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Hello, Internet it is I, a kid they called Fury back again to do the thing that I do called Furious Thoughts. I'm very excited to be back. As you might be able to tell, I'm quite a bit aged since we began this foray into Internet commentary. Time's been an interesting thing for me. As I've been getting older and older and working more and more. I'm a lot more sensitive about about how I spend my personal time, my recreational time, my me time, if you will. And that me time usually consists of Cool Ranch Doritos, long long sessions of video games, preferably the action RPG kind, and scratching my dog. So when you niggas are talking about Love Island, Laboos, TikTok and Candace Owens, I have nary a living idea what you talking about and I preferred it that. However, as an individual who communicates for a living, I suppose I should figure out what the fuck is going on in the world again. So that's the plan. Furious Thoughts. The podcast is all about me returning to form, getting back into the the mind and soul of that plucky young butch queen who thought that she could do whatever the she wanted to do. Nobody could beat her ass, and for whatever reason, she wore a lot of plaid button downs for Macy's. Not sure what that was about. Either way, she's back in my heart and we're going to do some some familiar picking apart life and my thoughts and some brand new, which is just basically me being old and hoping that you will help me figure out what's going on in the world so I don't feel like Patrick Starr every day. Patrick Starlit's under a rock and he's fat and stupid. So you got it. Let's start. Okay, so this first one I want to send out to all of my gay male friends and family. Turn the fag down in public. Turn it down. There's no reason that you have to be RuPaul and Stimpy every single time that you meet a straight person because you are severely lacking validation and affection that you got or that you needed as a child. You don't have to Shablam or Death drop or whatever other incorrect word you use for a dip. You don't have to do all that shit. You don't have the tongue pop. You can't. You don't have to like just be a stark raving homosexual for in like a tap dancing nature. You say hello, you can talk about the weather, talk about your favorite meal at the Cheesecake Factory, but oh my God they still ain't voting for you, bitch. You don't even vote for you. Calm down. You look crazy. We look crazy. I'm over it. I'm over it. I don't know if you need to take a break from a world of wonder. I don't know if you need to take a break from drag brunches. I don't know what the hell you queens need to do except calm the down. And I'm going to start saying out loud in public, you can't be my ass. Why did the Golden Girls have so many fat jokes in that series? Not only were like none of those women anywhere near fat, one of them would call, let's say Blanche Devereaux a fat ass or something because she eats Oreos or something. And in the very next scene she'd be in a leotard looking like Scarlett Johansson, tap dancing and doing splits and shit. So what was the purpose of that lie? What was the purpose of that lie? All of those women were gorgeous. Was it just like a writing thing from the time they just call any woman with skin fat? Or is it what happened? I think we should discuss that. That always really confused me. Oh, you're so fat. Oh my God. I put on five pounds. Oh my God. You know who's fat? Me. You know who's golden almost? Me. So I just feel like, what other white lies have there been on television? Still a great show. You should watch it if you haven't. It's iconic. If you send me a voice note and it is over 60 seconds long, I didn't read it. I didn't listen to it. I took no part in it actually. You know that. Cuz I believe that if I did listen to it, it would tell you or it would delete or something. It's two months later and that is still in our chat. I ain't hit nothing, keep, leave nothing. I'm not listening to that because why didn't you do a very classic vintage sickening thing called calling, Calling baby, baby, honey. We evolved from the telegram where some white man will come up to your door and say, hey, need more milk and eggs. Stop. Also buy bacon. Stop. Also, I have another wife. Stop. We evolved from that and then got to picking up the phone, wrapping the cord around your neck and then just talking for hours, which was really cunty. Then I got a Nokia phone in high school and got Snake and text messaging. Fun. You don't always have time to have a full conversation. You just send some words. What is a voice note? And like I Can see how it can be convenient here and there. But, baby, baby, when you start walking me down your family tree and you take a fucking break about how your great, great grandmama walked the underground Railroad, I'm like, we could have just called. You could come over and we could talk about this. It sounds deep. Stop sending me these fucking lengthy ass Deathly Hollows. Part 2 Ass Voice Notes, bitch. I'm not gonna listen to it. I'm not going to listen to it. Thanks. This one is also for the gays, specifically for the tops in the audience or those of you who claim top. I'm not gonna argue with you today. I want you to remember, I want you to know, I want you to acknowledge. I want you to rest in the fact that fleeting for no reason is an unforgivable if. If I rinse out, if I irrigate my system for you to come over and penetrate my body, and then you're like, oh, I forgot I have jazzercise. And I have to also go pick up my three cousins. I'm not gonna make it. You should go to jail, and your three cousins should be in foster care. But, no, you should be arrested. Or at the very least, I should sue. Are you stupid? I'm mad that I feel like I even have to say this. I feel like I probably said this on furious thoughts when I lived at my mama house. It has not changed, and neither have you niggas, unfortunately. Get it together. All you have to do is wash your dick and ass, and a lot of y' all don't even do the ass. Wash your dick balls, brush your teeth. That's your lesson. That's your plight. I'm over here on. On the fucking set of Waterworld, and you want to talk about. Oh, my bad. They just reopened a blockbuster in my. In my neighborhood, and I want to go check that out. Fuck you or not fuck you. I guess I was watching Eddington, this new Aryaster Western. This is the way that my mind works. Maybe about halfway through the film, for whatever reason, I had a thought in my head in the theater that was like, I wonder who Woody from Toy Story would have voted for in the last election? Because, like, the obvious says he would have went red, but I kind of feel like he would have voted. Kamala. Buzz is for sure maga. Like, that's. That's just out of the question. But, like, I wonder who maybe Woody would have been. Like, I don't know. Maybe he wouldn't have voted. Bo Peep would have made him vote. But see, I feel like Bo Peep would have voted Trump. Rex is for sure voting Kamala. He's gay. And then I would probably say the same thing for Slinky gay and Han gay. I feel like everybody else is gay. All the other toys, little aliens gay. Like, everybody. I'm just actually coming to this realization for those of you who work out, who go to the gym and stuff like that. I'm gonna say this out loud because I know that there are many signs, but I also know many of you can't read or don't, so I'll say it out loud. Wipe down the gym equipment after you use it. How did you niggas survive Covid? I don't even understand how. Like, plague after, smallpox after. And you nasty bitches are still here. I. Why would you think I want to do hamstring curls in a puddle of your sweat? There are wipes, there are napkins, There are towels. When the aliens get here, we're. Because we don't have, like, we. We don't have, like, a nature in us to work together. It's gonna be everybody for themselves. And I feel like people would still loot B and H video or some shit like that. We're stupid. We're stupid. I just re watched Independence Day for the