Power To The People!

don't you love what bad? No, I'm gonna I'm gonna. When we're not recording an episode, I'm gonna put this in my mouth. Okay, I'm sorry. I know you don't want to that. Okay, all right, So, per usual, we have a reasonably Shady moment of the week, and let me tell you something. I got one. Of course you do. I got one because I'm a little mad. Okay, So are you all familiar with the brand the company Ben

and Jerry's never heard of him. This would be ice cream, and yes you've heard of them, Okay, New York Super Chunk Budge, Chunky, Monkey Fish Food. I can just name all them. I think you heard of them. Yeah, So I've been like a Ben and Jerry's like kind of

sore or you know ever. Okay, So, and my whole thing with them is like they have all the stuff and the inside they have like chocolate chips and fish chips and white chocolate chips and cookie dough and you know, caramel swirls, and it's like so much that you get all kinds of other things outside of ice cream, and every mouthful when you go into the Ben and Jerry's when once you start eating it, Okay, yes, have all

like the mixings in it. And it's if you if you go to your grocery store and you buy like a little pine or whatever, and it's so much stuff in there. So it's like amazing. So let me guess where this is going. Where you had you had some you put a spoof on your mouth and there was a rattail in it? What No, that's not No, I would be sewing. I would be rich right now. Okay. So where I'm going with this is they've cut back on the things that they mix into their ice creams.

So like, for instance, with New York Superchunk Fuds, you would get like walnuts, and I think chalk, the chips and marshmallows, all this stuff, um, and now it's like half of it. Now they're being skimpy, skimpy. Same thing. Have you even noticed that the sizes of ice cream containers have gotten smaller? The prices are the same, they have gone up. Yes, so price is the same, but you don't have all of my stuff that you'll used to put in it, y'all A shady ben and Jerry's

and y'all thought I wouldn't notice. So let me tell you what happened. So I bought one flavor and I was like, this ain't the same. Let me buy another flavor, and it was the same with that one too. So they know what they're doing. They're trying to save money. On the strength of my back. Guess what, I'm not here for it, no, but you know it's like, this is what the pandemic has done. This the pandemic has

affected so many industries, you know, I mean. But the thing is now any company or business can use that as an excuse or a reason they the supply on chocolate syrup is low. You know, you gotta put that on the container. You just can't assume that I know that there's a supply chain issue. Well, you know what, then stop buying it and then they'll get the hint and then they'll fix it. Oh, I'm done, I'm done. I I I ain't done buying Ben and Jerry's. So

they fix the problem. Or and my thing is quality. You can't give me less quality and expect me to pay the same amount of money. Exactly. Yes, okay, so now, but but no now thinks like I said, things are going the opposite way. You're getting less and less for the same amount of money. And they're just they're trying

to just eyes that. They're like changing the packaging and no, it's actually like if you look at the weights, if you look at the size, is everything is smaller and if they're helping me out actually because I'm trying to have a washboard stomach. So thank you very much Ben and Jerry's for skipping me because I'm done with exactly. Yes, okay, So my shady moment goes to my brother in law. Um, you know they got a baby in the house, We got some Okay, is he still with you? They're still here,

they're still living with you. They're still here, but they're they're they're going to be gone soon. They're they're actually supposed to be moving. They were supposed to moved out a while ago. But what happen, what had happened was they they got a new place, they got all the furniture delivered from Florida, and somebody I don't know who it was, the movers and my brother in law lost the screws to the bid. Right, So that's the excuse that they're using for staying in y'all's house. They don't

have screws, whisper. There's a home depot down the street, right, so they've gone to whom depot to buy screws and like none of the screws are the right screws, so so so right, other like waiting I think they had to order like a whole bunch of different screws. They're waiting for them to come. So anyway, so that's one of the things. I think. It was like screws for the bids, at least for the crib. So anyway, so

they're still here. Yeah, but it goes to my brother in law because like last week I noticed that there was like his fiancee was out of town, so it's not her fault. So I noticed there was two baby bottles um in the in the sink right right, just sitting there. And so I said, okay, I'm gonna do the dishes, but I'm gonna lead of baby bottles. And because they don't I don't have a baby right now. You don't have baby. I don't have a baby bottles. And so you know, I did the dishes, put them away.

