to you, or you've never had put in a way where you can understand, like, oh snap, like these are things that I do, and I didn't necessarily know that these were what it is that can be perceived as flaws, or these are traits that I don't necessarily want to embody consistently. Um it can be something that's like overwhelming because it's like, okay, well, I'm learning all these things about myself that I didn't necessarily want at the forefront, or these things that I don't necessarily want to contribute to still being a part of my character that makes me me.

SPEAKER_04 55:01

So it can definitely be-what? Oh my god, trade.

SPEAKER_03 55:08

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 55:14

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 55:16

That's an all-the-time thing. Yes, he's like talking to you, and you're just he's listening, he's he's telling you that he's he's hearing you, but it's like consistently while you're speaking. I don't even know it's it. I be doing that.

SPEAKER_06 55:28

Like I be doing that. I I I see it as like engaging engagement, engages engage listening. Oh you listen. Oh my god. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 55:40

But um It's not a negative thing, it's just like it's really funny. Because in most some cases, it's like, oh, someone's ignoring you, they're just saying, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 55:46

Like they're just staring at you and you wondering if they listen and he's engaging.

SPEAKER_04 55:50

He's like, Yeah, he actually isn't. Continue, period. Clock that, you know.

SPEAKER_06 55:54

But you were saying. Oh, my bad. Um I forgot what I was. Oh, yeah, no, like that that knowledge can be like very overwhelming sometimes, and that too can deter people from like deepening their understanding with astrology. Because it's like, I'm learning about all of these flaws. Where are my strengths? Or like, do the strengths uh uh overwhelm the flaws, or do the flaws overwhelm the strengths? Like which one is more strong, which one is something I need to work on? And astrology can give a perspective on these things that you have to work on, or these things that you may not notice that you would want to work on, but along with the flaws and the things about yourself that you may not necessarily want to come to terms with, the strengths and what it is that you may find yourself good at or may want to lean towards energetically, those can also be overwhelming because it's like you're being made aware of all of these things that you're energetically good at and you want to expound on that and you wanna capitalize on that or you wanna strengthen those, but it's like, how do you do that if you do not believe that these traits are traits that you actually like possess? So the realization that people come to with it with the flaws and the strengths that astrology can enlighten somebody to can be overwhelming. It can make people feel kind of debilitated sometimes. With great power comes great responsibility. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 57:16

Um I didn't know Spider-Man was in the in the podcast today, but Masra, where are you? Not Masbrah.

SPEAKER_02 57:22

Shout out Masbrah.

SPEAKER_06 57:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 57:23

Shout out Masbra. Y'all gonna see the new movie when it comes out. Oh, yeah. Oh my god. Don't spoil it.

SPEAKER_06 57:32

Don't piss me.

SPEAKER_04 57:33

Wait, it's crazy. Wait a minute, what do you mean? Don't spoil it. We've all seen the same movie. They might not have.

SPEAKER_06 57:39

Oh, you like listening. Okay, nah, because I I didn't pick up on that either. I'm like, oh, like it's just it's three, three bitches in a room.

SPEAKER_02 57:47

Well, I love that y'all feel that way because we have this space that we've curated and created for each other. I love that. I love that. And people will hear that and be like, damn, I like this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 58:03

People will hear that and be like, damn, I need to suck someone's dick.

SPEAKER_06 58:07

Like, okay. Holy hell. Get active for me too tonight if you listen to me. If you need something.

SPEAKER_04 58:11

If you need something, I got you.

SPEAKER_06 58:12

You need that. Oh. Okay. Because I heard in one of the uh the previous podcasts that uh you like gamer guys. So I mean, a little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 58:22

I I low key, um, I was at game night one time, and some guy would come in here playing Magic the Gathering, and I was like, wow, you know, low-key. He's kind of tall. I was like, mm, you know, I kind of kind of like you.

SPEAKER_06 58:34

I'm gonna attribute that to your Pisces Rising. Thank you. Remember this from you.

SPEAKER_02 58:40

So I have a question, new question. Can I ask the question this time? Do you want me to tell you what the question is? I already know what the question is. Oh, it's telepathy? Because now on this fucking paper.

SPEAKER_01 58:49

Let me think. Professor Boltz. What favorite? What's your favorite flavor of donut?

