Ooh Na Na

Summary

Pour Minds Podcast – “Ooh Na Na”

Date: November 28, 2025
Hosts: Drea Nicole & Lex P
Network: The Black Effect/IHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this solo episode, Drea and Lex serve up their signature blend of candid conversation and good-natured banter, sharing hot takes on food cravings, “poor decisions” of the week, personal wellness, the blurred line between horniness and sadness, and the hilarious realities of misheard song lyrics. Packed with relatable insights, memorable quotes, and plenty of laughs, this episode radiates the energy of a drunk therapy session with your closest friends—wine in hand, all topics on the table.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Food Cravings & “Poor Decisions”

Timestamps: 08:31 – 15:48

• Poor Decision of the Week:

  • Drea laments rolling her hair overnight only for the curls to flop:

    “Rolling my hair up last night, and then, like, my curls didn’t stay. I could have just not rolled it... I wasted my time.” (09:03)

  • She also lost her grill after a music festival night:

    “I took it out to eat or something… I don’t know what happened, but... I could [not] find the bottom grill nowhere.” (09:31)

  • Lex recounts her home improvement woes, regretting not fixing drywall before installing fancy new light switches:

    “My poor decision was I should have did the drywall before. But I’m learning. I’m a new homeowner.” (11:32)

  • Both discuss the horrors of kitchen trash and pro tips for handling food waste.
    • Maggots in summer trash and the luxury of paying for garbage can cleaning: “That’s a convenience I’m willing and happy to pay for. Easy.” – Drea (14:42)

• Comfort Food Confessions:

  • The hosts recall their own unique “Black people tacos” (ground beef, no cilantro or onion, and recently discovered Sazon):

    “First of all, we use ground beef. That’s first and foremost. ... We just found out about Sazon, like, five years ago.” – Both (02:56, 46:12)

  • Sazon in everything: “That chick could be orange as fuck. Why is your gumbo chicken orange?” – Drea (03:17)

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2. Black Girl Wellness: Self-Care, Fitness, & Aging

Timestamps: 17:05 – 37:03

• Are You a Stress-Eater?

  • Both deny being stress-eaters; Drea gets more “locked in” when stressed:

    “If I’m stressed, it’s just going to make me go harder... I’mma start locking in on my protein goals. I’mma start going to the gym more.” – Drea (17:55)

  • Lex admits to being a stress-sleeper:

    “When I’m going through it and I’m sad, I will literally just be like, I’m going to sleep.” (20:11)

  • Both share recent body image ups and downs, but emphasize that health is a lifestyle, not just for vanity.

• Movement Over Everything:

  • Walking pads, stretching challenges (Drea is on day 53 trying to regain middle splits), weights, Pilates, and mobility as keys to “staying fine at sixty.”
  • Drea: “Fitness and wellness is not something I always want to do, but I know I have to.” (27:01)
  • “Moving your body is the key. Like even if you in the house, do some push ups, do some jumping jacks, do something...” – Ty (29:14)

• Body Type Realness:

  • Looks can be deceiving; being thin ≠ being in shape.
  • Drea: “I was naturally skinny... but I didn’t work out, so I couldn’t even run a mile. Now I have a lot more strength.” (34:26)
  • Notable example: Teyana Taylor doesn’t work out but is muscular, highlighting genetics and nutrition.

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3. Food Faves: Cravings, Guilty Pleasures, and Debates

Timestamps: 39:27 – 46:47

• Crazy Food Combos:

  • Lex’s wildest: “Pickles and Skittles together... Every time I’m on my cycle, I crave pickles and skittles.” (39:54)
  • Drea: “French fries and ice cream... it’s the perfect sweet and salty combo.” (41:14)
  • Pickled vs. fresh jalapenos: A passionate debate.

• Cultural Differences in Cooking:

  • On “Black tacos” (ground beef, no cilantro, just started using Sazon)
  • “We all know that black people make tacos completely different from Latino people.” – Drea (02:48, 46:05)
  • Sazon overuse jokes return.

• Lex calls out jar garlic:

  “If you use garlic [in the jar], do not cook for me. I hate garlic [from the jar].” (54:09)

  • Both discuss using fresh garlic, paste, or both.
  • The wonders of green onions and kitchen gadgets get a loving mention.

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4. The ‘Glow Up’ Cocktails

Timestamps: 37:35 – 39:21

• Lex and Drea describe two custom libations:
  • “Smoky Secrets” – vodka, ginger, vanilla, apple cider, lemon, pomegranate, coconut whipped cream, cinnamon stick.
  • “Grown Woman Glow Up” – Taylor Port, lavender syrup, lemon juice, lemon wheel.
  • “It’s light, floral, grown like me. It tastes good.” – Lex (39:03)
  • “A reminder that glowing up starts from the inside.” – Drea (39:13)

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5. Misheard Lyrics & Music Memory Lapses

Timestamps: 58:53 – 69:18

• Misheard Lyric Confessions:

  • Drea’s mom: “Give Me a Project Chick” = “I love my baby llama.” (59:53)
  • Drea’s dad: Silk’s “Meeting in My Bedroom” = “There’s a big dick in my bedroom.” (60:19)
  • Missy Elliott’s “Work It” – everyone thought it said, “It’s yours if you get the thing wet” (61:22)
  • Rihanna’s “Only Girl in the World”: “Love me like I’m a hot...car” “...like I’m a heartthrob...” Verdict: “hot guy.” (66:03)

• Video Pet Peeve:

  • Drea cringes at people posting singing videos where they don’t know the words:

    “It irritate[s] the shit out of me… your lips not matching up to the music.” (62:50)

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6. Horny or Sad? Sex as Coping, Hypersexuality, and Healing

Timestamps: 77:54 – 86:24

• Social Media “Horniness”:

  • Lex: “Sometimes when I see people online, I’m always horny. 99% I’m horny. ... But if you’re online talking about how good your coochie is, how wet it is…It’s something empty inside a little bit and it’s something missing there.” (78:07)
  • Drea: “If all you do is sit online all day and talk about sex, something is seriously wrong.” (79:42)

• Sadness and Validation:

  • Drea: “You just sad and looking for validation…Any attention make you feel good. It make you feel validated.” (82:12)

• Is Sex Helpful in Healing?

  • Lex: “Healing isn’t linear. The way I heal isn’t the way you heal...Me personally? If I’m really healing…I can’t get no dick in here.” (84:30)

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7. Q&A: Success, Morals, and Growth

Timestamps: 89:38 – 97:01

• On the cost of success and bending morals, Drea says:

  “If you really locked in and rooted with who you are...Money just amplifies who you already are.” (90:36) “If you already a giving person, you going to give more the more money you have.”
  Lex:
  “It’s not about the people already there, it’s about the people that support us… Sometimes it’s very judgy…But as long as I’m doing this with [Drea]…my core around me…we good.” (94:00)

  • Both address negative feedback and outgrowing people as natural parts of growth.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Black Taco Recipes:

  “First of all, we use ground beef. ... We don’t be using no cilantro. ... We just found out about Sazon.” – Lex & Drea (02:56, 46:12)

• On DIY Fails:

  “My poor decision was I should have did the drywall before. But I’m learning. I’m a new homeowner.” – Lex (11:32)

• On Fitness:

  “Fitness and wellness is not something I always want to do, but I know I have to.” – Drea (27:01)

• On Social Media Hypersexuality:

  “If you’re online talking about how good your coochie is, how wet it is…It’s something empty inside a little bit and it’s something missing there.” – Lex (78:04)

• On Vibes and Growth in Success:

  “Money just amplifies who you already are. If you a shitty person and you not a good person...that’s just going to be amplified when you get money.” – Drea (90:36)

• On Petty Food Preferences:

  “If you use garlic [in the jar], do not cook for me.” – Lex (54:09)

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Additional Memorable/Timestamped Moments

• [03:00] – “No cilantro.” – Lex on Black taco rules
• [14:45] – “I love paying for convenience now.” – Lex on adulting
• [39:54] – “Pickles and Skittles together. ... Try not to do it a lot because I used to really, really do it in high school.” – Lex
• [86:50] – “Pop your pussy for your man. ... It’s not supposed to be think pieces written about it.” – Lex on the song “Lover Girl”

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Episode Flow & Tone

Casual, uproarious, and delightfully honest. Lex and Drea riff off each other with warmth—freely dropping jokes, calling out their own “poor decisions,” lovingly critiquing Black culture quirks, and offering genuinely thoughtful perspectives on health, coping, and communal affirmation. They move seamlessly from one topic to the next, reminiscent of a real-life happy-hour session with friends where every subject (from trash to tacos to therapy to self-love) is up for discussion.

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Key Takeaways

• Self-care and movement matter more than quick-fix diets or appearances.
• There’s a difference between horniness and sadness – and social media often blurs the line.
• Growth involves evolving opinions, self-awareness, and sometimes outgrowing others; money only amplifies what’s already there.
• Black food traditions, fitness journeys, and music mishaps are all better with a little wine and humor.
• Sometimes, the best therapy is just friends, the group chat, and a strong cocktail.

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A perfect episode for new listeners: you’ll laugh, relate, and probably leave a little hungrier (and motivated) than before.

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Transcript

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[Drea Nicole]

This going to sound so bad but I like I like pickle Jalapenos. And, like, food. Yes. Like, nachos or something. Like. Like, our kind of food. Like, if it's like, our tacos.

[Lex P]

Our tacos. What kind of tacos we have?

[Drea Nicole]

Because let's be for real. We all know that black people make tacos completely different from the way that Latino people.

[Lex P]

First of all, we use ground beef.

[Drea Nicole]

First of all, we use ground beef. That's first and foremost.

[Lex P]

No cilantro.

[Drea Nicole]

That's first and motherfucking foremost. We don't be using no onion. We don't be using no Sazon. We just found out about Sazon. Black people just found out about Sazon, like, five years ago.

[Lex P]

And you can tell that's Cap.

[Drea Nicole]

And you can tell because we using it in everything now.

[Lex P]

That's cap.

[Drea Nicole]

That chick could be orange as fuck. Why is your gumbo chicken orange? Why is the chicken in your gumbo orange as fuck?

[Lex P]

What's up, y'? All? It's your girl xp, and it's your.

[Drea Nicole]

Girl Dre in the cold.

[Lex P]

And you are tuned in to another episode of Poor Mind, where a drunk.

[Drea Nicole]

Mind speaks sober thoughts.

[Lex P]

We ain't got no guests today. We ain't got no guest today. I know. They'd be so happy every time we do a solo episode. We are back. Yeah, we back. Turned up any updates?

[Drea Nicole]

Like, we never left? No, not really. It's very cold and, like, raining in Atlanta, so I don't know if I was prepared for that. Like, I definitely am prepared for the fall. I love fall. Fall is one of my favorite seasons. I'm a fall spring girl. Maybe because I'm a spring baby. Spring is perfect because I feel like it. Don't be too cold. It'd be a little breezy. The sun be out now. We back Daylight savings time. It's getting dark early. I mean, it's getting dark later again, I love spring. Summer be too high. Like, summer be too hot for me, and then fall. I like fall because I feel like it's kind of like a cooler version, more calm version of spring. Like, it's not as cold, but it's a little chilly. You can start pulling the coats out, pulling out your fall pieces. Winter, I don't with winter be too damn cold, too freezing. I don't want to leave out the house. I be trying to be bundled up. But, yeah. So today's rainy. I'm a little mad because my hair didn't feel flat, but it's fine.

[Lex P]

It looks cute. Thanks. Thank you.

