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Rita: Hi guys welcome to the onyx family podcast we are so happy that you’re here to join us as we talk about all your favorite topics and we just get into some really interesting discussions and probably some debates because guys there’s six of us here and we all have our own opinions on it.
Sinead: That is true that is so true.
Rita: For example let’s talk about this race, okay the 100 meters just happened, and shikari
came in ninth what do y’all think about that?
Shasha: Who came in first?
Mirthell: Elaine Thompson
Shasha: Elaine Thompson, is she like a famous sprinter?
Mirthell: She is the fastest woman right now on the planet
Rita: really?
Mirthell: yeah and she’s from Jamaica hey
Rita: Okay okay so yeah, Mirthell is Jamaican. Jamaican Canadian really right?
Mirthell: right my parents are both from jamaica
Rita: right, which means this family is like half Jamaican half American.
Sinead: yep yep
Rita: although my grandmother’s family is from jamaica so
Whoo I claim it oh no okay can I yeah?
Mirthell: on one side
Rita: on one side? yeah that’s true
Mirthell: the other side African-American
Rita: My other side is from, where was it?
Mirthell and Sinead: North Carolina
Rita: right anyways guys first of all I commend all the racers
All: Oh yeah
Rita: all of them
Mirthell: I mean even Sha’carri
Rita: Sha’carri was, she did really really well
Mirthell: yeah
Rita: what I think a lot of people were surprised with, was her confidence even after the race even after losing.
Shasha: I know did you see her interview after like she was just like yeah I’m gonna get ready for the next race the next race and I was like whoa okay.
Mirthell: No, I like that!
Sinead: that also I heard that even her even her being in ninth was still would have in a
different race she would have made second like that would have been the second-best though.
Rita: wow
Mirthell: she is.. let’s put this into context before we get into the topic she is the sixth-fastest time ever in the world.
Sinead: yeah,
Mirthell: The sixth fastest time, That is huge.
Sinead: That is huge.
Mirthell: and right now presently I think she is the third fastest alive, so even though she came in ninth in this race if you took her best time she comes in third
Shasha: wow
Mirthell: in the living the people that are alive
Sinead: That’s alive right now.
Mirthell: Like presently alive. Not alive but are competing.
Rita: Wait, wait wait. I’m not sure about the math with that. how would she be third of the live when eight other people were faster than her?
Mirthell: They were only faster than her in this race.
Rita: Oh, in this particular race. got it.
Mirthell: right right. if let’s just say you you cramp up and you have a cramp on one of your races and you come in last that doesn’t mean that you’re not faster than the other people that had a good day
Sinead: Right right right that’s true.
Shasha: It is speaking facts.
Mirthell: Like yeah exactly, perspective Sha’carri is super fast and she is dangerous.
Rita: Okay, let me tell you how you guys know that he’s Jamaican. He will not say Sha’carri’s name the same way twice. Its (Sha’cairi, Sha’caria, Shakira).
Sinead: He said it several times, in different ways.
Everyone: (laughs)
Mirthell: Well that’s how we do it, yeah but honestly I mean I think that it’s undeniable that she is one of the fastest people alive and that she’s going to be dangerous to this sport especially because she’s very confident in herself.
Sinead: that’s true
Shasha: Okay but this race gave me deja vu. It’s when we got dusted in our first race.
Rita: Ooohh.
Mirthell: What race is that?
Shasha: so a few years ago we were
Sinead: Few years? More like a 10?
Shasha: For 10 years ago, like a decade ago, we were like really really little? me and Sinead were racing for like a church event and all the girls they were super fit super tall ministry were just tiny there we had no training.
Rita: this is the thing, okay this is the thing I did not want them to race did I tell you guys that? I really didn’t want y’all to race.
Mirthell: yeah I and mommy had a conversation
Rita: We had a conversation because I said to your dad I’m like why are they doing this you know they’re going to lose every single one of these other racers actually train and they are going to be smoked and you guys it was oh I just felt so bad.
Shalom: but here’s the thing here’s the thing when you’re younger you don’t even realize this you just want to have fun it’s like me when I wanted to go on a roller coaster I didn’t even I wasn’t scared at the time when I was younger because I was like yeah you know it’s just a roller coaster it’s supposed to be fun I don’t associate it with fear you know with you guys running I was admiring you guys you know just going up to the race and just
Shasha: wait, I thought you told me that you were afraid to lose that’s why you didn’t come with us
Shalom: no I just knew you were like I was gonna be wiped.
Mirthell: No, Shalom will just jump in the water and she doesn’t know how to swim, she will just like.
Shalom: exactly you guys I don’t think at the time you guys realized you guys were going to lose I think you guys just wanted to have fun
Sinead: At that time I did not think about it like oh I might lose!
Rita: I felt so bad and I saw everybody else around me because they knew you guys were my children they were like oh that was so sweet
Sinead: oh boy
Rita: I’m like oh my goodness.
Mirthell: But honestly when it comes to Sha’carra?
Everyone: (laughs)
Mirthell: No when it comes to her I think that it also tells other lessons and the other lesson is that you gotta train man you can’t just be confident in yourself
Shasha: right
Mirthell: if you’re gonna go into this race she knew she didn’t train well enough she knew this but she had this false sense of confidence if she doesn’t get over this false sense of sort of like the entitlement like I‘m gonna do it just because she probably will never reach her potential if she begins to train if this is a humbling moment for her I think she could be the fastest woman at some given point in time.
Rita: but you know what’s interesting about what you were saying I’m actually reading a book called talent is not enough
Shalom: really
Rita: so this actually talks about it like you can’t go into life with just your raw talent you’ve got to train it you’ve got to polish it you got to hone that skill whatever it is so you know a lot of times like even with youtube right when we first started youtube when we first did our first skit you guys remember?
