Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:37 Yo. Yo. Yo. Hey everybody. How you doing? Welcome to Papa. Don't preach. Thanks for stopping by once again, Bennett. How you doing right now? Not too bad. How about you? You good? I'm good. I was a little cold, so I, I lit a candle. It's uh, I like the ambience. Yeah, it does, it does not help. I'm still cold. No, no. Literally just too wicks burning. They top it all. <laugh>. Oh man. So, uh, for those of you who are not here in la, the great Los Angeles area, it is raining again, which is uncommon. But this is actually the first time we've had la la rain like mm-hmm. <affirmative>. It's just like a little drizzle throughout the day. It is, it's like, like being from Louisiana, it's one of the things like, when people complain about the heat in the rain, I just have to be like, yes, they're right.
Speaker 1 00:01:20 It is raining and it is hot. <laugh>. Uh, because I know what real heat and I know what real rain looks like. And this, this is neither, but, hey, for here, this is significant. You guys got hot rain too. Oh. It's like, it'll be fucking 80 degrees and just like, boiling on your skin. Like sizzling <laugh>. No, I mean, cuz the thing about rain in LA is that no one just prepared for rain in la. Buildings aren't prepared. Drivers aren't prepared. Roads aren't prepared. Nah, man. It's like Starbucks surely isn't prepared. Like the freeway. The, the freeway will be shut down for like four weeks cuz like the mountain just slid off into the freeway. <laugh>. Yeah. I'm like, you motherfuckers didn't see this coming. <laugh> like, now there's like a 20 foot fence. Like, what, what type of afterthought is that? Like, there's like a 20, you know, there's like a 10 foot puddle on Hollywood boulevards.
Speaker 1 00:02:02 Like it just rained for a day. So something that happens here, it's, it's crazy how, you know, we, like, on this podcast, we've complained about the roads and how shitty they are, and like, they need to get fixed. Then it rains and there's an accident on every street. Because this guy was like, oh, that's obviously a puddle. I'm just gonna drive right over it. Nope. It's a four foot ditch <laugh>. It was like one night I was, uh, running to the store late at night, not late at night, like a fucking ate or whatever. On the way to the to said store, I saw old fart <laugh>. I saw three lights that were out fucking a, like, one of which a card crashed into a, a street lamp. The other two, I guess they just got wet <laugh> and they were out. I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1 00:02:44 Like, this is, it's, it, it is a, it's a catastrophic affair. Oh yeah. And it rains in LA Our studio floods every time it rains. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's nothing actually. It's coming in. We gotta talk faster. It's, yeah. Yeah. I can see it's seeping in right now. But you know, we, it's manageable. Don't worry. Did you bring, did you bring your shorts? Oh, of course. Yeah. Good. Think we good. Only, only because I, uh, my pants were in the washing machine. I've never seen you wear pants. <laugh>. I, I'd work, I wore jeans. I, I, I've never seen it. I usually wear 'em higher. Like, they're like capris cuz my ankles get hut. You know what it is? It's, it's your beautiful caps. I think they're distracting. Okay. They're very distracting. I think that's why I'd never seen, I, I would notice if you wore pants, I'd be like, where's, where are those beautiful calves?
Speaker 1 00:03:23 Nothing to 'em. <laugh>. And you know what? We gotta put a, put those on the Instagram. Cause I talk about your calves a lot. So people who are listening are just like, what's up with this guy's? Now? Nack has a picture of him on her phone, just like, so she like can clarify <laugh> if someone hasn't seen them. It's just that like, you have, like, the whole family has your background on your phone. Nat just has your calves. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. That's like one thing. Um, say what you will about straight, straight guys. They are not afraid to compliment another straight man on their calves. Yeah. <laugh>, I have been stopped in all contexts by all forms of men <laugh> to talk about how nice my calves are. I just realized as a straight man, I, I concur. <laugh>. Yeah. Like, literally like all, literally like, dudes like barbecuing across the way. Like, hey, nice guys, nice guys. <laugh>, <laugh>. Fucking follow what you, it's like, it's like the, what's like, oh wow. So this is, this is what a little slice of what it's like to be a woman. Yeah. <laugh>. Just like some guy following you, looking at your calves.
Speaker 1 00:04:20 How'd you get those calves? Oh God. Because I'm fat. I don't know man. There's, I can wait to carry around. It's like woo woo. What those calves do. <laugh> right down the block. <laugh>. You just gotta wear high heels like a watch. It's not that big of a deal. All your shoes are shape up. <laugh>. Oh man. How the kiddos, man, how the kiddos doing? The kids, uh, I mean, it's up and down. Like they're so, they're like the best, like most adorable things in the world. And then they wake you up four nights in a row, <laugh>. And they'll just be like, what are you do? Like <laugh>, you got a bottle? What else do you want? Like, you ha you have my soul. What else do you want? <laugh>. Stop. Uh, other than that, they're all good. Um, miles had swim class this week and he, uh, really fucking loved it.
Speaker 1 00:05:09 He was like, just hamming it up, kicking around. Oh shit. Floating around. So he really dug that. Um, let's see, this week I, uh, I donated blood. Oh shit. How'd that go? It was really good. It's, um, one of those things that, you know, a little pulpit, I guess I'll pop by pulpit out early. <laugh>, uh, if you've got blood and you're not using it, you should just donate it. Uh, here in la Um, it was like a Instagram post. Like a friend of mine, one of their daughters needed some blood. Uh, and I got special o negative blood. I was like, Hey, I'm oh, negative. No shit. Emotional donor, baby. All right, well then we got, you gotta get outta this with me cuz at, uh, children's Hospital in la Uh, oh. Negative. First off, if you schedule a blow donation, free valet parking, what you pull up, they just park your car for you for free.
Speaker 1 00:05:52 Get the fuck out tips. Yes, I'm serious. Uh, and then you get like a dif like my coffee I had this morning, I paid for with my blood cuz they gave me a Starbucks gift card. Get the fuck outta here. And then like a bunch of snacks and stuff. Everyone's super sweet. And then the way that, like, cuz we're a negative, like once you're verified, you get more stuff. Like, you get, like, I get, I should get like two coffees for I get my blood next time. Get the fuck, like, extra, extra. And like they give, oh, you get like a voucher for the, uh, the food here if you want, if you're hungry after you give blood. Like that kind of stuff. So, and then also if I give enough blood, I get an enamel pin. And if I give like a lot of blood, you get like a little plaque on the wall, a little butterfly plaque. And it's like, I mean I, I mean I know <laugh>, it's the same thing. Like two things can be true. <laugh> like you said, it's my new motto. <laugh>, of course these children need blood. And I happen to want an enamel pen that I can show people how I gave children my blood. <laugh>. Is it ghoulish? Possibly. Maybe. Maybe. But I thought you had to have like leave, like a live, like a clean lifestyle. Not, Hey, not anymore <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:06:57 No, no. Like for, it's like as long as you haven't traveled, they have, you have like a bunch of questions to answer. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, you know, like no sex with, uh, like, uh, sex workers. That's one thing. Oh shit. No sex with dudes. I think they still ask you that. They could still disqualify you for that. Which is a kind of a bummer. That seems arc like an archaic. It's super archaic. And I think they're working on changing it. I could be wrong about that, but that was one of the questions I asked if I tr traveled outside the country. There's like a bunch of questions you have to ask <laugh>. I wouldn't be surprised if you're like, why is this asking me if I slept the guy? She's like, oh, that's still on there. Yeah. Oh, that's a 2020, uh, whatever. <laugh>, skip that. <laugh> skip it.
