DY-NO-MITE!

Summary

The Friend Zone – Episode: "DY-NO-MITE!" (April 29, 2026)

With Hosts: Dustin Ross, Hey Fran Hey (Francesca), and Asante
Main Theme: A lively round-up of trending "Hot Topics" in culture, politics, music, and wellness—with an emphasis on mental health, real talk, and signature irreverent humor.

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1. Episode Overview

This episode is a classic "Hot Topics" edition, with Dustin leading the way through recent pop culture, current events, mess, and mayhem. The crew balances sharp, often hilarious commentary on political theater, celebrity relationships and breakups, internet moments, new music, and the little pleasures of online shopping. Mental health, judgment, and well-being remain underlying threads tying the episode together.

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2. Key Discussion Points and Insights

A. The White House 'Ballroom Emergency' Farce

[01:24–08:39]

• Dustin (with support from Fran & Asante) delivers a scathing, comedic breakdown of a staged White House "security emergency"—alleging political theater to push for unnecessary renovations.
• Critiques the lack of authenticity: “Y’all gonna have to tighten that up … that don’t make me feel like it’s an emergency.” (Dustin, 03:00)
• Satire on the movement: “All y’all did was stick your arms out and hold your earpiece. … You need to … put on some extra large sweatpants and a midriff top and get in the booth, bitch.” (Dustin, 03:11)
• Links to bigger issues of extremism and fascism.
• Dustin (about MAGA influencers): “We all know it’s coordinated. … They all tweeted at the same time. So obviously this was a play.” (Dustin, 05:02)

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B. Black Business of the Week: Howard Family Bookstore

[13:28–16:06]

• Dustin highlights Detroit’s Howard Family Bookstore: “A community bookstore that’s rooted in purpose … books, coffee, tea, where you can read, think, connect, and feel at home.” (Dustin, 15:10)
• Encourages supporting Black-owned literacy ventures.

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C. Community Recap: Listener Feedback on 'Caterpillar' Documentary

[16:12–26:19]

• Reviews powerful listener responses to the Netflix doc on radical body modification and insecurity.
• Quote from listener: “She will never be happy by changing her physical appearance until she heals her inner self.” (Asante, 16:58)
• Fran draws a link to Toni Morrison’s "The Bluest Eye" and the ongoing impact of colorism and self-hate.

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D. Hot Topics Lightning Round

[32:09–78:08]

1. Michael Jackson Biopic (“Michael”)

• Fran loved it, thought the casting (especially Jafaar Jackson) was excellent and fun, despite critic reviews. Dustin: “The movie is the number one movie in the world…$217.4 million global opening.” (Dustin, 35:28)
• Light-hearted takes: Nia Long as Katherine Jackson, Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson (“Did Joe Jackson have light eyes? … Jade said motherfucker, he did!” Fran, 37:04–37:15)*

2. Megan Thee Stallion & Klay Thompson Breakup

• In-depth, emotional conversation:
  • Megan’s IG story confirms cheating; group discusses the double standard in relationship scandals.
  • Dustin: “I respect people who break the fuck up when shit ain’t right.” (Dustin, 42:27)
  • Asante gives a fan’s perspective: “Megan is someone that just wants to work and be happy… I hope she takes the time to work on herself.”
  • Megan cuts short her "Moulin Rouge" Broadway run: “Too much for her right now… the personal can bleed into professional.” (Dustin, 58:22)

3. Internet Pile-on: Amber Rose & Stephen A. Smith

• Amber Rose posts “I can't keep a man either”—crew reads her for MAGA-ness, bad vibes, and “looking like your house stinks.” (Dustin, 51:36)
• Stephen A. Smith criticizes Megan, says Klay “doesn’t deserve that [public shaming], he’s a great NBA player.” Dustin: “You’re embarrassing your daughter! … You look like the Shell gas station symbol turned upside down.” (Dustin, 54:46 ff)

4. Trick Daddy’s ‘Ass-Eating Boundaries’

• Trick Daddy declares he’ll only perform anilingus on “slim, natural-bodied women.” Dustin: “He literally looks like he stinks … the nerve of him to have a boundary.” (Dustin, 68:46)

5. "DY-NO-MITE!" Story: Dynamite Revenge

• Long Island woman, Kiana Waddell, throws dynamite at her sleeping boyfriend and gets convicted.
• Dustin: “Who was her boyfriend, Wile E. Coyote?” (Dustin, 74:09)
• The group riff on Looney Tunes mayhem and relationship rage.

6. Melania Trump vs. Jimmy Kimmel

• Melania calls for Kimmel’s firing after a widow joke; hosts roast Melania’s hypocrisy, Donald's racism, and her lack of impact: “She can’t even spell ABC.” (Dustin, 82:57)

7. Candace Owens Left Hanging

• Trump posts racist memes about Candace Owens; Funky Dineva says—leave her out in the cold.
• “She has no community to turn to. The whites are turning on her faster than milk spoils.” (Funky Dineva via Dustin, 88:05)

8. Jim Jones vs. Lowe’s

• Jim Jones complains about customer service on IG; crew unmoved.
• Dustin: “I don’t give a fuck about Jim Jones having a customer service issue anywhere, let alone at Lowe’s.” (Dustin, 92:19)

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E. Wellness Corner: What’s in Your Online Cart?

[98:04–126:12]

• Fran muses on keeping online shopping carts filled but unpurchased; Dustin & Asante join her in listing current obsessions: home decor, sneakers, car accessories, silk pillowcases, and skin/haircare products.
• Fran: “I wanted to be nosy and see what was in y’all’s carts.” (Francesca, 124:58)

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F. Music Man: New Releases & What We’re Listening To

[126:44–161:10]

• Big up to Kehlani's new self-titled album; Fran loves the Brandy collab “I Need You.”
  • Dustin: “The sequencing on this album is great.”
• Doechii and Lady Gaga’s "Runway" (for the Devil Wears Prada movie) gets praise for creativity.
• Love for Infinity Song, and especially Momo Boyd's solo ventures.
• “Spin That” by Young Miami gets played; group celebrates her energy.

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G. TV Preview

[161:10–167:44]

• "Real Housewives of Atlanta": Pinky Cole’s bankruptcy storyline and supportive husband highlighted as a model of Black love and vulnerability.
• "Euphoria" (Season 3) confusion: the show has shifted tone, and the hosts express mixed feelings.
• "Real Housewives of Rhode Island" and more on Patreon.
• Shout-outs and an open invite to the Friend Zone’s Patreon community.

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3. Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On the White House's Emergency Theater:
  “Most white people can’t dance, right? … Y’all need to literally go to Millennium Dance Studio in Los Angeles … and get in the booth, bitch.” (Dustin, 03:11)
• On Amber Rose:
  “You really want to be a white girl. That’s your problem.” (Dustin, 52:05)
• On Jim Jones at Lowe’s:
  “Buy your paint and get the fuck up out of there.” (Dustin, 92:19)
• On Candace Owens:
  “Leave her out there alone in the cold to suffer all the social repercussions of her self-hate.” (Funky Dineva via Dustin, 88:05)
• On Relationships:
  “I respect the people who are willing to go through PT–RD, post-traumatic relationship disorder, instead of going through that.” (Dustin, 42:27)
• On Megan Thee Stallion:
  “Megan’s still Gonna come out a badder bitch ... we gonna be right here waiting for you.” (Asante, 60:04)

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4. Notable Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Section | Description | |---------------|-------------|----------------| | 01:24–08:39 | Opening Rant | Dustin’s “Ballroom Emergency” breakdown & political theater satire | | 13:28–16:06 | Black Business | Howard Family Bookstore Spotlight | | 16:12–26:19 | Community Recap | Listener responses to “Caterpillar” doc | | 32:09–78:08 | Hot Topics | Full news & entertainment round-up | | 42:27 | Megan breakup | “I respect people who break the fuck up …” | | 58:22 | Megan on Broadway | Stepping away from Moulin Rouge | | 74:09 | Dynamite story | “Who was her boyfriend, Wile E. Coyote?” | | 98:04–126:12 | Wellness Segment | The open online shopping carts confession | | 126:44–161:10 | Music Segment | Kehlani, Doechii, Infinity Song, Ray J, and more | | 161:10–167:44 | TV Segment | Real Housewives of Atlanta & Euphoria | | 167:44–end | Final Plugs/Outro | Patreon wind down & gratitude |

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5. Conclusion & Takeaways

This episode delivers everything longtime listeners love about The Friend Zone: biting social commentary, layered pop culture analysis, and inside jokes, all while centering Black wellness, mental health, and community support.
Special energy moments: The roasting of political performance art, heartfelt reactions to Megan Thee Stallion's public heartbreak, and the gleeful group giggles over Looney Tunes-level relationship drama.
Core message: "Judge harshly when necessary, shop joyfully, and let haters and grifters sleep in the beds they make."
Final words:
"Thank you for hanging with us yet another week. Stay black and protect your magic." (Francesca & Asante, 168:38)

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The Friend Zone – "DY-NO-MITE!"

A must-listen for real talk, community, and culture—with plenty of wild laughs and insight in every segment.

Transcript

[Asante]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Asante]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Asante]

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[Francesca]

I'm Francesca, also known as. Hey, friend.

[Asante]

Hey. My name is Asante.

[Dustin Ross]

This is the friend Zone.

[Francesca]

I'd say I'm surprised, but I know who you are.

[Dustin Ross]

Yep.

[Francesca]

I can go to so many people.

[Dustin Ross]

Well, this is going to go towards the uncoordinated. Oh, two left feet having horrible at their job. Low iq, individual stunting people and actors that pulled off this, that, that, that horrible theater, okay. That trashed her piece theater, okay. At the White House talking about what they said happened, which we all know what I'm talking about. And we all know that it was a big crock of shit. That's what that was. Everything from the delayed reactions to the multiple camera angles showing people visibly in another place mentally. Hand signals being given. Oh, my God, stop smirks. There's even a, there's even a shot of the portly one in the White House, right? Looking like Pennywise in the shadows, hiding behind. Did you see that shot where he was behind the curtains of the event doing like this while all the shit was.

[Francesca]

What? No.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. Looking like Pennywise back there and built like Pennywise in the thighs. But I also, that y' all got to do better the actors I'm talking about because y' all use them same sons of a bitches from Butler, Pennsylvania when that situation happened, right? And we already know that as a whole, right? When you're looking at, when you like, zoom out. Most white people can't dance, right? And they're, they're, they're not coordinated rhythm rhythmically, right? So when it comes to blocking, you know, and. And.

[Asante]

And.

[Francesca]

And more rehearsal.

[Dustin Ross]

Y' all gonna have to tighten that up because I don't know why y' all think this communicates or messages. Emergency. All y' all did was stick your arms out and hold your earpiece. That's the. That's the move. You hold your earpiece with one arm. So hold your other arm out like this and look around like something's going on. That don't. That don't make me feel like it's an emergency. You didn't think so. So I just want y' all to do better. Y' all need to literally go to Millennium Dance Studio in Los Angeles, okay? And put on some extra large sweatpants and a midriff top, okay? And get in the booth, bitch. That's what y' all need to do. Y' all got to. Y' all got to learn some or Jordan ones. Y' all got to learn movies.

[Asante]

Dunks. Dunks.

[Francesca]

Nothing.

[Dustin Ross]

Panda dunks. Y' all need to do that. Y' all need to take ballet, okay? Y' all need to do jazz, okay? Y' all need to learn movement. Hell, y' all need to go to a black church and do praise dancing because they look like they going through it more than y' all do. You know what I'm saying? I. I just. I want you to do. I don't want you to do it at all. But if you go and do it, at least do better because this was so insulting, right? Mind you, we all know the bigger play here. We know that a federal judge blocked any further construction or destruction, as I like to call it, of the east wing for this ballroom, saying that it was illegal for him to move forward with the construction anyway without congressional approval. Of course, he figures out. And they said unless it was a safety concern, right? He says, hold my beer. Well, in his case, hold my insurer, right? So they literally, miraculously, over the next couple of days, now we have a security emergency at the White House. And then like clockwork, minutes afterward, they. All the MAGA influencers were tweeting, we need the ballroom now, now, now. And it was like multiple accounts. People compile graphics that had all these MAGA accounts that tweeted the same thing at the same time. And we all know that this other MAGA influencer had just went viral a couple weeks ago, or X MAGA had just went viral for saying that, yes, they're all paid. It's all coordinated. They get a group message, hey, text this right now, or whatever, and they get paid to do it. And they all tweeted at the same time. So obviously this was a play. He's already. He did an interview on 60 Minutes the next day, miraculously right. The ain't shit half ass, wet wipe ass cabinet members that he has have all been going on the news and the media outlets slurred speech saying, this is why we need the ballroom. We would be more secure in the ballroom. Mind you, there's countless accounts, right, of people who were baffled by the lack of security that night at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Simone Desanders being one of them. Several people said they just walked up in the motherfucker, you know what I'm saying? Mind you, the alleged person that did it had all this artillery and all these weapons. How the fuck do you even get on the property with those weapons? So I just want to say this is horrible. It needs razzies.

[Asante]

We need to.

[Dustin Ross]

You know what I'm saying? Like, this is.

[Francesca]

This is a horrible rotten tomato.

[Dustin Ross]

Rotten fucking tomatoes. Which is what you bastards are built like anyway. Rotten tomatoes. So I just want to say it was awful. And we see it for exactly what it is. And it was horrible. And that ballroom. And I saw a tweet that really was interesting to me. Somebody said, okay, well, since the ballroom, the White House needs a ballroom to stop alleged shootings or whatever. Then we gonna put ballrooms in all the elementary schools and high schools are in the country.

[Francesca]

Oh my God. Since a ballroom, what is it with this fucking ballroom?

[Dustin Ross]

But if I didn't plan on leaving somewhere, I'd be trying to fix it up too. That's all I'm gonna say.

[Francesca]

Fair.

[Dustin Ross]

So.

[Francesca]

But a ballroom, it's like, what are we talking about?

[Dustin Ross]

He gotta fit in it. Them always is old at the White House. He might be struggling, you know what I'm saying? Getting abrasions and scratched up on the waist and hips from moving through the White House like that. So maybe the do need a balls room. I don't know.

[Francesca]

I just can't believe they're still leaning on these tactics. It just feels so tired, so old. It's not even like you said, well constructed. Like, it's hard not to judge the people that you see. Right? Right. Taking this seriously because it's like really judge them. You don't see through that.

[Dustin Ross]

This is when it's okay to be judgmental and mean because this behavior is reprehensible, it's abhorrent. And anybody that aligns himself with that shit ain't right. This is bigger than just at this point yeah.

[Francesca]

At all points. Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

It's bigger than just having a difference of opinion or a different political view. This is far beyond having a conservative opinion, which is okay too. Not my motherfucking opinion and fuck you. But it's okay for you to have it, right? This is extremism.

[Francesca]

Right? This is life or death.

[Dustin Ross]

This. This is extremism. This is fascism. This is a whole lot of other isms, okay? And so I'm not even gonna go there right now. But I just wanted to let the know that we see you for exactly what it is. And you're horrible actors. You've all failed improv, if you even took any.

[Francesca]

Erica, Kirk.

[Dustin Ross]

Oh my God. I just wanna go home. We want you to go home. I don't ever want to see your ass again anyway. You Tony the Tiger face ass. She doesn't look like they're great. That's what she looked like in the face. Yeah, she looks like a tiger with that massive cranium. Oh. All them crying in them tiny from escape eyes. You know what I'm saying? Like that's.

[Asante]

I'm.

[Dustin Ross]

I'm sick her man. Then did you see all the rest of them drunk, stealing all the liquor as the was going down.

[Francesca]

What?

[Dustin Ross]

Video of all the attendees grabbing double fisted, grabbing wine bottles and liquor bottles off the table. Pete has guest back there. Face all swollen red jaws. Why? Alcoholism just jumping out his body laughing while all this is going on. The other guy from what's the fighting shit, UFC or whatever. One of the guys from there, that. That is a quarter Dana. He walked out talking about. I gotta tell you, it was incredible to witness or some shit. He enjoyed watching it. It was a show. Yeah, it was a show.

[Francesca]

Reality tv.

[Dustin Ross]

So wow. Let that be said. And with that being said and most importantly, understood. Welcome to the friend zone. You're weakly looking. All things mental health. Mental wellness and that ballroom. Okay. Because who in the hell wants him to be president anyway? Hey, friend. Hey, Asante, how you doing?

[Francesca]

Hell yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

My driving friends.

[Francesca]

Hey. Right. We were talking.

[Dustin Ross]

That's what I'm starting to call y'. All. Car keys. What's going on? Proof of insurance. What's going on?

[Asante]

Side note.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah.

[Asante]

Not only is insurance crazy, vehicle tax

[Francesca]

is crazy, all of it is crazy.

[Dustin Ross]

Personal attack. Don't it? It's like damn, why y' all with me?

[Francesca]

Don't. But everyone told me don't be loyal to the insurance companies. Just bounce around. I guess that's a smart thing to do.

[Dustin Ross]

No.

[Asante]

No insurance. I can play that game. It's the vehicle tax game. I don't like playing. So, like, when you buying a car, you really got to just know where that down payment is going. I was very blessed. You know, I looked at those numbers, I said, hey, take some of these things off. Because I did some of this online. Like, I was able to really get. I was able to do my deal the way that I wanted. So when I was looking at the new deals, whenever I was. I was just like, girl, y' all not gonna give me what I want, then what am I even doing here? Which led them to. I. I was at their mercy. So it just. It was such a great game to play because, like, y' all want me so y' all can get more money from me. But I'm only going to give you so much, so we're going to play this game together.

[Francesca]

But you've been in your car bag. Okay?

[Asante]

I'm telling you, I re. When I have been a reading rabbit, I don't know if it's because, you know, Brandy's face had just been sending me through this new face of being a car person, but I'm just loving it. I'm loving. Oh, yes, everybody, if y' all are on Patreon, you already got it. But for those up out there listening, so good. We all have started reading Faces thanks to friend. It's Brandy's memoir.

[Francesca]

That's good.

[Dustin Ross]

That's how I was looking at Kim Kardashian when she saw them credit card charges. You know, Kim Kardashian them stole all that money from her credit card.

[Francesca]

You know what?

[Asante]

That's what.

[Dustin Ross]

That's where that sample. That's where that came from when she saw that deal. That's where that sample came from.

