June 30, 2024 • 39 mins
Hey everyone! Welcome back to another week of Reggie's Expressions. This episode is a special shout-out to Aniayah for tuning in and enjoying our previous shows. We're shifting gears from heavy topics to something more lighthearted today.
Join me as I dive into the things I like, dislike, and have never experienced. From missing out on the cult classic "Friday" to my aversion to drinking and sci-fi genres, I share personal anecdotes that might just surprise you. Discover why I don't fancy Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" and why animated movies like "Frozen" never caught my attention.
I also touch on my love for psychological thrillers, my admiration for Jill Scott, and my enthusiasm for participating in big movie debuts. If you're a fan of Real Housewives of Atlanta, find out who my favorite housewives are and why.
So, sit back and enjoy as I open up about my unique tastes and preferences. Whether you're a new listener or a returning fan, there's something in this episode for everyone. Don't forget to follow me on social media to stay updated!
Thanks for listening, and see you next week!
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Music.
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What's up guys? So I've listened to two episodes so far and you guys can't hear
the sound effects, which is unfortunate, but here we are. It happens.
I don't know why I did that, but we're back for a third week and I appreciate
the reception to the other week.
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Shout out to my homie Anaya. Shout out to her.
She's my friend's, my friend Bird Joe's daughter and she listened and she said
that she liked it. So shout out to her.
I appreciate you for listening and liking the episode.
I hope you like this one too. So the last couple of weeks, you know,
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have been topics that have been pretty heavy.
I guess not heavy, but, you know, they've been a turn in, you know,
what direction I'm going to go in today.
Yesterday when I was off, I had, you know, this feeling of like I was listening.
Well, firstly, I was listening to a podcast.
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It's called Hot Seat. David Shands.
To give you all some context. This gentleman just talks to entrepreneurs and
he said something that I felt was really poignant or something that impacted me.
And that was about being a worker bee.
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And the context that he was making it is he had, and I'm going to go back and
I'm going to finish the episode. So he had this girl who was on,
who wanted to be an entrepreneur.
The name of her thing was Horny Skin.
And Horny Skin is the first layer of the skin.
And, you know, she created a brand around that. And she's an esthetician, so on and so forth.
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And there came a point in time in terms of her telling her experience about
her going to school and working seven days a week.
She went to school and work at the same time, you know, during while she was
getting her degree. And it was something that she wanted to do.
And he was like, you know, you you can work hard, you know, but the idea about
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being an entrepreneur, entrepreneur isn't to work hard.
You know, the idea is to figure out what you can do, you know, to work.
Not work as hard. You know, we think a lot of times because we just put in the
work, we're going work, work, work, work, work, and we're willing to do the
work that that should show, you know, good return on labor.
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But, you know, the reality of it is, is it just creates the element of you being
a, you know, someone who will work hard and that doesn't necessarily pay off.
It goes towards being burned out.
And, you know, I've experienced burnout a few times, even, you know,
with this podcast and, you know, just other things in life.
When I get to the phase of burnout, it's like, I don't want to pick it up.
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I'm not interested thinking about it just makes me, you know, tired and frustrated.
So, but yeah. And, you know, also in the context he was, you know,
saying in terms of being an entrepreneur is the idea is to eventually.
You know, how long people to do the work so you can step back.
And I think that's a, I never looked at it that way.
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And it made me kind of consider a few things in terms of my particular business
model, because even if I were to get an abundance of customers,
I'm only going to be able to do so many, you know, even with having Carlos as
well, we're only going to be able to do so many.
And that means we're going to be missing opportunities, especially if we're always busy.
And let's say our every Saturday and Sunday is booked, you know,
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I'm going to reach a ceiling and I would need to hire and bring on other people,
which in turn would allow me to kind of be able to step away.
So my recommendation is to go listen to his podcast. I think he has some good things on there.
And yeah, that episode was pretty cool. And I align with it because she is from Albany.
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She was born and raised in Albany. So yeah, that's that.
But yeah, We're going to talk about something a little lighthearted today.
We're going to talk about some of the things that Reggie like,
don't like, and has never seen done or whatever, you know, along those lines.
I'm a pretty open-minded guy. I do realize at some point in my life,
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you know, when I was younger, I had a somewhat sheltered life.
You know, my parents were pretty, I wouldn't say conservative,
but they were Black parents, right? Right. So really couldn't do that a lot.
You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, out of the ordinary.
And there were certain rules and things that we had in place that my parents
were my stepmom and dad weren't about.
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And then when I live with my grandmother, it just wasn't happening. So.
Give me one second, y'all. Sorry about the pause. I got to answer a message here.
But yeah, like so there are some things that I missed, you know,
during the first go round.
And I sort of forgot, like, how should I start this?
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And, you know, I do understand that some of this stuff may take my black card.
Some of this stuff may cause, you know, discussion among, you know,
the validity of what type of person I am. And I'm OK. I'm exposing myself.
All right. I'm letting y'all see everything because if I'm going to go there, I'm going to go there.
I'm going to start out by saying, let me look up something.
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And I feel like the novelty is over at this point when it comes to what I'm about to talk about.
And yeah, I have no desire. But at this point, but yeah, I've never seen the movie Friday, y'all.
The movie friday with ice cube and chris tucker i think nia long was nia long in friday,
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see i don't even really know i mean the whole
bye felicia that came from that the damn now you know friday came out before
memes were out but i promise you if memes were out then some of the that i seen
that has made me like aware not aware because i was aware of when friday was
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when it came out and how much of a cult classic it really was,
and how people used to talk about that movie like it was, you know,
The next best thing, I never got an opportunity. And let me explain to y'all why.
This was in 1995, all right? I was living with my grandmother in Albany, Georgia.
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My grandma was not, like movies wasn't even an option. I had to be home before 8.30, okay?
I had a curfew and some nights it would alternate and it would alternate because I had bath night.
So my grandma wouldn't let me go when, where she wouldn't let me go to the movies, you know?
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I mean, I probably could have caught a matinee or something like that,
but because I was 15, I don't think I was old enough to be able to go. Well, I was 14.
I wasn't able to, I wasn't old enough to be able to go during that time.
So, so there's that. When it finally did come on TV, HBO, my grandmother ain't paying for HBO.
That channel used to have the scribbles and the snow and, you know,
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And sometimes you would catch up a frame or so, but, you know,
my grandmother was not having that.
She was not having, you know, she wasn't paying for HBO.