Next day, I did the dishes, put them away. Next day, did the dishes put you know, like this is like ten eight days later, and the baby bottles are still there. They're still there. They're still there, and I'm just like, what are they using to feed the baby and her boob and her booms? And I'm just like, they got to go. So it might supposed to wash this baby bottle.

Apparently they're waiting you that way, No, Robin and y I'm sorry, I'm whispering because they're like in the next room, and the acoustics in my house, you know, I'm still waiting for furniture and so to stay on travels very easily at my house. I'm whispering. I am tired of seeing these baby bottles in my sink, and I refuse. I am mad at you, Okay, But more or more importantly, we have some other things to discuss. Because this is February. Y'all.

Y'all know what that means. Black History ball. Okay, So let's be clear. We're black every day, so it shouldn't be a month. It should be every day. But it happens to be the shortest month. How shady is that? Yes, it's very shady. However, we we will take it, Black people. We're gonna take our month, yes, absolutely, with pride. Yes.

So my recommendation is, you know, because this is Black History Month and there's so many black leaders and entrepreneurs and just like super bad people like your kid about a black um person in history that they don't know about. Like that's my recommendation, Like every day, try to teach your kid about a different black person that they can be proud of, that they can look up to. I agree, I agree, And I almost feel like I remember in school.

I remember I felt like Black History Month was actually a thing, you know, like I remember, really it was something that we we had um plays or not, what like assemblies and stuff geared towards Black History Month and a lot of programming, and now I just I don't see that anymore. It's almost just kind of like, yeah, they might put a little display up on the wall

and that's it, right. So so so let's let's recommend that moms, dad's, y'all get into your kids school and make sure they have a Black History Month program, a speaker coming in somebody like talking to the kids and really sharing, because you know, the white kids don't know what black people before them have done exact Lord, what about the critical thinking thing? Yeah, it's just that's a slippery, slow,

slipper slow. But guess what, we gotta do it, because if they gave us some mothing, it's the shortest month, God damn it. We got to be proud of our history, right, and if it's not being taught in the school, then, like just Ll said, you know, spend some time, um educating yourself your children. And even this goes not just

to you know, non black people, but black people. We need to educate our kids as well, because I feel like so much of the stuff that I learned as a kid, um my, my kids aren't learning as through the same vehicles. You know what, I mean, like before, you know, our parents were so prideful too, they would teach us stuff. Um, organizations that we belong to, we teach us stuff. And like I said, I learned stuff

in the schools. Now, I just feel like because times are a little bit different, um, and people try to make race not an issue anymore, that like we don't our kids aren't learning about race. And I need for people to understand the reason why I'm encouraging you to like share all different kinds of black people in history, because there's more than just mar Luther King, Barack Obama and Muhammad Ali exactly right. So like, if that's all your kid knows as far as a black person is concerned,

that's the problem and it's on you. So it's your responsibility to teach them more and better, exactly. And it's clear. I mean, look, I know this is probably a couple of weeks ago, but one of our former Bravo cot leagues UM on Salt Lake City Real Hospital, Salt Lake City. It's clear she missed a Black History month. Her name is Jenny. She got fired. Thank you very much Bravo for taking care of that. But she was on her Facebook. They didn't pulled up some old posts. She oh, it

was like two years ago. It was two years ago. She made some very uncomfortable, off color comments about George Floyd, about the police, and she needed to go just in m. I mean it wasn't even that My issue was. It wasn't just one one post, No, it was multiple, many, over and over again. It was very enthusiastic. You could tell that she, you know, really was had a strong belief um and it and its stemmed from a very ignorant place where it's clear she she missed a whole