first time last week, and I forgot about that scene where that white lady who worked at the news place was like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna go on top of the highest building in the and with a poster board that say, hey, welcome, aliens. We're going to Mickey's. Or whatever. Like, and then they blew all them hoes up. It's like, y' all would do that. You would. If the alien sent out, like, a silver surfer that said, galactus is coming to fuck your shit up or whatever. Yahpis would literally throw a block party outside of Wally World and invite him. I don't want to live here. I don't feel like it's fair that I have to. Anyway. I don't remember where I picked up this interesting fact. I Googled it. I'm very interested in why there are only 20 or 22 states in the US that have waste to energy plants. If there's 75 waste to energy plants in the US I feel like at least 40 dumb bitches need to be in downtown Los Angeles, So I feel like we could be doing more on that front. But I'm also not a scientist, so I don't know how that works. I just feel like, hey, taking trash and turning it into power seems smart since There's a whole lot of trash around. Throw J.D. vance in there. Throw Kellyanne Conway and Secretary of Education. White people in the club. Specifically white people in the clubs in West Hollywood, because y' all are the worst white people in the club. I push. I push you specifically. Like, I don't push any other people. But if you're in the way, I'm gonna push you. I'm gonna push you. I'm not gonna apologize. I'm not gonna say excuse me. And you are never going to do anything about it. So I just thought that that's something you should know. I did see you. I didn't care. Sometimes I feel like I should have waited longer to come out so that I could have, like, capitalized off the attention and disingenuous support. But I fag hard. Like, I fag really hard. I've been doing it since I was a baby, so there was no. That wasn't an option. But I feel like I missed out on a bag. I do. Look at Franko. She didn't even work no more. That nigga so rich. But he knew what to do. Damn. Oh, well, here we are. Have you ever been in a hotel room with a phone that worked? Why do I feel like every hotel that I've ever stayed in, there's something wrong with the phone? Do they just go get them out of like a bin out in the back of a Staples or something? I've been at nice hotels, mind you, and it's maybe I just don't know how to work them because hotels be having them old school, like, office cubicle phone, like, you know what I mean, with the speaker and three different lines and several other buttons and a calculator. That's probably why it gets tricky because, I mean, phones don't even have buttons now. It's just. Isn't that weird? Phones don't have buttons anymore. It's just a block of glass and metal. I miss buttons. Isn't there something satisfying about pressing a button? And it goes in and there's an action to it. This is nothing. This is nothing. And then if you're in the hood, this screen is trash. It looks like Angela Bassin waiting to exhale took to it. Everybody, phone in the ghetto broke, right? And you don't have the money or the means all the time to go and fix the goddamn phone. Because fixing an iPhone screen, if it has just a tiny fracture and it is fifteen hundred dollars. So. Now your hand is hemorrhaging blood at an just an astonishing rate because you swiped Right. I don't remember where I was talking about. This one is for the saints. I saved them sanctified, but also a little hood adjacent in the room. And in the chat. I can't verbalize how exhausted I am of the Never Would have Made It Shville remix. I don't know which one of you, you did an amazing job, so no shade, but I don't know which one of you thought, let me mix some cut by Trillville with Never Would have Made It a gospel record. I hear it, I think, every single time I go to a social event. And it perplexes me in a way that I find incredibly fascinating because on one hand, I feel like I should be offended, but on the other hand, it is just my type of carrying on. I. I think I needed to stop because I'd like to make it to heaven, but it's not looking good. So let's. Let's work on a different mix, please. Thank you. What is up with in subtitles and movies and television, If somebody post an Instagram caption that has three sentences in it, you be like, I'm not reading all that. But if I put on Die Hard, it's like, oh, turn on the subtitles. It helps me hear better. What are you talking about? What are you talking about personally? And I'm not judging anybody. Well, I guess I am. But personally, unless it's a foreign language film or something. A language I don't understand, subtitles feel like they're in the way. I want to see the pictures and things. You niggas like subtitles. Not because you're struggling to hear anything, but it just brings you comfort. And I actually would love an explanation because I don't understand. I don't understand. You can't spell. You put M's and Valentines. You put two O's and lose. Is that why you want to. Is it. I mean, maybe like duolingo. I'm gonna leave it alone if I forgot your birthday this year. I'm old. And bitch, you probably older, so suck it up. Here's to many more. God bless. Okay, so those of us in the Pacific category, for my Brazilians, we love pussy compliments. We love when our partners compliment the puss. How great it is. But how many of us are open to pussy criticism? When the last time that you've had somebody say, hey, tighten things up down there, could use a wash, a little more enthusiasm. And you were. You were just as receptive things to think about, you know, make it the best experience that you can Unless you fleeted for no reason for this nigga at some point, because at that point he get the pussy he gets. It's lucky that you even invited his ass back. Fuck him. But in other cases, you know, 50, 50, give and take, no pun intended. A quiet fear of mine is that one day I'll be so in my head and not paying attention that I'll be caught singing a really trash song out loud. Like I'll just be walking home from Ralph's with my headphones on and singing Fat Juicy and Wet by Bruno Mars and Sexyy Red and turn to my left and see someone in a car at an intersection. Like, damn. Sometimes I'm just like, just sing it in your head. I use that song as just an example for you to under. I hate. I would never be caught living dead or in between listening to that song, much less singing it. It's never going to happen. It's never going to happen. If you ever see this face and body jamming to Fat Juicy and Red or really any sexy red song. Clone, Clown, Specter, Ghost, Elon Musk, robot, cybertruck. It's not me. I wouldn't do it. Something to think about. Oh yeah. I like to quickly remind the world that woke. The term woke is not for most of you. It really isn't for most of you and even none of y' all goddamn business, most of you are using it incorrectly. And I'm tired. I'm tired. I watched the south park episode this week where they used woke, but that was funny. So there I I have an incoming thought about our things in terms of vocal vocabulary. Anyway, we'll get to it. But I just wanted to because I've said this before, woke ain't got nothing to do with you. You're using it incorrectly. And most of you who have a problem with woke this and woke that need all the woke you can get because you are dumb as all outside. I mean wide open, stupid job. Bitches are remedial. So I would suggest a little bit of street education. But you know, I guess keep voting for tangerine colored dumbasses that are very, very, very surely on that Epstein list who are going to do absolutely nothing but make you broke and tired. Also Elon Musk until he invents something to kill mosquitoes if you don't have like I don't understand you eventing cyber trucks that look like Nightwing and the Red Hood and Batgirl went right in and like, do you know? How do you know the mission mosquitoes have been on lately? Especially in the South. Do something about that. Otherwise I don't give a what your fake South African