November 30, 2022 • 60 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Jay dot Ill a production of I Heart Radio. Shellow.
That is that is like an official like black girl thing. Okay,
that's worldwide. I just want you to know that there
wherever you go on the planet, a black girl will
say hellow, Okay, it's gonna happen just like that. Okay.
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It could be about anything, It could literally be about anything,
but yeah, we do that. So today we're gonna talk
about We're gonna continue talking about our favorite fucking things,
things that our our mama's and our grandmama's did not
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get an opportunity to um enjoy it. But there's some
things that they definitely um gave us, like like a
footsak that's the favorite thing. Oh yeah, okay, oh an
Asian wash rag. My mother introduced me to those the
long scrubbies. Yeah, the long strubby that come with the
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different colors. Combined it and not to mention you combine
it with the dtor bonners that most of our mothers
also used. Come on the peppermint soap. Now I will
have to say this, and I've said this on the
podcast before you're gonna want to dilute you don't put
it on the couchie so much. Yeah, ok, after after
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a wax. Don't use it after a wax as a
clock shapes. But my mother also introduced me to the
I mean, this is the old school Clinique beauty bar
soap that the nice little green they still make it
slides out of the little green thing. It's it's it's
really really really mild, so for the skin Clinique makes it.
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It's an old school black girl go to. Since we're
washing faces and diluting soap before we burn our couches,
I'm just gonna say that. This is Jim Scott and
I'm here with Agia Graydon Danzler and Saint Clair and
this is the podcast. Okay, so where we don't burn
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our coochies and we keep our faces clean. That's right,
that's right, because a clear poor is a beautiful thing
to happen. And we struggle, I do, come on, struggle
for a clear poor situation. You ain't using your mama's
queen and green mask, Queen Queen Helene, I'm sorry, Queen
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Helene green mask. What's the green dolls that you get
from Whole Foods and typically like wherever you can buy incense,
and you put apple cide of vinegar in it. Well
that's the thing with the Aztec, the astext Yes, I
didn't even put it in vinegar. It will suck literally
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the your bad memories out of your long enough it
will look you don't have no sins, girl, mask girl,
you can't talk, you can't think. Nine time open. It
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always looked too complicated for me because it come into
powder form, so I'd be like, wait what I got
and it's still be in your head? Um. You know.
I love when I've gone out and I've had just
a little bit around my edges. That's always been nice.
That's nice. That's that's that's nice. It's our favorite though
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though it's a nostalgic phase, right, it's nice to have
just nice. But I still but it's not that it
takes the edges out, no, it just simply just it's
to wash it out. It's a can be a you
have to put a warm washcloth. For some of our
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Caucasian folks. Is a small towel that specifically you can
use for your face and your right you should have
one specifically for your face if you're going to have
a washcloth at all. And then there's another that you
can use for your genitalil y'all. Okay, so you can
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get up in there because you want to get up
in there as well. Yeah, that's very true. You know
a lot of a lot of folks, you know, use wash.
They don't use wash. One of my new favorite things
is a small it's like a small wash cloth with
you put your finger in. It is white. My hand
motion ain't good. But it has a scrubby side and
a wash cloth side strictly for the coach before when
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i'm you know, when I'm waxing and I gotta foliated
scrubby side, you know, and then the soft side, you know,
any other time when I'm just putting my honey pot
up there and I want to make sure things are,
you know, properly. Glad you mentioned that's a favorite thing.
That's a favorite. I just got the loop. I'll let
y'all know. Y'all know she made a loop. You said
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she didn't. You're gonna have to give us it's made up.
It's honey in a Yes, that sounds like such a
lovely time. That's what it does. It does for one
of my favorite things. Yeah, I just I just passed
it on to my well, not the loobe, but I
definitely passed on the honeypot tradition to my daughter. Just recently,
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I bought her a whole box. Yeah, can wash the wipes,
the panty spray, the panty spray, yes girl, burger mine
and one. I'm got burger burg a coop trumber and
burger a black girl thing. I don't know that burgerm any.
I think anybody who was around for when no body
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Body Shop came way, just let me get that burgerm
out whatever you wait a minute, always got them twisted.
There there's two stores from then there was the body
Shop and then there was but the body Shop was
like the more natural. Always that the body smell like perfume,
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just as like the Anti imporium. Yeah, like there was
a difference, like there were two different kinds of curls.
You know, you know it. You know, the Body Shop
and that almond coconut shade butter. The shade butter came
out and they're hard to find now the body Shop
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is not a realm. No, I don't see them that
much anymore. Are they still out? You know, you could
get like four of them for a certain prices, like
eighty bucks or something. I don't remember. You could get
like a whole bunch of you walk out of there like, yes,
I'm straight for the summer. Yeah. The body shop was
the business. The thing with bath and body works, it
was all about the fragrances, the body sprays. That was
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where the fruit he smells came from. And I always
felt like that lean more towards are dancing friends. They
smelled of strawberry. I'm really going, I'm gonna get my
pocket at this point, I need my back and my
coat and my keys. Where is my bad dancing friends?
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Am I making up? And I'm looking? I definitely think
I definitely wore body sprayed from there at some boy,
and I know that I did. I know that I did. Huh.
It was like solid I'll never tell uh. That was
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just my perspective. No, I'm joking. I listen, I feel
that I ain't got to be right. I'm just saying
it was my perspective. It was a faith for back
in the day people. But the kid came origin was killed.
The gene note it was an extension of the gene
and the one they had, the old one that's a
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good lotion. The I don't know how aca. I don't
know what it's called. It's French. Is that in the
body shop? Is it in the body show? It's in
the mall though they have Is it in phips or Linux?
It's in Linux. It's probably you know, I'm asking you
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a class question. You know. Is it in the echelon
mall or is it in the middle class mall? You
know what I'm all I know is that it's certainly
in the mall right by um Trump Towers in New York.
Um Uh yeah, I know it's across the street in
that mall. So this is your favorite thing some French
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say again, I think is that I don't know how
to say it. I've never known how to say it.
But it's nice. I know exactly what I think. I
know what you're talking about, though I don't. I don't
know the name either, more real talk after the break Well,
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one of my favorite things in terms of like, you know, products,
It's like, I love what we talked about, honey Popper.
I do love that black women have all these really
kind of cool have like jumped into the products fine
products like um because they crowded up that section and
target they got that whole like black women and all
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of it, like it's just everything. Oh my god, it's
so many black women with dope hair products. I mean
the edge gel alone, and the number of Black women
producing edge gel. It's like, yeah, it's overwhelming, it's overwhelming. Appreciate.
I think I do have a hard time finding a
good product because my hair will reject the product after
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a little while. I got one for you all, because
you know that's that's that's natural. Got just you know,
curls from her homeland requires something different, some different, something different.
Well I use I use one of my favorite products
right now that I've breaked through my hair to give
my curls like a little happy situation is a product
from a company called Do d o u x Black Woman,
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and I love her products and you know what she
um They're bright colors and just look gorgeous, and she
has names like big Pop and uh you know, just
like really cool. You can tell. And I actually follow
her on Instagram and her and her husband are absolutely
kind of adorable. So it all sells the product for me.
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Talk us through the beauty of the hair part of
the store. It is overwhelmed. Nothing I don't know and
then you want to be like, well, I just want
to support black. Well, everybody's black, right, you don't even
have to do. You got so many options up there,
and shout out to some of the black I do
want to, you know, shout out some of the black
owned beauty supply stores like beauty Bees out in California.
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I know a few of them. So you know, we
do this thing, but we need to just do it more.
This one the notion that I was speaking of earlier
that I really like it's a soy milk and honey
whipped body butter. It's it's from Kills. I knew. Yeah,
Kill's got some good ships. Honey, honey, listen, it's worth
the investment. Maybe you start with the smaller bottles first,
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because it is not you know, it's not cheap. But
a man, when I tell you, that's why I use
on my face like moisturizer. Wise, I understand. What a
yeah huh yeah Asian? What you what you what you
about to say your one of your favorite things? Well,
what I was saying was that there's a company called
ken Apperil and they do satin line hoodies. Oh they
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have so like you know, when you're traveling and you
don't want For those people who have issues with bonnets
being in public, then you can wear your satin line
hoodie instead. There are so many alternatives. The bonnet thing
really don't make no damn sense. Winter hats, which I
always struggle with because I like a winter hat. At
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one point, I have really short hair and I couldn't
go out of a winter hat. And they have satin
line winter hats which are lovely. Yeah, can apparel. I
got two studies and a turban with the satin line,
and so yeah, I'd be into that airplane with because
you don't want your head touching touching that thing. Speaking
of favorite things and traveling, Oh, I just bought me
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so me and the boyfriend just realized we at the
age now we're we ken't putting hing on our back
gone on the days of the backpacks. So I go,
oh yeah, yeah, so I gotta hope. I had to
buy me a dope I gotta dope backpack on wheels.
And it's just funny when you travel, you gotta make
sure you got everything because it got like the strap
put on top of your bag and then you could
just roll. It's okay, maybe I'm I'm too travel deep,
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but I I just want to think. It comes a
point where you gotta go. You gotta get the backpack
with the wheels com froma sure they got the strap
in the back so that you can put it on
top of your roller bag. So then you're just you're rolling.
You just you're chilling. Pay us free. I'm just the same. Yeah,
just a new favorite thing traveling. A favorite thing of
mine is um is an essential oil diffuser. Oh yeah,
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I love us. I mean if I could have it everywhere,
but I would have them everywhere, Yeah, everywhere. You just
diffuse you. I'm curious because I always juggling to diffuse
versus the incen versus the candle because you seem like
you had candles too an instance, I've got all three,
but either think the diffuser. Which is cool is it
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travels well and you don't have to worry about a
fire hazard or and a lot of people who have
respiratory issues eventually can't really do a lot of incense, right, Okay,
all right, Oh, so the fuser is a good option
for that. And if you're feeling a little under the weather,
you just pop in a different oil and you know,
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put the peppermint all and nat. Yeah, it's a good thing.
I like. I like those. Keep up with it. You
gotta keep up with it and buy your oils and
you know, right, I generally like a room to smell
really good. Like I can't really relax unless the room
smells good. And so I do the linen spray I have,
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and then I will do a candle, like I just
need this. I got so many things. I even got
the charcoal. I got the charcoal, and then you put
the little herbs on top and it burns on top
and it burns, smells so good, like they make your
like blend, so you said charcoal, and then they put
herbs on top of you buy it like that, or
you do it yourself, so you buy the It's like
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you can buy a little holder for your charcoal where
you burn it. This is traditionally old. You can buy this.