lot of lessons on Black History Month. Um, very out of touch. I am glad that Bravo did the right thing. Um. And yeah, we that's about it with her, Yes, that's about it. And Bravo did come out and say, hey, when we do hire new Housewives, we will do our due diligence. We will do you know, more research before we hire that. Right. So because this should have been caught before she got hired, absolutely, I mean, because it wasn't that long ago, and I guess it was still

up on her Facebook. I don't. I'm so cute. I want to know the person that like that put it out there, like yes, exactly. Can we interview you the person that dug up Jenny's Facebook posts a d M. Yes, But let this be a lesson for anyone out here listening that wants to be a housewife or on a reality TV platform. Hey, you've been a clean your mess up? Right up? Okay, now speaking of cleaning up in education? Okay, So I saw something on Twitter. No, I think it

was on the Instagram that rappers. It listed rappers and their high school g p A. S Okay, So j Cole had a four point two drake, your buddy had a three point four. The baby had a one point eight. Okay, And how do we know that this is factual? Is? Wait? Now do we get this information? The baby said this was cat he said this was a lie, but he did not give what his g p A was, right, So that leads me to believe that it was probably

one point nine. Right. So my point is, Okay, these kids in schools, we need to like stay on top of them and make sure that they are getting an education. Oh. Absolutely absolutely. I mean, I'm sorry, I would not be surprised if that was the baby's not because he's not smart or intelligent. But you know, he probably was focused a little bit more on some other things. So, um, but I'm sorry, J Colden like a four point I can see that A J. Coley's four point two. Yeah, yeah,

I can see that. I can see Drake three point four because Drake is literally not like, so we want a five point on scale? Now, yes, what's happening? Angel has a four? He did? Come on? Now what Angel? My daughter? YESO, So that's that's not it's on a five point scale. So you gets on a four point scale and she's getting extra So if you take honest classes, those count those way heavier, right, so you can get up to a five point Oh okay, well she's not

doing good, then what are you doing? Okay, morning on the Shady one today she has it eaten? Okay, Robin, I watched Oh no before I tell you what I watched. Okay, real quickly, because y'all know, we talked about Adele like four times. I wanted I wanted to go to the concert, but I said in tickets were too high, and then God said she's not having a concert. Is it like crazy? Protect you? I know it's but it's it crazy for me to say that. God stopped Adele's concert because her

tickets were too expensive. Well, no, it is absolutely should we blame this on God? I mean I think, okay, the I'm not gonna blame it on God, but I think when you are charging that much for tickets, then your show better be flawless, and and God didn't appreciate it, so that the show went away. But recently what what did They said she was crying in the corner a right, They said that she she was on well and this

is day so who is they? Right? A source? A source said that during the rehearsals and stuff, she was always on the phone crying and screaming talking to her boyfriend, her boat rich Paul. Yes he's he's causing her some agony or something and she can't focus on the show. But then also I heard that the production quality was not craig and she had a pool and the pool wasn't right and in the rain coming down didn't work. It was to take a sales take your sales went

left on her ass. Okay, they went left on her ass. So anyway, a doubt. Whenever it all comes together, my recommendation is you lower your ticket prices and Giselle will be there front rock. Yes, you know what, lower the ticket prices forget about all the theatrics and just and just sing that you can sing, just say. They don't need to see all that extra stuff. They know what they're gonna get. They're gonna get a bunch of who That's what they're gonna get. Like, just give us. They

paid for it. They come from the Vegas Sport. Robin is Robin is wrong, Adele and Rich Paul be nice to her. She's trying to get her concept together, not just be nice. Rich said, I am not trying to be settled down like that. Listen, okay, getting into that thought you just got divorced. You wasn't under me. Listen. Okay. There's some little people running around right now, and I just want you all this is a cautionary tale. Okay.

