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Summary

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Unsupervised with Syd & TP
Hosts: Syd Colson and Theresa “TP” Plaisance
Date: November 6, 2025
Production: Dear Media

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Main Theme / Purpose

In this episode, Syd and TP return to in-person podcasting with their signature irreverent, out-of-pocket humor and tangential conversation style. While bouncing between topics like travel escapades, nostalgia for 2000s internet culture, airplane etiquette, and the quirks of elite basketball life, the episode pivots sharply into a “foil hat” conspiracy theory segment. The centerpiece of that discussion is recent news about a controversial, multi-million dollar White House ballroom renovation under Trump’s administration—which the hosts use as a springboard to dissect wider political, social, and economic anxieties in America, from creeping authoritarianism to persistent inequalities and the slow erosion of community.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Back in the Studio & Icebreakers ([00:01]–[05:33])

• Syd and TP are podcasting in person for the first time in a while, sharing playful banter about their setup and their audience’s “responsibility” to follow along on all platforms (visual and audio).
• Entertaining games for social media: Each must insert a certain word (e.g., “Whitney Houston” and “water slide”) into conversation.
• Fun fact: Syd and TP refer to their listeners as “babysitters.”

Quote:

• Syd (playfully, on audience engagement): “It’s kind of on you. Yes, we do appreciate you listening, but you can do more to actually see us.” ([00:18])

2. Vacation Recaps and the Ongoing Spanish Lesson Saga ([05:33]–[07:37])

• TP shares highlights from her trip to Isla Mujeres, Mexico, complete with local annoyances and inside jokes.
• Running gag: Syd’s chronic procrastination in scheduling her 10 pre-paid Spanish lessons, called out by TP.
• Spanish and cultural jokes, including shoutouts to their WNBA/overseas basketball friends.

Quote:

• TP: “Well, you’re never gonna learn Spanish at this rate.” ([03:30])

3. Tanning, Skin Color, and Family Genetics ([07:59]–[10:07])

• TP and Syd humorously dissect the gradations of white skin and tanning abilities; TP reflects on why she is less tan than the rest of her family.

4. Life as Extrovert Best Friends & Basketball Pros ([10:24]–[13:49])

• Details about their non-stop talking, even off air; how Athletes Unlimited (AU) provides community during the WNBA off-season.
• Recap: AU Welcome Week dinner with new players—with generational humor as they shock rookies by revealing their actual ages.

5. Airplane Etiquette & Travel Stories ([17:22]–[23:01])

• Syd shares her first-class experience and frustration with elitism and odd airplane customs (like the "sheer curtain" dividing classes).
• TP describes a “first class” (i.e. front row on Southwest) with a colorful cast of characters including a gross chip-licker.
• Dos & don'ts for airplane snacks and behavior.

Quote:

• TP: “He was taking the chips out one by one and licking his fingers... you’ve touched so many public surfaces at that point. Please don’t.” ([21:21])

6. Generational Gaps & 2000s Internet Nostalgia ([23:09]–[30:32])

• The hosts reflect on rapid age differences at the AU dinner, reminisce about dial-up internet, MySpace Top 8 drama, and absurd away messages on AIM.
• Stories from their respective childhoods—Syd’s mischievous adventures in online chat rooms vs. TP’s straight-laced, anxious rule-following.

Quote:

• Syd: “As a young lesbo, ultra intrigued, and just a young—I was just, like, bad. I wanted to know curse words. I wanted to know the inappropriate stuff, which makes sense for the way that I tell jokes.” ([31:42])

7. “Conspiracy Theory” Segment: White House Ballroom Renovation ([37:24]–[55:55])

• The hosts don tinfoil hats and dissect the news of a $200M–$350M White House ballroom expansion under former President Trump.
• Context on ballroom construction: intended to dwarf the White House, bulletproof windows, possibly ready for large gatherings (“another inauguration”).
• Cynicism about the erosion of democracy, American political apathy, and the normalization of once-unthinkable government actions.
• Major sponsors for the ballroom renovation (deep sarcasm): Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Booz Allen Hamilton, big tech (Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, etc.).
• Analogies to Nazi history and Argentina, references to Hitler’s bunker.
• Threaded throughout is a sharp critique of capitalism, inequality, and the dangers of being politically passive.

Notable Quotes:

• Syd (on the “American dream”): “A lot of people are...three missed paychecks away from being broke and homeless than we are from being millionaire or billionaires.” ([47:14])
• TP: “I could see a lot of use for $300 million for American people... just to survive the next day.” ([48:18])
• Syd: “Why do you have a problem believing that the government lies? We’ve seen it time and time again.” ([48:18])
• TP: “Whenever you make these statements, it is not just you and people that look like you. It’s everyone.” ([44:10])
• Syd (on civic awareness): “If nothing else, TP and I are advocates of education and like you doing the work to make connections in the world. So many people make the point, I’m not political. I’m not political. A lot of y’all, your mere existence is political.” ([56:41])

8. Life & Community Advice—Listener Q&A ([62:30]–[67:30])

• Listener Taylor, a female firefighter/EMT sidelined with injury, asks for advice on regaining confidence and respect at work.
• Both hosts encourage her: embrace patience, use adversity for personal growth, and know her presence has already broken boundaries.
• Syd tears up at TP’s heartfelt advice; both reflect on navigating self-worth in male-dominated spaces.

Quote:

• TP: “…just to be able to come back from injury, like in basketball, they say when you get hurt, you come back with something more. Maybe that’s the way that you have outlook on what you were doing. Maybe you just get better physically, you’re stronger… But I encourage you to look for whatever that is in your life.” ([66:01])

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Most Memorable Moments

• Tinfoil hats debut for the “Conspiracy Theory” segment ([37:32]–[55:55]): Visual gag that’s lost on the audio audience, used to mock the seriousness and absurdity of the ballroom news.
• MySpace drama and AIM screen names ([27:25]–[36:39]): Hilarious recollection of how Internet status symbols once ruled youth social life.
• Discussion of political apathy, voting rights, and class divides ([41:07]–[51:38]): Blunt, sobering reflection on America’s crises, peppered with offbeat historical comparisons.
• Listener advice segment ([62:30]–[67:30]): Emotional shift and genuine encouragement.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:01] – Hosts reunite in-person, audience banter
• [02:17] – “Whitney Houston” and “water slide” game
• [05:33] – Isla Mujeres vacation & inside jokes
• [06:02] – Syd’s Spanish lesson saga
• [10:41] – Athletes Unlimited Welcome Week dinner discussion
• [17:22] – Airplane etiquette and snack horror stories
• [23:09] – Age differences and 2000s tech nostalgia
• [31:42] – Syd’s chatroom confessions & “Talk Sex with Sue Johansson”
• [37:24] – “Conspiracy Theory” segment introduction (tin foil hats)
• [38:11] – White House ballroom news, historical context
• [44:10] – Community vs. capitalism discussion
• [47:14] – Reflections on social safety nets and poverty
• [49:55] – Concerning donors to the ballroom project
• [55:55] – Riff on book bans and advice for critical thinking
• [62:30] – Listener advice: returning as a female firefighter/EMT
• [67:51] – Closing: “spread kindness like confetti”

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Tone & Language

The episode is a wild, funny, and sometimes raucous blend of humor, sarcasm, nostalgia, and candid social commentary. Syd and TP use irreverence, spontaneous jokes, and moments of vulnerability to connect with both younger and older listeners—often engaging in pointed (but accessible) critiques of politics, culture, and themselves. Their friendship chemistry is front and center, making even weighty topics approachable.

