Field Dispatch
$92M Birthday and Farewell Twirl
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Mani took a little break to find some joy (and employment) and she has succeeded in both! The joys and woes of the current state of the world, state of RHOA, and state of Bravo is discussed with Elle Murasaki (Briefed by Elle). Elle, covering everything from politics to pop culture, and Mani try to giggle about the ridiculous things occurring in dc from tariffs to tanks, the captivating scripted tv and competition shows that are being binged, and the way Kenya Moore twirled on the haters and right off the deep end. Did Bravo do too much? Did Kenya? Does it matter how it will affect the season? Can Phaedra save us?! Who knows. Let's chit chat and mix it up.
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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, all you beautiful and wonderful mythologies out there. It is your girl, Moni.
Speaker 2: You're in the mix. I'm the here, I'm the here. Lots has been going on the bravosphere not so much, but life sphere a lot, a lot, and in this case, I need it like the world is on fire, seemingly like that seems to be kind of what's happening. I mean, nothing's changed since the first time they called on fire a few months ago, but it does feel like the fire is coming from so many directions now, and nobody knows what to do or who's gonna get burned next. So what do we do? We disassociate, and when we can, we just laugh at what, you know, what's happening until we're completely I don't know, gone crazy, yelling at people on the internet all the things that are already still true.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But what I do know is big things are happening, both in the political world and.
Speaker 3: Big things are happening in the whole world, specifically of the house side of Atlanta, and I for one, am literally so conflicted and overwhelmed by both. It's keeping me up that night almost equally about whether or not Kenya. More should be gone off of Atlanta and what is this of Atlanta?
Speaker 2: And like will we be able to get anything from another country ever again? Or is my next phone going to be one hundred thousand dollars? Who knows more on that? You know as we as we continue to talk. And that's why I had the girl who literally does it all, who mixes it all the way up. You can you get briefed by her every time. I have al Marisaki here, and she has the team for all the things political, all the things gossip, all the things TV and all of those things are happening right now. So happy to get it on here.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming on, l Hi, I.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me Hie to all the beautiful mixologists, I am pop culture on politics is my love language.
Speaker 2: So yes, no seriously, and I often forget it's so overwhelmed and then like I can't remember focus on anything for too long. But that's literally how I started. When I first started mixing with money, I was like equally as riveted by watching Sea Span as I would be by watching like watch what Happens Live. I mean it's the same, like the reunion of Housewives is also a c SPAN vote or a hearing, like have.
Speaker 4: You ever seen a hearing of someone getting confirmed? Like, oh my god, it's It's worse than any grandma. I turn on CNN. I tell my husband.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, I'm turning on my most favorite reality show.
Speaker 2: Yes, because I'm saying hello to the girls. I'm saying what's there.
Speaker 4: I'm saying what they're getting into because they are scrapping.
Speaker 2: There, so it's so ghetto. Whoever, I'm like, who is someone like who wants to fight with Jazz and Crackett today? That's where I'm always at, like who wants to the smoke who? And then when they when they start in fighting, which has like been happening lately, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 4: Dad, wait Ooh the infighting is what does me up the most because I am like, if y'all act like this and you know that we can see you, imagine how they was in there cutting up before the technology allowed us to see.
Speaker 2: Them exactly exactly. So there's like there's so much going on in the world, y'all. I am overwhelmed in so many ways, but like I can't turn away, so we just like navigate going in and out of those spaces. You know, you see we keep rubber necking. Yeah, we keep rubber necking. You know. You turn on one series and there's you know, a terrace for everywhere from here. It's wrong. You turn on another series the next day, and then you maybe know terrafs and maybe just a couple or you know, maybe a little bit here, a little bit there, and you really don't know what you're doing if you're going up or you're going down.
Speaker 2: I made the mistake of opening my cutesy little teacher retirement and that was my mistake. I'll never do that again.
Speaker 4: So when they first started talking about terroriffs right the very like first day, once he was already in office. There is a white Republican guy that they let on CNN a lot, and the girl asked him, well, what do you say to people who are looking at their for one ks and they don't believe that this is good for the economy and for the US again, based on the numbers that are.
Speaker 1: Not in there for one can.
Speaker 4: And with all the sincerity that man said, oh, I tell those people, don't look, don't check it.
Speaker 2: Okay, not checking it still won't change the fact that it's not there, and we'd like it to be because it once us. My wife is a chiropractor and she is in a nice like keep see, little affluent suburb community outside of DC, and one of her patients is like he like retired from a major bank for a long time. But it's also a vet and no lie in. One day, he said he checked his for one K that morning, just as an alert. Him being a white man with a family and retiring, he'd was like, oh, no, I need to check and see what's going on.
Speaker 2: He was worried, and I understand it. He checked in he had lost two hundred and thirty that thousand of dollars and one single day.
Speaker 1: One single day, my dad he never lost thirty thousand, yep.
Speaker 2: And one day somebody saw somebody like lost like fifth I saw someone's like actually post like it go from one hundred and twenty two thousand, they'd only had like three thousand contributes like normal dollars, normal, Like they've been working all these years for this and like so far year to day, only three thousand dollars in contributions, keeps a little amount here and there, probably like a nice millennial and now their balance is seventy two, and I just thought to myself, that's a very big difference from a six figure number to a not six figure number.
Speaker 2: And so me not checking it, sir, does nothing for the fact that that sixth figure. I want it, I worked for it, I put it there. I like it's I wanted.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be there.
Speaker 2: Do I need to call JG. Wentworth?
Speaker 4: Especially Trump is in and I need it now, hello, especially because Trump is in the White House bragging about, Oh, this guy made a billion dollars today, he made a second like.
Speaker 1: That's called manipulations. There's a training.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of like terms for some a lot of the the mills seen a cop HBO like dots or series or movies about things.
Speaker 1: Like this, right, because where is James? Call me when you need him.
Speaker 2: I've seen some girlies go like to a little place called prison for a thing like this. We've seen things like this before, and like the manipulation of political power to make money for some and the rest of us are like like eating it, like eating it real.
