Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartRadio.
Welcome to another episode of Reasonably shake Y. I am Jaseelle Bryant. What's up? What's up? I'm Robin Dixon. Thank you so much for being here. Robbie d in the house. In the house boo, oh my god. Okay, I'm going crazy.
Okay, fine, by the way, yeah, do you remember the few episodes ago when we were talking about w W E and I was like, oh, I want to be a w And I asked you what my name is.
I'm like, I don't know, you got a name. I think I have a name. Okay. Raging Robin are women? Do you do it with the growl? Are you like Raging Robbin? Yes?
Okay, exactly, Raging Robin, cause you know, like like you have like Rock and Robin, like you know, the.
Little raging Raging Robin. It's coming to what is it? What is it? What is it? Is it a gate? No, it's a ring ring? Raging Robin to the ring. Yes, you have to have like a hand gesture. I'm gonna drop kick your ass. Boom, Yes, Raging Robin. Listen, Roben is going to the w but you you know the girl because she was on Traders with the girl's Nikki. You better call Nikki get your w w d Oh okay, I want to make spirits. Yes, raging Robin, raging Robin to the ring like that sounds good? Oh? I freaking
love it. Yes, yes, to the Ring. Okay, I like it. So people get into it. We need to see some raging Robin. And by the way, while we're talking about tradeurs, oh yes, the people. I'm right, people gotta let us know if they're loving it, which I know they are. This is exciting, so excit, this is so exciting. Okay, so we need to know everybody's position on that. And congratulations to the Real Housewives Potomac because we were nominated or inn double ACP Immage Award. Congratulations. That is now
just Elle's second nominade, it is. I am a double nominated in double ACP person. Yes you are, so we better freaking win this because I can't be like you know how you get a million nominations and nobody like you're always a bride, like a double loser, double loser. I can't be a double loser. So I need by the way, speaking of Double Loser. I the Golden Globes. Did you see Demi Moore's speech. No, she was talking about she's been in the business for thirty years. Okay,
it was her first award. Oh wow ever received? Wow? And so I don't want to be doing what does she get an award for? I don't want to be anymore? Yeah, don't make me more. Listen.
If you are in the running reality and podcasting business, yeah, in twenty years from now, yeah then wow.
I mean, hey, like you're doing something bad. I'm doing something big.
Because of twenty years, you're going to be seventy plus Robin Why I'm telling agent, Well, okay, I think it's a secret.
It's not a secret. Yeah, yes, I would be whatever age looking good?
So if so, if if in thirty and twenty years, yeah, thirty years into your career as a reality and podcaster, that you're winning an award at seventy.
Plus, yeah, Wow, that's actually wow, pretty good. That's pretty good. And that's what that's what Demi said. Demi was like, I finally feel like I'm supposed to be here. Wow. And she's like sixty something looking good. Yeah, she looks amazing. Yeah, she looks freaking amazing. She looks amazing. You know she won for I didn't even know she well, she's on. It's so funny because I thought the same thing. I'm like,
what did you win this for? But I do. There's a show that i'm watching Landman, have you started watching that? It's on Paramount. It's with Billy, Bob Thornton and Ham and she's John Ham's wife. And it can't be that because it's such as it just came out. Okay, it can't be that. Okay, So we got to figure out
what she wants. We'll figure that out quick. Her look at it now because we don't have our d While she's looking at out that, I do want to say, guys, get your tickets because twenty one Shady Questions is coming to your city. Yes, Anaheim, Houston, all the cities. Just get your tickets. Go to my Instagram, figure it out, get your ticket. Yes. Awesome. So exciting, Yeah, so exciting. You're like a rock star. I'm not. I'm not. I'm just just out. Okay.
So she's sixty two, Yeah, and she won the Globe for her starring role in the substance.
Oh I don't I don't even know what that is.
So that is The category was Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Musical or Comedy.
Okay, oh yeah, is this a movie or oh it's a film? Okay, hey, you have to watch it. Yes.
Do you like when those award shows come out? Do you like see all the winners and they say, oh, let me go watch these? Sometimes get your inspiration? I mean sometimes, not really sometimes, but I do. Like it's so funny because I was traveling the night of the Globes and so I totally missed it.
The Globes existed.
Yeah, cal calls me and he's like, did you see Cal calls me because he was like, for years I've been telling him that Zendia it's like the ship, yes, right, yes, And he's like, I don't know what he's talking about.
This is a Disney girl. I don't know what you're talking about. Zendia. What is her names? And who? So he called me okay and he was like, just now that girl that you've been talking about, it's the ship yes, And I was like, yeah, twenty years later, cal r Yeah, So it's amazing. She looked.
She always looks amazing, drop dead, super amazing she just has like, you know, that slim kind of models model slash ballerina. Yeah, built, So she's totally super elegant. Yeah, but like super just like up to date, you know what I mean.
I don't know, She's just she's she's leading the past and she is a virgo. And that is how I looked at here. Yes, so explains everything. Looky looky. Speaking of looky looky, all right, so we need our shady moment. Oh yes, yes, okay, So shady moment of the week for me, it's actually a little while ago. Okay, but I was talking to my kids and they talked about it, and they reminded me of how crazy this was. Okay. So I was on VAK, my little VK that I took, and I was at a very you know, I was.