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Final Takeaways

• Community & Self-Education: Syd and TP urge listeners to stay curious, question authority, read deeply, and avoid being politically passive (“your existence is political”).
• Humor as a Vehicle: The hosts use comedic tangents to mask, soften, or reframe harsh social realities—pivoting from chip-lickers to conspiracy to real talk about authoritarianism and inequality.
• Compassion & Empathy: Their recurring advice is to approach life and others, even adversaries or those unlike yourself, with a generous spirit and understanding: “Spread kindness like confetti. Make it happen, y’all.” ([68:13])

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Notable Quotes Recap

• “It’s kind of on you…you can do more to actually see us.” – Syd ([00:18])
• “A lot of people are…three missed paychecks away from being broke and homeless than we are from being millionaire or billionaires.” – Syd ([47:14])
• “Whenever you make these statements, it is not just you and people that look like you. It’s everyone.” – TP ([44:10])
• “Your mere existence is political.” – Syd ([56:41])
• “Spread kindness like confetti.” – TP ([68:13])

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Recommended for: Fans of unfiltered conversation, millennial/Gen Z nostalgia, women's sports, social commentary with a bite, and anyone who likes their podcasts equal parts hilarious and thought-provoking.

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Transcript

[A]

Hey, y' all notice anything different? Well, that's not for audio. Sorry y' all get left out of so much, but it's kind of on you.

[B]

Yeah, we talked about yesterday how we actually don't include audio on a lot, but we do keep you guys informed.

[A]

Yeah, we keep them informed, but, like, that's also on y' all to do your. Your part. Like, yes, we do. We do appreciate you listening, but on the other hand, you can do more to actually see us.

[B]

Yeah, this is. This is a more demanding podcast than, like, you probably imagine signing up for this. But we do appreciate your support.

[A]

Keep it up. But we're back in person.

[B]

Oh, I didn't know that was. This is the first time we wore the overhead headphones, so I didn't know if that was what you were talking about.

[A]

Oh, no, no, no.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

No, I was just talking about us being back in person, so we can't usually do that, but. But.

[B]

But now we can miss you guys.

[A]

What's up, babysitters?

[B]

Also, guess where we're at. You guessed it. Nashville, baby. AU. Welcome week. We're here to have a good time. Wait, no, time out. We have to hit the theme song.

[A]

Oh, yeah, theme song. I'm tripping. I'm out of order.

[B]

Oh, God. Sorry, Tia. That was so whack.

[A]

Unsupervised.

[C]

Yeah. Yes, yes.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

We stay with want and yeah, we say what we feel Sitting TMP in the mix and they be keeping it real on brand, off topic, out of pocket, anything you need, they got it why you shop? You know they going to block cover everything like harder than us and yeah, we looking down on haters cuz they smaller than us and yeah, my flow is so damn sick I be coughing it up. You said that we going flat well then I'm calling your bl.

[B]

I can't believe that that's our theme song, too. That's like. Every time it hits me, it's a little crazy.

[A]

Yeah. All right.

[B]

It's like Christmas morning every time I hear it anyway, so Christmas morning rain is falling. See, you're a great singer, but I would much prefer Whitney Houston to be able to hit that line. Okay, y', all, Whitney Houston's such a great singer that she would have done a much better job than what you just.

[A]

Oh, cool. I wonder if Whitney Houston's ever been on a water slide.

[B]

No way. That was so. Oh, my God.

[A]

All right, y'. All. So full transparency. We are playing a game for social. For au. We had to pick a word that the other Person has to say or pick something they have to say. And I said she had to say Whitney Houston.

[B]

So I use it at an opportune time to use Whitney Houston. And I told Sid that she needs to use the word water slide. And she, I guess, also found an opportune moment to use the word water slide.

[A]

All right, one to one. All right, so Cancun is Les Mujeres.

[B]

Oh, yeah, it was beautiful. The weather was excellent. I did get sunburnt. I did. Excelente.

[A]

Excelente. Oh, sorry, Sid, you know Whitney Spanish. I actually.

[B]

I don't want to hear your Spanish corrections until you fulfill your Spanish lessons. So please, never correct my Spanish again until you actually.

[A]

Shoot. She sent me the calendar, and I forgot to pick a date. Damn it.

[B]

Well, you're never gonna learn Spanish at this rate.

[A]

All right, y', all, time for the warm up. We're gonna talk a little bit about TP's nice tan.

[B]

Oh, my God. Thank you for noticing.

[A]

Yeah, you're usually more like the au pro on your. On your shirt.

[B]

I'm equally as vibrant as. Yeah, yeah. No. Thank you for noticing my Caribbean glow. I've been working on that for a week now, so it looks good.

[A]

Listen, I'm surprised you didn't do the. Oh, I'm almost the same colors.

[B]

Like, we can line it up. Somebody edit the color in. All right. No, it's getting better.

[A]

Yeah, I got my natural tan going.

[B]

Same.

[A]

Okay, so where were you? Tell us about your trip.

[B]

So I was in Cancun. Yeah, we went to Isla Mujeres, which is an island that you can take a ferry and go see. I think you said you went there, right? With the golf cart.

[A]

Golf cart.

[B]

Drove around this island, like, whipping it. Everybody had a golf cart. Like, they even allow women to drive. Oh, I do want to say one thing.

[A]

Say it. It's our pod.

[B]

Oh, my God. It's literally in Isla Mujeres. There's a shop, and I don't.

[A]

Oh, TP got us.

[B]

So I don't. I don't think these things zoom in, but.

[A]

Just trust us. We have bracelets on our wrists. Like, what? Nobody's going to fucking zoom. Just. We're not holding up our wrist for no reason. Audio. Once again, you're missing things that you should be seeing.

[B]

But also, you can see my tan.

[A]

Oh, yeah, you can. Mine, too.

[B]

Nice, Sydney.

[A]

But also chastise the listeners for not knowing the inside joke. This is the one and only time that we're gonna explain an inside joke to y'. All.

[B]

It's Embarrassing.

[A]

So catch up on the episodes, and then you won't have to be told, like, thank goodness that Julia decided to ask for an explanation for y'. All. I was going to just be like, no, but I'm in a giving mood because we're near the holidays. So go ahead and explain the joke to him. Tp I guess.

[B]

So this is the joke, which isn't a joke. This is actually real life, which makes it a little bit scarier, probably Sydney, I think, through her being friends with AC AC Is an adult. AC has been taking Spanish lessons for years. Like, at this point, I'm like, ac, Are you fluent yet?

[A]

Alicia? Cl.

[B]

She's talking about Alicia Clark. So she takes Spanish. And Sydney thought, oh, I want to learn Spanish as well, because also.

[A]

I already learned Spanish all throughout school. But obviously, in America, we just learn a language, and we're never able to practice it. So we just learn for the sake of learning, not applying it to shit.

[B]

Also, we went to Mexico on a different trip last year, and she was talking to, I guess, the locals.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And we were getting served dinner, and she called dinner a movie.

[A]

Oh, yeah. I said instead of cena.

[B]

And we were like, I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. And then the waiter was like, yeah, that actually is incorrect.

[A]

Actually, I was talking about dinner in a movie. So jokes on y'. All.

[B]

Okay, well, you didn't make that clear. Anyway, so Sydney paid up front for 10 Spanish lessons, and she has all 10 left to fulfill. Like, did you even show up for one?

[A]

I did exactly one.

[B]

She has nine left.

[A]

So I said I was gonna learn. When we talked about Bad Bunny in the super bowl, when people were pissed, I was like, well, definitely in the next three to four months, I will learn. I will be fluent so that I can sing his songs as well.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And talk about my experience with watching the performance. But I have. I've yet to pick a date, and she just sent me a calendar invite, like, three days ago. So sorry about that, Whitney. I'm going to get back to you soon, though, girl. I promise. Lo siento.

[B]

Oh, that's so embarrassing. Also, this is my time to plug my Bad Bunny recommendation of the day.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

Never had one yet. But I sent this song to you. It's called Titi. Okay. You see me look at you. I was in Spanish three honor. Shout out to Ms. Perez and Ms. Nugas.

[A]

Karen. Me. All right. Shout out to Mr. You. That was my Spanish teacher.