Sinead: oh yeah it was tragic
Rita: it was a wreck and imagine if it still looked like that five years later you know same cameras that we were using right right um same costumes and all it would have been a wreck but with time we practiced and we honed it but a lot of people don’t really realize that in the background as well we were doing a lot of research a lot how to make our thumbnails how to edit how to light what type of equipment we should use like we started to really really hone like you guys had natural comedy skill but then what do we do with it so in every area whether you’re from youtube to racing or whatever it is you’ve got to hone your skills.
Mirthell: I really love this though just for the fact that the female 100 meters have never really gotten the shine that it deserves.
Rita: Right, right yeah
Mirthell: with Usain Bolt and just the years of him dominating.
Rita: How come you can say his name properly?
Mirthell: Usain bolt?
Rita: I think this is a little bit misogynist? A little bit misogynist?
Shasha: Misogynist!
Mirthell: He’s Jamaican. I have gotta come correct with his name no but no but honestly like just stop and think about it since Flojo, Flojo was super fast and she dominated the field we haven’t gotten that shine on it yet.
Rita: right right.
Mirthell: you know interesting fact Flojo’s highest record was 10.49
Shasha: whoa
Mitchell: and only recently I learned this, that she actually it’s in question the 10 49.
Sinead: Wait, why?
Mirthell: so Elaine just ran 10 54 which is just Like five sec five milliseconds less than her and they’re saying that she potentially could be the fastest woman elaine Thompson here and the reason why is because when Flo jo ran the race you’re allowed a winning factor of two no more than two and on that day the winning factor was showing zero meaning that usually that never happens it’s either negative one or it’s a positive one to up to two or whatever and so they’re thinking that the machine was not working at that time and so it does not it doesn’t show it could have been over two and if it was over two then it wouldn’t have qualified.
Sinead: so basically they have a machine that calculates the wind factor on that day on the day it’s usually never zero so they’re thinking that it was malfunctioning that day which means that it could have been over two
Mirthell: and then that would have facilitated her actually running that fast
Rita: I still don’t think it’s like we can’t go back in time so no I think that they shouldn’t take that away from Flojo. I don’t think so either keep training and training and training
Mirthell: someone just gotta be there someone just gotta beat it. I think that she was amazing she has enough time recorded to show that she was super fast in her time I mean we’re just breaking some of her other records just now so she clearly was the fastest woman but elaine Thompson here it was .09 meaning that it was less than a one-factor and she just came within 0.5
Rita: wow
Mirthell: So she’s clearly fast.
Shiloh: amazing.
Rita: So do you guys agree that it is because of well someone tweeted it was because they eat more naturally in Jamaica. Do you think that was a reason why they’re like the fastest, they’re just dominating the sport?
Shiloh: I feel like it’s mostly their motivation but maybe maybe it’s you know their diet, their healthy diet.
Shasha: eat a lot of pizza and you have motivation. I mean
Shalom: I just think all trainers have a strict diet I don’t think it’s just Jamaicans I think Americans have their own you know strict diet as well I think it’s different but you know I just think Jamaicans are a little bit more nutrition you know and have more nutritious you know meals.
Rita: Well yeah I mean ever since I met your dad he’s introduced me to some food that I’ve never eaten.
Mirthell: right.
Rita: like um yum, yum Dashain I mean rice and peas every day
Mirthell: right um.
Rita: What are the other ones?
Mirthell: uh green banana
Rita: green banana
Mirthell: before we call it our ground provision.
Sinead: What?
Mirthell: it’s like root vegetables.
Sinead: oh okay okay.
Mirthell: Chocho
Rita: And you know all I didn’t have church once before I met you and I wanted to like yeah I wanted to vomit I did not like it.
Shalom: not you dissing your own ancestry.
Rita: um, no no just the vegetable that’s it anyways I’m so glad.
Mirthell: granny lived to what?
Rita: 98
Mirthell: 98. she was super strong
Rita: right
Mirthell: she was like carrying those big like water jugs in her 80s
Rita: right
Mirthell: fully carried
Rita: She’s along with everything that we just talked about that she ate. she also ate chicken feet.
Mirthell: yeah yeah claw, chicken claws
Rita: Open the fridge and be like.
Mirthell: yeah you have to put that in the soup.
Shiloh: nasty
Sinead: what?
Mirthell: yeah so yeah I mean and she used to walk a lot so the parish that she’s from it’s actually close to the parish that well we’re related to Kamala harris gotta throw gotta throw that out.
Rita: I know right.
Mirthell: okay okay, but where she lived in the parish that she lived it was in saint Anne and so they would walk a lot and so she walked a lot so she was just shy of her 99th birthday and she was super strong like some of those that like with that water jug I would be like trying to lift it up and I’ll be like spilling it she’ll just be like.
Shasha: You think, you think if granny trained hard enough she would be able to beat Flojo?
Mitchell: no granny was what was called she was a big woman she was what we call strapping she was a strapping woman so so she she wasn’t running she could probably do like you know
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Rita: I feel like every other culture in the world walks more than probably Americans.
Sinead: probably!
Rita: probably I mean for me being from L.A. we drive everywhere
Sinead: Well, it would be pretty far of a walk if you were walking everywhere you know?
Rita: yes that’s true you gotta hike up those mountains that are true hiking is a big thing out there, I don’t know I think for me I like the car culture just give me some give me a nice parking space, anyway I’m just glad guys that we got to watch like it was history I mean it didn’t like break let’s say Flo-jo’s record but still it was amazing to even see that.
