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Sinead: he’s probably gonna drop it at midnight after this listening party it’s probably the last listening party let me tell you I have some friends who are like they didn’t drop it.
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Rita: hi guys welcome to the onyx family podcast we are so happy you could join us we have Shiloh Shalom Mirthell me Rita Sinead and Shasha so today we’re going to be talking about several topics that are on everybody’s mind right now Donda the latest album dropped with by Kanye west we have who should be the new jeopardy host we’ve got what’s on your playlist and that kind of goes back to Donda right we want to talk about like how we just finished binging manifest and what a ride that was.
Sinead: I mean that sounded like a ride
Mirthell: yeah
Rita: And guys we want to also tell you guys a little story at the end that I think you’re going to like so let’s get started let’s talk about Donda. who here has listened to the album?
Sinead: I’ve listened to bits and pieces like you know I skip around one of those in albums I don’t listen to full things I just like yeah I pick and choose some songs especially ones that I see are trending I’ll be like oh let me listen to this and stuff yeah that’s how basically how I listen to albums usually.
Mirthell: I didn’t even realize that this album was out. I thought he was supposed to drop it the same day that Drake was dropping his album.
Sinead: no the thing is nobody knew when it was dropping um it kind of just dropped suddenly on like this past Sunday but it was supposed to drop last year right supposed to drop last year and then he didn’t drop it then he was supposed to drop it this year sometime in July and then that didn’t happen either he had three listening parties and after each listening party everybody thought he was gonna drop it even after the one last week they were like he’s probably gonna drop it at midnight after this listening party it’s probably the last listening party let me tell you I have some friends who are like they didn’t drop it.
Mirthell: he just keeps you guessing in everything in life and everything.
Rita: well I like that he does listening parties but this latest one that was a little bit interesting Kim Kardashian came out in her wedding gown he had um the baby and Marilyn Manson on there with him
Sinead: he set himself on fire.
Shasha: yeah like he made a replica of his childhood house the exact dimension exact look and he made a burn.
Shiloh: Is that subliminal?
Rita: I always feel like artists think on a whole nother level because that was a whole nother level of symbolism.
Shasha: Wait, Sinead, would you get one of our old houses and burn it for your listening party?
Rita: I was thinking that too yeah if you guys were gonna get us a childhood house which one would you guys?
Shiloh: uh I would do Sydney one house.
Mirthell: the blue house?
Sinead: I wouldn’t say the blue house I liked our blue house but the thing is I would say the victorian house that we used to live in yeah that one well I don’t know if it was cursed I don’t think it was cursed but I feel like it gives the feel of if it burns it would look good, I don’t know.
Shiloh: it had some pretty paranormal stuff in there
Mirthell: Oh man.
Rita: I don’t think that house had anything paranormal going on.
Shiloh: I mean
Rita: Wow what are you talking about elaborate a lot of people think we live in some haunted house.
Shasha: A little backstory guys, the reason why we’re saying that the Victorian house is haunted is that there were bats in there so that’s why we have to get out.
Mirthell: oh the bats.
Shiloh: We found stuff in the attic.
Mirthell: uh yeah we’ll have to tell that story another day.
Rita: yeah that was an interesting story, the bat story.
Mirthell: yeah, but Kanye I mean I think that Kanye is one of the most memorable lyricist rappers that there is ever. I mean he’s just very memorable. Not every rapper is a lyricist like some rappers are just like.
Rita: Well they repeat the same thing yeah over and over and over with no message.
Mirthell: yeah he always has a message
Shasha: I mean he snapped with Jesus walks. That was a great song.
Mirthell: Yeah, he has a lot of interests.
Rita: and the gold digger was one of my favorites yeah it was funny.
Mirthell: So do you think he’s gonna have any of those like which song on his Donda do you think is gonna be that hit that people remember like Jesus walks or gold digger.
Sinead: All right now I’m hearing everybody’s liking jail and I heard some of jail and jail sounded good.
Mirthell: What’s it about? What’s it about being in jail?
Rita: Well I don’t know, I don’t think it’s about him being in jail.
Mirthell: oh okay.
Rita: Yeah.
Shasha: yeah well you’re clueless?
Mirthell: No, I have no idea.
Rita: But, I also heard that Jesus Lord is really interesting so that’s an interesting one um that people really like so you know there’s probably a lot of songs I think it’s like 27.
Sinead: yeah you gotta have to you have to take the time to listen to it because there are literally like 27 songs there
Mirthell: oh my goodness
Sinead: yeah so you have to take the time out of your day to really um listen
Mirthell: wow so do you think oh go-ahead.
Shasha: oh I was saying that I heard that he rented out a side room in the Ben stadium Mercedes Benz the Mercedes-Benz stadium while he was writing yeah and I heard it was super like what was it was like a big high rate each night but I feel like he was channeling his artistry I don’t know weird it wasn’t even like it was writing in his house stadium that was well really.
