Preparing for Life After Quarantine

don't have to lie, girl. You are so accommodating to me. Like I legitimately send honey a text ten minutes ago. I was like, can you do it now? Because I have science class and I have to get this one on a zoom and I'm like so over this homeschooling. It is unbelievable. But you've been so accommodating. You know. What's crazy is like I never want to give you stress, Like I know that like as a mom, and you continue to work from home and your husband works from home.

I know it's been like all upside down. So it's like the last thing I want to do is give you at it stress. I'm that friend though, and I'm that sister, and I'm that door. I contribute zero stress towards anyone. Don't get me mad, because then she's gonna get crazy. No, you are, you really have been. Honestly, like this podcast and the morning show have been the

highlight of this quarantine. Now. Don't get me wrong, love the family, love spending time with them, but just the homeschool ship is so real, girl, Like it is bananas, and it's like, it's the end of the school year, honey. You know, you weren't doing anything at the end of the school year. They were putting on movies, turning off the lights. You were hanging out writing notes to your friends. At the end of the year. Things to be over.

I saw that one of your boys graduated. Yes, my asher, he graduated, but it was such a tease, you know. They had him graduate and then they were like, oh but ps, btw, you still have school for the next week, so it yeah, you know what it is. They actually did a really really sweet little ceremony. You know, because of the social distancing, we can't get everybody the gather until June I saw you and you look so good. I'm like, it's the filter, honey, that Nashville doesn't every time. Okay, no,

you're so sweet, and it was from far away. Um No, you know what, it was a really special moment. And I do have to tell you though, when I came back that day, I struggled. I said to my husband, I looked at him and I was you know, I was very weepy. It wasn't what I expected. None of this is what we expected for anything, you know, And so I said to Mark, I go, you know, in my mind, when he graduated from preschool, I wanted to have like a little graduation party for him because he's

come so far. He really has not that my other one hasn't. But we've struggled a little bit more with Asher because of his speech delay, and I really wanted to celebrate him going to the big boys school. It's such a huge accomplishment. And you know, we didn't get to do any of that. So there's just all of the confusion with the reopening and the stress, and like, I just wanted to ask you, how are you feeling, Like are you just gonna bam get back out there

or you gonna like ease your way back in? Because I think there's two different modes that people are in. I'm going to use my way back in. You know. I went out on Sunday. I went to the beach here in New Jersey where I'm at, and I saw everyone. Everyone was on the beach. There was no social distancing, there were no masks. I was just walking on the boardwalk kind of like trying to get some fresh air. And I'm like, wow, it's crazy, like these are the

people that just get right back in it. And I was just like an observer and I was like, these people are playing bollyball, these people are eating, these people are drinking. Like it felt like Corona is over, yeah, but it's not. It hasn't been canceled. Everybody else has been canceled every other event, but like Corona has not been canceled. This is a news flash for everybody. You know.

It's it's really crazy, you know. I was looking back and I was talking to Mark about this and I said, and not to get political at all, but I just think, you know, you have the headline coming out of New Zealand that they have no cases, right, they have no case is it's completely like, you know, I don't want to say eradicated, but it's just gone control from New Zealand. Yeah, it's very controlled. And here there are just there are

so many questions. So you went to the beach. I have not ventured to the beach yet, but what you're telling me, My girlfriends have said the same thing. They have said that when you go to the beach, just be prepared because nobody's social distancing. The masks are not on. Carolyn was like blankets of like ten people, like everybody eating, everybody just hanging out, walking with each other, groups of kids, like I can tell they were like friends, you know,

like twelve fifteen kids together. And it was just me and Nuni, you know, we were just walking around and I brought my mask with me and I'm like, maybe like ten percent of the people had a mask. People were buying food, eating, hanging. I mean that's how it spreads too, by the way, you know, it's that saliva. So I keep looking around. I'm like, it's corona over, Like is this it? Like? Are we going back to normal? Like did it go away? Then? My husband's like maybe

it was a hoax. I'm like, this was not an examp folk, So what have you been watching or what have you been reading? No, you know what, So I have a very big decision and I need you to be my voice of reason. And there are a lot of people who might be listening right now. And by the way, we love you guys. Thank you so much for the feedback. I'm so glad to be back with

