Can I tell you one time?

One time I was hosting a show the one time and the microphone hit my mouth and I was like, yeah, because you know when a microphone hits your mouth, it's like your mouth has hit like a toilet seat.

The thing has got stories, backstory.

Hey everyone, welcome to adult Ting.

I'm Michelle Buteux, I'm Jordan Carlos.

What's up?

My co from Go is here?

My sister from another miss that's right.

And microphones are dirty?

Yeah, they are dirty ass microphones.

I mean, you've ever gone up to the mic and it's just like you can smell what the other person has been drinking, what they have been like eating, that they've had a cigarette break.

It's just a combo, a tuna platter of all of them.

It's the worst.

And then it's just like make me laugh, you know what it is?

I don't I think people understand that part of stand up comedy when you grab the mic, it isn't just the one person's breath, it's the culmination of everyone's breath in this little space that you have to put right next to your mouth.

God forbid, you gotta act out.

You have an act out on your mic.

Absolutely, it's so funny.

There was Tom McCaffrey.

It's a hilarious comedian when we were like coming up.

I don't know if he still does comedy.

I don't know where Tom McCaffrey.

Where you at?

Tom definitely still does comedy.

He wrote a book.

Even Yeah, good job Tom, Let's get him on the show.

I actually do an impression of Tom McCaffrey.

Can you do it?

Because help?

He was like the closest, like you know when you see a white boy rapper, you're like, okay, that is definitely in him.

He didn't just look at chetthanks to study that like that is he is, you know what I mean.

It's giving Malcolmore, it's giving Eminem, it's giving who sings Ice Ice Baby of Vanilla eyes.

But that's awful.

He's definitely.

I mean, listen, Tom was born and raised in the Stuyvesant projects.

He's he's got it in him.

It's the culture.

And he just happens to talk like this.

I love how he talks.

Yeah, but then like he holds the mic up like a rapper and he like cups like it's not part of it.

And I kind of missed people doing that because when people cut the mic like that, you know in a comedy show, they're usually about to do like a helicopter impression or like some sort of like sound effect.

A one too, A one too like.

He looked like he was always poised to beat box.

Yeah, but he was not going to do that.

Shout out to Tom McCaffrey.

Have you ever been in a Yo Mama off?

Yes, as a child really in church?

Okay, that took a turn.

No, I thought you meant, Oh, you mean like a stand up show where it's like Yo Mama di and that.

No, it was no.

Not a stand up show like in a parking lot, like your Mama's so fat, like your mama's so stupid.

You remember that back in the day when people be like Yo Mama.

I was so glad that I was able to just like outlast those like Wilmer Valmarama.

Thank you so much for your service he made.

He made Yo Mama very popular, very one note comedy.

He made a T shirt.

Sorry, A TV show, Yeah, on MTV.

A TV show on MTV might as well be a T shirt in my mind because I'm like what it was on MTV.

It was filmed under like a like a railroad trestle or an underpass.

Oh god, because it was urban, Oh god.

And it was on after school.

Also, when I think of like people dissing people in a parking lot, I'm not thinking of Wilder.

Oh no, is that his name, Fez, You're not thinking of Wilmer.

Wilmer whatever.

Like I'm not thinking of that guy, you know what I mean?

Like, I'm not thinking of that guy.

It's it's definitely someone.

Else, Fez.

It's like glass houses.

Okay, I tried those, but I was always like, your mother has such an amazing work ethic, you.

Know, yeah, she's holding it down.

Oh my, your mother is ageless.

I hosted a pilot in two thousand and eight, still waiting to hear for gets picked up, and it was supposed to be like yo, mama, but yeah, with women in a hairshop.

Okay, what was the pilot like?

Terrible?

It's funny hair shops are so there's no circulation.

I'm like none.

You can't open the door because then people think you can get your hair done for free somehow.

Yeah, everybody comes in to like get some change for the bus.

I used to shoot this show with Dan Soder back in the day and it was like the Man Plan or something like that, and we shot it one hundred and twenty fifth Street in the offices of the Source magazine people the Source, what was left of the Source.

Ooh, that place got ero mics.

Okay, it was terrible, but you know what, it was a gig.

My daughter had just been born.

It was whoo the pampers of it all.

I bought the diaper Genie off of that.

I bought the bed off of that.

Like I'm very happy to have that money.

But damn, honey, it was.

It was real.

Ain't nothing funny.

And then Morgan Spurlock, who was the EP, then he I always need to say this right he me tooed himself and it.

Was like, yeah, you better.

It was over.

I was like, okay, we are dropping so much info, like just a whole TBT Flashback Friday info in the chat.

It's shady, it's real.

You can fact check us, is what it is?

Have I been shady this whole time?

I'm here for I love it.

We've loved on Tom McCaffrey and we loved it.

We posted here's the deal.

We loved on him.

But somebody else could say otherwise, like I posted a picture of myself a couple of days ago in a beautiful dress, and you know how, people were like, what were you wearing?

What were you wearing?

I was like, what was I wearing?

My top?

Titty meat?

And somebody commented and they were like, this is pretty crude.

Don't talk about yourself like that.

I wish you would think better yourself.

And I just want like, I don't reply, but I want to.

I'm just like, bitch, ain't nobody gotta love me but me?

This is how I talk.

The fact that you want to even police me about how I should say something about myself is crude, So crude, so crude.

Can I ask you a question?

I have to ask you an adulting question.

Oh no, yeah, I've come to you.

I'm nervous.

