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
Groove Into the New Year: Celebrating Triumphs and Embracing Tomorrow's Rhythms
As the sun sets on 2023, we're wrapping things up with a heart full of gratitude and the electric anticipation of what's next. Our final episode is a vibrant mixtape of laughter, culture, and profound connections, featuring the magnetic spoken word maestro, Unkkaged, who shares his powerful narrative of breaking free and finding solace in the symphony of life. Tune in for an eclectic celebration of personal landmarks, the cultural triumphs within the Black community, and the shared beats that unite us all.
If you've ever wondered how your personal growth can resonate with the world at large, let this episode be your guide. We navigate through the cityscape of our lives, from the quiet backstreets of self-reflection to the bustling avenues of historic achievements. Reflecting on the year, we engage with the themes that have shaped us, like the social media sirens and their sly impact on our self-esteem, to the soul-stirring questions of purpose that sometimes find answers in the least expected places. It's an intimate gathering where we toast to the milestones reached and gear up for the leaps we'll take in 2024.
Get your groove shoes ready because we're closing out the year with rhythm and soul. As we sway through the discussion, we remember that life's a dance, and finding your unique groove is what it's all about. So, whether you're a long-time listener or just tuning in, there's a spot on the dance floor for you. Join us as we bid adieu to 2023 and step into the new year with a groove in our step and a song in our hearts!
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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, you're boy red and you're listening to the highly melanated podcast.
Speaker 1:Hey guys, hey guys, welcome back to another episode of highly melanated podcast. It's the end of the year and we are happy to be here.
Speaker 3:No, this is the revamped version, the modified revamped.
Speaker 2:What we're not gonna do. Oh my God, who is this? I don't know, but that's nothing.
Speaker 4:Like who is this?
Speaker 1:Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys. Welcome back to another episode of highly melanated podcast, the safe space, where it is okay to switch it up every now and again. Get ready for the pivot y'all.
Speaker 2:PJ is thinking, pj is thinking.
Speaker 1:PJ yeah, right, but PJ is grateful for the warmth I feel from my friends.
Speaker 3:Red, I actually just posted something like that just the other day. I wonder if you got it from that.
Speaker 1:I did not.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, you saved Red. The post was little. Do my friends know? They are healing me every time we hang out?
Speaker 2:I saw that and I liked it. I did too.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna like it too.
Speaker 2:I thought you should, and Blair is Grateful for small but mighty circles.
Speaker 1:Come on. Small but mighty circles. Oh, but my circles, Not anything else.
Speaker 3:What else is?
Speaker 2:there. Let's try not to do that this episode.
Speaker 3:Well, that was early. You know what I'm gonna start doing. I'm gonna start timing this shit.
Speaker 2:I mean, what are we doing Two minutes?
Speaker 3:in Seconds.
Speaker 1:Okay, and guys, we have a special treat. On the in the room with us in the melanated manner, someone had just recently let me know that they were coming to the New York of the city and hit me up and randomly said you know, hey, I'm here. And I said, okay, well, you know, today is podcast night. This is where we record. So you know you can come over and hang out wherever recording the podcast. But wait, don't you want to be a podcaster? So why don't you just come on and be part of the show and let's let the world find out who you are? So today we have a spoken word artists. Not to be confused with a poet, it's completely different thing. I was led aware just a minute ago, someone who is very analytical, and I already said he's a future podcaster. So who's this? Who'd be?
Speaker 4:my name is on cage. I go by on case, obviously, but just top it up a little bit about me. I'm 29 years old and living here in Texas and I travel the world frequently to see new things and new cultures and new experiences.
Speaker 2:New cultures, new experiences.
Speaker 1:We love that. Listen, we love this. It's time, it's time. It's time, time to make a change. We can, you can, do it. That's so. That's. If you don't know what that is, that's the.
Speaker 2:You got to get your groove on what you got to get your groove.
Speaker 1:You know, I could never hear that song, ever the same again.
Speaker 2:I can't ever hear that song and not think of that. Martin blooper Real, like I can't like.
Speaker 4:I man, they just jamming on that song. Go man, gotta get your crew. You know I could never hear that song, ever the same again.
Speaker 3:I can't ever hear that song and not think of that.
Speaker 4:Martin blooper, you got to get your groove.
Speaker 2:You got to get your groove.
Speaker 4:You got to get your groove.
Speaker 1:That's great, so that's You're so happy to have. Yeah, I'm ready. Here's the interesting thing. You know, it's just for fun, you know. You know I'm going to tell you something I don't like hook up in my house. I don't like hook up in my house. I don't like hook up in my house. I really don't. And I immediately said okay. So you're coming over. Great, fantastic, all right, awesome. And I love people with positive energy, people who are not childish, people who Got their shit together and still working to keep their shit together. That's the main thing.
Speaker 4:And that's uncaged right here, by the way, it's uncaged spelled, it's uncaged, it's uncaged, it's uncaged. You may ask Two K's, because it is my poetry name, by the way, but it's uncaged because so far in my life I lived a life that was very caged in box then, and the societal norms quote, unquote that you would say, life would put you in, but I needed to release myself from it, and so uncaged is a form of release. It's uncaged, so I'm going to call it. The two Ks stem for crowned king.
Speaker 1:It's poetic and I can't explain it, but that's why I'd explain it.
Speaker 3:I want to take over.
Speaker 1:We're not going to address how crowned is spelled with a, c, so we need to know that Address.
Speaker 4:No, I know Artist Is Hard and I'm sensitive about my shit. Period.
Speaker 2:So you have a problem with it, you can call Tyrone. Okay, I'll try to Please.
Speaker 1:I blocked him. I can't call him.
Speaker 2:Well. I guess, can help you get your shit, huh, okay.
Speaker 1:So, but, guys, how have you been? Once again, we haven't recorded in a while. And again, guys, you guys probably do know this and we'll mention this again at the end of the episode. This will be our last episode of 2023. And normally we do take a break for January because we like to reset ourselves and we come back like history month. So, just so you know, we're coming back. Just want to say this first and say it again at the end of the episode. But Enjoy what you're about to hear, whatever you're all about to hear.
Speaker 3:Who knows?
Speaker 1:Oh but really, how have you been? I've been tired.
Speaker 2:My options I'm trying to pray.