you doing this podcast. Honey, it really is my I get these messages, you know, and that just one message from like one of our listeners and he was like, honey, I feel so connected to this podcast as a gay Filipino man and this is this Kay Valentine on Instagram that is my baby. Okay, Like yes, went back that he connected and it was like, I was like, we're

reaching so many different people. It's like the narrative and the conversation is no longer like just geared at like people who live their life in spanguish the way where you originally we try to like start, we're like aim it at No for sure, but no, it's great but so so no. I was just gonna say, like they're probably parents or you know, moms or dads maybe that are listening and they have the big decision to make. So okay, let me rewind a little bit, because my

kids go to day camp. They go to camp from like eight o'clock in the Every other summer they've gone to camp from eight o'clock in the morning. You know, the bus comes to pick them up, and then they don't come home until about four o'clock in the afternoon. So it's a long day. It's a beautiful program, okay, Like they swim, they learned crafts, they do like all these things. By the way, I will just let you know,

camp life never existed for me in Ohio. Camp life was the backyard, the neighborhood, you know what I'm saying, Like I never went to camp, so I never experienced this as a kid, so I have nothing to reference. And you know what I mean. I had the Fresh Air Fund, where like the families that had money in the outskirts and p A and stuff would like take like a kid from like the buildings and households for

a couple of weeks. So it was almost like Christmas wishes, like you would get like a week a camp because they were like, there's no way it's true. So like I never had camp, and so for me, I think it's a lot of money, but I'm like, you know what, it's enrichment there with their buddies. They're occupied, they're not watching iPads all day. Love it. This year they're still going through with camp, and there was part of me that wish they would have just canceled it, because then

now I have to make the decision exactly. And now they sent out this modified f a Q. What your kids can't expect? Na no, no, Like there's no bussing. I'm like, well, already, that's like an X for me because to bring them and pick them up you have to and you have car line, and car line gets nasty, man. You know, you get all of these you get all of these moms that are in the car with their kids trying to drop off their kids other kids, like it is it is the real deal, right, So I

can't do that because I'm on the air. Mark is not going to sit in car line. I know my limitations, right, So that's X number one. But then number two it was like they're like, oh, we're gonna do uh social distancing, but your kid will be with fifteen kids in their group and all of this is just so confusing to me. And I just said to my husband, I go, look, I I don't want to It's such an individual decision.

And I don't want to put anybody else down because there are some parents who need to send their kids, Like both parents work, you know, they're getting back in. Things are reopening. Yeah, some it's like what four people went back to work in New York City yesterday. It's like, okay, now what we do with our kids? Right? And that's why I'm saying, so this is just for me personally. But I said, you know what they were talking about, how if they had a bus they wouldn't put on

the A C because that's how coronavirus is spread. But I go, but then you're gonna let my kid be in a group with fifteen to twenty kids and not have to wear masks? Like it's same exact thing. It's like, what are they doing. They're diminishing. Okay, on the bus, you're on the bus with thirty kids. Now you're hanging out with fifteen kids, right, And so there's just like

a lot of confusion. And I and you know me, I talked to my kids there four and six, and I'm I keep it very honest with them, and I just said, look, guys, like this is where we are Mommy and Daddy have tried to, like, you know, really

keep you guys safe and secure and everything. And when I tell you, they were like the most understanding little kids are like, it's okay, mom, we can go to the beach and stuff, Like we can go to the pool, like we can do all of these things that I'm thinking to myself, like when did you guys become so understanding and cry and talk about they want to go to camp at? Yeah? But you know what. But then I said to my husband, I go, that puts the

pressure on me because I'm still working from home. We're still not allowed to go back to our building in Tribeca. You know, you included. So it's not even just me morning shows. It's all air talent period, you know. So I don't know, man, I just think, like I think people need to pause and take a minute. I know we've been paused for three months. But I just said, Marco was like, you know, I just don't want my kids to be guinea pigs, Like I don't want to

be like, Okay, well let's try it and see what happens. Yeah, I don't blame you. It's kind of like the people that are saying that they're just going to chill at home and watch from the window and see how everything works out before they step outside. So it's kind of like you're doing the same thing for your kids. Yeah, but I do want to get like, here's the thing.

