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Speaker 1: Before we get started with the podcast, gotta let you know, I'll be setting sail on the One Voyage cruise October 26th through November 1st, sailing out of Miami on Virgin Voyages Resilient Lake.
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Speaker 2: Now, this is not your average cruise.
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Speaker 1: Six days at sea stops in the Bahamas and Bimini and a lineup that's stacked with artists like T.I., Rick Ross, and a whole lot more. And a portion of every cabin funds scholarships for HBCU students, so it's a party with a purpose. On the cruise, I'll be hosting live episodes of Two Personal and The Daily Play, running watch parties, and throwing my Halloween party at sea. So if this sounds like a good time to you, go to onevoyagecruise.com and use the code JOY. Let's set sail. If you cannot afford to have this wedding, cut it back. As I stand on it, my generation had the greatest childhood of all generations of childhoods. But he makes you laugh.
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Speaker 2: He's funny.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm funny. He's an irritating comedian. And I am right. That is an opinion, of course. However, I am right on this opinion.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's a tricky question.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Hey, guys. Welcome to Personal. I'm Joy Taylor alongside Haley and Specs. It's been an interesting week. Things are getting a little squirrely around the world. You know how it is. Well, I forgot to take my happy pills yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you felt it. You felt the difference.
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Speaker 1: I forget what my therapist called it. But like, yeah, like your body gets real. I don't know. It's such a weird sensation. I don't know how to explain it. But like, is it like a withdrawal? Yeah. It feels like withdrawal, yeah. But it's not like... Your body doesn't hurt. It just feels like kind of dizzy, but like stronger than dizzy. But I was in the gym today like....
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Speaker 2: So, I saw a story where a bride is billing her guests who RCP'd but didn't attend because of childcare issues. And to be exact, $ 75.
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Speaker 1: 90. So....
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Speaker 2: I'm assuming that's their plate cost, right?
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Speaker 1: What is her means of recourse if they don't send her money?
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Speaker 2: That's a very good question.
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Speaker 1: What's she going to do? Follow up with the collection agency?
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Speaker 2: I could not even imagine sending a bill.
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Speaker 1: What? You know, I see these stories, these horror stories all the time online. And, you know, people post like these bride zillas about childcare or guests being like, Hey, I'm going to bring my kid anyway. Yeah. When they've said that it's a, it's a no kid wedding. And I've been to a lot of weddings this year. I think I went to six weddings this year.
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Speaker 2: You went to a lot, a lot.
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Speaker 1: And I've been to, I have no idea how many weddings, like so many weddings I've been in. two weddings. Yeah. I think I've been into weddings. I've given speeches at a couple of weddings. Um, and I, you know, in general, I love, I do love seeing people happy. I have been married. I had a massive wedding, like 250 people at the Biltmore in Miami. I, um, was engaged after I got divorced and was, you know, planning that wedding. I'm very well versed in weddings. Yeah. I think wedding culture has gotten a tidbit insane. It's, it's gotten very for Instagram and it feels icky. I, I, can say this because I've been engaged. I've multiple times I've been married. I've done a bachelorette party. I did a massive bachelorette party in Vegas. It was like 20 girls. This was a long time ago. So Vegas was much more affordable. We had a, like I said, a very big wedding. My family came in from Pittsburgh and from, you know, people came in from all over the world. And, um, You know, I think at the time, obviously this was, this was, I don't know, 10 years ago. I don't even know what year it is. What year is this? Yeah, it was, it was 10 years ago. So, you know, the world was different. Social media was not exactly what it is today. You didn't have the bachelorette culture that you have today. You didn't have, you know, this like for, you know, need to post every single angle. There was no TikTok, you know, so. I just think in general, people need to get married the way that they want to, but there should be some realistic factors when it comes to your wedding. Like one, if you're having a big wedding, the wedding is not about you. It's about your guests. That's the thing. Like you can say whatever you want. It's our day. No, no, no. If you're having a big wedding, Then the wedding is about the guests. Like, yes, it is your wedding and you should do it your way. And the guests should respect certain things. Like if you're saying there's no kids here, then there are no kids at the wedding. There is no, oh, they'll be okay. No, no, no, no, no. There's no kids at the wedding. I had no kids at my wedding. I had my nieces and nephews and that was it. There was no bringing your child to run around the ceremony.
