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I'm just how does this work? August was not the other day, for the record, that was actually months ago. But guess what. Guess what. We are happy that y'all are happy and New Year's Eve or whatever New Year's like when everybody goes to party. It was the other day. And I just want to let everybody know I cannot stand New Year's Like. I feel like when people go out and party, um, New Year's is those are for amateurs. Those are for people that don't know how to party,

have never party before. They at crazy, they drive crazy. I just I just I don't really like it. I think you just haven't gone to the right New Year's party. Oh I've been. I've been to the right New Year's parties. I don't know, have you? Yes, I have my parents. So I remember every year my parents would go to a party every year and they would look forward to it. It was, you know, it's always in like a hotel ballroom and with one of the organizations that they belonged to,

so it was just like a very nice crowd. They would you know, all buy a table and invite all their friends ends, and you know, they would have a good old time. They probably would get a you know, hotel room stay out and they dress all up. And I'm like, oh, you haven't done that, So maybe that's what I haven't been. Okay, you ought to go to like the bouge black people parties, yes, like the Links the Guardsmen, Yes, yes, okay, bouge black people. Invite me

to your party? Yeah, okay, there we go. All right. So one, we do want to talk about the year in review. Year in Review. Boom boom boom. Okay that was the sound effects. So one was a good year for us. Robine was amazing. Yes, one we started in May reasonably shady, So thank you guys for being with us. We Birth the podcast We Birth did it? It came out of our loins, birth out of my loins, Robin's loins. Here we are somewhere in there. We picked up Carly.

She's you know, been rocking with us since where we listen you brought her. You don't know where she came from. I don't know the corners. Anyway, we would love the fact that Carly has been rocking with us. Um, we're gonna keep her with us. And you know what, we would like to share with you all some of since we're you know, talking about one and it was just such such a great year. We've had like some very memorable episodes. Yes, indeed, I feel like everyone is memorable.

It is, it is, And to be quite honest, I love when Robin Dixon is either tired or hungry because she's so freaking shady, Like I don't even have to be shady, Like I'm typically shady when I wake up in the morning, but when rob is hungry, I know, it's so funny when people message me, they're like, Okay, Robin, you were really shady in this episode. I think I'm gonna starve you so that you could just be shady all day, Robin, shade, I think that's what's happening. You

don't want that. No, shade turns into anger, true, true, true, true. We don't want to get there. We we don't want to get there, but I do want to know. Note make note of I do like it sprinkled in Yes, yes, indoses um oka. Friends. We couldn't be friends if I wasn't shady too. No, no, no, And sometimes I'm reasonable. You know what's you know what's so crazy? We Robin has not responded. Okay, So when you are shady, I think I get reasonable. No, that's not do I get

more shady when you're shady. I just add onto the shade. Okay, So listen. Our first episode was called started from the bottom. Now we're here, so I want you all to know that that was kind of like a prophecy, right because we did actually start from the bottom. Welcome to Reasonably Shady. This is just L Briant here and I am here with hello everyone. My name is Robin Dixon. Yes, this is our Reasonably Shady podcast. This is our first podcast. Guys.

We don't know the hell we're doing, but just bear with us because we're going to figure it out and by the time we're like on episode, I don't know, twenty eight will be great. So we do kind of want to tell people how we met, right, well, I think we should start off with, um, just why are we? Why is this podcast called Reasonably Shady? That's very important. Um. So to know us is to know that Robin is extremely reasonable, She's like practical, She's always like Switzerland. She

always tried to see the good in people. And I'm just shady. Okay, yes, so Gesell's first um reaction to something is a shady one, and then I think about it, I processed it, and then I try to be like Robin, which is very reasonable, but it doesn't really work. I just stay on the shady side. Yes, you sure do, Yes, I mean, but sometimes you don't take that much convincing. I have to, like, you know, we'll have a private conversation. I'll say, well, look at it this way. Sometimes I

get through to you. Yes, yes, but yes, so welcome to Reasonably Shady, where you will get a lot of reason and a lot of shades. Yes, absolutely, Now I can say that a hundred years ago I moved to Baltimore, I got married, and um me and my husband at the time went to the car wash and who did I see but this beautiful woman. And I was like, oh my gosh, she really pretty. She kind of looked like me, you know what I'm saying, and beautiful. Yes, that's when she was beautiful. But no I saw her

