EP. 431: The Problem With Ordering Fajitas, Good Nut, & Fertility Rituals

Summary

Podcast Title: Decisions, Decisions
Hosts: Mandii B and WeezyWTF
Episode: EP. 431: The Problem With Ordering Fajitas, Good Nut, & Fertility Rituals
Release Date: July 28, 2025

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1. Broadway Experiences: A Deep Dive into “Othello”

Timestamp: [01:56] – [05:40]

Mandii B shares her recent experience attending the Broadway adaptation of “Othello” starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. She expresses both excitement and frustration, particularly regarding the high ticket prices and complications due to her kidney infection, which forced her to watch part of the show from a TV downstairs ([02:50]).

Notable Quotes:

• Mandii B: “Othello is Denzel. So, bitch, next scene, Othello pull up to the room his bitch sleep. He kissed her.” ([09:46])
• Weezy: “I don't think you need it.” ([12:01])

Mandii critiques the set design and the blending of modern elements with Shakespearean dialogue, creating confusion about the play's setting. She appreciates Denzel Washington’s performance, noting he was more effective in this role compared to his portrayal in “Gladiator” ([05:40]).

2. The Overwhelming Nature of Celebratory Events

Timestamp: [16:13] – [22:53]

The discussion shifts to the pressures surrounding birthday parties and significant events. Weezy recounts attending a friend's overwhelming 31st birthday party during Fashion Week, highlighting the stress and exhaustion that can accompany hosting large gatherings ([16:13]). Both hosts reflect on their own experiences with planning and attending such events.

Notable Quotes:

• Weezy: “Birthdays become so fucking stressful.” ([17:44])
• Mandii B: “It's not even just birthday parties, though. I hear this a lot as the sentiment around weddings.” ([19:21])

They explore themes of people-pleasing and the mismatch between the host’s intentions and the guest's desires. Mandii shares her struggles with organizing her 30th birthday trip to Mexico, which was thwarted by a hurricane, adding another layer of stress ([21:42]).

3. Navigating Authentic Connections and People-Pleasing

Timestamp: [26:00] – [35:19]

Weezy discusses her relationship dynamics, particularly her tendency to make grand gestures out of a desire to please her partner. She questions whether these actions truly align with her partner’s wishes or if they're rooted in her own need to show love, potentially leading to misunderstandings ([27:22]).

Notable Quotes:

• Weezy: “Are all the grand gestures you're making and all the plans you're trying to make actually not something that person wants?” ([28:03])
• Mandii B: “There's power in listening to a partner.” ([28:14])

Mandii emphasizes the importance of communication and listening in relationships, sharing her experiences of realizing how her efforts to support her partner might have been overwhelming or misaligned with his needs ([28:03]).

4. Exploring Historical Fertility Rituals

Timestamp: [49:03] – [60:16]

The hosts transition to a segment on fertility rituals, delving into historical practices used to enhance fertility before the advent of modern clinics. They discuss rituals from various cultures:

• Ancient Mesopotamia: High priestesses performing sacred sex rituals with kings to ensure a fertile kingdom through Heros Gamos ([51:06]).
• Shinto Tradition in Japan: Phallic festivals like Kanamara Matsuri, celebrating fertility with giant penis-shaped floats ([58:45]).
• Norse and Celtic Tribes: Fertility dances and bonfires during Beltane, believed to ensure abundant crops and healthy livestock ([54:10]).

Notable Quotes:

• Mandii B: “My experience seeing that was interesting because through writing this book, I got to really learn my mom more and her relationship with men.” ([43:21])
• Weezy: “The moon phases were like the number one resource back in the olden times on when it was prime and optimal to get pregnant.” ([49:41])

They highlight the communal and spiritual aspects of these rituals, emphasizing how different societies sought to intertwine fertility with cultural and religious practices.

5. Personal Reflections and Growth

Timestamp: [37:46] – [46:27]

Mandii B reflects on her relationship with her mother, discussing the lack of open conversations about sex and the impact of her mother's past traumas on their relationship. She shares her journey of understanding and addressing these issues through therapy and writing a book ([37:46]).

Notable Quotes:

• Mandii B: “I wish that conversation came without the need to trauma bond with each other.” ([38:19])
• Weezy: “It's almost crazy that the first impression of dating and men all comes from this one man.” ([44:50])

Weezy adds her perspective on how her perception of relationships was shaped by observing her mother’s marriage, leading to unrealistic standards and comparisons when dating men ([41:20]).

6. Embracing Simplicity and Authentic Relationships

Timestamp: [35:19] – [49:03]

The hosts conclude by advocating for simplicity in relationships and social gatherings. They stress the importance of authentic connections over extravagant gestures, urging listeners to prioritize genuine interactions and understand their own needs versus others' expectations.

Notable Quotes:

• Weezy: “Keep shit simple.” ([29:48])
• Mandii B: “Showing out is hella subjective. I've had friends, I don't like how they dress at all.” ([32:38])

They encourage embracing one’s true self and fostering relationships based on mutual understanding and respect, rather than conforming to societal pressures or expectations.

Conclusion

Throughout the episode, Mandii B and WeezyWTF navigate a range of topics from the complexities of attending theatrical performances to the societal pressures of hosting events and the deeply personal journey of understanding familial relationships. Their candid and humorous approach offers listeners valuable insights into building authentic connections and challenging outdated narratives surrounding relationships and personal fulfillment.

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Transcript

[Weezy]

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[Mandy B]

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[Weezy]

Welcome to Decisions, Decisions.

[Mandy B]

I don't think you should say Decisions, Decisions. It sounded like you was talking and cursing.

[Weezy]

You definitely say the welcome.

[Mandy B]

Welcome to the new podcast.

[Weezy]

Oh wait, you want to say it together.

[Mandy B]

Decisions, decisions. How art thou? Welcome to Decisions, Decisions and scene. I'm your girl, Mandy B. I'm Weezy.

[Weezy]

And all I want to know is.

[Mandy B]

Did you meet Denzel? I didn't get to meet Denzel and I was so sad. But let me tell you, I had to hold everything in me to not literally lean forward and go like this because that's how close I was to the stage. I like had an inner moment of being like, okay, bitch, this is what you work hard for. Because I was so excited to be able to go see Othello when it was on Broadway and literally my seat was bb. I will say I was mad though, because I got so scared last year with going to the hospital and having a kidney infection that I had to use the bathroom during act one and bitch, because I was second row and they entered through the orchestra. No, bitch, I couldn't go Back to my seat. So act one, 35 minutes. I watched it on a 32 inch TV downstairs by the bathroom. But I got act two is the best act anyways. Oh shit.

[Weezy]

But it was, you know, the Lion King. They let you go.

[Mandy B]

Yeah, no, the actors were entering through the orchestra. So. So like, because they were doing that, they couldn't have people if you were orchestra and bitch, you got up, you couldn't see it.

[Weezy]

So was it worth the 500, by the way?

[Mandy B]

I want to give a little tip to anyone. If this happens again, it's no longer on Broadway. It ended on June 8. But if you guys want to see a Broadway show and the tickets seem to be a lot easier if you have the ability for someone to just go to the box office and buy the ticket. I paid 499 for my seat. I literally. Edin was with me right after I bought it. I went on Stephub to see that same row 886. So I literally saved almost $400 by getting my ticket at the box office.

[Weezy]

Ticketmaster got the fee. Y' all gotta just say okay now.