I've come to you this hour of need.

Oh Mike, and my Queen of the Knight, what is happening Kevin Costner?

Costner?

You know she tied with She had a syllable Kevin Cosiner.

Moon.

Michelle does this when she breaks down words and then like I become unconvinced of how you said.

Something that's been.

Bed rock in my mind since I was a child.

Is Kevin Costner until this moment, you're like Kevin Costain at a French ending.

Ken bestwhile just we Cossina.

I believe his name is Idris Elba.

That's the Blackbirds.

Now here's the question.

Yes, my wife's longtime hairdresser.

Oh, he's moving back to France.

He's been her hairdresser for twenty years.

She's talked about him.

Yeah, yeah, Christoph.

We love you, Christoph.

Shout out to Christoph, You're the best with a K go on.

I'm so sorry he's moving back to France, to Paris, and they've been quite a combo.

And wife has asked that I, yeah, turn in my frequent Flyer miles so that she may on Mother's Day fly to France for the weekend with her mother.

Yeah, and get her hair done by Christoph.

Thoughts, that's wonderful, and I feel it if you ain't getting what you need, if you're not getting nourished in America or wherever you are, and you just have the means to actually go somewhere and fucking do it, Because oh my god, what am I on?

Edsy happy wife, happy life?

Think about how nourished she's gonna be when she comes back and then you're gonna seem like a fucking hero, do you know what I mean?

So this is a win win across the board.

Now, how many like how wolf was?

She got to get this trimmed?

Because that's a lot, a lot of miles.

I will say I used to go to Paris a lot in my twenties and I just would fly on a cheaper flight on Air India because what happens is when you take a flight that's going to connect somewhere because they have you know, they're going somewhere else, that flight's usually cheaper.

Okay.

I love Air India because I love to see brown families and eat good food.

And so I mean that's a little true.

And I don't know if you can like mix your miles.

You know, sometimes you can do that because the world is one big place.

But I say yes, Also, Christoph probably mentoreds somebody like you know who's the mentee in the peripheral circle?

You know, who does Christophe love?

So it's like when your therapist leaves, they always kind of say, well, I have a friend, so you know, if she's in a pinch and whatnot?

Who att that's a wonderful thought.

Last Mother's Day, I went to Jamaica with my friends and they were pretty much all moms and it was very wild to be like, hey, this is the one day you're supposed to be celebrated by your child.

Let's go nourish ourselves and just wear our top titty meat in tank kinnis to the pool for some tequila and other tea words.

Thank you, Thank you for checking in with me about this, because I was just like, ways, I'm torn as this too much.

But I also know your wife and like, you know, not even for any person, for any person who feels the best they could ever feel with, like their wardrobe stylists, their makeup person, their hair person.

You know, you want to keep that feeling that you have when you leave your chair.

Yeah, and you just can't put your trust in anybody because now we're on some grown woman's shit.

We can't be trying new shit.

I went to Supercuts for a haircut when I was like twenty, and I haven't cut my hair ever since.

I'll trim, but I'm not doing no more cuts because it was giving.

I'm trying to get into the military, but I haven't been passed yet.

Trying to get into basic training.

That's right.

Look, I I hoard miles.

I hoard the miles, you know, yeah, but you got to use them.

Yeah, I do too.

I'm like, what am I going to take the whole family to Hawaiian?

No?

That's too fun, you know what I mean?

Yeah, you're right, what are you waiting for?

What am I?

I don't know?

Miles sometimes do feel like money in the account, Like I like to see the high number.

But you know, make a memory.

We're not promised tomorrow.

These miles are fucking fake.

Thank you, Michelle.

This feels like I've been through therapy, Like it really feels like I need it.

Well, now that we've had a breakthrough, what's your schedule like next week?

Because I should did this weekly?

Sho did this bi weekly.

Look, I'm excited.

I'm excited for her, and I'm even excited for you guys listening to the podcast because we've got a live show for you.

And yeah, it's a whole ass dinner party with no dinner, but it's definitely a party.

Maybe it's just a party.

We ate later.

They were such a vibe.

Yeah you won't know this because you're listening.

Oh my gosh, their wardrobe, head to toe, tip to tip, amazing, amazing.

From head to but toe.

You got to go to their Instagram page.

So let me just give you the Blackground.

Okay.

Yes, our guests are the Illustrious Blacks.

It's a duo Manchild Black and Monster Black.

Okay.

And it is like an art installation that also is giving you music, like original music.

It's afro electric disco, space punk rock.

It's just beyond if you ever heard of afropunk, it's giving nine to five afropunk realness.

They're just delicious.

Yeah, when you think about couples that work together, it's like what Kelly Ripa like it.

I love LUSA, you know.

What I mean.

And then it's like Illustrious Blacks like that's what it is.

And they just dropped a new anthem, a new new well.

I call it an anthem, but it's a new song illusion.

It is an anthem though.

It's like that thing you put on when you get dressed to go out, and then you put it on when you're walking to like an interviewer date.

But anyways, enough of our tired black asses in JOI the episode with Illustrious Guys.

Yes, I'll get up.

O can't.

I got a Charlie horse right there.

I can't do that.

I can't do that to adulting everybody.

What's up y'all?

Oh my god, this is a very warm room.

This is a very warm warmer than my crotch.

Let me tell you this, plas baby, I am baking a fucking sour Doughe bread between my legs right now, roofing the dog.

Paul Hollywood need to come over and fingerfuck my croissant and tell me if I got a handshakeer, I got a soggy bottom?

