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
Acknowledging the Power of Black Women's Legacy
Join us for a heartfelt homage to the indomitable Black women who've played pivotal roles in our lives and continue to pave the way in fields as diverse as the NFL and the arts.
Rounding off our kaleidoscope of conversations, we shine a spotlight on the extraordinary Shaniqua Shande, whose talents radiate both on the screen and behind the scenes, embodying the spirit of Women's History Month. As we juggle our bustling schedules, we delve into the importance of self-care and maintaining mental health amidst our packed agendas. And we don't forget to offer a nod to the friends who keep our podcast vibes high and our community connected. So cozy up and join us for tales of inspiration, debate, and everything in between.
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I don't know what it is, but I just love being black BJ here.
Speaker 2:What up doe? It's your girl, Blair. You know, Mel Melanin was popping yesterday, it's popping today and it's sure enough gonna be popping tomorrow.
Speaker 3:It's your boy, red, and you're listening to the episode of highly melanated podcast the safe space where it is okay to Damn it.
Speaker 1:I forgot the words already. No, I knew, I mean I.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm beginning to think that you do this on purpose.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I'm starting to think.
Speaker 1:No, the safe space where it is okay to one time cotton candy sweet and go, let me see you, tootsie roll tootsie roll no, no, no. The safe space where it is okay to just I don't know shit, wait no well.
Speaker 3:I guess that's important.
Speaker 2:You need to do that, but this is not the place for it the safe space to digging your nose in public.
Speaker 1:Blair is so tired the safe space to frustrate.
Speaker 2:Blair at any wicked moment no, it's not a safe space for that either.
Speaker 1:You know alright. So it is really the safe space to smile through it all.
Speaker 3:If you can, okay, well, if you can do it.
Speaker 1:PJ is celebrating Women's History Month by. Even though PJ is celebrating Women's History Month by. Even though NSYNC came together on Justin's Tim Blake latest album, Justin will not be getting any strings from me this month still team Janet.
Speaker 2:Still team Janet interior dilemma not gonna lie.
Speaker 1:Still team janet.
Speaker 2:Still team janet interior dilemma just because I love his music. But I just, you know there's, there's a lot that's, that's just difficult, like I wish there was a way to set for on multiple levels, for multiple people. I wish there was a way to separate the art from the artist, do you do not? I mean?
Speaker 3:a lot of people have been saying that he's been problematic. Do you think like I don't know, like I'm not following with him? You know at all. I feel like you, blair, where I'm just like I listen to his music and that's about it, but like everybody's just saying that it's a, it's a it was a wardrobe malfunction. No, no, Everybody's just saying that it was a wardrobe malfunction.
Speaker 1:No, no, that's not what they were saying, that's what they.
Speaker 3:A lot of people are saying that sir.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I understand what a lot of people are saying, but what I am saying and what was said it? Took Kim over a decade to apologize. It wasn't, you know. I don't know if anybody else saw the jenna jackson documentary, uh, that she put out and she talked about it, but really didn't talk too much about it. Um, but no it. And it was just crazy how his career skyrocketed during that time and she was left in the dust and he never defended.
Speaker 2:He didn't apologize huh, he apologized. No, he apologized but did she say he did?
Speaker 1:she say that, that he didn't apologize.
Speaker 2:No, no, yes she said, he didn't apologize not publicly yeah, well, that's, that's what I'm getting at. Yeah, because we don't know if he apologized or not.
Speaker 1:He could apologize the minute it happened, right back stage, but maybe it wasn't it needed to be publicly because listen, everything that went down as far as she being blackballed from the networks, from the game, from everything you know, like you have to actually like. I would recommend everybody, if you have never seen it, take a listen, not a listen, take a watch for it. Um, it was a really good documentary, um, but besides, we'll have to.
Speaker 2:I think there's more there, but that's not what we're talking about today. I can spend the next hour talking about just that, but we're not going to get into that.
Speaker 1:Okay, then let me, let me do this anyway pj is so I'll switch it up then. Okay, pj? No, I want to, because I wrote oh, okay, pj is checking in on all of you, um, deacons and deaconesses and people who hold morality um high, um, how y'all doing ever since the freak nick documentary came out came out again.
Speaker 2:I barely have time to wipe my own ass yo so I don't know anything about anything that's going on. When did that come out?
Speaker 1:it's out, it's on Hulu when did it come out? Last week? Oh okay, thank you, yeah, and apparently, apparently there's a Myrtle. When did it come out? Last week? Oh okay, thank you. What? Yeah, and apparently there's a Myrtle Beach one coming soon, right after.
Speaker 2:So there were people of church at the Freaknik.
Speaker 1:I mean okay. So what I'm saying is you know, yeah, you know, you ain't tell nobody what you used to do, because there's no evidence, evidence, but now there's evidence alright, whatever is in the darkness shall come to light.
Speaker 3:Blair.
Speaker 2:I saw a question the other day that I'm also going to pose to you guys, and by no means do I mean this to replace question of the week. But if you were offered a hundred million dollars to watch your life story with your family, are you watching Blair?
Speaker 3:Yes, okay, I thought I'm just gonna answer for me.
Speaker 1:yes, yes, yes, pj uh which family your family wow, can I pick the family member? Your family anybody who you have considered family when you say the story of your life. Can I send them to the bathroom?
Speaker 3:or send them to get concessions you better be proud of who you are with them sure um convincing I, I, you know.
Speaker 1:No, the answer is no yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2:For me the answer is no, but my best friend cracks me the fuck up the other day because she's. Her answer was, and I quote roll that beautiful bean footage I'll have money to pay for their therapy listen, that's you know.
Speaker 1:That's the only way it's gonna work.
Speaker 2:Man like I was like, wow, hilarious anyway, and the gang's all here and the gang's here and we are back.
Speaker 1:We're back, y'all. As you know, we sometimes take time, you know? Um, as I said last last episode, uh, the frequency may change a little, but we are here with another episode. Shout out to all of you who have been riding with us through thick and thin, through not seeing us for weeks, for months. We're all here in red for you, like y'all can see us right.
Speaker 2:I'm wearing a red turtleneck that was gifted to me courtesy of the Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3:Ivy Park collaboration oh snap, come on Fancy. I'm just wearing a regular t-shirt and it says I'm your type. I don't know who I'm talking to in this apartment by myself, but I am their type.
Speaker 1:And I am wearing a red t-shirt that says unapologetically black.
Speaker 2:Here he is, with the Africa in the middle.