[Mandy B]

Oh, I did want to say, uh huh. If y' all listened to the cinema where we talked about sinners, I felt the same. A bitch needed subtitles or was a little upset that they didn't speak in modern day English.

[Weezy]

How would they do subtitles in a play?

[Mandy B]

Well, bitch, I don't know. Well, there's. They got listening assistants and shit. I was like, if I could have had something to where it was broken down in like modern day talk. So here was my thing about the show. Denzel, phenomenal. He was way better on this than he was the gladiator. Like on Gladiator I felt like n you in Rome while you sound like you from Brownsville. Like I felt like he didn't even try to sound like I felt like Gladiators on Roman, he didn't even try to sound Roman bitch. But he sounded very Shakespearean. However, the show took place in modern times, which was confusing. So set design, they wore U.S. marines like costumes and stuff like that. But then the props were very dated. And then in one of the things he was like, I'm gonna put you on a plane. So I'm like, bitch, are they in Venice and Cyprus and Shakespearean times or not? Like there was a confusion a little bit for me there, but Jake Gyllenhaal, I ain't gonna hold you. It looked, it looked heavy as I. I don't know. Maybe it ain't. I know he said he don't wash his legs, but he did. Yeah. He came out and said he didn't wash his legs. And I was like, I'll wash them for him. Um, it looked heavy. I will say that I'm a hood booger, and I'm embarrassed to say so. Othello, for those of you who don't know, the reason also, outside of Denzel and Jake, as to why I wanted to see this play on stage is not because I'm a Shakespeare buff, but one of my favorite films. And y' all are just gonna laugh at this at this point, at my.

[Weezy]

Film selection is O based on Othello.

[Mandy B]

O was based on Othello. Look it up, y'. All. It's with Makai Pfeiffer and Julia Stiles. And so because it. And instead of them being like, generals, bitch. Makai Pfeiffer is the star basketball player.

[Weezy]

But so it was giving, like, Hamilton, how it's old in time, but new school. Like, it felt like that it shouldn't have. Like, I'm like, you didn't like it if these.

[Mandy B]

No, I loved it. I didn't say I didn't like it. I just think that the set design was odd. And I'm like, if we in modern times make these niggas speak more English, like, not Shakespearean English, but, like, English English. So literally, as I'm watching it, did.

[Weezy]

You go by yourself?

[Mandy B]

I went by myself, absolutely. And it was dope because the lady next to me was probably, like, 70 or 80. She was like, I go to plays all the time by myself.

[Weezy]

What movie?

[Mandy B]

Yeah, I loved it. So for those of y' all who don't know Othello, I want to give it to y' all in, like, a urban take, okay? Because I felt so ghetto during Act 2 is when all the drama take place. And so I'm watching it like, ooh, no, she didn't. Mm. Like, I'm literally like, scary movie. I'm gagged. I'm gagged. Um, and so basically, you got a general, a black general, which was Denzel. So Denzel marries this girl, Desdemona, who's, like, the daughter of someone really high up, right in the gang, let's say that. Really high up. So this black general marries her without telling her father anything. So the father find out and is like, now, why you married this nigga? Without telling me? Who the fuck is this? So anyways, we meet them in a setting where the father finds out, and they are in the middle of something professional. War wise work Wise, whatever. But basically, we are met with Iago. Iago is looking to become second in line. After Denzel's character Othello, like, comes down. So Iago's like, his right hand man. Iago, like, doing everything loyal. Trying to kind of brown nose his way to take Othello's position. Well, little did this nigga know, Othello was like, yeah, nah, I'm giving the job to Cassius. So Cassius is next in line. Iago mad as fuck. Cause he's like, bitch, I should be next. So Iago, who you think is loyal. Who Othello believes to be his friend. Is so angry and upset at Othello for not choosing him to be next in line. That bitch, he start putting little things in his ear. Like, yo, bitch, sleeping with Cassius. And so we're in this, like, play where Othello's like, no, not my woman, Cassius. Cassius didn't do that to me, mind you. Cassius over there fucking on a little woman of the night. He got a whole Jezebel, a little hoe or whatever. Basically, Iago starts setting little things, put some shit in Cassius's room. Othello finds out. He's like, there's no way that would end up in his room without my woman leaving it there.

[Weezy]

By the way, Mandy is saving you guys $500. Cause I didn't know we were gonna get the whole thing.

[Mandy B]

Well, no, it's Shakespeare. I know this ain't no spoiler. It's Shakespeare. So, like, it's everywhere. Like, I'm just telling y', all, if you can't understand Shakespeare in English, like me, this the tea. So basically then Denzel is heartbroken. Like, cassius, you betrayed me. Iago, like, what you want to do? You want me to go kill that nigga? So then Iago set up to go kill Cassius. Because now he feels like this is a way for him to get the job that Cassius is about to get. So, bro, he go send one of his niggas to go kill Cassius. He believes Cassius got murked, bitch, and didn't. But Othello don't know that yet. All Othello know is, I can't have no ho as a wife.

[Weezy]

Othello is Denzel.

[Mandy B]

Othello is Denzel.

[Weezy]

Okay?

[Mandy B]

So, bitch, next scene, Othello pull up to the room his bitch sleep. He kissed her. Cause he's like, bitch, you gots to go. So she wakes up and is literally telling him, bro, I ain't fuck Cassius. You sitting here acting like I cheated on you. I didn't cheat on you. I don't know why you think I cheated on you. He said, bitch, you lying. You gots to go. So bitch. He literally kills that bitch. Literally. You see her like, so Othello like, yeah, I ain't dating no hoe. You gots to go kill her. As literally, he kills her. Bitch come walk in, his homeboy like, sorry, I know we put the hit on Cassius, but that nigga ain't die. And he's like, well, bitch, I just killed my fucking wife. So how the fuck Cassie say, bitch, I did my job? How you ain't do your job?

[Weezy]

Uh huh.

[Mandy B]

So the friend of the wife comes in and is like, no, not my best friend. How you kill my best friend? Fuck, nigga. Oh, I'm coming for you. Da, da, da. And start yelling at motherfing Othello. And Othello, like, your friend was a hoe, she had to go. Next thing you know, he brings up the thing that got left in the room that Iago placed in Katya's room. And the friend was like, nah, I took it. Mind you, the friend is Iago's bitch. So she's like, no, I took that thing. She really didn't cheat on you. You just killed my friend. And she starts saying all the ways in which she, like, actually did this. And is now realizing Iago did it. Bitch. Iago walk over to her, slice her neck. Bitch, you talking too much. You gots to go. So then the arms come in and it's like, iago, this nigga we know you set up to kill Cassius. You just killed this bitch. They have him in chambers, bitch now, like, he's trying to get out.

[Weezy]

It looks like the chicken wing again.

[Mandy B]

He's trying to get out. So everybody's in scene now. And Denzel realizes he about to go to jail. He about to lose his little. His little things. Cassius is about to take over. And he's like, you know what? I just killed this bitch. Y' all gonna talk about me. I'm about to be disbarred now from. And that's not even disbarred. What is it when you get taken out of the army?

[Weezy]

So he kills himself, bitch.