Shalom: speaking of history I want to talk about Jay-Z and Beyonce’s campaign with tiffany and company okay so I was you guys did you guys all see the Instagram photo that she posted
yesterday yes I thought it was a very interesting photo first off one of the photos she posted three but one that stood out to me was Jay Z and Beyonce jay-z was sitting and right across from him was this portrait right it was a graffiti portrait and the picture looked very familiar to me and I realized oh wait a minute I think I know this artist his name is.. hold on because I don’t want to butcher his name I wrote it down his name is jean-michel basque so he was a famous artist.
Mirthell: You might have still butchered the name
Shalom: no Jean Michel Basquiat.
Rita: I think she looked at the pronunciation
Shalom: yeah I did I did
Mirthell: the Jamaican in you.
Shiloh: It’s Jean? You sure? it’s jean
Sinead: okay yes it’s JEAN nobody says gene nobody’s a gene j it’s okay
Shalom: it’s j-e-a-n that’s john that’s john
Shiloh: okay Billie jean or billy john?
Sinead: No way Shiloh!
Rita: It’s not Michael Jackson.
Shalom: Okay, anyway he was an artist in the 80s and considered a cultural icon in the art community he was also self-taught too so he didn’t like go to school or anything like that he was known for his style and his style was more abstraction and figuration and his things consist of police brutality wealth versus poverty integration and versus segregation and so forth his art has sold for millions like I think he’s like the biggest purchase was like 155 million like his art was like very you know it’s very iconic his art and Jay-z is actually a known art collector so he likes his as you know.
Shasha: His art he bought for a hundred million?
Shalom: no no no not him other people.
Mirthell: like what’s with jay-z though?
Rita: because of the picture he took on Instagram he took a picture in front of that painting.
Mirthell: oh okay
Shalom: yeah no it’s actually a never that artist yes it was actually a never before seen picture of his and so like it was in his um you know he.
Rita: So that whole picture just dripped with wealth.
Shalom: I know from that picture
Rita: All right, I don’t, I don’t want to call it a picture that portrait.
Shalom: portrait yeah
Rita: to that to that to the necklace?
Shalom: yeah yeah
Rita: Hook that Sinead for her.
Sinead: Let me pull up the photo real quick because I want to show Sasha the photo so she knows what we’re talking about.
Shalom: you guys should look at his other art. It was so interesting.
Rita: But talk about the necklace.
Shalom: okay so the necklace is out so it’s called the tiffany yellow diamond it’s regarded as one of the largest yellow diamonds ever and it was discovered in southern Africa in 1877 and it was bought by Charles tiffany only four women were able to wear it the first time it was worn it was by Mrs e Sheldon white house at the 1957 tiffany ball the second time it was worn by Audrey Hepburn in 1961 and was photographed for her campaign for like breakfast at tiffany’s you guys in that movie yeah the third the third time it was worn by lady gaga and it was for the 91st academy awards and the fourth was Beyonce for this campaign that she’s doing and she’s actually the first black woman to actually wear it.
Everyone: wow
Sinead: that is so..dancing
Shalom: I just got this like a couple of minutes before we even started but Nicki Minaj is set to wear it for the Grammy awards and so she’ll be like the first female rapper to actually wear it.
Rita: wow
Shalom: so I thought that was like
Sinead: how did they find out that she was set to wear it?
Shalom: I don’t know, I just saw that on Wikipedia and I was like oh that’s interesting.
Sinead: I think they feel like they’re getting more and more people aware because before lady gaga wore it in 2019 the last time it was worn was 1961.
Rita: yeah well what has it been doing since then?
Sinead: exactly! Just sitting there.
Mirthell: why are we having all these superstars wearing it all of a sudden?
Sinead: wait well no Abby Hepburn was a superstar isn’t she?
Shalom: yes yes well I’m just saying my point is that she was a superstar and she’s the last one who wore it before lady gaga
Mirthell: wow so they’re just..
Rita: yeah but where was it chilling for 50 years?
Shalom: I don’t know, no i think it was in some sort of museum
Everyone: oh..
Shalom: I think so they decided to have more people wear it.
Mirthell: I mean this is a big thing for you guys? Like I know, I have known our family literally for years. Our family has not worn any jewelry and I think sinead probably in the last two years.
Shalom: What interested me about this whole thing was I like the history of it like a black man’s portrait right there and then like this necklace you know in the minds of south africa i just thought that you know the combination of those two.
Rita: Wait, did you mention that basque was black?
Shalom: oh i’m so sorry i left that part.he was actually a black man from new york and he..
Sinead: I didn’t know this.
Rita: I was thinking it was something else.
Shalom: no no no no he’s else no he’s like haitian and puerto rican that’s why i have the name and so he was from new york and unfortunately he died in the 80s by an overdose of a drug at the age of 27 because of the pressure that he felt of being like you know very iconic artist back then and so he was very known in the new york culture of hearts
Mirthell: what makes something i guess my point is what makes something valuable?
Sinead: Well, it’s a diamond.
Mirthell: I mean yeah, a diamond is valuable.
Sinead: it’s a yellow
Shalom: between a diamond and his portrait like what made his portrait?
Sinead: I don’t know about the portrait part but I do . I’m just saying it’s a diamond.
Rita: I’ve always maintained that I can’t see myself spending that much money on art but I do know that ultra rich people buy art the same way that I think lower than them like maybe not as rich but other rich people buy like real estate to invest in.
Mirthell: right so art is an investment
Shasha: no but i heard rich people do that because art you can write it off in taxes.
Rita: right all taxes investing and it gets and usually the art and everything they just gets more um the worth goes up
Sinead: But let’s be real, let’s be real how many cars can you get?
exactly like well cars go down cars cars don’t the cars don’t appreciate they’re
not appreciating it like once you become super super rich it’s either cars houses and apparently portraits and jewelry.
Mirthell: well i wouldn’t put cars on that level because like it’s a depreciation.