Speaker 1 00:07:32 Because yeah, that's like, yeah. I mean, you know, not to be like a sub subject to the one subject, but Yeah. Like men, uh, are are has been disqualified. Like gay men have been disqualified for, for donating blood for years and years and years, uh, for that fact. Yeah. I they still paint the, the, uh, gay men as like, just like the most promiscuous group. And it's people out here ain't fucking Yeah. I'm just like, what are you talking about <laugh>? You wanna see some hose? I'll show you some hoes. <laugh>. But, um, I'll look into that. I see. Cuz I thought I'd read some of that. They're changing it. But I definitely answered questions otherwise. Fuck yeah man. I wanna go down. But, uh, you should. Um, they're treated. Everyone's super fucking nice. They're real pros. Like, honestly, it hurt more like the, the tape getting ripped off my arm hurt more than the actual injection. Oh shit. So it took about an hour. They were busy that day. Cause I guess, uh, that little girl needed a, you know, like I got a bunch of response to give her a bunch of blood <laugh>. Fuck <laugh>. Uh, what? I wonder what the shelf life is for blood? No, they just freeze it. It's like bread. You toss in the freezer, it's good. Okay. Pop out a few months later. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:08:34 Do you freeze your bread? Some? Yeah. If we have extra bread. Yeah. I just, uh, I freeze my bread. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Smart. I just, uh, we popped in. It's like a new loaf in the frozen loaf. They're the same. Yeah. Like side by side. They taste the same. You go to Costco, they give you two loafs. You can't go through like two loafs in a week. Nah. So you just gotta throw one of those in the freezer. Yeah, I got you. Yeah. I gotcha. I gotcha. Um, so that's my week. How you, how uh, uh, how's your little dude and you're doing? Oh man. Um, good. He's doing well. Uh, we had a he italics. Yeah, we had a, we had a situation. Uh, usually, uh, we, since the daycare, we send him with extra clothes just in case there's an accident, obviously. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
Speaker 1 00:09:09 I don't know. They sent me what he ate, but he had, uh, explosive diarrhea and went through two pairs of clothes. Oh. And I got the call to go pick him up cuz they didn't have any clothes for him. <laugh>. And, you know, I got there and he came to the door. He was in like the loner outfit. He was crying. He was so upset. And I thought he was like embarrassed. And then, and like, I get a and he is like, daddy, you didn't pack three clothes for me. And I'm like, did your teachers blame this on me? Yeah. What's going on here? Where are you picking this up from? Like, what the fuck? But yeah, he had, um, you know, he had to modify his diet. He went on like the diarrhea diet, you know, where it's just like the, is it grid or gerd or?
Speaker 1 00:09:50 Yeah, it's just Grl, <laugh> gr <laugh>. Um, nah. But yeah, it's, uh, it's just toast. Uh, pasta, no sauce. Um, bananas. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> crackers, water. Pedialyte. That's it. He hat it, he hated it. It's awful. He hated. It's like, I'm hungry. I don't want to eat this. I'm like, then you gonna die <laugh>. This is your, that's about it, bud. But yeah, I, I did something I don't think I can get away with, but I was bribing him with candy and ice cream that if he finishes it mm-hmm. <affirmative> knowing that he wouldn't finish it, but he'll still eat it and he'll try. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll be like, all right. Ice cream next time. He's like, oh man. I'm like, this is only gonna work two more times until he gets a wise to this <laugh>. But yeah. So switcher he'll bait and switch. It was just, it was just a little bug.
Speaker 1 00:10:35 He made a full recovery. I kept him home, uh, one of the days. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And I was reminded of what it's like to work from home with a toddler. He is chilling by himself. <laugh> all day. Um, anytime I'm on the phone, he is throwing things at me. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. The one time I had to get a Zoom, I don't even know where his boxing gloves were. <laugh>, he put them on backwards and just started wailing on me in the middle of my Zoom. And I'm like, what are you doing? You can see I'm on a Zoom. He is just like, I wanna beat you up <laugh>. And I'm like, okay. He sees a camera, he sees people just hammering it up. Yep. Here comes this tight five <laugh>. I, uh, I did catch that clip on the Instagram. Oh yeah. You, uh, I was just like, oh my God, you catching? It's just like, and the best thing is like, if you see the post, you just see like, it looks like I'm just like having a shaky hand. And he is literally just like hitting me <laugh>. No. It's like fucking, he's ba Margie <laugh> fucking rolling in on you. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:11:34 Bozo Margie over. It's like, I'm trying to work <laugh>. Oh, I'm Phil. Fuck. <laugh> damn mean you wear it. Well, yeah. <laugh>. Oh, that's, uh, that's hurtful. That's hurtful. Oh, man. Uh, I you were, you were talking earlier that you saw the, uh, that you, you caught a little trailer for the new Velma Scooby-Doo app adaptation for HBO O Max. Oh yeah. People, uh, I caught a little co clip of it. It, it doesn't seem like it's for anyone. It seems like it's, um, doesn't seem like it's for anyone. No. It just seems like the jokes are like, just trying to hit, like, who can we make angry slash make laugh with these jokes? It's, which I understand. But, uh, I'd rather, um, I'd rather pass. I'll watch something else. It looks awful. I'm gonna, I'm gonna give it a serious watch so I can, I wanna like, see, right now, I feel like I can tear that show apart, but I also wanna come with receipts.
Speaker 1 00:12:31 Yeah. But, um, you know, we were talking earlier when they do these, like, I don't even wanna say woke adaptations, but like, when they want to be inclusive with these old story, like, it just, first of all, you're showing your ass, you're playing, you're, you're doing too much <laugh> and nobody wants it. Like, you're not doing this for our, uh, for minorities. You're not doing this for white people. You're not doing it for kids. I, I, when I, when I was working on, when I was working on your show, I was like messing around with the audience and I like walked up to this kid and, you know, we give out prizes during the audience mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And I'm like, yeah, you're like a warm up guy. Like keep him entertained between work switching cameras and shit. Yeah, exactly. And I walk up to this kid, I was like, Hey man, I got this raffle ticket for p uh, panini Press.
Speaker 1 00:13:17 Do you know what Panini Press is? He's like, yeah. I'm like, you want this panini press? Yeah. You have to ask one question. I thought this was a gi cause I just wanted him to have it. Yeah. He was like, uh, one of the only kids in the crowd. I'm like, all right, for panini press name all four Ninja Turtles. And everyone's like, oh. And he is like, um, I'm like, do you know who the ninja of Turtles are? He's like, no. I'm like, how old are you? He's like, 10. And I was like, uh huh. That's am mighta the turtles ski. They're like, they're like a comma. They skip a generation. They're like, well, here's the issue is <laugh>, when like, to make this go full circle, when you start, when you make an Indian Velma for Scooby-Doo, that character's not Indian. We know that character's not Indian.
Speaker 1 00:14:06 And I guarantee you there's nobody in this generation who knows the gang from Scooby-Doo. Yeah. Like, it's just old. And so like, make your own shit. You could make Harriet the spy and make her Indian. Like, I think he would've been, like, if you would've been like, you know, the, the mystery people or whatever, it would've been like a, just like, not Scooby-Doo, but like, it's obviously Scooby Doo. Yeah. That's been done a couple of times. And in like, you know, my, uh, one of my favorite show Adventure Brothers did that with like, Velma was like, Patty Hurst, like fucking <laugh> kidnapped like rain, you know, it's like, it was like really funny, you know, horrible take on it. Well, like, they even did a Scooby do. Like, it was literally cut and paste with different characters. Do you remember the show? Jabber Jaw? Oh yeah. Yeah. That's Scooby do. Yeah. It's a fucking shark and a crime fighting tv. That's all it mystery. I did like a jaber jock. Yeah. Jab. Jaber Jock.
Speaker 2 00:14:58 Jaber
Speaker 1 00:14:58 Jock. So I was like, you could come up with your own shit. You can make an octopus and like, you know, put a a a nerdy girl that's Indian in there and like, uh, there's, there's no reason to take, like, to make Jaber Jaw killer whale. Yeah. <laugh> a great white. I've said no, an orca. He's an orca. Shit. Sorry. Sorry.
Speaker 2 00:15:16 <laugh>. Oof
Speaker 1 00:15:18 Buddy. Oh, he is. Got some black on why you gotta be a killer.
