Purple Pants Podcast | First of The Tea

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[00:00:26] Hello, hello, and welcome's going on over there. We've got Taraji J. Henson talking some things of the color purple. We've got Simone Biles. We've got actor Christian keys. We've got blogger Tasha Kay and Kevin Hart. It's a lot that Amman and I have to get into. And so it's been such a long time.

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[00:02:43] I am so excited to be here in the new year with one of my favorite baby boys ever.

[00:02:49] A man welcome back to the podcast.

[00:02:53] How are you?

[00:02:54] Happy new year.

[00:02:55] How was your holiday?

[00:02:56] What's happened?

[00:02:57] The new year.

[00:02:58] The hell of 2023.

[00:02:59] Oh, it's like 2023 was okay.

[00:03:00] It was okay for me.

[00:03:01] I'm definitely I'm looking forward to the new year, but 2023 was I.

[00:03:02] My holiday was good.

[00:03:03] I'm a little bit of a good friend.

[00:03:04] I'm a little bit of a good friend.

[00:03:05] I'm a little bit of a good friend.

[00:03:06] I'm a little bit of a good friend.

[00:03:07] I'm a little bit for the same way. Listen, come on generational wealth. Yeah, that's what we need right now, honestly.

[00:04:21] Yes, I love that I feel like the holiday. Hot luck. Okay. Because this year, somebody in my job, and I'm trying to figure out like do you dip the hot dog or like as hot dogs been made in this oh oh myars that you could buy a nothing been wrong with the little vegetable dip, okay? From the supermarket. I know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. You know, you could find a reliable recipe and then you could add your own little jush to it.

[00:08:22] You don't need to, some things just don't need to be dips.

[00:08:26] And it's just gonna the dip, ew, it's got a little bits of hot talking in it. I might, that's what I'm talking about. So we didn't real, because my true, of course you know they had cheesy, because if it ain't cheesy, it ain't gon' go down easy. So it had cheesy stuff on it. So you go at first look at what was presented to us.

[00:09:44] I'm like, is this like refried beans?

[00:09:46] You know, like, because I really feel like it was, they use that ranch recipe because you could smell the ranch. But it wasn't like white, like, like, yeah, I don't know. But if y'all want, I was going to say, if y'all want, I will drop the photo on Twitter.

[00:11:05] But I'm not little traumatized, but I am a little sad that I didn't try it though. I will be honest, because I felt like, you know, I'm a condysor of trying new things and it could have been bomb, but I just, you know, sometimes you don't need to look at something that told it is nasty. Sometimes sometimes you just know, okay. Say when you don't get a look at something, you don't got to taste something to know that

[00:12:21] it's good.

[00:12:22] It's the opposite.

[00:12:23] It's also true.

[00:12:24] Okay. here and shout out to everybody that had to go home for their families and you know maybe your family isn't as functional as others and you had to deal with that. Listen, I salute you because the holidays are alive. They really are like we sometimes sugarcoat them but sometimes it's like the holidays can be triggering for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons though.

[00:13:43] You know I just want to shout everybody out but I do have like a hot take that I really am like so happy that we're able to have this cash. We'll see because yeah.

[00:15:01] So if you don't know, if you've been type of lawsuits, right? Like, you know, the defendant will come out and claim their innocence. And like, you know, say they wanna fight.

[00:16:21] This would have had to been one of the fastest things

[00:16:24] that I had ever seen because the way that they found it was that like, you know what, the police, GFI, all of them can get into all of this. And that was just opened up the floodgates because after that, it just seemed like people

[00:17:41] started coming out the woodworks with theirting those rights back to people's music was it wouldn't, you know, a lot of people are going, there's going to be people on two different sides of this as always are, especially, and I feel like we're like, especially attuned to it, like being black, like with black celebrities. We never wanted them gets, you know, a smear, I won't say campaign as if that's like an

[00:20:25] intentional, intentionally misleading people into like not liking them. You know, aggrieved individuals, I probably would venture to guess that most of them are because as soon as the Cassie like, if there was, I don't know, I typically don't want to be of the mindset that just because someone decides to settle, that means that they're guilty. That doesn't always mean that sometimes it just means I don't want the headache of having to go through a long ass trial and all this BS, I'll give you the money that you want.

[00:21:44] Stop talking about me.

[00:21:46] Leave me the hell alone. I don't appear to be under Chondani Combs because, yeah, I know I love me some Rihanna, but there are quite a few performances of her early in her career where she is not sounding really good, okay? But with proper management, she is who she is now. Right. I see very arguably could have been in that lane. And we wouldn't have, maybe not have even gotten

[00:23:00] a Rihanna at that point.