[Drea Nicole]

But yeah, so that's my only complaint about today.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

I just hate that my curls feel because like I went to sleep in these rollers. And by the way, with rollers, I just be like how the was our grandmothers and aunties and mamas sleeping with rollers in every day. Because ain't no mother way.

[Lex P]

What you mean? Like they hurt?

[Drea Nicole]

It's just uncomfortable. And I feel like the rollers that I be using, it's like these satin rollers that are like pretty comfortable. And I only do four of them. But even still, it's uncomfortable to sleep in. So I can't imagine how they were sleeping with them hard ass plastic rollers back in the day. Every night. Yeah, absolutely not. And then for your hair, they still end up not being curled.

[Lex P]

Well, they had.

[Drea Nicole]

I would really be mad.

[Lex P]

They used to use the spritz. And then when they take out their rollers, it had that line on it. Remember it was a snap one. It was the snap rollers.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, yeah. My mama used to use them sponge rollers. But some people used to use them hard. Wednesday it was like, it was hard. And then you just put the little thing on top.

[Lex P]

That's the one I was talking about. Yeah, that's the one. When I was. Because it would have the line on it. And you can see they used to try to blend it down and they used to have that spritz on there. Cause it would hold all day. You spray some spritz on there. But you know what you need to do.

[Drea Nicole]

Because I like my hair to be flowy. Spritz don't have you stiff.

[Lex P]

So you need to use that. The what? Hairspray. And just do it real, real lightly. Real, real lightly before you go to bed. And when you come, them curls gonna stay all day. The light hold, you can either choose but. But you got to spray it far away and just put a little. A little mist on there. It's going to hold all day.

[Drea Nicole]

I mean, I have a hairspray that I use and I feel like even on Sunday it was raining a little bit. But my hair pretty. My curls be staying for the most part.

[Lex P]

I just.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't know, I feel like it's just today. The weather is just not.

[Lex P]

Just not.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, it just ain't giving cuz. Yeah. But I don't like nothing that make my hair too stiff. Like that's why I try to stay away from sp. Sprays and oils and all of this stuff. Like I just like for my hair to be.

[Lex P]

I hate an oil. Yeah, it's got to be the right oil that you put in your hair just to give that. That little shine. Oh, it's some brand. I'm gonna bring it next week, and I'm gonna talk about it some. They have a. A oil that I spray on my hair, on my braids, and it just gives it that sheen. But it doesn't have that heavy oil because, you know, sometimes it looks greasy and it'll hold it down.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, I don't like nothing greasy. I don't like no where. I'm putting my head on my car seat and sleep in the stain. Letting my soul glow.

[Lex P]

I can't stand it.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't like that. Or on my pillow because I did that before. I spent the night at somebody house before and, like, got up with some braids in my head, and it left, like, a little oil stain on the pillow.

[Lex P]

Gotta use that light, dry oil.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah. Facts, sex. But shout out to my girl Deja, because she did my hair, and she always killed my hair. And, yeah, the color is cute. You did that, girl, period.

[Lex P]

All right, well, y' all know, per usual, this episode is brought to you by Taylor Port, our family at Taylor Port. If you want to have a good time, you want to make a nice, tasty drink, go and get you some Taylor Port. You know what I'm saying? I love me some Taylor Port. I always have a good time when.

[Drea Nicole]

I. Yeah, that's always what's in my cup.

[Lex P]

Taylor Port Pour mine make you Taylor Port. Yeah. And y' all know every week we have to talk about our poor decision that we made this week. So, Dre, what's your poor decision that you had this week?

[Drea Nicole]

Rolling my hair.

[Lex P]

Rolling your hair. Okay. Rolling your hair.

[Drea Nicole]

Rolling my hair up last night, and then, like, my curls didn't stay. I could have just not rolled it. I could have just flipped as is. That's it. Like, I just wasted my time. I wasted my, like, trying to sleep. Cute. It just didn't work out in my favor, so that was my bad decision. Oh, and I also lost my grill.

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[Lex P]

You just got. Just got that.

[Drea Nicole]

Dang. I was having too much fun on Sunday, Me and Lynn, we ended up going hang out with one of my friends, and, like, we was too turned up after that. After we left one music feast on Sunday, it was two turn, and I feel like I took it out to eat or something or maybe I took it out in the car. I don't know what happened, but I know when I woke up on Monday and I was looking for it in my purse, in my pants pockets, in my jacket pockets, I could find the bottom grill nowhere. So shout out to Anna, girl. I'll be back tomorrow to get me another one.

[Lex P]

Cuz you still got your mold?

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, cuz she gave us the mold, so.

[Lex P]

Oh, okay.

[Drea Nicole]

I'll be back to get another one tomorrow. Because I don't know where that girl at.

[Lex P]

Well, my poor decision this week is so. Again, it's always something with this goddamn house. But I'm. I'm learning. I'm having a good time. I learned how to fix holes in the drywall and I was like, okay, so I. I got new outlets and new light switches. I got this vintage brass with patina for my light switches. Oh, they're gorgeous. Like a light switch needs to be a statement.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, I did see you post.

[Lex P]

Yes. Because it's a small details like that that people don't pay attention to. Right. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna change all of them in my house. I didn't change the ones in the kitchen. Cause obviously I'm getting my kitchen renovated. But I changed all the outlets, all the things. I was like, you know what? I'll go in after they change the switches. And now I can fix the drywall. I should have fixed the shit before and then let them install it. But it looks good, but it's just taking me a longer time because now I have to unscrew the plates, fix the drywall, let it dry, do all the sanding and the paint, and then put it back. It's been a lot. But on the good note, it's so gorgeous. Like when I tell y', all, if you are in the house or even if you're in an apartment, you can just change the plates. It's just such a statement piece. So, yeah, my new light switches. My poor decision was I should have did the drywall before. But I'm learning. I'm a new homeowner. We figured it out. But they look so good. So y' all know Lex B tv? I do that all the time. I'mma update y'. All. I haven't done an episode in a while. Cause I'm over there struggling, sweating, braids in a bun, working hard. But I like stuff like that. Like, you know, it brings me joy. But yeah, that's my poor decision. So if you are out there, do the drywall before you put the new place on. Period.

[Drea Nicole]

What's your poor decision? Speaking of houses, I left some egg, like I made. I make egg bites, like for meal prep throughout the week. But I had to take it to the garbage and I came home Sunday, actually, after the one Music Fest, and my house was rank o. Oh, my God. I had to take that bag out so quick, I had to light candles, spray everything.

[Lex P]

So don't do that.

[Drea Nicole]

Don't leave eggs, even if they've already been discarded. Yeah. Salmon skin, fish and stuff like that. I just feel like fish, poultry, all of that. Like, as soon as you are done cooking, you need to just. Yeah, you need to take it to the trash chute immediately. I learned that a long time ago. Like, if I'm making some chicken and I just put in a new trash bag, I'm not gonna throw the container in there. I'm just gonna put it in a separate bag and then just go take it directly to the trash shoe. Because if you let it sit in there for like a day or two. And I had just turned my heat on.

[Lex P]

It'S marinating in there.

[Drea Nicole]

I was pissed. Well, I'm already knowing.

[Lex P]

Yeah, well, I don't got no trash shoot no more.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, yeah.

[Lex P]

So my garbage can is in my garage.

[Drea Nicole]

Mine too.

[Lex P]

So when I throw that in there, I'll be like, oh, my God.

[Drea Nicole]

You got to be careful because you can get maggots. Because, like, sometimes I have to clean my garbage out. Mine's the same way we have to. Our HOA makes us keep it in the garage, but in the summertime, it gets so hot that if you are discarding stuff like that, you'll get maggots inside of there. So just keep that in mind. Like, I clean mine out quarterly.

[Lex P]

Well, I found this company. They'll pull up on you and they'll clean it. Ooh, the garbage can.

[Drea Nicole]

Yes, please send me there.

[Lex P]

I am, I am. I haven't tried them yet.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay.

[Lex P]

I'm not gonna shout em out till I try em.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay.

[Lex P]

But once I try em. Because they clean your garbage can out. I have to, because it's awful.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

And I ain't even been in there four months yet.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

So it'd be so that garage. Ooh, it'd be funky bit. Mm. You know, I like to cook that salmon too.

[Drea Nicole]

That be the type of stuff where I just be like, I don't know. Maybe I just need to buy a condo.

[Lex P]

Yay. Because I just.

[Drea Nicole]

I cannot be bothered. I cannot be bothered with having to clean out Mega Juice. Yeah. It's disgusting.

[Lex P]

That's why I said I can't do it. I had to find a company. I was like, how can I clean out? But it's actually a few companies that do it in Atlanta. Okay. It's actually a common service that I didn't know.

[Drea Nicole]

I didn't know that existed either.

[Lex P]

I didn't know that existed either. And there's another service that people come and they. They'll clean out. Like your ac, like the big thing in the back, like you're supposed to get that cleaned out too every once in a while. So. Yeah, it's a lot of things I'm finding out. I'm getting that garbage can cleaned out.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, that's a convenience I'm willing and happy to pay for. Easy.

[Lex P]

I love paying for convenience now.

[Drea Nicole]

Me too. I love to pay for some. I just am not about to do it. It's money well spent. If I don't have to do it every time. If I can save myself the time and the hassle, yeah, I'm gonna do it. The sun coming out.

[Lex P]

The sun will come out tomorrow. Today. Major bottom downer that tomorrow there'll be some. When I stuck with a day that's.

[Drea Nicole]

Gray and lonely, it was gray and lonely earlier and you just stuck out.

[Lex P]

Your chin and you grinned.

[Drea Nicole]

Because I seen the sun shining behind Kyla head. I said, oh my God, the sun is coming out. Love that for us. But yes. So those are our poor decisions for this week. Of course. Make sure y' all tap in with Taylor Port. Y' all know we love Taylor Port. Yes, we drink Taylor Port every week. And yeah, y' all know the vibes.

[Lex P]

All right.

[Drea Nicole]

Port wine.

[Lex P]

I love a port. It sounds fancy.

[Drea Nicole]

Cuz it is airport. It's all the ports I like.

[Lex P]

You do love an airport.

[Drea Nicole]

Airport, Clareport. Taylor Port.

[Lex P]

They don't know about that, babe.

[Drea Nicole]

Taylor port.

[Lex P]

Taylor Port.

[Drea Nicole]

Teleport.

[Lex P]

Who?

[Drea Nicole]

Teleport.

[Lex P]

Teleport with that. Teleport.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm telling you, it will make you do that if you drink enough. Don't be too turned. Your straw is big.

[Lex P]

I like it though. It's giving like this.

[Drea Nicole]

You wish you had a big fat tongue. So bad. So bad. But you don't though. I want to rap it short.

[Lex P]

It's so little.

[Drea Nicole]

Tamiji.

[Lex P]

You know, my friends in high school used to like make fun of my tongue. It's a mee tongue. That girl on my tongue. Tongue. My tongue.

[Drea Nicole]

I got a tongue too though. It's okay.

[Lex P]

Okay, let's get into this first topic. Are you a stress eater? When life is stressing you out or you're having a bad day, do you feel more inclined to eat a big meal or something you've been craving? Like, what's something that you crave like that you don't normally eat. Like what's something that you crave?

[Drea Nicole]

I don't really like referring to myself as a eater in general. I just don't really like that term. Wow. Because I feel like our generation has made it into something that it should not have ever been made into. So I don't like to refer to myself as an eater in any capacity. I don't eat nothing actually. I actually be starving like Marvin girl. Yeah, like I don't eat.