Speaker 3:Yeah so Africa in the middle, yeah, so Africa in the middle how you guys been.
Speaker 1:It's been a while. How have you guys been?
Speaker 2:I've come to find that I'm disliking that question more and more.
Speaker 1:Because you know it's coming.
Speaker 2:I'm maintaining. It's one of those things where I'm like I literally am running a million miles a minute, but I wouldn't have it any other way. So I'm not complaining, I'm just being realistic. I'm very tired, but I'm good.
Speaker 3:I am, um, I'm cool, um, I had taken a, um, I had to take a couple of days to myself because, like I was being run ragged, but, um, I'm catching up, getting things in order. So I've just been here, I've just been I won't say hibernating, because it's about it's about to be springtime if, if, if the weather would allow it to be, and so that's what I was about to say.
Speaker 1:So I cannot stand this time of year where it's like here's summer, I mean here's spring, no, it's not, nope, nope. Here it is again. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Here's a monsoon, it's freezing here it's hot, and I wish it was just I'm uh, here it's hot, you know and I wish it was just.
Speaker 1:I'm tired of bipolar weather every, every season, change. Bipolar, yeah, when it goes to like, I can deal with from spring to summer, but like the, the, the winter to spring and the, what is it the fall? Is it the spring? Summer to fall? Yeah, yeah, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you can hear in our voices we are tired. Um, I have a little bit more energy than both of them because I just came in from the gym, so I'm a little, you know, squirt all over the place. No, for real, actually I am. Um, since we last did the last episode, I was talking about, um, you know, my blood work and things and I've been really doing really great with that.
Speaker 2:Round of applause.
Speaker 1:For any of you who are concerned. Round of applause.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kale is gross, but we will not have any kale slander, not kale slander. Okay, kale is actually low-key delicious if you prepare it correctly so I've been.
Speaker 3:That's the thing you gotta prepare it correctly, you do yes it was to be ripping it right out of the roots and just so that's what I've been.
Speaker 1:So for a week I did all leafy, I did all like fresh vegetables. You know I eat peppers like fresh. I don't cook, sometimes I could just eat a pepper. People always say how could you do that? I don't know, it tastes good to me. Yeah, I've been eating like fresh pepper, fresh garlic. Um, I did try to almost choke myself with some fresh kale, um, that was hard. But then I made some salmon and I put it in the oven, um, and I baked it and it came out like a crispy chip, um, so, yeah, it was, it was actually good, it was actually. I'm not, I'm lying, I I I've enjoyed this, uh, this new, trying to figure out where I am. I've been enjoying, no, but I've been enjoying this new, uh, found, like, really trying to see where I am with this new lifestyle, you know.
Speaker 1:I haven't had any red meat. I haven't had any bacon.
Speaker 3:Blasphemy. I know how dare you unbake it by yourself by yourself.
Speaker 1:The only thing that the next, the next thing I'm gonna do for a week, um is like all carbs, like bread carbs and starch. Um, I have my blood worked on friday, so you know, but I'm I'm actually excited to actually go.
Speaker 3:I'll be like poke me diggity um well, this actually starts out with a good question a week that I had. So question a week, question a week, question a week, your questions as they pertain to you prospectively and introspectively. So I actually was not going to ask you guys this question, but since we went on a topic of food, since we hear question, but since we went on a topic of food, since we hear, since we hear what is a type of food that you cannot stand to eat and why, and and I'm going to show you why this came up- like a food that we eat but we can't stand it, or a food that we dislike and don't eat dislike and don't eat like you just did you't eat Like you just Did you.
Speaker 3:Just I was going to, I was going to say it could be. You said pickles.
Speaker 2:Yes, I fucking hate them. They're disgusting, oh my God.
Speaker 1:There will be no pickle slander.
Speaker 3:A lot of people do not like pickles Fair.
Speaker 2:I understand that there are people who build their life on Pickle Mountain. I am not one of those people.
Speaker 3:Not Pickle Mountain.
Speaker 1:Wait. So I know somebody who does pickle Kool-Aid and I said that sounds disgusting.
Speaker 2:Honestly the thought.
Speaker 1:Put the pickles in there, let it.
Speaker 2:That's how much I don't like pickles.
Speaker 1:It makes me gag. That's how I feel about mayonnaise.
Speaker 3:You don't use any mayonnaise at all.
Speaker 1:No, I do. I just don't like seeing globs of it.
Speaker 3:It's yeah. So yeah, I saw this guy, overweight guy. He was just eating it right out of the jar and it was just like this I'm sorry, sorry, alright, stop, alright, alright alright, this is just not a good day for Blair today. I had no idea he was gonna gag like that.
Speaker 1:It's like when I if I go get a sandwich and they put too much oil and I take a bite out of it and it's just Listeners. We apologize if you are experienced, she's not throwing up. I hope not she walked out of the frame, y'all. She went to go get some water. This is and see, and for once it isn't me, so I appreciate this, not you appreciating her, her downfall no, not her downfall, but I'm I'm tired of me.
Speaker 1:I've always made me out to be the bad guy. Are you okay? She went to get water. Okay, to answer your question liver, liver, liver is disgusting yeah, I.
Speaker 2:I have a problem with any type of smooth muscle, anything that is not like kidney, liver, lung, anything like that I'm like things that are inside the body generally are just kind of maybe like a like those are filters. You're eating yeah, those are filters you're eating body filters.
Speaker 3:That's not what you're supposed to eat them for.
Speaker 1:Okay, so also okay, I refuse to eat and I will not eat it and I cannot eat it. I tried before. I just can't. I can't eat shrimp that have the head. I can't eat fish that have the head on it. I can't, I can't.
Speaker 2:I can't what was what was the point of this?
Speaker 3:well, okay, to make us gag. I really didn't want to make you guys gag, but I think it's so interesting because I was.
Speaker 3:I was on instagram and I was scrolling through Instagram to try and just you know I hate you normally just scroll through, but I was thinking about trips and how I want to, like do I want to visit different places and experience different cultures, and often a big portion of cultures are food. So I came across this and this is supposed to be an actual pie. It's called Stargazy pie. Absolutely not. I'm going to show you you sent it.
Speaker 2:Is it going to make me gag?
Speaker 3:So it's a hold on when is it no.
Speaker 1:Wardrobe. Here's the phone malfunction.
Speaker 3:I know, I was just all like wait a minute it's like what are those no, so if you could like go ahead and describe that blair they're like whole fish are those fish heads? No, they're actual, it's, it's, it's full of fishes. So, blair, can you just Come on.