[Mandy B]

Yeah, discharged, Discharged. So he's literally like, every which way that I have been an honorable man will now be ruined. I can't live on this earth as an unhonorable man, dishonorable man, whatever. And he's like, kill himself. So, bitch, you literally watching it's like, damn, everybody did and insane. And I'm just like, damn. I know. I remember watching O. And it's why I enjoyed it so much. And I was like, the same way. We have the same tropes with, like, the. The secretary who fucks with the man and tries to kill the wife because she now wants to be the wife role. Like, y' all know the Beyonce movie that we've seen in 30 different renditions? I'm like, I don't know if it's on tubi. I don't know where it's at, but I want to know why we haven't seen more renditions of modern day Othellos.

[Unknown]

Well, we just got the Mandy B rendition right now, ladies and gentlemen.

[Weezy]

I don't think we need it.

[Mandy B]

No. And, dude, that shit was. That shit was a tale, like. And it reminded me basically, power. It reminded me of, like, the books and things that I used to read that had sex, love, betrayal. And also at the same time, how you literally could see something and completely miss it and get it wrong because of your own peripheral vision to a not believe somebody. I think, like, it was literally.

[Unknown]

It's a tragedy.

[Mandy B]

It's literally a tragedy. Shut the fuck up, Eden. It's literally a tragedy. But as I was watching it, I was like, ooh, T. Ooh, this nigga lying. Ooh, this bitch really ain't cheating. But she being accused of cheating. And then this nigga so heartbroken, he gonna kill her. I was like, I need more of this. And so maybe I just need to read some more books.

[Unknown]

Time out. So you could understand sinners.

[Mandy B]

No, no, no.

[Unknown]

But old English was cool to you.

[Mandy B]

No, let's be very clear. In my head, I'm like, Denzel Makai, Pfeiffer, Desmondo, Desadina, whatever. Desdemona, Des Julia, Stiles, Diss. The white man with the dark hair in the movie. I'm literally watching it and only know what's happening. I'm watching it actually, like, it's a telenovela. It's given espanol. It's given a language I don't understand.

[Weezy]

I think you probably just need to watch more old movies because. Or like, Medieval Times, because I was struggling in the middle. Middle of Game of Thrones, and then it went away. Yeah. Now I can watch anything like that. There's different language. There's different, like, the accent, is it, like. So once you watch it, it's like understanding Southern people. Once you're down there, you start getting it.

[Mandy B]

Maybe, but I ain't like it. Like, I don't think I like Shakespearean lingo. Like, actually, like, for the way that he was talking, it was like, bro, you just said all the words to say nothing, bitch. I was like, we could have cut this down to like two sentences. Instead it was like three paragraphs.

[Weezy]

It's so crazy how actors memorize all that shit.

[Unknown]

Word.

[Weezy]

What's crazy about you seeing Othello last night? My friend had a birthday party last night and in walks. There was more like celebrities there. Jeremy O. Harris walks in and the best play I've ever seen was Slave Play. And he didn't know he was. She had a party on her rooftop in Central Park. And I could tell he didn't know it was somebody's birthday party. He was just chilling. I was like this, right? And she's like, I mean, Weasley, come take a picture. You're like, how do you know Jeremy and Harris? She's like, who's that? And I was like, you don't understand who this is. So he's seeing my face and I'm like, gagged, bitch. Did you see him?

[Unknown]

I think I did see him. Yeah.

[Weezy]

Oh, my God.

[Unknown]

It was like later in the night.

[Weezy]

Yeah, with the fro.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

Bro, let me tell you, writers, directors, filmmakers, they're about to become the new shit. I just found out I'm going to a party on Friday and Ryan Coogler's invited. I'm trying to figure out my speech. I'm not going to bring it up unless it just so happens will I have too many cocktails. To where I say you can rob trains and planes. Not this place.

[Unknown]

I was gonna say. Just hit him with that line that you.

[Weezy]

What am I gonna do? Is everybody gonna bring it up? Am I just gonna be the one that don't bring it up? Am I gonna, like, play cool and try to be like a la bitch? My nigga gonna be there, so it's not like I'm trying to f. How am I gonna let this person know? I think you made one of the best movies of all time.

[Mandy B]

You could just say that.

[Weezy]

No, I don't wanna bring it up.

[Unknown]

Or do like your rendition of Sinners.

[Weezy]

No, I gotta wash up. What you mean?

[Unknown]

Oh, my God.

[Weezy]

Okay, so I wanna talk about birthdays really quick. This girl throws a birthday party. My homegirl, Gabrielle.

[Unknown]

I'm sorry. I'm not mad at him laughing. It was just. I'll throw her birthdays. I love this.

[Mandy B]

It's a catch up.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

So birthdays friend throws a party for her 31st birthday on a roof. She calls me this morning, and I'm sure she would repeat the story, but I think it's the same old tale as time. And I want everybody who's got a birthday coming up to hear this story and let you know you got to chill. I was like, how was your night? Because I took her mom home and my mom home. She said, girl, I am so tired. I will never do a birthday party again. I don't want to do this. At one point, I wanted to lock myself in the bathroom. I was talking to too many people.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

I cannot believe I put myself through this. I'm like, damn, I'm so sorry to hear this, because you looked beautiful. All your friends are there supporting you. I. I hate that you feel like this. She's like, next year, I don't even. I just want to do a trip with my friend. Maybe two, maybe three. Maybe I need to go by myself. Like, she was like, overload. What is the thing? Is it that we don't have anything else to celebrate when we get older? Why is it that we keep planning these fucking things with all these people? Birthdays become so fucking stressful. I felt so sorry for her this morning. Mandy. I literally was like, oh, my God. You want to go to lunch? No, I want to go to sleep. I don't need anything. It's like the exhaustion of hosting a.

[Unknown]

Lot was going on.

[Mandy B]

I mean, I've been said this.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Mandy B]

Like, multiple times. I don't want to.

[Unknown]

Like, yeah, that shit was literally.

[Mandy B]

Literally. I, I. So I pulled up on Eden's birthday, and he wasn't DJing. You weren't. You weren't working that night. I literally just.

[Weezy]

Party DJ.

[Mandy B]

No, he wasn't even DJing. He just had everyone. He had everyone pull up. So. And this was during Fashion Week. And I was like, ooh, Eden's birthday. Let me make sure I pull in, and I pull in. And I think maybe as soon as I got there is just when the flood of his friends came in. And I remember going to the bar, like, eden, what do you want to drink? As soon as I ordered, he. We did our shot, literally immediately. Four shots, literally. And I was only there for, like, 15, maybe 20 minutes. He looked at me and was like. Cause everyone came at the same time. Everyone was like, happy Birthday. And then everyone started bringing him shots. And he said, help me, yo.

[Unknown]

It was bad.

[Mandy B]

Literally edited, like. And I saw his face. It's not terror. Why do we do this?

[Unknown]

I have fun in the sense. I mean, she looked like she was having fun too. But I. I understand the sense of being overwhelmed. Too much attention is a thing, without a doubt.

[Mandy B]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

She even said at one point, like, every time I wanted to dance, I took a picture. Somebody was taking a picture with me. I was like, babe, mind you, Gabrielle's a model. Like, this is her job to take photos. She said so many times, I just wanna dance. I just wanna dance. But, you know.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

Poor girl. You're really hosting. You're making sure everybody else is having a good time. I feel so bad. Cause when she was on the phone complaining, I was like, girl, I. Me and my mom was having. I have another one. Everybody has a better time at your party than you.

[Mandy B]

I mean, it's not even on the.

[Unknown]

Dance floor the whole time.

