Snowday, [Redacted]

Summary

Gettin’ Grown – "Snowday, [Redacted]" (Jan 27, 2026)

Hosts: Jade & Keia (Loud Speakers Network)
Episode Theme: Snow Days, Adulting, and Black Women’s Self-Care During a Historic Winter Storm

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Episode Overview

Jade and Keia, two hard-working Black women, return for another candid and lively episode of "Gettin’ Grown," focusing on navigating adulthood through culture, self-care, humor, and honest reflections. In “Snowday, [Redacted],” they dig into memories of legendary snow days, prepping for an incoming historic winter storm, the politics around ICE and immigration, the art of nesting, and the lessons stillness can offer—all with their signature wit and realness.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Black Excellence & Cultural Commentary (01:08 – 12:40)

• Mary J. Blige’s Vegas Residency: Jade and Keia excitedly reminisce about seeing Mary J. Blige live in the 90s, with nostalgia for concerts and Black music icons.
  • “I say I’m ready to strap up my knee boots and hit the bricks.” – Kia (02:16)
• Celebs and Religious Affiliations: Side-eyeing Gladys Knight being a Mormon and Dougie Fresh’s Scientologist ties, leading to a playful debate on the disconnect between public personas and personal beliefs.
  • “She do drinking soda and, you know, whatever else they do with their golden plates, I don’t know.” – Jade (05:26)
• Black TV Moms & Classic Shows: Spirited discussion on the brilliance of Jackie Harry (Lisa Landry on Sister, Sister), Thea Vidale’s TV show, Nell Carter, and Black sitcom theme songs.
  • “Lisa Landry don’t get enough as a great Black TV comedic genius.” – Jade (09:03)
• Brewster Place Nostalgia: Their love for "The Women of Brewster Place," especially the power of Vesta Williams' theme song and the “basil” and “rat in the bed” scenes.

2. Politics & Community – ICE and Systemic Harms (12:43 – 18:56)

• Rant Against ICE and U.S. Immigration Policy: In one of the episode’s most passionate and raw segments, Jade vents about the Democratic Party’s inaction and the realities of ICE raids, deportations, and abuse.
  • “ICE needs to fucking go. Because they are a gang. They are a Ku Klux Klan, y’all.” – Jade (13:26)
  • Shares a painful, personal community story of children separated from their mother by ICE and the trauma inflicted.
  • Condemns ICE agents’ sexual abuse and the complicity of formal systems.
  • Notable Quote: “No, we don’t need to formally train these motherfuckers. These motherfuckers have been formally trained by some of the most hateful entities on the fucking planet.” – Jade (16:08)
• Community Response: The women stress rallying around those affected, holding onto hope, and the importance of informed resistance.
  • “I’m trying to stay in this space of faith and trust in God. That’s it. That’s all I got.” – Kia (18:07)

3. Snowpocalypse Approaches – Winter Storm 2026 (19:21 – 22:28)

• Jade & Keia both have travel plans foiled by the record-breaking snowstorm impacting 34 states.
• Wisecracks about being forced to sit still, environmental karma (“What happened to the motherfucking dinosaurs? The ice age, okay. Froze my niggas right over. Okay?” – Jade, 21:30), and taking the “stillness” as a universal message.
• Discussion on the difference between “real ice” (weather) and “ICE” (immigration enforcement) with humor and a wink.

4. Kitchen Table Talk: The Ultimate Snow Day Setup (22:47 – 47:33)

Snow Day Rituals:

• Cozy Vibes: Favorite outfits include loungewear, matching sets, bathrobes, fuzzy socks, and bonnets.
  • “I am in a very strong bathrobe era.” – Kia (39:12)
• Snow Food: Both hosts get excited about grilling cheese, pot roast, homemade tortillas, dips, and “range” in their snow day meal planning. Jade details her Wegman’s haul for movie snacks and charcuterie.
  • “So, you know, I just got things…omelets. If we want the waffles. And I just want to know it’s there…” – Jade (43:31)
• Spinach Dip Stand Up: Both agree that “hoes love a spinach dip.”
• Snacking & Sparking Water: Discussion on sparkling water obsession, prepping seltzer and fresh lime.

Entertainment Line-Up:

• TV & Movies: Binging old sitcoms, Black TV classics ("227"), “Mad Men,” “Black Mirror," and revisiting favorites like “Devil Wears Prada” (since both their dads love it).
• Books & Writing: Intention to carve out time for reading, journaling, and creative work.
• Exercise: Keia is newly into running with Peloton, embracing a non-comparative approach to exercise.
  • “You run how you run, and it doesn’t make you any less a runner than any other person.” – Keia (55:30)
• Lounge Location: Both agree the couch is the ultimate snow day base, but the bedroom is reserved for more serious relaxation or reading.

Snow Day Preparation:

• House cleaning before the storm is vital for full relaxation.
• Gratefulness for safety, shelter, and the privilege to “rest, rot, write, and read.”

On Forced Stillness & Self-Care:

• Lessons from 2026: Embracing forced stillness, surrendering control, and using slow days for personal growth.
  • “The stillness is teaching me things. It’s teaching me about control. It’s teaching me about anxiety.” – Kia (62:28)
• Gratitude for freedom, even when plans get disrupted by weather.
• Homage to their friend Shari, who reframes her canceled 40th birthday plans as a lesson in rolling with what life brings.
  • “You could plan a pretty picnic, but you can’t predict the weather…” – Jade quoting Shari (65:38)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Adulting Growth:
  “In 2010, I was about to go to a party with my legs out and my clavicle. Okay. In 2026, I have an abundance of groceries and I’m happy to sit my black ass down.” – Jade (65:26)

• On “Rest, Rot, Write, and Read”:
  “That’s what we should call… Rest and rot and write and read.” – Jade (66:18)

• On Bloody Marys in Restaurants:
  “Certain things are just not for me. Like I, I don’t believe that we should be drinking tomato juice… y’all are adding anchovies and olives and y’all want me to sit here and act like that’s alright.” – Kia (77:56)
  (A hilarious tangent about Bloody Marys needing a “special section” in restaurants due to the odor, plus deep thoughts about cold soup and weird sandwich fillings.)

• On the “Omni” MTA Subway System:
  “It’s $3. I don’t have any transfers. I’m just… I’m irritated. I’m irritated by every form and facet of this. The MTA is a big scam. They’re cooks.” – Jade (73:08)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Mary J. Blige, Black TV Moms, and Nostalgia: 01:08 – 12:40
• Jade’s Anti-ICE Rant & Community Impact: 12:43 – 18:56
• Winter Storm 2026 & Snowpocalypse Humor: 19:21 – 22:28
• Ideal Snow Day: Food, Vibes, Rituals: 22:47 – 47:33
• Self-Care, Stillness, Growth Reflections: 62:28 – 67:58
• Petty Peeves (MTA Transit & Bloody Marys): 70:01 – 85:13

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Episode Tone

Conversational, hilarious, and deeply real, mixing humor, nostalgia, and raw honesty, all while centering Black womanhood and community support. Even the “Kitchen Table Talk” and “Petty Peeves” flow like sisters chopping it up on the phone.

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In Summary

If you’re longing for sisterhood, laughter, a side-eye at absurdity, and a heartfelt reminder that it’s okay to let go, “Snowday, [Redacted]” is a quintessential Gettin’ Grown episode. Jade and Keia embrace rest, community, stillness, and protection—reminding listeners to “rest, rot, write, and read,” and most importantly, “mind your business and moisturize, inside and out.”

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End of summary.

Transcript

[Kia]

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[Jade]

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[Kia]

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[Jade]

When I found out that you were leaving me I couldn't sleep thinking about all the things that we been through now all I want to do is tell you that I, I miss you so much, you know I really, really miss you all those pretty memories I know you can hear me now for the record I love you I love you all those pretty memories I know you can hear me now for the record I love you I love you Smith and Wesson remix only, though, period. Yeah, that's. That's. This is how we do this is.

[Kia]

How we do this how we do.

[Jade]

Every day, all day. Yes, this is how we do when we get down with Mary J.

[Kia]

First of all.

[Jade]

Praise the Lord, niggas.

[Kia]

Did you hear that Mary J is doing a Vegas residency?

[Jade]

I did not, but I will. But we will be going.

[Kia]

I say I'm ready to strap up my knee boots and hit the bricks.

[Jade]

You hear me, sister? Because I haven't seen Mary live. I'm ready since 1996.

[Kia]

I'm ready. It's probably about the same for me, if I'm honest.

[Jade]

Yeah, I saw her live. I told you. Budweiser Fest 96 Bone Thugs in Harmony. Genuine Aaliyah. Mary J. Blige and Drew Hill.

[Kia]

Mary J. Blige came to the Westchester County Center.

[Jade]

Oh. Oh, yes. She was Hurley in her career.

[Kia]

That's when she was Mary Jake from Yonkers.

[Jade]

She was. But like, not though. Like I feel like when I. Like I feel like 96 Mary was established, but I think she was still living in Yonkers right when did my. She was very 411 come out.

[Kia]

She was very much established. But I like, you know, and.

[Jade]

And the.

[Kia]

You know, the county center was a decent. Like, you know, I saw Dougie Fresh there. Like, there was people coming to the. To the county center.

[Jade]

I danced with Dougie Fresh in the club.

[Kia]

You told me that.

[Jade]

I wish I knew he was a Scientologist at the time.

[Kia]

The conversation, first of all, okay, so many random things just ran through my mind.

[Jade]

I thought about.

[Kia]

I thought about when Bobby lived across the street from Dougie's in Harlem and.

[Jade]

How chicken and waffles.

[Kia]

I used to bump into Dougie Fresh too many times. Like, it was. Like, it was very.

[Jade]

With his big, wide mouth, all them.

[Kia]

Teeth coming down the street, grinning at you.

[Jade]

Cheeks went from lobe to lobe.

[Kia]

And then I ran. And this is very inappropriate because, you know, this is how our minds work sometimes. Super inappropriate. I remember watching the Diddy documentary when that. Where that party happened at City College and the people got killed in the stampede.

[Jade]

Yes.

