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• Highly Melanated Podcast • Season 5 • Episode 150

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Well it's 2024 & THE QUACK ATTACK IS BACK JACK!

We aren't a reboot, we are the real thing

So how do you feel about reboots, all this Nicki drama and a bunch of other things we have missed while we were away.... 


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PJ:

All right, you want to get started? Go ahead, guys.

Blair:

Let's get it. Oh no, don't break tradition now, Don't do it.

Chris:

Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys.

Blair:

Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys. Did I fool you? Did you think I was PJ?

PJ:

How do you think it sounds?

Blair:

OK, chris, you do yours, and then I'll do mine.

Chris:

What am I doing? Oh, his impersonation, ok, hey guys, hey guys, hey guys.

Blair:

Oh god. Ok, here's mine. Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys. Welcome to another episode of Kylie Motherfucking Melanated.

PJ:

Oh my god, Y'all guys are kind of spot on.

Blair:

We are your hosts. I am PJ.

PJ:

You guys are kind of spot on. It kind of goes with I can't think of anything.

Blair:

I had it earlier and I love it.

Chris:

I was just about to say I was just like why do I always?

Blair:

do this, why do?

Chris:

I always do this. I had it, I definitely did. I swear it's always the pause I go.

PJ:

No, I mean it goes a little something. I don't know what it is, but I just love being black PJ here.

Blair:

What up dough? It's your girl, blair. You know, melanin was popping yesterday, it's popping today and it's show enough going to be popping tomorrow.

Chris:

It's your boy, red, and you're listening to the Kylie Melanated podcast.

PJ:

Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys. Welcome back to another episode of Highly Melanated Podcasts the safe space.

Blair:

Safe space. You forgot that I had it. I had it. Sorry, we're rusty.

PJ:

OK, we're a little rusty.

Blair:

Space.

PJ:

The safe space where it is OK to you know what. Let it flap around every now and again.

Chris:

Let it flap around, Flap around flap around.

PJ:

No, the same space where it is OK to come back refresh and renewed and ready for a new year. Know that good stuff.

Blair:

Are we though?

PJ:

OK, because PJ, actually PJ is creating the life that I want.

Chris:

Oh.

Blair:

Are we getting deep on the first episode back?

Chris:

I know, it was just like that made me think.

Blair:

Couldn't keep it lighthearted. You had to just jump right into the serious huh.

PJ:

No, it's not. We're not going to keep it serious, as y'all can tell guys already.

Chris:

Red is already starting to live the life that he wants. Ooh.

Blair:

Ooh and Blair is focused on living life and not just existing.

Chris:

You mean thriving, not just surviving, but you're thriving.

PJ:

Not just thriving or surviving. But what did Kelly say? Flourishing.

Chris:

Flourishing.

Blair:

Flourishing I'm flourished bitch.

PJ:

OK, and this is the first episode of the new year. As you all know, we always take January off. So happy new year, niggas. That's it. That's the only time we're going to say it. It's almost Jesus Christ. Silver recordness on January 30th. We normally record on Tuesdays and it literally just feels like last week was the new year. I really think that it's because we're getting older, you know.

Blair:

But here's the thing. It also feels like it's been 47 days of January, like, what, like I don't understand. I was at work.

Chris:

You know, I feel like everybody always says that it feels long in the beginning and then it speeds up, because you're not the first person that said this is the longest January ever, but I feel like people say that every single year.

Blair:

It just feels like damn, it's still January and it is.

PJ:

Like it's still January and we just had one Arctic blast and let's just keep it there. I was about to say you want?

Blair:

more or whether.

PJ:

No, let's keep it there. Let's keep it there. Well, I mean, you're used to it, so like this is nothing.

Blair:

That don't mean I like it.

PJ:

But this is the first episode of the year. As always, guys, you can follow us on all forms of social media that we are a part of. That would be TikTok and Instagram at highly melanated podcast.

Blair:

That's so cute that you're still telling them that.

PJ:

It is, it is.

Blair:

We still got our email address. Y'all, it's highly melanatedpodcast at gmailcom. Let me pull up that email.

Chris:

And we saw what.

Blair:

You're trying to see if we still have the email. I'll be checking it.

Chris:

OK, ok, ok, ok, and if you're as organized and diligent as Blair is, come on over to Twitter, or I should say, formerly known as Twitter, now known as X at highly, underp highly, I don't even remember. Damn, it's been that long. It's been that long. H underscore melanatedpod Shit yeah.

PJ:

You know what? Speaking of X, that place that is going to just die. I think that is time that we really talk about the death and destruction that Eon has for us all.

Blair:

Who is Eon? What is his name?

PJ:

Eon Eon.

Blair:

That one, and it's the double down for me OK.

PJ:

I'm not going to he's death destruction for us he's really going to be the beginning of Skynet, like for real, like the serious, like you heard they have. The first new is it Nouverlink or something like that, where they put a little chip in someone's brain if they haven't used their, if they're quadriplegic or have an inability to use their limbs. They've now doing their first human test run, human test run on this trial on seeing if this chip can help you do things without your limbs. So all you have to do is think about it, like think about texting, think about anything, and it'll just do it for you To be fair, they've been doing that for some time now.

Chris:

This is not something that's relatively new. I've never seen that almost like 15 years ago, yeah but they've been doing it, but now it's finally here.

PJ:

Remember, george Jessen was born last year.

Chris:

Well, listen, we don't have the flying cars, so we have some time.

Blair:

We, as in the general public, don't have the flying cars, that's the only weed that I'm talking about.

Chris:

Okay, that's all shit.

Blair:

They got them shit somewhere Okay.

PJ:

But what was your? How do y'all feel about that?

Blair:

It's very interesting. I think like it's hard for us, specifically like us in our generation, because we grew up watching these things, like in sci-fi TV shows and films and whatnot. So it just seems like just an extravagant idea and not something that we ever really thought was going to be reality. So now that it's actually like really happening, it feels fake because that's the only like real association that we have with it. Plus, in all of like you know, for the most part, like in sci-fi movies and films and TV shows and whatnot, something always goes tragically wrong.

Blair:

Well, listen that's what I'm saying when dealing with these kind of things. So that's the other reason why we're very uncomfortable with it is because we're expecting like a catastrophic outcome from it. But I think, like if you were to ask, like the Gen Zers or the people who, like, grew up with technology being like what it is like, they think it's normal. They don't see it in the same kind of like possibly detrimental or uncomfortable way that we do.

PJ:

Wow, I've never even thought about it that way.

Chris:

Yeah, I mean, the generation is just kind of adapt as the time goes on. Just with like anything else, I'm kind of like indifferent about it. I mean, I think I'm a firm believer that, like technology and things are bound to change and move forward regardless, because if it doesn't happen here in the United States, it's going to happen in China. If it doesn't happen in China, it'll happen somewhere else. My only thing is to hope that it happens in a good way and then we just remain diligent, right? Because that's when you have the issues where you know they arise. You're not staying on top of the laws. You're not, you know, monitoring the people who can become a, you know, a moniacal mad scientist, like things like that. Like we're going to have a mojo-jojo Tim and research and development just don't sit right with me. Like you need to like monitor those people, right.

PJ:

Right.

Chris:

But I think I think I'm okay with it because I think it's what's going to happen eventually. Everything is just going to kind of come, Just like how we talk about with the universe. Everything is kind of connected. I think we'll just become integrated and connected with everything else over time.

