EP 426: No Holes Barred

Summary

Decisions, Decisions – Episode 426: No Holes Barred

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Hosts: Mandii B and WeezyWTF | Produced by The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

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1. Celebrating Their New Book Release

In this landmark episode, Mandii B and WeezyWTF celebrate the release of their highly anticipated book, "No Holes Barred." Recorded amidst their hectic travel schedules, the hosts express immense pride and excitement about this pivotal moment in their careers.

Mandii B shares, “[01:08] **We’re literally on the day of recording. This is one of the biggest days of our entire careers.” This sentiment underscores the significance of their book launch and its impact on their professional journey.

2. Early Book Visibility and Recognition

The hosts recount the surreal experience of seeing their book prominently displayed in a Calabasas bookstore, [01:37] Weezy remarks, “Tell me why Calabasas put our motherfucking book on the shelf early.” This early visibility not only validates their efforts but also ignites a wave of excitement and pride as they see tangible recognition of their work.

3. Cannes Lions Dinner and Eva Longoria Interaction

A highlight of the episode is their attendance at a prestigious Cannes Lions dinner, where they mingle with influential figures like Dolly, Charlemagne, Malcolm Gladwell, and Questlove.

During the dinner, an unexpected and memorable moment occurs when Eva Longoria engages with their book:

WeezyWTF recounts, “[05:11] Eva catches his eye and embraces him, later expressing admiration for their work by reading a passage aloud: 'Thump, thump is the sound of my heart pounding after I've come.'” This interaction not only elevates the book’s profile but also provides a heartfelt endorsement from a celebrity.

4. Deep Dive into Book Content: Pleasure and Pain

The conversation shifts to the content of "No Holes Barred," with Mandii and Weezy dissecting key themes and chapters.

WeezyWTF explains, “[51:11] Our chapters on pleasure cover topics like masturbation, being a unicorn on vacation, and anal sex, emphasizing the importance of embracing personal desires without societal constraints.”

Mandii B highlights the safety aspect in their book, stating, “[55:00] 'Surrounding yourself with a supportive community is crucial for a safe and fulfilling pleasure-seeking journey.'” This balance between pleasure and safety underscores the book’s comprehensive approach to modern relationships and sexuality.

5. Travel Tales and Resilience

The hosts share their adventurous and, at times, challenging travel experiences, particularly their trip to Cannes. WeezyWTF narrates a harrowing flight cancellation ordeal:

WeezyWTF says, “[28:40] Our flight was canceled at 2:30 AM, throwing 300 passengers into chaos. Navigating the Atlanta airport’s complexities, I managed to secure a spot on the next premium flight without extra charges.”

Mandii B complements this story with her own mishaps, illustrating their resilience and positive outlook despite setbacks:

“I was stuck with a flat tire and late for my flight. Instead of succumbing to frustration, I chose to stay positive: ‘Fuck it. Life is good. The book comes out tomorrow.’” [70:51]

6. Exploring Berghain: The World’s Best Club

Mandii and Weezy dive into their adventurous visit to Berghain in Berlin, renowned for its stringent door policies and vibrant nightlife.

Mandii B describes the club’s atmosphere: “[34:02] It’s a five-story warehouse with an intense, free-for-all vibe. From door guardians with intimidating appearances to eclectic crowds, Berghain is unlike any other club.”

WeezyWTF shares his experience getting inside, emphasizing the importance of energy and presentation: “[36:34] The door guy, Sven, decided to let us in based on our vibe alone. Inside, the club’s uninhibited environment challenges conventional club norms, blending music, fashion, and raw energy.”

Their vivid descriptions offer listeners a glimpse into the unique and often exclusive world of Berghain, highlighting themes of inclusivity and self-expression.

7. Promoting the Book and Upcoming Author Events

As authors, Mandii and Weezy enthusiastically discuss their upcoming book tour, scheduled across various cities:

• Brooklyn: Sold out event at Word Bookstore.
• Philadelphia: Book signing at Uncle Bobby’s.
• New York: Conversation and signing at Solid State Books with co-author Tempest X.
• Atlanta: Meeting and greeting at 44th and 3rd Bookstore.
• Los Angeles: Signing event at Reparations Bookstore on July 2nd.

Additionally, they announce their participation in the Essence Festival in New Orleans, where they will host a live taping of their podcast and engage with fans:

Mandii B states, “[78:35] 'We will be at Essence Festival on the AT&T Dream In Black stage, joining Kandi Burris and signing books. Don’t miss it!'”

8. Personal Reflections on Growth and Mental Health

The hosts open up about their personal journeys towards self-improvement and mental well-being, aligning with the book’s themes of pleasure, pain, and progression.

Mandii B reflects, “[65:08] 'I’m a work in progress, especially when dealing with depression and anxiety. The book helped me articulate these struggles and find ways to overcome them.'”

WeezyWTF adds, “[68:28] 'Learning to control my reactions and focus on my own growth has been pivotal. The book captures this transformation beautifully.'”

Their honest discussions provide listeners with relatable insights into overcoming personal challenges and embracing continuous growth.

9. Concluding Excitement and Future Plans

Wrapping up the episode, Mandii and Weezy reiterate their excitement about their book and the positive feedback they've received. They encourage listeners to join their book events and participate in the ongoing conversation about authentic connections and self-discovery.

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Notable Quotes:

• Mandii B: “[01:08] 'This is one of the biggest days of our entire careers.'”
• WeezyWTF: “[05:11] 'Eva Longoria was flirting with me.'”
• WeezyWTF: “[08:16] 'Pleasure outside of our introduction is where the book starts.'”
• Mandii B: “[55:00] 'Surrounding yourself with a supportive community is crucial for a safe and fulfilling pleasure-seeking journey.'”
• WeezyWTF: “[36:34] 'The door guy, Sven, decided to let us in based on our vibe alone.'”
• WeezyWTF: “[68:28] 'Learning to control my reactions and focus on my own growth has been pivotal.'”

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Final Thoughts

Episode 426 of "Decisions, Decisions", titled "No Holes Barred," offers a rich tapestry of personal anecdotes, professional milestones, and deep dives into the complexities of modern relationships and sexuality. Mandii B and WeezyWTF provide listeners with an engaging narrative that not only celebrates their new book but also fosters a space for authentic and unfiltered conversations. Whether you're a longtime fan or a newcomer, this episode is a testament to their commitment to challenging societal norms and embracing genuine connections.

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For more insights and to join the conversation, tune in to future episodes of "Decisions, Decisions" and grab your copy of "No Holes Barred" today!

Transcript

[Mandy]

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[Weezy]

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[Mandy]

Welcome to Decisions Decisions.

[Weezy]

I don't think you should say decisions, decisions. It sounded like you was talking in cursive.

[Mandy]

You definitely say the welcome.

[Weezy]

Welcome to the new podcast.

[Mandy]

Oh wait, you want to say it together? Decisions, decisions.

[Weezy]

The book is out. Ze book is out, baby. You can now go get. No holes barred. It is available. We have made it to that day.

[Mandy]

We're literally on the day of recording. You guys know this is not our jam, but we have been flying and traveling so much. It was only right to do a super fresh episode only a day late. But it's such a special day for us. I think one of the biggest days, if not the biggest day of our entire careers. A friend of mine sent us the photo in Calabasas.

[Weezy]

First off, we've been pubbing all these black owned stores. Tell me why Calabasas put our motherfucking book on the shelf early.

[Mandy]

Oh, and not the whites.

[Weezy]

Got a goddamn book out early.

[Mandy]

First off, I was like, who's tricking on you in Calabasas?

[Weezy]

Definitely.

[Mandy]

I really wanted to know what the.

[Weezy]

Fuck you doing in Calabasas.

[Mandy]

But it was amazing to see. As the first one sent it to me, it was like, yeah, it was right in the front. And I always, when I go to a bookstore and I see the books in the front, I always wonder why, oh, who are they? Is it special? Be so cool to just see everybody share and please. We're reposting like crazy.

[Weezy]

We are repost.

[Mandy]

When you walk in a store and see it tag us. Cause it's surreal to me. Like I. I don't know, I never really thought for a second when we were writing the book that I could just be walking in and grabbing it and taking photos with it. Like having a tangible thing in my hand. I didn't actually see it, the hard copy, until Mandy came to the south of France. So we just left.

[Weezy]

Yeah, we just left Cannes Lions. It's Cannes, y' all. I know y' all been seeing everybody. It is not con. It is not Canza. It is not Cannes. It is Cannes.

[Mandy]

I think it might be Cannes.

[Weezy]

It's not con.

[Mandy]

It's not con.

[Weezy]

It's not con at all.

[Mandy]

In French, people say. They don't say Cannes.

[Weezy]

No, it's Cannes, Lions. It's Cannes. Oh, Cannes. You know, I don't know how the French talk. We listen. France is, like, my least favorite place, but the south of France is one of my favorite places to go. But I think it's only because it's full of Americans that week. So I had a wonderful time Tuesday. I brought the book because we had dinner with our I Heart family. It was all the execs. Black Effect was there. So Dolly and Charlemagne was there. Malcolm Gladwell was there. Questlove was there. Shout out to them. And we was there. How we got to invite y' all? Listen, we was invited.

[Mandy]

We were other Negroes, and half I say, they said, hey, not just bring one. And they put us all together. But it was crazy just to think these are the people that are being celebrated with Iheart. Just this, you know, it was a very small dinner. It wasn't like they were honoring all of Iheart and shit. Las Cl.

[Weezy]

No, it was two tables.

[Mandy]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

And we was a part of them two tables. It was a good time. I brought the book. It was Weezy's first time seeing the hardcover, like, and it's really dope. Our pictures, bitch, right there in the back. It's cute or whatever. So I brought it, and Weezy got to see it for the first time. We ended up being able to talk about, like, just what it was like writing the book. And Weezy, in true Wheezy fashion, brought my future wife up with us. If y' all. Oh, my future wife. Let me tell y' all the story.

[Mandy]

We ain't never heard her want no Latino.

[Weezy]

Nah, let me. Let me tell y' all the story. She loves Latinas, and I'm not. I done ate a lot of Latina pussies.

[Charlemagne]

I'll show you.

[Mandy]

I am going, shit, I know you love Latinas.

[Weezy]

I love women. I date. I fuck. The only type of woman I haven't been with was a white woman.

[Charlemagne]

I feel like that's usually her thing.

[Weezy]

That's literally it. I haven't been with a white woman. I have been with a lot of motherfuckers. I lived in Miami.

