No. 87: A Conversation with The Professional Homegirl - Eboné Almon. PART TWO. - Hand Me My Purse.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hand Me My Purse is a production of iHeart Podcasts.
So as I perused cre Summer's Internet, I found this year.
Don't remember where I found it. It's probably Young Pueblo
or something to that effect, but either way, I can't
guarantee that that's what it was. So it was on

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cre Summer's Internet, and it says today's mantra. As I
witnessed myself with awareness and non judgment, I am able
to notice limiting thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors. I can then
consciously choose new thoughts beliefs in new ways of being.

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I am observing, allowing, releasing, repatterning, and transforming. I thought
that was lovely, and if you need to remind it
and listen to it again, but it was lovely. It's
all about rebirth and choosing two basically, create your own

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narrative around who you are versus who you used to be,
and constantly choosing to be better and releasing those things
that do not serve you. Things, people, places, thoughts, beliefs, patterns.

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All of the things evolve. People evolve. I can't see

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the beast. Okay, what's up, y'all? Welcome to hand me
my Purse the podcast. I am Mimi Walker, and I
will be your forever host each and every single time
you tune into this podcast. So go ahead and get comfortable.
Get yourself a glass of your favorite beverage, whether that's
some regular old tap water, some fresh pressed carrot juice

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ill or some sorrow. If you don't know what sorrow is,
find your local Caribbean food takeout restaurant and go to
the desk, the front desk or the cashier. Excuse me,
the front desk. Go to the cashier and ask them
if they have sorrow. More than likely, if you look
behind them, you'll see a dark aubergine colored beverage in

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one of those see through beverage dispensers, and then they
have it. If you see that and then get some sorrow,
and you are welcome. You are welcome, and you are
welcome again. Go light yourself a candle, some incense, or
burn some stage and just get ready to chill out
and have yourself a good old time. What's up, friends,

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and can it's Mimi Resident Auntie Supreme here at hand
me my purse, and today I am sipping on some
celery juice I know, and as other stuff doesn't sound

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very appealing, and I can't lie. It's not the excuse me.
I'm still battling this cough. It's not the tastiest thing
I've ever sipped on. But listen, I'm pretty sure it's
good for me. I think it's good for me, so boop,
I'm drinking it to Yum yum yum. I'm just saying

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that to convince myself that it is delicious. It's really not.
I looked up some benefits of celery juice and then
it got a little weird for me. Let me share
a few that I read. A recent study found that
several compounds and celery leaves and seeds act as powerful
antioxidants in the body. These compounds include caffeic acid, fairric acid, tannin,

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and steponin or seponin. Enjoying celery, whether raw or as
a juice, can help you get enough of these compounds
and lower your chances of cancer. Celery juice is high
in plant compounds called phyto nutrients, which may reduce inflammation.
These compounds act as antioxidants and help reduce oxidative stress. Dude,

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that sounds serious. Oxidative stress. Yikes, Jesus Jesus, Jesus. Celery
is a negative calorie food that for ends makes me excited.
It's a what now? Negative calorie food? Here this means
that compared to its caloric content, our body spends more

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calories breaking it down, resulting in an average loss of calories.
That sounds like a win. Celery is rich in fiber
content and that makes it a detoxification agent for the guts.
All parts of celery can flush out the toxins regularly

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from the gut. Lastly, most people can drink as much
celery juice as they wish. However, if you have a
history of high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, or kidney disease,
you should discuss drinking celery juice with your doctor or
pharmacist first. So listen. The moral of the story is
I found a lot of conflicting information online about celery

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juice because I also found things saying that if you
have high blood pressure, it can help the lower blood pressure.
We don't really know, because this is the Internet, and
the Internet will tell us whatever it wants us to believe.
So talk to your doctor first if you're confused or
you're you're not sure. I also saw some things that
says something about allergens and if you have a lot

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of allergies. I have horrific allergies and it doesn't bother
me at all. But if you're apprehensive one, you don't
have to drink it, or you can talk to your
doctor just to make sure. Drink it at your own risk. Okay,
because I am not a doctor. Again, I am saying
I am not a doctor. Do not take my word

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as bond when it comes to medical advice, because again
I am not a doctor. So drink the cellary juice
if you choose. If you don't choose, don't I drink it,
but drink it at your own risk. And also, duh,
do your own research because the more you know, the

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better off you'll be. Friends In came for today's jam,
I went with some real old school ish. I went
with the song Tom's Diner by Susanne Vega and DNA.

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Now Susanne Vega did this song alone, but it was
completely acapella. There was no music to me that was
extremely bowling girl bue uh. But the version with Susann
Vega and DNA is a jam. That's the one that
I grew up with. Some one from the late eighties
early nineties that I know so I'm sure you know

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iticed the song where she says, I am sitting in
the morning at a diner on the corner. I am
waiting at the counter for the man too, pourthcoffee dot
dot dot. You know, you know, you know, so I
chose that song. You know, if I could be really honest,
I didn't really have a method to why I chose
that song. I heard it, I said, man, I love

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this song. I'm gonna make it the jam, and then
I made it the jam. It's very simple. So hopefully
you know this song. If you don't, I don't really
know how you don't know this song. People from all
walks of life should know this song because it is
one of those, to me, like top one hundred or

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top two hundred songs that everyone on the planet should know.
And maybe I'm being a little biased, but I do
believe that everybody should know this song because it's a
fucking dope ass song. I actually would love to do
a cover of this song, but that's neither here nor ther.
That's here nor there. That's for my next lifetime. I'll

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do that anyway. Check the song out I'm gonna play
it for you right now, a little snippety whippity of course,
in the show notes, it will be there for your
listening and viewing pleasure because it's a link to a
YouTube video, so you can watch the actual video from