Speaker 2 00:15:21 <laugh> Oof.
Speaker 1 00:15:23 Apex. Predator of the orca. Man, those things are fucking terrifying. He a toss a seal in the air. Like, dude, he's a fucking juggling ball. They are fucking super smart. They fucking murdered things. I remember the, our producer Blaine was talking about was this town in Italy. Uh, so apparent, like, so there's this little town in Italy, a boat hit Orca scraped it up. And now the orcas are literally a like, do like, boats are like just ramming their engines and breaking the like, like they just went after this whole town. And I'm starting to think like, yo, these motherfuckers are, they're the navi. They're like, we think they're dumb as hell. They're the navi from Avatar. Like, one dude got fucked up, he went back, he's like, yo, Jerome, go get my shit. We're gonna roll all these motherfuckers. And like, they just, they, they clearly hold grudges. Like how many times will they like just fucking grab a, a Sea SeaWorld instructor and just bring 'em down and just drown. And they're like, I know you have to breathe. I'm gonna hold you down here until you can't anymore. Like you're a Seal
Speaker 2 00:16:22 <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:16:24 They just like, yeah, I'll play a game. I'm gonna kill you in three days, but I'll play a game. Yeah. That killer. Sometimes we gotta use that, that title. Yeah. Sometimes there's, sometimes they're orcas. I'm a whale of most days of the week.
Speaker 2 00:16:36 <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:16:39 Every once in a while, like seeing like the intelligence of some animals and just how like, we just don't acknowledge it as a society is That's me. I'll do that. It's disappointing. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I saw this clip. Uh, this guy noticed that this elephant, like these, like these two male elephants would show up the same time to this bridge. And they couldn't figure out why. And they were just in passing. And then the guy just set up a camera to find out why these elephants would come there and just like, kind of stock. And people would slow down, like, why this elephant here? But apparently that time is when all the trucks are driving by that pull down the brush from the jungle. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So it would just walk in front of the truck. It would stop and go up to the side of it, read his trunk, grab a bunch of foods and things, just fucking walk down the street and eat. And it just kept on stopping trucks and pulling shit out of the back. And I was like, snack time. He's just like, oh yeah, let's, let's go catch, uh, let's go catch the snack trucks. Like, we sitting here talking about food trucks. They got a food truck. Yeah. It's like, did you believe this or just they got, you know, they gotta move and they'll stop. You know, they think we're suckers. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:17:41 They just, they just bring it to us. It's wild.
Speaker 2 00:17:43 Yeah. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:17:46 It's fucking ridiculous. Oh man. But yes. Uh, before we get off subject, I know that you got grown, uh, grown boys. I also have grown. Boy, we've talked about this on the pod and I wanna dive into it, but that like, we suffer from fast fashion as a society. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, like, just endless amount of clothes in the dump. I'm not growing anymore. But the fact that the, like the clothing industry for children is it's, I don't wanna use the word rapey, but they're definitely taking advantage of us. Us. It's exploitative. It's very exploitative. Yeah. You're, I like the way you have a way with your words, you know, that, I dunno if that's the right way to say it. It was close it <laugh>. I feel like I I walked tripped on the way outta there. Yeah. I lost a syllable along the way.
Speaker 1 00:18:32 Do you remember that clip of Destiny's Child on 1 0 6 and park when Michelle just fucking ate it on the way up to the stage? It's, it's like, it's like the hall time, you know? And then Beyonce just keeps walking. They just keep walking. They're like, show must go on bitch. Get up. <laugh> didn't even, fucking, not even a fraction of an inch. Yeah. That of a turn of a head. Just like, Nope. That whole clip. Encaps. Encaps. Like, what? Encapsulates, encapsulates <laugh> encapsulates <laugh>. <laugh>. Samsonite. We got, we got, we just stop getting high before these things. Two hasty. Hey, my bad. My bad, my bad. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's talk it out first. Uh, anyway, uh, yeah. I wanna talk to you about some of the clo like the clothing industry, how to curb this fucking terrible wasteful culture that we know those Yeah. These jackasses don't stop growing in. Yeah. Because like, it's, it's kind of pointless. But, uh, we're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna come back with, uh, uh, our main subjects. Uh, we'll see you in a second. Guys. Take it easy. Papa. It don't preach. We'll be right back
Speaker 1 00:19:56 And we're back. Hey. Hey. We're back for the first time. So Ben, as you know, kids are fucking expensive. Yeah. And terrible for the environment. Yeah. Yeah. It's awful. Uh, what we go through with kids, between diapers, baby wipes and clothes that are changing every month, all this stuff ends up in the landfill. And I'm trying to figure out a way to curb this from happening generationally. Like I don't mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I'm just trying to see if I can lower my footprint and impact on the world. Cuz I remember trying the reusable diapers, but, you know, I had like six pairs of reusable diapers. You're, that could be a day. That's it's you're constantly washing this. Yeah. I'm like, how the hell is this better? Like, my water bill went all the way up. I was running the washing machine three times a day. Like, what the hell?
Speaker 1 00:20:52 And then like, god forbid, it's not a solid turd. Geez. <laugh>. Yeah. Like sometimes you can give like a quick little hand wipe, but like, you know, until that kid starts moving, it's just, you don't know. It's a gamble. It's a gamble. It's a gamble. But have you ever used re reusable diapers or, we, uh, never went down that route. Smart. Um, no. We knew our limitations. Like we definitely tried, uh, cuz we being foster parents, like, we didn't have like, the time when our kid was gonna show up, so we just had to be ready. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, with a lot of options. Like, we didn't know like how old, how old they were gonna be, what sex they were gonna be. So, uh, wife Natalie, like put out, uh, feelers to friends and family. Uh, I mean, I've got some osos clothes I know that my kids wore.
Speaker 1 00:21:36 Oh yeah. So we had like bins and still we've started to like downsize them as the kids get older. Uh, but we had bins of like zero to three, you know, zero to three months, zero, you know, three wants to, you know, a year or 18 months. Like just like male female clothes, just in case, uh, all just hand, you know, hand me downs and secondhand clothes, which is awesome. Like, it's, uh, it was really helpful and really, um, I don't know, it was really great to have so many options so easily. And people were very willing to give you their clothes. Well, I mean, sometimes I don't wanna throw them away. I'm like, I don't just drop this off at Goodwill. I know that somebody around me has a kid, I wanna hand this off. Yeah. And like, I don't know if I'm gonna have another kid.
Speaker 1 00:22:16 So at some point I'm gonna want this shit back. <laugh>. I'm gonna boomerang these clothes. Like I, if I have another kid, not one item of clothing will be new. Yeah. Like, uh, my child right now, I would say three quarter of his wardrobe, our hand-me-downs. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And the only reason he is got new clothes is because <laugh> of my girlfriend Shannon being a fashionista <laugh>. And like, Ooh, this looks really cute. Like, he's got very giving aunties and uncles that will buy him something that's dope. Even if it doesn't fit him, like mm-hmm. <affirmative> have to wait a couple years. But, um, yeah. It's, it's very, it's it's time consuming and it's fucking expensive. And, you know, the whole trick of just not feeding your kids so they don't grow does not work either. <laugh>, it's just backfires. No, I was doing laundry this morning and I was like, what if we just wore the same clothes like one day in a row?
Speaker 1 00:23:02 Like all, we just all wore the same clothes, like for 48 hours. Hey, I, there's days when we have like a lazy day mm-hmm. <affirmative> and I'll be like, you know what? I didn't change. Why am I gonna get him out of his PJs <laugh>? I'm like, Lous is real hardcore to staying in his PJs all day. And I'm, I am real about letting him most of the time, <laugh>, there is some judgment you get when somebody shows up unannounced at like 3:00 PM and you're sitting there with a kid in his PJs. They're like, Hey, hey, it's his call his life buddy. <laugh>. I'm justs living with it. You know, I, uh, I looked at biodegradable diapers as well. Like some that aren't just gonna sit at a landfill that take a lot less time to de mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, decompose. Cuz regular disposable diapers take like 500 years to decompose.