[Mandy]

Okay, carry on. Many.

[Weezy]

Listen. I'm actually gonna Share a story. Cause I have a question. So I'm gonna share the Latina puss that I had in Miami one time that didn't make the book. Anyways, so we get into the I Heart Cafe. I'm talking with everyone. I go to set the book down. Cause we have assigned seating. So I go to set the book down, and on my way back to go join Will and Sharla and Dolly, Me and Eva catch eye. Mind you, Eva's talking to, like, a group of people. Eva is, by the way, gorgeous. So literally, I'm walking back and I had to pass Eva. Me and Eva lock eyes. Then she stops talking to the people, and it's like, oh, my God. Hey, bitch embraces me. And I was like, did she see my clip online? Does she know who I am or is she just.

[Mandy]

People do that. I'm like, do you love me? Do you think?

[Weezy]

I'm not going to lie. Normally, where Weezy's like, everyone's flirting with her, bitch. I don't care if she was or not. I'm saying Eva Longoria was flirting with me. So anyway, she goes and she embraces me and gives me a hug. And she's like, so good to see you. And I was like, bitch, good to see you. Okay, I didn't say it like that, but I just smiled. I was nice. So as soon as I leave her, bitch, you would have thought I just met God, bitch. I was like, my heart was beating, like, a little fast, and I was.

[Charlemagne]

Like, so you were a little star shocked.

[Weezy]

Hold on. Coochie thumping, heart pumping. So I go over to Sharla and I'm like, I want her. I said, and she knows me. Don't know how she knows me or don't know if she was just being nice. But she stopped talking to the people, embraced me. And I was like, I didn't know. I loved Eva Longoria like this. I ain't gonna hold you. She had that energy. She had that energy. So anyways, I go. And I'm like, yo, I'm sliding in them DMs. When I tell you, Charlotte. Everyone was like, don't you do that. I was like, don't you slide in her DMs, don't you? I was like, gonna do it just real nicely. Like, let me do it. He's like, don't slide in Eva Longoria dm. I said, fine. So we're the last to. At this I Heart dinner. And we go up, I'm holding the book, and I immediately go and shout out that I don't. That it's fuck them kids for life. This is, mind you, a speech in front of all the execs and everything. And I pretty much shout out Charlamagne for being my baby daddy. I guess we're kind of in a thruffle. Cause I'm like, sharla, I don't want kids. But you allowing us on this journey to write a book, this is now my baby. This is my legacy. And I wanna thank you. So we start talking about the book.

[Mandy]

We might as well have been sexy red the second we started talking about.

[Weezy]

So we're like. We're like, ooh, as raunchy as this. So will ask the question. And we repose the question. Weezy said, here's a good question to ask us. If anybody could read the book, who would you want to read it? So, Weezy, go ahead and share your part.

[Mandy]

So while we're up there, we're basically speaking to people in between courses. So as each course come out, they have, like, a different piece of Iheart talent coming out. So Malcolm spoke, quest spoke, Charlotte spoke, and then white folks than us. So once I get up there, I said, well, even though I would love to see Malcolm Gladwell's face reading the word pussy out of our book, I'm gonna go with Eva Longoria. Because I read once in an article that she said she was irritated that men don't know how to please women. But she looked like, I said that.

[Weezy]

She said, I said that. And she just smiled. She smiled. She's like, maybe I said that.

[Mandy]

And I was like, yeah, I would love her to read our book. So she gets.

[Weezy]

She get up. We don't know. She. She gets up and comes and joins us.

[Mandy]

I just meant, like, oh, well. And it did.

[Weezy]

We'll get you a book, girl. No, she. She stands up smiling and joins us in front of everyone. And here go weezy in Pump 2. If y' all been listening to the pod, anytime we had a guest, Weezy was like, pick a number from 0 to so no, from 1 to 300. And she's like, okay. Eva Longoria says 15. I was like, I don't think it's.

[Mandy]

Gonna be real crap.

[Weezy]

I don't think anyone has picked a number that long.

[Mandy]

15 is like, yeah.

[Weezy]

I hope.

[Charlemagne]

I said, it's usually 40 plus.

[Weezy]

You know what's crazy? So that's when I. As soon as she says 15, I.

[Mandy]

Was like, so let me read you what's on page 15, y' all. Which, by the way, the start of page 15 was a dud for a second. Oh, no, no, no. These are first words.

[Weezy]

The first. The first words.

[Mandy]

The first words are the only thing that can seal me up. And I was like, okay, this is about to turn up. So then we trying to find, you know, obviously a good entry point for it. So I'm like, okay, Eva, this is about masturbation. Masturbation can release sexual tension.

[Weezy]

No, that's what she. That's what she read. No, so you read something that said thump.

[Mandy]

You said the thump thump is now the sound of my heart pounding after I've come.

[Weezy]

This is what she read.

[Mandy]

Alone and satisfied. Mind you, this is when people start to take their phones out, bro.

[Weezy]

So she literally is thump, thump, thumping, like reading that sentence. Eva goes, oh my God, let me read. So luckily there's those bullet points. And so in front of all these execs, we have Eva Longoria read the benefits of masturbation at dinner.

[Charlemagne]

I love that.

[Mandy]

It was so good.

[Weezy]

It was really good.

[Mandy]

I came up to Char and I said, you remember when you sniffed JLo's chair?

[Charlemagne]

Oh my God.

[Mandy]

That's how I feel. That's how you feel? His wife was right there. I know he was tight. Wait, we gotta get into some tea. That happened in Cannes. I wasn't really a part of it, but we saw in the Breakfast Club that whole thing with Blake Lee Thornton.

[Weezy]

Oh, I just talked to Charlotte about my thoughts on that. But I know that's your friend, so I'm going to be nice because I was like, ooh, no, he didn't. I didn't. We should talk about that etiquette too, because I think he was wrong.

[Charlemagne]

Do you feel us into that situation?

[Mandy]

I don't think. Oh, okay. So let's talk about it.

[Weezy]

Okay.

[Mandy]

So anyone that doesn't know what I'm talking about? So I don't know him well, but I'm a fan and I actually wanted to produce this pod back in the day. We were going to maybe figure out if he would make a solo one. Now shout out to Blakely Thorium. He's a really dope influencer and he covered the Met Gala carpet. That's how a lot of people recently found him. So, uh huh.

[Weezy]

Share the score.

[Mandy]

We were supposed to do their pod that week. That was whose podcast it was.

[Weezy]

Oh, so I don't know him.

[Mandy]

So long story short, we are hanging out on Wednesday night in Cannes Club.

[Weezy]

Quarantine D. Nice party.

[Mandy]

Oh, no. His wife was like, I can't never get him to go out but he might go to a D. Nice party. I'm like, fuck it. Let's go out. We meet up at the Debbie's Brown birthday. We have a little dinner. We walk across the street to Club Quarantine, which De Nice does every year in Dan. And basically he redoes his thing. He did on ig. When we first walked in, it was a little bit old head ish. It was like, just oldies. I will say Mary J. Blige walked in, and that did pique my interest. I was like, ooh. But it was just like, you know, old N. But then it started getting young and cool.

[Weezy]

So for some reason, for some reason.

[Mandy]

People were being brought to different tables. JB Smooth for no one. If you don't know who that is, he was in curbury enthusiasm. He's a black dude. People brought, someone brought. Lucky day. Steve Stout came over. People kept being brought to Charlotte's section.

[Charlemagne]

Okay?

[Mandy]

Now everything during canned week is this loin. The week is free except for bottle service. But all the cocktails were free, right?

[Weezy]

But not bottle service. So that is very. It's very, very intricate.

[Mandy]

It is. But I don't know if I would have known that. So let me elaborate. Blakely did not walk into the section. He was brought into the section.

[Weezy]

Blakely, by the way, is a man. Just want to add that context.

[Mandy]

He was brought into the section. Again, I don't know why that was happening. He's not lying about that. Now me and Nina Parker are sitting together. We're saying, hey. We're chatting it up with Blakely. Whatever bottles come out. I didn't see this. I'm repeating what I heard, what Charlamagne and Blakely said on their Instagram. Charlotte does buy bottles of Dom. And I remember he came over to me. He goes, what do you want to drink?

[Weezy]

He bought three at $2,400 a piece.

[Mandy]

Yes. He said, do you want vodka or tequila? I said, I'm not drinking. And matter of fact, because my man wants tequila. But don't even buy anything. We'll go to the bar. It's free. He just gets the Dom for him, Dolly and his wife. Blakely has a toast with everybody. I don't see this because I really think Crystal Waters was on. And I was in my house with.

[Charlemagne]

Oh, that sounds amazing.

[Mandy]

So I get on my phone, I'm still in France, and I'm seeing Charlama. And him. He likes. I'm homophobic now. And I'm like, yes, what's going on? So Blake Lee basically is like, sharla said to me, you know, you drinking my bottles, dawg? And Blake Lee was wearing thigh high boots.

[Weezy]

Yep.

[Mandy]

They were flat. They weren't heels. And he said he was being homophobic for doing that.

[Weezy]

After.

[Mandy]

He said, shout out to Weezy and Nina, and I was like, I'm not there. So Charlo responded. On the Bronx Club?

[Weezy]

No, on Brilliant Idiots.

[Mandy]

Oh, yeah, Breakfast Club. I watched a Breakfast Club.

[Weezy]

I watched his Brilliant Idiots last week. He did all brain Idiots.

[Mandy]

He was sitting with Justin Envy, and basically he gave him donkey of the day. It wasn't like a. I don't think it was donkey of the day, but he was like, how am I homophobic? Et cetera.

[Weezy]

Blah, blah, blah. I agree.

[Mandy]

Blakely hit me like, yo, are you good? Like, are we good over this?

[Charlemagne]

I'm like, it was a breakfast. Breakfast Club Court.

[Weezy]

That's court.

[Mandy]

Okay. And I'm like, yeah. I mean, I think he was joking, but it didn't come off funny because Char really didn't know him at the time, and it got really awkward in this whole exchange. Now, while he was there, I will say there were maybe 50 other people that came. People were walking in and out of Charlamagne's section. Maybe not 50, maybe 20, but anyone of influence, I guess they just kept getting sent over to the celebrity tables. And so I really will stand on believing he thought the bottle was free. However, I don't think that makes Sharla homophobe. Even if it was a joke for being like, I don't think it's ever.

[Weezy]

A joke to call. They never contact someone.