[Mandy B]

It's not even just birthday parties, though. I hear this a lot as the sentiment around weddings, like, that the wedding is essentially for everyone else to celebrate, like the reception, the wedding. And it's not really about the couple. It's about. Because let's be very clear, everyone there is gonna judge the venue, the food, the dj. Is the bar open and is it top shelf or not? Like, everyone makes it about them. And so it in turn becomes a party for everyone else. And it normally isn't fun. Like, I think that. And I just saw a statistic about even how many couples end up actually having sex the night of their wedding. And it's a very low percentage because they're both so soft.

[Weezy]

No, it wasn't that low. But it was low enough. I think we talked about it on horrible. It was. It was in the 50 or something. So it wasn't that low. But it really wasn't as much as we think.

[Unknown]

Whenever I do consultations for DJing weddings, and I actually got one coming up in May, right, I tell them, I'm like, congratulations, I'm glad it's your special day. But I know it's gonna be stressful because at the end of the day, it's really for everyone else. It's all the pictures they take, the bride and the groom, barely. Especially the bride, because it's their special day. Trying to have the dress on, everything.

[Mandy B]

Like that and outfit.

[Unknown]

It's a lot. Exactly. And then the speeches and then the drinking.

[Weezy]

It's so crazy you guys are bringing up weddings because after she vented for like 15 minutes with me, the next thing out of her mouth, this girl is not engaged. She said, eloping is going to be great. That's what she said. Because the next thing you Think is, oh, I'm not gonna be able to do this. Like I'm gonna tell you. It really showed me how much we throw parties for everyone else and we want to get our people together. It's too much. Like this year on my birthday, mine kind of went the other way. So I got a big ass fucking house for all my friends to come.

[Unknown]

Christ.

[Weezy]

This is what I think people should do on their birthdays, right? I'm like, just get the house, invite people on the trip. They buy the ticket.

[Mandy B]

I did that for my 30th and.

[Weezy]

Still, nope, I'll never do it again. So it was five bedrooms. Me, my man Kila, her husband Andre. It was Vinny and I think Nia and her husband. Just a bunch of friends, right? Girl, don't you know? By the end of the trip, it was two. Andre got booked for an event. Vinny had to go speak with his mom. Everybody was like. And it was real life. Shit plans we had for months, you know what I mean?

[Mandy B]

I know. I felt bad. I did all this booking. My 30th birthday, I had friends travel from the Carolinas, Vegas, London.

[Unknown]

Damn.

[Mandy B]

Atlanta. Two from Vegas, one from. And one from Miami. There was, I think, seven of us.

[Unknown]

Damn. Again.

[Mandy B]

We fly into Mexico during a hurricane, House gets canceled, boat gets canceled. And now they know how I am. Guess what? They all land right before me. And so because they all know how I get in my anxiety, they all come together and are trying to find us another house because Mexico is trying to send everyone to a fucking stadium like on some bunker down type shit. I mean, and so literally, we end up going shopping. We end up still doing the boat, but the waters were still choppy. But literally dinner, dinner reservation, everything. What?

[Unknown]

What you got on a boat? No, no.

[Mandy B]

Two days later, wait, no, the hurricane pass. It came and pass.

[Unknown]

I still wouldn't get on a boat for another week.

[Mandy B]

Nigga, I was in Mexico. I saw me out.

[Weezy]

We're from Florida though. It's different.

[Mandy B]

Yeah, we don't hurricane.

[Weezy]

You go out that night?

[Mandy B]

Oh, let's be very clear. Oh, I was gonna say, let's be very clear.

[Weezy]

You have a party.

[Mandy B]

We got through the night, hurricane passed. I look outside, I said, oh, it's a little. Couple branches on it. We could have went out.

[Weezy]

I literally was real.

[Mandy B]

Florida, like, bro, they so extra. They always do this when hurricanes come. It ain't even that serious.

[Eden]

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[Mandy B]

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[Weezy]

Oh, speaking of birthdays, I was literally thinking, okay, so this whole thing's going on, right? My boyfriend, for his birthday that week, we're going on a cruise. I was like, oh, he's never done one. I've done a bunch with my family back in the day. This will be cute. From la. Easy. Something came up with my job. A very big gig. One of the days we be on the boat. And I was like, you know what? If we were married, he would tell me, do this gig. Like that's how much money it is. He would be like, bitch, are you out of your mind? So I called him. I told him what was going on. He was like, listen, I feel like you want to do so much for me because I do so much for you. I need you to understand the type.

[Mandy B]

Of man I am.

[Weezy]

I'm gonna tell you again, we can eat, we can sit in the hotel room. I can be right there while you do this event, even if it was on my birthday. You have got to stop overthinking these big events in life. And like, I realized my love language is gift giving so much that sometimes it's not translating. Because the way that I'm like to be shown up for which he's doing, is the same thing I'm doing. He's like, how many times did I fucking tell you we could do nothing.

[Mandy B]

We could go to eat, we could.

[Weezy]

Go see a movie. Please stop thinking so deeply. And I was really feeling guilty because number one, when we plan something for someone or when we're trying to do a gesture, it really is about them. However, I do at the same time, and this could be something that's totally wrong and it's semi related to your ex partner with throwing you the birthday party. I want you to know I'm doing this for you and I want you to really feel my love from this almost more than my brain can even think. Are you enjoying this? I want you to feel it. I guess it's selfish, but it's like, I don't know how else to show up sometimes because I am such a pleaser. And it was just this whole conversation of like, bitch, you better cancel that boat. And we just doing dinner now. I didn't. I found out a way to move the event, but I say this to.

[Unknown]

Say, you moved the event.

[Weezy]

Yeah, I was like, figure out another time to do it. And I charged them less money. But basically what I was going to say was like, anyone that's planning for a friend, anyone that's planning an event, you really do have to sit and ask. Maybe you're not super selfish. In that story you told us, you said your ex was like, well, what about what I wanted to do? Those words feel selfish. Maybe I'm not saying those words, but am I actually being selfish? And we really gotta sit with ourselves. Like, are all the grand gestures you're making and all the plans you're trying to make actually not something that person wants? And I haven't really sat with myself in a while and thought that because I'm just trying to be a mirror of what he's doing for me.

[Mandy B]

I mean, I do think that there's a difference from gifting your partner something that hasn't been discussed and Giving your partner something they literally said they didn't want. Verbatim.

[Weezy]

Yeah, true.

[Mandy B]

There's power in listening to a partner. And even if you can't afford or get them exactly what they ask for, to give them something they literally said they don't want because you've never done it, or it would make you feel good, or it's a way that you feel like you could show your love is. Is selfish. And. And yeah, I don't think that showing.

[Weezy]

Your trying to make grand gestures to show your love is selfish. I think not listening is. Yeah, but that's where I thought about your ex in the party, because I'm like, oh, this is an interesting tie. Because mine isn't rooted in the narcissism, but it is rooted in me. People pleasing. So it's like these two different things. And you. I could have really have shown up and been doing something that someone's like, this is too much. So I just realized, you know, throughout this whole thing with the birthday conversation, all that, like, I be doing too much. I be doing too much. A lot of times I even do have too too much of my parents. There's times where I take my mom shopping and we're doing all these extra things. She'd be like, what is it, my fucking birthday?

[Mandy B]

And I don't know what that is.

[Weezy]

I wonder if it's some only child. Oh, my God, please like me. Shit. But, yeah, I'm starting to see it just show up a lot.