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the nineties. And also, let's just get ready to listen
to part two of my interview with ebene Allman of
the Professional Homegirl and the Professional Homegirl podcast, which is
gonna start after this song. It's finished playing, so enjoy it.
And then let's go ahead and get into this conversation,

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part two of this conversation. If you haven't listened to
part one of this conversation, which is episode number eighty six,
stop right here and go back and listen to part one,
which is the prior episode, the previous episode number eighty six.
Then come back and get right into it because you've
already listened to the beginning. Do a time stamp, notice

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where you're stopping, and then go ahead and listen to
the rest of this episode after you've listened to the
first episode. If you've already listened to the first episode,
then go ahead, get your drink, and then go ahead
and finish this episode. It's amazing and yeah, let's get it,
let's get it, let's get this party. What story.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm sitting in the morning with the dinner on the corner,
I am waiting at the counter for the mantle for
the coffee, and he feels it only halfway and before
I even I argue, he is looking out the window.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
So yeah, yeah, And I think for platforms like ours,
like I think that you know, like you interview men
and women, but obviously minds is more women focus.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
More women too. I wish that I would get more
men on the show, but they just don't.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, I think that you said, like, I think men
want to be included, they want to be involved. Like
I think that when we all start looking at each
other as a whole and not as an individualistic mindset,
I think we can get a lot further because we
are here for a reason. We are here to help
each other out. If that's the case, we'll be in
this bitch by ourselves. But everything we do, we do
it with everyone else, you know.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
What, especially being in New York. Yeah, so yeah, right,
so I think that's what. But that's my goal.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I want to remind people that you know, you need
your community and if it wasn't for my community, my
professional homegirls, I definitely wouldn't be where I'm at now.
So I think it's important that we rely on each
other and we help each other out and we share
the information that's out there.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, remember you said that when we talk after this, because.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
No, I said, oh yeah, I'm really big on like sharing,
is Karen, Like, I'm big on like I call a
professional homegirl a pink print, Like I feel like you
need those bread crumbs to help you along your journey.
And that's exactly what I believe in, and that's what
I feel like my guests do. Like we listen one
of my favorite lyrics from jay Z is.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Home did that?

Speaker 3 (12:17):
And you ain't got to go through that? So you
listen to these stories and you don't do that.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I love it. Not yeah real shure, that's true.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, And somebody would have kept it real with me.
I probably would have been along my journey.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
A long time ago.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
You everything. I have something I say in this as
this guy who is probably my soulmate, I always say
to him, girl child, please is it? He gets really
angry when I say to him, everything is as it
should be. And when I tell you, he gets mad
like he gets pissed. Yeah, and I also couple it

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with this gift of uh, what's her name, Amy Poehler
like her shoulders. Oh no, it's not Amy Polar, one
of the little whiteladies, shrugging her shoulders like I don't
give a fuck. He hates that. But the truth of
the matter is that everything is as it should be.
We are having this conversation right now today, and it
is for a reason. Yeah. When my my producer reached

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out to different podcasts on Black Effect and on iHeart
for me to talk to some of them said yes,
some didn't reply at all. Some said yes and then said, oh,
we don't do guest swaps. Well, excuse the fuck out
of me, fancy pants, you too good to do guest swops. Okay,
and you know what, I ain't tripping. That's fine because
I'm not surprised to be in conversation with you. I

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am supposed to be in conversation with Ebana though, and
I have been fed like I do. I think absolutely.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Tell so you gonna love the story on how I
got with Black Effect, then.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
I would love to hear it, because I would I
would love to hear it. I would. I think that
you have such a beautiful spirit. And I don't know
people tell you that, and not that I'm a psychic,
but I got a little bit of something. You have
such a beautiful spirit, like you do you do? And
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Do you do because some people everybody do everybody don't. Yeah, yeah,
just on your dark with clouds on and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know, I feel like I went through so much
ship when I was growing up, Like like I used
to always question God.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
I'd be like, yo, like what the fuck did I
do to you? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Why you don't like me?

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Like I love it, and you know, I feel like, oh,
I once I surrender and I had that real conversation
with God. Man, God has given me everything that my
heart has desired. And I said, yeah. So when I
was doing a podcast, you know, like I just started
making money from this ship. So when I was on
the podcast, I've been doing it for over five years now,

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and for the first four and a half years, I
was just working, like I was hustling, and I just
I believe.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
In the professional homegirl so bad.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Like I just knew that this was it, Like I
feel like God was like, you just gotta trust me.
And I know that sounds cliche, but it does not,
you know, But you know sometimes people be like, oh,
everybody always says that, but like for me, like when
I really start tapping in with myself and tapping in
with my spirituality and my love for God, Yo, he

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literally showed me what my vision was and I would
never forget when Charlotte May made the announcement of the
Black Effect podcast network on The Breakfast Club and that
was three years ago. And when I tell you, I
knew I was going to be a part of this network,
like you could not tell me. And I just I
kept working. I had a full time job, I had

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a part time job, like I was trying to save
my money up. I was still recording, like I was hustling,
busting my ass, and I used to talk about this
shit like, yo, I know I'm gonna be on this network.
I know I'm on it. Nobody it was like, oh,
this bit is crazy, But I just knew what I
saw and I just I knew that God would because
one thing that I have learned about my relationship with
God and all the things that I've been through It's like,

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once you get out of things, you start to realize
like God was always with me, you know what I'm saying,
because shit could always do a lot worse. And so
one day I got onto an Instagram and the first
thing I saw was on Black Effect Instagram page and
they were just saying should we add a new show
to our lineup? And me and me, when I tell you,

