Ep. 15 | That’s Not the Bat Signal, That’s the Black Signal

Welcome back to The Prolific Hub Podcast (formerly known as 3tingz Podcast), where your favorite co-hosts & creators Aliya Cheyanne, Tasia Marie & Mikhaila Rae discuss ‘3tingz’ shaping the culture!

This week the ladies discuss the:

• Question of the Week: Have you ever been part of a brawl?
• Recent News Roundup: The Montgomery Brawl, Black August, O'Shae Sibley (whose killer has since pleaded not guilty since the time of this recording), Tory Lanez, Doja Cat, and the SAG-AFTRA) & WGA Strikes
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mental Health Tip of the Week: Box Breathing

Chapter Markers:
0:48 Introduction & the Montgomery Brawl
17:13 O'Shea's Murder and Tory's Sentencing
31:36 Doja Cat & the SAG-AFTRA/WGA Strikes
44:15 AI
53:51 Mental Health Tip of the Week

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Transcript

Tasia Marie: 1:31

Hey hello, hello hello.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:36

Hey, hey hey, hey, hey, Welcome back y'all.

Tasia Marie: 1:42

Cheatings episode five welcome back.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:47

Welcome back y'all. I'm Aliyah Cheyenne.

Tasia Marie: 1:50

I'm your girl, tasia Marie, and we are two thirds of.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:55

Treatings. Thank y'all for tuning in once again and for rocking with us. We love the fact that y'all are watching on YouTube. We love that you're listening on your favorite podcast platform, so thank you.

Tasia Marie: 2:11

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Aliya Cheyanne: 2:18

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Tasia Marie: 3:38

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Aliya Cheyanne: 4:23

Appreciate y'all. Yes, thank y'all. So with that we're going to jump into the episode. We got a lot to cover today In recent news the mom of Grimree Brawl. We want to take a moment to acknowledge O'Shea Sibley, tory Lane's got sentenced, and a couple of other things as well, and then we want to spend some time talking about artificial intelligence and AI, because AI is taking over y'all.

Aliya Cheyanne: 4:57

And then we want to wrap it up real bad, and then we want to wrap it up with our mental health tip of the week. So, yeah, why don't we kick it off with our question of the week, which is have you ever been part of a brawl?

Tasia Marie: 5:18

Yeah, Kind of a stirring up a little bit of a memory here.

Aliya Cheyanne: 5:26

It's a shared memory. That's the only one I can think of Wait.

Tasia Marie: 5:31

which one are you thinking? That is the only one that I can think of.

Aliya Cheyanne: 5:35

Okay, all right. Well, without diving into too much detail and specifics, it was definitely a family brawl. Horrible.

Tasia Marie: 5:48

Horrible. I'm glad we can laugh about this shit now.

Aliya Cheyanne: 5:52

I was just about to say the same thing.

Tasia Marie: 5:54

I'm glad we can laugh about it now Because it wasn't funny at the time, but it really wasn't Like cops called and everything unnecessary, just unnecessary, especially like between family. But, that's wild man.

Tasia Marie: 6:10

But, if y'all have ever been in a brawl, like, put it underneath our comments, like, share it with us, because we also want to start sharing things that you guys are saying too. So question of the week is have you ever been a part of a brawl? You just got a little surface of what we were in. Yeah, we're getting it together because my sister is a motherfucking writer. Die, she's not. She said oh no, you are not going to fuck my sister up.

Aliya Cheyanne: 6:47

Oh God, that's a whole mess. Maybe one day we'll deep dive on this, but I will say that tension already existed. Listening is key, because I know it was a space that you definitely didn't even want to be in anyway.

Tasia Marie: 7:04

Exactly, and tensions Go with your gut.

Aliya Cheyanne: 7:07

Yeah, and also it was around a difficult time. It was around like, unfortunately, a funeral, a death for our late great-grandmother, and tensions were already high. It's easy for people to set off, you know, go off over small things, and those type of life events exacerbate existing issues in a lot of ways. And that's what happened. Shit came to a head. A head, yeah, so it's a family brawl. Oh God, cops got called, bleach got thrown on us. If y'all really want that story, you're going to have to comment or leave a review and let us know We'll go in, but maybe not today, maybe not the full details today, girl, but yeah, it was a lot.

Tasia Marie: 8:03

Yeah, it was beyond a lot, but definitely a lesson learned from that situation Follow your gut, like listen to your gut. We pulled up and I saw that car. I said I don't even want to go in there now. Like and had I just been like y'all, let's come back Like slow key work. I kind of feel like that shit was my fault.

Aliya Cheyanne: 8:25

But no, I feel like it's my fault.

Tasia Marie: 8:28

Following my gut.

Aliya Cheyanne: 8:30

Yeah.

Tasia Marie: 8:31

Like because, had I just been like, let's just go ahead and circle the block and come back another time.