I think that I'm going to have a major issue kind of like reintegrating myself back into society because I have been so closed off, you know what I mean. Like I've literally only gone to the grocery store and that's pretty much it. So I think that people need to think about how are you going to ease yourself back in, you know what I mean? Like just food for thought for people who are listening, because you don't want to go balls to the wall like just you know, bam,

I'm back. But you also don't want to be so cautious that it's hard for you to get back into the rhythm of things, you know. You know what I've been doing, Judge me if you want. I've been watching how people are moving on social media. Okay, so it's like, oh, okay, this person is around a whole bunch of strangers. Oh, this person is already in restaurants all this person is having a party note to self, don't be around this person. Also, further notice, you know, I am still actively working on

not trying to contract Corona. I'm not one of those people that feel like it's gone. I'm not one of those people that feel like I'm not going to get it or you know, I can't get it. So that's one thing that that I know. I'm doing the same thing though, you know, I'm like being very aware and very cautious about who eventually when I do get back out,

Like who am I going to first associate with? Because I don't want to be with the people who have been just like not abiding by anything this entire time, you know, and some of them are my closest friends, you know what I've said to them. Look, I'm really like just kind of you know, freaked out about the whole thing. But eventually we'll get there. But then I wanted to ask you, are there some people that you're like glad that this whole situation is happening so you

don't have to hang out with them? Not really, you know, I was always really closed off and I had a very small circle of friend They've all been very cautious, Like everyone's been very very like worried about Corona. And I've been super understanding because I know some people, they get offended. They're like, oh does this person thing I have Corona? They don't want to be around me, or you know, why is this person hanging out with these other people but they're not hanging out with me? And

I'm like, I'm allowing everyone to move freely. I am not pressed, I am not rushing. I don't want to, you know, necessarily force anyone into doing anything that they don't want to do. But yeah, this Corona is it has allowed me to like retract Carolina and just retract and obserd. And one thing I can tell you is I've connected with my family in these past three months in ways that I've never connected before. And now I talked to them every single day. I talked to brothers,

I talked to my mother. I can talk to my mother for a whole hour. Before I was always like in a rush, telling people only call me on Saturdays, that's my only day off, which was super unfair to them. So one thing I am coming out of this, you know, quarantine with is and I feel much more closer to my family. I value them more and I don't ever want to disconnect from them. Remembers it so like, oh I can go a month or two without talking to

my mom. I changed that. That's amazing. The connection is there, and I feel like there are a lot of people who have done that. They've like reconnected with family, and it's really such a special thing. Like I've always been very close with my family, so you know, I talked to my sister every day and my brothers. We all were constantly on the thread, you know what I mean.

But we never got down with the house party or the zoom like wine meetings like a lot of people like it just seems so unnatural to me, so like we just stuck with what we knew. You know, Yeah, that's good for you. I didn't either. I didn't want to drag it, you know, I didn't do a lot I didn't want to do, you know, speeches on Zoom and meet ups and birthdays like it just wasn't my thing. You know. I knew that eventually things were gonna you know, normalize and calm down, and you know, we would be

able to go back outside. Like New Jersey just lifted like their stay at home order today, so everybody can go back outside. You know, I saw that you just have to be super careful. But you know, gatherings are allowed and things are going to go back to normal. But um, I FaceTime a lot. I FaceTime like I just prop up the phone and like FaceTime for like an hour or something. I got me a stand, girl, I gotta stand. My arm was tired. I was like on Amazon. I was like, I need to find a tripod.

I need to do something because I cannot be sitting here with my arm out any longer. Although my bus up does look good because when you're you don't want to put the phone in a bad angle, so you want to like kind of position it where you still look good. Oh for sure. But you know what I was going to ask you is like, you know, you have people like and I know that you're constantly on social media, so you see this stuff more than I do. But there was something that I saw today by um

by ice Cube. Ice Cube put out a tweet earlier this morning that said, you know, doctors of the world stopped lying about the coronavirus. The people need absolute truth. I just do you think that celebrities are you know, in situations like this, do you think they're helping or do you think that it's just kind of like like what you said about NOONI providing more of a conspiracy theory,

you know. I don't know. I just feel like celebrities, it's like use your influence towards pushing people to do better, to give back and you know, and and raise funds and you know, guide people into like what they're doing. But as far as like speaking out about Corona about facts about medical stuff, I don't feel like it's their place. It's not what they do. You understand, you're an entertainer,

you know. And I know we're getting a lot of conflicting information from the people that are supposed to be leading us. But I feel like sometimes celebrities, like you know, a celebrity posting that we're getting Corona from like five G. That's not helping, That's what I'm saying, you know, I think that at a time like this. But then but then again people would say, well, like then why can't celebrities talk about politics? Then you know what I mean.