[Unknown]

No, I mean, I feel like. I mean, I guess the way I'm analyzing it from what you're saying doesn't sound like. Like me. It's more like I'm trying to make a grand gesture. I don't know. I don't see it as you trying to be.

[Weezy]

And also, it's this thing of, like, why are we doing all this shit for someone that's just happy, Even if it's a homegirl and you're planning something great for her, she might have been like, bitch, we could have went anywhere. It's that type of shit. It's just kind of like it's not always needed. So I want to say that to say, keep shit simple.

[Unknown]

Can I. Can I go on the opposite realm? Have you guys done the fajitas thing? Have you guys talked about that?

[Weezy]

No.

[Unknown]

Oh, man. All right.

[Mandy B]

What's the fajitas?

[Weezy]

How do you gotta make shit That's a whole thing.

[Unknown]

Fill it. Avariba.

[Weezy]

So.

[Unknown]

So there was a whole thing on social media at one point talking about how you don't take too much attention from the birthday person on their birthday. An example, right? You go to a Mexican restaurant. I don't care whichever one you guys go to. Point is, when the fajitas come out, you see the. You see the menu. There's tacos, there's burritos, the taquitos, there's quesadillas. Etc, you are the birthday girl, okay? Damn, I don't want to put you in this, but fuck it, you're the birthday girl. Weezy orders fajitas.

[Mandy B]

Okay.

[Unknown]

On that event. Now what happens when you get the fajitas?

[Weezy]

Everybody looks at you because it's smoking.

[Unknown]

Everybody looks at you because it's smoking. Now, the Internet was split. Do you order the fajitas if it's not your birthday?

[Weezy]

Yo, what, just cause the attention?

[Unknown]

Yep.

[Mandy B]

Oh, no. Niggas need to go to therapy. I ain't gonna hold you. Get the fuck out of here. First off, if y' all know me, y' all know that Mexican is the bottom three worst cuisines in the world. You are insane. I hate Mexican food. So y' all will never see me at a Mexican restaurant for a celebration.

[Unknown]

Let her go.

[Mandy B]

But for me, I. I think let me take it away from the Mexican restaurant so that I.

[Unknown]

Sure. What's an equivalent?

[Mandy B]

The equivalent would be I wear a dress. No, the equivalent would be you are the birthday girl. There is a theme for how y' all should all dress.

[Unknown]

Sure.

[Mandy B]

That was last night.

[Weezy]

Jungle theme.

[Mandy B]

And someone decides that even though they received the theme, they're going to show up in whatever they want to wear, which in turn, it's what they wanted. They're just not listening, you know? And so they get all the attention now for everyone at the table. It don't matter how good the birthday girl is dressed. And bitch, we said we're all white and you got on fucking a pattern. Or black. Or red maybe red. You know what I mean? Like to stand out type shit.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Mandy B]

And that I think is. That's what I would say is that's someone that maybe shouldn't be there. To me, you ordering fajitas just because it sizzle pop and everyone.

[Weezy]

I mean, I see it's like in a. What's the word? Not a analogy. Yeah, it is like. It's just. I get it though, because to me.

[Unknown]

It'S not just the fajita.

[Weezy]

It actually is a good outfit if it's your birthday. And let's just say your bitch got out fit and she got her fucking hair bust down and the Makeup done, you just kind of like, oh, my God. I thought it was all about me. Bitches be getting like that. And I saw something online to let me know. I love this.

[Mandy B]

Wait, bitches be like, what?

[Weezy]

They don't want their homegirl to show them out on their day. There is a wedding theme saying the theme is show up the bride. My homegirl did this for her wedding in Mexico City. Gila. I walked in and I was like, why does everybody look this good? She's like, oh, my God. I tell everybody, like, I mean, purple, pink, green. The designs shit asymmetrical sticking up.

[Mandy B]

You know what that is? That is a bitch that ain't insecure. Like, to me. To me also, showing out be hella subjective. I've had friends, I don't like how they dress at all. So they show out is not my show out. And if you met that, I pulled up and you like my fit, and I'm dressed better than you, bitch, you should have had a stylist. I don't know.

[Weezy]

Here's one I don't know. What about the homegirl that you call your friend? What you wearing tonight? I'm wearing jeans. Okay, I'm gonna wear jeans. Something cute. Now this ho show up in a tight dress. Bitch, you knew I was gonna put these damn jeans in a tank top on.

[Mandy B]

I changed my mind because I didn't like how the jeans fit me.

[Unknown]

So you feel deceived?

[Weezy]

No, I just want like, oh, you should have seen.

[Mandy B]

It's so funny.

[Weezy]

I don't like when I step out with one other person. If it's a few of us, it's fine if you're really dressy in heels and I'm wearing sneakers. Bitch, you could have told me this.

[Mandy B]

No, this was actually funny. This just happened. Me and my homegirl, Shawna, shout out to Shawna. We went to Bar Margo. Barmago, my little spot. So we go out, and we had already gone out like three or four times before then. And sometimes I be in my stud attire. I'd be dressed down. But every time we went out, she likes to get dolled up. She's a mom, and she's like, bitch, if I'm coming up in the city, I'll be cute. So what's crazy is we go to Bar Margo, and she's like, okay, girl, I'm gonna pull up. I decide because I know this bitch finna be dressed up. I put on my little fucking Tom Ford heels. I put this little flowery dress on a dress to where I Showed my boyfriend and he was like, I didn't even know you owned anything like this. What the fuck?

[Unknown]

That's hilarious.

[Weezy]

So I show up, they're all dressed for each other.

[Mandy B]

I show up and I'm dressed up. And she said, now, bitch, why you all dress up? I said, bitch, cause you always dress up. And I felt bad that I don't be mad at you. She came dressed down and she was like, bitch, I dressed down. Cause I knew I was about to meet with your W. So I don't.

[Weezy]

Think it's a big deal unless we plan.

[Unknown]

That's crazy.

[Mandy B]

We laugh about it.

[Weezy]

Sneak at ho.

[Mandy B]

I guess that's different at 30. At 35, depending on where we're going, we need flats. No, dress for the occasion. Like, bitch, you might be going to bag a nigga. I got a boyfriend. And if I don't want to dress up, I'm going to dress with what makes me comfortable. Me and my friends actually now do not ever have conversations about, well, what you wearing? Because everyone has their own styles. Nine times out of ten, I ain't gonna like half the shit my friends put on anyway.

[Weezy]

To me, if we go in casual. Because I do think, like, if we're gonna show up casual together. Like if me and my girl, and it's a Friday night, we're going to a club. If we really gonna be casual, let's be on that shit together, bitch. Let's do the crop top and the cargo jeans together till we switch it up.

[Mandy B]

Oh, yeah. No. My best friend twisted her ankle and I knew that hoe was gonna be wearing flats for a while. Well, bitch, I'm wearing heels, dog.

[Weezy]

My friend, my friend.

[Mandy B]

Bitch, I'm wearing heels. I bitch my motherfucker. Either people ain't broke the fuck. Anyway, let's get to our no holds barred. If you haven't yet, guys, make sure you purchase no Holds Barred, a dual manifesto, sexual exploration and power. And join us on tour nhb tour.com. we are bringing the pages to the stages in a city near you. We are making it so different than any live show you've seen before. But you are still getting all of the horrible.

[Weezy]

Okay, are we picking a page or.