And I don't like charcoal, right, added an element that
I didn't right, So I buy these little vows of
smell goods, just beauty herbs that smell amazing, and you
drop them on there and it burns and the whole
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room just smells like grass or grass is my thing.
I like that. Who don't like? Who don't like? Lemon grass? Also,
if you plant it in your yard, it's a natural
mosquito repellent. They can come on, that's true, but it
can grow like bush bush bush. You gotta keep it
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under control, but it smells fabulous. Mosquitoes off your back, Parcha.
What about bees? I don't know know about no bees, child,
and I don't played a by no bees either, That's
what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know. I'd have to
do a little research about the limon grass and and
planting it because I love to plant. I'm excited about
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planting um in the spring, very sad. I want to
be a better planter, like I recently stepped on a
came upon the gans was the Gangster Gardener, my man
Gangster gardener who has done a lot of the Brotherhood.
Don't know about that guy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh, I'm
gonna send you him. I'm misrepresenting him because he's worldwide.
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Everybody knows his brother He planned. He started by like
planting um gardens that you could use with vegetables and food,
like in the hood, places that you think, like empty lots,
places that aren't being used he was into and now
he has like a master class. I even done Ted
talk before. He's he's well known and he's really all
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all like sustainability and and and have an urban farming
and we like to do that. I like, I wish
I was a better urban farmer in my in my heart,
I'm an urban farmer. I've had a garden several times,
and I've I've had a pretty good harvest this year
so much. But I will say this is one of
my favorite things that I've discovered about myself this year
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is my absolute need for nature. Like I need to
commune with nature. And when I say that, I don't
need to wait for my birthday or my anniversary or
a special occasion, like I need to be in nature
almost daily, like I need that I live in the city.
I probably will live in the city a little longer,
you know, but I do realize I need to have
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access to that. I take my little walks. I enjoy that.
I like to be around trees and burns. Have you
hiked in One of my favorite things is hiking over
there on like Kelly, drive over there on the way
and trail like the all it's so pretty and you
find all these secret beautiful like statues to like the
indigenous people. It's like, if you got to live in
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the city, you gotta find some green space. That's to
me as I just like I have to have to
do it. By the way, the gangster gardener his name,
I want to say his name. His name is Ron
Thinley because he was big into the theater community and
acting community before all this. So yeah, Ron, But yes,
nature all day. And water when you can good water man, listen,
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talk about the jail. Good water, warm water, blue water
I can see my feet is my favorite thing. Um that. Yeah,
that's the thing. It's hard not to when you go
on vacation not to pick a place that got some
water that you can see your feet. It just bring
you some kind of peace. I love the oceans. Say that. Galveston,
Texas August then so so so, so so warm and
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you could literally walk a mile and it'll be up
to your waist, Like seriously, it's a it's incredible. I
want to go now. I never thought and Texas is
not on my list. Yeah, normally it wouldn't be on mine,
but you know, um, I decided to go. I wanted
a beach house. Four weeker a week and a half,
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grabbed some friends and we went to Galveston, Texas, because
you know, I figured out I could be there, you know,
and yes, I could be there. So I went there
and they had um um houses that had private beaches
and and it was Airbnb. It wasn't like, you know,
there was Airbnb. Everybody chipped in and there was like
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five or six bedrooms and um, nice size house and
like really lovely, like and the water was amazing. I
came back Weskin was incredible. I think I think I've
seen these on a couple of my h g TV shows,
the beach beach houses, the beach Bargains, beach fronts, because
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a bitch level good h GTF. So yeah, well that's
the favorite thing. Hey, listen, talk about it. Do you
all have anything that you do annually, like that's your
favorite thing to do or something that you enjoy that
you do annually that you keep up as a tradition
for yourself. I used to like COVID, you know that
messed us stuff up, But um, a favorite place to
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go for me was always asking, oh yeah that's on
my list. I've never been there, Jill, And it's tell
me why it's better than like a big bear or
something like what's special about asking? I don't know that
it's better. I just I do. I think it's better.
I've been to a lot of a ski resort places
and I really like it because, um, nobody gives a
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funk about you, and that's awesome for me. Anyway. There's
art galleries, everything is walkable. Um, there's great shopping, which
is really really nice. The restaurants are exquisite, fantastic restaurants,
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and wine out of this world. So I have not
been to Veil, but um, Aspen is definitely a favorite.
And you can go to Aspen all year round, so
it's really lovely. Actually I've done. I did a music
festival and Veil in the off season and it was
actually beautiful when it wasn't cold out, it was gorgeous.
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That's what I'm talking about. Those mountains, Honey, We're just
gonna watch all of that, that greenwich and that that
beautiful sun on your ass. Now, you do have to
be mindful that there are bears, oh good baby, and
all the trash can receptacles will remind you, yes, because
they are locked down, girls out, so they will remind
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baby we have bears. And I was like, Oh, what's like,
y'all don't really want a lot of blacks because y'all
got bears and bears. Okay, we don't do bears. Well,
we don't do bears, and we do our heads on
the swivel. We do. Shut up, babe, Look right, there's
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the listen girl. So well, one of the things for too,
I like to do that we started doing and I
don't even know how we ended up going every year,
but we have been going to before COVID and then
we returned again this year, is that we started going
to art Bosom. Oh because and I want to mention
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that on the podcast, because the first time we went,
it wasn't a heavily attended by UM, the black and
brown folk and in some of the major kind of
UM shows down there. So for for those of you
who don't know, our boss was a big like a
huge art show and UM and some of the you
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have to kind of be in the main shows. You
have to be associated with a gallery, and so many
black artists struggle with that at and if they are
is typically not a black owned gallery. So one of
the things I'm very proud of was. I did get
the opportunity at one point going down there to buy
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a piece from a black artist who was represented by
a black owned gallery at that time. It was you
know that was that was kind of a big deal
for me and I and it didn't cost me a
gazillion dollars because you know, can be can run the spectrum.
But I will hope it's like folks on the streets
and stuff too, like people take a total people do
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like you know, there's the main shows and then people
do shows on the street. They do it and other
venues around the city, and the city is amazing. It's electric.
Now there's lots of artists that come down there and
do concerts, and black folks have ascended and given this
event all the flavor that it lacked and now it
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is just one of my favorite things to do. And
the first week of December in Miami, it is all
about the girls about to say, by the time folks
here this show, it should be going down. So yeah,
I'm supposed to be and I will be. That's nice.
I'm already we're already booked and ready. Oh I love that.
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That made me go. I'm very excited. We're gonna take
a quick break and then we'll be right back. Well,
you know, I'm all for families. Yea, all know, I'm
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all for families. Yeah. But for anybody who has not heard,
here we go. So Familist is the the Clicema's alternative.
You know, if you've done the slightest amount of research
and you've discovered that Jesus was not warning December that America,
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well a lot of world economy is dependent on the
end of the year boost money. Um. For anyone who's
done any of that, I created a holiday called Familists.
It is family is and these are the favorite things
about Christmas without the stigma's attached. Love the Lord all
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year long, if that's what you do. Um, But for
this holiday, we cook, we laugh, we um, we listen
to music. But we also in order to get a gift,
you have to write a one page essay and it's
one thinking base. Okay, it's what was thinking base, And
then you write the one page about whatever you want
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to talk about. So that way we get to hear
our elders speak, we get to hear our children speak,
We listen to each other. You get a gift, okay,
And then um, all the essays are handwritten. Um, and
then we keep all the essays so old that in
the future we could bust them out and be like,
when you were loving, U said that you wouldn't to
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be a silliantist, and now you're, you know, a scientist.
Look at that. You know so well. That's definitely one
of my favorite holidays. I love to have people over
for that, but I've learned that too many people is
a long night because everybody's got to read their essay.
You cannot get a gift without your essay. Why is that?
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Because nobody gets something or nothing? How many words a page?
One stinking page? Yes, practice my curses with that. When
y'all know I love me a black and the Black holiday,
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so y'all know I love me some June teens. Come on,
and um, I didn't grow up celebrating Juneteent's, so I've
on and I've only been celebrating it with my kids.
For man, Dean was like little so under ten years.
But um, as the years went on, I was like,
I want to make sure that we have like some
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traditions and things that we do consistently during that time.
So I do I make my homemade um strawberry punch. Yum, yeah,
strawberry punch. Homemade strawberry soda is really what it's supposed
to be. But it's punch at my house because I
can't make soda. I'm gonna need that whole recipe. I
never heard nobody may no drink it. After the news
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of emancipation, a lot of the formally enslaved people decided
that they wanted to do things that they couldn't do before,
and one of those things was drink strawberry soda. Right. Oh,
I love that. But even back then, when I hear
that story, I mean, like, what was their strawberry soda
made up? And what did it taste? Did it tastes
like fantom? What is it natural? Did it come from strawberries?
Because you know another thing, another thing is that the
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link to our parents enjoying butter pecan ice cream is
linked to that story too. Really, yes, because it's not
that I didn't even know that was the universal thing.
I thought that was just my daddy. People love cream.
But part of ice cream polor, I'm here to tell
you sending black people that came in the ice cream
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polor got butter pecan or French vanilla inferiating vanilla ice cream.
Vanilla period was something that enslaved people just did not
get an opportunity to enjoy. So it was one of
the things that they incorporated in their celebrations after emancipation
was vanilla ice cream and butterfo kind of ice cream
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is like an extension of that. And so those people's
parents and grandparents enjoyed that, and that's why they like
it because that was the ice cream they were introduced
to when they were young kids. So we like to
do that, do some cooking. But one of the things
that I enjoyed was that I bought a book from
my kids one time about thing called Pitts schools. So
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a lot of the ore slaved ancestors were learning how
to read. They would leave in the middle of the
night and they would dig these big ditches, cover them
up during the day and at night they would go
down and the dishes, cover them up and buy candlelight
learn how to read and write that. Because they didn't
have pencil and paper, they would use flower and they
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would write in the flower their letters and numbers. So
on Juneteenth, what I like to do is take our
table and I put a cloth town and we put
the flower on the table and we right are we
say our ancestors names and we write their first names
into the flower. Yeah, I wanted us to have certain things.
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And then also to my good friends, uh Sonny King
does a huge um um Juneteenth parade which we we
attend now and that we've been a part of and everything.
So we try to do you know, we try to
do the thing. I enjoyed doing this like my favorite.