[Kia]

While watching that, the thing that was getting on my nerves was Dougie Fresh on the mic. Like, y'.

[Jade]

All.

[Kia]

Cause people are dying. I said, doug, Doug.

[Jade]

Literally. Literally.

[Kia]

Dougie, shut the hell up. Please.

[Jade]

Shut up. He couldn't.

[Kia]

He.

[Jade]

He could not. He's been an uncle all his life.

[Kia]

Y' all gotta be serious, people.

[Jade]

Y' all gotta be serious because people are dying.

[Kia]

Kim, shut up and put that microphone down right now. Shut up.

[Jade]

And I'm telling you what's still the deal. He's a Scientologist or he what, affiliated?

[Kia]

Ugh.

[Jade]

Now, Issac Hayes. I just pretend I don't know. But Doug E. Fresh, okay? And I'm gonna throw Gladys Knight in there with her.

[Kia]

More minutes. Gladys. So tired.

[Jade]

Okay? Gladys Knight of the Latter Day Saints. Irritated. Like, why he's so big. It's so irritating to my spirit. You hear me? First of all, it was me trying.

[Kia]

To explain to my mother that Gladys Knight was Mormon. It was morbid. Rhonda was not receiving that message at all.

[Jade]

She was not exactly.

[Kia]

Uh, Because Gladys Knight was singing with the whining she saved. I said, no, ma'.

[Jade]

Am.

[Kia]

Yeah, no, ma'.

[Jade]

Am. No, ma'. Am.

[Kia]

She's.

[Jade]

She's sieved, okay? She's sieved.

[Kia]

She sings go music very well, but that does not make her any less Mormon. She be over in Utah with the Mormon people.

[Jade]

Girl.

[Kia]

Come on.

[Jade]

She do drinking soda and, you know, whatever else they do with their golden plates. I don't know.

[Kia]

Rhonda is not with it. Rhonda.

[Jade]

I rarely. Religion shame. But when I do.

[Kia]

My mother is still. She don't want to receive that. She think I'm making that up.

[Jade]

But y' all tell Rhonda that because it shouldn't be.

[Kia]

Yes. Rhonda is like, girl, what are you talking about? I tried to tell her that when Gladys Knight was on the Masked Singer.

[Jade]

That she is the Gladys Knight of Latter Day Saints.

[Kia]

When them stupid people down to the Masked Singer, I was like, girl, Stevie Wonder could tell y' all that's Gladys Knight in that B costume. Are you guys brain dead?

[Jade]

Hella, are you?

[Kia]

She don't sound like nobody but Gladys Knight.

[Jade]

Nobody sounds like Gladys Knight. There's not even any young ladies who came through sounding like the reincarnation of Gladys Knight. Nobody sounds like Gladys Knight. Nobody.

[Kia]

So Nicole Schweppes, Ginger Ale up there talking about. I feel like I know that voice. I said, girl, please shut up.

[Jade]

Yeah, go. Stick with you. Okay. Loosen up your buttons, babe. Loosen up your buttons. Cause you're irritating. Cause you're irritating me. They've been giving you a lot for a long time, and it gets on my nerves.

[Kia]

It does. Okay. It gets on my nerves because Nicole Scherzinger, she will have you to believe that she is the vocal bible.

[Jade]

And it'd be like, oh, absolutely.

[Kia]

Please sit back.

[Jade]

You were a pussycat. Okay?

[Kia]

But she be on the Masked Singer giving all of this.

[Jade]

This feedback.

[Kia]

Like, I just love the depth of your toe. Nicole, shut the hell up.

[Jade]

Be quiet, somebody, because they've been hyping you. And where is she from? She from Hawaii?

[Kia]

I don't know, child, but Nick Cannon be gassing her up.

[Jade]

Okay, I watched this interview recently with Nick Cannon. So let me tell you, my favorite page on social media is Golden Era Stories. And so recently, I did not know Nick Cannon has a podcast.

[Kia]

I did, unfortunately.

[Jade]

And he did a sit down with. With. Oh, my God, Jade, Are you serious right now?

[Kia]

Take your time.

[Jade]

Oh, my. Oh, my Lord. Kim Whitley and Erica Alexander. No, no. Kim Whitley and. Oh, my God. What is wrong with you?

[Kia]

Kim Whitley. That's. Oh, I'm thinking about Ken Whitley.

[Jade]

Yes. Mary.

[Kia]

Right?

[Jade]

Mary.

[Kia]

Oh, Sandra Clark.

[Jade]

Sandra Clark.

[Kia]

But. Yes, but Jackie Harray. Thank you.

[Jade]

Why is Jackie. How did Jackie's name escape me? It's the weed. This one's strong. Mary. So I was about to call her Lisa Landry. I was about to call her everything.

[Kia]

That is correct, though.

[Jade]

A woman of Brewster Place. I was like, why can't. Where is Jackie's name in my Rolodex right now? It was Jackie and you know, they always mix up. Jackie and Kim Whitley. They've been saying for the longest, like you've never seen him in the same room, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Kia]

Oh, yeah.

[Jade]

But Nick Cannon did a sit down with them recently on his podcast, and Jack A was every bit of Jack A. She said Diana Ross shaded her.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

Back in the day.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

I love her.

[Kia]

And especially when you let her get a little buzzed.

[Jade]

She makes drunk.

[Kia]

She makes great tv. She makes.

[Jade]

When you start talking about Michael Jackson. Dick, I. I feel like you are drunk. Auntie.

[Kia]

Jimmy King had a time down to the watch what happens live.

[Jade]

Yes, they did. I love me some Jack A. I love me some Jack A. And Lisa Landry, as corny as Sister Sister was. Lisa Landry don't get enough as a.

[Kia]

Great black TV comedic genius.

[Jade]

She is one of the funniest black TV moms I've realized since watching with Noah.

[Kia]

We should do something about black TV moms, because we've had some greats.

[Jade]

We've had some wonderfuls. Actually. We've had some one. Yeah, we should. Let's break down Black TV Moms.

[Kia]

We should do that.

[Jade]

That feels like a good thing.

[Kia]

Don't get me started on Thea. Can we also do something with theme songs? Because you already know what, I've been working hard. You already. Two jobs every day. Spending times with my children and showing them the way. These kids. These kids don't know. They don't know.

[Jade]

They don't have me. And XD showed them an episode of Thea on Patreon.

[Kia]

You know, you gotta tell my family.

[Jade]

Thea was the original clean Miss Pat show.

[Kia]

Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.

[Jade]

And Moesha. This was Moesha junior.

[Kia]

But you know who else, you know who else who paved the way for Thea?

[Jade]

Nell Carter. Nell Carter.

[Kia]

We gave Gimme a break. You know what I'm saying?

[Jade]

Yes. Yes. Rerun. Yay. Yay.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

We gotta do black TV Moms.

[Kia]

We do. We gotta do.

[Jade]

I think that would be fun on Patreon.

[Kia]

Absolutely. Could we watch the women of Brewster Place? But we got to have Dustin. We have to have Dustin because, Destin, we cannot watch Women of Brewster Place without Basil. Without that. Ooh, that basil.

[Jade]

Basil.

[Kia]

You want to get me upset right quick, just say basil. You want to get me upset.

[Jade]

The name itself. And then again, the scene comes straight to mind with the fucking rat in the bed. Oh. Every time I think about. Every time I order basil, which I just did, actually, I think of Basil, then I go straight to woman of Brewster Place. And how they were being hateful to the lesbians. Exactly. I see, I see, I see, I see. Sit your hateful ass down. Close your windows. Old with them. With them rollers in her head, she was so irritating. I was like, leave them alone and let them live their lives.

[Kia]

That's why she threw that meatloaf down to that window. Because. Mind your business.

[Jade]

Mind your business. Yeah, we need to watch the. We need to watch the remnant of Brewster Place.

[Kia]

I feel like when me and Dustin first became friends, there was a time where we would just call each other and sing. Ooh.

[Jade]

Vesta did her good work. Vesta did her good work. The longest intro ever with no words.

[Kia]

I mean, not a lyric.

[Jade]

No words.

[Kia]

I mean, we could be out.

[Jade]

That was the original way.

[Kia]

You Absolutely. And then, I mean, just out in the rain, tearing that brick wall down. What a mess. Praise the Lord.

[Jade]

What was Robert Gibbon's name with Kenyatta? Was it Kenyatta, kid?

[Kia]

Her. Her. The name that she created for herself.

[Jade]

Yes, yes, I think it was.

[Kia]

Maybe it was Kenyatta.

[Jade]

I think so. I think it was Kenyatta. She was up there with those braids. But yes. Praise the Lord. Niggas, we are back. All those beads and braids. Are you all ready for a black ass time with us this year? Because clearly we're gonn welcome. We love you guys. We do.

[Kia]

How you guys doing? How are you doing, sister?

[Jade]

You know, sister, I'm very irritated, okay. I'm very irritated. We'll get into all of our. Where we supposed to be and why and why we not. Yeah, but I'm gonna get the politics out of the way, okay?

[Kia]

Yes, let's do that.

[Jade]

The Democrats are on my fucking titty nerve. Like when I like, have you ever had your draw sit wrong in your coochie? Like a coochie wedding?

[Kia]

You cannot do anything about it.

[Jade]

You can't do shit about it. Oh. Or if it's like, right in the groin in a weird way and you're like, awful.

[Kia]

It's the most unbearable feeling.

