Strap in as we explore the narrative strength of costumes and fashion in popular culture, taking a detour to Africa, where fashion intersects with film in interesting ways. Come along as we demystify the challenges and nuanced beauty of costume design.
We examine the influential role interior design plays in storytelling, with the iconic show "Sex and the City" as our springboard. Oh, and if you've ever wondered about the merits of the kitten heel or pondered the wrong shoe theory, you're in for a treat. Prepare for a hearty debate!
As the curtain falls, we switch gears to discuss the art of dining out luxuriously without breaking the bank. Join us on a culinary tour around Atlanta, as we uncover hidden happy hour gems. And of course, we tackle a critical and often neglected issue: the impact of work on healthcare and lifestyle. Get ready for an enlightening journey through fashion, film, television, and lifestyle. Trust us; you wouldn't want to miss this!
References for our listeners:
Silo -Apple TV
The bear-Hulu / FX
And just like that - HBOMax
Jorts
https://www.vogue.com/article/history-of-jorts
Wrong shoe theory article
https://www.thestar.com/life/fashion_style/2023/08/21/you-cant-wear-those-shoes-with-that-or-can-you-how-the-wrong-shoe-theory-will-change-the-way-you-dress.html
Eclipse de Luna Happy Hour Atlanta
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Credit and special thanks goes to:
Produced by: Aziza Duniani @woman_Business
Music supervisor: Chic loren @chicloren_
Music by: Gavin Williams @thegavin1
Strap in as we explore the narrative strength of costumes and fashion in popular culture, taking a detour to Africa, where fashion intersects with film in interesting ways. Come along as we demystify the challenges and nuanced beauty of costume design.
We examine the influential role interior design plays in storytelling, with the iconic show "Sex and the City" as our springboard. Oh, and if you've ever wondered about the merits of the kitten heel or pondered the wrong shoe theory, you're in for a treat. Prepare for a hearty debate!
As the curtain falls, we switch gears to discuss the art of dining out luxuriously without breaking the bank. Join us on a culinary tour around Atlanta, as we uncover hidden happy hour gems. And of course, we tackle a critical and often neglected issue: the impact of work on healthcare and lifestyle. Get ready for an enlightening journey through fashion, film, television, and lifestyle. Trust us; you wouldn't want to miss this!
References for our listeners:
Silo -Apple TV
The bear-Hulu / FX
And just like that - HBOMax
Jorts
https://www.vogue.com/article/history-of-jorts
Wrong shoe theory article
https://www.thestar.com/life/fashion_style/2023/08/21/you-cant-wear-those-shoes-with-that-or-can-you-how-the-wrong-shoe-theory-will-change-the-way-you-dress.html
Eclipse de Luna Happy Hour Atlanta
Like, subscribe and be on the look out for a new episode every week!
Credit and special thanks goes to:
Produced by: Aziza Duniani @woman_Business
Music supervisor: Chic loren @chicloren_
Music by: Gavin Williams @thegavin1
What's up y'all? This is Sheik Loren, and welcome to Week 8. We're spilling the tea on all things fashion, film and television, giving you an exclusive peek into our perspective on style and design. Hi, I am Winter Alex, I'm Izzy Duniani, I'm Isi Chaville and I'm Mia Nunnally. Good morning, ladies, how y'all doing. Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2:Glorious ladies, Welcome to another episode of Week 8.
Speaker 1:This is our own episode 3. We are talking right along. We're pushing them out as quickly as possible.
Speaker 2:This same four.
Speaker 1:Oh, four, jesus. Three is launching today.
Speaker 2:Three is launching today we're on episode 4. We are moving through this girl, so today we are going to do something a little bit different.
Speaker 1:We'll be having some segments that our hostess will be highlighting today Over the line, talking about our TV shows and what's going on live in the entertainment world today. In the interior design segment that will be kicked off by Winter Alex, I'm going to be doing our rapid-fire smash or pass on all things good and not. We're also going to do a little bit of Eat the Streets, where I see we'll be talking about our frugal and faggabulous finds in Atlanta, ga, as well as some of the things that we'll be getting rid of for the Strike, and then Audible Trees, hosted by Ms Chiclaren, our music specialist in house. Alright, so let's get kicked off, mia. We're talking TV shows, what's?
Speaker 2:going on. What y'all watching?
Speaker 1:Everybody doing this morning, great Rich Riser, so what y'all watching on TV. So we got the Strike going on, so we got a lot more TV that we watching lately Movies, whatever. So you know, I just want to know because, if you're like me, I'm super uninspired and you guys inspire me somewhat.
Speaker 2:Well, you feel so damn, I feel like there's not a lot, okay.
Speaker 1:So I feel. I always say I feel. Netflix and the streaming platforms have jumped across seas. We are now in Nollywood World.
Speaker 2:We are now in.
Speaker 1:Bollywood World. We are watching all of the foreign films, because there ain't nothing on the streaming platforms.
Speaker 2:You're actually watching?
Speaker 1:Yeah, my stuff is getting served. I'm getting served all the Nigerian films.
Speaker 2:And all of the Japanese films, that's the hard ones.
Speaker 1:And like they've been doing pretty good, Like COVID, I was watching them.
Speaker 2:Let me get my pen and pencil out, if I don't get them.
Speaker 1:Which ones? Well, you just got to search and find. You just got to be into a good story Like it's very Lifetime TV, for real, for real. But I watched this movie called Jogun Jogun and somebody's like the costumes are so good. And I was like it's a warrior movie. It's like a warrior movie.
Speaker 2:It was like an old Nigerian film.
Speaker 1:It's about the warrior Ogun, and I'm really into it.
Speaker 2:So I was like, let me know about it. Okay, we're going to check it out.
Speaker 1:So I was like, no, you're not going to check it out after I say what the hell is this? I was like let me go look and see what's wet. Oh my God. The lady said the costumes were good. The dude had like a. It was supposed to be like yes, I'm riding with my leopard skin. It was a leopard fuzzy blanket.
Speaker 2:I know you're lying.
Speaker 1:I'm dead ass. I had to turn it off. I was like I can't believe this. I can't believe this. I see that it was telling me a while back that you met some African designers and there's no word for a costume designer in Africa.