It's like my it really is my favorite. I mean,
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I care of good people out here listening to day
dot il podcast right now. Look, you can create your
own holidays. That's that's that's two out of the three
thus far that have created a holiday. I create a traditions, tradition, tradition,
and you can incorporated into a holiday for sure. So
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I love that, y'all. That's fantastic. Yeah, y'all. Yeah, we
like to do it. We like to do it. But yeah,
I enjoy that. I feel like one of my favorite
things always is going to be spending time family, been
telling my friends, talking to you about things I enjoy
and I love, and building with y'all, getting advice, getting love.
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I live for that. That keeps me alive, that keeps
me going. So that's always gonna be my favorite thing
in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I love.
I love to get my head scratched, and I I
love a good massage, like a head massage. That is
a favorite thing. If you want to be my friend,
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you go right here and start massage with my head.
There maybe some slopper, Okay, I might falling asleep a
few times, but I'm trying to tell you that's one
of my favorite things in life. Don't walk upon you
and put your hand in her head. That's not what
she's saying. Don't walk upon you and put your hand
in her head. That's not what she's saying. I just
had to say it because do y'all have a guilty
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pleasure favorite thing? I'm afraid to tell people that You're like,
don't be nasty. I'm not gonna be nasty. I don't
ye ain't mine, ain't nasty. Mine is just lazy. I'm like,
my guilty pleasure is not doing shit. My guilty pleasure
is sitting on the couch and catching up with every
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show that I may have missed in the past week.
Like that. Is that is, And in my world, I
like the world to stop so that I can do this.
You know, I know it don't, but I like to
imagine that the world just stopped and it's about guilty pleasure.
I'm with you. It might be with the boat and
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what's on the boat and the beautiful and young the wrestles.
There you go. Okay, I just told himself. Okay, it's
on the dvr. Okay, that's the only reason I got
the dvr. Okay. And the Housewives. Yeah, so that's what
I was trying to get at. What are you watching
my guilty pleasure? No, no, no, I love that any
ain't a Trump City Okay, come on, baby, come on.
I'm sorry. I don't know if you guys watched From Scratch. Yes,
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I did not, yet y'all made me watch that show.
Have finished it yet? I enjoyed it very much. I
know spoilers. No, I enjoyed it very much, That's all
I'm saying. And I enjoyed that that That might be
that that and um, something's gotta give with Diane Keaton,
Oh my god, you took it back. I love that movie.
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I just watched her new thing that she got on Netflix.
But something's gotta give. The joint she did is that
the one she did with Jack Nicholson when okay, oh yeah,
that's the best one. It's like about divorce or something
like that or something. She takes care of her her
daughter's boyfriend who happens to be sixty because he's injured,
and it's Jack Nicholson and they stuck in he's stuck
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in the house with her and he doesn't date women
her age, and it's like the whole thing, fabulous beach house.
I have to go back and watch that. And The Steps, Jill,
The Steps when you can do the steps? Yeah, get
choose some sex. Yes, oh man, that's a favorite. She's Nora,
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the woman who directed that. She even though she makes
the whitest the good movies, she makes some good white movies.
She made she just passed recently, Norah. I mean, my
guilty pleasure movies are the white rom coms. Oh girl,
Let's go dresses? Damn you went? Oh yes, yes, how To?
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How To? What is it? The one with How Lose
a Guy in ten Days? I'll watch those back to back.
In her shoes. That's a faith for me. In her shoes.
I will watch every time in her shoes, every time.
I will watch that. Everything Tony Collette is my guilty
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pleasure because Tony Colette does I'm not like her. We
like we like her? Yeah, I like those. What's the
one about Italy? The one? Um? She finds out her
husband is cheating on her. She's devastated. He ends up
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taking pretty much everything, well he's about to, and she's like,
you know what, take it. And she goes off to
Italy for a trip because her friends were supposed to
go and they were like, come with us, but they
ended up getting pregnant and she ends up going to
Italy on her own. Um, oh oh god. And she
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gets there and she she ends up walking into this
house and something is just telling her by the damn house.
She figures it out, takes everything she has and starts
fixing up this house in Italy underneath the Tuscan sun.
Diane Lane, that movie please watch that? Um like, yeah,
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I freaking love that? And have you seen The Dressmaker? No,
No call me? Is that movie? Is that? Yes? I
got some Yeah, I got some guilty. I will tell
y'all that I did wash the the whole crown. That's
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a guilt. That's one of my favorite things. The Dressmaker
made me so damn happy as soon as it went off.
Over watch it again. It's I believe it's on Netflix
and his dad is on Amazon Prime or something like
we got the Dressmaker under the Tuscan sun. Yes please,
yes please. It is about. These things are kissment. These
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things are about, isn't it? You know? She really did
no wrong one this way eternal Sunshine of a spotless
name now used to that was my job for a
very long time. When it comes on. I watched it.
It's so weird. I like it. It's weird. I like
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it's Hiker Guide to the Galaxy is a movie. That's
that's my to wear no movie and I've never actually
completely understood it, but I watched it faithfully for see
it on him like watching it like the fourth of
that really weird movie that uh lakeith Um was that
I didn't even well I started. I think I'm the
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only person, which just like I'm gonna watch just two times.
It was the one when he had the white man voice.
That's when he did the white man voice. And with
him and the guy we're having an argument without having
an argument. It's like to be one of the most
classic moments ever on screen with two black smell gat.
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I just wanted to say, speaking of Lakif that I
want to just take a moment to say that Atlanta
the show and the cast individually as actors, and I
would just go say people nine three out of fold.
I don't know. I mean, I'm gonna just say that
if I was zan Zy and my boy to play
paper Boy, what I just they are my favorite things,
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like they are my like anything they do individually. Keith,
like I am here. I even watched Bullet Train on
the plane the other day just because my bro was
in it. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. And that's
what y'all have done this season with this show. Do
you have me reparations just about that? Is that every
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time I have almost say every time, I've only bumped
into l Keith once and I've bumped into Donald Glover
a few times, and it's very strange. Well, that doesn't
sound surprised. As people. Sometimes you shouldn't meet people, you
should just watch them on the TV. Yeah, because I
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have a lot of respect and you know, I appreciate
what they do so much, and I'm like Hi, no, no, no,
no no, But I don't know what's going on in
their heads. I just also your jail Scott, so maybe
it's like I don't know. It didn't feel like anything
that I know. Yeah, so that's just I can love
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you from before. You don't have to listen back your
artists talking about your artistry. Artistry on point. But you know,
will you guys know that my faiths and I talked
about this all the time. Everyone knows that I I
love Star Wars. Star Wars is my faith. I forget
every time you say that Star Wars is out. Please
(39:29):
don't pocket out star Wars. Okay, Um, Star Wars is
my faith, big got fan definitely got into the house
with a dragon this year. When you abbreviated, it's serious,
Oh yes, when it's when, it's all right, y'all know
what um Lord of the Rings. Oh you're you're watching
(39:50):
the show. Um, the movie saga's and the show brings
a power. So I love, Yes, I love all things.
I love a fantasy kingdom. Yeah, and swords and sabers
and beings, elves and dwarfs and all those things. I'm
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here for all of that. And kudos to your Star warsness,
because one of your one of my favorite things this
year was like a Star Wars show or Disney the
Jar with the sister from from the Woman King who
was the lead. Uh oh obi wan, right now, let
me just explain to somebody. My kids were like, if
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you went to if we went to fan Con or
fan fans something, There's there's comic Con and then there's
another one that's called fans something. And the kids were like,
if we go, who are you going to be? They're like,
are you gonna be playing his lamp? Are you gonna be? Um?
Uh dearth are you gonna be? I was like, no,
obi wan, it's all about what we want from me
(40:54):
right now. It is absolutely And my son got me
a red saber and I let him ahead and give
me the Sits saber because he was thinking of me.
He okay, he does it was. I was like, okay,
I literally have this. He gave me this Sits saber.
I was like, I need a Jedi saber immediately. I
need a Jedi saber. So I am actually on the
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hunt for an authentic, a very close to realistic. I
need a Jedi saber. Thank you very much. Sound it
needs sound. I like, Okay, the handle has to be
true to the movie's design. Okay, these are my faiths.
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These are my faiths. I am. You know. I don't
even like when people say stuff like blurred or black
geek or something like that, because I just feel like
it's not nerdy. No, it depends on how deep imagination
it's nerdi is level it's not. I don't think there's
a such thing anymore. I don't because we have so
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many we have, we understand so much more now that
we ever did. You know, some people just have Ansberger's
I'm just saying before we were like, oh he's nerd,
or he's a geek, he's this there or that. Maybe
it's just Ansburgers. That's true. That's true what I'm saying, like,
or maybe they're just freaking smart hunh right. And I've
always been a proud nerd. Nerds wind, nerds wind. I'm like,
(42:22):
I've just seen every Marvel movie for no reason. I'm
a nerd. I get it. I love it. Come on,
come on, I ain't watching she Hawk though. I ain't
doing that. No, No, I'm not doing that. I don't
know we're not doing it. I'm not doing it. No,
also too, I need an extensive backstory me me myself.
(42:43):
You're gonna get me Captain America. We're gonna do that
whole black New Orleans thing that we did, like we
got deep with a couple of these one I made
it extensive. Okay, what what you got, Jill? What is
anybody watching Interview with the Vampire? So I need you? Do?
I need you because I'm wondering if to put on
my list. Baby, put it on the list. I'm gonna
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put that one list for every the other thing. Gonna
watch it? Baby, put it on the list. Okay, Okay,
they in season one, right, So and Rice, I read
interview a long time ago. But I also read a
Feast for All Saints, which I'm I don't which I loved,
but I know is a controversial thing to talk about
because white women talking about black people in slavery in
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New Orleans. And but I have to say I liked it.
I'm a circle back and decide now at forty four
if I still do so, I just don't want nobody.
Don't hit me up. Okay, give me a chance to
circle back. Okay, I think I'm gonna do the same
because I read that. I think I was in college
back there was a movie too, and I watched it
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that WoT make it great? That woman getting right? Okay,
get all right, all right? I was in VC Andrews.
I was saying, right, y'all smart, I get him. Girl.
We have VC Andrews in my house. To child well
up in the same Stephen king Andrew's. We had it
(44:10):
all in the house. Job was up in there eating
Tony Morrison a ten. You know, I can't wait later? Yeah,
I was dear God, is me magareting with you? Okay?
Hardy boys? Ya rosa ge girl reading the same books?
(44:34):
We sure was right, Judy Bloom, Judy Bloom. I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna take y'all back to the Archie comic books. Girl,
I'm mess with me. I used to collect them. Who
are you talking to me? Because black? How black is
a bad She couldn't even Archie, you know, but just
(44:56):
that just wants the thing in my household. I don't know.