Yes, yes, and.

Oh my god, wait.

A minute, just order and shout out to the motherfuckers in the front that we're here last night.

Yes, shout out to New York one.

You're the one right there?

Is it new York one?

Yeah, he works for New York One.

Oh shit, Oh no, too long?

Hi, just kidding.

Thank you for coming.

Thank you.

I'm an asshole.

It's what happens when I'm trying to give you, like missy Elliott nine to five realness.

You know, I love pleasure back in the day.

Now, I know why we don't wear it.

It is what I got the titty sweat you good, don't you look good.

Take a fucking twirwl take a fucking twirl, thank you, thank you.

And they got the goddamn.

Pythons and the motherfucking pythons at the bottom.

I didn't see the shoes.

You didn't need the shortest.

You know.

My onion is crying, bitch.

I want to buy like one size nine and a half in the other size ten just for the left foot.

Oh, people see my feet.

They're like, are you a ballerina?

I say you cute?

I said no, I've just been tiptoe for the patriarchy for forty six years too air whar thank you?

Oh man.

Meanwhile, my outfit is cool Brooklyn dad, and they cool.

But I would down no relatively.

No, No, it's a good Brooklyn honest.

It's an honest man.

It's the it's the man that goes the directions.

Hold up, stand the funk up, sir.

Look at this another fucking lumbers.

Lumber sexual lumber sexual man that is overboard, that is over It.

Looks like an Icero trucker.

I look like I look like I could serve you at the at the Hungry Ghost.

No, you are definitely the manager at the Hungry Ghost.

You're not thanking.

Put your time in bitch, thank you son, but don't do that.

Yes, you're right, you're right.

No, but I would work the counter and then at the tip part, you know, it's like you have to tip.

I look away, this is it?

Wait a minute, did you put this outpha together yourself?

It's more an it's nice magic eight bottle situation.

Yes, I just grabbed some clean clothes.

I cooked for my family before.

And uh you every time, now, don't you supposed to eat?

Come on now, every time a man does something, you need an award.

I'm relax.

Excuse me.

I will say that there.

It was like a holiday last week, and people need to quit.

Like I was walking my kids around Manhattan holding their hands and like people kept smiling at me, like look at that dad doing it.

It's so it's such a low bar.

It's so annoying.

It's so fucking annoying.

So you know what people tell me, they try to give me, like tips and tricks.

You know what you should do?

Shut up they give you.

You know, you know, my sisters got a kid.

Shut the fuck up.

Don't tell you to say anything.

Send a bottle of rose and watch her kids shut the fuckin.

People try to give me, tell me what to do.

I'm just like, I'm sorry.

Are you with the arapist?

How do you?

Is there a degree on your wall?

How do you feel?

Can I ask you this?

Like I try to be a stroller hero guy on the okay, okay, I'm always like I got it and then I have a Charlie horse at the end.

Or like my back gives out.

You got to put your back into it.

Some of these kids.

You gotta pat your back.

Have you ever seen Meg the sallion?

Just work out?

Do that?

Yeah, stick.

On repeat favorite.

I don't think I've ever done that before.

Like stuck my stuck my booty out.

Yeah, it's like this.

You gotta go like that, and then you bend.

When you bend, you gotta bend like you are a video how and training?

Sure do it.

I can do more of like a kettlebells squat, stick my booty out like this.

This is way worse than I thought.

No, no, no, but arch your back a little bit.

Oh god, they don't want to see this.

They do your back is that it?

Now?

Pop your butt?

Pop your butt out?

Yeah, family here tonight.

I don't know and I'm so sorry.

Yeah, no, okay, perfect, you know what?

This is like a lifetime movie, sad but helpful.

Yeah, well that happened.

I don't Yeah what am I scared when people do shit?

I love helping people do shit.

I love like helping strangers.

Sometimes I make too much eye contact.

We were just talking before the show about like riding your bike in Amsterdam because you have to, and so I don't mind.

I really can't see my feet with these titties, but I'll try, you know.

And especially when you see black people floating on their bike, you just want to be like hey said, And most of the time we do that, but when they're in a rush, they don't want to, like say hi.

But I'm so excited to see them that I just kind of go in the direction they're going because I'm just like, where are you going?

Where do we go?

Here?

Is there like a is there a Harlem?

Because Harlem is the Dutches.

It's actually called Harlem.

It is Dutch.

Oh that's so, I can't believe you didn't know that you know everything?

Well, no, I mean, so is it like is that Harlem like our Harlem?

Okay, our Harlem is a different Harlem.

For different reasons.

What's that Harlem?

Like?

Happy Black History Months?

Everybody is the last.

It's twenty four hours, but it feels magical.

Yes, Black History Day.

Yeah, it's the leapier Black History Months.

So it's just like extra extra black extra blackness.

Yeah, extra blackness for you, for you.

Oh my gosh, I love it.

I asked me anything about black history because I grew up in the suburbs, so like my parents had to like they were like the first black man ever was so and so, and they would have to teach us all these things about black history that we couldn't get from the white world.

You know what I'm saying.

They would have to like come in.

How much has changed?

What excuse me?

These are air Max's which I just listen preferred on Wednesday Max.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I remember being actually in college when I learned about Juneteenth, not from because I'm from Jersey and nobody, Oh shit, y'all from Jersey or live in Jersey.

You live in Jersey and came here tonight for this security please?

Now I gotta show everybody my titty.

That is so nice.