[00:23:02] So I'm not saying that some of it isn't the fact

[00:23:04] that Cassie maybe just isn't the most talented girl MTV cameras were rolling, but since they have since made up. But there are a lot of these young women that are coming out, or I mean, they're older now, but they are coming out and alleging at like these ditty parties and alleging like things have happened. And then what is crazy is that like, you know Beyonce's internet keeps rackets

[00:24:21] and there will be artists from like seven, 10 years ago

[00:24:26] talking about things. saying like Aaron is like it's just like has all of this really just been in front of our face forever and we just please. I mean I remember listening to I can't I wish I could remember the person's name but they were as a ticket with the grain of salt all of this is alleged obviously but I remember listening to a clip of this interview with one of the I think it was like either one of

[00:25:40] the security guards or somebody that used to work for Diddy back at like the 90s and only A lot of people have felt emboldened to come out and talk about what they went through. And not all of these people are gonna be able to get a payday because the statute of limitations has run out from, sure, quite a few of these people. And so it's kind of hard to be like, well, 20 years ago, it's like, well, what do you want us to do now? You know what I mean?

[00:27:00] And it's not to say that you should blame them

[00:27:02] for not coming forward, because like I said,

[00:27:04] that was what they knew.

[00:27:05] That was what the culture of it was.

[00:27:06] So if they did feel violated or wrong in any way, is Diddy and one other person is the only person alive. All the other people have died of heart attacks. One of the other guy, I'll be short, who came out and was talking about how Kim Porter died. Then all of a sudden he ended up in a coma. Like it's so really spooky. And again, my one friend was telling me about this

[00:28:20] and I'm like, girl, y'all do it too much.

[00:28:22] Y'all do it too much.

[00:28:23] Let me tell you, one night I went here on the TikTok the better part of his life. Okay. So it really helps a lot of these claims become a little substantiated and it's not like it's out of thin air. You know, it's you know, he might like a little man here and there and it seems like you know Did he might have been having like male or g part?

[00:31:02] and

[00:31:03] Again, we've heard these rumbling so for the years and years and years and years and years

[00:32:02] like mesh in with this and everybody like, I get no he need to go, he need to go.

[00:32:04] Like let's just be clear here, right?

[00:32:07] Like we are not, we don't stand for rape,

[00:32:10] we don't stand for SA,

[00:32:12] we don't stand for physical abuse,

[00:32:14] we don't stand for human trafficking,

[00:32:16] we don't stand, you know what I'm saying?

[00:32:18] But if did he wanna put something in his mouth,

[00:32:23] like that's that man business.

[00:33:28] allegations coming out that the biggest mega church pastor,

[00:33:35] TD Janks has been attending these Diddy parties for years.

[00:33:42] And I believe that terminology that they are using is that you don't say,

[00:33:44] not just a bottom, okay?

[00:33:49] Because whatever it is that you want to do's just say they baby out here. Okay. Hey. And God and God. And if there's one thing that I will give the gay community and a friend of mine highlighted this actually earlier today is that

[00:36:04] Um, TD Jakes, uh, I guess it was the day after Christmas.

[00:36:05] You took to the pulpit. No, I think it was on Christmas.

[00:36:06] I was all Christmas.

[00:36:07] It was like, I'm not on this secret day.

[00:36:09] I'm not going to let y'all.

[00:36:10] Right.

[00:36:11] But then later in the sermon, uh, because you know, y'all know, I'd be up on the

[00:36:17] top.

[00:36:17] Okay.

[00:36:17] I'd be up on the TikTok shout out to all the TikTok reporters doing the Lord's

[00:36:21] work because listen, I love for somebody.

[00:36:25] Just break it down.

[00:37:26] it was actually the no. So if you told me that he said that, that means that that man did something. I don't know how much. I don't know how many. But he did something. Okay.

[00:37:33] It just looks like when the story first broke and I'm just re and I'm like not CD Bishop

[00:37:41] like you know and again all of this is a God. Okay. You know, sure. It's not great for your congregation to be clued in on your sex life. That kind of it's a distraction to what it is that your job is supposed to be, right?

[00:39:04] But we would be lying if we are at the same community that are want to want to be quick to condemn it and say, well, I'm not like him. I may have like been,

[00:40:24] you know, a follower of his word, but like, no, I'm not, I'm not with that't know if it is true about Diddy, and we don't know. We might not ever know. Diddy might pay off everybody, and then just be canceled for the rest of his life. But if it ever does come to light that some of the stuff surrounding him is true, then it's like, oh, oh, it makes it a little harder for TD to be like, I had nothing to do with that. You know what I mean? So I mean, it is what it is.

