August 21, 2024 • 44 mins
Allison Seymour and Marc Clarke have been married for almost 25 years and have both worked in media for longer than that. Allison has been a morning news anchor in Washington DC for over two decades and Marc has worked in the Baltimore/DC markets on radio and television for about the same. Their podcast features their witty humor, warm chemistry and interviews and conversations with movers and shakers from all over the country. Check out their flow!
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
And welcome to Alison Mark podcast see Alison and Mark podcast,
which is on fire by the way these days.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We made it to the front room.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You made it to the front room.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We're moving on up.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We have a little technical difficulties that we will be
working out as we uh uh, you know, get better
at this. But oh we left our do you rememorize?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
No, but I can tell you what we are.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We are Alison in Mark and this is the media
married and media podcast where we have a full house.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Is you're about to see?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Oh lord, yeah, you let the monkeys out to Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We have our grandchild with us and our are with
us today and we're too. We're too media pros who
have been married for twenty four years, coming up on
twenty five years. And we talk about everything here from
politics to pop culture and a little bit of love
and laughter sprinkled.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
In and so again, like this thrown off a little
bit because we're not in the studio downstairs, but I
had to think, so baby, let me just normally we
don't do this because we're such pros. But I'll tell
you because I'm sure you don't know what to deal.
So our conversation today around FASTA For those who don't
have kids in college, I guess you don't have to
worry about it, but if you do, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, some glitches with fast for rolling out this time around.
But the kicker is, so we have two kids at
ones in grad school. She's a medical school and the
other one is a sophomore at Clark. We just dropped
her off and hopefully maybe we have a picture of that.
And yeah, it turns out maybe it's on the universities.
The government said what they Yeah, the government said they
(02:03):
did what they were supposed to do. But I will
tell you that. Okay, our daughter Spencer down in Atlanta,
she was sharing with us that one of her friends
she was like, hey, girl, where are you couldn't come
back because of financial aid reasons. So it's somewhere along
(02:24):
the line. It's it's not getting to it's not getting
to these kids. So it's a real issue. And I
was on the phone all day to day with and
we'll say it because maybe somebody on air knows Howard
University trying to get our daughter's grad plus loan money together.
So it's a real issue.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Fast Foo is real. Please comment if you have the
challenge out there. If not, we'll move on. Carl with
the K is joined as Ladies Women, the legendary Carl
with the K, who has a standing gig but still
makes time to join us on our top rated podcast,
We have.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Missed Your Car withy.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I missed you guys too. You guys been traveling all
over the place.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
And ize I apologize that my howard is messing up
on the fast food.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But yeah, it's an issue.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
If you know somebody I really wish I did.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Are you surprised?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I'm not surprised, but I think most institutions have that
administrative issues a lot of times. It's just that as
you graduate and you move on, you kind of like
put that stuff to the back of your mind and
you just try to remember the good times.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Absolutely, because I remember.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
My freshman year we took over the A building. Yeah,
and protest back in This is eighty three.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, so you know, lines along the lines are long,
and the financial aid folks they are on the phone.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I couldn't even get through I'm coming up tomorrow though,
coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
The queen going up.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
If she doesn't have her on it, that means she's
in my pocket.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh, and your money is a terrible thing to waste.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wow, why the queen is coming up? Well, get in place, Howard.
You don't want to mess with this one. She no, no, no,
So Carl with a K. I know you have a
tight schedule, so you want to get us. Had not
a problem. Everything's going good.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
And since we are on the educational way, I figured
that has some HBCU questions today?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
All right, I love it.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
This one surprised me, but it shouldn't be the answer.
If you know, if you know HBCUs, you should know
the answer. What HBC you had so many rattlesnakes on
its campus that they became the school mascot.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh, I didn't know. That's why I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I didn't you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yes, when they moved to a new property, there were
so many rattlesnakes on it, and they became the rattlers.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And can I tell you.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
That's that's a perfec in fact metaphor if you will,
for turning a real funky situation into a real funky
situation exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I love it. And the irony is Howard had came
by his name the same way how's that there were
like so many buffaloes.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That they named it the bison Bison. He's on his
dad joke.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Kick, I was about to say, because I was like,
what's the new one on me? Mark? I don't recall
that one on Howard?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Next up, what HPU was the first to award bachelor's
and graduate degrees in the South?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Oh, so that must have been a un So can
I ask, can I get a hint?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Would that make it university? Right?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
At the time, I think it was a it was
a university at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say the.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
First in the South.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And graduates.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Oh, that's a good Clark college going into the Clark
Clark College.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well you know the choice? Sorry about that, Well it
was You're right.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It was originally Atlanta University now Clark University.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And I know this now because of our daughter.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I did not go to an HBCU, but.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
C C A A A you u u U. That's
our daughter at Clark. Shout out to Clark Go Panthers,
Red Turf.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Hey, I got why do you think I came up
with the question? I knew you guys were.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's right, He's good Man.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Last, but not least, shout out to the ladies Spellman
and what other school are the only all women HBC
us Bennett.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Bennet in it? H why don't we talk about Bennett
this weekend?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We just we saw the song, we passed the we
passed Bennett. Yeah, we passed them.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So because that were in it?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Now this is when I'm going to leave you onto
ponder on. I'm not going to put it. I couldn't
put in a question for him in time. I just
found this out. But there is an h b c
U that today is predominantly white.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh it might be my father's alma mata, University of
Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Uh, No, it's not, well, not that one. This one's
in West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh okay, yeah, we know this one, Tyler. What's the
HBCU in West Virginia that's mostly white?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Blue Field?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Blue Field?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, from our college student.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You had to call, you had to call a friend
I got.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I shout out to you Irving though and c L
for getting all these uh HBC trivia together.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Blue tonight, I'm at I'm in Arundel Mills at TGI Fridays,
and I switched up on with the with the Owings Mills.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I do them on two Tuesday nights.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Now we do those on Tuesday nights because football season's
coming and I don't want to be interfering with Thursday
night football getting yelled at.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
That's smart.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Let me ask you a question before you go.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
For all the.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
People kind of in you know, just in life, trying
to navigate life, how does it feel to love what
you do?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Who?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It keeps me going?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, because sometimes I just like, I'm like, you know,
I don't feel like I don't feel like researching twenty
five more questions today, and then I'm like, but they
love when I do it, and I love doing it
when I do it. It's kind of like I love
when you do it, but the press I don't. Oh,
here's the best way to describe it is you, as
(08:48):
a mother, can understand. All I want is the baby.
I hate the labor.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yes, I got you, I got you. Well, Well, what
you're doing is super impactful.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's fun, and it's informed, and I think it makes
us all feel really proud of our hero acage in
our culture.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Carl, we appreciate you, my friend.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I appreciate you. Thank you so much for having me
and welcome back.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
All right, take care and be safe. Carl with a
k ladies and gentlemen. And he's an amazing guy. For
those who don't know, I mean, Carl lost his wife
years ago and he's just an amazing guy. We worked
together at Radio one and he's just always been this
splendid person. So Letta, what's going on, Soletta? She's joining
us also, like you said, Irvin Russell, CEO Redden's in the.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
House questions Shamira Brown.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
My god, bless you and the kids. And so I
had such an exciting moment just now, Babe. Shout out
to Mary Woods. Okay, when I've transferred to SIU Carbondale,
me and Mary, she was an ari and we became
i mean, super super close friends friends, friends friends. It's
almost like because I was older, you know, coming in
(09:55):
as a junior, and everybody else was a freshman. Mary
and I we were super super close. I'm talking about
and it's so funny because you know I'm talking about
I went to her so she had a long distance
a fiance girl. I went to the wedding. I mean,
we really you know what I'm saying. And so she
just found me on LinkedIn today and so shout out
(10:17):
to Mary, who was just a great friend. Had a
very interesting time, you know, you know how you transferred
to a school you don't know anybody whatever, and we
became really close. So shout out to Mary. No you're
not watching him, but cool. So Janet said, it was
very formative. Love you guys, Deborah, love you too. The
niece is in the hause.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Speaking of school. Just as you show this. I know
our thing isn't that's okay?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I got it?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh you got it?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah, so we actually we dropped off. Go ahead,
baby the leading and I have the video.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Oh okay, So so the baby, Hi John the are
you know?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We call her baby, So people.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Who know us down from d Time Truck.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
They just call her baby too, so we'll just say baby.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Her name is Spencer, but she's second year at down
in Atlanta at Clark Atlanta University. And we went down Thursday.
