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
Wait A Minute... What's Your One Wish?
We explore the power of wishing and how those desires can shape our realities. Reflecting on personal and communal aspirations, we emphasize the importance of self-care and unity within the Black community to turn dreams into actionable change.
• Reflections on personal wishes for 2025
• Discussion on the impact of Black History Month and community support
• The importance of self-care amid external pressures
• Humor surrounding celebrity culture and its distractions
• An invitation to listeners to share their own wishes
• The idea that wishes can become actionable dreams through unity and commitment
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I'm wishing on a star to follow at home. I'm wishing on a rainbows that I see. I'm wishing on all the people who really dream. I'm wishing on tomorrow pray, it'll come. I'm wishing on all the loving we've ever done. I'm wishing on a star. What is your greatest wish for the year for Black people, for your friends, for your family, etc. Mine's going to be real short. I only got one wish. If I had one wish, I swear to God.
Speaker 2:I don't even know the word. I don't even know the song. I don't even know the song, I don't even know the lyrics if.
Speaker 1:I had one wish.
Speaker 2:That was his one hit that was not his one hit. His one hit was oh, wait a minute oh, wait a minute.
Speaker 1:Wow, watch out now, it's a little one, and I'm not about wow. Wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Wow, watch out, now it's a little one and I'm not about wow. I mean, if Lil' Kim wasn't on that, first of all, how the F did he get Lil' Kim on that song with him?
Speaker 2:He needed somebody.
Speaker 1:But Lil' Kim, how did that happen? She just wasn't doing nothing that day, huh.
Speaker 3:Hey you, ma'am, I need you. Hey you, hey you guys.
Speaker 1:I wonder. Look, Watcher was probably Brandy who called and was like hey, can you just please do this for my brother? Just call it a favor to me, he needs something to do. I can see that. Hey, wait a minute. Ain't that Brandy's brother?
Speaker 2:So y'all ready.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Every single time we take a break, Like the first episode back is like how did we do this again?
Speaker 1:Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys, hey guys. Oh my God, yes.
Speaker 2:I don't know what it is, but I just love being black BJ here.
Speaker 1:What up doe? It's your girl Blair. You know, mel Melanin was popping yesterday, it's popping today and it's sure enough going to be popping tomorrow. It's your boy, Red.
Speaker 3:And you're listening to the episode of highly melanated podcast the safe space where is okay.
Speaker 2:It's the same space where it's just okay to admit that we are fucking tired already and it's only February exhausted exhausted, but in the spirit of it being February, we are back with our first episode. Happy, happy, happy.
Speaker 1:Black history month, niggas and niggas, and niggerinos too, niggerinos too niggerinos.
Speaker 2:PJ has wait, wait, wait. The only thing that popped in my head was it's the little one, and I'm not Bow Wow it's the little one and I'm not bow.
Speaker 1:Wow, wait a minute, wait a minute, hey, hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, okay pj is actually uh, feeling much better.
Speaker 2:Uh, pj has been sick for the past couple of days and he had that neurovirus y'all. Oh my God, I don't like it. Pj also wants a man, just so I can have someone to take care of me. Pj is tired. Pj is happy to see y'all. Pj has decided to say good and farewell to PJ Ryan. It is just PJ, aka Philip James.
Speaker 3:Hello, Philip James, PJ, I said it all backwards. Well, I'll have to get used to this Red. I am better. I didn't have. I didn't have a stomach related issues, but I have. I did catch a bug over Christmas and that knocked me right off my feet. There was a whole bunch of, whole bunch of stuff flying around out there. So I'm still, even though I'm not sick anymore, I cough so much that I actually hurt my side, the serratus muscle.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm having I keep knowing the name of the damn muscle, Because you know I sat there and I was like I'm dying.
Speaker 3:I know you sit up. What's wrong with me?
Speaker 2:Okay, you better web MD in it.
Speaker 3:I think I tore that a little bit, so I haven't been to the gym or anything for the past three months. I've been overwhelmed with everything that's going on. So, red, I'm just glad I'm getting back to normal and to see you beautiful faces.
Speaker 2:I love it when you talk directly into the mic.
Speaker 3:Oh, you should just let me know, I'm me.
Speaker 2:We're back guys.
Speaker 1:Blair Long hair, don't care.
Speaker 2:Toss, toss, toss, toss, oh hello.
Speaker 1:Toss, toss. She no longer goes by toss.
Speaker 2:That's Belair. She no longer goes by Belair, she's.
Speaker 1:Blair, toss, toss, blair here, and I am happy to be here, happy to see y'all and very happy to be in Black History Month and I hope that you and everybody listening make this the blackest Black History Month yet. Blackity black. And on a personal note, I'd like to dedicate this first episode of Black History Month to one of our faithful listeners. I know she's listening right now because she told us she's going to be listening Amanda, amanda.
Speaker 1:M, I'm not going to put her whole name out there, but Amanda M you, you, you is a real one, because she's told me on multiple occasions. I be listening, so this one's for you.
Speaker 3:Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. I don't have a button, so that's authentic porn.
Speaker 2:I just would like to apologize in advance for anything I may have said. That may have decided for you to say what the fuck.
Speaker 1:I think that's the part that she likes the most.
Speaker 2:I would ask us you know how we've been, but I've been minding my black ass business.
Speaker 1:That's how. I've been okay, that's how I've been you know, everybody want to be up in arms. As part of the 92%, I have fully taken a seat and I'ma just, i'ma just ride it out my business.
Speaker 3:They moisturize please pass the shea butter. You know it's funny.
Speaker 3:Oh shea butter pass the shea butter it's funny that you guys mentioned that in my writing. One of my writing groups that I'm in we talked about, like you know, how we have been doing everything and you just get so exhausted. It's very important. I'm telling this to everybody that's out there. This is not to give up the fight, it's not to not do things to make things better, but make sure that you are resting and you are taking the time to yourself to recalibrate, rejuvenate, revitalize, drink your water, stay hydrated, rehydrate, because a lot of this will take a lot of that out of you and so we get it. We understand. So just make sure that you're just taking care of yourself in the process of fighting the good fight, I mean.
Speaker 2:I'll say this Today was like the first time. Well, not today. Yesterday was the first time in a very long time that I actually just actually called out of work, mostly because I was on death's door, but I needed to rest, instead of putting everybody else's needs for my own, instead of saying, well, I gotta get this done or I gotta go do this. No, it's gonna get done when it's when it's time. Um, I think we can reschedule.