[Asante]

My God. Yes. Brandi's Faces. We're covering it over on Patreon. If you're wondering what our Patreon covers, patreon.com friendzone podcast is where you can watch us if you want to see us or just continue to listen to us commercial free. You're able to plug the podcast into some of your favorite platforms. And we also have other shows, one of them being the Situation, which is where we're covering Brandy, and the other one being the Binge, which is where we're covering through a Housewives of Beverly Hills. For more information on that Patreon.

[Dustin Ross]

Oh, Rhode Island.

[Asante]

Sorry, sorry.

[Francesca]

Wrong white women.

[Asante]

I literally said not Orange County. Look, Sutton Brown. Anyway. Yes.

[Dustin Ross]

Who you think Housewife is?

[Francesca]

Oh, no, no, no.

[Asante]

So for patreon.com podcast also, because we're talking about this. And the reason that we're plugging this is because guess what? It is the last Wednesday of the month and that's that we're going live Wednesday. Wind down tonight, 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time. If you are listening to this show the day that it is released, 8pm Eastern Standard Time. The Friend Zone podcast on patreon.com the FriendZone podcast. So you can get that link and join us the chat. We can't wait to play with y' all and with y'. All. And thank y'.

[Dustin Ross]

All.

[Asante]

Thank you to everybody. Whether you make it to the wind down or not, we have it available for you as the rewind. So fun things for everybody over there.

[Francesca]

Absolutely. Let's jump into this week's show. Dustin Ross, you have a black business you'd like to highlight?

[Dustin Ross]

I sure do, y'. All. And this one is special because it's from my hometown. It's from Michigan. Detroit, Michigan. Shout out to Brandi, the millennial manager, if y' all don't follow her on Instagram. I don't know what you doing, but you need to follow her. Her corporate takes are original and sensational. You know what I'm saying? And shout out to her. But she had taken her son to get books at this bookstore in Detroit, Michigan, called the Howard Family Bookstore. And that's our black business of the week this week. So shout out to Brand, millennial manager, for the heads up on that. But the Howard Family Bookstore, that is their name on Instagram. You can just go to Howard Family Bookstore. It is rebuilt with purpose, books and culture. A gentleman in Detroit, Michigan, created a local bookstore. He noticed, he noticed that the neighborhood was lacking in literacy options. Right. And he felt like this was something important for him to put in the hood. And that's exactly what he did. So it's a black owned bookstore called the Howard Family Bookstore. You can go to howardfamilybookstore.com and get all the information you want. It's located at 13,803Puritan in Detroit, Michigan. And the Howard Family Bookstore offers books, coffee and tea in an environment where you can read, think, connect, and feel at home. It says, whether you're here to learn something new or simply slow down, this space was created with you in mind. They have incredible merch. Okay.

[Asante]

Incredible merch.

[Dustin Ross]

Speaking to the things that need to be spoken to. Okay.

[Francesca]

Love it.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay.

[Francesca]

I like that one. But yeah, literally, yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

So, yes. So you can go there again. This is the Howard Family Bookstore. And this was purchased by Jwan Howard. If he was a native son of that neighborhood. And he reimagined an abandoned building, an abandoned building that has set vacant for over 25 years. And he turned it into, into a community bookstore that's rooted in purpose. Where you can get some coffee too. So Howard Family Bookstore.

[Asante]

Bookstore.

[Francesca]

Right. I love that. I love all the bookstores we've been

[Dustin Ross]

shouting out to get your kids. If you are in Detroit, go fuck with the Howard Family Bookstore. Support this. Pour into it. Buy books, send your friends, take your kids. Make it a event. Make it a Saturday event for your children. Let them pick out their own damn books. Just go buy them there. So shout out to the Howard Family Bookstore. That's the black business of the week.

[Francesca]

Perfect. You kill me.

[Dustin Ross]

You know I love Spanish.

[Francesca]

Let's jump into the recap segment. Last week's episode titled Que Sera Sera. We talked about Caterpillar on Netflix. Caterpillar is a documentary that followed David, a 50 year old man from Miami. Dustin, I will fight you on a journey to India. Non FDA approved surgery to permanently change his eye color. Directed by Eliza Mandela, the documentary explores themes of colorism, transphobia, self image, insecurity and the desperate need to be seen. Those of you listening had a lot to say. You know what, who stood out to you? Asante?

[Asante]

A lot of people stood out to me. Shout out to everybody in the Spotify comments. Shout out to Bri. First and foremost. Bree's comment reads, I love the catamaran Caterpillar movie on Netflix. Glad you guys discussed this. The algorithm kept suggesting it to me and I finally caved in. I liked when one of the patients was going to like a spiritual guide in India and the woman basically told her she will never be happy by changing her physical appearance until she heals her inner self. Yeah, that was just. It was such a small moment in the film, but it was such a major moment. So I'm glad that somebody else caught it because I remember watching that part and being like, girl, like if it ain't been said to you before and you hear all the way here and she is telling you this, this should be like. You know when people are like, I need signs. Like, girl, this is a sign. Speaking of signs, there was another comment I wanted to read. It was first, let me shout out to K Bub. K Bub's comment reads, omg Dustin, I too pronounce Nicole Scherzinger's last name as Worcestershire. Worcestershire, my God, yes. Worcestershire, my God today. Lol. I needed that laugh. A whale from the belly, from the sternum. That's for the OG List from the sternum.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay. Yes. See? Yes. Thank you.

[Asante]

Another comment I wanted to share was at Tiger no biting. It's still in Spotify. The comment reads, I almost got Lasik, but I noticed that the doctors who were performing the surgery and the doctor doing my exams wore glasses.

[Francesca]

Hello.

[Asante]

That was enough for me to not go through with it.

[Francesca]

Always wondered that, Fran.

[Asante]

It's so funny because a.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay. I don't know why that's taking me out, but that is taking me out. This motherfucker.

[Francesca]

Okay.

[Asante]

That's every. All y' all got glasses up in this. Like, y' all ain't. Y' all ain't got enough eyesight to do with y'. All. Oh, okay. So I'm gonna do it, but y' all want me to do it. Oh, no.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay.

[Asante]

It's so funny because that's always how I felt. I've always felt about Lasik. I've met people that have gotten in there, like, oh, don't get it. Or I've gotten it a couple of times because it didn't work. And I've been like, why do you keep. Keep getting it? But when we were watching the documentary, this also spoke to me when we were talking about that girl who was talking to the damn person giving her the exam, and he was like, you know, he wouldn't get in. She was like, oh, you know, if you had a daughter. Like, no, I wouldn't have my daughter doing. Or like, I don't have a daughter. Like, he wouldn't even answer the question because he knew he wouldn't get that. So it was just so.

[Dustin Ross]

I mean, how many times ways. How many. How many different ways do I have to tell you that the shirt is red? You know what I'm saying? Like, that.

[Francesca]

This is dumb.

[Dustin Ross]

Hello. Like, what the girl.

[Asante]

The last comment I want to share because, like, these bitches were so crazy on that documentary yesterday, but it just really spoke to how deep of, you know, whatever change they felt like was this was going to bring them anyway. Last comment is five dot. Rachel, this comment reads, I need to watch this doc, but I've always thought that people needed to get a psych eval before some of these extreme surgeries.

[Dustin Ross]

For example, wait a minute now. For example, a tale conservatism shit.

[Asante]

For example, a tale of two surgeries. My girl Kelly Rowland wanted to enhance her breasts, so she just went to a B cup. Based on her body frame. Seems okay to me. But when these people get Jumbotron tatas and booty on a small body, someone needs to step in with an eval. Side note, lol. But I'mma leave Dolly Parton out as an outlier because she be roasting herself

[Dustin Ross]

so she can do whatever. Thank you. Leave Dolly Parton, whoever that is, is messy and I love you.

[Asante]

They're messy but fair. And I like it. I really appreciate it. Appreciate it. So shout out to you.

[Dustin Ross]

What was their name? Asante. We need a proper shout out.

[Asante]

Look. 5 Rachel Rachel. Fy f I y f I y e dot Rachel.

[Dustin Ross]

5 Rachel. You are something else. Okay, you're 5 Rachel. You have to say like biracial.

[Asante]

You know what? They might even like that even more. Anyway, friend, what did you find out there in those streets?

[Francesca]

So Robert Randolph in the Patreon or the gated community said, this is why Toni Morrison's the Blue Bluest Eye still matters. And you know what, Robert, let me tell you something. I had that in my notes. And then I felt guilty cause I said, let me not bring Toni Morris.

[Asante]

Somebody else said that in the Spotify comments too.

[Dustin Ross]

She'll cut you out in heaven and get up there. I heard what you said.

[Francesca]

Even though this is literally what the book is about. But I don't know, she just seemed too elevated to be putting her into

[Dustin Ross]

with caterpillars, you know what I'm saying?

[Francesca]

I don't know, maybe it's just me. Anthony said, my trauma based body modification story, you're gonna love this one. Asante is kind of interesting. Back when I was in college, about five years ago, I had this brief stint of trying to make myself forget about a really bad breakup. So I threw myself into my hobby, which was tech. And long story short, I ended up going to Vegas to a tech convention based on ethical hacking. And I saw Booth doing plants. Okay, I saw a Booth doing implants. And I ended up getting an NFC chip implanted in my hand. NFC is the tech that allows. Allows you to use like key cards on a badge system. I have it programmed to copy the key fob to get in my building. It freaks people out sometimes, but it's still really interesting.

[Asante]

It is very interesting.

[Dustin Ross]

You know what?

[Francesca]

He can program all his fobs to this chip.

[Dustin Ross]

That's a good safety thing, right?

[Asante]

That's actually because nobody can take it from you. And you can always go make it home and stuff.

[Dustin Ross]

Like out of like if somebody's trying

[Francesca]

to rob you, means you hard.

[Dustin Ross]

Somebody's trying to rob you, it's in here. You know what I'm saying? You start opening Doors opening doors and shoot your hand, them gonna jet like, hell, no. This is a superhero. Like, you know what I'm saying? So that's a good. Yeah, I like that. Now that. Now that I think about it, you

[Asante]

know, it's so funny because I have seen put chips in, like, you know, their nails and shit, and I've just thought, like, this is.

[Dustin Ross]

This is random, but, like, hurt.

[Asante]

No, no, no, no.

[Dustin Ross]

Like.

[Asante]

Like on there, you know, on top of the nail. Like, yeah, like, literally. And so, like, I watched the girl, she was, like, tapping her nail, like, at the store and shit.

[Dustin Ross]

I was like, oh, that's cute.

[Asante]

But, like, in your skin is where you lose me. It's like. Like, I don't know what it looked like. I don't need to know. But I'm just saying I don't think

[Dustin Ross]

we supposed to be electric. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't think we supposed to have, like, that kind of shit going through us. I don't know.

[Francesca]

There's.

[Asante]

I mean, but. But like, to your original point, even though. But to your original point, even though it's for other reasons, you know, there is something to the safety aspect of it, you know, Like. Like, he has his identification, whatever. Like, you just scan.

[Francesca]

Definitely interesting, the convenience of it, right? Your car fob, your house fob. Fobs are things that are being used more and more as you. You know, as technology progresses. But it's still like.

[Dustin Ross]

You know what, though? You need to disclose people. If anybody. If anybody got that. If anybody got the chip, you need to disclose.

[Francesca]

To who?

[Dustin Ross]

To whoever you be around, to people that you. That don't know you got that motherfucker. Cause we can't just be on a

[Asante]

walk, you know what I'm saying?

[Dustin Ross]

And then, like, you just start waving your arm in front of shit, and shit happened. I'm gonna be like, yo, what the. You know what I'm saying?

[Asante]

Like. Like. Like you just on a walk with a. And then y' all walk up to his door.

[Dustin Ross]

He got, like, same.

[Asante]

His hand.

[Dustin Ross]

Like, when the police pull you over and you got a gun and you got it, I want to let you know I have a weapon in the car. You got to let. I want you to know I got a chip in my hand, so might get a little crazy.

[Francesca]

Something about it is really cool and also nuts. But shout out to you, Anthony, head

[Dustin Ross]

of the curve, Mine with keloid.

[Francesca]

You know what? Cosmosis Jones.

[Dustin Ross]

This is my little Cosmosis Jones.

[Francesca]

Cosmos Jones. I love us Said y' all Are amazing.

[Asante]

You know, y' all are amazing because that name and it time right after

[Dustin Ross]

that, everything is crazy right now.

[Francesca]

Y' all are amazing. For highlighting Aaron's cup. Remember the coffee shop from last week? Right? Clap it up for that. I live right down the street and it's a great spot. Please go support. I dream about their coffee, bacon, breakfast, sandwich. And a lot of people, right? A lot of people actually wrote in thanking us for highlighting it because apparently it really is a lovely community hub and people want to show as much love and support to the young lady as possible.

[Asante]

Yes, Right. Keep supporting Aaron and make sure.

[Francesca]

Lastly, Cording said, Dustin being stuck on the man's name being Spencer is killing me

[Dustin Ross]

in India. Spencer.

[Francesca]

No, this gets better. Watch. I remember I called customer service for something and they were pissing me off. They were clearly outsourced in the Philippines or India. And when I asked to be transferred to a supervisor, asked the rep for his name, that man told me his name was Chris. Chris Brown. This day. That shit bugs me the fuck out.

[Dustin Ross]

I know. She was so mad just looking at the phone.

[Francesca]

Chris Brown. Oh, oh, last one. Christy said, fran, the Notes app is definitely a millennial thing. Oh, oh. For me, it extends to any app. Okay, I can make fun of it.

[Dustin Ross]

I feel like I got red. I don't feel like I got red. Cynthia was like, no, child, you got red right now.

[Francesca]

She said, for me, it extends to any app. I can make folders, faces, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest. All of them have at least 10 folders sorted by restaurants, recipes, life hacks, cleaning hacks, mommy hacks, you name it. I've used about 10% of everything saved on all the sites, but I enjoy organizing it all. And that's true too, because I do have a bunch of folders on Instagram and a bunch of folders on TikTok. Normally, like, if it's a workout or a recipe or a shoe, I like whatever the fuck, I just have them all separated. But I still use my Notes app, period.

[Asante]

Yeah, same, same.

[Francesca]

What you trying to say, but, Dustin Ross, what you find in those?

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, let's just move on. One tweet this week. Shout out to the Twitter account, no context. Humans. I don't know if y' all follow. Yeah, so the actual handle is humans, no context. But. But they simply quoted a video and they said, I love the Internet in this video. The video is captioned the tomato. As soon as I take the first bite of my burger. And I'm gonna play it on here. For our look.

[Francesca]

That is so true.

[Dustin Ross]

That's okay because that should be gone. The tomato slides right out.

[Asante]

Why?

[Dustin Ross]

Why? So you know, I saw that and literally again we added that carousel because the tomato do be sliding out and I want to bite through it. You know what I'm saying?

[Francesca]

It's the lettuce for me too.

[Dustin Ross]

Right?

[Asante]

Stay there.

[Francesca]

That's funny as hell.

[Dustin Ross]

So that's it for me this week

[Francesca]

and that means that that is it for us. Do you guys have any other announcements? Anything else you want the listeners to know before we jump in? Jump in.

[Dustin Ross]

Not this week.

[Francesca]

I love this work. All right, let's jump into this week's episode.

[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

This week's episode is a Dustin Ross production. We're going in cold. We're talking about this week. Dustin, come, come.

[Dustin Ross]

Line that shit up. So there's so much going on in the world today. Every week I look for something trending to talk about at the top of the show. And this week I had so many options that I knew there was no way we could overlook this. And this is some shit that we need to talk about. Anyway, I've gotten tweets about different things like, oh, I know this week they gonna talk about such and such on the friends.

[Francesca]

Right, right, right.

[Dustin Ross]

So I said, why don't we talk about it? Shall we? Let's start the process, shall we? So. Okay. Word

[Asante]

stop.

[Dustin Ross]

So, that being said, it's time for Hot Topics. Remember Wendy Williams song It's Time for Hot Topics? Anyway, so, yeah, we're doing Hot Topics this week, and I said the best thing for us to do because we're going to talk about some that I hate. Right. So before we go there, let's talk about something good. Let's start off with some good news. Right. Shout out to the Michael Jackson movie. The Michael Jackson biopic. Michael. Right.

[Francesca]

I saw it. Did y' all see it?

[Dustin Ross]

Not yet. I'm supposed to go tonight, but something else just came up, so I'm probably gonna go at some point this weekend, but. Yes. Did you enjoy it?

[Asante]

Before we go any further with the Hill, did you review Fran?

[Francesca]

I absolutely did. And I don't understand the critics that are killing it. I really don't get it. I thought it was lovely. I was singing along. Not in the annoying way, because obviously you're in a theater, but, you know, you just bop and jam and singing along.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah.

[Francesca]

It was so much. When I tell you, I couldn't sit still the entire. I'm not kidding you, the entire film. I had so much fun. I don't remember last time I had that much fun watching a theater. Well, yes.

[Dustin Ross]

Fantasia say, oh, Jealousy. So good. Fantasia acted her asshole.

[Francesca]

Yes.

[Dustin Ross]

Anyway.

[Francesca]

But, yeah, so it was just such a fun film. And I couldn't believe that people had the nerve to say I heard all kinds of terrible things, that Jafar was awful, that the kid was awful, and I just did not see it that way. I thought Jafar did such a great job.

[Dustin Ross]

Everybody I talked to that saw it said the same thing you said they were.

[Francesca]

He did a great job.

[Asante]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah.

[Francesca]

Was it cheesy? Yes. But there's shit that's cheesy about Michael Jackson. That's what makes him so phenomenal. Like, who else, you know, hangs out with monkeys and giraffes? You know what I mean? Like.

[Asante]

Right.

[Francesca]

It just worked. And I think they did a great job. And the way it ended, it feels like there's going to be a Part two.

[Dustin Ross]

Really? Yeah.

[Francesca]

Yes. The way it ends.

[Dustin Ross]

I saw it in some of the press that the cast has been doing Nia Long and Colman Domingo. Shout out to Colman Domingo.

[Francesca]

But

[Dustin Ross]

they've been speaking about a sequel in their press junket. So I feel like it's gonna happen for sure. The movie is the number one movie in the world. It has the biggest global opening ever after grossing $217.4 million. Nearly out grossing all of 2026's fields.

[Francesca]

Yes.

[Dustin Ross]

So yeah, number one movie in the world, a black movie movie Sham on.

[Francesca]

That makes me very happy because it's a black movie. It's a black director. Like, let's get it.

