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[00:00:07] Speaker A: This is Media Labs. [00:00:46] Speaker B: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Media Labs. I am Chronicles, and this is Chronicles of a Nation. Guess who is back in the space today. Say hello, Alice. Hello. Alice is back with us. We have missed her, haven't we? [00:01:01] Speaker A: I had to take a little break, but then I also got a little sick. So I got sick first, thank God, and then was able to take a nice little vacation. I got to see a rainbow, like, from beginning to end. I've never seen one, like, beginning to end rainbow. [00:01:19] Speaker B: Really? [00:01:20] Speaker A: Yeah. In the Dominican. It was absolutely the most gorgeous, gorgeous thing that I've ever seen. [00:01:25] Speaker B: To see a whole rainbow. [00:01:26] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. Like, it was just. [00:01:28] Speaker B: That's great. [00:01:29] Speaker A: And it's a sea turtle. I've never seen a sea turtle in the wild. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Really? [00:01:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:32] Speaker B: They're beautiful, aren't they? [00:01:33] Speaker A: They are. [00:01:34] Speaker B: They are outstanding animals. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I was like, this is what I needed. But then, you know, I come home. [00:01:39] Speaker B: And chaos reality hits you in the face. [00:01:42] Speaker A: I feel like a goose. We call them chaos chickens. And I feel like. I feel like a chaos chicken. [00:01:47] Speaker B: I get that. [00:01:48] Speaker A: I feel like I'm running around with my head going everywhere. [00:01:51] Speaker B: Because you feel like the minute you get home from vacation. I think that's a problem with everybody. We should do an episode on it or how we feel after vacation and how wore out we are. And yet we have to go back to real life, and we're not ready. [00:02:02] Speaker A: No, it's a true story. I know, but lots of real life has happened in just a few short amount of weeks, and we're gonna touch on that today. And it's. Lots of controversy is going around all of these subjects. [00:02:18] Speaker B: I'm going to say something bombastic. And I know we've. You know, we pre. Discuss things that we want to touch on and how we want to put them in order, just to let y'all know. [00:02:30] Speaker A: But this is kind of raw because we didn't really voice our opinions on. [00:02:34] Speaker B: We just said this is, I think, the order we should put them in. And this. Let's do this. [00:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah. So this is raw. [00:02:38] Speaker B: So the elephant in the room that we're going to address first, cautiously, I believe. And this is a bombastic part, I believe, like, legitimately, that a young boy who lost his life. I think there was a. I think. I believe there was a bigger play involved. [00:02:58] Speaker A: You know, I am not as educated as I should be about this story. I've kind of just watched people's outcry about it, and I understand, like, if it was my child in either situation, I honestly, one applaud the father of Austin Metcalfe 150,000%, because that man is a better man and a better Christian man, a true Christian man, than most people can say. Anyone that says, I forgive you for murdering my child is a human being that deserves to be greeted by every archangel when he greets, you know, enters heaven's gates. But I also feel like the public is out there crying and whining and making it their battle when we should be following what his parents, what Austin's parents, their lead, like, what they're doing. Like, if. If they want this public outcry and they want justice and all of this, like, why. Why are we doing that? Now, I did see that Austin's mom's house got swatted. Do you know what that is? [00:04:18] Speaker B: They got swatted today. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's not okay. [00:04:22] Speaker B: And let's make a point about that. I'm glad you said that. The point I want to make about that, it was right after the incident where he went to the press conference. [00:04:30] Speaker A: But he has every right to be there. [00:04:34] Speaker B: That. That's where I'm going. No, I'm with you on that. You know that. I think that the people that did it. First of all, you. I don't understand how people haven't learned that when you. When you do swatting. Everybody's been caught that has ever swatted someone. Yeah, There's a particular YouTuber that's been SWAT. Swatted many times, you know, at its home, and they have caught them. So good luck on that one. But I'm gonna go back to what I was saying originally or in the beginning. Part of me feels like. And with this great suspicion, and I don't say it lightly, that it looks very intentional. Let me say it like that. And it looks retaliatory almost in nature. And. And then on top of all that, the particular elements that exist in it are being attached to racism. [00:05:27] Speaker A: It's very much that has been a big thing that I've seen on social media lately as far as people coming out and saying something, and I'm like, this should just be that two boys. [00:05:39] Speaker B: But I don't think that it is that. That's what my. That's my cons. My. My. That might. That is my. Sorry. My greater concern is this. Wasn't. [00:05:47] Speaker A: You think that it was a. Like. Yes, that. That. [00:05:52] Speaker B: Yes. [00:05:52] Speaker A: Carmelo was attacked by Austin at some point, I think. [00:05:57] Speaker B: No, I think he instigated this. This altercation. Yeah, it's obvious he did, because he went to their specific area. And we don't know all the details. So let's be. [00:06:06] Speaker A: We're never gonna know the details. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Not until it comes out in court. Yeah, but. [00:06:09] Speaker A: And that could be still a closed court, right? [00:06:11] Speaker B: It could. [00:06:12] Speaker A: It would be smart of them to make it closed. [00:06:15] Speaker B: But that'll make people even matter. [00:06:17] Speaker A: It's not their business. At what point do you do we as people? I'm nosy just as the next person. I want to know everything, but it's also none of my business. And we're taking people for two families in their worst time of their life that they may never have anything this awful happen to them. And everyone is making this about them or about race or about this. And we don't even know what happened because nothing's been out. So we're. We're not being. We're making assumptions. And you know what they say about that. You know, so here we are all being asses because of this. And we don't know the 100% story. The problem with that is if it were me and that was my son that was killed, I wouldn't want the press and the courtroom. I wouldn't want it be. I wouldn't want it to be on television. I would want none of this outcry until I got all of my facts. And then the outcry that I would want would be something positive. I would want some sort of scholarship foundation. I would want some sort of something. But you're attacking these people at their worst time because not only is it these parents of Austin's worst time because they lost their child, but it's also this other parent's worst time of their life. Because as a parent, you have to know what I mean. [00:07:54] Speaker B: I get where you're coming from about being a parent. My problem, my. My issue, and I think a lot of America, part of America's issue is the numbers have been up in the air. It's up and down. It's up and down. There's all kinds of numbers. But the point is, we know for a fact you have three new cars. [00:08:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:12] Speaker B: And you have a brand new gated community. [00:08:14] Speaker A: I don't care that that is a GoFundMe that they started. And if people want to give them their money, they can do whatever the fuck they want to do with it. [00:08:23] Speaker B: It is true. [00:08:24] Speaker A: None of anybody else's business. [00:08:26] Speaker B: That's true. It doesn't matter when. Apparently when they filed the GoFundMe to set it up, they did it for legal. [00:08:37] Speaker A: So every. The only people's business that should be, is the people that donated. And if they have a problem because