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Speaker 3: None of that.
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Speaker 1: It was not a kid-friendly wedding. It was my family, the children in my family, and that was it. But you are asking a lot of people. You're asking people to travel. You're asking for a day of people's lives because it is really a day. You've got to get ready. You've got to drive to wherever the venue is. You're going to be there for five or six hours. So you need to provide food. You need to make sure your guests are comfortable. You need to have music. You got to have a bar. Like if you're having a bunch of people there, it's about the guests. If you're having a small wedding, it's about you. So you should be strategic about that. And I just think the Instagram thing has gotten crazy. The bachelorette apps have gotten crazy. Everything is expensive. You can't expect people to spend $ 3, 000, $ 4, 000 on your wedding and then
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spend another $ 5, 000 on your wedding day and your gift. And it's a whole weekend. It's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday affair. I just think it's gotten really, really crazy. And I say that knowing how much goes into planning a wedding. Cause I planned my wedding. I had a day of like manager, but I planned the wedding and yeah, I just, it's just gotten crazy. Like sending somebody a bill for a plate could not, and listen, not showing up to the wedding, like having to cancel is, and people canceled on me. Like you should expect people to cancel. Life happens. People have emergencies. Their kids have to go to the doctors. Somebody's parent fell. Like your car breaks down. Things fucking happen. There are going to be people that miss your wedding. They miss their flight. Like any number of things. Billing somebody for that is fucking insane. If you cannot afford to have this wedding, get it back. Make a change in the flowers. Get a different DJ. Cut back on the fucking wreath that's over your head. It's like the flower arch. It shouldn't be on your guests to pay for your wedding.
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Speaker 2: This is true. I think people have weddings definitely out of their budget. 100%.
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Speaker 1: Bro. It's like, you know, I saw this thing. Miss me. I wish I could. I hate, I do this. It's a bad habit. This is one of the things I'm going to change for the, try to change for the rest of the year. And moving into 2027, I see people on the internet say these like very clever things that I'm like, you know what? I like that, but I don't save it. So I can't give them credit. So I apologize, young lady. But this creator said this and it makes so much sense. For some people, the most interesting thing they will ever do is have a wedding.
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Speaker 3: Damn.
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Speaker 1: I fear she dragged with that one. I fear she ate because it's true. And it's not hating. Like, I had an amazing wedding. My wedding was perfect. I had a couple of funny stories that were some snafus. And, you know, now they're funny stories. But yeah, I mean, I had a great wedding. Loved every second. Well, a few seconds I didn't love. But overall, went great. Went exactly as I thought of the wedding. Like, what I wanted. But yeah, like, then you got to be married. And I, I do think a lot of people, I do think a lot of people focus more on the wedding than they do on actually being married and what that means. And then it becomes this like ongoing thing where it's like, okay, you have all the wedding, you have wedding stuff. And then what's the next Instagram thing? Oh, we got to have the baby announcements. And then we've got to have the baby shower announcements. And then we've got to have the gender reveal. And then the, the, you know, every thing. And listen, I'm not saying people shouldn't celebrate their lives. I think Everything sucks. Celebrate your life. Do things the way you want to do it. Get married the way you want to get married. Have a day of your dreams. But sending
out a bill to someone for missing your wedding is fucking embarrassing. Yeah. You don't, you don't deserve friends. You shouldn't have guests at your wedding.
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Speaker 2: I wish somebody would send me a bill. I wish somebody would, I would laugh.
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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, like if I had to cancel on a friend last minute for their wedding, I would send them a gift.
