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y 'all! Happy

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what the the season, or what

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the fuck ever. My name

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is Miles Mitchell. And

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Miles Mitchell. And

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I'm Nikki Giovanni's niece, and this is

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the read. Thanks for coming back. is the

1:32

read. Thanks for

1:34

or something bad. back. Thank

1:37

you indeed for Here

1:39

we are. Well, it's been quite the week. are.

1:43

It's been a rough

1:45

Been a rough one for me personally.

1:48

I don't feel like feel like

1:50

discussing the ins and outs

1:52

of it, but it's

1:55

been of it, but it's been

1:57

another. Oh! Let's

1:59

make... sure we stay alive.

2:01

alive. Yeah, I guess like that. Um, so

2:03

I have to take a minute and I'm

2:05

I had to take a... that

2:08

minute. poor psychiatrist, I

2:10

still figuring. her yesterday and

2:12

you know he did poor psychiatrist I

2:14

talked to like yesterday and you know

2:16

he did this whole thing how many

2:18

months ago when like, took

2:21

notes, play. know, it was ago when

2:23

I was in a really

2:25

good tell yourself in it was

2:27

like, what would you tell

2:29

yourself you're like really really depressed and nothing

2:31

you know you know you're not here,

2:34

what would you tell yourself

2:36

in would you tell yourself and that was

2:38

whole, and I did this whole like spiel

2:40

this thing. thing

2:43

so yesterday he pulls this

2:45

this notes out out and he

2:47

reads to me I said or I it

2:49

whatever. oh my god what the like, I

2:51

don't give a fuck said he's

2:53

crazy. Why should I trust

2:55

him? him I don't like like that bitch

2:57

is is like yeah She has met a lot issues.

2:59

I don't give a fuck

3:02

that whole was talking about that whole

3:04

was talking about. Like, so, okay. Sure, that

3:06

was frustrating from a

3:08

frustrating standpoint. But standpoint,

3:10

are. but here we are. not,

3:12

Probably not He He probably

3:15

was anticipating something like that,

3:17

or at least aware that

3:19

you might have that reaction,

3:21

but you might have that reaction, but didn't seem that

3:23

way. Oh, here. was I have

3:25

my here. I have my stress big on one

3:27

of my stress stress weeks. And, you

3:29

you know. moving because keep

3:31

on moving because that's what

3:33

the earth does. How are

3:36

you feeling? True, I'm fine.

3:38

I'm fine. I'm good. You've learned

3:40

that your dog will, in

3:42

fact, your dog will, you into, you

3:44

into, know, the whole, oh I have

3:46

I have my please. please. then they

3:48

go they go outside and do eight backflips, own

3:50

bow. Yeah. Just, yeah, they lie. She.

3:52

They lie. turns out turns

3:54

out, very frequently, she

3:57

just wants to go

3:59

outside. Uh-huh. does not actually have

4:01

to potty at all. I'm tired

4:04

of saying the word potty. I

4:06

feel like I went 15, 20

4:08

years without ever saying it. And

4:11

now I say it every day.

4:13

Soon as I wake up, you

4:15

ready to party? Did you go

4:18

potty? Oh, Lenny, did you party?

4:20

Like, Mom, you see? Oh, potty,

4:23

big girl, big party. Like, I

4:25

just. It's just so, you know,

4:27

there's just a lot of, she's

4:30

quite a bit of work, but

4:32

I'm just so obsessed. Yeah, I

4:34

really get it. Like I used

4:37

to think people were so crazy

4:39

when they were like, no, my

4:42

kids have changed my life for

4:44

the worst in so many ways,

4:46

but I just adore them and

4:49

I wouldn't go back to life

4:51

without them. I used to be

4:54

like, you niggles are out of

4:56

your mind. But I fully get

4:58

it now. As someone on the

5:01

outside, kind of frustrating, although it's

5:03

not in my business, I would

5:05

see some moms, mom bloggers, creators

5:08

saying, my life has been absolutely

5:10

demolished in terms of things like

5:13

peace, sleep, comfort. Motivation even. Mm-hmm,

5:15

sure. Because of this child. Now

5:17

that one's yours. Well, she's not

5:20

at school today because we're recording

5:22

on a different day. Laney, Laney,

5:25

Laney. Is that damn dog? She's

5:27

talking about her. Now she hears

5:29

the dog across the hall, come

5:32

home, and now they are beefing.

5:34

She just... Now, Lainy, Mommy has

5:36

to work. You want to live

5:39

outside? Do you want to live

5:41

outside? Been there. She wants to

5:44

understand why the bitch next door

5:46

keeps coming over with her stank

5:48

ass attitude. Like first of all,

5:51

what you're not... going to do

5:53

is come to my house and

5:56

then be like asking like you

5:58

run shit over here. I understand

6:00

that. That's fine. Lainey has to

6:03

work too. And the fact is

6:05

that ain't nobody going to come

6:07

over here and feel like they

6:10

could say whatever the fuck they

6:12

want to because this is my

6:15

building now. This is my house

6:17

now. I do what I want.

6:19

She was cussing out the bitch

6:22

in the mirror not realizing it

6:24

was her. I'm over here like

6:27

Laney you are you're yelling at

6:29

the other dog and the other

6:31

dog is you like is you

6:34

notice how every time you open

6:36

your mouth that bitch over her

6:38

mouth because one day I don't

6:41

know what it is but one

6:43

day you if you watch them

6:46

something clicks from they go oh

6:48

shit wait that's me like it

6:50

it is like It's like for

6:53

the longest time a day, they're

6:55

just like, why is this dog

6:57

staring at me like this? And

7:00

now the dog is copying me.

7:02

Oh, I'm a beat this whole

7:05

ass. And then one day, I

7:07

don't know what it is. One

7:09

day, something clicks in them. You

7:12

might even see if you, if

7:14

you're, they're like, wait a minute.

7:17

You know, they don't know what

7:19

the fuck it is. We literally

7:21

just went through that. So every

7:24

time there's an animal on TV,

7:26

she has a conption, the new

7:28

Lion King trailer came on, howled

7:31

the entire time. I'm like, girl,

7:33

those are literally your little cousins,

7:36

what, big cousins, ancestral. something like

7:38

what are you doing? Link would

7:40

always stop if she heard barking

7:43

on TV like if there's a

7:45

dog on TV and it barked

7:48

cartoon even oh yeah she'd be

7:50

like oh what? M&os that's kind

7:52

of no Laney any other animal

7:55

she's like how dare you be

7:57

in my home Yeah, that's right.

7:59

That's right. That's what he told

8:02

myself. This puppy stage does not

8:04

last forever. I'm trying to enjoy

8:07

these days while they're here because...

8:09

I love... I love when other

8:11

parents keep it real. You try

8:14

to scrounge up a little bit

8:16

of hope and optimism and they're

8:19

like, no, no, no. She's only

8:21

five and a half months. You

8:23

have a long way to go,

8:26

Mama. And I'm telling you, I'm

8:28

telling you, tooth is that like

8:30

now, she'll hear other dogs or

8:33

other people in the hallway or

8:35

whatever, and she pays it. But

8:38

if they're like out there, like

8:40

chilling, let's say somebody's like, you

8:42

know, just out there chit-chat and

8:45

in front of the door before

8:47

someone leaves. Link is like, like,

8:49

just one cute one, like, all

8:52

right, that's enough, please get out

8:54

of my hallway. If they're out

8:57

there cleaning, making too much machinery,

8:59

that's what she's like, oh, uh-uh,

9:01

no. But, you know, she grew

9:04

out of the, anytime I hear

9:06

anything, I bark. Well, that, that

9:09

would be, well, you know, one

9:11

day, I'm feeling like we need

9:13

to, we need to move, honestly,

9:16

we need to leave the city

9:18

and buy a house, a proper

9:20

standalone structure, where nobody lives. Okay,

9:23

I've been supporting you in this,

9:25

in this. I'm pretty much the

9:28

entire time. I'm going to have

9:30

to ask you to come down.

9:32

No, I can move out there.

9:35

We can buy a house and

9:37

have a yard and she can

9:40

have like a cute little life

9:42

where she can holler all damn

9:44

day and not bother everybody else.

9:47

That's my thing. I don't want

9:49

to disrupt everybody else on the

9:51

floor when she gets the... Don't

9:54

nobody give a fuck about this

9:56

damn. You live in New York

9:59

City in an apartment building. Furthermore,

10:01

lady's barks are not even that

10:03

disruptive. She's a puppy. You can

10:06

barely hear them shit. Is you

10:08

lucky she's not passing down or

10:11

some shit? It's me because I'm

10:13

her mom. It is. I'm talking

10:15

about living off the fat of

10:18

the land like a monster man

10:20

and shit because you got a

10:22

three month old puppy. You need

10:25

to calm me a black ass

10:27

down. She needs a field. She

10:30

can go run around me. You

10:32

can literally go on like sniff

10:34

spot or something like that one

10:37

of those things and just go

10:39

rent a yard for an hour

10:41

and let her run around. I

10:44

do that shit all the time.

10:46

Well, I'll think about it. But

10:49

things are, you know, going fine.

10:51

a working mom and everything that

10:53

that entails. But, you know, otherwise

10:56

peeping and pushing. So, where we

10:58

have this week? Buying a house

11:01

because the puppy... Yeah, yeah, renting

11:03

one something, but living in a

11:05

house and not in an apartment,

11:08

so she don't disturb the whole

11:10

fucking world. Living in an apartment

11:12

building? Somebody else is trying to

11:15

work from home right now too.

11:17

That there's going to be a

11:20

dog in the building that hates

11:22

everybody. I've never lived in an

11:24

apartment building in my life. Whether

11:27

it was not at least one

11:29

dog that does this very thing.

11:32

All you can do is hope

11:34

that the apartment you live in

11:36

is not right next door. Well

11:39

it is. To that motherfucker. But

11:41

guess what? You too live right

11:43

next door to them. So why

11:46

don't we just all hold hands

11:48

together and just get through? Black

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12:38

just use the word magic. And

12:41

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12:43

world sets... people who give birth,

12:45

especially in the West, is evil.

12:48

I'll just use the word evil.

12:50

And so anyone like Mr. Bride

12:53

Edwards, who's like, hey, how can

12:55

I someone who isn't physically a

12:57

part of this whole bringing people

13:00

into the world process? But I

13:02

mean, yeah, you know, beyond the

13:04

initial. Yeah, beyond conception. How can

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some learning, use the hands, use

13:14

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13:21

Hope they have some, what do

13:24

you call them, chapters and things

13:26

across the... Oh yeah, the globe!

13:28

More men getting involved, like that's

13:31

for real, yeah. Please, instead of

13:33

just being like, what you want

13:35

to eat? I mean do that

13:38

too. Right, don't stop that one.