ass is talking about. You know, you can beat it. He can beat it. All of his, all of Trump ugly ass kids, Ivanka Bannon, Barron Bishop, whatever the fuck his name is, all them hoes can go, go. You know, I started doing furious thoughts when I was like maybe 19 years old living in my parents house. And that young Fury was so plucky and energetic and confident and so tapped in to all of the trends and platforms and he was editing and photoshopping and coding and doing all of these things. Now my old fat ass is tired. You know, I've been all around the country working, doing really, really cool and amazing things. And I've sort of just parked myself into the things that bring me comfort, like I said, which are video games, my dog and my solitude. But I'm on a hardcore mission to return to that spiritual part of myself. I think that I've been like, I've been really anxious and I think I've been a little less confident about my ability to do this thing, which is a part of the reason why I've stepped back from it for a while. But now I'm like, well, don't none of you bitches know what you're doing? From entertainment to politics to cooking seafood, like everybody's just kind of freestyling. So what should stop me from doing the exact same thing? I am looking to this to be a return to form, an evolution, a recollection and a constipation. So I hope that you enjoy following me on this new take on the old, this new chapter, this new journey. It's gonna be full of all kinds of fun new things and I'm really excited to hopefully stand upright again and feel like I belong on, on earth. Look at me doing a thing who knew? Not me or whatever Paul Rudd and Sean Evans said. So I want to keep the original essay and Saphira's thoughts alive here to me. Rapid fire, extremely random thoughts that have been ping ponging through my skull for however long. But I also want to explore the world today. I want to look into happenings around the country and the globe that could be funny or interesting and also help keep me in the loop of the planet that I am living on. We will also have guest interviews which I'm very excited about. I'm going to be sitting down and chatting with all sorts of people and I want to do a similar thing with them where we discuss communication where we are today. How we grew up through those things, how we see the world through these things today. And also why Beyonce is the greatest performing artist to live, and why Blue Ivy Carter is the second coming. You know, it's gonna be fun. And we are back to the Furious Thoughts podcast. Today we have a very, very, very special guest in the studio. I'm so excited and pleased to finally have her working with myself doing the kid furry thing. I have been a friend of this beautiful woman now for a couple of years. I have admired her work ethic, grace, sex appeal and humor. I'm talking about the one and only award winning journalist. I'm talking about the one and only red carpet corresponding icon, president of the national association of Black Journalists here in la. This chapter. She's worked with npr. She's worked with my get and grown sisters. You may have seen her on Variety. It's my girl, Char Johnson.
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How are you? Hi. Oh my God, what an intro. You got me over here blushing.
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You too, babe.
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Thank you. I appreciate that and thank you for having me.
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Thank you for agreeing to be here.
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It's a nice to.
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You. You and I met. I think I didn't even live here at the time, but I was invited to like a friend lunch gathering sort of a thingy. I think it was maybe downtown. I think it was Jeff.
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Maybe.
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Maybe. Was it?
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I. No. I met you as a fan.
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Did you?
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Yes. Quick story. I initially met you. We didn't get a chance to have a real conversation. You and Krystal were in Chicago 11 years ago when you all's live show tickets were like $25 and you were in Chicago and I went to the Reid live show is the first one that I've been to. I think it was you all's first time touring.
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I think so, yeah.
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And the next day, that was like June 14th. I remember that because I moved to LA June 15th. So it was literally June 14th. The night of June 14th, I went to see y' all and I remember like learning your story about how you like up and move to New York. And I was like, I'm about to do the same thing. Like, I leave tomorrow, I land in LA at noon. I don't. I didn't have any friends, any, like, housing. I was living in a hotel and you gave me some very nice words. That's when we first met. And then I think we connected on the Internet. And then I ended up seeing you. Like, it wasn't too far down the line though. It was like 2017. I want to say we officially like, connected. I was like, hey, girl, what's your number? Type thing, you know?
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So.
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So, yeah, that's. That's my fun story of when I first. First met you.
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You just made such a strong impression on me because you were very funny. You were very, very graceful. Like I said, I was just like, I want to get to know more about her. She seems like she's got her head
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on straight for the most part.
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Yeah. And it's been smooth sailing ever since.
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It has. It has.
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So how have you been?
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I have been doing pretty well, all things considered. It's been a very interesting year, as you know. Very interesting timeline we're living in, but I've been doing pretty well.
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Good. Yeah, it has been a very, very odd year. We were joking earlier about how it's like, every day you said you gotta wake up with one eye open because, like, what, Bullshit.
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Yes.
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Is headlining.
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Yes.
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And that's your job, basically. Keeping up with all of the fuckery.
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And it's like a barrage. But I. I've had to take dramatic steps back. Like, dramatic steps back, because I've just found. Found myself, like, spiraling to a place that I'm struggling to dig myself out of now because it just doesn't seem like there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Like, even with political analysts, normally there was, like, an off ramp and, like, well, at least we have this and, you know, the su. And now everybody's just kind of like, well, girl, they're bulldozing.
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Yep. Yeah. Like, I. I agree. In a sense, I feel like that's exactly what this podcast is. I just went ahead and took such a. So many steps back that I realized I existed in a world that was just corn chips and my PlayStation and then singing, like, 702 covers to my dog. Yeah, she hates all of them.
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Yeah.
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But now I'm trying to come back out into this light and I'm like, oh, yeah, things are craz. I guess I could laugh about it.
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Yeah.