Aliya Cheyanne: 8:37

Yeah. I think even before we pulled up and you saw the car, you didn't want to go.

Tasia Marie: 8:41

Yeah, that too Because. I knew they were in town and I knew they were going to be there and, like you said, tensions were already. It was already there, but you know that's wild as shit Segue into the arm. Montgomery brawl though.

Aliya Cheyanne: 8:59

That part. You know y'all have seen the clips. Listen that chair. Let me tell you I've been. You know, I've only been paying attention to what black people have been saying about it, and only the black people that fully supported what happened. Because, like I said in the previous episode, the space I'm in, especially after watching they clone Tyrone, is about time we start fucking up and fighting back.

Aliya Cheyanne: 9:27

So everybody who said that that shit like watching the video was cathartic, watching the video was therapeutic, I agree. I feel like a lot of our ancestors sighed and rejoiced and we're very happy.

Tasia Marie: 9:44

Word, word. And so now, like the signal for nigga, I need help is stowing your cap up, throwing your cap up. Okay, so around the world, if we ever see one of our black or brown people throwing our caps up, we got to respond. Yep. Try to find your two on the way.

Aliya Cheyanne: 10:07

And that's not the bat signal, that's the black signal. Hey, I like that I'm like, hey, listen. So by now most of you have already heard about what this was A black security guard and doc worker. To clear Co captain.

Tasia Marie: 10:28

They keep trying to downplay who he is, his role. He was co captain of that ship, not security.

Aliya Cheyanne: 10:35

Co captain of that ship, I've been corrected Was trying to clear a space for a boat a large boat to dock or large ferry to dock. And yeah, the small boat of white people that were there didn't want to be told what to do, didn't like being told by told what to do by this black man. We couldn't obviously hear clear audio from the distance of like what exactly was being said verbally. But you, when you watch the video, you can see that tensions were flaring in that moment and yeah, these white people dog piled on that man and tried to jump him and black people said fuck all that, right.

Aliya Cheyanne: 11:17

Fuck all that Fuck around and find out for real. So, yeah, they went to support that man and get all the white people off of him. The black women was going after them. White women that was trying to interfere in men's business and fight with the men. Black women were clearing them out.

Tasia Marie: 11:36

So the brothers didn't have to put hands on. It was my man that jumped off the ship and swam and mother fucking die.

Aliya Cheyanne: 11:44

Listen, black people can swim, okay.

Tasia Marie: 11:47

Like you knew it was serious when he swam, like yo and got up like came out the water like an Avenger and was fucking shit up like off bricks Facts. All right, Don't fuck with our people, Just don't like. Yeah, I'm not thinking that it's okay to gang up like it's that privilege, man, it's that privilege. I was in a professional development last week and you know she was like. They asked the question what is the first word that comes to mind when you think of a white person? And the first word that came to my mind was privilege. Hmm.

Tasia Marie: 13:25

Immediately. Like I was just like privileged, that's it. Like your skin is your privilege. Like we don't get that privilege because we can't hide who we are. Like you walk into a room and you're automatically acknowledged and smell that. We walk into a room and it's just like you know you're not gonna get that privilege.

Tasia Marie: 13:44

Hi, like it was privileged, but that Montgomery brawl like was amazing. And then it was another situation in Detroit where another white man was hurling off some racist words to a black man and he picked up a chair and defended himself as well. So I don't know, I feel like tensions are starting to rise again because it's that time of the year for presidential campaigns to start and then, with Trump being, you know, indicted for like the 50 millionth time and all this other stuff going on his supporters because I'm not going to say all white people, I'm going to say his supporters and his peoples, because if you believe in what he's feeding, you're his people. They just trying to rise up now, like and just getting really bold. So this is when we really got to stick together.

Aliya Cheyanne: 14:51

Yeah, I think the other thing specifically about the Montgomery brawl that was pretty significant is I learned after the fact that it's the same like dock and riverfront that a lot of enslaved people were shipped to and delivered to for Alabama. So there's just a lot of historical significance. And apparently earlier that very same day a bunch of women and femmes got together to do like an ancestral veneration to honor ancestors from that same day. Earlier that day. And.

Aliya Cheyanne: 15:29

I'm just like, listen, listen, thank God they did that that day because those ancestors showed up and showed out through our people in the flesh. So, anyway, all that to say. In all seriousness, though, the young man who did swim to the co captains aid for a long time like his name wasn't initially released because his parents and other people were really concerned about his safety and fair retaliation. And, yeah, like people are just trying to be mindful of that, because the reality is, although we got our lick back in that moment, we know what white fragility and white violence and white rage and white racial terror looks like in retaliation for certain things. So there are a lot of concerns around that, and I saw recently that the man who did bop the person over the head with the chair really hard, he did get caught, he did get arrested. I see him turn himself in. He turned himself in. And, yeah, people are raising funds to. You know, go find me to help the bell and everything else. So, listen, if you got a little extra to support our people, make a little donation to go find me or any other way. Like, do that, because mutual aid will set us free, especially moments like this.