[Lex P]

I'm not an eater. You're not an eater? Are you a stress eater with food? To be clear.

[Drea Nicole]

No. If anything, I'm a person who you.

[Lex P]

When I, you be like this, I don't want to eat and you be skinny.

[Drea Nicole]

No, it's not even that.

[Lex P]

I just, I work out.

[Drea Nicole]

Like I work. I get more locked in on my goals when I'm stressed out. Like if I'm stressed, it's just going to make me go harder. Cuz one thing about me, I just always feel like everybody got me up. It's like a motivational thing. Like if somebody stresses me out or if something stresses me out, it's like I'mma just get better. I'mma prove to myself, I'mma prove to them like I'm not going to let this bother me. I'mma probably lose weight cuz I'mma gain more muscle. I'mma start locking in on my protein goals. I'mma start going to the gym more.

[Lex P]

Yeah, it's funny cuz you are like that.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah. Like no, I'm not really a stress eater. I feel like if anything, when I'm super, super like happy, especially when I was younger, I would eat all the time because I was just happy and I just didn't give a. And I'll be like, oh yeah, I want Popeyes today. So it, especially when I started really getting money for real, it was like, I'm gonna just do what I want.

[Lex P]

What do you think about Popeyes right now?

[Drea Nicole]

They got that, they got that big back, six dollar box back.

[Lex P]

I'm asking you.

[Drea Nicole]

I heard.

[Lex P]

Have you ate Popeyes lately?

[Drea Nicole]

No, I haven't ate, I'm not gonna lie. I haven't ate Popeyes in like two years.

[Lex P]

Well, I, I, I had, I had some Popeyes. Yes. And it, I.

[Drea Nicole]

What was wrong with it?

[Lex P]

I don't know.

[Drea Nicole]

That's why that was God telling you.

[Lex P]

I don't eat that.

[Drea Nicole]

Stop eating that shit.

[Lex P]

Yeah, it was bad. It was not tasty.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

And y' all know me, I love, I always get the red beans and rice from there, you know. Do you know how bad beans have to be for me to throw it away?

[Drea Nicole]

It wasn't good.

[Lex P]

Cause that's my favorite dish.

[Drea Nicole]

It had no flavor meat. I used to love to pour a little of that barbecue sauce on top.

[Lex P]

Ooh, you was getting fancy. Yeah, she like to mix it up, make her little spoon bread.

[Drea Nicole]

I do, I did getting.

[Lex P]

We not going to get off topic today.

[Drea Nicole]

No, but this is on topic, cuz it's like we talking about being stress eaters. Like, so I was saying when I used to. When I was younger, I used to just eat stuff just because it was like, oh, this is what I want today. So I'mma just order it and I'mma eat it. And that's when I wait, I'm eating. Yeah. It had nothing to do with like being stressed out. Cuz actually when I'm going through it just really make me become more disciplined and locked in on my goals. What about about you?

[Lex P]

I'm not a stress eater. I'm a stress sleeper. When I'm going through it and I'm sad, I will literally just be like, I'm going to sleep, I'm going to sleep. I just want to sleep.

[Drea Nicole]

I just want to sleep.

[Lex P]

I just want to sleep now. You know, recently this year, I was like, oh, I was so proud of myself, cuz I did the work. I was walking on my walking pad. I. Y', all, I lost 30 pounds. I was so proud of myself. Now I didn't gain it all back. The weight came back. I've been in this house like a boomerang. Look.

[Drea Nicole]

It's heavy back there, but your ass was never the problem.

[Lex P]

But you know what it is? It be these thighs, okay? It's the thighs, the arms getting meaty.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay.

[Lex P]

The titties getting heavy, the stomach get a little. When people start asking me, oh, my God, Lex, congratulations.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, you don't, girl.

[Lex P]

No. Well, but you know what the thing about me is, whether I'm thick or thin, I always look good. Yeah, I just. I know my body though, and I know the seasons that I'm in right now. I'm in that season where like, I'm focused on like, poor minds love, Lex P. My house and things like that. And I haven't put my health on the back burner. Like, not my health, just my eating habits. Like, I kind of eat when I can. And when I do eat, instead of eating small meals throughout the day like I was when I was losing weight, I'll eat like one Big meal. And then my body is holding on to that and this and xyz. So I know what I have to do. But also what I'm learning is, like, girl, you can't make excuses just because you're busy. You need to find a way to work this into your schedule. You know what I'm saying? But I'm all right. I don't stress eat. I stress sleep.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah. I always say, like, being healthy is a lifestyle. That's just how I look at it at this point in my life. Like, I don't be wanting to do every day. It be days where I be like, oh, I don't feel like. And that's one of the main reasons why I'm glad that I got a walking pad.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

In my house, because it'd be days where I just don't feel like doing nothing. But I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna get on this walking pad. I'm watch Sex in the City. I'm gonna watch like, four episodes, and I'm gonna get in my little two, three miles, and I' ma just make it work. Because even when I don't feel like going to the gym.

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[Drea Nicole]

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[Drea Nicole]

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[Lex P]

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[Drea Nicole]

I'm going to do something. It's about moving my body. And I've also been doing like this stretching challenge. I'm on day like 53, I think of like 90 days. So I'm trying to be able to do my middle splits again and I'm almost like there.

[Lex P]

That's crazy. Middle splits are so hard.

[Drea Nicole]

They are. And I'm almost there because I've been doing it for 53 days. I have like another what, 26 days now. So yeah, so I've been doing that every day. And it's just like, it's something that fitness and wellness is not something that I always want to do, but I know that it's something that I have to do. And I think about the 53, 56, 60 year old version of me that's gonna be fine as. And I'm gonna be thankful that I locked in on eating better, prioritizing my wellness, taking my vitamins, working out every day. I'm gonna be so happy that I did that in another 10, 20 years, even when I don't feel like doing it. So to me it's just more of like a, you gotta do it, you gotta do it, you gotta get it done. And I just don't like being a size that I feel uncomfortable at. For me, when I get to like 160 and not that it's anything wrong with that weight, but. But I'm also 5:2, so when I get to like 160, I feel uncomfortable. I'll be like, I need to be in like the 150s for me to feel comfortable with my body 160.

[Lex P]

Yeah, but your ways.

[Drea Nicole]

But you're also taller than me. Like people carry weight different. Yeah, if I was your weight, I would be plus size, bro. And not that it's nothing, anything. And not that it's anything wrong with that, but it's just not what like I feel comfortable for my body.

[Lex P]

Yeah. And I think that's okay. I think some people, whatever you, I'm.

[Drea Nicole]

Vain and I'm okay with saying like I, I be wanting to look a certain way in my clothes. I like to look a certain way naked when I look at myself in the mirror. And like that's what keep me motivated to just stay fine. And also just fighting off like diseases and stuff. Like as we get older and we find out a lot of stuff that we consume is the reason why people have high blood pressure and hot and diabetes and high Cholesterol, hypertension, gout, all of these things, it could be avoided by like the foods that you're consuming. So I don't know what you think, Ty, because you work out a lot too.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Now though, this is new. Yeah. Like my first full year and now I'm disciplined. But like I'm like you like every day. Me and Andrea, my trainer talk about this like we gotta do this for the rest of our lives every day. Like that's crazy. But now that I've built this regimen and this discipline around it, now I, my body feels it. If I don't go to the gym after a couple same, I gotta just keep that going. Cuz I'm like you when I'm 50, 55, 60 and age is creeping up and these bones ain't they creak now. So we do hip mobility and I do pilates and stretching and all of that. Like those are things that are important. But like you said, moving your body is the key. Like even if you in the house, do some push ups, do some jumping jacks, do something that's quick, that you can just like stretch and flex your body. I'm not a, would you say eater?

[Lex P]

A stress eater.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm not a stress eater. I won't eat stress be. I'll go to sleep same. Or I just don't. I need to just be by myself, silent. I can't. I don't have an appetite. I don't do none of that. Yeah.

[Lex P]

Yeah. And I'm the same way. I feel like for the people watching, like she said, even if you don't want to go to the gym, just move. And that's one thing I will say that it's probably saved me. There's one thing about me. I'm a move. Yeah. I am a mover. Like I'm a, I have a trail. I walk all the time. Like you have to at least keep your body moving because one thing that.

[Drea Nicole]

We do take for granted as people.

[Lex P]

Is just getting, being able to walk.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

Until you get up and you can't walk. You know, you have to keep your body moving and stuff like that. Like I talked about this like probably like two weeks ago in the episode when I was talking about like I'm in hot yoga now. I've been going to my yoga classes, you know what I'm saying? Just because like the mobility is like, you know what I'm saying? It's real important, y'. All. But yeah, I done got, I done got thick again. But we going to lose it Again. And we going to. Why am I holding this? Like, I don't know.

[Drea Nicole]

I thought it was a blunt cinnamon.

[Lex P]

Smoked cinnamon, but. Oh, that's why it's smokey. I said when I roll my cake.

[Drea Nicole]

But, yes, y'. All. Y' all know I. And I be hating to be that person because I feel like sometimes I have gotten so deep into, like, my fitness bag that I feel like I'm that friend now where it's like, when people around me don't be working out and they don't be being mobile, I be, like, lazy. Yeah. Like, what did you do today? Did you work out? Did you stretch? Did you do something? And it's like, it's not even to be judgy, but it's just, like, on some real. Like, we're getting older. Like, you. You need to be doing something every day, unless you want to be old and you want to be, like, sedentary, and you just want to be, like, not able to move your body and having a walker and all. Like, these are the habits that we're creating right now that is going to make the difference 30 years from now between you having a walker, having a cane, and, like, being somebody who mobile who could still go to a NBA young boy concert and dance. Oh. Cause he gonna be, like, 40, but we gonna be 60.

[Lex P]

She gonna call me baby boo.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, no, I guess he ain't that young.

[Lex P]

No, he's not. He's a young boy.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, he's, like, 23, so he gonna be like 53, and I'm gonna be like 63.

[Lex P]

He gonna call your baby boo.

[Drea Nicole]

So we all gonna be old is the point that I'm making. But we need to shake.

[Lex P]

He look like he in shape, too. He be working that stage because it.

[Drea Nicole]

Be about working out. Like, you have to work out. And some people be thinking, like, oh, I could just do cardio. It depends on what type of body you want.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Me, I be wanting to be tone. Like, when I look at myself, especially these days, when I be having shorts on me. Alexa just did a photo shoot. It'll probably be out by the time this episode air. Now, the way I look in shorts and stuff, I be like, my legs be looking so fire and so toned two years ago. Absolutely not. Like, I had so much cellulite and stuff, but I know it's because I wait.

[Lex P]

Train. Yeah. That's a fact, Jack.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Lex P]

You look like you could crush a coconut with them.

[Drea Nicole]

I probably can.

[Lex P]

I know you could.

[Drea Nicole]

I probably can, but, yeah. But yes, it's just about. It's discipline, like how to do the things that you don't want to do. That's what separates you from other people.

[Lex P]

And I also think.

[Drea Nicole]

So it's not about, like, successful people.

[Lex P]

Size. Like, sometimes people look at certain people and be like, oh, she's not in shape and she's not. Everybody's body type is different.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

So you can look at somebody who would look like. If you think like a. Of a Olympic gold medal winner and shot put, they're not. These are not small women, but I bet you they're in way more shape than you. It's not about size. It's about, do you move around, what are you eating, what are you putting in your body?

[Drea Nicole]

It's about weights, though, more so because that's what has to do with your strength.