[Jade]

That's what they're doing to me right now. Because, you know, in light of everything that we're seeing, you all love to be as fucking ineffective as possible. We need a formal training of ice. We don't need a formal training of ice. You and I have both lived in a world where ICE didn't exist. We don't need a formal training of ice. ICE needs to fucking go. Because they are a gang. They are a Ku Klux Klan, y'. All. It also, they are not the Gestapo. Because remember that the Gestapo. Remember that the fucking Nazis based how they move off of how they moved in the States. They based their shit off of how slavery was. Was run and Jim Crow and all this. So just stop. No, Jim Crow is laughed at it, but you know what I mean. They based their shit off of our hateful shit. So just bring this right on back. The call is coming from inside the house. And you all want to remain as ineffective as possible. And that's why them people are where they are right now because they're loud and fucking proud and wrong and strong in their hate. And you guys are still over here waffling. It's infuriating. And it's infuriating to me because on top of everything that we're seeing, I'm looking at this firsthand like I know some kids right now whose mother was deported on the way to pick them up from school. And we are banding together as a community to make sure that these babies have shoes and clothes. They don't ever know when they can talk to their mother. They never know when they can speak to her. Heartbreaking. She calls very sporadically when allowed. And also she's in a facility where we are learning that the ICE agents have been sexually assaulting women and bribing them with things like, I'll let you talk to your kid, but I'm going to rape you. Yes, there was an ICE agent who was recently fucking prosecuted for. For sexually assaulting a woman in a. In a detention facility in exchange for pictures of her child and for her to talk to her child. That is pure fucking wicked evil. So, no, we don't need to formally train these motherfuckers. These motherfuckers have been formally trained by some of the most hateful entities on the fucking planet. The idf. Different police departments, like, stop. They are using this as an opportunity to continue to be hateful and nasty and kidnap children and kidnap humans and separate families. Does that not sound fucking familiar? And shoot people in the head in broad daylight and fucking deny medical and all kinds of things. They are using this, like, stand fucking ten toes down. I'm so tired of them being so fucking pussy about everything. So I just wanted to get that out of the way because it's very real and it's right at our front doors. I'm. Like I said, we. We. As my inner community right now is trying to help to support some babies who don't have their. Don't. Don't have their parents. Don't have their parents. And it's Disgusting to watch. We watch that baby. They sat him standing there in his little backpack and his little hat. Yeah. Liam, like, what are we doing?

[Kia]

You all feel nothing as bait to lure the parents out of the home.

[Jade]

I told you, these babies, I know their mother on the way to pick them up from school. It just is. It's just. It's heartbreaking, it's infuriating, It's. I don't even know if there's any appropriate words for this. On top of literally everything else going on in the world, truly. So. I don't know, I just. You all get a fucking grip, but you won't. You've continued to show that you're not gonna get a grip because you. It's two sides of the same fucking coin anyway. How are you, sis?

[Kia]

It is wild out here, and I'm just holding on as best I can.

[Jade]

That's all we can do.

[Kia]

I'm trying to stay in this space of faith and trust in. In God. That's it. That's all I got. I don't know.

[Jade]

That's all you could do?

[Kia]

That's it. Because I don't know what you guys are doing out here, but.

[Jade]

No, I have no idea. No.

[Kia]

But, you know, that's all we can say and all we can do and just try to rally around each other, keep each other as informed and engaged and in the know. I think, you know, as much as our spirits can sustain and doing what we can to resist. Yeah, that's all we can do. Yeah, that's all we can do.

[Jade]

Yeah. But pray for these babies. Pray for these young women and these young men and just these people that they are snatching up off the street. Pray for their families. Like.

[Kia]

Yeah, it's heartbreaking. We're also. We're also in the throes of winter.

[Jade]

Ah, yes. As we recorded this, real and active.

[Kia]

We were both supposed to be traveling today, right now. Right now, as we speak. And you know, the Lord, Mother Nature, everyone else had a different plan, they had a different vision for today. Yeah. And so we're. We're both home preparing for, I think, the first snowstorm of 2026.

[Jade]

And.

[Kia]

And the snowstorm that they're saying is going to be one of the most historic ones for most. I think it's supposed to impact 34 states in some way, shape, form or fashion, and there will be heavy accumulations of snow and ice. Like the actual real ice.

[Jade]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kia]

I want to make.

[Jade]

I know, I know. The real ice is irritated.

[Kia]

Hello.

[Jade]

I know, I know. Real ice is irritated. And you know, I'm irritated because, you know, like crushed real ice.

[Kia]

This is what I'm saying.

[Jade]

Fantastic. You know what I'm saying? Snow, snow, cone, ice. I mean, just snow in a cup with sugar. Just lovely. You know what I mean? And here you all are, desecrating, ruining.

[Kia]

Things that we love. Hello.

[Jade]

You know, so many black women are anemic. And what do anemic people love to do? Chew fucking ice.

[Kia]

We can't have nothing.

[Jade]

You know what I like to do? What I would like to do? Chew fucking ice.

[Kia]

Yes. Well, so we thought that we would just in the spirit of, you know, being stuck. I know lots of folks as this episode is coming out will have contended with this winter storm. And you know, the almanac and all of the, the people down to the Weather Channel and elsewhere are saying that this winter, winter 2026 is going like, this is just the first of many. Like there's. This is going to be a very active winter as it relates to winter weather. So.

[Jade]

All right, so listen here. You all know that I've been preaching the gospel of the dinosaurs, okay? Yes. For all my life. Here we go.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

All right. What happened to the motherfucking dinosaurs? The ice age, okay. Froze my niggas right over. Okay? God is trying to tell you. Thank you.

[Kia]

Listen, you better, listen, you better pay attention.

[Jade]

Yo, but y' all don't want to continuing. You said we're gonna put, we're gonna put motions in the oceans and build data centers under the water and talk with Nemo and his family and kill the wells. And you just, you're just determined to wipe literally everybody, including yourselves, off the face of this planet. And now here we are. You remember how the last epis of the dinosaurs ended? You know how you, how it ended with the ice? It just froze over. Not the mama.

[Kia]

Okay.

[Jade]

Woo.

[Kia]

So in the spirit of, of the winter season of the snow, he sees it. We thought we would have, we would have some light conversation, just catching up with one another and preparing. Sharing how we are preparing. What's our ideal snow day situation?

[Jade]

Snow day setup. Yeah.

[Kia]

And we'll play a few games, we'll have some rapid fire questions. We'll just catch up. You know, we'll just have some time around the kitchen table. Y' all can sit with us. We'll talk about snacks. I'll share, I'll share. I totally was telling Jada I made a stellar grilled cheese sandwich today.

[Jade]

Yeah.

[Kia]

So we could just, we could just talk about, you know, what are Some of the ideal conditions that we like to set up for ourselves when we know we're going to be home bound for this.

[Jade]

I have a title for this episode.

[Kia]

All right, let's do it. Let's do it.

[Jade]

I want to. I want you to call it Snow day, comma. F. Star. Star. Star. Ice. Okay. That's the episode title. Okay. Oh, God.

[Kia]

I just hope they don't come looking for us.

[Jade]

Jade, please, please come look for me. I was just. I'm irritated. I'm so irritated. Like, you know when you be like, it's been a long time and, you know, but you know, when you're ready, you're ready to fight. Like, I'm like, where is the. Because I know, I know, I know. You know what? Actually, Ty, you should probably just take that part out of here. No. Kia's like, please, Jade, please. I didn't ask for this. Please, please.

[Kia]

I thought she was gonna say something like, let's call it like. Like we can call it Ice Age.

[Jade]

Cause I feel like, oh, no, no. I'm not giving them that much. No. Snow Day. Fuck. Ice. Star, Star, Star. So we don't get censored. Oh, yes. Everybody's with me. We're with me here. Here. She that. I heard. You heard all the virtual agreement.

[Kia]

Girl, please. I don't want their AI to find us and start some shit. But we'll talk about it.

[Jade]

Yeah, we'll chat. Well, you all know what I wanted to spiritually call this episod. You can call it Snow Day. Redacted.

[Kia]

Exactly. There you go, Mom. Put it down there right now.

[Jade]

Parentheses, redacted. And then you all could hear the context within the episode. Oh, gosh. All right, well, with that being said, I guess we should just head over to whatever this kitchen, the. The blank, the blankets. We'll head over to the fort today.

[Kia]

Exactly.

[Jade]

Let's go to the.

[Kia]

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[Jade]

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[Kia]

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[Jade]

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[Kia]

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[Jade]

And both of us were. 2010.

[Kia]

Yeah. Both of us were living in New York. And I remember, like, you know, this was, this was also very during my active, like, going out, like, club era.

[Jade]

Oh.

[Kia]

Okay.

[Jade]

Oh, the thick.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

Thick of it.

[Kia]

And so this is the time, like, you know, this was when the girls would like leave their coats in the car and be tipping down the city streets.

[Jade]

Yes. With your legs, with your legs out.

[Kia]

Maybe with your toes out. Maybe with your back out.

[Jade]

It was, we were, we were transitioning out of the club. The business attire at the club.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

Into like fast fashion club attire.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

And everything was skimpy. Like you said. Our legs were out. Back toes were out. Shoulders were out, knees were out.

[Kia]

Everything was out.

[Jade]

And then you either didn't wear a coat because you didn't want to pay coat check.

[Kia]

Like a whole $3. You was like, I'm not paying. I'm not.

[Jade]

You didn't want to wait on the line.

[Kia]

Right.

[Jade]

Which is really my bad. I didn't wait on the line to check your coat.

[Kia]

Wait on the line to check your code. It really was to check the line to get out. To get your coat back.

[Jade]

That's what I mean. So that you. Because when I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go. Yeah, yeah, I'm ready to go. And also we were dancing.

[Kia]

I mean, sweating.

[Jade]

People were dancing.

[Kia]

And.

[Jade]

So then it would be brick outside.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

Looking like wet.

[Kia]

Looking like a workout. Like you coming out the club, like.

[Jade]

You come out the gym, everybody looks like Taraji and straw. Everybody just wet the whole movie.

[Kia]

Yeah, exactly. Precisely.

[Jade]

I. That particular, I told sis before this, that particular storm, I was supposed to go to a formal, like, gala.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

In the city. So, like, had a Dress. I told her I had a dress made.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

Okay. I went. I had a makeup appointment. I went to the makeup appointment, down.

[Kia]

To the Mac counter.

[Jade]

I went to the makeup appointment. And when I came out of the makeup appointment, I said, mmm, oh, this is gonna be a nasty night, huh? All right, well, I guess we'll just figure it out. I'll wear some boots and then I'll switch to my shoes when I get to the venue. By the time I got home, there was no party. There was no party happening. There were also no groceries in my apartment because I was in my 20s and concerned about getting my makeup done during an impending snowstorm. Now also, I don't know if this was a result of the twenties or. I do remember the city was underprepared for that particular storm. I think we didn't realize the magic.