Aliya Cheyanne: 16:58

Okay, and the other thing I just wanted to flag really quick was it is Black August y'all. So the fact that this happened on August 5th in Black August is very interesting and low key exciting to me. So for anyone who doesn't know what Black August is, I'm just going to read a very quick Wikipedia description. So Black August is an annual commemoration and prison based holiday to remember Black political prisoners, black freedom struggles in the United States and beyond, and to highlight Black resistance against racial, colonial and imperialist oppression. It takes place during the entire calendar month of August. So with that bra, what a way to set off Black August, okay.

Tasia Marie: 17:45

Definitely. And what a way to set off the August calendar for the Shade Room Right. We know this to go be in there. We know it, baby Facts, we know it, dude Facts. But also in this great segue that you have, though, into O'Shea, yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 18:09

So the other thing is, although this moment was a cathartic release for a lot of us, people have been raising awareness that it hasn't always been the same energy for everybody in the Black community. So while we celebrated the Black community rallying behind the co-captain, this Black man, it's been a little bit more quiet about the murder of O'Shea Sibley, and a lot of people that I follow especially have been raising some awareness about the discrepancy and support and activation, and we know that there's always a lot of tension, unfortunately, in the Black community around when it comes to LGBTQ issues. But at the end of the day, I know, in our last podcast or one recent one, I was like, you know, I'm Black first before anything else, and I learned after the fact that apparently to some people that doesn't always mean the same thing, because people will say that and then not rally behind every kind of Black person. But when I say it, I mean it. I'm Black first, so I am Black first. So if you are Black too, it don't matter what else is going on. We figure it out, I'm gonna look out for you. So just being mindful about that.

Aliya Cheyanne: 19:36

Unfortunately, o'shea was voguing at a gas station when he and his group of friends were approached and attacked by another group of young people. There has been some discrepancy about who the actual murderer is and was. There's a lot of tension, supposedly in that community between LGBTQ people and Muslim people and there was some discrepancy about whether or not the murderer was Muslim or other. And it turns out that the 17 year old's name is Dmitri Popov I don't even know if I'm saying that, right, mm-hmm, russian young men, apparently not Muslim, christian, which to me a religious killing or a hate crime killing, it doesn't matter which one it is. It's still not right, it's still wrong and fucked up. So yeah, I'm gonna pause there. Was there anything you wanted to say about that before we continue about O'Shea?

Tasia Marie: 21:16

I do think it was crazy that they did push the Muslim narrative real hard at first. It honestly brought me back to 9-11 when, after that happened and it was like oh, muslims, muslims. I am not a Muslim. However, I do know the hate that is spewed towards certain groups, especially having experienced that hate being in one of those minority groups. So with them pushing that Muslim narrative, at first I was like what exactly are we doing here? Right, I know it's regardless of what his race is. It is a hate crime.

Tasia Marie: 21:57

It could have been another black man that stabbed O'Shea, it still would have been a hate crime, regardless of what his religion is.

Aliya Cheyanne: 22:06

So Well, they were talking about the murderer's religion, not O'Shea's religion.

Tasia Marie: 22:13

Right, that's what I'm saying. You're pushing a Muslim man, stab this gay man because it's you know, yeah, just the narrative that they were pushing. It's just kind of sad that it was overshadowed. We heard about it. I heard about it more so via social media than anywhere else. Yeah, and of course, I do believe that we did not hear as much about it because he is a part of the LGBTQ community, just as we don't hear of all the trans deaths murders, not just deaths, because that makes it seem cool all the trans murders that are happening on a regular basis.

Tasia Marie: 22:58

So just pay attention, y'all, and stick together Like if we're a people, like how you said, I'm black before anything even if there's a certain because I don't like Aaron Black person, I ain't gonna lie. I don't like everybody.

Aliya Cheyanne: 23:12

period, that's true too, but I'm a right for my race.

Tasia Marie: 23:16

So and that's what I was gonna say At the end of the day, we know that we are always ganged up on, so we need to stick together regardless. We gonna stick together, fight these motherfuckers together and then after that we could leave peace. Bitch who you good, all right.

Aliya Cheyanne: 23:35

And there's that. That's really what it is, and I don't know how accurate this is, but I saw initially one of the things that spurred O'Shea's murder being charges like a hate crime was the fact that racial slurs were involved. So even the fact that that took precedence and priority over the fact that you know he belongs to the LGBTQ community, like it, just shows you as a society what we who and what we prioritize, and it's just, it's not right. So, yeah, dimitri is being charged as an adult Good, arrested for murder and being charged with a hate crime. So Lock him up.