13:40

Don't stop that, but there can

13:43

be more. Yeah, you could do

13:45

better. Okay, so typically following next

13:47

we do our hot tops, where

13:50

we talk about pop culture. So

13:53

be very honest with you, I

13:55

don't even talk about that in

13:57

the hot tops, hot tops, this

13:59

week. I looked at it was

14:01

giving me, I don't give a

14:04

shit, part of that could probably

14:06

be because I'm viciously depressed and

14:08

suicidal, but a lot of this

14:10

I'm just like, the only thing

14:12

that really stood out the most

14:14

is Jay's name being added to

14:16

this bad boy lawsuit, which is

14:18

like, oh, here we go, let's

14:20

see how this turns out. Yeah,

14:23

you know, I was thinking about

14:25

it and I think most of

14:27

the stuff when I'm thinking of,

14:29

oh, it's been a busy week,

14:31

I'm thinking of actual news and

14:33

not really niggas shit or entertainment

14:35

shit, but like the real news

14:37

that you're not a health care

14:40

CEO. I should have said, I

14:42

meant to introduce myself by saying

14:44

it's a me Mario. Oh well,

14:46

whatever. Okay, well so... Girl! Okay,

14:48

so wait a minute. Jay-Z's name's

14:50

been added to this Puff Daddy

14:52

lawsuit. Apparently, so far, he's being

14:54

accused of with Puffie, I guess,

14:56

raping a 13-year-old girl at an

14:59

after party over 20 years ago.

15:01

Jay-Z of course denies this vehemently.

15:03

I read that they want like,

15:05

you know, names so that they

15:07

can do whatever, whatever, whatever, but

15:09

obviously he is denying it and

15:11

we'll see what comes out of

15:13

it. I expect that there's probably

15:16

going to be a lot. more

15:18

information where there is attached to

15:20

specific people or just incidents whatever

15:22

I feel like there's probably a

15:24

lot more that they're going to

15:26

be gathering from this lawsuit anyway

15:28

but that was kind of the

15:30

only thing in our tops that

15:32

really stuck out to me I

15:35

was like well lord here we

15:37

go yeah I mean I don't

15:39

think people have kind of been

15:41

hinting around like all other other

15:43

big names is next other giant

15:45

celebrities is next so I won't

15:47

say Shocking, really? I mean, I,

15:49

it is horrendous. And if he

15:52

actually did it, he should absolutely

15:54

be, I don't know, punish, drawn,

15:56

and quartered, strung up. Should face

15:58

hands prices of some words. Yeah,

16:00

like, sure. But, I don't know,

16:02

at this point, it's like there's

16:04

not, it's kind of like when

16:06

the, well, no, because the ditty

16:08

stuff came from Cassie first. So

16:11

that was different, because we knew

16:13

the name, we knew the person.

16:15

the video and stuff came out.

16:17

So I guess we'll just see

16:19

what unfolds, but it looks like

16:21

the lawyer hit him up a

16:23

few months ago talking about this

16:25

girl and wanting to have a

16:28

meeting from mediation. And he was

16:30

like, you tried to shake me

16:32

down then and now you're doing

16:34

this and you shady and this

16:36

other client says the same thing

16:38

about you and all this other,

16:40

you know, I guess there's just

16:42

a bunch of legal back and

16:44

forth. What I don't understand is

16:47

why he or somebody typed that

16:49

response. Did you see his that

16:51

initial statement that didn't come from

16:53

the attorneys? It was just something.

16:55

It honestly, I don't even think

16:57

a human wrote it. I think

16:59

well, I don't think a human

17:01

wrote all of it. I think

17:04

chat. GPT has some to do

17:06

with some of it because it

17:08

just was very sloppy and messy

17:10

and it was written like he

17:12

had just found out about these

17:14

allegations and not that it was

17:16

like very hastily seemed typed up

17:18

and published so it just seemed

17:20

weird and I was like you

17:23

know I get defending yourself you

17:25

know if somebody reached out to

17:27

me and was like hey I

17:29

have a client that I'm representing

17:31

because she says that you sexually

17:33

assaulted her and she wants to

17:35

sit down for a mediation I

17:37

wouldn't go to mediation either because

17:40

I know I've never sexually assaulted

17:42

nobody but I don't know what

17:44

JZ has done so I'm not

17:46

you know please don't mistake that

17:48

for me you know providing excuses

17:50

for him and you know we'll

17:52

see how this shakesakes shakes out

17:54

legally but yeah I'm not shocked

17:56

he defended himself. I'm not shocked

17:59

that he still went to the

18:01

Mufasa premiere with Blue and Biancee

18:03

because of course he did. That's

18:05

his daughter. Yeah, it's his daughter's

18:07

premiere movie. Why wouldn't he go?

18:09

Yeah, I just thought that that,

18:11

Ms. Tina was there. That statement

18:13

that they put out. By the

18:16

way, I was invited to that

18:18

premiere as a Plus London didn't

18:20

go because I wanted to kill

18:22

myself. Could have seen the YB

18:24

and Beyonce on the right carpet,

18:26

watched their new movie. And I

18:28

was like, oh, I won't enjoy

18:30

it. So. Well, that is. It

18:32

is too bad. You know, it

18:35

would be like, what if Blue

18:37

had waived him and like, oh,

18:39

I've been just so full of

18:41

everything. Yeah, she would have seen

18:43

me and been like, oh my

18:45

gosh, you're here. I'm a sexual

18:47

that was there at the sacred

18:49

wall. Yes, obviously. That's exactly what

18:52

happened. So, yeah, I guess we'll

18:54

just see how, how this goes.

18:56

I'm not, he, one of the

18:58

things he put, or somebody, whoever

19:00

wrote this put in that statement

19:02

in that, was that, you know,

19:04

you know, you know, He's from

19:06

Brooklyn and in Brooklyn, we don't

19:08

do shit like that, which I

19:11

don't mean so much. Sweetie! What

19:13

does that mean? I mean, you

19:15

know, I'm a young, well, he

19:17

doesn't. No one in Brooklyn assaults

19:19

anyone. Right, that's one like, sir,

19:21

I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have

19:23

said that, but he said, you

19:25

know, basically we have a strict

19:27

code of honor, we protect children,

19:30

we don't. I would never, I'm

19:32

absolutely completely innocent all day. Okay,

19:34

no shade it's Brooklyn. I love

19:36

Brooklyn, I have family. Same, but

19:38

be serious. Where, when does, when

19:40

does this, is there like a

19:42

monthly Brooklyn coalition meeting where, like

19:44

where, what are you talking about?

19:47

You can't even say, well in

19:49

the 60s and 70s that was

19:51

true because little girls have been

19:53

getting exploited by their community. Oh

19:55

man, since the invention of communities

19:57

really, so. Yeah, I'm done. This

19:59

is, I feel like the same

20:01

I did when I read it,

20:03

which is, I'm gonna just go

20:06

ahead and let the people who

20:08

are reading books. who have read

20:10

books, who are reading documents, who

20:12

are interviewing people involved. I'm gonna

20:14

wait to hear what they have

20:16

to say about this and not

20:18

just Blue Sky, because that's where.

20:20

Well, I'm reading, I'm reading Megan

20:23

the Bob, I'm not reading social

20:25

media, I'm on her website. Yes,

20:27

yeah. Because she, you know, same

20:29

thing with, with Torian Meg, she

20:31

lays it out as the. as

20:33

the facts go and not, you

20:35

know, biased towards or against anybody.

20:37

So, she probably has a little

20:39

thing that Hermione has, um, a

20:42

little necklace that makes her trouble

20:44

in time. Wait a minute. You

20:46

read the books. So, leave me

20:48

to fuck well here in the

20:50

books. Okay. Well, all right. I

20:52

want to say was Ascban. Where

20:54

do you remember the book where

20:56

the one where Hermione. were running

20:59

and Harry were like, how the

21:01

fuck is she always like, like,

21:03

like, well, she wasn't here just

21:05

two seconds ago. How is she

21:07

making it to class all the

21:09

time? Oh, yes. Where is she

21:11

coming up? That's right. That's how

21:13

she was upgrading her bad bitch

21:15

abilities. Yes, she was able to,

21:18

like, get all, go to extra

21:20

classes and do all that stuff,

21:22

because she was using the time

21:24

Turner. Only reminding her because she

21:26

was using the time Turner. Years.

21:28

Only she would use it to

21:30

learn more. Everybody else will be

21:32

like, how can I have like

21:35

an 18 hours situation? Literally. Literally.

21:37

How can I like actually like

21:39

skip this class to go to

21:41

birdie bots or like, not birdie

21:43

bots. What's the candy place called?

21:45

What's the candy place called? You're

21:47

so close. Greengots is the bank.

21:49

They buy clothes. No, they buy

21:51

toys from like Zanko's or something.

21:54

Honeydewk. Honeydewks! I saw you, you

21:56

were so close to it. You

21:58

were so close to it. You

22:00

were so glad. Yeah, the rest

22:02

of them would have been like,

22:04

let me just skip and go

22:06

to the honeydewks. Absolutely, they would

22:08

have. And Miss was just like,

22:11

I need to take every class

22:13

I can. Hermini said, if I

22:15

use this right, I can finish

22:17

this school with a PhD. I'm

22:19

gonna be a valedictorian. Like, yeah.

22:21

But anyways, that's what Megan. Megan

22:23

the Bob uses. That's how she's

22:25

at everything all the time has

22:27

all the information. She just... Because

22:30

as soon as I saw the

22:32

allegations I said I'm absolutely not

22:34

engaging with social media on this.

22:36

I know how y'all are going

22:38

to be. I'm going to wait

22:40

until Megan the Bob tweets out

22:42

or skits out a link so

22:44

I can click that and read

22:47

that. I'm not going off for

22:49

the rest of y' y'all and

22:51

I mean this... I mean, the

22:53

complaint is pretty disturbing that Jay-Z

22:55

went first basically and Diddy went

22:57

second and there was some other

22:59

celebrity there, a woman whose name

23:01

is not revealed, we don't know

23:03

who. So yeah, but what I

23:06

was saying is in this statement,

23:08

Jay-Z or whoever was like, you

23:10

know, file a criminal complaint, like

23:12

this is some type of shit,

23:14

somebody need to go to jail

23:16

behind, which I also agree. You

23:18

know, we, we, again, we will

23:20

see how this unfolds publicly and

23:23

legally, but yikes, I just felt

23:25

for blue, really, because, you know,

23:27

this is the same day or

23:29

maybe the day before, this huge

23:31

moment for her and... I want

23:33

to believe that this is not,

23:35

I mean, she's of a certain

23:37

age that she has a phone,

23:39

I'm assuring and stuff like that,

23:42

but I want to believe that

23:44

she's chill and her friends are...

23:46

Maybe more connected to what's going

23:48

on and because she said didn't

23:50

blue say or Beyonce said that

23:52

blue said that Blue didn't realize

23:54

that people were like criticizing her

23:56

so much for her performance at

23:59

the Renaissance tour until a classmate

24:01

or somebody said something. So I

24:03

do think we remember that. So

24:05

you know she is getting old

24:07

she's less than a month away

24:09

from 13 which is the same

24:11

age as this girl you know

24:13

when she was assaulted. So it

24:15

is I just my heart really

24:18

broke for the both of them

24:20

actually. But You know, it's this

24:22

idea that no matter what your

24:24

parents do as a celebrity child,

24:26

especially, it's just like their mess

24:28

clouding over your giant shining moment

24:30

that I was, you know, a

24:32

little sad for her, but she

24:35

was beautiful. Did you see her

24:37

mom getting emotional? I did the

24:39

today show or somebody the next

24:41

day was showing the behind the

24:43

scenes from it and maybe today.