and I was like, Wow, she's really really beautiful. And I thought to myself, I wonder who that is. Then years later I was at a party long Behold. This beautiful woman was introduced to me by our French charies. So she Reis invited us both to a charity event. Um, one of the biggest, you know, one of the biggest charity events in the city of d C. All the women look forward to it when everyone gets pissy drunk. Um. So everyone was pissy drunk at this charity event except

for us maybe probably like a little bit. I was probably partaking. We ended up at the same table, sitting right next to each other. Yes, So once I realized who she was, She's Robin Dixon. It dawned upon me because when I moved to Baltimore, Robin is from Baltimore that everybody kept asking me was I related to Robin Dixon? And I was like, I don't know, no Robin Dixon, and who the hell is Robin Dixon and Robin Dixon what?

So then I was like, holy shit, you're a girl everybody's been asking me about and she's beautiful, so I don't mind being related to her. We're not related, but I mean, you know exactly, so we instantly became besties and like the rest is history. But I feel like it took like it was like we were sitting next to each other and we instantly we're being reasonably shady.

I probably was being shady too, though, absolutely we're being shady shady, and we were just you know, observing the people in the party, you know, making little comments about what was going on and having a good time. And it probably took a minute, really for you to realize, oh, you're the girl from Baltimore that everyone thinks. Yes, my

cousin is right. It did take a minute, But once I figured it out, I was like cool, Like, at least it was somebody that I thought was cool as opposed to an asshole, and it's you know, it's kind of weird. It's like, even though you didn't know me, just figuring out that there was some sort of connection and you knew people that knew me. It was like, okay, all right, she's really cool. And then I realized that she was the woman on the side of the metro

bus that I would see. I hate robbing right now, Okay, I hate robbing because once upon a time I was on metro buses as a billboard. Not because um, I'm wanted for like a crime or something. Well no, no, no, you weren't on the bus for a crime, but you were like laying on top of your then husband Jamal, like to our church. Yes, okay, they were very cute. It was. It was very cute, and I was on, look at I need I have to find a picture of these busses. I mean I would literally be like, Oh,

who's that woman on the side of the bus. She's pretty Like who are there? Robin is hating on my past? Yes, I like it was so we were like instantly I was like, oh, that's the woman outside of the bus, and just I was like, oh that's the woman that everyone thinks it's my cousin. And we were, you know, both silly, goofy, having fun laughing, instantly hit it off. Yes, And then years later, um, we got a call about a show called The Real Housewives Potomac and we've rocked

that out for I don't know, several seasons. So it helps solidify I mean, we were already best these before then, but it really helped with our relationship. And we've had each other's back on the show. They've been trying to tell us apart, but we have had each other's back, and I like totally appreciate that. By the way, I appreciate that. Thank you. Oh, I mean that's what real friends do. Yes. Absolutely, Like on the podcast, we had

zero listeners, yes, okay, and now we have like passed millions. Okay, fine, we've surpassed one million. So we actually started from the bottom out here. That's true. Yeah, that is very true. And I mean, I'll be honest. I mean, I'll be shady. I've actually seen many a podcast begin and they don't really stay on for very long. And now I say, oh, where's that pocket. Oh it's gone, it's gone, it's gone. No more, I haven't I haven't seen an episode. I

haven't heard an episode in love about twenty eight weeks. Yeah, no, they disappear. So the fact that we're still here, yeah, is amazing. Yeah, and I'm not I'm not being you know, I'm not taking anything away from the people who don't succeed, because you know, one day I might be like I'm done. But um, it's hard. It's hard work. Yeah, for sure.

I think you know, you don't really understand the work that goes into it until you're you know, doing it, because I think some people think, oh, you know, Okay, I can get on a microphone. I can I can hop on I can talk for my bed whatever. But it's a lot of work, it's a lot of planning, it's a it's a huge time commitment. I've never seen yourself so much in my life, and you love every second of it. Like I'm one of your favorites. I know, yes, right, she made it to my favorite She a podcast is

what made what got her to my favorite list. But no, I mean it's actually been really great for our friendship because we do spend a lot of time with each other, and it's not like we're not like, oh my god, I'm done. Like a lot of times we'll do a podcast and then we'll go out to dinner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We we enjoy spending time together and I I'm happy that I like you a whole lot, because otherwise this would be horrible. Yeah, we wouldn't have we would have