Tasia Marie: 24:22

Throw away the key. He better get more years than Tory.

Aliya Cheyanne: 24:27

RIP to O'Shea Serious. I know a lot of folks have been gathering to show support and solidarity. There were vigils and events held at the gas station and other places to honor his life and bring awareness to that community and the struggles that they are enduring so y'all, let people live. He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to die that way, especially for moving, for dancing that had nothing to do with anybody else, like nothing to do so.

Tasia Marie: 25:04

Seriously. Stop policing other people. Let people live.

Aliya Cheyanne: 25:09

Yeah, so yeah, you did mention Tory, so do you want to talk about Tory?

Tasia Marie: 25:16

Yeah. So when other news, a little gremlin has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars and everyone well, I'm not going to say everyone, A few of his umbrella fans are up in arms because they're like 10 years, what? They didn't even get a shot shot, real for real. At the end of the day, megan Thee Stallion was shot Allegedly. Tory shot that gun, and it's not even about how injured she was. Like did y'all want her to be doubled over in the hospital with gunshot wounds to the stomach and the arm and the hip, like?

Aliya Cheyanne: 25:53

Never been able to walk again.

Tasia Marie: 25:55

Like Right, it doesn't matter how shot she was. The fact of the matter is this nigga had a gun. He got those years because of those gun charges, essentially, and if I'm not mistaken, wasn't he on probation?

Aliya Cheyanne: 26:11

Yeah, I don't remember he was on probation, but I know there was something about he should not have had a gun in his position. He shouldn't have even been in close proximity to one, so exactly.

Tasia Marie: 26:21

So you got charges based off of the stupid shit that you did. And I think what was a little more irritating I wasn't there, I don't know the story, I don't know what happened. Clearly, somebody shot that fucking gun and this nigga is still like doubling down like I didn't shoot her and I'm appealing it and I'm basically I'm going to get out, because he did post a message to his social media.

Tasia Marie: 26:49

Like after his sentence. But you weren't the first and you're not the last. I think he was like the first to get that much time he was up in arms on Remy Ma was in jail. Remy Ma was in jail for eight years.

Aliya Cheyanne: 27:07

A while yeah.

Tasia Marie: 27:10

Eight years. The brat was also in jail for three years for simply busing a champagne bottle over somebody's head three years. So getting time as a celebrity is nothing new. You're not the first and you're not the last. It's because you're famous. You didn't think that you were going to get that much time, but the rules apply to every fucking body. If that was me in that car and I had a gun and I had prior charges and I know that I'm not supposed to be around a gun Like, why the fuck? No, that's not my gun, that is securities gun. Like, keep that shit away from me. I have charges. This is what we were talking about. Like, when you have people on your team, when you get to a certain level, you have people around you who do things that you can no longer do.

Aliya Cheyanne: 28:01

Or he just thought he was invincible because he's rich. Like you can't. I saw a tweet that I liked by Gabrielle A Perry. Basically said you can't harm people. You can't just harm people and do whatever you want, like, at the end of the day, like we are.

Aliya Cheyanne: 28:17

So as a community, sometimes we are so desensitized to the suffering and the violence against, like, black women and femmes that we would rather discount their experiences to protect black men. And that's just not the way to be. Like this man like a recording got leaked of him calling Megan's former friend on the phone from jail saying he's sorry, he didn't mean to do it. Like and y'all are still. I don't get it. I really don't like. Let me tell you something If any man ever violates me, any kind of man, even if he a black man, I'm snitching, okay, I'm not protecting him over me.

Aliya Cheyanne: 29:08

And the sad part is Megan really did try like she lied in the beginning to protect him because she didn't want all like. She tried to protect him. She tried to cover up and and not say who did it and lie about it. But he went on a freaking campaign to diminish her character, spew lies, smear her and everything. That's why she ultimately told the truth because it got out of control.

Aliya Cheyanne: 29:34

So sometimes these niggers don't even rely, don't even realize when women are going out of their way to protect them. They don't even know how to just eat it and like fix it behind the scenes. So I didn't feel bad for this nigga. I did like his music. Unfortunately, it sucks that we're in this position now where I got to be team Megan and we can't like love and support them both and not saying that he can't like repair this down the line. Like there has to be repair with harm in some capacity and to some people that's him serving time for this, like to some people they're still waiting on a public, real apology and acknowledgement for what he did to her. I don't know what that's going to look like, but we're not going to find out, apparently for the next 10 years. So hey, there's that.

Tasia Marie: 30:29

But the judge did give him credit for time served 236 days, I believe. All right, so we only got nine years. Here we are Nine years and some days he'll be right. I just the only thing. One more thing about that Like jail is supposed to be rehabilitation.