24:45

One of those good morning America.

24:47

Yeah something like that one of

24:49

those morning shows and Blue was

24:51

like can you please? Stop looking

24:54

at me. She's at the three

24:56

teams like yeah, actually embarrassed. Yes,

24:58

kind of era. It's really really

25:00

cute. But also like so well

25:02

spoken in sweet and like can

25:04

tell that she's like like was

25:06

having a good time with it.

25:08

And taller than a mama. I

25:11

mean, we always issues going to

25:13

be tall. Pretty, she was shooting

25:15

up when she was like 80,

25:17

80, 80. But it's so exciting

25:19

that she got to do this

25:21

thing. Also, I'm familiar with the

25:23

character, Kiara, from on all these,

25:25

like, Disney sequels that were straight

25:27

to video and stuff, but I

25:30

was a kid, so knowing that

25:32

she's voicing Kiara as cool. And,

25:34

yeah, I thought it was cute

25:36

that her mom was like, wait,

25:38

I actually need a minute. I

25:40

can't do my job right now,

25:42

because then it's my baby is

25:44

my baby. Right. That was funny.

25:47

Any touches? To the dude. And

25:49

then Lord Rumi was like, but

25:51

not without me. We won't be

25:53

doing a press junkie. It was

25:55

just so cute. like right now

25:57

like and I know she was

25:59

just like we're like we're working

26:01

baby like because her energy is

26:03

always big sis down like you

26:06

could tell she is she's like

26:08

she is always like very she

26:10

seems very protective of the younger

26:12

ones so it seemed very much

26:14

like oh you know professionalism but

26:16

mr. me was like oh that's

26:18

my mom and I want to

26:20

hug and I do what I

26:22

want and I do what I

26:25

want and I do what I

26:27

want and then it was like

26:29

yeah She's so cute. I wouldn't

26:31

be surprised if she got that

26:33

from her family, her mama, her

26:35

grandma, her daddy, her auntie, the

26:37

whole protectiveness, especially. Yeah. Given the,

26:39

just the sheer amount of celebrity

26:42

and scrutiny surrounding Blue Black. Look

26:44

at Miss Tina. Miss Tina, apparently,

26:46

you know she don't play. She

26:48

always accidentally liking something. She left

26:50

a comment and was like, you

26:52

know I don't play about my

26:54

family. So keep it cute. I

26:56

don't know why y'all was surprised

26:58

about that. She'd be liking shit

27:01

that shady about Biosa all the

27:03

time. She'd just be liking shit.

27:05

You gotta watch out. And your

27:07

mom will be liking shady shit

27:09

about you too. The difference is,

27:11

we not sure. Anyway,

27:15

niggas went from, niggas went from

27:17

talking about Jay-Z to picking Blue

27:20

Ivy apart, talking about she looked

27:22

too grown, and she had on

27:24

too much makeup, and her dress

27:27

was inappropriate for a 12- What?

27:29

I said. This is why I

27:31

don't engage, so what the fuck

27:34

he was talking about? She looked

27:36

like fucking the princess of Belle

27:38

Gravy, or whatever. It was literally

27:40

a ball gown. When I tell

27:43

you hating assholes was pulling out

27:45

they school pictures from when they

27:47

was 12 and comparing it to

27:50

blue Ivy on this red carpet

27:52

Sweetie, nobody's talking about you and

27:54

the very nicest things at 579

27:56

and 9 West that your mommy

27:59

picked up for you This is

28:01

not even blue's first red carpet

28:03

like Sweetie, your eighth grade prom?

28:06

To go to like your eighth

28:08

grade prom. That dress your mama

28:10

got out of pennies for 2735?

28:13

She's going to a red carpet

28:15

premiere for a film that she's

28:17

starring in. A giant film. That

28:19

is a prequel and adaptation of

28:22

a film that is one of

28:24

the biggest films. Disney movies. In

28:26

cinematic history. So comparing. What you

28:29

wore to this is just, she

28:31

has, yes, she has a little

28:33

figure. She has breast. It's called

28:35

adolescence. She is growing up. Y'all

28:38

are gonna have to let her.

28:40

Develop into a young woman. Also,

28:42

I'm not entertaining none of this

28:45

shit. Because if she would have

28:47

came out that motherfucker on a

28:49

burka, it would have been like,

28:52

oh my goodness, what's the problem?

28:54

If she would have had on

28:56

short shorts, oh my goodness, what's

28:58

the problem? If she would have

29:01

had on short shorts, oh my

29:03

goodness, what's the problem? If she

29:05

would have had on short shorts,

29:08

oh my goodness, what's a problem.

29:10

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the at times. I go

32:05

one. Is there another one?

32:08

Yeah, that was, I was

32:10

going to say it was

32:12

all really good. Okay. It

32:14

was the only thing that

32:16

kind of like stuck out

32:18

to me. Everything else was

32:20

just like, I don't really

32:22

care to talk about this.

32:24

So I have a different

32:26

sort of idea for down.

32:28

Okay, fun. Yeah, let's do

32:30

that. I have a segment

32:32

that I'm going to be

32:34

doing on a patron soon

32:36

and then YouTube that I'm

32:38

calling Ain't That A Pitch.

32:40

And it's just like a

32:42

bunch of, I don't know.

32:44

Pishes, ideas for things that

32:46

are in my head all

32:48

of the time that are

32:50

probably nonsense and maybe don't

32:52

ever need to be made.

32:54

Some of them, who knows,

32:56

could be a good idea.

32:58

And I think that it

33:00

will just be fun to

33:02

play it with you today

33:04

because I didn't want to

33:06

do hot tops and I'm

33:08

very, very depressed. And so

33:10

why not just do something

33:12

different than I talk about

33:15

other people when I move

33:17

this. All right. First one.

33:19

Okay, I'm gonna speak to

33:21

the ones that might speak

33:23

to you first. Okay. Ain't

33:25

this a pitch? The Proud

33:27

Family as a live-action, multi-camera

33:29

sitcom, limited series, maybe eight

33:31

episodes, but the Proud Family,

33:33

starring a new young black.

33:35

Talent as Penny Proud and

33:37

others as her friends. We

33:39

can get one of the

33:41

kids from Abbott or something.

33:43

Oh, yes. Okay. And we

33:45

do love those kids. Because

33:47

here's the, and I'm gonna,

33:49

I'll be honest. One of

33:51

my friends once sent me

33:53

a Tiktok of like those

33:55

AI videos that are just

33:57

like live action. interpretations of

33:59

animated characters. like it'll just

34:01

be like a 30-second video

34:03

with low-fi and it's just

34:05

a montage of let's say

34:07

Stephen universe characters but AI

34:09

made them to look like

34:11

what they'd look if it

34:13

were live action and it's

34:15

almost always incredibly creepy it's

34:17

almost like always very scary

34:19

and unnerving but I just

34:22

saw one I think yesterday

34:24

that was based on the

34:26

proud family and it actually

34:28

looked First of all, I

34:30

didn't look creepy because it

34:32

looks like people instead of

34:34

like weird computer versions of

34:36

what the person should look

34:38

like. The DSHNA did look

34:40

exactly like JT, but... Well,

34:42

I mean, I mean, I

34:44

think it works. That makes

34:46

sense. But I was like

34:48

this could actually work because

34:50

pro family in itself is

34:52

pretty much just the black

34:54

sitcom It wasn't super cartoony

34:56

sometimes it did cartoony stuff

34:58

in the in its animation

35:00

To like invoke certain emotions

35:02

or or gag and stuff,

35:04

but it was a pretty

35:06

grounded comedy that really just

35:08

relied on the characters the

35:10

story and the writing like

35:12

the jokes And I think

35:14

it could be really cool,

35:16

it could absolutely work live

35:18

action without being too off-putting

35:20

because of how grounded it

35:22

is. And I think it

35:24

would be cool if they

35:26

did it in the style

35:29

of 90s multi-cam sitcom. So

35:31

like, multi-cam meaning, you know,

35:33

fresh prints, family matters. the

35:35

living single where there's a

35:37

set sometimes a live audience

35:39

and then you work like

35:41

classic old school sitcom stuff

35:43

maybe even a laugh track

35:45

and a low maybe even

35:47

do some color grading and

35:49

filtering so it even looks

35:51

kind of vintage I don't

35:53

think it should last very

35:55

long they've already done a

35:57

proud family sequel I think

35:59

that this could be like

36:01

a cool little limited thing

36:03

for us. Which is actually

36:05

pretty good. Yeah, it actually

36:07

is. But I think that

36:09

this could be like a

36:11

cool little limited thing for

36:13

us. Also, Disney Plus. has

36:15

already dabbled in sort of

36:17

attributing old school sitcom in

36:19

Wanda Vision, which is one

36:21

of their most successful original

36:23

programs, if not FEMA. Maybe

36:25

not as a success because

36:27

X-Men 97 got amazing reviews.

36:29

But Wanda Vision, Like, is

36:31

probably one of their biggest

36:33

shows, if not the biggest,

36:35

and half of that, pretty

36:38

much the bulk of that

36:40

show was actually like. sitcom

36:42

references to things like I

36:44

love Lucy, modern family, and

36:46

all of these different sitcoms

36:48

to the era. I think

36:50

a proud family limited live

36:52

action sitcom that looks kind

36:54

of like family matters, but

36:56

sounds like proud family could

36:58

be cool. What do you

37:00

think? Oh yeah, so this

37:02

is like, let's do shark

37:04

tank style where you're just

37:06

like, no, or yes. So

37:08

what is the plot of

37:10

this limited series? What happens?

37:13

I think it would just be

37:15

an adaptation of the original show.

37:17

I don't know that, like I

37:19

haven't thought of like a separate,

37:21

like larger, overarching thing. I think

37:24

I would want it to kind

37:26

of start from the inception of

37:28

the original animated show and kind

37:30

of be about this young black

37:32

girl who's maybe just turned, I

37:34

don't remember how old penny was,

37:36

like 13 or something like that.

