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November 14, 2025 75 mins
We are back in the studio with Cocktales Chardonnay in our glasses and a lot on our hearts.
This week Kiki and Medinah catch you up on everything from Hedonism in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa to one of the wildest Weird Sex stories we have had in a minute. Kiki shares how the resort staff has been impacted, why she is turning her suitcase into a donation bin, and how you can help if you feel called to give. Medinah talks about Paradise & Vibe’s Traveler’s Resort family, the fundraiser in Jamaica and why natural disasters hit different when you know the people affected.

We also get into robot taxis glitching in Atlanta, Kiki’s fever app mock trial experience where the audience decides who is guilty in an AI car accident, and Medinah’s grown woman announcements, including her holiday tablescaping class with her interior designer and a full wellness retreat in Istanbul, Turkey.

A listener writes in about an ER trauma case where a woman comes in after being hit by a car, gets scanned head to toe, and the entire team discovers a plug sitting pretty on the CT. From toys to MRIs and lying about metal in your body, we take it there.

Then the episode takes a tender turn. Medinah opens up about putting her dog Shai down, what led up to that heartbreaking vet visit, the costs, the process and the grief of coming home to an empty hallway, a leash in the car and a quiet house after more than a decade with her best friend. She reflects on a long season of letting go, trusting God, and learning healthier coping mechanisms than she had when she first got Chi.

Kiki shares her own life updates too, including a Leo and Teyana Taylor film premiere, more thoughts on AI car trials, using the Fever app to find things to do, and why Atlanta actually has plenty of food and fun if you stop following only the “lit” IG spots. The ladies swap date recommendations like Midtown Social’s R&B Bingo, Cirque du Soleil, museums, sushi classes and even ballroom dancing.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Check one two, check one two. Is this Mike On?
Is this Mike On? Hey listen, man, it's the one and.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Only Trunk said of DJ SIS And you're listening to
Cocktails Dirty Discussions.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
With Kiki and Medina Monroe.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Yeah, today's cocktail is called cocktails, like Kiki said, so
in Medina Monroe, we're drinking our very own cocktails, Chardonnay.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
These bottles were available at our Atlanta Live show, and
the wine is really good. I have a bottle of red,
but I just never opened it because I bring it
for props, even though y'all never see it. Today we're
drinking a glass of Chardonaye.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Every not again. You just need a nice glass of wine.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, welcome back to Cocktails Dirty Discussions, you guys. I'm
Kiki said, so.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hey y'all, I am Medina two point oh Monroe aka
Coffee Bean Dean aka leave me alone.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh look, okay, well you guys, it's been a while
since we've been in the studio, but I did want
to remind you all that even though there was this
awful hurricane Lissa going through and tearing it up, we're
still going to Jamaica. But there's an update, so we're

(01:24):
going to Headonism still. The thirteenth or the eighteenth is
when I'll be there. But Headonism has a foundation, and
they also have been having trouble finding some of their employees,
and then some of their employees have lost their entire
homes and like a lot of damage with the resort
itself is nice, so I will I'm working with this

(01:44):
social impact group, Cosmo Social, and I'm going to be
bringing a ton of supplies over there. I don't need
to really pack any clothes. I just need food clothes
to take to eat, like when you go eat, because
the rest of the time I'll be naked, So all
of my luggage will be full of things to donate
to people there. If you have any clothes or any
toiletries or other stuff, I'll put a link also, because

(02:08):
they do have some different donation sites that are legit,
so I'll share those with you guys. And then if
you want to donate physical things and you're in Atlanta,
or if you want to mail them to me so
that I can take with me, the details will either
be in the link or depending on when it's finalized,
or just keep following me on socials and I will

(02:29):
share the information as soon as I get it. But
everybody who's still going is trying to do what we
can to bring as much stuff over there to help
them out. But we're still going to go.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Man, that did happen. That was rough.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
There's some people that I know in Jamaica that were affected.
When we had our very first paradise and vibratory. It
was in Jamaica at a resort called Travelers Resort, and
we're very close with the owners is three beautiful brothers,
and they have been affected. They have a if you
have looked in my story every day, I will be
posting the link.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
But they were personally affected and in the resort or to.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Resort, their employees.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
The resort is still standing, but some of their staff,
some of their people. They're doing a fundraiser raising money
to help just to help people in Jamaica. Yeah, so man,
y'all y'all in the prayers and them natural disasters. I
was talking to you about them. There's nothing to do
about him. That was one of the things. I had

(03:33):
a friend come visit this weekend who I haven't seen
it forever. It's actually my brother's line brother actually but
we're friends too, and we went to Emilio's Tacos and
Tequila to catch up.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Oh, I haven't been there. Where is that?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's in Midtown. I hate going into Mintown for real,
but because parking is just always so like New York.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, you know, I love to uber oh because that
parking stuff. It is stressful and it's like, by the
time you find a spot, you're going to pay fifty
dollars to valet. They don't want you to park on
the street or somebody you might hit your stuff or
you might run into one of those way mos and
it's stuck in glitching uber me. Please, have you.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Been in a Waymo yet? I just don't like the
thought of I'm just in here with robot people.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I kind of want to try it, but I have
not tried it.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
One almost hit me the day I said, way Mo,
wait on many way more because I fall out this car.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm telling you right now, I'm in an AI accident.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know what. I went to this thing. I'll tell
you all the details about it, and I'm gonna put
it on here so I don't forget. But it's an
It was a similar to like a mock trial, and
so it's like you're the jury, but it's like you
buy a ticket, you go. It's an event from the
Fever app and they're doing it all over the country
and they're coming back here. I think the first week
of December. It might be sold out. It might not,

(04:43):
but get your tickets. I'll put a little link in
the thing with a little code for y'all get a discount.
But it was so cool. And so you watch this
trial and it's one of those AI car situations, and
I'll tell you how it goes later.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Tell me, Okay, I have just two in hournouncements. I
won't bore you for too long. But you guys, if
you didn't know, I am a real not.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
A realtor realtor, and I.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Am hosting a table scaping class with one of my
favorite interior designers.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
He does a monthly Wine and.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Design And I said, you know what, girl, I'll send
you the link.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Okay, So we're doing it together.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
We're gonna learn a little bit about why it's so
important to decorate your space, but more importantly, how to
set that table in time for the holidays. I don't
want to see no plastic plates. Also, if you still
plan on using plastic plates. You will just know how
to set a table. It just gives a different vibe
and it's gonna be fun. We're gonna have wine, we'll
have food, and we will have well. Brian will be

(05:45):
teaching us how to table scape. He is actually helping
me decorate my place. And it was so funny because
when he popped up to do the walkthrough, he was
like because I told him, I was like, it's looking
like a trap house because I've been sad and depressed
and I'm coming out of it though, and I but
I also don't know how to pick art.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't know how to pick a throw.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Like I could put it on chat GPT and I
did you know you can take a picture of your
room and like put it.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
But then I was it just gives me anxiety.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I don't know what overwhelming too, because sometimes it'll say
us and he's a link and link don't work. And
then sometimes you want that human touch.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I need it because when I start to go to
the places to look for the stuff, like I tried,
he was like, just try.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And I went.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I went to home Goods over the weekend and I
called him and I was like, he was like, okay,
just tell me one thing that you got.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I was like, I got a toilet bowl cleaner and
some peach gummies because you know how they have the
snacks when you're checking out.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I like the snakes. They have some good ashortments of
healthy snacks they do.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
And I got some cute cups. So he was like, Medina,
I said a rug. I said, this is why I
need you. So he helped stage some of my homes
in real estate. He's really he is. I just love him.
So if you guys can come, it is a table
scaping class with wine and some food. We'll put the
link for the ticket, it's in the description. And then
also it's on November twenty second and it'll be in

(07:05):
Buckhead and you'll get the location once you get your tickets.
So I'm really excited about that. This is gonna be
funn come be cute, make it a date night. This
is gonna be a fun activity. It's not like Class
Next Paradise and Vibe y'all. So y'all already know my
Thai Land trip is sold out. We do have a
wait list, but now it's time for Instanbul Turkey. We
are going September fourth through the tenth to Turkey, you guys,

(07:29):
and it's gonna be so. I first of all, I
never thought about going to Turkey. I also didn't know
that Turkey offers this body scan. This retreat is all
about All of our retreats are about wellness, but this
one we're really going into the body. So, if you
would like to come, go to Paradise and Vibe dot
com and we would love to have you. I want
to remind you that solo travel is amazing. You'll be

