Be Independent! (Minisode)

I can't nobody break my soul. I just want everybody to know, not one person, not one person, is gonna break my damn soul. But you know, I was like, Beyonce, you're preaching to the quiet because this has been my mantra for a very long time. Of course, right, get with we know that, we know that. So yeah, let's go ahead and talk about Beyonce and break my soul. Okay, So Robin just hit her head on the wall, y'all.

I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's happening. Yes, I was like, um, okay, maybe I'm not a part of the bee Hive because I heard the song, and I was like, man, man, man robbing. Okay, be Hi, this is robbing. This is not just saying this yes, And I was like, okay, I am officially not a part of the beehive. I love Beyonce as an artist,

but I was just not like moved by that song. Okay, but but okay, Robin the whole house music, you're a Baltimore girl, and and that's the that's what makes this even worse. Like house music, club music. I love idium music, dance music, with all that stuff. And for whatever reason, I was like, man, I hate robbing right now, have

come for her, Come for her. So like this morning, I was driving in the car and it was on and I was like, I'm gonna turn this all the way out, talking like really feeling, and I'm like, man, but you know what's gonna happen. I'm gonna like see the visuals for it, and I'm gonna be like, oh yes, because I know she's going to tear the visuals up. She is going to like bring this song to life.

And I already is giving people life, like people instantly, We're like, okay, first of all, any funny how like on Instagram it was like every freaking post you roll pass was like, you can't break my son, No, you can't break. Next, you can't break. Okay, but do we think she's talking about jay Z No, No, she didn't. Talking about nobody. And that's the other thing she talking about news. I'm gonna quit my job and ship. No you're not. If you quit your job, you wouldn't be

making this damn song in the first place. Well, I mean she she I felt like she was talking about management, the people that surround her that tell her what to do. She's just making up silly music that she knows is that the people are going to be like, yeah, I disagree, I disagree. I disagree. Literally is having people in these streets quit their job. She is. No, one's quitting their jobs. They told them to quit their jobs. They're quitting their job.

We're moving on, We're moving on. I can't. I can't looking right now. So okay, like check back with me and like three weeks, three weeks, yes, when the rest of the whole project, like you know, she drops everything exactly Okay, but but I don't know why, Like her vocals didn't sound that great on the song Oh my gosh, I disagree. I think she sounded amazing. I didn't. I don't think so. I was here for it. I think

it's because it's beyonest. She gets a pass and then like why she could have passed and Drake doesn't like, Oh no, Drake sucks. Okay, can we talk about Drake. We're so going roll, but I do I do want to talk about format. I know, I do want to talk about Drake really quickly. Because Drake doesn't have friends. You know, he says, no new friends. He does not

have any friends. Okay, because because he there was an Instagram viggio out there and that I saw, and he was in the club but his friends and he was dancing and it was the dumbest, whackest dance I've ever seen. It was it was a two fourth step, middle step, backstep. I don't know, but all his friends were pumping him up like yeah, Drake, yeah, Drake, you're doing it. You do know you're not doing it? You look goofy. Well what are they going to say? That's there, like meal

t They're gonna say, stopped looking goofy. Yeah yeah, Robin, when I do my goofy dance, you tell me to stop because you're my friend, but I don't tell you stop all the time because you know you're goofy, right, and so like me, telling you to stop is a waste of my breath. And so maybe his maybe Drake's friends know that he knows that he's goofy right, and there's like no point in him in them telling him

to stop, right right. Okay, Well, anyway, we're gonna get back to format right now, which is a reasonably shady moment of the week, okay, because we want to talk about Drake's music. Okay, Yeah, we're gonna get there, all right. Oh, I'm like on fire up again again, so fire Okay. So I finally got my other planter. So I have two planters in front of my house. They're beautiful. Thank you, wayfair.

I thought you got it the last time I did, but I mean, okay, So I have flowers in the planters, okay, and so okay, so one of them, okay, both of the flowers that because I didn't water them, Okay, my fault. So I went back to the American plant store, I bought some more. I put it in. They were looking so beautiful for like two weeks, like amazing and I was watering them every other day. Their purple yes beautiful. That goddamn dear chewed them up last night. Let me

tell you something. My ring kept going off, and I thought it was like a fox or something, because you know, the fox comes by my house like three o'clock in the morning every morning. Yeah, oh yeah, the foxes like all over my rain. So the ring was going on. Someone wasn't really paying attention. And then I look up this morning and that deer has eaten my Let me tell you something, So I take it you didn't put any like what we've hair, So no, I'm supposed to

put hair, human hair, human hair. No, but I'm going today to get the spray, so I'm gonna spray all my flowers down, and and it says it's like a dear repellent. I wanted to be a dear killer because these deer got to stop. I don't care animal people. Come for me if you want to, but I want them. Deer's dead, okay, because my house was to get so beautiful. The deer again, y'all a shady But you're the shady one because you should have learned your lesson from the

last time. So how are you going to be mad at the deer for doing something that you know, the dear de and that you should have been prepared for whatever. Completely forget about that. I did. But see what I was told was they don't come so close to the house. They're scared to come close to the house. So I thought these flowers were safe. They were not safe, and now they are in the deer's belly. This is a disaster. Okay, Jee's what happened to the first time. You know what, Rob,