Shalom: what about property, what about property?
Rita: properties a lot you got to manage it you got to you know it’s a lot but art i’ve heard that there’s or i’ve seen that there are like places where you actually store all your precious art like you don’t keep it around your house these are these are temperature. controlled only certain people can go in there it’s bigger.
Sinead: oh you know what i remember seeing that like that kind of
thing in that movie that we watched!
Rita: right uh what was that one what was it called it was?
Sinead:It starts with an “I”? Tenant.
Mirthell: yeah well i’m impressed because a lot of
are just based on what do you call it what’s that word where you you presume appreciation for something like um
Sinead: not opinion but like a point of view no perspective like when somebody puts value on something just based on their perspective. What’s that word?
Shasha: beholder?
Shalom: No that’s not really i mean it’s almost like that but not really.
Mirthell: it’s that word where is this like when one person looks at one person’s channel and says oh you’re worth this so you know you value yeah the value of it but it’s awesome.
Rita: Perceived Value?
Mirthell: see Perceived value, that’s what i was looking for because
Rita: that’s been my buzzword (laughs)
Mirthell: exactly that’s why i was looking at you but perceived value and most times black
people’s worth and their perceived value usually is not valued that high so i’m impressed that somebody looked at his art and said this is just as much as a picasso even though he’s a black man.
Rita: That’s wonderful, yeah, wow i still don’t know if i’d spend 150 million i mean i would have to have so much money i mean so much money before i start collecting art.
Shalom: oh yeah
Rita: cause i feel like i feel like if i had a home in L.A earthquake if i have a home in the south tornado if i have like whatever like i’m just feeling like and then this thing i spent all this
money now i don’t know but it would.
Sinead: be in like a safe house or something
Rita: Oh yeah yeah i forgot so never mind i would do it.
Shalom: But can you guys name any other artists like any black or colored artist I mean other than like Michelangelo and what’s the other one donatello.
Mirthell: These are all the ninja turtles.
Shiloh: Shalom to be really honest we are not in the art world like you’re only naming the ones that a four-year-old knows because he watches his daily ninja turtles on nickelodeon or something like that.
Rita: Did you say foil?
Sinead: no, a four-year-old.
Rita: oh four-year-old
Shasha: a four-year-old
Rita: i thought you were using like gamer language like what’s a foil
Shiloh: not a kitchen foil
Shasha: no he said a year old.
Shiloh: yeah four year old.
Rita: anyway guys i mean let’s take it down from high art now and let’s go lowbrow i mean low bro i mean lowest of the low
Mirthell: where are we going?
Rita: we’re talking about crate challenge
Shalom: no way.
Mirthell: oh boy oh my goodness.
Shalom: absolutely not.
Shiloh: I have seen on twitter tons of injuries and I’ve seen the videos oh it looks dangerous.
Shasha: So what is Shiloh what is the challenge? I only seen like one video but I don’t understand what it is.
Shiloh: I think from what i’ve seen you stack like a lot of milk crates on top of each other you do climb over them in like this sort of straight line.
Rita: no no it’s like a pyramidal.
Shiloh: yeah yeah a pyramid you go up and then go down and you try to balance on it um but some people it crumbles and just topples over and then..
Sinead: some people, most people.
Rita: I’d say 99%.
Shiloh: yeah 99.
Mirthell: i saw this one girl though she was in heels and she did it like a boss
Sinead: I need to see that!
Mirthell: yeah yeah she did it in heels like a boss
Sinead: because I saw another video where a man did it and he was able to do it easily.
Mirthell: right.
Rita: Well all i know is that i cant understand in the climate we’re In that we’re gonna go intentionally to the hospital i’m confused.
Mirthell: I don’t understand (laughs) I’m trying to stay out of the hospital
Rita and Mirthell: we don’t wanna, we don’t wanna burden them.
Mirthell: Right Right but we open these streets you know just trying to go to the hospital. No, where are they getting the milk cartons?
Rita: That’s what I’m wondering.
Mirthell: I’ve never seen them.. in years
Sinead: I’ve never seen them.
Rita: I’ve seen them since like the 80s
Mirthell: yeah
Rita: I don’t understand.
Sinead: no but I don’t even see them in the stores.
Rita: But what I think you should do is you go behind grocery stores.
Sinead: You can steal them?
Rita: Usually they’re stacked there.
Sinead: what? They’re stealing them?
Mirthell: the last time that i saw milk cartons was back when i used to go in my clubbing days and the DJ always used to carry his albums in the crate
Rita: yeah
Sinead: What? You’re 100!
Mirthell: But beyond that I don’t even know why we keep them.
Rita: And then I saw, I saw this tweet where it showed people like you can buy it and it was for sale for 99 cents and then the tweet was you guys be careful y’all they want us to hurt ourselves.
Sinead: I saw that they said the CIA dropped it off.
Mirthell: But you know what milk cartons are like. First of all I can’t even remember what the milk is like. I know it’s carrying milk but in Canada we had bagged milks.
Sinead: what?
Shiloh: bagged milks?
Mirthell: yeah you have bag milk we don’t have like cartons.
Sinead: wait wait hold on you were in your household with bagged milk?
Mirthell: yeah it comes in like a clear plastic, we don’t drink we never drank milk back you know when i was growing up we never drank milk from cartons.
Rita: wow
Mirthell: we always drink milk from bag milk so it’s like you you had these little jugs and you would take the but we you put like this plastic you put your milk in plastic and then you put it inside the jug and then you cut the tip and that’s how you pour your milk we didn’t have jugs
Rita: I’ve seen that when i so when i met daddy i went to um Toronto obviously and yeah i was like what is this and what is like how am i supposed to what are you supposed to do and daddy had to show me and i’m like oh this is very very interesting because for me obviously like i said born and raised in L.A we had cartons and we went through the whole um you know when they used to put missing children on the cartons and it was like an informational thing so to not have that and just have bags it was very different and i can’t say it was better for the environment because it’s still it’s plastic well carton was i think more biodegradable so..