Speaker 1 00:23:42 And yeah. It's like something nuts. I'm like, what the the fuck? That's like my great great great grandkid is still gonna be here with these fucking diapers. That's, that's crazy. But the another thing with the biodegradables, like, first of all, you can't get that in a fucking 50 pack. And you know, I think price per diaper, if you go ahead and get like a pack of Huggies, it's like 50 to 65 cents per diaper. Biodegradable diapers are like one 50 to $2 a diaper. So it's like, I got a 18 pack that will last me a week. It's tough. It's like, it's not there. It's also like, as soon as they get wet, they start melting too. Which is not good. <laugh> not a good Well, so if you miss an accident, you better get that kid out of there. It's like, just start. Like, you open up his pants, it's just gone.
Speaker 1 00:24:26 You're like, what the hell? <laugh> biodegradable <laugh>, man. It happens quick. So, um, secondhand clothes. So what are some of the best places that you usually get? I got, most people just reach out to friends and family for secondhand clothes. Like where, what's your uh, there's, uh, on Facebook, um, it's a horrible, uh, desolate place except for buy nothing. It's a really nice group. You could join in your neighborhood and you could trade things. Uh, toys, clothes. I need this. I don't, I have this. Would you like this? Um, really great. Um, for those kind of things. And also like, mostly just friends and then occasionally family. We have most of my family with kids is outta state, but, uh, we had a lot of friends that were very willing to give us, uh, so many clothes. Yeah. I, uh, I realized when I was moving back, I was just, I reached out cause I, I was like, Hey, you got, if anybody got some old clothes that they need.
Speaker 1 00:25:17 And it wasn't for me. I was like, uh, I think one a family fr a family friend was raising money for the fires that we had. Mm-hmm. Like the, the Malibu fire and somebody lost their house. So I was like, I was just like, Hey, any clothes that you got, send 'em my way. And I got bins and bins and bins of children's clothes and I was like, holy shit. Yeah. I went through all of it. Took out what I liked. <laugh> donated the rest. <laugh>, Hey man, I gotta eat too. All right. Kids, I gotta eat. Cute. Yeah. <laugh>. But, uh, the, my, yeah. Friends and family's great. Have you ever heard of the Ellie consignment? Uh, no. So that one's a big one. It's kind of clicky. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like you have to like, apply for early entry and all this stuff, but it's just like the, it moves in different places, but it's just like a warehouse of all the kids'.
Speaker 1 00:26:04 Clothes, toys, strollers, everything You can need all secondhand, super cheap. I don't know if they do that anywhere else, but also, you know, it's something that you have to like, catch at the right time. Yeah. It's kind of like ski dazzle for kids, you know, it's like a couple times a year. <laugh>, you gotta track it down. So it's not like the best, but it's out there. Yeah. Um, you know, like I, I don't know if somebody's already tried to do this, it might exist. Somebody might add a, somebody might reply to us. Like, go ahead at me, reply to our Instagram. Let me know. Send me a comment if you know, something that exists online for secondhand clothing where I can just like go and be like, oh yeah, I need like se it's 50 bucks bundle of clothes. You get this trash bag of clothes, <laugh> and it's all five T You know, like, I, I, it's, I wouldn't care cuz like, um, you know, when you're getting clothes, you, there's only like a certain portion, like a very, very little part of the closet where it's like, those are the nice clothes that we're gonna, we're taking to auntie's birthday or we're going out to dinner.
Speaker 1 00:26:58 Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, everything else. I know they're gonna end up with holes and paint and slime. Yeah. And like just, you know, didn't get fucked up. Yeah. You're gonna get fucked up. So like, I, I don't care what he's wearing, especially if he's gonna grow out of it, but damn man. Like, I, um, the only thing I haven't gotten rid of is, uh, my son's shoes. I'm saving the shoes cuz I have a whole bin of shoes. Um, do you need some shoes by the way? Uh, always. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Let me know. We'll, we'll work something out. We'll work something out on the side. The little dude Miros feet are growing all the, like, he's like, he grows outta his shoes. Like weekly. It feels like. Do, do you know the shoe size? Uh, probably almost a six now. He probably five or six. But yes.
Speaker 1 00:27:33 We, we, we'll get some shoes going. I think I got some shoes for you. It, um, for me, like, clothes are really great. Uh, it's like, the toys are really tough. Like, this is, I feel like, you know, like getting older, complaining about like, toys are made really shitty today. Yeah. They, they break very easy. Like they don't, they aren't made to last. Cuz he has a couple, like, when he was an infant, like my mom saved a bunch of stuff. So he has like, some of my clothes, like literally mi uh, miles is wearing like a Ghostbusters slimer <laugh>, uh, top like pajama top the other day, which is like from fucking 88 <laugh>, old, old, uh, so, but at you had a couple like baby toys, like plastic baby toys. Like, they were still like, you know, both the dudes play with those, but like, some of their toys will last like a fucking hours.
Speaker 1 00:28:14 Like set the timer until this fucking shitty car breaks. Yeah. I mean, there's, there's always two things there. Like, you could be just buying shitty toys, but I agree with you. Most part, a lot of this shit's just not made to last. Yeah. And you know, uh, we did cover this in the pod before. Like, I, I think we went over this. I think that even though America has like 10 to 15% of the world's children, we have like 50 or 60% of all the toys. Yeah. Like, it's just ridiculous. Like consumerism. That's what we have here. Um, the craziest thing about some of these toys is it really depends on the parent. Like, I know I'm very good at this. Like, I try to keep all those toys pristine, like mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I'm like, I, I'm like, I'm gonna give this to somebody. Somebody will enjoy it if he's not using it.
Speaker 1 00:28:58 And if I see he's playing too hard with it, I'll be like, all right, this one's gonna get, uh, hidden. And you one's a couple, a couple of cars went to the, uh, the shop and if not returned Yeah. <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And like, uh, you know, right now, like buying secondhand toys, it's, it's great because you forget that children have like this incredible imagination and, you know, I went to the Goodwill to go drop some shit off. So I was looking if I want to get something and I, I was picking like, oh, whoa, look at this. And it's like, this busted RC car <laugh>, you know, with the wheel hanging out the back and he's just like, flying it around this store and it's $2. I was like, yeah, okay, we'll just get it. Yeah. And we'll get it. Like, he's got, he still has it.
Speaker 1 00:29:38 It's still, I fixed one of the wheels too. I fixed one of the wheels and like, I got bad. I, I fixed the battery pack. I was like, oh, I'm gonna get this thing rolling. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And then I realized I don't have a remote. And I was like, uh, it was like a two day project to fix it too. I had my little iPhone, uh, toolkit and my little screwdrivers and I was like cleaning it up. And I was like, oh, shit. So I looked up the, I was like $50 for a universal remote to program an RC car. And I was like, mm. All right. Hey, here. Flying car buddy. Yeah. Here's your flying car. <laugh>. It's in one piece. <laugh>, and it fits batteries. Wow. Look at this battery holder. You got <laugh>. Amazing. Oh, man. So, um, when, like, what is like these little buy nothing groups and these little, like, is it, are we saying that it's on us to kind of manage all this because these companies are gonna just keep pumping out?
Speaker 1 00:30:26 Oh yeah. Yeah. Massive, massive amounts of clothes. And it's not cheap at all. Like, I guess, yeah. It's just on us to kind of figure out it, um, how not to end like, and all this fast fashion end up in the landfill. It's tough. And, um, I tell you what, I love my family, but they don't help like <laugh>. They're the, they're the worst contributors to it. Yes. Yes. It's like, you know, the cute outfit Bre be brigade, Jesus Christ can't talk <laugh>. Uh, it is, uh, it's, it's tough to, what to do with so much clothes. And I think that mm-hmm. <affirmative> just blindly donating. There's one thing. But if you can find someone at, you know, a good spot or like a specific like, uh, yeah. Women's shelter or something like that where like, you know, that these clothes aren't just gonna be thrown into a bin and like, just tossed away.