Speaker 2:Come back and explain it. The way I almost slammed my laptop closed.
Speaker 1:Blair, can you just Can you stop showing it.
Speaker 3:I was waiting for Blair to describe it, blair is not going to describe this.
Speaker 1:What it is is a pie with like nine fish heads just sticking out Fucking 20 black fish baked into a pie.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry. I just thought that was funny because I was like who?
Speaker 1:would bake this in the same neck. All the listeners that we have have skipped onto to the neck has left. They have all left the chat right now uh, still with us.
Speaker 2:Y'all are some real ones okay some real freaky. I I don't know one or the other, or maybe both.
Speaker 1:Either way, thanks for being here all right, so to counter, to counter his okay to counter his question of the week. Okay, okay, lord, okay. Question of the month. What is a food right now that you have a taste for?
Speaker 2:sugar and, for context to our listeners, I'm currently doing a sugar detox and, for those who know me, you know that candy is my vice, and so I'm I'm not pleased at the moment, but you gotta do what you gotta do this is this.
Speaker 1:I think this contributes to your mood at the present time. She's not with the shits today.
Speaker 2:I would love to have a Snickers with almonds, but why are you doing a sugar fast? Because I've been going over the fuck board and I need to get it together.
Speaker 3:You know that happens every once in a while. I'm just glad that you actually are able to recognize it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I was going in was like this is. This is not healthy. I'd surprise all.
Speaker 3:I still have my teeth some people don't, and then they be like you know, 400 pounds later they're like oh, I don't know how I got here it's, it's.
Speaker 1:it's almost the same as like crackheads who don't know when to stop, Like it's an addiction. I mean, don't really there's a. Your body starts to crave it and then, when you're like I'm pushing, we here are pushing for you to push through this, Blair, because once you get over this hump, you'll feel much better. Right now it's like what are you substituting it for Nothing. Well, you need a substitute no, you take it out. And yeah, take, take it out and put something else in like what, like what neat.
Speaker 3:Like what, like what is the?
Speaker 1:substitute. No, maybe do more greens. So is it just? Is it? Is it all sugar or is it natural sugar? Is it like fruits and fruits that have natural are high in sugar, or is it all like granulated sugar?
Speaker 2:it's all granulated sugar. But then also too, I'm doing the first phase where I just basically avoid any food that has sugar in it. So no fruits, no white starchy, anything, and then I'll start to incorporate that stuff back in, but to start it's the full palate.
Speaker 1:We both, I don't know that struggle. That's strong, that's strength right there only. That's only the strength that a woman can do, because the transition I was waiting for the way the transition.
Speaker 3:We were all waiting for Definitely.
Speaker 1:So, guys, we come to you and you know we've all been a little busy here and there, but we really wanted to make sure that we at least dropped an episode, especially during Women's History Month. Also, guys, know that Black Women's history month is in april, so I didn't honestly didn't know that that was actually a thing to be honest with you.
Speaker 2:um, every year, we learned something about some month.
Speaker 3:That's the thing that we had no idea was a thing they just keep tacking it on, they just keep adding them right. How long?
Speaker 2:has april been Black Women's History Month?
Speaker 1:Let's go ahead. Why is Samuel L?
Speaker 3:Jackson here.
Speaker 2:Motherfucker, motherfucker, why not? Wait, it's not in this, it's in here. Started in 2016.
Speaker 1:I'm so mad that you got there, you know, and.
Speaker 2:Black woman to get the answer.
Speaker 1:Once again, it would Listen. I was trying to get there. I was trying my best. We would be. What did Tupac say? We would be nothing. We all came from a woman.
Speaker 2:We would be nothing without a woman. Shade Battle established April as International Black Women's History Month in 2016 in the city of Atlanta to uplift and support the achievements of black and minority women and to build understanding and awareness of the contributions of black women to the world.
Speaker 1:You know, I really want to take a step back when we talk about, like, the contributions of black women. I really want to go back to the freaknik conversation really quick, um, and here's the reason why I want to go back to it. So I know if, if, if freaknik was over by the time I was actually able to go. So I know it was over for the both of you, um, did you know that it started out as like a black spring break that slowly transitioned? I didn't know this. I always knew freak nick to be the, the luke version, you know, and so, like watching a documentary actually really opened my eyes to it, um, to a lot of different things. And the reason why they actually stopped doing it, um, was when atlanta got nominated or was able to do the olympics there, and that's when the city of atlanta shut it down for the most part. But, um, I wanted I, the reason why I wanted to give it back to that point was, I think that is, it did mark a really great time before it got out of hand for women to really start owning their sexuality, um, and not being ashamed of it and just having fun before it started getting too aggressive with men being men
Speaker 2:men sorry, sorry, I didn't finish that sentence, but it is and it's you know.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you, let me ask you a question. All right, so do you know of any, not, not? Okay, let me ask you a question. I'm trying to figure out a way to word this, because I'm afraid of the question no, because we're switching it up. It was like this awkward pause. No because I'm switching it up. That was like this, awkward pause.
Speaker 1:No, because I'm switching it all up. Oh no, because my question. Let me ask you guys a question when it comes to coming to the defense of women, do you know of any men?
Speaker 2:Blair, I'm actually bringing this to you, besides the both of us and your black daddy.
Speaker 1:Period. Hey, black daddy, that you can appreciate.
Speaker 2:I appreciate all black men.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is not your amazing.
Speaker 2:I have an appreciation for all black men. I have a respect and understanding for all black men. I might not necessarily have the tolerance for a specific Black man.
Speaker 3:As you shouldn't.
Speaker 2:I don't think that any type of progress. Or, as for the foundation starts, you have to have mutual understanding and respect for the other party initially. Now, once they do things to not be worthy of that respect turns into a different type of thing. But I don't think that that was the. That was the intention of your question no, because I was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, but it made sense, it made sense, it made sense. Question then who? Who is the matriarch of your family? Both of you, and how would you? How would you describe them?
Speaker 2:My grandmothers my grandmothers on both sides, just because, well one, without them there would be no us. They both established themselves and made a name for themselves in different ways, but both made a firm mark on who they were in this world. Okay, in this world, my grandmother on my mother's side started a Black women's social organization that is still thriving today, and my grandmother on my father's side was heavily involved in the labor union and was an intricate part of making a lot of laws and changes that again still affect the labor union to this day. Snap, snap, snap. That's beautiful, actually.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Your matriarch.
Speaker 3:Well, all of my grandparents, except for one, which is my grandfather on my father's side, are no longer with us.
