A Real Conversation About Ageism In The Workplace___

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Oh, get ready, get ready, get ready.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Oh,
here's me.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's your boy, your favorite counture boy, Louisiana country boy,
along with your favorite defa, the Little Devo And it's time.
Do you know what time it is? And it's time?
Do you know what time?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
A mess?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
This okay, y'all, look like that's how I feel to that.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
And so I don't know what in my start up, that.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Startup saying what you know what time is?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I didn't get finished you, I don't.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Know you say the whole song coat boy, I'm sorry
you want to do in your half? I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
She's doing her hair all of what you who you
doing your half? Looping? She was flopping. She was doing
this all up and.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Nobody.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
I ain't doing that for nobody camera.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Like slinging, trying to make sure it look decent. It
wasn't nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh lord, today, it is time.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
It is time for the longest, the longest consistently running
live Monday night podcast. You are here, We are here,
everybody is here. It is time for the re conversation
with a twist of humor, and we are bringing it

(01:39):
to you tonight, we're bringing it to you on a
special we got something special, we got something special. We're
gonna talk about some realness tonight, just a little bit,
just to tag.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
We're gonna get into it later on.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
But tonight, we collectively agreed after my arm was twisted
by the younger folks, my young My arm was twisted.
My arm was twisted by the younger folks. You know
how younger folks are. But tonight we have collectively agreed
to discuss a very important topic.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you don't know, my co host, is.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Your was twisted?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I asked?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
You said, okay, I said it.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
By the younger folks.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh oh okay, oh so oh oh so so Mama
say when you throw it wrong, hit dog gonna bob.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I say, that's what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Brought up the topic, and I said, young folks, see okay,
oh so you over there see this. This is exactly
what we're gonna talk about tonight. This right here, the
discrimination against age. See how young folks do you see that?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
When we get it that we do gotta still say
what we did for the weekend real quick, we.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Gonna get into it.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Let me shut up, let me later on that's what
we're going That is the actual that is going to
be the foundation.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh oh you want to Oh not now you want
to get an old man a chance?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Let me just push my mouth over here.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Why don't I But tonight we're going to talk about
something that many may have experienced, may have gone through,
whether you're younger, whether you're older. It's something called agism.
It is a real deal. It's something real out here.
So we're gonna bring it to the table. If anybody
wants to charm in charm in tonight, I will say

(03:30):
tonight on on Facebook and on YouTube, if you charm in.
I can't see it because I got the wide screen tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
My co host is responsible for all the comments.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Tonight on the screen. Now I can't see him. They
about this moth and I see something down there about
that death smile and I can't.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
But that is going to be the topic that we
are going to discuss tonight. When we get into it,
we're going to start off, as we always do, with
two things. First thing, we're going to start off. You know,
I have to start it off a little dere you know,
I have to started off. I've been missing it all
week all weekend. But anyway, we're going to start off

(04:20):
just like this. If you allow me just a moment,
I will do this. I will actually look y'all, I'll
shave for the weekend. I shave my head.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Anyway, here we go, look.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
At you, bid Heaven and Father, thank you for this day.
Thank you for your grace, Thank you for your mercy.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Father God.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I'll ask you continue to guide, watch over and protect
each and everyone, each and everyone under the sound of
my voice, Father God, watch over them. Father God, touched
their hearts, touch their hearts, touch their minds. Father God,
you know me. When I pray, I ask for three
things for each and every person. Wisdom, strength and understanding. Wisdom,
strength and understanding. No matter where they are, no matter
what they're going through, those three things will definitely guide

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them through. Wisdom, strength and understanding. Father God, I say
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, not for
what you've done, but for who you are. Because there
are some things you did not do, but you had
the power to do if you needed to do, if
it was the right thing for us. I already know it,
and I thank you. I thank you, Father God. I
thank you for the nose. I thank you for the

(05:19):
yeses and I thank you for the not right now.
Thank you, Father God, thank you, thank you. Thank you
for protecting us, thank you for watching over us, and
thank you for guiding us.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Thank you for what you have done. Thank you for
what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
And Father God, thank you for what will to do
what he will do, Father God, I thank you, and
I ask these prayers for each each, each, each, each,
each and everyone and your son Jesus name.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Amen, Amen, Amen.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Amen, y'all know what this is. One of my favorite
songs and my morning.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Wait, oh my Lord, and I wait, my bod hold
on a little while longer.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Here's watch your goud uh.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
Just believe my friends, He'll work it out for you.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
My Godess, care's for guy, There's for you. Wait the Lord.
We will come through.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, Amen, Amen. And let me just say this, Facebook,
we do not own the rights of the music. So
when y'all come sitting a little stinky messages talking about
oh you're gonna be let me just tell you right now,
we all own it.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's a lie. Okay, here, Facebook, I hope y'all listening
to this.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
That's music that's playing, Okay, I would hope that the
artist would want somebody to hear their music, because if
they didn't hear their music, how would they music get out?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Y'all?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
About its domb is a rock? I don't even get
it blocking Facebook? Go ahead, Jones?

Speaker 2 (07:18):
So anyway, but that's what I got to say about Facebook. Facebook.
You know, we don't own the rights to the music. Nope,
it ain't ours.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
But guess what you know what if you bout the
music or you download the music, then who music is?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (07:31):
If I so you telling me this shirt that I
bought at the store, relaying my shirt, I'm just saying
I don't see what.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
I said, y'all.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
I do want to say that we are on an
abbreviate is it abbreviated?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Abbreviated time? Because we have some technical difficulties that country
boy gonna check on one day when they have time.
How was your weekend, country boy?

Speaker 1 (08:00):
I had a I had a wonderful busy, busy busy.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
The Louisiana country Boy Lewis is booked.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
And yeah, I wouldn't look, I wouldn't say all that
now busy, I would say that.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I would say that, And you know, I wish my
co host would have been there.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
She would have had a wonderful time Friday night, Saturday
night and then the play on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
The b M A H. The b M A Weekend
was was amazing.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
I got to I really really really had the opportunity
to meet some wonderful people.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Really, I mean.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
People I've never seen before, some people I have seen before.
But it was great, It was great, It was great. Uh,
I can't tell y'all I ain't tired now.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Because.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
You know what, I'm glad he is admitting it. I
told him earlier I was going into into Frenchies and
I said, you say I'm tired. Count of what he said.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
I am country board. I parted all weekend.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
I then parted all week and I've done parted all
week and started.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
I don't think I can do those three days events more.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
In our dance community, they started out being just one night,
but then they wait from one night to the pre party,
then the party. Then they went from the pre party
to the party to the picnic. You know what what
what I do know?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
You know, I hear you talking a lot of times
about oh god, I got all these pictures good. I
probably got two million pictures and videos that I'm trying
to I mean, and I'm putting them out. But let
me tell y'all something. I'm gonna get back to this.
I know a lot of people think that this right
here is and it's not. I'm not gonna say that
this work, but it is tedious. I have been clipping

(09:56):
videos and I have been trying to run reels because
I was honored to be there and to see some
of these people. So I want to get their stuff out.
But it's a lot. I was like even last night,
I had one eye. I think I dropped my phone
and the computer.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Wow, I'm trying to edit videos.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
And but yeah, it was really good. Some dance groups.
Look they had some line dancing.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Plus I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
But good.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Look, hey they line danced all up and down. They
had to spin around thing that you whatever you call it,
you get on the okay, Okay, that right there they
had that. They had some wonderful, wonderful vendors at all

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three events.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Just great. I mean, everybody seemed to have well.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
In my opinion, everybody's seem to have a good time
on just the truth mind, just the two man, I'm
fin the two man, can I too man like normally,
don't let me tell y'all if y'all were out at
the b e A Award on Saturday and y'all had
come by and see the country, but.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Y'all because that was that was hopping baby.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
That dang you know when you go to them food
trucks and folks be lying up y'all, Oh my god,
my co host over that what we're gonna if you
don't put the if you don't put an ear pc uh, well,
if it was really and and if y'all never let

(11:40):
me tell y'all something about me, this mean okay, And
maybe that's why people don't invite me out or people
don't like.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Because look, I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm I'm gonna always invited you out.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Hear me forgetting you got a co host, you gotta
bring me along and say she here, I'll bell let
y'all know we're.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
A package deal.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Hey, I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you it was.
Did you see the video I sent you? O, my boy, kwan, I.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Did see that.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
That was my favorite.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Let me tell you no words.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
That was a gentleman that came up through the red
carpet and it was on fire.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Okay, he came up. He's he's a model. His name
is Kawan. He's from right. Here's ain't Quorn?