Rita: one thing I find about artists is that this is what I’ve seen is that they like to put themselves in an environment that’s not too luxurious something that will bring out the creativity like some people do they record their album in their home but other people like they go to another place so they might fly to Scotland or they go to Wyoming or they go somewhere else where it’s not familiar and they’re able to I think to free them from whatever constraints that you feel when you’re at home you know the bills the people around you the environment it’s I just think it’s really important I think they go somewhere that changes the whole environment.
Mirthell: he’s looking for inspiration
Rita: yeah
Mirthell: you know the idea or I don’t know if he was just doing this for publicity but he was gonna drop at the same time as drake do you think that him dropping it like six days or a week before drake will be better for him to do, Do you think he should have done it after do you think it’s gonna affect drake’s sales like what do you think?
Rita: I think it’s always all good I think it’s gonna be good publicity for both that’s what it all is like publicity is what sells things right you know if he dropped it and like nobody knew and nobody cared I think that it wouldn’t not only would it not sell well I feel like that’s not what the vision I think he wanted everybody to be on board like every artist wants everyone to buy their record but this one it seems like it was very personal for him yeah
Sinead: I mean he was asking the like to get it remixed several times and stuff like that’s why it was getting delayed like he wanted to be redone like have changes made in everything because he wanted to be perfect.
Rita: yeah he is a perfectionist but what I found funny was the people who were left off.
Sinead: what do you mean?
Rita: well Soulja boy did a verse he was left off oh Chris brown I think did a verse he was left off they say that jay-z’s verse was left off.
Mirthell: why did he do that?
Rita: I don’t know I feel like man if this is like an album some people say this is not just an album of the year this is the album of a lifetime if you had a verse on the album of a lifetime wouldn’t you be upset if yours was left off.
Sinead: he said his perfectionist mindset Nah this ain’t good enough.
Mirthell: well then if my verse made it I’d be like yeah I know I’m perfect yeah all right I’m perfect.
Rita: but I like the fact that he did do this album in a way that tells an actual story and narrative and I think it was a quote I saw from Beyonce pretty recently I don’t know when she said this but there was it to just put it into context what she was saying was that too many people now just release songs and they think oh well this song hit and they’re not being creative and telling a story as I think of her story with lemonade that album yeah like that was a narrative.
Sinead: and then the other one too this is her joint one with jay-z, I can’t remember
Rita: right right
Mirthell: what the camera was called Clyde Clyde or something like that
Rita: no that was a song but definitely artists these days I think there are two types there are ones that are just about let’s just get as much money as we can let’s just put out a what they think will be a banger or there are other ones who are more about the art and I think that’s IN everything guys even for us like what we do here especially like on social media you know the ones who are just like what’s the native latest trend we’re just gonna make money and then those who are like what about the art of it but and then it’s always usually about money or art because a lot of times you don’t get both but there are times that you get both like I think Kanye does right has both right he gets the money and he gets to do his art but I think if we all spent more time really cultivating the art and whatever you’re doing whether it’s music or whether it’s videos or painting or whatever it is I think that you’ll be a lot happier in life and you’ll probably end up getting more money in the long run because people would appreciate it more what do you all think?
Sinead: I agree with that
Mirthell: you gotta make sure that you’re in your passion and you gotta make sure that you’re putting yourself into whatever you’re doing you can’t just be copying right he’s a unique individual so how many of you um have his songs or is gonna have his songs on your playlist.
Shasha: Donda?
Mirthell: yeah like which one of his songs are you going to put on this?
Sinead: I got to listen to it again fully before I say it because yes I got to like it so I have to listen to something several times before I’m like okay now I’m going to add to my playlist got to get the vibe for it.
Mirthell: do you guys have him on your playlist at any of his songs like his old stuff? so we should share like our playlist like what’s your favorite playlist like who’s the artist
on your favorite playlist right now that you guys are playing.
Shiloh: Well I’ll go first. I don’t have a playlist of an artist I like. I just listen to random songs that probably like trends or just come up so yeah.
Shasha: oh maybe you’ll listen for like the art of it you know what I’m saying.
Shiloh: not I’d listen to the beat.
Shasha: Probably like you don’t have a homework playlist so you listen for homework.
Shiloh: Well yeah but those are mostly just instrumental.
Sinead: so instrumentals like game instrumentals or
Shiloh: Like I mean not really a game instrumental just like probably beats hip hop and stuff.
Sinead: oh okay just like random instrumentals.
Shiloh: not random, just hip hop or maybe anime on my playlist.
Sinead: Oh okay, I get that.
Mirthell: I don’t listen to a lot of music either but when I go to work out I like to listen to a lot of gospel songs so some of the people on my playlist are one day I love one-day Lecrae Erica Campbell and you know some of the mary’s older songs as well Anthony Brown and group therapy and wall squalls group like these are some of you know some of the people that I listen
Shasha: I love god by Erica Campbell was the best okay
Mirthell: oh yeah yeah that trap song yeah
Rita: but I mean let’s be real like your playlist is our playlist you kind of listen to we always basically the same stuff and it’s so funny because you guys always tell me mom your playlist is like six years old well that’s because I okay guys I would have never thought that I’d be at an age where I just didn’t care about making playlists about listening to the latest song like I don’t care so unless you guys kind of introduce it to me I’m just like uh I’m sticking with whatever you know.