[Kia]

Yeah. As intense as it was. Yes.

[Jade]

So I remember they were having to use garbage trucks to plow. It was a whole thing. And we were stuck for some days in the crib.

[Kia]

And to be fair, this was the week between like Christmas and New Year's. So it was kind of like a slowdown kind of time.

[Jade]

But also it was already the quiet week.

[Kia]

Exactly. But that was also high peak time to be outside, like at the club.

[Jade]

To be at the club. Yeah.

[Kia]

So I totally get it. I see it. I was, I remember I was in. We were in White Plains. It was. This was the last.

[Jade]

Is.

[Kia]

You know, my grandparents retired from pastoring the church in 2011. So 2010, December 2010 was our last Christmas in New York as a big family. Now, as you know, you know, I continue to live there, so did my brother. But you know, the. There was a. My grandparents, you know, most moving out of New York. And so it was just a really. I remember a lot of my cousins who didn't grow up in New York. This was a big snow for them. So it was a big deal. And there's lots of memories. I remember Christmas this year. My aunt saw like the Facebook, the Facebook memories. And we was talking about how like, oh, 15 years ago, remember that? Big snow, blah, blah, blah. So I remember it being like a thing and snow days, like it shut the city down for like several days. Several days.

[Jade]

Yes, it did.

[Kia]

And New York is, is better at managing snow than most cities. So I can't imagine for like now. Cuz my mom lives in Tennessee now and she's talking like, you know, the snow that they're projected to get will shut the city down for a full seven to 10 days.

[Jade]

So your mom and them as I've been watching the maps.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

So just to give you all. Kia gave you context about this storm. So we were supposed to be in Atlanta.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

Right now. I was supposed to land 10 minutes ago. And for our dear friend Shariel's 40th celebration. And the other day, we recorded the other day and Kia mentioned that. That D.C. was going to get crazy snow. And I'm like, well, when D.C. gets crazy snow, generally we're not too far behind. But we hadn't gotten the report just yet. Came out right after. Next morning, I hit her. I was like, nigga, I don't know. I don't know. And everybody in our friend group was being very optimistic.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

But when I started watching that map and watching different meteorologists report, it's really.

[Kia]

Intense because, like, when you look at the map, they usually focus in on a region. These maps are showing the entire United States. It's a half goddamn country. It's going completely across, like, from like, the edge of like, the whole state of Texas is impacted.

[Jade]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whole states. Whole states and Texas all the way.

[Kia]

To the East Coast.

[Jade]

To New England.

[Kia]

Yeah, to New England. Yeah.

[Jade]

So. And then there's a big giant ice path. So that's going to cause great disruption. And then we're supposed to get. I think you all. How many. How many inches are you all supposed to get?

[Kia]

Right now? They're saying between 7 to 14.

[Jade]

Okay. They're saying between 12 to 14 for us.

[Kia]

Yeah. So they're saying 7 to 14. I think the difference here, I think so the more south. South you get coming down from New York, there's a line it's like, you know, is 7. 7 to 14 inches of snow. The rest will be ice.

[Jade]

The rest will be ice. Because it's gonna be brick after the storm.

[Kia]

Yeah. Because there's.

[Jade]

Which is what makes the snow stick.

[Kia]

The bands are like, you know, there's ice, there's snow, there's sleet.

[Jade]

Wintry mix. Yeah.

[Kia]

Yeah. And so. So I think as the system moves, it will move from snow into that either ice or wintry mix. So, yeah, either way, it's going to be.

[Jade]

No, it's going to be a doozy. It's going to be a doozy.

[Kia]

Yeah. And so we have them. Are in that. They're in mostly in the ice band. So they're. They're supposed to get 3 to 6 inches of snow, but.

[Jade]

Okay.

[Kia]

Other.

[Jade]

A lot of ice.

[Kia]

Ice. And so they're saying. My mom said this morning that they're predicting like an ice, like, sandwich. So it will be. Or like a snow sandwich with ice. So it will be ice, then it will snow, and then we'll be snow and then ice. Yeah.

[Jade]

That's crazy.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

Which I wouldn't be surprised. It's. It's gonna be 7 degrees here next week. It's gonna be 1720. Yeah. So. And our lows are like 7 and 9. So it's, it's gonna stick and it's gonna be impactful. And I, I don't think I've seen any. Anything predicted to this magnitude in a long time. Not like this. No.

[Kia]

Yeah, not like this in a long time. So, I mean, people gonna be in the house and so conversely, while, you know, Jade was on her way to the club in 2010, we thought we would talk about our ideal snow day setup. Since, you know, this is the first of many predicted storms this season. We thought we would sit and think a little bit about what? Setting ourselves up for an ideal situation. Ideal ice. I mean, snow day. What does that look like? So, like painting the pictures, if you had a full snow day where you had nowhere to be, no obligations, just you and your setup, what does that look like? Vibes, food, entertainment, you know, all of that. So I have a couple questions here to paint the picture. We'll walk through that and then we'll close out and we'll do some rapid fire, fun kind of questions at the end.

[Jade]

All right. Okay.

[Kia]

Ready?

[Jade]

Yes.

[Kia]

So let's start with the vibe for your. For your ideal snow day. What's the vibe? What are you wearing? Is it a matching set? Is it an oversized hoodie? Is it pajamas? Is it just like, you know, you're in the house clothes? Do you have loungewear?

[Jade]

I do have loungewear. It's generally pajamas.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

I think my favorite set of pajamas outside of my family. Pajamas with our faces on it are. It is a brown ribbed set. It's like, it's cotton, but it's not too thick. Yes. But you put that on with some warm socks. Socks and the heat going and it's. It's perfect.

[Kia]

Yes. Yeah.

[Jade]

So it's either that or some really. I have a cozy set. The top is it. But it's fuzzy. The top is a tank. The bottom is these fuzzy comfy pants that just feel like towel. Nice towels.

[Kia]

Hairy like a terry cloth.

[Jade]

Like a terry. And then a. Put that on with a hoodie.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

And some fuzzy socks and a bonnet. Oh, yes, is perfect. Lounge.

[Kia]

Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

[Jade]

Oh, yes.

[Kia]

I love that. I love that. I think, similarly, I. I love a matching set. We all know that I have a similar sort of Terry sort of set. But here, lately, I have to, you know, be honest. I'm in a very strong bathrobe era. A very strong. Very strong, you know, like a big, extravagant bathrobe. I have a black velvet bathrobe that I love to just swaddle and wrap myself up in.

[Jade]

Yes.

[Kia]

And so, like, underneath that, it may, you know, it may be like a little set, maybe like a short and a short and a top or, you know, even like a bra and some boy shorts. But, you know, that robe. Just completely swaddled in that robe and tied up. I may. I may. You know, I'll start the day off in some glasses. I'll transition to my contacts because I'm also feeling like, you know, I want to give myself a full skin care day.

[Jade]

Yes.

[Kia]

On a snow day. You know what I'm saying? Really just being intentional about it. I might do a mask or, you know, you know, just sort of walk myself through, whether it be, you know, exfoliation or just hydration, Having a full skin care sitch in my bathrobe, and I'll start the day off and sort of move through it in that way. That's what it's like. That's what it's giving.

[Jade]

I think I'm gonna wash my hair as well now. You already know. You already know what my number one. Number one. Number one for proper snow. There is, and that's to make sure that I have everything that I want to eat.

[Kia]

That's what I was going to.

[Jade]

Even though I don't eat a lot at home, I still own a cozy day. You know, there's also something about not having access to stuff.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

Where it's like, all right, I want to be prepared now. I also want to be cognizant that we recognize the people who are outside, living outside and don't have shelter. That's. That's the scariest part of this time. And so I. I want. I want to make sure we acknowledge that, because I have to extend gratitude for having the opportunity and the resources to. To. To be able to be warm and cozy. You know what I mean? So, yeah. Because everybody doesn't have that. But, nigga, I. When I realized this thing was happening and we weren't traveling, I immediately got my grocery list together. I planned three solid meals that would carry us over and cozy. Yeah.

[Kia]

That's what I was gonna ask. So do you do. Do you plan big meals and then just sort of like, graze. Or are you more of like a snacker throughout the day?

[Jade]

See, Is it like a hot day.

[Kia]

Or is it like, what is Ziggy?

[Jade]

Unfortunately, I'm not a crock pot girl. I wish I was, because it would probably make my life easier. And also, if I knew that this was happening, I would have saved the incredible chili that I made last week for this week. But I just picked a couple meals that I know my family likes, and then I got all the things to make those. So we'll be having some chicken parm and linguine salad. One day we'll have some fajitas with some homemade toys. Tortillas and some, like, frijolas, Charles. And. And rice. You know, I had. I. I went down to the Wegmans because they have. I love their little hors d'. Oeuvres.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

So I got some arancini, some mozzarella sticks. You know, I got some sardines and some crackers and some salami, some cheese if I want to graze a little.

[Kia]

A little? Yeah, a little.

[Jade]

If I want to make a little shark coot, I can make a little shark. You know what I'm saying? I can make the meals. I got some stuff to make. Some broccoli, cheddar soup. So we can eat that with some sandwiches. So, you know, I just got things to. And. And then, you know, omelets. And I was like, if we want the waffles. And I just want to know it's there in case we want to.

[Kia]

In case you feel like. Like whatever, Whatever. So you're not locked. Locked in, but you got range. Like you can fix what you want to eat.

[Jade]

Exactly.

[Kia]

Love that. I. I, too, got a range. You know, I was in a. You know, I'm a dipper, right. So, you know, I was in the mood. So I got all of the necessary ingredients to make myself a little spinach dip.

[Jade]

Oh, I love us now. You know, hoes love a spinach dip now, don't they?

[Kia]

Yeah, don't we?

[Jade]

With some salsa and some sour cream.

[Kia]

Spin dip.

[Jade]

I love a spin dip. Now what do you. What do you accompany it with? Tortilla chips? Or do you do, like, a. Like a little crostini or like what your.

[Kia]

So, you know, I did. I got both. I got a bag of.