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But this is the real world that I live in, and I'm a black queer person.
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So this is our timeline in our 30s. Like, this is our timeline right now
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as a communication mass. Com. Girly, what do you. What's, like, your opinion on the state of communication in general today?
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My goodness. I'm a little. I'm scared. I'm scared Fury. And the reason why I'm scared. And I talk to a lot of students, right? A lot of students that are, like, coming into journalism and communications and hosting and things of that nature. It's a lot to be scared about, but I still think that there are certain things that only a human can give you. Yeah, but it was all. We were already in a space where I felt, I knew we were in trouble when AI was writing our stories. And then there seemed to be a push for, like, influencers. And that's no shade to influencers, but influencers. And how many times have we seen influencers who are not experienced go viral for hiccups that they've made on the carpet or just too green? You know, even in interviews saying the wrong thing. I can think back to awards season where actual outlets. You remember the viral clip of the Associated Press with Babyface and Chapel Roan, and then the microaggressions thrown at Megan Thee Stallion at the Variety. I believe it was the After Oscars party. There's just a certain text, there's a certain skill that an education and education and really locking in and studying the craft can give you versus if, you know, you rise to fame doing a dance on TikTok and someone throws a microphone in your hand and pushes you out there. And so I just, between the deep fakes, the AI, we now got AI influencers. Speaking of influencers, like, their jobs are being threatened.
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Right.
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Cause now you can custom tailor, like, you know, Vogue just made headlines because they published in their physical magazine AI models.
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Timbaland signed an AI musician.
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Yeah, I know, I know.
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What?
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So, so I, I, I'm a little nervous when you can engineer, when I know that for a fact, us being on camera right now, someone could engineer a clip and have us saying something that we did not say.
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Yeah, well, I guess I just said, but yeah.
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And so, yeah, it's just we're in weird territory. The wild, wild West. No regulations. And people are gonna get hurt. Yes, people are going to get hurt.
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People are currently getting hurt. But it's like it's at that state now where I feel like a lot of people who are reveling in their own ignorance.
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Yeah.
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Maybe don't feel it yet or are just glad they don't feel it yet. Oh, but baby, it's coming.
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It's coming. I mean, even thinking back to the ice raids in June, there were AI generated videos from that. When I think about the fires in January, remember the Hollywood sign was on fire. That wasn't real, but it went viral. And so people, the media literacy is so low. Literacy is so low. And you know, people, we react to rage bait. People have an immediate reaction without doing the extra steps to confirm to get context or even confirm if something is actually real.
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And, you know, something that I'm also thinking about in terms of what you said about, you know, stars who kind of rise to fame from different applications and things because, you know, Scarlett took a tumble or something. We miss you, girl.
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Iconic mom. Iconic.
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Sometimes it really does take going, oh, this is going somewhere. Let me train. I think about, like, Marilyn Monroe, for instance, when she, like took a year or so off from. From acting, even though she was at the top of her game, she was like, oh, I'm eating this. Yeah, but I can eat better. Let me go get some training. And then she started with Laurence Olivier or something.
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Yeah.
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So I think it can really just be about the person and the individual. But I don't know how many people at the table in these spaces are requiring that because it's about fast money. Of course.
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Of course. And I. I totally agree with you. We have. It's here. It's not going anywhere. So we have to learn how to work with it. Even though, you know, corporate greed and CEOs. I think someone. I. I wish I could remember the CEO, but he delighted in having AI replace jobs because AI doesn't form unions. AI does not take sick days. AI does not want a raise. So he's delighted to push out the workforce. And so I am concerned about what that looks like if all of our jobs. Because AI can do just about anything, you know. Yeah. So it's like, you know, it's scary.
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Yeah. Do you have a favorite app? Any kind.
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A favorite app? No. Well, what I will say is I. I do. I'm so ashamed. I'm so ashamed. That damn Tick Tock.
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You like it?
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I do, I do. TikTok is something. I don't want to sound like, extra cerebral, but like, I used to try to like, crank out like 50 pages a night. Like, there's books that I read. I still, I love physical books.
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Same.
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I will listen to an audiobook. Depend. Like memoir, autobiography.
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Oh, those are nice.
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Yeah. I do not really like the Kindles, like the electronic. Like, I. I prefer a physical book. And so I used to read at night to kind of calm myself down because at one point, you know, I was taking edibles to go to sleep, but it was like something about reading, you know, you drift off and, you know.
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Feels classic.
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Yeah. And it. It feels good, really. Like I feel like I'm keeping my brain sharp and warding off any sort of Alzheimer's or dementia that might be down the line. Cause I'm using.
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Oh, that's right.
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You know, connective tissues. I can imagine. Oh, this scene, you know. And one night I picked up my phone instead and decided to just play with TikTok. And before I knew it, it was 4:30am
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I still haven't had that moment. I don't.
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Oh my God, that algorithm is unlike any other. It's unlike any other.
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I'm going to, maybe this weekend I'm going to make another serious attempt at TikTok because I have to get it.
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Well, I see you post from time to time. You just think, I'll just post it
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and then delete it. I mean I don't post it and then just get off. You post and go, yeah, I don't really like look at anything.
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Well, see, that's the trap. Yeah, that's the trap. And so I've had to be an adult and parent myself and say, you know, Char, we'll give it an hour. Or when I'm in that function functional freeze. You know, when you're overwhelmed, you got so much work and deadlines and I can't even eat or think sometimes I've got hopped on tick tock. And it's been like, I don't know if you've had a day like this where you, you give yourself like certain benchmarks where it's like, yeah, it's like 4:30. And it's like, okay, I'm gonna give myself an hour.
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Yeah.
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Then, oh, 5:30 hit. I might as well just try. I'm gonna try for 6:15.
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A
Yes.
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B
And so then it just takes up all the time. So TikTok is a favorite of mine because I've come across so many cool creators and gotten good night good ideas. And before that whole January 20 thing happened, TikTok was such a great search engine. You could literally type like things for a black girl to do in Miami for a weekend and you get a library catered to like, I'm really gonna try.
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A
I've never used it as a search engine either, so I think maybe Crystal or someone mentioned it in that way and I, it, it didn't really process for me. But I will say or repeat that although I'm not big on TikTok, I don't have like an issue with it because I know sure there's like silly stuff and memes and jokes, but I do hear even like older relatives who use it and it really is a solid source of information. So although I don't get.
