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y'all's carefully reckless? Oh? I like that. I like that. I might have to use that. Okay, listen, So I want to talk about something that that is absolutely trending in the world. It doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon, and that it's COVID. And I just want to get inside of your little mind to see how it has affected your social life, how it has affected school for you, how it has affected you know, just

your everyday living. Like, have you ever had COVID? No, but one time I thought I did because I was having a lot of symptoms. Symptoms like I couldn't smell, I couldn't taste, I was coughing, sneezing a lot. Yeah, were you scared that you had it? Yes, so you thought that you had it one time, okay, and then you got tested and it was negative. Right, and that was when you were with dad. Yes, okay. Has anyone else that you know had COVID ever? Yeah, my sister

had COVID before. Okay, how did it affect her pain or what? Now? I don't think she was in pain. Yeah, I think dad to tell me that she would. Yeah. Yeah, she had to stay away from us a lot because we um, my dad didn't want us to get COVID. Yeah, so that was called the what when you gotta stay away? That's the it begins with a cue quarantine. Yes, that's

the quarantine period. You have to isolate yourself. Um. And at first the CDC UM they were saying that it was fourteen days, and it went from fourteen to ten days. Now it's five days, and you know, there's a new strain out and y'all are currently out of school. Before the holiday break, y'all were out of school due to this. Right, wasn't it like an outbreak in your school? Yeah? My other and my cousin actually had it. Yeah, okay, so

your cousin had it, but he was good. We checked on him and he was actually he was feeling sick, but he was good, you know, like he was. He was eventually fine. My sister had had it, and you know, your aunt definitely called it too, and then her mom called it like it was a lot. It was a lot, yeah, Mom, And you had it too, and I was worried about you. I know, I know I did actually have COVID. I had it and was it was like July or August, and I did. And I remember I was on a

damn date and I couldn't taste. I couldn't taste. I was tasting my food and I couldn't taste anything, so that I started tasting his food and I couldn't taste it. And then he was trying to blame it on um the fact that it was a white restaurant. They didn't use any season, and I'm like, no, no, no, I can't taste this is like I put salt and pepper, I put hot sauce on it. Now I can taste the hot sauce very faintly, but I couldn't really taste it a lot. So that kind of like that's when

I knew I had it. When I got one of the Buy Next Home COVID tests, I took it and and it was positive, and it really really you know it, it really scared me because I had to isolate myself. I had to be quarantined. And the worst thing about catching COVID literally is you're alone. You have to be alone, right, how would you feel if you had to catch it? Like, what would you how would you prepare yourself? Like if you cat if you caught it, how would you feel

not being able to be around anybody? Only not because like you can't be with your friends or you can't be around your family. You're gonna have sit in your house alone. Mm hmm. So even with COVID, you know, they shut your school down, y'all had to be virtual for a while. How does that make you feel? How do you like virtual? Like? How what about it? Don't you like? I don't, because, um, you have you have to be on school through a computer and it's a lot of things that you have to do and it's

it's hard for some people. And you want that personal one on one time with your teacher. Yes, yeah. And the thing about it is it's not always good because it's it's not good socially for you, but it's actually teaching you technology because you didn't know how to work a laptop before virtual school, right, You didn't know how to work it, right, So that's what they're teaching you. They're teaching you technology, you know, because what did you

ask me to buy you for Christmas? And you would have never asked for this had you not done school virtually, what did you ask me to buy you? You asked me to buy your Mac with a laptop period. I'm like, what the hell do you need a laptop? Four? You have other things you have? Like, what what did you get for Christmas? Let them know what you got for Christmas? Got a game chair? Did you put only and in front of that? Now? I got a gaming chair, apuds,

a headset, electric scooter, v bus? Money and I'm talking about baby, got new shoes, Baby got clothes. I'm something I don't play with me because even though that ain't no gift that you can play with, that's still clothes on your back, shoes on your feet. Okay, yeah, yeah, you got a bank account? Okay that you got that. You gotta savings and you gotta check in, you know, So I need for you to be very very care with that only word, all right, I need for you