[Jade]

Of chips.

[Kia]

But, you know, I also told you that I got that sour dough bread. Yes.

[Jade]

Oh, that'll be fantastic.

[Kia]

And so I think I might, if I'm in, if I'm so inclined, have A little toast to have with my spin dip. So I bought spin dip. I got stuff to make a good grilled cheese sandwich. And I also just love a good sandwich and a kettle chip. So I got. I got some deli meat. If I feel so inclined to do that. I felt, you know, I love a roast. A pot roast situation too. So I bought something because, you know, I need a rice and gravy. I felt a rice and gravy.

[Jade]

Yeah, yeah. So gravy season.

[Kia]

I got a rice, I got a pot roast. I can make some rice and gravy. I probably will do a string bean. I got some string beans. Yes, because I. I got some string beans. Sometimes I just in the mood for that. I didn't feel like a cabbage or greens or anything. I really wanted some string beans. What else did I get? I got some salmon. I thought I got some really nice salmon from the. From the Wegmans. And I was thinking about, you know, one night I'll just have some salmon. Some broccolini.

[Jade]

I got some broccoli.

[Kia]

I got some broccolini. And, you know, I like. You said the usuals, some eggs and stuff. And what else did I get? Sweet potatoes.

[Jade]

Yeah, you just got set. So you can have some range as well. Now let me tell you the next time, since you like a dip.

[Kia]

I do. I love a dip.

[Jade]

I started getting this because, you know, I make Noah's lunches. So I was, like, trying to figure out to mix up the snacks that I give her and to make sure she's getting her nutrients and stuff. So I've been cutting up carrots, and I got. Daisy makes a dill, kind of like sour cream. It is so delicious. It is so. And then they also make a French onion. I didn't try that yet, but they. But that sour cream. Tristan had it for the first time. I've been buying it because I buy it for her lunch. He had it for the first time the other day, finished the whole container. He goes, you need to buy. This needs to be a staple. And I was like, I love chips and dip for your child.

[Kia]

Exactly. I love a chips and dip. I love a chips and dip.

[Jade]

I do. I do, always. And that Daisy flavored sour cream on the side of some spinach dip with a little salsa. Oh, yes.

[Kia]

And yes.

[Jade]

Hits.

[Kia]

You know, I also stocked up on sparkling water. I got some fresh lime.

[Jade]

Same. Yeah.

[Kia]

Saratoga, the little lime squeeze. That's where I'm. I got about 30 bottles. I know my recycling people be like.

[Jade]

Well, damn, what are you doing? Girl, 30 bottles. You need to get a soda stream.

[Kia]

I do. I really.

[Jade]

You need to get a soda stream, sis.

[Kia]

I do. I really do.

[Jade]

It's about that. It's about that time.

[Kia]

It is. Because I'm in. And I used to think. I remember my grandfather, secretary, Sister Williams. She used to drink seltzer water. We'd be like, girl, what is that? And now I'm deep down in a sparkling water bag. So deep, deep, deep. I'm like, this is my sel.

[Jade]

Soda. This is my soda. You know, this is my soda. So I. Because I love the effervescence.

[Kia]

That's what I said.

[Jade]

I love the effervescence. Honey, I'm trying to. Okay, what are you watching?

[Kia]

Okay. Okay. So, yeah, this was one of my. Okay, this is. It really does depend upon what spirit I'm in, because I will say, sometimes I'll feel a movie, sometimes I'll binge a series. But I also have been really revisiting. And maybe it's because I too, am trying to sort of get back into a creative space. There are some really, really good sort of YouTube creators, like, you know, lots of great. Like. Like, I want to say it's just vlogs, though, because it's not like, follow me in my house kind of content, but people really having thoughtful conversation and offering thoughtful perspective around, like, things. And I've been enjoying. I have maybe about. I would say maybe about five or six that put out regular content. And so sometimes I just cut onto YouTube and watch them, like TV. So there will be. So I probably move throughout the day from watching YouTube into watching a series. And then I'll probably conclude with a movie or something to sort of wind the night down. But I love a series, and I love. I feel like snow days also make for, like, going back and bingeing something. Like, you know, I'll go watch a season of 227 or something.

[Jade]

Yes, absolutely.

[Kia]

Down to the Hulu.

[Jade]

Absolutely. Me and Tristan are about to rewatch Mad Men because we did.

[Kia]

Okay, nice.

[Jade]

Yeah, we didn't finish the last half of the last season. Long story, but. Cause they rolled it out.

[Kia]

Very stupid. Yeah.

[Jade]

But we never finished. And I. And both of us had it on our spirit to watch it separately. And so when he said. He said the other day, he was like, I think I'm about to start rewatching Mad Men. I was like, that was on my list. List. And he was like, all right, bet we're gonna do it together. So there's that. We need to finish Black Mirror. And then I told you the other day. The other day he was watching the other day. I heard. I heard sounds that sounded familiar. So I was like, no. And I go in the front. And I was like, are you watching the Devil Wears Prada? And he was like, I am. I am. And you want to know the crazy thing? My father loves that movie.

[Kia]

You know, a lot of men do a lot of movie.

[Jade]

Why that's so bizarre to me.

[Kia]

I don't.

[Jade]

I mean, not saying you can't have range. Maybe that's problematic of me to say, but I'm just surprised.

[Kia]

I guess it's surprised. Not saying you shouldn't like, it does.

[Jade]

It's.

[Kia]

Yeah, it's okay to sort of be surprised by that. But I. I think. But yeah, I found I have also had that realization and be like, really? Watch this.

[Jade]

Like, my city. My father used to be like, oh, said now that's never been my bag, but my father used to. After Devil Wears Product came out, it was one random year where he was like, let's watch a movie. I said, what do you. I want to watch the movie with the models. The models that are traveling. And I was like. I was like, the models that are traveling. Yeah. The models that travel from New York to London to Paris. And I was like, the Devil Wears Prada. He goes, yes. And I said, that is not about any of that.

[Kia]

That's not about modeling at all. But listen, I see where you're going.

[Jade]

But I was cracking up. And so. And so I had to have a stern talking to with Tristan because I said, let me explain something to you. Like, you know, I don't white woman too much, but I do Meryl Streep.

[Kia]

I do, too.

[Jade]

I said, I do. Diane Keaton.

[Kia]

I do. Okay.

[Jade]

As well. I bet Midler. Okay.

[Kia]

Very strong.

[Jade]

Okay. I was like, very strong. I was like, if you're trying to watch something with Meryl Streep or Diane Keaton or Bette Midler in it, then you. Then. Then we need. That's something we have to watch together. Sorry.

[Kia]

He was like a boundary, a rule.

[Jade]

Yeah, because he loved. No, because that love loves to come to me with. Because. And the problem is that he don't want to just say, like, damn, you got good taste. But every time I'm watching something that will come in and be like, what's this? And I'll tell him, and he'll watch a few minutes of it, and then he'll be like, you just be watching all that? You just be watching everything you Just be discovering watching every. And I'm like, why can't you just say television and film tastes.

[Kia]

Thank you.

[Jade]

And you want to be a part. You want to be down Chris Brown, but instead you're hating from outside the club.

[Kia]

Outside the club and you can't even get in.

[Jade]

We don't even have time to watch all this shit together. Like, stop. We finally sit down and be like, it's time for us to catch up on our eight episodes of Abbott elementary. Because we haven't been able to watch it from being busy like niggas.

[Kia]

No, it's very real. It's very. And I say this as a TV watcher sometimes it grieves me. And I'm just like, man, I haven't watched my shows.

[Jade]

No, I haven't watched my shows.

[Kia]

I haven't watched my programs. I need to watch.

[Jade]

I'm also going to intentionally set aside a corner for myself to read same. I want to enjoy the snow with a good book.

[Kia]

Yeah, I love that. I'm also going to write. I've also been. I'm setting aside time for both reading and writing.

[Jade]

Yes.

[Kia]

That's. That's big. And I'm actually moving. I'm really into, like, I've been working out and still sort of sustaining there. I've been doing a bit more cardio than strength training here lately. Okay. And honestly, I never thought it would happen, but I'm actually getting. I'm getting into running a little bit more, which I never saw for myself.

[Jade]

When you get into it, you get into it.

[Kia]

It's relaxing.

[Jade]

Yeah.

[Kia]

So I. I've been running Peloton has these walk run classes and it trains you to sort of run like. Like do sustained running.

[Jade]

And at first was just sort of.

[Kia]

Doing it to just sort of see, but I find that I'm doing it a lot, a lot more and I really do enjoy it. So.

[Jade]

You remember when I used to run?

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

When I used to go running, I was a runner for a long time, funny enough. And that's how I would do it in intervals. I would do. I would do a walk and I would have a period of time that.

[Kia]

I did each one.

[Jade]

And it was great for building your strength and also not wearing as much on your knees and, you know, giving your body some hit, some recovery.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

Now the thought now of running is extreme. Like, I've frightened because I haven't done it in so long.

[Kia]

I was very like when I first. It was very. A very. And let me just be fair, right? You know, ask someone I Ran track a little bit in high school. The kind of run, the running changes, right? This is not your. Your, you know, young and. And just, I mean, agile and flexible run. This is not, you know, this is not.

[Jade]

No, it's not a sprint.

[Kia]

No, it's much more of a, of a very joint conscious trot. It's more like of a. It's like I'm very, listen, running very slowly and that's one. One thing that in, in ways that are hyper conscious of like you said, like, like my joints and how my body feels. I'm not trying to like run to exhaustion, but really trying to improve my cardio. I don't want to be winded quickly. So I'm trying to run in ways that are helping me to really improve my cardiovascular health. And I'm finding that the more that I do it, the better that it gets. And I think, you know, one of the trainers of Peloton would say, you know, for a long time I didn't consider myself a runner because I think we think about running only in the ways like, you know, runners are fast, runners are, are thin, runners are, you know, there's a certain look, but she was like, no, no, no, no, no.