I went to St. Bar St Bart's. Is like, there's a lot of people there with a whole lot of money, and sometimes that that gives that allows people to have just bad behavior, okay, and they think that they are entitled for their bad behavior. Okay, Okay. So one of the beach clubs that's our favorite is this place called
Lagger Reek. So we went to Locker Read and we got our table and it's rocking, the d playing, We're having a good time, and all around me is like, you know, krim to the clerk okay, women walking in there with Gucci down to the socks Ermez had to tow Prada. I mean, just stuff I've never ever seen before, all the things, and the man very well dressed. Okay. So next to our table is a group of people and they look like okay, I don't even want to say what they look like doesn't even matter. So right
when you walk into Luggery, there's like foliage. There's like grass and stuff, and in the grass it's just like this big turtle that everyone loves. It's like so cute. And Grace loves turtles. Grace thinks she is a turtle. Okay, so it's like so cute. We took pictures.
It's like it's like the turtle turtle, I'm a turtle. It's like the turtle of the restaurant.
Yeah. So we're sitting there, we're eating, reminding our business, and out of nowhere I see one of the gentlemen from the table next to us holding the turtle and carrying the turtle, and he pops it in the middle of his table. Yes, and they're now they're not speaking English, so they're talking another language. But we're my table, me and my children. We're horrified. We're like, first of all,
this is not a show animal. This is like the turtle's mining its business and they start feeding it bread. What Grace, my little chest sweet child. The goals crazy and she jumps up and she's like she's losing it. Okay, she's sly loosing it, and she's like her face is scrunched up. She is she's about to cry, like she's so upset because they're like traumatizing the turtle. So the people at the next table, I mean they kind of
look like the like the Persian mafia, okay. And so I was like, I don't want to get killed by They can hear her, but they're not hanging an attention her because they're the Persian mafia and they don't care. Okay.
So the turtle now I am like, I'm like, shook it right, because I'm like trying to calm Grace down.
I don't want to get killed by the Persian mafia. But I'm looking at the at the staff there, like yo, y'all gotta do something case this is escalating, okay. So I could tell the staff was like, holy shit, what do we do because again it's the Persian mafia. And does does Persia have the mafia?
I don't know, but if they do, this is the mafia.
It was okay. So I could see the staff like trying to figure it out and they and I could see them like signaling to the manager. Manager comes over, snatches the turtle and takes the turtle back to safety. But I was done. I was done with them. I was so angry. So then, and mind you, at the table, it's table of like maybe eight at the table at the time, it was like five dudes. Then the girls come, the ladies come, and they sit down. They're none the wiser,
they don't know about the turtle turtles. So they're sitting down there eating and the life is great. They look beautiful. They look actually, they looked beyond beautiful. So I'm in the bathroom and I see one of the ladies and I was two seconds from telling her that every man.
At that table, at the Persian mafia table sucks right and they need to go to jail.
They were feeding the turtle turtle jail, but I did not. I refrained myself. The entitlement is wild. What was even crazier is that the because we're also dealing with like a language barrier, Like you know, our waiter comes over to us. As a matter of fact, we had to move tables. So everybody at the restaurant is totally accommodating us because we did a favor for another large group.
We moved our table. So they coming up, they bringing us free drinks, all the things. So they come over to us and they're like, stupid people, stupid people.
So they're very angry. They're like, this ain't normal behavior, and they took it. So then later in the day, I went down to the beach. I know this, this is a long story. I went down to the beach and I had like my tables, I mean my chairs down there and behind I mean not behind, yes, behind like where you go to pay. Yeah, it was the turtle. The turtle had to be sequestered to a place where like nobody could get to it. Why do we have to do this, Why do we have to protect the turtle?
The turtle should be free.
Well okay, that yeah, that is entitlement, or is it is it just like they don't know.
It's ignorant. The title. Man, they thought it was you're feeding that turtle bread.
I'm like, the turtles have diarrhea and putting the turtle on the table, on the table where people eat, where people eat.
That I was done. They wouldn't have done it. And if the ladies were there, I'm sure.
Yeah, because the ladies would have been like, cut it out, cut it out, get that table, turtle off the table.
But like, who does this? That's crazy? So yeah, I was that the Persian mafia is shady. Yeah in Persian mafia. Don't come after me. You know that was shady. Don't ever do that again. Leave the turtles alone. That's crazy. Yeah. W I'm done the audacity, the audacity.
Okay, So my mine is not that long. It's very simple. My child I was, Carter was okay. So Carter and I were like going back and forth over something and I'm being silly, like I'm just not being serious. I'm saying all this goofy stuff out of my mouth and he says to me, you're pushing forty six, Like why you shouldn't be acting like that, You're pushing forty six Carter, I said, Carter, I said, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me?
Is he an agist?
It sounds like Carter I was like, I said, okay, we'll find you want me to act like an old lady.
I will like He's like, no, no, no, no, no like because of course they have fun with him. But it's like forty six is not old.