[Mandy B]

Are you picking an excerpt? No, I am reading an excerpt.

[Weezy]

Okay.

[Mandy B]

This comes from my chapter. Why don't they just call it a vacuum? So this is the chapter around my abortion. It's in the pain section of the book. My mom says she wishes she'd had this conversation with me earlier and that it wasn't in the form of a trauma bond. No one had talked to her either. So this was part of our familial cycle. She said she would have talked to me earlier about the consequences and results of the actual birds and bees. But here's the issue. The problem is a cyclical one. Before she got pregnant at 15, no one had ever talked to her about sex either. Though we're from different generations, my mom and I both remember being told very little at school. She didn't have Planned parenthood or any resources at the time. In New Port Richey, Florida, where she grew up. I remember a sex ed class where we. And when I say we, I mean the young women were told by our teacher to abstain from having sex. The boys were going to be boys, and the girls were going to say angelic virgins. Somehow math is my strong suit. And I remember thinking about how it would work in real time, that math was not mathing. We were told not to have sex because we would either A, get pregnant, B, get HIV or some other sexually transmitted disease that would make you filthy, or see all the above. Well, I was battling the multiple choice selection, and here I was being a pregnant. I wanted to ask both of you if there is any conversation, and I know this may be a difficult question for you because she's no longer here, but are there any conversations that you wish you had had specifically with your mom regarding sex or sexuality sooner that maybe came up later?

[Unknown]

I think. No. No. Because stereotypically for me, it all came from my father.

[Mandy B]

Oh. As a man. Okay.

[Unknown]

That. I swear, the birds and the bees conversation was five seconds at most.

[Mandy B]

With your dad.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Mandy B]

And your mom never had it.

[Unknown]

Everything I've learned in terms of sex is from the Internet.

[Weezy]

How old were your parents when they had you? I wonder if this has to do with age.

[Unknown]

30. Cause my father's 60.

[Mandy B]

Okay.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Mandy B]

Oh, wow.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Mandy B]

So even later on, where a little bit more mature, they definitely knew themselves more sexually.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Mandy B]

Wow. And it was still like five seconds and that's it.

[Unknown]

But I don't.

[Weezy]

What was it?

[Mandy B]

Condom.

[Weezy]

Condom.

[Mandy B]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Basic. That's really what. Right. Yeah. Like basically that. Just wear a condom or don't get people pregnant.

[Mandy B]

I'll be honest with you. My. My mom even knowing I was having sex because I had to come and throw a positive pregnancy test on the bed. I had wished that. And that happened when I was just about to turn 16. And for me, that was definitely the age where instead of me being told to go to the other room or anything like that, it should have been where? When her friends was over, my aunties were over and conversations were being had because a lot of my mom's friends and my aunts was dating. They weren't like again, I didn't grow up seeing healthy marriages or people in long standing relationships. Like my aunt wasn't with my uncle, my mom wasn't with my dad. Her friends were all single bitches out. You know, they go on a play pool to find some n. And so I wish just the conversation about how sex doesn't really make someone like you happen. And I do wish that I knew the trauma that my mom experienced with sex, with dating, and specifically her decision to have an abortion. I wish that conversation came without the need to trauma bond with each other. I would have liked to know my mom a little bit more as a woman and not just a mom personally. What about you?

[Weezy]

Um, I mean I talked. My mom talked about sex so early and I'm sure we'll dig into this convo when we interview her tomorrow. But something that's just coming to my mind. It's interesting because like a lot of my homegirls talk about their mom with dating experiences and I can't relate because she was married. But the interesting thing is I think it's very reflective. I saw my mom in her dating technically, every single day all I saw was my mom as wife, you know what I mean? So even though I knew her as an individual person, I think it's probably what shaped me to be the type of person I am because she was such a wife. Being a housewife, that's your job. Every single day you're showing up like that, you're being that type of person. Like it, it was a weird thing too because when I got older and started dating men, my homegirls and I have of course had relationship talks when I started dating. Romantic relationships, you talk a lot more about like my mom was single, extra, you know, et cetera. I didn't realize how jaded I was to single mom's pain. Like just because the dating experience as a mom, a kid sees it completely. They're watching it, they're viewing it. Like that never happened to me. I don't really know what my mom was like in a courting stage. I never really asked much about like when they met. I also don't really know what kind of happens when she's heartbroken or sad. They were in a marriage the whole time. I never saw those phases. So everything I learned about that shit is just through conversations, through friends.

[Mandy B]

So that Even.

[Weezy]

And your parents were married, right?

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

So, like, yeah, that. That's something so different.

[Mandy B]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

My.

[Mandy B]

My experience seeing that, it was interesting because through writing this book, I, you know, I got to really learn my mom more and her relationship with men. And I. I remember getting so fucking mad at her, and I snapped at her. As an adult now, I remember asking her, like, who, if any of the partners that I know of over the past 30 years does she feel like was her. Her favorite or the best or the one that she wishes lasted? And the name of the person that she said to me caused so much trauma as a child? Like, basically, in their breakup, he threatened to share something that led my mom to try to commit suicide. And it, like, I don't want to cry. But I was so mad at her, I said, that's the nigga. And I said, you're pathetic. And I said, I want you to take it to therapy. This man that maybe you're remembering how he maybe made you feel, but the person that at the end, tried to literally ruin our family and did somewhat, like, brought a lot of things out to where you literally almost like, you know, and I had to witness that. And I was so upset, and I was like, oh, I'm sorry. This is something recent. And I was just, like. In terms of the conversations with my mom about, like, what healthy relationships could look like, it frustrates me that at 35, I feel like I'm teaching her how to date and value herself more and seek out a partner that's worthy of her. And I just feel like it's in reverse now, because I've had this show for the last eight years, and I've been able to learn myself, and I've gone to therapy. My mom is just now in therapy for the first time in her life at 55, I think.

[Weezy]

And, I mean, even now we see your mom isn't even really wrong for probably thinking it, because we now know sometimes those highs and lows of relationships, you really keep in mind the good.

[Mandy B]

Yeah, you want to.

[Weezy]

You want to. So it's almost more prevalent than the good guys. She probably passed over that maybe you thought about, because. Oh, no, no, no.

[Mandy B]

Let's be very clear. They all suck.

[Weezy]

Oh, well.

[Mandy B]

I mean, like, that's why I was like, which one was the best? And what's crazy is the one that I like the most as an adult, he was an alcoholic.

[Unknown]

Oh, wow.

[Mandy B]

He was an alcoholic and a gambler. So although he was fun and he was caring, and we really, like, enjoyed his presence because he was a lot of fun with my mom. Financially, he was in debt because he would either drink or gamble all his money away. And so from an aspect of. He was always a great person to be around as an adult standpoint, he wasn't great. Like. And it sucks that me looking through the history of my mom, I don't see any quality in her decisions of dating, but in talking to her as an adult and recognizing the traumas of her with her stepdad, I just see how much is passed down and what we see. A lot of us only know what we don't want, which is why I always say, I grew up knowing I didn't want a nigga like my daddy. But I didn't grow up with an example of a man that I actually, that's an example of a man.