Where they do that at? Well, even if she had the extra money to do it,
she wasn't paying for it. Right.
So as the years went by, you know, I just got further and further away from being able to watch it.
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Never really got the references that people were talking about in that movie.
And, you know, after a while, I really didn't, I wasn't really interested in
the movie. I became like, okay.
And to this day, 2024, after 29 years of that movie being released, I still have not seen it.
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It's about to go on its 30th anniversary and I still hadn't seen it.
Now, I did see Next Friday with Mike Epps. Yes.
Which I thought was, you know, pretty funny. I also thought the Mexican that
was next door, I thought he was pretty cute.
I say Mexican because I don't know his name. Mexican, I don't know what his
name was, but he was cute. The one with the beanie that used to cover his eyes a lot.
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Yeah, him. But yeah, that was the only Friday. And I haven't seen any of the other ones since then.
So yeah, that's my take on Friday, man. I've never seen it.
Haven't seen it. And I think with all the things that have been released about
it, I probably have seen the movie in its entirety. So there's that.
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The next thing is I don't drink.
Now, have I drank in the past? Yes.
And I have been drunk and I can count on my one hand how many times I have.
I just never really was in it. And I don't have anything against people who drink. I am all for it.
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Whatever you have to do to enjoy life or whatever you want to do to enjoy life, I'm all about it.
So I just never really got into it.
My first introduction to alcohol was when I was about 10 or 12 years old and
my dad had a bottle of Seagram's gin and it was us, you know, us kids, my brother.
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My sister, my younger brother, my younger sister, me, and then my older sister
just kind of, you know, sitting around my dad and he's having a little alcohol
and we wanted to know what it tastes like.
And my dad gave me
a little sick and I remember my chest feeling hot
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and my belly feeling a little hot from the alcohol
probably because I'm 10 years old and I shouldn't be drinking and it wasn't
that much now it wasn't that much you know it's just enough to you know kind
of you know allow a kid my age to feel that and I remember going like like I
felt the heat in my chest was just too much.
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And I remember my dad saying something like, yeah, that'll grow hair on your chest.
And, you know, I remember, I also remember him doing the same thing with, with cigarettes too.
My little brother ended up taking to that. And I think he ended up catching
the bed because he was trying to smoke under the bed.
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And he ended up catching a bed under the bed on fire.
Like it didn't cause like a fire to burn everything down, but it was just under
the bed. We were able to catch it and put the fire out.
But yeah, I never really got into drinking. When I was in the military,
it was what everybody else was doing.
And, you know, I was really just trying to jump on the bandwagon and see what
it does for me. And I've had some fantastic times.
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But again, those moments were few and far in between. And I was always the DD.
I don't really have anything against like the feeling. I've never even the times
that I've been like super drunk.
I've never had a hangover. I mean, a hangover. I felt dehydrated, but not hungover.
You know, like people are sick and, you know, they can't eat food.
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Like I saw that on TV and I was just like thinking that that would be my experience and it wasn't.
So, yeah, just not really not really my thing.
I never really cared too much for that. And, you know, if my my husband does drink.
So if we're out and about, I typically will sip what he has just to try it.
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You know, I mean, the stuff I really kind of like is the sugary stuff.
So things that are like super sweet would be things that I would enjoy.
Way but yeah it's it's not like
i will go out and you know like drink a
drink like i've had coronas coronas is my favorite beer you know that's the
beer that i one of the beers that i could actually take and it feels like smooth
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and you know just like chill have a little lime pop it in the bottle and just
drink it that's i can do that but you know in terms of me going to the
bar and buying a drink and drinking no that's that's not my thing so no disrespect
to anybody else that does it but it's just not my what else let's see i have never.
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I'm trying no i'm lost for words in terms of stuff that i've done man things
that i don't like what's something that you don't like reggie,
oh this is one i am not a comic book fan or action hero guy,
so you know when or sci-fi i'm i'm not a fan of sci-fi it deals with the element
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of of uh fantasy that my mind unfortunately doesn't go too easily and i never
really got into harry potter I never didn't really care too much to do Star Wars.
Not really interested in Star Trek.
And I know the difference between the two. I've dated people in the past that
have made sure I knew the difference. Right.
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And I just never, it's not really my genre. You know what I'm saying?
I mean, it kind of ties into action movies like the big kablooies and,
you know, Captain America movies.
Transformers, Iron Man, things like that.
Like I've never really been into those, you know, I don't flock to the movie theaters.
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I don't watch them on the shows. Like I'm, I'm, I'm not, it's not anything I care for.
It's not, um, and I don't know why, like I'm a psychological thriller person.
Like I love stuff that makes me think.
I love stuff that makes me like put the pieces together and I try to put it
together before the movie is over, you know what I'm saying?
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Like, okay, I can kind of figure out who may have done it. You know what I'm saying?
And I'm very quick at like putting things together. Like, oh,
oh, oh, you know, putting it together with, you know, scenes and things like that.
But you have never, I'm not really a fan, man.
I can't, there isn't an action movie that I've been like, oh my God,
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that's great. Like, this is one of my favorites.
To give y'all context, a favorite movie of mine, I'll give you all two of one
or two of my favorite movies.
One is a movie called Half Plenty written by Christopher Scott Chariot that came out in 1998.
I identify with that character so much. He's very smart, intelligent and cool.
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And he was cute then, too. Still cute now.
That's one of my favorites, favorite movies. And my friend always talks about
the horrible hairstyles in the horrible hairstyles. It was an hour long movie
and it was within a weekend or so.
She had a probably about the main female character, a woman character,
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Chinola Maxwell. I follow her on Instagram.
She had about nine or 10 different hairstyles and it was like over a three day weekend. So yeah.
That's crazy. But hey, suspension of reality.
Right. Like it's it's it's still a good movie.
And the other movie that I really like that I felt like kind of piqued my interest
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and kind of pushed me more into psychological thrillers was The Cell with Jennifer Lopez.
Now, I think the reasons that I like it is more because it's a stylish movie,
like the visuals are nice. I mean, the story line isn't like super heavy,
but the idea of the story was about her.
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It was this killer who fell ill and went into a coma and they wanted to know
where his victim was, his last victim that he had was,
and wanted to get her because he created, you know, death traps that will expire over a period of time.