Shiloh: for the years I lived in Canada I have never seen that in my life.
Sinead: yeah did they get rid of it, did they phase out?
Mirthell: no we just didn’t drink milk that’s when we were drinking soy milk so
Rita: Do they still do that?
Mirthell: I think they do. I think they still have milk.
Sinead: But not only bags, they can’t have only bag milk.
Mirthell: No, I think they have both now.
Sinead: Oh okay okay.
Mirthell: but back in the day it was just all bagged.
Rita: well in the 50s didn’t they have people that just delivered it in like jars, glass so you know, it always evolves.
Sinead: yeah they evolved, yeah wow.
Mirthell: the evolution of milk has now come to killing yourself over it.
Shalom: question when they delivered milk in the 50s and i don’t know if you just know this because of history because you know you barely you didn’t you never lived in the 50s or 60s did you have to do a delivery sort of service like sign up for something together?
Sinead: That’s true it was like a thing you signed up for where they like we’re gonna deliver to every house no matter what?
Rita: I feel like it was the same way like you do a newspaper probably whenever you moved whatever the local library was milk delivery.
Shalom: Do you like having a subscription or no?
Rita: I don’t think they did i think it was just, well i think it was the same way you do it like you have a morning paper well they probably give a flyer or something you know like when you first move into a neighborhood you get the flyer and it shows all the things like when’s your garbage and all that stuff.
Mirthell: All right but what I can’t understand is why didn’t they just pick up the milk at the grocery store why did it happen?
Shalom: no no because there’s no grocery stores back then.
Mirthell: Well, they had to have some market.
Rita: oh it was like butchers and then it wasn’t like how we have it now.
Shiloh: plus like speaking on what you guys were saying about there was no grocery stores they were just stands yeah like stands.
Mirthell: oh that’s true then you can keep the milk cold enough.
Sinead: right and also bread and stuff.
Mirthell: That’s true.
Sinead: and people made their own food most of the time so it’s not like they were buying pre-made things right right you know.
Shiloh: Plus a lot of people back then did not want to carry bags of milk all the way home because sometimes there were no cars or anything.
Sinead and Rita: That is true.
Sinead: It would be heavy, it would be really heavy.
Shiloh: Really heavy..
Mirthell: they had the milkman all the way up into the 60s.
Sinead: no but why’d they get rid of it?
Mirthell: I think they got rid of the milkman because well you know maybe maybe maybe. (laughs)
Rita: well, the local, butcher.
Sinead: that’s true oh they probably just got out of business because of supermarkets
Shiloh: okay so basically, home milk delivery from local dairies and creameries was a mainstay for many families in the 1950s and 60s but as it became easier and cheaper to buy milk at the grocery store and as processors were developed to extend milk shelf life the milkman began to fade into the past.
Mirthell: That makes sense.
Sinead: oh that makes sense that makes sense.
Shalom: wow i don’t know i just feel like that was the start of the fading of old jobs back then you know how there’s like less and less jobs as the years go by.
Mirthell: jobs are fading out right.
Rita: like like the people who used to stay out on the corner like buy the newspaper
Mirthell: right
Shalom: exactly.
Rita: “extra, extra” like we don’t see that anymore.
Mirthell: technology technology and just advancement in sciences phasing out a lot of these jobs.
Shiloh: I don’t think you see someone at a stadium saying he’s a popcorn he’s a popcorn or anything so..
Shasha: Wait, speaking of replacing jobs, did you hear that Elon Musk is creating an AI robot to do tasks like small tasks.
Mirthell: Well that’s it! Everybody’s unemployed now.
Shasha: A lot of jobs you can look up literally he literally made just this week it was announced.
Sinead and Shalom: I saw that.
Rita: Like I don’t understand I was raised on Terminator. I just don’t understand this all I know is that I can’t remember which company it was but there was something where they recently had to shut it down because the AI was talking to each other.
Sinead: what? that’s?
Rita: yeah and that’s weird and that was just like they had to shut it down because i mean it’s dangerous. i used to think terminator and all that was just fake like oh this can’t happen but after seeing especially the black mirror episode we saw right that was just like freaky and then to see a few months later them actually have the prototype of it i was just like wait i don’t understand why are we doing this?
Shiloh: just the other day i saw a youtube video of a showcase because remember like years ago i used to show you guys like those robot videos and everything they’re still working on it and like this thing called spot this robotic dog is not for sale like it’s like for like a lot of money but like it does test for you and everything it’s an AI built inside like this little robotic dog toy thing it’s super scary it walks around.
Mirthell: you know why they call it spot right?
Sinead: no
Mirthell: in the 80s and it might have even been before the 80s because I just read it in the 80s but back probably in the 60s they used to be like see spot run run spot run it was like these little children and i was from the 60s.
Rita: Even up until when we were learning how to read.
Mirthell: right I actually learned to read off of c spot run anyhow was a dog that
Shalom: I learned how to read by Dr seuss.
Mirthell: Dr Seuss yeah. Dr Seuss robots.
Shasha: They try to make people sound innocent.
Rita: I know, I know. I don’t know man, I just don’t know about people.
Mirthell: Yeah, I trust that I trust the children.
Shalom: But, do you guys think that society is slowly becoming lazier the more that technology has advanced.
Mirthell: oh no I know that
Sinead: I don’t think we’re getting lazier but I know that we have it easier in terms of life. well, it depends because I feel like we’re just talking Americans because it’s not like the rest of the world has it.