Speaker 1 00:31:15 Yeah. I mean, like with all the schools that we have around, you think that, like, you know, how many schools are in LA Uni? Like how many schools are in LA Unified? There's like two, uh, I think it's like, was it 500? Or maybe it's a thousand or maybe it 2000. 2000. It wouldn't surprise me. I think there's 2000 schools in the la in la We'll find out public schools in LA Unified. And like, if all these schools, like, if they would just coordinate town to town and be like, yeah, once a month we're gonna have like a, a sale. Like bring in all your old shit, like jacket drives or jacket drive, pants drives, baby clothes, drive dresses, old toys. Like, what the fuck? Like, some of these solutions are literally, that's like right around the corner. But I also know that our horribly defunded schools and our underpaid teachers ain't trying to do all that shit.
Speaker 1 00:32:02 Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. But, you know, these are things that CPAs and student, uh, councils and uh, parent, uh, parent groups can, can organize. Like, it's like, gimme the keys to the field or the auditorium. We'll handle everything else. <laugh>. Like, we'll get, we'll get everything else cuz like, it really, like we can really just use all these clothes until their, their wheels fall off, you know? Yeah. Until this thing turns into a rag, somebody can use it, somebody can wear it. You know, like I just, I, it's so wasteful. It really, really bothers me. And we, we need to find better solutions. So yeah. Like if anybody here is a part of an administration listening, talk to, to your local schools. Like call your, your, uh, your local council members, your city council members, push for schools to start opening these drives again. Like these need, this needs to happen.
Speaker 1 00:32:48 Like, I got a bunch of shit and I don't wanna take it to Goodwill. I don't care what you say. Goodwill's a terrible place. No, it's a, it's a, they're a for-profit in place. I, I used to work, I, so some of my community service, I had to do dude, eight, like a hundred. Uh, it was 180 hours of community service that I got. Uh, and it was, I, I think it was like a failure to appear on a traffic ticket. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And like, I rescheduled three times. And then the third time I came in and they're like, I, I'm like, Hey, I came in and she, uh, the, the judge just like threw the book at me. Like I, cuz I was obviously abusing the system. <laugh>. I was like, I could just keep on, uh, I'm just gonna not do this. And she's just like, you can't just pay your fine, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 00:33:32 And like, it shows how tone deaf this fucking judge was. But, you know, it was like a, it's like a $400 ticket, man. I didn't have that fucking kind of money laying around in my early twenties. Like, fuck that noise. <laugh>. Like, I should have paid it when I got it. But yeah, doubled and fees got tacked on. I was like, I'm not paying this shit. Fuck that. Um, but it wasn't even a moving violation. It was like, I got a registration ticket when my car was parked on the curb, some piece of shit cop stand by. He was like, whoop this guy's registration tax out. Put a ticket right in my window. And I was like, fuck that. But anyway, I got a hundred hour, uh, 80 hours, uh, and I didn't wanna sit on the fucking side of the curb and there was a, a goodwill next to the house.
Speaker 1 00:34:07 So I picked Goodwill. I'm like, what's the worst it can be? It was the worst experience of my life, man. <laugh>. It was the worst experience of my life. Like, first of all, the Amer, the amount of shit that the staff steals is just as bad as you think. Yeah. Um, the amount of shit that they throw throwout is insane. Like, perfectly usable shit. Like, oh, it's not in season. I'm like, who gives a fuck? Nobody's coming here to get winter clothes. <laugh>. Like, what the fuck you talking about? Just put it out there. We got the room, but it's always dirty. No one's professional. And because I was the big black dude, I was used as the enforcer. I had to drag dudes that were shooting up in the, in the changing rooms. Like, uh, motherfuckers that were doing, uh, doing tug jobs for money in the bathrooms.
Speaker 1 00:34:48 Like people who were just trying to get warm or had some ac like that's, that was my main job. And it was fucking terrible. And they mark up shit. Like, I, I, uh, there was a, there was a VCR in there. Like, remember mind you, this is like 2012. Yeah. Yeah. There's a VCR in there for $30. I want to be clear. <laugh> a VCR for $30 at Goodwill. What the fuck? Anybody who's buying a VCR is just gonna smash it. Anyway. That's like, like that's some content, some clout chasing right there. Or as you say, <laugh> clout chasing. Yeah. That's, uh, that's opposers. Yeah. But composers, yeah. Opposers for your, for your generation. Be Opposer. Yeah. Opposers. They're now called Clout Chasers. <laugh>. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Get hip with it. Okay. <laugh> gotta, you gotta stay with the Times. Yeah. Try. Uh, but yeah, Goodwill's a terrible place. It's fucking awful.
Speaker 1 00:35:34 My personal experience. A little, little story for you. Don't go there. Just try and use community friends, get reusable clothes. Um, Facebook marketplace. Um, what's that? Buy, buy Nothing. Buy nothing. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. These are good options. And then if you have toys, like, I know it's a lot of work. You can even, uh, run your own garage sales from your house. You know, we gotta start turning neighbors into communities again. Yeah. Like these, like there's, you know, in LA there's multiple ones. Any big city has teenage shelters, has women's shelters. Like those are a great place to donate clothes for if you have older kids or I mean, you know, women's shelters, I'm sure they definitely need children's clothes there too. Yeah. And I, trust me, people I understand like, sometimes it's hard to donate. Like, they don't make the donation process very easy sometimes. I remember we had that pool table in here for a while and I was giving it away.
Speaker 1 00:36:22 Yeah. And it was impossible to get rid of that thing. I went to every boy and girls club. They're like, yeah, if you drop it off, maybe I'm like, motherfucker, I see your truck driving all over the city. Just send it to my house. <laugh>. Like, I'll call a company to drop it off. But yeah. I'll, I'm gonna, uh, I'm definitely gonna look into some of these, uh, the she local shelters to see like if I can donate some clothes. Cause Yeah. Uh, I need to free up some bin space. I'm becoming one of those, uh, holiday parents where I'm like, uh, I, something I always hated are decorations, but now <laugh>. And it's because, uh, my kids' mom is like that type of person. Like, yeah. Yeah. It's Easter. Everything. The house is Easter, you know, it's the 4th of July. Here comes the flag. You know, like, there's just every holiday.
Speaker 1 00:37:03 So when he comes to my house, he's like, Aw. I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, it's Easter, it's St Patty's Day. What are you doing? I'm like, okay, let's go get some green bullshit <laugh>. It's green up this place. So like, I have like holiday bins that I'm putting together so I can reuse all my shit. <laugh>. Fuck man. I gotta free up some, some, some spot for clothes. Like, I gotta three decorations. These are my decorations. And I don't want to be like, like I said, just with the fast fashion wasteful stuff, I don't wanna buy a bunch of shit and throw it away. Yeah. So I wanna buy stuff that I can just break out. Like, okay, here's the St. Patty's bin <laugh> for my kid. What a, my Miles is really interested in my coffee. What if we just feed our kids' coffee? They don't grow too much. Uh, I heard that was a myth disproven that dam it. All right. I heard that was I'll stop doing it. I guess Snope says that was a lie. <laugh> <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:37:51 Snope says that was a lie. But yeah. Um, that, uh, that's the some of the ways we can help, uh, curb ways. And I'm, I'm really interested about like this biodegradable diapers and like, I wanna see the type of people that are getting this shit. I feel like it's like, you know, like by, you know, making a joke about how they're melting like stuff, I mean, but like, it's a joke, but it's getting closer. Like biodegradable straws. Like there's different straws that are greener. Like biodegradable silverware is getting better. Yeah. And cheaper. Like, we're getting closer, you know, we're definitely closer than further. Yeah. I remember the first round of bio, like they put like the, the paper straws. I'm like, oh, that's cool. Mm-hmm. That's nice. It's conscious. And then like my second sip, I'm just sucking up cardboard. I'm like, what the fuck was that?