Tasia Marie: 30:51

That's a lie, they tell us, but it's definitely a fucking lie. But like, I'm not saying that Torey should not be in jail Damn Shay, seriously, do anybody have a better life than拼 seit? No, there needs to be some kind of rehabilitation going on. Like I think his lawyer was saying he was leading some kind of group prayers and since he's been on whatever unit, the fights have gone down and all that shit. That's okay and that's cool. So continue being that person. Go to therapy. I'm not going to say become a better person, but get into who you are as an individual and what the fuck gave you that. What am I trying to say? Permission to feel as though you could fucking shoot someone and get away with it and still adamantly claim that you didn't do it? Like that's a little bit. That's psychological. You need therapy, sir. So while you're in there for those nine years, like make it work.

Tasia Marie: 32:00

You just be in there lifting weight, getting buff and turning into a little buff gremlin Like. Do the work from the inside out.

Aliya Cheyanne: 32:10

I had that image when I found out about his sentencing. I was like, oh he's, so he going to come out rip the shit.

Tasia Marie: 32:15

Right, that's horrible, that's horrible.

Aliya Cheyanne: 32:22

Other news real quick Doja Cat, because, listen, doja Cat has been making her rounds with a lot of things. Her appearance, her recent music video for Paint the Town Red I just seen it. Yeah, it's. Yeah. A lot of people are not happy with it because there's some, like you know, it's like she's with the grim reaper. Some people are saying that's Santissima Muerte. Some people are looking at the imagery, the way she painted up her body with the horns, and saying, like that's like a devil thing. She's like riding this devil looking figure, like standing on it and dancing on its head, looks like a cartoon, it's just like a lot. But in I personally listen, I'm the first one who will say, like this music, the imagery that we see, like sometimes that shit really is intentional, like there are subliminal messages that we're receiving that we might not even be privy to or aware to.

Aliya Cheyanne: 33:34

But I also think yeah, right, but I also think it's like it depends on what you give power to. So I didn't watch that video and feel like I didn't watch that video personally and feel like when I watched the video I felt like she was trolling in the same way that like little Nas X was trolling with the whole Montero video, with him slide on the pole down to lose, you know, and the blood sneakers, like I thought she was. I saw it and thought she was trolling. Some people feel like that's her being outward about being in the quote unquote Illuminati and like the dark side of the music industry. And then other people out here like no, like this is unhappy, she's trying to get out of her music or something you know. So like those are things I saw. I saw trolling. I saw she's trying to piss her label off, that's what I'm getting.

Aliya Cheyanne: 34:33

I saw that she gets the most buzz when she does shit like this. So because Niggas sees something real quick and it's like, oh, here we are again promoting the death, like it, like it makes noise, so that's what I saw when I saw that. But I'm just like I think she's just really just not happy and trying to get out of her deal. I think she's trolling, so that's what I think it is.

Tasia Marie: 35:00

But just like she said she made the last album. Just, she was like it was a money trap, Like I made the album because I knew y'all were going to pay for it. How many? More albums did she have left on her deal?

Aliya Cheyanne: 35:14

Girl, I don't even know I wouldn't.

Tasia Marie: 35:16

I don't Doja Cat's a troll. I just can't. Every time I think of Doja Cat, I remember bitch on the cow, yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 35:27

Listen, can you take her too? Bitch on the cow, bitch on the cow, yeah, like listen, no, no, no, no, no, no. The other thing that people were judging was the tattoo that she got, so the tattoo of a goat, which sometimes that type of goat gets linked to the devil or like baphomet. So people saw that and they were like, oh, and I feel like it's interesting, because this is on the heels of Black China removing her devil goat looking evil tattoo. So people are talking about that a little bit more too, and I'm just like, listen, she's trolling. Like if and when this whole shit no longer serves her anymore, she can painfully get the tattoo removed or covered, like I'm just like she's trolling.

Aliya Cheyanne: 36:52

So, yeah, Definitely. So yeah. The other thing we want to talk about for our recent news roundup is the ongoing Screen Actors Guild, american Federation of Television and Radio Artist, sag-aftra, strikes and the writer striped the art, the WGA Screen Writers Guild strike, and how that's impacting certain things. And some of y'all might have seen that If you watch Euphoria you might have seen the Angus Cloud passed recently, which is really sad. All right, p Rest his soul, man, but yeah, this that's an extreme loss for the cast. I'm sure they were, I don't know, obviously, but I'm I'm sure he was probably close with a few of the other actors and actresses and you know, his career was just taking off Right and it's just really sad that that happened. So, god rest his soul. But bringing up the strike because, yeah, it's going to have an impact on some of the shows that some of us watch, like Euphoria.

Tasia Marie: 38:09

Man Euphoria said they wasn't coming back till 2034. So not 2034.