Blair:

So I'm so funny, like when you're talking about like not trusting like certain people, like I immediately started thinking of one of my favorite episodes of Black Mirror, I think. I think the name of the episode is the USS Callister or something like that.

Chris:

Oh, that's one of my favorite episodes.

Blair:

It's one of my favorite episodes, one because I'm a big truckie, so I love that episode, just for those references. But just like you were saying, like here on the in the real world, you know, here's this guy, he's very unassuming, like everybody dumps on him, like nobody pays attention to him, like blah, blah, blah, blah, but then like he created his own little world where he was taking you know people's DNA and making clones of them in this world and he was a fucking monster, like he was like wrecking shit. So just like you said, like no, tim over there and R&D, like I don't know, you never.

Chris:

I'm just saying yeah, you gotta always be be careful, but yeah, yeah.

PJ:

But before you know, you know like why would? All right, let's scale it back for a second. I wanted to actually do something that we haven't done in a while and I wanted to give a melanated shout out or something. Not really a shout out, because you know, god, I mean, if you hear this, you know I support you and I love you and I adore you. But let's give a hearty, hearty shout out to Danielle Brooks for being an E Got nominee. Daniel, okay for the gulliper.

Blair:

Here, did you see it? Yet I have not.

PJ:

I don't even know why I even ask you.

Blair:

I don't know why you even ask me that.

PJ:

No, it was really good, though, for what it was.

Blair:

it was really good for what it was to be For what it was like.

PJ:

You mean like for it to be a musical or like For it to be a, an adaptation of an adaptation, of an adaptation of an adaptation. Not that many adaptations, but it sure felt like it.

Blair:

It's so funny to me, like it's very interesting, like, hmm, there's so much, like most of them, not most, a large percentage of like films and TV shows and whatnot are based off of like somebody's book from somewhere.

Blair:

You know, and people are so quick to, like, you know, watch the film or the TV show, but like having read the book, because the book gives you like a different experience than the, than the movie does. Like with the book, like it's kind of up to you to create like the imagery, and you know all of that, and then, like the it's more so you, you, you have more involvement in it when you're reading the book. And a lot of times, like people just want to like sit back and enjoy and be entertained, you know. So I wonder, like, when there are so many adaptations of the written word, like, at what point does it really like start to kind of lose its its sizzle? You know, and I'm not, and I'm not talking about the color purple right now, I'm just like in general, you know so. But, yeah, shout out to Daniel Brooks because you're doing the damn thing she did she did, she did amazing.

PJ:

In that movie she was ship and in that film she did amazing, in my opinion.

Chris:

Well, the shout out to her again. It's funny, all right. Well, we'll step back just a little bit. That way I can just do this shameless plug. Question of week, question a week your questions as they pertain to you, respectively and introspectively. So it was funny.

Chris:

I was actually going to have the question the week be how do you feel about remakes or re, you know, revisitations of certain particular projects, whether it be the color purple you had mean girls recently redone and that was also a musical, and so, to kind of go back into it, I do feel like that they do provide different experiences sometimes, but I feel like a lot of times I don't know, I didn't see the color purple, but I heard that a lot of people didn't enjoy it. I feel like a lot of people felt like they dropped the ball on it. I heard that they weren't making money on it. So I don't know like. Personally, I just feel like there's nothing wrong with the remakes, just make them good. I don't know how to make sure that that's happened. I guess that's not my job, but I just feel like I have no problem with it, just make sure that it's good and it's entertaining.

Blair:

I don't have a man.

PJ:

Oh wait, it's tomorrow, Blair, are you available tomorrow? Continue?

Chris:

Just to let you know, guys, Blair is completely caught up guard. He's a little worried. Looking around the room and it's just her in the in the in the house.

Blair:

At least I thought it was.

PJ:

No, because go ahead, go ahead. I'm sorry.

Blair:

So I Don't mind film adaptations of books. A lot of times I think like it, the film. If I like the film, it'll inspire me to go and read the book, if I haven't already. If I've read the book and then there's a film coming out of it like I and I, if I really liked the book, I can be very critical of the film because I'm like well, that's not how it was in the book, or the book did it like this. You know so I will be that person. But if I liked the film and I liked the book, then hey.

Chris:

You know, I'm glad that you said that because, like that's, that's exactly why I mentioned that, because I feel like there's this I don't know I was corning and corning my own terms, but I felt like there's this, this, this anime syndrome, if you will, where people who will, who will like, read a comic book or they'll read a manga and then they'll do it in a cartoon version or animated version or they'll do a live action version and no one will like it.

PJ:

And I'm like.

Chris:

that's not fair to the artistry of what the medium that that person did for that, I mean, it might not be exact, but is it bad? That's the question that you should be asking. Is it bad?

Blair:

Is it bad? I like I wouldn't. I don't. I can't think of anything on the top of my head, but I can't recall any examples where I'm like, oh, the film adaptation of the book was bad. Like, I'll point out its differences and I'll say whether or not, like I liked it or I preferred this over that. But I can't think, I don't think that I would be that critical and say like something was bad, you know Right.

PJ:

So here's my thing and I'll say this. And so the reason why for that brief, brief outburst is because remember, they're doing the re, re imagination, not the reimagination. But remember what I sent you in reference to the wisdom was right. And it's to, it's tomorrow, and it was 28th, 29th and the 31st. I'll be having the other half of my face taken care of my teeth, so I don't think I'll be able to go.

PJ:

But if you want to late at night, late tomorrow, we can if you, if you're, if you're available. But so here's my thing and OK. So, as I was saying that guys, they're just like re putting it out again because it's like I forgot what year anniversary is it for the Wizard of Oz?

Blair:

I wish I knew.

PJ:

But it's just supposed to be just, you know, updated and colorized and you know, just back in back in theaters for three days. It depends on to answer your question. It depends on what do they do different?

Blair:

85 years. Jesus, Jay, Come on mind oh that was good, that was great.

PJ:

It depends on what they do differently with it. And what do they do that Like? What do they do to update it? Like we were just talking earlier about generational things, like it's so funny because you know, all the Harry Potter books are completely nothing like the movies. Right, the when it comes to, I mean, we're not really going to talk about the color purple because I feel like that was so long ago, but we miss your niggas. Hands up.

Chris:

No, I was just going to say we don't talk about the color purple. We can talk about mean girls, because I was dragged to that recently.

PJ:

So okay, so I heard it wasn't good. All right, it would be great if I could give my answer. But good, I love it.

Blair:

You loved it.

PJ:

No, no, no, like I love it when they do adaptations. I like updated. Oh I like to see where they're going to go with it. That's what I was saying. My answer because you both can't. We haven't seen each other in so long. I was curious how the mean girls was going to be. How was it so I mean? So I went because my friend wanted to go see it.

Chris:

So I went and we watched it. He didn't like it. He really liked it. He really didn't like it. He kept saying it over and over again. I was like so tell me more about how you don't like this. The thing is going back to the syndrome that I said again. I was like I'm not going to say it again, I'm not going to say it again. I'm not going to say it again, I'm not going to say it again. So I went back to the syndrome that I said again is that he kept comparing it to the original mean girls and I said it's not the same thing. So for you guys that don't know, you know if you're going to go see the mean girls out there, it's a.