Speaker 2:It would have been my last day to teach that that class, but we had to extend it because, apparently, um, if y'all didn't know, um, new york city public schools now celebrate the chinese new year. So we're chinese too. Um, I want to see how quick that's going to take before you know who deletes that when it just became a thing. Um, but, because they have a lot of new holidays and a lot of new testing and professional development, we have to, like, extend days. Um, I had to extend days because they still have a project to finish that they have not been able to finish yet and I just couldn't do it. I just, I, just, I let him know on sunday that uh, hey, uh, I'm not coming in. Um, so, and he was like listen, you have to take care of you first.
Speaker 1:I got to put me first, lucius, I got to put me first. I got to put me first, lucius, I got to put me first.
Speaker 2:But no, for real, like, especially, you know, with everything that's going on and this episode. Here's the wonderful thing I know that you guys love about this podcast Black people. We can all do multiple things at once. We can acknowledge the elephants in the room, but we don't have to stay focused on them. We know what we got going on as a country, we know where we are, what's happening and you people who voted for the whatever, you know what y'all are finally learning what we've been saying this whole entire time and some of them are still like you know. But anyway, I feel like I'm diving into, like talking about it, and I just don't want to, um, because I miss you niggas, resist, resist I will say uh, because I know she'll creep in eventually.
Speaker 1:Um, if pj usually is the one who brings her up, but I'll bring her up. Today I saw, um, somebody made a tiktok and it was quite hilarious. But somebody made a tiktok that said you cannot go to the cowboy carter uh tour if you did not vote for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I cry because they were like you're on time out, you need to do your research, you need to do your homework. You shouldn't get to reap the benefits of democracy when you, in fact, were part of the problem.
Speaker 2:I want to give a shout out to Dr Takiyah from Getting Grown Podcast were part of the problem. So I want to give a shout out to Dr Takia from Getting Grown podcast, one of the super friends with the reading, all of them who said today I saw it. I don't know where she said it, I think she might have said it today or yesterday, but she said for all of you who are saying Cowboy Carter is not my thing and we need you know, y'all waited to the last moment. We need you to wait to the last moment to get your ticket, because if it wasn't your thing, then let all of us who it was our thing get our tickets now. So wait in the back of the line and we will be there before you.
Speaker 2:But before we even say that, yes, you did bring her up, but I do want to say this that kevin from et, give that man a race. Give that man a race, because he's the kevin, the one who the only one in 12 years that uh, beyonce, uh, did a little interview after the grammys oh okay, because I didn't know who kevin was I don't know his I forgot his last name, but he's from Entertainment Tonight, the one who, at the end of the Grammys, when she walked out and he asked her a few questions.
Speaker 2:And you know, beyonce never does interviews. She hasn't done one in 12 years.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. You guys know I don't watch award shows, so I didn't see You're made, you're equally as lost as I am. So, pj, we need you to expound and expand.
Speaker 2:Yes. So for those of you who have been under a rock, or basically like Blair, excuse you.
Speaker 1:I mean, I know what happens, I just didn't see it with my own eyes.
Speaker 2:She just walked in and it's interesting because you can tell that she's still not wanting to do interviews because she was kind of inching. Can tell that she's still not like wanting to do interviews because she was kind of inching away from as he was talking and you know, um, but yeah, give that man a raise, okay, because he's the only person who's been able to give get the uh, an interview from beyonce well, good job, kevin right, good job we applaud you.
Speaker 3:I thought you met ET the movie before going home yeah, I was completely lost. I'm glad I'm back.
Speaker 1:I know we're not here to gossip, but do you see all this back and forth between Kanye West and Don Lemon? Yes, I did see that oh, okay, okay, I'm crying in all caps now I'm like you, blair, because you know I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3:Basically, oh, you're gonna tell them okay no go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Basically, I think don lemon had accidentally made started a rumor by putting out wrong information and saying that kanye west got kicked out of the Grammys.
Speaker 1:So that's what Kanye was accusing Don Lemon of. Kanye West had called Don Lemon like a goofball and, like he's saying that, he started the rumor that he and his wife Bianca had got kicked out of the Grammys because of her lack of attire or whatever it was. And then Don Lemon came back and was like get it right, I didn't start that rumor. As a matter of fact, your team asked me to put that rumor to rest and then they went back and forth and it was highly entertaining.
Speaker 2:Not this woman out here in the saran wrap of a dress.
Speaker 3:So that brings up my question of the week. Please, your question is, as they pertain to you prospectively and introspectively With his evil cat on his shoulder. He's not evil he's not evil.
Speaker 1:Wait, if you guys can see this. So our listeners know Chris told you guys he got a cat, red, has a cat and he's all black and he's a little kitten. He's so precious. How old do you say he got a cat Red, has a cat and he's all black and he's a little kitten. He's so precious. How old do you say he is? 18 weeks.
Speaker 3:He's 18 weeks. His name is Comet.
Speaker 1:And he just loves to jump up on Chris's shoulder, and he's literally perched on his shoulder right now as Red rubs his head.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because you know what it is. I sit here, and sometimes I'm sitting here for work or editing things, and so he just sits here and just watches while I edit and do work.
Speaker 1:sometimes he's precious.
Speaker 3:It does look like I'm petting him evilly.
Speaker 2:What is your question of the week?
Speaker 3:My question of the week, your question as it pertains to you prospectively and introspectively. My question is do you have a price tag? You see how she, bianca, came out with Kanye West and her finest sheerest emperor has no clothes see-throughest type dress ever.
Speaker 3:My question of the week is do you have a price tag? Is there an amount that someone can pay you to come out in that and look a damn fool? Because my question that I asked myself was why would she do that? And the only thing that I could think of is money.
Speaker 1:But is she getting like I don't know, I don't know what she's getting?
Speaker 3:I don't know what she's getting, but it was a very weird and somebody else did say this it was very weird to watch her, like, sit, stand there. She seemed uncomfortable, Kanye West wasn't touching her.
Speaker 1:Well, so yes, because I saw this video on TikTok that this girl was saying about this whole thing. So to answer your question, you can't pay me to go out here and look a damn fool. No, thank you, there's no no 42 million.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:But what is the point? Like what's the point? What was the reason?
Speaker 3:I don't know what was the reason, what was the?
Speaker 1:reason.
Speaker 2:Man, you have state in my head.
Speaker 1:Thank you, you know we here. But so I saw this video on TikTok and this girl was basically just kind of breaking the whole thing down. One of the things that she said was there is a difference between a woman suggesting nudity as a form of art because, like, there is like an artistic, you know um, perspective of of nudity, or the illusion of nudity, and there's a difference between being a prop for a man and she is his prop and it's, it's, it's not even debatable, because he literally takes credit for styling her. You know just like he took, you know like he was Kim Kim Kardashian stylist, you know, um, and created her whole. You know, uh, fashion, you know, uh, mentality and whatnot.