Mirthell: That’s true that’s true I mean we’re microwaving things so we don’t have to cook guys you know we’re jumping in a car so we don’t have to walk.
Sinead: yeah I mean if we’re talking easier I would just say it’s mostly the western world that’s right and when I say western I mean maybe the united states Canada and the UK section area.
Rita: Well I think about Africa where and you know Africa is a continent so I’m not saying you know.
Shiloh: the more humans become lazier the more it gives robots a chance to rule the world.
Sinead: Okay, Thanks Shiloh!
Mirthell: So clearly you’re on the robot side I mean you gotta like to make fun of them first.
Rita: make friends
Sinead: make friends with them?
Shiloh: yeah, I mean.. want to get on the bad side
Sinead: Siri, are you listening? Don’t
Rita: but back to shalom’s point about like are we getting lazier i think that technology has really helped just lifto get easier not necessarily lazier for some so for example take many countries
in africa who did not have the infrastructure for telephone lines they kind of leaped frog
that and went into cell phones which made life a whole lot easier because they were able to do banking from it they’re able to do so many things and i think that technology is it’s just really i
there’s a lot of things that we have here that i think are just unnecessary i mean really like for example, the robot dogs but i think if we kind of put more of our time and our energy in these other countries helping to wherever they want it not not not based off of what we think they should have but wherever they want it maybe help them more with their infrastructure like access to water transportation better electro electronic grids things like that because i feel like what is such a waste of time i am not hiring some robot humanoid to come into my house yeah it’s ridiculous.
Shalom: Oh, imagine if we replace Sug with the robot?
Shasha: NO.
Mirthell: oh that’s that’s sad.
Sinead:You look too happy there Shalom.
Shalom: No, I was just look at your face. I wanted to see how you would react.
Rita: no but there’s some remember that movie it’s with Hayley Joel Osment um where he’s like uh he’s not a real human but he’s like a little boy and he replaced like this couple’s.
Mirthell: Did you just share the name of the actor with me?
Rita: Yeah, like you know.
Mirthell: Like I know I know I don’t know people. I don’t know these technical things.
Rita: It’s not irobot.
Shalom: science?
Rita: what it’s called no it’s not science.
Shiloh: no no because i remember the movie that movie now a movie literally years ago it made me literally cry so i don’t like the movie
Sinead: You know the movie they’re talking about?
Shiloh: yes, because in the end okay spoilers we haven’t watched it doesn’t he like the apocalypse happen the city floods he goes in the water and then the aliens find them like years later
Rita: yes and then oh ai artificial intelligence..
Shiloh: after that,
Mirthell: good memory, I don’t remember that.
Shiloh: no no because earlier in the story the son the real son actually comes back and so now they have two sons so they abandon the robotic son and then the robotic son makes friends along the way they know that it up because he basically gets abandoned he was actually he was about to get destroyed actually but the mother saves him actually so He went on a journey to find his parents again years later but he finds out in the end they died
Rita: Have you watched this recently or something?
Shiloh: no but no.
Mirthell: wait are you the robot version of Shiloh basically at the end all humanity died he’s the only one left and the aliens find him they’re like well what happened and then they load up a memory of like a day in his life where he gets to spend time with his mom and everything and then.
Rita: I remember that movie I wanted to cry.
Shiloh: no i cried no i cried.
Mirthell: There’s triggered Shiloh.
Rita: This is a good job. When did you see this?
Mirthell: This was a long time ago.
Shiloh: 2018 in our theater.
Mirthell: This is a long time ago 2018. I mean he was like what? 10 11?
Rita: oh okay okay. I know that’s so true.
Mirthell: 2018 he was like he just turned 10 or 11. like wow how is he remembering like detailed.
Shiloh: oh yeah i think he was in like the circus as well like this circus.
Sinead: bro yo.
Rita: i cannot believe you remember it so well
Shiloh: it was a 2001 film.
Mirthell: You guys are just sad about the story.
Shalom: Shiloh i just want to say that this is the first time i ever heard you say that you cried over a movie so i want to ask Sinead, Sasha mommy daddy and myself what movie did you guys cry over?
Shiloh: Wait before you guys say that. i’ve actually cried with a lot of other shows or movies but i never cried in front of you guys so
Mirthell: Okay all right all right all right, so which movie did you guys cry?
Rita: Okay I cried in schindler’s list. I mean I sobbed actually as i’ve gotten older i feel like i’ve become much more sensitive. I will cry at commercials now.
Shasha: no
Rita: supersonic airplane. I don’t know if it was just.
Shasha: wait what was that what was that um movie dirty dancing you cried at the end with the song i [Music]
Rita: Yeah, I cried a lot now.
Mirthell: Shasha, have you ever cried?
Shasha: song at church years ago vacation bible school i cried there but that wasn’t a movie that was like.
Rita:It just kind of came out of the blue
Shiloh: Shasha, I feel like you wanted to do that cliche crying thing so..
Shasha: No, maybe I want attention?
Shiloh: I think you forced yourself
Rita: no no you guys weren’t even around it was just me and her and she was just sitting there and then all of a sudden i felt like she was trying to hold it back and then all of a sudden she just started sobbing.
Shiloh: because I think she forced herself to be honest.
Mirthell: No, the words were probably powerful.
Rita: it was the word
Mirthell: which one was
Sinead: it i think she first no it was wrong old vbs
Mirthell: I can’t remember crying though I really can’t.
Shasha: Daddy sleeps in movies.
Sinead: That’s true he’s sleeps.
Rita: You don’t cry either.
Mirthell: No, I don’t cry.
Sinead: I don’t want to say because you guys are really just saying.
Shiloh: oh no i think i know um.. Big foot six
Shalom: Do you know what big foot six is?