[00:41:41] So yeah, it's just a lot going on with Diddy,

[00:41:43] and of course we just had to, you know,

[00:41:46] that's a hot topic that's an attractive man. And so he is alleging that maybe 10 years ago, it was one of these big producers in the Hollywood scene offer was harassing him essentially. And then one day they asked him they would pay him $100,000 if he just got naked. And

[00:43:04] Chris said he doesn't get into that type of thing. like, I love this. And it's like, yeah, like, let's talk about it. Like men get abused as well. But people sexually harassed men. And so I, for that, with Christian keys, I'm with that. But then it seems as if the story started catching fire, right? And I'm like,

[00:44:21] oh, okay, like this is like, you know, great saying like but y'all guessed it in the comments like okay like this is where again my opinion hot take it's like So are you trying to speak up or are you cloud chasing now because it's like you play in duck duck goose in the comment?

[00:45:42] Like that's a little weird to me

[00:48:23] Yeah, and TD Jakes name was in the comments to a about this at one point and then all of a sudden when you realize what that would entail, you kind of pulled back. I can understand that. But then, like you said, then he's in the comments saying, oh, well, you all have said it or, you know, like and there, saying that if we did say something, it would break all of our hearts. All of this stuff, that's not highlighting. That is beating around the bush. You know what I mean? So I want to be clear as well. I'm not saying that people shouldn't come forward about their abuse or whatever it is that they're right? So there's only but so many of us. So you need to go out there and be like, oh, this is a very powerful individual. And if I told y'all who it was, what a break you are, there's only but so many of us to choose from. So it'd be one thing if this were a white man, because there's plenty of white people out there. It's like, you know, like, we're not,

[00:49:41] you could throw a rock in one of them

[00:49:42] could probably be the, you know what I mean?

[00:49:44] But no, there's only a select few powerful black men

[00:49:48] specifically in Hollywood. story that we have covered. Well, we've covered a piece of this story on Casualty maybe two years ago. So we are talking Taraji P. Pence Taraji P. Haha P. Pence. Right. Now first of all, before we get into that, well Taraji is,

[00:51:01] you know, she is shook Avery and the new adaptation of the color purple was. I was just like, oh my god, I don't know if I'm like, I've always, I've just been putting it off. I've never read the book. I've never seen the movie. I've never seen the musical. I'm aware of a lot of the songs in the musical, me being a musical theater person. So I'm aware of like the music. But yeah, I've never, I've just never said that to watch it because like, I'm just afraid of the heartbreak. I've seen some of the clips of some of

[00:52:20] the, like the most emotional scenes. And I just in 1984 in the color purple, like they really couldn't show that in Sealy and they don't really show it in this movie now. But again, I just am like, yeah, like, come on Black queerness,

[00:53:40] like we've always been here.

[00:53:42] So I just love that even more,

[00:53:44] but it is a very powerful story.

[00:53:46] So just get that of the year. Now as they are doing their press tour,

[00:55:02] now before we get into all the disc,

[00:55:04] because like, you know,

[00:55:06] as they are doing their press tour, Oprah had their hands like on their shoulders like supporting them when Taraji was speaking. She seemed to kind of sort of walk away. So that is I'm just trying to give it to you a chronological order. So that's like people see that then around the same day or week, this interview of Taraji comes out about how she is talking about her career. And you all of this is going on, uh, within like the day, Taraji, post a photo of her Oprah, that essentially just spell what the people are saying. And essentially saying that like she did have an issue, Oprah said that make substantially more than the black women. And so like it's this bigger conversation. And then shout, the people start pulling up

[00:59:02] the receipts of Monique around the whole precious drama.

[01:00:05] like 10, 15 years in Tarrajia's thing, the same thing.

[01:00:10] And Tarrajia's promoting a movie right now. Well, Oprah Winfrey, like it's crazy.

[01:00:11] But also it's like people are now essentially saying like,

[01:00:15] well, we, we all Monique and apology

[01:00:20] because what is drastically different is what, again,

[01:00:25] and I don't know if you've seen it,

[01:00:26] and again, I know I'm talking, I'm talking,

[01:00:27] I'm talking so much, because I was okay. Because I was having a conversation with some friends of mine too. And I remember I was, I was, I was saying a lot of the same things the internet are saying in that like, you know, Monique did talk about this not only during

[01:01:41] precious, but then a few years later with precious you didn't really see her doing a lot since then.