I'm just mine either. Would like to normalize not putting
blackness in any box. Yes, there's no boxes for for
all the things that we that we can see or
enjoy become our favorite. So we love to support black businesses.
(45:19):
I want to go back real quick to hair Uncle
Funky's Daughter. That's a really good product. Jet uses that
he's got really um curl the hair Uncle Funky's daughter,
and they you can shop the products by pattern by
curl pattern, which is which is very nice. It's it's
completely emollient. We like emollients. Yeah, check that out Uncle
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Funky's Daughter. More conversation after the break. Y'all know, I
like the internet and I did talk about this a
(46:07):
couple of times. Do y'all have any faiths from the socialists,
like the people that we follow? Yeah, people you might
follow people who you think I think just do a
wonderful cool stuff on the social media's. Yeah. I have
to just say that I really really love TikTok. I
love TikTok. I love a TikTok challenge. I love a
(46:28):
dance challenge. I just I just love being able. I'm
a boyer, so being able to get inside people's houses
is a thing. Um, They're talking and I'm looking in
the background like m mmmmmmm. I love it. I love
being able to watch people's expressions when they're having a conversation,
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like that just thrills me, Like, I'm gonna go ahead
and say that of all the things that I could
possibly do in a day, um, from shopping, which I
love consignment shops and and thrift stores and things like that,
and then you know freaking birdwarfs huh, A little ish it,
But it's the people watching for me, baby. If I
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can find a little cut, a little spot where I
can just watch people be people. M m m, that's
a wonderful day for Jill. Okay, wonderful. One of my
favorite accounts is account on i G calls some Jazz playing,
and basically what they do is they find like the
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videos of black people doing in some instances what might
be considered ratchet, but then to jazz mus the already
was putting it in only one of my favorite things.
What's it called again, some jazz playing? Oh yeah, yeah,
that's a that's a hard question to answer because you
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gotta look at your whole fee. But I was just
gonna stay top of mind one of my favorites that
I kind of fantasized, and look at her. I don't
know how to kind of if they're living real life.
But whoever, this Coco Brown Travels is who who is
this Coco Brown Travels? What the ship? Who are they?
You know what I'm talking about? Luxury like beautiful Nowadi
they somewhere on the continent with Sunday brunch vines having
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brunch in front of a water fall and Morocco. Excuse me, Morocco.
Bill I traveled. I fought. I follow a lot of them,
like travel folks because also like a page called we
Are Urban We Are, And I feel like what I
like about them is that they're going to give you
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a quote. Baby. Every day, they're gonna give you a quote,
and that quote is gonna be exactly what you're going through.
And I don't know how they do it. I don't
know where it comes from, but they will. I know
they're about to get They about to snatch my edges
in a lovely way when it starts. I don't know
who needs to hear this, but I can't even wait
to get involved with this some dass play because I
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love the this when you just change the narrative real
right fast, same thing, uh, but you put some put
some other cops on shift that perspective on it. In
about two point two seconds and suddenly it's beautiful, and
that's what I want for us so bad. Then that
what we want, yes, and that what we want, yes,
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but with the joyful people, for the people who are
really just trying to, you know, and enjoy life. You know,
it seems beauty in it, Like, that's what I want.
I want us to be able to change the narrative
of some things. So you caet that taste out your mouth, baby,
get that from Dan. I love that. I can't wait. Yeah,
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those are some of my face I have. I have lots,
because y'all know, I probably more of the socials more
than y'all. But I do enjoy. I enjoy a good
dance challenge. I enjoy good TikTok. Definitely enjoy those two
pages quite a bit. I enjoy Uncle Pucci. And Uncle
Pucci is the uncle of a journalist and she just
(50:08):
decided to start like his page for him. And he
wears these outfits and he's just a joy to watch
Uncle Pucci get dressed every day and his gators and
his heavily creased wide legged pants, silk shirt and do
ragon hat to match. He is a joy Uncle Pucci.
(50:31):
And he has a paramit a cock or and he
has more than one Cadillac. Get into it. I told
you then coming back. No, it's no, he's he's he's
from another time. Yeah, we enjoy Uncle Pucci. Well he's
still doing it. So I'm sorry. I'm just throwing some
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few things out there that brings me some general joy
every day that I'm saying, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
right here with um. Don't call me white girl. Yes,
Like I'm happy to see her every time I see her.
Every time I see her. I don't know what she's
talking about. Girls. I just enjoy her. It's the ultra
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philly for me. Like as she's so fully strong. I
love it, so fully strong. We love her, we do,
we really really do, we really do. Yeah, She's a
joy love, very enjoyable, very but I love it because
I feel like that little bit of joy goes a
long way. Like I know, people downplay the you know,
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content creators sometimes, but they do bring people joy and
I have experienced that joy. Like it's cool. A hard
time with the whole concept of content creator. I'm like,
aren't you a producer? Yeah, well we've been doing it
for a minute. It's just a term to something that
everybody else has been doing. You a content creator. You
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a content creator, the gentleman, I guess, but you know,
you know me going into a different generation, like yeah,
here you came out. Jenn had been telling me for years.
YouTube is rich. Mom. I was like, that's some bullshit.
Then don't borrow some stuff from some people that's not real, Jet,
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But I'm learning. Did you apologize? I did? I was wrong?
I was he wrong? Okay, I didn't know. I want
to know who these sets that goes over mos some things.
I don't know. She's been there for a minute, she
kIPS call me good. I don't know. I just like
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to watch your mouth move when you're do it well,
I mean personally, as far as when I don't want
to do anything at all, when I'm just like, okay,
I just want to chill. It never really works out
that way. So I always end up in a conversation
with one of these people that lives up here in
(53:04):
this house. And honestly, they are some of my favorite
things because they're funny as hell. Yeah, they are funny.
I love them. I love spending time with them because
they're like my little besties. I shouldn't say that because
I know we grew up like I'm your mom, I'm
not your friend. I'm not your little friend like my
(53:26):
girl like that. But I did our community and that
your little friend. That's when, that's when you didn't stepped
over your bounds. But yeah, and I ain't your little friend.
I didn't got that. They are my friends, friends good.
They're always aware that my mother was my mother. She
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she rall talked me though, and that I've always appreciated.
There was really no filters about anything. I enjoyed that.
That was good stuff. Yeah, it was a favorite thing.
I try to be that way with my kids for us.
You had a smell because my mom had a smell. Yes,
(54:11):
And when I got her stuff after she passed, when
I got her stuff, yeah, I was like folding up
T shirts because she had like a ton of T shirts.
I don't my mother's laid in her life, honey, Like
she had like thirty five pairs of black pants like
my wife. But I was going through her stuff and
y'all like I sniffed it. Yeah, she she had a smell.
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And it's literally like, yeah, every time I go back
to my mom's house, my grandmom, you know, she had
a room there and her clothes are still hanging up
in the closet. I always go in there and go
on the closet and I h it's like, oh, we
moved out of that house, um that my grandmother was then.
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Uh so I don't. I didn't get a chance to
go back in that room in that way, but I
got a lot of her night counts. And even after
I washed, and I can still smell her. You can't
wash it out. The smell I'm talking about doesn't come
out in the laundry, No, it doesn't. That's a favorite thing. Yeah,
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that's a favorite thing. I love when when this boy
of mine comes and now he's so much taller than me,
I can't um, but I love it when he bends
down and he puts his his face and but deck
because you know, he smells it. I know he's I
sniff everything. I'm a bad person in that way. I'm bad,
But I'm saying the smell that we smell, he smells it.
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You you have one, Yeah, you got one. You got yo,
somebody's gonna be sniffing by ship with I'm going they
sniffing your ship now, Oh my gosh, I don't know, man,
that that you're gonna have you at a happy place
(56:16):
where I leave you here off for this off of
this uh this show. I thought about our kasical stuff
to that. That what it's all about. That's what it's
all about. Happy places and enjoying those favorite things and
talking about them and then going and doing it. Somebody
goes somewhere and get a scoop butter pecano on a
sugar cone. H don't get that. Go to Ben and Jerry,
(56:41):
get that waffle corne and come out the oven. That's
my name, that's mine, out the wafflet the oven. Yeah,
you know they wrapped their fresh. Go to one. Don
only go to it. Only go to a shop that
rapid fresh. I worked there. Yeah, Card and Jerry's, Hilary
and from my lifestyle, Hilary's with the jit Oh, Hilary's.
(57:03):
That was good. Yes, Ben and Jerry's is my favorite
ice cream. But I'm telling you, man, oh my goodness, gracious,
there was an ice cream parlor when I was a kid.
We used to go to the game, I really remember,
but it was that was my favorite until you know,
I discovered but Ben and Jerry's. But my favorite in
Ben and Jerry's is that chocolate fudge brownie situation? Chocolate
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fudge brownie, yes, Benn, Jerry's mm hmmm, I'm Erry Garcia.
It kind of girl, me too, girl and all they
just should just know all the chips is chunky, Cherry Garcia,
chunky monkey trip. Whatever you want. Just know you' getting
a chunky you know, And that's a dark it's kind
of a dark chocolate ship to see, circle back to circle,
(57:48):
back to the dark chocolate because that thing ain't That's
all I'm saying like that and that felt sexual life.
Are you sure to have the way you were received
in it? I think I think I'm free for all
the time, all the time. I'm just your favorite things,
(58:13):
favorite things all the time. I was gonna say, well,
that's that's another episode of another time. Y'all for listening
to Jay dot Ill the podcast. It is our pleasure
just to have conversations to what spark conversations. Thank here, y'all.
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Is Amber the producer here. I love this series of thaves.
I'm learning so much about all three hosts. I hope
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Welcome to Jay dot Ill a production of I Heart Radio. Shellow.
That is that is like an official like black girl thing. Okay,
that's worldwide. I just want you to know that there
wherever you go on the planet, a black girl will
say hellow, Okay, it's gonna happen just like that. Okay.
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It could be about anything, It could literally be about anything,
but yeah, we do that. So today we're gonna talk
about We're gonna continue talking about our favorite fucking things,
things that our our mama's and our grandmama's did not
(00:49):
get an opportunity to um enjoy it. But there's some
things that they definitely um gave us, like like a
footsak that's the favorite thing. Oh yeah, okay, oh an
Asian wash rag. My mother introduced me to those the
long scrubbies. Yeah, the long strubby that come with the
(01:11):
different colors. Combined it and not to mention you combine
it with the dtor bonners that most of our mothers
also used. Come on the peppermint soap. Now I will
have to say this, and I've said this on the
podcast before you're gonna want to dilute you don't put
it on the couchie so much. Yeah, ok, after after
(01:34):
a wax. Don't use it after a wax as a
clock shapes. But my mother also introduced me to the
I mean, this is the old school Clinique beauty bar
soap that the nice little green they still make it
slides out of the little green thing. It's it's it's
really really really mild, so for the skin Clinique makes it.