Speaker 2:That is not, not at all, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1:It doesn't translate as an actual word.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, Let it speak.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, not literally. I know what you meant. I know what you meant, not literally, but there's no such thing as a costume designer. There's stylus or seamstresses who make the costumes, and sometimes it doesn't translate into the storyline, sort of. So what it is is that in some of these African countries they don't have costume designers, they have fashion designers, they have people who work in the print world of editorials and different things like that. So the art, the skill set of costume design because, as we all know, fashion design and costume designers are completely different, since that isn't like a profession that's really been there in terms of costume design, they, when they have these movies, yes, they're reaching out to like fashion designers. So, daniel, I'm going to butcher his last name. I love you. No, that is not it. He's a big fashion designer, but he did a lot of Beyoncé's like what's the one y'all know?
Speaker 2:Beyoncé's fan Blackest King, woman King. Blackest King, blackest King. Okay, how does Zarina do that?
Speaker 1:Maybe she did some of it, maybe he did the African side, I don't know. But he's a big fashion designer. I know that he's like one of the people that gets called for different movie opportunities as well, but I met what some people actually worked with him in the movie world and this is no, you know this to him, but it just doesn't translate the same. So, Zarina is a costume designer. And he hired him to design or source.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's it and I did want to say on the mic so that people who don't understand the distinction between a fashion designer and a costume designer is specifically the work and storytelling through film and television. Story and television and like developing the characters in that way, based off of, you know, information from your EPs, from whoever the directors are, and then building out a character and then that is the character you see on television versus someone who is building out costumes and I'm not costumes but clothing design fabrication from their own brain and imagination and manifesting their own kind of like vision versus working with a team.
Speaker 1:And putting it through film and television to tell the story. So it's not always like high designers it could be very grungy. Your bum on the street that you see in a movie is specifically the vision of a costume designer. Just so that distinction. And his name is Daniel O'Bossy. Daniel O'Bossy, he is a magnificent designer, but in the world of filmmaking it's just a bit different. So I think that you know, even if you're amazing in the medium that you're used to being into, it doesn't necessarily translate across different disciplines.
Speaker 1:And resources too, like you know, because that movie had a lot of the one we're talking about, had a lot of special effects, and I can tell that they spent the money on the special effects but like they might not have an emphasis or you know, know the importance of the costume design and the storytelling and it can be very makeshifty sometimes.
Speaker 1:Granted there are some other, especially South African films that are dope costume design, dope that this one in particular just was not. It wouldn't. It was given to me. Listen, it was given. Yeah, it was okay given, like 1990s, nollywood, nigerian films. You know, ha, ha, ha, ha, get it right out. What else y'all watching? Anybody watching the Bear? I'm watching the Bear. I think I'm late to that, I think I didn't do it. You can't get into it.
Speaker 2:I keep trying, it's on.
Speaker 1:You gotta sit, so the the, the, what do you call it? The cadence is just so quick. Yeah, it's anxiety triggering.
Speaker 2:It's very anxiety triggering. It's like that.
Speaker 1:But the white tee my man wears, jeremy Allen White. Oh the job.
Speaker 2:Did you see it?
Speaker 1:Okay, I you know I ain't really the Swirl girl. No, I don't I like it, I do have to say who is that Is? That the main character? Yeah, Are we saying he's attractive?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm, I'm, I'm oh, because I didn't get that. He's attractive to me, but when? I saw him outside in his short shorts he had the nine inches long from working out. I was like wait, what season are you on? I?
Speaker 1:just started. This was him in the street. This was just him leaving the gym and I was like, oh, he looks short.
Speaker 2:He is short.
Speaker 1:I mean my husband's five-five, but he, he looks short. There's nothing, oh my God.
Speaker 2:If y'all talk about sweet Swirl, that is not a Swirl.
Speaker 1:He has dreamy eyes. I could see that. I don't even think he's that great Cause. Even when he was on, okay, he got a little shi-. What was this? What was he on before? Shameless? Yes, I was like, uh, really, I didn't show any interest until I saw him. When he showed off, I said, oh okay, is that superficial? You kind of find out If you just cover the face. It sounds like typical. Oh wow it is why y'all say that, If it's just if you're just objectifying him for his body, but his face ain't doing nothing.
Speaker 1:Objectifying him? Objectifying him, I don't think he has. I think he has a little swag, yeah, a little jimmy, it's the chef's show.
Speaker 2:It's the chef's show. He's got a little sumptom. It's the rugged.
Speaker 1:I want a white man, I throw a job all the time.
Speaker 2:Give us one. Give us one. Come on quick smash. We can do a smash, but let's go ahead. We'll leave that for later. We'll get to that segment.
Speaker 1:We tried that before. We did two hours of fetching.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, we did not like your picture, wow. I can tell you he wouldn't be on the list.
Speaker 1:So maybe with the Caucasian men we might be like, okay, I think I gave y'all like Brad Pitt, I gave y'all some classics and y'all was like, okay, all right, let's keep it moving, but the bear, I am enjoying the bear. I'm also watching Yellowstone. I was super late to that Cause it's like six seasons or something. I'm on season. That's great. I think I'm in season two now, because I literally watched eight episodes back to back those cowboys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's just fine. The one with the dark hair. The one with the dark hair, which one? And the beard? No, he's like the ranch manager, he gets it done.
Speaker 1:No Girl. Ew. The only man who's fine on there is Kevin Costner.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:There's none of those other guys. On a good day, they look. On a good day, they look, I can smell them. Y'all know how strong it's a smell. I can smell them.
Speaker 2:Oh, Kevin. Costner is the only one who looks, he smells it. You like smelling, like Stinson.
Speaker 1:You're right. You're right, they'll smell like. I'm looking at the casting, right, they look like everybody's fingernails.
Speaker 2:The black guy's handsome Cause on there. He's cute. Hold on, I don't think I got there. I ain't no black people yet. It's your turn.
Speaker 1:Denim Richard.
Speaker 2:Denim yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Oh, natural hair.
Speaker 2:He was in season one that black guy Okay. You know they don't stick around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's just like what? Where are they? Montana. I can't imagine the redness out there Also shout out, there is some of us behind the scenes.
Speaker 2:The shout out to Janetta Boo, the shout out to the great show.
Speaker 1:Justin Boo. The shout out to Mike All of them was Mike's last name.
Speaker 2:Justin on the show. Shani was there too. A lot of the cost of Shana, a lot of her out of Atlanta worked on that. Yeah, jenna Willey released At least the earlier seasons, yeah, yeah but costume design wise yeah. Oh, she's killing it. She's getting so much better at that thing. She's about that.
Speaker 1:She's a black woman doing this very, very traditionally white show, absolutely, that is a beautiful thing I should kill it. Yeah. It's great I sent an interview that she did because you can almost get lost into. It's not a flashy fashion forward show, so you can almost not appreciate the intention behind it. And the costume design like eye of looking at it Cause it's just like people on a farm is very you know.