And they she created this thing that allows her I think she did or maybe I don't
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remember the specifics,
but there was this thing that allowed people to be able to go kind of like inception
into other people's subconscious and,
you know, help them kind of figure out or, you know, Jennifer Lopez in this
instance would, you know, go deep and try to.
Therapize them, if you will, for lack of better word, and try to understand,
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you know, some of the things that make them do what they do.
And they were using it as a tool to help them figure out where his next victim
is. Yeah, it would have been next victim.
Spoiler alert, they did find the girl, but there were a few other women who
perished before that, unfortunately.
So go check it out. Go look at the, you know, the visual quality of it. I think it was great.
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I still love it. It's one of my all time favorites and I can go and watch that
movie a million times over and be cool. So.
What else? What else? I've never seen Frozen. Never seen it. Let it go.
Let it go. Never seen it. I ain't seen an hour of it.
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Never seen it. Not really interested in seeing it at this point.
But I remember that shit dominating like the world from like 2014 or whenever that movie came out.
Until even recently, I still see memes. like
I've seen fuck it all mean that was based on let
it go yeah I'm just
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not really interested um I mean animated movies
aren't really my thing either I mean I like Shrek
Shrek is cool I would love for them to come out with
a new Shrek but I feel like Michael Myers has kind of grown since
then so you know
I'm pretty sure Shrek has probably evolved as well so excuse
me sorry about that um but yeah i've
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never seen frozen and i have no desire to go see it
now you know yeah i
mean there was nothing appealing about the movie to me blonde
hair elsa at one point they were trying to you know say that you know elsa was
queer or gay i i don't know if it's true or not but i i think that they may
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be considered doing a second movie where they focused on that a little bit but But Kristen Bell,
you know, being the voice actor and then Idina Menzel, which used to be Taye Diggs' wife,
ex-wife at this point now.
And I guess, you know, but it ain't really been anything that,
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you know, I was really into. I was like, OK, that's that sounds cool.
What else? Um.
I do like going to movies, like if it's a big debut, like, for example,
I did go see Black Panther.
I saw that when I was in the movie theaters. I meant to go and go, you know, go, go and go.
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I meant to go back and continue to see that movie. I just never got around to
it because I'm a one and done type person. You know, unless it comes in my bubber
after I see it in the movie theater, I'll probably never see it again.
But I remember the hype I had on all black. I had Carlos in it, had accents of white.
You know, you better love the dress whenever I can.
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So, but I love going to go see movies like that with a large movie, a large crowd.
Out i do understand at this point you know with the days of covid you know movie
theaters aren't you know like it's kind of lost its novelty a little bit the
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last movie i wanted to go see which i've seen at this point was american fiction
with uh jeffrey wright and erica alexander.
And unfortunately we couldn't see it because the movie would not start because
something happened happen with the video and it took, it would take them hours to get that done.
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And I was just going to do it on my day off, but it didn't happen.
So, but that was the last movie I saw. And that was like the latter part of 2023 when I did that.
And, but yeah, I like, I love, cause I love being able to hear the,
you know, the oohs and aahs of the crowd. Sometimes that can be distracting.
And I have a lot of friends who are like, nah, I really, I don't really want anybody else.
I want to be able to go like in a movie matinee where it's just me and the screen
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and I can, you know, visualize and see everything, you know,
but yeah, just like I'm a big, I don't know.
I just, I've always liked that. So I would prefer to go to movies during opening weekend.
If I've missed opening weekend, I probably have.
You know, kind of pass. It's like, all right, I'm not really interested in going
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like bad boys, you know, bad boys came out, I don't know, maybe two, three weeks ago.
I haven't gone yet. I haven't really had a desire to go.
Um, although I love Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, um, I just hadn't had that desire to go.
So I'll probably just wait until it comes on Amazon or, or, you know,
just rent it on Apple or something because the pandemic really did a number on me.
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Like with going out
especially in public with things i can do at home you know
i'm saying i i don't know if y'all remember in 2020 a
lot of those movies that were being made like a lot of
them were going straight to streaming and you
know i i was okay with that so you know give me a stream man give me give me
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streaming like debuting on streaming and i promise y'all i saw dune that way
the first thing it was a whole bunch of movies in 2020 that i i know i would
have never seen myself had i had to go out and do it but because i was looking for shit to do,
that was what i was doing so yeah i uh i did that right but if i do go it you
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know i prefer to go the day of opening and just be a part of the experience um what else.
I'm not a fan of deborah cox nobody's supposed to be here i do not like that
song yeah i'm a fan i love deborah cox and some of the other things that she's
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done you know she's a great singer,
and i can understand why people like that song i'm just not a fan i just you
know nobody's supposed to be here it's it's,
know it's a very emotional song carlos and i were
at you know red coconut at city
walk and when we went they like well crabs
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love to play the dance version of that song especially gay
clubs and coconuts coconuts i'm sorry red
coconut i don't think it's a gay club but they just were celebrating pride
for most of the month so um yeah
they they love the dance version of that song and i
kind of like cringe whenever i hear it because there'll
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be some extra characters up in there that you know trying to
act like you know they're lip-syncing for their lives and it's
just like okay and i'm gonna focus and everything and i'll be like deborah cost
did her she did it on that song you know what i'm saying and but i when it when
it first came out i i i ain't really like it and i still I will turn it to this day, to this day.
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So I mean, it's never that I don't like it. It's not on my list.
Let's see. I was going to say you so crazy to stand up like I didn't see that
like when it was going around in 94 when it first came out.
It was like I was older, you know, I was like in my, you know,
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early 20s when I did see that.
And that same reason I didn't get a chance to see Friday is the same reason
I didn't because we didn't have HBO.
You know, we my parents weren't going to take us to go see the movie when it
was in the movie theater. But I did go see Run Till That. Run Till That was hilarious.
Did get a chance to go see that. What else?
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I think I gave y'all a lot of the good ones, to be honest.
I'm trying to think of some things that I could talk about, like that I'd like,
and I don't, I don't, I mean, I'm for the most part, I'm pretty,
I'm a pre even kill person, right?
But the things I like, I like them. Like I like them hard. I'm,
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I'm, I'm fanatical about it. But, but I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I.
I love Real Housewives of Atlanta. My favorite housewife is Kandi.
But I've come around to liking Kenya. You know, for a long time,
I didn't care for Kenya. But she was cool the last few seasons.
I've liked her. Leni has been, you know, she was one of the greats, you know, OG.
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But, you know, she was somewhat my story. The only person I was looking for
was Kandi, just to see what was going on with her.