to be careful with it. So you know, they just started administering these vaccines to children. How would you feel personally about getting the vaccine? Would you want to get it? Or do you no? Because you have to get two shots. If you take the vaccine, it's just gonna lower your chance of getting COVID. It's not like it's gonna keep you protected from COVID. Yeah, so you're saying, like, if you can still catch it, why would you even want to get it? Pretty much? Yeah? Yeah, and I I

this is how I feel about the vaccine. Okay, So the vaccine is supposed to be like an immunity booster, and they also have a booster too, but it's supposed to help with your immune system. If there is nothing wrong with your immune system, I I feel like you can survive COVID and ain't even what I feel you can.

You can survive COVID with a great immune system. I think the vaccine should literally only be for like old people or people who can't fight off these diseases and viruses and stuff because their immune system is old and it's yo. Why you gotta laugh y'all, Yo, stop laughing. Listen. If Nigga's got an older man system, they got an older man system, it's old and rusty, and that's what Yo. Why are you laughing? Why are you laughing? Bro? No?

In all seriousness, I feel like the vaccine is for people who have really really bad health issues and for old people. Old people need help fighting off these viruses and stuff like that, you know, so the vaccine should only be for them. Like why are they giving kids vaccines? That's why I'm being sun Huh, that's Sun. Yeah, No, for sure. Do you know any of your friends? Um, you know, if any of your friends got the vaccine. You don't gotta say their names, but I'm just saying

you do. They did, How did they say they felt? They said it made them feel nervoushed because they got to the hospital and they was nervous of taking a shot. Okay okay. And did they have any symptoms, like did they get sick? Yes, they had like trouble like smelling and tasting and smelling. Yeah. And that's why a lot of people feel like it's just like the flu shot. That's why you've never got a flu shot. I've never

gotten you the flu shot. You know, now when you get older, you can do whatever you want, But I've never gotten your flu shot. I've never gotten a flu shot. The only shot that you know, your grandmother ever made take or you know, was tetanus, my tetnic shot and my shots when I was a baby, when I when I'm first born and all that ship, you know. But dogs get shots too, because you know, when we were first born. They have to get a lot of shots

before they can walk. Yeah, yeah, so that's that's kind of like a baby like when a baby human is born, we have to get a lot of shots, like you know, because we don't come because babies don't come out just eating, and some babies they don't latch onto the breast when it's time to breastfeed, they won't drink the milk. So shots you get like different vitamins and and all types of stuff for your body that you need, you know, But as far as a vaccine or a flu shot,

I've never gotten you any of that. Like I never got you the chicken pox bax say, I've not never ever got it, never gotten it for you. And I really wanted to raise you holistically. Huh, what is that? Holistically? It's just natural, natural ways of healing your body, natural ways of living. Like, for instance, I take I'll be profit if I have a headache. If you got a headache, I'm gonna boil some leaves or whatever and put them on your head and make you stick your head and

the freezer for five hours. That's what I'm gonna do. That's holistic. You ain't ever got to sick, no medicine. But notice you're you're never been sick. Yeah, because I got the best immense system in the world. That's good. I'm glad you feel like that. I'm glad you really do feel like that, because I don't know why you feel like that now. I don't know why you decided to say something like sixty times. I'm got six zero times alms and you're nine, so of course the ratio

is a little different. But you you really haven't been sick. I can count. I can't even count up the ten how many times that you've been sick since you've been on this earth living. I don't know when your dad is like that, though your dad never gets sick. Jerome has never had COVID. He's never had the flu. He's never I had like fifty different COVID tests and all of what's negative I know, and that's that's good. Though, how do how do you like the testing part of it?