[Mandy]

There maybe only were eight people in the section. So the section was not here.

[Weezy]

My thing here. My thing there is club etiquette. This is Charlamagne's table. Charlamagne is a man. Whether you are gay, straight, yellow, purple, whatever. If you are a man, you should not be reaching into another man's bottle section, pouring your own drink without putting in. Oh, I agree.

[Mandy]

It's a man. Excuse me. Nope, don't agree. I think fuck putting in. If you're gonna be at someone's table, I don't give a fuck if you're the baddest bitch in the world, you ask, can I make myself a cocktail?

[Weezy]

No. Either or yes.

[Mandy]

Not speaking is awkward.

[Weezy]

And I think that that's the thing. On Brilliant Idiots, he led to the fact that even him saying your name on the clip Charlamagne was like, weezy didn't even introduce me to this guy. He comes over and is the. As they're doing the Toast Charlotte's like the. The waitress asked if it's okay for a drink. He said, yeah, he had. He told him, this is my bottle.

[Mandy]

A.

[Weezy]

After he reached to make his own drink, which I agree, like, bro, if you don't know nobody at this table, like, you just reaching and making your own.

[Mandy]

And that's the thing, right? I think he thought, I'm going to say this, and I don't know Blake Lee well, but I'm going to assume because I can't see why he made that comment otherwise. I think he thought all of the celebs were getting sat together. And I think he thought, there's Charlotte Wheezy and Nina Parker. And I think he. And he got brought into it. He did not jump in there to say hey to me or Nina.

[Weezy]

At the end of the day, he a goofy ass goof leaning into homophobia and making that a comment. Because the man said, hey, brother, that's my bottle. It wasn't. He didn't call you out your name. He didn't sit here and say, you couldn't be here because of your sexuality. I think that it's very irresponsible to start labeling people in that manner, especially when you in a cluck and, hey, brother, this ain't your bottle. It's mine. And it's funny because talking to Charlemagne at the Breakfast Club, he was like, bruh, I didn't even know how expensive the bottles were. He said they were €2,400. So it was easily about a 7, $8,000 check for three bottles. And he was like, man, well, I'm here now. I'm celebrating Debbie's birthday. And so I just think, you know, I just think the labeling of him as a homophobe, like, and that's unfortunately what makes this space kind of difficult. Like, there are a lot of black men, Charlotte being one who's very inclusive and welcoming to all people. So you don't want to, like, put out that narrative.

[Mandy]

Even.

[Weezy]

Even the clout that he's getting like, like, around it. I just hate that his. His thing was to lean into the homophobic.

[Charlemagne]

That's a $2,800 bottle, by the way.

[Mandy]

Bruh, dog, bruh.

[Weezy]

Charlotte got it.

[Charlemagne]

I think it's a fair.

[Mandy]

It's a fair show.

[Weezy]

Hey, my brother, this is my bottle. Yeah, it's fair.

[Charlemagne]

I'd look at every ounce of that.

[Mandy]

I said, I feel really embarrassed. I really wouldn't ever bring someone in your section. I said, this is my next thing.

[Weezy]

Oh, my God, not you and Jess. Getting attacked for ride me. Oh, I'm not going to lie. It's so funny, Alex.

[Charlemagne]

That is a great point.

[Weezy]

Hey, Alex, some really an idiot, right?

[Mandy]

When I saw him say Charlamagne's, I'm like. I'm like, now we got to go to Breakfast Club.

[Weezy]

No, you guys, you got to. You got to get on your partner. Alex was on brilliant idiots talking about, well, he said he cool with Weezy. That mean Weezy need to put on that bottle. Go ahead and send Weezy an invoice for a portion of that bottle. That's what Alex said to your fault, actually. So Alex said, go ahead and charge Weezy for that.

[Mandy]

My name is Benny. Not even. Yeah, but, bruh, the fact that I had water bottles all night and I was dancing for four hours, please. But I'll say this. Me and Blakely were talking, and I was like, listen. I was like, charlamagne's feeling to her, because he really is not that n. And I said, but I do think you should send bottles to Charlamagne on some Drake shit.

[Weezy]

Oh, yeah, he should.

[Mandy]

And I think, like, look, I've been a fan of his content for maybe two or three years, and in the.

[Weezy]

Look of stove, I think he could get it for about 150. He should go ahead and send a liquor sell.

[Mandy]

So I think people can miss. And I think that one just happened to be a miss because all of his content hits for me. He be calling out the White House. He does a very good job at calling out who needs to be called out. But that joke just didn't land because I really don't think Char is that nigga.

[Weezy]

He has. Why are you leaning into it being a joke? It's a joke. He seemed offended. And he called a man homophobic. I don't think that was a joke.

[Mandy]

I mean, I'm hoping it was a joke, okay. Because I don't. I wouldn't have spoken.

[Charlemagne]

And regardless if it was a joke.

[Mandy]

Because he made the joke, he could.

[Charlemagne]

Take it out of life.

[Weezy]

You know what I mean?

[Mandy]

He said something about his boots, and I'm just like, maybe that was it. But okay, so here I do want to talk about the free shit in Cannes a little bit, because at one point, there was a whole day. I haven't had a day in a while. And I challenge everyone to do this day. I talk about this in our master class, which you can go get. It's free. If you order the book before July 1st. You need to try to have a $0 spend day. I was Able to do it in Cannes.

[Weezy]

Me too.

[Mandy]

Holy shit.

[Weezy]

Multiple days. First of all, we got to Friday and I said, bitch, I've been here since Monday in Cannes because I spent two days in Nice. Literally, we got to Thursday and I was like, bro, we may have paid for two meals, drinks, meals.

[Mandy]

Oh, hold on. Every company is basically just taking over every single portion of the beach, taking over a restaurant, and at one point, I heart the Iheart caf. I'm thinking it's just the dinner Mandy and I were at when I walked back in there. Nope. Steak treats. All day, all day. And then when a check didn't come, my nigga looking at me, he said, hold on, let's go. And actually, we do want rappersado. I don't want House to get.

[Weezy]

I get it again.

[Mandy]

N. I couldn't believe it. I did want to talk about this little moment I had in Germany. So I told you, I don't know if I told you in person that I saw Old Bay in Europe for the first time in two years. I'm going to do a little solo episode on Patreon because we need that catch up Megan, him giving my man a hug and saying, treat her well. We'll get a treat her. Anyway, we'll get into it.

[Weezy]

It's that time of year again. Essence Fest is almost here and at&t dreaming Black is doing it big for the culture once again. This year, it's all about celebrating who we are, fostering connections and and inspiring creativity because we made for this culture. And celebrating individuality is deeply important to me because they each shape how we express ourselves while connecting with others. On the podcast, Decisions, Decisions. I create space for real, unfiltered conversations that honor diversity, encourage self discovery, and celebrate what makes each of us different.

[Mandy]

While sharing my truth, individuality and culture are such a big part of my life because every day I prove that we are not a monolith. From my aesthetic, my favorite hobbies, to the music I love, I'm a constant reminder to everyone you can be exactly who you are on the podcast. My authentic living is a true testimony to being any version of yourself out loud. And there is no better place to celebrate than your individuality out loud.

[Weezy]

Then at Essence Fest, AT&T is bringing the vibes all weekend long from exclusive giveaways, next level performances, and in partnership with the Black Effect Podcast network, a live taping of our show, Decisions, Decisions. Yes, y' all will be with us live in person on the AT&T dreaming Blackstage.

[Mandy]

Whether you're into boss moves, Cultural moments or just feeding your soul. AT&T will have something for you at ESSENCE Fest, and we are excited to be a part of it. We are turning up in New Orleans this summer, so come and celebrate with us. And don't miss our live taping on July 5th in the Convention center on the AT&T Dream In Black stage.

[Weezy]

See you there. Connecting changes everything.

[Mandy]

Thanks.

[Weezy]

Well, I wanted to do a quick story about getting to Cannes, because while these flight prices are pricing, while the weather is weathering, while we may be entering World War Three and don't have access to go to other countries, cause shit keep getting on the band list. So y' all know I live in Atlanta now. And so I was like, okay. Where normally I got to add on the tail end. Last year, I added on the tail end and didn't say Tropez and was like, ooh. Well, this year I had to come back because I had to host Juneteenth on the East. Shout out to jb, Shout out to the entire city of Oklahoma City. It was really dope. And now y' all are NBA champs as well.

[Charlemagne]

Hey.

[Weezy]

Hey. And so, literally, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna leave Thursday. I'm gonna get to Nice on Friday. So I have a day in Nice. And then Saturday, I'm gonna do a day in Monaco, and then I'll head to Cannes on Sunday, y' all. I get to the airport. My flight is at 8:50pm on Thursday. It gets. It gets good. It gets good. This is a script, okay? I'm gonna make this into a fucking sketch comedy. If Key and Pill was still on, I'd be like, hey, guys, I got one for you. So I get a direct flight from Atlanta to Nice. Not sure how. I was like, oh, thank God. Because I did not want to do all the layovers in Europe. So I get a direct flight from Atlanta to Nice, leaving Thursday, getting in Friday at noon. I said, this is perfect. So I get to the airport, get there a little early because my luggage is heavy. I'm bringing books. It's fucking. It's. I'm like, this is a heavy goddamn luggage. So I get there early, go to the lounge. Flight gets delayed. I'm like, okay. Supposed to be 8:50. It gets turned to 9:30. Okay? I get to the gate at 9:30. They're like, well, it's now 10:15. Okay, we start boarding. Get on the plane. I'm like, okay, good. We getting out of here now. I might get in at, like, 1 or 2. Whatever. Get on the Plane. I'm sitting here talking to the guy next to me. Cool ass, white dude, tatted up bitch. He gives me the nude beach. I don't know how we got here to the nude beach, but clearly he saw it as one of those. He gives me the nude beach in Nice. I said, yo, we gotta go to the nude beach. We sitting there talking, drinking our wine, getting ready to take off. I'm like, okay, let me put on a movie I could fall asleep to. I put on 10 things I hate about yout.

[Charlemagne]

Oh, good movie.

[Weezy]

Such a good movie. None of them looked like high schoolers. I was like, whoa, how do we hear anyways? So I'm watching 10 Things I Hate About YouTube. We go to take off. I'm like, okay. I fall asleep. Fall asleep in the middle of 10 Things I Hate about you. I get woken up by, okay, guys, we'll be going to the gate. Da, da, da, da. Please make sure you take everything off with you. I'm scared. I'm like, bro, did we have to land in another country? Like, what you mean we going to the gate? I'm like, I'm freaking out. Cause nigga, a bitch been asleep. Now it is 1:30 in the morning. We never left goddamn Atlanta. We're going back to the gate.

