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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
What it is, what a really cyber world.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It is your girl, the one and only Ash Brown,
and this is the Ash Said It show. Over twenty
one hundred episode since twenty fourteen, half a million streams
around the world. None of this is possible without you, guys.
So I thank you so so very much for all
the love, all the support. Today is a very special episode.

(00:24):
I've got one of my favorite people come in through
today and she's brought somebody else special with her from
of course, the Party Room Squad family. All right, so
we got two section leaders today. All right, there's many
section leaders as we know in the Party Room Squad fam,
but we got two today. We got Low representing Cyrus

(00:45):
and we got Lady Vic you know, she holding down Maya. Hey, ladies,
glad that you guys could join us today. And I
mean we had to like jump on this very episode.
I feel like we're back in the eighties long like
we had to put a very special episode out because

(01:06):
there's big announcements and things going on with Party Room Squad,
as you guys sa on social media last week we
posted the sections I'm closed, everything close off, everything done, but.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
We may have a little bit of a little bit
of wiggle room going on, so lo let the people
them know, like what's.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Going on with these spots and uh, these reservations.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, so we are here to let's let it be
known we do have there were some resales with some individuals.
They're not able to make it. They won't even make
some of their payments. And then there are some individuals
that are trying to sell their costumes that they reached
out to some of the section leaders. So for those
of us that do have those.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Like availabilities depending.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
On your sizes, definitely they can contact us.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Can contact myself at Dropping Gems.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
On Instagram as well as contact Maya. The sessional leader
is Lady fig Shill go ahead and elaborate more and
talk about it more with you all, and of course
definitely reach out to our band leader Karl Montes directly.
His number is three oh five three oh one eight

(02:21):
five three eight.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Again for me, my section is Cyrus.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I do have this a snippet depending on the sizes
because they're reselling them, but definitely reach out. I'm at
Dropping Gyms on Instagram, send me a DM and definitely
can correspond with everyone.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, cool, cool, and so Lady Vic tell us all
about Maya.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Okay, hi everybody, So this is Vicky from Lady Big
Creations and you can definitely reach me on Instagram by
sending dms that Lady Underscore Vic Underscore Creations and you
can see a information about the Maya section on there.
And so definitely the theme this year for Party Room

(03:07):
Squard was definitely Empires and I was given the task
of showing the Mayan Empire in a costume format. So
that's just a little bit about the costume and definitely
there are spaces available. All of the costumes were designed
by myself Data Bay Creations as well as my feather work,

(03:31):
and I have to give a big shout out to
Antique and designer who designed my mail and this is
his twenty fifth anniversary of doing costumes in Antigua and environs,
so big shout out to him. And so definitely, if
you're looking for a costume for Miami, I would love
it if you would choose me. And we have lots

(03:54):
of spots, lots of the availability, but of course those
spots are going to be moving pretty quickly now that
major carnivals are are coming to an end. And then
everyone starts to get to.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Miami fever right, because Barbados.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
Is over, Antiguas over, Caravana is over, which I'm just
coming back from because i did something there with sunlight masks.
So I'm pretty busy when it comes to the Carnival circuit.
And so we had a great time there on the
road in Canada. Shout out to my Canadian cousins.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
And so we had a great.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Time there and I'm looking forward to this Miami.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
This will be my second.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
Or third year with Party Room Squad, and I'm really
looking forward to it, and you know, just being on
the road and being able to express our culture and
just have a good time with it, you know.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yes, And lady Vick, a little Bertie told me that
you are from New York.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
You're a new fellow New York and much like myself.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
So I want to talk a little bit about the
evolution that you've seen as far as Carnival goes as
a whole, like seeing the movement from you know, maybe
ten twenty years ago till now. How do you feel
about how things have evolved or Carnival.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Well, I would just say things have evolved. I mean,
the biggest one is definitely monetarily. Unfortunately, the price of
materials and things like that have almost tripled in the
last couple of years, right, So that's one of the
factors that are affecting carnival. Imports and exports, definitely the

(05:42):
hot button topic of tariff now, so all of those
things are technically affecting Carnival. I think what's also affecting
Carnival is definitely social media. I think that you have
a lot of these social media influencers and things that nature,

(06:04):
and so everyone wants to be where the influencer is,
or the hot guy or the hot girl is, irrespective
of the costume and the culture and things of that nature.
Whereas a couple of years ago, if you like the costume,
you like the costume, you were with the bad or
what have you, it wasn't about you know, influencers and