[B]

So, yeah, Titi met Pregunto. It is a Bad Bunny banger. Check it out if you don't know it.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

You know, like, I don't know if you know this, but there's, like, different kinds of white people. There's white people that are, like, white. There's maggots. No, I'm just kidding. No, but there are. But you can be, like, porcelain white. And those are the type of people that, if you step into the sun, like, these are probably the nearest of vampires because you're like. They typically have on, like, full sleeves, and they're, like, caked on sunscreen. Like, you see? You can see just, like, thick white tribal paint. It's not tribal. It's just, like, a thick layer of sunscreen protection. And there's, like, white people that, like, oh, you need to stay with your sunscreen or you will burn.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And there's type of white people that can burn to tan.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then there's just, like, the type of white people that we all wish we were. We're just like the tanners, where you could just like, get a nice glow and leave. I would think that I'm in the burn to tan group. Like, I.

[A]

You tan.

[B]

Well, I. For as pasty as I am, as porcelain white as I look. Yeah, I do get a nice color. But my.

[A]

My bad. You're like. Yeah, you go from, like, white to off white.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Off white. Sponsor us.

[B]

No, for real, though. But my dad, he looks, like, almost Greek. He's not Greek.

[A]

He does. He.

[B]

He used to have, like, jet black hair.

[A]

Y.

[B]

He's got green eyes, and he's got, like, really dark, like, olive skin.

[A]

Even how he does his. His hair, Like. Yeah, Everything about him. Yeah.

[B]

And my mom is pretty tan, and I'm like, where did I come from?

[A]

Scotty, you got more of.

[B]

Do you have some answers that you need to come clean about? Because I'm like, why did I. Oh, actually, I'm, like, huge. So I'm like, it had to be my dad's, right?

[A]

Yeah. Had to.

[B]

I might have to go to therapy about this, mom. But no, like, it was such a good time.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, do we thank our sponsors?

[A]

Nope.

[B]

Well, we don't have to. Again, audio, you're not missing much. We have a goose egg. But that's okay because we're still here.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

And we're having a good time.

[A]

We do this for the love of talking. Like, we literally are about to leave here and probably go to one of our rooms and continue to talk for three to four more hours straight, and then we'll decide we need a nap. We'll wake up to get ready for the AU dinner.

[B]

No, we said we're going to get a little workout in too.

[A]

We're going to get a workout. We'll probably talk through it, through the workout and then we'll separate to go shower. Yeah, I'll take my quarters with me and then we'll meet back up. Wait in the lobby for the bus or whatever. We'll talk then. Yeah, when we get on the bus, we'll talk. When we get to dinner, we literally have to speak to the crowd. So we'll talk there, but then we'll sit down and talk to one another.

[B]

As well as the crowd.

[A]

But as well as the crowd.

[B]

Yeah. Also throughout all that talking, we had no sponsors, so this isn't new to us. And I have sponsors, so we're used to it. And it's also like our comfort zone, so it's perfect. Fingers crossed. Y' all know what time it is off the bench time. Last night we had a welcome dinner.

[A]

Yeah, we did.

[B]

With Megan and the front office.

[A]

Yeah. Megan Alli, Faith, ap, Adeline Ange. And then the players. It was Tahina Papawa, Deja Kelly, Anissa Morrow, J.C. sheldon Dory. And then our player executive committee for Athletes Unlimited, the player led league that we play in in like the W off season. Our player executive committee is TP Me. Lexi's the chair, Izzy and Dory. So that was everybody at the dinner and it was. It was fire.

[B]

It was a time. It was my first time meeting a lot of the AU new faces.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I promised Pow pow. That I was gonna talk about her. So here it is.

[A]

What do you. What do you even know about it? What do you.

[B]

I don't know enough to talk yet.

[A]

So her voice was basically gone. She sounded like me.

[B]

She's trying to join our group. Our singing group.

[A]

Yeah. But she's gonna. I don't think her voice is naturally that deep.

[B]

No, we have to wait. I think she did that to prepare to talk to us, to try to get into the singing group. But we don't trust that her voice is ass. Actually as raspy as we need it to be. So we'll see in February if she's.

[A]

Gonna just be like screaming before she sees us. Every time.

[B]

For the. For the week leading up to au, she's just gonna go outside and try to get as hoarse as possible so she can be in the group. That's what she said. At least.

[A]

Those rookies, they were. They were cute though. We got to like, go around.

[B]

I Love them.

[A]

We went around and like we were. It's welcome week for AU so it doesn't start until January and February. So for listeners watchers, this league is from like January 17th to I think March 2nd this year and games are going to be for, for four weeks. We play three times a week. We're going to be playing a municipal municipal auditorium. And it's just a good time. Like this is our second year here in Nashville. A lot of people were super excited when AU was coming to Nashville because we've been in other cities, like different cities. We've been in Vegas the first year and then we were in Dallas the past two. Then we were in Nashville last year. So hopefully even more people will come out and support. It's also, it was also cool to hear like their reasons for, for, you know, like wanting to join and wanting to show up.

[B]

Yeah, they're just a really good group. I think, like they were funny. A lot of what makes AU special, like the basketball's great. The basketball will speak for itself.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I think the group that we have in the community that is built year in and year out, like, yeah, it was easy to, you know, have these, these players come in and they also felt like right at home right away. And it was just really nice to see like that community feel like continue over to a first time dinner with everybody. Which, you know, once we got past like the small talk, like, yeah, what's your favorite color? I love asking that question.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But it was awesome. And this year's gonna be really exciting. I think we're gonna have a lot of fun on the court, but a lot of fun off the court as well.

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[A]

Oh, I gotta plug my video. That I did. I made a video. TP got there later because of travel delays, but I told the rest of the girls when we were on the bus about to go to dinner, I was like, yo, nobody talk to TP when she gets on the bus. Cuz she's definitely gonna, like, yell hey. Or something like that and make a crazy entrance. She got on. Nobody looked up at her. And then they. Then they cracked after like, two seconds. I was like, come on.

[B]

Awkward.

[A]

I know. It was so fun. I was so good.

[B]

I came in with, like, great energy. I was so excited to see everybody.

[A]

My cinematography is, like, really good. You're going to notice how I pan to your face when you're, like, excited. I pan to them. Nobody looks. I pan back to you.

[B]

You like, keep in mind, I never met most of the people on the bus too. So the fact that they were on board and then Dory did clarify that. Like, it was a hard convince. So that did make me feel better.

[A]

They were chirping a lot when I was like, y' all do it? They were like, no, I can't do it to tps. I shut the hell up and you're gonna do it. So they did it. And yeah, like, we'll make sure that we include that video. So audio listeners, once again, y' all won't be able to, like, appreciate the video because you'll only hear it. Yeah, nobody talk to her. Nobody talk to her. Nobody talk to her.

[B]

Yo, what up, ladies? Goodness gracious.

[A]

You know what? Okay, so how we even got here? You had a crazy. You always have crazy flight issues. But we're gonna talk briefly, y', all, about airplane etiquette.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

So I will humbly brag. I flew here first class. I mean, the organization really takes care of you. So I'm in first class. And I hate when people are, like, in first class with a fucking energy. I'm like, get a private jet if you're that rich. Like, you're literally still on this plane with us. So I'm not super impressed by your money. Like, you're here, bro.

[B]

I'm like, they're ordering escargot. I'm like, we're on Delta.

[A]

I also hate, like, I hate that they put the, like, the sheet to.

[B]

Block it off the sheer screen.

[A]

Especially when it's sheer. I'm like, all right, if we want to have hierarchy, they shouldn't be able to see us at all. If we're gonna do it, don't halfway do it.

[B]

You also still allow the main cabin to come use the bathroom in the front. So I'm like, that perk's not even there.

[A]

They could be doing anything to our rich bathroom, and we're just letting them in.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

I'm like, if we're going to be better than them, then be better than them.

[B]

So humbly. I also flew first class. I was in the first row of Southwest, so technically, I was flying first class.

[A]

I was over here like, no, you didn't. Not flowers.