Speaker 4: Well the rest of you guys, And I think this is where you have to really utilize your words and reframe your thinking because you're not eating it. What you are doing is funding his birthday military parade.
Speaker 2: Yeah that Hello me a person who lives in the D and V. I know I'm in your ears completely correct. I have to make sure, y'all. Ella's in the car with her family. She's you know, a full adult, and adult things are happening. They're getting coffee, they're running errands. It's just being real modeled some to put her on. Build the entire house of New Jersey around the black woman and watch it flourish, just like Shmia on Atlanta. Okay, but the relation was fully in her ears because I have to say, as a D and V person, fuck right off, okay, fuck right Oh you are not running face up and through this city.
Speaker 2: First of all, my SUV, my high en day can't get around the roundabouts without busting something up in DC, which is literally how Benjamin Banneker designed it. Hello, former history teacher of DC Washington Washington, DC History two third graders in the city of DC. Banker designed it so that the capitol like couldn't be penetrated by like outside forces and stuff. That was like the whole idea. So if you don't want to have a military parade in the middle of the city that is literally not supposed to be navigationable by military on purpose so that we will see them coming and respond accordingly.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about using our own resources and our own streets to bankrupt our own sick What are you talking like? I actually that made me matter than the fact that it's going to pass around ninety ten million and I don't have money right now. That made me mad. It made me matter to know the tralla gonna bust up these streets and we will never be able to get around the city that we have to get around again, Why why are you doing this with any question mark? I don't like.
Speaker 1: The man that got me was again as is higher than drafts.
Speaker 4: At eleven dollars at the ownersh market you did, Oh wow, you don't put one hundred and forty five on imports from China.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're telling you.
Speaker 4: Hello, uncle Daddy, President, big guy King, maybe a dictator.
Speaker 1: We don't have no money to that. No to that you say.
Speaker 4: For my birthday, I want to throw a ninety two million dollar pres And my question is, first.
Speaker 2: Of all, from my birthday, I just had to cancel my trip. My birthday trip because the girl now has to figure out if the money goes to the emergency all the groceries. You know, Like in this current situation, y'all, I'm back on my MIC because I'm searching for the reason. I've been gone for a month, because I've been searching for a new job situation, employment situation. And now I'm back because I simply can't take no breaks because somebody in these four ninety five streets of the DNV rushing out of DC going You know, I don't even blame because they're leaving it from their mandatory job and they shouldn't even have to be at for no reason.
Speaker 2: All hours we're all sitting on traffic for two to three hours a day. I swear to God, it is a bismal mess all up and down the DNV. Right, and somehow a rockets my windshield. I don't know when it happens. I know that it happens from being in a standstill, which is crazy, but that's what happens. Right. And now I'm like, do I want to celebrate my birth or do I want to not get pulled over in or a hashtag and or for you know what I mean? For like a windshield, you know, do I want to take it a level deeper?
Speaker 4: Shouldn't even be because I know you pay car insurance with an exactly like we don't cover random acts of God, so a random rock flying to your windows is a random active guide and you don't cover it. But my guy paid my debts on the cross, So I'm just really confused.
Speaker 2: When I talked to him, he said, Jesus got it. He said, lay all on him and he and I said, okay, I could buy you do that. So I'm like confused because also this month insurance rate is like around the same time and went up a little bit, so I'm just like, okay, So I guess I'm going to my mama said, I can take you to breakfast. Well, thank you. I've only been working hard for this trip for a couple of years. One of the whiter time and trip. But I can listen. Listen she really wanted to. But the lady is trying to retire from the federal government.
Speaker 2: She has less than I can't even say what time, because believe it or not, people are getting reported and losing jobs. So I'm not gonna exactly so let me keep her so classified, but she's trying to get out while also they're training her for what happens if she gets laid off before then, So it's fun.
Speaker 1: They're training her for the layoff. Oh yeah, No, they're training a lot of the people for the layoffs.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for hours a day, like eight to ten hours each day, multiple days. So that's where your taxpayer dollars are going. And just want you to know that they're training them on the layoffs. Okay, so different podcast exactly. And that is why we're rubber necking because y'all, I can't even not think about this. We can't. We're past the point of being like, well, we're just going to bring y'all some jolly and we're gonna try to help y'all. You know, do you turn your brains up? You can't, because if no one would be I can listen to stuff, but that's I can't even listen to a podcast these days and my brain not wonder to something else or be like, oh I could I've put it on the good to the grocery store and I'm walking through the grocery store and see the things of teen forty nine and I'm like, oh, you know, no, man, who's talking about this?
Speaker 2: And why is this happening?
Speaker 1: I saw a video of a girl says she had two breakdowns and targets. I'm not targeting trader.
Speaker 4: She was working through Trader Joe's crying because she only had one hundred dollars in her pocket for groceries and she was scared with every item that she picked up.
Speaker 2: That like I be playing roulette all the time. I did it.
Speaker 3: I literally did it this morning and spend almost fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Spent fifty dollars. I bought four items, none of them organic or a whole or foods like that. I literally I can tell you I got fresh cut from my babies because I have two of them that will allow I see maybe a week. It's the same bag that I've always gotten, but somehow it's ten ninety nine instead of six ninety nine. To day the I got my wife a sandwich half a turkey bot from the brocery store pre made from four nine today's the tenth. That was seven dollars and thirteen cents. It's half a sandwich, so that's important.
Speaker 2: And then let's see, I got some sausage potties for three seventeen fresh. So that was a little of pork, you know. And I don't even want to eat pork, but I literally am trying to survive and sustain, so okay, and I'm making together like nine times more than I've ever made it in my life. I feel like when I was growing up in the hood, I ain't gonna hold you. It feels like reminste I feel very reminiscent. Oh, my mama and Daddy would bring home like the canister of sloppy jew and be like, so let you know about it, girl, toast the buns.
Speaker 1: You know, if it was a good day, you get a little found.
Speaker 2: So we lived. My church was next to Martin's Chocte, so we would get the potato rolls and put that with a little butter on the on the on the.
Speaker 1: Pane that you go.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm a rib baloni and cheese sandwich. Like talk of old school cup of hood. It's a different type over here, which is why I'm sad to be.