Chris:

They set it up like a musical. So I really enjoyed the artistry of the fact of how they did it with a musical. Like there were some very cool scenes that I think that they did when it came to specific parts of the story. Was the story good? No, I don't think so. I think a lot of stuff Did they change the story.

Chris:

No, the story was the same, but if you know the story, I don't think that it didn't connect the same way Because you're so busy trying to make sure that the artistry or the musicality, the theatric of it flows, so it didn't hit the same way when we were talking about acting wise, because if you asked him, he said, oh, I did enjoy the singing, but I just didn't like the movie. It wasn't like a movie movie. It didn't have that same structure. So I enjoyed, like I said before, the theatrics of it, but I didn't enjoy it as a whole.

Blair:

It'd be very interesting to see, like I mean, we never really will, but like if this was Mean Girls, like if the original one didn't exist and this was like the first one that anybody was seeing. Like what would they think about it?

Chris:

Exactly, and he was telling me that there was a couple of people who were a bit younger who loved it.

Blair:

Because they've never seen the original Correct. They don't have anything to compare it to.

Chris:

That's my point. That's my point, but I feel like a lot of people do that.

PJ:

But I think also when they turn some of these movies into musicals it's a bigger hit or miss, because the musical community isn't for everybody.

Blair:

Yeah.

PJ:

Like I love a good musical. You know, I wanna. I. Literally we walking down the street, all three of us and breaking out in a song, randomly finishing each other lines, I mean.

PJ:

But not everybody is like that, nor does everybody wants to hear.

PJ:

Like example, like I actually went to see, I actually paid for it before, cause I know it comes out next month, but I've been wanting to see it for so long at the Marvels and it's available now and I just bought it. I was like ugh, oh well, just mine as well, cause as soon as the first day it became available was the first day I saw it and a lot of people were talking about the scene that they had spoiler alert, like anybody cares. Okay, the scene where she goes to Aladna and they're busting out, it's a song, you know they're going into singing and people were turned off by that. But whether it still hits close to home, because in the comics that that's what Aladna was, they just spoke in rhyme, they didn't sing. But it's a hit or miss when they do these musicals, cause sometimes it's just it doesn't call for it. Or, like I would have loved to seen Mean Girls as a musical, just not released in the theaters. That's where it's a little weird to me.

Blair:

I think and didn't they have Mean Girls on Broadway?

PJ:

No, no, no, yeah, but I would rather have seen that like on a, it appears to be that.

Chris:

That would be a Netflix show.

PJ:

Like that's a Netflix and chill a Toobie and Suck, you know. Like.

Chris:

Toobie and Suck. I've never heard that. It is now mine.

PJ:

Ladies and gentlemen, we have gotten into 40 minutes of the episode and I finally hit a nasty point.

Blair:

Can I pivot our conversation? Does anybody have any other things you wanted to wrap up on when it comes to talking about? But I did.

PJ:

I did want to say, because it's so funny, you asked this question because I've been thinking about, like it's 2024. And so I did my quick Googles as we were talking about it. Like the movies that are turning a certain age now are due for a remake or a redo? If you don't think so, like if they did, they did. I would love to see an updated version of Cruel Intentions. Like, not a musical, not a musical, let's be clear as much as I love musicals, not a musical Like an updated, an updated America.

PJ:

These movies are turning 25 this year Cruel Intentions, the Sixth Sense, which they can do it with really great graphics this time around American Pie.

Blair:

They just do another updated American Pie that would be really dope.

PJ:

But you know what's crazy about how you're listing all of these.

Chris:

There's people out there that would be like no, they don't, they just need to leave it a be, because those are classics and they were fine and nobody wants an updated version. I just think it's just a whole community of people out there that just gets so mad at that and they say stuff like they could just make a new one or they could just make something else. Nigga, you make something. I have not seen you put out one thing yet, so here's my thing.

Blair:

I am probably part of that group, maybe not like in that group.

Chris:

I was talking to you.

Blair:

Well, thank you. So here's the thing Because there is an original, I think if you're going to do something that's based on the original or like a continuity, I'd rather you do something like a new version or like a continuity. I'd rather you do something that's based on the original or a continuation from that original idea. Like, I don't necessarily want to see that original movie re-cast, re-filmed, you know, for today's audience I don't really want that. What I would like. What I would like is a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Chris:

We just have a good time.

Blair:

Yeah, they took Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. They took the concept and they continued the story, but they still like pulled from that original manuscript, but they made it different and they gave you a new story. I would like more of that, as opposed to your work. That's fair, let's re-cast Willy Wonka and let's have who I don't know who would play Willy Wonka. Who's gonna play Charlie, like they gonna have? I don't know, I can't play you better right now, but like you know what I mean.

Chris:

Me.

Blair:

I mean here he in.

Chris:

You have something to say?

PJ:

Yeah, yeah yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Okay, I was looking on where I was looking on, where no, I was looking on where we can squeeze Jonathan Majors in this, but so, speaking of my pivot, Next to Megan Good. But wait before you go there. Hold that thought Blair, hold that thought I did wanna say that they are doing that right and with this very specific movie and they did well with the last one. I don't know if either one of you see it, but this year Ghostbusters is turning 40.

Chris:

And it did see that.

PJ:

And Afterlife was really good. I mean, it was better than the female version. But and I'm sorry, Leslie, I'm sorry, oh yeah, Megan, and everybody but Afterlife was actually really good, a really good story of mine, and they're doing it again with this. The winter is coming, shit, and I've been looking forward to seeing it, and so I agree when it's like a continuation of that and to see where that can go. So I was saying it's like there could be a continue, but there's definitely a continuation worth of American Pie, like I mean, they've done, they've done it to you.

Blair:

They have American wedding, american. This is that like. How many American Pie movies are there?

PJ:

And we get an American funeral.

Chris:

then why does it not go back there?

PJ:

American funeral. What were you gonna say, blair?

Blair:

Okay, so before, when you were talking about Netflix and Tubi you yeah, I know where I'm going with this.

Chris:

No. I'm waiting but I'm excited.

Blair:

Did you? I'm sure you've heard of it, but did you guys watch Cat Williams on the on his interview with Jimmy Darp? I heard that it was two hours and 46 minutes long.

Chris:

Yeah, and that was turned off by then.

Blair:

Okay, here's the thing here's the thing.

PJ:

And I know, blair, your new segment is gonna be here's the thing.

Blair:

Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I like it, I'm here for it. It was just so interesting to watch somebody literally just have just vomit of the mouth in such a specific forum, like you would feel, like you would get like that kind of like conversation, like if you were drunk at a party somewhere, you know, but like he was completely sober.

Blair:

Well, as far as we know, and as far as he says as far as, like I said, as far as we know, I only know what I'm told, so it was like I don't know, it was. Just there was a lot happening and I don't know if I'm necessarily here quote, unquote here for like all of the slander that was happening, but I just thought it was just so interesting that like he was unafraid to slander, so I just wanted to see, like, what your guys's thoughts were on it, because it had the black X ablaze for a while.

PJ:

You know, and the thing is the problem that I have I have you know I'm already started talking. The problem that I've had with it is it's really only us that does this to each other. Why are we always the one who wants to bad mouth another? You know, another person, regardless of whatever shit, y'all got going on in the dark like let's that stay in the dark unless you have a, unless there is a plan, like by the end of this year, kat better have some maniacal plan that is in motion for us for him to say see, I told y'all other than this. This all could have been like saved.