I know he's trying to tell me to act Carter, act my age because I'm pushing.
It's Carter in this house right now. Let me talk to you.
Sleeping, Okay, fine, sleeping and it's three o'clock. Not a problem anyway, Carter. My children they will always remind you, will always bring you back to earth.
Oh they will, they will. But anyway, Carter, stop it. I do have one thing to say about before we get into into some stuff. Okay, So I was intrigued, Yeah, Robin Dixon, because China, complete China, China. But let me tell you some about China. They be doing it, they be doing it better and faster than everybody else. What is that? But they still spread viruses. There's a virus on the loose in China. But we didn't go talk about that. Okay, So China completes the world's largest underwater tunnel.
It's an underwater tunnel? What an underwater tunnel? Like, let's go through? Yeah, underwater on? Okay, they finished that joker in one hundred and ten days. What and how big is it? Miles? Is it big? Listen? Okay, hold on, It's gonna take me a minute to get to how big, how big it is? First of all, it's very impressive. That's kind of scary to me.
Why is it scary the biggest? So it's a super long tunnel and they finished it in one hundred days. In ten days, It's like it's like a house is going to like blow over, Like do you feel safe? That would scare me driving through a tunnel that I know was only was built in only one hundred days.
It's twenty two kilometers, which is fourteen miles, and it will reduce the travel time through the mountain range. I don't know. So maybe it's not underwater. Oh yeah, they said it's underwater. Listen, I'm not riding on that.
Why not one hundred days, fourteen miles under the water.
So like they they use to like put it all together, it's not going to work. No, but had I not told you, you wouldn't even known. Fortune. But fourteen miles is a long time to be under underwater. That too, I'm not not either, yeah, okay, So the one that we do from in Baltimore is what a mile? If that? If that, if that, and that shit is scary.
Exactly, Okay, So fine, I'm not being in underwater in a tunnel over fourteen miles and it was built in one hundred days.
No, thank you, no, thank you, You're right, no, thank you.
What about a bridge? Would you go over a fourteen mile bridge that was built in one hundred days?
No?
No, okay that bridge in Baltimore that fell? Yeah, how long it's gonna take them to even begin to build that thing?
What is how long? I don't know? Okay, the thing Lobby twenty thirty five, okay, fine, hell no. All I know is that their technology, what they got going on over there.
Is no it's crazy, top tier, right, top tier. It about to be for that top tier, I'll take it.
I won't see what they do. I need to know. I told you how back in the day I went to Hong Kong, maybe thirty years ago, not that long. May twenty five, years ago, and our cell phones were just not coming out I think at the time. Anyway, their subway system. Yeah, you know, if we went through subway system or our phones phone, the calls dropped. It was all on the phone talking with through the subway systems. They figured it out back then with use of those
old phones. Yes, but nobody's call dropped, no one. I was shocked. Oh wow. So anyway, here we are. What are we talking about? Nothing? I don't know. We've got some things that people have. Some letters, yes, yeah, some dating letters.
Okay, okay, sure, okay, okay. So we got an email, gave me an idea. Yes, so we gotta eat an email from Christopher Cantrell.
Hi, Christopher High. Christopher.
He says, it's called the subject is single life, Single life in twenty twenty five. I need a wife by December thirty first, twenty twenty five, single since twenty eighteen?
Can you help me?
The Green Eye bandits asap? Okay, Christopher, I'm bored with my pastor's choices to find me. Someone, please help me out. But hold on, He's bored with who.
My pastor's choices to find his pastor is trying to find a wife for him. Yes, and that hasn't been working. I guess shocker. Yes, okay, Yes.
Team Cantrell, Green Eye bandits help.
Okay, okay. So when I read that, I was like, you know, it would be.
Fun, yeah, to do a reasonably shady matchmaking experience. I'm here for it. I'm here for it. Okay, because I'm cupid, I roll back your pupet.
Okay.
Yes, So Christopher, we want to help you, Yes, we do. We want to help other people too, yep. But we need a little more information, okay, clearly, so if you want to be because we have to vouch for you as reasonably exactly, So if we're vouching for you, we need a lot of information. Yes, okay, yes, So if you want to be, you know, fine, love on reasonably shady. And the good thing is, like imagine, like you find love on reasonably shady, you already have something in common.
You listen to reasonably shade. Yes, just that, and Robin, right, that's what you have in common. Right, that's that's right. That's like check the box. You're checking the box.
Yes, so we want to start a reasonably shady matchmaking service free of.
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So everyone who's listening. If you are interested in finding love on reasonably shady.
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Send us an email and in your email, tell us all of your information, your demographics, where you.
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Oh yeah, no right bo and the zo Yes, so we are doing we are we are doing the background checks. Yes, we are going to be talking to you. We are going to be interviewing you. Yes, we are doing all the things.
And we are going to be matching you. We're going to make a match and like you know that obviously I would assume that I'm just assuming that Chris is straight. But also if this if you're looking, if you're a gay man, you're looking for your your future husband, let us know, just let us know your preferences and ladies, same with you. Yep, we are here to hook up lesbian love.