Speaker 1: Back, very hard.
Speaker 4: I never did the blagna. That's just a personal choice. But back in the day when I did eat the pork, we did the My grandmother did the tailor ham sandwiches and going to cut the little.
Speaker 1: Triangle in it, for the air, for the grease pebble in it, on some wonder white bread with a little bit of man nags.
Speaker 2: That's it and that is all. And that's where it feels like. People are back the shirts. So go off and have your beautiful birthday. I hope it rains.
Speaker 4: Continue golfing. Actually, because it rains, I hope you get rained on. I hope the food sucks. Oh, nobody shows up. I have all the balloons deflate and get popped. Look, I'm really out.
Speaker 2: You have a terrible time.
Speaker 1: Because Fridays, that's always visiting you on Friday.
Speaker 2: I do like right now, those chans are childish.
Speaker 5: I get them, also confused a lot chance it's right, but yeah no, that is a that's the spiritual verse for me, because embody is a certain kind of probably angry that I feel like is right a line with that spiritual be angry.
Speaker 2: But don't sing, You're alive. I did nothing to harm you. But I do hope not good things for you. I hope many inconveniences for you. And that is what I currently hope for this old man who is ruining my birthday, Like is he also ruining the country short, yes, whatever, but my birthday.
Speaker 1: But it's about man, It's about man.
Speaker 2: I just told you, like I'm eating like spaghetti like nine times. I just weekend and.
Speaker 4: You know what, honestly, I I I hate this because we're also like pandemic girlies like yes, celebrated my thirtieth with Corona to.
Speaker 2: Actually like okay, because they wouldn't like I had to go. You have to go out and get it. You had to like grave the storms, go and get the things.
Speaker 4: And then with the apart at the store, with the which direction to walk up and down the house? Yes, and every time because every time because.
Speaker 2: I'm directionally challenged, but my mama would absolutely have me strip at the door and throw my clothing. So it was just a lot to go and do the things. And I just wanted I have one more birthday left before thirty. This is my last one before thirty. I'm very like I'm injuring a different state of mind. And I wanted to go to the mountains and it was a place is very near and dear to my heart. I was gonna be by the water, and it was not even supposed to be a big extravagant fast birthday. Excuse me, so I'm not talking to you.
Speaker 1: Your turn for your birthday.
Speaker 2: That was appreciating. Thank you so much, Jackson. You're so sweet. But I just feel like I should have that. But you know, I'm gonna protest that birthday. You better believe you deserve it.
Speaker 4: Also, everything for a reason, though, So it's coming yes, consolutely, in.
Speaker 2: The midst of all of these things, because the only thinking right now you can do that is gonna cost you free of charge. Actor tariff is literally stream and watch stuff. Right That's the only thing is I can watch Netflix because that doesn't have to be currently yet imported from China.
Speaker 1: Or But you know, they will raise the prices every two weeks.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And to be honest, because of what the Black Mirror that I just started, the season seven just came out today and I started it. I understand why they might raise some prices. The girls did do their things and the black people did show up the black ladies in this season. Tracy Ellis, Oh, they did it. They did their big foot on this. So I wanted to ask you, what are you watching when you're done? When you hang up the C span and you're like, you know, what chat. I had enough for the day. I need done wine d program, severance.
Speaker 2: I need to just go ahead and do you and what's making you do that? Right now?
Speaker 1: We did start Sebrance. Yes, I was behind the ball. I'm relate to the party girl on Ted Life, me too.
Speaker 2: I also to the party on So I just started both of them.
Speaker 4: Okay, So sames Beyond the Gates they first all black soap opera on CBS.
Speaker 1: I actually did an interview with the AP.
Speaker 4: That somebody at the AP is doing a piece on the cultural impact of Beyond the Gates, so I was able to have a conversation with her about that.
Speaker 1: So I'm deeply enthralled. Shameless plug.
Speaker 4: Every Friday at three thirty pm Eastern, I hosts Beyond the Gates Club over on my Instagram brief by l So come over there and join us. We recap, share thoughts of the storylines, where we think it's going on, all that good jazz.
Speaker 1: We're working on getting some cast members and stuff over and then maybe Beauty in Black.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, I made a tweet.
Speaker 4: I said, I know Tyler Perry gotta be walking around with no feats because both of them isn't that show.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's and he's not even walking around because they already ready for I think I made a comment on because they already announced that the third season or the next installment is going to be coming out soon. At some point I didn't say win. And I went on Kaa's show Bravo while Black and we talked about the new The Lasting Fumer that just came out, and my comment was like vul on Netflix or strong Black Lead, because I was like, if I'm gonna Taylor, this is already happening. I'm expecting the next A Boy the end of the week.
Speaker 2: Honestly, Yes, honestly, because you know what is in the movie that we don't even know about. All of that.
Speaker 1: When that last scene ended and and it went to the.
Speaker 4: Things that you could recommend to watch about, called Tyler Perry Studios myself.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Okay, okay, listen that what had me.
Speaker 4: In a choke hold? The reality TV really hasn't been doing it for me too much. I'm called for Rowa simply because much your girl Millie Ching, she bullied me, you know, and I don't condone bullying.
Speaker 1: I'm not a pair of persure type of girl. I was bullied into watching it, and so here we are.
Speaker 2: M M.
Speaker 1: But that's that script. It has me in a choke call right now.
Speaker 2: No, I fully understand the script that has me in a choke call right now. The game shows have been right.
Speaker 1: Now watching a million Dollar Secret.
Speaker 2: Of course I am. I was literally just about to say a million dollar secret. If y'all like Traders, that one's real cutey because it's like traders, but make them do the awkward stuff and it's really fun. The first couple episodes, main person you know who I'm talking about, I'm not gonna fill it for you, piss me off, as I knew she would once definatly where we got you with her, so I knew that would happen.
Speaker 1: The black therapist girl, I can't think of her name.
Speaker 2: She pisses me off.
Speaker 1: I don't like her.