[Lex P]

Well, I'm just talking about just like. Because people like to look at people. You can't look at somebody and be like, oh, they're in shape and they're not. Because it'll be some really small people and a big and a bigger girl who is probably like a shot put throw or somebody who's just in the gym all the time. And that girl is more shape and more in shape than the smaller girl.

[Drea Nicole]

And I'm a good example of that because before I started working out, people would just. I'm naturally skinny, slender.

[Lex P]

Right.

[Drea Nicole]

And I have like an athlete's body. But I. I didn't work out, so I couldn't even run a mile. I couldn't run down the block when I first started, but I had to build that up now. And weights. I was a weakling. I couldn't do anything. Now I've built that up and that stamina over the year. Now I have a lot more strength, but I was weak as hell.

[Lex P]

You know what shocked me?

[Drea Nicole]

No. Same. Cuz I be. When I be doing my leg presses, I be shocking the out of myself. Cuz I be pressing like 345 now.

[Lex P]

That's good. That's a lot.

[Drea Nicole]

That's a drink. It's a. No, it's a lot. But when I first started. But when I first started working out with Mr. Reggie like what, two years ago, I could not even barely do like 120 to 150. So now I be doing like 3 45. And it's crazy because it's like stamina, endurance, building the muscle memory over time, it really makes a difference.

[Lex P]

Y' all know what? Shocked.

[Drea Nicole]

And when I stop, I be having to start back and go lower and then get back to 345mm.

[Lex P]

Y' all know what shocked me with? Who doesn't work out? Because I saw a comment she left and they was like, I need her ab routine. Teyana Taylor. Really? She said she doesn't work out. Is it fake? No, she just. That's a n. I had a girl I went to high school with. I haven't talked to her in a long time because she called me about why she said my name, but, you know, it's still love you still. You still my girl. This girl was Amanda Bean. She was just naturally. Muscles are natural too. Just how fat can be natural. Muscles can be natural, too. And she was just like. I mean, she could jump, flip, do this, do that, do that. I had my sister's best friend, Jessica, she was just. I mean, calves out of this world, legs out of this world. Some people are just naturally muscular, too. She said that in the comment. I saw it and I was like, she does.

[Drea Nicole]

She doesn't work out after the kids, too. And it just snapped back into an eight pack.

[Lex P]

Life ain't fair.

[Drea Nicole]

But I think. But I think also people be taken away, too, from, like, nutrition. Yeah, of course, nutrition makes a big difference in that stuff too, because some people, like, no, they don't necessarily work out, but they eat really well. So they don't have no body fat. For real, because of the nutrition, because they eat a lot of protein. They make sure that they're not eating a lot of carbs. They make sure that they're not eating a lot of, like, processed sugars and all of these things. And it's a lot of protein in their diet. So it's easy to naturally for, like, your muscles to show through when you don't have a lot of body fat. And she doesn't have a lot of body fat.

[Lex P]

No. That's a fine lady.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, she. She's small. She's a small woman. She don't have a lot of body fat.

[Lex P]

Shout out to Tana. Come sit on the couch and talk to us. All right, T. You know, I'm a little tip. Tip. What were we. What are we drinking today? I'm going to add a little more of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get it right for. All right, so this one.

[Drea Nicole]

Hold on, let me get myself together. This one we are going to call Smoky Secrets. Ooh, ooh. Smoky Secrets. So I actually infused some vodka with ginger and vanilla for this one. So that is going to be our spirit of choice, our base in there. We added some apple cider, a little lemon juice, and Then I floated some pomegranate juice on top, so it kind of floated to the bottom, and I added a little bit of vanilla syrup to it. And then as the garnish today, we have some coconut based whipped cream, which is a lot healthier if you are lactose intolerant. And then it is fall, y'.

[Lex P]

All.

[Drea Nicole]

This is like, what, the holiday season now, so we're getting into those warm cocktails. This is a cinnamon stick that I just smoked, so it smells really good in here. And that is the smoky secrets, y'.

[Lex P]

All.

[Drea Nicole]

Smoke that thing, girl.

[Lex P]

It tastes good when I go like this. Okay, she gonna call me baby boo. All right, y'. All, this next one is for the girlies that are still learning, evolving, and leveling up. We call it the Grown Woman Glow up.

[Drea Nicole]

Because this season, we're stepping into our softness, our confidence, and our crown. And this pour is the perfect match, dog.

[Lex P]

It's made with Taylor pork. Y' all know I love me some Taylor pork. It has a little lavender syrup, fresh lemon juice, and a lemon wheel on top. It's light, floral, grown like me, you know, it tastes good.

[Drea Nicole]

I really like it because it's a really good balance between strength and sweetness. Just like womanhood, just like me. And a reminder that glowing up starts from the inside.

[Lex P]

I agree. Like, here's to setting intentions, claiming your crown, and sipping something that feels like.

[Drea Nicole]

Like peace in the glass.

[Lex P]

Cheers to the grown woman Glow up only with Taylor port.

[Drea Nicole]

What's a crazy com. A food combination that y' all like? Cuz I know we all said that we not really stress eaters, but, like, when you do like to eat and indulge and dabble, like, what's a crazy food combination?

[Lex P]

It's crazy because I'm not a sweets person, but I always crave pick. I eat pickles anyway. Like, I love pickles, but, like, pickles and Skittles together.

[Drea Nicole]

Really?

[Lex P]

Oh, my gosh. It's so good. Like, I try not to do it a lot because I used to really, really do it in high school. I know. I keep talking about my high school friends. My friend Taylor. Shout out to Taylor. Yeah, we. She put me on pickles and skittles in high school. And since I've been an adult, like, I. Every time I'm on my cycle, I crave pickles and skittles. The regular Skittles.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, mix the skittles in the pickle.

[Lex P]

Yeah. Like, you can either take a bite and eat some. Yeah, that either. Or. But you got to get that juice from the Skittles. You got to chew the skittles a little bit and then take a bite of that pickle so that pickle juice and that skittle juice can mix up in your mouth. You know what I'm saying? You can't just shake it in your.

[Drea Nicole]

Hand like some dice.

[Lex P]

Yeah. You got to put it in your mouth, let them juices.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay. What about you, Ty?

[Lex P]

I don't know. I gotta think.

[Drea Nicole]

You don't have a crazy. I think I have, like, a crazy crave. I do crave, like, carbs around my cycle, but, yeah, that's.

[Lex P]

That's normal. Yeah. What about you?

[Drea Nicole]

I mean, I feel like it's kind of like it's gonna sound so typical, but juice? No, it's gonna sound so typical, but like, French fries and ice cream is such a good combination. Like, it's like the perfect sweet and salty. Or like potato chips and ice cream.

[Lex P]

But what. What French fries we talking about?

[Drea Nicole]

McDonald's.

[Lex P]

You and your big bag.

[Drea Nicole]

But I haven't ate that. I'm not gonna lie. I haven't ate that in a really long time. But because I haven't, I don't eat.

[Lex P]

No, I believe you. But I'm saying that that ain't no craving. It. Cause sometimes you got to satisfy that.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, I didn't say a craving. I just said, like, what's something that you eat that's like a weird combination?

[Lex P]

Oh, okay.

[Drea Nicole]

Or something that you like that's a weird combination, not a craving. But yeah, like, I haven't ate that in a long time. But that used to be something that I used to like. Like to dip my french fries into, like the soft serve.

[Lex P]

Yeah, that's salty and sweet.

[Drea Nicole]

It's like a good. It's a nice little combo. And even when, like, Lex was talking about pickles, and this is terrible because you absolutely should not be eating this. But, like, I used to love to put tahin on my pickles.

[Lex P]

That is good because.

[Drea Nicole]

But pickles are already salty, so adding a tahin just makes me this big. Yeah. And I used to like the bread and like, the hot. What is it called? Hot days. Like, they have like, these sweet, spicy bread and butter pickles. I. Yeah.

[Lex P]

If you like bread and butter pickles, you're a psychopath.

[Drea Nicole]

I love.

[Lex P]

What is it? Bread and butter pickles.

[Drea Nicole]

They're kind of sweet. Like, they're sweet pickles. Is it breaded? No, they just.

[Lex P]

They're awful. I don't.

[Drea Nicole]

I disagree. I think that they have the ones that are like just the regular sweet ones. And then they also have the ones that are, like, the sweet and spicy. I like the sweet and spicy ones.

[Lex P]

I don't know what I tasted, but I said, hey, go to hell.

[Drea Nicole]

You got to try the ones that I be eating. They be good.

[Lex P]

Maybe. So what was the last time you ate something that you was like, this is a. I'm a bad, bad girl all the time. Every. I. I was with you all weekend. You didn't eat nothing.

[Drea Nicole]

I ate pasta the other day.

[Lex P]

Like, I.

[Drea Nicole]

And I ate the whole bowl.

[Lex P]

A bad girl.

[Drea Nicole]

Facts. Because I don't eat that type of stuff all the time. Like, I'm really.

[Lex P]

No, but I'm saying something that's like. Because that wasn't bad to me.

[Drea Nicole]

It was because it was like. That was, like, at least 1500 calories. That bowl of pasta.

[Lex P]

It wasn't no 1500 calories.

[Drea Nicole]

Do you count your calories?

[Lex P]

I used to, but until I started obsessing over it. And then I figured out how to lose the weight without doing that, because.

[Drea Nicole]

Me, too. But I just like to count them because I like to just be mindful of, like, how many I burned and then what I'm eating because I don't want to gain weight. Sometimes it'd be about maintenance, maintaining, not losing weight. But, yeah, that was a lot of. That was a lot of calories.

[Lex P]

But it was so tasty.

[Drea Nicole]

It was very tasty. But outside of that, I would say, like, maybe, like a month ago, I had five guys.

[Lex P]

What you had.

[Drea Nicole]

I had a burger. Like, the patty milk.

[Lex P]

You went all the way in there and the fries. Get in there. Get in there. Yeah, get in there. Get in there. You was digging in that bag.

[Drea Nicole]

Five guys be so good.

[Lex P]

Hey, I'm fried.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, it's so good. And I begin it with, like, the. The patty meal with the caramel, caramelized onions, barbecue sauce.

[Lex P]

That's how you know that was good.

[Drea Nicole]

Caramelized onions, barbecue sauce. Then I get the Cajun fries with the ketchup. Be good. So, yeah, that's how I eat it last.

[Lex P]

Okay. Okay, that's fair.

[Drea Nicole]

Jalapenos.

[Lex P]

Do you like? Okay, last question. We gonna move on. Cause y' all know I love food. Now I'm getting hungry. Fresh.

[Drea Nicole]

I know.

[Lex P]

Fresh.

[Drea Nicole]

Now we like. Damn. We shouldn't have ordered cava. We should have ordered five guys.

[Lex P]

Fresh jalapenos or pickled jalapenos.

[Drea Nicole]

Ooh, pickle for me. Pickled. Fresh for me.

[Lex P]

Fresh.

[Drea Nicole]

They're spicier. They're just. They're. They are too spicy. I Like them.

[Lex P]

They are spicier. Now, I will say this. I like fresh in my drinks.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

Pickled in my food. Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

So, like, you like pickled in your pico de gallo?

[Lex P]

Yeah, I don't like pico.

[Drea Nicole]

That's my favorite snack.

[Lex P]

That's my go to. I hate fresh tomatoes.

[Drea Nicole]

And I love guacamole.

[Lex P]

Ooh, guacamole. Now, you know, I make guacamole from scratch now.

[Drea Nicole]

And you use jalapenos in it or no.

[Lex P]

So I don't. I know it's. It's controversial because you can't use pickled jalapenos in guacamole.

[Drea Nicole]

You got to use.