[Mandy]

Because how many hours was it from when it was taxi?

[Weezy]

Well, the flight was already delayed by like two hours. And then I guess we were on the tarmac for about another hour, hour and a half. Like, weather was bad.

[Charlemagne]

That sucks.

[Weezy]

Yeah, so it was. So it's. It's 1:30 in the morning, so we all get off and they're just telling us, hey, guys. They'll let you know up details at the gate. Y' all, this is Delta, by the way. I preface that because what happened next made me question who the fuck I was lying. So we get out to the gate and in the most Atlanta fashion, because we have no answers. She says, check in, check in. Hello, Hello. I'm just gonna let y' all know. Cause y' all crew ain't had the balls to tell you, literally, this is on the. The reason y' all ain't taking off tonight is because they didn't want to take the trip. They timed out and said they don't want to take the trip. So let me tell y' all what's about to happen. It's 1:30 in the morning, which means we gotta find y' all a new crew. The chances of that happening at 1:30 in the morning are very high. Give me five minutes. But do not come up here. Your crew chose not to take this flight. Give me five minutes. We're all sitting around, and I'm like, okay. She said, give me five minutes. She come back on, no lie five minutes later. All right, whatever number and email you use, there's a hotel voucher and food vouchers for y' all. Y' all gonna have to go stay in a hotel tonight because we don't think that y' all gonna be able to get out tonight. So I'm looking around, looking around, and they're like, okay, well, none of us could leave. Because even if we get hotels for the night, we don't know what time we got to be back to the airport. So the funniest thing happens. Mind you, this is a direct flight to the south of France. I'm looking at people. Look at these hotels. It's the La Quinta. It's the. It's. It's the Red Roof Inn. Hold on. So see? And here goes Weezy.

[Mandy]

I can't stop there. I can't stay there.

[Weezy]

So literally, I'm across, and they're like, what kind of hotels do they think we're going to stay at tonight? And I'm hearing all these bougie people. I get it, though. Look at the list of. Hold on. And then they give us. Then they give us two food vouchers, $12 a piece, and let us know, y' all better go. The only thing open right now is McDonald's, and they about to close. 1:30 in the morning, McDonald's is the only thing open. And everyone's like, I'm not staying at these hotels. But mind you, it's 1:30 in the morning. So many of these hotels are already booked. We got like two or three options. So I'm listening to all these bougie ass people complain about not wanting to stay at the La Quinta or the Holiday Inn. So then she comes back five minutes later, it is two o' clock in the morning. Because she says, hey, guys, before we get a time that we can land, we have to call air traffic control. Because Nice is such a small airport, they only allow one flight a day. So we need approval to land this plane tomorrow.

[Charlemagne]

Holy shit.

[Weezy]

Bitch. She comes back, flight's officially been canceled, y' all. Y' all gotta figure out how to get there. Cause they not allowing two planes to land tomorrow in Nice. So the desk is down the hall. Good luck, y' all. No, there's nothing she could do. She sent.

[Charlemagne]

She can.

[Weezy]

Now it's 300 people. Literally at 2:30 in the morning.

[Mandy]

Hold on, you doing it too?

[Weezy]

Hold on.

[Mandy]

Oh.

[Weezy]

First off, I called the Diamond Line. I get booked on the next direct flight stop because it's premium. I got lucky. There was one seat left in premium, so there was no extra charge. She put me on.

[Mandy]

That's good.

[Weezy]

I looked up here. Go Atlanta Airport. I'm in the international terminal. So y' all already sending people to hotels. Everyone's on the phone or lined up and it's 300 people. The fucking trains are down. It is a 23 minute walk.

[Mandy]

Air train.

[Charlemagne]

Oh, shit.

[Weezy]

Not only do. Wow. It is a 23 minute walk.

[Mandy]

Oh my God.

[Weezy]

From Terminal E to motherfucking ground transportation.

[Charlemagne]

Not fun at all.

[Weezy]

And then you know you gotta call an Uber at 2:30 in the morning when I tell you so on the way. Oh, walking on the way there. I'm like, well, let me call my hotel in Nice. Cause they better give me a, a refund because I ain't gonna make it there.

[Mandy]

Y' all still be covering it?

[Weezy]

No, no, no. Well, I would just, I'm flattening them with Marriott. So they said, no worries, I'll just modify the reservation. Marriott was great. And so I'm walking and I'm like, wow, the growth. Normally I would have been pissed. My, my, my blood pressure would have been high. I would have been like, just miserable. And as I'm walking them 23 minutes down all the goddamn terminals at the Atlanta airport, I'm like, girl, you came so far. I'm talking to myself at this point. It's 3 o' clock in the morning and I'm like, you know how you normally respond to things. And I'm just like, in my mind, I'm genuinely like, I'm gonna make it there. Cause I'm supposed to be there. And I'm like, there's a reason why we didn't get on that goddamn plane. True. It might be that the new final destination just dropped. I don't know. I've been just.

[Charlemagne]

I don't know about that part.

[Mandy]

Listen, bad weather is bad weather though.

[Weezy]

And I don't quite think that's the.

[Mandy]

Biggest thing I need.

[Weezy]

I don't need the stress of doing that. And I was just like a good attitude. So I got on Saturday, got to spend. I ended up cutting out Monaco, spent the whole day in Nice, got to Cannes the next day and I was just like, everything the entire week.

[Charlemagne]

Yeah. Was fine.

[Weezy]

No, when I say everything that we said we wanted happened, the people we said we wanted to Meet. We met, and I was just like. It's because I came into this week with that energy. Had to be. And it was just like, so great. But no, as I was sitting there, I think it was. I think it was just funny. First off, the lady at the gate talking like this. Assault playing.

[Charlemagne]

I get it, though. She didn't.

[Weezy]

It's not her fault. It wasn't her fault.

[Charlemagne]

She didn't want 300 people to attack her. And thank God, by the way, that you took a nap right before that long walk. At least you were arrested.

[Weezy]

I'm not gonna lie. I was rested.

[Charlemagne]

You was well rested.

[Weezy]

That's probably why.

[Mandy]

Imagine you didn't take a nap.

[Charlemagne]

You gonna be cranky walking all the way down to the ground. Transportation.

[Weezy]

I told you I got home. Cause I forgot my toy.

[Charlemagne]

And you live in Atlanta.

[Weezy]

Still masturbating when I get home.

[Mandy]

I said, all right, bitch. I saw she was canceled.

[Weezy]

Oh, my God.

[Mandy]

Complaining, really? They'll do anything you want. They gave me that same Laquita shit. Bitch didn't stay there. And I said, sorry, this is what I booked. They gave it back, bitch. I started ordering food that they wouldn't let me get. They gave it back.

[Weezy]

Yeah. I was like, you know what?

[Mandy]

I remember when. What was it? I think I was telling y' all. Oh, when we were supposed to make it to another country. What was it? Vietnam. And then we couldn't get in with the visa. We were sitting in the airport, like, what do we do?

[Charlemagne]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

And you know what's crazy?

[Mandy]

I had the same attitude. Like, you know, it's currently together. Yeah, you gotta make it.

[Weezy]

Forgot to tell you about that, too. Cause that almost happened to me and Crystal. Cause we were traveling with Adriana. Adriana has a German passport, so she booked our routing to Vietnam. Bitch. Me and Crystal get there, they say, oh, no. Y' all bitches need visas now. We literally have to expedite it. We? Y' all were there on the weekend. Y' all were there on a weekend. Hey, guys, we're taking a break to talk about Chime. Now, listen, I already know that we are in a rough spot. The world is expensive. Eggs are $36. But fear no more. Chime is here to help you with your finances. This could be overdraft fees, missed payments that you have. Or maybe you're in a position where you just want to save a little bit more. Chime understands that every dollar counts. And that's why when you set up direct deposit through Chime, you get access to fee free Features like free overdraft coverage, getting paid up to two days early with direct deposit and more. I know when I was in corporate America, baby, sometimes I was like, y' all can't pay me a little early. With Chime, you can get paid up to two days early with your direct deposit. Also amazing, they have a 24. 7 customer support. That comes in handy. They have access to 50,000 fee free ATMs nationwide. Open an account in two [e-mail] decisions. That's D E C I S I O N S. Chime feels like progress.

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[Mandy]

I'm trying to think if any fun travel stuff happened with us. No, but the one thing, obviously the old bay story is tea. But that's the whole episode. So there's this club, I don't know if anyone's ever heard of it, listening. It's called Berghain. And actually last week's episode with Jerry, she talks about going in there. Okay, so my man and I are planning this Euro trip. And he is very like. He would rather travel to like Brazil, Japan or South Africa.

[Weezy]

I love that you get him to do everything he don't wanna do. The crews are now Europe.

[Mandy]

Oh, he loves Europe, though. And it's so funny. Cause when we were in Paris together, he's like, I get it now, baby. He's like, I see. Cause he would make fun of me and be like, oh, you like that white shit? The second he got there, he's like, I've seen more niggas than I thought I would like. So we get. We've been listening to a lot of house and more recently techno at a spot called Basement in New York, which I mentioned was in the Baby Girl movie for that crazy club scene. So we're like, all right, we gotta go to the real shit. And I have heard the real shit is in Berlin. This club called Berghain. Berghein is basically this. I don't even know how to describe it. It's maybe five stories warehouse building, a five story dungeon. Imagine.

[Weezy]

So all you got club.

[Mandy]

No, it's just a club. And it's open because you're a dungeon dungeon.

[Weezy]

But I'M like, is there whips and chains?

[Mandy]

But we'll talk about what's in there a little bit because I want to keep the code and get back in one day. Four days. The club is open okay from Thursday to Monday. So we're like talking to people in Germany, like, how do we get in? What's the best way to get in? I spoke to Liz Cambridge because she loves techno and she's like, tell you it today, bitch. You get there Sunday morning, you have brunch, then you stay till Monday morning. I'm like, what's up? I was really worried we wouldn't get in. The door guy, whose name's Fen, actually, he was in John Wick 4. He's a well known doorman. He's in interviews. Everybody's terrified of this guy. I watched this interview. They had to like, dub it. He basically is like, what I do is face control. You can't pay me. No one's gonna convince me you can get in. If I say no, it's me and a team of other people and we decide if you fit the energy for this club. And if you don't, you don't get in. If he says no, there's no talking. There's also TikToks and Reddit threads where you can figure out how to get in. That's Finn. Okay, so basically, when they ask you, how many people are you? You hold up the fingers, you don't speak. They look you up and down. They may ask you what D.J. you know. They may not. They may say, why are you here? Like, you gotta figure out your answer. You wear all black. You don't smoke in line, you don't get on the phone in line. If you can Google rules. I'm telling you, this is what I know.