Speaker 3:Obviously I've been tired too. I've just been running around, you know me. That's why I'm staying at work a lot longer these days, but I am taking back my weekends. I already done told my boss that I'm not going to be, doing that. I'm not going to be doing that Because I haven't done nothing for myself.
Speaker 2:So Past couple of weekends I've been no, no no OT for me, because I need, I need me time. You better reclaim your time. Clammy my time. Good, that's good.
Speaker 1:What about you? How have you been?
Speaker 2:Not, how have you been.
Speaker 1:Because, like like, people have never met you before.
Speaker 4:How are you? I'm good. I was literally just talking about time on my way here and reclaiming it, because all of this year I've only had maybe four days off in each month, which is ridiculous, and since I started my new job, I have missed birthdays, holidays, and I've been working on my new job and I've been doing important events because I've been working, working, working, working, working, trying to provide for it's just me myself and I, but still, you know, when you want to live comfortably, sometimes you got to do a little extra, but this November I decided that I was going to spend time with my family Versus the work, and I've been working on it for the next coming year.
Speaker 2:That's my goal. Wonderful.
Speaker 1:It's very good and you know like, while you both are tired worn out, overworked. Say that again. Just, you know, ran through, I'm not ran through, yeah, I have been run through.
Speaker 4:Okay, you know, you know with you and to do.
Speaker 1:OK, I honestly have been up and down, but it's been more up than down.
Speaker 2:And I.
Speaker 1:I am actually, as of today, really ready for 2024. I'll say that and look, I mean it, look at it, yeah. So I mean it's. I love you guys, I love all you listeners out there. All right, we do appreciate. The numbers have jumped up a little. Blair had already made the proclamation and some of you have listened, so you'll find out what's do the other ones at the end of the show.
Speaker 3:But yeah, nice, nice, nice, nice, well, so we were talking about, I guess, reclaiming your time, so we'll get that. We'll get right into that, which is with question a week. So, question a week, question a question week your questions as they pertain to, prospectively and introspectively. I was on Instagram. One of the things, one of the things that I definitely slacked on this year, was cooking a lot more. I have just been going out and I've just been eating left and right. Yesterday I bought some Chinese food and then at the same time, I came across this Instagram that somebody asked a very interesting question. So, question a week when do Chinese people eat it?
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I can't.
Speaker 4:Chinese source restaurants.
Speaker 3:I know it sounds really silly, but she definitely sat there and went through the back of her mind to think about when was the last time that she's seen a Chinese person come in and eat a Chinese food, and she has never seen or remembered anybody that has done so. And I did the same thing. So is that like? I don't even know if that's like it's not stereotypical. I don't even know what it is, it's just interesting.
Speaker 1:I wanna give a shout out to all of our Asian listeners. The questions, comments and concerns has been brought to you by Red and Red alone we are just here, I'm not going near that. But what I will say is that the Chinese food restaurant that's by me they do sit in the front, they do eat, but they're not eating. What we're eating, it's usually rice and something else I've never seen on the menu, or it's just maybe it's cause all we eat is general style kitten. So you know.
Speaker 3:I maybe Not the kittens, not the kittens.
Speaker 1:I know that's what it is right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think that's like where I wanted to go at go tours, because, you know, while we sit down and we kind of spend our money on doing things or eating out, I wonder if that's like a cultural thing and you know we need to spend more time, kind of like saving our money up and doing the things that maybe other people do Because, like you said before, they're not eating the same things that we are. Like it's just like McDonald's. So, like there's certain people I've never seen McDonald's, but it was just like a really like interesting, like an interesting like perspective, cause I sat there, I thought about it and I don't know if you guys are thinking about it right now or where. I'm just like, hmm, I do never see that.
Speaker 4:So Now, when you say cultural Ben, are you saying American culture, or are you saying-.
Speaker 3:I think American culture. Okay, I think American culture. I don't think because I think everything else is just like way too like split and divided. But I know it was like on the topic of like a little bit more serious, you know question and I don't want it to get that serious, but it was just like a funny like thing Cause she had like 68,000 like hits and I'm like it is a really interesting thought. So that is my question of the week. Not my best but-.
Speaker 1:It's the one you chose today. It's the one you chose today. We have no idea.
Speaker 2:It's the one that I chose today. Hey, look, if you gonna stand, stand on business okay.
Speaker 1:No business.
Speaker 3:It was between that and like another one where where I, you know, I saw another question where somebody asked can somebody name the, the top five countries with the top five, the top five penis sizes? That was also. That was on shits and giggles podcast. Shout out to the shits and giggles podcast the top five penis sizes.
Speaker 1:I would love to hear the response to that Top five penis sizes by country. Oh, by country.
Speaker 4:By country. Nigeria's in there somewhere Nigeria is figure 5, but it's in there.
Speaker 2:Nigeria is breaking the top five for show huh.
Speaker 4:Right. Nigeria is definitely bringing it.
Speaker 2:I don't know personally, but that's what I've heard on the street and I can't tell you professionally, so I professionally.
Speaker 1:All right. So, ladies and gentlemen, we are here, we're just having a little fun right now, but, as you guys know, 2020, see, that's how I feel about it, because it's just I can't even get the words out 2023. It just came and it went like it's it. I'm happy, but then I'm like, damn, does that mean I'm really getting older really quickly? But I, every year, we do a year in wrap up and every year and I think, since we've been doing it since 2018, shout out to all of you guys who have been with us for the ride. Shout out to all you new people who have come on, and shout out to all of everyone who I have assaulted on the train when I airdrop the episodes to you and you don't know who was sending you episodes. Shout out to all of you who I talk to randomly and say, hey, question.
Speaker 3:Listen at least the podcast. I do it all the time, At least they're not nudes.
Speaker 1:I don't do nudes. I don't do nudes.
Speaker 3:I tell you because I've been hit up with nudes before and I'm all like you know, but I I think that's another reason why I won't get an iPhone.
Speaker 1:You do know that you can. You can get something airdropped to you, to, to, to Android.
Speaker 2:I haven't yet. I mean.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 3:You know, you spoke it up 2024 here we come.
Speaker 1:OK, ladies and gentlemen, but you know it's, it's. It's been a really crazy ride this year. And I think for us, each individually and collectively, and then like for us as black people, us as Americans, us as just human beings, and I am ready to see what 2024 has to offer. 2024, I believe, is a leap year, so I am ready to celebrate all of you. February 29th babies, finally, you get a birthday.
