Highly Melanated Podcast
Hosted by PJ, Blair & Red A safe space for you to enjoy every bit of your melanin no matter how "melanated" you are in skin tone, we are ALL Highly Melanated.Come enjoy funny and dynamic conversations that people of color face on a day to day basis with various topics such as loving ourselves, knowing who we are as a people and uplifting each other with a mix of class and rachetness (CLATCHETNESS)
Highly Melanated Podcast
Racing to the Ballot Box
What happens when you forget it's Election Day, and you're in the middle of recording a podcast? Well, you'll just have to tune in to this hilarious and chaotic episode of Highly Melanated to find out! Prepare yourself for an unexpected twist as we, your hosts Blair and Red, halt our usual podcast recording to send our unwitting co-host, PJ, scrambling to the polls.
Feel the urgency of Election Day like never before, as we give PJ a humorous nudge out the door, prioritizing his civic duty over our recording schedule. Amidst the comedy, we also take a moment to discuss the importance of being informed voters, sharing what's on the ballot in our city. Don't miss out on this unusual yet vital reminder about the significance of voting and how it affects us as a community. So, come and laugh with us, and remember, your vote matters! Be ready for PJ's last-minute wardrobe changes, the laughter, and the banter that is as entertaining as it is enlightening.
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I don't know what it is, but I just love being black DJ here.
Speaker 2:What up dough? It's your girl, blair. You know, melanin was popping yesterday, it's popping today and it's show enough, gonna be popping tomorrow.
Speaker 3:Thanks your boy Red, and you're listening to the Highly Melanated Podcast. I'm sorry, what? Say it again.
Speaker 2:I got a limber up. Oh the conversation. Before the record button is hit but here's the thing, and so this is similar to like okay, so eight o'clock, you're out of here. Pj.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, it is 735, as we normally record at 730.
Speaker 3:This is a PSA. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you guys to know that Blair has kicked off PJ. He said he better go do it. Do the damn thing. What does? He need to do again, Blair.
Speaker 2:So first of all, let's just back it up real quick. We get just for our listening audience. As PJ and Red said, we record at 730 on Tuesdays, so that means that right now, as we're recording this, it is 735 in this current moment, on Tuesday, november 7th, and we normally start off with our, you know, kiki ha ha greetings. But then I immediately this Tuesday is different, this Tuesday is different, and I immediately asked Red if he voted today. He responded with yes, I did, of course, the responsible adults. I then turned to ask PJ if he voted today, and he responds with a blank stare and silence and awkwardness.
Speaker 1:Y'all not going to put me all black like this.
Speaker 2:And then he proceeds to look at the calendar and say, oh my gosh, today is election day.
Speaker 3:Did he actually look at the calendar or he just continued to just like blankly stare?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, we don't know what he was looking at. I assumed he was looking at the calendar, but for all I know he was staring blankly into space.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:We have decided that instead of um, oh, well then immediately I said the post close at nine. Go vote, you have plenty of time. We will record later. So listening audience, if you. Well, I guess you would be listening to this after Tuesday.
Speaker 3:I hope you all voted.
Speaker 1:We hope we voted.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm going to put this as I said to PJ, you have to vote today. Our ancestors literally died.
Speaker 1:And could you tell us first of all hey guys, hey guys, hey guys, pj here. Can you tell the listeners what PJ is doing presently?
Speaker 2:PJ is currently taking off his poom poom shorts and putting on cargo pants so that he can get out.
Speaker 1:He's walking around with booty shorts, like it was nothing because it's my house, I suppose we walk in booty shorts, you should have been at the polls. Yes, yeah, you know what, for the sake of argument, I'm going to, we're going to, this is only a five minutes, whatever. However long this is, we're going to put this out now because it's Tuesday and it's election day, okay, okay, thus I pass, or the option that I gave, I put myself on mute.
Speaker 2:Is anything good about that? Because we ain't even really going to talk about anything.
Speaker 3:anyway, you don't talk about a lot of it, why you had all day to vote and you didn't.
Speaker 2:You took a nap.
Speaker 1:I literally had all day. I took a nap. I'm full of rest.
Speaker 2:He took a nap, I'm fully rested, but look, meanwhile Rhett and I are out here working hard for the money and still made time to go vote. But that's OK. This is the laying it on thick for me. But this is the thing you need friends who are going to push you. Do this for you. You know it's it. Let me and let me just say in PZ's defense it's not that he didn't want to vote and was purposefully not voting. He is very much a responsible adult. I don't know. I got my questions.
Speaker 1:As I said, I'm going to take one.
Speaker 2:Seemed to forget that today was an election day. So, as we were talking about you know, going to vote and the fact that we, as Black people, must vote because our ancestors literally died to give us this right, we were explaining to PJ what's on the ballot so that he can make an informed decision, just so you guys know, so he can be in and out.
Speaker 3:Everything is pretty much the same Is? There's two proposals. One is about increasing the debt limit for schools in New York and any other one is about increasing the debt limit for our sewer systems for the next 10 years. It's very simple you should, you, you want the budget right, so we should be voting yes. I know that that might mean something on the back end, but we need the money we need to educate our kids Boom.
Speaker 1:Boom On that. On that note, guys, thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 2:We apologize for the chaotic nature of this mini PSA, but the longer sort of it is is, voting is important.
Speaker 1:I'm really going to put this out.
Speaker 1:Especially it is. It is as much as we talk about voting and as much as we've had episodes about voting and had people run for Congress, run for city council and things like that, I would be thank you for telling me. Like I don't know where I was, I literally was sleep and then watching, like I'm watching spider man will across across the spider rest. Now, that's literally all I've been doing today and getting prepared for tomorrow. So, on that note, guys, before I actually do go, I do want to give a hearty, hearty shout out and we'll talk about this in great detail next week, or maybe I should just wait until next week about what's going on tomorrow, because it will have happened.
Speaker 1:It will have happened. So I think we'll wait until tomorrow. But I'll let you guys know.
Speaker 2:But anyway, on that, as a FYI, so that this does not happen to you in the future listeners, go ahead and look up the primary election dates in 2024 for your state, so that way you can go ahead and put it on your calendar, so that you are prepared and not scrambling at the last minute like our fearless leader here in your booty shorts.
Speaker 1:The fearless leader in his booty shorts. I am was, and I am fully dressed now with my exclusive clothes, so I will be walking to To get into this episode. I say it's always going to be the episode. Now I will walk into that poll with this exclusive sweatshirt.
Speaker 2:You don't understand how full circle that was just now. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1:On that note, guys, thank you for taking time to listen to another short ass episode of highly motherfucking melanated. The same space where it's OK to realize you, you got something to do today, right, go do it, get out and vote on that note. Peace, love and vote.
Speaker 3:Vote. Damn it, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2:Peace, love and insert emoji at PJ here with a puff of wind behind him, because he's gone.