Speaker 1 00:38:31 Like the, the first round of forks is literally like, it is like a cartoon. Like they just, just the spines would all get wiggled soon. It's like, you touch a piece of meat, it's like, well this is not, this is a fork and word only. This is not a hundred percent recycled plastic. You just put your water bottle down, it melts into itself. <laugh>. I'm like, they're trying. We're getting better at it. You know. I got my, my little, I got my little metal water can here. You got your reusable? I got mine. It's a Stanley apparently. Which is so funny. I guess like our nanny was telling us that Stanley is like very hot right now. It's like what my grandfather ate his fucking lunch out of. It's a Stanley like <laugh>. Uh, but it's, it's a water bottle and also you can just fucking hit somebody with it. Oh my God. Look, look at fucking hip ass Bennett over here. Super hip. He's in with this Stanley <laugh>. Yeah. The same guys that built the fucking Brooklyn Bridge Outta Stanley's
Speaker 0 00:39:18 <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:39:19 Take that picture of like him sitting on the, the beam in New York. All eating outta their Stanley lunch boxes. Fucking hipsters
Speaker 0 00:39:26 <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:39:30 Uh, it's good stuff. I love it. I love it. Well, hey, listen, um, I wanna cut. We're gonna come back with a joint pulpit. Um, but it was nice to talk to you about this thing and like, we're gonna try and do some research and put some stuff, some information on our Instagram about where you can donate clothes. Uh, some good family groups. And my push, just like my push for the washing machine that dries and folds clothes for you. <laugh>. I'm doing the same push I'm gonna have for having events at all our empty ass fucking stadiums and affordable housing is the same push. I'm, I'm gonna bring that same energy to having, uh, clothing drives at schools. Cuz we have the infrastructure to do it. We have the clothes to do it. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. We have the people that will wanna do it. We just gotta put it together. So. Yeah. We'll, uh, guys, we'll be right back with more Papa on Preach. Please stick around. We'll be right
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Speaker 1 00:40:43 Nah see. Nah. Oh no, you're doing the voice. Welcome to Papa. Don't preach. Today we're talking about the most environmental women. Dames Chick e chicken e flossies. That's it. I don't want to, it's getting offensive. The list was bad. We looked up, we looked up old timey women terms to be like, uh, I don't know, tongue you cheek about it. Last week we talked about, um, how we didn't know much about women's history, so we're gonna do a little deep dive. I was very close with a couple of 'em. I remember Sally Ride was the first female last run on the way home. <laugh>. That's the best idea, honestly. Um, it was very eyeopening. And I believe that it's very ignorant at this age that it comes to head. Like, I was still shocked when I went into looking the most influential women and not one of these stories wasn't fucking tragic.
Speaker 1 00:41:29 And like, they're all very recent. Like, it's it's awful. Yeah, it's awful. Like even like from from Pocahontas to Shirley Chisholm, like, it's, it's just terrible. Like we were talk, it's like yeah, if like, if you wanna make women's history or if you, you know, you have to be fucking hard and tough as nails. Like tough as fucking nails. Yeah. Like it's ins You know, I tried to pick like five influential women in, in genres of things that I enjoy, you know? Yeah. <laugh>. Uh, so wanna do like five and five go back and forth or what do you wanna do? Yeah. Cuz I, I did the same. I had, uh, women, uh, influential women in politics. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, black women, uh, women in sports, uh, women in hip hop and like pop culture icons. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and uh, you know, my first one, my woman in sports was Serena Williams.
Speaker 1 00:42:17 Yeah. Yeah. And so I started looking up some Serena Williams and even her story, just like she is probably the best athlete in the world right now. And the fact that she still gets treated like some black chick and like, everyone's got a fucking opinion. Everybody's got a fucking opinion of what she wears. Like she's a fucking millionaire. And she couldn't get doctors to be like, yo, I'm in pain. Something's wrong with my baby. Like, eh, you're just a complaining broad. Yeah. Like, it's, it's fucking wild. It's just a hysterical chick. Why would I believe you? Yeah. It's, it's like she is continuing to break records. Like she is amazing. Like, like just a superstar and still tragic. Yeah. Still like, like still like there's some stupid statistic that's like one out of four men think they could beat <laugh>. Yeah. Like, what the fuck? Get the fuck outta here.
Speaker 1 00:43:05 Get the fuck outta here. Get the fuck outta here. Jesus Christ. Uh, fucking a, um, so, uh, gimme one of, gimme one of your I'll do, uh, first off, like I love pro wrestling, female history of pro wrestling is fucking harsh and tragic in ex you know, the word, I can't say predatory <laugh> is a synonym for it. Jesus. Um, so one of, uh, so it's hard, like, it's really hard to like find influential, uh, wrestler you know, female wrestlers that haven't been in the last two decades. Cuz now they've been making great strides. There's people like Becky Lynch mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, in Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey who headlined fucking WrestleMania a couple years back. Like Ron Ross headline and paper Pay-per-views, like great storylines, spilling blood, just like hanging with what, you know, as showing that they could do just as much as the guys do.
Speaker 1 00:43:54 Yeah. It's not like that. Dan's a little, uh, no, it's not like, just like eye candy around. So my, uh, one of the influential, um, one of my influential women I picked was Ethel Johnson. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. She's a self-proclaimed, and you know, she said it, it's on paper as the first African American wrestler in the US God damn. So she, uh, fucking traveled town of town in the fifties. Fucking a sport that people didn't want to see a color that people certainly didn't want to fucking see Jesus Christ. Like, you know, in fifties, in the fifties, like hardest fucking nails. Pro wrestler woman in the south competing, you know, for her, for her, you know, for her for money and also for her fucking life. Like, you know, not allowed to sleep in places fucking sleep, put in her car. Like can't, this couldn't be a scene associated with a white wrestlers.
Speaker 1 00:44:38 Cause it's illegal. Like Yeah. <laugh> and then still fucking put on a show every single night. God damn man. Like, hats off, hats off. Like, these are the these, and like, you know, those are the stories that need to be amplified. Yeah. You know, like, like these, like these little things. I wouldn't say, I mean, I don't, not to trivialize didn't say little, but like the, these little points in history, like shaped an entire generation. Yeah. You know, like, and you know, I Is she in, is she in the wrestling hall of fame? Yeah. Yeah. She's someone that's like, been acknowledged in the Hall of Famer now. Good. Good, good, good. Um, so, uh, one of the most influential women that, you know, what I actually kind of forgot about and I realized after going to down to my Spotify, uh, hole, amazing. Um, I, I'm switching it over to Hip Hop Mc Light.
Speaker 1 00:45:23 Oh yeah. Holy shit. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, this woman had fucking bars and like, you forget about like, people like that that, you know, like, you know, Nicki Minaj could rap. Cardi B's got great sound. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> Little Kim was dope. Missy Elliot, greatest of all time, but fucking Mc Light. Holy shit. And like that, that whole crew of rappers back in, um, like late eighties, early nineties, uh, you know, um, queen Latifa and what's, uh, what's Mc light song? We'll know, uh, shit, I, which one will, you know, let's look up Poor Georgie. Poor Georgie What? Poor Georgie, poor George. Poor George was that. Nah, man. Uh, according to Spotify, her biggest hit that's gotten the most plays is, uh, cold Rock Party.
Speaker 1 00:46:11 Cold Rock. But yeah. Keep on keeping on. Keep Bonky, man. Yeah. So <laugh>, but Poor Georgie. Poor Georgie. That's the one. Poor Georgie. But, um, yeah, I mean, she, same thing with her story. She had to, she was battling motherfuckers came up, uh, came up through the ranks and I believe when she first started, like nobody wanted to sign her. And it wasn't until other MCs were starting to lift her up, I'd be like, no, this girl could fucking rap that she got a shot. And it just kind of sucks that just at her own merit, her own skill wasn't enough. Yeah. You know, like, it, it's kind of bullshit. But Yeah, she was, she was amazing. Like I, one of my, I she's up there on my top, my top like mm-hmm. <affirmative> as far as pop culture, music, mc, light trailblazer. All right. Fucking trailblazer.