[B]

Yeah, well, you know, you can just look at things in different ways in life. I choose positivity. So I do feel like I was in first class. And I met this flight attendant. Her name is Bri.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

She. They're out of Baltimore.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And Bri loves the pod, but also, Bri, you're hilarious. I love how Southwest has, like, personality when they give you, like, the boring spiel, like, okay, the exits are on the. The side. You'll need it in case of emergency.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And. But the things that Bri was throwing out there, I'm like, okay, you're funny.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

She mentioned this one thing where she was like, here at Southwest, we love our customers, but we don't trust you guys. So we will be coming around the cabin one more time for a seat belt check. I'm like, this is good. So I really enjoyed my 1 hour and 20 minute flight here to Nashville. And shout out to you, Bri.

[A]

Shout out to you, Bri. You think she likes cheese? That is a brie cheese joke. I've never been able to use one of those.

[B]

That was good.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

But also in my first class experience, there was a man.

[A]

Stop calling it that. And we're good.

[B]

Stop being a hater. In my first class experience, there was a really disgusting person in the middle seat. So it's me standing at 6 5. But I was sitting. Obviously, it's an airplane. But when I'm standing, I'm 6 5. Yeah, I'm in the. I'm in the aisle.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, everyone. It's free seating. I almost prefer, like, assigned seating because I'm like, I want fate to decide it for me. I don't want you to, like, eye me up and be like, I want that seat. So, like, this huge man. Like, I get why he would want that middle seat. But also, like, he was bigger than me, taller, and hand, like, wider than.

[A]

Me.

[B]

And his shoulders were so broad that, like, you know when you have to, like, fight somebody for, like, elbow room? There was no fighting because he was just like, there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But he did create a really great buffer between me and the disgusting gentleman in the window. Okay. So first of all, he opened up. He only had one bag of food.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And that one bag of food was Plain Lays. Just Plain Lays.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

He was taking the chips out one by one and licking his fingers like full blown. Like cotton candy. You know when you see cotton candy used to, like, go ham on your fingers.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

God, my childhood was disgusting. How did I make it this far?

[A]

Right? Cotton candy, the apple. Bobbing for apples. You're sick.

[B]

Yeah. For real.

[A]

Wait. But he just kept licking it aggressively licking, about to go back in for another.

[B]

He would click. He would clean. I'm like, if you spent this much time washing your hands and you are licking your fingers, you would probably be in much better shape. He also looked the part like he was there on January 6. I know he was absolutely disgusting, but shout out to the very large man in the middle seat, that created that buffer. Like, maybe. Yeah, I did leave with a crook in my neck. But also, I wasn't right next door to that. Certain things you should need on airplane. Anything that's going to cause you to need to lick your fingers, just don't do it. You've touched so many public services at that point. Please don't. Secondly, and I've also broken this rule. I'm not perfect. Everybody, beef jerky. It smells like somebody's just ripping ass in that fart tube we call an airplane. And yeah, it's just like, it is health conscious. Like, you are getting a ton of protein. But is it okay for the people around you?

[A]

It's not.

[B]

It's hard to eat a salad or a sandwich. Like, anything that you have to, like, take your hand and grab. Grab. I'm like, there's germs. A lot of germs involved.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. And anything that just, like, smells like, sometimes salads come off with, like, an oniony smell. You don't want that. Definitely don't eat, like, a tuna fish salad.

[A]

Ew. Yeah. Okay. All right. So we went off on a tangent, which is so unlike us.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But there was a gaping age difference at the, at the dinner last night. Because, I mean, they're like, they were born, I think, 2000. 2000, or like, 010203.

[B]

Yeah. And 2000. JC was born in 2000.

[A]

Yeah. So we went and told them our ages, and it's like, 98 and 92. 92.

[B]

No, 89.

[A]

I'm 89.

[B]

You just said 98.

[A]

That's Dory's just saying, like, there were other people who were older than them, but not as old as me.

[B]

Right.

[A]

So when they said. They said, well, I mean, how old are y'? All? Almost like they. They thought we were, like, kind of close in age to them, I guess. I was like. I was like, oh, I'm 30. I was born in 89. I didn't say the number. Papa was like, damn, horses. She was like, shit. And I was like, dang.

[B]

She was like, did y' all have electricity back then?

[A]

I was like, not my age. Making you feel like you got more you got to do in life. Like, I got to get a lot more done right Close to death.

[B]

I remember when, like, we were rookies.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Courtney Paris was my vet.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. They always seem hella old.

[B]

She was like, I think 27 or 28 when I was coming in first. I remember, like, thinking, Courtney was just so old. I was just like, goodness gracious, how are you still playing? Meanwhile, Courtney was in her prime. Like, she was a double double queen, and she was back to bound rebounding champion that year and the following year.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

And I'm, like, sitting there like, no.

[A]

Way I'm playing that long. I said it too, and technically, I shouldn't have still been playing that long. I'm like, yeah, keep bringing me back. Don't be mad at me.

[B]

I need that health insurance. I definitely need the health insurance.

[A]

People get so mad. They're like, why are you even still in the league? Give. Other people. Are other people just readily giving up their jobs for other people to have a job? Like, in what field is that always just happening? Like, no older person is just like, here you are. I didn't. We. I mean, like, we're all, like, working for that spot. Like, I'm confused.

[B]

No, the. The point of having a job is, like, grow within your job and, like, also to maintain it. Like, you don't want to not have a job.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Like, especially in this climate, like, it's. Jobs are tough to come around.

[A]

As we know.

[B]

As we know.

[A]

As we know. But that table was crazy. We got to talking about the differences. Like, once they learned the extreme difference, we started talking about, like, dial up Internet we were talking about MySpace top.

[B]

Like, everything that they were. I said that I felt like Justin Timberlake in the early 2000s, also unaware of their age and what year they were born. I was like. And they were all kind of looking at me funny. And then you were like, why Justin Timberlake? I was like, because Justin Timberlake was, like, in his prime. Like, there was NSync and he was a part of Insane. But then you only heard about Justin, which was unfair. Like, I was a huge Lance Bass fan.

[A]

JC Chosen what? Chaz? I don't know. I just know he's the one that.

[B]

Could say he was talented. He was very talented. But I was just saying, like, I felt like Justin Timberlake when I played in China in. In the early 2000s. I was. I was him. And they were, like, confused, like, why.

[A]

Would you pick him?

[B]

And then it, like, registered me. So then we got into the conversation about, did you guys have AIM or, like, Instant messenger or, like, Yahoo Messenger?

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And they were. What's beyond confused?

[A]

What's that? Chat. What's that? That's all the young kids say. Chat, chat, chat. What's that? What's that? Chat. Hey, Chat. Shut up.

[B]

They're probably the generation that goes like this when they.

[A]

I'm like, it's for show. This, this.

[B]

It's definitely this.

[A]

It's definitely this.

[B]

It's never not going to be this.

[A]

But they were. They were, like, so surprised at our, like, clear memories of these things when it seems, like ancient stuff to them that we're talking about. We were talking about, like, the top eight on MySpace and how, like, controversial that could get. Because it was personal. It was like, your top eight on My Space was like, those were your people. Like, I rock with these people. These are, like, best friends or people who are, like, really good friends, like, or family, you know? Like, it's a big deal to be in a top eight.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But then we also got to the point where we could code and you could Change the top eight to 16 to 32. I had a. I think I had a 64.

[B]

I had a top. Everybody, if they were like, hey, why am I not in your top? I'm like, well, you're not.

[A]

And then easy sneak, semicolon, backslash, backslash.

[B]

Add them in there. But also, people would take it hella personally. Like, you'd have your school friends and, like, your AAU friends, right? And, like, let's just say you had a really fun time with Katie McGee over your weekend tournament, and Katie McGee would get bumped up to number one, shout out to you, Katie McGee.

[A]

I love when you name names.