Speaker 2: You know, It's like, it's really good. These are real people, and I think that's really exciting because now it's a much more of a social experiment in this way. And I really like that, right, And so I'm I'm been cutesy over there. I watched the Floor. I think that's a really good one. So the Floor is on Fox. It's hosted to Buy rob Low and it is literally a series of trivia. I love trivia, but it's like, if you are not a Jepan person, which I am not, I might get through like thirty percent of Jeopardy and like sixty percent of Celebrity Tebrity.
Speaker 2: But it's like people duel out based on expert categories that they have like just random things right, and a randomizer picks a person and they duel based on what they think they could take that person in their category or or vice versa, and the goal is to work through the floor. There's a hundred people, so it goes in for weeks, so every night or every week there's like eight duels and they go back and forth, and it'll be things like garden supplies, school supplies, baby products, because like the girl is like I've borked three kids and I've bought a lot of baby products.
Speaker 2: I've sort of a lot of products. I've done a lot of baby research. I got this and I was like, ohay, And but it's a time thing. So if you pass, you lose time. So it comes down to sometimes we think it's gonna come down to knowing the items, but It also might come down to how fast you just get the words out and then so it's like a chance.
Speaker 1: It's like one hundred thousand dollars perramids.
Speaker 4: So if I do baby items, then I gotta go like bottle warmer, bottle passive, very diaper, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like a picture shows that that it's two people and a picture shows up and it will be like bottle warmer, and so it's one person's turn. I would go first and say bottle warmer, and then you the next picture comes up and you'll say passifiers. But the clock is ticking for both of us. We both have our own timers. So every time we talk, our timer is going, or every time it's our turn, our timer is going. So if you say a baby gay crib, still going the whole time, and then you and it just say pass and it takes away three seconds.
Speaker 2: So you might be that mom, but no one of things, but you can't get it out exactly and then that time and then all of a sudden, it sometimes gets down to the wire and it's about things that are wild. I do encourage people to watch this season because if you're a podcast girly who likes to listen to a lot of podcasts, you might know who Ira Madison the Third is, and he is on there as an expert of real housewives. It's so one of the categories is real housewives and baby when I tell you my nappy, sleepy self and shut up and sit, ain't no way, I ain't gonna do this, okay, this one okay, And of course she cleared all of them, but like the it's so good that there's a feud of two people who go in this category and you do not see it coming.
Speaker 2: But this person is like a dynamite gay honey who was like, now, strategically I made my way through all these duels so that I could get to housewives, and now I'm going to battle the housewives. And I'm like, this is incredible because he's like, I'm a full blown like Day who's married to a housewives lover. We love the housewives. And it's Ira Madison the Third who's like ben On Watson, happens live because of housewives. He loves housewives and self proclaimed my Bravo historian as well. This is about to be lit.
Speaker 2: And it was like there's Beyonce songs, there's it's everything. Oh it's it is very family friendly, which I find so tensey because everything is like clip art, it's like AI generated photos.
Speaker 1: I love that because we love We loved the game shows.
Speaker 4: I was watching on dealan o'dale Island, which got a little slow towards the end, but nevertheless that one we do the amazing race of it all.
Speaker 1: And then I wanted to put my daughter on the Have you seen the the Kids Show?
Speaker 4: And it's like you gotta be a secret agent, but it's on Peacock, so I just saw the little like the commercial or the trailer, but it's like you're you're you're a secret agent. So one person lost the comms and then the other person is like walking through and you've got to like navigate, like think like a Quantico type training almost.
Speaker 1: But it's all kids.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. No, I love that because I'm a huge fan of spark Foods. And speaking of kids, I also
Speaker 2: got into excuse me, ma'am I am working. Oh my goodness, you both don't know how to ask, and that's in me. I guess I'm spoiling you too much. I'm just trying to be a good dog parent. I really am. This is me right now, wonder literally I just got finished or I'm in the middle of. It's called bad influence, the dark side of Oh baby. There's no warning for how quickly they take off. And it's not even like there's some like one catastrophic thing. It's just seep like jaw drop or jaw drop or what the hell?
Speaker 2: What the hell? Because kids are honest and vulnerable, and because these are now teenagers and young adults who grew up on the Internet, they're desensitized even from their own experiences. So they're relaying and recapping stuff. And I'm like, no, no, no, baby, that's not normal. No no, no, Nonethele, that's the normal. It is absolutely bananas.
Speaker 1: I watched the trailer last night, and I mean, like respectfully to their streets. I cannot wait to watch.
Speaker 2: I there's this.
Speaker 4: Lady on TikTok I cannot remember her name. If y'all care, y'all will do the word. But her whole page is about shining a light on kid influencing and like she'll call moms out who like use their kids for money and like all of that. But one time she did this post of this mom influencer who basically like uses her baby. So the baby, she did a whole box time routine and the babies are in the tub and you can't see anything like but the side profile. But the kids are obviously naked because they're in the tub.
Speaker 4: So she's taking that. She went through all of the ladies social media is the TikTok, the Instagram, the YouTube for that same video, and the promo, and she went through and showed the saves, yep and thes.
Speaker 1: And nobody is this interested in you?
Speaker 4: And if I can see it, you can see it, and you're doing it, and you are you're not protecting your baby.
Speaker 1: When she showed them shares, that was the last day I showed.
Speaker 2: You on my daughter. Oh well then, I really I think as a mom, I have to have you watch and come on back l because maybe you do it for the Patreon because like they pull like this the mom. There's a crime here. There's a lot of crimes here. I'm actually waiting like I haven't finished yet, and I'm waiting for the end when someone's been arrested. I don't think that's happening, which is kind of crazy to me.
Speaker 1: They have the complexion for protection.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, A lot of things on here. Let me tell you something. I uh, these aren't even spoilers because the whole thing is like kind of wild to begin with one mom having so much power and they and making these like this content, the over sexualization of these kids. She starts basically simping her kids out in a lot of ways, like.
Speaker 4: It is insane to me that mom was telling them my sex cells, like I make it sexy.
Speaker 2: Yay, yes, oh baby. There are things like she told one kid that she had to take her her own child. This is a trigger warning for people take their her own child underwear and mail it because in the little girl who was with her at the post office, who is not her child, just another kid in her care, in her content house or whatever, asked why and she just said, and I quote, old men like to smell them. And so this little girl goes home to ask her mom, Mommy, why does old men like to smell underwear?