We drove it's probably ten hours, breaking the trip up,
just enjoying her and then enjoying each other's company on
the way back.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And that's what we that's where we were.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So we were there Friday and came back Sunday and
she's in her dorm and we just had a ball.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And see, I'm in the heart of Panther nation. As
we are moving in our sophomore into Clark Atlanta University,
I tell you about the campus and as the saying goes,
there is no AUC without c AU.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Come on Panthers.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So, baby, it seems like only yesterday when you two
were moving into your HBCU. So to move in day
talk to us about what is moving day on a
HBCU campus. As you reflect on your moving days.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's just cool.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You get to see like it's exciting because now you're
meeting your homemates and I had the same.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Roommate all four years. Shout out to my best friend Kristen,
love you here. But yeah, so that was easy.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
But just moving all your stuff there, trying to make
it work at Hampton Knows.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
There wasn't any running to the store, so you had
all your stuff. I don't know how we did it,
but we didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So it's always an exciting time, especially as an.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Hbc second year for the baby down at Clark Atlanta.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
How are you feeling, I'm excited it's always hard to
leave mom and dad, but I'm very excited for another
great year. This is the baby, y'all, the baby. We're
so proud of you. This is your room, right, this
is your first on campus experience. So typical dorm room.
Really nice. Can't wait to reach meet your roommate.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So, so she was going for a minimal as boho.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
She and that's it. That's our baby, right there. So
(13:59):
so about all that, and babe, we got, like you said,
the drive down really was enjoyable. Yeah, and you know,
she letter says, love it that all your girls attend
HBCUs for undergrad nothing like that experience. And let me
just say Allison was exactly on top of that. As
(14:21):
far as Alison, I won't say demanded, but it was
very important for you for them to have the HBCU experience.
I wanted to have it, as I've always mentioned, but
you know, I think Phil couldn't afford it. But my
daughter's going there had been very exciting, right.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And it was important for me and just for me
and for.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
My girls, I felt because in their experience K through twelve,
they had never been in a position of the majority.
And you know it's important because I feel like sometimes
that can really make you feel a little small and
like you're sort of invisible at times. And so I
(15:06):
wanted them to have four years of really just being
ensconced in their culture. I wanted them to see buildings
with the names of African American scholars and leaders on them,
because wherever you go to school, if you happen to
go to a large, what we call now PWY predominantly white.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Institution, you don't see it. It's just because of the
way it's set up.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You don't see buildings typically named after black men or
women and you, or statues on campus and all of that.
And so to have that totally immersive experience and then
to get back out into the world stronger and more
secure in your.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
History, I thought it was just very important for our girls.
It was our choice.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So you know, I'm not saying that's whatever, but I
am saying I thought it was good. I thought it
would be a good experience for our girls.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And let me say, you know, being married, coming up
on twenty five years, these are the conversations that you
don't necessarily have when you're dating or you know, when
you're getting to know somebody. That's why we don't really
give a whole bunch of advice because a lot of
the stuff comes up and just happens. We share the
same philosophy, and that's so important because I can imagine
(16:24):
the struggle that people get in when you don't share
the same philosophy. Never really talked about it. Now you're married,
now you got kids, Now you're beefing, and it's like
you didn't see it coming because it never comes up.
It's coming you never. You don't really have that conversation
when you're dating. So, Babe, this this little moment here
speaking of driving, now this moment came up, Babe, we
actually saw a double double rainbows. And I was sleeping
(16:50):
and baby was driving, and so you're like, wake up, baby, look, look,
look look. And ironically it was dad's birthday.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Was the day that he made his transition.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
They made it was another birthday, okay, the day he
made his transition. It was sort of on my mind,
and so when I saw it, I just felt like
it was my father saying, you know, hey, baby, love
you miss you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well yeah, and I thought it was too bab, So
I put something together, so got a little a little
Mad to Dead. Okay, okay, yeah, okay, Just.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
There's so many songs about rainbows and what's.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
On their side. Rainbows our visions, but only illusions and
rainbows have nothing too high.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
So we've been told some choose to.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Believe it, kine on their wrong weight and see they
will find lorrainbow convex the lovers, the dreamers and me.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Ipe you can see it if you know.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Sometimes sorry to capture them, but it was a beautiful
double rainbow and just you.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Know, just a great memory of my dad.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
All right, So boots, he says, keep me in your prayers,
taking my daughter back to Hampton. Yes, so you're gonna cry,
let it, let him out, let him out, Booty, don't
be scared, let them out.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What he gonna cry now, he ain't scared of it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, his going to craph Yeah, and that story is amazing.
So moving right along on the.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Show, got to talk about the d n C that's
going on right now, and just it's so interesting, just
the there was I saw a side by side of
the different even signs that people in the audience are given,
I guess to hold up and like like one of
them at the r n C said mass deportations now,
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and then the other one at the that's the r
n C that the DNC had just said us A
one of them said, like, you know, it's just it's
just a difference in tone that I find really really interesting,
which leads me to another point. I was listening to
UH having conversation with one of my co workers today
(19:50):
and she brought up the fact that on w t
O p here in d C, just a really trusted voice,
you know in local news, right radio, the anchor was
doing an interview with somebody. They were talking about the speeches,
and he said, about Michelle Obama's speech, and if you
guys watched, he said, he asked the guy, he said,
(20:14):
it was a little harsh, don't you think? And so
here's the deal. And I've said it a million times,
Mark always big boies me on the space. I've said
it a million times. We're not talking politics because as
a journalist I can't do that right. You can read
between the lines on how I feel about a lot
(20:35):
of things, but I just got to keep it right here.
But what I will say is about this, It's not
about Democrats are Republicans. But what it is about is
this perception that I am so tired of. If Michelle
Obama stands up there with her braids and her bad
(20:56):
self and says, I'm just going to make a sentence up,
she says.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
We are tired of the lies.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
We're not going to stand for it. We're gonna elect
somebody who is for the people. And if your perception,
as a person who is not familiar with.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Doesn't know any.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Already, believes that black women are angry, that's going to
be where you come from.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And so when that statement was shared with me, it
just made me so mad.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It did make me angry because she is giving a
passionate speech at a national.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You know, a political party, a convention.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's what we're here for.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
That's why we're here. And right, she did deliver some singers.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I hope you have that one so we can show it.
But you don't have it, Okay, I hope, but well
we'll talk about it. But for him to say it
was harsh. Don't you think.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And I just I'm telling you, I've been myself in
these situations. It is like you cannot be passionate about something,
be a black woman, deliver it unapologetically without somebody saying
who it was harsh, Oh my gosh, it was harsh.
(22:25):
And for the people in the chat like, weigh in
with me, because have you been in these situations you're
standing up for yourself at your job?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I have done that.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I have done that at my past job, been accused
of the same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Right have you?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Have you been in a situation where you've said something
when you're not smiling, when you're not apologetic, when you're
standing up for yourself or your beliefs, and you've been
dismissed as being oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Just angry, Just calm down, you're angry.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And I think it is a special it's it's it's
it's exhausting. And I was very disappointed with that coverage
that leading question it was harsh, wasn't she harsh? And
I looked online there was no there was no backlash
for it. There was nothing about it.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Answer the question, and.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The kicker is that's what I said.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Did the person who was being interviewed say, well, it
wasn't really harsh, it was just she was making these points.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I think that the interview e just let it go.