[B]

And then, like, your number two, you would show up to school with an attitude. Like, I'm like, what happened over the weekend? Like, there's absolutely nothing wrong with what we got going on right now. Just had a really memorable weekend with Katie. With Katie McGee. Like, we had such a good time, so she just got bumped up. It's temporary. Like, you could also have a good time.

[A]

It's like, yeah, this should be. You gotta look at this as an opportunity to win me over. Like, if Katie got in there, she wasn't complaining. Asking me while other people were in the top spot.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Katie was like, let me get to work. Let me impress tp. Get in.

[B]

I also don't want it to feel forced. Like, I don't want you to feel like, oh, now I have to beat out Katie McGee.

[A]

But you should, in a way feel like that. But don't let me see that. You feel like.

[B]

I want to feel so natural.

[A]

It needs to be organic. Or I will take you out of the top completely.

[B]

You'll drop. You'll go in the double digits. Like, you won't get past strangers. Like, if a stranger. I was like, yeah, sure, no problem adding him on there. But what's crazy is I. I. Yeah.

[A]

Like, I would leave Tom on there and you would go after Tom.

[B]

Yeah, Tom was he everybody. He had that, like, cheesy little picture of him at the desk and the.

[A]

White T shirt or something.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

What a Tom.

[B]

Let's. I wonder if it is a white T shirt. This might be an ash moment.

[A]

No, no, it's for sure.

[B]

A white T shirt.

[A]

So we were talking about the top eight. MySpace coding. And we were talking about, like, chat rooms, and I was telling them I used to be so bad as a. As a, like, preteen. And I would be in chat rooms because you could go on, like, Yahoo. Games, play, like, dominoes, chess, bookworm. There were a bunch of games that you could betray. But we. I don't think we. That wasn't on the one that I used to play, but it was just like the common games, like back or backgammon or solitaire. Yeah, stuff like that. So anything where you could compete against somebody else.

[B]

Okay, like hearts.

[A]

Was hearts a two player, though?

[B]

No, hearts is a four. It's like spades, but I don't know how to play hearts.

[A]

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. I remember the one you're talking about. So it's like, you're in these. You can be in the chat room as well, while you're playing the games. I used to be so inappropriate. Hey, mom and Dad. I don't know if y' all even know this, but first of all, to go get on the Internet in the middle of the night, like, you were gonna wake up the whole house anyways. Because.

[B]

Also, you couldn't be on the phone in the middle of night. You had that, like, red light that would, like, you would be underneath all your covers and your pillows.

[A]

I would try to do that when my mom came in.

[B]

Hold on, somebody.

[A]

Okay. Get off that phone right? Oh, sh. She saw me. I got to go. But, like, the chat rooms, I would be talking wild. I'm like, oh, that's 20. And then I'll be like, y', all, look, kids, don't listen past this part. I'd be like, asl, which was like, age, sex, location, which ultimately, looking back, was a very dangerous spot to be in as a kid. I think this is probably how to Catch a Predator to. The show came to exist because they knew what I was doing in chat rooms. They're like, we gotta protect the kids.

[B]

That was a really good show, though.

[A]

So good. Chris Hansen. So I was like, asl. I was like, show me your deoxygen. And mind you, I didn't even want to see tics.

[B]

You just want to, like, test the limits.

[A]

I'm just, like, saying stuff like, what do adults do? Because I used to watch this show called Talk Sex with Sue Johansson. Or, like, Sex Talk with Sue Johansson on hbo. Oh.

[B]

I was like, that sounds like an HBO for sure.

[A]

And it was this old white lady just talking about the clitoris and, like, other things. And I'm like, you know, as a young lesbo, ultra intrigued and just a young. I was just, like, bad. Like, I wanted to know curse words. I wanted to know the inappropriate stuff, which makes sense for the way that I tell jokes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

As an adult, I was like, I've always been inappropriate, so y' all gotta understand, I was born this way. Like, everything about me matches when I was a kid.

[B]

You're also the youngest sibling.

[A]

Yeah. So I was just doing stuff like, my brother and sister. Great kids.

[B]

I love the two thumbs up when you said that, too. Great kids.

[A]

Great kids. Mama, Daddy. Y' all did so well with Simone and Simi. Like, they've got kids now. They're great parents. Like, I look at them sometimes, and I'm emotional because I'm like, y' all really did such a good job with my siblings. And it's not that you didn't with me. But you lost. You lost your why you lost. Why you're building a child up to be a contributing member to society. And I ran absolutely rampant. Y' all were tired, though.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

You were tired.

[B]

See, my childhood was the exact opposite of you. I was like 1000%, like the rule follower. I was like, scotty, we can't do that. We're gonna get in trouble. And he was like, so what? They're not gonna find out. I'm like, we're gonna get in trouble. I never said, like a cuss word.

[A]

I remember I said so many my.

[B]

AAU teammates when I was like, on the 14 year old team or I was like, way too old to be saying like, butthead.

[A]

Oh my gosh.

[B]

Like, you're a butthead. I wouldn't even say asshole. Like, damn was like, oh, my God.

[A]

Oh, you mean. Do you mean a river dam? Like, were you that person?

[B]

I wouldn't even say, like, oh, my God. I would say like, oh, my goodness gracious. Like, I was just. Don't quit, don't quit, don't quit. Yeah. Like, you make it really difficult to be, like, vulnerable and sure about my childhood experiences, but because you were so.

[A]

Wound up and worried about everything thing.

[B]

I was. Not only was I the oldest sibling, but I was the oldest cousin. So, like, I was. I had to, like, set the standard, which, like, it was tough at times, I will say. But yeah.

[A]

And are you, Are you an anxious person now as an adult?

[B]

I like, dabble in anxiety a little bit.

[A]

I'm not like, not like it's an a la carte thing, Anxiety. You just pick.

[B]

I test it out.

[A]

Okay. Well, yeah, we had different childhoods.

[B]

Like, but it is really interesting, like, because at the time you were probably. Were you lying about your age when they would ask it back?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I was lying about everything.

[B]

You're like, I can't find out. They can't find out. I'm in Houston. You're like.

[A]

But like, I don't know that many cities.

[B]

So I'm just like, man, you actually misspelled, like, Baton Rouge. And they're like, what?

[A]

Where is she? It was a fun time, though. It really was.

[B]

I miss it. I also miss, like, using my screen name on. On aim. Like, I remember you would just go on after school again. Nobody else would be able to, like, call the house or, like, even try to use the phone. Yeah, because kids, back in the day, you couldn't do both. You could either use the Internet or use your phone.

[A]

Not both.

[B]

And also some of my phones in the house had, like, the cord still on it. Like, I remember our kitchen phone.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You could essentially, like, walk around the whole, like, island thing that we had.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And still, like, have a corded phone and be on the phone. It's impressive how long the cords were back in the day. Shout out to Bell South. They're not a thing anymore.

[A]

But no, wasn't it South? It was. It was Southwestern Bell. Right. That one. Southwestern Bell.

[B]

When no Kias were a thing with Snake.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

[B]

But my. My screen name was. I knew I was gonna be. Well, my first screen name. Every screen name I wanted, they didn't have. So I just got upset. I, like, hit the keyboard like this. It was literally for the longest time, CTO XZ305. Like, when I went like that, that was. And I was like, it. That's mine. So I use that. I got a lot of people just being like, why is your screen name that? I got sick of explaining what happened.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So then I just changed it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It was tiger bait 55. Because I was a passionate LSU girly.

[A]

Oh. I asked people screen names one day. Mine were easy. I've always done, like, Sid Coulson, like, stuff along their lines. But then when I was feeling adventurous, I was like, I made a Sid the Wiz kid one. Oh. I did a one where I was feeling like I wanted to be like the kid that fought at school, but I never was. I'm just not a violent person. But I was like, I think my name.

[B]

No, it doesn't seem like it.

[A]

My name was like, box me, Step in my square or something like that. I'm like, girl, you don't even fight and you don't box. Like, what? Just doing anything.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Yeah. I had a lot of personalities as.