Speaker 3:We're happy for you People that are like seven years old. Ok, you do the math.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what the fuck is? They don't even know what they are. Now, that was, that was aggressive. I'm sorry, blaming on the boulier. I've been drinking because it is our year in wrap up. I figured that it would make only more sense for me to have my New Year's drink, because I probably will not be drinking for New Year's I probably will. I will actually be in church. I found a church, I found a church. But anyway we'll get to that. We'll cut that out the show.
Speaker 2:Of all the things to cut Anyway.
Speaker 1:So so like, let me let's since we have someone who is joining in, and this is one of the big things in 2023 that I've actually loved that we've done. We've had more people on who weren't here to promote something. They weren't here to talk about their stuff or, you know, bring awareness or something. They were just here to join in on the conversation, and I want to do more of this in 2024. So let's start with you, uncaged, tell us like what, what has 2023 been like for you? I'm a, I'm FYI. I'm going to be the one with the serious questions. You know me well enough. Red is going to, which is Chris. Red is going to be the one who is, which is Chris is going to be the one who's going to ask the silly, absurd questions, and Blair is just going to be beautiful and just do what she does. You know she's going to. She's going to, she's going to reel it all together.
Speaker 3:I was going to say whip us all into shape, yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh my love that everybody has a position. Love that, play your position. Do it and do it well. So answer the question, so 2023 has been a year of transformation for me. I'm a storyteller, so I like to go in detail, but I'm not going to do that today.
Speaker 1:So do it.
Speaker 4:Do it Okay.
Speaker 1:So not too much detail, baby, this is only right.
Speaker 4:I'm going to keep it, keep it sweet. Let's just say the first three months were an awakening for me. We're had to make some switches in my life to remove myself from the fish tank. So anybody knows anything about fishes or fish, excuse me. Fish grow to the tank size and I was minimizing my growth by being in a situation that I was in. So I removed myself from that space. I was able to grow immensely, boss.
Speaker 1:Let's let New York do its thing for a quick second.
Speaker 2:Because she's outside your window. She is right outside the window.
Speaker 1:This is the joy of me living on the main street.
Speaker 3:Beautiful, beautiful. Such a selling point.
Speaker 1:Right, that is. Oh, this is deleted.
Speaker 4:That's very deleted.
Speaker 1:Too much information and you're safe for now it's because also, I opened the windows because it's hot in there, so take off.
Speaker 4:Oh, you're close. No, no, okay.
Speaker 1:But yes.
Speaker 4:So it is a year transformation for me. The first three months was an awakening where I need to remove myself From a situation that I was in in order to become a better me Once I was able to do that.
Speaker 2:I saw growth immensely.
Speaker 4:Do I need to get out of this situation? And I'm not going to say that anymore. It's the only time I can talk to you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It's another one, and another one. It's the straggler. It's smaller, though she wasn't as loud Any more. You, new York, right? So this year is a year transformation for me, growth immensely throughout the year. What was the struggle at first, as most transitions are? But at the end of the day and at the end of the year, I think that I'm coming up on top and I am very proud of myself for where I've gone and where I've come. Nice, nice, we're proud of you. Thank you, really appreciate it.
Speaker 3:So when you say where you've come from, yes, you have to have the choice.
Speaker 2:It's not the pointed hands together, the tippity tops of the fingers interlocking with one another.
Speaker 1:So when you say where you've come from my child, what? Where are you going?
Speaker 4:And where am I going. I see 2024 as the year of activation for me, because I had a lot of talk about what I wanted to do in 2023, wrote down my vision, made it plain, as people say to do, and it stopped at that. A lot of things came into fruition as far as preparation for what my goals were, but 2024 is going to be the activation of the preparation, and so that's what I'm coming into 2024. Excited for that Execution, better word, love, that Nice what's coming from me. How about you guys? I don't know if I'm allowed to ask. How about you guys?
Speaker 1:You're, did you say not allowed? Welcome to the highly melanated manner where there is shea butter in every room.
Speaker 2:No shea and not the palmers.
Speaker 1:We stepped up. We're a little bougie. There's cocoa butter in the front.
Speaker 2:Cut in raw. Oh my God, I have that exact same one in my bag.
Speaker 1:Is that my hand? This is yours. Come on KS. Come on KS, it was, it's just out.
Speaker 4:It's just out so.
Speaker 2:I'm curious.
Speaker 1:What are the props? It's, it's.
Speaker 2:I'll just say that I feel like, as far as I'm, of two minds about the whole. You know like, oh, you know who am I, who was I, where am I going. You know all that kind of stuff. I feel like a lot of it sometimes can be very performative until you yourself have that moment. You know what I mean. I think like a lot of times, like when we're witnessing, like other people having these quote unquote you know awakenings and realizations and you know full embodiment moments, you know like that's great for them, but you might not necessarily feel like a conviction to it because you yourself haven't experienced anything like that. So I always before felt very kind of just like like, very like unattached to it when people would say like this is how I transforms this year and this is who I'm going into and all those things, and I'm like not not throwing shade at all, but I'm like, okay, that's great. You know like I'm happy for you and I'm glad that you're experiencing that. But I can't necessarily relate because I don't think that I've had a transformational kind of experience like that until this year and I think the main thing that really kind of embodied it for me was, I mean, it's no secret, I went through a breakup at the beginning of 2022. And that was very difficult for me in a number of ways.
Speaker 2:And earlier this year, in 2023, I was at I think I talked about it on the podcast too I was at a girl's brunch back in March and we were all going around the room and everybody was just kind of talking about, like what are they happy about? Like what you know? What are they happy about? How are they feeling? Just like, basically, just like you know, let your feelings out, like you know, let your emotions show, like, just kind of get it out their kind of thing. And the thing that I spoke about was just being so very happy and grateful more so to be so far from mood from where I once was, you know, like to have come so far in what I felt like was a relatively short amount of time.
Speaker 2:It was a short amount of time, but it also felt like a very long amount of time too, but like just having that feeling of transformation, like really finally, like being able to connect to it and feeling like wow, like I really do feel like I have transcended into a different version of me, mostly, mostly because for so long I was not my most authentic self, and then finally being able to get back into a place where I could be my most authentic self and still not really being it because I hadn't been it for so long and then moving past that into a space of wow, I really am living my best life right now.