they donated money to that person, then the only people that, you know what I mean, they, they have to answer to those people because that's, that's the people that should be upset that donated that money. [00:08:58] Speaker B: And the law, if they've done something. [00:08:59] Speaker A: Wrong, if they've done something wrong, then yeah, I mean that. But that, again, it's a legal thing. What I'm saying is, no matter, I, and I've heard conflicting stories about this as well. I've heard that they did buy a car. They know they bought it in 2023. So like, I don't think anybody's speaking on this, that they bought the house prior to this. And then I've heard that they bought the house during this. [00:09:24] Speaker B: You know, they just bought it from, like, from what the pictures show, the pictures that have been posted from this other family. They just did it. [00:09:35] Speaker A: So if this is true, then the people should be the people that donated that money. If they are upset, they're the ones that have a right to be upset. I didn't give them any money because I'm taking care of mine right now. So I'm not upset in any shape, form or fashion. But in the long run, it's karma who they're going to have to answer to and somebody greater, you know, and at what point I understand, it's like, it's a little, it's a little fucked up, right? It is, it is a little messed up. Like I wouldn't do that. Like if that was for my child's legal fees, then it would be for legal fees, for commissary, for those kind of things, you know, like everything that Luigi Mangione, like this guy literally went out with a purpose, you know what I mean? And he, you know, that people shut down Jpay, like it crashed because so many people were going in there putting money on his commissary account. [00:10:37] Speaker B: Oh, that's the, the guy that killed the CEO Big Pharma. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Allegedly. [00:10:41] Speaker B: Allegedly. [00:10:43] Speaker A: But do you see what I'm saying? Like, so what they did, they have to answer for it so that if, if indeed. And then he gets a public defender. That's really, that's really wrong. [00:10:55] Speaker B: No, he's got someone involved with him that has latched themselves to him. [00:11:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Because the money is, well, you know, the money is shiny and what's it called? [00:11:07] Speaker A: I mean, it's not a celebrity case, but it's a high profile case. That's what I'm. Yeah. [00:11:11] Speaker B: So and so the guy that's attached himself almost, I mean with thread. He has quite a past and I don't mean a long time ago past. [00:11:22] Speaker A: Oh, like he's a corrupt lawyer. [00:11:24] Speaker B: No, this is the guy that I believe how they said it was. He shook a baby in 2019. The baby died. [00:11:33] Speaker A: So he's not a. He's not an attorney. [00:11:36] Speaker B: He's just some sort of minister. But he's doing all the speaking and. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Then I would never do that. Never. I would never allow someone to do that. If my son did that, I would never allow that. The only person that would ever speak would be an attorney. [00:11:55] Speaker B: I think here's what's making people mad. How about if we agree on this one? Not that we disagree, but let's agree on this one. It's the optics. [00:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks. [00:12:05] Speaker B: Optics are bad. [00:12:06] Speaker A: It looks real bad. It looks really bad. And. [00:12:09] Speaker B: And also what pains me that I. I don't appreciate that makes me angry. And you know, you and I both come from diverse backgrounds. You know what I mean? [00:12:18] Speaker A: Right. [00:12:19] Speaker B: In with people and families. What I don't like is another person, another similar to adjacent. Jesse Smollett, Black Lives Matter attempting to start a race war. I have a bigger problem with that. You and I have a bigger problem with that than white or black because that's a problem. [00:12:37] Speaker A: You know, racism is always been in this country and probably will always be in this country. But it's not just one sided. Right. It's to every. [00:12:49] Speaker B: But that's what I mean, the objects make it look as though this is a race thing and that's what has blossomed and that's a problem for us as a society. That's what I'm saying. [00:12:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean it is. And you know, the. It's never gonna. It's not gonna get any. I mean it could get better. It could not get better. I don't know what the answer to that is. What I do know is, is how this plays out will say a lot in. To the world. To. To world. To the United States and to the just. [00:13:19] Speaker B: No, but the world is watching. The world is watching. [00:13:22] Speaker A: And to the justice system of the United States and how fair it is and how not fair it is because I think that our. Is just as corrupt as our government. [00:13:31] Speaker B: Do you feel. Does anything kind of inside you as an opinion sort of. Okay. Does anything inside you surprised. Not surprised that the president hasn't spoke on it? Do you think it's a good idea that he's left it alone? [00:13:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:43] Speaker B: That DOJ has Left it alone. [00:13:44] Speaker A: None of. It's none of his business. [00:13:46] Speaker B: That's. That's what I mean. He's got bigger problems, a lot more bigger problems. [00:13:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:50] Speaker B: So my. I'm with you, you know, on that. I just wanted to know your opinion. I think it's. I think it's impressive. If you think about the past four years, I think it's impressive that DH Nor the president is interested in making a comment. [00:14:04] Speaker A: Well, it's not a federal offense, but in the past. [00:14:07] Speaker B: But in the previous administration, things like this were picked up quite quickly. [00:14:11] Speaker A: But why are they so concerned about that when we need to be concerned about bigger issues? [00:14:16] Speaker B: Well, we're not addressed the past four. [00:14:17] Speaker A: Years because, you know, in reality, this happens every day. You know what I mean? It happens every day. [00:14:26] Speaker B: It's funny you say that. I was reading about a story. It was a quick clip. Right. They surrounded. I don't know if you heard about it, but it was in a bathroom at school. They surrounded an autistic boy, which was black. Everybody that surrounded him was black. And they attacked him and poked at him and prodded at him. But no one's talking about that story. And a lot of people. Their comments for the commentators I listen to that are black. Have said it's because they're both black. Yeah, but why are we not highlighting. This is an autistic kid. [00:14:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:58] Speaker B: And they're poking him with things and making fun of him. No one's talking about this story. No one. [00:15:04] Speaker A: And this is April. This is autism awareness. [00:15:08] Speaker B: I mean, see, even you don't know about it. And you're on social media all the time and you've never. [00:15:12] Speaker A: I'm not on it like that. Well, I know I didn't read the story, but I also don't watch mainstream media. [00:15:17] Speaker B: Well, you know, neither one of us. [00:15:18] Speaker A: Do because I just. [00:15:20] Speaker B: You can't. You can't. [00:15:22] Speaker A: Well, I just. I get tired of seeing all the sad things. I really do. [00:15:26] Speaker B: It's just like, can we talk about the positive things? [00:15:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Like, let's talk about. Since we're on autism, let's talk about Love on the Spectrum. Because that is, like, literally the best show on the face of the planet. If nobody has watched it, you need to sit down and watch it. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Say the name again for everybody. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Love on the Spectrum. It's about, like, autistic kids or not kids. They're young adults finding love, and they go on. On dates. But they're on Spectrum. Yes. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Okay. [00:15:48] Speaker A: Girl, it is. It'll make your whole heart okay, Swell. Ten sizes that day. [00:15:53] Speaker B: Okay, you have one, then I have one. [00:15:56] Speaker A: Okay. [00:15:56] Speaker B: How about recent videos that I have watched? [00:15:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Where whales come up to the surface and there's these, there's this group out there, this center. It's a non profit, it's a big ocean nonprofit. Well, you know what they do? The whales come to the center and sea turtles and other things come to the top and they take these giant like sponges and they turn them on and the sponges go up and down the sea turtles and the whales to clean all the barnacles off. [00:16:25] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I've seen that. [00:16:26] Speaker B: Have you seen that? Yeah, but no one talks about that. [00:16:28] Speaker A: They talk about. [00:16:29] Speaker B: No, but they talk about all the time. We're killing everything. But these men are out there specifically for. In. Within. [00:16:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:36] Speaker B: The entire salt water, you know, system. And they find. And these whales come up to the top and get in turtles and get clean. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:44] Speaker B: And then they get to go back down because they can breathe again. [00:16:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:47] Speaker B: I watched one and it was a sperm whale. And it was funny because the ship, as he, as the ship was going, he would move along, you know, with them because it's a sperm whale. [00:16:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:57] Speaker B: And it's just going up and down and cleaning all these barnacles off and then around, you know, the top of, you know. Yeah, they, they clean around that. You know what I mean? [00:17:07] Speaker A: And so there's wholesome things out there. And I think that we as people see so much negativity that we do want to watch that positive kind of vibe that's out there. And, and, and I'm really curious. [00:17:20] Speaker B: It's almost like a constant stream of trouble. [00:17:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:23] Speaker B: There's no paradise involved sometimes. It's, it's taxing. [00:17:27] Speaker A: It is. I'm very curious to see how this story plays out. And I, I don't want to follow it through mainstream media and I'm not, I really don't want to follow it on social media. But I, I would rather look at the facts because the facts are so much, you know, but it's hard to find those facts as well. I mean, it's just like all of the drama with like, women losing their rights to vote. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Hey, you said something about that earlier that you wanted to bring it up. [00:17:53] Speaker A: It's just. [00:17:54] Speaker B: Let's get into that. [00:17:55] Speaker A: So like 2005, they came out and they said, you're going to have to have this real id, Right. [00:18:01] Speaker B: To fly a long time ago. Right. [00:18:03] Speaker A: To be able to. I think it was 2005, you can correct me. If I'm wrong, but I don't know. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Honestly, I remember when I had to get a real id. [00:18:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a pain. [00:18:11] Speaker B: But they kept moving the date. They kept moving the date forward and forward. [00:18:15] Speaker A: You had to have it before so you could fly. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:18] Speaker A: So flying is a privilege, right? Being able to fly is a privilege. Being able to vote is a right. But also sometimes you got to put a little work in for that. Right. Like really everything for everybody else. So I didn't have a real ID until last year because my purse got stolen. And inside of my purse was my wallet and inside of my wallet with my Social Security card. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Your entire hearted life is in that. Yes. [00:18:48] Speaker A: So I didn't have my Social Security card. So luckily I had a tax form that had my social on it, so I was able to get it. But the first time I got it, I asked the lady, I said, so what does this mean? That I just can't fly unless I have this id? And she said, correct, because at that time they had not pushed it, you. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Know, it was just, I think announced. [00:19:08] Speaker A: So I said, well, can I use my passport? And she gets. I said, to fly? And she's like, yeah, you can do that. And I was like, cool, then I'll just use my passport there again. I found a way around it. So I'm a married woman. I've been married for almost 24 years. My name has changed. It changed 24 years ago. So when I went to go get my real ID this last. Not this last time, but the time before they told me I had to take my marriage license. Well, I got, I didn't get married in the state, I got married in Tennessee. So I couldn't find my marriage license to save my life. I looked everywhere and I'm like, I don't know what I did with it. Like is it. And I'm thinking maybe it's in a tote in the attic because why would I ever need my marriage license again, you know? So I had to call the county clerk in Tennessee and be like, look, I need my marriage license because this da, da, da. It was a pain the ass. But I got it. I got it done. And then the first time I went, I couldn't get a real ID because I didn't have a Social Security number. So this time I was able to get a real id. And I didn't do it because I needed to vote. I did it because I want to fly, because I want to travel the world. I want to see everything that this great world has to offer. So as far as the voting thing is, I'm not worried about it. [00:20:34] Speaker B: So what are people complaining about? [00:20:35] Speaker A: Because they are saying that people, women, will not be able to obtain these documents. If I can. [00:20:41] Speaker B: What? [00:20:42] Speaker A: Right. If I can obtain a document. [00:20:44] Speaker B: You can't obtain your marriage license. [00:20:46] Speaker A: Marriage license, Social Security card, birth certificate. [00:20:50] Speaker B: Social Security is a mile and a half away from us. [00:20:53] Speaker A: This is what they're saying. So, yes, may take some extra steps and some extra effort. However, wouldn't you rather protect this country and have citizens, whether you took your citizenship test when you immigrated here and got that? Because they have to carry all of this information with them because they're immigrants. Right. And so they have their green card, they have all this, and they have to show all that proof to even work. So I don't understand what the uproar is, because you would have to. You would have to. [00:21:34] Speaker B: I had. I'll be honest with you, when I got my real id, I went through. What do they call them? I went through almost underground minds to get it, you know, and so did. [00:21:50] Speaker A: You have to have your original birth certificate? [00:21:52] Speaker B: I had to have everything. [00:21:53] Speaker A: And. [00:21:53] Speaker B: And they were very specific and clear. [00:21:56] Speaker A: And then your birth certificate from. [00:21:57] Speaker B: When you look at that, that's three fingers, isn't it? Three times I had to go, yeah, because. No, I can't take that. I'm like, it, it's my bank card. Nope, it's this. But I said, you know, in the, you know, I said, but I had to show identification to, you know, to. To open the, you know, account checkbook. Nope, can't take that either. They were so. It was a pain in the butt. [00:22:21] Speaker A: Yeah, but. [00:22:22] Speaker B: But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna do the work, even though it irritates me. [00:22:27] Speaker A: Right. [00:22:27] Speaker B: To have what I need to have. [00:22:29] Speaker A: So. So essentially. Yeah, so essentially what it is, is you have to have a real id. [00:22:32] Speaker B: Who is. Who is saying this? Is this a women's group that say. [00:22:35] Speaker A: No, just general people on the Interweb. [00:22:39] Speaker B: And everybody's being emotional about it. [00:22:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:41] Speaker B: So because they have to do a little bit extra work. [00:22:44] Speaker A: It's work you have to do anyways if you want to fly. Right. So if you want to fly. Are you going to be mad at the federal government because they said you have to. Or the aviation. What is it? The faa? [00:22:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:54] Speaker A: That you have to have a real ID to get through TSA to fly. You know what I mean? Like, it's, it's. [00:23:03] Speaker B: That's social for trains. Now I just want to put that in, you have to have a real ID for trains too now. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Well, so any, any form, unless you're going to drive a car, which some people think you don't even need a driver's license because you're traveling. [00:23:14] Speaker B: Oh, don't get me started. [00:23:16] Speaker A: You know, like, what in the actual hell is going on here? Like, I don't care if you are requiring this document to me. And I think it's change. And so, you know, you gotta have somebody in an uproar about something, you know what I mean? So, yeah, before you go there, they. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Have these things, I don't know if you've ever heard of them, but they have these things called the Internet. And you can get on there and find out what you need to do it. It's called the Internet. [00:23:46] Speaker A: And I, I did that. And I did take more than I needed the first time. [00:23:50] Speaker B: But you don't know that. [00:23:51] Speaker A: But I didn't have my Social Security card. [00:23:53] Speaker B: See, that's what happened to me. I had, I mean, a plethora. I pull. I was pulling. I was so mad. True story. I was pulling credit cards out one after another after another. How can I not be me? [00:24:03] Speaker A: Yeah, but I mean, you could. [00:24:04] Speaker B: I'm like, I was born here in this specific hospital here. [00:24:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:08] Speaker B: When it was this big. [00:24:09] Speaker A: They. They're going by, they're going by the rules, man. So. And then, you know, that's where you register to vote as well. Is that the bmv? [00:24:17] Speaker B: Don't you feel like people are making. [00:24:19] Speaker A: A mountain out of a molehill? [00:24:20] Speaker B: You're being over emotional. [00:24:21] Speaker A: It's ridiculous. Like, I'm sorry. I understand it's a right and it's your right to vote. However, these documentation is going to be needed so that we can preserve this great nation and only have it where citizens vote. I don't care how you became a citizen of this country. It does not matter to me. Did you immigrate here? Great. You did it their legal way. Wonderful. Here's your voting registration card. Let's go do this. I'll drive you to the polls myself. [00:24:54] Speaker B: You know, we haven't done that episode yet. And we will, but no, you. [00:24:57] Speaker A: But I mean, I'm just saying. Yeah, I was lucky enough to be born here, but I know that if I move to Canada, which is where my grandmother's from, or maybe. [00:25:07] Speaker B: Oh, have you heard how bad it is to become a citizen up there? Oh yeah, it's hard as hell. Unless you're. I'm not going to get into that. But unless you're. [00:25:15] Speaker A: I wish my grandmother would have. [00:25:17] Speaker B: From a specific continent, it's much easier for them. [00:25:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:21] Speaker B: But for every other kind of people, it is incredibly difficult to be a citizen of Canada. [00:25:27] Speaker A: So. And that's, I mean, we'll touch on that. [00:25:29] Speaker B: That's a bad example. I'm just saying. [00:25:31] Speaker A: So it's just you're, you're, you're all been out of shape because these people are not going to be able to get this information. And I'm telling you, I live eight hours, 500 miles from my home. I was able to obtain my birth certificate cuz guess what? I couldn't find that either. I think my mom still hasn't. Or Lord knows it's in a box somewhere that maybe got thrown away in one of the moves. So I had to petition vital records in Tennessee to get that before I could get my passport so I could travel to another country. It's just common sense. Like you sometimes you have to put in a little bit of work, man. [00:26:11] Speaker B: But isn't it funny how they're out there spewing that rhetoric. Didn't that make you laugh? That they're out there spewing that rhetoric that, oh, this will cut women off from voting. Women are losing their rights one vote per household, but people are buying it. [00:26:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:25] Speaker B: Doesn't that just make you cackle a little bit? [00:26:28] Speaker A: It's just, and it's just not true. Like it's just not education. Like this is just, Just educate yourself. Jesus. [00:26:37] Speaker B: It's that thing I said a while ago. It's called Internet. [00:26:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Like it just. [00:26:42] Speaker B: Everybody's got it. [00:26:43] Speaker A: I did not stress out at all because it is my right to vote. Right. So if I have to have an extra step of paper, then cool, tell me what I need and I'll research it before I go vote. [00:26:56] Speaker B: But see, here's a funny thing. Let's, let's compare stories about. But here's this. Now imagine this though, that you're me and you're having to do it. Well, yeah, you have to explain every single thing. You know, how kind of embarrassing it was. Now luckily, the first two times I went. The first one I almost went to jail because I almost pulled her over the counter with that attitude. The second one, she didn't know what she was doing. In all honesty, the third one was so nice and respectful about, you know, everything. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:27] Speaker B: And so because, you know, I had to go to, you know, I had to get this and then I had to have this and I had to have this but because my name's been done, you know, change, I, then I had to find that, which means I had to call a particular state where I got it changed. It was hell on me. [00:27:39] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. But you want the right to travel, right? You want the right to be able to. I want to play. [00:27:46] Speaker B: I don't like this. [00:27:47] Speaker A: Or you wanted the, the privilege. Let's use that word, privilege. [00:27:51] Speaker B: I wanted to be in, I mean, I wanted to be in good legal standing. [00:27:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:56] Speaker B: Because they're saying this and I, and I, you know, I like to travel by train. And so this was also going to be the process for train excursions as well. [00:28:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:04] Speaker B: So there's no getting around it unless you're going on Greyhound and there's no getting. Getting around it. And I would never go on a Greyhound. [00:28:10] Speaker A: But Bougie bitch. I'm just, I wouldn't either. [00:28:16] Speaker B: You know, I don't just like, I don't fly on government funded airplanes. I don't do it. You guys can make fun of me, but I'm not going to do. I'll throw a student out the door and then I'll shut it and we'll all be better people. [00:28:28] Speaker A: I'm not that Bougie, for sure. No, I just. [00:28:32] Speaker B: But you also know I love to drive. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I don't. [00:28:34] Speaker B: And I love the train. I love a good train trip. [00:28:37] Speaker A: I just, it just dumbfounds me that it's, it is possible. I'm telling you it's possible because I did it. You know, it's possible. And I haven't voted yet since this law went into effect. So when that happens, you and I will come back and tell you because your name, first and last has changed. Oh, wait a minute. I think your sex changed too, Right? [00:29:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:02] Speaker A: And then my last name has changed. [00:29:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:05] Speaker A: So when that happens, we'll come back after we vote and we'll let him know how far, how much we were turned away. [00:29:12] Speaker B: You know, it. I just think it's funny that they just find such explosive ways to almost like activate the emotions in women. Do you. Those women that are susceptible to it. Do you know what I'm talking about? We both know those kind of chicks. [00:29:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:25] Speaker B: Let's be real. Every chick out there listening knows one of those chicks. God, I wish you would go away. [00:29:31] Speaker A: I just, I, I think a lot of it is, is misleading information and. [00:29:38] Speaker B: But that's the trending thing now. That's the changing thing. [00:29:41] Speaker A: But I mean, do you really think. [00:29:43] Speaker B: That the United States government is trying to forbid women to vote that. [00:29:47] Speaker A: You know, I love J.D. vance's wife. I think she's just gorgeous. [00:29:51] Speaker B: She's always on point. Don't get off topic, but she's always on point. [00:29:54] Speaker A: But I'm just saying, do you think that he would allow a bill like that to be passed and his wife not be able to have the potential to vote? [00:30:04] Speaker B: That is a perfect example you brought up. [00:30:06] Speaker A: I. I'm just saying. No. [00:30:07] Speaker B: No. About. No. It just. No, Hear me out. J.D. vance's wife. Do you know the hoop she had to go through to, you know, to be a citizen? No, because I believe she was born here. Right. But her parents came here. Do you know what they had to go through? [00:30:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:30:21] Speaker B: To prove they cared about the country and love the country. Yeah. [00:30:24] Speaker A: And then more than what you and I do. Oh, we're privileged because we were born here. [00:30:29] Speaker B: Blood is here. For real. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:31] Speaker B: And then to me, I'm gonna be honest, she scored because she married J.D. vance. I don't know if she saw the writing on the wall, but, I mean, come on. [00:30:38] Speaker A: I think she's adorable. I really do. I think she's adorable. I. I do like Usha a lot. [00:30:44] Speaker B: She is very refined. I think she is. [00:30:45] Speaker A: And I'm. And I'm. I'm a huge fan of her, I think. [00:30:51] Speaker B: And how long has it been since we've been a fan of a second lady? It's a long time. See what I'm saying? [00:30:57] Speaker A: I. I just think she's lovely. She gives me Princess Di vibes. I love it. I love how she's just raw and emotional with her children. [00:31:04] Speaker B: See, I like both the women. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Yeah. I. I think that if Melania's wearing. [00:31:09] Speaker B: It, I'm looking for it. [00:31:10] Speaker A: Did you. Oh, did you see? Let's bring this up really quick. She wore a dress to an event, and it. And somebody made fun of the dress, talking about. [00:31:21] Speaker B: Hear about it. [00:31:22] Speaker A: It looked like President Trump just took a marker and wrote all over it. And do you know it was an Alexander McQueen dress. [00:31:33] Speaker B: That sounds like Alexander McQueen. [00:31:35] Speaker A: That. I want to say. Autistic kids had drew pictures and they put on that dress, but they didn't know the backstory. If they knew the backstory, then they would be smacking their self in the face. [00:31:46] Speaker B: They should be doing it anyway. [00:31:47] Speaker A: But you know what? I mean, let's not talk down to a woman woman. If we're all about women's rights and we're all about. [00:31:53] Speaker B: But she came here with nothing. [00:31:55] Speaker A: Yeah. So, I mean, I. I think she's has great Intentions, you know, that I am not always on our president's side. I'm just not. He does some things that really upsets me sometimes, and that's called opinion. Yeah. And. And the thing is, is he's. I may not agree with him, and that's okay, because opinions are like assholes, and everybody's got one, you know, and that's okay. But he is my president, and I am a patriot in this nation. And my grandfather served in the arm in the Air Force, and I had. My stepbrother was in the army, and I had other people, you know, so in a way, I have to. Sometimes I don't like my bosses. I mean, I love my bosses now, but in the past, you know, but I had to suck that up because they were my boss and I didn't like everything that they did. But a fact is a fact, and this is the way it is. [00:33:02] Speaker B: But if you agreed with every single thing that your leader did, every time. Yeah, Every time. Every subject, every statement, wouldn't we look like those people with a red flag? [00:33:15] Speaker A: Wouldn't we look. Yeah. [00:33:16] Speaker B: I mean, do you see where I'm going with. [00:33:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I just think. I think that there's things he says. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Sometimes I'm just like. I need you to calm down a little bit. [00:33:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:23] Speaker B: You know what I mean? [00:33:24] Speaker A: This is an ignorant bill. This is. This is. You know, and. And I don't. I don't agree, but that's another topic. Yeah. But as far as voting goes, I don't think I'm gonna have a problem when I go in if I have to show extra paperwork. Cool. What do you need? Yeah, you know, I don't mind because I. It's. It's a privilege and a right. [00:33:46] Speaker B: Do you ever feel like people are just looking for a reason to be mad, to. [00:33:49] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:33:51] Speaker B: Speaking of being mad, it's like living in a. [00:33:54] Speaker A: It's like. [00:33:54] Speaker B: I know. [00:33:55] Speaker A: It's like your Karen videos, you know, I love them. [00:33:58] Speaker B: I get lost in them. I can't believe people really act like that. It's. [00:34:01] Speaker A: I mean, I'm just like, come to my neighborhood. [00:34:04] Speaker B: I'm like, is this real? Is this real? Is this happening? You know, I just. I can't. I'm just like. I've never had one, but if I have one, I mean, I'm ready for my moment. [00:34:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:15] Speaker B: To deal with them. I'm ready. [00:34:17] Speaker A: So I'm also interested in a conversation that you just recently had with someone from our community about Title 9. [00:34:27] Speaker B: Oh, and you want to talk about that? [00:34:30] Speaker A: Well, I. I haven't really got to talk to you very much about. [00:34:33] Speaker B: I know you've been busy and I've been trying to shoot and get ready for something that we're going to announce here in a second. But yeah, I had that conversation about Title 9. [00:34:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:44] Speaker B: And why you decided to leave me. [00:34:51] Speaker A: I needed a reset girl. [00:34:52] Speaker B: She didn't take. She didn't take me, y'all. I'm just saying. She didn't even Bring me back 8. Bring me back a snow globe or nothing. Apparently they were out of stock on those on the boat. [00:35:01] Speaker A: I didn't bring anybody anything back. [00:35:03] Speaker B: I'm not anybody. [00:35:04] Speaker A: I did bribe myself something, though. [00:35:07] Speaker B: See what I'm saying? [00:35:08] Speaker A: I bought myself a hat. [00:35:09] Speaker B: Okay. That's fair. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:10] Speaker B: So. And we'll talk about those, you know, in another episode. But. So, yeah, I was asked to give comment concerning the air quote, war between the Maine's governor, the state and the president. And so I brought them back a little bit. I said, I want you to think about something for a minute. I said, when the showdown began in the state dining room and he asked if Maine was there and she said, oh, yeah, I'm here, something's up. Like that, you know what I mean? And then she decided to go ahead and I guess interject that she's not going along with his ban on trans kids in sports. And the president said, well, you better because if you don't, I'm going to cut your funding. [00:36:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Which is petty. And I hate sometimes when he's petty. [00:36:08] Speaker B: But I do too. But hold on, you can't ignore the elf in the room. The tip, the tit for the tat. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Right. [00:36:15] Speaker B: If you're gonna try to show out, I'm gonna show you out. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:18] Speaker B: Do you know what I mean? But still, that's our opinion. You know what I mean? I mean, I'm just like, we could have took a better road there. [00:36:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:25] Speaker B: This is what I said in my opinion piece on it. I said, wouldn't it have been better to call on the President after that was done, right after that engagement was. Was finished, or have an aide let his aide know you would like to have a conversation privately and say, Mr. President, I'm between a rock and a hard place. This, this is my stance as the governor. This is my stance. This is my newfound religion. Because, you know, the leftist white woman loves to say how much she loves me, but yet I'm not included in the conversation. But that's another topic that. [00:37:04] Speaker A: No, that's actually a great point. [00:37:06] Speaker B: Yes. They love to talk about me, but I'm never involved in the conversation. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Here's the thing. They're not talking. I mean, maybe they're talking to that trans athlete, but they're not listening to those girls who it affects. Right. So you, you have to give them some sort of respect, which you said. And I'm so, like, grateful you did say that, because I don't feel like these girls have a voice. [00:37:30] Speaker B: Here's what I said. And after I had told them, why didn't she do. When I was talking to this, these two women, by the way, they were asking my opinion on it. I said, wouldn't that have been the, the first move to make was just, you know, pull them aside? And I assume the conversation could have went. If you're, if you are a lady, could have went like that. Like, I'm, I'm between a rock and a hard place here. This is what I've given my people of my state. This is, this is my position. Are you really going to take my funding and begin that dialogue with the president privately? [00:38:07] Speaker A: Sometimes. [00:38:08] Speaker B: And I don't care how you spin it when you go back to your state. I don't care how you spin it. Right, right. But you do owe it to the state because you're their governor, to create a rapport with the president when he's making it clear. These are, these are my provisions for federal funding. [00:38:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:24] Speaker B: I simply cannot allow this anymore. It is creating too many obstacles for too many young girls and no one is having a rational conversation about it. [00:38:32] Speaker A: I mean, I know. [00:38:33] Speaker B: Is that bombastic to say. [00:38:35] Speaker A: No, I, I just don't. I think. Okay, if. If this didn't happen, right. And this was reversed. Let's reverse the situation, right. That this bill, or executive order, sorry, was not signed. And it was the same. It was the way it was. Why are we not, like listening to the girls that are doing this and giving them a choice? You know, let me, let me give you an example. [00:39:04] Speaker B: Okay. [00:39:06] Speaker A: So my niece plays soccer. [00:39:08] Speaker B: I know that she's. [00:39:09] Speaker A: She's a junior in high school and she's five foot, maybe 115 pounds. She was playing a game and one of the girls. And obviously soccer is a very. I mean, it can be a context. [00:39:25] Speaker B: Sport for men, it's always a contact sport. [00:39:28] Speaker A: For girls, it is too, because they pretty mean. But she was at a game and this did not affect her. But a girl on her team and she was going towards the goal and she kicked. She kicked the ball, kicked the ball and. But the goalie so the ball has already gone, and rules of soccer, I'm not gonna get into that. But anyway, so the goalie came and dang near tackled this girl, right. And it, like, it broke her leg. Like, bone was sticking out of her leg. [00:40:04] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:40:05] Speaker A: So. [00:40:06] Speaker B: Good grief. [00:40:07] Speaker A: And that was a girl. That was girl and girl, Right? Biological females. [00:40:12] Speaker B: That's. [00:40:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:14] Speaker B: And so she wasn't throwing any shade. She was just being honest. [00:40:18] Speaker A: Well, I'm trying to be factual and be. Obviously, if I have a problem with trans people and I'm sitting here. [00:40:25] Speaker B: Really. [00:40:25] Speaker A: Yeah. I need. [00:40:26] Speaker B: But someone would try to spin it somewhere that you do. Go ahead, hon. [00:40:30] Speaker A: So, you know, the parents were obviously more concerned than the kids, but this is where. I think it's beautiful what this coach did and what these parents did is the coach asked the girls, the rest of the girls, because they were obviously pretty distraught because she was taken away on an ambulance and just her bones sticking out. Yeah. So they said, do you want to finish the game? Some of the girls said yes. Some of the girls said, no. Then he goes, well, I'm gonna ask your parents as well. And then, you know, my sister's like, well, that's up to, you know, her whether she wants to do it. And she was like, no, because I'm. [00:41:07] Speaker B: You know, she's now got that stuck in her head. Yeah, it's a visual moment. [00:41:11] Speaker A: And it was like she was a little afraid because they. That particular team was extremely rough, and they were already not looking forward to the game, and so they didn't play. They got fined. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Fined? [00:41:27] Speaker A: You said, oh, yeah, they fine you. [00:41:29] Speaker B: What do they take? Cookies? What do they do? [00:41:30] Speaker A: No, they. They make you pay. Like, it was like, hey, what money? They find the NCAA or whatever it is. They fine the team if they don't complete the game. If they forfeit the game. Kind of like they find them because they didn't complete the game. [00:41:46] Speaker B: No one could understand the dynamics afterwards of what just happened. [00:41:50] Speaker A: Listen, girl, listen. [00:41:51] Speaker B: These are kids, not grown people. [00:41:53] Speaker A: So could you imagine the damage that could have happened? [00:41:58] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:41:58] Speaker A: But see, and. And I. And we had brought up this conversation, too, like, you could take me out, take me out. And this is. [00:42:08] Speaker B: I would never put hands on you. I love you. [00:42:10] Speaker A: And this is not like day one, day 10, day 100 of you being on hormone replacement. [00:42:19] Speaker B: My journey. [00:42:20] Speaker A: Yeah. It's not. It's not there. So, like, I'm sorry, I'm not fixing to play basketball with you. I'm not doing it. I'm not playing Soccer I'm not doing. [00:42:32] Speaker B: I won't do. Okay. I love contact with men, but I'm not getting on a court to play. [00:42:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:41] Speaker B: I mean, if I have to sweat and run back and forth, you can forget it. Okay. You can forget it. And I don't even know where I'm going. I just go back and forth and back and forth until a buzzer goes off. I'm not doing it. And people get paid to do it. Go back and forth. I'd have a migraine. [00:42:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:59] Speaker B: And people are screaming at me. They don't like me. [00:43:01] Speaker A: So, you know, I'm just saying that that's kind of a situation. And then another situation that can kind of. And I'm bringing. Because I don't have a daughter that played sports. My daughter's more artsy. Fartsy. [00:43:12] Speaker B: Yeah. But she and your sons are done, so. [00:43:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I didn't really school. [00:43:19] Speaker B: I mean, they're done with school. [00:43:20] Speaker A: I didn't really worry about when my youngest played soccer. Like, he was smaller than all of the other boys, but he was, you know, I mean, he's a boy. What do you do, you know. But she was playing once and you had brought this up about the. The girl that was at the. When they kind of signed the bill or whatever and she got hit with the volleyball. [00:43:45] Speaker B: I knew you wanted me to comment on it. [00:43:47] Speaker A: Yeah. So my niece was playing and not maliciously at all, collided with another girl, dislocated her elbow or something. And my niece felt so bad that she had her mama send flowers to this little girl. And you are telling me that not even an apology was issued. [00:44:15] Speaker B: Yeah, let's. Let's get. Let's just do