So it's almost like I saw that tweeting, it kind of stayed out to me and I was just like, man, like, come on, cube, don't you know, don't further the conspiracy theories because yeah, because there's so many people with doubts already and having somebody like you that people like take your word and you know, yeah, people are like, oh wow, Cube said it. And I've been in so many rooms where I hear people quoting tweets and oh, I saw this on Instagram and they are that it's real, and yes,

it is real. That's one of the main reasons why I've been very selective and I've kind of like curated the content and the language that I've put out because I don't want to be a part of the problem. Like I really want to share solutions. You're super responsible about that though, I mean I have to. I would tell you, I would tetally try my best positivity ways

that people can help. And you know, and I understand we live in a dark, dark place, but guess what, my feed has got that handled because don't get me started on the whole you know, quarantine reporters. This this social media you want thing Carly that it's quarantine has showed me so much about people via their social media behavior and the things that they do and the things that they post that sometimes I'm like, I can't look at this, I can't conclude this anymore. It's it's gotten

to a fever pitch. I think, and now I think, more than ever, you have to, like I took the weekend off after my son's graduation. I just needed some time to myself. When we talk about this, to like your mental health. But like, I just think it's important now more than ever, as you start to adopt new practices, as you start to adopt a new schedule, you know, as you ease back into society, make that time. Do you know what I've been doing? You know that calm app I got? Okay, so I got a frame. You

know I love a free membership, honey. Okay, so I got through my credit card. They're offering a year free and then half off of that next year. Do you know what I've been doing every single morning? Hunting? I was wanting to tell you this. I go on the calm app and um, I do a morning and it's not not a meditation. I don't know if it counts as a meditation, but it just like basically sets me

up for the day. Whereas before, immediately I would turn on the news find out what I missed overnight, go to Instagram, check my Twitter, and I said, no, I'm taking like this five to seven minutes to just kind of like center myself. And I got to be honest with you, it has been helping. Now I'm only three days and you know what's weird, Carolyn. I would see the commercial and then the commercial is like it gives you like a thirty seconds of listening to the rain,

and yeah, and I take the thirty seconds. I'm like, Okay, So I'm like kind of like meditating right now watching this commercial right right. Meditation has not worked for me in the past. My mind races too much. I have too many things on my plate. But I'm really going to make a great effort to try that. There was something else that I wanted to bring up to you. And we're kind of springing topics on each other today because we really did not have time to like get

up with each other. That's fine because I feel like a lot of the stuff that we talked of that people want to hear about. Anyway. You are one of the first people to introduce me to cancel culture, Okay, And I think that in en, I think cancel culture was really, really fever pitch high, like everybody was getting canceled right for things that they've done in the past, for things that have happened, and now more than ever, I think people's eyes are like watching. Okay, today though,

I saw something about Chrissie Teagan. Did you see the picture that has been circulating of her wearing an outfit for Halloween? So John Legend went as a cowboy, and she apparently went as a Native American. I don't know who specifically she was dressing up as. But now there's like a question, should Chrissie be canceled for this outfit that she wore on Halloween? However many years ago, like back in two thousand, I don't know, eight ten, whatever

it was. I don't know if I've said this before, but the cancel culture or like cancel society really concerns me. It concerns me. Although you know, what's so crazy that I'm looking at the post, I'm looking did you see it? Okay? Because I was gonna say, I know I sprang it on you, and I didn't. I wasn't sure. I know. I feel like you see everything before I knew. So so it seems as though you know, This was a couple of years ago, so critie taking in a Native

American Indian costume. And the first the first comment that comes up is someone saying, as a Colorado Wyomi man, plenty of cowboy here. I'm not even offended a little bit. But then again, you're not a Native American. But I don't think she should be canceled for doing this. You know, a lot of stuff is done out of stupidity, A lot of stuff is done out of you know, ignorance. Um, some people don't think that dressing up as all the cultures will get you canceled. I've seen plenty of people

on my feed with a Native American costume. I've seen them with the whole entire religious head dress. Right. Not for one moment have I thought, like, my god, this person who's canceled, We're never going to support them, We're never going to speak to them and make them disappear from the face of this earth. I just think that was jum, you're an adult, why did you make such a terrible decision? But I would never just x the

amount of this world for doing that. Yeah, you know, it's like I just I don't know, I think that as a person. As a human, You're supposed to make mistakes, right, because don't you learn from your mistakes. I know I've learned a lot from my mistakes. Like, and I'm not the type of person. When I was younger you could tell me don't touch that, it's hot, don't touch it, it's hot, You're going to burn yourself. I would still touch it because I would be like, well, that's your opinion.