PJ:

But my other issue really with it was is that club, shay, shay, I'm gonna need this man to go to somebody's journal with someone and I'm gonna learn how to give a proper interview and how to ask questions, how to follow up, how to how to you know the fact that he didn't even get to ask a single question until like 20 minutes in had me dead. Come on Kat.

Blair:

Come on. Kat, are you fine? I'm gonna ask it and answer the questions.

PJ:

Oh my, God, and this is. Shannon the whole time and it got to a point where, like you know, even Kat's point about Steve Harvey, and nobody wants a country bumpkin that looks and sounds like Mr Potato Head, him and Shannon Sharp sounding, sounding, not look, but sounding the same. And you know, like you know I hate to say it, but you know they do and it's just it.

Chris:

Well, Mr Potato Head is pretty accurate.

PJ:

It's very accurate. It's extremely accurate, but it's just, it's just. I just got tired of hearing it, and especially since I only made it to maybe like an hour and 15 after he said he hitchhiked all the way from from Ohio to Florida.

PJ:

And then read read 3,000 books, I mean by the age of four or some shit like. And there was no come on man, there was no kind of let's put you in, like, let's start telling the truth, kind of thing. He just let him just have this. I mean, Shannon Sharp needed that and that's just exactly why the next two videos after he put out, in my opinion, where he was saying something, he said something in reference to women and I felt like what was it Exactly? No one can. My face has already turned up.

PJ:

No, but no when I say it because that was his, the highlight of his career for this year, and it was something else. It was just like something, probably to get people to click on it, but nobody I, I only watched what you're saying is Shannon Sharp is his clickbait. I only watched Maybe about a good five to ten minutes of his show, depending on who the guest is.

Blair:

First of all, I didn't even know he had a show, so you know you know who we are, who we should, who who.

PJ:

I support Angie Martinez. Ok IRL podcast is amazing. That's what I support watching that YouTube and Angie Mab has been around for a while. Yeah, and she and she is an amazing interviewer, like you can learn.

PJ:

I'm learning a lot from her, you know, and it's just like her skill and her style, like even when she knows the truth and she knows what they're going to say and she wants to direct it a certain way. You can see in her face how she's doing it, and here she goes with the answer that she needed to get.

Chris:

My friend called him and he did Neanderthal Shannon Sharp. I didn't even know who he was.

Blair:

Neanderthal.

Chris:

I didn't even know I did Right, exactly. I don't. I don't know what, what kind of personal indebted they have against them, but I didn't even know who he was. I've seen him before.

Blair:

I recognize his face. You know who he really is. That ain't my problem. That ain't my problem.

Chris:

Right. See, I've seen stuff like that, but I've never been like who is that? Nope, I just swiped. I just keep swiping, I don't. It wasn't until until that whole thing. It was, like you know, Shannon Sharp, and I'm like I do.

Blair:

Well, if you didn't before, you do now. So and that's kind of how press and media works, right. So if nothing else.

PJ:

It got both of them more notoriety, right, but you know what I would love to see an updated version of. While we're talking about that and going back to that, gremlins.

Chris:

Oh OK, Gremlins could be good.

PJ:

I think that that can be really good, I think that that can do really well. So, but once again.

Chris:

if it's not just redone it like it has to be, like what Blair was mentioning. It should be a remake, it should be a continuation. They should, they should somehow, should somehow expound on the idea it shouldn't just be the same thing. Because why? Why do we need this? Why do we need the same exact thing? Should be the question. Because almost all the people that have seen Gremlins before are still all alive. We still all remember it.

PJ:

I mean we all remember Color Purple while we went through that whole thing, Exactly.

Chris:

Well, but see. The color purple Right Right, they didn't really make it.

PJ:

They didn't really make it.

Blair:

They might not have changed the storyline but, they changed the medium, the medium of the, of the, of the.

PJ:

Not a Gremlin musical.

Blair:

Can you imagine like, as they're getting, I'll be a part of it.

Chris:

I'll be a part of it.

Blair:

Yeah, that's what I'm going to change into. Oh, come on Like.

PJ:

I mean there's Terminator, like there's some, so there's some good movies.

Chris:

Could you imagine Terminator musical? Oh, freaking cold, and now Be back.

PJ:

No, what if I made a Terminator movie?

Blair:

You see my face right now.

Chris:

That would be fucking probably scary as fuck.

Blair:

Exactly, it would live in our nightmares.

PJ:

OK, let me show you what we're going to do to you in the future.

Chris:

Right and then laugh about it behind the scenes.

PJ:

And the last. The last, the last state take is to be continued three weeks later. Here we go.

Chris:

Just laughing behind the scenes with a bunch of ones and zeros. How dare you laugh?

Blair:

at us in binary, exactly.

PJ:

Texas chainsaw massacre is turning 50 this.

Blair:

They remade that movie already.

PJ:

Yes, I'm just going down the list. I mean there's some movies that can never be made, like Blazing Saddle's Shotshanks, shirt Redemption.

Blair:

Purple Rain. You know, there are these moments that will never. That is my, that is my.

PJ:

That is my absolute favorite movie of all time Shotshanks.

Blair:

Redemption.

PJ:

Shotshanks, redemption, tied with, tied with, it's tied with because it's, you know, it's like intellectual. But then my other favorite is Death Becomes Her.

Chris:

So death becomes her. That's a good one.

Blair:

I do enjoy that movie.

PJ:

It's. You know, I do that. Well, I do that every every year. On my birthday I wake up, I make a really big breakfast like I'm going to eat all this shit and what death becomes death becomes her Random shit, and as I have been doing that for the past six years, what in the groundhog days Happily was? Groundhog day would be another great movie for them to make into a musical actually.

Blair:

Why are you watching death becomes her on your birthday Is what I want to know, because it's.

PJ:

it's a wonderful, it's one of my, it's my favorite movie.

Blair:

And it's, it's very entertaining.

PJ:

I just.

Blair:

I just very entertaining Long ago and I was like damn, this is a good movie.

PJ:

So all the listeners out there that are probably working in the mental health field, please don't judge me by that. Don't ask questions. Just know that he is doing something that he enjoys and he likes.

Blair:

Hey, whatever makes you happy, and they on the other end right now. Like the erasers, they over here Now they book, all right, not this time. Exactly. You're going to get a couple of DMs. Listen, I need to talk.

Chris:

Better help.

Blair:

It's great and I encourage it. We're not mocking it at all. We're just saying in this therapy.

PJ:

Yeah, hello everybody.

Blair:

I'm just saying in this instance it's not necessary, but for the most part, whenever you you all as mental health professionals that are listening feel that urge, please follow through with it. You feel like you need to ask somebody. If they need to talk, please ask, ok, ok.

PJ:

I don't, I don't. I thought, no, don't follow through with me, I'm good, I just like, oh, no.

Blair:

I said aside from this instance because it's not necessary.

Chris:

OK, I did this moment.

Blair:

Not this, not this, but in the future, and that specific just in in life, if they.

PJ:

So I was just waiting for a word to pop up, and the word popped up. So now that we are in the future since the last time we talked to everybody, it was last year so long.

Chris:

I was about to say I was like we in the present. Nigga, what the fuck About for those that are listening to. We in the past.

Blair:

Exactly, we talk about you living in the present, but you hearing this in the past.

PJ:

Why so? Let me ask you guys.