Jersey is showing out what is happening?

I do like your your ear rings.

If for those at home, these are you want to jump through them?

No?

No, the hey know no, they're like the bamber ear rings.

At least you here like the Hello, cool Jade, thank you for getting through that sentence.

Door knockers, door knockers?

Am I did it again?

And you did it again?

I did it.

I know what doorknockers are, everybody, I'm fucking cool.

You know what it is too when you wear when you wear some bamboo ear rings, I don't know, it just feels like a staple.

I love it.

It's just what it is.

But people really think, you know, fucking directions.

And I'm like, what.

Do you know what I mean?

Like, yes, I'm from here, I'm bad at directions.

I'm no Christopher Columbus, move on, you know what I mean?

Like even he was bad at directions, he was.

Really bad at directions.

Good oppression, bad directions.

That's but too soon, Hey, I heard he was a bad guy.

Out followed him the first gentrifier.

All right, oh my twins, you know what my little boy otis said to me.

Who's so sweet?

He's sort of like Bruno Mars and Benjamin Button had a baby you know what I mean.

He's just like an old little Hawaiian five year old.

You know, he's so sweet.

He even blink slow.

He's just like Mama, Mama, it's so cute.

And like I just gave him an umbrella the other day because it was raining and he started walking like mister peenan.

I was like, it's too cute.

And I picked him up from school and I'm like, how is your day?

He's like good, He goes, how was your days?

So nice?

I said, I did a lot of work.

I got a lot of work done.

And he goes, yeah, but Mama, do you do community service?

Like what do you do for the community?

I was like.

Yeah, I'll say who sent you boy?

I'll say who sent you boy?

Like what is he?

Even?

Did you learn about a firefighter?

Now you want to come for me?

Okay, Like I'm not gonna tell you about season two of Survival the Thickest how I'm trying to fucking safe lives and hire that black round where motherfuckers and write our story so the world can see them.

Excuse me creating fucking generational fucking wealth so I can create generational health for you.

Otith just year no I said it with my face.

Oh okay, okay, got it.

You can't talk to them like that.

I know, I know you can't.

But the other day, baby girl, Hazel, I know you were saying something, but let me just say it before I forget.

No, no, no, what s did you want to say something?

Anyways, baby girl Hazel, Man, go ahead.

You know I hadn't worked out in a couple of weeks, so I was a little bloaded because I had a little bout with sciatica.

You know, saiatica.

Oh I love a grown ass crowd.

Yes, I feel it was you're a chiropractor.

I love it.

Let's talk about it.

And uh.

She looked at my belly and she's like, Mama, is there a baby in there?

And I knew what the fuck she meant, but I couldn't say that.

I was just like, why do you ask me that?

No, She's like, this looks like there's a baby, and man, I was just like, there's no baby.

It's just a lot of love for you.

I do.

I don't have kids.

Yeah, I do love the affliction of sciatica because I only heard about it when I came up to the Northeast.

It's and it sounds like a town in Long Island or something like that.

Only New Yorkers get Sciatica, like like only yeah, yeah in the South.

I had never heard of it, but I come up here like, oh my Sianica.

Like it's like, what is the Sciatica?

I don't like.

It sounds like the jail, like Siantica, Siantica all and nothing, you.

Know, like.

A person from Texas saying, oh my Sciatica.

We don't We're just like Malayics out you know, like you know, I would say, like my Sianic name sounds like a county like I feel, I feel attacks, I feel it's it's nothing but love.

It's nothing but love.

I have to get used to the Northeast, like after all these years, Like, for instance.

You've been here for forty years.

I can't.

And it's like an English guy that doesn't lose his accent, you know, those people that have been for so long and then you're still I'm.

Just so knock good.

Not I'll check my schedule when I should have momims.

I've been in New York for fifty years, but I love aluminium, you know, like, oh no, when Shaggy just went by aluminium in it.

It's so annoying when people are like very proud to be from a place that's done horrible things.

Yeah, oh you're talking about me.

I could also be talking about Texas.

I'll talk about England.

Yes, yes, right, I have to bring up our guests.

Okay, bring out our guests.

That's exciting.

Yes, so our guests tonight are a dynamic DJ duo, no other than Mantosh and Manchild.

Please give it up for the illustrious please, yes, yes, so illustrious.

Thank you, please please please please please Wow the fish, the.

Fish, the fish from never lose a moment.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, A reveal, a reveal?

Yes, who thought fashion Week was prairie sleep?

But make it disco.

We like them to be erect.

Yes, same, same, I think everyone, no matter where you're from.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, so please everybody tell everybody who you is, what y'all do, so we can get on the same page with this fabulousness.

So, what's up, y'all?

My name is Manchild Black.

What's up, y'all?

My name is Monster Black.

And together we are the other industrious Blacks, and we are musical artists and DJs and life partners and husbands.

Actually, let me get that right, husbands for a long, long time, long long long how long?

Last year we celebrated twenty years American airhorns Black Love, Love to see It.

We met in the playground.

Yes, is that what we're calling it?

We'll call it a sandbox.

Well, that was the name of the club we met it.

How did y'all meet?

Oh gosh, we met any club for real, though it was not called the playground nor the standbox, but it was in a club.

We met under a disco ball.

We danced, and we danced together until the lights came up.

Who approached to or was it like mutual approach towards each other?

Just backed it up a little bit.

It was more like we collided and then realized that each other was there Like that.

That's kind of how it happened.

That's true.

That is true.