Mirthell: yeah isn’t it that big balloon guy?
Shalom: yes!
Mirthell: Are you serious?
Rita: First of all, how do you remember that?
Mirthell: I don’t know, I don’t know.
Shiloh: here comes my memory again it was only me you and sasha and during the movie actually they didn’t even have the first few minutes of the movie actually so the tape yeah you remember it so the everyone was complaining in the theater like what the what is going on and everything and then they had they had to Um i think uh
Mirthell: oh that’s right.
Shiloh: uncover the tape.
Mirthell: we’re at the theater and they didn’t play the first section for some reason. Something happened.yeah and then it started yeah we missed the first part.
Shiloh: and you mom and shalom you guys were somewhere else
Mirthell: And we were like this was getting popcorn.
Shiloh: No, we were in the city places.
Rita: I think we went on another movie?
Shalom: I remember, we watched The Maze Runner.
Sinead: I get teary eyed with K-Dramas.
Shasha: oh my goodness oh my goodness
Mirthell: oh no no
Shiloh: no how can you cry over kdramas that is so cheesy like you sodas.
Sinead: no, i’m just you don’t understand, you know i can’t even explain to you
Shiloh: Sinead.
Shasha: She would’ve cried over our cartoon so no.
Mirthell: guys you cried over our cartoon?
Rita: oh you know what i cried over oh my goodness grey’s anatomy.
Shiloh: oh oh my god i can sleep during that.
Rita: There are certain songs that come on even if it’s not on the show like just in the this regular streaming and if i hear it it’ll trigger the scene back to when they used it on grey’s anatomy and i will start crying and i’m like i can’t watch the show anymore i haven’t watched it in a few years just because i can’t do it anymore i can’t
Shiloh: how? Like..
Rita: it’s too sad
Shiloh: how does one doctor show turn to some like some gunfight and then..
Rita: it’s like a hospital of death honestly
Shiloh: hospital of death.
Rita: i don’t ever i would never want to work there in real life ever
Shalom: I just have a whole list of things I cry over. I have playlists of the songs I cry over. I have memories that trigger me crying.
Sinead: You wrote it down to make you feel like crying?
Shalom: Yeah and so Literally certain scenes from tv shows that make me want to cry like if i just feel like crying one day I’m just like okay I’m gonna cry.
Shiloh: wait what wait how long you never said something that you cried over so you said.
Mirthell: Well she’s telling us she has a whole bunch.
Shiloh: she’s like you’re only saying yeah songs that i i’ve cried
Mirthell: All right, give us one of your favorites.
Shalom: my favorite song?
Sinead: if you know your favorite song.
Mirthell: anything.
Sinead: cry over a movie a show or movie
Shalom: oh man, it’s hard because i cry over everything
Mirthell: oh my goodness but you know what one thing about shalom is when shalom wants mommy to cry she will start playing certain songs in the car like and then oh and then rita will be like turn it off turn it off i don’t want to cry.
Shalom: i watched this show the other day it’s called to your eternity but this little boy that was sad i did tear up with that, that was sad it was about this little boy who was out in the middle of like the antarctica and then he was trying to find his village because his village abandoned him years ago to go find some land and as he was searching he just found their graves and then when he went back he lost hope and then he cried and died
Sinead: he died. yes all spoilers yeah you know what spoilers spoilers spoilers
Shalom: he had this dog with him and the dog turned into the little boy.
Mirthell: you know what one of the movies that I come close to I’ve had come close to crying before was simon birch because that’s like really inspirational
Shiloh: okay
Mirthell: one of my favorite movies of all time simon birch
Shiloh: okay, basically
Rita: 20 years
Mirthell: And so now we have like an adjective we say where’s simon birching it.
Sinead: yes when you know this something whenever you’re doing something in your life and you don’t even realize what you’re doing before but you’re doing something you might be..
Mirthell: super critical.
Sinead: yeah
Mirthell: but you don’t know that it is it’s just something small that you’re doing but it ends up being your life
Sinead: saver
Mirthell: meaning your life.
Rita: And again in the movie signs it was like when that little girl would leave water all over the house.
Mirthell: right in the comments she was simon
Shasha: That is skipping over a lot of words I don’t understand you’re talking about. What does Simon Birch mean?
Sinead: let me give you an example, for example in simon burch he practiced holding his breath right he was practicing holding his breath for no reason he was just he was practicing for years then one day there was an accident like a bust going down under water and because he held his breath and practiced holding his breath he was able to hold his breath for a long time and
Mirthell: he saved all the kids i was wondering why is he so short because he had like a disability and he was so short yeah but him being short allowed the little kids to respect him because he was a short person just like them but he was you know he was very articulate.
Rita: yeah but um at the end i won’t spoil it for you
Sinead: oh yeah that was sad.
Shiloh: yeah but did he practice with baseball though because he kind of failed not gonna lie.
Sinead: you know what i’ll
Mirthell: stop it.
Sinead: how do you remember that?
Mirthell: do you have to been like nine or eight watching that one
Shiloh: she was she was at the fence i think uh spoilers spoilers because we watched it in the florida house uh basically we watched this
Shalom: no we didn’t we watched no no 2014 we watched it in the apartment in the car condo apartment.
Shiloh: Yeah okay basically spoilers he hit it the baseball and it went all the way to his like mother figure i think and then it killed her so
Mirthell: yeah it was his friend’s mother and it hit her in the head but we don’t want to spoil you got to go watch simon birk
Rita: sasha this little girl the daughter in the house she would drink water like maybe just a few sips and then leave her cups all around the house
Shalom: she sounds like me
Rita: And then when the aliens came we found out that the aliens actually burn acid like acid to their water so they were able to throw all that water on the alien that had come into their home.
