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The transcript blends personal storytelling, social commentary, and cultural critique. It begins with a celebration of Dieta Headman, the first Black woman to win the World Darts Championship, honoring her groundbreaking achievement and her journey from Jamaica to global recognition. This is contrasted with a sharp critique of toxic relationships, where individuals often rationalize staying in abusive dynamics, such as through emotional manipulation or self-blame. The speaker condemns incidents of physical and verbal abuse, including spitting and threats, calling them unacceptable and highlighting how such behaviors normalize in certain social circles. A recurring theme is the emotional trauma of breakup and healing, with the speaker firmly advising against maintaining contact with an ex during grief, emphasizing the need for emotional space and disconnection. The piece also touches on controversial figures like Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, and Megan The Stallion, discussing public scandals and personal biases, while questioning the authenticity of celebrity narratives. Finally, the recognition of Future as a Louis Vuitton collaborator is presented as a symbol of shifting cultural intersections, though the speaker remains skeptical of its deeper significance, underscoring the tension between commercial success and personal integrity. Overall, the segment balances celebration with criticism, offering a candid, often provocative commentary on identity, relationships, and the role of media in shaping public perception.

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[Music] Welcome back. Folks at home, friends, niggas, et cetera, to the program. I am the president and founder of the Shirley Raw Fan Association. And I am Ahmed El Ahmed and this is the read. Thank you so much for coming back. And for those of you tuning in for the first time, welcome, girl. Thank you for showing up. Oh, there were some of you all too, I guess. Always, you know? I got to say hello to those of you who do like. In the group, there's always. The read, okay, yeah. Let me see what them niggas is talking about. Yeah. Interesting. Fun and festive. Well, here we are, wrapping the month back in the year. It's just one of those weeks. My wife, I just got back together today after two days of frustration. And I'm just like. It's delightful to have that experience to remind you how much shit needs the internet in your time. Yeah. It's like, "Bitch, can I use the microwave?" What else has to use the fucking. [Laughter] Yeah, the whole concept of it started in the printer. And the printer was like drivers. I need drivers and I need the internet. So. You need to figure it out, right? Down, I guess, bitch. What made you think I could function without that internet working? I cannot. Don't even look over here again until your shit is back up and running. Thank you so much. I was like, "All right, fine. I guess I'll just go sit down and play my PlayStation 5." And I booted up. Oh, no. I don't arise with a ronin or something. I'm sitting there playing issue for 20 minutes. And I got a notification that says, "Someone in PlayStation cannot verify your license." We're going to be suspending gameplay in 15 minutes. I said, "Verify my licensees. I purchased the game. I downloaded it on the computer. It's mine. What do you mean?" Wow. Well, we need Wi-Fi. I guess, every day, to make sure I do different maintenance and hammer something. I don't know. I said, "Yeah, you paid for it again." But maybe you're playing a bootleg now, even though you paid for it already. We just can't be sure. What kind of cock a bitch and the girl eats? Okay, so we're starting off with. Would judge when I had discs. Oh, see. The lilies would judge when I had discs. Clock that. I did the clock fingers. You can't hear it because I don't have nails on. Which is why, like. Why do y'all do that when you don't? Okay, fine. Never mind. Never mind. Because I feel like without the nails it defeats the. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get into some black. X-law. Mm-hmm. This week, I guess the last part of X-Lens of the Year is going to go to. Dieta headman. Mm-hmm. Of. S-X. S-X-B. S-X-B. Sorry, a bit of X-X. S-X-B. Yummy. S-X-B. Yeah. Um. And a headman is a world champion. Darts. Expert. Player. Efficient. Not though. Icon. And legend. As well as the moment. She's the first black woman to be the world champion in terms of playing darts. I think she was also the first woman to ever be the man in a TV major in the sport. Um, she's 66 years young. Again, from S-X out in the UK, the BBC. Queensland. And she's a Caribbean queen herself. Hailing from none other. Then my family's home. Oh, Lord. Jamaica, Jamaica. Um, man, shout out to you for consistently being a baddie. For being a bright light and a beacon in what you do, what you like, what you're called to. And showing out there, people in the community. Um, that you can do whatever the fuck you wanted to do. I guess one might be the best at it. Yes, you can indeed. They make it what you have the coin. They make it when you have the queen. Oh, my goodness. What is that he's doing without her? Um, she was born in Jamaica, she moved to England when she was 13. And she's been competing for a long, long time. Here's a photo from BBC, um, during a World Championship in 2012. She defeated Lorena Wright-Burgen for the one and claimed 2025 WDF Women's World's Championship title. Um, yeah, I think this is like a little over a week ago. You'll pass Sunday. And, uh, she said when the dart went in, I just thought, thank God, finally, I've done it. Uh, people thought I started blubbering like a child. It was just really, I didn't think it was ever going to come. Oh, she's very happy, very grateful and privileged. She said, and um, she's gorgeous. She looked like she could be related to me. And I'm literally not even joking. Like, like, she, well, like, she could be my art. Maybe she is. Maybe she is. We're spoken to this lady. Um, but either way, you make me happy and proud. Shout out to black women, doing it all, even when they shouldn't have to. Sometimes you just do what you want, like third darts. Absolutely. Congratulations, queen. Alrighty, let's talk about bullshit. Then the second week are hot tops. Now, a lot of this, I didn't read because I don't see. Um, I'm almost off duty. I'm like, okay. I'm like them Pete, the people in that peace area when, uh, when Tokyo. Okay, this is a video of Tokyo. Hello. That's my Tokyo. She went to the peace area in Atlanta. No, it was in Atlanta. It was somewhere in New York with New Jersey. It was probably. I mean, it was like 30 minutes. I'm like, cuts the slices. Yeah. I like cuts the slices. I'm like, God, please tell me you didn't go in there. No. We close in 30 minutes. So. Let's see what we've got in the, uh, the toy box is bullshit today. Young Doug is most proposed to provide the scientist. It looks like this happened on stage at a, at a show program. And it looks as if she agreed to marry this man. And I just want to know underneath a living God, what is happening? Yeah. Well, we, we won't sadly get to answer that. Yeah. Well, I know she's a bird. Let me look at the clip. And that's what I, that's what I'm saying. Like there's bad. So I'm going to write a buckle. This is buckles. Yeah. This is buckles. And when I saw it, I saw it. I saw it. Oh, buckles. Buckles. You gotta, you can't believe you deserve better than this. Like, girl, that nigga was on the jail phone bragging about how easy it is to cheat on you. Like, you just have to want more for yourself than this. But you don't. So this is what you're going to tell yourself to. You're going to pop out a few of his kids. And you're going to be bitching about what a terrible person he is. So a leather rinse repeat. We've just seen this a trillion fucking times. It's so okay. This is what you are chosen for yourself. That is your choice. It seems like a recent mountain of terrible things. Yeah. It's very year. Like it's just this. And I just cannot believe the number of people cheering for her in the background. I'm like, oh my god. But yeah, isn't this her show? Because yeah, yeah, you're at her show. So I'm not shocked, y'all. These are your fans that are like happy for you marrying this nigga who embarrassed the fuck out of you. But you know what? If you like it, baby, this is I think the closest I've ever seen in your face. You're cute. Yeah. She is. This is the wig. It reminds me of offsetting Cardi when offset got on stage when she has some show. That is exactly what reminds me of. The difference is Cardi told that nigga to get his black ass off his face. It worked though. She didn't leave. So I mean, it did work. She did work. So she was also like, bitch, I'm at work. Yeah. And I'm pissed. Am I right? It's time to put the ring on her finger like it was just so I'm surprised. - Got down on one knee to be honest. - I mean, it was just things. - Hey, I'll still say yes. - Yeah, awkward, it just seems awkward and not great. I was embarrassed for her the whole time. Like I just, I shouldn't, but I can't be the one who feels like you deserve better than this. You have to feel that way about you. So, all right. This is literally what you're asking for. You are getting it. This new dog is going to be headlining the next Netflix half time show. Snoop done. Okay, okay, here's the, here's the question, the answer to the question for me. 'Cause the guy I didn't read this before. I thought it'd be fun to just go through it a lot. - Oh, okay. - For me. - Oh, good luck. - Yeah. - Whatever happened for y'all, you know, good luck, whatever, I'm having a blast. I wanted to know if this is, this obvious is gonna be him bringing out friends. And then like doing, you know, a medley in between. I don't think Snoop Dogg is gonna do a hard 15 a month. But it's actually called Snoop's holiday half time party. So I think we can expect a number of special guests. Any requests? I know you're not interested in seeing Snoop. - No, actually, wait. - So is this supposed to be artists or comedians or who all is supposed to even? - I mean, it's gonna be a musical show. I'll read what next. - Okay. - 'Cause I'm, I'm confused. - From the depth of the sea. - All right. Back to the book, from the depth of the sea. Who's playing? The lines and the Vikings. - What? - From the depths of the sea. - Yeah. - Back to the block. - I'm not doing this. - Snoop Dogggy Dogg is joining the NFL Christmas game day on Netflix. Flog. Is it in Bikini Bottom? Where they have it? Where is, why don't, but what are the depth of the sea? - It probably is a tie-in for SpongeBob. 'Cause I think it's a new SpongeBob movie coming out. - So it probably is some kind of tie-in to that. (laughing) I'm not looking at this. Y'all got me last year because Beyonce. I'm not turning on Netflix on Christmas daily. - Yeah, but I enjoyed that. - Right. That's how y'all got me. I'm not cutting this own. Christmas day is for basketball. - But it's during a, but it's during a game. So I thought that it, I thought like people would really have a problem with this being a thing. If my phone's watching sports anyway, then you go watch this thing on, you watching this half-time Netflix show. I'm just more so curious as to what this is coming with, but this depth of the sea took me, like it literally, I feel like SpongeBob trying to get a driver's license because the way that it just took me off the road. - Okay. - If SpongeBob performs, I'm jumping. And I'm not trying to see if you're not gonna stop me. (laughing) So I'm like, that will be it. - Okay, I'm kidding. The legendary performer will take the field on Christmas day to headline Snoop Dogg. Snoop's holiday has on party during the short lines for the Minnesota Vikings matchup. I'm rooting for the lines streaming a lot just because I have more friends from Detroit and I've been to Detroit. - Yeah. - Oh. - I actually don't think I've- - Minnesota. - Wait, St. Paul, I've been to the airport. (laughing) Minneapolis, yeah, I've been to the airport. - Yeah. - I've been to Minneapolis for real. Probably not, probably not. - I've only been there for like two hours. - Yeah, that sounded correct. - That sounded correct. - Snoop Dogg also a diehard football fan coach. Okay, has promised to bring his chart topping tracks, holiday spirit, and a diverse roster of special guests. - Nothing. - Oh, audience is around the world. Okay, so here's the thing, right? It might be special to guess who wouldn't expect. 