Blair:

These are the days of our lives.

PJ:

OK, as we're still, as you guys can tell what we're shooting.

Blair:

it's just a poop, it's this is the moment you choose to be a PG. What? This is the moment that you choose. Ok, I'm a little bit.

PJ:

What? Let me ask you guys. You know we don't we don't do really res resolutions things here, but we do take inventory. As the year has begun and January is on its forty seventh, going on forty eighth day, Do you have you done anything different from your routine that is working for you better now, or is it just business as usual?

Chris:

Yes, this I don't know. I didn't know what to say after that because it's kind of not working.

Blair:

But but it got a resounding yes OK.

Chris:

So what's working now is I'm I'm actually relaxing more and so I think I'm healing better. I just I know that it's it's conflicting with the how I want to be productive Way to say productive.

PJ:

I was going to say I was going to say.

Chris:

I was going to say I was going to say, but then I was like, no, no, this is a better word. It's conflicting with the way that I'm productive, but but yeah, I've literally been like really relaxing and playing Monopoly. Go and wrecking everybody's shit. So make sure you pay your rent and don't go to the. Pay your rent and don't go bankrupt.

PJ:

I was just going to add that to the list of words.

Chris:

That he pronounces completely different than everybody else.

PJ:

I'm just going to let you know that you heard me.

Chris:

Oh, that's it. No, you, because did you pay your rent? Thank God.

PJ:

Let me explain something to you. I got a letter on my door today, ok, and they put it on the wrong door and I walked in from doing laundry before my dentist appointment, about to have a like conniption shit fit and they meant to put it on the H, not a M.

Chris:

Oh the.

PJ:

I'm so obviously. I first looked at it. And so here in New York, guys, they actually put the eviction letter actually out on your actual door. But they put it with all of your business, like they tell your how much you're paying rent, how far behind you are. You know all of your shit. And it's not even in the envelope, it's just the actual page. And so I freaking out because I know what that letter looks like. That's happened to me before, at least living here. Thank God for change. And I looked at it and I was losing my shit, walking closer to my door like what the fuck? And as I got closer to and I ripped it off.

Chris:

I'm not here he, here he.

PJ:

Because it says my name, but it also says Jane Doe and John Doe.

Blair:

It says your name.

Chris:

You had two other people living with you.

Blair:

Oh, jane and John, what.

PJ:

So they? I called the management. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm all the way from the mic. I called the management company. They corrected the issue. It wasn't supposed to go to. It wasn't supposed to be on my door, it wasn't. It's not for me, and so why?

Blair:

Jane and John and why they get, why you getting their letter?

Chris:

But they answer that question.

PJ:

Yeah, it wasn't. But they can answer that question, but they can't answer the fact that I told you my roof is why was your name on it at all? Like what it was a mistake is that it was a clerical error.

Blair:

Man, the clerical, these nuts.

PJ:

And as it as it was a clerical error.

Blair:

That's why there's a Jane and John Doe as it was a clerical error, they give you your next month's free right.

Chris:

As a great. That's a crazy, a clerical error. New.

PJ:

York. New York is full of trash.

Chris:

I mean literally and figuratively you don't have to talk about me like that.

Blair:

But, are you New York now?

Chris:

I thought you said people in New York.

Blair:

I thought you said New York is is full of trash. Ok, well, either way.

PJ:

Yeah, he's going to add that also to the list.

Chris:

You can get a running list going Sure.

PJ:

What about you, Blair? What about you, Blair Things?

Blair:

anything? Um, I don't know. I don't know yet. Check in with me at the end of February.

PJ:

Not the end of February?

Blair:

Okay, I need a little. I need a little more time sidebar.

PJ:

Good, I'm sorry, I can't cut you off. You need more time. For what?

Blair:

Just just to get you know Some traction under my feet.

PJ:

Come on that's.

Chris:

That's what I feel like. There's no, there's no stick. Right now it's pissing me.

Blair:

It's very much a slip-and-slide at this moment.

Chris:

Isn't me all what were you gonna say?

PJ:

Well, well. First I was gonna say I'm really happy to hear because I think I just jumped straight to you and didn't really respond to Chris saying you've been resting more- which is fantastic because first you, where did your gray hair go?

Chris:

It's all the still the fuck here, with all the does in the front of it.

PJ:

Okay, no, but you have been looking a little bit more rested, and you know, I Only just saw you.

Chris:

So, and with no, did you see me? Oh, I had to. I thought we met in person. I was like we didn't see each other.

PJ:

I haven't no, I literally haven't seen, I haven't no.

Chris:

Yeah right, I haven't seen. No, none of y'all I haven't seen. Okay all right, all right. So that means that we have to create a day where we hang out, he, he he y'all can get your light skin to try this.

PJ:

But okay, so I will say, for for me, this year has been, has started out, really great. Come on, come on, this year started out really great and I, and I think that the momentum I Can see where you're coming from as far as some of it's not sticking, but it's.

Blair:

I'm sick of you For the, for the listening audience and not the viewing audience. Pj has put on his ice blue Dureg with the tails and he is tucking the tails behind his ears as though they were a Wayward strand of hair.

PJ:

And you're gonna sidebar this actually belong to. I'll be waiting for you.

Blair:

Why would you tell me that? He says his love, but I Meant that as give him my love as well. Rude Send back to sender. I should have. I should have clarified I should have an address.

PJ:

I love it, but um, no, I will say this, and I think it's because I I what I've done differently and I have let me take this damn thing off because I'm acting like it's a ponytail. I'm really saying yes to Almost any invitation that comes my way.

Blair:

Oh, so you got time, and.

PJ:

And if I'm available, meaning so, like any invitation. Hey, you want to hang out? Yeah, sure, because I think some things in the past for me that have been like, you know, like a little troublesome. It's like nobody ever invites me anywhere. What was me? What was me? How about I just go out and and going out? I've met some really great people who have invited me to like game nights and game GME. So no, I thought that sounded like gay nights, even though it wasn't gay nights, because they were you.

Blair:

You're the only person. Is that because?

Chris:

that was last week.

PJ:

And I and these were straights and also like really hanging around People who are outside of my circle. I was telling Chris this before and I said, and like we kind of alluded to this privately blare. But I never really said it because I was gonna. I was gonna mention it here. I was like you know, this year I am dedicating it to being in spaces where I'm as as arrogant as this may sound not the smartest person in the room. Being in spaces where I have something to learn from someone. Being in spaces where I don't know anybody, and that's okay. And being in spaces where I can grow and change my core. I said this. I said you know, I want to, you know, change the people around me so we not friends anymore, you know, but it's really it's really about like what?

PJ:

like you know what said. You know I need me to yell in everybody's ears but what Jay-Z said about, like your people in your room, I mean the people that you're gonna say what he's what he and Justin said about changing clothes and going and pose.

Blair:

Change clothes and pose, go, go, go go Go go, is it Now? You've got me questioning myself this, the T pain, and we, and now and I, all over again.

PJ:

I don't know. I don't know, I have no idea.

Blair:

I thought it was go it might be go.

PJ:

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, but as she looks it up, ladies and gentlemen, I am, it is go, okay, nigga.

Chris:

You know she wasn't get no sleep for that. If she.

Blair:

Change clothes and go. You know, I stayed fresh today at the boy from the projects and I'm gonna take you to the club at a go, so let's you just, I usually just been up all night like a mental patient. But I want to walk up at like three o'clock in the morning and called you and go nigga.