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I heard guy say this is it? Y'alld, you better
go crazy yo. I sent that fucking post and everybody
that you can think of, I shared them my stories
and I was like, y'all please tag at the PSG podcast,
but you gotta put the logo with just a pink flamingo.
I was like, you gotta put that logo. And I
was like, it was like, are you sure. I'm like,

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put the fucking put the bird. I'm like, because I
know that bird is gonna stand out right. And if
I was to show you that post and how many
times that bird was shown and remind.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
You before all this was happening.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Before that post went live, I was DM and Charlotte
May like almost every day for a year, just like,
hey check this out, check this out?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah, dead ass? I love granted, he curved me, but
now and then good yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
And then when I figure out who the president was,
which is Dolly, yeah dotis Bishop, I d m her.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
But she curved my ship too.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
But it's okay, guess what whatever, that's listen. Curve me
and may sign me in December. That's fine, listen.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
I'm a very persistent.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
So when that post went live, everybody's putting the bird whatever,
and I saw that Dolly was in the comments section,
and so Dolly was like, I'm not you know, Dolly.
I was like, Dolly and Charlotte cany y'all, please check
y'all DM, because I've been dming y'all and at this point,
when you want something so bad, you got fuck pride, like.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
So she responded, she said, no, we all family. Say
what you guys say in the comment section. So I said, shit,
say less. So I took what I posted. I DMed
her like a couple of months ago. I chopped it up,
put it in the comments section and respond back to her,
and then people started liking what I responded, and then
she slid in my DM.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
And her rest was history good. I love that.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
That makes me feel WARMANSI it does because well it does,
because like it's just a testament to like hard work
and hard work pays off. And I think, I think
like it is speaking to me because when I think
about like how I started, like I never even thought
about like making money or like you know, doing any

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I never thought about any of that. I just did
it because I wanted to do it, because it was
the Actually I had been planning it before the pandemic.
The year before the pandemic. I started planning for like
a year, and then I dropped the trailer and I
was just like, I just like to talk this. This
will be another one of my many creative hobbies, something
to do. And then like it just stuck. And my

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cousin I'll never get he told me, he said, you
don't ever stick the ship. And I was like, excuse you, motherfucker.
They'll be saying that about me because I do stick
the stuff. He said, no, you don't. He said, if
you really think about it, you'll do yeah all over
the place. Good at all, the good at all, different
kind of shit.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
The Mosul most talented people have ever met.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Good at all. But you're kind of unnecessary ship. But
if I don't like it. I don't like it. No,
and so and so he said, I'm really proud of
you just for sticking this through. You've done it for
so long. You have not stopped, you have not waivered,
And I am grateful to be signed the iHeart. But
no matter what happens, if they decide that they don't

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want to resign me, or if they decide I'm still
gonna have my podcast because I love it. Like it
feeds me.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
It feeds me, it's feeding others to listen. You got
a whole buffet over there, like you never know.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
And when people tell me that, like it almost brings
me to tears because I still think, like, who the
fuck is listening to me?

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Because people, yes, they do. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
That's one That's one thing about the gift that God
give us. If it was not for PSHG, I would
not be where I'm at. Like PHG really saved my life.
Like and I'm not just saying that because no, seriously,
I'm not just saying because this is my business. But
like when I'm having a hard day, I listened to
my show and it's just like you gotta really be thankful.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah, Like I get it. It's a blessing. Yeah, I
get it.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Listen, I get it, because sometimes those listen backs like
for quality.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
You control yourself.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
I'm like, damn, you're right, bus you hear that, stop
self said, believe in yourself.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Listen, go out and breathe and maybe your higher self
reminding your ass like you got this, stay focused, like
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
So what we doing? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:01):
What were doing? This is this is a blessing. This
is a gift to not only everyone else, but to ourselves. Yeah,
and just a testament that we can do this shit.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, you got it. This is such a blessing to me.
I needed this. I need this probably more than I
way more than I thought I needed it. I needed it.
I needed this conversation. Yeah, tell me about your What
other ventures have you gotten into since starting this podcast?

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
So one of the things that I am obsessed with
is my my coloring books. So I have the color
and book call the Professional Homegirl Coloring Book.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
And also we should do like a cold for your
for your audience.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
But so during the pandemic, you know, niggas was bored
and I love to read, like I read NonStop, right,
and so when I was going to the bookstores, I'm like, well,
before I was going to bookstores, I was just like,
what can I do? That's like, that's different because like
I have merchant stuff, but who don't have merch man.
I'm just like merchrch No, we can be friends. We
can talk about this later because I mean, so, let

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me be really honest with you.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
And this is a side note. I feel like I
need a mentor because I don't like, I literally be
out here winging it and when you were a skill
now because I wings it because I'm not too I'm resilient.
It's ship and I'm gonna persevere. But I feel like
I lost my grandmother last year. I'm not gonna cry.

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I lost my grandmother last year, and you know how
you talked about I started to say something then, but
I was like, just shut up me and let this
want to talk. My grandmother was my thank you. My
grandmother was my person like she was my ride. She
was probably one of my best friends because we lived
together as adults for twenty three years. I lived with

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her because I was like, I'm not leaving her. I'm
not leaving my grandmother. That's my nigga. We it's me
and her. We right, that was, Yeah, we rolling. If
I'm rocking, she rolling, if she rocking, I'm And so
I think after she passed away, like you know, grief
is just very different. It looks very different. It's like water,

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it's not it doesn't take form, and it can be
like a tsunami or it can be like a calm,
you know, splashing up against the shore. And I think
just navigating that, like it has me in a very
strange space, right, and I feel like I don't and
I just don't know where I need to go to
get what I need to get. Yeah, But like I

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said this conversation, I mean like I'm not saying that
you need to be my mentor or I'm not even
saying that I'm asking you to be my mentor, but
I think that I need one because I don't. I'm
a little bit. I feel lost a little bit. And
I've been saying there on my show for like the
past month, I feel very lost and like and I
mean you would feel lost? Did you feel like that
after you lost your grandmother? What? Yeah? Like what the

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frim was?

