0:01

Can I tell you one time? One time I was hosting

0:03

a show the one time and

0:05

the microphone hit my mouth and

0:08

I was like, yeah, because you know when a microphone

0:10

hits your mouth, it's like your mouth has hit

0:12

like a toilet seat. The thing has got stories,

0:14

backstory.

0:32

Hey everyone, welcome to adult Ting. I'm Michelle

0:34

Buteux, I'm Jordan Carlos. What's

0:37

up? My co from Go is here? My sister

0:39

from another miss that's right. And microphones

0:41

are dirty?

0:42

Yeah, they are dirty ass microphones. I mean, you've

0:44

ever gone up to the mic and it's just like you can smell

0:46

what the other person has been drinking, what

0:49

they have been like eating, that they've had

0:51

a cigarette break.

0:53

It's just a combo, a tuna platter of all

0:55

of them. It's the worst. And then it's just like

0:57

make me laugh, you know what it is? I

0:59

don't I think people understand that part of stand up

1:01

comedy when you grab the mic, it isn't

1:04

just the one person's breath, it's the culmination

1:07

of everyone's breath in

1:09

this little space that you have to put

1:12

right next to your mouth. God forbid,

1:14

you gotta act out. You have an act out on

1:17

your mic. Absolutely, it's so funny. There

1:19

was Tom McCaffrey. It's a hilarious

1:21

comedian when we were like coming up. I

1:23

don't know if he still does comedy. I don't know where Tom McCaffrey.

1:25

Where you at? Tom definitely still does comedy.

1:28

He wrote a book. Even

1:31

Yeah, good job Tom, Let's get him on the show. I

1:35

actually do an impression of Tom McCaffrey. Can

1:37

you do it? Because help? He was

1:39

like the closest, like you know when you see

1:41

a white boy rapper, you're like, okay, that is

1:44

definitely in him. He didn't just look at chetthanks

1:46

to study that like that is he

1:48

is, you know what I mean. It's giving Malcolmore, it's

1:51

giving Eminem, it's giving

1:54

who sings Ice Ice Baby of Vanilla

1:56

eyes. But that's

1:58

awful.

1:59

He's definitely. I mean, listen,

2:01

Tom was born and raised in the Stuyvesant projects.

2:04

He's he's got it in him. It's the culture.

2:07

And he just happens to talk like this. I

2:10

love how he talks.

2:11

Yeah, but then like he holds the mic up like a

2:13

rapper and he like cups like it's not part

2:15

of it. And I kind of missed people doing

2:17

that because when people cut the mic like that,

2:20

you know in a comedy show, they're usually

2:22

about to do like a helicopter impression or

2:25

like some sort of like sound effect.

2:30

A one too, A one too like. He looked

2:33

like he was always poised to beat box.

2:35

Yeah, but he was not going to do that. Shout

2:38

out to Tom McCaffrey.

2:39

Have you ever been in a Yo Mama off?

2:42

Yes, as a child really

2:45

in church? Okay, that took a turn.

2:47

No, I thought you meant, Oh, you mean like a stand

2:49

up show where it's like Yo Mama di and that.

2:51

No, it was no. Not a stand up show like in a

2:53

parking lot, like your Mama's so fat,

2:56

like your mama's so stupid.

2:58

You remember that back in the day when

3:00

people be like Yo Mama.

3:01

I was so glad that I was able to just like outlast

3:04

those like Wilmer Valmarama. Thank

3:06

you so much for your service he

3:08

made. He made Yo Mama very

3:10

popular, very one note comedy.

3:12

He made a T shirt. Sorry, A TV

3:14

show, Yeah, on MTV. A TV show

3:17

on MTV might as well be a T shirt in my

3:19

mind because I'm like what it

3:22

was on MTV.

3:23

It was filmed under like

3:24

a like a railroad trestle or an

3:26

underpass.

3:27

Oh god, because it was urban, Oh

3:29

god. And it was on after school.

3:32

Also, when I think of like people dissing

3:35

people in a parking lot, I'm not thinking of Wilder.

3:37

Oh no, is that his name, Fez, You're

3:40

not thinking of Wilmer.

3:41

Wilmer whatever. Like I'm not thinking of that

3:43

guy, you know what I mean? Like,

3:46

I'm not thinking of that guy. It's it's definitely someone.

3:48

Else, Fez. It's like glass houses. Okay,

3:52

I tried those, but I was always like, your

3:54

mother has such an amazing work ethic, you.

3:56

Know, yeah, she's holding it down.

3:58

Oh my, your mother is ageless.

4:03

I hosted a pilot in two

4:05

thousand and eight, still waiting to hear

4:07

for gets picked up, and

4:10

it was supposed to be like yo, mama,

4:12

but yeah, with women in

4:15

a hairshop. Okay, what

4:17

was the pilot like? Terrible? It's funny

4:21

hair shops are so there's no circulation.

4:24

I'm like none. You can't open the

4:26

door because then people think you can get your hair done

4:28

for free somehow. Yeah, everybody

4:30

comes in to like get some change

4:32

for the bus.

4:37

I used to shoot this show with Dan Soder back in

4:39

the day and it was like the

4:41

Man Plan or something like that, and we shot it

4:43

one hundred and twenty fifth Street in the offices

4:46

of the Source magazine

4:48

people the Source, what was

4:50

left of the Source. Ooh, that

4:53

place got zero mics. Okay,

4:55

it was terrible, but you know what, it was a gig.

4:57

My daughter had just been born. It was whoo

5:00

the pampers of it all. I bought

5:02

the diaper Genie off of that. I bought

5:04

the bed off of that. Like I'm very

5:07

happy to have that money. But damn,

5:09

honey, it was.

5:10

It was real. Ain't nothing funny.

5:14

And then Morgan Spurlock, who was the EP,

5:17

then he I always need to

5:19

say this right he me tooed himself

5:22

and it.

5:22

Was like, yeah, you better. It was over.

5:25

I was like, okay, we are dropping so much

5:27

info, like just a whole TBT

5:31

Flashback Friday info in the chat.

5:33

It's shady, it's real. You can

5:35

fact check us, is what it is?

5:38

Have I been shady this whole time? I'm here

5:40

for I love it. We've loved on Tom McCaffrey

5:42

and we loved it. We posted here's

5:45

the deal. We loved on him. But somebody else could say

5:47

otherwise, like I posted a picture of myself a couple

5:49

of days ago in a beautiful dress,

5:51

and you know how, people were like, what were you wearing?

5:53

What were you wearing? I was like, what was I wearing? My top?

5:55

Titty meat? And somebody

5:58

commented and they were like, this is pretty

6:00

crude. Don't talk about yourself like that. I

6:03

wish you would think better yourself. And I just want

6:05

like, I don't reply, but I want to. I'm just like,

6:08

bitch, ain't nobody gotta love me but me? This

6:10

is how I talk. The fact that you want to

6:12

even police me about how I should

6:14

say something about myself is crude,

6:17

So crude, so crude. Can

6:20

I ask you a question? I have to ask you an

6:22

adulting question. Oh no, yeah,

6:24

I've come to you. I'm nervous. I've come to you this

6:26

hour of need. Oh Mike, and my Queen

6:29

of the Knight, what is happening Kevin Costner?

6:31

Costner? You know

6:33

she tied with She had a syllable Kevin

6:37

Cosiner. Moon.