Speaker 1:Blah, blah, blah. But he is the one who's taking credit for what she looks like because he is, she is his prop and no, you couldn't pay me to be a prop for a man, absolutely not and you know and you want to know why she's his prop and I'm not gonna say why, but this is one of the main reasons why I believe tell us why um, because, um, when he got on, he left his, he left her for a white girl, and I'm not gonna say it like that, but it's, it's, it's.
Speaker 2:It's crazy how, you know, we, we've bring back the old Kanye he's dead and we think that if he had a black woman in his corner, all these antics, all this nonsense would be null and void, would never happen. Well, I won't say never, but he would have a hard time, I know. Hey guys, the opinions and things expressed alone are actually. They're not from just PJ, they're from a whole lot.
Speaker 1:You know what's so interesting to even like think about, because if you're, if you were, we're talking about him using her as a prop. You're talking about when he gets put on, he'll leave a ass for a white girl. That whole thing. It's very interesting thing to me because the first thing I thought about was just like the dynamics between black men and white women and how it's so 180. How it's so 180? Because, you know, like back in the day and even still today, but like the the, the larger message was was, you know, black men needed to be afraid of white women because white women could end them with just you know a simple word. And now, now it just seems like I don't know what it is like. Is it like a, like a power trip to see, like, how much they can get away with with controlling these white women? Or like, like, what like it's? What is it that's?
Speaker 3:it's. I was just gonna say it's interesting that you said that, because one of the people that I was talking with had said just that. Not verratum, of course, but they said him doing that as a power move. And I said but who is he getting that from? Is it a power move between the two of them? Is it a power move because someone on the outside is all like in order for you, for you to pledge your allegiance or whatever it is? You know what I mean that you now have to do this?
Speaker 1:I just like I honestly like again and like this in this specific scenario. I wouldn't be surprised if it really was just like a power trip for him and his personal ego to be like look what I can get her to do, because even like I think today I saw that like he had tweeted out something about like how they broke the Internet because she Bianca and before today I never even knew what her name was, bianca, sirsay or whatever her last name is is the most Googled search for like the last like two days or something like that. And he's like we broke we, we outranked the Grammys, we outranked everything. She's the most Googled, this set and a third. And it all goes back to feeding his ego because he was the mastermind behind that.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing.
Speaker 1:Really needs to get together. He and Chris Jenner. Between the two of them, they are some fucking masterminds. I tell you what.
Speaker 2:They know how to pull some strings. Here's the real thing we don't care, we don't, we don't Because. What did your twins say?
Speaker 1:Where have you been? I'm sorry. I'm going to try not to keep doing it, but it just comes so naturally.
Speaker 2:No, from the Touch the Sky video. Oh, Tracy, she's like what about the ass like? What about the ass? You know, but like what about that?
Speaker 2:it's, it's, it's. We're not making this episode about this, but it's just. It's sad to me because to be such a person that is so talented, um, to be reduced to making a complete fool of yourself because you have no integrity, to make a complete fool of other people because you think that's more important than what you're actually out here to do for the community and do you care about the community? No, apparently you don't. And hey, who am I? I'm just a person who's never going to purchase any of your music, so you don't have to worry about any of that. But I just don't think to answer your question. There is no amount of money for that. There might be a cheeseburger, a cheeseburger, so you would do it for a cheeseburger. What would you do for a cheeseburger? A clondike bar.
Speaker 1:Not a cheeseburger.
Speaker 2:No, but there's like remember back when we had the episode Integrity and Me, which is like maybe one of our first 12 episodes or something. I think it was like seven.
Speaker 1:Now you remember in the name of the episode hey, niggas, I missed y'all.
Speaker 2:It's important that you have these things, that I will never do this and stick by it. You know I don't have a price tag, but then again never say never. I can't sit here and say never, say never.
Speaker 1:I can't sit here and say never say never because if somebody knocked on my door right now, I'll give you 42 million dollars to run butt naked down Flatbush.
Speaker 2:You would think about it, you would think about it, I would be on the other side of Flatbush already by now exactly. It's not an immediate. No, the platform is totally different. I would be on the other side of Flatbush already by now.
Speaker 3:I'll be down there, but what's crazy about it? It's not an immediate no. The platform is totally different, though. One is just niggas on Flatbush just looking at you. The other one is all like the entire world is watching the Grammys.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know how social media works. Right, it's going to be seen by more than niggas on Flatbush.
Speaker 2:Your pee-pee is it's going to be seen by more than niggas on your peepees out there, forever, forever, well, go ahead.
Speaker 1:What's what's? What's that's a? You cut this out if you want, but the thing is, it's probably already out there, ain't it?
Speaker 2:I literally was just like go ahead and search if you want to.
Speaker 1:It's probably already out there, it is. As long as your face isn't in the picture. It was.
Speaker 2:No face, no face.
Speaker 3:No face, no face.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing I'm proud of what I got, and as a nudist, yeah, so that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3:So you would wear a sheer dress to the Grammys.
Speaker 2:A sheer dress? No, maybe some sheer booty shoes, a body suit?
Speaker 1:No, I'm not doing that, oh boy, there we go.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, because I wish that there was so much more that we can do for each other, and I wish that we can see it happening this year. Next year, once again, shout out to next year being our 250th anniversary of chaos. You know the country's going to fall next year.
Speaker 2:I'm just claiming things right now don't claim that I'm not claiming it, but history has shown that every empire only lasts for about 250 years. So america air quotations was founded in 1776. That's a declaration. 2026 is 250. Everything that's been going on, I've been falling into these conspiracy theorists. Y'all know that I am a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 3:Don't fall into the hole. No doom scrolling.
Speaker 1:I did doom scrolling the other day it was terrible.
Speaker 3:That's a different type of hole.
Speaker 1:We were supposed to be going into a positive direction we are so speaking of wishes.
Speaker 2:Uh, shout out to um, shout out to shout out out to kappa mu. Slash underscore roses and delta.
Speaker 1:Beta phi mu alpha wow I'm gonna need you to say that again. Like you actually know the greek alphabet, I do I do no, but you were saying it like like you've never seen those words before.
Speaker 2:Delta theta nu no, so it's the old megatron, it's the cap, it's the kappa mu.
Speaker 1:Delta Theta Nu Alpha Omega Tron.
Speaker 2:It's the Kappa Mu Roses and the Delta Beta Phi Mu Alpha, their chapter, the song that you just heard at the beginning. I wanted to give a shout out to them.