(06:25):
stuff being in a particular band and that's where you
want it to be, right. So I think that's one
of the major differences that you're seeing today. I'm not
saying that it's a bad thing because the you know,
the culture is getting more exposure, but again, at what price.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, Yeah, I could definitely see that because it's it's been.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Like you said, it's kind of good and.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Bad because you see, like some of the good stuff
because yes, it's given more exposure, Yes it's it's opening
up people to different things. But at the same token,
you know, culture vote there's people that steal from the
culture and they you know, they monetize it for themselves,
and they're not really honoring the tradition of which Carnival is.
It's fun, yes, but it's also tradition for Korean people, you.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Know, and and and the history of Carnival and certain
Carnival characters and things of that nature that I don't
think a lot of people know about. You know, I
can only speak mainly about culture or the cultural norms
and hinderad where you have the Midnight Robber and the
you know, the baby Dog characters and Blue Devil and.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Things of that nature.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
So those are some of the more traditional aspects of Carnival,
the Camberley, the re enactments rather the Kamberley riots.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
And stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
The reason why we have Old Mass in the beginning anyway,
which was because in the beginning of Carnival we wonn't
necessarily allowed to take the caste in the masquerades that
the French colonizers did, so we created our own carnival
mocking them as they were, and that's how you got

(08:09):
some of the old mass genres and characters, right.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, yeah, What do you feel like would help to
enrich the carnival experience for the next generation. What do
you think that we need to do as far as
like trying to really cultivate and secure.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
The carnival experience.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
I think that along with having fun, I think that
some kind of education needs to go into what carnival
isn't right, And you know, each eyelid has their own
reasons for doing things. For example, krapover, which I learned

(08:55):
recently in Barbados, is celebrated at that time because that's
when the crops would be finished and it will be
harvest time, so that's why it's called crop. But if
I'm not mistaken, right, yeah, yeah. Carnival in Trada and
a few other Caribbean islands are held the Monday and
Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. And that's more so because of

(09:19):
the Christian background and things of our nature. Right, So
each country, each each island had its own traditions of
why it does certain things, right, and I think, you
know a little bit of knowledge into those things would
be very helpful.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, I agree, I absolutely agree on that. Agree.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, I know, I know you've been a little quiet there.
You know, we've been we've been talkab were getting to
the to the nitty gritty of it. But I want
to get your perspective, you know, you being native Miami
person and kind of watching Carnival evolve, how have you
seen what differences have you seen in the Carnival experience there.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Instead of big transition because for me just you know,
born and raised in Miami, but my parents are West Indian.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
My father's Jumaque and my mom's Fandadian.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
And even at times, you know, when I wanted to
branch out on my own is the difference.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Of I don't have the Caribbean accents.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
So sometimes I have to get my mom involved and
have her talk for me and realize, you know, we
are descendants of our parents, and we know the history
because our parents made sure we knew where we came from,
what we stood for, the.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Revote and the pride and the essence of being a career,
you know, being West Indian. So the transition of seeing
the elders, how hard they used to.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Work and they actually been wired. They showed you how
to been wired.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
They showed you the structure of how to make a
really good.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Consume that can sustain winds and things like that.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
And watching even when my mom was in New York
and watching her her friends with the different bands, how
they prepare for the kiddies carnival.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
You know, everyone thinks it's maybe adults, but kids aren't
involved as well.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
There's a parade gent.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
For the children to enrich the knowledge for them. And
now you know, it's it's evolved to where there's something missing.
The pride is missing, the essence and the love is missing.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
The knowledge is missing. And that's one of the.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Number one reasons why you know, I for me and
my brand is dropping gems.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
We have to remember where we came from.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
And even from the years prior when I've been with
Party Room Squad since twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, it was
always anytime when the mass creaders came in and they
can't figure out their costs, and we engage with them and.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
We communicate with them. You know, hey, you know, do
you know what Carlin was about? And just just you know,
you do those little snippets and sometimes it's got to
go up.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
They act themselves and there, Hey, you know we're doing interces.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Our first time, and you know what, what does it
all enteil? What's all about? Because a lot of people
look at it like related big sense, you.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Know, from social media and from influencers. It's something fun,
it's something sexy.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Oh, their skin is.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Unfortunate that it's kind of like sexualized, But that's not it.
You know, we are proud of our skin. We are
proud of our bodies.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
At times.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Of course, we all have our.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
Moments where we you know, we wish we to love this,
that and the third, and it just shows you that
essence and the pride what it comes from, you know,
our our heritage, our ancestors.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
You know, there's the jokes on social media that Caribbean
people don't go to the gym for health.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
We go to the gym to look good in a customer,
you know.