that one really quick. Let's comment on it. So, you know, and I've talked to other people about this. That is an issue for me. And I think that I'll tell you why it's an issue for me. I think maybe while it's a. I take it differently, I think, than. Than everyday, Joe. And so it's because you're on a team. You're in the spirit of game and you're playing and you spike a ball and then you see the ball. Literally when I'm watching it, if I'm seeing it correctly, I can see the sweat coming off the girl's head when it hit her head. [00:44:53] Speaker A: Wow. [00:44:54] Speaker B: I can see it shoot. [00:44:55] Speaker A: Wow. [00:44:56] Speaker B: That. That was the velocity. I could see the sweat just. It's like it all just went on one side of her head. It just shot out. [00:45:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:03] Speaker B: And I could only stomach it, you know, once, because that was enough. And I know when the president did his joint session speech and she was there. Well, the girl still has brain damage. She'll have to live with that and hope. Let's hope it does not. As she, you know, progresses in age and she gets in her 30s and 40s, it does not alter itself and cause her problems when she gets older. I hope. I really do. But the mind's an amazing thing to heal itself. But we'll see. But my issue, that angered me, and I think this was also part of people's issue. You didn't do a press conference to say, I'm sorry. You didn't do a press conference to say, that wasn't my attention. I didn't mean to hurt that girl. It was just, you know, in. In this, you know, moment of game and, you know, and challenge, you know, that happens when we play sports. To my knowledge, you've never even tried to give an apology to her personally. And I don't know, I don't care what side of the team you're on, you know, Lib or Democrat or, you know, Republican, I don't care. But there comes a time when people need to say, okay, now that's just. That's just rude. You bounced a ball off of a girl's head with brain damage that you left her with, and you have nothing to say. You have nothing to say. [00:46:26] Speaker A: And when we had this conversation, what did I say to you about it being like, when you. I feel like. I understand that they probably still want to play sports. They want to transition. They know this is their. What they want right in their life, which is great. I'm all for it. You feel that way, and it's going to make your life better. Go for it. You know, however, sometimes when. Who was with great responsibility. I don't know, whatever. [00:47:05] Speaker B: I think you broke it down like this. You said you don't get to have everything in life. [00:47:10] Speaker A: Nobody does. [00:47:12] Speaker B: Full disclosure. No one does. [00:47:14] Speaker A: No. [00:47:15] Speaker B: Because that's real life. [00:47:16] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a right. It's a privilege to be able to have this journey that you're having. Right. This is your privilege. [00:47:26] Speaker B: It's a. It's. I understand what you're saying, but it is a big decision to make. [00:47:30] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:47:31] Speaker B: It's really bigger than you. Yeah. You have to understand all the parameters. [00:47:34] Speaker A: You have to figure out what you want more. [00:47:37] Speaker B: But here's the thing. [00:47:38] Speaker A: And. And I don't think a lot of. Please don't take it wrong. I don't think a lot of men have to make a lot of choices like that. [00:47:46] Speaker B: Well, that's a true story, honey. That's a true story. I, I do not have to make those. [00:47:50] Speaker A: No, yeah. Like women, we have to like, okay, we're going to have a child, we're going to sacrifice our body for that. We could. We're also possibly sacrificing our life to bring another human into this world. Right. And so with women, I think there's more sacrifices that are made versus with men because in, in, in that kind of. And a lot of aspects. I think, actually, I think men. [00:48:14] Speaker B: Yes, I understand what you're saying. Men do tend to have a. I'm. [00:48:17] Speaker A: Not saying it because I'm a feminist. [00:48:18] Speaker B: I know you're not. No, just to be clear, what she is saying is, is that men, I think are acutely aware, or at least should be, that they have so many different care. They have so many more carefree dimensions that they can fit in that women don't. Because at some point women have to make a decision about marriage, childbirth, you know, the, you know, future, how to remain active as you do become, you know, a mother, anything. Think. What I want to come back to is basically what you were saying to me was if you're going to be, if you're going to make this decision that's so fundamentally impactful on your life and your future, literally playing sports is not, you know, your entire future when you're in high school. So which choice are you going to. [00:49:07] Speaker A: Make but which one is more important to you? [00:49:10] Speaker B: Yes. [00:49:10] Speaker A: Cuz I've had to sacrifice. [00:49:11] Speaker B: Do you want to, do you want to say and, and be what you say you're trans? Or do you want to play sports. [00:49:18] Speaker A: And hurt other girls and maybe eventually there'll be, you know, enough people in the world that there will be able to be a league of their own, to say the least. [00:49:33] Speaker B: Do you know they just tried that in. They just try. I want to get it right. I want to make sure. I think the, I think the Olympics, they just tried that. When the Olympics was hot and heavy, they tried that. And you know what? No trans one to play on a trans team. We're gonna get into that. [00:49:52] Speaker A: I just, Yeah, I just, I just. [00:49:55] Speaker B: Think we're gonna get into that one day because that happened. That happened where, that when they, when they, you know, announced that they were going to have a trans team specifically for trans athletes. None of the trans individuals wanted to get on that team. [00:50:16] Speaker A: Well, I just, I mean, I feel. [00:50:18] Speaker B: Like, I mean, don't you think that's kind of suspect? [00:50:20] Speaker A: Well, I do, but we've had this discussion before, and we've had this discussion on this podcast before. As a woman, we. I've had to sacrifice a lot in my life. I've. I've given up a lot to be a mother, to be a wife, when. [00:50:40] Speaker B: You probably shouldn't have been a mom, to be at that particular time. [00:50:43] Speaker A: Right. And. And let me also say I'm. I don't regret those decisions of giving that stuff up, because that was a choice I made. [00:50:51] Speaker B: Do you want to clarify for everybody? The term I'm speaking of is the time sector for Alice and when she became a mother. That's what I'm referring to. Do you want to clarify that for everyone? [00:51:02] Speaker A: I was a young mother. I was 17 when my daughter was born. [00:51:06] Speaker B: So that's what we're talking about, is. [00:51:09] Speaker A: I gave up a lot. Yeah. [00:51:11] Speaker B: Lots of girls have to. And sadly. And. And I want to point this out, you know, that in terms of that. In of that world that you walked into, you know, at that age, you're kind of a success story. Success story. Because a lot of girls don't. They're not able to get back on track after that. [00:51:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:30] Speaker B: I mean, you've done a fantastic job. [00:51:32] Speaker A: I mean, I have. [00:51:33] Speaker B: She's an awesome mother. I just want to put that out there. She's not afraid to knock them out, so she's a good mother. [00:51:38] Speaker A: I don't knock my children out, but I definitely pull the rug out from the little buzzers. Yeah, we do. I mean, I have three wonderful, amazing children, one granddaughter and a grandson on the way, which I'm very, very thrilled about. But I gave up a lot, and I even gave up a lot to put my husband through school multiple times, which I'm not angry about that or resentful. And sometimes I'm like, oh, I could have done with more with my life, but I think my job on this earth was put here to take care of other people, and I'm okay with that. I. I enjoy being. [00:52:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:14] Speaker A: A maternal person and take. I. I have