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Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: Like I, I not now I'm not, I'm a good gift. I'm a generous gift giver. So they wouldn't need to send me a bill, but my, my, my, like, unless it's someone in my family, my philosophy on gift giving for weddings is basically like, I will cover the cost of my meal. You know what I mean? Like whatever that dinner probably costs and a little bit more, is what I will give in cash.
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Speaker 2: Got you.
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Speaker 1: If, if I haven't had to travel far for this wedding, if I'm, if I'm going, if I'm going on a plane, that's my gift. I am the gift. My presence is the present because I'm not finna pay for a flight, a hotel, my meals, my Ubers, my dress for the wedding, like drinks, you know, toiletries. Like I'm not doing all that and giving you a gift. Like, My presence, me coming to the wedding is, is the gift. What are your, what are your thoughts on how wedding, how like wedding culture?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I haven't gone to a lot as an adult, but I see them and I always wonder like how it feels, I guess, as a guest and as when you're getting married to have these like destination weddings, because I just, it's so hard for me to wrap my brain around expecting people to pay for all that travel. I guess if you have, depending on who your friends are and your family, but not everybody has it like that. And then are you going to get mad they didn't come?
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Speaker 1: Some people do. Some people do get mad. If you have a destination wedding, you should expect that people can't come.
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Speaker 2: Are they usually smaller?
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Speaker 1: Not necessarily. Sometimes people have destination weddings because they will be smaller because they know that certain people won't be able to travel. But yeah, if you're expecting people to leave the country, you should expect that some people can't come. People have newborns. People have jobs. People have kids. People have parents they have to take care of. If you are expecting people to leave the country, you should expect that some people are not going to make it. That is just a given. The other part of this that people don't consider when they have destination weddings is if you have a you know, a job, you have to take time off. So you're asking people to use their vacation time on your wedding.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough.
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Speaker 1: So not only should you be immensely grateful that people are there, you should be aware that this is a incredible ask of people. Like I can go anywhere I want to. Yeah. But even when I
was at corporate, like I still have to plan my schedule around the shows. And there were certain times of year I could not travel. I miss lots of people's weddings and lots of people's events and baby showers and all kinds of things, birthdays, because I could not leave during the week. I had a five-day-a-week show. So one of my best friends got married in Italy, but he got married in the fall. Well, that's football season. I cannot ask for five days off during football season. Now, during the summer, I can do that. I can give them you know, a heads up, which I would always do and plan the schedule around so that I could be gone. You know, I'd add the weekend days in to get extra days. You know, I've always been able to maneuver my schedule for travel, but there's just certain times of year I can't travel. And there's lots of people like, what if it's an accountant? I can't travel during tax season if I'm an accountant. I can't go to, you know, Croatia for your wedding during tax season. So it's like, if you're going to have a destination wedding, you have to know there are certain people that aren't going to be able to make it. for work reasons, for family reasons, and for emergencies. Like sometimes things come up and they, for health reasons, like you've just got to be reasonable about that. And yeah, it's, it's people, I think sometimes get a little slept up in, in their wedding, you know, bliss, you can call it, but it is important to remember that when the wedding is over, those friends and that family and all those people that are in your life are still going to be there. So you don't want to come down from that and have people looking at you sideways because of how you acted about that. Like be reasonable. This is your moment. This is not everybody else's moment. This is something that people are going to celebrate with you, but they're going to celebrate. And the next day they're back to their regular scheduled life. So you need to, you know, make sure that you keep a little bit of hand in grass when you're doing these things. Like be generous of spirit that people are sharing their time to celebrate you. It's not an obligation. It's not, you know, it's not like I have missed a lot of things and I've, you know, I've been sorry and I've sent them gifts, but yeah, I can't be there. I would love to be there, but I can't be there. And to your point, it's fucking expensive. Like if you're asking people to fly across the world, you have to be aware. There are some people that cannot afford that.