Shasha: all right one day is the best Christian rapper right now.
Rita: oh yeah I love one day, I love them.
Shalom: What was on your walkman you know when you were younger?
Rita: Okay, first of all, I had a Discman.
Shalom: oh I saw the word “man”.
Rita: and then I had a Discman all right
Mirthell: don’t get me and mommy started about our 90s.
Rita: now if you want to talk about the 90s I had everybody but I feel like it was easier back then too because I would be like driving to school and stuff and I’d have the radio on so they constantly would introduce you to songs like you had to listen or turn the radio off and who’s gonna turn it off now it’s like you gotta do like what Kanye did you gotta make it an event that people say oh I wanna go and listen that’s so true
Mirthell: no I’m curious what do you guys have on your list?
Shasha: whatever man okay so you know you know regular you know write the hip hop for my workout but what I love to do sometimes is I love listening to broadway albums.
Shiloh: broadway albums?
Shasha: this is new yeah this is heard me out okay listen it helps me so I like writing and stuff so it helps me develop a storyline so I was listening to this musical called company and like this song called not getting married and it was just like this it was just telling a story of like a one that didn’t want to get married up until we’re going to the isle and it was just so really funny it was like a comedic song you should look it up.
Mirthell: oh really I gotta check that out.
Shasha: people like Julie uh what was her name again that this set of music Julie Andrews did a cover-up and it’s just like it’s just really a comedic song it’s just.
Mirthell: oh my goodness.
Shiloh: Shasha this is very surprising.
Rita: right yeah if you can see on all of our faces like this.
Shalom: but I love that about you I mean when you like to watch hamilton like I always tell like some sort of story like like there’s never a time where they’re not singing they’re always singing and it’s always like acting.
Shasha: I didn’t like hamilton.
Shalom: You didn’t like Hamilton? I love hamilton especially like the sister songs what is it called you know the six dudes assistants.
Shiloh: yes but like you have to watch the musical to embrace yourself in the album Shasha I like it and I listen to it to music at all I watched the entire
Rita: yeah I made him. okay I said well I mean no I’m glad you liked it but I’m just saying Shiloh’s not necessarily our broadway, no no it’s good that you liked it but what I’m just saying is that people will go oh Shiloh’s into broadway I’m like well I mean I made him but I knew he would like it because we’re telling like you said he’s telling the story and I wanted him to learn about hamilton
Shalom: but yeah and it was cool because it was like history mixed with hip-hop and I thought that was creative.
Sinead: Shalom what’s on your playlist?
Shalom: my playlist yeah what’s on your playlist?
Sinead: I asked first.
Shalom: okay fine well like dad I like a lot of gospel music so I listen to a lot of that, I introduced you to most of them yeah so I like Mandisa I like the walls group yeah I listen to that I also like to listen to a lot of alternatives and I like a lot of um songs like you know the piano songs yeah
Mirthell: yeah yeah I do, That makes you cry.
Shalom: Yeah that’s true I like to make myself cry so like a lot of songs like that so yeah
Sinead: but who specifically do you have any people or not?
Shalom: well it’s kind of random, to be honest, I don’t like listening as
Sinead: you explore.
Shalom: yeah I like to explore I think that’s what you would call me I like to explore. What about you?
Sinead: for me, it’s kind of ironic like I make music but I don’t listen to that much music
but I think for me that kind of helps me to keep my sound different from others or also I’ll find myself copying their style their flow.
Mirthell: there’s a good point.
Sinead: but when I do listen to music again it’s like you, I have like a range I’ll be like listening to one day I’ll be into more pop one day I’m into more rock one day I’ll be into more k-pop.
Shalom: You hate POP.
Sinead: no no it depends on the pop it has to be like I don’t know like like lately I like Olivia Rodrigo’s pop album like that kind of thing right now right I think.
Rita: I think that’s good Sinead that you said that, though I think everybody that I’ve read about that creates what they do is they go on a run of like let’s say you’re an author you go on a run of reading yeah but then when you’re writing they don’t read it right they don’t read because then they don’t want to be influenced by that person but I can’t see any are where you don’t look at everybody else and the way the audience or the fans are responding to that because it kind of lets you know how the tastes are evolving right remember when we started guys remember how we started on youtube every morning remember how we would watch like certain channels right and we would see like okay what’s happening what’s everyone doing and even now like I’m I know for my age I know far too much about this youtube community that I should only because I have to stay connected to what’s happening.
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Mirthell: what do you guys think about uh jeopardy
them coming up with a new host I mean
they found someone and he was a disaster.
Sinead: You said well-read what is that?
Rita: well because you have to be well-read to be a contestant on jeopardy
you got to know a lot of things everything.
Mirthell: you have to be knowledgeable.
Shasha: I didn’t know that yeah wait I forgot what is jeopardy about again?
Sinead: the game show where it’s like something for 200 and you say what is and you answer like that.
Mirthell: you have to answer in the form of a question we’ve played that in our house before.
Shalom: yeah remember they have different categories from like different types of subjects.