And I think that that had everything to do with how I liked her music.
I liked all the things that she's done and the contributions to R&B music,
especially with Destiny's Child and some of the other songs,
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Pink, There You Go, that she created, which I think is amazing.
Let me see.
I'm not a hardcore rap fan. the the songs that i like from like i mean i when
i think of rap i think specifically biggie and
tupac and that's probably because they're mainstream but i obviously know that
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wu-tang method man i mean common to me i felt like was more hip-hop so i don't
put him in the category of rap which i guess he did rap but i'm not a music
connoisseur to to even dig deep into that But I can say,
to kind of give you guys context of the songs that I liked from Biggie Smalls,
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Sky's the Limit, which is more R&B, more hip-hop feel, Common Go,
and that's a good song.
Tupac, I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto, Do For Love, more of his R&B stuff, old school.
The production value on that song is great. And then I Get Around.
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Those are some hip hop songs or rap songs that gives you reference to things
I like I like Method Man he did a song with a young lady named Jonelle called
Round and Round that I absolutely love and I thought was great,
but I couldn't tell you a Method Man song could not tell you a Wu-Tang song,
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I remember ODB had a hey dirty Charity, baby, I got your money. What, Khalees?
That Tribe Called Quest, I remember a little bit, you know, back in the day, Benito Applebaum.
I loved when, what was his name? I can't think of that man's name.
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The one that did the song with Janet. Q-Tip.
Q-Tip, vibrant, vibrant thing, vibrant, vibrant. That was pretty cool.
Busta Rhymes. What's it going to be? Again, more of the R&B stuff.
You know what I'm saying? Like I can, I can respect Eminem and Dre,
you know, forgot about Dre, you know, I can respect that. I love the, the beat.
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I think it's great, but I'm a, I'm more of a R&B dude.
You know, I really felt like hip hop didn't represent me.
I also felt like, you know, hip hop might've been a little rap. I'm sorry, not hip hop.
It was a little homophobic, you know? So I, I didn't feel welcomed.
And I love to see a method man like he's completely different than,
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you know, he's he seems to be intentional.
He is, you know, number one, very handsome.
And I love the person that he's become, you know, more into acting.
And I think that, you know, people have the right to evolve.
You know, you can still go out and, you know, do to Cal, you know what I'm saying?
Man, but he is, he's become, and I think that's, I think it's interesting to
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see, you know, those artists like Snoop Dogg as a young boy and,
you know, rapping about the stuff that they rap, you know, I didn't like Jane
and Juice, you know what I'm saying?
Murder Was the Case that they gave me, I don't even really remember that song,
you know what I'm saying? Like that, that wasn't my thing, but,
you know, I remember he did that.
It's so interesting to see those guys evolve. And then it's also really interesting
to see the ones that are still kind of in that same headspace that they were
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in when they initially like came into the game.
And it's like, you 50, 60, you 50, you got 50, 60 years old.
Like, man, like when was it?
Like, when does it change bro? Like what's going on?
Like you still have those same thoughts in hand, you know?
Grow. You know what I'm saying? Let's catch up, as that girl says in the meme.
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But that's about it. You know, I don't want to make this too,
too long, but that's just been some introductions or some things that I like, don't like.
I don't know how many I did of each, but I feel like I gave y'all a good,
you know, amount of things to kind of give you a frame of reference to frame
of reference to the kind of perfect person that I am. But I like that.
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I like let's let me talk about something before I go. I want to talk about something
that I really, really, really, really, really, really like. What is that, Reg?
I can watch Love Jones all day on a loop. I really love that.
I love the characters. I love the way they spoke. I love everything about that movie.
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And I really felt like it was ahead of its time, you know. But I love that.
That's a movie that I, if it came out in the movie theaters now, I would go see that.
Regardless of whether it was a big crowd or a small crowd, I would go see it.
I was a huge Aaliyah fan. I know that I've mentioned that a few times on here,
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and I'm very fanatical about her legacy.
I was very excited when her songs were able to be on streaming.
Sometimes I go through these bouts and not being able to have,
you know, listen to her music because I get sad because I realized that she's not here,
but I was hugely a fan, you know, I, and I, she just was somebody that I felt
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like represented me in music and, you know, she's forever missed and she's somebody I'm very like,
you know, a huge fan that I, you know, huge fan of another person. Jill Scott.
I love that woman. I was introduced to her from a friend of mine in 2012,
a little bit before 2012.
And I realized that Jill Scott had been out a lot longer than,
you know, I came in contact with her.
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But her music back then, Neo Soul back in like 1999, 2000s was very new and
I didn't really identify with it, I didn't think.
And then as I got older, closer to my thirties, I, you know,
met a gentleman who, you know, was all about like, you know,
music. Like he introduced me to music.
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Alicia Keys, again, because the only thing I knew from her was songs in A minor,
which was her first album.
And the only song I knew from that was Fallen.
Couldn't tell you any other song that's on the album or any other song that was released.
You Don't Know My Name, which I think is a different album. But he introduced
me to Element of Freedom.
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And I love that that album all the way through is one of my favorites.
It will be in my top 10. And then when he did that, he also made me a CD.
This is back in the day when you can make CDs, maybe a CD of Joe Scott's album.
And I remember listening to this edition and, you know, that and her first album
came out, I think it was in 2000.
Right. And I was like, where the fuck was I? You know, but I was in the military. So don't shoot me.
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But I've consumed every damn thing since then.
I've been to a concert like front row, not like front front row,
but like close enough to be like, just got to thank you for singing my song.
She hear it. You know what I'm saying?
She was supposed to come in 2020 when the pandemic happened and she ended up
having to cancel the ticket. So that was unfortunate.
And I was doing a VIP experience for her for that.
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She came through Florida again and I didn't get a chance to go just because
at the time I didn't have the money to be able to do so. But,
you know, just got I'm ready.
So you ever make your way back through the central Florida, I promise you I'll
be there. And we're going to have an experience because my husband knows that
I will leave him for you. OK.
All right. So we're on the same page. But that's all I got. You guys can find me on social media.
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Reggie's expressions are EGGE S expressions are together on TikTok.
You can also find me at R underscore, so A-R-E underscore E-L underscore Socorro Garner.
And that's spelled S-O-C-O-R-R-O-G-A-R-N-E-R on Instagram.
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Okay, that will allow you to be able to see Reggie's expressions because I do
have Reggie's expressions on there.