(01:57):
It's an old school black girl go to. Since we're
washing faces and diluting soap before we burn our couches,
I'm just gonna say that. This is Jim Scott and
I'm here with Agia Graydon Danzler and Saint Clair and
this is the podcast. Okay, so where we don't burn
(02:17):
our coochies and we keep our faces clean. That's right,
that's right, because a clear poor is a beautiful thing
to happen. And we struggle, I do, come on, struggle
for a clear poor situation. You ain't using your mama's
queen and green mask, Queen Queen Helene, I'm sorry, Queen
(02:42):
Helene green mask. What's the green dolls that you get
from Whole Foods and typically like wherever you can buy incense,
and you put apple cide of vinegar in it. Well
that's the thing with the Aztec, the astext Yes, I
didn't even put it in vinegar. It will suck literally
(03:04):
the your bad memories out of your long enough it
will look you don't have no sins, girl, mask girl,
you can't talk, you can't think. Nine time open. It
(03:30):
always looked too complicated for me because it come into
powder form, so I'd be like, wait what I got
and it's still be in your head? Um. You know.
I love when I've gone out and I've had just
a little bit around my edges. That's always been nice.
That's nice. That's that's that's nice. It's our favorite though
(03:51):
though it's a nostalgic phase, right, it's nice to have
just nice. But I still but it's not that it
takes the edges out, no, it just simply just it's
to wash it out. It's a can be a you
have to put a warm washcloth. For some of our
(04:12):
Caucasian folks. Is a small towel that specifically you can
use for your face and your right you should have
one specifically for your face if you're going to have
a washcloth at all. And then there's another that you
can use for your genitalil y'all. Okay, so you can
(04:34):
get up in there because you want to get up
in there as well. Yeah, that's very true. You know
a lot of a lot of folks, you know, use wash.
They don't use wash. One of my new favorite things
is a small it's like a small wash cloth with
you put your finger in. It is white. My hand
motion ain't good. But it has a scrubby side and
a wash cloth side strictly for the coach before when
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i'm you know, when I'm waxing and I gotta foliated
scrubby side, you know, and then the soft side, you know,
any other time when I'm just putting my honey pot
up there and I want to make sure things are,
you know, properly. Glad you mentioned that's a favorite thing.
That's a favorite. I just got the loop. I'll let
y'all know. Y'all know she made a loop. You said
(05:18):
she didn't. You're gonna have to give us it's made up.
It's honey in a Yes, that sounds like such a
lovely time. That's what it does. It does for one
of my favorite things. Yeah, I just I just passed
it on to my well, not the loobe, but I
definitely passed on the honeypot tradition to my daughter. Just recently,
(05:39):
I bought her a whole box. Yeah, can wash the wipes,
the panty spray, the panty spray, yes girl, burger mine
and one. I'm got burger burg a coop trumber and
burger a black girl thing. I don't know that burgerm any.
I think anybody who was around for when no body
(06:01):
Body Shop came way, just let me get that burgerm
out whatever you wait a minute, always got them twisted.
There there's two stores from then there was the body
Shop and then there was but the body Shop was
like the more natural. Always that the body smell like perfume,
(06:22):
just as like the Anti imporium. Yeah, like there was
a difference, like there were two different kinds of curls.
You know, you know it. You know, the Body Shop
and that almond coconut shade butter. The shade butter came
out and they're hard to find now the body Shop
(06:42):
is not a realm. No, I don't see them that
much anymore. Are they still out? You know, you could
get like four of them for a certain prices, like
eighty bucks or something. I don't remember. You could get
like a whole bunch of you walk out of there like, yes,
I'm straight for the summer. Yeah. The body shop was
the business. The thing with bath and body works, it
was all about the fragrances, the body sprays. That was
(07:06):
where the fruit he smells came from. And I always
felt like that lean more towards are dancing friends. They
smelled of strawberry. I'm really going, I'm gonna get my
pocket at this point, I need my back and my
coat and my keys. Where is my bad dancing friends?
(07:28):
Am I making up? And I'm looking? I definitely think
I definitely wore body sprayed from there at some boy,
and I know that I did. I know that I did. Huh.
It was like solid I'll never tell uh. That was
(07:48):
just my perspective. No, I'm joking. I listen, I feel
that I ain't got to be right. I'm just saying
it was my perspective. It was a faith for back
in the day people. But the kid came origin was killed.
The gene note it was an extension of the gene
and the one they had, the old one that's a
(08:08):
good lotion. The I don't know how aca. I don't
know what it's called. It's French. Is that in the
body shop? Is it in the body show? It's in
the mall though they have Is it in phips or Linux?
It's in Linux. It's probably you know, I'm asking you
(08:30):
a class question. You know. Is it in the echelon
mall or is it in the middle class mall? You
know what I'm all I know is that it's certainly
in the mall right by um Trump Towers in New York.
Um Uh yeah, I know it's across the street in
that mall. So this is your favorite thing some French
(08:52):
say again, I think is that I don't know how
to say it. I've never known how to say it.
But it's nice. I know exactly what I think. I
know what you're talking about, though I don't. I don't
know the name either, more real talk after the break Well,
(09:20):
one of my favorite things in terms of like, you know, products,
It's like, I love what we talked about, honey Popper.
I do love that black women have all these really
kind of cool have like jumped into the products fine
products like um because they crowded up that section and
target they got that whole like black women and all
(09:44):
of it, like it's just everything. Oh my god, it's
so many black women with dope hair products. I mean
the edge gel alone, and the number of Black women
producing edge gel. It's like, yeah, it's overwhelming, it's overwhelming. Appreciate.
I think I do have a hard time finding a
good product because my hair will reject the product after
(10:06):
a little while. I got one for you all, because
you know that's that's that's natural. Got just you know,
curls from her homeland requires something different, some different, something different.
Well I use I use one of my favorite products
right now that I've breaked through my hair to give
my curls like a little happy situation is a product
from a company called Do d o u x Black Woman,
(10:32):
and I love her products and you know what she
um They're bright colors and just look gorgeous, and she
has names like big Pop and uh you know, just
like really cool. You can tell. And I actually follow
her on Instagram and her and her husband are absolutely
kind of adorable. So it all sells the product for me.
(10:52):
Talk us through the beauty of the hair part of
the store. It is overwhelmed. Nothing I don't know and
then you want to be like, well, I just want
to support black. Well, everybody's black, right, you don't even
have to do. You got so many options up there,
and shout out to some of the black I do
want to, you know, shout out some of the black
owned beauty supply stores like beauty Bees out in California.
(11:16):
I know a few of them. So you know, we
do this thing, but we need to just do it more.
This one the notion that I was speaking of earlier
that I really like it's a soy milk and honey
whipped body butter. It's it's from Kills. I knew. Yeah,
Kill's got some good ships. Honey, honey, listen, it's worth
the investment. Maybe you start with the smaller bottles first,
(11:38):
because it is not you know, it's not cheap. But
a man, when I tell you, that's why I use
on my face like moisturizer. Wise, I understand. What a
yeah huh yeah Asian? What you what you what you
about to say your one of your favorite things? Well,
what I was saying was that there's a company called
ken Apperil and they do satin line hoodies. Oh they
(12:00):
have so like you know, when you're traveling and you
don't want For those people who have issues with bonnets
being in public, then you can wear your satin line
hoodie instead. There are so many alternatives. The bonnet thing
really don't make no damn sense. Winter hats, which I
always struggle with because I like a winter hat. At
(12:21):
one point, I have really short hair and I couldn't
go out of a winter hat. And they have satin
line winter hats which are lovely. Yeah, can apparel. I
got two studies and a turban with the satin line,
and so yeah, I'd be into that airplane with because
you don't want your head touching touching that thing. Speaking
of favorite things and traveling, Oh, I just bought me
(12:43):
so me and the boyfriend just realized we at the
age now we're we ken't putting hing on our back
gone on the days of the backpacks. So I go,
oh yeah, yeah, so I gotta hope. I had to
buy me a dope I gotta dope backpack on wheels.
And it's just funny when you travel, you gotta make
sure you got everything because it got like the strap
put on top of your bag and then you could
just roll. It's okay, maybe I'm I'm too travel deep,
(13:05):
but I I just want to think. It comes a
point where you gotta go. You gotta get the backpack
with the wheels com froma sure they got the strap
in the back so that you can put it on
top of your roller bag. So then you're just you're rolling.
You just you're chilling. Pay us free. I'm just the same. Yeah,
just a new favorite thing traveling. A favorite thing of
mine is um is an essential oil diffuser. Oh yeah,
(13:30):
I love us. I mean if I could have it everywhere,
but I would have them everywhere, Yeah, everywhere. You just
diffuse you. I'm curious because I always juggling to diffuse
versus the incen versus the candle because you seem like
you had candles too an instance, I've got all three,
but either think the diffuser. Which is cool is it
(13:52):
travels well and you don't have to worry about a
fire hazard or and a lot of people who have
respiratory issues eventually can't really do a lot of incense, right, Okay,
all right, Oh, so the fuser is a good option
for that. And if you're feeling a little under the weather,
you just pop in a different oil and you know,
(14:14):
put the peppermint all and nat. Yeah, it's a good thing.
I like. I like those. Keep up with it. You
gotta keep up with it and buy your oils and
you know, right, I generally like a room to smell
really good. Like I can't really relax unless the room
smells good. And so I do the linen spray I have,
(14:36):
and then I will do a candle, like I just
need this. I got so many things. I even got
the charcoal. I got the charcoal, and then you put
the little herbs on top and it burns on top
and it burns, smells so good, like they make your
like blend, so you said charcoal, and then they put
herbs on top of you buy it like that, or
you do it yourself, so you buy the It's like
(14:58):
you can buy a little holder for your charcoal where
you burn it. This is traditionally old. You can buy this.
And I don't like charcoal, right, added an element that
I didn't right, So I buy these little vows of
smell goods, just beauty herbs that smell amazing, and you
drop them on there and it burns and the whole
(15:20):
room just smells like grass or grass is my thing.
I like that. Who don't like? Who don't like? Lemon grass? Also,
if you plant it in your yard, it's a natural
mosquito repellent. They can come on, that's true, but it
can grow like bush bush bush. You gotta keep it
(15:41):
under control, but it smells fabulous. Mosquitoes off your back, Parcha.
