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Aqua Illusion: The Pink Masquerade

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Aqua Illusion: The Pink Masquerade

The host highlights the launch of the Center for Black Excellence in Culture in Madison, Wisconsin, a community-driven space celebrating Black culture with diverse programming, including a children’s literacy library and wellness facilities. She then critiques the overreaction of wealthy individuals to Audemars Piguet’s affordable watch collaboration with Swatch, calling it a display of insecurity and class-based jealousy. The discussion shifts to Chris Brown’s new album, which is panned by critics and fans alike, with the host arguing that the music feels outdated and overly tied to Michael Jackson comparisons. She also critiques the rise of AI-generated music and artists like "Trim," who mimics Nicki Minaj’s style, calling it inauthentic and exploitative. Finally, a personal letter from a woman in a strained marriage is addressed, where her partner refuses financial and domestic responsibilities despite her high income. The host emphasizes that the relationship is unbalanced and advises seeking legal advice, stressing that true partnership requires mutual accountability, not one-sided sacrifice. The overall tone is one of empowerment, authenticity, and critique of societal norms around wealth, identity, and gender roles.

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Welcome backslurs, how indeed are you doing? I am Black Barbie and I am Paris Epps and this is the read. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for joining us indeed. How's Laney? You know she's taking a nap right now and I'm hoping she just continues to chill the fuck out. I need her to be relaxed today but she's fine. Yeah, you know, life of a mother, I get that. Where's Link at school? Damn right, and done. Thankfully she slept like she was doing construction work yesterday or something. So by the time I got her up to get ready for school, she was you know half away and that was perfect for transporting her to the people's vehicle and then oh mother hood. Okay, let's jump into our black excellence for this week and it is going out to the newly built Center for Black Excellence in Culture in Madison, Wisconsin. In Wisconsin. So this is a 37,000 square foot building founded by Reverend Alex G and it's a big gorgeous space that is meant to obviously highlight black excellence and culture but it's also an event space. It's also a place he says where people can come and get involved to different programs or the community can bring programs to the space. It's what people to do black things and be inspired and walk in and go. This is very interesting. This is a very enlightening. I wonder if we could do this. We could do this here. So as the building has a wellness space for mothers, it has an art gallery as a 300 seat theater as a banquet event space or recording studio, a senior lounge, a bar, a workspace hub, an outdoor gathering space. It's got a children's library for to focus on literacy for the children who love reading. Hey man. It's got pretty much everything. I'm like girl, imagine if we had a black big-ass black space as children who loved reading. Here's the black kids library. Oh, wow. I would have never left. It's just yeah. So shout out to Wisconsin and the amazing work that y'all are doing off of air if you're out somewhere in Madison sometime. Go check out the center for black excellence culture. Let us know how you feel about it. What is giving, what you learn, what you see. All right. Now let's move into the bullshit of the world because I think all of it is bullshit this week. Okay. I'll start with this because I think it's hilarious. So Audemars forget the watch company AP. Oh, recently teased a collaboration with Swatch. Another watch company. You know, Swatch, you'll see down to the mall. Yeah. And the airport. Very accessible. Yes. When I saw you rich niggas were pissed. Oh, because they're they're high-doll exclusive brand is doing something for the brokeies. PDG was winding on stream. Oh, my God, girl. Who cares? I'm selling my AP and this time at third OT Genesis. Also posted on his Instagram when the AP drop I'm getting one for my son dope time piece. But I choose not to walk around with this new G shot. Great business move for Audemars though, but I'm done niggas that were Jordans don't wear team Jordan. Oh, my God. This is delightful. For so many reasons. I don't even know. Okay. At first, I guess I'll say they they did. I think yesterday they revealed what these watches look like. Okay. They're cute little colorful pocket watches. They don't even there have they have nothing to do with you. Right. Right. They just they I just Google them there. You know, remember when Apple first came out with all them different color computers. That's kind of what they immediately remind me of, but they also don't look anything like the regular Audemars per case. So I don't also use niggas and your brand new money. And I mean brand new. You just got that money five minutes ago and you already act in like you just like the brand has been tarnished. I simply cannot wear this $500,000 watching more girl. Call your titties. And Audemars like. Okay. Don't wear it. You're not hurting my feelings by not. Okay. So don't do it then. I think there. I mean, I think this is cute. I'm still not spending $300 500. Right. I'm not spending this is still going to be expensive for a watch as far as I'm concerned. So, but I don't I don't need to have the label either. And it's like, you niggas, you really get some of your self worth from these labels and these designers that you wear. And that's why you feel in a way about them partnering with something more accessible. But I had no idea rich niggas was complaining about it. I thought people were just excited because they would be able to I mean, they're cute. Yeah. More people were excited until they realized that these are just little pocket watches. And they can't, you know, flex, I guess, on their wrist with them to all these comments on Instagram reveal page for like, I know niggas are a fold enough them chairs. I just watch right now. You niggas was outside four days. I thought you was going to flex this summer. I think this is hilarious. Yeah. One. Yeah. Rich niggas were bitching and talking about they weren't wearing the new G shock. And here's going to sell their AP. Don't sell the stuff before they even sell it. The fuck the watch look like comes out turns out the watch came out looking like twizz brillig and the slyly toes did gire and gimbal in the way. Like collue collet java walkie ass walk. They look like white rabbit Allison wonderland watches. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. That's what it's on a little chain. To this sentiment of like, oh, because did you just like, you know, dumb niggas or broke niggas, you know, they can't tell the difference. So these niggas who don't get this $300, $500 watch, you know, going to be able to like, I guess, like them and comparing it to Ferrari teaming up with a Honda and so niggas. Oh, God. I have so many levels. So one. Get nice things. If you can afford nice things, you want nice things. Sure. Whatever. As someone who likes balm on. Yeah. When they did a collaboration with H&M, I wasn't like, well, I guess that's it for the streets, bitch. Right. Let me just sell my favorite denim ball. My jacket because broke niggas won't know the difference to be missing that $20 shit. Who cares? Like, I like my jacket. You're probably gonna like yo jacket or whatever you got. Yeah. And those collaborations be cute too. Like, right. The designers be doing cute stuff with H&M and gap and all that. So yeah, girl. Why are you mad that someone else gets to have something that they like? Because it makes you feel like you're less, whatever, less important. Stupid. It is. Because how you tie in your worth to these brands who, the people who had these brands don't give one fuck about you. Actually can't believe your black ass is buying it. Meanwhile, I'm sure G socks with shoes hilarious. I think it's also funny that you know, you want to capitalize off of these various and people you want them to give you all your damn, all of their, their day of money so you can buy this $50,000. Oh my god. Yes. But you're upset that they use some of their money to go and get the $500 watch. Right. It just, it doesn't hit the streets for me. Um, you sound like baby. Yeah. And then you sound super like a baby when it's like when it's watching on Marlotte. Girl, we weren't even thinking about you. We're bringing the pocket watch back. Such a way. It's a, you don't bust down that watch anyway. They ain't got nothing to do with this. We don't even want it. Yeah. This is okay. Niggas are really childish. I, alright. Y'all can, but that's such a good point about like you niggas wouldn't be rich without fans. Like y'all don't come from generations of money. You, you know, this is an oil money. You're not some businessmen. If niggas didn't tune into your stream. go to your shows or whatever you also would not be able to afford no so why would you then one and all right y'all got they want an ap because y'all keep wrapping about ap's and about what kind you have yep so god forbid they want one two after they funneled all their god damn money into your fucking pockets it just doesn't make any sense to me yeah niggas at where Jordan's don't wear team Jordans pull what is a team Jordan I don't even know what this is baby as long as it got the little the man with the basketball the air Jordan as long as it got that little logo any do not know the difference and I literally do not care like if not for Beyonce would have never even harder this brand upgraded was my very first time hearing of this brand and I'm so I had to google all about hey gang why I say what the fuck is she talking about she actually said a lot of things in that portion of the record that I had nothing yeah no idea what they were and I didn't even look them up I just accepted that this was for wealthy people and I was in the mental yeah yeah not upgrading me right yeah um but yeah I think this whole thing was incredibly finding also if you want to be that type of kind like if you want to be housewives kind yeah just be outside and be like here she go with that fuck is watch AP like she really doing something or she go with them fake as the team Jordans like you just do that go outside the clock it no kind of thing to right you you're like unlike this poor the measles stricken lepper right I feel like I have the true AP girl yeah the real money is not even part of these conversations they're letting y'all just they're letting y'all just have these stupid little fights online and if you showed up next to real money and whatever you think your nice swatches they'd probably be like oh yeah let my toddler play with that gave my baby one when he turned five that's so cute so like what did you do to it and they just need to feel superior by any means and y'all got to work on that within your cells most of these companies would prefer you didn't wear them yes please sell it what do you need just get it off of your knee grow hands I thought this was hilarious wow insecurity just like yep who cares bitch so this person got an iPod shuffle and you have a a fat back i met well everyone who yeah I just can't be that bothered about somebody else's pocket it's man do whatever you want to the young man little TJ that was involved in a butics shooting of offset few weeks back um oh yes recently had an interview on the breakfast clothes you see clips from the interview on the breakfast club I did not um shocked he's not in jail oh he's not and uh I mean this is the most I've heard him speak outside of when he was walking outside uh outside of jail we have his t-shirt on okay but he briefly um discussed how this whole thing happened he's at the casino he says we've offset offsetting their crashing out calling his aunties allegedly calling aunties asking for money calling people around and he says little TJ alleges that nobody was giving him any money he said he was asking people around the place my fuckers who look like they worked nine to five jobs saying things about cash wrapping back and whatnot he says TJ says he gave him ten thousand dollars like five thousand at a point another five thousand at a point and he thought it was nothing to like run away from basically like steal off with ten thousand that he'd get it back oh he's was then told he says he was told by several people around him and in the industry you don't fuck that and this is a terrible terrible decision um says he tried to he continued to think nothing of it until he saw offset in a strip club one day making it rain inside the club for everybody and then all little TJ niggas looking at him like ain't that your money so so we had to shoot him in this i think that's where things got dicey and led to a confrontation and yeah bullet in the booty i hope his interview was very funny because he sounds like he's freshly drinking age okay and he's got his little new york accent and he's just laughing this off like he beat someone at horse yeah it's just like yeah you shoot niggas in the ass sometimes he's like oh off second come give me a hug you know honestly i get he said he feels bad for him like looking looking at it for what it is and having like a gambling problem yeah no as i recognize he has an addiction to gambling i feel bad for him the the industry recognize he has an issue like he basically put him on here like if anything i feel bad for nigger because he really does have an issue and i he's i don't even know how i got myself in the algorithm because everybody was trying to like this nigger blows his money gambling he doesn't have any and he's got everybody financially fucked up right damn i mean it's one thing when i say it's another thing when the nigger who shot you is like actually y'all pray for him you know he's not doing good yikes yikes the way he was like that nigger was in the casino desperate child calling everybody it just praying somebody would pick up the phone nobody would answer like god damn literally speaking about it like any one of these niggers who live in the city