I wanted, you know what I mean. I was one of those hardheaded young ladies that I needed to experience things for myself. Um, and I'm not sure if canceling people is the right thing, especially right now, you know what I mean. Like, there are a lot of people who you know. But on the other hand, there are a lot of people who have said inn and racist things in the past, and now it's resurfacing, especially with the Black Lives Matter movement and people who are speaking out.

You know, a whole another conversation that, oh, totally, the costumes. I see them, I'm like, you shouldn't have done that, you know, But it's crazy because they try to cancel tire banks too. During the quarantine. You remember what we remind me, well, they brought up like a lot of different clips of Tyra being mean to like contestants on America's Next Top Model. Oh yes, back when she like the things that she would say when they would exit, she would be like your hairs to this and that,

like stuff like that on your teeth. They really try to like bury tire banks during the quarantine and I saw it happening and Tyra was like, listen, some clips have surfaced. I'm not proud of everything I've done. I'm not proud of everything I've said, but you're not gonna cancel me. And you know what, they forgot about it because social media is weird. It's like every single day they want to pick something new. That's what I'm saying. Today,

we're going to destroy this person today. We're right. Know, the parties over for for Doja Cat, the parties over for Pretty Tagan, the parties over for this person. And then they come forward and they speak out and they apologize and they say that was wrong. I was being a racist. I didn't know what I was doing. I

was ignorant, you know. So I don't think people should be canceled for making mistakes because if that was the case, I would have you know, been we would have all been exactly like you should at least get the chance to explain yourself. So that's funny that you mentioned Doja Cat because today we were playing her on K to You. I heard her on the radio the other day and I was just like, I was like, black stations canceled

Doja Cat. White stations play some Doja Cat. I mean, she is in heavy rotation right now for some reason. I like, I guess the TikTok people are just obsessed. So like, well, that song that she has, when she remixed it with Nicki Minaj, it's like the number one song. It's number one. It was the number one for her and Nicki both of them. That was like their first Billboard Top one song. So it's a huge hit straight up.

So it didn't even affect her, I guess in the pop or the you know our world, like overright Key to You. But then Gregg T had a very interesting question. I said, Wow, that was a very thought provoking question. Greg T said, He's like, do you think we'll ever get another hit from Doja Cat? Like will people allow her to have another hit? And I said, honestly, with the way that things are going. I don't know if

I don't know if people are remembering right now. I think that the news cycle is so fast that people have forgotten what she did and what she said, you know what I mean. So does she have another hit? I don't know. I haven't heard her whole album, I said, But you know, it just goes back to the whole cancel culture thing that we were talking about. So I think, you know, we should always allow people the right to apologize, learn from their mistakes, acknowledge that what they did was

wrong and right forward. It's like you can't just bury someone forever and tell them like you no longer exist, you no longer have a career, like you know, go hide and a hole and die even though you're twenty two, you know, because of what you did. Allow the person to make amends. I guess that's the best way to put it, right. No, totally, So yeah, anyway, I mean, maybe give it some thought for the people who are listening, you know, whenever you hear somebody, I mean, I feel

like everybody has transgressions. Everybody has things that they've done in their past that are not great, you know what I mean. And if it's something that where you could actually reconcile or if you could really give a proper apology. And if somebody means that, I think that that has a lot to do with it too. So it's just even in families, you know, the families that have done things that are wrong, you know, and it's like, wow, you really stole from grandma, and damn, you have to

listen to them. You have to hear them. You know, they were backed up on their rent, or they had a drug problem, or their car was going to get told and they had to take five hundred dollars from grandma and you have to listen to, like, really, what led them to that moment? Yeah, okay, fine, we're gonna accept you back in the family, but we never gonna forget I know. And you know who I'm not going to mess with. I'll tell you right now. And you want to know who I Am never going to get

on their bad side. I mean never say never, but I hope I never do ever ever. Ever. The k pop stands k pop is so I'm not even kidding you. They are going to change the world, Like those fans are their next level. I had no idea until I started seeing things on social media about like how you tell the K pop fans one thing and then and if they believe in it though, like they got it.