And then you can also find me at R-L Socorro Garner on Facebook.
So A-R-E-E-L Socorro Garner. Right.
Right. So you guys have a good rest of your day. I hope you enjoy this episode.
Shout out to everybody that's listening so far. Thank you so much for supporting
me. And yeah, thank you. I hope you enjoy.
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I will talk to you later. See you soon.
Music.
Music.
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What's up guys? So I've listened to two episodes so far and you guys can't hear
the sound effects, which is unfortunate, but here we are. It happens.
I don't know why I did that, but we're back for a third week and I appreciate
the reception to the other week.
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Shout out to my homie Anaya. Shout out to her.
She's my friend's, my friend Bird Joe's daughter and she listened and she said
that she liked it. So shout out to her.
I appreciate you for listening and liking the episode.
I hope you like this one too. So the last couple of weeks, you know,
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have been topics that have been pretty heavy.
I guess not heavy, but, you know, they've been a turn in, you know,
what direction I'm going to go in today.
Yesterday when I was off, I had, you know, this feeling of like I was listening.
Well, firstly, I was listening to a podcast.
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It's called Hot Seat. David Shands.
To give you all some context. This gentleman just talks to entrepreneurs and
he said something that I felt was really poignant or something that impacted me.
And that was about being a worker bee.
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And the context that he was making it is he had, and I'm going to go back and
I'm going to finish the episode. So he had this girl who was on,
who wanted to be an entrepreneur.
The name of her thing was Horny Skin.
And Horny Skin is the first layer of the skin.
And, you know, she created a brand around that. And she's an esthetician, so on and so forth.
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And there came a point in time in terms of her telling her experience about
her going to school and working seven days a week.
She went to school and work at the same time, you know, during while she was
getting her degree. And it was something that she wanted to do.
And he was like, you know, you you can work hard, you know, but the idea about
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being an entrepreneur, entrepreneur isn't to work hard.
You know, the idea is to figure out what you can do, you know, to work.
Not work as hard. You know, we think a lot of times because we just put in the
work, we're going work, work, work, work, work, and we're willing to do the
work that that should show, you know, good return on labor.
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But, you know, the reality of it is, is it just creates the element of you being
a, you know, someone who will work hard and that doesn't necessarily pay off.
It goes towards being burned out.
And, you know, I've experienced burnout a few times, even, you know,
with this podcast and, you know, just other things in life.
When I get to the phase of burnout, it's like, I don't want to pick it up.
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I'm not interested thinking about it just makes me, you know, tired and frustrated.
So, but yeah. And, you know, also in the context he was, you know,
saying in terms of being an entrepreneur is the idea is to eventually.
You know, how long people to do the work so you can step back.
And I think that's a, I never looked at it that way.
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And it made me kind of consider a few things in terms of my particular business
model, because even if I were to get an abundance of customers,
I'm only going to be able to do so many, you know, even with having Carlos as
well, we're only going to be able to do so many.
And that means we're going to be missing opportunities, especially if we're always busy.
And let's say our every Saturday and Sunday is booked, you know,
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I'm going to reach a ceiling and I would need to hire and bring on other people,
which in turn would allow me to kind of be able to step away.
So my recommendation is to go listen to his podcast. I think he has some good things on there.
And yeah, that episode was pretty cool. And I align with it because she is from Albany.
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She was born and raised in Albany. So yeah, that's that.
But yeah, We're going to talk about something a little lighthearted today.
We're going to talk about some of the things that Reggie like,
don't like, and has never seen done or whatever, you know, along those lines.
I'm a pretty open-minded guy. I do realize at some point in my life,
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you know, when I was younger, I had a somewhat sheltered life.
You know, my parents were pretty, I wouldn't say conservative,
but they were Black parents, right? Right. So really couldn't do that a lot.
You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, out of the ordinary.
And there were certain rules and things that we had in place that my parents
were my stepmom and dad weren't about.
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And then when I live with my grandmother, it just wasn't happening. So.
Give me one second, y'all. Sorry about the pause. I got to answer a message here.
But yeah, like so there are some things that I missed, you know,
during the first go round.
And I sort of forgot, like, how should I start this?
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And, you know, I do understand that some of this stuff may take my black card.
Some of this stuff may cause, you know, discussion among, you know,
the validity of what type of person I am. And I'm OK. I'm exposing myself.
All right. I'm letting y'all see everything because if I'm going to go there, I'm going to go there.
I'm going to start out by saying, let me look up something.
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And I feel like the novelty is over at this point when it comes to what I'm about to talk about.
And yeah, I have no desire. But at this point, but yeah, I've never seen the movie Friday, y'all.
The movie friday with ice cube and chris tucker i think nia long was nia long in friday,
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see i don't even really know i mean the whole
bye felicia that came from that the damn now you know friday came out before
memes were out but i promise you if memes were out then some of the that i seen
that has made me like aware not aware because i was aware of when friday was
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when it came out and how much of a cult classic it really was,
and how people used to talk about that movie like it was, you know,
The next best thing, I never got an opportunity. And let me explain to y'all why.
This was in 1995, all right? I was living with my grandmother in Albany, Georgia.
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My grandma was not, like movies wasn't even an option. I had to be home before 8.30, okay?
I had a curfew and some nights it would alternate and it would alternate because I had bath night.
So my grandma wouldn't let me go when, where she wouldn't let me go to the movies, you know?
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I mean, I probably could have caught a matinee or something like that,
but because I was 15, I don't think I was old enough to be able to go. Well, I was 14.
I wasn't able to, I wasn't old enough to be able to go during that time.
So, so there's that. When it finally did come on TV, HBO, my grandmother ain't paying for HBO.
That channel used to have the scribbles and the snow and, you know,
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And sometimes you would catch up a frame or so, but, you know,
my grandmother was not having that.
She was not having, you know, she wasn't paying for HBO.
Where they do that at? Well, even if she had the extra money to do it,
she wasn't paying for it. Right.
So as the years went by, you know, I just got further and further away from being able to watch it.
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Never really got the references that people were talking about in that movie.
And, you know, after a while, I really didn't, I wasn't really interested in
the movie. I became like, okay.
And to this day, 2024, after 29 years of that movie being released, I still have not seen it.
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It's about to go on its 30th anniversary and I still hadn't seen it.
Now, I did see Next Friday with Mike Epps. Yes.