Speaker 2:Rugged rule.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wranglers, well, some of them are, but a lot of them are just the hands, at least from where I've gotten. A lot of them are just like the farm hands. And then you got Beth, the daughter, and then you got the son, who's a lawyer, who's the only one who's kind of suited and booted. And then you got Kevin Costner, which is like probably quiet, luxury, like his stuff is probably you know it's mexa, but it's so understated that you wouldn't know.
Speaker 1:And then you have, like Rip, which I definitely peeped, that he's always in black His hat, I think he's the only one who has.
Speaker 1:That's his name, rip. I think he's the only one who wears a black hat too, but he's always kind of like in black and really really dark colors. I haven't seen him in anything like. I think it's just the matter of telling the story and like how believable and like the taste of each character, like you know, how do you? Like you said you be smelling them through the TV Like how do you feel the character To me?
Speaker 2:that is the most difficult part of design.
Speaker 1:I mean, people can say this all day long. But the hardest genre for me is that real life shit. Because you have to make it look so believable, cause there's a lot of things that go behind the scenes with that, like the aging of the clothes. That stuff just came off a rack. Yeah, and you gotta make it look like they've been worn for years. And they just bought it yesterday.
Speaker 2:Same with the bear.
Speaker 1:You know how does he keep his white t-shirt clean all the time and still put very put together and all those people from Chicago Wearing jeans is like a thing Like getting jeans and like having that pocket. You know, men put their violets in their back pocket and making sure those like small details are there. It's like that makes it believable. Yeah, yeah, that's a very difficult thing to do and it's a crap cause we don't even think about it. It's easy but yeah, what you watching she.
Speaker 2:You watching anything?
Speaker 1:I'm not watching a whole lot, but I did just finish Silo on Apple TV. What was that? Browns, lots of browns.
Speaker 2:Lots of dark, different shades of browns.
Speaker 1:Like down, it's no, it's like very dystopian. Yeah, like down with Zendaya, Totally different.
Speaker 2:Cause, that's more futuristic space age.
Speaker 1:This yeah in that sense, but totally different story. Silo is like after you know post-apocalyptic times and everybody's living in these large underground silos and there's like thousands of levels and maybe 50 different silos, but it's like a community inside and, of course, on the lower end is the lower class at the bottom.
Speaker 2:What color they wearing Black.
Speaker 1:Black. Who are they? Color coordinated by class? Not really Everybody, I didn't notice that, but every. It's really just there's no color, Like there's not a lot of color. Maybe you know what. I will take that back, I think as you go up I noticed Rashida. Rashida Jones is a character in the show and I want to say she might have worn some lighter or brighter colors in the beginning, but yeah, a lot of it's very dark and not drab. That's probably not the best word.
Speaker 2:But you know, it's giving like, it's giving her a sense. It's recycled clothes, it's like recycled clothes.
Speaker 1:We're just making what we can because we live in this silo, it's not. We don't get to see the sunlight. We don't get to see animals, birds there's no inspiration. They probably have no clowns, yeah, there's no inspiration. So, yeah, the people who, of course, are upper class. You can tell the difference behind the quality and the style that they have. Common's a character in there.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see.
Speaker 1:He wore I want to say he wore a lot of black.
Speaker 2:Who is her costum?
Speaker 1:I'm looking to see, oh, charlotte Morris. I don't know if she's still the costum designer, but Charlotte Morris Ooh, that's my surest lady, but that show definitely. I can see that that one would have had a lot of ageers and a lot of diaries in that, like they had the sheriff, so of course they had to have those type of uniforms made for them.
Speaker 2:Can I just say I would love to do that.
Speaker 1:learn how to do that Really, Like technically. I'm interested in it too. I would yeah, it's hard work. Shout out to the ageers and diaries in Hollywood and in TV and film, because they really do make a difference.
Speaker 2:Shout out to the boys.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say I just want to go on record and say I don't want to be around for when society take that turn.
Speaker 2:Like I don't want to be around for no dystopian. That shit dry.
Speaker 1:I'm not one at all. What?
Speaker 2:you gonna do. I was gonna say, I was gonna say can it be?
Speaker 1:a hundred years removed from now.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I'm gonna have to see it later.
Speaker 1:I'm good with that. I ain't gonna be here in a hundred years. So the show is set like 300 years after. Yeah, so it's set after. So those people have no idea, like they've never seen life. Yeah, they don't know what the sun is. They've never seen like animals. They don't know what the ocean is, they don't know that that existed. Like they've forbidden them to have books in different things like that, so they don't have books. They don't have books Like they won't allow them to be tied to the past, so it's a crime to be able to find them.
Speaker 1:Like family height 451.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was Michael B Jordan when they were burning the books.
Speaker 1:But it takes it to another level because, like they're finding old hard drives and they're trying to, like, discover the truth. So that's where it kind of ties in.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's a good show. It's a little slow at first, but if you stay with it it's a good show. What's I got now? I really want to know what y'all would do, Like, if tomorrow COVID happened and we was close, we was knocking on their door. What would y'all do if they, like we got to go underground y'all? I see you ain't trying to be here, you gonna just be like I'm out.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I'm not so if it wasn't tomorrow things. So this is the thing zombie apocalypse. I already have like I already know my plan, my plan is I'm gonna attach myself with the strongest group of people.
Speaker 2:I can. That's smart.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna pimp myself out for whatever services I can, I can be of assistance with no, no, no, like, well y'all know, not them services, but the cooking, the cleaning, I might even watch a kid or two but I am not.
Speaker 2:You're gonna take off for the team.
Speaker 1:I can't sew, you can't sew, I can't sew.
Speaker 2:No, I ain't gonna tell them that, though you can make it do it again. I'm mad.
Speaker 1:I can stitch some shit real quick, because I know I'm not gonna survive that on my own.
Speaker 2:I have no sense of direction, I put my GPS on to go anywhere.
Speaker 1:I put my GPS on to come here. I know how to get here. I put my GPS on. So I'm in a zombie apocalypse. I'm just gonna attach myself with the strongest group of people and try to survive. And I'm thinking those times everybody's gotta know their role. That's true. You gotta know your role, like, what are you gonna be good at? Cause you got the people that are very strong and they can build some stuff. They can do this. You got the people that can plant.
Speaker 2:But you gotta show yourself valuable too. Could it be like oh, this is how people just hanging around.
Speaker 1:She weak as hell, she can't attribute nothing what you gonna do. Definitely gotta do that. Where you going, what you gonna do she gonna be a mind. She gonna be a leader.
Speaker 2:You got a sense of direction. She got a weird sense of direction.