6:38

Michelle does this when she breaks down words and

6:40

then like I become unconvinced of

6:43

how you said.

6:46

Something that's been.

6:47

Bed rock in my mind since I was a child. Is

6:49

Kevin Costner until this moment, you're like

6:52

Kevin Costain

6:55

at a French ending.

6:59

Ken bestwhile just

7:02

we Cossina.

7:03

I believe his name is Idris Elba. That's

7:06

the Blackbirds. Now here's

7:08

the question. Yes, my wife's

7:11

longtime hairdresser. Oh, he's

7:13

moving back to France. He's

7:16

been her hairdresser for twenty

7:19

years.

7:19

She's talked about him. Yeah, yeah, Christoph.

7:22

We love you, Christoph. Shout out to Christoph, You're the best

7:24

with a K go on.

7:26

I'm so sorry he's moving back to France,

7:29

to Paris, and they've

7:31

been quite a combo. And wife

7:34

has asked that I, yeah,

7:37

turn in my frequent Flyer miles so that

7:39

she may on Mother's Day fly to

7:41

France for the weekend with her mother. Yeah,

7:44

and get her hair done by Christoph.

7:45

Thoughts, that's wonderful, and I

7:47

feel it if you ain't getting what you need, if you're

7:50

not getting nourished in America or

7:52

wherever you are, and you

7:54

just have the means to actually go somewhere and

7:57

fucking do it, Because oh my god,

7:59

what am I on? Edsy happy wife, happy

8:01

life? Think about how nourished

8:03

she's gonna be when she comes back and then you're gonna

8:05

seem like a fucking hero, do you know what I mean? So

8:07

this is a win win across the board. Now,

8:11

how many like how wolf was? She got to get

8:13

this trimmed? Because that's a lot, a

8:16

lot of miles. I will

8:18

say I used to go to Paris a lot in my twenties

8:20

and I just would fly on

8:23

a cheaper flight on Air India because what

8:25

happens is when you take a flight that's

8:27

going to connect somewhere because they have you

8:29

know, they're going somewhere else, that flight's usually

8:31

cheaper. Okay. I love Air India

8:33

because I love to see brown families

8:35

and eat good food. And so

8:38

I mean that's a little true. And I don't know if you

8:41

can like mix your miles. You know, sometimes

8:43

you can do that because the world is one big

8:45

place. But I say yes, Also,

8:47

Christoph probably mentoreds

8:49

somebody like you know who's the mentee

8:52

in the peripheral circle? You know, who

8:55

does Christophe love? So it's like when your therapist

8:57

leaves, they always kind of say, well,

8:59

I have a friend, so you

9:01

know, if she's in a pinch and whatnot? Who

9:04

att that's a wonderful thought. Last

9:06

Mother's Day, I went to Jamaica with

9:08

my friends and they were pretty much all moms

9:11

and it was very wild to be like, hey, this is the

9:13

one day you're supposed to be celebrated by

9:15

your child. Let's go nourish

9:18

ourselves and just wear

9:20

our top titty meat in tank kinnis to the

9:22

pool for some tequila and other tea words.

9:25

Thank you, Thank you for checking in with me about this, because

9:27

I was just like, ways, I'm torn as this too much.

9:29

But I also know your wife and like, you

9:32

know, not even for any

9:34

person, for any person who

9:37

feels the best they

9:39

could ever feel with, like their

9:42

wardrobe stylists, their makeup person,

9:44

their hair person. You know, you want

9:46

to keep that feeling that you have when you leave

9:48

your chair. Yeah, and you just can't put your trust

9:51

in anybody because now we're on some grown woman's

9:53

shit. We can't be trying new shit. I went

9:55

to Supercuts for a haircut when

9:57

I was like twenty, and I

9:59

haven't cut my hair ever since. I'll trim,

10:01

but I'm not doing no more cuts because it was giving.

10:04

I'm trying to get into the military, but I haven't been passed

10:06

yet. Trying

10:10

to get into basic training. That's right. Look, I

10:14

I hoard miles. I hoard

10:16

the miles, you know, yeah, but you got

10:18

to use them. Yeah, I do too. I'm like, what

10:20

am I going to take the whole family to Hawaiian?

10:22

No?

10:22

That's too fun, you know what I mean? Yeah, you're

10:24

right, what are you waiting for? What am

10:26

I? I don't know? Miles

10:29

sometimes do feel like money in the account, Like

10:31

I like to see the high number. But you

10:34

know, make a memory. We're not promised tomorrow. These

10:36

miles are fucking fake. Thank

10:38

you, Michelle. This feels like I've been through therapy,

10:40

Like it really feels like I need it.

10:42

Well, now that we've had a breakthrough, what's your schedule

10:45

like next week? Because I

10:48

should did this weekly? Sho did this bi weekly. Look,

10:51

I'm excited. I'm excited for her,

10:54

and I'm even excited for you

10:56

guys listening to the podcast because we've

10:58

got a live show for you. And yeah,

11:01

it's a whole ass dinner party with no dinner,

11:03

but it's definitely a party. Maybe it's just a party.

11:06

We ate later.

11:07

They were such a vibe. Yeah you won't

11:10

know this because you're listening. Oh my

11:12

gosh, their wardrobe, head to

11:14

toe, tip to tip, amazing,

11:17

amazing.

11:18

From head to but toe. You got to go to their Instagram

11:20

page. So let me just give you the Blackground. Okay.

11:23

Yes, our guests are the Illustrious Blacks.

11:25

It's a duo Manchild Black and

11:28

Monster Black. Okay. And it

11:30

is like an art installation that also is giving

11:32

you music, like original music. It's afro

11:34

electric disco, space punk

11:37

rock. It's just beyond if you ever heard of

11:39

afropunk, it's giving nine

11:41

to five afropunk realness.

11:43

They're just delicious. Yeah,

11:46

when you think about couples that work together, it's like what Kelly

11:48

Ripa like it. I love LUSA, you know.

11:50

What I mean.

11:50

And then it's like Illustrious Blacks like

11:53

that's what it is. And they just dropped a new

11:55

anthem, a new new well.

11:57

I call it an anthem, but it's a new song illusion.

12:02

It is an anthem though. It's

12:04

like that thing you put on when you get dressed to go out,

12:06

and then you put it on when you're walking to like an interviewer

12:09

date. But anyways, enough

12:11

of our tired black asses

12:16

in JOI the episode with Illustrious

12:19

Guys.

12:19

Yes,

12:41

I'll get up.

12:43

O can't. I got a Charlie horse right there. I

12:46

can't do that. I can't do that to

12:48

adulting everybody. What's up

12:51

y'all? Oh my

12:53

god, this is a very warm room. This is a

12:55

very warm warmer than my crotch.

12:57

Let me tell you this, plas

13:00

baby, I am baking a fucking

13:02

sour Doughe bread between my legs right now,

13:07

roofing the dog. Paul Hollywood

13:09

need to come over and fingerfuck my croissant

13:12

and tell me if I got a handshakeer, I

13:14

got a soggy bottom? Yes,

13:17

yes, and.

13:22

Oh my god, wait.

13:23

A minute, just order and shout out

13:25

to the motherfuckers in the front that we're here last night.

13:27

Yes, shout

13:30

out to New York one. You're the one right

13:32

there?

