Shady Highlight: Are Those Your Real Eyes?

Robyn and Gizelle, the 'Green-Eyed Bandits,' answer questions from Reasonably Shady listeners! 

Clipped from Episode 18: "Y’all Are Nosey & We Love It!"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
So Alexandria asked me, this is for you to robbin.
Are those your real eyes? What? Okay, I'm gonna need
for you all to get to know the green eye
Bandit's better, okay, because we were born with these eyes absolutely.
And you know what, It's so funny. When I was
a little girl, I can remember people coming up to me,

(00:30):
you know, at adults, Like I would be in the
store with my mom and adults will be like, oh
my gosh, your eyes are so pretty, and I literally
honestly had no idea what they were talking about. I
I did not know that my eyes were green and
that my eyes look different from anyone else's. So I
literally be like, like, are they talking about the shape

(00:52):
of my eyes? You'll not have a mirror in the house. No,
we did, But I didn't know that I look different,
you know what I'm saying, Like, I had no idea
that because maybe because my brother has like eyes, my
mom has, my grandmother has blue eyes, my cousin has
blue eyes. So maybe for me, it's like, okay, everybody
got light eyes, like you know, so so for me,
like light eyes, green eyes was nothing special, And I

(01:12):
never noticed that I was different because I had green
eyes and it's so and it's so funny. One day
I was like, I was like, let me look in
the mirror. Figure out what these people are talking about.
This is probably last year. Okay, Robin's hilarious. So I
literally stood in the mirror and was like and I looked,

(01:35):
and I was like, oh, okay, it's the color of
my eye. I can't y'all. Robin Dixon is a mass Okay,
I'm so dumb, y'all. I'm so dingy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm so so. I'm glad you figured out. How old
were you? When you figured it out? I said you
had green eyes? We I mean, dingy is just for life.

(01:57):
So um, I don't really know how old I was.
I can't remember. I can't put like a number on that,
but I just remember being so confused. I feel like
I probably was like a little girl, like five years
old or something, you know what I mean. Like and
I would just be like, thank you, Like what are
you talking about? Like, no idea, Well you know, did

(02:20):
you know when you were five? Did you did you
know you had green ups? I knew that people people
cut the same thing. People come to my mom and
they would they asked because I had like a dark
rim around my eyes, especially at the bottom, and they
would ask my mom why did she put makeup on me?
And she would get mad, like, who are these white
ladies talking to me about my child and thinking that

(02:41):
I put makeup on a five year old like I
did not, and that's ridiculous and why can't my child
just be pretty? Right? So I knew it was something
different because it was all this discussion. But it was
like my sister was always like if I have an
older sister who is um, always keeps it real and
was always like, yeah, you're pretty, but you had nothing

(03:02):
to do with that. That was mommy and daddy and
that was their genes and UM had nothing to do
with you. So, um, you know, you need to be
smart and that's what you can control, but your face
and you had nothing to do with that. It's gonna
even get too excited, I said, we God, damn no,
that was Mama and Papa Graves. Ship. Well, let me

(03:23):
just stay in the bed today. Good God. Anyway, thank
god I have thick skin. All right, So we're gonna
take one more of what you guys asked before we
wrap up. Okay, so how do your boys handle filming
now that they have done it for a while and
they're getting older. Good ask a good question. So I
have to pay my children to go to work. Okay, okay,

(03:45):
So okay, I'm gonna stop you right there. Okay. So
Robert and I had this discussion prior to us filming.
I think see this past season season six, and I
was like, oh my god, the girls have given me
a hard time about filming, and Robin was saying the
same thing about her kids. So she was like, Giselle,
I'm gonna pay them, and I was like, what, Oh
my god. That's a good idea. And in that way,
they'll feel a sense of ownership they have a job. Yeah.