Speaker 2:Period I was really inspired by hearing that and thinking about. This is our first episode back. What is it that we wish for ourselves? What is it that we wish for our friends? What is it that we wish for the country? What is it that we wish for our enemies? What is it? What are our wishes? Um, our well wishes, even, are not so well wishes, you know. Who do you want to not be?
Speaker 1:you know, be unalived, um, but please for the first episode back I my goodness, let's, let's, let's start positive, let's not be dark hey, it's been a dark place for me for these past let's, let's step into the light.
Speaker 2:Step into the light, caroline, but you know. So I'm gonna ask y'all and we just build our conversation from there um 2025 what are your wishes for yourself? I'll go first please right, it was a curveball.
Speaker 3:That's the sound that it made. Okay, all right, continue with your conversation please so for 2025, I wish.
Speaker 1:I can't get Ray J out of my head. It all goes back full circle. Every time you say wish in my head. If I had one wish.
Speaker 2:Mind you, when we talked about this, when I mentioned this being an episode, I never even put the two together. And now I can't get it out of my head. Happy for you, ray J, with your unbreakable, breakable glasses For myself. Glasses, um, for myself. I wish that I would be able to step out more as who I am versus who I want the people, the world, to see.
Speaker 2:Uh, hence the death of pj ryan and you know like I really had to like lay him to rest because I realized that there's a lot to explain. You know, all the time, and you know like hey, mr Ryan, who the fuck is? Mr.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, that's me, um, you know, and it's just like it's kind of gotten like a little annoying and I wish that I would have the bravery to be more myself in every space, more than I already say. I am, you know, so like to actually be me. Um, that's my main wish for me to be more of myself and not worry so much of what other people are thinking um, because we all say we don't care. But truth is we do and I'm I'm learning to be less caring about other people's opinions of myself and more caring about what I think of myself and that's how it should be very, very nice.
Speaker 3:Um, that was me throwing a curveball at you.
Speaker 2:I got hit in the head with the ball.
Speaker 3:Right, I'm more like all right, I think that I want to change, I wish that I can and I'm going to, and I want to change the lens of how I handle or balance my life, like right now. I was telling my friend the other day that this year is going to be a lot about sacrifice, right, because you want to do stuff, you want to be in entertainment, you want to grow yourself.
Speaker 3:You have to take more time to do those things and I don't think that I do that well, I think that I've been planning better, but I still don't think that I say, all right, instead of doing the thing that I want, I'm going to do the thing that I need. I think I still struggle with that and so it's going to be a lot of the damn I don't get this or damn this is hard, and kind of go past that. Like I have that violin, for instance, just as use an example that's just been sitting there and I said I got to sit down and I got to learn stuff. I got to sit down and like I got to, you know, got to sit down and like I got to, you know, callous up my hands and all sorts of stuff like that. And I think that I want to. I think I want to grow past that. It's just hard to get yourself in the mood, especially with everything that's been going on, so I just wish that I could be focused, focused.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I feel like it's a broken record, but yeah.
Speaker 3:I think that's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 1:I think that there is something powerful in still like. I know you said you feel like it's you sound like a broken record, but I think it's important to like know what it is that you want to focus on and, even if you haven't made like the progress that you want to make with it, like still being able to like identify it and speak it. And I know like it's frustrating because I feel like you're saying the same thing like over and over again, but I mean that also just shows that like yeah, that is important to you because you keep coming back to it. It's still like is a focus of yours, so it's more so just about like what you can do to kind of get out of the starting gate and to move through it. And that's kind of like what my wish for myself is is.
Speaker 1:I feel like I have been kind of circling the bull more or less when it comes to specific things in my life and just kind of going around and around on the merry-go-ride and just kind of going around and around on the merry-go-round and some things happened at the beginning of this year that made me get off the merry-go-round and it's like one of those things where it's like if you think about it in the metaphor of the merry-go-round and you're going around and around and around and around and around and around and around, and then you get off and you're standing still for a minute and you still kind of feel like the inertia.
Speaker 1:You know, you still feel like a little dizzy, like you're still like still kind of getting like your balance before you can start walking and moving.
Speaker 1:And then you do and you still kind of feel a little like you know topsy turvy but you're progressing. You know, forward like onto the next thing, and I feel like that's kind of like where I am right now, forward like onto the next thing, and I feel like that's kind of like where I am right now. But I've been in this place before too and I just I wish for myself to really like stay moving forward and not get back on the merry-go-round. And that comes to primarily like relationships, but more so every aspect of my life, like I don't have to keep doing things the same way that I've done them before, because I'm comfortable with the way that I've done things before. Like I think that the growth comes from doing things differently, um, in the uncomfortable, and so like I'm hoping that I can challenge myself to lean into the uncomfortable more this year, just to see you know what progress or what benefits come out of that.
Speaker 2:You know everything. I believe I've always said this everything happens for a reason, like shout out to our next episode, um, shout out to the guests that we're gonna have on who is a life coach. And it's just so interesting, like this is where the conversation is moving, because there are a lot of things that, um, because she was initially going to be our first episode and I said let's just have us right now and then she'll join us in the next one, and she, she understood why I pushed her back another week, because we didn't we didn't record the other week. And I think that for us individually, us all moving in our own retrospective light, we put a lot of pressure on us to be what we want us to be right then, right now, and not seeing that we are moving in that direction and taking those small steps. Like, example, shout out to you sitting here talking about learning the violin right and that beautiful violin that you won't let me touch every single time I go over to your house.
Speaker 3:That's right. Still stands Root, root, root.
Speaker 2:But the gig that I had where it was Funkmaster Flex shout out to that he was DJing. But that was at the guitar, the new guitar shop that's on Fulton downtown, and I was sitting here like I think it's about time that I take some guitar lessons because I want to. My mother gave me, my parents bought me a guitar when I was younger and I broke it because I didn't want it. I wanted a Casio Ungrateful.
Speaker 1:You just want to getateful Casio.
Speaker 3:You continue to date yourself, sir it's okay, he takes the heat off of us fair.
Speaker 1:You know what period.
Speaker 3:I be knowing, I be knowing, I be knowing.
Speaker 1:Not the Casio keyboard, my God.
Speaker 3:We know what a Casio keyboard Now he brought it out.
Speaker 1:First of all, why is it dusty?
Speaker 3:That better not be the extent of what you know.
