September 27, 2021 • 47 mins
Gizelle and Robyn discuss Beyonce, Simon Biles, medical care and Robyn’s music video experience w/ Puff Daddy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of The Black Effect
Podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Hello and welcome to
another episode of Reasonably Shady. I am your girl, Giselle Bryant.
What's up? What's up? This is Robin Dixon. We are
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back again, and thank you for being here with us. Yes, yes, yes,
y'all never fail us. Y'all are here with us every week,
week after week, and we definitely appreciate it. There's like
more and more of you coming. I'm hearing from people
are saying like they've been beinging, you know, like they
just gout on the Reasonably Shady train and even bening
and they're loving it, and we want more and we
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love you guys, so thank you so much. We appreciate you. Yes, yes, yes,
and I mean I'm gonna tell you just this is
not easy work. So we hope you like it. Okay,
because we over here working hard. This is over here sweat. Yes, yeah,
I had to get out of bed and I had
to drive to Robin's house. Okay, we are at been
Dixon's new palatial estate. Yes, I mean, oh that I
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mean it's very nice. Yes, yes, I like it. It's
nice and comfortable and I have a whole lot of
decorating and furnishing to do. So if anybody wants to
send me something, yes, yes, send Robin something because she
needs a whole lot of furniture, and furniture is expensive,
oh my gosh, expensive, and then the lead time on
it is crazy, and then the delivery is crazy and
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fraid and it's insane. Listen, it's so insane. But I
mean it's the cost of life. Yes, okay, So, at
per usual, we're gonna give our reasonably shady moment of
the week. Did you have one? Oh? Shoot, okay, so
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why do you think about it? I actually have too.
So you know, the kids started school and every time
this happens to me every year because I always forget.
It's kind of like when you have a baby and
it's horrible, but then you forget, so you get pregnant again. Okay.
It's called the car line at school. Oh my gosh,
is the shadiest, most horrible thing that mothers and whoever
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pick up these kids have to go through. You probably
try to be the first one, don't you. I don't
actually try to time it so that it's done. And
I catched the tail end of it. Okay. So for
those of you who don't have kids or don't understand
the car line, it is, you're sitting there in your
car waiting for your kids to come out, and the
line is the longest thing you've ever seen. And it's
not like your kid can come to your like can
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bust out to school and just come to your car.
You gotta wait to you like inch up and you're
at the front, up all right, and you're at the front,
and then finally they can come if they do come
to your car. Because my kids in high school now
to get yelled at my teachers because it's a hazard. Yeah.
I hate the car line and cannot wait for it
to be out of my life. The car line is horrible.
Um gosh, and you just now, I um, you triggered
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my my shady moment um. It actually goes back a
couple of weeks. So I moved and I posted that
I moved, and the next somebody called my children's school
the front office and told them, hey, I think they
moved and you need to find out where they moved to.
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So who was that person? Who is that somebody that
they're a hater? Like? Really business? Yes? Mine your business.
So the person in the front office or whoever, they
instead of just calling me because you know they you know,
they can just look up my kids records and say, oh,
let me call the parents. They called my former real
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estate agent that helped me get you know, the houses
where we live and asked him do you know if
Robin and Wan Dixon still live in their house? And
so he emailed me the email or she she emailed
and called him. So he forwarded me the email. This
is horrible and he didn't know because I was I
didn't I wasn't using him. I used a different real
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estate and he didn't know what was going on. So
I called and I said, this is where I and Dixon.
The woman that you were snooping around trying to find
out information on um if you need to know something
about me in my life called me please Yes, lady.
Isn't that crazy? I was like so angry, Like why
do you need to snoop around? Is it almost like
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you were trying to catch me in a lie? Right,
Like why not just call me and say, hey, we
got this to have been in information just trying to
check and see you know, I wouldn't even think to
go around you and call a real estate agent adult
if you move, Like, why don't you just call you?
Like you literally had to maybe like well, you know
how when um, well, your kids are in private school.
So when you're in public school, like you have to
send them, you know, your least agreement or your more
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your deed or something. So he must have been on
the least agreement. So they had to pull that document
up right, So when they were doing just like looking
at you know, here's the foul okay, parent name, parent number,
parent email. I was, I was, I was through. I
was so angry. What what county is this? Howard County?
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They don't play up out their schools because they have
a really good school system. Today. Wanted to make sure
and my key was in the right school and they weren't.
I understand, but y'all are wrong for snooping around. Just
call the parents. Just call the parents. And it's not
like Robin can like fake where she lives. We're on TV,
like it's actually it is what it is, like come
on now and and trust me, my kids wouldn't meet
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you fake where I lived. Secretly, Robin was trying to lie,
but I was like I can't know. I was like, guys,
I can't lie, Like, there's no way I can get
away with that because I am on TV. So whatever.
So anyway, they hate their new school. Oh well, Corey
hates it, Okay, Carter's adjusting. Carter's all right, Corey's like,
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you know, he misses his friends. Yes, he's in because
he's yes, So he misses his friends and he just
he hates it. But you know, hey, it's either going
to be a really long school year or he'll find
some friends and he'll like it. Yeah, I'm figuring he'll
figure kids. The kids are resilient and they typically figure
it out. They are. But I understand hating to school.
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I've been there before. All right. So we have so
many hot topics to talk about. Okay, so there's this
one particular thing that I didn't want to talk about,
but I do. I feel like, you know, we do
have to talk about it because it's about people that
I love, called the Carters, Jay Z and Beyonce. We
love them, best friends. There are friends. I know. I'm
so mad at them because I didn't get the invite
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for the trip for the forties birthday party. Yeah, like
on the boat and we're still looking at pictures. I
don't confus, very confused. But she's my Virgal sister. I
don't understand anyway. Oh, by the way, is still Virgal Nations?
Still still Virgal season out here? Okay? Okay, So they
did that collaboration with Tiffany's right, and I wasn't we
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weren't going to discuss it because it's kind of like
it caused like a fury of controversy and discussion. And
you know, Beyonce has she hasn't come out and said anything,
but it's we parted that she is feeling differently about
doing it than than she was before they did it. Um,
so here's my take, right, Okay, So she got to
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wear the diamond that has not been worn by a
a black woman and be it's the diamond has been
around for like over a hundred years. Okay, So something's
been around for over a hundred years and ain't no
black person been able to get their hands on it.
I'm of the place and of the thought process. F you.
I don't. I don't want to participate. I don't want
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to be invited to the barbecue. I don't want to
touch the diamond. Y'all can have it. And if you're
Beyonce and you're the baddest bitch walking, why do you
need that? You know what I mean? Well, I don't
know that it's about the diamond. I think it might
be about the big fat check that was probably written
to that. Okay, but if you're if y'all, if you
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and your husband are both billionaires, you don't need that check. Yeah,
they want to stay billy in there, I think, I
think honestly, like I know, we say, they're like, oh, well,
you're a billionaire, what do you need more money for?
Because rich people their ego is like it's it's fueled
by money, right, And you know, they want to be
the riches. They want to be on that list. They
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want to keep they don't they can't. They can't be
knocked off the list. They all the list. Sorry, they
Tiffany wrote them a big fast we know that and
they said chitching cash it. So do you think that
if they knew about the backstory of these diamonds prior
to they wouldn't have done it? Possibly? Okay, all right, possibly, okay,
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I agree with that. Possibly I agree with that because
I feel like they're very conscious and particular about the
moves they make. Well, look, Tiffany don't care if anyone's
upset because those commercials run all the time. Yes they do.
And let me just say this, I okay, a little
part of me felt like they don't need Tiffany's Tiffany
needs them. So they could have bowed out, they could
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have walked away. I'm telling you that check, that check,
that check was bad because um, flat tummy time t
whatever they keep trying to they keep harassing me, and
I feel like I don't need them. Check is not
that good. If the check was good, then you would
do it. Listen, flat tummy t stop stop email like
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that or whatever the hell? Y'all off anyway? Like like
can you post posts for two dollars? Like something's crazy?
I mean, I'm exaggerating, but I'm like kick rocks, rocks,
kick rocks. All right. I just want to give you
all an example. Now. Listen, Um, we are done obviously
with the Olympics. But the aftermath of it all is,
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you know, someone Biles and those other ladies went to court. Now,
they didn't go to court. I don't really understand what
they did. They went Congress, They went to Congress, and
they were complaining, not complaining, but they gave a deposition
on what happened to them as it really asist man
that got a hundred and fifty years for molesting them
and their beef. Their issue is when we went to
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the FBI, y'all didn't game. That's crazy, that is insane.
That is insane. The FBI did not feel like what
they were saying was important enough to investigate or Okay,
they did their little bit of investigation and whatever response
they got the FB. I was like, okay, I think
the FBI did not want to interfere because then would
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we have an Olympic gymnast team. No, we would not.