13:35

Is it new York one? Yeah, he works

13:37

for New York One. Oh shit, Oh

13:39

no, too long? Hi, just

13:43

kidding. Thank you for coming. Thank you.

13:45

I'm an asshole. It's what happens when I'm

13:47

trying to give you, like missy Elliott

13:49

nine to five realness. You

13:53

know, I love pleasure back in the day. Now,

13:55

I know why we don't wear it. It is what

13:58

I got the titty sweat you

14:01

good, don't you look good.

14:03

Take a fucking twirwl take

14:06

a fucking twirl, thank

14:08

you, thank you.

14:10

And they got the goddamn.

14:11

Pythons and the motherfucking

14:13

pythons at the bottom.

14:16

I didn't see the shoes. You didn't need the shortest.

14:18

You know. My onion is crying, bitch.

14:24

I want to buy like one size nine and

14:26

a half in the other size ten just for the left foot.

14:28

Oh, people see my feet.

14:30

They're like, are you a ballerina? I say you

14:32

cute? I

14:35

said no, I've just been tiptoe for the patriarchy

14:37

for forty six years too air

14:40

whar thank

14:44

you? Oh man.

14:46

Meanwhile, my outfit is cool

14:48

Brooklyn dad, and they

14:51

cool.

14:52

But I would down no

14:55

relatively. No, No,

14:58

it's a good Brooklyn honest. It's an

15:00

honest man. It's

15:03

the it's the man that goes the directions.

15:05

Hold up, stand the funk up, sir. Look at this another

15:08

fucking lumbers.

15:11

Lumber sexual lumber sexual

15:13

man that is overboard, that is

15:16

over It.

15:16

Looks like an Icero trucker.

15:18

I look

15:20

like I look like I could

15:22

serve you at the at the Hungry Ghost.

15:26

No, you are definitely the manager at the Hungry

15:28

Ghost. You're not thanking. Put your

15:30

time in bitch, thank you son,

15:33

but don't do that. Yes, you're right, you're right.

15:35

No, but I would work the counter and then at the tip

15:37

part, you know, it's like you have to tip.

15:39

I look away, this is it? Wait

15:41

a minute, did you put this outpha together yourself?

15:45

It's more an it's nice magic

15:48

eight bottle situation. Yes,

15:50

I just grabbed some clean clothes. I cooked

15:53

for my family before.

15:55

And uh you every time, now,

15:57

don't you supposed

15:59

to eat? Come on now, every

16:01

time a man does something, you need an award. I'm

16:04

relax.

16:06

Excuse me. I will say

16:08

that there. It was like a holiday last week, and

16:10

people need to quit. Like I was

16:12

walking my kids around Manhattan

16:14

holding their hands and like people

16:17

kept smiling at me, like look

16:19

at that dad doing it.

16:23

It's so it's such a low bar. It's so

16:25

annoying. It's so fucking annoying. So

16:28

you know what people tell me, they try to give

16:31

me, like tips and tricks. You know

16:33

what you should do? Shut up they

16:36

give you. You know, you know,

16:38

my sisters got a kid. Shut the

16:40

fuck up. Don't

16:43

tell you to say anything. Send a bottle

16:46

of rose and watch her kids shut

16:48

the fuckin. People try to give me, tell

16:50

me what to do. I'm just like, I'm

16:52

sorry. Are you with the arapist? How

16:54

do you? Is there a degree on your wall? How do

16:56

you feel? Can

16:59

I ask you this?

17:00

Like I try to be a stroller hero

17:03

guy on the okay,

17:05

okay, I'm always like I got it and then

17:08

I have a Charlie horse at the end.

17:10

Or like my back gives out. You got to put

17:12

your back into it. Some of these kids. You gotta

17:14

pat your back. Have you ever seen Meg the sallion?

17:17

Just work out? Do that? Yeah,

17:19

stick.

17:24

On repeat favorite. I don't think

17:26

I've ever done that before. Like stuck my stuck

17:29

my booty out. Yeah, it's like this. You

17:34

gotta go like that, and

17:37

then you bend. When you bend, you gotta bend

17:39

like you are a video how and training?

17:40

Sure do it.

17:42

I can do more of like a kettlebells

17:44

squat, stick

17:46

my booty out like this.

17:48

This is way worse than I thought. No, no, no, but arch

17:51

your back a little bit. Oh god,

17:53

they don't want to see this. They do your

17:55

back is that it? Now?

17:58

Pop your butt? Pop your butt out?

18:00

Yeah,

18:04

family here tonight.

18:07

I don't know and I'm so sorry. Yeah,

18:10

no, okay, perfect,

18:13

you know what? This is like a lifetime movie, sad

18:15

but helpful. Yeah,

18:18

well that happened. I don't Yeah what am

18:20

I scared when people do shit? I

18:23

love helping people do shit. I love like

18:26

helping strangers. Sometimes I make

18:28

too much eye contact. We were just talking before

18:30

the show about like riding your bike in Amsterdam

18:33

because you have to, and so I don't mind.

18:35

I really can't see my feet with these titties, but I'll

18:37

try, you know. And

18:39

especially when you see black people floating on their

18:41

bike, you just want to be like hey said,

18:44

And most of the time we do that, but when

18:46

they're in a rush, they don't want to, like say hi.

18:49

But I'm so excited to see them that

18:52

I just kind of go in the direction they're going because

18:58

I'm just like, where are you going? Where do we go? Here?

19:02

Is there like a is there a Harlem? Because

19:04

Harlem is the Dutches. It's actually called Harlem.

19:06

It is Dutch.

19:07

Oh that's so, I can't believe you didn't know that you know

19:09

everything?

19:10

Well, no, I mean, so is it like is that

19:12

Harlem like our Harlem?

19:14

Okay, our Harlem is a different Harlem. For different

19:16

reasons. What's that Harlem?

19:18

Like?

19:19

Happy Black History Months? Everybody is

19:21

the last. It's

19:25

twenty four hours, but it feels magical.

19:27

Yes, Black History

19:30

Day.

19:32

Yeah, it's the leapier Black History Months.

19:35

So it's just like extra extra black

19:38

extra blackness. Yeah, extra blackness

19:40

for you, for you. Oh my gosh,

19:43

I love it. I asked me anything about black history

19:45

because I grew up in the suburbs, so like my parents had

19:47

to like they were like the first black

19:49

man ever was so and so, and they would have

19:52

to teach us all these things about black history

19:54

that we couldn't get from the white world.

19:56

You know what I'm saying. They would have to like

19:58

come in. How much has changed?

20:00

What excuse

20:02

me? These are air Max's which I

20:05

just listen

20:08

preferred on Wednesday Max.

20:09

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember being

20:12

actually in college when I learned

20:14

about Juneteenth, not from because

20:16

I'm from Jersey and nobody, Oh

20:19

shit, y'all

20:22

from Jersey or live in Jersey. You

20:26

live in Jersey and came here tonight for this

20:30

security please? Now I gotta show

20:32

everybody my titty. That is so nice.

20:35

Jersey is showing out what

20:44

is happening? I

20:46

do like your your ear rings. If for those

20:49

at home, these are you want to jump

20:51

through them?

20:51

No?

20:52

No, the hey

20:54

know no, they're like the bamber

20:57

ear rings. At least you here like the Hello, cool

20:59

Jade, thank you for getting through that sentence.