Speaker 1:Because, if that's it, your parents need their money back.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've had it since I was 11, which means you should know more precisely my point I do know a little something, something, but anyway, so, like I'm, I also wish I don't put so much pressure on myself to do what I want to do and just let it happen as it's happening, right. So that's what I was trying to get to, and I think that there's this saying that a dream with no action is nothing more than just a wish. So right now we're just wishing. Um, throughout the year, our wishes will satisfy our dreams, because we will have put them into action and make them happen. Um, however individually that happened. Uh, shout out to hey Girl, hey Productions.
Speaker 3:Hey, girl hey.
Speaker 2:You know, that was a wish, that is now a dream, that is now in and moving around Shout out to me continuing to eat relentlessly and not go to the gym.
Speaker 1:I need you to connect the dots for me.
Speaker 3:I do too, no, no, there's no, there's no dots to connect. That's why it sounds crazy Moving on.
Speaker 2:Shout out to you and you know, you and the Actors Networking Group, because this is something that you've been wanting to do and you're actually taking the small steps to get there. So, like it's not going to just happen overnight, like it never does. You know, like it's not going to just happen overnight, like it, it, it never does. You know and and shout out to me, and I don't know, whatever the hell it is I'm doing, you know first of all, don't do that, cause you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1:I, I, I, I do put put put a period on it, not a question.
Speaker 2:Put it out there you know, shout out to me finally myself also finishing this damn script that I've been talking about for like since I ran into lena waithe that I know that's right so, um, in these moments where I sit to myself and I sit on comfort island, uh, now with the cassio, um I gotta get up and force myself to do stuff, as opposed to just stay there. Um, how am I gonna do it? I'm gonna do it because I got to, because here's also another thing I've learned, um, especially about myself, as of last year. Um, so I do not want to be a licensed funeral director.
Speaker 2:No, oh really, no, that's different the reason why I was I was saying you know what I should is because so many other people were saying you have a good temperament for it.
Speaker 2:You would be great at this you can be great at something and not want to do it, you know, and it's not, it's not. It's not something that's passionate to me. It's passionate to help other people, to be there for people, but I don't want that to take away from the creative life that I I have left corporate for, you know, and I think that me getting sick helped me actually, like, set some of this stuff into motion, like what am I gonna do? Do Because God forbid. And also I know I've become very morbid because of that. I know I've been talking about death a whole lot and I don't want that to be my story.
Speaker 1:So? So you were thinking about wanting to be the funeral home director, and now that's not part of the journey anymore, is there? Are you replacing that with something else, or are you you exploring like where? Where do you feel like you're kind of leaning towards now?
Speaker 2:I'm I'm exploring um more things and I'm, but I'm still also exploring more things when it involves the youth, when it involves helping kids, this next generation, who are so far further ahead than a lot of us see their greatness before they reach their 20s, their 30s and their 40s. You know to be someone that can say I remember I had a teacher and he changed my life. I don't want to be a teacher, I want to stay being an educator, but there are little things that I do want to do, and it's still also a work in progress. It changes. That's why it's not making much sense now, I think. When I listen back to this, I'm like what?
Speaker 2:am I saying but I do know that that's, that profession takes a lot out of you and it takes a lot out of me emotionally, as an empathic, as I am empathic, empathetic. Those two words, there you go.
Speaker 1:He got there.
Speaker 2:It takes so much out of me and it's not fair to everything else that I want to create, everything else that I do create, every circle that I'm a part of, um, because I'm like, I'm tired, I have no energy for it, um, and then I get sick and I never get sick.
Speaker 3:So it's also, it's also just um important that you cut something that you was touching on, just to humanize it. I think part of the reason why I've been down so much is because I had gotten sick and then I lost the momentum that I had. Like I said, I was gonna go into the new year like lifting like 7 000 pounds and doing this and doing that and my body was like no nigga sit down and and I and it and it's particularly rough for me to deal with that because I turned when I get sick I turn into this big baby. Oh my god, I was just all like I think most of us it is it is wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3:Well, if it is, then guess what? I am the spokesperson because baby.
Speaker 1:I'm like y'all turned into baby.
Speaker 3:I'm like good god when I was sick I was like, is that fear gonna?
Speaker 2:I mean, it was crazy. We go through it, mind you, once a month women die and still continue on.
Speaker 1:You would never know. Go to work, you called out of work. There's no calling out of work, I call out of work for the safety for other people.
Speaker 1:Sure, that's fine. Whatever you have to tell yourself to justify it to yourself is fine. Y'all be big ass babies, but it's okay, you know what? Because everybody's entitled. And then you know what. That's my wish. I wish that women everywhere would take more time for themselves. Okay, I do, I do. I hope that we, because there's so much that we on a day to day just have to consciously and subconsciously deal with, and I think that, like it, it, it just weighs on you mentally, and what weighs on you mentally will eventually lay on your spirit, like lay on you physically, and it's important to be able to take breaks, not so that we can. I mean, really, at the end of the day, like what I really really wish is that everybody, every, every person in the world, but especially women, have somebody in their life who they can trust enough to let them handle the burden with them.
Speaker 1:Because I know like that's like part of, like my issue is because, like I have been so independent for so long that I know that I can deal with whatever needs to be dealt with and I have trouble letting go and letting somebody else take some of that weight, like take some of that burden, like I have a real issue with like it's hard it's hard for me to be able to do that it's hard, it's really hard, and I know like a lot of women like have like this same problem and part of it is because it's like, well, if I want something done, I got to do it myself, um, and I know part of it is just because, like, we're used to doing it and we know that we'll get it done, and we know we'll get it done the way that we want it to be done, um. But I do realize that there are times when I do need to just let somebody else handle it.
Speaker 2:Because you know we've talked about this before, like we've heard this time and time again, that do it myself is a trauma response. You know we've been disappointed and let down before enough times. We? I'm not speaking of that. My wish is for grown men to stay out of fucking women's business. Okay, because she was not saying me, she was not saying us, she was saying her and all y'all okay, I was wondering why you were saying we I was in y'all's video.
Speaker 3:You didn't want to tell us.
Speaker 2:But you know, like stop inserting ourselves in grown women's business, even though that's I mean, I was just generalizing it to everyone.
Speaker 3:But proceed. That reminds me, actually, of a video that I saw where this woman she made a joke about how it is, what's it like to get a pap smear, and she did it with an Amazon package, and so you know, and of course all the women were like relating to it. And then there was a guy who came on and said in the comments was like, yeah, it's just like this. I felt the same way when I bought my first home and when I tell you all the women, sir, why are you here? Yo, I felt bad for that brother, because I was just like, why would you put yourself in that situation?
Speaker 1:Why would you do that?