Speaker 3:So the matriarch of the family is my mother.
Speaker 3:Unlike with your family, blair, where I feel like there's a lot of organizational influence, my mother didn't really have that as much.
Speaker 3:But she, you know, she's a nurse, or I should say, was a nurse who was one of the directors at a hospital nearby, and I think she's just the matriarch, because, I mean, because it's just her, but she's the planner she likes and she'll always tell you that. She's always the person that's going around and saying I have an idea and it's up to you to kind of execute on those ideas or, you know, kind of expand on those ideas. My mother is just somebody that is just caring, loving and supportive and just wants to see the best for you. So she will, in her own motherly fashion, will sit there racking her brain to try and figure out what is the best solution to a problem. So in a lot of ways, she's, she's, she is the person that does a lot of the problem solving and, as you can imagine, with families, um, that's like that's, that's invaluable, because problems arise all the time all the time all the time.
Speaker 3:So she's the one that is constantly just working it out and making sure everybody's together.
Speaker 1:So, um, thank you, mom thank you, mom I'm like the same thing like you're like you. Uh, first my, my grandmother was, now my mother is the eldest. She's to make sure I got the family. I'm like the same thing like you first my grandmother was, and now my mother is the eldest. She's the matriarch of the family. Now my grandmother.
Speaker 2:Wait, does matriarch mean that they have to be living?
Speaker 1:They're the present matriarch of the family.
Speaker 2:yeah, oh, well then my answer is incorrect, because both my grandmothers are deceased. So then the matriarch of my family is my mother. I didn't know that the matriarch had to be living.
Speaker 1:Are you?
Speaker 2:looking it up I am. I was going to say it.
Speaker 1:Let me look that up. Are you looking it up? I am so like. My mom is the matriarch and I'll say this that my mother is. She's big on family and understanding what family means. So she's big on being concerned with what everybody's got going on um borderline nosy. But right way to say that she'd be in everybody's business, everybody's business you know, um, but don't be in hers, so it's, it's, you know, hey, maybe that, maybe that comes with it. You know, do as I say, not as I do, kind of situation.
Speaker 1:I don't know, you know. Okay, in honor of Women's History Month, I wanted to really bring it back just a full circle moment, because there's been a lot of great things that have been happening in general and a lot of you know we're still we're still experiencing the the first black anything and it's agitating. But I did want to give a few people some shout outs, so I watched recently the Shirley Duckley doc the shirley movie on netflix, uh, with with regina king, really good, really good um I bet it was you know, uh don't worry, blair is bitter because blair auditioned for a part in the movie and didn't get it.
Speaker 1:but that does not mean Was it the name that I said?
Speaker 2:Because you never responded. Hold on, I have to go back and look to see like what the what the part was for, but continue on, but it was, I think.
Speaker 1:So I kind of been avoiding looking at this interview for a little bit, and this was this interview of regina talking about how she's gotten through um, through the passing of her son, ian. She dedicated this movie because she actually produced this. Um, she dedicated the movie. When it first starts it says for ian, um, and I kind of just I wanted to hear it but I just didn't want to because it keeps putting me in the mood. Um, and just to see the resilience of her and put this, put this, this beautiful piece of artwork out. Um, I really enjoyed it, I mean, and I think that she did.
Speaker 1:She did a great justice by actually explaining what more of, not what just shirley did, but who shirley was, uh, and how she was a no-nonsense type of person. She stood up for what she believed in and she, you know, she did push barriers, she did open doors, she did, uh, do some things that I remember. I did a. I was helping produce Marie Nahikian's podcast, the Usable Path, and we had someone on that is part of the Shirley Chisholm Foundation and I remember that conversation and I it was like listening to the conversation and watching it on television and it just matched. So I'd recommend everybody watch that I really do and it.
Speaker 1:Also. I'm glad it didn't shed so much, because here's the thing about movies like that you know, it could be 80% fact and the rest could be embellished for entertainment. It could be 80% fact and the rest could be embellished for entertainment, but I'm really glad that they didn't harp on the husband uh being the husband, uh versus like he was. He was the supportive husband versus like. You know how men are so intimidated by powerful black women. You know and maybe I speak from a different vantage point um, due to you know who I choose to love? Um, but it's I. I really hate that. I hate that for women so much that you cute. It's hard for a woman to be so successful and have to deal with a man's ego at the same time. Shout out to mea culpa. Oh boy, no, I finished. I finished it y'all, I finished it.
Speaker 2:You finished it I finished it. It was like the fuck I'm sorry, I not that we're harping on this yeah, we've been harping gonna watch.
Speaker 2:Definitely want to watch um miyakopa. Just like I said last time we spoke about it, I just found it to be wildly entertaining, really, because you can't take the movie seriously at all. It was pure entertainment. It was there for you have to watch it with people so that you can just kiki and haha the whole movie. So so what's funny about that is that I told you that I had somebody that I was going to watch it with people so that you can just kiki and ha ha the whole movie.
Speaker 3:So what's funny about that is that I told you that I had somebody that I was going to watch it with, and I watched it with Eric and we both fell asleep.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's sad.
Speaker 3:I woke up to like the very last scene and then the credits rolling and I look over and this nigga, he was passed out. I was like what was the point of this? We could have watched.
Speaker 1:I'd do it.
Speaker 3:I tried, I tried. It could have been that I was just really tired. I'll just say that, let's just put that out. Maybe I was just really extremely tired.
Speaker 1:I also want to give another recommendation for something to watch, and I it is the Beth Ann documentary who I did not know her name, her full name is Beth Ann Hardison did not know that. She is Kandim Hardison's mother and there is the. It's really so. Beth Ann Hardison was, uh, was the first, uh, black model, um, to do runway in america, open doors for other art.
Speaker 1:Other people, such as iman, who looks amazing in it oh my god. Uh, she looks like, oh my gosh, she looks so good, uh, for for tyra, for beverly, for all these others, uh, that were in it as well um, and she also created the black modeling code on the. Is it black modeling coalition? Um, I recommend you guys actually take a watch at this. It's on hulu, um, it's, it's, it's. It's amazing when I really see all the things, and I think we're actually starting to really come into this different age right now, where women are starting to really finally being able to be awarded the things that they are. They are deserved for a very long time. Um, as a man, I'm gonna shut up right now, um, because it's important man, I'm going to shut up right now because it's important.
Speaker 2:Well, just on that note, I think one of the main reasons that we're even seeing more documentaries and movies and television shows based on fictional and um biographical women is because women are producing these stories, creating these stories. It's the same adage that you know, you you have to create the arts or create the world that you want to see. Um, and that actually kind of leads me to um, the person that I wanted to um honor or speak about for this episode. Um, talking about women's history.