uh-huh yeah just talking about how long it took to get a bake nigger to use okay it was like but also i could tell that he's like a i'll be fine with this case be $10,000 i'll be fine with that too see this nigger got a way worse offense right i don't know why in my mind this feels fair like you borrowed 10k from me and now you i'm seeing you in the strip club throwing it throwing my money that you owe me as some hose i it's somewhere in my mind you do deserve to shoot that nigger in the ass for that you know not fatally but a little baby gun in this it feels great it does i don't know why yeah people will definitely play with your money and then act like it's all your fault yeah and sometimes those people should be shot and you know black people don't play that we just really don't we are very serious about our mama's and our money and you just don't get to do it we try we try very hard yeah sometimes people should be shot oh well okay but we try very hard regardless god spares doesn't he yes he does speaking of offset cardi b might be back with this other one i mean cardi b may be never even broke up with that other one she never said she broke up with that nigger she just unfollowed him and y'all said that said it's over that's right i think the super bowl was like oh okay but i guess they were just you know argument well and he brought another girl i think another baby mama took a super bowl and he been like three so maybe that pissed her off i don't know i feel like all of the kids parents were there somewhere what one was right on the field i guess the ones he don't like too much was up in the nose be decided like everybody charm i would have unfollowed him because of how fucking terrible that game was yuck you embarrass me like this oh no um the Patriots got dog locked and i don't even feel like it's a bad like i i feel like that's completely sound that was embarrassing that was embarrassing the Patriots got embarrassed that day so that's why i was like cardi unfollowing him he got real now he beat this case with the chef you know all that oh yeah we talked about that we talked yeah he beat that case but you know he still need a foot i heard he might be going to Atlanta the Falcons which would be a terrible idea i'll say do let me all see there you go there you go step step off said do not need to be in in Atlanta at all but hey all of you i know that you all do this regularly and this is why i just be staying out job is step off sit bro rilla you all are just completely out of bounds um yeah and so much to find you it's too funny um Harriet studman wait oh i was about to say why am i triggered because of that damn podcast oh my god she took me out with that i'll never get over it a source tells people cardi pulled away from the drama in february she didn't trust him and felt like things were going on behind her back she wasn't in the play emotionally to deal with fighting attention. This way these sources can honestly kick rocks. She felt like things were going on behind her back. She knew that things were going on in front of her face. Who is this? - Right, and he had that case. I wouldn't be shocked if she was like, "Yeah, I just don't want to be associated with you until this is over." 'Cause it's strong as he cleared that case and the door was over, bam. - That's a good boy. - Yeah. - I'm touring newborn girl figured out. (laughing) - I'll see you on the other side if you make it. - Yeah. - I have to say about this. - I mean, the girls can't really be shocked. It takes the ladies a long time to leave their most recent baby daddy alone. - That's true. - So, it's really not that surprising. - That's true. Yikes. - Walk. - No. (laughing) - That'll start to work today. - Legend of Laney. Tears of the Kingdom. - Hi, brown girl. - You want to get on the mic? - Oh, you're getting big, mama. - Yeah. - Oh, you're big. - Getting so big, mama. - Yes. - Speaking of brown, the album's chopped. - Or so the streets say it. - That was even intentional. I'm just on a roll. - You are. - So, first of all, I really wasn't paying attention to the performance of the song 'cause I don't care. But someone did link me to the "Pitchfork" review. - Yes, me too. - I said, oh, they're not missing no words. - Not one. Not one. And at the end of the review, let me pull up this. - They really said this is shit. - They said this album is a real piece of shit. (laughing) All fans appear. - Mm-hmm. - Serpere, dragged. But it was also like, if you read the whole thing, it was a very solid scope of what's been going on, what is going on, intention, lyricism, style, big fails, genre, like the whole gamine of it. But I also love that the review ended with them basically saying, more of us need to say that this shit sucks. (laughing) - Yes. - Yeah. - Tip toying our around it is allowing this nigga to just create his own simulation and narrative that people who either haven't been paying attention, don't give a fuck to, we'll run with. Or, you know, people who are invested or really to argue with you in a barbershop will be like, yes. - Yep. - Here, here. - I thought that was kind. - Yeah, it was. It wasn't-- - I thought that was so bad. (laughing) - It was a, I know the title and the subhead and got a lot of attention, but it was actually a well-written review in my opinion. I have no idea whether the album's good 'cause God couldn't get me to press play on that. - But-- - Jesus, Jehovah Christ alive. - There is literally no way. And I saw a video of Chris being like, if you not my fan, I don't want you to listen to the album, like, oh, God. - Oh, I'm getting to that next. - I wasn't even going to baby girl. You don't have to worry about me. But yeah, that man said not every musical legend deserves to be a martyr. And I said, we need to pass that out. We need to print that on something and mail it to every stand. Because just because you like this man does not mean that he's some great and everybody has just been conspiring against him and everybody's rooting against him and wants him to grow up. Chris Brown is Chris Brown's biggest problem and always fucking has been. And I don't know what's so difficult about that. I don't know why y'all can't seem to grasp it. - I'd like to read one or two of my favorite. - Okay, yeah. - Little pieces from him. - For sure. - I think he picked up his Jamaican Pactwile on the Vibes cartel-assisted fucking party from studying Tay Diggs and how Stella got her groove back. God is so big and he is so alive today. - I knew that would appeal to you. - 'Cause I did get accosted with a clip of that. - Of course you did. - 'Cause you know that they would send it to me. You know that they would send it to me. That came from the Sebastian digs. - All right. - Academy of. - Leave defeat digs. I'll never do that. I will never do that. I'm never gonna do that. Never. - Leave it. - So Tay Diggs, defeat whichever one you wanted to use. It was horrible. Inexcusable, it was wretched. So that's even if I was like, okay, girl. Let me just for argument say, go and see what she's talking about. That was the one and only clip that I got from it. - Right. - You guys harassed me. - Are you tricked me? You know, into just going, okay, I have to see how bad it is. It was worse than I anticipated. Beyonce just screaming out. Missing, sir. Was just, that was good enough. Like that, that she knew. Let me say three simple words. - Yeah. - Three syllables. - I'm not gonna do too much. - I'm not doing anything else. That is it. In case you didn't know Chris Rott's version lives in 2015 a convenient time for him because there's a little, that's a little before cancel culture hit the streets. He's probably somewhere right now listening to trap queen and watching Paul Walker drive into the distance at the end of Furious 7. There's also it's personal, which is as you might have guessed personal. Overhokie acoustic guitars, he wraps in a hush tone. I just want respect and I'll die for that. Oh my God, we know. (laughing) - What, Mr. Pierre, you win, Ian bro. - Girl, bloodied. - You better than me because I have a suspicion this entire, everything to do with this album is AI. And so, I. - Oh, that's in here too. - Well, I'm like, I don't even know how you pressed play knowing that this was a bunch of manufactured bullshit. I just, uh-uh. - Yuck. - I'll find said if I were on the Chris Brown PR payroll, I would suggest he just copped all of Brown being AI. Because if not, he's got bigger problems. - Yeah, yeah. Like if it's not AI, what are you niggas doing? - 1.3. - I think they said, lowest score they've given in 2020. - Yeah, so far of the decade, this is the worst score they've given in an album. - Work. - Yeah. - Chris Brown did definitely respond to this as you said. Because Pitchfork went ahead and tweeted or wherever, just this album is a real piece of shit. They went ahead and just, I feel like, they probably figured this is the. - Oh, they know. - A perfect summary. - Yeah. - Of how we feel. And Chris Brown did some video on his backyard or his side yard or wherever. You know, talking about Team Breezy. You know, we're kicking they ass and fuck that. I'm doing a tour and more to come. I don't go fuck when that, these niggas are talking about. Except every time that you get this critique, you go live from the backyard, from the swing set, from the mural and go, I don't care. - Right. - But here's what I really appreciate. I actually don't say I appreciated two things. One, he looks relatively healthy. I'm used to him looking like Angelina Jolie's Maleficent. Here, he looks like there's water. - Okay. - Might be vegetable. - I love that. - And so that's one, two, I feel like we finally see each other because he said, I know exactly who my fans is and I know exactly who hearing this album. If you not my fan, I don't want you to listen to my shit, go listen to mother fucking Zara Larsen or somebody. Chris, it's like you know me person. I am not a fan. I won't listen to this shit. And in fact, I have been listening to Zara Larsen's been myself for that shit since its release on the first of May. So I'm just really happy that we're finally on the same page. Girl, when I tell you, I couldn't give a fuck. The main effect you try to play the fuck out of Durant was it's like, okay. - Yeah. - That's that. Also, Zara Larsen, I know she really ticked her bean because I think it was a Spotify clapper wherever. Where they asked her, but I remember that. - I just started blocked from her Spotify and she was like, I have a few artists blocked. Most of them are abusers. You'll never find Chris Brown on my playlist. - Period. And I was like, Zara, it's, I already, I was already on the standing committee. - Mm-hmm. - Like, I might be applying for, for citizenship over there in Sweden. But you know what the racism looks like. And whether or not mid-summer is like some real shit. I know it's not. I'm sorry I said that. - Um, so yeah, I found that to be delightful. - It was because I was like, yeah, we're like, we're gonna go listen to her right now, actually. - We're not going to listen to, like don't tempt any of us with a good time. We don't. - Yeah, yeah. - If you're not a fan, don't listen to it. When was that an argument? When was it? - It's so many white pop girls I'll listen to over Chris Brown. If I'll do a leap in there too. - Listen. - It sure will. - Don't do the beat. I sure will, baby. You do not have to worry about me. I won't be nowhere near that booth. I love her. Sabrina candlestick maker. Okay. All right. Can you get a leave it Olivia Rodriguez? Get out of my face. Madison vodka. Madison, Madison, Madison beer. I couldn't think of a finder. I don't even know who Madison beer is. See, you don't win too far now. Oh, we're any of the girls. Maybe we get to know her. Yeah. I mean, I'll try her out before I press play on this Chris Brown album. I guarantee you'll enjoy it more than yeah, I only know like two of her songs. She has a cute little voice. I hope she's not racist. I just I have to someone we need to have like a a green book. We need to have like a and under. We do database of all of the white people on the list. Yeah. Yeah. We just got to we got to have certain gatekeepers because you know, there are niggas who will they will rub their feet together in anticipation of telling white people about it. So we got to be careful about who all has access to it. But also I've seen legit, you know, teen breezy Chris Brown fans on threads and TikTok talking about how bad this album is. So yeah, I have to I'm like, damn, if the fans don't even like it, baby, just pretend it didn't happen. Well, I haven't seen clips of fans or whatever, but I did see. I did see him say some shit about it was getting mixed reviews. And I saw a few posts on threads that were like, well, damn, even the fans are not really good for yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, it's aiming for debut at number five on billboard 200 was 70,000 units in the first week, which I guess is the flop because everybody's training at like one are acting like it's one of somebody says selling out stadiums, but can't even sell 100,000 units first week. His fans clearly hate this hate his new music. Well, flop, never compare him to MJ ever again. And that should have never happened. That should have never ever happened from the beginning. I told you children that y'all were on drugs from the beginning with them comparisons to Michael Jackson. And y'all said we was just old and hating. Remember when they were trying to do it with the weekend. At least Chris Brown could do a fucking moonwalk. I don't know. That was absurd from the beginning. Right there. And especially like, do y'all hear the weekends music? Where are you getting? Hello, where are you getting? But you know, but you had that like, you had that one little era. You just trying to play with it. Okay. You know, I'm talking about you remember like one or two songs where he was. They were actually really popular of his. There were Michael Jackson coded. Y'all can tap into the comment. What was this like a very brief black era? No, it was just like, okay, hold on. Let me just look. I can't remember. It was like, he was really up. Like everybody wouldn't shut the fuck up about him. What was that single? I just always felt like his music is for