But it is it is it? And when and I thought.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
About the the sheer hate that they the Obamas received
when they were in office, and how freeing it must
have been when they left after those eight years.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
But here we go again. Harsh, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And I consider that news source to be a very
unbiased one, and still here we go, Here we go,
when you know, you can have all the vitriol of
the elected lawmakers who are just spewing.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It's really craziness and what nobody says anything.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Right, So that's my problem. I got a problem with that.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
So do you have that mic drop moment though from
Michelle Obama at the thing. So she so basically, I mean,
she she just she's she's just an excellent speaker in
my opinion, and she basically Former President Trump, of course,
something he said made news everywhere because he basically was
(24:33):
trying to do that little, you know, fear thing when
he said, I guess he was speaking to black Americans
when he said that illegal immigrants basically correct me if
I'm wrong, were taking the black job.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
They're taking the black jobs. And so basically.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Basically Michelle Obama said, do you have it? Basically Michelle
Obama says, who's going to tell? Who's going to tell
him she's about to take one of those black jobs? Right,
Who's going to tell him she's about to take one
of those black jobs? So, you know, I don't know,
are you not? Can can she in her position not?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Uh, you know, be witty, make jokes whatever. I don't know.
I don't think that's the part that he was talking about,
this anger that I'm not mentioning on the radio. But yeah,
so she it was excellent. It was excellent. If you're
a good speaker, you're a good speaker, period, and she's
a good speaker. So it was a former proper in Obama.
But I'm not being biased. I wish that you had it, Mark,
(25:35):
it was so good today.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
No, no, no, I'm sorry. I thought I thought we
were talking about the article, but I didn't get the clip.
I did not get the clip. So maybe I had
the clip before the end of the show. Okay, now
something else clip I did get. So we have we
have a couple of stories here about around Mary okay
zamp a couple of stories around marriage here, so you know,
(26:03):
kind of controversy, not controversial, but uh, I mean some
to me ridiculous is one and the other curious. We're
gonna want you to chime in on you know, the
ideology of this couple and what they made their and
what they made their guests do. So the first one
in the marriage box, babe, this one was ridiculous to me.
(26:26):
But I I'm curious to hear what the viewers have
to say, and of course what you have to say.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
But you got to be like am I with an
adominant mm hmm.
Speaker 10 (26:36):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I'm dying for your wife and your family. I can
understand because it's dangerous. It's not fearful, it's a dangerous
wife and wife. To look, you bought it though, I'm not.
I mean, like once you on.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
You're not dying for my wife?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
What are you doing in a dangerous situation?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
If me and my wife are running because to shooting
at us and she tripped, I'm a key running.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
You and your wife, me and my wife who hurt you?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Is this a response? Just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'm gonna be honest. If you said that we couldn't
be together, no, definitely, because guess what, I would never
leave you.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I know. Okay, don't do that, Alison, don't do that
right now. I just thought I just thought it was
so ridiculous, and that's weird. It's ridiculous as it sounds.
I will say, I feel like there's a whole wave
of weird energy with men talking about women.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well he I mean at least the other host was like,
who hurt you? In a funny way, trying to get
out of it. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, But then he said before he said, you bought her?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Does that even me?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
And and I also saw this this I'm learning more
about my fellow Americans during during times like this, you
really learn about your fellow And I saw a couple
of posts that said what kind of man would follow
a woman president?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Would elect a woman president? And follow a woman? And
it's very interesting to me when you think.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
About globally how many women lead governments? And what are
you saying as a woman, because I saw two women
ask that question, So what are you saying as a woman?
Are you saying that women are not as smart as men?
Are you saying that women are so emotional that they
are not able to lead with their minds? Are you
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saying not smart enough? It's to me, it's really I'm
learning a lot about my fellow Americans, my fellow women, weird.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
What kind of man would follow a woman president? Huh, Okay,
it's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Trump always says women ask him nasty questions, especially women
of color. Yeah, yeah, because you'd be nasty towards women.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
He also he.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Also called I think it was Amy Cloture or somebody, No,
somebody one, because you're seeing a lot of Republicans at
the d n C speaking whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He said that that was the nastiest speech. So I
think it says.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Anybody who doesn't fall in line and get one of
those t shirts that say dictator from day one, I
think it's anybody. Yeah, I'm learning a lot about my
fellow Americans.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I love you. I'm learning a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
My fellow Americans. Right, and so now the story, babe,
you you sent me also involving marriage. You want to
talk about.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
That, Well, just the question is, I mean, this is
the specifics.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
But another couple has charged to come to the wedding,
and I think it was in New York.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It was like a whole day experience or something.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
But they charged their guests like three hundred and thirty
dollars to come to if they wanted to be a
part of the we as a guest and they said,
oh yeah, we saved about forty thousand dollars doing it
that way.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So weigh in. I mean, is it ever, ever, ever
okay to charge to go to your wedding and or reception.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I'm going to say, I think this might be a
general To me, this seems like a generational issue in
that I think, and I want to speak for all
the Generation xers.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I guess people did We're okay, we're exp.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
But I feel like we are on the last end,
right after the boomers, where if you want to have
an amazing wedding, go ahead, but I'm not going to
pay for your amazing wedding. If you want to having
a young get married at the courthouse for two dollars, yeah,
so that me paying for your wedding because you want
to have one. There's a disconnect there for our generation
(31:00):
because people will say no, but we wanted to have
a nice wedding. We wanted to just like when people
invite you to their weddings out of the country or whatever. Dude,
forty five hundred dollars. I love you, I want to
support you, but you're thinking are you thinking about me
or you're thinking about what you think is so cool.
So it's almost like, but I think that's our generation.
I think the new generations they're okay with it.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I think that if we were invited to a wedding,
unless it was somebody like really close and we wanted
to go because we just wanted to support.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
And we're like, okay, but yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
If I would not advise my daughters to do that,
I would just say, I have a smaller wedding.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
So let me ask you this. If you're if you know,
we have people, we have some strong we have some
strong will daughters. Now yeah, if they're like, look mom,
I'm charging five hundred da da da da da. You
chimed in. You gave your opinion. So do you At
what point do you just say, okay, fine, we pay
our one thousand dollars and go to the wedding. I mean,
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you know what I'm saying. Do you keep on? You
know what do you learn?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
What I've learned is that these kids are grown.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
If they ask my advice on something, I would say
to them, I would prefer I would not suggest that
you do that. But yeah, I mean these kids go
out We've seen it, Like you go out to a
birthday party and you just know you're gonna pay for
your own meal and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So maybe it's a different mentality with one about that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
We did, but I think that just I would advise
them not to now.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, And I think it's interesting not having the older
people around, because I think grandmas and grandpas, especially grandma's
can get away with calling something tacky if you're going
to do it right and give you that kind of
feeling of if your mom says that it's one thing,
she don't know what she's talking about, or your dad
says it dad, but if your grandparents said, especially your grandma,
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I think it's like, is it tacky?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, they would say they don't. Look grandparents wouldn't have
a problem being like, oh no, no, baby, you don't
do that.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
We don't do that. Now, baby can have something right
here at the house. Right we tell people to pay
for their own plate.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
You can see the grandfather, you know, grandfather saying well, what, well,
how much is it.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
Much?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I paid for it? No, don't do that. Don't do that.
That's embarrassing. Don't do that.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
They weren't gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
And so yesterday, for those who don't know I'm a
radio guy, right, television radio, but radio is my first love,
you know, as far as the career goes. And so
yesterday it was national radio. Yeah, I'll put together. So
I put together a little thing, pull little some something
for the radio people out here, just kind of a
rundown of where I've been and some of the things
had a chance to do, just a little quick thing
before we wrap things up.
Speaker 11 (33:37):
Okay, saved my life, saved my life.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And then.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I get up.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You gotta get off, you gotta.
Speaker 12 (34:01):
Get down, you know, trying to be crazy. Baby, You've
got to turn to No Land called you.
Speaker 11 (34:15):
One on something.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Baby, why you all know?
Speaker 10 (34:29):
And and full music.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I do, happy radio data all my radio brothers out there,
radio brothers and sisters out there. And you know, it's crazy.