We were both very shy.

You're both you were both very shy, we were, but we twerked into each other.

Wait, that should be wedding vowels.

How did you get there?

So I met?

I met the Illustrious Flags in Amsterdam at the Milkshake Festival, which is a festival that's part of Pride Week because Peppermint was hosting, and I was like, what and the beautiful ass nuggets are going on?

Where are my different sauces?

And I didn't get to see y'all perform, But like, first of all, as a duo, we're not even married to each other.

I'm just like, fuck you again, but like in the best way possible.

What just that was a total drive by.

I'm just like, oh, look at her out for it.

She was great, my friend.

I love her.

I'm fine, I'm fine.

It's hard.

Look, I will say, it's hard working with people you don't know sometimes, right, and that's supposed to be the easiest because you know, there's like no skin in the game, but you take on people's energy.

That's why I don't like to work with people I don't like and if we get along, because I get along with people, if I don't like your character, I'm not fucking with you.

Like I need to go ask moral compass and I need you to like have a work ethic and we'll start from there, you know what I mean.

And then working with a friend is even harder because if something comes up, it's just like okay, I hope this doesn't ruin the friendship, you know what I mean, it's this confrontation with someone you love is so much harder.

How do y'all make it work?

What was the idea to even get into business together?

We both performed separately for many, many years, and people would always say, oh, y'all should get together because you know, it would be so magical, it would be so this.

So we tried it a couple of times and it didn't quite work, and then we decided to really give it a go.

And it took trial and error.

To be honest, we had to negotiate working with each other and being able to sleep in the same bed at night, so you know.

But now these many years later, I feel like we've gotten a groove and it's working.

Is it because you fulfill separate roles?

Like, I mean, it's won the show and won the business, you know, Like, what how does it go?

No, we tossed it back and forth.

I would say we both share equal amounts of the business and the show.

Okay, there are like I feel like all the elements now they're involved, whether it's like the costuming or the choreography or the selection of the music.

We all go back and forth.

We try not to occupy the same space at the same time.

It's definitely, well, that's what the world needs to learn.

Well, there that is.

How about that anyways?

So was that too soon?

Centuries later?

Imperialism?

Don't ad a bitch?

So, speaking of music, can you tell everybody what kind of music y'all be doing?

We say that we're afro electro disco space punks.

Yeah, oh my gosh, it's a mouthful.

So that basically means dance music that has a lot of house and funk mixed up into little.

Disco spring sprint sprinkled in little tech sometimes and.

A dash of like Tonkin there too a little bit.

And who are your influencer influencers?

I don't know.

It's okay, I'm fine.

I'm like, oh, burn TikTok to the ground.

You want to know your musical influences.

I think you shared one that I was like, oh, thank you, that's amazing.

I had no idea.

It was like the superiors dynamics, Superior dynamics.

Okay.

Yeah.

So for Black History Month, which we are at the tail end of, we yeah, shout out, shout out everybody.

Black History black futures.

All of that.

We would post daily or pretty much every weekday.

A black queer artist who's no longer here with us on this plane and who inspired us, and so Tony Washington of the Dynamic Superiors, great singer in the vein of having a great falsetto sound like a Sylvester is influential to us.

But we came up in a particular era.

Although we claim our age as infinite the waist down.

I love that.

I claim my age is infinite, please, yes, reclaiming my age.

And we were greatly influenced by a lalla like acts from the eighties new wave, but also yeah friends, of course that Minneapolis sound, but also a lot of earlier house like nineties house we love, but also disco and Sylvester who we mentioned, Yes, big influenced dance musical artists, Donna Summer, who else I mean Jones, Yes.

Yes, Grace Jones is shoot David Joe.

Yes, I want to know this much though, like you described making a sound almost it sounded like you were making a meal, like you're like, we throw this in and dash of that and a bit of this, not to sound like a million badialia, but like it felt like, does it feel like you're cooking up there at all?

Like, does it feel like you're cooking something up?

Just saying my two great loves music and food.

Let's go.

You know, it does feel like we're cooking a lot of the times.

Just today, I felt like we were given an opportunity to work on a track and we basically will get the track and then separate and we will throw wow, okay, well what are the ingredients that are getting influenced this track?

And then we'll work on it separately and then come together and see what a lines?

Wow?

Wha.

We got to do that more often.

I'll call you back and we'll see the line yeah, oh my god, why are we doing it together?

That?

Just to even find the time to do it to like, it's just it.

I'll talk to you later.

Well, learning a lot this evening.

Really happy.

I left the fucking house.

Okay.

No, it's beautiful that you guys have that you're just on this kind of like plane with each other.

It's a beautiful place.

That's like, so do you have the exact same musical taste?

Well, what I was gonna say was that when we first went on our first date.

A lot of what we talked about was music.

Not knowing that we'd ever be working together anything past that one date, but we talked about that you love language, yeah, music because you love language, because I had Okay, this was at a time when CDs were the rage.

Have you all heard of CDs?

I know what a CD looks like.

I had stacks and stacks and stacks of CDs.

I had a phone on a wall one time, a phone on the wall.

Yes, oh wow, yeah.

One time I had an email address all in caps.

Oh my god, so it was it was many laughs.

I turned to Oh, I love that though.

I mean, this is it's an obvious question, but it's an important question with the Supreme Court the way it is right with I'm so sorry.

I promise you guys are fine, that you can see a little bit.

I'm fine.

Just the stay of the world, right, the fear, the fear mongering, the prices, the senseless, fucking deaths.