(04:07):
I'm literally like, all y'all, you'll have to work today.
It's time to go to work. And so now like
when they aren't going to work, they're like, when do
I go to work next? Because they want you pay
them like an hourly rate. I pay them and this
is the other thing I pay them according to the
scene and how well they did my god, Robert producer,

(04:29):
Now what I mean by like how well they like
DoD they behave or where they like being difficult? Or
because that's the other thing. They get in front of
the camera and they act like they have no sense
and they want to give me the hardest time, and
they like, you know, they just they roll along the floor.
When I'm trying to have a conversation. I'm like, y'all
are killing me right now. And I'm like, okay, I

(04:50):
don't want to look crazy and where I'm like yelling
at my kids and stuff, so I'm just gonna let
you all just do whatever. But they'll literally be like,
you know, hiding under a blanket and and I'm like, okay,
like y'all cut it out. So they get paid based
on you know, how long of a period of time
and how well they performed. Wow, Wow, that that's okay.

(05:11):
So it's this like ten dollars an hour, twenty dollars
an hour, So I've paid them anywhere between, like so
it's per scene, right, So I paid them, I want
to say, anywhere between like ten to thirty dollars. It's
nice depending on like what it was, like how how
much they did or like what you know what I mean. Okay,
I like that. Yes, I actually told my girls, um

(05:34):
the same thing. I was like, I'm gonna give you
guys an hourly rate. Right. So we had our first
scene season six and we were done with it and
I was like at the end of it, I was like,
all right, guys, I'm gonna give you y'all y'all's earnings
and they were like, no, Mom, it's fine, we just
want like they literally would not take money. They were like,
it's fine, you know, we're here for you, like they were.

(05:55):
They shocked me, And I think it's a difference between
girls and boys. They shocked me. They were just we're
just here for you, like whatever, it's fine. And I
think it's also like they're teenagers, so they're probably actually
enjoying like the show now, you know what I'm saying,
Like now it's like, okay, we're actually a little popular.
People know who we are. My kids are boys and

(06:18):
like their friends, like they get sick of their friends
because their friends. Mom was watched the show to come,
you know, come telling them about themselves and showed it
like oh my god. So that that really shocked me.
And because they that was so sweet at themselves and
you never paid them, no, I mean, I've given them
whatever they want. Of course, they get paid in other ways. Yes,

(06:39):
all right, so this is my last one. So because
this is really sweet, So Kelly says to me, I
love your spirit. How do you keep it up when
things get tough? Because you know, things always get tough,
and my mom always told me that when that, when
things get tough, make sure you wear your lipstick. They
keep your lips popping. So I always live g loss

(07:00):
with me. As long as my lips are popping, I
feel good about myself. Okay, yeah, alright, well I love that.
I mean that's not my solution. I don't think, yes
that it just makes you know, if your lips are
popping and you feel good and and you know you
got a little yellow shine on the lips, there's no
way you can have a bad day. Right, That's that's

(07:22):
very true. And to piggyback off of that in closing, um,
I want to leave you know everyone, I think we
wanna we gotta start giving some motivational Yes, we do
kind of messages we do, so we want to motivate people. Yes, yes, yes,
so I actually shared this on my Instagram story. But
I want to reiterate two traps you need to avoid

(07:43):
because I'm very good at this. Avoid caring what they
think and avoid thinking that they care. So I feel
like that's the solution to, like, Okay, when things are
going wrong or when we gotta read the second one again.
I was confused on the second Okay, thinking that they care. Okay,
like that so avoid stops like, don't even think that

(08:06):
they care that they care. Okay, I got it right,
because because I find a lot of times when you're
like beefing with someone or like you have a you know,
falling out with someone and you're sitting at home and
you're like thinking about it all the time and you're
mad and angry that person ain't think about you. They're
going about you. They're going to live their life, they
you know. So it's like you're sitting here giving them
all of your energy and they over there you know,

(08:27):
yeah the cheesecake factory eating exactly exactly. So so yeah,
so so let's let's stop caring what people think or
thinking that anyone cares. And that's like I feel like
that's a solution to, like when you do have issues
and problems, like just you know, face some head on,
like don't be embarrassed, no, you know, just go through
your struggles and and do what's best for you, and

(08:48):
don't worry about what anybody thinks. No, because guess what,
it don't matter. It don't matter. We hope you enjoyed
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