Like they probably would have had to suspend the ladies
or doing I don't know. They just didn't They didn't
do their job. No, that's horrible. That's horrible, and that
they're here to do stuff like that. If there's a job, right,
if there's anyone that's going to find out the root
of the problem or what's going on, it's the FBI.
Like that, that's insane. But I think it's just it
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shows you a lot. There's probably a lot of stuff
that goes on that the FBI is aware of and
they choose not to investigate, which is scar Yeah, it's very,
very scary, and it makes you feel it makes you
feel I'm sure that you're just totally helpless, that who's
going to listen to you, who's going to have your back? Um?
And these were like fourteen fifteen year old girls. It's horrible,
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that's horrible. I felt so bad, like it was like
you can and then it almost I felt like watching
someone bios talk. I almost felt like, Okay, I even
understand her more now with the Olympics and her you know,
not wanting to compete, like she probably just has so
many emotions and anxiety and just she's just been so scarred.
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And it's like, shame on you for allowing these adults
to scar these children, because you're scarring them for life. Yeah, no,
no question about it, Absolutely no question. I really feel
bad with those girls. And guess what they have. They
have displayed so much courage, way more than balancing on
the balance being like this, I'm very happy that they
stepped forward because they're helping the girls coming behind them exactly,
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They're helping the girls coming behind them, and then they're
just helping other, you know, girls or people with similar
types of experiences, whether it's in you know, other sports
or other industries, to you know, to pay more attention
to stuff and to say, Okay, this actually is really real.
I guess they probably felt like, oh, you know, if
they're if they're going to say, oh, the doctor is
touching me inappropriately in the fos where we're like, oh,
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but the doctor's just doing his job, you know what
I mean. Like but no, it's like, no, you need
to look farther into this, yes, not stuff. So I
was I got my um right after I got married.
I my gallbladder damn near exploded, right, so I had
to go to the doctor. Was that like most excruciating
pain ever? I hear that, It's like really really really painful.
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It's hard, like it was. Pain was so bad I
passed out. Wow, woke up in the hospital. So I
got you know, it's kind of like an emergency surgery.
I got my gallbladder removed. And I remember the hospital
that I was in, actually in Baltimore, is a teaching hospital,
so they have the doctors come in and they have
like the new residents with the doctor to like check
out the patients. So you know, I was. I had
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just got my hair was all done in a in
an orange yellow color, and I was looking cute. I
had a hand and everything, your hair is yellow. I
don't know that. I don't know this is Look, there's
a point of this story where they are okay. So
in the middle, so I was recuperating. I'm half on drugs.
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I remember I told them all to go home, right
because he had been staying in the hospital with me,
and one of the interns residents came back into the
room and he was like, I need to check your
your scars or whatever, and he was kind of filling
me up, like my boobs, and I was like, the
way he was touching me, I remember, it wasn't I
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didn't feel right about it, and I was pissed. So um,
the next day I asked to see the head doctor
and I told on that guy and um, I never
saw him again, and I was like, I do not
want that guy in my room anymore. But I was
like livid, My gosh, and imagine if he's a doctor today. Yes,
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Like there's always creepy people out there. If you're ever,
if somebody's ever in the hospital or just in an
In a situation in which you can be compromised, you
need to have somebody with you. Yeah. Wow, that's horrible, scary.
That's that's why I honestly don't have male doctors like
that are like like my my, my, my O B
G y N is a female. Yes, my um primary
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care doctor is a female. Like you know, no offense
to male doctors. But but now, I mean it is
what it is, y'all suck anyway, moving on, Okay, So
I'm so excited because it's almost the holidays and Broadway
is bad, so like just f y, I always take
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my kids around the holidays to see some play on Broadway,
musical something that's like our thing. It's our tradition, and
we didn't get to do it in because of the pandemic.
But now Broadways back and they've like opened up in
like full throttle, like they had what the Lion King
I think um on Hamilton's. So I'm so super excited.
That is so exciting. And I must say that I
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have never been to a play on Broadway. Robin No, No,
I think I did go to one, damn it, and
I can't remember what it was. What do you mean
it was a long time ago. Okay, so Robin, you
didn't it might have been lion King. Oh my god,
the word memory is so bad. Okay, so you didn't
go to a play on Broadway, but you were a
(15:31):
video home. Sure, I was, And I know that you
always like to tell people that you were a video home.
I mean, I'm proud. I'm proud of my one shining moment.
Would you like to tell the world about it? Yeah?
So so actually those are some of the questions that
I got. Was like, you know, tell us about your
story about being a video home because we shared um
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on a recent episode of the House as of Potomac
that you know, well, we were auditioning for Candice's video
and I'm like, I'm not a new it is, I'm
true to this, I've been here video ho So anyway, um,
that opportunity came about because then we kind of follow me,
my brothers, sons, baby Mama's boyfriend. I'm lost exactly. Cousin
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was successful music video director Chris Robinson. He has he
directed tons and tons of tons of great music videos.
Yes we know Chris Robinson. Yes, Chris, so we I
was at a birthday party for my nephew and he
was there and later that week, like they called, my
brother's son's mother called and was like, hey, Chris, Chris
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is directing the video in l A Puffy Do you
want to do? You want to go? And Chris, he
wants to know if you want to be in it?
And I was like, in a video for shot, Puffy
says bad boy days. Yes, this is when he remember
he went to jail for the gun chars Yes, Puff.
This was his first song and video after he got
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out of jail. This is a big deal. This is
a comeback, huge, huge, And I was like so confused.
I was like me, why, huh what? No? Like oh,
like you you got the wrong person right because you
you didn't You hadn't perfected your work game at that point. No,
I mean they weren't working back then. It was more
you know, I don't. I don't know. That just wasn't
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on my radar. So I told one. I was like,
this is so crazy. But someone, you know, Chris Robinson
asked me being a Puffy video and I'm like, I'm
not doing that. Why would he ask me? And he
was like you should do that. That sounds amazing. I
was like actually really surprised that he encouraged me to
do that, and thinking back, I'm like, maybe he was
just trying to get me out of town so he
could like No, he was not ribbing. He wanted you
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to fulfill your dreams as a video hole. That is
what he wanted. Yeah, fine, all right, I'll take that.
But but but I was just so surprised that he
was like excited about that opportunity for me and encouraged
me to come. So I went. I flew all the
way from Maryland to lt They paid for my flight,
they paid for my hotel okay, budget, they paid me
seven hundred dollars budget, okay, And it was like such
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a cool experience. It was on the Universal Studio lot
where they filmed Desperate Housewives and I love desperseive Like
I don't know if a justper Housewives are before this
video or after, but like I recognized, like, oh, this
is a Desperate Housewives step. Super cool. And it was
all these celebrities there, Shack Ice Cube, Ben Stiller, like
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it was a big deal because it was like bad
boyfriend life, He's coming back to the neighborhood. And I
mean it was a long day. You know, sun up
to sundown. It was all these different scenes. I was
literally in like four different scenes. But when you watch
the video, you see me for like point to five seconds.
But doesn't matter, Robin, you made it. It doesn't You
can see me, you can pause and I can pause
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it and I say, there, I am in one of
the funny parts. So we were, um, like, I was
in a jacuzi with like three other girls on the
front yard and it's like a party outside in the
front yard. And then so standing outside of the jacuzi,
it was in above ground jakuzi. Um did they still
have what what does it means? Like a big tub?
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You mean like a big Yeah, literally, that's what it
seemed like. It sucking above but think of a jacuzi.
But it's above sounds a little unsanitary, it's a little weird.
They backed up. So then there at least like these
rapper guys like I don't remember their names, but it
was like all these bad boy artists and stuff. So
they're like standing around the jacuzi and I just remember
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the guy like, okay, when they started the camera, he
had he had a glass of like wine. He had
a wine glass or something He's like, I'm I'm gonna
put the water all over your chest? Did he? I
was like, nah, you could do that to her, like
sad not me, not me. And it's so funny because
I'm literally like, you know, my my, I'm like, oh my,
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same thing I say all the time. Oh my god,
my parents gonna watch this video and he won't see me, like,
you know, put put pushing my boobs outlet the man
poured the water all on my chest. I was like,
even do it to them? And so those other girls,
they was just moving a little booby. And that's why
they were in the video longer than you because you
were in zero point too, and they was like in
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it for like three minutes. They were like I'm going
to do whatever it takes, and I was like, hell no,
you better not likely touch with me. I mean, it
was really cool. I have a lot of pictures. I'm
gonna probably share them on my page and just show
all the little pictures. But it was it was just
it was such a cool and fun experience. Um and
that video was like bomb Like when you watch it,
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it's so entertaining. Now I remember that video. I definitely
because you're right, it was like his comeback and he
was in like a neighborhood. He was the neighborhood. He
was like coming back to the neighborhood, pulled up in
the big we're in the big bus and all these
I was on that bus, but they didn't show me,
and they show everyone getting off the bus, and you know,
come to the neighborhood and think, I think Puffy should
(21:02):
do a Robin do over because you did not get
your adequate tive me more time. Yes, So next time
you you have a shop Puffy combs, next time you
have a little video, make sure Robin gets her due.