What about bees? I don't know know about no bees, child,
and I don't played a by no bees either, That's
what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know. I'd have to
do a little research about the limon grass and and
planting it because I love to plant. I'm excited about
(16:02):
planting um in the spring, very sad. I want to
be a better planter, like I recently stepped on a
came upon the gans was the Gangster Gardener, my man
Gangster gardener who has done a lot of the Brotherhood.
Don't know about that guy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh, I'm
gonna send you him. I'm misrepresenting him because he's worldwide.
(16:26):
Everybody knows his brother He planned. He started by like
planting um gardens that you could use with vegetables and food,
like in the hood, places that you think, like empty lots,
places that aren't being used he was into and now
he has like a master class. I even done Ted
talk before. He's he's well known and he's really all
(16:47):
all like sustainability and and and have an urban farming
and we like to do that. I like, I wish
I was a better urban farmer in my in my heart,
I'm an urban farmer. I've had a garden several times,
and I've I've had a pretty good harvest this year
so much. But I will say this is one of
my favorite things that I've discovered about myself this year
(17:09):
is my absolute need for nature. Like I need to
commune with nature. And when I say that, I don't
need to wait for my birthday or my anniversary or
a special occasion, like I need to be in nature
almost daily, like I need that I live in the city.
I probably will live in the city a little longer,
you know, but I do realize I need to have
(17:31):
access to that. I take my little walks. I enjoy that.
I like to be around trees and burns. Have you
hiked in One of my favorite things is hiking over
there on like Kelly, drive over there on the way
and trail like the all it's so pretty and you
find all these secret beautiful like statues to like the
indigenous people. It's like, if you got to live in
(17:56):
the city, you gotta find some green space. That's to
me as I just like I have to have to
do it. By the way, the gangster gardener his name,
I want to say his name. His name is Ron
Thinley because he was big into the theater community and
acting community before all this. So yeah, Ron, But yes,
nature all day. And water when you can good water man, listen,
(18:23):
talk about the jail. Good water, warm water, blue water
I can see my feet is my favorite thing. Um that. Yeah,
that's the thing. It's hard not to when you go
on vacation not to pick a place that got some
water that you can see your feet. It just bring
you some kind of peace. I love the oceans. Say that. Galveston,
Texas August then so so so, so so warm and
(18:50):
you could literally walk a mile and it'll be up
to your waist, Like seriously, it's a it's incredible. I
want to go now. I never thought and Texas is
not on my list. Yeah, normally it wouldn't be on mine,
but you know, um, I decided to go. I wanted
a beach house. Four weeker a week and a half,
(19:13):
grabbed some friends and we went to Galveston, Texas, because
you know, I figured out I could be there, you know,
and yes, I could be there. So I went there
and they had um um houses that had private beaches
and and it was Airbnb. It wasn't like, you know,
there was Airbnb. Everybody chipped in and there was like
(19:37):
five or six bedrooms and um, nice size house and
like really lovely, like and the water was amazing. I
came back Weskin was incredible. I think I think I've
seen these on a couple of my h g TV shows,
the beach beach houses, the beach Bargains, beach fronts, because
(19:58):
a bitch level good h GTF. So yeah, well that's
the favorite thing. Hey, listen, talk about it. Do you
all have anything that you do annually, like that's your
favorite thing to do or something that you enjoy that
you do annually that you keep up as a tradition
for yourself. I used to like COVID, you know that
messed us stuff up, But um, a favorite place to
(20:21):
go for me was always asking, oh yeah that's on
my list. I've never been there, Jill, And it's tell
me why it's better than like a big bear or
something like what's special about asking? I don't know that
it's better. I just I do. I think it's better.
I've been to a lot of a ski resort places
and I really like it because, um, nobody gives a
(20:43):
funk about you, and that's awesome for me. Anyway. There's
art galleries, everything is walkable. Um, there's great shopping, which
is really really nice. The restaurants are exquisite, fantastic restaurants,
(21:03):
and wine out of this world. So I have not
been to Veil, but um, Aspen is definitely a favorite.
And you can go to Aspen all year round, so
it's really lovely. Actually I've done. I did a music
festival and Veil in the off season and it was
actually beautiful when it wasn't cold out, it was gorgeous.
(21:23):
That's what I'm talking about. Those mountains, Honey, We're just
gonna watch all of that, that greenwich and that that
beautiful sun on your ass. Now, you do have to
be mindful that there are bears, oh good baby, and
all the trash can receptacles will remind you, yes, because
they are locked down, girls out, so they will remind
(21:45):
baby we have bears. And I was like, Oh, what's like,
y'all don't really want a lot of blacks because y'all
got bears and bears. Okay, we don't do bears. Well,
we don't do bears, and we do our heads on
the swivel. We do. Shut up, babe, Look right, there's
(22:06):
the listen girl. So well, one of the things for too,
I like to do that we started doing and I
don't even know how we ended up going every year,
but we have been going to before COVID and then
we returned again this year, is that we started going
to art Bosom. Oh because and I want to mention
(22:30):
that on the podcast, because the first time we went,
it wasn't a heavily attended by UM, the black and
brown folk and in some of the major kind of
UM shows down there. So for for those of you
who don't know, our boss was a big like a
huge art show and UM and some of the you
(22:52):
have to kind of be in the main shows. You
have to be associated with a gallery, and so many
black artists struggle with that at and if they are
is typically not a black owned gallery. So one of
the things I'm very proud of was. I did get
the opportunity at one point going down there to buy
(23:12):
a piece from a black artist who was represented by
a black owned gallery at that time. It was you
know that was that was kind of a big deal
for me and I and it didn't cost me a
gazillion dollars because you know, can be can run the spectrum.
But I will hope it's like folks on the streets
and stuff too, like people take a total people do
(23:34):
like you know, there's the main shows and then people
do shows on the street. They do it and other
venues around the city, and the city is amazing. It's electric.
Now there's lots of artists that come down there and
do concerts, and black folks have ascended and given this
event all the flavor that it lacked and now it
(23:54):
is just one of my favorite things to do. And
the first week of December in Miami, it is all
about the girls about to say, by the time folks
here this show, it should be going down. So yeah,
I'm supposed to be and I will be. That's nice.
I'm already we're already booked and ready. Oh I love that.
(24:16):
That made me go. I'm very excited. We're gonna take
a quick break and then we'll be right back. Well,
you know, I'm all for families. Yea, all know, I'm
(24:40):
all for families. Yeah. But for anybody who has not heard,
here we go. So Familist is the the Clicema's alternative.
You know, if you've done the slightest amount of research
and you've discovered that Jesus was not warning December that America,
(25:01):
well a lot of world economy is dependent on the
end of the year boost money. Um. For anyone who's
done any of that, I created a holiday called Familists.
It is family is and these are the favorite things
about Christmas without the stigma's attached. Love the Lord all
(25:23):
year long, if that's what you do. Um, But for
this holiday, we cook, we laugh, we um, we listen
to music. But we also in order to get a gift,
you have to write a one page essay and it's
one thinking base. Okay, it's what was thinking base, And
then you write the one page about whatever you want
(25:44):
to talk about. So that way we get to hear
our elders speak, we get to hear our children speak,
We listen to each other. You get a gift, okay,
And then um, all the essays are handwritten. Um, and
then we keep all the essays so old that in
the future we could bust them out and be like,
when you were loving, U said that you wouldn't to
(26:05):
be a silliantist, and now you're, you know, a scientist.
Look at that. You know so well. That's definitely one
of my favorite holidays. I love to have people over
for that, but I've learned that too many people is
a long night because everybody's got to read their essay.
You cannot get a gift without your essay. Why is that?
(26:27):
Because nobody gets something or nothing? How many words a page?
One stinking page? Yes, practice my curses with that. When
y'all know I love me a black and the Black holiday,
(26:48):
so y'all know I love me some June teens. Come on,
and um, I didn't grow up celebrating Juneteent's, so I've
on and I've only been celebrating it with my kids.
For man, Dean was like little so under ten years.
But um, as the years went on, I was like,
I want to make sure that we have like some
(27:10):
traditions and things that we do consistently during that time.
So I do I make my homemade um strawberry punch. Yum, yeah,
strawberry punch. Homemade strawberry soda is really what it's supposed
to be. But it's punch at my house because I
can't make soda. I'm gonna need that whole recipe. I
never heard nobody may no drink it. After the news
(27:33):
of emancipation, a lot of the formally enslaved people decided
that they wanted to do things that they couldn't do before,
and one of those things was drink strawberry soda. Right. Oh,
I love that. But even back then, when I hear
that story, I mean, like, what was their strawberry soda
made up? And what did it taste? Did it tastes
like fantom? What is it natural? Did it come from strawberries?
Because you know another thing, another thing is that the
(27:55):
link to our parents enjoying butter pecan ice cream is
linked to that story too. Really, yes, because it's not
that I didn't even know that was the universal thing.
I thought that was just my daddy. People love cream.
But part of ice cream polor, I'm here to tell
you sending black people that came in the ice cream
(28:15):
polor got butter pecan or French vanilla inferiating vanilla ice cream.
Vanilla period was something that enslaved people just did not
get an opportunity to enjoy. So it was one of
the things that they incorporated in their celebrations after emancipation
was vanilla ice cream and butterfo kind of ice cream
(28:37):
is like an extension of that. And so those people's
parents and grandparents enjoyed that, and that's why they like
it because that was the ice cream they were introduced
to when they were young kids. So we like to
do that, do some cooking. But one of the things
that I enjoyed was that I bought a book from
my kids one time about thing called Pitts schools. So
(28:58):
a lot of the ore slaved ancestors were learning how
to read. They would leave in the middle of the
night and they would dig these big ditches, cover them
up during the day and at night they would go
down and the dishes, cover them up and buy candlelight
learn how to read and write that. Because they didn't
have pencil and paper, they would use flower and they
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would write in the flower their letters and numbers. So
on Juneteenth, what I like to do is take our
table and I put a cloth town and we put
the flower on the table and we right are we
say our ancestors names and we write their first names
into the flower. Yeah, I wanted us to have certain things.
(29:43):
And then also to my good friends, uh Sonny King
does a huge um um Juneteenth parade which we we
attend now and that we've been a part of and everything.
So we try to do you know, we try to
do the thing. I enjoyed doing this like my favorite.