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Look if you on Instagram or tik toker face, but
different for you. Hey, Quorn was dressed to the tea
all right. But let me tell you, girl. Corn walked
up there to the red cap and grabbed a microphone.
And I looked at Quorn and he had on this
nice jacket. Okay, but Corn didn't have on no shirt

(12:54):
underneath that.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Girl.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
I could not hold it. I could not hold it.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
I could not know to people, don't weigh your jacket
with out a shirt under it.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Hey, not around the country.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
But hey, but he was sharp, he was shut up man.
And but it was it was that kind of atmosphere.
Should I say it wasn't about you know how you
go some places and and you see people and they're
all stuck up because now, and I don't think that.

(13:28):
I don't think that people be really stuck up when
they be out of those events. You know what I
think it is their shoes be too.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Tight before, don't.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I don't think they really stuck up, but they don't
put it in a squeeze theyselfs in these suits and
these dresses and these shoes, so they know they can't
chuckle because they might bust something.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
So I think that that's more.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Of what it is, because I don't think that they
really up type people. I really don't. I think everybody
has a side of man, if you have been it
to me, to each and everyone that came by that
was nominated, I first want to say congratulations to all
of them, because you've you've got there, You've got there.

(14:11):
You don't have to be so dignified and so you know.
I mean, of course there is a time and place
for that, just not around the country. Boy, there is
that place. But I had a great, great time. Think
I thank my sister the niece for including me. I

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think so much. I think, uh niece Dobbins for including me.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Hain't Serika good? I wish you'd been there. I'd of
love to get you on the red cover.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
I couldn't see well, I thought you couldn't see.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Hey, let me tell you something. I can see Serrika
from one hundred miles away. I don't care what talk.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
About on the screen. You said you couldn't see these
little letters.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I said, I just said that I can't but I
can see Sherika.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Okay, I ain't standing, but it was.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
It was great. It was great.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
That was a great honor. Reaeson, my co host, My
co host was also nominated.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
You know, I am.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
God I was nominated. I wouldn't have wanted to go
up against my co host anyway.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
See, she's so good like that. That's how she did me.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
I a representative in case I.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Have, he would.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Have accepted my He would have accepted my honor in
my place, he would have said that speech that they say,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
But the little diva was not.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Like she had so many wonderful, exciting things to do. So
I'm going to accept this honor on her behalf.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Hey, I did it for you. I'd have did it good.
I would have walked there out of walked that stage
for you, like.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Your dance like you did. I saw you dancing up
on the stage. I saw you.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
I sent you.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Hey. You know what I tell them, you know, I
tell them that I ain't No, I ain't.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Saying about it. Two things. Two things. Don't get a
couch of boy, a microphone and a camera.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Don't do it.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
I'm gonna teach you how to swing out dance.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
You gotta team swing out there.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
I'm gonna teach you how to swing out danced.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Do you know how I'm gonna teach you how to
swing out?

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I'll be gonna swing into a wall.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
No, you won't, you get dad. Okay, Okay, okay, but
you're gonna have to tone it down for a minute.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
You can get wild after I teach you the basic steps,
but I have to want to raise the steps.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
You got to calm down.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Then after that, I.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Can let it go.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
You can let it go.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm ready. I'm ready light the fire. Well, look at you.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
How was your weekend? How was your weekend? Enough about
me and my boarding this?

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh you had an exciting weekend?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I was.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
I'm always jealous again, I'm jealous in a good way.
I'm always proud to see because I.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Know you represent us both.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
But I did have business this weekend. I my mom
and I went to Galton.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
You was on the boat.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, Friday. We wasn't on the boat Friday. We just
had an all day training from nine to a m.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
To nine forty five. Let me tell y'all something.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
So my mama got here, she was almost here, and
I said, Mama, do you have your passport? Oh Lord,
I gotta go back and get this shit go Always
she wasn't all the way here, So you went out
and were supposed to meet here a seven thirty cause
it be down there, like eight thirty.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
A thirty was check in. Nine was the deal.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Anyway, So she gets back, so we feel father around.
Then I left something, so I had to come back
in the house. Boy, if I tell you, people say
you cannot beat the GPS, it's always my goal to
beat the GPS. I beat the GPS. I was rolling
forty five, rolling, leaning and rolling up this jail. I
was rolling. I got down to got in Galveston, got

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down the street, got to a train.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
And they said, I know you the.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Call up with this GPS, but you gonna sit right.
You're gonna sip right here.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yo, you move And if I.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Tell you that train like literally was moving like this,
I'm a laving there.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Then we sat there. I'm okay, cool.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
So we're just gonna wait because what the song say,
wait on the lord, Da da da. That's what we
had to do and just be patient. But the thing
about this, I did beat the GPS.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
By about child by twenty minutes.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
I have to beat that GPS. Yeah, we sat up
there and that's five about fifteen. Then something came through
and they finally let us through. But anyway, I got
We got there right about nine fifteen or so they
have all the food was gone and.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
That was what broke my heart.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
We got there the first day they said was oh
well they've already packed up the food.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
So anyway, we went there for a training. So we're
part of CLIA. It's the Cruise Line International of America
something like that, but that's where we do a lot
of our trainings through dah Dah Dah Dah.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
But they had a big training this week and.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
They do it every year. So it was Friday, so
we had the day training where we're sitting down looking
at people talk.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Different cruise lines talk to you. And then Carnival came
as well. So I was able to ask Carnival about
these ruling.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
I mind you, they didn't talk about it on the thing,
and so I'm like, well, why the hell you trained us?

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Y'all ain't gonna talk about what we really want to
know the real reason I came. I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
I haven't been in there for two years, but I
knew I needed to go anyway, So you know, I
trapped it well.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
First I went up there and made.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Sure we got pictures and we laughed, and they told
me how cute I was, and I was like, y'all
don't even know.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
I'm fifty five years old.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
I ain't cute like that, no moment, but they felt
I felt like they were gonna pitch my cheeks. Then
we went outside. No, they left without talking about the
R and B music, the line dance.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Music, the fans. So you know what I.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Did that.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Too, went to get on. I said, hey, you know,
y'all didn't mention what's going on with the fans and this,
that and the other. And she got to look like
it has been a month. I said, what she said.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
You got the documentary that came out Because my DIY
friend of mine, he he saw doctor he already said
he would go to have a cruise. Now that he
saw the poop documentary, he really ain't going. So they
got that going on. I watched it too. I understand
why people but things happen. It can happen on a
plane too. The plane you can follow out of scott.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
So anyway, God forbid y'ad let me say that. I
don't speak that in Jesus.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
But anyway, So I went out there and ask she said, well,
it's been a month, she said.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
I said, what do you mean?

Speaker 4 (20:31):
She said, well, you know the documentary came out, so
we got people that's worried about that. I said, well,
talk to me about the the.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Rap music and hip hop music.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
You're not going to play that. She says, no, it's
not like that. It's just that in the club, we
do want to make it more. You know, they have
to use that politic politically correct wording. It's just we
want to have more variety. Yes, so instead of having
every single night just the club, right, it's gonna be
an R and B theme night, hip hop night, a

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children's night, our teen children night, and then different things.
So that's how they're gonna change up the club. Okay,
which cool with me because you know what that means
all my live music cruises. The nights that they don't
have no R and B, what were gonna be in
the private part.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
So that's good for me because I can use that
for ourselves to.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
I asked, Oh, the fans now me, they don't never
have to clack another damn fan ever ever, because like
it gets on my nerves.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
I have never clacked a fan, but I have been.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
I should have brought my fan in, But I've been
having a fan for years because in the Swing at
dance community, we use fans to fan because we're hot.
We ain't clacking them.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
I never liked it.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
But the reason why they're going to stop the clackers
because y'all seen them fights they've been having on Carnival lately,
a lot of fights. You have seen them cany believe it.
It was about twenty to twenty fighting as they got
off the ship one day. Oh wow, So they got
to figure out a way to get this together. And
you know some people say, well, you chose things that

(22:07):
represent black and brown people. Well, in my mind, it
was the black and brown people that was fighting the
day the twenty on twenty.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
I'm just saying the truth is the truth.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
But anyway, the fans, they looked at it, What if
somebody hit somebody with the fan, What was somebody hit
somebody out they popping the fan?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
What if you know, you drunk, you popping.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
I mean like and she didn't say all this, she
just said for safety reasons, I add my own animation
to it. So they saw. I guess the powers that
be saw one of the videos that went viral of
all the people out on the leado with the fans.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
They don't want to do the fans. Bring the clack
and fans no more. I am so okay.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
I wish they'd bare them in the clubs. To be
honest with you, it is time out for the clack
and fans. I do what I think I look sexy doing.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
I just do do.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
That.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Whoo whoa yeah yeah. Anyway.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
So then the next day, the best part of the
training was Saturday when we got to tour the Jubilee. Okay, y'all,
if I tell you this is a ship for you, Okay,
I'm actually gonna plan a summer trip that will be
open to families. I'm not gonna take any bands on it,