But he's probably gonna be like, Okay, well let you
gotta let somebody pour something on you. And you can't
at this point you can't. I don't care, Okay, all right,
it's a couple more things that I wanted to discuss
because this this is intrigued to me. Okay. So l
(21:24):
Chopo one of his homes went up in Mexico went
up for auction. It was a lottery on his home.
The home on the cost a hundred dollars, okay, and
no one bought it, okay, And I that struck me
as very strange because I'm convinced there's some money hidden
(21:44):
in the walls. This is my thought. Okay, so under
the in this particular home, if you remove the tub,
that was the whole for the underground way to escape.
So supposedly they've cemented that over and you know that's gone.
But I'm sure there is some cash. You don't think
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they've looked everywhere all throughout this house. Well, I mean
you have to pull up the floor board. They probably
did that. Oh you think I would imagine like they're
dealing with El Chappo, Like you're not just gonna be like, oh,
this chop up for sale. No, You're gonna be like,
let me pull up every like it's probably literally just
like four walls. True, it can't be like how a
(22:27):
livable house. I don't know. I was just feeling like
I want to go in there and like pull up
the toilets and everything. Imagine this was not his like
house of houses, Yes, this is one of his stash
It was actually yeah, there we go. So if you
are in the stash house, that's got to be cash
in the stash house. If they found that cash, that
cash is gone. I would be diging the backyard or
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his people that like that that stuff is gone. It's gone,
It's gone. They probably looked at every inch of that property.
I was gonna tell my Mexican connect to go ahead
buy it, and it was gonna coming and I'm sure
it is. Did they Was there anything else for sale?
I thought that's the best they could do. Well. What
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was interesting about it was that nobody wanted to touch
it right foot pole. Everybody was like, no need right, So,
I don't know, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm
I'm going to be checking out. What else did they
auction off? That was l Chapo? Do you think El
Chappo is going to escape again? Yes? Do you think so? Hell? Yeah?
That was so amazing. Yes, So they haven't right where
(23:33):
they have them. He it's he's in a facility. But
it's extremely luxurious, right, I mean luxurious? Is it? From
what I understand, He's like running the whole thing, and
he you know, he has people coming in and people
leaving out, and he's he's got his hose on on rotation.
Oh god, okay, I need, I need, I need to
research L Chapo. I'm like always highly entertained by like
the drug lord cartel, Yes, the cartels. All that that
(23:56):
stuff is so entertaining. All right, so listen, we have
put it out there on our social media to ask
us anything. I mean, you guys a lot of times
individually on our d m s. You guys have all
kinds of crazy questions. So we just decided we're gonna
deal with them. Okay, um that are not related to
the show that we do call The Real Housewives of Potomac.
(24:18):
So y'all really asked a hundred million questions. Okay, and
y'all a nosy. This is the title of this episode,
y'all a nosey, and we love it. I have like
a whole book. So of course we cannot get through
all the questions in this one episode. But what we're
gonna do is kind of like every now and again,
We're gonna try to make this like an ongoing segment
(24:38):
and we'll answer questions, especially because y'all really want to
get to know us better. And we're just happy y'all
want to get to know us. I know, and I
love that we have the platform to do. So, yes, yes, immediately, Okay,
So Robin, you want to start sure, okay, and I
print romine reading all of this print. Okay, Um, have
(24:58):
you ever passed for another ethnicity or for white in
order to fit in or for safety or opportunity? Be honest?
So that's from Craig that that actually has never even
across my mind. Um, However, I was on a cruise
one time with my girlfriends. It was three of us
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on a cruise and we're all light skinned, and we
met this white guy and played golf like we were
hanging out. You know how you when you're on a cruise,
they like sit you at a table with strangers. Are
so he's at our table, our dinner table. So met
this white guy. We were hanging out. We we spent
a lot of time, you know, at the casino and
whatever with this guy. And he said something about something
(25:43):
something nigger, I mean nigger, and we said the N words, yes,
and we me and my friends looked at each other
like what the funk? Like he doesn't know that we're black,
you know what I mean? Like the way he said it,
it was like obvious that he didn't know we were
black women. And it was like, I mean, after that,
we just like we were out, like we we couldn't
(26:05):
even like confront the situation, we just said no more
of him. So no, I have never tried to pass
for white, but clearly I have passed, right, I'll be
known to you, passed for y. And actually that brings
me too much to something that somebody asked me, Um,
bring a B B. Why asked me? And my creole
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which is a Louisiana thing. Typically, Yes, I am creole.
If you watched season four of the Real Housewats of Potomac,
we went to New Orleans, we did my whole backstory. Um,
we rode a boat that was the Creole queen. Yes,
my whole family is creole. But to answer your question,
do we pass? I would never ever do that. But
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my I have a cousin on my dad's side, and
my dad doesn't speak to him. And it turns out
that the reason why he doesn't is because this guy
was trying to pass, was passing for white, lives his
life as a white man. He black, wow, and he
lives his wife as a white man. And my dad
is like hates him, doesn't speak to him, and we
didn't exile him from the goddamn family. So that okay, yes,
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all right? Oh, oh your turn, Oh that was your question. Yeah, okay, alright,
Um so this one, I got a question. Yes, why
can't y'all talk about Potomac? I like all the other topics,
but rhop has a lot going on and people want
to hear what you'll have to say about it. So, um, honestly,
it is in our contract that we're not really allowed
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to talk about Potomac outside of like Bravo sponsored stuff stuff. Um,
so we have to have permission from Bravo to be
able to talk about Potomac because I just wanted to
put it out there now. I feel like if it's so,
I can't really talk about what happened in yesterday's episode
and go in on that. Now. I think there's other
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people that maybe do, Like I think Candy does that
on her YouTube page, but she must have something in
her contract that allows her to do that. She probably does,
but you know, to be honest with you, this has
been refreshing not to be exact and talk about um
Potomac and and this podcast is a breath of fresh
air for me personally. I'll just speak for me because
it's like we when the show was on the air,
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that's all we do. All of our interviews with all
of these different outlets. It's like the show and what happened,
and I'm again and and a lot of times it's
just like I don't want to talk about that. Yeah,
I agree, And that's how I feel. I mean, I
I just think it's awesome that you all get to
learn more about us and our personality. And because I
think on the show, like you get you really get
a scale down, filtered version of who we are. And
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we can't talk about the met gala and you know,
just other random stuff that's going on, and so yeah,
I don't know. I mean, it's it's it's a slippery slope,
I think when it comes to being able to talk
about the show, because some people might reveal too much.
And I think instead of taking the risk of, you know,
allowing someone to reveal too much, then like we can't
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reveal anything at all. Um So Kennedy Lana Laney asked,
are you and Robin still involved in Greek life or
go back to your undergrad chapter to visit and participate
in activities. So I am, yes, an active. I'm a
member of my sorority, financial, I am a paid member
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of of Alpha Cappa Alpha and Um, I try to
get back to Hampton and Gamma Theata as often as
I can. It's hard. Howard University played Hampton University and
I asked for all of my sore wars to meet
me there. So yes, I try to participate as much
as I can. And I am also financial. I am
a Diamond Life member of Stigment Data Get Straight, so
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so I don't have to pay another national due because um,
we paid Diamond and for anyone who you know doesn't
know what that is, that means we paid well. My
mother when I crossed to Delta, my mother paid I
don't know, it's like twenty five hundred dollars or so,
a large chunk of money for me to be a
Diamond Life member, which means that I will always be
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financial for the rest of my life in Delta. But
I am also a chapter member. I belong to the
Baltomore County Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Data. And my
mother pays those dudes too, Yes, gladys, and I pay
her back, but like she makes sure that, like I
stay financial because she knows when stuff is doing and
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she's like, I paid your dude, now you owe me.
So just to answer. Somebody else also asked, like, what
was my line number? I was forty five. On my
line it was fifty of us and forty five is
like always a number that I use for stuff. So
I'm I was number ten and my Instagram pages Robin
Dixon ten. So if you've ever wonder what the ten is,
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I'm number ten. But um also but to say, yes,
do I go back to Am I still involved in
the sorority? Yes, I'm very close with my chapter, my
my collegiate chapter at the University of Maryland cap of five. Um,
I would like to be more active though, definitely. Okay,
we'll get we'll get into it, get into it all right,
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what you got? Alright? Um? Do you pack your kids
lunches or do they eat school lunches? Okay, what do
you do? I don't know the answer to this for you.