Which I thought was, you know, pretty funny. I also thought the Mexican that
was next door, I thought he was pretty cute.
I say Mexican because I don't know his name. Mexican, I don't know what his
name was, but he was cute. The one with the beanie that used to cover his eyes a lot.
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Yeah, him. But yeah, that was the only Friday. And I haven't seen any of the other ones since then.
So yeah, that's my take on Friday, man. I've never seen it.
Haven't seen it. And I think with all the things that have been released about
it, I probably have seen the movie in its entirety. So there's that.
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The next thing is I don't drink.
Now, have I drank in the past? Yes.
And I have been drunk and I can count on my one hand how many times I have.
I just never really was in it. And I don't have anything against people who drink. I am all for it.
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Whatever you have to do to enjoy life or whatever you want to do to enjoy life, I'm all about it.
So I just never really got into it.
My first introduction to alcohol was when I was about 10 or 12 years old and
my dad had a bottle of Seagram's gin and it was us, you know, us kids, my brother.
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My sister, my younger brother, my younger sister, me, and then my older sister
just kind of, you know, sitting around my dad and he's having a little alcohol
and we wanted to know what it tastes like.
And my dad gave me
a little sick and I remember my chest feeling hot
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and my belly feeling a little hot from the alcohol
probably because I'm 10 years old and I shouldn't be drinking and it wasn't
that much now it wasn't that much you know it's just enough to you know kind
of you know allow a kid my age to feel that and I remember going like like I
felt the heat in my chest was just too much.
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And I remember my dad saying something like, yeah, that'll grow hair on your chest.
And, you know, I remember, I also remember him doing the same thing with, with cigarettes too.
My little brother ended up taking to that. And I think he ended up catching
the bed because he was trying to smoke under the bed.
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And he ended up catching a bed under the bed on fire.
Like it didn't cause like a fire to burn everything down, but it was just under
the bed. We were able to catch it and put the fire out.
But yeah, I never really got into drinking. When I was in the military,
it was what everybody else was doing.
And, you know, I was really just trying to jump on the bandwagon and see what
it does for me. And I've had some fantastic times.
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But again, those moments were few and far in between. And I was always the DD.
I don't really have anything against like the feeling. I've never even the times
that I've been like super drunk.
I've never had a hangover. I mean, a hangover. I felt dehydrated, but not hungover.
You know, like people are sick and, you know, they can't eat food.
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Like I saw that on TV and I was just like thinking that that would be my experience and it wasn't.
So, yeah, just not really not really my thing.
I never really cared too much for that. And, you know, if my my husband does drink.
So if we're out and about, I typically will sip what he has just to try it.
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You know, I mean, the stuff I really kind of like is the sugary stuff.
So things that are like super sweet would be things that I would enjoy.
Way but yeah it's it's not like
i will go out and you know like drink a
drink like i've had coronas coronas is my favorite beer you know that's the
beer that i one of the beers that i could actually take and it feels like smooth
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and you know just like chill have a little lime pop it in the bottle and just
drink it that's i can do that but you know in terms of me going to the
bar and buying a drink and drinking no that's that's not my thing so no disrespect
to anybody else that does it but it's just not my what else let's see i have never.
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I'm trying no i'm lost for words in terms of stuff that i've done man things
that i don't like what's something that you don't like reggie,
oh this is one i am not a comic book fan or action hero guy,
so you know when or sci-fi i'm i'm not a fan of sci-fi it deals with the element
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of of uh fantasy that my mind unfortunately doesn't go too easily and i never
really got into harry potter I never didn't really care too much to do Star Wars.
Not really interested in Star Trek.
And I know the difference between the two. I've dated people in the past that
have made sure I knew the difference. Right.
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And I just never, it's not really my genre. You know what I'm saying?
I mean, it kind of ties into action movies like the big kablooies and,
you know, Captain America movies.
Transformers, Iron Man, things like that.
Like I've never really been into those, you know, I don't flock to the movie theaters.
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I don't watch them on the shows. Like I'm, I'm, I'm not, it's not anything I care for.
It's not, um, and I don't know why, like I'm a psychological thriller person.
Like I love stuff that makes me think.
I love stuff that makes me like put the pieces together and I try to put it
together before the movie is over, you know what I'm saying?
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Like, okay, I can kind of figure out who may have done it. You know what I'm saying?
And I'm very quick at like putting things together. Like, oh,
oh, oh, you know, putting it together with, you know, scenes and things like that.
But you have never, I'm not really a fan, man.
I can't, there isn't an action movie that I've been like, oh my God,
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that's great. Like, this is one of my favorites.
To give y'all context, a favorite movie of mine, I'll give you all two of one
or two of my favorite movies.
One is a movie called Half Plenty written by Christopher Scott Chariot that came out in 1998.
I identify with that character so much. He's very smart, intelligent and cool.
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And he was cute then, too. Still cute now.
That's one of my favorites, favorite movies. And my friend always talks about
the horrible hairstyles in the horrible hairstyles. It was an hour long movie
and it was within a weekend or so.
She had a probably about the main female character, a woman character,
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Chinola Maxwell. I follow her on Instagram.
She had about nine or 10 different hairstyles and it was like over a three day weekend. So yeah.
That's crazy. But hey, suspension of reality.
Right. Like it's it's it's still a good movie.
And the other movie that I really like that I felt like kind of piqued my interest
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and kind of pushed me more into psychological thrillers was The Cell with Jennifer Lopez.
Now, I think the reasons that I like it is more because it's a stylish movie,
like the visuals are nice. I mean, the story line isn't like super heavy,
but the idea of the story was about her.
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It was this killer who fell ill and went into a coma and they wanted to know
where his victim was, his last victim that he had was,
and wanted to get her because he created, you know, death traps that will expire over a period of time.
And they she created this thing that allows her I think she did or maybe I don't
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remember the specifics,
but there was this thing that allowed people to be able to go kind of like inception
into other people's subconscious and,
you know, help them kind of figure out or, you know, Jennifer Lopez in this
instance would, you know, go deep and try to.
Therapize them, if you will, for lack of better word, and try to understand,
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you know, some of the things that make them do what they do.
And they were using it as a tool to help them figure out where his next victim
is. Yeah, it would have been next victim.
Spoiler alert, they did find the girl, but there were a few other women who
perished before that, unfortunately.
So go check it out. Go look at the, you know, the visual quality of it. I think it was great.