I see those shots when I worked to New York.
I think I look younger now than I did back then.
That weight loss thing is crazy. And I know someone saying,
why do you have all suspenders?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Mind what.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Reverend Clark? Well, my brothers and sisters. I felt like
I needed to have something on today, okay, anything to
wrap up.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah, I'm just saying that it's kind of it's chilly
chillier here in our area. H Spencer down Atlanta said,
is chili there too? Starbucks is out with their pumpkin
spice lattes already ready, Yeah, I'm really Yeah, brings them
back early and introduces a new drink and yeah, so
that's happening.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It feels like fall out there for sure.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Show Alicia is in the building, Beverly's in the building,
Sondra's in the building. Okay, we'll be okay.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, I wish we had more tape.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
We could have shown like they had the whole role
called Lil John was at the.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And all that. But as you can see, we're not
in our regular dates.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, we're not in a regular DIGS, but we'll have
we'll do a review the we'll do a review next
Wednesday of that and capture those great moments, including what
we mentioned today with President former First Lady Michelle Obama
being an old DIGS and will have the best moments.
And it is the energy around this is so much different.
It's very interesting and I wonder, you know, how you
(36:09):
watch it and you're just like, I wonder what people think, because.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Well Amber Rose chime in and she said that, yeah,
it looks lit, I can't deny, but.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Then you know, she, I guess you used that to
parley into I guess.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
There are no problems in the world. So everybody's laughing
and giggling. You just you know, you're What I'm learning
to do is take things, uh, not less personally because
it's not personal, but I'm learning that everybody has an opinion,
and you know, I think I think.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
The opinions are really important though.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I think that people who have a large audience, you
gotta really think about what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
And if you stand on it, you stand on it.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
But if you're saying it for a check or some clout,
you gotta really who who is it gonna hurt in
the long run?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
That's my question.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Also, I realized there's a lot of stupid people out here.
That's whatever.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, I know, but it's American.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Are American stupid? I think that's the thing I think
I'm really starting to focus on, is that.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
You're learning about your fellow Americans.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, I mean, I really do like we're easily influenced.
We are very we're market marketing driven, and we don't
like to even though it's called the Age of Information,
we really don't like to do research. We really don't
like to look much into things. But yeah, that's my conclusion.
People are stupid. And if you jump out a window,
(37:25):
somebody gonna jump. You know how your parents see that.
That was other thing back there our generation when your
parents just use that analogy all the time. Well, if
Bobby jumps out the window, you're gonna jump out of
the window. Nowadays it'd be like yes, because he has
twenty five million likes, so.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I'm gonna do it. It was something else speaking of likes. Oh,
another big thing that's happening. And I hate to be
so DMV centric because I know we're worldwide. Keith Lee,
you know Keith Lee from TikTok. He's in the DMV.
So he was at a restaurant in Northern Virginia and
he gave his review on that. People had asked that
(38:00):
were hoping that he would go to. There's Aneath, the
open restaurant that we've actually been to on U Street. Her,
the daughter of the founders, is making this plea because
his father passed away and the restaurant is struggling. So
she had reached out and asked just asking people to
(38:21):
come because it's her, it's her family business, and they're
really in trouble right now. And so I'm hoping that
he comes into the district and he goes there because
the food is so good.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Well, and that's the other part. You know, you just
become famous because I mean, yeah, of that, and you know,
I have a friend. There's a whole bit about it.
But you know, so this person says it tastes good.
But this person trained, who is this person? How do
we know? We like share the same palate? He ain't
even fat. I don't know. As a fat person, I
(38:55):
don't trust those skinny person's palate. I'm sorry who said that.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
You said that?
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yes, at Mark Clark, fat people know what I'm talking about.
I ain't trusted on skinny press. Skinny person can't tell you.
All you gotta do is go to fast on the road,
cook out windy. I gotta do. You know what I'm saying.
You look at you. I'm separated as a as a
fat person, I can tell who's in charge of menus
(39:20):
by what they put together. It's deadly but delicious.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Well, so the food that he tried was very clean.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
It was like and he talked about uh, he talked
about that. My thing, though, is I will say this.
Here's what I will say. I will disagree with you
on that, but what I will say is as far
as the regional stuff goes, So we met in Saint Louis,
and in Saint Louis they have this this whole Emo's pizza.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yes, Emo Pizza, prime example.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Prime example.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
So yeah, if you're not Lewis style Emo's pizza, and.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
If you're not used to the style of it, the
taste of the cheese and the cheese and all that,
you might say, what the hell is this is what
you might say, but it's loved. You might also say
the same thing for the trip of fish. Yes, at
little carryouts and mothers, you might say, buffalo was this
(40:16):
fish raised at the bottom of the Mississippi River.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
If you've had catfish, imagine a more. If a catfish
is the is the what do you call it? The
carburetor of the oceans? Buffalo fish is a double carburetor.
So you might say that fish, Yeah, the fish. You're
just not used to it. You're just not used to
(40:40):
tripe sandwich involved in uh Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
So I do agree with that.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
And also last but not least since the Saint Paul.
The Saint Paul sandwich is a fried egg sandwich. What
am I missing here? It's oh, fried eggs, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise,
you know what I'm saying. Just like you know, same
thing with DC. You have DC favorites. You got of
(41:06):
course the smoke, the half smoke had bench chili bowl.
Some people I could hear Keith Lee saying, oh it
was okay, but it didn't because when you when you
bite into it and you're from here, it means something
to you. It means something to you, and you know,
as a kid. I think kids are the best because
they just go. They just go. Uh, you know, they
(41:28):
had their opinion is honest.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
They've been natty, this nafty because I remember the first
time I had white castles. Have you ever had a
white castle? You know you never had hamburger? Right, I
don't know if white castle is hamburger. I just remember, Wow,
I eat three hamburgers, Mommy, that place we can get
three hamburgers. The packaging was amazing, right. Buffalo fish, yes,
(41:53):
buffalo buffalo fish, yes, Lizzie, that's right. Same for him.
Thing for him says, yeah, give me that, Glizzie, Like,
if you know is that is that is? You know,
it's going to be different.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Same thing for here, like if you come here and
you're you know, you go to the carry out, if
that's you know, if you want to go into the
neighborhoods and you're like, oh, this is whatever, this this
mumbo sauce is too like too sweet. Right, It's the
same thing. So very interesting. But then you can say
the whole thing about food critics period. So what I
think that Keith Lee has done and other influencers that.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
We're not dog were just saying what happens that makes
you famous? Well, Amberley, Amber, Rolle, Amber whatever, same way
she got famous being Kanye's girlfriend that he met at
the strip club. I mean, you know what was the
There was no that was it.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
But I think what Keith Lee does is he's the
palette for He's going around the country and he's saying
this is just just on straight taste, you know, but
he also doesn't like he he said, maybe there was
like some shell fish and something, so it doesn't necessarily
eat that, So it is it is interesting.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
I do like how because.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Food critic before was super I remember I interviewed a
food critic.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
They came in. They were in the shadows. They couldn't
see him.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
In France from France.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
And so it's nice that there is somebody just like
I'm gonna do it too, And so I do like
that part.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
But I hear you regional stuff. Don't mess with it.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
You go to Baltimore, you want you know, you get
your chicken box. Okay, get a chicken box, but fries
you want salt? Yeah, salt, pepper ketchup. Yeah, open up
the box. It's covered with ketchup. Everything covered with ketchup.