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Please?

Speaker 3 (23:53):
When I lost my grandmother? Oh my goodness, I want
to take myself out. And I tell you, skin was crazy.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
My hair was falling out like.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
That because my hair is really out here, not the yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
You stressed the funk out like your number one person
that's no longer here.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Like listen, griefs that's different.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Listen different.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Ass Oh please, one man, you're thinking you're doing okay,
and I see a lady with her grandma with her child,
and you know, I am balling like yeah, and me
and my grandma was so close, like and we still
are close because it's because they.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
And you know, when my grandmother had passed away, I
felt my grandmother passed away like I felt the transition.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
I was at work, and make this story.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Sure, I was at work and I the way I
was feeling it felt like I got hit.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
By a car. I have ever felt that type of
physical pain inside of me. And I got.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Next thing, you know, I got an alert, a text
message saying that my grandmother passed. And it's so funny
because here we are eight years later, and you know, grief,
you don't ever like grief comes and goes, but you
don't hear from grief if you don't hear from it.
As time goes on, you just learn how to deal
with it better, you know, especially.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
That was like really really close to you. It's just
not going.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Absolutely because sometimes I can I can sense my grandma.
I could feel my grandmother like I can hear her
sometimes and just like I get emotional, like we have
our little special signs where like if I'm like, yo, Nana,
like I need some help, like you gotta give me
a sign or something, then boom she shows up. But
on March first, I was I just been so busy,
so I didn't even realize that March first had had passed,

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had already passed by. So on March first, I had
a dream that and I don't really dream about my
grandma a lot, which I'd like, why you never come
visit me in my dreams?

Speaker 4 (25:48):
But she probably know because I'm like, girl, don't want
to wake up.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
But she came to me in my dream and she
was like, I'm always with you, and she kept saying,
I'm only fifteen minutes a well, I'm fifteen, I'm fifteen.
And then when my grandmother had passed in real life,
I wasn't able to be at the hospital with her,
so in my dream, I was crying over her because

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she passed away.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
But then when I pulled this, the pull the blanket back.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, she had on this exact same polo shirt that
had PG.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
On it that have in my closet.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
WHOA.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I swear to God and I always tell people my
grandmother is a catalyst for me starting PHG.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
So when I saw.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
That, I woke up and like, man, I was just like,
all right, Nana, we got this.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Like I thought, she is your professional homegirl.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Absolutely, she is the opiniony of a professional homegirls girl.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
You know, a professional homegirl.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
It's a girl who is just being her true, authentic self.
I feel like we have been conditioned to show face
and not be our full selves. And I feel like
with a professional homegirl, you show up and you get
what you see. We don't have to shoot coake. We
don't have to change our voice. Like, if I want
to be loud and voiceos, that's just who I am.

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If I want to be soft and pink, I'm going
to also be that. Like we are not monolips, we
are not one dimensional. I can be one of many things,
but at the end of the day, I'm still being
true to me, and that's what professional homegirl is.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Okay. I love that.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I love that. Yes, what did you say? Tell me?
You you call them your homegirls, professional home girls, your
professional homegirls.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
So so I love that.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
So when somebody is not what's an unprofessional homegirl, you know,
it's a good question.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
I don't think I ever met anybody that didn't want
to be a professional homegirl. The professional homegirls are just
so cool, And I think the beauty of professional homegirls
is no matter where you come from, no matter what
you look like, there's professional homegirls and all of us.
Even it's getting to a point now where my male
listeners are like, yo, like we're professional homegirls too, Like
you come from professional homegirl?

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Was like professional homegirls, professional.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Home girls too. Yeah, don't can be professional boys if
you like you want.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
But you know, I just think it's cool, like for
for you to be a man and want to be
a part of it, want to be down.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
I love that. Yeah, I think the test cement to
what you are creating. Because a lot of times men,
particularly black men, they're gonna say that they know professional
homegirl because they too. Everybody gonna be like right, no, Okay,
a professional Homegirl does not make you a girl. It

(28:34):
does not make you a don't energy. It's all about
energy and all about the yes, high levels. Okay, high level?
What high vibrational energy? Remember doing thanksving? They'd be like,
I don't want no low vibrational thanksgiving plate. Give me
a vibrational plate. Give me a low vibrational plate, but

(28:56):
a high vibrational homegirl. Yes, it doesn't. It tastes good.
What's next for the Professional Homegirl podcast? Or just what's
next for PHG? Because because you are an entrepreneur and
I'm so like enamored and taking it back by like
how you've taken your platform and you are it's blossoming
and you're making it work for you. Like what's next

(29:17):
for you? So you have your coloring book? You were
telling me about your color book you never finished.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
We're talking about our beloved grandma's. They probably are having
keyky in right now. But Grandma Grandma.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Go meet Ebane's grandma, so y'all can be Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
So I was going to the bookstores, and you know,
when I was looking at I was trying to just
figure out what I wanted to do as far as
like merch because I feel like, you know, we can
all do the beanies, we do the hoodies, all these
different things. But I just wanted something cool. I always
love cool, innovative ship.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Right.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
So I was going to the bookstores because I love
to read, and I'm just like, let me just look
at the coloring books, right, And so when I started
seeing these coloring books, I'm like, if it's not a
geometric shape, it's a black girl with atro or some
damn flowers exactly. So I'm just like, yo, how cool
would it be if you have a coloring book that