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I still love it. It's one of my all time favorites and I can go and watch that
movie a million times over and be cool. So.
What else? What else? I've never seen Frozen. Never seen it. Let it go.
Let it go. Never seen it. I ain't seen an hour of it.
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Never seen it. Not really interested in seeing it at this point.
But I remember that shit dominating like the world from like 2014 or whenever that movie came out.
Until even recently, I still see memes. like
I've seen fuck it all mean that was based on let
it go yeah I'm just
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not really interested um I mean animated movies
aren't really my thing either I mean I like Shrek
Shrek is cool I would love for them to come out with
a new Shrek but I feel like Michael Myers has kind of grown since
then so you know
I'm pretty sure Shrek has probably evolved as well so excuse
me sorry about that um but yeah i've
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never seen frozen and i have no desire to go see it
now you know yeah i
mean there was nothing appealing about the movie to me blonde
hair elsa at one point they were trying to you know say that you know elsa was
queer or gay i i don't know if it's true or not but i i think that they may
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be considered doing a second movie where they focused on that a little bit but But Kristen Bell,
you know, being the voice actor and then Idina Menzel, which used to be Taye Diggs' wife,
ex-wife at this point now.
And I guess, you know, but it ain't really been anything that,
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you know, I was really into. I was like, OK, that's that sounds cool.
What else? Um.
I do like going to movies, like if it's a big debut, like, for example,
I did go see Black Panther.
I saw that when I was in the movie theaters. I meant to go and go, you know, go, go and go.
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I meant to go back and continue to see that movie. I just never got around to
it because I'm a one and done type person. You know, unless it comes in my bubber
after I see it in the movie theater, I'll probably never see it again.
But I remember the hype I had on all black. I had Carlos in it, had accents of white.
You know, you better love the dress whenever I can.
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So, but I love going to go see movies like that with a large movie, a large crowd.
Out i do understand at this point you know with the days of covid you know movie
theaters aren't you know like it's kind of lost its novelty a little bit the
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last movie i wanted to go see which i've seen at this point was american fiction
with uh jeffrey wright and erica alexander.
And unfortunately we couldn't see it because the movie would not start because
something happened happen with the video and it took, it would take them hours to get that done.
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And I was just going to do it on my day off, but it didn't happen.
So, but that was the last movie I saw. And that was like the latter part of 2023 when I did that.
And, but yeah, I like, I love, cause I love being able to hear the,
you know, the oohs and aahs of the crowd. Sometimes that can be distracting.
And I have a lot of friends who are like, nah, I really, I don't really want anybody else.
I want to be able to go like in a movie matinee where it's just me and the screen
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and I can, you know, visualize and see everything, you know,
but yeah, just like I'm a big, I don't know.
I just, I've always liked that. So I would prefer to go to movies during opening weekend.
If I've missed opening weekend, I probably have.
You know, kind of pass. It's like, all right, I'm not really interested in going
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like bad boys, you know, bad boys came out, I don't know, maybe two, three weeks ago.
I haven't gone yet. I haven't really had a desire to go.
Um, although I love Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, um, I just hadn't had that desire to go.
So I'll probably just wait until it comes on Amazon or, or, you know,
just rent it on Apple or something because the pandemic really did a number on me.
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Like with going out
especially in public with things i can do at home you know
i'm saying i i don't know if y'all remember in 2020 a
lot of those movies that were being made like a lot of
them were going straight to streaming and you
know i i was okay with that so you know give me a stream man give me give me
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streaming like debuting on streaming and i promise y'all i saw dune that way
the first thing it was a whole bunch of movies in 2020 that i i know i would
have never seen myself had i had to go out and do it but because i was looking for shit to do,
that was what i was doing so yeah i uh i did that right but if i do go it you
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know i prefer to go the day of opening and just be a part of the experience um what else.
I'm not a fan of deborah cox nobody's supposed to be here i do not like that
song yeah i'm a fan i love deborah cox and some of the other things that she's
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done you know she's a great singer,
and i can understand why people like that song i'm just not a fan i just you
know nobody's supposed to be here it's it's,
know it's a very emotional song carlos and i were
at you know red coconut at city
walk and when we went they like well crabs
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love to play the dance version of that song especially gay
clubs and coconuts coconuts i'm sorry red
coconut i don't think it's a gay club but they just were celebrating pride
for most of the month so um yeah
they they love the dance version of that song and i
kind of like cringe whenever i hear it because there'll
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be some extra characters up in there that you know trying to
act like you know they're lip-syncing for their lives and it's
just like okay and i'm gonna focus and everything and i'll be like deborah cost
did her she did it on that song you know what i'm saying and but i when it when
it first came out i i i ain't really like it and i still I will turn it to this day, to this day.
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So I mean, it's never that I don't like it. It's not on my list.
Let's see. I was going to say you so crazy to stand up like I didn't see that
like when it was going around in 94 when it first came out.
It was like I was older, you know, I was like in my, you know,
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early 20s when I did see that.
And that same reason I didn't get a chance to see Friday is the same reason
I didn't because we didn't have HBO.
You know, we my parents weren't going to take us to go see the movie when it
was in the movie theater. But I did go see Run Till That. Run Till That was hilarious.
Did get a chance to go see that. What else?
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I think I gave y'all a lot of the good ones, to be honest.
I'm trying to think of some things that I could talk about, like that I'd like,
and I don't, I don't, I mean, I'm for the most part, I'm pretty,
I'm a pre even kill person, right?
But the things I like, I like them. Like I like them hard. I'm,
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I'm, I'm fanatical about it. But, but I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I.
I love Real Housewives of Atlanta. My favorite housewife is Kandi.
But I've come around to liking Kenya. You know, for a long time,
I didn't care for Kenya. But she was cool the last few seasons.
I've liked her. Leni has been, you know, she was one of the greats, you know, OG.
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But, you know, she was somewhat my story. The only person I was looking for
was Kandi, just to see what was going on with her.
And I think that that had everything to do with how I liked her music.
I liked all the things that she's done and the contributions to R&B music,
especially with Destiny's Child and some of the other songs,
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Pink, There You Go, that she created, which I think is amazing.
Let me see.
I'm not a hardcore rap fan. the the songs that i like from like i mean i when
i think of rap i think specifically biggie and
tupac and that's probably because they're mainstream but i obviously know that
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wu-tang method man i mean common to me i felt like was more hip-hop so i don't
put him in the category of rap which i guess he did rap but i'm not a music
connoisseur to to even dig deep into that But I can say,
to kind of give you guys context of the songs that I liked from Biggie Smalls,
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Sky's the Limit, which is more R&B, more hip-hop feel, Common Go,
and that's a good song.