Speaker 3:Because all the women got on it. It was like how, how, sway, how, how is it the same thing? Wait, I get past mirrors and I also bought a home. I can tell you it's not the same thing.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's like and I ooh Okay, yeah, so he couldn't dig himself out of that hole. No, should he no?
Speaker 3:right?
Speaker 3:no, he should still lay there just lay there lay there um my, my wish is to you know me, I'm always, I always love perspective.
Speaker 3:My wish is that people would stop for a moment and actually listen to other people's point of view and respect it. I think we need to look at the human struggle, all the different cultures, all the different people men, women. The problem is that nobody sees the other side of it and can't fathom what that other person is going through or what they're feeling. And so to them, whether it is true or not and this is another conversation I had with somebody yesterday whether it is true or not, your feelings are still valid because something happened there for you to feel that way, perceive that way, understand people that way. And I think we don't listen to each other, and so you get all of these disagreements, and I think that's in a nutshell, on a very grander view. That's why the world is the way it is right now Just going back and forth, not believing what the next person is saying and invalidating our feelings and thoughts towards each other, which is messed up no, we're not going to go dark yet.
Speaker 2:Um, we're not gonna go dark at all.
Speaker 1:I think you say where are we going wait a minute time out? Um no, I don't have my passport.
Speaker 3:Get your passport ready, cause we gotta dip oh, no, no, no, I have my actual passport whatever ride you was talking about.
Speaker 1:You was about to take us on, but that made me think make sure your passport is ready people.
Speaker 2:I wish that our community would be more protective of each other and we are not so much putting against each other and just more staying by each other, especially during this time, especially during this, like, like you said early, let's sit down and it's not up to us. We fought the good fight, we're still fighting, but let's unify ourselves. I wish we would be a little bit more unified and just about almost all aspects of life, not even politics in all aspects, in entertainment, in education, in did I say politics, in politics, in everything you know, and I wish that we would learn to forgive, even though the last episode, and I wish that we would learn to forgive Even though the last episode. I think that was mentioned and now I laughed because I have a hard time forgiving people. Forgiving is hard.
Speaker 3:Because I hold a grudge. Yeah, forgiving is hard and.
Speaker 1:I know that's against the, you know, against the Bibble, but don't forgiving doesn't mean forgetting. I think that that's. I think sometimes those get interlaced with each other and interwoven too too tightly. Like people think that if you forgive somebody then that means that, like you don't think about like what it is that they did. But you can. You can forgive somebody and still know that they did something that was hurtful and keep that in mind. But it's hard to forgive somebody but then also not hold whatever it was against them. It's hard all around.
Speaker 1:But, pj, before you were talking about like your wish was for us to kind of come together and unify. Like that's one of my biggest wishes for us as a Black community this year, especially with a lot of what we're seeing coming out of politics these days with, like the DEI rollbacks, and this is just what happens so much in today's society, in today's culture. Like we have like knee jerk reactions to things and then we don't follow through. So, for example, like everybody is talking about how, like oh, we need to, you know, boycott Target because Target rolled back their DEI initiatives and they're not doing that anymore. So for a hot second everybody was talking about well, we're not going to shop at Target. Target, and we all know how long that lasts.
Speaker 1:All about that day, apparently but there's a target down the street for me and I still have not and I will not well, that's the thing I think I wish that we as a community could really like come together more efficiently and effectively and have it be long-term, because I think, like we do things reactionary and when you do something as a reaction to something, it only lasts for as long as that initial impact was.
Speaker 1:It doesn't have like a long standing effect a lot of the times. So, like some of the things that I've been seeing is like you know, like people are taking like this opportunity to be like oh well, you know, this is the opportunity to focus more on Black-owned businesses and supporting them like that way, and I saw a couple of people say that like there are these apps that are like Amazon, but it's all Black-owned products and this, that and the third, and it's like such like smaller kind of markets and wanting to drive, you know, black dollars and Black traffic that way. But I would love to see that be a long-term thing and not just a quick reaction to like what's going on in society in this current moment to like what's going on in society in this current moment.
Speaker 3:So can I. I just want to add to that and piggyback off of that, because what I'm hearing is to be more unified in as a community and to be more unified in these fields, but it's not. I don't know if it's about unifying. I feel like it's the wrong word when we're talking about certain contexts of this conversation, because when we voted, we, for the most part, we were unified. Remember, 92 percent of black female voted for Kamala. Kamala, damn it.
Speaker 2:And I'm about to snap at you.
Speaker 3:I always, I always have that correction I corrected, and then 78, 78 percent of black men they did the same.
Speaker 3:So that's pretty unifying, because most groups of people they don't vote like that, they don't vote in the block. What I would say is that we and what I wish is that we become more experts in fields that's what we're not doing right, Like, for example, all of this stuff that's going on in politics. Do we have a lot of political experts in certain fields? It doesn't happen because we're so busy with the other stuff of just survival, right, we're busy making sure that we have the money that we can keep the lights on and pay the bills and put the food on the table and stuff like that. So sometimes we're caught up in that and then we don't focus on the things, and then there's a bad side to that as well. Right, there's things that we wish that we should be doing, but we're not because we're busy doing whatever. So I just wish that we just became more experts in certain fields. That way we can start making bigger changes, because it starts from the bottom up. It really does.
Speaker 1:Sorry go ahead.
Speaker 2:I know you're awake. Yeah, I do want to say this because we actually do have that, but we have it only on a local level. We don't really have it on a national level. And the reason why we don't have it on a national level is because where we are nationally in this country and how they treat us, so we would have more if we collectively kept it up for it to grow and were allowed in these spaces versus begging, to be part of it.
Speaker 3:I'll only say this. I'm not saying that you're wrong. The only thing that I'm saying is is that I feel like there still could be more expertise and focus.
Speaker 2:Oh no, definitely, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:There's always room for more.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, yeah, because there's some people that are out there that say, oh, you know the two branches of the government, the two branches of the government.
Speaker 2:What branches of the government, what. Get off my phone. But you know, but, and I'll say this and I'll get, I'll throw it back to you, blair um, we already we all know what this country is founded on. We all know what the um, what the jail system was replacing when it comes to replacing slavery. We know how we as a community are looked at in other spaces not just white spaces, but Asian spaces, indian spaces but I do know that there is a barrier that is preventing a lot of us to progress in ways that we wish that it would be true.
Speaker 1:You know what I think it is and this ties into, like, what I was going to say. I think, generally as a people, as a community, as a society, we have gotten comfortable, because what I was saying before about I wish that we weren't so reactionary to things and I wish that we were more unified into creating long-term effect. I'm thinking of, like back in the day, you know, like the bus boycott the sit-ins. You know, like the marches, they continued to do whatever it was, whatever form of protest it was, until a policy changed, until something changed, until whatever it was, whatever form of protest it was, until a policy changed, until something changed, until whatever it was that they were fighting against they, until they got it and they kept going.