Speaker 2: And mom says, excuse the motherfucker out of me, and I was basically you know, and then proper mom things take up and that documentary.
Speaker 1: But still then you never see again. And you lucky if you could see out of your eyes.
Speaker 2: Oh you mean, I have so I don't have children, And let me tell you something, as I'm not hashtag not a mother, I could see this mom face. I'm going at it with this mom one day. I as the person who has like been sworn to protect children, like in a lot of different ways. I do that every couple of months to literally teach your children how to read. But this shit y'all are putting you you can put your naked children on TV and on the internet for money, are you kidding? And then somebody I think there was like a lot of expose a's and the pedophilic community have have been like they make it so easy.
Speaker 2: They're commenting in some things. It's like, oh, they make it so easy.
Speaker 1: They make you do how to worry about the Dan Schneiders of the world. Now it's your homegirls mother.
Speaker 2: It is your homegirls mother. It is your child's friend's mom who is like, oh, yeah, the girls are just having a sleepover, you know how they had their true uh huh No. And I'm not saying don't send your kids over the sleepovers and do the things like that, but I am saying, really check and see when people are putting their kids like and I'm all for the kids, you know, doing contentation they want to do. What I will say is kids actually know how to make content really really well. I'm a kid, I'm a teacher that has taught you know, podcasting to children as young as third grade, YouTube editing as young as third grade, those type of things like that.
Speaker 2: You only don't need to necessarily be involved. You can edit, you can look at it, you can approve the content managed by mom. But unless they don't want to, unless they want to do it. I actually don't see any reason why you are making a factory of little children video soldiers for no reason for kid content, you know what I mean? Like, why are you doing that?
Speaker 4: Why are are you facilitating it? Well, that's because again the money behind it, the more than the cute, c sexy, easy stuff sells that that demographic also takes off. We've seen it and it doesn't require much, and that there's an easy check. Alex Earl, you can call it, you call it whatever whatever you want to. You're not gonna tell me one the fact that she's as talented as the trick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hot mess. I am riveted by this docu series. I think it is not just a dog. It's only three episodes, I think it is. It's it's this is more bingeable to me even than Gavid Patito. And I've been to that whole thing, like.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to do that one.
Speaker 2: I was so I was supper into that face when it happened, and then I watched the whole thing in like a day, because I mean I was one took. It was like real time. People were looking for this man. I was watching the live footage. Where is he?
Speaker 1: Where he was watching a live footage at at the parents house?
Speaker 2: Your wife in jail. I don't understand. And if you have not watched that dop when you knew, you too will google why are they not in jail? Why are they not?
Speaker 4: And I'm saying the medical stuff they say, they confirmed that that was him, and I don't believe it.
Speaker 2: I don't believe a lot of things. And I also believe in the most complicit Like I'm just looking at a lot of bad parenting on Netflix and I'm just like, but I'm sorry, me and my wife got'll be set down for interviews. Okay, I'm just okay again. I'm an educator, she's a healthcare provider. It's giving me a marriage of medicine DC. Okay, that's what I'm saying. But also I don't know. Bravo brother's a little weird and work for these days. Yeah, I don't know what them birds are, but the change, I don't even.
Speaker 4: Know whose network I would want my show on if I had one. Tamar hasn't said great things about we.
Speaker 1: We know it's not gonna be Zeus.
Speaker 2: It's never We don't know who ryne Zeus at the moment. Honest, it's going on.
Speaker 1: Is it Lammy? Is it the content creators? You know?
Speaker 2: Is it Scottie? Isn't that?
Speaker 4: Who is it?
Speaker 2: Who is it?
Speaker 1: Then you've got Carlos King. I'll never be a rain dropper.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I don't know he over there?
Speaker 1: Why maybe?
Speaker 4: However, TLC doesn't do They don't. Their marketing isn't like rare in your face. Because that girl from TikTok Brayley, her name might be with the girl she got the show on TikTok so t is qing C actually.
Speaker 2: And they go on for a lot longer. Those shows really do they fascinate me? This one coming up Multifamily or something like that. That Sarah Fraser on the shout out to the Sarah Fraser Show. She did a split like a real with like were you and that trailer of two married couples who are now in a polyamorous squad, a close squad together, having kids, raising kids, the whole thing, and then one woman, I guess at some point selfishly goes, so I'm myhall feelings for another person, and Sarah goes, oh, yeah, you're going going so well with the four of us
Speaker 2: in But TC stay having like like that very specific niche content that people really enjoy and people get to feel authentically themselves on.
Speaker 4: The TVs and never forget Married to Medicine was originally picked up back to LC.
Speaker 2: Yes whoa Yes.
Speaker 4: Mariah just liked the Bravo check and what they had to offer and she felt it's more aligned over there, which makes a TFC bit first you know.
Speaker 2: What, okay and don't feels responsible for a lot of a lot of confusion and ensemble show we can get where we go, that's where we go? Yeah, I mean that, I think so, I think so, I think so. Yeah, that's the safest place because Bravo, what have you suing them one day? Loving them begging for your job back the next to me, I love you, but it's really weird over there, girl, like like can I come back? Like hello? No? No? So also I Atlanta of it all. I don't know. I guess it just it's like those right, It depends on who your producer is, whether or not a job the next day or not.
Speaker 2: Like that's an inside joke because people keep asking like what's doing certain agencies and with situations and when they get laid off or get an email or something, and they're literally everybody's responsible, Like it really just depends on who your dose person is. But there is no one the reason you do no good one or one. And my mom says like I can't even She's like, and ours is twenty sexy MONI. So there you go. We got a lot of to do.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, I know somebody who with all the doge of it all got called back in because no more, no more remote work, you gotta come to the office. Got office don't even have furniture for them.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 1: And then with the ters never going to get it.
Speaker 2: I know nobody who's at a folding table because the job that they had that the actually got started for them was fully remote to begin with. The entire team was fully remote. That was the entire thing. And so the in those situations, they tell you to turn into your closest government work facility, wherever that may be, and that place is supposed to magically have space for you, even though they don't. Period.