(07:50):
amongst a great group of people. If you have any questions,
feel free to ask me. Bring a friend if you like,
bring make it a mom daughter trip. We've had so
many different types of duos come. We don't have a
lot of men come, but you guys are welcome. We
have two men that come each and every time and
they are amazing. So men, you are welcome to come.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Get well.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
I'll tell y'all all the time, read books and seek help.
So go to Paradise and Vibe dot com and I
would love to host you in Turkey.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Okay, you guys, So we're gonna go ahead and move
on to weird Sex and then we'll get into some
me happen. So if you are actually a long time listener,
then you know that we had talked about that toy
that we both received. We couldn't think of the name
of it, and he was like, I couldn't use your book.
I've only charged it once.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I charged it. No, no, no, no, no, it's fresh.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
You only never charged. I thought it was charging. I
had a sitting in the thing and it was never
plugged in beach. I still ly charged it. I'm still
using it actively.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well, want to recharge mine. But the point is it's rechargeable,
so you don't have to run to a store, a
gas station, door dash, go puff nobody in the middle
of the night to get batteries because it's rechargeable. Now this,
I don't even want to call it a toy. It
is a device and it oscillates, not vibrates, and it

(09:10):
really helps with pleasure. I won't go too deep into
all of the science of it today, but if you're curious,
let us know and we can share it another time.
But it really does gets you there.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
I like that it has a good long handle you
can get comfortable. Also, what I like about it is
you can like you can go in, you can stay
on the outskirts. The way that the head is shaped,
you can slide it in between the crabs.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I mean, y'all, there.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Is just I have gotten very creative with this thing,
and it is I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I think it's my new favorite toy.

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Speaker 1 (10:18):
You said a man is not a necessity.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
A man is a luxury like dessert.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, a man is absolutely not necessity.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Did you mean that to sound meaning bitter? Oh not
at all.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
I adore dessert. I love men.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
I think men are the coolest, but you don't.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Really need them to live.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
So okay, this one came from a listener actually, and
she says, hey, ladies, so boom. A lady comes to
the into the er after getting hit by al car.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
She's a nurse.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Remember she's a nurse, or do book? Yeah, she work
up in there. Comes to the er after getting hit
by a car, and everybody was moving super fast to
do the whole trauma thing. Had to toe, had to
toe scans, IV's the works. I'm thinking broken bones or
internal bleeding. Right then the CT comes back and the
text is like, y'all need to see this. I just

(11:19):
know it's about to be something stuck inside of her.
I put this on here a long time ago. I
can't remember. Okay, we looked clear as day and there's
a butt plug. Yep, there's a butt plug, just chilling
in there like it belongs on the chart. The whole
room got quiet for a second, and you know, we
were all trying not to crack up, but I had
to cover my mouth because the laugh was ready. Sis
was medically sedated due to her injuries, so she had
no idea of the discovery at a time. Imagine almost

(11:41):
getting taken out by Sada and your little secret gets
exposed in the process. The er is truly undefeated. You
never know what you're gonna get.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oh, she didn't go in to get the butt plug out.
She already she was just chilling with.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
A plug in her She got yeah, I guess so.
And then she got hit by that car, which I'm
sure was not on the agenda, and it not that
thing up in there. Everybody said, who what type of
free Well, I'm gonna do that.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I just I've never just been like I'm gonna have
the butt plug in my booty all day.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
I couldn't get the butt plug in my butt. When
I got it, one of my friends was like, Okay,
we're gonna go to the sex story. We went to
the one right there whatever. I don't know if it's
Insurrection or Tokyo Valentino, but right there on North Side,
and we're shopping for the butt plugs. I'm looking for
the smallest possible one, and she was trying to help
me get it in there, and I was like, this
is just too much. I don't like it. And I

(12:30):
understand the part it was cute because it had the
jewel at the end, and she was like, yeah, I
like to wear it because it's just like a little
surprised when I have sex with somebody. And I was
just like, oh, well, that could be cool, but I
don't really like butt stuff. So I needed something that
abelt like a pinky. But yeah, I couldn't get that
bitch in there, So no butt stuff for me.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I like butt stuff, but you guys know I'm not
having no stuff in anywhere right now.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Okay, But anyway, that's it for wearing sex. Thank you
nurse listener, doctor listener, or whoever a paramedic listener that's
sent that in. I appreciate it because that is a mess.
That is usually people go in lying.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
And they told her when she woke up, like you
know that do you know there's a butt plug in there?

Speaker 1 (13:15):
They probably had to take it out.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh so she didn't get electrocuted and nothing.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, I don't know because like if maybe you can't
have like metal, you know how like.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Like an MRI M. Yeah, I don't know. But I
saw something on TV one time where somebody lied about
the metal and it fucked them up.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Why would you do that?

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Why would you lie about metal in your body is
a machine and they like you can't move. First of
all those things scare me.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
I'd be saying stuff that they probably they're like, okay,
I'm like okay, just so you know, I have a
brace it is permanent. I have. I did have my
bunions removed. I don't think they put a pin in it.
I think there's some update, But do we need to
call the doctor and make sure.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
I would just have pens and screws.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Somebody died like that.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think the guy was in Oklahoma and he didn't
he won't even get in the he wasn't even going
in the machine. He walked into the room and it did.
He died, And I was like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
It's very serious. That's why sometimes depending on where you're
going to get it, Like when I was in the
I was in a lot of car accidents. Is twenty twenty.
The last car accident I was in, I had to
go into a trailer that was outside of the building,
and that's where they kept the machine because of you
know whatever the science is behind it. And the person
was in a whole nother room. But yeah, there's like

(14:33):
no metal. Wow, And y'all need to follow doctor's orders.
They're not just making up stuff for no reasons. Yeah,
they're not serious business anyway, y'all keep sitting in weird
sex stories. I appreciate it. And even if it's about you,
you can just say it's your friend. I won't say
on nobody. Yeah, okay, so what have you been up to?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
I have been okay.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I won't start off with sadness, but I will start
off with I went to the Brandy and Monica.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh, how was it? Did you wear a suit?

Speaker 6 (15:02):
Like?

Speaker 1 (15:02):
They asked?

Speaker 2 (15:03):
No.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
I was like, nobody had a suit on Exceptry even Monica.
I was like brand I just never realized how conservative
Brandy is, but I guess she always kind of has been.
She was really in her suit and she didn't show
even a neck like I mean everything that she every
outfit change, it was like like a three piece sweatsuit,

(15:26):
a suit, turtleneck, pants, boot like.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Brandy didn't show no sin.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
She was ready for the winter in fall fashion.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
She was not playing with y'all. She was like, I
am not.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
I don't know what y'all think, says. Monica had her
little booty cheeks out. I had such a good time.
I met some listeners and that was amazing. This one
girl screamed my name, so I thought she was about
to fight me. I was like, oh my god, it
was such a great show. It was a little long.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
At was it?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
She was long? I was like, y'all. What are y'all
trying to introduce new songs? We just want the old stuff.
The play I think so because there were a fewel
I was like, and then there were there were a
lot of people.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
I don't know if they just did this in Atlanta,
but there were so many artists that popped up that
it started to just get like like Tank just pumped
popped out of the stage and was just like dancing
around for one minute and just.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Just was like will we Mayla and then just left
and I.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Was like, I was quick, did he okay? So there
were a lot of surprises. Maya was the opener, I
believe well, and then Kelly and then uh, how was Kelly?

Speaker 2 (16:27):
She was good? But you know what, and I this
is just like critique. It was great.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
But every time I watch a performance, I'm always like, Wow,
Beyonce is a true star. And I just say that because.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
It really is. Unless it's just a.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Whole different genre like I went to the Jane io
Co concert, but it's a whole different type of thing.
So what she's kind of entertaining you with it works
for her.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, the sound.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Bath, the sound bath in her little voice and her
little body and sometimes when she's just like she's just
so little and cute and just fairying around. But there's
thing about like this, there's this thing that like you
just have it or you don't. And so there were
moments where you could tell with everybody, honestly the whole
everybody that performed were people just got bored because people

(17:12):
did start being like, is it almost over?

Speaker 2 (17:14):
And we would never just do that at you know.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I almost cried at the end of the ye you
actually way to be like she gonna come. I stayed
out there for a long time. I was hoping i'd
see her in that little club car golf.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Cart say something, but everybody was just kind of prolonging
they performance. It's like there's just like an energy you
need to bring that that part was missing. However, it
was a dope. I had a good time. I was
singing along. I love Brandy. If y'all don't know, I
absolutely love Brandy. I think she has one of the
most beautiful voices, like right under Whitney Houston.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
But they call her the Bible, the vocal Bible.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Do that?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
I think so Brandy?