PJ:

Speaking of waking up in the middle of the night, so I downloaded the sleep app Um why would you torture? Yourself like that. It number one. How fucking dare you, mr App developer, I don't need an app to let me know how loudly I.

Blair:

Know my sleep is trash baby. It literally is I'm always tired. It sounds like. I'm never rested, I said someone has to download that.

Chris:

Let me try that, because I'm always tired.

PJ:

Download it for seven. You know, get your seven-day trial. After those seven days it is 59 99. There's no monthly fee, it's only a year.

Blair:

Oh.

PJ:

Still, I know I have sleep apnea too.

Chris:

It's just, it's just called the sleep app.

PJ:

Um, let me see hold on.

Chris:

Calm. No, it's not calm. I've had calm before.

Blair:

It's called it's not it's called shut eye, shut. I sleep tracker.

Chris:

Oh baby, we about to see how well I sleep tonight. It's it said, the snoring it counted how many times I talk in my sleep and I heard myself.

PJ:

It counted how many times I talk in my sleep and I heard myself. It heard the noise. It heard the dogs walking back and forth, um, it heard me cough and it even got me farting.

Blair:

So and for that, it doesn't connect, so, like your watch or anything is just on your phone.

PJ:

It's on my phone, so you put your phone next to your bed. So because of that, I put my phone closer to my bum, my bum, yeah and it's the moment you choose you Closer to see what if it would catch it, because I was like I knew I was gonna be gassy that night because of what I ate right before.

Blair:

I thought it's aspect to see if he's gonna catch it. I ain't as many.

PJ:

I'm so glad we got here speaking of asses and throwing it back. Uh, would you like to be? Would you like to uh weigh in on your fave, our fave, the fave.

Blair:

The star, oh boy.

Chris:

Boy.

Blair:

Look I, I ain't got shit to say, because she said it all. Okay. I don't even know what is every time her name gets mentioned. What are you? Bitch ass? Niggas get 24 hours of attention. Let's go.

Chris:

What, what, what is it about? All I know is, do you have all these people saying all this shit that's flying around on facebook and instagram and it just makes me mad because I'm just so like is this what y'all doing right now?

PJ:

I mean this number one. This is this, is it just sounds like um a gent exer, because she's Jesus, she's a millennial.

Chris:

Who niki niki?

PJ:

her stage age. Her stage age, um okay, because she is older than me, Is is argue with someone who hasn't even turned 30 yet.

Blair:

And it's just like, it's a whole lot like it's just.

PJ:

It's just, I'm just tired, and this goes back to what we were saying about cat like it's, it's, it's. It seems like it's always us, and it's always the same people, the bitter people, the ones who are angry because they're not getting their recognition that they think they deserve. Um, but your time was your time and now is someone else's time.

PJ:

And this and this someone else is much more talented than you are presently, and that's the key point. Presently, because everybody wants to argue and and and here's the thing about it they want to sit here and go bar for bar and talk about the different things, but Presently she is no longer who she was. Presently, when she came out, little kin was no longer who she was, but still they each had their own like importance within the game, right, but like megan, like just I didn't want to say it, I didn't want to say the name, um, but like notice, she didn't say names either.

Blair:

She's not yet that's not gonna holler. That's all I have to say.

PJ:

Did you get the one? I sent you that ai? I think ai did that.

Chris:

No, what is that?

PJ:

I put it in the I put it in the chat. It's an ai diss track.

Blair:

Really.

PJ:

Yeah. Yeah, this is it in the track? No, it's in the instagram chat.

Chris:

Oh.

PJ:

Or did I send it to you individually? Just, I think I just sent it to you, blair.

Blair:

Oh, I have unread messages for you. Hold on.

Chris:

The truth shall set you free, yeah.

Blair:

I want your mapper. Cow huh. Why? You looking at me, she looking at girls' cows huh, mother the grass, you did have your babies, but your husband over there fucking babies. Ah, he should have been on that playground with his baby. But the nigger there a danger in all the babies.

Chris:

AI made this.

Blair:

Oh, lord, lord, AI going to get somebody killed.

PJ:

Listen, listen. I'm trying to tell you like, come on, Ian Musk, yes, still Ian.

Blair:

Ian, ian, ian. Yeah, what were you going to say?

Chris:

Chris, you had your hand up.

PJ:

I you were. I think you were OK. No, no, what I?

Chris:

what, what I was going to know what I you think you funny? Nigger. Um, what I was going to say is that I think it's funny because I think I remember a couple of years ago where there was some beef between Nikki and Cardi, and Cardi was with the shits, and wasn't she trying to fucking beat Nikki's ass and Nikki was just all.

PJ:

I mean. I wasn't an award ceremony or something, yeah.

Blair:

Nikki Cardi was wrecked to go.

PJ:

OK, and wasn't Cardi pregnant, or who was? Was she pregnant at the time? I think she was.

Blair:

Are you crazy, exactly. So you don't really want to actually handle this. But OK, that's cool. I've never really been like a Nicki Minaj fan, so I don't, I don't know, but I was, I was, I was a. I for one don't really care for rap, beef and rap, you know, like people who really like be going after each other like that in the first place. So that's why I feel like I did like Megan's song, just because, like she didn't she didn't specifically say anybody's name, you know. So I felt like I could enjoy it. But like if she had really been like calling people out and going at people specifically, I don't know if I would have.

PJ:

So here's the. So, here's the thing, like as someone who loves hip hop, and not in the sense of rap music, but in the sense of like the true definition of hip hop and like the true definition of rap battles and stop, let it stay on wax, let it stay on the tracks. Going to Twitter and going to all the social media stuff is weird and that's the problem and that's like goes back to this whole like I don't know if this was the premise of the new mean girls, but how everything is with social media now, as opposed to being a mean girl in face to face, everything is you leave the school. And that's why I was just telling one of my, one of my, one of my righties, my for the, for the job, whatever. That is so different for these kids, because these kids leave here, they leave school and still get bullied. We didn't have that, so it's just.

Blair:

Yeah, that's true.

PJ:

I'm sorry you were. You've been wanting to say something for a minute. Go ahead, Go ahead, Chris.

Chris:

No, no, I said what I wanted to say.

Blair:

I'm going to cry. We're going to cry in front of me.

Chris:

That's all they want to cry.

Blair:

No, no, no no way that your voice chain. I really thought something had happened to your microphone.

PJ:

And Blair and I both looked at you.

Chris:

But you were like you're crazy.

PJ:

You sounded crazy for a quick second, that's all right.

Blair:

Wait, you didn't do that. You didn't put like a voice changer on no.

Chris:

That's the power of vocals, baby.

PJ:

Vocal lessons, I should say. But I just, I just wish that. I don't know, I don't, really don't care, because here's the thing, they're rich.

Blair:

OK, I'm not going to concern myself with rich people's problems.

PJ:

You know, I got. I got people putting fucking fucking letters on my fucking door for Jane Doe.

Blair:

I don't have time. I don't have time for the shit.

PJ:

I don't have time for to.

Chris:

I don't freaking, put stuff on your door. Freaking, I can just sense it, so we'll just put on other people.

PJ:

You know what the hell there you go so like, and it feels bad like, even like the like. We've talked about this for as far as, like, the disparity and disparity.

Chris:

Disparity. Let's add that to the book.