white girls in the club. It is. So I don't even remember this. But he's been around it long as time. Oh yeah, he's, he's ancient. But I can't. Okay. The week and MJ style song minus not you really trying to find it. No, because I really want to, I want to thank you. Girl, he has tried. Okay. Out of time. Is it out of time? I don't remember any of these songs sound like I don't click on them on purpose. Right. It's old. It's back when he was wearing that red jacket. It's shit. Okay. All right. So it was intentional. Yeah. Got you. And everyone's like, oh, he's the Michael Jackson. I'll just let it go. Just stop comparing people to Michael Jackson. There's too much going on there. Yeah, let it be there. They couldn't even compare him to Michael. They can compare this movie to Michael Jackson. Come on. Be for real. Heartless. Blinding. Blinding lights is I think the song I'm thinking of. Okay. Amy, you got there. No, I don't know what I'm talking about. Anyways, I don't like his music either. And I was never going to listen to Sebastian Brown. You couldn't stuff my jacket. Never. Sebastian. Leave me alone. Sebastian day. Okay. All right. Apparently Nicki Minaj hates this. Uh, Coca-Cola. What? She hates her. Coca-Cola. What? You don't know. Coca-Cola. What? What? You're on TikTok. What do you mean you don't know? Coca-Cola. What are two different algorithms? I do. They're being like, oh my. No. No. No. Coca-Cola. What? No. I'm shocked. Well, what do I know? Coca-Cola. Now it's going to be all over my TikTok. As soon as we get off this phone, it's going to be all over my TikTok. Okay. All right. Goddamn. I didn't mean to be like. No. No. I don't know this. Is that what I mean? I'm in a water. I'm in a water. It's terrible. It is an awful song by a very lovely young lady named Trim. All right. Trim is a new viral rap girl who from what I can can gandrat his risen to rolling loud heights by making good TikTok friendly music. Yeah. I think all of it is bad. However, I'm almost 20 years older than her. So her career, the trajectory of her career has nothing to do with me. Yeah. If the kids are having a good time, that's all that matters to me as long as you're not like, oh, let's blow up Palestinian. Right. I feel like I really, you know, have a good time. Right. The reason why a lot of it is blatantly not for me is because it sounds like Nicki Minaj cosplay. Oh, it does. Coca-Cola, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? It's the same. The noises you are making out of your face. You listen to this fucking song and you tell me that that was not spot on. Okay. It's awful. All right. It sounds it. It really sounds bad. But I think it's one of those songs where people can make funny shit out of it on TikTok. They're taking it and using it as a sound. Okay. And dancing to it, but also making silly clips and skits or whatever to it too. I know that that is the intention. I know that it was the intentional at that last song, but she's also very, very, very Nicki Minaj coded. Pink here and there all of the time. The biggest thing for me is the way that she wraps so much so that even before this horrible coconut water song came out, when I was first introduced to her, I was like, oh, this is a bar. This is a young bar in motion. I'm looking at her. She literally looks like Nicki's little sister. Right. Okay. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. I was like, okay, this is a bar that's really breaking into the music industry and is, you know, is capable of making some catchy songs. Yeah. I thought the first time that somebody would ask her about this, she'd be like, yes, Nicki is my biggest inspiration. And I really want to be the princess, which would have been completely fine. Yeah. I don't even know that I would have cared regardless, but it would make sense. Right. The first time I saw a clip of someone asking her how she felt about the comparisons, she said something like, you know, I'm never going to be mad of being compared to the greats, but you know, my voice just maybe she says something about the tone of it or something that made it sound like it's organic. Like it wasn't intentional. It's just the way that her voice is. Ever watching that clip be going, little girl, please. Nobody's voice is like that on purpose or like, you know, I mean, like that's, I couldn't even believe the girl was not from New York. She's from South Carolina. Okay. She speaks exactly like on Nika Tanya. I was just about to ask what she was from. Exactly like her. Okay. South Carolina is crazy, baby. You know, that's not your voice. And it's okay. Like, it's fine. But this pink wig up, dude, this is absolutely Nicki Minaj coded. Please don't have me give that lady nothing. Okay. But Nicki Minaj is also also what parts as well. There's no reason for you to not just go. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yep. I don't know if her team was like, listen, that bitch is out the gate. Now's the time. Don't say nothing about her. You'll get canceled anyway. She's awful. So let's just take this shit. Oh, well, okay. And that's fair as well. She's like, this is a cute girl. She's 19. Oh, a baby. Okay. Yeah. You know, who does care? 20 year olds. Nicki Minaj. Oh, she's been blocking fan pages that support trim. So somebody with the mentality of a 20 year old. Yeah. Wait. So was her, did she speak on it or she's just blocking people? No, she's just blocking people. Okay. We can absolutely guess what it is. First of all, Nicki Minaj don't like any woman would have done that. Right. So we can start right there. You right. But offered when I saw this girl, actually, when I saw that clip of her trying to to, you know, play off the Nicki Minaj comparisons or dismiss them. Well, I saw that I was like, "Oh, Nicki has to hate this girl." "He has to hate this girl." She, Nicki, passed on a Doja Cat record that Doja basically constructed for her. And Doja kept the end of it where she says, "Thank you, Nicki. I love you." Like, and she still hate that girl, and Doja can't don't wrap nothing like her for real for real. A lot of times she does sound a lot like her, but I would say maybe this is the tone of her voice. Even her speaking voice sounds not too different than her rapping voice to me. Right. This girl is a such off of South Carolina that speaks like she's from Staten Island and raps like this lady. Lord help us. Anyway, again, if I was this 40-year-old woman with a family at home, and I guess JD Vance on, on my favorites in my, my iPhone, I think I would just be mine in my business. Right. That would be the most fun thing to do to me, but, you know, you could also, at any point in your life, just decide that you're going to interrogate why you act the way you do. Right. You know, because the fact that Nikki seems to feel so threatened at even the slightest upswing in any other female hip-hop artist is alarming. Like, a lot of the, first of all, you're nothing without your stands. You need them, kids. Bad. Number one. Big bad. Number two, a lot of them are just as insane about you as they are some other artists. You're going to have to let them be Nikki Trim or whatever they call them, you're going to have to let them. You're right. I'm sure that's a pay. Yes. You have. You're completely right. They're using AI to put you and Trim's faces together and call them themselves. So Barbie Grande, you have to let it go. You have to let it go, girl. Yeah. I do think it's like, I'm not a lie. I could understand being at home, especially with the state of things for her right now. And look at this little girl who has like her whole career out of her, who's taking the sauce, running with it, and also be like, oh, yeah, she's cool. She's great. But I'm that real doll. I'm the, you know, the new supreme that true rap girlie, I can say her being out and being like, oh, the fuck is this little girl thing she is? And I would call my best friend to be like, how do you see this? This whole audacious, Brad. Right. Maybe. Right. Maybe. I would laugh about it. Just get over it immediately because I don't care, but it's, yeah, that is really, it's just like a hallmark of her behavior. But I also think this trim girl has seen everybody else give Nikki, they props and Nikki's like, oh, yeah, the young girls will blot and then eventually she turns on them. So she's like, how about I just bypass all of that and just say, I'm me, I'm trim because kiss and Nikki's ass or giving her props for inspiration or whatever that don't do the girls no favors in the long run either. So yeah, yeah, I might have said the same thing actually now that I think about it. Nikki who, as you look exactly like her, and rap exactly like her, maybe, oh no, I'm sorry. I actually come from a place called Narnia and what the thing about it is, I'm sorry, I'm actually a crystal gem. And so our voices, the way they develop, it's just, it's a natural thing, you see, that's why Nicki Minaj gets voiced on an episode and this is, this is how we truly are. So hilarious. She's actually copying me. She's actually cosplaying my culture. So, but you know, we're glad it, we're glad it's popular over here now with the rest of you. But this is what an original sounds like. I can't even, it's like, you all of it, I don't like the music, yeah, I think it is very forced and, and a construction constructed. I also think that this young woman, when if she comes out on the other side of it, she's so young that she can find her sound and shift a bunch of times and have like real potential. Yeah. And that aside, I think it's lovely that it's annoying this woman. Yes. Scoped out. This is a blast. Right. Nikki looking at this girl. Like, you know, one thing you can't buy is youth and she looked around. She looked, you know, you can buy skin treatments and body modifications and all that, but you can't buy genuinely looking 19 anymore. And like you said, this girl has her whole life ahead of her. She don't have no kids. She ain't pissed off. 90% of the industry, she's not married to a rape is, you know, like the future is bright. And she can do whatever she wants to do with it. So I can see Nikki feeling away about this young girl stealing her whole look and then being like, I've never heard of Nikki. I'm sorry. Nikki. I don't. G of Onnie. I don't. Who is this? Don't know what you mean. We don't do that. Where I come from. No. Not in the kindergarten. We don't play that. And Mariah Carey. I don't know her. Yep. Straight like that. Too cute. I don't know her. God. I love that clip. She said that. She saw a matter of fact. And then nodded her head like, what else do you have another question? Yeah. This is lovely. It's very funny. Um, you know, cool. God. I don't know. You have to go listen to it. It will be all over my FYP now. It's just that now. Yeah. Yeah. It sure will. So it is so funny. Now that I think about it, don't you get it actually made a clip of like voicing that over on an epimek or whatever. Okay. So it's like a show theme that's just didn't know what the fuck was going on. Yeah. You probably, I, I can't believe that you didn't at least zoom past it. Yeah. It was probably just so outside of things that you would give a fuck about that you. Why would you slow down? Why would you pull over? Right. Right. Okay. Well, I'll see it now. Take a look. I think you have to. Okay. You love it. Yes. You hate it. But you love it. Yes. Yes. You sang it. Also, I finally listened to that Carisha song on 1.5. Ain't it better? See. See. You was mad at first. But it was because it's awful. Like it in itself, it's terrible, but you speed it up. She needed to go into. You know how some of the artists do that now where they were really single and to be like the song, the song sped, the song, she's just go ahead and make it official. She should because it is when I say it actually makes the song tolerable. It's tolerable. It's better. It's better. When I sped it up for the first time, I was like, why isn't this. This should be the regular version, girl. This should be the song. You rapping about scammers in slow motion. Why? Why would you do that? For what? Oh, Carisha. Everyone knows a scammer in a booster has to be quick. Get out of here. Why are you still here? Carisha, please. Oh, man. That's it for the Hot Top. It's a sweet. I can come back Carisha for a sense. We are backslurs. It is time for your listener letters. It is Sandra questions to ask the [email protected]. We may read them a lot on the show. There's a quick question here from Cam who wants to know if you could feel you have heard of the real housewives of Kanoha on YouTube. What a fuckers Kanoha. I figured it was some anime reference that K-O-N-O-H-A, I might be saying her. Maybe it is. Well, they said it's funniest fuck you should watch it if you haven't heard of it. Oh, Kanoha. Oh, my bad. Well, I mean, I'm sounding in the job. This is so nigga making my roots so housewives, I have so much to think. I can't wait to watch this. Well, thank you for introducing me. No, I have not seen this yet, but yes. Okay. Well, Cam said, "Kiffiri would absolutely fucking love that." It seems like you may have been right about that, Cam. We'll get a review later on. Our next question technically comes from Chloe who says, "Dear Kiffiri and Crystal, I'm a 40 year old black woman in Atlanta with three kids, two high level jobs and a small business that I'm trying to grow. I basically run my house like a CFO because I grew up poor and I refuse to recreate that for my kids. I pay our $2,500 mortgage, I pay the bills, I fund the trips, I keep the lights and the water on. My husband is supposed to "handle the house" since I handle the money." A few years ago, my big sister told me always have an account that's just. So I quietly opened my own separate checking account where my real money lives. The account my husband sees is our joint account and I only transfer money into that one when it's time to pay for something. As far as I can tell, he does not even have a bank account of his own. So that joint account has basically turned into his spending and day-to-day life line that I occasionally feed. And lately I've started leaving it in the red on purpose so he can wake up. This man under-earns has his little entrepreneurial thing, whatever that is, and does what I call performance chores. No