[01:03:01] And then the whole thing with Netflix happens, right? And then a lot of people said, now, now. Exactly. Exactly. She was all over the place. And so of course, like maybe Netflix is trying to capitalize off of that success. I get it. But then you think about people like Chris Rock, who has never really been like just gone. But like he also wasn't like, it wasn't like he was an Amy Schumer at that point in time, but he's offered what? Six million, seven million, eight million.

[01:04:22] But you can't even do two million from Monique.

[01:04:24] So on one hand, I'm saying people, because I too had a similar conversation. And one of my friends was saying that exact same thing, where they were like, it was her approach. It was Taraji didn't name anybody. Monique was naming people. And that Taraji, it seemed like, was more for the, like, her team and the women behind

[01:05:40] her.

[01:05:41] But when we actually go back and watch Goldberg, she cited, she was like, look, when I went to the view, when I had a conversation with Whoopi in her dressing room, and I told her, and I asked her, like, how much was she making for the view? And she told me how much she was making for from the view being that she is Whoopi Goldberg and he got, that's how much she's getting from the view. And she said it broke her heart because she was like, though, like you accepting that pay from the

[01:07:04] view is what's making it harder for everybody else to get what they're going to get. fact remains that even through all of the antics of Monique's initial cause, Boycott for Netflix and the things that she said about Lydaniel and Tyler Perry and Oprah, the point that she is making now is identical to the point that Taraji P. Henson is making right now as well. So something's got to give, right?

[01:08:24] And I think, and I do think that it is an eye opener the amount of feats and fill the amount of seats that y'all will be able to. It's not that they can easily replace y'all. You are the ones that are recognizable, Taraji's, the Kerry Washington's, the Viola Davis's, the Regina Kings, Regina Halls, Monique's, the Issa Rae's.

[01:09:40] You are the ones that are recognizable right now.

[01:09:43] You guys fill seats. like kind of making fun of what's going on, but really kind of highlighting a lot of different things. And so there have been a lot of people that have been supporting Taraji. However, I feel like the internets, the Twitas, the TikToks, the Instagram, have really been kind of like giving Monique her props. And I would really love for somebody to acknowledge

[01:11:02] our good system, Monique, because, you know,

[01:11:06] maybe not the right presentation, over half her brother, but she didn't had Monique's parents. And Monique is like, well, you called me about my brother, you never mentioned my mother. And if you mentioned my brother, I would have clearly said absolutely not shut it down. So their beef goes super long. I'm seeing all that stuff now too. Yeah, they still beefing. So yeah, but I mean, an outsider looking in because all of these interviews that we're about to talk about are separate. It is giving that someone in the relationship is jealous. And it gives someone in the relationship

[01:13:41] is trying to dim their light to make their partner

[01:13:46] feel more comfortable.

[01:13:48] That's my take on it. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're a pro at your college athlete at the time. You know, he says that he was in training camp during the Olympics, but like, okay, maybe let me stop eating them up because like, yeah, I just feel like there are is. I don't know why, but I will always know what Gabby Douglas looks like because I could,

[01:15:03] I just will never forget her doing that. right? Like she just was too big not to be known. So then after that interview, Simone doesn't interview where they bring that up. And she kind of doubles down on what her husband says and like and says that right now he may be known as Simone Bao's husband, but she His definition of being a catch is solely based in his appearance as well as what he does for a living. None of the other things like how this person makes me feel, are they prepared to show up for me and the way that I'm prepared to show up for them?

[01:17:40] Do we have similar values?

[01:17:44] Do our families like each other?

[01:17:45] No, granted a lot of that stuff So I assumed this is. Oh, that's right. That's what he did say. He had a lot of followers. And I'm like, okay.

[01:19:00] And then, so the thing was the interviewer that was like,

[01:19:02] oh yeah, so you thought you were the catch.

[01:19:04] And he was like, I think. And you're the catch?

[01:20:21] By your state, I'm going by. We get it, but I just think as people on the outside looking in, it's just like this, like we love and hope that. Yeah. And I don't know why to my mind who comes up to me is Serena Williams and her,

[01:21:42] how me.

[01:21:44] I forget his name, but you know, first of all, let's just be clear.

[01:22:43] to support his queen wearing the different shirt at the open line. You know, like he rides for his queen.

[01:22:47] OK, the six I be keeping me up to date.

[01:22:49] Like she is the prize and he don't have a problem celebrating that.

[01:22:55] Right.

[01:22:55] Like that's what I love about him.