[B]

A kid, but no, it's impressive, though.

[A]

Okay, y' all share your screen names. Actually, share your screen. What were your screen names when you were on AOL Instant Messenger? You remember the BRB in my away, like, be having, like, dramatic away messages when you.

[B]

Oh, math homework's really getting to me tonight. Might spend a little extra time on calculus. And your friends were like, oh, they were like, texting you on the side. And keep in mind, I didn't get my first cell phone till I was in, like, ninth grade.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Which nowadays, like, four year olds have.

[A]

Like, look at my phone.

[B]

I'm like, that's yours. Your mom's. And they're like, no, it's mine. And the Mom's like, I've been calling you.

[A]

All right, y', all, time for a new segment, Conspiracy Theory. Love your hat, bro.

[B]

Oh, no, same.

[A]

All right, y'. All. So obviously, new segment. We wouldn't be wearing these if it weren't for this segment. All right.

[B]

Oh, for audio. Oh, what a drag. Anyway, audio. We're wearing our foil hats right now.

[A]

Once again, y' all are. Y' all are missing out on the visuals that add to the story. So Marty thought that it would be, like, funny. This was a while back. Like, all right, y' all should have a conspiracy theory segment.

[B]

Yeah, we should.

[A]

And wear the tinfoil hats. So that's what we're doing. Like, I really don't need to do Madi happy.

[B]

Like, just do more for Mahdi.

[A]

For sure.

[B]

But Mahdi, thank you so much for your suggestion.

[A]

Means the world, girl.

[B]

It does mean the world.

[A]

All right, y'. All. So as you may have heard, construction is happening a 250 million dollar.

[B]

The numbers are actually unclear. We've seen numbers of 200 million, 350 million. Oh, no. Sid lost her antenna.

[A]

Hold on, let me find the hole.

[B]

You're definitely not near the hole, but you can make a new one. It's foil. We heard, like, anywhere from 200 to $350 million for, I guess, these new.

[A]

Yeah, this new ballroom that Orange Trump's adding to the White House. So they said that it's going to be like a 90,000 square foot ballroom is going to dwarf the main White House itself. And this is. They said that this is a. Like, the east wing is an area that hasn't been touched in like 83 years.

[B]

Goodness gracious.

[A]

Like, like, these are the first major changes to the exterior of the house, of the White House in general in 83 years. So the east wing of the White House is like the traditional headquarters for the first lady and her staff. So it's like when you just keep watching stuff happening and don't do anything or don't say anything or, like, don't find a problem with it. Like, we personally listeners, we want our listeners to be critical thinkers and intelligent people. So whoever we might lose when we get to discussing things like that like this, we never wanted you to begin with. It should always be concerning when you're seeing things happening in a supposed democracy that are riddled with signs that it is definitely not a democracy. And people are comparing. They're comparing not only what's going on in the streets, not only the propaganda that's spread about different groups. The fear mongering that takes place, the hate towards blacks, minorities. We're seeing ice in the streets, just random people taking people, immigrants, queer people. Like they will come for anybody. So it's always only a matter of time before it's at your doorstep. But I find it funny as not funny because it's like sad. But as a black woman who's queer, I never thought much of America to begin. Like, I never bought into the whole spiel about it. The dream, the promise, all of that. Like black people don't typically. We're patriotic for different reasons. This could make me get into Beyonce Cowboy Carter talk. I'm not gonna take it there today.

[B]

But you're definitely beehive.

[A]

But I'm definitely beehive. You know it. But I'm saying like black people's patriotism looks very different than other people. But as black people, we've been sitting back just watching what's going on, like what's going on in the country. Because it's like, yeah, black people have always felt other othered and unappreciated. All the negative things in this country and the way that we're watching other people come to terms with the fact that it's now at your doorstep. We've been telling you you've been watching. Actually not even we've been telling you you've been watching what they did to us for decades. But you didn't think it would be you. So now it's you. And this is what you voted for. A lot of you, a lot of.

[B]

People voted for this, voted for you, voted against your, your self interest to have orange in office. And now you're begging and pleading for him when also we all knew this was coming. Nothing that he said. Maybe that's why the Democrats are just sitting back and we're like so chill about it because like none of this is actually shocking. It's hella depressing.

[A]

But it was what he said.

[B]

But it's, he literally said this. And if he didn't say it, it was in the Project 2025 document, which is crazy.

[A]

And it was the things that you have to like read between the lines for. And some things were just outright spoken and then other things, you need to recognize patterns. You need to know history, you need to be observant, you need to have an attention span longer than like to listen to a 5 second clip or like the kind of people who are like, you see like a paragraph basically online and they're like, oh cool, I'm not reading that. It's like that's actually not funny. You should be concerned that you no longer have the attention span to want to read that.

[B]

And also, like, understanding, like, just, like, the basics of politics, like, when you're. When they're trying to pass a bill or something. A bill isn't just like, they're passing one thing. It's typically packaged with other things to make it more or less, like, palatable. Yeah. For, you know, the people in Congress and the people in the House and et cetera. So, like, whenever somebody's coming to you and they tell you, like, oh, I don't get why the Democrats are shutting down the government right now. Because they're just trying to pass this bill so that we could have. I don't know what the positive incentive is because, like, I'm too aware to know everything else involved. But, yeah, maybe this one thing is true. But if this, Then all of this, we're losing.

[A]

It sets precedent.

[B]

Medicaid, SNAP benefits. We're about to have a homeless crisis and also, like, a food crisis in our country. And it's. It's really sad because most Americans are closer to being on SNAP benefits than they are to the tax category that you need to be able to get the benefits that they're proposing.

[A]

Mm.

[B]

And it's actually crazy. And for the people that can afford that. Why aren't you seeing the bigger picture here? Why are you so. Okay, Because a lot of times you see, like, the. The lower middle, like, sometimes upper class and some wealthy people, but mainly, like, the middle and lower class pouring into these communities. And I'm like, if you have $50 in your pocket and you're giving away 20 versus if you have $100 million and you're giving away 100, like, you're not really. You're not really making change. You're not really doing anything. And I don't understand how people can't wrap their mind around the fact that community isn't just the people that look like you. It's everything around you. The economy isn't just the people that look like you. It's everyone. Whenever you make these statements, it is not just you and the people that look like you. It's everyone, but it's that.

[A]

But that's a great point, because community is directly antithesis to what capitalism wants and what we're seeing. Like, everybody in a capitalist society, you become hyper individualized. Like, you see, everybody's always just, like, scrolling on their phone. People aren't talking to one another at dinner. People don't do block parties. The way they used to. Everybody and I was watching some before was like, that's where so many people plan things. You're meeting people at parties and talking about things. You're like, you're in community with people to be able to talk about what's going on in your community because people need to be voting locally. But then like, bigger picture for me to see, like, what's going on in this state, in this nation.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

When you're not in community, these conversations aren't had as much. We're talking about bullshit that's online. They. They bombard you with information so that you're too overwhelmed and desensitized to react to things. Because if I'm seeing, you know, it's like the way the news is. It's like you see something funny, you see something educational, you see something financial, but then you see death, crime, all these things. But you're still. You're still sweeping past it with like, in the same amount of time. You're not really registering that, oh, it's not normal for me to see a cop with his knee on a man's neck while the man's saying, I can't breathe. Like, that's actually not regular. And there's really no explanation for the way that it went down. The crazy thing is that we saw during the pandemic what this world looks like when you have to come together and do things like people wore masks to be safe and you wore masks for the person next to you, obviously for yourself, but also to prevent me from getting something from the person next to me, but also me from spreading. We stood six feet apart and had social distancing so that we all can hopefully make it out of this time alive. It's really crazy the way history doesn't always repeat itself. Obviously every, like things change, but it remixes.

[B]

It's the same narrative.