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Speaker 2: It's so expensive.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy. That's crazy. I was looking at a flight the other day because I was going to travel with my friends somewhere out of the country. And I was like, well, I'm not doing that right now. That's crazy. Like $ 8, 000.
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Speaker 2: Even domestic flights are high right now.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to spend $ 8, 000 on just the flight right now.
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Speaker 2: So did
I ever tell you the story when I was in high school and there was this guy?
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: That like all these girls met online during my space era aim. Right. And he ended up being a whole girl that was changing her voice to like scam us all.
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Speaker 1: She Manti tailed.
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Speaker 2: It was a whole it was a whole thing. Mind you, this is like 2005. There's no A.I. or anything.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: An original scammer.
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Speaker 2: She was an original. And for like, I don't think we found out till like maybe end of my sophomore year, early junior year. Like someone went and met the person. Yeah, they went and met the person and figured it all out. So now I'm seeing all these AI romance scams. And it got me thinking, I'm like, should this manipulation be a crime? Because people are like forking out money. They're uprooting their life. And it's not real.
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Speaker 1: Well, depending on what... The level of money that's being sent and how it's being presented, it can be a crime because that's what happened with Dajon Love. Yeah. You know, we're kind of being tongue in cheek and saying, free him. But yeah, he was creating shell companies and committing wire fraud. So yeah, depending on what it is, it is actually a crime. But overall, the internet, like the law has not caught up with the internet. Like we've had the internet long enough that you would think that it has. And in certain cases, in certain states- there have been some changes. Like for example, California has the revenge porn law, which is, you know, applicable to the internet. Like if you, you cannot post nudes of your ex or share them on porn sites without their consent, like it is a crime. So that should be a crime, right? So there are certain cases where the law has caught up with the internet, but then a lot of ways, no, it hasn't. Now I have, Look, it is wrong to misrepresent yourself on the internet and ask people for money. 100%. Right? Like, don't do that. That has to be said. Stop sending people money on the internet. Stop doing that. Stop doing that. Stop doing that. I don't want to send people I know money. Why would you send someone on the internet money? And I get it. Like people are very lonely. People are lonely. They're desperately lonely. They crave connection. They crave attention. They crave, you know, just a space where they feel like someone cares about them. And I get it. But in the end, stop sending people money on the internet. You remember that story where that woman thought she was dating Brad Pitt?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 2: You remember Specs? Yeah, I remember that. For sure that happened. How did she think this?
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Speaker 1: Because it was an Instagram page. Like, Rap Hit doesn't have Instagram, babe. He's not on there.
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Speaker 2: Like one of those fan pages. Oh my God.
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Speaker 1: People hit me up all the time. Like, oh, is this you? I'm like.
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Speaker 2: People are so gullible.
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Speaker 1: I have one... The only pages I have are... Blue checkmark pages, okay? If it doesn't, furthermore, because you can buy those books, if it doesn't say Joy Taylor Talks, it ain't me, period. If it doesn't say Joy Taylor Talks, it's not me. And I will never ask you for money, okay? I will never ask you for money. I will... ask you to donate to certain nonprofit causes, but I am not going to DM you and say donate to this cause. Okay? If it is not a link on a post, don't put any money on it. And if it does not say Joy Taylor Talks, don't send that bitch money. They are absolutely scamming you. Stop it.
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Speaker 2: People gotta, they gotta up their game. Cause like, That's also another issue. Why are we falling for this stuff? Now, granted, I fell for it when I was 14. I have an excuse.