It's not like on this it's covered with ketchup. Right,
salt pepper, ketchup. That's what you said. You'd be like,
(43:42):
I don't like this.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Too, drenched in the ketchup. So whatever. So welcome to
the DMV Keith Lee. So far, it's good. Like he
did leave.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
This business was struggling to because they're getting ripped off
by like the grubhub type places. So he dropped two
thousand dollars or something there. So he is doing good
with it like he might. The food is seven out
of ten, but he's gonna leave that chat too, So okay,
welcome to.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
The d md well family. Thank you so much. As always, sure.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
You have to ask Allison today. I guess we because
we didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Do not point out what we don't have, Allison, Oh
my goodness. All right, Chelsea
And welcome to Alison Mark podcast see Alison and Mark podcast,
which is on fire by the way these days.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We made it to the front room.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You made it to the front room.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We're moving on up.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We have a little technical difficulties that we will be
working out as we uh uh, you know, get better
at this. But oh we left our do you rememorize?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
No, but I can tell you what we are.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We are Alison in Mark and this is the media
married and media podcast where we have a full house.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Is you're about to see?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Oh lord, yeah, you let the monkeys out to Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We have our grandchild with us and our are with
us today and we're too. We're too media pros who
have been married for twenty four years, coming up on
twenty five years. And we talk about everything here from
politics to pop culture and a little bit of love
and laughter sprinkled.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
In and so again, like this thrown off a little
bit because we're not in the studio downstairs, but I
had to think, so baby, let me just normally we
don't do this because we're such pros. But I'll tell
you because I'm sure you don't know what to deal.
So our conversation today around FASTA For those who don't
have kids in college, I guess you don't have to
worry about it, but if you do, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, some glitches with fast for rolling out this time around.
But the kicker is, so we have two kids at
ones in grad school. She's a medical school and the
other one is a sophomore at Clark. We just dropped
her off and hopefully maybe we have a picture of that.
And yeah, it turns out maybe it's on the universities.
The government said what they Yeah, the government said they
(02:03):
did what they were supposed to do. But I will
tell you that. Okay, our daughter Spencer down in Atlanta,
she was sharing with us that one of her friends
she was like, hey, girl, where are you couldn't come
back because of financial aid reasons. So it's somewhere along
(02:24):
the line. It's it's not getting to it's not getting
to these kids. So it's a real issue. And I
was on the phone all day to day with and
we'll say it because maybe somebody on air knows Howard
University trying to get our daughter's grad plus loan money together.
So it's a real issue.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Fast Foo is real. Please comment if you have the
challenge out there. If not, we'll move on. Carl with
the K is joined as Ladies Women, the legendary Carl
with the K, who has a standing gig but still
makes time to join us on our top rated podcast,
We have.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Missed Your Car withy.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I missed you guys too. You guys been traveling all
over the place.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
And ize I apologize that my howard is messing up
on the fast food.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But yeah, it's an issue.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
If you know somebody I really wish I did.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Are you surprised?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I'm not surprised, but I think most institutions have that
administrative issues a lot of times. It's just that as
you graduate and you move on, you kind of like
put that stuff to the back of your mind and
you just try to remember the good times.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Absolutely, because I remember.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
My freshman year we took over the A building. Yeah,
and protest back in This is eighty three.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, so you know, lines along the lines are long,
and the financial aid folks they are on the phone.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I couldn't even get through I'm coming up tomorrow though,
coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
The queen going up.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
If she doesn't have her on it, that means she's
in my pocket.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh, and your money is a terrible thing to waste.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wow, why the queen is coming up? Well, get in place, Howard.
You don't want to mess with this one. She no, no, no,
So Carl with a K. I know you have a
tight schedule, so you want to get us. Had not
a problem. Everything's going good.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
And since we are on the educational way, I figured
that has some HBCU questions today?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
All right, I love it.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
This one surprised me, but it shouldn't be the answer.
If you know, if you know HBCUs, you should know
the answer. What HBC you had so many rattlesnakes on
its campus that they became the school mascot.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh, I didn't know. That's why I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I didn't you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yes, when they moved to a new property, there were
so many rattlesnakes on it, and they became the rattlers.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And can I tell you.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
That's that's a perfec in fact metaphor if you will,
for turning a real funky situation into a real funky
situation exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I love it. And the irony is Howard had came
by his name the same way how's that there were
like so many buffaloes.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That they named it the bison Bison. He's on his
dad joke.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Kick, I was about to say, because I was like,
what's the new one on me? Mark? I don't recall
that one on Howard?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Next up, what HPU was the first to award bachelor's
and graduate degrees in the South?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Oh, so that must have been a un So can
I ask, can I get a hint?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Would that make it university? Right?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
At the time, I think it was a it was
a university at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say the.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
First in the South.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And graduates.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Oh, that's a good Clark college going into the Clark
Clark College.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well you know the choice? Sorry about that, Well it
was You're right.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It was originally Atlanta University now Clark University.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And I know this now because of our daughter.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I did not go to an HBCU, but.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
C C A A A you u u U. That's
our daughter at Clark. Shout out to Clark Go Panthers,
Red Turf.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Hey, I got why do you think I came up
with the question? I knew you guys were.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's right, He's good Man.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Last, but not least, shout out to the ladies Spellman
and what other school are the only all women HBC
us Bennett.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Bennet in it? H why don't we talk about Bennett
this weekend?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We just we saw the song, we passed the we
passed Bennett. Yeah, we passed them.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So because that were in it?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Now this is when I'm going to leave you onto
ponder on. I'm not going to put it. I couldn't
put in a question for him in time. I just
found this out. But there is an h b c
U that today is predominantly white.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh it might be my father's alma mata, University of
Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Uh, No, it's not, well, not that one. This one's
in West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh okay, yeah, we know this one, Tyler. What's the
HBCU in West Virginia that's mostly white?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Blue Field?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Blue Field?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, from our college student.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You had to call, you had to call a friend
I got.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I shout out to you Irving though and c L
for getting all these uh HBC trivia together.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Blue tonight, I'm at I'm in Arundel Mills at TGI Fridays,
and I switched up on with the with the Owings Mills.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I do them on two Tuesday nights.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Now we do those on Tuesday nights because football season's
coming and I don't want to be interfering with Thursday
night football getting yelled at.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
That's smart.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Let me ask you a question before you go.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
For all the.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
People kind of in you know, just in life, trying
to navigate life, how does it feel to love what
you do?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Who?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It keeps me going?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, because sometimes I just like, I'm like, you know,
I don't feel like I don't feel like researching twenty
five more questions today, and then I'm like, but they
love when I do it, and I love doing it
when I do it. It's kind of like I love
when you do it, but the press I don't. Oh,
here's the best way to describe it is you, as
(08:48):
a mother, can understand. All I want is the baby.
I hate the labor.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yes, I got you, I got you. Well, Well, what
you're doing is super impactful.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's fun, and it's informed, and I think it makes
us all feel really proud of our hero acage in
our culture.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Carl, we appreciate you, my friend.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I appreciate you. Thank you so much for having me
and welcome back.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
All right, take care and be safe. Carl with a
k ladies and gentlemen. And he's an amazing guy. For
those who don't know, I mean, Carl lost his wife
years ago and he's just an amazing guy. We worked
together at Radio one and he's just always been this
splendid person. So Letta, what's going on, Soletta? She's joining
us also, like you said, Irvin Russell, CEO Redden's in the.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
House questions Shamira Brown.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
My god, bless you and the kids. And so I
had such an exciting moment just now, Babe. Shout out
to Mary Woods. Okay, when I've transferred to SIU Carbondale,
me and Mary, she was an ari and we became
i mean, super super close friends friends, friends friends. It's
almost like because I was older, you know, coming in
(09:55):
as a junior, and everybody else was a freshman. Mary
and I we were super super close. I'm talking about
and it's so funny because you know I'm talking about
I went to her so she had a long distance
a fiance girl. I went to the wedding. I mean,
we really you know what I'm saying. And so she
just found me on LinkedIn today and so shout out
(10:17):
to Mary, who was just a great friend. Had a
very interesting time, you know, you know how you transferred
to a school you don't know anybody whatever, and we
became really close. So shout out to Mary. No you're
not watching him, but cool. So Janet said, it was
very formative. Love you guys, Deborah, love you too. The
niece is in the hause.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Speaking of school. Just as you show this. I know
our thing isn't that's okay?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I got it?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh you got it?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah, so we actually we dropped off. Go ahead,
baby the leading and I have the video.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Oh okay, So so the baby, Hi John the are
you know?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We call her baby, So people.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Who know us down from d Time Truck.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
They just call her baby too, so we'll just say baby.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Her name is Spencer, but she's second year at down
in Atlanta at Clark Atlanta University. And we went down Thursday.