Tupac, I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto, Do For Love, more of his R&B stuff, old school.
The production value on that song is great. And then I Get Around.
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Those are some hip hop songs or rap songs that gives you reference to things
I like I like Method Man he did a song with a young lady named Jonelle called
Round and Round that I absolutely love and I thought was great,
but I couldn't tell you a Method Man song could not tell you a Wu-Tang song,
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I remember ODB had a hey dirty Charity, baby, I got your money. What, Khalees?
That Tribe Called Quest, I remember a little bit, you know, back in the day, Benito Applebaum.
I loved when, what was his name? I can't think of that man's name.
(28:12):
The one that did the song with Janet. Q-Tip.
Q-Tip, vibrant, vibrant thing, vibrant, vibrant. That was pretty cool.
Busta Rhymes. What's it going to be? Again, more of the R&B stuff.
You know what I'm saying? Like I can, I can respect Eminem and Dre,
you know, forgot about Dre, you know, I can respect that. I love the, the beat.
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I think it's great, but I'm a, I'm more of a R&B dude.
You know, I really felt like hip hop didn't represent me.
I also felt like, you know, hip hop might've been a little rap. I'm sorry, not hip hop.
It was a little homophobic, you know? So I, I didn't feel welcomed.
And I love to see a method man like he's completely different than,
(28:55):
you know, he's he seems to be intentional.
He is, you know, number one, very handsome.
And I love the person that he's become, you know, more into acting.
And I think that, you know, people have the right to evolve.
You know, you can still go out and, you know, do to Cal, you know what I'm saying?
Man, but he is, he's become, and I think that's, I think it's interesting to
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see, you know, those artists like Snoop Dogg as a young boy and,
you know, rapping about the stuff that they rap, you know, I didn't like Jane
and Juice, you know what I'm saying?
Murder Was the Case that they gave me, I don't even really remember that song,
you know what I'm saying? Like that, that wasn't my thing, but,
you know, I remember he did that.
It's so interesting to see those guys evolve. And then it's also really interesting
to see the ones that are still kind of in that same headspace that they were
(29:41):
in when they initially like came into the game.
And it's like, you 50, 60, you 50, you got 50, 60 years old.
Like, man, like when was it?
Like, when does it change bro? Like what's going on?
Like you still have those same thoughts in hand, you know?
Grow. You know what I'm saying? Let's catch up, as that girl says in the meme.
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But that's about it. You know, I don't want to make this too,
too long, but that's just been some introductions or some things that I like, don't like.
I don't know how many I did of each, but I feel like I gave y'all a good,
you know, amount of things to kind of give you a frame of reference to frame
of reference to the kind of perfect person that I am. But I like that.
(30:29):
I like let's let me talk about something before I go. I want to talk about something
that I really, really, really, really, really, really like. What is that, Reg?
I can watch Love Jones all day on a loop. I really love that.
I love the characters. I love the way they spoke. I love everything about that movie.
(30:52):
And I really felt like it was ahead of its time, you know. But I love that.
That's a movie that I, if it came out in the movie theaters now, I would go see that.
Regardless of whether it was a big crowd or a small crowd, I would go see it.
I was a huge Aaliyah fan. I know that I've mentioned that a few times on here,
(31:13):
and I'm very fanatical about her legacy.
I was very excited when her songs were able to be on streaming.
Sometimes I go through these bouts and not being able to have,
you know, listen to her music because I get sad because I realized that she's not here,
but I was hugely a fan, you know, I, and I, she just was somebody that I felt
(31:37):
like represented me in music and, you know, she's forever missed and she's somebody I'm very like,
you know, a huge fan that I, you know, huge fan of another person. Jill Scott.
I love that woman. I was introduced to her from a friend of mine in 2012,
a little bit before 2012.
And I realized that Jill Scott had been out a lot longer than,
you know, I came in contact with her.
(31:58):
But her music back then, Neo Soul back in like 1999, 2000s was very new and
I didn't really identify with it, I didn't think.
And then as I got older, closer to my thirties, I, you know,
met a gentleman who, you know, was all about like, you know,
music. Like he introduced me to music.
(32:19):
Alicia Keys, again, because the only thing I knew from her was songs in A minor,
which was her first album.
And the only song I knew from that was Fallen.
Couldn't tell you any other song that's on the album or any other song that was released.
You Don't Know My Name, which I think is a different album. But he introduced
me to Element of Freedom.
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And I love that that album all the way through is one of my favorites.
It will be in my top 10. And then when he did that, he also made me a CD.
This is back in the day when you can make CDs, maybe a CD of Joe Scott's album.
And I remember listening to this edition and, you know, that and her first album
came out, I think it was in 2000.
Right. And I was like, where the fuck was I? You know, but I was in the military. So don't shoot me.
(33:05):
But I've consumed every damn thing since then.
I've been to a concert like front row, not like front front row,
but like close enough to be like, just got to thank you for singing my song.
She hear it. You know what I'm saying?
She was supposed to come in 2020 when the pandemic happened and she ended up
having to cancel the ticket. So that was unfortunate.
And I was doing a VIP experience for her for that.
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She came through Florida again and I didn't get a chance to go just because
at the time I didn't have the money to be able to do so. But,
you know, just got I'm ready.
So you ever make your way back through the central Florida, I promise you I'll
be there. And we're going to have an experience because my husband knows that
I will leave him for you. OK.
All right. So we're on the same page. But that's all I got. You guys can find me on social media.
(33:53):
Reggie's expressions are EGGE S expressions are together on TikTok.
You can also find me at R underscore, so A-R-E underscore E-L underscore Socorro Garner.
And that's spelled S-O-C-O-R-R-O-G-A-R-N-E-R on Instagram.
(34:17):
Okay, that will allow you to be able to see Reggie's expressions because I do
have Reggie's expressions on there.
And then you can also find me at R-L Socorro Garner on Facebook.
So A-R-E-E-L Socorro Garner. Right.
Right. So you guys have a good rest of your day. I hope you enjoy this episode.
Shout out to everybody that's listening so far. Thank you so much for supporting
me. And yeah, thank you. I hope you enjoy.
(34:40):
I will talk to you later. See you soon.
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