37:38

I think so, 13 or 14

37:40

maybe. Maybe she's just starting high

37:43

school or something, same friends. You

37:45

know, dad, I feel like her

37:47

dad sold cars or something and

37:49

her mom was a vet. I

37:51

do think that Trudy was a

37:53

vet. Her mom was definitely a

37:55

vet, but I don't remember what

37:57

her dad sold. Didn't

37:59

he order? he

38:02

sold snacks? Snacks, yes

38:04

proud snacks, duh, he

38:06

sold proud vending machines! y'all

38:08

stopped to say, I think but

38:10

they were nasty. vending machines,

38:12

that nigger, so proud snacks, think

38:14

that's it. I think it

38:16

could be I think by bit,

38:18

I know. it could be like, bit

38:20

by bit, you know, maybe the

38:23

episodes of be of

38:25

be more. relevant to

38:27

what black girls are girls are giving

38:29

in school today a lot was a

38:31

lot of it was like a

38:33

have a crush on this

38:35

boy that just this new new

38:38

at school and he downloads music

38:40

You know, like, just, I don't know, a day in

38:42

like life of a young black girl who's know

38:44

day in the life of a young black

38:46

girl who's hilarious and her friends and stuff

38:48

like that I don't think it like a a

38:50

big overarching story, but maybe it does maybe it

38:52

does. Well, yeah, yeah. Not all of

38:54

these are of these are super fleshed

38:57

out. It's fun. Well, I

38:59

wrote all these down

39:01

yesterday on yesterday because I

39:03

just didn't. I'm not, I, I'm you

39:05

No, need to be vicious. Well, so

39:07

you interested to be I

39:10

think it could work. I'm But

39:12

without a plot, I'm

39:14

out. premise. I think it could

39:16

work. But without a

39:18

doom, doom, doom, doom, doom Hmm. Okay,

39:20

all right, so funding for that a chop. Yes,

39:22

it actually. But sometimes you can

39:24

come back like another season right

39:26

and be like, can you. back like

39:28

another they have people come back

39:31

and be I don't know. And they're

39:33

like, So you know, little

39:35

thing or whatever. And come still

39:37

like, mm, should I say? I I feel

39:39

like And they're like, I all right, so

39:41

that's a chop. you it is. That

39:43

is a chop. thing

39:45

or whatever. And they're

39:47

you. no. Bye. Yeah,

39:50

I just I I I would need more

39:52

information. and I would

39:54

would need to know who's writing in order

39:56

for me to me to put my money

39:58

behind it, but I I'm not opposed

40:01

to the you just keep you

40:03

just on it. on it. And...

40:05

the shot, right? Brinson is okay.

40:07

show runner? Oh, the show right.

40:09

Well, uh, All if Quinta is

40:11

signed on, that's signed huge

40:13

plus, definitely a gonna need

40:16

that Still gonna need that plot

40:18

though. Sorry. All right, work on that.

40:20

I work on that. live

40:23

action have another live I'll

40:25

one, but I'll push that

40:27

one because because I don't believe

40:29

you ever watched this this. Here's one

40:31

I'm love, I'm excited. I'm

40:33

excited. believe don't

40:36

believe. is a Disney there

40:38

is a Disney World

40:40

in Africa. Africa. don't think

40:42

I don't think so. continent.

40:45

Lots of Lots

40:47

of beautiful countries

40:50

that countries that

40:52

probably have amusement

40:54

an amusement park

40:57

of the Disney variety.

41:01

And what a perfect

41:03

opportunity with Disney

41:05

owning with Disney owning a

41:07

marvel to create a

41:10

Wakanda land. Okay. Disney,

41:13

famous words, oh, here

41:15

we have Avengers

41:17

campus here we have all

41:19

themed it's all themed adventures.

41:21

Here we have Fantasyland and

41:23

this land and you

41:25

walk you walk my goodness,

41:28

I've been transported to

41:30

a completely different place.

41:33

to a completely different

41:35

place. Disney the country.

41:37

picked the country. Okay. I I

41:39

don't know what would be, what country would be My

41:42

first thought is Nigeria, but if it's

41:44

Disney probably go to South Africa. go

41:46

to South I feel like I feel like everybody's like,

41:48

oh, yes, we know there's so know there's so

41:50

many other countries. sorry. I kind of thought of

41:52

thought South Africa, Well, I mean, I mean, where

41:54

where most of the white people

41:56

are, so that's probably where I put

41:58

it. what I put it. So. So are you

42:01

so are you asking me if

42:03

Disney should invest in a

42:05

Wakanda in a Wacanda land, a I'm

42:07

asking, okay, so the

42:09

pitch Wacanda land? I'm asking,

42:12

okay, so the pitch is,

42:14

Disney world in come

42:16

must come we've built

42:18

a Wakanda. It

42:20

has two Black Panther rides.

42:22

It has two Black Panther

42:25

rides. of them. of

42:27

them is of those, those

42:29

like. the ones ones you like

42:31

sit in the moving sort of car type of

42:33

car the you have the

42:35

glasses on and you're racing

42:37

through, screens screens you're like but you're

42:39

like racing through the streets

42:42

of Wakanda, claw who's stolen a

42:44

precious vibranium artifact. very much

42:46

the first movie they're like on a

42:48

a high speed chase, you remember and

42:50

'Challa like jumped when used the

42:52

new suit and powered on

42:54

the kinetic energy and blew

42:56

the cars blew all that

42:58

stuff. And they're like, all this

43:00

would be kind of they're like,

43:02

so this would car of like you maybe in

43:05

hearing Shuri's voice and you're

43:07

like the ride is you

43:09

basically trying to assist basically

43:11

Panther to assist who's on the

43:13

run. And then the other

43:15

ride is, on the run. And then the

43:17

other ride is a It's a roller it's a

43:19

roller coaster, nothing too intense, you

43:22

know, you know, just. above

43:24

this height, no flips height,

43:26

stuff, just really fast

43:28

stuff, just really fast, through the, it's a

43:30

roller It's a that that

43:32

is kind of Space

43:34

mountany, it's an indoor roller coaster, it's in

43:36

the dark but it's a

43:39

rollercoaster that goes through

43:41

that ancestral goes through that ancestral

43:43

plane. Oh! End indoors, and

43:45

you hear the ancestor And

43:48

you hear the and speaking to you

43:50

and all of that stuff, it's very,

43:52

very dim. very, but you get

43:54

sort of that purple glow of

43:56

them. of the savannah or whatever

43:59

the fact. riding

44:02

through the trees. Also, many shots,

44:04

many restaurants, the full Dora, Milaj,

44:06

Miloz. They have an act where

44:08

they come out and perform. They

44:11

already do that in Disneyland here.

44:13

But yeah, that's my second pitch.

44:15

I don't really care what else

44:18

happens inside out world. But yeah,

44:20

Disneyland and Africa. They honestly would

44:22

probably call it Disneyland Africa regardless

44:24

of what? Regardless of whichever country,

44:27

right? With an actual Wakanda that

44:29

we can go and visit. This

44:31

actually sounds a lot like Harry

44:33

Potter, the Harry Potter world at

44:36

Universal Studios. There you go. Yes,

44:38

where you can get a wand

44:40

and it unlocks a little bullshit

44:42

around Harry Potter World. They have

44:45

the roller coaster where you go

44:47

through the bank and all that.

44:49

It's so fun. So this, I'm-

44:52

They're opening a new one. Yeah,

44:54

I'm Bob Eiger and I say

44:56

yes, I'm fully on board with

44:58

this. I think it's a great

45:01

idea. They're opening the ministry of

45:03

magic in one of them. I

45:05

think in Orlando. God help me.

45:07

I need to look up how

45:10

much money that Winch gets from

45:12

the sales of Harry Potter stuff

45:14

because I don't want to put

45:16

another dime in her pocket but

45:19

the world she created is so

45:21

fun. It's really really really really

45:23

really really touching it as I've

45:25

said it's so much bigger than

45:28

her and that's like the only

45:30

thing I can take from it.

45:32

She gets on my nerves further

45:35

because she's like she's like acted

45:37

as if like she's sort of

45:39

what's the word. Like salty or

45:41

like over the Harry Potter legacy

45:44

like yeah, but it's still involved

45:46

whenever it means kicking up her

45:48

pockets and stuff like that because

45:50

I saw them say I think

45:53

I saw the show runner or

45:55

somebody from the HBO show Saying

45:57

that she will likely be somewhat

45:59

involved in a in the production

46:02

and like she'll probably have some

46:04

say overcasting and so like even

46:06

this show which will likely be

46:09

good because although I love the

46:11

movies grew up on the movies

46:13

it has far more room to

46:15

do what you want it to

46:18

do as a series than as

46:20

a set of movies anyway each

46:22

season being based on a set

46:24

of movies anyway each season being

46:27

based on a book. room to

46:29

kind of get into the stuff

46:31

that you can't in a, you

46:33

know, 90, 110 minute flick or

46:36

whatever. And they've allegedly saw over

46:38

like 30,000 kids for the first

46:40

three roles already. So that movie

46:43

is going to be a huge,

46:45

I mean that show, that series

46:47

is going to be a huge

46:49

deal. But I feel the same

46:52

way where I'm just like, I...

46:55

I really don't like that lady. I

46:57

don't. And I do not want to

46:59

give her one time. You know how

47:01

many people are like, oh my God,

47:04

are you playing the Harry Potter game?

47:06

Are you playing? Are you playing it

47:08

so cool? Is this? Is that? I'm

47:10

like, I am not. Hogworth's legacy? Yes.

47:12

I am not playing Hogworth's legacy. I

47:15

did not purchase it. Remember when we

47:17

heard about what was left out? I'm

47:19

so jealous. I remember when it leaked

47:21

and we talked about it on the

47:24

podcast, like, oh my goodness, can't wait

47:26

for this game to come out. Hate

47:28

her. Hate her though. So, she does

47:30

suck. Well, I also have a list

47:32

of project ideas when I get high,

47:35

just write them down. So if you

47:37

want me to do a couple, I

47:39

can see what you think about my

47:41

picture. Sure. apps. One.

47:44

This app is called Mind

47:46

Yours. Yes, I'm already in.

47:48

Yours spelled you. RS. Oh

47:50

no. I don't think apps

47:52

are allowed to be spelled

47:54

correctly. Okay, we'll just call

47:56

it Mind Yours. Um, like,

47:58

aren't apps all, it would

48:01

have to be, like, M,

48:03

Y, and D? Like, apps

48:05

are never just spelled like

48:07

the word. Well, that's because

48:09

people want to be hashtag

48:11

cute, not because they're, right,

48:13

not allowed. You lost me

48:15

a little with the URS,

48:17

but I'm still. Okay, no,

48:20

I'll take it back. It's

48:22

mine, yours, like, the word.

48:24

I don't code, so I

48:26

don't know how to get

48:28

this to work. Okay. But,

48:30

okay. your business in there.

48:32

Your business being, oh, my

48:34

baby, get out of pre,

48:37

out of aftercare, or aftercare

48:39

ends at whatever time. I

48:41

have to season that meet

48:43

that's in the freezer. I

48:45

have to balance my checkbooks.

48:47

I have to pay child

48:49

support. I have to save

48:51

up for this. I haven't

48:54

been to, you know, you

48:56

put your business in there.

48:58

Yeah. Only business. Let's see,

49:00

business, you can prioritize it,

49:02

put it in calendar, all

49:04

it is at. Now, the

49:06

magic is that it is

49:08

synced to your other social

49:11

media apps. And it works,

49:13

the way that it works,

49:15

is that when notifications are

49:17

set, are on, and they

49:19

need to be for the

49:21

app to work. It recognizes

49:23

when you are going to

49:25

leave a comment. on

49:29

a social media post. And it

49:31

sends you a notification that says,

49:33

hey, look at some business, that's

49:36

yours, what about this instead? That's

49:38

all I have. And after a

49:40

certain amount of times where you,

49:43

like, ignore it, it locks you

49:45

out of. Yeah, the app is

49:47

like, did you forget that your

49:50

base sports look the way they

49:52

do? Why are you, why are

49:54

you, why are you talking about

49:57

blue ivies, lipstick? You have a

49:59

job, go get to it. And

50:01

it gives you a chance. It's

50:04

like, okay, well maybe, you know,

50:06

you're on the toilet or whatever.