Us anyone, Yes, send us in tell us your preference, Like I said, your demographics, your pictures, where you live, what you do you know, if there's any background information, you're history all of.
It, all of it. We are here for you.
We want to match make and like I said, it's going to be a match made of heaven because you already listened to Reasonably Shady.
Yes, so your win win chuck chang. Okay, this is good. And then we wait a minute. The first wedding from this, we're gonna come me and we're not just gonna come, we're going to officiate. Yes. Oh wow, that means we gotta take the test online. We gotta do something. Okay, we're gonna officiate for sure, for free. We can do that, and we will do it for free. Yes, yes, everybody else you gotta pay us, but.
The first one charge officiate.
Oh my gosh, yes, I love that.
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Well, speaking of before we go to other ones.
So speaking on so since so guys send it to our email email. Oh yes, our email, which is what's up at reasonably shady dot com dot com. So speaking of dating, we did receive a letter, another letter from Patricia Drummond and the subject is dating over fifty. She says, happy holidays, ladies. I genuinely love your podcasts. You two are a dynamic duo and so hilarious with or without the shade. Now, I just had to ask if either of you have heard about the Netflix short series The Later Daters.
I have.
It has my forever first lady, Mashalle Obama listed as one of the producers. It's a look into older dating with a dating coach as an advisor to six singles. Now, I know you both are too young for that, and Robin, you're Mary. But the thing is is this one guy named George, who unfortunately proves age does not necessarily mean maturity and if you're a whole hot mess when you're young and can carry over you as you get older.
So in the second episode, he had a date with this beautiful classy queen, a niece and child.
It was horrible. I gotta watch it.
He was such a turn off and can I say ghetto to the point she was better than me. I'd left him in the restaurant. Actually she left him too because I watched it, but she toughed it out. You know, it was bad. It's all over TikTok. But anyway, first of all, Tricia, this is a run on sentence, it's bad. It's all over TikTok. But anyway, the series is a good watch because maybe y'all will take a peek at the show, or at least that episode and speak on it.
Hopefully they'll have a reunion to type those loose ends, because there seemed to be a few matches. Tricia, Okay, so I watched it. I don't watch all the episodes. I'm still working through it, and so just to talk about the show itself, So, yes, it's like dating over fifty.
It's very interesting. My takeaway is that.
As you get older in age and more like settle in your life, it is harder to find love because you're so settled in your life and so like it's really hard to.
Bend for like other people.
The compromises is different, Like they're so stubborn like like everyone. Some of them were very free spirited, but a lot of them, like it's like they're stubborn and they're stuck. And so I just fet like found that very interesting.
And I think it's worse for men.
Yeah, this guy on there, his name is Nate, I mean, he's such like a neat freak and like he just had all these things that like, you know, you have to.
He was just so rigid and like he just couldn't. He just he liked being by himself. I know.
So I want to see I want to finish it and see what eventually happened with him. But it was very interesting. Like it's you're very much stuck in your ways the later you get in life, and I think it makes it really that much harder to to find love.
Well I think that, yeah, like you get comfortable with whatever it is your life is, and you're not as willing to make changes. Yeah. Yeah, Like I want my husband to live in his house, right, I live in mind, right, I get it right, right? Yeah, I see him when I ask for sexual favors. Right, come on over, I need you right, Yeah?
And I but I guess that should be a part of like the dating process of like establishing like okay, well what it is that making sure you're aligned with what you want. So if you're you've been single, you live on your own, you're like, listen, I'm not trying to move in with you.
So if that's something that you're looking for, then like you're in the wrong place. Yeah, But I mean I always feel like you can't start out. I think you just need to go down the road a little bit, Like, you know, you can't just say this is what I'm not going to do, because you know, things change after you might spend time with the person, you might wrisk Hey, I might want to move in with you for a week and then go home, you know what I mean?
Like that, people I think should bend as they move forward, But you don't know if you want to bend with that person, right, that's true.
But I mean, like, and I saw on the so like it would just be like one little thing and they'd be like, yeah, she's not for me. But but I do think like once you get to a certain age, like you can identify.
Like it's easier to determine right that this ain't gonna work.
Right, So it was like interesting, it was so the lady Anice, she also went on a date with a white man.
Yeah, and.
He's from England and this was the first white man she ever dated. And so when she sat down with him, she was like, Okay, well you know, this is my first time dating a white man, Like how do you feel dating.
A black woman? And he was like, well, actually I only date black women.
And so she was like oh okay, so she was like all excited and blah blah blah. So then you know, they do their little takeaway, their little interviews and stuff, and he was like, yeah had the fact that he was, like you had the fact that she was like new to dating white men. He's like, yeah, nah, I don't need that, Like yeah, no, way, yeah wow right. So it's just like the littlest thing because you watch you're like,
oh okay, I could see like some energy there. Yeah, like she was liking him, he was, and then he was like yeah, no, Like it was almost like she wasn't because she hadn't experienced that, or she.
Was he didn't want to be the first.
Yeah.