They got an all band together exactly exactly. But like I was like, well, damn okay, like we all we gotta like really watch out for the K pop fans because they will mess you up. So the Barbs and the bay Hide, they're like, oh, the Ariana Grande, but what are they the Arianaders or something? Oh, the Arianators. Oh and then the Swifties to remember when Kanye West and Kim they had the snakes. Remember the snakes is okay,

I'm telling you, let us not play with them. I I kind of like toyed a little bit with the Barbs by mistake by putting out she had a song coming out with them with Takashi six nine. These people have not left me alone. The song hasn't come out. They keep postponing it. They shot the video. You know, I was privy to some information, so I put it out there in the universe. These people have not left me alone, Carlya. They like honey drummer, check your DM.

Some of them are aggressive, some of them are some of them just want a little bit more information. I had to limit my comments so that only people that follow me can comment, and it's like that. I put out the tweet on Tuesday. The song was supposed to come out on Friday, so it was like, only that supposed to be three days worth of this. They keep postponing the damn song week after week. I'm like, good, do you think you are limiting your comments? You feel

like Drake right now look at you. Try no, but you know what, I left it open so that people that follow me can comment. Drake has it so that it's only people he follows a celebrities. So every time I want to comment, like on a thirst trap or like when he sheared to picture on my steps on, I cann't even say how beautiful his curls were or hard because he's limited and he doesn't follow me. Did you just call Apollo your stepson? Alright? Wait, I know

what is his name of Polo? Addon? Is Adon? Is Apollo? I knew it was some kind of god. I was like, all right, I'm always crying over the fact that I can't comment. So Angie Martinez be like, what do you want me to write you? Oh my god, comic because he follows her Andrews in the circle and can comment, oh man, you comment Z you look good. She'd be dying, Oh my gosh. And then he's really going to think that that's like Angie's She doesn't do it. She doesn't

do it. She just always teases me because she knows that. I. I hate the fact that I can't comment Onrake's post. I kind of forgot about it now, but I'll probably get back to it once I'm in the studio. But I'm gonna tell you one thing, Carolina. This week, because I took a break from social media, did you I was overwhelmed? Yes, is overwhelmed after last week, you know what we I'm gonna let you, you know, tell me more because I do want to hear about you and

like what your reasoning was. But like I feel you, honey. I mean, I was in a bad space with social media. You know. It was like the questioning whether or not people were scrutinizing my comments, whether or not people thought, I, you know, you're being authentic, whether or not you know you You're trying to keep up with everything. And then I just felt like, you know what, I'm done, I'm out. I gotta put this thing down with me. It was more about posting a lot. You know, was very very

vested in UM providing people with resources. What they can do is that they can give back. And I'm super into you know, the George Floyd case. I followed every single memorial, every every arrest, every conviction. And you know, I don't just do my social media, but I do social media for Power one or five point one. And on Friday, we posted twenty five times on Instagram. And at that point, I was like, I am popped, like between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the website. That's That's one

thing a lot of people don't know about me. People think I just talked on the radio on Sundays and a little with me and but I'm like, I'm the digital director for Power one or five point one and sometimes I even like help out with the breakfast club. So on Friday, once I realized we had we had done at least one hundred plus social media posts a straight across all of our platforms, I said, I have to check out. Yeah, you know, as good as I am doing it, as many captions as I can come

up with, as many comments that I can monitor. My brain was fried like, have you remember the cartoons when things would just fall apart, Like a car would just starts smoking and then it would fall apart into pieces. That's where my brain was at. Oh yeah, the wheel falls off on the side. I used to have a car like that. I had Saturn that was like barely

holding on by a threat. That was like every time I think of that car, I think of like the old cartoons where it's like then finally just the engine just like plops down and just like that. That could be your visualization of what was happening to my brain on Friday. After doing so, I took a break like Saturday and Sunday. It's like I still posted here and there, but I wasn't as intense with it, you know. I

kind of like at a break. And that the main reason I went to the beach on Sunday because I felt like I have to look at something different that is not my computer screen, my phone screen or my house. Like my vision had to be redirect. You needed nature. You needed nature four and five days without going outside. Wow, Why,