Oh my god, I packed my kids lunches. Yes, my
kids are so stuck up. They will not eat school lunch.
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Like if I send them to school without a lunch,
they will starve themselves. They refused to eat school lunch.
And it's so frustrating because I literally have to wake
up and make these damn ham sandwiches, turkey sandwiches and
cut up fruit and oh my gosh, And do you
know when we were vegan you mayby we were leaking
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a few years ago and the kids were legan. I
literally would make them a spinach salad for lunch, spinach
and not strawberries and cucumbers. And I was doing that
like every morning. I couldn't believe I was doing that,
but oh, that's amazing. But yes, I hate packing school lunch.
And that's one reason I'll probably send my kids to
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private school next year, because because the school lunch, because
the education. Yes, because my I went to private school
for high school and that lunch was balm. It was
like being a sizzler. Like, okay, so I too hate
packing their lunch, and they hate that I packed the lunch.
It's we agree, Okay, we are on won a core
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in my house. So I give them money for them
to get their lunch at school, and the yeah, you're right,
it is Sizzler. They got a whole lot to choose from,
so typically it's like six or seven dollars a day.
So I tell them I give them some money at
the beginning of the week, and I tell them, look,
at here. You gotta budget just like ahead of time.
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So they used to have like a car, right, but
they don't have that anymore because they're just now because
of COVID and I don't know anyway, sometimes in the
middle of the week, my kids said they ran out
of money. Right. That doesn't have nothing to do with
me now because because they went back for second because
I told them to budget accordingly. Yeah, now we're working
on this. We're working on this. Yes, yes, let me
tell you my school launch in private school what he
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was like, have at it. Yes, I'm definitely going to
send in the private school. I can't take I cannot
make these launches anymore hilarious. Okay, So Gonzales asked me,
I think this is a really good question. If you
or Robin could be CEOs of any company in the world,
which would it be. Which would you choose? This is
like an existing company. Okay, um, you answer first. Okay,
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So I would be the CEO of like a whole food,
like a grocery chain, so like a whole food, a
safe Way or whatever, because at the end of the day,
I want to give of the food to people who
cannot afford food. So I feel like there isn't enough
intention about people that I can't tell you how many
times somebody's been in front of me inline and they
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didn't have enough money to pay for their food. Right.
So if we had a system set up that, like
the food that was getting ready to go bad, like,
let's give it to people that really need it. As
a CEO, that is what I would do when when
I get to when I get to heaven, That's one
of my questions to God, Like why do people go hungry?
Go hungry? Yeah? I think especially in the United States,
it's like totally unnecessary. We have enough food for everybody. Yeah, absolutely,
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and I and like, so that's why food banks are
super important. Yeah, because there are so many people that
it's so crazy. It's like they're not they might not
be um homeless. What is it under dang? What's the
term they use at the food It's underserved. It's a
term and it really like because it'll be people, you know,
working class people and they just can't afford to feed
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their family. The U S Department of Our Culture estimates
that around eleven to twelve of US households or food insecure.
These individuals who have difficulty accessing meals, have to cut meals,
have to share meals, or may miss a day or
two of a meal in the course of a period
of time because they're not able to afford those meals.
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So you know, the kids they have to rely on
school to eat right. Yeah, and that that's so all
of that. I just need for it to be alleviated
gotten rid of in this country. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
That bothers me. Gosh, what would my company be? You know,
I've always, since I was young, had like a love
for like retail. Um, Like I would play like store
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my house. I would put a price tag on like
everything in the house. So it definitely would probably be
something retail centered. Um, I don't I can't really say
like one company. I mean, can I just stay the
CEO of Embellished because you can grow, Yes, you can
add more things, which I'm working on, Yes, Gonzales, that's
the answer. Probably just be living her her life that
she living. I just want to expand Embellished in Yes,
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stay tuned. I'm gonna work on like some nice Yeah.
Speaking of Embellished and Robin taking over the fashion world,
we are coming out with reasonably shady merch so stay
tuned for that. Stay tuned. Very soon. We're gonna have
some some fun hoodies limited supplies, so don't sleep. Trust
me when I tell you it's going to be limited supply.
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You better get you better get on it. Yes, yes,
and speaking embellished one of the questions a lot. I
got this question a lot. When will embellished be restocked?
In other words, robbing you're not doing your CEO. Can
I tell you how frustrating it is to not have
I mean, it's a good thing, like okay, that means
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like people are buying it, but to not have anything
to sell, like my website is dormant and I hate
it because they have so many people who want to buy.
And that's one of the things as a small business owner, UM,
managing inventory that is is very hard. I think that's
like one of the biggest issues or problems. It's like
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either you don't have enough or you don't want to
have too much, you know, so I don't want to
have too much. Embellition is just sitting there and I
can't and it's hard to predict and forecast you know,
how many hats I'm gonna need. Um, So what's the
answer to the question do we have a we have
a roundabout dates so honestly, so I am expecting a
shipment next week. Honestly, by the time you hear this,
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I'm probably will probably be restocked, so any day now.
But when I do restocked, make sure you get it past. Okay, yes, yes,
but I appreciate. But it's it sucks because it's like,
oh my gosh, I'm where the show is on air
and people are reminded like, oh, let me, I want
to go buy a hat, and they have nothing to buy.
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It's so frustrated. Listen, we gotta do bad without inventory.
I know I'm gonna have to just quadruple the number
or something. Okay, listen. So Alexandria asked me, this is
for you to Robin. 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
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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, 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
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were green and that my eyes look different from anyone else's.
So I literally be like, like, are they talking about
the shape of my eyes? Y'all not have a mirror
in the house. No, we did, But I didn't know
that I look different. You know, I'm saying like, I
had no idea that because maybe because like my brother
has like eyes, my mom has hey, my grandmother has
blue eyes. My cousin has blue eyes. So maybe for me,
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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 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,
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Robin's hilarious. So I literally stood in the mirror and
was like and I looked, and I was like, oh, okay,
it's the color of my eye. I can't, y'all, Robin Dixon,
I'm as 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
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were you when you figured it out? Green eyes? I
said you had green eyes? We I mean, dingy is
just for life. So yes, 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
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what I mean, like, and I would just be like,
thank you, Like what are you talking about? Like no idea? Well,
you know, because did 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,
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like who are these white ladies talking to me about
my child and thinking that 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
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always keeps it real, And she was always like, yeah,
you pretty at you and had nothing 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. Don't even get too excited. I said, well, God,
damn no, that was Mama and Papa Graves. Ship. Well,
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let me 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 are getting older? Good ask a good question.
So I have to pay my children to go to work, Okay, Okay,
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So okay, I'm gonna stop you right there. Okay. So
Robin 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 going to 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.
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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 hour they 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 the producer,
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now what I mean by like how well they like
do they behave or were 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
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don't want to look crazy and where I'm like yelling
at my kids and stuff. So I'm just gonna let
y'all just do whatever. But they'll literally be like, you know,
hiding under a blanket, 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. So it's this
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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 the same thing. I
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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. They shocked me, and
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I think it's a difference between girls and boys. Like
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, Like now it's like, okay, we're actually a
little popular. People know who we are. My kids are boys,
and like their friends, like they get stick with their
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friends because their friends. Mom was watched the show to come,
you know, come telling them about themselves 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,
all right, So this is my last one. So because
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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 have lip gloss
with me. As long as my lips are popping, I
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feel good about myself. Okay, yeah, all right, well, I
love that. I mean, that's not my solution. I don't. Yes,
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 very true.
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And to piggyback off of that in closing, um, I
want to leave you know everyone, I think we wanta
we gotta start giving some motivational Yes, we do kind
of messages, 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
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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 bad women. Gotta read the second one again.
I was confused on the second thinking that they care. Okay,
that so avoid stops like, don't even think that they
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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, ain't
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. Yeah, and they over there, you know,
(46:25):
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 is 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
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don't worry about what anybody thinks. No, because guess what,
it don't matter. It don't matter. That just stinks to
That is our show, and always remember to either live
your life reasonable or shady. Yes, thank you guys. Talks
to you next week by Reasonably Shady is a production
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ten Giselle, briant and reasonably shady
Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of The Black Effect
Podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Hello and welcome to
another episode of Reasonably Shady. I am your girl, Giselle Bryant.