We're gonna move on. This is a sore subject. Okay. So Rob, what is your reasonably shading moment? Because I know you have one? Okay, So okay, So you know, um, I think I've probably told you this before. But like when Juan Antonio decides to contribute and clean up, he just like throws everything away. Yes, so he just throws everything away, right, so that that's his version of cleaning up. So if he's cleaning up his closet, he just gets

rid of all the clothes. You know, I'm saying, he's cleaning out the garage, throwing out literally did I tell you how he we literally took well, he and the boys took probably like forty basketball's, football's, baseball, tennis, tennis, do tennis balls to the dumpster, just because that was his way of cleaning up. That's not cleaning up one, that's actually lazy a little bit, right exactly. So, um,

so this time he decides to clean the refrigerator. Now, mind you, I had cleaned the refrigerator like the day before, like I got rid of like all the takeout food that was old, all the you know, lettuce and tomatoes and strawberries with mold on. God oh god, yes, because I don't feel like cutting them up and washing them anyway, like I'd already did that the day before. So but for whatever reason, he decides he's going to clean up, so clean the refrigerator. So I walk in um to

the kitchen. I opened the refrigerator and I look at first of all, there's like my my kitchen, I mean, my refrigerator is like empty. But I look at the shelves on the door, like you know, you open the door and on the inside of the door, the bottom shelf has absolutely nothing on it, like nothing, like it's empty, empty like nothing, and so and where the day before

they were like seven bottles of salad dressing. So he literally throws away salad, using that was bothering nobody because it was on the door, right, It's like it's it's not even that it was like a mess, you know, if it was like in the Frigera refrigerator and creating a mess, a whole bunch of junk, you can't fit anything. No, it's literally on the door, not bothering anybody. Throws away seven bottles seven salad jest and ain't hurt nobody, not a soul. And what was his reasoning? He said, Oh,

they were expired. Nobody weren't. No, they weren't. Maybe one of them was like expired like in salad. And I told him that, I'm like, I don't care what the date is on it, like I could still it doesn't smell good. Did you do the taste test? Like it's still just a little put a little pinky and okay, that's still good. That tastes all right, right, Like did you do any of that? No, but the date said November.

That's oh, And I said, okay, maybe like two of them said that, but I know there were at least two that were like brand spanking new, not opened. Yes, Wan Antonio you waste. You waste the money out here in the street, money and effort. It thought, Yeah, I gotta fear, Well, what salad dressing did I have? Which one did I like? Where did I get it from? And everything is expensive in the grocery store these days. Yes, salad dressing. It's not cheat exactly, especially if you buy

the big bottles. Girl, Oh I know, yeah, okay, why are you wrong for that? So? Yes, anyway, okay, we're gonna we're gonna move on. We're gonna move on. So this is fourth of July. Happy fourth of July people, Yes, yeah, okay, So fourth of July used to be very near and dear to me. Do you know why? Um? Nobody or not? That was what was that wrong? Was that sound effect?

That was like me thinking, thinking really hard. Okay, I got married on the fourth of June, So it was my wedding anniversary that I cared about, you know when I was right? Yes, so it was. And when we got married, we actually got married in my Hawaii and so you have like fireworks and we have fireworks. Funny story, Magic Johnson was actually at my wedding by accident. Back then. Yes, it was a huge accident. He had no idea who