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Speaker 1: But like, you know, it's mostly older people and scammers. Listen, I've got scams before. I fell for the scam of somebody kidnapping my mother. Yeah. But like we have seen, that's a real thing. People's mothers get kidnapped. Okay. So, you know, and, and, You know, we can laugh about it now, that my situation, but yeah, it was fucking terrifying. However, you know, that is a one, you know, a spur of the moment, like throwing something at you, I'm going to kill your mother type shit. This isn't an ongoing fake relationship where you ask for their number and they won't FaceTime you because this person doesn't exist. So, you know, there's levels to scamming, but, you know, overall, I... I think the world has to wake up and go outside. I agree. Go play outside. I feel like the mother of the earth. Go play outside. We need to get back to playing outside, all right? I have this overall philosophy on saving humanity. Most of you I don't give a fuck about because you're pieces of shit. But in general, as I stand on it, my generation had the greatest childhood ever. of all generations of childhoods. And I will stand on that. And I am right. That is an opinion, of course. However, I am right on this opinion. And the reason for it is we had the benefits of technology, but it did not overwhelm us. We had the ability and the trust of communities where we had neighbors who looked out for your kids and had the the leeway to scold your kids if they were acting up. Yeah. Everybody wasn't gluten-free. Okay. And the fuck you ate some pizza. Like you didn't, you know, you know what I was talking about with my friend the other day, I was talking about with my niece, I was talking about with my niece because she has a child. And I was like, I hope you're, you're, you know, going to raise this, this child proper. You know, I don't want to have to tell you how to be a parent, but you're not going to have this child acting a fool. Because we don't really play that in our family. We don't really play that bad kid shit at all. And I was like,
one thing that these newfangled parents lost, a recipe that was lost, that I enforced as an auntie and as just a person in the world, and people be looking at me crazy, don't interrupt adults. Talking about mommy, mommy. I'm like, excuse me. They're looking at me crazy. Like I'm like, you all see us talking. What do you want? And the people looking at me, I'm like, I'm sorry. I don't, maybe you allow children to come up to you and interrupt your conversation, but I don't roll like that. So is this your bad-ass kid? Because I didn't interrupt my mother unless somebody's arm was dangling off. Okay. And I still was nervous. What the fuck do you mean? These are two adults talking. I know you see us talking. So why are you walking over here, just walking in the room announcing yourselves? You just go in the fridge when you feel like it? You touch the thermostat? You leave doors open?
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Speaker 2: Letting all the air out? Or mosquitoes in? That would drive me crazy.
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Speaker 1: All of these things got my ass beat. You're not getting your ass beat for any of them and you're doing all of them.
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Speaker 2: It's different now. I'm guilty of this. I'm working on some of these things as a parent.
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Speaker 1: Run all them bitches back. I did not lose the recipes. I have them. They're all up here. I'm happy to teach a parenting seminar. You see the child approaching. Yes. If it makes a sound that does not include language that implies that there is an emergency that will likely end up in us going to the hospital, I We'll hear the words, excuse me, before anything else comes out. And then after, excuse me, it's still better be important. May I have a glass of water? Yes, you may. You may have a glass of water. You may not have a soda because we all drink sodas right now because it's late. Okay. What the fuck are you talking about? They just do whatever. I'm like, I'm having a conversation with an adult and they just walk out like, nanny.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. It's yeah.
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Speaker 3: Listen you can tell those people by when you hang out with them though like the ones that parents didn't do that because y'all be in the middle of a conversation y'all talking about subject a and they'll just walk right in the middle of y'all and just talk i'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Talking as an adult you mean as yeah and then you just look at me like.
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Speaker 3: Nigga read the room what are you doing right now like we're not even And that shit is really interesting. Like even like our generation of us, how like you can tell how people were raised by their parents by the way that they hang out with their friends and how they kind of like interject themselves into certain things and how they're willing to change the conversation at any.
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Speaker 1: At any time. Like anyway, so this is what I wanted to talk about. Listen, listen. It's incomprehensible to me. that a child would walk up in the middle of adults talking, not say, excuse me, not have an emergency and, and the parents not freak out. I'd be looking at them like, are you good? Kids do not, kids are not in charge. No. Like I'm childish.
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Speaker 2: They think they are.