What's up? What's up? This is Robin Dixon. We are
(00:22):
back again, and thank you for being here with us. Yes, yes, yes,
y'all never fail us. Y'all are here with us every week,
week after week, and we definitely appreciate it. There's like
more and more of you coming. I'm hearing from people
are saying like they've been beinging, you know, like they
just gout on the Reasonably Shady train and even bening
and they're loving it, and we want more and we
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love you guys, so thank you so much. We appreciate you. Yes, yes, yes,
and I mean I'm gonna tell you just this is
not easy work. So we hope you like it. Okay,
because we over here working hard. This is over here sweat. Yes, yeah,
I had to get out of bed and I had
to drive to Robin's house. Okay, we are at been
Dixon's new palatial estate. Yes, I mean, oh that I
(01:04):
mean it's very nice. Yes, yes, I like it. It's
nice and comfortable and I have a whole lot of
decorating and furnishing to do. So if anybody wants to
send me something, yes, yes, send Robin something because she
needs a whole lot of furniture, and furniture is expensive,
oh my gosh, expensive, and then the lead time on
it is crazy, and then the delivery is crazy and
(01:25):
fraid and it's insane. Listen, it's so insane. But I
mean it's the cost of life. Yes, okay, So, at
per usual, we're gonna give our reasonably shady moment of
the week. Did you have one? Oh? Shoot, okay, so
(01:46):
why do you think about it? I actually have too.
So you know, the kids started school and every time
this happens to me every year because I always forget.
It's kind of like when you have a baby and
it's horrible, but then you forget, so you get pregnant again. Okay.
It's called the car line at school. Oh my gosh,
is the shadiest, most horrible thing that mothers and whoever
(02:07):
pick up these kids have to go through. You probably
try to be the first one, don't you. I don't
actually try to time it so that it's done. And
I catched the tail end of it. Okay. So for
those of you who don't have kids or don't understand
the car line, it is, you're sitting there in your
car waiting for your kids to come out, and the
line is the longest thing you've ever seen. And it's
not like your kid can come to your like can
(02:28):
bust out to school and just come to your car.
You gotta wait to you like inch up and you're
at the front, up all right, and you're at the front,
and then finally they can come if they do come
to your car. Because my kids in high school now
to get yelled at my teachers because it's a hazard. Yeah.
I hate the car line and cannot wait for it
to be out of my life. The car line is horrible.
Um gosh, and you just now, I um, you triggered
(02:51):
my my shady moment um. It actually goes back a
couple of weeks. So I moved and I posted that
I moved, and the next somebody called my children's school
the front office and told them, hey, I think they
moved and you need to find out where they moved to.
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So who was that person? Who is that somebody that
they're a hater? Like? Really business? Yes? Mine your business.
So the person in the front office or whoever, they
instead of just calling me because you know they you know,
they can just look up my kids records and say, oh,
let me call the parents. They called my former real
(03:33):
estate agent that helped me get you know, the houses
where we live and asked him do you know if
Robin and Wan Dixon still live in their house? And
so he emailed me the email or she she emailed
and called him. So he forwarded me the email. This
is horrible and he didn't know because I was I
didn't I wasn't using him. I used a different real
(03:55):
estate and he didn't know what was going on. So
I called and I said, this is where I and Dixon.
The woman that you were snooping around trying to find
out information on um if you need to know something
about me in my life called me please Yes, lady.
Isn't that crazy? I was like so angry, Like why
do you need to snoop around? Is it almost like
(04:16):
you were trying to catch me in a lie? Right,
Like why not just call me and say, hey, we
got this to have been in information just trying to
check and see you know, I wouldn't even think to
go around you and call a real estate agent adult
if you move, Like, why don't you just call you?
Like you literally had to maybe like well, you know
how when um, well, your kids are in private school.
So when you're in public school, like you have to
send them, you know, your least agreement or your more
(04:39):
your deed or something. So he must have been on
the least agreement. So they had to pull that document
up right, So when they were doing just like looking
at you know, here's the foul okay, parent name, parent number,
parent email. I was, I was, I was through. I
was so angry. What what county is this? Howard County?
(04:59):
They don't play up out their schools because they have
a really good school system. Today. Wanted to make sure
and my key was in the right school and they weren't.
I understand, but y'all are wrong for snooping around. Just
call the parents. Just call the parents. And it's not
like Robin can like fake where she lives. We're on TV,
like it's actually it is what it is, like come
on now and and trust me, my kids wouldn't meet
(05:19):
you fake where I lived. Secretly, Robin was trying to lie,
but I was like I can't know. I was like, guys,
I can't lie, Like, there's no way I can get
away with that because I am on TV. So whatever.
So anyway, they hate their new school. Oh well, Corey
hates it, Okay, Carter's adjusting. Carter's all right, Corey's like,
(05:41):
you know, he misses his friends. Yes, he's in because
he's yes, So he misses his friends and he just
he hates it. But you know, hey, it's either going
to be a really long school year or he'll find
some friends and he'll like it. Yeah, I'm figuring he'll
figure kids. The kids are resilient and they typically figure
it out. They are. But I understand hating to school.
(06:01):
I've been there before. All right. So we have so
many hot topics to talk about. Okay, so there's this
one particular thing that I didn't want to talk about,
but I do. I feel like, you know, we do
have to talk about it because it's about people that
I love, called the Carters, Jay Z and Beyonce. We
love them, best friends. There are friends. I know. I'm
so mad at them because I didn't get the invite
(06:24):
for the trip for the forties birthday party. Yeah, like
on the boat and we're still looking at pictures. I
don't confus, very confused. But she's my Virgal sister. I
don't understand anyway. Oh, by the way, is still Virgal Nations?
Still still Virgal season out here? Okay? Okay, So they
did that collaboration with Tiffany's right, and I wasn't we
(06:47):
weren't going to discuss it because it's kind of like
it caused like a fury of controversy and discussion. And
you know, Beyonce has she hasn't come out and said anything,
but it's we parted that she is feeling differently about
doing it than than she was before they did it. Um,
so here's my take, right, Okay, So she got to
(07:12):
wear the diamond that has not been worn by a
a black woman and be it's the diamond has been
around for like over a hundred years. Okay, So something's
been around for over a hundred years and ain't no
black person been able to get their hands on it.
I'm of the place and of the thought process. F you.
I don't. I don't want to participate. I don't want
(07:34):
to be invited to the barbecue. I don't want to
touch the diamond. Y'all can have it. And if you're
Beyonce and you're the baddest bitch walking, why do you
need that? You know what I mean? Well, I don't
know that it's about the diamond. I think it might
be about the big fat check that was probably written
to that. Okay, but if you're if y'all, if you
(07:56):
and your husband are both billionaires, you don't need that check. Yeah,
they want to stay billy in there, I think, I
think honestly, like I know, we say, they're like, oh, well,
you're a billionaire, what do you need more money for?
Because rich people their ego is like it's it's fueled
by money, right, And you know, they want to be
the riches. They want to be on that list. They
(08:16):
want to keep they don't they can't. They can't be
knocked off the list. They all the list. Sorry, they
Tiffany wrote them a big fast we know that and
they said chitching cash it. So do you think that
if they knew about the backstory of these diamonds prior
to they wouldn't have done it? Possibly? Okay, all right, possibly, okay,
(08:38):
I agree with that. Possibly I agree with that because
I feel like they're very conscious and particular about the
moves they make. Well, look, Tiffany don't care if anyone's
upset because those commercials run all the time. Yes they do.
And let me just say this, I okay, a little
part of me felt like they don't need Tiffany's Tiffany
needs them. So they could have bowed out, they could
(09:02):
have walked away. I'm telling you that check, that check,
that check was bad because um, flat tummy time t
whatever they keep trying to they keep harassing me, and
I feel like I don't need them. Check is not
that good. If the check was good, then you would
do it. Listen, flat tummy t stop stop email like
(09:23):
that or whatever the hell? Y'all off anyway? Like like
can you post posts for two dollars? Like something's crazy?
I mean, I'm exaggerating, but I'm like kick rocks, rocks,
kick rocks. All right. I just want to give you
all an example. Now. Listen, Um, we are done obviously
with the Olympics. But the aftermath of it all is,
(09:45):
you know, someone Biles and those other ladies went to court. Now,
they didn't go to court. I don't really understand what
they did. They went Congress, They went to Congress, and
they were complaining, not complaining, but they gave a deposition
on what happened to them as it really asist man
that got a hundred and fifty years for molesting them
and their beef. Their issue is when we went to
(10:07):
the FBI, y'all didn't game. That's crazy, that is insane.
That is insane. The FBI did not feel like what
they were saying was important enough to investigate or Okay,
they did their little bit of investigation and whatever response
they got the FB. I was like, okay, I think
the FBI did not want to interfere because then would
(10:29):
we have an Olympic gymnast team. No, we would not.
Like they probably would have had to suspend the ladies
or doing I don't know. They just didn't They didn't
do their job. No, that's horrible. That's horrible, and that
they're here to do stuff like that. If there's a job, right,
if there's anyone that's going to find out the root
of the problem or what's going on, it's the FBI.