wipe-accounter, but leave toothpaste in the sink and hair in the tub and dirty floors. I've literally had to tell this grown man, "Please do not leave your chores for me, especially because I take care of everything else." Now onto the most recent foolishness. Recently we went to a stake house he picked out. Before we even went, our joint account was at negative $75 and he knew this. I do not use that joint account for my real money. I just transfer in what's needed when it's time to pay for something or when he has our kids. For this dinner, he only moved $200 into that account that was already at negative $75 and then proceeded to order like we wore baller. When the bill came to around $300, I quietly transferred another 400 from my private account because I refused to be embarrassed in public. As soon as we left that restaurant, I moved every left over sent back to my personal account and left him with basically nothing. I have no idea what's happening. The next day, this man who has zero real bills in his name and no automatic dress hidden his account texted me asking if I could give him $20. Like I'm his mama putting much money on his cart. Since you know what I mean. Meanwhile, I'm the one keeping a roof over our heads paying utilities paying for our three kids and he's walking around with a full stake belly off of money. I had to secretly move in and out so we didn't get declined at the table. So here's my question. Am I being a financial fool for even still being here and covering anything at this point or is he actually moving like a dependent who just happens to share my last name? I don't know what to do. I want to be the one to leave because he's broke, but it feels like disrespect at this point because why the fuck would he plan to stake house dinner knowing he didn't have enough money? It's because he know that I was going to cover it. So this is me trying to stand up for myself and let him feel the consequences of his actions, but I'm not sure. Please help. PS I make well over 300 K a year so I technically can afford everything, but that's not the point. The point is I never signed up to take care of him. I've only made that much because I have like five jobs. I feel like I've birthed his kids and that would should have been more than enough. That was my mind and body sacrifice and the rest of the work should be him. This doesn't seem fair. Marriage is a scam. Thanks Chloe. I don't argue that your marriage is a scam. That is my exact thought. Marriage is not a scam in and of itself, but yours absolutely is. Sometimes you'll have to like really, you know, just just unfurl that scroll and look at the information presented in front of you and then call this thing as mama and say, take him back. Yeah, you're not raised. You're not finished and I have three kids. So I'm not raising this thing. Are you? So you give him an allowance. He does clean up after himself. He has absolutely like no sense of financial literacy responsibility. And he also is spoiled because you go pay for his steak dinner. Yeah, yeah, for him to go back home and play battlefield six until four a.m. and they eat all the babies, welches, fruit snacks. And then you're like, well, is marriage a scam? When you marry to a scam, are you? Where are my scam? I can't understand this person. I'm raising a full grown man. I mean, I do. I understand. I know what's happening here. I should say that as opposed to I understand I know what's happening here. But Chloe, the thing about your situation is that most women who are in a in a dynamic like yours need that other person financially or for housing or something. This nigga is legit another dependent and if the shoe was on the other foot, a woman, a woman with a husband who makes over 300 K a year and has three children would be expected to keep that house fucking spotless to have every meal. You should never eat cereal a day in your fucking life. That nigga should be up two hours before you have to leave to go to work to make whatever you want that day. Your breakfast cooked, your lunch packed and to ask what you want for dinner because as soon as you leave, he's going to do his chores and then go do the grocery shopping, get some nice flowers so the house feels like a fucking home. Like a woman would be expected to absolutely keep that house in beautiful condition and you would be made fun of if you couldn't do it with a man making this much fucking money. Yes, every other woman, you have like no value. Why are you married to this big literally what is you know, like she is no like values or tradition, but she's not like wife material. Right. It would be all that especially making $300,000 in Atlanta. Like that's actually on actually a high salary anywhere. Yes, so that kind of money in and you got a $2,500 mortgage. I know your house is nice. Of course, the fact that this nigga will wipe a countertop, believe hair on the floor and toothpaste in the sink. Imagine doing whatever work it takes to get that. No salary. Right. Work that comfortably. Right. Have what is like you said likely to be a nice home. Yeah, only for this broke as negative even rings around and go to imagine that I get this beautiful house for myself and I have to be married to Charlie Brown. Right. No. No, talk to a dude. Yeah, the filthy one where the cloud of dirt just followed him around. Yeah. Yeah. The little funky ass friend. Yeah. Cheese. I would talk to a divorce attorney because even if you do leave him, you're probably going to have to pay John support or alimony or something. Yeah. And you know what? And it still might be cheaper than funding this man's whole fucking life. 1,000%. Watch your house be cleaner once that man is not in it. 1,000% because even if you ain't cleaning it, the kids ain't cleaning it, you can you will now have money to have somebody help clean it for you because you work your ass off instead of paying for his steak dinners or whatever. You know, he got whatever his own little entrepreneurial thing is whatever that is. And you know, uber or whatever on the side every now and then but like. If he it sounds like y'all had an agreement, you were going to hustle and make the money. He was going to take care of the home. He is not taking care of the home and he has no consequences for not taking care of the home. It's the same that you even have to think about it like that because that's how you think about interacting with children. Exactly. You would think as an adult, you would be grateful that you don't have to work five fucking jobs that you get to stay baby. If somebody who makes a lot of money would like to bring me into their rich life. And all I have to do is keep this bitch tidy. I would also like to present myself for this experience. Thank you. This man, you right. He's spoiled. He don't realize how good he has it or he don't think you're going to leave or all of the above, but. Bitch, I will take your shoes off at the door for like literally girl, literally my whole lifestyle taking care of cheese on my burger. Every night, every night is the thing. That's like she, you got this many jobs. You have two high level jobs and a small business that you're trying to grow. That means you're always at work. You're always, even when you at home, you work in. I just, baby. I tell you, your filthy ass has been spoused. Do you have McDonald's money? That's when you know it's getting. Are you kidding curtains? Are you kidding? And I have the free time. We have three children. They're probably in school. So I have all day to do my things like to. Okay. All right. So. Okay. You could at least cook. You could at the, actually, I don't even know about that because when you cook, you have to clean. Well, and I mean, she, she put in a lot in the middle of this letter of like this nigga refuses to pay. He's not cooking dinner. You know, he's not always picking up the kids. He's not. Well, doing chores around the house. She came home one night and clothes and trash for everywhere dishes was a mess. Nothing was done. And this managed like sitting there and playing video games. and then decided to go Uber or something like that. So he is literally playing with you, girl. He is laying with you. Are you being a financial fool? Well. - Yes. - Only fools find love. - And I mean, I'm sure there are, they have to be good things about this man. You wanted him for some reason. I don't know what that reason is, but you do, surely. So yeah, I think it's time for you to consult in attorney. See, you know, it might be cheaper to keep her and I'm sorry if that's true, but the not coming home to my house being a disaster might be worth it. It really might. 'Cause what you mean, I've been at work all fucking day. I finally dragged my ass in here and instead of pot roasts and potatoes and green beans waiting on me, I got kids running around looking crazy and the whole house is tow up and you over there talking about, yeah, I'm finna take the car. You bought me and go door-dash for a little bit. Girl, I'll roll off the roof. - And this fucking triple-stained tupperware that you just had Chef Boyard D out of too, right? Still in the seat. So what do you think this is? - Right. - Right. 'Cause you're not. - You couldn't even take that chicken out the freezer like I told your ass to before I left work. So what are you doing here? - I'm not cooking. I'm not. Instead of a husband, you could have a full-time housekeeper who would make your life so much better than this. Who would actually do what they're supposed to do? Who would actually- - I'm home. - What they're supposed to do? - I'll come home, pack up offering my kids. We're going to get steak. We're going to the steak house. That has been like, "Okay, we go, not you, you can choke." - Not in front of the kids. - Absolutely in front of the children. - Think about the message you are teaching your children of what you expect out of a marriage or what is tolerable in a marriage. What are you not what you're saying to them? What are you showing your children is acceptable behavior in a marriage? - Think about your room. Daddy don't clean a fuck thing. - If you don't work, you won't have nowhere to live. Daddy don't work and daddy live here. And it's nice. Well, Daddy takes care of the house. That's how everybody has responsibility. Daddy don't do that shit either. 'Cause when I was growing up, it was absolutely you have to learn how to take care of a house because that is the cost of being in a family. You have to learn how to do things. At the bare minimum, clean up after yourself. Ground adults, baby, I'm sorry, blame capitalism. We have to do something to take care of the home. And if you don't work, you have to clean that bitch and cook. You do. - That's a mention how in terms of parenting, how gender norms, gender norms. - Oh yeah. Into this. - Oh yeah. - 'Cause I think my mother was the one who was very much clean up after yourself, clean your room is how you do laundry, all these other things. - Yeah. - My father was, here's how you fix the car. Here's how you. - Oh yeah, oh same. - Here's how you fix things around the house. I think, you know, we got learned. We learned, like, oh, you don't need to learn this thing over here 'cause this is for boys, this is for girls. But I can't imagine if I had another parent in the house that was just farting and watching sports and never doing a fucking real working. - Yeah. Yeah, it was definitely gendered in my house too, but it was, you know, men do certain chores, women do certain chores, but you still need to learn how to do both. Like, I learned how to mow, I didn't do it regularly, but I learned how to mow the fucking lawn. Um, this, yeah, you, it's been time to call it a lawyer. Like, girl, I can't with this nigga. - I agree that I hope it's not a cheaper to keep a situation, but yeah, if it meant me just coming home. - Girl, you know coming home to a clean home. - It's so nice. - After working your ass off? - Yeah. - Regardless of the field, the occupation. - Right. - You come home and your things are nice and they're clean. And everything's where you left it. - Yep. - Oh, what a piece. - It's piece. - What a piece. - Yes, it's piece. And when you come home to chaos and confusion, after a long day of work, it makes you that much more stressed and tired. You got it. - I'll find a good trouble for this. - Oh, Lord. - I don't like to get a trouble for this. - The aim is less work. - There was like one or two times. Where my mother had come home from work. And I also was a man. She didn't even need you to come. - Oh, yeah. - Got back in her car. - Oh, yeah. - Just left. - Yeah. - She was like, I don't even know. I wasn't even sure where I was going. - Yeah. - It's a play. (laughing) - She's a lot of it. It was like, you know what? - Yeah. - No. - No. - I worked too hard today. I don't care about none of this. - Yeah. - Me think it's getting to figure it out. Three kids, spouse. I shouldn't have to. - Yep. - Bye. - And my mama did the same thing one time. I'll never forget it because it spooked the fuck out of me. We were like, where are you going? I don't know. When you gonna be back, I don't know. And just left. - Yeah. - Oh, I can't handle that. I'm not emotionally prepared for this at all yikes. So. - Same. - Yeah. - Same. 