Rita: Are you seeing the SNL skits what Keenan is the host
Shiloh: it’s like these people who are fast for 200 or
Shasha: oh like you’d answer what is Usain Bolt
Shiloh: yes
Shasha: who is? (laughs)
Rita: yeah who is
Mirthell: yeah but who is Usain bolt yeah the fastest man
Shiloh: you would say that and it’d be like who is the best man on the planet alive and then you say Usain Bolt.
Mirthell: right so um who do you guys think would be good I mean a lot of people are saying levar burton you know the guy from reading rainbow I don’t know like reading rainbow isn’t reading rainbow like a kid’s
Shalom: show it’s like over like 20 30 years old I don’t think our audience is going to remember that but he was on star trek
Rita: maybe that’s why I remember him as LaForge.
Mirthell: maybe that’s why they didn’t choose him because you know
Rita: it would be too campy like star trek.
Sinead: they probably want someone a little edgier or someone like who has an older
audience you know
Rita: I feel like he has it I don’t even feel in my opinion I don’t necessarily feel like people the star trek fandom which I’m a part of proudly would be like oh my goodness I gotta watch it because of just him I think he appeals to like so many people wait
Sinead: so would you want him to be it
Rita: yeah I would love it oh that doesn’t mean that I would watch it every week still
Mirthell: I want Keenan, that’s my choice my choice is Keenan. I think it should be someone
funny because the show is too like I don’t know
Rita: too stiff?
Mirthell: it’s too stiff.
Sinead: the thing is steve Harvey made a family feud.
Mirthell: yeah it was really good it’s true yeah he brought some life
Shalom: I can’t imagine them trying to do something different in jeopardy it’s been well established for years and so if it’s a little bit more for the older audience I feel like they should just keep it for the older audience because.
Rita: that generation is
Sinead: They can bring more money if they bring in more audience you know what I mean?
Rita: this is the perfect time to make a change because it was great with Alex Trebek it was like classic we grew up on him and I think that that was that era that would be like the tonight shows continuing the same style well actually yeah they pretty much do.
Sinead: no because I think jimmy Fallon has kind of changed it like when he came in you know.
Rita: Yeah that’s true.
Shiloh: two things one how is Jeffree so popular like it’s been around forever yeah but I haven’t heard any news about jeopardy and people are just talking about it in 2021.
Sinead: no that’s the problem that’s important that’s why they’re generating
Shiloh: no person who was born in 2000 and older has watched jeopardy barely Shasha, Have you watched it?
Sinead: and that’s probably true. that’s why they need to change it.
Rita: I would like Kevin hart to be the host
Sinead: I think Kevin Hart is so funny
Rita: I don’t know whatever that man is in I laugh so hard he’s just I just he’s like like my favorite another thing oh
Mirthell: yeah I honestly think they need to go with the comedian
Sinead: yes they go to comedians.
Shiloh: wait another thing is there like an o.g jeopardy per person?
Rita: Alex Trebek
Shiloh: who’s that?
Rita: like he just passed away recently
Mirthell: well you’re a perfect example of why they have to change it.
Sinead: Exactly, you don’t even know the main person who was hosting it that’s why they need to change the game.
Shalom: I would love billy ray Cyrus to be the host
Shasha: what?
Mirthell: okay.
Rita: what why I want to know why
Shalom: well first off he appeals to each generation’s your generation and my generation Hannah Montana country music star.
Mirthell: doesn’t appeal to me but
Rita: she randomly said it a few appeals to us (laughs)
Shalom: and it can get a little bit you know a little bit exciting yeah it’s countries
Rita: a little bit rock and roll?
Shalom: Yeah I mean I’ll be different
Mirthell: no I like billy ray Cyrus for country music but I’m not quite sure if that crossover would work that’s why I feel a comedian you know like someone like even someone that has I don’t know like Lisa Cujo or something like someone that’s just a little snarky like I don’t know you have to have a little bit of personality to fill that role.
Sinead: for this generation because I feel like that was good for the generation that he had before because that’s what everybody needed that’s what we wanted you to know but these days everybody wants someone snarky.
Mirthell: Right
Rita: I don’t want someone snarky
Sinead: no not snarky but like I don’t know if that’s the word right
Mirthell: maybe not the right word.
Rita: you know who’ll be good too I think James Corden I think I think he would be funny and charming and I just think it would be good
Shalom: but did you all see the video on Twitter where they’re promoting the
cinderella movie and like remember do you know how like every time they promote something
they will get out of their cars basically, he was like dressing up as like one of the characters I think it was a mouse or something, and then like basically he got to like the whole cast of Cinderella and they’re basically stopping traffic and just dancing and just holding up traffic
Rita: he’s super funny I know he gets a lot of slack but I don’t know why I enjoy him
Mirthell: He’s relatable
Rita: I think he’s relatable I think he’s funny and he’s charming but what about some females. like daddy was saying so we have Lisa Kojo anybody else
Shalom/Sinead: who else.