(23:29):
and I'm gonna probably do the Payton sip have a DJ.
But that damn ship have seven restaurants.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
I'm talking Hibaichi.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Seafood Steak, and there's one of those restaurants that don't
cost any extra. The first night you go to the
first night's free, but after that it's just eight ninety
five per person.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
So your dining experience on this ship is so much
better than just the regular dining experience you get. So
I had said I would, it would be hard for
me to ever going to seven day cruise again.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
This ship I could. I'm gonna be posting some pictures
and videos.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
But it has the Severance Room, of course, it's got
that roller coaster I want to get on. It has Oh,
it'stead of curtains that have in a shower curtains. Ain't
no curtains. There's wood grade and some of the sweets
up there. And what I did, I took more video
of the things that we never think about this on Carnival,
So we usually advertised, usually advertised the balcony, the interior,

(24:29):
and the ocean view where there's so much more up
there in the sky sixteen seventeen floor. But the ship
is Oh, they even have different you know. They talk
about the burger place where they got the burger places,
they got the chicken check, they got so many things
on the lido as well.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
There's also an adult only area. Oh, I've never got to.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Tour the kids area. That's when I thought about your baby.
I got to tour the kids area, and oh, it's
so nice. What I didn't know is that the people
that work in the children's area, they are some of
them certified.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
They've all had experience with children.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
And now it's open to up to six months now
they can starting as it.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Used to be.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
They didn't start for like five they started up as
early as six months now.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
So I mean all of that.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
I mean, but the ship.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Top top notch, beautiful, gorgeous.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
It's going to take you seven days to tour that,
to make it through that hole. One of the ladies
that win is my daughter's best friend's mom, my youngest
daughter's best friend's mom, and she was on there too.
She's a travel agent and she says she's been on
three times now and say she's still having made it
to the whole ship.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh wow, that's how.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
That's how big. And I think it used. The ship's
hold used to like four thousand people. This one holds
seven or eight. I don't have my notes seven or
eight thousand people on this ship. Like it's huge, it's
it's and it's just I mean, I don't think I
have to get off the ship.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
It was just that nice.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
And it's so many. They got the family for you,
you know, you know, I love a family, family view.
They have the family view on the ship.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
You know.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
I like the new the way it game. But I
kicked them to the curve fell the family few. So
it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
It was wonderful. And uh, we ate in the dining room.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
I had to, we had to stay and whatever. Oh
they also you eat in the restaurant. You get a
bottle of wine the first night for free, because oh wow,
so they're doing it up.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
They're trying to get more people on this ship. But
it is seven days.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
And I'm gonna try to work on reminding people that
back in the day, when you were on a seven
day cruise, you was on that cruise, you got a
one time and you hit that once or twice, and
you have that.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
It's not like that now. And I'm sorry, y'all excuse me.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
First of all, the ship that we used to go
on and do the seven days, it wasn't much on it.
Now it's a billion things to do on the ship.
But you're off three days.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
You do sell for two days, but you're off three
not three days straight. Let me make sure I'm clear.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
You get off, you're there all day, you get off,
the next day, you all day, third day, then you'll
have two more days to come back.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
But again, there's so many more things to do.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
On the ship. That were you telling me to shut up?
So I'm really excited about booking this particular cruise.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Country Boy, I'm very excited.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
I have I have pictures and videos that I'm gonna
be posting and try to do, uh, just try to
do some reals, y'all. Donny is more dedicated and has
more patience than I had when it comes to I
used to do it all the time.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
I just I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to
make some more moent. I'm gonna give me go outside and.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Raise my dress leg up because I need to pay
somebody to do my editing because I I don't want
to do it anymore. I just don't, and I want
to get somebody else to do it because it needs
to be done. I that's so yeah. So anyway, y'all
pray for your girl, because I'm gonna need to. I
need to figure out how to make me an extra dollar.
I can go out here on what is and just

(28:06):
raiding with y'all. Come on, yeah, And I'm gonna ask
you how you feel about this, because it is.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
What might keep going out the folks next door?

Speaker 4 (28:24):
How would you feel about we continue to talk, but
we don't get into that topic. I think the topic
is too important to go into it and we end
up being in here to ten o'clock. Don't want to
do that today, so let's postpone this till next Monday.
But let's keep talking.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Is that okay with you? Not a fan that came on?
I ain't touched nothing here, go to bathe.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I just told you it was the folks across the way.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yaman is trying to help me see if I can
find me another another spot.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
If I want to place with a garage, I need
the garage.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
If I find that this little list list two hundred
dollars cheaper, I will move. Otherwise, me and them gonna
be right here, Me and them.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's gonna ain't nobody else coming over there.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
But so that I didn't have gut. We had a
great time. That ship is great, my mom. They also
have this new thing, y'all that we're gonna be advertising.
It's called Carnival. Oh shit, Carnival.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Don't give me the line. It's Carnival something. But Carnival
has their own like island. Now, oh really, yes, So
you that's one of the excursions. You go there and
you it's so nice. I mean, I ain't been there,
but they showed us the video. They showed me when
I want on to keep the cruise. When you are
when you like have a platinum or diamond member, you

(29:43):
get to go to this little cocktail party with the captain.
And so I went to that and I saw it.
But then they showed it at the training this week
they have that one come. They're building several of them,
which that is so smart of Carnival, Like you always
take the people all these other islands and lands and
do you to build your own with roller coasters, food.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Slinging things.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
So you would stop at one one of the one
of the islands, then you go to the carnival and
then whatever. So that's three days, but my mom is
planning one. She's planning it for September. I don't think
I can get off seven days to September, but I'm
gonna do one in the summer.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
It probably won't be until the summer twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
It's too nice to is to that our spring break, Uh,
spring break is always hard. But I'm gonna do one
in twenty twenty seven for this particular cruise because it's nice.
Of course, because the seven days is gonna cost more money,
so I don't want to throw it out there on people.
Yet I'll actually put it out there. People can start
paying like literally a year ahead. So that's something that's

(30:46):
gonna be coming up on my part because it'll be
more of a family friendly.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Now we're gonna have some DJ nights where the kids
can come, but otherwise other things we can do some.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
It's gonna be family and family vacation for a spring break,
and I think that'll be cool. But again, I was
very impressed with the kids area.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Right that that is really nice. You know, I got
a personal thing about water and kids. You know, that's
just me. Well, I don't care. I don't care if
it's don't look, I don't you know, I don't even
care if it's a tub. You know, I got I
have a thing about water in kids. I just did
my mind. I had to, you know, I had to
take some medication with water and children.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, you told me. I was thinking about it. That's
why I said that. But it's not gonna be not
no water.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
She own the ship, Yeah, the ship.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Is on what But what she gonna get to the water?
How did you did you ever get the fish? Because
you wouldn't buy no water?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Saw, I could have. I was, I was over the edge.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
But folks was watching being nosy because I could have.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Given you, sir, I could have.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Because I could have, I could board.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
In the area that they have the kids in, even
the hole for the a family floor no water, it's
a whole floor of families. And they even wake up.
You wake up, and they have like a special little
brunch that I have to go down to the brunch
with grown people that special like you wake up, y'all
can go to your own little brunch at night. They
have special fund and games for the family with food

(32:18):
and I think they said popcorn and different things. It's
just it was just again, I've never taken my little kids.
My kids when they were little, I didn't get a
chance to take them. Uh, we wouldn't. We didn't have
no money back then. But then even when I first
started cruising, I would go. I went by myself for
like three years, and then when I finally took Dietrich,
he was like, girl, this what you ain't never believing me. No,

(32:42):
he loved cruising. But anyway, uh, it's it was. It
was I'm literally in awe and it tastes a lot
to impress me.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
And I was very impressed by that ship.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
And then Sunday, you know, some day I had a
little rough don't let a rough patch on Sunday. And
what I want to say, talker mention is I have
a friend named Chamon Chanelle. Chanel's a singer. She now
don't want to be a single no more. But she's
a single and I just love her and I just
love her. I love her, h she loves She's a fan.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Her and her husband are fans of eric Anisia Cortez.
So that uh so she Uh.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Anyway, I called her.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
I lent across. I went wherever I was at. I
want to come home and change clothes before I went
somewhere else. So I'm changing. I decided to let across
my bed.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
That's what I said.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Be called Chanelle.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
So any way, I called her. I said, we I'm
gonna come by. I got there and she said, I
heard it in your voice. Something's wrong. She had me
she know I came dream so you know, she had
me a cold fruity sweet shot waiting.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
She had put it in the little freezer to get it.
She said, that's what a friend do.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
That's what I call you.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Next week check on you. I'll be and jumped over
the damn cliff.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
By the time you come, check on mene.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
And she immediately said you are right.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
I said, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
I said, what you're doing?