[Lex P]

And I do not like. I don't know. And I like crunchy stuff. It's something about that crunch of the.

[Drea Nicole]

Fresh jalapeno with my food. See, for me, I'm. I'm with Ty. It just depends on what it is. Like, it depends on what it is.

[Lex P]

I want somebody watching poor moms getting their hair braided. Like, I don't know about these jalapenos.

[Drea Nicole]

This gonna sound so bad, but I like how I like pickle jalapenos. And, like, food. Yes. Like nachos or something.

[Lex P]

Like.

[Drea Nicole]

Like our kind of food. Like, if it's like our tacos.

[Lex P]

Our talk. What kind of tacos we have.

[Drea Nicole]

Because let's be for real. We all know that black people make tacos completely different from the way that Latino people.

[Lex P]

First of all, we use ground beef.

[Drea Nicole]

First of all, we use ground beef. That's first and foremost.

[Lex P]

No cilantro.

[Drea Nicole]

That's foremost. We don't be using no onion. We don't be using no sazon. We just found out about sazon. Black people just found out about sazon like, five years ago.

[Lex P]

You could tell.

[Drea Nicole]

And you could tell because we using everything now.

[Lex P]

That's cap.

[Drea Nicole]

That chick could be orange as fuck. Why is your gumbo chicken orange? Why is the chicken in your gumbo orange as fuck?

[Lex P]

Don't do that. Don't do that. I think Cardi B said it in the song what she said.

[Drea Nicole]

What's the white rapper do? You. She said song. It says sazon about Sazon.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

That's when I first heard about it, y'.

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[Drea Nicole]

I'm not trying to be funny. I feel like American black people just found out about sazon, like, not that long ago.

[Lex P]

You think so? I agree. Well, the reason I asked her, because I grew up with.

[Drea Nicole]

You used. Your mama used sazon when you.

[Lex P]

She didn't. But what's up?

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Hey everyone.

[Lex P]

Ed Helms here and hi, I'm Kal Penn and we're the hosts of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.

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[Lex P]

You know we had some lighter friend not the these on the side. You know that's what we call our friends. They almost.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay.

[Lex P]

So yeah like I I had definitely had food with like it's not so.

[Drea Nicole]

That orange size on in the packet. The Goya pack is in the box.

[Lex P]

Begoya looked different. It was different. It looked different back then. It had a different. I think it was blue back then blue the packaging that said. But all that stuff. Oh that was normal. We saw that.

[Drea Nicole]

I think the general Goya is. Yeah, the Goya but I'm talking about the size on in the orange box. You get a box and you get the pack. The package.

[Lex P]

Yeah, the packets.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like we new cities not true cities because want to use Sazon on everything. And Sazon is not made for everything.

[Lex P]

Yeah, it's not. I think. So we needed to get into more like using season your food with herbs. Herbs?

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, fresh herbs, thyme, oregano, rosemary, basil.

[Lex P]

You got to season it. That's what brings the flavor out.

[Drea Nicole]

And less salt, man.

[Lex P]

Get rid of that. If you got Tony's, get rid of that. No one take Tony's, man. I'm telling you.

[Drea Nicole]

Let me tell you how on your own with it.

[Lex P]

No, because there's better seasonings that have less sodium.

[Drea Nicole]

I agree. But Tony's also has like, like a salt free version, which is I something that I use all the time. They have a salt free version and they have the regular version. And then I feel like Danos has a really good seasoning that doesn't really have that much salt in it and it's pretty spicy. But you got to use your onion powder, your garlic powder. You have to use your seasoning blends. Like, I love Mrs. Dash as somebody who was like really serious about salt intake.

[Lex P]

Yeah, yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Mrs. Dash has really good seasonings. Kinder's has good seasonings. But a lot of kinder stuff be having salt in it, though.

[Lex P]

It does have salt in it, but kinder has a good balance. I will say that Kenders has they is not heavy on the salt. You can put a lot of kinders in something and it's not going to be too salty. Kenders is good. But before we move on, let me tell you something.

[Drea Nicole]

This done turned into.

[Lex P]

Paula, if you use garlic, do not cook for me.

[Drea Nicole]

I hate garlic.

[Lex P]

Garlic. Garlic in the jar.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, I hate it. Because I cooked for you many of times and you loved the food and it definitely had garlic in it.

[Lex P]

Okay, cool. But what I'm talking about, like now as I've grown, because I used to use garlic. I'm talking about now as I've grown. I first started like using fresh garlic probably about like two years ago.

[Drea Nicole]

So now you bougie. Yeah, I bougie with the garlic.

[Lex P]

I'm not bougie about a lot of things. I'm bougie when it comes to garlic.

[Drea Nicole]

You can taste the difference.

[Lex P]

You can.

[Drea Nicole]

I didn't know that either. I don't think so.

[Lex P]

I promise you, you can. I promise you, when you chop up fresh garlic and you either roast it or whatever. Even when I make my garlic bread, I make fresh garlic bread. It's. I'm telling you, I'm just chop it up one time.

[Drea Nicole]

No, I do. That's what I was about to say. You don't have to tell me. I come from a family of cookers, chefs, if you will. And, like, I. So I do both. It really just depends on how I'm feeling that day. Like, if I don't. If I don't feel like doing all of that and I'm trying to do something quick, I'mma use garlic. I also like garlic paste. I think garlic paste works for a lot of things.

[Lex P]

Garlic paste does.

[Drea Nicole]

But I also will chop it up sometimes, too. But, like, my mom is one of the best cooks, the best chefs that I know. And, like, the difference between when she use garlic and when she don't, you would never know the food is still going to taste the same. Like, because it's such a small portion of the dish, if you really season it right, if you using all of these other herbs and seasonings.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

You're not gonna really be able to tell. Oh, this person used garlic.

[Lex P]

I just. I like that fresh. I love that fresh garlic taste. I love it. And I. I can taste now because I crave it now, like, that garlic flavor. So I'll tell you this, though, y'. All. If you are a dry user, I'm not shaming you. But just try. Try fresh garlic one time. Then you get that. That chocolate.

[Drea Nicole]

Or you could use both, because sometimes I use both in my food too. Like, I might chop up a little fresh garlic, and then I also use, like, a spoon, a teaspoonful of, like, the jar garlic or, like, the paste. You can never have too much garlic in your food. Never at all.

[Lex P]

Garlic and onions, and they're like, oh, loaded.

[Drea Nicole]

Never too much.

[Lex P]

Two garlic cloves.

[Drea Nicole]

Never. Yeah.

[Lex P]

The whole one.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm the same way. Like, you can never have too much garlic in your food, ever. Oh, the song. Onions, too. Like, like, T said red onions.

[Lex P]

I could eat it like an apple.

[Drea Nicole]

Seriously, Red onion is. Ooh, next level it is. And shallots. Yeah. I'm just now getting more into shallots.

[Lex P]

Oh, them shallots. In, like, a good pasta, it's a.

[Drea Nicole]

Little more elevated than just traditional. It's like a mix of onion and garlic. To me.

[Lex P]

Like, I feel like they have, like, that.

[Drea Nicole]

That mix of flavor.

[Lex P]

I make a crab add a little razzle dazzle.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

I make a crab pasta. I have to use shallots, and you got to use the fresh garlic. That's when you can taste the difference.

[Drea Nicole]

But how do y' all feel about green onions? Because I don't really.

[Lex P]

I love a green onion, but as a garnish. Garnish I agree. Just a garnish. Garnish only. Yeah, a garnish.

[Drea Nicole]

Like on some chili and a soup or something. But I'm not cooking with it. I rarely cook it with. Yeah, on, like, a Thai dish or something.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

That requires it. But yeah, I always ask to get my food without it. I love it without green.

[Lex P]

I love a little green topping now.

[Drea Nicole]

Really?

[Lex P]

No, I love it green on chives. I'm a. Oh.

[Drea Nicole]

Give me.

[Lex P]

Give me a cream cheese bagel. Ch. An onion. I had that this morning. I be tearing it up. I got all the gadgets in my kitchen now. Yeah, I got gadgets galore. When I bought my house, I had my Amazon list. That was the thing that, you know, people buy kitchen gadgets. Cause that's the cheapest. Except she bought me a tv, but I can't let them.

[Drea Nicole]

You know, I'm not a cheap bitch.

[Lex P]

Personally, but, no, I like.

[Drea Nicole]

Why people. Expensive gadgets.

[Lex P]

Well, no, I'm not gonna lie. But the kitchen gadgets I had were not cheap. Like, my friend Clay bought me the big silver magnolite pot. You know, like, I got the electric toaster with the screen on it. You know, I got some. I got some gadgets. Some gadgets. Christmas at your house. I'm not gonna lie, Ty. If I really. I'm. I'm hoping for that. Call me.

[Drea Nicole]

Beat me if you want.

[Lex P]

I want to have a friend.

[Drea Nicole]

I'm giving him possibly.

[Lex P]

I want to have friends. Miss at my house. So I'm trying to get it together. Okay. You know what I'm saying? All right, y'. All moving on. You know, we get chatty.

[Drea Nicole]

What's topic too, Dre? Do you really know the lyrics?

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Weeks.

[Drea Nicole]

That's topic number two. So are there any songs that you swore you knew the lyrics to, but you were dead wrong?

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[Drea Nicole]

I'll say this. I am really good at knowing lyrics to songs. For the most part, I'm like a human jukebox almost, but. And I think because I am like that, it. It irritate the out of me when people don't be knowing the lyrics to songs because it's like, how the. Did you think that that's what they said? I will never forget Something that Viva least like, just pops out in my mind is Growing up. Y' all remember the Cash Money song, Give me a project. Okay. So growing up, my mom. I remember one day we was in the car, I was talking, like, 10 years old. She thought that Manny first said, I love my baby llama.

[Lex P]

Now, now, now, you just be Trying. No, Nobody thought.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay, okay. All right. No, I'm not saying I would literally FaceTime her.

[Lex P]

No, I'm saying I believe that she said that. But how. That's what I'm saying.

[Drea Nicole]

I know.

[Lex P]

Same.

[Drea Nicole]

But she literally thought that he said, I love my baby llama. And I was like, why would you think he said, I love my llama? He said, I love my baby mama.

[Lex P]

I never thought.

[Drea Nicole]

But she thought that he said that. And I just feel like that happens across the board with so many songs. Like, people just be thinking, oh, this person said this? And then they said something completely different. And it's like, how did I hear this? How did I hear what he actually said? And you heard something completely different. That Silk song meeting in my bedroom, my father thought it said, there's a big dick in my bedroom. And this is what he asked his daughter when he said, meeting, there's a big dick in my bedroom. That's what he thought.

[Lex P]

Mama.

[Drea Nicole]

Mama on the radio. Yep. So I feel you with these parents, child. A big dick in my bedroom is crazy.

[Lex P]

When Missy came out with Work it, and she had the. And, like, we didn't realize what she was saying backwards. I had convinced myself and all of my friends. So we were like, no, this is what she's saying. And she just distorted it. We were saying that she said, it's yours if you get the thing wet.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, we used to say that in Houston, too. I think that was just like a.

[Lex P]

Like, we were like, that's what she's saying. Cause she didn't release what she really said. Like, it was backwards. So we were like, yeah, it's yours if you get the thing wet.

[Drea Nicole]

So that's not what she said? No, no, it's just reversed.

[Lex P]

She said, I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it. And then she reverses, and then she reverses and then. Little known fact.

[Drea Nicole]

See, Craig said he never knew that.