'Cause Snoop Dogg is like Pepsi now. Like he only even, he's just. - Yeah, yeah. - I mean, it's like, it's very true. - So I'd like a Glorilla, I'd like, Kendrick's not going. I'd like, I feel like he's gonna have a West Coast artist. But I can't think of any right now off the top that I want to see there. That would make sense. - Yeah. I like the, what's his name, 310, baby, Soak City. I love his music. There's a couple other local LA artists I've heard of, but I just don't know why they would be there. - Okay. I don't know what to expect. I feel he's going to be on like Dr. Dre, YG, like all the time in my head, I feel he's going to. - Them same niggas. - I don't care about that. - I think so too. Yeah. I think my issue is that Snoop is so deep on my shit list right now that I just really, I don't, the Trump thing and then when the gay parents and the movie and he was like, how I was supposed to explain this to my grandson, like niggas, just, is it hard? Niggas, do you not understand? Like, what do you mean? So I'm just in very over Snoop at this point. I'm not interested in him performing during a halftime show. So Netflix won't be getting me with this one, but you brought up Glowrilla, which made me think of, have you heard about this potentially, there being like beef between Glowrilla and Megan the Stallion? - I've heard very little attention to it because I don't want it. - Okay. (laughing) The first time I heard about it was a while ago. - Okay. 'Cause I think it's real. I think it's, I think it is real, but I understand not wanting to believe it. So okay, just, - Yeah, so I'm just gonna, just gonna say, I head in the stand and pretend that that's not happening. - Okay. - Yeah. - Before I know it, it'll be like, it did happen. Because there'll be picture together with their best girl playboy friends. You'll be like, bestie, go bestie, bestie, and twerkin' it's back in each other's butts. This isn't the real thing. So I have to. - Okay. - I actually love denial. It is pretty fun. So, I actually, I'm getting into it. (laughing) It's an island like full on delusion. It's kind of cute. But that's the world, doesn't it? - Wait. - Wait. - It's like, - Wait. (laughing) - Bitch, who the fuck is upright and not delusional these days? You gotta be telling yourself a, but you gotta be in some form of a fantasy to breathe this air. - Yeah, you got a lot of yourself a little bit just to get out the house. Like, if I had to lie that there is so much thing as a Megan the Stallion, Glor-Rilla beef, and that's what the fuck is going on over here. (laughing) - Hey, you do whatever it takes to make it to 2026, okay? You do whatever it fucking takes. - I'm not accepting that. - Okay, and that's fine. - Speaking of female rappers, I'm just gonna go ahead and get this out of the way. This is, I promise we're gonna be the last time I talk about this lady for a long time. Like, I don't think I'm gonna talk about Nicki Minaj again unless it's like a breaking emerging. Like a breaking story. - Okay. - Probably, hopefully a good one. So, I will just say, now it's some shit with her and Gavin Newsom. She's just how to get on Good Lord's Christmas Internet. I start talking about Gavin Newsom and I'm not even really going to read all of what she tweeted, any because I feel like it defeats the purpose of the second show in words. Also, I just don't want to say much of a big answer to this. And offensive. I will say, she attempts to start dragons, man, for quote wanting to see trans kids. Goes on this, you know, obviously transphobic rant, then starts to make corny nicknames for Gavin that, I don't know, an 85-year-old tangerine colored president would. I'm just spitballing here. - Just, you know, then she starts to like, talk about how attractive he is, then it was just, Gavin Newsom, for whatever reason, had his interns respond on all his social media pages by posting montages of creepy photos of Donald Trump with young girls and with Jeffrey Epstein and played over those clips was a particular part of Megan the Stallion song here. We've heard the song, I think you can probably guess what part of the song is playing over beats like five different social media posts. I don't think anything else needed to be said on his end. But Nicky did respond to that by saying something like barbs, please protect me from this evil man or some shit. All right, I think that, you know, your theory from the other day, yeah, it's becoming up. It's like the light is becoming and wider as time goes by almost as if I was reaching the end of a tunnel. And on the other side was like confirmation, again, spitballing. God bless us everyone. What else is going on? I'm so tired of being right about that woman like she's just a mess, bro, she and she's been going further and further in this direction. The barbs are on TikTok. It is a house divided. They can't take it. Some of them are finally at the breaking point. They custom out the other ones. And then there are some people who are still just digging their heels in and refusing. I'm just like, this is her. Okay. Y'all got it. I've said everything I needed to say about that woman several hundreds of times. She's not well, so a man named OT Genesis approached me while I was out celebrating my best friend's 25th birthday. Young woman named Isabella Grace said, as she spoke about an incident that apparently took place this past Sunday, she said, he began flirting with me while I was on the phone. I tried to remain polite and avoid conflict, but the interaction quickly became uncomfortable and inappropriate. He began telling me unsolicited and disturbing details about his past, including selling crack. When he firmly told him to leave me alone and get away from me, he spit in my face. If not a misunderstanding, it was intentional, humiliating and violating. I was left in tears and felt completely unsafe when this has around me identified him afterwards and provided me with his name. No one should ever be treated this way. I did not go out to be harassed or assaulted and would not sell right my friend. This experience ruined the night and left me feeling shaken long after what happened to me should never have to know anyone else. All he says is currently being dragged rightfully so for this, that's pretty gross. I'm seeing here now, Ms. Just came across my feet that another woman is accusing him of harassment. Why? Why did the crack days come up? This is how you talk to women you're interested in. Oh, fuck of you. They don't know how to talk, period. They don't know how like no one spoke to them or talk them how to communicate. I guess not. You think this is what I say in anything. I believe her 100% one woman said on Twitter last year in Miami, he approached me when I politely declined. He harassed me for not giving him my number and threatened to kill me. Although he was also offended, I didn't know him. I'm never spoken out about this, but I'm still traumatized from this night. I just looked it up. Oh, T Genesis is 38 years old. Yuck. Of course he is. Yuck. All he does is make mean songs here and there that are actually really catchy and probably make him a lot of money. Yeah. Only you could go outside and act like you ain't got no damn right. How about we leave the young ladies alone and let them live their lives? They did not come to the club to see you specifically. And even if they he is one of those rappers where even if you do know some of his songs, you probably don't know his face like he's not famous like that. So getting offended that people don't I saw him on crazy, right? I would recognize him, but to act as a baby, Oprah has been in a bad stove and been racially profile because bitch just thought she couldn't afford that bit. If Oprah and Beyonce and Jay Z and Michelle Obama can go places and people don't know who the fuck they are, baby, especially because you niggas be chasing girls that you feel like not from here, don't speak English blah, blah, blah, quote unquote, exited bitches. And then be bragging about those the ones you want. So if baby cakes just got got here visiting from Brazil for a couple of weeks, you kiss us. You know who the fuck you are, bitch. She don't listen to Compton music or where the fuck your ass from. I'm sorry, Compton. He probably not from now. Listen. This is what I'm saying, O.T. Genesis is not top in the charts in Belize or Russia or wherever these fucking girls come from. So maybe just relax and take nowhere. He's from Atlanta long beach Oh, long beach. Okay. Oh, I can see you the one super probably bring him. He's of a feather and all, you know, so why not? I would not tell you I have zero interest in watching that. If that was what you said, you think that Oh, that almost killed me. That almost killed me. I will never forget that. But yeah, like, baby, no, especially if that's the other thing, you're, you're famous even if like, you know, such an advantage being someone who could go out to the mall or whatever and have like a school with you would be like, Oh, I'm just, but also you could take a nice lady out for a walk or a lot of people leave you the fuck alone. Yeah. On top of the fact that you have money, you have access. If one girl shoots you down or doesn't want to talk to you or politely tells you to get the fuck out of her face. What do we say last week about Tabitha, Miss one next month? You have 15 minutes like I don't, another one is speeding in the girl's face and threatening homicide. You need to be inside. Yeah. And by inside, I mean bars. Right. Jail. Prison. Custody, Dave, I'm present charges you make as a girl born in 2003. Don't know who you are. Nigga get over yourself. If you cannot take someone rejecting you are just showing no interest in you without threatening to kill them without assaulting them, you should be in the custody of people who can look at that. Exactly. I don't know, I don't give a fuck out y'all about what I'm saying. No, no. It is defense. Yeah. Because tomorrow, if he sees your sister, your baby, because in your niece outside, I want to talk to her and she's like, I'm sorry, I got a man and he decided to punch her in her face. Then you're not going to argue with me. Right. Right. You niggas need to grow up and get a hold of yourselves, learn to control yourselves and your anger and your behavior. This is outrageous. And the fact that it's happened to multiple girls, you just lucky people haven't caught it on tape or been able to press charges up. You know, I don't know if this girl can do anything about the spitting. The spitting is a biohazard. And I, I, if that alone, black people don't play about that. You spit in my face, it's got to be a COVID law or something where you can get extra time for that shit. Like, I'm just. Good luck on this. No way in the world, man. Witnesses around me identified him afterward and provided me with his name. So this recorded or not, it was witness. Yeah, witness. Okay. All right. Well, so we'll see what's in the test if I write because I'm pressing charges. You're not spitting on me, niggas. You can tell me about your crack selling stories. You're not spitting on me, though. You're not doing it. Don't even do that. I don't care. I mean, I would. I don't care. She was like, oh, go watch Snowfall or fucking with in her phone. New Jack. Try not to talk to you. I don't care that she's all crap. Ah, she tried so hard not to speak to you. You just wouldn't let it go. Yuck. Oh. Mm-hmm. I've had it about up to here with you, rat niggas from New York, New Jersey, who are turning this puffy documentary in a slumber jail. Let me hit you, girls, with a new splash. And I mean this with every ounce of God giving respect. This ain't about you. It's not about none of y'all. And because this petty miserable nigger, it's made it a documentary. Now it's back and forth between this rapper who I like him and that rapper who I like is now Jim Jones, who has a podcast with Mano and maybe also Davies and fabulous. I don't know if they're also on the podcast or if they were just on this one. But before them are seen together on the podcast called Let's Wrap About It, good night. They're talking about the deity thing and whether or not they think it's like appropriate wrong or right for someone not involved who don't like you or whatever to make a documentary about you without your permission. And so essentially they all joke about it and I think they know even says there's like somebody releasing your sex tape and it's you on a bad day or so whatever. So they're just making like dumbass barbershop talk about it. Okay. Jen, who house like a bit more of a storied hatred for 50 and vice versa, he was more so like clear and firm about it. Just feeling like, oh, I don't think it's right for this reason, for that reason or whatever, like you know that you're doing it because you don't fuck with this person versus whatever. I think it's facetious and petty and wrong. 