(30:12):
looks like us, that come from where we come from,
from all sides of the spectrums. But with the page
that you're coloring, there's a QR cole at the bottom
of it. So when you scan a QR cole, it
takes you to the story that goes with the page
that you're coloring. And I was like, right, I was like,
that's what you do right there, bitch.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
So we are.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, so that's been doing really well. I was able
to get the coloring book in I think we are
in eleven or twelve doors and across the US, and
now I'm working on the third and fourth coloring book,
and it's the third and the fourth coloring book is
going to be geared or dedicated to professional women because
I do feel like a lot of times, especially in

(30:53):
the past couple of years, entrepreneurship has been glamorized. And
it's funny you mentioned before we started recording, we talked
about kids feeling or while we were recording, kids not
knowing about being entrepreneurs. All the kids in Baltimore want
to be entrepreneurs, probably because everybody be selling drugs, but everybody.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Want to be an entrepreneurs child.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Everybody want to be entrepreneurs.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah, everybody want to be a drug dealer.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Baby.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
The day of the Kingpin is over. It ain't no
more drugs. I said, good.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
I love a good drug dealer story.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Listen, Well, if you need something, I'm sure I can
find plenty bit because this is Baltimore. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Baltimore and we have tons of well shit a Memphis.
I'm sure you don't need to go that far.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
I know, yes, listen, come on now, I'm in New
York ship.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
But I just want to give some love to the
professional women because I feel like entrepreneurship is them. Arise
and I just I wish I wanted.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
To be a professional woman.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
I think it's amazing that you can be able to
see the trajectory of your career and a period of time,
whereas well entrepreneur, you don't know what the fuck you're
gonna get at any given time. So I just wanted
to dedicate a coloring book to them in here and
let them hear, you know, different stories from women in
different walks of life that are in professional environments, and
also show people that you deserve to take those space

(32:07):
in whatever field you want to be in.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, you know, I love that.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
I love that. I gotta get one, and I do
want to. Let's get a code for my listeners because
I'm definitely I'll definitely link it. I'll definitely link it.
And typically the code is always it could be friends
and can.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Or handy my purse, hand me my want do hand
me my purse?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, do hand me my purse because that's easier.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Hanmi my purse.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
So I'm gonna do handy my purse and everybody would
get fifteen percent off.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Okay, and I'm gonna buy one too because I want
some because I have color at work. I take my
color and books. You know what, I can cheerleading. Maybe
I'll buy.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Some Oh yeah, yeah, damn.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
Maybe I can come and visit you and your girl.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
I always fucking love that. Yeah, they get on my
damn nerves. Or maybe we could come up there. Yeah,
I wonder if they would let they would pay for
us to I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna
say for us to go. They might say no, but
I mean if their parents say yes, then we can
get on the train. Yeah that's something.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
This is the beauty of the professional home Girl. Like,
I just want the professional Homegirl to be a place
where women of color where you because I do have
a few Latinas on there, but just.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Exactly don't.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
They don't like to admit it, but right, but I
just wanted to be a place where women of color,
black women don't have to look far to see themselves.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
And you know, I want to get to a point.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
And I also feel like when you experienced me, you
know the true essence of the professional homegirl. And this
is not nothing that's performative, like it is a real sisterhood.
And my main goal is before PHG turns ten, because
she is turning six.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
I want to have my festival.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
And I'm gonna come, and.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yes, yes I will panel.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
I will. I think that. So it's so funny you
said that I didn't cheer in high school. I was
a creative. I used to sing, I was an ensemble.
I was, And yeah I didn't. I wasn't no cheerleader.
But me coaching cheer was born out of sisterhood. It
was born out of me supporting my friend Tanisiha, who's

(34:31):
actually been on the show, my friend Tanisha, who was
like one of two black girls on the cheerleading team
at my school. I went to high school. I went
to high school in California. I'm from I grew up
in Compton, but my parents did not have me at
Compton High School. I took the bus an hour and
a half to go to school in Bellflower, and so
our cheerleading team was mostly shout out to Bellflower High

(34:53):
School and shout out to the black, white, Asian and
Latino people who listened to my podcast and Bellflower. Yes, yes, yes,
but she was one of like two black girls on
the cheerleading team. So when I would learn all the
cheers so that when they would performed, I would do
them on the sidelines. I would do them in the
stands because that's what being a cheerleader is about. I mean,

(35:15):
excuse me. Being a fan is about. It's about learning.
The point is for cheerleaders to cheer. You learn the
cheers and you cheer with them to support your team.
And so I would cheer with them. I would cheer
for her. I would go to y being I was
being her cheerleader as she was a cheerleader for the team.
So when my school, I work at a really small

(35:35):
charter school in Baltimore City, when we started our football team,
we didn't have a cheerleading team, and so they had
tried to start a high school cheerleading team a couple
of times. Now you got to have a cheerleading team
if you have a football team. But the key was
that nobody had the relationships with the high school girls
like I did, because I always had. After I had
an after school program called Diamonds in the Rough, Child

(35:57):
and Baddish. They were bad. They used to fight over boys,
and that was born of me seeing how much girls
would fight each other, and I hated it. I had
a fight since I was in the seventh grade, since
I was twelve years old. I hated seeing black girls fight.
So I had all these programs and I was like, well,
fuck it, I'm gonna start the high school cheerleading team.