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Why even still her voice is amazing and she just
you could tell like she really just be singing all day,
you know what I'm She's she never she never, like
she never took advantage of that gift, like she always
works it because you could just hear the christiness in
her voice. They did a Whitney Houston tribute.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I love Whitney Houston.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I still got Whitney Houston in my playlist, like like herself,
like the songs are new love.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
I love Whitney like I love it.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
It was Kelly rolling, Okay, Kelly rolling well sometimes it
was a little you know, but she looks. Kelly looks good.
Everybody was just mesmerized by her body.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Beautiful.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
She's beautiful, Maya, she is beautiful boy, beautiful gown.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
She was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Ludacris came out screaming, I did not know that Ludacris
and Monica are first cousins. Yeah, didn't know that JD
came out. I didn't know it was JD because he
took his little braids.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
You couldn't see him.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
He just took his little his little hair looks different,
tank No, he unless he had a peace on it.
But he had a little curly like little curly situation.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
It was I mean I don't know last time I
saw him. Last time I saw him, he looked like
Pugsy from the Adams Family with his little outfit on
him on a short set like sup, make me win?

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Did he want a short set? He on the short set?
It was army green.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Was it like casuals like tuxedo? It was short? Okay?
The one was like tuxedo short set with the little
black and white.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
I don't like a short set. I don't mind a.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Short set on a vacation. I like him on vacation
like you're on the beach, you walking on the beach.
It's short set. I like it all the time.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
I like it if it's I like the one. The men
have the hoochie daddy short set. But if it's like
big old, like the big old short. JD had the
big old short set like a fou boo set. You
know what.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
It probably was Hoochi daddy shorts. But he's so short.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, they weren't. Hood was a big old, thick wide
leg short. Uh. But j j D and Ludacris, Missy Elliott,
that was really.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
That would be excited? What she do? She just said,
he what is.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
The song with her?

Speaker 3 (19:55):
And Monica. Yes, to show you, Monica, I that so
in love with you like a.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Drug had beginning.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
It was that was everybody was acting like you just
hitting bitches all day knowing good. Never kicked down the
door and smacked the chick. I cried outside while she
was in there. But Monica talked a lot about her
ratchet life before she wasn't ratchet anymore.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
And I was like, I never knew she switched it up.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
She's always been like she switched it up.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's what I was wondering. We were all the audience
like when was this.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I dancy her say something one time where it's like,
why y'all keep calling me? She really you still have
that energy. I don't know if she just has that
mama face like with the one eyebrow raised, like don't
play with me, even she doesn't say it right.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
And then it was funny because she brought the white
sandals out.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Oh well, that was funny.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Did she wherever she was holding?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
No, she said, can y'all let these go? Like stop
bringing them up on the internet. It was really funny.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
And they did the Winny's tribute.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
They they both had separate personal connections with Whitney cause
I didn't know that. I only knew about how close
Brandy was with Whitney. Uh what else happened at that
because I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
It was a great It was just great.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
So nostalgic. I cannot wait to see Jagged Edge. Every
time I bring this up to anybody, they're like, why are
you so excited.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
About Jagged Egg.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
They're already on tour, so it's a cuffing it's the
cuffing season tour. I don't know why they're not doing
an Atlanta show.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I think.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
They're not the closest cities Birmingham, Oh, I know why
Tennessee where Mems and Nashville, and then they're doing Houston.
I'm trying to decide if I'm gonna go to one
of those where if I'm gonna go to Houston in
December because I love Jagged Edge, Like, I don't know,
they've had such rough lives in between, but they're they're
They're back, and then they had better be a good

(21:38):
show because somebody told me they was drinking for a minute,
but folks was not singing well, So I don't play
with me, but I'm gonna go.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
And I, okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Let me tell you there. Have you been to Midtown Social?
I don't know if it's new. I had never heard
of it. I love a good spot that I haven't
been to in a while, and y'all know I haven't.
I don't really go out in the evening anymore. And
one of my girlfriends shout out to Tehran. She was like, well,
you come. They do this thing called R and B
Bengo Ki Ki. It is so much fun. It's every

(22:10):
Tuesday if you're in Atlanta. I think it starts around
like seven. It's not a club, it's a restaurant. The
food is actually good.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
I've heard her. I've never been. Let me look it
up while you tell us parking is free?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
What when this girl? I said, it's not an arm
and a leg And I was just so I.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Had to tell them, yeah, I said, I really appreciate
you not taking advantage of what you could do in Atlanta.
Like the parking is free and it's a big parking lot.
It's grown ups, it's not. They have hookah if you
need the hooks. They don't smother the plates. In Parsley
it's a soul food spot, but they have a few
healthy options and the it's R and B bingo. So
the whole night, the DJ is playing and it's not

(22:49):
like harsh rap music. It's all old school R and B,
like early late eighties, early nineties, maybe even early two thousands.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay, all the good songs.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
You get a bingo hard it has all the different
artists on there and then they play the song. And
then if you have the artists on your board, you
put the thing and they give you away good gifts.
I want a speaker. I actually didn't want it. Some
man just came and gave it to me because.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
It's like a bluetoo speaker.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, it was about the size of this.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
They were giving out good gifts.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Taking a start a party wherever you go.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, and it was just a really good time.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Ladies.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
If you are single and you just want to look
at some men, the grown men were there and it
wasn't grown creepy men.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
I yeah, thank you for the distinction.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, I met a man there. We don't been on
four dates? What girl?

Speaker 3 (23:32):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (23:32):
It's so funny, but then it loves to say I
and dated, and every now and again it'll slip. I
don't been on fifty eleven days. I went on date yesterday.
I was outside I do and I'm like, girl, i've
been since seeing you, but I think it's been that long,
got ya. I'm glad.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm just you know, I'm studying back out there and.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
That's good because you should. And I'm glad. That's a
good sign that you on the up and up. I
love it, girl.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
And you know, it's funny because I was listening to
a Sarah Jake sermon and she was like, isolation, solitude,
it can be a good thing for a moment, and
she said, but then there comes a time when you
have to know that, like God doesn't take you to
like isolation to just stay there.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's not the destination.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
And so there have been moments where I am like,
all right, bitch, I mean sorry, are you doing this
because like you just are you're so scared to like
open up again and like see any man in a
good letter, give anybody a chance that you're just like now,
you're just like making these excuses as why you're not
meeting people. And it's been a little bit of that.
So I was like, you know what, let me start
going out and took places where I think it's it'll

(24:32):
be a good time, and I had a really good time.
I took one of my friends that is at my
brokerage with me. I met her through real estate and
I wasn't sure what to expect. We both had a
good time. We were like, we're just gonna stay for hour.
We can't leave till twelve. Girl, they do five dollars
don Julio Margarita's I'm telling y'all all the specials because

(24:53):
I really want you to go. I had a really
good time, and there was a plethora of young men
that were just look cute, and everybody was really social.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
People were socializing.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
I had a good time. Every Tuesday, y'all. Every Tuesday
you might see me there. There was another thing that
I put on here that I wanted to make sure
that I brought up. Oh, speaking of dates, you guys,
you know, it's not just about dating other people. Sometimes
you can go places by yourself. That Circus Solet is
on tour right now. I think they always on tour,
but they have an Atlanta show. Not really sure when

(25:24):
it ends, but I just thought that the theme of
their current.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Show is so bold.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
It's called Lucia what that means is and look it
up yourself. But basically, the summary of it is it's
all about Mexican history, Mexican culture, and the beauty of Mexico.
And when I saw that, I said, Wow, that's bold,
given what's going on in the world. Somebody said, you
know what, y'all want to be swiping folks up and
acting like people don't matter. Let me show you something

(25:50):
about Mexico. The whole show is in Spanish. They don't
really talk about the songs. Even when there was an intermission,
it was in Spanish, and I was like, oh, okay,
and I went.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Into a French one and I was like, I don't
know what's going on, but it was cool.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
I loved that they didn't change that for us.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
They were like the do what you need to do,
you e tacos and Spanish rice, learn a little Spanish, bitch.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
So it was a great show. The colors, vibrant, the talent.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
There was this man he was like an acrobat and
but he was stretching and he could put his butt
on his head. I gotta show you, I gotta show
you this video, Kiki. It was terrifying, but I just
couldn't believe that he could do yeah, like he could
fold his whole body up.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
So circa sile.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
If you haven't had a chance to go, if you've
never been, go take your kids as family friendly, go
on a date, or go by yourself. It was a
really good time. I also went to I've Been on
the Move. I went to the premiere, which the movie
is now out is called U Something Holiday On. I