[Jade]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Kia]

You, you run how you run, and it doesn't make you any less a runner than, you know, than any other person. That reframe felt very like, okay, of course, but like, you know, it felt very like it should have come. I don't know that reframe was very helpful and it is. It's helped me and positioned me to sort of embrace myself in a way and really come to know and push my limits with. And not in a way that's like, oh, you suck if you can't do that, but more like, oh, you're just gonna try. And then if you don't go as fast you pull it back or if you don't run as far that you, you know, that's okay. Like, there's no. Like, exactly, there's no. So yeah, I'm. I'm becoming. So I guess my day was probably start. I would have work out. I would shower and do my skincare and. And sort of like end up in my bathrobe and just sort of like, then we go to the. To. To, you know, reading, writing. Now do you have a preference as far as like where you post up for the. For the snow day? Are you like a bed versus couch versus, you know, are there. Is there a specific space in the house that is like your snow Day spot.

[Jade]

The couch. I think the couch is. Is the, Is the snow day spot something like. I'm not, Let me say I'm not a. Not a bed lounger, but it's not my first place to go lounge in the bed. Not necessarily, because I feel like I'm gonna. I just. I feel like I get more stagnant in the bed than I do on the couch, even though I'm doing the exact same thing. And so when I like to move to my bed, I like to move to my bed, and that's where I will be. So I think I'm more of a couch lounger when. On a snow day.

[Kia]

Yeah, same, same. Something about, I don't know, laying. I mean, I have had my days when it's just like, I'm just gonna stay here in this bed. But I too, enjoy my couch, maybe because of the proximity to the kitchen.

[Jade]

That is fair. I think I've also had to be a bedroom lounger for, you know, having roommates or even when I've had. Even in my. In my own apartments, like by myself early. I. I was a bedroom lounger then because I think my bedroom was more comfortable than my living room. So I think maybe at this stage I'm like, I have a comfortable living room, you know what I'm saying? So I'm gonna go sit in there and then if I'm ready to transit. The other thing too is I like to break it up. So like the. When I lounge on the couch, that's. That's what we do, our us watches and time and eat, like, all that kind of stuff. And then when I transition to MySpace, that's when I watch my style.

[Kia]

I read. Yeah.

[Jade]

So that's the other thing too. I think it just depends on what I'm doing as well.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

Okay. Now, how do you prep for your snow day? Huh?

[Kia]

Well, we talked about this a little bit as we were preparing for the segment. I like to really. I want my snow day vibe to feel easeful and restorative and sort of like, you know, really, like peaceful. And so a lot of that comes when my house is clean.

[Jade]

Yes.

[Kia]

So I will probably, you know, because the snow is probably going to start getting real active or Saturday night. That's when they're projecting.

[Jade]

Yeah.

[Kia]

So I'll go to the gym in the morning. They're saying it's going to start. It's Saturday night, so I'll probably go to the gym in the morning. And maybe, you know, I don't have. I don't feel Like I have any errands to run, but if I do, I'll run. I'll do what I have to do. Maybe do a little running around, but I'm gonna come home and really give the house a good clean Saturday.

[Jade]

Yes, yes.

[Kia]

You know, put things in their place.

[Jade]

Yes.

[Kia]

And. And have the house, you know, smelling good and fully situated.

[Jade]

I told Kelvin.

[Kia]

I just love this. I just, you know, when, you know.

[Jade]

Oh, absolutely. You know, I'm gonna be doing laundry on Saturday. I'm doing laundry.

[Kia]

I got laundry. The laundry's going now, but we gonna fold it up and get it all going. Yes, indeed.

[Jade]

Get it all together. Just clean everything down. Because I want to really lounge comfortably and hard.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

The other side to that too, is I told you that I did a little redo on my kitchen. So I do want to take a pocket of time, which may be later. Right. It may not be like the immediate snow day, but. But once you start getting that little stir crazy feeling a couple of days later. Yeah, I think that's when I'm gonna get into like, you know, a long term project. Like I wanted to rearrange some cabinets and kind of set things up differently for a flow for myself. So I'm like, okay, after I have my initial, you know, rot. Yeah, I will then. And I'm ready to be productive. But we can't leave the house. That's. I think that's what I going to do.

[Kia]

That's a good plan.

[Jade]

And use that as that time. Because every other time you try to do it, it interferes with, you know, life. Life. You got to record, you got to work, you got to. So I'm like, all right, let's take these. It's nice to have these slow days. I like to have a day or two to really just lounge hard. But after lounging, too. You get tired of lounging.

[Kia]

Yes. And you need to sort of, you know, you'll get into a productive state or even a creative flow. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. I think it's good to have. And maybe I, maybe I. Maybe Covid taught this, taught me this, is that even when I have a snow day or a day where I don't have a lot of structure, I need to. I do like a little structure. I don't. I don't have to go all the way to like complete structure. Like when I have like my work day where all my. Where. Where my day is segmented or, you know, I have meetings scheduled meetings. That's. That's too much structure. But I don't Feel like going from all that structure to. No structure is helpful. I might have a. I might have a day, like, you know, the weekend is coming, so this is the weekend. This is a snow week. So the snow will come Saturday, like I said. Saturday night, I will give myself, like, Sunday to, like, three, four o', clock, to just sort of, like, chill.

[Jade]

Yes. Yes.

[Kia]

And then, you know, maybe around 4 o', clock, I'll get up, I'll start, you know, preparing to cook my dinner. Yeah. You know, start moving around so I'm not just completely laying around doing nothing because I need to break it up. So. Because when it's bedtime, I want to go back to you.

[Jade]

You know what I'm saying? Exactly. Exactly.

[Kia]

I gotta get up and start moving so that I can rest. So, you know.

[Jade]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Kia]

Yeah. Yeah. That's the kind of. So, yeah, I'm. I'm looking forward to. To that. And like. Like we talked about last week, I feel like the. And I didn't intend for this to happen, but I think the lesson that 2026 is teaching me in a lot of respects is to respect the stillness. There's. The stillness is teaching me things. It's teaching me about control. It's teaching me about anxiety. It's teaching me, you know, it's teaching me about how to let go of things that I can't control and to see, sit still and to not, and to be okay with the stillness. You know, sometimes you feel like, well, I should be doing something. It's like, no, you shouldn't. You shouldn't.

[Jade]

Yeah, you should.

[Kia]

And I feel like this year is teaching me that in real time, in a lot of ways. And so I'm trying to embrace that and accept that, because I feel like even like you said, we were supposed to be out of town this weekend, moving and doing. And here and there and everywhere. We had plans. Okay. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we was going to be outside and in the street.

[Jade]

And in each other's company. Exactly. And celebrating our friends.

[Kia]

Exactly. But I'm grateful that we are able to pivot.

[Jade]

Yes.

[Kia]

Yeah. And I know that the time will come because we, you know, it's gonna come and it will happen. But no, and just in the spirit of, like, okay, well, we made a plan and the plan had to change, and that's okay, too.

[Jade]

And that's all right. And you know what's so funny? Because I'd be having to check myself earlier, like, as I was also, you know, figuring out, like, what I was getting ready to do and scheduling Myself and all that kind of stuff. I was like, all right, what is like, did we have something on our list for tomorrow? And I said, we don't, Jade. We didn't have anything on it because we were supposed to be gone. So. So you have the full freedom to do whatever you want.

[Kia]

And isn't that a blessing?

[Jade]

It really actually is. And I love. I love Shari's framing to around all of this again. This was our friend. Our friend's 40th celebration. And, you know, it just like, as the news just started coming, it was snowballing.

[Kia]

It really was.

[Jade]

No pun intended. And she finally had to call it because, you know, when you. When the half of your guests get notifications that the flights are getting ready to be wonky, it's. It's time to start pivoting in.

[Kia]

The whole country said that country. And I left. Like you said. Like you said. Her framing was so it was spot on because she said, I feel like I'm forcing it.

[Jade]

Yeah. And she said, 40 is teaching me that I have to. That I can't control everything and I have to roll with the punches sometimes. And, you know, we feel like we're forcing it.

[Kia]

It's like, no, I had a plan. I wanted to do this. And I. Yeah. And it's like, no, I feel like I'm not. Life is 2010.

[Jade]

I was about to go to a party with my legs out and my clavicle. Okay. And in 2026, I have an abundance of groceries and I'm happy to sit my black ass down. Come on.

[Kia]

Because that is what.

[Jade]

Gross, gross, gross. It is maturity. And with her being a tried and true Atlanta girl on top of the. That her using the. You could plan a pretty picnic, but you can't predict the weather was perfect.

[Kia]

So.

[Jade]

So yeah, I. I am. I think above anything, I am just really grateful again, that. That we are safe and have what we need in during inclement weather and.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

That we have safe environments to be able to unwind and rest and rot and write and read that.

[Kia]

Rest and rot and write and read.

[Jade]

That's what we should call. We should. Yes. There you go. And also spiritually, the episode will be called Snow Day. I know. I said we'll find a way.

[Kia]

We'll find a way. Maybe I'll put rest and write and write and read in the description and I'll leave it.

[Jade]

I don't care either. I don't even. I don't. I have told. Told you all what I feel, and that is the clearest but no, it puts me in a, in a, in a space of gratitude. I'm grateful to be in this space during these times. And so, you know, we, we pray for all of you, all for safety first and foremost. You know, no matter where you are. I know that at least half of you are in this path. Yes.

[Kia]

And I mean, like we said, they're predicting that this, this is going to be a bit of a pattern into this season. And so I feel like it's a good exercise to be thoughtful and intentional about how we leverage this time of forced stillness, forced pause. Like sometimes it's like, okay, yeah, we gotta pause. Like, you know, how do you prepare to pause intentionally and in ways that pour back into yourself and your spirit? Absolutely. So use your snow day wisely. Use your snow days wisely moving forward. And we were excited to talk about how we're going to use ours. And we'll report back next week and let y' all know how it all went. I think that, I think that's good, sis. Let's save our quick fire questions for another day.

[Jade]

Yeah, we'll save them for another time. I think that's lovely.

[Kia]

All right. I think that's lovely. Let's move in. You want to do a little self care or what's this episode? We want to just go straight to the petty.

[Jade]

Let's go straight to the petty peeves. I feel like we just hugged ourselves for an hour.

[Kia]

Agree?

[Jade]

Agreed.