We drove it's probably ten hours, breaking the trip up,
just enjoying her and then enjoying each other's company on
the way back.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And that's what we that's where we were.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So we were there Friday and came back Sunday and
she's in her dorm and we just had a ball.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And see, I'm in the heart of Panther nation. As
we are moving in our sophomore into Clark Atlanta University,
I tell you about the campus and as the saying goes,
there is no AUC without c AU.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Come on Panthers.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So, baby, it seems like only yesterday when you two
were moving into your HBCU. So to move in day
talk to us about what is moving day on a
HBCU campus. As you reflect on your moving days.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's just cool.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You get to see like it's exciting because now you're
meeting your homemates and I had the same.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Roommate all four years. Shout out to my best friend Kristen,
love you here. But yeah, so that was easy.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
But just moving all your stuff there, trying to make
it work at Hampton Knows.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
There wasn't any running to the store, so you had
all your stuff. I don't know how we did it,
but we didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So it's always an exciting time, especially as an.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Hbc second year for the baby down at Clark Atlanta.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
How are you feeling, I'm excited it's always hard to
leave mom and dad, but I'm very excited for another
great year. This is the baby, y'all, the baby. We're
so proud of you. This is your room, right, this
is your first on campus experience. So typical dorm room.
Really nice. Can't wait to reach meet your roommate.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So, so she was going for a minimal as boho.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
She and that's it. That's our baby, right there. So
(13:59):
so about all that, and babe, we got, like you said,
the drive down really was enjoyable. Yeah, and you know,
she letter says, love it that all your girls attend
HBCUs for undergrad nothing like that experience. And let me
just say Allison was exactly on top of that. As
(14:21):
far as Alison, I won't say demanded, but it was
very important for you for them to have the HBCU experience.
I wanted to have it, as I've always mentioned, but
you know, I think Phil couldn't afford it. But my
daughter's going there had been very exciting, right.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And it was important for me and just for me
and for.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
My girls, I felt because in their experience K through twelve,
they had never been in a position of the majority.
And you know it's important because I feel like sometimes
that can really make you feel a little small and
like you're sort of invisible at times. And so I
(15:06):
wanted them to have four years of really just being
ensconced in their culture. I wanted them to see buildings
with the names of African American scholars and leaders on them,
because wherever you go to school, if you happen to
go to a large, what we call now PWY predominantly white.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Institution, you don't see it. It's just because of the
way it's set up.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You don't see buildings typically named after black men or
women and you, or statues on campus and all of that.
And so to have that totally immersive experience and then
to get back out into the world stronger and more
secure in your.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
History, I thought it was just very important for our girls.
It was our choice.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So you know, I'm not saying that's whatever, but I
am saying I thought it was good. I thought it
would be a good experience for our girls.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And let me say, you know, being married, coming up
on twenty five years, these are the conversations that you
don't necessarily have when you're dating or you know, when
you're getting to know somebody. That's why we don't really
give a whole bunch of advice because a lot of
the stuff comes up and just happens. We share the
same philosophy, and that's so important because I can imagine
(16:24):
the struggle that people get in when you don't share
the same philosophy. Never really talked about it. Now you're married,
now you got kids, Now you're beefing, and it's like
you didn't see it coming because it never comes up.
It's coming you never. You don't really have that conversation
when you're dating. So, Babe, this this little moment here
speaking of driving, now this moment came up, Babe, we
actually saw a double double rainbows. And I was sleeping
(16:50):
and baby was driving, and so you're like, wake up, baby, look, look,
look look. And ironically it was dad's birthday.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Was the day that he made his transition.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
They made it was another birthday, okay, the day he
made his transition. It was sort of on my mind,
and so when I saw it, I just felt like
it was my father saying, you know, hey, baby, love
you miss you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well yeah, and I thought it was too bab, So
I put something together, so got a little a little
Mad to Dead. Okay, okay, yeah, okay, Just.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
There's so many songs about rainbows and what's.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
On their side. Rainbows our visions, but only illusions and
rainbows have nothing too high.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
So we've been told some choose to.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Believe it, kine on their wrong weight and see they
will find lorrainbow convex the lovers, the dreamers and me.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Ipe you can see it if you know.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Sometimes sorry to capture them, but it was a beautiful
double rainbow and just you.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Know, just a great memory of my dad.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
All right, So boots, he says, keep me in your prayers,
taking my daughter back to Hampton. Yes, so you're gonna cry,
let it, let him out, let him out, Booty, don't
be scared, let them out.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What he gonna cry now, he ain't scared of it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, his going to craph Yeah, and that story is amazing.
So moving right along on the.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Show, got to talk about the d n C that's
going on right now, and just it's so interesting, just
the there was I saw a side by side of
the different even signs that people in the audience are given,
I guess to hold up and like like one of
them at the r n C said mass deportations now,
(19:27):
and then the other one at the that's the r
n C that the DNC had just said us A
one of them said, like, you know, it's just it's
just a difference in tone that I find really really interesting,
which leads me to another point. I was listening to
UH having conversation with one of my co workers today
(19:50):
and she brought up the fact that on w t
O p here in d C, just a really trusted voice,
you know in local news, right radio, the anchor was
doing an interview with somebody. They were talking about the speeches,
and he said, about Michelle Obama's speech, and if you
guys watched, he said, he asked the guy, he said,
(20:14):
it was a little harsh, don't you think? And so
here's the deal. And I've said it a million times,
Mark always big boies me on the space. I've said
it a million times. We're not talking politics because as
a journalist I can't do that right. You can read
between the lines on how I feel about a lot
(20:35):
of things, but I just got to keep it right here.
But what I will say is about this, It's not
about Democrats are Republicans. But what it is about is
this perception that I am so tired of. If Michelle
Obama stands up there with her braids and her bad
(20:56):
self and says, I'm just going to make a sentence up,
she says.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
We are tired of the lies.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
We're not going to stand for it. We're gonna elect
somebody who is for the people. And if your perception,
as a person who is not familiar with.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Doesn't know any.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Already, believes that black women are angry, that's going to
be where you come from.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And so when that statement was shared with me, it
just made me so mad.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It did make me angry because she is giving a
passionate speech at a national.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You know, a political party, a convention.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's what we're here for.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
That's why we're here. And right, she did deliver some singers.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I hope you have that one so we can show it.
But you don't have it, Okay, I hope, but well
we'll talk about it. But for him to say it
was harsh. Don't you think.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And I just I'm telling you, I've been myself in
these situations. It is like you cannot be passionate about something,
be a black woman, deliver it unapologetically without somebody saying
who it was harsh, Oh my gosh, it was harsh.
(22:25):
And for the people in the chat like, weigh in
with me, because have you been in these situations you're
standing up for yourself at your job?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I have done that.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I have done that at my past job, been accused
of the same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Right have you?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Have you been in a situation where you've said something
when you're not smiling, when you're not apologetic, when you're
standing up for yourself or your beliefs, and you've been
dismissed as being oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Just angry, Just calm down, you're angry.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And I think it is a special it's it's it's
it's exhausting. And I was very disappointed with that coverage
that leading question it was harsh, wasn't she harsh? And
I looked online there was no there was no backlash
for it. There was nothing about it.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Answer the question, and.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The kicker is that's what I said.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Did the person who was being interviewed say, well, it
wasn't really harsh, it was just she was making these points.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I think that the interview e just let it go.