SPEAKER_04 58:56

Was it crispy? Crispy?

SPEAKER_06 58:59

Doesn't need to be crispy. It has to be crispy. Right. Okay. Just with music. Okay. Because you'll be doing that too. I'll I'll use a pop culture reference and you just do not know what you're doing. Sometimes I don't.

SPEAKER_02 59:11

Sometimes I'll be using pop culture references and you don't know them.

SPEAKER_06 59:13

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 59:14

Most of the time we're TikTok stuff.

SPEAKER_04 59:16

Oh, okay. Yeah, if you say something about TikTok, who the fuck is gonna know that?

SPEAKER_02 59:19

Well not you just describing a pop. I'll be up there. Sorry. Not your viewers. Like I said, y'all been running the TikTok up. Y'all been running y'all been running the TikTok up. TikTok up.

SPEAKER_04 59:32

How many, how many have can I ask on the podcast? How many have you uploaded so far?

SPEAKER_02 59:35

How many videos? Yeah. Probably like a little less than 10, maybe like seven. Oh, so we are up there, and people are actually viewing them. Yeah, and this last one that I posted, um, because I shouted out Bob the Drag Queen and Monday Shane, it's getting more likes and views.

SPEAKER_03 59:49

Okay, real. So yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 59:51

Y'all getting into it. Okay. So we're all doing our part. Because I'd be I just be having people like, hey, you know, listen to the podcast, listen to this thing that I'm working on. And so yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:01

Yeah. Yeah. So my question was Oh, did you what did you figure it out yet?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:07

Uh what with a younger. Usually it was on the paper.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:14

So I was like, I thought I told you it's not on the paper. Yeah, I know. I was trying to still say it though. So, what is your Ashaji hot take?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:24

Um you know where to go with that one? I feel like I can go in multiple avenues.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:29

What's your biggest one, or the first one that comes to your mind?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:32

The first one that comes to mind is that people are less like their sun sign than they think. Um, I think that Chomp it. Because like people resonate so much with their sun sign, um, which I love that. Like, I'm a rep Gemini like period down. But I also rep Gemini so much because I have multiple planets in my birth chart in Gemini. And when you have multiple planets or points or aspects to a specific sign that shows a concentration of that energy. So you can be an Aries son but have like a Gemini stellium, and which it a stellium is when you have a concentration of energy. So you can be an Aries sun and have a Gemini stellium, and that Gemini stellium overpowers what it is that people assume an Aries to be, or the archetype of Aries. You could be a Capricorn and have a Taurus stellium, and you'll perform or behave more like a Taurus than a Capricorn.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:37

Ah so interesting adversity.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:40

I think that when it comes to astrology, people resonate or connect connect, quote unquote, so much to their sun sign, and they allow their sun sign to be their main persona. But you have so many other planets and so many other aspects in your birth chart that you will come to understand that you resonate more with. Like people don't realize that they're more their rising sign every day than they think. They're more their mercury sign every day than they think. Because Mercury rules your movement, how it is that you think, you speak, how you talk to others, and how other people like talk to you, how receptive you will be to other people talking to you. Your Mercury sign is the moment that you wake up to the end of the day because you're you're either moving or you're not. Your Venus sign, which is your attraction, the what it is that you love, your love language, you're exhibiting your Venus sign when you interact with other people all the time. And you don't realize that. That's your Mars. Yeah. Mars is about sex, your energy, how it is that you exude that energy and the energy that you put out into the universe. Oh shit. So if you, if you, if you like, you know, Fellatio, if you like, you know, give me head top, that's your Mars sign. Okay, real, good to know. So yeah, like people resonate, people don't realize that they would resonate more and connect more with another planet or aspect in their chart than just their sun sign. So yeah. Okay. And I don't think I don't think people really realize that because certain people don't really get into the nitty-gritty of astrology.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:11

Yeah, I don't think you have a very good understanding of the specifics of all the meanings and whatnot. Yeah, low key. I will say I could get better though. Trey, when do you want to start showing your Mars sign? Like, what's the who? Do you know what your Mars sign is?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:26

Okay, okay. I be Mars. Okay. I think it's in Taurus.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:29

You're ruled by Mars. Like your sunset is Aries, and Aries is ruled by Mars. So you you by default are Mars.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:36