It's some little girls running around right now, and they're treacherous. What are we talking about. They're selling Girl Scout cooks. It's Girl Scout cookie season, okay, and I've already been hit up fifteen times upside my head. And guess what, I didn't order about five hundred boxes of Girl Scout cookies. So everybody listening. D M j Lle and tell tell her that your daughter is selling girls because she's gonna

buy them. No, I'm not. I have I have my full um lot meant for the season girl Scout cookie down, yes now. But I do of you'all to know that these girls casts are serious. They are treacherous. You come out of a grocery store and they're standing there with that, and they're so cute, right, that's so cute with their little table and they're little set up and their little entrepreneurs and then they're in your face and the next thing, you know, you didn't bought fifty boxes. I know, we'll see.

Here's the thing I do. I don't, but I don't. I don't like girls Scout cookies, right, I think they're gross. I like them, I don't. I don't. They're all hard and crispy and like, you know, weird, all these weird flavors and stuff. Look, I just want a soft chocolate chip cookie, you know what I'm saying? Like, just give me that, that's all or oreo cookie. Okay. So when the little cute girl Scout rolls up on you, what are you gonna do? Hey? Or take this money and

beat it? Here here's my donation. No, but what I do so so people will email me links to their child's girls Scout cookie website or whatever. And there's an option to donate boxes to troops. So I'll just like donate whatever, having many boxes to troops. Okay, to be done. Okay, and I've done that multiple times so far. Okay, very good, very good? All right, guys, this is our segment done? Done? Duh? Is it reasonable or is it shady? Now? You guys have been sending us some store reads Okay, and we

truly appreciate it. Robin, you have one. I mean, it makes me feel good that, like, you know, I ain't the only one with crazy craziness going on in my life, you know what I'm saying. That's but that's what we're here for. We're here to let everyone know that life is like a box of chocolates and it ain't perfect. Yeah, we're all going through some ships. Let's see what do I have? So Fantasia rights, Fantasia, the Fantasia Fantasia. Oh yeah, girl? Are we is it really? We are? In double A

CP Image Award nomined. No, I'm joking. It's not the real Fantasia okay, Okay, So Fantasia Rights. Hey ladies. Okay, First, I love your podcast and haven't been and have been a fan since season one. Arch. So, my husband and I are having a debate about the guest room slash baby room in our apartment keyword apartments. Okay. I told him I feel it's unfair for our son to have to share a room with anyone that decides they want

to come visit us. Any family and friends that want to visit should be able to get a hotel room, specifically his family, because my family thinks it's weird to stay with the married couple in their home when they come to visit. But to be honest, it's because I don't want his mom to feel too comfortable thinking that she can just come to my house, dictate what I do with my son, and invade my space whenever she wants. Okay. So this is a two bedroom apartment, one bedroom for

them for guess what it's feeling like. Okay. So I told my husband it's time to take out the queen size bed out of the guest room and just add my son's big boy bed so he can feel like he has his own Spacey, I feel kids need their own sanctuary as well, him and his mom, or like, why not just leave the queen bed in there and place his bed next to it? Oh god, So this slipped out of my mouth and I said, ma'am, this is my house. My son will have his own room.

And if people want to come see us that bad, they can go to a hotel. If you can't afford a hotel, then you shouldn't be traveling out here. What's that too? Shady? Like fantation? You shady girl. I personally feel like they both had it coming because I can't make any decisions without him running to his mom for her opinion. Oh no, there's a whole lot of shady

that's going on. Okay, So okay, I'm with her. So what she did was reasonable, but how she had yes, yes, the way she she said it and communicated it with shady yes. So yeah, I mean, no, how old is the sun to just say, well, he's old enough for a big boy bed, so he's got to be would be like two, he could be like two, three right too? Right? Well, I don't know, I mean, I don't know if we're going from a crib to a bed or like uh,

let's say he's five. Okay, all right, but still he shouldn't have to share his room with a empty, big old queen bed for the guest that's gonna come every now and then. No, I don't want my child in the same room as grandma, right yeah, yeah, like for an extended stay. And how long does this go on for? Like is he going to be like and Grandma's sleeping in the room and here this mother in law is