(26:54):
forgot the name of the movie, but y'all, it's so
good as a black movie. The the girl who wrote
this movie, she's a black girl named Cassandra Something. This
makes me so mad that I can't remember her name.
But the a whole bunch of black producers and black
directors got behind this movie and brought it together in
black actors.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
I'm bad with names.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
But the girl who played the banker in Insecure, the
one that Lawrence went to after he left Issa, she's
the main she's the main actress in it. And then Uh,
an old actress from my old show. I forget that.
I think the show is called in the House. But
you guys, this movie was so good.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I wish yes she's in it.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
There's the comedian that was in Uh, get out.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
He's in it.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
It was I thought when I first was going, I
was like, is this gonna be boring or is it
gonna be corny? I wholeheartedly enjoyed it. Like y'all gotta
go see the movie. It's out now. It's a perfect
holiday movie. I'm not gonna tell you all much about
it because I'm just gonna give you the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
I've like, a wholeheartedly.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Enjoyed this movie. It was really fun. I went with
myself and there was a red carpet and the most
embarrassing thing happened. I went to go get on the
red carpet, even though they didn't know who I was,
and all the celebrity people from the movie were getting on.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I was like, I'm just gonna be Ance said just
do it, just go for it.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, And so I did, and the man said, ma'am,
what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
And I was like, I heard somebody laughing out there.
It was almost like he heard you and laugh Damn.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
I was so and I looked so good. I was
so embarrassed, and I was looked at him. I was like,
oh my gosh. But then thank god, I know people.
I know people in Atlanta. I might not know the star,
but I know the right people. I know who's putting
it on. I knew like three of the photographers. And
then Prince from atl Pixel is there. He was like
how to and he then they let.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Me get on.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
They let me get on the carpet, and I was like,
I was embarrassedough because it was definitely embarrassing, like, oh
my god, I really tried it and.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Got shut down.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Well, hey, right, got some good pictures, had a good time,
and I think that's all the fun things that I've
been doing. I'm still in my gun course. That's really exciting.
I'm enjoying doing that, and I'm getting a little bit
better and I'm meeting new types of people, and it

(29:14):
just feels good to really be learning how to. Somebody
asked me a question the other day and he asked me,
what is something that I'm working on that I know
I need to be working on. And at first I
gave him like this very fluff answer, and I was like, oh,
let me think about this. I don't like the answer
that I gave him. I said, I'm not being honest,

(29:34):
not that I was blatantly lying, but no, it's not
just answer shit, and you're like, you answer and it's
not just like yeah, like you could be like, I'm
working on my health, but are you. I was like,
look what am I actually like? What is something that
I'm working on? And I really do know I need
to work on it. And I was like, what I'm
working on is being a responsible adult, and he was like,
what do you mean by that? I was like, being

(29:55):
responsible for myself, being an independent woman in the sense
that is not like I'm just paying for everything by
myself and I don't need a man. I'm It's just
like I want to be responsible for all of the
things that come with medina. Yes, finances is one of them.
But then directly after that, it's my emotions, it's my feelings.
It's being able to articulate how I actually feel and

(30:17):
answer questions in a way that makes sense, like thinking
about what you're saying, you know what I.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Mean, because I'm just like you mean. There's this book
I'm reading.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's about boundaries and this therapist breaks down conversations between
adults and people.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Don't act.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
When you ask somebody a question, people will answer give
you an answer, But that's not the answer to the question,
and most people are living their lives like that example,
and then.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I'll get to the point.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
But sometimes we're doing it ourselves and you just don't
even realize it that y'all don't even realize it. We're
not even we're talking or arguing about something that is
not even what the question was. So he had this
couple and the question was how do you how He
was asking the wife, how do you feel when your
husband comes home drunk? Apparently he was doing it too much,
and she was like, well, I just feel like he

(31:02):
doesn't care about the family. And the therapists like stop
and he like stops you in your sentence. He's like,
that's not how you feel, that's what you think about him.
So I'm gonna ask you again. I really wish that
we all had someone that will pop up and just
cut you off and be like this is not what
we're talking about. Let's get back, like what is your
actual answer? And so she was like she was like,
I am I am answering the question. He was like, no,

(31:23):
how do you feel when your husband comes home drunk?
She was like, well, I feel like he doesn't care
about me. And the therapist was like that's not you
saying how you feel. That's you saying what you think
about your husband. And that's not the question. The lady's
getting mad, she's huffing and puffing, and she's like, he's like,
how do you feel? Like do you know what a
feeling is? How do you feel when he comes home drunk?
He had asked her like five times to get to

(31:44):
the point.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
She was like, he wanted the emotion that she feels,
or like the physical personal feeling.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
How do you feel? Not how does he you feel?
He feel?

Speaker 3 (31:55):
And so then she was like, I feel scared when
he comes That's the truth. Okay, so that's what we're
gonna talk about. We're not going to talk about what
you think about how he thinking you feel scared. Then
the husband is like, I didn't know you feel scared
because when I come home, we're just arguing because you're
not saying that.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
You feel scared. He doesn't realize he's scared.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Anyways, It is just breaking down certain ways to like
communicate with people in a way that's like we're actually
getting somewhere. And so anyways, I had answered the question
to the dude that I just want to be able
to communicate my feelings, be responsible for my feelings, be
responsible for my decisions and what I'm allowing around me,
and that that felt so good for me to call
him up the next thing and say, hey, I answered
that question the way I didn't really want to answer it, and.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Uh, my dog died, y'all. I had to.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
I had to put Shy down. Today. Today we're recording.
I don't know when this is coming out, but today
makes a week, which is so wild. I have never
had to do this before. Shy is my second dog.
That was like my dog, but miss my toy poodle
when I was a kid. When you're a kid and

(33:03):
you have a dog, it's not the same, Like he
was my gift. But they always liked the mom of
the house better because that's the grown up. And he
ran away and got by coyote and it was just different.
Shi was like my girl, Shy. I got Shy in
twenty twelve, she was three. My ex boyfriend Carlos had
hit me up and was like, Hey, there's a girl
at the club I used to work at Compound and

(33:27):
she was getting rid of the dog of Shy was
the dog. I didn't know what the dog was yet,
and he was like, do you would you want a dog?
And I was like, I'm not allowed to have dogs
in my apartment, but what kind of dog is it?

Speaker 2 (33:37):
And he was like it's a Yorkie.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
And I was like, they're gonna put a Yorki in
the pound and he was like yeah, if nobody takes her.
And they said that she's too needy and and Shy
has always that never changed, and I was like, I
have this whole like epiphany. I was like, oh my god, like,
you can't put a Yorkie in the pound. That's a
royal breed. She has a royal bloodline. No matter like
who has her now and where she is headed, that

(34:00):
headline is royal and she's gonna die if you put
her in the pound. And I had this connection with
her because I've always felt like that. I felt like
I had I was supposed to be in a royal
family and that it didn't happen like that, and I
always felt like I was putting the ghetto and I
don't know how what happened.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
So I was like, I can say.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
It.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
I don't want to do this shit again, and so
I said, you know what, just bring her over I'll
figure it out. And I got shy. And when I
first got Shy, y'all, this bitch was need she She
was not the same dog that I put down last week.
She shy was very attitude noal, I had never had
a girl dog. She was not nice. She would bait me.

(34:48):
We got in several altercations. She would be in my pillows.
She was very hard to like get together. And I
just remember one time I was like, we're not She
bit me and I was like, I picked her up.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
We've had some rough moments, but we got through them.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
I ended up being like, oh, I see like she
taught me so much about life, and it sounds crazy,
like if you're not a dog person, you don't get it,
but if you are a dog person, you more than
get it. I worked with her, she worked with me,
and nobody in my life like Shy. Everybody was like,
get rid of her, get rid of her. And I
never gave up on her. She didn't give up on me,

(35:29):
and she ended up evolving into this little friendly still
needy now she was still gonna be needy. She didn't
like grass, and she never liked kids, but once kids
started coming into our family, she got with the program
pretty quick, and she just became this little, beautiful, little
little bite sized Yorky and she was my best friend.