Speaker 2:Um, I know it's not april, but she is a black woman because, hello, this is the highly melanated show okay, I mean, I wasn't gonna so um, and perhaps I'm a bit biased, because I get to work with this person every day and I just see the dedication that she brings to her crafts and she absolutely is getting and taking her flowers. Getting and taking her flowers um, I'm talking about, uh, shanika shande. She plays angie on harlem and ever since season one, and just seeing like her become this breakout actress and her really having an opportunity to just really just captivate people with how she portrayed this character is just so thrilling. And so, just again, like as an observer, watching her in season one and working with her every day, same thing for season two and now that we're filming season three, just like watching her work and taking it in and just seeing what she's doing on the show and then outside of the show as well. Since we're talking about women directing women, right now she actually is directing. It's kind of like a showcase. She has it on her Instagram page. Everybody should check it out, but it's a showcase called Her Story and she directed it and it's helping produce it and it's came out. The first installment of it came out now during Women's History Month, but it's just so captivating to see her work in front of and behind the camera because obviously she has a different, like perspective on how to be able to communicate through the lens that she wants people to be able to see it through, and so I think she's just doing such a beautiful job with that. She takes such care of people's stories because she knows how important it is to be able to relay them properly, and her herself she has such a powerful and compelling story as well.
Speaker 2:You know, typically in the world, in the world and but also very much so in the world of entertainment, you know, curvier, darker skin, black women are very much typecasted. You know, they're always the slave, the mammy, the, the, the ignorant best friend role. You know, like roles that essentially like just kind of like diminish them and are meant to not steal focus from whoever the main character is. You know, and it's just one, this show isn't written that way, you know, so she gets to be, you know, such a force to be reckoned with and she is such a star character and has such star quality. Um, but then two, you know her being able to I watched a couple interviews that she did and her being able to go and tell these stories and she does these avant-garde photo shoots and it's just not something that you typically see a curvier, darker skin Black woman doing.
Speaker 2:You know, like being in such like high fashion spaces and being so creative and artsy and being bold, and you know, fearless and really putting herself out there, like really putting yourself out there, because I know, for me, typically, like as much as I, you know, thrive with you know being like in the entertainment industry and like I really like enjoy being able to like step into a character and, like you know, play that character. I also, too, have moments where I kind of, if I'm not playing a character, I just I. I tend to kind of maybe like hide, um, because I don't want to put myself out there, like I'll be exuberant because I'm playing a character, but unless it's around like people that I know and I'm comfortable with, I don't always, you know, come out the gate full. Blair, you know what I and I admire that so much about Shaniqua, because she always comes out the gate full, shaniqua, you know, no, no, stop full out the gate, and I love that, no apologies. And the other thing that I am extremely happy about is that she is getting her flowers now, like she's very much Getting the recognition that she very well deserves, primarily from the show During the BET Awards this past.
Speaker 2:What was it? February, earlier March, whenever the BET Awards were just now, she was nominated, and she's been nominated before before and she's won a couple awards before, but most recently she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Harlem. Some of the other people that she was up against was Cheryl Lee Ralph for Abbott Elementary, janelle James from Alabama Elementary, ego Norum from Saturday Night Live and Ayo from the Bear, you know. So you see, like the class of people that she's in and she very well, fully deserves to be in that space. So I just wanted to take a moment to just shout out and honor her. Like I said, I'm biased because I get to work with her every day and I just get to see up close how amazing she is, but I think that it's appropriate to give her her flowers for Women's History Month.
Speaker 2:That's fucking dope.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Every single time, I think about Shaniqua, honestly, because she kind of resembles her, but I don't think it's her, because Shaniqua is from New York but she was raised in Virginia, but I went to school with a Shaniqua who beat my ass, yeah, and it makes me.
Speaker 1:Every single time I hear somebody's name shaniqua, I always go to the, to this, and this is the fifth grade with the ptsd because I said hey, shaniqua, and she said who the fuck said my name and she beat my ass hey, oh, and I, because I did not have permission to say her name and and I was just I was really, just like you know, still trying to be nice. I was young, I didn't know, I didn't say anything disrespectful, but she was just not to be played with. So any Shaniqua I know is not to be played with.
Speaker 2:I know another Shaniqua.
Speaker 1:And what is? Every time I got into a fight with a girl. I'm not even going to lie there's been two Shaniquas. And that was my fault, because I did a horrible thing and I got suspended for it, as I should. The horrible thing is she had said something funny or something disrespectful to me and, uh, me being an immature child, I pulled the seat from under her when she when she sat down, and so when she sat, down yeah, when she sat down she fell.
Speaker 1:But when she fell she turned around and like, grabbed my, uh, my junk and twisted it um, this is in high school, uh, and we, we fought, you didn't have it coming yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know, and she beat my ass um. Well, she didn't, but she did um. But there's also two different versions of what happened.
Speaker 1:So oh, lord the version I remember versus the version that really happened and the version that really happened. My friend, denise, um, she just, uh, she told me what I did and she, you know I should be ashamed of myself like I pushed her into the radiator and then I was trying to stop her from hitting me all right, this is women's history.
Speaker 3:I do apologize for pj. He doesn't mean that he's grown. He's a different person now. Shout out to all the shanique was out there yeah, shout out to all the shaniquas out there.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm scared of y'all. That's all right. That's. That's the really reason why I said this because it boils down to it you know, your name is shaniqua.
Speaker 2:You want to fuck somebody up?
Speaker 1:come find pj no, please, and I'm gonna give you a hug and I'm gonna say, yes, shaniqua, yes, miss, I'm gonna call you miss shaniqua miss shaniqua, wow, okay, well, I don't have a shaniqua story, but uh.
Speaker 3:So one of the things that I'm working on behind state, behind the scenes, is I am working on a couple of photo shoots. I normally do a couple of photo shoots a year just to kind of like you know, kind of just, I guess, work on my creative and try new things and build up my portfolio and all that other good stuff. And, as I mentioned before, my mother, her being the matriarch of the family, she's the one that's the idea, the one that comes up with all the ideas and all the suggestions. So, for women, when I look at women, I often appreciate their perspective on everything on how to approach different things, on what they think.