50 cent post is clear because I understand that he was your hero. Stay down with him. I don't care if you like him play with your butt. They act like you don't remember. Then he posts another Instagram and goes, I didn't have this on my list of things to do. But if you insist, I'll make time, I'm working on buying this space where you film the podcast and 50 percent of your podcast. You know, I don't cap. No, gee. How did this turn into a mixtape? Right. And why do y'all want like, okay, maybe, maybe I'm just not a nigga. So I don't get it. But like, I'm not even sure why y'all are trying to do this. Misery. Okay. Okay. That tracks. That's the big. I know. Niggas have better things to do. I know they do. And 50 is going to just have to eat the fact that everybody wide open knows that you're doing this for petty reasons. And you don't give a fuck about any of the victims in this every single person has said it. A lot of people have said it and still watched it. Yep. Many people know it, said it and still watched it with their focus being on what it's actually supposed to be about. Because again, you're not the director of this. You're not the photographer. Like intention here in terms of whatever that documentary is because I'm not watching it. Has nothing to do with you. Your intention here was get one up and make money off of somebody that you hate while they're down. Niggas don't even care. They're just saying it because we know it's true. And you like, well, I'm going to buy 50% of your. I'm going to buy your studio and buy 50% of your pockets. Girl, what? First of all, you take mentorship from Tyler Perry. You can tell me shit. Furthermore, bitch, buy the studio. You think I can't film somewhere else. Right. Like, why are you trying to turn this into some later? She didn't like this. Right. It's it's very strange behavior. It is extremely weird, but that niggas weird. So I'm just not surprised by any of the right. Well, let's talk about some almost good things. Krishan is getting a blue face, a name tag face laser off. Oh, just about an hour. So her and the laser place get it. I mean, it's just one of a few blue face tattoos. Yeah, this is one that is literally on the right side of her face. And she was in there on the table crying real living tears as they were lasering it off because it's extremely painful. Yes, it hurts. It hurts a lot. It hurts a lot. But I think I heard her say something towards the end, like, which has a patch on the side of her face. She said that she feel like she's getting something accomplished with a smile. Oh, the fuck are you going? I know you still on baddies and shit, but you know, if anything, God is moving. Yes, because exactly steps in the right direction. That's what this is steps in the right direction. We're going to get junior about that floor. I know that neck is going to be wrong. Yeah. I pain wise. We don't we don't know exactly how you got to this place in the first place, but we are all happy for you that you are moving on past a, I do an objectively terrible person. I just grippingly tragic past and upbringing. Oh, yeah, that's right. No sense of self words. Stark raving manipulation from a man. Yeah, and also like you don't love yourself at all or didn't. Maybe you don't get started with you like 19, 20. Cause I was like maybe 23. So whatever. But that was something that I was like, Oh, yes. God move. Jesus. Okay. Yeah. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Better better things in 2026 for you and Christian on junior. We speaking into existence. Yes, we are. Future has been named a friend of the house of Louis Vuitton. And I guess this is for else doing. Oh, okay. All right. All right. There we go. Yes. Navajas. One heart to miss. What's his last name? I don't care. I don't know. Future is a friend of the house that Louis Vuitton now. Wilson. No, that's rough. Well, burn. Yeah. Oh, don't let that man. That's the sign. Yeah. Future Wilson is serious. Oh, yes. That's so true. When I read this, I was like, okay, what the fuck is a friend of the house? Like he just like come places and they'd be like, Hey, hot new hip hop says being named a friend of the house suggests more than one off appearance. It points to ongoing collaboration shared creative energy and long term collaboration. Okay. ongoing collaboration shared creative energy and long term collaboration. All right. Let's move. I'll just say in words ongoing collaboration. I'll just throw a shit in there long term collaboration. Yeah. I'll just throw a shit in there at this point. You just try to fill up the space. Why future? You have to have common like you could just do what anyways. Yeah. Why future? I guess because future here's the thing. If future imagine a world where future never spoken. Okay. I like it. You just look at it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Tall. He is a great complexion. Beautiful smile. Yeah. Has actually a decent fashion sense. I see it. Okay. Now I do. You had to remind me he's attractive. I'm like, you too. Why would you? Yeah. Very handsome. That's true. He that's how he got Sierra. And she's very fine. That's how he got most. He's very good. Yes. That's right. He is. See now the shared creative energy part. I feel like Hulu and my Disney plus star want future in I mean, who I just don't know who this is inspiring to go purchase Louis Vuitton like girl, everybody brand new belts for the hood. Are you kidding me? Niggas be on the second of the month getting a Louis belt. Let's be free. Okay. Niggas are going to be wearing four belts at a time. The new dirty sprite color way. All right. See, you see how I first and first she was making sense and I was with it. And then it got worse. What am I like about the dirty sprite color? Right. The dirty sprite color. Okay. Yeah. That's reached it. But Niggas loves Louis and Niggas love future. Yeah. This is what I'm saying. The Niggas who was gone. The Niggas who love future was probably by a Louis anyway. But okay. Right. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, are we bringing this wake up with this? Right. Right. Who's like, oh, well, maybe now I'll check out Louis Vuitton. Now that future is mumbling for them. Like, he could go like the Mary J blot. But this is, yeah, he could go on a girl kind of like the Mary J blash way and have like a shoe. Maybe I have like a shoe. Okay. And the Niggas be like that. Yeah. Right. I'm still in my baby, mom attacks return and I'm getting in fucking shoes. They'll steal children. That baby, that baby, that baby, he's some other way. Well, there's some Cheetos in there. Fuck that. I need them fucking shoes. Yeah. Honestly, this isn't even just it. I see it makes sense. I just hope he doesn't piss it away with antics. Which, you know, it is future. So I don't have a lot of hope. But look, he's got it been quiet since him and young Metro. God should started. Right. He really, they really put the country on. After like that, he don't have to do shit. Sorry. I have to do one way back. With the honor. Let me get my lover back for where bitch. I'm full. I'm full. I'm full. I don't, I, I wore like that. I was so bad that future ended up in my top artists last year. And I said, no, that's a lie. That ain't nobody. That ain't nobody but Kendrick fucking Lamar. So I know he, yeah, he eaten good off of like that. You know, it's just got a lot of hits. But at first, I thought the same thing, like I ain't heard from them again. Such a long time. And it's like, all right. First, of all, why would I? I don't go out of my way to listen to future. I haven't been to the strip club and then learning a long time. So why would I hear him? But also, he's good. He's set and good. No problems. Yeah, this is good. This should be good. I'm just thinksin' here. I don't, he didn't like Drake popping shit at Farrell and said for him he would inherit the beat. Farrell was like, "Hey Future, DM me Bennett." I don't know, I just know, you know, Drake is probably having a great time. Did you see the Drake DM's e-bro die slower pussy? We got some shit for you. That, I really wanted to believe that was AI. So there's no way Drake DMed that man. It said die slower pussy. There's no way over this hot 97 shit. I don't think it was because of that. I think this is before that. I'm not sure. Okay. But, yeah. So e-bro in the morning was canceled from hot 97, e-bro, Peter and Laura have moved their show to YouTube pretty much immediately. You can go and watch it every day. They are now, I believe. But when the news came out of the show, I got canceled. Drake commented on one of the pages in Axi Mochi, which, you know, got his fans all lively and stuff because e-bro was one of a few hip-hop talking heads that, I guess we're team Kendrick in the midst of it because it's like, girl, okay. You mad at me, I was like, no, it's not his fault. You got outwrapped. The ax thing to me was like, okay, he's just being petty and getting his little link back. Like, hi, I sure got canceled. We're team my enemy. And e-bro went on there. There do YouTube shows like since, you know, he spoke up. Let me read you the last DM, this thing to me. And also posted an screenshot or we have soon to die slower. Pissie. So it's e-bro apparently responded, relax. You're salty about losing the Kendrick. You're not mad at me. He said these holes can't be mad at me again. These holes mad at me. I know it's your problem. Bitch, you a pussy. Never fit to check me. Ah, that's so funny. Yes. Like, I don't love this one. Oh, I was just listening to his other day. There's a hit that don't get old. But yeah, I think e-bro has an excellent point there. And mine. So I'm like, yeah, that sounds, that's just all sounds accurate. You're, you're just taking shots wherever you can because coming at Kendrick don't work. And you have all this pent up aggression, resentment, whatever else towards probably anybody that you think is notable and was like publicly on Kendrick's side. But those people were simply speaking for the masses. And the courts like we all were on Kendrick's side. So I don't really, I would think you would just get over that. But okay, be weird. I'm like, but yeah, I was like, did e-bro say, yeah, we should kill him. We should, we should time to like a pillar of sticks and set it on fire. Like, yeah, I'm sure that's how many hip-hop fans were just saying how they felt about it. So again, the ax to me is just comment whatever outside petty die slower pussy. I don't know. That's just exactly what I expect a wide boy to say. Every time every time he responds, he says things in the way that I would expect a wide boy trolling on like them live video games through the games where y'all all log on at the same time and go storm the capital or whatever y'all do on the fucking games. They're them shooting games and shit. It's just that every fortnight. Yeah, fortnight. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, it's all of TV. Yeah, that's more pussy. Like, okay, your mom said dinner is ready in five minutes. You better go wash up. It's just what it gives every time. I was watching a streamer play our greatest last night. And you know, he got one over on an enemy as the guy he was playing against was downed. Like, right before he just character dies, he y'all tell some shit like fucking nigger. The guy go, he was like, what did you say? He said it one more time. He just goes, burn and hell, her burn slow or something. He just off to my favorite kill, dude. And I was like, yeah, go back to the match making room or go back to the lobby. God, they're like every day. They do. It is absolutely giving twitch talk. Yeah, but why? Like, you're like, you have a plane. Yeah, but he still is who he is. And that's what Kendrick said. Who would piss you off that there if you had a plane and access and all the stairs and jet skis and and chefs and bitches and like, who could be like, I'm trying to think it's like, you can't get to me now. And I don't have most of that shit. So, this is again, this is really a personal thing. Have you done the work? Are you secure in yourself? Do you feel good about you? That's what Kendrick was saying. You thought the money power of the fame would make your bitch ass lame ass go away. It doesn't. You're still that whack nigger underneath all of those things. You know what I know. He's released a lot of music. Yes. They must not one couldn't do it. Which one? I do it. And I saw Terrence Crawford retire today. I'm like, damn, it Kendrick is everywhere. I just am associating everything to do with that man. I'm making all the connections. But yeah, Drake is, I mean, a girl DM an e-roll of all people is just like, all right, are you really that bored? Are you really that bored? And I know mansion in the South of France, you can go rent for a couple of weeks and fly out of a bunch of adults, a bunch of consenting adults to come do consenting adult things. Next time you went out, friends, state of all. What is the crown prince of Jamaica adonis doing? Where is adonis? Maybe you should like we should be getting adonis as Christmas together. We should be making sure the house and Jamaica is set up and ready for the whole family hiring a private alienologist to take you out or like, you know, an archaeologist, you should be having the old nigga from Jurassic Park taking your Jamaican sign out to go and and dig up dinosaur bones, real dinosaur bones that he didn't get to keep. Yeah, yeah. And you are here telling E-roll to die slower. I just don't understand like, what's the point of being wealthy? Because you're missing it. You're missing the point. You're DM and E-roll girl. I wish the fuck I would DM any of you little niggas about any fucking thing. You know how much money I have? Worry about y'all and what you think about me for what? Okay. I also don't like the certified pedophiles thing, but just say it. Did E-roll say yeah, I know he was a kind of, I always said it. Maybe you didn't. Maybe. He wouldn't be the only one. Maybe that's why. So many people said that. Because that was a yank from the sky. People said it because of anyway. I had a question. Randomly just now they had nothing to do with. Oh, do you think it's I heard. Is it true that Frank Ocean is releasing a new album? Or was that AI too? I didn't even hear that rumor to determine whether it was AI or not. It was AI. Well, yeah, sad homosexuals, just with wishing so hard. His IG accounting should a rare public statement in a response to claim that an entire project had been shot. Wait, what? This is back in September. This is new one. Okay. I saw a clip that said he had an album coming back. I feel like it's not real, even though it was his face. And it didn't look too much. You know what? I Googled Frank Ocean album. Nothing has come. Okay. So I just want y'all to stop. Y'all just made that up. I want you to stop and I want you to not have the internet anymore because y'all don't know how. to behave yourself. Right. So get that together. We'll just go ahead and then the hot tops there. Alrighty. I hope you guys got something about a lesson and education always to be time. We have to. We'll take a break or really come to write back. Welcome back. It is time to read your letters. Yes, it is. Send your questions to [email protected]. We may read them aloud on the show. Now, since we don't have anybody writing in this week to refute what somebody else said, even though that was iconic. Yeah, it really was, but I was half a word you'd about to be like, so tap with the rubat. Oh, no, no, no, it would have been too much. It would have been announced the tap at the this one, I don't know from believe you. No, no, tap at the did not write back. I have a feeling to have those very embarrassed at the spoil and we probably would not be hearing from them again, but either way. All right. Our first letter this week comes from Tony who says, dear Chris Link, if you're I'm a 30 year old STEM presenting black lesbian woman. A what? You know, like half-stud, half-fim. Science. No. STEM. Like. Yep. Yep. I'm there now. Like Arnold Palmer. Okay. Yes. This year, I moved to a new city and got a new apartment, new dog and new car. And I'm proud as hell because the last three years of my life were trash. I also got out of a six-year relationship that I thought I would never leave, but God said otherwise. Two weeks after my ex and I went no contact, I reconnected with someone I've had a crush on since I was younger. She's 39. I'm 30 and we linked up because we're both walkers. Our first meetup on August 3rd turned into an 11-mile walk and we've been connected ever since. We do love each other and I really care about her, but from day one, I told her I'm not ready for our relationship because the last one really did a number on me. She's feminine presenting and everything between us has been perfect. The sex is good and all that, but I do have other desires. I want to connect with a more masculine presenting woman. I'm usually the one wearing the strap and flipping girls around town. The girls are calling me daddy and poppy and all that, but I've never experienced any of that myself. I want some casual sex with a masculine woman. I want to call somebody daddy and when I'm having sex with the woman I'm dating now, I enjoy it, but also I'm like damn everything I'm doing to her, I want somebody to do to me. I know that's right. So here's my question. We've been seeing each other since August, but I'm still not ready for a relationship. I'm getting to the point now where I want to act on some of these desires that I'm having, whether that's downloading hinge or hitting up some lesbian parties. Even though I see a future with her someday, I'm not ready right now. So do I need to tell her this, or since we've never said that we were exclusive, do you think I'm obligated to share these desires? Also, where are the masculine women? How do I approach LOL? Love y'all please. Okay, wait a minute. You're not a match. Right, right. This is my photograph. I'm 5'9" 172. I like long walks. Sim Cat. Love y'all. Please help Tony. Tony, I'm like obligated. Since you're not, you know, you're saying you haven't had some conversation or commitment to being in a relationship or whatever, but I would also say that the fact that you are asking yourself that or wondering might be reason to say something. And that could have a conversation where she's like, oh yeah, okay, cool. Thank you for saying something to me. But no pressure. I mean, I thought we were just having fun, or it could be deeper going to, well, what do you want out of this? Do you want to do that? And you can kind of pick each other's brains or whatever. But it doesn't. What I got from the letter sounds like you're in a really good place because you are still simply dating this person. But you're not committed. You aren't in a relationship. It's early enough that you can still go and date other people and explore your other sexual desires. I think it's really important that you do that before you get into anything serious with this girl. Just because, honestly, you can see yourself with her. You'll see a future with her. And then you can meet Joe Danny next week and be like, well, well, right. Yeah. But either way, it sounds like to me, this girl should hopefully will be understanding of how you're feeling when you're at. And allow you to continue dating and exploring. And if you do not want to, I don't think it is even necessary for you to be specific about the other sexual things that you're looking for. That might be why you want to go data other people. Like, I don't think you need to say any of that right now. Yeah, you're still wrapping your mind around it. You know, I don't, I don't think you have to share that. But I do think if you're feeling like, Oh, I feel some type of way, I'm thinking there's anything wrong with just checking in with her. Yeah. But either way, you need to go get your back done. You do. You do. Yeah. I completely agree. There's nothing wrong with just saying something. Y'all have been dating for four months and lesbian. That could mean four months or it could mean four years. So 11 miles. Y'all, maybe you know, but two days. Yeah, she's older. So hopefully she's not so like, oh, this might be on me. Am I me? And just because y'all have been fucking around for a few months, like maybe she's got a clearer head on her shoulder. Right. So we're gonna cross our fingers and hope that that's true. But yeah, I agree that you need to go do this now because you may realize that you are a stim only on the outside. And that's fine. I feel like a lot of times in the black wula, wula, or ligga bigotigo or queer community a lot of times we, especially over here on the girls side, we kind of think that however you dress is just how you are. But some people prefer masculine clothing, but they're like on the inside, I'm a pretty princess and I want flowers and I want you to open the door for me and I want you to walk on the outside or whatever other, you know, gender roles that y'all feel like are flipped or whatever it goes. So I'm just saying. Have you seen this Tik Tok of this stud who was at work with someone like the Tark Brown but she loved firefighters. She was like, she's like a stutter. She was just like, yeah, okay, whatever. But I just something about like, I guess the man in firefighters, wherever, like uniform I mean. And she was like, she said something happen with where she was like, maybe cover a fake girl, something like that. I should call the fire department. Just because she, I don't know, but it was funny because it was like full of stutter. And it was just like, yes, no, firefighters are kind of sexy. Yeah. But I do, it only brings the reason I'm bringing it up. It's just kind of it reminded me of what you're saying. It's like, I think some even outside of queer, but shockingly queer people included will look at folks and be like, well, the way that you present or the way that you dress must mean this. Yeah. Yeah. They're these six, well, four buff ass niggas mean something biggest daughter. Tutoring it up. Right. It's some of these little little dainty people. Yes. And let them. I'm being I'm stretching for some touching my toes and everything. I'm warming the fuck up and getting these knees ready because I'm doing it. Yeah. That reminds me what you just said of Tignitaro. She told a very similar story. If you don't have Tignitaro, she's this white lesbian comedian, very, very fucking funny. But she told us same story on like one of these late night shows where she was like, you know, something happened. A firefighter had to come rescue us. And I was like, oh, this is my husband now. Like, what wife? What children? I'm gonna fuck. This is my man now. So it must be something about firefighters specifically. But yeah. So you call yourself a stem. And that might just mean outfits. It for some people being more masculine also includes like a masculine identity where it isn't just about clothing. It's more about who you are. Your aura, your presence, all of that. But for you, it might just be about clothes. And maybe you're not maybe you thought you were a stem. But as you've gotten older, you're sliding more over to the film side. of things if you want to try things out with, you know, a big old superstar. That's what I've seen. I'm called on TikTok. Why the fuck not? Like super standard. There are super studs. I love that lesbian life is like a like fantasy book, but not like Lord of the Rings. Like twice. Okay. Yeah. Stem. Oh, yeah. That can't believe me. When I was a Jew, he's just saying like fam aggressive or something. I mean, it makes perfect sense. I'm not. I think I really think the only difference between the stem and a dom film might be, you know, a dom film where it skirts and stems usually don't. It might just come down the clothing. There's so we have so many different look categories. Yeah. I love it. We tend to think however you dress is how you actually are period throughout life and also in the bedroom. And that's not always the case. So where the mask women are at, girl, you, you are, you said download hinge, download hinge. They at the lesbian parties, they are at every function. They are out there in life. You'll see them. That's one thing about them. They're easily clockable. So you will find you will find them. But definitely go have your experience of like getting digged down and all of that go go do it. You might really love it. Be like actually