We thought that life.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:37

Yeah. Without that action. About that. Oh, your Mars isn't Taurus, right? I think so, yeah. Okay. Right, right. Because apparently Taurus are the sensual ones.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:52

So if I could ask, if I could ask, um, I did want to actually know what would a younger obsidian um, how would that what was the question? What would you tell?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:06

Because we do have a structure, y'all. Because some people we don't have a structure. Some of you, some people that some people, not we don't have a structure, but we feel like we have a structure. It was you. Huh?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:22

I guess I kick your ass.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:23

I'm supposed to be like, not the colors coming from me. I'm like, it's just the fact that we just be talking sometimes. Yeah, it doesn't feel like we have a structure to the show. Oh, I did say that.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:34

I did. Because it just feels so natural between young people. Right.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:36

And that's the beauty of a conversation. Yeah. Period. Fuck a conversation. It's middle of this motherfucking show. It's organic. Okay. It's organic of this bitch.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:45

We're gonna get used to it though. The more we do this, the better it gets. Okay. That's how it works.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:50

So the question is what would you tell a younger quack obsidian?

SPEAKER_06 1:04:59

Um I oh I love this question. Um, I would definitely tell a younger version of Obsidian to become more comfortable with you being yourself, defying what it is that other people think that you should be. Because I feel like I've I I went through a a long time period of trying to be the image that other people had for me rather than me being comfortable just expressing myself in a way that I felt aligned with and not caring about how other people felt about who I am and who I'm coming to be.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:35

You know what's funny about that? There we have a TikTok that we could have played right now. That would have been perfect.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:42

Wait, did he say the word? He did not. Oh, okay. I've been monitoring, I've been waiting.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:47

Yeah, I know you've been you've been listening. I'm glad you have. No, but I'm referring to the the the TikTok that uh Trey wanted to play. He played it too early. No, he didn't because this show was gonna be about astrology. He should have waited, he should have waited until this one. To report. I just saying.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:01

Wait, you played a TikTok today?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:02

No, we played a TikTok the last episode. The last episode.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:05

Episode three. We had been skipping it for like the last few episodes, and I was like, dang.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:09

Oh, that was the one that you were trying to show in the very first episode.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:11

Right. But right now, episode three, yeah. Right now, you just hit all the points of what that was talking about, which was like, yeah. It was just funny, yeah. Oh, wow. That's so interesting. Listen to the last episode, you'll you'll hear that.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:23

Oh, I am, okay, for sure. Because he's behind. I'm still I'm on the last 30 minutes of episode two. Right. We're on episode four now. Okay. Watch.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:33

I'ma catch up. I'm going to catch up. I believe in you, sister. Period. As you should. You don't need to listen to the episode four exactly because you kind of are here.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:42

But if you want to.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:43

Oh, I am. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:44

I still will. Period. So yeah, what what were you saying?

SPEAKER_06 1:06:48

Um, I just would want to tell myself to embrace that other people are not going to are not always going to see the vision that you have for yourself for them. Like, or the vision that you have for yourself, other people aren't necessarily always going to see that because you're coming to understand the vision that you have for yourself through experience. And the the perceptions that people have for you, the visions that people have for you, the ideas and the life laid out that other people have for you doesn't always match up to what it is that you have for yourself. So just embrace that. And I would tell myself to feel comfortable like embracing the unknown for sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:26

Into the unknown.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:28

Is that alphabet? No.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:30

That was not alphabet, girl.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:31

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:33

It's okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:34

He doesn't it hurts every time. It's wicked. No.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:38

No, it's frozen two.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:40

I'd never I'd never seen Frozen 2.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:42

Yeah, me neither. I know let it go. I only know.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:46

I only know into the unknown, so honestly, I can't talk too much shit. But I mean, you hear them all the time. You hear them frozen songs, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:53

You know. I know let it go. Everyone knows that. Can't hold it back anymore. Right. She should have said, let it go, let it go. Can't hold it back anymore. That's what she should have said. Ebonix. Can I say she's Caucasian?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:06

Yeah, I was gonna say. Oh, speaking of frozen. Speaking of frozen. Because I think uh it's been brought to your attention, but since we're talking about Wicked and Frozen, you know the woman that is that sings Elsa plays Elsa was the original alphabet in Wicked the Play. Oh, really? I do.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:27