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Speaker 1: Like, you don't know, you don't have kids. Okay. Well, your kids are a bane on society. Okay. Your kids suck. You guys have no fucking manners. They have no discipline. They're entitled and they're bad. And all of that is the fucking truth. Get them in line. Because one day they don't walk up with somebody who's bigger than them, got more money than them. Don't give a fuck about their little attitude. And they're going to be confused as to why they are not getting the response that they want. It's because you need to know your place.
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Speaker 2: This is true.
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Speaker 1: We all have places in society.
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Speaker 2: I can't disagree.
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Speaker 1: You're not in charge of everything. I'm not in charge of everything. The fuck? I just walk in thinking everything is for me? All this is all for me? No, bitch. None of it's for you. Actually, you lucky to be in the room. Mind your fucking business. Walking up, interrupting adults. Crazy. Crazy. You know what else?
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Speaker 2: Speaking of the way that people were raised.
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Speaker 1: Men. The way.
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Speaker 2: That men live in their households? This is a conversation going on. Okay. So there's a debate where women are sharing the little trails of messes that their partners leave around the house.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So Specs, the people want to know what kind of man you are.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to ask you a few questions. Okay.
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Speaker 1: You ready? Yeah, I'm ready.
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Speaker 2: You take your clothes off. The hamper's right there. Are you putting them in the hamper or is it on the floor next to the laundry basket?
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Speaker 3: No, they go in the dirty clothes hamper.
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Speaker 2: You sure? Sure about that?
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Speaker 1: I'm sure. Okay. I'm sure.
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Speaker 3: If I was just outside for like two minutes, I'm like, all right, let me put these to the side.
00:28:04
Speaker 1: No, no, no. We're not talking about how often you wash them. We're talking about like if they're dirty clothes. If they dirty, dirty, they.
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Speaker 3: Go in the dirty clothes hamper for sure.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
00:28:14
Speaker 3: They go in the dirty clothes hamper.
00:28:16
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: What about the cabinet doors? Are you shutting them? In the drawers.
00:28:22
Speaker 3: Well, that's a tricky question.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no.
00:28:23
Speaker 1: I got ADD.
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Speaker 2: If you're finished with what's inside, you should shut the door.
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Speaker 1: You should.
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Speaker 3: You should shut the door. I'm probably shooting like 95%. I'm shooting 95%. I'm
not perfect.
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Speaker 1: I'm just a man.
00:28:39
Speaker 2: What about abandoned socks in random rooms? Like there's a sock in the middle of a couch cushion.
00:28:45
Speaker 1: No, that's ratchet. No, no, no.
00:28:47
Speaker 2: All right. So maybe you're getting a pass. You might be getting a pass. Joy, I know you've dealt with this.
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Speaker 3: I had a sub mama, so.
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Speaker 1: I overall have been pretty lucky with the men that I've lived with, with them not being dirty. I've had a couple who were not the cleanest, but for the most part, I've been pretty lucky. I'm trying to think of like, you know, like maybe my early twenties, they were not great, but overall I've had a, I've had a good experience, like more clean than not, but I have been in some insane environments. Like one of the guys I was dating had his mattress on the floor and his dog slept in the bed and not a small dog, a massive dog. I was like, is this a barn?
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Speaker 2: And he had, it wasn't like he just moved in. Like that was his setup.
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Speaker 1: No, he did just move in, but like, don't invite me over then. your house is not ready to have guests.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He had a beach towel as a towel. I said, give me your credit card. Like the means he just was incompetent. I was like, give me your credit card. We're going to target. First of all, order a frame. He was like, well, the bed frame hasn't come yet. Get a metal frame. It's $ 30. And then go to any furniture store and get a basic frame. It's $ 30 fucking dollars. Maybe it's $ 50. Donate it to a local shelter when you're done. If you don't have the means, fine. But he had the means. So first of all, I made him get a regular metal frame that day. This mattress is not staying on the floor. And your dog better not go anywhere fucking near these sheets if I plan on being in them. One. Two, we're going. We're getting candles. We're getting... Lysol wipes. We're getting real towels. Okay. We're getting plugins for the wall. Right. Okay. These are things you need to have in your home so that it's not disgusting. Okay. Get a little Swiffer for the floor. Cause your, your, your fucking dog has hair everywhere. So, yeah, I mean, I think, I think it's like the little things like men just have, they have just like this layer of scum that they just leave everywhere.