Speaker 6 (12:47):
So it's one of those unfortunately has involved until some
moments where you know, we forget the culture.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
And I believe one of.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
The ways to bring it back we have to start
off small, letting the people know what it's about Hey,
you know, do you know the history? You know, have
them While they're sitting down waiting for the costume and
we're getting things sorted out, they go ahead and going
up and scann a QR code. You know, one of
one of the one of the band members had had

(13:18):
this idea and we're like, you know.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
What, you know, spoke with a val leader and he's like,
this is great. This is what we're gonna do. While
they're sitting and while they're waiting, you know, they're scanning
a QR code and they're getting to hear the podcast.
They're getting to hear.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Our views and our conversations and learning about the history
and the culture and giving them a recent anosis of
what Caribbean.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Carnival really is and what it's really about.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
And it's not you know, not only having a good time,
not only drinking and whining and having fun, but also
displaying the artistry you know, the costume making, like the
people who put in that love, that sweat and that
pride into making your costume.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
It's not just a fact show. It's literally like a revolution.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, absolutely, I agree on that. Amazing, amazing ladies. Okay,
so lady vic. Let everyone know again the best way
that they can reach you. They want to go ahead
and secure some costumes from you, where do they need
to go?

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Okay, So what they can do is they can either
go to my Instagram page and my bio and my
bio you will.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Find my registration link.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Or you can contact me directly at three four seven
six nine eight two two five to one. And again
that's three four seven six ninety eight two two five
to one. You can call me directly or you can
use the WhatsApp application to call me and that'll definitely
be fine.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
And just to feedback on what my.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
Fellow sectionally the dropping Gems are saying. I also think
that if we invested in a carnival museum.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Where people can see how things.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
Started to where they are now, right, and as you
mentioned about continuity and things of that nature. Like my
uncle who is now with the ancestors, used to make
Kitty's carnival costumes in Trinidad with the Trinidad and Tobago
Fire Department, right, and so I remember when I was

(15:25):
younger seeing him literally made costumes out of foam and
different articles. Right, it wasn't about feathers and stuff, like that.
There's one costume I remember that he made it was
like it was like a whalehead or something like that,
and he made it completely other foam and painting the phone.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
For it to look like a whale pad.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
And I do think that Kitty's.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
Carnival really holds on to some of the more traditional
elements of carnival skill. Depending on where you are, but
definitely I remember that I remember him, you know, I mean, gosh,
that was such a long time ago. I was very
very young obviously at the time when he was making
these things. And you know, of course we moved from

(16:12):
that because we have different materials and advanced techniques and
things of that nature. But I think seeing some of
those things and the evolution of Carnival from then to now,
I think would also be helpful. And you know, a
learning even if it's a learning kind of emerging project product,
I think that would be something great for us to

(16:33):
see and.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Be a part of.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I think I agree with you. I think a museum
is definitely needed.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's a that's a very that's a phenomenal idea. I
absolutely agree with that.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
If I will, Ladies, I know New York might not,
but Miami actually has something like that is in all
like miror Mare.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Hollywood area, Pase connect it with the mall and there's
and then display Caribbean costumes. So yes, we actually have
something like that in Miami. One of my one of
our band.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Leaders, actually got one of the costumes to put in
the museum.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
So it may it's not Mars.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
But we do have one on a small spectrum. Is small,
but it definitely have one. So yes, maybe you know,
next call.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
We can link up with them.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
We will reach out and see, but we definitely do
have one in Miami.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Okay, well that's good to know.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
See I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
And I think that with that museum, it would be
great for them to re enact some of the elements
of Carnival, like the Camberley stick fighting, like some of
the other elements like jav and Grenada, you know, some
of those things.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I think that we could.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Definitely reach out to them and find out if they
already produce those things or what they do offer, what
they don't offer, So we could definitely engage with them.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
And and and reach out to them and find out
those details.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Yeah, I think so, Yeah, it would be amazing. You
know and how it like steel can, how it changed,
how it changed the game. The only instrument created in
in this time, in this twentieth century, of course, from
Trinidan and Tobago. And you know how that also played
a part in some of the early things of Carnival

(18:18):
and how it came about.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Because of.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
It was something created out of nothing, right, because they
had all these old oil drums in Trinidan and they
took that and they made an instrument.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Out of it.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
Right.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
So if that's a very good example of taking lemons
and making lemonade.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yes, absolutely, I agree with that one.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
And ladies, unfortunately, I think we're gonna we're gonna have
to have a stopping point here. I see mister Carlis
texted me. He said, YouTube are required at mass cap.
I don't know if it's some feathers need to be
put in place and gemstones are what? But you two
are being called to the carpet, So okay, I appreciate you,

(18:59):
you both them are coming through today.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Lo, let every work.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
On our way, all right. I'm just saying I'm just
a messenger. I'm just the messenger. But I appreciate you
guys for coming through. Thank you everyone for tuning in again.
You guys can check out this episode. We got all
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tell you that you can't do what you want to do,

(19:25):
you look them square in the face, you tell them.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Don't believe me.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Just watch watch what I do, Watch me make it happen,
watch me make history. And so we're doing this for
the history books. Social media is nice, but real life
is so much better. Until next time, you guys.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay,