Episode 26 Summary in this episode March 18th, 2022 we kick it off on the usual good vibrations, we pick up from the last episode on questions ran out of time to answer the last episode. Domo opens with a quick cleansing breath exercise to get the air and emotional tone together. We begin with Raven Symone and ask did she receive her flowers at the right time of her career, we move on to the desire to have conversations without literal words to connect with those who truly understand. We discuss thoughts of ghosts that can be seen suddenly seen. We talk about our love for Team America and the complete satire of the movie, which causes us to go into our love for cartoons. We pose the question what took so long for the statues of racist forefathers to be taken down, why have we allowed our countries' history to be tarnished? We discuss how adults sometimes take parenting measures overboard with well-intentioned actions but the execution is traumatic and how parents are people figuring it out as well. Shatta explains how she monitors what her children are allowed to watch before they view it because agendas are being pushed on the youth that isn't society's job to teach children and how she values protecting her children's innocence. We flashback to Alessia's childhood distain for red Popsicles. Mean Girls enters the chat, celebrity AirBnbs, Domo has food this episode and we have an abundance of laughs and coughs. Shout out to our esthetician. Until next time Budds hit us on our email @ [email protected]

We start talking about how longgggg the newest Batman is 3 hrs long. The state of the donuts at this podcast and the weird way Lessie's card reappeared in the car while she was still inside the establishment. We have the long-lost Ace, PJ, Taye, Domo, Shatta, Lessie, and Darrion in this episode recorded on March 12. Domo voices her disdain for creamy lemonade. Domo puts the spotlight on Shatta immediately at the beginning of the episode. We begin discussing childhood questions like how quiet we had to always be. Lessie ties The Snow Queen into real daily life as we discuss our top 5 movies of all time. We Segway into rappers we're feeling at the time. We continue in our normal fashion bouncing ideas off each other and invoking our listener's deep thoughts. This episode is filled with laughs, honest moments, coughs, and food talk. Enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording this one.

Hey Buds this episode captured on March 5th is our 24th time together thank you all for being strapped in for this wild ride with us. Domo has a scrambled jumble in the intro portion. What is identity is our 1st topic of discussion this week. We move on to have you ever wanted to be of the opposite sex? We talk about these Pornbots harassing you and spamming your phone. Followed by whose most influential in the music industry currently in your opinion, what motivates you and the Russian/Ukrainian crisis. We definitely get off-topic and in-depth on all the subject matter in this episode. So light up a J and sit back and let this episode take you deep into thought with your favorite Budds.

We start it off on February 23rd, 2022 episode 23 with the random topic of group texts and how you can't edit an active group text thread. As well as donuts that we've been bringing to the Podcast lately. Shatta jumps into a phone number situation with Darrion. Domo brings Koala Yummies for a snack too. We then get down to business and start the discussion with, how being African American is every day for us it's not a one-month-of-the-year cultural celebration. We talk about colorism within the Black community, how our beauty is categorized completely different than other race's definitions of beauty. How the color issues stem from the slavery Era. How the cast of the new Fresh Prince is not being received well because they cast darker-skinned actors. How we're moving away from cable but the streaming services are slowly but surely becoming just as much as a luxury bill as cable. We talk about old-school watch parties. We talk a little about politics and The Crypt Keeper (Biden) and his old-timey antics. Overcoming your obstacles to be a better you, and strengthening yourself. We raise the question does the age and life experience of a teacher matter? How too many parents aren't as involved in their children's education. How we need to spend more time teaching our children what isn't being taught anymore like cursive handwriting. We move the conversation into being black in a predominantly white school while you're still trying to find your identity. How the small groups of minorities stick together for the most part forming bonds and friendships. How people say things in conversation and open the situation up to misunderstandings because they don't address you accordingly or with slick undertones. J'Dei expresses her disdain for the fact that Auntie Annie's Pretzels don't have a stand-alone location and are only in malls. We talk about the drive-thru Footlocker lolll and if Quentin Tarantino is alive or dead (it's Tim Burton we were thinking about). We end the episode with early departures, parking talk, and good vibes. Hit us up on [email protected]

Fashion leads the conversation briefly while we settle in and discuss a gorgeous Valentine's Day clothing collection drop. On our latest installment, we join you all on February 11th, 2022. Domo comes with some deep and thought-provoking questions early in the episode. With questions like modern-day slavery, how having a blind eye to the racial issues or injustices of minorities makes you a problem as well. We move directly into current events, do we plan on traveling this year, the vaxxed and the non-vaxxed. We plug the email ([email protected]) so we can interact with our Budds. Domo gets us talking about weird dreams and that leads to half-siblings and what it means definition-wise versus how it should work naturally & logically. We quickly move into the world of politics and this Biden administration giving out crack pipes in the new budget bill rumor. Kids getting ahold of Fentanyl and dying as young as 9 and 10 years old and what's the solution? How television tends to glamorize drugs, drug abuse, and use. How the lack of discipline is a problem in society currently. Some people are inability to look inward to fix faults before judging others' flaws and shortcomings. We look even deeper with a question that raises "forgiveness" as a reward for one's self. How you can cut people out of your life but still completely and genuinely wish them well from afar. We talk about what made you start your healing journey and what differences you feel. Domo explains her snowboarding injuries. J'Dei asked us to come up with three words that defined our 2022 great exercise to do real quick with the squad. Tune in for our smoke list of this episode. We plug the email ([email protected]) again because we want to interact without Budds. We keep it light for the last few minutes of the segment, by answering "if you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?" Shatta has Domo looking up Mariah Carey's pictures. We end the episode talking about Domo's anytime car clock setting.