Speaker 1:You know, no matter, like you know, do you know how difficult it was for them to be able to get to work, not taking the bus? But they made that personal sacrifice to be in that uncomfortable state for, you know, for the cause, for what it was that they were working towards. And I know, red, before you were talking about, like the 92% of Black women and the 78% of Black men who voted for Kamala, which is amazing. But I'm fearful now that because we didn't get what we wanted. It's just kind of like oh well, all right, well, which is more or less kind of give up in our our plight.
Speaker 2:That's what. That's what that's what niggas do.
Speaker 1:Like, if we don't get what we want.
Speaker 1:Well, I think, like before, that was harsh, I'm sorry we black people had more determination, a little more grit, a little more energy, a little more, uh, willingness to live in the uncomfortable, and now it's a little more like okay, well, I'm gonna do this for a little bit, but then I'm not and that's not. That's not to say that that's like what it is, but I feel like that's kind of what I, I, I I see that happening and I want us to be able to, to, and I'm guilty of it too, like I am very much, you know, I need to learn to, to, to make some sacrifices I think I think that also comes from the fact that we're in a culture now where there's a lot more distractions yes a lot more distractions yeah it's real easy to be thinking about one thing and then all of a sudden it's not important, because now we're we're looking at you're on to the next thing.
Speaker 3:Bianca Sensori, you know being but booty ball naked. You know, in her sheer ass dress like it's a lot harder with, like the one of the Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 1:Wow, you got, you did it. The two of you did it to me. Don't blame me. Wow, black Lives Matter. Wow, you got, you did it, the two of you did it to me. Wow, wow, thanks guys, I felt left out we are inclusive I felt left out with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Speaker 1:You know it had so much attention and so much traction and part of that was because you know 2020 and COVID and it's you know there was so much like happening that kept drawing your eyes back to it. But now it's you know it's it definitely still exists and it's still happening. But do we really do we have like the same level of attention on it that we used to? We don't, and I wish that we could maintain that focus a little more long-term until we get the results that we're looking for.
Speaker 2:You know, I was trying to look up because here's the thing, and we go through this every news cycle, we go through this no matter what happens, and again this, hey, y'all we get distracted, and I think our community right now is so distracted about DEI, which we have every right to be, um, but there are things that are happening behind the scenes, um, that is not being put out there, um, and it's going to affect us. And I was trying to look up some things cause I I can't think of it off the top of my head. So I was trying to pull it up cause I know there's like two things that I saw a couple of days ago, um, in my scrolls, because what I've been doing is also looking at media what, what media we consume and which way does it lean? Does it lean far right? Does it lean far left? Does it lean in the middle?
Speaker 2:um, because that media that we're consuming, um, is not the full picture you know, and that's how so many like people I don't mean this by any means, but like people in the midwest. Okay, but people in like the midwestern parts of the country, not not michigan finish your sentence wait, you know what I get that from?
Speaker 2:I get that from I forgot this, this, this, the, the, the teacher who, uh, I follow on instagram, who does all these reels and he also has adhd, and he'd be like I have a feeling for I'm hungry for a burrito and he'd just be looking to see what people's response would be. He's like, hmm, I, hmm, I wonder, are we being all inclusive? You know things like that, but anyway, I got to share it with y'all when I find one, so it makes more sense.
Speaker 1:I think I know who you're talking about, though.
Speaker 2:He's a little chunky. Yeah, he's funny, but he's like. I want to see how you're going to respond.
Speaker 1:See what your reaction is.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Shit. Now I've. You said something about the Midwest. Some pilot something.
Speaker 2:So how? No, I'm gone.
Speaker 1:Oh well, I guess it wasn't true then, Christina.
Speaker 2:You know what? I'm going to let it go, because I'm going to remember next week.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'm going to listen back because I'm going to remember next week. Okay, I'm going to listen back. I'm not sure you remember next week.
Speaker 2:But okay. So lastly, as we wrap this up, what do we wish for each other?
Speaker 1:I wish, oh, I wish.
Speaker 2:If I had one wish, what would it be?
Speaker 1:I wish that I had one wish. What would it be? I wish that you got that the both of you make this the best year. Yet I wish that you maintain your focus and discipline to reach every goal that you have set out for yourself. I wish that you stop and smell the roses, while also staying on the grind 2025. Like I said, I wish that you had the blackest Black History Month ever. It's only been four days y'all. It's only been four days.
Speaker 2:We only had 24 more. Happy new year 2026.
Speaker 3:Happy new year, I wish, I wish that. I just want you know I've been, I keep seeing this. I'm really excited for us to get to that point where we're all just like really doing our thing, and I just see different. As I get to know you guys more and more, I just see different versions of that. So, blair, I wish that your production company just takes flight. I'm sorry, I mean it's going to, but I need to do it.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry You're like hey, girl, hey, I didn't get to that point yet. That song's all I you done. Freaking threw me off. Alright, now I don't even know what I was going to say.
Speaker 3:These are the inclusive thoughts again that your production company hey Girl, hey production company takes flight. I know that it's going to, I just can't wait to see it. I'm like when is it going to happen? Right, like we talk about different ideas and I'm just like so ecstatic and so I love seeing the transition. I love seeing like the pains of, like where you were and how you got there.
Speaker 3:I'm really truly loving the journey and watching it from the outside, because for me, it just gives me more inspiration. You know, every time that you get better, I want to get better. Every time PJ gets better, comet wants to get better. Like it's just always. He just popped up y'all. He's like what you doing? You still on this damn computer. Get off, pj. I love watching you grow. Like it might seem like it's something small, but I love like the fact that you had posted hey, this is me now. Like this is what I am where I'm at, and I'm more focused, I'm more succinct and you don't have to know exactly what you're doing, like I know you talked about with the with be get becoming certified for the funeral directing. We didn't care what it was, we just want you to be the the most successful and best at it and you're amazing at production and you're talented and you're funny. Well, sometimes, you know, sometimes you are funny and you're and you're pretty good at fortnight. You're pretty good at fortnight, you're pretty good at Fortnite.
Speaker 2:You know what, when this game is over? Actually I don't even know, because they won't even let me on the game.
Speaker 3:I don't know why. Well, we can talk about that. I'm trying to figure it out. But that's what I wish Nothing but success. And I know it sounds really generic, but I wish that I could just take my thoughts and put it on paper and see what I see in you guys, and I'm excited.