[Dustin Ross]

If you can't feed the baby, then don't have the baby. Are you stuck in the middle? Okay, y' all got shout out to that. I'm definitely going to see it after what made me say, I have got to go see this. I told y' all was that picture of Nia Long dressed up as Katherine Jackson in costume character. When I saw that picture and they did that side by side of Nia Long and Katherine Jackson.

[Francesca]

I saw you retweet that with the laughing emojis.

[Dustin Ross]

My knees buckled and I was like, oh, okay. I was like, so I need to go see this for reasons. Okay. Like, nah, it's not just me going cause I fuck with Michael Jackson. Cause clearly it's Michael Jackson.

[Francesca]

I'm going to period.

[Dustin Ross]

But after seeing that, I'm like, oh, so there's gonna be like precious levels of comedy to this movie. You know what I'm saying? Like not supposed to be funny, but gut busting humor.

[Francesca]

Oh, yes, there was. And the only thing I will say and shout out to Jade because we were on the phone after I saw it and I was like, did Joe Jackson have like light eyes? Did I miss that? Because why did Colman Domingo have contacts? Like, he looked like he was in India. The caterpillar surgery, I really. It kept taking me out of it, the contacts. I was struggling, but I was like, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. It's a movie. And I was like, did he have light eyes? So we sat there googling, did Joe Jackson? And Jade said, motherfucker. He did. His eyes was hazel, like green or some shit.

[Dustin Ross]

You know who looked like Joe Jackson?

[Francesca]

Who?

[Dustin Ross]

The guy from Caterpillar. What was his name? The first guy. What's his name?

[Francesca]

David.

[Dustin Ross]

David. He looked like he looked like Joe Jackson.

[Asante]

You don't want to see surgery.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, with them eyes.

[Francesca]

That's why they had Coleman looking. And I struggled with it. But you know what? He is so great.

[Dustin Ross]

He can. He can play Meryl Streep and she can play him. They can play each other. Meryl Streep and huh. And Viola. Put Viola Davis in there and they all be pointing at each other like Spider Man. Them can play anybody. They can play anybody. So that be said so shout out to everybody in the Michael Jackson movie. Oh, you got it. Yeah. So you know, to viol. Don't do it again.

[Francesca]

That's for those watching.

[Dustin Ross]

That's for Patreon. Okay, so it's one of them. Baby, you stop it.

[Asante]

Whoa. I thought this was a classy party.

[Dustin Ross]

So now.

[Asante]

He's, like, doing it too perfectly, and I don't want it to happen.

[Dustin Ross]

My bad. My.

[Asante]

Okay, now you're doing it like you're a Carmichael.

[Dustin Ross]

Oh, my God. I just thought about him with them diabetic socks sitting on that. Sitting on that stage, legs crossed at the knee, knee hanging over like a fern.

[Francesca]

You know, Asante did that to us.

[Asante]

What? Wait, wait.

[Dustin Ross]

Heavier than him.

[Asante]

Anyway, Patreon remembers, okay? The north remembers.

[Dustin Ross]

Farm, remember? Shout out to Alexander Rogers.

[Asante]

Farm remembers.

[Dustin Ross]

So now from that, let's go to some other news that can be considered good, you know, because obviously. All right. Megan Thee, Stallion, beloved entertainer, overall entertainer, rapper, actor, theater actor. Now you know what I'm saying? Broadway performer. She has broken up with Klay Thompson.

[Francesca]

Damn.

[Dustin Ross]

Plays for the Dallas Mavericks and really got piped up by proxy of being with her. In connection with her, we gave a damn about him. You know what I mean? Klay Thompson was a very miscellaneous when it comes to, like, sex. He's not sexy, you know, it's not sexy. So people weren't paying attention to him in that way until Megan laid her eyes on him and said, hey, I kind of like your style, you know, and they got together or whatever. So then we kind of like this style too. But apparently he was cheating on her. Megan Thee, Stallion posted recently on her Instagram stories. She said cheating, comma, had me around your whole family playing house. Got cold feet in quotes, holding you down through all your horrible and all caps, mood swings and treatment towards me during your basketball season. And now you don't know if you can be monogamous. Four question marks, bitch. I need a real all caps break after this one. One by y'. All. Megan Thee, Stallion posted that and she dumped them. She also confirmed to TMZ through a statement that trust, fidelity and respect are non negotiable for me in a relationship. So it's pretty clear what the fallout was over, right? They're over the done done now. How do you guys feel about it? Tell me your thoughts. I hate. I'll tell you mine. I'll kick this off. I'll start this off right. Megan Thee, Stallion. Being in love is a beautiful thing to see. We've seen her in relationships with Men before that she loved. And she's happy, she's upbeat, she's playful. Her work is upbeat and playful, but it doesn't lack the edge that we love from her. And, and we are happy for her. We're rooting for Megan Thee stallion. Her story, her family tragedies, all that shit. We want to see her happy and thriving. So we thought that that's what this relationship was. You can say that there were red flags simply by way of him being a professional athlete. A lot of people say that, that all athletes cheat, whatever, but she's a global superstar too, so, you know, it just seemed balanced in that way. And it seemed like they both were choosing each other. So I hate that she had to suffer heartbreak, you know what I'm saying? She. Watching her prime documentary really changed things for me. It made it very real. It gave me an emotional intelligence towards her, you know what I'm saying? I. I pay attention to how things make her feel as a fan now, based on what I saw in that documentary. So I'm sad that she's going through this breakup because I know she really with him. For real.

[Francesca]

Yeah. You know, they buy a house and she was like, cooking friends, all of the things.

[Dustin Ross]

And being around his parents, giving them food with lorries on it that they've never had in their fucking lives, you know what I'm saying? All of the things. So I was sad to see that. And, you know, onto the next, I guess. But shout out to her. Cause I respect people who break the fuck up when shit ain't right.

[Francesca]

Yes.

[Dustin Ross]

I respect people who tough out the PT rd, You know what I'm saying? Post traumatic relationship, you know what I'm saying? Disorder that you have after a breakup. I respect the people that are willing to go through that instead of going through that. So shout out to her for that. Klay Thompson has not given any comment yet, so we haven't heard anything from him or his representatives.

[Asante]

Did he put up some video or was that just some.

[Dustin Ross]

I didn't see it.

[Francesca]

The Internet tends to post old videos and then a caption that makes you feel like this, you know, the person just posted this. Just debate. So it's hard to know nowadays.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. So far he hasn't said anything since Megan has announced their breakup, so. Which I love. Don't say shit. Been talking about it.

[Francesca]

I wish she didn't.

[Dustin Ross]

I do, too. But she doesn't have parents, you know what I'm saying? She is. She feels isolated and alone again. We saw all this laid out in that documentary. And so she's a younger woman. This is what they do. People like me and you would never ever. You know how much shit I could have put on my stories?

[Francesca]

What? That would have had our piped up.

[Asante]

What?

[Dustin Ross]

Oh, my God. But. But again, that's why my voice raised, because it was a real thing for me, y', all, so. But we don't do that because of our age group and because we were adults before. We're not adults, but we were alive and having emotions and shit before the end.

[Francesca]

Before the end.

[Dustin Ross]

Before you were able to express yourself in that way. So her doing it, you know, it wouldn't have been my choice, but it sucked.

[Francesca]

Firstly, it sucks that it's happening. I hate. I hate when men humiliate women. It's just. It's just like, come on, grow up. If you want to fuck, go fuck. Nobody stopping you. I just. It's a mentality that's just so childish and tired at this point. Or have the conversation grow up and be like, I'm non monogamous, or I'm. I'm exploring whether I am or not. Just need to let you know that off top, you know, like, come on, let's grow up. Let's have these combos. But buying a house, having someone around your mom to then decide that it just doesn't make sense to me. It's very, very backwards. But at the same time, I hate that she said anything about it because the Internet is already so much for her. Like, you know, we saw in the dark how they affect her so much, how there are so many men that talk about her so crazy. I'm seeing the men saying she's the whore in this situation. And, you know, the tide has turned considerably against her after the case. So I almost wish because of that specifically that she just focus on her work and being amazing. Putting out your music, being on Broadway, just like, let your work speak and all this other personal shit. No one has to know about it but your friends or people around you, hopefully. I just wish that she didn't say anything. But at the same time, like you said, it comes with the territory, right? You're emotional, you're isolated or lonely, young. And they do have a different relationship with the Internet than we do. But I hated it when I saw it. I didn't even think it was real, honestly. I was like, oh, why y' all putting that on her? But it absolutely was a real IG story.

[Asante]

Yeah, I was and still am disappointed but not surprised, unfortunately.

[Dustin Ross]

You know, wait, before you tell him before you talk, Tay.

[Asante]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

This is an important opinion. Where you getting you guys? Because Asante is the person.

[Asante]

Oh, my God.

[Dustin Ross]

Asante is the person who introduced me to Megan the Stallion and her music.

[Francesca]

Right, Same.

[Dustin Ross]

Asante is the person who brought Megan Thee Stallion to the Friend Zone. So Asante is the expert opinion in this Megan Thee Stallion case. The floor is now yours. I just wanted to qualify your expert opinion. I knew you wasn't gonna do it, so go ahead.

[Asante]

Thank you. Thank you very much. I am again, not surprised that Klay Thompson, if, you know, if these allegations are true, I'm not surprised that they are true. You know, like, unfortunately, Megan Thee Stallion is somebody who is sought after. She's, you know, desirable, she's a great rapper, she's a great looking woman, she's got great energy. So some people see that, they take that and they don't know what to do with that. He's a young basketball player living his life, having fun, and he's over here also bullshitting you have someone. As you know, Dustin was just saying, we watched this documentary, we've seen the traumas that she's had to endure, but also there are parts of her career that the Internet have made. So I feel like Megan feels like she has this relationship with the Internet to where she has to let her hotties know what's going on. If she didn't say anything on the Internet and then just decided. Sorry, I wanted to say this part first. I'm also pissed that this happened because I know that this is the reason that she's ending her Moulin Rouge on Broadway to. It's ending.

[Dustin Ross]

More on that in a minute. More on that in a minute.

[Francesca]

That really.

[Asante]

But, but that's, that's annoying to me because.

[Dustin Ross]

More on that in a minute.

[Asante]

Well, I'm just saying that's annoying to me because Megan is someone that. It just wants to work and be happy. So when she dropped that song My Man, My man, My man, My Baby, it was like, okay, great. Like, you know, she's putting this in the music, she's using this. So the fact that something happened to her, now she has to say, fuck it. I, you know, I'm done with this relationship. I only got so much in me left to do this. So let. I gotta focus on myself. I gotta do something for myself. So I hope that Megan does take the time to work on herself, whatever that looks like, but also work on some music, whatever that looks like.

[Dustin Ross]

Oh, yeah.

[Asante]

I just want her to. I mean, I don't want to be negative like that Megan, she's a bad. And she, like, she made. She made happy girl music. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I don't need her to get in the booping. You know, say this, but I need her to. You know, I need her to do something else that's going to make her happy so she finds, like, a new sound or like a new something that's going to just be like, you know, that relationship's not even important. I got something that's, like, getting me going, that's awakening me. Like being on Broadway. I know that that's such a great moment for her. So more on that in a minute.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay. Well, yeah. Sad to see, but good for her. It leave Klay Thompson's ass.

[Francesca]

Of course, she made him so much cooler, too, because he seemed so, like, way.

[Asante]

She really did.

[Francesca]

You know, I didn't even. I remember when I was like, oh, okay.

[Asante]

I remembered seeing him around and not caring about him because some of my other friends that are into sports. But then when she started dating him, I had to take a better look and be like, oh. But unfortunately for me, I still was like, oh, yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

Cause he looks like he was on Growing Pains. Remember that sitcom?

[Asante]

Oh, my God, he looks like.

[Dustin Ross]

He looks like he was on. Look like he's related to Kirk Cameron.

[Francesca]

You know, Crystal. Crystal reposted a tweet that someone said he looked like the PBS logo.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, yeah.

[Francesca]

Did you see that?

[Dustin Ross]

They had the profile. Yeah, absolutely.

[Francesca]

Like, shut up. But I hate Mimi. Right, right, Yeah. I hate this.

[Asante]

Whatever she does moving forward, I hope he don't think like, oh, she's rapping about me? No, ain't nobody rapping about.

[Dustin Ross]

About you.

[Asante]

You're wrapped up.

[Dustin Ross]

You're wrapped up. That's right. Get out of here. Security. Okay, well, speaking of calling security on somebody, of course people have been chiming in with opinions on this situation that have nothing to do with it. Case point number one, Amber Rose. Right?

[Francesca]

Oh, God.

[Dustin Ross]

Now this shit for brains gets on Instagram and post a meme that says, it's okay, Megan, I can't keep a man either with three exclamation points. Okay, yeah, well, I can give you three reasons why you can't keep a man. You know what I'm saying? Number one, you maga. And who wants to be attached? That don't. I want to sleep with no maga. Madam. We straight. Right? You know what I'm saying?

[Francesca]

Can we name the episode and thank you, Amber. We were wondering what you Were thinking.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. I mean, we just had to know what was on your mind besides the tattoo of your son's names, you know what I'm saying? We had to know what was on her mind. Thank you, Amber. You. You are. You are the person, the thought leader.

[Francesca]

The fact that made you laugh.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, because where are the thoughts leading you? To the incinerator. Get to the scenerator, to the center, right to the trash, the burning trash, where you belong. Amber Rose, you can't keep a man because you get on everybody's nerves. And we, as Khalifa, smoke weed. So, you know, if you got on his motherfucking nerves to the point where he didn't even want your ass no more. As patient as he is, Wiz Khalifa is patient. He can tolerate a lot because he mellow. You know what I'm saying? And you even irritated him. So of course you can't keep a man. And honestly, Amber Rose, you look like your house stinks. Especially when you have long hair. Especially when you have long hair. You really look like your house. She does. When she has long hair. Like them braided wigs and shit, she looks like her house smells like wheat and. And weed and wheat and fried foods. You know what I'm saying? Like, everything just has a layer of grease on it that needs to be cleaned. The walls, the carpets. A film. A film of filth. A filthy film. A filthy film.

[Francesca]

No, your house smells like grease.

[Dustin Ross]

I was like, then she looks like it, don't she? She looks like it, doesn't she? She does. She looks like she smokes cigarettes.

[Asante]

Felt him there.

[Francesca]

We all been in that house.

[Dustin Ross]

Absolutely. So of course you can't keep a damn man. You know what I'm saying? Cuz don't nobody want to deal with your gum chewing, head scratching with the tip of your middle finger ass when you want to. You know, it's cool to be black when you want to. But you know what your problem is, Amber Rose? You really want to be a white girl. That's what your problem.

[Asante]

My cousin. This is my cousin. Latina, Right?

[Dustin Ross]

So also another that had something to say. Like clockwork. Okay. Baggy Face himself, Stephen A. Smith. Of course. There's a headline about a black woman experiencing emotional trauma and you want to pile on. Wow, didn't see that coming.

[Francesca]

Is that his thing?

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, that's his thing he talks about. Remember he tried to pit beyond Beyonce and Rihanna against one another. He comments on black women disparagingly all the time.

[Francesca]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

Always running his.

[Francesca]

A man with a black daughter. That's Part of his brand, right?

[Dustin Ross]

So his suddenly Seymour face ass. Because, you know, he looks just like the Audrey too, from. From Little Shop of Horrors. That plant. Black women make me sick. That's what. That's what Stephen Smith looks like. I can't stand his clamshell face ass. You know what I'm saying? Why? Why? You look like the Shell gas station symbol turned upside down. Now I'm Stephen H Mi. I look like the gas station. I hate black women all the time. I can't stand him.

[Francesca]

Yo, I just ignored it.

[Dustin Ross]

I can't stand his. Yeah, Gonzo looking at. Right? Suddenly se. Okay, I'm eating plant. I'm eating plan. See if I look like plan. I'll eat people out if I'm little. So eight black women.

[Francesca]

Anyway, the fact that it even sounds

[Dustin Ross]

like I'm gonna run for president and you niggas ain't gonna vote for me. And y' all gonna vote for me because we're gonna be niggas and we sitting up after the white people. I'm Stephen A. Smith. Please, I need to just talk about sports, but I rather talk about black women. Can't stand his pickleball paddle face ass. He looked like the thing you play pickleball, all right. That's what he looks like in the face. A dustpan, a whisk broom. I hate him. Anyway, of course he had something to say. He said that Megan the Stallion was wrong. What is it? I can't stop laughing. Well, that's what I mean about y' all black women. Y' all never stop laughing. Anyways.

[Francesca]

All right, all right, okay.

[Dustin Ross]

So ugly ass got on the Internet and said that Megan thee stallion was wrong for revealing that Klay Thompson cheated because, quote, he doesn't deserve that. He is a great NBA player and a future hall of Famer.

[Francesca]

Okay?

[Asante]

Being a saint and all that. I'm just like.

[Dustin Ross]

That's what he had to say about it in a too big ass dress show you can't even buy the right size. You look like about a 15 and a half, 34, 35 to me. And it looks like you're wearing a 1738, 39. That's what it looks like you got on. So you don't even know how to dress. First of all, worry about that. Second of all, what's it too?

[Francesca]

He's too old, but he's too old for that kind of opinion.

[Dustin Ross]

And you're embarrassing your daughter. He has a daughter that seems to be pretty sensible. And like, when I see them do content together, it seems like she was raised right. You know what I'm saying? So how did he end up like that?

[Francesca]

Shout out to her mom, Shout out

[Dustin Ross]

to his mama, because apparently the grandmama is the baby because the daddy show ain't. How about that? So. So I just.

[Francesca]

So no one is holding. So no one's holding Clay accountable.

[Dustin Ross]

That's the interesting little Duvall was chiming in, saying was smart for. For bagging her and then cheating to be able to bag more hoes and after it's over that he was smart. That's what Lil Duvall said, who looks like Pearl Shea from 227. That's what Lil Duvall said. Who looks like. Who else does he look like?

[Asante]

Oh,

[Dustin Ross]

he looks like Pearl Shea, the one that was in I Got the Hookup. Smoking weed, playing the grandmama. Where you get that? Columbia. That's what Lil Duval as eyeliner wearing ass look like. Like owl eye ass.

[Francesca]

I don't know what you are on today.

[Dustin Ross]

So. Yeah, he said that's what Stephen Smith's ugly ass. Of course. Like clockwork. Boom. Right on time. Here he come. You know what I'm saying? Here come flow. Right on time. I'm sick of Stephen A. Smith. So him. I don't know if y' all want to get some cuss words in too, but I was about to move on.