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Speaker 2: Not the layer of scum.
00:31:28
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm talking about because you have two. You have a young boy and a man in your home. So don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about. Everywhere they go, it's just like a little film. It's like when they brush their teeth, splashes on the mirror, right? Which we all do, but women tend to clean it immediately or the end of the day. I'm not just going to look at my face with all these toothpastes. spray all over the fucking mirror. They pee all over the place.
00:31:58
Speaker 2: Right.
00:31:59
Speaker 1: They like,
there's just, when they, when they shave, there's all these like little hairs that they like, can't, they can't seem to get all the little hairs. Right. It's always just like something. It's just like a little something. And I know I have OCD, but yeah, for the most part, as a man, you almost have to be more clean than a woman to compensate for the fact that men are filthy. And I have been like really lucky. Like I've, I've mostly been with men who have extreme OCD, which is a character trait that I happen to love because if I walk in your house and it is clean, I'm like, oh, it's so sexy. Like it, it's sexy to go into a man's home and it is clean. Like, thank you. Because this is what a home is supposed to look like.
00:32:49
Speaker 2: My best friend's going through this right now. She's dating someone and she was like, I, Didn't know I could meet someone that matched my OCD and cleanliness. Like, I didn't know that was possible.
00:32:58
Speaker 1: Oh, good, good, good, good. I thought the opposite. Yeah. No, Anna's somebody that has OCD and you know I have OCD. Yeah. You've been to my house. Specs knows too. Like, everything has a place. I might have a couple drawers that are like for my, you know, my panic days that I just throw everything and I get to later. But like, everything is going to be put away. We can't just have like piles of things everywhere. Like, if you come to my house and there's piles of things everywhere, I'm having a mental breakdown.
00:33:23
Speaker 2: No, your house is very organized.
00:33:25
Speaker 1: It has to be because one of I hate looking for something and not being able to find it. It is like it will ruin my day.
00:33:32
Speaker 2: Just so you know, I just got three text messages while we're filming this. Have you seen have you seen these glasses? Do you know where the Timberlands are?
00:33:40
Speaker 1: Have you seen?
00:33:40
Speaker 2: Literally, I'm not kidding right now.
00:33:43
Speaker 1: Well, you guys are going through a moving process. So maybe I'll give a little grace there because things are a bit disruptive.
00:33:50
Speaker 2: But this just goes to show you how a woman's brain works. I'm able to do this. See it in the corner of my eye pop up and visualize the house.
00:33:57
Speaker 1: Where they are. They're in this bag over here. We are superior. I think I have passed fully over from feminist to misandrist. I think I just have to accept that. this character trait, but I do think women are superior. Like, we just, we're better. With all due respect, like, there are men I truly love, but, like, we are better.
00:34:21
Speaker 2: That's why I have superwoman in my bio. I feel like superwoman. Every day.
00:34:26
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you have to be, otherwise, most part.
00:34:29
Speaker 3: Y'all have a lot of societal pressures that kind of, like, force y'all to have to, like.
00:34:35
Speaker 2: But you don't think men don't?
00:34:37
Speaker 1: Huh?
00:34:37
Speaker 2: You don't think men
have societal pressures?
00:34:39
Speaker 1: It's like useless. They're all fucking useless. Muscles and dick? Great. After that, what else?
00:34:48
Speaker 2: You can get some use out of those.
00:34:52
Speaker 1: We do get use out of those. I love having a man to pick things up and put them down. Love it.
00:34:57
Speaker 2: We love muscles and dick.