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Me and her and her husband had been sitting out
there with a little hooker, but he had went inside.
I said, oh, well, first, I said, that's what I said.
It's the hobby there because I want to interview and
interrupt nobody's romantic time.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
And she said, oh no, he just went upstairs.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
So I got there and uh she yeah, she just
I felt it. I heard it, and I felt it,
So I got this ready for you. And what I
really liked is she know I can't drink, so she
had my little freddy fruity fruity fretty pep pretty and
then I had my bottle of wine. And what girlfriends
do I drank the whole bottle and I had them

(34:42):
shut the shot or two and we and she, her
cousin and a friend came over and we just sat there,
had a little girl chat and it was really nice.
And after the girl.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Chat, I was I was, I actually felt much better.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
The bottle of wine didn't hurt. Uh. So it was
just that I'm saying that to say this. It is
nice when people can hear you and see you may
not want to talk about whatever's.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Wrong, but I got you. Come on, let's come on
over here. I wasn't been to know. For me, I
didn't tell I was bringing my bottle of wine. Though
I'll be married. It wasn't a fool bout it.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
And I had drink a little bit of it, so
a couple of weeks ago. But yeah, so it's just
nice country boy to have a You don't have many girlfriends,
and so it's nice to have a girl friend. She
because I can call.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
You a bug, you and the hell out of you
all Dad, you're gonna.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
Do you know, some of my best friends are me in.
But it's just sometimes I'm realizing you need a girl friend.
And that is what she remember I called somebody that
I knew had done her.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
For years and it's been years ago.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Cuse what I called that woman and was saying, hey,
I'm having a rough time.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
You know, I ain't feeling great whatever.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
And the men I ain't never really called up when
back then I was living a good, different life.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Things was going good. Try that woman told me. Uh,
that woman told me, okay.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
I'll be free about a month. No lies told. And
like I always do when people say things like that
that I think, are you serious, I just say, Okay.

(36:30):
I never called again because it's like that is not
what I need. But yeah, So we had some girls
talk yesterday and I realized that was exactly what I mean.
I mean, little girl talked and we didn't even have
no male fashion sister, and it was just we were
just talking to general, talked about family and you know,
and you realize too that so many other people have

(36:51):
the same issues if you will as as you. She's
the oldest in her family and that that, you know,
being the oldest is always a pickle because you're usually
the one that if you have a parent that's going
through things gonna you're usually the one that's responsible. I
didn't realize she was the oldest, so she's doing some

(37:12):
things with her her mom and so anyway, Lostory short,
it was a it was great just to have somebody
understand you. Then with the other two ladies we just
laughed it up. Now they they were smoking their hookah.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
I didn't. I didn't. I didn't partake of the hookah.
You didn't hoop, I don't hook Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
You know, my mama I try to tell herself sometime
and she says she the mama. But when my children
tell me, so, I be listening and my daughter, my
youngest baby daughter told me this. And I really don't
say this much to people because I know it's gonna
be a back and forth. You know, I don't like confrontation.
But my baby told me who is a reader? And
she said, Mama, that's when I was trying to smoke hookle.

(37:53):
You know, this trying because people get saying the bubbles
ain't bubbling.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
So ain't no bubbles down that tree? So you're not
who can enough?

Speaker 4 (38:01):
Anyway, my daughter told me, Mama, you need to leave
that alone because they say there's no what is it not?
Tobacco was the other nicotine in it? Because it's vague.
There are specs of nicotine in it.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
All.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
She had to say to me because I asked somebody
one time.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
But they say that the cigars don't cause cancer no more.
Because everybody's mombing cigars.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
I'm just trying to see that the notes come out
saying that they.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
I'm so serious, like and again, I don't say nothing
the people because I know it's gonna be a back
and forth conversation and don't want the confrontation. And people
don't want you to tell them stuffs.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
I sit over there and don't.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
I will say. I will say this to them. Please
don't blow that over here at me because.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Me I was talking nutrician one day.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
She got her little hooka laid back and then she
turned around in me and just blew it Platricia. I'm
gonna need to blow it that way. But uh yeah,
So she told me that, and that little girl. Both
of my kids are I think, I think both of
my children are very smart, but that little one is
one of those people that uh fun fact type girl,

(39:15):
like she reads every little thing, so she she knows things.
And so I listened, and that that's all it took
for me for to tell me, was some nicotine.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
In them done?

Speaker 4 (39:25):
That exactly what's done, Because I really need to be
honest with you. I never did it because I wanted
to anyway. It was just I was in the atmosphere
of people. But y'all puff puffing past that thing that way, Yeah,
panting over there, everybody.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
I have a friend. She carries her with her everywhere
she goes.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Wow. I will say this on what you were just
talking that is.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
That is a wonderful thing everybody should have I talked
about that is is I truly believe we we all
have to need to mus It is crucial for us
to have a place where we can.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Exhale.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, I'll use that a place where we can exhale
someone that we can exhale around. I remember, I remember
that so vividly for myself going through some things in
my life, and.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
As you just said, like.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
They may not know what's wrong, but they also can
hear it. I had that my mom was that years ago.
I'll never forget. I can't remember what the heck it was.
It must not have been that crucial love, but I
don't remember. But whatever it was, at that moment, it
felt like it was and you know what we talked

(40:54):
about when I call her, not about whatever that issue
was exactly.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
It never came up in the conversation. It never was.
But I left the conversation.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
When I left that conversation, that load that I went
in there with gone was gone.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
And I think people missed.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
That is that in especially in this day and time,
And that's you know, I think you not have that
thing in common. You know, a lot of people have
gotten caught up in the technical world of wanting the
text and this, that and the other, and so much
is missed in the translation. I could be having the
worst day of my life, could be mad as I'll

(41:42):
get out. You could send me a text message with
an open heart and you're feeling really really good, and
you feeling.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Nothing but love.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
And I read that in my state of mind because
I'm not reading it how you seen it in my
state of mind? And when I read it, I just
read it all wrong.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
And that thing that that we often talk about is.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Having those conversations of the soothing. Truly, I don't know,
maybe I'm on the crazy one. The soothing of hearing
another person's voice on.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
The other end, that sounds like they just there.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Yeah, yeah, that that whole thing. Like I personally practice
it all the time. I practice it. I do it
at work. You know, when someone calls, no matter what
is going on, I'm excited to talk to them. And

(42:45):
it's crazy because they can feel the exciting people they do.
Y'all have not know when you talk to somebody, they
can feel your energy.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Through the phone.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Absolutely, they feel it.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
They can hear if you don't feel like talking, they'd
be like, all right, well look I'm gonna calling you back.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Before I said that thought I will say you okay,
I do say I do try to say that and.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Even though that person gonna say all my rights, did
you know?

Speaker 4 (43:12):
But you need to listen more because just like me
calling her, uh and I always pick up the phone
and call her. But something yesterday when I was laying
across that bed, something in my body or my spirit said,
and I told.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Her that when I got there, I said, you know,
I was laying across.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
The bed and I was thinking channel because I after
and that call I told y'all made a woman said
we can I have I'll be free to talk to
you in a month. I will never forget that because
I was at a low moment at that time, and uh,
I'll never forget that. After that, I said, I would
never do that to people. If somebody called, and I

(43:52):
know sometimes people talking about same thing over there.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
The only thing I think I would do is they
did it over and over.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
It is kind of something that you'll do. Okay, let's
find a solution now, right. You know you said you
call it four times about this. Let's come up with
a solution. What we're gonna do about it. But I
do believe in giving people. But what I will never
ever do is tell somebody I'll call you later, because
that could be the last I'll call you, and I'll.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Say this, you know, and no defense.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
But but as yesterday, you know, I didn't when I
talked to you yesterday, I mean I was like, hey,
well come on over here, and you know, it was
it was it was one of those sometimes we get to.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Going that we don't listen or.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, or or here. We all always listen, but sometimes
we just don't hear.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Yeah, that's one here.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Yeah, we we don't always hear. We listen to everything,
but we don't hear nothing. And just that, you know,
because what you said, you never know what somebody may
be going through, You never know what that point.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
But I'll say this to that, you weren't the one
I needed at that time, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
I didn't know that, right, I didn't know that. So
I always say, but to put me, get me here.
You know, you encouraged me to come. I I don't
want to drive out there.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
And you know, I don't really say that that much
because I always say half Paul will drive. But I
just came home to change my clothes, lay across the bed,
and she just popped up in my head. And so
I think I needed then. Even though I'm no girl
that says I don't do no women, you know, of
course I find pretty girls of rock, so I do them.