made it. No, we would have made it. Speaking of like doing a podcast from your bed, I remember I did Hannah Burner who used to be on Bravo, and she had a podcast, and so she asked me to do it. So I was like cool and it was a zoom. I got on zoom Hannah straight up in bed like covers over her waist, like you know what I mean. And I was like, yo, this is how you do a podcast because in this just before we started reasonably shady something no, and I actually kind of

thought we could do that too. We could we should try that one. Now we shouldn't. I think we should know. I love you hand that on the count now, I love you, Hannah. But doing a podcast on the baby in the same bed, now, yes, we are going to be the same bady. We're going to invite NICKI Yes, yes we are all right. So some other like amazing um episodes that we had, of course they're all amazing, but the embarrassment of sex. You guys, you people out there,

you'll actually liked that one. Oh my gosh, that one. That one actually is our top downloaded episodes. And I want to say from that one that that's the one where you told us about you left the man on the floor like that. All right, how about this one having sex? He's eight years older than me, and he's

always tired. It's so annoying. He's eight years older. He's always tired, So they gotta do it like in the morning when he wakes up or what do you mean, like sleepy tired or you mean like out of breath tired. He's probably both. He's probably both just eight years older. I mean, I think sleepy tired. But then okay, so but this is the this is in the reverse. So I was dating this guy who was like ten years

younger than me. Oh my gosh, listen, I didn't have enough standing about I didn't I didn't take my wheties. I was like, dude, like, okay, first of all, a good twenty eight minutes is good for me. Okay, but he'll be like it would be like, I'm like, you know, that's enough. I will never forget. I'm the worst, the absolutely worst. There was one dude and this was not the young kid and I shouldn't be sharing this, but I'm gonna share this because we're getting towards the end

of this, uh this episode. So there was this one dude and he was like, I'm very fit, okay, and it was going on, waits along right, and I just was like, oh my god, I cannot Somehow we ended up on the floor right. Guess what I left his ass there? I got up in the middle of the whole thing and I literally put my clothes on the left. I was like, dude, I gotta go. Oh I got it. I was like what I was like, I'm out. Oh my god. I was like, and then did you continue?

Like did you see him again? After that? I've not done that with him again, and that was probably why the pandemic. But I just was like, I can't do this. I'm not fit for this. But guess what I wanted to go find. We were in a hotel. I wanted to go find another girl in the lobby and send her up because he was clearly not dune. And I was, okay, now are they like, you know, climax and then they just want to go again or they just like so the young dude would he would guess it would be

like ten in a row. And I'm like, dude, who's got time for this? Because I'm done. I want to go to sleep. I three, this was a mess, But the other one, no, he was just ready to go, and I was like wow. And I didn't even feel bad that I left his ass on the floor with a hard one. I didn't know how he ended up on the floor. This is terrible anyway, guys, that is our show today. Yes, I left him on the floor. Yes, that is why I could. I couldn't finish the job, guys.

I could not finish the job. Right, she got she got tired. Yes, And I actually walked over him. Oh my god. You know that's bad luck, right when you walk over somebody? Is it? Who said that? I don't know what Grandma said that. Somebody I don't know. Okay, all right, So that that was a good one. And then I'm conceited and I got a reason. And I just want you all to know that if we inspired some of you all out there to be conceited, because you gotta read since and that was our job. We

did it to get it, get y'all inspired. We did that. We did that. Tonight's question was in line with the topic the episode, what are your physical insecurities? And I think this is such a great question because you listeners are going to realize, Wow, most people have the same insecurities that I do, and so to hell with our insecurities, y'all insecurities be gone exactly. So I want to just share um a lot of the responses. Okay, so stomach is number one. Stomach, stomach, and you said that, yes,

that's it. So they just food, but that's it. And I mean and I and I feel like, you know, I have a little fopa to um. Yeah, yeah, I mean that that that thing is it is hard to get rid of, right, you see, if you're super thin, you're still going to have that a little something. So so the answer to all of that is is because we all have it, don't be insecure about it, right, yeah, let it go. Absolutely, Yeah, absolutely, And even though we know we have a food but like other people won't

even notice it, right you know. So skin, so whether it's discoloration under eye, you know, dark under eyes, moles um, skin was a big response. So everyone you know, you're you're not alone. Well, no one's skin is perfect, that's just it. Is what it is. So understand that, and why why are you trying to reach for this perfection of skin? Right? Like God gave you some skin, and be comfortable with the skin you in, right, And I just said, you know, I mean, I don't know. I

don't have like the magic pill for perfect skin. But drink more water, you know. I think a lot of times our skin does not look great or because we're not drinking enough water. So it always comes from inside. Yeah, absolutely so, so you know that. So we have stomach number one, skin was number two, sun number third. Just wait overall in general and yes, yes, especially after COVID, I think you know a lot of us are not happy with our weight, but that is something very common.