50:08

But after like, two or three

50:11

of them in the same day,

50:13

it's like, okay, well, you don't

50:15

get to use this after the

50:18

next two. I like, I like

50:20

it. But I do not think

50:22

the people who need it the

50:25

most will use it the most

50:27

will use it. It's kind of

50:29

like, you know, there's lots of

50:32

apps that restrict you from, they

50:34

kind of have this already with

50:36

time limit, where you can set

50:39

like 30 minutes for Instagram, but

50:41

if you're in charge of, you

50:43

can just say ignore that for

50:46

the rest of the day and

50:48

scroll as much. Yeah, this is

50:50

what it reminds me of, but

50:53

like real petty. Oh, it needs

50:55

to be mean. What

50:58

do you call it voice

51:00

assist? The voice being mine

51:02

And yours, you know, you're

51:04

the shark here if you're

51:06

like, you know, we can

51:08

give you a kick off

51:10

this out And so you

51:12

also have a voice Okay,

51:14

that comes in and says

51:16

hey girl, my job business

51:18

something to that effect, but

51:20

You make a good point

51:22

something to think about Yeah,

51:24

I'm not mad though. Especially

51:26

if the messages get increasingly

51:28

more bitchy the more you

51:30

ignore them If they include

51:32

like a picture of your

51:34

Kitchen the state of your

51:36

kitchen right now Absolutely, and

51:38

they're like one thousand percent

51:40

you really want to be

51:42

on Twitter right now going

51:44

back and forth about real

51:46

house-wise of Salt Lake City

51:48

when your dishes look the

51:50

way they do do you

51:52

sweetie? It's 930 p.m. Do

51:54

you know where your children

51:56

are? Have they had that

51:58

bad? Exactly. We've gotten it.

52:00

The problem is people who

52:02

are already on top of

52:04

their shit. are gonna be

52:06

the ones to download it

52:09

to get a good laugh

52:11

out of what you come

52:13

up with to clown them.

52:15

The people who really do

52:17

need to get things done

52:19

are never gonna download this

52:21

app. But I do love

52:23

the idea. I do. You

52:25

know, in theory. It would

52:27

be like the sister app

52:29

to real friends. Yeah, I

52:31

was gonna say you've already

52:33

had an incredible app idea

52:35

and this is... Are bullshitting?

52:37

You need to, you need

52:39

to call somebody who does

52:41

app development. I need to,

52:43

like, talk to one of

52:45

these fucking. Yeah, and then

52:47

use your startup people. Use

52:49

your celebrity contacts to be

52:51

like, hey girl, let's shop

52:53

this around everybody who really

52:55

does need it. Okay. Okay,

52:57

one more. I have a

52:59

video game, two video game

53:01

ideas and a live action

53:03

cartoon. Okay. Let's go with

53:05

the video game. Okay. Have

53:07

you ever played Untitled Goose

53:09

game? Game. It's called Untitled

53:11

Goose. It's called Untitled Goose

53:13

Game. Untitled Goose Game. No.

53:15

Yeah. Okay. It's really very

53:17

simple. You're just a goose.

53:19

little town somewhere in your

53:21

whole job is to just

53:23

go around and cause chaos.

53:25

I see. Oh, how cute

53:28

is this goose? But it's

53:30

really really cute. It's not

53:32

like, it's just like a

53:34

cute little goose maybe like

53:36

goes and takes someone's hat.

53:38

So the goose bothers people

53:40

and you have to use

53:42

the goose abilities to manipulate

53:44

objects and NPCs to complete

53:46

objectives. This sounds fun. I'm

53:48

going to download this. I'm

53:50

going to download this. It's

53:52

really, really. It's almost critically

53:54

acclaimed. It's gotten great reviews

53:56

because it's cozy, but it's

53:58

fun and it's funny. I'm

54:01

thinking of a game, sort

54:03

of in the vein of

54:05

Untitled Goose Game, called Off

54:07

Yourself. Immediately no. Immediately no.

54:10

Immediately no. Immediately no. Immediately

54:12

no. Immediately no. Immediately no.

54:14

Immediately no. Immediately no. Immediately

54:16

no. Immediately no. Immediately no.

54:19

No, it's going to be

54:21

so much fun. No, no,

54:23

no. Okay, absolutely not. He

54:25

created an avatar. No. Animal

54:28

Crossing, as, you know, you

54:30

have all kinds of custom,

54:32

custom, you can do, skin,

54:34

color, hair, gender, you know,

54:37

all these things. Instead of

54:39

like an island, you know,

54:41

nice big city, town, all

54:43

kinds of objects, physics based.

54:46

You can like build, you

54:48

can put two things together,

54:50

you like maybe pick up

54:53

a rock. And then like

54:55

a two by four, and

54:57

then very tears of the

54:59

kingdom, like blend them together.

55:02

You can do all kinds

55:04

of stuff. Physics based, world.

55:06

This is a slapsticky, comedy,

55:08

thing. Right. The whole point.

55:11

The whole point of the

55:13

game is to complete, this

55:15

is objective. And the objectives

55:17

are. dozens and dozens and

55:20

dozens of ways for you

55:22

to kill yourself. And in

55:24

like slapsticky comedic weird ways,

55:26

like you have to go

55:29

and get this and go

55:31

get that and then go

55:33

do this and then it's

55:35

just like this ridiculous slap

55:38

sticky suicide animation. Now, the

55:40

NPCs in the world, it's

55:42

also a stealth game, because

55:44

the NPCs in the world,

55:47

because the NPCs in the

55:49

world, they see you. doing

55:51

some shit, but sketchy. They

55:53

will stop you, you know

55:56

what I mean? And they

55:58

also... And she sent you

56:00

to the Grippy Sock Hotel?

56:02

Well, that's the, that's the,

56:05

like, that's the outside story.

56:07

Because it is, if I

56:09

wanted to be something, you

56:11

could literally, like, just pick

56:14

up, play. No. It doesn't

56:16

have to have like a

56:18

thing. But there is like...

56:21

Okay, let me finish. You

56:25

find like really silly slap sticky

56:27

loony tunes like ways to off

56:30

yourself, right? And you have all

56:32

of these different objectives. Let's say

56:34

there's like 50 different ways that

56:37

you have to like find how

56:39

to do it and have all

56:41

these silly little sequences where you

56:44

die. But the the NPCs, the

56:46

people in the city in the

56:48

town, they see you doing something

56:51

that looks dangerous or sketchy or

56:53

whatever, they will basically go into

56:55

a mode where they'll come after

56:58

you and stop you. Like they'll

57:00

restrain you and then that's essentially

57:02

like your game over, right? Also...

57:05

So you lose by staying alive?

57:07

Yeah. No. Isn't that fascinating? Because

57:10

then it's like the NPCs, just

57:12

follow me. The NPCs and like

57:14

in a traditional game, they'd be

57:17

your enemies. But these aren't enemies.

57:19

You're the enemy, serious. These are

57:21

not your enemies. But they kind

57:24

of are in the sense of

57:26

the game because they're stopping you

57:28

from completing it, but they're actually

57:31

trying to do the right thing,

57:33

just keep you alive. And they're

57:35

also, the AI has like adaptive

57:38

learning. So let's say like, one

57:40

of the objectives is to like

57:42

use a rope and something something

57:45

to like hang yourself. And you

57:47

do it, every time you die,

57:49

you come back to life. Right,

57:52

because it's a video game, and

57:54

it's meant to be funny. But

57:56

every time, like, let's say you

57:59

hang yourself with a rope, like,

58:01

the NPCs, any time on, like,

58:03

your next playthrough, if they see

58:06

you touch a rope, They immediately

58:08

react, like, you know what I

58:11

mean? They immediately react in a

58:13

way that's like five stars G.T.A.

58:15

where they're just like, she's got

58:18

a rope, rubber, and you know

58:20

what I mean? So, and so

58:22

you have to kind of like

58:25

stealthily also adapt to them learning.

58:27

Wow. Let's say if there's 50

58:29

different objectives, after you complete 10,

58:32

there's like an interlude with a

58:34

character that's your therapist. No. And

58:36

like, there's like an interlude with

58:39

a character that plays a therapist

58:41

that then kind of gives very

58:43

like a sort of like vague

58:46

story or vague sort of explanation

58:48

on what's going on in this

58:50

character's head. Meant to be dark.

58:53

Characters die in silly ways all

58:55

the time. In fact, there are

58:57

games where you kill your own

59:00

character just because it's silly and

59:02

looks fun. Like in the old

59:05

school tomb raider, I used to

59:07

have Lara just jump off a

59:09

cliff and hit the ground because

59:12

it was silly. Just because you

59:14

can do it doesn't mean that's

59:16

the objective. Yes, also, just because

59:19

I can in GTA mow down,

59:21

you know, a fleet of cops

59:23

doesn't mean I'm going to do

59:26

that either. So through like the

59:28

interludes with the therapist and little

59:30

collectibles around the world, you can

59:33

get sort of, because I don't

59:35

want, I'm not trying to make

59:37

a game that encourages this behavior

59:40

at all. Okay. Like in real

59:42

life, I wanted to be something

59:44

that can like make light of.

59:47

The fact that this is like

59:49

suicidal ideation is sometimes like a

59:51

lifelong struggle for people and I

59:54

wanted to just kind of be

59:56

like a way to laugh at

59:58

while also having, without being in

1:00:01

your face about it, having things

1:00:03

in there that are kind of

1:00:06

like, but girl, think about this.

1:00:08

Like yeah, this is a fun

1:00:10

little silly game, but why is

1:00:13

this character doing this? And every

1:00:15

10 challenges, you get a little

1:00:17

peek into it. And by the

1:00:20

end of the game, like when

1:00:22

you beat the game, the character

1:00:24

has to have like a realization

1:00:27

that like they shouldn't have been

1:00:29

doing any of this. And then

1:00:31

the whole town is like, like,

1:00:34

Yay, and then you have like

1:00:36

an ending sequence where they all

1:00:38

like have brunched together or something.

1:00:41

A looney tuned style game where

1:00:43

you kill yourself over and over

1:00:45

in a variety of slap sticky

1:00:48

cartoonish ways while NPCs try to

1:00:50

keep you alive. I think it's

1:00:52

great. Well you would, you would,

1:00:55

you would. I'm

1:00:57

a little disturbed at how deeply

1:01:00

you've thought this out and not

1:01:02

your other ideas. I wish you

1:01:04

would put more brainpower into those.