It's like my it really is my favorite. I mean,
(30:04):
I care of good people out here listening to day
dot il podcast right now. Look, you can create your
own holidays. That's that's that's two out of the three
thus far that have created a holiday. I create a traditions, tradition, tradition,
and you can incorporated into a holiday for sure. So
(30:30):
I love that, y'all. That's fantastic. Yeah, y'all. Yeah, we
like to do it. We like to do it. But yeah,
I enjoy that. I feel like one of my favorite
things always is going to be spending time family, been
telling my friends, talking to you about things I enjoy
and I love, and building with y'all, getting advice, getting love.
(30:54):
I live for that. That keeps me alive, that keeps
me going. So that's always gonna be my favorite thing
in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I love.
I love to get my head scratched, and I I
love a good massage, like a head massage. That is
a favorite thing. If you want to be my friend,
(31:16):
you go right here and start massage with my head.
There maybe some slopper, Okay, I might falling asleep a
few times, but I'm trying to tell you that's one
of my favorite things in life. Don't walk upon you
and put your hand in her head. That's not what
she's saying. Don't walk upon you and put your hand
in her head. That's not what she's saying. I just
had to say it because do y'all have a guilty
(31:39):
pleasure favorite thing? I'm afraid to tell people that You're like,
don't be nasty. I'm not gonna be nasty. I don't
ye ain't mine, ain't nasty. Mine is just lazy. I'm like,
my guilty pleasure is not doing shit. My guilty pleasure
is sitting on the couch and catching up with every
(32:03):
show that I may have missed in the past week.
Like that. Is that is, And in my world, I
like the world to stop so that I can do this.
You know, I know it don't, but I like to
imagine that the world just stopped and it's about guilty pleasure.
I'm with you. It might be with the boat and
(32:23):
what's on the boat and the beautiful and young the wrestles.
There you go. Okay, I just told himself. Okay, it's
on the dvr. Okay, that's the only reason I got
the dvr. Okay. And the Housewives. Yeah, so that's what
I was trying to get at. What are you watching
my guilty pleasure? No, no, no, I love that any
ain't a Trump City Okay, come on, baby, come on.
I'm sorry. I don't know if you guys watched From Scratch. Yes,
(32:49):
I did not, yet y'all made me watch that show.
Have finished it yet? I enjoyed it very much. I
know spoilers. No, I enjoyed it very much, That's all
I'm saying. And I enjoyed that that That might be
that that and um, something's gotta give with Diane Keaton,
Oh my god, you took it back. I love that movie.
(33:11):
I just watched her new thing that she got on Netflix.
But something's gotta give. The joint she did is that
the one she did with Jack Nicholson when okay, oh yeah,
that's the best one. It's like about divorce or something
like that or something. She takes care of her her
daughter's boyfriend who happens to be sixty because he's injured,
and it's Jack Nicholson and they stuck in he's stuck
(33:33):
in the house with her and he doesn't date women
her age, and it's like the whole thing, fabulous beach house.
I have to go back and watch that. And The Steps, Jill,
The Steps when you can do the steps? Yeah, get
choose some sex. Yes, oh man, that's a favorite. She's Nora,
(33:53):
the woman who directed that. She even though she makes
the whitest the good movies, she makes some good white movies.
She made she just passed recently, Norah. I mean, my
guilty pleasure movies are the white rom coms. Oh girl,
Let's go dresses? Damn you went? Oh yes, yes, how To?
(34:20):
How To? What is it? The one with How Lose
a Guy in ten Days? I'll watch those back to back.
In her shoes. That's a faith for me. In her shoes.
I will watch every time in her shoes, every time.
I will watch that. Everything Tony Collette is my guilty
(34:42):
pleasure because Tony Colette does I'm not like her. We
like we like her? Yeah, I like those. What's the
one about Italy? The one? Um? She finds out her
husband is cheating on her. She's devastated. He ends up
(35:02):
taking pretty much everything, well he's about to, and she's like,
you know what, take it. And she goes off to
Italy for a trip because her friends were supposed to
go and they were like, come with us, but they
ended up getting pregnant and she ends up going to
Italy on her own. Um, oh oh god. And she
(35:25):
gets there and she she ends up walking into this
house and something is just telling her by the damn house.
She figures it out, takes everything she has and starts
fixing up this house in Italy underneath the Tuscan sun.
Diane Lane, that movie please watch that? Um like, yeah,
(35:49):
I freaking love that? And have you seen The Dressmaker? No,
No call me? Is that movie? Is that? Yes? I
got some Yeah, I got some guilty. I will tell
y'all that I did wash the the whole crown. That's
(36:11):
a guilt. That's one of my favorite things. The Dressmaker
made me so damn happy as soon as it went off.
Over watch it again. It's I believe it's on Netflix
and his dad is on Amazon Prime or something like
we got the Dressmaker under the Tuscan sun. Yes please,
yes please. It is about. These things are kissment. These
(36:33):
things are about, isn't it? You know? She really did
no wrong one this way eternal Sunshine of a spotless
name now used to that was my job for a
very long time. When it comes on. I watched it.
It's so weird. I like it. It's weird. I like
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it's Hiker Guide to the Galaxy is a movie. That's
that's my to wear no movie and I've never actually
completely understood it, but I watched it faithfully for see
it on him like watching it like the fourth of
that really weird movie that uh lakeith Um was that
I didn't even well I started. I think I'm the
(37:17):
only person, which just like I'm gonna watch just two times.
It was the one when he had the white man voice.
That's when he did the white man voice. And with
him and the guy we're having an argument without having
an argument. It's like to be one of the most
classic moments ever on screen with two black smell gat.
(37:41):
I just wanted to say, speaking of Lakif that I
want to just take a moment to say that Atlanta
the show and the cast individually as actors, and I
would just go say people nine three out of fold.
I don't know. I mean, I'm gonna just say that
if I was zan Zy and my boy to play
paper Boy, what I just they are my favorite things,
(38:04):
like they are my like anything they do individually. Keith,
like I am here. I even watched Bullet Train on
the plane the other day just because my bro was
in it. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. And that's
what y'all have done this season with this show. Do
you have me reparations just about that? Is that every
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time I have almost say every time, I've only bumped
into l Keith once and I've bumped into Donald Glover
a few times, and it's very strange. Well, that doesn't
sound surprised. As people. Sometimes you shouldn't meet people, you
should just watch them on the TV. Yeah, because I
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have a lot of respect and you know, I appreciate
what they do so much, and I'm like Hi, no, no, no,
no no, But I don't know what's going on in
their heads. I just also your jail Scott, so maybe
it's like I don't know. It didn't feel like anything
that I know. Yeah, so that's just I can love
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you from before. You don't have to listen back your
artists talking about your artistry. Artistry on point. But you know,
will you guys know that my faiths and I talked
about this all the time. Everyone knows that I I
love Star Wars. Star Wars is my faith. I forget
every time you say that Star Wars is out. Please
(39:29):
don't pocket out star Wars. Okay, Um, Star Wars is
my faith, big got fan definitely got into the house
with a dragon this year. When you abbreviated, it's serious,
Oh yes, when it's when, it's all right, y'all know
what um Lord of the Rings. Oh you're you're watching
(39:50):
the show. Um, the movie saga's and the show brings
a power. So I love, Yes, I love all things.
I love a fantasy kingdom. Yeah, and swords and sabers
and beings, elves and dwarfs and all those things. I'm
(40:12):
here for all of that. And kudos to your Star warsness,
because one of your one of my favorite things this
year was like a Star Wars show or Disney the
Jar with the sister from from the Woman King who
was the lead. Uh oh obi wan, right now, let
me just explain to somebody. My kids were like, if
(40:33):
you went to if we went to fan Con or
fan fans something, There's there's comic Con and then there's
another one that's called fans something. And the kids were like,
if we go, who are you going to be? They're like,
are you gonna be playing his lamp? Are you gonna be? Um?
Uh dearth are you gonna be? I was like, no,
obi wan, it's all about what we want from me
(40:54):
right now. It is absolutely And my son got me
a red saber and I let him ahead and give
me the Sits saber because he was thinking of me.
He okay, he does it was. I was like, okay,
I literally have this. He gave me this Sits saber.
I was like, I need a Jedi saber immediately. I
need a Jedi saber. So I am actually on the
(41:15):
hunt for an authentic, a very close to realistic. I
need a Jedi saber. Thank you very much. Sound it
needs sound. I like, Okay, the handle has to be
true to the movie's design. Okay, these are my faiths.
(41:37):
These are my faiths. I am. You know. I don't
even like when people say stuff like blurred or black
geek or something like that, because I just feel like
it's not nerdy. No, it depends on how deep imagination
it's nerdi is level it's not. I don't think there's
a such thing anymore. I don't because we have so
(41:57):
many we have, we understand so much more now that
we ever did. You know, some people just have Ansberger's
I'm just saying before we were like, oh he's nerd,
or he's a geek, he's this there or that. Maybe
it's just Ansburgers. That's true. That's true what I'm saying, like,
or maybe they're just freaking smart hunh right. And I've
always been a proud nerd. Nerds wind, nerds wind. I'm like,
(42:22):
I've just seen every Marvel movie for no reason. I'm
a nerd. I get it. I love it. Come on,
come on, I ain't watching she Hawk though. I ain't
doing that. No, No, I'm not doing that. I don't
know we're not doing it. I'm not doing it. No,
also too, I need an extensive backstory me me myself.
(42:43):
You're gonna get me Captain America. We're gonna do that
whole black New Orleans thing that we did, like we
got deep with a couple of these one I made
it extensive. Okay, what what you got, Jill? What is
anybody watching Interview with the Vampire? So I need you? Do?
I need you because I'm wondering if to put on
my list. Baby, put it on the list. I'm gonna
(43:05):
put that one list for every the other thing. Gonna
watch it? Baby, put it on the list. Okay, Okay,
they in season one, right, So and Rice, I read
interview a long time ago. But I also read a
Feast for All Saints, which I'm I don't which I loved,
but I know is a controversial thing to talk about
because white women talking about black people in slavery in
(43:26):
New Orleans. And but I have to say I liked it.
I'm a circle back and decide now at forty four
if I still do so, I just don't want nobody.
Don't hit me up. Okay, give me a chance to
circle back. Okay, I think I'm gonna do the same
because I read that. I think I was in college
back there was a movie too, and I watched it
(43:50):
that WoT make it great? That woman getting right? Okay,
get all right, all right? I was in VC Andrews.
I was saying, right, y'all smart, I get him. Girl.
We have VC Andrews in my house. To child well
up in the same Stephen king Andrew's. We had it
(44:10):
all in the house. Job was up in there eating
Tony Morrison a ten. You know, I can't wait later? Yeah,
I was dear God, is me magareting with you? Okay?