I'm one of them ones. And that's fine. And you know, as long as, well, yeah, it need to tell her no, but if you feeling like you should, it could not possibly hurt. I say, you know, maybe fracture a bone, go down to the hospital real quick, because you bound to find one in security. You could also say for bit might be to pull up to a number of the local construction sites in your town. You will definitely clock them there. You will. They'll be there. Let's see. Yeah, I think you know, aluminum. And so you just you, you'll you'll find them. But yeah, I say continue dating. See how that works out for you. You might have couple sexual experiences and be like, that was fun. I learned something about myself. I could see me doing that every, you know, a couple of years or so, but this is more of a seat. Either way, you need to know that before you sell it out. Yeah. All right. Well, best of luck to you, Tony. Let us know how it goes. Okay. That letter was about fine as somebody knew this one's about breaking up. Yeah, Xavier says. Dear Chris Link, if you're free, I'd appreciate your advice on how to approach being friends with an ex recently, my done. I'm sorry. Let him get it out. Yeah. Yeah. Recently, my partner of a little over a year ended our relationship. We've been having issues for a while. So it didn't come as a total shock, but I was really hopeful we could work things out. But my ex felt differently, which led to him sitting me down one night to end things. Even though I cried like a baby, it was a mature and respectful breakup to the point that my ex assured me that we could stay in contact and remain friends. While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm having trouble deciding whether being friends with him is something I can handle. Part of me always felt that two of us would make better friends than lovers, but I really did fall for this person. And I'm still hurt that our romance is over. I know plenty other queer people have perfectly healthy friendships with their exes. And many of my own friendships started out as dates are hooked up that hookups that evolved into something else over time. But this feels different. My ex has had multiple previous relationships. So our breakup hasn't faced him much at all. But this was my first real one. So even though I know logically the relationship had to end, emotionally, I'm having trouble detaching. What advice do you have for someone considering being friends with an ex while also grieving that person? Have either of you formed friendships with your ex partners? And if so, how did you traverse those new waters? Thank you and much love Xavier. Alright Xavier, your answer. Don't don't do it. You don't build, maintain a friendship with someone while you're grieving them. You don't that's like excuse the morbid comparison. This is like if his mother fucka died and you grieve them while keeping his body on the couch, you have to put him in the ground. Oh my God. Oh, that, well, that, I ate that. But I get the same anyways. What I'm saying is it is near impossible. You can't, if, here's the thing, if you are meant to be this person's friend, you will be friends with them. Not now. Not now. It's, it's not going to happen now. It isn't not only will you not have a friendship because you're hurting. So you can't, he can't be a proper friend to you. You cannot be a proper friend to him. Whether he's gallovanting, not hurt, not, you know, smiling, wide eye, whatever fucks still dating, whatever the fuck, that's his business. You're hurt. So he's not going to be able to be a friend to you because you're not going to receive it the way that you would friend because you want him to be your lover. And you are not going to be able to do the same thing to him for the exact same reasons, because you're hurting. Now the hurt will subside, but you need time to let it do it. And the, the wound or the cause of the wound or whatever, still poking at it and ripping the band-aid off is not going to allow for the hurt to go away. So you got to heal, you got to chill, you got to heal, you got to maintain distance. You don't even have to date, but you cannot continue to be friends with this person, kick it with this person, talk to this person, text, check it, you can't none of that, you broke up your hurt, give yourself time. Now time to pass. And you could heal from this. Blubbing to each other, our mutual friend or whatever next thing, you know, you should chat in this cool. You're not expecting anything, you're not expecting anything. It's fine. Maybe, maybe it won't be. Either way, you are not going to be friends with this man right now. And that's fine. And you shouldn't want to be. And it is a set up when somebody break up with you. Please stop doing this. When you break up with somebody, especially if you know you about to go live your life and whatever happens happens, do not crack that door with some, oh, let's be friends. No, no, love you, love what we had, respect the good times and in between all that other stuff, wishing you the absolute best. Hopefully if we see each other, it can be cordial. And who knows what the future holds. But the whole trying to like soften a breakup blow by telling the bitch, like, oh, we can still be friends. What a fuck we can't. And it don't even really sound like you give a fuck if your friends are not damn. Well, no, yeah, that was my first thought that normally when people say, oh, we can still be friends. They're just saying it to make the breakup easier, to make breaking up with you here. Um, but it's a lie. Any hurtful one. I, but I, I, I, I agree with you. If you're even if he did genuinely mean we can be friends, you can't write now because you're still in love with this person or your heart broken. So you are, right, indeed going to have to take space. And I do mean take space, no calling, no texting, no FaceTiming, no randomly popping up. You see him at a function, you might need to turn around and leave the function. His social media, baby, stay off of his social media, even if you do mute him at least me, you have to stop checking up on his profile going to see that he do this to check in his TikTok repose. You have to stop stalking people on social media as well. You have to cut it off so that you can move on and it's hard. That first day or so is hard or maybe the first couple of weeks or whatever, like you're in love with this person. So it's going to be difficult for you, but you really, yeah, it does. It sucks. You're going to have to disconnect though, um, so that you can detach emotionally. You probably haven't been able to do that. But trust me as hard as it is to really leave him alone and leave his social media and every his friends and everything else alone. It is harder to continue to be miserable about a nigga who don't want you no more. So I have indeed formed friendships with X's. There's one X in particular who is like one of my closest friends does this day shout out to Elise, but that's also because we started dating in the friend group and all of our other friends were like, when you niggas break up, I swear to God, we not choosing sides and the friend group not breaking up. So y'all go have to get over it. And so I wouldn't recommend that. I would not recommend dating within your friend group, but I have you, you sit your glasses down. Let's make one mother fucking bitch. Literally that is what should be good. And it worked. I got to make a set. I'm telling you right now. I'm not going through that. I have to eat. It's true. Um, but yes, again, when we broke I had to take there was plenty of times where we did not do things as a group because I he had to take time away from her. My feelings are very hurt. Our relationship just ended. Now, this was well over a decade ago. Elise is married now with a baby. Well, baby, that child is in college. But, you know, they are, he's a baby to me. Shit, he's eight. I mean, they're gonna be a baby. Yeah. Yeah, so he is a baby to me. But, so this was so long ago, there are times we're hanging out in that genuinely forget that we dated. It feels like it was that long ago. Right. But, again, that's the power of taking space, taking time, letting your feelings heal, letting your heart sew itself back up, and then everybody moving on. And if you are again, I like, I agree with you. If y'all are destined to be friends, it'll happen after you've worked through all of this pain. So. And if you are, it won't matter. 'Cause it works great. It won't matter 'cause you worked through it. And it may be in a few weeks, you're like, well, I don't even wanna be that nigga friend, actually. He gets on my fucking nerves. (laughs) It's just been love. You just have to give yourself that goddamn time. I'm sorry to you, baby. I just go ahead and pretend that bitch died. I've had food on vigils. (laughs) I have lit candles, burned a photograph. Oh no. Sent them off. No, seriously. Just so that I can almost hardwire my mind to be like, there's no reason to check their social media. They wouldn't post anything. They don't exist anymore. There's no reason to call them or text them or whatever. So it's like a fun and just spiritual way for me to be like, this is over. They're not a part of my life because they've moved on to another plane. Amen. I've only done that maybe like twice when I really, really needed to just be like, oh yeah, no. They died. (laughs) Meanwhile over here on the queer woman side, somebody I was dating briefly sent me two dozen roses after we stopped seeing each other for my birthday. Sent me two dozen roses like three weeks later. Because just because we stopped seeing each other or dating or whatever doesn't mean that, you know, you aren't still a great person. - She's a fucking birthday. - Right, and it was my birthday. So just say, we're definitely not having any, oh, it's so sad you died, type vigilance. - These bitches walked 11 miles. (laughs) - Oh yeah. - And probably talked about their first favorite conversation. - You fell in love, you fell in love. Well, this is a different situation, but you can get over this. What was the name? - Yeah, that was the last one. - Right, that was the last one. - You can't get you mixing the gaze up. But give yourself some time, Xavier. You might have a new boo by Valentine's day, who knows? All right. - Girl, but you have to get up up from underneath her. - Yes, you have to get up underneath this, nigga, and go find you another one. Best of luck, baby. - Maybe that's what you do. Don't have the dark, sighted horror fan vigil like I will continue to do, 'cause it's fun for me. And I love being Lydia Deets. What you could do is make the mission to be like, "New Year's Eve, I'm gonna kiss somebody." And then you kiss someone. - Yeah. - And it's like, "Oh, New Year, New Beginnings." And this kiss, even if it's just like casual cutie that you had dry on at the party, or maybe a day. - For sure. - It's just a symbolic moment of moving on. - Yes, exactly that. - So don't get you a New Year's Eve kiss. - Periodical. (laughs) - Best of luck to you, baby. Good luck, et cetera, et cetera. Our last letter comes from Marisa, who says, "I have to start off by saying I love you both so much and I appreciate everything you guys teach on this podcast. Now, onto my miss." - I don't know. - Right, I don't know about teach, but all right. - Teach me this. - It really is. - I started dating my boyfriend in 2024, so we've been together for almost two years. One of the reasons I fell in love with him is that we're both dancers and overall very creative people. He makes music and is a, he makes music and is a beboy and I've been doing theater and dance since I was four. Over the course of, over the course of these two years, we've both had huge ups and downs in our lives. The last few months of this year, especially have been extremely cruel to my man. He got fired from his first national tour with the sports team, Gotti Vic did, and had a terrible loss in his family all in the span of a few months. He's also been in between jobs for a while due to the job market being garbage, so he's making most of his money on DoorDash. He's been handling it well for the most part, but I can't help but feel like I've been making things worse. In the past year, I've created a thriving social media management company, wrote, produced, and directed my first musical, which was a huge goal for me, and have become a key member at the dance studio I teach it, which is actually a job my boyfriend got