(45:40):
And uh, I've grabbed some some women. But the person
that I needed was a woman, and it was her,
someone who was non judgmental.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
And again uh.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
Now we ended up talking a little bit about what
was going on, but most of the time we didn't.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
We didn't even tall me. Matter of fact, something happened
to her.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
She had a challenge while I was there with something
with the Pune, with her family and my that and
it was so funny, And I wasn't like we were
just I was just sitting there and she was taking
care of whatever that business, but just sitting there with someone.
And then again during that time, we were sharing some
things that were similar. And what's funny is when I

(46:18):
say we're But that's why I found out she was
the oldest. And I've known her for some years now,
but I didn't know she was the oldest, and that
she's having these sayings, having challenges being the oldest sibling
as well, and the challenges that come with that. The
call she got, that's what it was a reference to
something she was having to take care of. And I
was like, oh my god, you know this is me

(46:39):
and you are. We we on the same thing. And
after she got off, we kind of chit chatted about
her stuff. We chit chatted about mind and then when
the two friends came we were done with that. We
went on talking about other stuff and other challenges and and.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
Jay started kind of laughing. It was just a h
she does this thing. Now it's not every.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
Tuesday, but something she caused to talk out Tuesday where
we go, well, she's invites us to her house and
we sit out and that's what we were. We're outside too.
Outside does a lot for me as well. And we
sat in her backyard. We were sitting.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
She had some new lit furntures, so we sat because
we usually bring our own little chairs. But anyway, I
don't mean.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
The carrecter is that on that long. But it was
just nice to hear the person on the other side
of the phone.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yes that.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
She just has a nice voice anyway, but she said, uh,
I said, what you doing that? She told her, So
that's what she said, Well, just come on, come on over.
And when I got to the door, and now she
opened it up and said, look.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
What I got. And I was like, she said, and
its door is your meaning that she got it? She
made the uh it was fruity.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
And because I can't drink, but I hope I ain't
getting sick. But yeah, y'all, I mean, at the end
of the day, just I mean, I know we don't
want to hear the same stories over and over and
over and over and over. But I did post something
one time that I saw that talked about thank you
for listening to my story over and over and never

(48:09):
making me feel like you got tired of it. But
I do think at some time after the third or
fourth someone has to stand in and say I love you,
and I know I know what you're going through, and
I feel you and I understand. But now let's start
working together on a solution and even offering up counseling.
You know, hey, you know I know this person or

(48:30):
da da da da, which I will say. A couple
of days before yesterday, I did call Schnelle about her
her counselor, because I, you know, have a therapist. But
I didn't realize the difference in a therapist and what
I need.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
I don't need somebody just talking vent to you. I
need to work.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Makes sense.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
So anyway I did, and I did not realize.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
I was sitting there with her and I talk a
lot of Tuesday, her and another little girl that was
all the time about this work they do, and I'm like, what.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
As your person?

Speaker 4 (49:04):
So I want to do that so I can find
out what's going on? What was the what was the
childhood trump? Because I know every song please last week?
And asked her who was her person? Because I like
that they have homework, like they're just talking through going
back into childhood.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
And oh yeah, well there that that was definitely. Uh,
there are those that will make you put in the work,
and there therapists that you can go to. There's counselors
that you can go to that will counsel and coach
you and and will coach you and help you develop you.

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There's a therapist that.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
Will find out why you why you do this while
you you know right, And.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
That's that's something that that and that's that's the individual
thing is like nobody can tell you because everything, yeah,
I had in this my mind and my thoughts have
been with me my whole life. Mm, yeah, they've been
with me. They've been with me my whole life. My trauma,

(50:12):
whatever has been with me.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
And you know something, you know, I.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Just realized, I'm just not realizing not here.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
I think I talked to her or I message her sadder.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
All right, I.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Can't remember which one. But yeah, those things, you know, Uh,
some of the things we have locked away, we don't
even know what's locked in that closet. You know how
you got a closet that's full of stuff, and some
of the stuff you look, you know, forgot it was
even in now until you start unpacking that closet. That's
our mind that's our lives. There are some things that
we have walked away that are taking up space.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Taking a space, and you just you can't touch it.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Then some of the things, and I know this that
there are some things that you know that's inside of
you that you can't figure out.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Why you're doing such thing or why this body.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
It's gonna take you to dig into that and help somebody,
get somebody to help you, have someone that's gonna help
you work through.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
That thing so you can. And I mean sometimes I think,
country boy, I don't. I don't know if I've ever
shared this for you.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Sometimes I think about fifty five, remember the fifty six.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Is it too late for me to do this? Is
it too late for me to do that?

Speaker 4 (51:32):
Is it too late? You know?

Speaker 3 (51:33):
You have those thoughts sometimes, but I don't feel that.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
But there are some days I sit and think, especially
with my dad passing away and stuff like that, I'd be.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
Like, dang, my daddy was seventy six and I'm fifty six,
and you know, no, it's not too late, because not
too late.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
I truly get and all of that I get, you know, personally,
I get it one hundred percent. Looking at differ and
things and looking at life and life ahead, and I
don't look too far ahead. I just try to really
embrace the moment because you get caught up. I know
sometimes I have found myself getting caught up and and okay,

(52:13):
what is it gonna look like? Or you know those
things because you can't see into the future.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
You can only you know.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Do you see your wife?

Speaker 2 (52:25):
No, I don't see who.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
I guess. Gush Bows added again this weekend. Look, I
can't remember I met lated this week hed Ray. Well,
actually I don't. I don't proposed the charm.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
The days just that I gotta propose.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
I was like, let me rewind to see what I missed.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Oh, I met another another lady this weekend. She was
I actually had an opportunity to take a picture with her.
She was one of the actresses in the play. On
Sunday I met her. I actually met her Friday night.
I saw her Saturday and I was with my buddy,
the craziest guy of all.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
We was we was we was.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
We was out.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Yes, we was out Saturday and and uh uh anyway.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
I saw her.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
We was we were standing outside the the what they
were giving the awards up and the lady walked up
right and I was like, I'll let me get a picture.
I said, look and we were standing up there, I said,
and I smiled, like we just got married.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
What we're gonna do with.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
So?

Speaker 3 (53:51):
Uh uh?

Speaker 1 (53:54):
So hey, hey, you know it teends what it tends.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
But no, I just embraced this thing. You know.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Yes, there are those times I sit and I think like, okay, God, but.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Was it you I shared with the What about me?

Speaker 3 (54:15):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Oh no, it was comeswell, and I actually I shared
with someone.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
You did tell me that conversation I.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Had, you know, and that has been in all honesty
and all honesty and all transparency.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
What about me? It's real?

Speaker 1 (54:34):
And if we can't have those real, real as we
are here on this show, those real conversations.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
With God, what about me?

Speaker 1 (54:45):
And we sit up here and act like we think
that everything and we you know, and I say, pretend
because you know you're faking. I know I was faking.
When you see some things or you see people, are
you see couples? Are you see these happy relationships? You
see these people who have who are working and and
and they're accomplishing things or they have they have gained

(55:06):
this or they've gained that, or or they've been at
their certain tasks and and they're getting this, or they're
get acknowledgements, or you see the the floodgates of heaven
opening on someone else. Not that you're jealous of them,
but you go, I'm not even talking about them, and
they really ain't about them, God ain't. I'm not telling
you to stop doing what you're doing for them, but

(55:28):
I'm asking you the question, like, for real, what about me?
I'm asking you the question, like when I see my
friends and these relationships, and I've seen my parents, you know,
in these long term relationships. I see my siblings that
are happily married, and I see myself who's gone through
tremendous relationships that ain't got nobody, And and then I

(55:49):
see other people walking around and I see them holding hands,
and I see them smiling, and I see them.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Building their future together. God, what about me? What about me?

Speaker 1 (56:02):
I look and I go like, well, man, I just
had no I just turned sixty. I've got more grasps
behind me than y'ard in front of me.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
What about me? Here? I am, you know, a sixty
year old with with with the with a with a child,
who's six years old? What about me?

Speaker 1 (56:27):
What about when I want to sit and have a
conversation with somebody, what about that person? I want to say, like, man, hey,
here's here's here's here's the coffee, or or let's go
have some coffee or or here, let's sit down, have
this conversation about what we're building towards the future.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
What about me? What are your dreams and what are
your aspirations? What about me?

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (56:50):
So having that conversation and truly having that and wasn't
about anybody else. And once more, again, don't get me wrong, y'all,
I'm not I'm not jealous of what anybody else has.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
That's not what it is.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
I'm not looking at anybody and envying what they have.
That's not what it is.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
And I'm jealous. I'm gonna be transparent. Why not be
I think I'm halfway. I'm intelligent. What about mean?