Speaker 1: That's sufficient birthday.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just saying you're about waste. It's again, and I'm never going to stop advocating for this because people don't know this as wasteful as you might think being a government employee than hell lazy. They might be working from home, which ninety percent of private industry jobs right now are worked from home. So that's kind of why that you would think they have a salary cap. Never gonna stop saying that there is a salary cap in the government no matter what, no matter how high they go, whether you are this person or the president, you can not make more than them.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something. It's a third, a third or less of what a lot of college presidents, football coaches of colleges like. Definitely more than anybody that's making decisions right now. That's what. Okay, it is six figures but it is a cap.
Speaker 1: It is a cap.
Speaker 2: It is a cap. You cannot go above it. So how wasteful is something that's capped? Just saying what's wasteful is turns in the middle of a city, just saying that's wasteful.
Speaker 1: Is Kenya in the poster boards?
Speaker 2: Why does she do that? Okay, so I have a thing about I think in order to start this conversation, I have to say. I have to start with I believe the show will miss Kenya Moore. I do believe that ceasing filming with her for the entirety of the season might have been a lot because I don't think we were prioritizing the rest of the season when we made that decision. I love to think we put a lot of.
Speaker 1: Weight on Cynthia, Portie and Phaedria.
Speaker 2: And not which I don't think we should have.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying, I guess, even though right word, they put a lot of stock yeah, portious Cynthia and Phaedra's ability to captivate and entertain the audience.
Speaker 1: This is where this is where I get tripped up.
Speaker 4: Technically speaking, revenge porn has a definition, right, whether we like it, whether we love it, whether we want to acknowledge it as such, there is a very clear definition. By that definition, what Kenya did was that distributing, sharing personal photos with the intent to humiliate, embarrassed, or ostracized is damn near word for words the definition.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I get that. Where I get confused is by definition what Monique.
Speaker 4: Did to Canvas. There an a legal attachment there that was assault. We can define it, We saw it, and that got thrown away in court and dismissed as regular reality TV bs.
Speaker 1: So why are we holding the line on this?
Speaker 2: Can I even just remind people that like Portie or Candy could have sued for like legitimate reasons and couldn't have because of their contract. For the very real rumor that we spent multiple episodes and multiple reunion parts giving life to and assessing that these people a couple were really going to sexually assault somebody like legitimately, and we gave it so much life that it is like the reason why this person didn't get to work for future seasons. And that was but wasn't fired on the spot, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: One was sold to have gotten it from a producer. Now, whether or not you believe that always kind of irrelevant because it's also like irrelevant if that's if it's if, it's also irrelevant whether or not you believe that a producer or an ap or someone who could not have done this by herself. I don't believe. Can you win to the FedEx and the King Coach and nobody she pulled the whole thing in and nobody at all knew what length she was going to go to and to which case. I say, if it was a fireable offense, and she said, I don't give up, then that is one thing.
Speaker 2: But that's not what seems like what happened. It's not.
Speaker 4: And again, like you said, thank you, her producer at the very least would have known that this was happening, right on top of all the other producers that are there. Number one, number two, this girl is still getting a spin off. Shut So again, it's not about you're not disassociating yourself from this person who did something illegal. You just very much trador parts of it all. Removed this person from this show. But again on this show where there's history of people doing in my opinion, worse, why is this the thing that's.
Speaker 2: Going for the whole season for on this show and other ones like I'm just like y'all, the criminality has never We've never really shied away from anything too criminal. I mean Theresa went to that was our first real crossover into the true crime of House Squaws. Right, so, rent to prison and came back and had a job. She did a crime, complicit or not. Ignorance is no defense according to most judges in America. She did a crime. She served for time, but she came back to a show. Karry Hebrew is in jail right right, the Winds assaulted the cop j with girl, And when Luayne got out of jail, I feel like provo picked her up, like from the sension.
Speaker 1: That's the fus.
Speaker 2: You know I've been traveling to prison. You know that's that things because she's in the car immediately after, right, and then hello, I remember when Luayne uh Spot day for people who have been like in prison, and she was like girling was the lea and I know you feel beautiful. You can never make me hate old Ronnie. I'm sorry that girl. It was so good before it got bad. It was a nut. I love her. She's a Fool's a fool, but like you know what, I mean like we've had other moments. My problem is that with Atlanta, for some reason, it feels like he can't get scapeboaded a lot.
Speaker 2: It feels like she's held to a certain standard of like because they know how volatile she can be. I guess, like, but it's no.
Speaker 1: Less valid she's been to me. The energy has been the same.
Speaker 2: Since what's his name, Dolo?
Speaker 1: Since but you know what I mean, here we go. We have told Marlowe.
Speaker 4: Or since marlow had to tell Kenya like she was just that way because she ain't have no mama when Mark, when King was on Marlow's neck. When Kenya, Kenya has been volatile, there is nothing new.
Speaker 1: They're the only.
Speaker 2: Mistress ones. Pedra is back, and.
Speaker 4: I feel like, prior to this britt Edie situation, look at the table right, let's think about Angela's event. Angela, britt Kelly Shemiah, all New Girls, Drew who is what on.
Speaker 1: Her third season?
Speaker 4: You can see you can still classify her as a new girl because she still ain't figured it out.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Then you have mhm Portia, who is new to coming back. She took a break.
Speaker 4: Kenya is the o G at this table Kenya is the longest standing person and while she's not the original cast, she's the closest to the original cast. What prior to the gret Edy situation, what did Bravo have in their back pockets to knock key you down of it?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 4: Then Kenya does this dumb move. They had Fader on the hook and it's like, we don't need you. They don't make me call Phaedra, And that's.
Speaker 1: Exactly what happened. They reminded her that she could be knocked at.
Speaker 2: It's really crazy because it reminds me of like the time and I bring this up a lot where we had to watch because I guess my like my ADHD was so bothered years ago by the Halloween episode where we were running around the house right as a yes, and I had to watch King of the voiceover of a pool because they had to edit her out of the scene so awkwardly, like so poorly, when they could have just got the whole taken the whole scene down right more, when the.