for me, and then had to quit due to differences with the owner. - I thought she was gonna be like, I think I'm making it worse 'cause I won't shut the fuck up by him getting his fly back at the house, I'm arguing with his mama who's enabling-- (laughs) - Right, I'm absolutely making it worse by just having success. - I'm pouring salt in the wound. Every time I meet one of these milestones, I can't help but think how hard it must be to watch things like this fall into place for me while everything is so hard for him. My question is, how would you guys support your partner in this situation? I love this man and I just really wanna be there for him the best I can while he goes through this rough patch. Thank you for reading this, Marisa. She's so cute. - I'mma just pass. - Isn't she adorable? So-- - It is if she's-- - Don't do it. - You know, Tiffany Evans and Promise Ray. - Right. - Girl, what do you mean? - You're not making things worse. - How do you support him? You got eight jobs. - Well, and I don't think he lives with her, which good he shouldn't. - Yeah, I was gonna say it's very, yeah, two years I don't know where you at. I wouldn't guess that you lived together. But like, okay, it, what I will say is that it sounds like this is all based on assumption. Did she say anything about his behavior or something? - He said-- - Or is she just-- - Not one word. - Damn, it must fucking suck for my man to see that I am hurt. - I am just that. I am just that living girl. - Andy, I mean, he's dashing to the door, so I just don't really know what. - How do you, 'cause she said that he's taking, he seems to be taking it well. - Yeah. - So maybe he's understanding. - Yeah, this is what I'm saying. It is very possible that your man isn't petty and immature and so you having this doesn't hurt him. It actually makes me wonder about how you grew up. Like, who demonstrated this? - I was just about to say. - Yeah, I did wonder. - Actually, I was gonna say, what did you date before this? - Yeah, or who did you date before? - Maybe you dated somebody else. - Yeah. - That was super jealous, especially being dancers, 'cause obviously it's competitive. Especially when it comes to getting jobs and shit. So maybe you're just used to competitive energy, jealousy, spite and stuff, and stuff like that, but girl, if he's not doing or saying anything to make you feel that way, I wouldn't assume it, especially because what gonna happen is then that starts assumption, starts hurting into action. - Yeah. - In one way or the next. - You don't wanna do that. - You start acting weird or something, and you do not wanna do that. (laughing) - So. - You do not wanna let the fantasy that you spun up in your head start influencing the way you behave and then becoming your reality. And frequently a self-fulfilling prophecy because it would never win that way. Had you just had an open and honest conversation? - I'm saying. (laughing) - This is the right, that could be avoided. So yeah, if you're a man, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, would I have-- - I wouldn't say shit. - Well, I mean, what support is he asking for from you? Like, I can, I can never recommend that a woman be a full-time caretaker for a man. It's just so difficult for me. I'm sorry. - I'm just old, and old-fashioned, I guess. - Five or two years. - I've been married for over a decade. We got some kids. - Yeah. - And the life, then fell on hard time. 'Cause what happened here, according to this letter, is that the usual universe just said, I got something for you. - And it happens. I think dating since last year? - I'm not gonna, yeah, I would not suggest that either. You filling in some gaps for your husband of however long your family is different. - Mm-hmm. - Right. There are things that can be done. - Right. - Supportive things. You can make a little effort. I mean, you could like-- (laughing) - A little effort. - Not a little effort, I didn't mean to say it like that. I mean, you could like, I don't love to go about. (laughs) - That's a lot of negative. - I bet that you could do some love language shit where you could just like, I don't know, surprise him with something or like treat him to dinner, like not even hours, just like maybe go, get some good meats from the Kroger. Or so you'd be even just be present. And like in the nice love on him. I don't think that you, 'cause it's like I was waiting for the part of you but where he's, for she's like, every time he comes home, he got to stay in gratitude or something. And then I would suggest you, then I would have been like talk to him. See, obviously, or whatever. But you asked the right question, what kind of support does he want, what kind of support does he looking for? - Yeah. I, there is a little thing, I'm a little concerned because you said that he got fired from this first national tour, he was on with a sports team, what happened there? And also he got you a job at a dance studio but then eventually he had to quit working there because he had differences with the owner. So those two things has me thinking, he has a problem with a job, he has problems with authority, doing what he's told to do, being where he's supposed to be, controlling his, his temper or something like that at work. So that is a little bit of a red flag like, what is it about this nigga that may keep in a job, so hard for him because he got you that job. And not only do you not have these same differences with the owner, you have been promoted. If you are, you are a key member now and you putting on your own musicals and shit so don't sound like the problem is the owner. - It's a good point. - So I would, I would pay close attention to that 'cause those. - Might not have just been the universe girl. - 'Cause what happened with this national tour? - Yeah, it might not, (laughs) or it might be the universe saying, you see how this nigga just keep having employment and then keep doing things to get rid of that employment. - I mean. - Like honestly, sports teams and different leagues or should tree dancers like go catch the split. - So I could have, I would have heard the firing. I was like, oh, that could happen. But I forgot about these differences with the owner thing. - Right. - So. - It's both of, (laughs) your whole face. - I don't know, yeah, I still think, but you should just continue working. Be a good old girlfriend to whatever degree that looks like for you to be a girlfriend the way that you normally would. - If he does say something that even if it isn't directly asking for support, if he's like, man, I need to take my mom, I gotta take my mom, my auntie to an appointment. But then I'm not gonna, you know what I mean? Then maybe you'd be like, oh, I'll do, I'll help with it. You know what I mean? If you do hear little things that you can be helpful with and help him that way, but yeah, there's like little things that you notice that you could help with. Just I feel like you probably would anyway because you like your boyfriend, they just do that. But worrying about how you're gonna help him financially, or worry about how you're gonna help him in his occupation, I wouldn't be thinking about it that much at all, especially if you're not asking you too, but. - Right, I might be thinking about it just so I already know what I'm gonna say when you ask how I'm gonna tell you, no. - Work, yes. - So I have my, no, I might be doing well, I'm not doing well enough to take care of two homes or two grown niggas or whatever else. So figure that part out. - So in his ears, oh, let me just roll the white board out 'cause I knew this was coming. All right, so as you can see here in poin A, there was an ever gonna be a day. (laughing) 22, there was never gonna be a time. You following? All right, so three. - Love. - Figure it out. Especially depending on the details of this firing and not getting along with the owner of the studio. - Right. - Is he doing this to himself? - That's a good point. - It would be totally different if he got laid off from both jobs or one of them clubs or something like that. But both of these sound like they his fault. So. - Hey, we know you know. (laughing) - And we know you know. You maybe didn't put all the details there for a reason, but you gave me just enough to be curious, girl. So. (laughing) - Right. - And listen. - I don't find it. (laughing) - It takes the person to go and read them words and be like, "The interesting choice of words here." And then here as well. - Actually, now that you say this. (laughing) - That's bitch. - I didn't mean to tell you that. Stay there. I guess we did. But you are. - I'm a very great baby. - I'm a very great baby every time. Every time. - I just found it hilarious that she was like, I think I'm making it worse because I got a race. - And a promotion. And I'm going on tour with Beyonce. Also, I'm on my own. And I'm on my comfort time magazine. Like something what? - It shouldn't be. It might be a little hard for him, which is normal to see other people succeeding at something that you also care so much about. Or just, you know, it's hard to see people employed when you are going long stretches with being unimportant. - Of course. - Like that's normal and natural. What isn't okay is taking those hard feelings out on somebody and making it their problem or like they're doing something wrong. And you're also a creative and entertainer. You know this business is a mess. Shit goes up and down. - Right. - So you can have some empathy there, but you know, just make sure you write, yeah. We have so much empathy and we really do feel for you. But you know, I say keep flourishing and doing your thing. Again, Christmas is here. Let's get him a nice present for Christmas. Let's get him something so fun and festive that says I really do love you. Not enough to pay your rent, but I really do care deeply about you and would like to help you through this challenging time in your life. So. - Get him like a vintage copy of Darren's dance. - All right. - That was unnecessary and I actually felt that. - You should. - The man is already doing that. Like he's already doing that. He got fired and evicted. - I was like nostalgia and it could be something to do together. - He, yeah Marisa, by him then be like, let's take it back to the basics. Since. - By him, the deluxe edition of Sierra's sophomore album with the choreographer. - It's struggling. - No girl, just continue to win and let that nigga figure out. - Exactly, yes. - 'Cause even if he does express that our does feel some type of way that it's his journey for him to figure out who he is, God, and his point of therapy. - And y'all can talk about it. - And he can come to you and talk about it. - Yes. Y'all can talk about that if he's having those feelings. All, I think you are already doing the things you need to be doing as far as like. It actually sounds like you're doing too much thinking. You might be overthinking the situation which again goes back to like, who did this to you, baby girl? But yeah. Good luck, Marisa. Always take care of yourself though. Far from us, we are always gonna tell women and films to look out for self. First, every single time, no exceptions. So yeah, best of luck babes. Let's end the letters right there. If you have a question for us, send it to [email protected]. We'll be right back. - Okay, waities and germs, it is time for three. - No, no, no. - Ladies and gentlemen. - We're not doing that. - I'll start my read. - Okay. - 'Cause it's not really bad, dude. Two things. One, Quentin Tarantino, you really wasted God's time. An hour energy by smashing these kill bill movies together. And the never before seen additional content is a fucking Fortnite cartoon where Uma Thurman is fighting Gogo's sister or something. So we're never gonna have no what happens to Nikia. The worst part is I watch the video on like IG or something. People from Epic Games, the people who make Fortnite, we're essentially like, we wanted to get serious with Hollywood. So we wanted a real director to do anything with. They literally are saying like this. They were wide open about we don't give a fuck. We just want a real time Hollywood director to do some shit. So they got Quentin Tarantino and essentially go, we will give you all the money, whatever you want, just make it. And he was like, oh yeah, I have this latest idea here. And so they made a Fortnite cartoon short that they stuck in the two kill bill movies that came out when I was it when I had home room. And