Mirthell: that’s the thing you don’t want their personality to be too much like for The instance I like Wanda sykes I think she’s an amazing stand-up comedian but her personality I feel is very strong so not someone true you cannot appreciate the show because they’re so funny that it overshadows the shows they’re so funny that they overshadow the show they’re their personality is big so I’m thinking
Shiloh: uh you’re funnier than the actual show basically.
Shasha: what about the first one that comes to my head is Issa Rae.
Shalom: she’s too busy with the film and television
Mirthell: she’s like a tv star like yeah yeah that’s her lane I’m not sure but definitely a female.
Rita: well you know what Yvonne Orji
Shalom: I love that
Rita: everything that she does I laugh with too as I love her, you guys got to read her book bamboozled by Jesus I love that book.
Mirthell: yeah, very good.
Shalom: okay I think dad Shiloh suggests himself.
Rita: you don’t even know the show
Shiloh: no actually I know the concept of the jeopardy Shasha didn’t know. I knew, I just didn’t know the host.
Mirthell: oh okay
Rita: that is like literally, the host makes the show.
Mirthell: no I’m so scared for your generation to host it like I want something like changed up but like I don’t know why do we have to ask a question you know why we have to ask questions like let’s just answer it you know and then the whole game show would be like
Sinead: yeah that’s bad.
Mirthell: the whole game show would be in jeopardy. it would be in jeopardy.
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Rita: I do think though that tv is evolving I don’t even understand how some of these games these game shows are on because people aren’t watching the same way for example you and I just finished binging manifest.
Mirthell: oh yes okay
Rita: and manifest is was on NBC but it’s not like you and I watched it while it was on
Mirthell: no no
Rita: we tried like like one episode but I’m not I’m the type of person now I like binging so if I want to see the whole season and that whole week that’s what I want to do so that’s what we did
Mirthell: and we got hooked
Rita: and it was just like we were hooked guys we were hooked.
Shalom: I just want everyone to know that I watched it like two-three years ago
Rita: the whole thing?
Shalom: not the whole thing when it was airing
Mirthell: oh okay.
Rita: so what are you declaring you watched a couple of episodes?
Shalom: yeah cause I just wanted to be first.
Mirthell: but the premise of the show is that there is an airplane and it’s eight to eight
and well I don’t know how to I don’t want to go into it.
Rita: but it basically disappears for five years and then reappears right as if nothing nobody has aged or anything.
Shiloh: also spoilers
Mirthell: and everybody else that when they came back five years later everybody else had obviously aged up and moved on in life and so that creates a lot of drama and the eight the flight 828 is symbolic of Romans chapter 8 verses 28 which is all things work together for good now they left off to them that love the lord which you know that that’s the punchline of that text but all things work together for good and so the whole thing is like showing how even though there’s a problem here and there’s it’s problematic them coming back five years later everything seems to be interconnected everything seems to be working out for the betterment of whatever the situation is
Rita: yeah they have to work together as a team to solve these mysteries like there are little mysteries and there’s not just mysteries but things that need to be resolved in people’s lives but then on top of it there’s the overall arching mystery of what happened and it gets very interesting it’s like we said we’re not going to spoil it for you guys but it’s amazing so guys I’m just saying that the state of tv is so so different.
Mirthell: yeah I enjoyed it I tend to not enjoy a lot of shows and I get even this show at some given point in time I just had to take a break like the binging it was like back to back to back and this is how it started looking to me Like
Rita: Mirthell before you even start please do not don’t even go there because I want people to check it out for themselves and I think people should just understand that you never hang in like any movie or any show so you Can’t take what he says.
Mirthell: I usually fall asleep so take it with a grain of salt what I’m about to Say
Rita: Hon, How will our audience take it if you start insulting it. please.
Shiloh: It’s always nap time for him
Mirthell: no no no no I’m not insulting it at all I’m just saying that what ends up happening when I watch shows like this it’s not even necessarily this when i watch shows they’re really into the cinematic music They’ll (copying movie sounds) but then it just keeps back and forth like that. And I start thinking like tokay now they’re gonna hug okay now it’s gonna be… good now they’re gonna hug
Shiloh: I can get dad it’s cliche
Shasha: but that’s every show movie
Mirthell: see that’s the problem with binging is is that if you eat it in bite sizes then you can take that because it’s like oh my heart races and then it went down it’s
Sinead: So I think he’s more criticizing binging because it’s binging and then you start to be like oh this is the same thing.
Mirthell: you start seeing the patterns
Sinead: and you’re just like and your body gets used to it after you’re when you’re binging at the same time.
Shiloh: that’s why you always have to see a show like when it airs like like one episode right one day
Rita: No i like binging.
Shiloh: no no no no no binging I know I know you’re just defending your favorite show right now she’s just just
Rita: no i like binging everything
Shiloh: I’m not offending it for being canceled or anything
Shasha: but it got renewed for the new season.
Rita: it got renewed, thank you very much
Shiloh: it got renewed because Netflix saw it they’re gonna milk it for like another season and that’s it I mean
Mirthell: the guy did want it to be six seasons and he only got four maybe six seasons
Shasha: It’s gonna be six seasons Shiloh
Sinead and Mirthell: it’s four.