Speaker 2:So to be able to kind of experience that and have that at the beginning of the year like really meant a lot for me and I think that that really carried me throughout the rest of 2023. And that was really important for me just emotionally, because it was definitely a rollercoaster, because it affects so many aspects of your life, essentially, not just, you know, romantically, but, you know, emotionally, spiritually, community, wise, like I felt like there were so many things that like were affected for me that I had to like realign and put back in place and build back up and build stronger, and I felt like I was able to do that this year.
Speaker 1:So what do you think helped you do that though?
Speaker 2:Just being able to, like, just have the freedom to just be able to have the space to do it, you know, and not feel like I was going to be what's the word I'm looking for Just essentially just having the freedom to do it and then having, like I said at the beginning of the podcast, you know, thank God for small but mighty circles like having the freedom to do it but then also having the encouragement from the people that are closest to me to do it.
Speaker 1:I love that. I thought you would. You know. You know we're here like that. What about? What about you? What about you, chris? Right, red Chris. The fact that we're, the fact that we're comfortable with just calling you Chris now.
Speaker 3:I was okay. I was always okay with it, either or but interchangeable. Yeah, you know it was.
Speaker 1:it was me. It was me. I'm sorry, depending on the day.
Speaker 3:So when we had mentioned that we were going to talk about like kind of your in our in end of the year review, I realized that a lot of really amazing stuff happened to me this year. This was a really, really, really good year for me and when I review it I did a lot of things like I moved, I got my promotion and finished up plays. I had traveled. I did a lot of stuff. Oh, yesterday was my yesterday yeah.
Speaker 3:Yesterday was my I? O anniversary, and so that part, a lot, of, a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff happened to me. That was really really, really, really good. But to to your point, blair, when I was going to mention it so I'm glad that you touched on it it's really about finding, when you find that moment where you can like really let go whether it be against outside forces, you know people that you're with or just because you're just letting go, you really start to really connect and I think everything starts to align. This year was so good to me that I even asked, like what would that happen? And I know that we really shouldn't like think like that, but I really I really don't have any or much complaints about anything. That was crazy, that happened, and sometimes that makes me feel because I tend to be such a optimistic person Sometimes that makes me feel a little disconnected because I feel like you know, I'm, I'm taking, I'm finding a way to fuel my positivity and make it work for me, and then meanwhile I might have people who are around me that aren't doing so well, but what I realized and this happened to me recently what I realized is that it's just living in the moment. If you can find a way to live in in the moment, you'll realize that you have those moments and you'll be able to pick up on those moments where you did, like you did, have a really hard time.
Speaker 3:I was talking to a friend the other day and I was reminiscing about my grandfather so that was my mother's father, and I don't know where it came from. I mean, it was the middle of the day, was probably like 11am on like a Thursday. I was at home, working from home, and I was talking to my friend. When I tell you, I started talking about this man and I started crying go to sleep out of nowhere. Now this man has has been deceased for years, and it just reminds me of an image that I saw on the internet about how we handle things.
Speaker 3:The pain doesn't get smaller. What happens is that we're ever we're better able to control it. So for all the people that are out there that are having a really, really hard time and are around, people that are maybe having a better time, it's not, it's not you, it's just that you're just having a moment and that moment will pass and you will get better. So to all my people out there that are having a moment, especially during the holiday seasons. I'm here for you. That's lovely.
Speaker 4:And true.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the irony of that being your close out, and here's my close in, because at historically, the end of the year has been a rough time for me, especially since the passing of my grandmother and everybody since then. And then we went through COVID and then you know aunts and uncles and cousins and you know friends and you know exes won't die, but you know everybody else has been, you know part of me feels like we should leave that unaddressed, but then the other party me is like so continue, that's me addressing it.
Speaker 1:And that's. We'll see how it sounds when I listen back, but you know, jesus, it's because you know it might make it in. Hey, I think. And for the first time in a very long time, you know, I've been in a really dark space and usually Christmas does this to me, holidays do this to me, and it really just started since to me, because passing, and I want to say 2023 has been the year.
Speaker 1:It's really been the year of solitude, but in a good way, solitude in past years has been destructive. It hasn't been, it hasn't been the most conducive to my needs. It hasn't helped with my goals. It hasn't helped with achieving, you know, of what I want. It hasn't done me any justice, except for the fact of me having something to say and like it's given me and I admit this in the past I guess I used to be looking back and listening back to myself. I can see myself as a person who their story was their person. So whatever I went through was all that I ever talked about and never really making room for the new things.
Speaker 1:And I would say that, as as crazy as it may be, this, this job, this side gig that I've taken on driving people for funeral services have put so much things in perspective for me. It has changed the way I see, I interact with people, the way I see people, the way I see tragedy, the way I see things that are a blessing, the way that I see things that just are what they are, and it's changed in a way that lets me know that it could have been worse, but it also could have been better, and every one of them, each one of those, is equally like. It's okay to acknowledge the fact that it could have been better, you know, and it's even better to acknowledge that it could have been worse. And I may sound like I'm talking in circles, but I feel, for the first time in a very long time, that I'm clear on my vision, based on like you said earlier, blair, smaller circles. You know, like it's, it's power within numbers, but quality over quantity means more.
Speaker 1:You know and, granted, I love I've said this numerous times I'm finally at a place, at this ripe young age of 43, at a place of where I can comfortably walk into a space and own it and and still be myself, still not feel like I'm overextending myself, I'm doing too much, I don't feel like I need to make myself smaller. You know, and I am understanding exactly what was said. Shout out to you, you know you, here you go, just like Beyonce said at the end of the Renaissance, the film was wondering where she was going to come in.
Speaker 2:She's timing, that too. So, I know.
Speaker 3:I want to go see. I did go see the movie Did you. It was good, it was very, it was good.
Speaker 1:It was very. I love seeing that side of the way. He said it was good.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:What do you want?
Speaker 3:It was amazing, oh my God.
Speaker 1:I guess give her all the praise. Don't make me go put my exclusive merch on. But again, like she said at the end of the show, where, as she when she got to her forties and I meant to bring this up when we talked about it the last episode is when she stopped giving a fuck of what people thought. And I am really at that phase. I thought I was before, but I realized I still kind of cared. You know, now I don't, and I love this, this part of what I've learned in 2023 of how to not really give a fuck and but still care for your well-being or care for whatever else, but it doesn't affect what's going on over in PJ's house, you know. So learning really more what it means to be authentically me without really giving a fuck, you know, but yeah, more authenticity.