PJ:

I have a book, ok, so what? All right, you have a page, ok, but still it's getting there. Ok, but the disparity in like wages between black actors and white actors, and you know like people are talking about, like the whole going back to the color purple and the whole Taraji thing Truth of the matter is they're rich and yes, granted, yes, I really feel that you know she was dicked over, she should. You know as many black actresses are black actors, you know that. But a problem is with most black actors that are doing going through stuff. They tend to get with white women and get chased down the street and then get found guilty. So it's like, if I'm sorry, but that that comment that that cat did say about when did?

Blair:

that how he's ugly. When did?

PJ:

he just make up. When did this kind of man become attractive? And it was like I, I really think that he pissed. I think that he pissed someone off in show, in showbiz, in, in, in, in the industry. See, somewhere, at some industry party or something. He really rubbed some white man the wrong way and there's, like you know, I'm going to destroy you.

Blair:

You're talking about Jonathan Majors.

PJ:

Yeah.

Blair:

Yeah, I think he kind of destroyed himself, you know, but you know.

Chris:

I mean, hey, you know that one could argue that he was running away from destruction.

PJ:

One could there. One could argue that he was running to the memory of Kareda, which is glad he stopped putting her name.

Blair:

If he if not memory of correct. That's why I need my. Kareda, I was, I think, a shut.

PJ:

And so we have never said anything about it throughout this whole entire thing, because we really wanted to wait until, like, all of everything was done, and I still can't speak on it because I didn't really.

Blair:

I don't know the facts, I don't. I just I still I really tried to let us know the facts. Wait, did you At least? What would that way?

PJ:

That's why I got I send them so much stuff that they never look at. I'm the one in the circle that sends the means and the gifts and they just go unchecked. But I send them a whole YouTube video of a comedian, Josh Johnson, clowning or talking about the whole Jonathan Majors thing and it was actually pretty funny.

Blair:

I did. I saw that video on TikTok.

PJ:

Of course you did.

Blair:

Yeah, because that's what I. That's what I do. I saw a short version of it.

PJ:

That's the full.

Blair:

I did OK, thank you 15 minute skit 15 minutes OK.

PJ:

That's how I feel about it. It's worth the full 15.

Blair:

OK, I believe you.

Chris:

You know who knows Megan.

PJ:

What does she know? Can you find out? When y'all start filming again? I'll see what I can do, right?

Chris:

Right, that's what I'm like looking at you like Ask her.

PJ:

Is he going to come to set one day?

Blair:

Could you imagine If they're still together? As a business transaction, I mean for legal reasons, they could stop it.

Chris:

Stop it. They could love each other or she could.

PJ:

Or she.

Chris:

If that's the case, then that must mean she was the one that was the look, the look on Blair's face as she leans in closer and closer to the screen.

Blair:

Come close.

Chris:

One eye.

PJ:

Are y'all, are y'all going to be here for Justin Timberlake's comeback?

Blair:

I.

Chris:

When is that happening?

Blair:

He performing On Sunday, I think, in Irving Plaza. What, or is it tomorrow? It's sometime, it's sometime soon, she said. Is it Sunday or is it tomorrow? It is too.

Chris:

That's not stark, stuckly different at all.

Blair:

It's either this is because I thought it was Sunday, but then I also thought it was on the 31st, so it is upcoming Sunday or this Wednesday, as in tomorrow. He was great at SNL. He was the musical guest this past Saturday Did you work oh nice, it works.

PJ:

Very nice, does he look as old in person?

Chris:

Next question. You know who I'm looking forward to seeing. You know who I'm looking forward to seeing Perform.

Blair:

When? I'm sure yes. I'm looking forward to that shit and I'm telling you I'm telling you right now, as soon as his tour tickets go on sale, I'm buying them. I am. Can we go together? I cannot wait, yes.

Chris:

That would be good.

Blair:

Yes, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going here. I'm going to fly to Michigan and I'm going to go there. I'm going to fly to North Carolina and I'm going to go there. I need.

PJ:

I feel like, in order to go to an usher concert without being suspect, we're going to need to attend it with a female.

Chris:

So Ask me, hey suspect who cares?

Blair:

He puts out great music for everybody to enjoy.

PJ:

No, but he's not going to come to me.

Blair:

Now, now you're changing the context. I love how you're being specific now. Now you're changing the context. Come and sit on me, go to the concert and have a great time. You want him to come and Dick ride and he's not going to do that and he can do it.

PJ:

He's not going to do it, but he can come and like give you a lap dance and I'm. I don't need that kind of attention, I don't Not in public form let's, let's.

Blair:

Need or want?

Chris:

See, I didn't touch a public forum.

Blair:

You know, I hope let's see, let's see what he's doing.

PJ:

October 29th of 2024. Okay, let's see what he's doing. That, yeah.

Chris:

But Not the poor. That's what he's doing Ladies and gentlemen, we are obviously just having, so much fun at this moment.

Blair:

Um, I'm going to go to the concert.

PJ:

I'm going to go to the concert. I'm going to go to the concert. I'm going to go to the concert Um.

Chris:

I am looking very forward to seeing him before.

Blair:

I heard that he is that who you were talking about, though I just totally hijacked.

Chris:

No, no, no, no, absolutely. I'm glad that we was on the same page. Okay, it was exactly who I was talking about. I heard, I heard that he I don't know how true it is, but I heard that he stopped drinking and and it started working out and eating right to prepare for the Super Bowl.

Chris:

So I'm like, oh okay, like, even aside from a whole aesthetics thing, cause Blair's like body roll rolling and doing all this stuff right now I'm not even talking about that Just from like an artist and making sure he's in tip top shape. I have hats off to him.

PJ:

Can I just say that there's you know how people know the single ladies dance routine and they do that like hey Beyonce.

Chris:

And she's here.

Blair:

And the final moments.

Chris:

Right.

Blair:

They'll make an appearance.

PJ:

But you know how people know that dance routine. I do the dance routine from you, don't have to call.

Chris:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

PJ:

No, these are the final moments of the episode. I can't do it when we're-.

Blair:

So dance us out. No, no, no, no, no At all.

PJ:

We was waiting for you to dance. See you? Gotta say it for a third time. Do the after All right.

Chris:

Wait, I gotta hey, siri Play. You don't have to call, you're just a little bit of a loser.

PJ:

You're just a little bit of a loser. You're just a little bit of a loser. You're just a little bit of a loser. You're just a little bit of a loser. You're just a little bit of a loser. You're just a little bit of a loser. Stop, stop, stop. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Oh damn, you are such a tease I am, but I do it, I do it, you're terrible Cause.

Chris:

I was definitely about to be like.

Blair:

That's the true damage. He already gave you a 10.

PJ:

Am I the only one who, when you come home, like you, really do like little dance routines Like I perform in my bedroom?

Blair:

Do, do, do, do do.

PJ:

With this whole make and everything, but anyway are you saying this to it? Or Are you gonna what?

Chris:

Hmm.

PJ:

I'm not dancing.

Chris:

Oh, no, no, no, oh, never mind.

PJ:

What were you about to say?

Chris:

Nothing, no continue.

PJ:

You just was saying something, are you gonna?

Chris:

It's okay, I'm done. It's okay, we can keep moving.

PJ:

Well, we were gonna move to the last moments.

Chris:

Okay, go to the last moments, then Bring us in.