'Cause I deaf, that was the time I could remember it. It also shook. - Yeah. - The whole hand to God right on my shoulder. I was just like, girl, wait. - I didn't know kids. - Wait, also. (laughing) Mama's boy. Mama comes up, wait, where are you leaving? - Yeah. - Because we did something wrong. Now I feel ashamed. - Yes. - I did it myself. - Right. - Now I'm washing the floor with a towel. (laughing) - Right. - That's how you get it done. - Yeah. - Again, her husband fully worked, you know, took care of certain things right now. He was eating clean. You're talking about this nigga. You have to give him an allowance. You plugging in money to his bank account so the child could, why did you even go to the state council meeting? Well, you know, he broke. - The worst thing I've ever heard, bro. What do you mean? - You, what do you mean? - He let your husband borrow some money. - Right. - And then you took it back. - How does he even get, how does he frequently withdraw? Like, how does he keep going into the negatives over and over? And he just, he just like, oh, let me text mommy, wife. And she'll take care of it. - Yeah. (laughing) - Horror. This is a horror movie that you see. - She's leaving it in the red sometimes so he could, can't learn. - That is what she said to like a five-year-old. 678. - Yeah. - Yeah. Okay, Chloe, good luck in your divorce. - My divorce. - Day of course. (laughing) - You might need a wife, anything but this may. - I agree. That's one of those, the ones where you have a divorce party. - Yes, yes. And watch your life get easier. Watch your life get less stressful. - Without question. - That's a damn shame. You're part, anyway. Good luck, baby. Our last letter comes from Kim who says, I have this friend, Moisha. - You know what? I should have seen her come. - You should have. (laughing) I have this friend, Moisha, who I met when we both moved to a new city to start at the same job. We started hanging out and over the years we developed what I thought was a genuine sisterhood. We showed up for each other when needed and had a good old time. Even when she got pregnant and married a troll as fugliest, dingy, dirty dick ass boy, I loved her and showed up to support. Cut to years later, she's now going through a nasty divorce and she just wants to be out here and have fun. Cool. Moisha invited me to her friend Nese's birthday trip. I had not even-- - She was coming. - I had not even met Nese before and it was supposed to be a girl's trip with just three of us. We were having drinks in a good time when Moisha drops the bomb that she has invited some nigga named Q that she's been fucking and he's bringing his friend and his brother. Now, I was not a fan of this scheme but it wasn't my birthday trip. So I said whatever and kept on with the keepin' on. Later that afternoon, Q showed up with his home boy. They seemed to be cool. Everybody was vibing. That night they met up with us at our hotel but this time with Q's brother and that's where the night went left. The brother is some short dusty weirdo and we could smell the Tennessee pouring out of his pores. He was being a little too aggressive with the flirting. Even after Nese and I both let him know that we're not interested and we have our boyfriends. - Yeah. - Moisha was so far up Q's ass that she wasn't reading the room. After a couple hours of Q's drunk as brother harassing us, I had enough. He and I were arguing back and forth. Then this little polypocket ass nigga rolled up on me squared up and yelled, "So bitch, what's up?" - Oh. So I then stood up towering over him and sweared up to the bed. I don't know who the fuck he thought I was. - We all lip in each other's face. Nese was immediately by my side prepared to have my back with whatever happened. Q came over and started to grab his brother out my face when Moisha then grabbed Q and told him to stay out of it and the two of them walked away. - What? Q's friend and some random dude pulled up on Little Man [BLANK_AUDIO] and he'd back down and the men all left. Since they all left, me and Nesey went back to dancing and vibing all while Moisha's ass was pounding in the corner. We eventually left, and this fella has not said one word to me since. She went in the room, closed the door, and waited up for Q to come over, and the rest of the night she was just laid up with Q while me and Nesey were chilling. I woke up the next day before both of them changed my flight and left a day earlier because I refused to spend any more time being ignored or made to feel like I ruined something. I texted them, letting them know that I left. Nesey called me to check that I was okay. Moisha, however, just texted back, okay, get home safe. It's been almost a week and we still have yet to even talk about this fiasco and I'm low-key pissed. She's supposed to be my home girl, but Moisha was too worried about some out of town dick to even have my back. What's the best way to approach her when it comes to this situation? Should I just cut my losses and move on? I told my man about what happened, and he said I should dump her 'cause she is not to be trusted when shit hits the fan. Any advice would be great, love, Kim. You know, Moisha was always a some time he asked for in to Kim. Really, really was. She really was. She did really was. She did not do Kim right? I knew it from the day that Kim made the cheerleading team and she didn't. Yeah. You said you didn't even wanna be a cheerleader. You were coming to support me. They picked me and now you feel some type of way and you're calling me fat. Oh yeah. Moisha was always some time and like, okay, we're not addressing the question. But she really like, she was, she was really like how dare your fat ass get something that I don't have. I was like bitch, I'll bitch, I'll ass. I'm fat and all. Because I want it more because I'm good at it. Because I'm better than you with this. I'm better than you at this. Why are you upset? I didn't do anything to you. Oh, anyway. Well, she pissed me off so bad. It's like, everybody was mad at that one. Her rendous. And she did act a fool over Q2. I don't understand her behave. What the fuck does she feel like you did to behave like to intervene and it not be on your side, not being an attempt to protect you or even defuse anything. Right. Meanwhile, your friend who I just met and it's her fucking birthday is right next to me ready for whatever. But you, my friend of years, that I thought was more like a sister, you trying to keep this nigga from stopping his own brother from putting his fucking hands on me? Right. He should be stopping his brother from putting his hands on anybody. Right. Why would you be like nah, stay out of it, let them handle it. You see this grown man squaring up on me and you gonna tell his brother not to get involved. Are you fucking serious? Y'all should have jumped her. (laughing) You and me see both. Yeah, I'll sort of jump her. 'Cause what the fuck are you talking about? - Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I hate to agree with a man, but I think your boyfriend is right. When shit go down, when shit really hits the family, he should be more worried about dick than her friend. And that's so fucked up. - Also, it's like why would you ever want to be anybody, gender aside, but especially of him. Why would you ever want to do anything, but clock advantage, destroy, confront, a man when it comes to violence, attempt at violence, and particularly that, at another woman or a family. - Right. - Like why would you, why would you even allow a nigga to feel like he's in the zip code of okay, correct? - Yeah. - Make him sort of, when it comes to bucking up on a woman. Why? And I'm your friend. - I don't get it, baby. I really do not understand it. Make it make sense. - I could have been like, you won't understand this reference. I could have been like Lizzie Kaplan at the beginning Cloverfield, but she was at that voice party, but she only knew the girlfriend. Or like, she was like, I don't really care about any, that I'm just here for the one person I know. I don't wanna be a nigga. I could have been that person and seen this, and I would have immediately jumped in, 'cause nigga, who the fuck do you think you are? What type of time do you think this is? - Right. - So you're best friend. - Bitch, are you cool? (laughing) - Yeah. - And then you want to tap out? Didn't say not one word. You still more worried about this nigga coming up to the hotel to fuck you good that night as opposed to, okay. All right. And it's been over a week and y'all still ain't talked to you. - Right. - Yeah. - There's no way that our next conversation is anything other than me custom you the fuck out and ending our friendship. - Yeah, I mean, I would, I would maybe wanna, I would wanna hear what she has to say for herself. Like, hopefully she, Kim has, I mean, Moisha has gone back and talked to, I don't know, her step-mom on somebody who said, now you know you did that girl wrong. How are you gonna stop a nigga? Like, hopefully somebody has been in her ear about this and she's apologetic and she's like, girl, you know, since the divorce, I just been wanting some dick and I've been ridiculous. - But didn't Moisha listen to any of the adults in her life? Again, I'm doing unnecessary parallels. Continue, I'm sorry. - No, right, hopefully, if she is apologetic about it, I wouldn't necessarily feel like we need to end the friendship. However, watch her or rent when it comes to niggas 'cause you know that when it comes to men, all of a sudden she gonna act like she don't have good sense and I probably would not go on no more group trips with her. - Yeah, that's true. - Yeah, I don't, I think your man is right about like, when shit hits the fan, Moisha is not a person you can depend on. And so it might just be like a restructuring of the friendship or how close you are to her as opposed to cutting her off entirely, but yeah, 'cause this was just beyond messy. And as women, I just really don't understand how you are gonna tell a man to stop another man from physically fighting your friend. I really don't get it, bitch. I do not understand. I would be so ready to fight her. What you mean, stay out of it. - That's something. - Yeah, yeah. - I haven't even immediately been like, okay, you and me. You and I, so what do you, how do you want to do this? 'Cause I'm going to beat your ass. - Yeah, I, how dare you. That would have pissed me off more than that. Little nigga trying to get in my face. What you doing? - I'm so serious, especially 'cause you said, first of all, I'm a stallion. So. (laughing) I don't know what to do. - I stood up, I'm six inches taller than this nigga and I squared up as well 'cause who the fuck are you talking to? And here this bitch go talking about, stay out of it. If you had paid attention to me or Nese, you would have known that this nigga has been drunk, breathing all over us, being inappropriate, sexually harassing us for hours and we're fucking over it. - Even that. - Yeah, yeah. - There is, I won't say nothing, but it is up there on the list of frustrating, cringy nigga behavior when they are soaked. I mean, just alcohol is steaming. - Oh, yeah, yeah. - And they're trying to get at you. Girl, if you were sober trying to get at me with your strategy, this probably still would go no more. - Right, still not working. (laughing) - But you coming over here, some of them like hot hands and sea and trying to talk to me. So there's one or two things that's gonna happen. Either I'm gonna play you in your face to tell you to get the fuck out of me or treat you like this is not gonna go anywhere, obviously. And then what happens, you won't fight. Or I suck it up and do the thing that women usually do in setting like this to avoid what happened anyway. - Well, yes. (laughing) - Which is just play along and hope that you go the fuck away. And here go Moises, we're too worried about that. - Not to mention, you violate a girl code by bringing a nigga or inviting a nigga on a girl's trip anyway. - That. - I hate her. - Girl, girl, girl. - Girl. - I hate her. (laughing) - Yeah, a conversation needs to be had, but I, yeah. You just gotta, you gotta take people, when they show you who they are, you know, et cetera, et cetera, believe that shit, so. - Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. Maybe she will have come to Jesus. - Hopefully. She'll be like, my aunt Millie got me together and she told me all the way, so I was wrong. And, you know, yeah. Apology goes here. - Hopefully, hopefully. - Hopefully. - Best of luck, Kim. She just jealous 'cause you made the cheer team that she did it. (laughing) I wish she could have to get over it. - The nerve of Moisha. I wanted to pull a braid out. Bitch, you didn't want to be, you know, cheerleader. Now you mad that you not one? Is it 'cause Guerrero Union was on a cheerleading team. And you were like, oh, I gotta be on there too. - Raggedy. All right, let's. (laughing) - That was great. - Yes, great. - Like, and I was fat before I was a cheerleader. Like you, you just, so you just been, you just had that in the chamber. You were just waiting. - Yeah, that was in the clock. - Yeah, that just was on your spirit. - Ooh. - You could not wait to let that one out, bitch. All right, let's wrap up the letters right there. again, if you have a question. for us. Send us an email, askthereedagmail.com. We'll be right back. All right, Slurs. We have reached the end of the function. It is now time for the read. I'll start because I really don't have much to say. Other than Los Angeles. I love it here. A lot of you who have been here much longer than me are, you know, saying LA is dead and, you know, it's whack and trash out here. And I'm not going to argue with you about that because there is some truth to it. However, I love it. Whether it's great, beach is right there, great food. I'm having a blast. If Spencer Pratt becomes the mayor, if Spencer Pratt becomes the mayor, if Heidi Montag is the mayor's wife of this town, I am dust. You can absolutely catch me smoking. I'm out. I don't even know why this keeps happening. Yeah. What are we doing? I don't know. So you mean to tell me that we're going to sit here with straight American faces and say, here is the supervillain from MTV's The Hills. He would like to be the mayor of your city. No. It's a no. No. Immediately no. No. Meanwhile, I got two calls this week for the other Karen Bass. And, what's this other lady's name? She called me personally. Katy Porter. Oh, no. She's running for governor, right? No, no, no. Not Katy, Katy Porter. It was, what is her name? Raman. Yeah. Katy Porter is running for governor. I don't know who I, but I've seen the Spencer Pratt shit. And I'm like, y'all cannot be for real. There's no way Spencer Pratt is is a viable candidate for mayor. Does Spencer Pratt do even one thing in a community sense? Does he like, like, even one thing to show that he to demonstrate some sort of knowledge of politics or anything to do with how to run a city? Anything. One thing. Once you got to like, knowledge of politics, I do. Okay. Okay. Because community wise, I was good. Like, oh, maybe he's donated golf balls to his face. No. Patchy club. No. I'm at like, oh, I'm not like, I'm not like, are you head of any sort of coalitions that go talk to politicians and try to get them to see, you know, your way of doing things. Like, do you do anything in that sense? Because I did see some people being like, well, Barack Obama, but Barack Obama. Well, you remember Barack Obama, um, ran for president without ever being, like, senator or governor or anything like that. So they were like, well, it's kind of the same thing. Like, you can't expect, which is right. First of all, first of all, Barack Obama wasn't on road rings. Barack Obama had the education and the experience in his life to like, this man was a okay. So the fact that y'all are even comparing Barack Obama to spin surprise is insane. What are we talking about? The man who graduated from Harvard Law, whatever, are you kidding? That's who y'all compare it to the nigger from the hills. The board of board of ridiculousness. I hate it. If you bitches, I am leaving. I am leaving. I am, I am taking all of my Kendrick Lamar memorabilia. And I'm getting all the parts of it smoking. You bitches. I promise you, I'm leaving. Because that is ridiculous. No, it really can't do this. It really, and I know, obviously, register Republican, although he claims he's not MAGA or whatever. Whatever. But that and America's new trend of making reality TV stars prominent political figure. Ah. And then I'm sure he's gotten a shit ton of donation. Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure contributions to his, his campaign have been, have been big. When it comes down to, when it comes down to clicking and checking off these ballots and bitch, let me tell you something, I don't care about a key key. I don't care how, um, in different or exhausted, we may be, that has never gonna stop me from going down to the pole. And my best foot forward, because then what can I complain about? If you bitches, y'all better not, y'all just better not, man. All we know about this person is that he sucks. We've never, he's never even had like a redemption arc on that program. I have never heard anything positive about this bitch since. And yet he is up on stage with real politicians arguing that he should be the mayor of one of the biggest, most bustling cities in the nation. And I promise you, I know that you had Arnold Schwarzenegger over here at one time, y'all been, you know, having a key key. I promise you, I will be dipping. I can't take a Spencer, Spencer Pratt, having any sort of say over anything, no, no, no, no, no, to my living situation is enough for me. I promise you that I will roll some dice. I will do what I do. Where do you remember those things back in elementary school? Oh, yes, yes, love those. I'm your friend. Yeah, I will immediately take a new place. I can't. I can't. Oh, yeah, y'all can not. I can't. I can't listen. This will be the first year that I've really been dialing in the votes here because usually I just stay voted. I've stayed registered in Florida. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because I always am like, okay, Florida needed. Yeah. Well, at this point with the past couple, I'm just like, listen, you got to help out where you live. You got to help out where you live. At this point, let me just go over here where I'm at. Yeah. It seems like a Miss Floridian is going to be red. Maybe they're going to be soup, maybe they're super tired for this next go round. Okay. We primary or something because I think a couple of them are realizing like, oh, I'm human and an immigrant and these people don't actually like me. Maybe. Or, you know, I'm a bespeckled white swamp person and these people were never going to actually respect me or want me anywhere near them. No, that reminds me of I'm selling my AP because now you broke bitches. You can have an AP too. Yeah. Yeah. Like that's this administration. Yeah. Please give me all of your money. Yeah. Isn't so nice that I look at you and you come to the shows and you scream for me. Aren't we all on the same page? Oh, wait. You want healthcare and milk? Oh, nice. Go fuck yourself. No, I can't have any of my things. Did you say that clip of Trump when a reporter was like, you know, to what extent are Americans financial situations impacting, you know, this deal with Iran. So somebody asked him like, you know, things are tough for Americans. Is that motivating you to get a deal done? And he was like, not even a little bit. What? He said, my number one concern is that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. I do not think about Americans financial situation at all bitch. That don't mean nothing to me. Oh, because gas is $5 a gallon, baby. Like, um, you might want to think about it. The people are not doing well. This bitch. But you know, the mom Donnie's mom Donnie campaign when he was running from mayor, they actually did a ad or video that said, I know a lot of you moved here. And that's great. And you are like, I'm from the south. I'm going to stay registered to vote in the South, I'm going to home or vote absentee or whatever. But New York is not as solidly blue as you think it is. And we can we can absolutely use your votes if you believe in what we have to say. So here's the deadline for you to go ahead and change that voter registration to New York because we need you. And it's like, yeah, that's an important message. Like, yes, we look at New York City. It's like, it's always going to be blue. But that nylon exists. We got these weird pockets of conservative bullshit out here too. And it's not always an overwhelm. Like, you just can't count it always being that way. Like, somebody has to vote is the thing. So right. And you know, and then we're probably show up. Yeah. Yes. They will do it. So they were like, we understand, you know, you registered in Virginia. But please change that 'Cause we need you and I think a lot of people. people did it. So, yeah, yeah, that y'all cannot. - And it is Nithya Raman or Raman. - Who? - I think that's who called me, but Mayor O'Connor. - Oh, she called you personally, oh, work, yeah. - Yeah, I couldn't believe it wasn't like AR or something. - Right. - It was like, oh, you donated such and such. So the campaign, which I remember doing, but I remembered when she reminded me. And she was like, what are, what's something that's, you're like the most passionate about that you want to see change in in Los Angeles. We have a conversation about. - Oh, I love that. - Yeah. - And she was like, what's something that you would really, like how would you like to see adult with? Well, I said, taxing the incredibly wealthy that live here and have all of the money to do things about that. She was like, sounds like we're on the same page. (laughing) I'm pretty sure that's a goal be to support it. - Yeah. - So, yeah, I just wanted to say Los Angeles, completely agreed. No lot of y'all have maybe moved here recently. I've been here for a while. Maybe I don't know what you're doing with your registration, but girl, they're trying to put someone from the fucking challenge in the mayor's office here where you like buy milk and eggs and water and try to walk your dog. I would not do that. So I will be voting for that to not happen. - Yeah. - I would like for you to do the same. Because, my God, I might leave the country at that point. God. Okay. So this dead man is the president. 'Cause he's dead. - Yeah. - Yeah. - He's dead. The rot is spreading. The blight is just spreading all of his bones. - His neck. - His neck. - Yeah. - They shouldn't even be allowed to show that. - Like a patch or something. - Roll, roll, it's gross. - Like, when I want to watch a conjuring or a terrifying, I don't want to watch horror and gore. I do that on my own time. - Right. - And I know that it's not real. - Right. - I see those horrors in real life. - Right. - Fallen asleep, saying, "Oh yeah, fuck people's right to have food." Or, he's not here, but he is, and that's the problem. - That he is, right. - Well, that's it. - Well, good luck. A mom, Donnie actually just balanced our budget by taxing the extremely wealthy who live here. It works, actually. Didn't have to cut no social services. Didn't have to take school lunches away from kids or whatever, you just taxed. And it was like, it's almost like it's possible. - They're not, they, and if they leave New York, guess where they're going? LA, they're not going to the middle of the fucking country. Like, they just, they don't want to live there. And mom, Donnie knew it. These, he was like, we're gonna tax you holes on the property that you buy in New York City that you don't actually live in. - Yeah. - Not even your primary home. This is like an extra tax on the houses that y'all buy up for the fun of it. And they said, "Okay, Ms. O'Maila, y'all's your money." (laughing) 12 billion dollar deficit. He was like, oh, it's actually pretty easy when you just take money from the wealthy. Yeah, that's, it's actually right there. That's why they were quick and over there man and fake, fake mispronouncing his name and all that shit. - Oh yeah. - 'Cause they knew this day was coming and at people, not just across New York, people across the country would go, oh, this works. - Yeah. - And why, can't we also. - Why are we letting the wealthy horde all this money? Y'all are allowing, they're doing what they're allowed to do. They are allowed to horde more money than them or their great grandchildren could ever spend in entire lifetimes. Why? - I shouldn't be riding by MacArthur Park and it is like a community of a culture even, of people who don't have a home aren't even, you know, barely scratching and surviving on the street because people treat them like shit. - Yeah. - And then you have all these incredibly wealthy people like you just said, who have places they don't even live in. - Yeah. - Yep. - Just have for the fuck of it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - We're actually gonna go ahead and tax you. We're just gonna do it. 'Cause you have more than enough. - Way more than enough. - And there are people who aren't in full time and living on the street. - So you can't enter the mega yacht competition, world expo, or whatever this is here. - You'll have to wait till next season, unfortunately. And you'll have to be. - More never. - And yeah, you'll just have to have a luxury yacht instead of a mega ultra super high-end yacht. (laughing) - Just a 12-man crew instead of a 30. I hate these bitches. - Oh my God. Anyway, for a trip to get you on the camera and be like, I'll give a fuck about Americans financial situation. I don't know what you bitches are going through. That's none of my business. Bitch, you're the brass of it. (laughing) Anyway, I think he might be one of those things where like, when it's all said and done, the front of his face just like pops open and there's a little green man. - I can't believe y'all fell for this. (laughing) - Right, like damn y'all stupid. Anyway, the rest of my homies on the way. The homies. - I don't know what's happening. - Yeah. - Jay's a mystery. I don't think Spencer is running for office and people are taking it seriously. - I just said LA, y'all are not for real with this. Y'all really cannot be, but. - His website is like mayorprat.org or something. - Yeah, crutch. Okay. - All right. That's not real. You know what else isn't real? Shine Bryant's education. - Well. - That lady went on the breakfast club to talk about how everybody has been dragging her for not actually having a PhD. And so Lauren LaRosa asked her about it. She was like, it's actually very simple. And then she launched into an explanation that was not at all simple. And said, well, you know, I went to this school or or whatever, I don't have never heard of it. I think it's one of those for profit universities that ended up closing some years ago. And she said that she paid for this program, completed the program. And then when she was applying for a job at a law school, she had to get her transcripts, but the school had closed. And then the third party that they do transcripts through said that they only held on to the records for two years. So she can't get her transcripts to prove all this. And her dissertation that everybody with a PhD does and that are published online regardless of the status of your school. That is just, I don't know, mysteriously not there somehow. And so she contacted somebody at the school asking for a full or something about a full refund came up. And she said, well, we, and she said that they told her that she could have a full refund of the money she paid for her doctoral, she said, doctoral program. And, but if they gave her a full refund that she wouldn't be able to claim any credit for any of the classes that she took and all this. And it's like, you gave this whole convoluted bullshit explanation when anybody with a PhD would have said, yes, I completed my PhD. I defended my dissertation on such and such day. And I am, I have a PhD. I am a PhD holder. I am that person. You did everything but that because you don't have a PhD. I don't doubt that this for-profit university admitted you to a program. And you maybe even took some classes. Now I've seen rumors that you were kicked out of the program for plagiarism. I don't know whether that's true. But I know that everybody with a PhD knows how to say doctoral. I know that. They don't call it doctoral because that isn't what it is. Maybe at one point you were a PhD student. I don't believe you were ever a PhD candidate. You certainly don't have one wearing a blingy chain that says doc does not make you a doctor. And at this point, I actually have doubts about whether you've even completed your masters. Because on your website, you only claim like a bachelor's degree. You're very smart about not putting certain things in writing. Oh my god, I know who you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm not sure. She, this has been going on. And it maybe has just been a bunch of academic niggas going back and forth about it. I've been laughing with Dr. Raquel about it for a while now. Because it's just like, damn, girl, if you had a PhD, you could just flat out say, yes, I completed my PhD on Sussan Trust date. Here's a link to my dissertation. And yes, I have my, like, this whole, the school is shut down and they don't have the records. No more is bull shit. You know how far back I had to go. When I was applying to grad school, I had to go