Speaker 4 (57:36):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (57:37):
You know?

Speaker 2 (57:37):
He and I get it. I get it, the girl
I get it. And I tell myself, you know, when
people you know, and here's the other thing.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
You know, And in the single world out here as
it is, people sometimes look at you, and they look
at myself, and they look at you or whatever when
you're when you're not with someone and think that you
you should be with someone. So a lot of people
go like, well you you, you look like you know
and then I'm gonna tell you, y'all, I get this.

(58:07):
I hate this, not hate. I hate some pretty strong work.
A lot of people have this assumption that, oh, you
got to have this, that and the other. You got
to have four or five of them over here and
tell you something, four how many years? Three years I've
been here. Ain't nobody outside of my family dieded my dog?

(58:29):
Okay now nine point that that and apsent don't even
know where.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
To live in.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
I understand.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
I don't know what men do, but I know some
of our male friends have had women come over their
house in the middle of the night to see and
knocking on their door and all that we really do
that I would go over nobody's house unannounced. I don't
care of y'all. I mean, let's be married then kiss you.
But they be dropping this. One friend told me that this.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Woman, oh my god, I never would have thought.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
She would be like that. No, because you just was
dating you told the way you lived too early. She
banged on his door all night long, he said, I
left her on the other side of that door. Yeah,
the first where you live, and you know you are?
How comedy are here in these streets.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
I've been calling down one one.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
I'm getting the burglar is out here. Please come get
her my house, don't Noah, I ain't never seen him.
I'm hearing from what what's the new? I am fearing
for my life. I'm afraid that she's gonna touch me inappropriately?

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Hey, you know, but you know it's it's real.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
I mean, and I understand, and then I understand it,
and and and I know that so many on both
sides have been through so much. We all, we all
have experienced so much in this in this life. You know,
the women have experienced so much disappointments, let downs, all

(01:00:15):
of those things from men.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Men have experienced the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
So there's this somebody, and I must say this, I
agree with.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
I heard this from a lady.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Although it may be all take that she's like girls, girls, girls, dude,
y'all know what All them men are, them good ones.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
They in the house just like us.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Let me tell you good, look that man, y'all, I
ain't gonna I spent I spent many time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
I don't spend time in the streets.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
I know what the streets look like, and and and
here's the thing for me, them streets today looked just
like they did.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
They even worse today.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
They worse. Yeah, I definitely worked than they was.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
But they're the same streets though, they're the same streets.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Chicken, Chicken, Tricken.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
They're the same streets.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
I said, like on a Saturday night, I don't want
to be out nowhere.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
I want to be balled up in a T shirt
with my man man man, laying on the couch, watch
watching TV, playing cards, whatever it is that that person
would I would want to do.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
I don't have to be out there, but you got to.
You got to be out there and find somebody to
do that. I don't want to be and I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
I just can't.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
I will never get into the online dady.

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
I just it's just even though someone gave me the
thought said that Watrina, it's the same thing is if
you're out and about you people. But I most of
people that I know, I did know them, I've seen
them before.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
It's not something stranger. I found the line that said.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
Hey listen, no, no, offense to anybody. Everybody do what
they do, because today real quickly, it ran through it
sped through my head real quick and it's been right
up out of there, and I was like, nine, that's
all right, But that's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
I'm good. I am good.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
But we need to wind it down so we can
go to go to bed. We got work tomorrow. Do
you have work tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
But y'all, before I pass it on over the donned
that close us out.

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
I want to say that, oh, thank you for understanding
us postponing the conversation, because the conversation is gonna be
a good conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
I wouldn't wanted to give it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
It's it's due and it's full time. And by the
time we talked about what we did this weekend, because
it was already late, it was already nine.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
What time is it now?

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
It is nine thirty, child, we're still on this phone,
I mean, on this car, on this this uh podcast.
But anyway, so that's one thing, and too, let me
make sure I'm looking at my calendar, looking at my calendar.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
I don't know what's happened this week. I got off,
I got nothing going on this week. What's happening.

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
If I get some live music news, I'll let y'all
know that I know Eric Cortez, I said, I asked
him to send me if he's gonna be playing somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Ooh, what else there's I don't have anything, so watch my,
watch my.

Speaker 6 (01:03:31):
I don't get a chance to. I gotta say wow,
I don't never get a chance to.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
Yay. Good job, Donnie, Congratulations to my co host. He
got two awards this weekend, and he got another one
coming up with the Jabos Texas Community Awards.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
He has a top media personality love it. What's the
other one? Top talk show hosts?

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Oh, that's the one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
He beat me. He beat me a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
I could never beat you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
He beat me, child, he beat me.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
Oh look, I gotta meet me some friends. I can
get some boats. You know, it's so much I talked.
I was telling my mama the other day when we
talked talk about talking about family, and that's such a
long show if we ever talked about family and support.
But I would just say this. I told my mama.
I said, I just thinking about my festival, not that

(01:04:29):
I have to always explain to her. I'm not saying
I'm not mad at nobody. This is what I'm just saying.
Do you know if your family, if my family that
I have, we always talk about, oh, any Curvey, you know,
any Curvey, you know they your family?

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
We all right get that love, that love my family.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
However, just think if let's just say, if thirty of
the hundreds of curveds that I know with the came
to that festival, what that would be for my festival?

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
What if thirty of the one of my cousins had
the nerve to say.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Y'all have y'all have too much stuff, but you ain't
been another of them?

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
M m so.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
But my point is, man, can you imagine I used
to say this thing on the job.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
I used to didn't really like, but I used.

Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
To say, I don't care about this job because when
I get off, I have him of that love, right right?

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
But then anyway, they just.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
Who's hearing me?

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
I'm worse than you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
You are worse than me.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
But anyway, so anyway, I was just sitting there telling
her that they just think if forty of them would
have paid the impact it would have made on that
particular event. And this might be selfish, but I am
in a phase now that I'm just not gonna keep
supporting a lot of people that don't support that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
And I know that sounds bad. Let me just say this,
I was for what I want to support.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
Yes, I'm gonna go to what.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
I want to.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
I used to go to a lot of things out
of obligation, but nobody's obligated to me and my stuff.
If that sounds selfish, I'm sorry, but that's just how
we finish do right now, because that's there's some places
I used to get free that o't let me, and
freedmore since ILL had a website. But I pay, so
I pay when I go in places, and that costs
money to come in your place. All these musicians I

(01:06:25):
have a birthday party and say hey, come and none
of them. But I just get fifteen twenty five dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Though only if I want to know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
And that's that's that's how it should be.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
And sometimes it's but it's just family, like you get.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
Me so so true and and it's it's tough.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
You mean, the realization of it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
The realization of knowing that those that truly that say what,
we love you and we're family.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
Mh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
The reality of that is it's no we're just related.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
That parts so hard for people to understand. I guess
from traditions of you gotta know your family, no matter
what they do to you, you're supposed to lay down
on the ground and let them walk on top of you. Oh,
that's your family. So you have to be okay with this.
You have to be because that's family, you know. And
so many times you hear therapists on TV, you read

(01:07:30):
up on this, that's just not the case some of
these days.

Speaker 3 (01:07:33):
You don't just because you're my family don't mean you
get the right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
You don't get to you don't get to do those things.
And it's and it's very very difficult, you know, you
know how, you know how. I definitely feel mm hmm man.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
For me. And there are people same as you. There
are people.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
That doesn't mean that I won't support people, but I
support what I feel like I want to. There are
people and once more again i'll talk about I'll be
selfish and I'll talk about July second. There are people
that came out, came from far away, that came from
you know, the other side of the tracks to come

(01:08:17):
and support and it wasn't about supporting me. And that's
what I That's the thing I really wanted to get out.
This ain't nobody. You ain't got to come from me.
You come to support one another and support each other.
If you think you're doing me a this justice or
or you're trying to you not because you're missing it.
This was your opportunity to connect with somebody. I could

(01:08:39):
care less because I'm blessed that God, God let me
see this day again, you know, And that thing is
so so true. I lived it a long time, Diva.
I lived it a long time thinking if I was
this way, if I was like this, or if I

(01:09:01):
changed my life and my life was a little bit
better and I walked differently, or if I did these things,
then I would get the appreciation and I would get
the respect of my blood.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Mm hmm, that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
They would see and understand like even though of all
he's been through, he's still standing and he's still senting,
he's standing and he's representing very well. Let me tell
you something. It's do you know how it feels to say,

(01:09:53):
I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that my mother,
my father, my uncles, my aunts that have all gone
on would be proud of where I am and the
folks that are there are folks walking around here breathing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
That there are folks walking around here.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Breathing, breathing hard, breathing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
That won't even acknowledge, won't even just say.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Hey, yeah, I know them all of a.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
Doubt that that those that have gone my mom and
my uncles, they would be like, boy boy, we didn't
think that you, but you know, boyle would about you.