1:01:06

Oh, well, you know, I love

1:01:08

video games. So I'm just like,

1:01:10

that one I think is, I

1:01:13

mean, I could do the Sailor

1:01:15

Moon RPG, but you super angle

1:01:17

following it. I would much rather

1:01:19

prefer you develop a, what's her

1:01:21

name, Sailor Moon show, or a

1:01:23

game, than this. It's... Yeah, I

1:01:26

would too, actually. This was just

1:01:28

the one I thought would have

1:01:30

a better reaction from you. You

1:01:32

thought this would have a better

1:01:34

reaction from the therapist? Like an

1:01:36

entertaining reaction for me. Like I

1:01:39

knew it would bother you. Where

1:01:41

Sailor Moon is just going to

1:01:43

be like, I don't get it

1:01:45

because I don't watch this. Okay,

1:01:47

it's still an immediate no. You're

1:01:49

going, you and whoever develops and

1:01:52

distributes this game is going to

1:01:54

be sued immediately. For who? However,

1:01:56

the family of the first person

1:01:58

to kill themselves from some idea

1:02:00

they got from this game. So

1:02:03

no. I am extremely out. I

1:02:05

could maybe, maybe see it under

1:02:07

very, very close supervision in mental

1:02:09

health facilities in patient care. I

1:02:11

think maybe people currently struggling with

1:02:13

suicidal ideations could see the joy

1:02:16

or the benefit in this game,

1:02:18

maybe, but it also might just

1:02:20

give them some ideas of things

1:02:22

to do as soon as they

1:02:24

get out. or makeshift ways to

1:02:26

make something happen even in the

1:02:29

facility. So it's a... But your

1:02:31

character is always... It's a stealth...

1:02:33

Yes, but the problem is that

1:02:35

the character is the enemy. The

1:02:37

character is not supposed to be

1:02:39

the villain. It needs, there needs

1:02:42

to be a clearly defined villain

1:02:44

here, not the person themselves. That's

1:02:46

why it's, it's fascinating, it flips

1:02:48

the game thing on its head.

1:02:50

Like you can't say, like even

1:02:52

if you were to explain this

1:02:55

game to your friends, you'd be

1:02:57

like, oh, and then your enemies,

1:02:59

oh wait, no, they're not, you're

1:03:01

not trying to hurt you. It's

1:03:03

just, I feel like, I hear

1:03:06

what you're saying, as suicidal person,

1:03:08

I'm thinking like, like, in a

1:03:10

way that makes you think about

1:03:12

suicide rather than encouraging you to

1:03:14

go to it. Because no, Shea,

1:03:16

there's plenty of video games where

1:03:19

if I wanted to simulate suicide

1:03:21

and then get an idea from

1:03:23

it, I could do it right

1:03:25

now. Well, sure. Brother of the

1:03:27

Wild, you can set a bomb

1:03:29

and blow yourself up, but... The

1:03:33

purpose of the game is

1:03:35

not to kill yourself, unlike

1:03:37

your game. And so it

1:03:39

is a no. It's gonna

1:03:41

be a no, not just

1:03:43

from me, but from literally

1:03:46

anybody who could make this

1:03:48

happen. No one. No one

1:03:50

will put forth their money,

1:03:52

time, effort, energy into making

1:03:54

this particular game happen. And

1:03:57

I'm not sorry. I almost

1:03:59

said I'm sorry, but this.

1:04:01

No, it is a no.

1:04:03

The mental illness needs to

1:04:05

be the villain here, not

1:04:08

the person suffering from the

1:04:10

mental illness. Ooh, okay, so

1:04:12

then, okay. Okay, wonderful. I'm

1:04:14

seeing some light bulbs flash.

1:04:16

So the person who gives

1:04:19

you the objectives is mental

1:04:21

illness. So you serve an

1:04:23

evil master, like Dr. Robotnik.

1:04:25

Yeah, it's like a little

1:04:27

gross like the cute, but

1:04:29

like obviously like in an

1:04:32

evil way like the little

1:04:34

coconut guys on Lana Like

1:04:36

that's And they give you

1:04:38

No, I just mean cute

1:04:40

in that way like cute,

1:04:43

but like obviously menacing. And

1:04:45

they are the ones that

1:04:47

give you the objectives. So

1:04:49

like that's clearly the bad

1:04:51

guy But that will only

1:04:54

work for the, that will

1:04:56

only work for the quote

1:04:58

unquote, cute mental illnesses. The

1:05:00

more severe the mental illness,

1:05:02

the little character would need

1:05:05

to be. Yeah. It's a

1:05:07

no. It is an absolute

1:05:09

no. I see why you

1:05:11

came up with it and

1:05:13

I even see why in

1:05:15

your mind this was fun.

1:05:22

But it is a no friend

1:05:24

God. No, Jesus Christ. No a

1:05:27

sailor moon game in the vein

1:05:29

of persona whose persona? Personas is

1:05:32

this RPG about like usually kids

1:05:34

in high school who get magic

1:05:36

powers and To feed spirits, but

1:05:39

a main part of it is

1:05:41

like literally you have day-to-day tasks

1:05:43

like as a calendar through your

1:05:46

whole school year and every day

1:05:48

you have like a Different set

1:05:50

of you can go to well

1:05:53

you usually have to go to

1:05:55

school you have actual exams you

1:05:58

have to take you can go

1:06:00

get a job Then go to

1:06:02

work you can go to movies

1:06:05

and go on dates and then

1:06:07

at night you save the world

1:06:09

with your True of high school

1:06:12

Superfire friends. So like a Salem

1:06:14

moon game with that That is

1:06:17

I mean I don't get it,

1:06:19

but that is I'm far more

1:06:21

intrigued in the storyline and how

1:06:24

that would be developed. I love

1:06:26

paper Mario had an element where

1:06:28

You do all that fighting and

1:06:31

questing stuff during the night and

1:06:33

during the day you like wake

1:06:36

up, go make breakfast with peach,

1:06:38

go hang out with Yoshin, go

1:06:40

to the movies if you want

1:06:43

to, just have a regular like

1:06:45

day. And then you go and

1:06:47

save the world a night in

1:06:50

turn-based fights and then that's it.

1:06:52

Okay, well sure, that is Paper

1:06:55

Mario. That's what Paper Mario does

1:06:57

anyway. So yeah. Yeah, it's just

1:06:59

Paper Mario. But with Sailor Moon.

1:07:02

Calendar. With Dykes. And you're a

1:07:04

high school. Yeah. Okay. Well, aren't

1:07:06

they? Most of them work. It

1:07:09

was a Saturday, Neptune or something.

1:07:11

It was two of them that

1:07:14

was absent. There we go. In

1:07:16

a relationship. And they came to

1:07:18

America and Western producers were like,

1:07:21

oh no, we're not doing that.

1:07:23

So they're cousins. They're going to

1:07:25

be cousins. And me, like 10,

1:07:28

watching this show where they changed

1:07:30

nothing but the English dog that

1:07:32

calls them cousins, I'm like, this

1:07:35

is not. So these cousins are

1:07:37

fucking? Because they're fucking. And yeah,

1:07:40

what a journey into your mind

1:07:42

and its processes. Does everyone else

1:07:44

currently have a really dog? No.

1:07:47

Live action, courage. Don't know. Don't

1:07:49

get that reference, so. Courage is

1:07:51

just a cute little. dog who

1:07:54

lived in the middle of nowhere.

1:07:56

But didn't it talk crazy? He

1:07:59

didn't speak much. Oh, why did

1:08:01

I think it was voiced by

1:08:03

like some white comedian? Probably was,

1:08:06

but he didn't speak very much.

1:08:08

Courage? Oh, he came right up.

1:08:10

He speaks, but he doesn't speak

1:08:13

much. Oh, he's a scary cat.

1:08:15

Scaredi Cat Dog, he's like scared

1:08:18

of everything. But it's like, it

1:08:20

had episodes that were really kind

1:08:22

of scary. Well, it does say

1:08:25

dark humor, horror, humor. I'm like,

1:08:27

what? Yeah. Horror comedy. Some of

1:08:29

them were actually pretty creepy, even

1:08:32

for kids. And I don't understand

1:08:34

why they haven't made a live

1:08:37

action version of that. Okay. When

1:08:39

my friend was like, just find

1:08:41

somebody. I was like, you know,

1:08:44

they loved turning niggies into animals.

1:08:46

Just find a black person to

1:08:48

voice the dog. And they will

1:08:51

do it. Well, you know what?

1:08:53

I'm with you when you're right.

1:08:56

There it is. Not that off

1:08:58

yourself. Not that, though. Cash advance.

1:09:00

Not bad. Nothing. Not that other

1:09:03

one, no. Thanks for sharing. Okay,

1:09:05

friends and homes. I know like

1:09:07

five of you are going to

1:09:10

be like, I see the vision

1:09:12

here, you shouldn't make it, but

1:09:14

I understand why you think it's

1:09:17

fun. And those five people have

1:09:19

also been institutionalized and were like,

1:09:22

I would really enjoy this. No,

1:09:24

I feel like some of you

1:09:26

probably haven't. And you just still

1:09:29

understand that it would be fun,

1:09:31

even though it shouldn't be made.

1:09:33

Like I know that some of

1:09:36

y'all at home get the vision

1:09:38

and also that it shouldn't be.

1:09:42

Probably nobody thinks you you can

1:09:45

play it in your mind whenever

1:09:47

you want to that's what Beyonce

1:09:49

told us about. You probably just

1:09:51

played in the Sims like I

1:09:54

don't know whatever like you mother

1:09:56

fuck is it just kill your

1:09:58

Sims all the time. Oh yeah

1:10:00

people do do that. I need

1:10:03

the Well, I mean, the thing

1:10:05

is, I think this game could

1:10:07

actually be wildly popular. It just

1:10:09

would all, you would immediately be

1:10:12

sued. And, and so a lot

1:10:14

of the game retailers, like the

1:10:16

big game retailers, would not even

1:10:18

sell it because of the possibility

1:10:21

that they would be included in

1:10:23

the lawsuit. But if not for

1:10:25

that, I think it could be

1:10:27

hugely popular. It'll probably be one

1:10:30

of those. Kind of like I

1:10:32

don't know black market things where

1:10:34

it's just hugely just a giant

1:10:36

success But not in a capitalistic

1:10:39

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We do have an update from Quincy.

1:13:44

If If you remember a couple of months

1:13:46

back, believe Quincy was trying to was Carey and to

1:13:48

go see Mariah Carey and then his

1:13:50

friend was like trying to jump in

1:13:52

and be part of the Mariah Carey

1:13:54

experience. Quincy was like, like like I'm was

1:13:57

have to. to pay for Pay for all

1:13:59

and I want to. Okay. So after hearing your

1:14:01

advice, I spoke with Jess and

1:14:03

told her that I wouldn't be

1:14:05

able to guarantee paying for her

1:14:07

accommodations to see Mariah, since I

1:14:09

was still working out the details

1:14:11

and hadn't saved up all the

1:14:13

money. She gave me some pushback

1:14:15

for most of the conversation, but

1:14:17

once I said I didn't want

1:14:19

her plans to be solely dependent

1:14:21

on me going. But once I

1:14:23

said I didn't want her plans

1:14:25

to be solely dependent on me

1:14:27

going to the Mariah concert, so

1:14:29

they were going to call carpool

1:14:31

together the day of the day

1:14:33

of the show, and another friend

1:14:35

of hers paid for her ticket.