Speaker 3:Well, that's not bad.
Speaker 2:So what was one specific thing that happened this year that you felt was significant to you? And you can define significant however you want, but like what was like an event or something that happened in your life this year that was meaningful.
Speaker 1:I just want to acknowledge, before someone answers, the fact that when you ask that question, chris made a stank face like he farted, or maybe the significance was I'm curious what that was.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna need you not to put me on blast like that. This is audio. Maybe he farted Right.
Speaker 2:I'm like maybe he farted? What the hell? What was that face about? I don't even know, because I was just thinking, y'all throw me off track now Okay. Somebody else answer, I'll get back to you.
Speaker 3:Yes, just you know something that happened Meaningful or significant to you, go ahead Uncaged. You're first here, you get first steps.
Speaker 2:That's the guest.
Speaker 1:Sure. So meaningful, significant Um 22, 2023 was a blurb.
Speaker 4:So it just kind of came and went. So I guess the only thing that meaningfully happened in my life was that I was not in a negative way, but just like I was very co-dependent in a sense, um, to my mom, to my family, just needing their acceptance and life to kind of live. And this year, I think, was the year that I decided I'm not going to keep waiting for y'all to accept me for who I am. I'm not going to accept you, I'm not going to accept you. I'm not going to keep waiting for y'all to accept me for who I am. I'm just going to live my life, and whether you're on the train or not, that's your business. Choo-choo. I guess that was maybe significant for me in my life.
Speaker 2:Was there like a specific event, that kind of like just kickstarted that?
Speaker 4:So the event happened last year. My sister was getting married. In her well, I guess it really started two years ago I decided to bring her his fiance to the house then girlfriend to get married and felt comfortable. And then, the year later following, my sister brought her boyfriend to the house and he proposed and they felt comfortable and I just wanted to feel comfortable and safe in my home with my family. But I'm not quite sure yet if that is a safe space and so, rather than waiting on the safe space to grow, I decided I'm just going to make my own world outside of that world, and if they become an estate or they get to a state of acceptance or understanding because I really don't need you to accept me, but I need you to be respectful of me and my life and once you get to that place where you respect me, then we're good. But right now I need to accept myself and respect myself over anything else. That's what I've kind of discovered this year.
Speaker 3:They got louder for the people in the back.
Speaker 4:That's what I discovered this year for the people in the back Respect yourselves, accept yourselves and don't wait for anybody else to accept you, for you to do it for yourself.
Speaker 1:It's so hard to do that and I think, I think, like I think, because it's the reason why it's so hard is because and we've talked about this because of social media. No, and not because of social media. I want to give a, I want to give a special shout out. So I want to give a shout out to a young lady. Her name is Fern. She was one of my passengers today and we had a conversation about social media and the impact of what it is for young children. Okay, let's stay on focus, let's stay on that. And we had a conversation about the idea of social media and how it is changing, how we view ourselves and how our kids view themselves and how we. We hope that in the new years, they don't, they don't, they aren't bullied the way that they are, because we weren't bullied before.
Speaker 1:The way that these kids are getting bullied now, in 2020, you know, in 2020s, like we weren't, our bullies, our us being bullied was a whatever time first period, homeroom started to whatever time eighth period, or whatever your last period of the day, and then you went home and you did your thing. You didn't get bullied online. You didn't go through these experiences where people across the country, in other countries are telling you what your worth is, and you had your family, you had your core people. Those are the ones who are still in instilling in you, and we had just a fantastic conversation shout out to you about this and I and I took from that today even more so, about what it means to not really give a fuck about what other people are saying, because they are not the ones walking in your shoes, they are not the ones who knows what's going on with you. You know, they only know the one dimensional side that you choose to share and.
Speaker 1:I, and so I I'll say to answer your question, I have now really understanding. Before I was vulnerable, before I was very raw, before I was very much an open book Before. Now, you know, those chapters have been, you know, bookmarked as in private, not everything is for public consumption. And I am happier at this point, having done what I needed to do because I felt like I needed to do that for me, which was share a lot of things personally to get them off my chest. But now that I shared it, I don't have to reshare it. It's already been shared.
Speaker 1:Now, if you want to find out, go do your research. If it's still there, you know, but it's not part of my present so much as it was just my past. So, 2024, I look forward to what he I'm got to be looking forward to yet, but I I'm just, I'm just grateful that I'm not in the same headspace I was and with the circle of people that I kind of surrounded myself with and it was because of what you said, blair, smaller circles, like, for whenever me and Blair get together, whenever me and red get together, chris gets together, it's a beautiful thing. Whenever me and Amy be a good other handful of people people have known for 20 plus years. Shout out to you dad's Percy cookie. All of you are the ones that keep me pushing forward, and I love each and every last one of you, even if we don't see each other or speak to each other as often.
Speaker 3:I think, on the topic of worth, the most significant thing that happened to me this year was that play and everything that I told you guys about that went along with it. I think that allowed me to not that I didn't already know it, but it allowed me to kind of rekindle, maybe even fan the flames a little bit that I need to start increasing or or or, or, or, yeah, I guess, increasing the caliber of the type of work that I do now, because what I'm starting to happen is what's starting to happen is that and I told somebody else this the other day I get a lot of stuff consistently. That is not bad work is just that it's not like you know the vendors that you would want to see, the billboards, the American and the American ones. You know that, like someone in this room is on in in the Jacob Javits center.
Speaker 2:It was in the Java center.
Speaker 1:Yeah, by the way.
Speaker 3:By the way, yes, you knew that, whatever, I think that really makes me want to really start doing much, much more, lot, larger and more complicated projects, because I think I deserve it. I think the reason why that I am getting a lot of things is because I'm remaining consistent, because, just like you lovely people in this room, I'm talented, so you know bigger and better things. That's. That's what it is in a nutshell bigger and better things.
Speaker 2:Well, and just just so I can say it's exactly what you said, like you think you deserve it, but you also know that you deserve it and that's the you know, that's the differentiating factor right there, because a lot of people think that they deserve a lot of things and maybe they do, but you have to know that you do, and I know that you know that you do. So keep walking your truth, king.