Speaker 1:What side of the treat is the moss grind they? Don't grow on the north side, she said what mom?
Speaker 2:I can follow her, know her, I can follow her. What's that? It's a great sense of direction.
Speaker 1:She gonna know them street ways. She gonna be the one who like making it seem like y'all should follow me and I'm the leader and get everybody killed and lost.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna do that. Well, they said it was that way. She gonna make you go the long way, but you gonna get there.
Speaker 1:You might be long, but it's gonna be strong.
Speaker 2:I'm watching and just like that, of course, and I'm watching Housewives of New York City and that's that's about it for right now. I recently asked you guys which I was watching and I haven't found anything. There was a. Oh, I didn't watch my man, idris in.
Speaker 1:I'm not done yet, yeah One fine man. It was a beautiful situation around here, love it very well as lead.
Speaker 2:It was great, great. I enjoyed it and and just like that the storyline is about. I can say that it's a little forced, but the costumes are insane. Yeah, they are still hitting looks Every single time. Yes, and she is killing it. Sarah is still stepping out every single day.
Speaker 1:They all are in the way they elevated them to be and Nicole.
Speaker 2:It's just great yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think Nicole is not my favorite.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nicole, yeah, I'm just talking about my just tuning, just to get. The story line is a little. Yeah, they lost me on the first episode. That's kind of hard, you know, rounding the girls. I guess, Audience for another reason, not the story Exactly, but I mean, you know we follow Carrie, we was watching sex in the city.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we watched this and it was hard to see her lose big that was.
Speaker 2:That was tough. I know my man is back, I don't know about that. Aiden coming back, anyway, but they did just walk, she did just buy a beautiful brown stone, and when I tell you this place, no, she's in Manhattan, across street from Central Park.
Speaker 1:And it has her net worth as a fictional character.
Speaker 2:I have no idea, but she make it. Oh you guys heart. With floors, crown molding, at least 10-foot ceiling, stairwell to the top. It's just Beautiful. I know the architectural must be at least 1950s 1960s in it. They still like created a space where it's open but still modern. You don't care, you're gonna get into her thing. Yeah, that just gave me chills.
Speaker 1:Like even when she walked in that space I was like, oh, my god, I feel like all three of her apartments were flagged the one she had to be, the one she's kept for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, oh. It's so good fireplace with the mantle, you first walk in like it's just good shit, and then she trotting around with this, brace it on the side of her head and these manolos.
Speaker 1:Oh yes. So I'm curious did you watch? Did you look at the architect? I would have said architectural digest of John legend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, yeah, I think did it. What'd you think? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I just like we asking the colors, though it's okay.
Speaker 2:No, why you like it? I mean I do. I think it's very minimal, you know, and I think that's a huge trend right now. I think a lot of things that we're seeing are kind of afraid to play with color and different patterns and design, especially people's home. They like to keep things simple, but I the what stood out was they have this Concrete looking movie room or cinema, yeah, and then it's like these oversized, like pillow couches that has that Blue K Buclay there we go Play fabric and then I don't know, it's like a disease to me the fabric, the on the couch.
Speaker 1:Well, the room look like it's it's sterile. Yeah, and I know like they like to feel like these, homes are not lived in, but it's a lot. I think that's like what people are associating to like luxury design. When it's coming to interior design is like Can it be minimalist, can it be empty, can it be sterile? So how do you think you know, since you're our resident Interior designer, how do you think you can elevate that like?
Speaker 1:Sterility yeah, because you are you are the professional in the room, so I want to know how do you think you can elevate that to be a more colorful and lived in and like, loved on Space and still maintain that level of luxury?
Speaker 2:The easiest way would be with like flooring or with art. You know, art is always a big play with color and it's simple and quick to put up. Rugs are great flowers but like beautiful, like they have the money, they can like put actual trees in her home that could blossom you know yeah it's like just think, because they have the capital to do so, they could just do a little more than the typical.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm saying like you don't have to stay so streamlined and so safe because it's John lead legend increasing Teagan. I mean, they have a gold piano but the whole room is gold you know, it's like everything is just sits. Yeah, it's a very dr Seuss. Yeah, I like that. The little tree wall that was cute.
Speaker 1:It reminded me, though I mean this might be like a bad reference, but it reminded me of remember they had like interior, oh, home makeover, or something like that back in the day with the do where I think I'm very. And then they were like oh, we're gonna go in and we're gonna tear down this kid's room and we're gonna put a tree and a slide, like that's exactly what I thought when I saw the kids room.
Speaker 1:But I did. I did really like their room, the children's rooms, a lot Like the ceiling With the fabric kind of toughed it. What I did like was the kitchen. I Like the mar, the massive marble shelving that they had and the island was matching With the gold accents I loved in his music space. I did like the idea of like his lyrics etched on the glasses of the chandelier.
Speaker 2:That was cute. I could appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Small details were the really good thing that I kind of was feeling that about how they said they used outdoor fabrics for some of their furniture to keep it like kid-friendly and durable. I don't know if that really translate though, because when I think outdoor fabrics, I'm like, would I put any of that stuff in my house? But I thought it was like a clever way of keeping your house kind of kid-friendly when you have all of those.
Speaker 1:How many children do I have two, three what I wanted to say about the chandeliers, because me like Creating music and things like that, like to be able to hit and be successful as he is like. I wonder how he chose which lyrics are gonna be in the Chandelier. Like are those his beginnings? I thought it said it. It said it's one of the albums, the one that run the oh he did but, I, feel like he probably didn't do it, probably was a gift.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, somebody probably was like look, I did this thing, we added these details, like that's all. I'm like a gift. Yeah, that's a nice man. I missed that. I missed that detail.
Speaker 2:I.
Speaker 1:Swizz beats and Alicia, oh my god, they're home. Is this beautiful?
Speaker 2:If you look at it, it looks like very clean, very bright, but they have so much good texture, they are good taste. Yeah, amazing taste.
Speaker 1:Yes, they have good, yes, yes, immaculate Gordon parts Photographs really it's like jazz, like. Sexy, it was good I need to. I need to run that one bit. My my favorite is. My favorite is big Sean's house.
Speaker 2:That couch from our age got really big.
Speaker 1:So this topic came.
Speaker 2:Actually sorry, let me not see a.
Speaker 1:This actually came across because I asked winter about that ubiquitous Toughed it white. Where did it come from? Clay couch the air celebrity guy. Where it come from? Please let's put that in the show nose. That's so sick of that damn cow it's like, let's take it it's given. It's given spatter past the couch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not sure how we pass on all these double couchs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm the couch is quite comfy, you think so. It look hard. It's really comfortable.