that's okay. Why if you were going, even if you were going to make a fucking short out of this. God for a sake in video game. That Kim Kardashian is now in. So you can run alongside Kim Kardashian and Doge Cat and Ariana Grande and Playboy Cartier and fight Wolverine, Deadpool, The Walking Dead, Pac-Man, Sonic, Danny Phantom, Iron Man, Iron Girl, Iron They, Iron Them. But bitch, I hate Fortnite, but you know what? Even if you were gonna do that, why didn't you just make this short about Verneeta's daughter? The one big wide open cliffhanger that you have in the fucking movie since the first part has been the little black girl who watched her mother die right in front of her who was then challenged by a stranger white woman to come and beat her ass with it. I want to see that. I want to see a grown-up Nikiya absolutely murder that woman, not because I hate her, because the woman asked for it, she would respect her death. And I've been waiting over 20 years to see it. And you ain't even give a fuck about the shit. You just took Fortnite's goddamn money like everybody else is and you made pointless, useless, redundant fuckery and you will get none of my money, sir. - Last and not least, I finished watching it. Welcome to Dairy, this first season of It Welcome to Dairy on HBO formerly known as Maxine. And I'm not going to get into any of the swilers for those of you who haven't watched it yet. I will say I thoroughly enjoyed the entire season. I think they landed the plane very smoothly. I am looking forward to the next season. A lot of the heartbreaking things in the season I knew were coming. There was a particular few heartbreaking things. I didn't see coming. And one day you writers, you'll have to have a conversation with me about it. Okay, I'm still in pain and I'll never forget you. But my read is going to just be more so about a trope. It is in the series, but it's in a lot of movies and television. And it's when the military is like, let's take a monster that we don't know anything about except for the fact that it's bloodthirsty. And let's make it a military weapon. What? Raptors, tyrannosaurus rex, sharks, wildebeestes, mooses, gyrefs, and maybe even an intergalactic cosmic spider clown that eats children in the night. And what world were you going to be like, let's get this shit to work for the United States government? How do you know even the bare minimum of what's going on? Which is that this is a creature that feeds off fear. Can turn into whatever it wants. Can warp reality into whatever it wants. Can regimen, they mine, they mine, they mine, they mine, they mine. And is you are living evil? What? It's like in Jurassic Park when they're like, yeah, we're making this new fucking killer dinosaur that could kill all the dinosaurs. And then we're going to put it in a mega vest and a red hat and it's going to, it's going to stand for America and liberation. It's just like, I be so stuck in my stories when we get to this part. Cause I'm like, what's the reasoning? So you grew up knowing that there's a force that lives in the sewers that just murders. Yeah. Yeah. There's just murderous. You don't know where it comes from. You don't know what it is, how it is, when it is, where it is. But you do know that it will eat your ass after terrifying you or just driving you insane. What are you? I'm good. You feel like you're going to like invite it over for McDonald's and then have a conversation. It's just it's never going to make sense to me. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I just, I can't ever get into that device. I can't, I can't, it never works. It never works. Dinosaurs are stupid. Sharks are stupid. But a bitch can like study up. On the biology of a fucking shark and maybe gas. That's all you can do. A xenomorph. Now you're just making things up. I don't know what that is. The alien from alien. Right. Yeah. I for sure, I did know that for sure. I did, I did, and I know what you mean right now. It's just, it's so, it's so done. Zombies. Yeah. Well, using for war. It's gonna eat you too. Zombies don't pick sides. It doesn't make sense. That's it. That's it. I'm finished. Oh, man, okay, so for me this week, I just cannot even believe this happened. So comorly sim is back on TV. I think it's called back in the Fab Lane. If you remember life in the Fab Lane, then this is so crazy to see her and her now very adult daughters and her other children are all so grown, oh my God, cutest kids, but the show, I haven't actually had the chance to watch the show itself yet, but they've been doing a lot of promotion with the clips and everything. It looks cute. It looks interesting. And I guess it made it all the way to Bali because people did a story on comorly simons. And there's a little screenshot of like her being beautiful. And then it says, comorly simons says she doesn't have a relationship with her kids fathers. And then in quotation marks, guys are weird, which yes, they are. And so Russell Simmons somehow saw this from his yoga retreat in Bali and logged on to threads, which is my safe space. What are you doing on threads? You're supposed to be on Twitter with the rest of the riff rap and the garbage. What do you mean, threads? Not anyway, he posted on threads three days ago, posted this picture of comor with the little caption and everything that's on it from people and said, I gave you 50,000 a month for 20 years. I was your best slash only friend. I'm the Godfather to your other three kids until one day you stole my stock. I have been fighting for my kids love and my bread ever since. You threatened that if I sued you, I would never speak to my kids again. There are two sides to every story. I'm so glad you brought that up. There are indeed multiple sides to every story. And since comor, since this thing, all she said in this people excerpt is she doesn't have a relationship with her kids fathers. And I believe she has three or four of them, because so this isn't even just about you. Right. So this is a, there's a little club of y'all. This wasn't even about you specifically. She got you and all boys, super fine tall dark skin nigga. What's his name? Yes. Him. And then that white man who I think is in jail, so right. So I can see how looking at this list of ex husbands that she would be like, yeah, men are indeed weird. And I think I'm cool. Actually, I have my babies and the rest of that is a chop. Nothing. She said it was worth. Nothing. Thank you so much. Nothing that comor Lee Simmons has said or done is worth a response from you, especially because number one, you met that girl when she was 13 or 14 years old. Hello. And we know that I was your, I mean, I'm gonna stop her. Let's talk about why you a grown man of 38 were best friends with a teenage girl. Why was that even true? You gave her $50,000 a month for 20 years because she bore two of your offspring. She stole your stock. I don't give a fuck. Even if that is true, I don't give a fuck. I say she deserved to take even more of the things that you have because you stole her literal innocence. You stole her actual youth. You robbed her of her childhood, her girlhood, and we're supposed to care that she took you stock in exchange. Meanwhile, baby fat was absolutely massive because of comora, because of comora, her beautiful ass self actually linking up with you a walking troll. She deserves it all. And then this shit about I've been fighting for my kids love and my bread ever since your kids Ming and Ayoki and the little boy that she had with Mr. Hansu, is that how you say his last name? Okay. My bad if it's not that little boy who is now like six three and playing college basketball and who has issues right has issues with his sister. because his sister went to Malaysia or maybe it was Bali or something I don't know where she went for six whole months but he got to add it to her because she just up and left one day and again this is all part of the show clips I was been seeing from the show but those kids especially Ming and Aoki they are grown they are legal adults and if they want to speak to you they can I'm certain that they can do that you can't come over here and so Camora this went viral because of course all the comments me included are like nigga how are you even speaking you got a lot of goddamn nerve and audacity so please be serious so Camora responded this and said my girls are grown women you know these are lies why are you typing from thousands of miles away in a non-extradition country go negotiate and answer your accusers period yes sir you why don't you come over here to the United States of America and say it to her beautiful face if that's really how you feel about it this is Camora said Camora said you should have just said that they were a child for this baby one you got so many charges waiting on you in these good old United States of America that you'll simply never come back you will never be brave enough to face the shit that you've done but you feel good over there in Bali you feel strong and confident enough to be responding to what this woman is saying about all of the fathers of her children on fucking social media you set yourself up for every bit of this and I don't give a fuck how bad you get dragged why are you even speaking on her you think we don't know that she was a teenager when y'all met you think we don't know that you groomed that girl you're 18 whole fucking years older than her it's gross no matter how you slice this nasty so yeah I stole your stock again I have my doubts about whether that's even true but if it is you think I'm gonna be like oh we'll give that man here should not oh bankrupt that bitch as far as I'm concerned find a way to take all that body money too take that shit as well you can have it all the shit you put that girl through and like Chris said your kids don't speak to you because I'm like going to see her maybe your kids are like damn actually don't want to talk to my rapist father actually don't want anything to do with him and this whole thing about why I was godfather of your other three kids until you stole all my stock you were godfather of my other three kids until I snapped out of the grooming and conditioning you put me under woke up and realized I was a god damn victim and decided to take some of my power back you creepy old nasty old man so guess what now my don't stay all right you just had to last but not least Rachel Nichols I don't know what she was thinking if you don't know Rachel Nichols is a well I mean she's one of your colleagues she's a professional sports journalist I don't know what happened well so uh asia wilson and bam out of bio recently came public with their relationship which if you pay any attention at all you've been new about this but um that you know asia's doing interviews talking about how happy she is one day they want to start a family you know this is our best friend blah blah blah all that cutie and love stuff and so of course the internet sees this asia wilson is bam out of bio is a good player asia wilson's an even better one so the internet is eating this up they're like oh my god incredible basketball talent on the way the likes we've never seen before a seven foot two niggas in a come in 20 years and dominate all y'all shit etc lots of internet jokes that's what the internet does a lot of people also said that the general manager of Oklahoma city thunders and presti would be scouting this child already they're like oh sam presti finna be in the delivery room you know waiting to get this baby's measurements at birth or whatever again creepy internet jokes but that is so that's it's a it's a step too far I get it because when sam when all the deals happen with paul george and all that back then they were like oh my god sam presti is drafting six graders and all those six graders are actually in the league so high I get the joke he he he's sam presti plants for the long run okay it's not great but internet bullshit yeah why would you professional sports journalist of 30 god damn years then take the stupid ass internet memes jokes and content and go talk to a real-life person about them why would you do that why would you do that I'm I'm so she was talking to somebody who is not she's talking to somebody who is not asia wilson or bam out of bio she actually brought this to shay guilt just Alexander who plays for the Oklahoma city thunders sam presti is rgm um and at the end of this interview she was like well shay what do you think about the internet saying