Speaker 3:I don't feel like women necessarily get that enough, and the perspective comes in the idea of creation, the suggestions. It comes from viewing things differently. So what I had looked up was Carrie Mae Weems, and she is a photographer that was born in Oregon in 1953. She is a photographer that got an MFA at the University of California and she worked with, you know, kind of just doing various photographs, working with various textures, fabrics, audio and digital images. She did have an installation in 2014 where she became the first African-American woman to have a solo exhibition in the Gungahin Museum.
Speaker 2:Hey, come on.
Speaker 3:So, you know, while I, you know, while I do my search to try and, I guess, find my creative juices, my, my roots, if you will, um, I often will look at different things from other artists, um, from a different perspective. Uh, I know that we talked about this before, even when it came to. Uh, I know that we talked about this before, even when it came to. I think we talked about this with Harlem, but even with, uh, what is? What is the insecure where all of the cinematography was really geared towards our skin tone, because it was so beautiful, because we're taking the moment to actually be cognizant and aware of how we look, how we feel.
Speaker 3:It's not, it's not just about, you know, oh, this is the standard and everything. No, everybody is different, and it's not even, it's not even a black thing or a white thing. It's like everybody can't possibly look the same under the same type of light. So how do we, how do we enhance that? And she's, she's, she was one of the people that was was looking into that, looking at the balance, the interaction between the differences between diversity, the interaction between the differences between diversity. So, shout out to you, miss Williams, you know you are one of many people that we can just add on to our arsenal and make ourselves better, you know, because we're learning. It's not just, it's not just about acting at the craft, it's also about everything else that goes into it the, the composition, the, the, the fabrics, the clothing, the photography, the lighting. So, uh, shout out to you, miss ween I want to.
Speaker 1:I want to step it up a bit, uh, because, upon you know, here's a wonderful thing. Uh, the internet is our friend, um, it's available to everybody who has questions about things. I want to just do a quick list of something that I looked up and did not know. This, okay, shout out to all the women who are doing the goddamn thing in the NFL so, mia Shaka, the first black woman NFL referee. Okay, shout out. And that is what since 2011, 2014, 2021, until 2021. Sandra Douglas Morgan, the first black woman to be NFL team president, and that's for the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 2:Mel Melody Hobson, the first what other team would it be for Raider nation?
Speaker 1:Oh God, here we go, you too. Oh my God, everybody loves the Raiders, okay, cool.
Speaker 3:She's looking ahead like absolutely not I love football, yeah football, yeah.
Speaker 1:Melody hopson the first black woman uh to actually own a team uh, the denver broncos. She became owner of the denver Broncos in 2022. Colette.
Speaker 2:Smith, you got money, you got money.
Speaker 1:The first NFL coach ever Period, and this is in 2017. Jennifer King, the first full-time NFL coach. Autumn Lockwood, the first woman to coach in the super bowl. Um, if the list keeps going on, nicole lynn the first, and it's just. It's annoying as all these firsts, but I think there's going to come a point in time when we we, even though we're still celebrating the first, let's also celebrate the second, third, fourth, fifth, all you know, and it's not so much of okay, well, you came after. You're not important, no, you just as important, because this is how the, the, the bloodline, this is how everything keeps going, as we were talking about matriarch, and when you know when someone passes away, you become the matriarch. Um, what is, what was the lessons that were learned? What did you? What? What great things can you know?
Speaker 2:What can you do?
Speaker 3:Hey man.
Speaker 1:I'm not done. Natura, the first black woman in the NFL MVP Lisa Salters. Salter is the first and longest tenured black woman sideline reporter on the MNF.
Speaker 2:What is MondayNF? Monday Night Football, okay.
Speaker 1:And, of course and let's not leave this one out Justine Lindsay is the first transgender black woman cheerleader, you know, and it's, it's. I think here's the wonderful thing. Um, I it's so crazy because I I looking at some old pictures and I always wondered not just because you know my sexuality or anything like that but why was I always attracted to, like being around a bunch of women and the strength of women? And it was just because women are strong Men, you know, we're strong by default. You know and I don't even want to go any further because I think I'm going to put my foot in my mouth any further- I go.
Speaker 3:I was about to say I was like you are right on that line, brother.
Speaker 1:I don't know how to kill you out and see, and that's the point, to know when to shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2:He said up.
Speaker 1:You are right on that line, brother. You know, um, but I appreciate, I just love it when I hear women doing great things, I mean, and seeing it, and just I would like. I have a lot of female cousins and you know, I was just talking to one of my cousins, just I was talking to rachel and uh, shout out to you, rachel um, and she was talking about, like, what it's like raising an autistic child, you know, and understanding that her, as a mother, um, regardless of the situation going on with his father, his father, um, without going into too much detail or personal information without her permission, she has the obligation to be not just loving but to be understanding, to be there for him, to be his number one supporter as his mother. She's just done an excellent job. Because Cameron is such an amazing kid, I want to give a shout out to all the women raising children, all the women raising children with a disability, with a condition, with anything.
Speaker 1:I mean just anybody raising anything else other than an animal because my god y'all are the real MVPs listen, because I get mad when my dog is whining at me. Now, if that motherfucking start talking, listen, I don't get mad, I'm just like shut up. I just gave you stuff.
Speaker 3:I'm like I got the whine.
Speaker 2:Shut up, shut up.
Speaker 1:Also, like there were a few other honorable mentions that I did want to talk about, because you know we have one that she always gonna have a job and we know who we talking about. Who am I talking about? She? Became the first, became the first black woman to win an Emmy for an outstanding game show.
Speaker 2:I was like give me a minute.
Speaker 1:You don't kinky palmer, stay with the gays okay, she ain't fucking playing no games keep a bag palmer and I actually did enjoy Password, like I do enjoy watching that if it, whenever I catch it, sidebar, complete sidebar, but still in the same vein of everything. So I literally haven't watched any regular tv other than news. But there's this station called dabble. Have y'all ever heard of this d-a-b-l? I don't know where it is, I don't know. It's like on my on my tv as channel 2 2-4. I don't know where it is. I don't know. It's like on my TV as channel 2-4. I don't know where it exists, but all I know is they play all 90s show, moesha one and one half and half girlfriends the game, and it's like back to back. You know they repeat it. You know how they used to do it. They'd show it at four and then they show it again at 11. So it's like, and literally like. Let me see, let me turn it on.
Speaker 3:I am so upset at this. What you don't have it, this, I don't even know, but this is founded in 2019. What Dabble. It's been out for four years.
Speaker 2:What is it Dabble?
Speaker 3:D-A-B-L.