And then also, like music is the first thing that gets cut, music and art and you guys being nothing but joy and light and goodness and fecial.

Why is music and art important?

I feel like it's important because for us in particular, the joy in the light that is on the package.

It is actually making it.

It's making it easier for people to come in and actually hear what is actually happening in the content, because a lot of times we'll be like, it's joy, happiness or whatever, and we're reading the people in the crowd or talking about what's happening, what's going on in the world.

Yeah.

So although it's like it's the party, if you listen to the lyrics, you're actually getting a message.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We did a remake of this very popular nineties house song h Funk That, and in it, the producer we worked with allowed us to change the lyrics to fit our sound and who we were.

It starts with question, why are we still in the twenty first century concerned with what consenting adults are doing behind closed doors?

Funk that?

I got mine?

You get joys?

Yeah, and if you don't have it, try to find it, Try to find it, you know, try to find it.

It's worth finding.

I'm just saying, I think people just there's just such a resentment of other people's joy, and I think that that's what I get from the moral you know, like moral outrage at a Queer Joy at Black Joy at Black Queer Joy, people are just like you know, Buttles Titan.

It's bad and people but people, people hate it.

They just hate it.

And it's what kind of people hate it?

Nobody like me?

But but you know, like play again people.

I just want to get specific because but this is a mixed ass crowd, right, this is a mixed crowd.

When people ask me about allyship, the first thing that always comes to mind is it is important what you do when people aren't looking.

There is a mic.

Now I can say it.

But am I living it?

Am I in those spaces where somebody has power over me, they have a paycheck, they're about to write to me, and they said some shit, Am I gonna say something?

The answer is fucking yes.

And so I feel like when we talk about allianship and who hates it, it's just like and some people don't even know that they're saying something fucked up, which is really crazy.

They've just been conditioned, do you know what I mean?

So I just feel like for me, art is wonderful because you can say, well, look at this group and look at that singer and look at that poet.

Do you hate them?

That's cool.

So why do you care if you're if your child is with somebody so and so, if your child is so and so, you know what I mean.

Also, you know, it's a meme that I posted, but I still fucking feel like it, Like if you if you don't, if you wouldn't be able to love a gay child, don't have children like you need to.

You need to love your children.

And everybody is someone's child.

And so the fact that somebody doesn't get that, I mean, I can't even tell you the amount.

It's like road rage for me.

It's my new road rage.

Like the arguments about trans woman and sports.

I'm like, why do you give a fuck humanity before sports?

Bitch?

I could give a fuck about the ball you throw, right, But that's just me.

And this shirt is very hot.

Yeah, I mean, listen, the great writer Alexis to Tukville.

We got a quote who was who was not black?

But yeah, here we go this last day a bit, let's go, okay, well.

Alex to Toukville, but he said he said that Americans don't give a shit about politic unless a road is running through their yard.

You could even be homophobic.

But the moment like Dick Cheney the moment he had a queer daughter, suddenly he's you know, pro gay marriage.

Like that is like conservatives usually care on a one to one basis.

When they think that they will be replaced or there's a horde coming to get them with an agenda, then they're exactly all right.

But like I'm welcome to my ted talk.

But I feel like that is what we're up against, right, That's what we're up against.

And when I see musicians like yourself, you are you artists, you are canaries in the coal mine.

You are.

You are the lesson of the.

Movie Cabaret when when the light of Jesus, I'm feeling myself when the light.

It's definitely all five millies.

But but that's what it is.

That's what it is.

You're going through this life, soba all right, twenty four with no incorrect stay a little buzz from twenty twenty four.

That's my platform, all right.

So I thank you for your work and I thank you for your art in a in a country that wants you to conform to a fucking LinkedIn page, you are making waves.

You know on you.

Yes, we frequencies.

Yeah, that's very.

The one thing that we hope to impart just as the humans that we are.

It's just empathy.

Yeah, I mean, if you know that someone is attacking women's rights or trans rights, black queer rights, I mean, just remember that it could come to your door.

You have friends who are probably of different colors, different genders, different sexual orientations, religions, socioeconomic backgrounds, all of that, and these things that are happening right now, they're gonna come to you.

So show some grace, get a backbone, and stand up.

That's right, that's right.

That's exactly what election took.

What was talking about?

Wait, I didn't even ask where are y'all from?

I'm from Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.

No, you are your ancestors.

Wildest dream if George history Mom.

This is the reenactment I always wanted to do.

He's very good at making pancakes.

And where are you from?

I am from New York City.

So we got some questions from the audience that we'd like to try and answer the best to our ability.

You already the first question that I like, there's there's a lot of long questions.

You guys are very cute and long.

Win Okay, first question that was a very long Okay, please tell me what to do with my life?

God damn, oh don't I need?

I need direction?

I feel if Okay, this gets me.

I feel afraid to make a change.

Okay, I am not a therapist.

This sounds like depression.

You're stuck.

And I always say, don't tell yourself no before someone tells you no.

Stop telling yourself no.

I don't know if people have a fear of success or failure, but it sometimes it just feels like a fear of trying.

But whatever happens, you know you it might not work out, but you'll still You'll be where you are now, right, so you might as well try to me.

When I read this, I hear a mom that like overproduced everything you did.

You gotta let your kids fuck up.

So please tell me what to do with my life.

I need direction.

I feel afraid to make a change.

Who wrote this?

Can I be a dick?

Have you guys always been the light you wanted to see?