(01:10:51):
But but but they are those that are right here
that you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
Oh my god. They are those that you know that
that are around you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
That know you, that have seen you, that have seen
you overcome, that have seen you fail, that have seen
you get back up, those that have seen you cry,
have seen you struggle, have seen you have and have
seen you have not. They're those that you have encouraged,
you have uplifts, and you have supported and you have
been there with.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
And they will see a damn post that you make.
It won't even share the like. But oh, let them
have a fight on Carnival.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
They'll be the first one to post that fights. Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
Oh and this new thing.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
With all these rules that they thought that kay that
really wasn't dru and the rumors they didn't I didn't
seen that. Damn things so many times from some of
the same people you're talking about that who did you see?

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
But did you see mine? I tell you out of
ever shared this with you.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
But this lady had I went with a friend to
another friend's birthday party.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
I think she was turning sixty or seventy that year.
I had just got my master's and it was posted,
you know, I posted it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
But anyway, she went around the whole table and talked
about all the great things about all these people.

Speaker 3 (01:12:16):
Right when she got to me, you know what she said.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
Trina is the one.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
She's the one to go out.

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
She didn't want to go to the club and know
about the clubs. Well, you know, you know me enough
to know that really, And I strike out out of
her or strike out of embarrassment.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
I strike out. And what I.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
Said was what before she'd go to the next person,
let's come bring it back to me. I actually got
a master's degree last week and it was posted people,
and in all honestly, you know, over the years, I
know she was an older lady. I don't think she
was trying to put me down. I'm gonna give her
some grace.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
Money, But.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Yeah, it's it's it's real. It's real. I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
And the strength and the grace that we all have
is the fact that when these people and they there
and I call them the East, when they continue to
be who they are, is that we continue to be
who God has called us to be.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
So you be going high when they go low. You
go high.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Now, I punch a round in the good and keep
get them and let them know why I hit you
like you know where I hits.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
You at Michelle. It was cute for a while, man, But.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
You have to, I mean, and you have to you know,
people only and I'm gonna say this number people sometimes
only only only only get really frustrated that you. You know,
once people really get frustrated that you is when you
put up about.

Speaker 4 (01:14:01):
Oh your absolutely almost That's that's when they really get
mad at you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
When you draw that line about this, you're not finna
cross Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
Now, whatever you do on that side of the line, baby,
but when you cross this, then they got all kinds
of issues with you. When you set up boundaries for yourself,
when you say I'm not gonna be disrespected, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
I'm not You're not finna do.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
That not up in here are you can, but I'm
not gonna be here for it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
Right when you hold yourself to a different stand baby,
I'm not holding you to crap, but I'm holding myself
to different standards.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
And I'm telling.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
You, they will get mad at you. They will be
they will go and boil limit you. You will be black
list all, you'll be all kind of stuff. And you've
been this, that and the other they were they were. Look,
they will talk, walk you up one side and walk you.

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
Down the Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
They will do.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
But what you have to do is hold true to yourself,
Hold true to your self, Hold true to your self.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
Ye, hold true to.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
Look at him. Let me tell you something. What I
have found is self worth. What I have found is
self value. What I have found is my self esteem.
And where did I find it within myself?

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
Yep? Yep?

Speaker 4 (01:15:33):
And the day you do it, did you finally find
your voice and you finally find that you know? I
don't want to I don't want to do this no more.
I don't want to play this game anymore with people.
So I'm gonna I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna allow
it anymore. It's hard but you know, when you do
it for me, and it's just been happening over the
last couple of months, it feels so good. It feels

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good to know that these people to be mad at
you or upset with you or whatever it is they are,
but you know you've done the right thing, and you
know that the consequences that come with that, you're okay
with it. That's when you know you've gotten there. And
once you get there. For me, when I got there
and I did these two things, and and and both

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times it was a it was a bad uh an outcome.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
Right, I was.

Speaker 4 (01:16:27):
Still okay with my decision. I was still okay with saying,
you know, well, you know I'm gonna move forward because
I did nothing wrong. I spoke my truth. That's what
That's what it is. Uh And that's when you know, well,
that's when I knew I got there. I finally got there.

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And actually me and Chanelle talked about that yesterday as well,
Like I got there to the point of this is
who I am now, this.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Is this is it, this is it. No more of
you just doing what doing whatever you want to do.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
I laughed just because something came to my mind, was
this is that. What that thing is is you know,
back back in your heyday you did the track. It's
kind of like the hurdles. What it is is you
run up to it, but you can never feel like
you can get over it. You run up to it,
but you can never feel like you can get over it,

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and then that thing you finally go like, you know what,
I'm not going to let this thing now. I'm gonna
getting over this hurdle, this hurdle right now. Yes, there'll
be another hurdle, but I done got this one.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
I know, I know I got this.

Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
I have delivered some bad news, and in this business
that I'm in, I've been delivering bad news for a
long time, and it it's not easy. I ain't that work,
you know I have to now it's sometimes because the
people I have to get bad news at work, they
did something that's easy. But when it's a decision, you
have to make us a busy this decision that you know,

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there's gonna be some people mad, some people are heard,
they're gonna talk about your dog or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
To know that that's what.

Speaker 4 (01:18:08):
You're gonna have to deal with, versus people understanding the
decisions that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
You have to make professionally.

Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
It's hard, it's it's it's sleepless nights. I remember when
I did have to let go of a band some
years ago because the money, the sales wasn't there. The
money wasn't Now, I had to make this decision. And
if I tell you it was awful, it was. It
was awful. But now after that, that taught me how

(01:18:39):
to deal with it though, because I was like, Okay,
that's the worst that it can get. Now when I
have to make certain decisions, you know, you know, whatever
I have to make or I can't work with you,
or we can't do this, or we can't go we
gott to cancel.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
This a postpone.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
It's still and it's because I care. You know, I
can be a ruthless old what they call I'm Jackie promote.
I could do that, but that's not who I'm. Definitely
a good person and I care about people. These people
that I choose to do these things with, I've chosen
them specifically.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Right, so and hers to have to say this with.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
If they've been excited about something or whatever and you
have to tell them pay.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
It ain't have you know what I'm saying. And I
think people think that it's easy.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
Oh she's just doing that because you know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
And I wish people could separate.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
I wish they could.

Speaker 7 (01:19:34):
Let me tell you, business decisions and personal have nothing
to do with each other. I can make a business
decision that I don't want to work with somebody or
or no, I don't want somebody to part.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
That don't mean that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
I don't like you as a person or like I
just don't this aspect of it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
You just why would I want you to come and
be a part.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Of building a shield when you can't even work a hammer.
I don't need you. I don't need another supervisor. Y'all
never see the city workers. They have one person working
and a hundred supervisors standing around.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
To me, that's like wild bought too, a hundred thousand lines.
They miss the people, and the managers just sit there
looking at the lines belong.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Yeah, So why.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
Would I want to bring you on to that? Don't
be I don't like you. You're a good person. You
are not for not for this, you know what they say. Look,
I tell a lot of time, Oh you're a wonderful woman,
and I've heard it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Oh you're a good man, just not mine.

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
That's hurtful. Hurtful.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
I'm gonna say this before we get off and find
that that, uh, that is so true. That people are
good people. You know they're good people, but when you
watch them throughout the years and contrary to what you know,
other people know. I'm watching I'm going through these live
music events because one thing I really like doing is

(01:21:22):
finding new people and be oh my god, I gotta
tell everybody, but that takes.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
I said that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
I said that to say something else that they don't realize.
The emotional turmoil. Yeah, that's there when you do have
to deliver certain news or say gotta cut things.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
I gotta cut that. It's just like I'm sure that
sometimes when.

Speaker 4 (01:21:46):
People have to do big layoffs and it's they's just say,
you have a direct supervisor that really know your good record.
Know you got kids at home you'll take care of.
But they boss told them we got to cut ten people.
You can't be at that person because that person cares
about you know, you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Need your job, but he needed a job too. Yeah.
I remember the people in my department.

Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
Our supervisor told us what time we had to cut
our consumer consultants.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Everybody mad.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
They said, well, I mean, you can either cut them
or cut you like, Okay, I got it. So anyway,
it's something. These kinds of decisions are just it's just hard,
especially if you're somebody with a caring heart, and it's
sad that you get. Women in the industry sometimes get

(01:22:35):
the she's a bitch name or she's whatever the names
that they call women who have to make those tough decisions,
you know. So But anyway, y'all, I'm gonna I thought
I had some announcements to make, but I don't. So

(01:22:56):
I'm not having a show this week. I just know
that next month, this is my birthday. It's a little
debas birthday in one, two three, no one. I had
a couple of weeks to my birthday to my birthday
month starts, and I was not gonna have a any cellar.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
I wasn't gonna do the trainer full month of trainer
this year.