Speaker 1:And literally the Parkers were on. I don't want to watch any other TV now other than that, and I actually let it stay on when I'm home because I want them to get the ratings.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's a YouTube channel. Wait what?
Speaker 1:No, it's a television channel. So for my TV I have what is this?
Speaker 3:It's operated by Paramount.
Speaker 1:Okay, so maybe it's, but on my TV. You know, when you go through your regular channels, my regular channels all go to Look at all these black people.
Speaker 1:Yes, it goes to two dash two to dash four to dash six four four dash two, four. So, like I've been watching this and it's on two dash four, for me I didn't even know these dashes exist but like I guess with the, the antenna that I have for like the regular TV, it works that way and it's just been bringing I just been feeling the nostalgia of just waking up and just looking at these positive black women images black sitcoms were everything definitely like.
Speaker 2:I mean, sitcoms are what sitcoms are. They kind of follow like the trend of like the time or what have you. So I feel justified and also hesitating to say they don't make black sitcoms like they used to. But but that's because they literally don't, because it's a different time. But like and the black sitcoms that we have now are more reflective of the times that we're currently in. But even just going to that landing page, just then you could see that there is a very specific aura character vibe. There's a typecast that was happening here.
Speaker 1:It's a formula that has worked. We are the ones who built the networks and then, once they got the networks to where they wanted to be, they switched us out and kicked us out, you know. And they copied and made other shows. You know, and you know, you know. But on top of that I want to also to one of my heroes, jasmine Guy, who's also in Harlem.
Speaker 3:Jasmine, I love Jasmine.
Speaker 1:I want to give a shout out to her.
Speaker 2:Her daughter came to set the other day. She's the sweetest girl. Sorry, continue.
Speaker 1:That's okay, is she?
Speaker 2:She's very sweet, but you want to give a shout out to Jasmine Guy.
Speaker 1:Because she went on and I, you know, I love miss jones, miss jonesy, in the morning, uh, and one of the guys asked her a question and it was about the lisa bonet situation and the way she it's, it's floating around, but I was listening to it as I was driving again, I have no idea what you're talking about so he asked her. He asked her this question uh, when? When they did the transition and Lisa Bonet was no longer on A Different World, right?
Speaker 2:Oh, that whole. Thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I thought she meant something like current.
Speaker 1:that just happened no no, but here's the thing he asked her and it was the way he asked. And he asked her like when Lisa Bonet left the show and it's the way he said it, because she messed up when did they let you know that you were going to be the star of the show? And instead of like going into answering her question, she stopped right there and she defended another black woman because, number one, the way that was worded was just like absurd. Like I, I knew that she was yeah, she's like she got pregnant and you know she and whatever happened between her and Bill, but she didn't go any further with the interview. She was yeah, she's like she got pregnant and you know she and whatever happened between her and bill, but she didn't go any further with the interview. She was just like she's like I'm pissed.
Speaker 1:I'm pissed like you are not going to sit here. That makes her look bad. You're not going to sit here and say things like that to me. And she got really angry and really upset, and rightfully so, because it's time. I'm tired of seeing men um, and you know, myself included and catch me anytime. Any women I know, like Blair, you do it all the time. I mean not you do it, not all the time, because I don't do it all the time, but any moment that I've ever, like, said anything which I don't think I actually really have, but you know you, you have I. These are actually, these are actually the more important questions, because we can say, we can say here, say I have never, and you can be like, well, we will stop you before you say something.
Speaker 2:We're like, ooh pause, you might not want to go there.
Speaker 1:I don't want to teeter any further because, listen, I have the most, I have just the most highest regard and amount of respect for women altogether, especially black women. Um, there's just nothing. There's nothing like it. I, I love to see a whole black, uh, television set, television cast, as well as people working behind the scenes, like you know, like when isa ray was doing the thing where she was bringing people on and she was like, even though Chris and I applied for it, but it was, I mean, it was best friends day, but you know, she was really looking out for other black women, which is fantastic, and we need to also stop trying to enter in spaces. That's not meant for us, but that wasn't not designated not us. So to be clear, but yeah, also another shout out to quinta uh, we're never gonna stop shouting her out I was just having a conversation today about um.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Roger and um.
Speaker 2:I was about to be an asshole.
Speaker 1:Why am I bringing men into this?
Speaker 2:No, I was going to say Hammerstein.
Speaker 1:No, um, these, these two guys I was, I was having a conversation and they they actually subscribed and said they're going to give us a listen. We were talking.
Speaker 3:Hey y'all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's going to be. I forgot the name. They're going to create it, but I don't want to say it because I don't think they have it publicly out yet. Anyway, but it's like Black Men who Brunch, kind of a situation. And what were we talking about? Damn, why did I bring this up?
Speaker 2:hungry you're shouting out.
Speaker 1:Quinta because we were. Yeah, so we were talking about um podcasting and he was trying to explain to the other guy about if anybody remembers another round, you know, another round and that's how we got to quinta, because another round was heaven and tracy. Um, and heaven and tracy and quinta were the black women of buzzfeed at that time and heaven and tracy had their own podcast, called another round, where they interviewed um, hillary clinton, and that's where the clip comes, when she says you have hot sauce in my bag and she says I do and she said no, I don't. She said I don't, but is it working like that's? When she was pandering to black women and black people. Um, you know, shut up. And she then she asked for some other things and that I was like that was like the election where I probably would have voted for hillary over obama, but that fucked it up, yeah no, all over hot sauce all over hot sauce, all over beyonce many, many, many.
Speaker 2:And there she is. People entered the chat. Oh, I didn't know if we was gonna make it. There was nine minutes left don't make it.
Speaker 3:You did it, she did it, she found her way shout out to shout out.
Speaker 1:You guys are gonna hear this on thursday, maybe friday, uh, maybe, but depending on what our schedule. That my schedule is looking like, because I'm a little busy, but, um, I'm curious to see what this day going on.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say y'all ready for cowboy carter?
Speaker 1:I'm trying to really tell you I am definitely I've said this before my my two favorite songs on that on the lemonade album, not the lemonade album, the beyonce album is superhuman. I mean superpower and daddy issues, and mostly because those are the two most different songs on the other album and I just really love daddy issues, daddy lessons, um, maybe it's because it says daddy and I don't really call people daddy um, that's the only thing. I wish she would have named it something else, but I'm I'm ready for coach carter, not coach carter cowboy carter coach carter came out a while ago yeah, coach, which which had faith.
Speaker 1:Evans, uh, saying um with twister. I hope you know. Look, we're always to bring it back to a black woman right now.
Speaker 2:Period and every time Period Her.