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B
Well, it used to be a solid source of information. Okay, well now it's Been modified. It's been tweaked after January 20, but it used to be. It's still good. It's just not the TikTok that we once had.
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A
When did you join Twitter?
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B
I joined Twitter March of 2009.
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A
I can't remember exactly when the celebrities took over and made it a different thing. I remember when Twitter launched and it was maybe 2008, something like that. And it kind of was just. From what I remember, it was niggas I followed on, I don't know, MySpace or wherever else. Just being funny. Yeah, that was. It was just funny. And then Rihanna joined.
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B
Yeah. Then Kim Kardashian joined.
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A
And people were like, oprah joined directly to this famous person.
- [38:31]
B
And I gotta say, Elon Musk owns it. Yeah. I gotta say, regarding Twitter, there's a really good documentary on HBO Max about the history of Twitter. But, yeah, it is. It's like three or four parts. And then, of course, the black Twitter doc on Hulu, I was on that. Yeah. I didn't know. I didn't want to throw that out there. But, yeah, I reviewed it for npr, thank you very much. But, yeah, I missed that sweet spot and that accessibility. And Twitter, when it was legit for me, it was my morning paper.
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A
Yeah.
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B
The real verifications and having access to certain people and journalists. I got so much work off of Twitter just from being a verified, like, journalist. I got so many companies reaching out to me and sending me the golden age where I could say, oh, I haven't tried these chips. And then Frito Lay's DMing me and sending me a box of these chips with confetti.
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A
And what's the chip that makes voodoo chips?
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B
Zaps.
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A
Zaps. I tweeted once, I don't know how many years ago, something to the effect of, oh, baby, zaps. Make some mighty chip. It might have just been something that dumb and ghetto. They DMed me and were like, we will send you our address. What about every flavor?
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B
Yeah. Yeah.
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A
I said, this is one of the nicest things anyone's ever done. I ate every bag.
- [39:53]
B
I got a sponsorship from Perrier Water because of Twitter. Like, literally, like, I loved the water. This was in my sparkling water era when I worked in reality tv, and they sent me water. And then I ended up doing a live show for a podcast I had at the time, and they sponsored the live show.
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A
That is amazing.
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B
Yeah. Didn't charge anything. They just wanted their name on the flyer. And. And they sent water for everyone, like, for all the tickets that we had sold.
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A
So And Twitter used to kind of be like what Tick Tock is now. I think.
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B
Yeah.
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A
People would get that information there for. Yeah, it would be before cnn, before
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B
anywhere else in real time. Yeah.
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A
And now I go on Twitter and it's just like, rock. What is Nicki Minaj talking about?
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B
And I. I have not been. I still have my account because there's pride there. There really is pride there. I'm like, Tamron hall follows Anna Navarro. Like, I got some. Some legit people that got me excited, you know? But I. I have not tweeted since November 13th. And I said, I'm headed to Blue Sky. And I've. I've been on Blue Sky. I've been on threads. It just. It's not the same.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I have bias against threads, which may sound ignorant, but my take is I follow you on Instagram. I don't care what you think. And so that is merging fair. I'm getting hot takes from old co workers from the Macy's cosmetics counter, from classmates. And it's like, I like what you look like. I don't care to know your politic on, you know, mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese. So threads. It never stuck with me. Blue Sky's a little dry. I enjoy it, but it's a little dry. But nothing can replace Twitter. But I can't be on there now. It's so violent. And there's no guardrails. You could say good morning, and then you're called slurs for six days. Yeah.
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A
With a check mark account.
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B
With a check with a verification of a verified account. It's coming. You can't report it. You can't. The accessibility is crazy. And I'll share a really quick story. There was a news station out here in Los Angeles that was under fire in June. Their account was hacked and they tweeted out the N word. So, of course, nabj and nabj, LA is now involved in this. Right. There's meetings being held. And what I found fascinating is in the midst of their investigation, they conducted an internal investigation. It was impossible to get in contact with X, so they did their due diligence, where they traced, you know, and they couldn't find anything on their end. And I was like. I remember once upon a time being so accessible. You could just reach out to Twitter. They'd get back to you. They'd. It might take some time, but X is virtually impossible. Like, they're not returning calls. You can't get in contact with these people. Should something happen to your account. Or your character is assassinated. Yes, I have seen the new Superman
- [42:58]
A
X or Twitter now is just run by Elon in a parallel dimension of monkeys that just go Mecca hit me.
- [43:08]
B
That really is. And the Lex Luthor character I felt was inspired by 1000% by Elon, for sure. Yeah.
- [43:13]
A
Lex is just smart.
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B
It's scary out there.
- [43:15]
A
Yeah. How long have you been a journalist? How long have you worked in the biz?
- [43:20]
B
Ooh, almost 20 years. So I did it in school, too. I was, like, a student journalist. I wrote for the paper in high school. We had a news program.
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A
Come on, Marisha.
- [43:31]
B
And yes, in high school, I was broadcasting live from the desk. I was not a reporter at girls volleyball. I was throwing to you from the desk. And so I've been doing it for a long time, but it didn't become a passion of mine until I went to college and I needed something to do. And I thought that at the time, I wanted to be this performer. And then, you know, adulthood sets in, and it's like, oh, I can't go to the Staples center and say, I have a degree in music. Time to put on my Beyonce show, so what are you gonna do with your life? And I was like, I just locked into journalism. It was something that I always loved. I'm from Chicago, so inherently a huge fan of the Oprah Winfrey Show. She was the queen of the city growing up. Her and Michael Jordan were like royalty growing up in Chicago. And. Yeah. And I love the View, and I love Wendy. I'm just a student of talk shows, but I also love, like, the local news anchors, and I love, like, like. And so that was. I was like, I'm gonna lock in on this. And then I did my first internship, and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna do this.
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A
I did broadcasting in high school, too.
- [44:34]
B
You did?
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A
Yeah.
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B
Okay, well, I mean, let me talk about.
- [44:36]
A
I don't know how much I open. I think I maybe talked about it once or twice.