Were you afraid to make a change?

Were you afraid to leave fucking Williamsburg Colonial?

Well, we were, like, I gotta get out.

I feel like I was that person that always said yes, I need I knew I needed to get out of Williamsburg pretty much when I was born.

When you left the womb, you knew, Yeah, signed the gap.

Yeah.

I think for me, my road has been it's been winding.

And I think for me it's just all about hope, all about having hope and somehow believing that the next phase of the next road I travel.

Is going to be even better than the one before it.

Oh yeah, but faith, Faith is the biggest thing.

But also being unafraid to take chances.

You know, I know that a lot of us.

Listen.

I've had to work nine to fives before.

Yeah, they deadened my soul.

Yes, So I made a commitment to be an artist because that's what fed me and made me feel light and made me feel happy and brought a smile to my face and was contagious to other people in my life.

Right, And so I made that choice knowing it wouldn't be easy.

But this is who I am, and this is the road I have to go down in order to make myself happy.

And so whoever that is that said that, take the time, take a breath, take a beat, figure out what it is you really want, what it is you want to create in this life, yes, and then move forward from there because.

This is this is your life.

This is it right this?

Ah, you know, we may as well go for it.

Yeah, go for what your love.

It reminds me of like every time I meet an up and coming comedian, They're like, can I pick your brain?

And I'm like, there's not much left what you want?

But what you want?

And it's always the same thing.

How do I get famous?

How do I make money?

And I say, it's not about money, It's about loving what you do.

This is an affliction.

Fucking stand up?

Why the fuck would I want to get up in front of people?

I don't know when?

I love to sit down brawlers, you know what I mean?

Why the fuck I wouldn't ready for that?

I like.

I like the couch, Papa John's, the table, yes, the banana papas who gonna get that last piece?

Thank you?

I enjoy a fine whiskey and a bit of Hulu.

All right?

Why do you sound like Bridgeton?

Oh that's how you relate Richardson?

Is Netflix?

By the way?

Netflix?

Yeah?

Yeah?

Place.

What's the question?

Joining At what age is it no longer appropriate to date someone who still lives with their.

Parents in New York.

I'm saying.

I'm saying, oh, we're all synced up, all right, let's get her periods together.

Work wife, let's done.

You in.

I got the track a wrap.

Well, I don't understand why you'd give a fuck that someone lives with their parents.

They might love their parents.

I healthy relationship with your parents, okay, but like it depends on the relationship with their parents, right, Like, sure, you don't want to hook up with some one when mom's over there.

But I think it's okay as long as they have a plan and at least like one common the bank account.

Yea.

Do they have ambition or are they just there for the free ride?

Is it a nice place?

I mean, is it a fucking brownstone?

You know what I'm saying.

A lot of rooms in a brownstone?

Yeah, my wife, I tell you what.

There was a nice incentive when I first started dating my wife.

Her mom had a place right up here.

I'll show you.

I'll show you the place.

You sound like Obama's a real estate agent.

Yeah, I'll show you the house right now.

Uh.

Yeah, it's the Queen and Design with a nice landing.

And I was like, I am in to hang on a brownstone all that shit.

I don't know if there was a city episode about that ship.

Come on now.

I did a guy who was like, I have a roommate.

I said, who don't?

And when I went, I was like, is this your mama, because y'all look like is she a little bit older?

And he's like, yeah, but she's my friend, she's my roommate.

I said, that's not your roommate.

But he said, I have my own door with a different key, and I said, stop it, boy, but did we have sex?

Yes?

I enjoyed it, and I also enjoyed never talking to him again because I was like, you're a liar.

She could be your best friend.

But that's your mama.

You lovely your mom.

So if to be honest, I can't fault them for that.

What's the y'all?

I say, listen, rents are high in New York.

That's right, Yeah, it's true.

If the last deposit deposit.

Check stops right, yes, yes, yes, certified.

I think it's okay.

I think we live in an international city and that is done like people live with the generational living.

That is okay.

Yeah, you know, it's it's fine.

It's fine, yeah, thanks, thank you.

Did you want to say something?

It's fine.

I agree, that's exactly what.

Yeah, go there, our mothers were here, we'd be living with them now, yeah, they were living here in New York.

Okay, here right now.

Last question you guys, did you hear me fall asleep?

Did you do you smell that?

That was my brain?

It was like an epis.

That was a big titty AI taking the fuck over.

Yeah, let me get a residual check for that.

I've been married, So why do you so long?

Y'all?

Fuck?

I know there's commas and ship the parentheses.

No, there's a there's a this is giving Yahoo Personal two thousand and twography when you had to fill it out like it was a Monster dot Com resume?

Anybody vintage reference been, there's a preface Monster dot Com?

Oh baby, what were the free cards?

You would get the free car Oh yeah, I have been to the car print print y'all?

Remember the Wow, remember the past?

I was ready to.

Big shock take Okay, I've been married to my husband for too long?

Wow?

Yes that's what it said.

What an entrance?

What is said?

I think Monster wrote this?

I've been married to my husband for too long?

Parentheses thirty one years Okay, some of y'all ain't thirty one years old?

Why are you trying to find them?

This person like to the lights on?

So our twenty nine year old daughter doesn't hear any of my relationship advice.

What can you say to offer this beautiful black woman courage in her pursuit of love and marriage?

Oh?

That got beautiful.

I'm sorry I started so shading.

Okay, wow, wow that you know what.

Here's the deal.

I love when people laugh and it sounds like they need an EpiPen.