Bless you? Now hold up? Now you ain't just gonna sneeze and you say something like that, let me get the lights all damn? Come on now, ain't no all my crawl in here. You're just gonna sneeze somebody I ain't never had. But I ain't never had a negative COVID tests like, yo, don't ever sneeze, And I mean, I ain't never have a positive one. You know what I meant? Boy, if you love me, you'll listen to this commercial and then we'll be right back. So how is the COVID SATs for you? I remember, yo? I

remember when they first came out. He was very scared of going up your nose and you wouldn't even let me do it. But how how did it feel? Because I know you get tested that school, So how does that feel? Weird? I was mad because last I wanted to adopted. The doctor said she wasn't going on ship. The um then all the way up my nose and then she got it and then she stuck it all the way up there. You're talking about the last time I went right the last time, Oh yeah, yeah, I

wanted to smack the ship out of her. I ain't even gonna hold you, sheep, polture the top of your nose so freaking hard. Y'all listen, y'all know I don't play about my baby. So oh he was sick. This was a few weeks ago. He It turns out that he had strapped throat. He too, got the best immaue system in the world. Whatever, bro alright, no, but Mama, we die. But Mama said, Mama had Mama had called me and said I didn't I was okay. So that was the rapid test. You had a rapid test um.

But they sent out a PCR that comes back in three days. That's more of a culture test where they detailed, like they check more thoroughly, you know, And it came back that there was positive and then you had to get your max of celling and stuff. But stop, the mix of celling is what you took the medicine, the pink medicine that you like, so listen, she she And then when they did your throat test. She's stuck it all the way in the back of your damn throat.

You ain't like that either, but I liked that. I didn't have a problem with that. When she COVID tested you, I wanted to punch her and both of the back on her necks, like, because you know she had two necks. I wanted to punch your ass right in the back of both. Yeah. She was When I opened Mama, I was just like, she was just like, yeah, yeah, you see that was quick. That was quick. But you'd be thinking about ship too much, like you've been thinking about it.

Even when I give you your Sea Mars baby, like and listen, I want you to know my baby, my baby take his Sea Mars every day. He makes sure he hitting his Sea Mars has the elderberry everything in it, like really nice, it's it's really really really good. I do. I do. But like when I had to take the pills, I didn't like them. Yeah, but that was their flu. We thought you had the flu. Remember I was making you wear your mask around me and everything. So I

took on them pills for nothing. Yeah, pretty much. But that's why I need more start living holistically, bro like, because you aren't gonna have to take another pill whatever again. Ever, y'all, don't look at me like that. Y'all for real, you ain't never going to do it again. Okay, So it's not all bad, you know, surrounding COVID, the whole COVID issue.

So you get to stay home a lot, you don't have to go to school, and I'm damn scared to have you around a bunch of group of other kids and ship, you know what I'm saying, because this strand out now is highly contagious. It's like one of the milder strains, but it's very contagious. Like everybody was sick for the holiday, and just thank god that we that we weren't you know, we didn't catch it. We were in Chicago and like you've seen, everybody had on masks.

They're like it was really really last down. It was crazy. But what do you like best about sitting you know, being home and you know, not having to go to school and stuff like that. Do you have any positive um thoughts about COVID or being home the fact that you're home war Yeah, I like spending more time with my family, Like I'll like explaining one time on my dog, my dad and my grandmother, and I like and I've

been on the game with the boys a lot. Okay, you with the homies, Okay, what you what do you play? So we ain't fun Maddie Fortnite n b A. Ok so you and the boys? Yeah, okay, So you ain't even talking to no girls. No, you do be talking to this one girl. All right, bro, I ain't. I ain't even gonna paster you about it, but I'm kind of feeling some type of way because you said I like hanging with my dog. I like hanging a with my grandmother, like being around my family, my dad, my sister,

and my brother. You ain't saying nothing about your mom. I did. I said, I was like explaining talk with my dog. You who was you? God damn Madric. You supposed to be like mom, your best moming in the world. Like, no, my grandmother is your best mom in the world. You said, what my grandmother is your best mom in the world. But a couple of weeks ago you were just calling nod like with that was you that said she was big old You said she were like, no, I didn't.