So but with the weight, I always feel like it's not necessarily about the weight, but you always want to be be mindful of it because it's about your health and it's about being healthy, living a healthy lifestyle, and people, you cannot continue to complain about your weight. But you're eating fried chicken. Um, you're not eating healthy. You're drinking a whole lot because you're hanging out with your girlfriends and y'all like talking about nonsense, like understand what you're

doing to your body. And I'm not saying don't do those things, but just do things in moderation exactly. And it's not easy. It's not easy to be disciplined and to eat all the right things, but like you said, everything in moderation. So weight is a is a big one. Um. I thought I heard from some men what the men's saying. So the men are insecure about their chest. Okay, they want, you know, they want to have a bigger chest. You know, maybe they have some man boobs that they want to

get rid of, So that's an insecurity. Their hairline, Oh yeah, that's oh yeah, yeah, I can get you know, theos or whatever it is. You just cut it off, just cut it off. I mean, bald men are sexy, so I would rather And this is like every other week conversation in my house because one is like, oh, it looks like my hair's going back, and I'm like, nah, you know what I mean. So so it's that is

definitely a big struggle. And then we just have you know, nose, crooked teeth, smiling yeah yeah, and arm yes, I have arm jiggle on here. Um. Aging, So I have one person that responded about aging it was probably more than people. But but her response said, it used to be aging, but now I don't care. And I love that if you're aging, you're living. So but it's also you should be grateful that you're aging. We're not dead, right, absolutely absolutely so, and we're all going to age, all of us,

and so you know that's one thing. It's like, you know, we just I think we should just feel blessed that we are aging. I think I know that we've inspired people because we have received messages just saying like, thank you, ladies for being yourselves. You encourage me and let me know it's okay to be myself, and I give a damn yes. So I know we're inspiring people as as frivolous and shallow as that sounds. We inspired you from

our silly old podcast. And you know what's so crazy, because you know we do have um, the Housewives of Potomac, and we we do enjoy being aspirational on that show. Meaning we do know that people love the way that you know, I am with my kids, seeing you as a businesswoman, UM, seeing our friendships and how we navigate friendships that we might not necessarily like, and that that

is inspirational. But then we get to the podcast and we just go balls to the wall and we you know, we try to inspire, you'll not We don't try to inspire you'all. We're just talking our ship, right, yeh. But but I think it does. I think there are a lot of people who live life worried about what other people think, and they're not willing to show a certain side of themselves, um in certain venues or avenues, and like we're over here, you know, we hold no punches,

we have no filter. And I think the probably one of the big things you can probably pick up on us is like we have no problem laughing at ourselves. And I think in life, when you can laugh at yourself, life is so much better. Yes, you know. So it's like, don't take yourself too seriously, don't have a stick up your butt, don't worry about what people are gonna say if you say this or if you act this way.

Just be yourself right and understand, like you know, whatever little you know not or whatever struggles you go through or whatever issues that you have, other people have had the same ones and you're not alone. And so instead of the worry about like how people are going to perceive you or how you're going to be judged, Like let that go, release that, release that negative energy, just try to die. I wish I could like rub my like, you know, mindset off on people because it was really you.