Speaker 3:That was, that was the thing. Transition to the no.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 3:But, um, but, yeah, yeah. So I think that was probably the most significant thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so funny. I think it would be out of me to not mention that a significant event in my life this year was the strike. I did talk about it so much on the podcast because it was literally like almost four months of my life this year that I was essentially out of work. And that was significant for a number of reasons because just being a creative and knowing like what comes with that, like this was the first time that I kind of like really firsthand experience, like how volatile this industry can be and how unguaranteed, you know, payment is. So that was, that was an interesting dynamic to deal with. But then also all of the things that you know were domino effects because of the strike, with me now going back into, you know, working full time Again. That has been quite a transition for me. It's been a lot.
Speaker 2:It's, it's it's been, it's it's been a journey, to say the least, and it's it's had. It's had its challenges and it's had its benefits. But I think, at the end of the day, everything happens for a reason and I do think that the biggest thing that I'm getting out of this part of the journey right now is really a solid confirmation that this is not what I'm supposed to be doing with my life. Like this is not the focus of where my attention should 100% be, and so I'm more easily able to accept that this is just a season right now. Like this is not.
Speaker 2:It's always been hard for me to quit anything or to leave anything like any type of like club or association, organization or job or anything that I've had. I've never quote unquote quit or left or ended my membership. I've kind of been. You know, I either graduated out or I transferred to somewhere else or I've transitioned to something else. So I've never actively have had to say no, I'm not doing this anymore, I'm done and I leave you here, kind of thing.
Speaker 2:And and that's always, I'm glad that I've never had to do that, because that in itself is hard for me, because if I'm going to do something, I feel like I'm committed to it and I'm going to do it until something stops me from doing it, you know. But now, just having been in this world of, like, freelance and entrepreneur and creative for so long and getting so much like fulfillment from it, to go back into a world that I, you know, used to be in and for, you know lack of a better word or for just comparison sake, you know, a more corporate kind of existence like, I just know that this is just not where I'm meant to be, and so it makes it easier for me to accept that I'm here for just a season and when this contract is up, I will be okay with saying, hey, this contract is up and I'm done.
Speaker 1:You know what's so funny? Because, like, I've learned this and I think there were portions of this part where I'm like kind of grateful, in a way, that I don't act full time because of going through or watching others go through the strike and then realizing like what if for me, during this moment, that that was like my only form of income like whatever I've ever done.
Speaker 1:You know because I quit at nine to five to be an actor, now a producer and whatever else. The hell I am now. But just to imagine how what. What that translates to is like nothing is for certain. Like nothing, nothing is for certain. So we can sit here and talk about what we want in 2024, all all the shit we want to, to be honest with you, but the truth of it is that nothing is for certain.
Speaker 1:So all we have to do is just keep a positive mindset and just understand that from moving on and so, like I enjoyed watching your resilience through this, all Blair shout out to the thumbs up because I did it. But we're not fyi guys, we're all putting thumbs up on zoom because I updated it and it's so pretty. Now I admire you through watching you push through that and then having to make a tough decision whether or not. You were going to re enter corporate full time and I'm. I honor you even more for being able to say you have until said date.
Speaker 2:Sure do, and that was them who put like they, they, they put a date on the contract. I was like, oh, y'all didn't sign Because everybody.
Speaker 1:I'm talking to every other act that I'm talking I talked to. They've all said they're voting no.
Speaker 2:So it's very interesting, it's just like.
Speaker 2:It passed at 75% yes of everybody who voted, but everybody didn't vote 25% and people voted no. 75% vote yes, so it carried, and I don't think it ever was a question of whether or not it was going to carry, because it was, but it's more so. We have to utilize these next three years to really understand what this is going to look like, because when the, when the TV and theater contract is up again and needs to be renegotiated, that's really the time to go through and like, really analyze, like Because by then I will be in.
Speaker 2:It'll be so much more advanced than what it currently is, because I mean, like that's what happened with, like, the streaming. Like we didn't know what streaming was through. You know that, the significance of the profit that came from streaming. We didn't know what that looked like three years ago. Now we do, and that's why it was such a big part of the contract. So it's exactly like you said. It's the same thing that's going to be with AI, like we know that it's going to be significant, but we haven't experienced it yet. So now we're these next two years as we're experiencing it. This is the time to be taking notes because Maybe, okay.
Speaker 3:Can I just do like a quick shout out flashback to the episode that we did about goals versus intentions?
Speaker 3:and then you have like a goal. You have an intention in mind, blair, of what you want to do and where you want to be. The same thing with me. And like I took this promotion and it's really easy for you know, even if it's something that you do like to work in, like this is managing and supervising, and you know, behavioral organization stuff, like that is really in my wheelhouse and so it's really easy for me. Like this is really cool, like I could just do all that. I'm all like I don't want to be here, you know. So just really sticking to. Maybe the goal was to, you know, make a little bit more money on the side, but the intention is to really pursue your art and and that's exactly right.
Speaker 2:Red because I agree to and and I'm not and I'm not I'm I'm no mean trying to pass this job like at all like I'm very grateful to have this position and to have this in the way that I have this position, because everybody in my office and my boss has been so good to me in terms of, like, the flexibility that I'm allowed and you know all these things, and it literally could not be a better setup for me. Like it's literally like set up perfectly and I am so grateful for that. And, just like you were saying, it's something that I'm good at. You know, I can do this job with both hands tied behind my back and my eyes closed. You know, like it's something that I know, it's something that I feel very confident in.
Speaker 2:It's something that I also enjoy, like I enjoy, you know, being because, for those of you who don't know, like it was a part time job before and I worked in fundraising, consultation for higher Ed, but now I'm doing it full time. So essentially, like the long story short is like I help raise funds for scholarships for students so that students can go to college. You know, and like just keeping that in mind, as the big picture for me is just like, oh like I love. I love my job, I love that I get to do that. I love that I get to create opportunities for students to be able to go to college. I wouldn't use that, but yes.
Speaker 3:But me personally, I wouldn't use the word love, but like I love you.
Speaker 1:Adores, adores.
Speaker 2:But I love, I love the, I love that through my actions, those are the outcomes. I'll say that I don't know if I necessarily love my job, but I love that through the things that I do, these opportunities are created. So I love the the end outcome. But again, like I said, just having been on one side of the fence and now leaning more towards the other side of the fence, I really am getting a full confirmation on where I am supposed to be. You know, and while I'm enjoying doing what I'm doing now and I enjoy the opportunities that I get to create, I know that it's not fulfilling for me in the way that my creative career is fulfilling to me.