Like that, that's insane. But I think it's just it
(10:51):
shows you a lot. There's probably a lot of stuff
that goes on that the FBI is aware of and
they choose not to investigate, which is scar Yeah, it's very,
very scary, and it makes you feel it makes you
feel I'm sure that you're just totally helpless, that who's
going to listen to you, who's going to have your back? Um?
And these were like fourteen fifteen year old girls. It's horrible,
(11:13):
that's horrible. I felt so bad, like it was like
you can and then it almost I felt like watching
someone bios talk. I almost felt like, Okay, I even
understand her more now with the Olympics and her you know,
not wanting to compete, like she probably just has so
many emotions and anxiety and just she's just been so scarred.
(11:34):
And it's like, shame on you for allowing these adults
to scar these children, because you're scarring them for life. Yeah, no,
no question about it, Absolutely no question. I really feel
bad with those girls. And guess what they have. They
have displayed so much courage, way more than balancing on
the balance being like this, I'm very happy that they
stepped forward because they're helping the girls coming behind them exactly,
(11:56):
They're helping the girls coming behind them, and then they're
just helping other, you know, girls or people with similar
types of experiences, whether it's in you know, other sports
or other industries, to you know, to pay more attention
to stuff and to say, Okay, this actually is really real.
I guess they probably felt like, oh, you know, if
they're if they're going to say, oh, the doctor is
touching me inappropriately in the fos where we're like, oh,
(12:16):
but the doctor's just doing his job, you know what
I mean. Like but no, it's like, no, you need
to look farther into this, yes, not stuff. So I
was I got my um right after I got married.
I my gallbladder damn near exploded, right, so I had
to go to the doctor. Was that like most excruciating
pain ever? I hear that, It's like really really really painful.
(12:37):
It's hard, like it was. Pain was so bad I
passed out. Wow, woke up in the hospital. So I
got you know, it's kind of like an emergency surgery.
I got my gallbladder removed. And I remember the hospital
that I was in, actually in Baltimore, is a teaching hospital,
so they have the doctors come in and they have
like the new residents with the doctor to like check
out the patients. So you know, I was. I had
(12:59):
just got my hair was all done in a in
an orange yellow color, and I was looking cute. I
had a hand and everything, your hair is yellow. I
don't know that. I don't know this is Look, there's
a point of this story where they are okay. So
in the middle, so I was recuperating. I'm half on drugs.
(13:21):
I remember I told them all to go home, right
because he had been staying in the hospital with me,
and one of the interns residents came back into the
room and he was like, I need to check your
your scars or whatever, and he was kind of filling
me up, like my boobs, and I was like, the
way he was touching me, I remember, it wasn't I
(13:41):
didn't feel right about it, and I was pissed. So um,
the next day I asked to see the head doctor
and I told on that guy and um, I never
saw him again, and I was like, I do not
want that guy in my room anymore. But I was
like livid, My gosh, and imagine if he's a doctor today. Yes,
(14:04):
Like there's always creepy people out there. If you're ever,
if somebody's ever in the hospital or just in an
In a situation in which you can be compromised, you
need to have somebody with you. Yeah. Wow, that's horrible, scary.
That's that's why I honestly don't have male doctors like
that are like like my my, my, my O B
G y N is a female. Yes, my um primary
(14:27):
care doctor is a female. Like you know, no offense
to male doctors. But but now, I mean it is
what it is, y'all suck anyway, moving on, Okay, So
I'm so excited because it's almost the holidays and Broadway
is bad, so like just f y, I always take
(14:49):
my kids around the holidays to see some play on Broadway,
musical something that's like our thing. It's our tradition, and
we didn't get to do it in because of the pandemic.
But now Broadways back and they've like opened up in
like full throttle, like they had what the Lion King
I think um on Hamilton's. So I'm so super excited.
That is so exciting. And I must say that I
(15:11):
have never been to a play on Broadway. Robin No, No,
I think I did go to one, damn it, and
I can't remember what it was. What do you mean
it was a long time ago. Okay, so Robin, you
didn't it might have been lion King. Oh my god,
the word memory is so bad. Okay, so you didn't
go to a play on Broadway, but you were a
(15:31):
video home. Sure, I was, And I know that you
always like to tell people that you were a video home.
I mean, I'm proud. I'm proud of my one shining moment.
Would you like to tell the world about it? Yeah?
So so actually those are some of the questions that
I got. Was like, you know, tell us about your
story about being a video home because we shared um
(15:52):
on a recent episode of the House as of Potomac
that you know, well, we were auditioning for Candice's video
and I'm like, I'm not a new it is, I'm
true to this, I've been here video ho So anyway, um,
that opportunity came about because then we kind of follow me,
my brothers, sons, baby Mama's boyfriend. I'm lost exactly. Cousin
(16:20):
was successful music video director Chris Robinson. He has he
directed tons and tons of tons of great music videos.
Yes we know Chris Robinson. Yes, Chris, so we I
was at a birthday party for my nephew and he
was there and later that week, like they called, my
brother's son's mother called and was like, hey, Chris, Chris
(16:41):
is directing the video in l A Puffy Do you
want to do? You want to go? And Chris, he
wants to know if you want to be in it?
And I was like, in a video for shot, Puffy
says bad boy days. Yes, this is when he remember
he went to jail for the gun chars Yes, Puff.
This was his first song and video after he got
(17:02):
out of jail. This is a big deal. This is
a comeback, huge, huge, And I was like so confused.
I was like me, why, huh what? No? Like oh,
like you you got the wrong person right because you
you didn't You hadn't perfected your work game at that point. No,
I mean they weren't working back then. It was more
you know, I don't. I don't know. That just wasn't
(17:24):
on my radar. So I told one. I was like,
this is so crazy. But someone, you know, Chris Robinson
asked me being a Puffy video and I'm like, I'm
not doing that. Why would he ask me? And he
was like you should do that. That sounds amazing. I
was like actually really surprised that he encouraged me to
do that, and thinking back, I'm like, maybe he was
just trying to get me out of town so he
could like No, he was not ribbing. He wanted you
(17:46):
to fulfill your dreams as a video hole. That is
what he wanted. Yeah, fine, all right, I'll take that.
But but but I was just so surprised that he
was like excited about that opportunity for me and encouraged
me to come. So I went. I flew all the
way from Maryland to lt They paid for my flight,
they paid for my hotel okay, budget, they paid me
seven hundred dollars budget, okay, And it was like such
(18:09):
a cool experience. It was on the Universal Studio lot
where they filmed Desperate Housewives and I love desperseive Like
I don't know if a justper Housewives are before this
video or after, but like I recognized, like, oh, this
is a Desperate Housewives step. Super cool. And it was
all these celebrities there, Shack Ice Cube, Ben Stiller, like
(18:32):
it was a big deal because it was like bad
boyfriend life, He's coming back to the neighborhood. And I
mean it was a long day. You know, sun up
to sundown. It was all these different scenes. I was
literally in like four different scenes. But when you watch
the video, you see me for like point to five seconds.
But doesn't matter, Robin, you made it. It doesn't You
can see me, you can pause and I can pause
(18:54):
it and I say, there, I am in one of
the funny parts. So we were, um, like, I was
in a jacuzi with like three other girls on the
front yard and it's like a party outside in the
front yard. And then so standing outside of the jacuzi,
it was in above ground jakuzi. Um did they still
have what what does it means? Like a big tub?
(19:14):
You mean like a big Yeah, literally, that's what it
seemed like. It sucking above but think of a jacuzi.
But it's above sounds a little unsanitary, it's a little weird.
They backed up. So then there at least like these
rapper guys like I don't remember their names, but it
was like all these bad boy artists and stuff. So
they're like standing around the jacuzi and I just remember
(19:35):
the guy like, okay, when they started the camera, he
had he had a glass of like wine. He had
a wine glass or something He's like, I'm I'm gonna
put the water all over your chest? Did he? I
was like, nah, you could do that to her, like
sad not me, not me. And it's so funny because
I'm literally like, you know, my my, I'm like, oh my,
(19:57):
same thing I say all the time. Oh my god,
my parents gonna watch this video and he won't see me, like,
you know, put put pushing my boobs outlet the man
poured the water all on my chest. I was like,
even do it to them? And so those other girls,
they was just moving a little booby. And that's why
they were in the video longer than you because you
were in zero point too, and they was like in
(20:19):
it for like three minutes. They were like I'm going
to do whatever it takes, and I was like, hell no,
you better not likely touch with me. I mean, it
was really cool. I have a lot of pictures. I'm
gonna probably share them on my page and just show
all the little pictures. But it was it was just
it was such a cool and fun experience. Um and
that video was like bomb Like when you watch it,
(20:39):
it's so entertaining. Now I remember that video. I definitely
because you're right, it was like his comeback and he
was in like a neighborhood. He was the neighborhood. He
was like coming back to the neighborhood, pulled up in
the big we're in the big bus and all these
I was on that bus, but they didn't show me,
and they show everyone getting off the bus, and you know,
come to the neighborhood and think, I think Puffy should
(21:02):
do a Robin do over because you did not get
your adequate tive me more time. Yes, So next time
you you have a shop Puffy combs, next time you
have a little video, make sure Robin gets her due.