[Lex P]

She said, if your. It's yours if you get the thing. When she would verse it. And little known fact, she produced Signs by Beyonce and she did the same thing for her. Remember when Beyonce was like, in that part, she was reversing something that she was saying. Shout out to Missy.

[Drea Nicole]

It's us going around talking about it's yours if you get the thing with.

[Lex P]

I was like, no one. I ain't know what I have. Oh, my God. Yours if you get the thing with. I like to get that note. Yeah, so I can show. Yeah, girl. Just fast.

[Drea Nicole]

Just fast as fuck.

[Lex P]

What was that song by Rihanna?

[Drea Nicole]

Which one?

[Lex P]

She said something about some. It was something about some. Not the cake song. I can't think of it. I can't think of it. We're gonna move on.

[Drea Nicole]

I talked about this the other day, though.

[Lex P]

I.

[Drea Nicole]

My pet peeve is when people don't know the songs. Don't know the lyrics to a song. And then they'll like, be recording the video.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

And then they be like mouthing the words. And then it's obvious that you don't know the words because your lips not matching up to the music. And then they post it any way days.

[Lex P]

I hate that.

[Drea Nicole]

Irritate the out of me, cuz I be like, are you slow? Yes. The answer is yes, cuz why would you do that? Like, and maybe I'm just. Maybe I'm ocd. Like, if I record a video and then I even mess up a word, I'll record it again.

[Lex P]

LeBron is shaking. One thing about LeBron, I do that all the time. What? When he LeBron, it don't matter. He be like, I got my Rollion. He love it. LeBron loves it.

[Drea Nicole]

That's just so unorthodox for a Capricorn.

[Lex P]

Oh, LeBron don't care. But I love it.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like Capricorn people are just so, like, meticulous and, like, specific. I can't believe that he be. I never. That's like a thing. I never knew that.

[Lex P]

It's like an Internet thing. Like, he will pop post a song singing the world. He be like, He loves it.

[Drea Nicole]

But at the end of the day, though, it's LeBron. That's what I said with the rolly on.

[Lex P]

You knew it. This was the lyric I was talking about. Wait. Only girl in the world bought Rihanna about Young money. Gary Gala. No. Cause we like her.

[Drea Nicole]

And we like her too.

[Lex P]

That was such a good song, though. No. Cause we not gonna talk about that, man.

[Drea Nicole]

Was that not a good song?

[Lex P]

No. Because in a few years, holla at me. Miley Cyrus, Megan Jail, Angelina Jolie. What did he say? D Wood. Shout out to D. Woods, man. Damn. I used to love me some D Wood.

[Drea Nicole]

I did too. In about four years, Holly.

[Lex P]

Me go to jail. I don't describe go to jail.

[Drea Nicole]

No, not at all.

[Lex P]

No, not at all. You should.

[Drea Nicole]

He said. What did he say? Ass off, Kit Kat. If her ass off, I break her old jail. What does that mean?

[Lex P]

We don't know. Just go to jail because. What the are you talking about? But that's funny.

[Drea Nicole]

It's real interesting though, how we're. It's 20 years later or 15 years later, and we all like, ooh. You used to be at Butterfly Lounge singing that to the top of your mouth.

[Lex P]

Holl at me. My L. I used to be like. To holler at my list. Okay, okay. The lyric I was talking about was Only girl in the world. This was a long thing that was debated because she said, I want you to love me like I'm a hot guy. But people thought she said, like I'm a hot pie.

[Drea Nicole]

I thought she said heart.

[Lex P]

Throb.

[Drea Nicole]

I thought she said hot car.

[Lex P]

Ooh. Oh, she said hot guy.

[Drea Nicole]

I thought she said heart.

[Lex P]

But you said hot car.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

And you said heartthrob. Want you to love me like I'm a heart Throat. That was good, though. You know what's crazy? It'd be some lyrics that I'm like, they probably should have said that. You know what I'm saying? What was the song, baby? It was something he said in those lyrics. Who is that, Chris Brown? What was that song called?

[Drea Nicole]

Don't know what you did? 11:11.

[Lex P]

No, that's.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, my bad.

[Lex P]

We a little tipsy right now.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah. No, it's not.

[Lex P]

Robot. What's. What's the name of the song, y', all, so I can look up the lyrics. It is on 1111. It is under the influence. Okay, so these were the lyrics. And under the influence that. Oh, because he didn't say something about Robotessin. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It was something that he said he did.

[Drea Nicole]

Robotussen.

[Lex P]

I don't know why this. It was something that he said that people were like, he should have said this. Oh, because he said, your body, like weight speaks to me. And they were like, saying that he should have said something else, but I can't remember what people said he should have said. And they were like, that makes more sense if he would have said that.

[Drea Nicole]

Should it be Heavyweight?

[Lex P]

I don't know. No, but he said, I don't know. I don't know. I'm confused. I don't know either. I can't remember what it was. It was something, though.

[Drea Nicole]

But all I know is that people. It irritates the out of me when people don't be knowing the lyrics.

[Lex P]

The song, that's me. I don't know the words.

[Drea Nicole]

That's not true, though. You do be knowing, you know, a lot of lyrics. That's not true.

[Lex P]

R B. But rap songs, I'mma that shit up. I told y', all for the longest time, I was just. When Hot Drop. I don't know what the. He was saying and shoey am a hot. Like I told the sausages when he dropped.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, you did say sausage. And I was like, he said shiesty sausage.

[Lex P]

The same thing.

[Drea Nicole]

It's not the same thing.

[Lex P]

He could have been. His name could have been Sausage. Like I told us. I said when he dropped.

[Drea Nicole]

I just feel like. Just look up the lyrics. Like, it's. We are in 2025. We're in the 2000s. All you gotta do is look it up.

[Lex P]

Yeah, you right. You right.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, listen, all the music apps.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Literally just clicking. Literally. If you're on title. If you're on Apple Music, it's literally a tab that you can click on at the bottom where you can literally see the lyrics as the song is playing. It's no reason to not know the lyrics.

[Lex P]

But sometimes people be rapping too fast.

[Drea Nicole]

Like, if it's Twister, then Cool.

[Lex P]

Room.

[Drea Nicole]

I got money to do that.

[Lex P]

That's what I'm saying, cuz.

[Drea Nicole]

Do y' all remember that song that he had with Chris Brown when he was like, right off the back come my back, I'm going get it popping.

[Lex P]

We can get it crack, baby, we don't need no.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, that's not the same.

[Lex P]

Damn.

[Drea Nicole]

What I was like was exactly what I'm talking about. But do y' all remember the song I'm talking about? It was like popping. And Lil Wayne did the remix, like, right off the back. I'm a Mac. We can get a poppy can get it cracking, man is whacking. If you lack what I packed in, I will make you lack.

[Lex P]

Oh, not you don't wor. She wanted to lower song.

[Drea Nicole]

I think she talking about.

[Lex P]

And that's what I do with Busta Rhymes, too. Okay. Get away, get away, get away. Yo, that's all you got to do.

[Drea Nicole]

No, because Chico actually really know all the words.

[Lex P]

Him and Coco Jones. Why would y' all know the words today, right? And I feel like I got.

[Drea Nicole]

It was a popping remix here, y'.

[Lex P]

All. Okay. All right. We got to move on. We got to move on.

[Drea Nicole]

Now it's time to get into the be Bow the be about the A. So for this segment of the bed, right, and it's sponsored by her fantasy box, but we wanted to talk about. Are you horny or are you sad?

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

But before we get into that, I just gotta let y' all know one of my favorite products that I'm using right now, which is this Boric Balance wash by her fantasy box. I love it. It's super sensitive. It's super gentle. You can use it all over your vagina. It's going to keep your ph balance. It doesn't really have any scent and I love that as well because, you know, now as we're getting older and more informed, we know like you shouldn't be using any fragrances down there unless it's natural oils and natural, natural fragrances. That's why I love all of the products from her fantasy boxes. Everything is all natural.

[Lex P]

I love that. And see, I got to get on the inside when I start with my health because y' all know I eat a lot of beans. It'd be getting in there.

[Drea Nicole]

So I take.

[Lex P]

But what I'm saying is, but it can get funky. It can get funky in there when.

[Drea Nicole]

You eat beans because the fiber, you.

[Lex P]

Know what I'm saying? So I take the healthy box probiotics. This helps with your ph and your odor could control. You know what I'm saying? If you eat a lot of beans, even if you don't eat a lot of beans, some sometimes. Let's stop acting like it's a hot box down. It's a hot box. It get a little hot in there sometimes. This is the odor control. When I tell you it starts with on the inside. That's with anything. If you got something going on with your hair, your feet, your coochie, whatever, you got to start with the inside. What am I putting in my body? These probiotics. Game changer.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

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[Lex P]

Whoa.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

What a vibe we've got. Y' all. As always, it's classic HBCU energy. Non stop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit. Chants echoing, drums beating, everybody showing that school pride. Moments like this, yeah, they call for an ice cold Coca Cola. Crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there.

[Drea Nicole]

Mmm.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

Yeah, that taste always hit the right note. Just like the band at halftime. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the place, no matter the moment, everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

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[Lex P]

Hey Audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast, I'm sitting down with musician, producer, and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir, Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with other.

[Lex P]

Each.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

Each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships.

[Lex P]

No.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

No band likes each other after 20 years or 25 years. Like, the Beatles broke up in seven and a half years, and we're going on 35.

[Lex P]

Listen to Earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcast. I'm telling you.

[Drea Nicole]

And they have a lot of various different products you guys like. They have, like, the yummy watch, which is really good for if you about to get intimate with your man. If you're about to get intimate with your girl, because you can use it for both sexes. You can. Men can use it, women can use it, everybody can use it. And then they also have the body oils. I love the body slashes. They're good for all over your body. When you get out the shower, just make sure your skin is real damp. Put it on your skin and you going to be getting ready to be ate up.

[Lex P]

Bedroom boom. Bedroom boom. My B man shout out to her fancy box. I literally use all of their products, too.

[Drea Nicole]

I love her fantasy box. They also have everywhere the deodorant. Like I'm telling y', all, me and Lex are advocates for all of the products. And then when we meet people in person all the time, they always like, oh, y' all smell so good. I know it. We smell so good because we be using her fantasy box. Yeah, the box be clean. Get you some period.

[Lex P]

All right, get into this topic.

[Drea Nicole]

Are you horny or sad? Are you really using sex as a coping mechanism? Because some people really don't be sad.

[Lex P]

They just.

[Drea Nicole]

Well, no, my bad. They really don't be horny. They be sad.

[Lex P]

Yeah. Sometimes when I see people online, I'm always horny. 99% I'm horny. 1% of my. I'm not going to lie. I do be horny. Yeah. But I think it's because, like, you can know, like, you horny, you just want to fud yeah, but there's a difference between. You don't get online and be talking about, oh my God, I can't wait to go and kiss this down. Oh, I would love to suck some dick right now. Oh my so wet right now. I think a lot of times when people get on. Yeah, they do that. Yes. No way. I will pull up a tweet right.

[Drea Nicole]

Now if somebody saying my so wet right now.

[Lex P]

Oh no, no, no, no. I'm so horny and down.

[Drea Nicole]

That's me singing today.

[Lex P]

I'm okay. When you see somebody who is constantly tweeting and they're trying to get like the male gaze going, you need some attention because something is empty in here. I don't care what nobody says when you're being extremely horny online. To me, this is just my opinion. And you're always talking about how because like we have sex conversations on here, but we're doing it because we're having girl talk. Like we're talking with our homegirls. But if you're online talking about how good your coochie is, how wet it is, how deep your throat is, oh, I want to kiss somebody. Slob somebody down right now. It's something empty inside a little bit and it's something missing there. Cuz what are you doing?