(35:50):
And she's been with me every everywhere. She's been with
me through every every breakup, everyone every loss. She had
three daddies, and I used to always be like, I'm sorry, girl,
but she loved every one of them. And she has
just been such a huge part in me knowing that

(36:12):
I could. I think what she represented for me is
I can love something, you.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Know what I mean. I can take care of something.
I can. Shay had health assurance and I didn't.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Okay, I get it.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
There would be times when.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Like you got to make me cry, girl.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
It has been a rough one. There have been times
when like I didn't have no food, but my dog
was gonna eat.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
That's a mother's love, girl, And I don't care what
y'all gotta say about it. She we do what we can.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah, this was a rough one. Like she she when
she was a long time.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
It's been a long time. I really was like she.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
She traveled with me, Shy if I could bring Shy,
Shy was coming, and she was she just was.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
That was my girl.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
She made my family like animals and my family doesn't
like animals. I was always like, why am I always
the only one that loves dogs, even though you have
a dog growing up? Even though that was a fight,
my dad was like, we're not getting no dog, like
you know. And then finally my sister was like, this
isn't right. You're just you're the only one who doesn't
like they don't mind them, but they don't love them

(37:17):
like me. Like my sister had a dog and she
was like, oh, it's too much, I'm giving away, whereas
like when I had Shy, it was like even when
she was too much, I understand that, like you just
gotta give them a little time. And she she she
is going to be truly missed. I love that baby forever,
and she when she started like getting old, it was rough,

(37:37):
but it wasn't rough for because I was like they said,
like the New York he's lived till like eighteen, she's good.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
And then it was just.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Like one day it was really bad, and I felt
even more bad because I didn't know what was going on,
and I didn't want to take her to the vet
because I was just like, we're gonna be okay, Shy,
like I would just sit.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
On the ground with her.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
And then she she looked miserable and she was doing
this like I'll show you a video.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
She was doing this weird breathing thing.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
And then as a human, you still got to go
to work, and I was like, what is And then
she just looked really bad. One day, her stomach started
to get really big. So I took her to the
vet and she wouldn't eat, and then she and she
I loved to eat. She wanted to eat like she
was still get excited, but she and then she couldn't
get up the steps, and I was like, and.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Then again this happened like in the course of three days.
She was old. But then it just got really bad.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
And so when so I opened her mouth one day
because there was a bad smell coming from it, and
I was like, like so bad that I was about
to gaggle, like shan, what is going on? And it
was green? It was just like green, and the same
green stuff was in her poop and.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Like an infection or cancer.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
So when I took her to the vet and they
thought it was going to be a drop off, I
didn't know what I was thinking, but I took her
in there and I was like, I think I need
to talk to the doctor. I was like, she's breathing
really funny, and she's just not she doesn't seem okay.
And then the nurse was like, I'm gonna go get
the doctor, and so they brought the doctor in and
the doctor was like just about the look of it.

(39:00):
She was like, it's time, and I was like time
for what? She just likes this is bad. She said
she's having heart failure, like her heart is failing. And
she put the the little heart where you can hear
it the stethoscope and she was like, I said, so
is she in pain? Like is she suffering? And she

(39:21):
was like what it to describe what it feels like
for her? It feels like she's drowning. So if she's
not laying down, she wouldn't sleep, like that's where that
night before she just wouldn't. She was just up all
night just like like just uncomfortable. And she she was like,
it feels like she's drowning. Basically, her heart isn't pumping
what it needs to pump, so all the other.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Organs are just fail.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yeah, I can hear the liquid and and so they
say you can.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
I said so what do you do? Like, how do
you again?

Speaker 3 (39:45):
I don't do this and then I'm in here just
me and Shy, and so I'm like, okay, so just
do it. We're gonna do this today. She was like,
you would have to do it today because she is
in pain, and I was like, she didn't say I have,
but that's what she said, that's what you suggest, and
she was like, we don't have to rush it. She's like,
do you need like a minute? I was like, I
think I need a minute. And so the nurse stayed

(40:06):
in there with me, and I call my family on
FaceTime and we're like, they're crying, We're looking at Shy.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
I'm crying, We're saying a prayer for Shy.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
The nurse starts crying and she was like I just
had to put my dog down yesterday and we're just all.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
In there crying.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
And then I'm looking at Shy like she knows it's
about to happen. I could just feel that she knew,
and then I stayed. I probably stayed in there with
her for like an hour before we did it, and
I was just talking to her and making videos and
talking to her and talking to her and crying and
then the doctor's like, well, just let me know when
you're ready. And the doctor I was like, how does
it go? Like is it quick? She was like, it's quick.
We give them three shots, is it? It's one hundred

(40:47):
dollars to put your dog down. I don't know if
that's just with the insurance and I go to Banfield,
but if you want the ashes and stuff in total
is four.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Hundred okay, And I was wondering that too.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
I happened, yeah, so so so she came in with
the shots and she was like okay, and she shy
came over to me, and even though she said it
was gonna be quick, Kiara, I had no idea it
was gonna be this quick. She put the first shot
and she said, this is just like a sedative.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Like yeah, if she was gonna get surgery. And I
came over to me.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
She laid on my leg and then she gave her
this second shot and the third shot and she was gone.
She was just gone. And then I just sat and
she was like, you can stay in here as long
as you want. I stayed in there for two three hours.
They wrapped her in a blanket and I just sat
there with her, and because it's like she represents just
so much, like just it's just like you're here and

(41:42):
then you're not. And then it was like I'm doing
this by myself. And then it was like I gotta
leave you in here, and I was like, what are
y'all gonna do with her? And they're like, we're gonna
put her in the freezer and then craz so that
they can. The people have to come to get to
take her to do that.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Even if I wasn't gonna.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Do that, they put it in the freezer until there's
like they don't do it there, there's a company that
has to come pick them up. Even if you're not
gonna get your dog gasses, they come pick up the dogs.
And it was just weird, like she was. I came
to the vet with a dog and I left without one.
So then I just sat in the in the parking
lot for like two hours, like I cannot believe that

(42:22):
I don't have a dog anymore, And then I can't
believe that Like this this long ass season of my
life has been learning how to let go and of
a lot of stuff. I had to let go of
the love of my life. I had to let go
of my grandmother. I had to let go of dreams, opportunities, people,

(42:46):
I had to let go of my dog. And then
I just sat there like wow, Like in life, that's
what you have to actually do. You get to you
get to meet people, you get to have things, you
get to have animals, you get to have experiences, and
you get to love them.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
I'm sorry, y'all, it's okay.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
And then at some point, what we absolutely do know
is that you will have to let go of it,
and that is just it's a lesson that like I'm
trying to get it. I'm trying to grasp it because
I don't want it to be like a when you
have to let some of these relationships in your life go,
you don't think about your parents like when you just
think about it, it's like but you actually like know

(43:26):
that you.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Have to do this one day.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
And I want to be able to, like I want
to be able to trust God in a real way
to where like I do know that, like this is
a part of life, and it has been let go
after let go after let go, and I don't know
how I'm doing, but I do know that now I'm
like okay, okay, we.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Do what you need to do.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Cry your tears. And then I had to go vote.
Adulting is so interesting. I cried my eyes out in
the car and then I was like, I gotta go
vote real quick.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
When voted, I hope y'all voted.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
I hope so too.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
And then each day has just been interesting because grief
is I cried because when I you know, I wanted
to call my ex boyfriend and tell him, but that's
not that's a let go. I then the first when
I didn't go home the whole rest of that day
because I just didn't want to go home. Yeah, and
then when I finally went home and there was just
like her dog bowl still there, her bed, her toys,

(44:29):
and she wasn't in the hallway. And then today I
don't go out the front anymore because I don't have Shy,
and I always go out the front when I have Shy.
Now I don't even go out the front because I'm
not walking a dog. It has just been like wow,
or just like I had something in the dryer and
it was her one of her blankets. Her leash is
still in the car.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Like bitch.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
It's a lot.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
It's a lot. It's like wow.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
And then.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
The men that I know, they're like, I'm gonna get
you a new dog, and I'm like, oh, she just
Barbie died.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
And I honestly don't have time for a puppy right now,
like puppies are a lot. Like I don't even want
to be at home. The other night, I could have
sworn I heard Shy. It's crazy how your mind works.
Then I was out and I was like, oh my god, y'all,
I gotta go home and walk my dog.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
I totally forgot I didn't have a dog anymore.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Totally forgot, and I was like, oh, wait, no, I
don't no, I don't okay.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
I was like, okay.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
The other day I thought I saw her laying on
my clothes and I was like, should I get out
of It was a towel, and I was like, ok,
I'm just trying to stay out the house. And another
layer of it is I have been alone, but I
haven't really been alone because I've had Shy. Now I'm
alone alone. I know, I got god, y'all, I know,
but it's just that it's so so quiet. It's so quiet.