[Francesca]

You can. You got it.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay.

[Asante]

Bet.

[Dustin Ross]

So he did that. And then because of all of this, as our brother Asante, our resident Megan Thee, Stallion expert, give it up. You got to give him his props. He's the one who started it. He's the originator. We stealing them tick tock dances and shit. You ain't stealing his dance. He started it. Okay?

[Asante]

Now, Ebony, they gonna click it if

[Dustin Ross]

it's me anyway, so. Yeah, but like Asante preview, Megan Thee Stallion has decided. We know she's currently playing Zler in Moulin Rouge on Broadway, which is closing soon. So she was the perfect curtain call megawatt performer for the play, but she has decided to cancel her remaining Moulin Rouge show.

[Francesca]

Oh, God, I hate that.

[Dustin Ross]

And her final performance will be on May 1, which is in a couple of days.

[Francesca]

Do you know how many she's canceling?

[Asante]

She was supposed to go until May 17th.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. So like two weeks. A little over two weeks.

[Asante]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

She said. This is what Megan posted. She said, hotties, my last performance as Ziddler and Moulin Rouge Broadway will be May 1st. It's been such an honor to be a part of the new line Rouge family. I've met so many amazing people in this theater. Y' all work so hard, and I have so much respect for the dedication, the stamina, the work ethic, the time, and the effort y' all put into the work. I'm so grateful for the cast and crew that made this experience so meaningful. And to all the hotties that showed up at, showed up, or planned to attend, thank you for supporting me during this incredible journey. Love y'. All. See you soon. That's what Megan said. Now, look, that makes me want to cry.

[Asante]

Me too.

[Dustin Ross]

Because it's too much for her right now. And this is when the emotional or the personal part of your life can bleed over into your professional life, Right? Because she had to exit this play. Now. She's not the first. She won't be the last. We remember when Fantasia was on Broadway before, she has. Was having problems with the schedule and problems in her personal life. White performers do it all the time, right? They go in and out of productions because of personal issues.

[Asante]

This ain't a black, right? Being unprofessional.

[Dustin Ross]

Not at all. And it's not a Megan.

[Francesca]

No. I wouldn't even have thought.

[Asante]

No, not even you. But, like, people out there, they do start to run some of these narratives, and it's like. Like, we're not. That's not even important here.

[Francesca]

Yeah. I just hate it as a woman. I hate when men get to interfere with the dope we got going on that. It bothers me, it irks me. And it's only natural, right? You can push, but so far when you're going through, but it's just, you know, oh, I guess she's been crying.

[Dustin Ross]

And the curtain call.

[Francesca]

I saw. I saw a clip where she was, like, closing out and trying to greet the audience, but just couldn't stop crying. That pissed me off. Because meanwhile, he's with the next girl. You know, it's just sensitive to men.

[Dustin Ross]

It's some girl with him. A hooker. He's a hooker. The girl is just the girl, Right?

[Asante]

You know, Much love to Megan thee stallion. She's gonna make it through this. You know, like, this is one of those moments where I'm not trying to, like, downplay anything that's going on because she's. It's happening in real time to her right now, and she's gonna have to go through this for however long she goes through it. But I'm not one to spotlight someone's partner just by proximity.

[Dustin Ross]

So.

[Asante]

Klay Thompson, whatever you thought you did here, you ain't did shit. Megan's still Gonna come out a batter bitch. She's gonna come with bigger opportunities. You were dating this woman while she, you know, she just did that Cheetos thing, that commercial, you know what I'm saying? Like, there's a lot going on with her, so of course it's overwhelming to have to go through some bullshit like this. But this doesn't mean like, oh, let me go watch him now. Like, this just means, Megan, when you come back in your full form, we gonna be right here waiting for you. Yeah, shit, I might have to try to get on the plane and see her to. I am so mad.

[Francesca]

I did want to go.

[Asante]

I'm so mad him. Him. I didn't even pay attention to him while they were together. That's why I said that. Like, I'm pissed that, like, now he gets a moment from me. Like, ew, you my man, my man. That video, that was not about you to me. It was just another song from her. She was doing her.

[Francesca]

I don't change the meaning.

[Asante]

Absolutely.

[Dustin Ross]

You look like. Look, him, he looked like Kardashian grandkids.

[Francesca]

Oh, I don't do that.

[Dustin Ross]

He looked like one of them. Grand stormy and them. He looked like one of them. You know what I'm saying? He do Chloe kids. Yeah, he looked like one of them.

[Francesca]

So cute.

[Dustin Ross]

Psalms or whatever that little name is. Chicago, She's. Now that's a beautiful child. Chicago west is a beautiful baby.

[Francesca]

For real. She's adorable.

[Dustin Ross]

All the kids cute, but you look like one of them Kardashian grandbabies. These and not even a cute one. So Klay Thompson, Clay aching looking ass. Okay.

[Asante]

And Stephen A. Smith praying for you, Megan.

[Dustin Ross]

Stephen A. Smith, saddlebag face looking like something you slap over a horse before you go do the pony express. Put your in. That's what makes Smith face look like.

[Asante]

My issue is his point with make like his point because he was signing a lot of like he does. But part of his point was why did you air the grievances out in public? Why you couldn't like that when he was trying to say how whatever old boy is saying all that shit. Why are you com. Like, yes, it's all in public, but just like how you're mad that it's happening in public. Why are you talking about the rapper and not the player?

[Dustin Ross]

Mind you, your background is sports.

[Francesca]

I want to reflect that, which is why is it on the show to begin with. But. And I agree with him that she shouldn't have aired it out. But I hate that he's positioning it as that's the problem, right? Because of Clay. Like you're ruining his career. As opposed to him saying to her that dude to protect you, baby girl.

[Asante]

Yeah, girl, go get another player. Girl.

[Francesca]

Like I would have much rather he's

[Dustin Ross]

got a daughter, an adult daughter.

[Francesca]

A man with a child that is a part of his brand. That.

[Asante]

That's a woman that is not even playing or sports. She dated a player. Talk about him. Talk to him. Don't talk about her and what she decided to do. Because he did what he did looking

[Dustin Ross]

like the Muppets in the balcony.

[Francesca]

What I don't get is you're an older man. It's opportunity for you to check young ass and tell him this. That type of behavior, you're up your own. Yes, you're doing this, you're doing that. Like talk.

[Asante]

Teach him the lesson.

[Dustin Ross]

But you so busy being salty that you couldn't bag Megan to see Stallion, right? Let's be clear. You think you look at play as a peer. Not as. As a young. As a young person to your og. You look at him as a peer. This is, this is a peer issue to you. Stephen A. Smith.

[Francesca]

Even worse, it sound like he looking up to him, right?

[Dustin Ross]

You're delusional. George Jefferson. You are delusional.

[Francesca]

I hate that.

[Dustin Ross]

I hate him.

[Francesca]

And all the rhetoric around, you know, the conversations. Really putting the onus on Megan is just like the clip. I'm not surprised. I see who you are.

[Dustin Ross]

Thank you for that.

[Asante]

Perry is a saint or whatever the fuck he was saying. It's like, girl, you can't even say yourself. You're trying to find examples to justify some bullshit. Cause you're on bullshit right now.

[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

Eligible direct deposits and opt in required for overdraft protection fees. Terms and conditions app. Speaking of, apparently Trick Daddy wants us to know that he has boundaries when it comes to anal oral sex.

[Francesca]

What? Okay.

[Dustin Ross]

He has been repeatedly, not consistently vocal about liking women to go down on his butt. Lick his ass.

[Asante]

Okay, that does keep coming up.

[Dustin Ross]

Yes, Trigger also has a cooking show. Yes, he has been vocal about liking women to lick his ass. Now, I will go on record as saying I don't believe there's a woman alive who willfully and without incentive.

[Francesca]

I do.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay, without incentive. Okay, without incentive. Looks at Trick Daddy and says, you know what? Turn around. I don't believe there's any woman that does it. But he. Apparently. He says it is. But he said that he wants us to know that he'll only eat ass if it's a slim, natural bodied woman. Here's the quote. I ain't never ate a double Whopper. Fuck, I'm gonna stick my head in one of them. Fuck, I'm gonna stick my head in one of them big ass hard asses for. That's the quote from Trick Daddy.

[Asante]

Oh, my God.

[Dustin Ross]

Now, the reason I wanted to talk about this, okay, he is stupid. I almost built a whole episode around this on Audacity.

[Francesca]

Damn.

[Dustin Ross]

Oh, my God. And people being brazen and irrational. I was gonna build an episode around these extreme displays of those personality types and characteristics, Right? But I didn't. Because he ain't worth it. You know what I'm saying? Now, Trick Daddy got some classic songs. He is Miami, for sure. And that goes without saying. But he's also a dumbass, okay? And he's a person who literally looks like he stinks. And he's always talking about somebody, always talking about, Beyonce can't sing. Can you bathe?

[Francesca]

He said Beyonce can't sing.

[Dustin Ross]

Multiple times. Multiple times. Yeah.

[Francesca]

All right.

[Dustin Ross]

Multiple times. And I'm fine with you saying that, but just say it when using a. Say it when you're using a loofah. Say it during that. Say while you got a pumice stone in your hand and you're scrubbing your body, the back of your neck, your hands and limbs, under your arms and under your breasts as well.

[Francesca]

So did you see him at the AKA section?

[Dustin Ross]

Yep. And then got mad. Now you going up there, who got the best in the audience at the AKA Wowzers. No, but somebody booked him. I'm not gonna say in his defense, because I don't.

[Francesca]

No, but it is in his defense, because what did you think was gonna happen if you book Trick Daddy with no guardrails.

[Dustin Ross]

No guardrails whatsoever. Trick Daddy, the kind of performer you gotta, you gotta he. His management has to have him at gunpoint to get things done. You know what I'm saying? So somebody in the audience, like Katie got bands in the audience to keep him on cue, you know what I'm saying? That was funny.

[Francesca]

They dropped the boy.

[Dustin Ross]

Dementia is setting in. If he thinks that he can be choosy with sex, I'm just gonna say it. And it has nothing to do with only the way that he looks. It has to do with his delusions of grandeur and delusions of. Of superiority sexually, of anyone. To think that somebody would just say, you know what? I lick his ass.

[Francesca]

And you know, I'm without, without, without.

[Dustin Ross]

Without a carrot of hundred dollar bills. Dang. What I'm saying. I would have to have that. I would have to be blindfolded. I would have to be sedated. I would have to be electrocuted first. I would have to be on. I would have to eat literally 3 ounces of mushrooms to be on the longest psychedelic journey. Even then I probably would boot him so fast with my foot. When I seen the crack of his ass and the, and the, the olive colored steam coming out of his ass, out of the crack. I think that I would be so revolted on my journey of shrooms. You know, or maybe it's navy. It might be navy. The steam could be navy. Or you know what? It also could be sequoia. You know what I'm saying? It could be sequoia. Sedona. I believe that a clay colored steam maybe emitting from the ass crack as well. And to think that you're gonna open that and lick it.

[Francesca]

Who?

[Asante]

Trick Daddy, I want your dictionary revoked.

[Dustin Ross]

Sir, I cannot. So I just thought that, that I don't know if y' all want to add anything, but I thought the nerve of him to have a boundary.

[Francesca]

I don't know what to add.

[Dustin Ross]

The nerve to have a boundary.

[Asante]

Don't see a reason to pile on.

[Francesca]

You know what? Let him have his boundary.

[Dustin Ross]

The nerve of him to have a boundary about eating somebody's ass.

[Francesca]

And he has agency.

[Dustin Ross]

How come I stick my hair in one of them big ass hard asses for you know. You know what I'm saying? Trick Daddy. I just couldn't believe it. Okay, now here's another funny story. We got a couple more y'. All. A 35 year old woman named Kiana Waddell.

[Francesca]

Have you all heard of her yet, Kiana Wardell?

[Dustin Ross]

No, she. Well, it will after I tell you this story. It's gonna ring a couple things. So she's a Long island woman. Okay. So she was out in Long island, the black woman. Think about that. That means a lot of stress, interest, you know? Okay. A lot of stress. She has been convicted after prosecutors say that she threw dynamite at her sleeping boyfriend, waving him without a hand. Yep.

[Francesca]

Oh, according to how the does she get dynamite?

[Dustin Ross]

Probably the same place Christy Gnome husband got them titties. The black market. You know what I'm saying? Remember how I used to go across state lines to get the good fireworks?

[Asante]

Maybe she went too.

[Dustin Ross]

Well, prosecutors. Okay. Suffolk County. The Suffolk county district attorney's office says that. 35 year old. So she's 35. Think about how sick as you are when you're 35. Sidebar, car. Have y' all seen that video that's circulating of the man that. That woman breaks his car window out as he's trying to drive off. She's like, I'm so tired of you. I'm so tired of you.

[Francesca]

No, I'm so tired of you.

[Dustin Ross]

He's like, y' all gotta get her. Y' all ain't seen that?

[Asante]

I haven't watched these videos of people breaking windows.

[Dustin Ross]

Remind me.

[Asante]

Send me a note so I can

[Dustin Ross]

send that to y'. All. The way that this lady was saying, the way that she's saying, man, I'm so tired. And she breaks his window and she's trying to grab him. She's like, I'm so tired of you. I'm so tired of you. You could tell she was sick of his ass, but so was Kiana Waddell, right? Because prosecutors said that this was in connection with a March 2024 incident that had escalated after an argument between the couple. So that night, right after the fight that took place, Kiana Waddell threw a burning stick of dynamite. So she lit the end like on the cartoon.

[Francesca]

This is.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. TNT on Looney Tunes.

[Asante]

You know what I'm saying?

[Dustin Ross]

I wonder if it said TNT on it. Oh,

[Asante]

so look, so this is.

[Dustin Ross]

So she threw a burning stick of dynamite into her boyfriend's room while he was asleep. So the was in the bed.

[Francesca]

She threw it in the room.

[Dustin Ross]

But why was this nigga laying down and she wasn't? What time of day was it? You know what I'm saying? Like, why you laying down? That's why she was sending him. Get your ass up. Where was. Speaking of the Kardashians, where was Kim get your fucking ass up in work. That's what he should have been doing. He wouldn't have got got. So here's the rest of the story. While he was asleep. So the victim, who is the boyfriend, says that he later woke up to a quote, hissing sound. Y' all know what that was? That was. That was the wick.

[Asante]

Oh, my God, y'.

[Dustin Ross]

All. His exsing sound crazy. And saw a flame on the floor. He attempted to throw it outside, but the device detonated in his hand. Oh, he lost his hand and part of his arm as a result of the explosion.

[Francesca]

Oh, my God, y'. All. This is.

[Dustin Ross]

And why they'll now face is up to 25 years in prison. So this is according to the neighborhood talk. Shout out to the neighborhood talk. What's up, Kyle? Shout out to the neighborhood talk, y'.

[Asante]

All.

[Francesca]

That's crazy.

[Dustin Ross]

Anyway, so. And she now faces up to 25 years in prison. Now, you know, I went to the comments and what you think the comments said?

[Asante]

Oh, God, I'm scared.

[Dustin Ross]

What you think the comments said? First one I see who was. This is from Bert. Bert Comedy Birdsee Comedy says who was her boyfriend? Wile E. Coyote.

[Francesca]

I was trying to remember the Coyote scene too.

[Dustin Ross]

Everybody want to know what he did. You know what I'm saying? Two questions are. Two questions are going through the comments like wildfire, right? What did he do? And where did she get the dynamite? Now I know where you can get a lot of shit. I don't use drugs, but I know where you can get them. I know you know people can get an id. I know where you can get things. You might need paperwork, you know what I'm saying? Where I ain't never. I done been in some trenches, and I have never seen dynamite on the menu. Facebook Marketplace.

[Francesca]

Probably.

[Dustin Ross]

Probably so, because I don't Facebook offer up, but she look like she do be on Facebook. This is her for Patreon.

[Francesca]

Oh, yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

She knew she did it. Damn. Okay, my thing is this.

[Francesca]

What 50 say she did that?

[Dustin Ross]

Zeus network. Here you go. This.

[Asante]

You want a baddie?

[Dustin Ross]

This a baddie right here.

[Francesca]

Nah, she was tired of his shoe.

[Asante]

What was the name of that movie?

[Dustin Ross]

I'm so tired of you Straw Straw. When she was at that bank.

[Asante]

Sequel. That's the sequel right there.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah.

[Francesca]

I thought you talking about the one when she appeared on the boat.

[Dustin Ross]

God, that's acrimony. She. But she appeared out of nowhere like that dynamite. Boom. So now this hand and arm is gone.

[Asante]

I know. That's crazy.

[Francesca]

Crazy.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah.

[Asante]

That's insane.

[Dustin Ross]

She lit the dynamite, like.

[Asante]

And you don't even know because even though nobody knows, anything could have been snap. Anything could have made her snap.

[Dustin Ross]

And my thing is, don't reach for it to throw. Why would you go towards it and put your hand on it? You should have just got the out of there.

[Francesca]

He probably didn't think it was no dang sticker.

[Asante]

I would have flipped the blanket.

[Dustin Ross]

Me, too. I would have just got the fuck under the bed or something. I would have just got out of there as fast as I could. You want to talk since this is cartoons? Since we on a cartoons friend. I'm running through the wall.

[Asante]

He just walked out running through them bricks.

[Francesca]

No, but, you know, you sleep, you disoriented. Think about how quick that detonates, right? Like he don't know what's happening. He's like, what the is that?

[Dustin Ross]

You just made it funny for me because you said he was sleeping disoriented. So you know how people be on the.

[Francesca]

Wake up, you think you dreaming. You're like, is that dynamite?

[Dustin Ross]

Like when you pee on the bed and think you swimming.

[Francesca]

Wait a minute.

[Dustin Ross]

This Dino M. This go with JJ Evans from Good Times and Dino M.

[Francesca]

We have to name this episode Dino Mike.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. Dino Mike. Dino M. Yeah.

[Asante]

Yes. Dino Mike.

[Dustin Ross]

She. She. He must have lost his mind before that, because what could you do?

[Francesca]

I want to know to a person. Well, they say I need to hear both sides.

[Dustin Ross]

We gotta hear both sides. We got to hear.

[Asante]

I don't believe in victim shaming.

[Dustin Ross]

So he only got one side, but we got to hear both sides. You got to hear both sides.

[Francesca]

Oh, God. Oh, God.