Aliya Cheyanne: 38:16

It didn't. Here's that oh my God, house of Dragons. That might not be back for a while, like any other shows that people watch. So, yeah, I also just wanted to flag like I've seen a couple of actors and actresses talk about like how detrimental this shit is. They are not making money, like they are not making money. So Insecure's alum, kendrick Samson y'all remember him from Insecure, I hope Also, if you're like me and you were a supernatural fan, he had a little stint on supernatural If you liked that show, but yeah, I like him too and he made a post about how he got like 50 residual checks and all of them checks equaled $86. Like these, a lot of these actors are not getting paid, like.

Tasia Marie: 39:13

The. Oh God, what is her name? I think her name is Brandy, the main actress from P Valley. I don't watch.

Aliya Cheyanne: 39:20

P Valley, McKayla would know. Shout out to McKayla.

Tasia Marie: 39:23

You gotta watch P Valley. But the main actress of P Valley, she was like, oh, my birthday coming up. You know, I got these checks in the mail, opened them up and she showed it and it was like 36 cents for one, the other one was like 40 something cents and the other one was they were all under a dollar. And I was just like y'all, it cost y'all more money to cut these motherfucking checks than you're actually paying these people. At that point you might as well just send them an EBT card and be like look at the first of the month, we're gonna load your $5, okay.

Aliya Cheyanne: 39:54

Crazy, it's crazy, that's crazy, it's respectful.

Tasia Marie: 39:58

I saw somewhere that Billy Porter you know Billy Porter, yeah, from Pose yes, he said that he has to sell his house. Oh my gosh.

Tasia Marie: 40:07

Because you know the job that he had. Apparently it fell through because they're striking. So I think a lot of people and I honestly did not realize. I knew that all actresses and actors do not get paid the same, but I thought all of them got paid decent. I really didn't realize that they really don't get paid. They don't get any type of insurance. There's a union that they have but in order for you to be a part of the union and to get insurance you have to make over 30K I think, a year. It's a very low range but they're not making that. And a lot of actors and actresses like, unless you're on a show that's getting renewed for season after season after season, like you really got to hustle to get out there. Just like my man from the Cosby show who was working at the grocery store and somebody had recorded him and was like, oh my gosh, isn't this the guy from the Cosby's?

Aliya Cheyanne: 41:07

Malcolm or Jamal Warner. That's the only one I know or remember. No, not Jamal Warner.

Tasia Marie: 41:10

It was one of the husbands I forgot his name. He's on power. Now Tyler Perry saw and Tyler Perry was like I got a role for you and then they put him on power as one of the lawyers. But, like that's crazy. I just think it's crazy that they're not getting paid.

Aliya Cheyanne: 41:31

It's very crazy. Amanda Sales also made a post. She started off as, like a child actress and she was like she really didn't start making money from acting until insecure. Like insecure was one of the first acting jobs where she was really getting paid and it changed her life and she made a post. She was like everybody's not Tom Cruise Like. Tom Cruise is one of the few actors out here who actually has gotten really rich off of acting. Most actors and actresses are not like that.

Aliya Cheyanne: 42:03

I saw a post on Angelica Ross' page as well, and she was also from Pose and American Horror Story. Even though I don't watch American Horror Story, she was on there too. Apparently she had a deal to be on there or something, or was on there, had a deal to be on there. Something was going on where she was in her contract with Pose and she was doing stuff for American Horror Story, I think for one season, and then it was up in the air about whether or not she was coming back. But because of the way the contracts worked, she was kind of locked into that.

Aliya Cheyanne: 42:38

So at the same time she was getting calls from Marvel and she couldn't do anything about it because of her American Horror Story contract and by the time it turned out that she wasn't going to be coming back or whatever the case may be, marvel wasn't calling her anymore. So she was talking about how she's lost out on opportunities because of the way that these things work. And another huge thing is just like a lot of these actors and actresses don't get to benefit from the ad money that a lot of streamers bring in, like Netflix and Hulu and like all these distributors, so that's a part of it too. Like they're, like, we have every right to make residual income off of the work that we do and be able to benefit off of the ad money that is flooding into these streamers. It's not right.

Aliya Cheyanne: 43:24

So that's wild At this point.

Tasia Marie: 43:28

If it ain't shit to watch on TV, I won't be mad. You can listen to the podcast. Okay, I was about to say listen to the podcast. But that's crazy, yeah, the other thing is I saw this article by Madame.

Aliya Cheyanne: 43:43

Noir, that basically said black women been tried to tell us, because Monique really was out here trying to tell y'all not just the whole Netflix deal about not getting paid the team for her comedy special, but she's been an active lawsuit with Countess Vaughn and she's been a big fan of the show. It's like it was sort of a little bit of a dynamic up to the time in the past but they said the show was a bit too mimicking for her comedy special. But she's been in active lawsuit with Countess Vaughn over the parkers with CBS and Paramount Because they're not getting paid residuals like they should be. So they've been actively like fighting in a case for that to get paid what they deserve from the parkers.