Speaker 1:Guys, thank you for taking the time to rock with us during this time. As you can tell we are all. We want to make sure that we put something out, and our energies may be a little exhausted, we each have been running ragged, but we wanted to make sure that at least before the end of this month we drop something, but we'll probably do one that makes it more justice, especially in the month of April.
Speaker 2:This is Black Women's Month History.
Speaker 1:Month, we might even have a guest.
Speaker 2:Oh, look at that. We went from Black History Month to Women's History Month, to Black Women's History Month February, march, april.
Speaker 3:I might as well just ask now what's happening in May.
Speaker 2:May is.
Speaker 3:Have we done this before.
Speaker 1:May is Black Mental Health Awareness Month and then. June will be Black.
Speaker 3:No, june is Pride Month, so I feel like we do this all the time, but we'd be so busy.
Speaker 2:OK, wait, not the website being ultimate calendar of holidays of interest to Black Americans. So when are the deets?
Speaker 1:so, as she's looking it up, I did want to say that, you know I we thank you guys for for taking the time. We thank you for rocking with us. We may not sound like we're all like energized and everything at the moment. We are not. Um, I probably have a little bit more energy than both of them, um, and that's just only because I've been to the gym today and I'm really proud um that've lost six pounds.
Speaker 2:You've done that swole tip, you sure are getting svelte.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just don't get you know, with permission. Okay, Because last person who touched me.
Speaker 2:I don't go around filling people up now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you know that didn't end well for them.
Speaker 2:April is also National Minority Health Month. Just a little interesting factoid there. Okay, july is BIPOC Mental Health Month.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 1:So there you go, and there's more, but we'll touch on that later we'll, we'll circle back and access again we'll circle back each month okay, um, I'm thinking because I'm I'm gonna be starting working on this documentary now, like actually, after we end this, I gotta start building the sound, uh, because we're moving into the next stages of it. This is being cut out. Um, if we probably might go into like a bi-weekly thing up until um, because I know that, I know that your filming is heavy and I don't want to stress you out, blair. Um, I'm already stressed, I know I don't want to, I don't want to too late.
Speaker 1:I don't want to add to the stress um you know I'll wait.
Speaker 2:So I'll wait till you're what doesn't kill us makes us stronger but I'll wait till you have.
Speaker 1:You can have sugar again, because you're not gonna be biting my head off. Uh, because I don't know, but I feel like if I get a glass of water and don't put it on on a coaster, you're gonna knock me into thursday.
Speaker 2:So that's unique. What?
Speaker 1:on that? No, I'll watch it. I'll watch thank you for taking time to listen to another episode of highly motherfucking melanated. The safe space where it is okay to be called Chaniqua, I feel there's this.
Speaker 2:I don't even remember how. My dad is a wealth of knowledge and sometimes he comes across like very random pieces of things and they become like an obsession with our family. So there was this song that I don't know if he heard it on in a show or wherever, but he heard a snippet from a song and so he did like some further digging and investigation and found the artist and purchased. This is back when cds were a thing and he purchased the cd and our family my father, myself and my my mom didn't really care for it, but like we fucking loved this CD. It was by these artists called Little T and One Track Mike, and they had a song on that album called Shaniqua Don't Live here.
Speaker 2:So, pj, in the same vein, like whatever you're saying, you hear the name shaniqua. It makes you think of the girl who beat you up. Whenever I hear the name shaniqua, I automatically am transported back to the back seat of my family's ford aerostar van, listening to little t in one track mic and all of us singing along. I think you guys, it's so. Basically, the premise of the song is like a guy keeps calling this phone number, this back when landlines were a thing we didn't have cell phones. So he keeps calling the phone number and little t, one track mike, are living at that house now and they keep answering, and whoever is calling keeps asking for shaniqua, and so they have to keep telling this nigga, shaniqua don't live here, no more. So part of this song goes is shaniqua there? Hell, nah, shaniqua don't live here, no more. Shaniqua don't live here, no more. Shaniqua don't live here, no more. Is shaniqua there, hell, no.
Speaker 2:And that's the song this song gets wildly entertaining. I don't know what the copyright rules or anything with this is, but if we could insert a piece from that song, that would make me truly happy.
Speaker 1:YouTube has quickly said copyright claim. Copyright claim. Copyright claim. Copyright claim. Copyright claim. Copyright claim. Copyright claim Because all the episodes are finally up actually up on YouTube. I don't know what the hell the holdup was, but it's finally all up. I think, she did some button pushing and shit. Okay, well then, no, it is not the safe space to beat Philip. Please don't beat me up. Please don't beat him up. Speak for yourself.
Speaker 3:Because then we're going to have to beat you. Please don't beat me up.
Speaker 2:Speak for yourself, then we gonna have to beat you up and we don't want to do that. It's a safe. We just want to get together and belong in black harmony, that's all.
Speaker 1:The safe space to ride or die for my niggas. Not necessarily die, but ride.
Speaker 2:Who's dying?
Speaker 1:I don't know why. No thank you, no thank yous today. So what is it to? Safe space then? The safe space to that's up to you. The safe space to honor all the women in your life that are doing fantastic things and encourage all the other women to follow in their footsteps and their lead.
Speaker 2:Could these women also be known as independent women?
Speaker 1:All the ladies of the Philippines, throw your hands.
Speaker 2:Wow, those aren't even the lyrics. I'm gonna take a nap, y'all yes, that's where I was going with that. I wanted you to sing independent, so, thanks, tell me how you feel about me.
Speaker 1:I brought my own diamonds and I brought my own rings calling on the phone when I'm feeling lonely, only when I get up and leave. Question. I want to give another shout. I want to give another shout. I want to give another shout out to Michelle Williams, who's able to make fun of herself and still be amazing.
Speaker 2:Michelle Williams, is that girl? Period Full stop.
Speaker 1:Full stop with an exclamation point.
Speaker 3:What up, Michelle?
Speaker 1:We're going to have her one day on as a guest.
Speaker 2:Please, that'd be lovely.
Speaker 3:I can't wait.
Speaker 1:All right guys, Peace, love, and we are so dry at this moment.
Speaker 2:Peace, love and hug a Black woman today. Ooh, With permission.
Speaker 3:With consent, with consent.
Speaker 1:We don't need nobody having their houses raided. Oh.
Speaker 3:Lord and Diddy found his way into the conversation.
Speaker 2:This is the first time he's ever found his way into this manor.
Speaker 3:Right, right, right, exactly.
Speaker 2:He is on the run, bye.