(36:18):
And I started the program in twenty sixteen. It's still going.
This will be my eighth year. I have to Yeah,
I want you to. That would be so dope. If
you could come and take that would be I would
I would really really love that. That would be awesome.
And so it was born out of sisterhood, my connection

(36:43):
to Tanisia, wanting to support her and I drive home
to them sisterhood, like we all we got and not
that not to exclude men or black men, but when
it comes to women, historically, we all we got from
I mean all the way back to slavery. Like they
would take our men. I talk about this on the
show all the time. They would take our men. Our

(37:04):
men would be gone, they would you know, move them
all around, and the women. I imagine that our ancestors
would be like, look, girl, they done took Harpo, TJ
and Big Man, and we all we got. We got
these fucking kids. You cook on Mondays and Wednesdays, you
cook on Tuesday, Thursday, and I'll cook on Fridays and

(37:27):
Saturdays and Sunday, we gonna rest like they had to
band together and work together and create a sisterhood. So
it kills me when I see black women or black
girls fighting, because it's like, historically, this isn't even what
the fuck we are here for. We don't do this.
We are here to support one another until the end,
until the wheels fall off. And I drive that home

(37:49):
to them, and I tell them I do not promote fighting.
If you fight and you get suspended, you're gonna get
suspended from my team. But if somebody's trying to bank
one of your sisters, because we don't even call each other,
they don't even call each other like cheer sisters or cheers.
If somebody is about to jump one of your sisters,
your ask better get over there and fight with her.
And that happened. One of the largest brawls at my

(38:10):
school was because this girl pushed one of my cheerleaders,
and another one of my cheerleaders was by her, and
these her two friends listen, and even one of my
old cheerleaders that wasn't even on the team anymore. She said,
I looked outside and I saw my sister getting the
fighting in it. They were getting jumped so I wasn't

(38:30):
about to have that. She jumped in and then her
friend jumped in because of her. Oh that's how it's
supposed to go. That's how it's supposed to go. And
I ain't kick none of them off the team. They
still on the team to this day.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Because we're sticking together like sisters.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
That's how. That's how it's gotta go. It's gotta go
that way. So I love that idea and that concept
of sisterhood because like we all we got we always listen.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
I the women that have been in my life don't
listen between so many women mothering me, so many women
being my friend be and my sister being my mentor
be and my sounding board.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Like I don't know where I would be.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
At if it wasn't for the women in my life.
And I always wanted to be to young girls where
I needed a woman to be to me.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
That's what I do. Yeah, that's why I started to
I try to be to do that like for all
of those kids, Like I try to be what I
needed because being a black girl from the East Coast,
I'm from Baltimore City, I move all the way to
the West coast, the energy is very different the same
way if you go there now, the energy and the
heartbeat of the East coast, the Brooklyn's, the Harlems, the Phillies,

(39:38):
even the Wilmington, Delawares, the Charlotte's, the Richmond, Virginia's, the Memphis.
If you go to California, it's a very different heartbeat,
it's a very different energy. It's a very different energy.
So yeah, it's important to me that they have women
that look like them that Oh yeah, it's like I'm

(40:00):
not necessarily there to save you, you know, because it's
not a captain save you. But also I'm there to
walk next to you, like we're gonna walk together. We're
gonna figure this out. If you need help, I will
help you out. But you're gonna have to figure out
how to do your own ship. But I'm gonna be
there with you. I'm gonna ride with you. And then
I feel like they just need to know that there

(40:21):
is somebody there for them. Absolutely, absolutely, Yeah, I love that.
I love that. That's a very good time talking to
you today. And we we cousins. Now you don't know Anye,
we know you.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
This was amazing.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yes, absolutely, and hopefully this will not be the last
time that, hopefully you'll have me on your show. I
can't wait yet.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Oh no, you're gonna be on the Showut what I'm
gonna talk about?

Speaker 1 (40:49):
You just got.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Right?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
People can't know my business business?

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Yeah, yeah, but you're gonna definitely be on the show.
I think that this was a maazing is and I
think that a lot of times people when they have
you on their show whatever, a lot of people don't
do research. And I think this was a very well
executed conversation. So I'm happy that we made this happen
me too.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
I'm glad. I'm glad, and I think that what you're
doing is amazing and I just want you to keep
up the good work and you are supported, you are loved,
and I can't wait for you to come and meet
my cheerleaders because you know it's important and even maybe,
of course I want my cheerleaders to have their own
special time, but maybe you can just come and talk
to some of the girls at my school because it's

(41:34):
important to me. I tap it like when I did
make up, like I met a whole lot of people,
you know what I mean, Because I did TV, I
did film, I did fashion photography, beauty editorials. There were
one of my friends was filming a short film or
a music video for this big jazz artist that and

(41:56):
it was funded through Apple, and she came to me
it was like, we need kids, and I was like,
I work out a school. This is great. And I
hired about forty five kids to be in this music video,
so they got to be on set, they got paid
to be actors in this music video. And I want

(42:16):
something that And I always get worked up when I
talk about this. It is so important to me for
black kids to know that they have permission to like dream,
especially in cities like Baltimore or mephist or New Orleans
or Detroit, Like it's an entire world that is waiting
for you that you can't even dream of. I would
have never imagined as a child that I would have

(42:39):
a platform where people all over the world would listen
to what I have to say.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
And it.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Freaks me out sometimes And even though like my listenership
is not you know, like through the roof, just to
know that somebody in Australia repeatedly listens to what I
have to say, what the fuck is that about somebody
in Germany, somebody in ken somebody in Senegal, somebody in Paris,
somebody in Canada, in Singapore is listening to what I

(43:06):
have to say. It fortifies me. And I want black
children to know that you don't have to be limited
to the dreams that this country or or your family,
or your mother or your father instilling you, like you
can dream so much bigger because in my life, come on, bitch,
don't make me grind.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, no, no, seriously, I just feel my spirit like
I don't think you stacked it. I just think you
just got a surrender and get out your way. I
feel like what you put I.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Cried.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
I what you're saying, what you're saying to the other
that you gotta say to yourself and you gotta really
mean that ship because you know it's hard out here.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
But you're doing it.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Yeah, you're right, and.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
You gotta keep reminding yourself, like, get out your way
and keep going, keep going because young meet me deserves that.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
She Now you really fucking want me to cry, don't
bring you, don't bring little me up in this, Okay,
don't down't don't right. I just want, I want and
I want just black people to know that, like your dreams,
like you, you can fly if you want to, Like hell,
you just have to believe that you can. And you're right.