It's so funny because I did a little dating show and there were a lot of white guys and I would ask them that, like, have you ever dated a black woman? Yeah? Because I mean, I don't care how you slice it. Black women and white women are different. Different, you do different shit. I wrap up my hair. They don't like, it's just different. And some of them were like no, some of them are like yes, So but the guys that were like no, it made me pause.
It made me feel like do I want to be the first one to teach you about black culture.
Yeah exactly, so yeah, yeah, and he had his reason.
He loves black women. He was just like, you know, they are just their energy, and he was, yes, you recommend later, daters, I do.
I feel like it's it's like I've watched I haven't finished it, so I'm not like like hooked on it, but if I'm like, oh, you know, let me catch up and see, like I like it. It was cute and it was very insightful, and it's just it was it's just interesting to see, like I said, people who were like stuck in their ways just trying to like get out of their ways. And there's this there is this
white woman on there. She's like super spunky, energetic, like she lived her life married or dating like a rock star. So she was like, uh, you know the white I want to say a groupie, but you know what I'm saying, like yes, yes, like she lived that life. So she just has a totally totally different like spirit to her and she was really cute watching her.
Okay, yeah, so I want to continue and see, like and see what happened if there watching anything else these days. So I have started like two shows at the same time. Well, now three, So why are you doing it? I don't know. That's why I'm like, why did I do this? Right? Okay?
So I'm, you know, watching Later Daters and then The Recruit. I'm watching what's that that's on Netflix? They're actually I don't know. So it's a guy, he's a CIA. He's a lawyer for the CIA. He's like a rookie lawyer for the CIA, and then he gets like thrust into like this.
Okay, I'm right this down, Billycruit.
Okay, So I'm on that because there's like a season two coming out soon. Okay, So I'm watching that at the same time, I'm watching The Tourist.
What's that? It's this Netflix? Was that Netflix? That's Netflix too? Okay? The Recruit and The Tourist? Yes, okay, so the Tourist Okay, So.
The Tourist is like set in Australia.
This guy.
Pretty much wakes up in the hospital after being in a car accident and he doesn't know who he is. He doesn't know anything, but he's like slowly realizing that like people are after him. Okay, So he's trying to figure out like, why are people after me? Okay, and he in a sense it's kind of like a criminal.
Oh Okay, I like that.
Yeah, so there both and it's like hard. I'm like, okay, I actually like both of these shows, and like I've started both of them.
I'm like, I don't know.
How to like go back and forth between these two shows that I've been watching.
I'm gonna check them out. Yeah, what there was something that we oh, mad Man, the mad Man, the Madness, Madness. Yeah you didn't. You didn't get it. I turned it around.
I was like, eh, no, but did you see the Alex Cross? Yes, so I watched Cross. Okay, I didn't love it. Okay, I liked it. I didn't love it. I just felt like a lot of it was like there were things that were like far fetched, like you know, I don't know, it was just some things that happened.
And then like how they got to d C from DC to Baltimore in seven minutes. Yeah, like all of that type of stuff. Right.
Yes, it was some like super unrealistic stuff where I was like, you know, and if you could like really pick it apart and just come up with like so many things that I was like Okay, y'all could have done better, okay with.
But he has the season two, oh does, and I'm happy.
Yeah you should if yeah, you know, if they had all those people watching and into totally totally okay, all.
Right, you doing good? Yes? And by the way, y'all can continue to rate us, review us or whatever.
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The things, all the things. And you know we do have a YouTube, yes, and we have a patreo, so get into it if you wanted to do all things reasonably shape. Okay, and let's give a little shout out to Black Effects. Speaking of Black Effect, lod have mercy, so let's give little shoutut to Black Effect. You're still on the Black the Black Effect podcast network. Yes, Charlemagne and Dolly, we love y'all. So earn your leisure? Are they still on Black Effect? I don't know. Okay, it
doesn't even matter to earn your leisure. Boys popped up in my men, I should say, popped up in my feed. Okay, and you know, earn your leisure. The two guys, and they talk nothing but like finances and financial planning and financial literacy, and they're probably CoA trillionaires and the whole nine. Okay, one of them is like a Wan dupe. He very much looks like wand to me, I don't agree, but okay, I mean with well, he had on a hat when I saw this, so he it was similar complexion in
face shape you're talking about. With the beer, I think he was giving one to me. Anyway, I was Wan by the way, he's great, Okay, good Happy New Year. The other one was talking. Yeah, what's his name? I don't know anyway, it doesn't even matter. Crap when I tell you, when he was talking, I legit was like, I am not smart. I'm a big dumb bunny. I don't. I didn't. I couldn't keep up with what he was saying. And surgeons and stocks and nickel bound and black. I mean,
he was like running shit down that. I straight up was like, but that's I don't. That's why you have a financial person to do all that for you, freakingly right. But like I but I learned a lot from them. But you got to know the lingo. Felt like I didn't know the lingo. I listened to it like three times. I was like, dude, I don't know what you're saying, and I felt really dumb. So, just by the way,
earn your legion. Actually, you need to learn before you start listening to earn your legion because you ain't gonna know what the hell they talking about, right, But they're great, by the way, they're great from them.