in their business about other things. That's how That's what I'm feeling, right, So I'm thinking if the mom wasn't as involved in your relationship, or the son and the mom weren't so connected, then maybe it would be kind of like, Okay, all right, here's the solution. Is there anything wrong with the mom sleeping on an air mattress? What you can't put your mom on an air mattress, Now, that's shade, got like real thick pillow top ones. Okay, But what you can do is put your mother in

a nice hotel around the corner down the street. Yes, but plantage your tone, honey, your tone real shady. Let's let's clean that up, sweetie. Yeah, yeah, that's a little shady. Okay, Okay. So this is from Caitlin Dorsey. Okay, you know she says great things. I love you guys, I love hl P. She said she moved to Bristol in September and she has a male roommate who's subleasing. Now Bristol, that's like out of the country. Just make that clear. Bristol's not

in this Crystal England. Bristol, England. Oh, this is from the other side of the pond. So should I talk in an accent this whole thing? I should? Okay, how are you doing? Okay? Catlyn Dorsey said she moved to Bristol in September. Okay, that I didn't mix British with we don't know you? Are you British? You Australia? Where we're doing here? Okay, I'm just gonna be black girl here we go, all right. So she moved to Bristol in September and she has a male roommate who's sub

leaves the apartment with her. She's twenty five and he is a black man she put that in parentheses, who was twenty four. Okay, so within the first week of moving in he started flirting with her, like you know the old put the hand on the knee when they're watching TV, or you can put your legs on me if you want to, Like, that's I want to have sex right now. That ain't flirt. That's like pull your pants down. You see where he can go fuck? I

push this so brustlum, Caitlin said. She shut it down immediately, and I told him we will never date or do anything. I'm not interested in relationship with you because you're my roommate and I don't know if you had any wrong impression, but that's how it's going to be. And he said, yeah, yeah, Yeah. I thought I thought that's what's going on. I thought that what's going on because you know, a man, it's never gonna be like a man is never gonna like

he's gonna like baby step. He's gonna test, yes, he's gonna baby step, and then when it fails, he's gonna be like no one. It wasn't like that. Cool We cool? Okay, So long story short, Caitlin has a boot. Okay, she has a real boyfriend. Alright, she met she met a guy. He fell in love really quickly. Right, I met my twin flame, ridiculously quick. A man, I'm head over heels in love with and I met him the Tuesday just

before my birthday. For four weeks, we saw each other four or five times every week, and he came over quite often. On November fourteen, my roommate went to his other apartment in Portugal until January, and ever since that day he comes back, he's been bitching about every damn thing. He texts me two hours after arriving back in the flat.

They have a flat, so you know they're in London, because we don't say flat that he doesn't want to feel like he's living with three people, because my boyfriend and I were both at the apartment when he arrived. I spent about half my time at my boyfriend's house. But he says we're too loud when we are at the flat, opening and closing doors, talking, laughing, and he's heard sex noises and this listen in quote, this flat isn't really designed for guests or for more than two people.

But mind jew this man isn't in school, doesn't have a job, doesn't do ship ever, and it's just home seven every day every night, stays up until one am, smoking weed and making whole ass meals to eat and proceeding to leave the kitchen and disarray. Child, this is getting good. So they had a big fight, and she said, in our second and last conversation we had about this issue with me having my man over whenever I wanted to, I said this, okay, So this is what we're trying

to figure out. Is either reasonable or shady? Okay? Because this man didn't even want her to have her boot over to the house. How crazy is that? I mean, I feel like those are things you should talk about when you have roommates. But if you for your room, I know, but you just gotta sell you sech a balunity. But where are we going with this? Okay? All right,

here we go, she said. I appreciate that you're telling me how you feel about the situation, but the reality is, I'm here for about four days a week and only at nighttime because I have um a UNI all day. I think that's a job all day Monday Tuesday, and she has therapy. I don't know anyway, she's only there