But it is it is it? And when and I thought.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
About the the sheer hate that they the Obamas received
when they were in office, and how freeing it must
have been when they left after those eight years.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
But here we go again. Harsh, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And I consider that news source to be a very
unbiased one, and still here we go, Here we go,
when you know, you can have all the vitriol of
the elected lawmakers who are just spewing.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It's really craziness and what nobody says anything.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Right, So that's my problem. I got a problem with that.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
So do you have that mic drop moment though from
Michelle Obama at the thing. So she so basically, I mean,
she she just she's she's just an excellent speaker in
my opinion, and she basically Former President Trump, of course,
something he said made news everywhere because he basically was
(24:33):
trying to do that little, you know, fear thing when
he said, I guess he was speaking to black Americans
when he said that illegal immigrants basically correct me if
I'm wrong, were taking the black job.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
They're taking the black jobs. And so basically.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Basically Michelle Obama said, do you have it? Basically Michelle
Obama says, who's going to tell? Who's going to tell
him she's about to take one of those black jobs? Right,
Who's going to tell him she's about to take one
of those black jobs? So, you know, I don't know,
are you not? Can can she in her position not?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Uh, you know, be witty, make jokes whatever. I don't know.
I don't think that's the part that he was talking about,
this anger that I'm not mentioning on the radio. But yeah,
so she it was excellent. It was excellent. If you're
a good speaker, you're a good speaker, period, and she's
a good speaker. So it was a former proper in Obama.
But I'm not being biased. I wish that you had it, Mark,
(25:35):
it was so good today.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
No, no, no, I'm sorry. I thought I thought we
were talking about the article, but I didn't get the clip.
I did not get the clip. So maybe I had
the clip before the end of the show. Okay, now
something else clip I did get. So we have we
have a couple of stories here about around Mary okay
zamp a couple of stories around marriage here, so you know,
(26:03):
kind of controversy, not controversial, but uh, I mean some
to me ridiculous is one and the other curious. We're
gonna want you to chime in on you know, the
ideology of this couple and what they made their and
what they made their guests do. So the first one
in the marriage box, babe, this one was ridiculous to me.
(26:26):
But I I'm curious to hear what the viewers have
to say, and of course what you have to say.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
But you got to be like am I with an
adominant mm hmm.
Speaker 10 (26:36):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I'm dying for your wife and your family. I can
understand because it's dangerous. It's not fearful, it's a dangerous
wife and wife. To look, you bought it though, I'm not.
I mean, like once you on.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
You're not dying for my wife?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
What are you doing in a dangerous situation?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
If me and my wife are running because to shooting
at us and she tripped, I'm a key running.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
You and your wife, me and my wife who hurt you?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Is this a response? Just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'm gonna be honest. If you said that we couldn't
be together, no, definitely, because guess what, I would never
leave you.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I know. Okay, don't do that, Alison, don't do that
right now. I just thought I just thought it was
so ridiculous, and that's weird. It's ridiculous as it sounds.
I will say, I feel like there's a whole wave
of weird energy with men talking about women.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well he I mean at least the other host was like,
who hurt you? In a funny way, trying to get
out of it. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, But then he said before he said, you bought her?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Does that even me?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
And and I also saw this this I'm learning more
about my fellow Americans during during times like this, you
really learn about your fellow And I saw a couple
of posts that said what kind of man would follow
a woman president?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Would elect a woman president? And follow a woman? And
it's very interesting to me when you think.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
About globally how many women lead governments? And what are
you saying as a woman, because I saw two women
ask that question, So what are you saying as a woman?
Are you saying that women are not as smart as men?
Are you saying that women are so emotional that they
are not able to lead with their minds? Are you
(28:42):
saying not smart enough? It's to me, it's really I'm
learning a lot about my fellow Americans, my fellow women, weird.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
What kind of man would follow a woman president? Huh, Okay,
it's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Trump always says women ask him nasty questions, especially women
of color. Yeah, yeah, because you'd be nasty towards women.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
He also he.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Also called I think it was Amy Cloture or somebody, No,
somebody one, because you're seeing a lot of Republicans at
the d n C speaking whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He said that that was the nastiest speech. So I
think it says.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Anybody who doesn't fall in line and get one of
those t shirts that say dictator from day one, I
think it's anybody. Yeah, I'm learning a lot about my
fellow Americans.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I love you. I'm learning a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
My fellow Americans. Right, and so now the story, babe,
you you sent me also involving marriage. You want to
talk about.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
That, Well, just the question is, I mean, this is
the specifics.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
But another couple has charged to come to the wedding,
and I think it was in New York.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It was like a whole day experience or something.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
But they charged their guests like three hundred and thirty
dollars to come to if they wanted to be a
part of the we as a guest and they said,
oh yeah, we saved about forty thousand dollars doing it
that way.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So weigh in. I mean, is it ever, ever, ever
okay to charge to go to your wedding and or reception.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I'm going to say, I think this might be a
general To me, this seems like a generational issue in
that I think, and I want to speak for all
the Generation xers.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I guess people did We're okay, we're exp.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
But I feel like we are on the last end,
right after the boomers, where if you want to have
an amazing wedding, go ahead, but I'm not going to
pay for your amazing wedding. If you want to having
a young get married at the courthouse for two dollars, yeah,
so that me paying for your wedding because you want
to have one. There's a disconnect there for our generation
(31:00):
because people will say no, but we wanted to have
a nice wedding. We wanted to just like when people
invite you to their weddings out of the country or whatever. Dude,
forty five hundred dollars. I love you, I want to
support you, but you're thinking are you thinking about me
or you're thinking about what you think is so cool.
So it's almost like, but I think that's our generation.
I think the new generations they're okay with it.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I think that if we were invited to a wedding,
unless it was somebody like really close and we wanted
to go because we just wanted to support.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
And we're like, okay, but yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
If I would not advise my daughters to do that,
I would just say, I have a smaller wedding.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
So let me ask you this. If you're if you know,
we have people, we have some strong we have some
strong will daughters. Now yeah, if they're like, look mom,
I'm charging five hundred da da da da da. You
chimed in. You gave your opinion. So do you At
what point do you just say, okay, fine, we pay
our one thousand dollars and go to the wedding. I mean,
(31:57):
you know what I'm saying. Do you keep on? You
know what do you learn?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
What I've learned is that these kids are grown.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
If they ask my advice on something, I would say
to them, I would prefer I would not suggest that
you do that. But yeah, I mean these kids go
out We've seen it, Like you go out to a
birthday party and you just know you're gonna pay for
your own meal and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So maybe it's a different mentality with one about that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
We did, but I think that just I would advise
them not to now.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, And I think it's interesting not having the older
people around, because I think grandmas and grandpas, especially grandma's
can get away with calling something tacky if you're going
to do it right and give you that kind of
feeling of if your mom says that it's one thing,
she don't know what she's talking about, or your dad
says it dad, but if your grandparents said, especially your grandma,
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I think it's like, is it tacky?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, they would say they don't. Look grandparents wouldn't have
a problem being like, oh no, no, baby, you don't
do that.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
We don't do that. Now, baby can have something right
here at the house. Right we tell people to pay
for their own plate.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
You can see the grandfather, you know, grandfather saying well, what, well,
how much is it.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
Much?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I paid for it? No, don't do that. Don't do that.
That's embarrassing. Don't do that.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
They weren't gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
And so yesterday, for those who don't know I'm a
radio guy, right, television radio, but radio is my first love,
you know, as far as the career goes. And so
yesterday it was national radio. Yeah, I'll put together. So
I put together a little thing, pull little some something
for the radio people out here, just kind of a
rundown of where I've been and some of the things
had a chance to do, just a little quick thing
before we wrap things up.
Speaker 11 (33:37):
Okay, saved my life, saved my life.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And then.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I get up.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You gotta get off, you gotta.
Speaker 12 (34:01):
Get down, you know, trying to be crazy. Baby, You've
got to turn to No Land called you.
Speaker 11 (34:15):
One on something.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Baby, why you all know?
Speaker 10 (34:29):
And and full music.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I do, happy radio data all my radio brothers out there,
radio brothers and sisters out there. And you know, it's crazy.
I see those shots when I worked to New York.
I think I look younger now than I did back then.