And that's like I'll I just have like a stock account that I just like play around with you. I'll like make purchases or picks based on stuff that they say.
Oh, okay, you did, I've done that with you. By the way, like you mentioned something the video, Yeah, yes, yeah, how's it doing. It's still it's still booming, it's still on the rise. Yes, so listen because my kids are perfect and they're wonderful. Door hits me the other day she was like, well, you know, my I bought some stock.
I said, whoa what helloa excuse you, rich girl, what happened here?
So she was like, you know, I just opened up like a little Charles Schwap account. Good, I bought some stock. I said, well, god damn, yeah, I love it. At you, my daughter, I love it. So yeah, I love that. So the kids, she's study finance in school. She listened her these little boys not long saying little boys. But guys in her class, are they do they've been doing it for sport, right, No, not for sport. Maybe it's
part of their curriculum. So they start talking to her about it, and so she was like, well, y'all, like, gon'na be the only ones I hear with stock, because it was like it was a little bit of a college student flex to say, you have.
Stock, Listen, I love it. That is way better, yeah than going on FanDuel and betting on all of these sports games and losing your money every time.
Really, yes, okay, oh that is a thing. These so Juan and his cousins and.
His homies, they all do all these parlays on FanDuel.
Okay, what's a play parlay? So it's like you can pick.
It's like there's like multiple legs of a sports bet. So you're not just betting like straight up like okay, I'm betting that the Ravens beat the Steelers by twenty Like it's not just that. So it's like, okay, you gotta bet that Lamar Lamar Jackson is gonna get He's gonna throw three touchdowns and you know so and so is going to get.
So it's like detailed, yes, okay, and it's.
Like by player and by what they're going to do. So like so it'll be like a fourteen leg parlay, right, and so if you spend say one hundred dollars on this fourteen leg parlay, every person has to achieve what this parlay says, you're gonna win like seventy five thousand dollars.
Oh wow, do I need to get involved? No?
Okay, No, the likelihood that you hit, like the chance that people hit parlays are very low. Oh okay, so do not getting But this is why the casinos are making bookou money, right because people see that and they're like, oh yeah, let me put all this money and blah blah blah.
Yeah, because you have you.
Need like fourteen things to go, right, okay, And there's been so many times that like you don't.
Get money for like ten things going No, all fourteen okay. So so Wanald say, it's like basketball. He's like, so it's all these parlays, all these different games going on. You're watching the game, and it's like you can't. They can't watch the games and enjoy them anymore because they're just watching the games for them to see Anthony Davis
gets ten rebounds or if Lebron gets thirty points. And so there's been so many times that he'll have a parlay and like nine out of ten will have met the whatever the requirement, and that tenth one will miss it by like one rebound or twom or and then and then so then.
He's like going crazy, going nuts, going nuts, and then he's all mad and play. But this is hal through an emotional roller coaster. It's same with you explaining all that to me. You don't want My immediate thought is what the fix is on. Ain't no question about it. The fix is one.
Because if it's like Lebron has to get seven rebounds and he tells his friends, bet on seven rebounds, I'm not saying Lebron is cheating system. And he tells his friends, bet on seven rebounds, you can cool best believe he ain't getting that eighth.
Right, or his friends will be like, yo, I just bet that you're going to get seven rebounds. Then he's like, okay, let me get these seven rebounds. You know what I'm saying, But you ain't gonna get the eighth.
But but people could that's a crime. Oh I know that.
Yeah, yeah, that's a crime. So I don't know how that's why I say, oh yeah talking about.
Yeah, I'm not so parlaying.
Oh my god, it's our fandueling insane, Yes, none of it.
Fan duel. What's the other one? I don't know. The other one?
You can bet online, but it's really bad and it has a lot of people in a choke hold.
Yes, and so I'm like, just turn it off. I could see guys getting in choke hold with this, crazy because guys are just competitive by nature, yes, and so this is like it's just like sparking all of your all of your competitive juice. Yes, yeah, but.
You're like you're at the mercy of like what's happening? And then I mean I've seen it so many times. It's like it was like there were some games that he bet on and every game hit and then one game like the team was supposed to it was a team that they were supposed to like blow this other team out, Like there was no way it should have been a close game, Like, so he had this team winning by twenty and of course the team like won by like seventeen, and.
He's just like so while I was in an uproar. Yes, it's just it's it's stressful.
And I tell him just turn the TV off, like I can't even sit and watch sports with you because or don't bet and that too, please.
Stop, don't bet? Okay, please stop? So I won't be doing that And what does that do with on your leisure? Oh that was I.
Said, it's good to know that the college students are playing with the stock market, right instead of playing with FanDuel.
Totally totally. So a door was was looking at her stocks and she was like, oh my gosh, mammy, I'm losing my twenty dollars or I'm down, like you know. She was like yeah every day. It was like something. I was like, you gotta just like walk away. You can't look at it every day, right, gotta walk away or you got to write it out? So right is it?
And that's the other thing with the stocks, like are you doing like are you holding it for a short period of time?