I don't give a yes and yours too. Yes, yes, like it really makes life so much better, It really does. And I can remember caring a little bit about I remember when I was married and I was like, you know, in the whole church world, and that can be very um judgment judgment, yes, And so I had to like care about like a lot of things that I don't

necessarily care about. And that's a weight, yes, that I was like caring a weight of caring about what people would think about X, Y and Z. And I don't ever want to feel that way, No, not at all. You know what's so funny with me? I remember I can remember my grandmother. My grandmother was very old school traditional, and I can remember being in her house and I

can't remember what it was. It might have been my hair was not done or something, and I remember her saying like, oh, you don't want people to see you like that. And I remember being young and being like Nana I don't care. I'm like Nana, I don't care what those people think. I don't care what they say. And I'm literally like eight years old, so it's kinda

Nana I don't care. Yes, But and it was just so funny because like she was just totally like, you know, it's one of those you have to present yourself a certain way you have I mean, I still, of course, you know, presented myself with respect. You know, I have morals and values and all that type of stuff. But for whatever reason, I didn't let the you know, I don't know, just worrying about other people in their opinions. And that's actually probably a testament to your parents because

they taught you to just be confident in who you are. Yeah, yeah, that's true, because it's weird, like my grandmother's like that, but my father wasn't like that at all. His mother. Yeah, so, you know, I don't know. Well, this is, you know, third day into two. Do you have any New Year's resolutions? Robin Um. I want to lose weight, but I'm gonna detox, I'm gonna budget my many better, I'm gonna I'm gonna reach out to my love ones every other day Okay,

So that's no. So you don't have any resolutions? What you mean you don't like though, you're not gonna do them at all. You don't care. I'm gonna work out every wan We're out five days, five times a day, okay, two hours of session. Okay, But do you want to incorporate working out into your life more? I do, but I don't. I don't know that I've ever made a resolution and kept it like never, you know what, I don't think I've ever made a resolution. No, I don't

think I have either. I know I have. I know that. Okay, you know, like the beginning of January, everyone's like, okay, let me get on my fitness tip right right. So I have kind of, you know, been in that mind frame. But it's so weird. It's like something in me resists, like the whole January movement, and I'm like, I'll start in February, oh my gosh. And then she said, oh, I'll start in March. Oh my gosh, I'll start skippe Is we don't care about that and sanity Robin Sixon.

I'm like, I'm not falling into that January trap because then it becomes like pressure it's like that, it's true to me. Stick to that Restlar, I want to try to all right it? So I just wait to February, okay, and then in February, will you be doing the resolution? Probably? I hope, so, y'all, I hope so, oh my god. Okay, So I want to be the better version of myself

in two Okay, what does that look like? That just looks like, you know, me being a nicer person, me being more compassionate, me being able to hear and actually listen to people when they're talking. As a else is just like zoning out. Feel like, um season, when do we go to New Orleans? Four? Yeah, you said the same thing I did, and I didn't. I didn't follow through. It didn't last long. Okay, that's why you're my friend, Robin se can let me know that my ship is

some bullshit. Okay, all right, I'm just gonna be me. Okay, Yeah, I appreciate it. I'm gonna be me. I'm going to spend a little bit more time. I spent a whole lot of time my Kids'm gonna spend a little bit more time with them because I actually really really liked them. Um, I don't have to make the resolution about going to the gym. Already do that and um yeah, that's it.

I'm just gonna be my wonderful self. I do want to be more thoughtful when it comes to the people I care about and to you know, like my friends that I don't talk too often, Like just stay in touch a little bit more. That would be nice, that it is. But don't put anybody else on your favorite list. Now that I've made Robin's favorite list, I don't want anybody else on there, do you, curly? I don't. I mean, I just wanted to be me and one kids and okay, fine,

your parents, but that's it. All right, Well we shall see. Are you gonna put somebody else on it? I mean if we if we get to the end of two and you have more people on your favorite list, I might get a little offended. Okay, Well, let's see if I hear from anyone who says they can't believe I'm not that they're not all my favorite lists. Oh yes, Oh that's gonna be bad. I know. Oh lord, well, you could do them like you just did me and like add them right then? Right, that's true in insanity?

All right, guys, we are out of here. We love y'all so much. Oh oh, I got to say reasonably sh Let me tell you somebody that this reasonable and this shady d We got a whole lot of things cooking in the fire, but reasonably shadys like what we do. We're doing stuff, y'all. Y'all, just get ready, get ready, get ready, in the words of TV Jake's just get ready, Okay, reasonably shady. It's gonna be in your face, yes, your face, like in your face, face, like in your face, face face. Okay,

just get ready. So just know that we're over here doing our part. We're working to make y'all happy. We are and we and we want to see y'all. Yes, yes, we want to be in these streets. All right. We love y'all. We think y'all are amazing. Is going to be amazing, and until then, live your life either reasonable or shady. Bye Bye, Happy Twins. Reasonably Shady is a

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