21:06

Door knockers, door knockers? Am I did

21:09

it again? And you did it again? I did it. I

21:11

know what doorknockers are, everybody, I'm fucking cool.

21:13

You know what it is too when you wear when you wear

21:15

some bamboo ear rings, I don't know, it just feels

21:18

like a staple. I love it. It's just what it is.

21:20

But people really think, you know, fucking

21:22

directions. And I'm like, what.

21:26

Do you know what I mean?

21:27

Like, yes, I'm from here, I'm bad at directions. I'm

21:29

no Christopher Columbus, move on, you know what I mean?

21:31

Like even he was bad at directions, he was.

21:33

Really bad at directions. Good

21:35

oppression, bad directions. That's but

21:39

too soon, Hey,

21:46

I heard he was a bad guy.

21:47

Out followed him the

21:52

first gentrifier. All right, oh my

21:54

twins, you know what my little boy otis said to me. Who's

21:56

so sweet? He's sort of like Bruno Mars and

21:58

Benjamin Button had a baby you know what I mean.

22:01

He's just like an old little Hawaiian

22:03

five year old. You know, he's

22:05

so sweet. He even blink slow. He's just like

22:08

Mama, Mama,

22:11

it's so cute. And like

22:13

I just gave him an umbrella the other day because it was raining

22:15

and he started walking like mister peenan. I was

22:18

like, it's too

22:20

cute. And I picked him up from school

22:23

and I'm like, how is your day? He's like good, He

22:25

goes, how was your days? So nice?

22:29

I said, I did a lot of work. I got a lot of work done.

22:32

And he goes, yeah, but Mama, do you do community service?

22:34

Like what do you do for the community?

22:36

I was like.

22:39

Yeah, I'll say who sent you boy? I'll

22:42

say who sent you boy?

22:44

Like what is he? Even?

22:46

Did you learn about a firefighter? Now you

22:48

want to come for me? Okay, Like

22:50

I'm not gonna tell you about season two of Survival

22:52

the Thickest how I'm trying to fucking safe lives and

22:54

hire that black round

22:57

where motherfuckers and write our story

23:00

so the world can see them. Excuse me creating

23:02

fucking generational fucking wealth so I can create

23:05

generational health for you. Otith

23:08

just year no

23:10

I said it with my face. Oh okay, okay,

23:12

got it. You

23:15

can't talk to them like that. I know,

23:17

I know you can't. But the other day, baby

23:19

girl, Hazel, I know you were saying something, but let me just say it

23:21

before I forget. No, no, no, what s did you

23:23

want to say something? Anyways, baby

23:25

girl Hazel, Man,

23:29

go ahead. You know I hadn't

23:31

worked out in a couple of weeks, so I was a little bloaded

23:34

because I had a little bout with sciatica. You know, saiatica.

23:37

Oh I love a grown ass crowd. Yes,

23:42

I feel it was you're a chiropractor. I love

23:44

it. Let's talk about

23:46

it.

23:47

And uh.

23:48

She looked at my belly and she's like, Mama,

23:51

is there a baby in there? And

23:53

I knew what the fuck she meant, but

23:56

I couldn't say that. I was just like, why

23:59

do you ask me that? No, She's

24:02

like, this looks like there's a baby, and man, I was just like,

24:05

there's no baby. It's just a lot of love for you. I

24:09

do. I don't have kids.

24:10

Yeah, I do love the affliction

24:13

of sciatica because I only heard about it when I

24:15

came up to the Northeast. It's and it

24:17

sounds like a town in Long Island or something

24:19

like that. Only New Yorkers

24:21

get Sciatica, like like only

24:24

yeah, yeah in the South. I had never

24:26

heard of it, but I come up here like, oh my Sianica.

24:30

Like it's like, what is the

24:32

Sciatica?

24:33

I don't like.

24:36

It sounds like the jail, like Siantica, Siantica

24:39

all and nothing, you.

24:40

Know, like.

24:42

A person from Texas saying, oh my Sciatica.

24:44

We don't We're just like Malayics out you

24:46

know, like you know, I would say,

24:49

like my Sianic name

24:54

sounds like a county like I feel,

24:57

I feel attacks, I

24:59

feel it's it's nothing but love. It's

25:01

nothing but love. I have to get used to the Northeast,

25:04

like after all these years, Like, for instance.

25:06

You've been here for forty years. I can't.

25:10

And it's like an English guy that doesn't lose his accent, you

25:13

know, those people that have been for so long and then you're

25:15

still I'm.

25:16

Just so knock good.

25:17

Not I'll

25:20

check my schedule when I should have momims.

25:23

I've been in New York for fifty years, but

25:26

I love aluminium, you know, like, oh

25:30

no, when Shaggy just went by aluminium

25:34

in it.

25:38

It's so annoying when people are like very

25:41

proud to be from a place that's done horrible things.

25:43

Yeah, oh you're talking about me. I

25:48

could also be talking about Texas. I'll talk about

25:50

England. Yes, yes, right,

25:52

I have to bring up our guests. Okay, bring out our guests.

25:54

That's exciting.

25:55

Yes, so our guests tonight are a dynamic

25:58

DJ duo, no other than Mantosh

26:01

and Manchild. Please give it up for the illustrious

26:03

please, yes,

26:08

yes, so illustrious.

26:11

Thank you, please

26:16

please please please please

26:20

Wow the fish, the.

26:22

Fish, the fish from

26:28

never lose a moment. Wait a minute,

26:30

wait a minute, A

26:33

reveal, a reveal? Yes,

26:38

who thought fashion Week was prairie

26:41

sleep? But make it disco. We

26:44

like them to be erect. Yes,

26:48

same, same, I think everyone, no

26:50

matter where you're from. Oh my

26:52

goodness. Okay, so please everybody tell

26:55

everybody who you is, what

26:57

y'all do, so we can get on the

26:59

same page with this fabulousness. So, what's

27:01

up, y'all? My name is Manchild Black. What's

27:03

up, y'all? My name is Monster

27:06

Black.

27:06

And together we are the other industrious

27:09

Blacks, and

27:14

we are musical artists and DJs

27:16

and life partners and husbands.

27:19

Actually, let me get that right, husbands

27:22

for a long, long time, long

27:24

long long how long? Last

27:27

year we celebrated twenty years American airhorns

27:33

Black Love, Love to see It. We met in

27:36

the playground. Yes, is

27:39

that what we're calling it? We'll

27:41

call it a sandbox. Well,

27:44

that was the name of the club we met it. How

27:48

did y'all meet?

27:50

Oh gosh, we met any club for real,

27:52

though it was not called the playground

27:54

nor the standbox, but it was in a club.

27:56

We met under a disco ball. We danced,

28:00

and we danced together until the lights

28:02

came up.

28:04

Who approached to or was it like

28:06

mutual approach towards each other? Just

28:08

backed it up a little bit. It was more like

28:11

we collided and then realized

28:13

that each other was there Like

28:15

that. That's kind of how it happened. That's

28:18

true. That is true. We were both very

28:20

shy. You're both you were both very shy,

28:22

we were, but we twerked into each other. Wait,

28:26

that should be wedding vowels. How

28:29

did you get there?

28:30

So I met?

28:31

I met the Illustrious Flags in Amsterdam

28:34

at the Milkshake Festival, which is a festival

28:36

that's part of Pride Week because Peppermint was

28:38

hosting, and I was like, what and

28:40

the beautiful ass nuggets are going on?