[Dustin Ross]

I'm.

[Asante]

What's the next story? Okay, so I know you got another one.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, I do. Okay.

[Francesca]

Oh, God.

[Dustin Ross]

Melania. Okay. Melania Trump, who looks like that.

[Francesca]

Okay, I got it.

[Dustin Ross]

You got it?

[Francesca]

I got it. I'm back.

[Dustin Ross]

TNT was funny. I don't care.

[Asante]

That was a good.

[Dustin Ross]

Y' all gonna give me that for that TNT joke. Saying, asking, did it have TNT written on it? That's funny, and you know it is, y'. All.

[Asante]

So anyway, you know Dustin. Boom, you got it, T. Boom.

[Dustin Ross]

Tnt. Okay. Actually, like the song. Boom. I got your boyfriend. I got his hand.

[Francesca]

Why are y' all doing boobs?

[Dustin Ross]

Boom, I got your boyfriend. Right? Okay.

[Asante]

Okay. That off. Bedroom. Yeah.

[Francesca]

Yeah.

[Asante]

This is so bedroom.

[Dustin Ross]

Boom.

[Asante]

This is so terrible.

[Dustin Ross]

My bed will be. That's the real lyrics, too. That's crazy. Anyways, so from one woman that has probably lost her mind to another one that has definitely lost her Mind Melania Trump the most. The. The biggest bimbo of them all. The number one airhead. Airhead bimbo puts of them. All right? Got the nerve to be mad at some damn body. And that some damn body that she's mad at is Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel, yeah. Recently he was doing the monologue and he was mocking as if he was speaking at the White House. And so he was like, melania Trump is in the audience tonight. Give it up for the first lady. And it cuts to a video of her and what's her. The ugly ass son. It looked like Peter Pan and Kiki Herman Baron. Her and Baron was sitting in the audience somewhere. And Jimmy Kimmel's camera cut to them. He was like, beautiful first lady has the glow of an expected widow. You look so beautiful. You have the glow of an expected widow.

[Francesca]

My God.

[Dustin Ross]

Now after I got up off the floor from laughing, you know what I'm saying? Because I fell out. I mean, I was.

[Francesca]

I was rolling.

[Dustin Ross]

I was roll gut, busting humor, hollering from my stomach, laughing, okay, like be Simone and them in that video. Remember that video of being Simone and her friend falling out laughing. That's how I was falling out. When he said the glow of an expectant widow. Oh, my. I fell out. So after that happened, apparently everybody was laughing. This hoe gonna put on Twitter.

[Francesca]

And she laughed too.

[Dustin Ross]

She said, well, she had somebody do it. It says, because, you know, she can't read or write. You know what I'm saying, Or talk or do nothing. She don't do nothing but be somewhere away from his ass anyway. And all up and through them files anyway, she wrote. Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. I should read it in her voice, but I'm not gonna do that.

[Asante]

Please.

[Dustin Ross]

Is invite intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn't comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. She may have written because deepens is the wrong context and deepened. But anyway. And deepen. His words are corrosive. So it's present tense. So it should be deepened and deepen the political sickness within America. Not in deepens you dumb. Anyway, then it continues. People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. She lived with Donald Trump, okay. She says, a coward. Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community. Who is our. I watch ABC all the time and I ain't got to do with your ass. Ain't no hour. We ain't in community at all. We just live in the same country. And do you even live here? Are you even supposed to live here? Your ICE agent loving ass. Are you. Is your ass supposed to be up in here? That's the question we need to ask now. The audacity of her to be so soft. And she can't take a joke from him, which was funny. And you do have that glow, Melania, but you can't take that joke. But Donald Trump can tweet good. I'm glad he's dead. When people die and shit like that, that Donald Trump can tweet pictures of Michelle Obama and Donald and Barack Obama as apes and monkeys. But this where you draw the line with abc. No. Your fat, nasty, disgusting ass husband has a vendetta against ABC because he don't like the view. And so he has it out for them and he wants to bring ABC down to regain control of. Of more media. That's why anybody that's critical of them, he wants to fucking silence. And so this display from her because she don't even know if you asked her to spell one of the words.

[Francesca]

She probably didn't even care for anyone in this message. I probably wouldn't need her do this.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. Including the word the. She couldn't in her face. She can't. She can't spell a. She can't spell ABC the network. Melania, how you spell abc the network. Eat. Eat. He said eata Eta Donald. Our country is. He is born. We want to see his birth certificate. Anyway, her ass is dumb and we don't give a. We glad it made you mad. This is the same person who went down to quote, unquote, visit the border where they were putting the babies in cages and snatching the kids and during their first term as administrators. And she wore that jacket that said I really don't care, do you?

[Francesca]

On I remember the camo jacket.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. So why the fuck would we care that he made fun of your ass? I know. I don't. I don't give a damn. That's what you get. And you look like one of them Russian dolls in the face. What's them things called? Them little Russian. Yeah, you look like. Please, no in the face. Show rosy cheek. Ass. I hate her. And the fact that you have the gimmick, you just mad because he be busting y' all ass in that monologue like a true, true comedian is supposed to. And you would know that if you knew anything. But you don't know nothing. That's why you went up there and plagiarized Michelle Obama. Be. Be best. Be best. You ain't even least. She literally is a horrible person. Can't read, can't talk, can't think, can't even walk. Feet. Archer. Her feet fall. And I looked at her foot in that pump. I was like, I know her foot is hurting because her arch didn't fail completely. Have you noticed that? Look at her foot next time you see her foot in the shoe. Her arch has completely fallen. That's a sign of being rotten on the inside. He give up on you. Look what happened to Kimberell falling all the damn time. When your feet give up on you, it's because of who you are as a person. So she got the audacity to call herself getting mad at somebody? Don't nobody give a fuck about you being mad. We hate you and your damn family. We glad you mad because we're pissed off. And we've been pissed off every fucking day since you've been a problem in our lives of thorn in our asses. That's how we feel. So I'm glad you pissed off. Y' all want to get y' all a piece?

[Francesca]

No. Shout out to Jimmy Kimmel.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, that's right. Fist pump for Jimmy Kimmel. You know what I'm saying? While we're over here in the garbage. You know what I'm saying? Funky Dyneva. Shout out to Funky Dyneva.

[Francesca]

Funky. I love Funky.

[Dustin Ross]

We love Quinn. And this is one of the reasons why we love him. He's on his Instagram account now. Go to miss Funky Dineva at. On Instagram. He's on his Twitter, his Instagram account right now reminding black people to stand down and let Candace Owens lie in the. The white sheeted bed. Okay? Pun intended. That she made. You know what I'm saying? Lying.

[Francesca]

That what happened with Candace Owens?

[Dustin Ross]

Well, you know, Donald Trump has been attacking her, posting racist ass memes of her face, saying that she uses rich white men and all. All this other low IQ individual, all the things that he said. But he's now posting AI generated memes of her in a bandana with scars and looking like real race. Like blatant racism, right? And a lot of people, when they see that and they know that Candace Owens has been anti black, but they may not be as familiar with some of her actual deeds or whatever. So, right. You see some racist white talking about a black woman, it's instinctual. It should be instinctual to protect her. Exactly.

[Asante]

Right.

[Francesca]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

But in this case, ain't got nothing to do with us. Okay? And Funky Dyneva literally reminded us that. Let's go take a look at a couple posts. Number one, when Funky Dyneva when it first. When he first posted the meme. So here's if you're looking on Patreon, here's the meme that Donald Trump posted.

[Francesca]

Oh, what the hell.

[Dustin Ross]

Time magazine vial person of the year. And I told you, he tried to make her look battered and tore up with a bandana. Right now she already looks like the guy that sings we don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time. She looks like him. So you could have just said that. You know what I'm saying? But anyway, Funky Dyneva posted that and he said President Trump takes another jab at Candace Owens. Here's the caption from Funky Dyna and Quentin, that's why I love you. That's why you my dog. He said, just hold the line. I don't want to see a nan black person come to her defense. Not a single one. She had no problem disparaging the black community to gain white conservative applause let drown. We've been trying to tell y' all this girl. We've been trying to tell this girl that they didn't give a damn about her outside of that that usefulness to them. She has no clue community to turn to. The whites are turning on her faster than milk spoils. And the black community doesn't trust or like her ass. Leave her out there alone in the cold to suffer all the social repercussions of her self hate. Good luck, Candace.

[Francesca]

Damn. I mean, he ain't lying.

[Dustin Ross]

Quinn said he ain't lying. Now. He also, he also posted another Instagram post where he showed a picture of a tweet from Candace Owens. You know what I'm saying? Where he said, I truly believe that at. This is what Candace Owens tweeted. Right? This is an actual tweet from her. I truly believe that at real. Donald Trump isn't just the leader of the free world, but the savior of it as well.

[Francesca]

Wow.

[Dustin Ross]

Bless America. Last stand for Western civilization. This was a tweet for her on April 16th of 2018. Funky Dyneva says in his caption, just a friendly reminder. Leave her to fend for herself. Talking about some damn savior. How's that working out for you?

[Francesca]

That's what he sound like it.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah.

[Asante]

So. Yeah, exactly.

[Francesca]

It's true. She built an entire base and all of her wealth on berating her own community just to align with the white incels. So it's like, well, these are the people you wanted to be with.

[Dustin Ross]

So I think that, like I said, you know how they say you made your own bed to lie in? It just. Yeah, but her bed is covered in white sheets. White KKK sheets. And you gotta lay in that bed with your KKK loving ass. That's what you get. Candace Owens is a grifter. Look in her history.

[Francesca]

She really is.

[Dustin Ross]

Look up her history and the lawsuit that she had in high school where she sued on behalf. She sued allegations of racism against her.

[Asante]

Right.

[Dustin Ross]

And now you did this. Pivot girl, please. I can't stand her ass.

[Asante]

And.

[Dustin Ross]

And may they all like that song said, let them hoes fight Tear each other up. I could care less. Now we got two more stories, but we only have time for one. The Jocelyn vs. Zoo story, I feel like, is too long.

[Asante]

Oh, wow.

[Dustin Ross]

It's too.

[Asante]

Actually, I didn't know if it was gonna happen or not.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, it's too long. It's too long. And we only really have time for one more story. So Johnson vs Zeus will get to it next week.

[Francesca]

I missed that.

[Dustin Ross]

Oh, baby, you missed a lot. Oh, she said, I tell you, do right by me. Did you see that when she was screaming outside the pool?

[Francesca]

I haven't seen any of this.

[Asante]

I didn't know. I'm seeing literally all of it.

[Dustin Ross]

Last story. Apparently, Jim Jones thinks that we give a about him being able to go back to Lowe's.

[Francesca]

What?

[Asante]

This is gonna be a quick one,

[Dustin Ross]

so

[Francesca]

let's see how much we can.

[Dustin Ross]

So Jim Jones, recently, he was at Lowe's a couple days ago, and he had an issue. Apparently, he was going to buy an item, and there was a price tag underneath the item. It was less than what the item was listed for and apparently low store policies to honor the lower price. When Jim Jones went to the customer service desk, he said that there was a rude guy there who gave him a hard time. And so Jim Jones, of course, he pressed record, and he passionately informed the guy that this was going to to go so viral. I'm gonna actually play a clip.

[Francesca]

Oh, God, Jim.

[Dustin Ross]

I'm gonna play a clip of Jim Jones, and then we're going to talk about this. And the guy said, yes, it is $78. Remember, you're going to be viral. You're going to be viral.

[Asante]

I don't think Lowe's is going to like this.

[Dustin Ross]

You see how they treating you? See how they treating us Lows You.

[Asante]

You're going to be viral in the morning. Lowe's. This is how.

[Dustin Ross]

This is how you manage. This is how you manage your ax. L. My name is Joseph Jones. Joseph Jones.

[Francesca]

Joseph Jones.

[Dustin Ross]

Right. I got you. So that what he told him? He told. Well, you don't really have to explain nothing to them.

[Francesca]

Is that his mother?

[Dustin Ross]

Your social media explaining to them later. And this guy. They will know your name in seconds. Bro, you're going to be so viral later for trying to cause this problem.

[Asante]

You don't want to escalate.

[Dustin Ross]

This is going right to Lowe's now.

[Francesca]

What is happening over what?

[Dustin Ross]

Something that I promise you I could not even imagine giving a fuck about. I can't. With all the shit going on in the world today. Half of the shit we just got through talking about. Do. Do you think I' ma give a damn about Jim Jones having a customer service issue anywhere, let alone at Lowe's? I don't give a fuck. You better buy your paint and get the fuck up out of there. You know what I'm saying? I don't give a damn about none of that. Was he in a robe? Was he. Did he have them house shoes on? Was he tapping his foot on the ground while he. You know what I'm saying? What was going on? But my thing is, like, the.

[Francesca]

You gonna go viral.

[Dustin Ross]

That right there, friend, right there. Social media gonna handle this in the morning. What do you think we gonna do about you having a hard time at Lowe's? Jim Jones?

[Francesca]

But sadly, he ain't lying, though. His fans will do it.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay.

[Asante]

Right?

[Francesca]

What they gonna do that will do it. Tag call up there.

[Dustin Ross]

You see what I'm saying?

[Asante]

Tag.

[Dustin Ross]

Laws. Thank you, y'. All. Cause now he feel better about what happened. I just think it like, we all for Joseph Jim Jones at Lowe's over something that's $78 from a. That's been millions of dollars on jewelry, in our face on the TV show. I don't give a fuck. I could care a less about anything that happened to him right there in that story, in that moment. And I was not incited to go on and defend him. And I love Jim Jones music. Same summer with Miami is one of my favorite songs. But you know what I'm saying, like, what the fuck do this n. Why do you think we would give a damn? I ain't your mama, nigga.

[Francesca]

Sicking his fans like dogs too.

[Dustin Ross]

And I'm not Chrissy. Chrissy don't even give a fuck. She wasn't there. Sidebar. Chrissy been. Yeah, she been looking good as hell. Have you been seeing her?

[Francesca]

She always has, though.

[Dustin Ross]

I'm talking about Chrissy been licking the fuck good. And she always been able to dress. She always been one of the it girls. For real. Like in real life.

[Francesca]

She's always been. I told you, I met her at. It was. I forget whose birthday it was a really beautiful restaurant. And we were both just staring at each other. And she came up to me and said something really sweet about how I looked. And in my mind I was like,

[Asante]

girl, do you know how many times I bumped into her and she's walked up to me like we know each other. I was with you remember Naja? We were just talking.

[Dustin Ross]

Shout out to Naja.

[Asante]

I was with Naj one time and we literally walking by and I was like, I was like, oh my God, that's Chrissy. And she was looking at me, she's like, how you doing? I'm like, how you doing? You looking so good tonight. She was like, I'm doing good. Thank you so much. You look good. So I was like, just a beautiful, like, I love her spirit.

[Francesca]

Pictures don't even do justice. Yes, it does seem really, really. Cuz the way she was so kind to me, it was, was like, she's really nice.

[Asante]

Yes, I know a person's person.

[Dustin Ross]

You know what I'm saying? That's what she was. So shout out to her. But Jim Jones Lowe's issue wholeheartedly. When I tell you I don't give a damn. There's nothing about that transaction that could have made me feel. With everything, every headline that I've read today alone, I, I. It is so low on the list, Jim.

[Francesca]

And why is that your default to get your phone out here?

[Dustin Ross]

You gonna go so viral you gonna get it?

[Francesca]

Because my thing is you're a grown

[Dustin Ross]

man that's supposed to be a gangster,

[Francesca]

by the way, that part like you, you should figure out what to do right there. Not take your phone out.

[Dustin Ross]

You should have picked you bad. Pick that cash or the stuff and walk out. Since he don't want to give you your money back, dipset, then you know what I'm saying? You bad, okay? Because your mom, you, your mom would have cut. I am his mommy. Give him his respect. Right? Where is his money?

[Asante]

Exactly.

[Dustin Ross]

So I don't give a Jim Jones. I just don't care. And I don't think nobody gives a. And when I was watching that, I was like, he really think somebody give a damn about him having a hard time at Lowe's and not being able to go back because they told him he can't shop there no more. And that's what he was upset about. I don't give a what lows you go to. Go to another one. You got a Maybach. Ride that to the other lows on the other side of town. I don't give a about this with all the dying and starving.

[Francesca]

And I know the manager was like, okay, Jim Jones.

[Dustin Ross]

Right, Right.

[Francesca]

That would have been me.

[Dustin Ross]

Anyway, so those are the things that are going on this weekend. And that's it for this week's high button. I hope y' all have feel a little more informed.

[Francesca]

Right. Thank you for reminding us, Harmony and each other. Let's jump into this week's segment.

[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

Fantastic.

[Francesca]

Hire 36% more help. You're hired and you're hired.

[Asante]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Asante]

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[Francesca]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Francesca]

Terms and conditions apply this week in wellness. So this week's conversation is going to be a light one, a playful one. I was cleaning out my laptop, closing some tabs, and it cracked me up. How many of my tabs were just carts? Websites, just carts filled up with shit that I liked or want or window shopping, whatever the case may be.

[Dustin Ross]

AKA need.

[Francesca]

Need. Right. But do you it made me wonder if y' all do that, do y' all have stores online with carts full of stuff that you kind of just let sit there until you're ready to buy it? Oh, and you know what? Shout out to the Websites that let your carts.

[Asante]

Yes.

[Francesca]

That's so bad.

[Asante]

Y' all doing something with them cookies

[Francesca]

and you know what I'm saying? Because I. There's so many websites that it'll say like it's reserved and you have 10 minutes and then it'll have like the little countdown and then remove everything from your car. I don't get it. Why don't you either? Let me.

[Dustin Ross]

First of all, bitch, I'm still browsing

[Francesca]

and I' ma come back to it and my card is full. I'm gonna be more inclined to shop right. And buy the things that I wanted I have. You know, I don't get that, but I'm so curious. What carts do y' all currently have open on your laptop and. Or your phone and what's in them? I'm curious which. I'll go shopping right now.

[Dustin Ross]

Jonathan Adler, right? Who? Jonathan Adler has some of the best, like, accessories for your home. There's a candelabra right now. That's 350. Come on.

[Francesca]

A candelabra.

[Dustin Ross]

And it looks like these Lucite different colored pipes that are over like intersecting. It's been in my cart for a minute. I know. Essence and Farfetch'd. So sick of me. Child Sax. All the usual suspects. Flight club. You know what I'm saying? Goat

[Francesca]

that are in your car. What's one of the sneakers in your car?