But he's probably gonna be like, Okay, well let you
gotta let somebody pour something on you. And you can't
at this point you can't. I don't care, Okay, all right,
it's a couple more things that I wanted to discuss
because this this is intrigued to me. Okay. So l
(21:24):
Chopo one of his homes went up in Mexico went
up for auction. It was a lottery on his home.
The home on the cost a hundred dollars, okay, and
no one bought it, okay, And I that struck me
as very strange because I'm convinced there's some money hidden
(21:44):
in the walls. This is my thought. Okay, so under
the in this particular home, if you remove the tub,
that was the whole for the underground way to escape.
So supposedly they've cemented that over and you know that's gone.
But I'm sure there is some cash. You don't think
(22:05):
they've looked everywhere all throughout this house. Well, I mean
you have to pull up the floor board. They probably
did that. Oh you think I would imagine like they're
dealing with El Chappo, Like you're not just gonna be like, oh,
this chop up for sale. No, You're gonna be like,
let me pull up every like it's probably literally just
like four walls. True, it can't be like how a
(22:27):
livable house. I don't know. I was just feeling like
I want to go in there and like pull up
the toilets and everything. Imagine this was not his like
house of houses, Yes, this is one of his stash
It was actually yeah, there we go. So if you
are in the stash house, that's got to be cash
in the stash house. If they found that cash, that
cash is gone. I would be diging the backyard or
(22:49):
his people that like that that stuff is gone. It's gone,
It's gone. They probably looked at every inch of that property.
I was gonna tell my Mexican connect to go ahead
buy it, and it was gonna coming and I'm sure
it is. Did they Was there anything else for sale?
I thought that's the best they could do. Well. What
(23:11):
was interesting about it was that nobody wanted to touch
it right foot pole. Everybody was like, no need right, So,
I don't know, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm
I'm going to be checking out. What else did they
auction off? That was l Chapo? Do you think El
Chappo is going to escape again? Yes? Do you think so? Hell? Yeah?
That was so amazing. Yes, So they haven't right where
(23:33):
they have them. He it's he's in a facility. But
it's extremely luxurious, right, I mean luxurious? Is it? From
what I understand, He's like running the whole thing, and
he you know, he has people coming in and people
leaving out, and he's he's got his hose on on rotation.
Oh god, okay, I need, I need, I need to
research L Chapo. I'm like always highly entertained by like
the drug lord cartel, Yes, the cartels. All that that
(23:56):
stuff is so entertaining. All right, so listen, we have
put it out there on our social media to ask
us anything. I mean, you guys a lot of times
individually on our d m s. You guys have all
kinds of crazy questions. So we just decided we're gonna
deal with them. Okay, um that are not related to
the show that we do call The Real Housewives of Potomac.
(24:18):
So y'all really asked a hundred million questions. Okay, and
y'all a nosy. This is the title of this episode,
y'all a nosey, and we love it. I have like
a whole book. So of course we cannot get through
all the questions in this one episode. But what we're
gonna do is kind of like every now and again,
We're gonna try to make this like an ongoing segment
(24:38):
and we'll answer questions, especially because y'all really want to
get to know us better. And we're just happy y'all
want to get to know us. I know, and I
love that we have the platform to do. So, yes, yes, immediately, Okay,
So Robin, you want to start sure, okay, and I
print romine reading all of this print. Okay, Um, have
(24:58):
you ever passed for another ethnicity or for white in
order to fit in or for safety or opportunity? Be honest?
So that's from Craig that that actually has never even
across my mind. Um, However, I was on a cruise
one time with my girlfriends. It was three of us
(25:21):
on a cruise and we're all light skinned, and we
met this white guy and played golf like we were
hanging out. You know how you when you're on a cruise,
they like sit you at a table with strangers. Are
so he's at our table, our dinner table. So met
this white guy. We were hanging out. We we spent
a lot of time, you know, at the casino and
whatever with this guy. And he said something about something
(25:43):
something nigger, I mean nigger, and we said the N words, yes,
and we me and my friends looked at each other
like what the funk? Like he doesn't know that we're black,
you know what I mean? Like the way he said it,
it was like obvious that he didn't know we were
black women. And it was like, I mean, after that,
we just like we were out, like we we couldn't
(26:05):
even like confront the situation, we just said no more
of him. So no, I have never tried to pass
for white, but clearly I have passed, right, I'll be
known to you, passed for y. And actually that brings
me too much to something that somebody asked me, Um,
bring a B B. Why asked me? And my creole
(26:26):
which is a Louisiana thing. Typically, Yes, I am creole.
If you watched season four of the Real Housewats of Potomac,
we went to New Orleans, we did my whole backstory. Um,
we rode a boat that was the Creole queen. Yes,
my whole family is creole. But to answer your question,
do we pass? I would never ever do that. But
(26:47):
my I have a cousin on my dad's side, and
my dad doesn't speak to him. And it turns out
that the reason why he doesn't is because this guy
was trying to pass, was passing for white, lives his
life as a white man. He black, wow, and he
lives his wife as a white man. And my dad
is like hates him, doesn't speak to him, and we
didn't exile him from the goddamn family. So that okay, yes,
(27:11):
all right? Oh, oh your turn, Oh that was your question. Yeah, okay, alright,
Um so this one, I got a question. Yes, why
can't y'all talk about Potomac? I like all the other topics,
but rhop has a lot going on and people want
to hear what you'll have to say about it. So, um, honestly,
it is in our contract that we're not really allowed
(27:33):
to talk about Potomac outside of like Bravo sponsored stuff stuff. Um,
so we have to have permission from Bravo to be
able to talk about Potomac because I just wanted to
put it out there now. I feel like if it's so,
I can't really talk about what happened in yesterday's episode
and go in on that. Now. I think there's other
(27:53):
people that maybe do, Like I think Candy does that
on her YouTube page, but she must have something in
her contract that allows her to do that. She probably does,
but you know, to be honest with you, this has
been refreshing not to be exact and talk about um
Potomac and and this podcast is a breath of fresh
air for me personally. I'll just speak for me because
it's like we when the show was on the air,
(28:14):
that's all we do. All of our interviews with all
of these different outlets. It's like the show and what happened,
and I'm again and and a lot of times it's
just like I don't want to talk about that. Yeah,
I agree, And that's how I feel. I mean, I
I just think it's awesome that you all get to
learn more about us and our personality. And because I
think on the show, like you get you really get
a scale down, filtered version of who we are. And
(28:37):
we can't talk about the met gala and you know,
just other random stuff that's going on, and so yeah,
I don't know. I mean, it's it's it's a slippery slope,
I think when it comes to being able to talk
about the show, because some people might reveal too much.
And I think instead of taking the risk of, you know,
allowing someone to reveal too much, then like we can't
(29:00):
reveal anything at all. Um So Kennedy Lana Laney asked,
are you and Robin still involved in Greek life or
go back to your undergrad chapter to visit and participate
in activities. So I am, yes, an active. I'm a
member of my sorority, financial, I am a paid member
(29:20):
of of Alpha Cappa Alpha and Um, I try to
get back to Hampton and Gamma Theata as often as
I can. It's hard. Howard University played Hampton University and
I asked for all of my sore wars to meet
me there. So yes, I try to participate as much
as I can. And I am also financial. I am
a Diamond Life member of Stigment Data Get Straight, so
(29:45):
so I don't have to pay another national due because um,
we paid Diamond and for anyone who you know doesn't
know what that is, that means we paid well. My
mother when I crossed to Delta, my mother paid I
don't know, it's like twenty five hundred dollars or so,
a large chunk of money for me to be a
Diamond Life member, which means that I will always be
(30:08):
financial for the rest of my life in Delta. But
I am also a chapter member. I belong to the
Baltomore County Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Data. And my
mother pays those dudes too, Yes, gladys, and I pay
her back, but like she makes sure that, like I
stay financial because she knows when stuff is doing and
(30:28):
she's like, I paid your dude, now you owe me.