Tasia Marie: 44:20

Like, if y'all remember the parkers, the park was Like I'd be sitting out here on a weekend sometimes and I'll just put it on Like. So you're telling me all these shows from back in the day that they just keep rerunning, like these people are not getting paid.

Aliya Cheyanne: 44:37

Well, not getting paid what they're worth. Yeah, wow, they're getting cents and dollars per check. So, yeah, we have to see what comes out of that legal battle. But also, like I guess folks were asking Monique what she thought about the whole strike and she made a post, like with clips flashing back to interviews that she had done with like whoopie Goldberg and other people early on when she was first saying Netflix ain't treating me right, I'm not getting paid, right, and people kind of blackballed her because she was speaking out about it and she like did a whole carousel with like some clips from those interviews and like some other interviews she'd done where she spoke out about it.

Aliya Cheyanne: 45:18

She's like you know, I've been fighting this fight for years. Like, basically, I tried to tell y'all so listen to black women, yeah. But anyway, we say that to say and segue into this next little bit about AI, because one other thing that's been coming up with the writer strike, writers not getting paid what they're worth as well, not just the actors and the actresses is that AI has come up in conversation when it comes to script writing. So we wanted to do a little talk about AI in general and like what we've been seeing.

Tasia Marie: 45:56

So, yeah, I feel like for a lack of better exemplars. I feel like, if you have AI right, the script is going to be very Tyler Perry-esque, meaning it's going to be very repetitive. Now, how will you watch the Tyler Perry show? Yeah, the facts Like what do you mean? What do you mean? But I said what do you mean? So, but what do you mean Like?

Aliya Cheyanne: 46:30

no, I don't know, it's crazy so it would have to be edited, but it would help with the labor. I've been seeing a lot of things I'm sure y'all have been seeing it too Like people have been out here using AI to help them fix their resumes or write their resumes. People have been out here using AI to create professional headshots. I've seen that trend on TikTok.

Tasia Marie: 46:57

Oh yeah, that Remini app, that that's crazy. But in speaking to the using AI for your resume and stuff, right. So I do interviews, I interview people and during one of my interviews I'm not going to say specifically what it was, but I asked, I was asking the questions of the interview and like every single question that I asked, this person pause like at least a good 30 to 45 seconds after every single question and I heard typing and in the back of my mind, I'm like what the fuck are you? Like you can't Google these answers. Like what are you doing? And I was speaking to one of my coworkers like the following day and I was like yo, this is, this is wow. Like this person was just typing throughout the whole thing and I'm like what were they doing? And she was like, oh, they was probably doing a chat GPT.

Aliya Cheyanne: 47:52

Damn. What is chat GPT?

Tasia Marie: 47:56

She's like it's that AI thing. So you know me, I went on there and I typed in like a few of the questions that I asked and some of the responses that were coming up. I was like, wow, this nigga used AI for the interview. Damn, it really didn't help.

Aliya Cheyanne: 48:16

They weren't discreet. If y'all going to do that, Don't let nobody hear the typing.

Tasia Marie: 48:19

I if you don't know, you just don't know, like. But that's why, man, this AI shit is crazy, Even like people having getting ransom calls from their kids. Yes, yes.

Aliya Cheyanne: 48:34

Because AI is getting people's voices.

Tasia Marie: 48:36

Yeah, that's getting caught up. Like I know for a fact, mommy's always like, whenever you pick up the phone, like if someone asked what your name is, never say yes, cause she was like that's how they record your voice and they'll keep using it over and over. So, like you know, in certain people call, they're like you know who am I speaking with? You know? Teja. I'm like who's who's asking.

Aliya Cheyanne: 49:00

Basically I did the same thing.

Tasia Marie: 49:02

I say sure a lot too, and they get pissed when you say sure, like one time I kept saying sure and they hung up, but it was a scammer. Yeah. Talking about. I mean, I just need the first three of your social to verify that it's you. I said well, you got the last four, so go ahead and verify the first three for me.

Aliya Cheyanne: 49:22

Right, I like, whenever I get those kinds of calls, I and they're like, oh, is this so-and-so, I'll be like, what does this call about? I don't even answer that. I'm just like what is this for? Like, if it's a real person. But you know who's extremely susceptible to stuff like this are elderly people. I have to constantly tell my grandma grandma, Amazon is not calling you to verify anything Like you're off the number, please. You didn't order nothing. Like like just block it and yeah, yeah. So just being mindful of some of these scams that are out here and I saw in the news the one time like some woman really thought her daughter was being held for ransom because an AI engineered voice that sounded like her daughter called her. So these things exist and they're only getting worse.