28:42

Where are my different sauces? And I didn't

28:45

get to see y'all perform, But like, first

28:47

of all, as a duo, we're

28:49

not even married to each other. I'm just like, fuck you again,

28:52

but like in the best way possible. What

28:55

just that was a total drive by.

28:58

I'm

29:00

just like, oh, look at her out for it.

29:02

She was great, my friend. I

29:04

love her. I'm fine, I'm fine.

29:06

It's hard.

29:07

Look, I will say, it's hard working

29:09

with people you don't know sometimes, right, and that's

29:11

supposed to be the easiest because you know, there's like no skin

29:13

in the game, but you take on people's energy.

29:15

That's why I don't like to work with people I don't like and

29:18

if we get along, because I get along with people, if I don't

29:20

like your character, I'm not fucking with you. Like

29:23

I need to go ask moral compass and

29:25

I need you to like have a work ethic and we'll start

29:27

from there, you know what I mean. And then working with

29:29

a friend is even harder because

29:32

if something comes up, it's just like okay,

29:35

I hope this doesn't ruin the friendship, you

29:37

know what I mean, it's this confrontation with someone

29:40

you love is so much harder. How

29:42

do y'all make it work? What

29:44

was the idea to even get into business

29:47

together?

29:48

We both performed separately for many,

29:50

many years, and people would always

29:52

say, oh, y'all should get together because

29:55

you know, it would be so magical, it would be so this.

29:58

So we tried it a couple of times and

30:00

it didn't quite work, and

30:02

then we decided to really

30:05

give it a go. And it took

30:07

trial and error. To be honest, we had

30:09

to negotiate working with each other and being

30:11

able to sleep in the same bed at night, so

30:15

you know. But now these

30:17

many years later, I feel like we've gotten a groove

30:19

and it's working.

30:20

Is it because you fulfill

30:23

separate roles? Like, I mean, it's won

30:26

the show and won the business, you know, Like, what how

30:28

does it go?

30:29

No, we tossed it back and forth. I would say we

30:31

both share equal amounts of the business

30:33

and the show. Okay, there

30:36

are like I feel like all the elements now they're

30:38

involved, whether it's like the costuming

30:40

or the choreography or the selection of the music.

30:43

We all go back and forth. We try not

30:45

to occupy the same space at the same

30:47

time. It's definitely, well, that's what the world

30:50

needs to learn. Well,

30:52

there that is. How about that anyways?

30:58

So was that too soon? Centuries

31:00

later? Imperialism?

31:02

Don't ad a bitch? So, speaking

31:06

of music, can you tell everybody what kind of music

31:08

y'all be doing? We

31:12

say that we're afro electro disco space

31:14

punks.

31:15

Yeah, oh my gosh,

31:18

it's a mouthful. So that basically means

31:20

dance music that has a lot of house and funk

31:23

mixed up into little.

31:25

Disco spring sprint sprinkled in

31:27

little tech sometimes and.

31:29

A dash of like Tonkin there too

31:31

a little bit. And who are your influencer

31:34

influencers? I don't know. It's

31:36

okay, I'm fine. I'm

31:38

like, oh, burn TikTok to the ground.

31:41

You want to know your musical influences. I think

31:44

you shared one that I was like, oh, thank

31:46

you, that's amazing.

31:47

I had no idea.

31:48

It was like the superiors

31:51

dynamics, Superior dynamics.

31:53

Okay. Yeah.

31:54

So for Black History Month, which

31:56

we are at the tail end of, we yeah,

31:58

shout out, shout out everybody.

32:00

Black History black futures. All of that.

32:04

We would post daily or

32:06

pretty much every weekday. A

32:08

black queer artist who's

32:11

no longer here with us on this

32:13

plane and who inspired

32:15

us, and so Tony Washington of the

32:18

Dynamic Superiors, great

32:20

singer in the vein of having a great

32:23

falsetto sound like a Sylvester is

32:25

influential to us.

32:26

But we came up in a particular

32:28

era. Although we claim

32:30

our age as infinite the

32:34

waist down. I

32:39

love that. I claim my age is infinite,

32:41

please, yes, reclaiming

32:43

my age.

32:45

And we

32:49

were greatly influenced by a lalla like

32:52

acts from the eighties new wave, but

32:56

also yeah friends, of course that

32:58

Minneapolis sound, but also a lot of earlier

33:01

house like nineties house we love, but

33:04

also disco and Sylvester who

33:06

we mentioned, Yes, big influenced dance

33:09

musical artists, Donna Summer, who

33:11

else I mean Jones,

33:13

Yes.

33:14

Yes, Grace Jones is

33:17

shoot David Joe.

33:18

Yes, I want to know this much though,

33:20

like you described making

33:23

a sound almost it sounded like you were

33:25

making a meal, like you're like, we throw this

33:27

in and dash of that and a bit of this, not

33:30

to sound like a million badialia, but like it felt

33:32

like, does

33:35

it feel like you're cooking up there at

33:37

all? Like, does it feel like you're cooking something

33:39

up? Just saying my

33:42

two great loves music and food.

33:44

Let's go. You know, it does

33:46

feel like we're cooking a lot of the times.

33:49

Just today, I felt like we were given an

33:51

opportunity to work on a track and

33:53

we basically will get

33:56

the track and then separate and

33:58

we will throw wow, okay, well what

34:01

are the ingredients that are getting influenced this track?

34:03

And then we'll work on it separately and

34:05

then come together and see what a lines?

34:09

Wow?

34:10

Wha.

34:11

We got to do that more often. I'll

34:14

call you back and we'll see the line

34:16

yeah, oh my

34:18

god, why are we doing it together?

34:20

That?

34:23

Just to even find the time to do it to like,

34:25

it's just it. I'll talk to you later. Well,

34:31

learning a lot this evening. Really

34:33

happy. I left the fucking house. Okay.

34:37

No, it's beautiful that you guys have that you're

34:39

just on this kind of like plane with each

34:41

other.

34:41

It's a beautiful place.

34:42

That's like, so do you have the

34:44

exact same musical taste? Well, what

34:47

I was gonna say was that when we first

34:49

went on our first date. A lot of

34:51

what we talked about was music.

34:53

Not knowing that we'd ever be working together

34:57

anything past that one date, but

35:00

we talked about that you love language, yeah,

35:03

music because you love language, because I had

35:05

Okay, this was at a time when CDs

35:07

were the rage. Have you

35:10

all heard of CDs?

35:11

I know what a CD looks like. I

35:14

had stacks and stacks

35:16

and stacks of CDs.

35:17

I had a phone on a wall one time, a

35:20

phone on the wall. Yes, oh wow,

35:22

yeah. One time I had an email address all

35:24

in caps. Oh

35:30

my god, so it was it was many

35:34

laughs. I

35:36

turned to Oh, I

35:42

love that though. I mean, this is it's

35:44

an obvious question, but it's an important question

35:47

with the Supreme Court the way it is right

35:50

with I'm so sorry.

35:52

I promise you guys are fine, that

35:56

you can see a little bit. I'm fine. Just

36:00

the stay of the world, right, the

36:02

fear, the fear mongering, the

36:05

prices, the senseless, fucking

36:08

deaths. And then also, like

36:11

music is the first thing that gets cut, music and art and

36:14

you guys being nothing but joy

36:16

and light and goodness and fecial.