[Weezy]

This is insane.

[Charlemagne]

This man looks, by the way all the audio listens, very intimidating. Man has face covered in tattoos, snake bites, gray beard, and looks like would crush my skull in a heartbeat.

[Mandy]

And then something interesting he said. He's like, listen, there's places I can't get into because of how he looks, right? Tattoo face. He's like. So there's just places you can't get into. Like, if you don't fit the vibe, you in, it fair. So me and my man get there around 4pm on a Sunday. We heard that's when the line is low because you may be in hours for. For three hours in line. But it's the best club in the world. They say Elon Musk got rejected. It's a whole Thing you can't.

[Weezy]

He's not that attractive.

[Mandy]

No tables. No. But just to say, like, you could be the richest man in the world, right? So we watching people get turned away, and my nigga's like, damn. Like, they kind of look like they fit. Like, why the fuck they ain't get in?

[Weezy]

What the fuck going on?

[Mandy]

So then we get closer. He's like, we the only niggas in this line. We getting in. Ain't no way I'll blow this shit up. I'm, like, not getting in is the fucking culture of this club. So we get to the door, I'm thinking, this guy's an urban myth. I'm thinking, because he's been working there 20 years, I'm not thinking, we gonna see him, bitch. We see you. And I'm like, oh, fuck. Because there are other door guys people talk about, but this is the one. My man's wearing black. Black pants, thick, chunky, like those big Bottega boots, and just some cool shit. He got his shirt open a little bit, so you might see a little nibble ring. I was just wearing all black and leather. So the door guys look at us, say, how many? They look us up and down. He says something in German to the guy next to him. Then they pull out Sven, who's the main guy. He's looking us up and down. They start talking to each other, bro, I didn't know it was gonna take this long. So I was sweating, bitch. I'm like, oh, my God. This feels like racism and oppression. This is too much. And then finally, it's just, boom. One head nod. And does this, like, go in like. Yes. Well, you can't say anything, you know? So he's just walking in, and he's squeezing my arm. I'm like, oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. They cover your phones. This is, by the way, German thing. Phones covered. First thing I see when I get in, literally, a dude with his dick out and wearing wristlets to hold his phone. His ankles.

[Weezy]

Did he go in with his dick out?

[Mandy]

Not sure. But this was another tip I got for anyone going to Berghain. So you bring a bag with you, and they know you're gonna change. The first floor is the coat check. The coat check is so full because everybody's getting undressed. So now, at this point, I told my man, I'm like, I'm taking my pants off. Like, now I want to get undressed because I'm thinking I'm about to walk into a sex club. It's not a sex Club, But I don't know what to call it.

[Weezy]

You walk in, it's a nude club.

[Mandy]

It's not even a nude club.

[Weezy]

If you saw a whole dick, girl, it's a nude club.

[Mandy]

Most people wearing clothes. Some people are not. Some people have their tits out. I don't know what it is. A club. So with nudity, it's not a nude.

[Weezy]

Or you saw a dick and a titty.

[Mandy]

The club has no rules, period.

[Weezy]

A club with no rules?

[Mandy]

No.

[Weezy]

So you could have stuffed your man dick in the club.

[Mandy]

Oh, I'm gonna tell you what I saw a little bit.

[Weezy]

Oh, my God.

[Mandy]

I ain't gonna tell you everything.

[Weezy]

This is a sex club, bro.

[Mandy]

It's not a sex club, okay?

[Weezy]

We not gonna label it. Like, how people don't want to be labeled as sexuality.

[Mandy]

So they say, is it the best club in the world? And I was talking to this black girl in the bathroom who she doesn't know me or you, but she was like, I feel like you do something with someone. Someone I know you. And I'm like, okay, maybe. So I was like, what do you think? She was like, I only came here because I heard it was hard to get in. I wanted to know I could get in. She was like, but I hate techno and I hate house music. She's like, I fucking. I cannot believe how much I love this thing. She's like, it is just the weirdest energy. So basically, we start walking through the club, and my man and I were still geeked off the fact that we got in this shit. We want to talk about it. Like, why you looked at us alone. Did he say n. What did he say? So we're walking by, and there's these little inlets. Like, it looks like closets, but with no door. Private rooms, but only one or two people could fit in. Like, literally, it looked like a box. Like, if you walked in, someone that got in there would have to squeeze.

[Weezy]

And be suffocated or put their dick in you. Yep.

[Mandy]

And that's what I saw. And.

[Weezy]

Oh.

[Mandy]

So we're looking at it, and I'm like, okay, I need to get high now. I need to do some drugs now. Let's do some drugs. So I'm trying to go to the bathroom and do my drugs like a good person. And then finally, I'm waiting online, and someone just pulls some shit out. She's like, would you like some speed? Do you want some speed? I was like, oh, no. And I will go do my ecstasy alone.

[Weezy]

Thank you. Go back out.

[Mandy]

And my man's like, It's 5:45. The club closes at 8am tonight. It's 5:45pm he's like, what are we gonna do? I'm like, I don't know, dude. So one of the rooms ends up closing off a little later into the night, right? So they closed the bathroom. My nigga goes to pee. And this is how he described it, Mandy. He said, right as the gate start closing for the bathroom, I look to my left and it's four niggas in a train fucking each other. He said, I look to my right and I see the gate closing. And I was like, I couldn't even finish my fees. I don't have to get the fuck out of that shit, bro. It is wild. I've never seen anything like this in my life. Then he's telling me the story. I'm laughing. I'm like, I gotta get out of here. Let's go get a drink. I go get a drink. I'm waiting on the bartender. Bartender is standing next to 300 bartenders wearing, like, alt techno clothing. And then the other one comes out fully naked with a huge, huge rabbit's foot hanging from the chain on his dick. And he says, oh, where are you from? What you like to drink? And I'm like, dick water. I don't. Bitch. What? Dick out, bitch.

[Weezy]

Wait, are all the bottles okay? Sorry, this is where my mind went. Are all the bottles at least on the wall, like, above them? Cause all I'm thinking is, as a former bartender, sometimes it's his fingers. Is his dick slaying possibly touching the tops of the bottles where it pours out? I just would like to.

[Charlemagne]

Also. Also, is it, like, sacrilegious to share bottles there? Because that was a problem earlier in this episode.

[Mandy]

Oh, there's no tables. Okay. Everyone's. I just wanted to make sure there's no tables. There's no way you can pay to get.

[Charlemagne]

I don't want to touch anyone's bottle there.

[Mandy]

There's no vip. There is no exclusiveness.

[Weezy]

I don't know. Honestly, unless the bottles are coming from above you, I don't know if I want a dick slanging by my bottle.

[Mandy]

Well, no choice, bitch. And you know what else is crazy? This club is so true to the fact that no one's above anyone. When the DJ walked in, he walked in through the front door. I saw people bugging out about him. No. Oh, well. He then climbed up a ladder to get to a section to put his things down and climbed down the ladder to get to the fucking, bro. Best sound system I've ever heard. I've never. I was just, wow, it was a lot.

[Weezy]

And then it's an unlabeled sex club.

[Mandy]

I don't think it's a sex club, bro.

[Weezy]

Your man said four niggas was training each other in the bathroom.

[Charlemagne]

That sounds sex clippy to me.

[Weezy]

The bartender had a rabbit's tail hanging from his dick.

[Charlemagne]

His dick was out.

[Mandy]

Okay, so maybe 1500 people could be in this club. I think it's just a very free for all.

[Weezy]

I love how he's calling it free.

[Charlemagne]

I mean, it is a free for all.

[Mandy]

I really don't think it's a sex club. I swear to God. Like, there's no. There's no gun, but there's nowhere to fuck.

[Weezy]

There's clearly a lot of places to fuck. The bathroom, the little slits in the wall.

[Mandy]

I think the slits in the wall is just cool.

[Weezy]

To me though. I think it's. To me, I would say, and maybe because we. We in Europe, but to me, if I'm going to a place that's not a sex club, like you and I are liberated. To me, if I'm going to a club, I don't believe that I'm going to see anybody's dick or anyone's thing. Like, to me that's like, that's bitch. That's sexual assault technically.

[Mandy]

But they're sex.

[Weezy]

It's harassment sexual. That's why.

[Mandy]

That is why all of these people are judged based on if they fit the vibe. Maybe you will see four fucking niggas fucking each other. Are you going to be weird about it?

[Weezy]

I don't know how one guy with face tattoos can determine that.

[Mandy]

Well, no, no, no, no. Apparently. And I don't know, like now after we got in, we've just been googling like trying to figure out about this club. There's a rumor online that he's been paid to like do the most, like curate vibes and like do shit like that. Like, I actually think that you can do that. I think for 20 years, if you've been running one of the most well known clubs in the world, yes, I do think you can do that. I think I could look at somebody and be like, you ain't about this life 100%. I think we all could do that.

[Weezy]

And I think in my first 30 seconds of just looking at someone where you can't say words, which means you can't have a conversation and you're just looking at.

[Mandy]

Energy is energy, bro. For example, there's a clip of Peggy Goo. She's a really dope DJ who was talking to another DJ on BBC. And the girl goes, how do I get in? She was like, you got to look ready. And the other girls, huh? I agree, I agree. I think you gotta know. So then we start talking about this, right? I talked to my homeboy who runs Jerkin Jollof Shout out to Asante. He's like, damn, nigga, you got in. I didn't get in. And I'm like, how? Because I'm thinking he's a handsome looking guy. And he's like, it had to be the people I was with. So I'm like, all right. Now, I don't think he means black shit. I think he means he throws an Afrobeats party, basically, right? Afrobeats and dancehall. So if you bring in niggas from the club with you, how are they dressed? Are they dressed in just like regular hood shit? Like, what they looking like? Because you really got to fit the bill for people that like this music, for people that do this, like, you can't look like a first timer. And I heard them say to the guy before us, have you been here before? And he said, no. And they talked and then they still let him in. But he kind of had a little vibe.

[Charlemagne]

The vibe?