I don't know. It's like I I just lock myself up and I'm like I have a social responsibility to make sure that you know the right facts are being put out, that the right tweets, that resources, that people know where to vote, that people can watch George Floyd's memorial, Like I put that on my back, Like I feel socially responsible for providing all all this information to our listeners and to our followers. Were both mine and for

the radio station. Yeah, but truthfully, you are responsible for it, and I'm you're not going to brag on yourself, so I'll do it. She you pull in the best numbers, I mean, out of all the stations in the cluster. You know, it's like you guys dominate in the nation. Please for really, just fix this for you really quick, because I'm very proud of Power and our listeners and our followers and our jobs and the content that comes out of New York. You guys are killing it. It's

amazing than we have been killing it. And there was a big shift once we've got quarantined. People started seeking much more information, even streaming when not people are listening on their phone, people are on the website, people around the Facebook. We went from like one million uniques on our website to four million unique. That should but that is crazy. So the responsibility to create content daily and put it out and make sure it was in front

of our listeners has been intense. I love it because that's what I love to do. But you know what, you know what would put you over the edge though you know it would really make you win. I thought you were going to say, push you over the edge. It really make you want to like pack your bags and moved to hear no, no, you know you need that one thing that just will say like, this is the one thing that like, you know, this was it. This was like the pin. This was it that like

made us really just dominate in what is it? I'm gonna give it to you, girl. It's one of my TikTok drafts. I'm gonna send it to you of me doing the Savage remix for Beyonce. You know I've been hold him back. I just I shouldn't. I should give it to the people. I should give it to the I'm not even getting I'm not even gonna lie. I hurt my groin. I pulled my groin doing this dance. I'm not even kidding you. TikTok is dangerous parents, tiktokanuish.

I hope you know this because I tried. No, I was like doing a toy for like twenty minutes and at the end I still couldn't figure it out. It is so bad. It is so bad, but it's hilarious. And even my son goes, Mommy, are you gonna do another one of those videos and then not post it because um, I want to watch He wants to watch his own shows, and I like screen mirror it on the TV. So I make them like go through it.

Those are going to be the stories that they tell their friends when they get older, because they're just like mortified by their mother. But no, I mean, you know what, Like we're just I'm just taking it day by day. We haven't gotten any word back on when we're going to be able to go back into the city. But I gotta be honest with you, I'm not in a rush.

I really am not. Nina Mike Carolina. My sister just closed on like a half a million dollars in abviolutely New York house yesterday, and I'm like, and I'm like, that's where I'm going to be working, overlooking the pond that's in front of the house, like lovely, lovely. No rush to get back onto training and be subjected to you know, overcrowding or I'm no in no rush it. They allow me to continue working from home. This is

the way I'll do it. Yeah, you know what I am looking forward though to the shift in the transition. You know, I think that the wake up call came to a lot of companies and businesses. So what I'm most looking forward to is that equal representation in the boardroom,

on the floor. You know, I'm figuratively speaking meaning like you know, um, there was one fashion company that was accused of hiring minority workers and making them work in the basement, like you know, they would say that they were going to hire them to be out in the front and then they would like put them in the

stock room and stuff. So there's a lot of people getting called out right now, and like and I think the beauty brands they're making yes, they're demanding, yeah, put forward what are their employees, like, what percentage of the black? What precision is just women, minorities, Hispanics And a lot of these companies are feeling miserably like oh no, and they're scrambling right now. They are literally scrambling and saying like does anybody have like, you know, a quarter of

this or whatever so that we can claim it. I'm for real, Like, so you're about to see a real shift in business practices. And you know, I think that the time it's I think it's too it's late, but the time is right. It's never too late to have representation. And it just goes back to like what I've always said, the reason why social media is so popular is because everybody wants to have a voice. Everybody wants their voice

to be heard. And for the longest time, there has been not only a misrepresentation, but an absence of representation and a lot of companies and businesses and so now more than ever, you know, if you're if you're thinking right now about a career change, or if you're like stuck in a job, or if you're thinking, you know, I won't be able to do this because open up the scope of your perspective and you can do it because the time is right. So you know, I want

to leave things like on a high note. Always with us because like we we are the positive people, and I really truly mean that, you know, but we have an upper hand, We have an upper hand. We can demand or seats, we can demand those upper management jobs that were being kept for you know, not us obviously, But these companies are shifting. They're making donations, they're making pledges, they're moving like words like urban from from their departments.