(44:24):
I do need to listen to my own self. I
do you trust your good You're right? I love you.
Thank you for being here with us. Tell everybody where
they can find you. I'm gonna put it in my
show notes, but tell people where.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Toy so you can find me on Instagram at the
Professional home Girl and also at the PAHG podcast. That's
where we can here about the episodes and all of
things PHG. You can listen to the Professional Homegirl Podcast
on any of your audio platform preference or on iHeartRadio
or wherever you get your audio from. And last my least,

(44:57):
I wrote it down hand me my purse used that
fifty off.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Where do they go? Where do they buy it? Yes?

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Www dot t h E p h G podcast dot com,
So the PAHG podcast dot com.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Okay, so friends, and can buy the buy the fucking
coloring books.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
Okay, by the coloring books.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
They are, we're gonna we're gonna get them there and
you're gonna get fifteen percent off. Buye for your granddaughter.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
I know you see it.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Oh that fucking cover and everything. So you can see
this cover, but you know what I want that. I
want to put that up on my wall. I'm really
big on like art.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
All right, Yeah I can see.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah this is black black girl or black assistants. Oh
me too. I pay, and I pay a pretty little
penny for some of mine. This is a sister out
of DC made. This does these, that does a few
other ones. But I love that. You guys can't see it,
but it's a nun, a nurse like a girl in

(46:02):
a pink bikini looking like yes, because sex workers need
love to and they are nothing wrong with But there's
nothing wrong with being a sex worker. If you choose
to be a sex that's real work. And also, let's
keep it up. A lot of y'all, a lot of
us are sex workers and we just don't know it.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Boo.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Come on now, a lot of us are sex workers
and we just don't know it.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Ain't getting nobody deposits.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
No, no, but some of y'all are getting y'all bills
paid by mister earl. Baby, you're a sex worker, okay, yeah, mister,
I don't want because I'm not having sex with nobody's
old ass on granddaddy. I'm not doing it because I
will throw up. I will throw as old black women say, baby,
he's gonna give you worms. He's gonna mister will give
you worms. Yes, so go to that's because they nasty. No, no,

(46:51):
not being an agist, but ill mister earl friend again,
you're gonna go to the professional Homegirl no v p
h g PhD podcast dot com. You're gonna get the
coloring books. We're gonna say fifteen percent because you're gonna
use the code. Hand me my person altogether. Absolutely, I

(47:16):
precident because that's what black ladies say, hend me my purse.
Like how you're centered around like professional homegirls. My podcast
is centered around the voice of like aunties. I ain't
got no kids. I'm I'm a professional auntie.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
Yeah shit, I'm a professional hunting to listen.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Aunties make the world go around, that's sure. Okay, yes, okay,
So thank you so much. I love you so much.
We are we family.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Now we can help me to thank you so much
for having me.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Absolutely, and make sure you go buy the coloring books. So,

(48:08):
friends and Ken. A couple of weeks ago, I read
maybe not a couple a few weeks ago, I read
a question from my little cousin Lance, and he had
written in and wrote two questions, and I said I
would save the second question for later. Well, today is later.
I'm gonna go ahead and read this second question. My

(48:30):
throat is very sclatchy. I feel very like, hello, my
name is me Me. That was a great impression. But whatever,
let's move forward. So my little cousin Lance's second question. Listen, chiall.
I had to pause this for a second because my

(48:51):
throat was getting a little too scratchy. I still excuse me.
I'm so sorry, so sorry. Also, other stuff I done
lost my train of thought. Shell, Oh, my little cousin
Lance's question. Sorry, I had to take drinks and water
because my vote was my throat was all scratching and

(49:14):
I was sounding like I had a cactus and my fro. Anyway, Okay,
here's Lance's question, he says, And now a funny question.
I was put into a small predicament a couple of
weeks back and wanted your take on it. Long story short,
A bunch of people drinking at my house got a

(49:35):
bit too drunk and it started a heated argument. One
guy that I'm somewhat close with is the kind of
drunk where he says slick stuff that gets him into fights,
but he doesn't remember what happened. The next day, this
other guy that I'm not close with here's the slick
talk and tells my friend to step outside. Oh shit,

(49:56):
we all know what that means. So we go and
de escalate the situation. The guy leaves, but he says
when he sees my friend again, it's on site. For
my friends and ken who are a little older, who
don't know what it's on site means. That means that
the next time I see you on site, seeing you

(50:18):
the immediate time that I see you, I'm going to
whoop your ass. That's what on sight needs. It means
upon seeing you one more time, the very next time
I see you, I'm gonna whoop that ass. Anyway, moving on,
go ahead, what'd you say? Lannce Lance says, once again,
we all know what that means? Laugh aloud. A part

(50:41):
of me thinks it's all just drunk talk. But I'm wondering,
am I obligated to try and fix this issue since
it happened at my house? Do I warn my friend
and try to get them to talk to move past things,
because of course the next day he forgets most of
the night as he fell asleep in my shower. Wow,
and you know me, I don't got time for mess.