[Weezy]

I do the opposite to men, actually. Yeah, you said my ex said all the time my dad would. It's like he's just pinnacle. Fuck you. Fuck you. Like my dad this, my dad this. And it was crazy because maybe towards the end of my relationship, not obey, but another ex said, this man that. Your dad is. Is so not realistic to today's time. And it's not realistic to even the man you're looking for that when you compare, it's frustrating. My dad doesn't really drink. My dad doesn't go out that. Like, I would love someone social. I've literally said on this podcast, I won't date someone who don't drink. And so just thinking about it, I'm like, oh, I really am comparing to the man that I'm not even looking for. My dad is super chill, doesn't really care. I like someone a little more hyper, more extroverted. Like, it's crazy because I didn't know how much I was setting a standard. So it's like women really are. It's all daddy issues at the same time. Maybe my daddy issues may look different, but the fact that I compared every man is fucked up. Oh, well, my dad does this. He takes care of the house. He would never let my mom do this. Like, meanwhile, teamwork is such a normal part of 2025. Let's be honest about the economy here. I don't even want to be a housewife. But yet in the same breath, I'm telling you I shouldn't be doing this because my dad would never let me do it. Like, it's. It's almost crazy that the first impression of dating and men all comes from this one man. It sucks.

[Mandy B]

Oh, for you?

[Weezy]

Yeah.

[Mandy B]

I viewed a lot of folks?

[Weezy]

No, but even in the opposite way. The impression of men in a negative way or a positive. That's it.

[Eden]

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[Mandy B]

Remember the Bad Guys? They're back and they're funnier than ever. DreamWorks Animation's the Bad Guys 2 is hitting theaters. It's the boldest, wildest, baddest comedy of the summer. I mean, this time everything's bigger. The action, the laughs, the hilariously questionable decisions. Everyone's favorite crew of criminals and is trying. Emphasis on trying to go good. Spoiler it's not going well because they get roped into a heist that takes them all over the world by some new rivals. A slick, stylish and seriously bad crew known as the Bad Girls. This movie is packed with outrageous gags, epic action, and so many laugh out loud moments you might spill your popcorn. But here's a tip. See the Bad Guys two in a theater. The energy of the crowd will make every joke hit even harder. Kids will love it. Adults will love it. Your inner bad guy or bad girl will love it. Get Tickets now for DreamWorks animations. The Bad Guys 2. In theaters this Friday, August 1st. Rated PG. I do want to skip reactionary for this episode and do and get just a little bit more into the decisions decisions because I want to have more fun talking about it. I think it's been really fun to teach you guys the historical kind of ways in which certain things around sex started. And this week y' all don't make fun of me for the last one because y' all know I don't believe it. But we're getting into it.

[Weezy]

Astrology.

[Mandy B]

We are talking about fertility rituals. Oh, so the. So sex, soil and sacred juju. So before fertility clinics and again, because I've spoke about talking to my friends about navigating their biological clock and all these things, I wanted to get into what people were doing before they could go and literally get tested and to see if they could have babies or not. So before fertility clinics, people turned to sex, magic moon phases and sacred dances. That shit real to help the babies come.

[Weezy]

The moon phase is real, bitch.

[Mandy B]

You believe it?

[Weezy]

I'mma tell you how I know. Read the love chapter, bitch. That shit scary also.

[Mandy B]

What do you mean? So what do you know about moon phases being tied to fertility?

[Weezy]

Like just whether full moon crescent. Yes, they all are different stages in ovulation, heightened fertility. Like it's crazy because we don't talk about it much anymore because we have so many other options. But the moon phases were like the number one resource back in the olden times on when it was prime and optimal to get pregnant. And our period also is connected to the moon as well, even though we.

[Mandy B]

All have different cycles.

[Weezy]

Yes.

[Mandy B]

Interesting.

[Unknown]

God damn.

[Mandy B]

Very interesting. I still don't even believe we landed on the moon.

[Weezy]

It's called the Elfridian cycle. I believe not to be a hotep because I Learned this watching 19 keys clip. It was a nigga talking about then.

[Mandy B]

To be very hotep.

[Weezy]

Oh, no, no, no.

[Mandy B]

That's the most I watched it.

[Weezy]

I thought this motherfucker is bullshit. Da da da da. He wasn't saying it. It was somebody he had on there. I'm like, this nigga sounds stupid. Talking about pussy and furious. And I was like, oh, I guess not.

[Mandy B]

All right, well, let's start.

[Weezy]

As long as you got a koofie on. I'm gonna talk shit, but some of it be good, some of it don't.

[Mandy B]

Let's start with the with some historical hotspots. Now, y' all know we be liking to take y' all around the world. No passport needed. So in ancient Mesopotamia, it's always over there. Where is Mesopotamia?

[Weezy]

It's nothing.

[Mandy B]

That's a real place.

[Weezy]

No, it was.

[Mandy B]

It don't exist no more.

[Weezy]

I think it is is the Roman or Greek land, but you have to find it now.

[Mandy B]

Sorry. We gonna let y' all know where y' all at. It's a history about a Mediterranean Sea in the Persian Gulf.

[Unknown]

It's a region in Iraq.

[Weezy]

It's Iraq.

[Mandy B]

Yeah, bitch. It existed in.

[Unknown]

Oh, Iraq still Bombs a potato now.

[Weezy]

Cultivated Babylon Empire. That was all it.

[Mandy B]

Today Mesopotamia is actually known as present day Iraq. So, Bitch, we in Iraq. This the only time y' all gonna be able to go there. All right, so the goddess Inanna's high priestess would perform sacred sex rituals with kings to ensure a fertile kingdom. This was called Heros Gamos. So basically not the game of heroes. I think it's heroes or.

[Weezy]

No, no, no, I'm saying the game.

[Mandy B]

Look at me making the Spanish. It probably ain't hijeros.

[Weezy]

What are the fajitas?

[Mandy B]

And. Yeah, so I guess. Now here's the thing. Were goddesses real things? The goddess. Yes. Would perform sacred rituals. Goddesses was real. I thought gods and goddesses was fake.

[Weezy]

They're humans. That became much like a. You could say like a prophet. Then Aphrodite's real. They made statues after them.

[Mandy B]

They were real though.

[Weezy]

Yeah.

[Mandy B]

Real people.

[Weezy]

Yes.

[Mandy B]

Hades and Zeus was real people.

[Weezy]

Yes.

[Mandy B]

Poseidon, he was. He was in the ocean. He wasn't real.

[Weezy]

You got to think. For example.

[Mandy B]

Hold on. No, I need you to.

[Weezy]

No, no, no. For example, Moses and the parting of the Red Sea.

[Mandy B]

No, that's a Bible person.

[Weezy]

Hold on, let me, let me. People say, even though that sounds crazy, that he did that. It was really a low tide. So. Girl, all of the Poseidon shit, all of the Aphrodite. These gods and goddesses were humans.

[Mandy B]

They was not humans.

[Unknown]

Ever assertion that Greek go real supported by archaeological of elev evidence. Excuse me, comparative monology. The Greek gods as depicted in mythology are not considered to be literal spiritual beings that existed in the physical world by Monica.

[Mandy B]

They was not in the physical world. They was not human.

[Unknown]

However, they are viewed as powerful, symbolic, symbolic.

[Mandy B]

They symbols. She said they was humans. At one point. Oh, this is giving my chicken wing. I think that my chicken wing take.

[Weezy]

I think this is a nich.

[Mandy B]

That was Hades and Zeus was not real. Hercules.

[Weezy]

I believe it's real.

[Mandy B]

Hercules.

[Unknown]

You eat wings all the time.