Speaker 2:So you Let me. I'm a sentence I'm not gonna have it up here.
Speaker 1:Just wait on this, ad Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know that looked real.
Speaker 1:Fascinating that you all are actually into this. I haven't, I. They still have what's it called MTV Cribs. That's about the last time. Architectural digest are really I really do enjoy.
Speaker 2:I need to watch this.
Speaker 1:Like y'all introduce me. I started, I started watching. I was like, oh, let me go to the next Perfect segue for our Smasher Pass. Let's play a game, smasher Pass where we list all of the items that are top of our list in the past, or I guess let's say top of the group chat and talk about whether or not we go Smasher Pass. I'm just gonna start off. So Barney's in forever of 21. I saw this. I saw this Barney's in New York. They got and forever for ever, 21. Apparently, they're owned by the same company. It's giving grandma and baby tees what it's giving. We are not on brand together. Let me look at the years. Yes, it's a hard pass for me, but that's the thing, the high low thing like collaborations, because what's Chloe has a collab right now with what's in Sandal people. You all seen it.
Speaker 2:Chloe who.
Speaker 1:It's not Bergenstadt, but that's like I mean, what did we? Didn't I send you who I sent you? Was it Jason? That's disappointing. Oh so that makes it Tiva.
Speaker 2:Tiva.
Speaker 1:Now those shoes are very comfortable. Thank you, that's cute, but what I'm saying is like this is this is like a thing happening right now is like affordable brand doing collab.
Speaker 2:Like H&M was doing it, like with Mugler, but they also are kind of like it can be in the same target we're talking about Barney's in forever 21.
Speaker 1:There's specifically different markets all together Like all together. Like that show grandma going to forever 21 to get a Barney's like discount Like I don't. That's not it, it's forced, I think. I think they just trying to save the day. I don't like forever 21 like that. It's like going in a Ross. Now you go to one in Lennox mall and it is all. I literally walked in and walked out at some hyper ventilating. I don't like it. It's too much going on. Okay, so what y'all think? Smash or pass Pass.
Speaker 2:Sorry, am.
Speaker 1:I saying that too often. It's okay.
Speaker 2:What's next?
Speaker 1:Jorts Jeanshorts.
Speaker 2:I got mine on right now. What makes?
Speaker 1:them Jorts. They're just jeanshorts, so I don't know when the name I was telling me this as we were looking in.
Speaker 2:I love.
Speaker 1:Jorts, I wear them often. Yeah, I don't know where the name change came from, where it went from, just denim shorts and jeanshorts. That's a lot Jorts, I still call them following.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just be showing you shorts, but I was reading that article on Vogue.
Speaker 1:We can hear y'all Sorry, she just talked. I was reading that article on Vogue and it just kind of talked about the evolution of the history of denim and the shorts and I love them. Like I usually go for something shorter. These are slightly above the knee. I'm a very petite woman so I try not to go too baggy and long when it comes to my shorts. But yeah honey, I'm here for the Jorts. I'm a smash. I'm a smash too. I like the old, super duper, oversized Jorts.
Speaker 2:I didn't know, I went and stitched the waist.
Speaker 1:A nice build. Oversize something over it.
Speaker 2:It's like two seconds from a coolot. Two seconds from a coolot.
Speaker 1:You can probably thrift that bitch with a kitten heel. Yeah, and that's what's it right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1:That's that wrong shoe theory.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say that's next and wrong shoe theory Smash or pass.
Speaker 1:Well, no, I was gonna say smash or pass kitten heel, because I didn't know the kitten heel Y'all like a kitten heel.
Speaker 2:I did get a certain time, at a certain time in place. A kitten heel can live.
Speaker 1:It's gotta be the right. Tell me what you would pair a kitten heel.
Speaker 2:I think it could be great with it With a great crop wide leg, pantyhits right above the ankle. I was gonna say I wear them with these A nice little crop top or fitted little top of you know little baguette and your little kitten heels.
Speaker 1:You have to know how to rock a kitten heel. It's a nice little punch moment, yeah, and it makes sense for a certain like I wish I had. One is a good manolo Beyond it, to be honest with you, because it's you know, I ain't who got time to be rocking around a stiletto.
Speaker 2:Me Pumps. Well, I do that when I'm a little out Smash or pass kitten heel. I'm not gonna write it Just why. Yeah, yeah, yeah, coming to this podcast. Oh, no, oh, what I think? Well, what I think I might have worn, I think me, I have to, but I think that goes to winter's point of like, that's a cute little lunch moment. Yeah, it's light enough to be in the day and you can run around and still feel like I'm up just a little bit. Yeah, and.
Speaker 1:I do think you have to have a certain like appeal or not. You have to have be have a certain style to know how to pull off a kitten heel. Me personally ain't really my thing. I'm too short to be wearing a kitten heel, so I'm gonna pass. I would never put no little nipple of a heel on my foot. I've seen nipple longer than a kitten heel. I would never put that one. I could not.
Speaker 2:It does nothing for me, I'm for a lemon, so even right now I have nipple heels, I'm not calling them kitten heels no more I have to wear a flat form, so a wedge because my stiletto days are kind of gone.
Speaker 1:Like you know, the wear on my on my joints, ain't the same as it used to be. So I love, like a wedge or something that still gives you the height but not doesn't. I love when people get executed. Kitten heel, I'll smash on that, but I'll pass on it for myself.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yeah, because I can't walk in them.
Speaker 1:It's something of my equilibrium be like, but is we on the floor or is it in the sky?
Speaker 2:No seriously.
Speaker 1:I definitely remember wearing kitten heels, though I feel like in the early 2000s.
Speaker 2:Really Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I think I had these cute pink ones and they were like this long pointed toe with a little square. It was like kind of narrow. But still that square. You know it was like a mule or a pump. It was a mule. I think I had a few actually, but I wore them all with like wide leg, like bell bottom pants.
Speaker 2:So you can see the little peek-a-boo moment.
Speaker 1:And Chah, I told them little heels, them little bit of a heel up walking around campus, so they didn't last too long.
Speaker 2:The nipple of the heel.
Speaker 1:This is a joint. Let me see yeah Of today, yeah Of today when you say I like a joint that's exactly what I said in my head. I said that's me.
Speaker 2:You know, the younger, the younger kid like the, the guy, the, the kids in like their 20s or whatever. They're going for that.
Speaker 1:That's their thing, like designers little young designers are making the longer shorts, that's why I have to do a kitten heel, because I don't want to look like I'm 20. Yeah, I'm a pass on that. Averil Lavrine, exactly.
Speaker 2:He was a skater boy. Yeah, that's not my secret.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not my secret.
Speaker 2:Mama and her had a, a, a song together. Averil and Little Mama did a song. I can see that in the 99, in the 2000s. I didn't know that. What's our?
Speaker 1:next smash or pass. Okay, so I was gonna say wrong shoot theory, smash or pass. I haven't tried it so I tried it.
Speaker 2:I'm passing.
Speaker 1:I tried it today. I'm, I'm. I think it's a fun way to mix up your wardrobe, so I'm gonna show them a smash. I'll smash it tomorrow. I'm gonna pass it today. I'll try it tomorrow. I figured out Wrong shoot theory, so the wrong shoot theory is like not choosing, like putting your outfit together but not selecting the first shoot that comes to mind, what you would typically wear with your look.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, your first thought, right so you? That kind of goes against what I do.
Speaker 1:That's not what I said. Why don't we wear something that says wrong in the title, like literally saying this is a wrong shoot. Switch up.
Speaker 2:you switch it up, I did see, I guess this is probably relevant to this. I did see an article about wearing ugly shoes with dresses, like that is a thing now. So like the little slip dresses, you put on a heavier sneaker like a new balance, you know, versus like a lighter sneaker like a tree torn and that doesn't work for everybody's body type like sorry myself because I'm smaller.
Speaker 2:So if it's, too heavy yeah, the shoe will be wearing me. You lose the whole fit. So I think that has people have to pay attention to what works for them and their body type is well like. It's cool for these little fats, whatever, but make sure your body work at the same time, it's not something you can necessarily do every day but, everyone flip it every night. Yeah, the way to spice up your wardrobe, do something a little bit different if you're trying to test out your style limitations. Yeah, that was it because.
Speaker 1:I, some people would think that those shorts with a kitten heel would be the wrong shoe. Versus, like the skater aesthetic is put a sneaker on. You know like oh let me put a little kitten heel on, and that might be the wrong shoe for somebody else yeah. I mean it still got a made sense to you. You can't put no, I mean I wouldn't do a cowboy shoe, and you call it a wrong shoe theory. Just look at it.
Speaker 2:Every day in the suburbs. You guys say so, but that wasn't even a wrong shoe theory they just thought it looked great.
Speaker 1:Yeah that was their first choice. Yeah, okay, so my, I'm a dude. Two more. So overlining your lips, oh, like over lip lining, that's a pass. Yes, pass for me too, the cello lip, what you think, so I do a light version of that. She's over. Well, I'm saying two things. I'm saying black.
Speaker 2:Well no, not black, but I do do like a dark brown. And then I oh no, you be outside of the lip, yeah we'll color out the lines. You guys see, look at this. No, no, no, no but, I do do the lip liner. No, that's not for us.
Speaker 1:So I think yeah, that's, that's for, that's for people, oh, thin lip women, people who don't have the volume, no, who want to make their lips appear bigger, and I will say that's not a problem. Oh, I would say that is prevalent.
Speaker 2:I do have a thinner lip, but I would never draw outside the line of it.
Speaker 1:I know some people who do it and they have fuller lips to like, I guess, make the aesthetic you know to be appealing. But I don't know, give yourself that little pucker moment. This girl right here, she ain't got thin lips and she did it. I'm seeing the picture. Let me see what the I say. If it works if it looks good and it's flattering on you.
Speaker 2:And she doing black liner.
Speaker 1:No, I see.
Speaker 2:She got black liner and that is outside the lines.
Speaker 1:What did the finished result look like?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but don't suck it.
Speaker 1:I'm okay. I haven't seen black liner used like that in a lot, but that wasn't Since the 99.
Speaker 2:Since the 80s, I learned in early 90s I used to do like the black liner with the red and inside the room and a gold tooth. I remember I had a neighbor named Frankie.
Speaker 1:Oh, miss Frankie, that was a ma'am.
Speaker 2:Yep, miss Frankie had a gold tooth that was like the kind of trimmed her front tooth and she had her lips thickly lined black and red and inside they held big waves. I was like oh, look at Miss Frankie coming.
Speaker 1:I don't know why that just gave me irk on my dude.
Speaker 2:Maybe it was the lips, I don't know it gave me something, not that, but I don't see that better. I'm miss Frankie, because she's still my neighbor. Peace out to Miss Frankie, alright.
Speaker 1:so let's do, let's roll on to you want to eat, let's eat the streets with Izy White, and she's gonna tell us about these Atlanta streets and what we eaten, what we wearing when we go out to these places In frugal, in these unprecedented times of us not having work, our industry being shut down, I'm already the frugal girl. I'm already the coupon clipper, the discount, the happy hour queen. So I just wanted to introduce some places and some tips on how you can save money but still try to maintain a little bit of your luxury in your life, so like you're dining out and you're having a cocktail or whatever. So, even though right now we can't go out and spend a $200 tab at a nice restaurant, what I would recommend, and what I have done, is to look up happy hours in the city, and there are a lot of great happy hours and a lot of good quality happy hours too.
Speaker 1:Stk has a happy hour, oku has a happy hour, and yesterday I visited Eclipse Deluna, which is an old, old, old favorite of mine.
Speaker 1:I haven't been there in many, many years, but I was in a mood for some tapas and some sangria and they have a $5 happy hour. So the calamari, the grilled shrimp, we had ribs, we had a bunch of small plates and they all came up to about $5, and they had an amazing wine menu which I did not partake of, but my friend did, where is half price off of their wines, and I chose the sangria which was a special for $5. So definitely look up your. You know, now that we have the time, the availability usually happy hour hits during a time that we will be working, but since we aren't working, between the hours of like 4 to 6, maybe even 7, there's a lot of like really good deals in the city. Bula Gastrobar is also another great place that has an awesome happy hour. So, yeah, I had about 5 small plates that I shared with a friend and 2 glasses of sangria, and it was less than a Netflix subscription.
Speaker 1:So that's great, that's a great measurement right there, yep, and you got a little insane and he was a little busbous, oh yeah, yeah. Nah, I'm a mother so I'm not going to say what the reality of it was. But yeah, I had to pull myself together to leave from out of there, so the $5 drinks were definitely worth it Not pull myself together.
Speaker 1:How many drinks did you say here? 2. I had. 2. You know I'm a little lightweight, but I want to ask you all what is a luxury that you had to give up during this strike time, whether it's getting your nails done, hair appointments, a little body scaping. You know what are you guys sacrificing right now that you would normally, you know, indulge in them $200 dinner.