at night. I hear that it bothers you to have another man in the house, but I pay rent here and least here, and there is nothing you can do or say to prevent me from having guests whenever I want. As far as the sex noises, oh lord, she's having a loud sex noises in the other room. Okay, I can see the brother and not appreciate you like soft sexes like that. Okay. She said, I'm a human being and I'm going to eat, sleep, shot our and wherever I want not and I'm not comfortable talking to you

about my sex life. So she's like, is this reasonable or is it shady? I think this is real. Let me see who Okay, is what she said reasonable or shady? Or is the roommate having a problem reasonable or shady? Okay? So I feel like if your sex noises are that loud, then I kind of feel like I would be annoyed by my roommates sex noises. Yes, I don't care if I forget the fact that he wants to have sex. Right that he tried to flir. He tried to get that if you have a roommate, you have to like

abide by normal code, which is you have quiet sex. Yeah. Yeah, like nobody wants to hear that. So so maybe that's stemming. That's so okay? And then as a man, do you get intimidated or do you have some sort of fla. Yes, she's screaming and yelling and he's like, oh, he's breaking her back out right, So he's feeling like he can't

break her back out, so he's even more mad. He's feeling some ownerships, like he's just like he's just like like not feeling uncomfortable because here's another guy in the house. He's all these noises and he's saying it. But if if the shoes on the other foot, he probably wouldn't care, you know what I'm saying, Like, he's gonna do what he wants to do, not think about her feelings or how it might um bother her or annoy her. This is this is okay. As far as the sex noises,

that's gotta stop. And you, yeah, just just be quiet. Yeah you can do that. But as far as you having a conversation with him, that was very reasonable. Yeah, I think it's definitely reasonable if he's acting in a certain type of way, if he's getting mad, if he's causing a problem, it's very reasonable to put your foot down and say, yeah, I paid right here and live with it. But I think you do have to bend and say, Okay, what can I do to make the

situation a little less uncomfortable? And that means be quiet or or just invite a man, and it could be the three y'all, but you don't listen to her. Just kidding, Kate, just kidding. I don't know what y'll do in Bristol. But if this was over here in the Patumic, just kidding, I don't know, but I'm sure your roommate's pride is getting in the way a little bit, like you don't want to see another man. And yeah, his spills to her.

He thought he had a he had a window, right, But also, like y'all, you gotta put that stuff on the table when you do move into When you move into a situation from a roommate that you don't know, you need to say listen, Like it should be clear that I'm gonna have company, and you know it's it's my right to have company. Yeah, but it's common decency not to just be screaming and yelling and waking your roommate up that you know likes you. Nobody wants to

hear that. Yeah, I think, um, you should start looking for another apartment. Yes, Now, I used to live in this building and I could hear my roommates, I mean, not my roommates, what do you call it, my neighbors through a wall. And it was two guys and it was every night. It was like clockwork and it was like bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang. Right, it was like I could count

the number of bangs and it was done. And I was just like I felt like saying, I want to watch this because I need to know what's getting banged. Who's getting banged? You can hear that would be too. It was so embarrassing. But I like really like imagine in my mind, like who's getting the banging and why is it not reciprocated and just it was so many questions I had in my mind. Maybe they switch you off every night, but anyway, I mean, at first it

was like I was like, what is that noise? It took me a very long time to figure it out. And because it was like it was just banging, it was so rudimentary banging. It was like bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang, Like who has sex? Like that you thought they were who has okay, where no woman wants to be like bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang Bank done like no,

and that has happened to me. It was like it was like fifteen It was fifteen pumps and it was a rap and I was like, dude, you can never come back. Okay. Ever, this this, this, this episode is gonna laugh. Yeah. Listen, guys, we're out of here. Don't forget to live your life. Reasonable or shot by Guys. Reasonably Shady is a production of the Black Affect podcast Network.

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