36:20

Why is music and art important?

36:23

I feel like it's important because for

36:26

us in particular, the joy in

36:28

the light that is on the

36:30

package.

36:31

It is actually making it.

36:34

It's making it easier for people to come in and

36:36

actually hear what is actually happening

36:38

in the content, because a lot of times we'll

36:40

be like, it's joy, happiness or whatever, and we're

36:43

reading the people in the crowd or

36:45

talking about what's happening, what's

36:47

going on in the world.

36:48

Yeah.

36:49

So although it's like it's the party,

36:51

if you listen to the lyrics, you're actually getting

36:54

a message.

36:55

Yeah.

36:55

Yeah.

36:55

We did a remake of this very

36:58

popular nineties house song h Funk

37:00

That, and in it, the producer

37:03

we worked with allowed us to change the lyrics

37:05

to fit our sound and

37:07

who we were. It starts with question,

37:09

why are we still in the twenty first century

37:12

concerned with what consenting adults are doing behind

37:14

closed doors?

37:16

Funk that?

37:19

I got mine?

37:21

You get joys? Yeah,

37:24

and if you don't have it, try to find it, Try

37:27

to find it, you know, try to find it. It's

37:29

worth finding.

37:30

I'm just saying, I think people just there's

37:33

just such a resentment of other people's joy, and

37:35

I think that that's what I get from

37:37

the moral you know, like moral outrage

37:40

at a Queer Joy at Black Joy at Black

37:42

Queer Joy, people are just like you

37:44

know, Buttles Titan.

37:46

It's bad and people

37:49

but people, people hate it. They just

37:51

hate it. And it's what kind of people

37:53

hate it? Nobody

37:55

like me? But but

37:58

you know, like play again people. I just

38:00

want to get specific because but this is a

38:02

mixed ass crowd, right, this is a mixed crowd. When

38:04

people ask me about allyship, the first thing that

38:06

always comes to mind is it is

38:09

important what you do when people aren't

38:11

looking. There is a mic.

38:13

Now I can say it. But am I living

38:15

it? Am I in those spaces where somebody

38:18

has power over me, they have a paycheck,

38:20

they're about to write to me, and they said some

38:22

shit, Am I gonna say something? The answer

38:24

is fucking yes. And

38:26

so I feel like when we talk about allianship

38:28

and who hates it, it's just like and some people

38:31

don't even know that they're saying something fucked

38:33

up, which is really crazy. They've just been conditioned,

38:36

do you know what I mean? So I just feel like for

38:39

me, art is wonderful because you can

38:41

say, well, look at this group and look

38:43

at that singer and look at that poet. Do you hate

38:45

them? That's cool. So why do you care

38:48

if you're if your child is with somebody

38:50

so and so, if your child is so and so, you know what I mean.

38:52

Also, you know, it's a meme

38:54

that I posted, but I still fucking feel like it,

38:56

Like if you if you don't, if you wouldn't

38:59

be able to love a gay child, don't have children like

39:02

you need to. You need to love your

39:05

children. And everybody is someone's

39:07

child. And so the fact that somebody

39:09

doesn't get that, I mean, I can't even tell you

39:11

the amount. It's like road rage for me. It's my new road

39:14

rage. Like the arguments about trans woman

39:16

and sports. I'm like, why do you give a fuck

39:18

humanity before sports? Bitch? I could

39:21

give a fuck about the ball you throw, right,

39:26

But that's just me. And this shirt is very

39:28

hot. Yeah,

39:33

I mean, listen, the great writer

39:36

Alexis to Tukville. We

39:38

got a quote who

39:42

was who was not black? But yeah,

39:46

here we go this

39:49

last day a bit, let's

39:53

go, okay, well.

39:55

Alex to Toukville, but he

39:57

said he said that Americans don't give a shit about politic

40:00

unless a road is running through their

40:02

yard.

40:02

You could even be homophobic.

40:03

But the moment like Dick Cheney the moment he had

40:06

a queer daughter, suddenly he's you

40:08

know, pro gay marriage. Like that

40:11

is like conservatives usually

40:13

care on a one to one basis. When they

40:15

think that they will be replaced or there's a horde

40:18

coming to get them with an agenda, then they're

40:21

exactly all right.

40:22

But like I'm welcome to my ted

40:24

talk. But I

40:26

feel like that is what we're up against, right,

40:29

That's what we're up against.

40:30

And when I see musicians like yourself,

40:33

you are you artists, you are canaries

40:35

in the coal mine.

40:37

You are.

40:38

You are the lesson of the.

40:39

Movie Cabaret when when the

40:41

light of Jesus, I'm feeling

40:44

myself when the light.

40:48

It's definitely all

40:50

five millies. But but

40:54

that's what it is. That's what it is.

40:56

You're going through this life, soba all right, twenty

41:00

four with no incorrect

41:07

stay a little buzz from twenty twenty four. That's my platform,

41:09

all right. So I thank you for

41:11

your work and I thank you for your art in a

41:13

in a country that wants you to conform to a

41:15

fucking LinkedIn page, you are making

41:18

waves.

41:19

You know on you. Yes,

41:21

we frequencies. Yeah, that's

41:24

very.

41:25

The one thing that we hope

41:28

to impart just as

41:30

the humans that we are. It's just

41:33

empathy. Yeah, I mean, if

41:35

you know that someone is attacking

41:39

women's rights or trans rights,

41:41

black queer rights, I

41:43

mean, just remember that it could

41:45

come to your door. You

41:48

have friends who are probably

41:51

of different colors, different genders,

41:54

different sexual orientations, religions, socioeconomic

41:57

backgrounds, all of that, and these

42:00

things that are happening right now, they're

42:02

gonna come to you. So

42:06

show some grace, get a backbone,

42:09

and stand up.

42:10

That's right, that's

42:12

right. That's exactly what election took. What was

42:15

talking about? Wait,

42:21

I didn't even ask where are y'all from? I'm

42:23

from Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. No,

42:27

you are your ancestors. Wildest

42:30

dream if George

42:34

history Mom.

42:37

This is the reenactment I always wanted

42:40

to do. He's very

42:42

good at making pancakes.

42:45

And where are you from? I am from

42:47

New York City. So

42:52

we got some questions from the audience that we'd like to

42:54

try and answer the best to our ability. You

42:56

already the first question

42:58

that I like, there's there's a lot of long

43:01

questions. You guys are very cute and long. Win

43:03

Okay, first question

43:06

that was a very long Okay, please

43:08

tell me what to do with my life? God

43:12

damn, oh don't I

43:14

need? I need direction?

43:18

I feel if Okay, this gets me. I feel

43:20

afraid to make a change. Okay,

43:23

I am not a therapist. This sounds

43:26

like depression. You're stuck. And

43:30

I always say, don't tell yourself no before someone tells

43:32

you no. Stop telling yourself no. I

43:35

don't know if people have a fear of success

43:37

or failure, but it sometimes it

43:39

just feels like a fear of trying. But

43:42

whatever happens, you know you it

43:45

might not work out, but you'll still You'll

43:47

be where you are now, right, so you might as well try

43:50

to me. When I read this, I

43:52

hear a mom that like overproduced

43:55

everything you did. You gotta let your

43:57

kids fuck up. So please

44:00

tell me what to do with my life. I need direction.