Speaker 1 00:47:05 You got another, you got another Listen. No more. You got another, uh, should <laugh> I was gonna say, should we use some of these old timey terms? <laugh>? I'm not gonna use it, but I just have to say this guys. Um, one of the terms that, that took us all by surprise. We all paused. Like, general shock was gash. <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. You don't hear that much. You don't hear Thank God, <laugh>. No, no. You don't Imagine some fucking top hat. Mad man with a cigarette, indoors, like looking over at a waitress. Hey gash, get over here. Like, oh my God. Not good. Look at that gash over there. Ugh. Don't like saying it. It's terrible. <laugh>. That's why I'm not saying it. The G word Don't like saying it. It's a have, it's a hard g <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:47:45 All right, sorry, go ahead. Uh, all right. Back on. Subject. Yes. <laugh> Uh, back on the gash. <laugh>. Sorry, that's the last one. All right. I gotta switch it now. Okay. <laugh>, get someone who didn't die tragically. Oh, shit. Uh, so I'm gonna go with Brownie Mary, brownie Mary. She was, uh, Mary Jane Rathburn. She was a, uh, cannabis advocate in San Francisco. Oh, shit. Uh, she was famous for making brownies, uh, for, uh, AIDS patients throughout the crisis. And, uh, being an advocate for cannabis has medical uses, um, and just a generally badass chick to be fucking proudly, uh, be being <laugh>, being proudly pro weed in a staunchly anti weed time. God damn. Yeah. I have never even heard of her. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> Brownie Mary, that's her name. Yeah. That's fucking awesome. Goddamn. Damn. All right. Well, shit. Um, I, my, my inf my next influential woman, uh, I already brought her name up.
Speaker 1 00:48:46 Shirley Chisholm. Mm-hmm. When it comes to politics, it's another thing that we kind of bounce around. She was the first black woman elected in the Congress, and that was in 1969. It's not like that was a hundred years ago. <laugh>, as I mentioned, the Beatles had probably just broken up <laugh>. I knew that fucking long, you know, like ancient history. She's, uh, um, she passed away, uh, in 2005 at 80 years old. And, you know, this woman, uh, just fighting for equality, never backing down, like marching and fighting for her community, the things that she believed in, and being able to get elected. And then, you know, uh, isolated in Congress, uh, bullied in Congress, but never backing down. I believe she served till 1977. Let me double check that. Uh, no. She served till 1981. Uh, oops. Boo boo. In office. Uh, uh, 1983. 1983. Damn.
Speaker 1 00:49:54 She served for a long time, sir, for a long time. It's fucking wild. Uh, but yeah, that's, um, you know, in, because it's national, uh, it's, uh, women's History Month, definitely wanted to bring up some of my influential women. Um, did you have another that you wanted to discuss? I do. I had a couple more. Okay. Hit him. Hit me with, uh, next we got Sally Minky, who was, uh, she passed away tragically. She like died in a hiking accident, but she was Tarantino's editor, uh, for every one of his movies up until she passed away. Get the fuck outta here. Yeah. So like, every, all the super crazy Violence and Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs, the crazy storytelling and Pulp Fiction was, she was the one behind the boards fucking cutting the film, making it look the way it did. Oh shit. Like all of those scenes, like, you know, tan had a vision and she's the one helped translate that vision, uh, so we could all see it, which is fucking incredible that she, like, that's her body of work.
Speaker 1 00:50:46 Also, first Ninja Turtles movie. Get the Fuck Outta Here. Yeah. Those was one of her first movies she edited. Goddamn. Goddamn. That's pretty incredible. There is so much shit that I love, you know, watching growing up, you know, directly influences her, you know, her work directly influenced it. God, well, shit. Um, hats off to her. What was her name again? Sally. Sally Minke. Sally Minke. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Okay. Um, there was a woman, uh, I believe her name is Helen Gibson. Uh, she was, uh, one of the, probably the first a, uh, she's from Cleveland, Ohio. She was the first stunt woman, like the first like, oh yeah. Yeah. Uh, Helen, she was coined as the first stunt, uh, stunt performer. Uh, her name's Helen Gibson, I believe she, uh, was it, I think it was 1944, I believe. Damn. Yeah. Stunt, the stunt profession is a very interesting history.
Speaker 1 00:51:54 Uh, women especially cuz they usually just, you know, for the longest time they just put a dude in a wig and made it happen. Yes. So they had to get like, you know, women had to be, again, fucking tough as nails and stand out. Yeah. There's a documentary, I believe it's called Double Dare, uh, shit. Can you look that up? Plain documentary, double Dare About Stunt Women. Um, but it's like, it's incredible story. Uh, one of the fe, one of the subjects in it, uh, you know, fucking spoiler alert for a decade old documentary, she becomes Umma Thurman stunt Double In Kill Bill, like in the process. So she starts out like on Xena and somehow ends up that. So it's a really interesting documentary about stunt women in the process. Holy shit. That's another one of those, you know, uh, whole industries that are like completely underappreciated.
Speaker 1 00:52:37 Oh yeah. Because you're not supposed to, you're supposed to not know that it's them doing it. Yeah. They, I mean from a a from a extremely misogynist and racist industry, as Hollywood has been in the past, and sometimes still to, to this day, uh, there was a, like, you know, women had to fight. I think you brought up like the first, uh, Asian, uh, a, um, female Asian actor. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. What's her? Uh, she might win what's Oh yeah. But, uh, Michelle, uh, Michelle, uh, Michelle Yo might win, but be the first female or first Asian actress to win an Academy Award. Is that right? That's rid, that's ridiculous. Insane. That's crazy. That is fucking crazy. Yeah. And like, you know, we hit these milestones, you's like, Aw, aw. Oh, you know, you go through this like rollercoaster emotions of like, that's amazing, but man, that sucks. Yeah. Like, it took this long. Like Yeah. Just, they've been just, white dudes have been getting everything no matter how bad they are. <laugh>, I remember the Oscar. So White for Creed, the first Creed. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> fucking, you know, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actor fucking Sylvester Stallone in Creed In Creed. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:53:49 In Creed. <laugh>. He got the Oscar. Michael J uh, Michael B. Jordan. That was a I owe you though. Yes. Was that was a I owe for what? I saw all the Rockies. Like, what the fuck? <laugh> say what you will. He's not a great actor. He's not a great actor. Hey yo, you know, you just keep punching when you like, his speeches are underwhelming. Oh my God. But, um, yeah, these are, those are my influential women. I think you said you got a couple more. Do you want more? I got, uh, one more. I got a couple more, but I'll do, I'll do 'em quick. So, uh, one is, uh, comic book industry. Marie Severin. Uh, she was a artist and colorist, uh, beginning in the fifties, like with the EC comics. I dunno how much comic history, you know, horror comic ec is like, they made tales from the crypt and vault of horror and like all these hardcore like, uh, very graphic, uh, horror comics and, and true crime comics that kind of turned about.
Speaker 1 00:54:47 Uh, they were investigated and they had to, the comics code was enforced because of these comics. Uh, and you couldn't like show, you know, there were like limits to what you could show in comic books because of it, cuz people were, you know, up upright conservatives were afraid of these, uh, scary books that ended up influencing like every single director from the seventies and the eighties. Holy shit. Eighties. Like, so she was a colorist, like her coloring, uh, really stood out. She was a Rio uh, artist as well. Uh, I read one of the interviews I read that she was, um, off of the moral compass, or like, if they were like going like too crazy with like, violence towards women, she'd be like, all right guys. Like, fucking knock it off. And one of the things that she was accused of was like, she was accused of like, uh, she'd use big splashes of color to cover up violence in interviews.