[Mandy B]

Not. I believe it. See, and this is how culture.

[Weezy]

I thought a wing was a toe. Hoe. It's not the same.

[Mandy B]

Don't do that. That's just anatomy that I got wrong. You were sitting here.

[Weezy]

You thought a chicken wing and clucked.

[Mandy B]

It on this damn camera.

[Unknown]

Bitch was a toe.

[Mandy B]

I just said it is kind of a toe. It's just a finger. Then bitch, I got the wrong.

[Weezy]

I believe they were real and I believe these books and all this Google shit makes us wants us to think it's fake.

[Mandy B]

And you can now join weezy's [e-mail].

[Weezy]

Just like I think Pisces and shit is real.

[Mandy B]

All right? Now, y' all know we had to take it over to Egypt. And the pharaoh, which. The pharaoh was an actual human being. This is.

[Unknown]

Now we don't think anything's real.

[Mandy B]

The pharaoh was real. That was a real king. Now, this one is crazy, y'.

[Weezy]

All. Not a prince of Egypt right Now.

[Mandy B]

This one is crazy. And this is how, I guess he wanted to boost fertility around Egypt. The pharaoh was expected to ejaculate into the Nile during a fertility festival to bless the land.

[Unknown]

Abu khaki on the river.

[Mandy B]

I want to know who had to watch it or if he did it in silence or he poured it from a cup like.

[Weezy]

Well, I think it was probably a kink because, you know, the Greeks were freaks.

[Mandy B]

No, you guys should be in Egypt, not Greece.

[Weezy]

Well, all of them were free. Hold up.

[Unknown]

She asked a good question. They also had a nut in the jar. Or would I nut directly?

[Mandy B]

Like, did he have to nut immediately, or was it just his sperm? That was.

[Weezy]

Maybe everybody watched it.

[Mandy B]

No, he said it. He was expected to ejaculate into the Nile. So I feel like he had to.

[Unknown]

Nut into the river.

[Mandy B]

Nut into the river. This is crazy, y'.

[Weezy]

All.

[Mandy B]

Okay, so Norse and Celtic tribes. How do we get here for the fertility of this. Bonfires and Beltane orgies were common. People believed sex during these rituals would ensure abundant crops and healthy livestock. So basically, they threw a whole orgy where people assume that during this moment, as we're having sex and essentially everything around us would be fertile. So the livestock would grow, plants would grow.

[Unknown]

That's cool.

[Mandy B]

And that's magic. And I would inseminate you at the same time. Because we're in belief that this is corn. You know what I mean?

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Weezy]

I wonder if there's something that they used to do with taste. Just imagine. You like, hey, how do I know if my semen's any good? If it's salty, it's this. If it's sweet, it's this. How do you know what healthy semen was back then? It can't just be consistency. You probably had to eat it.

[Mandy B]

I'll say my thoughts.

[Weezy]

It made your skin kind of tight.

[Mandy B]

My thoughts on that. Is that nut consistency? While yes, there's healthy and unhealthy, I do also think it's subjective.

[Weezy]

Of what's healthy nut.

[Mandy B]

No, no, no. Of what someone back then would assume it to be. Cause it would be based on what you enjoy. I know people like different nuts like you do. I like different nuts, I think. I guarantee you since you like bukkake and shit like that and cream pies, the consistency and way in which you like nut is probably different than I like nut. And this is y' all getting horrible decisions at this point. But I think we're late enough into the show to like, what is your. Your choice of nut consistency?

[Weezy]

Okay, so let's talk about.

[Mandy B]

Wait. We might ask you what your nut consistency is.

[Weezy]

Yeah, I like a volume shooter or I like a drip down shoot. Sometimes I like it to shoot right up and then it just drips down the dickens down the dick. I like to see it go from super thick white to get runny a little bit, and then if I pick it up to eat it, I like to be able to still see the white. Don't clear up too quick. I still need white. See, not that I'm racist.

[Mandy B]

I ain't gonna hold you. I. I like just enough nut to where I feel it.

[Weezy]

Yeah, but if it's.

[Mandy B]

But if it's like. No, I don't like a lot of nut. I like just one moment. I like just enough to be like, ooh, you came. I don't like volume. I don't want it to be like a puddle. I don't. I also don't like it too thick. I like it to kind of be like. Like spit.

[Weezy]

What's the point in a little bit of squirt? Might as well pee. No, no, that's how I feel. Okay. Might as well nut.

[Mandy B]

Cool. So to me, the line I like, and I also like it clear. Anything white. Maybe because I associate it with a yeast infection and I know it's not the same. I don't like super white shit, like, even. Okay. You know, I watch gay porn.

[Weezy]

You want clear nut.

[Mandy B]

Oh, I'm not gonna lie. When I watch gay porn, if there's too much white stuff coming out the asshole onto the dick, I'd be like, oh, it's too messy. Yucky. Don't know why it's so much white stuff.

[Weezy]

Cause it's the lube color to make it hot.

[Mandy B]

I don't like it. So I won't. I will turn off a video if the dick turns white from the.

[Weezy]

Well, now that we've taken you to Egypt and everything, we should wrap.

[Mandy B]

I don't like it. No, no, hold on, hold on. Let me finish, let me finish. I have two more places. So, Japan, Shinto tradition, phallic festivals. Y' all know phallic means penis or penis. Like shapes like Kanamara. Matsuri celebrated fertility with giant penis shaped floats by the way, y', all, this is still celebrated today. I have not been to Japan yet and I think for research purposes, maybe the business can cover half of my trip. Since it's for research. Yes, I'd love to go be able to film these giant penis shaped floats. Last one in West Africa in Yoruba religion.

[Weezy]

Yoruba. Thank you. I'm Africa.

[Mandy B]

Yoruba. Fertility dances and offerings to Oshun, goddess of love and fertility.

[Unknown]

She's not doing too bad.

[Weezy]

Oshun.

[Unknown]

Oshun. Yeah.

[Weezy]

I'm a hotel.

[Mandy B]

Don't you know Oshun Wolf, by the way, they continue still today in Nigeria and diaspora communities, but there are still fertility dances and offerings to this goddess as a way to.

[Weezy]

It's Afrobeats, basically.

[Mandy B]

That is freedom.

[Weezy]

Hope it's the Alma fiance.

[Mandy B]

These rituals made fertility communal, joyful and spiritual, with women often seen as lifebringers rather than passive vestals. So they celebrated the female bodies, their ability to carry the acknowledgment that there was a womb there that brought life into. And so it was a way to celebrate women is not just things to bend over and fuck and get your nut off. But yeah. So that is the history of fertility and some of the rituals that have been used over time.

[Weezy]

Well, I will make sure to try my fertility dance tonight in the club.

[Mandy B]

I'm staying far away from all this shit.

[Weezy]

Y' all head on over to patreon.com horribledecisions if you want more sex than just me and Mandy talking about the kind of cum nut we like. And also NHB tour.com come and check us out in a bunch of cities I was gonna name em but we got no time, nigga.

[Mandy B]

A whole lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. Make sure you get your tickets. Make sure you support us. Thank you. And also make sure you subscribe to our YouTube, our social pages, keep up to date with everything we have going on. And once again, thank you so very much for tuning in. I'm gonna blend it for this outro for listening to horrible decisions.

[Weezy]

Decision.

[Mandy B]

Bye.

[Weezy]

This is an I heart podcast.