I was, but he was there. Um and all of the guys at the resort, we're telling Jamal that you don't get married on the fourth of July because it's Independence Day and you're giving up your independence on the day you're supposed to celebrate independence. Well we see how that worked out, and he has all the independence in the world right now. That's funny, that's hilarious. But I

do like the fourth of July. It made sense for us because our first kiss, right for whatever reason, it was on the fourth of July, and fireworks went off after we kissed. I don't know how this brother playing that, but it happened. I don't know. It was kiss smith? Is that what? Kiss smith? Is that a word? Yes? Sure, okay, it just worked anyway. So but now for the July is just like barbecues and let's get drunk. Turned us, yes,

and I mean definitely. Well for me, like as a kid, it was always just like something to look forward to. It was fun. You go, you know, watch some fireworks or you know, hang on hang out. For me, it was hang out at the Inner Harbor, watch the fireworks, you know, be on somebody's boat that was docked at the harbor have a good old time. I can remember. I have this funny video. So Corey, my oldest son, is like a scaredy cat. So he was like, you know, scared of the dark, scared a lot of noises. So

he was scared of fireworks. So we went one day and took There was fireworks going off at like Caytonsville High School maybe right, which is in Baltimore. So we wrapt my parents house like swimming for the day and then we're like, oh, let's go see the fireworks. Did you hear that? Robin? Robin was raised real bougie at my parents house swimming for the day because you know, her parents got a pull in the back, grew up

with swimming fools. So we were at my parents house swimming and then we went, um, you know, I'm like, oh, you want to see the fireworks and he's like, I'm scared, but okay, So we drive over there. We're just in the car. We're like, okay, we're just gonna drive over there.

Went stay in the car okay, and um, I have the cutest little video because it was like it was like recording the audio as these were sitting along this side of things on rolling road and these fireworks are going off, and Corey is like, go gee, my mom was driving. Okay, so he was like go go, like he wanted her her drive to leave. Yes, yes, oh, poor Cory, Poor Cory. He was like, and we're dying laughing. He's like, he's like, drive the car and go gee. Is he still like that? He? I mean, he's a

little bit better now. Okay, it's like fourteen, but he definitely is like he's like one of them, like you know, scared of the dark stairs and when there's no one down there, like he's he still has his little little phobias. But the video is the cutest thing. I have to Maybe I can send it to Taylor and he can and he can put it in. He can put it in and you can hear his cute little voice. Okay, yeah, I think he should, So Taylor, our producer, drop it, drop it in if you can. Yes, Corey, can you

tell me what is scary about fireworks? God to go? Oh look at that going, Corey. I can't in front of these people. He wanted to come and see him in real life. And now he's tell him, I'll start the car. Oh he's a good Corey. Look you want you wanna watch him? Corey? I can't. What's gonna happen to you? Hory? So that's like my favorite memory of

fourth of July. I just got to kick out of that, right. Okay, we're not gonna keep you all on the day because we know y'all have barbecues to partake in, but we do want to just talk about one quick thing because women across the country got their independence taken from them with this role versus wade overturning, and it is pathetic. It makes absolutely no sense. If you don't want an abortion, then don't get one, right. It's so infuriating. Yes, it's

so infuriating to me. And I think about myself when I was seventeen, eighteen years older, freshman in college, I chose to have an abortion because I was a college student. I first of all, I was scared of my parents, Like that was my number one surprised Mom and Dad. If y'all listening, so want oh lord, oh lord, that you're telling them right now? This is the this is the confession, I guess. So, okay, maybe they I don't know the news. But but anyway, they didn't know it

at the time. But like, I just think about if I did not have that choice, or if I was, you know, a college student and I'm scared, Like think about, okay, if I'm scared of my parents and what they're going to think, what they're gonna say, and I'm getting in trouble, like I could have done something very wrong or you know, like to hurt myself to not have to deal with the reality of, you know, what was happening, and so being able to have the option to do that, um

also you know, worrying about you know, I'm in college. I'm trying to you know, get my degree, like you can absolutely like those that's those are very like just to not have been able to make that decision for myself would have been horrible, and but you were able to. And so imagine all of these ladies moving forward. It's like, look, they're not going to have the options that we did. All of these girls that were chanting and so excited

when it was overturned, y'all gonna need some abortions. I'm here to tell y'all, y'all gonna need some abortions, Okay, And you won't have that right, right because you wanted to be cheering and all excited because they overturned it. So I mean, and I hope that this can go the other way eventually in the future, but um, we we're gonna pray on that. I just think it's just so wrong. I wants for people that, yes, it's just bad. It's like, leave my body alone. Let me do with

what I want with my body. Now. I don't have no more eggs left, and so this is not an option for me. But I'm just saying yes anyway, That is our episode for today. We love y'all so much. Enjoy the Fourth of July, like, go see the fireworks, love your family, like, spend time with your family, Let them know that you appreciate the Enjoy the summer y'all because you know, we spent a couple of years with this COVID mess, right, not sure what the hell is

going on? Since a good time? Yes, and if you you know, whatever you do, just live your life either reasonable or shady. Yeah. Reasonably shady is a production of the Black Affect podcast Network. For more podcasts from Our Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts. But wherever you listen to your favorite shows, and you can connect with us on social media at Robin Dixon ten Gazelle, briant and reasonably shady