That weight loss thing is crazy. And I know someone saying,
why do you have all suspenders?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Mind what.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Reverend Clark? Well, my brothers and sisters. I felt like
I needed to have something on today, okay, anything to
wrap up.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah, I'm just saying that it's kind of it's chilly
chillier here in our area. H Spencer down Atlanta said,
is chili there too? Starbucks is out with their pumpkin
spice lattes already ready, Yeah, I'm really Yeah, brings them
back early and introduces a new drink and yeah, so
that's happening.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It feels like fall out there for sure.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Show Alicia is in the building, Beverly's in the building,
Sondra's in the building. Okay, we'll be okay.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, I wish we had more tape.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
We could have shown like they had the whole role
called Lil John was at the.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And all that. But as you can see, we're not
in our regular dates.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, we're not in a regular DIGS, but we'll have
we'll do a review the we'll do a review next
Wednesday of that and capture those great moments, including what
we mentioned today with President former First Lady Michelle Obama
being an old DIGS and will have the best moments.
And it is the energy around this is so much different.
It's very interesting and I wonder, you know, how you
(36:09):
watch it and you're just like, I wonder what people think, because.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Well Amber Rose chime in and she said that, yeah,
it looks lit, I can't deny, but.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Then you know, she, I guess you used that to
parley into I guess.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
There are no problems in the world. So everybody's laughing
and giggling. You just you know, you're What I'm learning
to do is take things, uh, not less personally because
it's not personal, but I'm learning that everybody has an opinion,
and you know, I think I think.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
The opinions are really important though.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I think that people who have a large audience, you
gotta really think about what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
And if you stand on it, you stand on it.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
But if you're saying it for a check or some clout,
you gotta really who who is it gonna hurt in
the long run?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
That's my question.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Also, I realized there's a lot of stupid people out here.
That's whatever.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, I know, but it's American.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Are American stupid? I think that's the thing I think
I'm really starting to focus on, is that.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
You're learning about your fellow Americans.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, I mean, I really do like we're easily influenced.
We are very we're market marketing driven, and we don't
like to even though it's called the Age of Information,
we really don't like to do research. We really don't
like to look much into things. But yeah, that's my conclusion.
People are stupid. And if you jump out a window,
(37:25):
somebody gonna jump. You know how your parents see that.
That was other thing back there our generation when your
parents just use that analogy all the time. Well, if
Bobby jumps out the window, you're gonna jump out of
the window. Nowadays it'd be like yes, because he has
twenty five million likes, so.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I'm gonna do it. It was something else speaking of likes. Oh,
another big thing that's happening. And I hate to be
so DMV centric because I know we're worldwide. Keith Lee,
you know Keith Lee from TikTok. He's in the DMV.
So he was at a restaurant in Northern Virginia and
he gave his review on that. People had asked that
(38:00):
were hoping that he would go to. There's Aneath, the
open restaurant that we've actually been to on U Street. Her,
the daughter of the founders, is making this plea because
his father passed away and the restaurant is struggling. So
she had reached out and asked just asking people to
(38:21):
come because it's her, it's her family business, and they're
really in trouble right now. And so I'm hoping that
he comes into the district and he goes there because
the food is so good.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Well, and that's the other part. You know, you just
become famous because I mean, yeah, of that, and you know,
I have a friend. There's a whole bit about it.
But you know, so this person says it tastes good.
But this person trained, who is this person? How do
we know? We like share the same palate? He ain't
even fat. I don't know. As a fat person, I
(38:55):
don't trust those skinny person's palate. I'm sorry who said that.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
You said that?
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yes, at Mark Clark, fat people know what I'm talking about.
I ain't trusted on skinny press. Skinny person can't tell you.
All you gotta do is go to fast on the road,
cook out windy. I gotta do. You know what I'm saying.
You look at you. I'm separated as a as a
fat person, I can tell who's in charge of menus
(39:20):
by what they put together. It's deadly but delicious.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Well, so the food that he tried was very clean.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
It was like and he talked about uh, he talked
about that. My thing, though, is I will say this.
Here's what I will say. I will disagree with you
on that, but what I will say is as far
as the regional stuff goes, So we met in Saint Louis,
and in Saint Louis they have this this whole Emo's pizza.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yes, Emo Pizza, prime example.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Prime example.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
So yeah, if you're not Lewis style Emo's pizza, and.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
If you're not used to the style of it, the
taste of the cheese and the cheese and all that,
you might say, what the hell is this is what
you might say, but it's loved. You might also say
the same thing for the trip of fish. Yes, at
little carryouts and mothers, you might say, buffalo was this
(40:16):
fish raised at the bottom of the Mississippi River.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
If you've had catfish, imagine a more. If a catfish
is the is the what do you call it? The
carburetor of the oceans? Buffalo fish is a double carburetor.
So you might say that fish, Yeah, the fish. You're
just not used to it. You're just not used to
(40:40):
tripe sandwich involved in uh Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
So I do agree with that.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
And also last but not least since the Saint Paul.
The Saint Paul sandwich is a fried egg sandwich. What
am I missing here? It's oh, fried eggs, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise,
you know what I'm saying. Just like you know, same
thing with DC. You have DC favorites. You got of
(41:06):
course the smoke, the half smoke had bench chili bowl.
Some people I could hear Keith Lee saying, oh it
was okay, but it didn't because when you when you
bite into it and you're from here, it means something
to you. It means something to you, and you know,
as a kid. I think kids are the best because
they just go. They just go. Uh, you know, they
(41:28):
had their opinion is honest.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
They've been natty, this nafty because I remember the first
time I had white castles. Have you ever had a
white castle? You know you never had hamburger? Right, I
don't know if white castle is hamburger. I just remember, Wow,
I eat three hamburgers, Mommy, that place we can get
three hamburgers. The packaging was amazing, right. Buffalo fish, yes,
(41:53):
buffalo buffalo fish, yes, Lizzie, that's right. Same for him.
Thing for him says, yeah, give me that, Glizzie, Like,
if you know is that is that is? You know,
it's going to be different.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Same thing for here, like if you come here and
you're you know, you go to the carry out, if
that's you know, if you want to go into the
neighborhoods and you're like, oh, this is whatever, this this
mumbo sauce is too like too sweet. Right, It's the
same thing. So very interesting. But then you can say
the whole thing about food critics period. So what I
think that Keith Lee has done and other influencers that.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
We're not dog were just saying what happens that makes
you famous? Well, Amberley, Amber, Rolle, Amber whatever, same way
she got famous being Kanye's girlfriend that he met at
the strip club. I mean, you know what was the
There was no that was it.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
But I think what Keith Lee does is he's the
palette for He's going around the country and he's saying
this is just just on straight taste, you know, but
he also doesn't like he he said, maybe there was
like some shell fish and something, so it doesn't necessarily
eat that, So it is it is interesting.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
I do like how because.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Food critic before was super I remember I interviewed a
food critic.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
They came in. They were in the shadows. They couldn't
see him.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
In France from France.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
And so it's nice that there is somebody just like
I'm gonna do it too, And so I do like
that part.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
But I hear you regional stuff. Don't mess with it.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
You go to Baltimore, you want you know, you get
your chicken box. Okay, get a chicken box, but fries
you want salt? Yeah, salt, pepper ketchup. Yeah, open up
the box. It's covered with ketchup. Everything covered with ketchup.
It's not like on this it's covered with ketchup. Right,
salt pepper, ketchup. That's what you said. You'd be like,
(43:42):
I don't like this.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Too, drenched in the ketchup. So whatever. So welcome to
the DMV Keith Lee. So far, it's good. Like he
did leave.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
This business was struggling to because they're getting ripped off
by like the grubhub type places. So he dropped two
thousand dollars or something there. So he is doing good
with it like he might. The food is seven out
of ten, but he's gonna leave that chat too, So okay,
welcome to.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
The d md well family. Thank you so much. As always, sure.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
You have to ask Allison today. I guess we because
we didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Do not point out what we don't have, Allison, Oh
my goodness. All right, Chelsea
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