Mirthell: it’s good so he’s going to take the last three seasons and he’s gonna have to merge all. (copying movie sounds)
Shiloh: It might look rushed and everything, It’s kinda like Timeless.
Rita: why you have to bring up Timeless? still very salty about timeless being canceled.
Shiloh: no no no no Timeless would have worked better if it had like a little bit more seasons but instead it got canceled all merged into one movie, yeah and now it ended on a finale which kind of got watered down and now people weren’t happy with it and now there’s another family’s being ruined so now.
Rita: well I think with timeless which like I said I’m still salty about that whole thing being canceled I don’t even feel like it was as edgy as manifest I think it needed to be a little bit edgier.
Sinead: it did need to be a little you know.
Shiloh: Yeah because it looked really like the kind of like a for like young adults like
Mirthell: manifest is edgy
Rita: yeah it’s edgy yeah it has some
things
Shiloh: when I came in there he’s, spoilers.
Sinead: no
Rita: well I know what he’s going to say that’s not a spoiler okay
Shiloh: okay but when I came in like I was very weirded out because I went in the theater and I saw like someone burning and I was like
Rita: no it was something behind the person was not burning
Shiloh: well like and then they started chanting something so I was like what the hell
Rita: yeah well she was crazy it was it’s good but I wish timeless got the chance that this show got because I think there was a lot more storytelling one thing I want to say though about manifest too is that it is an extremely diverse cast it is an extremely diverse cast um no seriously like you see people of all walks of life ethnicities they have had people who are physically challenged or disabled um they’ve had everything in like like I was really impressed when um there was a lawyer she was in a wheelchair and she was defending her client and you guys don’t see that a lot.
Mirthell: right um that’s true
Rita: not only do you not see that on tv you actually don’t see that a lot in real life either so I like the fact that maybe that lady’s role was able to inspire other people to get into acting or even get into law either one because she was representing a lawyer and I just was impressed by the whole casting of the show.
Mirthell: well they’re breaking a lot of norms like for instance they have two main actors now on the show that are east Indian descent yeah usually it’s like we got an east Indian we don’t need anymore and it’s just like wow you got these two main actors of east Indian descent is like whoa and then the same thing you see Asians on there you see you know um black people and they’re you know everybody of every walks of life and it’s just like wow they’re being intentional about making sure of representation
Rita: right and what I also liked was that like I just mentioned it wasn’t just the able-bodied it was also people who are disabled so just shows like we said we had people who were skinny people who were big people who were straight gay everything was represented on the show so.
Mirthell: at the end of the day I like manifest because it tells a story that is not commonly told in Hollywood it’s given another perspective and I appreciate that and where we’re all about telling stories you know our motto is to you know to tell the story feed the soul make them laugh heal the heart so.
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Rita: and I was going to tell a story I know you asked me earlier to tell in this other story but because we mentioned the bats I think that story would be better to tell okay this time and I think Sinead yeah you should tell this we can fill in the gaps because you know
Sinead: wait feel free to jump in
Shiloh: well we’re telling the original story though that you were going to say
Rita: Well I’ll say that in another podcast
Shiloh: okay but don’t forget though.
Mirthell: no no we already know we already but we want to tell this story because
you did bring up the house that was haunted so I think we need to clarify you know what was wrong with this house so Sinead is going to tell the story and we’ll help her out if she knows
forgets some details
Sinead: Jump in whenever you come in in the store you know what I mean like tell your side
Mirthell: yeah okay okay
Sinead: okay so it was sometime in the summer it was like July of 20 something and we were in this victorian house it had about three stories and a basement it was older so we had some you know some cracks crevices you know where things could get in where we leased it.
Rita: We leased it.
Mirthell: it was a four-story house.
Sinead: it was a what? four stories?
Rita: it was indeed four stories.
Sinead: that’s what I’m saying the basement
Rita: yeah four.
Shiloh: and the reason why it was that way was that it was an adoption house.
Rita: no it was a Victorian house but the people before us going there used
it as a foster home.
Sinead: so basically it was an old house and I was going to sleep one night and i
was next to a room so I had a room that was next to an outside
Rita: like a back porch.
Sinead: like a back porch so those are typically they’re not as sealed so I was next to that room and our dogs also stayed in that room as well so I was going to sleep one night I was just chilling I was laying on my back looking up at the ceiling and I heard the dog start barking and they were barking like crazy.
Rita: and I want to say this is before we had our current dog sug
Mirthell: yes shady shadow they were some big black golden doodles
Rita: they were guys when we bought sidebar here when we bought those dogs we were supposed to train them and I was like why would you send them to a trainer we can do it, no we can’t.
Mirthell: no we couldn’t that’s a story for another day.
Rita: but they were almost feral I love them
Sinead: so these dogs they start barking like crazy and I was like whoa why are they barking like crazy a couple of seconds later I see some something black just fluttering inside my room and not just one it was like I think there was like two things fluttering inside my room and I’m like wait a minute is that a bat I immediately screamed bat scrolls I don’t even know how my mind like in two seconds I rolled out of my bed military-style you know like I was in a burrito military crawling out my door because I don’t want to stand right I’m like oh they’ll just bite my neck if I stand so I usually crawl I crawl to Shalom’s room. she’s next to mine I’m like yo Shalom there’s a bat in my room she’s like what? and she’s like well I don’t want to stay here because it’s going to fly into my room next I didn’t think to close my door so I don’t know why I didn’t do that.