1:14:37

Now part of me feels like

1:14:39

she could have just asked these

1:14:41

friends in the first place instead

1:14:43

of trying to put the financial

1:14:45

burden solely on me, but I

1:14:48

digress. We met up at the

1:14:50

venue before the concert started, took

1:14:52

a few picks, and went to

1:14:54

our respective seats. The show was

1:14:56

amazing. Oh my God, I'm obsessed

1:14:58

with Mariah. Words can explain how

1:15:00

much joy it brought me to

1:15:02

finally see her. I'm glad everything

1:15:04

worked out in everyone's favorite. Thanks

1:15:06

again for all your advice and

1:15:08

insight. Love y' Quincy. P.S. Crystal,

1:15:10

I did get my Mariah Carey

1:15:12

merch and the t-shirt was exactly

1:15:14

$45. Of course it is. Most

1:15:16

popular merch price. And yeah, I'm

1:15:18

glad it worked out. See, all

1:15:20

you have to do, most times,

1:15:22

I'll say eight times I tend,

1:15:24

all you really got to do

1:15:26

is just stick up for yourself.

1:15:28

People might have something to say,

1:15:30

but you just advocate for yourself

1:15:32

and it really, usually, will be

1:15:34

just fine. Yeah, I think eight

1:15:36

times out of times. Yeah, the

1:15:38

mother two though, I don't know

1:15:40

who you, we don't know who

1:15:42

you dealing with. I happen, but

1:15:44

yeah, usually. Yeah. So, yeah, glad

1:15:46

that worked out for you, babes.

1:15:48

Let's get on to our letters

1:15:50

this week. Our first one comes

1:15:52

from Gretchen who says, my boyfriend

1:15:54

and I just moved into our

1:15:56

first apartment together, and it's been

1:15:59

a really good experience so far.

1:16:01

We haven't had any visitors yet

1:16:03

because we're still decorating and we

1:16:05

both don't really like people in

1:16:07

our space, but his 17-year-old little

1:16:09

sister has a key to our

1:16:11

apartment. My boyfriend wanted to give

1:16:13

her a space to come to

1:16:15

if she wants to get away

1:16:17

from home because she still lives

1:16:19

at home with their verbally and

1:16:21

emotionally abusive father. My boyfriend is

1:16:23

very protective of his... little sister

1:16:25

and has basically furnished our second

1:16:27

bedroom to be a room for

1:16:29

her, which I'm fine with. Anyway,

1:16:31

my boyfriend went out of town

1:16:33

this week for our college friend's

1:16:35

bachelor party. I was also away

1:16:37

for the bride's bachelor rep party,

1:16:39

but just for the weekend and

1:16:41

in the next state over. Before

1:16:43

I left, I scheduled somebody to

1:16:45

feed and walk our little sister.

1:16:47

Well. I mean, yeah, I'm Gloria.

1:16:49

That's what high school is. In

1:16:51

the morning and afternoon on Saturday

1:16:53

and Sunday, Sunday morning I'd notice

1:16:55

that I didn't receive a photo

1:16:57

or a behavior report from the

1:16:59

dog walker in the rover app.

1:17:01

So I locked into our furbo

1:17:03

camera we have set up to

1:17:05

make sure she was okay and

1:17:07

give her some treats if need

1:17:10

be. I'm totally this dog mom.

1:17:12

I have all of this shit.

1:17:14

Okay, anyway, I have one too.

1:17:16

Lo and behold, I see my

1:17:18

boyfriend's sister coming to our apartment

1:17:20

at 6 p.m. on Saturday night,

1:17:22

which was weird because she usually

1:17:24

texts us, Texas. Texas, when she's

1:17:26

coming over, especially when she's coming

1:17:28

over, especially if neither of us

1:17:30

are home at the time, but

1:17:32

I didn't think too much of

1:17:34

it. She came in by herself,

1:17:36

showered, made dinner, sat on the

1:17:38

couch to watch TV, and I

1:17:40

was about the couch to watch

1:17:42

to watch TV, and I was

1:17:44

going. I kept watching because I

1:17:46

was hoping it was the dog

1:17:48

walker to come pick up Gloria,

1:17:50

but in walks the boy, she's

1:17:52

been dating for a few months.

1:17:54

When I tell y'all, I almost

1:17:56

ran across the bridge in that

1:17:58

moment to beat her ass, but

1:18:00

I watched for a few minutes,

1:18:02

they talked it, some fondling, and

1:18:04

then they went back into our

1:18:06

guest bedroom, and I just exited

1:18:08

the app before I could crash

1:18:10

out. Even without assuming that they

1:18:12

had sex, which let's be for

1:18:14

real. Right. The one rule we

1:18:16

had was no unexpected company, especially

1:18:18

if my boyfriend and I aren't

1:18:20

home. She broke a huge amount

1:18:23

of trust and I'm shocked that

1:18:25

she even had this much audacity.

1:18:27

The problem is that she doesn't...

1:18:29

You're shocked, she doesn't... I know,

1:18:31

I know, and I haven't told

1:18:33

my boyfriend yet. For context, their

1:18:35

mother passed away about three years

1:18:37

ago, and his sister has confided

1:18:39

in me a lot, and we've

1:18:41

become close in the last few

1:18:43

years. My boyfriend is, of course,

1:18:45

very sensitive about his relationship with

1:18:47

his sister, because he's a very

1:18:49

sensitive about his relationship with his

1:18:51

sister, because he feels responsible for

1:18:53

her, adds another layer to it.

1:18:55

I'm afraid to tell him because

1:18:57

I know he will be furious

1:18:59

and I don't want to mess

1:19:01

up the progress he's made, but

1:19:03

I feel like he needs to

1:19:05

know. I'm also still pissed, but

1:19:07

I don't want to feel like

1:19:09

a narc and lose all the

1:19:11

trust that she and I have

1:19:13

built over the years. Please help,

1:19:15

what should I do? X, Gretchen.

1:19:17

P.S. Gloria did get walked and

1:19:19

fed the dog walker just came

1:19:21

later than he was supposed to.

1:19:23

So, God damn it, Leonard. Okay,

1:19:25

so a couple things. I understand

1:19:27

your frustration specifically in, I'd say

1:19:29

simple rule being broken. That is

1:19:31

incredibly frustrating, especially having strangers in

1:19:34

your house. I get all of

1:19:36

that. I also get all of

1:19:38

that. what you're saying about a

1:19:40

lot of the stuff you know

1:19:42

what your boyfriend's sister is dealing

1:19:44

with what they've both been dealing

1:19:46

with and I think honestly in

1:19:48

your position I would even frustrated

1:19:50

give her some grace here I

1:19:52

definitely wouldn't tell my boyfriend just

1:19:54

because I don't see

1:19:56

how that would... Like I

1:19:58

feel like that's good. make

1:20:01

things worse for everybody. You

1:20:03

know what I mean? He's

1:20:05

obviously going to be pissed

1:20:07

at her. Then there's going

1:20:09

to be tension there. Then

1:20:11

she'll go be mad at

1:20:13

me. And also, this up.

1:20:16

And also, like, I don't

1:20:18

even know what aspect of

1:20:20

the confrontation to expect. when

1:20:22

you said that you guys

1:20:24

have grown close and formed

1:20:26

a bond, I think I

1:20:28

sort of saw that as

1:20:31

a boy over here and

1:20:33

very likely did it. So

1:20:35

like, I don't know, man.

1:20:37

I think it's, when you

1:20:39

said that you guys have

1:20:41

grown close and formed a

1:20:43

bond, I think I sort

1:20:46

of saw that as the.

1:20:48

the left turn or right

1:20:50

turn, the alternate route. I

1:20:52

think I would privately speak

1:20:54

to her and say, now

1:20:56

listen, you know that this

1:20:58

rule, this is the like

1:21:01

one rule we had, and

1:21:03

we're actually very serious about

1:21:05

this rule. I don't even

1:21:07

need to break down the

1:21:09

seriousness of why, because this

1:21:11

is my damn house. Right,

1:21:13

right. And I know

1:21:16

that you broke it. I'm

1:21:18

really disappointed. I'm actually really,

1:21:20

really upset. But I care

1:21:22

about you. I'm not gonna

1:21:25

tell your brother about this

1:21:27

because I just feel like

1:21:29

it's gonna make everything worse.

1:21:31

But I need you to

1:21:34

know that you're getting older

1:21:36

and I'm sure you feel

1:21:38

like you know a lot.

1:21:40

And I know you know

1:21:42

they're grown-ups, many grown-ups don't

1:21:45

know shit. But one thing

1:21:47

I can promise you is

1:21:49

that I'm always gonna find

1:21:51

out. It don't matter. Like

1:21:54

you ain't looking at me,

1:21:56

I'm always gonna find out.

1:21:58

You ain't. So let's. Let's

1:22:00

put this Let's put

1:22:02

this behind us. us sit here

1:22:05

while you make a vow that

1:22:07

this Sit here while you make a vow,

1:22:10

but this will not. Because if

1:22:12

it does, because if it does,

1:22:14

you know that I have

1:22:16

choice but to choice, but

1:22:19

to escalate. via to

1:22:21

it. response to

1:22:23

it. think that's And I

1:22:25

don't think that's that anybody

1:22:28

wants right. Get it

1:22:30

together, kid. Love you. And it

1:22:32

together, kid. take this TV you.

1:22:34

here for a week. I don't to take

1:22:36

this TV out of here didn't a I

1:22:38

two. I don't know. I don't know. don't

1:22:41

know. I feel like your response mean, I feel

1:22:43

like your response is way more

1:22:45

mature than mine I I would

1:22:47

be so, I have a have a deep, probably something

1:22:49

I need to It was

1:22:51

probably something about about myself,

1:22:53

honestly, because the visceral reaction

1:22:55

I have. have. to to the

1:22:57

thought of somebody having sex in my house.

1:22:59

sex in my house. It's just, it's

1:23:01

so intense Yeah. Do not have

1:23:03

sex in have sex Yeah. Do

1:23:06

not have sex in my house. Yeah, Do

1:23:08

not have sex in my house! bring strangers

1:23:10

in my bring Mm-hmm. I'm in

1:23:12

my house! I'm already finna

1:23:15

move cause too many people know where I

1:23:17

live now. now. You brought some little

1:23:19

dusty high school high school some Some little 17,

1:23:21

18 year old nigga to my home.

1:23:23

home. Who could have done anything? What

1:23:25

if he was one of these little

1:23:27

crash dummies? was one of friends and crash all

1:23:29

my shit. Little Friends and robbed

1:23:31

all my shit. I think I

1:23:33

would think I would struggle so much

1:23:35

with being angry I I don't know I

1:23:38

would be able to be this measured and

1:23:40

calm. and about my response.

1:23:42

about my response. That's fair. really don't.

1:23:44

I think I would be like, you

1:23:47

You know I'm I'm telling your brother or

1:23:49

I'm taking the key, you pick. You pick. I

1:23:52

think that eats too, to be

1:23:54

honest with you. honest with you. No,

1:23:56

yours was yours was way better.