(51:02):
But what are your thoughts? Okay, Lance, let's get into
this right now. So one thing I do know about
my little cousin Lance is he's not really in the conflict.
It's not as jam I think that. Listen. I keep
having to pause this because I'm coughing, not sure what

(51:22):
it is. It might be this goddamn celery juice. Now
I'm paying attention. I don't know what's going on. But anyway,
let me go back to what I was saying. So,
first of all, Lance, you shouldn't feel obligated to fix
anything because you are not handy manny. Okay, So that's
one two. I understand feeling like maybe I should, you know,

(51:46):
try to pass this up because you know it happened
at my house. If anything, what you can do is
the other thing you said is to not necessarily warm
my friend, but to let him know. Look, do you
saying all kinds of shit out of your mouth last
night or maybe wait a couple of days. I just
wanted to let you know that when you were at

(52:07):
my house you were saying all kind of inappropriate stuff
or all kinds of slick shit. However, you talk to
him out of your mouth and Tayte got mad. Taj
didn't like it. Tay Tay was like, listen, step outside
and let's squat up. We de escalated the issue. Of course,
you don't remember it today because you know how you do.

(52:28):
But let's just be honest. I don't want you to
fighting because you're you know, I'm cool with both of you.
But I kind of think that you should call Tate
and have a conversation with him now that you are sober,
and you probably should apologize for being a dick, okay,

(52:49):
because you were being a complete asshole and it was
unnecessary and it made some of us uncomfortable. Another thing
I would say, Lance is that you kind of gotta
think about you invite and when you invite them places.
Because when you have a friend like we'll say his
name is day Day. If you have a friend like

(53:09):
Dayde who's always getting drunk and running his mouth, eventually
dudes like Taytay ain't gonna say step outside. They just
gonna knock his damn block off. So you gotta think
about how you are mixing friends. I don't really mix friends,
not my gym. Now it's not really a problem because
I don't really have a whole lot of friends, but

(53:34):
the small group that I have, it's okay for me
to mix them because they all know each other now,
they've all been around each other, and it's fine. But
you got to think about that when you have large
gatherings and you do big fun at your house or
just big fun anywhere, you have to think about who
you're mixing. Because if dayDay always getting real drunk, running
his mouth and then not remembering the next day, like,

(53:55):
people aren't gonna want to be around him, which means
people aren't gonna want to come around you. They know
that day Day is there, or they're gonna start saying
is day they gonna be there? Because don't nobody want
to deal with that. Like, you guys are relatively young,
so like you can still lean back and laugh about it,
but after a while that shit gets old. Really, so

(54:15):
I think that the one thing is not your job
to fix anything, but the one thing you can do
is tell Day Day, Like, look, dude, last time you
were here or a couple of nights ago when you
were here, you were doing what you usually do, which
is running your mouth talking shit. So and so Tayte
got upset. You should probably talk to him and try
to smooth things over. Also, can you be mindful of

(54:39):
how much you're drinking? Not trying to police how you drink.
But when you come to my house, like, I don't
want you offending my guests because you don't want people
to be like, I ain't going over Lands's house no
more because day they be there and he always on
some fuck shit. You don't really want that because if
you like to entertain, you'd like to entertain. So that
is my two cents. That's what I think. You probably

(55:00):
aren't gonna listen to this, so I'm gonna text you
and tell you that I answered your question on episode
number eighty seven. Okay, May the force be with you,
Young Lancelot. Thank you for submitting a question for straight Facts.
Yye yye, friends, and Ken for today's we Got to

(55:23):
Do Better segment, I went to quite possibly my favorite
author of all time, and that is the good Auntie
Zora Neil Hurston. Okay, I love her. I love everything

(55:44):
about her Zora, Neil Hurston, Tony Morrison, and James Baldwin
our hands down my favorite authors of all time. So
here's what Auntie Zora said. She said, I have known
the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and

(56:06):
been served. I have made some good enemies for which
I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly,
and I have fondled hatred with the red hot tongs
of hell that's living. Listen. I love this lady. She

(56:31):
writes so eloquently, and she got such you know, people
had a lot of shit to say about her and
about her writing and calling it so many not kind things.
But there's a beautiful eloquence in the way that she writes,
whether she is writing in a Southern dialect or whether

(56:55):
she is writing in the Queen's English, wherever the queen is,
there's an eloquence in the way that she writes that
feels to me like silk. And I'm rubbing my fingers together.
You can't see me, but there's something very silky to
me about the way that she writes. You may not

(57:17):
get it, but there's silk in her writing. And I'm
going to read this again to you because I want
to and it's my show, and I'm going to What
in the world is that my show? Anyway? She says,
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I

(57:41):
have served and been served. I have made some good
enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I
have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the
red hot tongs of hell. That's living. Yes, it is
Auntie Zora. Shout out to Auntie Zora, Neil Hurston, baby friends,

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and gay person. Foremost, what I would like to do
is thank God, because God is supreme and I recognize
and appreciate the grace that God extends to me every
single day of my black ass life. I want to
say thank you so much to my guest, Ebenet Alman.

(58:43):
The blessing of being in conversation with her was just that.
It was a blessing. And I am absolutely grateful for
her time and her energy that she shared with me
because she didn't have to. None of my guests ever
have to do that. But I'm so grateful that they
choose to spend time with me and to share their

(59:04):
energy with me. I'm eternally grateful. I want to say
thank you to my people. Thank you to each and
every one of you guys that have been rocking with
me since day one. That's March the first of twenty twenty,
that's four years ago. That's an investment. Thank you. I
appreciate you. I love you. You are le best. I
truly appreciate you for being here with me during this

(59:26):
entire journey. And guess what, even if you just started
listening to the show today or this month, or last
June of twenty twenty three when I joined, iHeart I
thank you for that as well. I am grateful either way,
and my soul cannot share with you enough how much
I appreciate you. I am thankful for my family, my friends,

(59:51):
my friends and king, my supporters, and of course, most importantly,
every single one of you guys out there listening. I
love you guys so much, and it is nothing short
of an honor, a blessing, and a privilege for me
to share my time and my energy with you, especially

(01:00:12):
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to the next time that we get to do this
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Stop what you're doing, and if you haven't already done so,

(01:00:33):
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(01:01:18):
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(01:02:27):
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