(45:48):
I'll always be like, should I stop licking your palls?
I'm trying to go to you know what I mean,
And now it's just silent.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Oh it's been.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Rough, but we're working through it, working through it, and
I'm just one day at a time, trying to learn
that you're gonna have to let go of several more
things in this life, and if we can learn to
find some. I'm glad that I have healthy coping mechanisms
now as opposed to some years ago when I first
got shy. Yeah, drugs and alcohol. She went through a lot.

(46:19):
I was a single mother. Ain't easy, easy, o Lord,
but rest in peace to my shy shy and she
was a real one.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
She was a real one.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
How are you first, Let's take a break. We're gonna
take a little ad break and we'll be right back.
Let me wipe my eyes activated again?

Speaker 2 (46:47):
All day?

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Why all day?

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Just missed my granddaddy and I was just you know,
out there and it's hard. Yeah, and yeah, all right,
so we're back. I was just telling Madina, I've been
crying all day. I was having a rough day, a

(47:14):
rough time. But I have some good news. So let
me see. I had to write it down, so we'll
type it up. So I wouldn't forget. What have I
been doing?

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (47:23):
I went to a movie premiere. Have you seen the
movie One Battle after Another?

Speaker 6 (47:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (47:28):
I haven't even heard about it.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Okay, so this one, I can't remember the director's name,
but google the movie One Battle after Another. It has
a great cast. Leonardo DiCaprio's in it. So the movie
is very long. I don't know what is in his
contracts to where he don't like just a little ninety

(47:50):
minute film Lady three hours. He said, I've got skills
and you're going to see them. Okay, but I enjoy them,
even though some things could be a mini series like
that Flower Moon Oklahoma story with the Native Americans that
was on Apple TV, which is really good by the way. Anyway,
this one is one battle after another. Tiana Taylor is

(48:10):
in it. I want to say, Sean Penn, a bunch
of other people who I've seen before, but their names
escape me. And then they were like I guess rising
stars maybe, or at least that's what they seemed to me.
But it was an actual like screening and premier thing.
I think they were doing it for. Was he there Housewives?
He wasn't there, but it was at Atlantic station. Somebody

(48:31):
was hosting it. I found out about it late, out
about it through TC. Actually he was working the event.
So I went. It was really cool and there was
like a they had like different activations and I like
when I go to the screenings or premiere parties and
stuff like that, and they have like extra stuff. So
went to that. The movie is really good. Basically Tianna
Taylor and Leonardo DiCaprio, they're together, they have a kid together,

(48:56):
and she is a revolutionary and she comes from other
people like that, and there's like this band of people
and they're just running around the country fucking shit up
because people got them fucked up. And then she ends
up going to prison. There's like, I don't want to
give the movie away, and it's so goddamn law I'm
already long winded. Anyway, it's really interesting movie. Acting skills

(49:17):
were great from the entire cast, the cinematography, like all
of these things. It was just amazing. I really enjoyed it.
And I'm really not a movie girl, more TV because
I want the details. Anyway, So I went to that,
had a good time. The AI trial that I mentioned earlier,
so this is a thing with the fever app. I

(49:38):
haven't talked about the fever app in a long time,
but the fever app if you're a person that wants
to go out and do stuff and not just like
clubs or not just restaurants, and you want to find
interesting activities wherever you live. They are in multiple cities
and they do all of these different types of experiences.
There's stuff for adults, there's stuff for children, there's stuff
for families, so many different things. I've been to a

(49:59):
ton of fees. This one was like, I forget what
it's called, but basically you go into this theater. This
one was downtown, and the whole theater is the jury
and so they have like an interactive element you skin
this QR code and we're like voting to see which one,
like do we think he's guilty? But there were other

(50:20):
questions throughout and then they have actors in it who
are playing out this case. And basically the case that
I saw that was ai one. They a woman or
the city of La maybe sued the CEO of a
company that has these robot taxis, so essentially like the

(50:41):
Waimo cars, right, and they go through the whole thing.
One of the cars was driving up muholland drive and
another car driving towards them with a human driver ended
up crossing into their lane. So the human driver was
on the side that's on the coast, so like you
fall off of that, you go into the ocean. The

(51:03):
other side is like rocky mountains and shit. So the
way more car sees this, and it was so close,
it was like within eighty feet and a human to
react safely react you need like twice the space. So anyway,
it moves, and it had a passenger in the car too.
The passenger survives in that car. The driver of the

(51:25):
other car survives. But who died was a man riding
his bike. Now I was wondering why he was riding
your back bike home on that rod, But you know whatever, anyway,
the city is suing. His wife is up there making statements.
And it did make me wonder, if you're getting a
wreck with one of those cars, do they get tickets?
Do they get can you susan what happens when you
call one eight hundred injured?

Speaker 2 (51:46):
That's what I want to know. How does the car
know to shut down?

Speaker 3 (51:49):
And we got to get license and registrations out, like
how does.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Yeah, like how does does it get pulled over? What
is what are the laws with it? I don't know.
But anyway, an hour session, the man was found not guilty.
Because the thing is do we who do you blame?
And then it's had me wondering, and this has been
weeks and weeks. Now who do you blame in a
situation like that because someone is at fault? I don't know.

(52:17):
But he lost, the city lost that case, and I
just I wish I knew that actors and actresses names
because the AI dude, he had a black woman as
a lawyer and the other one had a man, and
the black woman did great. I knew, I knew we
were gonna win on that side. That's who I put
my ballot in for it. Anyway, it was a really

(52:38):
cool experience and it was something different. It's no food,
which you know, no, but it had it was only
an hour. They had like a little concession like the
movies does drinks, snacks, candies, wine and that's it. But
it ain't no food. You're not gonna be in there
all day. It's starting on time, and it was just
a cool experience. I really enjoyed it, and I'm gonna

(52:59):
try to find some or stuff like that. But if
y'a don't have the Fever app, you should download it.
This is not an ad. I'm just trying to help
y'allut because I know people be bored and looking.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
People are starting and nothing doing it, and I know
I have been not doing stuff, but like y'all, one
thing about me is when I was, yeah, there's stuff
to doing it, and when people be like, there's not
doing it, I'll be like where you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
And also people be like, oh, the food. Now, there's
other cities with better food. But I'm like, y'all can't just.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Look at a restaurant.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
There's great restaurants here. Not my favorite city to eat in,
but there are some good quality places you cannot just
go to, like the club staurants. I think the problem
is they're scrolling Instagram and TikTok and relying on influencers
who are not true foodies and they're just going to
hot spots and they're looking for the lit places and

(53:49):
that's not gonna be the same to me, and in
my experience, very rarely. Well those places that are good
for a party are gonna be good for like the
actual culinary experience. There's so many different places to go,
and you don't have to be going to change all
the times, you guys, there's so many restaurants. There is
level businesses.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
That I went to last just sometime during the week
last week and.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
It was a date, woulden't I mean, I know, I.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Really realized I redownloaded the pattern app because I really
didn't like the pattern app befirst because it's just too
inchur Kate. I'm like this for people that really is
relying on this, but I down alad either maybe I'll
read out because it's just so many, so many words
and it's not it's just like black and white.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Yeah, I'm just like, all right, another, I want some colors.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
But it'd be serious.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Like I was reading it because of a friend of
mine was like, just read some of the stuff that
it says about like you you and like your chart,
and it was breaking down how like I really it
said I need to be honest about like I like
long term relationships.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Yeah, you do you yourself.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
I never was lying, but it kind of made me
feel like I was. I was like maybe I was,
like maybe I was.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I don't know, but like I like to like I like.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Long term relationships, and so maybe because I've been saying
like I don't know if I want to get married
and I don't know maybe I don't know, which I
still don't know, but like I wasn't lying pattern anyway.
It was saying, how like, don't fight that, and like, anyways,
I'm saying that because it's like when I am dating,
I don't really be one to day to whol bunch

(55:20):
people like it's just too much time and I don't
have no time. One person gonna get the slot. And anyways,
this person took me to this place called Little Sparrow.
Have you been a Little Sparrow?