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B
I. I didn't know it.
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A
I. I was in broadcasting in high school, and all we did was school sports and school news.
- [44:45]
B
Oh, yeah.
- [44:46]
A
And I went to my teacher, Mrs. Fox, and I said, hey, Ms. Fox, I hate this school. And sports. Can I do, like, an entertainment segment instead? And she was like, have to write and yourself.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And I was like, okay.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And she let me do it. And we had an entertainment segment for the first time at my high school, and I basically did what I do now.
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B
Your legacy?
- [45:08]
A
Yeah.
- [45:08]
B
Cuz do they still have it do you know?
- [45:10]
A
Oh, I don't know if they still have it, but I don't think they kept doing it after I, after I,
- [45:14]
B
I did the, the linear news for the school. I never did sports or anything, but I did an entertainment segment in college and also learned a very hard lesson about doing thorough research. See, that's what that time is for high school and college when you're doing these things.
- [45:28]
A
Exactly.
- [45:29]
B
I remember I was doing like the Billboard charts and I was rushing. It's college, you know, like a sophomore. And Letacy was on the charts. And I just assumed Letacy was a man. I had never heard her music. I saw the name and I did the whole live shot and I was like. And coming in, you know, at number six is Letici. He's knocking it out the park. He him, he him, he him. And I learned a heart lesson that day. Do you don't open your mouth without doing your research?
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A
So I want, I want a quick.
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B
And I said, ladisi, Gosh, it was, it was all bad. A lot of people, it was all
- [46:07]
A
wrong at the time. I want to know from you, a legitimate journalist, if you could break down for some of the people at home what that is. Because I think that some people who work in talk, or maybe they do like entertainment news or something like that, often fall into this self, self constructed trap where they're like, oh, but I'm a journalist, but you aren't.
- [46:41]
B
You're awesome. Yeah, I think when it comes to that, because these conversations are ever evolving. Right. I used to be this purist and this, you know, nose in the air. Excuse me, you are not a journalist, ma', am, you are a host. You know, and the way that I look at it now is journalism has such a broad umbrella because the definition is, it's like a living word. It's not a solidified word. It lives, it evolves, it shifts. And even I've learned some things along the way. But I think journalism is rooted in truth telling and I hate that. Like, like when I was in school, everything was about objectivity. Objectivity. But objectivity is still subjective, depending on who you work for. Yeah, it still has a skew to it. And so I think journalism is about fairness, truth telling. And there's just a code of ethics that goes. And I think that's the determining factor.
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A
I would agree.
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B
Cause you can talk to anyone, but you have to make sure and check in with yourself that you're not exploiting. There have been times I've had to check my bias. I Pride myself on saying, I can talk to anyone. I firmly believe I could talk to anyone. I could talk to that man in the White House, I could talk to his cronies, I could talk to anyone. I can ask the questions. And I think that that determines the weight of a journalist. Are you unafraid to ask the questions for all the critiques with the Diane Sawyer Whitney Houston interview, she asked the question. Same with Wendy. Wendy is a journalist, you know, she asked the question. Now, does she always ask in the most tasteful and tactful way? No, but it's about making sure you get to the truth of the matter. And you tell. You provide answers that you know that John Q. Public wants. So you ask those questions. You have those moments. But I think your approach. I think there's a training that goes with it, with how you set up a question. Are you an active listener, Right. Or do you just got your 10 bullet points in your head and you don't know how to monkey bar and segue? And I think that if you hone in on certain skills, yeah, you can call yourself a journalist, but it's a wide umbrella. It's a very wide, uh.
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A
Such a good answer. And I feel like that's even a really good framing for me because it's fair to. To consider the fact that journalism is a living word. It is. And evolving occupation. But I think you hit, at least in my mind, you hit the nail on the head with the code of ethics part. There is a style and an approach and an intent that comes with good journalism. And I would assume the huge part of that intent is getting the information that people want. Right. If you. If it was reported that you fell off of a cocaine mountain somewhere. Cause you don't even have no sense. And now you're promoting a movie, journalism's gonna ask you what happened on that mountain. Now Wendy might be like, apparently so.
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B
The cocaine, you know.
- [49:56]
A
Right, right, right, right. She's getting. She knows that this is what we want to know. That's a great, great way to look at. Oh, my gosh. Imperfect. I have read. I miss her. I really.
- [50:11]
B
Her presence is definitely missed, especially in this particular era of pop culture. My God. My God.
- [50:21]
A
Oh, I wanna hear her talk about Trump. I wanna hear her talk about Nellie and Ashanti, Sean Combs. I wanna hear her talk about.
- [50:27]
B
That's a storied history with them. Yeah, she would've been lighting it up.
- [50:32]
A
God bless. How's dating in LA been for you, Fury? And has tech have the apps affected that at all?
- [50:45]
B
So, okay, so I'll answer this in bits and pieces.
- [50:49]
A
Okay. And I'll answer too.