[01:22:57] And I, you know, to play on chair psychologist, if it really didn't bother

[01:23:00] Simone, she would not have responded in the way that she did by posting a picture

[01:23:04] of them at their wedding, saying mood and then get villainized and demonized for being an uppity black woman and not supporting her man. So it's like she's kind of like doomed to fail. So like I sympathize with her because there really isn't much room for her to go

[01:24:20] other than to just support her husband.

[01:24:22] And if they're truly in love

[01:24:23] and they love each other and then that's fine.

[01:24:24] I'm sure and I'm sure that they do.

[01:24:26] That doesn't mean that there are like a balances and that like you can, but I like it, you can be, you could

[01:25:45] be submissive at times, you could be dominant at's going to, that's not, that's like the surface. What's gonna keep you there and to keep you attracted to that person because of beauty fades, money comes and goes, what's gonna keep you there is all the other things I mentioned before, how they show up for you, how you show up for them,

[01:27:03] the values that you have,

[01:27:05] what you wanna teach your children, but also was like, it shouldn't be like it's not to protect we a team. Yeah. I mean, when he said, I always think men are the catch that took that, that was it. That was, that was it right then. And there you are kind of already got everything

[01:28:20] you need from, from just from that little sentence because there are plenty of men out as to how one should go about moving and different things. So it's like, I will give them some grace. Yeah, I mean, like I said, it doesn't mean that their marriage is doomed to fail. It doesn't mean that it's an unhealthy relationship. There can be, there we go, there's peace and values. There is no perfect relationship. He, you know, they're both human beings.

[01:29:43] And of course, for someone like him who is a football player,

[01:29:47] when everything in the and duck it in, and duck it in, and she can't do that forever, and you can't play forever. Like, you know, at some point, you know, not going to be making the money that you used to be able to make, and that's okay. As long as you'll have each other in a healthy way, then who cares who the catch is. Okay. Come on now.

[01:31:00] Yeah.

[01:31:01] So that's, we had to get that.

[01:31:04] And then our last topic, it's like, oh but before it was coming out with Kevin Hart's ex-assisted. In the documents, it reads that Kevin Hart was contacted by somebody from the Tasha K team that said,

[01:32:21] there's this interview coming out,

[01:32:22] it's gonna be damning.

[01:32:24] If you don't want it to come out,

[01:32:26] you could pay us $30,000 for three years.

[01:33:41] So a total of $90,000 when she left his appointment

[01:33:44] to say like, you know, like, like gambling, all this other stuff. But Tasha, like girl, like how low can you go? It's your, and the thing is that she's not, she's not like, you're not. Well, I mean,

[01:35:00] like I said, I can't say she's not You're not giving fun, like celebrity gossip. Because if you wanna do that, there is a lane for that. And there's a reason why people like that are in that Wendy Williams lane.

[01:36:20] Like let's be clear, Wendy Williams

[01:36:23] certainly has her own misgivings

[01:36:24] and she certainly has been in hot water before. of hers is always like some mistress with the, like, you know, some like just like, like you said, something that's, it's like a hit piece. Right. Hey, yeah, it's just like, okay. But a part of me also is like, I mean, you gotta pay these bills. Like you are pressed for money.

[01:37:40] Like so it's like a part of me is like,

[01:37:43] are you going even harder now?

[01:37:45] Because it's like, you need to get this like, I don't want to pay up like girl, what are you doing? It's just, I mean, some people are just, they just don't know when to stop. I guess it's just not her rock bottom. I would have thought that Cardi B would have been the rock bottom.

[01:39:01] It was such a public, a public fall from grace,

[01:39:05] if you were ever really graceful.

[01:39:07] Well, we knew it wasn't, you are already liable for the things

[01:40:20] that we have you on now.

[01:40:24] But we're going to send you to the cease and desist, willing to go in order to get one over on Cardi B, who isn't really bothering you. Like you could have. Right. And there are so many avenues in which you could have went in talking about Cardi B, that still would have gotten you views simply because she's Cardi B. There are so many YouTube bloggers that talk about Cardi B, but they're not facial defamation lawsuits.

[01:41:40] And their videos are pretty successful.

[01:41:42] Right.

[01:41:42] Because they know what they're doing.

[01:41:43] You, on the other hand,

[01:41:44] was making a blast just like spewing nasty-ish. It is coming out the first week in. What we got this coming out. So it is coming. Yeah, hold on. Let me give my key and then it's Tuesday like usual. It's going to come out on the fourth on the fourth Thursday. Okay. So then that means that drag race. The first episode will have aired tomorrow.

[01:43:02] So me, Leona and Beth will's Canada's Drag Race. Okay. It is all over the place. Yes. Okay. Come on. All the international