Speaker 1: Producers could have said you can't do that.
Speaker 2: But it's like crazy because I just figured that they were like, oh, produce is gonna let her look crazy? The same way their producers let Lulamb look crazy as Diane or Ross. I just felt like, that's what they do. They just make Housewise look crazy, let them look crazy so that we can have the commentary and we can be the judge. Right, But then so for you to often this way and it make her issue an apology when I'm still waiting on one from Dark Skin the Wind, I'm still wait here, thank you. I'm just saying and many more and many more, like so many other costumes have I We've all had questions or concerns about I have questions concerns about so many things that are said and done on so many shows.
Speaker 2: But yet Kenya is just consistently like, we have a moral compass and we make her, we hold her responsible. I'm like, but nobody else. I'm just like nobody else, Like why I just and I and I that is the justice and moral part of me. You know, they're still worrying about can you claim that she is still getting quote unquote paid by Brava And that's because they decided probably to pay her out her contract and they are still paying her per season.
Speaker 1: I think Kenya does good business, and I think that's what it is when you think Shemiah, what does she care how much they pay her from Housewives of Atlanta.
Speaker 2: She don't.
Speaker 4: It's free marketing, okay, girls, Kelly would take any check they throw at her.
Speaker 1: Brittany will take any check they throw at her. Angela will take.
Speaker 2: Brittany has wanted to do this her entire life.
Speaker 1: These are.
Speaker 4: Them edit I mean I favor excuse me, Kenya makes them edit that contract. Kenya racks up the lawyer fees because every time you got to go revise that contract, you got to send it back to the lawyer and Pat King.
Speaker 1: I feel like Kenya does good business exactly.
Speaker 4: She not just sign it off and so I personally believe side the first contract that was she signed it via Instagram.
Speaker 2: Too, because don't the girl. We sent it to your I cloud and she okay, And they didn't even line up all the asterisks and kid the fingers signed on her phone, you know, with the thing that was the whole gag. And I just feel like you were ready to say that they put a lot of weight on these girlies of Cynthia, Porsche and and in Phaedra and Kenya. Those were supposed to be you know, some real like pullings for us. Right, The Kenya and Porsche thing was always something I was really excited about, and I felt like we were gonna really like seeing the first couple of episodes that we watched so far, I knew Cynthia and Porsche weren't gonna be that draw at all.
Speaker 2: And then the episode when this episode started and we were going to Kenya's hair salon hairspot. Before we even got to the end, I said, now, I not this is her last episode, and already I'm gonna miss it because just her energy of filming alone is so different and there's so much more entertaining and authentically her printisential of it not being you know what I mean, Like it's not put on. It just is what it is.
Speaker 4: This is what she would do whether them cameras was there or not, and that's what That's what makes it cuckoo, and that's what makes it good.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna miss that. But I think that like the season is gonna suffer. That is irrelevant, I guess to Bravo because they're just like, oh, and they think that Phagier will save it. But I think Fader and Kenya were ensemble members on a cast for so long because they both do well on a cast for different reasons. One really does not beget the other, like you don't just like swallow them out. They used to be on a cast together for a reason, for a reason, there was a story there. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's getting weird, a bravo all around.
Speaker 2: I don't want to watch a show with her, and I I was not prepared to be teen Kenya. I actually was very impartial to this whole thing. I knew that as though, even though Kenya went too far, which I know someone knew about it because she's been around too long, and it feels a little plotty like this is going to be her and we gave it too much rope. We gonna let her hangers off with it, but it's giving. Someone could have intervened because she was meeting liquid her so obviously she wasn't all the ways sold on the idea of wanting to do it or needing to do it, And I think that's gonna I think that's kind of sad.
Speaker 2: But also, I you, why did she bring up pistols four times? And I really don't honest, some wh people keep like it doesn't have to be one or the other. They actually both could have done weirdo behavior, and I think the first person with the weirdo behavior is Britt. That dinner was weird. She did seem like she was randomly needing Kenya to answer for all the reason why she don't like her and the girls like, I just met you. Really, I don't dislike me the way you think I do, so I don't know why you're pressing me on this.
Speaker 2: And if you threaten me with pistols four times she said pistols didn't. If that's not a threat, then what is it. I don't understands. I like, I'm not saying that retaliation. I'm just like, but that is what I saw, right.
Speaker 4: I feel like Portia said it best, right, Like, if we just get into it and then you start bringing that up, the assumption is that you was bringing them up because you want to use it on and you left space for us to assume that because you never directly said anything, right, you just started mentioning.
Speaker 1: It, which tells Britain is just like a certain type of person, and that type of person.
Speaker 2: Talks ish like that.
Speaker 4: Again, as the person hearing it, it's not for you to decipher whether or not, Oh, she's just talking.
Speaker 1: No, No, however, she was just chatting. And again, I stand by. If Kenya had pulled up some pictures on her.
Speaker 4: Phone and was like, pultn't nobody who did do this talk to me like that or something like that, I'd be like, Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: She lost me at the printerization of it all. No, it was a lot.
Speaker 4: She was definitely trying to reclaim her moment, and she lost me at the involving other people, them, guests, them, party. Did not need to see that. That did not want that exactly. It was a group issue and it should have stayed inside of the group. That being said, Bravo is losing me in general. Because I'm gonna say this and then I gotta get ready to head on out. Bravo's losing me in general. I'm not excited for that next gen z All the children's show.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 4: And I know that them babies worked hard and clap clap Bravo to them. I hope they get everything that they want out of it. I'm just acutely aware that they're.
Speaker 1: Not talking to me.
Speaker 4: When I come to Bravo and I remember our own. We started coming to Bravo because of Orange County.
Speaker 2: Right when I come to.
Speaker 4: Bravo, I'm coming to see out of order women, not they kids who I grew up watching.
Speaker 1: When I started coming to Bravo.
Speaker 2: I don't sing inappropriate songs over a cupcake like thank you.
Speaker 4: And I had the same critique, this has nothing to do with them being the children of somebody. I had the same critique with girlfriends in Paris. I said that if Bravo had staged up girlfriends in Paris even just five years, we would be having a different conversation.