You're holding it for a long period of time? Like which one? Are you doing? What she's doing? I'm sad she's in yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Okay, So we started by saying Sylvia wrote us a letter, and the letter says, did you go to earn your leisure? What? I was like, by the way, because he was making me feel dumb, So thank you earned your leisure. Yeah, they're making me feel dumb, but I'll be up on my shit. Yes, I'm gonna have my financial linko down.
You can learn a lot from them, yes, okay, So can we read this one? Yeah? All right, this is from Sylvia. Yeah, hi, ladies. First, I want to express how much I loved the podcast. Yeah yeah, yeah, I never missed an episode. I never usually send emails to share my opinions, but this time I felt compelled to reach out. Michael Jackson is an icon, and his influence on music, performance and the entire entertainment industry is undeniables.
So she's writing in response to us talking about Beyonce being the greatest performer ever. Yes, And we were like, okay, is there even a close second?
Yes?
Is there even a comparison? Is like, you know, do we do the debate between Michael Jackson and Beyonce?
Yes? And so clearly Sylvia feels differently. Okay, So she says he truly revolutionized live performances, setting the standard for stage shows since the nineteen a DS, his Bad Tour, the Dangerous Era, and of course his History Tour was all ground breaking. He inspired countless artists, including Beyonce, who has openly acknowledged his impact on her career no doubt, yep. Now, Beyonce, she's an incredible performer and undoubtedly the best of this generation,
which is in all caps. Her Christmas Show amazing, and any of her live performances showcase her dedication and men's talent clearly. However, comparing her to MJ in a way that diminishes his legacy can be frustrating for those who see him as the undisputed king of pop. The goat Okay, I'm disputing right that he's the undisputed king of pop. Okay, It's important to respect the different eras and contributions on
both artists. MJ laid the groundwork for what Beyonce and others are achieving today, and she is definitely carving out her own legendary path. Both have had a significant impact during their respective times. MJ's influences always will always be felt and we should never take that away from him. I agree, you also have to give credit to social media Now this is where you're losing me, Sylvia. That
plays a big role in today's artist success. Before we would just have their albums, hopefully see their perform on an award show, or if you are lucky, attend one of those concerts.
Okay, I totally disagree with everything you just said. So, yes, we think I vote for Beyonce. However, this is like very similar to the who's better, who's the goat?
MJ Michael Jordan, Yeah, i'd I'm thinking Michael Jordan's right, yeah, or Lebron and and blaming it on the the era, the decade of it all. Yes, okay, yes, so I understand what she's saying.
I can only reflect on like my my personal feeling towards both of those artists.
And no, let's get back to MJ and Lebron. Michael Jordan and Lebron. What do you think I believe? Oh god, yes, oh god, Okay, when you look at oh, first of all, it's a different game.
It's I mean, there's so many different things.
Joy's time frame, it's a different game than current Yes, okay, so it's the same game, but go ahead.
So many different things, different era, different style of play, different players, different surrounding cast, different blah blah blah blah blah. But as time goes on and Lebron breaks, you know, the records, he continues to play. He's forty years old and he's still you know, like looking like.
A thirty year old or whatever.
I kind of have to give it to Lebron, which I can't believe I'm saying that.
I can't believe I'm saying that.
But I think when you just put everything, you look at everything, Michael Jordan at forty and Lebron at forty are like, it's no contest, no contest at all. Okay, that's but Michael Michael Jordan played basketball at forty while was his teammate on the Washington Hazards.
Yes, it is no content. Totally I agree with that. I totally agree with that. But le do we think that Lebron today is at his prime? I mean, not his prime, but he's still very good. He's still very good. So let's just just deal with them in both of their primes.
That's but no, we're talking about we're not talking about their prime. We're talking about the greatest of all time. I think you're talking about the greatest effor Okay, I'm just.
Gonna say it's it's Michael. You know, I'm going I'm going to.
When I when I line the facts up, I'm like, I gotta give it to Lebron.
I gotta get like Lebron has the game is different and he's got a team. Michael Jordan put that shit on his back and rocked with it. He right, he did in he did right.
And I mean it's like that, there's so many we can we can, yes, debate this for VERI but but the m J Michael Jackson and Beyonce.
Is very similar. Now it's not I think by no means I think it's a similar debate to the Michael Jordan and Lebron debate. Okay, kind of, but not really.
I think think about it like you have different factors. Like Beyonce very much was inspired by Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson. Had Michael Jackson not been who he was and not been as innovative as he was, then the artist apt for him.
You know they are learning from him. Okay, but okay, but okay, but I also.
Look at Michael Jackson like I didn't. I wasn't excited about Michael Jackson. Nothing he did excite in me. I don't think even like remember the time video, the Thriller video, like nothing.
Was like I don't know, like I just Jackson ever said Michael Jackson was her inspiration? Has she ever said that? I'm sure she is. Okay, if she said she's being nice, guess what he wasn't. I look at Tina Turner, I look at Diana Ross. I wasn't a combination of them. Don't give it to Michael Michael Jackson really that like he was.
Michael Jackson doesn't hold a candle to Beyonce in your opinion.
And everyone Michael Jackson. People were freaking passing out for Michael Jackson.