get transcripts from all of the universities that I had attended before, including community college. I had to get my high school transcript. All of that is decades old at this point. And it is all still very much in existence. Parchment is still in existence. And if you go on the comments of that breakfast club video, people are saying, yeah, I too went to Argusy. And I just went online and got my transcripts shut full of shit. You are full of shit. You can't prove that you have a PhD. because you don't have one. Like, just say it. No, I did not complete my PhD, but I call myself Dr. Bryant because it makes me feel special and important. - Right, academics call himself a DJ, yeah. (laughing) - Just say it. - And I mean, at this point, I truly doubt that she even has a master's degree. But to those of you who are bringing my name into this for whatever reason. - Oh. - Sweetie. I'm never uploading, first of all, my transcript says that my degree was conferred. My degree is hanging up on my wall. I'm looking at it right now. I'll never upload those for your satisfaction. It will never be that serious to me. However, I know if you're talking about, oh, Cheyenne Bryant must have went to the same school. Chris will do, you did not pay any attention to my school journey at all, baby. Because school whipped my ass. (laughing) - Early documenting. - And I was right here on this podcast every week talking about the way school was beaten my ass. You think I came up with that out of nowhere? I appreciate the people who have been defending me. I appreciate the other, the PhDs who are like, girl, the growth that I have witnessed in you on that program over the years. You absolutely completed that program. You absolutely, the things you talk about as far as like, your time as an intern and working with clients and all that like, we fully believe you. Like, help, don't bring me. - Why we shouldn't hate that earth? And what the fuck does that have to do with Cheyenne Bryant? - But also, just one crumb of common sense. I'm not using my degree in a professional way at all. I have no reason to lie about it. I'm not selling y'all nothing. I'm not offering $400 sessions to sit down and get life coaching from Crystal. None of that shit. None of it. I'm not using that degree in any sort of way. And I've been clear about not pursuing licensure yet. Although I reserve the right to change my mind about that. But I've been clear about that. So I bring in my name into it for what? For what? - People who don't like you. - You're okay. - Do better than this. 'Cause bitch, lying about a degree that I don't even use in my professional life would be ridiculous. The amount of research I would have to do to gradually grow and change and evolve. The way I have on this program over the fucking years. If I was gonna put that much effort into acting, first of all, somebody on Thursday was like, bitch, you would be by all the day if it's if you pulled that off. First of all, right. I'm in the wrong goddamn industry. If I managed to act so well in the process of getting this degree that y'all thought I really had one in the whole time I was just lying. Like, I need to be upset. - I guess the rest of us in on it or we just believe you. - You think everybody came to my graduation party just to fuck with y'all? Y'all think that was AI? You think I went online and bought a cord and a hood and a fucking gown and cap. And you think I, with the class of 2026, 2026 tassel and invitations and you think I did all that for the plot? (laughing) - You kinda caught that wasn't it? - To then turn around and launch an advice podcast that is free and available for free. - Right. - I'm not even selling anything to do with mental health, anything. Don't bring my name into her scam and ask bullshit. That bitch is lying to y'all. - Again, people with the letters will simply and clearly say that. People who are trying not to get sued or investigated by law enforcement, they will dance around it and put a bunch of words out into shit and not say it clearly. - Yeah. - She was very intentional with her words and she very intentionally did not say, yes, I completed my PhD. She said she completed the program. That does not mean what, which, I mean, that could be a lie. But it's not the same as I have completed my PhD. I hold a PhD 'cause you know you don't. 'Cause you know you don't, girl. So this all is to my doc squad and I'm just gonna address this once and I don't even know, I don't even know. I don't even know what that means. But if you just dedicated to not liking me, then just don't like me. But I'm not even talking to y'all. I'm talking to my supporters. Here is the simple answer, a bunch of bullshit that don't make no sense and boils down to, no, I don't have no goddamn PhD. - I'm just gonna ask like, what is even the purpose of lying about some shit that is easily verifiable or-- - Yeah. - You know what I mean? - And also, people who did lose their minds, working incredibly hard to get these things wouldn't be like, oh bitch, now wait. - Right. 'Cause it's too much work, it's too much, I'm going to war behind a master's degree because I know how much fucking work the master's degree was. I'm not shocked that the girlies with PhDs are like hold on just one goddamn minute. - If you will. - I'm like, why would you lie about that? But I guess it's like-- - To sell her services. - Hey, I figure she does sell stuff, yeah. She sells herself. You know, she's a mental health influencer. That's what you are. And you put the doc on it to give yourself some legitimacy. I guess you want a teen mom along as time ago and you go around to these nigger casts and you talk to black men in a way that makes them feel good and your titties are out so they feel even better. But girl, you listen, you can't slick a can of oil. The people who have actually done the work see right through this bullshit. - I only know I've heard from acting and foolin' my best girl wives. - See, I didn't even know she was on that. I didn't even know she was on that, but-- - And I mean, parallels. - Girl. - Like you've been shocked. - Right, right, right. So just stop fuckin' playin' with us, girl. Just-- (laughing) Just stop fuckin' playin' with us. You can go ahead and say no, I do not have my PhD. I call myself Dr because I feel like it lends a certain, the people assume that I'm smart when they hear Dr. Bryant. But I, Dr. Phil, that I don't have it. And you know, when I was a student, my very first client would call me Doc. And I was like, oh, you know, I'm not a, I have a master's degree, I don't have a PhD. And then my next client called me Doc. And I saw, so I brought it up to my supervisor. I was like, they keep callin' me Doc. And she was like, it's a cultural thing. - Yeah. - You're their therapist. So they just call you Doc casually. But you know, all you have to do is say, I'm an intern, blah, blah, you know, and leave it at that. But don't take, like, those of us who have done this work, take it seriously. That's how I know you full of shit 'cause you over here playin' with it. Talkin' 'bout you were counseling a girl who had been assaulted. And at the end of the first session, you asked her, could you give her a hug? Yeah, I don't think you went to grad school. I do not think you went to grad school. I don't know what Dr. Phil is. But I don't think Cheyenne Bryant even completed a master's degree, not in counseling. She's not in clinical, no, no. She, no, there is no way you worked with clients. And you, okay, all right, I'm letting it go 'cause I'm getting pissed off. And somebody actually said, Crystal, this is rage bait. They're tryin' to piss you off. "Well, you got me, you got me girl." (laughing) Y'all got me with that one because, yeah, I take it seriously. I always have. I made you not taking that seriously. It's too many bitches that don't-- I mean, after going through it, right. It's too many bitches that don't, right. That's why we on your ass. The people like, oh, well, why does it even matter what she calls herself? Bitch, because the difference between her and somebody who has been to school and completed the licensure process, which is a whole nother pain in the ass, is, it is an oceans width of difference between a bachelor's degree in psychology and being a licensed psychologist with a PhD. Or even a side D, or an E-D-D, like any, any terminal degree. Okay. What she's doing is just like, you know, the still waters of maybe the later years in the Atlantic. (laughing) Y'all had them giant ways from interstellar and thought of mountains at first. Like, oh, we have to just go down that way towards the mountains. - Yeah. - Mountains, those are waves interstellar spoiler. That's what the fuck these motherfuckers are doing with. So forgive them for being like, bitch, show your work. - Literally, show your goddamn work because you was not in the trenches. Bitch, you was not with us shooting in a gym. - Never. - I mean, you don't get to claim it. You just don't. So take that doctor right out your shit, going around selling books, lying to people, charging people $350 to sit on a Zoom with you and get woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. It'll be all right, ask God about it or whatever kind of bullshit you be saying. God only knows, 'cause you're not educated. You're not licensed, you're not educated. You do not have the education nor the license. - I can, I can think of it. don't see the point in the lie because aren't there several life coaches that don't call themselves doctors that have lots of clients and make lots of money. Yeah, but you know, you have to be honest about that upfront. When you start out with the lie about being a doctor, you have to commit to it. But I don't feel like that stops many life coaches from making a shit ton of money selling books, being famous. But see, Cheyenne Brian has been around a long time. So you committed to the lie early. Damn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So and you just there's no taking back these. Oh, she sucks. You don't have to lie to kick it. Most people don't even have a bachelor's degree, much less a PhD. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Okay. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I was going to talk about James Charles, but that's too deep. It's a white people business. I'm out with baby. Okay. I mean, you know, God is so good. So that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the read. Check us out on social media at this is the read. Our website is this is the read.com. Thank you. Arikari for being my guest on this week's episode of Crystal's couch. You know, yes, she was delightful. That girl. She just came. Exactly. We had a good time. So thank you so much, doll. Crystal's couch on social media for all the links and et cetera. What about you? First of all, shout out to. I'll just do a quick sports short. Oh, Lord. That's why you're okay, see thunder. Trying it to the very, very end of the line. We did. Boy, LeBron James and his his old bones were up there just carrying things, carrying the things for all of these wet behind the years youngsters that I've heard are likely leading the charges in terms of their team being, like, the baddest this little team out is what I've been told just for my sports in our circles. I'm not trying to blow smoke up your ass because why would I do that? Right. Somebody told you that. Yeah. The OKC funders have been tearing it up and I was present to watch the fourth quarter of that game. You went to the game? No, I'd watched it. Oh, I thought you meant you went. Like, why would you go? Oh, present because I thought I was present to see it. Okay. Whatever. I was watching the fourth quarter and it was delightful. It was very exciting. Yeah, it was. Actually, the fourth quarter was pretty good. Lakers almost pulled it off. Almost. Almost. It does not. Another sweet foot and boys. I mean, I'm not getting too excited, child, because it looked like the spurs are waiting on us and they have had our number all season. So we will see. Well, basketball. Also, I have a podcast called Furious Thoughts. Shout out to Hemlock Springs for being on the latest episode. Please go to youtube.com/gifuriestv. You check that out. You can also go to instagram.com/gifurie for all of the links. Also, I will be performing stand-up comedy in Los Angeles on June 3rd to celebrate 20 years of Kid Fury. You can get tickets for that also in my Instagram bio. Would love to see you there. I'm going to be talking all kinds of shouldn't be in ghetto. So come hang out more through the ill in the coming weeks. And um, Spencer Pratt is a harsh 40. Kill me too. That is harsh. That is. This looks like drop down, man. Damn. Why would you ever do that? Anyway, I'm finished. That's it. All right, y'all. Take care of yourselves. We will see you next week.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The Center for Black Excellence in Culture in Madison, Wisconsin, is a 37,000 sq ft space founded by Reverend Alex G, featuring a wellness center, art gallery, theater, event spaces, a children’s library, and community programs promoting Black culture and empowerment.
  2. The host criticizes the backlash from wealthy individuals over Audemars Piguet’s collaboration with Swatch, calling it childish and self-absorbed, arguing that brand value is not about exclusivity but personal authenticity.
  3. The host highlights how some people feel threatened by accessible collaborations, seeing it as a threat to their self-worth or brand identity, especially when it comes to luxury goods.
  4. A discussion on Chris Brown’s new album reveals frustration over its poor reception, with fans and critics alike disapproving, and the host notes that Brown’s music is seen as outdated and overly compared to Michael Jackson.
  5. The host critiques the rise of AI-generated music and artists, particularly noting how young artists like "Trim" are being compared to Nicki Minaj, leading to tone and voice mimicry that feels inauthentic.
  6. A personal letter from Chloe details a marital situation where her partner fails to contribute financially or to household duties, despite her working multiple jobs and managing a household. The host advises her to seek legal counsel, emphasizing financial and emotional imbalance.