We're coming directly into this episode with good intentions on February 9th, 2022. This episode flows through topics about positive VIBES, the podcast's format, Domo's feelings about Kanye and his energy, we quickly discuss drill music and its intended emotional impact. We move into the use of "the "N" word," how it's used and who should or shouldn't use it. We dive deep into topics like disrespect against black people in America even by other minorities. How slowly the spiritual time has been going from the end of January until February's beginning. Enjoy your time in life your actual time... Remember to stop and smell the roses and be in the moment. We quickly discuss the Metaverse and we don't get too far on the subject lolll. We talk about our lOvEe for board games but our immense despise for others while still discussing the Metaverse. Domo plugs Lawn Mower MAN as a movie to watch. We weigh in on Roll Bounce and ATL and how some rappers are typecasted in a lot of movies while others aren't. We end it with the put it on your Black History watch list. Thank you for listening. See you next episode.

We kick it off with Alessia's dance revelations and Domo remembering that she forgot to give something to someone. How teachers aren't as invested as they used to be. How we used to pretend to be sick to go rest in the nurse's office at school. We discover hoe Domo just didn't care about leaving class. We get a drop-in call from one of our favorite cousins, we move into this cold ass weather. Domo had to remember the intro lol. We then move into topics like amnesia, how dating old people suck out your youth, King of The Hill, our disdain for the Three Stooges, how would you potentially change if you were to just be able to let go of distractions. We continue this episode on the notes of how religion is used as a crutch by people to justify their wrongs, how black people have to have tougher skin than most people. How black people's struggles are downplayed and always made to seem less than other groups of people's struggles. Plus a myriad of other topics we randomly bounce around. We end with positive notes and shoutouts to you Buds and ask you to answer the amnesia question from your point of view.

We kick off this episode by giving you guys the email and talking about our Thanksgiving holiday. We have our gang in here AD, Darrion, Domo, Shatta, Lessie, and special guests PJ and Monique. We talk to PJ about his experiences as a young black man in a predominantly white institution and how his blackness has been perceived. How natural hair can be misinterpreted in the workplace. We go into how people of color sometimes self-sabotage or sabotage the dreams and labors of others because of their inner insecurities. We discuss people being completely willing to share their successes but unable to share their failures and be vulnerable. Roles in black male society come into conversation and how the setup of the black community has been an injustice for generations. The topic moves to change within not only the black community but the in the world as a whole and how the children are where we need to be focusing our attention. They are genuinely the next leaders and if we pour the right morals and values into them they'll get this world together for us all. How underhanded racism is still existent and prevalent in our generation. How still in this day and age black women don't get the same treatment or medications as other races of women. We talk about the weird way that technology is going. We end the episode by speaking greatness and success over the podcast and how two years from now we'll look back on these episodes fondly.

Domo starts with giving us the wrong intro and date because she's way into the future on our butts. We dive right into the question we left off in the last episode while we wait for our other members to arrive. We then discuss the topic of when did we as a society feel it was okay to force unsolicited views, beliefs, and advice upon people including strangers. Shatta expands on the reasons why she is in a constant state of apology, why she feels the need in most cases with a certain side of her family to prove that she's a normal loving, kind, caring human that isn't devoid of self-awareness or the awareness of other's emotions and existence. We explain sharecropping, give the smoke of the day information. We talk about little things that stay in existence throughout time like racist songs from generations before. We plug the best engineer in the game Darrion. We breeze through the Travis Scott concert tragedy and the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. We touch on the topic of vaccination and how for the first time in history people's freedom of choice is being impeded upon. How people are being asked to provide proof of vaccination, how if you're not vaccinated you aren't allowed into restaurants or venues which is directly a violation of personal medical privacy and everyone is seeming to ignore the fact. We eat snacks, talk about celebrating yourself in all parts of your journey even in the low times. Speaking about saying things that people don't mean and giving lip service. We slightly graze over how we're programmed to naturally hate anything that is different than what you're accustomed to seeing and what they cannot control or things they don't personally possess is how we end our session of self-expression.

In this episode, we start by calling out Pandora and Google for dragging their feet on accepting our Podcast request. We have an ultra-special guest Nikki our older fashion-forward cousin. We glide on over to the new music Darrion and Lessie has released, of course, we share it with our Buds. We discuss how we're currently feeling in our immediate spaces. Domo explains how she's able to just be in the moment, having to present herself as another being to be accepted when we were children. We try to figure out a word and move on from that. We discuss Shatta's yoga classes and her issues with people's body odors in class and what her reasoning is behind starting her yoga practice. Lessie has a desire to open a dance studio to give back to little girls, J'dai's dream is to have an open bed and breakfast that has beautiful decor and is a dope inviting place for everyone. How we can build better communities for our own culture if there wasn't so much competition with our communities. We talk about how we acknowledge politics and politicians but we don't BELIEVE in them. We move on to discuss investing in these communities and supporting the endeavors of said communities. Shatta explains why she doesn't have any desire to be too immersed in the city. We talk about Domo's ski mask-wearing tendencies. Old people's views on newer information and how they don't want to admit that the current generations are more technically advanced than their generation. Everyone hates Shatta's healthy snacks and candies lol. We continue to discuss how older people can't admit that they aren't as sharp today as when they were in their youth. We finish it up with a few deep thought-provoking questions.