Speaker 2:Okay, I wish.
Speaker 3:I was about to say you better say something. Nigga Me and Blair Wade. You better say something nigga Me and.
Speaker 1:Blair Wade, if you had one wish, I wish, did your light illuminate just then, did it. It did Anyway, continue.
Speaker 2:Spirits hey.
Speaker 3:Spirits hey, spirits hey.
Speaker 2:Hey, I wish, and 100% real with this. I wish you, both collectively and individually, all of the happiness that you are deserved and you are owed for everything that you have been through it's the old part for me.
Speaker 1:Oh, because, look, I, I it's there are.
Speaker 2:There are things that as long as I've known you, blair, that I'm just like I was watching the Grammys, right, and I'm sitting here like I don't understand that this woman who escorts these people onto the stage looks like Blair, and why haven't I seen her do this? You know, and I'm saying, and for those of you I'm talking about, like, if you actually watch the Grammys and you see the person who brings the people out looks like Blair, and why haven't I seen her do this? You know, and I'm saying, and for those of you I'm talking about, like, if you actually watch the Grammys and you see the person who brings the people out, if that ain't a carbon copy, so like I wish that who you are, the world gets to see it beautiful and in every facet of you like, no matter how beautiful you may think you are, not you are.
Speaker 2:No matter how much you think you are not, you are, and I wish that Tracy Ellis Ross.
Speaker 3:Hey, tracy you.
Speaker 1:Okay, and we get something going Girl because you Okay, and we get something going. Girl because come on.
Speaker 2:Okay For you, chris. I wish that you, individually you, I wish that this cat doesn't suck your soul out at night, because that's what cats do, but that's why I keep my bedroom door locked.
Speaker 3:Simple Done doesn't suck your soul out at night, because that's what cats do. That's why I keep my bedroom door locked.
Speaker 2:Simple Done For all you cat people. I'm just joking. No, I'm not.
Speaker 3:He's not though I'm not in heaven. Karma doesn't do that.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's a Stephen.
Speaker 1:King book.
Speaker 2:But I wish that you have been through a lot emotionally, whether it's personal, relationship-wise, professional-wise, what you want to do, creative, creatively I got there. I wish that it flourishes in a way that makes sense to you, because it doesn't have to make sense to anybody else, and it flourishes in a way that brings you the joy you felt. And it flourishes in a way that brings you the joy you felt that we've all been feeling as we watch you grow because remember when this podcast started, I should insert that was a different I should insert the first intro to who you were and what you said you want to do.
Speaker 2:And now, almost 7 years later, look where you are now stop dating people.
Speaker 3:What the fuck is wrong with you?
Speaker 1:thank you, I appreciate it that's because he pulled out the Casio earlier, felt like he needed to like.
Speaker 2:Let me bring them down a notch and I wish that all of our listeners out there are taking the time to actually, you know, start making a wish about what you want for yourself, what you want for your circle, what you want for the community, and as you make these wishes, then start devising a plan on how these wishes can become dreams that come true, I said come on now. I mean, that's it. Every dream begins with a wish, so we start, you know, we wish upon a star.
Speaker 1:I was just thinking that I was just there, meanwhile, my Disney princess obsessed ass over here. Is a dream, is a wish your heart may sleep. I think I'll watch Cinderella before I go to bed.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's Cinderella. Okay, no clue. Is that a roar?
Speaker 1:You said a roar. Okay, you know what I see it? I see it Because Sleeping Beauty Dreamers. Okay, okay. Okay, that was a semi-educated guess.
Speaker 3:It's the semi for me.
Speaker 2:But yes, guys ask yourself that and you know we are grateful for all of you who have been rocking with us for these seven years Period, you know, and for those of you who are just on board. Thank you for taking the time to listen to another episode of highly motherfucking melanated. It's the motherfucker for me. The safe space the safe space where it is okay to understand that your wishes can turn to dreams that will come true period poo it's the top of the year, so we're going to say this just once.
Speaker 2:Be sure to follow us on social.
Speaker 1:You know what I thought we were going to start off the new year I wish.
Speaker 2:In a new way, and here's a better wish.
Speaker 1:And you have reached into the archives.
Speaker 2:I wish that I can make myself have a little bit more time to dedicate to things that would help us collectively and me individually progress Collectively and me individually progress, and that is our social media presence. That is maybe guest spotting on other people's shows. You know anything besides us always having a guest on our show who wants to have us? You know individually, because we did that one Shout out to what was his name? Chris?
Speaker 3:Shout out to what was his name? Chris, I don't remember.
Speaker 1:Just to bring it back full circle.
Speaker 3:I remember it was somebody, I just can't remember.
Speaker 1:The meme that I've been seeing all over now since Beyonce won, because you know her reaction was just kind of like what meme? But like what I've been seeing now is like people like putting like that video in and then like the caption is saying like when somebody calls on me in the Zoom, and I wasn't expecting for them to say my name, it's like I felt like that was you just now, chris. You were like. I felt like that was you just now, chris.
Speaker 2:You were like and it's the sad part is that now she was surprised when she just sat down soon, as Taylor said. But you know that's not conversation for another day, because we don't talk bad about the queen here, not anymore, at least. That never happened. That was an alternate universe, y'all I was about to say when did we do that?
Speaker 1:not we. We didn't do shit, we didn't do a motherfucking thing well, I know me.
Speaker 3:I can expect that PJ Ryan did that that was PJ Ryan and that nigga's dead.
Speaker 2:So on that note, not that nigga is dead he's asleep. Yeah, yeah, he had a little bit too much of the poppy, too much of the poppy On that note guys peace, love and.
Speaker 1:Ray J J, one wish. I really feel like if I had one wish, but none of us know what the next freaking line is is it you would be my baby?
Speaker 3:nope, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I tried.
Speaker 3:I'm looking it up. Hold on, he's looking it up too. I knew the two of you would look it up. I can count on you.
Speaker 1:We would be best friends. Love would never end.
Speaker 2:It would just begin. Oh, that's what he says.
Speaker 1:If I had one wish we would be best friends. Love would never end, it would just begin. If I had one wish you would be my boo Promise to love you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a little one and he's not Bow Wow Anyway.
Speaker 1:Hey, wait a minute. Ain't that Brandy's brother? Okay, that's enough. That's what I think.
Speaker 2:This is the most he's going to be talked about in 2025. No, that's enough. This is the most he's going to be talked about in 2025. No, that's not it.
Speaker 1:This is the most he's been talked about in the last 10 years.
Speaker 3:Thank you Bye.