Speaker 2:That's big oh thank you, that's big, I think I'm I think I'm slowly coming into that space right now.
Speaker 4:I know that I want to get my whole. My whole purpose in life, I believe you know, is that I wanted to help other people's other people heal in some way, shape or form, whether it be past traumas, whether it be just with within themselves. I just want to be able to be a condo in for healing, and so my issue, though, is that I want to do so much in the world, as far as my job goes, that it pulls me away from whatever I believe my purpose is at this point in life, and so my desire is to be this condo in, but, at the same time, what I want is to further my career and whatever way I shape or shape I feel, but it's also combative Can?
Speaker 1:I can. I just say here's the interesting thing about this, and I won't dig too much into this because I think we're going to move on really quickly. What I'm learning is that gulp, for me, that's not what I'm learning, but what I'm learning. You took that. That is this brown, like a baby. What I'm learning is that your, your, your purpose, and come in many different forms. It can, it can show itself in ways that you don't even expect it to, even if it's not doing what you would think that your purpose is designed to do. Right, and I'm learning that, and it's weird because I think I told you this before, chris, and I get it.
Speaker 1:I think I said this to you too as well there, because it's so annoying to me when I hear people like, oh my God, pj, you're so warm, you're so nice, like you make me feel so comfortable, you make me feel so safe and like that's what my purpose is. I know my purpose in life is to be of safety, is to make people feel like you can talk to me, you can be yourself around me, you don't have to worry, somebody is just here for you to just let you be a problematic person or unproblematic whatever. Just be you, just be yourself. And even doing that, from the stuff that I create whether it's this podcast, whether it's the DU project, whether it's the teaching, whether it's producing other people's content who are aligned with that to even now, whether it's driving and being in a space where I think I might want to go to mortuary school and I'm actually contemplating it because there is a void that is missing. That is not of the just making money aspect of it, because you all know money for me is not the.
Speaker 1:I have been able to live my life, a happy life, not the happiest, but a happy, fulfilling life with the least amount of money. So money has never been. I wish I had more money. I need to be rich. It would be nice, yeah, but my happiness doesn't really truly come from that. My happiness comes from the interactions I have with other people. That's why Kobe was so difficult for a lot of us, because we could not interact the way we used to and had to find ways to adjust, like having zoom meetings and zoom friend birthday parties and X, y and Z. I was just just never. Go back to 2020. 2021., 2022. You know and look in, you know it's been a long time before we get into the 2024 realizations or what we want, and that's we're going to close out with anybody else. Have anything else they would like to add? Before I give the list Not the list.
Speaker 1:The list we will start out with, because how about? Look at how things work. You Uncage being here, and one of the top things that I got was 2023 was the first time in all in major cities, we have four black mayors for New York, la, chicago and Houston. Whether they're doing their job, it's just. It's for the first time. We've got some, we've got four in one year.
Speaker 3:Let's hope they do their job.
Speaker 1:Well, we all know what Eric Adams is doing Shout out to Houston, so shout out to Houston this past Thursday was the first time that the entire officiating team for the NFL the referees were all black, we're all black. Two of them were women in this moment, we are reclaiming our time.
Speaker 2:And then they were making any calls for us, I was like, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:In 2023,. Ruth Carter one is one of the first black woman to black woman to win multiple Oscars. She won the Oscar for Black Panther and multiple. It's the first time a black woman has done this. We are still counting first anything, first black. Anything in 2023 came. We believe it. I will say you know, we have Rihanna at the Super Bowl, but we're really going to overlook Rihanna really quickly and we're going to talk about justina Miles, that when she was doing that American Sign Language, can we not forget that? These are moments in history, ok, when she was like she did.
Speaker 2:She did kill it, but let's not.
Speaker 1:You know I did because it was because it was because it was just tie the two together.
Speaker 2:OK, other great.
Speaker 1:Speaking of that, we have speaking of making each other great. Missy, the whole entire misty, meaner Elliot Rocker Hoff Gars is getting ducted to the Rocker Hall.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah words rock and roll Hall of.
Speaker 1:Fame. There we go, two bucks. Shakur got his first, finally got his first star.
Speaker 3:I know Jada was happy. I'm sorry, it was just one and I just couldn't. It was it was.
Speaker 2:That was low hanging fruit.
Speaker 1:Was it wide open as when Dwayne Martin was banging Will's? Hey hey, hey hey, hey which is moving at all, moving right along.
Speaker 2:OK, let's, let's, let's keep it in the realm of Confirmation.
Speaker 1:Confirmation Jay-Z had and it's. I think they just ended his thing, which you're not going to do is OK. I thought that was for here.
Speaker 2:But that was a great moment in that time. Then with Hip hop, 50th anniversary.
Speaker 1:Exactly, we're in.
Speaker 2:Well, you're there was the JT Book of Hope exhibit at the Brooklyn Library which I went to and it was pretty fantastic.
Speaker 1:Actually really great. I don't know you while you're here, If you leave tomorrow. I don't. I don't think it's still up, it's over, but the words are still on the Brooklyn music, the Brooklyn Library. The words from his songs are still there. I had a few other things here. You know, the coronation of King Charles. Who gives a fuck?
Speaker 2:I thought we was keeping it black.
Speaker 1:We are.
Speaker 2:That's why I said it gives a black that didn't even need to come up at all.
Speaker 1:At all. We have.
Speaker 4:We have hold on Because I wrote this down, we have our first black member of Congress and Rhode Island. I'm not that huge, rhode Island, rhode Island.
Speaker 2:I'm sure there are black people in Rhode Island. Let's go, let's do that. What is going on? We are everywhere. We are in every.
Speaker 1:Every.
Speaker 2:Every crevice, every crevice, every crevice, every fold my good food.
Speaker 1:So many beautiful things have happened this year and I can't name them all, but what I can name is that we had a amazing film that was released that many of you wasted your money to go see because it was going to be in the theaters anyway. I'm not saying that that's also being cut up. I'm still scrolling, by the way, I think you should keep that. You would think that.
Speaker 2:Make sure they know it was you who said it. Make sure they know it was not me, it was not Nobody coming for me.
Speaker 1:I've gotten my.
Speaker 2:I sense for no one.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, where is she? What are you?
Speaker 2:looking for I.
Speaker 1:The Olympics. What about the Olympics?
Speaker 2:Shikari Richardson.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes, yes, shikari, yes, jesus.
Speaker 2:Christ Quickly.