Summary:

The host highlights the launch of the Center for Black Excellence in Culture in Madison, Wisconsin, a community-driven space celebrating Black culture with diverse programming, including a children’s literacy library and wellness facilities. She then critiques the overreaction of wealthy individuals to Audemars Piguet’s affordable watch collaboration with Swatch, calling it a display of insecurity and class-based jealousy. The discussion shifts to Chris Brown’s new album, which is panned by critics and fans alike, with the host arguing that the music feels outdated and overly tied to Michael Jackson comparisons.

She also critiques the rise of AI-generated music and artists like "Trim," who mimics Nicki Minaj’s style, calling it inauthentic and exploitative. Finally, a personal letter from a woman in a strained marriage is addressed, where her partner refuses financial and domestic responsibilities despite her high income. The host emphasizes that the relationship is unbalanced and advises seeking legal advice, stressing that true partnership requires mutual accountability, not one-sided sacrifice.

The overall tone is one of empowerment, authenticity, and critique of societal norms around wealth, identity, and gender roles.

FAQs

It is a 37,000-square-foot building founded by Reverend Alex G that celebrates Black excellence and culture. It includes a wellness space for mothers, an art gallery, a 300-seat theater, banquet and recording spaces, a senior lounge, a bar, a workspace hub, an outdoor gathering space, and a children's library focused on literacy.

The center offers a children’s library to promote literacy, a wellness space for mothers, a 300-seat theater, a recording studio, and an outdoor gathering space. It also hosts community programs and events, making it a multifunctional space for Black cultural engagement.

The collaboration produced colorful pocket watches that resembled children’s toys or whimsical designs, not the luxury watches associated with Audemars Piguet. The speaker found it ironic that wealthy people complained about the collaboration, especially since it lacked the prestige they associate with the brand.

She criticizes the sense of insecurity and jealousy that arises when people feel their status is threatened by more affordable, accessible luxury items. She argues that such reactions stem from a deep emotional attachment to labels rather than genuine appreciation for quality or design.

The speaker argues that such beliefs are outdated and delusional, pointing out that people’s self-worth shouldn’t be tied to brands or luxury items. She emphasizes that anyone can enjoy something without feeling inferior or envious of others' choices.

She notes that the album received harsh criticism, including a low score from Pitchfork, and that even Chris Brown’s fans are reportedly disenchanted. She believes the criticism is valid and that the music feels forced and inauthentic.

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