Speaker 2 (55:33):
I think that that is the cutest little bar.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Now this is they have like bar food, But you guys,
it's just so cute. There's art on the wall, it's
a vibe, it's not klubby, it's a bar, and it's
in Virginia Highlands.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Very cute.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
If you're out late night, you're just like, let's go
grab a drink. I had such a good time. I
love meeting people that. You know how a lot of
people be like, he don't make up, plan, he don't
make up I Nika been making the Nigga's been making plans.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
I've been on a helicopter ride. Uh and it was fun.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
I forgot the name of the company. It was fun.
And Uh.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
This man has been making several date plans, and I've
been making date plans.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
I like going to do stuff Little Sparrow. Hit up
Little Sparrow.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
If you're trying to get drinks, you guys, go check
out Circa Sole go to do a sushi making class.
Like there's a place where I did ballroom dance lessons.
It's in Buckhead.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
I think it might be in Morningside.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
I forget where it's at, but you can book it
for like an hour and get There's so many things
to do in Atlanta. There is ah Gone with the
Wind Museum in Marietta, and it's very small. It looks
like a house. You go in, you can see some
of the dresses. You learn about Scarlett on hair but
everybody says that. But in the back on the patio,
they have this whole section dedicated to Mammy.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
If you've never seen Gone with One, I loved on
the way. I think it's a beautiful love story.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
But there's a black woman who during that time period
I forget her actual name, but she always played the maid,
the nanny, and she.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
It goes into this exit.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
What's her name, Pattie McDaniel.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Is that who it is?

Speaker 3 (57:06):
They have her whole story, how much she got paid,
how much she stood on business when it came to
black actors and actresses.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
How they wrote her Oscar speech for her.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
How the guy read Butler.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
I don't know his real name either, but he was
like the only person on that cast that like supported
her and was like, no, she's gonna be with us
when we're in the award.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Like y'all. I Stuff like that to me is like
how you It's just it's in your place.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
It's in where you like get to know people in
a way where it's like see if somebody likes history,
I like learned about history. Like that is a very
quick museum. But it was such a good time. I
took my sister when she came out here. There was
something else I was gonna tell, y'all.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Oh, kick it out.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Went to a BlackGirl Digital fourth Annual Awards ceremony.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
It was fun, y'all. It was at the Zoo. It
was at the zoo. They had a theme.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
It was supposed to be like I didn't know this,
but I still thought it was cool. They were trying
to make like Love Island. I don't watch Love Island, but.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
I don't know that Love Island was.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
That's what the lady said on the on the stage.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Okay, yeah, but it was really great. We were presenters
and it was like a whole award ceremony. I took
my butt out for this one. I say, you know what,
let me put these bundles in, take this hair down,
and look like the bad bitch that you are. And
it felt really great to get dressed up. I love
getting dressed up. Oh my god, I forgot something.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
I went. This was a day also same person.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
We went to an African uh an African Award ceremony
and I met like all the big hitters in Atlanta
that are African. They only be supporting African businesses. But
it was it was so much fun. Kiky we went
there was African food. He was like, every time I've
taken you to eat, don't really eat a lot. It's
gonna be a lot of food.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
And I was like, African people like to eat, that's why.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
And I'm eat you. And I made my plate, and
I was like, don't be looking at me when I'm in.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
What him to do? He was like staring, and she's like,
damn you eating a lot today?

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Well no, like I don't like when we be watching
you eat and be like, well, why ain't you eating, nigga?

Speaker 1 (59:05):
I'm eating? What did they have that you ate?

Speaker 2 (59:09):
What's the red rice?

Speaker 6 (59:11):
Rice?

Speaker 2 (59:12):
I love that rice? It was spicy. What's the steak
that you have?

Speaker 3 (59:17):
They had suya gotta have So there was so much
stuff that it didn't even make sense at one point with.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
All the stuff that was on my plate.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
It was salad, alfredo, jallaf souya, chicken or something that
was like a bread a dip. I was like, just
put it all on their greens something that I didn't
know what it was. And we sat down and we
I like how African men make you feel all of them,
even if you're not. I was the only woman at
my table and with the man that I was with,
and then like there was a bunch of other African

(59:46):
men there and I was just I.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Felt like a queen. Yeah, I felt like a queen.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
They were talking about rich people stuff and I just
sat there with my butN and was like, Okay, I
had a really good time. Nothing performances. I saw the
guy from Hills, Atlanta. He was there will be African,
but he got an award. He must be because he
is he African. Okay, he's so cute. He is very attractive,

(01:00:11):
to the point where when I be at Hells in
the early morning and struggling up the hill, I'd be
so embarrassed when he's cheering younger, but I know he's like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
If it's a pussure I'm thinking of. I forget his name,
but I think follow follow him.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
He's also a DJ. He just seems like a really
nice guy. Anyways, you guys, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Okay, Well, I will finish catching up with what I've
been up to on the next episode because we're out
of time for this one. But y'all stay tuned for
the next episode. I promise I'll catch up, and we
also have hopefully we'll have time. We'll see but some
of the things that we left off from the other
weeks that we never got around to, we saved him,

(01:00:53):
so we'll see if we'll get to him today. Because
we do have a bunch of advice scenes that we
want to get to for y'all. We're not gonna do
advice and cocktails in this one, but I did want
to remind everybody to make sure that you are checking
the links in the description box that will put everything
there and all the things for you to donate and

(01:01:13):
all that stuff. And if you guys have things going on,
if you have businesses that you want to advertise with,
there's an email in the description for you to reach
out about it and we'll connect you with our networking.
Y'all can work something out there if you want to
do like collaborations. Because when we were at the Creator Awards,
we were talking to a few people and shout out

(01:01:34):
to all of the listeners and supporters that we met
at the award show, and several of them were like, oh,
we're talent managers. And I was like, girls, y'all don't
hit us up because there's so many things to do.
So I have been working on making sure to speak
up because I guess sometimes people think that you're not interested,
or you already have somebody, or you're already doing something,

(01:01:55):
or whatever the case may be. But while we get stuff,
we have an ad network that will get us the
ads in the show that you hear and see, like
when we're doing the other stuff, we're we don't have
like standard representation, and even if we did, like we
will hook you up with them. So if you are
a talent manager and you're watching this or listening to this,

(01:02:18):
you know, hit us up and we can connect you
to whoever or we can talk to you whether you
want to do something with us together or if you
just want Medina, if you just want me, it doesn't matter.
Hit us up. Why are y'all tell us?

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
I was really confused, Like I'm always confused when sometimes
I even have people say like, oh, it just seems
like y'all didn't need any help, And I'm like.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
I guess I need to put my stiff wigs back on,
because baby, we need help. The office was rolling in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
We need to make the quality.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
We didn't have two months of stiff wigs, no soft life. Yeah,
sorrycast we're gonna have to we need to be recorded
from a go pro what a I'm like, like, why not?
Like y'all know what steal us from them?

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
And I feel like I have to say this also,
And I didn't think I needed to say this. You
guys if you're not subscribed for real, all jokes aside,
this is a this Kier and I, yes, we love
doing this, but like, also we would like to expand
if you're not, if you are listening to the show religiously,
I can't tell you how many people last week alone
they were like I listened to the show, and I've

(01:03:26):
been asking people, are you subscribed?

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
The people do not be listening to the show. There
are watching fucking clips.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Do you understand that if you even if you're just
gonna watch clips, don't like I would hope you will
go watch the episode or listen to episodes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
But if you're not, if you are saying you're a.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Fan and you've already never bought the game and never
been to a live show, but you listen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Thank you. But also like where the support.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
Matters is joining Patreon, listening, following on Instagram of course,
but subscribing and leaving a rating and a review and
leaving and reviews, and if you don't do that, it
really it does not.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
You know what I say to people when I see
them and I recognize them and like, I don't watch
your show, or I don't listen to your podcast or
whatever it is you do. But I do follow you,
or I do see your stuff and I see your work,
and I want to acknowledge you because sometimes I'm like,
I wish people would be a little bit more real
because bitchy full of shit. I appreciate the people who
are being real, but it's just like, hey, oh, I
see your stuff online all the time. I follow you.