[Drea Nicole]

Some dig. That's what's me saying. That's what they searching for.

[Lex P]

You might be right.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, I'm playing though, cuz I do. I agree with you. I feel like something is wrong with people who say that type. Like if all you do is sit online all day and talk about sex, something is seriously wrong.

[Lex P]

Unless you're right if you're not a sex worker. And then most of the time. Let me not say most of the time. I take that back. Please erase that. We've had two sex workers on the show. We had Ms. Be Nasty and we had Janice on here and they both told us how they started in the game and it wasn't no happy go lucky story. You know what I'm saying? So it's kind of like if you are chronically online now, some women. I'm not saying all women. And men too, because it's men too that be doing it. I'm not saying that you're. That you don't enjoy what you do if you do sex work. That's not what I'm saying. And even people who don't do sick work because honestly, it's worse if you don't do sex work because why are you talking about dick? And you ain't even.

[Drea Nicole]

I mean, I hear you. I personally feel like everybody that do sex work don't enjoy it. I don't really think everybody. No, I don't think everybody enjoys it. I think jobs are jobs.

[Lex P]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

No matter what industry it is. Like, sometimes you doing what you got to do. Like, you got ends to me. You got kids to feed. You got to take care of responsibilities. Like the responsibility. You got to take care of responsibilities. Like, life is hard. You got to do what you got to do. I don't think everybody that does it enjoys.

[Lex P]

Enjoys it.

[Drea Nicole]

But at the end of the day, I do think that the sad girl spiral is the thing because I think girls go through breakups and they go through things with their men, and then they result to posting a lot of sexual things online because they think, oh, it's gonna garner the attention of other men, and then it's gonna make this person who hurt my feelings feel like, oh, I missed out because she's getting attention from all of these other guys. Even if it's the wrong attention.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

I think sometimes people use sexual attention and sexual innuendos and all this stuff on the Internet in the wrong way. Just because you're getting attention from people, it doesn't mean that you're getting the right attention.

[Lex P]

Right.

[Drea Nicole]

But when you're going through. Which is why I agree with the initial statement of, like, you not horny. You just sad sometimes when you going through any attention make you feel good?

[Lex P]

Yeah, yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

It make you feel validated. It makes you feel like, okay, well, like, if this person don't want me, if I'm going through a breakup and he broke my heart, he hurt my feelings. He played me to the left. Because if I'm getting attention from all these other 10, 15, 20 men online, even women sometimes too, then I am desirable.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

I am still wanted. I am still validated. You ain't horny, though. You just sad and looking for validation. And I think a lot of the time when people are over, it really is some free codes out there. It ain't nothing wrong with it.

[Lex P]

Ain't nothing wrong with being not wrong with it. I was a free call in my dad.

[Drea Nicole]

Hey, everybody get a little freaky when it's time to be. It ain't nothing. Including Shay. Cuz she sat on the corner looking like she know what was going on. Everybody get a little freaky when it's time to be. But the point that I'm making is like, if that's what you feel like, you have to result to all the time to get attention and to be validated. I don't really feel like that's what you want and that's really your Persona or it's really something that, that is your identity. You just trying to code. Are you trying to find something that makes you feel better about yourself? Cuz like I said, you got people that's really freaky and that's what they like. Yeah, they're not doing it for identity reason. Or you have people what they're into.

[Lex P]

That's what I'm saying. And you have people who are just like, they love their body, they're into it and that, and they're doing it for them. These are not the people that we're talking about, you know what I'm saying? So I agree with you. It's like the hyper sexuality, if it's just coming from like, can somebody respond to this tweet? Like, can somebody like slide in my DMs? Can somebody, if I post this story, is somebody gonna respond to it? It's like, hey, what's going on? Yeah, what's going on?

[Drea Nicole]

But what do y' all feel about like people, like the healing era, right? So like, if you are gonna say that you're in your healing era, do y' all feel like you could still be having sex with other people or do you think that that's the time that you should be taking for yourself to be abstinent? Still a bit focusing on self. Because some people will try to say, oh, I'm healing, I'm getting over this relationship, but they're still out here being hypersexual.

[Lex P]

I think it depends what you're trying to heal from too. Because healing for everybody looks different. And I think that's the problem with everything nowadays. Everybody wants to make things linear. The way I heal isn't the way you heal. You know what I'm saying? So sometimes a girl can go get her, get her rocks off and she can go back and be normal. And not. Some girls can't do that or some men can't do that. Some men get distracted by the and but some men can go get some and they can still, hey, I gotta go to work, I gotta do this. Healing isn't linear.

[Drea Nicole]

Anything.

[Lex P]

Life isn't linear. So I think that it depends on the person. Person, you know what I'm saying? I think it depends on the person. Me personally, if I'm really healing, I'm really trying to, I, I, I can't get no dick in here. Yeah, dicking and healing and Healing. I don't want to see it.

[Drea Nicole]

That's what I was gonna say. Yeah.

[Lex P]

It don't work for me personally. Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

I. I don't think that it makes sense, like, to say that you're trying to get over somebody else, but you in a bed with somebody else that you don't want really have any real emotion and feelings for because you still have feelings for this other person that you're trying to detach yourself from. It just isn't. It's a recipe for a disaster, in my opinion. But I think it goes back to what we've talked about before. Like, not everybody is comfortable being alone or being by themselves. So like you said, they could be searching for that attention sexually from somebody else because they're used to. Maybe they've been in a relationship for a long time and now they're just looking for some way to cope with it. It. But I fully agree with everything Lex said. Like, it depends on the person, and it depends on what they're healing from. Because if I'm just talking to somebody and it wasn't really that deep. Maybe he couldn't good enough. Yeah, maybe I do want to go outside and jump on something else, you know, now that I'm free from that. But if I've been in a situation for so long and it's emotional and it's tiring, whatever coming out of that.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

I need some space for myself.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

Yep. So now it's time to get into the. Hey, the about, about, about, about, about.

[Lex P]

I don't even know why y' all playing with me right now. Y' all know my bop of the week. Cuz I. I went on a little quick. Little bay k real quick, you know, a little one, two. And you know what I was listening to the whole time? My man, my man, my man, my baby, my baby.

[Drea Nicole]

Dicking me down. Sp.

[Lex P]

And the girls are mad about the song, but I feel like it's a fun song. Listen, this is what you're supposed to do with it. I have to give instructions. Cause sometimes when you are a girl that's outside and then you got your man. And this is a song that you get drunk with your man with, and you turn up with him. Pop your pussy for your man. I was literally in the hotel room twerking. He was just in the bed like, go ahead, girl. And letting me dance. And I was popping that pussy for my man. Like, it's a fun song. It's not supposed to be Think pieces written about it. You supposed to listen this to with your man in the car. When you getting dressed, he's supposed to come behind you, grab you. You supposed to twerk on him a little bit. And y' all supposed to go to dinner. That's what lover girl is. And it's a. It's a fun song. And when I tell y', all, that's my theme right now. Okay? You and your lover girl for your man. Hey, pop that for your man, Y'.

[Drea Nicole]

All.

[Lex P]

Don't pop your. For y', all, man. That's why you said right now being hyper sexual online. But go ahead.

[Drea Nicole]

I feel like that was a good song. I like Birthday Girl by Huncho. Like all the girls, the fall birthday girls beating it up. They all been coming out, posting they birthday pictures, and they be putting the honcho birthday girl song on a pictures.

[Lex P]

And I'm like, okay, I like this now. I'm a little bit.

[Drea Nicole]

And I'm never sad that my birthday is not when I gotta wear a coat outside. But.

[Lex P]

What? All right.

[Drea Nicole]

Cause I'm not.

[Lex P]

I know.

[Drea Nicole]

I love having a spring birthday like you laughing. Cause you know, we've always said this. Imagine having to wear a coat on your birthday.

[Lex P]

They finna eat us up.

[Drea Nicole]

They gonna eat us up. Up again. They eat us up every year. It's okay. But at the end of the day, all the fall birthday girls been eating it up. I really do like this song. And I'm like, damn, my birthday way in April. This song gonna be all by the end.

[Lex P]

I know. And air time, too. Every time gonna be old by the time my birthday. But shout out to Huncho.

[Drea Nicole]

But shout out to Huncho.

[Lex P]

I don't give. I don't care what y' all have to say about Huncho. I love me some honcho. That's my dog.

[Drea Nicole]

And shout out to me.

[Lex P]

Yeah, shout out to me.

[Drea Nicole]

My man, my man, My man.

[Lex P]

My baby. My baby. Dicking me down.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay, you can like. Let's work it up.

[Lex P]

That for your man. Go ahead. Me. All right. Let's get into the pot. That pussy for your man.

[Drea Nicole]

What was this topic? You ain't horny. You just ate this girl.

[Ad Read / Commercial Voice]

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[Lex P]

Just following instructions. All right, it's time to get into Pour your heart out. If you want your question answered on the show, make sure you email us at Ask poor minds gmail dot com. If you're a Patreon member, make sure you put that in the headline. You could skip the line. And that's on period. Okay, you want me to go ahead? I'm gonna go yeah. Okay. Hey, Lex and Dre can't express in words how much I love y' all and how much I'm proud of you guys and your growth. I was wondering this though. As you grow more successful, do you think that the negative things that come with the world of money and power are worth it? Because from my observations, it seems like that world has a lot of soulless and empty people. I think I remember hearing Drea say that to a. To reach a certain level of success, a person would have to bend some of their morals. I'm curious to know what extent you think that goes for the majority. Thank you.

[Drea Nicole]

I don't really be worried about that because I feel like if you really locked in and rooted with who you are as a person, then you don't really let this industry affect you like that. I also have always been a person that I've said and you can go back to old episodes. Like, I personally feel like money just. Just amplifies who you already are. If you a shitty person and you not a good person, you don't have good character, you don't have morals, you don't stand for nothing. You don't know who you are, that's just going to be amplified when you get money. If you are a person who you are steadfast in, you know, your faith and your roots and your morals and your character and you know that you're not going to shift and you know that you can't shake and being when it come to certain stuff, you going to still be that person. You're going to give more. If you are already a giving person, you going to give more the more money that you have. I just think it amplifies whoever you are at your core. So me personally, I don't ever be worried about that because I can't be shaking like I'm just so me. And I don't really give a about like outside noise. So I don't really ever worry about that. If anything, sometimes I think that a lot of people in this industry do be having to sell they soul to get to where they want to get to. But I also think that it's ways to do things to where you don't have to. You don't necessarily have to do that. You just have to carve out your own lane, which that's what a lot of people don't want to do because that's the more difficult route people like to. A lot of people don't like to take the road. Let's travel. They want to do what's already been done. Me, I'm cool with being the first to do some, even if it's harder to do it because I don't have to compromise the things that I believe in to accomplish what I want to accomplish. So no. And then I don't be in a mix like that. I love staying grounded and rooted and hanging with my same people, friends, family, who I've been with, who I've been cool with since before I started getting money, since before poor mine started blowing up. I actually don't like being around people who are like industry people that I'm meeting as I'm getting more deeper in the space. So it's not really something I worry about cuz I'm headstrong, I know who I am.