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B
Okay. Thank you. You got me out here talking about my personal life. So in the pandemic, I went on a date or two in the pandemic, which was also. But it was like dramatic. Like it was like if you put two tape in between us. Because I was terrified of getting sick, I should also mention I was covering it. So I was like aware terrified of getting sick because I live alone, right. And there were people that were suffering and sometimes dying alone in their one bedroom apartments. You know, I'm reading these harrowing tales of crawling to the bathroom because you ain't got no strength. And you know, none of my friends have a spare key. Like, I just, I was thinking worst case scenario because I was talking and reporting on this. But what I will say is that I started this thing like when I was on dating apps. I've not been on dating apps in years, but I would require some of the dates that I did. Well, I did two in person dates in lockdown, but there were a lot of people that just wanted conversation. And so I did some zoom dates as well, you know, and so I carried that with me if I ever met a man online. Like, there's been guys that have talked to me on Instagram and stuff I require before we set this up and go down to the restaurant and get the apps and the drinks. Let me see. Because I'm exactly who you see. I'm exactly who I say I am. Let me make sure. Yes, let me make sure. Also, it's a safety thing if the vibe, you could be who you say you are, but if the vibe is off or if you're incapable of carrying a conversation. I've seen all I need to say. Babe.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You know, we're gonna leave this right here. Thanks so much. My dating life has not been the best. But I mean, I've had some high moments and I've had some very, very low moments.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And I feel like it's. I get comfort knowing that it's not unique to me. So for every, you know, black woman or trans person in LA that has, has found success, I'm using air quotes with that success. There are 15 that's got the same story or similar and I haven't even been through the worst of it. There's certain girls at the brunch and at the lunch that I'm talking to and I'm like, girl, what? So it has been, it's been interesting. This landscape Is. Is interesting. The men, even the transplants are. The desirability politics are interesting. And I've just seen. I have this thing. It angers the men. But in my. I'm gonna say in my lived experience, there have been men that I have pillow talked with where their ex girlfriends, let's say they're from Miami or Chicago or whatever, and their ex girlfriends, I see pictures of them and they look like me. And black women that I know, but there's a certain, like, strange. I don't know whether to call it like a. An assimilation to power where when that plane lands, they're looking for Kim Kardashian, they're looking for Adrian Bylaw. And so that's what I look at. The example that I always use is what makes it inherently like homosocial. Right. Is they want the girl. And some women date like this, this. But most women don't. But a lot of men want the girl. Where. If I'm bringing you. If. If you're at the barber shop and you want, you know, let's say chick fil A and I'm bringing you the chick fil A, they want the whole barber shop to say, damn, that's you.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And unfortunately, a lot of black women don't get that reaction in this city. Adrienne Bylon gets that reaction. Kim Kardashian gets that reaction. And that is something that people don't want to talk about. But I'm. This is not only this is my lived experience, but it's also a million other black women lived. So even though yours might be a little different, sis, this is. This is also. Multiple truths can exist at one time.
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A
This is not a rare truth, though. Like, this is absolute facts. I don't even know if I've heard anybody say that out loud or any but that. That's true. I know LA has its thing and there are many other cities that are, of course, very common, but that. You're right, you're right. Men do want the woman who's gonna come into the barber shop, who's gonna come to the basketball court or the guys night. And all the other dudes are like, ah.
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B
And you can be the baddest black woman, but you're not going to. You ain't gonna get that reaction in la. I'm sorry. And this is particularly, I should say, in. In. In relation to black women seeking black men as partners.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Because I have dated outside my race. It ain't no better. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's just an Extra vetting process to make sure that you're not a monster. And then even if he's not a monster, his family is.
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A
His family is.
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B
You know, like, I can think of this one guy who's Middle Eastern who I went in my most romantic date ever in life. And. But during the date, he was like his sisters, and his mother would not. Not like me. And I assumed that it had something to do with, you know, my gender and things like that. But no, it had to do with my blackness. So it's so layered. He's like, yeah, there's this really nice, you know, Armenian steakhouse I want to take you to. But I can't walk in there with you on my arm with all them Armenians in there. It would be controversial. So it's like, if.
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A
If I can tell you that and tell you.
- [56:13]
B
Yeah, tell they. Well, a date with Shar is. They don't even know that they're being interviewed. I keep it so. I keep it so smooth. They don't even know that they're being interviewed. And what helps is so many men love talking about themselves, and I love listening to it. Cause I'm learning everything. I'm determining exactly who you are, which talk. Go more into that. Finish the sentence. Donald Trump is, you know, like, I'm. They don't even know that they're being waxed over by me. So it's interesting, but like I said, it hasn't been the best, but it also hasn't been the worst.
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A
Yeah. I would say, like, a similar thing. I've had, like, ups and downs with it. I tried some of the apps when I got out here for a while, you know, went on a couple of, like, very cute days. But, yeah, nothing has.
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B
They're shallow.
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A
It's pretty shallow.
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B
I think that there's a very specific. Specific personality type that's on the apps. And I'm hunting for. I want to meet cute.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I want to go to Costco and look up and we lock eyes and, you know, you approach. That's what I want. The apps do not appeal to me right now, especially in this current climate. It is crazy on those apps.
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A
It's wild.
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B
And yeah, it's. It's. It's a mixed bag, but we got to keep putting ourselves out there.
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A
One more thing I wanted to ask you. I think that you would maybe have a really fire answer response to this, because this is something that I. I've been thinking now for quite some time, especially with the rise of TikTok and things like that. I want Our things back. And when I say our things, I mean specifically, like, our words, our terminology, our vocabulary, our voices. And I'm speaking about fans. I'm speaking about queer black folk. And I've noticed that with the rise in drag shows and all these other things and being sort of a corporate commodity, things that we say have just become, like, jokey, fun, chitter chatter for the world. And it doesn't stop anyone from being violent. It doesn't stop anyone from voting against us. It doesn't stop anyone from spitting in our faces. What do you think? As someone who uses communication in words as a. As a career, how do you feel about the girls stealing our Porsche?
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B
It's annoying. Because, of course it's annoying. We're at intersections, right? So we deal with AAVE being rebranded to. What do they call it? Gen Z slang or something like that. TikTok slang.
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A
TikTok slang.
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B
And it. No. Cynthia Bailey been saying child since she popped out the womb. Like, that's not unique to. And it's always funny when it's, like, misused, like the Justin Bieber meme. Are you not clocking what I'm trying to do? He did something that just did not make sense. But it's been annoying. And these conversations have been ongoing with the rise of reality TV and personalities like Nene Leakes and Tamar Braxton. And I can remember in high school talking to one of my trans girlfriends, and we could have a full conversation in a room of people by using certain words, literally talking. You could say Fish is trying it.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Don't nobody know what's going now. People gonna be like, what you saying? So everybody's in on the. On the underground, you know, like, trade. Trade is looking 12 o'.
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A
Clock.
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B
Trade is. Trade is feeling it. Not everybody knows. And it just. And I don't know if that's RuPaul's Drag Race's fault or, like, what was the show on hbo Max. With the ballroom. No, with the ballroom.
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A
Oh, legendary fault.
- [60:13]
B
Yes. If it's legendary's fault. But the way that we shift and dictate culture, like, we are the pop culture zeitgeist, we literally, without us, if we disappeared tomorrow, these people would not know what to do. And that's specifically at the intersection of being LGBTQ plus and black.
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A
Yes.
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B
And so I just. There's so many cultural nuances to it, but I'm so sick of the perpetual gaslighting, because y' all know y' all got that from us. Like, y'. All. Certain words are so community. Based and so underground. I mean, even the debate with this right now.