[A]

It remixes itself in some way. And so we. We literally just saw what it looked like to need community and to need to care about people. And we also saw how you could be homeless when you were not expecting it. A lot of people are. I think I saw something that was like people like three, we're all, or most of us are like three missed paychecks away from being broke and homeless than we are from being millionaire or billionaires. So the. The mindset to lean more towards the rich and elite versus people that you literally are in first class with or on a plane with. They're in the back, you know, they're in the main cabin. You should be more in community with these people, because you're not seeing those other people. You don't know what they have plan for you. We see the government lie all the time. So I just. I'm personally like, why do you have a problem believing that the government lies?

[B]

We've seen it time and time again, and it's. It just blows my mind. And I'm like, okay, a three, whatever. Any kind of amount of money going into a ballroom is crazy to me because I'm like, I could see a lot of use for $300 million for American people.

[A]

Right.

[B]

There's a lot of families that could use a portion of that money to just quite simply survive the next day.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Make it to the next month.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Try their. Try their hardest. Because that's the thing. Like, whenever the American dream was being sold, it was for opportunity. And now opportunity is so scarce. And also, opportunity is not for everybody. And they don't. They never said, whenever people come to this country, like, oh, like, you can work your hardest and still struggle. You can work your absolute hardest, work 12, 16, 18 hour shifts.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And still not have enough money to put food on the table. That should never be the case here ever.

[A]

We got money for wars. We can't feed the poor. That was Tupac.

[B]

That's great.

[A]

Tupac said this over 30, like, 30 years ago. Over 30 years ago. And we. History does what.

[B]

Repeats itself.

[A]

Like, so. But you talking about that money. We got money for other stuff. So a big part of the conspiracy here is that people are talking about how they're like, we have given however many billions dollars to Argentina during, like, their financial crisis.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Argentina is where they said Hitler fled to after the war and after the Holocaust. Like, so this was. This was. Like, people are now having the conversation, like, oh, is there still a large Nazi presence in Argentina?

[B]

Right.

[A]

They're comparing this ballroom that he's building to what Hitler's bunker was, the ballroom and bunker he had underneath. Which is weird because I'm like, the White House already has ballrooms in a bunker. I thought so.

[B]

And also, there's, like, nine other, like, presidential, like, places that you can, like, leave it. Why'd you have to. I never once cared about the White House itself. Like, the building, like, the structure. I never cared. Like, it was cool or whatever. Like, whatever cool. But I'm like, you can't just take down, like, a historical bill. Like, why does he get a vote? Like, why didn't everybody get a vote? Like, what if somebody just walked up to the Washington Monument and was like, gotta go. That's not gonna happen.

[A]

That's impossible.

[B]

You're defacing, like, property. And I'm like, what if Obama would have just made a ballroom? What would happen?

[A]

I would have loved to see.

[B]

What if Kamala would have ran and she was like, listen, I got a great 3 million dollar plan of all Americans vote for me or in support of the ballroom. If Kamala would have said that. Oh my God. I'm like, dan, Kamala, you should have just said like, you were gonna make a three million dollar ballroom. Because I'm like, clearly it's happening.

[A]

It says that the space where b will guests mingle, sip cocktails, eat hors d', oeuvres, and then they'll be called into the ballroom for dinner. It is. It says that the project has also grown in size. It was announced going from accommodating 650 seated guests to holding 999 people big enough to fit another inauguration if needed. And they said the doors, but I don't know. The windows will be bulletproof, which is super odd. Cuz it's like, that's weird. When is this expected to be finished, people? Already. There's already speculation and talk. And really, I think some of these people have outright said that Trump is not planning to leave. There will be a third term.

[B]

Well, he did say that we'll never have to worry about voting again. Like, it's not one of our amendment rights to have the right to vote. It's not like, oh, dang, I have to go vote today. Like, no, it's the only way that you get to voice your opinion on who you want running the country. And he's like, don't worry about that. We'll take care of that. That's a big problem in our country, voting who needs it. But I'm like, it's actually crazy. And then I take a look at where these donations are coming from. Right?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And when I'm thinking about home Renault, I'm gonna tap into my hgtv. I'm like, chip and Joanna Gaines must be on it. Nope, their name's not on the list. And I was like, you know what? It's probably Fixer Upper. They're on the list. They weren't there.

[A]

Not a different name.

[B]

And I'm like, looking through this. I was like, well, who on this list is good?

[A]

She was good too.

[B]

Rehab addict.

[A]

She was good.

[B]

Flip or flop. I'm like, nobody on HGTV is involved. Is involved. But I can tell you who is involved. Booze, Allen Hammer. Hamilton. And if you're not familiar, this is a management and technology consulting firm that provides solutions to government and commercial clients, often focusing on advanced technologies like AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing. And it's also known for its extensive work in the US Federal government, intelligence agencies, and the Department of Defense. Okay, so that's a major contributor. Weird. I wonder what they have to do with ballrooms.

[A]

A ballroom being built.

[B]

So next major private donation is coming from Lockheed Martin. What's that? Okay. It's a global security and aerospace company specializing in research, design, development, manufacturer integration and sustainment of advancement technology systems, products and services. Okay. Hope they can pick out a good chandelier. Oh, and what's this last one? There's actually a lot, but this is a last major one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Plantier.

[A]

Huh?

[B]

Palantir.

[A]

Palantir. What are they?

[B]

So, it's a data mining and software company that provides platforms for data integration and analysis to government agencies and corporations. Co founded by Peter Thiel and led by CEO Alex Karp. The company is known for its work with intelligence agencies like the CIA and the FBI, and has also developed products used in defense, healthcare, in the financial industry. Other major contributors to this project to the again renovation project are Google, Amazon, Caterpillar, Coinbase, hp, Meta, Microsoft T Mobile, and many others. But also, like, I have never called on one of these companies ever before in my life for renovation purposes. So I'm like, what's the need there? There must be a lot of LEDs in there. You know, maybe some great lighting. I. I truly don't understand. So, yeah, my question is, like, what's going on with the ballroom? Like, why are some. All these patriots of our country investing so heavily? Oh, my God.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Is Kelly Loft. This is Kelly Loughner that used to own the Atlanta Dream.

[A]

Oh, probably. Probably so, but what a loser. Damn. What? You had just said something a second ago. This is her.

[B]

She's a major contributor.

[A]

Yeah, that's not surprising in the least bit, but. Oh, all of this. All of this to say listeners, like, when there gets to a. When it gets to a point that, like, the military's on the streets, like, we're seeing the things that we're seeing online. They're wanting books banned. They don't want you. Look, whenever you want to hide something from stupid people, what do you do?

[B]

Put it in a book.

[A]

You put it in a book. You put it in writing those articles. Y' all don't like reading those five sentence paragraphs. Cause some of y' all don't even know I guess a paragraph is three to five sentences like, we've done away with so many things in education to keep people informed that you don't realize that stuff is happening right under your nose because you're not even taking the time to go educate yourself. If nothing else, TP and I are advocates of education and like you doing the work to make connections in the world. Like, so many people make the point like, I'm not political. I'm not political. A lot of y', all, your mere existence is political. So even if you don't feel like you have a dog in the fight, what happens will affect you eventually. Like, what is the quote? That's like, they came for. They came for the others. I didn't care when they came for me. There was nobody that. There was nobody left.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So like, when you're silent in the face of things happening because we're not, like, I'm not super political in the sense that I'm like keeping up with every single thing. But when things seem off, it does make you want to go read or investigate more. Y' all look up what a peer reviewed source is like. Understand when you're reading something that is trustworthy versus like somebody adding it on Wikipedia, like TP used to try to.

[B]

Use as a source, it wasn't allowed in fifth grade, so it's definitely not cool now.

[A]

But like, make sure that you're informing yourself because when you have a smart proletariat, you're going to have people who will ask questions. You need to ask why? About things that happen. And I don't care who's in office, really. That can be when. Whenever party is in office, you should question why things are happening and you should look to inform yourself so that you can see when there are things that are not being directly said to me, but I'm reading between the lines or I'm seeing enough to know you're not telling me the full truth.