Mirthell: yeah you just left the door open.
Sinead: I just left the door open so we end up running while we’re screaming bat and we’re all running upstairs to our parent’s room who’s on the top floor of the house Shasha runs up with us she somehow wakes up because she hears us screaming, Shiloh’s not awake yet, Shiloh is saying
Mirthell: that’s true.
Shiloh: that’s true i am sleeping i am tuned out.
Mirthell: so basically, Rita was just like we gotta get Shiloh.
Sinead: Who rescued him?
Mirthell: We both went down.
Shiloh: They woke me up, I remember, I was on my bed sleeping i looked to my
right the door was right there and he was like Shiloh there’s a bat yeah you have to come right now
Mirthell: yeah we grabbed him.
Rita: first it wasn’t that calm
Mirthell: yeah it was wild yeah
Shiloh: yes
Mirthell: so we get Shiloh right we get Shiloh and mommy races Shiloh upstairs with the girls and all of a sudden they slam the door shut and they slam me out so i
can’t get back upstairs.
Rita: yeah because I wanted him to deal with it
Mirthell: they wanted me to deal with the bat now I’m thinking to myself okay I can deal with the bat but I need equipment here like these are I don’t know if these bats have rabies like I’m not trying to fight these bats on my own I’m trying to open the door they got the full force of onyx family five against one shutting the door dad get it dad gets [Laughter] eventually my family has compassion on me and says okay dad so I go upstairs and I have this big winter coat like it’s still
Rita: Okay I’m salty about that too where did it go?
Mirthell: I don’t know where it is
Rita: I don’t know what happened to that coat
Mirthell: this winter coat I fought bees off of it
Rita: yes yes
Sinead: we would wrap all three of us in the one coat just to go back
Rita: it was the best winter coat I’ve ever seen it was almost like
Mirthell: it was armored it was not just the winter coat it was armor it was armored to fight things oh it was huge
Rita: it was huge I don’t even know what size that was
Mirthell: it was my dad’s winter coat I think he bought it way back in Jamaica.
Sinead: and he said I’m in Canada
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Mirthell: but literally like I’ve never seen a coat that huge before.
Shiloh: where is it now though?
Rita: I don’t know we moved I think to I don’t know we moved one of our moves it just was gone
Mirthell: yeah but we had it up until the blue house in new york so I remember that because that’s where I fought off the bees anyhow so I had to go get my armor coat so I went upstairs got my coat wrapped myself up got gloves on to make sure that nothing could bite me it was so thick and then I went after it but I couldn’t find it it’s like it was missing I went everywhere I went through the house went everywhere I could not find it so they eventually let me back into the room
Sinead: yes
Rita: so we’re sitting in the room talking and we just said okay what we’re going to do is we’re going to spend the night on the fourth floor not knowing
Sinead: so we said we were going to spend the night on the fourth floor
Mirthell: all of us because that was yeah
Sinead: we said we’re gonna be safe together guys
Rita: Yeah it was big
Sinead: so we were like okay the bat is downstairs we don’t need to worry about it we also decided to call it pest control or animal control because we were like okay yeah yeah you can handle it they can cubs night right they didn’t they said they couldn’t come tonight they were like okay we can come in the morning and stuff but right
Mirthell: but they were giving us instructions right on how to deal with it because they said it could have rabies so make sure that you don’t approach it you know we’ll be there in the morning all that kind of stuff like that yeah and then
Sinead: they threw a little surprise
Mirthell: they were like they told us
Sinead: oh yeah “also they uh they like to go to the top the highest point yeah in the house”
Mirthell: “so don’t worry they’re navigating their way to the highest point so you guys don’t have to worry” we’re like wait for a second.
Rita: I feel like right after they said it literally
Sinead: no
Mirthell: right yeah no we are the highest points were we on the phone we all looked at
each other like what like they’re on the phone like and they reached the highest point in The thing where I was like guys they just said that they reached the At the highest point we all looked at each other like we are at the highest point and then all of a sudden,
Sinead: the bats come flying out of a closet
Rita: no we saw it yeah we saw I saw this little head coming out of the closet I still picture it now and I went I just freaked out I started screaming and we all started running down the stairs.
Shiloh: guys, this is not what we’re pushing we are not fictionalizing this this is you wouldn’t even believe it the timing of everything I am so serious it was.
Mirthell: it was unreal because actually everybody’s running Okay pushing each other out of the way like there is no love here in the Onyx Family.
Sinead: there was no love for that moment.
Shiloh: What was I doing?
Rita: We were dragging you along.
Sinead: Shasha had snacks, she was trying to save her snacks.
Rita: That’s true! She did, she brought her food.
Mirthell: Shasha ran for snacks so again we all headed down to the basement now we felt pretty safe that the bats were not gonna go down.