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A
Yes.
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B
You know, and, and is it this finger or this finger? And it means clock it. And silent applause, which I understood it to be silent applause. I am not of the ballroom, but I always understood this to be silent applause. It's now been redefined as clock it. Clock that t you. And so, yeah, it's frustrating, but it's also undeniable. You know, we can't let the history get away from us and we can't let people reshape and redefine it. But it's always, it's this constant, never ending push and pull because people, I even think about the black girl from Chicago that went viral when she said her eyebrows were on fleek. This was like 15 years ago. And then all of the Etsy White, white women put it on shirts and like, we could say anything, do anything. And like I said, we shift. We are the culture. We are American culture. Literally, we're actually worldwide culture. Because in Japan they getting perms to look like Afros. And like, black American culture specifically is just we, we move all needles.
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A
Yeah, I agree.
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B
We are the needle.
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A
I agree completely. I feel like the exact same way in the sense that, like, I get certain words in terms being becoming more popularized and different shows and things like that.
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B
And misused, misused, like trade, the way that they're using trade for the most basic white boy with a bowl cut and some boat shoes on.
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A
I just had this conversation yesterday. I'm like, y' all are gonna just have to stop. You have to stop. Not you have to stop. I was having this conversation yesterday because people, there was a, a term from someone from drag race who is trans, who had some text messages leak of, of hers where she said, oh, I needed help.
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B
Yes, trade abandoned me. I, I, I definitely. That came on my for you page.
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A
I was so upset about that. Yeah. Not only because so many people were using the term incorrectly, because that's such a ridiculously heartless, inconsiderate thing to joke about because the person in question is not a very great person, but this
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B
is the thing that used the N word before and stuff, I believe. Yeah.
- [62:58]
A
This is the thing that affects people in the community, specifically trans women all of the time and sometimes costs them no lines. You don't even know how to use the word. And you joking about it. Yeah, I won't stand for it.
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B
Yeah. And black trans women in particular disproportionately face a brunt of the violence inflicted on the trans community. And that's also part of the debate because there are people that come into their transness, if you will, and they immediately shift culture and we are then tasked to answer for it. When they step in, in doo doo, when they misspeak, when they do something crazy, something that we would never do, we are. Then we have to carry the weight of non black trans women in the public eye and what they do and say, and that is a disservice and it's unfair to us. And I think people know that it's unfair to us. But it's just easy. I look at like our CIS counterparts and what they deal with. So it makes it double easy to throw mess on us as, as, you know, as trans women. But I know it's been very frustrating last few years in particular with, you know, there's certain TikTok stars and certain, like I said, non black trans people who have been launched into massive success.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And they're doing all different types of them and their team. Right. Are doing all different types of these missteps that don't feel authentic. I'll let that linger in the air for a minute, please. It does not feel authentic or real to this very nuanced experience. And I know we're not monolithic, but I'm just thinking about the girls and boys and they's and thems that I know that are black compared to when I'm in spaces with non black girls and boys and theys and thems. The conversation is inherently different. The experience is different and the ways in which we approach our gender and the spiritual nature of it is different. But what's unfair is we, like I said, we are then tasked to answer for their missteps or their mistakes and they can go retreat in their mansions and, you know, turn, turn their phones off for a week and hope it blows over. And then I can't take two steps. I'm, I'm at the brunch, minding my business and it's like, what do you think? About what? Right when she said day 26 of Da Da da, like, it's just, it's, it's frustrating.
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A
Can I have a margarita and. Yes, sir. But hey, real quick.
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B
Did you hear me? Real quick? Yeah. Everybody always wants a hot take, which I can appreciate. I love the conversation, but everybody wants a char hot take take. And I'm always like, well, this is off the record, but I think, you know,
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A
well, last question I want to ask, you know, is a question that I'm asking all guests on the show and it is. What are you trending now? When I say that, I mean, if you could start a trend of any kind that would go viral across the globe, what would your trend be?
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B
Damn, my trend. If I could start a viral trend that went across the globe, it would be checking your sources before you react or post. That would stop a whole lot of stuff. Or for journalists, which I've seen some of them do it. Fact checking in real time. Y' all sitting across from that man, y' all know he full of lies. Guys, fact check in real time. Put them on the spot. Actually, that's not true. That is simply not true. That would be my trend. That's. I'm going to put, put, put a nice little bow on that. It's checking your sources before you react or post.
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A
SILENT applause and with that, ladies and germs, this has been the one and only Shar Jostle.
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B
Thank you, Fury. Thank you. This is so fun.
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A
Thank you for coming. See you in a bit. I'm really excited for these guest interviews. We're going to talk to all kinds of people, probably some famous faces that you're familiar with, but I want to speak to people from all kinds of people who work in therapy. I want to talk to sex workers, porn stars. I want to talk to architects. Architects. I want to talk to producers, writers. I want to talk to all kinds of people from all kinds of lives and just kind of get a sense of where people are at, how they feel, what they think is funny, what they're trending, so on and so forth. So it's gonna be lots of Kid Fury and his signature gloom with a smile. Come on in and join us. Okay. What's that, man? Day they died. Beautiful day in the neighborhood. Beautiful day in the neighborhood. Yeah. Ms. Rogers is good and dead. But I'm here, so won't you be my neighbor? I did not watch that. I did not watch that. God bless him. I'm sure I've heard great things about him. But as soon as that man walked in and started taking his jacket off and singing to me, I was like that. This is not for me. It not for me. I was too, too aware of my blackness at a very young age. Like this white man coming in, taking off his goddamn cardigan and telling me I should be his neighbor. Why? You don't have no kids, you don't have no wife, bitch. Who are you? What do you actually do? That would be a fierce horror film. I think they already made it. I got all kinds of treats and surprises waiting. And in store for you. If you're familiar with me, you already know how that goes. I. You can expect sketches. You might see some man on the street stuff. It's gonna be just really a world of me. A world of me. And a world of fun. Variety. Think late night, perhaps. Like, really late night. Like, way past midnight. Actually, no late night shows are on anymore. But you really, really need a bag of Takis and, like, a ginger Alex, though. So come on, come along, Be my neighbor. Actually, don't. I hate neighbor, but you get the picture.