I think that's I did not know that actually. Really? I think maybe someone that said it one time before because yes. No, that's actually really good. That's like news to me. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. They knew who to cast in. They knew who to cast. Because that was an iconic song. That that like changed like how Disney really does their music after that. I mean, nowadays they suck ass, but like, oh my god. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:48

I love your reaction to that. But yeah, I did know about that. I think we had a conversation about it very briefly. But yeah, is that supposed to be like life-changing? Well, to him.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:57

Well, yeah, to him.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:01

Okay, the information is pretty good just for the fact it's just like, oh wow, they had a really good actress do this really catchy song, and it was just like she's the one, she's the reason that song probably even like blew up as much as it did. Ah. Okay. The lyrics were still, you know, influential and all the instrumentals, but I'm just like, her voice was really good. Okay. Also, um, is the actress did they have a separate singing actress and acting actress, or did they it was the same person the whole movie?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:28

I think it was the same person, the whole movie.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:30

Okay, I had to know because I don't I they always not sure, but I think it was the same person. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:35

So she's a really well, of course she's a good actress. Of course. So JJ. Yeah. And you but you better fucking read my mind because it's on the fucking paper. If we have guests, okay What's the one question that we should ask?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:48

Yeah, the one question that we should ask all of our guests. Yes. And we're gonna ask it together. Okay. Okay. Three, two, one.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:56

Obsidian! Obsidian.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:58

What are you unapologetic about? Did you guys hear that at all? Because it was terrible. Um you should do it again.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:06

Obsidian.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:08

What are you unapologetic about? My existence. And in every capacity that that could ever be. I'm unapologetic about my entire existence. I will definitely take up space. I will definitely be who I am, and I will be unapologetic about that. And understanding that during that process, I'm gonna find different ways to do that. And I'm gonna be okay with that. Right. So I'm unapologetic about that.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:36

I love that because I know you, and that speaks so many volumes to every everything you do. So it's just like that's really you. That is really easy to talk.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:44

That's just wonderful. I love you, JJ. I love you too. All right, before it gets too gay.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:51

Um so what okay, if there's anything that you got going on, anything that you want to shout out to the masses, anything you want to say last, not last words like you're about to fucking die or something. But just like anything. Not you pre-planning. Right, right. But anything you like to say to the people that any final thoughts, anything like that?

SPEAKER_06 1:11:11

Um keep listening to the show. It's an amazing production. The process is amazing. The people are effervescent. Okay. That's a word. Live your truth, be unapologetically you. And yeah, just don't stop. Keep going.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:29

Don't stop. Believe. All right, well, stop doing that. Stop doing that.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:35

Do you want to um put out your like sources and anything like that like that? Or you want to say mysterious?

SPEAKER_06 1:11:39

Oh my gosh. Um, follow me on TikTok and Instagram at that Gemini Boy, T-H-A-T, G-E-M-I-N-I, B-O-Y, no understore, no underscores, and no periods. And follow my journey so I can follow yours too.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:57

All right. That was wonderful.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:59

Thank you so much for being on the show today.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:01

Oh my gosh, thank you for having me on the show. You taught me so much about how I want to do this show from now on.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:07

Oh my gosh. We appreciate you talking to our listeners and being your unapologetic and authentic self. So we appreciate that.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:17

Thank you both for having me. Yeah. This was an experience. Literally.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:21

Well, first guest, best guest, all right.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:25

What'd you say last time? That's a quack. No, I said that. What did you say? What did I say? Stay quack. Stay quack. Stay quack. Stay quack.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:33

Okay. Stay quack, hoe. Oh my gosh. It's gonna be the new trademarket hoe.

unknown 1:12:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:41

Oh my gosh. All right. Well, thank you so much for listening to the podcast. And don't forget to follow us on our socials. Make sure you give us tips. Yes. And also, um, don't forget to stream any of trademarket's music. It's talking about music.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:55

Oh, yeah. Period, dude. You're talking about something. Is there anything I want to broadcast? Shout yourself out.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:00

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:01

This is the seismic. It's influential. Oh, yes.

unknown 1:13:04

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:05

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:06

It's the year of the trade. I know I'm finding it like baby.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:19

Oh my god. But okay. See you guys later. Bye.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:27

You're listening to QXC Play Radio. Yeah.