[Mandy]

Yeah. And I think that if more people did this instead of being, for example, little sisters Adore in New York that a lot of people can't get into, they're known notoriously for letting in skinny model girls. And it's turned into this whole cool kids culture. But it used to be a cool club, but it's not really anymore. What if it was just based off people that looked like they were ready to fucking dance and that were cool? Not hot, cool, fat, whatever, short, Just a cool motherfucker instead of skinny model white.

[Weezy]

But I think even cool is subjective. I do want to shout out to OKC because I found out they do something called an unction. And it's a 30 and up crowd. You cannot get in unless you are 30 plus. And she's 27. So she was like, ooh, you got to be 30. And she said it like it was real old. And I was like, did you go? I didn't. I was so tired. I had just landed from France, had to go from France to okc, hosted the whole festival. I was like, ain't no way I'm making it out. But she was telling me about the auction and I said, yo, such a good name. I love that name. And what I'm realizing too, is 30 and up crowds are loving R and B. It's why almost the only time I go out, even in Atlanta, we looking for the R and B parties. And I'm like, damn, that's a good name. I said, because I like a little 30 nup crowd. Although I do like my yns too. But the y n's in the south dress a little too ynish for me.

[Mandy]

Oh, I think the YNs everywhere do. And you know what? Learn that in London.

[Weezy]

The Y n the fantasy and drill.

[Mandy]

Hood, like that culture of, like, Drill, like dog central. See, look, let me tell you something.

[Weezy]

Hate it crossing the street. Hate it not crossing the street.

[Mandy]

Mandy. I don't like them. I'm laughing down, Lori. I'm sorry if I sound like a fucking Karen. Me and my nigga are mid-30s. The other day we saw some niggas, we were walking Nina. I said, get him out of here. Go left. I don't want to he laughing. He's like, you said, I'm like eight niggas bunched up 13 years old after school. But you never. And marijuana. Get him out.

[Charlemagne]

And marijuana.

[Weezy]

Hell no, I ain't gonna hold you to me, it's. It's not fashion. I hate it. The jeans are. And here's my problem with the yn Fashion in Atlanta, like, me and my friend now have a where when we go out, we literally try to decipher who's hetero and who's not. The YN look is a mix between, yes, real hood, but in Atlanta, they bedazzle shit.

[Mandy]

That's cute.

[Weezy]

And they wear shit. No. And then it be crop top. Like, it go right there. So I'm like, you got the crop top.

[Mandy]

Y under me in my head is like that.

[Weezy]

Hold on. No, no, no.

[Mandy]

Let me finish.

[Weezy]

So it'll be bedazzled tight with the crop top. And then still a ski mask.

[Mandy]

We're.

[Weezy]

It's 90 degrees.

[Charlemagne]

Oh, that's a. Okay for Atlanta. That's what that is.

[Weezy]

Wow, bro. It's the white. It looks like the drown.

[Mandy]

That's confusing for these. The way the drill rappers are.

[Weezy]

Not the way the drill rappers dress. Don't like it. Like, you know, I don't like it either.

[Mandy]

I went, you know, like, if, you know, like, I went to Paris for Fete de la Musique. It's this thing I went. Ran into on accident. It's basically just music day. It started in the 70s where free concerts were all over the streets in France, and now it's turned into people could just play music from their homes. Like you basically follow the street to different sounds. It's so much fun. So my homeboy invites me to this party. Me and my nigga about to pull up. I want to say it was sponsored by Snipes or Nike. And it's free, right? We got up there, I see 30N with Travis Scott braids and Nike tech. I said we're not going. They're going to be shooting. We are not yelling, y' all, bitch, I'm going to crazy. I'm going to Daily Paper, bitch. I'm going to motherfucking Everyday People. I am not going down. Shit. Y' all niggas ain't gonna be trying to kill me, ho.

[Weezy]

It's funny. I've been trying to figure out where to go in Atlanta because it's mix. I do want to go where the YNS are. Not the ones that dress like the Y. But y' all know I like me a little Y N so I've been trying to go there. And then also the mature crowd so been hitting the cigar, the cigar bars. So it's like been interesting trying to figure out where the hell just to go out where. Yeah, what a funk. You know, people, you know, make sense.

[Charlemagne]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

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[Weezy]

Let's get into y' all. We are now authors. We authors, baby.

[Mandy]

Congratulations.

[Weezy]

We're gonna get into a little bit of the book to share with y' all some things, talk about it, and really hopefully get y' all just as excited as we are that the book is now out, that you get to read all the things we shared. We be vulnerable on the podcast, but we even more vulnerable in the book.

[Mandy]

And listen, you may just be a listener that doesn't really care about reading anything about us. You don't need to care about Mandy and Weezy to read this. It's really that good of a book. I will say different compliments I received from this book. Last night when Shara hit me, he said, everyone that loved Zayn will love this book. Um, one of my other homegirls said, I kind of feel like I'm reading a self help book for help that I didn't ask for. But now I kind of like it. Like, I like reading about tips about bdsm. She's like, I like reading about these heartbreak tips. She's like, I feel like I'm married, but just reading on how I should have done things feels good. And I think it's all of this juicy detail about someone that you don't know. But it's nonfiction, and when we read nonfiction, we're normally reading it to better our money or mental health. We never think about nonfiction for the sex.

[Weezy]

Yeah. So I'm, like, excited for y' all to dig in. I wanted to break up real quick some conversations for us based on the sections of the book just so that we can maybe add some element to it, tell them something they may not know, get deeper into something. So I wanted to start with pleasure, because pleasure outside of our introduction is where the book starts. And so for pleasure, I wanted you to share your favorite moment in the book from this section. It could be a sentence, a tip, or a specific story about a certain person. So for me specifically, my three chapters in the pleasure portion are about masturbation, being a unicorn on vacation, and anal sex, which I love. Y' all actually had something to do with that chapter title. We literally leaned into something that was said on the podcast when Vinnie joined us. The ca and I put it back there. That's the title of that chapter. But I wanted to actually add, because this is a Story told on the podcast. Y' all remember when I took my solo trip to Mexico and became a unicorn for a couple? And it was just super wonderful. This chapter, even though you've heard the story on the podcast, I kind of tied into the fact that so many of us maybe stop ourselves from exploring or doing things that we want to do because of how. How we think people will perceive us. So that chapter, the theme is about, would this have happened if I came with friends? Would this have happened if I was thinking too much about what the people on the boat would have thought about me for staying on this island with strangers? Would I have got to experience this dope ass experience of a weekend had I let what public perception would have took about this experience from me? And so I really lean into, hopefully the reader from that reading that chapter, the reader gets that, damn, how many times did I not shoot my shot because I was in fear of rejection? How many times did I not date this person because I just knew my friends wouldn't like him or my mama wouldn't like him? And I want to make all those people happy instead of choosing my own happiness first? So that was like, I would say my favorite chapter of the pleasure section, but also the theme that I was able to bring around a story that y' all already heard on the pod.

[Mandy]

I think the pain section will be people's favorite because it jumps around.

[Weezy]

Oh, no, I wanna get the pain too.

[Mandy]

No, no, no, I know, I'm just saying. But I think the pleasure, starting with the pleasure, is really fun because when you pick up a book like this, that's what you expect to read. I think for me, one that I haven't really discussed, the safety chapter, you don't really hear me talk a lot about. But I'm thinking about it because we did the Breakfast Club this morning and I kind of forgot about how necessary it is for. So in the safety chapter, I referenced needing a devil and an angel on your shoulder. Mine is Vinny and Breonda. And I know if I'm about to do some crazy shit, I'mma call Vinny and he gonna be like, bitch, go fuck that nigga Breonda. Be like, oh my goodness. Okay, well, I'm here. She'll never tell me. No, she'll never judge. And I think surrounding yourself with that community in your pleasure seeking journey, there does need to be someone else other than you. Because a lot of the inner turmoil I'd experienced with sexuality was because I didn't have anyone to relate to. And many times People kind of shame you for it, or you feel like they're gonna talk behind your back. Many of us have a group of a few friends, and I actually just recently said, I don't know if you've had this experience recently, but it's such a good place of comfort. My homegirls are in a group chat with me, and I was telling them something dumb. I did, and they were about to go to lunch. I was like, I know y' all folks about to talk about me. And they were like, lol. And we are. With a smile. And I was like, damn, I am in such a good, safe place. And you don't really get here until you're in your 30s. Right. There's always a bitch who can't stand something wrong. And it feels good to know that I've built that for myself, much like Chosen Family. So in the pleasure chapter, just knowing I got to do something fun and then sneak and call a friend, and having that safety net like, it didn't hit me that that was that pivotal for this book.

[Weezy]

Now, there's off the cusp question. There's sex throughout the book. Is there a sexual experience or story.

[Mandy]

That you wish made the book Cheating on Obey? Probably.

[Weezy]

Okay. Okay. For me, I think, and I question myself. Y' all know I told y' all the story about the editor not allowing me to be the bisexual bitch that I am.

[Mandy]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

Um, and so I did, at one point, want to make a story about my frivolous casual sex with women, because back in Miami. And it's so funny, because this story just. I don't remember who I was talking to. I think I was talking to somebody.

[Mandy]

Where were you gonna put it?

[Weezy]

No, it would have been a new story. It would've been a new chapter. But I remember having this conversation about what the club scene is like now. And I was like, yeah, man. Back when I lived in Miami, I remember being able to eat coochie in the. In the bathroom stalls. They were like, wait, how did you eat pussy in the bathroom stalls? I said, yo, but I did it twice. No, maybe three times. Twice in play. Well, okay. I did it twice in play. Once at Jerry's. If y' all know Jerry's. If y' all in your 30s. Jerry's was the diner on south beach that is no longer open. And then I ate pussy. I shared the story.

[Mandy]

Is it a class from story?

[Weezy]

No. Story was this side of the beach. No, it was down the other side. And then I ate pussy. Y' all heard the story when I Went to tootsies. And so I'm literally like, talking about the club scene. I was like, yeah, I used to eat pussy in the stalls. Da da da da. And so I go to start talking about, like, my ex girlfriend Amiya that I dated when I was in Miami. And what that. And I was like, damn, okay. I realized that there was this questionable part of me and it didn't make it in there because I was like, I'm not changing none of my chapters, but for me, I was like, damn, if I really could have shared all the wild, random sex with women I had, like, on the dock in tootsies and stalls, I was like, wow. I actually don't have those stories with a lot of men.