Aliya Cheyanne: 50:15

We've been seeing the NPC AI trend on TikTok with Pinkie doll yes, yes, yes, yeah. So which apparently, apparently that's a whole type of fetish, apparently like seeing someone pretend to be like a person or like a character pretend to be a person, Like it's a whole type of fetish or thing. So I'm just like, oh, this is interesting. Before Pinkie doll got popular, I used to see this. I don't know exactly from what community she's from, but an Asian woman who would always do it, and I kind of be fascinated and very curious about what it was. But I'd always like scroll past it and then now, because of Pinkie doll, you can't not see it. Something like there's ghetto, NPC, hood, NPC, ASMR, NPC, like there's all. I'm just like listen y'all.

Tasia Marie: 51:16

Please. It just sounds like it's some money to be made. Yeah true, I might need to start in NPC in oh my gosh girl.

Aliya Cheyanne: 51:27

Oh my God, yeah, but AI is doing a lot of things. There's people out here planning vacations with AI, generating baby pictures. Yeah, my baby gonna be real cute.

Tasia Marie: 51:42

I generated some poop.

Aliya Cheyanne: 51:44

Okay, that's cute. I saw something else. One other thing I was gonna say is, like everybody thinks that's cute and shits and giggles, but there are a lot of friggin' pervs out here. So I say in general, when people are out here posting their kids, just like you gotta be so mindful and cautious, cause there's a lot of creeps out here. So even the AI generation thing, I'd be looking at it sometimes like y'all are just not mindful, but whatever. And then, yeah, I saw something a while back too that AI generated songs will be eligible for Grammys. However, AI written songs will not. So people could be out here using AI to generate beats or whatever kinds of songs and it could potentially be eligible for a Grammy. I saw that on Rolling Stone.

Tasia Marie: 52:36

I don't know if you remember it was a few months ago where they had done AI of a few dead artists. They did Biggie and had him doing the current song. I think they did pop too, and then they even did like Drake and stuff. So that's crazy Cause. Who's technically getting the Grammy if it's AI? This is a wild ass. Shit man, our robot tried to warn us.

Aliya Cheyanne: 53:04

Listen. Terminator, matrix, all of them, yeah. And the other thing is like I saw something about how people are actually using AI for evil. I saw a really dark TikTok where someone asked it a question about basically how to stop humanity in its tracks from ruining the planet and being so destructive, and supposedly AI went on a whole thing about what kind of weapon could harm us, how it needs to activate and rally the troops to do that, and I'm just like did y'all never watch the Terminator or the Matrix? What dumb ass actually asked AI that question?

Tasia Marie: 53:45

Like I've never seen the Matrix. I think I need to go watch it today.

Aliya Cheyanne: 53:52

Terminator, terminator series more than anything else. But yeah, the whole thing, with the Matrix too, that you find out in the end is that machines are basically harvesting human beings like battery cells. They've taken over the planet and human beings are asleep in little pods, basically being batteries, and you have to break out of the Matrix to literally break out of the pod and go on down to Zion.

Aliya Cheyanne: 54:16

So anyway, that's the whole thing. But I will say shout out to AI for helping us with this podcast, because if y'all have been using the show, if y'all have been using the chapter markers and the show notes, if y'all have been hearing our little ads for our art and our journal and everything like in between the middle of the episode, if you're listening on audio, that is all AI supporting us so it can be used for some good.

Tasia Marie: 54:48

I feel like Will Smith's grandmother and I robot. Remember when he pulled up on her and she got the robot Mm. He was like you got one of these, it ain't hurt, no, yeah. So if it works, it works, there's that, there's that. And winding on down, yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 55:12

So we're going to close out with our mental health tip of the week, which is do breath, work y'all. It helps, it's a medicine.

Tasia Marie: 55:25

Like sign helps a lot yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 55:30

So, yeah, there's all kinds you can do. You can do the four part breath box breathing. You can go on YouTube and see all kinds of breath work styles. So we were just going to do a really, really quick example of what that looks like to wrap up this episode. So you can get comfortable real quick. If you're sitting, plant your feet on the floor, if you're laying down, relax and just going to breathe in for four, hold it for four, breathe out for four, hold it for four, hold it for four. So we're going to do that one time to wrap it on up. And yeah so, yeah so, relax and breathe in for four.

Aliya Cheyanne: 56:17

Two three, four. Hold two, three, four. Breathe out two, three, four.

Aliya Cheyanne: 56:29

Hold two, three four, and you can repeat that as many times as you like. It's a good way to relax your nervous system, to decompress if you're feeling anxious. And yeah, I personally love the four part breath. So thank y'all for tuning in and participating in that activity with us.

Tasia Marie: 56:52

Yes, you all are amazing. Make sure you follow like. Subscribe on YouTube.

Aliya Cheyanne: 56:59

And, yeah, be sure to share this episode if you enjoyed it and tell your peeps about the podcast and we will catch you on the next episode. Bye y'all, bye y'all.