So right now there is a shift, and that always

made me uncomfortable. I've had conversations with people in the in the record industry about that, because I think you're talking about Republic, right, is that republic that decided that they were going to remove urban from the label of some of their artists, and um, if you're listening, and maybe you don't know, but like there are different labels, you know, for different genres and so you know, you have pop top forty, you have a hot ac, you have rock, yeah, exactly, but for but you know, for

the longest time hip hop, I wouldn't say R and B. But maybe I don't know if they were because that's where, that's your that's your area. But like I think that they would just kind of place all of these different artists under urban, and um, I think it was Tyler the creator that was talking about it when he won his Grammy. Was that who it was that he said? Right?

And he just said He's like, you know, you can't just put us all under this one group of people like one, Like, there's so many different areas and there's so many different like strengths that we have, you know. So I think that's like it's a step in the direction. You know. So you're gonna start to see a lot

of things. Things are changing, and change is good, especially when it's changed towards what's right, towards equality and towards you know, allowing us black and brown to grow and and to be allowed to use our our leadership skills and our and our boss skills. You know, a lot of us we have it in us, but we just get a department to run because you know, she's just a young Domini Ghana from Harlem. So yeah, well, nobody ever said that about you, because if not, then they're

going to catch these hands. And I'd be like, excuse me, let me get in here high can I squeeze? And I bring my right in there, and and I've been at some tables that I'm like, wow, am I really the only woman and you are the minority? Okay? Oh my god? You know that makes sure I speak up, yep. I want to make sure that they hear my voice and that I leave an impression absolutely well. Before we go, Carolina, though, I gotta send a bit to our followers and our listeners,

and they told me watch Queen of the South. Oh my god. Wait, somebody just told me about this yesterday. Don't tell me Carolyn is booked. I already watched stop three seasons. What oh man, I'm so behind. Now you're You're legitimately like the fourth person this week to say, I can't believe you have not been watching Queen of the South. But what's the premise, Carolyn? I listened, you remember, Okay, So it's kind of like an americanized version of it

for USA, but it's all Latinos. I'm talking like, you got Mexicans being played by Portuguese, by Brazilians, by Dominicans. It's dope. I love it? Is it? Oh my gosh? Okay, I got homework. It's very inclusive and and you know, the two main characters are women. They're Mexicana and they're strong, and you know the fashion, the clothes. Man, I'm like, okay, this is my new show. But you gotta get when

does it take place? Is it current day or is it like it's current day, so the last so it's like and now the new season just dropped this week, season four, and I just started in last night, you know, honest, so we can talk about you know, about way at all and about both day and about you know, I'm gonna get on it. I will with you. I will start ignoring my kids for you, and I'll watch Queen

of the Night Carl. They go to bed. We start the process at seven thirty, but then it's then no, Then they're like mommy, and I'm like, okay, here's a you' And I'm like, no, dude, come on, you know what you you always want cold milk, now tonight you want to heat it up? Now they want a ga. I mean it's like by the time, now, oh mommy, I want mommy snuggles. So by eight thirty, truthfully, there in bed. But then I gotta wake up super early. People forget I'm still working, you know, so I got to be

probably around ten. The Queen of the South book, how about that. I got it. Listen to it, Okay, I got it. I am going to I know, I'm really going to make It's going to be my project. I will definitely get on it, because we are seriously like the fourth person this week, somebody last night actually said they couldn't believe I haven't been watching it. So I'm my my girlfriend. I'm going to tell her that, yes, I am in. So next time I will, I will.

And thank you for joining us. We appreciate you so much, and we promised we're gonna keep it lighter. We just got to cover all of these things right now, you know, because it's top of mine and that's what's happening. But we're right now, we're talking about the same things that everybody is going through. I'm sure they appreciate, and you know, things will get lighter and brighter later on, but right

now it is absolutely I'm telling you it is. And girl, I love you, I miss you, I want to I'm gonna give you a big hog and I'm gonna let you motor bote me when I see you. Don't think I want I love you. You can follow us at l I Spanglish on Instagram. My personal Instagram is at the Real Carolina and you can find me at I Am Honey German. I have so many different accounts in my brain that I run. I don't even know what. I no, baby, take a break. Take a break. But

we'll catch up next week. Okay, I'll talk to you guys soon, all right,