44:02

I feel afraid to make a change. Who

44:06

wrote this? Can I be a dick? Have

44:09

you guys always been the light you wanted to see?

44:11

Were you afraid to make a change? Were you afraid

44:14

to leave fucking Williamsburg

44:18

Colonial? Well, we were, like, I gotta

44:20

get out.

44:22

I feel like I was that person that always said

44:24

yes, I need I knew I needed to get out

44:26

of Williamsburg pretty much when

44:28

I was born.

44:32

When you left the womb, you knew, Yeah,

44:35

signed the gap.

44:36

Yeah.

44:37

I think for me, my

44:39

road has been it's been winding.

44:43

And I think for me

44:46

it's just all about hope, all about

44:48

having hope and somehow

44:50

believing that the

44:53

next phase of the next road

44:55

I travel.

44:56

Is going to be even better than the one before it.

44:58

Oh yeah, but faith,

45:00

Faith is the biggest thing.

45:03

But also being unafraid

45:05

to take chances.

45:07

You know, I know that a lot of

45:10

us. Listen. I've had to work nine to

45:12

fives before. Yeah, they

45:15

deadened my soul.

45:16

Yes, So I made a commitment

45:18

to be an artist because that's what fed

45:20

me and made me feel light and made me feel happy

45:22

and brought a smile to my face and was contagious

45:25

to other people in my life. Right, And

45:27

so I made that choice

45:29

knowing it wouldn't be easy. But this

45:32

is who I am, and this is the road I have to go down

45:34

in order to make myself happy. And so whoever that

45:36

is that said that, take the time, take

45:39

a breath, take a beat, figure out

45:41

what it is you really want, what it is you want

45:43

to create in this life, yes, and then

45:45

move forward from there because.

45:47

This is this is your life. This is it right

45:50

this? Ah, you know, we may as

45:52

well go for it. Yeah, go for

45:54

what your love. It reminds me of like every time

45:56

I meet an up and coming comedian, They're like,

45:59

can I pick your brain? And I'm like, there's not

46:01

much left what you want? But

46:05

what you want? And it's always the same thing. How

46:07

do I get famous? How do I make money? And

46:09

I say, it's not about money, It's about loving

46:12

what you do. This is an

46:14

affliction. Fucking stand up? Why the fuck

46:16

would I want to get up in front of people?

46:18

I don't know when? I love to sit down brawlers,

46:20

you know what I mean? Why

46:23

the fuck I

46:28

wouldn't ready for that? I

46:31

like. I like the couch, Papa

46:34

John's, the table, yes,

46:36

the banana papas who

46:41

gonna get that last piece? Thank you? I

46:44

enjoy a fine whiskey and a

46:48

bit of Hulu. All right? Why

46:51

do you sound like Bridgeton? Oh

46:58

that's how you relate Richardson?

47:00

Is Netflix? By the way? Netflix?

47:05

Yeah? Yeah? Place.

47:09

What's the question?

47:10

Joining At what age is it no longer appropriate

47:12

to date someone who still lives with their.

47:14

Parents in

47:17

New York. I'm saying.

47:20

I'm saying, oh,

47:29

we're all synced up, all right, let's

47:31

get her periods together.

47:37

Work wife, let's

47:40

done.

47:41

You in.

47:44

I got the track a wrap. Well,

47:48

I don't understand why you'd give a fuck that someone lives

47:50

with their parents. They might love their parents. I healthy

47:53

relationship with your parents, okay, but like it depends

47:55

on the relationship with their parents, right, Like,

47:58

sure, you don't want to hook up with some one when mom's

48:01

over there. But I

48:03

think it's okay as long as they have a plan and at

48:06

least like one common the bank account. Yea. Do

48:09

they have ambition or are they just there for the free

48:11

ride? Is it a nice place?

48:14

I mean, is it a fucking brownstone? You know what I'm

48:16

saying. A lot of rooms

48:18

in a brownstone? Yeah, my wife,

48:21

I tell you what. There was a nice incentive

48:23

when I first started dating my wife. Her

48:25

mom had a place right up here. I'll show you. I'll

48:27

show you the place. You

48:31

sound like Obama's a real estate agent.

48:34

Yeah, I'll show

48:36

you the house right now.

48:38

Uh.

48:38

Yeah, it's the Queen and Design

48:41

with a nice landing. And I was

48:43

like, I am in to

48:46

hang on a brownstone all that shit. I

48:48

don't know if there was a city episode about

48:50

that ship. Come on now. I did a guy who was like,

48:53

I have a roommate. I said, who don't? And

48:56

when I went, I was like, is this your mama, because

48:58

y'all look like is she a little bit older? And he's like,

49:01

yeah, but she's my friend, she's my roommate. I said, that's

49:03

not your roommate. But

49:06

he said, I have my own door with a different

49:08

key, and I said, stop it, boy, but

49:12

did we have sex? Yes? I enjoyed

49:14

it, and I also enjoyed never talking to him again because

49:16

I was like, you're a liar. She

49:19

could be your best friend. But that's your mama. You lovely

49:21

your mom. So if to be honest, I can't

49:23

fault them for that. What's the y'all?

49:26

I say, listen, rents are high

49:28

in New York. That's right, Yeah, it's

49:30

true. If the last deposit

49:33

deposit.

49:36

Check stops right,

49:40

yes, yes, yes, certified.

49:49

I think it's okay.

49:50

I think we live in an international city and that is

49:52

done like people live with the generational

49:55

living.

49:56

That is okay. Yeah, you

49:58

know, it's it's fine. It's fine, yeah,

50:01

thanks, thank you. Did you want to say something?

50:03

It's fine. I agree, that's exactly

50:05

what. Yeah, go there, our mothers

50:07

were here, we'd be living with them now, yeah, they

50:09

were living here in New York. Okay,

50:12

here right now. Last question you

50:15

guys, did

50:17

you hear me fall asleep? Did you do you smell

50:20

that? That was my brain? It was like an epis.

50:26

That was a big titty AI taking the fuck

50:29

over. Yeah, let

50:31

me get a residual check for that. I've

50:36

been married, So why do you so long?

50:37

Y'all?

50:38

Fuck? I know there's

50:40

commas and ship the parentheses.

50:43

No, there's a there's a this

50:48

is giving Yahoo Personal two thousand

50:50

and twography when you had

50:52

to fill it out like it was a Monster

50:55

dot Com resume? Anybody

50:58

vintage reference been, there's

51:01

a preface Monster dot Com?

51:03

Oh baby, what were

51:06

the free cards? You would get the free car Oh yeah,

51:08

I have been to the car print print

51:12

y'all? Remember the Wow, remember

51:14

the past?

51:15

I was ready to.

51:23

Big shock take Okay,

51:28

I've been married to my husband for too

51:30

long?

51:33

Wow?

51:33

Yes that's

51:36

what it said. What an entrance? What is said?

51:38

I think Monster wrote this? I've

51:43

been married to my husband for too long? Parentheses

51:45

thirty one years Okay,

51:48

some of y'all ain't thirty one years old? Why

51:53

are you trying to find them? This

51:57

person like to the lights

51:59

on? So

52:03

our twenty nine year old daughter doesn't hear any

52:06

of my relationship advice. What

52:09

can you say to offer this beautiful black

52:11

woman courage in her pursuit

52:13

of love and marriage?

52:16

Oh?