Hardy boys? Ya rosa ge girl reading the same books?
(44:34):
We sure was right, Judy Bloom, Judy Bloom. I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna take y'all back to the Archie comic books. Girl,
I'm mess with me. I used to collect them. Who
are you talking to me? Because black? How black is
a bad She couldn't even Archie, you know, but just
(44:56):
that just wants the thing in my household. I don't know.
I'm just mine either. Would like to normalize not putting
blackness in any box. Yes, there's no boxes for for
all the things that we that we can see or
enjoy become our favorite. So we love to support black businesses.
(45:19):
I want to go back real quick to hair Uncle
Funky's Daughter. That's a really good product. Jet uses that
he's got really um curl the hair Uncle Funky's daughter,
and they you can shop the products by pattern by
curl pattern, which is which is very nice. It's it's
completely emollient. We like emollients. Yeah, check that out Uncle
(45:47):
Funky's Daughter. More conversation after the break. Y'all know, I
like the internet and I did talk about this a
(46:07):
couple of times. Do y'all have any faiths from the socialists,
like the people that we follow? Yeah, people you might
follow people who you think I think just do a
wonderful cool stuff on the social media's. Yeah. I have
to just say that I really really love TikTok. I
love TikTok. I love a TikTok challenge. I love a
(46:28):
dance challenge. I just I just love being able. I'm
a boyer, so being able to get inside people's houses
is a thing. Um, They're talking and I'm looking in
the background like m mmmmmmm. I love it. I love
being able to watch people's expressions when they're having a conversation,
(46:49):
like that just thrills me, Like, I'm gonna go ahead
and say that of all the things that I could
possibly do in a day, um, from shopping, which I
love consignment shops and and thrift stores and things like that,
and then you know freaking birdwarfs huh, A little ish it,
But it's the people watching for me, baby. If I
(47:11):
can find a little cut, a little spot where I
can just watch people be people. M m m, that's
a wonderful day for Jill. Okay, wonderful. One of my
favorite accounts is account on i G calls some Jazz playing,
and basically what they do is they find like the
(47:32):
videos of black people doing in some instances what might
be considered ratchet, but then to jazz mus the already
was putting it in only one of my favorite things.
What's it called again, some jazz playing? Oh yeah, yeah,
that's a that's a hard question to answer because you
(47:52):
gotta look at your whole fee. But I was just
gonna stay top of mind one of my favorites that
I kind of fantasized, and look at her. I don't
know how to kind of if they're living real life.
But whoever, this Coco Brown Travels is who who is
this Coco Brown Travels? What the ship? Who are they?
You know what I'm talking about? Luxury like beautiful Nowadi
they somewhere on the continent with Sunday brunch vines having
(48:15):
brunch in front of a water fall and Morocco. Excuse me, Morocco.
Bill I traveled. I fought. I follow a lot of them,
like travel folks because also like a page called we
Are Urban We Are, And I feel like what I
like about them is that they're going to give you
(48:36):
a quote. Baby. Every day, they're gonna give you a quote,
and that quote is gonna be exactly what you're going through.
And I don't know how they do it. I don't
know where it comes from, but they will. I know
they're about to get They about to snatch my edges
in a lovely way when it starts. I don't know
who needs to hear this, but I can't even wait
to get involved with this some dass play because I
(48:59):
love the this when you just change the narrative real
right fast, same thing, uh, but you put some put
some other cops on shift that perspective on it. In
about two point two seconds and suddenly it's beautiful, and
that's what I want for us so bad. Then that
what we want, yes, and that what we want, yes,
(49:22):
but with the joyful people, for the people who are
really just trying to, you know, and enjoy life. You know,
it seems beauty in it, Like, that's what I want.
I want us to be able to change the narrative
of some things. So you caet that taste out your mouth, baby,
get that from Dan. I love that. I can't wait. Yeah,
(49:46):
those are some of my face I have. I have lots,
because y'all know, I probably more of the socials more
than y'all. But I do enjoy. I enjoy a good
dance challenge. I enjoy good TikTok. Definitely enjoy those two
pages quite a bit. I enjoy Uncle Pucci. And Uncle
Pucci is the uncle of a journalist and she just
(50:08):
decided to start like his page for him. And he
wears these outfits and he's just a joy to watch
Uncle Pucci get dressed every day and his gators and
his heavily creased wide legged pants, silk shirt and do
ragon hat to match. He is a joy Uncle Pucci.
(50:31):
And he has a paramit a cock or and he
has more than one Cadillac. Get into it. I told
you then coming back. No, it's no, he's he's he's
from another time. Yeah, we enjoy Uncle Pucci. Well he's
still doing it. So I'm sorry. I'm just throwing some
(50:52):
few things out there that brings me some general joy
every day that I'm saying, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
right here with um. Don't call me white girl. Yes,
Like I'm happy to see her every time I see her.
Every time I see her. I don't know what she's
talking about. Girls. I just enjoy her. It's the ultra
(51:13):
philly for me. Like as she's so fully strong. I
love it, so fully strong. We love her, we do,
we really really do, we really do. Yeah, She's a
joy love, very enjoyable, very but I love it because
I feel like that little bit of joy goes a
long way. Like I know, people downplay the you know,
(51:35):
content creators sometimes, but they do bring people joy and
I have experienced that joy. Like it's cool. A hard
time with the whole concept of content creator. I'm like,
aren't you a producer? Yeah, well we've been doing it
for a minute. It's just a term to something that
everybody else has been doing. You a content creator. You
(51:56):
a content creator, the gentleman, I guess, but you know,
you know me going into a different generation, like yeah,
here you came out. Jenn had been telling me for years.
YouTube is rich. Mom. I was like, that's some bullshit.
Then don't borrow some stuff from some people that's not real, Jet,
(52:19):
But I'm learning. Did you apologize? I did? I was wrong?
I was he wrong? Okay, I didn't know. I want
to know who these sets that goes over mos some things.
I don't know. She's been there for a minute, she
kIPS call me good. I don't know. I just like
(52:43):
to watch your mouth move when you're do it well,
I mean personally, as far as when I don't want
to do anything at all, when I'm just like, okay,
I just want to chill. It never really works out
that way. So I always end up in a conversation
with one of these people that lives up here in
(53:04):
this house. And honestly, they are some of my favorite
things because they're funny as hell. Yeah, they are funny.
I love them. I love spending time with them because
they're like my little besties. I shouldn't say that because
I know we grew up like I'm your mom, I'm
not your friend. I'm not your little friend like my
(53:26):
girl like that. But I did our community and that
your little friend. That's when, that's when you didn't stepped
over your bounds. But yeah, and I ain't your little friend.
I didn't got that. They are my friends, friends good.
They're always aware that my mother was my mother. She
(53:48):
she rall talked me though, and that I've always appreciated.
There was really no filters about anything. I enjoyed that.
That was good stuff. Yeah, it was a favorite thing.
I try to be that way with my kids for us.
You had a smell because my mom had a smell. Yes,
(54:11):
And when I got her stuff after she passed, when
I got her stuff, yeah, I was like folding up
T shirts because she had like a ton of T shirts.
I don't my mother's laid in her life, honey, Like
she had like thirty five pairs of black pants like
my wife. But I was going through her stuff and
y'all like I sniffed it. Yeah, she she had a smell.
(54:43):
And it's literally like, yeah, every time I go back
to my mom's house, my grandmom, you know, she had
a room there and her clothes are still hanging up
in the closet. I always go in there and go
on the closet and I h it's like, oh, we
moved out of that house, um that my grandmother was then.
(55:06):
Uh so I don't. I didn't get a chance to
go back in that room in that way, but I
got a lot of her night counts. And even after
I washed, and I can still smell her. You can't
wash it out. The smell I'm talking about doesn't come
out in the laundry, No, it doesn't. That's a favorite thing. Yeah,
(55:32):
that's a favorite thing. I love when when this boy
of mine comes and now he's so much taller than me,
I can't um, but I love it when he bends
down and he puts his his face and but deck
because you know, he smells it. I know he's I
sniff everything. I'm a bad person in that way. I'm bad,
But I'm saying the smell that we smell, he smells it.
(55:55):
You you have one, Yeah, you got one. You got yo,
somebody's gonna be sniffing by ship with I'm going they
sniffing your ship now, Oh my gosh, I don't know, man,
that that you're gonna have you at a happy place
(56:16):
where I leave you here off for this off of
this uh this show. I thought about our kasical stuff
to that. That what it's all about. That's what it's
all about. Happy places and enjoying those favorite things and
talking about them and then going and doing it. Somebody
goes somewhere and get a scoop butter pecano on a
sugar cone. H don't get that. Go to Ben and Jerry,
(56:41):
get that waffle corne and come out the oven. That's
my name, that's mine, out the wafflet the oven. Yeah,
you know they wrapped their fresh. Go to one. Don
only go to it. Only go to a shop that
rapid fresh. I worked there. Yeah, Card and Jerry's, Hilary
and from my lifestyle, Hilary's with the jit Oh, Hilary's.
(57:03):
That was good. Yes, Ben and Jerry's is my favorite
ice cream. But I'm telling you, man, oh my goodness, gracious,
there was an ice cream parlor when I was a kid.
We used to go to the game, I really remember,
but it was that was my favorite until you know,
I discovered but Ben and Jerry's. But my favorite in
Ben and Jerry's is that chocolate fudge brownie situation? Chocolate
(57:28):
fudge brownie, yes, Benn, Jerry's mm hmmm, I'm Erry Garcia.
It kind of girl, me too, girl and all they
just should just know all the chips is chunky, Cherry Garcia,
chunky monkey trip. Whatever you want. Just know you' getting
a chunky you know, And that's a dark it's kind
of a dark chocolate ship to see, circle back to circle,
(57:48):
back to the dark chocolate because that thing ain't That's
all I'm saying like that and that felt sexual life.
Are you sure to have the way you were received
in it? I think I think I'm free for all
the time, all the time. I'm just your favorite things,
(58:13):
favorite things all the time. I was gonna say, well,
that's that's another episode of another time. Y'all for listening
to Jay dot Ill the podcast. It is our pleasure
just to have conversations to what spark conversations. Thank here, y'all.
(58:40):
How do you Eat an Elephant? One by kind Hey listeners?
Is Amber the producer here. I love this series of thaves.
I'm learning so much about all three hosts. I hope
these conversations help with your holiday wish lists just in
case miss them. I want to shout out a few
(59:01):
of those black owned brands mentioned in the episode. One
of course, honeypot Ken and there's satin lined apparel, Do
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