[Dustin Ross]

The actually right now is some slides by Nike. I can't remember what they're called, but they look like green grass. Did you see those? Oh, they look. They look like green grass. I'm gonna see if I can. Let me get my cart. But. But those are in one of my carts right now. And then home stuff. It's a website called. I think it's called All Moderna or some. But they have like furniture and houses. Is it all. Hold on.

[Francesca]

It might be all modern.

[Dustin Ross]

They have. I'm telling you, like, literally. Let me see. Because I think I sent it because

[Francesca]

I know you're in your home decor right now, so. Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

And always will be. I get that from my mom's side of the family. Like my mom and my aunts, they was real big into like the home decor.

[Francesca]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

So it just. It's in me, you know.

[Francesca]

Yeah, that's me too, though. I'm always buying a new mug.

[Asante]

Home.

[Francesca]

I was actually on one of my carts is Etsy. Shout out to Etsy. I'll always love Etsy. I'm. I'm. I'm in my. Like vases, like ceramic vases. Right now I've been trying to find some cute ones to kind of. Because I have these big windows that are going up the stairs to the. To the second floor, and they have these big window sills that you can. I have plants on them right now, but I want to switch up and, like, put some cool, artsy vases, like ceramics and have flowers, like, fresh flowers all the time. So just playing around with some esthetics. A lot of, you know, it's another thing. I'm randomly into 14 karat gold toe rings right now.

[Asante]

The toe ring is the thing.

[Francesca]

Right now I'm into toe rings again, which is so nostalgic because I remember being in high school, totally being into toe rings. But now you can get, like, good ones. Ones they make like, good 14 karat. Go shout out to the artisans and the jewelers and all the creatives on Etsy, because I found some shops that I'm like, okay, put that in my cart. So home decor a lot. And Etsy is good for jewelry, period. I don't know if y' all have gotten your. They have such great solid gold fine jewelry on Etsy. If you're looking for rings, bracelets, earrings, you don't have, like, anything. They have so many good shops.

[Asante]

People that can, like, literally have gone to school for, like, making stuff and can make stuff and just sell them on Etsy. Like, there's plenty of those on Etsy. I love Etsy.

[Francesca]

What's in your carts? Asante.

[Asante]

See, I don't have them on this laptop. But you know what, what bag I've been in? I've been in my auto bag.

[Francesca]

Yes. So you're looking at cars.

[Asante]

So everything cars, right? From actual cars to tires to, like, you know, they do these break. You know, they do, like, the different colors.

[Francesca]

What's the good one? The Pirelli tires.

[Asante]

Oh, my God. But you know, like, the, like, you can get, like, different color, like brake disc or whatever outside your wheel. So it's like I'll be looking at, like, that cameras I wanted to do. I wanted the electronic, like, mirror cam that also where I would have to put the video in, like, my. My back. Like the dash. You know, the dash cam where it

[Francesca]

has, like, the back too. Yeah, the back and the front. Yeah.

[Asante]

So I was like, I've been looking at that and then, you know, you know, I already have those lights in

[Francesca]

my car, which is super cute, but

[Asante]

I've been looking at. So I was on YouTube. And so because I was on YouTube, I had to shop for the different types of lighting kits. So I've been shopping around, seeing what a lighting kit costs, but I had to keep, like, going to the cart to look up what the model is and then going to YouTube to see what the install process is. Like, whether I'm going to install it myself or go somewhere else to get it done, I just need to know how invasive the process is going to be.

[Francesca]

Right.

[Asante]

So much so I was even watching window tinting videos when I was trying to find out who I'm who. I want to do the tents that I have to put on hold because I have to see what car I want to stick to first.

[Francesca]

I was going to say, you got

[Dustin Ross]

some fish, so you got bigger fish to fry.

[Asante]

Yeah, exactly. So it's like the tent game has been put all. All the way on hold, But I was literally, like, shopping around, like, do I want to get my own films and take it somewhere to get it done? Do I want to go in ahead, just go to a store and get it done. Done, so I can, like, have that peace of mind? Like, what does this process entail? So it's a lot. Everything automotive is all I'm shopping for. Like, even from, like, the smallest things.

[Francesca]

So, like, get a diffuser too. They have the little car ones. No, they have one that clips onto your vent.

[Asante]

Oh, the ones that go on the vent.

[Dustin Ross]

It.

[Francesca]

It's so cute, and it makes your car smell so yummy.

[Asante]

I like the little cup holder. The little cup holder.

[Francesca]

That one's cute, too.

[Dustin Ross]

The interior. Finally found it. Sorry, y'. All. I've been over here finding this website. Interior Moderna. That's the name of it. Interior Moderna.

[Francesca]

I need to add that to the

[Dustin Ross]

baby when I go on Interior Moderna. Well, I shouldn't even tell you two because you're gonna have the same problem I'm having.

[Asante]

Oh, God.

[Francesca]

Trying to get everything.

[Dustin Ross]

Furniture and shit for the house up there. Interior Mother Moderna. That's the name of the website.

[Francesca]

And speaking of home stuff, I'm also on Bed Threads, which I've mentioned is my. One of my favorite websites. If you like linen bedding, it's pricey, But I will say, as someone who's been shopping bed threads for. I mean, I can't even tell you how many years now. And if you were to open my linen closet, like, half of it is bed threads. I have every color damn near that they've dropped, but it's bad. But they have this blue. I'm into blue right now, really into blue. And they have this color called Coast. And it's like this really beautiful, like, light blue bedding. It's just perfect. And I ordered, like, some pillowcases and the flat sheet and the fitted sheet. Thank you. The fitted sheet, the flat sheet and cases and the two king ones. And so now I want to get like the duvet and the standard just to kind of like fill it out more. And it's just so good. And Piglet is another great brand that I love. I bought these. They're these striped, which is funny because I. I would never think myself to be a striped bedding person. But it's this light green and dark green striped bedding that's so. It's like a pine green, but it's so good the way they did it. And because it's linen, it has like a rustic look to it. You know, it's not as childish, if that makes sense. And it's so good. They have like a BlackBerry one. Like, I've just been embedding.

[Dustin Ross]

Do they make black? I like black sheets. Do they make just, like black sheets?

[Francesca]

You know what? I don't. I don't think I've seen black.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay. Typically, like, calming colors. You know what I'm saying?

[Francesca]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

I buy black seeds.

[Francesca]

I love. That's so funny.

[Asante]

It's so real friend. Because it's like I can remember being younger and like, hated, like, having to make my bed, but like now it's such, like a thing to appreciate a full bedding set. I love, like, from every little piece to like an all weather blanket. You know what I'm saying? Like, there are just so many little bedding things that are amazing. And she's like, just so plush. Like, I'm living life.

[Dustin Ross]

I don't mind making it. I'm not making my bed at all.

[Francesca]

And when you really get into the layers of it, different layers, like the little hacks to, like knowing that putting a comforter that is bigger in size. So let's say if you have a queen, you want to get the king comforter. So it makes it have that plush look that hotels have. Little hacks like that. Getting the blanket that goes across the front, like how many pillows you like,

[Asante]

propping them up right.

[Dustin Ross]

You just spread that over and do your thing.

[Francesca]

But I love bedding. I've always loved walking into the room and just seeing just a beautiful set. That's why it's one of my old sheets. I'm willing to spend money. There were many years too, where I only did white bedding.

[Dustin Ross]

Same.

[Francesca]

I don't know what I Was going through. But I only wanted that crisp hotel look. Everything you did, though, right? And then if you keep your house a little cold. Yeah, I guess it is a hotel influence. It's just nice in that white bed. But I got out of that.

[Dustin Ross]

They sexier. I would love to do, like, some of the neutral tones. Like, I love Brooklyn and sheets. So I'll buy, like, the Brooklyn. The gray ones from them.

[Francesca]

I like their towels. They just feel like waffle towels. Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

But I like black sheets because, like, imagine me bringing somebody home, and I roll down the sheets, and they're like blue plaid. You know what I'm saying?

[Francesca]

Like, oh, I remember the boys I had, though.

[Asante]

That's like such a college, you know, like.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, but if you brought. Turn it. But first of all, my bed is made. And, you know, the black sheets, it's like. It's a little.

[Asante]

Right.

[Francesca]

This is chic. You want to get in the bed.

[Asante]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

So, you know. Yeah. I think about stuff like that. You got to have. You got to be able to seal the deal. It's more than just hell, yeah. Getting a yes. You got to be able to make it happen. So, you know, the sheets got to make somebody want to lay down on them. I like.

[Francesca]

And that means something because I remember being younger, I had to be maybe 19 or 20. And this boy that I liked, I had gone to his house, and he had those blue plaid sheets. And I remember the sheets didn't smell fresh. And I couldn't hang with him after that. It was something weird about, like, he was nasty. Maybe knew you were gonna have a girl come. But in general, you like laying in sheets that smell weird. Like, I just was like, I can't. It's told me so much.

[Asante]

When's the last time you change these? Matter of fact. Yeah, I'm gonna go.

[Francesca]

You know, and the pillow was, like, super flat. It was kind of coming out a little bit of the.

[Asante]

And you can see the stains on

[Dustin Ross]

the actual white pillow.

[Francesca]

The actual white part was, like, a little bit, like, yellow, you know, like, if he'd had the.

[Dustin Ross]

I mean, he been sweating and you nasty. You going to bed. First of all, your sheets should never smell like nothing except fabric softener. And the dry.

[Asante]

Like, they should be fresh or linen spray.

[Francesca]

It just was. So I just remember being like, wow, this matters to me.

[Dustin Ross]

How can you sleep like that?

[Francesca]

How can you.

[Dustin Ross]

My body would be. My skin would be crawling. No way, Joseph.

[Francesca]

I didn't even want to know how often he changes. Mario that told me. And it's Such a handsome. But this is the thing. You'll meet men that are so handsome, well dressed, and then their homes.

[Dustin Ross]

Did I tell you all that story? Okay, so one time, this was recently, too.

[Asante]

This was like Real Housewives of Potomac. Like, oh. Because I was the one dating a politician. Sorry.

[Dustin Ross]

So me and my friends was in an Uber coming. We was going to a party or coming home from a party. I think we was on my. We were on my way to my house because that's when they cleared it up, when we got to my house. So we were on my way to my house after the club, which means I was already lit. So I'm in the car talking like that, like, I keep my house clean. Like, I ain't no way. You know, I can't even function if my house is dirty. Like, whatever, Whatever. I'm like, what the. What the. You a nasty ass if your house nasty. I'm like, going off my friends laughing. And I didn't notice at the time, but now that I think back on it, nobody really was adding in. And typically, you know, we talking. It's after the club. We going for it. We got back to my house, and my friend pulled. There was a boy that had rolled with us or whatever. He cool. Like, we know him, and he more friends with him than me, right? Apparently, I've never been over his house, but apparently his house is filthy to the point where, like, they have said something to him about it, all that other stuff. And so I'm not knowing this. You know what I'm saying? So I'm in the car, just going like that. Yo, now house nasty. They ain't a hot, hot house.

[Francesca]

And everybody was quiet.

[Dustin Ross]

So when we got back to my apartment, my friend told me, he said they was texting the whole time, dying in the car.

[Asante]

So you in there just going. They all doing the mannequin challenge.

[Francesca]

Like, I have never understood that. I have never understood that. And it's been. And I'm talking about men that, yeah, fine is money. And then you go back to the house, and you're like, what's going on in here?

[Dustin Ross]

And why is this okay with you? Why is there food? Why are there dishes out the little

[Francesca]

food, little piles of clothing in different areas? Like, you just took it off right here.

[Asante]

I told you I had to argue with somebody because they wanted to eat, bring food into my bed. Once years ago, I was like,

[Francesca]

I only do that when I'm sick, right?

[Dustin Ross]

And then it's on a trip.

[Asante]

This was in my New York apartment. And Y' all know I had a dining room and everything that's just like, why do you think that that needs to go in there?

[Dustin Ross]

Like, like, I don't even like you.

[Asante]

I had a bar. I had a bar. I had a dining table. Like, there were. There were several other places actually where you could eat like that are designated places to eat food.

[Francesca]

Yeah. That's a big rule in this house. Nothing food, drink, maybe water. Water obviously can go up to the room and tea, but food, no. Does not go past.

[Asante]

I don't even take drinks into my bedroom. Like, I literally don't.

[Francesca]

I do water in my tea.

[Asante]

I do have a water, like, picture or whatever. Like my Stanley being there. Keep it real cold. But outside of that, it don't be like, oh, let me juice in the bed.

[Dustin Ross]

There's not a 2 liter of squirt. There's not a 2 liter. A squirt on your nightstand. A flat 2 liter squirt.

[Francesca]

Oh, you know what? I'm also. I mentioned I'm waiting on the grow good products.

[Dustin Ross]

Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Francesca]

So I was on there. There's a tab open for that. And then Aveda. Y' all know I. Everyone when they ask questions, I love Aveda. I'm an Aveda girl all the way. I love y'. All. Aveda. They haven't sent me a package since I moved to Oregon.

[Dustin Ross]

Aveda. What's up with that? Why are you evading her?

[Francesca]

Also, here's another thing. So I may be changing my skin care after all these years.

[Dustin Ross]

Wow.

[Francesca]

I know. But my. I mean, I'm 44 and my skin is changing. It's going through a lot of changes. And I'm noticing it's just not responding

[Dustin Ross]

to the same stuff.

[Francesca]

The same to the same stuff. So I think there's some. Something. Maybe it's hormonal. Whatever the case, I think I need to like, switch it up, reconfigure some things. And so I've been doing some research on.

[Dustin Ross]

Oh, you're graduating.

[Francesca]

And as we said, new brands to try. I've been looking at a friend of mine. My. My friend was telling me to try youth to the people.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay.

[Francesca]

I've tried their body.

[Dustin Ross]

Sounds like a nonprofit.

[Francesca]

They're one of the, like, cleaner brands at Sephora. And my uses their body butter. I use the body butter and I was cool. What you think it will replace. It won't replace my Josie Marin. But it was cool. Like, it works. But nothing beats Josie Marin for me.

[Dustin Ross]

Not to be confused with Jose Banks, but. Right.

[Francesca]

I did buy Their facial moisturizer just to try it. And it has a lot of scent.

[Dustin Ross]

You didn't like that, did you?

[Francesca]

I don't like that.

[Asante]

What does it smell like?

[Francesca]

I couldn't even tell you. But it's just so strong. I'm like, whoa, I feel something's wrong with that. Like, your skincare shouldn't have a scent unless it's like body butter. Some people, your face.

[Dustin Ross]

I would know to buy you unscented. I would already know that friend don't want all that added in her.

[Francesca]

No. Or it has to be like something herbal, you know, like. Yeah. But I put it on lavender. Real lavender, though, like my deodorant.

[Dustin Ross]

Right.

[Asante]

See, like, I like to buy products that are. I'm not looking for a scent, but some people do, like, legit look for like, oh, my. I need my moisturizer to be fragrant. And it's like I need my moisturizer to moisturize.

[Francesca]

Like, I don't know if it's in my brain, but it'd be making my skin burn. My skin was hurting. I was like, oh, that's not.

[Dustin Ross]

That's. That ain't your type of hype at all.

[Francesca]

No. And then I did see that there was. They had a different moisturizer that had like. It was like adaptogen had like mushrooms and oat oil or some shit. I said, okay, now you. Now you speak my language. So I got the sampler. I learned my lesson because now I have this big ass mushrooms, usually dry ain't fragrance. I committed a little too fast. So I got the sampler and I put it on. And so far the smell is much better. It's much more pleasant. Really? Yeah. And then my skin reacted well to it. So I'm gonna see, I'm gonna. It's scary trying to new skincare, right? Because it's just too much your face,

[Dustin Ross]

like too much risk involved.

[Francesca]

Way too much. But those listening, if any of you use the youth to the people brand, specifically the mushroom Adaptogen line that has the cleanser and the moisturizer. Let me know if, like how that works for you, what kind of skin you have, how old you are, all the things. Because I'm curious if that's, you know, if I should keep. Keep testing that out.

[Dustin Ross]

So do y' all put face wash on your butt?

[Francesca]

Face wash?

[Asante]

No, because, you know, people get.

[Dustin Ross]

You know how people get butt acne. And I know some guys. Oh, I don't have butt swear by it that you. That. That's the same face routine. I know I know grown ass men that do that on their butt cheeks.

[Francesca]

But I guess that would make sense, right? The bacteria.

[Asante]

I read it somewhere, so I was like, let me just try this.

[Francesca]

Did it work?

[Asante]

I mean, I didn't have acne on my butt. I just want to try it to see.

[Dustin Ross]

I know people that do that. Ain't that crazy? It's funny to me. You can laugh. You can laugh. It's funny to me, like. But they. I'm dead serious. Like, I know, man.

[Francesca]

Listen, you gotta do what you gotta do. Speaking of. Josie Marin dropped a new body wash. That's Argan oil. It's like, oh, it is so good. And then it has the golden. I think it's called golden hour. This is really fresh scent for spring. Perfect. And if you. Okay, here's what I've been doing. If you use that body wash, the golden hour body butter, and then you spray that Michelle Pfeiffer perfume.

[Dustin Ross]

Dave, we talked about that last week, right?

[Francesca]

That was the last. Yeah, two weeks ago. That combo for spring is so fresh and so good. I was walking past people and they were like, what are you wearing? Only thing I will say is this Henry Rose does not last very long.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay.

[Francesca]

I kind of hate that.

[Asante]

Gotta reapply.

[Francesca]

And it's. And then I was thinking, oh, maybe I can't smell it because, you know, you go noseblind after a while. But I asked my partner, do I still smell like that perfume? And he was like, you do, but it's so light, you know, by the end of the day, it was just really light. So it don't have a lot of smell.

[Asante]

So you should stack it then. So then once that dissipates the scent coming in, people like, oh, you smell. You like a journey girl.

[Francesca]

Or just. Or just keep the sampler in your purse, right? The sample you can refresh. Or. I know hacks, right? Or people do hacks where they'll put, like, vanilla oil. Oh, yeah. Or amber oil. So it almost has, like an adhesive, if that makes sense. I'll make it stick to. And maybe last a little longer. Right. So maybe that can work. Such a perfect.

[Asante]

Not the. Got to be glued.

[Francesca]

It's such a perfect scent. And so I do wish that it lasted longer. That's probably my only feedback for Michelle Pfeiffer.

[Dustin Ross]

If you're listening, I switched my fragrance recently too, but I'm gatekeeping.