So just to answer. Somebody else also asked, like, what
was my line number? I was forty five. On my
line it was fifty of us and forty five is
like always a number that I use for stuff. So
I'm I was number ten and my Instagram pages Robin
Dixon ten. So if you've ever wonder what the ten is,
(30:51):
I'm number ten. But um also but to say, yes,
do I go back to Am I still involved in
the sorority? Yes, I'm very close with my chapter, my
my collegiate chapter at the University of Maryland cap of five. Um,
I would like to be more active though, definitely. Okay,
we'll get we'll get into it, get into it all right,
(31:13):
what you got? Alright? Um? Do you pack your kids
lunches or do they eat school lunches? Okay, what do
you do? I don't know the answer to this for you.
Oh my god, I packed my kids lunches. Yes, my
kids are so stuck up. They will not eat school lunch.
(31:34):
Like if I send them to school without a lunch,
they will starve themselves. They refused to eat school lunch.
And it's so frustrating because I literally have to wake
up and make these damn ham sandwiches, turkey sandwiches and
cut up fruit and oh my gosh, And do you
know when we were vegan you mayby we were leaking
(31:55):
a few years ago and the kids were legan. I
literally would make them a spinach salad for lunch, spinach
and not strawberries and cucumbers. And I was doing that
like every morning. I couldn't believe I was doing that,
but oh, that's amazing. But yes, I hate packing school lunch.
And that's one reason I'll probably send my kids to
(32:18):
private school next year, because because the school lunch, because
the education. Yes, because my I went to private school
for high school and that lunch was balm. It was
like being a sizzler. Like, okay, so I too hate
packing their lunch, and they hate that I packed the lunch.
It's we agree, Okay, we are on won a core
(32:40):
in my house. So I give them money for them
to get their lunch at school, and the yeah, you're right,
it is Sizzler. They got a whole lot to choose from,
so typically it's like six or seven dollars a day.
So I tell them I give them some money at
the beginning of the week, and I tell them, look,
at here. You gotta budget just like ahead of time.
(33:01):
So they used to have like a car, right, but
they don't have that anymore because they're just now because
of COVID and I don't know anyway, sometimes in the
middle of the week, my kids said they ran out
of money. Right. That doesn't have nothing to do with
me now because because they went back for second because
I told them to budget accordingly. Yeah, now we're working
on this. We're working on this. Yes, yes, let me
tell you my school launch in private school what he
(33:25):
was like, have at it. Yes, I'm definitely going to
send in the private school. I can't take I cannot
make these launches anymore hilarious. Okay, So Gonzales asked me,
I think this is a really good question. If you
or Robin could be CEOs of any company in the world,
which would it be. Which would you choose? This is
like an existing company. Okay, um, you answer first. Okay,
(33:51):
So I would be the CEO of like a whole food,
like a grocery chain, so like a whole food, a
safe Way or whatever, because at the end of the day,
I want to give of the food to people who
cannot afford food. So I feel like there isn't enough
intention about people that I can't tell you how many
times somebody's been in front of me inline and they
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didn't have enough money to pay for their food. Right.
So if we had a system set up that, like
the food that was getting ready to go bad, like,
let's give it to people that really need it. As
a CEO, that is what I would do when when
I get to when I get to heaven, That's one
of my questions to God, Like why do people go hungry?
Go hungry? Yeah? I think especially in the United States,
it's like totally unnecessary. We have enough food for everybody. Yeah, absolutely,
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and I and like, so that's why food banks are
super important. Yeah, because there are so many people that
it's so crazy. It's like they're not they might not
be um homeless. What is it under dang? What's the
term they use at the food It's underserved. It's a
term and it really like because it'll be people, you know,
working class people and they just can't afford to feed
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their family. The U S Department of Our Culture estimates
that around eleven to twelve of US households or food insecure.
These individuals who have difficulty accessing meals, have to cut meals,
have to share meals, or may miss a day or
two of a meal in the course of a period
of time because they're not able to afford those meals.
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So you know, the kids they have to rely on
school to eat right. Yeah, and that that's so all
of that. I just need for it to be alleviated
gotten rid of in this country. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
That bothers me. Gosh, what would my company be? You know,
I've always, since I was young, had like a love
for like retail. Um, Like I would play like store
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my house. I would put a price tag on like
everything in the house. So it definitely would probably be
something retail centered. Um, I don't I can't really say
like one company. I mean, can I just stay the
CEO of Embellished because you can grow, Yes, you can
add more things, which I'm working on, Yes, Gonzales, that's
the answer. Probably just be living her her life that
she living. I just want to expand Embellished in Yes,
(36:06):
stay tuned. I'm gonna work on like some nice Yeah.
Speaking of Embellished and Robin taking over the fashion world,
we are coming out with reasonably shady merch so stay
tuned for that. Stay tuned. Very soon. We're gonna have
some some fun hoodies limited supplies, so don't sleep. Trust
me when I tell you it's going to be limited supply.
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You better get you better get on it. Yes, yes,
and speaking embellished one of the questions a lot. I
got this question a lot. When will embellished be restocked?
In other words, robbing you're not doing your CEO. Can
I tell you how frustrating it is to not have
I mean, it's a good thing, like okay, that means
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like people are buying it, but to not have anything
to sell, like my website is dormant and I hate
it because they have so many people who want to buy.
And that's one of the things as a small business owner, UM,
managing inventory that is is very hard. I think that's
like one of the biggest issues or problems. It's like
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either you don't have enough or you don't want to
have too much, you know, so I don't want to
have too much. Embellition is just sitting there and I
can't and it's hard to predict and forecast you know,
how many hats I'm gonna need. Um, So what's the
answer to the question do we have a we have
a roundabout dates so honestly, so I am expecting a
shipment next week. Honestly, by the time you hear this,
(37:35):
I'm probably will probably be restocked, so any day now.
But when I do restocked, make sure you get it past. Okay, yes, yes,
but I appreciate. But it's it sucks because it's like,
oh my gosh, I'm where the show is on air
and people are reminded like, oh, let me, I want
to go buy a hat, and they have nothing to buy.
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It's so frustrated. Listen, we gotta do bad without inventory.
I know I'm gonna have to just quadruple the number
or something. Okay, listen. So Alexandria asked me, this is
for you to Robin. 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
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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, 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
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were green and that my eyes look different from anyone else's.
So I literally be like, like, are they talking about
the shape of my eyes? Y'all not have a mirror
in the house. No, we did, But I didn't know
that I look different. You know, I'm saying like, I
had no idea that because maybe because like my brother
has like eyes, my mom has hey, my grandmother has
blue eyes. My cousin has blue eyes. So maybe for me,
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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 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,
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Robin's hilarious. So I literally stood in the mirror and
was like and I looked, and I was like, oh, okay,
it's the color of my eye. I can't, y'all, Robin Dixon,
I'm as 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
(39:50):
were you when you figured it out? Green eyes? I
said you had green eyes? We I mean, dingy is
just for life. So yes, 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
(40:11):
what I mean, like, and I would just be like,
thank you, Like what are you talking about? Like no idea? Well,
you know, because did 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,
(40:35):
like who are these white ladies talking to me about
my child and thinking that 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
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always keeps it real, And she was always like, yeah,
you pretty at you and had nothing 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. Don't even get too excited. I said, well, God,
damn no, that was Mama and Papa Graves. Ship. Well,
(41:21):
let me 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 are getting older? Good ask a good question.
So I have to pay my children to go to work, Okay, Okay,
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So okay, I'm gonna stop you right there. Okay. So
Robin 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 going to 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.
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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 hour they 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 the producer,
(42:27):
now what I mean by like how well they like
do they behave or were 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
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don't want to look crazy and where I'm like yelling
at my kids and stuff. So I'm just gonna let
y'all just do whatever. But they'll literally be like, you know,
hiding under a blanket, 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. So it's this
(43:10):
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 the same thing. I
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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. They shocked me, and
(43:56):
I think it's a difference between girls and boys. Like
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, Like now it's like, okay, we're actually a
little popular. People know who we are. My kids are boys,
and like their friends, like they get stick with their
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friends because their friends. Mom was watched the show to come,
you know, come telling them about themselves 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,
all right, So this is my last one. So because
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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 have lip gloss
with me. As long as my lips are popping, I
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feel good about myself. Okay, yeah, all right, well, I
love that. I mean, that's not my solution. I don't. Yes,
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 very true.
(45:21):
And to piggyback off of that in closing, um, I
want to leave you know everyone, I think we wanta
we gotta start giving some motivational Yes, we do kind
of messages, 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
(45:41):
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 bad women. Gotta read the second one again.
I was confused on the second thinking that they care. Okay,
that so avoid stops like, don't even think that they
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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, ain't
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. Yeah, and they over there, you know,
(46:25):
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 is 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
(46:46):
don't worry about what anybody thinks. No, because guess what,
it don't matter. It don't matter. That just stinks to
That is our show, and always remember to either live
your life reasonable or shady. Yes, thank you guys. Talks
to you next week by Reasonably Shady is a production
(47:11):
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