[Kia]

All right, let's do it.

[Jade]

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[Jade]

All right. It's our first petit peas of the the year. I'm coming in hot.

[Kia]

All right.

[Jade]

Rest in peace to the Metro card.

[Kia]

First of all, I'm a little nervous about those because I mean, can we even call them turnstiles? They look like something. What is that what I have been seeing down to the clock.

[Jade]

There are two D2s.

[Kia]

Very aggressive.

[Jade]

I hate them. Well, the ones that I are those flaps, those door things. I don't like this Omni system. First of all, it's a scam. Oh, well, naturally, you, I don't know, maybe if you get the Omni card, you can, I, I, I can't confirm that yet. But you, there's no transfer. So you can do Apple pay now, right at the turnstile. No transfers. So the other day you got to pay for fair. $3.

[Kia]

Hell no.

[Jade]

$3 what?

[Kia]

To go one way.

[Jade]

$3 one way. So listen, sister, I take the train the other day, $3. I'm irritated.

[Kia]

Yeah, that's irritated.

[Jade]

First and foremost, I do the Apple pay at the turn Card not accepted, not declined. Card not accepted. What the hell does that switch to my other card?

[Kia]

So it don't. They don't take, they only take. So they may not take Amex or something.

[Jade]

No, it's not even that. Because this is, this is between the same bank, two different accounts.

[Kia]

Though irritated.

[Jade]

Yesterday, me and Tristan tried to take the tr. Take the train. He does his card not accepted. And the man said, so it's an error with this Omni. So they rolled all this shit out. You haven't even tightened up your yet. Well, that's because the man told us that the thing. He was like, nah, it's the error. Like it's the whole. I was like. Because it's been doing this to me. I noticed that this the other day when I had to take the train then. So I take the train back. I take the train back. But I Got to make a stop on the way home. So I get off in the financial district and you know what? I get off. My stop is five minutes. I got to go and run and get something. I get back to the train, I've got to pay another $3. That would have been a transition. Then you all got all these bum ass cops with their horrible. These horrible undercover cops in all their train stations, which, no, they are not because they have a uniform. It's bubble vests. It's a Yankees fitted. It's either some ACGs or some uptowns or whatever on their feet. So I took a picture of one. Yeah. So me and Tristan go to get some tacos yesterday, and here come this man inside and I looked. I looked right at him and I said, cop. And I look at Tristan Tristic go cop.

[Kia]

No, seriously.

[Jade]

And he trying to be all inconspicuous, interesting. Goes he even got that stupid cop walk where he Stupid undercover cop walk.

[Kia]

Bless his heart today.

[Jade]

So they're all over the place. It's flooded with cops. It's flooded with this stupid system. Them. It's $3. I don't have any transfers. I'm just.

[Kia]

You.

[Jade]

You can't remove any nails with an Omni card. I just. I'm irritated. I'm irritated by every form and facet of this. The MTA is a big scam. They're cooks. I think that's what. I think that's what a mob channeled all because, you know, they can't operate how they used to. I think they channeled all of their nefariousness into the fucking transit system.

[Kia]

Oh, my Lord is Omni.

[Jade]

Why is it Omni now?

[Kia]

I don't know. Some. Some very wealthy person named it that. Because they are getting all of this $3. There's no transfer, no transfers. Is wild and crazy. Because it used to be. I don't know, like, what? Come on.

[Jade]

Insane. No train was like 29 cents.

[Kia]

Like, what are y' all doing?

[Jade]

I remember when we were irritated when the train went to 150.

[Kia]

Exactly.

[Jade]

When they got rid of seven day passes. Got. Now they have gone to full capitalism of $3 for one ride. Whether you're going one stop or 16.

[Kia]

And some of. Some of them trains is still the same raggedy trains from 1997, some of them.

[Jade]

And then some of them. So for. I rode the C train for the first time in 15 years yesterday, I'm about to say what? It's digital. It's like. They're like the next thing they tell you with the next stop and then stop right after.

[Kia]

All right.

[Jade]

I said, I never thought I would see the day.

[Kia]

Very classy, very classy.

[Jade]

But when this smoked a blunt from troop all the way to 59th Circle, like I. Columbus Circle, I was like, this is not the same trade.

[Kia]

Well, so it's.

[Jade]

Yeah, I. So that's my petty peeve this week.

[Kia]

But that's where that $3 is going.

[Jade]

Whatever this Omni Omni is, I hate it.

[Kia]

Mine is very petty.

[Jade]

Yeah. What's your petty beef?

[Kia]

It's very petty because I just want to say this because I travel a lot, as we all know, and I'm constantly out and about and in the people's restaurants and on the planes and trains and things.

[Jade]

Automobiles.

[Kia]

Yes. And all the time, you hear people especially. And, you know, I love a good rest. You know, Sister, we love to dine. We love an amazing dining experience.

[Jade]

We do, we do. We do.

[Kia]

And I understand that, you know, people have their preferences, people like what they like. And I tried to be in the business of not judging what other people eat, because I don't want anybody to judge what I eat. But I would like to ask that we start to. We need some etiquette. We need some protocol as relates to Bloody Marys.

[Jade]

Where was it?

[Kia]

I just feel like I learned the last time I was traveling, I learned, like, what goes in, like, what some Bloody Marys contain. And I could not. I could not conceal the. You're horror.

[Jade]

I was horrified.

[Kia]

Horrified.

[Jade]

What did you learn? I'm just.

[Kia]

I learned.

[Jade]

So someone.

[Kia]

I heard there was a table filled with white women sitting to my immediate left. I was at breakfast.

[Jade]

That's always interesting to see. It was.

[Kia]

Yeah. You know, I was. I grabbed my purse. I didn't know what to do.

[Jade]

Do. I was like.

[Kia]

I was like. I got my alerts up.

[Jade]

I don't know.

[Kia]

All right, I'm. Got my eye.

[Jade]

I got my eye on. Y' all better get in here and sit down and act like you a good tickle. Okay, continue.

[Kia]

So they start, you know, I'm really. I'm reading my book. I'm minding my business. They start to order. One of the ladies asks, she inquires about the Bloody Mary, and she says, do you all have. Now what kind of anchovy juice do you use?

[Jade]

And it startled me.

[Kia]

I said, surely.

[Jade]

Anchovy juice.

[Kia]

Sure, sure, surely. And so she was like, so do you really. Do you guys? Cause I've had Bloody Marys where they use actual anchovies. Or you just use the juice now which one do use? And so the server was also alarmed. So she, they were like, I'm not, I don't, I would have to ask. I'm not sure. And so she's like, okay, well, you go ahead and ask. You also ask if they can add olives. And I would prefer, I would prefer actual anchovies over anchovy juice. And I was just there, like, now here's where I have to say something.

[Jade]

Thing.

[Kia]

You're like, h, certain things are just not for me. Like, I, I, I don't, I don't believe that we should be drinking tomato juice. I understand that that's not, you know, some people like it, but I don't believe that we ought to be drinking tomato juice. It is something that does not sit well with me. But to the tomato juice, y' all are adding anchovies and olives. And y' all want me to sit here and act like that's all right. I'm not gonna be able to do it. I'm not gon do it.

[Jade]

So I will say this. I am not a, I am not a Bloody Mary girl. However, on rare occasions, I have been intrigued by specific Bloody Marys, generally off of the toppings that are offered. Right.

[Kia]

Okay. So walk me through it because I feel like I might just need some understanding about Bloody Mary culture.

[Jade]

Okay, so Bloody Mary culture at its core, I believe is just drunk white people.

[Kia]

Okay.

[Jade]

You know, like, I feel that, you know, vodka and I don't know, in tomato juice.

[Kia]

And I'm like, yeah, that's the basis that I understood.

[Jade]

But when they get to adding these, don't ask me where I actually, where they are. I actually don't know to. That's a good, that's a good little deep dive.

[Kia]

Whose idea was it to put the vodka down to the tomato juice?

[Jade]

And then I can tell you it was definitely them. But let's see. Bloody Mary drink origin. Now, where I have had it, where I have been intrigued, is where I see they season up the, the mix a little bit with some Tabasco and like, other things. And then they've been topped with like a pickled okra olive, some pickled green beans and a shrimp. So those have intrusion.

[Kia]

That's a soup. That's not a drink.

[Jade]

It's, it's gazpacho with liquor. Let's be very clear. It's okay, let's see here. The Bloody Mary cocktail originated at Harry's New York bar in Paris in 19 to around 1921, created by bartender Fernand Peto. Initially, just vodka and tomato juice.

[Kia]

Okay.

[Jade]

As I thought with petroch, later adding spices like Worcestershire. Yes. Tabasco.

[Kia]

Okay.

[Jade]

In New York at the St. Regis Hotel, turning it into the popular spicy drink we know today. Though the same name origin is debated with links to Queen Mary I or a dancer named Mary. Okay. Anyway, so apparently it's this French bartender. He's the one that came out up with it for white people. And then somebody got a hold of it and said, put some seasoning in this.

[Kia]

Okay.

[Jade]

And.

[Kia]

Okay, yeah, I understand. I understand that. That. I'm just saying all of this. All four of them got this. This anchovy drink. And when I tell you the odor that emanated from that table ruined the dining experience for the rest of the dining room.

[Jade]

I've not personally had it with anchovy juice paste, chopped, screwed. I've not had it with that. I'm not mad. Anchovies do add a beautiful flavor to things. You know, Caesar salads and.

[Kia]

Yes, agree.

[Jade]

You know, I love a fish sauce. It adds a depth of umami to stuff. But I don't think I want to drink it.

[Kia]

Like, you sit over there. You sitting up there eating them waffles, and you're gonna wash it all down with some tomato soup, girl.

[Jade]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kia]

And now we all in the restaurant trying to eat our brunch, and guy. You hear a guy smelling like va, girl, I don't need it.

[Jade]

Even the ones that. Even the few that I've gotten, it doesn't. I'm like, they. I've seen them make their own mix, you know, that kind of stuff. It doesn't come. And I can't even drink the whole one. I eat all the toppings. I'll try to drink half of it. I don't enjoy the rest, and then I'm done, right? So it's like more of an experience and less of a. I just want this as a drink.