Speaker 1:In my nails, I'm having to cut, like I'm having to go to the Whole Foods or to the. I mean, I don't know why I said that like that. It's like a downroar Right. I'm going to get my fruit, my vegetables, my meals and try to figure out how to make that steak at home. I feel, my oysters at home. It's beer packed Fridays at my house. We just couldn't get it on and saying I'm trying to do all of the things that I usually would do outside in the world at the crib when, I haven't figured out how to do with these nails.
Speaker 1:I've got these silly nails on for them, so I will say that that's. Something else that I have started doing is my own nails. They're not done now but they will be done tonight because I'm going out of town. One has amazing gel kits. Now that we have the time to learn a new skill, I would say get one of those starter. What's it called? Operate, operate nails. O-o-o-p-r-i-s-o-p-r-e-s. Operate. Is it a pre? Whatever, they have those and it's so easy to do and you know there's the press on nails have, like, evolved to an amazing level of durability. So that's another fab and frugal tip of a way to still, you know, keep your little girliness, but do it on budget by doing it yourself. I forgot about the press on Girl, I feel like we're in COVID In COVID, me and you was you got some glue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got some glue. I got one kind of hanging a little bit and invest in a quality glue. I've realized that that's the key to the press on Prep. I'm real good, put some alcohol on there, dehydrate that nail bed. Get some quality glue, pop it on you, good for a good 10 days. And if you invest in like a really good set from like you know a company that has the all encompassing kit.
Speaker 1:That really helps, because those nails can last you the same amount of time that they're $150 set. You can, you know reapply later. Yeah, we used to get ours from Etsy. Really, that's where you got yours from I was doing Nalu's nails, that girl, she's on Etsy though. Oh, I never.
Speaker 2:Oh, I bought mine through her on Etsy.
Speaker 1:I was just going straight online which you got this new sis you know what I'm saying I have yet to sacrifice anything. That's my problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1:Now do I need to get my nails done and my feet and my brows and I need to get my underarms wet? Yeah, but it's because I'm lazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, I did sacrifice the gym. I totally let my arms there, you go out the door and I loved it. But I think I got lazy more than anything, because I absolutely can be doing it properly and going to the gym, but I'm like we're on a strike. No, I don't need to go, but I should go. That's the only thing that I have to do for my mental health.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's one thing.
Speaker 1:I need to get back into for my mental health Because I want to be crazy, you going crazy Like stir crazy I don't know. Like I've been getting up and getting out of the house, going to a little coffee shop, isolating myself for like four hours just to get the things done. I'm not going crazy because I'm not working, because I feel like I'm staying very creative, but going crazy within, like, the monotony of the thing. Is that the word?
Speaker 1:I'll just do that when I'm working. So some of the things I saw this this is inspired by a Facebook post I saw, and here's some things that other film industry employees said that they were sacrificing. Did she go Doing? Oh, she did. I guess I'll ask what you? Well, I probably should be sacrificing more, but I'm trying to stay in the head space, still be realistic about the times that we're in. But hey, let me go get this girl.
Speaker 2:I got a little.
Speaker 1:I was able to get a wax recently. My wax lady did a half off. I don't know, I mean due to economic times, and it's still going on. It's August.
Speaker 2:She's doing it all month long, so go see my girl Kim at Va Va Voo.
Speaker 1:She's right off of like in the Grant Park area, right on Boulevard Black home. Okay, go see her. So she is doing half off waxes right now.
Speaker 2:So that was great yes.
Speaker 1:I have taken my nails off only because I couldn't get my appointment until the end of the month. So I just took them off to get my nails a break. But I was like, yeah, I'm gonna put my price on for a couple of days and whatever, I haven't done anything but they look horrible. I am not good at doing nails. I am not good at something I am not good at. But I definitely have some press ons left over. So we'll see how long it takes. You know how long I can hold out. I definitely need a petty, but, yes, definitely. Like Aziza said, those $200 dinners Gotta kind of chill on that.
Speaker 2:What about you? Yeah?
Speaker 1:because we ate. We ate at home. I know, we ate at home. We ate at home, though. The recipe thing is great. This group recipe is perfect.
Speaker 2:I love this group recipe situation. I made lasagna last night from scratch. You always surprise us. I used an almond-based sour cream and I freshly shredded my Gouda cheese and Parmesan cheese and created my ricotta cheese. Really, I love that Winter soaked me full of surprises.
Speaker 1:I don't know why I'm so surprised every time. I'm like, yeah, I'm in the kitchen cooking.
Speaker 2:I'm like we do you have time? I could do the things. I got a whole kid. I got to cook for him. I know that's right, He'll be home. Yeah, big old boy.
Speaker 1:So some of the things that were at the top of the list, and one of the most unfortunate things that people cited that they had to give up is doctor's appointments. Hell's period. That was disturbing. Yeah, it was so many people were like I can't afford. And given the fact that I just got a dental appointment where they were trying to charge like $800.
Speaker 2:They'd be the ones that are the most expensive.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, there's a lot of healthcare associated costs to where you get there. You pay your little copay. You're like all right, $50. Y'all come fix me up and they be like okay, yeah, that $50 just for us to come and see you, yeah.
Speaker 2:You gonna need this, this and this and this.
Speaker 1:You gonna need all these labs, you gonna need this and these fees and everything. And then it's like, okay, that $50 copay I really kind of wasted, because really y'all could have gave me an estimate over the phone of like what you looking for unless you got $800. Don't even come here because you're not going to get service, what you are expecting to get, if you don't have that money. That's crazy. But my only thing is how often are you going to the doctor?
Speaker 2:And that's why I like to say that, that's why that $170 orange theory is important.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, a lot of people don't make their health a priority. While we're working, we don't have the time to do dental appointments, eye exams, things like that. So when you're finally like, okay, I got the time to do this, well, now you ain't got the money, yeah, because you know it's going to be sick, yeah, or now that's a very real thing. A lot of people their conditions that they ignored while they were working so hard are now probably expedited and like presenting themselves in a different way.
Speaker 1:My dad has like blown his back out. I literally see him like tilting to the side. I feel like the child is like oh my God, dad, we need to book you an appointment right away, grantee, he hasn't been in film and television for a little while, but after 30 plus years of working film and television, doing electrical and camera operating and all these things, now his back is totally like he brushes his teeth and then all of a sudden he can't get up. You know, like little things like that are like devastating. So I can imagine a lot of people having those things that they kind of ignored, or doctors appointments that they've ignored because they've been putting those 20 hours in, and now all of a sudden they're like oh snap, I can't pick up my baby or I got this. I think that's been bothering me or I've been ignoring these headaches, so I do.