52:16

That got beautiful. I'm

52:19

sorry I started so shading. Okay,

52:25

wow, wow that you know

52:27

what. Here's the deal. I

52:31

love when people laugh and it sounds like they need an EpiPen.

52:33

It's like, yeah, right, all right,

52:36

chilled, I'm

52:41

busy. So

52:45

what I can say is it might feel like

52:47

your kids aren't listening to you, but they absorb

52:50

everything you fucking do and say, for better

52:52

or for worse. So it's sort

52:54

of like, keep calm, carry on, show

52:56

her what love is. By loving your husband and

52:58

loving yourself, you

53:01

know what I mean, she gonna kind of get

53:03

what she needs to her friends. Also,

53:06

this is why art matters, you know, it

53:09

just can't be love and hip hop reunions.

53:11

We have to show us, you

53:14

know what I mean, Like God bless

53:16

Tyler Perry, but I need to see a marriage that's

53:19

working. You

53:21

know what it looks like when it works because you put

53:23

the work into it. You can't just come home from

53:25

a long day of work to find all your shit gone, Like

53:28

what are we doing? Sorry, I went down

53:30

a long road. That's

53:35

miyakoopa, yes,

53:44

but yeah, I mean you guys have been together for

53:46

a long time. Yeah, what's

53:49

some advice we can offer a

53:52

beautiful black woman who's twenty nine looking for love

53:55

nine, I say, take your time. Twenty

53:57

nine is young, it's

53:59

the new I will say

54:02

it is young, but for

54:04

a woman who has a plan and

54:07

then our body has expiration dates.

54:09

Got you that's real? Yeah,

54:12

like it's it's real. And so we we become

54:15

the hunter and the gatherer when we're looking, you

54:18

know what I mean. So it's different. I say,

54:22

intuition is everything. Listen

54:24

to that ship and you gotta put yourself out there.

54:27

You do.

54:27

I always use this terrible fucking example of Julia

54:30

Roberts runaway Bride, deep

54:33

cut bitches. But this

54:35

bitch kept running away because she was like,

54:37

I know it's not working. It's just like, why are you walking

54:39

down the fucking aisle, bitch? And then at the end,

54:41

Richard Gear was just like, how do you like your eggs? And she's

54:43

like, oh shit, I don't know. I always like the eggs from

54:46

the dude I was with. So I always

54:48

say, figure out how you like your eggs, you gotta

54:50

date yourself, and then that will inform

54:52

an oh,

54:55

thank you, thank you so much. I

54:57

will share this. When

55:01

we.

55:03

Dated the first time, it

55:06

didn't last very long. We dated for like

55:08

a couple of months, right, and

55:11

then we just became

55:13

friends for a long time, and then

55:16

years later we got back together and became

55:18

a couple. And what I

55:20

found valuable in that is that

55:23

after we dated, we were friends.

55:26

Or what it means when I say friends, is that we were

55:28

able to take down the kind

55:31

of the mask. You know, you put on your best face

55:33

when you go on a date, you know, but

55:35

when you were just vibing with someone as

55:37

a friend, you know, you let your guards down, You share a

55:39

lot more.

55:40

It's a lot less.

55:41

Judgment, you feel. At least that's how I think we

55:43

both felt. And so in that time we

55:46

became really good friends. And then by

55:48

the time it came around again, we

55:50

were ready for it. So all

55:52

that to say is in that time we weren't together

55:55

we both dated around. We

55:57

had our shares of ups and down separately.

56:00

Gotta have a whole face. Gotta have a whole face

56:02

before you sit on town. Okay, that's what I was saying,

56:04

and I will tell my kids

56:06

that shit. You gotta really own your sexuality,

56:09

explore that ship, figure out what you like, get

56:11

a tattoo, travel, you know,

56:13

do all that shit. I don't have any tattoos.

56:15

I can't make decisions like that. But get

56:18

a tattoo you didn't know you got, you

56:21

know. But

56:24

yeah, we had that time

56:26

in between to really figure

56:29

out what we like, what we didn't like, what could

56:31

work, what was important, and what was not. And the main

56:33

thing that I think we both agree on that was most

56:35

important was just having a solid

56:37

friendship and a solid person

56:40

in your life that you really genuinely want

56:42

the best for. That

56:45

can take a minute.

56:46

So I know that there is sometimes

56:49

that little bit of time taking crunch,

56:53

but when it comes you'll you'll

56:55

know.

56:56

Slow simmers best. I love

56:58

that. Okay. We asked all our guests, what's

57:00

the most adult thing you want to do for yourself that you haven't

57:02

had time to do. It could be big or small. I

57:06

would like to build a container

57:08

castle.

57:11

Oh oh, you're talking about the containers that

57:13

are on ships and things like that. Yes, okay,

57:15

okay, whoa do

57:17

it?

57:18

Yes? I love you

57:22

that. I don't apparently tie a shoelace.

57:25

I don't understand container

57:27

Okay, So you see me trying to hook my brop and

57:33

what about you? Run away?

57:35

Not quite run away, but take

57:37

a just way, not hold? No, no, no, what

57:41

waits your husband?

57:43

No, I'm gonna be in my container castle

57:45

alone. Who wants to

57:47

come? What an awkward ride

57:50

home? That's messed up? Goddn't

57:53

let me finish my sentence. Run

57:56

away with my husband.

58:01

On a vacation, Sean, because

58:04

although we travel a lot for work,

58:07

we need some time to just be somewhere

58:10

and be there and just be.

58:12

Yeah.

58:14

I love that.

58:15

Give it up for the.

58:25

Wow, Jordan. I'm just saying. Yeah,

58:27

I'm just saying. I mean,

58:30

this is what it's about. It's

58:32

about love. It's about being

58:34

with somebody who makes you want to be a better person.

58:37

It's about passing the baton, creating

58:40

space, realizing when you should leave that space.

58:42

You know, like, you can technically do everything

58:45

yourself, but isn't it better with someone else

58:47

and then whatever you need, right,

58:50

you realize that that person will need to So

58:53

I don't know, I mean, should

58:55

the illustrious Blacks be my

58:58

therapist?

58:59

I think I think they already are for

59:02

free and it's like, you know, I think

59:04

what's great about them is they told this wonderful

59:06

story of just like dovetailing, like they they

59:08

were apart and they came back together and that is beautiful

59:11

and it is harmony, and that they make music together

59:13

is so wonderful. And if anybody lays a goddamn

59:16

hand on these people, yeah, there's gonna there's gonna be a

59:18

problem. There's gonna be a big problem. Yes, they

59:20

were free, floating, wonderful, Oh

59:24

great smelling. If you didn't notice spirits

59:27

that like blessed our stage.

59:28

It was like I was like, what is what is that? I

59:31

love it?

59:31

You know what.

59:31

It's really cute when someone says it, but a little creepy when

59:34

you say, but I do appreciate it. I

59:36

think that's the thing too. You gotta find your scent because

59:38

it's got to work with you. The chemistry starts popping

59:40

and it's a lot and you know when people are just like I

59:42

made this sent for you. I'm like, why why did you

59:45

go somewhere to make a scent? What are you Julia

59:47

Roberts in a movie?

59:48

Like?

59:49

Can I say something now? I'm so excited. We

59:51

started this show talking

59:54

about We did this

59:57

show talking of smelly MIC's,

59:59

and here we are talking about good smelling

1:00:02

people. Here we are

1:00:08

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