[Mandy]

Like, bro, that's because of safety. That's a good point to, like, bring up.

[Weezy]

It's like, I don't know if it was safety, bro. We in the bathroom, I was on my knees like crazy.

[Mandy]

They could take me to give me head and for some reason make me feel insane. I don't know if I would let a man just take me in the bathroom to do strangers.

[Weezy]

Yes. I mean, my. Yes. I've done it with, like, people that I've met.

[Mandy]

Safety is the thing, okay? Like, the way that I've learned how women respond to me, it's not because I'm the baddest bitch in the world, even though I'd like to think so. Women feel safer with women. Like, we are fucking Aria's all safe.

[Weezy]

So we able to eat each other pussy because we feel safe. Bitch in the club.

[Mandy]

Safety ho.

[Weezy]

Shout out to also all the women who have sucked dick in the club. Good for you. But yeah, you're right. Safe space to eat pussy in a club.

[Mandy]

By the way, the reason I would want to add the old BAE thing is because, oh, this sounds so terrible. I can't really want to say this out loud. Say it. I feel like a lot of people feel really bad for me after reading that chapter. And I had some bad moments, but I had another boyfriend. Like, I was okay, which I was really living it up. Like, I thought he was going to be my central relationship because it looked so good on paper. And I didn't really think I needed much more for stability for me in the beginning of that relationship, I really didn't focus on. I always thought everything could be fixed, which isn't true. Like, I always just kind of thought, hey, great, on paper, we'll fix this other shit, I'll go to therapy, I'll figure it out. But this is a great catch to the point where I didn't really care about much else. Now, I didn't need a relationship that badly. I was having so much fun in my life, and it stumbled on one. But at that particular time I met him, I was coming off of scissors, rebounding a little bit, and I felt like I needed that with a man, and I felt like he was a perfect man for it. And I also had a lot of fun with him. But the chapter, when I read it back, and it's the one that people talk to me about the most, it does feel sad, but I really was getting fucked like I had two other niggas. Like, I really was getting my lick back in real time. But I felt like bringing it up in the chapter would muddy how terrible he was. So I needed people to know he wasn't shit before I told you that you weren't shit.

[Weezy]

That's crazy.

[Mandy]

I didn't start until he started.

[Weezy]

That's crazy.

[Mandy]

Sorry.

[Weezy]

For pain, we talk enjoyment, consequences, and trauma. Why did we. And I want to talk to the. To the audience here. Why did we feel it was important in this pain section to include BDSM or the pleasure of pain?

[Mandy]

I think it was because we definitely knew we didn't want to make this book too dark. And so the way of making it fun, Pain, pleasure, like, it went hand in hand, and someone. And sometimes, to be truthful, when I say pleasure and pain, I don't think of heartbreak pain. I think of sex pain. So I think when the reader picks this up, they're like, ooh, pleasure and pain. So when you fucking hear about a story that's violent, you're like, oh, shit. I think that is the unexpected part of pain.

[Weezy]

I know we got our trigger warnings, too. And I love that Lauren on Breakfast Club was like, really love that y' all included these trigger warnings. Cause when you're reading a book and you get into hearing about fucking a couple and eating pussy and taking dick in your ass, and then you get to a sexual assault chapter, it's like, whoa. So you guys do have the trigger warning to be able to flip through the book on your own time. Because we definitely don't want to trigger you while you read this. But, yeah, it was important for us to include that. And it's in the masterclass. I decided to do a whole breakdown of bdsm. And then the dungeon that I'm actually speaking about in the book, get the masterclass. I have a whole video in the exact room. So the way I describe the Space and what it looks like. You actually have a visual representation of the rig that suspended me in the air. And I literally also bring out the chastity belt that I put my ex's dick in. And you also get to see the thing that electrocuted me. So the electro play toy is there. Everything is in the masterclass. So again, make sure you get that. It's only available till July 1, and then for free. For free for all of y' all. Progression Healing is a journey. Where do you think you still have the most work to do? Like, even based on the stories you narrated in your progression part, is there anyone that still seems like a work in progress?

[Mandy]

I think myself is the work in progress for the story, particularly about depression and suicide and all that stuff. I'm such a happy person in my day to day that it doesn't really come up often, but when it does, it's hard to get out of it because I'm so emotional. When I'm happy, I'm so happy. I'm not just content, I'm excited and I'm screaming it at you. I feel like more recently in my life, Jess just said it to me when we were walking out of the Breakfast Club. You look really good. And I was like, oh. Cause I'm just really happy. Like, that's my answer. It's continually. I'm really happy and I feel it in and out. And I lost 10 pounds that added to it. Everybody keeps saying, oh, you look great. I don't know what you're talking about. I got it off. Now what I will say when those sad moments come, I then almost retract back to, like, this dark place of who I was, because it can really take me down. So some of the tools that I've used that I even talk about how I talk about what my therapist did for me, automatic thoughts, how to fix them. Sometimes I forget. I forget how to use them. And I really need to start practicing what I preach all the time. This week we're gonna be doing so much extra work. I'm sure it may take my bad thoughts down. Like, for example, I don't know if this has ever happened to someone. It happened to me last night and I was able to get through it. So I knew I had to go to bed by a certain time because makeup was 6:45. We had the Breakfast Club at 9, whatever. Right around 10:45, I'm like, oh, if I keep staying up, I'm only gonna have 7 hours and 15 minutes of sleep. Oh, if I'M still awake. I'm only have six hours of sleep. Then I went to the bathroom, and I see the clock is 4:00am I'm like, oh, wow. So now I only have 90 minutes. Like, the way that my brain starts to spiral is so awful. And I can't stop myself sometimes. And I think that is the biggest piece of work for me. How am I talking to myself when I'm stressed out? When I wake up every day, I talk to people.

[Weezy]

I just talked about going through the airport. That's the thing that I'm, like, so glad that I have in control.

[Mandy]

I did that a little bit when with the Breakfast Club today, actually. And I helped myself. So I inverted the address, y' all. I left my house early. I was so proud of myself. Got to 1 25th instead of 125 West 55th. What was it? The second I started seeing Harlem, I'm like, this don't feel right. And after it got fixed, I'm looking at the clock. I'm watching it go from 32 minutes to get there to 29 minutes to get there. I'm late. I'm embarrassed. I'm like, like, oh, yeah, they were.

[Weezy]

Trying to start without you. And I was like, no, let's.

[Mandy]

I guess only six minutes.

[Weezy]

You were 40 minutes late?

[Mandy]

No, no, six minutes from when we were recording.

[Weezy]

Oh, as soon as you got there, we started.

[Mandy]

But yeah, I got there at 9:36. They said 9:30 start.

[Weezy]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They were ready. Yeah, they were ready to go at night. Oh, no, they were ready to go at night.

[Mandy]

Well, I'm glad. I didn't know that. It would have gave me anxiety.

[Weezy]

But, yep.

[Mandy]

I literally had to say to myself, this is a mistake. It happened. If I start to get upset, then it's gonna throw the vibe out with the both of us. It's gonna read on my face. I'm not gonna be able to help talk about this book. Cause I'm gonna be so overworked and upset. I can't think about it. I made a mistake. I gotta accept my fate. I'm gonna get there. It's gonna be great. Everything will be okay. Like, it's tough. Cause we are our biggest critic. And I'm about to tear myself up in the car and fuck all this shit up. Fuck all this energy up. Not just for myself, but everybody else around me. So, like, yeah, my thoughts get dark, dude. And when they do, I've just got to learn how to be better about it. And talking about that in the book was very freeing. Just about, hey, like, life goes on. Everything will end up being good, I think.

[Weezy]

Yeah, that's. That's where I've had the most work. I used to get worked up on hoping that people showed up how I wanted them to show up or do as I wanted them to do or be who I wanted them to be. Whether it be a partner, whether it be you, whether it be a friend, whether it be my mom, my dad, my dad, definitely. That's a whole nother story. And now I just exist where I'm like, people are in their own worlds. I have my own world. I can't make anyone get out of the own world that they exist in. I said, so I just have to exist with my own thoughts. I only have control over how I show up. And like I said, even when that plane canceled, I talked to my best friend the next morning. She's like, ooh, bitch, I know you was tight. And I said, actually, friend, I wasn't. Everything that happened was completely out of my control. And I said the only thing that I could control was how I felt in the moment. And I said, at that moment, I made the decision. You're not gonna be mad. There was nothing you could do. You gonna get home, you gonna go to sleep. You're gonna take the flight tomorrow, and hopefully everything works out. And that's been such a freeing thing to get to. Like, I used to be in therapy. Like, I don't understand, like, why this. And I would just get so upset that things didn't happen the way I thought everything should happen. And now that I just be like, okay, well, there's nothing you can do. Don't even get mad at this person. Just allow them to be who they are. You are who you are. You can only control who you are. How do you want to be today? Do you want to be upset? Do you want your energy to be off? Do you want to be nasty? Because if you don't want to be, those things show up. The way that, like, allows you to have a good day.

[Mandy]

And you gotta feel like you're having a good day. Everything just kind of works out. Like, I talked about this before, bringing up the manifestation visualization rituals I did on the master class. But, like, in my story, I'm headed to the airport. I had to leave earlier because I had a meeting. So my man is still in bed on our original flight. But I had to get to New York, you know, And I'm tight because we went out the night before, and we're all cuddled up and I got to get up at 6am I'm on the way to airport. Mandy, not even joking, the Uber driver says, excuse me, excuse me, hey, one moment. And he points to the wheel of his car, like outside. And I'm like, okay, one moment. He starts to blow up his shit with a little bike pump. I'm like, dawg, I'm fucking late. I'm already in a bad mood because I lost my first class seat because I switched my flight. This is total rich people problems. And let me tell you something, I don't care. This flight I paid for my seat on because I said, hey, Mandy and I are doing a breakfast club right after this trip. And we have press every single day. I'm gonna spend this money on my seat cause I deserve to lay down. Lost the seat cause I had to fucking leave early. So fucking tire boom, blows out. Then on the highway, tire goes out again. I gotta get another Uber. 13 minutes to get this other Uber. It's me and the luggage. While I'm rolling the luggage to the car, there was so much cobblestone.

[Weezy]

Boop. Wheel falls off, wheel falls off.