Now you're lying because you're gonna listen to this, and I ain't never say she was big old. I ain't put bigg in front of you and you did anyway. Yes, she is the best mommy, but she ain't your mommy. Who's the best momm Oh you've been drying me, But it's it's all good. If I ain't the best mommy, it's okay. Try Maybe I'll just have enough now? You is? You would? That's how we talk. You is not the straight at students sitting across from me talkbout you is?

I hope your you is? I is who's the best mommy? Okay? Thank you? Because I thought I was gonna have to go have another baby just so they can grow up. And tell me that because right now you're the only child. Would you ever want me to have any more kids? He yes? Okay, but your dad already got four others. Yeah, but they're not but they're not all boys, So you want me to have another boy? I want all brothers. You want all brothers, but you got two beautiful little

sisters though, Yeah that's your want a brother? Yo. You're really patio for real. But I just thank god that none of my friends have contracted COVID like I think you don't even got a little friends. But damn. First of all, now I'm about to really give you a hunted like, stop playing with me, because I do have friends. That's why I stay close friends, all right. None of my close friends called covid. I got Joey, I got Shana,

I got your father, I got Prince. I got a lot of people who I instead of well, not a lot, but that's all right, yo, all right, damn yo, I got Tawya, I got raided. All right, Yo, you ain't got that many damn friends and me? If you only got friends because of me, no I don't. Oh no, they only got friends because of me. You only got your friends because of me. No, I don't only have friends because of you, bro like you are my seed.

People only like you because you're just a lary suthing was the first thing to say to you when you woke up in them all? Hum? Huh? What's the first thing they say to you when you woke up in them all? What is the first thing they say to you when when you're walking them all they see you said what you said your ship, yo, they'd be like, Yo, that's just a larry your son. Don't they always say that, Yeah, boy, I gave you your first little show lord. Dude, boy,

I gave you that. I put you up on wilding out. Boy, what you mean if it wasn't for me, it wouldn't even know you should. If it wasn't for me, he wouldn't even know who your little boy head tail is like. So, yeah, my head back because my handline is that your first of all, let's boy, you're double cross because your cross your crowd across. H I don't understand baby talk, and I don't understand growing up talking. All right, but listen real quick. Your dad has a wide forehead. I have

a long forehead, So your ship long and wide. Boy, don't you ever play Your foy is so big. You don't have dreams, you have movies. That's the old school joke. Bam shorty boom oh so you only get old school. Yeah, it's something you don't know nothing about. You only have one year old school. That was nine. So I mean wal wal wal jokes. Spy Brood shot up, okay, because I thought for a second he was ready telling me shut up. I mean that you say it shout out

real quick. I was ready had to get you a hunting. Your hair is beaty, just like Pam's off mall and giving beat beat in the front and the back. You're supposed to have beat beats only in the back. You got him in the front, the back, in the middle. So what are you saying, bro? You got you got him in the front, the middle, the side, the other side and the back. Ball head skittle diddle and got no hand in the middle. Make must it? Oh, you stole my joke and use it. That was my joke.

You stole it. Anyway, I won this. We're gonna this. We can go one on one, shorty. What are you talking about? I can beat your beat you on basketball, can beat you and beat you in football. I can beat you on hockey. I can beat you in volleyball. You can't even skate. You think you better get out there in hockey. You can't even skate. I can definitely. I told you everything you know, bro, No, you didn't. Your father didn't, your grandmother didn't know your grandfather me.

I told you everything you know. I even told you how to go back and forth with me. That's why your little ball he is doing it on this couch. No, I told you that that's going back and forth for me because not heid not And just like that, we're gonna end this podcast. Make sure you're tuned in every week Wednesday, hump Day and then my deepest pandboys, Peace Day, goodbye drop Mike. Carefully Reckless is a production of My

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