(01:04:24):
I love what you do. I made sure that the
people that were in the room with the awards because
I love how it feels. And I've been trying to
make sure that I don't just stop at Oh that
felt good, this person, that little thing they did. They
don't know how much it made my day. I try
to do that for other people, and so some of
the creators I saw, I was just like, hey, I

(01:04:44):
started following you earlier this year, and I just love
when your posts come up on my feet. That's enough.
It still will make the day. I don't have to
say I'm a big fit because the bitch I really
don't know what you do. I think you're beautiful, and
when you do come across, I try to interact, but
I I'm not always on the websites and stuff, and
I don't want to fake the funk because it does

(01:05:05):
feel like kind of like, what are you talking about
when people be like, oh, I love the show. I've
been a fan for a long time since the beginning.
Oh really, and then they talk about twenty twenty, that's
when we were in the trenches at home. Well we
thought we were gonna die. But you start where you start,

(01:05:26):
and I don't want it just sound like we're ungrateful.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
Giving you the blueprint of like what helps us, Like
data matters, the numbers matter, and if we can't, if
you listen and you don't do anything but just watch
a clip while you don't owe us anything comment. It
takes a lot of resources for Kiki and I to
continue to produce this show, and so I'm not even

(01:05:52):
asking you for money yet, but a review, subscribing and
resharing and tacus on social media, it really does go
a long way. And it's not even just about us.
Even with people that do services for me, I can't
tell you how many reviews I leave to let them
know like this is a great service. I know that

(01:06:14):
my voice counts and matters and will draw people to
your page. If you really appreciate somebody and their work
that they're doing, tell them, show them and show them
in a way that counts for them so that they
can keep doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Like it's not. I don't Sometimes I don't know if
people think.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
That like we are with a network and this is
free for us to like produce as not it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
To be very clear, there's different types of network opportunities
and deals. They're an ad network. They're basically an agency
who will sell ads on our behalf, but they don't
give us any marketing support. They don't pay for anything
that we do, and they take a healthy commission of
everything that we earn. So I've been talking to more

(01:06:59):
people obviously not on the show, but like just in
everyday life and when I'm going to more of like
industry events specific to podcasting and people in the digital space,
and even like looking at the discourse online this maybe
we can have a Patreon episode about this is I
want bore everybody. It's not entertaining. But I've been seeing
people complaining about the influencers and creators who are online

(01:07:21):
promoting anything really and they're like in this economy and
all this, and I get it. Sometimes I've noticed people
think everybody's tone deaf. Do you realize this is how
people eat and survive. And even though it looks luxurious,
you might think, okay, you have X amount of followers

(01:07:42):
when you get to a certain follower account, Instagram is
not sending you money or anything. Sometimes you end up
shadow man and then it's like, well, what the fuck?
It didn't even count. But there's all of these things
that happen and y'all have I want people to realize
that everyone is not tone deaf. Some people have had
deals in the bank already, but they haven't gotten paid yet,

(01:08:05):
and they won't get paid for two to six months.
But they have to do this because this is how
they survive, even if they have another job. Everybody's not greedy.
And I want to remind everybody because I cannot say
this enough. Instagram is not real life, and some people
may share a truly authentic experience and other people don't,

(01:08:27):
whether that's because they're faking it or whether it's because
that's just not their thing. So sometimes you look at
people and you think that everything is together, it doesn't
mean it's together. Sometimes they are working just as hard
as you. Being a creator looks glamorous. A lot of
the times, it seems like you get all of this
free stuff. It seems like because you're adjacent to certain
people that you're getting what they're getting. And that's not

(01:08:48):
the case. And even if you wor it doesn't matter.
The other side of it is you never know when
people will turn on you. We have talked about cancel
culture before and like, you can be up today and
tomorrow something happens and nobody's fucking with you. So people
got to get it while they can. So I hope
that anybody who may be watching or listening to this and.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Has sent me specifically, I don't know if this happens
to This happens to me on a daily people sending
me voice notes and like paradise, and I don't mind
paragraphs on Instagram and my dms, and I'm a responder.
I respond to almost all of y'all about how much
this show has helped them.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Oh yeah, I get and I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Oh my god, I appreciate it so much.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
And I just I just say that help us also,
So leave a review, repost the show and tag us,
share it in your group chats.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
Also share it in person.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
If he has a discount code, if I have a
discount code. If we're doing different things and you are
able to support or share it with a friend, do
that those things go even if.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
You're not going to really buy it. Click that motherfucking
can watch it like them, can just sit on the
site for a second, please, you know, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
Because sometimes people are like, are you gonna go? Are
y'all gonna go on tourgan No? The answer is no,
y'all want.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Us to go on tour. But I get frustrated with that.
Sometimes it's like, y'all be asked us to do stuff
and then you don't come, or you say, oh I
wanted to go, but reason, reason, reason, And I get
it because sometimes you can't write that is life. But
it's also like, okay, and we have lives too, so

(01:10:23):
we have to look at all of these different aspects
about putting together these things. It's not easy. It's not
cheat damn sure, ain't free. And it's also like, okay,
we gotta, like you said earlier, making sure that you're
taking care of your emotional self. We have to do
that too, and if we're not, we can't perform and
give you guys, the best of ourselves. We just can't

(01:10:44):
but it would really help if everybody who'd be like,
I'm such a big fan, you continue to share the show,
tell people about us. That is what catapulted us. I
would say, when people it's just more people word of
mouth sharing. And so when you're talking to people and
they complain about certain things or they don't have anything

(01:11:04):
to watch, their shows are off to them. Hey, there's
a podcast that has almost five hundred episodes. If you've
never listened, go back as far as you can and
just listen in chronological orders, so the jokes make sense,
Like do that if you just started, go back to
the beginning. There's so many things that y'all can do
to help. And I don't want to sound like I'm
mothering people, but sometimes I don't think people get it. Yeah,

(01:11:27):
I don't think people get it. And I also think
people think, why don't have to do it because everybody
else is doing it. But the creators, no matter what
it looks like, all of them, Because I'd be talking
to people, the really big ones, the smaller, the smaller ones,
the micro influor influencers, the mega influencers, the people who

(01:11:50):
look very glamorous every day. Everybody is seeing things change,
and we just appreciate it because we are offering you something.
I hope that's why you're here. So anyway, thanks Tovan,
Thanks thank you to everybody who's already done it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
He does do.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
I wanted to make sure I said that there's a
guy named Anthony Ross who is a supporter across all
boards that Nigga has sent me so many flowers to
my brokerage and I appreciate it, thank you so much.
He's gonna help sponsor some of my lover Girl travel giveaway,
and he is someone that is just like I appreciate you, bro.
He's so cool and just so supportive with his money

(01:12:25):
and we all know that money.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
It's real slim these days anywhere. And also I've been
sharing some stuff and I'm gonna continue to share. I
only know about Atlanta stuff, but if there's cities and
y'all need help, please tell 'm feel ashamed to ask me,
not for money because I ain't got it, but for resources.
Sometimes I just be bored and looking up shit, and

(01:12:49):
it's way better for me to spend my time researching
resources that will actually help somebody then researching shit for
my homegirl who needs to leave that nigga a long
so I would rather shift gears. But sometimes when I
have my free time, it brings me peace. Don't worry
about how crazy I am. That's just what I do
in my free time. So let me know.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
If you need a job working from home, let me
know because I will connect you with my job.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
You'll be hit.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Me up and I'll connection to my sister. And it's
because I'm like, I love a job. Now the mom
is making money and I'm like, I've been sending people.
People that listen to the show have been like, OK,
you can. I I'm not going to tell you what
it is. I don't really know, but I can connect
you to her and she can get you set up. Also,
I was going to say volunteer opportunity. I'm going to
say at the beginning of the show, I have a
volunteer opportunity coming up that I'm hosting. I don't want

(01:13:32):
to say hosting, but I don't know what else to
call it. But I put it together and I have
a few slots of it. If you would like to come,
It'll be with Mills on Wheels Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Again.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
It's November twentieth. It's in the middle of the week.
But if you want windows, I think that's a Wednesday.
If you want to go out, I'll come what time
ten am? Ten am to twelve and we're going to
be doing what we did for my birthday. And I
got such great feedback that I was like, you know what,
let me tell it was a good time to people
that just didn't know that you could do this. So
if you've been wanting to volunteer, you guys, slide on

(01:14:00):
my DMS. I'll send you the link you need to register.
It's free, obviously, but slide in my DMS. I will
send you the link to register. This time, I have
a cap on the number of people I can bring,
but I still have a few slots to fill. And
if you want more volunteer opportunities, I have something coming
up on November fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
This is a little bit more we're in. We're going
into the hood.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
Oh that's something Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Yeah, I'll send you the information if you just want to
come and I won't be here, okay, but y'all let
me know I am in. This is the season of
serving and making sure I walk into every room trying
to provide some help.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
So y'all let me know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
I'll send you link so you can register and come
be a part of the mission.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Okay, for real, We're done. Okay, follow us cocktails podcast,
he says, so please.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
I'm coffee Bean Dean and okay, I'm also a real
estate agent. If y'all need to buy a house. Ince
y'all and I listen to this show.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
I got to salehouses.

Speaker 6 (01:14:48):
Bye, goodbye, bye bye bye, goodbye bye bye. We are
driving bye bye bye
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