PJ:

Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a wonderful-.

Blair:

Come on Key, sweat, sweat Hotel.

PJ:

Ooh, nobody, yep no no, the way Nobody. But sidebar because I wanted to mention this earlier for those of you-.

Blair:

Earlier, we're so-.

PJ:

Earlier, shout out to all of you, all of you beautiful people who will be having your birthday on the last-. You know what we're going to do, because this episode, an episode, will come out on your birthday. We're gonna do a February 29th leap year episode, just for you guys, since this is a leap year. But I did want to ask you, lastly, ask you both, and this is a serious question Are you ready, oh Lord?

Chris:

No.

PJ:

What did you leave behind in 2023? I left behind digging up my nose in public. Now I'm playing.

Chris:

Well, that's a good start. Oh, I still do it. No I still do it.

PJ:

Because if I'm walking down the street and something's in my nose, I'm gonna have to get it out As-.

Blair:

Now I feel like something's in my nose. Oh, no, I oh.

PJ:

I'll say this what I chose to leave behind Shit.

Chris:

You left behind shit yeah.

PJ:

Yeah, yeah. Well, I left behind irregularity. I don't even know.

Chris:

What kind of bowel commercial is this?

PJ:

Okay, well, as someone who does have a little version of IBS, you know it's something that I experienced, but I've left behind saying yes to everyone. That's all. That's all. I've enjoyed saying no, but I'm still saying yes to invite me out. So guys call me.

Blair:

I'm glad you circled back to that, because I definitely was gonna say something.

PJ:

I mean I'm saying yes to helping because yesterday, when he asked me to help and I was like, of course, and I was dead tired but I would do anything for you guys, so I was like yes, he said you know, we must do better with this Because you know, I left behind.

Blair:

I don't really know how to formulate it. It's a form of procrastination, in a way. If there's something that I know that I need to do and I need to go somewhere to do it, for some reason, I'll just put off making the appointment to go, or whatever. So now, what I'm doing now is I'm just like scheduling out those appointments like two at a time, so like the next time, like when I go get my hair trimmed or go get a Brazilian wax or like whatever. Like I'm putting it on the calendar, I'm putting them on the calendar and I'm putting them on the calendar for multiple dates. So that way I because if it's on the calendar, then I stick to it and I do it, but sometimes, like when I procrastinate and I don't put things on my calendar, I don't get them done.

PJ:

Speaking of procrastinating what we're not going to procrastinate doing this year. What did you wait to the last minute to do last year?

Chris:

Eating cheese on the patio.

Blair:

What did I do? Your taxes? Oh I sure did, didn't I? Oh I sure did. I was online on April 14th at 11.36 pm finishing the bitches up.

PJ:

In the Midwest because you had an extra hour.

Blair:

You're absolutely right. Wow, your memory is impeccable.

PJ:

I keep trying to tell people.

Blair:

But no, yes, I'm on it this year. I'm waiting for all my W2s to come in and then I'm recognized it up. I got like four of them in the mail today, so we're halfway there.

PJ:

But no, my real answer honestly is I'm leaving behind people, pleasing. That's it. I'm just not doing it anymore.

Chris:

I'm just done.

PJ:

If you like it, you like it, you don't, you don't. You like me, you like me, you don't, you don't. It has no your opinions and feelings, has no bearing on my reaction.

Blair:

Cyclone.

PJ:

It's the year of the cat Williams. I'm just going to let it all hang out. That's the name of the episode. No, go ahead.

Blair:

That's the year of the cat. Dot dot dot Williams. K-a-t-t.

PJ:

No, go ahead, Chris.

Chris:

I think opposite of you. You said that you left behind saying yes to everybody. I left behind saying no to myself.

Blair:

Ooh, so poetic.

Chris:

I know, yeah, je ne sais clair To it. Very tibet, that's yourself. No, I just and I'll say this because I don't know, I don't think that I've been meant. I don't know if I mentioned this on the previous episodes before, but one of the things that I have issues with as an individual is that I constantly restrict myself because I feel like the way to win is to really make myself very regimented and very stiff in whatever I do.

Chris:

So it could be with finances. Maybe I don't spend so much money because I'm worried about this and I got to really think in the future, in the future, in the future, if you will. Or maybe it's that donut You've been working out all week and you sit down and you say, no, I can't have it, but then you feel terrible for the rest of the day because you didn't satisfy your needs, and I think that I'm doing a hell of a lot better with just acting impulsively and acting based on what I truly want or need in that moment. I don't say a whole lot of no's to myself anymore. Good, good.

Blair:

That's what that is.

PJ:

It's hard and you know what's crazy is, I go through this. I think so far, this will be the sixth year we've done this podcast and coming into it Since we started doing these breaks in January. As much as I miss doing these and this has been like it's always therapeutic to actually speak on the mic, regardless of whatever the topic is, because it's just you guys Not doing it. For these couple of weeks, I had to fill something in with that time that we would normally be here and that gave me a little bit more time to organize, which is not something that I'm really great at, but I'm great at putting it all together and making something out of it, and I think that this year so far for me is going to be great, and I think that this year for the both of you is going to be amazing.

Blair:

Well, go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere. Oh, come on Soprano, everywhere.

PJ:

Or that note, guys. Thank you for taking the time to listen to another episode of highly motherfucking melanated. It's the motherfucker the same space to go tell it on the mountain.

Blair:

Over the hills and everywhere.

PJ:

Everywhere I had to remember the lyric.

Blair:

I got you, I got you, I got you.

PJ:

I said at the beginning guys, you know where we are. Use it Pretty much, pretty much this year. I know I've said I was going to and I said we've. We've made some slight jumps in the numbers as far as you followers out there. I still think about what I said before you know, and so we're waiting, but I'll say it again so we can always say what we say. You can take the time to follow us on Instagram and TikTok. It's highly melanated podcast.

Blair:

And if you throw a at Gmail at the end of that you'll have our email address. Pop out highly melanated podcast at gmailcom.

PJ:

Pop out.

Blair:

Pop out.

Chris:

And I know this is completely random, but if you come on over to Twitter well formerly known as Twitter, now known as X If you like stress balls in the shape of boobs or nipples, come on over. H underscore melanated pod.

PJ:

Because I've been sitting here looking at this for the longest and he was wondering what it was Right.

Chris:

I know it's a Sleezable Boo Boo. Is it a leopard titty?

Blair:

It's a leopard titty. It's a leopard titty.

Chris:

It's, so I got this. So I got this from the Museum of Sex.

Blair:

It's an animal print titty.

Chris:

Yeah, the only the other one that they had was it was like a weird leopard print but pink. So I was like no, I don't know that.

Blair:

That's not realistic Right.

Chris:

This, this is. This is a cheetah all the way. Okay, come on, can we?

PJ:

can we, can we please get a fun to cat movie?

Chris:

Yes.

Blair:

Can we?

PJ:

Oh yeah, I will be listen, I would watch that. Listen, I would watch that.

Blair:

That's the one we have yet to get. Yeah, somebody get on that. Where's Josh Weedon at? Yes, oh, did I say it.

Chris:

H underscore melanated yes.

PJ:

On that note guys peace, love Leopard titties.

Chris:

Sorry, I don't, why not.

Blair:

Why not Leopard titties?

PJ:

I'm dead.

Blair:

Leopard titties under cat. Good, I will say weiß your是的.