00:34:59
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? You know what? I want to talk about this in the next episode. I'm going to send you a video that I saw recently. I actually think I did send it to you, but to piggyback off of what Spex is saying. We have an accountability problem with men where we just do not hold men accountable. And it has created this environment in our society where they do not have to do things. And you see it a lot with parenting. There's all these parenting conversations about how men who are active fathers are just shocked at how much praise they get for doing basic things because their fathers did not do shit. And like, you know, men who are actually trying to be active fathers or are doing things that their partners are making them do, you know, holding them accountable are like, it's like shocking that, you know, this is considered to be like a super dad. And it's like, you are literally changing a diaper and taking them on a walk. Yeah. It's, it's not that big of a deal. But yeah, I mean, like, and then the horror stories of men who are just completely uninvolved and they rely on their partner because somebody has to do it. And usually when there's kids involved, it's like, okay, well, you're not going to do it. Someone has to do it. And it usually falls on the woman being the primary parent. The biggest, the biggest thing I think like that has changed with that is saying that a man is babysitting when he is parenting his child. And I would correct other people. We're like, oh, like he's babysitting tonight. He's not babysitting. It's his child.
00:36:39
Speaker 2: It's his child.
00:36:40
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:36:41
Speaker 2: He's just with his child.
00:36:43
Speaker 1: He's just with his child. He's not babysitting. That's not what, who would ever say that about a woman with their kids? No. Oh, she's babysitting. It's literally her kids.
00:36:55
Speaker 2: No.
00:36:57
Speaker 1: Crazy. Yeah.
00:37:00
Speaker 2: It's different. Men are different.
00:37:02
Speaker 1: Yeah. We're going to get into it next episode.
00:37:08
Speaker 2: Would you rather?
00:37:08
Speaker 1: Oh, it's time for would you rather. Okay.
00:37:10
Speaker 2: Yes. And there was a few good ones that I liked, but this one was partner themed and I thought it went with the theme of the episode. So would you rather have a partner who does everything right, but never makes you laugh? I mean, everything right. Like they've got OCD. They're an active father, but boring as hell and you never laugh. Or would Have a partner who makes you laugh every day, but constantly gets on your nerves.
00:37:37
Speaker 1: No. At first. Absolutely not.
00:37:41
Speaker 2: The first one?
00:37:41
Speaker 1: No. I can't do that. Like, he's constantly fucking up.
00:37:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just on your nerves every day.
00:37:48
Speaker 1: No. But he makes you laugh. He's funny. No. I'm funny. He's an irritating comedian. I'll be funny enough for the both of us. Absolutely not. I'll watch some funny reels. No. I... have been driven to my complete wits end with people who are fuck ups in relationships and in life and in business. I don't have the nerves for it anymore. No, get everything right. You can be boring. I will, I, I will make myself laugh. I do it. I do it all the time. Anyway, we'll get a good little chuckle. Absolutely not. What would you, what would you do?
00:38:25
Speaker 2: I would do the same. I can't. I'm irritated all the time. One thing about me, I hate being irritated. Like, I think I hate it more than being angry. Being irritated is ugh.
00:38:39
Speaker 1: No. Mm-mm. Yeah. I'm spaz.
00:38:44
Speaker 2: I feel like you want to laugh every day, Specs.
00:38:46
Speaker 3: I am the laugh.
00:38:48
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. When you're funny, I'm like, I don't need you to be. I would love a funny person, but like, no, I don't need. No, no, no, no, no. You can't be irritating me every fucking day.
00:38:58
Speaker 3: I'm the Kiki.
00:38:58
Speaker 2: I'm the Kiki.
00:38:59
Speaker 1: You're the Kiki?
00:39:01
Speaker 3: That's probably how a bunch of my exes feel about me.
00:39:04
Speaker 1: Shit.
00:39:06
Speaker 2: You see, they thought you was fucking up, but you was funny.
00:39:08
Speaker 1: You're the funny fuck up. That's, you know what? That's good self-awareness specs.
00:39:15
Speaker 2: Funny fuck up is crazy. Put my mic on mute now. Oh, man.
00:39:22
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