Speaker 3:Use your lifelines. Next time you should Both of us immediately Shikari.
Speaker 2:Richardson, like here, leaving people in the dust.
Speaker 1:It's a way, okay, and then also Right.
Speaker 4:They try to take advantage of her.
Speaker 2:They always are going to try to keep somebody down, but that's.
Speaker 4:Somebody down, but we always rise above, okay.
Speaker 2:She came back and was like now say something else.
Speaker 4:Yes, and they couldn't say anything. And they couldn't say anything.
Speaker 1:As we wrap this up, I'll go first, so we can keep this short and quick, or long and steady, and rough and hard. Stop it, that's what I'm looking for, it's a manifesting. I am, I am, I am looking for it. No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm looking for it to manifesting, you know. Just continued success in what it is I know I'm capable of doing, and doesn't even have to have a title.
Speaker 1:It doesn't even have to have a specific goal, A specific thing, but just continue success and know in what I know I am capable of doing and it will open up the doors as it goes, and I think for me that's what's been working better than me saying okay, I'm a set this date and by this date, like I'm great you know, in 2023, I started my business Duh, but I want to make sure that everything is moving in a specific way.
Speaker 1:It's not going to happen just because that's the way you want it. So that's my manifestation. I am manifesting that I will.
Speaker 3:I will put out two scripts and be on a streaming service. Oh, we was also. We forgot. We were also like, supposed to be, like getting awards.
Speaker 1:And like Blair is my, blair is I'm Blair's guest. Or Blair is my guest and you are presenting and I'm going to be on a streaming service, blair is my guest. Or Blair is my guest and you are presenting, and, and. Or we are presenting and you are receiving. Like we've had already talked. Like Blair and everybody talked about this, we prayed about it, we talked to the altar, we talked to the guys. We, you know, we did everything. We, we threw the water, we spit it up in the air. We, you know, ache and.
Speaker 3:I told you. I told you about my dream.
Speaker 2:You did, and I'm ready for it to come true.
Speaker 1:Man clear.
Speaker 2:Um, quite simply, I am believing because I won't say manifesting. I am believing that God will break protocol on my behalf.
Speaker 2:And I'm gonna just leave that right there, Because everything that I think that I'm supposed to be doing are all the steps that I think that I have to take in order to get where I'm trying to get to. I just believe that God is just gonna make a different way for me. I'm not gonna have to follow the same protocol that I think I'm gonna have to follow. He's gonna break. He's gonna break. I am believing that God is gonna break protocol on my behalf, and that's my 2024. I want my life to be a testimony. I want people to look at my journey and be like damn, like that was so outside the box, Like how did she do that? They're gonna have no choice but to be like God did it, and that's my 2024, y'all.
Speaker 4:Ain't nobody. Do you like Jesus?
Speaker 2:Okay, cute, but a but a but a speak to my soul.
Speaker 4:And lastly, so 2024, I want in my life to be able to understand that I can do with what I can with what I have. I'm, rather than waiting for something in this realm of infinite possibilities to come into fruition, just do it what I can with what I have and create the life that I want. That's all I want in this life in 2024. I'm just leaving it at that. Really, just do as what I can.
Speaker 2:You already have. You already have all of the. You got it, it's in me. You have everything that you need in order to achieve all the things that you have for yourself.
Speaker 4:That's for me. You already have it all.
Speaker 2:It's not just for me. Already have it all.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you guys, and we want you guys, please, to ask yourself these same questions, like as you reflect on what happened for yourself through the year, good and bad. Understand that those bad things lifted you up so you can celebrate the good when it happens. It may not be good right now, but understand good is coming. Just hold on, and it may be good right now, but understand that anything can happen. So what you need to do is stay focused, because nothing is for certain. We've learned this already. So what we want you to do is ask yourself these questions celebrate what you've, celebrate your wins, even celebrate your losses, but don't stay stuck in your losses because your wins are right around the corner.
Speaker 1:All right, that's it. That's okay. So thank you for taking the time to listen to another episode of highly mother fucking melanated the safe space where it is okay to pop up at a bitch's house if they are doing shit that you don't agree with. And you got some shit to say.
Speaker 2:Not a bitch's house. You realize you're the bit right. People popped up at your house.
Speaker 1:Not out of the bitch Well.
Speaker 4:I was invited so it wasn't a pop up. Fair Fair. I want to say thank you guys for inviting me tonight and being accepting of, you know, whatever I brought towards the table.
Speaker 1:It is appreciate this melanated table seats, all there's no one seat fits all, like anybody, and guys, if you guys want to be a guest on the show, if you want to just come and show, like you know, like I said, you don't have to come and like be promoting anything, but anyway, thank you for taking time to listen to another episode of highly motherfucking melanated. As always, guys, you can follow us on Instagram and boss. So I think that we are going to remove our highly melanated melanated from X, because I do not support, and none of us support, anyone who says that they do not support any DEI, and that is what Elon Musk has said. He does not support any companies that do diversity and inclusion. You know what? Fuck Twitter. All I need is dirty Twitter.
Speaker 3:Honestly, this is what you do 10 to 3 am.
Speaker 2:That's the dirty birdie.
Speaker 1:The bird is the word.
Speaker 2:Bird bird. Bird bird is the word on that note.
Speaker 1:Peace, love, wait, well, oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Where else can they?
Speaker 1:find us on all the things. Email us. You can do whatever you know, let us you know.
Speaker 2:Go ahead and shoot us an email Things that you want us to focus on and talk about in 2024. You can shoot those over to highly melanatedpodcasts at gmailcom.
Speaker 3:And we're not using Twitter anymore. So you can do another bird. Go choke your chicken, I don't know, just do something we love him Go choke your chicken.
Speaker 1:All right y'all Peace, love and.
Speaker 3:Gotta, get your groove on. Gotta, get your groove on. Gotta, get your groove on. Gotta, get your groove on. Gotta, get your groove on. Gotta, get your groove on. Gotta, get your groove on. Gotta, get your groove on. Oh yeah, don't let the dude do it, just do the groove along.
Speaker 4:Just do the groove along. Just got to get your groove on. Alright, man, Go hard. They just jamming on that song though. Man Gotta get your groove on. Gotta get your groove on. Gotta get your groove on. Just get your groove on. Gotta get your groove on.
Speaker 1:You're in the groove, hi man. Hi, I'm ready.