It's like, yeah, right, all right, chilled, I'm busy.

So what I can say is it might feel like your kids aren't listening to you, but they absorb everything you fucking do and say, for better or for worse.

So it's sort of like, keep calm, carry on, show her what love is.

By loving your husband and loving yourself, you know what I mean, she gonna kind of get what she needs to her friends.

Also, this is why art matters, you know, it just can't be love and hip hop reunions.

We have to show us, you know what I mean, Like God bless Tyler Perry, but I need to see a marriage that's working.

You know what it looks like when it works because you put the work into it.

You can't just come home from a long day of work to find all your shit gone, Like what are we doing?

Sorry, I went down a long road.

That's miyakoopa, yes, but yeah, I mean you guys have been together for a long time.

Yeah, what's some advice we can offer a beautiful black woman who's twenty nine looking for love nine, I say, take your time.

Twenty nine is young, it's the new I will say it is young, but for a woman who has a plan and then our body has expiration dates.

Got you that's real?

Yeah, like it's it's real.

And so we we become the hunter and the gatherer when we're looking, you know what I mean.

So it's different.

I say, intuition is everything.

Listen to that ship and you gotta put yourself out there.

You do.

I always use this terrible fucking example of Julia Roberts runaway Bride, deep cut bitches.

But this bitch kept running away because she was like, I know it's not working.

It's just like, why are you walking down the fucking aisle, bitch?

And then at the end, Richard Gear was just like, how do you like your eggs?

And she's like, oh shit, I don't know.

I always like the eggs from the dude I was with.

So I always say, figure out how you like your eggs, you gotta date yourself, and then that will inform an oh, thank you, thank you so much.

I will share this.

When we.

Dated the first time, it didn't last very long.

We dated for like a couple of months, right, and then we just became friends for a long time, and then years later we got back together and became a couple.

And what I found valuable in that is that after we dated, we were friends.

Or what it means when I say friends, is that we were able to take down the kind of the mask.

You know, you put on your best face when you go on a date, you know, but when you were just vibing with someone as a friend, you know, you let your guards down, You share a lot more.

It's a lot less.

Judgment, you feel.

At least that's how I think we both felt.

And so in that time we became really good friends.

And then by the time it came around again, we were ready for it.

So all that to say is in that time we weren't together we both dated around.

We had our shares of ups and down separately.

Gotta have a whole face.

Gotta have a whole face before you sit on town.

Okay, that's what I was saying, and I will tell my kids that shit.

You gotta really own your sexuality, explore that ship, figure out what you like, get a tattoo, travel, you know, do all that shit.

I don't have any tattoos.

I can't make decisions like that.

But get a tattoo you didn't know you got, you know.

But yeah, we had that time in between to really figure out what we like, what we didn't like, what could work, what was important, and what was not.

And the main thing that I think we both agree on that was most important was just having a solid friendship and a solid person in your life that you really genuinely want the best for.

That can take a minute.

So I know that there is sometimes that little bit of time taking crunch, but when it comes you'll you'll know.

Slow simmers best.

I love that.

Okay.

We asked all our guests, what's the most adult thing you want to do for yourself that you haven't had time to do.

It could be big or small.

I would like to build a container castle.

Oh oh, you're talking about the containers that are on ships and things like that.

Yes, okay, okay, whoa do it?

Yes?

I love you that.

I don't apparently tie a shoelace.

I don't understand container Okay, So you see me trying to hook my brop and what about you?

Run away?

Not quite run away, but take a just way, not hold?

No, no, no, what waits your husband?

No, I'm gonna be in my container castle alone.

Who wants to come?

What an awkward ride home?

That's messed up?

Goddn't let me finish my sentence.

Run away with my husband.

On a vacation, Sean, because although we travel a lot for work, we need some time to just be somewhere and be there and just be.

Yeah.

I love that.

Give it up for the.

Wow, Jordan.

I'm just saying.

Yeah, I'm just saying.

I mean, this is what it's about.

It's about love.

It's about being with somebody who makes you want to be a better person.

It's about passing the baton, creating space, realizing when you should leave that space.

You know, like, you can technically do everything yourself, but isn't it better with someone else and then whatever you need, right, you realize that that person will need to So I don't know, I mean, should the illustrious Blacks be my therapist?

I think I think they already are for free and it's like, you know, I think what's great about them is they told this wonderful story of just like dovetailing, like they they were apart and they came back together and that is beautiful and it is harmony, and that they make music together is so wonderful.

And if anybody lays a goddamn hand on these people, yeah, there's gonna there's gonna be a problem.

There's gonna be a big problem.

Yes, they were free, floating, wonderful, Oh great smelling.

If you didn't notice spirits that like blessed our stage.

It was like I was like, what is what is that?

I love it?

You know what.

It's really cute when someone says it, but a little creepy when you say, but I do appreciate it.

I think that's the thing too.

You gotta find your scent because it's got to work with you.

The chemistry starts popping and it's a lot and you know when people are just like I made this sent for you.

I'm like, why why did you go somewhere to make a scent?

What are you Julia Roberts in a movie?

Like?

Can I say something now?

I'm so excited.

We started this show talking about We did this show talking of smelly MIC's, and here we are talking about good smelling people.

Here we are all right, all right, everybody, Okay, when you listen to this episode, like it, review it, do whatever you want with it, or just even like you know, go to our ig page Adulting the Pod and tell us what you like to smell.

Keep it clean.

Now bye.

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