Speaker 2: Because they love show. They did a show of women in a particular age. They were all black women, and they went to Italy. My mom and I watched that. My mama loved that.
Speaker 4: She said, now that was a good show, or even the age group of dancing dancing queens.
Speaker 1: But it's just the target demographic for these Bravo shows.
Speaker 4: Although they're starting to scale a little bit younger and scale some out of being majority women, it's still women driving the audience over there, and middle aged women. I don't want to watch a twenty one year old cry about possibly having to leave Paris because she decided to sleep in late instead of going to get her green card, I'm turning the channel now, like and that's just how.
Speaker 2: Because if young one's gonna first ask her where what's going on with your mom and her lips? I don't. In fact, I would prefer they someone put Kim Zosiak back on an interview because I have a lot of questions about a lot of choices that have been made before we put the youngest daughter on that thing. I don't have any questions for her.
Speaker 4: But that's an extreme pimp out.
Speaker 2: That's okay? Is and then to say she don't know who's been asked like that? And am I too old? I feel too olden this and that's crazy.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: No, but yes, the like to them, know, I really do. I really do wish them all the best because I know that they're working hard. I just personally don't want to see it. Yeah, no, that next Jen, I mean it was it's a cute s cast.
Speaker 2: You got your Brooksmarts, you got your Ariana Bearman, you got Gia GDJ Judice. That girl, you know, loses me a little bit because I don't think she's very bright and comes from a family of questionable decisions. So if she's pre law, I need to go see what record's talking about, because clearly the barn is left. The bar is so low. I'm a little concerned because no good lawyers of anybody in your situation, Curly, but the dependently girdl lawyers of ours king and hers, because she stills got her moneys and she still got her job.
Speaker 2: And as long as Atlanta is kicking on Bravo, I will be watching. My concern is that because of this new you know group in cast and this the brid of it all not having any repercussions, I'm not super interested in Atlanta's like the last thing I'm holding onto because as you said, with this jin next view, soho, I don't really recognize the b that we have anymore. I don't recognize any I think someone like to ominously end you know on this know what I think they said, y'all know that baby shower picture of Andy's baby shower.
Speaker 2: Apparently only like four women are actually still employed on their original franchises. Of that entire photo.
Speaker 1: Girl, look at it now.
Speaker 2: It is crazy because if you think about all the Dallas girls gone, that show is over put tomn over half of them are gone.
Speaker 1: They they do who the Dallas girls.
Speaker 2: A different set, A different set, a different set. Let's let's filter on Biker Tree a little bit better and a different you do it?
Speaker 1: They start with the same girls and then filter them out.
Speaker 4: If y'all could kick yall miss thees, Hey, get the get the kicking everybody out. You feel what I'm saying, Bring them, bring them problematic breast besties back, give them some wine and they cuked.
Speaker 1: Let them be problematic again, and then let's just do to some things said. We have decided not to film with women.
Speaker 2: Whatever that girl name is, Brandy. Yes, they m the Asian hater. Yes. I I just wonder where Bravo is added. It seems like house ifs are the only thing of Bravo that I recognize right now. And even that is like quickly, like they're there. It seems like they're really eager to make the shift. And you're the ones who are like, hey, you'll lose us, and you're like, we're going in a different director, girl, And I say, who is to blame? I don't really know. I maybe it's a ninety two million dollar birthday party, is the reason I don't have the TV on Bravo anymore.
Speaker 1: Guess I think that is it. I think on the ninety two million dollar birthday party, because that's.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I will do. You know what, that's the title of this episode. No one know what the hell we're talking about. The ten million dollar birthday party that is not mine. I'm getting a windshield for my birthday and watching the house. Come on, come on, correspondent. Y'all all just showed me her Bravo bag because you know she'd be she'd be invited to places. I cannot wait for you to watch this bad influence.
Speaker 6: Oh I'm gonna I'm asking your message as soon as I'm no, please you as soon as you do, in fact, in fact, like please feel free to take notes or live like text me because it's so wild every five or so minutes.
Speaker 2: But I have to have a parent's perspective come back and talk about this. Yes, I really do, because anybody else would be like everybody should be in jail, right, But I don't even know if it's severity of this is well, piss.
Speaker 1: A mom off, you know what I mean, So that when I come back, I can tell you note for note.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Elle, I love your new artwork. Can you please don't go and find you now where they can listen to you, discover all things.
Speaker 1: You, all things mean.
Speaker 4: So we had to take a little shift because in real life I am working in local politics and I couldn't just give you all the videos the same way that I was given them because of real life. So we were taking the real life and the goings on and mixing it with the pop culture and the politics. So you can find me at brief b R I e s ed by on everything. For whatever reason, since the little fake twenty four hour band of TikTok, I can't change my handle, so my handle still say just Al Maritaki.
Speaker 1: But if you type in briefed by l my name has changed, so it'll still come up. Okay, you can find me on all things there.
Speaker 4: On the politics side, we are covering the New Jersey gubernatorial race. So I did a deep guve on all six of the Democratic candidates there, and I've got some interviews coming.
Speaker 1: Three of the six Democratic candidates we will be interviewing, and you know, maybe.
Speaker 4: The other three will join in. Okay, and we'll have that conversation. And remember to vote in all of your local elections. That's were real change, please, y'all. It's made so yeah, you're if your city, your state has an election, be tapped in.
Speaker 2: A couple of people in that you want to see and then call them and hold them to the promises that they made you. Okay, it's to call people, and in between your calls, take breaks and go watch some the TV. Y'all take care of yourselves. You know where to find me on all the things mixing with money and my ex and g W I T H M A N Okay, that's always stay happy if you can, stay healthy best you can, and stay home because that's where I'm at because everything else I had is expensive because behind dollars to breathe and that's the allergy medicine terrists and without the zootech.
Speaker 2: So yeah, y'all, take care of yourself. Watching the TV, tell me what you're thinking, what you're watching, if you saw the Bad Kids, influencer whatever, dot d m me and let me know and tell me what you'll launching. Yeah, take care of yourself.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much El for being here of course anytime.
Speaker 2: Bye.
Speaker 1: Nice
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