Speaker 1 00:55:31 Later on. She'd be like, no, no, no. Like I was using that so you could emphasize the color and the violence. I want to show you <laugh>. Like, I was doing the opposite. Like, I wasn't trying to cover up with blackness. I was trying to emphasize how awful it was. Uh, but yeah, she worked with, you know, she worked with in the Marvel in the seventies, like with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and Stan Lee and was off, you know, in the same article I read that she would all like, often do the outlines for covers for artists that were overworked. She's like, all right, this is what the cover will look like. Do the finishing. Like, you know, so she'd like, do Hulk like all fucking pose out crazy. And like the artist would be like, all right, fine. And then just draw, like finish it out the drawing.
Speaker 1 00:56:05 That's fucking hilarious. <laugh>. Yeah. It's crazy. I haven't heard, I haven't heard of her. I mean, it's not that crazy cuz you know, it's, yeah. You know, Marie sever, we Suck. Um, my last one is, um, I think it's Mary Keys or Mary Kais. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, she, how do you spell it? K i e s probably Keys. I think it's Mary Keys. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Well, um, Mary Keys in, uh, 1809 was the first woman to get a patent for silk weaving. Ooh. And like, uh, this, and she broke the pattern of like, basically women coming up with shit and men stealing the idea. Yeah. Because women weren't allowed to vote. Women weren't allowed to own property. Women weren't allowed to have a banking account. Women weren't allowed to, most women weren't allowed to work unless they got their husband's approval. And so, uh, she broke this pattern because she was not willing to get this up, but she was the only person that can do it and, uh, was able to get the patent.
Speaker 1 00:56:57 And I'm sure somebody stole it from her, or mm-hmm. <affirmative> and I'll read more her history, but judging by the pattern, a lot of these stories don't have happy endings. But, um, yeah, that's, uh, another influential woman, um, that broke a very misogynistic pattern for a long time. I, uh, that's a good rundown. Some people that you don't hear about. Yes. That was, it was very, very good. Um, so guys, uh, before we go, before we go, I wanted to, I went and saw Creed three Oh yeah. And brought it up. And I wanted to, uh, give you my, my review of the movie mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And I wanna say, you know, it's not gonna win any Oscars. <laugh>. <laugh>, I'll tell you that. But Stallone's not back in it. Nah. Stallone was not in it. Um, you know, he publicly had some disagreements with some execs, so we all knew that he wasn't gonna be in this one.
Speaker 1 00:57:48 Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, but, you know, I thought it was a great movie. Yeah, it was. Well, I also saw it at the Magic Johnson theater overall in Baldwin, <laugh> involved in hills. So just for all of you who don not know that, like, I, I basically was ringside at every single fight. Like, it's like, it's like every bad standup comedian joke about black audiences, they're talking about that audience. It, it, it is interactive. It's, I mean, it's fucking great. Like, I love seeing a movie with an audience that's hot, you know? Yeah. I don't want to irritate the audience, but a hot audience is good. Oh yeah. That's, this one was a mix of both. It was half irritating. Like, you know, there's some times where it's like, oh no, he knocked you the fuck out. No. Like, and people clapping and like cheering when he is like getting back up.
Speaker 1 00:58:33 Like, oh, he go get up. He go get up. Like that part, those parts were amazing. But there was also parts where, like the woman behind me, I don't know if she was eating pistachios and just dumping them outta the buckets on the floor, but like, I'm telling you, it was like seven or eight times where you just heard <laugh>. I'm like, is this So like, what was that? The jittery dude? Like, I don't know, like the rain fucking fucking rains. Stick rains stick rains, stick up a like being Shannon looking back and forth like what type she bring in like a bucket of peanuts. Like what the fuck? Like, this can't be chill. Uh, there's a woman that was on the other side of Shannon that had her phone Ringer on and on and they would go off and she would check it with a flashlight that she brought in.
Speaker 1 00:59:10 Um, she checked her phone with a flashlight that she brought in and then that's fucking audacious. And then there was another dude who was, was basically talking to his very controlling girlfriend the entire time was like, nah, no, I'm at the movie right now. I show you my location. Na, I saw Right, right now it just started. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I hit you all up. I, it said that it's about a like an hour, seven minutes. Like I hit you up. Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring. Hey, what's up? Yeah. Nah, I just, yeah, I got some popcorn now. I just texted you cause I went to the bathroom, but nah, nah. Yeah. This movie's still going on. No, they haven't gotten to the main fight. I'm like, get the, what the fuck, <laugh>, if you wanna be here, be here woman <laugh> like, like where you at work?
Speaker 1 00:59:52 Like y obviously it ain't doing any work. Like, what the fuck? That's that. Yeah. That might have made me watch, but I will tell you that the bad experiences there were vastly overshadowed by the good experiences there. Yeah. So like, it was a great time. It's a great movie. I suggest you see it if you are in la I suggest you see it at the Magic Johnson Theater. <laugh>, preferably a matinee on like a Friday or Saturday when auntie uncle have nothing to do. Who gotta go to the theater, <laugh>, they, they were sitting there half an hour before the movie starts. Oh yeah. Like <laugh>, they were camped out <laugh>.
Speaker 1 01:00:26 And you know, like some of these people had so many snacks that I know they made two trips. <laugh> like, it, it was wild. But yeah, uh, uh, that was my, that was my review of Cree three. Have you seen it yet? No, I haven't. We saw, uh, duh duh knock at the cabin. Uh, scary movie. I think that's the name of it. Yeah. Yeah. I dug it with, uh, Batista David. Dude Batista most underrated. He's, uh, he's like the rock on Wish, but now he's now the Rock is turning into Batista on Wish. Yeah, I know Batista can act like he's, uh, he's got range, like I saw a Glass Onion in this and he is like two completely different people in those movies. Uh, I, um, I dunno if I told you this, I'd met Batista, like when I was working in New Orleans, I did a movie, uh, where he was the villain.
Speaker 1 01:01:07 He did, like, he worked like on a week on it, but I was his driver, like he and his guy. So he drove in the back of my fucking Mazda fucking whatever shit bag. <laugh>. Oh shit. <laugh>. Not even mine. Natalie's Mazda shit bag <laugh>. He fit in there. Yeah, he, I mean, I guess I had to pull the back. I ubered it, so I pushed the backseat all the way up and he, he, uh, was so calm and nice and soft spoken, but in this movie, he's so soft spoken. I was like, that's just, he just sounds like he's Dave bat. That's what the real Dave Batista sounds like. Oh, it's just him. Is this, it's just like him very calm and very polite. Like <laugh> Jesus the entire saying terrible things. <laugh>. No, he was very, he was such a nice dude. But you liked knocking the cabin?
Speaker 1 01:01:42 I, I liked it. It was a Shamaya. Um, it was a Shamaya and based on a book, uh, who's I write the, the guy who wrote the book. I like his stuff. Uh, I enjoyed it. I, it was definitely, I think it's worth checking out. All right. That's gonna be my next one. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be my next one. So those are our movie suggestions for everyone. And you know, that brings us to the end of our podcast. Um, A Happy Woman's Appreciation Month or a Woman's History Month, us Woman's History of all of it. I'm gonna appreciate the history. I appreciate all these bitches, man. They're tough as fucking shit. They're way tougher than me. Tougher than me, man. I'll never have a baby. <laugh> <laugh>. Uh, but yeah, thank you to our producer for Blaine. Pierre, uh, DNA does our music. Aaron Moow does our music. Thanks to my co-host, uh, my partner in crime, Bennett Miller. Thank you. Thank you very much. You guys, this is Papa. Don't preach. And the only correction I guess that we have on our way out is that in l a U Unified, there are over a thousand schools and, uh, 700,000 students. Hey, there you go. Split the difference side's. The difference. There you go. All right guys, we'll be, uh, back next week with more Papao. Preach. Thank you very much. Have a good one.