Sinead: so yeah we were like okay so now we’re good on the first floor you know we’ve stayed up the whole night playing I watched our monopoly.
Shiloh: I binge-watched the entirety of Gillian’s island on that.
Mirthell: so so the next day the guy came and he captured the bat and then they said they told us that if the bats smell other bats on the trail and they smell the trail of where the other bats go so more than likely there’s going to be another bat, okay and we’re like oh no
Sinead: right especially me because they came into my room so first of all, I slept in Shalom’s room for a good week I was like I don’t want to see another bat just in case yeah I slept in Shalom’s room for a good week I was like you know what now I’m confident I’m just going to go back into my room I go back into.
Mirthell: they tested the bat and we went back and we found out that the bats did
not have rabies.
Rita: no they did not have rabies.
Mirthell: those didn’t have rabies, okay so we’re like okay I think we’ll be okay.
Sinead: right would that be okay it would be like okay good so I moved back into my room it was a good three days I was able to stay in my room for three days then I went to the back porch that’s connected to my room right I let out the dog you know I let out dogs I let out both dogs outside so we had a door that was like glass right okay and there are windows I close the door I look in the reflection of the door and I see the bat right behind me it was right behind me I scream I run outside because I didn’t have a choice I couldn’t run back to my room.
Shalom: yeah then I heard like I was on the other side of your room right and then I like opened your door and then I was like what is going on then the bat flew it right in front of me literally if I did not even if I did not shut it half a second it would have gone on my face because it the thing I saw the fangs and then it was like a movie it was like and then like I backed away because like the bathroom was like right across from your room I backed away I just turned from my mom and I was like “there’s a bat in there” I said it’s so chill so you know
Mirthell: long story short I don’t think we even spent one more night in that house I think we moved that day yeah
Sinead: no no we did.
Mirthell: we did not we gathered all
Rita: because we called pest control again because again it flew to the highest point which was our room and we saw Mirthell that it went behind like your sweaters remember how there was a show yeah yeah when we called pest control we said it’s over there somewhere and they never found it because they never found it we were like well that’s a wrap on this place.
Sinead: come back to my room every week
Shalom: I just want you guys to know that you guys can see this whole thing animated on our channel.
Rita: Is it on our channel?
Shiloh: it’s on our channel and the storybook
Rita: yes storybook
Mirthell: yeah but guys I mean honestly we moved out that day and we never returned to the house I think I returned with the movers and stuff yeah I was the last day in that house.
Shiloh: I am salty you guys left that big tv that
Sinead: that held so many memories oh like those all the chunky TVs
Shiloh: that was so good so fast it was so huge we watched Indiana on there killing his island on there the Olympics on there
Shalom: I thought Kate Middleton’s wedding on there yeah and the Olympics
Mirthell: it was one of those large screen TVs but they were the bulky ones yeah the flat screen.
Shalom: Yeah I remember watching that back in 2005.
Rita: like yeah, it’s an old tv I think we bought it in 99 I think.
Sinead: Oh snap.
Shiloh: I am so salty because this is like 2013 or 14. yeah so we had that for like
Rita: it was long that’s a long time
Sinead: over 10 years
Mirthell: that we made we brought that big old TV
Rita: it was hard
Sinead: oh my goodness
Shiloh: yeah and y’all gave up so fast I just left there I took one more look at that TV I was like hey they gonna leave you
Shalom: yeah but we left the piano with when one of our other moves like our brown piano
Shiloh: who gives cares about the piano we have a piano right downstairs.
Rita: Shiloh what do you care about the tv you have a theater now
Sinead: yeah exactly
Shalom: Shiloh loves vintage stuff that’s the thing
Shiloh: do like do you ever play on the piano do we ever do that?
Rita: yes
Mirthell: you do
Shiloh: I do?
Shalom: because you’re forced
Rita: your Lessons?
Shiloh: no that was the Florida house
Rita: no no no no even here
Mirthell: but you know, wait no no no no no no no he’s talking about that
Shiloh: that piano
Rita: That was just for
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Rita: anyways but you know speaking of Florida The house I’m not gonna tell the story today but we have an interesting story about another critter in the Florida house remember that?
Mirthell: oh yeah we’re gonna tell the story about the storm but anyway
Sinead: wait wait wait
Shalom: we’re here everyday guys
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Mirthell: so we just want to thank you for joining
us on our show this is the place where
we like to share our opinions share our
viewpoints and to tell the story feed
the soul make you laugh heal the heart
Shalom: what stories do you guys have about your house what’s something memorable that you guys have interesting.
Rita: Have you ever seen a bat have you guys ever seen a bat before in-person
Sinead: in person
Rita: because as Sinead’s mom I was terrified that thing bitter and then she would turn Just kidding
Shalom: have you guys ever seen snakes we have some stories about snakes.
Shasha: also if you um listen to Kanye west’s new album what’s your favorite song in Donda?
Mirthell: yeah that’s true
Sinead: let us know guys
Rita: what’s on your playlist
Sinead: what’s on your playlist?
Mirthell: yeah take care bye bye