Speaker 4 (01:23:15):
But I think I am because I wanted to be
traveling this in August, but that's not gonna work.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Out the way I wanted to.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
So I will probably be celebrating, but it ain't gonna
be no big celebration like I normally do. Maybe hey,
I'm going over here, y'all come meet me something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
I will, however, be celebrating my birthday on a Sunday
night of the twenty fourth. I may or may not
because my daddy birthday is a twenty fifth, but one
of them days. And now for my birthday, I'm gonna
be a Chicago bar and grill, and I'll let y'all
know when I would love it if y'all come out.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
And this year, I'm will be like everybody else.

Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
I'm gonna put my cash up out there, my zeal
out there for y'all to drop me a die.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
I ain't shamed no more. I mean for what, for what?

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
I need money too, So I'm gonna drop. I'm gonna
be dropping that all month long. So, yeah, all you
want to be on the pain the plan, you just
start August the first. Yeah, if you want to give
me a dollar every day, I take it y'all all month.

Speaker 3 (01:24:22):
Matter of fact, I can send you an invoice.

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
After pay after pay or klarna, if you want to
give me one hundred dollars, you don't have to pay
all at once. We got paying for it for Trina birthday.
But anyway, I'm a little sad about again. This will
be my dad's birth birthday, our first birthday without my daddy,
and unfortunately his birthday is like right at my birthday,

(01:24:50):
and I don't know. I don't know how I was
fine Father's Day. So we'll we'll see. But throughout the month,
I will be doing some things and I would just
love it, and y'all know what I'll be doing. I'll
be checking out live music and I'll just let you
know where I'm at. And I will probably put that
calendar out again this month, so maybe y'all can stop by.

(01:25:12):
But I will say this lastly before I passed over.
This is a July and Auficer in September our tough
months for my family. July my kid's grandmother, Uh, that
was her birthday and she passed the day, so we
just did a balloon release for her.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
So that's that made it tough.

Speaker 4 (01:25:32):
Same month we found out my dad, you know, had cancer,
So it's been tough. I think we both I look
at my sister's post, so I think we're both in
the mode of thinking about him, Jasmine. Jasmine said, something
happened my daddy always had to think about.

Speaker 3 (01:25:47):
Get you all changed.

Speaker 4 (01:25:49):
Jasmine said she was something was going on with a
car said, uh, she saw something about an all change.
It's something else. I have to did a child, Let
me go get my all change. This is probably this
was my all telling me to go get my go
get my So but anyway, I think things are happening.
I even see the different emotional things that's happening, and

(01:26:13):
we're all trying to be okay. So I was just
going to ask you all to keep us in prayer
because we got I know all that is going to
be tough. And then Septembers the year, make March the
years so and I'm already feeling it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
But keep us in your in your prayers and your thoughts.

Speaker 4 (01:26:29):
Not trying to ask for pity, just needing prayer, just
to continue to be strong and know that he is.
I try to give comfort to myself by knowing he is.
You don't have to go to the hospital no more
that he hated so much, right, you know, he just
wanted to go home and want to know why what
was wrong with him?

Speaker 3 (01:26:48):
And you know, so anyway, I just want to put
that out there real quick, and that is it, y'all
for me. We're gonna throw it on over there to
Donnie over.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
Him, getch it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
But I thank y'all, thank you so very much, thank
you all for tuning in. Thank you all for your support.
It's greatly great. Appreciate it. Does not go unnotice and
does not go on. Appreciate it. As we get ready
to wrap this thing up, wrap this thing down.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
I won't be long. I'm about of here. I will
say this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
I said this, and it really really hit me when
I said it, and I'm gonna post it again. I'm
gonna post it until y'all get sick of it. Know this, man,
follow your vision, Follow your vision, Follow the purpose that
you have been given. I don't say these things because
they're just a little cute things. I say when God

(01:27:47):
puts them on my heart, then he allows me to
remember part of it, now all of it. When I
say this is know this that everybody's not going to
believe in you. Everybody's not going with you, everybody's not
going to agree with the way that you're going.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
But you just keep going.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
Whatever your vision is, whatever it is, whatever it is,
keep going. You keep pushing. If you don't see it yet,
just keep going, keep pushing. Walk in your purpose and
walk in it on purpose. Walk in your purpose, and
walk in it on purpose. There are people out there
who will try to pull you away from your purpose.

(01:28:28):
There are people out there. There are people out there
who will try to deter you from the vision that
you have. Don't let them, don't let them do it.
You just keep on walking in it. You keep on
walking in it. There are people who will walk beside

(01:28:50):
you for a moment and they'll walk away. And sometimes
we get so caught up. And I talked to myself.
Sometimes we get so caught up and the people who
have left us, the people who have parted from our lives,
the people who have departed from us. We get so

(01:29:12):
caught up and why they won't support me, why they
don't encourage me, why they don't believe in me. We
forget about the ones that do. We get so caught
up and remembering, like, man, this, I did this for them,
But why won't they do Man? There are people, There
are people. There are people that will go and all

(01:29:36):
of a sudden you'll look beside Maybe then jumped off
the ship and left you by yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
I said the.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
Other night, if somebody want to jump off your ship,
let them swim in the water.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Don't you throw them no live jack, don't be trying
to pull them back. Oh, come on back.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
If somebody wants to jump off your ship, that's going
to the destination that God has for you. If they
jump off, leave them in that water, leave them in there,
because I promise you this. I promise you this. When
they jump off. What they're making room for is the
person that's supposed to be on when they jump off,

(01:30:16):
because what they're doing is just taking up space. Baby,
they taking up space that they don't even need to
when they jump off. The shift now, it makes room
for somebody who will be there to support you. Somebody
who will be there to encourage you. Somebody who will
be there to keep pushing you. Somebody who will be
there to keep encouraging and telling you. Man, come on here,

(01:30:40):
come on here. You got this.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
You can do this.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
Somebody who will hold you accountable. That's who you need
on the ship. You don't need nobody on your ship
who's drilling holes in it. There's a lot of folks
that are drunk hold in other folks ships.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
Yep, get them off.

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
If they want to jump off, let them jump, but
don't you stop, don't you quit, don't you give up?

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Don't you give in? I speak from my co host
a little div when I say this, it's know this.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
We don't just say this just because we say it honestly,
because we've been there. We've been there. We've had people
walk away. We've been there. We have people talk about
it there, h we have because we're crazy for what
we're doing. We've been there. Oh you think you can

(01:31:40):
do that? We've been there. Oh that thing ain't going nowhere.
We've been there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Oh, ain't nobody. Don't nobody want to interview with y'all.
We've been there.

Speaker 6 (01:31:48):
Oh, don't anybody can do that? Cruise anybody thing, anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
We've been there. We have been there.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
The reason that we pour in and pour our open,
honestly and transparent list because we've been there.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
A lot of people don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
They don't want to tell you about the ones that
talk down on, the ones that talk down on while
you were steady encouraging them. See, you were talking about
how to pull me down. We were discussing how to
lift you up.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
We are knocked the sight.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
We ain't the same.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
We are knocked the same and that's real, that's real.
We know what the tears are like, we know what
the pain is like.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
That's why we're saying, and that's why we encouraged, and
that's why we uplift because we know what it's like.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
Not to have that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
And the last words from the big mouth country boy
is this good Lord will give up this morning and
you open your eyes, clean out your ears, and you're
tried to hear, but the words of the country boy was.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
Just not clear. You was out there to day, looking up.

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
Looking down, listening over here and listening all around.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
What here it is right now?

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Nine fifty eight time on behalf of myself, your favorite
country boy beat Louisiana Country Boy, and my co hosts
your favorite diva beat a little Diva. When I tell
you these words, I know it, know it, know it,
and we say it with our heart. We love you,

(01:33:34):
we love you, we love you, and we love you unconditionally.
And that ain't nothing, absolutely positively nothing that I had
to count them out.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
Absolutely boy, it's only two words.

Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
You are, Oh you're too funny.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
You absolutely positively.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Love y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
Recognize it work for granted at all. See y'all next Monday, y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
Next Monday for the boom boom, we out, we out.
We got a little deep doing this, and often it
hit my two thank you ticktok, love y'all, Love y'all,
love y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
Boom. Let me get thank you Instagram, love y'all. Boom
boom boom. Oh. I don't even know what that means,

(01:34:58):
bet he