[B]

So we're donating money to Argentina, but we haven't located all the bodies of the. All the camps that were flooded in Texas. What about all the flooding that happened in the Carolinas?

[A]

I wonder if we're doing anything for Jamaica.

[B]

Jamaica, they just had a crazy. Also praying for the people of Jamaica. Like, our thoughts and prayers are with you every day. Like, we know your country is extremely resilient and we just like, pray that you get back on your feet sooner than later. There's just. There's just so much devastation in the world. And like, where we're choosing Snap Benefits, SNAP benefits.

[A]

You know what I'm saying? Like, there's so much going on that if you don't care about the next person, something will eventually come to your doorstep that will affect you and you're going to want people to give a damn. So, like, in a small part, like, we wanted to do this segment, like, which will be a continued segment, but we wanted to talk about this so that y' all know TP and I, SIDD and TP do not want stupid listeners. We're not interested in having people who are, like, content with being ignorant about stuff like it things matter. Stop saying, oh, it's not that deep stuff. Not when you think, when you're intelligent. Everything is deep.

[B]

Everything is deep. And also, like, whenever, whenever you're going to, like, use your voice or your vote or whatever that may be, I hope that, you know, we're obviously going down a really dark path in our country right now. It's, like, really sad and hard for a lot of people and for the people that, you know, place their vote in a place of compassion and empathy for not only yourself, but others around you.

[A]

Community. Yeah.

[B]

If racism wasn't enough, if deporting immigrants wasn't enough, if lbgt, QIA rights weren't enough, SNAP benefits and Medicaid aren't enough, you're eventually gonna hit something that's gonna be your deal breaker. It'll eventually hit home for you and that'll have you reconsidering a lot of things. And when you think back, think about how I could have done or thought about something differently.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And put on somebody else's glasses and walk in somebody else's shoes for one day because life around you goes on. And this is why we are so big on, like, just being kind to others. You just don't know. And I think you said this last night when you were talking about, like, I don't know if there's a heaven or a hell. I believe that there is, but I don't know. But it cost me $0 to be a good person. If, if I go to heaven, that's so great. And if there is no heaven or.

[A]

Hell, I still live my life being a good at.

[B]

At the worst, you're a good person.

[A]

It didn't, it didn't take anything from my life. It just.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

It's usually additive.

[B]

And I feel the exact same way. Like, I just feel like it cost $0 to be nice. It costs $0 to be a little bit more thoughtful. It cost $0 to ask why. And everybody we just need to do a little bit more. So if that's holding the door open for somebody, if that's like, helping out, I don't know, anybody visiting the elderly, like, whatever that looks like to you. Like, just do something outside of yourself.

[A]

Yeah. From Taylor sukech. What's up? TP in parentheses, 6, 5, and SID 58. Thank you.

[B]

Is that accurate for you?

[A]

Yeah. I'm seven and a half, actually. But I'm a huge fan of yours and was needing some advice from the faces of the league. I work at a fire department as an EMT and firefighter. Right. I'm the only girl at this department at the moment. I recently got injured on the job and broke my hand. They're not allowing me to work until it's fully healed, which can take months. So my spirits are down. I love my job and what I do and already have a hard time proving myself to all my male coworkers. And this injury is not helping my case. What advice can you give me for getting back to work after an injury, as well as showing my coworkers I know what I'm doing? Thank you, Taylor. P.S. i would love to hear how you say my last name on your podcast. If you read this during down in the DMs insert TP singing.

[B]

Hey, well, we hit that one, right, Taylor, And I'm gonna give your name a shot. I'm gonna go with Suka. I'm gonna make the ch. Like Bach and, like, make it a little aw.

[A]

But then you're not gonna say Sukak.

[B]

I don't know what I want. That was my. That was my.

[A]

You tried.

[B]

That was my try.

[A]

No. Sorry about that.

[B]

And I feel like I'm pretty accurate, right, girl?

[A]

I think it's Sukach. Maybe we're both wrong, but this is actually a very fitting DM because I'm watching 91 1, Marty, and I've been watching 91 1. It gets more outrageous as the episodes go on and as the seasons go on. They said they're in space right now. Like, they have episodes where Angela Bassett is, like, got an astronaut suit on. So I'm like, okay, it's going to get outrageous. But I'm saying that to say I also used to watch Chicago, so I know a little bit about firefighters and EMTs. There was a scene where one of the girls in one of the women in 911, she was the only woman, and she was the only black woman in the. In the firehouse at one point, and they definitely, like, hazed her. Gave her the cold shoulder, didn't, like, welcome her. But on the episode, I don't know how true this is in real life. They were talking about how firefighters don't necessarily always just get close to you when a new person comes, because they can lose, like, people. You can lose a friend, die often. So to get so, like. And I don't know the truth in that, but anyways, I think you. I mean, your. Your presence there in and of itself is already showing that, like, you defeated.

[B]

The odds because, like, you're there. There's not too many female firefighters in the world. So I think that you just alone being able to beat whatever guy was also competing for your position.

[A]

He's pissed when he sees you.

[B]

Yeah. He's like, dang, we don't even know how to say our last name either.

[A]

No. Yeah, we do. You're just salty.

[B]

Yeah. So, like, I just. I applaud you for a. The work you do. Firefighters or volunteers. Right. And being an EMT and being able to be a first responder, like, kudos to you. But in terms of, like, coming back from injury, like, Sid and I said, it's currently coming back from injury. And just to be able to come back from injury, like, in basketball, they say, like, when you get hurt, you come back with something more.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Maybe that's the way that you have outlook on, like, what you were doing. Maybe, like, you just get better physically. Like, you're stronger than you were before, like, whatever that is. But I encourage you to look for whatever that is in your life. Maybe this is a time that you needed to take a break for yourself and to, you know, focus on something else. Like, there's a reason for this. It's not. It's not easy being injured. So maybe this is a lesson that'll teach you patience or teach you just understanding and relatability to other people that have been through what you're doing. And maybe you'll be able to help somebody else out just by sharing your story. But, yeah, I encourage you to, like, really dig deep into something that isn't focused on your injury or what you're missing out on, because there's so much that you can do right now with your injury in this recovery process that you can grow as an individual. So I just encourage you to look for what that is.

[A]

Dang. I love it. I don't even. I was about to cry again.

[B]

That's the second speech I gave this.

[A]

I know. I think I must start my period.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

Yeah. So I'm already An emotional person. But that time of the month, Jeez. And I never realized until after I'm like, emotional, or my mood is a little different. Then I'm like, oh, my period. I do get those right shoe. But I forget every month, you're like.

[B]

You, like, warm up some soup in the microwave, and you're like, it's not warm. Like, why am I crying over this cold soup? I can just pop it back in the microwave. Microwave. But you just realize, hormones, baby.

[A]

Hormones, baby. All right, y', all, well, this was a. This was a fun episode. Fun and then serious. But have some duality in your life.

[B]

Food for thought.

[A]

Food for thought. But we love y'. All. Y' all know if you want us in your business. Huh? DM us at unsupervised. Sid. TP. SidTP. And we love to. We love to give you some advice.

[B]

Till next week.

[A]

Y' all know what you gotta say.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. Also until next week. Make sure you're spreading kindness like confetti. Make it happen, y'.

[A]

All. Unsupervised.

[C]

Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah, we say what we want and yeah, we say what we feel? Sitting tmp of the mix? And they be keeping it real on brand, off topic, out of pocket? Anything you need, they got it? Why don't you shout when you know.

[D]

They gonna block it?

[C]

When it's game time and you know.

[A]

I'm gonna block it?

[C]

Man, we cover everything like who harder than us? And yeah, we looking down on haters? Cause they smaller than us and yeah, my flow is so damn safe? I be coughing it up? You said that we going flat? Well, then I'm calling y' all of the unsupervised.

[A]

Unsupervised. Unsupervised. Sam.