[Kia]

Y' all have that, and y' all need to have it in a way that's contained. To me, it's the equivalent of somebody cooking chitlins publicly and don't know about it.

[Jade]

Like, at a campsite.

[Kia]

Like, let's say, like, we was at the barbecue and looked over there, somebody.

[Jade]

Had a pot, and somebody had a pot of chitlin, and it be like, is you cool? What's wrong with you? You just made the whole cookout smell like fire.

[Kia]

Now we all got to sit up in this.

[Jade]

We didn't ask for that.

[Kia]

That's what I want.

[Jade]

That's My posture, cooking chitlins publicly, that's what I'm saying, is one of the.

[Kia]

Most insane things I'm telling you. And it was another black lady also dining alone, eating next to me. And we both was so upset, we was shaking the whole table, cutting our food, like. Cause now it's in here. Smell. You got it in here smelling like a jar. Prego, girl. We didn't ask for this.

[Jade]

And anchovy and anchovies.

[Kia]

Y' all over there eating it. I mean. And you with the celery stock and all of that, girl, go over there with that.

[Jade]

Okay. Yeah, I don't.

[Kia]

They need to have a Bloody Mary section of the restaurant. So y' all can have all them.

[Jade]

Not like a smoking section.

[Kia]

Yes. Because have all of that over there where y' all can enjoy that. Because the rest of us, we just want to eat our chicken and waffles and peace. Thank you so much.

[Jade]

They. Yes, absolutely.

[Kia]

Thank you so much. Absolutely.

[Jade]

Now, they don't bother me. They don't bother me. I. They don't bother me. But I can understand how if you're watching all of these things happen at once, that's over. That's stimulating.

[Kia]

I was so over stimulated. That's exactly the word. And I'm trying my best to just focus and read my book and enjoy my meal. And I'm just like, Christ Jesus.

[Jade]

And you're like. These are. You know what I'm saying?

[Kia]

They over here. Over here drinking Franchesco goddamn Rinaldi.

[Jade]

And I don't like gaspach.

[Kia]

And I don't like to be left alone.

[Jade]

I don't like gazpacho at all. They call me uncultured swine. I don't. I just don't like it. I don't see the point of. I don't. Don't give me cold soup. I don't want cold soup.

[Kia]

I don't want it neither.

[Jade]

That's the antithesis of what the soup is. Correct.

[Kia]

I would.

[Jade]

And I don't want any parts of that. I don't. Cold cucumber soup also see also See also, comma. Cucumber sandwich. A tea. Get a tea sandwich. The away. I don't want bread and spread, okay? I don't want that unless I'm having a bagel and cream cheese. I don't want no fucking spread. And I was sandwiched between two breads, okay? Keep your cold soup and your little inept sandwiches the fuck away from me.

[Kia]

I hate this because I'm like, don't taste good.

[Jade]

It don't taste. You know, you're not enjoying.

[Kia]

You know, you're not enjoying that or.

[Jade]

This pimento cheese sandwich. You're not enjoying this.

[Kia]

You're not enjoying that. Yeah, you.

[Jade]

You.

[Kia]

You over there drinking a cold jar of Francesco Rinaldi tomato sauce, and you want me to believe that you are having a time? Girl, I don't know.

[Jade]

See, this is why I never let anybody shame me about experiences, because half the time, y' all are faking like you like it because y' all don't.

[Kia]

Y' all don't like it.

[Jade]

You don't really.

[Kia]

No way. You know what? Quiet as is kept. This is how I've always felt about beer, because I like. Ain't no way in the world you think that tastes good.

[Jade]

And you know what's crazy? I used to be a. I used to be a beer girl. Like, I liked beer. I don't dislike beer. Not even when it's, like, cold. When it's cold outside. I mean, hot outside. I don't mind a. But now I want it to be more citrus leaning.

[Kia]

Yes.

[Jade]

I have always enjoyed flavors. Yes.

[Kia]

And I have had hard apple cider. Is this hard? As far as I could go.

[Jade]

That's in that, and that's. Oh, I could. I like a hard cider if it's dry. I don't like a sweet cider.

[Kia]

No, no. I don't need it to be too sweet, because then it's like, bro, what.

[Jade]

Is this now, a parasite?

[Kia]

Now, I haven't had that. But I'm intrigued because I do like pear things.

[Jade]

Yeah.

[Kia]

I really do.

[Jade]

There's a. There's a. There's a spot upstate, I think, Hudson Valley called Bad Seed Orchard. And then they might sell some of their ciders. Sometimes they have. I've gotten really nice flights. We've gone and, like, BlackBerry, a peach. Nice combos and flavor profile. Bios. I do love a good, innovative cider. I'm not gonna hold you now.

[Kia]

You know, another thing I will share with you is that, you know, the next time you come to D.C. i hope I have to figure out when they have it, because Lar Dante had a pear soft serve. Bitch.

[Jade]

I said the young man.

[Kia]

The young man said it. The. The young man. The server said it. And I said. I'm sorry, what did you say?

[Jade]

Lar Dante, you are. You have a special place in my heart just off of the strength of these seasonal ice creams.

[Kia]

Yes. Period.

[Jade]

Okay. And there's something extra special about soft serve, for sure. Not enough to make me go get a whole Machine for one. Unless you'd like to send and sponsor.

[Kia]

Like a specialty, the special. Because what I like about A la Dante, it's like it's not just soft serve, but it's like you don't expect.

[Jade]

Soft serve to be, oh, when y'. All. I will never get over not having that. That candy apple.

[Kia]

That apple, it was apple and salted.

[Jade]

Salted caramel. Oh, I never get over not having that Smith apple. And this is what I'm saying. Caramel proper. Proper caramel, proper. Like. I will never get over not having that.

[Kia]

Me and Bobby. Me and Bobby was eating that ice cream and all we could say to each other was, bitch, bitch.

[Jade]

I'm about to call them actually and petition them to do a newsletter and tell me, no, I'm getting ready.

[Kia]

I was getting ready. I was just getting ready.

[Jade]

We were running that back.

[Kia]

First of all, I was just getting ready to look over there and see like what they got over there now. Cause I'm like, well, if the snow don't look up till 11 o' clock.

[Jade]

Tomorrow, perhaps, listen, a 5pm dinner is no problem. Them I might conclude over for early dinner.

[Kia]

I just might be able to get.

[Jade]

All my way over there. One. Okay.

[Kia]

I might sit there to the bar and have myself a time.

[Jade]

No, I love that place, man. I love that place. Lar. Dante, if somebody from your establishment listens to getting grown, I highly doubt that. I love your decor.

[Kia]

Yeah.

[Jade]

I love your food. The whole. The whole thing is we always order the whole menu when we come.

[Kia]

Yes, that's true. Very correct.

[Jade]

I'm telling you, sister, when we came for your birthday, I don't think we talked about that. We did a. We did a pop in on our sis for her birthday. What a day. Pleased. Okay. It was so lovely. I was so grateful. Sante, Crystal, Jean and I just popped on up to dc, went to dinner with our sister and went home the next day.

[Kia]

I love that. For me, it was.

[Jade]

Dustin was like, did y' all go out? And we were like, no, we went to bed.

[Kia]

Cause that's all he want to do is go out all the time. Time we went out to eat and.

[Jade]

We all were home and everybody used their phones as flashlights to look at the menu.

[Kia]

That was going to be my.

[Jade]

We all complained because it'd be too.

[Kia]

Dark in the restaurant.

[Jade]

But we'll save that for next. Louder. So loud. So loud.

[Kia]

That's why I sent. I sent the group chat that meme that said, girl, we used to go to the club at 2 in the morning. And now how we be at the restaurant needing flashlights to read the menu. Because that's the fact, literally everybody.

[Jade]

Okay. And don't let me go, don't let me interest in, like, not be early to the IMAX when we, like, we, we be in there trying to order the food. I won't turn the light on, but I'm like, yeah. Did I pick?

[Kia]

I'm like, you want. Let me.

[Jade]

And knowing damn well I get the same thing every time. Give me them steak sliders with that blue cheese sauce. And I really try to get to.

[Kia]

The ipick early so I don't be that I don't be the one auntie in the back.

[Jade]

Like, there's been no movies I wanted to see.

[Kia]

I, I, I don't want to see same I haven't been in a very long time. But I do like to go to the ipick early because I'm the auntie in the back. Like, Young man, could you bring me another ginger ale, please?

[Jade]

Exactly. Yes. I'm like, I'd like that spicy margarita and a coke, please. And I want them wings and I want them sliders and some fry. And they're like, you want all of that? And I'm like, yes, because this is a dinner outing.

[Kia]

That's it.

[Jade]

I'm having an appetizer whether it's at the movies or the restaurant.

[Kia]

That's right. And now. Yes. You want all of that? Yes. You could bring my calamari first. Yes.

[Jade]

Thank you very much. I'll take my wings. And don't forget my cookie at the end either.

[Kia]

Oh, what a time. Thank you all so much for joining us for another episode of Getting Grown. We have love sitting around the kitchen table and catching up with you this week. We love you guys so, so much, and we can't wait to see you so soon. Make sure that you.

[Jade]

I wish I had a fireplace. I'm sorry.

[Kia]

You do.

[Jade]

I do. I wish I had a fireplace now.

[Kia]

My mom has a fireplace and she told me one. Like I we was when I was just there last weekend. She was like, I've never turned it on.

[Jade]

That makes me so sad.

[Kia]

She's like, I've never turned it on once. She's like, I don't even know how.

[Jade]

I was, like, so sad. I want. Okay, anyway, go back.

[Kia]

I was just going to say thank you guys for sitting with us. Make sure that you're taking care of yourself by moisturizing your mind, honey. The way, the best way, the most efficient way to do that is to mind your business, okay? Worry about yourself in these here ashy times we are currently negotiating and navigating. Mind your business, okay? That's how you keep your mind moist. You also want to moisturize your insides by drinking just as much water as your body can sustain every single solitary day.

[Jade]

Yeah.

[Kia]

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[Jade]

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[Kia]

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[Jade]

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