[Francesca]

Cause it's so good. Ooh.

[Dustin Ross]

Well, actually, I won't. I'll tell. I'll tell everybody, but I. It's A. So I wear one of the Valentino Born in Roma scents. And I.

[Francesca]

Is that the red one or the green one?

[Dustin Ross]

No, but I have both. I have green, yellow, the. The coral.

[Francesca]

I got the yellow because of you.

[Dustin Ross]

The yellow dream.

[Francesca]

Yeah. You were like, you gotta try it. And I ended up getting. I really like it. Get the purple.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. So that's the one. I use that same samesies. That's the one I have upstairs on our Barney. But, yeah. You know what I'm saying? So I love it like, on my mama. Like, any room I go into, people, like, ask me what. What I'm wearing, and they respond to it. Compliments. Yeah. As a homosexual especially. So. Yeah. I love the vibe.

[Francesca]

Brown girl, Jane, they discontinued my scent. Her break in Dusk, that is. I DM them. That's how hurt I was. I was like, why would y' all do this? Why y' all do this to me? And no. And the girl's like, I know. I'm so sorry. Or whoever it is that runs their social media. Like, I'm so sorry.

[Dustin Ross]

What was the guy's name?

[Francesca]

Spencer.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah.

[Francesca]

She was like, I know. I'm so sorry. They've discontinued, like, half of the OG since they put out when they started, and I just need to understand why.

[Dustin Ross]

Quiet as it's kept. I want some more embodiment. I don't really know who I need to talk to.

[Francesca]

Oh, oh.

[Dustin Ross]

But I'm right here.

[Francesca]

Well, I have bottles, too. I can bring you when I come to New York.

[Dustin Ross]

Thank you.

[Francesca]

You know, I have, like, cabinet full.

[Dustin Ross]

I need some embodiment, friend. I used to be like this. Yes. Just like you talking.

[Asante]

Keep a little on me, you know what I'm saying?

[Dustin Ross]

And things was going through

[Asante]

amazing.

[Francesca]

No, we'll make y' all some for sure.

[Dustin Ross]

We need some last.

[Francesca]

Wait, last thing I want to know. What about clothing? Any carts open with clothing or.

[Dustin Ross]

I already told you, Farfetch.

[Francesca]

What's something in your essence Cart.

[Dustin Ross]

Well, you know what? Actually, right now I got some in my ebay cart. It's a Yo, don't sleep on eBay. EBay.

[Asante]

Got that.

[Francesca]

Let me tell you, the Japanese. The Japanese ebay shops, if y' all need to know some, I can definitely let y' all know. Crazy.

[Dustin Ross]

I really need a supreme plug. Shout out to our audience. I love our listeners so much. Thank you. Love you. If anybody is a supreme connect or plug, I need that. I need, like, a supreme partnership, some gifting and access to be being able to, like, get pieces and stuff, because I like a Lot of the home accessories. I like a lot of the. I have a Supreme. You know, the Stanley Tool company, they did. They did a collab. I have a handsaw, a red supreme and Stanley handsaw that I'm gonna frame and put on my wall. But I. So I need a Supreme Connect. For real. I would love to be a product brand ambassador. I would love to work with Supreme.

[Asante]

Supreme did a collab with North Face years ago, and I still think about it.

[Dustin Ross]

I have the backpack.

[Asante]

They have that. The. The. You know, the standard North Face.

[Francesca]

I had the puff coat.

[Asante]

They came in, like, silver, gold, silver, and, like, another color. And I was like, damn, I need one of those.

[Dustin Ross]

That camo one was nasty, too. It was a camo one with the black trim, and it had Supreme North Face. So I need a Supreme Connect. Shameless plug. I need a Supreme Connect. There's a sweatsuit right now on my ebay cart, which is why I brought it up. There's a Supreme sweatsuit in my ebay cart right now that has, like, the big patch letters on the hood that go all the way down the back. It says supreme, and it says it down the pant leg, too. I just haven't pulled the trigger yet.

[Francesca]

You know what? I' ma facetime you. Next time I go thrifting, please. There's a sub. There's a Second street. I don't know if y' all know Second Street Market. It's like a brand of. Yeah, they're fine. They do, but it's. I wouldn't even call it Thrifting because it's curated, you know, like, it's very curated.

[Asante]

Carefully selected.

[Francesca]

Carefully. And expensive as fuck. But they have a whole supreme section. You know what? You should actually just come out here. There's Second Streets all over. No, but there's Second Streets all over New York.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay.

[Francesca]

Yeah. Like, down in the LES, there's one right behind 60 LES, the hotel. There's one right behind it that I always.

[Dustin Ross]

I'll check it out.

[Francesca]

Yeah, and they have. They usually have a whole supreme section. And it's so fire because it's. That's, like, from back in the day. You're not gonna find nowhere. One of one, like, real dope.

[Dustin Ross]

So I need.

[Francesca]

Next time I go though out here, I' ma facetime you.

[Dustin Ross]

Thank you.

[Francesca]

Because the supreme section is next to the Stussy section. You know, I'm a butt. Like, yes, I'm a stussy butt the way you are. Supreme. Stupid. Susie is. Is for me. So they're next to each other and if I see anything, I think it's fly.

[Dustin Ross]

Thank you, friend.

[Francesca]

Absolutely. But yes. I just wanted to be nosy and see what was in Yalls carts and if anybody is listening, what's in Yalls cards. I'm always so curious what people are window shopping and browsing for these days. Oh, and also go Quince. I have to shout out Quince because we've worked with them on and off for the past few years. Quinn's has amazing silk pillowcases and I no matter what my hair is, I always have the first two pillows that we sleep on are always silk because it's important for my skin and important for my hair products. And so that's not a negotiable. So I. And so then I have to have a lot of different silk pillowcases. Right. To match all the different colors and textures and so.

[Dustin Ross]

And mine would be matching.

[Francesca]

So Quince Etsy is probably my number one for finding silk pillowcases because they just have a lot of like the indie creators that make them. And then Quince is my second spot. So if you're looking for a really good silk, definitely check there. I just had to remember that.

[Dustin Ross]

But yes, that's a meeting in your bedroom.

[Francesca]

Silk. That's it for this week in wellness.

[Asante]

You didn't start a business just to

[Dustin Ross]

keep the lights on.

[Asante]

You're here to sell more today than yesterday.

[Dustin Ross]

You're here to win.

[Asante]

Lucky for you, Shopify built the best converting checkout on the planet. Like the just one tapping ridiculously fast acting sky high sales stacking champion at checkouts. That's the good stuff right there.

[Dustin Ross]

So if your business is in it

[Asante]

to win it, win with Shopify. Start your free trial [e-mail] win this week in music. A lot has happened in music but we're going to keep it real short over here. First off, let's give it up to Kalani Kehlani for dropping her R B project, self titled incredible album.

[Francesca]

I love the direction she went in. Feels very 90s early 2000s.

[Asante]

Yes, Kehlani, she has given you more to come pick up than you know your clothes because folded is finally part of a full project. This project features a lot of people. I mean Lil John, Cardi B, Lil Wayne, Brandy, you name it, they're on it. And Kehlani, we know that she, she's got the vocal game in the bag. She's out here making music. She's been doing her thing. Hopefully there are visuals to come, more dancing. I have you guys had a Chance to both listen to the record album.

[Francesca]

Not the entire thing, but a lot of it. And I'm. It's dope. Y. I love the Brandy record.

[Dustin Ross]

I can. I love that song.

[Francesca]

Right.

[Asante]

It's a great record. Any other opinions you want to share,

[Francesca]

Fran, about the album?

[Asante]

Yep. Or. Or just what you've heard so far?

[Francesca]

The Brandy record really is the one that stood out to me right now. I was gonna play it today and everything. Cause I enjoyed it that much.

[Asante]

Well, we're gonna show her some love, then. All right, then. Dustin, what about you? Any other. Any other standouts to you or things you'd like to say about Kehlani's new project?

[Dustin Ross]

I think that's a nice little run. The song from Pocket with Cardi to Lightsong with Big Sean to sweet Nothings with Leon Thomas. That's a nice little run right. Right there. The sequencing on this album is great. Shout out to Chris Riddick Tynes, the producer of the album. Dope, dope, dope, dope, dope, dope, dope.

[Asante]

Yes.

[Dustin Ross]

Gone. You go, girl. Okay. Had a monster smash hit with Folded. You know what I'm saying? That's gonna be a folded mind, by the way, is one of them timeless songs. The way we love when I see you by Fantasia type. People love folded like that. It's always going. When you hear that beat start, it's always gonna mean something to us at the.

[Francesca]

At the cookouts, at the lounges, all

[Dustin Ross]

of that day parties, forever to be played, for sure. And she really brought it home with that. She's a Grammy winner now. Like, I just. I think that that's dope. So, Kaylani, you go, girl. That's all I got for you. Yeah.

[Asante]

Speaking of. You go, girl. Just a couple more stories, and they're all gonna revolve around women. The first story that I. Or the second story I would like to share out of this bunch. Because Kehlani, you know, you go hard. You go, girl. She set the precedents. Other girls that I would like to go hard and keep going are Dochi and Gaga. They have released their visual for their song Runway, which is off of the soundtrack for the new Devil Wears Prada movie. Now, the song, when it was released, there were opinions about it, but the visual, I feel like, brings it all together. For people that had opinions about the song, the song didn't really bother me when it came out. I appreciated it. I know what type of movie it's for. I know the type of music that they. They are both capable of making. Lady Gaga and Dochi separately are both capable of making super cool pop clubby records. And it's dope. They came together and had this moment.

[Dustin Ross]

A lot of creativity in one studio.

[Asante]

A lot of. Yeah, a lot of dope. Amazing creativity. And it's dope for them both because they're both having. They're both having great times. Right. Dochi is just on.

[Francesca]

I haven't heard it.

[Asante]

She's been working with. Oh, it's a. It's a banger. Maybe I'll play it for my part of the Music man segment. But you know Dochi, she's been out here killing it live. She's been releasing singles. Gaga, she's been on tour killing it. So for them to both have come together and have this moment, for this secret people have. Gaga is Gaga. So for Dochi to add Gaga into the list of people she's worked with,

[Dustin Ross]

you know, Katy Perry as a formidable peer too, because to me, Dochi is. Dolce cemented herself. She's just as relevant. I'll just put it like that.

[Asante]

Absolutely.

[Dustin Ross]

You know what I'm saying?

[Asante]

So this is a perfect follow up to her feature with Katy Perry, right? Her and Katy Perry, when that song dropped, they appeared as peers in that song. But also Dochi served her up and down in that song. So it was like. And it was almost as if Katy Perry knew she was. And I was using her for it. But it's like she was like she was letting it happen. She was like, you know, this girl's doing her thing. I gotta respect her artistry, girls.

[Dustin Ross]

And then think about. Do music. And then think about Dr. The Depth. You know, I'm saying. So I ain't mad at it, because Katy Perry is Katy Perry. We ain't going to minimize the impact.

[Asante]

Exactly, exactly.

[Dustin Ross]

But I'm talking about creative, you know what I'm saying? Like, no, she was like, I do this in a blindfold with my hands tied.

[Asante]

Like, especially that type of. That type of track. That. That was that Katie. Because I didn't expect that type of track from Katy Perry. And it sounded good on her, but it sounded amazing on doi. So for her do. To revisit the sound with Gaga, but also even more so because both of them, back to your original point about creativity, they're both creative powerhouses. Gaga is very important to the gay people. Dochi has cemented herself as one for the gays as well. So we're loving both of them.

[Francesca]

All right, all right, now.

[Dustin Ross]

Well, she's gay. I know.

[Francesca]

Gay.

[Dustin Ross]

She's gay.

[Francesca]

Why are you gay?

[Dustin Ross]

How can it be homophobic? My beach is gay.

[Francesca]

Are you gay? Will always kill me.

[Asante]

I want to shout out. I want to shout out as a collective. And this single went out. I want to shout out to Infinity song. Oh, Momo, Infinity song. They actually just dropped a tiny desk. They are on the tiny desk. So shout out to them.

[Dustin Ross]

Pale. Raw talent. Stop playing.

[Francesca]

Oh, those are the siblings. You said Momo Boyd, is it?

[Asante]

Yes. And then I want to single out Momo boy. Yes, Momo Boy. She just dropped. She dropped a visual about a month ago. I think it was like a. It was a visualizer. She's a sweetheart. And then she just dropped a video, like, a week or2ago.

[Dustin Ross]

Ms. Michigan.

[Asante]

Oops. Or yeah. Or yeah, Momo's working now. I know that for some people because I was seeing one of my short times, short stints on Twitter, I saw some discourse happening around it being confusing that Momo's making music and Infinity Song is still a thing.

[Dustin Ross]

Well, ketchup, mustard, you slow.

[Asante]

I think that two things can exist, if not three or four, you know? And I feel like some people were wondering, okay, well, why are we seeing her? Or why is she centered? Or why aren't other things. We don't know their business. All we are offered is their product. Right. And their product is their talent. Momo is giving us. Damn, she's calling me. Momo is giving us her.

[Dustin Ross]

Damn, Momo boy. Well, if you want to know, I

[Asante]

can tell you myself, Momo is.

[Francesca]

But also, when you're in a group, you have to choose songs and sounds that everyone agrees on, and sometimes that don't align with what you want to do, especially as you're getting older. Yeah. So it makes sense when an artist

[Asante]

goes solo, but also they're a family, and we don't know their business. We don't know what they're doing. So there could have been a plan for them to just make some songs or some music, and then maybe something took off. They were like, this is cool, but I don't really care about this. Or maybe there was always a plan, like, Momo, you got to be the one. Or whatever. The. Because the brother, I think, makes music, too.

[Francesca]

And it's not just her, though. They're all going solo.

[Dustin Ross]

And she has the bomb ass feature on the Baby Keem album that's going crazy right now. And everybody asking, who's this pretty girl in this video?

[Asante]

Yes.

[Dustin Ross]

The hello career.

[Francesca]

Some rollers and a hair dryer.

[Asante]

I'm just saying, like, all four of

[Dustin Ross]

Them she looks like this classic beauty, actually to a timely look.

[Asante]

I can appreciate everyone where they're at that. So, yeah, being front and center, I would love to see it. And if anybody else wants to come forward, I would love to see them too. And I don't think that it's a problem that if they want to continue to push out music as a group and you know them all separately, if there's a plan there, I don't see anything wrong with that. It doesn't mean that they're competing. It means that everybody has something that they want to offer at this time and they all should be able to offer it.

[Dustin Ross]

And just we win as consumers. Right. Because we get old projects and all the music. Typically when an artist comes from a group and goes solo, the conversation is, oh my God, are they ever going to get back together? I love this artist as a solo artist, but damn, that would be dope if they got back together one more time as a group. We ain't even got to go through that. This is what I mean about y'. All. You never satisfied this.

[Asante]

I just think things don't have to go. Things don't have to go one way. And I feel like story could go so many interesting ways that we could revisit it, you know, in years in a movie or, you know, on an album or however. And it's just so cool to me. So let's not be negative and get out her way.

[Dustin Ross]

Why wouldn't you let her eat twice? Because she getting paid from the Infinity Song projects and work as well as a bonafide solo star, which she. Which seems like a natural fit to me. She seems like a natural solo artist. The group shit. But I'm interested in Momo Boy. And I'm very familiar with infinity, QX60 or whatever their name is. What's their name?

[Asante]

Infinity Song.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, Infinity Songs. They related to Trey.

[Francesca]

They're cute.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. So you know what I'm saying? I. But I'm very familiar with them. They've been on all the talk shows. They were discovered, you know what I'm saying, in Central Park. I believe it was singing and so like, get it. But I like that. I like seeing her push to the front and it's. Yeah, I like seeing the others get their shine too. Why would you stop that? Or speak negatively and let this black girl through. Let her through. What the is. And she's talented. Come on. Like, this is a no brainer for me. Quit hating with your ass.

[Francesca]

She's that pretty.

[Asante]

That's it. For the artist dimensions portion of this. Now we can move on to the listens lately. So I want to know what y' all been listening to lately, Especially getting started with your. Your on the road on the go self friend. Cuz I know your birthday this week too.

[Francesca]

It was Jaylen Josie. Y' all know I'm.

[Dustin Ross]

Did you listen to.

[Francesca]

I did and I felt like she dropped it for me because it was on my birthday. She dropped an album called serial romantic, I think it's called. And my. My favorite record on it is called truce and this is how it goes.

[Dustin Ross]

The album called serial romantic with a title with a track called truce.

[Francesca]

Truce. Okay. This is how it goes. I feel it's getting worse. You get more and more on my nerves. No one wants to lose when egos are attached we're heating up the road with words we'll soon regret But I'm not trying to wake up Stay up, be mad all night and move in silence? Cause all we do is survive let's just do what is long overdue can we get over it and call it a truce? It's easy to get past it.

[Asante]

Shout out to Jennifer, the whole project. She sounds really, really good.

[Dustin Ross]

That was great.

[Francesca]

You are the truth. I'm such a fan of yours. So we're reading the Brandy book, right? Phases a memoir. And we read a chapter where she was talking about Ray j and about his career and just his start in the industry and how. And how they. As a matter of fact, I want

[Dustin Ross]

to play when wished by him,

[Francesca]

but she reminded me his first song, let it go. And I said, oh, my God, I remember that song. Don't let it go. I was reading and jamming. Oh, I had to play it. It's for our age group.

[Dustin Ross]

Do it hands right for the 99 in the 2000.

[Asante]

Some love.

[Francesca]

Ray J. His sing first single, his debit. Remember they used to say that. His debit single. His debut single, let it go. And this is how it goes. Hard times from the 9 to 5 with just a world they see but get your boogie shoes there's a remedy I insist that you be down and laugh I insist you understand right now you can't do nothing ever so let it go and let everybody's out on the floor don't you know I'm going to can't do nothing better so let it go Set your troubles free Dance with me control. Every now and then Yo, Tommy, that's

[Dustin Ross]

the way that song was.

[Asante]

The.

[Francesca]

That song brought back so many memories. I mean, flooding this. That sound Too like that guitar. And then lastly, I'm gonna play Brandy, her song with Kalani. It's called I need you. Love it how it goes. I wanna be in your face I want what I can have Hand at you every day. And that's the part of me that says that I still in everywhere that you wear your hand. And it cannot be in my head. Comes from a place that tell me I'm going crazy with waiting for you how can they get you here? I miss you every day on my lips to your I hope finds our way. I love Brandy and I'm so happy to hear her again. Shout out to Kehlani for getting that. And those are my three for this week. Don't let it go.