1:23:58

Yours was far more more... and understanding

1:24:00

and I don't think that's unfair

1:24:03

because you have every right to

1:24:05

be furious but I just I'm

1:24:07

thinking of like this girl is

1:24:09

this is essentially a safe haven

1:24:12

from her only living parent that's

1:24:14

abuse right right see that's the

1:24:16

part I'm trying to remember right

1:24:19

right so there isn't a rule

1:24:21

they're interested in following she lost

1:24:23

her mama at 14 like the

1:24:26

worst time to lose your mama

1:24:29

And we're cool, you know, like

1:24:31

she and I are actually cool.

1:24:33

I think I would struggle. Even

1:24:35

as pissed as I would be,

1:24:37

I think I would just take

1:24:39

the pissedivity out on her personally

1:24:41

without escalating. Because once the brother

1:24:44

gets involved and shit like that,

1:24:46

then like he might be so

1:24:48

pissed that then you do lose

1:24:50

the key too. Right. Right. Yeah,

1:24:52

I mean, I don't, I don't

1:24:54

necessarily think my way is the

1:24:56

right way. I definitely think your

1:24:58

approach is more effective. Um, as

1:25:01

far as, like, is that fucking

1:25:03

happening? Occasionally. This is just one

1:25:05

of those things where I would

1:25:07

not, it would take me a

1:25:09

while to really, and I would

1:25:11

be so disturbed by it that

1:25:13

eventually my man would be like,

1:25:15

okay, what's going on? Like, clearly

1:25:18

something's going on, you been irritated,

1:25:20

it would take me a while

1:25:22

to work through it. And so

1:25:24

you would be so affected by

1:25:26

it that you're moving around in

1:25:28

the space with it on you.

1:25:30

You might as well just don't.

1:25:32

You share the bear with this

1:25:35

nigger. You can't even close your

1:25:37

eyes. It's 1230 a.m. And you

1:25:39

just stand at the ceiling like

1:25:41

I can't believe this. Yes. You

1:25:43

know what I mean? You just

1:25:45

go ahead and get it off

1:25:47

you. Oh, man. That really is

1:25:49

probably something. and I need to

1:25:52

sit down and investigate why it's

1:25:54

probably some, you know, religious shit,

1:25:56

church shit deep in there somewhere

1:25:58

that I'm still holding on to

1:26:00

subconsciously, but I, Gruschen, I gotta

1:26:02

say, I, I would try so

1:26:04

hard to keep all of these

1:26:06

other factors in mind, because they

1:26:09

are excellent reasons for not. Going

1:26:11

into this right with the with

1:26:13

the mission of destroying your relationship

1:26:15

with this girl, but I mean

1:26:17

There are consequences to our behaviors.

1:26:19

You knew you wasn't supposed to

1:26:21

have nobody over here. You wasn't

1:26:23

supposed to have nobody over here.

1:26:26

I would have been mad if

1:26:28

you brought somebody over here like

1:26:30

I was mad when the little

1:26:32

nigger walked through the door period

1:26:34

knowing that y'all then went and

1:26:36

fucked in my room And my

1:26:38

guest room is worse or? But

1:26:40

the guest would have been bad

1:26:43

enough. So I think what you

1:26:45

all are, what you are realizing

1:26:47

is that you cannot really trust

1:26:49

a 17 year old with a

1:26:51

key to an empty home, knowing

1:26:53

nobody's gonna be there all fucking

1:26:55

weekend. I think you've been. Your

1:26:57

brother is trying to balance between

1:27:00

his role of like authority figure

1:27:02

and being a brother and maybe

1:27:04

he's being a little too permissive

1:27:06

because of that. You can't turn

1:27:08

on that fucking curb I don't

1:27:10

see you for here. They're having

1:27:12

a fucking rave. This is what

1:27:14

I'm saying. 17 year olds can

1:27:17

get into all kind of shit

1:27:19

and depending on where you live

1:27:21

you might be tried as an

1:27:23

adult girl. Like I just don't

1:27:25

want none of that associated with

1:27:27

me and my home. I do

1:27:29

not want my address in the

1:27:31

news, like none of that, none

1:27:34

of that. So, um, I'm gonna

1:27:36

go with, I'm gonna recommend that

1:27:38

Gretchen take your advice, but this

1:27:40

is something that I would struggle

1:27:42

with a lot. I cannot, I

1:27:44

cannot. Best of Luck Babes, our

1:27:46

last letter comes from CK who

1:27:48

says, Dear Crystal and Fury, my

1:27:51

wife of 25 years and I

1:27:53

have a friend of over 20

1:27:55

years who is planning a big

1:27:57

birthday trip to Bali next May.

1:27:59

After COVID, our friend group began

1:28:01

doing big week long plus birthday

1:28:03

trips in places like Vegas, Costa

1:28:05

Rica, and Nola instead of parties

1:28:08

and they've been great. My wife

1:28:10

and this woman were friends first,

1:28:12

and actually best friends at one

1:28:14

point, even going so far as

1:28:16

to introduce each other as sisters.

1:28:18

She is auntie to our kids

1:28:20

and godmother to one of them,

1:28:22

and we are the same to

1:28:25

her kids. So she and I

1:28:27

have become close as well. In

1:28:29

recent years, my wife and our

1:28:31

friend's relationship has freed. There's still

1:28:33

love, but it's different and a

1:28:35

little more distant from my wife's

1:28:37

side of things. I think it

1:28:40

started when my wife tried to

1:28:42

mix her friend groups her friend

1:28:44

groups or when our friend got

1:28:46

divorced four years ago divorced four

1:28:48

years ago. The problem is that

1:28:50

my wife has absolutely no intention

1:28:52

of going to Bali. She feels

1:28:54

as though September is too short

1:28:57

of notice to pay for this

1:28:59

near $3,000 per person trip, even

1:29:01

on a pay plan, and the

1:29:03

22-hour flight is too long for

1:29:05

a short week of only five

1:29:07

nights. I, on the other hand,

1:29:09

would like to go. I've never

1:29:11

been to Bali. This is someone

1:29:14

who's supposed to be a close

1:29:16

friend of ours, and at my

1:29:18

age, I'm much more into experiences

1:29:20

than anything else. Is it my

1:29:22

reality that I simply can't go

1:29:24

because my wife is not going?

1:29:26

Should I be trying to go?

1:29:28

And if I do go, how

1:29:31

do I broach this with wifey?

1:29:33

I know you don't believe in

1:29:35

being friends with your significant others

1:29:37

friends. Talking to you, right? But

1:29:39

I think this is a little

1:29:41

different. FYI, there is nothing fishy

1:29:43

going on with me and the

1:29:45

friend or my wife in the

1:29:48

friend that I'm aware of. Yeah,

1:29:50

I don't think so. Just, you

1:29:52

know, you have to throw that

1:29:54

out there because you're a straight

1:29:56

man. Yeah. Yeah. So thanks, um,

1:29:58

thanks for letting us into your

1:30:00

lives all these years. Okay, CK.

1:30:02

Loyo had a real male listener

1:30:05

of a certain age who did

1:30:07

not find the read through a

1:30:09

woman or a queer person. Work.

1:30:11

of six. Right, and the rest

1:30:13

of them found it through brilliant

1:30:15

idiots, which is, I don't know,

1:30:17

worse. Oh yeah, I forgot. That's

1:30:19

how a lot of them did

1:30:22

it. But you stayed. So, all

1:30:24

six of y'all. May wonders. Yeah,

1:30:26

no, you're not going to Bali,

1:30:28

not on mystery. Not miss relationship.

1:30:30

How would you broker it to

1:30:32

your girl if you go? Um,

1:30:34

this relationship has been so great.

1:30:36

Um, I understand that it's over

1:30:39

now. And, um, like, the fuck?

1:30:41

Yeah. She's not going and I

1:30:43

know. And that's your girl. And,

1:30:45

first of all, there's so many

1:30:47

elements of the spyfire hilarious. Like,

1:30:49

Bali ain't go no weird niggers.

1:30:51

But also, like, why wouldn't she

1:30:53

want to go to Bali with

1:30:56

your girlfriend? Oh yes, why doesn't

1:30:58

she want to? So she's saying

1:31:00

that eight months is not enough

1:31:02

time to plan this trip, but

1:31:04

it's quite a bit of time.

1:31:06

No, I'm saying to the, is

1:31:08

this his girlfriend or? No, they've

1:31:10

been married for 25 years. Okay,

1:31:13

I'm sorry, your wife. Yeah. Why

1:31:15

the fuck wouldn't she want to

1:31:17

go to Bali with your wife?

1:31:19

Well, he does. The problem is

1:31:21

she don't want to go. So

1:31:23

he's like, right. So, but I'm

1:31:25

like, I feel like that would,

1:31:27

that would, that would, that would

1:31:30

be a big. You said it's

1:31:32

still all this stuff to do.

1:31:34

Part of what keeps me from

1:31:36

going, not just because of allegiance.

1:31:38

I know it's tons of shit,

1:31:40

but it's like if I'm married

1:31:42

happily. Yeah, yeah. I'd want to

1:31:44

experience those things with my partner.

1:31:47

Sure. But if your partner doesn't

1:31:49

want to go on this trip

1:31:51

with someone that they kind of

1:31:53

have a frayed relationship with, don't.

1:31:55

Go, say to your partner, okay,

1:31:57

listen, I know that you interest.

1:31:59

You know, y'all ain't cool no

1:32:02

or whatever whatever. I really,

1:32:04

really want to go to Bali, to go

1:32:06

to Bali. So let's Let's

1:32:08

plan a trip trip

1:32:10

to Bali at a time that a

1:32:12

time that works and you go.

1:32:14

Maybe we invite maybe we invite

1:32:16

some of our other whatever,

1:32:19

to like, another. another. Bali trip. it's

1:32:21

not even like she don't want to

1:32:23

go. She's saying the timing doesn't work

1:32:25

for her. So don't go on this

1:32:27

Bali trip, go on a Bali trip

1:32:29

with her that works on this her. Is

1:32:31

there something happening in Bali, this specific

1:32:33

trip time. Is What's her birthday? We're gonna

1:32:35

miss? in probably This 50 or something. You

1:32:37

know, it's like a big birthday. His

1:32:39

wife's birthday? His wife's We're birthday. to miss?

1:32:41

Who cares? Well, turning like his

1:32:43

friend too now. She's You know, it's like a big

1:32:45

kids call her Why we Why we

1:32:47

can't go to to Bali. Now we need to talk

1:32:49

about why you really... got beef with this

1:32:51

lady on that level. with this lady

1:32:53

on that level. Why is

1:32:56

it that you want to? I

1:32:58

mean, saying you should go. you should

1:33:00

go. would really need to I would really

1:33:02

need to understand why my wife was acting

1:33:04

like if we can swing can swing $6,000

1:33:06

over the the next eight months. and

1:33:09

this this is somebody who used

1:33:11

to be your best friend,

1:33:13

somebody best friend, Our kids call each

1:33:15

other kids call each other cousins.

1:33:17

I just. I'm not not saying I'm a

1:33:20

anyway, but I really, really

1:33:22

wanna understand why you don't. Is

1:33:24

it that we can't it that we

1:33:26

can't afford it? Is it too much

1:33:28