Speaker 1:I can understand that health first yeah because at the end of the day, it just goes to show they don't give a fuck about us no, it's just it's not a it's not sustainable to not take care of your health in these these industries? Yeah, absolutely, I will say I always would just be like I got a doctor's appointment.
Speaker 1:I never put off, like my health um, even while working if I had something that needed to get seen, or like routine maintenance, like I always kept those appointments, but a lot of people don't, because depending on the type of gig you're on and what position you're in and your availability also I think.
Speaker 1:I think that's a mental thing, because a lot of times people allow the working environment, or even your boss or whatever the case may be, they allow the stress of that to over encompass their life to the point that you are ignoring your emotional, mental, like.
Speaker 1:I even started taking therapy sessions at work shout out to the designers I've worked with Rhonda, you know what I'm saying to be like, hey, can I step away for a little 30 minute therapy session. And she's like sure, no problem, of course I make sure that it is and you know I'm not leaving a bunch of stuff on the table where they need assistance. But taking that time for yourself is really important because also that makes a, that makes a better you to be present for your family, for your work and for that you know, and at that job that you're scared to lose because you got to take care of your body, and if somebody is telling you you can't go take that medical visit or take your baby to the doctor or do something that is very like instrumental in your vitality of life, then you know yeah that's what I'm saying, like because of the culture of our work it is.
Speaker 1:It's this thing where people don't think that they can take the time for themselves, and you got to kind of switch that mentality because, like I said, they don't care. They showing us now yeah, y'all can be without jobs and lose your homes, that's on y'all, like they don't care. So you got to put yourself first and a lot of that is like um internal conditioning that we're doing ourselves a lot of people just don't even speak up and say yeah hey, I they're scared that there's going to be when most people are probably like okay, girl, yeah go do that thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't create our boundaries. You got goodness oof.
Speaker 1:I mean you should do that anyway with work, but you definitely got to do that in our field so that's something that people can take away from you. You know what I'm saying? They can take away your job, but they can't. You gonna let them take your help too. Come on now. So some of the top things were haircuts, travel, starbucks, eating out, organic grocery shopping. I guess he just went down to the GMO bananas you could try yourself or go to a little neighborhood.
Speaker 1:You know farms that they have every little neighborhood come to the West End they got neighborhood farms all over the place. You could come and get your vegetables. You just got to wake up early and hit them farms. And a lot of times they take ebt, they take credit, they take whatever, and sometimes they'll give it to you for free, like on some gp stuff. So that's a bad excuse or again, again.
Speaker 1:That damn expensive it ain't gym memberships, car wash membership um streaming networks, grocery delivery so this is interesting she said um, I know it seems kind of dumb, but I get very over simulated at stores.
Speaker 1:It was a mental health luxury. So she stopped her insta cart and I was like wow. And then that just made me think when she said the mental health component of it. Like you get anxious in grocery stores and this is a luxury but it's also a necessity for your mental well-being. And now you have to force yourself to kind of go into a store even though it's a very anxiety inducing situation what that's about is she getting up at six am in the morning and go and we're in?
Speaker 1:there are options. And also, what are you doing on set? The store is over stimulating the store. Y'all don't know her relationship with broccoli you don't know this woman.
Speaker 2:I don't know what over stimulates her to store.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying her mental health because she can no longer insta cart, and the last one was women gave up women.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can't date right now.
Speaker 1:We cost money well, a couple of people a couple of people are like, yeah, like nobody wants anyone who's unemployed and depressed well, let's talk about the depression and keep the depression go hand in hand after a year for him.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's an interesting take and let's just be real.
Speaker 1:We are all creatives in these spaces and the creativity and the skill, set the eye and in the imagination that you have is God given or whoever you feel universally given to you and that is not something that someone can take away.
Speaker 1:You might not have a corporation funding that skill every week, but now you have the time to like tap into the real energy of your creativity and kind of express it in a beautifully new way, which is kind of how I've been taking this whole time, like I don't think of it as a down bad moment at all. I think this is like so beautiful for us to express the limitations or the unlimited potential of our creativity. And now you know, on their own creative space and not working in film and television anymore, what are you guys doing to subsidize your luxuries and the things that you kind of took for granted while you were working in that weekly paycheck? Like, how are you figuring out life and reconfiguring your life to match your mental health butry? So, because you know we don't have a resident artist so we've passed it on to our single extraordinaire.
Speaker 1:Miss Sheik and Brandi's getting into all of our treats to tell us what beats are hitting the streets lately. All right, so listen, there's some. There's some good music coming out, and last week we were talking about r&b and you know some people think the lack there of, but I'm telling y'all there's some really good music out there. Um, there is an artist his name is Leon Thomas the third, and he's actually an actor, childhood actor on a Nickelodeon show. I believe it was victorious. But you also may have seen him on insecure on a couple of episodes, but he has. He is a producer, as well as the singer artists, all of the things. And I actually got a chance to see him perform back in New York I want to say 2019 right before, right before the pandemic, and I remember him coming on to perform and I was like, who is that? And I had. I knew he looked familiar, but I wasn't too familiar with him musically, but I thought that he was really doped in and he's got a new album that's out called electric dust. So I would definitely say go out and listen to it. Um, very much an r&b album, but it's got some alternative feel to it as well, and I always like to hear that combination because it doesn't always have to sound so hardcore r&b stricken or your typical r&b sound. So check that out, check that out.
Speaker 1:Um, also, I will say my girl, victoria Monet. We talked about her last week and her great music that she's been dropping on my mama uh, smoke, uh, the party girls record. Her album drops on Friday, so I'm definitely looking forward to that. She is coming here on Atlanta September 19th. She's has a show. I see you know what that means.
Speaker 1:We're talking about the artist, the artist coming here, she, they coming here, they coming up before she is coming to perform at the Buckhead theater. She is coming to perform at the Buckhead theater on September 19th here in Atlanta, georgia, but uh, find her online and you can check out a slew of other places. She will be as well. So y'all go, get into jaguar 2 and also get into electric dusk by Leon Thomas III, and let me know what y'all think about the albums. We'll tag those in the show notes too so next week the album, will we?
Speaker 1:by the time y'all hear this, the album will be out. Yes already and we will probably have a little commentary for it next week, because we'd like to keep a topic flowing. Um yeah, so thank you, shika. Um, this is the end of our episode four. Y'all we had a month at this podcast is now a month old. We are so happy that you guys have been downloading listening subscribing we ate podcast we ate podcast.
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