[Dustin Ross]

Give it up for friend and her Jerbo jeans.

[Francesca]

And you know I have JBO jeans.

[Asante]

Dustin, what you been over there listening to, bro?

[Dustin Ross]

All right, let it go. My song by since we're talking about Ray J. My song by. Well, I'm playing four songs this week. Hold on. But I am going to play a, you know, a Ray J song, just not one.

[Francesca]

Oh, I love that.

[Dustin Ross]

No, this is my Ray J song. It is called Anytime.

[Francesca]

Wait, not a song I don't know, Baby. Yeah, you know what this is. You granted all my wishes and damn it, I'm gonna miss it. If we fade away I don't wanna be down Loving you I have found girl I want you around always don't you believe that nobody needs you Cuz I do I need all of you bab if you can see that nobody needs you like I do I need all of you bab Anytime I needing someone I think of you for comfort can you feel me? Anytime you're feeling down for Need a friend for comfort can you feel me? Oh ain't no need for front end

[Dustin Ross]

okay, so I was like, let me play some Ray J. I know you

[Francesca]

played the album, cuz I had to.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay, now this real song I was about to play is called Home.

[Francesca]

This.

[Dustin Ross]

This is by DZ Hollow, featuring Keek the Sneak, Joe Moses and G Perico. Is called home Know how to bring it

[Asante]

she better take up

[Dustin Ross]

Bring that

[Asante]

thing to leave it.

[Dustin Ross]

Like huh Hit him Knocking at my door Looking for me no one's don't you know we got players, pushers, gangsters, riders, homies from the land of the colors Turn up hustle active, rolling Make a player want to make a flip

[Asante]

get off your ass and make some money quick Make a player hit him

[Dustin Ross]

with a sink at the bottom how to reminisce yeah. That's the jam, right?

[Francesca]

I like it.

[Dustin Ross]

Now, this next song, believe it or not, you know what I'm saying? I know I've talked a lot of. About not really having a familiarity with this artist catalog, but this song came across my feed, and I was like, yo, this is actually the. This is Ariana Grande. Every time.

[Francesca]

You go back to you Back to you back to you Every time I get tired of your no shows you get tired of my control they keep telling me to let go But I don't really let go when I say so I keep giving people blank stares I'm so different when you're not not there it's like something out of Shakespeare. Because I'm really not here when you're not there I've tried to fight our

[Dustin Ross]

energy

[Francesca]

but every time I think I'm free. Back to you, back to you Back to you, Back to you I was.

[Dustin Ross]

Before I knew it, I was in this. I was sweeping and mopping my apartment, and I. It played. I was like. And she got the riffing at the end.

[Francesca]

That's the best feeling.

[Dustin Ross]

So, yeah, shout out to Ariana Grande because that's the jam. And the last song I was gonna play. Now you know damn well I know what he was gonna get out of here without playing my okay. You know damn well we wasn't gonna leave this this week without me playing my shout out to young Miami. Got one. Okay. I don't give a what nobody say. This is my. This beat is hard. I don't care what nobody says. I want to hear this. I want to hear this. In Miami in a car at nighttime, riding around blasting this shit off of two, three drinks, you know what I'm saying? Getting ready to go to another restaurant and get some more and then go party. I love this song. This is called Spin that by Young Miami.

[Francesca]

Jy, turn me up, Miami it's all my scammings and my kid money. Spending that money fast 2050s, honey cash boy going echo. I like to cat making more than

[Dustin Ross]

10 figures I'm a down riding with

[Francesca]

you in the spag Only with the hitters for his girl here Trucker calling up his trap phone where you at? Show me where you spend a block

[Dustin Ross]

on your ops Hanging out the drop screaming the cops what we doing?

[Francesca]

Show me where your hood at? What's your place con?

[Dustin Ross]

What you good at? Shout out to young Miami I don't give a shout out to young Miami Miami Spin that.

[Asante]

That should. That should definitely be a successful record.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah. And the Video is incredible.

[Asante]

It's something about that single mini in the video. A hood sing along is like. It should win.

[Dustin Ross]

You hear me? Yeah. Swear to God in heaven. Nene leaks in the video. Talking in the. In the back of the strip club.

[Asante]

I did.

[Dustin Ross]

See, that's why spent going at Go stuffing that shit in y' all bag. I was like, miami. You know what? You know the fuck what? And what made me like it? She previewed it on the Jo and Jada show. And the way Fat Joe and Jadakis was going to fuck off to that song. You gotta see it, man. I'm telling you, Jay Joe and Jadakiss literally made me like that song. They did. I don't care. And all I could think about was Miami at night. Nighttime. Like just riding in a drop top. Yeah. You know, but that's me. So go ahead. Thank you. Spin that.

[Francesca]

The range like a rover.

[Dustin Ross]

Okay.

[Asante]

I don't want to feel left out. So I'm gonna play four songs because I want to play a Ray J song.

[Dustin Ross]

It's Ray J. It's Ray J.

[Asante]

We praying for our brother now because we are reading Brandy's book. This is Brandi and Ray J. This is another day in paradise. I've always loved this record.

[Francesca]

Oh,

[Dustin Ross]

Paradise, paradise.

[Francesca]

She calls out to the man on the street. Sir, can you help me? It's cold and I know where to sleep. Is there somewhere you can tell me? He won't talk, doesn't look bad. He pretends he can't hear her. Starts to whistle as he crosses the street. Seems embarrassed to be there. Think twice. Cause it's another day for you and me there, Dice. Oh, think twice. Cause it's another day, you and me. The china part is crazy.

[Dustin Ross]

I love the china part of that song.

[Asante]

Next song is from an artist, Donald Trump.

[Dustin Ross]

Say China. I love it.

[Asante]

Yeah. This artist has dropped a couple of records with this new offering, but I'm just gonna play one of them. The other offering has James Fauntleroy, so I really want to play that one. But this is just them by themselves because they are that talented. I want to make sure that they got their proper justice. Duran. Bernard, this is. Am I okay?

[Dustin Ross]

Yes. For a small piece of your time.

[Asante]

I'll pay a fee Just to sit

[Dustin Ross]

here on this couch and bear my soul.

[Asante]

Doctor, I just wanna know. Oh,

[Dustin Ross]

I think I ran out of foot. Something about it don't make sense And I can't care no more. It got my heart in a rope Cry a river where I, I couldn't

[Asante]

swim Away Would you pull me up?

[Dustin Ross]

Tell life to come and get whatever

[Asante]

for real I'm missing Shout out to Duran for always doing his thing Next artist I want to play is ly this song is called Melanate it Here's

[Francesca]

how it goes My head nappy snappy laughing pop and bragging I'm proud of if you ask in a blackest I feel strong in my skin I love my accent I'm not here without ances this a bittersweet past tense the present tastes like a a flavor piece of chicken from mama's kitchen Finger licking should be good in a moment the reminder of that bullshit in the morning like when Monday come you get some dumb ass papers you're reviewing what's that time to stop on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing sons out, guns out, kids running, run out Wifey running her mouth about getting trump out it sound like baby did you hear what happened on the news? This man trying to take all the money, trying to take all the funding we jumping and jumping about to sustain funds for the house no more hush in his mouth Melan is the crown you can never take never take, never

[Asante]

take, never take that's the re.

[Dustin Ross]

That was good.

[Asante]

Last record I'mma play this record is by L L Tyler featuring Trim. This song is called no Trick. Now I'm not gonna play this whole record but I just want to shout out trim. Trim is a younger artist, she's a newer artist. She's come under fire because you know her sound, it's related to Nicki Minaj's, you know, it does hit the ears sometimes as it does sound, you know, she cold though. She cold, but she's young, she's new and I.

[Dustin Ross]

She got a stank ass attitude. I've seen her that.

[Asante]

I've seen her pass just one or two records. I've seen her showcase, showcase other flows. So it's not like she just took this one thing and it's going to be her thing.

[Francesca]

So she's a young, she's gonna figure it out.

[Asante]

She's a young black artist that's playing around with sounds and young and having fun and I with her. But this is her little Tyler and they sound really good together. This song is called no Trick.

[Dustin Ross]

I like this.

[Francesca]

I can make it rain but I ain't no trick Ain't gonna pay for I just pay attention to watch for who on that snakey makes sense. You don't chase no money but you want to chase a. I got the cake and this little eater says she Want to taste, she want to be banging.

[Dustin Ross]

She bad as hell.

[Francesca]

But I told her I can't commit to a relationship. Cause there's way too many hoes that trying to get flipped. Yeah, fine, she don't got no waist but she thinking the hip, the fang Gang. I'm just trying to go running. Tyler can't change, he's still on that same thing. I can't make it rain, Rain got your main thing on the Mary Jane Blaine. She going to make it say I'm going to make it long as I got paid. He told me made that clap. If I throw it then he finna hit it again. If I throw it then he gonna spin it again. If I thought, you know he gonna hit it again. I said I'm carry this crap.

[Dustin Ross]

If I blow it then he finna blow it again.

[Francesca]

If I throw it then he finna do it again.

[Asante]

So yes, that is what the kids are on today and I'm with it.

[Dustin Ross]

That's segment trim.

[Asante]

Hard.

[Dustin Ross]

For real, she hard. And like I said, she got a stank motherfucking nasty ass attitude. You've seen her in any interviews? Yeah, she's very, very self aware in a way that is attractive. The brag, the brag, the she, she's. It's just the bravado like that a rapper needs to have. So it's not a turn off, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Shout out to.

[Francesca]

Oh, I'm gonna look that up.

[Asante]

Shout out to trim.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, and also one more, two more points. Number one. It's prom season right now and you know everybody's doing them huge prom send offs. If I was going to the prom, I would have walked out my mama house that, that song, you know how all their families, I would have walked out to that in my prime suit and some tennis shoes. And then because that's what they'd be wearing now. It's so stupid to me. But also I would be wearing it because that's what they wear because that's what's coin second thing as far as her sounding like Nicki Minaj, of course she's gonna be heavily influenced by Nicki Minaj because she's a young girl who was a little kid when Nicki Minaj was at the height of her fame. So naturally like her rapping like that is not. Oh wow, who isn't? It's not a designer and whoever he sound like situation, you know what I'm saying? It's like a, it's, it's, it's just she's influenced by that style of rap elements. Yeah, those elements. You know what I'm saying? And it's not. It's not. It doesn't. It's not her plagiarizing Nicki style. You know what I'm saying? So that's all I wanted to say.

[Francesca]

Period.

[Asante]

Shout out to you, trim. We love you over here, girl. That's it for the music man segment

[Dustin Ross]

this week in tv. Of course, you all know we're deeply entrenched in season 17 of the Real Housewives of Atlanta. I'm very excited about that. This season has been very good. The personal story is personal storying for all of the ladies, and I love that. Shout out to Derek Hayes, who is Pinky Cole's husband. He is the proprietor and owner of Dave's Cheesesteaks, wildly successful franchise. He's a fan.

[Asante]

Yeah, they are good.

[Dustin Ross]

Rich in his own right. Pinky this week revealed to him the realities of her financial situation concerning her business. Slutty vegan. And the fact that she had met with. She revealed to him the fact that she had met with a bankruptcy attorney. Tearfully. They were going for a walk in the neighborhood, which we're back in the classic elements of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Things like walking around the neighborhood on camera. They're doing all that again. So Pinky and her husband Derek were walking when she revealed to him that she had met with a bankruptcy attorney and that she was going to have to file. And she shared with him that she was embarrassed when he immediately recognized her emotional needs in the moment. Immediately, like, there was no beat. He was like, come here. He hugged her, and he was like, I'm in this with you. We marry. He was like. She was like, how much? She was like, like, 5 million or whatever. He was like, well, I'm gonna give you $5 million. And she was like, I don't want you to do that. I hear that period, loud and clear. Blow my eardrums out. Okay. Cause you talking my kind of talk. But anyway, what? He was like, I'll give you the $5 million. Like. And it was not a thought. He didn't seem burdensome to him. Nothing. He was like. He was like, this is gonna have a public fallout. He was like, and I don't want you to. You know what I'm saying? He was just totally attentive to her and her needs in that moment.

[Asante]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

And just seeing that on camera, like, that is what I'm talking about. She was crying. He had just told her she looked good and her ass Looked good. And her shorts. You know, I love a good. You gotta flirt and let your person know you still interested.

[Francesca]

Hell, yeah.

[Asante]

They have a great relationship, right?

[Dustin Ross]

It was natural, right?

[Asante]

I loved watching them on their date a couple episodes before when he said that he wanted to be there for her in every way possible. And then even as painful as it was watching her keep that from him because she loves him so much. So then it was great. It was even more beautiful to watch this episode, to see this reaction. Like, I love watching the two of them.

[Dustin Ross]

So shout out to the Real Housewives of Atlanta. It was a lot of other good shit on there, but, oh, can I

[Asante]

just say, I thought it was so funny. So friend, part of the storyline, they trying to take Pinky down. Talking about the Jamaican. Remember the Jamaican restaurant that I said she used to work at? I've told this story on this show a million times about how when I met Pinky at the Jamaican restaurant, she was vegan then, and she made all the food and was having me taste it. She was like, yeah, make all the sauces. You just season it, right? Like, I know how to season the food. I just don't eat it no more and would have me taste it. So it's like, I knew then she was a vegan, which is why I trusted her so much when she opened Slutty Vegan, and I was like, this

[Dustin Ross]

is actually good vegan food.

[Asante]

So to watch this play out on TV.

[Francesca]

And that spot she had on 139th, remember, on the corner?

[Asante]

Yeah, yeah, the juice bar.

[Dustin Ross]

Right by my old apartment.

[Francesca]

Yeah, right in front, the juice bar. That was so cute.

[Dustin Ross]

So, but. And here's my thing about that. Phaedra brought that up. So there was a discrepancy. Shamia, who had me rolling this episode, Shamir was like, look, she was like, I thought the lady said Pinky used to eat meat. And then she was like, when I tell you it was so cute. It was so funny. I was rolling. But then, while Phaedra did not say Pinky used to eat meat, Phaedra told Shamia that Pinky used to sell meat with the exact same intention.

[Asante]

Intent.

[Dustin Ross]

You know what I'm saying? It was the exact same intent. That's why you said that to her. So you don't get. You don't get to cop a plea and say you didn't say that because that's what you meant. You know what I mean? Whether you said it or not, that was funny. So watch the Real Housewives of Atlanta, because the season is Seasoning. It's very good. We're gonna watch the Real Housewives of Rhode Island. This is season one. So we're getting on the ground floor with this one. And we'll be talking about that over on our watch party, which we call our weekly watch party, which we call the Binge over on the Friends on Patreon. So you can join us if you'd like. Thank you, Patreon, to those who do. We love you, Patreon. You can go to www.patreon.com the Friendzone podcast, and that's where you can watch along with us and enjoy our commentary. It's a whole nother show, and it's a show within the show because you're watching us on Patreon. So we employ.

[Francesca]

Can we start that one this week? Actually, yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

Get in where you fit in, right? Which is the ground floor. And honestly, hey, that's it for TV this week. Oh, no, the fuck it's not. Y' all know what we gotta talk about? Euphoria.

[Francesca]

Euphoria, yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

Hell, yeah.

[Francesca]

What is going on with this show?

[Dustin Ross]

My God.

[Francesca]

Here's the thing where we at.

[Dustin Ross]

It's a totally different show.

[Asante]

And I said, I need to let it start.

[Francesca]

When it ended this week, I literally sat there in my living room and said, what is happening?

[Dustin Ross]

What just happened?

[Asante]

So is this episode three?

[Dustin Ross]

Two?

[Francesca]

I believe that was two.

[Asante]

Oh, this is only two. Okay.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Asante]

I need another. I need to Wait.

[Dustin Ross]

I think that was three. That was three this week. Yeah, that was three this week.

[Asante]

This is even further to my point. I need to let it stack because if y' all still don't know what's going on by episode three, I don't need to watch it yet. But it's not.

[Francesca]

But it's not like a. I don't know what's going on. Like, it's, like, confusing. It's more so, like, wow, what a different show.

[Asante]

But is it more so. It is more of episode one.

[Francesca]

Yeah.

[Dustin Ross]

Yeah.

[Asante]

So, yeah. So, yeah.

[Francesca]

Story. That's where we at.

[Asante]

Yeah. So it's like, I need to let that stack a little bit. I need to, like. I need to be able to, like, feel it out and get used to it, because watch again. Ending every episode. I know Euphoria is supposed to make me feel like, what the. But it's like a. It's like an adjustment of what the. I have to get used to. But please share your thoughts on what you've seen so far. I have no qualms.

[Dustin Ross]

Well, it's just Good. And it's still early in the season. It's a lot going on and it would be way too deep of a dive to take over here. This last episode and I honestly, the reason I thought it was episode two is because I'm behind. I need to watch episode three. Oh, yeah, no, but some have it at the end of episode two too. That's why I thought that's what you're talking about.

[Francesca]

No, but episode three is like, what?

[Asante]

Yeah, you know what? Destiny, catch up and we'll catch up and we can talk about it tonight on the Wind Down.

[Francesca]

Oh, yeah. True, true.

[Dustin Ross]

Plug that. Cause I'm done with this TV here.

[Asante]

All right. Well, if you've made it this far, Friend Zone listeners, and you're listening to this episode, the day that it's come out, please make sure. And if you're listening to any other day, to be honest, please visit us over at Patreon.

[Dustin Ross]

Remember that song, the Sweetness by Jimmy World?

[Asante]

Yes.

[Dustin Ross]

I used to love that white song.

[Asante]

Yes. Jimmy had a few hits. Kids shout out to Jimmy. Hopefully they didn't do anything proper.

[Dustin Ross]

Hopefully it's sweet.

[Asante]

Patreon.com the Friends on Podcast Join us over there for premium content the Bench, which Dustin just told you about the situation which we've discussed during this show, as well as the Wind down, which is happening tonight at 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Again, that's patreon.com friendzone podcast. And that's it for me, folks. I don't know.

[Francesca]

And that means that that's it for us. We love you guys so much. Thank you for listening. Thank you for hanging with us yet another week. We do not take you for granted and we will catch you guys next week.

[Asante]

Stay black and protect your magic.

[Francesca]

Bye.

[Asante]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Francesca]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Asante]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Asante]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Asante]

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[Dustin Ross]

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[Asante]

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[Asante]

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