[Mandy]

It's now I'm lugging 60 pound bag. Stressed. Mandy, just, oh, get to the airport. Flight is at 9:30. I'm there at 8:27. You know, the bag don't go on if it's not an hour before I run. I get there, my seat was 34. J, not lying to you. Get to the thing. She hands me my ticket. There's four A on the ticket. And I'm like, oh my God. And she goes, I guess people didn't make it, so you gotta Upgrade it to first class. N. I paid $600 for that seat. Do you know how much I paid for the one before?

[Weezy]

47.

[Mandy]

I was like, dog, this is just good karma. Cause you know what my text message was to my man about the flight? Fuck it. I said, this is shitty. I'm in a hot ass car. This nigga ain't got ac. It's my second car. I had to grab on the highway. And I wrote, but God damn, I had a great time. Life is good. Book comes out tomorrow.

[Weezy]

Boom.

[Mandy]

The way that we are starting to move through life, I don't know if it's something we could have done in the beginning of the show. I've had a chip on my shoulder about so many things. I've had so much anger, so much confusion. Why isn't it happening to me? Just letting that shit go like life is good. I'M going to be tired this week. You're going to get on my nerves. I'm going to get on your nerves?

[Weezy]

Absolutely.

[Mandy]

Damn. All right.

[Weezy]

I mean, it already happened, you know. You know, timeliness. I'm. I'm at the thing. She's like, girl, I went to Harlem. I switched the address. 24 minutes away. I'm like. And the thing is. So I was just like. But, you know, I was the only person. I'm like, we got a long week. Yeah, she gonna get here. And I literally was like.

[Mandy]

And, you know, I got anxiety to tell Mandy that, because I know how she feels about time, let alone fucking Charlamagne and Breakfast Club.

[Weezy]

And it's our first thing.

[Mandy]

I don't want to stop the week's day back. And I hate that that's the first place my brain went. But it's like, what are you gonna. What can you do, man? You gotta just be happy. And at the end of the day, this shit just came out. I fucked up. But guess what? We still did a Breakfast Club. It sucks I was late, but this just happened. Like, I really wanna just feel good about my life instead of putting myself in this I hate everything mode.

[Charlemagne]

Every flight goes through turbulence. Like, you gotta go through shit.

[Mandy]

Not every flight with the me calm down.

[Weezy]

I don't been on some flights where I ain't feel the shaking. Okay.

[Charlemagne]

You ain't get to the first flight.

[Mandy]

There we go.

[Weezy]

Where were you? I'm just saying.

[Mandy]

Oh, no. I went home.

[Weezy]

Let's be very clear. I live in Atlanta.

[Charlemagne]

The best thing is that you got.

[Mandy]

To go home and run out. You know, Atlanta. Play with bodies to the city, and there's, you know, JFK and E. You know. You know, you in that hole for an hour. Atlanta's a really. They set their airport up. Even though it's a maze, it's convenient to the city. That is one thing that Atlanta has.

[Charlemagne]

Not when the train's not working.

[Weezy]

I was about to say, or not. If you gotta go on the outskirts, I just happen to live centrally. But, yeah, no, that shit is.

[Mandy]

I don't know about that. Where did she go out?

[Weezy]

What happened? I'm just playing the last question that I want to ask. And I brought this up on the Breakfast Club, but it was just so powerful to me when I think about, like, how everything pans out. So we're in the south of France. The last thing that I do for my trip, I went to, like, this beautiful villa. It's funny, because I'm so American, I kept calling it the Strip, but it's the Croisset.

[Mandy]

I'm sorry.

[Weezy]

I was calling the Strip the Strip. Like, the Croisset.

[Charlemagne]

Okay.

[Weezy]

But I was like, yeah, on the Strip, because that's what you. We used to call South Beach.

[Mandy]

Basically, the beach is a really long road. Maybe it's like a mile and a half. You have all the restaurants, and you have all the shops. So I call it a trip.

[Weezy]

Look like south beach to me. Just in the south of France. So I go to this thing, shout out to Sharon. I was invited. She was on my flight, saw me sitting down. I got invited to do this salon culture conversation, and it was just really dope.

[Mandy]

What's the company?

[Weezy]

It's Salon Culture Conversation. Salon Culture Conversation.

[Mandy]

Because, you know, everybody hosts something, and.

[Weezy]

I go to this villa up in. Oh, my God, it's so gorgeous. And we get to this last thing. It's like a kind of, you know, relaxing thing for the end of the week. And this lady comes up and starts talking. And her tone, everything was just so beautiful. And she has this bag that she starts handing around. She's like, pull out a card. People start pulling out cards, and I want to read the card. I literally took a picture of it because I was like, wow. So I pull out this card, and it said, when did you know your story has power? And I immediately read it, and my eyes get watery, and at this point, I'm like, bitch, is you drunk? Like, you had that much. Why is this making you so emotional? And it made me so emotional because immediately I'm like, my story is right here in this book. Like, I knew it had power when I was able to quit my job and do this for a living. Like, I quit my career in 2019, and I don't even want to call it a job because I fucking bust my ass in school for four years, got two degrees, and was like, this is about to be my career. I finally made it. And now I left that and have been doing what I've been doing based on my story. Charlamagne doesn't give us the opportunity to have this book if we weren't sharing our story every goddamn week on this podcast. And so when I read that card in front of. There was probably maybe 20, 25 other people there. And I start sharing about this book and, like, what it has meant over the last year and a half to write it, what it's meant over the last eight years to be on a podcast and share it. And right before coming to this, to this event, I'm at the Martinez on the Strip. And this girl comes up and is like, mandy, it's you. Her eyes start watering, and she's like this. She's like, I don't wanna cry. I just want you to know that you helped me get through a really dark time with a breakup. And just. Thank you. And then we just embraced and hugged, and we both just started bawling. And I was like. That's when I knew my story had power. From the meet and greets to us going on tour, to us really being able to meet the people that we've had impact on. I was like, baby, it's powerful. And I know, like, people be in the comments and have their talks about, we need to go to therapy. We'll be single forever. No one's gonna want us. Well, or me, whatever. I'll speak for myself. It's just really. It meant so much to not only pull this card, but get that story right before it. And now, all week, we get to talk about our goddamn stories in a motherfucking book. And for it to end with power. To say power. That's what this book ends with. And I was like, oh, my God. Every. Hey, universe, I see you. And it's just been that. Everything has been, like, so amazing. So y' all getting the book this week? We're putting it in the air. We authors, but we gonna be New York Times bestsellers because we rock. Y' all rock with us.

[Mandy]

And it's time.

[Weezy]

What happened?

[Mandy]

I said, Cause we live in New York and it's time.

[Weezy]

That too. That too. But I'm just really excited about this book. And I don't know if you have a different story, but I wanted to, literally.

[Mandy]

No, I think it's.

[Weezy]

How did you know? Your story has power.

[Mandy]

No, no, listen to us.

[Weezy]

Okay.

[Mandy]

Good story.

[Weezy]

Well, guys, the book of that motherfuckers, by the way, just got word. If you're listening to this. If you're listening to this. Today, Brooklyn, we sold out. So we're excited to see y' all tonight at Word Bookstore in Brooklyn. However, if y' all want to see us in Philly, pull up Wednesday. That's tomorrow, the 25th, y' all pull up to Uncle Bobby's in Philly. We will be there from 7 to 8:30, signing books, meeting and greeting with y' all, and really, really excited to touch y' all and feel y' all.

[Mandy]

Remember what Saucy Santana said?

[Weezy]

What? What?

[Mandy]

Meeting and greeting. Charlamagne was like, you outside. He was like, I'm just meeting and greeting.

[Weezy]

We meeting and greeting y' all at Uncle Bobby's on Wednesday. And then Thursday, y' all, we are at State.

[Mandy]

Solid State Books.

[Weezy]

Solid State Books. There we are having a conversation. So Weezy and I will be joined by our co author, Tempest X. And we will be having a conversation where y' all also get to do Q and A with us as well as signing your books. And then Friday, y' all, New Haven, Connecticut, at the Pride center, we'll be doing a conversation with. What is it? Black girls read books too or.

[Mandy]

No, no, no. Not Black girls read books. Black.

[Weezy]

Black kids.

[Mandy]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

Hold on. Let me make sure. Let me make sure I handle.

[Mandy]

I don't know how nasty we fin, because I think my boyfriend parents going to that Connecticut water.

[Weezy]

Hold on. I wanna make sure I get his name. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Black kids with 2ds. Read 2. So Da Kid PG will be interviewing us about the process of writing the book. And then we will also be signing those. Also, if you are in Atlanta, meet me at 44th and 3rd Bookstore on Sunday, 3pm right after the brunch, baby. I'll be with Tempest X, as well as a nice friend of mine, moderating. And then Weezy, on Tuesday, you got.

[Mandy]

Coins and you gotta go to Atlanta to LA. July 2nd, I'm gonna be with our girl Shan Booty at Reparations Bookstore. Shan's gonna be interviewing me, but I thought it might be fun. Cause my mom is there.

[Weezy]

Oh, that'll be fun.

[Mandy]

I'm gonna do a little second since she went viral for talking about stroking. And a man at Ralph's on Wilshire.

[Weezy]

Asked her about that. That's crazy.

[Mandy]

How does it get for no one that knows? My mom said everyone loves that.

[Weezy]

And then, guess what? Really, really, really excited to let y' all know, bitch, we will be at Essence Festival. We going to motherfucking New Orleans, baby. There we go. There we go. There we go. Well, I want to wait till you sit down so I can shout out our sponsor. Well, shout out to AT&T, Drew and Black Sage. Not only are they bringing us at the Dream and Black stage, we will be sitting with the Kandi Burris. Really excited to be talking to Kandi. Y' all know I'm a housewives, Stan. So we'll be having a conversation with her. And also, AT&T is supporting us as authors. So if you come to Essence Festival while supplies last, you can go to the AT&T booth and get no Holds Barred. A dual manifesto of sexual exploration. And power. Also, right after our live show, we will be signing books. So you can bring it, you can buy it again, support a local bookstore, or if you go to the Marketplace at Essence Fest, as while supplies last, you could pick it up. I also believe Gilead is also sponsoring books for that weekend as well.

[Mandy]

So maybe we make it. Stay tuned. We're gonna be having some really cool talks about hiv, black women and how to stay safe, sponsored by Gilead, who are copping some books for all the girls that need to read, too. So come and see us on Saturday. Interviewing Kendall. Kendalli when you walk.

[Weezy]

And there we go, y' all. Thank you all so much for tuning in to yet another episode of Decisions, Decisions.

[Mandy]

Bye. This is an iHeart podcast.