Mirthell: right but but the father was just been driven crazy like why are you leaving water all over the place much like me when you guys do not drink your bottled water but for different reasons hey if you wanna if you wanna waste tap water that’s fine but a bottled water like it’s like this is this is the bottle of water okay this is this is our family when we get a bottled water okay and this is why i buy you guys mini waters.
Rita: all right all right i’m done i don’t want anymore you’re like the bottled water leave us police
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Shalom: but i just want to say that shiloh having an impeccable memory is talent i mean i can barely remember what i ate yesterday i just want to ask you guys what is your earliest memory
Rita: we’re getting personal. I hope you don’t go there shalom because we’ve already disproved your earliest memory.
Shiloh: Okay early memories lots of it was in the blue house actually like when i was like when i was four but like i have like a lot of memories of reading in the library uh next to the kitchen i think.
Mirthell: you know what i don’t know if that’s fair though because we have a lot of video and so your video could give you the memory.
Shalom: that’s true
Mirthell: no i’m talking about like my some of my earliest memories was before like videos okay and it was just could even trigger
Rita: Pictures can trigger your memory.
Mirthell: no not even pictures this was when we i was like about three and i got my head stuck inside um in the basement it’s traumatic it was in like alberta canada and i got my head stuck and i remember the basement it used to have this thing we called it the rat hole but it’s not really a rat hole but we just call it a rat hole okay it was just like one of those storage places that you can like open or whatever and the reason why i remember my head stuck is because i was just like worried about the rat hole. okay that somehow..
Sinead: in the banister like the rail
Mirthell: well the stairs went down and i i don’t know how i did but i got my head in the stairs it’s like wooden stairs that didn’t have a back piece to it so it’s just like it’s just what so somehow i’ve
managed to get my head like all those modern stirs are like sometimes where there’s no battery
Sinead: There’s no back part to it.
Mirthell: I didn’t know what’s stuck there. I don’t know how my parents were just trying to figure out how to get my head out. I had a big head. I didn’t know how I got it in but I couldn’t get it.
Shiloh: Speaking of memories, I do recall this one time we were at this historical place. It was like this long way okay we have like one picture of it i have to explain in detail.
Shasha: Are you sure you remember or you’re making it?
Shiloh: yes yes.
Sinead: early memories without pictures.
Shiloh: We were in front of this house also because you would enter in this house it would show there were rails over like the rooms.
Sinead: okay what’s the story though what’s the story though i want to know what the story is.
Shiloh: it was it was like someone i don’t know where it was what’s the story it was somewhere we went for a fridge a trip it um
Rita: i feel like it might have been louisiana
Shiloh: yeah yeah yeah
Rita: That was 2015.
Shiloh: yeah that was no no no no no no.
Mirthell: okay eight or seven?
Sinead: but it’s here remember simon burch which is 2014.
Shiloh: okay what about um that restaurant
Rita: oh 2013, louisiana 2013.
Sinead: oh are you talking about you’re talking about our new orleans trip?
Rita: yeah yeah 2013 yeah
Shiloh: I went over the rail actually and went into the historical room and mommy pulled me right away saying don’t go in because they are wrong.
Sinead: oh so now i know what you’re saying Shiloh saying that there was a plant we were in a plantation house right and then yes they had um railed off rooms
Shiloh: uh-huh and they had displays there to show the railings yes okay i went directly to
there because i had no clue why they were off so i was like why isn’t no one going here i mean i i could just go ahead and then my yay i had no clue what was going on
Rita: i think my earliest memory i honestly i can’t tell the difference between whether something was planted by a Picture or if this is a memory i really don’t feel like
Mirthell: Well you’d have to know that you have a picture of it then and do you know if you have a picture.
Rita: i feel like it was a very very very early like party when i was a child that’s what i can’t remember but it was in the backyard in our home in L.A. i can’t remember though
Mirthell: well i do see some pictures of like you at a birthday party
Rita: But I was way too young because that was like a baby one or one yeah i don’t think i have a memory of that.
Sinead: i think my earliest memory is playing with care bears in some kind of park and we always we would park our car this is michigan we would park our car and open the trunk we could hang out there or we would be on at a park bench and we’d play with care bears that’s my earliest memory i know we don’t have a picture of that i’ve never seen a picture of them.
Mirthell: no no no no we don’t.
Sinead: I promise you there’s no picture Sasha.
Sasha:I remember I was playing. We were playing with care bears actually on our legs um we’re sitting on a hospital bed. It was during Shiloh’s birth not during but we’re in some type of hospital and we’re playing care bears on our legs.
Rita: that’s right you were four then because we were um when Shiloh was one
Sasha: I remember especially in michigan.
Mirthell: What’s with care bears?
Rita: i loved care bears when i was growing up
Mirthell: But it wasn’t the big fuzzy ones I think we bought like the dollar store the small ones I remember the Christmases when we would buy like dollar store Christmas gifts. I thought we could afford this though.
Sinead: Shalom what’s your first memory my first memory i don’t remember first but i remember early memories of just in Michigan and i was about like four or five when we were living in michigan i just remember just playing outside in the snow because we were in this apartment complex where all young couples were like you know had all the young children and everything you guys were with like a whole bunch of college students and just like their children were just playing outside and we were Building yeah there’s a college campus and then we were building snowman and like Outside yeah i remember this kid up in the tree and then he was just like saying crazy stuff and I was like who’s he?
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Mirthell: okay guys watch out for those milk cartons robots
Sinead: and jewelry and we’ll see you in the next episode!
Rita: alright guys out of everything we talked about what was your favorite subject because we’re wrapping up here but we want to hear from you what is the movie you guys have cried over yeah what’s your earliest memory guys talk to us let us know and
we’ll see you next time!
Shiloh: and watch out for those milk cartons and those robots