No one passed out for Tina Turner. They didn't pass out for Diana Ross. People were passing out for Michael Jackson because he had something.
That they enjoyed that they like. Okay, Okay, I just want to say one thing and I'm done. Okay, because I thought we agreed last a couple of weeks ago, I still agree. Now Sylvia then wrote a letter and now Robin is changing her tone, changing my mind. Okay, So Sylvia has not influenced you, no, Okay, but I can see where people who are Michael Jackson fans, Yeah, think that Michael Jackson is the greatest, greatest of all time of what of performing? Yeah, no greater.
They think Michael Jackson is the greatest farmers all time.
I went to go see Michael Jackson's Broadway play. Okay, I can't remember what it was called, was called Michael. That sounds about right. The guy that was playing Michael did it better than Michael. I promise you, I promise you. Now. There's no woman, yeah, alive on this earth that you do Beyonce better than Beyonce. No, So that alone should tell you that this conversation is stupid. Okay, I'm dying.
This conversation is ridiculous where the de I can see where people will want to debate that. But for me, Beyonce is is my preferred performer. Yeah, the better performer. I just Michael Jackson never excited me. I was, like I've said the before, Prince excited me. Michael Jackson did not like for me. So so for me for there to be able to be like a debate between like Prince or Michael Jackson, like there is no debate between anyone with Beyonce.
No like, and I just I just want to say, just for the records that we're all clear, Michael Jackson, Beyonce, both for our girls and Jaseelle. So there's all right.
So wait a minute, we have we have one more right, someone had a little bone to pick with us.
Oh I love bones pick. But by the way, we have not heard from Dick Hurt Hurts in twenty twenty five aka aka Kevin heart Well, right, yeah, right, well you Kevin heart Test decided not to eat, not to write a anymore. You said he can't write in and no he did twenty twenty five. We're on something new new, okay.
Yes, so this is this is someone you know, kind of objecting to another thing that we said. Okay, hey, jes Ellen Robin Gabardine here, she said, you have to ask Robin about that. It was a cameo thing. So I did a cameo for Gabardine, okay, sort of name. By the way, I'm on cameo. I do very thoughtful cameos, do you really Yeah, Okay, I thought you'd stop doing it. Uhh Okay, I'm on cameo and mine are not thoughtful. Yeah, you're just like happy birthday, bye bye.
No kidding, I'm like, I give you a little love.
Okay, I mean I'm I'm usually like a good two minutes.
What yeah, thirty seconds? No, I'm just kidding, I'm like a minute okay, yeah, okay, all right, and thank you all my cameo people.
Right, yeah, yeah, she said, I don't have a bone to pick more so a piece of grizzle.
What grizzle? That's like a half a bone? Or is that that like the inside part of the bristle? Yeah? Like the yeah, like the I take it. Yeah. What's her name? Parts of the bone? Gabby? Gabby?
Okay, her friends call her Gabardine.
She said.
This is in regards to the rip on only kids.
Only kid's syndrome does not exist. Oh you mean only child like the only one child? Oh gotcha.
As an only kid myself, I can attest that sharing has never been a problem. I can't remember what we were talking about, but.
I said, only children are the worst because they don't know how to share, right, They don't even know how to hold conversations, because who are they talking to themselves? I said it? And why are you on that topic? I don't know. Okay, I'm the worst.
Okay, yes, so she said, sharing has never been a problem. Not all of us have that issue, but we do like to have a plan. Many of us like to know what we're doing and stick to it. There's nothing wrong with that, and making friends isn't hard, it's just keeping them. Once we only children really realize how ridiculous humans are in general.
This okay, you're not helping you to your story.
Some of us are introverts because once again, humans suck.
What this woman is wild, she's proving our point. But we are lovable.
If any of you with big families can't seem to find a family member to rely on, who do you all call for help?
Only kids? We don't yep, no, actually we don't. You know you do because they don't even have like a solution. Because you've never been around more than one other person or two your parents, You guys suck. You don't know how to manage conflict. You don't. You weren't born to manage conflict in any way. Yes, you weren't born to assimulate to like society. You were given everything because your parents were bored us, so they gave you everything.
Yes, yes, you were catered to, so just leave us alone. We are because I was making this worse. We are the same ones who will be there in a pinch at the end of the day as long as there's a plan involved, right.
Right, Why do I have to have a plan? What about my house is on fire that I didn't plan. I can't count on you because that would have had to have been planned out a week in advance. No, thank you, ma'am. Only my point, my only children, y'all suck, and I just hope. Okay, y'all, Oh my god, you're like really hurting their feelings. Okay, I'm really sorry. Okay, okay, fine, because I do have some from friends that are only
that are only children. But it's just you are are unfortunately not given the opportunity to learn some valuable lessons as a child. Yes, called how you're function in society, how we function in the world, like the world. You can't. You can't even survive this world by yourself, but y'all think y'all can, So that only child hurts you. Listen, listen listening to news. We're out of here, guys, and this episode is called.
Only children, y'all suck. Oh my God, come for kidding. I'm for Jiselle, not Robin. Oh my god, Oh don't ever forget to live your life. Either Reasonable or Shady are both by.
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