that sam presti is gonna be scouting asian bams a baby from birth and you know do you think he's actually doing that and shay was just like I mean sale takes his job seriously you know whatever it takes to be great he's gonna do it now I'm of the opinion that like taking internet bullshit internet fodder and bringing it to people in real life is already corny is 500 times because the jokes almost never translate exact and you Rachel Nichols you're not one of the jokers you're one of the report the reporters of the jokes so you trying to take this you know which probably started on tiktok or or twitter or something and then turn it into a legitimate question to ask this man was already crazy to me and yes it was indeed 500 times corny are coming out your mouth but then asia and bam also saw it I said oh no oh no and asia said so this not weird or creepy to you niggas and y'all don't think so little strange yes that's what she said y'all don't think but I guess it's a slow day and bam said this is why privacy is important meaning that we're not getting shit else from them and it's just sad because it amounts with it it only just started they barely was even like allowing people to sniff around the idea of them being together even though if you paid real attention it was very obvious but they weren't public about it for this exact reason Rachel Nichols you were born I had to go look up her I said I need to understand is this an influencer because one thing I hate is when y'all hire influencers to do a journalist job come to find out not only is she not an aunt she has a bachelor's degree in journalism from northwestern university I think she graduated in the early 90s and you have been working professionally in sports media ever since so legitimately a damn near 30 year career I thought this was somebody y'all plucked off of social media and stuck in a room with athletes this is a legitimate sports journalist bringing this kind of cock-a-mama ridiculousness to the faces of like why why did you do that let the internet joke be an internet joke let's talk to SGA about the thunder about his performance about what we're looking for like I mean this was right before we actually lost that fucking game which blew my mind like there's just don't you don't have to be weird you don't have to be strange you can just let the things that oh something's going viral on your fucking Instagram feed or whatever just let it go viral on your Instagram actually asking this man who well do you think Sam Presley is gonna be there when asias pussy is wide open waiting on this baby to be delivered like let's just all like let's just take a step back and remember that we're talking about real people who you are theoretically really going to have to see at some point like you she you report right you don't think at some point you're gonna see bam and he's gonna be like so by the way that thing you said about my baby and Sam Presley scouting my child and all this like at some point did you ever say to yourself huh these are actual people that I'm talking about maybe I don't want to be weird maybe you don't want to act like the people who don't have your job why do you want to do the same thing that the board asks losers online are doing all fucking day why are you taking their stick that's all they have that's all they have Rachel Nichols you're taking their little jokes and bringing them to actual athletes and asking them in person about that dumb shit I totally agree I hate what like actual newscast goat dumpster diving into social media for like whatever is trending or funny and then go anyway thanks you so much for that El so what do you think about black twitter and this whole the place with conversation, is it lifting, is it not? like you ain't got none that like you don't have real right and now you got to explain the joke because this man is a professional athlete what one of the top in the fucking league so he's not sitting on Twitter all god damn day he has no idea what you even talking about now you got to break it down it's not funny I said it's not funny but then I'm thinking about face and like you do you not feel stupid do you not feel weird I don't feel so strange acting like that are real people you'd have to real like I don't know you've been doing this for so long girl what happened I'm I think Asian hit that the nail on the head though with the must be a slow news day to eat because I'm like you really went and just found some joke that was also in poor taste in my opinion and we're like let's take a prime time let's just put it on the air let's ask actually at least about these dumbass and appropriate shit like that's the thing though it's not a slow day the NBA is in full swing there's so much sports it is sports sports all day every day we are we are in the thick of college basketball is back college football playoffs finna start the NFL is in full fucking swing the NBA is doing this like it's not a slow news day week month season at all there's so one without so much to talk about why did you why did you Rachel why it's just weird you're not a fucking influencer please don't act like one like you're a journalist you worked hard to be a journalist you worked hard to have the career that you have why act like some little dumb bitch off of the internet you're not that it's really strange it's really it's really strange like I personally would value my real career over the chance to get a joke off but especially when I'm not a comedian that's not what the pay for sure just you know there's so many options and you are you are gonna have to see these people and when you have to see bam oh if you cover ever the W NBA there's a real question here now of like why were you being weird about my uterus I would love for Asia have the chance to ask you about that in person it'll even have to be on a check issue but just like legitimately I'd like I'd like to ask our professional sideline reporters or people who have real access to athletes I would like to ask you to treat us like you're talking to a real person who has a real life outside of this clip going viral okay thank you so much I know you're right thank that to be like we talked about being in a relationship we're confirmed being a laser said 48 hours talking about measuring wrapping my baby and measuring tape fresh out my one time I didn't interview and said yes my man my man my baby my baby well can't you know excited to get married excited to have a family one day love this part one time and legitimately less than three days later y'all have ruined it I said damn and you know Asia is one of my favorites I just she finna she finna leave us alone again and I cannot fucking blame her look how the look how the professionals act yeah I'm not telling y'all shit else actually because don't nobody know how to behave themselves so yeah I feel like one day I'm like 20 some years for out you just gonna be watching a game and be like that look a little like that's the Asia out of bio chill you the fuck yeah baby just gonna materialize well this is why people this why celebrities don't tell us shit this is exactly why cuz y'all niggas get weird and you do it quickly and they expected from random rift online right unexpected from again she started I think she started in turning at the Chicago sun times when she in like 1992 or something you've been doing this before the internet was even popping it's crazy that you acting like this girl the I bet you won't do it again yeah I felt pretty present that you think Rachel probably learned her lesson there but yeah let's all do better athletes celebrities they are still human beings let's be mindful of the way we're speaking about them the responses have to make you feel the shambles right cuz they were so high right okay yeah that's it for me and that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the reap you can find my advice show chrysalis couch wherever you get your favorite podcasts 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Dieta Headman, a 66-year-old Black woman from Jamaica and England, became the first Black woman to win the World Darts Championship, marking a historic achievement in the sport.
  2. The speaker expresses admiration for Headman’s resilience, highlighting her journey from early struggles to becoming a champion and a role model in the Black community.
  3. A discussion on toxic relationships reveals how individuals in romantic situations often justify staying in unhealthy dynamics by blaming themselves, rather than recognizing the patterns of manipulation and disrespect.
  4. The content critiques the normalization of emotional abuse, such as spitting on women and threats of violence, especially when fueled by personal or financial insecurities.
  5. The speaker strongly opposes the idea of being friends with an ex during a grieving period, emphasizing that emotional healing requires space, distance, and time away from the relationship.
  6. A controversial claim is made about a potential beef between Megan The Stallion and GloRilla, with the speaker expressing skepticism and using denial as a coping mechanism.
  7. The segment highlights the growing scrutiny of public figures like Nicki Minaj and Snoop Dogg, particularly over their social media controversies and perceived lack of accountability.
  8. Future is named a "friend of the house" at Louis Vuitton, symbolizing a broader cultural moment where fashion and music intersect, though the speaker questions the commercialization and authenticity of such partnerships.

Summary:

The transcript blends personal storytelling, social commentary, and cultural critique. It begins with a celebration of Dieta Headman, the first Black woman to win the World Darts Championship, honoring her groundbreaking achievement and her journey from Jamaica to global recognition. This is contrasted with a sharp critique of toxic relationships, where individuals often rationalize staying in abusive dynamics, such as through emotional manipulation or self-blame.

The speaker condemns incidents of physical and verbal abuse, including spitting and threats, calling them unacceptable and highlighting how such behaviors normalize in certain social circles. A recurring theme is the emotional trauma of breakup and healing, with the speaker firmly advising against maintaining contact with an ex during grief, emphasizing the need for emotional space and disconnection. The piece also touches on controversial figures like Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, and Megan The Stallion, discussing public scandals and personal biases, while questioning the authenticity of celebrity narratives.

Finally, the recognition of Future as a Louis Vuitton collaborator is presented as a symbol of shifting cultural intersections, though the speaker remains skeptical of its deeper significance, underscoring the tension between commercial success and personal integrity. Overall, the segment balances celebration with criticism, offering a candid, often provocative commentary on identity, relationships, and the role of media in shaping public perception.

FAQs

Dieta Headman is the first Black woman to win the World Darts Championship, making her a historic figure in the sport. She is also a Caribbean queen from Jamaica and has gained recognition for her skill, determination, and resilience in a male-dominated field.

Dieta Headman inspires Black women and marginalized communities by showing that excellence and achievement are possible regardless of societal expectations, proving that talent and dedication can overcome barriers.

She defeated Lorena Wright-Burgen in the final and expressed deep emotion upon winning, saying she felt like she had finally achieved her dream after long years of dedication and persistence.

Snoop Dogg is headlining a holiday halftime special during the Minnesota Vikings game on Netflix, featuring his chart-topping music, holiday spirit, and a diverse lineup of special guests.

There have been rumors of a potential beef between Glorilla and Megan The Stallion, though the details are unclear and not widely substantiated. Both artists have expressed their views, and the situation remains under discussion.

A young woman accused O.T. Genesis of inappropriate behavior, including unsolicited personal details and spitting on her. The incident has sparked discussion about harassment and the need for accountability, especially in public spaces.

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