[Lex P]

Yeah, I agree 1000%. I feel like everything she said was spot on. You know what the thing that bothers me more like as we grow, it's not even about the people that are already there. It's about the people that support us because I feel like those be the meaner people sometimes. Like damn. It's like I feel like if I evolve or I change my opinion or if even if I stay who I am, it's like it's. It gets very judgy and the oh well Lex said this or you used to be like this or you. So sometimes it's like I'm not worried about where I'm going because I this is in my, my path. But sometimes it's like y' all gotta grow with me or y' all gotta under. Y' all gotta understand me and I we a family. The poor crew is my family. Like we doing this together. So sometimes it'd be more so of like I'm not worried about them people because I got my circle, I'm solid.

[Drea Nicole]

If y' all talking about me in the comments and y' all got a whole bunch of negative to say about who I am now versus who I am five years ago. We actually is not family and you could really go that way. Yeah, like that's just how I feel about people. Like I. That's why it's not to say I don't care what people be saying in the comments, but I feel like the people who with us is going to naturally grow with us and it's just going to be that people who is saying negative. You don't really support me cuz you don't know me and you not okay with who I'm becoming. And if you're not okay with who I'M becoming. You're not really a person who really supports the vision and supports me as a person because you want me to stay in a box.

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

When people are ever evolving, you got to be okay with understanding it. Like, nobody is the person that they was three years ago, five years ago, 10 years ago. That's what I love about getting older, and that's what I love about meeting people that are younger than me, too, because meeting people who be, like, 21, 25, 27, 28, it reminds me of the versions of myself that I was at that age, too. And it's just so beautiful to witness because I know you're not even done growing. It's okay that, like, you might look at something this way, because when you get to 34, when you get to my age, you don't look at that from a whole different perspective. But people just be mean and weird, and I just be blocking people going by my business. I used to pour a lot of energy into that stuff, but now I just block people because how you lame, period.

[Lex P]

And she said what? She said, all right, y', all, this has been another episode.

[Drea Nicole]

But I said all this to say because they be pissing you off, and they be pissing me off.

[Lex P]

Well, no, I think, honestly, this week, it was just a lot with that viral clip that went viral, and I got a lot of just like, really nasty, mean messages. I was like, damn, bro. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, it's just. But I think people forget, like, I'm still a human. Was it from the nick? Is that can park a car or can't find a. I mean, that it was women.

[Drea Nicole]

It was a lot like, don't got a car.

[Lex P]

My inbox was really crazy. Like, my inbox. That's what it be. It'd be the. It don't be much. So, like, the comments, because I don't really read the comments no more. But it's like, you took your time to, like, message me this. Like, that's crazy. But like I said, I think sometimes we tend to forget. Like, yeah, I signed up to do this, but at the day, like, I'm still a human. Like, let me enjoy my job. Like, I'm here to make people feel good, and I'm still a human. You know what I'm saying? So I don't be worried about the people up there. And, like, cuz, like, I got my circle. Like, as long as I'm doing this with her and, you know, I got my. My. My core around me. My sister My family, my. These people, like, we. We good. But it's like I just be worried about, like, the people. It's like, damn, like you. If you've been watching since the beginning, you know, I play a lot. Why are you being so offended or acting like you don't know my personality? But I'm starting to understand, though, truly the people who understand me and the people who don't. But, you know, like I said, I'm still a human.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

What's up, y'?

[Drea Nicole]

All?

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

This is Big Loon from It's Up There podcast. In this powerful episode, we're breaking down the danger of silence and how way too many of us are taught to protect the vibe instead of protecting ourselves. We spend more time researching cars, microphones, sneakers than we will researching on how to protect our bodies and our partners. If you have an honest conversation, one uncomfortable minute can save you a lifetime of regret. The CDC says nearly one in five people carry an STI and most don't even know it. Real intimate isn't built in the dark. It's built in the disclosure. Condoms testing transparency. Those aren't passion killers. They're peace builders. It's too much risk in our silence. Speak up. You can listen to this special episode of It's Up There podcast with Lone, brought to you by Healthy Sexual from Gilead sciences on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. What a matchup we got, y'.

[Lex P]

All.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit chant, echo, drum beat, everybody showing that school pride. A game like this. Yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there.

[Drea Nicole]

Mmm.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

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[Lex P]

Hey audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir Night how to be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of each equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships. No band likes each other after 20 years or 25 years. The Beatles broke up in seven and a half years and we're going on 35.

[Lex P]

Listen to HearSay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. But it is what it is.

[Drea Nicole]

So yes, y', all, y' all know this is a Taylor Port Sponsored Episode so of course we have our Bottled up segment. Go ahead, Kyla, play the voicemail.

[Lex P]

The reason why AI is up the environment is because we're not supposed to know everything. We know. We, we are thinking too much with credit, trust, bond, finances, all that. That's not natural. We are animals. We are animals and they got us learning all this stuff. And the reason why all these college students are learning, are using AI is because there's too much pressure on them to remember and do all these tasks and assignments because this is not natural for the human brain, for the human body. And then humans made AI so that we can make life easier. And now we're making life easier because they made life hard. But now it's not natural for the earth, the most natural thing. And we're, we're up Earth because we want to do too much. We're doing too much. If we did a little bit less and maybe didn't expect everybody to know everything about everything and just all these weird crazy concepts, then we'll be able to save Earth worth because we wouldn't have to use AI because everything is stupid and dumb. Oh, hey, bears never had to pay rent. You need to learn about stocks and bonds and finances. Hey, I don't give a them go, go in the woods, go to the river and dig you up a fish and eat it raw. Then, yeah, I gotta learn about them finances, bruh. I agree. She lost me early.

[Drea Nicole]

She lost me very early too, because I'm just like, girl, what? Like, if anything, everybody loves AI because it's making our lives easier. Like, AI has actually been something that has added to the pot. Like, if I had AI when I was in college, you know how many tests I wouldn't have failed?

[Lex P]

Yeah.

[Drea Nicole]

But I also, I do think it's making people a little stupider. I do think that, however, though, I just think the way that she was conceptualizing it in the way she was talking about it, that just don't make sense to me. Like. No, Cece, you need to learn about a lot of the things that you were talking about. Stocks and bonds and finances. We need to learn about our history, basic math. We need to know these things.

[Lex P]

You got to know, baby, this ain't, this ain't Dorothy and click your heels and you do whatever you want and. No, we got to learn something. That's our problem now.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah.

[Lex P]

And now I will say, like college, getting through college. I don't want no doctor operator who got through with AI So I hope that the testing is still the same how we went through college, it wasn't no, AI. You had to know. So I do agree with you on that point, but I think we are losing the plot. Education is very important. I understand what she's saying. I don't think maybe she worded it correctly, though. But everything does matter, and we actually need to educate ourselves more and know more. So education is very important, and it does matter. And we do need to know about finances. We do need to know about stocks. We do need to know about bonds, because that's how a lot of these other races got ahead of us, because they were just hoping that we wouldn't find out about it. So we gonna continue to educate ourselves, and that's on. Period. So y' all know we always have an item of the week, and this item of the week is a super cute gift. Shay, bring it on to me. Draya, what we got?

[Drea Nicole]

We have some floral boxes, some floral arrangements from Mama Soul. It's M O M A S O L L. And this is my girl. I met her. She actually works at. Well, I don't know if I should say where she works.

[Lex P]

Yeah, yeah, actually.

[Drea Nicole]

But I met her at one of the restaurants that I frequent out here in Atlanta all the time. And she was telling me how she has this business that she's building, this floral business. And I'm like, oh, yeah, girl. Like, I love floral arrangements. Me and L. So she was like, I'm gonna give y' all some boxes. Boxes. And I thought they were super cute because, I mean, you know, they come in the acrylic boxes. It's something that different. That's different. I don't feel like everybody does these. So I told her I would shout her out on the show, so. Yes.

[Lex P]

Well, thank you so much. I think these are so gorgeous. A good little display, little nice decoration in your home. So make sure. You know, we're gonna put the information in the description box. So if you want a little arrangement, get something to your boo for. For Christmas. Valentine's Day coming up pretty soon. Birthdays, holidays, Easter, whatever you want.

[Drea Nicole]

Your granddaddy. Hey, your grandmama, grandmama and granddaddy.

[Lex P]

This is your granddaddy.

[Drea Nicole]

Have you ever heard that song?

[Lex P]

This is your granddaddy. No.

[Drea Nicole]

Shay put me on this song by Casey and Jojo.

[Lex P]

We gonna listen to it. All right, y'.

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[Lex P]

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[Drea Nicole]

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[Lex P]

Oh, we love that.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh yeah.

[Lex P]

And y' all make sure y' all tune in to love Lex P every Monday. The lovebirds are growing. We be having a ball. Thank y' all so much for the support. So if you need your weekly recap of everything that's going on, make sure y' all tune in to love Lexp every Monday at 10am and we'll see y' all next week, y'. All. Bye. Oh yeah I'm so horny baby come on search me baby oh baby, yeah sing it girl oh nah nah nah nah I'm so horny and I want you to se me I'm singing it.

[Drea Nicole]

With me oh nah nah nah nah.

[Lex P]

I'm so horny and I want you to fudge me I'm tired of it.

[Drea Nicole]

I hope you ready for love com.

[Lex P]

Bust a beautiful nut all on me now I'm just sitting in my lingerie.

[Drea Nicole]

Sipping on some alize trying to figure.

[Lex P]

Out all the ways I can make it say ooh baby right there don't stop put it in your mouth swell it round now I'm gonna make you sweat when you go down in my between my legs you gonna be fantasizing.

[Drea Nicole]

About these lovely thighs it's gonna be.

[Lex P]

Hypnotizing won't you come on and see? Oh nah nah nah nah I'm so horny and I want you to me.

[Drea Nicole]

I got a question real quick try.

[Lex P]

To masturbate and got my body shake no orgasm fake it with me I'm.

[Drea Nicole]

Going to make it.

[Lex P]

I'm so funny and I want you to find me I hope you're ready for love not.

[Drea Nicole]

Answering my question is crazy come bust.

[Lex P]

A beautiful that I see your l smiling and grinning like they want something up there and I wanted to ask you for some but didn't want to offend but now I see y freaky as me I busted two nuts already now you waiting for numbers three ask me what would it take to get.

[Drea Nicole]

Me hard again I say saliva but.

[Lex P]

See you ain't down for swallowing you.

[Drea Nicole]

Rather have it on your skin you.

[Lex P]

Want to rub it in move your tongue like that once more girl I'm about to nut again your friends why I call every day and why your face is so clean just tell them all of all that but girl you can do miles lay on your side lay on Your leg. Let me see that beautiful smile.

[Drea Nicole]

Oh, yeah.

[Lex P]

I'mma put it all in there when you relax. But then you ask me to pull your hair and I do it. You'll scream but the nut won't last. Cause right before you know it splash.

[Drea Nicole]

Inside a mess. I'm bake it with me.

[Lex P]

Make that nut splash. I'mma bake that beautiful nut. Roll that beautiful nut footage, baby. Hey, hey, not on my face. Make it real nasty, baby.

[Drea Nicole]

Beautiful night footage is crazy.

[Lex P]

That's what she said. Combust that beautiful nut out on me. I said that? Hey, I got something to say. Bust that beautiful nut on me. I bust that beautiful nut on me. I like you when you nut. They call me Alvin the Chipmunk.

[Drea Nicole]

Hey, I like that big nut.

[Lex P]

They call me Alvin the Chipmunk.

[Drea Nicole]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lex P]

Give it to him. Give it to him, Dre.

[Drea Nicole]

Okay, I'm done. My knees work, but not for that long.

[Lex P]

Ah.

[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

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[Lex P]

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[Lex P]

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[Big Lone / Podcast Promo Voice]

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[Drea Nicole]

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[Lex P]

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[Drea Nicole]

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