lots of little adopted children that are not mine. [00:52:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:20] Speaker A: And grandbabies and nieces and nephews, and I'm okay with that. [00:52:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I think, you know, you have your, you know, your other friend at 76 years old, you know, that just can't wait to see you. So you have that. [00:52:35] Speaker A: I can't help. She likes me more than. [00:52:37] Speaker B: She does care about you, which I had that kind of love. But you Know, I. I think, I don't. I don't think that you're complaining at all. I think what you're saying is secretly. Not secretly, but privately. A lot of women feel like that when their husbands have become a success. And they may have in fact sacrificed a lot, they. [00:52:56] Speaker A: For their children. [00:52:57] Speaker B: But a good woman won't speak on it. She'll hold it to herself, she'll talk to her friends, she'll, you know, get loaded or whatever. But. But you know, in your heart it's the right thing to, to do. But that doesn't take away from the impact that you feel inside that you might have taken a little bit from yourself to do that. [00:53:16] Speaker A: Well, let's also clarify. I have a career. I have a career on top of. [00:53:20] Speaker B: Being a mom and a grandmother. [00:53:22] Speaker A: Right? I have, I have, I have a beautiful life. I am making a difference in this world in other ways besides being a parent. [00:53:31] Speaker B: You cannot afford to be a part of media labs. I mean, and that's not how it's supposed to go. [00:53:35] Speaker A: No. [00:53:36] Speaker B: Remember? [00:53:36] Speaker A: No. And. And I'm grateful for every opportunity and I'm just now able to have a life in my 40s. That's. Well, not really. I can't even say that I don't. I'm too busy for that. But, you know, this was when I was supposed to shine. Just when I had my kids in my 20s. I'm gonna be able to party in my 40s. I'm like, shit, I'm turning into a pumpkin after midnight. [00:53:59] Speaker B: What the hell? [00:54:01] Speaker A: Get me home in my pajamas. Damn. Who said staying out after midnight? What is it? Listen, they need, need to let Todd Chrisley out of prison because I need some more one liners from him. But he said nothing happens after midnight. Nothing's open after midnight except for legs in the er and you don't want to be in either one of them. Honey, I've never felt something more in my entire life. [00:54:25] Speaker B: I know because I've been up and out at 2am I've done it. And I tell you what, Legs were ready to go. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't. [00:54:31] Speaker B: Full chicken wing. They were ready to go. Full chicken wing. I'm just saying. [00:54:37] Speaker A: I just, I mean, I just think that. I think that, that you, you can have it all to a certain, to a certain extent. Right? But there are a lot of things that people have to sacrifice. Like, like my husband. Let me tell you what my husband sacrificed. My husband has never had the new car. Right? I've always drove a much nicer car than him. Always. Our whole entire marriage, I have drove the nice car. I have gotten, you know, that kind of thing. I. So he definitely puts me on a pedestal when it comes. Not granted, it's not a Lamborghini or a Porsche or a record. [00:55:21] Speaker B: She does have a nice car in my driveway. [00:55:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:55:23] Speaker B: But I'm just saying. [00:55:24] Speaker A: I'm just. I'm also saying is I. He drives a. He doesn't drive a complete beater, but he's drove so many beaters throughout our. Our marriage. Because my car is the primary car that takes care of his children and his wife. And he is there to protect us. That's his job. It's not my job to protect my family. It's his job. And that is what the man should do in that relationship, in my opinion. [00:55:54] Speaker B: But I think. And that's why. [00:55:55] Speaker A: And that's why I can't consider myself a feminist. [00:55:58] Speaker B: Oh, you're. No. You could never be. [00:56:00] Speaker A: I do think that there are gender roles in my life and I don't want it. Like, my brakes need change. I'm not doing that. A lot of women want to do it and by all means, go for it, but I don't have any desire to do it. It's like you haven't running up and down a court. [00:56:15] Speaker B: I feel like if you're going to do that, you might want to watch the videos where it shows where women fail. Where the car falls on her head because she thought she had, you know, she had jacked the car up properly, but what she didn't do was lock the mechanism in place and the car fell on her head. Luckily, her husband was there to lift it off of her. I'm not kidding. Yeah. [00:56:40] Speaker A: I mean, women are miraculous, beautiful, amazing people. And some. [00:56:45] Speaker B: And why can't we just be that? Why do we. [00:56:47] Speaker A: And you know, and I. [00:56:49] Speaker B: That's another episode. [00:56:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I see on Tick Tock all the time, what is a woman? What. What is trans rights? What is this? And I feel like maybe one day you and I need to go live on TikTok with these people so we can debate them a little bit. Maybe we'll go live and put it on the podcast. [00:57:05] Speaker B: I think that could happen. I'm saying things. [00:57:08] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And just kind of have. [00:57:10] Speaker B: But I will steal a quote from Mariah Carey if you don't give me good lighting. I'm not coming. [00:57:14] Speaker A: I'm done with you. Well, we don't have to show her face. [00:57:17] Speaker B: Okay. [00:57:17] Speaker A: Fair. [00:57:19] Speaker B: I'm just. Because I don't like. [00:57:20] Speaker A: As you're sitting here in Your bonnet. [00:57:22] Speaker B: I don't like. I don't like bad lighting. So this has to be good in here. [00:57:28] Speaker A: We need that juju strong. [00:57:30] Speaker B: Keep the fluorescent over there. Chandeliers, darling. Chandeliers, darling. Diamonds, darling. [00:57:39] Speaker A: They're a girl's best friend. [00:57:41] Speaker B: They are. They're definitely hers. [00:57:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:43] Speaker B: So, yeah, I think there is a couple of things that we are going to talk about in the next episode and will. It will cover some of those things. Yeah, yeah. [00:57:55] Speaker A: And I don't. This is definitely not a 1, 2, 3 or 5 parter because it just keeps. [00:58:01] Speaker B: Isn't that amazing how we just. I just want to say first of all to everyone out there, you have absolutely no idea how truly grateful I am that. That she accepted this challenge to come aboard Media Labs because it was just supposed to be like a 3, 4 parter, you know, a couple hours, you know, maybe each. But we felt like that would be too long and so we really didn't know how many there would be. And then I said, well, it. Why don't you just come aboard Media Labs? I think your voice matters. And shazam. I got my way. And she's like, okay, I'm down. And now I have her. [00:58:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:44] Speaker B: And we're hoping to do more. Oh, speaking of which, before we close out, I want to remind everyone. Yes, the hot new concept show off the Cuff IRL is happening. Now that Alice is home. We will beginning to record those episodes hopefully next week if. If time allows us to. And like I said, it's everything funny and zany and. And we're gonna make fun of everything. It is Bob and Tom X rated. It is going to be just fun, right, Alice? [00:59:21] Speaker A: I hope so. [00:59:22] Speaker B: It is going to be fun. We're going on. I mean, we're going all in on the butt diddler. I mean we're going on in on everything on off the Cuff irl. So we do hope that you will stay tuned. We love you. We appreciate you. Please become a member by heading over to our pat. When you become a member for five singles a month, you get to enjoy the hot new show off the Cuff irl. It was just pure entertainment. If you think I'm something here and you think Alice is something here, wait till you hear us on there. We enjoy you immensely. [00:59:55] Speaker A: I am Chronicles and I am Alice. [00:59:58] Speaker B: And this is Media Labs. [01:00:00] Speaker A: Thanks for coming.